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What makes you so confident? SSD tech is experiencing scaling challenges¹. IIRC DNA’s supposed to be incredibly dense and last long, but too expensive for much more than wedding photos². Do you have a more promising emerging tech in mind?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393293

2: I think I heard this use case predicted on some NPR thing I can't find, but this one https://www.npr.org/2013/01/24/170082404/shall-i-encode-thee... says “Agilent waived the cost of DNA synthesis for this project, but the researchers estimate it would normally cost about $12,400 per megabyte.

"It's an unthinkably large amount of money ... at the moment," Goldman says.”
Doesn't surprise me but the study also seems to be just trying to measure academic achievement.

I mean sure, I'm incredibly skeptical of "baby Mozart" approaches to music. Certainly starting young and practicing early goes a long way towards being successful in anything. Discipline in any field builds discipline towards others.

We can go on and on about the mathematical nature of music but I would argue it's easier for people to do it by not thinking about those things and being in touch with how it feels.

I'm kind of bothered that anything to do with IQ these days is pursued by researchers or is given a fair shake by our dear readers at Hacker News.

Stop trying to max your kids stats. It's incredibly dehumanizing. I get that we all want children to have the best opportunities, but maybe it'd be a more equitable situation if we stopped reducing ourselves to a numbers game.

Maybe they'll be smarter when they learn to do things they feel passionate about and not conditioned to perform like a trained monkey. We already have enough performative identity for careerism in high school kids. Maybe intelligence and success comes from knowing yourself, and not from being told to do things because you get points?

Sorry parents! An essential part of culture and discipline of art and pleasure might not be inherently advantageous to your child's ability to fill out tests so while you're at it make sure they never do anything for themselves beyond the sole purpose of getting in somewhere just so they can realize they don't know who they are!

Edit: Also the use of "put down the banjo". Let's talk about that. This is a study done in Japan and the UK. Are they even playing the banjo? Nothing wrong with the banjo, banjo's great. But specifically going with the banjo as their title and image lends itself to a specific tone for some readers. Not exactly what some people would consider "intellectual" music for vague reasons in class and race perhaps. I'm detecting a bias here against the "utility" of folk music. I wish they'd link the actual paper. Did the researchers give a bunch of banjos as part of a controlled study? I'm so sure a lot of well-to-do parents in Tokyo and London are feeling burned by having to keep up with the competitive nature among children in banjo culture.
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> But in the public sector, there is: the ballot box, i.e. all democratic policy ever. Collective decision-making takes place in the legislature.

Do not like this argument. I know you acknowledge it later but there are so many problems with this. It assumes that some 0.5% of the population can affect the results of elections in any consistent manner, that they would even vote consistently given that they probably would have diverse politics, that politicians would care about problems (which can be some bureaucratic minutia) that they have, etc.

If teacher's unions didn't exist, you would never even hear about complaints that teachers have in the political arena except some pity article written by a journalist about the troubles that teachers have.
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My parents (who have both never played an instrument in their lives) signed me up for piano lessons when I was a child. I'd regularly be sent home with homework that I didn't know how to complete, no one taught me how to practice, and I'd frequently show up to lessons without any idea of what I was doing. I'm sure my parents paid a hefty fee, but I got zero value out of the experience.

As an adult, I revisited the piano, and learned more by myself over several weeks than I ever did going to lessons as a child. The experience taught me how to practice better, and it gave me a stronger intuition for how the brain learns.

The mistake my parents made was thinking that all the learning happens at the music lesson. That simply attending classes was enough to make me a better musician and a smarter child. I wonder how many other parents out there are making that same mistake right now.
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This is very, very similar to something I've been working on. I'll email you to trade thoughts, if you're interested.
Meta-search? Searching the search engine..I like it.
It's not, it's just how negotiating works!
This is true.

It comes down to your personal point of view and the principal of fairness.

Should the American public subsidize big business for the benefit of big business's customers?
If he was an ex-Microsoft engineer, or a Microsoft engineer working on his own, I don’t think it would matter.

If Microsoft is using the hours of the engineer’s workday for this purpose, it provides insight that does matter.
You're right. Let's all abandon our frivolous jobs, live in a communal and sing kumbayah around the 100% eco-friendly heat source, congratulate ourselves for abolishing the evils of capitalism, and stand in our bread lines.
Alternatively living in a city where rent costs $24k per year by itself and health care and health expenses cost 10k. 5k in taxes. That accounts for 39k in itself. 500 a month in food 150 in internet and phone service and we are up to 47 and still haven't talked about car insurance, gas, laundry products or really any notable consumption.

Out in the suburbs you could still be paying 18k + all the other expenses.

God forbid if you have student loans or any other big bills.

I will say it again. Poor people aren't poor because they consume too much in the same fashion that people who can't breath don't have copd because they breath too much.
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I think a lot of small/medium companies should simply get realistic about the following facts:

- They are probably not going to be able to hire "great" engineers

- Even if they get a couple of great engineers, they are not going to be able to create an engineering culture where those engineers can do great work.

Instead of looking for "greatness", most companies in this position should simply settle for competence. Hire people who use boring technology and build systems that do things simply and directly.
It’s an open secret that they did the same for Netflix, Hulu and Spotify.
ignore trolls who insist on using tautologies to bend language to superficially make a point.
Yeah, they seem to be off to a fairly slow start. This isn't the first Gimp fork to try to work on UX - but biting off a huge old codebase isn't easy and previous efforts have all been overwhelmed or overtaken by upstream and fizzled out, afaik.
Nubank did a presentation on their approach to testing at the Clojure/NYC meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dW4V3stFX0
I failed an emissions test. The repair place near work wanted to replace the fuel injectors, it was going to cost a third of what the vehicle was worth.

The one near my house pointed out that there was chunk of EGR hose missing and the rest were ratty. They could replace them all for $280 (above the mininum required to address a failed test).

It was the hoses. Went from above the limit on two tests to 10% of the limit. I used that mechanic until I moved across town.
Perhaps this is utopian, but I like to believe that cultural fit encompasses a little more than just the distinction between those who are woke and those who reject that specific culture.
Ya, I feel like the commenting system in Google docs is the main killer feature for collaboration. I would love to use Markdown for everything (can we just make it a standard email format already?) but the commenting system in Google docs is keeping us there for the time being.
I didn't know about the gvim "trick", that's good to know.
Generally I just set the clipboard as default register so yanks
and pastes work smoothly with other programs in every situation:

set clipboard=unnamedplus
Lets Explore Console Log
OK, I'm sure people will have better results on their 10th test than the first.

So I admit you can "game" the test somewhat, but I expect the effect to be minor, and largest for the more intelligent.

If there is real data on this I'd enjoy seeing it.

> You can learn a few of the complex ones that are harder for you and bruteforce a sequence into fitting it, and anyone can do that.

Anyone smart can do that :)
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UBI is a payment for everything you give up to society. Where do you think all that property everybody respects came from? Who does that system deserve to continue?

UBI is not a giveaway, it's a payment that's long overdue.
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I like the design. I'm curious about the technologies you used, do you have details anywhere?
In the US at least, fair use does not include a right to make personal backup copy. If you wish to extend your use of the item containing some IP, your options are basically to just take better care of the physical item.

However, it's simply not worth it for a copyright owner to go after someone making a backup copy for personal use since the statutory damages are only $750 (per act of infringement), and don't include legal fees. (Contrast to the infamous Napster/Limewire cases: each peer connection in P2P sharing constitutes a separate act of infringement if you share to them, which is what made it potentially lucrative for some law firms to attempt to shakedown users of those programs.)

This is an intended effect of setting the statutory amount at $750: it's too low to make it economical for copyright owners to go after isolated cases without market effect, but at the same time quickly makes it very expensive for infringers to commit multiple acts of infringement.
If you have a (modern, smart) phone you can teach the phone this Capital One card and it'll "be" that card contactlessly when you travel, one less thing to carry.

I deliberately own (special ordered from my bank) a card that has no contactless, and it's also the card my phone "is" so all contactless transactions with that card are through the phone, the bank never issued a contactless card so it's literally impossible that the card itself was used for a contactless transaction.

Using the phone this way allows me to walk around the supermarket, scanning product codes with the phone, then walk to the checkout, scan the "I'm done" code and hold the phone near the contactless checkout as payment. No human interaction, very little touching stuff, only need the phone which I'd carry anyway, no cards or cash.
We have edit history which acts as an audit trail for changes; view logs are coming soon too.

We offer on-prem, and expect a good portion of SMBs to use it over our cloud version.

Good catch on the virtual office! We're actually based in Canada, that's our US company's legal address.
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I've been tempted more than once to vlog programming, but what do you do about the (frequent, for me) times where you're just searching stackoverflow or reading docs or barking up the wrong tree? I'm more tempted to write the thing, then vlog starting over from scratch as if I know what I'm doing.
The other issue with your distinction is that all these brick-and-motor retailers also have online eCommerce services where shopping carts, logging data, and third party vendors are involved in improving the experience - and let me tell you, those guys are using the data. Probably not nearly as well as Amazon uses theirs, but they're still trying as best they can.
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what a great article - fantastic 10m read on a specific part of the computer business.....part that is arguably responsible for where the compute industry is today.

These are the people that were superior to Apple at the time - both in technology and business acumen. Then they imploded...
His point was they are all unions... It doesn't matter what you call a union. It's still a union.
> I don't think you're quite aware just how awful most of this software is.

Having used the software across three different states recently I have yet to see one that doesn’t let me pull library books right onto my kindle - don’t think I could ask for a better experience.
Good point. And it was an excellent correction.

Business should not depend on Political arbitrage for its survival.

Many more reforms are needed to correct this at the USPS.
From 1000% markup to 500% markup?
The genetic differences could be down to socio-economic factors though, such as some of your ancestors having been slaves and restricted in how they could choose a partner.
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> > However, the same amount of goods and services will be produced in this economy

> It has often been shown that giving money to the poor generates more trade and consumption.

Goods and services need to be produced before they are traded and consumed. More money chasing the same amount of goods and services is bound to create inflation. This UBI is a just a roundabout attempt at economic stimulation through currency debasement. The same thing was tried many times before in many different places, and the result has always been the same.

> Poor people have a restrained budget, so they naturally reduce their spending. If you you give them money, it easily generates a lot of economic activity.

I think you have a misconception about what money is. Money is just a relative measurement of value and a tool of exchange. Yes initially poor people will be able to increase their spending. But most prices are elastic and will increase quickly until the poor are in the same situation as before, even with the additional UBI income.
That was one big takeaway from watching the antitrust case. They definitely view these tech giants as having infinite power over technology with little regard for the complexity and scale of what is going on. I am in favor of breaking up some of these giants, but at the same time how can people with no concept of technology legislate it. They could very easily make a policy that is difficult for google to enforce, and completely impossible for a smaller player to even contemplate.

I’m always reminded of the Louis CK bit where a person is introduced to WiFi in an airplane and then is complaining about it not working 15 minutes later.
This was on full display when the early Covid19 studies were coming out suggesting many more infections than what was being counted. It implied changes to thinking and numbers were needed and people came out of the woodwork, with anger even, to discredit anyone who dared agree. Same goes for anyone who dared to consider Sweden's model as anything less than a killing field for their own citizens.

it was pretty disturbing for me, i had held this place in very high regard prior to that experience.
Science journals review articles based on the quality of their methods, not their accuracy. If I do an experiment and find neutrinos moving faster than light, it's almost certainly incorrect, but if none of the reviewers can find an actual issue with the methods, it's still very much publishable. They can't stop something from being published just because they don't like what its saying.
Celebrities get free gift bags full of stuff they could easily afford, in order to promote their brand.

Frequent flier programs give out more bonuses to people who fly a lot and are probably rich, to incentivize them to fly more.

Companies give price breaks to huge volume buyers.

Is this behavior, in concept at least, not familiar?
As an outsider to both the Haskell and Crypto communities, I find it extremely hard to properly verify any of these claims. For example, I was convinced that Tweag was a highly reputable company. Would anyone here who is less invested in not burning any bridges be willing to name just one "obviously shady" crypto project using Haskell?
Every one in academia working towards proving that climate change is real is also working towards proving it's not real.

In fact, if you go into it with a pre-conceived bias that disagrees with everything everybody else has seen, you'll be laughed out of it. You should be laughed out of it too if your bias aligned with what everybody else has seen.
"Commodore's phones rang off the hook. They had 50 calls a day from people wanting to sell the PET. Distribution couldn't keep up with demand. The PET's success was partly due to it's built-in BASIC interpreter. Commodore outsourced BASIC to a small firm called Micro-Soft. Micro-Soft agreed to be paid per PET once delivered. Delays hurt cash flow so much they nearly went under. Micro-Soft were saved only by Apple licensing Micro-Soft BASIC for their Apple II."

Twenty years later, in 1997, with Apple near bankruptcy, Microsoft invested $150 million in to Apple.

It's interesting to wonder what would have happened had these companies not throwing each other a lifeline at these critical times, or if they instead just bought the other outright.
> ... something has gone horrifically wrong

Agree 100%. And in most cases it probably isn't a problem with the candidate. It's a problem with the existing software and development process. It shouldn't take someone months to become useful on a new project.
That’s what most big companies already do and why it burns out experiences developers. The degree of settling for competence is a sliding scale that sets horrid expectations. That’s so many developers can’t tell the difference between expert beginners and actual experts.
Then as a private company let them take full, legal responsibility for their editorial decisions. No reason why the federal government should grant them special status to support a partisan business model.
We've probably all seen or heard of places where a developer sits around for weeks, going to standups with their status update - "waiting on license XYZ" or waiting for access to the project (git, TFS, jira, vpns etc). It's a huge problem in many orgs.

It's also a good sniff test if you're interviewing. Slow and steady might be up your alley too. There's definitely a hierarchy of security and compliance needs depending on the org, but many orgs loose the forest for the trees.
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> Contactless already has transaction limits so clearly payment method-specific transaction limits do not create "unacceptable missed profit".

This isn't true with US payment cards, in my experience. I've charged over $1000 on a credit card multiple times while using contactless methods (both RFID and Apple Pay, specifically). I was also able to do the same with my (American) cards while in Europe.
Spotify reportedly got the same deal.

Spotify hasn’t allowed in app purchases for years.

Spotify’s complaint was that Apple gave Apple Music special treatment when it came to its platform like how Siri integrates with it and how it was Spotify couldn’t stream directly over the Apple Watch.

Apple opened up both to third parties over a year ago - and Spotify supports neither.
> she was able to run the darknet browser she still had kicking around and do some judicious googling
Unfortunately that does not work either in the worst case. I'm
not quite familiar with the details behind all this, but I have
had cases where it was basically impossible to get any text into
or out of a Vim session aside from saving it in the text file.

I believe on Alpine OS I could get it working fine by installing
some dependencies and recompiling Vim manually.

Others here have suggested to install the gvim package which
seems to enable proper clipboard support in every case, I will
try that next time I am in that situation again.
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/whiny-progra...

"Well… then don’t buy bitcoin Stephen! Nobody is forcing you to hodl bitcoin. Unlike all those people in argentina and tin pot places where you can’t freely convert the currency, and it is jail time if you try.

I roll my emoji eyes…"
Isn't this pretty average business? Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.

AWS does this. So does monoprice (volume pricing). My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price). Home depot has "contractor pricing" when you buy multiples of things.
With DRM! And hope the Internet won't be down in an urgency moment.
Unless the developers are HAProxy itself and made a module for HAProxy to log in to SQL databases (which it doesn't do by default) this is not even remotely related to the developers.
Love the idea. Is there a plan to support Email only sign up?

I dislike using social account because I might get suspended and lose the data and access to the website.
only if the split up companies do worse in their split up form, which I don't really see happening for a lot of them. Why would AWS be a worse company if it oeprated on its own?

If size was the only thing that mattered you'd never see small companies beat big companies, in countries or across them. This is generally not the case. Healthy ecosystems seem to be more important long term than short-term dominance.
I don't like this negativity. Pay and position doesn't necessarily reflect competence. I don't buy that the smartest engineers in the world are all working for big companies.
> If it's taking a few months before the candidate can get productive, something has gone horrifically wrong.

There's a big difference between "deployed their first PR" and "getting productive." The latter implies the engineer knows or has figured out how to use your source control, CI, and deployment processes. That probably is something most people can manage in a day, with proper instruction, provided the code change itself is simple enough. The latter means they're familiar with large parts of the codebase and are able to make changes, and have an idea how the major parts interact. This is what takes a few months.
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It's the economic version of "those who need love/affection the most are the least likely to receive it".
Is this what people mean when they say, Haskell's type system is sound?

We know Haskell's type system includes bottom as an inhabitant of every type which enables us to shrug and hand-wave away proofs of termination. As long as one understands that consequence doesn't it pass Milner's definition?

I'm happy writing proofs in Lean or Agda but having to avoid or prove termination would be a pain in the rear end for most large programs. And in practice I still think of Haskell's type system as sound. I always thought of "unsound" as programs with terms that are logically inconsistent with respect to the theorems proposed by the types, eg: early version of TypeScript or Java. Put another way, that you could write a proposition in they type system that wasn't satisfied by the program (proof).
When I first started lessons (as an adult) I too thought learning only happened at the lesson, I thought it was enough to pay and turn up, in fact I was so bad/lazy I was going to get dropped as a student.

But with constant daily practice now I'm not bad.

Regardless of 'studies' like this, learning music is incredibly beneficial in so many different ways and every child should have the opportunity.