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While everything you say is true, my experience in software with the Big Rewrite suggests that continuing through inertia, while by no means always the right choice, is also not always the worst choice. Big projects can end up going very badly, and the devil you know is sometimes the lesser evil.

Although, in the case of healthcare pricing in the U.S., maybe not.
I mean you can have fun playing semantics by changing your position per reply but this doesn’t seem fruitful or meaningful to the case at hand?
Micromanaging people is a lot of work, and it prevents both the IC and the manager from doing important tasks. Micromanagement either comes from managers not trusting their reports (this can have several causes), or from the manager feeling insecure and finding ways to project control or power over their charges.
Amazon Halo: a fitness band and app that scans your body, listens to your voice
I have rarely seen so much effort and intellect expended for something so wildly pointless... conspicuously missing from these whole shenanigans: anyone doing anything that a normal person could recognise as being of practical use.
DeFi is basically financial applications built on top of cryptocurrencies. Sometimes these financial applications (like exchanges, money markets, loan offerings, etc.) are decentralized.
That slogan specifically promotes this:

https://twitter.com/KunkleFredrick/status/129834428507983872...

and this

https://twitter.com/rawsmedia/status/1298055028213678082

It's not just a slogan. That is the actual end result of such an ideology.

Silence is not Violence. Silence is the opposite of violence. Silences is stopping, thinking, looking at all the evidence, carefully evaluating and coming up with a sound decision.

This slogan says: "Be outraged immediately without knowing any real facts about the situation"

It's literally DoubleSpeak. You are literally, right now, using DoubleThink.
Yes, as soon as the narrative went against HNs own point the discussion stopped.
Thank you! I am also confused by some of these complaints.
Cool, so that means we all have infinite variations of our email addresses.
The folloing piece by Elad Gil discusses the topic in detail

https://firstround.com/review/future-founders-heres-how-to-s...
Fully agree. The bookstore/library browsing experience is intimately tied to adjacency/serendipity. I love browsing up and down the stacks and looking for whatever catches my eye. Typical genre or sorting lists don't even come close to the richness and density of the stack experience.
> “ Our revenue has grown at a compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of 57% since 2016, and reached $388 million in 2019, up from $250 million in 2018. Our net income was $66 million in 2019, up from $44 million in 2018, and our Adjusted EBITDA was $160 million in 2019, up from $128 million in 2018. Our revenue grew 48% in the first half of 2020 to $257 million, up from $173 million in the first half of 2019. Our net income was $55 million in the first half of 2020, up from $31 million in the first half of 2019, and our Adjusted EBITDA was $101 million in the first half of 2020, up from $75 million in the first half of 2019.”

Wow, that’s some healthy margins. Profitable for the last few years with strong growth on both top line and bottom line.
And of course, if cryptocurrencies ever become anything more than Internet play money (and environmental disaster), the legal systems of countries worldwide will make sure the same protections apply. So yes, your newest cryptoanarchist token may have totally irreversible transactions (cross my heart, here's the math proof!), but the court can still order the thief to send back the money they stole in a separate transaction, under threat of prison time. The judge will not care that the relevant "smart contract" prohibits such behavior.

Because that's what real-world security ultimately boils down to: men with guns, ready to drag you where the law tells them to. It's not perfect, but it achieves 99% of the effect at the fraction of a cost of a "trustless" proof-of-work system.
I look at their complaints in light of what someone in poverty deals with everyday and their complaints are pitiful.

I agree with the need for perspective. The well off really need to know what the rest of the world is like, so they make decisions that take their effects on others into account. The disadvantaged really need to know what the path to being well off looks like, so they can apply their voices and efforts to the places that will make a difference. I've been in that place where a rise in the price of ramen or gasoline could make it impossible to pay rent. I've also been fortunate to find myself in a much better place.

However, we don't gain much by forbidding any displeasure for all but the worst sufferers. Failing to get a job at FAANG doesn't magically move that money into the hands of people who desperately need it. Being set back in one's own fortunate life still sucks.

We all need empathy at times, nobody should have a monopoly on empathy. Mutual empathy builds bridges, monopolized empathy builds resentment.
Unfortunately not. Racism is a disease that affects all walks of life.
There's a small typo in your post, it should be 12MW, not GW. A 12 GW reactor would be quite huge!
It’s also extremely rare to find an organization with middle managers that don’t reflect the culture of the organization as a whole. If the middle management is toxic and/or incompetent, it’s a good bet that all layers of management are similar.
I think what he meant was that most users of zoom just see it as reasonably easy way to get into a video call with multiple people that just works (for the most part).

If jitsi scaled just as well as zoom and used the same amount of client-side resources, nearly everyone would use that instead. There's nothing to install so people would barely even know hey were using a platform
Ask HN: How to spend your day when you are searching for the next idea?
When you are searching for the next project/startup to work on, what kind of things should you do to fill up your day?

With so much free time on my hands, I find it quite difficult to not get distracted by video games or mindlessly browsing the Internet. The devil finds work for idle hands.

It seems like ideas for projects/startups don't really come about if you sit down and just think super hard. Ideas usually come to me spontaneously from some life experience, so it doesn't seem like I can force it. Unless I am doing it wrong somehow...

One thing I tried to do is to just work on various side projects. But I find it really hard to work on a project without a clear vision on what I want the project to become. I just lose interest and stop.

I find that I can only persevere with a project when I have a clear vision on what it will become.

It's been quite awhile since I felt genuine excitement about working on something. I know what that feels like and every day I'm trying to find a way to find that excitement again.

So how do you go about living each day when you are unsure of what you want to work on?
Nobody is going to jail come on. Maybe a fall guy here or there but since when have wealthy people gone to jail in the us? Maybe early 90s after savings and loan crisis and even then not that many
They can't. Trucking is an undifferentiated / commoditized service in a fragmented market. If one company increases pay to drivers, they can't increase rates to customers because they'll just shift their demand to someone cheaper.

As a results rates can't rise very quickly, which means that trucking companies can't really afford to pay drivers any better (obviously with some and slight exceptions, and only talking about US long haul trucking).
I use ffmpeg, and for certain operations, the steps involve getting an ogre's tongue hair, a few drops of a frog's blood, and chanting medieval songs.

- Cutting some segments of the video: say you are recording the screen, and during the session, you tab and there are some information you don't want to appear in the video at three different places. Cutting the three segments isn't trivial in ffmpeg.

- The above but keeping the audio and removing video in those segments, because someone is talking.

- The inverse of the above: keeping the video but removing the audio because there was a private call for example and you kept rolling.

- Concatenating videos with different codecs is not trivial. If you have 200+ videos you want to make into one, and there are some that have a different encoding, you get warnings and the output throws the player off.
True that, but in many cases, if you just need to stay enrolled and don't have the stress of needing a good grade or to juggle a full load, it could be just eating into your TV couch potato time, be way more interesting and rewarding, and be a win as well. Depends on how much you have to take to get the insurance, though.
And not just gross margins, actual ebitda profitability!
From 2018 case (just google "riot farting" honestly): https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/6454fy6neo6mwj3w/images/5-7...

> Why don't game engineers demand better? Start a company with decent work hours and comp and refuse to work elsewhere.

Some do! I would imagine many indie game companies are not like this. There's kind of a split, where you have "strictly-business" companies - many Asian MMORPG publishers that have a subsidiary in the US are like this. There is no gaming culture, it's just a standard workday. You might get some plushies at the office or a poster or two.

The "cool" companies, like Riot and Blizzard, complete with campus statues of game characters and a culture to match, conference rooms named after game characters or items, are what gamers seem to want to look up to, though.

If you've played any MMORPG long enough, you'll see a lot of recurring themes, kids gleefully willing to "answer support tickets for free" and "I'll be a GM they don't even need to pay me" -- this probably is part of the reason that produces toxic culture, along with the fact that if you strictly hire only gamers, you're already going to almost certainly have a higher toxicity demographic in the first place, depending on the game. If we're talking something like Harvest Moon or similar, of course there's going to be close to no toxic players.

Riot's primary product involves matchmaking you into 4 other random people that you have to cooperate with for anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour or more, where one person can lose the game for everyone by repeatedly dying to the enemy and making the enemy stronger. If you leave, you get banned or penalised for abandoning your team; this includes virtually unwinnable dragged-out hour long matches. You can kind of see how this playerbase would differ from, say, the usual singleplayer or co-op indie or puzzle game.

It's very difficult to boycott a game you've spent tens of thousands of hours on - a game that you're good at, that you have friends on, that you've spent heaps of cash shop currency on lootboxes for. Even if you desperately dislike the developer. This happens for many companies - look at all the loudmouthed people on reddit et al screaming about how no one should support EA or Blizzard, and then a month later go buy the new expansion pack for something and buy lootboxes and forget about it.
The chess cheaters only affect the elite.

As a mid level chump at chess.com, any cheater will be ranked way over me.
Market-Protocol Fit
You want the robot that cleans your toilet to make you a sandwich? Huh.
The milk applied to MIT as well:
https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/happy-21st-birthday-to...
Colorblind travelers can take in fall's true colors with special new lenses
Worth mentioning that Hackernews isn't the general public. Don't need to worry about the moral hazard of nuance here.
Unfortunately, Europe doesn't seem to do much anymore. Google "European growth stocks". I want them back in the game.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but why is that? Apropos to the political situation in the US right now (ugh), it's a constant point of the right wingers that you should vote for them because we don't want to become like them.

I honestly don't know the answer. Tech didn't suffer under Obama, but he wasn't particularly liberal. I wonder what the simulation of a left wing POTUS would do for Americans.
I heard of one being baited into making transactions that would fail, but still being charged gas
My next laptop is going to get couple upgrades from the very start. One I am planning is to put conformal coating on major components and that includes entire motherboard.
Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote?
Thanks - I even looked in the images for it.

That would make sense as well in their discussion about CPU power - that resolution would require a lot of it compared to, say, 4k.
That was the ideal with ACA (since taxpayer funded healthcare is such a bad word for many US voters), but the voters got up in arms about having to pay for others’ healthcare so they got to keep their silo’d school/church/employer health insurance pools.
While I am not one to subscribe to the "Europe does everything better"-style thinking of U.S. progressives, the reality is, in this particular field, there is absolutely no way to defend the U.S. system.
I'm told that in the 70s, when backgammon players had a dispute about the correctness of a move (usually a double), they would agree to continually setup the board from that position and play game after game, until somebody capitulates (or runs out of money).

Nowadays we just make a side-bet about what XG mobile will think about the move.
The CCP doesn't need to catch them all. A 90% filter with a terrible false positive rate still accomplishes their societal engineering objectives.
Hmm, only sometimes? Doesn't the name imply otherwise?
That's just for insurance. You still going to be paying 20% of the actual medical bill. You can easily run up a $100k bill in a week.
So, assuming the original person in TFA had some kind of authentic claim on the money, why are they not losing it according to GP?
The computer makes the tactical blunders very clear.

For strategic/positional issues, it is not nearly as good a teacher.
Starlink satellites are in decaying orbits, eventually they fall through the atmosphere and burn away.

They have some propellant to make adjustments and stay in orbit a bit longer but if you blow them up you just make the decay process quicker.
The investor is not a VC though, but a private equity firm, which is probably even worse? I hope this won't negatively affect the future of the open source version.
I wish every damn micro transaction app gets removed one day. Of course no one will do it but I simply hate everything about these apps forcing parents to pay small fees for stupid pixels because their kids begs them to do it.

Sorry, nothing else new to add to the topic, just venting and have absolutely no sympathy to apps tricking kids to spend money on tiny cellphone games.

My niece begged her mother to buy a roblox dress for $60, it is in a game, not a real dress. Another neighbor's kid spent over $600 for a game called soccer stars. The game is literally gambling. When I hear gaming apps with micro transactions removed I celebrate, no matter what the reason is.
> No worries, we'll come back to it when we have more time (we never have more time).

There are only two priorities: priority one, and priority "we will actually never do this, because always something else will be priority one".

But of course, if it makes the engineers happy, we can put "fixing technical debt" in Jira, and assign it any priority between 2 and 99.
Google Offers to Help Others with the Tricky Ethics of AI
Sorry, I phrased it incorrectly: Tusky in particular blocks Gab. At least some others do not.
Which is dumb, because that's around the size forums die forever due to lack of individual posters
In 2011 I interviewed for a Mobile position at Riot to make an accessory app for players. I was literally hazed like old school college hazings. At the end they asked me when I wanted to start. I told the lead dev to get lost and he begged me to "not be like that" but said if I was going to "be like that" then I wasn't a good fit anyway.

It is still to this day one of the worst experiences I've encountered.
Well considering how seriously they take the chatter that happens on some bands (extreme profanity etc) I'd not worry about it. But, its better to be above board completely. Safest route would be to have a PO Box at a forwarder in another town.
Google does not receive public funding. By your logic, a $2-off a $10 item coupon is me receiving $2 from the store. Strange how I don't have a new $2 in my wallet - in fact I seem to be missing 8.
Why is this junk on HN?!
Well, the key word here is "most". Not everyone on HN is in a tech job.
Why? This is unnecessarily encumbering the utility of money.

Real and Useful: people can use the money as a store of value, medium of exchange, and a unit of account - and enough people believe in it.
> It's the epitome of fitting a solution to a problem.

Wait... Isn't fitting a solution to a problem exactly the right way to do things?
Most of this is solved by code review, unit testing, custom allocators, and if you really want rust-like guarantees, type traits. In this case std::is_trivially_copyable and std::is_trivially_destructible. Like you don't need an explicit .clone() method, you static_assert that all real-time-safe code only touches structs that are trivially copyable/destructible and write a custom allocator with optional checks to see if it's invoked in a real time context, and write a unit test to stress it. There are some places where this doesn't work, but they're obvious and pretty straightforward to handle. Ideally you'd have a slab allocator with constant time alloc/free while locked in the real time context that cleans itself up for real on resetting the system.

Really though, you shouldn't have an owned STL instance like std::vector near your real time code to begin with. You're seeing one of the reasons people writing performant code don't use the STL at all, even if it has gotten up to par with handrolled solutions in certain benchmarks.
It's a demand problem, there's a huge number of young engineers who desperately want to get into games. They get burnt out after a few years and replaced with new ones.

That being said, things are slowly starting to change, and employees of game studios are starting to demand better. It's still bad in most places, but the discussion is happening.
Court: No, You May Not Force Your Way into a Home and Strip Search Six Children
Is there major software that uses I tell compiler?
BTW, you can strip down ffmpeg build to a pretty barebones level, so that it only includes what you need.
I hadn't thought of that one. I rather like it. Does anybody other than Jetbrains use this model?
I must say that they're probably the most competent studio on the market

LoL is probably the only game that I play (maybe once a year I decide to spend up to 50h over some peroid on one title like GTA V or something) for years and it almost always feels "fresh" and very competitive.
biology on an evolutionary timescale is exceedingly clever, more ingenious than us humans. you don't need an axle, just something roundish (eyeballs or even pearls, for example).
That's pretty useful for giving out to sites that believe you can't have a + in your email, but you still want to track who the address is shared with. Does anyone know if you can make different filters for differently dotted versions?
https://defipulse.com/ is a good dashboard that highlights the amount of money "locked" (i.e. as collateral) in various DeFi protocols. It currently indicates $8 billion USD worth of locked funds.

In reality, the number is lower, because folks use "yield farming". You can put some collateral in one protocol, use that to mint some funds, and then collateralize that in another protocol. And rinse and repeat. There was a Twitter post[0] recently where someone analyzed this, and they found that the "true" TLV was more like ~3.5 billion out of $6.7b.

The space is growing quite quickly. A month ago, the TLV was 50% of what is was right now.

[0]- https://twitter.com/damirbandalo/status/1295089928901140481
You can often get this information from publicly available voter registration data as well.
Link to github: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
It's more complex than that. Certain services are built into the premiums.

An annual primary care visit, cancer screening, vaccinations, and so on. So for example if you have medical need for a colonoscopy, it will be covered before the deductible has been met.
toy for analog protocol nerds

That's a great phrase.
They didn't say what year it was, nor where, nor before vs after tax. $20k/yr is definitely enough for some lifestyles in some places, especially in the past. I've lived on less.
I would highly recommend you watch the 2019 documentary Hoaxed. You're immediately going to dismiss it when you look it up because of the people in it; which goes to show how bad current media bias is.

I don't think everything from the documentary should be taken at face value, but it's still incredibly valuable in learning how the narrative has been so insanely skewed today.
Yes but they don’t really have a way to expand outside of the US, they are basically an answer to a uniquely American problem unless they’ll go they’ll target the self medicating crowd that uses the relatively dodgy online questionnaire/chat prescription pharmacies.
They (by accident) put the money in a spot where anyone can claim it. Arguably, that's where they lost it, OP just tried to recover it without someone else noticing "ohh, there's free money there" and failed. (that's not a very satisfying answer, but pretty much seems to be the logic behind those things)
Plausible's fingerprinting uses a rotating salt, which is rolled daily and the previous salt is discarded. That means the hash can't be tied to a given user and their IP/browser at a later date. How is that not GDPR compliant? How is Volument better?
TFA specifically mentions how much cyberpunk is retreads of shadowrun and 2077. The trailers make me think the game is going to be very true to the source material, so it's not pertinent to the question asked in TFA.
Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce birds deaths
Oh it's real, I've gotten 3 of them in the past year. I sold 1000's of items back then. At this point I think it's kind of cool. I wish you could view your eBay history back to the beginning. You can go way back on Amazon.
Personally I understand the arguments of Apple's ecosystem being locked down.

But I think Apple and Google both have a significant revenue stream from world society as most people use smart phones.

Like AT&T and RCA of days gone by they need to have their free money spout regulated.

They've clearly made billions but that 30% cut needs to go down. At least that's what I see as a solution.

Something like 7 to 10%. Thoughts?
not mad at all. My take is that radio is not an ephemeral medium. These transmissions can be slurped down by an SDR, recorded, stored, analyzed, tagged, fingerprinted, indexed, et cetera. By keying up you are effectively making a statement of public record.

At the moment there isn't a financial incentive to perform this at any reasonable scale, but this doesn't mean that it can't be done at all.