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Games like Factorio demonstrate that there is still an audience for games that require thought - not just those we use to numb our brains.

...but at the same time, the gaming market has grown to the general populace, whereas in 1992, it was more niche. So maybe that niche group remained the same size, and the general population's craving for addictive numbing games has just dwarfed it.
> We spend more per student than nearly every one of our economic peers and get drastically worse results. Results have gotten worse over time, even though we have increased funding. This is a portrait of total failure, and we need to stop funding it.

You are repeating the talking points about average, when the entire point of my paragraph above is that averages are not useful outside of context. There is no "we". Someone posted elsewhere in the thread that several states in the USA have funding below the OECD average already. [1]

> The system is insanely profitable. It makes a lot of money for lobbyists, private interests, unions, administrators... it's great for everybody but parents and students.

This I agree, for everything except the unions. Those might have been very powerful in the past; now apparently they are under fire for resisting a call to work where they could potentially contract a disease that has stopped entire economies.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24416490
"They described the immense pressure on companies to pursue short-term results over creating value for future decades and generations."

Where does this pressure come from?
The board? Can't you appoint a board that is long-term friendly?
Institutional investors? Wouldn't the same investors interested in the LTSE also be interested in you on the traditional market if long-term is part of your DNA?
Shareholders? Shareholders agree to all sorts of craziness if they like your company (see voting structure of Palantir, Facebook, etc.)

Maybe others can elaborate on what problem is being solved here.
Sure you can always get the big option but that does not mean it is feasible.

What does it cost to dig and maintain a 1.5km deep shaft?

I found is something around 8000-10000$ per meter. I can buy a whole lot of batteries for that.

This technology just does not scale since mgh always holds true.

Unlike flywheels where you get w^2.

Just making the wheel out of carbon fiber and making them go fast, squares the amount of energy you can store.
Many years ago, I made a music video called "Rhapsody in Bluescreen", which is exactly what it sounds like. I don't think it's online anywhere, but you can just listen to "Rhapsody in Blue" (now in the public domain this year) and imagine. I only used a small portion of it though, since it was just a short joke.
No why would you? The US has checks and balances to minimize abuse and keep data requests limited to the national security domain (like most countries in the western world or eyes alliances). The other has no such checks on those powers.
I live in a nearly perpetual state of outrage over the need to sign in and be tracked for things that have absolutely no reason to require an internet connection.

I'm even more outraged when I see popular video games that are clearly targeting children to become addicted and buy in-game currency to progress (or worse- not do anything at all like Fortnite skins). I played fucking The Legend of Zelda on my Nintendo and it was great. What ever happened to creating a product and selling that product once? If it doesn't suck we might buy the next product(s) you make.
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Not Windows 95, but Windows NT 4 lurks below certain theme park rides, reading the PLC diagnostic data and printing out the roller coaster's mood once a day for maintenance to file away in a write-only file cabinet.

IT (us) have never in 10+ years had to help 'em. Can't say the same for the Windows XP-based successor PCs on newer rides though. Something about that 3/4/586 hardware is just solid.
> From what I've gathered, any intervention by the government to make housing more accessible, just gets priced in pretty quickly, removing the benefit.

You say "any intervention", but you've only mentioned interventions that give more money. Other interventions:

1. Encouraging developers to build new properties, particularly properties for low- and medium-income tenants

2. The government building low- to medium-income housing themselves.

The problem with any policy, of course, which aims to bring down the prices of houses makes everyone who's already bought a house very unhappy.
The category of race in the US means 'too dark to pass for smart' according to Joe Biden anyway. That it used to include Italians not too long ago should tell you all you need to know about its scientific basis.

Now if you want to talk about the effects of haplogroup R-M343 on sickle cell anemia by all means. The point is that genes do not map onto skin color and gender does not map onto fMRI scans.
I read this article and skimmed the original and I'm still not sure what the exact details of this exchange are. No robo/quant investing? Minimum hold periods? No requirements for quarterly earnings? No penny stocks?
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Renting isn't difficult enough, now we also have this, which would have to be removed for most of us to be able to move in.
Please consider this:

A company whose AI powered app store can't even handle simple issues like this wants to build self-driving cars.
> Strikingly, the most intelligent and thoughtful intellectual of the early church seems to have read fewer things than an average modern eight year old. To follow the depiction by Antonello da Messina, St Jerome appears to be the proud owner of about ten books in all!

What is a painting from 1475 supposed to tell us about the reading habits of the real St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians?

The paper "A History of Early Christian Libraries from Jesus to Jerome" by Thomas M. Tanner looks like a good source of information on the subject, but sadly it's only available from JSTOR.
Fortnite is not the only game rejected by Apple. There are many small games that have versions for Windows,Mac,Linux and Android but not iOS.

You are ignoring that except the exclusives you can game most of your games on one store. I do not support exclusivity for one store either and I would prefer I always had the option to buy the products directly from the developer. Like my Intellij subscription I don't want that Microsoft or other big american company gets 30% of the money this hard working developers deserve because I am forced to use a middle man.
It sounds lucrative and leisurely, sure, but it's not a career path I'd personally be interested in, because (caveat: I don't know the guy, I'm not involved in Vue, etc; generalizations ahead) he's very much a community manager, possibly moreso than a developer. He's got huge responsibilities and accountability, whereas I prefer to be (proverbially) holed up in a basement with my work laid out for me.

I mean I basically have online social anxiety in that I don't tend to go read my old comments and possible responses to it. I rant without standing for and defending what I say. If you run a project like Vue, you can't avoid things like that.
I think they meant that AWS is hugely profitable according to accounting profit, but is cash flow negative due to the large amount of capital spend. When you buy assets, that uses cash but doesn't reduce accounting profit.
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With a criminal penalty via the DMCA for bypassing it, because encryption is involved. That's why I'm so angry and want companies employing such encryption to be prevented from doing so or face prosecution.

So if I wanted to modify my car to unlock performance that's usually OK and certainly has been considered moral for decades. But if I wanted to unlock a core in my Ryzen CPU, or just hardware hack my GPU (Radeon Vega and above) to make it do neat tricks, I now technically risk a FELONY because of the PSP encryption and the DMCA - even though I want nothing to do with cracking copy protection. That is enough to have a chilling effect and prevent neat stuff from being released.

AMD have gone as far as signing the BIOS* on their recent GPUs, so tweaking it may be technically illegal (assuming you could crack the signature, though)!

This is unprecedented, nobody ever risked a potential felony for wanting to look inside their car to see how it works, or modifying their household appliances.

We need to get together (on Twitter and other social media) to fight this and let consumers know what is happening, because if people did, especially the more technically minded enthusiasts/gamers, that would put pressure on AMD and others to stop.

Specifically for gamers, let them know it's likely a FELONY to unlock a core in their Ryzen CPU or Radeon GPU due to PSP crypto. Just as with the ink cartridge recyclers who have been prosecuted for breaking cartridge chip security.

* = Radeon Vega and later GPUs have a Cortex-A5 PSP which runs autonomously, executing the Trustonic TEE from the SPI BIOS chip at boot, once the signature has been verified. Yes a whole DRM operating system running on the GPU - if you want to see for yourself, take a Radeon Vega or later BIOS and run binwalk -e to extract the compressed TEE.
That sounds like a really shitty co-worker, regardless of having children or not.

If your co-worker can't prioritize with accommodations for childcare and the like, then s/he needs to be fired.

I am now, after months of fighting with my administration, allowed partial remote work to cover for the days we do not have childcare after school for my kid. The expectation being that my job is done, regardless of where I am. The understanding being that if my job isn't getting done, I will get fired, regardless of whether I'm in the office or not.

I would argue that the situation you present is either a) over the top, or b) a shitty co-worker using an excuse to get out of work.
I am a proponent of web scraping. As long as the overall volume does not overload the available resources I don't see why automated retrieval of publicly available info is an issue. If the data in my website could help someone else's research, a simple reference to the source would make me super happy.
Some thoughts on whether hard times make strong men: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
My home assistants replaced wifi speakers. I think that's the primary use case for most people.

The "smart" functionalites of being able to ask to set a timer or turn on my TV are just bonuses. They're speakers first and (smart) listeners second from a user standpoint.
Yea, it's my fault for providing that example.. wish I could edit the main thread to change the examples. Really just care about surfacing the big investments.
First off – no, the microphone is not the primary purpose of the device. I can use my phone to control my smart speaker. The only thing that is always used whenever you interact with it is the computer chip, so based on your assertions we should probably call it a "smart computer".

Secondly, even if the microphone was always used, is your suggestion really that we should be using a different name for the device based on a particular person's use-case?

I use a Google Home (not an Echo) in order to play music and get information. I don't use it for home automation or ordering by voice. You can use in Echo in the same way (my sister does). So should I call my Google Home a "smart speaker" and anyone that uses their Google Home for mostly home automation call it a "smart microphone"? That doesn't seem just a bit confusing to you?

Teslas are electric cars. But some people use them for commuting and some use them for long-distance trips. Should we call Teslas "electric commuters" and "electric long-haulers" respectively?
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Ask HN: When is it a bad idea to shield your team?
It's a practiced notion that managers should get out of the way (don't take it literally) after helping the team visualise the expected outcome and the potential path to reach there.

After that, it's extremely important that you ensure the team isn't distracted by other (external and internal) forces.

But that's not the complete story, there must be some cases when it's not the right thing.

From your experience, what are some situations when it's not suggested to shield the team you lead?
I was turned off of Vue when they put a big "Join BLM" banner on the top of their site.

In my vue, that is mixing politics and personal opinions into a public coding project. I believe this to be a non-no. It implies that those that don't share your [unrelated] views are not legitimate.

In this example, it implies that those who are pro-minority rights but anti-protests are in some way less committed than their pro-rights and pro-protest counterparts. Which is not correct - there are many, many people like myself who have dedicated their lives to helping minorities, but think it can better be done if we don't turn them into victims.

You can disagree, but don't make it part of the code.

I encourage all large public projects to please respect the opinions and efforts of all their users and possible contributors, even if their users are not woke, or try to do good in ways other than you would.

The banner is gone, so am hoping that other commenters will respond to this as an example, not as a specific. (In other, don't defend BLM, there are other venues for that.) Please, please keep politics for the media to exagerate, and keep large projects politics free.

edit - sigh For all those erstwhile readers that are righteously downvoting me into oblivion - that's fine. I respect your right to consider my verse worthy of ire. But a comment to explain why you disagree would be so much better! Angry destruction without reason is already plentiful, but it is neither constructive nor persuasive. It reinforces the feeling that you will happily cancel anyone with another point of view just because you don't care to hear it.
Most of the rest of the developed world doesn't really consider college a market in the American fashion, though.

Half-hearted government is a problem; education and healthcare both suffer in the US from trying to split the baby Solomon-style.
I like to grab my state propaganda from the BBC, so i visit it a few times a day.. ive not seen anything about the assange hearing there at all.. so why do you expect to hear about the details of his complaints there.. i mean why is this the article that HN is linking to?

In the article his solicitor seems to be referring to a lack of ability to prepare and doesnt seem to have been pulled up on any specifcs not being true?

Also if 50 weeks is standard is it right to only allow 15 mins to prepare a defence? Not just keep him on remand in the mean time? A high profile case questioning his right to asylum should be rushed like that? And why max security and solitary confinement? Are our prisons and border securities so weak we need to go to such lengths? I would have thought house arrest would probably have done it, yes survailance wpuld cost but how kuch does solitary confinment cost? Asshole or not he is no terrorist or mass murder, i recon i could kick the crap out him and trust me i am not tough.

And as far as i can gather (may be wrong but looking for info) he did actually go along with the police requests in sweden and volunteered repeatedly to give a statement or be interviewed but was denied it. He even told them of his intentions to leave the country.

The lack of cooperation apparently came when he got wind of the US wanting to extrodite him, and had sweden agreed not to extrodite him he would have returned for the interviews.. he also was offering remote interviews or ones in london.

But at a high level your statements dont hold for me as there is clear evidence that the governments involved are up to dodgey things, so its absolutley fine for him to seek asylum etc.
So how do we monetize this? I see the idea is the long term goal of sustainability, but how does one get their money out at the end? I wouldn't have these expectations for most of these initiatives, except for the use of "stock exchange", so I expect there to be some reason to exchange stock. Call it "the green list" or something if there's no money to be had, and that's totally fine, but the name doesn't match the goal.
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> It's like "you live in a McDonalds area, so tough luck, that's what your family gets to eat until you are rich enough to move somewhere better."

This is literally true in the US, with food deserts [1].

> Nobody would find that acceptable.

I don't like it, but apparently people in the USA are just fine with this. Show me politicians who are winning elections based on equal access to nutritious food.

Most people resent money spent on schools because they are stuck in 19th-century thinking about how “all you need is a schoolhouse and some willing students, why does it take so much money?”.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
High fevers are not uncommon in babies receiving their first vaccines.

I'm not sure it indicates a problem. A fever is, itself, just an immune system response, not a "symptom" of disease.

You are correct that there is a threshold beyond which a fever becomes unsafe, but it's above 103. But fevers of 103 in the test group do not indicate that fevers of say 105 will occur in some patients.
Yeah my first thought was just running a 16bit OS on modern hardware (it will do it if you're careful and do the right things). But then the issue of it being an ISA card popped up... that's not really a solvable problem with modern hardware unless you can convince an IHV to make you a custom motherboard. Although apparently some exist ( https://www.ibase.com.tw/english/ProductDetail/EmbeddedCompu... ) probably for industrial applications. While I'm very sure you could get DOS running on that... I'm less sure of Windows 95. The google search did show other options that are plausible but I doubt many of them would arrive working as is without needing capacitor replacement at a minimum.
"I solve world hunger" is a high bar to set for people to establish boundaries with their employers.

"I can't do this weekly midnight call" should really be enough. That makes things better for everyone: it means the people without kids can also say they won't attend, even if that's because they've got something planned in a bar. Adding in the details of kids is because the labour relationship is already wrong.

Covid has surely shown that when required to companies can suddenly be incredibly flexible in all sorts of ways that were "never happen" before. This "you must work for us at midnight too" is just another example.

(This is all-too-similar to how people sometimes still talk about accessibility requirements. "The self-righteousness of people demanding ramps everywhere! We already added a lift from the back alley basement entrance which usually works, and that hurt profits that month. They knew the building was like this when they took the job")
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If you're considering Chicago unaffordable, I'm really curious what you think is affordable!

When I moved here, I was blown away that house prices where I live, about 30 minutes from downtown, are on average $150k, or less than 3x median yearly income here. This isn't actually drastically different from a semi-rural Missouri town I lived in for a bit.
I'm currently looking at various mortgage options in Belgium, between 1 and 2% for 25 year term. But what makes it even better is that, by law, (variable) mortgage rates can never more than double (in Belgium). Yearly variable mortgage rates can be had for <1%. So that means that even if it doubles in, say, 3 years, it's never more than 1.8/2%. But if interest rates remain low for years to come, I'd still get around 1% in those years (if they don't go any lower than they already are...).

I got another mortgage in the deep of the aftermath of the 2008 crisis (2010/11 or so) and I had the same situation; rates were a bit higher then. I modeled various scenarios and basically a long fixed term mortgage would only be better if rates would double after, IIRC, 3 or 4 years after I got it. Despite my instinct that screamed 'NO' at variable rate mortgages, I got one anyway - and instead of going up, rates went down, significantly (in terms of their effect on monthly payments - I'm now paying more than 10% less per month than I did at the beginning).

Much of this is completely counterintuitive. This was the first time that cold hard reasoning and financial modeling made me direct profit, and it has done so several times since, but I also have to admit that it took me years to overcome the mental blocks and feeling of uneasiness that following through with real money on decisions that are based purely on facts. I know several people who got fixed terms mortgages around the time I got my first one, and they're still happy about it, they prefer the stability - even though they rationally know there is literally no downside to the variable rate one.

All that said, the Euribor-based mortgages mentioned elsewhere where you actually get paid for having a mortgage are no longer available :)
Exactly.

Most people just don't want to accept the fact that when it comes to energy density, nothing compares to nuclear. Nothing even comes close.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
Unfortunately, you need somewhere to live while you're catching up.

How much of salary - CoL can an average person dedicate to building capital?

I'm not saying it's hopeless, only that there are systemic factors fighting against home ownership in extremely supply-limited cities.
Some powerful people seem seriously worried, look at this nonsense in the Daily Mail:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8671837/RICHARD-L...

Of course, what makes this particularly bizarre is that the person writing it says "I’ve worked from home for the past 30-odd years"....
"slapping a “smart home” premium onto the monthly rent may let your landlord reverse plunging rents [...] everyone (but you) wins."

This seems clueless - if renters don't want Alexa then they will just rent the cheaper places without it. And if renters want it then they also won, by buying something they wanted. And, to head off objections, if renters "are forced to rent" the places with Alexa anyway when they don't want it, then the 'premium' isn't for Alexa and landlords wasted their money.