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I agree, the Virtual Boy was a disaster, but maybe I didn't illustrate my point very well, and that is my fault; I'll give you an upvote to help counteract the downvotes because I probably didn't explain myself correctly.

What I was trying to say that clearly the was some demand for the virtual reality of some kind; I'm sure Nintendo did some level of market research; concurrently, Atari and Sega was also working on VR projects, these demos were pretty popular in expos, so my point was that it's not a recent thing to want to VR in the home.

I disclaimed that me using my dad as an example was anecdata, but (assuming I'm not lying), it does prove the existence of at least one person's demand for such a product. The post I was responding to said specifically "People lived in 1990 and didn't feel that bad to have to call a travel agency to get a ticket", and I was giving a counter-claim to that. The last time I checked, my dad was a person, and did feel "that bad" calling a travel agency. Also, it wasn't "one time", it was throughout most of the 90's, though I mostly remember this from 1995-1997 because I was previously a bit too young to pay much attention to this stuff.

Now, fair enough, I didn't link to studies proving my point, so I probably used the word "demonstrably" incorrectly, and I apologize for any confusion that might have resulted from that.
Not a blog, but All Schemes Considered ( allschemesconsidered.com ) is really, really informative for me as an engineer working at early-stage startups. I'm trying to get the hosts to create transcripts.
>The obvious performance and bloat overhead with RoR aside, I have yet to see a framework and ecosystem that lets you have a programmable web application up and running with typical features in comparable time.

This answers your question indirectly. I’ve included a link below to Amber Web Framework, built on Crystal. Crystal is a statically typed language with the speed of C and the exact same syntax as Ruby.

Check out the video a couple screens below, and you’ll see a demo of how quickly an Amber Blog App is generated. You’ll notice their is almost no difference between Rails syntax and Amber syntax.

https://amberframework.org/
The CIA also has a venture capital firm for investing in startups.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
> Now we have to go through all this theatrics simply so those people can say things like "he got a fair hearing" and "the magistrate ruled against him so that must be the law".

This means that the countries involved (in this case, in order: Australia, Sweden, the UK, and the US) don't have the rule of law. It means that the law is theater, always potentially subordinate to dictatorial control should it ever be exercised to overrule it.

It's okay to say it, despite it feeling silly. Identifying one of the problems allows us to address it.

These countries only pretend to have the rule of law, insofar as the law doesn't contradict what the dictatorial authority wants to happen.

It's weird to think of the US or UK or Sweden or Australia, supposedly "free countries", as top-down military dictatorships, because it goes against every fiber of branding they've spent billions to explicitly promote.

There's lots of evidence for it, however: what mainstream party in the US wants to reign in the US military's insane overfunding, or illegal US military bulk surveillance, for example?

Once you see it, it's hard to unsee.

These countries place state security far above almost every other value, including equal protection of the law. Any attempts to change this priority by those with any semblance of power will be frustrated, by force if necessary.
> The law is like a billion lines of Javascript

Best explanation--it's a huge collection of patches. There are key moments that revisit the spirit or unintended consequences but it's a largest legacy codebase that grows faster than the tech debt can be cleaned up.
Sounds like an Engineering problem to me, and we all know how much established businesses hate going back to their engineers for advice.
Most people have 1 month of experience repeated 120 times. This is the only way to be employed and not starve.
He probably means Tullio.jl (which also seems to integrate with Julia's source to source differentiation library Zygote.jl, the main competitor to Swift for Tensorflow):

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/realistically-how-close-is...

https://github.com/mcabbott/Tullio.jl

Regardless if it can consistently beat Fortran/BLAS in every area, in general JIT languages have more opportunities for optimizations than AoT languages, so it's interesting to see what comes out of a language that focuses on leveraging this to get the most performance.
> Every paying software job I've ever had was in some way involved getting people to click on ads.

This is interesting, thanks for sharing that.

Of the nine organizations that have paid me to write software since 1993, only one of them would fit in your criteria.

Note: I am in no way doubting your claim, and I actually appreciate your perspective and the quote you cited.

I will more deeply consider that when categorizing companies in my mind going forward.
>He will be mad because of your calling it out in advance he will feel you're undermining his authority whether or not that's your intention.

This is where communication skills come in. The more one levels up their communication skills the easier situations like this are to overcome.
Well, when the VC market quickly put together 40 billion for renting office space, so 11B isn't that much nowadays.

There are already around 40 fuel cell stations just in CA, there's similarly around 45 in Germany.
No, you understood correctly.

I said your comment was pedantic, and your response was basically confirming that you were indeed being pedantic.

pedantic: overly concerned with minute details or formalisms.

Obviously the original poster didn't _literally_ mean enter any noun at all, because that wouldn't work. Perhaps their choice of wording could have been better but the argument was pretty clear in the context of the discussion.

I think any reasonable person who was interested in participating in the actual discussion would understand their point, unless they were trying to be... _pedantic_ about it.

Enter your comment, where you cherry-pick 3 nouns - out of thousands of possible activities that could have worked just fine - so as to be able to proclaim "a-ha! you are incorrect, sir".. which ultimately brought nothing constructive to the conversation.

I hope that clarification helps!
> in the videogames industry.

Or anywhere else. C++ is such a beast, you just can't expect your coworkers to memorize the whole standard, so it is quite common that teams agree (or the team-leader agrees for them) upon a subset.

In the past that was due to limited availability of experienced C++ programmers and inconsistent support from compilers, these days it's due to the evolving nature of the language. Quick: in which standard was the variant class template introduced?
> Where else but in this nation could one freeze processed whitefish into a brick, ...

Probably plenty of places. E.g. UK has the fish finger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_finger
> When prototyping with Go, I constantly have to move back and forth between the type definition and the places I'm using the type.

I do the same but I don't feel slower doing it. I mean I have to move around between function bodies and callers, for example, when I'm hacking in python, so the two don't feel that different to me (moving between a user and a provider or definition of something when hacking on code).

But what does feel different to me is if I hack up some go and get a compile error, that feels MUCH faster and nicer to me than hacking up some python, running for a minute, and half way through hitting a runtime type error.
Signposts for “when to hire more QA testers”
On Rumsfeld, I would guess people who opposed the war and his party were ready to proclaim anything he said was dumb and wrong.
How are they going to get the Palantir people? Doesn't Palantir pay extremely well?

I don't think people in this thread understand: The starting salary range for a "Technical Developer" is $60k-$150k according to their website. I imagine it's similar for CIA labs. That won't get any FAANG or Palantir developers out of bed in the morning unless they think being in the CIA super cool or something.
How can you call it “IP theft” when what they did wasn’t even meant to be illegal? If someone invents something, do you think they have some global moral rights to that invention, regardless of patents? Patents are created for each individual nation, and back in those days, IIUC, it was the norm that people would discover things abroad, bring them home, patent them locally, and sell them. Patents were in effect a tool to finance marketing of useful inventions to a local market.
What do you mean by five different variants? Also, what are the chunks of the ecosystem that were abandoned? Web Forms? Silverlight? UWP?

Microsoft has shown an amazing ability to modernize and improve the platform without dragging baggage around from one version to the next.

We just took an ASP.NET MVC web app developed in 2005 for Windows/IIS and shipped it on linux using .NET core— the conversion took 1 developer just 2 days.
The 737 isn't really designed to fly longer international routes - it's mostly used for domestic short haul flights. However, the international market is absolutely gigantic, especially the Asian one, and not being able to fly 737s in countries other than the US would be a godsend for Airbus and a tremendous blow for Boeing.
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics
This relates to the thread about the movie The Social Dilemma.
What if the Earth had rings?
Obviously the next step here is a fake SSH agent that allows logins to a little sandbox.
And Africans aren't black, and Caucasians aren't white. Surprisingly, Native Americans aren't red!
Often times none of that is tested during the interview though, so you don't know whether the person is knowledgable on any of those or other frontend specifics until you've hired them because they were able to pass an leetcode DS&A phonescreen and 3-4 leetcode DS&A onsite rounds.

I've noticed this is changing (spearheaded by FAANG & other top tech companies it seems) - there are frontend specific tracks that test more JavaScript knowledge than leetcode puzzles.

But as usual, if there is a cutting edge, there are many more laggards, and I'd say many companies are still doing leetcode DS&A for frontend too.
There's not even any agreement today about it

There's a lot of revisionist history about whether Jobs understood the tech or not. I believe a lot of it comes from the later-day Woz worship that's been spreading since Mr. Jobs' death.

If you go back and read interviews of the era when Jobs was asked technical questions by technical people, he clearly understood far more than we give him credit for today.
Invalid counterbalance, in my opinion, when the conduct of the government is in question. This seems to be the most pathetically awkward attempt to close a hearing without outright admitting it that I've ever witnessed.
Do you use an ad blocker? Or browse with js off by default?

I do both and this site looks fine, like any other article online.
I rarely buy new games at full price, but I bought RDR2 twice: first for the PS4, the on the PC.
>Might the cultural sensibility that came to be referred to as postmodernism best be seen as a prolonged meditation on all the technological changes that never happened? The question struck me as I watched one of the recent Star Wars movies. The movie was terrible, but I couldn’t help but feel impressed by the quality of the special effects. Recalling the clumsy special effects typical of fifties sci-fi films, I kept thinking how impressed a fifties audience would have been if they’d known what we could do by now—only to realize, “Actually, no. They wouldn’t be impressed at all, would they? They thought we’d be doing this kind of thing by now. Not just figuring out more sophisticated ways to simulate it.”

>That last word—simulate—is key. The technologies that have advanced since the seventies are mainly either medical technologies or information technologies—largely, technologies of simulation. They are technologies of what Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco called the “hyper-real,” the ability to make imitations that are more realistic than originals. The postmodern sensibility, the feeling that we had somehow broken into an unprecedented new historical period in which we understood that there is nothing new; that grand historical narratives of progress and liberation were meaningless; that everything now was simulation, ironic repetition, fragmentation, and pastiche—all this makes sense in a technological environment in which the only breakthroughs were those that made it easier to create, transfer, and rearrange virtual projections of things that either already existed, or, we came to realize, never would. Surely, if we were vacationing in geodesic domes on Mars or toting about pocket-size nuclear fusion plants or telekinetic mind-reading devices no one would ever have been talking like this. The postmodern moment was a desperate way to take what could otherwise only be felt as a bitter disappointment and to dress it up as something epochal, exciting, and new.

This occasionally strikes me as true when reading some of the comments in this thread about how it's easier than ever to deploy because of a new tool, easier to create a website or app because of a new framework, easier to order a car, easier to buy an airplane ticket..

I can't help but consider that we expected so, so much more.
Lack of Long-Term Vision Is What Prevents Many People from Entering in Bitcoin
I think the concern is a botnet with n IPs is that fail2ban tracks individual IPs, so if you have any kind of grace period before bannination, they get a linear speedup of n, and if there's an expiration period, get to try n times harder than a single bored script kiddie.

Worse, from an economic perspective, theres enough hosts listening on port 22 that a bot can try instead while they wait for timeouts, so you're not really imposing a cost on them. If you view running a botnet as a form of multi-armed bandit problem, the best you can really do is limit the economic value by slowing them down a tad versus their many, many other options.
Can we now have Obsidian and inXile work on Fallout?
I don't see how both game streaming and high resolution/high refresh rate displays can both be the future. The bandwidth requirements will keep going up and high resolution particle effects can create terrible compression artifacts.

Local processing power is also not standing still in time, the capability a given price purchases is increasing year upon year. Do you imagine a future where people have limitless bandwidth, with low latency, and only use incapable thin clients?
I understand this sentiment. Software can still be a lucrative and fulfilling field to work in, though perhaps not as uniformly as back in some sort of day. Perhaps the motivators for starting a tech career are different today. I work in government data transparency, and my work directly affects (hopefully positively) the communities that use our product. The code part is fun, but wouldn't be sufficient to keep me there alone. Have I taken a financial hit for taking a social-impact track vs. something else? Without a doubt. It works for me, though, in a way that optimizing for "the engineering experience" would definitely not have.

If you're feeling burnt out but want/need to stay in coding, perhaps it is worthwhile to think about how much "fulfillment" you require from coding tasks. If you find you want to reduce it, could think about:
* Mentoring other devs. It's very fulfilling to help someone grow.
* Take a pay cut and work at a nonprofit/B-corp/mission-driven regular corp. There are tons of these. There are lists (i.e., climatescape) but ask around.
* Traditional hobbies. Woodworking, painting, gardening, travel, music, etc. If you'd prefer to stay technical, some tech-adjacent hobbies with vibrant and exciting communities are retrocomputing (say, check out Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube), cosplay/prop making (check out the Role Play Forum, there's some extremely knowledgeable people there), security capture-the-flag events, 3d printing... many choices. I feel we live in a hobby golden age - there's so many excellent online communities for seemingly every niche or mainstream hobby.
Feral Child
Android and iOS should add a user permission for sensor access.
Like with C family vs. ML family vs. APL vs. Pascal family debates, some people consider those sort of syntax differences to be deal-breakers. I personally try to keep an open mind.
Relational databases like Postgres are great for storing graphs! So-called "graph databases" have some performance advantages at really massive scale, like Facebook/Twitter scale where they have to scan all your friends for every page view. But unless you're doing millions of lookups per second, Postgres will work great.
TikTok deal under new threat as Trump insists on total US control
Yes, see dfremote — iOS only though I think but works nicely with an iPad Pro and the pencil (provided you have a machine capable of running docker somewhere)
BBC has become worse than a tabloid. It's simply crap now.

The only thing that still watchable as the British Broadcasting Corporation is Earth. They have good stuff there.
Yeah, I think a little 'help' panel would be useful during play, but space is a little short for that to be always in view.

The bot is fairly dumb: it responds mostly randomly, but weighted one way or the other depending on the points involved.

Thanks for your other comments, I'll make some updates when I can.
At least an attacker (who doesn't have root) can't read a systems' SSH host keys.
Platform my foot!

I’ve always thought of Windows as the annoying OS that gets in your way...then my company started pushing MS Teams and now I have two huge barriers in getting work done. What choice of words can I use for it? Dumpster fire? No, that’s an insult to real dumpster fires.

Teams has been a continuously crashing app on my system. It disconnects from calls many a times, repeatedly crashes and restarts, uses a lot of RAM and brings everything else to their knees. I don’t even have many teams or channels or calls going on!

Recently when I searched for Teams using a lot of RAM and being sluggish, I saw several User Voice posts with complaints going on for years and it keeps getting fresh comments regularly.

Then there’s Microsoft ostentatiously having a knowledge base article about the memory use of Teams where it blatantly lies that Chromium (which Teams is using because it’s an Electron app) in Teams releases memory to other applications whenever the system is low on free RAM. I’ve only ever seen Teams strangle all other apps to die with out of memory errors! Funnily, the revenge is most visible on Edge (based on Chromium) and Brave (based on Chromium). It’s like that multiple Spider-Man meme!

I check for updates on Teams regularly, hoping beyond hope that it’ll improve. So far, hope has lost!
Would be worth searching for 'Craig Murray Crank' since the guy posts a lot of conspiracy theories that are way off the deep end. You can trust the kooks if you like, but you should try to become familiar with the extent of their unhinged-ness.

Rationalwiki has its own biases but gives helpful context and evidence illustrating Murray's crankery.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Craig_Murray
Ask HN: Best way to exchange PayPal USDS to (bank acccount) EURs?
Hi guys,

So, I am running a small online business in Germany and am getting paid in USD. PayPal's exchange rate is abysmal, hence I have quite a few dollars sitting in my PayPal account - which I cannot really use (apart from spending in USD).

Is there any way to get those dollars out to my EUR bank account, without going through Paypals currency conversion?

Note: TransferWise etc doesn't work, because PayPal Germany does not allow you to add a US bank account to your PayPal account.

Does anyone know of maybe a forex service that works with PayPal topups?

Given that USD is basically the web's currency, I figure quite a few European founders might have the same problem.

Cheers
Marco
The MAX reaches all the way to Brazil (non-stop) from the US and can open more flights Europe<>US/Canada as an example. It was a big selling point.
Sktime seems similar to DARTS, which includes both preprocessing and modeling patterns.

https://medium.com/unit8-machine-learning-publication/darts-...
I would posit you want both.

Without money you have a cool place to work until they close. Without money and you have crapy cowokers it still is a crappy place to work until they close. With money a cool place to work can last a long time. With money and you have crapy cowokers it still is a crappy place to work but still have a job.
Agreed but that is not what is happening though ; people do both; they use legos and reinvent the wheel. Making everything, imho, worse.

The authentication thingy you got as lego block did not quite fit and now you are using more code than the module has in it to add what you need for it to do, making the original module probably impossible to upgrade without a lot of work and creating a problem for maintenance. Now you can fix this by telling your client; ok, I won’t do this because your idea of auth is wrong. But then the client might kick me out (probably not a bad plan if they are doing trivial things significantly different than the rest of the world). I can just implement it like I mentioned above and make money maintaining it (risking having also to maintain the original lib). Or I can just make a new lib and for which I know it does what it was.

Then, my favourite option, is just take something that just works already, deploy that and adapt a few people their habits around it. It fits 95%, stop whining. The least popular option ofcourse, so there we are, creating slightly different wheels with millions of almost the same LoC and unused andor unmanaged libs that should not have been written or used, again, imho.
What kind of data are you inputting and is it objective? You know the truism in ML... garbage in garbage out.
I'm not a mathematician.

Can I prove this by just providing an example? My points are (0,0), (0,sqrt(2)), (sqrt(8),0). This should give irrational side lengths of sqrt(2), sqrt(8), and sqrt(10). The area of this triangle is 2, which is rational.

I solved this by guessing and checking the square roots of positive integers.
experimented with tech hands-on

And by "experimented," you mean he was employed by Atari as a solder jockey and more. The guy knew tech in ways today's javascript abstractionists could never imagine.
> most people on HN

most people in Europe. I think in this instance the EU is generally thought to be doing the right thing. The only people I hear moaning is the odd sour-puss on the internet.
> who's actually looking at this?

Well, your security team, post incident. But also automated systems like fail2ban.
This is why VC-backed vanity startups are so unpleasant.