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Mithril.js Interview with Gilbert
You need to read some articles on fundraising. It’s nearly impossible to raise money for an idea, especially one that you’re not explaining well at all.
I've never encountered the term "credentializing" before. What does it mean in this context?
> It is Bob’s job to get you signed with the company as cheaply as possible...

Strictly speaking, this is not necessarily the case (although it might be, but you probably won't make a career at such a company.)

Bob's job is to make the company money. If one guy is asking $300k, it doesn't necessarily follow that Bob could hire five guys working for $30k and come out way ahead.
Part of concern is vulnerabilities in your devices when exposed to the internet. The manufacturer doesn’t have to be malicious, just infosec incompetent.
>It seems to easy to reach enlightenment when you are living in a monastery with a bunch of dudes and no responsibilities but to "chop wood, carry water."

Do you find it easy to confine yourself to a monastery with a bunch of dudes and no responsibilities but to "chop wood, carry water"?

If so, why don't you take this "easy" path?
> Virtually any amount of money available to you personally is
> mouse droppings to your prospective employer.
> They will not feel offended if you ask for it.

Two comments.

(a) I interviewed with Wealthfront last year. They offered $160K, which was lower cash comp than any of my other offers. I tried to open the door to negotiation. The recruiter and the dev lead then got on the phone with me to awkwardly explain that no, they don't negotiate with candidates, and what makes me feel like their offer is inadequate? Would I really want to miss the opportunity to work for an exciting company over some marginal sum of money? Yes.

(b) The money you ask for is a pittance on the company's balance sheet, but you're not negotiating with the company. You're negotiating with someone in recruiting. From hanging out with HR, they talk a lot of shit about candidates who they consider difficult, and have a lot of ways of making the experience less pleasant for the candidate, even if it's not clear what this means for the company's ability to attract talent.
> I"ve seen a lot of employers minimize wages and hours to get as much of their budget into workers pockets as possible. It converts into productivity more efficiently like that.

That's only if you assume minimal cost in having more people doing the same amount of work. Between hiring, HR overhead, training, team communication, number of desks, and a general need of staying on top of things, that might be a steep assumption. If twice as many people don't get the work done twice as fast, why would twice as many each working half as much do it in the same time as before?

Of course, I'm thinking of engineering here. I can imagine that employing several part-time workers in, say, a retail store won't have the same level of drawbacks.
Patch theory VCSes are, IMO, very much not the future of VCS, but they're an important research project, and the future will have learned from them. Git is definitely the present of VCS, even if it was adopted for all the wrong reasons (not Git's fault).
I'm not doubting you, but I'm seriously trying to picture this.

You were running late for the flight. Couldn't find your keys. Presumably pretty panicked. And you sat down and watched multiple streams of cameras to see if you might see yourself putting the keys down somewhere?
More like Jevons Paradox.
Do not try to replicate, you will destroy your device.
Not really. It has nothing to do with privilege .

While it is dramatic in the current context it is the same excuse half of Germany used in Nuremberg, if you didn't stand up to atrocities in front you are just as guilty no matter whether you gave the order or just "doing your job".

People fight and die based on their moral convictions. At times they are not even fighting for their own lives, families or communities. If soldiers are ready to die half way across the world loose a limb in someone else's war without a second thought, anything less is insignificantly trivial.

If you can die for your principles you can loose a job, go hungry or suffer any other pain too.

It is as simple as what will cause you more pain, going hungry or doing something you don't agree with.
Ask HN: Why has the Covid curve flattened in Europe but not in USA?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24591748
Purely because it is so difficult to modulate gravitational waves it's a great medium through which Uber tech societies could communicate
I covered that in my comment with the “and” clause. I don’t deny they were radically successful at making a club. That’s my point, their success was in making an elite social group, not in any special VC strategy. The only way to replicate their success (if that’s what you define success as) would be to somehow supersede their reputation as the most desirable club.
> All of this is based off Trumps own words and prior behavior.

Which behavior is that?

>he refuses to concede

This is not supported by the NYT quote re Pentagon officials you have provided. Do you have a quote where Pentagon officials discuss actions in case of Trump's failure to concede?
>If you can develop your whole application in your REPL without restarting your application that's a tell that you have a good REPL

So, basically, Smalltalk!
The epic uncool of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Like this: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/your-first-ext...
Of course you can transfer data through a gravitational wave. I had a long series of conversations about this with Rai Weiss (of LIGO fame) back in the mid 1980's when I was an undergrad with a crazy idea to turn a cyclotron or synchrotron accelerator into a high frequency gravitational wave generator. The question isn't whether a wave can carry information, it's how you can modulate the carrier wave when the carrier wave is a gravitational wave generally requiring a pair of closely orbiting black holes to produce.

I learned a ton of math and physics in the process of asking whether you could turn CERN or the superconducting supercollider into a gravitational wave generator, the most interesting being that conventional laboratory proposals for rotating bar gravitational wave generators and high frequency accelerator based gravitational wave generators are both in the end limited by the same quantity, the physical strength of materials. If you try to spin a bar faster than the point where its tip velocity is moving at roughly the speed of sound in the material, the bar will be ripped apart because the centrifugal force exceeds the tensile strength of the material, and if you try to increase the number of electrons or protons too high in the bundle being accelerated in your accelerator, you are similarly ultimately limited by the physical strength of the magnets responsible for bending the path of the particles into a circle.

The other interesting observation is that the rotating bar obviously has a much higher mass (technically quadrature moment) than you can get circulating in an accelerator, but the angular velocity of the accelerator is so much higher and the exponent on the angular velocity term in the gravitational wave strain calculation is so high (fifth power? I forget, it's been many years) that the magnitudes of the strain producable in a laboratory setting by a rotating bar and by an accelerator are actually very close (and both, unfortunately, are too small to be of interest).

When I went to grad school, my explicit interest was to build a tiny detector to look for high frequency gravitational waves on the grounds that if you wanted to communicate over Inter stellar or larger distances high frequency gravity waves were the best choice for avoiding the dispersion, scattering, and noise background that makes the the E/M spectrum a hard place to talk on long distances (essentially a variant on the SETI "watering hole" frequency choice but pushed into a different medium). I never had a design for a generator, but the idea was to build a table-top size Weber bar or laser interferometer tuned for the kind of high frequency waves you'd want to use for a communication system, and see if anybody happened to be talking on those channels.
Researchers develop method to create colloidal diamonds
That type of thing might disrupt the narrative. Can't have that! Those free thinkers are dangerous.
My main criticism with pointing based on complexity is that people don't think in complexity, they think in time. For example, a 1 point ticket might be to move a 50lb weight up a flight of stairs. A 5 point ticket might be to move a 500lb up a flight of stairs. If you plan a sprint with 2 developers taking 5 points each, one with 5 of the 1 point tickets described above, and the other with a single 5 point ticket described above, you lose the complexity dimension. 5 points vs 5 points looks like apples to apples, but it is really 5 apples vs 5 oranges.
I mean lack of protection for employment seems to be the essence of cancel culture. I suspect that this overprotection of children stems from the (often unrelated) fears of the parent, such as lack of social welfare and social services seen in other countries.

The world is pretty offensive if you listen to what people get offended by, like police shootings.

This whole panic about "sheltered millenials" or whatever seems to be projected from boomers (and older) who refuse to admit how poorly society functions compared to the idealistic but anemic view through the lens of private media (universally owned and operated by older generations).
OP here. Forgot to mention I’m in America.
A new quick method to analyze food quality
>The question is, should they?

Maybe the question should be why shouldn't they?

If the employees are protesting in good faith and not employing violence to coerce their employer, why shouldn't they?

If Spotify feels editorial control is in their business interests, and it doesn't violate their contract with Joe Rogan, why shouldn't they exercise it?

It's odd that so many people are complaining so vehemently about a situation in which the rights that Hacker News usually considers sacrosanct - voluntary contracts, capitalism and free speech, are not actually being undermined.
'When You Get into Unschooling, It's Almost Like a Religion'
Because the New York Times’ business is journalism and Rogan’s is entertainment.
Can you explain why you believe "remove the misleading sentence" is not constructive?
It's actually at the hardware level. The 64-bit Apple K9 chip.
If you hadn't heard the "Iranian diaspora" phrase before...

"Iranians abroad or Iranian diaspora are Iranian people living outside Iran and their children born abroad."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_diaspora
I was thinking of Objective-C++ which can freely call into C++.

Swift seems to be one step removed from that. I guess you would have to write an Objective-C to Objective-C++ bridge to then use from Swift, ugh.
Not OP but I've made similar experiences. Here in Germany Firefox for a really long time had the plurality of the market share even while in most other countries Chrome had already won. Everyone knew what Firefox was.

Three to four years ago was the first time, particular among young people, teenagers say, that I met kids who didn't know what Firefox was. It has lost an extreme amount of awareness.
Don't worry, magit's got your back.
China's New Electric Plasma Jet Engine
Sorry, turns out I was thinking of ivy-switch-buffer, not ibuffer. You are absolutely right though.
Give me a break. VCBrags is harmless fun.

It's absolutely absurd that anyone could think that clapping emojis are harassment.

In fact, VCBrags recently almost shut down. And I think this blog post is one of the many examples of bullying that led to that kind of decision.

And yes, there should be reputational consequences for this behavior. Nobody needs to be fired, I'm not advocating for that, but bad-faith critics of the tech industry and those who work in it should be identified and ignored.

Seriously? The world would be a worse place if people listen to this person. It's clapping emojis, for heaven's sake.

I also love how people who advocate for deplatforming someone pull the "Oh no, I would never advocate they be fired. No way!" act. It's such transparent sophistry.

Ugh. Enough internet for me today. Back to work.
> "Success makes you stupid, failure makes you smart"

Failure makes you dead, unless you have the means and support to try again.
It's quite ugly among Mac apps, since it's a Qt app. I usually avoid non-Mac apps, but calibre does what I need it to do, and there is no better option.

The feature set is truly impressive. Hard to believe it's essentially the work of one developer. I don't mean to criticize when I say it's ugly: I'm a back-end developer primarily, and I don't have any idea how to cram as many features as it has in any interface without it becoming ugly.
I wonder when people will finally understand that outside of mathematics, there is no "truth" and "falsehood". There is only statements that have sufficient evidence to be considered a fact, or statements that lack evidence or even statements that go against evidence while lacking supporting evidence (Lets call these statements "Trumpian statements").

If we establish, that a statement is "really true" only if a celestial being, aware of all the facts, would consider this statement true, then pretty much all statements in the world have an unknown for their truth value. The error also can't be established. What people thought "really true" a hundred years ago, we now laugh about. Same will happen to many other things.

Censorship of "falsehoods" is a very dangerous concept. It prevents innovation. Einstein was essentially a heretic. His theories were bold and completely absurd to most people back then. Should we have censored them?

However, for many many statements, a lack of evidence has no impact on the truthfulness. Just because I can't prove something, doesn't make it false. Just because there is a mountain of counter-evidence, doesn't make a statement false, it just makes it less likely to be "really true". However, there could be a surprising piece of evidence, that trumps (pun intended) all existing counter-evidence.

If you want to censor, then you essentially force society into coherence. That is good in the short-term, as it reduces conflict, but very very bad in the long-term, as it suppresses non-standard opinions (i.e. innovation and free expression).

A much better approach than censorship is to create a channel "What Joe Rogan Got Wrong" and list all his supposedly falsehoods and explain the mountain of evidence against it. That of course takes effort. But yeah, the quick solution is rarely the best.
Unfortunately people aren't charitable enough to sustain a population.
Who is gong to provide the account services in this scenario?

I suspect if the Fed is supposed to do it, they will outsource it to regular banks which will then add on restrictions, fees and other hurdles there by making it the same as today's bank accounts.
The predator and the prey in their natural habitat.
I wasn't expecting anything. It's just unusual. Anyway, seems he's just experimenting with colors. There's another video with a yellow background in his YT channel and all the latest ones have dark color schemes.
How is paying taxes less empathetic than paying an NGO?
How do you intend to use this feature? I struggling to see the value.
Poster said NL. Not US.
The Joe Rogan Experience isn't a news program. The early days involved getting high, being sponsored by Fleshlight, and having profanity-laden arguments.

In that sense Spotify doesn't need to ensure its 'product' provides truthful information.

It's on society to not treat entertainment as News. Unfortunately, people going to JRE for news isn't Spotify or JRE's fault. It's a cultural problem and you need to solve it at a structural or cultural level.
Academia doesn't pay as well as industry in terms of money but it does pay well in terms of status and ego supply. Couple that with a bit of self-delusion and it's a recipe for crackpots who can't believe their beautiful ideas could be wrong.
I would complaint about Rust as well, but setup a HTTP server in Rust is actually not that hard if you accept the fact that you'll have to use third-party framework. Then, the HTTP server will come to alive in within 20 lines of code.

See: https://rocket.rs/ https://actix.rs/

But, of course, the demo code is always easy. The real nightmare starts as soon as your application became complex enough, that the demo no longer fit and you need to manually spawn something (To handle TCP connection before it hits the framework for example) rather than just "actix_web::main" or "tokio::main".
I'd argue that Eclipse is more like vim and emacs than it is like VS Code.

Better analogues to the latter, imo: BBEdit, TextMate, Sublime Text, Atom

Obviously those still have users, but in that particular market niche the turnover is higher.

What determines long-run resilience is less feature sets than the distribution and development models.
> In my opinion, Java as a web language is good when you don't need to really understand what's happening (like in low-traffic situations). If concurrency isn't an issue, then the massive amount of libraries can help you a lot.

Not sure how to interpret this comment.. If high concurrency and high performance matter, that is precisely where Java shines. The only other reasonable option would be C++ but it brings so much pain with it that Java is the way to go.

If traffic is low and performance doesn't matter (which is most sites), then sure, use whatever favorite scripting language.
Most charity looks like rich people giving money to each other for the tax deduction, or local entrepreneurs using it for advertising spend for their business.

I always shudder when my rich coworkers donate money to their own children's private school, get the tax deduction, and also get a corporation gift match.
There is nothing preventing you from doing that though, that’s why I was curious.
New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
Does anybody know of something like this but for outdoor use?

If I had a relatively large (100 acre) or so property: is there a drone that I can buy that will be available whenever I want to check something out (without having to get up from my desk) then fly back to my roof to charge itself when its done?

The "figure out what proximity alarm was tripped" part would be extra sauce. The main thing I'm looking for is return to home and charge yourself until I need you again.
I just upvoted all of you. With love, rangoon
Everything You Need to Know About Chinese People (According to US Gov't in 1943)
Death of the Dev Machine?
man what is with takes like this nowadays? hi, welcome to human nature, where people judge books by covers, and have since time immemorial. why do you think people go to the McDonalds in Cairo right next to the pyramids? (hint: it's not because of the authenticity of local experience)

that's not the "sentiment of a true plutocrat and elitist" at all-- it's the sentiment of a realist. and what is a "true plutocrat", anyway? sounds like some "no true scotsman" / eye of the holder bs to me, honestly.
You are welcome to go live with your like-minded peers on your own outside of larger society.
> In fact, VCBrags recently almost shut down. And I think this blog post is one of the many examples of bullying that led to that kind of decision.

Lol, did you read it? You have the chronology backwards.
It's interesting that you mention Einstein and physics. Science is basically the most censored field out there. Every single published paper goes through rigorous peer-review and will not be published if other scientists think it's flawed. I think science would be much worse off if they threw that peer review away and journals like Nature simply published whatever article showed up on their door.

Edit: Due to some confusion in the comments. I just want to clarify some of the terminology here. When I say that science is "censored" I mean it is "censored" in the same way that Spotify is "censoring" Joe Rogan. Nobody is stopping any scientist from posting their papers anywhere they want online and there is nobody stopping Joe Rogan from taking his show and broadcasting it elsewhere. They are only being "censored" in the sense that the mainstream publishers have high truth quality standards and some shows (and scientific papers) don't meet those standards and thus publishers will refuse to publish the low quality material.
So in this case the binary system together is 1A? Or is the brighter star 1A, the planet is 1b, and the black hole is 1C because it's darker?
The paper (Shenyi Zhang, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber) : https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/39/eaaz1334
If a solider can put down his life for a principle, he can go hungry and loose his job too.

While it true you are not in position to make that statement to him, it is no less true.

We did not get independence by doing the convenient thing. thousands of years of caste based discrimination is not going to go away without people standing up and sacrificing.

To abolish slavery, Lot of people lost lives and faced real pain to stand up to injustice, It is true in every fight for racial equality or women rights or anything else in each society.

Social change does not happen by doing the easy thing. It is always a sacrifice to make our community a better place.
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are only two bindings, it's hardly a big deal. But I've used Emacs for decades, and I expect a lot of control-key bindings, to the point that remapping the CapsLock key as an extra control is a vital part of making a computer usable.

Do other editors have the CapsLock binding problem, or do they generally rely on something other than control keys?
Instead of a full fledged language, they may have a more restricted language to communicate that "that" human is friendly - so the friendly crows you have never seen before may have seen you first, together with your buddy, and been informed of your friendliness. To recognise you as friend without ever meeting you before needs a lot more complex language.
Swift isn't good for backend services. Linux port is also average ect ...
The reserve ratio (which in most places is now down to 2% or less), is there to prevent runaway monetary expansion through lending/deposit creation. The Central Bank's role as lender of last resort is the backup for bank runs.

In the event of a run, a bank is considered illiquid, an insolvent bank is one where losses on debts exceed loss provisions and capital.

An entity that only wrote loans, and didn't have deposits would not be a bank - the definition of a bank is implicitly that it is performing fractional reserve banking via double entry book keeping. (Unless it's the World Bank, which is actually a fund, because the US and UK had an argument about who would control the International Monetary Fund (which is actually a bank) when the Bretton Woods agreement was setup.

No banks, including central banks can really be described as robust. They have at best around 1% fault tolerance in terms of the quantity of loans as a percentage of total lending that they can write-off each year.

Yes, that is about to become a huge problem.
Are you just being willfully obtuse? The words and behaviors that I described in the previous comment. I give up trying to explain this to you. Congrats, you win the debate through sheer exhaustion.
What's the relationship between its data structures and CRDTs? The emphasis on patches makes me think this might be an operation-based CRDT.
It's possible Google will keep paying what is peanuts to them not to be technically an absolute monopoly (by keeping Firefox alive at insignificant usage level)
And yet the nation is rife with well funded shady charities that enrich their owners.