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The JRE is an entertainment show. Do you think every entertainment show should be factual?

> For instance, Joe Rogan literally just spread a bunch of misinformation about the wildfires (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/media/joe-rogan-apologizes/in...).

Funny how you linked cnn, a major source of misinformation itself.

> Why shouldn't the New York Times fire or disciple a columnist with the exact same factual track record as Joe Rogan?

Is Joe Rogan an employee of Spotify? I don't think he works for spotify. So your example doesn't work.

Lets play a game, between the jre, cnn and nytimes, who pushes the least amount of misinformation? If you are honest, the answer is the jre. Between the jre, cnn and the nytimes, who pushes the least amount of misinformation to start wars and kill countless innocent people. The answer is the jre once again.

"Disinformation", "misinformation" and other propaganda terms are so readily adopted by fans of misinformation/disinformation.
This is fantastic. I really like the idea

I have some questions:

$19.99 on iOS and OS X, do I need both?

Is there anyway to share passwords? My wife and I share passwords and currently use LastPass for that so it is def a requirement. Would love to use something like this for my kid to control what he can and can’t log into.

That might not be the right use case but something I thought about looking at Secrets.
I see, that’s interesting. I guess software ecosystem almost always uses Ntdll instead of raw syscalls. I’m still curious why there’s been a reshuffling at all.
The high marginal tax rate is 40+% not 20%.
In that case, you've lost on potentially higher salary (assuming you've got the qualifications to be attractive to the company for the specific position).
Indeed:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media
FWIW he's probably talking about this one, which is newer/still under construction and not as well known (although it's certainly not "secret").

https://goo.gl/maps/sdJYnU4dsSNedrLfA
Spotify is quite literally an entertainment provider. They can provide any content they want. They are not a newspaper and have no obligation to only promote and host content that matches some folks views and honestly I’m thankful for it.

How boring the world would be if all entertainment was just someone dictating facts about things in a monotone voice that appealed to everyone.
It would be hard to jam one channel on a satellite and not jam other channels. They multiplex about 10 tv channels per transponder on Ku band.
> It’s perfect because it scratches their itch for security

My gut instinct is that these kinds of products create an itch for security.

When we had our first baby, we considered a video monitor, but my wife is quite anxious -- and also very self-aware -- and knew that if she got one she'd be starting at the screen constantly making sure she could detect a moving chest.

Then people started getting the wearable baby monitors that automatical check breathing. You can imagine how much anxiety soared. "Is it reading correctly? What if the monitors have just stopped working? And why has it been 20 seconds since the last update?"

We got an audio monitor that only responded to loud noises. Our parents generation, of course, didn't even have that, and were even less anxious than us.

I think the more you get into these kinds of products, the more you starting thinking about it, and the more you start thinking about what you're not monitoring, and what you are missing in your system, and how you didn't check the feed yet today while on holiday...
What is the evidence that professional licensing would help? Even the most skilled programmers produce bugs. Professional licensing would only raise the barrier to entry for a well-paying job.
> the model cannot scale to real software needs

Most of the highest performance server code across many industries in written in Java. So...

I wonder what do you consider could possibly compete with Java in this space?
This is all a wonderful show of free speech. Employees have a voice. Spotify can make decisions. JRE can have a podcast and if Spotify doesn’t want to publish it, he can go elsewhere or start his own pirate ship.

The content really just doesn’t matter. There needs to be the ability for this entire debate and protest to go down and it seems like there is.
Why isn't my gym membership or my football tickets or my Starbucks orders tax deductible, but my church dues are?
Why QAnon Left Reddit
Layman here.

This is the first I'm hearing that - it is the first time we detect a planet outside our galaxy. Can someone remind me how it comes to pass that there are people in the scientific community who believe we are the only "intelligent" life form? (I know there are a few theories that explain why there aren't any, whose names escape me at the moment)

It boggles my mind.
Yes. I am talking about mental health. Thank you for asking.
Do you support censoring music with lyrics that are factually incorrect too?
One way to think about subscriptions is to translate them into additional-years-to-retirement. How much capital would you need to accumulate to generate enough investment income to pay for the recurring expense? How many years of extra work would you need to accumulate that amount of extra capital from savings?

For example: suppose we're considering a recurring expense of $10 / month = $120 / year. How much capital K would we need to generate income to pay for this expense? Assuming a 4% real annual return on invested capital [+], we'd need K = $120/0.04 = $3k.

How many years of work does it take to accumulate savings of $K capital to invest?

Assume a median US individual annual income of around $30k and an optimistic savings rate of 5%.

Savings per year = $30k * 0.05 = $1.5k / year. Years of work required to accumulate enough capital to cover a $10 / month recurring expense: $3k / ($1.5k / year) = 2 years [#].

In this scenario, avoiding the $10 / month recurring expense is roughly equivalent to retiring 2 years earlier than otherwise.

[+] i.e. the long-run annual real return from investing 100% into the stock market given current market conditions

[#] this over-estimates the amount of work required by a few percent as it neglects that we can start investing our savings while we are accumulating it
But that is something very different. Nobody censors "new ideas". The censorship in science is focused on journals. I.e. if you want your idea to be published through a standard, accepted channel, it needs to be extensively peer-reviewed. And this is important, for obvious reasons.

However, nothing prevents you from publishing your idea on the web, and people have done that and succeeded. There were some brilliant ideas (missing the link) that just got thrown out in the wild. But if the idea is truly brilliant, some other scientist will notice and make sure it gets reviewed anyhow.

The "censorship" (I wouldn't call it that) in science doesnt happen at the publishing stage. When you have a great idea, it is bound to succeed, because nobody can afford to ignore you. The problem is getting there. How do you get the idea? Funding... Science funding is utterly broken. I.e. people research the wrong things for the wrong reasons all the time. This needs to be fixed, however it has nothing to do with censorship. This is just bias.

Spotify is not a scientific journal. It's purpose is not to decide the truthfulness of its content. It should not publish content that breaks a law. If no law is broken, Spotify has neither an obligation, nor should they intervene/censor the content.
So, you had problems with the exact same thing Apple set out to fix with open System library? I’d say they are on the right track then.
September update, paper trading with IB
First, the proper way would be to use the appropriate mode for LaTeX (auctex). It has a keybinding.

I don't use that mode, though, do I can't tell you how to set it up. I use org-mode, which lets you embed LaTeX formulae. I use this often, but surprisingly am not seeing anything in my Emacs config for this, so it may work out of the box. You do need some packages installed on your machine (dvipng, latex, etc). I already had them installed, so for me it was a simple matter of the keybinding: C-c C-x C-l

Details from the manual:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Previewing-LaTeX-fragments.html

Perhaps a friendlier guide:

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-preview.htm...

If you're not familiar with org-mode, it is highly recommended. Its learning curve is quite shallow. I'm sure there are tutorials out there, but for me the Google Tech Talk was enough to get me started and convince me I should use it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM

Ever since I encountered org mode, I author everything with it: LaTeX, HTML, DOC files, etc.
I'm not exchanging the DIMMs because of that

Why? 1 bad bit, even an intermittent one, is enough for me to condemn RAM. Memory that doesn't remember what was last written is simply not fit for purpose. Even without faulty hardware, most software is already buggy enough as-is.
Here's a 4-part video series by 3blue1brown : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk
Explains the big picture in an intuitive way
I've seen the Skydio has docking station (for outdoor use) too. but not sure it can transmit the video live or not.
"basically just write SQL tables and APIs that are advanced CRUD wrappers with light business logic"

That's a somewhat defeatist perspective. Don't think of yourself as "I ONLY do x,y,z", but rather as "of course I do x,y,z but more importantly a, b, and c too! (where a, b, and c are things that are very valuable to company).
> Employees who disagree based on politics and threaten to quit working is new

labour strikes have existed for decades. Primarily for better working conditions of course, but also environmental issues or equal civil rights and so on.

What's new isn't that employees use their bargaining power for political or social causes, it's that they have more success with it in tech or other knowledge sectors. That's a function of there being relatively few workers. The managerial and professional class has become aware of the fact that they're hard to replace, and employers actually can't fire them all, in other words the top 15% have figured out that they don't actually share any goals with the top 0.1% percent, but that they're in quite a unique position to demand what they think is right.
At my company I get headcount based on level, not raw dollars. Once I +1 a candidate at a level, it moves to HR and they are the ones doing the negotiation. At that point I become an advocate for them to get more compensation. It behooves me to have HR not play hardball and to max out their comp at the level I've specified as that makes it more likely the candidate signs. Once in a while HR will ask me "Are you sure?" and I always say "Yep, do it".

It does get a bit tricky if they're comp demands wind up out of band and then I need to decide if it's worth a higher level head count, but otherwise go for it.
The JRE is entertainment in the same sense that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is entertainment. Yes, it is intended to be entertaining, but it also tries to sell itself as being informative.

As a second point, Joe Rogan is now effectively an employee (or contractor if you prefer) of Spotify. Spotify is paying him a lot of money to run his show on the Spotify platform.
I find that what causes SW to break most often is changes to the OS, either other app updates or OS updates.

I work in a hardware company, and for any important function I usually set up a dedicated computer, install the software, and then never touch it ever

This is how the more sophisticated oscilliscopes etc. work. They often have Windows XP installed if you buy them used. Simple, doesn't break, no internet, if it's mission critical or expensive it's worth a dedicated and frozen computer
Didn't Spotify license the podcast exclusively for a number of years rather than buy it?
that site is paywalled for me and no doubt for others...here is a non paywalled link:
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-candidate-extragalactic-planet...
We don’t have laws to dictate people’s lives; we have laws to hold people to a standard and clarify process. This has nothing to do with law though, this is an internal dispute in a private organization that certainly has no business telling others how to live, in particular the guy they signed on to help expand their audience and their corporation’s paying customers.

The contract between Spotify and Joe Rogan represents a consensual trade: money for exclusive distribution of The Joe Rogan Experience. YouTube choosing to host The Joe Rogan Experience prior to this was also a trade of sorts, both made money from the arrangement, but it was a bit less airtight because YouTube has and does try to present itself as a platform just about anyone can publish on and doesn’t often make these deals. The distribution wasn’t the especially valuable part though, it was the man himself and the show Joe put together. Spotify didn’t approach Joe with a dump truck full of money to serve as Joe’s neutral platform of choice wherein Joe will follow all the same platform policies as the other shows. They approached Joe with a dump truck full of money because that was how much they valued him and the show he put together and he didn’t do anything that especially offended them (where “them” would be the people that own and control Spotify).

I don’t want to tell you what to do with your life, but I prefer to tend to my own garden before worrying about the state of another’s for I find that the sorts of people that tell others how they should live are charlatans keeping their own unkempt gardens out of sight. Nobody can nor has the moral right to control the actions of another.
On Conference Codes of Conduct
Assuming they encode it like a tv channel, it would be multiplexed on one transponder with roughly 9 other tv channels. So if the government tried to jam or block it, they would zap a bunch of legit television.

I don't know if the uplink is in Iran. If so, it would be trivial to shut it down.

Edit: Apparently the uplink is in the UAE.
What's PG? And who's Jessica?
The lesson is to be the first editor with an API and plugin system. That’s the trick. It’s like QWERTY.
Dearest human,

I would like to politely inform you that the neighbor has gone out to get the mail. This is an urgent matter, you must attend to it at once.

Sincerely,

Doggo
Well unless you're willing to burn a few solar masses of energy on a message that is nigh impossible to block.
I'm not convinced there's a lot from Doom/Spacemacs that could reasonably be contributed back to Emacs. It's mostly installing and configuring other packages to have a nice default setup.
I disagree. I want to be able to set the width to whatever I want; it is the user's job to set it to what they want. The website's responsibility is to not needlessly override the user's settings. If you want many tabs at once and switching, possibly with different widths, I think the best solution to that is split-screen (implemented in the browser), which solves many other problems too, actually.
> Science is basically the most censored field out there.

Science isn't censored. It's the opposite. It is open and it is tested. You are allowed to claim/hypothesize whatever you want. And you and others are allowed to test it.

There was a time when science was censored. Such as when people started to hypothesize that the earth revolved around the sun. Or when germany started censoring "jewish science".

You are misattributing "testing one's claims" with censoring one's claims. Science doesn't censor.
Yes. I have been burned recently. We hired an excellent candidate fitting exactly to our needs. We found him to delivering more than we expected in first two months. And then in third month, he started avoided us and resigned by the end of it. There was nothing wrong with him nor anyone had any problem with him. In fact, he was the most sought person at water-cooler too. I loved him for his ability to question anything and everything. He was open-minded for improvements too. Hence, I am assuming that he did not join in right emotional state. The initial excitement was due to a new beginning, probably.
Most everything has pros and cons but apparently Swift System has no cons! Amazing!

“... provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types.”
I understand this point of view. From non-profit leaders who core activity is grooming relationships with rich or powerful people. To startup who's sales strategy is to lure one giant customer at a loss free to reel in other companies who purchase based on what others. To poker based companies who uses bots to fake engagement. To government entities who are funded on data points hiring teams of data specialists to crave up the raw data into misleading stats to be presented as fact. The little self funded startup finding creative ways of not paying staff or for services rendered.

I can't think of one business who has pure ideals and has successfully implement them without inventing something new.
This is a fascinating anecdote and hypothesis. Do you have a blog?
I love all that stuff in Ruby to-date (used in it's appropriate place, following convention, etc) but the rightward assignment feels useless to me.

I have no idea why the few languages that allow it do so. I've never wanted it and I can't imagine it makes parsing simpler in a language where you are sometimes compiling code at runtime and where parsing is already pretty wild.

I've said this before and been wrong so let's hope this turns out to have excellent use cases.
I use and love the Panorama View plugin that lets me setup groups of tabs for different project. Then it is easy to switch between groups. It lets me focus the browser on just one project at a time and makes those tabs easier to deal with.
The idea that we are, or are not, the only intelligent life form is an opinion, not a scientific theory in the formal sense of the word -- there is no evidence either way. People's opinions on it are just that, opinions, and scientists can be wrong or biased like anyone else.

Statistical arguments, such as the Drake equation, strongly suggest that there is other life. The Anthropic Principle and the 'Great Filter' idea suggest reasons why there might not be. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter)
> I just use the Home/End keys to navigate to the start/end of lines.

If true, my guess is these were added to the shells recently (e.g. last 15 years). When I started using Linux (in the 2000's), these keybindings didn't work. It was Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E. I'd love to do a survey to see how many shell users use these vs Home/End.
Reread both mine and yours again. You are quoting sections that weren't said together. Tragic.
> They are 100% at loss if

Doesn't matter. That is not an excuse to break the law.

There is simply nothing in the law that gives a company immunity from anti trust law, if they built both the hardware and software. Such a law simply does not exist.
From the picture it looks like we're seeing M51 from the "top", does that mean that the planet is orbiting the star system at a right angle from the galaxy plane? Isn't that unusual?
> I wish more websites wouldn't try to force formatting on me and just let me resize my window.

I agree. Fossil mostly requires the use of CSS, but my own stuff I tend to not use CSS if I can avoid it, and often just write plain text files anyways (rather than HTML), which works well even if you are viewing them outside of the web browser, as well as with the web browser, too.
It's not that complicated. The Corporation sends the Foundation a significant chunk of money every year as "royalties" for the use of the name and logo. If the Foundation wants to pay for a few more developers, they can just decrease the "royalty" charges.
FT Alphaville. I don't keep up with this stuff as much anymore but there is a lot out there if you are willing to invest the time (just follow the right people on Twitter, read good books, etc.).
I love Go, but there is a strong case that Kubernetes has a messy codebase because Go didn’t have good dependency management or generics when they started it. The strength of the ecosystem in other areas let them get started and now they have the tragedy of success, a la Wordpress.
That was in 2008.

"Joe Biden and his wife donated just $70,000 to charity in the two decades leading up to 2017, per their tax returns. But when their earnings skyrocketed in 2017, so did their giving. That year they handed more than $1 million, or about 9% of their income" (including $250K to their own foundations) (still pretty low since he and his surviving children got stinking rich after the Vice Presidency and is quite old)

-Forbes
Yeah, good luck.

It's a nice concept, but hard work and achievement in life takes discipline and structure. Playing peter pan with your kids while reliving your childhood won't lead to anything good.

Additionally, fear of school shootings as a reason to take your kids out is not couched in any basic statistical facts. Might as well not drive or ride bikes.
Nothing "has to" fill the gaps. People can and do suffer and diem
> Emacs has a steep learning curve and that's good. You need a moat to keep the barbarians from destroying your kingdom.

Most of the emacs community radiates that same attitude, which is one reason it stays where it is and doesn't flourish.
Really impressed with Urkel! I've had my eye on it for some time. In an earlier version (https://github.com/handshake-org/urkel), the documentation talked about compaction being an expensive and user-initiated operation. Does this version address this?

If you're looking for more SMT implementations, we've got a home-grown one at Blockstack. We built a "merklized adaptive-radix forest" (MARF) to represent blockchain state as an authenticated key/value store, where you can query a key's value at any block height (and get a proof). I think the high-level differences between it an an Urkel tree are:

* No delete operation -- we need to be able to service key lookups from any previous committed root hash, since a major use-case for the MARF is in allowing Blockstack smart contracts to cheaply query historic chain state in the same fork.

* Key insertion order affects the root hash (but this is more of an artifact of the implementation than a deliberate design decision).

* Variable-radix nodes, in order to minimize the number of nodes that would need to be loaded on a key lookup. Ours is based on adaptive-radix trees [1].

* Proof size is bigger, and has a different structure. The proof is meant to show a key's value, as well as its place in the blockchain history.

* Implemented in Rust, as an index within a Sqlite database -- we rely in Sqlite to provide crash-consistency.

Anyway, the technical documentation is here [2] and the code is here [3] if you want to take a look!

[1] https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/papers/leis-icde...

[2] https://github.com/blockstack/stacks-blockchain/blob/master/...

[3] https://github.com/blockstack/stacks-blockchain/tree/master/...
Thank you stocktech. I don't mind roasting, it's part and parcel of an online world where some people find pleasure in trolling behind a veil. I am grateful that HN is an empathetic community and I shall continue to trust it.

These questions are about candidates past, however I intend to know the current status of mind. This reminds me that I was able to confirm a candidate's state by asking him about his daily routine. His after-work-hours were very depressing for me. Conversations are serendipitous - how they have an innate quality of bringing out the best from within. :-)
I started reading and couldn't really follow along, and I work in security, can't imagine what it must be for someone not in the field.
`where` is intuitive as a synonym for `filter`, but it's the `select` that always threw me as a synonym for `map`.

I get that they're trying to expose an SQL-like API, but yeah, map is always about mutation, but `select`only does mutation sometimes in SQL.