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> The mind share for that word went down. Instead we found ourselves hearing people asking for Prosecco or bubbly. Champagne might now be able to assert that only the'quality' product from their region has the name, but I suspect it's just caused the companies that produce wine to make sure that they own the trademark, and push their brand, not the term champagne. Regardless of whether it's from that region.

I haven't noticed a substantial change. Most people in the US I meet that aren't really into wine still use "champagne" to refer to sparkling wine. I was actually looking at making mimosas the other day and picked out a bottle of okay sparkling wine (it seems silly to mix expensive wine with OJ to me), and my SO commented that mimosas she thought mimosas had to use champagne. I picked her brain about it (I was shocked someone would pay for champagne for a normal Saturday mimosa), and she thought champagne was a totally distinct thing from sparkling wine. She thought sparkling wine was force carbonated like beer, or maybe just flat wine mixed with seltzer water like a wine spritzer. She didn't know what prosecco was, and when I told her, she said she would call that champagne.

I don't think their campaign has had much of an effect on the average American. It makes a difference to connoisseurs, but the average American doesn't know the technical difference (and likely has never had true champagne, because of the relatively high price).

I find that's generally true of culinary things in America, though. Many of my friends buy their wine from gas stations and are happy with it, which I struggle with. They typically only stock bottom of the barrel stuff like Barefoot; the white wines taste more like apple juice with vodka mixed in it than a real wine. The reds are generally exceptionally sweet; even full bodied reds lack the flavor and feel of tannins (probably to increase the appeal among people that hear cabernet sauvignon is a good wine, but don't know they don't like full bodied wines).

It's really a shame. There are some quite good wines in the cheap range (especially if you go for less traditional regions, like South Africa), but gas stations don't carry them and people tend to judge the region for unfair reasons. I get shocked looks if I open a bottle from Argentina or South Africa, as if wine is only meant for the wealthy and the grape vines can sense if they're in an economically disadvantaged country and will refuse to produce good grapes until you transplant them to a country with a higher GDP per capita.
While the rest of your post sounds reasonable:

> Right now Silicon Valley VC thinking is the dominant ideology

Are you sure? Are you talking about the US? And even then it's probably true for only ~half of the states? Are you talking about the business world? The whole of EU seems to strongly disagree with SV VC thinking.

Edit: Why doesn't the EU replicate the success of US startups? You think EU policy makers don't understand what is needed for that? Or that there's not enough "talent"? I doubt it. I think it's a more or less conscious decision to avoid the US startup culture. It's a cultural thing.
Great intro article, saving this one for folks at work!

For anyone confused why so many low buffer chips exist it depends greatly on the network needs. In some deployments going for deep buffers can actually make things slower overall. E.g. in enterprise healthcare I've really gravitated towards Trident (Trident 3 currently) level chips for most of the LAN/MAN and sometimes RAN as the feature sets are there and there isn't a strong driver for deep buffer per se just traffic priority for phones and a certain app once in a great while. I.e. it doesn't matter if you've got 16 GB of deep packet buffer built up, the telemetry packet needs to make it out the 10 Mbit pipe to the remote clinic now not at some point in the future. For WAN across regions or internet we move into some of those Juniper ASICs though and do rely on deeper buffer for the MANY concurrent sessions which are fighting understanding loss at higher latencies.

Another interesting hardware rabbit hole to go down is the modular transceivers that go into these kinds of switches to provide different kinds of copper/optical connections instead of always being a fixed RJ-45 port like most would be used to at home. Crazy levels of engineering, especially at the higher end. I saw a really interesting presentation last year from Juniper on their use of silicon photonics for high density low cost 400 gigabit Ethernet and beyond (pdf warning) https://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/nxtwork/silic...
Don't you think that in general, the drive to push as many people as possible into places as tight as possible, like high density urban areas, is abnormal? People by nature love to enjoy space, and this is what U.S. has in abundance.

Work on making geographic location less important, on decreasing the value of being in a particular place. Embrace remote work. It will solve the "housing crisis". Forcing millions of adults into dorms, won't.
I think that’s true. But I fear the swing back is going to be cut short if unions stick to the current strategy of a unified front between public and private unions. My rough impression is that public opinion is swinging in favor of private unions and against public unions. I’m already hearing liberals get grumbly over rising taxes and declining services due to unsustainable public employee benefits, and that situation is going to get much worse before it gets better.

And at the federal level, the unions have declared war on half the country by joining the “resistance” against Trump’s policies: http://laborpress.org/federal-workers-plot-resistance-to-tru...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-with...
The error you're seeing is a false-positive, an it may be illegal for reCAPTCHA to deny you access.

I've rised the issue last year with the W3C [1] and now your experience is publicly documented [2], though the next step would be to file complaints and take legal action for your rights to be respected.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#version-2-are-you-a-robot
Sorry about that. I’ve not found a way to convert those to non-AMP on an iPhone.
Containers purpose is not to be CPU agnostic, if you want that use Java, .NET, whatever, and build the container image that pulls the required runtime depending on the host.
Not only negative votes, but flagging as well. The flagging mechanism is commonly used on HN to completely disappear dissenting opinions.
> They can be semantic and in practice are used semantically, especially in nominal type systems. It depends on the programming language how much they enforce though, but even if you don't enforce anything names carry meaning [...]

But grammar productions are also named and grammars are also designed to capture semantic notions. The syntax is after all intended to convey meaning.
Unsupervised‘Random Query Patch Detection’Pretrains Transformers
What do you think is wrong with the CDC information https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm ?

The charts "Weekly number of deaths (from all causes)" shows it's a big deal.

Or, select the dashboard "Excess deaths with and without COVID-19" and see that the number of deaths without COVID is pretty close to the expected number of deaths, and not a drop that would compensate for the COVID deaths.

You can also see that while the linked-to site claims "The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths.", the CDC writes:

> For example, in some cases, COVID-19 may have contributed to the death, but the underlying cause of death was another cause, such as terminal cancer. For the majority of deaths where COVID-19 is reported on the death certificate (approximately 95%), COVID-19 is selected as the underlying cause of death.

Furthermore, the CDC write "deaths from all causes excluding COVID-19 were also estimated. Comparing these two sets of estimates — excess deaths with and without COVID-19 — can provide insight about how many excess deaths are identified as due to COVID-19, and how many excess deaths are reported as due to other causes of death."

Since the surface-level description contradicts easily available evidence, why do you believe the rest of the details are any more meaningful?
Seems pretty OK, I personally do prefer hub motor ebikes over mid-drive, but without any lugs for racks I don't know if this is truly the pinnacle of versatility. Also the handlebar is not the right place to mount the front light. I don't know why manufacturers keep making this mistake. I guess it's because Americans just don't understand the bicycle as a utility vehicle. The light belongs on the fork crown.
First of all, they've self identified as non-American and presumably not a native English speaker. You could have presented the difference between drive and ride with less pedantry.

Secondly, cities with large numbers of cyclists tend to have better, not worse traffic. It's obvious why: fewer people driving plus infrastructure for bikes is developed and separated from car infrastructure. You should wish for more cyclists, not fewer.
Don't forget The Day the Universe Changed!
it's not obvious to me that hiring good storytellers is a negative.

I think you can make the case that that's not the sole criteria or highest criteria you should seek, but I've seen remarkable longevity in companies where people are willing to fake it til they make it. (Longevity defined here as keeping people employed and keep raising money when needed. Not changing the world or anything.)
It defeats _one_ of the purposes of using Docker for development.

I expect that the official M1-supporting Docker Desktop will eventually, given a dual-arch image, allow you to choose which architecture to use. (One would run natively, the other under emulation)

There are situations where I'd use this feature, but 90% of the time I'd be fine using arm images locally and deploying x64.

(I could also imagine this working the other way -- an x86 dev machine and an arm deployment target -- which I think to some degree is supported by Docker today)
When you say legal risks/vulnerabilities, are you referring to immigration ones (because these are the only ones I am able to comment on)? And are you referring to startups founded by foreign nationals only?
Interesting. It is somewhat analogous to how thirst satiation is inhibited (partly) by gulping liquid as well as gut fluid osmolality.
I'm always confused by people of working age who ride bikes like this. What's the attraction of a more expensive and heavier bike that's no faster than pedaling yourself?
working with startups.
> Therefore, based on IP geolocation, Apple really does have coarse location history for every single iOS device by serial number.

This conflates technical possibility with an implemented system which stores that data and the insinuation that this is used for purposes other than what the user enabled. Do you have an evidence that Apple stores this data and uses it in violation of their privacy policy? You're apparently in Europe so you should be able to file a GDPR request to see exactly what they're storing.
This is horrific, I would absolutely not want to work anywhere this information is actively being used.
European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’
I keep hearing this mantra of "same environment". But is it really ever the same? One of my previous workplaces insisted on everyone having bloody openshift locally, so your dev env supposed to be closer to prod. Guess what, it still wasn't by a long stretch, yet it ate half of usable laptop's RAM and was slow like hell.

Most people quietly switched to docker-compose templates shared through private repos within a month for quick local runs and then tested end-to-end in dev cluster when it was mature enough.

What I'm saying here is that architecture mismatch is really just another variable, and purpose of docker locally nowadays is not to replicate prod. That is unachievable and the sooner one accepts it the better. Still it's the best way so far to keep DLL hell at bay.
This reminds me of 19th century sailing. Manning a multi-mast sailing ship is a fairly technical job and a good singing voice was desirable. Song is a great way to get groups of men to work in concert.
Coming from conventional bikes, I don't understand who this is for.

Carbon fibre frames are prohibitively expensive and the market for them serves very involved, often professional or semi-pro cyclists whose performance bottlenecks are imposed by the bike instead of themselves. Ditto for some of the other details on the bike, like the medium-dish carbon rims — all for the sake of weight savings and aerodynamics (since carbon bikes will usually integrate things like formed handlebars and seat tubes, etc).

Suffice it to say, you'd rarely see a commuter using a carbon bike.

This bike, though, feels like a bit of an oxymoron. Expensive carbon frame with none of the aero features you'd usually see on one, including conventional handlebars.

A lightweight carbon frame weighed down by a battery.

High-performance rims and tyres but only one chain ring.

Low-profile seat stays with mud guards on both wheels.

A utilitarian, commuter feature set with a price tag that makes no sense at all.
This reminds me of one of the more embarrassing episodes of my life. My friends and I (pretty nerdy types) were at a bar with an amateur MMA fighter. Guy was like 6'10", covered in huge muscles and tattoos. One of the nicest guys I've ever met, but you definitely wouldn't want to get on his bad side.

Anyway we didn't know the guy too well, lots of getting-to-know you type stuff. The MMA fighter after a few hours mentions that he was really into Starcraft, Age of Empires, and other RPS.

You could have knocked me and my other friends over with a feather. This ripped "jock" likes Starcraft! Oh my god! We were so surprised and just went on and on about how impressed we were like idiots.

A year or two later one of my friends who was there (a little more balanced guy who played more sports and hung out with more varied groups of people) told me that he and the MMA fighter had been talking as we walked back from the bar. The MMA guy was apparently like "so I guess these guys have just never hung out with any athletes?" Turns out it isn't that abnormal for them to like cool and nerdy stuff.

Even though I felt pretty dumb, that was a good experience for me as a person. My whole life I've been a pretty accepting and nice person, and my intelligence has never really made me feel superior to other people. I guess to that point those qualities made me feel like I couldn't possibly be prejudiced or biased because hey, I don't actively hold any hostile or condescending beliefs. But that showed me that my own ignorance was sufficient for me to classify some guy I knew almost nothing about and put him in a box, a guy I liked perfectly well and never had a bad thought about. It's a tough thing to be aware of but I think has made me a little more skeptical and humble, which I'm glad for.
A death certificate may list multiple causes of death.
this might actually solve the problem with robot waitstaff. Mechanical turk them, allowing the actual service people to work remotely!
That was already a bad reason to start using Docker anyway, instead of fixing the devenv, yet another workaround.

As Java/.NET dev having heterogeneity between environments was never an issue.
What the Fuck Is Simplicity
Uh? While Rust provide memory safety it doesn't prevent memory leaks..
It's definitely a problem, but it's solvable. It's just a function of political will and funding for local internet... Or just hoping starlink brings internet to everybody. But I also think the government needs to give people/companies straight up money to move there or give them some other incentive. It's not enough just to have schools and remote workers in houses. We need to incentivize artists, entertainers, service workers, chefs, etc. to want to work in these places. Otherwise these locations won't last long term.
Search is restricted because it's an expensive operation and prone to abuse. This practice is not just found at Stack Exchange, now GitHub doesn't even display the full code search result to visitors. The only option is to log in (if you are already an established SE/GitHub user and doesn't mind the web tracking)...
If it's of any consolation, I too have these "grand" ideas. My obsession for the past ~30 years (I'm 40-something now) has been "how to build the city of the future".
The concept was prevalent in 1970s-90s movies because it's a core part of how people who grew up in those decades (like PG) perceive the world. I suspect that he struggles to see the world without that lens applied, the same way political partisans struggle to look at things without a red vs. blue filter; it's too foundational to who he is and what he believes.

(I don't mean that as an insult, to be clear. I have filters like that too, and I'm sure we all do.)
> Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture.

Paul Graham seems dead wrong on this. Here is a twin study showing the opposite.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Also the Asch conformity experiments suggest the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

Scientific thinking is something that can be taught. Think for yourself, don't listen to Paul Graham.
It's really hard to read this kind of discussion of paul graham's work, because I feel there is a lot of reaction to who he is rather than just the ideas being presented. I'd love to see him do a [Richard Bachman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bachman) i.e. start writing essays with no obvious connection to his actual identity and see what response it gets.
I wonder if this might account for the 'aspartame migraine' phenomenon. If the body is reacting in a way to handle a sugar overload coming, but there's no sugar overload... what happens?

I know that personally, if I drink an artificially sweetened soft drink, I am usually smacked with a headache that lasts hours. I'd never heard of the effect before, but after 2 or 3 attempts at a coke zero, I was done with them for life. And to be clear, I would really like to switch because my sugar intake probably isn't healthy.
I was just discussing in general, but if you can only comment on immigration-related ones I’d be curious to hear what some common issues are that startups run into when hiring immigrants.
True. PC clones were always cheaper.

You could use a composite monitor on the A500/2000. It was only in monochrome. I did that for the first couple months I had my A500.
No surprise there. I would also not be surprised if one of the current companies like Threema or Proton Mail / VPN end up not being as clean as they claim.
I am no fan of the domination of numerous markets by megacorps, but two wrongs don't make a right, and the entire moral principle behind this movement is wrong, and I hope the companies being targeted by these movements find ways of defending themselves from their unjust demands.

This is why I think companies should completely disassociate from service providers, via gig-economy type arrangements that limit their engagement with any one employee.

As soon as they make someone an employee, there is a major risk that that person will adopt a whole bunch of baggage from a couple of centuries of labor movement lore, that convinces them that they are an integral part of that company and entitled to more than just what the mutually agreed employment contract cedes to them.
> land-in-desirable-places crisis

If that were true construction costs would be the primary driver of housing prices, increasing as more exotic and expensive methods (steel skyscrapers vs mid-rise podium, for instance) are employed to fit more housing on less land.
A remark from a web developer on the implementation of this site:

On my laptop, scrolling by touch, when I reach the image immediately above the colours section, I can’t easily go any further, because the carousel thingy that takes up most of the screen has schnaffled touch actions, and is only translating them into horizontal scrolling of that component, even if my finger is moving perfectly vertically. This is a bad implementation, because it’s reimplementing something the browser already offers, badly. This is a form of scrolljacking, which is always bad on content sites (I have encountered no exceptions; in apps, there are a very small list of justifiable cases, e.g. maps to turn it into zooming, though it still won’t work perfectly no matter what you do, because the web just doesn’t expose the right primitives). What it should do instead is to make the carousel thing just a normal scrollable container (though still visually hiding the scrollbar), and leave the whole scrolling thing to the browser, with the assistance of CSS snap points if available, or some gentle touchend and similar watching to simulate its effect if it’s not.

(Also, clicking on the names of the colours below the carousel is badly broken, doing nothing half the time, and taking you to the wrong slide half of the rest of the time, to say nothing of them having an overly small hit target—the whole row of “Blanc / matte finish; black
decals” should be the hit target.)
It would be wonderful if the Biden Administration revives the International Entrepreneur Rule because we really don't have an immigration option specific to startups and this would make it much easier for the founders of moderately funded startups to work in the US and build up their company.
I already know this isn’t going to be a popular answer but I don’t much care so here goes:

Because I don’t want to be installing more crap on my phone just to read the damn news.

Often opt to just outline.com-ing a page.
I’m sure if I have to ask I can’t afford it but what is the sticker price on the base model? I browsed the prolog spec sheet but maybe I missed it?
I thought you were being too harsh, and then I read the essay. Sheesh.

One of the conventions he really adopts here is binary thinking. He's created an enormous false dichotomy, and then decided he and his in-group are 100% on the correct side of it. Another convention is the commanding, voice-of-God essay that has now finally answered an important question. As if things like this ever have one answer. And as you suggest, at this point he's promoting a "nerds >> normies" ideology that may have been novel in the mid-80s, but now seems hopelessly stale to this nerd.

And I think that leads him to write what is just a poor essay on the topic. These days good a chunk of the independence in my thinking comes from things like humility, self-awareness, and empathy. Maybe at 18 the best strategy for independent thinking is to ignore others. But somebody not much younger than Graham, the biggest threat to my clarity of thought is getting high on my own bullshit. It's getting locked into ideas and beliefs that are comfortable or convenient. It's that thinking myself independent of others is the only kind of independence needed.

Of course, I'm lucky in that since I'm not nearly as successful as Graham, I don't have the same kind of incentive to justify my success in terms of me being a unique, superior genius.
On Windows yes, use Windows containers instead.
Yeah, I posted this mostly because I'm not sure what to make of it. Some good points, but how does it add up to the premise?
Startup Spotlight: Sumsub, Virtual Identity Management Made Easy
`xx points by gjlemond`

Did... did Greg LeMond post this?
Isn’t that all the more reason why he should buckle down and write in a more responsible manner than just categorise people in absolute terms. I do not have much idea about religious leaders, but he definitely has some impact on how the SV scene operates, and with the amount of idolatry circle-jerk that happens among the YC founders, it is only justified that he be more cautious in how he treats people whether in his essays or in in real life.
Sorry it was covered by the cookie handling pop up.
??? who assumes g can't change?