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> Protected origin status is protectionism plain and simple. That's not to say whether it's bad or good, just to call it what it is.

It doesn't really protect anything except the name. Parmesan is protected, my local supermarket sells it right next to cheese that is not called Parmesan. I have yet to be arrested for buying the cheaper one.
Chinese building practices assume a certain disposability that we haven't accepted in Canada. Apartment buildings are built with an assumed lifespan of around 30 years.

I have no idea if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

That kind of throwaway mentality for housing might seem crazy, but keep in mind that housing is one of the only goods that we expect to last for a lifetime in the west.
For the example question you posed, I would look to precedents. To rehash a bit: I came across this article on Singapore some time ago [1], and even though Singapore is a small nation-state, I believe two principles can be extracted on how to tackle big problems.

1) First principles

"Ironically, Lee Kuan Yew himself had no patience for other people’s models. In his words, “I am not following any prescription given to me by any theoretician on democracy or whatever. I work from first principles: what will get me there?” If there is a lesson from Singapore’s development it is this: forget grand ideologies and others’ models. There is no replacement for experimentation, independent thought, and ruthless pragmatism." (Lee Kuan Yew was the founding Prime Minister of modern Singapore)

2) Experimentation (while recognizing the limitation of models and the increasing error between models and ground truth as scale increases)

"Decision-makers must rely on simplified models to make their decisions. All schemata are by nature imperfect representations of reality. Indeed, a scheme that reflected reality perfectly would be cluttered and uninterpretable. The reality is always more complex than the plan. In large countries, the planner is further from ground reality than in tiny city-states. Abstractions and errors inevitably compound as the distance increases."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24382249
click on the 'i' button on the top of the page, you will get the full URL.
> I guess the reason why the Italian consortium sent this (otherwise stupid) cease-and-desist to this poor Australian guy, is because they're desperately trying to defend the real stuff from the fakes.

It's not "otherwise stupid" it _is_ stupid. They should be going after the counterfeiters not someone who is both trying to educate people on making as authentic a cheese as possible while simultaneously making very clear that his cheese is not a true grana padano. Personally after seeing the consortium act like this, I consider all their other actions suspect. In my mind, this weakens their legitimacy as an organization. I'm sure I'm not the only person with this reaction.

> I sympathize with the guy, but it's a global battle; and organizations that are supposed to defend the consumer are doing next to nothing (expecially in the US). This is not about protecting a "brand"; it's about the fact that when you buy grana padano in the US and it's made of sh*t, you as a consumer should be able to tell.

That has _nothing_ to do with this youtuber.
How do you reach this conclusion? They didn't test artificial sweeteners. They tested reading sugar on a label. If anything, logically one would expect this confirms the opposite. An artificially sweetened beverage will say zero sugar on the label.
There’s a little up-arrow for sharing on the top right next to the real domain name, clicking that gives a Copy option with the actual URL. Annoying but handy once you find it.
Have you by chance tried learning more analytical things like algorithms/mathematical ideas using SRS? I have been trying to automate my interview preparation process using SRS, but it is just mind-blowingly difficult to cardify these things; and cloze deletion doesn’t work well on large algorithms with many pieces.

Note: Please note that I am not advocating that people do it blindly, in fact I myself have been trying to use it as a way to retain once I’ve understood the algos.
I don’t understand the rebuttal. Is American English supposed to be more French-influenced than UK English?
Finding and organizing digital content is super hard. I built LinkAce [0] for me to have a self-curated archive of articles, websites and videos found online. But this is just the tip of the iceberg and despite having my own tool that does exactly what I want, I find it most difficult to find content.

You have like 50 sources in your RSS reader, 300 people you follow on social media sites and like a dozen of other possible sources for interesting content. But what I noticed: once you add a new source to your feed, chances are high that a) it doesn't really fit your interests and becomes noise, or b) it becomes a "famous" source and quality of the content stagnates over time as more and more low-quality content gets pushed into it.

Personally, I don't see any chance that this will be solved in the near future, because the current state of the web with walled gardens, propietary content formats and the unbelievable push for monetarization of content leads to more and more problems.

[0]: https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce
Your partner might not like what that does to the apartment walls.
Yep, SQLite is awesome. I did actually build exactly that: a document database powered by SQLITE [1], and it works well, especially considering that SQLite has built-in support for full text search and indexes for JSON content.

[1]: https://h3rald.com/litestore/
Is SQL not used by data scientist?
My company is looking for a data scientist but most of the candidates don't know SQL. They are saying they use Python. I am data engineer by profession and expect everyone in data work to at least know basic SQL.

Am I missing something ?
We have 1 car and 2 electric bikes rather than 2 cars. If you can reduce your car count, anything is worth it, give or take.
The example makes it seem like another key value store. Any example for the Pubsub / compute piece would be good to see.
You're right, thanks for noticing.
Yes. I didn't wish to get into the politics of the Tour de France but merely give readers a perspective on conventional bicycle weights.
Yes it seems the json() function is good enough for most applications, and in fact you probably want to use it anyway as it will minify the JSON input before inserting.

Now, a dedicated JSONB datatype (and indexes!) like Postgres would be awesome, but sqlite3's "poor man's JSON" seems appropriate for many use cases.
This reminded me of a different article by Scott Alexander which also addresses the topic of certain ventures like the stock market and job interviewing being “anti-inductive” aka resistant to formulas that worked in the past. You could say that successful independent thinking is also a highly anti-inductive activity.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-and-the-ant...
I dunno. Like everything, we need balance. Brilliance needs to be balanced with patience, persistence and practicality.

Working for a Japanese corporation taught me to really respect the "three P's." They didn't have the kind of creativity to invent the next iPhone, but they had what it takes to make it better than everyone else, and in a fairly short time.

Great things are accomplished by great teams, and teams need a lot of variety to work properly. A team composed only of independent thinkers would be a never-ending gladiatorial contest, with the product being the main victim.

What does gall me, is the fairly naked disrespect that many brilliant folks have for the types of implementors that they need in order to realize their dreams. These engineers (and managers) are often treated as "dime a dozen," which is far from the truth.
Thank you for pulling me up on that—I’ve certainly complained about things I find particularly annoying before, but I do try to make such complaints valuable by explaining the technical side of things (why the problem occurred, and why it matters) and a solution, which I know other developers find helpful sometimes. Done in moderation, I reckon that normally satisfies that guideline (because it’s not just a complaint, but turns it into a teaching opportunity).

Also, judging by the poster’s username, the author is probably present.
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Do independent thinkers read essays that tell them how to think independently?

The irony may have been intentional on the author's part, but I still won't read the essay. Bad juju.
that's why i do all my coding in notepad
>A lightweight carbon frame weighed down by a battery.

That's the entire point! To make an electric bike that weighs the same as a conventional bike. My aluminum frame road bike weighs about 23-24lbs, so having a 45-mile-range ebike weigh about the same is really cool.

And just like any emerging market, no, it isn't meant to be for the masses day 1, just as the Model S wasn't. This is iterative.
Surely the uploader could just re-title it "Home-made cheese inspired by Grana Padano". I doubt there'd be any legal issues with that.
We really shouldn't expect laws and regulations to make perfect sense. They're all compromises, between multiple stakeholders, multiple world-views, and multiple rule-makers. Consistency would be great, but it's too much to ask in a big, complex world.

It doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for it. We can do better. But it's also worth understanding enough of the rule-making process to avoid saying, "This thing is inconsistent therefore the entire process is unsalvageable," which is what I see too often. Governments, like businesses, are made up of people doing their best to achieve some kind of consensus with all of the other people, and having to do so in a world that is both constantly changing and constantly necessitating some kind of action.
Hi Peter, I'm a Canadian student. I recently received a summer internship offer starting in May 2020, however I would like to enter the U.S. in January.

(1) Could entering the U.S. while the J1 application is being processed (in January) cause issues (e.g. due to an updated I-94 for instance)? (2) Could I get the J1 visa to start in January so I don’t need to return to the border come May 2020?

Thanks

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These issues are discussed in the report - see pages 28/29 for example. Another approach discussed in the context of transport fuels is to use ammonia as an effective storage medium for hydrogen - cracking ammonia back to hydrogen before feeding it to a PEM fuel cell. That also has some challenges, notably in minimizing ammonia in the hydrogen, which isn't good for fuel cells. In the end, I do think we'll end up with liquid synthetic fuels being essential for decarbonization - the question is not if, but which?
Cosmic rays aren't the only source of SEUs (single event upsets), but they're definitely a major one. One obvious data point: A very strong correlation between altitude and SEU rate.
Better said, we know from the State of Indiana that π = 3. The biblical thing was observation; the State of Indiana codified it in law.
Moreover there are guns for lefties where the casing is ejected from the other side...
Definitely agree. It's difficult to convey that level of charm / diplomacy via text, for me at least. Body language and other props being available also play a big role in making someone switch focus, and at least feel positively about the overall interaction, even if I ultimately agree to disagree (and state that, or not).

If I feel as though the online recipient of my messaging isn't receptive, there's really no need to contend in the first place. I don't have to change everyone's mind, nor is it really my place to do so ...
Works on my machine.

Firefox 83 64-bit Manjaro 20.2, µBlock Origin + NoScript.
Why call it "Prolog" - there's a once-commonly-used AI computer language with that name?

Bad, bad choice!
You don't really have to know which squares are actual crosswalks or what a crosswalk really is, reCAPTCHA doesn't care and it thinks that any street with white striped lines is a crosswalk even if the lines are for indicating something else (which is also annoying because it'll ask you to verify you are human again if you don't check those non-crosswalks). So do as I do and select any street that has white striped lines (same goes for its more rare bicycle/motorbike, small truck/car or truck/bus mix-ups).
OK, mystery solved. In Python:

1 in [1,2,3] is True

is evaluated as

(1 in [1, 2, 3]) and ([1, 2, 3] is True)

similarly to

1 < 2 < 3

:facepalm:
>Does it include paper and cardboard? You just voted for deforestation.

This is pretty much false because trees for paper production are actually farmed in the developed world, and much of the deforestation is actually driven by land use conversion (eg. burning down the amazon rainforest for cattle grazing, or burning down the jungles of south east asia for palm plantations).
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It seems to be the same in lot of developing nations
Depends a bit what you want out of it but for that sort of idea seeing what other thinkers have come up with is a good way to start (eg Google Wikipedia Quora etc). Then for entertainment try writing something about it. To try to make the world better perhaps you can come up with something on it that's not been covered well yet.

I quite like the happiness focused stuff as a new approach as in see which systems seem to make people happiest in surveys eg. Finland, Denmark and then see if you can use that stuff to figure which system wins.
He is 22 or something. It’s a common thing in founders in their early 20s, just out of college, to be overly obsessed about their work/companies.

Eventually he might grow or has to grow out of it.
Dang, thank you so much for what you do. I feel like I've become a better, more mature person from having participated in this forum, and that's pretty much squarely on you dude. Thank you.
If you find yourself rejecting most candidates from Google and top notch notch schools, maybe the problem is not the candidates but your standards.
Are you sure this is the case AFTER I received the actual greencard? I thought I wouldn't even have to work technically (which of course I plan to do)
I understand this is the case while i485 is pending.
Distance. I travel 25 km to work. In my previous job I only cycled 7 km, it was easy and took about 15 mins. Then when I changed job my commute was 18 km, it was manageable, and better than the two infrequent buses I would have to try and catch but you would be pretty tired at the end of the week. It would take between 45 and 55 minutes depending on weather and traffic.

We recently bought our first home and this meant we had to move a little further away resulting in my current 25 km commute. The 90 minute bus trip is exhausting and you arrive at work and return home groggy.

On my ebike I can get to work in 50 minutes and still feel like I’ve exercised without depleting too much energy.
>> 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.

> "black swans" is not only about swans. There can be sports-types who also like intellectual activity

The gp's experience taught that such sports-types are not black swans. It's not just that the stereotype had exceptions; it's that the stereotype wasn't even accurate at low granularity.
Maybe you're right. The Specialized Turbo Vado 5 SL seems to be 14.6kg, and this bike 11.8kg. If they're otherwise comparable maybe this bike actually makes some sense.
What's your take on the widespread abuse of H1B visas by large tech firms? How could the H1B program be adjusted to protect both the visa holder and the American worker?
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Connections was savvy in finding faires, working museaums, and access to the BBC's film vaults for providing much (though not all) such footage. Burke describes going to reenactment festivals to film many of the medieval life scenes.

And his journalist background and connections enabled him to have the access necessary to shoot single-take sequences such as this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ

(Hardly the only impressive on-location scene in his work.)

Agreed with your comments on the primary importance of writing and research. I'd argue that Chris & Evan Hadfield's "Rare Earth" is getting close, Tom Scott is doing quite well, and Derrek Muller's "Veritasium" and Destin Sandlin's "Smarter Every Day" have promise.

Several YouTubers have been picked up by traditional broadcasters/production organisations, notably Hank Green ("Crash Course"), with PBS, and Emily Graslie ("Prehistoric Road Trip"), with the Chicago Field Museum. YouTube as a training and recruiting ground has merits.

One reason Connections is so hard to compare to is that it's pretty incomparable: forty years on we're still discussing it in glowing terms. It was produced by someone well-established and experienced at least within the BBC, and backed by the organisation. Notably, little from either national/public broadcasting or commercial production has even approached it. My short list includes Sagan's Cosmos, Burke's own The Day the Universe Changed, Ken Burns. Daniel Yergin's The Prize. And of course Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man, which had paved the way for Burke himself. I might include Adam Curtis's works.

The role of the author or creative voice --- a Burke, Sagan, Burns, Bronowski, Clark, Curtis --- cannot be overstated. That talent seems rare, perhaps also the ability to simply get out of its way. Also realising when it's circled too hard back in on itself --- Burke had 2--3 good series in him, but he hasn't matched himself in at least three decades.

Related HN thread with additional recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698026

Part of that is a more crowded field: there's more produced, it's harder to get noticed. Part my own near-total avoidance of broadcast television. But I don't think that's all of it.

And yes my HN history shows I'm quite the fan of Burke: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Hi Peter,

Thank you for doing this.

Can someone who has unused H1-B from long time ago, use it if they have a job offer from a US tech company and is presently outside the US?
One thing missing when everyone talks about the effectiveness of hierarchical orgs is the personal agendas at each level of the hierarchy naturally cause tension, chaos, and waste. Everyone incorrectly assumes each branch acts in perfect harmony with the rest of the org, when it is anything but.

You would need to remove the incentives of selfish actions and backstabbing to see any of the efficiencies with a formal hierarchy. Otherwise each branch becomes a metaphorical tumor.
Another amazing thing is that Carl Sassenrath, creator of the Amiga OS kernel, also went on to create the REBOL language, which seemed quite innovative too - I've checked it out some - though it is kind of dormant now, and now there is the Red language, based somewhat on REBOL.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sassenrath
Duh, of course CNY is easily traded to other currencies on the Forex markets, China's starving for reserves.

But they're actively preventing money from getting _out_ of China, in particular said reserves. If you're making money in China, it's going to stay in China until you jump through a lot of hoops.
You managed to put into words something I always felt about PG. Thanks.
>>There's a big question on whether these approaches work well for onboarding the next billion users to the internet

That isn't what captchas are used for. There are two side to every captcha, what the website is using them for and what the captcha creator or provider is using them for. In google's case, captchas are being used to hone AI. So it is no wonder that items like hydrants, store fronts, crosswalks and traffic lights dominate. Those are the objects that any AI-controlled vehicle will have to recognize. Given that the first market for AI-driven vehicles seems to be western nations, specifically the US, it is no surprise that google gears its captcha program to objects from that area.

If google were developing robots to pick fruit captchas would ask us to identify bananas and oranges. I worry about the day that captchas start asking me to differentiate people from other objects. I don't want to help train an AI to tell people from trees, soldiers from bushes.
AB 5 in California is the best example I can think of. It would have been a disaster for workers in most if not all affected businesses; it had to start with dozens of exemptions, and AB 2257 a few months ago added a dozen more. But because AB 5 was written towards the well-meaning progressive goal of good pay and benefits for workers, it's most likely going to stay there, and "lobby the legislature for an AB 5 exemption" will just become part of the cost for building a new industry sector in California.
I like this “scaling” thought experiment technique very much in a variety of problems I face. It often makes things clearer to think in those terms.

However, I think the 100, 1k, 100M approach might have drawbacks to finding the _best_ solution because the final iteration carries forward assumptions from the previous iterations. In CS terms, we may arrive at a local maximum this way, instead of the global max.
I don't relish the idea of doing work where I can only succeed when I disagree with others (it feels both risky and lonely) but that's different than if, in practice, I tend to conform to what others think (I don't think I do, on average).
I agree with the overall sentiment — who is this for? — but:

> 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.

just isn't true. Many hobbyist/amateur/weekend warrior-type cyclist ride carbon bikes. They can be had at lowish prices (my first was £1000) to multiples of the price of this Lemond ebike. Almost all owners of such bikes are limited by their own ability, not the bike.

It's probably fair to assume a lightweight, high quality ebike would be pricey. Perhaps being carbon adds a bit more to the price but the material choice alone isn't totally ridiculous.

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

Single-ring setups with a wide-range rear cassette are actually a pretty good choice for a commuter bike. Less maintenance, less weight. A double chainring setup likely offers smaller gaps between gears but likely a comparable overall range from lowest to highest. On a commuter bike simplicity wins.

I guess ultimately this bike is some combination of publicity stunt and Veblen good. I can't imagine Lemond anticipates selling many of them.
Apple says they're going to move to an HTTPS based system, so the relevant comparison is between HTTPS and DNS, not HTTP and DNS.
Going back _would_ save the planet, but it's not the only way.

There are routes forward, but they require global coordination and creativity. It's hard to imagine because there's no historical precedent, but I think it's worth trying for, and I'm confident it's at least _possible_ we can succeed in transitioning to full sustainability.
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Funny to think about this approach from an M1 machine, since I bet the new Air is substantially faster than the average DO instance.

But you get the compatibility and still keep the Air’s absurd battery life, so it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad setup.