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> For me artists are nothing more like the embodiment of the survivor ship bias. I can appreciate something that takes skill to create, be it a craft, a poetry, or even a photorealistic drawing. I can appreciate something that raises emotions in me (I'm aware that rasing emotions is a highly subject criteria as well). I can appreciate something that is new and unique.

A lot of reasons to like art.

> None of these things is true for 99.9% of art, this artist included. I think these artworks are not different from atleast thousands of other graffiti doodles from other people. Somehow people start to praise this guy (seemingly random?) instead of anyone else. That's just survivor ship bias.

I would rather say it's some sort of network effect. The better known you are, the more interest in your art, the higher the price. Interest and higher prices attract more interest generating even higher prices, loop.

> I know people say it all the time but it's true "I could have made this". My point is that probably most of art critic's couldn't tell the difference between a random doodle of some random art student and most famous abstract art.

Isn't this the same every developer said about Dropbox? Amazon? Writing an online file-storage/sharing app is not hard, writing an online bookstore is not hard. But actually executing it for 26 years (in Amazons) case and building in from there to the empire it is today, that's the art.

> It's also not about having an unique idea, banana on the wall is not something special, people do crazy things all the time. There are probably thousand of wanna be artists that tape things on walls and make some random things in hope of getting famous and could tell you some deep thinking why it criticises our modern society.

I'd say it's about execution as well as marketing, sometimes one can compensate for the other.

> So for me art is just a random circle jerk of people telling each other that this special guy is good and the rest isn't and if you don't agree or see it you are just someone that has no idea about art. And my take on really high expensive art is that it's just a form of tax evasion or similar goals.

It certainly is also an investment and way to signal status, probably always was. But does that minimize the value for you, if you find an attribute of it to be appreciable?
I think I read somewhere the beam size for starlink is around 200km diamater. That's actually really far. You'd probably want to service rural areas fairly distant from metro areas well, rather than slam the sat with a handful of suburban city customers.

I could be wrong but my guess is they will blacklist areas near cities entirely at least to begin with and focus on very rural areas with literally no alternative (no LTE etc).

Personally I think Starlink is going to have capacity crisis quickly if takeup is anywhere near as strong as demand seems to be and I'm sure SpaceX know this, so by fcoussing almost entirely on very rural areas (and maybe niche commercial/govt uses in more urban enviroments) they have a chance at managing demand a bit. Or they will start ramping up cost of service and/or putting very punitive bandwidth caps on (like all other sat providers).

I still think Starlink is an amazing breakthrough, but it really is a solution only for the 'last'/most rural 1% of households (or less).
Wealthy people don't need to work to eat, keep a roof over their head, see a doctor, or live a lavish lifestyle.
Designing a Million Dollar Brand
I can understand if you don't to debate those rules, and in general I agree with them, but can't anyone just circumvent this rule by tweeting the editorializing sentence + the link in question?
The recently released 'Outcasters' is the closest thing we've got to what you describe so far. I read an interview [0] recently by the devs describing their experience making the game on Stadia.

[0] https://www.thegamer.com/outcasters-interview/
Imagine what we could do if it was possible to identify and fund a thousand Elon Musks with hundreds of millions each?

He's eliminating gas vehicles, improving solar adoption, fixing rural internet, improving space science, making life interplanetary, etc.

It may be that Elon Musk types are extremely rare but I doubt they're as nearly as rare as most people think and we only need a thousand out of billions. The thing that makes him extremely rare, I think, is that he lucked upon a windfall of $200+ million from PayPal, a startup success that he had almost nothing to do with.

Now that I think about it, an Elon Musk Prize funded and designed by Elon Musk would be viable. His current net worth could fund 600+ Elon Musks. Elon Musk could create more Elon Musks...it's almost too simple!
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>I think one of the big problems in the US is that growth and wealth are concentrated to a few hyper rich coastal cities, where most people can't afford to move. While large parts of the country is relatively impoverished.

This statement can be generalized to:

"I think one of the big problems in the world is that growth and wealth are concentrated to a few hyper rich countries, where most people can't afford to move. While large parts of the world are relatively impoverished."
"I guess what I want to say, if you compare writing actual "business logic", it is still about as difficult as it was in the 90s. We can do fancier things by leveraging libraries (sometimes included in the programming languages), but that's it. In fact I even suspect that people in the 90s were more productive in writing actual business logic, because there was less distractions from the fancy technology (such as web)."

This has been my experience! I'm shocked whenever I need to automate some business process my organization alway starts at ground zero - what should the base technologies languages be? database server? authentication?

Seriously?!?! Why isn't there "workflow as a service" by now?
Half-Life Alyx has a Linux native build https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/half-life-alyx-now-ava...
As many folks said, VR on linux is niche within a niche.

My biggest pain is that video drivers really suck when it comes to VR. On windows you have stuff like async reprojection, on linux you have frequent lags and fps spikes, and nvidia does not seem to be interested enough to fix this.
How is this different to Strava?
Lol. Yes, fair headline, she resigned. It's right there in the piece:

> “Dr. Gebru did not resign [...] Dr. Gebru has stated this plainly, and others have meticulously documented it,” the Walkout group wrote in Monday’s blog post.[1]

Translation:

"She didn't resign — she said she didn't resign. She told us so."

The logocentrism of the midwit elite.

That "meticulous documentation" that was mentioned:

> Expressed intent to resign - provided date + immediate termination = legally fired in the state of California.[2]

These people are grindingly stupid.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/07/google-employees-dispute-jef...
[2]: https://twitter.com/rajiinio/status/1335410735929765891
The company name is right up there. From the guidelines: If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Not in Tinder's pockets.)
>but intellectual property law is not gonna stop anonymous people with photoshop on 4chan.

it might severely curtail their ability to make money off of it though.
Sure, yet how most interviews are done is bonkers.
These are interactive checklists. You can add items by creating a comment:

> @bugout-dev check require <item>

and cross them off by creating a comment:

> @bugout-dev check accept <item>

The cool thing about this is that you can even create GitHub Actions that require or accept checks since everything is command/comment based.
I'll just throw out there that one reason I think coding interviews have some sort of value is because there are very few metrics to distinguish good engineers vs bad engineers when it comes to software engineering apart from working with them.

For example someone was the lead Senior Engineer for 10 years at their previous company. Their biggest project was a rewrite and migration of the invoice handling system to optimize for data analysis leading the millions more in revenue.

Based on this description I have no idea if this person

a) Went to hundreds of meetings around priority, resources and timelines while other engineers did the actual work. While he went to the big wig meetings as the technical resources because he was trying to make optimal "architecture decisions" not because of talent but because his role as lead was built on having been with the company 10 years he knew how to navigate the internal politics as well as being an SME in the companies specific systems.

or

B) He was making major architectural decisions, leading the engineering team, mentoring other engineers, helping ensure best practices and trying to find time to squeeze coding in while trying to prevent the PMs and Execs from making the wrong decisions and getting the wrong ideas.

The problem is these pieces of information can be hard to distinguish between based on the information that most people have access to during the hiring process.

Now the looking at the github can be useful but if you are applying at a large organization a lot of the rules and processes are controlled not by the hiring manager but by HR who is trying to avoid anything that could lead to a lawsuit, so hiring managers have to try and navigate this field in a sub-optimal way.
The disparity between MacOS and Windows on this point is particularly wanting. No scope field. No comment field.
The text suggests that if you play it again, it will correct the errors.
I like this approach of coalitions of the willing. If the willing can gain critical mass they can hopefully apply enough trade pressure/incentives for the unwilling to join too. These sorts of efforts seem to need momentum. Everything seems impossible until it's done.
So basically they were just really excited? (sorry)
and step 2: install prettier, step 3: eslint plugins.
afaik Stadia is chrome specific. try visiting http://stadia.google.com/ on another browser. I can't even login and view my previous screenshots, let alone play a game.
The Nana Dome Part 4 – Short story series about the 2014 Israeli-Hamas Conflict
I think you misread what they wrote:

> Hard agree.
Ah I see, I misinterpreted this as referring to within-household distancing (separate rooms, masking, etc). Thanks!
Don't you understand? The manufacturing of new electric stoves to replace the billions of gas stoves currently in use will be good for the environment. Stop drawing attention to flaws in the article. /s
As a taxpayer, I'm quite pleased with the SpaceX ROI for getting "my" astronauts and satellites up.

Especially when you compare what Orion or paying the Russians for a ride to the ISS has cost.
Nations can only control their sovereign seas. The majority of the world oceans are unpoliced. And honestly, I don't see why I, as a developing nation, shouldn't overfish the seas. The developed nations (excluding perhaps the US for being so young) are where they are because they chopped their forests, killed their wildlife, and burned what else they could find.

England isn't going to reforest. Germany isn't going to reintroduce all the wildlife they hunted. And the peoples of neither nation have paid reparations to the Earth (for good reason, they can't afford to). If I were running China, the right thing for me to do is to strip the Earth dry, and then a century later when I'm rich demand that "All nations must do their part".

After all, it's not like anyone will make me pay for everything that happened a century ago. So you'll either have to make me not do this or you're going to have to suck it up. China's navy doesn't have the ability to protect her shipping fleets so that's her problem.
I found React Bootstrap way more complicated than just using React and Bootstrap classes. React Bootstrap just adds more overhead to accomplish the same thing.
Technically speaking, how is that a problem? If your theory is right that Google was looking for a reason to fire her, then she shouldn't have given them a 'legal' one. At the end of the day, it boiled down to - she gave them an ultimatum and they called her bluff (this has nothing to do with whether her reasons were right or wrong; if her reasons were right and she really didn't want believe she could work under such conditions, then the focus of her statement and public debate should be about that and not whether Google fired her or she resigned.
> 15 years ago is now completely mainstream

Such as? Furthermore, I don't care about mainstream, a lot of mainstream stuff today is trash honestly.

> have some beliefs that would have been considered insufferably woke and obnoxious by people like you in 2003

My basis has been consistent for over 1400 years now.
> 4. Increase taxes on the wealthy, etc.

This won’t work. When the tech exodus begins, it’s going to cause CA to buckle at its knees because the wealthy has been subsidizing more than 80% of the population. It is not sustainable or healthy at all to suckle at the teat of the wealthy.

We should abolish all taxes and only retain taxes based on consumption. And a flat modest capital gains tax. With dedications gone, this might actually bring in more public money.

Public spending will also decrease if we figure a way out of unfunded pension liabilities. This is huge. Don’t know how it can be resolved.
In that case we'd probably change the URL because the site guidelines ask: Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter, and a sensational tweet with a link wouldn't count as an informative post in its own right.

If, however, a person wrote a substantive and accurate explanation of how some obscure corporate boilerplate actually masks the selling of personal intelligence tests, that of course would be a fine thing to submit.
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as a Chilean, I'm a bit sceptical
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It seems like the successor to high-end gas stoves is pretty clearly induction. At the same time induction on some level is just an overpriced way of transmitting electrical power from the cooktop into the cookware (not unlike the old inductive-paddle-type electric car chargers).

I wonder if there might be an opening for (electric) "conduction" cooktops. It would basically be a dedicated heat-proof and ventilated spot on the countertop with some high-current electrical receptacles (standard voltage in most of the world, but maybe wired for the slightly less common 240V in North America).

They might include temperature feedback (something I'd love to see in induction cooktops too, maybe an IR thermometer hitting the cookware from below), possibly with controls built into the kitchen rather than the cookware.

Of course this would substantially raise the cost of cookware, and in many ways this already exists in the form of "a countertop with electrical outlets and plug-in cooking appliances", but maybe there's an opportunity here.
Irfn, this is a list of books that I'm going to read (I haven't added books that I read there yet) and haven't made notes. I mentioned that is a new system that I made for myself and will be trying it out, and any feedback on how you learn and read would be great.
Why a CIA Psychiatrist Called Trump Nuts
Create and Publish an Addon for Firefox
> Tech in SFBA reminds me of the Resource curse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse).

Okay, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here because you said "reminds [you]", not that it _is_ in fact the Resource curse. However, you must acknowledge that the Resource Curse doesn't describe the SF Bay Area _at all_.

We have the richest real estate in country, some of the highest earning zipcodes in the country, employment rate most of the country would love to have, etc. There's no "curse" here, as defined in the economic sense.
Maybe not entirely - those SF-area in demand jobs will hopefully demand their current or near-current wages. The company valued their work at pay $x.

If only there was some kind of organization in which tech workers could "unify".
I hear this a lot from employers, but more often than not, they are not willing to offer competitive compensation for the level of talent they wish to attract.
Fisheries policy, on the other hand, very much is in the remit of the EU.
>There are still a lot of projects who are using the "obsolete"

What relevance is this though? There's always going to be legacy code somewhere, but you made the comparison article in 2020, not years ago.

There's new established patterns, quoting out of date examples thus provides little value to your reader. Also your other comment suggests your intention was guidance on greenfield projects, in which case 4 years old syntax makes 0 sense.
Uber, After Years of Trying, Is Handing Off Its Self-Driving Car Project
Most CS graduates and interns I have hired and worked with I have been pretty happy with. Granted I'm disappointed CS is turning more into programming as a craft and less on the mathematical thinking necessary for true innovation to happen, but from an economics perspective it makes sense to hire programmers over theoreticians.
Ask HN: What's the most critical piece of code you have ever written?
They got a horrible deal unless they need more than 16 GB of RAM, more than two USB-C ports, Docker support, dual-boot with Windows, etc.
We're talking here about a very narrow segment of Fine Art that has practically nothing to do with the lives or work of the vast majority of artists -- even successful working artists. It attracts a lot of attention, and is often spoken of as if it's the most refined and pure and important form of art, but most artists don't see their art that way.

Don't worry about the "banana on the wall". It's the art equivalent of a reality show.

If you want to be interested in art, go to some galleries, talk with the people there, and ask what the art means to them. There are lots of different kinds of art and poke around until you find one that interests you.

And if you don't want to be interested in art, don't. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, despite the implication from some circles that there's some kind of taste you're failing at. Just ignore them. It's not really the "circle jerk" you imagine it is, but neither is it really that important that you're not inside this particular circle, jerking or otherwise.
I can edit the markdown to add and remove lists. I don't see the need to add yet another app that can access my repos
The more I learn about early Apple the more I wonder if maybe Jobs' greatest strength as a leader came from hiring people ballsy enough to defy him on the most important things.
Clearly I am living in a bubble, because I cannot imagine working somewhere where I would rather be seen doing literally nothing than to do the exact thing I was hired for.
What kind of restaurant job do you see being done from home?
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Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.

SAME. Somewhere deep in my comment history here, I tell the story of trying to cancel NYT, and needing to do it three times, because I kept getting charged. Ughhhhh.
Great point. James Clear was talking about organizing an environment around us that would encourage certain behaviours.
Learning to cook economically and edibly is a barrier to entry. And there's an ongoing higher time-cost per meal due to planning meals, getting ingredients, and (finally) cooking. So it's not suuuper surprising to me that people working 2+ jobs to cover basics end up eating a lot of fast food.
You may not see yourself as having a choice but that wasn't really my point. What I was getting at is that being an employee in general comes with a diffuse risk of many factors that can result in not getting a raise or the company even going bankrupt. Many of them are outside your direct responsibility or influence and yet you take up the whole risk package when joining that company.
The company getting ransomwared is just one more factor. It's not special.
Well, one issue with it is that it requires criminal activity so it's dragging us down to a worse equilibrium where more resources have to be spent on countermeasures. But arguably that cat is out of the bag, so the next best thing that we can do is to make security best practices easy. And microsoft wasn't doing its part here.
What if I use open source drivers? How are you going to do that? What business is it of yours that I might write my own? Or (more likely) patch my own? What about my HID drivers? Sensitive keystrokes?

Yeah, I just don't see games needing access to such kernel level items.
I wrote a "find the bugs" test that did a great job of selecting good senior engineers. No coding, just point out the mistakes in a series of short code snippets. Some bugs were simple and some were obscure corner cases.
I don't know, but I suspect for the readership of Hacker News at least it's pretty high. (And I suspect there's a lot more people who can picture themselves working from home indefinitely than if you had asked the question a year ago.)

Not all jobs can be done remotely, but for the ones that can, the various impediments seem to be dropping away.
What is Cloudflare's content policy today? In the last few years they abandoned their prior commitment to free speech and decided to start deplatforming paying customers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/freedom-of-speech/). As someone who cares deeply about protecting practical, real-life access that allows people to exercise their right to free speech meaningfully, it's important that platform and infrastructure providers also maintain a pro-free-speech stance. If Cloudflare is not that, I don't see why I would trust them with even more power and even more control over access to content on the Internet.
>require an adjustment for base salary and future equity grants

Base salaries are pretty sticky downwards. It wouldn't be surprising to see modest formal geo-based adjustments of base salaries and much larger quiet adjustments of equity grants--which tend to be much less transparent. It will obviously vary by company but, to the degree in-office becomes largely optional, it's reasonable to expect comp tends towards something more equalized--at least within the US.
I feel like my point is getting ignored and I dislike this type of reasoning via "common sense, obvious, irrefutable narrative".
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Same here – very fast on mobile Safari.
I really don't see the issue with dual booting. I work and do most of my personal stuff in Linux, but when I want to play videogames I just reboot my machine and open Windows. It's less effort even than going to my living room and booting my PS4.