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Not at all. They all mentioned effectively "better opportunities". There's a high chance that a copycat product in a developing market will give much better returns than a copycat in SV, and since the business model might have been fairly validated, they don't have questions on that front either. Capital doesn't explain setting up multiple offices in the same countries/regions and hiring more investment partners to scour for opportunities.

The payoffs in non-SV are precisely higher because of worse access to target markets and talent, and different regulatory regimes. That creates a large barrier for entry, where only tried and tested localized business models can succeed. For instance, Uber is still throwing all they have into India and yet losing more than Ola, Uber had to give away a lot of ground to local players in South East Asia and Europe such as Grab or Meituan, a lot of unicorns are being made possible because of legal gray areas, and different regulations effectively trounce foreign business models while boosting local ones.

I think you're making a key mistake of conflating non-SV as within US. A lot of Sand Hill road funding goes abroad, often a lot to India and China. And apart from say a 3-month sojourn at YC, there really isn't much value for even a SaaS startup to continue on in SF. On the contrary, I know a few founders personally who didn't find any fit with YC's proposition, and still got funded by the likes of Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins without even stepping foot in the Bay area.
using which server? matrix.org is pretty fast these days and scrollback should load instantly.
I see the point of pytest and the greatness of it. I like pytest but I like minimalism more. I dont find it a good showcase here: couldn't you have kept only the asserts and just run the script?
Are they actually certifying it themselves this time? It is normally enough to pass certification in one country.
I don't follow your anecdote. Why would the surgeons want a non-significant study to stop when they were coming out on top, and want it to continue when they were coming out on the bottom?

In either case it's non-significant, so continuing it will likely

1) continue to be negative, or

2) develop large enough n that the trend becomes signifant.

If it's 2, then the incentives are exactly the opposite of what you outlined, if I'm understanding what you wrote.
well, this /is/ ordinary Matrix - just with threading implemented! :)
What value is the certification for the cloud? It's such an incredibly rapidly changing thing, anything you learn goes out-of-date in a matter of months. The two things I complained about in this thread are no longer issues, they got fixed.

The project I'm working on right now is using a PaaS stack is a bit of a "moving target". I feel like those people running to catch a train that's still rolling along...
It seems more like a side effect than a market strategy. Are there mixed strategies? Ie even car companies tend to look askance or even void warranties for using after market parts.
Revenue is kinda hard to estimate at this point when CD Projekt, Sony and Microsoft have opened up pretty generous refund policies for the game and with Sony stopping the digital sales entirely. CD Projekt said in an investor call that they would probably not disclose how much they lost in refunds.
> My personal pet hate is when people make it concise by using acronyms and I’m just left wondering what the hell it stands for.

I agree. I can find, and understand reducePermissionLevel, but reducePermLvl is unguessable, and not searchable because abbreviations are arbitrary. Never abbreviating provides a predictable scheme.
>It's a little strange relationship. Tech without content can't survive.

I'm pretty sure it can. Just not entertainment tech (game consoles, etc).
I’ve seen debilitating physical pain gone by “meditation.” I myself have had pain in my chest and throat out of anxiety. Pain is ultimately a perception the brain makes, not a physical attribute.
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The people expanding our scientific understanding of the world being undervalued by society and institutions is the epitome of our current state. We're burning out our engines and slowing down innovation... for what?

Can any academics or postdocs express what they believe should change to improve their situations?
Well to take the argument at it's base, GRRM claims that the Dothraki are an amalgam of steppe / plains nomads. The blog then goes through great lengths to disprove that statement in as many different facets as possible.

If through the reading of the several blog posts that you don't agree that the Dothraki are NOT an amalgam of steppe / plains nomads then I'm not sure what argument you're making.
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Did Germany Covid "strategy" ever work? compare the two:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/poland/#gr...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/#g...

Look at the March-September time span.

For little background 15 March Poland closed its borders to foreigners. Emmanuel Macron was first to criticize this move, so was Ursula von der Leyen calling it insubordination and flagrant breaking of EU rules. Then one day later Germany closed up and all was good in the world!

And a bit of "fun": German state run TV station ZDF Claus Kleber lecturing Poles about historical importance of open borders between Poland and Germany (face palm) on March 14, and a day later praising Germany for closing all of its borders: https://twitter.com/thomaskycia/status/1239671652755091456?l...
unless you're telecom? or fortune 500? most of the time its a "wait for next release". remainder is "known bug won't fix".
spine/back/disk surgery is a huge one.
Well, good tech can propagate even further and wider.

Nobody cared/cares (where nobody=very few) for the Iliad or Ramayama on the other sides of the world that created them.

But technologies created on each side quickly reached the other side or spread all over the globe. This includes primitive technologies which we tend to forget they are technologies like agriculture, the wheel, iron forging, etc.
>Where did they get these pictures?

Intercepted Zoom meeting ;)
What does this mean for Shopify merchants? Is it all just faster apps?

I'm still at a loss that Shopify still does not have a subscriptions product. :/
I often get told that my music collection is great by random guests and people. For me music discovery is an active act, so every other month I spend an afternoon to find new things read up on certain scenes etc. E.g. I stumble uppon Iranian 60s rock and roll, find a few artists that are more unique in aound and the way they do "rock", I download things, tag them, sort them, create playlists and store them away.

This way when I play the music (e.g. at a dinner with friends) not only do I know what it is going to be, but I can also tell them a little story about it.
Yeah, it seems we're doomed to pay the price of time.
ISPs in a proper regulatory environment should have minimal margins.
Yes they work. As a chemist, sulfur compounds tend to bind quite tightly with metals. We actually have to look out for this with metal catalysts, as trace sulfur impurities can kill a reaction. It’s called “poisoning” which gives you an idea how tightly they bind.
A roll would last a long time for this. Could well be they just have one or two still in a cupboard from the thirties.
> Long hours and a lack of job security, combined with workplace bullying and discrimination, are forcing many to consider leaving science

I've never encountered any form of bullying or discrimination in my 15 years academic career (in three different countries).

What I witnessed a few times though where post-docs that just got disinterested in their work and unproductive for months. It's not uncommon for post-docs spending months looking for their next job, and usually, their advisors are fine with that. They understand well the difficulties of their students or post-docs.

Academia is hard because it's extremely competitive, not because professors are some kind of bullies harassing their students. I'm certain it exists but it's far from the norm.

It's competitive because you're competing with the whole world, and there are some people out there who are much smarter than you. And you are constantly reminded of this fact, when you go to a conference (or because you don't get to go because your paper isn't accepted), when you read your colleague's paper and so on. I've worked with well-known people (including a Turing award recipient), and even them were insecure at times.

And of course, it's hard because you don't know if you'll find a job after your current post-doc. The more average you are, the more insecurity, the harder it gets.
More anecdata: We also get chlorine smell when putting the chloration powder into our freshly filled pool. So either German tap water contains urine or your claim is not universally true.
The “fallacy” is the notion patently obvious to some; that people care about lives that are probabilistically lost that can be saved by artificial interventions.

People don’t care! They rather die in the hands of gods. Unbelievable but probably that’s the case.
>I’m all for human intimacy, but can’t I just like the world in general?

What an insufferable and tangled mess this article is. Sorry if this answer starts off as merely dismissive rambling, but seriously, that article is, from the start, fueled by hybris and lonely misconceptions (DUH).

Intimate, deep relationships between humans are something incredibly intricate. They drive reflection and joy, enable a less self-obsessed view of the world, and are just generally beneficial to the human experience in pretty much every sense that I can think of, be it (socio-)psychological, behavioral, gametheoretical, systemstheoretical, you just name it.

How the hell is this on the top of hn?
Test driven development is just such a good habit to get into. You trade just a little bit of ramp-up speed at the beginning of an implementation for a massive reduction in cognitive overhead.
I agree with you. SoundCloud is a breath of fresh air pending you don’t mind the underproduction. I’m relatively new to it (and didn’t understand the social aspects of it until recently), but it was pleasant to see this whole world of artists just doing their thing, as opposed to listening to the same regurgitated stuff we’re all used to. I still get a hankering for my old favorites and use spotify often when I’m in that mood- and do find it strange that I consider “that stuff” “old”.
That's basically my view.

It probably takes a long time for intelligent life (or intelligence in a form we are able to recognize, anyways) to evolve on any planet. If we don't see signs of it, it must be because the universe is still too young (and considering signal from a planet a million light years away won't arrive till as many years pass).

Millions of years from now, one will be able to scan the heavens and find signals of tens of thousands of far-off civilizations.
We can also just drop some drops of chlorine in a bucket of clear water. It smells.

Not sure what the vlogger was exactly testing. Perhaps the "left them sit for 3 days" part, had the chlorine he put dissipate into the air and lose the smell?
Sochi and London were too. I’d like to find older footage as well , would expect the same.
it makes less money than the full monty

local anesthetic to the jaw or maxilla is just incredibly effective
Increasing the DPI doesn't affect the CPU, only the GPU, and it's the CPU causing problems. So please ignore pixel count when explaining why a "modern user interface" requires so much more computation that it can't react to input in 15 milliseconds.

And the C64 does re-render every frame, because there's not enough memory for a frame buffer!

I'm not worried about games here, and word processors don't need fractals.
To add to this:

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A subscription or self-hosted, e2e encrypted video call tool
Funny thing, a few weeks ago I read an opinion piece posted here on HN that gives pretty solid reasoning (imho) why people pursue academic careers: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/ho...
His or her estimate seems wildly off. I had the same response because my Roomba moves fast!

Some quick googling says-

Curiosity max speed equals 0.08699 mph.

Roomba equals a foot per second which is 0.682 mph.

Off by about 7.82x.
Depends on how you like to pass the time and whether other people necessarily have to be involved in that. I enjoy passing my time as much as possible with art (literature, film, music) and travel. As my social circle entered its 30s and 40s, my friends have mainly had children that leave them with little freedom for those things, and they are less willing to "pass the time" with me. While sharing those experiences with other people would be great and all, I still feel that these pastimes are wholly fulfilling if I enjoy them on my own. I feel fortunate to have this personality, it has really helped me get through lockdown.
Sort of. There are many fractals that are not described by L systems (whereas every application is written in code)
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One thing that would have helped me as a reader is to cite the name Ellx by adding the bracket text in this sentence:

> Now, I've been working on [Ellx, ]a tool

The first reference to the name that I saw was in relation to a scope convention and I had to go search for the anchor to that reference.
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I agree with pretty much everything you said except this one:

> In general I like how Go feels like it’s a Unix tool, where Java always felt like they were trying to rewrite the world.

Go is pretty much on par with Java when it comes to rewriting the world albeit not in the same way: they have their own assembly, their own linker, and even have their own libc using raw syscall (even doing so on windows and Mac for a while, which caused issues because there is no syscall stability there). And since it has a poor FFI, many Go developers end up rewriting their own libs in Go for pretty much everything when they need one lib.
It reminds me of this article I read sometime ago: "Why smart people are better off with fewer friends"(1)

The gist being "For more intelligent people, (social interactions with close friends and happiness) correlations were diminished or even reversed."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/18/why-s...
A lot of the men decried as "simps" are really mentally ill, socially isolated people caught in exploitative parasocial relationships. This documentary on parasocial relationships is a must watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3vD_CAYt4g

People should be angry at the women exploiting these men for financial gain
Hardware has the exact same monitoring issues, worse even.

The dinosaurs of the on-prem hardware world like Dell, HPE and IBM make the most atrocious systems management software that I have ever seen. Bargain basement quality at best.

The cloud is eating their lunch for a reason.

Everyone wants a single pane of glass, not a hundred unique and special vendor-specific consoles to manage one app.

Everyone wants unified logging built-in, not Splunk on top of fifty different log formats, none of which can be easily correlated with each other.

Everyone wants a unified IAM system, nobody likes to deal with expired SAML or LDAP certificates in the middle of a change.

Etc, etc...

Compared to having to deal with 10 different teams just to spin up a single VM and 15+ teams for a moderately complex application with HA/DR and monitoring, being able to simply click through a cloud portal is an absolute joy.

It's the same thing that made VMware so popular. Nobody liked to have to get finance involved and order new kit six weeks ahead just to be able to spin up a tiny web server.
Yes they work, but I just rub my hands on the faucet as I'm washing my hands. That'll fix those onion fingers and save space in the kitchen.
Orthopedic surgery is, IMHO, one the most "controversial" medical fields. Ask an orthopedic surgeon, and the answer will be in most cases surgery. Ask a non-surgeon orthopedic, and the answer will be therapy. Source: Having gone through some consultations, and having family that spent their professional career in orthopedic rehab.

Thing is, for every case one of the above might wrong there are two cases they might be right. Sometimes both are right.

Personally, I choose to forgo surgery. I have no intention to become a professional athlete or compete again, so I stick with my original parts, so to say. I did stop snowboarding and kickboxing, so. My knees really don't like these sports anymore. And I don't like them enough to go through surgery. I switched to boxing and skiing. I am rather sure that I would chosen surgery like 10 years or so ago.
you'd be surprised at how often they'll change a plane out. In europe at least I tend to get told about that, but not sure how much of a right i have to object to or refund that flight. Pretty sure part of the terms and conditions are "we can change your plane out for operational reasons".
> I had really high hopes for the Java AOT stuff but it seemed to stall (maybe I missed something).

Project Leyden [1] aims to standardise AOT for the Java Platform. It is planned to start sometime in the new year. We will most likely end up with two implementations of it. One is GraalVM's native image which will most likely need to make some changes in order to follow the specification. And another implementation will likely be one that is based on HotSpot's C2 compiler [2][3].

[1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/java-leyden/

[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/960#issuecomment-7220230...

[3] https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html
Yes. The four main players are Transport Canada, EASA, China and I believe South Africa. Each is refusing to take the FAA certification at its word. Had the FAA been running the program, they would have been up ages ago but the other regulators are being considerably more strict. Source: I work in aviation with airlines who operate the Max
Bad actors generally win monitary contests. The entire vote with your wallet is a mostly disproven idea.
Yes. At least when I land from a link, I would expect that thing to take me to the "home" or "frontpage". There just is no back/history if I just landed.

In general, I would a expect a "low-cruft and minimalist" to NOT mtry to get smart with history. It always fails, e.g. twitter, reddit. Just leave it up to the browser.
yes, humans are traditionally bad at estimating opportunity costs of actions (or lack of actions)
But they will not necessarily want to pass on all the savings to their customers. They may be cheaper on the price list, but that also reflects greater risk in using a less familiar platform.
I for one find it a curious read. It reads like someone who’s inspecting himself though positing a seemingly abstract question. He’s doing something of an inventory of his qualities. This seems less about whether friendship makes sense as an absolute and more a way for the author to come to terms with something.

It could pop from hn suddenly. But I’d hope the seemingly genius people here may consider the opportunity to reevaluate their interpersonal ethos.
> before long your helper method is extremely difficult to reason about, because it’s actually handling a dozen cases that are superficially similar but full of important differences

This reminds me of Mike Acton's Three Big Lies of C++, specifically Lie 2: Code should model the world. [0]

> A chair is a chair, in real life. But in terms of data-transformations, in terms of what we do, these classes are really only superficially similar. In the context of a game, we have a Chair, a PhysicsChair, a StaticChair, a BreakableChair. These things are not at all similar. There's almost nothing that's the same between these contexts. How they're handled, how the data is managed, how the data is transformed, there's virtually nothing that's the same here, and yet the tendency would be because they share some world-modelling similarities, their similarities in the real world, they ought to be connected somehow in the code hierarchy, which is non-nonsensical. World-modelling leads to monolithic, unrelated data-structures and transforms. [...] You can't make a problem simpler than it is.

[0] https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc?t=1153
>> I've never encountered any form of bullying or discrimination in my 15 years academic career (in three different countries).

Great to hear that you've not encountered bullying in the academy, but it absolutely does exist and is unfortunately thriving. Often when it occurs, the university will side with the academic rather than postdoc or PhD students, which puts them in an extremely difficult situation since their manager is often the bully. In addition, you're likely in a position of power since you've been in academy for 15+ years ... It could be that you do not interact with certain circles to observe this behaviour.

Also, discrimination, particularly sexism also very much occurs, including to students. See for for example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2...
“Everything is code” is implied by “everything is an expression”.

Serializable and transmissible are implied by “everything is data” and “everything is an expression”.

Copyable is implied by “...immutable” and “...data”.
Technically no. However the real question is not about the amount but about quality. This has been proved over and over in many psychology studies. A correct amount of friends can help one's psyche and productivity.
The real question is why is the guardian promoting this ridiculous mess of statements. WHat happened to the guardian? honestly they are beyond self parody now and they seem like a decafeinated vice if anything.
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That’s nonsense though. Native Mac apps built years ago continue to work completely fine on the latest OS releases.
If it gets that good maybe we can get those Stalkers to spend their lives chasing after imaginary people and leave everyone else alone.
I am having the same difficulties, and it's giving me a headache. The only workaround was to change the authentication method to "Normal password", and enable the "Allow less secure apps" setting on the Gmail account.

And that's a major PITA since I have 40-ish Gmail accounts. (Why so many? I tend to separate my different concerns for privacy and security reasons.)
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This reminds me of a relevant anecdote: back in the naughts, I was doing research in cosmic rays at a large nuclear research facility. I did simulation and data analysis - office/computer work mostly. One day, a person with a clipboard comes into my office and asks about the whereabouts of some radiation source. I look at them confused - I had not touched sources since teaching nuclear physics labs. They show me their clipboard and lo and behold, it has my name next to a really high intensity source and they're looking to locate it.

After a few minutes of awkward shock and denying all involvement, we realized it was a colleague at the same research institute (and of the same name). He was, one building down, doing his PhD research on radiation hardened detectors for the CMS experiment at CERN(1). He was using the source for the testing. But I had a minute of real stress before that came together in my mind...

(1) I think this was his work: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pssa.2007763...
I work in healthcare.

Where’s your source on them being inflated?
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