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>What on earth does making the same wage have to do with
it?

The fact that, on Earth, passion only gets you so far. And it can easily wane off, given bad circumstances.

And of course, on Earth at least,

(a) "passion to create AAA games"

is not the same as

(b) "passion to be an employee on a AAA game company, with impossible schedules, idiotic management, unpaid overtime, and lower salary that I could get elsewhere".

In the end, whatever their passion, the AAA game developer is just a cog in a team (the head / driver of the team would be 1 in 20 or 1 in 50 devs).
No, that is not at all what is happening. The government is deciding what occupations constitute early access to the vaccine. For now, they are prioritizing medical workers and government employees, especially those providing essential public services. The only possible way for that to work is through the employer themselves. This has always been the case, and has been publicly stated as such (frontline medical workers, assisted living workers, etc.). It was always going to be based on occupation initially. Once there's enough for general availability, individuals will likely be able to schedule vaccinations themselves or be contacted by their PCP to schedule one.

Just because you have not seen any communication does not mean it is not happening.
Sounds like a more expensive version of a system I saw in Novosibirsk, Russia about 10 years ago:

There were displays hung next to the traffic lights that told you what speed you should be going to get the next green light. It would top out at 'speed limit'.

It worked for all cars, even the ancient soviet ones.
As I've said before, at what point can we just have an old-fashioned fight without throwing this snowflakey "cancel culture" criticism at it?

I'm a strong advocate for free speech. The only way that free speech works is that people feel free to vociferously disagree. Given the volume of, say, Domingos' tweets, he certainly feels free to disagree. At this point the same can be said of Gebru and Anandkumar. Great! What's the problem here? Can't we just all just argue and get along?

Where is the mob attack? Oh, someone said someone mean to you. For heaven's sake, if Anita Sarkeesian can take it then the rest of you sure can. If no one here is upset about public health directors in Kansas having their children threatened, then why the dustup about some feelings on Twitter?

Great, someone puts you on a block list on Twitter. Congrats. Until you've gotten your first rape threat you haven't really made it anyways. What a bunch of whiners.
iOS was based off NextStep, just like OSX.
I'm probably going to be downvoted for this...pointing out any issues in any measures towards covid seems to have this effect.

But how is astrazeneca's methodology reasonable?

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020...

>Over 23,000 participants are being assessed following two doses of either a half-dose/full-dose regimen or a regimen of two full doses of AZD1222 or a comparator, meningococcal conjugate vaccine called MenACWY.

The placebo in the study was a meningitis vaccine that actually caused issues that halted the study and because astrazeneca's vaccine was deemed more effective than that, the vaccine was deemed a success.

In what way is that anywhere near a reasonable clinical study?
Petition all you want, but you're not allowed to donate to them or their campaign. That much isn't guaranteed.
Glad you liked it!

No, I haven't pulled the trigger to open-source it yet. But I did build on top of some of my other open source libraries: https://github.com/simontonsoftware/s-libs. So I do love open source!
I disagree with your statement that bcash is manipulative language.
I now understand where you are coming from after reading your posts but there is a community out there referring to bitcoin cash as bcash since its short and succinct and easy to speak.

Also might I suggest to reflect on your posts? The tone sounds quite angry and seems to stem from frustration which can lead to reading bad intent where is none.
Which virus? I can't see the article.
nah. I think Balmer did wonders for Ms. It’s really easy to blame the guy but I think it’s important to look at the context (of when he took over, what he actually did)

also, he is the only CEO I routinely saw at the “corporate gym” in Redmond before the pandemic struck. No bodyguards, no nothings. Like a regular dude going to the gym, hanging out in the sauna/jacuzzi. He had a super positive attitude towards the staff and other people that would strike up a conversation. While I did not the to have the image of a naked Ballmer burned into my retinas, I do appreciate that he did not let all that wealth go to his head.
This article sort of half-made sense until I read this part:

"But corporations all depend on the state and their workers to survive, and thus there are ways to seize it, democratize it, and keep it in public hands where it belongs"

MMhh.. excuse me? Says who? Stalin?

Lately there seems to be a strong, veiled and (dare I say) coordinated effort to put down capitalism in the US. Has everyone forgotten what built this great country in the first place?
> Is your parent a time travel comment? Because you asked a question they specifically addressed!

The explanation doesn't actually address anything:

> Democratic ownership can counter act the tendency to grow and absorb competitors, because each new worker who gets a vote waters down the votes and control of their fellows.

It's like saying no one will want to buy shares of a large conglomerate or vote to have it merge with another one because the shareholder's votes will be watered down. Empirically false, happens regularly in practice. Especially when the larger company with less competition could pay higher dividends/wages.

> Plus the bigger the organization gets, the slower and less responsive it will get.

Which doesn't really stop it once it merges to a monopoly and has no competitors.

> And a democratic organization run by its workers will have a myriad of motivating factors to balance, other than chasing infinite profit or return for the investors.

But being a monopoly provides more resources to tackle those other issues, at the expense of the customers, and why do the employees care about them any more than the shareholders would?
He was played to an absolute T by John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender the robot, in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Currently a smooth 75,000. Alas I am left dreaming of my robo dog companion :(
> Yann is still active on twitter. He claimed to leave twitter, but didn't for any reasonable definition of "left". Yet people continue to claim that Gebru "cancelled" him or something. He's had like 15 twitter interactions today.

I'm guessing LeCun wasn't trying to trick people with an elaborate hoax, but quit the usual way people quit social media, smoking, etc. But hating it and wanting to quit, then coming back anyway. The point is the interaction made him temporarily want to quit...
DearPyGUI is awesome, and I hope that people don't use it en-mass so that my side-projects using it have an easy time getting a lot of attention because of it!
I'm not sure that has any bearing. Clearly they hadn't reached the scale Amazon has, so I'd suggest they hadn't found escape velocity. Not that the concept of escape velocity doesn't exist.

You can be wrong a million times, you only have to be right once.
Government and banks have been continuously using computers since the 60s, so as a result there’s a lot of “fancy web API to collect data… that gets batch processed by an ETL on a mainframe overnight.” Much more of it than I realized as a young dev at least.
Lifestyle Inflation. It's a wealth killer
That is the entire point of the article, how Amazon uses it's power and resources to prevent competition.
We Found a Data Corruption Bug in RocksDB
You don't have to wipe at all. Water cleans gently and thoroughly...
I’ve had coworkers who were on the original Xbox team and they told me that the OS was not Windows. One of the things about the Xbox OS is that the OS itself gets a fixed timeslice each frame to do whatever it needs while the game is running, in order to make it so the game can get the rest of the frame to run. This sounds to me like a decision that has far-reaching consequences.

I’m sure that it shares plenty code with Windows. You might say that the OS is based on Windows. But it’s definitely not Windows.
Yes thank you for that suggestion!!
When he started Microsoft had the most popular OS, web browser and mobile OS. A decade later they lost all three and their market cap barely moved.
To run or to ruin?
The Washington Post wasn't neutral either when it investigated Watergate. They had previously battled Nixon and had close ties with JFK and LBJ.

Nonetheless, in that case as well as in the case of Wikileaks, any result of reporting the truth should be blamed on the people who committed the unpopular acts, not the people who reported them.
meh, still feel very hypocritical.

You have found a way not to pay for something, good for you, but brandishing it as some kind of "perfectly fine solution" is just laughable.
>This system will lead to the existing moneyed class of coiners becoming more and more wealthy as a function of economic productivity forever.

This, along with depriving The Great State-an of a means to operate an effective revenue collection system, has been the real objective since the beginning. Decentralization has never been anything other than a mantra, a fig leaf to be casually dropped when no longer useful or credible. "Hyperbitcoinization" means never having to say you're sorry for selling a fraud to 'the masses'
Oh this is interesting, could you explain more about it?
Can someone with a good understanding of virology and a passable understanding of code explain to me how mRNA vaccines are not a regex, and don't have the hazards of a regex?

What I mean is if the mRNA vaccine causes antigens that respond to a partial match of c-19 dna segments, which is how it is effective against even yet-to-be-developed spike proteins, isn't it necessarily associated with the hazards of fuzzy matching we have with regexes?
I don't begrudge them the first twenty years. But for the last twenty years they don't seem worried about the lack of meaningful progress because their maths are so pretty. I sort of get that but its alarming that Physics Today still hasn't printed any of this really basic criticism. This makes me suspicious of other things including high-energy physics.
He botched Microsoft pretty bad.. windows 8 was his hallmark project no? And the beginning of surface was not that good. Once Satya took over Microsoft became a powerhouse again with their cloud/office integration + focus on azure.
Yes, it's true that string theory hasn't panned out in the same way as general relativity or the standard model, but it really bothers me when people criticize it without even tacit acknowledgement of the fruitful discoveries that came out of the research that has been applied to other fields. The AdS/CFT correspondence alone is worth the effort that was put in, not to mention mirror symmetry in algebraic geometry and everything that was discovered about Calabi-Yau manifolds.

String theory research isn't directly useful, but other fields of physics and mathematics reap the benefits.
Look again, that is per thousand captchas.

Still pretty expensive if you wanted to do every single Valid CC #, though.
Ask HN: Can someone tell me why my post got flagged?
Hi all,

A post of mine got “flagged”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25541900

The string ‘[flagged]’ got added to the title. I am guessing this isn’t a good thing.

It’s a link to a newsletter I create that contains javascript, tech and web developer links. It takes me a lot of time to prepare, and I think there is value there for others.

As far as I am aware self posts are allowed, so what makes this particular link not allowed?

Thanks,
Mark
The full article they link to clears this up. Indeed it's Windows 2000, but it's not "PC Compatible" which was the issue.
"supporting"

as a european I'm totally ok without this support.
Seems to have only US and Canada as country parameters.
While I don't disagree with you, there is a very real need to avoid collateral damage in 2020. You cannot expect support at home if your drones are murdering a bunch of kids for each "bad guy" that they eliminate.

You want to be able to kill any leader anywhere and let the organization collapse due to internal power struggles. It's more fashionable.
I have both the Mini and the Mini2. The mini2 is even more impressive. Better camera, better batteries, longer range.

I flew mine today in -15ºC for 35 minutes, and managed a range of 3km.

It's crazy.
stopping using youtube altogether I would actually understand
>For one, you have to escape that bully and hope you're faster than them (before you get trapped/ tackled and it turns physical) or you both end up being punished.

You have this same problem with fighting back. You have to hope you're a better fighter, if you're not you will be pummeled. The benefit of running is that very quickly you will reach other people, so you don't have to run very far. With fighting it could continue for a long time and you might get fatigued before the bully. When I took Taekwondo, my instructor said the best thing to do if you're about to get into a fight is run.

How many scenarios at school are there were 2 kids are alone and no one can see them or is in earshot? One technique that might be good, is to teach kids who are worried about being bullied that they should try to stay in a group, or within earshot of others, so they can call for help if they get attacked. And to be aware of surroundings and the environment so that they always have an escape route, they don't get stuck in a corner. Avoiding being stuck in a corner could also help if you're fighting, it gives you more maneuverability. This advice would help weak kids too, not just strong kids.

>Incidents without proof generally result in no action from the school due to that lack of proof, so the bully will continue tormenting you.

What if you create a diary with times and dates of each incident?

Also, what if you can record proof? Start an audio recorder (and inform the bully if you're in an all-party consent state).
Like every year, a thoughtful and helpful list. Thank you, Tryo labs.

I've left the ecosystem for the JVM, professionally, so a nice way to keep up with what's going on in Python land.
I will take what I can get, but the obviously correct thing is for user targeting and sale of third party information to be illegal, never-mind opt in.
It's possible that he may have wanted to quit, but there was never a period where he actually stopped. He was actively tweeting the day after he claimed to leave.

Like I keep saying, I just really hope you extend that same amount of benefit of the doubt to everyone. Both Yann and Timnit. Both Domingos and anandkumar.
I believe the example in the article "avoids the function-coloring problem" by completely avoiding its problem space of continuing the execution of an imperative block of code after starting an asynchronous task to produce some value, and then synchronizing at the production of that value. In the example each code block run in a fiber blocks at Net::HTTP.get and only continues after it returns a value.

Looking at the API for Fiber.. It looks like "resume" returns the yield(generator) or fiber return value? So Fibers can be treated as a sort of Promise? As soon as you start returning fibers from methods you have the coloring problem..
Could you elaborate? I'd say any connection iOS has with NextStep is through OS X. What connection does iOS have to NextStep that is independent of OS X parentage?
The few games Microsoft did were actually pretty good. Age of Empire is still going on today.
Flagging is done by users that think a particular post may not be a good fit for HN (ideally). It's likely that your post was seen by some as being too promotional for yourself so they may have flagged it for that purpose. I would try re-submitting it just as a link, and to not include strings like 'My' and 'is out' in the title, instead just describe the content as succinctly as possible.
“But corporations all depend on the state and their workers to survive, and thus there are ways to seize it, democratize it, and keep it in public hands where it belongs.”

Sounds like something the villain in an Ayn Rand novel would say...
The reality is there is no purely capitalist society in the world. Each society is somewhere on the spectrum of socialist and capitalist, borrowing different quantities of ideas from both.

For instance, America has a socialized postal system, socialized school system, socialized highway network, socialized fire departments, socialized police, and a socialized army.

That doesn't make it socialism, but it doesn't make it 100% capitalist either. The question being asked here is more one of redistricting the divisions between the socialized and the private sectors of America.
There's no reason to use rechargeables so if non chargeables give them a extra 30% then that would be how they are doing it.

But it will just be off the shelf batteries, so they would exist already on ebay if that's what they are doing.
>Isn't the whole moat of google maps that it's part of google?

No, that's only for the very lazy :-)

Especially for something like Maps, that doesn't get some huge benefit from the integration.
They are so fragile that the risk of danger is much lower than with DNA based therapy.

It's not just marketing: there was a COVID DNA vaccine competitor and it lost.
Like I said, if you zoom out then you can clearly see the actual "Ice Caves" road #53 with lane markings, and a smaller "Ice Cave" dirt road that ends near that group of buildings. Everything after that is just dirt, no roads at all regardless of what Google says, which is my point.

Zoom out, assess the terrain, look for markings, check for buildings, and compare paths to the destination. Unless you're visiting the bottom of the crater there, you shouldn't ever be going off that main highway.

The map tiles should also cached (how else would it show you the turns?) but yes offline/paper maps are a must when going into unfamiliar areas.
Windows remains the most popular operating system for computers by far, and that will never change.
Funny to watch (if you’re into this type of humor). Horrible to work for.
I understand that idea and I also think that seemingly small "reaction rate" or "process rate" differences can end up creating huge differences in outcomes.
I'm pretty sure Windows at no point lost its thrive as most popular non-mobile OS
> to someone who has demonstrated control on visa.com at the time the cert was issued

And who still has access to receive traffic for the visa.com domain after it hits cloudflare. This is a much higher bar.
The antigens don't match on DNA segments. They match on proteins that the virus has on it. The mRNA sequence is specific to produce that very particular pattern. Not a wildcard.
Sure, if Amazon becomes Standard Oil or Ma Bell, have the government bust em up (for them to split logistics from sales or something like that seems likely). For now they seems to be working as capitalism intended created win/win situations where Amazon gets new margin and the customer gets lower prices/better service. I don't think they have reached a monopoly level at all.
Do you want to expand?
Where does it say that? I skimmed...
No, it doesn’t. You like the pay but hate the person. Many of us have been there before. You eventually get fed up and have to move on.
> Lately there seems to be a strong, veiled and (dare I say) coordinated effort to put down capitalism in the US. Has everyone forgotten what built this great country in the first place?

Sure. In rough historic order:

Slavery, genocide of the natives and theft of their land, unprecedented consumption of fossil based fuels, invention of consumerism as a culture, untouched industrial capacity after WWII and massive brain drain from developing countries.

Which ones were you referring to exactly?
I would be very surprised if the vaccination rate didn’t increase at least 10x from what it is now. This actually seems like pretty positive news
Knowing How to Rest Well Is Learnable Skill
I did that about 10 years ago. The packet didn't make much sense to me then. I wonder if I still have it somewhere. It would be interesting to request it again and see what changed.
Yes, Moderna announced a few month ago that they are developing a few vaccine. But I'm personally much more excited about the personalized cancer vaccines that they are developing by designing the vaccine for the specific tumor and human genome.
Illegal lobbying happens all the time. First of all, if you're involved in certain activities you must register as a lobbyist. People who walk the line with informal lobbying etc. are breaking the law. Secondly, obviously quid pro quo happens but is illegal. And finally there are those people that once worked for the government / military who are now greatly influencing government spending at a contractor. Of course some of that is allowed to a degree, but the envelope is constantly being pushed.

My opinion is that someone should file the proper case(s) that would eventually lead to SCOTUS overturning the Citizens United ruling. Then we should move to publicly-funding races. And we should DEFINITELY remove PAC money from justice races (why is that even a thing?).

But this country has a long history of increasingly corrupt government cranking out pork barrel projects and ignoring us little people. That will not change any time soon unfortunately, without a massive revolution.
Their process was not reasonable. Which is why it was considered a failure and I believe they had to go back to the drawing board.

They will have to do a proper job, if they haven't already. With the other two vaccines already approved, national health boards will be in no rush to fast track it.
Alternatively, they check their web server logs for the IP address(es) from which 99% of requests came, and then undo the opt-outs of those numbers. Then they add a better CAPTCHA.
Keyboards variants with different enter keys (ANSI, ISO, JIS, ABNT)
The Great Reset: If Only It Were Just a Conspiracy
> associated with

and by the associative property of cancel culture, we may infer that the rest of the signees are...
"...Xinjiang Muslims were offered employment possibly in exchange for political indoctrination."

"Offered employment in exchange for political indoctrination"? What exactly does that mean?
What benefit of what doubt? If anything it seems a bit melodramatic and embarrassing to me.
It's a little more complicated than that.

A lot of the code in the NT kernel running on XBox was written specifically for the console. The filesystem drivers, the TCP/IP stack, the HAL, and possibly other components were rewritten from scratch for XBox specifically. It wasn't just locked down, a significant portion of "Windows" was entirely missing, and a decent chunk was replaced with new, Windows-incompatible code.

I suppose it depends on what "based on" means, though. It is technically based on Windows, but not like most people would take that to mean. e.g, when you say "based on linux", you don't take it to mean, "based on our custom kernel based on the initial loader and memory management and debugger functions in linux with the rest scrapped and replaced with a custom stack".

Using a little hyperbole there, but yeah. It does use DirectX, and is more Windows than not. But I can definitely see why someone might see it as a "lie" that it's "based on Windows".