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I've totally noticed this.

I bought two Delta Lt Zip microfleeces from them in 2018. They were expensive (over $100 each) but incredibly high quality, fit me like a glove, still wearable today after umpteen washes.

In early 2020 I ordered another one -- exact same product name, exact same brand, same size, shipped-from-and-sold-by "Arc'Teryx". It was like wearing a garbage bag; the proportions were all wrong, like it was tailored for an obese person my height. Lower quality material and all sorts of silly zippers and patches tacked onto it in weird unnecessary places.

Something went seriously down the drain in terms of quality with them in the interim. I'd probably bought over $1,000 worth of clothes from them up through 2018, all of it was first rate. Since 2020 I haven't bought anything else from them.
https://www.techcongress.io/congressional-innovation-fellows

this is an annual position to influence policy in technology
Those that sound like they know what they are doing, seem to make good decisions, appear to the manager as someone that will make them look good, and seem to be someone the manager can understand and trust will be promoted over someone with more domain knowledge and technical ability that doesn't have those other qualifications in some cases.

Don't assume a meritocracy, even if it had seemed that way initially, because managers change, and things often don't work like that.
I am sure the same arguments were made back then for burger prices, Walmart stuff and so on. The reality is that Seattle apparently has set a $16+ an hour being as the minimum hourly salary and that means no one should work for less. End of story. Working for Uber [or insert other corp here] and still needing to apply for food stamps, free healthcare and rent assistance costs taxpayers too.
I worked with a few folks to build Whatscookin.us

It's a community building through food sharing attempt.
> I'd give 30(realistically 15) years tops for AGI.

I think 30 years is probably reasonable, if for “30 years” one reads “twice as long from now as commercially viable fusion generation actually was when first widely hailed as 15 years away”.
Unrealistic, teenagers can still get trashed on vanilla extract from the grocery store but very few do
You can also find companies that do policy related work. Companies like Free and Fair better dedicated to policy and technology for online voting.

I know of others that are in engineering and policy, but not off the top of my head for security as well
The caveat, of course, is there are 22 year olds who know your subject better than you. I met those, and I wished they talked more.
People have a right to mod their own hardware. Thats the law.
Have you taken a look at CDK and CDK-TF? It lets you programmatically generate terraform templates (or cloudformation with plain CDK) from other languages.
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From the perspective of Rust, Linear Haskell is going to seem quite weird, and I say that as Haskeller wishing that language extension was more like Rust.

I'm not really sure how to explain it, but basically only functions that are themselves linear can have linear parameters, It's vaguely like "`Fn(A) -> B` only if `A: Copy`", and `FnOnce(A) -> B` only if `A: !Copy`, except there is no `Copy` or `!Copy` and the only say to determine it is `Fn` vs `FnOnce`.
I was referring to the "visible source" comment. The Defold license allows much more than just seeing the source.

And I do think the way I've seen people almost "warning" others that Defold isn't "open source" is misleading to most game developer. Unless you plan to sell a commercial game engine and editor and want it to be based of the Defold source code, then you've got access to all the same pros/cons of any other true (based on OSi) open source game engine and editor.

At the end of the day that's what I care about if I'm picking a game engine for my game.
120 is considered the minimum by the CDC, so that should be fine. Cask-strength whiskey, before watering down to (usually) 80 proof, is often in the 120 to 130 range anyway. (Elijah Craig has a cask-strength that clocks in around 133, but it of course depends on the batch) But I've also toured some micro-distilleries and by asking questions, it seems that distilling up around 180 proof is a pretty trivial tweaking of the equipment (combined with carful fire-safety protocols).
"Today I will tell you how to be just as annoying as a real physicist. And the easiest way to do that is to insist correcting people when it really doesn't matter"

The video is pretty nice in that it teaches interesting facts and at the same time criticizing the behaviour you mentioned (I agree with you).

The video itself is named "How to talk like a physicist", so the blog post linked here could be a bit misleading in that regard if one does not know Sabine Hossenfelder already.
There are a number of Haskellers with similar misgivings. The authors of the current extension thought that this fit most nicely with the current language / implementation.
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> Regardless of whether you like Flash, this should be yet another ominous warning that you do not really own your computer anymore.

I'm pretty sure you can choose to not run Windows 10.
...Which will only tell you that they employ someone who can draw. Which you don't care about.
What prompted Adobe to try to rename .swf as "Small Web File".
>there weren’t even auto updates

I remember a point where just about every time anyone logged into a XP machine, the Flash player would start begging to be updated. There seemed to be multiple updates a week sometimes to fix stuff. When Chrome started embedding Flash it was just about revolutionary since you didn’t have to keep as much of an eye on whatever CVE popped up that day.
There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning - yes, as an RNA virus, there is a high rate of mutation. However because of the redundancy of amino acid encoding most mutations will be preservative (ie produce the same protein). Additionally, although there is no reason that chance can’t produce the exact same spike protein mutation in another location in the world, it will be of a different lineage which will clearly show up on sequencing as there will be some clear differences elsewhere (in the preservative mutations).
This is highly unlikely to be a result of immune response pressure, in fact I would discount this entirely, mutations arise as a response to copying errors and inside an infection cycle (initial infection, replication, transmission, adaptive immune response).

The final immune response will shut down the virus ability to replicate freely due to recognition; selective pressure to avoid immune response is unlikely due to 1) the continually lowering viral load and 2) the very high number of non-selective antibodies produced that recognise a large number of viral epitopes.
I would say just ask your questions here, there are lots of managers on hn. Maybe linkedin if you can sift through the self-promotional drivel.
> not just the enterprises that employ low/no skill labor or their consumers.

Why would any company ever employ anyone in the close-to-minimum-wage bracket? Amazon gets flack for employment, and Google gets none. Only one of those two has made room for any significant number of close-to-minimum-wage workers.

This is a massively perverse incentive that prioritises how rich people feel about themselves over how people without much actually live. IMHO, that's about as close to a working definition of evil as I can muster.

Semi-related: this is also why basic income will never work. Basic income will be seen, inevitably, as subsidising rich companies, which will lead to it being killed off.
Same here but with Home Depot instead.

They're pretty good at filtering out the absolute junk, because having customers return products is really expensive for brick+mortar retailers.
> Granted, $50-60k annual salary might be middle-class in some parts of the country

Median individual income is around $35K, median household income is a but above $60K. $50-$60K isn't typical of middle class in any sane class schema, but it's definitely above middle income for an individual, and nearly at it for a household, not “lower income”.
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I like it and would use it. For paying customers, they probably come from places like github marketplace. I think you should work on getting it out of the door.
Was that one of the goals though? How I see it, lambda does a pretty good job of abstracting the compute layer and orchestration. Most things beyond that will introduce complexity since you’ll be interfacing with other things with different goals of their own.
> Comparing your pre-trained brain

You’re making sweeping assertions that require domain experts in several different disciplines. The scientific evidence points to the contrary. It is demonstrated that humans have a general ability to learn wide range of things, without being genetically programmed to. None of us evolved to drive cars. Yet nearly everyone in my grandparents generation were able to learn this totally new skill despite being a new invention, where you couldn’t possibly have had time for evolution to act. They weren’t genetically evolved to drive, it was learned within their lifetime and generation. There are tribal humans in different parts of the world that haven’t developed written language. Yet you can teach them written language. Where’s your “pre trained brain” theory there?
Make it useable by asking people to answer questions in exchange for getting to ask their own question?

Reaching critical mass may be harder, but I think it would be more random than mechanical turk.
Many also believe that NPR reports the news without an agenda or an absurdly selective focus, even unintentionally.

The existence of both groups is disappointing.
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No matter what you're doing, you have to have a way to say what it is that you actually want to happen.

Using a declarative configuration tool to specify the infrastructure one wants to exist is not really "managing infrastructure" as we used to do it.
From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics[0]:

> Epidemiologists are public health professionals who investigate patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans. They seek to reduce the risk and occurrence of negative health outcomes through research, community education and health policy.

So to cavalierly categorize epidemiologists as "more usually a bureaucrat" speaks to a myopic understanding of what value they provide.

0 - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/epi...
Most EULAs disclaim all fitness for purpose, though. They restrict the rights of the end user (no reverse engineering, no benchmarking, etc) and disclaim away any and all liability from the developer (no warranty, not fit for any purpose, etc).
Who is your audience?

Having migrated from WP to Jekyll only to go back in the last ten years, I learned Wordpress (and Drupal, etc ) exist for a reason. They’re well understood by a large community of non technical marketing, PR, and other content professionals. So in the end if it’s more than for your own blog or a handful of devs, “modern tech stack” isn’t the main consideration.

Not to dissuade you—I’m curious myself if there are more modern WP competitors out there to help the non technical audience.
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Because China can simply point and say ‘whatever the price is there, it will be cheaper here’ because their population is willing to take huge hits to their purchasing power (because they were recently so poor).
I can't visualize what you mean by deep recursive calls. What are the calculations that mean you can't just use fairly bog standard python for? I didn't realize there was "big data" in accounting.
The idea that those two concepts would be even functionally related is a massive struggle for me.

Like what? “Nonsense conspiracy theory makes sense because ‘NPR has an agenda’”. Like genuinely, huh? If you don’t believe NPR, you don’t have to pick the stupidest possible alternative.
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I have even less to add, but while we're griping, I think academic fields should recieve a demerit for every term they introduce that involves the adjective "perfect".

For example, cryptographers: you get a demerit for using the phrase "perfect forward secrecy". Just "forward secrecy" would've done the job, no need to pat yourselves on the back...
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For a peripheral that has been manufactured several billion times, and is used by a billion per day, keyboards are pretty feature-lacking.

That all-in-one raspberry pi keyboard? That thing should just be the beginning.

A keyboard has lots of space for ports. A huge number of ports. HDMIs, USBs, USB-C, headphones, sd cards, firewires, thunderbolts, displayports, network. A wide variety of ports. Why do I have to buy a separate USB hub?

Wired vs wireless doesn't have to be a choice. Why doesn't my keyboard have a rechargable battery inside of it? Why doesn't that battery recharge while I am in "wired" mode for maximum reliability, but enable bluetooth when I am not wired?

Wait, why am I carrying an external battery pack for topping off my phone? Scratch the small battery. Bigger please.

If my keyboard is serving duty as a hub, why isn't it a KVM that can be switched to any of 3-4 different computers? Even if video is expensive/hard, why can't the other ports be provided switchably between computers? Why can't it at least do KM and wake up computers wirelessly via the USB plugs?

Why don't virtually all of them have smartphone and tablet parking places, maybe even enable those devices to sync or even be another display?

And since we have all those ports, sure, let's integrate a raspberry pi for a minimal computer.

We probably still have space.
Microphone? sure.
Webcam? Ok.
Flash storage so we don't waste a port on a drive? Sure.
TOTP fob? YES! a cheap LCD away, although probably not the best physical security.
Modular sections for arrow/home keys and the numpad? OK!
Trackpoint! It's out of patent, right? Trackpoint me like the lenovo keyboard. Or trackball. Or both. Trackpad! gimme all three.

You know we can probably fit a network switch in? Ok that might be overkill.

Can I get an lcd ribbon?

Why doesn't the wrist rest give me wrist massages?

Why doesn't it function as a universal remote?

Sim slot and wireless modem? Probably comes on the SOC.
Contrary to popular opinion on HN, not all sources of news and information are exactly equivalent.
Please dont have kids

We need less privlaged rich upper class liberal people in multicultural diversity enriched cities
She recently complained about the particle physicists' love of hyper expensive colliders that seemingly only produce the need for even more expensive colliders, which I found pretty interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866927
If you go at a bad time, the waits are like what Americans assume communist Russian bread lines were like. And you just sit there doing nothing. Then you're name is called, the government employee corrects you and tells you that you did it wrong, you fill it out again...and wait more. It's just the single handedly most boring chore the average American has to do in their life.
It's not entanglement that allows for coherent superpositions of states but, well, superposition. (Note, however, that entanglement is responsible for decoherence.)
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It must be easier to build an auditable and reliable solution using a high-level language programming language and concepts like source control and automated testing.

Excel is only easier if you aren't interested in building something auditable and reliable solution that might have some hope of being maintained after you have left the company.
You probably have hw acceleration disabled
> The key policy question, one that drives so many others, is whether the city should prioritize full-time drivers over part-time and casual drivers.

I wish EVERY policy decision was structured this way. Tell me the groups, tell me the trade offs, then say why you've chosen X perspective as paramount, and explain what policy helps most from that perspective, and the costs to other groups.

I am fully aware that is never going to happen, but it would be lovely if it did.
I think it's hard to define what "believing QAnon" means at this point because the so-called Q drops read like vague fortune cookies that could mean any and everything.
To hydrogenate carbon dioxide.
It doesn't hurt to be humble, there is always someone who knows more.
Many people are presented with 2 alternatives:

Alternative A) You are an ordinary person with an ordinary job and ordinary pasttimes. You fulfill your role in society like everyone else.

Alternative B) You have an important mission that will change the course of history, to spread the influence of <insert dogmatic belief system here>.

If you are bored, tired of living a repetitive life and have no purpose in life, Alternative B) sounds fantastic. Now you feel needed, you feel special, etc. You have a mission to save the world from the <masks|vaccines|science|microchips|illuminati|devil|5G|...>

Conspiracy theories, religious fanatism, extreme nationalism, flat earth societies, sanitary anticompliance (anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers), climate change denial... they all have a thing in common: they are not rational and the people behind them are afraid of rationality and science.
Both groups trust that their chosen authority is the ultimate provider of truth, and generally prefer not to question that authority even when it leads to cognitive dissonance.
Yeah seriously. What a weird false equivalence to try to suggest.
What are your plans to grow your total revenue to $75K? Is it all riding on the new micro-SaaS and nominal growth from the other products? Will you be changing your strategy for existing products?
Great job on the year. I think everyone should get a pass on 2020 since it's been such a sh!tshow.
All airplanes are boats because they both carry people.

It’s fine to question authority. But you don’t have to pick genuine idiocy because you lack faith in some journalistic institutions. Maybe you could just, idk be a little more skeptical instead of thinking pizza places house pedophiles? It’s idiocy. Why be gentle about it?

If your argument for buying into some of this stuff is “they’re all liars! That’s why I believed the stupidest possible thing” You seriously need to look in the mirror and do some self evaluation.
I wish there was just a desktop program like Excel that actually fucking works well on Mac and PC. I like Google Sheets but it's way too integrated in the cloud for my tastes.

Excel has so many good features, but the core of it is so fucking buggy.

It sucks that I gotta bust out Jupyter and use Pandas to double check my work, especially dates, because I can't trust Excel.
> 2. “The Speed of Light is constant.”

Well, actually, the speed of light is constant, it just takes time to ping-pong around a lattice/gas. Photons hit particles, get absorbed, and re-emitted, which causes an effective slowdown at a larger scale. A gas is just vacuum with particles floating around in it. When photons travel between those particles, they are traveling at c. The effective slowdown is determined by the lattice/gas, and we denote this slowdown with the refractive index...

> 7. “Light is both a particle and a wave.” Well, actually, it’s neither. Light, as everything else, is described by a wave-function in quantum mechanics. A wave-function is a mathematical object, that can both be sharply focused and look pretty much like a particle.

This is a great example of how quantum mechanical analogies don't work if over-analyzed. A great professor of mine once told me that you can't look too far into classical analogies for quantum mechanics -- you will end up coming to the wrong conclusion. At the end of the day, understand the math.

As someone else in the comments said, most of these are pedantic gotcha's. I thought the one about water being blue was the only one that actually surprised me as something people thought was true.
Yes, that's true. And aren't some versions of RedHat still on 2.7 too?

But I class this as a packaging issue more than a 2.7 vs 3.x issue: you see the same problems with (as a random example...) different versions of OpenCV - people not using virtual environments have problems even if they are all on 3.7.

When I think of the "2.x vs 3.x problems" I was thinking more of the language and core libray level incompatibilities.
I tried to keep it right on the edge... I find that provokes more critical thought than letting people "off the hook" with a more obvious comment they can automatically agree/disagree with. It's easy to dismiss examples as "absurd" when a concept is taken to its logical conclusion. It's the ones that walk right up to the edge, to the gray area boundaries of someone's conceptual framework, that make them consider what those boundaries are or should be.
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I have never met anyone who considers NPR "the ultimate provider of truth," and neither have you.
That’s what we do too. TF uploads a dummy file and ci/cd uploads the actual builds
Wasn't a criticism, just an observation from a 'user' when a key bit of infrastructure is directed by a single or small team.

You are opening up a technology that you are crafting for your own purposes in the best spirit of sharing.

Personally I'm wary of relying on any project driven in this way.

Inspiring, but not something I'm personally keen on using directly.

I do feel grateful that you've given this as an option and I do feel slightly parasitic in not providing a tangible positive contribution instead.
I'm really excited to use linear types to try to speed up stream processing! I love Haskell but some of the fusion stuff that speeds up stream libraries can be slow to compile and not that fast anyways.
I'm with you on this. I tried Defold for prototyping a game concept and was less than impressed. It got in the way in a framework sense, and didnt seem to provide much bang for buck (ie it consume more hours of my time learning its perculiar ways of doing things than it probably have taken to roll my own). Of course peoples mileage may vary. I was expecting things like auto atlassing, batch processing on import, proper layer z-order (versus using a 3d style z value). I recall the UI did weird stuff like sorting alphabetically, instead of by creation order or z-order. The message passing thing was annoying. I guess it was a bad choice for me. I'm probably more productive with a library and tools approach, rather than "opinionated" engine. It felt like someone was caught up in an architecture more suited to creating very large games and applied it here. It felt like it was created by too many programmers working to a feature list, rather than creating a useful cohesive tool.
Scientific knowledge is something we mostly take on trust, not through first principle.

It is largely impossible for us to operate any other way, no matter how true our knowledge is.
I think this is false. My general opinion of computer scientists and engineers (especially in silicon valley) lack the scientific training that one gets in other disciplines like in physics or other hard sciences. Psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience has generated a rich diverse experimental data in the past 50 years, and now is the prime time for a theory to emerge to connect everything. To make what I’m saying clearer, you needed Newtonian mechanics, Maxwell and Plank and Coulomb to develop and discover the science of electricity and atoms in order for us to engineer the silicon transistor. Without the original scientific knowledge, building such devices would have been impossible. This machine learning, ai, deep learning and this obsession with benchmarks are, in my opinion, a hinderance to AGI