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Quantum biology is here to stay, even if you don't care to read about it. Consider doing at least some research before commenting.

> Orch OR was harshly criticized from its inception, as the brain was considered too "warm, wet, and noisy" for seemingly delicate quantum processes. However, evidence has now shown warm quantum coherence in plant photosynthesis, bird brain navigation, our sense of smell, and brain microtubules. The recent discovery of warm temperature quantum vibrations in microtubules inside brain neurons by the research group led by Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, at the National Institute of Material Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan (and now at MIT), corroborates the pair's theory and suggests that EEG rhythms also derive from deeper level microtubule vibrations. In addition, work from the laboratory of Roderick G. Eckenhoff, MD, at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that anesthesia, which selectively erases consciousness while sparing non-conscious brain activities, acts via microtubules in brain neurons.

https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-j...
They tie an opaque bag over any incorrect signs, and erect temporary signs (of the same standard, international design) with the new limit. If it's a motorway or similar road, the electronic emergency signs will also show the reduced speed limit [1]. On a motorway, they're often on a gantry, i.e. completely impossible to miss.

I think I read somewhere that it's someone's job to make regular checks that the temporary signs (and covers) are still correct -- they are an important part of the worker safety requirement for the construction crew.

When a speed limit changes, the rule is for the sign to be shown on both sides of the road. There are then repeating signs for the current limit at some regular interval.

The UK is dense enough that having expensive electronic signs on all motorways isn't an unreasonable cost; I understand that's not practical in the USA or Australia.

[1a] https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/arti...

[1b] https://www.ageas.co.uk/globalassets/solved/30072018_road-sa... (possibly this style is no longer used, I drive very rarely in the UK so I'm not sure.)
I experienced this problem and a ext4 corruption, too. Because my company force me to use Windows for internal policy, my previous solution was a VMware VM , accessed "remotely" by my IDE. Then I wanted try the new sauce. My colleagues working to legacy code on SVN also experienced problems (anyone else ?). So I switched back to VMWare VM. The other considerations were that a VM can be easily backupped copying a directory and, if I need to change computer or an additional environment, the migration of the whole environment is extremely easy. Moreover i use snapshots, so if something goes wrong at OS level I can go back with a click.
This is good news. Good on the developer(s) for not just laying down and taking it.

I'm disheartened the top comment in the HN topic[0] -- while made with good intention -- suggested to capitulate to Apple's poor argument to remove the app. The poster made some good points with respect to taking on a fight against a vastly larger entity, but falls short in their argument in support of why Apple decided to take their action. Apple is clearly in the wrong here and if we just lie down every time the fight seems insurmountable we'll all be worse off.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25606123
And the f-35 is neither. It is the complement to the f-22, not its replacement. There are more effective air superiority fighters out there for far less money.
Newer VirtualBox releases can run virtual machines on top of Hyper-V as a virtualization engine. It is slower than VirtualBox' own engine, but overall it is still a better experience than Hyper-V Manager.
> Perfect for the era development started in, but useless for the era when it was finally shippable.

Are you any good at lottery numbers?

Traditional fighters will probably lull in use in between the proliferation of drones, and the proliferation of countermeasures to those drones.
There were always far cheaper options than what they chose to build. They didn't seem to care.

They seem to care more about delays and possible unreliability than squandering billions of dollars.
They've been at 24 GB for two years though - and they cost an arm and a leg compared to a CPU with a similar amount.

It's not just about them existing, they need to be cost effective.
Not in the skies, in Jane's Defense Weekly.
Another potential factot is that fewer/different people are buying cars these days, and that group may be more prone to buy electric cars.
Before I clicked through, I assumed the site was named after a backwards word.
Leibniz denies the existence of causation in his Monadology[1]. In short, everything acts solely according to its own nature without any interaction with anything else, but in a harmonious way that creates the illusion of causation. That strikes me as a bit far fetched, but it does show that accepting the existence of causation is a metaphysical choice and not necessary.

[1] https://plato-philosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-...
Given this is Hacker News, I await the solution of LSD-assisted therapy to counter phone addiction to be proposed soon.
Fleets, I suppose?
What a terrible thing to be addicted to... it's a small box that spies on you and gives you almost nothing in return. I cancelled my cell phone service 8 years ago and it was the best thing I've ever done for myself.
I don't want to sound mean, but before discussing performance issues, can we talk about how completely unusable all of Atlassian's products are? I mean this sincerely. I feel bad saying it because I know there are lots of people probably on this site that worked on them. But I literally often have no idea how to proceed when using these products. That's something that hasn't happened to me since before I was a teenager.

As 2 random examples, I've used both Confluence and Crucible in the last month. In Confluence, when I log in I see everything that anyone in my (1,000+ people) organization worked on most recently. People I've never even heard of show up as having edited some random document that doesn't concern me. Meanwhile, I can find no way to list all articles that I created. There's a small list of things I edited or looked at in the last 30 days, but no way to say, "just show me everything I created."

Meanwhile, in Crucible, I literally can't figure out how to do anything. I'm reading through the changes to some source code and adding comments, and after an hour of doing that, it still says I've completed 0% of my review. WTF? And when I start my own code review, every god damned time, it tells me, "You're about to start a review with no reviewers." It then offers me 2 choices: Abandon the review or cancel. I get what "abandon" does. What does cancel do? Cancel the review? Cancel abandoning the review? Why is there no button right there to add reviewers? That's what I most want to do! (And there are no reviewers yet because it literally has not yet given me the option to add them previously in the work flow. WTF?)

You can talk about performance all you want. I won't bother until the products actually perform some useful function. As of now, as far as I can tell, they don't.
Who are the less sophisticated actors willing to attack a military based solely on appearance of 'not looking intimidating?'

We're talking about a fighter jet, not a security guard.
Not super-cheap, but on the cheaper end for Western Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
>>Full self driving cars is a few years out

More like 50+ years for something that is actually allowed on most roads commercially, but sure. I just don't think the margins are there. Uber already subsidizes the human cost.
Human factors are real.
Good question. I wish I had a more sophisticated answer, but everything I do is fairly low-tech. First, memory: this works for nearly everything in my case. Second, a whiteboard for grocery items, which I update as needed. Third, just keeping momentum going for my goals.

For what I might term "loftier" aspirations (diet, fitness, etc), I just make sure I am being consistent. Those things have to be built into your lifestyle, or at least, that is the only way I can get it to work. There was a time, for instance, when I did track my nutrition with a spreadsheet. But after a few months I realized I could manage it all within my head: I had gauged my daily macro needs, and could largely judge by eye, and it has worked for years since.

I have tried todo-style apps, as an example of where I have tried a more explicit approach. I find that they are just procrastination and delay lists for me. If I am not actively doing it already, with exceptions, it probably won't be done at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Bird_of_Prey

That makes this positively alien then
YF-23 looks like what the non-human enemy would have used.

It’s cool but it doesn’t look like “ours”.
I guess that the
“If we are the goodies why the weapons look alien” question comes to mind since people would always think that they are the good ones and the foreigners are the ones that we should be suspicious of.
Why is this not higher?

Every atlassian thread should include a sticky "Go here for an alternative" post
as far as my recreational common knowledge goes: mixing MDMA with any other triptamines is risky. Read up on risks of "candyflipping"
> House prices doubled and the consumer price index shows low inflation for the same period.

And? In Canada, the CPI has Shelter as 27%, with Owned accommodation being 17%:

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc...

What's the component breakdown for the US CPI?

Just because prices for some things are up does not mean prices for all or even most things are. And even though prices are up, mortgage rates are down, which may result in a net-zero change to affordability (i.e., your monthly carrying costs end up being the same).

Heck, some Danish mortgage rates went negative in 2019:

* https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-la...
The space isn't saturated, but there is some competition. However the quality is often lacking. I maintain a smaller set of high quality articles, and keep those updated. I also have a more simple, direct writing style, and designed the website for readability.

I considered expanding to other places or bringing other people on board, but I doubt I could maintain the same level of quality. Those articles require far more research and domain-specific knowledge than your typical SEO spam.

I'm also not that interested in growing. I want more time, not more disposable income. I am sitting on a few decent business ideas, and this website could easily grow to cover other countries, but I'd rather do more pleasant things.

> How much do you earn

About the same as I did as a developer, though it's hard to get a precise number since it varies a lot.
What I do is to tell the other person that I'll be using this other number and to call me if there's any change of plans.

Edit: I actually have two phone numbers. So the new phone is still at home receiving everything
You have a strange definition of conspiracy theory, and your intended use of the phrase is stranger. My criticism of a non-literal use of the word still stands - by your usage, anything that isn't proven yet is labeled conspiracy theory, which is also automatically crazytalk.

Government surveilance, and even COVID-19 (as mentioned elsewhere on the thread) were both by your definition crazyperson conspiracy theories until someone went out and proved it.

To me, it's unintellectual. New theories are dismissed out of hand, since they lack evidence and are considered tantamount to flat-earth theory; any investigation is therefore unwarrented.

Edit: in your example, you're confusing 'belief that something could have happened' with 'belief that something did happen'. Is that all you're trying to say?
https://allaboutberlin.com - I don't offer any services, only free content. However I do have a small network of trusted people I work with, if you need extra help.
That may be the real key. Michigan to Minnesota stays within US territory. New York to Rhode Island and Providence Plantation stays within US territory. Texas to Alaska does not, no matter which mode of travel you chose. Texas to New York might. Shall we go there?
I'm sure thepangolino was talking about deaths worldwide, and it's probably true. Here in the developed world, where COVID was an aberration, it's easy to forget that it was barely a blip in Africa.

"Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined."[1]

"In 2016, diarrhoea was the eighth leading cause of death among all ages (1 655 944 deaths, 95% uncertainty interval [UI] 1 244 073–2 366 552)"[2]

1: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/diarrhea-burden.html

2: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
EV or hybrid?
World population was also much smaller.

The Spanish flu killed 50 million people. That’s 5% of the word population at the time. Now 50 million would barley be over half a percent.
Agreed. In fact, I think the OSM total fraction of errors will exponentially decay towards some non-zero fixed fraction of errors. That's because, on average in the long term, the world probably changes at an approximately fixed rate (relative to total mappable features in the world) and OSM is updated/corrected at a fixed rate (relative to fraction of mappable features that are wrong or missing). Even given the benefit of a lot of time, the OSM can never catch up with a mapping service that updates faster because that other service will have a different equilibrium.
Sure, but then you lose the intentionality signal of an explicit version. Ruby gems works very nicely by not requiring version numbers but always respecting the lockfile unless you explicitly update one or more packages, so when you add a package with no version you get the latest by default, and you can easily do incremental upgrades that respect version dependencies. Later if you need to lock to a specific version you add it (ideally with a comment about why it's locked to that version) and still utilize the automatic dependency version resolution for updates.
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5 months ago I started studying cryptography. Maybe some of you will find this useful.
Radar jamming and other magic aside, I’m just wondering to what extent the equipment in a modern jet like F-35 depends on satellite link. So to what extent putting a human in the machine actually changes its capability as opposed to a drone with an autonomous mode.
I hate to pile on a thread where you're already taking a lot of flack, but this point is really important to the future of Atlassian:

> In a dream world of course, everything would load in < 1s (everything drawn, everything interactive),

As a contractor, I have more or less walked out of or refused interviews on discovering Atlassian toolset was in use. It's not because I hate your tooling (it is visually nice and very featureful), it's because the culture that delivered this software is antithetical to anything I look for in a software project I want to use or contribute to. How can I possibly do my job to any degree of satisfaction when I'm tracking work in a tool that requires 15 seconds between mouse clicks? That is the reality of Jira, and as a result I refuse to use it, or work for people who find that acceptable, because it's a "broken window" that tells me much more about the target environment than merely something about suboptimal bug trackers.

Your page budget should be 100ms max, given all your tools actually do are track a couple of text fields in a pleasing style. Whoever the architecture astronauts are at Atlassian that created the current mess, flush them out, no seat is too senior -- this is an existential issue for your business.
I used to write a production renderer for a living, now I work with a lot of people who write production renderers for both CPU and GPU. I’m not sure what line you’re drawing exactly ... if you mean that it will take 3 or 4 years before the industry will be able to stop using CPUs for production rendering, then I totally agree with you. If you mean that it will take 3 or 4 years before industry can use GPUs for any production rendering, then that statement would be about 8 years too late. I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant, so it’s somewhere in between there, meaning some scenes are doable on the GPU today and some aren’t. It’s worth it now in some cases, and not worth it in other cases.

The trend is pretty clear, though. The size of scenes than can be done on the GPU today is large and growing fast, both because of improving engineering and because of increasing GPU memory speed & size. It’s just a fact that a lot of commercial work is already done on the GPU, and that most serious commercial renderers already support GPU rendering.

It’s fair to point out that the largest production scenes are still difficult and will remain so for a while. There are decent examples out there of what’s being done in production with GPUs already:

https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray-gpu#showcase

https://www.redshift3d.com/gallery

https://www.arnoldrenderer.com/gallery/
Can you sprint for one minute?
Exactly - move the compute to the data, not the data to the compute.
What I do is tell the other person to reach me on a call if there's any change of plans. That's been enough. Also in case we don't see each other.
Well, sure. But in the context of enforcing a limit on a human - by either reporting a breach or actively preventing the car from exceeding the speed limit - and not the car driving itself, I don't see any of that being an issue.
The F35's competition isn't a comparable enemy aircraft or a drone swarm. It's political corruption and hostile Facebook/Twitter troll farms.
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"'(a) paint faster vs (b) interactive faster'"

It is only a tradeoff if you're at the Pareto optimality frontier [1] for those two things.

I seriously doubt that you are. You should absolutely be able to have more of both.

I would recommend to you personally two things: Open the debugger, and load a page with an issue on it in any environment. Look at the timeline of incoming resources, not just for how long the total takes but also all the other times. You will learn a lot if you haven't done this yet. It will be much more informative than anything we can tell you.

Second, once an issue is loaded, right click on almost anything in the page (description, title, whatever) and select "Inspect Element". Look at how many layers deep you are in the HTML.

I also find it useful to Save the Web Page (Complete) once it's all done rendering, then load it from disk with the network tab loaded in the debugger. It can give a quick & dirty read on how much time it takes just to render the page, separate from all network and server-side code issues.

I have a bit of a pet theory that a lot of modern slowdown on the web is simply how much of the web is literally dozens and dozens of DOM layers deep in containers that are all technically resizeable (even though it is always going to have one element in it, or could be fixed in some other simple way), so the browser layout engine is stressed to the limit because of all the nested O(n) & O(n log n) stuff going on. (It must not be a true O(n^2) because our pages would never load at all, but even the well-optimized browser engines can just be drowned in nodes.) I don't have enough front-end experience to be sure, but both times I took a static snapshot of a page for some local UI I had access to that was straight-up 2+ seconds to render from disk, I was able to go in and just start slicing away at the tags to get a page that was virtually identical (not quite, but close enough) that rendered in a small fraction of a second, just with HTML changes.

My guess is that fixing the network issues will be a nightmare, because the 5 Whys analysis probably lands you at Conway's Law around #4 or #5. But, assuming you also have a client-side rendering issue (I don't use JIRA Cloud (yet) but I can vouch that the server product does), you may be able to get some traction just by peeling away an engineer to take a snapshot of the page and see what it takes to produce a page that looks (nearly) identical but renders more quickly. That will not itself be a "solution" but it'll probably provide a lot of insight.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22889975
It only is that way because we make that way. There's no law in the Universe dictating that people are spendable, it's part of a system, a myth we created and live on.

Don't get too cocky against someone that has a more humane view of what's valuable to be human. Get a grip that reality has very many shades of grey.
I wrote a rebuttal with sources but on second thought, I think you make a good point. I should look at the data more and revisit my stance.
Gitlab + Emacs org-mode + disqus

the speed of writing of Emacs, with the reliability of a static code generator.

of course it has code highlights... and you can create images with plantuml.

to be honest I distrust developers that decide to blog on medium...why would you limit your audience inside a paywall like medium, linked in, etc. ?

when the greatest software such as linux and emacs are "free as in freedom".
I've had renders cost $50,000! Or CTO was less than amused
3 Life Lessons from my 20s
I imagine the prospect of being able to play with genuinely unbelievably good equipment has to help when recruiting - e.g. think of the amount of physics, signal processing, aerodynamics, mechanical engineering, materials science etc. used to blow up a plane 50 miles away in a modern active radar guided missile.
I asked this question back in 2014 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243) hoping to start something myself. It's now 2021 and I still have nothing to show but failed attempts. Looking through the list of businesses from 2014 and a vast majority of them look like they are still active which is great! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It is tougher to find the time these days with 2 kids, but I am setting myself the goal of $25K from non hour based work this year. Well done to all of you that have succeeded. To all of us dreamers, this could be the year!
So what's your business exactly? Can you be a bit more concrete what your smart contracts are, what problem they solve?