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I disagree. Most of S5 so far has been personal stories, not space opera. I'm still finding it entertaining, but I wouldn't recommend the show to anyone on the basis of season 5.
>You have people complaining and asking for recusal. It's negative publicity and a hindrance to corrupt acts.

It's hard to look at the past decade or two and think there was a hinderance to corrupt acts. Sure, people complain but rich people got their tax breaks, Wall St. gets friendly policy, and mega corps get bailed out. The system is clearly working for those involved.
Way back in the day (late 70's) I worked on VAX systems for a large automaker whose management sincerely believed if you weren't using some monster from IBM you really weren't doing much important and thus there was never enough funding to go around to make sure everyone in the VAX group had a terminal on their desk. In my group there was some real status of having your own VT-100 on your desk and I still have the b/w photo of me at my desk the day I got mine.
Poll: Have you disabled LinkedIn notifications?
I'm about to start fundraising for my startup. Technical recruiters I've talked to estimate that 80-90% of developers are unreachable via LinkedIn.

I'd like some data on what percentage of Hacker News readers have disabled messaging or notifications on LinkedIn so that they are unreachable on LinkedIn.

I'd really appreciate it if you would answer the poll below for me.
I'm reachable via LinkedIn
I'm NOT reachable via LinkedIn or don't have a LinkedIn account
Hiring Executives and Bad Advice
I cannot speak specifically for J&J, but by the number of adenovirus licensing agreements I've seen for Oxford, Sputnik V, etc. I would guess that existing facilities can be converted to produce a viral-vector vaccine much easier than an mRNA vaccine. From there I would suspect that the scaling issues are mostly related to QA and repeated cycles of ensuring what you're producing is actually exactly what you intended to produce.
Agreed that this is a cool idea, but I really hope they don't add voting. Leave the upvote/downvote noise on social media.
I didn’t go into great detail of the reasons, but the jobserver doesn’t address the problem except for the most trivial cases—the core problem is that you can’t cross to a recursive make invocation via multiple edges.

This is fairly common in larger projects, so you end up having to do some hackery to manually sequence make invocations if you want to use recursive make (which is pretty awful).

Honestly, for large projects, Make is an insane choice, notwithstanding the fact that people who are sufficiently savvy at Make can sometimes make it work. (If your tools are bad, you can make up for it with extra staff time and expertise.)
> "Never on the Internet have so few worked so hard to bring you so much in so little time."

Gotta love the editorializing right there.
So the important questions then are 1) is it actually different? and 2) if it is different, is it different in a way that prevents or mitigates a bubble? I could see things like COVID and Fed interventionalism changing the dynamics such that a bubble is harder or less damaging when it pops. I could also see the opposite. I just don't know, and I was entering my freshman year of HS in 2000 so I don't really remember what it was like to be working and invested in the market at that point.
"catalyst" in hebrew :)
But it mostly was, no? Apart from Naomi repeatedly going out of the ship to signal with lights.

Or am I missing something?
How much did you lose?
yeah, we're agreeing, I was mainly trying to avoid people derailing about proof of work throughput and bandwidth.

a much more scalable private distributed ledger with kind of shitty chain security would be good enough to satisfy this industry.

would be faster than now, and faster than bitcoin, and brokers wouldn't have to put up collateral for multiple business days.
Hyperlocal Zoning: Enabling Growth by Block and by Street
Using React for a "landing page" does not even sound cool, it sounds absurd technically.
With real estate, you may have a place to sleep even if it's market value goes to 0.
Feedbin[1], my feed reader of choice, has that. They give you a random email address that you can use to receive newsletters in your feed and automatically have them tagged.

[1] https://feedbin.com/
Saves the extra drive to daycare as well as the stress of not meeting the pickup time (most daycare charges very high after-hours rates to discourage this; I’ve seen $50/15 minutes).
I don't understand why Huawei is suddenly the networking devil when it comes to 5G when it didn't (and still doesn't) bother anyone when most of the GPON/EPON/XGPON/NGPON hardware is full Huawei...

I bet the fibre connection to the not-Huawei 5G towers is going to be Huawei anyway.
It's not a claim, it's a reference to a reddit trope which is funny because it's technically true (i.e. by construction most options do indeed expire worthless), but so incredibly stupid and naive.

Obviously the idea that it's generally better to buy or sell options (or any asset) is idiotic - if the asset is mispriced, you trade in the direction to take advantage of the mispricing.

I assumed this was the joke my parent comment was making as well.
Looking at the European landscape, venues are required to make trade & price data freely available 15 minutes after publication - it'd be an interesting project to build something to aggragate these.
Starlink has a 40 millisecond latency and it goes to space and back and then it goes through all of the additional routing issues you're talking about.

So I think you may be over estimating how much latency is inherent in the network.

It may not be that I have a low latency connection...maybe you have an exceptionally high latency connection.

Maybe your apartment building has issues with the wiring?

You should really call your landlord. You're really missing out on how cool Stadia is.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsi...
The Big List of Personal Websites
The thing that kills me is the handful of responses of people defending it by basically saying "people will go to the movies after covid", without the context of where AMC was at before covid. Even during it's best years, AMC wasn't worth what people think it will be. It's just a complete lack of reasoning.
Coincidentally, just last night I was reading an issue of Byte magazine from 1976. It was telling people how to do just this: Computer graphics from scratch.

Except, back then "from scratch" meant soldering together wires and transistors and such.

The big prize was displaying a vector Starship Enterprise on an oscilloscope.
There is something to it.

There is the whole issue with child freedom, where my parent's generation would roam the entire city from the age of 10, I had to constantly report where I was, and these days kids can't go to school by themselves untill they are 16 or something. They are super-sheltered.

This 'zero risk' 'stranger danger' attitude is somehow synonimous with not know who anyone is, and being afraid of them
a build server recompiling multiple branches over and over in response to changes.
On the one hand, I hate that as a user. On the other hand, I'd love to know how many people actually read a story.

I haven't found a good solution, but I just suck it up and serve the full text anyways
Peer-to-peer sync for mobile, web, IoT, and server
This was me. I lost money on GME betting on the fact that more shorted shares still had to be covered.

The short squeeze wasn't a complete failure. It happened, it was just much smaller than many predicted. I still wonder what would've happened if Robinhood didn't shut off demand by preventing people from buying shares. My investment thesis didn't foresee this happening. I don't think anyone did.

The other large part of the problem was that a lot of people, including myself, were going off of stale short interest data. Updated estimates for GME were reported to be 39% of float vs +100% on 1 Feb [1]. Hedge funds pay for more accurate data which us retail investors don't get visibility on.

It's over for now, but please bear this in mind when talking to people that may have lost money on this. Some people did some research, knew the risk and allocated money they were willing to lose. I learned a lot along the way, it might make some hedge funds think twice about aggressively shorting a stock, and it was just plain fun to be part of it.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-01/gamestop-...

Edit: updated short interest data stats and link.
It is one per dev, and in reality it is at least a couple - I have 4 of them for example. The product itself is a beast too.
As a long time fan of a soccer club that endured a decade of humiliation followed by success, the reason is that you can't tell the real fans from the fairweather fans during the good times.

So the bonding stories are often the ones where we reminisce about bad times and about players who were marginal in the league but memorable to us. Also the judas story works nicely too, that's always some guy who has to make a living and he ends up joining the rivals.

If you're going to find out who really loves the club, because you know tribalism, you can't talk about the time you won the treble. You have to talk about that time you schlepped your friends across the country only to see them get reversed 3-2. Or when someone does yet another shitpost asking for the all time XI, you pull out that obscure defender they got on loan who was terrible and played only 5 games. Or that time you did a pitch invasion thanks to a cult player scoring an equaliser in an otherwise bad game that people were already leaving.
Not even the lack of people holding? Tons of people were selling throughout the 1/29 settlement date for that short interest, there wasn't an unavailability of shares. If you weren't one of the people selling then, I'm not seeing what would make it better in the future.

edit: we may be talking about different things here. You're suggesting that if there are still funds very exposed on shorts in the info disclosed 2/9, then there's a potential for trying to make the stock rally again later this month? Vs that anything is already due this month? (I'm just skeptical still because the turnover is so high - I doubt the remaining interest has as high exposure cause I would guess they got in at higher prices.)
German Nuns Sold Orphaned Children to Sexual Predators: Report
Here's a commercial RNA encapsulation system:

https://www.precisionnanosystems.com/platform-technologies/p...
Probably timely delivery of certain goods. It’s an hour across the Channel at Dover by ferry. But probably 10-12 hours if not more to Ireland from further along the channel. If you’re driving from Northern Europe that’s a lot more driving past Calais which adds more time.
This only works for people whose “life” only consists of chores.

Will the company pay someone else to take my wife on a 2 week romantic get away?
The first place I worked, the grunts got teletypes but the boss had an ADM-3A.

Later on, I used a lot of different VT100 compatibles, plus genuine VT100s/VT10xs and (on occasion) ADM-3As. All connected to PDP11's of one sort or another.

Personally, the nicest one I ever used was a Pericom [0], about the only model that I'd rate above the actual VT100. It had a few annoyances related to imperfect VT100 emulation, but it has the sharpest screen ever (there was some sort of a fine black mesh over the tube that enhanced the display).

[0] http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?34615-Pericom-7800...
Give it five years
A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-The-Wild in 2020
Restoration periods are always really fun. The Napoleonic wars were ending, which meant peace and prosperity.

By the 1820s you get into the electrical age, with Faraday. <a href="https://youtu.be/6Ns5tRyvoHY?t=92">First electric motor, 1822, Fraday.</a><br> Now you're into the Steampunk aesthetic.
Not a great experiment to say the least, especially in English football where the socio-economic bond between fans in cities is stronger based on region and class structure. I was hoping the research they did would include some of this data, but it was completely missing from the research and the article.

To me the class structure as it relates to English football clubs is far more important and deeper than than just the simple "identity fusion" and "dysphoric
events" the article puts forth as the key bonding elements of football fans and their clubs
> they do use hedge funds to balance their portfolio

OTPP invest in hedge funds. But they aren't one themselves. Hedge funds are a specific creature. Legally. And in terms of how they trade.
In 2017, my hometown Atlanta Falcons (an American football team) blew a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl 51. It was the most stunning high-profile choke in the history of the National Football League.

In the past few years since, the team has continued to develop a reputation for choking. We have lost a number of high-profile games, where the predictive models suggested a 99% probability of winning near the end. Yet we still found a way to lose at the last second.

During this time, I have observed that fanbase has become absolutely toxic. To the point where I don't even enjoy talking with other Falcons fans anymore, and find that many Falcons fans tend to feel the same way. Our fandom is an isolating, silent shame wrapped in a blanket of bitter denial and deflection.

The fanbases of other NFL teams, such as the Cleveland Browns or Buffalo Bills, are known for being charming and loveable for their loyalty in the face of decades of futility. But this has not been the outcome for our fanbase, in the face of sudden and abrupt disaster.

This is just one counter-anecdote. But I wonder if there are "kinds" or "degrees" of losing, whose nuance matters? Or kinds and degrees of fan culture, prior to the bonding loss?

Or maybe the whole thing is just nonsense. I know there are studies linked here, but cultural anthropology is borderline-pseudoscience.
Some RSS readers implement something similar. I currently use nextcloud news, that does this: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/pull/563

Basically, for feeds where I have "full text" enabled, it fetches the article page with mozilla's "reader mode" implementation and extracts the full text.

It isn't really usable with aggregators such as planet kde/gnome, though.
Applying the law equally to all has value of it's own.
That just means they get to make bad decisions faster.
I'm a huge fan of The Expanse, Atomic Rockets, and Kerbal Space Program, so I felt like I should have loved Children of a Dead Earth too. But try as I might, I just couldn't find it fun.

I have a feeling that if the game controls were slightly more abstract, it might be better. Less "burn 100m/s retrograde" and more "intercept target", "pull alongside target", etc.

But part of it might just be that realistic spaceship combat isn't very exciting; it's not conducted at human-relevant distances and timescales, it's all over in the blink of an eye, and it's hard to judge whether your salvo of nuclear missiles will beat their swarm of laser drones.

The Expanse does a much better job of making ship-to-ship combat interesting, but I think they only manage that by ignoring some of the more pedantic hard sci-fi rules (stealth ships in S1E4 "CQB"), and they contrive battle settings (Thoth Station in S2E2 "Doors & Corners") that are more interesting than CoaDE's open space.

Still glad CoaDE was made, and it's worth a few bucks for the experience. :)
You are speaking from hindsight. Just a few months ago the smart money was on the mRNA vaccines not completing phase-3 before some of the more conventional vaccines that we already have the ability to produce in large quantities.

That mRNA completed phase-3 trials first was a big shock to everyone. That they are significantly better than the conventional vaccines is also a big shock. If we knew about these shocks 1 year ago we would have invested a lot more money in mRNA (and none at all in all the other vaccines - some failed trails, some are in progress, and the rest are are not as good) and had more manufacturing as a result.
bcrypt is NOT a key derivation function. It IS a "password hashing function". PBKDF2, Argon2, and scrypt are both.
Yah it could've been something else. :)

I'm not getting treatment because life has never been great by being disfigured from the wrong puberty and while remembering the conversion therapy with everything else that happened back then.

I'm now somewhat curious if your understanding of not having free will makes you okay with death as well? I've had a few conversations with my Oncologist and most patients of his are really fearful of death.

I personally think under different circumstances life would've been amazing to know free will is an illusion in my younger years for also having a stronger mentality of protecting myself from people I wanted to love but were really ill in a controlling way of thinking choices are everything. That's why I think understanding free will is an illusion allows oneself to have a better life even if everything is fated. Since that added information will make a person be able to realize how they need to adjust when they can, improve realization of why others are acting ill towards them and maybe even mental health would really benefit from it. I think that because I was surrounded by people that would sit & pray and well that never did anything lol.
And logging all of those unit tests associated with all of those builds (and rolling over those logs with TRACE level debugging).

Every build gets fully tested at maximum TRACE logging, so that anyone who looks at the build / test later can search the logs for the bug.

8TBs of storage is a $200 hard drive. Fill it up, save everything. Buy 5 hard drives, copy data across them redundantly with ZFS and stuff.

1TBs of SSD storage is $100 (for 4GBps) to $200 (for 7GBps). Copy data from the hard drive array on the build server to the local workstation as you try to debug what went wrong in some unit test.
Wouldn't our science just be magic to our ancestors, too? I hope in 100 years there are things that seem impossible to me now and I enjoy when the fiction I consume reflects that.
Building something like this would definitely boost user engagement, which is something we've talked about wanting to do. I just worry that it could turn Pairagraph into something adversarial. At its best, we believe Pairagraph is a place for exploratory conversation rather than debate.

It might be interesting to allow readers to vote on who they'd like to hear from in the future... Maybe that's a way to maintain a high level of dialogue quality while still allowing users to have a say about who and what is discussed on the site. What do you think about that?
> $100 to list an app on the App Store and $50-$100 per update

It's worth noting that for genuine developers this will incentivize less regular app releases, and push the barrier to entry to be in the app store higher, neither of which is really desirable for a 'trendy' app store.

Really the only way I see is for Apple to get better at moderating the apps & reviews on their own app store. I mean, that is part of the deal. if you run a market, you need to make sure the people selling in it are trading fairly, otherwise people will stop coming to your market.

With regard to paying for this... well, Apple made $55B profit (not revenue, profit!) in 2019[1] (couldn't find any figures for 2020). I'm sure they'll find some money somewhere.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...
Experiment. If you desire evidence-based management, you have to seek out case studies (and actually consider them, not discard them when brought to you like one manager did to me, "Show me the evidence." "Ok." "Whatever") or run your own experiments. Even if you do seek out case studies, you will still want to run your own experiments because what works for X may not work for you.

Find a low impact project or a project that can absorb a potential setback and try it out. If it fails, you at least gave it a shot. If it succeeds, promote the idea among other teams and projects. You can always apply a sanity check on ideas before trying them, just like in other things.

"I heard that having a foosball table in offices increases productivity by 25%."

"That doesn't sound right, but we can try to create better break areas."
Stuck on loading screen on desktop Firefox (OSX).

Three JS is cool, and probably has more features now than Flash did back in 2010. But an article like this makes it clear that 3D motion graphics for the web are going to be the domain of software developers and not designers or artists.

Is there a GUI-based authoring tool for three JS?
> that was once only available to large blue chip companies with access to 1000s of high skilled engineers

Back in the old days, THE CLOUD came from IBM or CompuServe. Now it comes from Amazon and Microsoft. Big deal. It's still way more expensive than buying hardware, and now every programmer also has to work as an incompetent sysadmin and DBA.

I guess that if you see a spike in traffic, AWS will let you bankrupt yourself from the bills rather than take your site offline for an hour.
Apple should add a new policy which would amount to refunding all the money to buyers for obvious scams like the iwatch typing apps with fake reviews. They could keep say 30% so that their aren't incentivized to not do so. If earnings for fake apps get "confiscated" or reimbursed we'd see most fake apps disappear overnight.
3 Days That Stopped the World – Al Jazeera Investigations
Everyone should learnt CPR in spite only a few can do heart surgery.

[Perhaps you can find a better analogy.]

In each field you will find people that is smarter or more specialized than you, or even people that is smarter and more specialized than you.

Anyway, some knowledge can be useful as pert of your work or as a hobby. Try learning and making small projects. There are a lot of interesting things that are possible to do with some simple programs.

I recommend to also learn Excel (or the free versions), it's a very powerful tool.
Not OP, but I took it to mean Bezos is benefiting from HGH. He looks younger now than in 1997. I mean that he looks like an awesome robot version of 1997 Bezos.

I have no idea his health regimen, but it does seem like lots of rich people are looking awfully young these days. I can’t afford HGH so I haven’t investigated whether it’s actually that great for anti-aging.
So, would you volunteer to be deliberately infected with a disease that might or might not kill you in order to save many other lives?
> it always seems like what people really want is just a well organized and reasonably trustworthy third party who can handle this stuff.

And also a third party to sue when things go south, or to correct errors (at scale, humans always make errors!), or to be subpoenaed to provide information, etc.

These are all advantages in some contexts, and disadvantages in others.

But those specific examples of when blockchain is better should probably also be better because there's no one to sue, no changes to make ever, and an information-hiding advantage.
Even if Trump had done that, he would have invested in the wrong vaccines. This is NOT incompetence, nobody had any reason to think mRNA would be the way to go 9+ months ago when the money was allocated.
The NSA needs to hack into everything. Huawei everywhere makes it difficult to do so.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/nsa-hacked-...