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> during the first year of grad school I realized that AI, as practiced at the time, was a hoax.

I had a similar realization during grad school about a lot of the popular topics at the time (early 2000s). I even used to call them "the hoaxes of computer science". Things like grid computing or formal methods of software engineering had a lot of resources behind them, but nobody was able to use the results. Instead, very different formats of these ideas are what took root: cloud computing and advanced type systems.

> the low end eats the high end: that it's good to be the "entry level" option, even though that will be less prestigious, because if you're not, someone else will be, and will squash you against the ceiling.

I wish every grad student had been forced to memorize this statement. Build something useable, not clever.
Ask HN: How do you price Product or Service?
Dumb terminal has more to do with if the server can inject code on the client than the processing capabilities of the client.

For instance HTML only is a dumb client, HTML + JS is a smart client.

Even back in the day, dumb terminals could have pretty respectable processing power.
The following links to a related post linking to an article about app by Fastcompany

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26151378
I mean I have to deal with this crap at $dayjob but I genuinely can't believe of the terrible code I see that borrows a resource (connection, transaction, file handle) and then only the happy path gives it back. I desperately wish that languages would make this a compile error if all code paths don't lead to the resource being freed.

The only thing that should ever stop you from returning a resource is a malicious scheduler.
1500 a day. Depends on the exchange rate at the time and how many days you wanna work, but it was over $500k at the time. Obviously you can earn similar or more as a high level in FANNG and the initital grant in the US is a lot better. 800-1000 is a lot more typical.

Your salary is pretty hot though. I traded in contracting to be a CTO on a lot less than you are, but I got some lottery ticket stocks and will probably see us through an IPO, so feels like that's worth something.
> You don't know how Bloomberg obtained their evidence

Not do we even know what their evidence actually is.

All we are left with is ‘trust bloomberg’.
http://www.nullmodem.com/DB-9.htm
Right. Forgot to mention that earlier. IIRC, two key useful features missing were the ability to import and use third-party components[1], and any built-in database-aware controls functionality[2]. They stripped out those two for the two Explorer versions.

[1] That is a key feature of such 4GL-like RAD tools such as VB and Delphi, and a major reason for their success, coming somewhat
close to the concept and holy grail of software reuse, like Software ICs/components, first propounded ages ago by Brad Cox:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Cox

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_component

Adding a link for hardware ICs, the parent concept, which is also quite interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit

[2] Removing database controls was another bad idea, because so many apps, even command-line or GUI utilities (not just line-of-business or enterprise apps, need DB support in the programming tool used to develop them.

So they are restricting the ability to evaluate two very important Delphi features which can swing a buy/no-buy decision.
Note that as far as I could tell, this is a tool to check which unexpected AWS modifications can be done from API keys that you do make public in the first place. It doesn't "hack" an account per se.

So for example if you've created some IAM API keys and embedded in an app for example, and you (incorrectly) believe the permissions only grant the app to fetch some static media files from an S3 bucket, the tool can discover incorrect configurations that would allow someone who extracted the key to change permissions of the bucket.
AH! Glad I'm only able to afford used cars... oh wait...
What's the major downside of parking 1% of your money in a volatile asset that may or may not yield great returns? (Am long BTC)
If you don’t trust your own gov, wether because they’re a bunch of crooks or you’re doing smth fishy, it’s useful.
I am definitely an aficionado of distilled petroleum products although I wouldn't recommend sniffing gasoline.
Bitcoin is a group of technologies, the one that creates Bitcoin's "value" is a digital implementation of scarcity. Usually digital things are easy to copy infinitely, so Bitcoin's implementation of scarcity is one of its core innovations. Scarce things inherently have value in society, beyond the material themselves, because we primarily make transactions (trade) using scarce things. In other words, scarce things are useful simply by being scarce. So if you take there's value in something being purely digital, and decentralized, then Bitcoin has value through its implementation of scarcity.
This browser sounds interesting, but it collects browsing history. While it claims this is kept anonymous, I would think it would be anything but anonymous if you were not exceedingly careful how you used the browser.

From the apps privacy policy (https://insightbrowser.com/privacy):

" Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browsing history and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our App. However, this information is anonymous and is never linked to your personal information."
The moment your argument for paying 0.01% taxes is "it's legal", you've fallen pretty low for the quality of your arguments.
My interpretation of "growth" in that context is "incremental progress towards the next promotion or performance rating bucket". And it doesn't say that it doesn't happen without feedback, it effectively says that regular feedback helps it happen faster.
Ah so the technical track equivalent of the first real manger grade then.
> `a = a + b` and `a += b` are completely different operations

Getting off-topic, but IMO that’s a major design flaw in the language. Some others agree, e.g. https://twitter.com/joepolitz/status/1304992696293978112
They don't just select from the population at random from these studies. For example the study excludes those over the age of 85 or those that are immunocompormised. You can see more details on the exclusion criteria listed in seciton 5.2 of the Pfizer study: https://pfe-pfizercom-d8-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-09/C4591...
> If you zoom in on the Upper East Side, there's a tiny corner that's not rich, or at least wasn't in 1993. It's called Yorkville, and that was my new home.

From my apartment at 83rd & 1st, it still isn't particularly rich. I thought it'd change with the new subway line opening but I haven't noticed much of a difference.
I distinctly remember helping out a friend many many years ago, whose Windows box would simply lock up as soon as it had booted into the GUI. Probably around Windows 98.

Some random program had dumped temp files in the "Desktop" folder to the tune of 60000+ files. Even booting in safe mode would crash since it would still try to render the desktop icons.
> Being able to simply `gem 'devise'` and have full authentication at your hands (including views, email templates, etc) is a godsend.

I'm on the other end of the spectrum.

I mean, I see the benefit of such "roll X quick by adding a gem" for a proof of concept, a demo or even an MVC.

But even for the latter, it breaks down rapidly. Such gems bring their own libraries. They force you to "do it their way". A gem like devise comes with its own addons (omniauth) that paint you even quicker into a corner.

I've consulted and developed at many Rails codebase where most of the problems were caused by years of development on top of such gems. A weak, wobbly base, and the entire castle built on top of that.
Where 90% of the devise features were unused or worked around. Where more code was present to customise and work around devise-isms, AASM-weirdness, CanCan-troubles, than a complete "roll your own from scratch" would have ever caused.

So, my "devise advise" always is: sure, use it to get your product to market rapidly. But be sure to pull it out and replace it with a focused, fitting architecture, sooner rather than later.

Such gems fit very well in the problematic development-workflow where one "searches for an existing gem which offers some version of Foo" rather than "figuring out how we want to do Foo, then look for a gem that does it our way".
> Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. Dating these beads to the pre-colonial era is thus very significant.

Vikings were there way before that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland
Does the autofill work well? I was considering trying it out, but, unlike 1Password and Lastpass, there are really no reviews of Dropbox Passwords anywhere.
I agree with you overall - in my post, I was trying to accept the premise of the overall safety model: "the ML will break but as long as the driver is paying attention it's OK." This was out of an effort to be fair to Comma, as, to your point, this is the overall state of the industry.

I disagree, however that code style rules and procedures amount to hoop-jumping, as not every failure mode is the same (especially if you do accept the driver-attention / driver-in-control premise). An unexpected failure at the control layer (especially the control override layer) is a different class of failure to an unexpected direction command from the ML model, for example.
Discussion of the addictive qualities of social media often strikes me as bizarre.

Where is examination of the person doing the scrolling? Isn't the flaw there?

(The following applies to adults):

Ostensibly, the person should be allowed to spend their time as they like if they're engaging in legal activity. If people thought that engaging in social media was bad for them, they would stop. Are we really saying that people cannot stop using social media? Are we saying that people don't think it's bad for them?

If people can't stop doing an activity that is definitely hurting them, don't they need professional help? Do all these social media users need professional help?

What amount of time on social media is sufficient for it to have a negative effect? Is it anything besides zero?

To be meta: if hackernews is social media and social media is bad, are we all hurting ourselves?
I had a funny day dream too, I was futzing around debugging some damned terminal escape codes which causes tearing when I do backspaces on some systems (specifically when the line needs to wrap..). This might make the parent feel a little ill, but in this era when we rebuild "modern" versions of everything, why has nobody updated terminal escape codes? Specifically, something that looked like a trimmed down HTML and CSS seems like it would have incredible resonance in today's world. Anyone know of a project like that?
> I wonder if Bitcoin will ever be forced to bend towards an inflationary monetary policy controlled by government like entities? It is code and code and always be changed. If it is so successful it becomes necessary to co-opt it into the existing system.... weird stuff.

You can change the code, but it's up to the miners to actually run that code. Not saying it's impossible, but that's a big ask for a controversial change like that. Maybe someday if the mining is even more centralized than it currently is.
India is considered its own subcontinent - by every definition. It features a lot of diversity in its own right.

The land bridge from Alaska into Russia means Americans are Asians.
Not reality, but definitely the media we consume. It's no wonder those Search results skew left when most news articles do too.
> - they can afford to skip Cookies because they have elaborate fingerprinting solutions

This is really just a special case of your last point. As far as I know, there is nothing cookie specific in the GDPR.
Uh, my paper dollar is backed by the might of the US government and the US economy. It's a lot more than just "shared acceptance". Countries couldn't just switch off the US dollar reserve currency for international trade without massive economic repercussions, which is why no country or set of countries has developed a viable alternative to the dollar for a global reserve currency. It's not like China/Russia wouldn't like to, they have no choice.

The EU came the closest, but no one outside of Europe has wanted Euros since the Greek economic crisis. Hell a large chunk of internal European trade is still done in dollars on the back-end.

On the stick side, under Obama the US stepped up the various mechanisms such that we can cut off trade denominated in dollars on a whim to anyone we want, that's part of how sanctions work. If we (the US) decides we don't want a country to be able to trade internationally, we just cut them off from converting into dollars at the exchanges. There are no economically viable ways around this at present. Just ask Iran.

Bitcoin however, will collapse the moment enough of the crowd loses the faith. It'll go on for a while because it's the new hotness, and some people will get lucky and rich, but at the end of the day it's an ultimately worthless commodity (unless you're trying to avoid government regulation over financial transfers) that exists as long as world governments allow it to exist.

Sure, if theoretically some critical mass of the population all collectively decided Bitcoin was the future it would be, but right now we can't get a critical mass of US citizens to wear masks during a pandemic that's killed hundreds of thousands. So I wouldn't hold out too much hope for pan-Bitcoinism.
I think it's important that PG published this essay this week.

And that he included projects that were wildly successful (YC) as well as projects that didn't get the traction he wanted (Bel). To me it shows two things: 1) that some of the most successful people make miscalculations about what the world needs. 2) that a few of them, like PG, are courageous enough to admit that.

Personally, reading PG's essays and then going through YC years later changed the course of my life. That is, the essays are one way to change the world for the better, and they are one he's very good at. I'm glad he's writing them again.

For any one new to tech or startups, they will introduce you to new ways of thinking, and save you from a lot of mistakes.
>I did not see any evidence of malicious intent towards our users but a genuine belief we were enabling them to be more productive.

The Banality of Evil, this is just a version of "We were just following orders"
> you can choose not to use it

What's more, you can even choose not to understand it. An easy way to do that is to choose not to work with other people's Python code.

Don't apply for Python jobs, and in a non-Python job, dodge tasks that involve touching Python code that contains constructs you don't wish to understand.
The funny thing is that the furniture really isn't that cheap. I built a couple 3-drawer desks for a couple grand kids (48 x 16 inch top) out of solid wood with 1/4 inch plywood around the drawer unit, and only spent $130 on materials (this was at the beginning of the school year). Most flat-pack desks you see are starting around $350 or higher, for garbage board.
Can someone explain why you'd ever want to run this in the non-dryrun mode?

I understand that if you have these problems you've already effectively granted those permissions anyway but actually executing them before someone finds them lowers the bar quite a bit for other baddies to attack.
Isn't this the same as the algo-driven placement of HN stories and comments?
> Large worlds suffered from very poor performance because there were tens of thousands of files in a single folder.

It was using subdirs for the chunks, two levels iirc, one was chunkX % 36, the next level chunkY % 36. So there weren't that many files per directory. The slowness came from the overhead of opening, read/write and closing so many files all the time.

> Some random modder basically just put multiple chunks into one file so that each file is 2MB.

Almost, it wasn't limited by file size, it was putting 32*32 chunks into one file that was similar to a simple file system. The format of the individual chunks within that file stayed almost the same. Yet it performed much better.

NBT is indeed a little weird but fairly straight forward overall, I guess designing and implementing it just scratched an itch. It was a hobby project after all.
But clearly they don't, because you can still smell it...

Part of that will be because the fan doesn't run before you get into the vehicle... And part of it is because activated carbon absorbs only some of the smell-producing chemicals, and human noses are rather sensitive to even tiny amounts of stuff in the air.
In trying to derive spacetime from quantum field theory, some working theories show that minimum "energy" fields that are highly entangled with each other are "near" each other. That gives you locality, therefore space. That is, locality arises in the model from certain kinds of entanglement.

Better explanation here: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2016/07/18/space-em...
It's not the ignorant thoughts which are considered wrongthink nowadays, but reasonable opinions that don't toe the line on controversial topics.
First Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf
Out of curiosity, what are the European alternatives to GSuite?
Thanks for making me laugh. Kind of reminds me how "weak hands" swayed by WSB, bought GME just before its share value tanked
I unironically love the shit out of this and all cyberdecks. They tug at my inner 13 year old self's nostalgic heart strings.

> Reject Modernity, Embrace RS232 with a DE-9 Connector. Charge over USB-C.

I'm sold, take my money.
What happens if a software update goes bad?
I'm old enough to remember American Republicans cancelling French Fries and country singers because of the Iraq war.
Masayoshi Son Just Pushed SoftBank Shares Past Dot-Com Peak
same story here! Happy with it since.
Bitwarden is open source too!
Awesome, thank you. I just got a steel stone because I am pretty sure it makes more sense given how many pizzas I make at a time and one of those wooden paddles (I expect I can make do with a cookie sheet for removing the pizza at the end and the "stone" is already expensive).

I've been making pizza often since I was five, for many years weekly for dozens of people, and the center of the bottom is always the hardest to get cooked nicely without burning the top.

If this fixes that I can maybe avoid prebaking the crusts, that was my workaround previously. This sounds way better!
Show HN: Neovim plugin that helps preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Thankfully, PC Gaming strangely hasn't been dominated by this phenomenon, despite EA's, Activision's, and Epic's best efforts. Fortnite is addiction-tuned F2P casinowear, and it's done gangbusters, but the industry hasn't managed to copy that formula with great success.
Glad to see that Reason magazine has made it to hacker news. Like Slate Star Codex this is what I consider one of the best researched and most thought through publications
A straightforward implementation certainly would have that problem. You have to put a decent amount of effort in to reduce query count to fill a nested query graph.
Your cat is an ally making you adopt best practices by giving you a trial by fire. Your cat is red team.
Which is why fiat conversion will eventually be heavily regulated. People forget private gold ownership was illegal for decades of the 20th century.
I don't believe anybody can intuitively "visualize" an atom which leads to accurate predictions, especially the electron cloud and it's collapse. Atoms which manage to stay isolated for long enough are not even localized in space.
I actually avoided transactions in MSSQL when I could because it escalates locks real quick. Which is a death knell for a busy system.
I just did it. Exported to CSV in lastpass and simply imported it in bitwarden. No problems. search bitwarden's help for a guide.
One point as a researcher working in a central bank and studying state-of-the art macroeconomic theory, is the absolute conviction that some crypto holders have that society is rotten to the core and that the financial industry (and for that matter the broader well established large cap economy) is a malfunctioning/rotten machine only benefiting the 1%.

I mean reading journals on monetary policy transmission, central banking, and finance in general, it is an extremely complex arena (understanding the global economy might be the most complex man made "game" to try to understand). And those researchers will readily admit faults and shortcomings of our current theories. I never ever see any statements from researchers that carries the same strength of conviction about any of the aforementioned topics compared to the crypto crowd, whatsoever.

Some perspective might lend itself useful.
Indeed. Most discussions I've had other than on reddit and similar platforms have tended to be very pleasant and rational. It is possible to discuss something with someone who holds completely different opinions on the topic in such a way that everyone walks out of the discussion understanding it a bit better than before.

How this flips around into the mirror-world that is social media, is beyond my understanding. Either people who discuss on large platforms and those that do it offline or in more personal online communities are two distinct groups of people with little overlap, or some magic switch just flips in peoples heads when they put their hands on a keyboard.

The media are ultimately just following the market: outrage sells, so they deliver. Sure, we can blame them for abusing their power in cases like these, but more importantly, we should ask the question how they ended up in a position where everyone just blindly trusts what they read in a newspaper.
The analogy is not great, because the f-expr-based Lisp Kernel [0] did arise from a doctoral dissertation, and is far more interesting than Bel. The Lisp world has respect for Shutt's work but not for Graham's, and that's not by accident.

Edit: Hey, I'm just doing what you did. You started this comment thread by both posting a top-level comment, and also starting replies to other folks.

So, uh, have you read Shutt's work on Kernel yet? Or are you just going to play this out based on optics? One of us is shilling for some rich fuck, and the other of us is reading historical academic work.

[0] https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
Do all new cars come equipped with activated carbon filters as standard?
Fascinating. Of all the 'sharp' smells in my environments over the years, diesel exhaust has always been one of the absolute harshest to me. Feels like it's actively damaging my lungs perceptibly in real time. It's the primary reason I keep my car's climate control on internal circulation almost constantly. I flinch whenever I detect the slightest trace.

Maybe I got exposed to a little too much of it as a kid.
IBM ‘Spins Off’ EDiscovery Suite to New Company, Breakwater
I have been puzzling over how to program quadrature decoding with the PIO instructions. Not many chips have quadrature decoding built in.
Coinbase doesn't use Tether to store customer funds, they are straight USD or the BTC/ETH itself. I'm not sure how a "bank run", or heavy withdrawal of USD, would cause any more problems than processing delays.
I stumbled on this brand a few years ago and the couple items of theirs I've bought have held up extremely well, which is quite a rarity in this product space.
Spark Microsystems raises $17.5M for commercialization of wireless tech
I can't answer for the parent comment, but I've configured different appliances over serial cables in datacenters, and in each situation, it would have been more convenient to have had a nice dedicated device like this instead of a big fat "business" laptop.
I switched from Lastpass to 1Password after the first security oops Lastpass had.

Haven't looked back.