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Screw that.

Explain to me step by step how you walk.
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I would not take it personal or as a reflection of your actions. Often times recruiters will get approval from a manager to move forward on a batch of people. People are interviewed usually back-to-back based on peoples schedules. If they find enough people to fill the role and use up all the FTE/contractor slots they had available, then the remaining people would be thanked for applying as a courtesy. They will always schedule more people than they have slots for in the event that some of the candidates turned out to not be a perfect fit.
European parliament is the biggest translation engine in the world. Politicians speak in their home languages because they want soundbites for TV/radio etc. All the paper has long been in English and/or French.
You refer to the activists who successfully protected their quality of life by refusing to let someone else use technology to ruin it.

An apt comparison.
Me personally: manga, retro magazines, papers with colored charts etc. I am still looking for the day when we can read magazines, manga from the past in full vibrant color e-ink platform.

edit: speaking of which I am looking to purchase high quality retro gaming magazines (PC, Playstation 1 in particular). anybody wants to get in touch please reply.
Still, how much energy would it take to print an equal amount of money in the form of banknotes?
AFAIK it's not illegal to run your grill indoors, either. Being legal isn't the same as being a good idea. Ventless fireplaces are also not legal in a lot of places in the US, for good reason.
Ethicists study ethics. Per your example, I would expect an ethicist to be able to study ethics very well. You don't expect a teacher to know everything, or a writer to always speak with perfect eloquence, or a photographer to always take great photos.

I don't understand why someone who studies ethics should behave better, any more than someone who studies the human musculature to be able to lift more weight.
Show HN: Break out of your Spotify bubble with my tastemaker service
I love the Spotify recommendations, but they mostly recommend me the same music all over again. To fight (what a harsh word) this issue I did build 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿™[0] a web service that auto creates unique playlists for your taste, but tries to not recommend you music that you already know.

At the moment there are three available playlists you can subscribe to which are then recalculated every night (4 am - CET, sorry Americans for you it is in the late evening):

- 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀™[1] Analyses your taste and recommends you unknown musicians. 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 100 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡

- 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿™[2] Finds out the producers of your favorite songs and recommends you other songs they worked on. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔

- 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿™[3] Checks your taste and recommends you songs from genres you normally don't listen to 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑜𝑝 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠

Thank you folks for reading until here and maybe also trying my service. Please be patient as it is still in an early phase and I have now clue if the server is strong enough for a lot of users from HN. (Or better: I am quite sure it is not)

All the best from Berlin!

p.S. Yes I claim the ™ symbol to be a symbol for 𝗧aste 𝗠aker

p.p.S. To subscribe to a playlist click the *"Get it on Spotify"-Button, login to your Spotify and allow the access. (Yes I know it requires quite some privileges, but without that it can not gather your taste)

[0] https://tastemaker.cc

[1] https://tastemaker.cc/newcomers

[2] https://tastemaker.cc/producerpower

[3] https://tastemaker.cc/tastebreaker
Of course individual cases happen - I know of a few. I was more thinking about the way corporate parties are depicted in media (Hollywood movies, mostly).

I am French and worked for French, German and US companies (tech) and I never witnessed what was discussed above.

Flights in corporate jets were convenient and everyone was either chatting, or reading, or working. Multiple week travels in great hotels were pleases where people got to know, had dinner and then everyone went to their room.

Parties were parties (including after-parties), some drinking, lots of laughing and that's all.

All this from "general population" parties/travels, to top level ones.

Like I said: I must have been to the wrong parties :)
How do I report this post, especially the last paragraph?!

Edit: Figured it out. Hope he gets banned for it
Sometimes, but not always

Another situation: when I play chess online I'm interacting with people. You can argue they're persuading me about how best to play chess, but that isn't their motive nor is there a set conclusion they're trying to make me reach

You should narrow persuasion from "interaction" to a kind of conversation (such as those found in HN threads), otherwise you could start arguing all information inputs are persuasion regardless of whether the source is human
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As you say, explaining the intracicies of the algorithm is a fools errand. I guess it is more reasonable if you turn it around: these changes have drastic impact on businesses, so there is a duty to behave responsibly in administering them.

If Google really has no idea what the impact of a change will be then it is fairly irresponsible to make that change given the real world harm it can cause. But I suspect in general it does have at least a reasonable idea what the effect of changes will be - that is why it is making them.

So the more reasonable version of this is that they need to submit human interpretable descriptions of the effect of changes based on reasonable evidence and validation of their models.
https://nullonerror.org/2020/12/13/full-saturate-your-bandwi...
Clickable links:

[3] https://tastemaker.cc/tastebreaker

[2] https://tastemaker.cc/producerpower

[1] https://tastemaker.cc/newcomers

[0] https://tastemaker.cc
Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
Did the ruskies slow down after the moon landing too?

I remember watching a great video on their giant (unrealistic) N1 rocket that Russia was trying to create to get to the moon (and elsewhere) with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YscKBzvHBSw

Another good video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklVhRzkVqA

Besides the space-race part, just the pure industrial might of the Soviet Union at the time is quite amazing to even build such a massive rocket, seeing it rolling towards the launcher. Shows the value competition has on society, it's not limited to markets.
> A closer equivalent there to the current game app stores would be always-on licensing servers which used physical dongles - the game stores are running basically as licensing servers. And professionals _hated_ these. Even software-based licensing servers over the LAN is much less common in professional software these days.

While it's true that apps for PC game stores often double as DRM, I don't think that's relevant to a discussion of whether or not Apple should be compelled to allow for third-party app distribution platforms and the "side loading" of apps on iOS.

After all, there is little stopping you from implementing always-on DRM on an iOS app. You'd just have to implement it in the app directly, which is how PC games used to do it before modern platforms became popular. The rise of those platforms (Steam in particular) had a lot to do with the downfall of oft-maligned DRM solutions like SecuROM. Software-embedded DRM tech like Denuvo are still a blight on PC gaming, but they're at least less common than they once were.
> The promises offered by GMO crops seem to almost always fizzle out a few years later, when the dependence on pesticides, herbicides, and GMO seeds increases and output decreases.

Demonstrably false.

> Where are the good examples of GMOs that:

> - Continuously increase yields.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21284-2

> - Lower dependence on further artificial inputs.

Herbicide resistant crops have led to significant growth of no-till agriculture, which lowers fuel usage and decreases the CO2 and NOX footprint for farming. Crops engineered to be resistant to insects have led to less pesticide usage and an increase in insect biodiversity.

> - Don't contaminate nearby crops.

> (In historical cases, Monsanto has been given ownership of crops that their GMO crops have essentially raped through pollination).

Falsehood that is easily disproven using the simple facts of the cases in question. They don't "contaminate" nearby crops. Their pollen may be carried elsewhere, but this has always been the case with plants and so far the anti-GMO factions have been unable to demonstrate an actual harm beyond their own paranoia.

> In a world where not believing climate change will get you crucified in almost any public setting, why do intelligent people continue to let GMOs run rampant?

Perhaps because they actually know how to evaluate scientific data while you seem to be getting your news and information from Greenpeace and other peddlers of bullshit.

While some would like to claim scientists are being reckless in GMO usage and experimentation, they have actually be rather conservative and only focused on a few features and metabolic pathways. We are just starting to see products that move beyond the simple, low-hanging fruit of drought, disease, and insect resistance. Adding salinity resistance, tweaking photosynthesis pathways to be more efficient, and improving nutritional composition are starting to enter more widespread testing and experimentation. With the increased control that CRISPR offers there is going to be a lot more options available for improvement.
I get upgrade fatigue using pip.

It seems like every time I use it, it nags me to update, like now:

WARNING: You are using pip version 20.3.3; however, version 21.0.1 is available.

20.3.3 is from December. In the last 2 months there have been 3 releases.

Then I'll upgrade, and the next time it'll nag me to upgrade again.

So, no, I don't need to update every time I turn around. I need something to give me some peace and quiet, like --disable-pip-version-check-for "6 months".

Which is not at all what the linked-to page was about.

Then again, why didn't the example shell transcript include pip's incessant warning that:

You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 21.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

(I made a venv and installed 9.0.1 to copy&paste those nag lines.)

Was it trimmed off to add artificial suspense?

Seems more useful as an example of justifying why it should be there for sufficiently old pip installations.
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Human medical experimentation has a horrifying history and in living memory alone we have the atrocities during WWII, MK ultra, Tuskegee experiment, past (and ongoing) experiments on aboriginal populations, Operation Whitecoat, the Ohio prison experiments, and the entire pharma industry pre-Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendment but the Beecher paper really drove home how widespread the practice was in regular medical research. Unethical experimentation wasn't the stuff of war crimes, it was a relatively common practice for everyday medical researchers even a few decades ago with dire consequences for medicine.

It's no more elitist than an electrician telling someone that they can't wire their house themselves "because construction and safety organizations have studied this for decades and understand it more than you" when burning down the entire block is a very real possibility.

The consequences of breaches in medical ethics have been dire: to this day minority and aboriginal populations have worse health outcomes because they have lower trust in the medical establishment and even relatively small breaches in trust like the CIA vaccination program in Pakistan can have devastating effects like the revival of polio.

Bioethics and "modern" medicine are relative new so we're well into the conservative whiplash stage of the natural "boom and bust cycle" but for a damn good reason. You're not going to appreciate the seriousness of the subject without really digging into the very recent history of bioethics.
5G doesn't imply a frequency. For example, in my region 5G non-standalone from T-mobile uses a 20 MHz band around 630 MHz. That's even lower in frequency and with better propagation than most bands chosen for 4G LTE.

5G modulations themselves improve upon 4G LTE standards by about 15-20% hertz for hertz. That means that in order to get more speed they can't use the same amount of spectrum. For >20% improvement they need to use more of the electromagnetic spectrum. That usually means using higher frequencies that don't propagate as well. But it is nothing intrinsic to the 5G modulation.
Pretty sure the cats are judging you regardless of what you say.
I don't want to come off as a pedant, but "watts an hour" doesn't make sense in this context.

Watts are a unit of power, energy per time. Joules are a unit of energy.
One watt is precisely one joule per second.

"Watts [per] hour" would be a change in power per time which is equivalent to an acceleration of energy and not an amount of energy.

To get an amount of energy, you multiply the power (watts) by an amount of time. If you want the energy in units of joules, you multiple the watts by the number of seconds in which the power was consumed. That's why kilowatt-hour a is a unit of energy; it's equivalent to one watt applied for one hour. One hour is 3600 seconds, so one kilowatt-hour is equal to 3600 kilojoules.

I believe you meant that the screens consume 200+ watts.
> Your argument had nothing to do with the difference between principles rooted in physics vs mathematics.

True. Where did mathematics come in? Math does not abstract away the fundamentals in the way that I am talking about. Whether you use messy coordinates or elegant tensors to describe a fundamental property, you are still working with the fundamental property.

Also perhaps the only way to get through to someone like you is to point out I have a doctorate in electrical engineering, and teach in a EECS department, working with both engineers and programmers daily and even helping to design the curricula (fyi, a person who specializes in databases is a real thing, we have no less than 4 grad-level classes on them, and there are no CS classes entirely on "variables" analogous to classes on statics). I have spent literally decades pondering the mindset differences between them. You should give up trying to argue me down because you won't get there by trying to twist my own words against me.

Oh and in EE we generally don't use statics. Pretty much ever. Though I did teach a dynamics class that included some one time. By the way that tongue-in-cheek reference to statics was an failed attempt at using self-deprecation to tiptoe around your oversized ego. Nice job weaponizing it.
Buddy are you paid by google to shill so hard?
In defense of the hamburger menu, it's singular, nearly universal and well understood, I can deal with that just fine. This is very different from rows of icons in something like word where there's a huge array of functionality hidden behind obscure hieroglyphs.
I am French so the sex part is, well, French :)
And that will be the end of third party apps. Apple will hire devs to make apps, and then you're not third party, and no more royalties....
I started and ran my own company that really ended up being boutique software (custom websites/servers, custom software, enterprise software repair), but I had a hard time figuring out how to market myself, especially in a more rural area. I ended up making a decent sum of change.

I lucked out and found somewhere to hire me full time eventually so I don't work for myself anymore, but I like have other people do the hard paperwork.

I'd recommend specifically knowing how educated your clients are, knowing how to effectively communicate on their grounds, and knowing how to get to them with advertising. Of course being good at what you do is important, but you'll still go nowhere if you can't do the above. (Also, I find that being a nice software designer pays dividends; nobody wants to hire the jerk)
Re: People are flexible and can be taught how to express themselves in ways that aren't harmful.

Only to a degree. Maybe with long and expensive training, men can learn to better control their libido. But that's not likely to happen in practice. The universe doesn't run on "should's" but runs on "is's". I didn't program it.

Women need similar training for gossip, by the way. Yes, men gossip also, just as some women sexually harass, but on average women gossip more.
Many government officials just avoid using e-mail at all for sensitive subjects, thus side-stepping the issue entirely. I remember Janet Napoletano (Secretary of Homeland Security) saying that she did most of her business over the phone or in-person to avoid having it on record.
Websites could have hidden captchas. For example, a website could track the movement of your mouse pointer and compute whether the movements most likely correspond to a human or not.
The targets of cancel culture don't always get completely buried, just like attempts at murder don't always succeed. That doesn't mean it wasn't an attempted murder or an attempted cancelling.
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Kids grow up. The instant gratification hit gives way over time as we gain exposure to the world, and to mastery.

Without a doubt real-time video sharing and VR/AR will colour our world and help shape the future. They already have.

But that's not the point I was making. It's that, without certain knowledge of the future many people are willing to generalize and write off "old technology" in a fleeting way and without reflection.

Upon further reflection (using the music industry as an example), something like a vinyl music record was optimized for human attention and appreciation of a certain type of artwork. The industry, beginning in the 80's through the early 2000's, figured people would only care for convenience, and "good-enough" quality.

The current market forces have shown them to be wrong in their assumption that was the sum of what made music listening and purchases worthwhile. In reality, the experience from end-to-end really shaped the value of it.

From the sensual aspects of browsing a record store—smells, feeling, sociability, exposure to new art—to taking the physical object home, opening it, and performing the ritual of setting it on the turntable and tuning a system to play it back to your pleasure.

A lot of that was lost in the novelty of being able to carry your favourite songs everywhere in your pocket. The industry adapted, began to shut down old production facilities and retire old machinery.

When the novelty wore off and people were seeking more of an experience and less commodity the industry was not prepared for it.

It's getting there now. And I think we've ended up with what's approaching the best of all possible worlds: we've got convenience when we want it, and a selection of encompassing experiences for those who appreciate them.

The big mistake was the same big mistake humanity will make over and over again as it optimizes for itself: hubris. Illustrated by: "We've learned something new and incredible! Well now we know everything."

We never do, of course. But regardless, barring some forced eternal austerity or all-consuming catastrophe, humanity continues to optimize for itself always narrowing on on the mean good (often exercising a range of potential outcomes along the way from inconsequential to horrendous).

Relating to the larger subject at hand: paper is optimal in so many ways and the environmental aspects become only technical problems to be solved, not philosophical ones about whether or not it's worth it. Being so ready to erase something like that and force humanity onto tablet computers or some other novel technology is such a fine illustration of hubris it's almost trite.
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I Agreed on most. But i still have some questions
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I'm sure many preferred internet provider and railway cartels too because they didn't want other people to fiddle with the system. When sideloading will be enabled you're more than welcome to stay in the walled garden, but you can't dictate how other people want to use their devices.
>I’m sorry but it an astonishingly stupid take.

To you.

>Apple and android DO have a duopoly, and it is bad for every phone owner.

Google owns over 85% of the worldwide smartphone market. I agree that we need more competition. This competition should come from breaking Google/Android into 4 pieces, and then we'll have 5 companies with 15-25% market.
It hasn't been that many years since Texas was connected to other grids.
> It's ironic you say casually that "people today are getting canceled for exhibiting intolerance and bigotry", when cancel culture is itself intolerance and bigotry.

You've hit Popper's paradox right on the head. Sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia are examples of intolerance. Fighting those values, and criticizing/boycotting their champions, is not. This is the bright line between what the right decries as "cancel culture" of today vs the "cancel culture" of yesteryear.

> It's also always disturbing to encounter people like you...

So, you're making assertions about opinions that I hold, not based on opinions that I've stated, but upon those of "people like [me]." This is not a good-faith approach to conversation.
There is definitely more to be said about this dichotomy between the Really Care vs. Doing A Job.

The large tech companies are looking for young blood that also happens to be incredibly naive. They are the clueless, in the Gervais Principle[1]. Basically, idiot savants.

In addition to colluding to suppress pay, here are ways they optimize for youth and naivety:

- They call their HQs a "campus". They create an environment that emulates a university setting. Tourists flock to these "campuses" much like university prospects touring a university. Foosball tables, beanbag chairs, hip decor, etc. It's Peter Pan never-grow-up bullshit.

- Leet code interviews. If you're already in your career or have a family (or even a social life), you don't have the hundreds of hours to study. This prevents people from job hopping (salary suppression) and filters out people of a certain age and seniority or those that aren't willing to die for the company.

- Company "culture". Netflix has an entire document on this. It's practically a cult. I've had conversations with senior and director-level Facebook employees and the way they light up when talking about things Zuckerberg says or does is, frankly, creeping me out. There is an indocrination program in just about every startup today, that mimics what the FAANGs do. I think it's time someone said it: your trendy corporate "culture" is a soul-sucking vampire on the surface of your rent-seeking, data-hoarding, privacy-invading ad company pretending to be anything but an ad company.

If you ask me, if someone "Really Cares" about working at either Facebook or Google, then something is fundamentally off with that person. Like someone gleefully working at Philip Morris. If a person works at Facebook and admits they are a mercenary, that's at least an understandable position. I might not like you any more, but at least I know you're not totally insane.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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just like Betamax beat the inferior VHS...