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> This may explain why lawyers are motivated to stir things up, rather than settle them. They're motivated by the wrong metric

Most lawyers I know have many clients and are swamped with work. They have little incentive to "stir things up". It's similar with accountants and plumbers in my city. They aren't trying to make more work for themselves because they already have their hands full.

But in regional markets where supply isn't so constrained relative to demand then, sure, there's an incentive to make-work once you've wrangled a client, just as with any other profession.
More likely that they have multiple reasons to be unhappy, and transitioning was insufficient to solve it. They may have been misdiagnosed in the first place, or were correctly diagnosed but attribute their remaining difficulties to the transition. Or they found difficulties being accepted in their new gender.

This is a problem throughout medicine: some treatments work, some don't, and we don't always know why. The vast majority of people who transition are helped by it, in part because of the extensive screening. Despite the hysterical tone of books like this, it's not something people do on a whim.

That doesn't mean it will help everybody, and those are unfortunate. But it's irrational to withhold a treatment that helps most patients because of a tiny number of negative outcomes -- especially when those outcomes are artificially given outsized influence by ideologues who have entirely un-medical reasons for opposing them.
You can be racist and of the same race. You just see yourself as "one of the few good ones" and internally hate yourself a bit.
It could preempt RISC-V long time ago by doing this. I hope it's not too late.

MIPS is still used in routers and set-top-boxes, but the steam is running out quickly, nearly all routers/set-top-box new design are now using ARMs already. There is a last hope though.
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The problem with AWS Workspaces for us was the price was just too damn high.

Their Graphics Pro instance was okay spec: 16 vCPU, 122 GB memory, 8 GB VRAM. But they charge $1000/month for it.

Our $3000 workstations beat it in every benchmark, sometimes by 3-5x and have a useful lifetime of at least three years.

I'm sure for some people, that is a valid trade off, but for us, it was just too much.
I read the book "Never Home Alone" [1] a year or two ago, which is about all the different microbes and insects and such that are in the environment around us.

One of the things the author mentioned a few times is to never assume that something you find around your house has been cataloged or studied before. There are relatively few scientists who study such things.

One of the anecdotes was that someone the author knew discovered two or three new species of insect just by going out into his backyard and looking around.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088985-never-home-alon...
I signed up and started playing around with it, and I think it looks promising.

Some general thoughts:

- Moving over my shelves is an undertaking that'll probably take more than 30-40 minutes. Before I do that, I'd like the know about the privacy policy you folks intend to put in place.

- On a similar note, potential monetization is also something which worries me because many-a-times monetization comes at the cost of compromising on my privacy.

- I'd also like to know if exporting the data would be possible down the line.

Some UI, UX thoughts:

1. On the https://www.zeneca.io/library page, there are too many fonts, too many font sizes going on. Explicitly, there is (i) different font size, (AND SPACING!) for "Go to published library" (12.8 px), (ii) another font size for "Change your avatar" (0.9 em) , (iii) another one (understandable, in this case) for my name (1.3 em), (iv) another size for intro (16 px), (v) another for shelf description (1.1 em), (vi) another for shelf name (1.5 em) and (vii) another (18.72 px) for fin. That's too many font sizes. I strongly recommend sticking to three, or four. I would also recommend to fix the spacing on "go to published library".

2. On a similar note, I'm thinking if the avatars could be generated using Spectral (the font used elsewhere), instead of a sans-serif font which looks terribly out of place on the page. Consider using something with a bunch of ligatures ;)

3. On the main page (`/explore`), in the text "Got feedback? Let us know on twitter", you've also italicized the emoji. In my opinion, that looks unnatural, and you're probably better off italicizing just the text.

4. On the same page, avatars (in the left sidebar) have shadows, but that's the only place avatars have shadows. They're not shadowed (is that a word?) on the `/library` page, or the published page.

5. Minor suggestion: There is no way of navigating to the list-of-blog-posts page from the Getting Started Blogpost. There's actually no way of getting there at all since https://www.zeneca.io/blog/ returns a 404 page. This is a bit unusual since the Getting started page is at https://www.zeneca.io/blog/getting-started.

(edit) 6. On the published page, the tabs are presented weirdly. It could be that I'm mistaken but in my understanding of tabs, the active one is usually in bold font, black color. The inactive ones are the ones painted blue indicating that they can be clicked upon to navigate to them. In your case, on https://www.zeneca.io/<username>, the default, and active tab - "Library" is colored blue, and "Timeline" is colored black. This suggests that I'm on the timeline tab, and can click on library to go to it, when in fact just the opposite is true.

PS: I love the box shadow on the shelves ;)

I understand that this is a very early version of the site. Kudos for having some working thing. My suggestions above are in no way a criticism of the idea. I sure hope you folks whip up a much needed replacement to Goodreads. Godspeed.
I agree, when I saw the title I was thinking something like "la liga" android app that did tracked users using audio to find out pirate transmissions of the soccer games. This is nothing like it.
When launching rockets, you generally want two things:

1. Open ocean east from your site, because launching to the east adds velocity - this is the direction in which the Earth rotates, so free speed for you; and ocean is better than land, because no one lives on the ocean and the nearby waters can be closed during launches. If you launch over the sea and anything goes wrong with your rocket during ascent, at least it won't crash on anybody's head and home.

(Russians can afford launching over land, because the steppe is thinly populated and they had no qualms removing the nomads from around Baikonur.)

2. To be as close to equator as possible, because the boost that you get from Earth's rotation is multiplied by cosine of your latitude.

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That is why the French are so happy to have French Guyana. In the contiguous U.S., you only have two states that are suitable: Florida and Texas, both pretty far south and with open sea east of them. That is why the Kennedy Space Center is in Florida.

But real estate in Florida is more expensive than that in Texas and building a new cosmic base there would not only cost money, but bring hassle with the locals because it means sonic booms in the proximity of cities and villages.

Boca Chica is ideally suited for this purpose, fairly cheap land and not much population to speak of.
But you dont need PoW for being decentralized, permission less and censorship resistant.

See https://xrpl.org/carbon-calculator.html instead and ignore visa/mastercard

PoW is still the worst even worse than than paper money.
Not sure what you are going for here. Indeed, reading a single sentence without considering context typically leads one to faulty conclusions. Note that the previous sentence in the parent post is "Consensus (probably, I am doubtful of PoS) isn't free."
It's a term of art and doesn't have the meaning you attribute to it. Here's the definition from Wikipedia: "A newspaper of record is a major newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative."

When you consider NYC's other news dailies (the NY Post and the Daily News), it would be hard to disagree that the NYT is the most authoritative.
It seems like an implicit premise in that line of reasoning is that consumers have a choice: they can increase their spending if they want a quality upgrade, or they can forgo the upgrade and keep their spending relatively constant.

In some cases, though, there often isn't much of a choice. I can't buy a (new-ish) car without a rear-view camera, now that they're mandated. I can't hire a builder and tell him that I don't need GFCI outlets, or HVAC, or fire sprinklers; it's all required by code. If I wanted a ~1000 square foot house, I could have built one 50 years ago, but today my planning department wouldn't approve.

Similarly, I might have been content with the experience of using my iPhone 4 back in 2010, but I can't recreate that for much cheaper today. Even if I could buy an iPhone 4 for cheap, it no longer receives security updates, and many apps have dropped support, or at least focus their QA on newer devices.

Or I might have been content with the 2mbps connection my ISP offered back in 2000, but now their plans start at 50mbps. Even if I could find a cheap 2mbps plan, it wouldn't be as practical given the bloated state of websites today. (I mean it's doable, buy my quality of experience would be much lower than it was in 2000.)
So my understanding is that the Game of Life is an undecidable system, so you basically can't write a solvable system of equations that will tell you that your initial state will produce a Mona Lisa.
Even after reading the article I don't really understand what he's doing to make this happen. And especially after stating that most states are Garden of Eden states!
Can anyone ELI5?
I can see this is a productive conversation.
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I have had the hardest time with getting other developers to understand standards because of this. If the standards are walled off in some privileged access, how can the public, or users thereof, understand, much less contribute to said standards? There has to be a better mechanism.
Because PoW is easier to implement correctly than PoS.

PoW can be as simple as checking a hash (in addition to the basic block rules). PoS has a lot more rules, for example Eth has a lot of PoS rules and includes features like slashing which improve economic securities. https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-2.0/proof-o...

When rules aren't by implemented correctly it causes situations like Bitcoin's 2013 fork https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-03-11-chain-fork
No actually, as bitcoins value increases there's more incentive to mine it, as more miners come online the power usage shoots up.
The block rewards issued to miners would be worth 10x as much, so more equipment would be pressed into use for mining, until the expenses of mining roughly equal the current value of the block rewards (plus transaction fees, for the nit pickers out there).

10x price increase equals 10x mining expenditure, mostly on energy.
As a person who makes goods/provides services, what you want is for the government to ensure there is enough money for others to buy/hire your good/service.

As a person who wants to buy a house but doesn't have the full purchase price in liquid dollars, the thing you want is for the government to give lenders access to low-cost money so they can then lend it to you at low rates so you can afford the principal+interest on your loan.

As a person with savings to invest, you want to know that the bonds you're buying will be paid back with some interest to balance the risk of higher-yield stocks/bonds.
Even if you get past the paywall, you'll be presented with incredibly obtuse standards.

I tried to use ISO 1016 for writing a software design doc with some success, but it was like pulling teeth.

First, you needed multiple ISO dictionaries to find out what half the words are referring to, and even then things are ill-defined.

For example, one of the required sections in an ISO SDD is the Context, but nowhere is context defined or described.

The standards just seem like a web of academic garbage with no connection to reality.

Woe to anyone that must implement them as part of their job.
It will obviously not ‘exist because of him’.

It wasn’t his idea, and thousands of people have worked on the technologies to enable it, and he’s not even the only billionaire with a company who is working on such a thing.

For the most part I see him complaining about people impeding him, rather than just solving the problems with his own resources.
Briefly referenced in The Andromeda Strain (the movie from 1971):

— Hard on the taxpayers, isn’t it, they way we burn up uniforms?

— They’re paper.

— I’d swear it was cloth.

— New process.
Thanks, that's a good counterexample.
Indeed, Asus moved from MIPS to ARM between the RT-AC66U and RT-AC68U, and the various *pkg repos have since dropped support. MIPS may as well be dead.
There are stablecoins on Ethereum that fix that problem. Some of them are derivatives backed by nothing but ETH.
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Depending on the context, I'm a fan of the work of Douglas Hubbard, in his book How to Measure Anything[1]. His approach involves working out answers to things that might sometimes be done as a "back of the napkin" kind of thing, but in a slightly more rigorous way. Note that there are criticisms of his approach, and I'll freely admit that it doesn't guarantee arriving at an optimal answer. But arguably the criticisms of his approach ("what if you leave out a variable in your model?", etc.) apply to many (most?) other modeling approaches.

On a related note, one of the last times I mentioned Hubbard here, another book came up in the surrounding discussion, which looks really good as well. Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin[2] - I bought a copy but haven't had time to read it yet. Maybe somebody who is familiar will chime in with their thoughts?

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691129495/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
This isn't a robust way to write good software. It's better to capture the requirements up front and apply those early on in the project's life. Relying on other users to notice defects is likely to result in only some of the software being correct. Especially if it's a date library, the author should be able to know the proper date format at the outset.
Aside from Tim making very good points, ISO-8601 is not a good standard - it tries to specify too many formats and ends up being so flexible that full compliance is rare. RFC 3339 is an open standard and is much simpler and more practical.
If it's fake or modified, it will not have the ability to communicate with the payment network and process the transaction.
I don't see anyone really using it though. That's the thing. Which makes me wonder if it's really ready.
Yes it is truly amazing how bad people are at reading and how fast they are at reaching (bad) conclusions from they already bad read.
“The Beauty of Calculus,” a Lecture by Steven Strogatz
It is not trivial to understand the necessary complexity of a problem. In SICP, there's an early practice problem that asks you to turn a recursive number pattern generator into an iterative generator. What the problem doesn't tell you is that the generator obscured by complex recursion is actually creating a tribbonaci number sequence. This hidden insight turns a difficult problem into a trivial problem.
Seems to me that browser extensions need better access control. Why isn't it possible to restrict it to just amazon.com itself, for example?
Interesting! I can echo these findings from from personal experience. For the past 5-6 years I had been doing remote work for a US west-coast based company from the Netherlands. My annual salary as a senior "data scientist" was at least double, if not triple, that of my fellow Dutch peers. Typically salaries around here seem to stall at the €45-60k/yr mark with very few positions open at higher tiers (and usually not advertised through any typical recruitment portals, where salaries are typically even lower, even when commanding decades of experience in obscure technologies). When I left that remote position the options really did seem limited, and I ended up taking a substantial pay cut. Short of trying to bootstrap your own company (VC-like funding here is also not very typical, with angel investors being almost non-existent) moving seemed the only option, which I had no real intention of doing. Even moving slightly east to Germany seemed to be the better option. I think our current predicament has really opened the market though. Remote work is no longer considered weird and there definitely are very talented and skilled engineers up for grabs here in the Netherlands if they are coached ever so slightly. I wonder if there is an opportunity here for an employment-agency-ish company facilitating the overseas hiring process and legalese. Exciting times!
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600k in Silicon Valley is certainly not unheard of. That's within range for Staff Engineer and EM roles at top companies, and there are a lot of Staff Engineers and EMs. In fact, it can go up quite a bit from there. M2 [0] pay can be in the 700k-900k range, and Director pay is typically 1M+. Keep in mind that salaries rarely go above 250k -- most of this compensation is in stock grants.

[0] M2 is an engineering manager with quite a bit of scope, possibly with some M1s as reports. Imagine a group of 20-50 people total. Exact headcount can vary because "scope" is a bit of an abstract concept that is correlated with -- but not perfectly matched to -- headcount.
STEMlord's and mad they missed the train once more
Is there another way to send money over the internet that doesn't involve a third party?
I’m actually from East Asia, so no, I’m not offended by proxy. I wouldn’t want my kids seeing that, and clearly enough parents spoke up that the Seuss family listened. Given your shallow, fawning remarks about Chinese history, I’d hazard a guess you’re not from there. You don’t seem to understand that this is a decision for children, not the people of China, so it doesn’t sound like you spend your daily life worrying about what your children are exposed to without your knowledge. Seems to me that you’re the one who’s offended-by-proxy, out of some personal opinions about politics, rather than any practical issue that concerns you.
I was thinking that there were two types of worksheets. the current, freeform sheets, and in addition to that a new type that would enforce data integrity over columns. That would make it much safer to have worksheets for structured data and freeform sheets for visualizing etc separate.

(the first one was admittedly a bit tongue in cheek.)
> At one point Elon was talking about possibly testing this.

I hadn't heard about that. I know he's said that the Starship is theoretically _capable_ of SSTO w/ no payload, but I don't recall any suggestion from him that he'd test it.

Elon says a lot of things though, and I probably just missed it somewhere. Any chance you know where/when he said it?
The judgemental overtone of these comparisons never makes sense to me. We supposedly draw the line on how others spend their energy when it comes to bitcoin and nowhere else.

Animal agriculture is a great place to look when it comes to senseless energy expenditure just to produce products that please our taste buds, if this were something we actually cared about, but we don't. 800-1200kWh are consumed to prop up a single dairy cow every year, just to produce a product that tastes good. 250M+ dairy cows in the world.

It's just so tempting and convenient to bemoan things we happen to not partake in, and then we pat ourselves on the back as if we are avoiding it for ecological/energy reasons.

It's a bit boring to see on HN every week, mostly because it's a cesspit of world view confirmation and anti-bitcoin circlejerking rather than a spark of intellectual curiosity.
https://xrpl.org/carbon-calculator.html
As expected PoW is by far the worst. Worse than paper money.
I also worked in the space, though from the utility side. Multi-dwelling units are a problem, though not from the networking side. In my experience the commercial stacks had no issue with that kind of density.
Also, we found that 900mHz signals can reach a lot further than one would think, at least intermittently (e.g. across the SF bay).
> preview links before opening them

I noticed this feature in the default macOS mail App too but I'm not quite sure I understand correctly. If you click on the little arrow next to a link, it opens the website in a little window -- from a privacy/security POV, is that really helpful? Wouldn't the sender know you read the E-Mail if my computer sends a request to their server using that URL, no matter if it's for a preview window or my actual browser (except the latter has cookies etc)
You define variables and code that changes the variables over time. TLA+ lets you observe variable states and assert constraints. The amount of concurrency is up to you, it works fine with a single process.

Non-determinism might be a better thing to anchor the value to. For example in a deterministic "normal" programming environment, an if/then/else statement will execute only one out of two possible code paths. You have to run the code with a complementary condition to observe the other code path.

In a non-deterministic environment like TLA+ both possible code paths are executed. You can observe state transitions in both possibilities.

In a deterministic context the combinatorics of code paths can get out of hand quickly. Non-deterministically you have one set of assertions for all code paths, or patterns of paths.
Doesn't k9 already supports IDLE? I kinda remember researching about this years ago, unfortunately, IDLE on it's own is no equivalent to native push notifications that use google services. Either way, it was just a hobby research and I might be wrong.
That is actually worse than C on Linux. For C, that segfault is provided by the kernel placing a guard page off the end of the stack. C programs recover via sigaltstack, sigaction, and siglongjmp. The C program can continue running safely afterward.

I was expecting Rust to give a compile-time error. Rust should refuse to compile a program that would overflow the stack. Unbounded recursion is such a case. Another case would be recursion that is bounded but very large. For example, if the recursion depth can be 128, then on Linux (with the 8 MiB stack default) it would not be allowable to have the stack frames be 64 kilobytes each. That should not compile.

Rust is not a memory-safe language.
> Sure, but at some point, you can pick a definition that is so far removed from what was intended, that this exercise is utterly meaningless.

You could say that anytime there's any lack of clarity about what is meant by any given term,

With "productivity", you could reasonably mean any number of things.

It's not like someone said "pizza" and I said "that depends on what you mean by pizza". You could say that (is a calzone a pizza?), but it wouldn't be reasonable to do so.

In the case of productivity, I think it's reasonable to clarify what is meant.

P.S. Was your use of "utterly meaningless" an intentional pun?