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A lot of the asbestos in the youtube video above is in fibrous form, like the fireproof asbestos clothing. So touching it would probably release some fibres into the air. A small amount isn't actually all that bad. But it adds up over time.

Conversely, the asbestos in products like asbestos roof tiles is harmless when it's just sitting there, which is why it can be perfectly safe to just seal it up, or even do nothing at all. Of course, during demolition, you will release deadly asbestos fibres into the air unless precautions are taken.

The fact that asbestos isn't immediately harmful - and can be used safely - is probably part of the problem: it's easy to ignore long term effects because it's not obviously and immediately toxic.
Plan falls apart at Step 1. The rest no matter how clever can't work without step 1.

China and Russia and others would align against any Western powers seeking to destroy bitcoin at this point. Beyond that, many Western powers would start running the calculus of the potential upside of marginalizing USD by allowing bitcoin to continue, and choose to not participate or actively undermine efforts of those trying to kill it.

At best it would never materialize given the obvious diplomatic and game theoretic consequences. At worst, it would escalate to an arms race that may even spill over into a real conflict. I'll admit it would be somewhat ironic, in this era of fear around climate change, to see us get into an arms race over who can burn the most energy fastest in an un-winnable game that also doesn't have the same obvious consequences of not de-escalating as MAD.

May answer the question around the Great Filter. I wonder if we'll find ancient ASICs scattered across the surface of Venus.
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Yes, Atlas in boots. many of them. (boston dynamic)
Honestly, I don't get why people are complaining. An ISO standard costs fraction of what the developer's time reading said standard costs. It's almost like complaining that electricity and laptops are not free.

I would much rather like to hear if the value that ISO produces is proportional to what they charge. Also, are the incentives properly aligned by charging a fee?
TLDR:
If you're willing to spend $100 million per day, you can theoretically shut down Bitcoin
There is already a tool with an Object Browser and it is Microsoft Word. Why hasn't it replaced Web Browsers is anyone's guess.
Just for comparison, in the active voice:

"The assassins killed John, the cleaning lady discovered his body later, the morticians carried him out and the pathologists dissected him."

It is better, though not massively so. It's tighter. (Personally I'd break it into four sentences, but that's just me. I also would have used an Oxford comma, for that matter.)

The real problem is that the passive voice can be used for:

"John was killed, his body was later discovered, carried out, and dissected".

It's definitely punchy, and as the beginning of a thriller novel its vagueness could be exciting. But any place else you're left mostly with questions. It would be terrible in a newspaper account. And in an actual police report, it would sound like somebody was covering something up.
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> When asked why he didn't apply as a C programmer, high salary and consequently an expectation of very high demands were explicitly named as a demotivating factor.

Keep in mind that this is a learned response (although imposter syndrome accounts for some of it) that you have to deliberately defuse in your job listing.

Phrasing such as "The following is a list of nice-to-have skills. We do not expect candidates to have experience with all, or even most, of them." will help. You should also make it clear if you prefer candidates that have broad+shallow experience in more of the listed areas or narrow+deep in very few (or even just one), assuming you have a preference. If not, make sure you say that too.

Another thing is stating that you are looking for people with demonstrable learning skills rather than specific pre-existing knowledge.

If you don't make this sort of thing as explicit as possible, potential candidates will mostly assume that your position conforms to their past experience (which is mostly bad).

So much for improving your tactics in the job-posting approach. You should also examine shifting strategies to other channels such as job fairs to get candidates before they give up on the local job market, or referral bounties (which can get you good candidates that aren't actively looking), or even getting local media coverage by sending out press releases (I recommend the excellent book 'Bulletproof News Releases'). Heck, geotargeted Google ads might even work if you can figure out appropriate search terms.
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More like NP-hard.

I don't think that something like a SAT solver will help you much with your estimations.

But you can probably turn a NP-complete problem in terms of software project estimation. The traveling salesman problem looks like a good candidate here.

Edit: come to think of it, it is like the halting problem, your project may never finish
Posting something like this as a reply to the top comment when it's completely irrelevant to the top comment has the effect of hijacking the thread. Please don't do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401637 for further explanation.

I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26395513 now.
It's not alphabetical.
My child is literally making a roblox game right now. I just showed him lua. He is 10. Roblox is a huge gateway into programming. He started on scratch, and now roblox. Next generation of programmers will have learned programming using roblox as kids. I'm impressed with their IDE.
> things like that for underrepresented groups are unpaid emotional labor

Presumably if the person in question is salaried and it's understood that they are spending work time on this, then it's not unpaid emotional labor. But, sure, it's work that requires leaning on emotional and social sensitivies one might otherwise not have to bring to bear in their tech job.

I don't think anyone should be obligated to do that kind of work because of their background. But my experience is that organizations and culture often progress only when some people do volunteer to do that work. And, fortunately, there are many people who choose to do that because the intangible rewards, for them, outweigh the costs.
The documentary that won the Oscar last year, "American Factory", is worth watching. The company in the movie brings in some consulting firm and requires employees to go to classes about why unions are bad during work hours.

There are legitimate reasons to dislike unions, but the reason companies rely on these "ham-fisted" tactics is because the employees are generally less sophisticated than people on HN and the tactics work.
I like naval warfare [0]. Its simple but still fun. You can spawn boats, subs, and planes. There's a collaborative aspect of course. Lots of fun.

[0]: https://naval-warfare-roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Battleship
As a recent college grad, I remember when I used to play Roblox as a middle school student with my best friend back in the day. I tried for nostalgia's sake to see how the game is present day. While I am somewhat lacking in understanding some of the changes, and road that the game has gone down now, it still appears to be a good online community for those who need an easy game to get around.

I might still have the Roblox Studio tool (circa 2012/13) installed on an old Pentium 4 laptop.
I will buy this company when it is listed tomorrow.
yeah good point. I've used this on a project and this shaved off >150ms of critical path rendering... much better user experience.

awesome to not have this officially supported. Time to upgrade :D
Because unions lobby more than almost anyone else.

https://i2.wp.com/mercatus.org/sites/default/files/totalcont...

But yes, their entire purpose is to form a cartel in order to extract rent from the buyers of labor.
Then the warehouse will get built right across state lines or actually be owned and operated by a subsidiary.
I did not have a driver's license prior to moving to the US.

The process was getting it was doing a multiple-choice quiz, followed by 20 minutes of paid 'instruction' as I drove around the neighborhood... And then a 'test' that repeated the exact same route. I 'passed' with a score of 83/100.

In contrast, I failed the test four times, while taking it in BC, and because it would have to be scheduled 3 months in advance, eventually gave up on it.

I am glad that the test-taker feels confident that after I stumble-assed my way through driving 20 and 25 mph on empty residential streets, I am now capable of safely driving on freeways.
It's funny when you compare the two (and I'm pretty sure I've accidentally restarted a timer that I meant to stop because of the muscle memory I have around alarms), but it makes sense to me.

For alarms, the biggest, most obvious button absolutely must be snooze, not stop. The plausible harm caused by accidentally stopping when you meant to snooze is very high: you miss an interview, final exam, court date, or are late to work one too many times. The plausible harm caused by accidentally snoozing when you meant to stop the alarm is orders of magnitude lower -- you are embarrassed when the alarm goes off somewhere quiet, maybe you get kicked out of the movie theater.

For timers, 90% of the time, you want to stop the timer. Another 5% of the time, you want to start the timer again for a different amount of time. (How often do you put something in the oven for 35 minutes and then discover it needs another 35 minutes? Usually you just need a few more minutes.). Only occasionally do you want to restart the exact timer you just finished. It's a nice feature to have, but it's appropriate to make it subtle.
It's pretty easy to ask someone "Hey, can you go take a look at GNU split and see how they handle this case?" and then implement your own clean-room solution afterwards.

Alternately, to solve the problem yourself and mention it to someone and have them say "that's how GNU split does it, so why not?"
IEEE publishes several standards for free via their IEEE Get Program
Ask the same people if they’ve ever driven a Tesla
Greater number of shared experiences and common ground? Why do any pair of humans feel more comfortable talking to each other than some other pairs?
You seem to have conflated two points here: 1. that the majority of musicking all over the world takes place in a western tonal based system, and 2. that the majority of musicking all over the world uses western notation.

These things are not the same, and given your earlier comment:

>Western notation is used throughout the world, even more so than local notation systems

I have assumed we're talking about notation, rather than tonality. In which case, of course someone can be using Western tonality while not using Western notation- this is a decent part of my point. I could be playing the original Renaissance organ tablature or whatever and not be using Western notation in the sense that you mean. No one is saying that Ariana Grande is operating in a non-western mode of music but I'm fairly sure you could find people who worked on her recordings who aren't working from sheet music. Your example of piano roll or NNS are also the kinds of things I am talking about, as is you know, a baroque ensemble whose lutenist is using tablature. This is because you absolutely can't say that charts and tablature are notation 'hacks'- they are, like the western notation that you're talking about, sets of instructions that tell you to varying degrees of clarity how to physically carry out a harmonic or melodic sequence. Thinking that chart=notation=tablature is similarly inaccurate as saying Western tonality=Western notation, and therefore me bringing up DAWs is entirely relevant- so is bringing up oral traditions and other contemporary modes of writing pop (etc) music that doesn't use notation.

Secondly, since we're basing our points on our experiences, here is my relevant experience: I work in professional orchestras in several countries, I've played in orchestras and sessions alongside bands, supervised students teaching modern and traditional instruments, performed in the improv circuit, worked with experimental composers and in education projects with children. The only one of these settings where I haven't encountered people who do not use western notation (the notation that you and I are talking about, with key and time signatures, staves and barlines) is professional symphony orchestras. Of course western notation is relevant given the historical dominance of western culture, but by no means is it as ubiquitous as you think it is. My colleagues teach songwriting and electronic music/sound design to hundreds of pupils without it. People teach instruments without it and make performing careers without it. I think you possibly can't see the forest of non-notated musicking that occurs for the trees and think that everyone making music everywhere is reading off a western notation score.
And especially would fall apart at the step where Lockheed takes all that confiscated material and sets up a centralized operation. Never in a million years would China/Russia allow that.
The downvotes show that users were justly irritated with you for posting your complaint as a reply to the top comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26395513 - I've since detached it), when it had no particular relevance there. That's bad community behavior—it meant that your post was piggybacking on the upvotes that the other comment received, allowing it to sit at the top of the page, which subverts the ranking system and is unfair to all the other commenters who didn't do that.

By the way, downvoting for disagreement is ok on HN and has always been ok on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

What's not ok on HN is complaining about downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. So please don't do that either.
Lots of big companies (ie Apple) have thrown massive amounts of work into trying to make better UIs and it produced stuff like itunes and the one button mouse that has a secret right click. Maybe we just shouldn't expect some things to be so simple?
The only magic is the cult of Elon and "US made". What most don't know is that Tesla is deep in the red financially if you don't count sale of regulatory credits to other automakers and they are quickly going away (3-4 years max). Tesla's 2020 net income of $270 million doesn't look great if you subtract the $428 million per quarter from those credits. Unless something actually magic happens in the next few years that will cause Tesla to sell more cars than now, even with other automakers gearing up, then they are going to either be sold or die off. Personally I very much doubt sales will be better next year. Especially with the problems with extremely bad quality control and software. But hey, I'm sure the stock market will still love him.
Yes, that's what I meant. Perhaps it's related to the way the printing company produced the books, so this might not be an issue with other companies.

My memory is a bit fuzzy about the details, maybe it was about the inner margins of left-hand side and right-hand side changing. Maybe someone else recognises what I mean? :)

Since Latex is very powerful, I'm sure there is a way to code that behaviour in. But I had spent too many hours already on that project and I was happy with the result anyway, so I stopped investigating.
I understand the sentiment and might have had difficulty approving the sale if I were on the Hertz board of directors, however, there is a chance, however slim, that the dumb money knows something the smart money doesn't.

This is much more-readily seen post-GameStop. The AMC theater chain, mid-hoopla, managed to discharge much of its debt. The gamblers at home literally saved a major US business from dire financial straits. Some of them got paid for it, too. The company is in an undeniably better position today, as are any of the retail investors who bought and held. (The share price is up 10% today, too. The world is a complicated place.)

On the scale of exploitative acts, enabling informed gamblers to play chicken with the Bankruptcy Bus, while it may be exploitative at some level, may not be as egregious as other exploitation (Casinos? State lotteries?) that we tolerate every day.
Excited you're going to try it out, and we would love the feedback! At the current time, we don't have any option for omitting the social aspect. We've been laser-focused on creating an addictingly social experience that drives users back into the app in order to push them harder and further than they would alone.

With that said, we do know that some runners enjoy solo running more, so we are working on future features to track your solo runs so you can still earn upgradeable medals for weekly/monthly/overall mileage tracked in the app.
Might be unpopular opinion but I think these do more damage than these private intelligence corporations. they ARE private intelligence corporations, just not (well not exactly) offensive cyber.
> … not very useful for comparing performance of any decent language.

Saying "any decent language" assumes we know without measurement the very thing that we need to measure.

Showing "very similar performance characteristics" is a valid outcome.
Ask HN: In what ways can the current financial market high end?
I asked this in another thread about BTC, TSLA, GME etc. but it probably deserves its own thread. And it probably applies to the stock market in general. There is a lot of liquidity around right now and it has to go somewhere.

What single event (or accumulated effect) can cause this to stop? What are the potential effects on the rest of the economy? What are the different scanarios that we can see play out?
Only if you don't know how to multiply and divide frequencies by 2^(1/12).
I still think it’s mostly people who knew about bitcoin early and decided not to buy it.
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You put it on your resume and make your bread doing other jobs or freelance work, where you are now the top candidate in the pile thanks to the work you've done with your publically available library where anyone can inspect the source and see your handiwork.

Engineers in tech always complain that there is no proof of good work, like someone in biochemistry with a stack of papers on their CV would have. Well, this is how you do it. You spend effort sharing ideas with the community knowing you won't necessarily make a dime off of them, just like the biochem person who doesn't get paid per paper, and not spend 100% of your personal efforts working for someone else in private on a for profit project you aren't at liberty to intimately discuss.
Is it really surprising that a group that prides itself on knowing-it-all can't cope with missing the boat that was docked right in front of them for years?
You probably can't, at least not in the first iteration. I suspect they might be forced to accept credit cards eventually, because of EU legislation.
And can get all world governments aligned.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force tried Meat Shakes: https://youtu.be/6LOxHbSOBCA?t=31

I would have the same reaction to chugging pork :P
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no, you just need to multiply 440 by (12th root of 2)^k, where k is the number of half-tones above (pos) or below (neg) A440
Because otherwise it will create power imbalance that will put me at disadvantages, other know about me but I don't know about other.
Cathie Woods seems to believe that sales are going to be exponential (they have been so far) and battery costs will keep falling + huge growth potential from robotaxi fleet
We're streaming the audio through a server that tracks which song is played, and records each one. We actually use the same technology that powered internet radios back it the Winamp days.

On the software side, we use Djay pro, which can forward the song id along to the server for recording the data.
Why is the link to the vulnerability a 404?

https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-7prw-h3c...
The goal should be to have the same academic achievement as their peers at the company they are working for. It’s unfair for smart blacks to be thought of us diversity hires. I can think of nothing worse than having your intelligence questioned your entire career.

Surely someone has studied this though. “Why did you not choose comp sci major?”

All the answers are there. The fact we don’t hear about it is probably because it doesn’t fit the narrative that intersectionalism wants to tell.

Last time I went to research the history of why women were dominant in tech and then then minority, it was nothing to do with sexism surprise, surprise.

Exposure to computers at a young age is everything.

I will do some more research though and come back <- the best part about HN conversations for me.
Update has been pushed and merged, will show up in the binary caches within the next few days :)
We already know there is plenty of structure in the distribution of primes, so I don't see why finding some that can be exploited by a clever algorithm makes that much of a difference to foundational concerns. In fact, I'm pretty sure that even a proof of P=NP, which obviously subsumes fast factoring, wouldn't have any intrinsically interesting non-algorithmic consequences for proofs in number theory that don't directly assume factoring is hard (but this could just be ignorance on my part); all the supposedly absurd consequences people point to like the PH collapsing are more or less restricted to computer science.
Your point being? That they complain and have or haven't?
I think blackmailing someone in the closet is almost always wrong -- I'm sure there's some contrived edge case that could be thought of, but as a whole, it's never okay.

Just because most / all intelligence agencies do something doesn't mean it's okay. It's unambiguously wrong.
I ran into this when I need to write an HTML parser. The W3 spec references SGML and the spec for that is not freely [1] available: https://www.iso.org/standard/16387.html

[1] free as in beer
The trick to what happened in your example is that Dev2 was able to find someone in the office (Colleague) they trusted to talk about the situation.

In some organizations I’ve been in, he could have talked to Dev3, who tells them to “not be so sensitive”, then tells other devs about how Dev2 played the race card.

Dev3 is more common than Colleague. Hell, Dev1 being an idiot and not learning to maybe adjust his language to be inclusive, and maybe read a book about race, is less common than Colleague.
That is an excellent book BTW, thanks for mentioning it.

I am Canadian, and being able to read Canadian locales referenced in his books as places that I have been and are aware-of is a rare treat in Sci-Fi.

I highly encourage any SciFi fan to read his works.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264946.Hominids
I forgot all those GNU developers are currently in poverty asking for alms in the street...
Yeah, but the argument is that in a unionized workforce people are incentivized to 'phone it in' because it's hard to fire them.

Unions and collective bargaining at their best give the employees leverage for better pay and profit share. They do create bad incentives around making it hard to fire bad employees and making things slow.