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Mythbusters is (or was, I haven't watched it in a decade) following scientific principles. To quote Adam Savage, "Remember, kids: The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.".

Science is a process, and it doesn't need the trappings of pristine lab coats and expensive labs. Those things help, but it's about the core principle.
I don't think thats a counter point! Depending on which time frame you are talking about, the ottoman empire was a cosmopolitan fairly free empire. There was freedom of religion (of sorts, there was a tithe.) and a civil law system that appeared to have some semblance of working for the lay man.

If you compare the treatment of jews in venice, parts of the ottoman empire were a haven. Spain's loss was the ottoman's gain.
Even with multiple identities your device/browser fingerprints are unique. This data is probably regularly shared between large online players. They certainly know your real identity and that you try to obfuscate your online data.
I have not decided, whether reading your comment was worth its time, so maybe explain what you mean?
Then great, you'll be interested in a salary sharing agreement with me.

I promise to impart wisdom upon you that will help you get a job over 100k, and ONLY if you get such a job, ONLY then do you have to give me 30% of your earnings for ONLY 2 years. Do we have a deal?

Also, this offer is extended to ANYONE reading. I'm that generous.

* * *

Breaking character now. If there is any volatility in peoples lifetime earnings, agreements such as these will generate revenue even if the school provides nothing. It may very well be that the most profitable state of the school is to contribute precisely nothing to peoples careers, because that requires the lowest financial investment from the wisdom provider.
The network effects were real for SMS too, yet users still moved to WhatsApp because it was free (much to the chagrin of incumbent carriers), that's what users wanted.

Of course it's difficult to get people to join a chat app, and it should be. At a minimum you should need to provide something that users want and didn't have before. WhatsApp offered something new, it was an effective price tag of zero with phone number contacts. Skype offered something new and desirable (until it didn't). Snapchat offered something new and desirable. All of them had predecessors with network effects and still succeeded by giving users something they really wanted. They didn't throw their hands up and blame users.
Mayabe I'm a nitpicker by default, maybe it was so trivial that the article's author didn't thought of including it in methodology BUT before you test your speed of your port (regardless from what language to what other one) you test that end results are exactly the same.

I see no mention of his port of blur functionality where he tested to see the results of original JavaScript blurring algorithm be the same of the porting one. And believe me, image manipulation can bite you in the proverbial rear at edge cases the best, I've been there. What I want is to see also testing included in the article, not just bench-marking his own solution. Try testing at least the classic 256 cases, that's RGB(x,x,x) (examples: RGB(0,0,0)-black...RGB(127, 127, 127)-gray...RGB(255, 255, 255)-white) then a few thousand random images. Only after that test you can safely move to benchmark for the speed.
The title states he is "broke" now, while the article explains "he had set aside about $2 million for his and his wife's retirement". I don't want to play down what he has done but for most people that is really far from being broke.
We're suffering from this here as well (in Israel), we're already in the 4th consecutive election and it looks like there will be a fifth. Bibi's (and his family) use of social platforms has been in forms of - posts with blatant lies - fake profiles posting fake inciting content that is then used in their own campaigns to incite their base - fake likes - fake profiles that generate content It's got to the point that we just call any Bibi supporter as a "Bot" (once because they don't get our credit for critical thinking and second time because of the many fake profiles that generate content in his name)
It's so rare to hear about Japanese startups - either becoming successful within Japan or outside. Are other mature East Asian countries going through a similar phase?
How you obtain, install, update and manage apps is one of the key elements of a smartphone. If people are so against the fundamental way of how Apple does its smartphone then why are these people buying an iPhone if it makes them so unhappy? I honestly don’t get it. If you dislike the AppStore so much and oppose how Apple runs its products then don’t buy it. If enough people feel that way then it will incentivise Apple to change course. Currently it feels that the vast majority have no issue whatsoever and it’s only a small vocal minority (probably some dodgy App developers) who complain for their own benefit. Just get an Android and only develop for Android. Nobody was born as an App developer. You chose yourself to develop apps. If AppStores are so hostile and the current model s financially unattractive then why did you decide to become an App developer?
No, I never said any that and it makes no sense.

OSS doesn't have anything to do with business models. Anyone can create open-source software and many do. The whole point is that it's free to create, see and modify. Some companies choose business models which include open-source software, and that comes with advantages (increased popularity and growth) and disadvantages (free usage, forks of codebase).

The reality though is that tech has changed and customers don't want to buy software, they want services now. ES has been slow to offer this, and they still offer it poorly, which is why AWS and other companies have filled in the gap. This is how business competition works.

Please answer these questions: Do you have a problem with the other companies (which are smaller than Elastic) that offer managed elasticsearch? Do you have a problem with multiple companies offering hosted Wordpress? Do you have a problem with any company that sells software or services that use open-source components?
It's not technically complex but it shows that he recognized a need for something in the community and provided a solution with proof that people liked it. A software developer is way more than just a coder; which many people seem to forget.
This website has a good summary https://norightsemployee.uk/faq

There is not much information about it, because that gone through as a change to IR35, so people slept on it, but in reality companies can only hire on "in-scope IR35" contract and bypass employment law altogether.
Ain't that the overall conflivt of interest, one amplyfied by the internet and social media? Everything became a contest for eye balls. MSM went online, and there they have to compete with Facebook and Twitter for eye balls to keep ad revenue flowing. Facebook is comepting with Youtube and Twitter for traffic, even Google has to keep traffic up unless they want to loose their ad revenue.

And as for the entities placing ads, well, if they don't their competition does. So they go for those with highest traffic and engagement. Again motivating sites to keep user on their sites and keep engagement up. For MSM, and social media, this means controversy and click bait.

So even if Facebook was willing to stop to be used for propaganda, ahich I highly doubt, it could very well be that Facebbok is unable to do so to begin with. They let it happen and they have a tremendous amount of power, they don't and risk becoming irrelevant and loosing that power.
The article provides little genuine commentary or solutions other than "Stallman bad, FSF board bad for appointing him".
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It actually depends, but mostly - yes
The article clarifies what "broke" means for Forbes.

> Over the last four decades, Feeney has donated more than $8 billion to charities, universities and foundations worldwide through his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies. When I first met him in 2012, he estimated he had set aside about $2 million for his and his wife's retirement. In other words, he's given away 375,000% more money than his current net worth.

So yeah, I wish I'd be broke with a $2 million net worth.
Ask HN: How have you recovered from repeated job losses
This goes for the emotional, social, or professional tolls, particularly in those situations where the job loss was a result of burnout or your own actions and where your sense of self or motivation was deeply affected. I'd be curious as well about how a layoff might have affected those outcomes.

If you haven't recovered, please share your story as well :)
I disagree that this article is a dupe, if you're the one that flagged it as such
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Interesting, looks like he's actually supposed to be released from prison today:

> Butler is currently incarcerated at FCI Victorville Medium 2 in California, he expected to be released April 14, 2021.
> HTTP, javascript and TLS have also shown that a sufficiently motivated set of actors can move the ecosystem forward.

Absolutely. PGP could be decent. Unfortunately efail and sks[1] show it's actors aren't sufficiently motivated.

[1] https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/f716c3ff4a7068b50f2d8896e54...
Writers don’t write headlines. Neither the article nor the billionaire mention broke, other than “go for broke”....search the article.

You fell for it, and this is why publications choose the headlines themselves. They know what riles people up.
But isn't the correct reform her to make the freelancers pay taxes to put them on an equal footing with everyone else? They seem to have fucked up everything about the details, but the general direction seems the correct one: equal taxation for everyone.
I think you might have misread -- it's saying that the bandwidth was awful UNLESS using a VPN, i.e. no VPN was the slower option.
What an absolutely horrible sentiment. Just because this is not something you'd consider doing does not mean it's not something someone can feel proud of.
You're right with the varying amounts of trust in different social structures, but recent developments in and adjacent to the crypto space are a whole new level of lack of trust.

The country may not trust their citizens when it comes to paying taxes, but it's not an absolute lack of trust. They set up regulations outlining rules and punishments, back them with various enforcement mechanisms, and... they trust it's enough for vast majority of the citizens.

They trust most people will be nudged towards paying the right amount of taxes - that's why they don't generally surveil every single transaction you're making. It's hard for a regular person to get on the IRS radar in a way other than interacting with government services in a weird way somehow. When they notice something suspicious, they will follow up, but the process set in the aforementioned laws is again very much trust-based, giving the suspect the ability to explain themselves at various stages, and not digging through one's entire life until late in the process. It's based on a reasonable assumption that most of the issues a country's IRS would flag are honest mistakes.

Same with every other process in most (all?) societies. There are directions, nudges, deterrents. Not total surveillance. But the newest trends in technology businesses seem to desperately want to move us towards the latter.
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This looks a lot like the quincuncial projection applied to a cube map render, with some custom logic to subtly warp geometry in a stable way so as to make certain details pop based on distance. You can try for yourself by downloading blinky (formerly fisheye quake) [1] and experimenting with the projections. That said, it's probably not just a projected cube map. Doing so will introduce noticeable sampling artifacts, so I am guessing they also do something more to address such issues.

[1] https://github.com/shaunlebron/blinky
The point of the change is to enable business messaging, which is necessary for WhatsApp to generate any real revenue.
That also sounds like Bitcoin
> whether multiple assignments is readable or not,

That's the whole point: multiple assignments (and everything else) are NEITHER readable NOR unreadable, objectively.

There is no way to argue either way. Appeal to majority is a fallacy, so it's a non starter. Other than that, there's no data, no hard facts, no measures, nothing to talk about!

Again: multiple assignements (and everything else) may feel easier to read to you. It's just a feeling. There are bound to be people who feel differently. Both positions are equally subjective.

It's further complicated by the fact that readability is NOT a simple function of lexical structure. The exact same line of code can be unreadable to you at one point, then once you learn the intent or rule behind it, it magically becomes redable. It just "clicks" and suddenly you have no problems with reading it.

There are some properties which seem to correlate with readability, like predictability. There are some hard constraints due to how the eye is built. Even if you narrow those as much as possible, the space of possible syntaxes and styles which fit in these is absulutely HUGE.

I mentioned APL. This is an example taken from the front page of APL wiki:

','(≠⊆⊢)'comma,delimited,text'
┌─────┬─────────┬────┐
│comma│delimited│text│
└─────┴─────────┴────┘

And this is the commentary below it: "many functions can be expressed in fewer characters than even the shortest fitting name. For example ≠⊆⊢ is but three characters, while you would need five for the name Split"

They argue that "≠⊆⊢" is more readable than "Split". And, to them, it IS - once they learned the language. This suggests that readability is much more dependent on your knowledge, skills, and habits, than on the objective shape of piece of code.

I went out of my way to learn the widest possible variety of programming languages. The spectrum of things considered readable or not is so wide that it's really hard to find ANY points common to all of the languages. If there even are any!

So, again, step outside of your bubble and your mind will be blown.
Also, with wasm you are now dealing with memory leaks and hunting them down, is no fun at the moment.
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You can bridge through JavaScript. It's not a big deal in practice. WASM is still very immature. You do not want to build your whole app in WASM if you want to keep a full head of hair.
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Everyone is reacting to the title. Authors don’t choose their own titles. Neither the article nor the former billionaire mentioned broke.

Please read a bit further and consider the plan as it actually was conceived, a plan to give away virtually all of his money in his lifetime. Don’t let the headline writer spin you.

Literally the first paragraph clarifies the plan:

> As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While Living—spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity bets instead of funding a foundation upon death.
But it's certainly not unusual to hide piles of paperwork, magazines, bills and suchlike. Even the comparatively lightweight tidying process we use in the UK generally hides that much.
That wikipedia article mentions he is expected to be released today, April 14, 2021.
You can do it for quite a while with mousewheel = jump (which isn't considered scripting). Doing it effectively / keeping the speed does require practice. Was way easier in 1.6 and source tho.
The core difference that makes this new problem more worrying is, Panopticon only created a perception of being constantly watched. The managers/guards could see into every cell, but not all of them at the same time - but the workers/prisoners couldn't know if they're being watched at any given moment, so they had to assume they were.

As bad as it is, it's still better than actually being constantly watched.
To me, your comment sums up modern online discourse.

"Billionaire gives away all his wealth"

"BULLSHIT, HE ISN'T HOMELESS, THIS IS OFFENSIVE TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO WEALTH"
This is just stupid. Children don't have an income but they would be subject to a poll tax. In fact, you would run into the same problem with inmates in prison. Not only is a part of the population unable to work, there is a part of the population that is not allowed to work at all.

If we are going to have a pissing contest about tax reforms the we should abolish corporate income tax and capital gains tax and replace both with slightly lowered income taxes.
After you did this simplification you would then replace income taxes by land value taxes. This wouldn't get rid of things like mandatory health insurance contributions.

I'm honestly pissed how companies are forced to play tax games for the global race to the bottom. Nothing should stand in the way of a honest corporation earning money through productive work. They shouldn't do weird things like stockpile cash abroad and get into debt within the country. No company should prefer stock buybacks over dividends simply because of tax efficiency. All of this is stupid and that is why we should get rid of it.

Meanwhile your idea is just your own flavor of "private market over everything".
Fire him, obviously.

But that's an interesting example. The guy is doing a poor job, so if you want to be impartial, you should fire him for not meeting your expectations.

But it is natural to understand why he is doing a poor job. I mean, maybe it is just a temporary personal issue (ex: sick kids), or maybe just not his fault (ex: task more complex than expected, broken IT, etc...). Or maybe he needs training. It is fair to fire him without trying to understand?

Unfortunately, one possibility is dishonesty, as it is the case for your employee. And that's when surveillance comes in. You can flip the argument of "accept monitoring or get fired" around in favor of the employee as in "you are doing a poor job, normally we would fire you for that, but it may not be your fault, so if you allow us to make sure of that (by monitoring), we will try to find another solution".

Of course, it can and is often abused, but it is not black and white.
In my experience, those who moan about the simplicity of others' work are the least likely to release something of their own.

Not everything needs to have a machine learning moon-rocket-launching cryptomining discombobulator to be useful and a job well done.
> I guess I just want confirmation - is this industry only for people who very self motivated and don't expect any hand-holding?

I'm afraid that's mostly the case. That's why it pays so much BTW - you're expected to be thrown into a middle of complex shitstorm and start delivering value soon afterwards. In return, you get a salary in 90-95th percentile. My best recommendation is to not change projects too often - after at most two years on a project (unless it's some absolute behemoth like MS Word or Unreal Engine), you become one of the project elders, who touched most of the areas of the code already and for whom working is a breeze.
The state has no monopoly on force. The US armed forces are made up of US citizens. They are sworn to defend the constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic. That could include a president and congress, it could include corporations, it could include Canada.

The narrative of armed citizens operating in a structure to defend citizens and the constitution works fine if you don't have armed citizens operating in a structure to defend citizens and the constitution.

If you lose hearts and minds of one group armed US citizens (the military), why is your group of armed citizens any more justified?

If you don't lose it, why do you need the armaments?
All the comments declaring that $2m isn't broke are not seeing the wood for the trees. No other person in history has given away this much of their wealth whilst living. No-one.

Yes the headline might be misleading but ffs stop nit picking and fully appreciate what he's done
Nobody is going to accept this as payment for something illicit. They know you've seen the private key. They have no reason not to assume you have something set up to sweep the wallet as soon as they accept the "payment."
Back when radio became popular in the 20s and 30s, the new propaganda oppertunities helped Facsim to rise. Now we have a similar situation, only that social media is the new medium being used for propaganda. And as societies, we have yet to figure out how to manage that on scale. Beyond making mney (the platforms) or using it to manipulate opinion. Ultimately I think we will figure it ou, or get used to it. The path o that is what worries me sometimes, so.
Compilations are derivatives of original work. There is nothing inherently wrong with compilations being more popular but the effort put into it is much less. Clicks don't take effort or other metrics into account.

Thinking about this more deeply raises more questions: What is effort? Is it measured in time or competence needed? Is promoting less effort? How could it be achieved that the credit distributes adequately across original work and derivatives?