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Or gradually increase the API latency so the system still produces correct results but the users are increasingly motivated to upgrade to the new API.

I like the idea of encouraging clients to handle API errors more robustly, but the type of client developers that are slow to upgrade to the new API might also write sloppy code. Their client will break but they’re likely to blame your service.
I have a feeling that this robot would allow to care for multiple plants growing in symbiosis
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> The problem is that the best CEOs might not go for that.

We created that system, we can change it. CEO entitlement is part of the problem because it has become burned into our culture that they are demigods. They are not.
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I'm surprised there's only one other person in this discussion who has mentioned swim lanes. They are incredibly useful!

Swimlanes are basically process flow diagrams (aka flow charts) but with lanes that indicate which actor or system performs each process.

At my company, if an engineer gets tasked with a logically complex feature or a feature that involves multiple different systems, then we will often require them to use swimlanes to diagram out their new feature before they start coding it. The flow chart makes it easier for the business owner to double check the logic before it's implemented. The lanes help the engineer better understand more intuitive ways to organize their code (classes, methods, etc) and the interactions it will create. Without the lanes, code organization on logically complex features involving multiple actors can go off the rails pretty quickly.

For database table specs we use ERDs.
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tailrec only handles "tail" recursion, i.e. tail calls to itself. This is far weaker than general tail "call" optimization required by the technique in the article.
It should be doable to have a number of flying mirror platforms with scan and ID done centrally and once located kill pulses can be sent down. These kills could come via another platform at another time once the weed location is known and memorised. It is even possible for a small fixed wing drone(with 10x the flight duration) to be used. The ID process is a light task and can be readily moved from field to field. The laser killer with the needed wattage can be trucked from field to field, and use a similar flying mirror set to aim/kill from the prelocated targets.
From what I read about mosquito killing, the tech is capable AND plants are not even moving targets.
That said, many moths and flying beetles are large targets and could be targeted and killed to deal with many pests.
Records from this era (1898-1950s) had at least 2 different groove widths. If the playback stylus is thicker than the groove, the record is damaged. This is what has prevented me from listening to my great-grandparents' collection. Every time I go to purchase 78 RPM styli, I'm dumbfounded at the options and don't know which stylus to use for each record.
And so they go for stock buyback strategies. Reduce the supply, the stock skyrockets, cash in, leave.
The "rest of the world" created the vaccines that Americans are using, other than Moderna.
>Nearly every MML post on HN is filled with comments deriding the usefulness of ponzi schemes, and yet we still pretty frequently see governments attempt to ban and outlaw them. Interesting.

Not saying BTC is that, but just because the government is against it doesn't mean it's suddenly useful
I could easily be wrong on this, but my understanding is that a laser is highly focused to one spot. A lens would have a wider spread and would also heat up the area surrounding the target to the point that it could ignite.
pcmag.com repeats a small part of this story from Axios, which is much more informative:

https://www.axios.com/roku-google-youtube-tv-dispute-525316c...
The advantage with tractor-pulled is lower cost and higher reliability. The propulsion, guidance, and power-supply problem has been dealt with by industry already and is already owned by the farmer. The autonomous weeding machine will undoubtedly have issues with these three functions, which means down-time and cost. The machine would be cheaper if tractor-pulled, and the developers could focus on the problem at hand. Also, the tractor driver could periodically stop to monitor and tweak the weed killer, especially important given the new technology. We did a recent project with a farming implement that could have been autonomous, and when one is realistic with reliability and maintenance costs (unless one intends a McDonald's ice-cream machine repair business model) then the argument for tractor-pulled is very strong.
This is awesome, I love that it will reduce the need for pesticides.

When I read people talk about how hard it is to find labor I think to myself "Well, maybe if you paid them more it would be easier to find laborers". I worked in manufacturing for a few years and plant managers were often stating the difficulty in finding laborers. I imagine offering higher wages would make it easier to find workers. No?

> "It's harder to find people to do that work every single year," vegetable farmer Shay Myers told the Seattle Times.
If paying taxes becomes voluntary, people are only going to pay for policies that benefit them, rather than what is in the public interest. Social stability, and fairness, would be likely to suffer.
off the top of my head: DeFi, NFT's, data storage, services for the bankless, decentralized metaverses, insurance, synthetics, music streaming, video streaming, social networks, DAO's, social money
I spend a lot of time on reddit and do not identify with your comment at all.
> In which case my bank is probably fine.

Yeah it's not like bank failures were a thing.

>Just suggesting you let off the tinfoil gas pedal a tiny bit.

lay off the insults, would you?
> I didn't see a solid definition on how a failing government is defined

I was going to say the same thing!

I would be interested in breaking down the question into much more comprehensible chunks such as, "What does a Government do that they are unable to do effectively by definition?"; "Is there a balance between public and private sector providing services to the taxpayer and how do we decide the balance?"; "If a Government is necessarily slow-moving, what is the correct way to achieve fast-acting and tactical solutions that will be accepted by the public when the time comes to do them?"

I think a really common issue is that Governments are seen as a single entity, when in fact they are more like an ever-changing combination of ideals, abilities and pragmatism. The UK Government is not the same now as it was even 6 months ago, so learning lessons never really works. Any retired Politicians going to face the music for a decision made 10 years ago?
If you prevent CEOs from selling their stock for the next X years, sure.
Imagine if Durov put up a donation link on his channel. I wonder what happens if I use a real credit card in the demo shop.
Author here. It's hardly ruining my business, it's just a nuisance. I have long denounced cryptocurrencies since well before this incident, including on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I don't think so. We just have to crack physics and then sort out how they come about. Considering that two hundred years ago we thought the universe was 4 thousand years old, we have progressed a lot. Just give it a bit of time, is my humble opinion.
I'm not following your argument.

One issue if bitcoin is that countries will block it because countries don't want to loose the co trol over currency.

It is also purely against btc not the idea of cryptocurrency or the thought of having one global trusty cryptocurrency.

My personal btc hatred comes from the huge energy waste though.
The cost of 12 months of a dating site is trivial compared to the benefits of finding the right person. If someone offered you a soulmate if you gave them a couple hundred dollars, you'd take it in a second, right? Paying ahead actually aligns your incentives better, because the site is no longer incentivized to drag you along single month after month to keep you paying.
"Help we need to do something about Malaria, it's killing all of my family members."

"This is not an objective take, his family is being affected. Malaria is not a problem."
nobody ever does anything in the public interest unless it is beneficial to themselves, or they are threatened with jail.
Or weeds that grow laser cannons to fight back. Might be a great alternative to traditional home security systems.
If smoking is so bad for you, how come the government has to tax cigarettes and put warning labels on them?
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> you have never been on a board of a company and had the responsibility to hire and fire them.

Think about that statement, just for 5 seconds. Please.

You do realize very, very few people meet this criteria. And their opinions still matter because they are impacted.
Came here to say this. Seconded!
On using to-do lists efficiently
That's because it is illogical. A company may outsource some of its creative inputs, like graphics design or music for a game. That does not mean that creative work can be automated.

There are different reasons for outsourcing - lack of talent in-house, lack of time etc. Cost reduction may not be the only issue, and not every "cheap" task can be automated, either.
If we talk about professional use, then Powerpoint (many years ago), then Visio (also many years ago), then yEd (by yWorks, https://www.yworks.com/products/yed). Then there are a ton of specialized open-source tools, with varying quality. Mermaid improved a lot. PlantUML has a lot of options, but I would not use it professionally. draw.io has also plenty of options, but has some usability issues in the frame of a frequent, professional use.

For anything UML-related, Enterprise Architect is quite good, but boy you better know UML. That ain't user-friendly in the least. But super powerful and there are a few more like that out there with somewhat limited free versions.

Long story short, my best choice is yEd. And I still reach out to Powerpoint every now and then.
Cool new stuff. The new web clients are pretty nice, while the old one sucked terribly. The Android app does keep getting smoother and the new features are cool, I guess (though I don't use payments at all).

There's a background to the new web download, however: They've recently started blocking some channels with the message "This message can't be displayed on Telegram apps downloaded from the Google Play Store".

It's also new (and quite cool) to me that reproducible builds are apparently now a thing - the FOSS version of Telegram used to lag way behind the official one which made it pretty difficult to use.
At first blush this seems pretty ridiculous, but many scientific truths seem that way when you first encounter them. Grapefruit juice shouldn't be combined with statins. Ulcers are caused by a stomach bacteria. Alcohol is a powerful carcinogen. Old T-shirts protect against sun better than new ones. Cats can trigger schizophrenia.
You might want to check LocalBitcoin's usage in Venezuela [1] to get a clearer picture. It's not pure propaganda.

[1] https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES
> I dont like how Apple spin this as investment in the headline, when it is clearly contribution. If you buy something at Walmart, or any of your daily needs, is that an investment in US?

You can argue yes, if you pay Walmart $50 for eggs and stuff. That means Walmart pays taxes (goes to the Gov), Walmart pays employees (so they can buy other stuff), Walmart buys a product (paying every individual person from shipping to receiving, etc). Opposite would be saying going to Canada and buying it all, and all you would pay would be an import fee. Or buying something from Aliexpress and getting free shipping, which is probably a net value on the US economy.

But you can also argue no, cause it's so small that it is almost insignificant.
> lol what? Is US dollar moral?

What exactly is your argument?

> Is it not also "smoke-and-mirrors" by your definition since it's just paper that we all believe has value?

USD is backed by the mostly aligned incentives of the whole world in general, and the biggest company in the world in particular, and by the largest military might and nuclear arsenal, ultimately.

USD is paper and bits we believe has value. BTC is bits that most people believe doesn't have value. And that everyone knows will never displace USD because (see above) won't allow it.
Replace option contracts with RSUs or a vesting cliff and see how closely that resembles the VC fiefdom
I think technically minded HN types normally get filtered out during jury selection anyway, as lawyers seek witnesses who are less logical and more malleable. Not sure if it's an urban legend but I've heard it quite a few times from people who were summoned but not selected.
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And you have only one CEO - so their comp is expensive, but not hugely expensive relative to total org costs.

Apple has Tim Cook. In terms of investors evaluation of his ability to generate profits - let's say apple is going to do $400B in sales, and you think Tim's approach over time will yield a 3% improved margin. Is he then worth $12B/year? CEO's have enormous influence on a companies direction.

Investors will automate MANY MANY things before they automotive the CEO's job.

Let's be a bit serious. What would make Walmart investors more nervous:

1) Being asked to pay all workers $35/hr, or

2) paying the CEO an extra $1M/year?

1.6M employees * 40K+ pay increase = $64 Billion per YEAR. Let's get a grip on what
Suit yourself, you will be able to get the new editions of ISO 10303-242 and ISO 10303-239 that use SysML in a couple of years.

ISO 10303-243 will not provide an EXPRESS schema at all, only JSON.
Seems like ecocide only gets pulled out as a theory for mysterious culture collapse when the next best alternative is "I have absolutely no idea."

Are we really scraping the bottom of the barrel here and dreaming up something that probably didn't happen, or are there genuine, on the record, circumstances of well known and understood communities accidentally committing some sort of (minor to catastrophic?) ecocide on themselves that they had to deal with?

Eg. Messing up their home and having to move on.
But you're just proving my point: you get to 1 pound and 10p before you get to 2 pounds. So you get to a zero, 1.10, before you reach 2. That's the point of decimals that I am not understanding why people are ignoring.
Are you saying that we should have competitive governments? Interesting idea!

Unfortauntely, I think the states are too high at government level. Nothing too bad will happen when one trash company takes over from another trash company but what would happen if some random group took over the defence policy for a country because the current government didn't seem to be doing very well at it?
> What will you do with your bitcoins if your bank accounts are frozen and you can't get any fiat ?

You fly to a different country. It handles the finance side of things, nobody expects bitcoin to your bodyguard.

>If things are bad enough that they block your accounts I'm fairly sure you wouldn't be able to take a plane anyway.

While it's entirely possible that you land in a situation where your bank accounts are frozen and can't get on a plane, I can think of plenty of situations where only your accounts are frozen.
Sure, if you compensate me for my time and effort in doing so. I'll compile a report for you for 0.0037 sats.
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Same as cigaretes. No matter how much someone from tobaco industry tells you in what ways cigaretes are useful to you, goverment wants to ban (limit) how much you use them. Does not make cigaretes useful.
Most of humanity was suffering for the past 11000 years. Almost everyone lived in extreme poverty.
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> I don't see how this is worse than short-term stock compensation

The CEO has an incentive not to destroy the existing value in pursuit of large gains. With compensation based on the industry spread, they may as well risk any existing value as it is worthless to them.

Currently: A CEO who does nothing but keep the stock price where it is would get 2 million. If he performs as well as average, he might get 4 million. If he beats the industry, he gets 6 million.

With leveraged spread system: A CEO who does nothing but keeps the stock price stable gets 0. A CEO who performs as well as industry gets 0. If he beats industry, he gets 6.
This study of 370,000+ participants suggests both AZ and Pfizer seem to produce good protection after a single dose

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-23-significant-reductions-...
It sounds like that only shows that they have the ability to cause a negative impact, not that they add significant value the rest of the time.
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [1] (emphasis mine)

The comments section is for discussion, why not discuss?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People would import food.
Did the government fail?

I don't know. We got a vaccine remarkably quickly and the governments (federal and state) distributed it efficiently. I don't blame the government for not taking the virus seriously to start with. SARS and MERS didn't pan out and people, on the left and right (including me), figured COVID would be the same. Some people predicted COVID would be bad but it wasn't crazy to think COVID wouldn't turn into a pandemic.

The countries that did well with COVID are mostly islands and East Asian countries. I doubt the "Chinese and Japanese are really obedient"-type expanations. I wonder if some East Asian countries had antibodies from similar viruses that flew under the radar and granted partial immunity. That's pure speculuation...but even if those countries suceeded due to law and order, that's a double-edged sword. Do we really want to build our society to survive viruses with the fewest causalities or are there perhaps higher ideals (freedom, self determiniation) that we should aspire to? And of course there's no freedom without the freedom to be wrong.

> And where the world needs to head is to establish new means of producing credibility and good reputation that are robust to current technologies. What we’re now calling “populism” might turn out to be the least of our problems.

In terms of populism stuff, I think there's some truth to the idea here that the internet has led to the unmasking of leaders/government as incompetent. To some degree, modern populism consists of people recoiling in horror after realizing just how dumb you can be while holding power. But it's easy to notice other people being wrong and quite hard to do any better yourself. Mostly, these populist movements seem bereft of ideas and are just expressing incoherent outrage.

It will be interesting to see if the internet makes it possible to have better, more accountable governments. I don't discount the possibility. The thing that worries me is that, in my opinion, more transparency is in some sense the problem. We learn about governmental incompetence via the internet but the internet also turns politicians into influencers, and that's a signiciant part of the problem too.
Inability to drive internal decisions and/or CYA.

You can see it even more clearly with "consultancy." The reason consultancies can get away with using so many newly minted MBAs, is that what most of them do is just reflect back the to the company what their employees already knew, but in a form that is consumable and justifies the business case for that action.

There is some internal reason why the organization can't just make the decision, even though plenty of employees know what needs to get done. It could be weak leadership, inability to take risks, analysis paralysis, fear of unfamiliar territory, unwillingness to own the risk (CYA) and even more dysfunctional characteristics (like different teams unwilling to talk to each other). Brining in someone external can cut through much of that mess.
> Regarding the "no company would do this type of deal again": good! We don't need companies that get free expansion and IP with the promises of delivery, just to find out they won't deliver.

We don’t need companies that save lives? Regardless of who got the AZ vaccine first, millions did get it and for some it saved their lives. Anger about a contract dispute seems disproportionate reason to wish AstraZeneca didn’t even exist.
I think the growing sentiment is that these "famous" people are becoming increasingly belittled in the age of the internet. Why care about the Oscars when you could hop on Snapchat and see what your friends are up to, or go take a warm candlelit bath. The market for this sort of entertainment is waning, and even the millennial watchers are mostly there to make fun of it. In many ways, this was always the expected outcome for democratizing art.
>it looks like they want to become like WeChat

Even if they don't want it, they have to. You either become a superapp, or users will flee to other superapps.

>Instead of my transaction being between myself and a merchant it's me, the merchant, and Telegram.

Don't forget about payment processor. That's where data aggregation takes place.
Out of the ~200 countries in the world how many have the capabilities to invent and produce a vaccine ?

It's a fact, the vast majority of the world cannot come up with a vaccine by themselves, how's that even controversial ?
Crypto miners buy a slab of silicon, plug it in, and its profitable. If this weren't the case, no one would mine it. Cryptocurrency is a fungus; either it will die, or it will eat up as much electricity & high-powered silicon as miners can get their hands on, diverting both from more economically interesting and productive applications. If I have one or two computers; that's enough. I don't need anymore. There is never "enough" computers for miners; they will always want more, because more electricity & computers means more money.

This is not theoretical. This is happening. Its destroying any service which dares to offer free tiers of generic compute. Its had a significant impact on a global silicon shortage the likes of which we've never seen, impacting products from graphics cards and work computers to cars and defense hardware.

That's it; there's no other correct opinion, only incorrect ones. If you support cryptocurrency, you support the environmental collapse of our planet. We don't need it; its die-hard supporters are either profit-motivated or have nothing beyond a grade-school understanding of historical macroeconomic trends and the broad, undeniably negative impact immutable currencies like Gold & Silver had on the average person's standard of living during economic downturns.
> This article has multiple issues
The average size of the board of a company in the S&P 500 is 10.8 directors. However, only 43% of CEOs serve on any outside boards. The implication is that the vast majority of board directors are not CEOs of large companies.

Data from https://www.briefinggovernance.com/2016/12/board-composition...
Imagine you have 50 EC2 instances and each of them suffers 15% downtime monthly. Amazon is asking money to reboot them and get them up and running.