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Off topic, but Bill Bryson is such a fantastic author.
I often wonder if some diy scientist is working on some Nikola Tesla project at home.
YC is probably the easiest way to get VCs to notice you. But given how selective it is, that could be tougher than traction.

Maybe throwing out a third then -- get people in your network to introduce you to VCs. Also hard, but startups just aren't easy I guess.
Big ugh to browser based tooling, and yet also continued unification around Jupyter? Are there any plans to have a non-browser Jupyter?
I’m doing that for almost 15 years already, and lately I really don’t see value added by it.

Unfortunately I’m still trying to find a way to replace it and get buy in from colleagues and management.

1. It doesn’t really help planning work, unless it’s always the same work. It’s a placebo.

1.1. e.g. team velocity is 20 points , but things are going to work very differently in a sprint with 4 stories of 5 SP and 10 stories of 2 SP. Mainly because the SP includes risk and complexity.

2. Recently saw someone comparing two teams, one doing 80 points the other doing 30. The problem: the former SP range was up to 13, the latter SP range was up to 5, rarely 8. So it still not transferable and meaningless outside it's own context.

3. Not comparable between peers, it doesn't map to the same levels of complexity, amount of work and risk for different people. Mostly people map SP to a range of days or hours and it differs as it's not standardized among peers.

In my team setting I would prefer no estimates and a commitment based approach, but that kinda leaves management without numbers to count besides features and bugs delivered (which is good enough to me).
Is LTE necessary? It seems that 3G or even 2G might suffice, and might be cheaper?
These cables would work for power and maybe even Ethernet.

The problem with USB is that the protocol is designed with no data loss in mind. A single bit flip due to EM interference or bad cable, and the camera firmware (or the host driver) hangs and require a restart. Intel RealSense and Microsoft Kinect Azure cameras all have to be plugged into USB hubs which allow power cycling. Otherwise, it's just not practical. And even then, after a few hundreds of hours the frequency of restarts it degrades even further.

I might sound a bit dramatic, it's mostly that my scars are too fresh.
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results [pdf]
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and two options: "Subscribe" and "I am already a subscriber"

That's like the "No, thanks, I am stupid" dark pattern, but somehow more stupid and less dark.
1) Looters don't reseal pyramids.

2) Archeologists who unseal pyramids don't steal bodies and then simultaneously claim there were bodies in there. That would be self incriminating.

3) If pyramids were looted and found unsealed then the tomb theory is unsubstantiated.

4) Countless civilizations have done construction on the pyramids (including our own). Evidence of construction is not evidence of creation.

5) Copper & Brass can not reasonably be used to cut Granite. The Great Pyramid had impeccable precision. It is BY FAR the most precise Pyramid ever discovered.

6) The link you provided me is where the 200 men figure comes from.

You clearly have an interest in this topic. I suggest you do more research or if I'm wrong about something, be so kind as to provide supporting evidence with your claims.
> According to an Uber survey in October, 20%, of uber drivers are unsatisfied working for the company [1]. If you want to work for Uber, and you can work any time you'd like, why would you be dissatisfied with working there?

20% is good for job dissatisfaction. Why would you be dissatisfied working there? Because you'd rather be doing something else. That's why they pay you.
The issue is the exact same thing applies to your plumber. So either you owe him decades of back pay and healthcare or it is OK to hire people for a job and not keep them permanently...
I think the bigger problem is the lack of citizen representation. Individual legislators are servicing an absolutely huge number of constituents, which means that their elections cover absolutely massive amounts of people, necessitating massive amounts of money for campaigns. Which means that the influence comes from donors, as they are the ones who enable reelection.

It also means that outside money can lead to successful primaries of otherwise popular legislators, if the legislator doesn't toe the line required. There used to be many Republicans that not only publicly agreed that climate change is a real, human-caused, phenomenon and that also proposed action to solve the problem. After a few legislators got primaried out of their seats, this position is no longer allowed at all in public statements by Republicans, because most legislators are too scared to risk being primaried.

Increasing the House of Representatives by ten fold or more might help.

Getting rid of many of the procedures that prevent votes from happening would probably help too.

And of course, overturning Citizens United...
I've been writing a GameBoy emulator in Rust too haha, though as I've written one before, I'm looking at this more in the context of a static recompilation exercise. Building a GameBoy on an FPGA has been another ongoing pet project.

The canonical reference for anyone building a GameBoy emulator are the Pan Docs [1, 2] -- originally written by Pan, then maintained by Martin Korth of NO$GMB.

[1] https://gbdev.io/pandocs/

[2] https://github.com/gbdev/pandocs
> Basically, in the quest to return to a more healthy, natural diet, some folks end up moving to foods that are more and more processed.

Is less processing always more healthy? It's often touted as such but adding some processing can unlock nutrients vs eating raw, right?

Spinach for example, when eaten raw, has less bioavailable iron than if it were "processed" by steaming.
I do not miss the 2 hours of commute. I get far more done working from home.

I am not sure what the future holds, but I will push for more remote work if I have the option.
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever gotten a cold/the flu, at least not since I was a young kid, and I don't take much care to do anything on your list. Sure, I'll wash my hands after using a restroom or before prepping food. But I'll definitely walk into a restaurant (pre-covid) and just start eating a burger without washing my hands first.

I feel the biggest factor is just what body and immune system you have... Some people I know just get sick constantly, multiple times a year, and they don't seem to do much of anything differently than I do. I don't think they're secretly licking doorknobs when no one is looking.
On the contrary.. Phelps is on the left here: https://www.si.com/.image/c_limit/MTY4MTg2NTcxMTk0MzEyMDY0/p...
I'm curious, do you have a link or image of what that "almond milk" you used to have was?

Obviously searching for the various possible terms gives results mostly from recent times, about the vegan almond milk.
I agree completely but one exception for me is using Boca burger as a sub for ground beef. If I chop them up, season them and then use the result in chili or something it really does give it, to me anyway, the "taste" and "texture" of ground beef.

I know I'm tasting the seasoning I used and the infusion of other flavors from the chili more than the taste of the soy burger but my stomach doesn't care, to me it's just as satisfying as chili (or stew, etc.) made with beef.
> my mom has managed to keep all the videos and photos of key events in my childhood safe and intact for 40 years without having to put them on a public distributed ledger

No offense, but in all likelihood no one is attempting to counterfeit or pirate your Mom's videos and photos of your childhood, and ownership/p2p ownership transfers are not material.

There are almost infinite real world examples were ownership records are benefited by blockchain technologies over centralized services. Take property deeds, usually kept and recorded at the County level, there is almost endless fraud with people filing forged quitclaim deeds on a daily basis. That would be an example of a public record, but their are private record keeping examples such as stock certificates. Usually the "Dole" case is the most famous example, where you have a publicly traded company with all the benefits of corporate record keeping, stock trusts and banks, and centralized stock exchanges, but when the buyer went to take it private low and behold the public company with all the centralized safe guards in the world should have had a total capitalization of 36M shared but somehow had about 49M share issued, it only ended up in $150M in damages, but this could not have happened using blockchain and most agree nearly every publicly traded company likely would have the same inconsistencies.
I'm enjoying it while it lasts.... pretty sure it won't last.

Human nature and micro-managers will get back on top of things in short order.
> The U.S. plans to address some of these systemic issues with an upcoming executive order that will require agencies to identify their most critical software and promote a “bill of materials” that demands a certain level of digital security across products sold to the government.

Interesting, no mention of any requirements towards software manufacturers themselves.

If you think about it, this will further incentivize poor-quality software as responsibility of vulnerability response is now being laid on the product owner.
On average I was going to three doctors a week. Mostly trying to find out what the heck was going on with me. Each outing would eat up all of my energy for a couple of days. I have nothing left for work family or generally life.

At a certain point I had to stop going to the doctor so I would be able to get enough hours in keep keep the house.
Lots of vegan cheeses are made from Almonds. In the US, most Almonds are grown in California using irrigating diverted from major waterways.

Don't eat Almonds from California, they are contributing to a major ecological disaster in the state.
I'll insert the bugs, and you can fix them, and we'll make bank together!
For clarity: are you genuinely claiming that you believe school closures prevent influenza transmission but that you think other related mitigation strategies like mask-wearing, restaurant closures, work-from-home, etc... don't?

That seems a little denialist, honestly.
The flu isn't a "mild illness" for everyone. Again, stop assuming that everyone is as healthy as you are. The flu kills many people every year.
Israel examining heart inflammation cases in people who received Pfizer Vaccine
I appreciate this post. I have one or two points to make about what you've said here (none of which is wrong)

> because that would juice adoption of their library in the wild

That requires a lot of people to be using older versions, that is, it assumes there's an audience of people who are interested in using older Rusts. But we don't have that in Rust, even if it was that way with Node. Look at this chart from our survey last year: https://blog.rust-lang.org/images/2020-12-rust-survey-2020/r...

There isn't a huge audience to get adoption from if you support a wider array of versions; the vast majority of users seem to be using the latest stable.

> and treated changing that as a breaking change (major version bump),

This is controversial, because in some sense you're not wrong, but this also creates a lot of churn, and churn that doesn't really have to happen. In a model where most folks target the latest stable, you're creating tons of work for most of your users, at the expense of making things slightly better for a very small number of users.
I mean that's great - but I don't think it's necessary, it's a name not a trademark. I was trying to point out that its unfortunate when names collide.
Whoops, didn't mean to include a start time, can't edit it. Be kind, rewind.
Apologies that’s a new one on me I guess it hasn’t made it to my neck of the woods yet! I don’t think the similar effort around meats has gone so well ...

EDIT still ongoing and not yet legislated you can still buy “vegan cheese” for now https://m.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/amendment-171-34-pol...

It’s interesting that your jurisdiction is so proactive in this area!
I don't think Greg was totally off base, though I do think he could have been more restrained. Aditya was essentially spamming the reviewers with bad patches and doing zero due diligence, including, significantly, not responding to anyone pointing out flaws in the commits[0]; he did get the benefit of the doubt at first and had the opportunity to clear things up. Ultimately though he was collateral damage of his advisor's involvement with the previous study. One of the risks of deception studies, especially if performed unethically or irresponsibly, is that loss of trust.

Edit: While I don't think that suspicions or distrust were unreasonable, Leon's declaration that the commits were a direct continuation of the "hypocrite" research did escalate things unnecessarily[1]. I'm disappointed, though not surprised, by how many people--both commenters and tech news outlets--ran with that as the story at face value.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407155031.GA1014852@redhat... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bd3c84bc-6ae0-63e9-61f2-5cf64a9... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407153458.GA28924@fieldses...

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/
> 40% margin to the certified contractor who is doing glorified project management.

This makes sense. My dad was an engineer working for the Feds. Really the job is technical project management and oversight. In the US there is a fetish for keeping the government workforce small. Which then results in outsourcing things at great expense.

Example I've heard that part of the reason there were delays and and cost overruns with the eastern span of the bay bridge was because CALTRANS didn't have enough engineers to do effective and timely oversight. Nor engineers with the proper experience.
In CA, the voters were duped by a massive marketing campaign underwritten by employers with interests in the outcome, with perhaps a small amount of "gosh I don't want Uber to cost more" personal interest.
The question is what part of those dollars really buy quality and what part just ends in pockets of well-connected interest groups.

I see this question only rarely asked. Too many people seem to think that shoveling extra money on X will get you better results almost automatically. No, it won't, corruption and special interests can capture that extra value unless the investor is careful.

Now it is true that underfinancing will get you worse results, but the opposite just does not hold.
> social incentives push people towards finding "un-owned niches" and push them into mainstream consciousness

Yeah social incentives are so ass-backwards nowadays. People are actually being rewarded for being seen as victims nowadays, so we're seeing people actually compete for the "highest level of victimhood". We literally just had a princess on Oprah telling her sob story about how the other princes and princesses weren't nice enough to her.

It's a race to the bottom that doesn't actually benefit anyone, doesn't include any mention of figuring out how to fix the root cause of the issue, and reduces the seriousness of actual victims of bad circumstance.
I create my startup Animation CPU and help some projects on the web, gamedev VR/AR, crypto, ML. Here are some links:

https://twitter.com/acpustudio - mobile os and livecoding IDE with new programming language, all images and movies is procedural graphics

https://github.com/web3cryptowallet/Web3CryptoWallet - web3 wallet
Whoa, I'm an ethical vegan and pretty steeped in theory, and I've never encountered this wing before. I doubt I'll agree with them, but I'd be curious to read if you have anything you can link or cite.
This is so very frustrating, and why I wish the LWN article more strongly explained how wrong Greg was.

> particularly after the disgusting response from the researcher after being called out on their shit.

The researcher was slandered publicly by Greg. Greg repeatedly accuses the maintainer of purposefully submitting malicious patches, which he NEVER did. Greg also does so in an extraordinarily insulting way, diminishing the student's skillset, somewhat ironically as the student's research did in fact find bugs in the kernel.

The researcher very rightfully responded the way he did - by calling out the slanderous remarks and removing himself from the Linux Kernel, a project that will no longer benefit from his contributions (which, if you bothered to look into, are far better than Greg gave credit for).

Greg is very much in the wrong here. He is the one who made repeated false accusations.

Please do not continue the very unfortunate attacks against a student who was only trying to submit good-faith patches to the kernel.
The chronic short-term thinking seems to come from the "business" pressures to deliver results by financial quarters to meet specific dates/deadlines. The business is expected to align around these timelines, even where inconvenient.

I've seen car dealers offering significant discounts because they are trying to hit their end-of-quarter target. I've locked-in phone contracts with service at below the actual handset cost (when multiplied out by the contract duration) because I called late in the day on the last day of the quarter, and staff are trying to hit bonuses.

Something you do see a lot in telecoms is entering an outsourcing contract where you transfer your own (skilled, experienced) engineering staff out to the contractor - this is long-term suicide, but in the short-term it reduces your outgoings on the balance sheet.

To me, this is proof that it's just a game of short-term balance-sheet bingo, and I think you hit the nail on the head - the managers won't have to deal with this, as they'll bounce to another "generic business role" and ruin that organisation in a few months.
Something organic gardeners know is that 'mechanical pest control' otherwise known as killing the bugs by hand, often is the most effective but it can be hard on your back.

And the thing is that orchardists already have expensive harvesting equipment. Tech over and over again likes to fix 'greenfield' problems and then act like most of their target audience isn't 'brownfield'. If you wait long enough that becomes true, but you get a lot of nasty surprises that should not be surprising at all in the near term.

A caterpillar picker or an aphid squisher might be a better use for automation. Hell a caterpillar spotter that can classify species without even touching them might be useful enough.
For anyone interested in learning about category theory, this series is very good: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
MIR is not stable, so no. In some world where it was, and stability meant "unchanging" not "adds new features", then yes, in theory, it might be possible. Note that this even doesn't actually solve the parent's problem; they want to use the old compiler to compile the new code, not compile the new code with a new compiler and use that binary as a dependency for their code that's built with the old compiler.
Pro tip when it comes to pasta / pizza.

Forget about vegan cheeses on pizza/pasta. They taste crap.

What tastes really good is ground nuts. I sprinkle a mixture of ground pine nuts, cashew nuts, and tiny bit of pecan, (-/+ possibly some macademia nuts) and it tastes great. When ground properly in the right proportions, this mixture also has that nice fluffy, "cheesy" feel to it (i.e. it's not rough to the touch, it's soft and spreadable).

Different experience from actual cheese, but very tasty. Whereas whenever I've tried vegan cheese on pizza/pasta, they always leave an ugly aftertaste, have a disgusting texture and stick to my teeth and throat, and leave me bloated and feeling like crap afterwards.
More fragmentation. I use Nextdns for my router's DNS, which theoretically allows me to access any domains on the competing Handshake crypto protocol, but I've never actually some across any so far.
I always wonder how these big acquisitions go, because it almost seems obvious when an acquisition happens (depending on companies and products involved), that it will fail.

What were they planning on doing with these companies? Did they look into what made them successful and make genuine attempts to preserve that?

For attempts to gain IP, or simply acquire a product to put it on their balance sheet without changing it, I understand. But I was part of an acquisition that wanted our company because of our culture, talent, and contracts. They said we would have free reign to do everything we normally did. Then slowly but surely they started taking away benefits, reducing bonuses/promotions/raises. This led to talent leaving, and contracts lost. Now it's an empty shell of what it used to be, and no different then the rest of the acquiring company.
Apologies - I meant in order to stay on sick leave in Europe, not for diagnosis purposes.
Yeah i feel like a new UX idea isn't fully appreciated till many years later when they're widely accepted
Perhaps people like living in smaller quarters in cities - the market seems to indicate that, based on the price per square foot people are willing to pay for urban apartments compared with ... anyplace else in the world.
VSCode has a fairly straight forward tasks.json specification for creating arbitrary commands that it can run. Presumably it wouldn't be too hard to add some Voice Recognition + NLP layer on top of this. You could even build it as an extension.
I'm not sure you should disparage the particular knowledge HN posters might have. Also, the level at what this is discussed requires only rudimentary knowledge of antitrust laws, and the applications. So it's not like "qualified to judge" has a degree in law barrier.

> Apple is not a monopoly, so as far as I am concerned they have a right to charge whatever they want

The whole problem with antitrust cases however, is that they leverage their position and exclusiveness to do exactly that. So, your point that "it's not a monopoly because you can chose not to pay for it", is what people are pointing out might be missing the point.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/house-antitrust-subcommittee...
Think of NFTs as trading cards. They have no intrinsic value or link to their subject. Anyone can make an NFT of anything.

You don't own Steph Curry (or any of his earnings) by buying his card. You just own his card.

Now, Steph Curry could certainly sell a share of his earnings along with a trading card, but you would be relying on the legal system and contract law to own those earnings, not really the card itself.
build a 3d printer
What if far more drivers want to work 10:00-16:00 than are needed? In the current situation, the spot price drops and some drivers leave while more riders enter.

As employees, Uber cannot dynamically vary the pay/minute rate, especially if it falls below minimum wage combined with vehicle/gas reimbursement.
This works when your product is something that is B2C or a very B2B direct-sale/SaaS kind of thing. It does not work as well, IME, when you are selling something more enterprise-y or selling through a channel, where the social media and viral marketing approaches basically do not work.