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> That is very inaccurate.

Nah, we just didn't talk about the downsides you're mentioning. The fact that there are downsides doesn't make everything else false.

> 10KLOC

~100KSLOC (e.g., CompCert)

> and even then required teams of world-experts working for years

Definitely. A future might exist where computers are fast enough and where we've uncovered better algorithms in that space so that something else could take the place of Coq and lessen that workload to something manageable for a typical project, but it's pretty hard to use right now.
Check out Lebanon NJ. Still massive tracks of farmland and woods. 50 miles from midtown, currently with property for sale at $50k/acre. 5 mile radius is approximately 50k acres. At $50k/acre = $2.5B. With construction costs of $1B for an 18 mile run in Chicago, the Boring company could make this Lebanon <-> Manhattan for $2.5B. $5B for a 30min commute to Midtown Manhattan, and to break even, you’d only have to sell the land you acquired at $50k/acre at $100k/acre. I’d happily buy a 1 acre plot of land with a 30 min commute time to Midtown for $100k.
Bitcoin mining has a "variable" difficulty. If many are mining, the difficulty rises a lot. Any many many are mining Bitcoin.

See https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator in order to figure out whether your investment (buy the mining equipment, pay for electricity) would be able to break even.
I would bet that Tesla will make an extreme-range electric car whenever they can, just to show off. They're already at 500 miles on the high end.

You might be right for other companies though, until Tesla proves extreme range has a market and they have to catch up again.
It is in fact "Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month" in the US right now. So go ahead and celebrate with some dumplings and a side of poi?

African as a label becomes even stranger when mixed with American. African-American is usually used as a synonym for Black American, despite not all Africans being Black. An Egyptian-American likely would not be called African-American.

We use words weirdly!
which looks like 'hazard' in english, which is (from mw dictionary)

* a source of danger
* the effect of unpredictable and unanalyzable forces in determining events : chance, risk
* a chance event : accident
* a golf-course obstacle (such as a bunker or a pond)
* a game of chance like craps played with two dice

i'd guess there's a connection? i'm no word historian person though...
Agree: multiple visually similar ethnic minorities probably experience "spillover" racial hatred when any of them is does. Internment is a good example.

Disagree: German and Italian Americans experienced (and experience) ongoing racial prejudice. Cultural differences are very easy to spot and target for discrimination even when racial body features are not.
That situation is more complex than you imply. My German immigrant ancestors, for example, survived anti-German sentiment during and after the war by denying their heritage and giving up things like the communal making of barrels of sauerkraut, making Lumberger cheese, and of course most of all: speaking German. So they survived okay, but only with their culture completely assimilated.
I'm really just advocating for a fair system. I have to wonder if a national sales tax isn't more fair than a national income tax - can we drastically reduce the need for collections?

Edit: really just wondering out loud, I don't have the answers here - our current system needs work
Founder here (1). Here's a little backstory:

We launched the MVP two years ago with this HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116

Market demand was there but the product wasn't ready for the load yet.

Fast forward two years and now it's all "perfect". The product is now useful — even for people using goaccess or similar. The main reasons include:

1. Understanding of traction and how visitors behave before they convert. You can start optimizing the causes.

2. Faster A/B testing: Volument is an order of magnitude faster than the traditional A/B testing tools.

3. Privacy-friendly. Volument is on the same line with Fathom, Plausible, or Simple Analytics when it comes to privacy.

We've built a custom stack from scratch so this is not just another pretty face to Google Analytics data. We have full control and the door is open for pretty much anything.

The parent post links to a founding story and here's a direct link to the front page:

https://volument.com

---

1: Bit of myself: I'm a long-term frontend developer: the original author of semi-popular projects like jQuery Tools (2011), Head JS (2013), and Riot JS (2014). I'm also a co-founder of two other successful startups: Flowplayer (flowplayer.com) and Muut (muut.com).
Yet people of the dominant race in the USA with an uncommon surname get asked the same questions, so viewing this as specifically anti-Asian sentiment is, as I said, a reach. Annoying behavior is not necessarily intentionally racist behavior or to be included in a supposedly rising incidence of what is specifically labeled "hate".
Is your goal to essentially become a conglomerate of niche e-commerce firms or do you eventually intend to resell the companies you acquire to others?
Yeah, technically correct I guess. Is there any realistic scenario where this would fly? This would be plain and clear fraud and not something allowed to go on for two years after multiple audits.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if the post only wants to discuss load-balancers available in AWS infra, but is there any reason we can't have an active application level load balancer for gRPC? As in, one that connects to all backends ahead of time and... balances the load on a per-request rather than per-connection basis?
If you're located someplace where electric power is not close to free, you're guaranteed to lose money mining Bitcoin.
Toshiba unit struck by DarkSide ransomware group
There are libgenesis torrents which include 77TB of scihub papers, see

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8ky647/scihub_...

Archivists were asking for help with torrent seeding:

https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/e129yi/charitabl...

Also see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27092466
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Here is a generous interpretation of my comment: Sustainability advocates are pushing to replace high emissions foods (like meat and non-local produce) and unhealthy foods (like soda and chips) with locally grown produce.

You linked to a study that critiques USDA guidelines, which has nothing to do with the changes that sustainability advocates are pushing for. And now you are picking apart a short internet comment analogy to try to make the case that beef consumption is a good thing. The fact is, beef is one of the highest emissions foods per calorie that a person can eat. Until you directly address that argument, you should stop "encouraging more meat consumption" (from your top comment).
I tried all this before, it's good for a hobby but it would of worked out better for me profit wise if I just bought a bitcoin
The number is significant.

The statutory limit on US army general staff is 241, and most of those guys are quite recent retirees.

Countries had putsches with much lesser portion of generals mutinying, and some times made without general staff involvement as such. In fact there are almost as much succesful putches on record by majors, and colonels, than generals.
"flatten the curve" was essentially a marketing slogan (which worked remarkably well, by the way, in terms of market penetration). So let's not worry too much about that.

With exponential growth, numbers either trend to 0 or to infinity, and they do so very quickly. There's only 2 endgames possible in a pandemic:

(1) The numbers trend to 0 and the risk is 0.00% (see: polio)

(2) The numbers trend to infinity (i.e. the disease goes endemic) and risk is equal to whatever risk the disease carries on infection/reinfection over your lifetime (see: the spanish flu)

Pre-vaccine, "flatten the curve" and other marketing-speak meant "stall on option 2 because we can't handle that level of risk in our society right now" - hospitals overflowing, etc. The death rate would have been out of control if we went straight to infinity at the infection rates we were seeing.

With the vaccine rollout, and with medical advances in treating severe covid, we've dramatically lowered the risk of option 2, and additionally we've opened the door to potentially taking option 1.

The CDC is probably gunning for option 1 here (and based on data in Israel it seems like it's possible with a high enough vaccination rate, although I think globally it will be a challenge).

If you keep this framework in mind, the goalposts haven't really moved at all- just the marketing used (hence: "flatten the curve" became "new normal" which then became "get vaccinated")

Edit: Evidently discussion about this sort of thing is quite polarizing. Just to be clear, this is a personal analysis of decision makers' true "goalposts", as the parent post seemed distressed by the moving of goalposts

I'm not advocating for or defending any particular policy, so please don't interpret my post as such. Thank you.
And what percentages of those jobs will be actual careers as opposed to "piss in a bottle" shelf-stacking in the warehouse, or "defecate in a plastic bag" delivery van driving ones?

https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=guardian+amazon+w...
This is a public health service. It's paid for out of taxation.
Perhaps the solution is to launch a denial-of-service attack in the form of founding so many dating sites that Match Group can't afford to buy them all!
I have been heads down working on some things, so this is new to me.

I am curious, how will someone prove they are vaccinated?
I did this in 2018. I bought an Antminer S9 and power supply. It's not worth it as an individual. In order to earn anything at all, your cost of power needs to be ludicrously low and you still need to join a mining pool.

And these things are LOUD. After a year of mining I broke even.
Did you contact anyone at Cloudflare for an issue not explained in the support docs and you got no response?
One can do ZFS snapshots so one does not need do insanely huge backups all the time. Just transfer off the diffs as needed. If an attack happens it's pretty easy to roll-back to a known good state. It's also not that complex to set some process in place that does random checksum verification of some files to trigger an alarm that such an attack has taken place. It is really perplexing me that very large institutes don't do this
Not all cryptocurrencies but it's true for something like Bitcoin. The problem is you can trace the transaction to the attackers wallet, but where does it go from there? It might sit there, they might throw the money in a tumbler, maybe they sell it for cash... If or when it shows up in a KYC-compliant exchange it could have changed hands many times already and it might not be possible to say anything about the actual criminal at that point.
Interestingly, I was just looking at the requirements for mining ETH.

But I still don't know why I'd ever need a ETH coin (other than as a store of value). Why would someone buy a ETH coin from me?

I may be talking nonsense, but if for example, my employer decided to switch from paper wageslips to an ETH contract, would I need ETH to execute that contract and receive my wage?
There's a massive number of studies. A selection of 3 links out of 100+ would only reveal my biases. I'd rather just discuss my summation of the research and if there's something in particular you'd like to see, share that.

* Various studies of droplet propagation, which show well-fitting masks reduce droplets significantly. In theory, this should reduce spread.

* Many confounded observational and cohort studies tied to voluntary compliance with mask guidelines that show a lower risk of infection or secondary transmission. They are confounded because voluntary compliance with this measure increases the likelihood of general caution. Many show somewhat large effect sizes.

* Many population based trend-line studies/other ecological studies that show post requiring it as a public health measure in various environments, that daily case counts began to decline by .4% to 2.0% per day.

The studies in the second category showing larger effects are generally inconsistent with the third category, because the results in the third would be much bigger if the effect was real. And even the third category isn't great, because the mask requirement measures weren't instituted in a vacuum independent of other controls.
An update for anyone reading: looking at [0], they're planning on moving to an open BIOS, but it's not top priority right now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27150566
As someone who has done both extensively, I humbly disagree. Writing involves thinking in a much less instrumental way, in my experience. In programming, there is often a clear pre-defined task, and the only question concerns the proper means of achieving that task. Writing, on the other hand, necessarily compels something much more dynamic & non-linear at the level of composition.

I'd toss this one under the category of 'wouldn't it be nice'. It would be nice if writing and programming were similar. It would be nice to have a bridge from the sciences to arts and letters. But if such a bridge could be merely posited, well, this positing would already be common parlance.
> But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it.

PSA: So are your iCloud backed-up "e2e encrypted iMessages".
Most F500's with large Java codebases including Google and Amazon are already betting big on Kotlin for server side development.
Have you tried to look for a job after being terminated as a C-level or when startup you put in many years goes under?

Job market for IC is most of the time quite easy if you are technical, developers are usually spending 2 years at a company. I don't see C-level people switching companies on a whim and work one company for many years (not everyone is Elon Musk).

Once you have C-level on your CV good luck finding job again on lower level or the same level but different company.
My boss is in it for life with current company, I can put my notice tomorrow and I walk away like I never worked there.
In general, the word isn't evade. In general, it's "plan" or "structure".

It's less worth pursuing the ultra wealthy because they implemented the actual tax algorithm and paid every penny the law actually requires -- often zero -- when the algorithm is executed flawlessly.

For the disciplined tax planners to pay more, the code has to be debugged and simplified to eliminate these unintended but fully accurate results.
I understand it's not available for crypto (and for stocks), I just wish that weren't the case.

Also if I have to report every single 401k purchase I ever made when I'm in my 70s when I finally cash some of it out, that's going to be a pain in the butt (I assume 401k is an exception to the rules). I basically treat my crypto purchases as another form of 401k right now (without the penalties).
Point 2 was the reason for the Wesley Snipes prosecution.
How many would want gmail if or any other service that could only exchange messages with other users of the same system?

Email is what makes it happen that systems can exchange messages with each other. Much like Matrix. Much unlike Discord.
>the DOJ should be looking into Trump himself.

Anyone still trying to stir up this nonsense partisan battle is just distracting from the recent major world events.
Reminds me of this (mildly NSFW) Silicon Valley scene[1] (though in that case he was making things up).

Also reminds me of this urban legend[2] about poor sales of the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries because "no va" means "doesn't go".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVoFzu-vH4o

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanis...
> Isn't that expected because there's an order of magnitude less asians?

Per the article, Asian-Americans are 7% of this country. I leave as an exercise what an order-of-magnitude would imply here.
Bitcoin miners use specialized hardware designed for mining. There is no special algorithm to make mining faster or more efficient and that is by design. Bitcoin is meant to take a lot of work to mine. Bitcoin also adjusts itself automatically so that each mined block takes roughly 10 minutes to find. There is no avoiding this.

The specialized mining rigs are very expensive and they have facilities with thousands of them running in parallel. It hasn't been feasible to mine bitcoin as an individual since around 2012. You can still do it though, but the odds of you finding a block are so infinitesimally slim that you're basically wasting all your time and money. You could join a pool, but with so little computing power your share of any reward will be incredibly slim. Sadly, I do not recommend trying to mine any cryptocurrencies.
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What is new is that it has a high efficiency similar to the permanent magnet motors, i.e. a higher efficiency than induction motors.

The reason for the high efficiency is because the motor seems to be some kind of synchronous motor, where the rotor is not supplied by wearable brushes but by a contactless transformer and a rectifier.

Besides the permanent-magnet motors and the induction motors, there are 2 other kinds of electrical motors without supply contacts on the rotor: variable-reluctance motors and hysteresis motors. However these other 2 share the disadvantage of the induction motors of having a lower efficiency.

The highest efficiency with no contacts to the rotor can be reached with either permanent-magnet motors or with designs similar to this Mahle motor.
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It’s worse than that. I’ve heard black Africans living in Africa, who have never been to any country in the Americas, referred to as “African American” by people who think—well, who knows what they think? Americans are insane when it comes to “race”.
Depends what kind of browsing you do. If most of it is text-based and you do a lot of reading, JS off + a keyboard navigation add-on like tridactyl/vimium etc is the smoothest for me. And it's as good on a 6 year old laptop as it is on a brand new threadripper PC.
There are a lot of hypotheticals here. I think you'll convince CloudFlare, and their customers, if you could name names and mention specific examples?

If you are a price comparison site getting blocked by cloudflare, site owners may be losing sales, and that's good feedback.
Strange how often these FOSS dramas tend to end up removing the creators of the projects and replace them with people friendly to large multination corporations that pay lip service to the "correct" political fads.
It's not as simple as that... The wealthy are, justly, disproportionally targeted by audits, 10x more likely to be audited if you make more than $10m vs less than $100k.

Vast ressources will not necessarily prevent you from being convicted of tax evasion cf. Charles Kushner who evaded low 5 figures in taxes while being a centimillionaire.
I'm not sure that's true for non-US citizens.
At the end of the day, any business partner can choose to screw you. VCs/Investors have additional protection by way of retained legal council, clawback clauses and occasionally debt based positions and liquidity preferences.

An employee will simply never have access to that, the fact that it's been normalized for founders/investors to actively attempt to confuse and fool employees will simply drive skilled employees out of startups.
Legacy coal power plant in a developing world to get cheap electricity.
like that magical moment when you understand unix pipes and how to powerfully tie things together with a shell one-liner

except without requiring years to master
You can use data from the IRS [1].

The cutoff for the 1% for households is around $550k. For individuals it's around $400k.

The median salary for radiologists is $422k [2].

The median salary for a Google Sr Engineer is >$350k [3] (not including Google stock appreciation - which pushes this well into the $500k range).

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income...

[2] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/radiologist...

[3] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...
Just like this shithole of a website.
Another difference, that I have found, is that programming is immediately rewarding because it's verifiable. On the other hand, writing is without a feedback mechanism or a very delayed feedback or even subjective feedback, which can be painful and demotivating.
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>As another non-Chinese Asian, really? You don’t want to be lumped in with the Chinese so it’s easier to know who the “bad ones” are?

> I hate this rhetoric. Whenever a hate crime occurs, it’s so common to hear “they didn’t deserve that, they’re not even Chinese!”. As though being Chinese would make it ok.

I don't condone hate crimes, and I don't hold any hostility to people of Chinese descent. But the CCP is a hostile nation, which in my opinion is engaging in liberal cyber warfare against western countries, committing genocide within its borders, and aggressively expanding its geopolitical influence across the globe. I think the CCP is evil. And yes, the United States government is full of bad actors as well, but I think the CCP is much worse and much more dystopian.

The converse of saying Muslims aren't accountable for the acts of Muslim extremists, is saying that supporters of Muslim extremists are accountable. Which really shouldn't be a controversial statement. You put "bad ones" in quotes to imply that there are no bad ones. I don't agree. A difficult conversation here is that while the majority of Muslims were not violent extremists, the majority of Chinese citizens are CCP supporters. It isn't a fringe belief, even among those living outside of China.

That doesn't justifying profiling someone based on appearance or committing a hate crime either way, but to put it bluntly, if someone says they support the CCP, I think they support a hostile enemy nation, on some spectrum of naivety/indifference to clarity/purpose, not unlike how I would respond to hearing someone is in the KKK. Most are probably just underinformed or misinformed, but its a dangerous state.

Forget brutish idiots who just hate squinty eyes. Yes, they're just assholes. Perception of China as an enemy nation is growing, and as a reactionary force, many people are calling this a racist movement because they want their Chinese friends and neighbors to feel comfortable in this country. I too have many Chinese friends. But your cultural heritage and ethnic origin are distinct from your government and geopolitical beliefs. It may require difficult conversations, and it may not lead to amicable outcomes, but I hope the national dialogue can sort out this nuance.

Chinese culture is awesome.

> It’s easy to forget that 3 decades ago, people were saying the same thing about Japan as they’re saying about China now.

3 decades ago? Like in the 80s? I know Japan was seen as a rising economic power, but I don't think the perception was similar to that of China today, which is seen as a potential military threat among other things. I'm not especially well versed here though.