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How about you phrase your statements with intellectual honesty, instead of wasting my time having to explain this is not a case of "corporations locking down other people's devices" but it's a case of "you bought this device with the idea it runs iOS, that's the only thing Apple promised it'll do, and that's precisely what it does".

I'm not moving any goalposts. Your argument is this utterly ridiculous notion that you get to buy an iPhone and then whine it doesn't do what it never said it'll do.

It's like buying a Tesla and complaining it doesn't run on oil.

The responsibility is on you, as a buyer, to buy shit that does what you want it to do. It's full of phones that you can install whatever on. Buy one of those.

"How about we make it illegal for corporations to control the product they themselves make" is a shitty, entitled, spoiled brat behavior that honestly disgusts me to my core.
But as you can see from the responses to the GP comment, many nonzero people on HN think and believe the contrary.

So, the comment attempts to impose on the reader the perception that any contrary belief to what the commentary implies is a "normal HN opinion" is something that should not be held with credibility.

It's counterproductive to say that some non-zero group of people on HN believe something when a possibly equal or greater non-zero group believe something to the contrary. It makes me wonder if the point of the comment is to suppress contrary positions.
Yes, the problems of those with lower income are more immediate and I think it is grossly unfair to blame their predicament on their character or inherent talents.

I disagree that lost income is purely psychological. There are biological realities to deal with, especially in the US without the social safety net of other countries, that make lost income important. The first two that come to mind are the significant cost of raising children and retirement. Those are ticking clock issues to many people.

I agree they are two different worlds for low and middle income people. But we could play this game with even lower income people elsewhere in the world and reduce the issues of the developed countries poor.
That seems very atypical. As the link capacity ratio goes past 10:1, even for typical dowloads, speed starts to be limited by the ability to send requests, or even TCP ACKs.

I've seen 20:1 offers on cable providers, but it's mostly marketing BS, as you're unlikely to get full download speed in most circumstances due to upload limitations.
I would think any sane person on this Earth would have the decency not to show such a film in the presence of a person with the background you describe.

More likely, this person was offended and had no vested interest, as is all to often the case.
Wittgenstein's later philosophical works, like Philosophical Investigations, attacked the bedrock of a lot of philosophy, in particular the kind that developed from Descartes (and arguably, if you want to trace it all the way back, to certain parts of Plato). His arguments have been quite influential, and frequently devastating broadsides against a lot of philosophy. The idea that philosophy has long been extremely consistent rather betrays the fact that you haven't read Wittgenstein, who was often entirely oriented around pointing out the faults in philosophical arguments, not just in a minor way, but by saying and showing how an entire philosophical debate often came down to conceptual confusion and mis-use.
Really nice! Would love if it supported tables. Have struggled to find any OCR that can take a photo of a table and turn it into a spreadsheet. It’s usually an inconsistently tab-separated mess requiring a ton of cleanup.
How do you execute someone without at least testing DNA on the weapon?
> This sounds like an emotionally abusive environment unless you happen to agree with the political agenda being pushed.

Yeah, 100%. Were you in California last summer? “Silence is violence” was the phrase of the day. I’ve got about a gazillion stories from living in San Francisco for three years.
"Just don't have kids" is, IMO, one of the most incredibly insensitive approaches to this problem. It reminds me of all the people telling gay people to "just don't have a relationship". Having an entire class of people who work hard but are too poor to raise children is a failure of society - not a failure of financial planning.
Yes, but the antagonism used to be about work.

Not everything else.
Most of the thing you listed are illegal, and paying them with Bitcoins don't make them magically legal.

If someone makes an "Uber for hitmen", it will still be illegal in spite someone is using an app to hire them and paying them with their altcoins.
Seconded. Plus, you start writing wrapper functions for standard Javascript APIs (e. G. window.setInterval) to force them into Reacts data model.
Who is to judge the merit of their talent? Shouldn’t their results speak for themselves? And prey tell, what are the results of academia in the age of the digital revolution where there is no obligation to complete a university education with the knowledge of its mathematical scientific foundation?

I think many more are drawn to professorship for a sense of status, ie prestige. It shows in their overwhelming mediocrity, eg the failure of economics to progress to a biologically scientific paradigm.
It's a large problem for the narrative overlords to enforce the acceptable narratives for the population at large during the age of Internet. The "fake news" meme didn't work out so well, I wonder what they will think next.

I guess if you just push these things long enough, the resistance will slowly dissipate as they are just single people and not a well organized, oiled machine who is motivated by money and political power until the end of civilization.

Not saying that most of the mainstream views are wrong. Just that they are manufactured and subjected from above to the people below.
The difference is the 2nd law of thermodynamics has tons of data showing its utility in modeling our world. Obviously, humans might be living in a simulation and everything is possibly wrong, but the personality test thing has many weaknesses and data contrary to its claims as summarized in the wiki article. I do not see what makes it worth knowing about compared to the litany of other pop psychology conjectures.
That's incredibly condescending. What good can come out of saying this? Should poor people stop worrying about paying their bills because other countries have it worse?
Ask HN: What short domains do you ping to check a network connection?
I usually use x.org. What else is popular and reliable?
What do you mean by 'metarationality'? It's a term I've never seen before and I'm curious about it.
Most R is written by people who are not (and mostly don't want to be) professional programmers. This is both a strength (industrial strength discipline specific tools) and a weakness (oh dear lord the code, my eyeeeeees).

It's also important to note that much of the original core of R is based on S, which was developed around the same time as C, so some baggage would be expected.
Did you swipe left to right or right to ledt?
Should be right to left to get to the "App Library" which has a search bar.

I guess you'll need to be on the last home screen... I only have 1 since this feature was introduced.
It's fairly hilarious to me when this sentiment comes up.

Gun violence, police brutality, lack of access to food, pest-infested ramshackle housing, lack of access to utilities of every sort (water, power), and poor or little access to education are all things I regularly witnessed or experienced when I was growing up poor in America.

I find generally the people who express what you have simply don't realize how terribly wrong they are.

You know, your comment doesn't really have much to do with the article anyhow. I guarantee you no matter how much "better off" American poors are than some elsewhere, they definitely do not as a rule think those who do have it worse are in their predicament due to their own choices. That is, there's a high degree of overlap, as compared to the relationship between America's poor and its rich/powerful.
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> In an effort to prevent his execution, Lee's attorney sought in the post-conviction appeals process to finally have the DNA evidence in the case tested for the first time. [...] Their request was denied.
"The reasoning given by the judge was it wouldn't matter, that there were three people who saw him at or near that neighborhood on that day and time and honestly the DNA just wouldn't matter," Short said.

Wow. Like, I completely fail to comprehend how it's legal in the US judiciary system to ignore any piece of available hard evidence in a case that is punishable by execution?

Then again, if execution itself is still legal, I can answer part of that question myself, even if I don't like the answer.
I remember when US Reps worth millions were mocking AOC for not being able to simultaneously afford an apartment in DC and NYC prior to receiving her congressional paycheck.
We had a babysitter recently charge us $21 for 3 hours. It blew my mind. I insisted that we paid her $40, which still seemed insane.

Someone earning $7/hr makes $280/week. I can’t imagine trying to get by on that even with no dependents.
I had a co-worker who thought he had a typical american childhood because he didn't consider his family wealthy, even though they had millions of dollars of networth over 30 years ago. Him and his 3 bothers went to a very exclusive private school that was 50k a year per child, but since his classmates were mostly "old money" that were from family worth 10s to 100s of millions of dollars, he was picked on for being the "poor" kid, so still thinks of himself as having a middle class family.

He was also the only person I've seen who made me consider that "afluenza" might be a real thing. He would get super bad stomach aches and diarrhea any time he ate fast food because he was mentally conditioned to believe it was disgusting. He even went to the doctor about it, and was told it's all in his head, it's just the thought of eating poor people food made him ill.
Conda supports R and it gives you R binaries on any platform. We've used this setup for years at my old workplace, and it gives you sane reproducible builds.
So, it's certainly not a bioweapon. We know that because it is so crap.

I don't see how that means it can't have leaked from a lab. Can anyone enlighten me?
One summer in high school I got a factory job. It was Michigan, so I was running an injection molding press making the rims for side mirrors. (Decades later I still remember that the press took 67 seconds per cycle, and that 1600 rims was the shift target.) I was on second shift, so my crew didn't see the executives much. But one day the CEO held an all-hands, so we shut all the machinery down and went to an area big enough for him to talk with us all.

I no longer remember what the meeting was about, but I think it must have been related to why the company couldn't afford a raise people were expecting. Somebody asked him a question that I couldn't hear; he looked a little flush and responded quickly, off the cuff. This guy who was wearing a nice suit, this guy who had clean hands and no burns from the presses, this guy who was easily clearing 10x what his workers made: this guy said, "I live paycheck to paycheck just like you all do!" And implied that he was just helpless in the face of his wife spending to much. Everybody in the room scoffed at him. I'm still scoffing.
Which makes me suspicious of the whole article which in turn makes me wonder if the theory is correct.
Those professors in the distant past flourished in a more spiritual age. They did not treat themselves as professionals nor had a sense of “career”.
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I've been doing a bit of that although I'm not quite sure if I'm looking in the right places to make an accurate assessment of that. Rust seems to be winning out by this metric though.
This looks awesome, but installing it on Manjaro caused my OS to crash whenever I logged in. Any possible solutions?
Evo psych is questionable to me for more basic reasons. It seems full of untestable just so stories to explain apparent biases that are themselves hard to pin down or prove are a result of nature not nurture.

It’s probably not all bullshit but I would bet a double digit percentage of it is.
I think the prevailing belief, and belief they must have had to try their research was the belief that a good percentage of attempts would slip through initial review to be caught at a later stage. I fail to see what your alternative research would do to that apparently false belief other than reinforce it.
I completely disagree with the analysis of smith vs gladwell's writing style. Gladwell's is less verbose, but not better - it says far less and it says it less well.

The kincaid grade level of the gladwell's text is 7, the level of the passage from smith is 22 or 23.... So the gladwell passage is literally middle school level and the smith is graduate plus level of writing.... The authors thesis can be summarized as playing to the lowest common denominator. His proof texts show a dumbing down of culture not a rising tide.
I think we had a far smaller number of people going to university back in the "golden days of science" - not sure you can really compare.

A tenure lottery seems like an extreme option - there has to be a middle ground between what we have now and something entirely random.
> This is why classes are cool

You may be unaware, but there are vast similarities between the object system of R and Python, mostly due to their common inheritance from the Art of the Metaobject protocol. They look very different (generic functions vs classes), but they are equally extensible.

The trouble with R's systems is that there's three of them, and people use whichever works without really understanding any of them, but all the tools are there.
What I find the more useful comparison, is to compare the poor of a country, to the median income of other countries. That puts the US bottom decile household at $10800 slightly below the median Malaysian, Russian, Ukrainian or Mexican household.

The bottom percent household income is at $1400 in the US, which puts them slightly below the median in Zambia, Burkina Faso and Benin.

Note, these other countries also have poor! And this is a comparison in dollars, not in standard of living. But it gives a broad idea of the level of poverty some people are dealing with.
google.com because I don’t like to send traffic like that to smaller websites.
At least for Intel they are all (for the most part) named after real-life geographical features. Somewhere in the world there is a place called Sapphire Rapids (looks like Arizona) and also Golden Cove (California).

From my understanding this is due to copyright/trademark.
Poverty is a choice. Its not unsolvable.
In Australia we had economic support that was pretty generous during COVID.
Poverty pretty much vanished.
Then it got expensive, the support ended and it's back.
Poverty is a choice.
Epic wasn't dropped for offering sales on a site. Inform yourself.
This is such an odd take. I program almost exclusively Python these days and I miss the elegance of piped functions daily.
There's a lot of value in remotely accessible or portable tools. When I was in secondary school I began my experiments with Java using the JXXX compiler service (still available many years later at https://www.innovation.ch/java/java_compile.html). The school didn't allow running executables on the version of Windows used at the time (Windows 7 I believe), but permitted running any kind of JARs (as long as they had the appropriate Manifest to launch without needing access to a command line).

Without access to a service like this it's quite feasible that my entire life path would have changed and I am filled with eternal gratitude that people exist out there who are willing to provide such services.
I think you mean its engine, Gecko
Yes, buying a car at a dealer sucks. But you can play their kind of games too.

While Tesla's are neat, they seem kind of junky to me. Honestly, I don't want a web site experience when I'm buying a car - buying a car is not like buying say a flashlight. Cars require a 'trust but verify' approach - especially a Tesla.
> do you work for an enterprise-focused tech company?

I work as a sales engineer for Databricks. As a SWE I had built cloud infrastructure like the equivalent of AWS S3 for the companies I worked for. So the technical nature of the product and customers appealed to me and made my skillset valuable to the role.

> how much travel do you do outside the pandemic?

I have not had this job outside the pandemic. I'm NYC-based, and my understanding is that I would have traveled by subway to meet clients quite often, but plane travel would have been only a few times a quarter.

> What would be the “FAANGs” for a SWE turning into a sales engineer?

When figuring out who you want to work for, I would suggest selling a product that you like to customers you would like to work with. If you like the product and the customers the job can be a joy. If not, it can be a slog. You have a huge leg up if you already have experience with the product or came from the industry that will be using the product. Another important thing to look at is the sales culture of the organization. Some organizations have aggressive sales cultures where the "win" is what matters regardless of all else. Other sales organizations are more focused on making their customers successful. As a former SWE, the customer success sales culture appeals far more to me.

One thing I really like about working for Databricks is that, while we do make commission, it's a pooled commission. So I get compensated on the performance of the team, not just myself. So it fosters a very collaborative atmosphere. We're always jumping in to help each other out. Individual commissions can make for a cut-throat sales culture. I probably make less money than I would with individual commissions, but I'm much happier. So that's another thing to look at: how people are compensated.
I had this and then got an M1 MBP and it flickers wildly on dark backgrounds when connected via USB-C. I think that's going to be my last Apple laptop.
>In a fashion, the US printing dollars lowers the value of a dollar which effectively taxes the rest of the world by lowering the value of their dollar denominated assets.

Those foreign nations take USD out of circulation and buy US treasuries. They are expressing a desire that the US invests the USD they spend on the bonds. When you buy US treasures you do so because you think the US government can spend your money better than you can spend it yourself. If the US decides to not borrow your money it is basically saying you should put your money elsewhere but these foreign nations refuse to do so.

Because the US government doesn't spend the money inside the US the obvious result is unemployment. There is no way to increase the investment rate to account for the increased savings rate. Instead, the domestic savings rate of US citizens must go down to compensate for the increased foreign savings rate. How does it go down? Someone who is unemployed or underemployed must consume more than they earn. Income inequality becomes mandatory to just keep the economy alive. It's increasingly unsustainable for everyone including foreign owners of treasuries.

Of course the US has a nice president right now that wants to let the damn savers save by increasing the investment rate through infrastructure spending. It's a win-win for everyone. The underemployed get jobs, the savers get a nice investment that will not suddenly collapse one day.
Would it be possible to pass a law where judges and prosecutors are punished if someone is executed and it’s later found they were not guilty?

Would it be a good or bad idea?
Hard to say which one's the worse place to be, hiding behind massive corporate walls or the ones hiding behind the " break it, apologize later" MO. The latter will not fare well in a corporate environment, unless backed up by managers.

I simply alternative the environments when I get a decent proposal. I have seen successful startups turning into Byzantine corporations pretty fast. Bad things start to not be fixed anymore, instead more manpower with less quality is thrown at the issue, this is one of the tell tale signs that it is time to go if you want to learn something else.

I have found that learning useful things on a job is more important than whether you are in a startup or in an established corporation.

The moment you stop learning and no promotion is in sight, promote yourself, by changing companies if need be.
I dunno, I got pretty sick of writing head(filter(df, value>10)) and it's (a little) easier to indent as df %>% filter(value>10) %>% head().

It's problematic because people abuse it for everything (300 line pipes are common, sadly) but it's a really useful tool in moderation.
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Misleading article - we were using the Thumper for mechanical CPR in the early 80's

There's on on eBay today :)
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Children are not a luxury product like a sports car or yacht. They are a basic function of human life.
It plays a role, sure. There will be significant diminishing returns though. What I’m suggesting is there are other factors at play here that are way more important than a few extra IQ points. Completing a significant project isn’t one dimensional.
Yeah, I think I'd be utterly "half a bottle of gin a night" miserable working in the average corporate environment. It's hard to put my finger on the precise reason, but that kind of environment just has absolutely zero appeal to me even though I'd be earning a fair bit more.

Money's nice, but not hating your life is nicer. I'd make a rubbish Sisyphus.
Yes, but it makes for new publications ! That's the important thing, right? Right?
I definitely don't disagree with that!
Same issue I had on my M1 Macbook Air. Guess I just need to forgo one of my monitors, sigh...
As a tip for macOS users who maybe don’t know this: Theres a similar feature in every macOS app when you click the “Help” menubar entry of an app and enter text into the search field there.
I wish I got that advise decades ago.

I joined several startups in SF throughout my journey.

Took me forever to realize that not all levels of hard are the same:

- Working harder than most for 1% was not worth it. Small team comradery dissolved as soon as the company started going under. Sometimes founders screwed you over at the end. Nowadays I sometimes wonder why I worked so hard for other people's companies.

- Working for FAANG pays well, but golden handcuffs are not for everyone.

- Doing your own startup is super hard. Emotional roller coaster. It sucks all the time, until it doesn't.

All of these are hard, but the last one forces you to learn skills you wouldn't have cared for otherwise. Again, not for everyone, but if I had to pick my "level of hard", that would be it.
Thank you for your feedback. You aren't the only one who commented something like this, so I added a TLDR at the top of the article.
I admit I haven't fully read the article, but isn't it obvious from the start that you can't detect "fake news" without looking at the outside world for facts?

Any approach that is trained to detect "fake news" that just relies on feeding it the article's content is either just going to classify based on incidental features such as style (e.g. sensationalism), "hot words", etc., or if it's really good, classify based on whether the article's content is consistent with the "reliable" or the "fake" narrative extracted from the previous training.

In fact if I'm reading this right, they find out that taking a "fake news" article and rewriting it in "reliable news" style fools their detector. Garbage in, garbage out.
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