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That's what disruption is, isn't it? The ordinary meaning of the word is pretty negative - disrupting something means taking a process that's doing fine, and making it no longer work, or work worse than it was. It implies value and utility being lost.

(Or, the other meaning of the word relates to disruptors - energy weapons from Star Trek, used predominantly by the bad guys in the series.)

Every improvement is a change, but not every change is an improvement. Meanwhile, the whole business world - it's no longer just the startup culture - is regurgitating the lie that all market disruption is unquestionably good. That we should want more, bigger disruption. We believe that, and close our eyes to companies that make whole markets worse.

Some negative consequences are unavoidable. Maybe Loon made telco execs less willing to build networks in rural areas - but I wouldn't want R&D to stop just because the very notion of an improvement to the status quo makes some incumbents nervous. But on the other end, you have "share economies" companies that use VC subsidies to outcompete incumbents on local markets - but then subsidies run out, and/or companies get bought, and we're being left in a worse place than before the "disruption" happened.
I had some experience. For me it was the best place for low key getting info about side interests.
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Texas had a really bad governor a long time ago. So they made these stupid rules and regulations to try and prevent gov from becoming too powerful again.

for example, state house reps make $7,200 per year. So the people that run seem to be rich enough to take 6 months off from the jobs every two years. (and more if there are special sessions)
Lith here. One of the most embarrassing things that I've done in my life was first day of induction in my UK university. The lecture was about cultural differences. We were assigned into groups and asked to list couple of stereotypes that we know. I didn't realised we were supposed to say something like "Americans are hard working and Brits are punctual". Instead I've bombasted to 200-something students that Asian people smell.
I believe it is more the case that the banking sector in the City of London is the institution, and the secrecy jurisdictions are tools that it developed and uses. Historically money ended up in England because of the Eurodollar system, and from there banks use the secrecy jurisdictions to create trust systems across different jurisdictions for opaqueness. England as an intermediary is preferred because there is a level of trust there with their institutions that isn't there with some bank in a random backwater.
> You can go on Ali express or similar and you will find thousands of sellers selling packaging for every imaginable brand.

Any country could simply tell AliExpress to purge all those listings from their platform. They could threaten to inspect all AliExpress packages at the border till it was done.

Inspecting all AliExpress packages (which are pretty identifyable since they all have 'null' printed on the label due to a long-standing bug) would take months for even a single days trade. That would kill AliExpress as a platform, so I'm pretty sure they'd comply.
People should learn to engage their brain, maybe mull it over for a while before posting on twitter. It doesn't seem to happen though so they may as well charge people for the ability to undo their mistakes!
Step one: figure out the difference between security and privacy.
> Living on the west coast for the last twenty years, the situation is totally different. On a bike trail, on the sidewalk, people often smile and nod at each other.

No need to go to West Coast for that. In the more affluent areas in Central NJ, people greet you on jogging trails, and sometimes even when passing you on ShopRite and Walmart ailes (these are grocery store chains).
It's a bad system imo.

State house reps only make 7200 a year. Which means legislators need other income. And they also need 6 months off every two years. The only people I know that can do that are extremely wealthy.
There must be granularity and resolution of concepts lost in these ad-hoc systems, if not already in the formal sign systems themselves compared to spoken languages.
Didn’t Oculus sound just as crazy when it was conceived? As far as I know the founder had barely any experience with hardware. Just a glorified gamer.
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I work with and am friends with plenty of people from various parts of India. Trust me, they can be expected to not put their hand on your thigh. Touching is common in some scenarios where they're not common in the US (e.g. between male friends), but only when people are close.

I'm American. A co-worker who isn't close to me hugging me is slightly out of line.

This just sounds like bullshit. Like any behavior at all would be explained by cultural differences, as long as the actor was from a different culture.
There's an interesting crypto protocol called Reflexer[1] that uses a PID loop to alter interest rates and incentives to maintain the stability of a stablecoin/debt coupon called Rai.

This allows the asset to remain relatively stable[2] in response to actual market forces. At the time of posting there are over $35m worth of Rai in circulation[3].

[1]: https://reflexer.finance/faq

[2]: https://stats.reflexer.finance/

[3]: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/rai/
The specific examples given are bullshit.
Is it difficult knowing which buildings are 'hot'?

Surely a gamma ray detector pointed at the building long enough will detect signs of radioactive substances inside, even if well shielded.
Countries and identities do not have a 1-1 mapping. This has and is causing a lot of issues I’m the world. Or is used to create a lot of friction by people that wants that.
haha what?! I love me some good stereotyping humor but I’ve never even heard of that one! What do they smell like?
I've cataloged a bunch of engines with their own independent indexes: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942

Million Short and DDG both proxy Bing results. YaCy result quality tends to be unusable, but YaCy can be useful for intranet searches.
> If you want fast Ruby it seems Crystal is your only option.

Crystal may be fast, but its definitely bot Ruby. Choices for fast not-Ruby are not lacking.

> Why are we surprised when attempts to shoe-horn it into something else (Ruby 3.0, JRuby, Truffle Ruby) fall flat?

Weird that you don’t put Ruby 1.9+ on that list, though that is as much or more a switch from what immediately preceded it with parallelism as an improvement area as 3.0 is (sure, Ractors are a bigger language change, but going from green threads to native threads with a VM lock was a major implementation change.) The difference is that 3.0’s relevant improvements are still experimental and its easier to misrepresent “haven’t yet stabilized and seen wide production use” as “fell flat” than it would be to claim thr same thing about 1.9’s improvements. But its not true in either case.
No, they just mention that it's made out of nanite meshes (the entire golem, that is).

>I don't see why that's a problem - people have been making film quality assets for many years.

Because there is no software in existence that allows you to UV a 20 million poly model. Automatic methods will crash and for manual methods the software will just be unusably slow. The only way to texture such a large mesh is to either

1) split it up and uv small parts individually. This would take ages, requiring at least a magnitude more time than the usual approach. This just isn't economical even for your average hero asset.

2) Create a low poly mesh (and not just by decimating, or you'll get bad UVs), but they're marketing Nanite as if you _don't_ have to do this ("straight from zbrush") and if you have to do this, while still very impressive obviously, it won't revolutionize the workflow like people think it will.
It is no surprise that the English word is shorter, as - unlike English - Russian has two words for "why".

"почему" asks - how did things come to be this way?

"зачем" asks - what is the purpose of things being this way?

Note the difference in implication if I ask you "why" you were late for work. "почему" allows room for circumstances beyond your control, while "зачем" places the blame squarely on your shoulders.

English speakers may be completely unconscious of the overloaded nature of "why" - such is the value of learning other languages.
This place allows angry response in technical discussion, but not to following guy: I had seen on HN a guy literally advocating forced marriage and forced sex - all politely. He also advocate for strong punishmemts of women who have sex out of wedlock.

Oh and forcing them to marry a guy they had sex with, regardless of whether it was rape or not. As social engineering to force good behavior on others.

He was all polite and serious. And I still perceive him as the biggest threat to my safety and well being. And the most uncomfortable thing that was tolerated here.

No, being polite is not better and does not make it better. If I am expected to be perfectly nice to him in response, well this place sux sometimes.
Hm, I think mine will be called Aalstroem Industries
Dang's response came 4 days after the comment was written. Before being flagged, it was downvoted, but not to hell - it was gray, but still readable, like most of that poster's other comments. So I would say that someone may be justified in feeling somewhat attacked and not that well defended on such topics. As I said, it's a minority opinion, but it is somewhat tolerated.

Ideally, when someone claims that they can tell how smart someone is from how they look, that should be downvoted to oblivion and receive overwhelming counter-evidence or no attention at all.

Of course, what happened was quite OK, and much better than many other corners of the internet. But still, it's proof that that there is some explicit racism on HN, not just people not caring about others.
Some good observations there.

The other disruption in the telcom markets in the west has been the action of government - the 3G auctions sucked cash away from the infrastructure developers and providers, numerous interventions in the market promoted as creating competition have in fact resulted in whiteboxers coming in and cherry picking markets and subscribers. Both of these things killed R&D in vendors and infrastructure providers, meaning that Chinese tech is years ahead and the infrastructure providers have virtually no idea about what they are buying.
PID controllers are used to do exactly this with quadcopters. There is a lot of finesse on top to deal with oddities and problems like I term windup. Common ones are zeroing it out when it’s no longer valid or clamping it within specific bounds.

For games you might just get away with a PD controller and not need to worry about the I term at all.
Yeah love the guy, saved me a few times !
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What is that saying, in Russian?
I agree. This quasi-mystical framing seems unlikely to bear scientific fruits.

Is consciousnesses a clearly defined term?
Yup - but their PR was that it is better, cheaper and quicker than poles; which is total bollocks in urban builds. In rural settings I think that poles are bad due to those nasty tree things that fall through the cables, but mostly ducting is a better solution anyway.
Pretty easy to find another role internally though. Few hiring managers want to take a risk on a random external candidate over an internal transfer that knows how things work
Yes. It seems to me that Apple really, really wants the iPad to be sold as a computer replacement and likes to think the problem is how powerful the hardware is, which is an issue for approximately 0.1% of their users, when the real issue is that it runs a toy OS.

With Mac OS X on ARM, Apple needs to port OS X to the iPad, otherwise they should stop production.
The meaning of the word has changed substantially, a long time ago science was "what is known" or "knowledge acquired by study". [1] There was a shift in the English language in the 19th century, when the Scientific Method was formalized, and science communities grew and became influential. The meaning of science was narrowed down to "these studies that use the scientific method", with philosophy, maths and others being left out more and more. This isn't true in other languages/science traditions though. In German for example, all fields share the word "Wissenschaft", which literally translates to science.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/science
The process is equivalent to the internal team transfer process which is incredibly fluid and accommodating. Sometimes people are encouraged to switch teams every 2 years for however long their tenure is in the name of knowledge breadth and transfer. New eyes on an old project are valuable.
Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years
Like stated in another comment, it's not about politeness, it's about constructive discussion, you present rational arguments and that only. If someone's position is abhorrent, no matter how they sugarcoat it, people should be able to tell
Always seems like the strongest opinions on AI come from those with the weakest backgrounds in the subject.
Dude you have no information, I can't sincerely understand how you think you can have such detailed understanding of the situation.
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0 plans to upgrade hardware in a modular fashion. Environmentalism?
Sorts as almost last in Norwegian and Danish locale. (aa=å)
I would be willing to bet most intelligent FBI agents have their own stash of data breaches regardless of what agency policy is. Data breaches are truly invaluable in online investigations.
If it's anything like my experience switching between Alphabet-owned companies, it's a lot like switching teams at Google. A couple of chats with a manager and you transfer to that team. Managers almost always take internal transfers over external hires, since they have a good idea of your performance, plenty of references, and knowledge that you'll require much less ramp up time. It's not at all like submitting your resume again as an external applicant.
Ah, the youngsters... I started playing Counter-Strike at beta 6. You could be pwned years before that.
Yes, they should, but the issue is how they maintain that and not be diluted in a tricky/sneaky way.
‘From hearsay to hard evidence’: are UFOs about to go mainstream?
Thanks, I learned something today.

Wouldn't introducing automatic stabilizers, like stimulus checks cut recognition and decision lag.
This isn't just up to the company, the execs can also choose to decline bonuses in order to save their employees jobs.

That they don't do that is very telling about the kind of people they are.
I don't understand why everyone so much adore feynman lectures there are plenty of other prof. who explain much much better for example suskind
all because he randomly gave 6% to the COO so now he can’t veto lol

I bet the same logic is how him and the CEO wound up with 50% to begin with

I bet it was the CEO that originally suggested varying percentages which was probably more correct and is now acting on it. The reddit post said they fought/debated over that.

I actually do find it offputting when founders are equal, it means they avoided/cant deal with confrontation or they have no idea how this sector works and just tried some out of touch pleb logic.

So yeah he is playing by a totally inefficient set of rules and got screwed
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It would be good if some audio engineer could somehow remaster these.
I think I preferred the author's own summary:

> I think there are two reasons for this:

> * Real-World projects like Jekyll involve a lot more code, and JITing that code has a high start-up cost.

> * Real-world code like Jekyll or Rails is optimized for MRI Ruby, and many of those optimizations don’t help or actively hinder the JVM.

The title seems a bit provocative, though I guess if you were reading it from within the Jekyll community, it makes sense without further disclaimers, but otherwise the article seems fairly even-handed.

The threading stuff just seems like a special case of his second point.
This is missing the point though: it's not "optional" per se - it's that naively, if we simply go "what if FTL" then yeah, based on current physics we have a problem.

But the logic doesn't then mean "can't FTL" - it's still "can't have paradoxes". An FTL system, theoretically incapable of creating paradoxes, has no such problems.

An FTL system which prevents you from going faster then light in directions which allow violating causality would be totally fine, provided this was a theoretical restriction: i.e. your FTL engine just plain can't thrust in causality violating vectors, because it encounters some temporal restriction field or similar.

So the problem isn't "FTL is a causality violation", it's FTL without a mechanism to prevent causality violation is probably impossible.

The sci-fi conceit of it being difficult to plot efficient paths through hyperspace or whatever might well be quite a real thing, and simply related to charting causality-allowed courses through FTL-space.
1) this is the same problem like controlling the angle of a quad copter, for which I have used PID. You can calculate the error of the position, which is in the range -180..179. Applying one PID stage to the error of the orientation yields a "desired rate of change" - it increases if the error is large or held for a long time and it's sign describes the direction of the rate of change of orientation. You can use another PID stage to give a step count power iteration (how much to turn the object).
2) integral windup is commonly prevented by just capping it. You can also use a smoother capping function which bounds the size of the integral, or lowers it on each iteration.
Hmm...Gwent?
> Unlike English, Russian has two words for "why".

English has at least three in the same space, two of which are in modern use.

> "почему" asks - how did things come to be this way?

In English, that's, unambiguously, “How". Which is kind of why your own translation starts with it.

> "зачем" asks - what is the purpose of things being this way?

In English that is, again unambiguously, though somewhat archaic, “wherefore”.

“Why” can mean either and is usually disambiguated by context (but is usually read modernly as “wherefore” if the context isn’t otherwise unambiguous, though the existence of the archaic phrase “whys and wherefores” which seems to mean the same as the modern “whys and hows” suggest to me that the bias has flipped over time.)
Feynman is an engineer's physicist, and we're on an engineering board afaict
Oh man, this looks cool but the writing took me right out of the announcement. I don't usually notice bad writing, but this prose seems purpler than usual.
Given the size of it I must assume that all warehouse workers are required to be no taller than 5'8"
A miniscule tax on every transaction. Automatically deducted. That's it! No other tax allowed.
I'm guessing your resume didn't have to pass through two levels of committees either? (right?)
Does loss leader attack means not making a profit to force out competition with cash from somewhere else?

I think that's pretty scummy in ISPs case but wouldn't banning that also make it impossible for venture backed business to compete in established markets?
Thymeleaf templates are also valid HTML when not rendered. Of course you still have to put some thought into them to make them believable, by e.g. providing placeholders for elements that would be rendered in cycles.

Yeah, I find Thymeleaf to be nice, especially when coupled with Spring. I'm always happy when we decide to use it instead of bloating everything up with a separate Angular application.
Every hipster, open-space, max-collaboration co-working space I've been to, has had such a box/room. What am I missing that makes Amazon's case so special?
Will you be fired if you go to the booth too often? I mean if you are stressed about work maybe you want to unionize or have a complaint about work and so maybe should be fired. Not for using the booth of course but for poor performance in your job suddenly.
Fine, but this is all I got:

f(a,a)

f(a,b)

It's called 'hard' for a reason. :p
It is probably worth drawing a distinction between profitable and unprofitable disruption too. Unprofitable disruption breaks up the market for a bit, then will eventually go away when people lose the will to keep sending their money down the hole. Then the market has to rebuild the old systems or something.

A profitable business is more likely to be a positive disruption. At least it is sustainable in theory.
Because lying to the public is very counterproductive in the long run: it kills the trust, whatever the original motive is.
10 people tweeting 20x a day is a pretty low bar.

I'd wager to say anyone that's active in local politics is doing more good than 90% of politics-tweeters.
This week in KDE: performance improvements galore
And javascript's speed seems mostly a result of throwing amazing amounts of smart engineers at it over time, rather than anything inherent in the language itself.
Cyprus' capital controls around 2013 was a catalyst that brought bitcoin into the broader discourse and pushed it to 1k shortly after.
I nearly missed the videos, I was thinking streetmap, which is another maybe slightly cruder way to be a virtual tourist. So I thought it was stills, even though you did say footage which does mean video.

Love it.

Might I suggest (unless cache matters or something) that you start the viewer at a random time during the video? (and cycle/repeat) I really like to dip in and out and would like to be able to come back and see slightly different footage rather than have to see from the beginning always. Thanks again!
Outside of the concept fitting better into an ironic hell than a real life workplace? Last I heard Amazon warehouse workers barely had enough time to take a piss, how are they supposed to even use this without getting fired the next day?
"Wait, so this user story has negative business value? Let's put it in the icebox."
The article has a few interesting non-fiction book recommendations (are Houdini's books in the public domain? They don't seem as easily found online as I'd expect), so I'll add a random fiction book to the list:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27272632-summerland

A sci-fi/fantasy/spy novel that builds from the assumption that the victorians discovered a real afterlife.

Fairly unique in setting, and I found it an enjoyable enough read that I'm looking into picking up the author's other books.
Corporate America is spending big bucks on various mental (and physical ) wellness programs. I wonder know if it is a fad or if companies are seeing results. Or they are just trying to keep up with the Jones.
I don't know how much of this is me being Finnish, but I personally don't even know how to smile at will; a smile is something that happens naturally and trying to deliberately smile at people when I'm not actually feeling it just makes me feel dishonest and usually results in a grimace instead.

While I might really be enjoying a good walk in the sun for example, I can't really say that it makes me want to smile at every random passer-by.
What am I missing that makes Amazon's case so special?

The Amazon version has the nickname 'despair closet' [1].

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-healt...
Woah, cpunk as fuark

Good luck getting that approved for street use in the EU but what a beauty.

I wish there were driving videos available, I'll patiently wait