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This is an incredibly interesting read.

> TC is also aimed at payment systems. One of the Microsoft visions is that much of the functionality now built on top of bank cards may move into software once the applications can be made tamper-resistant. This leads to a future in which we pay for books that we read, and music we listen to, at the rate of so many pennies per page or per minute. The broadband industry is pushing this vision; meanwhile some far-sighted people in the music industry are starting to get scared at the prospect of Microsoft charging a percentage on all their sales.

God, if only they knew -- but at the same time, we never reached the nightmare of "pay-per-minute" models for books or songs.
I think the future is a lot closer to something between Instacart and Amazon Go. This is what dying companies do to eek out a little more revenue at their last few customers' expense. Companies that rely on "innovations" like this for the future will not survive.
- car maintenance, via ChrisFix

- how to fix my xaomi m365 battery

- Japanese

- basics of koi ponds, for a gift to my mother in law

- cooking with a instant pot

- ayurveda
The article doesn't mention lawfulness until the very end. But lawfulness is a crucial part of the definition and usage.

Because, a lot of the convenience and ergonomics that we can derive using these abstractions comes from being able to rely on the laws. Without them, they are just not really useful.

And when looking at the examples, I can totally see that someone reads

> That's all Monad is. It is an implementation of some "method" that conforms to that interface specification.

and then makes "Set" or "HashMap" implement the interface unlawful and bad things happen when they are least expected.
Your response is bordering on the insane.

If you’re arguing that “fewer dead children” is a standard that is culturally subjective, shouldn’t be applied to other civilizations, and might not be “the right standard” then I don’t know what to tell you.
Oh, it's definitely not the case anymore. Anecdotes about students in competitive disciplines falling back on medicine are usually multiple decades old.

Today, there's no such thing as medicine-as-a-fallback. If you aren't solidly and deliberately premed for several years, building relationships with people who can write strong LORs, doing and documenting volunteering hours, and getting everything else in order, you don't stand a chance at admission to a competitive school.
Just 2% of workers at VMware showed up for the first day of in-person work
Actually, it's not that "easy to find out" because the CCP is involved with:

1) their Thousand Talents program, which pays scientists to copy foreign research back to China. There are various contractual terms including not criticizing the CCP, and patenting foreign-supported research in China.

2) Since GoF can be used in bioweapons, there is also money for weapons development. Note the WIV was built by the French, which the CCP kicked out the day the lab opened.

3) Both the US and Australia have been involved in a coverup for over a year. In the US, this was revealed with Fauci's emails, and in Australia, journalists have uncovered previously-denied (on the record) bat virus research and training of Wuhan's virology scientists in Australia.

4) And, as mentioned, you need a BSL lab to do virology research, and virologists can't afford to build their own without govt. funding, and aren't allowed to do GoF in the US. A similar situation was how the Nazis moved to Argentina after the fall of Berlin to continue a variety of weapons programs. That's what the "thank you for not saying it was a lab leak" email to Fauci was about.

Yes, I'm intentionally comparing Fauci and Daszak to Nazis.
You would probably enjoy "Start with No" [0] referenced in the book. I took away a few lessons from this book :)

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Start-No-Jim-Camp/dp/0609608002/re...
Looking at the comparison, they're not great, but they definitely look better than the earlier 2013-2014 versions. By a huge margin. At least they tried to keep the style of the originals.

On the note of CRT graphics in general, I have to be honest, despite growing up with these older games on CRT screens of various sizes and quality, as well as playing them on emulators on everything from crappy old computer monitors, to phone screens to laptop screens to high res monitors...

I really feel like people pay way too much attention to and care far too much about tiny graphical details that don't really matter so much.

You're really truly not missing much if you can't see these games on a tiny 20' flickery CRT screen. It really doesn't add anything.
Recently, I ordered some hardware at Lowes for pick-up at customer service. The website said they had like 80 of these things in stock. I got a call an hour later from a worker saying they couldn't fill the order, though they could try it at another store. Apparently, the website's idea of their inventory, and the actual inventory haven't matched for any products since last summer. I expect this to be the case more often than not for these coolers.
My guess is that emergent economies are seeing more disposable income and the adoption of the same consumerist disposable everything habits, supplanting the lifestyle and economies they had previously. It’s especially bad in countries where environmental regulations and enforcement are far behind while consumption has caught up. You’ll often see this in YouTube videos showing garbage trucks just dumping trash (with significant amounts of plastics) straight into rivers, for example.
You can go down the route to say C++ is largely a superset of C. You can always write C++ in the C way, so you don't see simplicity is an advantage of C.
You forgot the part where this toaster is free. Nobody except DIY hobbyists and tinfoil privacy weirdos actually pay for a toaster in 2050.
> I’d love to see someone try taking it further: just hashing out lots and lots of substantially different examples, showing how they are similar to each other, and progressing into higher level transformations, before finally showing the definition of a functor, and how it maps to each of those cases. Forget monads. Can we just start with functors and see how far we get with that?

I think this is how a lot of people learn math and programming anyway. Build theory out of intuition.
I think providing advice in Latin, a language almost no one on HN speaks, is a more likely reason. It started getting upvoted again after someone else provided a translation.
Don't be sad about it it. Once you break out of it, you'd find the way on your own.
Adding to this, I suggest finding projects that will keep your skills up with current trends. There's a famous Reddit post from a guy who slacked at work and let his skills atrophy.
Tinder is like Instagram, everyone is incentivized to fake or exaggerate how nice their life is.

Honestly, the best remedy is find new hobbies. Some people mentioned sports/martial arts and religion/spiritualism, those are all fine options, and there are many more: cooking, gardening, biking, music classes, adopting a puppy, etc.

"Being a loser" is just a perception. Unlike what society might lead you to believe, nobody gets to decide that you're a "loser" based on some arbitrary metric.

You sound like you're into programming so obviously there are things that bring you joy. You just may not have found other joyful activities yet, so just go out there and try new things.

Life is too good of an opportunity to waste with suicide
Just wait until the door can recognize your face. After you buy some milk, the screen will recommend you go down to isle 4 and grab some cereal and get 50cents off, only valid during that store visit.

^^^ the real play
What do you mean “per investigation”? A wealth tax has overhead that applies to every tax payer.
Ha. The pure cynicism and satire. Almost had me for a minute. Bravo.
In a land with true capitalism these wouldn't exist because every single store with them would instantly lose all their customers. The only reason this exists is because America doesn't have a true free market or capitalism (because that's impossible) and stores are using their market position to force customers to shop there even though they would prefer not to. What are customers going to do? Go to the other massive grocery store that's miles away? Or maybe shop at the boutique that has half the selection at a markup.
That's only the first iteration. Next, they'll only load individual packed proprietary toast-pods. Budget third-party pods will work, until the manufacturer rolls out a silent firmware update to brick your toaster, on the grounds of violating the EULA
I was literally just going to comment this. If you're having suicidal thoughts, you need to see someone or do telehealth. There are providers who you can contact remotely. There is no reason to feel ashamed about contacting a therapist/psychiatrist. They really do help. I can speak from experience. If you have medical insurance, look at their website for a provider. If you don't, take a look here: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/
> if you are a gamer, immediately stop

Hard disagree there. Yes, gaming can be addicting, but that is also the case with basically all habits. If you easily get addicted to games, then I would suggest sticking to shorter single-player games.

I would add reading (fiction or non-programming books) and traveling to the list of things to spend more time and money on.
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There are many reasons that people have become skeptical of the "vaccines are good" narrative. Personally I've experienced my 5yo child go from speaking and developing normal to no speech, pissing herself rocking and screaming while the doctors at the ER gaslit me that, "it couldn't have been the vaccine she had just taken."
Good advice.

People can definitely fall into the intellectual pit. They then abuse intellectual pursuits to distance themselves from reality. Fake challenges, fake problems, fake solutions, fake progress. If they later reconnect with reality, they discover they can use their intellect and physicality to solve real problems for real people. Along the way they connect to those real people and the very much broader reality in general. Often resulting in interesting stories to tell as well.

None of this is actually anti-intellectual or anti-programming.
Serious question. Where can I get a brand new dumb TV?
Solvespace might be of interest you if you haven't heard of it!
Not really advice per se, but: none of us has it figured out, most of us are lost and at least somewhat unhappy when we are honest about it. You just have to learn to cope with and embrace this fact, and learn to love the chaos that is life.

oh and stop caring what others are doing, or thinking. You won’t like most of them and that’ll be a two way street.

Life always just has a way of working itself out, don’t let it get to you and certainly don’t take it too seriously.

Find something you really like to do and get lost in it, it helps to not focus on the noise of life. Mine is hiking and flying ultralights.
Off topic but I see one of the cases advertising "organic seltzer". WTF is organic seltzer?!
If you think these are the things killing brick-and-mortar retail when it would otherwise succeed, then you should be founding a company doing the exact opposite of these things and capture the market.
> They knew about it

Again, you're positing this shadowy "they" who somehow saved a lot of money — but the building was owned by the people who lived there, and I'm pretty sure if the condo owners actually knew about the renovations that needed doing, they'd have spent the money to make the repairs, rather than getting crushed to death in their sleep.

There is no one enjoying ill-gotten gains here.

> Yup yup, enjoying my life as a king in thailand

I see. A tyrant.
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Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27624735
The toaster is free, subsidized by burning advertisements into your toast.
I have had a very rough 2 years. The worst of my life. I'm in my late 30s. 2009 was also a very difficult year. The summer of 2004 was the first truly difficult time of my adult life. The main thing all of these have in common is that I was cut off in a significant way from friends and family.

One of the defining characteristics of humanity is that we need love. We need love like trees need the sun. We need to know that when everything else in the world is going to shit, someone is there to hold us and tell us that they'll never leave us. And you need as many of these people in your life as possible.

Everyone around you needs this. Most of them don't get enough of it. Find the people around you who are interested in giving that to you, and receiving it from you. And spend as much time as possible with them.
> the seeds of confusion was sowed from the get go.

I see what you did there...
100% emergency services can hear (and record) every word you say while while you’re talking to 911.

Am aware of several folks going to prison from confessions when they thought they weren’t being heard.
I could see one case where it does make sense - stores after the gate in airports, where there are more people walking by and seeing the advertising than there are customers coming in looking for a specific product. In any place like a grocery store where customers have clearly come in looking for specific items, it makes zero sense.
I've always been impressed by Go's compile times. The first few times I thought I'd made a mistake, and it was doing nothing (the prompt came back so quickly). Now I know better :-)
For those unaware, this is exactly the main point of the story "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow. I liked the story and would recommend it.
I remember when I was very young (8, 10, 12 years old) playing video games on CRT TVs. Atari and NES. I remember the flickery-raggedy-fuzzy vertical lines of the NES. I remember all the weird vertical-hold bounces of the Atari when games were reset. I remember the minute distortions of an RF-modulator-to-screw-attached-antenna-terminal connections.

There's just simply something warm and magical and comforting about those details. You're playing old games to go back in time, to simpler times--so you might as well get those minute but important details right. It's part of the magic.

Ultimately nothing can really recreate being the last one to go to sleep, in the living room or bedroom with no other lights on, maybe with the TV volume really low (to the point you could hear that faint background high-pitched noise all CRTs seem to make), and only the glow of the TV lighting up the room--sitting close to it--playing Atari or NES and fully enthralled in the game without a damn care about anything else in the world. It's a time long past and gone; I miss those times.
I guess it would be too small to translate well, but wow that aesthetic would be remarkable for a game
I agree with everything you said, but 'orientated'.
There's a spectrum between the extremes of "over consumption" and "the man is keeping me down". And in the middle there's also "simply playing the hand you're dealt".

Looking at the comments here, it seems like people cherry pick anecdotes or statistics to support their beliefs about the distribution.
Exactly, people love to hate on Capitalism, but it is a very powerful tool. But externalised cost is the downfall that governments need to step in and control.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.

I think it's important to emphasise that having to live with the continuous fear of not being accepted as an equal part of society or worse can create a significant amount of stress. The same is true (albeit to a much lesser extent nowadays) for gay and lesbian individuals, and let's not forget that if you grew up, say, in the 90s, the world was still a significantly different place back then. As far as I know there have been studies showing increased stress levels in LGBT individuals even long after coming out.

In a sense, I often feel that trans people are now facing what gays and lesbians were facing a couple of decades ago. Let's hope that your road to acceptance will be as swift as it was for us.
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This was my take as well. It easy easy to have that label slapped on you if you express even the slightest skepticism towards the dominant narrative.
You're right, I read the phrase a little too literally. Apologies!
Multithreading sure is complicated.

I'm currently playing with multithreading right now. I'm implementing snapshot isolation multiversion concurrency control.

In theory you can avoid locks (except for data structure locks) by creating a copy of the data you want to write and detect conflicts at read and commit time. Set the read timestamp of a piece of data to the transaction timestamp (timestamps are just monotonically increasing numbers) that reads it. If someone with a higher transaction timestamp comes along, they abort and restart because someone got in before them.

At the moment I have something that mostly works but occasionally executes a duplicate. I'm trying to eradicate the last source of bugs but as with anything parallel, it's complicated due to the interleavings.

My test case is to spin up 100 threads, with each thread trying to increment a number. The end numbers should be 101 and 102. If there was a data race, then the numbers will be lower.

https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...
The opening of the Philip K Dick story Ubiq has a scene very much like this.
Left out of this post is a form or CTA that follows me on scroll, it doesn't make me feel like it's easier to find the form, it makes me feel like I'm being hounded to give my information.
I think part of the reasoning behind this is also that people are less likely to buy from a half-empty shelf. That's why markets put so much effort into constant restocking.

This way, the shelf can always look full while needing less restocking.
> sincerely evaluate your style of dress (do you give off a feminine-milquetoast or masculine vibe) visit Reddit, etc for ideas

Are you making a value judgment on which style is right and wrong?
Many in America get life sentences for drug offenses.

This happened recently - https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989822872/supreme-court-rejec...

This does not feel like enough.
No surprise it dropped into the ocean. When are you going to learn america?
Look at old Victorian clothes. Or even clothes from 50 years ago. Compare them to the clothes of today. Pretty different right? That's the cosmetics and fashion industry at work. You might not like it but at least they're causing real change. Contrast that with this invention which will no doubt go the way of the dodo without anyone even remembering it.
Eh, that’s also how projects happen at all, though. The failed ones seem like it was for the sake of someone’s ego. But you need a bit of ego, in a big corporate setting.

I think TFRC was an ego project, rather than an egoless project. Yet TFRC was a wonderful project that happened to work; if it failed, it might seem like an ego project with no point.

I don’t like saying “you need ego,” but it also seems true that you can’t find large corporate projects without it. Are there good counterexamples? I’d like to change my view.
The only way to fail life is by ending it too soon. I feel obligated to say that if you’re feeling suicidal that you should contact a hotline or meet with a mental health expert. You might want to meet with an expert regardless as it could help you work on how you see yourself and the world around you.

Normal is a trap. Societal norms are a trap. Don’t worry about what other people your age are doing. Worry about what makes you happy. Period. I’m in my late 30s and I have friends who are still single, friends who are unemployed, and a friend from elementary school who still lives at home with his parents. The thing they all have in common is a positive outlook, an interest in learning, a desire to do the things they enjoy, and to not care what society thinks of them. My single friends travel by themselves because they want to see the world and aren’t going to wait for a partner. My friend who lives with his parents is basically broke and has had a pretty tough life. But he has lots of hobbies and a tiny group of quality friends.

I personally try not to let things get in the way of the stuff I enjoy or want to do. Just before the pandemic I went to a concert alone. By my assessment I was the only person there not with a friend. I had a great time seeing a band I really like and dancing all by myself. Maybe I looked silly, but I don’t care. Plus I likely won’t see any of those people again and I’m not important enough for anyone to remember me anyway.

Maybe look into joining some in person communities related to things you enjoy. Math and computers are fine communities, but branch out. Some of my good friends are actually people I met a decade ago at the now defunct HN NYC meet up. I actually work for one of those people now.

Social situations can be stressful and awkward, but like anything else the more you do it the easier it tends to get. You may not leave every meetup with new contacts but it’s at least a way to have personal interactions and spend some time talking about things you are interested in or are passionate about. But you do have to put yourself out there. Another comment suggested some public speaking programs, do one those to help get over some of the social anxieties.

You don’t sound like a failure in life. It sounds like you are just craving a bit more from yours. I know it’s not easy, but try putting yourself out there by doing some of the things you enjoy. If that list is short, do some hobby experimenting. Take a group painting class, join a bowling league, take a cooking class, learn to surf, etc. You never know what you’ll discover or who you’ll meet along the way.

I’ll help get things started… My email is in my profile. Let’s chat one night or I’ll teach you how to play Settlers of Catan if you've never played.

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With ten years of development experience you should have some pretty good debugging skills by now but the bug report you submitted is missing the expected behavior as well as the execution environment. Sometimes you can be looking straight at the problem and simply not see it ... At that point you should find a second set of fresh eyes. Finally, make small imprints and celebrate when each new test passes ... You can do this - decide what you want and start making small changes and you'll quickly be surprised at the difference you've made!
Placating the comfortable is a terrible way to promote growth.
Eh that’s kinda misleading because not the entire population of the one million has any idea about the thing, so top 10% is probably fairly small.
Fact is probably worse than fiction here:

Samsung fridges have machine vision systems to catalog their contents, then combine the data with data from samsung smart TVs. That way, they can be joined against your tv watching habits. This is all to better target ads.

If you disable it, then it breaks the demand response function on the fridge, indirectly killing polar bears and other living things.

They cost as much (or more) than non-connected versions.
I've built these... The basic idea is you've got some canonical url that you'd love to have links to, but people (and tools) love to mess everything up, so whatever comes in, as long as it's got the number, gets 302'd to the right place and call it a day.

I personally put the number as close to the domain as I can get away with, because the farther away it is, the more likely it is to be truncated, and I don't care how nice the partial URL looks, if it's missing the number, I can't get your content. And no, I'm not building it for just slugs no numbers, because I've seen what happens to those.
I am surprise I have not seen this, with how many times I have run across the Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI