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> For me, I find that learning new languages with different paradigms helps me to learn new ways of thinking that make me stronger in my real work.

I don't disagree that this is possible. My argument is that it's a needlessly circuitous route to improving your capabilities. You can choose to explicitly learn things that have demonstrable pragmatic value and end up with a better long term learning outcome, on balance.

But many people are inherently interested in programming languages and paradigms and that's fine too. I just don't think we should pretend that it's uniformly the best use of time in the effort to become a competent engineer or thinker.
Every time I’m tempted to actually get involved in the left-wing causes I support, I read something like this.

You’re saying there’s no difference between my Mom and Dad, and the Nazis. There’s no difference between my sister and the Nazis. There’s no difference between my in-laws and the Nazis.

Seriously. This is why people hate the Democrats, even though they agree with them in most issues.

I don’t care if we agree on everything. I’d never vote for someone who said the things you just did about my family.
You challenged the notion of "indoctrination and propaganda happening in US education" (from the parent comment). You simply made a counter-claim to the parent commenter, to the effect that you know none of your teachers ever presented opinion as truth.

Another commenter asks you whether, hypothetically, a certain kind of training were given to teachers would change your opinion.

Who is making a claim here?
Voters like police unions and teachers unions, but what they don't like is paying more in taxes. As a public employee, I make $74k a year while living in the Bay Area. I'm at the top of my salary band. Sure, I've got pretty good health insurance, but no better than I would get in tech. I've got a pension, but it will not be enough to live on, and CalPERS has huge liabilities because the voters are unwilling to actually fully fund it. I get three weeks of vacation. I guess that's pretty OK.

The one thing I have (besides a job I absolutely enjoy doing), is job security and stability, and that is thanks to my union. It sure would be nice to have a higher salary, but someone has to be willing to pay for it, and nobody wants to do that. Instead, public employees get things that only indirectly cost money, or that don't have to be paid off until sometime in the distant future when the politicians and union bigwigs who agreed to all this stuff are no longer around.
NY Times test finds no identifiable tuna DNA in Subway's tuna sandwich
Nobody gives a shit dude. We'll keep having fun without you.
Do you use this primarily for professional life, personal tasks, general motivation? (Tried to word this non-exhaustive/non-xor but saying so explicitly in case that didn’t come across.)
I didn’t expect a global pandemic either. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Nobody is forcing anybody to house people for free. Sure, you can’t evict, but you can sell your property and let that be someone else’s problem. The fact is, the price of rental properties didn’t crash, which means the majority of landlords didn’t mind the situation they were in all that much. I don’t know whether that’s because most people paid rent, most landlords didn’t mind not getting rent, or that there’s lots of money sloshing around looking for investment opportunities; I suspect it’s a mix of the first and third.
> Your thought may effect a person that is thousands of kilometres away

What does this mean?
I know, I was being a bit over dramatic there, but I still believe copyright holders shouldn't be throwing DMCA claims all willy-nilly.
We live in a society where FANG doesn't want you to know how this one weird trick about the unreasonable effectiveness of all you need considered harmful for fun and profit and you will never guess what happened next in my social experiment gone wrong.
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I had never heard this term, now I have more learning to do! Thank you.
We just had an article on the front page about the power of PR.

It's so powerful that you should basically doubt any Disney products grass roots popularity as it's likely the results of PR.
Maybe 2 to 2.5 years. The U74 core in the BeagleV and Unmatched was announced October 2018. If not for COVID it probably would have shipped six months ago.

The C906 core in Allwinner D1 SoC will make an excellent competitor to the Pi Zero when it ships on the promised $10 to $15 Sipeed and Pine64 boards later in the year -- and that will be a real price where you can buy as many as you want, not the "$5 but you can only buy one" fake Pi Zero price.

The $99 "Nezha" board with the D1 is of course not value-competitive for that performance level. It's a manufacturer's (i.e. Allwinner) prototype board for volume manufacturers such as Pine64 to use to develop software while they work on their own board.

The same goes for the HiFive Unmatched. It's not intended for volume production, it's for developers to use to prepare software for later high volume boards (including the BeagleV).
The state also makes it possible for me to charge for usage of everything else I own, not just land, by restricting people's ability to use it freely without my permission. For example, my body, my computer, my laundry machine, my bed, ect.

Is your main argument that because of the limited quantity of land it deserves special reconsideration, or do you think all or a vast number of property rights should be abolished?
Ah, my bad, I misinterpreted your comment.
Ask HN: Any good resources on how to be a great technical advisor to startups?
Hey all, I really like working with startups. It's something I do naturally and tend to help out with technology decisions with many people. I think I could be good technical advisor to early companies but i'm somewhat unfamiliar with the details of how the interaction occurs. Anyone have any good resources on a good model that is healthy for both the startup and advisor?

My baseline understanding is it's usually .25%-1% advisor shares vested over 2 years monthly (less if they are even more established). I'd love to know people's cadence of work, what type of work, and legalities people observe.
The H-Mode has been removed, but people usually still call it the H extension.
I'm not American, so I've little personal interaction with these. This is just the impression I get from here, as well as other American core communities I frequent.

That I frequently hear how public school teachers are unable to do anything about literal abuse and such does give them credence though.
Stalking my comments across threads isn't doing you any rhetorical favors. You're really upset about this, and that's a shame.
One theory is “petro dollars” - Saudi Arabia mandates all of their oil is purchased in dollars, thus ensuring global demand for dollars as every country needs oil. In return, the US has their back unconditionally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling#Petrod...
It does make me wonder when that will flip though. "Ball" golf (as disc golfers like to say) seems to be at a point where you can make a serious living without much to do on the social media side. Companies dump so much money into the purse because there are enough eyes on the game, and I think disc golf can get to that point.

But then again, maybe disc golf is coming of age in a different era, where social media will just be ingrained moving forward, and it will continue to be just as important, if not more, than your performance on the course.
He Spent 6 Days in Feces Covered Cell. Supreme Court Says He Can Sue His Jailers
> Jimmy Hoffa [...] eventually gunned down.

I just want to clarify that we don't know if he was specifically gunned down. He was declared dead years after he went missing. The exact circumstances of his presumed death aren't known, but it's generally believed to be the mob that did it.
You seem to have taken one point (that the soviets would sooner or later have eventually defeated germany - perhaps true, or perhaps not), and stretched that to breaking point to try and make another (that Enigma had no material impact on the war).

That's simply not true, even if Enigma has been somewhat mythologised.

First, consider that time was of the essence. The Germans were working on their own nuclear weapon, and had enough traction that this was of great concern to the allied leadership. So the question is not, would the soviets have won, but rather would they have won *before the germans completed their nuclear weapon*.

So the real question is - did Enigma distract and delay the germans from this goal?

It did. As just one example, breaking Enigma is widely held to weakened the U-boats hold on the North Atlantic, without which the D-Day landings could have been delayed by a year or even longer, as the North Atlantic was the route that brought ammunition, fuel, food and troops to Britain from America.

What would the germans have done with an extra year with no western front to worry about?

At the very least, they would have been able to redeploy resources to the easter front, which would certainly have slowed the russians down. And at the worst, they could have completed their own atom bomb, with dire consequences to the rest of the world.

It's certainly hyperbole to say that Enigma won the war. But it's also hyperbole to say - as you do - that Engima machine had no material impact on the war.
BitManip is currently frozen and in the 45 day Public Comment period before ratification.

Expect chips in 9 to 12 months, minimum.
> WRT. texture coordinates, they are converted to U/V (or actually S/T) pairs, but it happens quite late during the edge span rasterization. You can see the inner rasterizer loop here[1] where it draws an edge span and performs a linear interpolation of the S/T values calculated at [2] above and [3] (during the surface draw setup).

The whole distinction I was making was between calculating UV coordinates for the vertexes versus directly calculating the gradients.

Unless I’m reading this wrong, the UV coordinates for vertexes are not calculated. Instead, the gradients are converted to screen space and used to calculate pixel UV coordinates, exactly as I had said:

> …Quake does not encode the texture coordinates for vertexes in the map…

I have used Radiant and the “texture lock” was a bit of a joke for a long time. If a game is released in 1996 but it takes many years before something otherwise simple is easy to achivee in editors… the only natural conclusion is that the map format is optimized for renderer simplicity rather than map-making convenience.

This problem can be solved but the fact that the problem exists is just a curiosity in an otherwise obsolete engine. There is no reason why you would encode the texture coordinates that way in modern engines.
> it also mentions that gibbard's is specifically about irv.

This isn't true

> I can't understand the idea that we only get to change things once.

Those of us concerned about IRV and promoting cardionality actually looked at history. Between 1910 and 1920 40 US cities used Bucklin voting (similar to IRV, slightly better even) and all repealed them[0]. So looking at history we see that people recognized the need for a better voting system, implemented something similar to IRV, saw that it didn't make things better, and subsequently said "fuck it, we'll go back to FPTP because it is easier." (I should also mention that in Australia, since 1949, 90% of Lower House elections, which use IRV, are equivalent to using FPTP[1])

So we're looking at history (and modern times) and saying "hey, this didn't work and actually ended up causing us to take a step backwards. Maybe we shouldn't repeat the same mistake."

I hope this clarifies our differing understanding of history.

[0] https://clayshentrup.medium.com/momentum-e5fd12ffce2a

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_House_of_Representa...
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There's no "power" component to racism. That was recently "added" so that certain groups could claim immunity from being deemed racist. Racism is simply racial prejudiced, or, prejudging someone based on their race. Anyone, of any race, can be racist, no power needed.

The saddest part is that the USA is the least racist country in the history of the world, and were in our least racist era only 20 years ago. Seems like most of the progress of the Civil Rights Movement has been lost since.
Fair point. Just throwing this out there as a cool alternative.
I think it's a whole genre that was finally allowed into mainstream. For a long time we had very black/white view on the superheroes in movies. Only relatively recently Batman got a bit interesting, Star Wars had someone turn "bad", Ironman was a good jerk, Starlord... was a good jerk, Loki and Deadpool are pretty chaotic, now Sandman is soon coming out. We have a number of "that bad character had reasons" movies like Cruella.

Those existed for ages in comic books, but I don't think mainstream / Disney would touch them.
I remember there was also some parties that would name themselves suspiciously similar to existing parties and parlay that in to political power via the horse trading you mentioned.
I'm down. This is absurd.

I'd also be open to doing the same for any of the monopolistic practices of other companies that stifle small creators and engineers.
I'd be interested to know what people thought of Semantic Web tech (which barely squeezes in, around 1999).

When I went to university (2013-16ish) there were still a couple of professors clinging to the idea that everyone would see the light and semantic web would be broadly implemented, but aside from that everyone else I've ever discussed it with has considered it a dead or vapourware technology. I am curious as to whether it was seen as viable or realistic back in the day, or just a pipe dream.
> According to 2019 data from the athlete marketing platform Opendorse, only about 70 athletes in the world make at least a million dollars a year in endorsement deals. McBeth’s endorsement income from Discraft alone puts him on par with Bears linebacker Khalil Mack, Jazz guard Mike Conley Jr., and Astros pitcher Justin Verlander.

This doesn't pass the smell test at all. Opendorse doesn't give any transparency into how they arrived at those numbers; they could be pulled from thin air, and Opendorse are clearly ignoring some sports. For example, there are zero NHL players on the list despite Forbes listing at least 10 players who should be on that list, including several who make well over a million in endorsements.

I'd wager there are an order of magnitude more than 70 athletes with $1 million+ in endorsements.
The character is dangerously adorable.
Overleveraged renters can't ask for more, but renters who paid their bills on time and responsibly forewent other spending are really taking a bath here, and could ask to not be penalized for acting responsibly over the past 18 months.

This is a textbook case of a moral hazard.
Well, someone has tried "screen in glasses".

I've tried the glasses from North, which has been bought by Google a few years ago. The projection of the screen on the lens looks cool, but the glasses had no traction in the market and the company tried to charge me C$1100+ for a pair of prescription smart glasses.
Are you suggesting PR has convinced people that they like a character? Bizarre take. Like people can't form their own opinion or something? Disney now has the power to PR me into liking anything basically?
I started playing during the pandemic and now I'm hooked. It's more fun than playing real golf, and I used to do a lot of that.
Thought experiment. Everyone in the US gets a $10,000 stimulus payment, except you.

Is that fair? Nothing has been taken from you.

Now think about it in terms of income inequality. If someone makes $1M per year, why do you care? It doesn't hurt you. You choose to feel resentment because someone else is better off.
Here's an idea to stretch the legal system to a breaking point: This person should legally rename himself to Loki so that he looks like Loki and is actually named Loki. (I mean this sarcastically.)
Her opposition to trans rights is enough to term her despicable, her blatant and repeated use of racial, ethnic, and cultural stereotypes in her body if work is also rather bad.
The term is anti-hero.
Does the landlord sell the property at market price?
For most of recent history they've been a major supplier of oil to the US.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...
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Really? This was national news for weeks. President Biden flew down there and talked to them!

I cannot possibly imagine what more organizing could have accomplished.
Minimum 5k (inflation adjusted) or revenue lost plus punitives and attorneys fees, whichever is greater, plus a stipulation barring companies from performing automated takedowns if they slip from 99.999% accuracy.

Some of HN's readers are decently connected and don't have a conflict against dmca reform, but many probably are conflicted given how many startups in some way deal with IP.

I can try proposing this.
No “perhaps” necessary—Facebook employees have even published academic papers based on this.

> Social media also affords users the ability to type out and review their thoughts prior to sharing them. This feature adds an additional phase of filtering that is not available in face-to-face communication: filtering after a thought has been formed and expressed, but before it has been shared. … Last-minute self-censorship is of particular interest to [social networking sites]…

> In this paper, we shed some light on which Facebook users
self-censor under what conditions, by reporting results from a large-scale exploratory analysis: the behavior of 3.9 million Facebook users.

https://sauvikdas.com/uploads/paper/pdf/4/self-censorship_on...
The Political Beats podcast has an excellent 3 part retrospective of Neil Young's career. Part 3 alone is over 4 hours long. Definitely worth a listen if you are a fan. And despite the name there are no politics.
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/political-beats/
Every Lisp programmer I've ever met is like this. I don't know why, but it's probably Erik Naggum's fault. They used to be called "Lisp weenies" and now would be called "abusers".

(The Clojure and Racket people are supposedly nice.)
This exists in JS/TS too. Check out SolidJS (and most relevant its underlying dom-expressions Babel transform).
I don't mind this take. I'm lazy as hell. I can't make myself care about doing things enough to do them. I would love to magically change that, but no luck so far. Meds help but they don't help enough that I remember to take them or get them refilled. Behavioral interventions have been shown to help, i.e. get off the damn screen and meditate, get outside.

It's not that I can't read a book, I just forget that I wanted to read it. Then by the time I remember I already have my phone out and hn pulled up. Call it laziness, call it ADHD. I don't care, and I don't expect sympathy just like someone who can't do calculus doesn't need sympathy. Some things just seem harder for me than they are for some people.
Historically, the least bad option in maintaining supply of the fuel of civilization and countering Iran, Russian, and Chinese influence. Such is geopolitics.
From what I saw here though, the workers don't want a union and the teamsters seem to be trying to force one in regardless? There was a vote, and from what I remember it wasn't even close. Does this coercion not impact its legitimacy in your eyes?
Reminds me of that south park episode with mickey mouse being an evil heartless brute ru(i)nning Disney.
Oh really? So even if the millionaire next door got the $10,000 check but you didn't, you wouldn't feel resentment? How about if Bill Gates got it but you didn't?
If what you call opinions can be broken down into those we have judged true and false, moral and immoral, promoting of peace and justice or liable to breed hate and death why on earth would anyone be expected to tolerate equally the expression of opinions that by their own standards were evil and destructive as those they viewed as good and constructive.

I tolerate your ability to possess either because by no means do I count myself the master of your mind or soul but that doesn't mean that I will tolerate the idea of your opinion running unopposed. Subject to the rules of this forum I will happily call it out.

Perhaps you can tell me what part of what I said was objectively wrong? More than half of your fellows believe that a satanic cabal of pedos has stolen the country and almost half want the military to end democracy in the name of saving it and install a reality TV star.
More likely it's some intern looking up anything tagged "Loki" or similar.
If it makes you feel any better, many US citizens hate it too. It's stupid both to privatize the military, and to provide military training to repressive authoritarian regimes.

America and our democratic allies spent half a century fighting totalitarianism, only to turn around and treat the post-Cold War "peace dividend" as carte-blance to sell out everything we had just finished fighting for. Now authoritarianism is on the rise again as a result.

This has to be most idiotic own-goal in history.
Veles is a GUI For Kaitai:

https://veles.io/
There's a lot you can do with a custom reconciler. I didn't look to see if that's what's going on, but it's the foundation for many React adaptations to unlikely interfaces, such as Ink and some of Netflix's smart tv UIs.
The goal in my mind would be to make a very approachable, reasonable, "safe" reform that's both small and yet makes a difference. Senators get scared of big changes unless the entire political party is on board, which is unlikely in this case.

Or, or, here's an different idea. Every DMCA request gets $10K automatically put in escrow for a mandatory arbitration. If the violator is a no-show or the DMCA takedown is ruled "not frivolous" (regardless of how good it is, just not frivolous level), the money is returned to the DMCA filer. However, if the person slapped shows up and the arbitrator says "frivolous," the $10,000 is sent to the slapped person and the DMCA filer must do a full lawsuit to retrieve the $10,000 back, which will ultimately require full legal proceedings over the validity of the request. Or instead of $10K, make it $25K. If you truly believe your request is valid, what do you have to fear knowing the money will be returned?

The point is some system where the DMCA Filer must throw cash on the line from the beginning to prove good faith.

You could also make the amount required variable to company size. Small company under $1M in revenue? $500. $1-$100M? $5000. $100M+? $10000. IDK, just something.
In Seattle, many of us reached the same conclusion as you did. We’re now trying to change Seattle’s primary elections to use approval voting: https://seattleapproves.org/

Approval voting is extremely effective at capturing voters’ preferences, simple to implement, and incredibly easy to explain - not just the ballot, but how the ballots are tabulated and how the winner is chosen.

The entity you linked to, The Center for Election Science, has a “howto” for bringing better elections to your city or county:
https://electionscience.org/take-action/approval-voting-chap.... That’s where we started and I can vouch for it.
Veles – open-source tool for binary data analysis
That sounds fantastic. People have no idea how bad small business have it with patent trolls.
There is hardly a significant website out there with a higher concentration of Google and Microsoft employees than Hackernews, in light of which that's quite the baffling comment to make.
Usually depends on which end of the cat you wake up to :)
I don't see requiring an ID to vote as a very big hurdle. I needed to provide a lot more than that to get my COVID vaccine.