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everyone on HN does that 100% of the time they comment. it's not the "things that matter" section of the site, it's the "comment" section.
The world's greatest 20th century innovators, such as Einstein and Shannon, did not do their work to get rich. It's more than a little crazy that "innovation" has become so closely associated with ECommerce entrepreneurship, and is assumed to be driven by greed.
I don't think the fire is mysteriously gone in this imagining of the analogy. More like it is still there, but is survivable: still very hot, still very scary, but not clearly moving to inevitably consume you. I think this is just another place where the analogy breaks down. But that's ok, no analogy is perfect, but I think this one does have its uses.
> Vipassana is not like a week at a spa.

Right, I was conflating two separate points there: one is definitely about lengthy extreme programs, but another is that some people mentioned that it's better to spend more time with other forms of meditation (e.g. samatha) to develop other aspects of the eightfold path first, before getting into vipassana.
Yes - I’m not saying that you won’t see false-positives, but I’ve rarely seen a project where it didn’t find real issues, including some that people resisted accepting (including exploitable security holes).

If you approach it determined to reject everything, or to blindly follow the tool, you’ll get poor outcomes. If you view it as a tool which can help you improve your code and triage results accordingly, you’ll almost always have better results.
Agreed, but all too often there has been a forced entry. I think they should be resorting to cameras first.
>but that it should be our primary goal is extremely clear

It’s not extremely clear to me. Why is long term survival more important than making life better for more people? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to prefer to belong to a species that took care of it’s entire population and lived in harmony with the environment than one that avoided extinction, no matter the cost?

Also, why would space be the best way to survive an extinction event? Wouldn’t some good bunkers do the trick?
Just put your S3 bucket behind a CloudFront CDN and you're golden :)
in hawaii, 30 day minimum are REQUIRED. my friend has a unit and asked airbnb how to “enforce the 30 day minimum which is law”.

Airbnb support said there is no way for them to enforce this and just ignore it and rent anyway.

Ie, they KNOW the local laws and either ignore them, or sue the small cities with no legal budget.

Airbnb/VRBO ruin every good neighborhood that exists.
What "worst possible interpretation"? You were the one who claimed you didn't realise you had switched from safari to the finder. Which is exactly equivalent to saying "I have no clue what I'm looking at and pay zero attention to detail". In a conversation where you're discussing those very details.

What's the "good" interpretation? That you suffer from an attention deficit disorder, so it's not your fault that you have no clue what you're looking at and the things you're saying are patently ridiculous?

> I thought Safari was embedding the finder in the Safari window

So, to summarise, your argument is that you have no idea about how your software works or what it does. It felt "seamless" to you because you had no idea what to expect and think your browser magically embeds other applications now.

Just in case I wasn't clear last time: If you think that switching to an entirely different different application is a reasonable thing to miss, you have zero credibility where UX is concerned.

>it's clear from your comments that you think no one in the world is right but you.

Lots of people who aren't me are right. It's just that statistically speaking those people tend to agree with me on most things.

Kragen, for example, has been saying things that are right all day (In particular I found this treatise on security stuff to be damn near sexy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27900935).

Even some people who disagree with me on a bunch of points have said things that are right. It's happened today. And you'll see me acknowledge them when they happen if you look.

The reason you haven't seen that is because you haven't said anything that was right.

But if you really believed this assertion you could easily prove it accurate: All you'd need to do is say "OK, yes, I had no clue what I was looking at. I don't know why I thought the finder was in a web browser. I guess I was just confused. That was dumb and inattentive of me". If your theory is accurate I won't be able to agree with that.
Why aren't there more human-language startups?

... languages have value substantially due to network effect. By making a proprietary language you hobble the network effect and destroy the language's value.

And there aren't startups to create open languages because monetization is a big "then a miracle occurs"-- there is no obvious moat. And at our current level of science re-programmer productivity, it's a lemon market: lots of people say this or that will improve productivity but there aren't much in the way of established ways to prove it. Hard to convince people to pay for something when its benefits aren't unambiguous.
I absolutely would be more accepting of it if they only allowed ones where the landlord was on-site, yes.
This sounds way too low, and also varies a lot state-to-state. I just looked up 2020. Your Federal and FICA on 100k are about 23k. If you max out a 401(k) you can drop that to about 18.5k.

If you are in California, say, add about 5500 without 401(k), 4k with so total income tax is 29k, or 22k maxing out tax deferral.

So effective rate is about double what you quote, at least for single filing.
I think you answered yourself with your choice of West Wing quotes:

> And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the West

You really, REALLY aren't selling this the way you think you are by calling it the natural continuation to Europeans "pioneering" the Native Americans, especially given current events [1]. Let me put it this way, selling Mars exploration as a repeat of one of the world's most famous genocides (a blueprint for the holocaust no less [2][3]), really doesn't resonate with me lmao

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243

[2] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/nazi-germanys-am...

[3] https://time.com/4703586/nazis-america-race-law/
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This won't happen because the natural evolution of every such company is to facilitate professionals and businesses, since that is where the money is.

Uber & Lyft started off by saying they aren't meant for professional drivers, just folks looking to "rideshare" in their free time.

Etsy was for creative people sitting at home making some crafts as a hobby.

Airbnb was for people who wanted to make some extra money by renting out a couch or spare room in their house for the night.
Not LSM, all BTrees, but the rest is correct.
I think it is the fault of the MUD developers, because they feel like they must support those players.

The group of people who play MUDs "traditionally" (with a dedicated, telnet-based MUD client) is small and shrinking every year.

The group of people who play lo-fi, retro-style games is large and growing every year.

Why give special treatment to the former group if it hinders your ability to appeal to the latter group?
If tourism is the basis of the entire economy for a given region, then that region usually has plenty of legal short-term accommodation options. Not to mention that these options are usually cheaper than Airbnb!
I suspect a lot of nefarious actors would be happy to fund "research grants" if the marketing for such activity was worded and submitted properly to avoid obvious references to illegal behavior.

The ease of surveillance of all kinds is going up so fast I expect we have just begun to scratch the surface of how this will impact all of us.
Your more general enquiry seems to be around how to be more grateful and less neurotic and I think that mindfulness meditation should help improve those areas.

Being more mindful helps you become more self-aware. Thus, when you feel frustrated you are more likely to objectively notice the emotion which somehow makes it unravel.

As for the gratitude I don't know how mindfulness meditation helps with that but experientially (n=1) I can tell you that it does.
I see it as a trust thing: Doing the taxes myself, I know why I owe (or get returned) as much as I do.

Then again, I don't use TurboTax/etc, I do it by hand every year so it isn't a black box for me.
Got injured and could no longer work a 9-5 office job. Uber and Airbnb kept me and family off street while I recovered.

Plenty bad things could be said. But I would probably be dead if not for the gig jobs.
Dang, can we get this gate speech removed?
Amazon doesn’t pay $12.61.

Target and Bestbuy also have metrics. Companies aren’t “brutally enforcing” performance metrics.
>Tech startups usually thrive from apps, services, or valuable technologies.

I think an unprecedented abundance of cheap leverage and an inability of investors to make reasonable valuations of highly abstract products should be in that list.
You are responding to an argument I never made.

You don't teach children Euclidean because they would actually ever need to calculate the area of a triangle. You teach them geometry because it is a good exercise in working with logic, proofs and mathematical models.

>Complexity analysis on the other hand can be wrong by literal orders of magnitude.

Seeing how complexity analysis only applies to the asymptotic behavior of an algorithm, I don't even know how to make any semantic sense of that statement. It is not even wrong.
Proof that people with a lot of money don't always know what to do with it
Consolidation of money and power into the hands of a few people is most of the most prevailing trends in history. What do you think a king is? Or a conquerer? Or a Caesar? It strikes me as quite ignorant to posit that wealth and power has never been concentrated into any sort of autocracy. If anything, we live in a unique time and place where military power and financial power are so separated. It is our democratic institutions that enable us to have billionaires without autocracy. Erosion and stagnation of these institutions is the problem.

You also seem to completely abandon your previous statement: "Countries without billionaires are mired in poverty. Billionaires can make high risk investments. A million people won't." Additionally, you've responded to arguments I haven't even made about forcing businesses to be involved in politics.

Your ideas seem like a loose collection of conservative talking points and fail to make any sort of coherent argument.
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It adds more regulation and low level bureaucracy.
I'm sorry but no one has yet to explain to me how humans are going to treat Mars so much better than we have the Earth. Earth has near unlimited resources and Mars doesn't. The human species will only ever live on Earth on a permanent basis and we will absolutely survive as a species. The Earth will just be a much worse and very inhospitable place for a very very very long time.
I’ve used it simply to make friends. It’s not always about sex
The legality is superfluous. Most everyone breaks some laws some of the time. Nobody always does the right thing.

Doxing that lady was a mistake and the dude apologized for it. Unfortunately the bell can’t be unrung and the story continues to the dreary part where nobody wins but the lawyers.
Hell, to satisfy me all they'd have to do is prove it's an actual BnB-type experience. Basically, prove the host lives on the property and it's either extra bedroom(s) or an ADU.
If the author fetches an array of 1000 children from disk, what prevents him from using binary search on those?
Right, and you can make money in most cases (and still publish). Buy credit default swaps for example.

I don't know if there is an opportunity related to ESG.
This describes ~70% of adults in the southeastern US.
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I bet that's the case for the GP. They probably spend millions of dollars, so they get catered to and think it's the same treatment normal people get. I call it VIP vision. People don't even realize they're getting special treatment and assume their results are merit based rather than money based.
I had a nightmare in LISP once. At least ... I saw a lot of parenthesis.
>""Document" based databases such as Mongo are designed to avoid joins."

That is not something specific to document databases that is an approach taken by NOSQL datastores. It's known as denormalization which has its own share of issues that then need to be addressed.
Would you also say that Joshua John Ward produced 1m times more rice than most humans have?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_John_Ward
They are on record that it will be removed "real soon now". Apparently "nobody uses it"
Exactly. The whole concept of residential property as an investment must go.
I wonder if enough AirBnB in the area could actually drive property cost down, because nobody would like to live there long term and then essentially wiping off all the profits people made by renting out. In the end only the AirBnB would really profit.
It's a business model clearly bases on a loophole and should be closed.
If someone wants to run a bed and breakfast they should get a suitable commercial property.
In fairness, the stress shouldn't be yours to sweat. If someone loses their rental to anti short-term leasing rules, that's really on the renter who's subletting it out to you via Airbnb.
I can't think of any country that would try to run such (decades long) projects under the remit of a few years' government.

They would report to but be independent of government ministers, and likely span multiple governments.

'State' is what was meant. (Country, nation, fine; bit less accurate perhaps? But I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.)
The blurry line you are referencing is actually quite clear legally: is the accommodation short-term or not? (defined by the regulatory environment)

Wherein Airbnb stays are usually short-term and renting out an ADU is usually longer term
Sincere question: I haven't delved into the details. Are these all likely to be exploiting memory safety bugs? Or is there another class of vulnerability implicated as well?
How is this situation any different from past cases where people decided to spend money and time discovering new worlds instead of trying to improve the living conditions of their own people?

Endless money and effort has gone into trying to solve world hunger and misery, yet they still exist. Yet inventions like GPS and other technology that came out of the space race has probably had more impact worldwide.
10 years ago there wasn't a Docker (released in 2013), and AWS was a tiny side player with most established businesses operating their own data centers.

I think it's safe to say that if the next 10 years are anywhere near as disruptive as the last 10 we will surely be doing a lot of things very differently.
>Once he left, the leadership continued to refuse to address a whole host of profoundly disturbing problems, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the genocide in Myanmar, and rampant covid misinformation.

The so called 'rampant' covid misinformation has nothing to do with Facebook's design as the authors claim. People have been spouting BS on various internet forums/platforms since - forever. The article takes a very real problem (employee accessing users' private data) that actually is a design flaw, and then overreaches by dumping a whole bunch of claims and leaving the reader to connect the dots.

It makes a lot of unsettling assumptions that we the users want zuck and co. to essentially bless facebook posts with truthness scores and prevent people from being wrong on the internet. Sorry, I don't want them to determine the truth of anything anyone says. Facebook is not a nanny!

Aside, is this website actually associated with MIT?
The market is very hot right now in Australia. Our government closed the borders so only Australians can apply. That combined with an unwillingness of staff to move roles means there's a big shortage. Salaries have shot up in the software industry. I have seen $1000 AUD per day contact rates for senior engineers. That equates to $220k AUD before tax (-30% net).
> You can look at the commercial office market, which is much less restricted and has huge boom/bust cycles.

This is a problem only for investors. Dealing with that is their job. Protecting them from it is not a good reason to restrict housing supply.
All that's coming to mind is "no taxation without representation".

US citizens can still vote absentee while abroad, so no, not the same thing.
You picked a total outlier, a very prestigious public school in one of the most expensive states. University of Utah, for example, is a relatively good school and costs about $8k / year for in state tuition.
I worked on making a more explainable AI in bio for while. Probably a lot of the unexplainable AI that is being discusses is about deep learning. Some of the biggest advances in deep learning can also be said to have made the models more explainable. Take computer vision, for example. We have great success with convolutional neural networks because these move the models away from unexplainable fully connected layers where the mathematicals naturally produces many neurons with small effect sizes and towards detecting larger coherent structures in the convolutional layers.

I agree there is more work to be done and making good mathematical decisions when designing the layers seems like a promising way to go.
What would happen is that tons of people would want to know exactly what that algorithm is: they would want to know what exact rules are being applied to the information they have submitted, and they would want to validate the calculations themselves. Just in the name of transparency.

Still, it would be a good option for those who don't want to know. I.e. have the option of doing a return which you calculate yourself (which is then corrected, based on the input values in it). Or the option of just submitting the inputs and having them do everything.
Our monorepo is millions of lines of source code, and hundreds of developers. Not small scale.

In this scenario, the single binary is the key encapsulation boundary, but your monorepo could be producing N binaries, each of which receives the change.

For example, if the change is to remove a single, unnecessary allocation in a low-level library function used across the repo, you can refactor it out and push the change as N binaries without worrying about compatibility.
For retail traders? No. In all likelihood your order never even hits the lit exchanges. Instead it’ll be internalized by a wholesaler.

For even medium sized institutional funds? Absolutely. Think of it this way. If market impact didn’t exist for anybody, then we’d expect prices to never move.
And that then helped to kill OS/2 only because it delayed the release of OS/2 2.0 as that version needed a 386 to run.

OS/2 2.0 used features found in the 386 to greatly improve the MS-DOS experience.

IBM instead kept pushing the OS/2 1.x versions all of which had very bad support for MS-DOS applications.

That delay was a massive bonus for Microsoft as it gave them time to work on Windows 95, which used the same 386 CPU features to deliver similar improvements in running MS-DOS applications.
You're not seriously proposing that we start planning for something that might happen in a few hundred million years now, are you?

We have serious issues down here right now, if we don't solve them we most likely won't even last another 100 years.
I don't think distinguishing them is really useful. For Bezos at least, it's worth noting he's an ex-ceo of one of the most successful companies in the world and now seems to be spending a lot of his time on this project. I think it's more fun to be optimistic that this will contribute towards a more interesting future where humans in space is just kinda normal.
Years ago I saw a blog post from one of the major Security Conferences where the author mentioned flashing the tires on their car with an old-skool camera to destroy some sort of rfid tag or something similar. I don't recall the article, but the reasoning was something along the lines that there are rfid readers at various points probably used for parallel construction etc.
This is the first question that comes to my mind. I’m on a long depression journey and when I was at my worst, I had absolutely no desire to fix things. I just wanted to stop hurting, or do things that helped me not feel the pain.

Looking back on that version of me, I wouldn’t really trust myself to make decisions about life and death.

But on the flip side, I know not all circumstances are equal, and so all I can conclude is that this is incredibly complicated and I don’t have the answer.
No. I want people to keep being incentivized to create innovative companies, products, and services that make my life easier and more enjoyable. The people that are successful in doing so will reap rewards many orders of magnitude more than their employees that did not take on any risk and whose output is measured by “productivity”.
Sorry, I didn’t realize you were a genius in epidemiology that has disproven what the whole medical profession says.
Democratic governments make the largest and riskiest investments. I've provided quite a few examples in the last century. Do you have any evidence or theory as to the contrary?
> only applies to asymptotic behavior.

This is false, complex analysis is vastly more than just Big O, other resources like memory usage are also considered as are exact results.
It does prevent. It is a vaccine. You’re 100% factually wrong.
> That involves the telephone network.

No, you misunderstand me. The reason I didn't say anything about the transport mechanism is because it doesn't make a fundamental difference. People hijack domains and internet packet routes through both technological and social engineering attacks literally all the time. None of the complaints in your post have anything to do with any essential or necessary characteristics of phone numbers or phone networks or phone service operators.

Email messages are routed to your domain by a gentleperson's handshake agreement between networks outside of your control plus a little bit of government regulation in exactly the same way that phone messages are routed to your phone by gentleperson's handshake agreement between networks outside of your control plus a little bit of government regulation. All possible arguments about routing trust being violated apply equally to both networks. All possible ideas about layering security on top of the network, like e.g. TLS handshakes, apply equally to both networks.

> It's patently obvious that to use phone numbers as identifiers you have to prove control over them at some point.

Signal doesn't ask for your phone number to prove the network path for your messages. What they're trying to assess is whether some entry in someone else's contacts list can be associated with your identity. If they wanted to, they could ask you to show up in person with a valid phone service contract and let them set up your client account directly. People just wouldn't bother to use Signal then.

> So what is to stop me from signing up for a Signal account using your phone number?

The same exact things that stop me from signing up for things using your email address. I could get someone to route requests for your domain to my servers if I had sufficient criminal intent.
If you don't write that yourself, you still have to understand how someone else wrote it so you can configure and use it properly, and understand how to debug it when it's not working.
"Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884233

Yes. How much time do authors of metastudies do to vet the data they are using? Not much appears to be the answer.