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I've been intentionally cutting things like TV or internet out of my life at certain times, and can definitively say I'd rather be bored. All these things I tell myself I want to do are actually not that hard when I'm bored. Writing, drawing, having more conversations with loved ones. It's a lot easier when I can't say "let's watch the new episode while we eat" or "I'll surf HN for a bit." The boredom builds until it finds release, eventually being high enough to do the things I actually want to spend my time on.

If all I can do is watch paint dry, I'll find something else, whether it's rewarding or just mindless dopamine.

That said, I'm totally addicted and cutting out the internet is extremely hard when I sit in front of it for work and my computer and phone are where a lot of the rewarding things are too (e.g. cell phone drains time, but you need it to text friends). I feel like an alcoholic working as a bartender also required to take just a teeny sip of whiskey every time I talk to someone.
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Option A) would be to not make the source of it available publicly but instead restrict access to it to those whom you trust.

Option B) Write a function to rigorously define military/colonialist/statist and then call that function and halt if it returns true. I am certain it would be easier to write a program that could tell ahead of time if your program would halt for any reason.
The Breit-Wheeler process (convert two photons into electron+positron) has been one of the most elusive fundamental processes in electromagnetism. This prediction came when quantum mechanics was first being developed in the early 1930s but was not observed for more than 80 years after its prediction, since high energy photons are hard to come by. In contrast, many of the other fundamental processes were discovered fairly quickly after their predictions (the photo electric effect was discovered even before its quantum interpretation was given by Einstein, for which he won the nobel prize)
Didn’t mattkrause acknowledge as much in his comment?

> The job market, …, is undoubtedly enriched for them.
The data would disagree with you
> Arguably, capturing most of your country's top talent with absurd salaries and putting them to work on world-critical challenges like... how to generate more revenue from advertisement or... how to create as many "phone-addicts" as possible... could be quantified as producing tons and tons of negative value.

And where is that happening? It's not happening in the US, China or Europe. The ad tech segment would be lucky to rank at the median on talent in the tech industry, much less the wider economy.

What you're referring to is a myth, a slander that gets thrown around HN freely because it makes for a great, vicious soundbite to stab (primarily) the US with. It always goes entirely unsupported, nobody dares to even try to support the claim (because it's obviously false and won't stand up to even light scrutiny).

The majority of the top US talent is working on ad tech? No, that's not actually happening. Not remotely close. The claim is off by far more than an order of magnitude. The best talent at Google are not even working on ad tech.

Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Regeneron, Moderna, Biogen, Gilead, AbbVie, Abbott, Bristol-Myers, Eli Lilly, Illumina, Intuitive Surgical, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Qualcomm, Micron, LAM, KLA, Applied Materials, SpaceX, Tesla, Caterpillar, Honeywell, DuPont, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, 3M, Boston Scientific, Stryker, Edwards Lifesciences, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Monsanto.

That's a super short list that instantly destroys the claim and doesn't include the vast brilliance at work in US universities (which also outweighs the entire US ad tech industry all by itself). It also excludes the huge number of foreign industrial firms in the US filled full of brilliant persons that are also not concerned with ad tech.

NASA has more elite minds in its employment than all of the US ad tech industry combined.

There are probably more top minds working on just CRISPR right now in the US than in the entire ad tech field. Which is to say, the position of the ad tech field is drastically overstated.

IBM is a debased giant, that has languished badly. And yet they have a top shelf quantum computing division. You think the best talent at IBM is working on ad tech? No.

TI or Cisco's best talent is all dedicated to ad tech? No.

The best engineering minds at Illinois Tool Works or John Deere, they're all working on ad tech? No.

All the smartest minds at LAM, KLA and Applied Materials are working on ad tech? No.

The great engineers at Nvidia, AMD, SpaceX or Caterpillar, they're all working on ad tech? Uh, no.

The insurance industry has more top talent than the ad tech industry. The property/casualty segment all by itself is dramatically larger than the entire ad tech field, including all dollars spent on digital advertising in the US.

Compensation != top talent. Otherwise all the smartest people in the world would be hedge fund managers and absolutely nobody would ever work for NASA or NSA. That's not actually how things work in reality.
I have the same reaction towards Apple.
After 20 years of using Apple Computers, the Catalina is the last one that I use.
No more "vertical integration" for me.

Any stable distribution with KDE on top will give me everything I need. Hardware is now powerful enough to run Affinity Designer under VM.

The last app keeping me on Mac platform was Sketch.
I don't like Figma, but the industry has chosen and Figma is in the browser, so on Linux there will no problems at all.

Blender is beautiful. Resolve/Fusion are working well. RawTherapee is on pair with Capture One as a raw processing. Bitwig is capable enough.
Sure, it'd be a matter of simplifying the law code and posting everyone's financial information for everyone to have access to.

In other words, once it becomes feasible to 'follow the money', it'll be somewhat trivial to see who's doing what and to what ends.

Notice that this problem doesn't exist in smaller communities, because everyone knows what everyone else is up to.

This is a data access problem that persists because it is profitable for people who have the power to keep everyone else in the dark regarding their machinations.
This is piece is strait confirmation bias for people who think inflation is happening. Besides cherry picking things that have gone up more then average last year(bacon, apples bread ...), They share this chart[0] with the 12 month percentage change average and a spike in June 2021, when there is clearly negative spike in June 2020, with addressing this.
[0]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9818391/Shrinkflati...
I’m glad those guys exist.
> On the one hand, the conditions under which some lifeforms are thriving here on Earth are already pretty extreme.

Not really. They are all within +/-5km of the planet surface, live under 1g of gravity, as a rule, are not exposed to X-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays, strong magnetic fields or nuclear radiation, or extreme temperatures. There's nowhere on Earth that receives more than about average solar radiation or gets much above 100C where life survives.

Life generally has access to ample oxygen, though a few anaerobic organisms exist. They're all DNA-based, have access to ample amino acids, aren't bathed in thousands of completely toxic chemicals, have liquid water (and not, e.g. liquid methane). The list goes on and on.

Yeah, there are a few extremophiles, but they are by far the minority, and are clearly adapted incrementally from other organisms that evolved in non-extremophile environments. In essence, there's a large reservoir of easy-pickins living that generates biodiversity to cross over into extremophile environments.

Now imagine 5x the gravity, 100-1000x the solar irradiance, the lack of magnetic field (and thus direct exposure to solar winds), no atmosphere, or atmosphere entirely composed of a toxic gas, extreme exposure to X-rays, etc. The universe is full of many places where Earth life, even extremophiles, would have no chance of survival. And such places don't have reservoirs of biodiversity from which to adapt to these conditions. They're just dead.
Does my local basketball competition requiring all competitors to submit negative doping tests before competing? Do they get to monitor me for 24 hours before the game?

Because that's the level of seriousness of most gaming and the proportionality of using a rootkit to prevent cheating. Sure, the Olympic athletes (or I guess in this analogy, eSports pros competing online) get the full "we're going to make very sure you're not cheating approach" but "my local basketball league" or "unranked ladder" doesn't justify these measures being routine
On reflection I'm very OK with targeting Proton.

I actually don't want a closed source commercial blob TOOOOO comfortable on my linux box.

I want a heavily sandboxed but performant package that runs reliably.

That said, if those requirements are met and there is more performance etc on the table by doing a native/or partially native port that's great.
I mean they do think Amazon engineers are dumber though. If they didn’t I’d get interviews at Stripe and Pinterest etc
The herd immunity threshold changed with Delta, which I've heard has an R0 of 8-10 (compare 3.5-4.5 for the UK Alpha variant, and about 2.5 for the original strain). Instead of 60% vaccination, you'd need 90%, and will likely overshoot that.

It wouldn't surprise me if the UK's cases are now dropping because they reached that threshold, but I doubt the US is there now. Probably Delta will blow through literally all the remaining unvaccinated people and that'll be the last surge, at least unless we get a vaccine-resistant strain.
JHU says they've reported 5 deaths in the last week, and 3200 cases, so it's unlikely it's going to stay at zero for very long.
In practice, in my experience at least, pure channel implementations are rare. It's rather hard to do (although I'll admit that was one of the most fun things for me about Go: "how can I solve this problem purely using channels?"). Sadly much Go code is far from the mantra. I've even heard seasoned Go programmers pass along the "wisdom" if you're using channels you're doing it wrong" (implying you haven't built the correct abstraction). Most Go I've encountered sadly uses shared memory and waitgroups and run_once. I think there are performance reasons for this too or something "channels are slow".
You are aware in the past the kids at schools are a large vector for colds etc which they then give to their parents who infect their co workers

Why would covid 19 be any different.

And that's ignoring any potential long term organ damage.
If you're running a recent enough kernel, it's technically already there, maybe without the userspace tools.
When considering deeper questions, I always think of this short story.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33854/33854-h/33854-h.htm
I wonder how much is post-Snowden distrust of government software and how much is simply not wanting to be pinged?
Those are close but don't fit. They're for pipe clamps.
Agreed. Also, steel production is something that industrialized countries have been doing for over 100 years. It isn't exactly high tech. It just requires lots of raw materials and lots of energy.

It would not take any special creativity (merely an act of will, which would certainly be present in wartime) for the US to scale its steel and other raw materials production incredibly quickly. Sure, there might be a lag time before all the new capacity comes online, but that would not be happening at SF housing approval rates, instead at Liberty Ship construction rates.
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This seems like such a short-sighted move by Qualcomm, is there some reason that they would do this and risk losing Google as a customer? Or, did they always assume that they would lose Google as a customer and so they thought it wouldn't be worth the investment?
Arms+hands and a head with a similar face though.

A head is pretty universal because eyes are so important and a feeding hole near your sensory organs is a massive advantage.

Having hands seems almost a pre-requisite to become truly intelligent and tool-using.
Let's hope not, then I can use it as a template.
I think that's an apples to oranges comparison though. Clock management is part of the game in basketball and American football - teams are given timeouts and use tactics to stop the clock so they can setup a new play. In soccer, this doesn't exist and with an official clock that everyone could see and that the ref starts and stops (like they assumingely do today) the game would play like it does today. Just that the clock stops and restarts would be visible to everyone.

For instance, the ref wouldn't have to stop the clock for basic throw-ins, setting up corners, etc as that's part of the game. So long as it's done in a timely manner. But for flops/injuries, setting up bookings, substitutions, etc they could stop the clock and restart it when action resumes as they do privately today.

It just feels like having a single person secretly control the clock and make what appears to be arbitrary calls as to how much time is added and when play is officially over is odd.

I guess my point is the game could be played exactaly as it is today but there would be transparency on the game clock. The game isn't that tied to tradition using VAR after all.
The problems that FAANG have aren't the problems most of us have. Edit: That don't work for those companies. Different levels of scale certainly.

https://xkcd.com/1737/
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This may be my favorite headline I have ever seen on Hacker News
Having two eyes, as a simple example, is arguably the cheapest way to perceive 3d at things-may-want-to-eat-me distance: just two points that enable triangulation. Similar constraints reduce the configuration space a lot. It still remains huge, but I don’t think someone that believes about certain convergence to be necessarily naive.
My attitude? I love gardening and growing my own vegetables. It is a simple truth, and the numbers don't lie. It gives me pleasure and enjoyment to do it. So the "entertainment" factor alone is worth it.

At the end of the day for new people trying gardening, it can be a bit disappointning. To make it all 100% magical panacea without actual realization of monetary factors, you're not being honest with potential new growers.
Is it surprising? Carbon dioxide equilibrates between salty water and air fast enough to keep every single terrestrial animal on the planet alive, after all.
Define unoccupied. It was scarcely populated, definitely then and definitely by today's standards, and the Palestinian national movement was only in it's infancy. Most Palestinian wanted to be part of Syria back then afaik.
It wasn't inconceivable that two people can create two states there then, and still isn't now. So no, I don't buy that everything was a colonialist plot. Some Zionists saw it as an expansionist enterprise and some didn't. We know for sure that on 1937 Zionism was seeking a split to the land or at least willing to make it happen. If the Palestinian agreed to the Peel committee in 1937 which offered Israel a very small state we wouldn't have been having this discussion now.
Interesting to read this - has anything come out of that project yet?

The BBC generally has quite good online services (e.g. news, iPlayer) but would be interesting to see what this project is thinking about.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around - Vanilla Sky (the movie) :)
I'll never forget how an employee at a Silicon Valley VC tried to dissuade me from joining Microsoft Research because MSFT wasn't "really a 'tech' company." According to the VC, examples of tech companies were Airbnb or the million "Uber for X".
I believe this just great. Many people are talking about manipulation, but that is just if you intend to use it to deceive people.

How about if you wanted to teach a subject and your students wanted to see your face. Perhaps you could use this to just upload a bunch written lessons and this would help everyone.

Or how about using this for tv news/documentaries.

I cannot speak for Tavus, but this is awesome tech if used properly.

Great Job!
I don't know what the point of such conjecture is. Of course we don't know how much immunity comes from infection, and it is quite clear from the spread of delta that we are nowhere near herd immunity in the developed world, even in places like Israel. I had a coronavirus called a cold last year; does that mean I'm immune this year? Unlikely in the long term with COVID. The entire concept of herd immunity may be a mirage: if the (rare) breakthrough infections in vaccinated people like me spread just as much virus as unvaccinated, then there may be a huge potential for incubating new strains among the mRNA-ed that may elude all our current vaccines. And unlike a lot of viruses, the latest variants may be just as lethal as the earlier ones. Usually viruses become more transmissible and less lethal in response to rational behavior in their hosts--but humans are proving we're not rational.
Unplayable (of introducing Ultima IV to younger generations)
Physically you could have wheeled animals, but wheels just won't evolve. They are perfect for somewhat smooth surfaces where you want to travel in a somewhat straight line. Organisms just cannot confine themselves to that and survive.

Unless we find a planet composed entirely of solid smooth rock we won't find wheeled animals.
Quick question if you know the answer: is that position remote-friendly/where is it located? There doesn't seem to be any location info on that listing.
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> We are currently building a demo plant just outside Oxford.

Where are you going to get the seawater?
I recently quit all social media. There was a bit of withdrawal but I can confirm that my attention span has started coming back.
Fox News ran a hit piece on one of the kindest and most beloved educators in America. It's obvious (to some) that they did this to divert from systemic problems. That's what they do, and they're still allowed to call themselves News.

At what point do Americans stand up for a bare minimum level of journalism?

And remember, that while Fox might not have gotten far with this particular piece in your experience, they sent this six minute piece out to millions of people. They wrote it, filmed it, and aired it. They never apologised.
> Why would they say this if they weren’t implying that NPM users can’t program?

I'm pretty sure that numerous Quicklisp users can't program either, but Quicklisp is manually curated while NPM (AFAIK?) isn't so their code won't end up in Quicklisp.

> You tell me.

I'm not sure what there is to say. The ASDF extension in question allows you to write systems that get loaded when a specific combination of other systems gets loaded, so when there's some room for collaboration of multiple systems, all such code naturally belongs into that autoloaded system. It can assume the presence of all required systems and hook them up together. Is this something like what you're describing? Except for the "discovered Micrometer on my class path" part of course since you're not concerning yourself with any paths here (that feels a bit brittle to me) but the notion of doing something special when combining specific multiple libraries is supported on system loading level.
Hm. We have what, a dozen or more on Earth? Apes, monkeys, homo etc. Plus dozens of dinosaurs that stood on 2 legs. It seems pretty common.
Yeah, mindfulness is promoted as a cure for that but I’m not sure. Right now I’m pretty mindful in random daily occasions but it just gives me more depression and overthinking. When I’m turning that off for some days I’m… more happy? But still miserable. I don’t know what to do
From the Nature article you linked to:

> The studies did not evaluate rates of less-severe illness or debilitating ‘long COVID’ symptoms that can linger months after the acute phase of the infection has past. “The low rate of severe acute disease is important news, but this does not have to mean that COVID does not matter to children,” says paediatrician Danilo Buonsenso at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. “Please, let’s keep attention — as much as is feasible — on immunization.”

Death is not the only bad outcome to be avoided.

> The reason the vaccines aren't being approved for children is that there is compelling evidence that children are at greater risk from the vaccines than the virus.

A Nature article [0] says:

> Most of those affected have recovered, and the data suggest that the risk of these conditions is “extremely low”, says paediatrician David Pace at the University of Malta in Msida — about 67 cases per million second doses in adolescent males aged 12–17, and 9 per million in adolescent females in the same age group.

There are ~48 million kids under 12 in the US. Assuming they are evenly split between male and female, that would mean 1,824 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis if 100% of them were vaccinated. Given that nowhere near 100% of children have been exposed to COVID and yet 340 have died, I don't see clear evidence here that the vaccine is more risky than not being vaccinated.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01898-9
I didn't understand that article. Maybe I don't have enough context.

"share their bank data with other parties"

What? Who wants to share their what now with whom? Why would they do that?

"Fintechs like Plaid, TrueLayer and Tink have founded their businesses on providing access to regulated banking data for a fee.."

What data? Aggregated? Individual banking? What regulated data? What regulations?

"Under current banking regulation, raw data must be provided for free to consumers via an official application programming interface (or API). As a result, the apps pick up the cost on behalf of their users."

What? My bank doesn't offer an API. I have no idea what that last sentance even means. What cost?

It really seems like the article assumes a lot of background knowledge. Anybody have an ELI5 link?
I've been getting a lot of gambling related ads from Google on YouTube, which is a bad look for an advertising company. Why can't Google find clients that run legitimate businesses?