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I wouldn't call being a travel photographer "doing nothing." After all, it's what some people do for a job. Personally, I'd probably get tired of it myself but he doesn't seem to be just laying around a beach all day.

It doesn't seem fundamentally different from taking up sculpture or painting.
Getting shit done with the team feels great, agreed. I guess our hunter-gatherer group mentality is holding us back from simply enjoying fruits of labor.
Dont forget, they all started as non-vegans, so all their base strength came from a on vegan diet.
> Transparency could possibly make this better for both the workers and the employers,

How exactly? I don’t see any obvious path to this.
I recently got super interested in constraint problems after reading Classical Computer Science Problems in Java. They were really fascinating (along with all the problems in the book).
> The Guardian columnist Jason Wilson argued that the slogan It's okay to be white was devised by white supremacists in order to stoke overreaction from the left, sow confusion, embed a racist agenda in the mainstream media, and ultimately invite a backlash against anti-racist activism."

Well, looks like they were very successful then.
Can vulcanized rubber be broken down by something like Hydrous pyrolysis?
This sounds similar to the S2 cell shenanigans people do in Pokemon GO and Ingress. ;)
Aka boomeranging
Agreed.

But I think big tech didn't use their power years ago when advertisers started demanding their ads don't appear next to X, where X is the offensive thing/position/etc.

Big tech has power but it folded and immediately started policing when this happened. Instead of a united front each of them caved to advertisers and now the content on each platform must be kosher according to the ethics that the platforms' rulers have.
> e recommended a nice desktop for the kids that could be upgraded / changed they were inclined

This seems to be where you probably mislead him. If the CEO is making enough money, you buy a new computer, never bother upgrading. Depends on how much he wants to spoil his grandkids (the answer is usually too much.)

But yes, people spend a lot of time on specs and completely neglect the monitor.
So... what are you saying? Apple shouldn't be allowed to improve the software for their own products? There should be a law that prevents Apple from building a keyboard for Apple Watch and consumers have to buy a third party keyboard made by a guy who still won't explain why the keyboard needed "network access OR VoiceOver to be turned on"? Seems fishy to me. I think I'd prefer the keyboard Apple makes.
this was a good read, its definitely a weird societal position.

Most people's spending catches up, or at least increases, with their wealth. Completely ignoring the whole keeping up with peers aspect (who are also wealthy now) and even power/wealth craving, most people aren't content just realistically living within the perpetual means provided to them by their accumulated wealth. Additionally, a lot of people that think they'd be content not working and living a simpler life, actually aren't when they give it a try.

I'm extremely biased, but I always end up citing hobbies as the problem and solution in this kind of situation. Ask a friend what they'd do if they didn't have to "work" any more. Most of them are going to tell you that they have no clue and haven't thought about it, or tell you about something that isn't actually feasible to be your primary activity without a steady traditional income stream.

I'm mostly talking about people that barely qualify for this discussion in the 1-5m wealth range. As mentioned in the article, this is generally plenty to satisfy general FIRE requirements, and even tradition retirement requirements. But most people in that wealth range would also have to change their lifestyle to safely make retirement happen, and that's a tough sell when most people get their dopamine fix and sense of enjoyment/relaxation from expensive vacations, fancy dinners, new cars, new gadgets, stuff directly tied to spending money with no return.
Different test hardware as-of July 2020.

Both sets of times could be normalized to the C program times and then compared —

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

— by someone who was interested in that comparison.
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"Many people with a large amount of money, perhaps a million or two, consider themselves middle class when clearly they could even retire and live off their passive income"

If you have a million dollars, stop working, invest the money, you can safely draw about 35K per year for a long time. This is based on long term historic returns of the stock market.

There are different definitions of middle class in the US. The first one I found, Pew 2019, said the range was 46k - 137K.

So living off the passive income of a million dollars puts you well below middle class.
I have biodegradable tires in a pile next to my screen doors designed for submarines.
I’d be surprised if it was that nefarious. Apple is releasing a free OS update that has this feature. What do they stand to gain by removing a third-party app users need to learn about and install? Absent some explanation about an advantage Apple gains I’m willing to believe this has something to do with app store policies than something else.
What else would they do instead?

I think most people with unlimited financial backing would pursue what truely interests and excites them, might be projects, more money, parties, power. Money buys the freedom to do that.

Theres plenty of stories of people inheriting money and just spending it all on partying and hedonism. And others where they just study in education their whole life.
> * file names could only be 8-byte strings initially and then this was extended*

At least part of that is not true. The ‘popular’ MS-DOS 8.3 form derives via CP/M from DEC OSes which used 6 character file names and 3 character file types, due to their use of RAD50¹ to fit 3 characters in a 16- or 18-bit word. The type field always existed, so the word ‘extension’ most likely refers to its presentation on the end of the file name, rather than an addition to a previous format.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50
I think that’s an easy approach for the purposes of conversation. Work includes both innovation and toil. What is stopping you from hiring someone to take care of your toil?
I had a passenger who'd worked in the nuclear testing program, and had ended up in Arizona because it was 1/2 way between the labs in Los Angeles, the labs in New Mexico, and the testing site in Nevada. I asked him about the government's underground infrastructure. He confirmed that there is stuff underground, and said, "there's way more stuff underground at Area 12, than at Area 51."

I'm predisposed to thinking science for the public is a propaganda effort, and the real science being classified. It'd be inconvenient for the concentration of power if energy was free, etc.

This quote from the article jumped at me:

"Now, we know that there’s plenty of innovation going on in the black world, and just last month, the US admitted that it had developed & tested a sixth-generation fighter completely in secret, but we don’t see as much of that macro-level innovation in the white world anymore, which is troubling." (emphasis added)

Oh really? Hmm... (this medium.com article is dated "Jan 12", presumably 2021)

> Last September, USAF's top acquisition official, Will Roper, told Defense News: “We’ve already built and flown a full-scale flight demonstrator in the real world, and we broke records in doing it. We are ready to go and build the next-generation aircraft in a way that has never happened before.”
>
> The new plane, which is intended to replace the F-22, is part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) programme.
>
> Little is known about the jet, but the Air Force has just dropped a massive clue: concept art of a fighter jet being built under the NGAD programme.

- https://www.aero-mag.com/secret-new-fighter-jet-16042021/

Also: US Air Force reveals more on its sixth generation fighter jet - https://www.aero-mag.com/next-generation-air-dominance-17062...

My question to my passenger about underground infrastructure had to do with the 'conspiracy theory' that the government had nuclear powered tunneling machines: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4444905

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ (Shakespeare)
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That seems like great news?
I would argue the reason is because no one rewards silence, there's still a need for people to distinguish themselves from a crowd, but as the technological age starts to wane, we are at a point where less people have something worthwhile to say.

You can see the same thing in the humanities, which went through all of this before there was a tech world. There's only so much you're going to find digging through Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Ovid for the 10,000,000th time.

So people create new discourses, new fields of study, and new languages to describe them that aren't really new at all, but rather just a roundabout saying that the author didn't know what else to say.
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> I know there are some places out West where people may need to drive very long distances, even for groceries.

None that don't have power along the way, or at least vanishingly few. Every little town or crossroads you see with a building? Every traffic light? Every railroad crossing with an alarm? That's power. The point wasn't that the EV charging infrastructure exists TODAY to support this, it was that it would be trivial to do within the timeframe required.

> I think I disagree here, especially if you look at lead times.

The lead time in question is fourteen years! And if you don't believe it just look it up. Stringing a cable is 2+ orders of magnitude cheaper than building a road (much, much more so in areas where you need to blast tunnels or grade mountainsides).

The only reason this even looks like an argument is because you presumably feel like "all the roads are already built", but they aren't.
So basically, the same thing that kept(keeps?) Visual Basic in use for so long.

My son works in polysci analytics and I see the same thing you describe. A group will pick a tool and flog all problems with it. Change rarely occurs. He was in the Stata camp at one university, the TidyVerse at MIT.

It’s very weird for me, I develop and maintain a piece of software that that has 3 OSes, and 5 languages to wrestle with as well as multiple “tool” technologies like Ansible/MQTT, etc. so I’m very much in a polyglot-best-tool-for-the-job environment. Observationally from a casual POV, I see pros/cons both ways.
I don't see this as a "features" problem. I think the correct way to approach this is in terms of "control". By designing their devices that way (non-unlockable bootloaders, signature verification on every app or executable with hardcoded public keys etc) companies have essentially introduced a new paradigm in which the legal owner of the device has less control over it than its manufacturer. That is the issue here.
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you can't pay a worker as much money as they make for you, because then the business would have no profit. the profits are distributed to the owners; their ownership comes from paying for it, not from working for it, that's what the word capitalist means.
Or, since you understand that literature so well, you could contribute to the discussion by explaining its key insights on those points.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28540665 for more detail and links to related issues and MRs.
You can do that on earth, too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Orbital_Debris_Observator..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Zenith_Telescope for (decommissioned) examples (both found via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-mirror_telescope)

The idea apparently came from Isaac Newton.
I've always thought that the reason COBOL is still "popular" is that it became an entrenched technology many years ago, and the cost of replacement is high enough (and it works fine doing what it's doing) that no one wants to invest the time and money to replace it's usage.

This quote made me pause though, "COBOL remains the preferred choice for systems where application quality and operating cost remain important considerations". How much is COBOL being "chosen" vs. COBOL is basically required b/c of the existing codebase and systems that need to be integrated with?

The latter is my guess, and the choice seems to be really, "what's the best way to extend this existing system?" If that system is in Java, it's probably Java... C it's probably C... COBOL it's probably COBOL.
As a side note, I found Game Changers dishonest about being able to be in an extremely competitive athletic field and eat a vegan diet.

For instance, if you look at the diet of the strong man they featured, you'll see he supplements his diet with protein shakes in 4 out of 6 meals between 50-80 grams of protein which isn't mentioned in the documentary. I'm sure a lot of aspects of his lifestyle are unhealthy since he's in an extreme field, but you can't claim vegan diet gives you enough protein for a competitive athlete when you supplement almost every meal with a shake. And I can't imagine that's somehow better for you than eating natural protein. Compare that to what strong man Thor Bjornsson eats, you'll see its a lot fewer protein supplements and more natural food

https://barbend.com/vegan-strongman-patrik-baboumian-diet/

https://barbend.com/hafthor-bjornsson-diet-video/
The blog post has a picture showing several layers of hexagons overlapping.
>it would take an awful lot of dust to significantly impact the performance of the telescope.

The dust also picks up charge and levitates, but I suppose that allows you to sweep it up using a charged broom.
This is my preferred understanding of class as well, but I've noticed that my conversations are more enjoyable if I don't try to insist others use the term the 'right' way.
Plain old TPMS is finnicky enough, I can imagine this would have plenty more problems.
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> If you have enemies in life, consider encouraging them to get really into horses because imo it's the fastest way to drain their time and assets with little return.

It's up there with owning a megayacht and collecting art.
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>if the rich "work" it's to pretend that that isn't the arrangement; to maintain the illusion that they work for their money rather that owning the surplus value created by their workers.
I like crypto, but damn it's inefficient and costly.

Even the crypto that's newer than Bitcoin (all of it?) and therefore more efficient (not proof-of-work/stake?) is still not efficient in cost/time/other-resources/etc.
I hope O.J. has a good alibi.
I agree with you, it's all in the framing.

According to Expatistan[0] a typical family of four in the US need $55K/yr just to cover living expenses. At a SWR of 3% (Reasonable if you're young and looking to ride out a lot of market variance before you shuffle off rock) that means you need ~$1.8M fully invested just to live a typical middle class existence.

If you say you have $2M in the bank some might say you're 'rich'. If you say you earn $55K/year most people certainly won't. The best case scenario of course, is to have both.

[0] https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/country/united-sta...
Motherboard costs, motherboard designs, motherboard support.

The more fragmented your community, the harder it is for software to work consistently across all of them. Intel vs AMD has plenty of obscure issues (see "rr" project, and all the issues getting that debugging tool to work on AMD even though it has the same instruction set).

Sound, WiFi, Ethernet, southbridges, northbridges, PCIe roots. You know, standard compatibility issues that having a ton of SKUs just naturally makes more difficult. Having a "line" of southbridges / consistent motherboards does wonders for compatibility (fix the BIOS/UEFI bug in one motherboard, fix it for all) in Intel/AMD world.

But just as AMD has AMD-specific motherboard bugs, and Intel has Intel-specific motherboard bugs... I'd expect Graviton to have its share of bugs that are inconsistent with Apple M1 or Ampere Altra.
Uber's open source geospatial suite is simply amazing. A while back I used H3 to visualize snowfall in Colorado (powdamap.com) and the result came out way better than a grid based approach with the added of benefit of doing a better job representing a continuous variable.
No, because you will still need to apply a special case to stop the recursion of putting a period after a period forever. If a sentence ends in a period then what ends the expression that contains the sentence and the period? Answer: another period because you can think of that expression as a sentence too. So you need a special case that says if there are going to be two periods next to each other then terminate the recursion. Similarly your .". asinine suggestion fails since it implicitly invokes a special rule, but is worse than the elegant special rule of just having one period.
You don't need one for those. Even in the American style those are supposed to be placed inside or outside the quotations depending on whether the question/exclamation is part of the quote or not.
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The article is written by a German who probably learned British English, so in effect this is some guy telling people they should write in the way OP learned to write?

How did this make it to the front page of HN?
Unfortunately not the case. Tires go through lots of heat and stress cycles. I think most of the heat a tire generates isn't from friction with the road, even. It's internal friction within the tire itself. The carcasses are made of wires/meshes/layers of aramids/steel/aluminum and aren't indestructible, even if durable.

And the rubber on the sidewalls gets degraded by sun/dirt/sand/etc, too.
My knee-jerk reply when click on the topic was "depends on how much memory it demands."

Good to find that the assumption was correct, lol.
Its not just the engineers leaving, the newer chips will also be produced on n4 instead of n3.
> Despite the question being rhethorical, the answer is everything that's wrong about this proposal: Because the most important attributes are very hard to gauge and almost impossible to prove — Grit, dedication, responsibility, excellence and loyalty.

And you can indeed choose those things over higher pay. This does not prevent people from choosing something they love doing for less money; it just makes the opportunity cost more plain. I see nothing wrong with this. At all.
> you can indeed cover a sphere with only hexagons, if you relax the requirement that they all be regular hexagons

More precisely, what you need to relax is the requirement that 3 hexagons always meet at every vertex. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic#Polyhedra

If you have only hexagons, you end up with 6 vertices on the sphere where only 2 hexagons meet (whether you still consider these to be "hexagons" when they have two adjacent sides is a matter of definitions).

But what many spacial indices do instead is include 12 pentagons among the hexagons.
It's funny how it's presented as "standing the test of time". There is plenty of "old stuff" that still exists and those aren't tested by time either, it's just that there is not enough of an incentive or foresight to do something about it.

If general OOP-language software engineers had the same army of QA, PR, marketing and sales people that mainframes have you'd probably end up with the same thing. I'd say COBOLs continued existence isn't the main case, it's just a side-effect.
I assume they meant 32 bit - I.e, Windows 95 viruses and such.
I don't think the normal rules of grammar are designed to handle this case. I would probably write something like

> The password, which is awesome, is:

> %>>~|]#^|

This also has the benefit of putting the password on it's own line, which should make life easier for people actually consuming the document.
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Anecdotally this is what I've been seeing over the years. Most of my friends and acquaintances seem to have left Facebook behind and moved to Insta. The people that stayed on FB are mostly those who like to express strong opinions and engage in pointless discussions.
True but I don't think the article was referencing work that goes into maintaining social standing, rather direct professional work.
Having a seat at THE table: wealth allows you to influence the direction of the world. Be a thought leader.

Zero sum game: every day that I don't work, others are getting head. Either everyone has to quit or we all need to keep going.
This was written by Chris "skeeto" Wellons, a computer scientist for which I've personally grown a lot of admiration. Check out his Github if you're interested, he does a lot of really interesting things and is worth following.

Personal favorite is the branchless utf-8 decoder which I've used quite a few times in lexers and other projects.

https://github.com/skeeto?tab=repositories&sort=stargazers
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> snobs who want everything to be silent and handle perfectly

Ugh, handling == safety, my friend
This is a great summary of the analysis of the map over many decades. Before the map surfaced in the 1950s, there were other maps that portrayed "Vinland" extending to New England. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Harvard Professor Eben Norton Horsford and his daughter made maps, gave talks, and even built monuments to the supposed Viking presence in the Boston area (one of them, a stone tower, is located less than a mile from my home). They were not taken too seriously:

Despite an apparently courteous reception by the American Geographical Society, among scholars Horsford has far more detractors than supporters. Critics take him to task for dubious linguistic analysis, wildly expansive readings of an ancient Norse saga, speculative analysis of early maps, and fanciful interpretations of archeological remains along the Charles. Samuel Eliot Morison puts the point crisply: “In his imagination, every colonial ditch or paved cow-yard in that region became Norse.” (European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, p.67)

https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/norumbega-and-vinland-o...
> As a result, bad open source code can wind up in an enormous range of products and services – inadvertently becoming a “single point of failure.”

What's the alternative? A black-box proprietary bug that becomes an NSO or NSA exploit?

The logic on this is so bad.

Linus's law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
Certainly. I am a bit disappointed by the “involving” qualificator, as it does not inspire much confidence on its meaning…

But overall, very positive results, certainly.
> What's the timeline on Windows support?

Work on Windows support in ongoing now and we're hoping to have at least an initial beta Windows release some time in the next month or two ideally, though it certainly depends on if anything unexpected comes up.
Also, apparently if you stop working you die a lot earlier.
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Hi, how would you address this in GitLab's code? Maybe you'd like to create a merge request with suggested fixes :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28540665 has all URLs and issues available to get started in the code.