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I was interviewed by BBC London.

Here is the short version of the interview:
https://soundcloud.com/azaan-maqbool/azaan-bbc-interview?si=...
When I think of the benefactors of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in my mind any retinue at their heels, any car-load of fashionable furniture. […]

At present our houses are cluttered and defiled with it, and a good housewife would sweep out the greater part into the dust hole, and not leave her morning’s work undone. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world? I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust. How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

1854
> China knows the dynamic, the likely escalation route

There is no likely escalation route. To escalate to full nuclear war requires what we would today call "a crazy man" in power. The US has had exactly one of those in the past 30+ years, and he's no longer in office.
Isn't the Moderna vaccine basically just 3 times the dose of the Biontech one? Seems that the amount of ingredients do matter.
Arguably there wasn't even a complete oral agreement. More of an outline, because the ZPS kept stalling and dragging things out.

Germany has what you might call graduated protection. The law protects minors more than adults and adults more than organisations with professional bookkeepers and lawyers and all that. If you deceive a 15-year-old by stalling and never signing anything, the judge will look fiercely at you, an adult somewhat less so, if you manage to waste Aldi's time and advertising material the judge may well tell Aldi that it should have been more careful and at least glanced at https://www.flyerservice-hahn.de/impressum .
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My view is indeed the opposite. It seems trivial to me that reality has actual infinities as seen from a discrete pov.

A trivial example: you can partition the environment into an infinite number of objects. And which partition scheme you choose is, in some sense, abitary.

Eg., "object: the edge of the glass", "composite: edges of glasses on the table", etc.

Reality admits an infinite number of such schemes, and also forcloses an infinite number (eg., if "pen"=pen, then "paper"!=pen).

I dont think one can meaningfully speak "of reality", ie., provide a discrete linguistic/propositional account, which avoids these infinities.

I also think there is no meta-scheme, so one cannot even order (in terms of fundamentality) which scheme is 'the really real' one.

It's my view that the reason for this issue is that cognition is discrete but reality continuous. Since discrete aggregations arent enough, likewise "aggregative models of atoms" arent enough for chemistry.

An aqueous solution, just like a society, is much more than merely the sum of the properties of its members. When we partition the world with a discrete scheme, we introduce "emergent properties" which are only the "leftovers from our reductive failure".

The only problem infinity poses is to being realised by a discrete sequential process. That can never be actually infinite. But everything else can!
I hadn't listened to On the Corner before. Yea, I'm a sad Miles fine. Thank you so much, what a great album.
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Re: Alt+H ; it's the same for Alt+O on Firefox.
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I was going to say TPD158 HDMI redriver, but that doesnt compress anything and is made by TI (TPD158).
Their biggest rival, fox news isn't worth the watch either it seems.
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Most likely your CV got forgotten when they decided to reject. After recruiting someone they decided to go through their HR tool and "clean-up" then send all the rejections in bulk.

Your application was not adding any value to them, so they didn't spend time on it. As simple as that.
I like this!

I use a tiling WM, so I can have this open in a window (or scratchpad) that is shrunk to the width of your column, and just shoot over to it, and move around nice and easily!

Two things:

- alt + h doesn't open the Help for me, it opens the actual help menu in Firefox.

- It would be nice to mark the entries as 'read' and show if more comments have happened since reading

Edit:
Wrapping it in a small Tauri app would be cool, then it gets rid of the bookmarks and stuff I have at the top :D
I, too, would like to condemn China for attempting to slow the rate at which we degrade the quality of life on earth.
That's quite a gizmo!

Here in the desert west of the USA I use the old half-full bucket of water trick. No swiveling cylinder nor bait needed; because it's dry here the water is the bait. And no bloody mess to clean up.
Thank you! That's funny, when I started this project I actually wanted to build it for HN, Reddit and Twitter, but couldn"t find the time for it and scrapped that idea. Guess I should revisit that decision.
You probably wouldn't say that if you actually looked at a PS3 game vs. a PS5 game. The difference in texture qualities tend to be immense. Older games will have textures that looks like starchy blobs of the right color scheme. Newer games will have detailed textures that have depth to them.

Here's resident evil 6 on the PS3. Look at the roofs and floors, and what the monster skin looks like. Lighting is very glowy and has that heavy bloom effect that was popular at the time. https://www.savegamedownload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/...

Here's resident evil 8 (I think on Xbox?). Even on the other end of the room you can see details in the wood paneling. The lighting feels more realistic. The reflections off of the floor varying by material and angle are particularly nice looking. The chandelier looks very intricate whereas in an older game it probably would have been comprised of 2D slices or something.

https://i0.wp.com/techstomper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05...

Are these things you notice once you get playing the game? Eh... probably not.
Oh, but good writing can come out of it more easily than just trying to come up with something good from the start.

It's easier to filter than to shape. And easier to shape something already filtered than shaping from a blank page.

Also, not all writing have to be good. A lof of them already have value if they are not bad.

After all, writing for the purpose of writing is a beautiful endeavor, but writing for sharing information is a great in itself, and a perfect but non-existing reference will always worse than a dry but at hand paper.
Perhaps it's more the cost of personal responsibility for mistakes increases.

Bureaucratic inefficiency is a huge drag on profitability. But it becomes invisible in a way that obvious mistakes and failures don't.

If a new project fails, it's an obvious failure. But there's no business metric that tells a company how much it's wasting on pointless processes and paperwork.

So even though the cost of wastage can be bigger than a high profile failure, it never appears in the accounts.

There is a flip side, which is the rando CEO who goes on an uninformed acquisition spree and blows $x bn on companies that don't integrate and end up being a huge net loss. Or starts numerous reorgs and rebrands which add more friction to no benefit.
Are they going to publish weekly totals?

Is there something interesting happening? The number of death has been quite stable ~.3/day/million [1] but it's a lagging indicator. The number of new cases is steadily decreasing since a peak in middle August. It looks like a wave has finished, and let's hope it's the last one.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Yet we just saw a variety of directors and vps at google have discovered emails about the tvc payment scandal. Clearly they don't have the basics down.
Per-user closed-source software cost for other technical fields is an interesting comparison. Thanks for surfacing it. :^)

Of your five examples, the first two reinforce $2k/yr as a reasonable spend, the second two are no-ops since you don't give a number, and the fifth case is unclear to me (a quick check of Matlab shows a $2k perpetual license with some fine print about support contracts, or an $860/yr annual license).

To your secondary point: the fact that in some fields there are no good open source alternatives suggests that there's room for open source alternatives to exist, if our companies can become self-enlightened enough to fund them. Yes, there will always be companies that mooch. I, for one, prefer to work for companies that don't. :)
Mailjet has been acquired as well: https://www.mailjet.com/blog/news/sinch-to-acquire-pathwire/
For traffic simulation there is https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet which is very impressive project.
The primary reason for this is the use of Nb3Sn LTS confinement coils. REBCO is the next wave.
I just went to the Apple store and I couldn’t find any spare parts for my phone only brand new phones. At the fairphone website they offered every spare part possible for sale. So for iPhones you have to get motherboards from unauthorized sellers from places like aliexpress or buy a parts phone off eBay. So yes you can basically replace every part of an iPhone but it is not as simple as asking Apple for the part. Also with Apple they actually lock some functions to parts so if that part breaks you are screwed without apples permission so yourbonly choice would be go to their shop for repair. I’m talking about for example the fingerprint scanner. And I know apple does that for security reasons but as someone who unknowing bought a used iPhone that had the home button replaced and fingerprint scanner didn’t work it would have been nice to replace that button to one that works and let me decide if the security risk is worth using an aftermarket home button. To me the difference seems huge. Apple really doesn’t want you fixing your phone if they could add self destruct when you opened it and get away with it they would.
The author puts as a reason some internal objectives of the corporation not visible to an observer behind the simple idea of their website. But contrast focused on them is wrong, it is comparison between apples and asteroids. The complexity of a corporation is created from external factors: E.g. Google or Facebook are not a search engine or social network (both even in current scale would require significantly less people to implement and maintain). They are advertisement businesses compliant with local regulations, serving different audiences and optimizing variety of financial KPIs set by investors. Just naming and understanding all those factors is beyond intellectual abilities of a single person and this is why big organizations are really difficult: it is not due to complexity of relationships between people or misalignment (they are just derivatives), but due to complexity of the problems such organizations are dealing with.
I’m surprised you read long haul covid as a mild case. I know someone with natural immunity that did an anti body test out of curiosity and their response was 10x those of typical vaccinated people after a similar half a year exposure. He will get fired if he doesn’t get the vaccine.
This is a really insightful essay.

Although it isn’t part of the main thrust of the essay, this jumped out at me:

> “Every single thing you see is future trash,” says Robin Nagle, anthropologist of material cultures and anthropologist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation. This system that “not only generates so much trash, but relies upon the accelerating production of waste for its own perpetuation”…
Phones. Nothing like being in the quiet part of a symphony when the T-Mobile jingle rudely interrupts.

Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer lampooned this brilliantly with "Wrong Number."
Many companies wont reject you if they aren't sure they wont hire you. They might have several other candidates they like more but until those accept the offer they will keep you in the process.
It is pretty short sighted if you believe the only businesses and people financially impacted and bankrupted in Australia were Little Caesars, I can assure you that is false

I am sure you likely enjoy a tech sector job which afford you the privilege of sitting on your bum all day having very little impact to your financial life, others are not an privileged.
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This is usually happening with smartphones; there are a lot of consumers who tend to buy the latest model because of its features, but as time passes, they tend to ignore the feature.
For me it's not. If the subject matters, the same process can be applied, and eventually something good emerges from it. You just filter the crap out, shape it, and you have the base for something great.

The good old advice of "just start writing" is easy to follow when words flow naturally.

And it works.
I was just thinking about this myself. It would be so awesome to add something like OAuth2!

But then I realized, this would break the subtle cohesion of the current model. Everyone has to specifically come back to news.yc to comment. Everyone has to use the HN design. I do wonder if this is intentional, or at least strategic - because the current approach enforces a certain perspective when commenting that *perhaps* might be broken, or at least made much much harder to maintain, by the fragmentation induced from being able to run off and build totally alternative interfaces.

It's just a thought. I'm not sure if this is just hot air.
But wait...your NAS? Do you keep your hard drives outdoors?
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Meeting recordings have terrible signal to noise ratio. Instead of putting effort into creating a concise document to describe the meeting output and actions to take, the burden is placed on others to shift through an hour video. I also see it used as a CYA technique: "oh but we recorded this decision, it's your fault for not watching hours of our meeting videos to know this".
According to my wife (master in biology) it will be like flu due to mutations.
I am happy we have mRNA and ML for quicker discovery of vacinnes but they shouldn't be forced IMO.
Let the stupid die.

Here we had many people dying as they weren't even admitted to hospital due to covid policies. One was 21 year pregnant woman. Just this one would offset 50 deaths of old and sick anyway.
Complexity scales with node count. This leaves an opening for talented folks who embrace the complexity and figure out how to get things done.
Yes, but "enabling keyboard navigation" shouldn't mean disabling mouse based navigation. There are multiple people on this thread who are confused because of disabled scrolling which shows that it's bad UX.

> If you don't like it, just use Hacker News.

Yes, I will not be using this site. Just giving my feedback and opinion on the UX just like you.
Same. To get creativity, just removes filters, apply constraints, and let it flow. The mind is creative.

For quality, reapply filters.

For subject you know nothing about, either research, or just play with your ignorance.
The worst post I've seen on that subreddit yet was one where the wife of the person who passed away made a post that claimed god had cured her husband... by killing him. Cured through death. My head nearly exploded at that one.
“You mean the fifth?”

“No, the third.”
Check this 6 year coder!

"It's fair to say that most 6 year olds are probably more interested in playing with toys and computer games than taking a programming class, but not Kautilya Katariya. Now 7, Kautilya has been recognized as the world's youngest computer programmer after completing four professional certifications from IBM for Python and artificial intelligence."

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/a-6-year-old-became-the...
Other ships, who can say. But if you are at about 60 degrees south of the equator and keep going due west (or east, of course) you can keep going forever without ever hitting land. You'll pass just below the southernmost point of Chile and just above the nothernmost parts of Antartica.
> Friend don't be cynical.

... and if one needs an explicit confirmation that it was someone older than 11-year old posting all this, here it is. Phrasing, voc and the tone - none of it correlates with what a kid would say, leave alone to an adult stranger.
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I never even considered this. Given the number of times we've built some really stupid feature because a potential big client had it as a requirement, I bet at least a few were just telling us to go away.
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Really nice, fancy doing a dark mode version?

Also I didn't quite get how I was supposed to see comments
How do you add to it while out of the house?
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I think it's already too late. Removal of unpopular / non-mainstream opinions from large social media sites is now the norm and is celebrated (by those who didn't get silenced).
That's how it used to be then PG made a post about it and here we are.

Flagging for egregious rule-breaking, whatever- but just because someone farmed fake points off the TOP sort, they can go around effectively muting people for sometimes no reason at all.

I've often wondered about scraping HN for dead/flagged comments and see how many were actually throughout, insightful comments vs how many were just trollbait/flaming.

I just feel it may be a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Maybe today will be the day, but shit that's a whole lot of comments to collate, sort and read. Every time I see a grey comment though....
Thanks! This is something I initially tested during development but didn"t feel right for me, so I scrapped. But having an option to switch the mode might be a good idea.
Did you know that HN highlights all newly created accounts in green color? Can you guess why it does that?
The point is that number is large, but 0% of infinity.

I’ll bet $1000 you can’t name more than 10^1000^1000 possibilities — a far cry from an actual infinity.

Not that I disagree, but you’re using “infinity” in the sense of “a really large, unknowable so number” — when it’s actually infinitely larger than that.

There’s an open question of whether reality is infinitely fine grained or finitely grained — and even if infinitely grained, how much so. (And more broadly, what the topology/geometry is.)

Eg, can you have a particle at a Chaitan coordinate, or do they have to be computable? — classic Euclidean? — origami coordinates? Etc.
Thanks for the recommendation, I just grabbed his book :)
It seems like a lot of people here have been in an ineffective large organisation and an effective startup. I've worked at an effective large organisation and an ineffective startup, so perhaps I can shed some light on what these kind of processes are for:

* You don't get to be a large organisation without accumulating generations of previous products. Well, unless you're google and can regularly fire your customers without going bust. but part from them, you start to need processes just to track what's going on. (The ineffective startup accumulated previous product attempts too, and is still paying for a lot of pointless infra because no-one still there knows which ones can be switched off).

* At a large scale, it starts to be pretty difficult to maneuver if each dept of 30-50 people has built or contracted all their own infra & services. Some divergence is useful for agility, but a lot of it is just waste and actually slows you down when you want two depts to work together on something - or even prevents useful collaboration. An effective organisation will make the tradeoff consciously.

* When you complete dozens of projects per year, it starts to be possible to invest in researching and rolling out best practices in areas where a startup just has to go with the simple/obvious answer. When my startup employer moved, it was pretty onerous, and there was a bunch of stuff we never found again. The large org had so many offices that it had a full time dept just for moving offices. (They weren't dumb, each move consolidated offices -but they kept buying other companies). When they moved us, it was like magic - we went home on a friday and went to work on a monday in the new office, and everything was set up. Well, we had to set up the lab ourselves, but
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And No. never heard of him.
Fripp and Toyah also appeared on the UK couples quiz show Mr and Mrs a few years ago. Quite the most unexpected appearance but also quite charming in its own way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64VGyoIyBgc
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That looks cool, OSM/(can be) browser based looks like. Wonder if the paths for the roads are drawn automatically. Anyway that's something 3D is just an extruded layer/box I suppose.
I used to do that job when I was young to pay for university.

The problem is as you become an adult, you don't feel like writing about a topic you don't care anymore, even for money.

So I'm guessing the one remaining are very expensive.
You have to use your arrow keys, WASD or HJKL to navigate through the comments.
> The only "noncommercial spare part" is the core module, which features the SoC, storage, RAM, device frame, and fingerprint reader.

So no, the chip in the core module would require a new core module - which often means buying a new phone (though I replaced it with that of a friend's when my FP 2 started having some issues). The parts most likely to break, though - screen, battery, USB port - are easily replaceable.
It's the same, the only difference is filtering and shaping, and keeping up at it. It's a cycle. Babble, filter, shape. Then babble again. Sometimes you skip directly to write well shaped words because you are in the zone. Sometimes you just embarrass yourself because you are in public, and there is no opportunity to shape and filter.

But the process is the same, at least for me.

I assume other people do it differently, but the point is, writer's blocks seems alien to me. As long as you are not in a coma, I don't see how your mind cannot come up with something. And as long as it can, something worth committing too can be found.

It's not like sport when you have an actual physical limitation. You brain is literally a machine to produce ideas. It does that constantly, in mass.

Everybody has it, because everybody have weird dreams when they sleep.
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The subtitle seems to be missing a word.

I feel like legal has been shrinking and dying for at least ten years

Except maybe for what seems like Legal's growing importance in lobbying and generally suppressing democracy and the popular will. But does that translate into dollars?

I was in legal vertical a bunch of years ago -- it was about as boring as you would imagine

...I guess I would acknowledge that consolidation of software procurement in legal is 'super exciting' if only because nothing much seems to happen in legal.

Tho there do seem to be startups that keep popping up to help establish and run new companies, which has a legal aspect. Like stripe atlas and competitors.