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The problem is value and productivity in software (or any creative space) is hard to quantify in general. How much better is the best engineer you’ve worked with compared to the worst? 2x? 1.5x? How do you quantify that? But you know one is significantly better than the other I assume.

If you want to replace 10x with “much much better”, then ok. But the general idea is the same. Some engineers produce an outsized impact compared to their peers.
How do you pay for school, I’m interested in more classical majors as well but schooling is expensive.
What about tony Blair? He was very happy to follow the us when he was in power and is trying to get back into politics (indirectly) now.
>> money—the conceptual unit of account that we represent with the generally physical, tangible objects we call currency—has been chiefly embodied in the form of coins struck from precious metals

No. This is a gross mischaracterization of past peoples. Money was in coin form but money also existed as promissory notes, land deeds, titles, contracts and countless other non-tangible forms. People in the past measure their wealth not by the coins in their pockets but by their net worth, intangibles included. Most wealth was in the form of non-coin assets. Banks of the past did not keep everyone's money in a big pile. When they made a loan they could, like today, create new money out of thin air. To say that there was some sort of hard limit on total money in a system does a disservice to the sophisticated banking practices of the past.
Upon reading this my first thought was also about said love letter. I guess they’re not that eager about the competition anymore. Or perhaps they figured out that competition does not necessarily equate to fair play.
Ah yes I forgot that part. The dark shadow at the center of it all is my former colleague who thinks he's better than me hence must be a US stooge...
Thanks!

Yes, in the abstract sense, which I guess you mean. QFrame (https://github.com/tobgu/qframe), the underlying dataframe used, is column oriented.
There are a few experimental physicists on here. I work for Microsoft now, but I found out about HN from a grad school officemate, who found out about it from a YC grad who did a postdoc in our research facility. I credit HN with helping me have enough understanding of the tech industry to land a job as a data scientist at Microsoft, which set me up for joining the quantum computing team a few years later.
You are not wrong, but you are not right either. See my explanations under other comments. I'd say that in their attempt to be fancy, the authors of the project are making its usage unnecessarily unpleasant.
> but the contemporary historian writes code.

What?
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Those who disagreed with my comment very obviously haven't had to counsel men going through family court. Multiple relatives have needed assistance to do so. Family court and everything around divorce is entirely made more difficult than it ever should be. Broken is an understatement.
I sat here trying to scratch the accent mark off my screen for a minute.
Exactly, that doesn't really hold up...
Yeah, I was thinking how weird this was as we was doing JSPs in high volume for different parts of the Dutch gov. Not only did it exist, it was already popular enough to have popped up in ultra slow Dutch gov institutions.
> The reason it’s absurd in Europe is because Europe is a very “left” leaning region (its more that America is just so wildly conservative and in the pockets of capitalists). Many European countries do not have a political party that is even as right leaning as the Democratic Party within the USA.

Europe isn't "left" leaning at all. Most of Europe is culturally conservative. It's just like unlike the USA, Europeans believe in strong central governments and even the right usually don't question welfare state.

But it says nothing about Europe and wedge issues like homosexuality, immigration, ...

The fact the far right in countries like France for instance have high voting scores should dispel any sense of Europe being "left leaning".

> Many European countries do not have a political party that is even as right leaning as the Democratic Party within the USA.

This is completely false. Every European country has a far right party, that holds "traditional" view on wedge issues and is opposed to the US made idea of "diversity".

I don't know why americans think Europe is somehow "left leaning", this has never been the case. The divide is more along the lines of "globalists" which are classical liberals and pro EU, and nationalists/isolationists, which are anti-EU, anti-globalism. Both camps have their socially liberal and culturally conservative parties.
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The video also starts with, and continues throughout with, explaining to people why their current writing style is bad, and why a new style is better. It happens to be a convincing explanation.
> The current data leak is a bunch of unprocessed files and emails that would be irresponsible to leak as it could contain private information such as passport scans of no public utility.

It will be very responsible to do so to people who have absolutely no reason to hide their wealth, especially in countries without public security problems. It is very morally correct too.
May I add that inside the EU, the differences can be staggering?
I worked in both German and French companies. The French ones were all much more hierarchically organised than the German ones. So much so that I started researching why, because from the outside, German culture seems to be more hierarchical than the French, but that's not true.
In France, there is a cultural dogma for centralisation, exemplified by how they organise their country with Paris controlling everything.
This way of thinking also is prevalent even in small companies: Every decisions flows top-down, there are simply no feedback channels bottom-up.
This is ultra funny...

And I think it's worth noting the gullible credulity of people isn't a hell of a lot better these days.
Has anybody said anything about the source of these leaks? From what I understand they come from multiple (14?) off shore service providers. Were those all compromised by the same perpetrator? Quite a feat. How can we know the data wasn't filtered before reaching the ICIJ?

What about the legality of this? Every decent person seems to love these types of leaks while admitting there's nothing inherently illegal going on. Does that mean it's nothing more than "celebrity secrets exposed"? With elected officials you could make the case that they should be held accountable but what about people who never held or no longer hold office?

What argument justifies that all this dirty laundry should be exposed? Is it morally correct to hack my neighbor's email and expose the fact he didn't declare his taxes properly, or is there some kind of threshold that should be applied?
> "the effect of the Pandora Papers is to, deservedly, trash a suite of non-US tax havens"

> "Who benefits? The US and the Big Four"

I'm a bit confused as I read this article as my understanding was that the Pandora Papers, for once, shed light on how the US is becoming the place of choice for the super rich seeking to escape taxation:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/04/pandora-papers-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/boo...

Not sure exactly how these revelations "benefit the US"?
It can be debated whether it lead to enough change, but there was some change: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happe...
any dream involving humans, large bunch of them, will never be a dream
Pakistan is now... "Sans Sharif"
What wifi standard is that? I see a couple papers about how you could use wifi as radar to measure that among other things, but not much else.
The MIT lectures in general are very good quality and these ones in particular are a treasure trove.

I would have loved access to something like this when I was a student.

The MITOCW channel on Youtube has many more for those who are interested. A nice one is Design and Analysis of Algorithms.
I lived on Zumirez Drive when this happened (well, actually, on the corner of PCH and Zumirez). I was super-excited to show CaliforniaCoastline.org to all of the neighbors, telling them, “isn’t this cool? We can see our beach on here!” I guess some of the neighbors weren’t as thrilled...

That neighborhood was really special and weird. Streisand got a lot of negative press for what she did, but she was also legitimately afraid of stalkers and crazy people. It was a really sad situation to observe. I’ll write something about this at some point, after the other 100 strange stories in the queue.
Is there less espionage going on now than before Snowden? Very few people outside the tech world care about privacy, if they even really understand it.
Yeah, actually a lot of stuff https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/what-happe...
> It’s Waller’s opinion, as well as my own, that the United States does not need to develop its own CBDC. Yet while Waller believes that the US doesn’t need a CBDC because of its already robust commercial banking sector, I believe that the US doesn’t need a CBDC despite the banks, whose activities are, to my mind, almost all better and more equitably accomplished these days by the robust, diverse, and sustainable ecosystem of non-State cryptocurrencies (translation: regular crypto).

I suppose it shouldn't be super surprising for one who's life has been in such a state of upheaval, but I think he really discounts the value that people put on stability - of which "regular crypto" really hasn't proven yet.
Japan isn't really safe for kids and women. And by that I don't mean mugging or robbing or violence, but sexual harassment like touching, flashing, etc.
Sex and geopolitics: Why nations that fail women fail
I am a physician turned drug developer and work in biotech now. I have also dabbled a bit in IT though and got hooked on HN many years ago.
I keep coming back to HN for the thoughtful comments and nearly complete absence of malignant ones.
I work for a company run by evangelical Christians, and this extends to probably 80% of the company. Certainly the only people taking about religion are the evangelicals. Management attends explicitly Christian "leadership retreats". Among other things, I would not be comfortable attending these events. Officially discussion of religion and and politics is discouraged. In practice that means the conservative culture warriors are vocal about whatever issue they're worked up about.

For the trans people I know, "acknowledge the existence of" them basically means to treat them according to their self-understanding as communicated to you. Usually that means using the name and pronouns that they identify with and not asking invasive questions. The idea is, roughly, that you are acknowledging that they - the person in front of you, a real physical body presented according to their self-understanding - exist. Dead naming or using a gender assigned at birth would imply that you are making their identity subject to your own model of the world, they're an abstract notion to you. Or, worse, that you are addressing a person that doesn't, in their conception, exist. It's imprecise language, perhaps, and not every person experiences it the same way.
C-accent?
You can file a DMCA on the icon and you may get a quicker response. I used a DMCA to take down a fraudulent listing of one of my rental properties after all other contact channels were tried.
Should have just said 4x cause the 2x condos I saw where acceptable to me but way worse. This website [0] lists about a 4x price difference on average price per square foot.

That is a ridiculous cost of living difference for the most expensive purchase one will likely make in their life.

[0]: https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2020/07/07...
> 20. Always strive to build a smaller system

K.I.S.S. is a great principle, but inexperienced devs really have no way to understand what is small/simple and what isn't.

If you find yourself doing 3 unrelated things before you can finally get to the one thing you were meant to be doing, it's probably already too complicated. If you build it really simple, it can look under-designed, or inefficient, or out of date. But if you find yourself thinking, "this would be better if it were a little bit more complicated", you might have just hit the sweet spot.
>> But the supermarket is a walled garden too.

From my perspective as a customer there is no wall. I am free to go to any other market and pick from their mustard selection. Or I can grow and mill my own mustard at home. That would be like Apple allowing me to use competitor app stores and even install my own open source software.
Creator of FGC-9 3D printed gun claimed dead
Der Spiegel, a German magazine reports that law enforcement identified him as a German citizen with Turkish roots. A search warrant did not provide any evidence. He was found dead two days later in his car in front of his parents home. Foul play was ruled out, likely cause of death might be a heart attack.

Warning, German and behind paywall:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/jstark-waffenbastler-ikone-ueber-halle-attentaeter-und-waffen-aus-dem-3d-drucker-a-cb0a3d1b-4173-4b22-a82c-18b6ea9efbb9
GLES 3 was released in 2012...
Even if it's morally correct, that doesn't make it legal
According to the article the ICIJ is just releasing parts of the leaked papers that do not mention the big four or people that avoid tax within US boundaries. Therefore, the big four have some kind of immunity and are the only safe place for the mega wealthy to avoid tax.
The public can walk there from Paradise Cove, which you can access from PCH after Bob Morris lost his big lawsuit.

The combination of over-tourism (accelerated by way too many Airbnbs), social media and rising sea levels means that this beach isn’t the beautiful secret it used to be, so ... have a nice time visiting!
F1 mechanics changes tires in 2 seconds. For my local workshop it takes an hour. That's like 1000x.

Bad analogies aside, as others already pointed out, the biggest gain is usually on more creative and architectural tasks with amplified impact, where the requirements given are not as clear as code. Not how fast you change a bolt or type 100LOC. Instead, for example choosing the right tools instead of reinventing your own, or writing a composable interface that enables integration with other tools instead of of an unmaintainable spaghetti monstrosity.
Sure but that's very different than the original spirit of the hobby. Not a lot of young people are going to be interested in maintaining a living museum of what their grandparents thought was cool technology in the 1980s.
That is an improvement indeed. Thanks for correcting me!
Then why are you not using Apple?
FAANG are de-facto monopolies and have created their own markets so market forces work on them only to a small extend.
Your comment just gave me a brain thing and it’s probably obvious to smart people but here goes:

Connectors are what really matter when it comes to de-risking a project. They’re where you delineate things that are nice to haves. They give you escape hatches (like your data popping out of one component in a format that can be edited by hand, stored, loaded). They let you more trivially replace and upgrade pieces.

Components aren’t all that interesting. They might be a place for optimization but mostly are just implementation detail.

And at any scale I think about in my work, there’s components and connectors. Whether an HTTP API or a function signature.

Is this what the Smalltalk guy meant by it being all about message passing?
Heow do the walls help Apple's store serve users, would it be worse if they allowed other app stores?
Apple's entire offering is that more choice is not better.`
Change in .NET Foundation
Try googling it
I'm in the same boat.

I found Reddit to be one of the most hateful communities online. Checkout the Herman Cain award sub if you want proof.

In my 20s I wasted a ton of time arguing about politics and even my own life on that site. While 9/10 times I'd find someone fun, the 1/10 was spent absorbing pure vitriol.

Ultimately no one cares about what I think or how I choose to live my life. No normal person will spend all day trying to degrade others or celebrating another's death. But that's like half of Reddit.

Occasionally I'll still find something useful, usually related to programming. But I simply don't venture into anything else.
I think if we would need to select the best advertisement method/channel it would be people who are in love with the product :)
His introduction hooked me...

> A young man would hardly be persuaded to sacrifice the greater part of his thoughts to save the rest; and the muddled head is the least apt to see the necessity of such a sacrifice. Him we can usually only commiserate, as a person with a congenital defect. Time will help him, but intellectual maturity with regard to clearness is apt to come rather late. This seems an unfortunate arrangement of Nature, inasmuch as clearness is of less use to a man settled in life, whose errors have in great measure had their effect, than it would be to one whose path lay before him.

...but 18 pages later, I'm still unclear on how to make my ideas clear.
Stress and anxiety are the issues here. If you can afford it find a therapist that can help you navigate your way through this. Let HR know you're dealing with this. They will be more understanding if they know what is going on.
Scientist in materials & chemistry. HN offers a diversity of fascinating topics without much fluff. Sure, it's heavily focused on the tech industry and professionals, but there are always a handful of other topics that are really worth reading. Plus I occasionally enjoy peeking over the fence to see what's happening in the tech industry.
Imagine putting on an effort for months and not even be able to put it online, literally throwing it all away. Developers are like oranges: when in excess, they are just dumped in a landfill.
I remember reading Fredrik Douglass taking insult on reading word negro. So while common, not universally considered non-insulting.
Side projects are great they bring the fun of coding out.

Trying to have fun is important
Apple hired/acquired the developer of one of the top flashlight apps in in the app store.
Not op but guessing because Play Store has some restrictive preconditions for use (eg linking a Google account).
They don’t need a record because they’re not marketing to investors. If you want to sell your business, this is an advert. Sellers don’t need to worry about the buyer’s alpha.
This is the case of "Buy, Borrow, Die" or "kick the can". The top 0.01% paying a lower percentage of taxes than even the lower tax bracket worker class.

If you are a wharever-ionaire you could put your gains in index S&P 500 shares, then use them as collateral, paying everything you need with credit and having a $1 annual salary. So technically, that $1 it's their only income to the IRS. But what about interest? with that collateral, you have a special rate close to (or even lower than) inflation. Then you die, the bank takes your shares to pay your debt, and that's it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/buy-borrow-die-how-rich-america...
Sure, I narrowed it to Germany having dealt with a handful of German companies. I am sure there are exceptions within Germany as well. Generalization can become quite contentious in discussions, but there is some value in understanding larger cultural phenomena, however broad brushed that might be. Thanks for adding color.
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Just started college, no work experience. I've been looking for blogs to read when a friend (in the tech field) recommended HN.

Tech industry articles still tend to provide insights, though I have no use from posts exclusively on programming. Both tech and non-tech posts/comments are quality - kinda obvious, but this is HN's killer feature.
I genuinely wonder what would be the best way to deal with the unrealized gains + taking out loans as untaxable income loophole. It seems like the current Democratic party strategy would be taxing unrealized gains over a certain amount but that still doesn't quite feel right..
Machine learning like its 2010! Agree, it would be not too difficult.
No, that is telling you you are asking the wrong question. They all started the same way and were intended to stay that way. For hard sciences they changed anyways because ..., this is not the case for this one.
That's the thing, without the files you don't know.

Personally, I presume the revelations are very selective.
You aren’t the market. Apple has curated a user base that prefers the exact opposite; I land among them. If it isn’t for you, then avoid it.

That it is a more lucrative market than what Android had built with their more open ended approach is an interesting look at what the general public prefers from their mobile devices.

Personally, I’m not looking for my phone to be a side project, I want it to work without putting in any effort.
A language "meant for implementing portable reusable libraries". Seems like a nice idea.
Many vaccinated may be spreading it, but when the only place you have visited before you got sick is full of unvaccinated people who are dying of COVID, you probably should be taking a close look at the latter group.
> As much as Florida gets dunked on in the US, it's still an economic powerhouse of the region.

Just looked at the linked list and when sorting by GDP per capita, Florida is rank 38. Not exactly what I'd call an economic powerhouse, just a state with lots of people?
You mean the Washington Post owned by one of those people who would be in the data?
That was my preferred Linux text editor for a while, too.

These days, I use Tilde, which is modern, maintained, and packaged for contemporary distros.
https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/risk-of-ruin.asp
Many reasons, but the main one being you can use Delaware to hide the ownership of your companies.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09251...
Appear strong by pretending not to care.
You'll never get the prices of food, warmth and shelter down to zero, even if these commodities are no longer scarce.

The present system requires you to have active hands in the creation of these commodities or you don't get a share. In the face of increasing efficiencies, offshoring, etc. people's offer of labor may not find a buyer, making them unemployable. That's where UBI comes in, to assure that post-scarcity is enjoyed by all, not just those that have marketable labor.

Where this gets complicated is the moralizing. But it's not the moral thing to let your neighbor starve when you've got surplus food, even if there's some game theory that you will generate free riders, or some of these people aren't "deserving", or working folks divert a little bit more of the fruits of their labor than they already do, or other societies that are a race to the bottom of human welfare will out-compete us.
I'd argue that quality of discussion has gone down. It has become a lot more emotional, less forgiving and less politically diverse. But, I tend to criticize more things than I praise.
> For example, silicon’s crystal structure allows it to be widely used in the semiconductor industry, whereas graphite’s soft, layered structure makes for great pencils.

Having read of lots of exciting uses for graphite, I was not expecting that sentence to end with pencils.
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