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The old joke is that you invest in land because they're not making it any more.

That's not the case with cryptocurrencies. Not just that they're still mining them, but that new cryptocurrencies are invented every day. You can hold a unique hold on a land, because there's only so much of it, but you can clone Etherium in a heartbeat. Or design your own that works better for something.

The hope is that one of these blockchains will get so many people behind it that it becomes the natural monopoly of whatever blockchain is good for, and then the money you spent mining/investing won't be wasted. You'll get network effects, a la Facebook -- everybody wants to be in the same place. But I don't see anybody really wanting to get behind giving money to those who got there first, not when they can make up their own.
We definitely do not universally agree whether cocaine should be illegal. Drugs are a good analogy though because they can be used to improve life or misused with very bad outcomes. Tarring all instances with the same brush, or expecting every user to experience them the same way, are both mistakes that shouldn't be applied to drugs or SM.
Same! Moved back to my hometown after a 8 year stint in SF.
Long live aolserver, Naviserver [1] is the fork that's still in very active development.

1. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer
I wanted a dead-simple Library Genesis Mac app so I released one called Alexandria (https://github.com/Samin100/Alexandria) a while ago, and recently just updated it to use IPFS via the Cloudflare gateway. Compared to the previous Libgen servers, book downloads are nearly instant. When IPFS works, it works really well.
Do you really want Apple to ban more apps based on political actions? The HN can be really regressive sometimes =/
Here's the thing. Those differences are smaller than you might think.

An experienced frontend developer already knows how to program. They know how to write parallel and asynchronous code. They know how to deal with network instability. They know how to write and send of queries to a datastore. They know how to profile and debug code. They know how to work with a complex, mutable data structure safely. They're used to working inside of sandboxed environments and the need to use APIs.

These are all valuable skills for backend developers too. The flavors of the various low level components... matters less than most think.
True. I’m probably paying 60% of my income in tax living in Amsterdam. I could easily relocate to somewhere like Chicago or Austin, and pay way less and have cheaper living expenses, but I’ve seen enough of American cities to know I find their wealth divide so cruel I personally consider it a crime against humanity. It’s just plain depressing to live in a society like that.
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> Now, if someone could please tell me how to break my HN addiction?! (for real)

It has a function for that in your profile. I can't find the original for my quote, it appears to have rotted. Still accurate though.

> Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours
Fascinating, thank you! I imagine this would make it even more likely that large orgs would ban the use of VS Code.
> Of course you're right about the ramp up speed, but if you can't trust the person to figure it out: you don't want to hire them regardless.

Spot on. That's why you hire people that can learn and think - not robots.
Actually yes, you can. You can run the numbers if you wish. To see a target that is 300m large from 300km away you need an angular resolution of 1 miliradian which requires a 0.5mm aperture in the visible spectrum. To be able to image it well and tell it apart from something else consistently and obviously you'd have more than you need with a hundred times the resolution which would require a 50mm aperture.

In other words, absolutely and completely feasible. You could hold a camera with an 1200mm f/20 Cassegrain lens that could take a picture of a carrier from 300km with a fair amount of detail in your hands, let alone fit it into a 3 ton reentry vehicle.
Any precedent for an EO of this sort?
I look forward to the announcements of Office Core and Windows Core.
Exactly, a senior frontend web engineer is not going to transfer to senior compiler engineer, or senior embedded engineer, or senior game-dev, without a substantial ramp up period from lack of domain knowledge.
We can see now that without import controls corporations are going to chase slave-like labor around the globe until there isn't another country left to go to. I'm guessing everyone is against worker exploitation. What else is the answer? Globalization circumvents any wins for human rights made locally.
From the paper:

"Interestingly, reduced versions of the decidability problem have produced a fruitful area of re-search: formal verification, whose objective is to produce techniques to verify the correctness of computer programs and ensure they satisfy desirable properties (Vardi & Wolper, 1986). However, these techniques are only available to highly restricted classes of programs and inputs, and have been used in safety-critical applications such as train scheduling. But the approach of considering restricted classes of programs and inputs cannot be useful to the containment of superintelligence. Superintelligent machines, those Bostrom is interested in, are written in Turing-complete programming languages, are equipped with powerful sensors, and have the state of the world as their input. This seems unavoidable if we are to program machines to help us with the hardest problems facing society, such as epidemics, poverty, and climate change. These problems forbid the limitations im-posed by available formal verification techniques, rendering those techniques unusable at this grand scale."
Bing's 'rewards' system is also the closest thing I've seen to Lanier's proposal of distributed data ownership - not very close to how he describes it, but closer than anything else I've seen. Microsoft has been impressing me lately.
Pretty much. To me all a PhD signifies is that you can read papers quickly, form a workable hypothesis from what you have read and publish a solution to that in a reasonable timeframe.

It's specialized training that's great for some fields, and completely orthogonal to the requirements of many others.
Kids these days are such radicals ;-)
> Similarly, stuff like organic, grass-fed milk tastes much different than conventional milk.

Nope.

Or rather, milk tastes different for plenty of reasons, and you can buy non-organic milk that tastes similar to organic. And I can absolutely guarantee that you can buy organic milk that tastes no different from the mass produced cheap non-organic milk.

(I've spent a lot of time testing/tasting different milk products).
I think context is important. It is good to outline why they need to be up to speed quickly.

If someone has the need for a senior frontend engineer to contribute immediately on a complex frontend app where they are directly replacing a key engineer who left, then what you said makes a lot of sense. Lots of stakeholders are likely to nervous about bringing in a solid developer who isn't already working in the discipline. Often there can be fall out in organizations from this that results in the support systems failing for the hire which compounds problems for them.

When you are thinking about the long-term health of your organization though it is useful to support people in making this transition. Why would they want to stay with your organization long-term if they can't make these kind of changes? They can likely do some frontend projects on the side and go somewhere else combining a salary bump and a discipline change.

Ultimately, you can't guarantee these opportunities for anyone, but it's a case of appearing to be reasonable. That's not the feeling you probably wanted to convey, but it's what came across.
To be honest I’d buy a hypothetical fanless “MacBook Air Plus” with a modest M2 if only it supported 64 GB RAM. M1 is already significantly better than my 2019 16” MBP, and I’d much prefer the MBA’s thermals.
But if you extend this analogy to ship captains, then you encounter maritime pilots, and their entire profession is dedicated to knowing how to sail in one exact geographical area.
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China says a foreign spy agency hacked its airlines, stole passenger records
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Learning a technology requires understanding principles behind it. So the point is how deep the senior engineer understands principles, not technology. Treat technology as example/implementation of that principles though.
This is the reason why I've mostly heard. TBH it would probably be a good ideas for vendors to remove DRM after a game has been out for a few years and has stopped getting patches for a year+.
Also if you still need to support XP (even back when it was still getting patches), forget it, Microsoft has no interest in supporting you.

Even if you want to use the latest and greatest UI, your customers need to keep up too. Completely unworkable.
Microsoft branding is terrible. My only point of contact with it is Visual Studio Code which is different from Visual Studio which is different from Visual Studio for Mac.

There was a brief period of time after I recognized that .NET really works on all platforms without proprietary stuff and before the `dotnet watch` desaster in which I was at least curious about .NET. But even then I never fully figured out how .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, .NET MAUI and the kitchen sink relate to each other.

If the purpose of branding is to make something recognizable, Microsoft consistently fails across the board with me.
What a great step. I’m happy for you that you made this decision. I wish you all the best.
Really depends on time horizon you're talking about. They actually work pretty well for HFT, there's plenty of data around, and most of the information is just in market data - no nasty low frequency stuff to deal with like news, earnings, alternative data, insider trading, butterflies flapping wings in china etc. But the problem is by the time your GPU spits out a datapoint somebody else can go in and trade a few thousand times in the meantime. State of the art on the most heavy competed exchanges is that your fpga (or even asic) with a fiber connected directly to the exchange needs to start sending ethernet/ip headers even before it made up its mind what it wants to send in the payload.

At lower frequencies when the data gets thin and noise/overfitting is a major problem, yeah it makes sense to use simpler models. Bias/variance tradeoff in action.
The irony is Flightradar24 accepts requests not to display sensitive aircraft and some of the other ADS-B aggregators don't...
In a bit of pickle with the investors for a startup I work at – advice needed
I'm currently working at a startup along with two other cofounders, we're three years in, and a few employees. I find the two other co-founders completely incompetent (our head of marketing/cmo and our ceo). I'm the only woman and I feel like I'm being completely shut down by the CEO, a guy who not only happens to be incredibly intolerable to work with – nearly impossible – but also a massive narcissist. He's the typical know-all guy, cannot/won't accept any advice or criticism. He'll shut down whatever idea I might have, only to come around a few months later suggesting the exact same ideas I proposed and completely neglecting the fact that he got those ideas from me. When I call him out on it and tell him that I brought idea X up a few months ago, he sighs and tells me I focus too much on minor, irrelevant details which is incredibly infuriating. I try to be as professional as possible and brush off all the insults but it's reaching a point of no return.

I am by no means flawless, I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at, but he's criticising me on my area of expertise and shutting my ideas down that I know could work for us. There's a reason I have my CXO role and he's the CEO - he's great with investors and the face outwards which is just what the investors happen to see, but internally he's a mess and completely incompetent from running our business.

We just received a round 3 funding from our investors and I sense that the investors aren't happy with our performance. Things are going okay, but they're obviously expecting more. Just this week one of investors asked me (and me alone) if we could grab lunch next week - I have a feeling they'll ask me about our lack of progress and the synergy with the other co-founders and I'm not sure how honest I should be. I want to tell them that our ceo is completely incompetent and that we're getting nowhere because he's a giant asshole who refuses to collaborate, but I also don't wanna throw him under the bus and completely ruin the ties with the investors because one day I want to jump ship and I wanna leave on a good note.

How honest should I be with the investor(s)?
If you like fishing near stately homes, there is always Syon Park https://alburyestatefisheries.co.uk/syon-park-fishery/
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Base obsidian should have mermaid charts unless I'm mistaken. It's pretty neat.
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> Now the name of the game is usually to try to link federal laws regarding regulation to the interstate commerce clause.

Specifically it's permitting OSHA to insure workplace health measures. Is your argument that this is unconstitutional?
So what pesticides and herbicides are allowed on organic foods?

Do they really save you from the worst chemicals?
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Interestingly, the Book of Mormon (which essentially follows Jews who migrated to America 600 BC and became Christians after Christ visited America after his death) has a passage near the end after everyone becomes Christian where Jesus basically says "the law of circumcision is done away with" (Moroni 8:8 [0])

[0] https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/mo...
What other means does China have for attacking a carrier 1700 km from its shores?

China has been able to live without Taiwan for nearly its entire history, clearly it's not that important.

No, America doesn't lose everything in a fight. So long as war stays conventional, it can't be hit; and if war turns nuclear its still in the best position. You have the factors exactly backwards: China has no reason to fight a war except prestige, whereas America has an immense network of alliances that will unravel if it does not fight.

If tensions ever rose the point that an invasion of Taiwan was a serious possibility, the US would position forces in close proximity such that China could not attack Taiwan without also attacking the US and thus starting an all out war, which China does not want. It's the same reason the US put military bases all around USSR/Russia - and just like how the USSR never attacked for fear of US retribution, neither will China.

How are you defining "defeat China in a direct war"? If your definition is US troops holding a victory parade in Beijing, then probably not. If you use my definition, which is prevent China from taking Taiwan, America is definitely in a good position to win. But again, America already has a free Taiwan, it's China's move.
What market making opportunities do you see that aren’t currently aggressively competed for?
The telemetry data does not (and should not) contain the file contents.
The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
Given that the accountants gave testimony - it would stand to reason they had knowledge of it.
Yes. The right way to handle worker safety is the same way that we already handle electrical safety: each state independently chose to make the NEC the law.
As a relatively new engineer (~2 years FAANG experience), there seems to be a connotation around .NET.

Perhaps this is indicative of the larger Microsoft ecosystem, but it feels like my peers at university and in the industry tend to stay far away from .NET for personal projects, etc.

Why is this?
The advice worked for both Japan and South Korea. Probably it is the only way to jump from "emerging" to "developed" category, economically.
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Yes, when I was younger and had just 20 years of experience with programming it was before 1990! Back then I knew a small amount about virtually everything in CS and virtually everything in a small portion of CS.

However things in CS changed rapidly and I made the decision to work on operating systems and basically let go of writing user interfaces. The landscape for user interface development was a mess MS Windows, NextStep, X, MacOS, and Sun Window System were all different. The web and especially browser support for JavaScript really accelerated the rate of change and I found it impossible to catch up with GUI development.

For years, I did consulting work for firms helping them with system architecture, but in the last few years I found myself unable to help with the inevitable requests for assessment of companies user interface designs. It's a bit sad for me to know so little about such an important part for so many applications.

Oh well, I've been very happy in my career, but I still remember the "good old days" where it was possible to take on virtually any task without needing a lot of time to ramp up my understanding of the tools, frameworks, and programming languages.
I find it more comparable to Discord communities.
My first week at any job is mostly trying to get my bearings, and spending most of my time reading / listening. It's hard to skip ahead a few weeks and get that day instead of the first day, though.
> Theoretical physics may have minimal material needs.

I don't buy that because it's very expensive to experimentally prove the difference between various theories.
To add on to the comment of /u/massinstall outlining the objectively incorrect info, finance has already been investing in quantum computing (from which quantum walks originate and are useful). JP Morgan has had a bunch of people who've put out quality work in quantum computing for options pricing. Goldman probably took heed since Nikitas Stamatopoulos is working there now? Also rumorish, but there are people at ren tec who did work in quantum information science. As to whether they use it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regardless, finance isn't playing catch up.
"The thing they don't want you to know..." (/clickbait_headline)

Nary a King Air has counter-rotating props. As such, they all have a critical engine. Beechcraft as a company is sort of like the black-box storage providers of the 2000s pre-cloud IT world. They're not doing anything better than anyone else, with the exception of marketing...

The terms you wanna google here if you're curious and not familiar are "P-factor" and "adverse yaw."

There are lots of better airplanes to toss parachute jumpers out of than a King Air for this reason. For that matter, there are a lot better airplanes for the owner of this airplane in question to take his family to Aspen or Grand Cayman in, for the exact same reason.

If the aforementioned early 2000s IT storage salesman responds to a question of how you recover from disk failure with "don't have a disk failure," you would probably walk away not not buy his black box, right? Yet people buy King Airs because they bought a Baron before it, and bought the Baron because it was just a Bonanza with two props.

"What's going on with all these King Air crashes?" [1]

1. https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/whats-going-with...
Yea, even us brazilians are refusing portuguese job offers , even though we're struggling here, because of low salaries.
Funnily enough, the example about the importance of capitalisation has a capitalisation error.

It's "Van Gogh" when written without the first name. With, it becomes "Vincent van Gogh".

Basically, the "filler words" are without capital unless "naked" at the start of the noun.

So it also is "Van der Staaij" or "Kees van der Staaij".
Please don't post shallow dismissals. A good critical comment teaches us something.
A specific example would be that we were went to litigation and I would have loved if our lawyer had a technical background when I tried really hard to draw his attention to subtleties that would make it a fucking slam dunk.

For memo, we lost, and I would not rely on that herbivore lawyer again; not even to deliver food.
It sounds like you're proposing an improvement to RFC 2549 to reduce latency and packet loss.
Worse, I've had a few of these beg bounties transition from sob stories to death threats after we rejected things again.
I would think that could get filtered out on the resume check with no relevant experience. Are they lying on the resume?
The question should be, 'To what degree did Zillow influence the housing market?'

Interest rates are low so people have cash. New housing development was lacking even before Covid disrupted supply chains. Now we are facing a labor shortage that could play out in a number of ways, not limited to proletariat uprising or in contrast, a new age of entrepreneurialism.
I thought Google already had a rule about something like this, that they'd delist your site entirely for breaking. I wonder whether there's a loophole, or if they're just choosing to look the other way here.
>A universal Turing machine that "contains all Turing machines" already exists

You are misquoting the paper here

Quoting the abstract:

>Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world...

Note the difference between "programs" and "Turing Machines".
I agree. I was on a big screen an some of the smaller countries were still impossible to see for me. Like some of the smaller islands are probably just a couple pixels. A dot of color or a circle around them would probably work better than a simple yellow fill.
Why is this person being downvoted? I thought the same - aren't local webapps prone to portscanning and effective cross origin (for lack of a better description?)?
Ask HN: How to Best Invest Windfall?
Basically overnight, my net worth went from ~$200k to ~$7m (potentially more) due to a crypto project I did with a friend. I genuinely think crypto is a scam and a bubble, so I'm looking for any advice on what to invest in outside of the crypto space. I'm early 30s, single, USA. Most of my $$$ unlocks in ~48 months, but I have ~$1m or so immediately liquid. A few things I'm worried about:

- Taxes and tax complications
- Actually pulling it out of crypto into fiat
- Using this wealth to generate more wealth in less speculative ways
- I haven't quit my day job, but considering it

Any other advice is appreciated.
Isn't that usually about personal information rather than the a right to withdraw already released work? Doesn't seem a close fit to this situation.