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> I find it interesting with many of these criticisms that subject matter experts on maths, sciences, etc think that they are also subject matter experts on the pedagogy of maths, science, etc especially at a high school level.

Public education in the US has a long history of fads, manias, and ill-conceived attempts at reform. There's little evidence of improvement over time or competitive performance.

The following is an excerpt from (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-student...).

The most recent PISA results, from 2015, placed the U.S. an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. Among the 35 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which sponsors the PISA initiative, the U.S. ranked 30th in math and 19th in science.

Given these results I'll trust subject matter experts over educators any day.
can we spam them with barcodes taking over the PoS, getting into their network, and showing "stop using in-band signalling" manifestos?
A vynil os something you can play on a record player, even if you choose not to do so. How do you play am NFT?
Ask HN: Have you seen any Web3 products with broad adoption?
I'm still very opposed to the idea of taking a technology and then searching a problem for it. Why? Back in 2017 during the first hype cycle, blockchain companies raised hundreds of millions with ICOs. I became very interested in the technology too, and some friends still work in this space. 4 years later in the web3 era, there is not a single product aside from trading/finance that got traction. Use cases like storing the history of a car on chain, transparent supply chains, public voting... this all sounds interesting but never made it to product market fit.
I always assume that I'm wrong, so I'll keep looking for successful applications :)
Or an acoustic coupler which also acts a little like an electrical coupler at higher frequencies because it has no electrical shielding...
And here we go, Germany doing Hitler again. Although obvious I didn’t want to mention him in order to avoid Godwin’s law. I was merely referring to todays leaders that are called dictators by NATO, like Putin, Lukashenko, Kim Jong, Xi Jinping and similar. None of them even thinks about mandatory vaccination, but democratic Germany already plans it.
Google is a big boy/gal/firm, it can defend itself. And there are new fans of G who never ever heard of any of these.
Speaking of pendulums: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle

> it... turns out that inertia originates in a kind of interaction between bodies, quite in the sense of your considerations on Newton's pail experiment... If one rotates [a heavy shell of matter] relative to the fixed stars about an axis going through its center, a Coriolis force arises in the interior of the shell; that is, the plane of a Foucault pendulum is dragged around (with a practically unmeasurably small angular velocity). - Einstein
> Governments take years to formulate a legislation, and your average corporate legal team defeats it in days.

Cynically I suspect the lobbyists defeat it before it is even signed (ensuring the legislation has appropriate loopholes, etc).
There is company in Czechia which provides optics via sewage. I guess it is cheaper to use existing infrastructure than to place new pipes under roads.
Why don’t they get another job? These people are inept and blame situations like getting cancer on their job? Healthcare plans not a thing, or Obamacare not existing?

> Yes freedom!!!! From taxes (for the rich) and unions and the freedom to be forced into bankruptcy because you made the grave mistake of getting cancer.

Base means isn’t forward thinking, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have enough money but what if they wants to give to do more? If you taxed estates to 100% what do you think would happen?
This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat.

Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0].

On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface and was responsive in the beginning but suffered from generally incompetent loan advisors.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/business/media/vice-media...
More precise terminology should be "Install to desktop" (or homescreen on mobile). Years ago there was a tool (or extension) called Prism, that did exactly the same thing.
In some sense, that's "just" radio. An antenna is a wire... it's sending a signal and picking it up from a very nearby antenna. Radio transmissions are all AC.

(Arguably, the real insight here is that the very existence of radio is impressive / unintuitive.)
> By the way: if you’ve ever wondered what IN means, it’s the “query class” and stands for “internet”. It’s basically just a relic from the 80s and 90s when there were other networks competing with the internet like “chaosnet”.

Reading things like this makes me feel better about the relics in my code that aren't really hurting anything but would take work to remove.
Good point, gold is like a PoS system nowadays. Still, the ease with which bitcoin can be exchanged makes it a better alternative
Just for contrast, this thread posted from someone claiming they’d introduced perks at their company to keep their employees happy was pretty well celebrated: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qzgqnr/from_a_man...
Interesting post!

Small comment on the argument against anti-aging genes existing: "genes only propagate if selected for, and there’s no selective pressure for longevity after reproductive age" (I know that this was just a very minor aside, but I still think it's worth pointing out the flaw.)

That's not how evolution works. Even after you have reproduced, you have impact on whether your children survive and reproduce. This means that there could very reasonably be evolutionary pressure in either direction (causing people to die younger that way they stop taking resources from their children or causing people to live longer that way they keep providing support for their children).
Have you tried go lately? It needs to "compile", but the compiler is so fast that the combined compile/run is essentially the same experience as running a script. goreleaser can also make cross compilation extremely easy.
Unpopular proposal: the animal world does it better. Older animals never slowly degenerate into nightmarish parodies of their former selves. When they slow down too much, they are killed and rejoin the circle of life.

When I think about slowly deteriorating into a dementia-ridden, wheelchair-bound elder living in a nursing home I am struck with horror. Old people are an enormously expensive burden to society and mostly live in misery and pain waiting for their next doctor's appointment and their next friends funeral.

I wish there was a societal mechanism for an easy and clean death.
That might have been. The new user who signed up to ask "Why is Docusign a $35bn company?" a few days later was a little more obvious...
Nice article, I wish everyone, especially my devops guys, would learn to use dig. It's a lifesaver.

On tracing

> So it’ll make about 20 DNS queries

Not sure about this part. Most domains will hit root, tld, x.tlds nameservers, and maybe one more. Most traces should only be 3 to 5 queries.
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If, legally, your company needed to defend in court why it set up its legally binding signature software in the manner it did, then "we used the company everyone else uses", will probably be enough to demonstrate due diligence. Few judges or juries are going to find "doing things the industry standard way", to be criminal negligence.

Someone with a more software-informed background may disagree, but the judge and jury are unlikely to be programmers. It's the modern equivalent of the old "nobody got fired for buying IBM".
Varoufakis is a pretty sensible economist and understands perfectly what money's role in society is. If you read his book on confronting the EU he shows how eg Greece abandoning the Euro and moving to the Drachma wouldn't work out... It shows his understanding of macroeconomics.
working 40 hours isn’t a choice if you need healthcare
It’s not a 70 MB implementation of Hello world. It’s a 70 MB compressed runtime with a standard library (or at least the most basic parts of it) and a couple KB "Hello world".
Oops, Yea- I fat fingered that from $50k.

But that's still roughly double/triple or more what street parking will cost (where space efficiency approaches 100% since driveways and additional
access pavement aren't needed).

Correct on double to triple for underground, but likely more for buildings with compact or less than ideal footprints (inefficient layout and access) and where structural and utility considerations need to be made for the building overhead.

But commercial grade (concrete/lanscaped) surface parking can easily cost $30k+/space, even in non-urban areas. A recent multi-acre university parking lot we did was just shy of $50k/ space (which is why parking garages start making economic sense around that price point), and that was in a 5 digit population college town on the outskirts of campus.

But the point remains that structural parking costs > surface parking costs >> street parking.

And that street parking shouldn't be thought of as subsidized[1], because as soon as it is considered free lunch for other pet purposes, developers won't relinquish control of it, and will potentially set buildings back an additional 8-25' (parallel-angled, per side of the street) to stay outside of minimum right-of-way widths.

[1] In addition to the fact that the dedication and assumption of future maintenance costs is in contractual consideration of the value of the land and improvements dedicated, additional generated tax revenue and economic growth, and is typically required by govt building codes.
Its much easier to stay at an unfulfilling job you hate, have it crush your soul, post memes on Reddit, and resent it, but is that really a good choice? They are on a path they don’t like, do you think it’s a good idea to change trajectory?
That's super useful. Every time I'm setting up subdomains or playing with Cloudflare settings, I'm always so confused. This will help when I need to use dig.
Maybe the original creator was an Emacs fan? Lisp also uses semicolons for comments.
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I have read in a few places (example below) that Bitcoin hash power is highly concentrated. Given that Bitcoin is controlled by hash power it would be good to know who those people are.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/26/bitcoin-ownership-concentrated...
Hang on a minute, while what you are saying is true, the article is not trying to convince you that socialism is good. It's trying to convince you that bitcoin does not solve socialist goals. i.e. Bitcoin is still a capitalist tool even if it often uses narratives like "it breaks up central banks".

I agree with your perspective on socialism, and that yes, the is messy. It's just not the point here. It's simply what the other camp thinks of bitcoin. (assuming the writing is truthful and all that jazz)
Ask HN: What phone would you recommend for a 16yo?
I'm looking for a phone for a 16yo, who hasn't had one before and is interested in it for only two things: language-learning with Duolingo and taking pictures. He's a grade-A student across the board, a virtuoso violinist and quite sporty on the side.

The favoured option would be a Fairphone 4 for its repairability/sustainability and open source creds (he has access to tech-savvy adults), but according to comments I've read here, and in some reviews, the camera is below par. What would you guys recommend? One option would be the Fairphone and a standalone compact digital camera, but I'm interested in hearing from HN commenters who might recommend an all-in-one option. Trying to avoid iPhones or flagship branded Android equivalents, but cost isn't the main factor.

Also, re Fairphone, I noticed that the Fairphone 2 came in for quite a bit of negative commentary here [1] a little while ago after an ArsTechnica article was posted about the Fairphone 4's five-year warranty and plans for six years of upgrades. Anyone have views specifically on the Fairphone 4, re any (remaining) software problems or other issues?

All opinions/advice greatly appreciated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705196
Long story short: Varoufakis dislikes the inflexibility of Bitcoin's supply. Varoufakis wants currencies with flexible supplies safely under the control of technocrats like him. This should come as no surprise. What is surprising is that anyone would think differently.

What Varoufakis doesn't get is that he has no control over the future direction of Bitcoin. It's in large part an escape hatch for those who are fed up with technocratic debasement of money. Neither Varoufakis nor anyone else will be able to prevent people from using Bitcoin. They'll try, but lose enormous credibility when they fail.
Is this anecdote really to the contrary of what I said? You’ve told me all about how excited this person is about seeing the result, not anything about whether or not it was the optimal action to take 30 years ago.

It’s just human nature. There’s no way to fight it. Best to try to use it instead.
You can say the same thing about email, but yet there are plenty of legitimate use cases. Cases include chat apps like slack, you might want to see when someone has messaged you even though you might not have the slack tab open. Are you attending a music festival and have the schedule open for an artist you want to see, well the concerts have been delayed 20 min, would be handy to get a push notification telling you that.
Is the bubble popping?
Who says we are constrained to this video?

This matter is a running conversation.
more likely it was just a coincidence, but there might have been a few of us who placed bets after reading that post
There is no moral imperative to deliver food to ungrateful assholes all day. They can fucking walk to the restaurant themselves.

That said, the antiworkers won't move to some poor country, buy a large plot of land and live off it.

They like modern shit, plus that would be way more worky work than any shit job in a city.

Fighting for better labour conditions and wages is good, being completely anti work is just stupid.
So, I was a loner to begin with. It was with computers and programming that I made friends and socialized — with the new friend group.
I think that the notion of "unnecessary jobs" comes largely from the misguided desire to pressure people to want different things. For example, should I think that the beauty industry should be as large as it is? I am not talking about the big beauty corporations, I'm talking about the self-employed estheticians, hair stylists, beauticians, etc, who have their own rooms and buy their own products and tools. I think intelligent people like Buckminster Fuller would see them as mostly unnecessary to society, and that they shouldn't have to work, and should go to school instead. But guess what? People want their services. And many of the workers like their jobs (even if they don't like how much they work). So they work those jobs (that they like) and provide services to people who want them. An outside intellectual might look at the exchange and think "This worker hates their job...they should be an artist! And this customer shouldn't want nail extensions...they should go back to school!" That kind of thinking has a distinct authoritarian bend to it.

>It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

That only works if everyone knows who that "one in ten thousand" person is, and does everything that they can to support that person, so that they don't have to spend all of their time doing the things that we would have to do individually if most jobs went away. For those "one in ten thousand" people, the jobs that many people provide are conveniences to them so that they can focus on other things. Eg: delivery, food prep, handiwork, advice (sales, legal, health, etc).
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Why is the onus on employees to "find another job," instead on their managers to improve the labor conditions?

Some of the stories on that sub are an incredible indictment on how wage workers are treated. I don't care what decisions that person made to end up in a minimum wage job, but I do care that they get treated with some respect and dignity.
This book holds a special place in my heart. I remember reading about it in the literary magazine The Believer about 15 years ago. At that point in time, the only way to explore the book was to find a rare used copy for a reasonable price. I finally found one (real nice Abbeville First American Ed from 1983) for $250 from Strand Books. I was over the moon. I loved flipping thru it randomly and showing it to friends and acquaintances. When I quit my job I sold it to help pay for school and living expenses. Fortunately, many new editions are available now; making it easier for more people to discover his work.
I have used Lambda extensively over the past three months in Python, Ruby and Node. The largest game changer for me was discovering Lambda Layers and realizing how I could avoid compiling zip folders to deploy. I’ve loved the iteration speed and performance, and recently have depended heavily on the Lambda + EFS combo.

I purchased the book and was surprised there wasn’t more on the EFS usage, but otherwise the book looks wonderful.
Your parents’ ADSL noodle soup is a little bland.
> If much of a company's advantages were cultural, you could put together teams that could out-compete startups within a large organization.

Only if you can make that small team culturally independent from the parent company, which IMO is unlikely, not least because first you have to create the team and hire or find (internally) people for it, both of which tend to imprint the parent culture, and then management has to be sufficiently hands off, which again could happen but what are the odds?
Miners/Pools could go on strike. PoS schemes will require you to pool as well, meaning there will be centrally controlled staking pools. These pools will yield great power too.
> Bitcoin is totally elitist and mostly a vehicle for speculation.

I agree, but the parent poster does have a point. There are places where the economic situation has deteriorated to the point that using Bitcoin can solve some problems. Some things are worse than Bitcoin, but it's a rare phenomenon.
> People just want jobs that allow them to afford housing, health insurance, retirement, and to sustain a family, and today the US has failed to provide that except for a minority of industries.

https://reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8rzk2/the_big_lie/

Definitely people that don’t want to work at all.

People might want California coastline affordable housing and Ferraris by working at McDonald’s but the US failing to provide that isn’t a failure of the US
Correct, and I've made that point also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429896

Even admitting the inequity of privatising gains and socialising costs, looking at the scope of the scale problem remains illuminating.
The only real downside for consumers is having to install Epics software. Exclusive deals tend to have a timelimit after which they can be distributed on other platforms as well. The upside is cheaper games and some badly needed competition for Steam.
I personally recommend for all people to buy a second hand galaxy S7 on BackMarket or somewhere else as it is really fast enough and will serve you well. That's less electronic waste and you will only spend a hundred dollars
There's a reason "we're not essential, we're expendable" became a meme among service workers. We are absolutely expecting low wage workers to sacrifice themselves to keep the economy and luxury services running.
In my experience most banks do enable it. And if you use your card at a merchant you haven't used before it's almost always 2FA time.

I have no idea how effective this has been, but at least here [Hungary] banks went all in basically.
; is quite common in assembly as the comment marker. And zone files are old, so the // or # were not as standard as they are today.
They were both fired because they were very expensive and a net negative on the company.

Dantley has an enormous ego, and that ego led to a bunch of fluff PR pieces commissioned where he bashed other employees which started a civil war. The guy who did the Google comic for years went to Twitter and made a comic about the civil war and HR accused him of racism (the comic was not racist) and made him take it down.

Montara made like 20 million a year but did absolutely nothing but send an email about the important of diversity every few months.

Only reason these guys weren’t fired a long time ago is that the previous Twitter CEO was totally checked out and obsessed with bitcoin. New CEO knows what’s going and and is cleaning house.

I don’t work at Twitter but I’m close to many who do so this is grapevine gossip.
> Anyway, my hat is off to the people who designed and implemented ADSL.

It's a blessing-and-a-curse: too many incumbent ISPs in highly-developed nations used ADSL's ability to run on anything as an excuse to put-off FTTH deployments (looking at you, BT).
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In all markdown parsers?
It gets worse before it gets better
Other people want different features than you. Consider businesses who want to distribute PWAs to their employees instead of going through the laborious and time-consuming process of waiting for Apple reviews, resubmitting if you get a "Monday morning cranky reviewer", etc. For these folks, the app review process is primarily just wasted time and effort.
This idea is called group selection [0].

Edit: perhaps kin selection [1] is the more appropriate one here.

Still, longevity would affect the group and not only the direct kin.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
I reply to myself to add a note, always from my personal notes – I'm almost surely wrong. Here[^1] it is quite well summed up: the Moon was only the beginning, the easiest phenomenon to observe.
The fact that seven planets were "easily visible" with no astronomical tools surely helped, and in some civilizations the days were named along these.

Religions, finally, "officially" decided that a week had to have seven days.

[^1]: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/7-days-week.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/159252/noor-one-vampire-ship...

https://torontolife.com/city/this-man-is-the-jeff-bezos-of-t...
Not only that, but if you have a business that actually makes, sells, and ships something, your AWS bill is probably a tiny fraction of your expenses. Switching to physical servers would be a little like getting solar installed on your house - great in theory, but if the most expense it will displace is $150/month, is it the right problem to focus on?
Show this to everyone who shits on monolith and only wants to build a scalable serverless microservices whatever.
> I remember a while back that there has at least been cursory investigation into running high-speed internet cables through water pipes.

Oblig:

https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html

https://archive.google.com/tisp/install.html
Key word is proportionate. Inflation disproportionately affects those with low income. The affects are not linear—look at the difference in pct income to food in lowest quintile compared to others. A dollar from the lowest quintile is objectively more valuable in purchasing power than three dollars is to the highest.

It’s akin to the company town giving a buck more in wages but charging 2 more in groceries. Sure you make “more,” but since you can buy less of what you need, you are effectively making less.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/HighSchool/RealvsNomi...