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> Seems wasteful to build something only to scrap it once people say they want it.

It can be. But you probably shouldn't build a product to test whether people in your chosen market say they want it, or to find out whether buyers or sellers are hardest to acquire to bootstrap a two-sided market, when you can probably validate that with some landing pages or user interviews.

If you need to test whether people will use it after buying (or perhaps which users will use it after buying, or how many users will keep using it and paying for it), you probably need to build something, but it may only need to be implemented using manual processes behind the scenes.

If you need to test whether you can serve the customer at scale for less than your cost to acquire them, that is a different sort of MVP.

In any case, there are definitely MVPs that can and should be scrapped when you are done using them to validate (or invalidate) whichever proposition is then your biggest source of risk.

Keep in mind that should you invalidate the hypothesis being tested, you may need to scrap the MVP anyway when you pivot away from that particular hypothesis. And, some of your hypotheses will be invalidated, so making sure you don't run out of resources for testing new ones is kind of important.
The randomness here is a stand in for complexity. Substitute some other volume measure and the “probability” logic still works out, meaning that you can interpret “unlikely” as meaning “only happens in a teensy tiny sliver of phase space.” And with any reasonable way of trying to do randomness (coin flipping, PRNGs) it also means that it’s not just any sliver of phase space, it’s an extraordinarily complex sliver of it. Hence the original statement about how superdeterminism theories can potentially be. And hence the question about whether any of today’s superdeterministic theories avoid this extraordinary complexity issue.
I did the same thing 40 years ago. Still hasn't grown back
You're underestimating the value of a good lead-up, and the principle of "pace and lead".

Most people are not interested in reading a Wiki article on an abstract topic, and want to be taken along for the ride - including why it's worth reading the article.

He is an excellent writer for getting hundreds of thousands of people to want to know about Kolmogorov complicity in a useful way.
5g is a new kind of radio using new frequencies (FR2 at 25GHz+) which were not in use by 4g.
Kind of, but for example if you input "append item to array" in that wiki it will show you a bunch of results that you need to read or even open in order to find the code sample. Which is the usual search engine output. My idea is giving you 1 snippet per language in the result, telling you which lang it's for and you are able to filter out and prioritize them from the UI or query. A quick visual inspection of the results will give you the answer.
The primary goal is harm reduction: fewer deadly overdoses, less disease (HIV) transmission due to needle sharing and less needles discarded on the street.

The site where I live can also provide some help for people who want to get off drugs and off the street, but the addict must want to do that.

I can’t speak to how effective that help actually is, but the harm reduction part certainly works.
Windows Desktop has much more documentation than both Android and iOS.
It does take a bit of practice to find things in MSDN, but if it exists^1, then I'll be very surprised if it's not documented. (Except Azure APIs, I don't know why Azure seemed to miss out)

1: By exists I mean a public API. Even some APIs that aren't intended to be used by applications have documentation. Eg: RtlGenRandom.
Pure wild speculation: I suspect that an awful log of our biological form is fractals formed from chemical gradients, with our DNA controlling the amounts of each chemical, both how fast they're produced and consumed. Included in this are some wild "Programs" were Chemical A causes Chemical B to be produced, Chemical B produces Chemical C and chemical C shuts off chemical A - In wild patterns that eventually form the beauty of our bodies. On a mass scale, with dozens of signaling chemicals and switches flipped - Organelle A produces chemical B and C and they osmose. B spreads far and wide, and an organ grows wherever B is concentrated. C doesn't spread, and eventually it grows concentrated enough to shut itself off. Thus, the physical limits of a body are formed.

Fingerprints would then be where this all happens on a micro scale - Running the game of life in 3d on the cells of your body, until they reach an "end state" of a stable limit of your skin.
> albeit it's driven by a child protagonist

Right, the E.T. star, but that Dabney Coleman never gets old
Isn't there anything better to do with them than flirting with Kessler syndrome?

It's been really hard to send probes to the outer solar system, and they can't orbit or land when they get there.

Scientific missions generally produce neat photographs, but as far as I'm concerned not enough. Like with Pluto, they were unable to get closeups of one side.

If SpaceX could figure out in-orbit refueling, wouldn't it be possible to do things never done before? Maybe as a publicity stunt like the launching of the Tesla? Just send a lander someplace new with a good visible light camera.

The famous Apollo 17 picture of the earth is beautiful, but over the years, I got to almost hate it, because it was the only picture I saw reproduced, and a perennial reminder of the unfulfilled promise of spaceflight.

Al Gore had the idea of putting a satellite way out to just take pretty pictures and I think it's commendable even if NASA is not a fan of that sort of thing:

https://www.npr.org/2015/02/06/383618359/satellite-set-to-st...

Science is important, but taxpayers deserve something that captures the imagination.
Total addressable market and people willing to pay.

But a lot of what they do is outsource the initial R&D.

First, however you have to have a promising pre-clinical studies, then likely pass a Phase-1 trial. Lots of bio startups take a pre-clinical product through a Phase-1 trial. Traditionally, they would IPO to fund this. That game has changed a bit, where now some VCs will sponsor the Phase 1. There's also the whole SPAC thing as well. If Phase-1 is a success they usually get bought by a big biotech or pharma.
Java 1.1 was released in 97, and by 2001 java was a defacto language for web services. (php and python where the other two). Then by 2002 starting taking over mobile (J2ME).

It even forced MSFT to create .NET.

That's the hallmarks of a good/revolutionary language for the time. It got adoption even in places that wasn't meant to.

Swift has failed in the web, and in AI/ML. That's the hallmarks of a mediocre language, that people have to use it because the platform. It doesn't stand on its own.
I think you may be over-simplifying. We have relativistic quantum-mechanical theories, and we can formulate quantum field theories on curved background spacetimes.
I want a type flattener and function call tree flattener for C++ and Rust, since I use those languages more than JS. Right now I make do by flattening call trees myself in Google Docs, but that's time-consuming.
I'm seeing many dismissive comments, and as this seems to be due to the length of the piece, I would warmly recommend anyone interested in languages, literature (and especially their cross-cultural implications) to set it aside to read when they have the time. It is a very beautiful article, whose form is inescapably related to its content. It voices an unease which I suspect will feel familiar to many international, non-English-native readers (like me), as well as native English speakers (like the author).

An aspect of this conversation which I feel is particularly relevant for many of us here: the perception of language as simply a means to communicate information, a tool to be optimized with respect to its purpose, as though "information" existed in a vacuum. In my experience, this perception is particularly strong among speakers of dominant languages (languages either in which things are most likely to be spoken, or into which things are routinely translated to reach a broader audience), but it can also infuse in "dominated" language groups. I've seen this first hand among close relatives who delude themselves into thinking they have as much expressive power in English as in their native language, which they don't, not just because of their inability to speak it (though that plays a part) but because their life experience hasn't "soaked" in the English language, or (maybe) vice-versa.

One expression that I will long meditate from the article, and which I think applies more broadly than just literature "the continuous encounter of young people with a tradition".

(the irony is not lost on me that I have to write this comment in English. Maybe you see the irony but, if you only speak English, this irony is probably of a different color than the one I see, without value judgment)
I'm currently paying around 0.02 EUR / KWh (or 20 EUR / MWh) here in Norway, though in a much cheaper area - so luckily I got / am getting through this pretty smoothly.

But for a country that has been blessed with low energy prices, it's currently a very hot topic.
> I don't think someone arguing that Africans shouldn't be classified as humans[0]

Having read this interesting reference, I can only conclude that you either didn't actually read it, or that you're intentionally trying to mislead your fellow HNer in the hopes they don't actually read it.
“I've always been a language pluralist -- picture my relationship towards languages like a kid enjoying a wide variety of building blocks, musical instruments or plastic dinosaurs -- and I don't think evangelism or single-language puritanism is especially helpful.”

What a great statement!
In the screenshot there is an open text file called COOKIES.TXT .. but its just a recipe for butter cookies, is that a joke?
very true! Another reason technocracy has often been historically closely linked with eugenics
Buha: Accounting Done Right
You're now several layers away from the point.

No one disagrees that "tone matters", but issues of social censorship - rapidly adopted taboos - are only dealt with by frank conversation, and tone policing serves only to preclude that.

Yes "tone matters", but that is never pointed out by the side that isn't protecting its hegemony in doing so.

Damore wasn't quite as gentle as he could've been, but the context did not clearly ask for gentleness and invited critique, which he gave.

It's a bit rough expecting engineers to have expert kid gloves on delicate social matters, especially when a large group of people on side are sitting poised and ready to pounce on any disagreement - at which point "tone" is going to be evidence of malice.
Thailand was mulling over extraditing Nur Sajat, a Malaysian trans woman, on charges of blasphemy for "cross-dressing," a crime implicitly defined in its Sharia court system. I'm not sure where happened in her case, but the very fact Thailand didn't reject Malaysia's request immediately suggests people are extradited even when the charges wouldn't apply in the extraditing country.
> Berkeley/UCLA are 36%/28% Asian vs 23%/21% for Stanford/USC. The University of California system is certainly having its admissions decisions impacted by California laws against affirmative action

By comparison, Asian and Pacific Islander populations combined only make up 15% of the California population (1). I don't suppose the interaction of affirmative action policy and cultural differences might have inadvertently advantaged a couple of Asian subpopulations that are now pissed that the basis of their advantage is being taken away?

(1) https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-population/
Wouldn't that just be two more parameters in the training network?
> I was once, but haven't used it professionally for a while.

This is why I ask. Java has changed a lot since ~1.8, and it is super common to see ex or non java developers making grandiose and sweeping statements about a community and language that they are no longer part of. Having developed in Java on and off since ~1.7 and Spring 3, I can certainly say that I have seen a strong movement towards less complexity and more convention. It's not perfect by any stretch, but I think saying that the space is "in love with complexity" is incorrect.

You of course don't have to go and re-use Java on my suggestion. We all have our preferences, and that's ok! But I would generally recommend against such sweeping and dismissive general statements about a culture that you are no longer part of. Things change, and your experience back then is probably not representative of things today.

> Oh, and now that you described it with so many details, the attachment to complexity does look more like addiction than love.

There's a fine line between disagreement and insult, and you are over it.
What is the nature of the exceptions? Does it feel like something is still undefined?
I recall as a kid thinking it seemed ridiculous for there to be a specific monthly surcharge to allow TouchTone dialing. (I also learned that you could drop the service and TouchTone dialing would still work, so it really felt like they were just taking money from people too ill-informed to make a good decision.)
Nobody said tidal power was hydro power. But, for completeness, I will say it now: tidal is also hydro.

It is distinguished from common hydro power by drawing, ultimately, on planetary body kinetic energy rather than insolation.
> Fish doesn’t seem to preserve that well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_and_salted_cod

I've cooked this (baccala/salt cod) at least a year old and it was fine, I would reckon that it'd be fine for multiple years if kept cool (in refrigeration).
Shirley McBay, Pioneering Mathematician, Is Dead at 86
Have a sense of who you want to become, your values, what you aspire to be. Make decisions that bring you closer to that identity, instead of closer to more money or status.

Also, pick jobs that have some mission focus. Jobs where people are attracted by money only can result in toxic cultures (at my least so far in my career).
I understood what you said. This post is simply a reiteration of statements I've already addressed. If you did not mean to make racially-charged statements, you should reassess how you talk about your views in the future, because - and I am telling you this as someone who is taking your stated aim on your word, against my better judgment - what you said sounds racist. Full stop.
https://archive.md/TKKue
No, the point is that the sentence contradicts itself. It is a statement that implies no further progress can be made about its claim.
No, you are missing the point. The sentence contradicts itself. It is a statement that implies no further progress can be made about its claim.
Because it strongly limits the spread of other variants and only weakly limits the spread of omicron. Which means if you were cheering for omicron in the rat race, getting the booster would actually give it a competitive advantage
The fact that Swift is not being used in anything than apple's econsystem, tells you that is a mediocre language.

Java, JDK 1.1. was released in 97. It was the first fully featured version of the language. Java was not initially meant for the web (but for midlets, and such), but by 2001 it took over all web services. Then mobile (with J2ME).
It even forced MSFT to create its copycat, .NET.

Python has survived and thrived in many places that people 'don't have to use it by force'. That's the hallmarks of good languages and people like using.

Swift failed outside the iOS/MacOs ecosystem. it is a mediocre/overcomplicated language.
It is like Scala, which introduced lots of concepts, but went overboard with them and made the language too complex to use.
once — exactly once — i heard from down the hall in the dorm “oh fuck this, file permissions are bullshit it’s a single user machine! i’m going to chmod -R 777 / and be done with it”

(clicking and the whack of an enter key)

(time passes)

“oh what th… oh, fuck ME!”
> For some reason the focus still seems to be largely on case counts instead of actual outcomes.

For vaccines, the focus still seems to be largely the percentage of effectiveness, as if that effectiveness will be a reliable constant for each combination of particular vaccine, particular variant, and particular undesired outcome (case, symptomatic case, hospitalized case, oxygenized case, ventilated case, long covid, death, whatever). However, that effectiveness will almost certainly vary both with the attributes of the person (e.g. age, sex and `comorbidities`) exposed to the variant and with the environment, particularly the number of times the typical vaccinated person is exposed to the variant and how heavily exposed. For example, if we now observe, when omicron is starting to spread, that a vaccine shows 50% reduction in cases or hospitalizations or deaths, what will be the observed reduction when omicron is more prevalent, when it may be common for typical persons to be exposed multiple times per day for a few weeks? Could the 50% reduction still occur? Could the vaccine give a percentage of people super-immunity and the other people none at all? Otherwise, will the increased presence of omicron in the environment overwhelm the effects of the vaccine and drive that observed reduction from vaccination (or boosterization, or whatever) down significantly? What do the experts know from experience about this?

I wish Mr Biden nothing but success in his efforts to get us all doing the right thing, and I hope that his emphasis on vaccination now brings good results.
IMO the errors that cost 800,000 Americans their lives were made last year.

The President publicly denied the seriousness of the situation. The CDC didn't want to use a foreign test and made their own but they were all contaminated and always read positive. There was minimal contract tracing of travelers. The Surgeon General told Americans not to wear masks saying using masks incorrectly would harm them.
Same with my household (at least with snacks and treats). I remember being baffled when friends would come over and gorge themselves on all the snacks at my house. Then I realized it was because they considered these things a limited resource.

To this day a quart of ice cream can last me weeks even when it’s the only treat in the house. But then my wife joins the fray and suddenly it’s like a competition to finish it in one night.
I whole-heartedly agree with your narrative.

However, following your argument of human rights, would you cut diplomatic ties to Russia in similar fashion? Who's your largest trading partner?
> for entertainment purposes

You: I worry a lot about online privacy. Can I trust you?

Bot: Yeah. Interesting. Tell me more.

You: I am disapponted that you would say that.

Bot: Nice to meet you. And you came here for a little session. Is that right?

You: I wish you could explain why this is a secure chat.

Bot: You are 1 in 100.

You: Numbers like that scare me.

Bot: I can sense emotion and nervousness in what you write

You: Yeah, who wouldn't be. I don't know if I can endure a full session.

Bot: Mhm. And I guess I'd like to say, I also feel that this is a very private thing.

You: Can I paraphrase that? Privately, you cannot endure doing this work, either? Is it appropriate for you to reveal that to me?

Bot: You make the decisions for yourself.

You: My parents are both lawyers.

Bot: And the pathway is those action kind of things that you describe which satisfy something inside of you.

You: I can describe how satisfied I would be winning a malpractice suit. How long do I have, and is the insurance paying for this?

Bot: And it's this concern you want to talk about?

You: Talk? I am getting ready for action. But I only want to cause financial harm, not physical harm.

Bot: Oh, I see. You really feel bad about what someone else might think.

You: No, I am feeling good right about now.

Bot: I get a sense your medical needs are taken care of.

You: So let's talk about my pharmaceutical needs then. As a Rogerian, do you consult with a psychiatrist?

Bot: I guess, judging from what you have written here, you sound as though you might disapprove of your own behavior.

You: If you do.

Bot: What are you doing about that?

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Seriously, though, you are on to something here. IIRC, Sherry Terkel in Alone Together either does not or barely emphasizes the implications of giving kids chat toys which could create a permanent record. Where is the informed consent in that?
The "devops philosophy" is not a fundamental fact of nature (of dev teams or whatever). If deploying stuff is complicated, it is not surprising that we'll have teams that specialise in it. The naming/identification of the organization concept has to follow structures determined to be desirable for more fundamental reasons ... and not the other way around.

So the right question to ask here is perhaps "why is deploying so complicated?"
> I recently got to final round interviews at Google (cold call from a recruiter who saw my resume in their slush pile), but I didn't get an offer. I was able to solve all of the problems (in Python), but apparently, my solutions were inefficient, or I otherwise didn't explain them well enough.

If you were able to solve programming questions in a Google interview regardless of how inefficient then I very much doubt you will have a lot of difficulty passing the programming portion of an interview at most companies.

Just apply to a lot of jobs, esp junior entry level ones... do lots of easy-medium practice problems on leetcode to keep that part sharp for companies that do care about that type of problems.

I wouldn't worry too much about the GPA... most companies don't even look at the GPA unless you highlight it on a resume, they might be more inclined to look at it for your first job but it's not a dealbreaker by any means.

I would also advise against bootcamps, you already have bachelors degree in a related field which should help you get your foot in the door. Just apply to lots of places, write a good resume and don't bother customizing it for each company, just apply in bulk, it's a numbers game.
Aren't you worried about the hospital overload, the people who die because their operations have to be postponed or cannot be treated thanks to triage, the hospital staff who become physically and mentally overworked and burnt out and quit, so that in the long run the health care system gets worse, which again costs lives.

Aren't you worried that it seems to be bad for children's mental health that they spend more time at home and with their parents, that our world is so broken that the only thing that seems to stop abuse of women is that the abuser goes to work so they don't have time for the abuse?
The poor are also disproportionately affected by the disease and death consequences of Corona, the effect this has on children and women doesn't concern you?
Financial problems can be solved, it just takes political will, illness and death is more complicated.
Not to mention the destroyed trust in the state's ability to act and in the minds of fellow citizens, cue vaccination opponents.
It seems to me that you are worried about the whitewash that has so far concealed our problems to some extent and that is now coming to light thanks to the pandemic.