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"No true mountain biker would ever call this a mountain bike"... yet go in any sporting goods store, anything with fat tires and or a suspension, upright handlebars, thumb shifters, it's likely labeled a mountain bike and would probably disintegrate on a downhill or cross trail. It's still a mountain bike to 95% of people.

And yes, I used to cross trail several times a year in MO and mtb park (duthie hill) downhill (stevens) when I moved to Seattle, then watched several people get massive concussions and stayed with snowboarding.

If a thing becomes mainstream it gets diluted. The top 1% definition of a thing is not the thing exclusively.
You should try reading the self-authored "paper" the author of that op-ed linked to from said op-ed.

It's...not great.
Lol. They have sold 10 million total. PlayStation sold more than 15 million, and Switch more than 20 million, last year alone.

It’s niche.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/metaverse-needs-more-than-vr-ch...
> The party line was they have not found a way to implement it in a way that satisfy their requirement. Now they have found a way to do so.

So far as I'm aware, every mainstream language, including golang, that's addressed this question has chosen to solve it by monomorphising generic functions. This implementation was well understood when golang was first released, and it isn't remotely plausible that the authors were not aware of it.

> Also what breaking changes you are talking about I am not aware of any. Also there is no golang 2.0 yet.

An argument given at the time was that committing to an implementation of generics would potentially put golang in an awkward position similar to Java's wherein if the implementation turned out to be bad, the language would be stuck with it anyway for backward compatibility reasons. I am simply pointing out that, since both golang 2 and generics have been discussed roughly contemporaneously (generics landing shortly, golang 2 having first been discussed in 2019 and therefore presumably to happen at some point soonish), any initial implementation of generics would not have particularly constrained what the golang team is now doing.
Deleted the trash bin, wasn't disappointed
My Writing Finances, 2021
Seems unlikely that if we had working fusion, unnecessary red tape owing to both fusion and fission being “nuclear” would be the main stumbling block. That seems like something that would be easily fixed.
> the truth is no one is actually leaving FB.

So long as I’m keeping my account as a calendar of friends’ events but never (ever) actually use or interact with the platform in other ways, it would seem I’m just an expensive freeloader.

People know there isn’t much point “leaving” Facebook for integrity reasons. They know who I am anyway.

I’m guessing I’m not alone in using their service this way.
It's being unhoused that causes mental illness, not the other way around.
Is burnout now at a breaking point?
There are tons of posts on HackerNews regarding the issue of "burnout" such as this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27630468

I'm curious if people think there's some new level of tech burnout going around, due to working from home for the past 2 years? I, myself, have been on complete autopilot for 2 years, barely doing anything. Luckily, it's barely noticed, as most other co-workers did even less. I haven't been able to look at a computer screen in months without losing focus in 5 minutes or so. I've experienced burnout in the past, this post-covid burnout feels different. Society feels like it's changed for the worse. A lack of social interaction is at an all-time low, while social media fighting is at an all-time high. It's exhausting. I'm not sure how to solve this problem. I don't give a fuck about the latest web dev tools. I've been doing this for nearly 13 years and it's the same old thing. I look at Rust, Go, C++ to try and shake things up, and it's just a new field of mines. What should one do?
Deeply disagree with you. Imaginary property is a coercive and violent fantasy.
It is infinitely reproducible once created, unlike physical items which can only do one thing in one space at time. The imagination of a fellow human does not deserve men with guns to protect it. Say what you like about the imaginary world of cryptocurrency; at least it’s opt-in (you are free to ignore the coin or the NFT, but those that don’t ignore it can freely transact). The only property rights I can get behind are opt-in and enforced by the universe of mathematics.
> complete societal collapse, or war like situations where digital systems are not available

If something like that happens all you will want is clean water, some basic food, and a weapon to defend yourself, your family, and small, closely-knit community you will not have a chance of survival without. And yes, you will quickly forget about "space com."
High-sucrose diets contribute to brain angiopathy and higher brain dysfunctions
Portions of a program or library might be written in assembly for performance. This list should give an idea of the type of software that does this

$ cd /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula
$ grep depends_on.*nasm * | sed 's,:.*,,' | xargs grep desc
dav1d.rb: desc "AV1 decoder targeted to be small and fast"
dssim.rb: desc "RGBA Structural Similarity Rust implementation"
ffmpeg.rb: desc "Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video"
handbrake.rb: desc "Open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows"
isa-l.rb: desc "Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library"
jpeg-turbo.rb: desc "JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression"
libass.rb: desc "Subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format"
libavif.rb: desc "Library for encoding and decoding .avif files"
libvmaf.rb: desc "Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion"
lrzip.rb: desc "Compression program with a very high compression ratio"
mozjpeg.rb: desc "Improved JPEG encoder"
mvtools.rb: desc "Filters for motion estimation and compensation"
openh264.rb: desc "H.264 codec from Cisco"
openj9.rb: desc "High performance, scalable, Java virtual machine"
pce.rb: desc "PC emulator"
ppsspp.rb: desc "PlayStation Portable emulator"
rav1e.rb: desc "Fastest and safest AV1 video encoder"
vapoursynth.rb: desc "Video processing framework with simplicity in mind"
x264.rb: desc "H.264/AVC encoder"
x265.rb: desc "H.265/HEVC encoder
> But I ain’t gonna be surprised if crypto founders are too rich to care anymore and the new web gets built by late-stage capitalism greedcorps that make you buy a fractionalised micropayment NFT on Cardano to operate your electric toothbrush.

I saw the domain before I read the post and expected to comment posting how Cobie (CryptoCobain) has made 8 or 9 figures off crypto.

But damn, he’s actually got a pretty level headed take on the above. Makes me think he should really get into VC…
The UK is pretty culturally diverse. But even if it wasn’t, what would that have to do with policing standards and procedures? In any case, it seems you need adjust at least some of your priors lest you lend yourself to cultural myopia
Yes censorship. If you came to my house and said the rug was dirty, I could call you a jerk and kick you out of my house, or kick you out for talking to my wife a certain way, etc. etc.

First amendment means the government isn't going to come after you for something you say. It still means private citizens running private enterprises don't have to put up with squat
The $0.50 for $75 is a short term situation that will resolve once the fab's pipelines get filled again. We buy >1,000,000 per year and had no trouble getting them until the fab shut down. We'll be fine soon (looks like they've opened production again).

The primary costs of starting up a fab are 1. facilities, 2. equipment. Facility per square foot is likely the most expensive you'll find due to the appurtenant systems required for air flow and purity, a variety of gas handling systems, ridiculous electrical power systems, possibly gas plant systems, water purification and then treatment systems for both air and fluids exiting the plant. Some truly scary toxins are used and produced and have to be contained or captured and neutralized.

In terms of equipment, you'll need at least one of each of 40 types. Lowest cost is about $500,000. Highest is likely $25,000,000 (at the geometry you're talking about). Average in the area of $3,000,000 - $5,000,000. You'll need a cadre of engineers and scientists to keep it all running, and 2-3 years from breaking ground to producing product. If you did buy one of each tool type, you'd have most of them sitting around doing nothing most of the time, since the process times vary dramatically. In reality, you're looking at $500,000,000 minimum to build a fab that can produce $0.47 chips. Seriously, you don't want to do that.
I used to be very gung-ho about short copyright periods but my thinking has gotten a bit confused for two reasons:

1. I think there's virtue in limiting the modification --as opposed to the reproduction-- of works for some time after the death of the author. There's something distasteful about thinking of (to the use OP's example) Winnie the Pooh merchandise at Target, or The Winnie Pooh Movie having nothing to do with the "real" Winnie The Pooh. There is some value to the "sanctity" of a work IMHO, for some time.

In other words, avoiding the "dracula-ization" or "frankenstein-ization" (read: "gross commercialization") of works for some time.

That being said, it makes sense for the original, unmodified work, to enter the public domain. I think this is a distinction worth exploring.

2. More controversially, there are some works where there's a credible argument that the author is a "corporation." An example here is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Each movie has the imprimatur of the director, but in the aggregate they feel very much "MCU" in style. If anything, the authors seem to be Kevin Feige, Louis D'esposito, and Victoria Alonso.

The characters were originally created by Stan Lee et al, but if Marvel Studios were to create a new character (and make that character a flagship one, etc) that character would genuinely be a corporate creation.

Would love a discussion on these topics.
My idea would be to first study in depth every hallucinogenic plant and mushroom that could have grown during the time period, as well as common tactics of charismatic public speaking. After traveling backwards I’d quickly gather up as many of those plants as possible and prepare them in ways that can be easily ingested by the common folk through teas and what not. Then I’d sell them to the common folk as ways to see and talk with the gods, and hope to gain a cult following. That way I can actually have people listen to me without disregarding me. Then I suppose I’d have to teach them how to build as complicated of a technology out of simple materials, maybe a simple plane like the wright brothers, and go on to teach complex mathematics or something.

The first step is to just get people to listen to you. But I suppose that won’t help with your opening story haha
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> For whatever reason, legacy media decided they don’t want the rest of the world to be fans of their content and give them money for it.

No, legacy media has distribution issues which they address by licensing distribution geographically before release, and once those rights are divided it's very hard to reconsolidate them.
It is astonishing to me they were able to get this working at all.

Getting exactly one micropore mounted in a membrane, with the membrane neatly separating two volumes of solution, getting the DNA to feed endwise into the pore without tangling, getting the splitting enzyme attached to the pore, getting the strand (once entered) to move through the pore at a constant, not-too-fast, not-too-slow rate. All that is aside from figuring out what base is actually in the pore.

Each of these seems possible, in principle, but having got it all working and reliable enough to be useful is what astonishes me.

I think the only reason anybody imagined it could work is that cells do all of these sorts of things all the time.
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Yep, they’re a “content producer” but maybe 1 in 20 shows or movies they put our OS actually compelling. They have certain titles they do well with (The Witcher comes to mind) but for everything else they have the well-established Netflix-Curse of cancelling shows instead of finishing them, so that they can crow about having a new show.
Discussed in WSJ coverage of Elizabeth Holmes jury deadlock:

https://archive.fo/pEbss
You both are dangerously close to accusing him of being inarticulate.

I would ask you to rethink your agreement, for your own sake.
I want to know about it too. I got the flu vaccine in ~2016 and the next day experienced heartburn like I had never experienced before. I had to lay down the rest of the day. I had and have never experienced heartburn like that since. I probably should’ve had it checked but just toughed it out. I had a suspicion it was the vaccine, but no one I knew in medicine had ever heard of it happening.

I didn’t have any side effects with either SARS2 vaccines except for a sore arm, so who who knows what that was!
Better is to actually read what VP wrote (one could start 3 paragraphs before the 7 bullet points) :
https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/how-democracy-ends

The piece is a hypothetical about what happens when pluralism / democratic institutions decline and how opportunists/authoritarians could exploit this. The reference to Nazi Germany was not at all about current US public health restrictions or policy. If you actually read it, this becomes clear. (Given that Germany had essentially no pluralism or democratic traditions entering the 1920s I don't think the comparison is great but oh well.)

It is true that VP is an oncologist not an ID doc. But he is also a professor of epidemiology and biostats at UCSF, perhaps the top med school in the US. This means he is vastly more quantitatively savvy than most public health officials or commentators.
> I like the idea of saying a syscall is non-blocking if the spec says it returns instantly.

”instantly” is not a strong enough guarantee to call the syscall non-blocking. The caller needs to know exactly how the callee will perform in terms of run time. Most high level RTOSes spec this as saying the call will take a constant amount of time, allowing you to measure the call once during your testing and using that to estimate future runs.

Words like “fast” “slow” “instantly” are not useful in the domain of building real time systems at all. It’s about specifying a predictable run time.

Without providing any spec on the runtime of a system call, the only robust assumption is to assume it blocks indefinitely. When you assume a run time spec for a call where one is not spec’d (e.g. close()) that will inevitably result in unexpected behavior. Using calls that take unbounded time in a process that has strict time requirements is a recipe for failure. The domain of real-time interactive systems is not the same as the domain of batch processing.

> You ask about getpid() taking a second. I'd say that within the model of "put those RTOS issues aside", that doesn't happen and can't happen. Just like we usually exclude unplugging the computer from our execution model, so too we exclude "linux isn't RTOS" from our execution model. getpid can't get stuck waiting on any resources, and does only trivial computation, so it will return immediately.

This further shows that there is a fundamental misunderstanding in how POSIX systems operate. It’s very possible for getpid() to take longer than one second during normal operation because it’s stuck on a resource and POSIX allows for that on purpose. Every entry into a system call invokes a litany of bookkeeping tasks by the kernel before returning to user space, with the exception of VDSO calls like gettimeofday(). Please see exit_to_user_mode_loop() which gets called before every syscall returns to user space to see all the potentials sources of additional latency a call like getpid() may incur: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/c9e6606c7fe92b50a02ce...

Again this is not by accident, this is on purpose. You’ll find a similar loop in all POSIX kernel system call entry/exit code.
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I'm always impressed when I read that some people here started coding at a really young age.

Makes me wonder what motivated them to continue as well.

I personally learned at 16, so not super young. I guess what motivated me is that I knew nothing about my computer and wanted to better understand how it worked.
I'm somebody who has really wanted to apply for these jobs since they've started being posted. Can you speak to the requirements for hard CS education? I'm a self-taught engineer who has moved up the ranks, so I can say with a high degree of confidence that I could do the work, but I usually don't bother with organizations who put CS degrees as requirements as they've wasted my time in the past by suggesting they could be flexible and then turning around and saying it's a hard requirement. Did you work with any programmers with non-traditional educations?
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>And it seems that root cause is ships bring more containers than they take with them.

No, that's not the root cause. The root cause seems to be a combination of cascading events that causes a deathspiral: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...

"ships bring more containers than they take with them" is a symptom, not a cause. Mandating "ships to take an amount of empties" doesn't really fix the problem because shipping companies already want the ships to fill with empties, but can't because of other factors (see chart). Forcing ships to fill ships with even more empties presumably also makes things worse, by causing ships to occupy dock space.
so an author that creates a blockbuster book at 25 years old is automatically worth more than an identical work created by a 85 year old?

I truly don't get it - why do you feel that you are somehow owed the free use of something someone else created with their blood and sweat?
If you build a house, other people can copy it after 20 years.

Suddenly it doesn't sound unreasonable at all.

> something someone else created and owns

The way someone should "own" an idea is exactly what's being disputed...
No, the Jeep problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_problem)

Difference is that you can make trips to set up fuel dumps wherever you want.
Related from 1 week ago:
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29695013
>Disney doesn't own the rights to Pinocchio. You are free to make your own movie with book version of the the characters and the story.

This is very much an "in principle" thing. In practice, many of these traditional stories have (sadly) become synonymous with the Disney version, so Disney's work is basically the canonical version. This gives Disney a very good sword of Damocles to hang over the heads of anyone else trying to adapt these folk stories: to my understanding if you include a single copyrightable adaptation or embellishment of the original that was written by Disney without "prior art", you're liable to be steamrollered by the lawyer army and be ruined.
Does not apply to kids, for example.

Specifically when it comes to myocarditis (which is even an issue for <40 apparently): https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...
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>ah yes, the casual arrogance of treating other people's lives as just 'rounding errors'.

>The only fortunate part, I suppose, is the kind of personality disorder that thinks/acts that way is likewise a rounding error.

Oh take your hand wringing and shove it.

How many man hours per capita per year are spent operating sketchy modified vehicles?

How many man hours per capita per year are spent driving distracted, intoxicated etc?

While they are not mutually exclusive the former is clearly a rounding error compared to the latter because the slice of the population that is even in a position to engage in it is minuscule compared to the broad mass market appeal of the latter. These people are no more of a concern to society than shark bites.
> Ethereum is moving to Proof of Stake

For how many years has this been used a defense of Ethereum? Any time Ethereum has been criticized over proof of work, the transition to proof of stake is brought up and it's always "8 months away" or "next year". Sounds like horseshit to me.
I'm curious but a bit afraid to test it out.

The idea of having a model of my voice out there that can say whatever is written in a text box is scary.
> When you publish something, 99% of the time are that you are going to make most of the profit in the first few years after release

This is true of big-biz movies, but not true of the many volumes of works by smaller creators, independent artists and smaller companies. Sometimes artists don’t enjoy success for decades, and then it happens long after their most influential work. And even when it is true, just because you make the “most” in the first year doesn’t mean the following years are inconsequential, right? The argument needs to be compelling as to why someone who wasn’t involved in the production of a work deserves to be able to take that income stream for themselves, and divert it away from the creator, without paying or creating anything themselves. I don’t hear that side of the argument.
Startup as a side job is just meant to a way to bootstrap the company slowly so you don’t have to go all-out and take more risk.
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Watched Nostalghia yesterday :)
> the well-established Netflix-Curse of cancelling shows

Every outlet cancels underperforming shows. Netflix fires a lot of more against the wall than just about anyone else, so they end up with a lot more that doesn't stick.
Does that give you the ability to have nuanced, big-picture, long-term view thinking?

You might as well argue that someone who works in a bank must understand macro-economics, or that someone in the military must have an excellent grasp of foreign policy.

You are steeped in the status quo. Your thinking on this is expected.