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I'll answer that with another piece of prognostication: good highway self-driving will cause massive disruption to the airline industry.

Would you rather do this for a business trip to a 400-500 mile away city:

- fixed time to depart (and fixed for leaving your destination!)

- have to book ticket weeks in advance for a reasonable flight

- no flexiblity if plans change

- pack a small bag

- transit to an airport (parking or cab or whatever)

- arrive a sufficient amount of time in advance

- check in

- go through security

- get on plane, stuck in seat, no/crappy food

- get off plane, go to car rental place

- rent car (not yours, sucks)

- cost: 100-200$, and if you want to bring anyone it's a multiple of that.

- no cell phone, restricted to plane wifi if they have it

- door-to-door is what, 4 hours? Man I hope there isn't a delay....

Or, with self-driving:

- pack your car or minivan to the brim with stuff you need

- leave when you want

- sleep / stop to eat / stop to bathroom when you need it

- full cell coverage / hotspot

- take additional people

- EV cost is like... 20-40$ for the trip if you include wear and tear?

- door to door is... 5-6 hours

If the car is driving for you, it is far less stressful, flexible, much cheaper, especially if you want to take your family.

Trains are a ... bit ... better than airplanes, but still inflexible, surprisingly expensive, won't have your car at the other end, have to haul around your luggage rather than chuck it into YOUR CAR.

When good highway self-driving comes, I will probably never fly anything less than 1000 miles. If I get a self-driving RV that's EV self-recharging at charge stations? Hell I might get rid of my apartment.
I think the same way about cigarettes, weed, and coffee, wtf is so good about it that you go out of your way to get it?

But this is the thing about addiction, to the person who isn't hooked it seems odd.

As a kid I used to wake up at night and drink Coke. I just craved it, that's how it was. I still like something sweet to drink but I control it these days, and my taste is not quite the same as an adult. Still, there's no accounting for it, you want something because you want it. Best explanation I can find is that it triggers something connected to reward paths in a way that isn't how that reward path evolved.
> Is it obvious that humans will generally shock people until they are told not to? Is it obvious that randomly assigned students will take on the roles that they are given?

It's certainly not obvious, so verification is informative, and that likely was the motivation for doing the experiments. However, despite their flaws - they were limited and biased in various ways - it certainly would be far, far worse science to base our teaching solely on one's assumptions/scepticism/opinion about how things should be, instead of taking into account whatever limited data these experiments provided. Sure, it would be better to have more and better data, but since we won't get it, this does provide relevant information.
I assume they mean that the major cryptocurrencies have fees to clear transactions, and the more you pay the faster they clear.

At the moment the transfer fee for Bitcoin/Eth is about $1.80/$4, so if you are buying a $5 coffee it’s not really cost effective to do that on chain.

The main issue that drives up cost is that Bitcoin has a scalability problem for transactions, particularly as the market cap/difficulty has gone up.

This is why the lightning network was introduced - although that comes with its own drawbacks compared to “pure” crypto.
Ever try to find out where your old friends live? Like, hey, don't I know someone in Philly? Very basic utilities are missing in Facebook.
I know a guy who was very effective at this. He just made a list of every VC in the region (SE Asia) and pitched to all of them. There's probably more VCs in California than the all of SEA though. VCs try to make themselves visible.

I'd say accelerators/incubators take the place of agents. You don't really need the starting investment much of the time, but selling part of the company for 10% early on to handle networking is often a pretty good deal.
Yeah but that's what I mean. I'm in my 40s. I can vaguely guess the age differences between Instagram and TikTok kids. I'm sure some new great thing (like Facebook's "Reels") will be next, for the under-12 set. My point is IT'S GOING IN FUCKING CIRCLES and it's still run by the same few companies, and it's always the same. Oh it's NEW? for your 12 year old?

NO: Teach your 12-year old that ALL these things are COMPLETE FUCKING BULLSHIT. Not just Facebook. All of them.
Do you understand what the word "filler" means?
And it has to be remarked that Hyperloop was solely a concept Musk published to share it, as he personally had no plans of implementing it himself. The only other involvement of his with it is sponsoring a yearly event where universities can compete on a one-mile test track on the SpaceX site in Hawthorne.
The thing is, mistakes will always be made and corrected. Maybe the experiment worked the first time because someone smoked in the room yesterday and a trace amount of contaminant made it in the solution and catalysed a reaction. Maybe your supplier had a minor contamination on your reactants. The reasons are endless.

The issues I have with the "replication crisis" are two: malicious publishing of false results for personal or organisational profit, and malicious interpretation of prestigious publications as the one and only immutable truth. Both of which are social and political problems.

Scientific publishing was functioning fine so far for the same reason the old internet was full of true information while it didn't have to: there was little to be gained by lying. Now that gov policies are build on phd papers, things are changing.
I am also from that generation.

I really don't get how people are scared of low level programming, computer languages don't bite, don't attack on dark street corners, don't whatever.

Yes bad programs might corrupt some data, just like removing the plug with computer on might do the same and no one thinks twice about it.

Back in the day we didn't had tooling like Compiler Explorer to understand how BASIC would map to Assembly, only trial and error, alongside pen and paper.

Anyone that wants to learn Assembly nowadays can jump there, click on the high level constructs and see how they map to Assembly instructions for their favourite CPU.
When I was working at a smaller social network, we saw huge spikes during holidays when people didn't have anything else to do. I would imagine new years eve is also huge for facebook, when everyone wishes each other happy new year.
I've learned that it's a terrible idea to have separate rates for friends. Do it for completely free - not even a glass of water. The beer often puts you in as much obligation as the $225.
Instagram is old cohort. The fresh demographic is tiktok
Jesus. Stop messing with links. Make it more obvious it is a link. Not less. People feel dumb not knowing hwne to click on something or not. A simple underline, a background change with underline, a mouse change help know what is in there and what will happen.

This oversimplification is dumb. My friends and family feel dumb for not knowing how to naivgate the dumb UX decisions
And it also did a very cool thing, break on first error.

No need for compiler vomit caused by a single error.
It's not just that Solana is fairly new; the entire way the chain works is “torment the programmer on behalf of chain speed”, and if one of those decisions causes trouble down the line, instead of taking a step back and going with the simple and elegant approach, they choose an ad-hoc patch that causes more trouble down the line.

One example of this is rent. You can store data in accounts. But if the balance of the account is lower than some amount (that depends on the size of the data), the entire account might disappear. Depending on the amount it might disappear immediately and you would find out, but if it is just below the threshold, the account could survive for years. So in any kind of transfer that involves an account that holds data, you need to be careful to check that its balance does not drop under the threshold. If you forget to check in just one place, your state may disappear.

Another example: program calls take a list of accounts. You need to manually serialize and deserialize your data into accounts. It's like writing a program in C where every function can only take an array of void* as arguments, and it is up to the caller to cast (serialize) all arguments to void* and pass them in the right order, and up to the callee to unpack the array again, cast back the pointers, and check that they are valid before dereferencing ... That's fine for a low-level target if a compiler could generate the tricky code for you. But on Solana it's your responsibility to do it manually, in Rust. Much of Rust's safety is useless here. (There exist eDSLs that alleviate much of this, but if you don't understand the underlying model, it is still easy to make a fatal mistake.)
The average scores of high-school students who take AMC and AIME are around 35+-% [1].

"We achieved a new state-of-the-art (41.2% vs 29.3%) on the miniF2F benchmark, a challenging collection of high-school olympiad problems." [2]

This system's performance is already better than the average scores of students who take these tests, who are usually very good at math.

The test/validation sets are drawn from AMC, AIME, and IMO which are competitive math competitions at the high school level (IMO being the hardest). Even though the topics are generally limited to high school curriculum, solving the problems often requires a degree of creative thinking and knowledge synthesis such that many/most college graduates cannot solve them.

[1] https://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx

[2] https://openai.com/blog/formal-math/
Embedded software development, $165/hour

Mostly PIC16/18/32, some STM32.
I don't get it, aren't there also discussions on Instagram? I don't use it much but I thought people could comment on posts there just the same.
As someone working mostly in digital (Krita) and some traditional, it feels like this feels like this demo fails at replicating any of their strengths.
I hope the software they sell is much better, and if that's the case I would assume this demo only makes it a disservice -- a manual slider for pressure? making a somewhat fast curve is all jagged, the HSB selector is awful and does not work properly (at least on Firefox). These points should only affect a web version (hopefully).

With regards to drawing with a brush; it takes quite some time to get used to it because you can control the amount and type of paint that is loaded along your brush tip, as well as water, while also having different types of tips (hard/soft, ...). But once you somewhat get some control over it, you understand how the way you move across the paper will affect it, and either keep the tip in shape or make its hair disorderly creating more interesting texture. The point is that it flows in a continuous process, as opposed to painting software where you choose your brush settings in discrete steps.
I've heard of this off and on for years, but seeing as I don't know anyone who has actually done it I think practically it's not too profitable. If he has everything in a sqlite db though, hmm..
I think you mean “Arrival”. “The Arrival” is a 1996 film starring Charlie Sheen, which is also about aliens coming to earth.
Why the desktop platform specifically, given they also appear to have a web version?
Goes to prove Mac is not the epitome of design. More like epitome of dumbing down
What does Gen X use?
This pretty much nails it.

If everyone commits to using approximately the same definitions then (at the social scale) you get normative semantics as an unintentional by-product. Everybody in your tribe uses the same terminology/notation and means the same thing by "==".

It's a desirable property because it minimises miscommunication and it enable effective asynchronous communication. Good luck trying to read a paper by somebody using different semantics.

And then computer scientists come along and point out that all definitions (and by proxy - all Mathematics) are arbitrary.

Because the chosen axioms are arbitrary.
I deleted my FB account years ago primarily due to its aggressive tracking. The mental health benefits have been a nice bonus.
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Actually we still don't know many things. The studies are still ongoing and while we don't expect radical discoveries, the long-term benefit of vaccines meaning how long the protection lasts, what are effects on new variants etc. are still unknown.

Experimental for some is just a code word that the studies are not completed yet. One shouldn't read too much into this. However, it is clear that vaccine mandates are not really needed anyway, as the UK had never implemented them and recently they abolished them even for healthcare professionals [1]. What is so different in other EU countries or in the US/Canada?

Vaccines still have positive benefit/risk ratio, there is no doubt about that. However, forced vaccination seems unnecessary when vaccines don't limit the spread of infection. They are purely for individual benefit.

1. https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/relief-and-frustratio...
Your definition of hate speech is irrelevant. Whatever the GP saw was enough for them that they made a decision to remove their personal exposure, which is their right. They aren't censoring you or anyone else by making that choice.
With free games it would be easier to put a list of games without dark patterns.
Are you addicted to scratchers?
My point is that's not as interesting or practical as a type system for which you can write an expression that can't be checked. They may be roughly equivalent, but only one is esoteric.
Expectations were that it would do like the other internet giants and beat by miles. Yes it's weird that the expectations are not just their own performance, but that's often how the market works.
Been using pfmod and xanmod kernels with scheduler and other response improvements for decades. You can really make your linux desktop much smoother.

https://gitlab.com/post-factum/pf-kernel/-/wikis/README

https://xanmod.org/
Pennsylvania seems to have started pushing towards that in the middle of last year:

"On Aug. 5, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania held for the first time that Pennsylvania's Medical Marijuana Act (MMA) allows an employee to sue his or her employer for taking an adverse employment action based on the employee's status as a certified user of medical marijuana."[1]

1: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
Sponsored and suggested posts consisted of roughly half of my feed.
It's also known that even if you subscribe to some page they won't show it in your feed unless the other party pays their fees.
Is there a market for a dev manager/tech lead for less than 6 months? Seems like a slow ramp long term engagement
Allergies. It is very very rare I can breath through my nose. Really wish I could because life is so much better when it does. I have been told surgical operation only works for about 10 years before it comes back. And no long term medication seems to be able to deal with it without some side effect.
That is exactly Mac for me.
>if people don't like the path laid out for them, they're either wrong or they can go use something else

This is a reasonable limitation. If you implement infinite features, you end up with a bloatware, so some features can't be implemented, and users should use something else.
Now that‘s some good news today. - FB is toxic, for individuals and societies alike. The sooner they diminish, the better off we are.
Or a train that takes cars, like a Ferry, obviously that massively cuts down on space efficiency but it’s not impossible.
What they really need is a blockchain. In Rust.
Anecdotally, of my ~5 game programming friends, all with 15+ years experience, 4 did a stint at Facebook.

But all 4 left pretty quickly. They all described the experience as good for their bank account but bad for their mental health. That's saying a lot coming from game devs.
Another factor might be that actually kidnapping and torturing someone is a very intense thing to do. I don't think a lot of people in the crypto space would have the stomach to do this (and that's a good thing!).
It didn't, now we have Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Totally agree with your criticism of the UI and news feed. I rarely use Facebook to begin with, but I noticed a major decrease in user experience and usability as of late.

Infinite scroll is just...laggy. I don't have this issue on Tiktok (which to be fair I also don't use often). The news feed used to be curated for me specifically, but now it seems to be the same recycled content I see on YouTube recommendations.

I don't want to see the same sh*t over and over again, show me something unique and new.
This is nothing but a fancy dashboard.
And trying to sell it...
I can find the very same ones as WordPress plugins lol
Please don’t turn Hacker News into Reddit.
Wow, I didn't realize that macOS searched menus across all apps. TIL!
That's literally what Google Font does for you, automatically. I also do the same for my website (which needs Latin, Thai, and Japanese).
Teams is Electron junk using Web APIs for PWAs, again not C.

Apple has the power to enforce whatever they feel like doing on their own platform, that is why watchOS has a forked LLVM bitcode as executable format, regardless of how unstable the LLVM one is, C ABI matter zero there.

Just like they have a Safe C compiler for iBoot firmware, or have extended C language for lambdas (blocks).

Clang on Apple is different enough from upstream. that it warrants their own column on cppreference.

We are done here, there is no point getting across anyway.
Whenever I see this "social network per age group" depiction, Twitter is never mentioned. I wonder why.
didn't notice, but you're right on re-reading. I dislike the user story format though.
That's absolutely fair; I was overly harsh and blamed journalists instead of editors and owners. I'm sorry.

I also believe journalists, like a lot of middle class folks squeezed by changes in the economy, should be paid and funded better, and I try to spend or send some money towards that, even though I'm between jobs.

If that's not something whoever reads this does, $60 bucks is 5 dollars a month, and if you have a job or enough saved, you might invest in investigative reporting.

Here's a list of some non-profits that produce real journalism. Can't vouch for them all, but ProPublica, The Marshall Project, and Reveal are great.

https://mediablog.prnewswire.com/2018/01/17/non-profit-inves...
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Trust me. I have gone through every settings page on iOS, WP, Samsung, Android and many more.

All of them were necessary. You would be surprised at how many non engineering people using android samsung have non designer approved fonts and themes.
you mean windows 7 sp2, right?
A good friend worked as a the transport manager for for a smallish ecological diary producer. When the original owners sold the business, the new owners (a financial consortium with some food experience) brought in a new executive team in, who had previously worked together to create direct to consumer food startup (something like hello fresh IIRC). Initially my friend was very excited because the owners looked like they wanted to really grow the business.

Unfortunately it became soon apparent that the execs mainly had "cocktail party ideas" about changes, "we created a new business in this area that didn't exist before, which is much harder than running an established business. therefore we know best. How hard can it be". So the production manager and my friend soon became the naysayers because they said when they thought things wouldn't work. Soon after they both were made redundant, but the business is now very close to going under.

All this story just to say, that this is not just at cocktail parties, but also in work situations people like to discard established knowledge because they think they know how to "disrupt" .
Sure. And if GP genuinely believes that what they saw was actual hate speech and fake news, they may (or may not) feel like they want to explain that yes it actually was that. At least that's how I usually respond when I see outrageous lies being spread.
That PE means it is grossly overvalued, concentrated in a few large tech companies. Saying pe 22 is value territory just illustrates the massively distorted current market.

Historically, around 15 is the mean, not 25

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
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Right, I'll usually do an initial phone consultation for free, but anything more expensive would be billed. The issue is that there is not usually a well-defined problem. There is a general goal that takes some iterations to accomplish, with the customer concocting new features and requirements as development progresses. Of course everyone says to build some padding into the schedule for that, but they think of expansion factors like 10% when it really has to be 10x.

If it really is a well defined, contained problem, they will probably go on Fiver since they don't really need any design help, which is the most useful thing I can usually supply as a consultant. Banging out code is by itself nothing special these days.
Most people cannot, believe that they cannot, or would not even if they could. We can be sure of that because despite of billions of cameras in phones, pocket cameras or webcams being out there, the web is not flooded by pictures like these.
Putting filters into cameras definitely works. It is not an obstacle to the determined but it prevents most of the abuse most of the time.
In more UNIXy tradition, I'd say either pipe in a file, or pick the default.

That way people can use downloaded files too.
My bet is on the issue being the interactivity associated with phones and computers, not just the display medium.

You'll have just as hard of a time concentrating on your 5000 dpi perfectly lambertian eink display in 2030 as you do now on your phone, simply because it's a multimedia device built around capturing and redirecting your attention.
Post close trading can be swing by a lot. The reaction I think is not because that they are off by 3%, the future growth looks only to be pretty dull , perhaps also why FB is making such huge gamble on VR.

The high P/E big tech companies enjoy is on basis of the implicit expectation to keep growing fast[1], if that on confidence on growth is no longer there, then price will reflect closer to a more traditional tech stock.

Tesla trades at P/E of 185x, Amazon - 58x, Microsoft - 35x, Google - 29x and FB - 23x[2]. I think it accurately reflects the market expectation of their respective future growth.

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[1] Same reason Tesla is valued so high despite relatively modest revenue, the expectation is massive growth on the back of their lead in the space and the accelerating shift towards EV.

[2] SAP, IBM, ORCL all trade in the same range today.
But for the holocaust we do have strong evidence. For the mass graves not.
It is the norm in Europe for IXPs to be run by non-profits. See this for more info http://drpeering.net/HTML_IPP/chapters/ch12-9-US-vs-European...