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Capitalism allocates society's wealth towards the most productive members, in order to promote more productivity (in theory anyways). Microsoft has collected a massive amount of wealth, yet they're not being productive with it. In effect, they're wasting society's time since we aren't getting a return for that investment. That's unforgivable since people only live for a few decades, so Microsoft's misuse of wealth means that other businesses/individuals who would've used it to produce new/better technologies aren't able to. It's laziness, which is one of the worst traits a member of a capitalist society can have, and it's especially heinous when it's a trait possessed by an actor in such a powerful position.

Thus, many of us will die without ever seeing a real hoverboard. So when you're on your deathbed and you don't have a hoverboard, know that it's Microsoft's fault (and the government regulators who should've stopped them).

EDIT: Also applies to Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.
Ask HN: Why does everyone keep suggesting teenagers to get a girlfriend?
A lot of the responses on posts asking the community what they would've done differently in their teenage years is to get a girlfriend/get laid. Whats the reasoning behind this? Is it just easier to get one in hs or is there something you learn that you cant later on? Is it really that worth it spending time on asking someone out instead of coding or doing something else cool?
They are great for handling DDOS attacks for you
Are you implying that a16z wants websites to be as difficult as possible to maintain that a tool like this is necessary?
Rule could be it’s the center of the geography they’re showing you. If they actually put Guam on the USA map then it’s included. If not, it’s not.
A vocal subset of cryptocurrency pushers have as twisted a view on economics as mainstream economists. This is an art piece depicting one faulty view.

bonus edit: Printing money could be a handy way to carry the country through the current deep structural change in the nature of the economy from one based on industry (putting capital to work) and finance (creating and allocating capital through loans) to one based on services. Instead, it's being used to prop up the existing system. The art piece is based on the widespread and faulty belief that a government's ability to create money is inherently bad.
> How do you all focus on the material if you're doing other things?

I listen when what I am doing does not require conscious thought. Driving a car, going for a walk, repetitive exercise.

Also, I can actually focus on a somewhat dry topic better if I have something mentally undemanding going on in the background, I don't get bored as easily.

In fact in many cases listening to an audio book while e.g. driving makes both pastimes better than they would be alone.
Related:

Is huh a universal word? (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126197 - Feb 2019 (86 comments)

Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10283498 - Sept 2015 (25 comments)

Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8450769 - Oct 2014 (27 comments)
How would the oracle technique help at all? Like the other commenter said, they could just give you the hash upfront, and you'd still be stuck with bruteforcing the entire space of characters.
I listen to lots of novels and podcasts during my long commute or when I'm doing chores, the types of mindless activities you are normally doing idle thinking. It's more difficult to pay attention to them when I'm driving in heavy city traffic but it's easy on the highway. It's really easy to wash dishes, fold laundry, or vacuum when listening to something. I mostly like doing novels with lots of narrative prose because it's hard to listen to something like a self-help or technical subject audiobook when you can't easily reread a sentence or quickly look at a diagram. Having long blocks of narrative prose let you miss some things when your attention wanders rather than missing dialogue where you may miss some important part of the story. Books that do rely on visual aids include PDFs for you to browse but that's very difficult to do unless you are just sitting down doing absolutely nothing.

When I was working from home everyday at the start of the pandemic, I was building up a large backlog of podcasts and was not able to keep up with audiobooks I had rented from my local library through Overdrive.
What forums, if I may ask?
Blood Meridian changed my opinion on gun control. The plot makes you realize how absolutely helpless you were out west without a gun. While the wild times out west ended some number of years ago, it’s unsurprising that the trauma of the time left lasting cultural imprints. Guns literally equate to survival for some.
Printing money addressed the immediate problem of having to save people and businesses during the pandemic. Now the mess needs to be cleaned up of course but how would one have solved that pandemic problem in a crypto currency world?
You're not the only commenter saying this, so I gotta ask: whatever VM that SQLite DB is on, is your business cool with a business disruption, dataloss, or both when that VM goes down, when that AZ goes down, or that disk fails? Or am I missing something? If you have some sort of fail-over-to-last-backup plan, is that not just a distributed database with more steps, and why not something like RDS, or CockroachDB?

(From mine, it is an explicit requirement that we weather such events. I keep trying to keep global outages from our platforms off the requirements list…; so, IDK, perhaps your requirements allow different a different approach.)
Crawling with ads. Unusable :(
Microsoft's browser-based dev toolbox: How 'Monaco' came to be (2013)
The harmonic series does not define the major scale, which is a heptatonic (7 tone) scale, at least not any more (or less) than it defines any other scale.

The harmonic series helps to explain the relationships between the twelve tones that we (people composing and performing in "western" musical traditions) use to divide the octave. It's likely not a coincidence that many other cultures, despite their use of additional tones within the octave, also seem to "stumbled" as we did onto the properties we get from 12T-per-octave (regardless of the precise tuning of those 12 tones).

I'm not sure where you are getting your information about tritones from. Everything I've learnt about tritones would say that you're wrong to claim they occur between the 5th and 7th harmonic. Got any references on that?

Also, this thing about communities of experts ... one of the problems with this is that at least in the USA and Europe, the majority of the community of experts appears to have deliberately constrained their expertise to a somewhat narrow view of tuning. There's a reason why Bohlen-Pierce and the tunings of Harry Partch are considered "out there": it's not just that they are quite challenging for 12T(ET) ears to listen to, but also that our musical academies have shrunk the possibilities for tuning down to a sadly constrained range. Consider for example, the bulk of musical set theory, which is incredibly interesting at the scale (mode) level, but still appears from the literature to overwhelming assume only a handful of possible tuning systems (and a big chunk of it considers only one possible tuning system).
Amazon doesn't get sued for the instances that are not in their favor. Consequently, you never see those in the news.

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>I was too young to use Google when it first got started

This statement aged me 10 years
That sounds like a very narrow definition of privilege, if it only includes people who can afford to drop tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on college without loans.
Suttree is one of my favorite novels. I loved reading it. So I guess that marks how different it is from BM, since I don’t think one would say that about BM.
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What about France? Is it half way into Spain because its weighted towards French Guyana?
There was a post, which trended on HN yesterday (2000+ upvotes) that stated Reddit is sitting on a gold mine and they can build a better search engine because people are appending 'reddit' at the end of it.

This is a response to the original post, explaining why the logic behind is it false.
Lol, guilty - years ago I wrote a hardware manual / datasheet for a device with I2C interface. And I wrote yet another thorough I2C protocol section - and if I recall, nobody in the documentation department specifically asked for it - but all the similar datasheets did it so why not us - probably explains a lot. Did the timing diagrams in xfig.
Are you seriously asking how someone can listen to something and do another thing at the same time?
human connection?
One problem with high turnover is that the people who have developed an understanding for how the systems should work, and which documents are definitive, are long gone and if you're lucky you know the people who knew them.

A big part of the problem with the situation I'm discussing here is that the people who were using the tool were using it incorrectly. The people using the tool (which made offers available to specific customers in certain conditions) did not understand the nuances of the different price values on offers and how they connected with royalties.

I forget the specifics, but imagine someone working with publishers to setup special offers and entering prices into our tool and they just populate two of the three different "Price" fields with the same price because they don't know the difference between "list price" and "my price" and they put the right value in "discount price" (or whatever the terms were). Totally unknown to the person entering the offer, royalties are (incorrectly) calculated based on one of those columns that they have now put a technically incorrect value into. Even if there was a perfectly clear spec, and there wasn't, and it had been implemented perfectly, the tool still would've failed because the people using it didn't really understand the system either.
https://www.Downpour.com is a good alternative to Audible. Downpour lets you download MP3 files of most books! The app works well on iOS.
Do your own homework?
Figured someone who has read the book might see this and be able to answer a question — to what extent is Caplan’s critique of the U.S.-model of widespread-ish resource-intensive higher education tied and the credentialing problem it “solves,” and how much is a critique of higher education in toto?

I can certainly get on board with the former, and if that’s Caplan’s argument, I might have to add his book to my reading list.

Edit: I get that the two critiques I described are difficult to separate in practice, but maybe this will clarify for anyone who might be willing to share their read or Caplan’s argument: it’s the difference between “university is more or less fine, but people should have to pay their own way” vs. “we need to find ways to reduce the real costs of education and/or better socialize the benefits, so that more people have access to education because education is itself a worthy goal”
It does imply trust however. I go out of my way to read source code and I'm a lot more comfortable using code I've read compared to opaque binaries nobody really knows a thing about. Free software is not immune to vulnerabilities but it is quite resistant to people doing shady stuff just because they think they can get away with it. Now with reproducible builds it's gonna be even more trustworthy.
Right, but the costs in their market are still going to be affected by the high prices in the market where they work. It’s not feasible for them to live far enough away to escape the influence.

Houses an hour from Toronto are still going to be more expensive because they’re an hour from Toronto and people can work there at higher paying jobs (but not enough to afford the $2M house in the city) and it’s worth it with the commute.

The high prices in the city are going to drive up prices everywhere within commuting distance.
I don't think any of the electron applications you mention have mobile-like UIs which can be easily ported to mobile linux.

Also, flutter memory consumption is often 1/3 or 1/4 of the equivalent electron app, which is significant.
Policy arguments are based entirely on economic considerations. I don’t remember anyone bringing up parties while discussing student loans or charter schools.
>The costs they charge relate more to their monopoly on where people shop than their actual costs involved.

[Citation needed]

Offering <2-day shipping across every address in the US is very expensive. Amazon sellers can sell on Amazon without using FBA.
Liver probably not - there are too many specific human chemicals the liver needs to manufacture. Plus livers regenerate so you can take them from living donors, which increases the supply of human livers.

Lungs maybe could be next.
> people could still try to stuff Reddit posts with junk in the hope that it gets picked up by Google in these searches

This is already happening. I search for reviews and help on Reddit via Google often, and it's not that uncommon for the first result to be SEO spam: a Reddit post with no votes or comments, just lots of keywords and a link to a product or another site.
>It is only more recently that they seem to have given up.

They haven't given up; the OP has a point. The "sites" you are hoping for Google to return _don't exist_. Any website online right now that doesn't exist to drive ad revenue is exceedingly rare. In 2001, there were way more websites that existed just for fun; any tom, dick and harry could open up note pad and get a website online. That doesn't exist anymore.

It's my opinion that those who complain about Google search results are frustrated that Google can no longer find a web that no longer exists
Linode was very limited in what you could do, from what I remember. They had good service and documentation and I just like it now cause, nostalgia.

AWS is extremely flexible and very very feature rich compared to linode. At that point, AWS was considered about 10 years ahead of competition.
Bought a 4 letter .com 20 years ago for a business I started. It cost $5000. My wife did not love the idea but I assured her that even if I went out of business, I could resell the domain for a handsome profit. I have taken a lot of business risks but for me this one was a no brainer.

I promptly went out of business, losing about $80,000 more.

A few years later, someone pretending to be an entrepreneur with a general demographic profile like my own pretended they were starting a new company and wanted to buy the domain for $200,000. I did a cursory background check and figured out that they were fronting for a much bigger company. The truth is, $200,000 was just fine with me. But their appeal to my perceived vanity was insulting. I ended up getting $350,000 for the domain name. I’m unable to disclose the domain name because of an NDA.

The process has always been childishly simple because I used escrow.com. Before selling that domain name, I had purchased a business website using escrow.com so I knew it worked well.

I have sold a few other domain names for up to $15,000. I do have a stock of a few hundred other names I have not done a good job selling.

A few people have called me and asked me for domain names with a good sob story. I gave them away for free and nothing was ever done with the domains except to end up parked. I’ve changed tactics and when others tried to get domain names for free I told them to put up a website using WordPress and once I’d seen their initiative I would be happy to give it to them. No one has ever completed the task.
When it came out, PageRank was a really innovative way to order search results that cut through most of the "SEO" at the time, which was webpages doing lots of unsophisticated things to range well for a given topic (e.g., putting that topic in the <title> many times).
Purely hypothetically: allow large institutions with external credit-backing (in the Pratchett sense... "four gold golems") to transact when they have no money, essentially gaining a negative balance. In other words, there's technically nothing about crypto stopping a large, trusted institution from deficit-spending if people allowed the rules to allow it.

Of course, if the rules of the crypto network disallow it, then institutions can't spend on future value and you get a sovereign bankruptcy situation. Few people who have lived through one would recommend it.
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Ah ok, I didn't realise. I've mostly been within ~5km of Sydney CBD.
I don't know how the ridiculous idea that a result of a computer program can be implicitly trusted got into the minds of people, but we better get it out sooner rather than later. Convictions based only on evidence provided by software - without other supporting evidence or a formal proof of software correctness (that doesn't exist for pretty much any commonly used software) should not be a thing. It's a shame that the judiciary seems to be bedazzled by the new shiny toys and fail to recognize how flawed they are in reality.
You’ve just invented capitalism and the stock market. Seriously though, in a free market system if you want to support space travel you would invest and thus own a portion of companies making space travel possible. Problem is that theses systems are not going to be mutually exclusive like you want because everything will always be tradable. If I have gold and you have space coloration there will always be a trade that makes it worth while.
Please add these features

1. A list of field forms which transforms into header and footers. So email, name, educational details and Github profile will automatically be placed left, right, and center; up and down. Automatically hyperlinked wherever possible. Accomplishments boldened wherever possible. Photos autocorrected for good contrast with background and clarity of face. This makes menial time cut down.

2. An annotation or hint that asks us to quantify accomplishments per gig/task wherever it thinks we are vague. This pins down my mind while updating and cuts a lot of time.

3. The tool should be able to give us hints or strongly suggest us to remove details or add some that are required by law of the state or country. EU format requires photo but California requires none. That way, I don't have to google these things much. There...time saved.

4. If the tool could pull a set of Glassdoor/anonymous reviews on a panel right side, so that I could disclose/withhold my ethnicity, GPA, age, etc. on resume as forewarning, or take hints based on something like "lacking certain specialization" that they planned to contract away, but I were better match, or if it is a "constant hire and fire" company like Amazon, etc. so that I can modify my resume and prepare accordingly. There are many more possibilities when research comes to you rather than you going around. I mean look at TeamBlind.com and Product Hunt.

5. A confusion resolver. Someone asked me how I combined a noSQL and SQL in one project. All he did was skim my "tech I know" section and asked me that. I had to clarify that they were used for two different projects respectively.

6. Provide markdown language hints/suggestions as we type so that we learn markdown while we make our resume.

7. Definitely intelliSense/predictive-typing of "English words", and voice typing.

8. A monthly reminder to update the resume. For example, usually we guys forget what we have done whenever 4th Saturday comes, which is a holyday for our side of financial sector. Sometimes we forget the potential juicy and small details that warrants a discussion in the interview and sometimes we forget how we resolved a bottleneck/bug as if its a daily chore. Even these maintenance details are marketable. Sometimes it doesn't occur to us to put down that task on a good tech we worked on when another team takes that project forward. Or vice-versa when we don't think we learned something when we took the baton and finished the task from someone other team.
Their site has been thoroughly trashed already. It's an absolute cesspool of bots and groupthink. When I joined back in 2007, it was a completely different site full of actual discussion and not just cringey self deprecating nerd jokes and memes.

It's a shame, but that's how things go. Once a thing gets that big, it gets its soul sucked out.
It's wrong to mix horizontal scaling with availability. They are two different things that solve two different problems and solving one doesn't necessarily mean you've solved the other. You can scale horizontally in a way that decreases your total availability, e.g. by sharding.
>Reddit can't build a better search engine

Reddit cant build any search functionality whatsoever. Current search is so broken It cant even find my own posts.
So in other words, the kind of thing that typically is suited to academic peer review?

I don’t want to sound cynical, and this certainly isn’t ideal from a “cultivate a vibe of intellectual humility and curiosity” perspective, but is it a surprise to anyone but the author that laypeople didn’t take to a thorough critique of his work?
Just WOW, amazing ideas you got there, I shall look into it , Thanks alot Dear.
囍 is a really bad example of Unicode bloat since it's actually used very frequently.

The real issue are the thousands of characters that appeared incidentally in some ancient text, either as typo or as a weird interpretation of a common character, which then ended up in the Kangxi dictionary, and then subsequently imported en-masse into Unicode.

Example, 𠒇 - the only known use (in non-ancient times) of this character was being the official name of 雷莊𠒇, winner of the 2017 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. According to her, she intended to write 雷莊兒 when she applied for her official documents, but somehow the officials interpreted it as 𠒇, which is really an archaic form of 兒 (at best). Reportedly she's changing her name back to 雷莊兒

Thousands of such characters exist, if you look at the page where 𠒇 is supposed to originate, more than half of this is obsolete -- https://www.kangxizidian.com/v1/?page=125#gv

(So yeah, you're correct in essence but picking on 囍 as an example probably doesn't really get your point across...)
I agree that capital allocation and management are real and valuable skills, but it doesn't require any significant amount of talent to move industry offshore. It's simply shopping around for the cheapest price that meets requirements and writing up a contract.

Ignoring any potential ethical concerns, offshoring only tends to work financially for short-term tasks that don't require long-term understanding of past work. You mentioned in your previous comment that your department is struggling to find engineers that are willing to stick around long-term to work on your legacy systems. How do you square those two ideas?

Are you suggesting that education should be shifted offshore? Or that lower budgets would attract more talented managers?
Good Examples? There’s the Abrash classic, and I did enjoy the Lamothe titles though they were more basic.