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"> The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—"

Good post. From my experience, it's pretty easy to fool oneself (it's happened to me too many times).

It's very easy for one to have preconceived notions or ideas about something and as such it doesn't take much evidence if any for one to be convinced that one's ideas about them are correct even if factually they're to the contrary.

Moreover, precovinced ideas and notions often stop one from reviewing existing evidence about them that one already has in one's possession. When one's without supporting evidence then the very nature of that preconception may stop one from seeking out new or additional information about them.

Essentially, one's entrenched views that one hasn't come by through a process of substantial and rigorous thought one ought to always question.

The trouble is it's easy to say that, to keep the notion ever present at the forefront of one's mind is damn hard.
Most countries only care if you are taking a job that a local could have done. That is clearly not the case if you work remotely. If anything you are increasing local jobs by paying for your accomodation and food.

Once again this has been reviewed by laywers at different companies who have deemed this risk to be acceptable.

There might be countries that will arrest you if you read your corporate mail while on holidays, however, these generally not on the green list of safe countries to travel too.
Parens are laugh.
The next step would be to hide an animation within another, in the APNG format. But I ignore if there is any compression that would make this impossible.
Population density doesn’t work that way. Viruses don’t care about how much empty area there is in a country.

Take Greenland for example. Population density is.. zero.
But zoom in and you’ll see they live quite densely.

The number of contacts matter.

This comes down to many factors like urbanization, how advanced the economy is (how large fraction can isolate and work?), family sizes/structures etc.

Raw density is correlated to this, but on a country level it’s almost useless because some countries have all their people in a few areas. Netherlands is pretty special in not having vast wilderness and that’s why it’s dense. But that doesn’t change the fact that a Dutch city looks and functions like almost other European cities.

If I were to guess I’d say a bigger differentiator between (say) Amsterdam and most other comparable cities in regards to diseases would be the bike culture that means thousands get to work without having to use public transport.
I think that at this level of precision, the only role luck plays is in affecting the timeline and budget required to mitigate luck’s effect on the project.
The vast majority of Kuwaiti oil well fires were put out by flooding with sea water. A smaller number of problematic fires were put out with explosives.

Big Wind is a fun story but was a drop in the bucket compared to the work of the real well services companies that operated in Kuwait.
Exactly. It's not even that the people mean to be disrespectful, they just don't understand that they're talking loudly 6" from your bedroom window, and this happens every day. Sometimes I used to live in motels where I would wake up every morning to people dragging their luggage out. I used to rent apartments. Finally I bought a house. And now... it's like I'm back in the motel.
define evil?
Understanding underfull and overfull box warnings
but I doubt it has over 100W of USB-C PD budget

The Studio Ultra has six Thunderbolt 4 ports. Each port is required to deliver at least 15W by the TB4 standard, so that’s already 90W. Add some budget for the USB-A ports and you are near 100W for power delivery.

(Probably not much over that though.)
Hey, this look great! I'd say:

Looks: 11/10

UX: 3/10

For real: you have a 5-page form to add a simple task with no date, no deadline, etc).

I think you should implement a "advanced mode" at least, that lets people add todo's quickly and later review them and add details (due date etc).

Congrats on releasing, of course! Your design looks very professional!
Ask HN: Is HN search broken for you?
My searches do not come up with anything sometimes.
Back to Building: Ronin Security Breach Postmortem
Definitely. I've heard stories of meetings where someone openly sexually harassed a coworker, and the manager didn't say a word. Maybe they talked to them privately, but that kind of behavior needs to addressed immediately, in public, otherwise people mistake silence as tacit approval.
Sounds like you might have some entertaining stories?
The worst thing about this is using food as a reward/punishment. Sets up a really bad relationship with food.
Two years later. Actual imerial data have shown zero impact on mask wearing and transmission rates among the public.

And still forums cling on to subpar research like this.

Masks among the public have done a fantatic job of filling the oceans with garbage. Nothing positive came out of the mask mandates.
Not a single positive aspect.

Mask, visors and goggles among healthcare personell are completely different. Takes a few minutes to suit up. And can be so painful that the people wearing them have bruises on their faces.

But they protect the wearer and zero slogans out there have yelled masks on all hospital workers to protect the patients.
Never was the case.

Jesus the obsession with forcing one another to cover our faces ( in US even small toddler for crying out loud ), is closer to saudi or taliban religious dogma than science.

Crazy world. Masks in restaurants. Cafees. Masked servent around maskless famous people. During strenous excercise. On small children where they are absolutely a choking hazard, so masks during playtime but masks off during collective naptime.
All the masks on the streets, in bushes and trees and flying about especially around bus stations and stores.
Disposable pink chinese surgical mask on a hipster wearing a save the wales tshirt where there are no madates is about as cringe as it gets.
It is just anecdotal, but friends and colleagues who did successfully outsource part of their development (and it often also fails), didn't reduce their team sizes in western Europe. On the contrary, it usually meant they were more competitive due to lower costs and could grow both offices in size.

Demand for IT around here still seems very far from topping out, and for every team you have outsourced you also need some support, management and engineering at home.
IMHO the idea that the history and future of programming languages follows a pre-determined ladder, or 'generations' is misguided. More abstactions isn't necessarily better then more explicitness. Functional style isn't necessarily better than OOP, and OOP isn't necessarily better than 'imperative style'. All the different languages will not converge into a "perfect" language some time in the future, if anything, it looks like the opposite is true.

I sometimes wonder if Marxism has a bigger influence in some "language designer circles" than (for instance) Darwinism ;)
"Python is Slow, And That's Fine, Because It's Fast Enough"

At least this is honest.

No matter what the script does, no matter how fast the libraries, the Python intepreter has a slow startup time.

On multiple occasions I have seen people commenting on HN argue that Python is not slow.

I think for these commenters Python is "fast enough".

For others, like me, it may not be "fast enough".

IOW, the question is not whether Python is "fast" or "slow", but whether it is "fast enough" or "too slow" for a given user.

For some users, it might not be fast enough. And that's fine.
The core paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05552
You'd probably buy the music as a download file from an official store (like Beatport). In fact, a lot of good electronic stuff on there never saw a physical release, so ripping CDs is not even an option.

Licensing probably depends on your country. In Germany, you need to register with GEMA and pay a fee depending on the size of your audience.
Macros are the wrong tool here (as in most situations). A macro will only expand to the same bad code. What you want is a function that can do everything what's done on a single line here. For slightly more complex cases, use a list to iterate over and call the function. That will replace (number of lines) function calls by a single one.
Once upon a time in the dark ages of IT a Dutch bank made a mistake in their interest calculations. One alert customer noticed the error and notified the bank but that was not before 100's of thousands of people received papers with the wrong amounts on them (in favor of the bank). That took a while to correct.
Is this supposed to be relatable to us developers employed at these tech companies propped up by VC money?

Maybe it's just me as I'm just a developer in europe, but I don't get the VC world at all.
Most popular bank in Sweden. Keep in mind that you don't use cash in Sweden.
with linkedin being so common these days, does it really matter if the photo is on the actual resume?
It sounds like it. Then again, doesn't a vast majority of people?
This isn’t a Vegas poker table. Making prop bets for more money than a lot of people here can make in a year is rather uncouth.
Steve Dotto introduces Linked In, a business networking site (2007) [video]
Thanks, I thought the same. Population density/distribution have a huge impact on the transmission. Without adjusting for that, the analysis needs to assume good uniformity either within each single country or that the error is the same for each country.
In tourist heavy cities like Barcelona and Lisbon, yes. I've seen it first hand.
Starting in October.. so for one last summer it's still permitted.
Hii , I am the founder of a beauty services Startup . Our web platform bring the all Beauty solutions . We have find out quality beauty services is not available in every small towns of India . So we have made a online platform Quickquery to shortout this problems .
First we Partnership with small and unbranded salon owners who have potential after we will trained them by our artists team so they develop more beauty skills, work performance and new beauty services . Our artists team provide all services in every location .
Artist will be available at marriage places and resorts , there is so many programs , people can get as well as skin suitable service from top artist .
We have a training centre for those people who want to build their career in beauty industry , we will trained them according to our brand services so after they can Partnership with us and work as an employee .
See eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403522
This project is so impressive. It doesn't feel "off" at all like so many recreations. It really is Red Alert 2 in a browser, right down to the menu animations. So much attention to detail.

Sadly, while you don't notice at first, it's missing a great many critical features, which render it much less fun to play.
Income can be good for your family... it's never just binary choices between good things and bad things, more like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.
Completely agree. The littering is a no go for me.

But the idea that the bag is some reward and that you can lose some of it if you miss-behave and then maybe earn it back. That's reasonable.

I typically employ a progressive punishment in the form of a timeout. Go to your room for 5 minutes. If they don't respect that, it's 10 minutes up to 15 minutes. Culminating in: no iPad for you today.

Sometimes I ask them what the consequences for breaking the rules should be. And I get very reasonable suggestions.
I like the one where an oil well fire was actually put out with a small nuclear explosion - that seems to have worked(multiple times in fact!)

https://interestingengineering.com/soviet-engineers-detonate...
In the US, you're asked your ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on every job application. Just saying.
Salt can be extremely chemically inert. Very different from sodium. Also it has very low vapor pressure so different from water.
The CD format doesn't support DRM. Extremely few CDs tried to fiddle to add it by adding errors, but modern readers aren't stopped from reading the audio.

CDs are pure audio data with error correction.
This is why no parent should ever punish a child in anger. Not because it's morally wrong, but because it doesn't work. The first step must be that the child understands what they did wrong. Then you can tie a punishment to it if you really want it to stick - but first you need to talk it out.

Of course, a parent will often find that after they talked it out, they don't want to punish their kid anymore. (All the better.)
Laws are still written for those doing manual labor.

What's the difference if I do some work in the evening at home or during my holiday in e.g. Greece?

The only added cost in given country is energy.
Problems start to appear if I get sick, but that should be on myself - and in most cases (for EU citizen) it is most appropriate to return home to cure/hospitalize (unless it is something needing immediate help).
Here in the UK, it's currently illegal - the High Court ruled in favour of the Musicians Union back 2015, and it's yet to be overturned (again).

The distinction is, that while it's NOT illegal to copy a CD to another format, it IS illegal to make a copy of something that has someone else's copyright on it, be it music, spoken word, written documents, videos or photos etc.
The issue is that there already is so much being published that it is nearly impossible to keep up with in many fields. Any solution that includes more publications just misses the mark and is detrimental IMO. We will only get to better science if we move to a situation were publishing less is acceptable, because the only way we can detect dishonesty is if scientists actually have enough time to follow up on weird results.
Looking at what medical professional said during the beginning on the pandemic, the general understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of mask seemed to have been fairly good. Mask are classified and tested based on medical criteria, and hospital and other industries use them during high risk situations since it has been proven effective in such scenarios. The lack of understanding was primarily when mask got taken outside the context of high risk situations and into general use in outdoor and indoor environments, and for purposes which the masks classifications don't consider. Everything from an airplane with circulated air, to people outside on a beach in the fresh breeze. On top of that we have politicians making the decision rather than medical professionals.

There are however fairly low understanding of other public health tools that is outside the scope of what medical professionals can do. Shutting down mass transportation, restricting travel, shutting down social activities. Finland as an example fully closed down their capital during the start of the pandemic, preventing almost all movement in and out of the city. Looking at the graphs, that alone might have been what attribute the low case and death rates, and its not something that the medical profession has many studies on.
> Their prototype generates drinking water at a rate of 0.3 liters per hour, and requires only 20 watts of power per liter.

Not great phrasing I agree but the information is there.
In Denmark we have only tracked "dead with" and then mid 2021 we had a large study to figure out the actual number of dead, which turned out to be about 120 people.
Sound like you may enjoy Swift.
High temperature, low pressure.

You can use water, sodium, lead, fluoride salts. All have their different issues.
That is a fantastic game. Supposedly it's open source, though I haven't got it to compile and run that way.

https://github.com/spiffcode/hostile-takeover
FYI not this format shifting was legal in the UK but was made illegal again (a few years back), seemingly at the request of media companies.

Programmes like iTunes appear to be unlawful as they enable and encourage this infringement.

UK copyright law isn't fit for it's alleged purpose.
Ah. You won't like https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ then.

I use it as a showcase of how to make simple websites when they need to be simple.
Thank you friend!
Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state
I prefer sample videos to specs, because specs are pretty much worthless. The 2021 Macbook Pro has a 1080p camera, but the actual quality is worse than the 720p camera in the 2015 Macbook Pro.

The website has some sample videos, and you can tell the quality is very poor compared to pro drones, but definitely good enough to share with friends and family.
Hugs for your code!
I don't think so, I think there's quite an evenly spread broad spectrum. And which people you come into contact with will be heavily influenced by your own choices in that regard. Work for a bank or a big corporate company and yes probably most people will be making choices for that reason. Work for a not-for-profit and most people won't have.
There is a big difference between crypto and classical ponzi schemes, that doesn't seem big at first sight but actually is big. To use ETF terminology, the classical ponzi scheme distributes by default, while crypto accumulates by default. As in, classically a ponzi scheme is a deal where someone convinces you to "invest" into their scheme and you get (usually high) dividends in return regularly. On the other hand, crypto is an speculative investment where you bet on price increases.

The difference might seem little because it's just a detail in how you get your payout, right? And indeed, if the two were legitimate investments, there would not be much of a difference (outside of details like taxation).

However, the default dividend based payment puts the classical ponzi scheme into a challenging situation compared to crypto. The person running the scheme has to serve the payments otherwise their scheme collapses, which means they have to grow, and find new people to invest in. As the dividends are usually high to motivate people to invest, you usually have really fast exponential growth. With simple calculations you can obtain a date limit at which the scheme has to have collapsed.

Compare this to crypto where the (group of) people running the NFT/token/etc. only have to keep enough people to HODL. This is a much easier task, as people who own crypto for investment purposes already believe that it's a good investment so why not keep the "dividends" inside. Thus, there is no requirement for crypto to grow indefinitely in terms of real revenue. At the exchanges, you can in fact have the same revenue in terms of dollars for years but for decreasing numbers of your cryptocurrency and arrive at a positive story for your token. Ultimately, there is no law that the fake currency has to collapse, and in fact if people continue believing in it, it won't.

However, as there is no "real" value behind it, its value is 100% made up of speculation, which makes it extremely dangerous for investors (speculators/gamblers is probably a better word to describe them). It's a giant bubble and one day it will pop. Hopefully it won't take large parts of the economy down, but the total size of the bubble is already larger than the one that caused the 2007/2008 crash.
GitHub offers post-mortem on recent security breach
LISPer looks at this and rolls his eyes. Pfft. Muggles.
> games are usually a once-and-done approach to software

This is just false.

The most obvious example of this is live service games - these have been commonplace for over a decade, and have existed for 20 years (WoW in 2004 in my mind is the turning point for that). Slightly less obvious are PC multiplyer games that predate this - as an example Counter Strike was released in 2000 and was "patched" a few times before steam existed.

Even going way back, one shot single player games have been built iteratively since the 90s at least, if not earlier. The idea of a game "engine" is reusing code between games - The LucasFilm games all used similar engines to speed up development from the late 80s. Even today, modern games like Call of Duty have their roots in Quake's game code from the late 90s.
Depends on your jurisdiction.
California's Budget Surplus is 68B
You can argue that, fallaciously. What's a bitcoin good for? You can't make it into anything else.

Cryptography is useful, yes, as an abstract framework. That's not what's under discussion. Buying bitcoin is not the same as investing in cryptography research.
How thick the external wall is depends on your insulation requirements - for residential building a foot is not much, not in central/northern europe, because you don't need additional insulating layer, as is the case with other, more traditional building materials. If you build with traditional bricks here, 20cm+ wall then needs 16+cm of styrofoam to have good insulating properties, so 30cm of hempcrete is a plus. I've got a hundred y.o. house, with 45cm brick walls ... and would need to add 16-20 cm of styrofoam to make it an energy efficient.

> And they're pretty solid, so snaking a power or network line through the walls after the construction is done -- that's not really very feasible.

It's not as hard material as concrete is, so with some hand tools it should be easy enough [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfzgZ8d0Cc].

> And it takes a long time for the hempcrete "bricks" to dry.

Yes, that's true. It may take weeks/months, depending on the weather conditions. But ... all "wet" building techniques require some time for drying, so in my country it's non-issue.

> Although once dried, they are sprayed with a mixture that makes them pretty waterproof, IIRC.

If I remember correctly, I've seen some video, where hempcrete building stood directly on the beachfront, with no special treatment, and it withstood the elements admirably.
It is clear from the screenshot
they wouldn't go after nobodies, that's true. but if you're an inconvenient person for the powers that be, you may very well have the book get thrown at you.
It doesnt really make sense from a moral or economic perspective to have it be owned it's purely about tradition and the implicit threat of violence.

A tradition that arbitrarily prints free money for some and arbitrarily imbues economic burden on others.

The electromagnetic spectrum is sort of like land from an economic perspective except it "appeared" only recently. Nobody owns that or puts a price on it. Everybody purchases a limited lease from the government via auction. This was, in a sense, a frontier.

The Duke of Westminster didnt inherit electromagnetic spectrum from his ancestors coz they won a war in 1066.
Chipmaking capacity is already maxed out and the whole world is scrambling to make more.

What we need is open source chip fabs. But even billion dollar companies consider this a major challenge. The community probably isn't going to be doing anything like that. Maybe with a lot of funding from some billionaire(Theoretically it could happen if someone was obsessed with the apocalypse and wanted there to be public plans to rebuild if it happened) we could do mid 90s grade stuff.

Seems unlikely anyone could do what TSMC does without a similar amount of time and money.
As an example, if you are looking for a job and trying to pick a stable company, understanding some of these dynamics could help. But I don’t think it’s essential for everyone to understand it or anything.
>If Bitcoin’s ecosystem collapses, funds can’t be returned to holders because its price going to zero means there’s nothing to recover.

To be more precise, if Bitcoin's price goes to zero, there's no reward for mining so the blockchain will literally stop.
I guess for now you shouldn't worry unless you plan to join/co-found an extra-early stage startup