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But I am.

I've owned a F-150 for 15 years, drove it until the wheels fell off, much of it towing our RV trailer around the Southwest US and California coast.

When it finally was time, we upgraded to an F-250 (but kept the same trailer, which is at thr top end of the towing capability of F-150's but much more fun to tow with an F-250).

We also live in SOMA in San Francisco, park our truck in an underground garage, and pay some of the highest fuel prices around.

I would argue I'm the exact target customer. If they can satisfy my needs (desires really) with an electric truck, they've won the battle.

They haven't cracked it quite yet, but with something like this I think they can:

https://insideevs.com/news/590878/ford-f-150-lightning-remov...
i kind of like that analogy. And many times, a ham sandwich and a beer really hits the spot.
What is needed changes over time.

It is better to spend more on capital than operational costs if one actually wants the world to change not just ideal along.

The best cost control is in large part doing lots of cookie-cutter work, hence the focus on small modular reactors. It is better to do those, and then ramp up the "small" part over time.

Likewise, we should construct lots of rail simultaneously with ramp up to improve those supply chains too.

But at no point do you want to spend more on fuel in any global optimal sense. That is just wasteful. It's not like we are actually uncertain that we won't need way more electricity production on a societal scale.
I agree with another comment that you should demand to be paid, rather than ask. But just telling someone to say "Fuck you. Pay me." doesn't actually answer the question.

If I were in that situation, and someone asked me to help with something that I didn't want to do for free, I'd tell them my rates.

"I need help setting up my WIFI. Can you help with that?"

"Sure. I charge $50/hr for tech work."

They're going to look shocked, upset, and probably angry. That's okay, because they were trying to use you and failed.

Then they're going to pull the, "I thought we were friends" or "You won't help a friend?" card. Tell them that you've got a lot going on in your life and are having to prioritize things. Tell them maintaining work-life balance has been hard, and you're trying to fix it because you've been overworking for quite a long time.

When all of that starts to make you feel guilty, ask yourself: "When was the last time they helped me with something they could do that I couldn't?" If the answer is "last week" or "a lot", maybe you should actually help them.

But when the answer is "I can't remember" or "never" (and it usually will be), you can just stop feeling guilty. They're just using you.

And it's okay to just say "No, sorry, I can't help with that." When people ask me to set up their wifi now, I just refuse. That's a huge pit of pain because they'll ask you back to help with every stupid thing they don't want to understand. I just flat refuse now for anyone other than very close friends and family. And I've got some family I'd tell "No", too.
Writing along as you work on something is a great way of reinforcing what you learnt as well!
I don't understand this argument at all. Why are New York and California so hell bent on keeping Texas in the union and telling it what to do? It seems to me that it would be preferable to them for red states to leave the union, so that blue states can have universal healthcare and government-funded abortions.

I think this is actually at the root of why America's administrative capacity has become so weak. Administrators are, for want of a better phrase, not content to stay in their lane, and try to smuggle other ideological baggage through their administration, which breeds resentment and resistance. Transportation planners are not content to build the roads people want, but want to make people take trains instead. Educators and public health experts think it's their job to weigh on race relations. The administrative class has always been haughty, since its inception in the Wilson era, but now they've found religion and become evangelical about it.
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I think it’s more about knowing how to value your time.

The first step to valuing your work time is to value your free time. “I value the free time I spend with myself, my friends, and my family so for you, person I don’t know and owe nothing to, to ask me to do something that requires expertise and isn’t necessarily pleasant, you will need to give me a good incentive.”
I have a theory about this: the idea that, as Reagan put it, "The nine most terrifying words in the English Language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help" have become so deeply embedded in our national consciousness that almost nobody, on the left or right, really believes that the government can be a force for good anymore. Because it's so deeply embedded, I think it's become self fulfilling prophecy.
Unfortunately the public within the states that benefit most from federal spending are constantly told the opposite by their leaders. Similar situation with water rights, and several other tragedies of the commons.
I think the closest I've seen is Twitch chat communities, but obviously that's a very different dynamic overall. I agree with your last point, I am older now, have a company and a family, and I don't really have the same emotional needs as teenage me. I just don't go looking for that level of commitment to internet spaces now. I'm sure in 25 years people will be on here lamenting that Floogleblarg neural pools don't capture the same vibe as Twitch chat circa 2020.
Web rendering is flexible to a degree that has no parallel in any other stack.

Of course, that means that developers just reach for the most advertised rigid framework, so that they don't need to deal with all that freedom.
An older friend gave me great advice one time from his experiences. You need a contract that sets expectations when doing any type of work, doubly so when it's for your friends.

Of course if you're just answering questions here and there (like I'm doing here for you on HN), IMO that's what friends help friends do. But, when it comes to really doing work for someone, you have to be compensated. And like I said above, you have to be explicit about the compensation. Otherwise you learn the lesson the hard way like my friend did where he lost a bunch of friends b/c of a startup where assumptions were made and things went south.
You are saying a game had a 6 minute load screen and everybody would throw their hands up and say “but look at the dynamic lighting once it loads… it’ll all be worthwhile!”

If that’s not group think gone bad, I don’t know what is.
I tried a search to see what that means -- it's either a clothing brand or some kind of sociological concept -- I'm guessing Roybot means whatever's trendy or hip.
My reply is no, I realized years ago that trends change so fast that the very attempt to follow them becomes boring. Instead, I prefer self-examination to discover what brings me lasting pleasure and satisfaction, and that's what I pursue.
You still have to run the cryogenic system for the superconductors and the pittance of power to keep the confinement coil power supplies. Q=inf means ignition: an entirely self-heated plasma. The collisions of the helium ash on the un-burnt fuel are enough to bring the fuel above the flash point. In this way it is like a campfire.
Apple was intentionally and silently slowing down aging iDevices to make it seem like they had just become obsolete under the higher requirements of newer software, rather than just having dying batteries. While the person you're responding to is mischaracterizing what happened to some extent and implying that it is still happening (they may still be throttled to protect from sudden shutoffs, but everybody knows now), you're propagandizing about it.

If they had the users' interests in heart at all, they could have thrown a modal that explained that the batteries were dying, and asked if the user wanted the phone to be throttled to avoid incidents of sudden power loss. If Apple had done this, they would have immediately lost sales and had complaints about expensive and inconvenient battery replacement, so they chose not to. This was the result of nothing but greed.
By the time you get to the loading screen they've already profited. The fact that they continue to sell the same game over and over means individuals have likely purchased the game multiple times meaning they don't care about loading times, they just like the game.

It's easy to say their management is shitty from the comfort of your computer, but the reality is Rockstar produces great games, and they're making a ton of money because there games are good. I find most multiplayer games have a start up cost, glad they shortened it, but I don't think it's stopped anyone from playing that really wants to play.

https://www.thegamer.com/gta-5-rockstar-2-5-million-per-day/
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/80912/grand-theft-auto-made-o...
Yes, au contraire — we want to help in making Notion as snappy as Cron!
> Rather than looking at github from the perspective of hiring managers, look at it from the perspective of users.

Why? Everybody I've talked to who's considered alternatives and still uses GitHub for projects that don't have to be on GitHub does it because they're looking at it from the perspective of potential employers. (Or because they like GitHub's Projects feature enough, but those are rarer.)
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Having used Puppet, the promise of Puppet was very different than the realities of Puppet and imo more accurately reflects the "different complexities" point. The point of those provision-bare-metal-on-the-fly frameworks just evaporated when, for example, you could launch a container on Fargate with, again, a single text file, or similar on Heroku.
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> amazing out of the gate and has gotten progressively slower over time

Feel the same.

This is one scenario where the founders who originally built the app turn their attention to fundraising and add a bunch more engineers
Fair enough, sir. Sorry for the snark. It's one of those things. I edited my original comment to explain why I posted.
Why do you even feel compelled to respond to so many people if all they're doing is asking for free help?
Why would its primary defining feature be a definite argument why it loses money? Its lack of DRM is the only reason why I go there.
I appreciate your thoughts.

I agree that pushing for cultural/political change is a hard way to go given the populism in America. I'm an American. On a personal level, I think the country is so broken that it's not worth fixing, and would like to expatriate.

> Re: 60%, that's your personal estimate, right? My impression is that it varies a lot by field. In some fields you don't really get much invalid research at all, it's a curiosity. In other fields 100% of papers are useless because the underlying premises of the field are themselves wrong.

Yes, it was my estimate. But it's just a number I threw out there. I don't disagree with what you're saying here, but I'm more focused on the structural problems that exist to some (varying) degree in every field. For example, in every field, funding is corrupted. So I wouldn't say there are some fields that don't get much invalid research at all. Outright fraud is not the only kind of "invalid" research. It's still "invalid" if it's honest research but exploring the wrong path because there's some old fart at the funding agency who has a lot of friends who are exploring that particular path, which actually has been played out for 10 years already.

> Blog post about Bill Gates

I appreciate your sharing this. I think it's easy to construct this sort of narrative. That doesn't mean it's true. It might be. I don't know enough to tell.

I really think someone like Bill Gates could see the kind of research validation institute I'm proposing as a "win." I'm not saying all the research he's funding is worthless. I don't believe that, personally. I'm just saying, we can boost the quality and effectiveness of research if we have this kind of institute. Maybe our research process as a civilization gets 2x better. To use military terminology (ugh), it's a "force multiplier." It's not saying all our existing research is garbage. It's picking off the low-hanging fruit, the worst offenders, and thereby improving the signal to noise ratio of research overall. And once you get all the worst offenders, you can look for less low-hanging fruit.

I bet Gates would be happy to admit a lot of the research he funds is "low quality." That isn't a personal indictment against him. He'd probably argue that a lot is "medium quality" and a lot is "high quality." I wouldn't disagree. I'm sure there is some proportion in all three buckets.
Yes, libs that don’t adhere to the spec need to be fixed or deprecated.
Has anyone here used cron? What makes it "next generation"? What are the platforms it supports, what's the business model? The website doesn't tell much.
In normal times, I would agree with the conspiracy-like-thinking concern. Sadly, these are not normal times.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/alabama-c...

When one considers action such as this in light of the GOP being caught red-handed attempting to shape the census questions to deprive states of Congressional representation (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-que...), it becomes, at the very least, suspicious. For at least a short time (politically speaking, maybe half a generation), the GOP has lost the benefit of the doubt regarding its actions being race-neutral and some healthy skepticism is justified.
It's true and kind of asinine in my opinion, and actually makes setting up a Squid cache worthwhile again, potentially.
In absolute terms, Japan and India have costs similar to South Korea's.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

See figure 12 for a quick overview. And from the introduction: "In contrast to the rapid cost escalation that characterized nuclear construction in the United States, we find evidence of much milder cost escalation in many countries, including absolute cost declines in some countries and specific eras. Our new findings suggest that there is no inherent cost escalation trend associated with nuclear technology."
Some kind of TV viewers union? What would work? Hoping that they forget to pay off politicians?
It wasn't much of a campaign. My experience with using GPL in a commercial setting went something like this:

"Hey, can we use this GPL software?"

"Better not. We don't have the infrastructure to publish all our code publicly, and legal definitely doesn't want to be in the business of deciding what code we are required to publish by the license and what code we can keep proprietary. Adding GPL code is adding a time bomb to our project."

"Good point. There's some MIT-licensed code that does basically the same thing; I'll use that."

The GPL itself was the best argument not to use the GPL. It placed impositions on the code's consumer that other licenses don't, and network effects will tend to optimize to the path of least resistance (which in this case is the saddle-point between "We want to use other people's code" and "We don't want it to be a hard legal question what code of ours must be published").
If anything this seems to support the position that the only way to reduce costs is to increase volume. A classic economies of scale example. Instead the experts want to disregard the data for vague reasons.
Came here to recommend the same thing. The core concept of the book is figuring out what you want/need and finding ways to actively work with others to get what you both want/need.

It doesn’t mean you can’t help people without advancing your own agenda… but it does mean that if you do choose to help people for nothing in return, you’re doing it because you truly want to and honestly do not expect anything in return.

The difficulty comes when people view the world as having some kind of universal ledger, where if they give enough, they will be owed things (by the other person or the universe in general) in return. This is where resentment comes from.

It’s a great book that has helped me greatly.

(Don’t be put off by the title, which might make you think it’s somehow related to incel/redpill culture. It’s not. This is actually the book they should be reading instead of all their cynical takes on the world.)
Yeee I'm trying - I'm chatting with like people on our services since it's part of a startup. The issue I have is going from discussing about the project and how we can do it, to the money step.

Like say we make X 50% more efficient, we expect to get paid the full 50% efficiency since its now 50% more efficient forever. The Q is how do I bridge the gap to ask them to pay.
I think there’s basically a zero percent chance of this happening. Aws may internally be full of technical debt, but for ten years now Amazon engineers have been automating the reliability issues of the platform. The capabilities are expanding, but the core components are some of the most rock solid engineering on the planet.
Take a moment, fully compose what you want to say, then say it. It's totally acceptable to pause the conversation for a moment to "digest".
It depends on your case.

In something like a triple store you assign compact unique identities (maybe integer) to nodes, so you have to look up

<https://dbpedia.org/resource/Dracula>

and replace it with 77182. If you are looking these up in the database each time it is terribly slow and you get an orders-of-magnitude speedup in a bulk loading job if you keep a cache in a hashtable.

The strategy of "empty the hashtable when it gets full" gives you most of the gains of caching and is not that much worse than an optimal solution. For an online system though it would be unacceptable because the performance of the system would be disasterous because it would slow down the server, make your connection count go through the roof, make it run out of RAM and start to swap, etc.

CPU designers have a devilishly hard problem with cache coherency because they have to support every workload and today we know information leakage in the TLB and other structures is a big problem on top of simply "correctness" and "performance".
They have a lot of downtime, so I guess it's good they're adding features like this that compensate for it.
Maybe if it wasn’t for the republican party things would be even worse. In my view a smaller state should be easier to administer.
That's rational. What's irrational is w hen blue states get mad at red states for not taking their money.
Efficiency is expensive in the short term. It usually requires investments, hiring new people, and spending some time changing the ways things are done. You will only see the benefits in the long term.

Politicians often don't get this, and they may even deliberately choose not to get it. In the public sector, "efficiency" is usually a codeword for slashing budgets and assuming that agencies will magically get their work done with fewer resources.
Cubase uses XML for config files (expression maps, etc).
The extension works on hackernews but it doesn't work on any site that's marked experimental (not even on github, shown as example in the userguide), it always shows "Compose Now Not Available". also tried Compose.AI to compose this message but all suggestions just threw away some of the info
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It's surprising the extent to which legal scholars assume that state exits from the Union are a settled question. Ultimately, it's unlikely that the federal government would or even could force a state into compliance once the state government and courts have opted to treat state law as taking precedence above federal law.

We already see this with legal marijuana, there are multiple campaigns aimed to form interstate compacts without the consent of congress. Ultimately a situation where the federal government declines to enforce its legal authority will just lead to a defacto change in the supremacy clause of the US constitution.

The only situation I see where this would become problematic is if a state chose to stop sending tax dollars to the federal government. Even then, the federal government has levers to pull that would be tough for a state to circumvent except by exiting the dollar - which no state has any reason to do.
What meals are worth eating again and again?

Depends on your taste. Sounds like you haven't found something that rings that bell for you.

Personally I've read "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut three times and each time in one sitting. Then again I've read "Fragment" from Warren Fahy 3 times too. Some people reread their holy book dozens of times. It's all very personal.
If they're as bad as you're saying (and I'm not sure I disagree) then the answer would be to go back to a flip phone that only does calls and maybe has a camera.
Shadowbanned here? Why do you think that?
Well, that's what you get when network operators block everything that is not the web.
AKA, a single entry in a WeakKeyDictionary
Most people you meet have at least some wacky ideas. I’m sure you do as well.

Yeah I agree guy was kinda nuts. Lol so what?

It’s the content that’s interesting. Didn’t see anyone else share something like that, so I did. He was one of the first in the “survivalist” movement, seemed relevant to the discussion as the document in the post was from a similar time period.
Right - work on the wording, but absolutely keep the sentiment. You are clearly valuable to the people using your skills for their own profit. You deserve compensation and respect for the time and effort you put in. Regardless of how well intentioned they seem, be incredibly insistent on payment for your work. Ideally, negotiate pay before any work is done. If they resist this, you need to walk away.
Nuclear powered vessels do not spend any significant amount of time shutdown at sea, and there is no reason to. Electrical power is a very small fraction of their total MWh production, with almost all power going to propulsion.

When fuel lifetime becomes an issue for a nuclear naval vessel they will have propulsion limits in place that limit transit speeds to those which are most efficient for the propulsion turbines.
I suspect that if the states from Florida to Texas all wanted to secede, a vote on that would be forthcoming nearly immediately.
And yet, govt spending as percentage of GDP is the biggest it's ever been! AT a whopping 44% total: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...

Just federal alone is 30%!

just google: "govt spend as percentage of GDP"

I think the american public has been sold on the idea that govt should be bigger and bigger and more bloated than ever. Most people either approve or just don't care.
>Does the PGA tour think they own these players?

To a certain extent, yes. They have a brand, and they attempt to protect it. Once you qualify and participate in the tour, you agree to their rules regarding appearances in unaffiliated tournaments.

This isn't limited to professionals on the tour either. The PGA is also basically a guild that sets the standards for professional course/club managers and teaching professionals, and keeping a job as either while maintaining PGA affiliation means abiding by their requirements as well. Choosing not to maintain PGA affiliation generally means you will not be hired by reputable golf courses.
This is corect analysis. BigCo comes with pros and cons, but the pros are typically job security* and a life outside of work. My son was born three months before my father died and wow did that rapidly change my perspective on the relative value of an agile but single threaded rocketship vs. a megalith taking a a six year ootm call option on a few months of brilliant work.

Relatedly, best advice I received was that the grass is green and brown on both sides.

*standard disclaimers about at-will employment