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He is a brilliant, genius technologist. I don't find him a brilliant intellectual.

Einstein was a brilliant physicist. Otherwise he was not a paragon of human virtues.

Maradona was a brilliant soccer player. As a coach he was a disaster.

I have nothing against Andreessen, and, of course, he is 1,000 the professional that I could not even aspire but dream of being. But outside of technology, I don't find him convincing. He is very articulate and can speak without thinking, and that is a huge and massive advantage when you are in a position of professional and intellectual power.

Obama's success has undoubtedly and largely been aided by his ability to be tremendously effective in public speaking.
And for the third time, just because the individual components are used in different applications doesn't mean it's going to be cheap or scalable to use them in energy storage. The cost history of existing cryogenic storage plants indicates that no, it's not effective for energy storage it's 4-5x more expensive.

We build plenty of flywheels. Does that mean energy storage based on giant flywheels is guaranteed to be efficient at scale because we have experience using flywheels in other applications like automobiles?
Academia beyond postdoc is so competitive that even being in top 5 school is not enough information to decide whether it is a good idea.

Even within Harvard, the percentage of postdocs getting faculty positions is low.

One needs to calculate essentially how likely you will get a top publication in that lab.

The arithmetic is something like for a research group, what is the average number of top publications per year per postdoc. Many top labs at Harvard don’t do well with this metric because they have like 20 postdocs and 1 top paper a year.

Another metric is what fraction of postdocs end up in good faculty jobs.
The arts and the humanities are not identical.

The people doing history, for example, are the grad students and faculty who dig into archives and write books. They, largely, are shit on by society and are working in a field that pays virtually all of them like crap.

And they don't repeat themselves. The Nth person to write a book on Topic X isn't just saying what has already been said. They are in dialog with all of the other authors. They reinterpret and recast the history. They view it through different methods or they create new methods that others will use in the future.
People flagged it - your writing in it is pretty hyperbolic/uncharitable/emotional/antagonistic (regardless of whatever opinion may lie underneath). Also, you say it was not controversial, and yet there is a lengthy comment disagreeing with you, so I'm not sure what you mean. Regardless, being "controversial" shouldn't (ideally) be considered a flaggable offense, as you're implying. Also, jumping so quickly to "I'm being censored" and "the mods are biased" is kind of more of the same attitude. HN tends to self-select for substantive writing (for now).
Honest question: is econ in StarCraft a "chore"?
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [0] is a thing, AIUI it's largely caused by how fructose is handled exceptionally poorly by the liver.

Sucrose (sugar) is basically half fructose and half glucose.

I often encounter people who don't realize common sugar is half fructose. So even if they understand that a diet "high in fructose" is a risk factor for these things, they don't necessarily appreciate that sugar == fructose. They'll moderate their fruit intake, which isn't even that problematic because soluble fiber is like a fructose antidote. But won't be as careful about sugary junk foods/drinks devoid of fiber, which is where the real problem actually lies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-alcoholic_fatty_liver_dise...
Very cool. Unfortunately this is something that can’t really be tested outside of production.
RGB are the primary colors used in additive color mixing, CMYK are used as the primary colors for subtractive color mixing which is used in offset printing and similar processes.
ecosystem defaults was: open, like ruby, golang or rust

ecosystem defaults now: closed, proprietary to ensure the programming language is only useful if you are a paying customer of Visual Studio.

See the problem? More at https://isdotnetopen.com/
That's literally like saying Windows is terrible because it allows you to run programs outside a phone-like sandbox.
There would be no way to shelter from a nearby gamma ray burst. You would die and there would be nothing you or anybody else could do about it, except maybe commit suicide to avoid the coming trauma.
In a lot of ways it's worse, Microsoft never banned the competition. It's utterly outrageous that Apple has been able to get away with such clear anti-competitive behaviour for this long.

There's only one reason Web Apps are not currently viable on mobile, and unless you're down in the trenches building these apps these issues are invisible.
I actually haven't heard the horror stories but I have been using PayPal relatively extensively since at least 2007 and never ever had an issue. Aside from many retail purchases in the UK I've used it to send money around the world also. I'm also pretty sure TransferWise (now "Wise") works for sending money across most of the world. Plus the latter is regulated in the UK so I know that up to £85k is guaranteed by the government to be safe. I am one of the bigger critics of government yet I trust them a lot more than anyone in crypto. Sure they've done bad, but at least they've done some good too.

I'm definitely not a crypto hater, I have used several cryptocurrencies somewhat. I wouldn't call it that smooth, and I'd also worry significantly about the lack of regulation (despite that being one of the main selling points of crypto) and the wild volatility.
I feel like what these men actually have no interest is dealing with the reality that women are people. The average hikikomori wants his manic pixie dream girl who is addicted to sex and generally subservient – and I intend helping make that dream come true for them.
Fraud events are different from chargebacks.

Your bank irrespective of whether it's a savings account, credit card etc will almost always insure you against fraud provided you didn't do anything reckless e.g. write your PIN on the card.
Senate bill would ban data brokers from selling location and health data
One EUV machine does not a fab make.
Unfortunately nobody remembers that Red Hat has so much influence over the Linux stack that they practically own it.
For some reason in my head I immediately read it as "45km". Because that seemed like an appropriate amount of distance for it to be weird.
I feel like… vacuuming, doing 2-3 loads of dishes a day, cleaning up after my kids, maintaining the grounds, taking care of the chickens and so on is enough. I’d rather pay to, you know, shoot things or race around exotic lands… is this now considered a boomer thing?
>Bitcoin was meant to be used.
>It's being held instead of used.

even worse.. most of it is held by very few individuals. the fickleness in all these markets is based on this one issue.
I know a lot about web development (for a non-professional). I know very little about modern trends. This approach has served me very well in the past, where I avoided wasting absurd amounts of time and money on things like ActiveX and ColdFusion.

Instead of making personal attacks, which are against site guidelines, why don't you actually try articulating the value proposition that several posters are asking about? This is a place for substantive discussion.
It has seen everything between 10rps to 10000rps, and never once complained. Latencies remain steady, requests remain serviceable, abuse (DDoS/bots) still gets caught, throughput just seems to scale elastically even if not boundlessly.
Wasn't most of Google and eBay written in C/C++?

Most of the webs applications were written in C/C++ pre PHP days.
No, as I said you just have assumptions (and values) that most people don't. Much industrialized farming being a nightmare that needs to change is not going to make me a vegan and think eating animal products in general is wrong. That would be a fallacious non-sequitur because opposing abuses in industrialized farming, or even opposing all industrialized farming is not veganism. Your entire approach is foolish and condescending though, assuming I don't already know as much or more than you about the subject.
Microsoft being their usual selves?

please continue to use and promote C# and .net, we definitely won't be doing the same for those the moment we get the opportunity
According to a white paper by Gartner, the app market is saturated, and depending on FAANG platforms presents serious risk to your business.

However, (also according to Gartner), developing your own platform will position your firm optimally to reap the benefits of a fast exploding IoT market.

Today this device warns of impending supernovae. In the future they'll grow to include rogue black hole alerts, warnings of comets on 30,000 year cycles, maybe even an impending asteroid strike (for Pro subscribers only).

Simpli-Safe better watch their 6.
Right. Most “intellectuals” never produce anything of value.
I want to see the most interesting part first and then background information afterwards, if I care.
Well that’s the thing. Now I don’t know if any interaction I’ve had with them is because of me as a person vs me as a dehumanized thing. Was that nitpick in my codebase…? What about that comment in my 360 review…? Was I left out of a shoutout intentionally or was it just a slip of the mind?
Throw a block party and get shit-faced is the only valid answer to this question.
This appears to be reporting on a paper published in "Cryptoeconomic Systems", a relatively new journal with negligible impact.

The paper [1] proposes the use of a Szilard engine to convert data into energy. This is an astoundingly silly concept on the border between thermodynamics and information theory -- it is not something which can be physically realized in any practical form.

[1]: https://cryptoeconomicsystems.pubpub.org/pub/murialdo-physic...
Just so it's clear, fork()/exec() doesn't care if its 2 or 2000: They're all available for inheritance in your copied kernel state.

I used this back in 1985 writing OSI software, to handle the 3,4,5[...] open FD numbers which were the X.25 channel to a front end processor on JANET, or a TCP socket faking out (non) OSI transport layers underneath things.

The problem is knowing WHICH fd # to work with. I hacked it by passing a command line/env argument to the exec() child which specified a list of FD to re-bind into from the inheritance state (not really re-bind: simply call the right sysctl/ioctl to have a named binding to that open FD)

I have a feeling somebody like Marshall Rose took me there, certainly it wasn't entirely un-common to pass open FD beyond the stdin/stdout/stderr around, between things in an IPC dance

Its how parent-child communicate typically: open a pair of FD, mark one for read, one for write, fork/exec, parent reads on 3 and writes on 4, child writes on 3 and reads on 4.
I was about to say I’ve seen it, but nope, I agree. Even putting it in context, like “1m43s” isn’t something I’d see often. “1 min. 43 sec.” is what I would expect.
lack of funding + way too many people doing phds = shitty job market. there is at least 10x more phds than the current system can comfortably sustain. i would love to see the budgets 10x and salaries 2x but since there is a fat chance of that happening i would recommend everyone to steer clear of academia...
Just a casual passer by that found your question valid and interesting. I wonder if in this case, it just happened to be an advantage? It would start as a sexual combat thing, that result in access to food and increased visibility of predators, so there was no need for dimorphism. Perhaps even helps or explains why/how the trait became so pronounced. When compared to the other species you mentioned, giraffes are the broke clock being right twice a day.
This strategy essentially ensures that you will never have much capital ready for when stocks and other assets suddenly get cheap.

Your strategy means that the best time to buy assets correlates with when your net worth dips then lowest.
An excellent and considered reply.

When I say that Rust seems obtuse, I mean I've been bashing my head against its philosophy and syntax for some time without reaching the magic "hey this works and I'm suddenly productive" summit (or at least plateau).

I've come to the conclusion that it's not for me, but my interest in it stemmed from frustrations with Python and my memories of enjoying writing 'C' in the 90s. I find C++ a language without an underlying philosophy and seems like a horrid patchwork of things; Java is frustrating and verbose. C# is very Windows centric, which I'm not adverse to exactly, but I don't run it. Various other languages I've thought about and discarded.

I was toying with Go as that seems to have many fans, and seems to have wheels, but I'm cautious given some of the criticisms it comes under. D was not on my RADAR, but now I'm quite interested and probing its good and bad points. It looks promising on a casual look.

You're right, of course, "lots of developers who spend time inquiring and researching about game writing platforms (languages, libraries, engines) but end up writing nothing. "

Most people come from the point of view of they enjoy playing games, so they think they would enjoy writing them. Same with reading novels/writing them, and probably many other spheres of human creative endeavor.

I'm not saying I'm immune from this kind of thing, but my ideas are very modest, and if I fail to implement my game, no harm will come from it; the opposite in fact, as the very act of solving programming problems is as productive as solving a crossword puzzle, and will serve, if nothing else, to keep my mind sharp (as my current job requires no programming ability whatsoever).

I don't enjoy playing games, I'm tremendously bad at them and so don't get much positive re-inforcement on them as an enjoyable activity. But programming is fun, and that's what I'm looking for.
I've yet to see a good reason for webassembly in the wild.

Is anyone using it in production for anything substantial?

We have a couple of uses of it but I'm still not convinced it was worth the trade offs and felt mor like someone was having fun with a hammer.
There is a difference between signing a transaction and signing a string. The warning you have linked pops up when a signing of a string occurs and warns that if the person embeds a transaction in that string you are signing whatever transaction they have made.

There is a new method they have for signing strings that does not allow a transaction to be signed so its safer.

The crypto drainer seems to directly be sending the NFTs and assuming that the user cant understand the transaction and what its actually doing.
...and go to prison? Nah, I'll wait until imminent apocalypse to take care of it.
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I see XXm for minutes all the time (USA), but definitely not in contexts like this where it is easily confused for miles (edit: or meters).
As a US citizen, I read it as 45 miles, which is as terrible as I would expect from Facebook.
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I always enjoy the water color artwork by Bill Watterson in Calvin and Hobbes. Would be fun to watch him paint.
How is that bad faith? Isn’t that, for example, exactly what Gitlab does?

It would be bad faith if they removed access to the open source code somehow.
I'm very sorry, but all of that is 'pie in the sky'. The costs of doing all those things would be enormous, and the US is in deep shit economically. Where would the money that would be required for the all of the 'pie' be coming from?

Not going to happen. Live with it.
As someone who went from a standard American-esque diet to a mostly raw vegan diet (the bulk of what I had were salads, fruits, avocados, nuts and giant sweet potatoes [obviously cooked]). I found myself having the same ability to taste things in a very super sensitive way (fresh juicy pineapple was like an out of body experience). Things like fried food, sugary drinks and kids cereals were horrible tasting. My favorite occasional treat is non-sugar 100% cooking chocolate.
> Utility scale solar is greater than small scale (< 1 MW) solar in the US

Your graph shows in total generated energy per year it's roughly even--- not in nameplate power. Because the capacity factor is worse, you need a lot more nameplate power at non-utility installations to get the same energy out.

> This is good, because utility scale solar is cheaper per unit output than small scale solar.

Yup. Small scale solar really needs to stop, other than for installations that have special requirements (e.g. need for power backup / diversity).
The keto diet is one of the most studied diets in the world. It is super healthy (when done right of course like anything else). The “low carb down under” YouTube group has a lot of talk on the latest research.
These are fine predictions, but how much money at what odds are you willing to bet that they will come true?

Just talking without any real substance is no different than pundits on TV spewing their daily nonsense. they are incentivised to make grand predictions because being wrong has no penalty.
>Hours? I need only a few minutes to find a paper bag to put over my head and lay down.

I wish. I just took a look around my place, and no paper bags anywhere to be found. I'm gonna need to stock up. Maybe pop up a kiosk on the sidewalk and make a killing right up to the bitter end
1) no chance. The faked "level #x" model of vehicular autonomy is like Asimov's three laws of robotics: Its rei-ified fiction of what will emerge, and its going to take a LOT longer than 8 years to work through the mixture of states of being on a road.

2) this has been happening since the 1970s. It has little to do with AI. It's continuance of a trend, which anyone in auto-industry has been aware of for decades. The question would be does it have an asymptote yet.

3) partly, but also robotics will reduce spray burden, and in some cases yield will rise by reduced field losses, not genetics. Fertilizer is a real longterm concern, as is the capacity of soil to carry our expectations of yield. A tonne of soil is sometimes lost, growing a tonne of wheat.

4) VR sucks. Nothing is going to move here until the delay drops massively. We're not moving to VR in 8 years.

5) it already is. But mainly for breaches of protocol and inflated claims. Post birth genetic treatments need to be stable for a decade or two before pre-birth genetic treatments emerge.
Containers _are_ a mechanism to increase to compute granularity. Some of our workloads were having trouble scaling to 128 cores, and by using containers, we can have more of them running with fewer cpu's. Furthermore, it's straightforward to support providing burst capacity to applications running within a container, given all the OS needs to do is to give those cgroups some extra CPU time for a limited time.
Without for profit, for export, weapons, smaller entities that cannot support the industrial base to produce the means for their own defense would be at the mercy of any power who could. Self defense is a right, and the means of self defense should be widely available. Ensuring the vulnerability of the weak is morally reprehensible.
IANAL but I did work in the legal cannabis industry for several years. Emphatically “no”, or at least “you don’t want to find out.”

Federal law on cannabis is clear that it’s illegal, the basis for its jurisdiction is interstate commerce. The Obama administration issued the Cole memo which deferred to states with plausible reporting of intra-state tracking seed to sale: essentially saying, states legalizing cannabis can proceed without federal intervention provided they show they’re not overtly allowing or ignoring trade of the product across state lines.

The Trump administration under AG Sessions rescinded that memo, but never went further than that. (My own speculation: that wasn’t ever intended to change any outcomes, it was just virtue signaling at the federal government level.) Effectively enforcement has been about the same since then.

So why not introduce cannabis to farming in the US? Chicken crosses state lines with far less scrutiny, because its regulatory default is the FDA. There’s nowhere else for disputes to go, other than court. If you introduce cannabis as a potential factor in that, you’re going to spring every legal state into legislative action just to prepare for jurisdiction questions and dispute.

That’s more than half of the states, in one form or another. Most of which aren’t very enthusiastic about legalization in the first place, and already have poor track records for prioritizing sensible regulation or vendor acquisition. Make it a farming problem with this jurisdictional split, they’ll just sit on their hands or sabotage it directly.

I want people to benefit from legalization of cannabis, significantly more than I ever want to consume it myself. It’s a clear win for justice and health. But my take being familiar with the landscape is… I hope no one tries to make cannabis-fed chicken happen in the US before federal laws are relaxed.
What if I win five billion dollars in the lottery?

Similar likelihood of it happening. Ukraine is in deep shit. It won't be getting better any time soon.
> Note that the definition of "international student" excludes those with permanent visas. The number of foreign born PhD students is therefore significantly higher than 64%. Don't know if there are any stats for citizen/non-citizen share of PhDs though.

Why are you interested in the percentage of foreign born PhD students? You realize that a lot of Americans are "foreign born". It seems like an archaic way of thinking about things.

"International student" should indeed exclude those who are permanent residents. Which means they have been living here permanently before becoming a student, likely grew up in America, or just waiting for the citizenship, etc. "International student" means someone who moved here to study.

I'm assuming good intentions, but want to make sure we're not intentionally trying to gatekeep what it means to be an American.
I’ve been with my fiancée 10 years, she was solid middle class with a single mother teacher, I am pretty solid upper middle class growing up.

I just want to say that if allowed to happen you can really be a force together, a moderation force coming from your side and your SO. She buys higher quality trash bags and tires (lol) now and I don’t splurge on stuff all the time now, and don’t waste as much money.

I really appreciate the perspective being with her has given me.
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Jimmy Moore is a joke. Perhaps Google “low carb down under” instead for much healthier looking researchers (and actual doctors) applying keto diets in their practices :)
How did it take them three quarters of an hour to walk only 45 meters?
maybe assembly. Even C can be applied to their argument just fine.
McVoy claimed that it would take someone roughly 5 years to solve the problems that bitkeeper solved. Torvalds took a few weeks of break and did it. Granted git at that time was far removed from the feature set and polish it had after a few years.

But considering how many times we have heard the "I can build this in a weekend of coding" trope, git is truly an exception weekend-project (+) that actually delivered on the promise.

(+) - Taking vast liberties by stretching the weekend
Sadly my old one (4) up to A6 and the latest 3 is A10. No A7-A8x required for this test.
Ironic, considering the Democratic party pioneered demographic data mining.

Don't get me wrong-- I think stopping the exploitation of consumer data would be a good step-- but politicians (of all parties) are some of the most enthusiastic purchasers of such data.