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Your comment only seemed to be about the current uselessness of education as a value-add for smart kids. You never mentioned the benefit it offered to average or less intelligent kids. Do you believe that their needs aren't being addressed either?

> you basically just confirmed what I argued: it’s impossible to criticize educational methods.

Not sure how my comment confirmed that. All I pointed out is the fact that your gripe with education seemed mostly focused on the failure to help smart kids, ignoring whether or not if helping other kids could be evidence for or against the effectiveness of the education system in the western world. With regards to that I have a question for you. Is the percentage of kids in any age cohort you consider "smart" a product of their educational environment, or is the proportion of smart kids to normal kids the same no matter what methods, within the realm of methods readily available to educators nowadays, we use?
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> That video on Fortnite seemed a little unfair to me.

What part is wrong?
Fortnite has been called pay to win itself from time to time

For examples, see https://www.sportskeeda.com/fortnite/the-history-pay-to-win-... or https://old.reddit.com/r/FortniteCompetitive/comments/l2qywf... or https://www.sportskeeda.com/fortnite/fortnite-finally-proves...
My most horrible hardware "bug" that drove me up the wall was long forgotten wireless keyboard stuffed in a closet and acting up with my PC when cat would decide to visit. The distance was just right that it was very intermittent.
http://www.elmerproductions.com/sp/peterb/ is a great resource about Boulder Dash.
that link only goes back to 2020??

I did NOT say anything about Ukraine - I'm talking about the next generation stuff, not the older stuff Ukraine is getting

UK has gone to the 3rd country status and lost (Billions) crap loads of research on weapons - why do you think the gov has done the laughable investment in to OneWeb??

but Money does not seem to factor in to any discussions??
> -- taxes will rise (for whom?)

Is this a real question? Top few percent of capital owners captured nearly 100% of productivity inrease that came from last few decades of technological development.

It's obvious who should be taxed.
So you're saying the 960 failed because of the bad development board?
I'm mostly referring to juice (called out smoothies)... also, specifically referred to HFCS and Table Sugar (about half Fructose). Worth noting a serving of juice is about 4oz (125ml) and should only have 3-4 servings of juice a week... not a massive fruit juice smoothie.

With fruit, will depend on the fruit and fiber content... most berries are much better (lower GL, higher fiber) than an orange, pineapple or grapes. But higher sugar content fruits with lower fiber content or very high quantities can still be problematic.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/fructose-fatty-liver-sugar-toxin

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-hig...

https://openheart.bmj.com/content/4/2/e000631
We just need more players in the field. The more that production gets monopolised by only one or two companies, the less competition and the less production. (Especially when there is collusion between them.)

Capitalism is a process whereby money and power get concentrated into fewer and fewer hands over time. Eventually the system gets too concentrated for its own good.

A hundred years or so ago, there were hundreds of independent newspapers all competing for subscribers and readers. Today there are about half a dozen media companies. Our loss.
"Just move to one of the most remote and inhabitable places in the world, work twice as much as average, and you too can join the middle class"
True, but it seems like in the case of Blender, there is no reseller, so an easy solution is to literally blacklist the word "Blender" (when it comes to software - I'm sure they have semantic analysis behind the scenes to differentiate Blender the 3D software vs a smoothie blender). The ban can be reversed if an official from the Blender project reaches out (if they ever need to advertise for example).
Hey Stefan and Elijah, I really like the approach you're taking, especially with Hamilton being the open core.

I've got recent experience with data eng / pipleine startups and wondering if you are hiring for your first engineers at this time.
A great start! Really needs examples one can play with, to get the feeling of the controls in context
> The word size is some multiple of the byte size. I’ve been confused about this for years, and the Wikipedia definition is incredibly vague

It is extremely confusing. A "word" means different things depending on architecture, programming language, and probably a few other things that make up the context.

For example, in the x86 assembly world you usually call an (usually aligned) 16 bit value a "word", a 32 bit value a "double word", and a 64 bit value a "quad word", all because the original 8086 had 16 bit wide registers that could be alternatively be used as two 8 bit registers.

In other architectures or more generally other contexts, a word often relates to "how wide the bus is". But even then some of the old nomenclature bleeds into newer things that may have gotten wider busses, and it's not even always clear what bus is being referred to.

Basically, unless you operate within a certain shared context, the word "word" is fuzzy and ambiguous. Maybe not quite as much as the word "object", but it's definitely up there somewhere.
Wonder why they went with AAAA for ipv6 instead of a different class
I'm pretty much on this guy's side here. When historians qua historians comment on contemporary politics, they're spending credibility accrued not only by themselves, but by other historians. It's not just bad for the field, it's almost certainly bad for everybody.
This is only true for a federally backed mortgage. Yes, down payment levels, in the context of whether someone needs mortgage insurance, is set by regulation. But down payments can be much less significant if you’re ok with mortgage insurance. Down payments required by banks were typically higher before regulation.
> British Columbians booted out an efficient and wonderful value added tax called the HST because an aging provincial politician engaged his base of mostly conservative low-information voters against it, claiming baselessly that it killed jobs.

Absolutely not.

It was because the HST added an extra 7% tax onto a whole ton of things that were exempt from the 7% PST previously. The HST was costing people a lot money on everyday items.

Yeah when most things start cost an extra 7% in tax, you're going to mobilize people against you.
That would just make Google take them down without solving the underlying root cause.

The longer he keeps them private and confirms they still exist, the more damning the evidence against Google's lies becomes.
The people who pursued appeasement in Europe in the 1930's were certainly on the wrong side of history.

While there's not always a "right" side, your stance on a position at that point in time can be deemed correct by future generations.
nah it is easy to see actually. The empire started out like this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_empire.png

It took a lot of political insanity to turn that into what it is now. Not sure what it means but all of those countries wanted independence from the empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_ga...

oh they missed Scotland(1320) ha-ha
It seems fine to me, although maybe it's backwards. Add a prime to the RHS, perhaps.
Depends. If you have the resources to hire a lawyer, then what you describe is governmental overreach borderline on torture that will lead to the government paying out to you when you sue them and plenty of government employees being reprimanded or fired. If you do not have these resources and end up before unscrupulous law enforcement, you might very well have your rights abused until a journalist or the ACLU or some other equivalent decides to fight for you.
> Giving old people money for free

Didn’t they pay into Social Security?
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See the four options laid out:

> 1. Norway option: Staying in the EU Single Market and leaving the Customs Union would mean full access to the Single Market for both goods and services, but the UK would have to continue to abide by the EU’s four freedoms, including freedom of movement. […]

> 2. Turkey option: Leaving the EU Single Market and EU Customs Union, but creating a new customs union with the EU. This would ensure tariff-free trade for goods covered by new customs union, but mean applying the EU’s common external tariff for trade to those goods imported from other countries. […]

> 3. Leaving the Single Market and Customs Union, but negotiating a new bespoke bilateral free trade and customs agreement. […] Swiss, Ukraine, Canada as examples

> 4. World Trade Organization (WTO) option: Leaving the Single Market and Customs Union without a deal. […]

* https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/...
While Brexit is quite comprehensively idiotic there are winners: pretty much everyone now sees how dumb it is to leave the world's largest trading bloc in an bad-mannered huff and wreak yet untold havoc on your own economy just because you chose to agree with the bilious rhetoric of perfidious over-rich clowns.

It also served to provide an excellent stress-test of the EU bureaucracy, helping to increase coordination pretty much everywhere.

It looks like it will further serve to provide yet another stimulus to the subjects of the UK to modernise their systems, which is very long overdue.
> Applesauce pushes out three general types of disk images in its work. Fluxes, which are to-the-bit accurate portrayals of the magnetic flux of the floppy disks.

This is a distressingly common misperception. In fact the flux stream that you get out of a reader like a Greaseweazle is the TTL-level signal from the drive. This is the output of a differential amplifier and crossing detector. In theory, the raw drive head will show zero volts when nothing is changing under the read head, a very small positive voltage when the magnetic flux reverses in one direction, and a symmetric negative signal when it shifts the other way.

What you get out of the amplifier is a digital (!) pulse of ~1us when the signal shifts in either direction. And due to the way the amplifier works, when "nothing is changing" it tends to just amplify noise in the environment and invent fictitious transitions. Proper disk encodings limit the distance between transitions (generally to no more than three bit cells) to deal with this.

This behavior was actually a core copy protection trick. The custom drive writing the commercial software would gate the transitions in the middle of a sector, leading to a region that would read different noise every time. Correct consumer hardware isn't able to do that.

And that's why the flux files are so large: they're storing multiple revolutions of every track, precisely so that tools like the WOZ (Apple) or ATX (Atari) converters can intuit the style of copy protection (there seems to be no clean equivalent in the Commodore world, their "archived" copy protected media tends to be reverse engineered the last I checked?)

A fun project I'd love to see someone try some day would be to wire up a proper analog ADC chain (doesn't need to be more than ~8 bit at 2 Mhz or so) to the unamplified drive head output and see if a cleaner representation of the flux can be read.
I'm following ml papers, ml work etc for a while.

The progress is crazy.

The use cases popping up are already here.

Not betting on ai/ml right now is something someone can't afford.

And I'm not easily be swayed.

But alone the fact how good Charcpt understood what I wanted it to do and seamless switching languages is crazy good.

And ml is everywhere: voice synthesis, OCR, image analysis, image synthesis, text understanding, driving, ...

This is the new way.
I used reader view in Safari.
> Thus far no successful tech company (that I know of) has screwed over its employees by casually choosing not to have a liquidity event

It depends on if you want to rank Foursquare as "successful", but they recently did that, and it was big news in the don't-let-RSUs-expire community.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-private-tech-com...
This time it is different!
Eh, while you're right, there's something to be said for focusing on the symptoms rather than the underlying condition.

It's obviously problematic, but if the problems introduced by not solving the underlying issue are better than the problems you're currently dealing with, it might be a better way to move forward for awhile.

At the very least it could help refocus a struggling founder; stop writing so many blog posts and start taking direct steps to address the biggest threat, running out of money.
> Youtube sponsorship where an advertiser/brand actually reaches out directly to each publisher/influencer

Considering how many dodgy, unsafe, counterfeit or outright scam products I've seen advertised as sponsorships, I'm not sure this helps.
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> Writing basic data structures isn't a niche, esoteric edge case

writing data structures _properly/well_ was never easy

it just looks easy and is nearly always a sub-par solution

e.g. a list in many lisp like languages seems simple, until you look under the hood what magic tends to be used by more advanced compilers to make that list work fast

the think people most commonly got wrong which was supposedly easy when programming when I was school/stadium where data structures, even comparatively simple ones like double linked lists

it's like sorting, sure you find docents easy to implement sorting algorithms everywhere, but then when you look at the properly implemented sorting build ins of standard libraries their complexity is hundreds of times that of quick sort or similar
I appreciate the request because I tend to agree, though I wouldn't say "every chip can be hacked," but rather I would point to Apple's wavering commitment to privacy (with their recent tracking debacle [1] and previous privacy "mistakes" [2]).

Please, Apple, instead of engineering a better kill switch which requires me to trust you, just install an actual kill switch that I can see for myself does what I want.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/14/apple-class-action-user... or https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/09/apple-privacy-tracking-lawsui...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/23/iphone-...
It all depends on the people. I know lots of people who prefer working for startups not because they're looking to get rich, but because the startup is doing something new that particularly excites them.

And in my statups, I want that group of people, and actively don't want the ones who are just looking for a big payday.
I am not sure what you are referring to. The UK was running a primary surplus in 2018. And the UK is now running a deficit. Imo, the deficit is too large but most countries are running a deficit that is too large.

The last PM didn't cut taxes and didn't grow the budget. The vast majority of her policies did not happen.

The ECB has not stopped printing money because they aren't selling bonds and are (I believe) still intervening in Southern Europe bond markets because of their dire fiscal situation. The BoE stopped QE and began selling bonds in February 2021. Still far too late, but the ECB has (imo) gone so far with QE that it is impossible to stop (iirc, most new corporate loans in most of Western Europe are now govt-guaranteed...their intervention into banking has been far deeper than any other country).
Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
OK.

Politically, there are no shared constituencies. I don't mean in the sense of individual candidates; I mean there are no cross-border leaders or parties. We barely know the names of the party leaders in neighbouring countries. The EU is a treaty organisation, not a shared democracy.

Policy initiatives come from the Commission, which is a collection of political has-beens, failed politicians that are of no further value in their own countries. The European Council is simply an ad-hoc gathering of representatives of the government of the day in their respective countries; as a body, it has no legityimacy whatsoever. The third leg of EU "democracy" is the EU Parliament. Apart from it's lack of electoral legitimacy, it was deliberately made feeble. It can't initiate legislation. Debates in the parliament chamber are so polite and decorous that it's impossible to stay awake - nobody listens to broadcasts of proceedings in the EU Parliament.

The EU is very corrupt. To a large extent, that is because it is free from proper oversight; in theory, the Parliament is a constraint on the power of the executive (the Commission). In practise, the EU has exercised that power only once, when it became clear that roughly all Commissioners were corrupt. The only power they had was to sack the entire Commission, which they did. Once. And it didn't make much difference. The Parliament's powers have since been increased a little, I know.

In theory, the EU has a border with common rules. In practice, that's not how it works; EU member nations just love it when the refugees they have admitted decide to leave for another European country, relying on Free Movement. They build fences to stop people entering, but not to stop people leaving.

A number of very authoritarian countries from the East were admitted to the EU a couple of decades ago, and they are doing things like sacking judges that disagree with the government. The EU is doing nothing to prevent this kind of behaviour, although it is a violation of the treaties between member states. I don't want to be in a treaty organisation with racists and dictators.

There; I hope that helps.
>(in some cases >20 miles away)

what a privileged life style one must have. you realize that there are entire metro areas where you can drive in 20 miles in any direction and still be in urban environment, yeah?

also, thinking 20 miles is just oh so far away is so outside of my world experience that I just don't easily understand your situation of think that it is so far away. clearly, you and I have grown up in totally different situations, and it is interesting to me that one can be so restricted in their movement and consider that normal just as you clearly think anyone traveling > 20 miles is just from Neptune or something.

i'll chalk this up to a nature vs nurture kind of experience
No, decarbonize the grid the way France did it. Don’t follow Germany’s example.

It’s that simple.
The idea that the US has land starved urban areas is mostly a myth. Or more accurately, it is mostly a self-inflicted problem. Drop the urban growth boundary nonsense and embrace multi-core urban areas instead of trying to build supercities.
Assuming you’ve got the typical HN user’s job and career trajectory, this is exactly what’s going to happen. It’s what’s going to happen to me, too. It’s what SHOULD happen. I don’t think that many people are going to be shedding tears for your financial loss.
Haha sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate that. It's a tiny button though and not obvious. Was just taking a guess because it can be easy to miss and some of our users did at first.

I first opened my personal Linear account in 2020 and the default was no Cycles. I created a new team in that account today and it's the default.

I opened new one somewhat recently (2 months ago) for my company and the default was to have them off too.

The docs for Cycles say that here too: https://linear.app/docs/use-cycles#configure

Maybe you didn't have admin permissions on your team? Not sure.
The difference is that Google gets paid money to serve the ads - HN, etc don't.

So you could start by repealing Section 230 only in cases where there's a direct monetary cost to publish - this would spare all the free user-generated-content websites while clamping down on malicious companies profiting off serving illegal/harmful content.
> (all my critical services now all use U2F though, which is vastly superior)

That's cool, I don't know of a single service I use personally that supports it.
Thank you! We're not hiring just yet, but feel free to log onto the Hamilton OS slack and send us your resume -- happy to chat about future possibilities or connect you with people that are hiring in a similar space!
ChatGPT Is CrapGPT
You just go into the power plan and select the dropdown to "nothing" for what to do "when the lid is closed".
ChatGPT is damaging my company's reputation by making up fake outcomes of real legal proceedings. (As originally reported here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3830211 )
Great comment.

The status quo is so bizarre. Human life has no inherent value unless it makes continuous contributions to "the economy". It would be economically most efficient to drop dead on the day you retire. Thanks, human!

All of this to keep a machine running that wrecks the planet and everything living on it, including ourselves. Probably some 50% of the economy is pure bullshit that nobody asked for, just keeping each other busy.

At some point we lost the plot. The economy doesn't work for the people anymore and drastic productivity increases have somehow not really improved our lives in terms of freedom, time, physical/mental health, quite the opposite.
The majority of US taxes come from cities. It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces.
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This is nonsense and it looks like they gave themself some sort of award. "Should" be using and "drastically improve our communication" are bold claims, this seems like someone just wants to see if they can get people to start using something they made up.

People already have emojis in the first place, this is very obnoxious.
"Any article that doesn't heavily emphasise that excess sugar is right now killing people is suspect."

It is emphasized multiple times in the article.
We switched from EMC to PS for our on-prem stuff about 5 or 6 years ago. I sat in on some of the RFP process. PS was basically the same price for a vastly superior offering. You had to make a leap of faith, though, that PS would survive as a company.

Now there’s no doubt, so they probably have more pricing power. And EMC most likely has an offering that competes with the performance (or at least as close as they can get). Back then it was flash vs spinning disks.

We do most of our stuff in the cloud, BTW, and PS is faster for cheaper, by a wide margin. But we’re not going to bring that compute back (I’d like to).

One thing I remember was them being very open and direct, and they wanted to know a lot of heuristics about our data so they could give an accurate estimate about speed and dedup. Which was really close to the reality. Oh, and we’re using one of their devices for an Itanium OpenVMS cluster, it works like a charm. Try getting a startup to support that kind of setup these days, lol
The "sealed sender" feature talked about in the article.

They did make some changes to protect against this one: https://sgaxe.com/files/SGAxe.pdf when it started to get attention, but there will be other exploits to get SGX protected data.

As always, the best way to secure private information is not the collect it and keep it in the cloud in the first place.