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Archive: https://archive.is/20240707001203/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/world/asia/tokyo-goverors...
The fact they're closing the Astro business branch suggests hardly anyone must have bought them. It sounds like they're continuing to make the robots though, just for home consumers instead, which sounds like a more difficult market to me but who knows
this kind of reductive thinking misses all kinds of nuance and detail. farming isn't just plant seeds, add water, get yield, or put male and female animals in a field, get infinite animals.

one of the biggest reasons that so many people are involved in farming is that there are a huge number of operations which are extraordinarily difficult to scale. some things can only be picked by hand or only grow in specific soil conditions or are clever enough to escape enclosures routinely.

this is where automation comes in. autonomous tractors, robotic pickers, synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery, drone-applied fertilizer, AI-enabling video monitoring, etc.
Tim Doucette is legally blind. But he can see stars better than you do
> but that's not what drove colonization.

What drove colonization?
> The same could be said of food, water, and safe shelter.

Strong disagree. Let's think back 100, 200 years. A huge percentage of the population built their own shelter and grew their own food. The idea that the government ought to be required to supply these to everyone (as a "fundamental right") is very much a late 20th century concept.

I agree that the government stepping in and trying to feed and house all its citizens is a noble goal - but this leads to a discussion around some minimum amount of effort and personal responsibility, or whether you want to live in a society where nothing is ever expected of the people, that it's OK for healthy, capable citizens to simply "opt-out" of work or productive pursuits, knowing the government is responsible for providing food, clothes and housing, seeing that it's a "fundamental right."
I'm sorry you feel that way I guess. Maybe try re-reading my comments as someone who is between camp 2 and 3.
I already own a copy! I was just wondering whether it was against HN guidelines to post the entirety of a copyrighted work. Perhaps I should have been more direct.
Mostly, when he's tired or distracted, I hear questions like "Where the cat is?" instead of "Where is the cat?", or "What the clock is?" rather than "What is the time?"

I can see where both of those come from, but 95% of the time he asks questions "properly". I realized recently it has been years since he got a persons gender wrong - that was a hard one for him to learn, as with all Finnish people, but it seems to have finally sunk in.
Pretty funny that this cites a 2015 Numberphile video, considering that my paper with Persi Diaconis was published in 1992.

(You know you're on to something when so many people misquote and misinterpret your result, and say it sucks!)

Of the many formulations of Gilbert-Shannon-Reeds, an easy one to generalize is running the shuffle in reverse. One could flip a fair coin for each card, to decide if it flies up to the right or left hand. Equivalently, let heads fly up to the same hand as before, and let tails fly up to the other hand. As an unfair coin approaches always tails, the inverse shuffle becomes smoother, approaching a perfect shuffle, which Persi can easily do.

One way to measure how smoothly one shuffles is to flip one hand's packet over before shuffling, then count face up / face down runs. For a perfect shuffle, there will be 52 singleton runs: up, down, up, down... For GSR shuffles there will be 26 1/2 runs on average. Experienced human shuffles tend to exhibit 30 to 40 runs. While only GSR can be solved in closed form, one can run simulations to see what happens with smoother shuffles. As a somewhat surprising coincidence, one approaches randomness most quickly with shuffles corresponding to 30 to 40 runs.
Well, if they want no one to use their libraries, then fine. You would think that as a person publishing library code to a public registry, you would be incentivized to ensure your code is broadly usable. At least in general.

I know this is in the context of JSR where this isn't an issue, but I suppose some people just want to just use a registry as a personal code repository. Id just hope they don't pollute the top level namespace in that case.

Who am I kidding, sadly for NPM that ship sailed years ago :*-(
I work at Twitch and I can just barely understand this post, the level of depth people find in these "finished" games is astounding.
every layoff survivals make me more soul-less towards my day job. I could not agree more. I stopped buying into the bs mission north stars and short phrase missions. I just do my work and shut off.
I know my take is bullshit, lol.

I don’t have time nor energy to craft a perfect comment with evidence and good reasoning, many people smarter than me have done it multiple times (and many millions have died proving Marxism wrong).

You can waste whole life and arguing with idiots about stupid ideas, not my cup of tea )
Jevon's paradox is not inevitable, and only happens in a very few situations, and certainly not all.

And your statement of it is incorrect. It can result in greater demand, but it's not about resulting greater resource usage.

Some minority of efficiency improvements can sometimes lead to greater resource consumption, but overall efficiency does result in less resource usage.
Did... did you just call Richard Feynman a "tool"?
Oh out company mission has respect, honesty, and integrity in it all while trying to staff every project not legally mandated otherwise with offshore staff.
That's hilarious, somehow I had never seen that one before! I love how it immediately makes it much more visceral how wild things can get without needing to get into the weeds of how programming languages work.
A possibel way, I have not read the paper yet.

Found this promising material
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371624900_The_do-it...

Found via google search with words >>DIY 3d printer Floppy Disk, MAgnetic flux<<

( I understand it would produce massive amounts of data, since it is recording the analogue value of the magnetic flux level readings. )
I'll admit, that's a good one.
This article shows, in many examples, Goodheart’s law and Pournelle’s iron law of bureaucracy. You can’t make a hierarchical organization achieve outcomes people outside of the organization see as valuable through incentives because they cause side effects that will be counter-productive as soon as they move your organization out of its current state.

The article says it’s impossible to solve this problem. But I think the real problem is hierarchical organizations. They act as extractive institutions, removing value from people until those people realize what has become of them and then become parasites on the organizations.

The way out was provided by the framers of agile. I’m not talking about modern, consultant driven agile that uses the language of scrum to give organizations renewed extractive power. I’m talking the agile that provides value through close customer collaboration. That provides people inside the organization and outside the ability to influence each other. Closing the feedback loop eliminates disconnects and maps problems to solutions.
How do you believe that violates your company mission exactly?
I've been heavily advocating for this honesty in my current organization. It's painfully obvious that money is all that matters, we can stop with the unnecessary lies.

The mission can be capitalistic. We can say our mission is to be the best in our industry for our region. No need to say we are changing X amount of lives (because we aren't).

Then you attract talent that is keen on working in an organization striving to be the best (meaning being on the leading edge of tech in a given industry). But keeping a more altruistic mission when it's not true is just a recipe for disillusionment and higher personnel rotation.
I know that steel isn't aluminum but the mini mill for steel changed everything:

Here is a current example of marketing hype around this:
https://www.primetals.com/portfolio/mini-mills/mini-mills-fo...

They arent new, but they did kill big steel in America: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-inno... (long but a great read).

I would have thought that aluminum would have gone this way as well.
I believe the intention behind isolatedModules is to make compilation faster by forcing you to define types that require no inference from other files (thus, being isolated).

Not… whatever this is.
Hikaru Nakamura: I Played the Messi of Chess, a.k.a. Faustino Oro [video]
No. Don't redesign the whole system! Why do people have that reflex?
I almost can’t believe that I am defending this sort of thing, but if every company has the same mission of making money, then perhaps it is redundant to state it? Leaving the mission statement free to describe a way in which value is to be created.
The "windows for Data" and Vermont views target LOTS platforms , including DOS and lots Unix variants
Show HN: A job board exclusively for quantum tech roles
I recently became annoyed with the poor quality of existing quantum tech job aggregators and the indifferent quality of Indeed/LinkedIn when searching for these roles. It's not great for both job seekers and employers for a few reasons.

The aforementioned sites are polluted by companies that use quantum branding even though they don't do any quantum physics at all (see the first result on LinkedIn for the 'quantum' search term).

Also, the ultra-niche nature of the field, IMO, makes megasites like Indeed and LinkedIn less useful than they would otherwise be, especially for employers. Just having the word 'physics' on a resume does not make someone qualified, yet my friends involved in hiring complain about exactly these kinds of people being funneled to apply by Indeed. This is a waste of money and time.

As the field expands, the amount of listings for supporting engineering roles (RF, mechanical, systems, software, etc) are exploding. I believe having a site dedicated to listing these jobs without competing with other engineering listings outside of the quantum tech field will help capture the attention of engineers who are interested in quantum computing/sensing/comms/etc.

TL;DR- I think it should be easier to find and sort quantum jobs. By serving this specific community, I'm banking on employers seeing a much higher SNR when they see applications originating from my site versus the jobs megasites.
Wealth, power, expansion of territory, and a state religion that made "spiritual expansion" a life goal for monarchs.

If you read about various big colonial enterprises, eg the Spanish colonisation of the Americas it's rare to see technology mentioned as a motivation that drives the action, at best it's an enabler that provides success when expanding into less advanced territory.

eg:

The Spanish expansion has sometimes been succinctly summed up as being motivated by "gold, glory, God", that is, the search for material wealth, the enhancement of the conquerors' and the crown's position, and the expansion of Christianity to the exclusion of other religious traditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Am...
Strawman, heh:

>LOL

LOL yourself, to the power of infinity!

>"Bringing logic to a risk and uncertainty analysis."

Your word salad doesn't faze anyone, least of all me. And anyway, what do you think "risk and uncertainty analysis" is, except logic? Do you analyse things with your gut or your butt (!), rather than with your nut (aka head)? Pathetic.

As for cults, I have come across more than one, and don't give a shilling for any of them - pun intended, he he.
Yes, mission statements are usually just bullshit.

But if you want to fulfil your mission you still need to make money, otherwise you have a dead company.

Making money can never be a goal in itself. At the very least the money serves the status of founders and shareholders or enables one to pursue economically unviable hobbies.
> He's as smart as I am, so it wasn't an intelligence flaw.

I literally wow-ed out loud.

I've always felt everybody around me is much smarter than me. Now I have found the opposite personality — somebody who is fully confident about themselves.
The conspiracy to make worse lightbulbs
Measuring the losses due to abuse is much easier than measuring the cost of bureaucracy.
It demonstrates a different mission which goes unmentioned officially.
Child labor is absolutely coming back in Republican led states.

https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most...

> Last Friday, this concerted attack on child labor safeguards further expanded. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed an expansive bill enacting numerous changes to the state’s child labor laws, including:

> allowing employers to hire teens as young as 14 for previously prohibited hazardous jobs in industrial laundries or as young as 15 in light assembly work;

> allowing state agencies to waive restrictions on hazardous work for 16–17-year-olds in a long list of dangerous occupations, including demolition, roofing, excavation, and power-driven machine operation;

> extending hours to allow teens as young as 14 to work six-hour nightly shifts during the school year;

> allowing restaurants to have teens as young as 16 serve alcohol; and

> limiting state agencies’ ability to impose penalties for future employer violations.
We can invent post hoc rationalizations, just like LLMs can
They already know how to grow, transport, store, and cook rice. Just give them the seeds.

I think you're the one proposing to supply "Vitamin A enriched foods (carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, kale...?)", which they may not know how to grow, transport, store, or cook.
Some companies truly have a more altruistic mission behind them that drives their decisions.

The issue is that many companies that are truly after just money pretend they are not.
This seems like a lot of words to just say "you are wrong". Can you explain why? What features of the scientific method cannot be achieved through the composition of existing technologies? Feel free to be specific and use technical terms.
They typically make money by having a territory, and trying to win on that. For instance, Adobe has creative apps as its territory, and it tries to buy the competition, jack up the prices, make it hard to cancel, and tacitly encourage people who can't afford it like students to use it anyways. The mission statements usually indicate what this territory is.

They don't have to rightfully own this territory. Most don't.

I was thinking of it along the lines of the territory because of A War of Art by Stephen Pressfield which I read a long time ago. I should read it again because I'm not sure I got it right: https://jareddees.com/territorial-vs-hierarchical-orientatio... But I would argue that Stephen Wolfram would be a good example of this, where he had a similar role for decades.
Blizzard was famous at the time for having a release date of "when it's done" for all of their project. One of the lessons to learn from their success in those times is that, at least in art/wntertainment, time is not nearly as critical as quality.
What’s destroying higher education is educators that do nothing but read publisher provided PowerPoint presentations.
This is a great idea and I’m glad you built it .

Looking forward to trying it out over the next few weeks. I’ve been building 52 startups in 52 weeks and documenting it under 52shipped.com
I had no idea the terran SCV floated. I thought it had wheels.
Your "blip" anecdote is super interesting. I know that exact sensation of disorientation (but without the migraines thankfully), and I'm curious if this has been studied in depth anywhere.
> Sounds like the type of labor-intensive scheme that suits a developing economy.

Much of this work does not suit any living human.

https://www.ft.com/content/ef42e78f-e578-450b-9e43-36fbd1e20...

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbo...
This is a great comment! I only hope to add color, not to dispute any of it.

In my experience software shops that find product/market fit exceptionally early can not only tolerate benign neglect, but are best served by it while that market is still contended.

Capitalism works amazingly well when the referees just Godzilla stomp on cronyism and nepotism and monopoly and other market failures: the sharpest people want to work places that are in the fight and give everyone a stake in the outcome: such people in such settings are largely self-organizing on the basis of mutual respect and esprit des corps. A clear and serious competitor or competitors rapidly weed out ceremony and careerism while strengthening ruthless meritocracy (which is incidentally good for inclusiveness: no shortage of ethnic minorities in pro ball).

The tricky thing is keeping the incentives aligned as markets mature and the rot of capture sets in. All of today’s high-profile behemoths lobby extensively and employ former McKinsey people in policy level roles (Google is run by one).

Unfortunately it’s not as simple as throwing out the careerist middle managers or domain-soft executives when the scale exceeds “hacker culture”, you need executives that use their organization-fu to hold the rent seekers in check, and that is a rare breed.
I’ve always thought that it’s a difference between intuitives (abstract, and possibilties) vs sensors (concrete, and what is/was)
If you're only interested in technologies ready for imminent public distribution, you should probably ignore coverage about early research and check out press releases from battery manufacturers. If that's not good enough... try amazon?
I'm glad he wrote the comment to fight misinformation.
Yes, it's that they have a history of promoting a technology that never arrived.

Use of bromine doesn't sound terribly practical.
I'm sorry that you spent so much time writing out so many irrelevant questions when the topic we're discussing is the threat to women's rights from males who feel entitled to usurp every space that's intended solely for women. I'll answer the relevant ones and ignore the others. I don't see much point in encouraging gish gallop discussions, let's keep it focused.

> Do you think it would be safe for a trans woman who has surgically transitioned to be housed in a male prison?

Depends on how well the prison is safeguarding its vulnerable male prisoners. I expect your implication here is that he should be moved to a female prison. That's usually why this question is asked in this sort of discussion. However this would obviously be nonsense, as he is male and therefore his safety is the responsibility of those running the male prison. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the female prison estate.

> I dedicated almost that whole previous post trying to get you to define what a right to "fairness" really means, but you ignored all those questions.

No, sorry but you asked a load of questions irrelevant to the topic. Just to expand on my earlier response: female-only sporting competitions exist for the most part because male performance is such a huge categorical advantage that sex segregation is needed for the competitive advantages amongst women and girls to play out. Allowing a subset of males to compete in women's sport just because they demand to is fundamentally unfair, because of this categorical advantage.
The first company I joined had all of these amazing core values and talked about how each employee must exemplify these things. I totally ate it up and noted times that demonstrated these values so I could use them on my annual review.

In my first 2-3 years I always hoped for raises and promotions, but nothing came of it. When I stopped caring, a role opened and I was promoted and got my raise. It was then I realized that it wasn't because I "demonstrated core values," it's because I fit the role and it opened up which made the company more money.

The best advice I got from this experience is to make your boss look good. Whatever that is, make more money and build great things, and you will be rewarded with your raises and promotions. Otherwise, go find better opportunities on your own if they won't give it to you. As for following company values, don't take it too seriously but pretend you do and play along.
That's a false generalization. A lot of companies, such as Google and Uber, have meaningful, and understandable missions that they successfully realized, at least for a while.

Also, the mission and the values are separate things. The values are more prone to being made up.
Cars are already shipping with Sodium based batteries, and you can buy the cells yourself on Alibaba

https://electrek.co/2023/12/27/volkswagen-backed-ev-maker-fi...

https://www.alibaba.com/premium/sodium_ion_battery/---------...
It killed it for me also, and really gaming in general.

If I need permission from your server to play, then it's not really mine. And the whole thing with StarCraft for me and my friends is that this was our thing.

Several of us are now network engineers because we had to learn that skillset to play StarCraft at a LAN party without lag. The phone lines weren't cutting it.

Injecting blizzard servers into the loop, to be tolerated without recourse, totally ruined it for those of us who didn't live near a decent ISP. We were so excited about the sequel and it turned out to be pretty much unplayable online.
does the iris look good?: https://keeb.io/products/iris-keyboard-split-ergonomic-keybo...
>Maybe a cultural difference between those who experienced LAN parties and those who didn't.

I think this is it more than anything. If all you know is "quick match" matchmaking, it's hard to realize what you're missing. LAN parties were really awesome.
This sounds more like its signaling a downturn not defying it.
Prioritizing care does not mean everyone lives forever. Hospitals do not have a magic wand to wave.

Equally it does not mean unlimited resources. Clearly we live in a real world, and Healthcare will always be resource constrained to some degree.

Those who allocate resources still decide priorities, and clearly health becomes balanced with education, justice, military and so on.

So perhaps in deciding between for-profit and non-profit it's really a decision between who gets to allocate the resources. Do we prefer people out to squeeze every last dime out of you, or people looking to get re-elected by their constituents?
Teaching math is not a substitute for teaching general problem-solving skills.
Turns your device into a radio... And then you see a bunch of comments talking about IPs.

This has a "download more ram" ring to it. You cannot download hardware. This in no way shape or form transforms your device into a radio. It's an app to listen to internet streams... you know, cos phones have a really hard time with that
> regularly reach out to my representatives in writing. Nothing ever comes of it. None of the issues I bring up are ever brought into discussion

Where are you? Can you share a sample of the text you reach out with? Have you ever organised a group of people to sign on to what you’re advocating?

> too many competing interests within that group (as opposed to an upper limit per representative like it used to be @80,000)

You have no state representatives with smaller parcels?

> are fundamental and foundational to the functional operation of any feedback system. Its based solidly in actual history, not hyperbole

It’s hyperbole: the Stasi used violence as a political tool. Normalising them with rhetoric such as yours legitimises all of the mechanisms you describe escalating to including violence in their portfolio.
It’s 2024.

None of the screenshots under the gallery are compelling or even acceptable these days.

https://kivy.org/gallery.html

Electron thus far seems to be the king of “desktop” ui.
What an incredible perspective on the world given your background. Thank you for taking the time to write all of that out.
The article didn't mention Sherpas. But I assume they have the same gene?