SamUK96

As a somewhat partial astrophysicist, remembering the increasing scarcity of helium on Earth is always amusing. It's the second most abundant element in the universe, after all. It's just that when you are near a star, light elements are easily heated and move away quickly towards the oort cloud and interstellar space.

Calling Facebook a "private company" is rather odd I find.

This was probably the most pragmatic transaction i've seen all week.

That blob is (ironically) extremely ideological/generalising. Doesn't mean I don't disagree with it though, maybe just the approach/tone.

I believe you may be grouping strong (and maybe not always right) opinions with flat out chaotic evil trolls (whom there are actually extremely few).

It's been intruiging to grow up witnessing the appearance of the term "troll", initially designated to IRC and other net spammers, to it's present and increasingly meaningless, nebulous definition of "mean people on the internet". It's a big difference, which your linked blob quite interestingly evidences :D

This tier system would be gamed within seconds believe me.

Little bit vague but here goes:

technology: Loopback (based off of ExpressJS, which is based off of NodeJS, which is based off of Javascript, wew....)

by organised, if you mean dir structure then the top levels are /helper-scripts (bash), /models (resource type property JSONs and JS scripts for RPCs), /server (entrypoint points, middleware, etc.), and a few misc files.

if by organised you mean source control, then it's bundled with the same repo as my uis, lb, etc. one repo => one app is a golden rule.

what other meanings of "organised" could you mean? Design methods maybe?

If anyone wonders why, it is because the UK over here has a little legal loophole where carrying acid in any reasonable (non-truckload) amount is not in any way a criminal or incriminating act, where-as guns, knives, and loads of other things are.

What is sad is it's taking so long for policians to wake up and realise that some non-scientist carrying a huge jug of acid in a backpack is kinda obviously incriminating...

> To those who complain of unfairness, I say "welcome to the world experienced for generations by the very people you now resent because you have to walk in their shoes for a few steps".

I've always had a big problem with this often said bit. It's basically revenge. You're saying "people X were disadvantaged by people Y a long time ago and you are decendants of Y so you should pay."

It's frankly crazy and I can't understand why there is still a small minority of people who actually believe this "revenge for your older generation's mistakes" madness.

> cultivating a culture that at least somewhat reflects your customer base

Bad point. Let's pretend that hiring people on a merit that they are like your customers is a good idea for a sec, then for a lot of tech companies whose customers are more likely white and male, we should hire tonnes of white males! It an invalid reason.

> it is a.) true and b.) vastly underappreciated by many who frequently express their lack of appreciation with statements about "hiring the best person for the job" and the like.

We just established it's most often not true? And any sources for this customer-employee-demographic-matching hypothesis you're claiming is "true"?

If I was a vegetarian, i'de be asking "if not animal fat, then what?". Synthetic glue? Vegetable glue (milk-based for example)? All these have their own damages on the biosphere, indirectly. The mining for loads of synthetic products is associated with deforestation, and vegetable-based products can sometimes be orders of magnitude worse (for example listen up and take yout seats for the upcoming crises palm oil has/is/will cause, the media is getting fired up for that one with test articles showing interest (see: nutella)).

I don't get it, instead of taking arbitary stances, can't we take more informed stances? Maybe animal-based binding agents kills the least animals for all we know...

...People will find a new way to game Google.

I mean look at how Google blacklisted a bunch of tor exit nodes over the last 1-2 years, making google through tor all but impossible. Then in the past few months. Some people have started doing auto proxy rotation out of their exit boxes to fool Google.

This is instantly what I thought too. Essentially this guy is teaching how to get rich by using SEO, catchy gimmicks/ideas, and the likes. The spam teacher themselves get filtered, how ironic.

I read the first 2 paragraphs and that is all I needed to read to know this is utter bias garbage. Essentially "mean people called me mean things and cuck is a word born from ultra-right extremists who are mean and arn't smart like me.

How and why has this been linked to on HN? Has it been flagged already?

I'de say that morally it is righteous, in the most basic sense of the word, but also you should remember that it's always easy to talk words and call for the spending of money that is not yours, to help others. Enacting these things in the real world is a different beast, and something as seemingly benign and harmless as "helping out the oppressed", can have unintended consequences.

Africa aid is a fantastic example of these consequences. The west have gradually realised over time that giving aid to these impoverished countries has far too often substandard effects to the long term health of the local communities. The aid creates dependancy, it breeds corrupt african polititians/war-lords who funnel-up all the aid money,. In summary something you'd think "Yep, definitely moral and righteous!" can do damage, even if I believe effective aid to africa is a thing we should do (but i believe a lot of the aid systems in place presently are utterly shambolic).

Give a man a fish and all that...

In the end politics and people are always more complicated than you think, more than I, you, or a little quipy saying could grok. So deriding and shouting at people (like you blatantly did to the parent comment, which was somewhat insightful and not low quality) who maybe just try and look at things from different angles, be the "Tenth Man" so to speak, isn't going to solve absolutely anything, and more relavently is not something you should be doing on HN, at all.

You shifted the burden of proof, although probably not intentionally here.

You are making the claim of whether the physical and psychological differences should have much of an effect, so the burden of proof is on you.

I think about this a lot. I worry that the people of yesteryear had a simpler and probably tougher life, but a more fulfilling one.

Like I always said, a cold beer on a hot day feels so much better when you know you've earned it. Today, do we feel we've earned that big TV, the big car, the free social housing? It's all faceless and non-creative.

I found some of your comments quite insightful, especially about varying stabilising forces for varying income/social classes.

I think the old (paraphrased) quote is relavent here: A rich man saves up for a £300 pair of new shoes that will last him a decade, while a poor man buys a £5 pair of boots every month because they wear down quickly.

Honestly, being able to fix some things is one of the most important traits to have if you want to save money. Learn some motor maintenance skills (well, with DRM'ed cars now that may be a bit harder), basic shoe repairs, computer repair, woodwork, etc.

I think we've lost our way with technology somewhat (and i'm a young millenial!). I see my dad and how he helped build some of the rooms in our house, did basic diagnostics for our car when it acted up, made our home's wooden stair railing from scratch. And he worked as a manager for a small basic factory. I can't see anybody my age being able to even just sand some rough edges down from freshly-cut wood, or being able to jack-up a car. It's depressing what advanced technology and increased societal specialisation has done to us younger generations...

Unless you're coding in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

But your language choice means that you do disapprove. Clearly.

That's like the classic of saying "no offense" after you realise it was actually a obviously offensive thing to say. It doesn't change anything and is a semantically meaningless statement, and you still were offensive.

I dislike how HN'ers attach meaningless disclaimers like these at the end of every sentence they make because they're so afraid of getting downvoted. It just goes to show how much damage over-moderation, echo-chambers, and such things make to honest and legitimate discourse.

If you want to make a statement at least own it.

History will tell you that AMD and laptops don't play nice together. AMD CPU's have typically very high TDP's.

However i am hopeful that AMD will change their ways from a crude brute force "moar power" approach (very high wattages/TDP's for performance gains) to a more finely-tuned, intellegent, and environmentally-friendly approach with higher efficiency (getting more performance per Watt/TDP)

Punishment/containment systems like jails, fines, etc., have always worked this way, and history tells you it will never stop. If anything it has gotten better since, way, 1700's, where the rich simply were the law.

I'm pretty much a total novice with low-level aspects of storage, but if this is essentially writing junk to the windows bootloader or something to preveny booting to OS, couldn't one just plug the HDD as a non-ROOT drive to another PC and recover some of the important files?

I've seen people successfullu do this before after their super old ROOT disk gets corrupted exactly where the windows bootloader is...

This was just a low quality comment.

Google are in the wrong here, and essentially saying that SV's ignorance towards anti-competitive and despotic behaviours is a good thing is just stupid.

Proprietary code blobs running in everyone's browsers. God what a recipe for absolute carnage...

Be careful when you buy that book about buildings, criminals live in buildings!!

Sounds about the right level of logic for upper echelons of UK police, who also for the most part still live in the 17th century...

I wouldn't be surprised if they thought online piracy was kids building ships in Minecraft...

Although the paper could have provided a more quantative introduction, like with the doomsday part, however the math on these kinds of things have been done and done again over and over in so many papers, approaching from geological (looking at the rock layers and looking for the frequency of layers that indicate poor living conditions like embedded soot, certain rock types that suggest high energy impact, etc.), archeological (looking at the number of species from fossils in rock layers and looking for large decreases), and physical (solar system asteroid simulations, mathematical study, etc.).

In the end it's been done and the scientific community are well aware of the evidence. They don't need to re-invent the wheel be summarising/repeating this research...

It is sometimes hard to tell with these types of very slowly developing changes if there is actually a worsening or not situation happening. It's like watching grass grow in real time and trying to see if it's length is _really_ changing. Is it really getting worse or is it an enormous "good old days" fallacy? Mixture of the two? Scientific evidence of course points to a very grim future of more dry, hot, barren, inhospitable land area...

In the UK, my parents had snow every year where they lived. Now snow in the same area is getting extremely rare, happening only twice in large-ish amounts over the past 10 to 15 years (source: i lived there too for over 20 years). Over my (rather) short time on Earth, i swear that we never used to get so many heatwaves as a child.

It feels like we all collectively killing our children (or if not them, then their children), but nobody can do anything about it. The future of Earth's climate is one of those things that really gets people down it seems from a very anecdotal view of the people around me. The helplessness of it all.

Used JWT more as an example of increasingly advanced telescopes, not as a specific type of telescope, but maybe it wasn't the best example...

I think it's a right-of-passage now for every technology-orientated person to realise that Stallman isn't crazy after all this time about Intel, social media and the general degenerating human race he always bangs on about...

It's my general opinion that if anybody feels the need to write "top" before scientists, it's because they want people to believe it more.

And once you know that, then you have to ask why do they want people to believe that more than anything else.

And then I close the article and move on :)