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>And it's funny, I never see UBI supporters propose actual solutions for those. It's always just hand-waving, like they are prepared to give lip-service to the issue, but they're not really interested in solving it. It's self-serving politics by an elite who already has all the frameworks for solving their own psychological needs, as long as the material ones are satisfied. At least you have to give the full employment/Job Guarantee folks credit for actually trying to come up with something.

I guess I don't give so much credit because I'm a weirdo who doesn't get a lot of his psychological self-worth from his work. Yes, work can be interesting and engaging sometimes. So can any number of other things in my life, none of which pay me wages.

I also don't think that assembly-line jobs ever actually provided for people's psychological needs. That's part of why the '60s and '70s had so much wildcat worker militancy: people found that while they were glad to have their material needs met, they had absolute psychological needs beyond what their jobs could ever meet. So to turn it around: I think that "jobs for everyone" is likewise the self-serving politics of an elite who already gain far more life-satisfaction from their professional work than the masses ever will from manufacturing or services.

>For what it's worth, it's not like those things are in conflict anyway. UBI and full employment are complementary policies, they don't contradict each other.

Very true, and we should probably support both.
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Tech 8 - It's a Java shop, and I get to try out a lot of new things when we're evaluating them.

Office 10 - Full-time WFH for over 3 years.

People 8 - Generally a lot of good, smart people.

General Happiness 9 - Good job, well respected, good pay, no crunch time, educational assistance, it's really a great gig.
There is a tension between me wanting to use the fanciest shiniest features and me wanting it to be usable by the widest audience (even people using Microsoft compilers). I know of people that are still migrating their commercial code bases to C++14 that are interested in using them. It is probably in my best interest to support them, so it will take a while until I start using newer standards.

Anyways, the _implementation_ of the data structures themselves does not really benefit that much from C++17 (well, there might be some interesting stuff that I could do with hazard pointers...). However, people using the new concurrency stuff from the standard might really want to look into using immutable data structures to pass data between tasks.
Check out digit-array if you are interested in the generalized algorithm. The source code is commented with formal math notation for the operations.

https://github.com/deckar01/digit-array/blob/master/README.m...
Few reasons for me:

* HDMI and DP alt modes make laptop docks a lot cheaper and more universal

* Don't need an OTG cable to use a Type-C device on my Type-C phone

* Potential Thunderbolt 3 port reuse
Exactly, time to move on now that fake choice #2 won the election.

Almost comical how easily and predictably we stay on track in terms of bread and circuses politics/media - almost comical - if it weren't all real and there wouldn't be far reaching and dire consequences.

Let's not get played but stick together FFS.
I'm disappointed, I own the 9330 model and at the beginning in a quiet room, the coil whine was very distracting.

I don't know if my ears are less sensible or the noise level is diminished but now it doesn't disturb me so much.

This is probably their 4th/5th HW iteration for the XPS model and still they didn't bothered to check for the noise emissions. In their support forum I was baited to wait for a HW solution from a Dell employee that never materialized for what I consider a macroscopic defect... T__T
Comparing cold loading doesn't seem appropriate - one of the points of AMP is requiring you to hotlink to their specific resources, so as to benefit fully from cache, as more website get AMP'ed.
8

I have coworkers and a boss I like, a (mostly informal) project that I own, and usually get asked rather than told if there's another project someone wants to borrow me for.

OTOH anything relating to HR borders on the kafkaesque, and the processes around any project that's formal enough to be "on the radar" are almost as bad.
Strangely, both seem to use the same IP addresses (Maybe there is a load balancer there?) So, as far as I know, both are in France.
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> Removing the iPhone headphone jack was dumb and pointless.

I suspect there was a point. This is part of Apple's standard MO.

It's a way to wean people onto wireless (BT). Apple's expensive BT headphones point the way to cheap third party BT headphones that aren't painful to connect (right now bluetooth infrastructure is pretty sucky).

Once people are comfortable without the headphone wires they will have inductive charging like the watch and have a water resistant device like the new watch.
Poland...calling for weakened encryption and backdoors. Students are going to be so confused when they see that 4 chapters after WWII in their history books.
This was posted a few days ago - will repeat my comment here

Quotes:
> All human activities can be described by five high-level components: data, prediction, judgment, action, and outcomes.

> When the cost of a foundational input plummets, it often affects the value of other inputs. The value goes up for complements and down for substitutes.

-------------------------

The Cost-Per-Observation [1] has been on a race toward zero as I and others have written about. That covers the data portion of the author's five level components of human activity. What they are asserting in the article is that machine learning is going through a similar cycle and will become cheap and ubiquitous. The author's reassure us that although it will decrease the value of prediction (for example diagnosis) when visiting the doctor's office. It will increase the value of the other components, that is judgement and action.

I am not so sure that judgement and action are not on the table as well for commodification. In the case of self-driving vehicles we clearly need the car itself to take action (drive) for this to be real so doesn't that imply that the intervening step of judgement has also been covered? And, if we are encompassing and automating the full chain from data to prediction to judgement and action for the task of driving a vehicle why should we trust reassurances that judgement will increase in economic value as the price of prediction falls in other industries and activities?

Interested to hear the reflections of fellow HN readers.

[1] http://computationalimagination.com/article_cpo_decreasing.p...
10. Technology is incredibly interesting. But I base my number off the fact that I'm always pretty involved in product/growth/strategy at companies where I do software engineering and I'm 90% of the time working on an interesting side project. I swap back and forth between working for a company (always a 10-50 person startup) and working on my own company. I think to truly get the most out of engineering positions, you want to be really involved in the crafting of the overall solution to the problem, rather than being told precisely what it is and then immediately starting on the engineering work that needs to meet a handed over "spec".
Yes, if you actually believe that the new trade policies will be genuinely protectionist towards American labor in any substantive way.
From the text, it is pretty clear he wants people to think he's from Russia. From this I conclude two things:

1. He's not Russian.

2. This a good hacker but an amateur at OPSEC.
> Maybe self-sufficiency farming would be a better route.

Wow, are you me? When people ask me if I feel like programming is what I want to do the rest of my life I often reply with "No, I think one day I'll just drop it all and move on the country side". Nice to know I am not the only one :)
9

Mid 30s, Senior, Independent consultant, Generalist. Take on projects I find fun. Took 1 point off simply because income isn't steady and predictable.
If your cousin lost his home over an opioid addiction sustained over opioids prescribed after major surgery, where they are actually indicated the prescribing physician and the class of drugs are far down on the list of things to blame. At least in my world, they are.

There are psychological and social factors in addiction, and you can't just ignore these and solely hold physicians and pharmcos responsible for the opioid epidemic. The "addiction is a disease" model encourages this thinking - a drug addiction is acquired through contact with the abused drug and cured by detox, and it neglects to ask what factors predispose individuals to become victims of addiction. You can't forget that people live on Earth, which is a horrible place at times.
>Max Tegmark uses the term a bit differently

>he's quite clear about what he means.

but I didn't read him and it's pretty arrogant to assume I had to. Sure, I hadn't to butt in on the discussion, but I had to read the comment to find out I didn't want to read it, first. So I felt I had to say something. I mean, I thought it was informative, but obviously I didn't hit the right tone.
So is America.
A great deal of the cruft in modern distros comes from docs, example configs, etc -- things Alpine does a great job of cutting out. Obviously a glibc variant is going to have a much larger memory footprint, and (arguably) is less secure than an musl libc distro, but it gains the ability to run glibc-only software (cough Oracle Java cough) without having to ship around container/host images with all the extra junk deb packages bring along for the ride.
10

Early 30s. I love deep learning. Every day I'm challenged by my work, and inspired by the papers I read.

I love helping people bring this tech into their business, and making sure real problems get solved

The only thing that would change if I won the lottery would be I would have a larger GPU cluster
I don't think we know how to do the latter, in terms of colonization. Our experience locally is that living in hazardous environments is not something human beings can endure long term. We'd be asking people to live in a place that combines the worst elements of submarine and Antarctic living, with no real way of responding to any difficulty at all, even through communication.

Lot of people assume magical science fairies will solve this via "terraforming" or some other science fiction only idea, but more likely space exploration will remain unmanned probes if just because we aren't going to send a generation of explorers to their deaths or eventual madness.
What's your alternative? Do you already have a plan for this new business?
Phew, i do know that some of their reactors are pretty old but imho nuclear overall is pretty safe and one of the best ways available still for producing vast amounts of electricity. Hopefully they will build new ones to phase out the old
6/10 Total. Rationale:

3/4points Pay feels fair

1/3points surrounding people are funny, interesting, or mentors

1.5/2points difficulty of work is matched to me

0.5/0.5points purpose of work is meaningful

0/0.5points I exercise creativity

I wish I did more than just sit in my chair all day and look at incorrect printf statements and compiler errors. I want to try fun things that I have to be creative about, like marketing or sales or video editing. I don't want to be a programmer my whole life. But I don't even know where to start. It would be nice to be paid to learn at other places too.
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I'd like to live in a world where my grandchildren can live at all, so sustainability seems pretty damn important to me.
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What is the best way to get around Windows platform with golang?
LazyDLL ?
Go generate?
>Do you seriously think that any of the following global political challenges:
>
> - convince everyone on Earth to implement changes that are bad for them, like not eating animal-based foods, with only the promise of "maybe in 200 years your descendants, should your line not be extinct by then, will benefit" as compensation

Even if we assume that people are as self-centered as you portray them, eating meat is not necessarily good for you:

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/world-health-organization-...

> - reorganise every single human settlement and/or social structure on Earth to put people closer to their workplaces

Most of the world actually already lives like this. Yes, the urban sprawl of many American cities will have to go, but it can (and will) be done.

> - implement a global wealth redistribution scheme that doesn't start with North Korea conquering the planet through nuclear war

Such a system was implemented after WW2 (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan). Worked out pretty well.

> - successfully convince every NWS to destroy their nukes and institute a worldwide ban on nuclear weaponry

If we elect politicians who are more interested in cooperation than in sabre-rattling, and more interested in the problems of the people they represent than in the needs of the military-industrial complex, they will have few incentives for maintaining anything even remotely the size of the current stockpile. Great though it may be, we do not need an all-out ban on nuclear weapons to ensure our continued survival, only a (large) reduction in the size of the stockpiles. That not only makes sense from a survival perspective, but also economically.

> Are easier than the engineering challenge of building a colony on Titan? If yes, please let me into whatever politics-free, single world government utopia you're living in.

My lack of cynicism may be due to the fact that I live in Europe, where I can see more progress than stagnation in all of the areas you mention above. Given how close it was that a politician who advocated all of the above policies was elected as president of the USA, I think there is reason to be optimistic there as well.
With regard to the debounce issue, if you're running Ubuntu you can use dconf to set the slow keys timeout to a few ms (set slow keys to true as well) which will prevent basically all spurious extra keypresses. The theory being that your finger pressing a key sends a 'longer' signal than the bounce that sometimes occurs.

A side affect on my machine is that controlling brightness using the keyboard no longer works (other fn combinations still work) and pressing the power button no longer brings up the logout/suspend/etc menu. Somehow these keys always fire a really short press signal :|

So there's that.
Wow, crazy. Sounds like a huge ransomware infestation.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/hacked-appears-muni-stations-fare-...
They do not explicitly mention link power management, but I'd be surprised if they were not aware of this, since I remember this issue being mentioned in c't several times. They did ask Dell about the discrepancies in power consumption, and Dell says that it's mostly due to the new Kaby-Lake Intel GPU, which is not yet properly supported by Linux, and that probably the combination of Xorg and Unity draws more power than Windows.
They were able to reduce power consumption by 0,7W by setting i915.enable_psr, but that settings lead to temporary freezes of the screen.
I agree that your pricing model is more user-friendly and it's more inline with your cost model (mailboxes are free to provide). It's why I clicked on it. I spent about 3 minutes given my browser history, looking at your homepage and pricing page. What I absorbed, after seeing your HN "email from $4/mo" and then your homepage, was that this was primarily about being cheap. Maybe I'm an outlier, but that seemed to be the message you were sending me.

And I totally understand you're not trying to "Tech Crunch", I think a SaaS is a great side business -- i've done this myself -- but also the only way to ensure stability of a project over long term is for it to provide financial rewards inline with effort.

Also, I definitely should've added: Congrats on shipping.
Blame it on China. It's all China's fault. China has caused all sorts of problems and will continue to do so until it becomes a "democracy" defined by the U.S.
Your links are all broken.
If one likes being cheap, it's fun to mute Spotify if there's an Ad. Yeah...

function muteSpotifyOnAd()
if (hs.spotify.isRunning()) then
if (hs.spotify.getCurrentTrack():lower() == 'spotify') then
hs.spotify.setVolume(0)
else
hs.spotify.setVolume(100)
end
end
end
hs.timer.doEvery(10, muteSpotifyOnAd)
Are you the developer in the founder team or are you also filling the role for CEO and the like?
5, being an employee

I'm in my late 20's, working for the same company for the past 5 years (worked on 3-5 projects in total, though), C, C++, Qt, VTK, ITK... it's very interesting and also my preferred stack to work with, I also learn(ed) a lot here, so no complains. But currently I'm bored and also the financial situation on the company isn't helping. So yeah... 5.

10, starting my own business

After my 9-5 work and at weekends, I work on my own company (mobile security consulting). I'm full steam on this because everything non-technical is new to me, and I'm very excited to see where this is going.
In Manhattan, generally, there is more background checking and credit rating, etc. But I'm not so certain that is true in the outer reaches of NYC which would have housing that is more affordable to lower-wage workers.

Overall, NYC (and others) do not check papers for public school, health care, ... at least as far as I know. In fact, there was a NYTimes op-ed within the past month where 200 students at Berkeley are illegal immigrants.
Scala is broken by implicit constraints as well.

Makes me wonder how Dotty would hold up under similar conditions, or whether this sort of calculus on type constraints cannot guarantee a correct return.
Both Ikea and H&M are Swedish companies that have exported a brand that is synonymous with disposable culture, which is the point in the original article.

Why does it matter that they source their cheap labor and manufacturing from elsewhere? Furthermore Ikea and H&M are not quality goods.
The live track map of Muni has been frozen for two days now.

[1] http://www.sfmunicentral.com/sfmunicentral_Snapshot_Objects/...
If the effect size were much larger, like an OR of 3, that would be suspicious as well, since the ORs for suicide/accident/mortality/schizophrenia and Toxoplasma also tend to be in the 1-2 range. I would consider this as part of a broader picture showing a pervasive small-medium correlation of toxoplasma infections & bad things involving the central nervous system.

It's interesting because we know that a lot of other infectious agents can really screw up the nervous system, and psychiatric disorders repeatedly show genetic correlations with the immune system.
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Director of Engineering, 12 years professional experience.

Tech side: 10. I love programming, I love the language and framework we use, and I love having the ability to make the decisions we need to make without too much interference from above. I'm able to give back to the community in my spare time, which is great.

Product side: 6ish. The problem space isn't particularly fascinating, but some of the issues we run into I can get pretty fired up about. All in all, I'd rather work on my own projects than my company projects, but them's the breaks.

Office: 8. We're a 100% remote company. The flexibility is incredible and all my friends are jealous, but the main downside is that I've learned that I'm a fairly social creature, and I get really, really lonely working from home all the time. I got a new puppy a month ago, which seems to make things better. We'll see how it goes from here on out.
EDIT: I misunderstood your question; ignore this comment. You might want to clarify in the OP.
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It seems odd to sell sugary drinks in hospitals in the first place. I have been sick enough that my parents offered me all the chocolate I could eat, so I can see a reason for selling that in a hospital, but suger water has absolutely no benefits.
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The key point here is "lincensed": totalitarian (or banana republics) and corrupt regimes have this convenient way of "licensing" to throw away anyone they don't like.
<<

Isn't it something they learnt from the developed countries? Never mind patent trolls
I like my job. Because I am my own boss. New tech is fine. Lots can be leveraged through APIs and one has to accept to let go of some control in order to get results that are up to the expectations of today bleeding edge solutions. I have seen quite a couple of hype cycles and one shouldn't jump on all bandwagons. But money falls on the parade so it is important to be able to join it in some way.
Down voted by a Swedish person no doubt.
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someone who is interested should just file a foia about the trainer, it's likely declassified by now.
Indeed. Since we started from scratch we were very careful about what goes in and what doesn't. Not trying to be ignorant regarding 2FA, but rather always prefer to hear the actual reasons.

Nevertheless, thank you guys for all the suggestions, we will work to get 2FA in ASAP.
Yes, that's the one. The problem with the HDMI on the DA200 docking station is that they tested several monitors and and they either did not work at all or only with low resolutions. They asked Dell about it and Dell itself says that they do not recommend using the DA200 and similar docking stations with Linux.
I'm the CEO. Everyone working on it is a developer.
To quote Barack Obama "We won."

My sense is that we'll see this kind of tripe written over the next 4 or 8 years from little snowflakes.
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> bound to some custom hot keys to move/resize my windows around my external monitors

iTerm2's hotkey is pretty terrible in my opinion. I've bound this function to make it work for me:

function iTermHotkeyHandler()
local iterm = hs.application.get('iTerm2')
if (iterm) then
local window = iterm:mainWindow()
if not window then
if iterm:selectMenuItem('New Window') then
window = iterm:mainWindow()
end
return
end
if iterm:isFrontmost() then
iterm:hide()
else
window:focus()
end
end
end
hs.hotkey.bind('cmd', 'space', iTermHotkeyHandler)

*me: I really should put these in some gist somewhere.
I should also mention that I don't expect every programmer to find career value out of the book. I like math, I hear from a lot of programmers who want to like math more (for fun or side projects or work), and I feel like I'm in a good position to help them.
Try, Cooks Country https://www.cookscountry.com/ is by far the best. You can grab the recipes on line, that's how they make their money so you pay, and they show you how to cook it on the show. You can't go wrong. Also, Jacques focuses on French recipes. Yes, it's nice but that's not the only type of food I want to cook.
I develop with Go on Windows 10 and have had no issues. I use vscode as an IDE, as long as your GOPATH is set correctly, everything works fine.

What issues are you experiencing?
I thoroughly enjoyed Gyles' speech! Thanks for sharing
Yes but don't forget he is primarily a researcher (and an extremely famous one at that).
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Maybe someone should start a commune for ex-software-engineers.
I grew up on a farm, and that's why I'm a programmer! (I kid! Actually it was the summers working construction that drove me to programming.)

Farming is not such fun, but rural living is pretty cool.
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Exactly, we prefer using the right service for the right task at hand. Personal / business mail is not for sending bulk emails. It also carries reputation penalties.
I meant leveraging the win32 api in Go.