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> I don't exactly see the benefit of adding Rust here.

From that perspective, there isn't any. Dyed-in-the-wool "QT app-devs", if there is such a category (KDE devs?) already have access to Rust libraries, in the same way they have access to most stuff in weird compiled languages: you wrap the library in a C ABI and call that. It's a well-understood process in QT land.

I think this project is more an effort to give Rust projects access to a native graphics toolkit (that happens to be QT) for adding a GUI to a previously CLI application. I could see, for example, the Parity Ethereum client (written in Rust) getting a native system-tray/notification-area widget written in QT.
This site is sluggish on a pretty beefy laptop.

edit: Using Google Chrome Version 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Uhm, it is not exactly subsidies in Norway, but a reduction in a very high tax for EVs, making them comparatively more affordable than ICEs.
Excellent summary of some of the techniques you can use to speed up Webpack builds. It'll be interesting to see how the ongoing work on performance in Webpack 4 relates to this [0] [1], and I'd guess that the just-announced Rust->WASM sourcemap lib work [2] will help too.

If anyone's looking for more info on this topic, my React/Redux links list has a large section of additional posts on improving Webpack build perf, code splitting, bundle size optimization, and other related techniques [3].

[0] https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/6244

[1] https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/945486181575340032

[2] https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/954053251854344192

[3] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
Michael Meeks is a wonderful guy, love his "Up early..."
i think the benefit is more for Rust users who find they need to make a GUI. There aren’t many good options right now so this will probably be welcome.
The willingness to slog though abusive working conditions is one of the most highly-selected-for trait in tech. Mature people are, on average, are less willing to do this than young people of the customarily military age range.
Good! Competition is good. JVM was just-okay until .NET came along and forced it to become great. I have my own car still because I don't like getting in strange cars all the time. Most of time time it's okay, sometimes I am with company and want privacy. Also when I need reliability it's worth paying $20 for parking in FiDi/SoMa (sometimes cheaper than a round trip from the Sunset), and it's nice for group adventures to not have a stranger in the car... slightly more/less convenient than rental options like Zip, depending on personal factors.

Driverless taxi would make me a lot less likely to own I think, covers a few more use cases. I still like cruising up Great Highway and through the park (and the whole BA is beautiful), it'd be nice if they had a leisure mode for the Sunday Drive, maybe even with parking to leave stuff while you venture away.
Slack desktop engineer here: We're not discontinuing anything – we're just offering more options.
It's like with PCs. HP/Lenovo/Dell/Acer sit between Apple on one hand, and unlabeled Chinese products on the other. But almost nothing differentiates them from each other. Customers don't necessarily want the cheapest product, but for everyone looking at the mid-range product, nobody is going to pay more for HP versus Dell. And that's reflected in these companies razor-thin profit margins.

Cities are the same way. Between New York and San Francisco on one hand, and Gary on the other, there are dozens of perfectly fine cities and the only reason to pick one versus the other is how good of a tax deal you can get. Nobody is going to pay a significant tax premium to be in Columbus versus Raleigh.
> Isn't much... $200/yr.

For comparison: California $83/yr. Nevada $33/yr.
>The question is, does that do them any good? It might help them in the rare case there's a problem with navigation data, but 99% of the time it's a wasted effort

Yes, very much so. The road layout in London is absolutely insane, because the city was established in AD 43. Finding efficient routes requires a great deal of local knowledge and contextual understanding.

Black cab drivers are extremely good at minimaxing journey time. If they have a choice between a route that always takes 30 minutes or a route that sometimes takes 25 minutes and sometimes takes an hour, they'll usually choose the former.

They're required to memorise both routes and landmarks, so they're phenomenally good at fuzzy matching for destinations. If you ask to go to "that place where all the goths and weirdos hang out", they'll take you straight to Camden Lock. They have an uncanny knack for getting confused tourists back to their hotel, based on the scantest of descriptions in the most broken of English.

Uber has a role to play in London, but it's undoubtedly an inferior option. Black cab drivers are a part of the fabric of London and it'd be a tragedy if they were pushed out of business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws-eyqWHNPs
The real root problems with the system are that a tiny minority of very sick patients account for an overwhelming majority of treatment costs; that it's difficult to prevent this from happening; and that the current care structures make it hard to take early action to incentivize these patients to improve.

It also is almost impossible to have a real discussion about this fact because it makes people uncomfortable.
Yes, but the comment you responded to was probably in reference to saying that Pixel devices don't cost much, not about the relative benefits of Apple phones.
> We live in an age where "Muslim ban" sounds like appropriate policy to about half the population.

When has someone pushed for a "Muslim ban" in the United States?
I keep saying that vehicles need to be on a different layer than pedestrians and cyclists.

I think what I'd prefer to see is a reduction in the total number of streets, but for each street that remains to be fully dedicated to vehicle traffic, with wide single direction entry/exit ports for buildings.

Pedestrians would walk through and between buildings at non-vehicle level height (under them seems to be the best option); most likely beneath the roads that were removed (imagine skylights where the roadway was).

Obviously the pedestrian areas would be insulated from the weather.
Here is the announcement from Rock Health: https://rockhealth.com/fda-compliance-made-easy-welcome-enzy...
I'm not sure conditions in most tech companies are adequately described as "working in hell". I mean, the article above mentions "free cafeteria, gym, yoga rooms, and all night snack bars", and in companies like Google it goes way beyond that, plus salary that is way over the average... pretty much anywhere outside banking industry? plus vacations, medical coverage, 401k and other nice stuff - and then on top of that, you also get a small chance to be a millionaire. Not exactly how the hell looks like.
I thought about helping you set a github/gitlab pages and writing the code in case you didn't know how, but you could set up a wordpress site using the free tier, which would end up being easier in the long run.
I recently discovered dietpi and I am very happy about it.

http://dietpi.com/
Maybe it's not easier to start depending on languages you are familiar with, but I think after the starting phase it gets easier by having standard libraries for common things like hashmaps, by having a much easier to configure build system, and by having a very solid package manager. Longer term into a project the actual language's features remove a lot of C or C++ snafus you can run into, though in fairness they also make certain common patterns obsolete which can be very frustrating until you get used to them.
> I am unemployable because I'm a white male whose in his 40s, has a family, and because somehow, in this industry experience is a bad thing.

What indications do you have that those are the reasons you are unemployable?

I have many well respected, senior coworkers who fit this description so at least personally I don't understand why people would be hesitant to hire you based on that description alone..
Silicon Valley doesn’t make cut for Amazon’s second headquarters
Why not Rust? Or, say, Ada?
The idea that "the stock of money" is a real, objective thing is rank insanity. The idea that this "stock of money" should magically be constant makes even less sense.

There is no stock of money. There are only political decisions, assorted client and patron relationships, and national and international conflicts among interest groups that define social goals and resource distribution.

Money is political power counted on imaginary tally sticks. Volume fluctuations are irrelevant. What matters is what people do, for whom, to what end, using what resources.

In an alleged democracy what should matter is economic enfranchisement - which in practice means creating fluid and porous social castes and interest groups, and inventing interesting goals with intelligence, realism, and effectiveness.

Booms and busts are caused by aimless short-term accumulation, which is a form of unintelligent goal setting. Whether tally sticks are referenced to lumps of shiny metal or numbers derived by fiat is wholly irrelevant if the only goal is to acquire as many sticks as possible, and nothing else matters.
I suspect it's because they speak English natively
yes this particular prediction of the future doesn't make too much sense to me.

if a car were to drive as if every thing in its vicinity has the potential to move rapidly in front of the car, and hence it takes precautions for all potential accidents, it can't be moving very fast can it? if it is traveling on a busy street with a lot of vehicular traffic and pedestrians on the sidewalk, must it take precautions for each and every vehicle and person around it? how fast can such a self driving car possibly go, if this were to be the case?
In all seriousness, this isn't a _totally_ unreasonable proposition -- Vitalik proposed an interesting route for creating stable tokens using baskets of debt obligations in a CDO format: https://ethresear.ch/t/collateralized-debt-obligations-for-i...

Perhaps unfeasible to appraise given that CryptoKitties haven't coalesced around any sort of stable value, but it'd be interesting to see what the volatility of NFTs like CryptoKitties is in comparison to normal tokens.
You sound young.

His story is far from unique.
Usually 1-2 miles. We don't need to do it every day so it isn't worth having a bus pass. If we wanted to do it daily though, there are ridesharing passes too. Some people pay like $20-25 a month for a pack of Uber passes that give a certain number of rides.

This is just talking about the daily commute. Say I want to go to the airport. Its $12-14 in a Lyft usually and about the same for two people on BART. Even if I had a bus pass for work, I'd still need to pay for either BART or Lyft and Lyft saves at least 45 minutes (including 15 minutes of walking to get to a station) for an approximately equal price so it ends up being a no brainer until prices go up.

Obviously if you go large distances then a commuter rail pass or maybe a bus pass would make more sense.
“Politics and crime, they are the same thing.”

All three movies are now on Netflix.
Donald Trump.

"I'll tell you the whole history of it," Giuliani said, as transcribed by The Washington Post. "So when (Trump) first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.'"

[1]http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/06/politics/trump-muslim-ban-trav...
Right. It's also been nearly three years since the men-are-hired-more myth was laid to rest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/1...

But you need to bear in mind that facts do not matter. The subjective feelings of protected groups are the primary determinant of which other groups bear "toxicity", which is the secular term for Original Sin.
No worries, happy to help get people acquainted with Wine.
Anecdotal experience - the last few companies I've worked at have all had white males over 40. Hell - I've interviewed and given offers to white males over 40.

Edit: Not to discount your experience with ageism. Ageism does exist and is something we need to be aware of. Just that it's not this way everywhere.
While Trump's immigration policy was not actually a Muslim ban and was actually very similar to some of Obama's policies, a quick scan of my Facebook feed indicates that there are plenty of conservatives who actually do want a "Muslim ban" and believe that there's a significant movement to overthrow the government and institute Shariah Law in the U.S.
It's a bit ironic to me that you linked lesswrong, because one example of an argument I consider sophistic is the quantum mechanics sequence. In particular because the relational formulation of quantum mechanics [0] pulls the carpet right from underneath the argument in a rather dramatic way.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/
The end quote is correct. China is like a startup. The U.S. is like a big corporation.

Best regards from Shenzhen.
Savings, no. But benefit, surely: patients might actually be able to be prescribed melatonin (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/28/sleep-now-by-prescripti...) if there was a hospital-demand-driven drug-lab producing and bottling it to clinical standards.

The entire market for drugs like Ramelteon—drugs that only exist because doctors can't prescribe the generic, because hospital and pharmacy suppliers don't carry the generic, because no drug lab finds it profitable to sell the generic, despite FDA approval—would collapse overnight.
Also, a lot of hospitals self-insure anymore.
On the point 3. Climate change is causing many 1/1000 and 1/100 type events to happen more often; especially as it relates to rainfall, like record droughts and monsoons. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the new normal because of that as well (which will make the population issue even worse).
lol from their home page:

> A tweakers wet dream!

Yikes
Typically the inventor has to prepare the patent, and it is first to file now. It is then up to the person doing the filing to assign the patent to a company of their choice.

I'd consider filing your own provisional patent ($70), which will never see the light of day unless you continue the application in a year, but will give you the priority date.

Filing, even for a provisional, isn't trivial. To survive the decades-long process, you'll need claims and drawings from the get-go. You'll also need to scour google.com/patents to make sure it hasn't already been invented.

It won't become known for a year-plus after filing that you have this patent application, and by then hopefully the old company will have forgotten about your little technology.

But rather than being sneaky, instead of signing, consider proposing a separation agreement that basically says you're done, everybody's square and nobody's suing anybody for any reason. If they say whoa there, just say you'd prefer not to patent anything because you value your privacy. You're probably hard to replace and I'd never trade a good employee for a patent.

This gives them the choice of firing you (meaning you can file yourself with no contract ramifications) or giving you a free pass on your patent idea.
You're forgetting that the cars in front need to break as well.

I don't understand? A pedestrian steps in front of a 30mph self driving car that's 20 feet away. There's a sidewalk to the right and oncoming traffic to the left.

The car needs 45 feet to stop, so it's going to strike the pedestrian. Which I assume you recognize this since you said EMS will be called.

You may think it's unlikely that a pedestrian will step right in front of a car, but wait until pedestrians are trained that the car will always stop for them.
Hospitals are every bit as cynically abusive as the other players. They ratchet up prices as high as they can get away with while blaming insurance companies, the only party in the system with enough leverage to negotiate prices down, they demand huge kickbacks before giving drug companies access to patients (the #1 cost in drug development) and put gigantic markups on drugs they give to patients while pretending drug companies are the sole responsible party for high drug prices, they act like non-profits when asked to pay taxes but for-profits when they decide on executive compensation or location strategy (i.e. close hospitals in poor neighborhoods, open in rich neighborhoods), and they house a guild that has had such diabolical success in "managing" its training pipeline that it publicly condemns the policies it itself put in place to do so.

In general: If you ask the insurance companies who the problem is, they point at hospitals and drug companies. If you ask hospitals who the problem is, they point at insurance companies and drug companies. If you ask drug companies who the problem is, they point at insurance companies and hospitals.

If you look at patient costs in the three sectors compared to other countries, you see a remarkably even division of the spoils between the three heads of the beast.
Or go all the way and design a new language too!
Maybe it is a bit hyperbolic, but their products are based almost entirely on the information they gather about you specifically(and everyone else they can).

Like you said "uses data from users to target their ads more accurately". exactly.

but when you say the only interaction with a user is in choosing which add to serve is misleading, at best. You can't currently say to google, I want this ad to be displayed to John Smith @ 1818 Mockingird lane. But you can buy ads saying this age group, in this city, interested in X and Y subject(s), which if you happen to also know about John Smith, will definitely reach him specifically (assuming John Smith sees a google delivered Ad, which is almost a certainty).
>What is toxic tech culture? Toxic tech cultures are those that demean and devalue you as holistic, multifaceted human beings. Toxic tech cultures are those that prioritize profits and growth over human and societal well being. Toxic tech cultures are those that treat you as replaceable cogs within a system of constant churn and burnout.

has there been any factory floor, farm, private or government office where things have been different? Except may be for a situation like a tenured professor at Stanford. Or a 4 star general who after having been a cog for like 30 years finally gets to be the one burning and replacing the cogs at his will/choice.

If anything, i think tech is among the most progressive places, if only for the fact that one can easily switch jobs instead of suffering for years for example under harassing boss like it was before and still is in the other industries where job market is worse. With employees having such freedom, the tech companies and management are forced to treat the employees better than at the other industries. I wonder how many of the people complaining about toxic tech culture did actually work at non-tech places.
Check out the Woodbine’s redevelopment plan. Hundreds of acres next to Pearson airport and on rapid transit to downtown Toronto and the rest of the tech corridor. Amazon will go to Toronto and locate there. Toronto to Waterloo corridor has the highest concentration Per Capita of tech startups and engineers after Silicon Valley. It avoids US immigration nonsense and has free healthcare that saves hundreds of millions per year.
Bit of an awkward moment for a searing indictment, as we'd just turned off flags on the OP. With suppression like that, who needs promotion?

It's a common misconception, but Hacker News really isn't identified with or immersed in Silicon Valley. Those of us moderating it are largely on the margins of SV and always have been, and the community by no means has its center of gravity there. It's globally distributed and on the whole rather anti-SV in orientation.

(The parent was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182520 but I detached it to contain this offtopicness.)
I left Google for very many of the reasons mentioned in the article and I'm a white male. So I can only imagine how hard it must be for minorities.

Thankfully I had the opportunity to make this change early in my career, although my financial situation is suffering dearly for it. And it's hard to swallow when everyone you know is making 2x your salary and just about all of them have a bunch of family money as well. (I grew up thinking I was upper middle class and somehow was the poorest person in pretty much all my social circles when I was at Google. The tech bubble is real.)

Keeping perspective and realizing that even if you leave toxic tech and take a pay cut you'll probably still be in the upper echelons of the world inequality distribution is hard but super important. And you'll realize that rich people are on average way shittier and probably not worth hanging out with anyway.
> employees that act within their rights

They fire the employee.

I'm not a manager, but I know someone at a startup who, completely within their rights, complained to state regulators when the company's payroll became erratic. Next thing you know, she was out the door.

(In the state in question, filing a formal complaint requires the complainant to give their real name and address, etc... and the employer gets a copy of the form with the letter of inquiry from the state.)
Many highways could have fewer lanes if there weren't so many commuters taking space away from trucks, etc.
> act within their rights and don't drink the cool-aid?

Drinking the cool-aid is generally enforced.

I remember working with some Swedes, who brought with them the (to engineers and fellow europeans) refreshing northern honesty/cynicism. Well...suddenly, after a trip to South East Asia to talk to our outsourcers (who were, er, "less than 100% effective") he suddenly started gushing in the typical corporate speak about how amazing and wonderful everything was. All the engineers wondered what had happened to him.

Two weeks later he was promoted to director.
For example:

https://www.suny.edu/smarttrack/residency/

Non-resident students, including undocumented students, who attend for at least two years and graduate from a New York high school may be eligible for resident tuition. See the campus Student Accounts Office (Bursar) for details and to apply for resident tuition.

https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/PDFs/ResidencyReciprocity.pdf

Nonimmigrants residing in this country or state under a temporary visa that bars them from establishing domicile in the U.S. (visas B, F, H [H4 visa holders who have graduated from a Minnesota high school should contact the Resident Classification Office on campus about their resident status.], J, O, and M) shall be classified as nonresidents. Nonimmigrants holding a valid temporary visa that does not bar them from establishing domicile in the U.S. (visas A, E, G, I or L) may be considered for residency, assuming they otherwise meet the Basic Definition of Resident Status.

An then many states seem to recognize refugee and asylum visas, which aren't the same as permanent residence (but that is more of a technicality compared to the above).
In Java, it would require at least an order of magnitude more code. Additionally, you'd have to know exactly how to do it from the beginning, since it is much more difficult to experiment. High performance computing is not something that is fabulously well documented, so you have to poke around a lot to discover how things work. To see what I'm talking about, you should compare the codebase of neanderhtal (20.000 lines of code) with roughly similar libraries in Java (ND4J is something like 400.000 lines of code), or even Python (numpy is roughly 250.000).