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Inconvenience and boredom

People's lives are hyperoptimized leaving little room for random encounters and chance. They just take the shortest route from point A to point B.

Also, boredom is fought ruthlessly. Boredom wasn't useless. It was used to "entertain" the brain by pondering one's life problems, come up with solutions. Today feeling bored means it's time to check facebook.
Ask HN: Need Career Advice
Hi HN folks, I am a software engineer in India. I am working at a startup for the past 4 years. This is my first job. Initially it was very challenging and interesting. But now it has become boring and iterative. No clients for existing products. Everyday new features are implemented even though no one is using the products. Our tech team is of 15 members, but no one else is intelligent or interested enough to write good code. Everything has to be taken care by me. I am not interested anymore to work here. I think the work is making me dumb day-by-day.
I need your advice. What should I do? Have you experienced something like this before?
Laws? We don't need laws. We need researchers (and their underwriters) with ethics, foresigh, and a sense of responsibility and morals.

The standard cop out "Oh. I'm / we're responsible for how X is used" is irresponsible. History shows us that.

We don't need laws. We simply need accountablity. It's not rocket science ;)
Happy to answer any questions.

Source: https://github.com/wwwtyro/caffeine

Tutorial: http://wwwtyro.net/2018/02/25/caffeine.html
The Evolution of Distributed Systems Management
Understanding how to use any word processor is a job skill.
LibreOffice supports Akan, an official language spoken in Ghana. Projects could translate the UI to Akan so even more people would be able to use it.
He’s getting downvoted because not many people talk about “smart roadways” since it became clear that sensor-based machine learning autonomous vehicles were commercially feasible, and dare I say inevitable.

Good autonomous vehicles don’t work primarily by sensing and detecting the roadway, they work by sensing the environment and having a complete, detailed 3D map of drivable areas, matching their environment to the map as they go along. This only requires annotation of the terrain, not clear road markings or anything like that.

The 3D detail of the environment is the smart roadway. With always-on GPS and an incredibly detailed map of the environment stored on a honking hard drive in the trunk, there’s never a question where you are in the world.

In fact, now that I think about it, this makes reduced infrastructure possible, since you don’t even need things like signs or streetlights in an all-autonomous world, and can even get by with narrower lanes.
That was the SD card comparison (maybe I have fatter fingers than you - I'm certainly not fat though! - but I find it easier using my finger nail on some devices to release the SD card).

My point was there isn't much surface area on the Switch game card to push it down to release and also the flap often gets in the way too (though I do appreciate the function of the flap)
Ok. So when do we stop chilling out?

The fact remains: not all memories are desirable.
More millennials reported losing money to scam in 2017 than senior citizens
I am big believer of AnCap and we should see few successful ancap societies in 10yrs. French Polynesian Floating Island may even be completed before 2020.

https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

https://www.seasteading.org/floating-islands-project-in-fren...
I'm currently running a forum where people has to select it's gender. I'd say, by the samples I've done, that most of the people don't lie.

And the stats are not surprising, I have about half females, and they participate way more in "girly" things.

The same happened in another forum I had.
That thread is rather depressing, being mostly just kneejerk and insults. From what I can tell, the actual criticisms are just:

1. "rounding modes and overflow behavior are not addressed", which is incorrect.

2. "Where's exp(), log(), sin(), cos()?", which you can find in dec64_math.c.

3. "There are also 255 representations of almost all representable numbers", which is incorrect.

4. "it will take around FIFTY INSTRUCTIONS TO CHECK IF TWO NUMBERS ARE EQUAL OR NOT" in the slow case, which is probably true but is unlikely to be common given the design of the type. It can undoubtedly be improved with effort.

5. "The exponent bits should be the higher order bits. Otherwise, this type breaks compatibility with existing comparator circuitry", which seems like an odd comment given the type is not normalized.

6. "With both fields being 2's compliment, you're wasting a bit, just to indicate sign", which AFAICT is just false.

7. "there's no fraction support", which I don't understand.

So the only valid criticism I saw in that whole thread is #4, and even that is only a tenth as valid as its author thought it was.
Me too! I just went to look for my old Tripod site, and it's still there!

http://bratschenspieler.tripod.com/index.htm
Apple’s HomePod is a pricey predicament for Spotify users
Yeah, where “often” is defined as “this one example that I just conjured up”.
The damage is already done though. Lawmakers and laymen will bring up this $3/h number constantly while making decisions that hurt Uber.
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12 more years ;-)

> By 2030, Statoil says, it hopes to bring the cost of floating offshore wind down to €40-60 per MWh ($50-74 per MWh).
You didn’t even come close to addressing my question. I pointed out that your concern for the helpless is an obvious canard in this context, and you took that as a opportunity to engage in more ideological chatter.
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Those aren't the costs of generating the energy. They receive ~£140/MWh in government subsidies, and ~£49/MWh for wholesale supply.
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0xBitcoin
Decentralized Ethereum Payments
http://0xbitcoin.org

Symbol:
0xBTC

Bitcoin was ported onto Ethereum as 0xBTC on Feb-06-2018 04:03:46 AM +UTC. It is the first PoW-mineable erc-20 token.
It has the same halvings, difficulty, eras, and total coin cap of Bitcoin, but with the speed and versatility of an ERC20 token on Ethereum.

The purpose is to provide a tool that is the first truly Proof of Work mined token on Ethereum.
This tool is also the first decentralized payment mechanism on Ethereum besides Ether itself. This is important because Ether is not designed to be a currency or to be a base pair.
It is designed to be the lifeblood for the Ethereum Network.
Ether is only a 'means to an end' for that purpose and would not exist if the Ethereum network could be secured without it.
Therefore it is important that the community looks to shift payments to a token that is 1) specifically designed for the purpose of payments and that 2) interacts with all standardized token services unlike Ether.

Attributes:
- No premine

- No ICO

- Mine for free with a CPU/GPU in a pool or solo

- Decentralized community and ownership (Operated as a DAO)

- There is no central entity controlling or operating this

- Mine and transfer exactly like bitcoin, but 10x faster and 100x cheaper

- Interfaces with smart contracts for storing and transferring value, unlike Ether. (Ether is not intended to be used for payments and is not a token.)

Related Websites:

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- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/0xbitcoin/

- Discord (Support and Chat) : https://discord.gg/JGEqqmS

- GitHub Contract: https://github.com/0xbitcoin

- GitHub Miner: https://github.com/0xbitcoin/0xbitcoin-miner

- Contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb6ed7644c69416d67b522e20bc294a9a9b405b31

- pool: tokenminingpool.com (600 miners)
She's one of my favorite speakers! I actually took down notes of 2 of her conference talks. https://github.com/daryllxd/every_ruby_talk_ever/blob/master.... I watched that specific talk before too!
I work in autonomous vehicle R&D, and if we had an environment filled with reliable sensors it would considerably simplify our problem.

There is no such thing as a _complete, detailed 3D map of driveable areas_. Most current efforts rely heavily on high resolution, large scale, semantically labeled maps, but on any given stretch of road this is only a first approximation of the environment. Live sensors embedded in infrastructure that could pass along real-time information and updates, particularly from directions our on-board sensors can't capture, would be very useful indeed.

And yes, road markings are part of the semantics we use.
(In response to the storage complaints...) Please buy game carts instead of eShop games.

Instead of renting a license indefinitely (eShop) you get an actual piece of plastic and some paper (resale value later) which you actually own.
Fishing for sport (not a significant source of food), at your leisure, is a luxury. A well-chosen luxury is bound to be pleasurable, it's the whole point.

A washing machine, or running water, or not having to bake one's own bread, are much less of a luxury, closer to basic necessities outside dire poverty. Washing by hand or bringing water from a river may be fulfilling and fun if you choose to do so, and are free to change your choice when you see fit. For basic necessities, it is much less so.
For Europe, I used https://www.eurojobsites.com as well as the job vacancy sections of individual companies and organizations.

Each country tends to have its job boards as well (e.g. https://www.jobs.ch/en/ for Switzerland) so you might want to check them out.

Stack Overflow Careers, Angel List and the monthly 'who is hiring?' thread here are also useful.

As I mentioned, my advice however is to move with a job, rather than go abroad and then look for employment.

Best of luck!
You are misunderstanding my position by assuming that "not working" is anywhere on the table. I believe that if people want to eat and are fully able then they should work. My lament is that the opportunity to choose one's path is not a balanced one. i.e.: I have to optimize for pay, for QOL, or hope for a balance between the two. The latter of course exists, but it's much rarer than "just" a 150k+ SoftEng job in CA.
I think it is just OPs wording that got me arguing this point: "a man's success in life". Not a man's success in gaining material wealth. The argument I was trying to make (rather poorly it seems) is that people don't normally measure life success solely by the number in your bank account when you die, there are other measures as well.
> All the small shops disappeared from the city centre years ago, because the patrons had a problem getting there.

Luckily in Germany there are quite a lot pedestrian zones ("Fußgängerzonen") for shopping where motorized vehicles aren't even allowed and small businesses can thrive there. Cars have to park somewhere else and this can often become a problem. Parking is also quite expensive in major cities with parking fees up to 3€/hour. Building more parking lots into the inner cities is impossible and the fees are high to keep people moving.

> Shops also do have parking.

In Germany malls aren't very common. Inner cities are mostly mixed business and residential with shops on the lowest floor and apartments above.
I hoped that my wording wasn’t a ringing endorsement of shouting at Googlers. I was saying that protests are fine, shootings are not.
Do you agree that on average, society needs people to work? Do you agree that on average, society needs new software engineers more than it needs new sculptors?
The VW Group call it a Soundaktor, I have it in mine and it’s OK - but it drones at low RPMs.

> It consists of a speaker mounted on the firewall between the engine and the cabin, which adds noise to the cabin in order to replicate the driving experience of older vehicles that had lower levels of sound insulation.
So the authors should work for free? That’s theft.
This is really hard to respond to because the general definition is straight forward, but concrete examples get controversial really quick. As I understand it identity politics is dominated by in-group and out-group thinking. The group can be racial, cultural, gender based, didn't really matter. Extreme examples are: You aren't allowed to speak about the situation of women in the work place without identifying as a woman; if you are pro abortion and don't smoke you are likely against guns and the crucial part: might be shunned from your social group of you aren't; funny example from a recent article here: if you are a true Vegan you also can't eat processed food like Quorn.
The lack of region locking was also one of the best things about most of the handheld consoles Nintendo released beforehand. The original Game Boy, the Game Boy Colour, the GBA and the Nintendo DS were all region free as well, and it likely helped their popularity a ton, especially given how it meant you could travel with the system and be sure any games you bought while away would work with it.

Those systems may not have had an eShop, but in the days before it, I suspect not having region locking was as helpful there too.
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A list of my videos, teaching programming in Go:

https://gameswithgo.org/topics.html
For problems that are about transforming different shapes of information, APL makes sense. However, it isn’t so much about the programmer, but the problem domain.
I've swapped engines in an apartment complex parking lot. Life finds a way. :)
I'm not sure what they mean here. Nobody writes map reduce programs in Java anymore, running it as a classic Hadoop MapReduce job. People use languages such as Spark, Hive or Pig to run their queries against data that is usually in hdfs (part of Hadoop), and the cluster resources are distributed to jobs from yarn (which is also part of Hadoop).

So the question to use Spark or Hadoop seems odd to me. It's like comparing apples and oranges, no?
maybe i'm misperceiving this, but it seems that the left's criticism of US military action has diminished or been muted.

in the 60's people on the left literally criticized US soldiers as they returned to the US from Vietnam. (the phrase "baby killers" comes to mind). you don't hear that sort of thing today.

criticizing US soldiers is just not done. even Barbara Boxer touted her work with the "Wounded Warriors" project. Al Franken went on USO tours. it's just not ok to criticize US soldiers. on the contrary, we thank them for their service and try not to call into question what happened "over there."

furthermore, when GW Bush argued for an invasion of Iraq in 2003, an awful lot of Democratic politicians got on board and voted to authorize it. i think they were afraid not to authorize it.

later, drone attacks carried out by the Obama administration were more or less accepted too.
I imagine this would be useful for applications which do a lot of conversion from/to ieee754 to/from text... Programming languages and spreadsheet software come to mind.

Has anyone ported a non-trivial application to use DEC64, and compared the results?
It's also got 3 dimensions. That's going to make it somewhat hard to plot on a 2-dimensional display.
Waymo's car stops at crosswalks when people are on waiting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we_enrM7TSY
this is one of the best talks on jvm and gc
How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick
The QA part has to do with processes, not technique (Scheme vs. Nix, etc.) I think we (Guix) are doing pretty good with our review process for packages and general attention to packaging issues—bundling, security issues, package size, integration, etc. These are practices similar to those of Debian, though I must say Debian remains the gold standard to me. :-)

As for GuixSD, you are right that the Shepherd, for instance, is not as mature as systemd (it’s also much simpler though). My comment was referring to packaging QA.

I do think that the ability to statically check a number of properties on a GuixSD config before it’s even instantiated (something that using a general purpose language buys us) helps a lot, though.
See also The Tyranny of Stuctureless

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

and The Tyranny of Tyrannosaurus Rexes

http://rarrrrrrrr.com/
Honestly, Mario Kart 8 annoys me a little. I love the Mario Kart series but the 3D tracks are over-done in my personal opinion. I also think the more realistic scenery means some of the tracks lose their personality when compared to the more cartoony graphics of their predecessors. That said, the auto-steer and auto-accelerate feature is a godsend for when playing with my 3 year old. I cannot stress enough just how good a feature that is!!!

I mean, I am nitpicking here a little as it's still a solid title. But on balance it's not my favorite Mario Kart.

Zelda is a very different game from any of the Zelda's before it as well. I do like what Nintendo have done but I'd also love to see a more traditional Zelda released for the Switch some point in the future too.

Overall, it's all very easy me being critical when there's so many elements that can go wrong. So I think Nintendo have gotten far more right than they've gotten wrong.
Do you have examples?

"left wing, unauthoritarian" news papers preaching xenophobia, ignorance, and bad science.
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I want something that fits in my pocket; the Pocket does. It is not phone size but for me it is comfortable and it has a lot longer battery life. The air is too big for what I use the Pocket for.
Trudeau making half of his office female, even though much less were actually elected, is identity politics.
I think Western-style liberal market capitalism is a lot more compelling than Western defeatists believe.

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/jihad-hyperpanda/

> The truth about the clash of civilizations you hear people discussing is that it’s all the other way: The Mall is invading Islam, the Mall is taking over. There isn't any Sharia Law in North Carolina, but there damn well are US-style malls in even the most conservative Islamic countries.

> In Najran, in the most remote corner of Saudi Arabia, a state so afraid of Western contamination that it doesn’t even issue tourist visas, there is a mall. And, when I lived there, you could watch —literally watch—the conflict between Sharia Law and Mall culture, five times a day.
> And with leisure would come the possibility of devoting time to learning, hobbies or whatever else might really matter to us".

Or perhaps it gives us time to spend on addictions. It might be the other way around: addictive behavior and the time it requires, fuelled by a plethora of available addictive products (drugs, computer games, social media...) causes us to value convenience more than we should.
I also have worked in autonomous vehicle R&D, and you may wish to take my post as a friendly warning, then. :-)
I remapped the keyboard for Vim but as Vim user and i3wm user I actually imagined it would be easier for ‘us’ and to me to was.

And yes you are right about the Pyra but I love the community. The lifetime of the thing will be long like the Pandora. It costs a lot but he, it outlives all phones by quite a bit with my usage. But yes for the casing my dream would be Pocket unibody, Zaurus swivel, a Gemini/Psion keyboard and exandable and community like Pyra.

With this pocket pc revival it might happen.
It's not straightforward to get a useful visual plot, but the article does include a somewhat artistic one (w/o labeled axes) in the banner image at the top. It's a polynomial in 3 variables, so plotting the polynomial itself is 4-dimensional, and the roots are in 3 dimensions. The visualization at the top of the article is a 3d plot of the locations of the roots.

The seven rational solutions are given on p. 30 of the paper, and are: (x,y,z) = (1,1,1), (1,1,2), (0,0,1), (-3,3,2), (1,1,0), (0,2,1), (-1,1,0). Those were already known though. The new result of the paper is to prove that there aren't any others.
I use dvorak and I can agree that there are at least a few popular chords that are inconvenient, like Cx Cf. But I've gotten used to this and haven't changed any core key bindings.

And, of course, the upside is that on any random machine with emacs is 100% compatible.

Oh, and one more tip :-): bind 'vim' to 'emacs -nw -Q' which loads emacs really fast (without requiring the daemon to be running).
Your account has promoted the Noodle Pi repeatedly over the past several weeks... What's the threshold for spam?
Wait, did you say chain drive? How does the chain handle all that power? Must wear out the sprockets quickly.
I think the problem is more the analog side: If your sensor is saturated by too much light, it might not be able to pick up on your signal anymore. Direct LOS to another high-powered source is probably a lot brighter than what LIDAR normally detects. Then, all the reduction from sync pattern etc don't apply, and the sensor might be blinded considerably longer than the actual signal length if driven to saturation.
I feel this is what happened with protests and marches. They are much less effective today because people are used to them.
More good material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ddVmKS3AOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBEclayBCdc
I don’t want to buy one; I want to be able to summon one on demand. Same timeline?
It's progress. The techniques may seem barbaric, but the reality is that many people are cured by them. The future will be better, but the present could be a lot worse.
Violence should be a last resort with clear boundaries. Sometimes it's better to suffer when there are no better alternatives.
You should look at how inaccurate the EIA predicted renewable generation costs would decline (they predicted decades longer). Solar and battery manufacturing costs have been dropping ~80% every decade.

Even if the cost decline curve starts to flatten, the fate of fossil and nuclear generators is sealed.
You're not understanding my position. A choice in which you're paid equally to do whatever you most want to do or whatever society most needs you to do is not a balanced choice. There needs to be some weight toward the needs of society for a true balance. I was just using not working as an extreme example of this problem.

I'm sure you'd be much happier sculpting, but the consequences would be similar to you getting paid for doing nothing.
If it’s so delicate, why do Germans permit a law that requires people to register their religion? When I had applied for a German residency permit, I was asked to disclose a religion, ostensibly to determine taxes.

I feel like Germans fall back on the “delicate topic” nonsense as a permanent justification for just about everything, but in reality, they tolerate plenty of big government violations of privacy and individual liberty while becoming hysterical about Google or Facebook. It’s illogical, Facebook isn’t going to lead to Nazism or the Stasi again — but the actual government could, yet Germans tolerate their government tracking people by religion or a government conducting mass surveillance but they lose their minds over an American social media company?

Russians and East Europeans aren’t constantly claiming “sensitivity” because of the past abuses of the KGB or NKVD despite those organizations killing vastly more people than the Nazis.

It’s hypocrisy. You can’t claim to be sensitive about a Nazi past while still tolerating the government to register people by their religion. Facebook privacy issues aren’t going to lead to Nazism; any implication of same is just nonsense.
Cities and Countries with most startup activity- Sanity check needed, feedback?