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It's frustrating that you can't turn the backlight off altogether to simulate the pre-backlight Kindle experience.
From personal experience, I disagree. You're assuming we cannot carry out non-well scoped work just because we're remote?

The project I'm currently leading definitely gives lie to your assumption, and I'm a member of an offshore team.

I'm not saying that projects with substantial manufacturing components don't benefit from proximity. Also, those project you mention had huge political issues (not great examples).

And yes, the ideal situation is to have everyone on-site. But the disadvantages are that you have to pay them ridiculous wages to offset cost of living, and compete with a smaller subset of talent, or they have to do 90 minute super-commutes.

Many people can't move to the Bay Area for various reasons. Does a top developer that leaves the U.S. magically become worse? Or is a top developer bad just because he hasn't tried hard enough to get into the U.S.?

Even YCombinator believes that founders don't have to be physically present if it doesn't make sense.
Tesla has extremely basic radar, not LIDAR. (LIDAR is a type of radar used for ranging and positioning, both of which are fundamental tasks for an self-driving system.)

Basic radar can provide positioning and ranging, but this requires additional processing to coordinate the input from multiple radar sensors to triangulate the positions of reflections. LIDAR gives you ranging with a single sensor, and positioning if you rotate the sensor.
I dont know if this was directed to me but I was talking on behalf of our "team" which consist of two persons.
I'm with you. The context was explicit and obviously intended to be work-oriented. Obviously friends and family should rate higher than work. But this detracts from the intended discussion.

My most rewarding professional experience have come from 1) working with a respectful and high-standards team 2) solving a real world problem that is either new or inadequately address by current solutions 3) where I have a really clear idea of the value I add and see how I contribute.
The odds of having enough energy storage in place in 10 years to eliminate fossil fuel energy production approach zero. Solar and wind are great production methods, and are proving more and more econoimcal every month, but neither con produce energy on demand in all conditions.

Without a huge national grid to compensate for weather patterns (problematic due to transmission losses), or a massive increase in storage capacity and technology, we just can't eliminate fossil fuel energy.
>Reasonable people who aren't like you...

I don't care about other people's distros, I didn't rename them. I didn't ask them to rename. I told you in the comment above it was my distro. I have all rights to name it whatever way I want, and the way I see fit is respecting his wish.
Wait, are you saying that the very first audio sample on that page is NOT a human?
For better or worse, all big cities are on that path.

With really good and fast transit I don't see a reason why we have to live physically near where we work though.
No, I have not experienced a day like that. I'm sure I would move, too. I wasn't suggesting otherwise.

Downplaying the USA's problems with pollution and dangerous materials has been a major problem for hundreds of years. The attitude that "it's worse elsewhere, America has it solved" is so incredibly dangerous. It's just not true. America does not have any of this solved. America is trying its best right now to increase the pollution in cities and decrease the air quality.

Maybe the air quality isn't that bad right now, according to you or elsewhere. That doesn't mean it is okay to make it worse. That doesn't mean that we have solved it. Left alone to the current path of things, I think the USA certainly would bypass China in terms of bad air quality. The major leadership definitely wants that future it seems - that is the only end result of the current US policy.
Thieves steal laptops. Sophisticated actors backdoor laptops. That’s how you know it was the hotel staff.
For now :)
"Vast majority of people" want it _their_ way. And this is where enterprise-y software fail really hard. They think that making software as dumb as possible they will please the dumb.

In the real world it doesn't work like that. Dumb users don't know how to tweak things but they know that they can ask other people to help them.
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When an encrypted conversation is setup properly with Matrix.org you get a notification every time a new device appears in the chatroom and you have to manually whitelist it. Even if you already whitelisted one of the devices for a known user. Furthermore you can host the server yourself on an HTTPS server.

It's way more secure than Facebook messenger or SMS.
Yes, by operating on multiple bytes
You are literally looking at what the spec could allow a compliant client to do and then assuming that Google will make an app that uses dark patterns to trick users into doing them when they don't want to (and when it also provides no real value to Google compared to the data collection they can already do)
Which is very ironic considering banks were the biggest tech employers at that time and some had pretty good money and working conditions as well.
I understand the idea but what apply to loot boxes may apply to a lot of things.

The first ones are trading cards, including games like "Magic: the Gathering". If you are lucky, you can sell a card you got from a booster pack for way more than what you originally paid. And chances that you can don't even have to leave the shop to do it.

What makes gambling is that you get money for money, not worthless prizes like in the case of most loot boxes. It is an additional risk because there is always hope that you will be able to recover your losses and you may spend more than you can afford. With loot boxes and most other random prizes, it is clear that while you may get something nice, that money will be gone for good.

As for game developers, they don't lack options for Skinner box schemes. Loot boxes are just one among others, there are things like energy systems that are popular on mobile games that don't involve chance but have the same effect of making you spend more money than originally intended.

It is just that loot boxes look more like gambling, even though it isn't really, and are disliked by the majority. The rest is politics.
> This is pretty standard

Doesn't make it right. It does not sound like a design decision made on the behalf of the consumer. This is planned obsolescence.
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Non-competes are illegal/unenforceable in California.
The open-source Matrix.org server Synapse has everything in plaintext on the server.
Is there a better way to communicate this news?
Did you get that impression from this line in the article?

> While the V100s perform similarly fast, the higher price and slower convergence of the implementation results in a considerably higher cost-to-solution.
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Why in the hell would it be Snapchat's responsibility to build vision tools for blind people?
Hm, gedit is in there, but kate is missing ;) But interesting article: I use Terminator (I like the tiling functionality) and vim as my editor, and it did not feel that "slow" to me (compared to konsole or gnome-terminal; but that's of course terribly subjective).
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Yay! Our first reader :) thanks for the feedback - and you are right - readability is more important than appearance.
Orthogonal to your point, but f.lux was never in the App Store because it had to use a private API to pull it off. They did offer it as an Xcode project for a while, IIRC.
Nice, looks awesome! I've been writing my own GB emulator off and on for a few years now. Was this your first emulator? What were the major challenges with this project for you?
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This needs an "Ask HN:"
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Reading some of the replies that interpret pg's essay as talking about "libraries" or "frameworks" or "metaprogramming" doesn't look quite right to me.

I argue that instead of those 3, the most applicable terminology to map to pg's idea would be a "DSL" ("Domain Specific Language".)[1] The "DSL" terminology seemed to have gained currency around 2008 so this old 1993 essay wasn't able to use it. In any case, his point is to program Lisp in such a way as to build a "DSL" inside of Lisp and you then program your higher level concepts on that DSL. His key quotes:

>a principle which could be called bottom-up design-- changing the language to suit the problem. In Lisp, you don't just write your program down toward the language, you also build the language up toward your program.

>Instead of a single, monolithic program, you will get a larger language with more abstract operators, and a smaller program written in it.

One can also pursue the "DSL" concept with other programming languages. In C++, you can design the classes to be a "DSL". In fact, one of the derided features of C++ such as operator-overloading was motivated by allowing a custom "DSL" to integrate into the language better.

Lisp is an interesting programming language for writing an embedded DSL because the custom "mini language" you write looks like other builtin Lisp syntax.

Why the other proposed terms don't seem to fit:

- "metaprogramming" : this is usually describing programs generating other programs either at compile time (e.g. templates) or runtime (e.g. the eval() function in Javascript/Python)

- "libraries" : these are often non-domain-specific reusable code... such as a string library, matrix math library, or a TCPIP library

- "framework" : this is usually a source-code runtime (basically an application "loop") with customization points to call your custom code

PG's essay like many other programming essays suffers from misinterpretation because it doesn't include any explicit source code to illustrate the ideas. Therefore, writing in metaphors invites misunderstanding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
I think the better reasoning behind using high-end locks in your home is that you have a much better chance of knowing your house has been broken in to.

With standard locks, a thief can quickly and easily gain access without the homeowner knowing.

(I agree with the gist of your post though.)
I don't like the design of spectacles. Also, you can't get the videos of your daughter unless you push them to Snapchat (in case you didn't read the TC article)

A reasonably designed, classy glass with the camera not too obvious will do it for me. Will pay $300-400. Already paying that for simple designer glasses.
In Xfce, you can put the mouse where it shows the resize arrow and double click to maximize in that direction. Windows has that for vertical but not horizontal. Neither has it for diagonal, it would be sweet if that pushed the activated corner to the desktop corner.
Is there a reference, open source, implementation available? (on Github or similar)
Interesting background here: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...
If they're subject to records retention requirements, they should be retained anyway; and if they're not, they're in the same category as things like phone calls which are currently ephemeral.

(Note that in first world countries phone calls will be digital everywhere except maybe the last mile, and GSM and upwards are digital to the handset)
I think this is the one

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-...
Dude's in his 50s and has been at the helm developing great products that have pushed the limit of what microprocessors can do. I wish these companies would allow more blog-style posts of how they overcome difficult problems; but Intel's notorious about disclosing what goes on behind the curtains as we've seen with Spectre+Meltdown. Makes you wonder how much further along we could be in this space if NDAs allowed people talk more about what they've done after leaving their previous company/companies.
Azure Container Registry (ACR) launched a preview of OS & Framework patching: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/stevelasker/2017/12/20/os-f...

Docs are available at: https://aka.ms/acr/build
> I believe our industry’s several decades of demonstrated inability to write concurrent code correctly disagrees with you.

But mostly so for the reasons nurseries try to solve (and actually manage to somehow solve some)? I'm not convinced.

Lifetime of threads is usually easy compared to races/deadlock/etc. on the resources they use.

Not to say we shall not use nurseries where applicable. But is it the new fundamental structure concurrency should be based on? Debatable.

My wild guess is that the Rust approach of concurrency (even if it is not exactly on the same subject, but we are trying to find the fundamental way of structuring things) will have more impact.
I was let go at age 53 about 9 months ago as a software engineer in the Boston area. I enjoy my job and had not thought of changing fields. I'm not in a position to retire either. I got 3 months severance and had a new job at comparable pay by the end of that time period.
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Also, you need to consider an A7M3 with a somewhat dirty lens.
Natural gas killed coal and nuclear because natural gas plants have a) much lower capital costs. b) Can sell into the intermediate load market. c) natural gas is cheaper per MBTU than coal.

If you wonder why the Koch brother hate solar it's because Solar directly competes with natural gas in the intermediate load market. Which is where all the profit is.
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Chinese weapons lab is putting missile technology into airport body scanners
For the Information Gain calculations, why are the chocolates we don't want to eat (Blue & Kit Kats) discarded, i.e. considered entropy 0. Shouldn't it be included as part of the Information Gain formula?
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
I'm 47 and might have to. No one seems interested in hiring me.
TThis is a rather extreme threat model given how expensive it is to carry out and very obvious once discovered.

But France does have some domestic defence capability here - Thales make hardware security modules and similar products, and STMicroelectronics has chip design expertise while being partly state-owned.
That could most certainly happen again. Usually the way previous empires have broken up though is by keeping aloof of the rest of the world, resulting in the State not keeping abreast of developments in the rest of the world.

The current regime seems to be acutely aware of this and has been actively spreading Chinese influence (and finances) over the rest of the world.
Are you suggesting the Titan-V price is subsidized by Nvidia?
I agree with what you are writing but the last sentence should have been omitted. It doesn't help your case.
Good on you for coming over the wake up early dark side...

To steal a common survival phrase - 2 is one, 1 is none. I set multiple alarms anytime I have to get up for something like a flight. Otherwise, I wake up between 6 and 7 naturally. If you're still struggling with feeling refreshed, the fix for that is working out in the morning.

Not very scientific, but Jocko Willink is a huge proponent of getting up early because that discipline sets the tone for the entire day of getting stuff done. I tend agree, but YMMV.
> And I don't know the numbers

So you keep using hyperbolic statements - massive, massive, massive, massive - and then you admit you have no idea what you're talking about, because you don't actually know any numbers involved.

That's pretty ridiculous to put it mildly.

The US poverty rate is comparable to the poverty rate in Canada, which is regarded as one of the most developed nations on earth and is believed to have among the highest standards of living. And when you adjust the poverty line income scales to match within a given society (ie what position the poverty income line represents), it's comparable to Germany and France as well.

The US poverty rate in 2016 was 12.7%.

For 2016, 4.8 million Canadians were estimated to live below the poverty line. That's about a 13.3% poverty rate give or take.

The term "massive" is a strictly relative concept. Its typical meaning is something being exceptionally large in comparison to something else. The US does not have massive poverty compared to eg the developed world median. Compared to the world median, the US has a low rate of poverty. Your premise is factually demonstrably false. If such highly developed nations as Canada, Germany and France are said to have massive poverty, the term "massive" in relation to that use loses all value. Exceptionally large poverty would be Haiti, which has a ~58% poverty rate, or over four times that of Canada - that's massive.
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But is that true? I thought one interviewed for a generic slot at Google, with actual team placement being done after hiring to fill the slot.
> The illustrations are from an artist/designer we contract from time to time. I agree, his work is awesome!

Kudos to them; they are awesome!
I had the same experience, until I disabled uBlock Origin. Setting showed up instantly, and I turned it right back on.
That estimate is no longer current. The latest estimates has the world population going well past 10 billion, driven by growth in Africa: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-r...
"You only have to look across the ocean to see it"

You only need to look across any of the Harlem, Hudson, or East rivers to see it. Brooklyn, the Bronx, and much of New Jersey follow this development pattern, more or less. San Francisco's population would double at Brooklyn's density.
> Much of the US is living in third world conditions,

I'm guessing you've never been to Haiti, Kenya, Rwanda, or any actual third world nation, have you?

> an enormous amount of people in the US live in poverty

The poverty rate in the US is similar to that in France, the UK, and Canada - about 1/3-1/5th that of actual third world nations.
There are no transportation issues because there is nowhere to go because everywhere is the same.
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The author seems to be using a weird definition of "open", which is incompatible with "secure". Do they mean "federated"? Even then, I can't see the incompatibility, bittorrent can encrypt even p2p streams.
Probably just some 'Write Once' Memory, where they can raise bits to 1 but can't lower them back to 0. (Or the other way around, depending on the memory)
I tried matrix/riot out, looks perfect for me and app is slick.

Sending messages though from a server to a room was more difficult than I expected. Java SDK didn't build and many of the other languages were alpha too. Go seemed favored but I dont really want to install. Is there a recommended simple command line app or script to send messages?
We have to agree to disagree. Education is a part of the real-life experience. Schools give you a chance to develop socially, work in teams, learn how to succeed. Education is not only books and library, its real life experience as well. For many people first grown-up experience they get.
Interestingly, that's what Subaru and others learned long ago, make the backseat floor flat, and it's an SUV. Subaru made a lot of money by skirting fuel economy standards before it became popular.
Just to be clear, who is "we" in that? I'm assuming it's "people living in industrialized nations," but if it's just "humans," then that seems like it could be misleading -- linear growth internationally with exponential births/deaths (net effect -- linear) in undeveloped nations, combined with scarce essential resources is already a severe problem, leading to global strife.
256 bits in all ODM_RESERVED. There are 8 ODM_RESERVEDs. 256/8 = 32 eh?
Not really. At the moment, it's kind of become an industry standard replacement for Wordpress blogs.
Mine was only 2.6million in population but definitively nicer: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/90226/my-city-is-...

It got into a chronic recession. The city became a ghost town at some point despite having a massive population.

It is a shame that I didn't have a backup for that particular city (no dropbox back then)
I think the problem is that the vast majority of non-competes just end up preventing people from making reasonable decisions with their careers. There are people like Keller where is would seem that some form on non-compete should exist (considering he's come to be known as an invaluable employee), but the vast majority of employees (regardless of what they'd like to think) don't pose some kind of existential threat to the company as sharing trade secrets and intellectual property has nothing to do with non-compete. Non-competes seem to just get used to prevent employees from seeking out (or being sought out by) a better job if their current one doesn't suit them.

One example of an overzealous non-compete I saw when I lived in Alabama (a place with practically zero restrictions on the scope or duration of non-compete agreements) was that of a close friend's mom. She was a telecom tech working for Bellsouth when AT&T bought them out in early 2007. Most of the local employees got laid off and at least she had a non-compete contract saying she couldn't work in anything related to telecom for two years in the geographic region - and it was valid whether you quit, got fired, or got laid off.

I tend to be of the opinion where if the loss of an individual poses an existential risk to a company, the company should do everything they can to make sure that person wants to stay. I'd also consider it a failing of a company if a single individual gained that much singular importance.
Yes, software from 40 years ago is absolutely relevant to this discussion. You think there are a lot of developers using those same practices today?

Bugs happen, but with software you have several layers of safety checks to prevent them from becoming dangerous or fatal. A common one is having the code reviewed by one or more other developers. The odds of all those developers being unable to detect bugs at 9 AM are kind of long, wouldn't you say?
Some people are more forgetful. Regretfully, I fall into that category. If I haven't written about a thing or captured its audio or video in some way, there's little chance I'll remember it after a year.

Those memories have no intrinsic value, but they are very precious. Being able to revisit them A/V is invaluable.
With uncontrollable sources like solar and wind, aren't peakers even more necessary?
I'll repost this again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12701858

This is a bullshit article, why did it frontpage again ?
Even Hell's Kitchen, where I live, is still primarily composed of 5- and 6-story walk-ups.
> Assuming he didnt lie about the exchange of words

If it's not clear: I strongly believe he lied. (I don't think he intentionally lied, as in deliberately twisted what the interviewer said to make them look bad: I think he genuinely misheard the questions because understanding questions accurately when asked by someone he considers inferior is not his strength, and then incorrectly reported them, which is still lying.)

There are lots of people on the internet (including in the prior thread, including my own memory in the prior thread which I have now completely forgotten) who have reported that the kill question is about default kill command signal and not SIGKILL. It's certainly theoretically possible that the interviewer mis-spoke, but it's very hard to make that sort of mistake if you don't understand the questions you're asking (which is what he's alleging) because you wouldn't know enough to coherently phrase that version of the question.
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