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I would be interested to find out if things were that bad in the 50s or 70s. It does feel like the intro of the movie Idiocracy is happening. Even among sophisticated people, when you watch interviews or speeches of public figures from the 30s or 50s, their spoken English (but it applies to other western languages too, French for sure) was so much superior than even your typical written newspaper article today. Trump’s speeches made out of no more than a 100 distinct words are merely a dent in a downward curve.
Dude that’s BS.

The day FB was announced was the day I said “this is a bad idea.”

I and many others on HN have NEVER made a FB account, and my life seems to generally have been better for it.

But it was obvious then, and it is obvious now.

Matter of fact it frankly looks even worse today, since there really seems to be no solution, and the granularity of tools and regulation is too coarse to deal with this scenario.

The only real option I’ve seen seems to be to drop off the internet.
Yes, I think it is because it will be kind of weird when U.S. automakers GM and Tesla hit the cap first and they are at a “disadvantage” as compared to the European and Asian automakers.
Your results do not represent the norm. I could rebut each point but whats the use? Things won't ever get better because people are ok with mediocre.
Can you share the command line switches that help?
No i had a different issue. I think it was after hard resets when excel goes "do you want me to restore the stuff i had open before?"

I would ignore this for a while (since plenty of other apps would also start up again) and then wonder what is eating my CPU. Surprise surprise, it's an Excel message box.
A GPU is possibly more energy efficient given a much more complex scene, animation, effects, etc. than what you would draw with CPU, and much faster. But in case there is no GPU, one must definitely go without any complexities, heavy draw calls, etc. Kind of obvious, but may get forgotten. I certainly don't know what's best in this case, unless I have some time on my own to experiment and see. One reason custom, but fixed hardware tends to get better software over the time, is that developers learn how to use it best (for example: game consoles/systems/arcades, classic computers... whether they have GPU, or not (in the distant past)).
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By quantitative trading I refer to people who do algorithmic trading for a living.

People from tech generally end up becoming quantitative developers(implement trading strategies other people make),and some go even further and make their own trading strategies(which it what traditional quants do. Correct me if I am wrong here).

I would like to know experiences of people who transitioned this field from pure technology. Some key points are:

1. What did you have to learn as a experienced developer to break into this field(do really NEED a Phd in Mathematics or Finance?!?!)
2. Whats the work like?
3. Does it pay as much as it hyped to be?
4. How does it compare to your life back in Tech?
5. How long after working in tech did you make a switch?
I am guessing you have some specific examples of that happening in mind? Otherwise, you’re just spreading FUD, not to mention insulting the developers working there.

PS: i am pretty sure caching, pre-compiling, etc are perfectly reasonable optimization techniques that many of us rely on.
The cliche draws upon a stereotype. It’s not a great stereotype to perpetuate in my opinion. Better to just not make the joke than to perpetuate a stereotype.
As much as Apple would like to emulate the Microsoft of the 1990's, they're just so bad at it.

Embrace. Extend. Then extinguish.
Being funded by the military, I imagine this study is predominately towards the goal of keeping soldiers / pilots awake on long-running operations and/or mitigating combat fatigue through the use of caffeine pills or combined stimulants. Not that it makes it any less interesting, but from the average caffeine consumer's perspective, this encounters a practical barrier in precisely dosing caffeine through coffee or tea.
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Hey Joel–awesome service and post. Your tip about parallelizing via browser instances instead of tabs resonated with me as I've had a lot of headaches with one bad request taking down a full instance. That said, it does seem like the constant launch/close of puppeteer browser instances does have some sort of memory leak – Here's what happened when I switched from parallelizing via pages to browsers: https://imgur.com/a/rCz3oow

Have you seen any similar behavior in your system? I initially thought I was forgetting to close the browser instance but triple checked my code and it does seem like I'm calling close() everywhere.
I think one of the most important questions here that's missing is this:

Should a 6 year old really be learning development/programming if they haven't shown interest?

I have kids at about 6yo and really, I can't see any positive effects it would have if I stick them in front of a computer. Maybe I'm just a hippie dev, but I believe focus should be put on happiness, play, creativity and logical thinking adapted to the children. Kids stuck in front of computers will lose many of social skills needed to get ahead in life.

I'm born in the 80's and I started becoming interested in computers at around age 12-13. I now run a successful company in software dev and my role is full stack dev.

It's my personal opinion, and you're her father, but maybe you should put off trying to teach her Scratch at this young age. Focus on everything she does beautifully instead.

No kid can be a developer at age six. Nat Friedman is spinning to get him positioned as a part of the GitHub audience.
I think you should take it to mean that Nat has been programming since age 6.

Teaching your daughter is great. Who cares how she stacks up against Nat Friedman or anyone else? Achievement doesn't always lead to happiness, and it sounds like she has a lot of achievement ahead of her anyway.
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Thanks for the feedback and the offer. Obviously hoping to be in a position to make these kinds of speculative investments at some point, but unfortunately not rich enough today, in the SOX/accredited investor sense. (In that sense it is probably premature to scope out the possibilities, but both curiosity and the speculative sense of knowing the terrain got to me).

[Edit: Hm, I just googled some details on a lark, and it seems there might be a clause that applies to non-US-persons that is relevant in my case. Don't be too surprised if I send you an e-mail at some point, for information if nothing else :)]
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OIC. So just like China, Europe forced Tesla to not ship an external adapter, but to build it into the car.

BTW, the initial US Model S didn't have an auto-closing port. That was only added after the "snake" video was published.
The main reason to buy a new phone these days surely is "the old one broke". Being with us all the time. The planned obsolence - unreplaceable battery, glued screen, glassback etc mean phones break all the time.

PCs stand still, even laptops tend be mostly stationary. No wonder my work laptop is now 6 years old and I feel no urge to request upgrade.
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Hah, our team is a bit of split - half of us know perforce well, the other half git, then almost all other developers are perforce driven (game company with several studios).

I like it, and really love that they added web interface (review, overall view of changes, etc.).

P4 is very easy to get started, all you need is to learn several things, and tools underneath can easily be changed, learned to do this for you. Then it's easy to comprehend changes, since all CL's are monotonically increasing, so once gets perception when a CL is announced whether it affects him, or her, etc.

And the elephant in the room is the really, really huge files: psd, tiff, max, maya (ma/mb) models, fbx, zip, iso, exe installs, etc.

There are some peculiarities, like text files handling and conversion (e.g. \r\n <-> \n).

Then some useful (but controversial) features: locking (per extension), or manually per file.

Having all your projects from different teams in one place, but each team/project can customize a view to its own work (a bit opposite of what google is doing with their mono-repo, but unlike g4 there ain't option to sync only what you want, and have the rest off the network).
How healthy, in your opinion, is diagnosing the mental health of strangers on the Internet based on a single comment they made?
It doesn't matter how much RAM it's got if they don't fix the keyboard. I don't think I've ever paid so much money for such a poorly designed piece of hardware.
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We don't know about your use case, style, tolerance for real estate, or eyesight quality, but think of how the appliance is going to be spending most of its time- folded up on your back.

Weight (and to a lesser extent bulk) can make the heavier, more powerful laptops a far worse option. I always cringe when the company "standard" issues my back a heavier-than-necessary burden.

The true merit for me is performance per pound. I've found the heavier laptops, by that metric, lose ground quickly in most situations.
Well, you did put coding in quotes yourself. 6 year olds are not developers, saying otherwise is insincere and gives off a bad vibe right from the start.
> I suspect I'll get downvoted for this by people who believe our media, but I think with some critical thinking it's possible to at least realize the possibility that the UN JIT/OPCW may be influenced to the point of bias by the US and its allies.

The OPCW has 120 member states, some are at war with each other. That makes it for pretty broad conspiracy. The report is public and you can skim through for any inconsistencies you find. It doesn't sound like you did before dismissing it.

http://undocs.org/S/2017/904

> Many smart people around me have asked, what would have been Assad's motivation to bring down the wrath of the US on himself at a point when he's winning the war?

Sure, next time you can tell this to smart people around you: obviously chemical weapons are used to kill his enemies and terrorize opposing population, with little to no downside over the years. We hear "he's winning the war" for the last 5 years, the conflict is still ongoing. Given that his military is not in its top fighting shape to put mildly, it's natural for the dictator to use what he can.

> Some of the people who were even in the video showing the "chemical attack" have said that they were not attacked with chemical weapons.

You are talking about one of recent Ghouta chlorine attack rather than 2017 Khan Sheikhoun Sarin attack. An understandable mistake, since regime deployed chemical weapons in scores of incidents since 2013.

Yes, in the former some of the survivors were apprehended by the regime and used to spin Assad's point.
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Which is pretty much where we are now. At this point smartphone sales are mostly based on making performance more affordable, and lots of marketing.
You mix your war crime incidents. I was talking about Khan Sheikhoun, a good year before any pullout was announced.
Physical theories imply physical laws and consistent variables which require consistent math and hard scientific research; There is no escaping that. To say that physics is like a "landscape" is like comparing scribble of a stick man to a Picasso. There is a lot we don't know about the universe, I think its time for writers and physicists to get on board with that and analyze the shit out of their vague and opaque understandings before hitting the enter key.
People drop their smartphones more often than their desktops.

But I expect cheaper devices to take more share, since the "high-end" won't give you much benefits over them. My 120 EUR Xiaomi already offers amazing cost performance compared to most other Androids.
Looking at the clearly sparse docs, Metal looks like some jackass's pet project. For people who get off on making everyone else use their system by systematizing the obvious and the already done, graphics apis have an allure. However, most people, let alone companies are not capable of replacing OpenGL and OpenCL.
The only thing a VPN would do in this case is hiding that you're even accessing VSTS and providing modest proteaction against MitM attacks. You still have to use 2FA to log in, and the code you access is still logged.
> and not a single example of where words or ascii fail to impart what only an emoji can

Obviously words can (almost certainly) impart what an emoji can - but one small image versus maybe 100 words? That's before you start combining them and the expanded meaning you can get from that.

You might as well say "give me an example of where Proper English fails to import what only slang can" - you're missing the point.
To be clear. I am not forcing her to use that app to much. We do that as much as she likes. And I can see she has fun seeing "a cat moving along the street".
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At Ahrefs we are running between 130 and 170 millions sessions a day. The project started before the release of puppeteer. I can tell you the release of puppeteer saved me a lot of time. It's way more easier to keep a correct browser state using it than what was previously available. It also interacts well with lighthouse. I wouldn't call chrome headless stable or bug free (it doesn't even handle https correctly). But it's a good thing to have it available.
I don't think that is quite accurate. But you will have to ask a professional game developer for better judgement. Comparatively speaking.

Vulkan, you need to know exactly what you are doing. There are little to no handhelding. You are trying to squeeze out every last 10% of performance in exchange for lots more development time. You need to write a hell a lot more code to do something what you previously thought were simple.

OpenGL is higher level that should be compared to Direct3D 10, not 11. As a matter of fact I will go about saying compare to Direct 3D 9. And unless you are a OpenGL zealot, any sane game developers would have told you Direct X 9 already exceed OpenGL in most way.

Metal is offering what most of Vulkan can do and making it even easier then OpenGL.

Honestly I don't get / understand why all the backlash. OpenGL is deprecated, and it simply means Apple won't be updating OpenGL anymore. Stop asking every god damn year. They have been shipping other deprecated library and API for years! OpenGL is developed in such a way that no one really cares. And designed by committees for maximum backward compatibility. And if you want your App on iOS, you will have to use Metal anyway.
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My intended meaning is that it leads to a unhealthy community... not that anybody has specific mental health issues.
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Our reflexes are fine at about 100 Hz. That gives up to 2m distance at rival urban speeds before action and drivers shouldn't rely just on reflexes anyway.

The problem is not reflexes, the problem is some drivers being dumb and a bunch of others distracted. You could mandate a very limited systento prevent both without solving the self driving car problem at all. (I recommend looking at trains for this solution.)

It is being done because it is attractive, not because it is necessary.
Here's a champion Flyboard rider, zipping around on water jets.[1] That's the agility and stability they need. Firefighters could use that, flying the end of their hoses like a drone to where the water is really needed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhUSu8v2N4
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I wrote about it with kind of an amateur's perspective https://raedisch.net/articles/bitcoin and am actively seeking discussions. Most people are guarded (rightfully so) possibly in fear of being burned. There are very few people in my vicinity that I can have constructive debate over Bitcoin with. In case you could be one of them and are ever near Hamburg, please feel free to contact me!
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There is a reason for that. From the BUILDING file in the Chez repository:

> Since the Scheme sources can be compiled only by a working version of Chez Scheme, it's not actually possible to build Chez Scheme from source. That's why the boot and header files are packaged with the sources.

Chez has a bootstrapping problem. (See also https://bootstrappable.org)
nightmares from HIPAA compliance spring to horrifying life

There was once a case where a healthcare provider was found liable under HIPAA for discussing reproductive care of an adult woman with another adult who lived with her, failing to anticipate that maybe her father would take a dim light to the information. Covered entities are allowed to discuss treatment and payment with spouses but are supposed to use professional judgment about it.

I'd anticipate that the lawyers look at this one, sigh, and settle. It's a cost-of-doing-business in healthcare.
Right now most AI experts in the industry are financially incentivized. They are more passionate about the money that they can make than about the research. It attracts the wrong kind of experts.

The real experts are those who are working for universities and getting paid peanuts. Those who value knowledge above money.
> it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors.

ooh, probably because apple acquired a company called pa-semi (300m iirc) which had a bunch of cpu dudes doing power-efficient chips for quite a while...
I agree, notifications page is great, I also use it daily. Another thing is profile page.

Maybe they could be solved in a federated way like Mastodon?
If my layperson's understanding is correct (probably vastly generalized), this should be considered exciting news. A few years ago the existence of the Higgs Boson was confirmed with some degree of confidence. These Higgs Bosons are produced when particles interact with the Higgs Field giving them mass.

The next question from that was - is that really the Higgs Boson, does it behave the way we expect it to (according to standard model)? I believe this is a test to verify that it does and they measured the coupling constant and it matched up. Neat. This could help with a much deeper understanding of why particles have mass.
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"Nobody even really sells desktop PCs anymore except custom gaming rigs and low-power kiosk boxes."
I believe you should embrace the novelty concept called 'work' sometime. Then you may see some 'niche' application of PCs.
Mobile devices can, yes, be sold in bigger numbers, may produce higher profit, many trivial applications like browsing for news and sharing our newest and greatest experiences by tweets and photos do not require, luckily, a desktop anymore and so these paramount usages could been shifted to the only important platform of mobile devices, yet the second grade activities of design, manufacturing, academia and so still rely on the archaic concept of desktop computers and they keep alive this dying artefact. Even traitor mobile developers (all of them, the fools!) dare to use desktop computers still instead of solely relying on mobile phones. But not long, soon the last aircraft engineer or corporate accountant will sell their desks and throw away the last of the keyboards moving to the only necessary platform of mobiles so the PC can go extinct finally!
Surely an unmarked van owned by Apple would have none of that?
I just turn off desktop filing support and have a scratch folder sitting in my dock.

The possibility of making a mess is too great.
Seems like some people still got this ongoing "war" concept in their minds between major desktop OSes. They demand breathtaking features that will make them outstanding placed side by side with competition and all what they're getting are gimmicks, changes for sake of change. And I don't find that surprising either; for more than a decade OS are feature complete and you can do your everyday chores no matter if it's Windows, OSX or any *nix with DE of choice - the difference is in style that mentioned are giving; so it's hard to give something really meaningful that would change the workflow, especially when majority of people are more happy with mobile envirnoments
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There’s a whole range of “smiling face” emoji with slightly different smiles, and slightly different eye expressions, some blushing, some not. In the context of “i have all these options to choose from”, choosing that one particular option conveys more information than what the text-based alternative provides
It is a ridiculously well engineered car. Way more power than the competition, bigger battery than the competition. The 2009 model is still technically ahead of all the other plugins on the market.
Both exist:
MoltenGL is for OpenGL ES https://moltengl.com/moltengl/