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Doesn't work, dividends are typically taxed as personal income if you work for your own company in Sweden.
>General purpose operating systems are just a bad idea for running these hardware appliances.

This.
Opinions on immigration and diversity aren't really relevant to Google's corporate mission as a whole. They are relevant to some degree to some of its hiring and HR policies.

I have not worked anywhere where immigration policies were brought up at a company wide level. Diversity does come up elsewhere, but mainly so management can pay lip-service to the idea that they care about diversity.

By the way, I'm not placing all (or even the majority) of the blame on the people bringing up immigration or diversity, though I would argue they aren't appropriate topics in most workplaces. If you hold a controversial opinion on those issues (and others) and it's not relevant to your job, maybe you should keep your opinions private at work.
this is highly naive of me to ask, but "in theory" if we could simulate the universe, would familiar stuff like living organisms/'societies'/'humans' potentially just emerge within such simulations?

just super cool to think about even if not the case/unrealistic.
I'd install vscode in wsl and run it through a Windows X server.
I'm plenty happy with my Chinese junk brand gaming mice. They work well enough, don't require (additional) drivers, are cheap as hell, and have the six buttons I'm used to.
Why can't you do that? GDPR does not require end-to-end email encryption.
>I do remember when OpenId+HW 2FA was supposed to have fixed this

HW 2fa can never fix auth because it's hardware, and cannot scale. There are solutions out there, all what's left is to raise awareness to add it. Showing popular passwords will just move us to a new set of popular passwords and so on.
I have literally this same list of problems on MacOS. Connecting to external screens is apparently hard. MacOS also ignores commands to lock the screen until it’s done changing screens. :(
Because we don't see any reason for it, and we don't have any precedent for something similar happening in other situations. We also observe that many properties of subjective experience are counterintuitive and seem to contradict what we would expect from an emergent system. This makes us curious and we want to learn more about it.

Feynman's response in the video you link is not that it's unreasonable to ask about the mechanics of a thing. Quite the opposite - it's that simple questions are often very deep and very complicated and can't be described in a quick one or two sentences.

What he's not saying is: "Why is the sky blue? Well, why shouldn't it be?"
There is this trend in HR to try to get people to "bring their whole selves to work".

Of course, most people are political, social, etc animals.
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The first time I heard about Eurorack was when the guy behind the Audio Damage plugins remarked on his blog that part of why he he was making the move to Eurorack was that hardware couldn't be pirated.
Sorry, no. Anyone with half a brain can be a janitor; it takes almost zero skills and little training. Engineers need many years of education, and get more valuable with experience, and that's in addition to needing the raw aptitude in the first place. There's no way to create new engineers from the general population in a short timescale, just like you can't create new proficient musicians in week from a group of random people. Anyone can be taught to clean toilets and empty trash bins in 10 minutes.

The income disparity is just a product of that reality.

Outside of Silicon Valley, engineers don't get paid that much; the really high-income people are various executives, managers, finance people, business owners, etc. Engineers do pretty well for paid grunts, but compared to the ownership and executive classes, it's not that great.
Ah yes. I was carried away by the title.
It is the internet misinterpreting some perfectly valid scientific investigations. A rational discussion of quanta and quantization, how observable information is coded in our universe, morphs into talk of whether that universe actually exists inside a big computer. To correct such rants one must explain quantum physics, something nobody wants to do anytime soon. It made for a half-decent Doctor Who episode.
I agree. I thought Damore's memo was an insane level of workplace inappropriate if just from a topic standpoint, until I heard about the rest of Google's discussion culture. It's just begging for horrible conflict that these items are even on the table.

It should be possible to conduct yourself professionally and not burn up inside over whether or not someone harbors some ideology that conflicts with one of yours.
I tend to do a PRAM and SMC reset after major updates ... seems to flush most of the kinks out.
I don't think any scientist should take it seriously. It is at the level of "maybe this is all just a dream". Well perhaps, but we have no way of knowing. It is an unfalsifiable hypothesis so it is outside the scope of science.
Tech writer here. I'd be hugely thankful if you included why a given set is the best in your experience!
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I don't think the solution is to fire these people (or Damore), it's just to say, "you can have whatever views you want outside of work, but unless it's relevant to your job, leave you opinions at home." That's how most of the corporate world operates.
Bear in mind privacy advocates also tend to like decentralised systems, but p2p networks benefit from IPv6 a lot.

We can't have it both ways. Either we have flat connectivity and a global address space like IPv6 and have static IPs, or we have to host all services in the cloud. I'd rather have static IPs.
thanks for this! Great points. Here's how we think of them:

chicken & egg: we build hyper local liquidity the way Uber tackles neighborhoods or cities, hence the initial focus on investment banking. The few similar products we've seen try this inevitably try to do dozens of industries or hundreds of roles and this makes it impossible to achieve true liquidity or to allocate marketing dollars properly.

Quality control: To me, this is the beauty of The Lobby. We're not trying to get the best written content, or to get the CEO of a company with highly specialized knowledge. It's junior level people talking about how they got their job. If you're bad at this or your quality sucks, our ratings will indicate that and you won't be picked further. If you're a great insider, your ratings will indicate that too and you get more demand + more money.

But the main point here is: this knowledge is not rocket science. Any analyst at a specific team in Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch will have very similar answers on how to land the job. That's what we see at The Lobby too.

No one can guarantee that the information the insider is giving is 100% accurate, but we think with the right reward & incentive systems in place, the best insiders rise up and the crappy ones get booted out.

Edit: To the last points you added. The myth that because you're a job seeker you don't have money is the one we're fighting with our analogy. People spend money on all sorts of things they don't need and absurd amounts of money on schools, bootcamps like GA, and more. Those are all for career advancement.

If you believe our premise that learning from insiders about what life is really like, what it takes to break in, getting personalized tips, etc. is the way to get the best careers, then suddenly a large portion of that spend can go to something like The Lobby, which I profoundly believe is a better use of your cash.

One example that I kept hearing from the YC partners themselves: "If I had your service when I was a freshman, I would have spoken to 2 lawyers, asked them what they do all day, only to realize that I don't want to be a lawyer." Think of the massive opportunity cost of learning what to do or WHAT NOT to do way before even pursuing a career or becoming a full-time job seeker.

Last point: our best users are career switchers, they already make money and want to make a career move. For me, moving from finance to tech was borderline impossible and I had money to spend. I just didn't know what to do or what path to take. The Lobby would have solved or mitigated that too.
It’s performance innovations like these and working closer with the community to understand the needs of our consumers that will help influence future Microsoft mice.

I thought the verdict of the Classic IntelliMouse was dead on arrival by the gaming community just because the sensor was subpar. It really seemed as if MS was exceptionally tone deaf to the community in this case (which is weird since they explicitly mention the sensor as a selling point in the article).

I really hope MS will make hardware again. Recently it has only been niche wireless stuff and I can't find anything else that comes close in comfort to their wired mice.
> So why is this obvious solution not implemented?

I have no inside information but I think it is because manufacturers will collude to add this as a visible added cost to the cost of the product. Consumers will think stuff became more expensive because of some idiots in DC/Brussels.
I think you went a little too fast to not realize "restrict" is a keyword in C99.
>While the V20 seems like a nice phone, I don't want to have just a single choice of phones, the battery is not the only thing I care about in a phone.

You can't have everything you want. If a replaceable battery is a big deal for you, you pick a phone that has it, and deal with the drawbacks (which in this phone is probably relatively poor battery life and a large size). And you get a used phone if you have to: the V20 isn't very old. I have its predecessor, the V10, and it works great.

>Also the LG V30 doesn't have a removable battery, so it seems like the V20 is the last of an era.

Perhaps, but you can vote with your wallet. Don't buy the expensive, brand-new phone that doesn't have the important feature you want. Stick with an older phone that does.
Breaking the site guidelines like this, after all of the above, is a clear indication that you don't mean to use HN as intended, so I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
There's no mention at all of the "universe is a simulation" theory in the article, unless I managed to skip a paragraph.

So title is entirely clickbait, surely? It's not "We're Getting Better at Universe Simulations" that is the content given. I was hoping to find some discussion of the simulation theory and perhaps reasons found that it may not be possible. That's why I clicked and read.
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Our current, headline price is 4c per GB, per month and the borg accounts are 2c - so it is half-priced. (we're in the middle of a price drop this month - that page still had the old 3c rate on it ...)

The ZFS-created snapshots of your filesystem are disabled - it is assumed that you will handle your retention/point-in-times with the borg tool itself (we don't like doing snapshots of snapshots ...) Also, while you get full technical support for the use of rsync.net in general we offer no technical support for your use of borg.

The assumption is that borg users know what they are doing - and that assumption has proved to be correct.
>I have literally this same list of problems on MacOS. Connecting to external screens is apparently hard.

Never had any problem connecting 3 different MacBook Pro's (across the years) to 3-4 different external monitors (Dell, LG, Samsung, etc) and to several projectors (including through a VGA adaptor and HDMI ones).

>MacOS also ignores commands to lock the screen until it’s done changing screens.

So for all of 2 seconds it takes?
Well, are there any mobile ISPs that let you accept inbound connections?

Carrier firewalls kill mobile p2p networks even though mobile+p2p are made for each other: it'd be amazing to be able to build decentralised services running on swarms of phones, but the lack of stable device-to-device connectivity except via massive Google and Apple datacenters is a killer problem :(
I think Julia is a great example.
It also uses a "world-age" for function redefinitions, like another commenter suggested, to put the burden on redefinitions rather than than using runtime deoptimizations.
Before implementing the world age, they still didn't deoptimize. This meant that if "bar" called "foo", you call "bar" (causing it to compile), and redefine "foo", and then call "bar" again, it would still use the old foo method. That workaround (redefining "bar") was inconvenient, but unlike with deoptimizing, there was a workaround.

One comment on Julia though. It isn't like other JIT languages.
It's a lazy statically compiled language with a REPL. It uses LLVM (like Clang) to compile functions the first time they're called for a given set of input types (every function is like a C++ template by default).
This makes it easy to get C-level speed, because all it is is a different front end (with extensive type inference infrastructure/default "auto" for all types) to the same back end.

This is in constrast to an interpreted language, where code only gets compiled when hot (but then with the potential of profile-guided compilation, which could sometimes let them run even faster).
Awesome thank you.
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Because you can chroot doesn't mean that you are not in a virtualized container. Actually this tend to say the opposite...
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Interesting idea but I left the site once I got to the pricing page as it goes super thin and impossible to read on my iPad.
It's a good argument. If the next Congressional majority is expected to be even more in one camp than the retiree, then an earlier retirement insures to some degree a greater chance to get more candidates like yourself considered.
> Is the "Universe is a Simulation" more than a dreamy internet theory, though? Like, are astronomers and physicists taking it seriously?

There is no practical way to falsify that so yes, it is just a dreamy theory.

Unlike some other dreamy theories (creationism and astrology come to my mind) nobody has come up with any practical uses for the dreamy theory either, so that would be a second reason why nobody takes this dreamy theory that seriously.

But if this is a simulated game, I would be keen to know how this is scored and how many lifes I have left before game over...
Frankly not really sure why they are marketing this for gaming these days, because most IntelliMouse users I've known, use it for work and casual activities.
Yes, it is a serious theory, taken seriously by serious scientists, and seriously investigated by them.

It can be hard to tell through the popular science stories, where the author is typically unable to relay anything about this research without adding "woo woo" sounds and wiggling their fingers, but it's a real theory.

One thing that may be worth remembering is that in the real theory, the "simulation" is not necessarily running on "a supercomputer just like what we have, only way bigger", which is actually a silly idea for various reasons, and we also do not know that the simulation is literally simulating every particle and every cubic inch of space in the most accurate possible way (i.e., for all we know, far away galaxies could just be a few megabytes in size, rather than fully simulated to the nth degree). The "Great Simulator" is not required to run anything remotely resembling our physics. What seems an absurdly large computation may be smaller than it appears, and may not be an absurdly large amount of a universe running on fundamentally different physics.

(Occasionally when I'm bored, I noodle around with a theory of cellular automata in which the universe has infinite computation power by virtue of being able to split a cell in half or quarters, that then runs at double-speed relative to the outside. If this is done recursively the universe has arbitrary computation abilities relative to the "top level". I've never worked it into anything usable, but I think it can give a flavor of why we should not be sure that our simulation host is necessarily as staggered by the computation as we would be. We are not even capable of saying that they aren't running an exponentially-expensive quantum approximation algorithm with the entire universe actually arbitrary-precision integers under the hood. The staggering amount of computation that represents may not bother them at all.)

It is not a theory that is, strictly speaking, falsifiable thanks to Church-Turing equivalence, but there are ways in which it could potentially (to any arbitrary degree of confidence you may want) be confirmed if it is true. To take one degenerate case, if the Great Simulator broke silence and starting wildly breaking the laws of physics to get our attention, that would certainly put a lot of probability mass on the "we're a simulation" theory. There are less extreme cases we could conceivably pick up on, that just fits into an HN comment nicely.
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Whoever's first to figure out garbage mining will be phenomenally wealthy.
People don't consider reliability as much as they should when they buy a device. The Surface line has been known for poor reliability, with nearly a quarter of customers being affected for some products.

The time spent investigating an issue, arranging a repair, sending a device in, setting up on a backup device, and communicating with repairmen only to get an unfixed product back approaches a couple of days of lost productivity. Rules out the Surface Book 2 in my eyes.
>The first thing I always do on a new laptop (or install) is go into Power Settings and change the Closing Lid action from putting the computer to sleep to just turning off the screen.

Or you can get a Mac laptop, where getting the computer to sleep when you close the lid and start again fast when you open it just works.

Why would you let the laptop keep running, waste battery, risk overheating and endanger any spinning HDs you might have in it, when the lid is closed?
> It’s 2018 and I still see people walking around with Windows laptop lids open because they presumably have no confidence in Windows’ ability to sensibly preserve state after closing the lid.

At my workplace it's about 60:40 Windows to Mac user ratio. Regardless of the machine, nobody closes the lid when moving in the office between desks and meeting rooms. So, I'd say it's probably not that.
That has exactly been our experience when deciding to go AWS vs self hosted. For our environment, it makes sense for time and money to go self hosted. I get it may be different than others, but not for use.
Yeah, we don't have to throw out every lesson handed to us from previous generations and brutally relearn them. Some topics you don't casually toss around with thousands of virtual strangers. Hell, _most_ topics. Commit your work, close your laptop, and go exist in any number of spaces where your politics are welcome discussion.
I think spam is going to be a problem to control, it's also a matter of time before fake accounts are a thing.
Yes, no matter what you get chances are it'll work well. I currently have a 1700X with an Asrock X370 Fatality Mini itx board and it works perfectly. I recommend checking out level1techs on youtube as they test motherboards with linux in mind.
In your real life group of friends, make sure you don’t engage with people who emphasize a spirit of one-upsmanship in regards to who is the most “informed” about every esoteric, up-to-the-minute or bleeding edge development in every topic.

Usually these folks have a shallow understanding of most of the stuff they go on about. Enough to sound smart in an isolated sound byte at a party, to make other shallow people go, “wow, how do they stay so informed?” but which completely falls apart with even just a few cursory depth questions.

I think scanning Hacker News links begets this shallow way of thinking and emphasizes name dropping new topics as if it makes you seem like a zeitgeist genius.

Read just a few things that interest you, and try to read them a little more deeply. For all the other stuff, just ignore it. If it’s really that important, it’ll come up again and again. You’ll read it eventually. Anybody giving you a hard time about not having already seen it is probably a shallow time waster who only “knows more” about it in the most superficial sense.

Social media is like a petri dish for these people too. So, as should be immediately obvious by this point in history, just stay away from social media.
I was using a 1600X and it worked fine. Using a 1950X and still works fine. I pretty frequently put it under heavy load.
My company does an annual employee engagement survey in a futile attempt to measure employee happiness. Last year one of the questions was "Do you have a best friend at work?"

smh...
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Your account is about to get larger ...

We lowered the borg rate to 2c this past month and, as is our policy, existing accounts get enlarged to match ...

So in the near future, your 150 GB account will become ~208 GB in size ...
> are astronomers and physicists taking it seriously?

What does such a theory have to do with astronomers or physicists? Its a philosophical issue
I thought dense arrays used linear storage and only fell back to a hashmap when they got sufficiently hole-y.
Thanks LiamPa - we'll look into that on iPad. I'll reach back out when it's responsive there.
It will be fine. I'm running Mint and Kali on some slightly older Ryzens for a year now without issue.
>Is making your co-workers your friend group a new thing?

I wonder if it's generational. I work with a group of millenials (~30) and my attitude is exactly like yours, but they're mostly all friends with each other, go to each other's places, etc. I'm honestly shocked that they ever hired me in here.
Yes, I too believe C is "only for speed"... I suggest we both get rid of any device that uses C code and move the most remote places on earth.

"C is for speed only"... Do you not realize there is an entire embedded world that runs on C?
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It’s more the people who don’t pay for the service, but might, that are quickest to see post-mortems in a negative light. The only reason they have for reading them is looking for justifications for culling the product/service from the list of contenders for when they ever have to evaluate solutions in that category.

In other words: post-mortems are good PR, but incredibly bad advertising.
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Brave for Android is not bad and it runs Chromium.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.brow...
In my older compilers, I had a cornucopia of optimization levers for the various optimizations. I discovered that the number of people who understood how to use those levers, let alone were interested in them, or cared, was zero. Including myself.

People just want to "optimize" the code.

(Also, different optimizations can have surprising effects when combined that isn't clear at all from the individual levers.)
That would also have worked, except in Damore's case they did actually solicit feedback (his memo was written after some training event where they said employees could/should comment).

That said there's a difference between "I am talking about opinions and views that are irrelevant or inappropriate for the workplace", which is a mistake that is perhaps easy to make and can be trained out of people, vs "I am literally calling my coworkers nazis and demanding they be fired for expressing their views", which is not exactly a mistake and I see no real reason to tolerate such behaviour in any company.