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> What happened? Undo that.

1. the construction of interstates and airports that routed around old railroad/highway towns.

2. The green revolution. Agriculture became much more efficient, productive, centralized, and automated. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_Stat...

3. Resource extraction running its course.

4. Efficiency improvements in manufacturing and resource extraction.

The amount of rural blight caused by the favority political demon of late (outsourcing of manufacturing) is relatively minor compared to the above items. Especially 1 and 2! (Seriously, if you come across a run-down main street away from any interstate, odds are better than even it used to be a railroad station.)

IF we follow your advice in a way that's meaningful to most rural communities, we'd have to roll back the green revolution, bring back passenger rail, and magically refill coal veins/oil wells.

Other favorite policy quick-fixes as of late (in particular, on-shoring manufacturing) might help a handful of communities but are a teeny, tiny fragment of the story for blighted rural america in general. The ~80% of small towns that never had a factory to begin with can't reasonably blame outsourcing for their woes.

> It should be even easier now, given that a little remote office can be easily connected to the rest of the world.

1. Have you lived in rural America? Especially outside of "technically rural" locations such as university/college towns, good internet connections are sometimes available but usually not. And if not, convincing an ISP to dig is anything but "easy".

2. Most execs have no interest in building a big office in a remote location, both for personal reasons and for legitimate business reasons (proximity to a major airport is important in a lot of businesses).

3. Chicken-and-egg: People very reasonably won't move to most small towns due to lack of quality services (schools, hospitals, and entertainment). But those services can't be established without a critical mass of people moving into town.
Most people who have answering emails as part of their job are not working for an hourly wage. The other aspect is that some of us actually like our work and want to succeed at it: we don’t see work as slavery or some kind of adversarial relationship with the “boss.” Many people actually believe in what the company is trying to do and actually care about the job.

And the work has to get done at some point right? Most jobs that involve answering emails aren’t like factory jobs where you simply make as many widgets as possible during your shift and that’s is.

Every email I answer “on the train” means one less thing to do when actually at the office. Which means I can take a longer lunch or just relax a bit more or just have a slightly less frenetic pace.
The manual is worth a read. This is a software (as gcc) in which the "man" page or the information displayed with "--help" is not near the bunch of things there are described in the complete documentation.
>>If they were suddenly allowed to, we would not get a flood of new drugs from the current pharmaceutical companies. We would get a flood of sugar pills from the current supplement companies.

We would get a flood of data from human use of the drug, increasing the rate at which efficacy is discovered in drugs.

There may be paths to exploitation mitigation that do far less harm to the rate of good-faith experimentation.
The memory mapping trick they use on x86 to avoid masking only works up to the maximum 48 bits of addressable virtual memory, so there is much less than 22 free bits in that case.

It's also not quite free since it takes up TLB space.
Could you elaborate? Why would refcount be a bad idea ? (genuine question)
Does this open the door for me billing my evening shower when the design finally clicks in my head?
The absolute number of calories is meaningless without knowing your height, weight, body composition, and activity level. However an American man of average size with moderate activity will lose weight consuming 1600kcal/day. It's very likely that you're underestimating, or not actually counting everything you consume.
For context:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kIVXNCzDA
The smoke has been going on for 2, arguably 3 years. That isn't enough data to conclude that it will be a persistent issue, let alone that it will continually get worse. Even if we consider that global warming is an issue, cooler and wetter weather patterns could and probably will, given the history of the weather here, emerge. But sure, go ahead and be an alarmist - I don't want people to move here either.
AIUI Krypton is basically doing the same thing as these FIDO2 Security Keys, but their software substitutes an app on your Phone for the Security Key. So a web site offering WebAuthn can't tell the difference (unless you allow it to interrogate the "Security Key" to ask who made it, which you probably shouldn't)

I personally would rather have Security Keys, but a solution like Krypton is definitely easier for a lot of users and obviously the price differential is hard to argue with.
TensorFlow 1.8 with AMD ROCm – Too Little Too Late?
The term "refutes" seems incorrect here. Perhaps "denies" instead. I was expecting a public demonstration of proof or evidence against the claim beyond an assertion.
Amazon hits $2,000 per share for the first time
Tesla’s chief people officer takes leave of absence
That's usually the start of a decline. When Mercedes bought Chrysler and wanted to become the next GE in the 80s they built a new huge administrative facility far away from production and moved management there. That was the start of a long decline of the company until they got rid of Chrysler and closed the administrative facility.

It's a very bad design if management gets physically separated from the actual purpose of an institution. They get detached from the actual work and live in their own reality.
>the FDA actually has fast-track approval

Which probably isn't as valuable as it seems. Case in point: look at how AKAO's fast-tracked antibiotic got slammed by the FDA.
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> but there are also cases where we're being irrational under any value system

I think the set of possible value systems is much larger than you appreciate. For example, nuclear war is perfectly rational when your value system is "KILL ALL HUMANS".
Some chronic depression before, maybe. But mostly, she said she wanted to find herself, and she couldn't do that with others around -- too hard to "hear herself think".

Which is to say, I don't really know and never will.
The long-standing prohibition of non-compete agreements in California is really the X factor in why it continues to be the innovation juggernaut. So many startups here are the result of founders capitalizing on some element of their experience at prior employers. And the ability to hire top talent away from direct competitors also provides a significant advantage for rising startups.

Even if other states pass legislation to end non-competes (as MA has tried to do a few times), it will take time for regional business culture to adapt. I've worked for a few East coast tech firms where company loyalty is taken very seriously, and defectors were semi-publicly shamed even if not outright sued for violating a non-compete.
In big companies it's often easier to get decision to pay six-figure to external consultants than to not even pay four-figure to employees for the same job but sometimes to even accept the job which is already done by employees just for salary.
Coffee is mostly bitter in taste, Orange juice or Ananas juice is fairly sweet and acidic in taste in comparison.
Or just modify your goals and your definition of failure to reflect the fact that the other party is an actual human being, not some video game boss who you can keep trying different things with until something sticks.

Most of the people you're attracted to won't feel the same about you, or be in a position to act on it if they are. That's just how it is, and for the most part, there's nothing you can do about it. Sure, being friendly and personable won't hurt, but what they find attractive is one of their attributes, not yours. If you're going to base your definition of success or failure on how a stranger feels about you, you're going to find yourself very disappointed a lot of the time.

A conversation with another human being isn't a failure just because it didn't end with a sexual encounter or you getting their number. It's perfectly acceptable to just shoot the shit with a stranger for 5 minutes and both go on with your day without even exchanging names if that's how it feels like it's going. That's still a step up from spending that 5 minutes furtively glancing at them from across the room, and you've actually had some social interaction with another human being.

Also, can we just quit with this "friendzone" thing? It's not some heinous insult for a woman to consider you a friend. Great, you're attracted to her. I'm happy for you. But if she doesn't feel the same way, then you establish communication at the lowest common protocol. She's proposed friends. If you can communicate as friends, you have a new friend - is that really so bad? If you can't communicate as friends, you negotiate further down to the next available protocol, and now you're just an acquaintance who says hi when you happen to be in the same room.

We're talking about having a conversation with another human being. You don't need to interview them or manipulate them towards some goal - just have a conversation without an ulterior motive. You might be surprised at what you see when you stop looking so hard.
I don’t know, but this whole scandal looks really ridiculous to me. I mean VPN users are usually more techy and should notice that the Internet connection is being used by another service (by really dropped speed and/or used bandwidth). I’ve checked it with Wireshark and everything seems alright to me — only connections are being made to the VPN servers. Read that they are doing a full audit in 2 months or so about the whole zero log policy so it will be interesting to see, even though I doubt anything scandalous will come out.
Come on down to Texas! We have no state taxes, a business-friendly government, and we even have an ocean (well, a gulf anyway).
I live in the Bay Area, so maybe it's only outside that it's used, but I have never heard anything like the term "Off Silicon Valleying". Googling it only turns up results about TJ Miller leaving the HBO show. Has anyone ever heard it?
DC when used to mean Data Centre and Domain Controller.

IP when used to mean Intellectual Property and Internet Protocol.

There are more examples of this that I can't think of right now. Acronyms should be defined the first time you use them and should never change meaning for the rest of the conversation.
Surprisingly, if you hang out with kids with cancer you will find them incredibly upbeat and engaged in life (Most of the time. Even people without cancer have our days).

Personally these events have increased my enjoyment of life and I try to not ever take a day for granted. My faith also was increased in the midst of these difficult times.

Now there is still a dent in the door frame where I punched it when I almost dropped him when he was in hospice and needed to go to the bathroom. I leave it there to remind me how mad I got and how much it sucked (We usually remember our past by remembering happy times and forgetting negative times), but for the most part it has made me a and my family better.
honestly, from these pictures at least, the lego version is more beautiful than the original!

i hope they do a crash test with it when they finish showing it off at various events :)
For the $4300 you mention, I seem to be able to find real houses (1500 sq ft and 3 bedrooms) in downtown Mountain View, presumably a premium location if you work at Google for instance:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/old-mountain-view/667...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/pet-friendly-house-nr...

Sounds good enough to start a family to me.

And of course, once you become a little bit more senior and your salary goes over $200K, you won't mind spending so much on rent and will start saving significantly more than elsewhere.

It's possible that there is a natural filter in play here, with the people whose salary is not increasing significantly basically forced to leave.
If you’re saving on the order of a hundred dollars per tape (12TB), you’re going to have enough left over for a few readers.

But - this is a silly argument. I think we actually agree on all of this and we’re talking about an extreme hypothetical that while I’d love to test out, isn’t something I’m going to do in the near future!

Although, a few years ago, I did have a similar issue. I needed to love about 500TB of data from one data enter in Menlo Park to a new one in SF. We tried everything we could to make sufficient backups, but it was hard to backup 500TB of data over even a 10Gb/s link. We ended up just moving the physical JBODs in the back of a rental car. Most stressful drive I’ve ever made.
The only person in Silicon Valley who I think had a vision for Silicon Valley was John Arrillaga. Someone like a Steve Jobs or a Larry Page wasn't thinking of Silicon Valley. These people stuck to their knitting.
I was summarizing the source document for this article, which is actually a few years old at present.
Literally zero percent of the economy works like this in reality.
"Demanding client" doesnt mean unlimited funding. i find that the most demanding ones also look most closely at their bills.
Why is AutomationWorld site so hell-bent on making me look at this guy's mug rather than the image actually relevant to the article?
I don't really get the banned for life stuff. Especially with the complete lack of support.
I don't think it would be. I think if everyone stopped advertising unit sales would crash.

Coke vs Pepsi is much less of a thing than the constant reinforcement that you would really, really enjoy one or the other right now. The constant reinforcement drives absolute sales, not just relative market share.

I think the problem is more that a lot of heavily advertised products are incredibly harmful to personal and environmental health. Sugar is unbelievably toxic over the longer term (weight gain, diabetes, etc) but the canonisation of the profit motive means that market morality rewards the creation and promotion of these toxic effects.

You could argue that if people want to poison themselves they should be allowed to. But even ignoring the direct social costs of the medical care required to clean up the effects of Type II diabetes and heart disease, the argument is patchily applied.

Some poisons (sugar, alcohol, tobacco) get a pass, while others (psychedelic drugs) don't. A few like cocaine remain in limbo, with nominal disapproval but tacit - and sometimes not so tacit - covert political support.

It's not just about bullshit jobs but about bullshit consumption, and the curious moral frameworks that support it.
Not in bone cancer.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/on-the-horizon-osteosarcoma-how...
Some women find it odd if you don't have a FB. This may have changed slightly in recent years though, as trends away from F have started.
No it’s still free, they (Oracle) are just not supplying the free JVMs. There are plenty of alternatives for OpenJDK builds that are FOSS.
In addition to all of the other valid observations, I think some of the impetus to create these bullshit jobs is to maintain a certain level of employment we wouldn't have otherwise only because thr alternative jobs wouldn't be excepted.

I.e., take all your excess administrators and TSA employees and offer them jobs that are in demand but unwanted like construction or something. I doubt they'd take them.

People want office jobs, so we find ways to make office jobs.
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You won't see an improvement in productivity but I would take a look at employee health, satisfaction and retention.
No. The change was that you need to pay to get updates for older versions of the runtime.
Years ago, I was complaining to a co-worker about a terrible codebase. He looked at me and said, "ok, when was the last time you looked at a program and thought, 'wow, this is really good code'?" That simple statement changed the way I view software quality forever.
Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code
> One reason for Putin’s popularity is he put a stop to the Yeltsin facilitated post-communist era plundering of Russia’s wealth and resources by scruple less Russians and foreigners alike

What an absurd claim. That is exactly what Putin is doing. He's just better at messaging to hide his kleptocracy.
The average full time salary in Berlin is 40-50k before taxes. The median income of all Berliners is a lot lower than that, because we have many part timers and many people on social security. The programmers that I know get about 70k on average. Rent in Berlin is about 10€/m^2 (heating included), so 700€/month gets you an apartment for two.

I assume that the brother from your anecdote doesn't declare all his income (you are left with about 60% of your paycheck after taxes and mandatory insurances). I don't see how a programmer salary isn't enough for two people to make ends meet.
Could we rethink short haul flights somewhat? What if instead of a 400 mph aircraft, we had a 200 mph aircraft with high aspect ratio wings? In other words try to make a more efficient aircraft to compensate for the lack of energy aboard.

I suppose people want to get there in a hurry, but a flight that goes from 30 min to 1hr or 1 hr to 2hr might not be too bad.
How to Avoid Duplicate Code with Git+Bit
I don't think they could fit another video or unrelated image in that article.

Are people posting content here just to get the ads traffic?
Yeah, it’s often treated as a binary proposition, when in reality it’s about the right tradeoffs just like anything else. One problem in SV culture is tenures are too short and there is too much boom/bust with rapid hiring and layoffs. When you actually stick around to see long-term impact of technical decisions you start to develop a sense for which things matter and where it makes sense to cut corners versus where you are painting yourself into one.
I think it's turned me into a bit of a nihilist.

I worked initially as in-house for a doctor's office trying to break into medical software while running his solo practice. So I figured a little "spit and glue" is par for course. It's essentially a mom and pop.

Then I became a contractor and the first time I ran across a multi-million dollar company doing serious business off of a shoddy Access database that sometimes corrupted the data and needed to be reverted to a previous backup, I was legitimately horrified.

I thought it was a fluke. Then another. And another. Even hospitals and national chains. And I realized that none of us know what we're doing, so don't worry about it. The worst that could happen isn't actually so bad.
Governor’s desk last stop to California pledging 100% carbon-free energy by 2045
How many Bugatti's does this piece of marketing have to sell to justify the cost? I'm guessing not many.
What they did was change the update model for paid versions of the standard Oracle JDK -- you must have a commercial license with Oracle in order to receive security and bugfix updates for copies of the Oracle JDK.

OpenJDK, on the other hand, was unaffected by this change; things like security mitigations/fixes land in OpenJDK, and make their way to other versions (like older JDK versions, or Oracle enterprise copies) from there. So, you can go download Zulu or OpenJDK binaries from your distributor (such as your Linux distribution) and you'll be fine (assuming they update promptly).

There are also feature distinctions between the Oracle JDK and OpenJDK, but they have been getting smaller over time -- AppCDS and Flight Recorder, which were Oracle-customer-only features, for example, are now in OpenJDK proper (FR will come in JDK 11), and many features such as ZGC (and originally G1, too, I think) were developed in the open and went into OpenJDK directly, right from the start.

If you're just running a bog standard Linux/BSD system with some Java software on it, you're almost certainly OpenJDK already anyway, and your distribution maintainers handle security updates for you.
I don't see how one follows from the other. If what you said is true, we would expect the rate at which efficacy in supplements to have already increased, but it has not.

The effect that I think the original article is missing is that sometimes when you radically change the rules in an industry, different actors take over the industry. If drugs don't have to prove efficacy, companies willing to sell drugs with no hope of ever being effective will massively outcompete those that even try a little - it's just massively easier and more profitable.
Oracle still supplies free JVMs. The change was that to get updates for older versions of the JVM, you need to pay.
That is for Java SE8. Not affected for later releases. Beside, ZGC is part of OpenJDK, which is under GPL.
Are we surprised? This project has been a giant boondoggle for over a decade(!)
> Phoenix and Pittsburgh have become hubs for autonomous vehicles

Aren't the main players in those cities just AV offices of Bay Area headquartered companies?
> Now. What if I sell widget polish. And you make widgets. You buy polish from me. So now, if we split the money, I sell you a bottle of polish for $1. Now the money is unequal again, so we equal the money. Effectively, I'm just giving you free polish. That's rational? Fair?

By the same rationale you can just pick up a free widget, so it seems both rational and fair.
"People who don't check their phones after-hours cannot be trusted to lead projects with demanding clients."

If you own the business, you're always on, yeah.

If you're a worker, this is paid work.

Pinning career advancement to uncompensated work is bullshit.
Will Autonomous Devices Become Our Benevolent Overlord?
China and the West
You dont need to convert to latex - you just include your latex mixed into the markdown. Example: https://github.com/mathiasrw/cointext_whitepaper/blob/master...
There is not one single mention in the article of one of the probable causes, which is the rise of remote work.

And much of the technical cloud infrastructure that allows companies to operate remotely has been built in Silicon Valley itself, so in a sense, they are one of the main contributors to solving the problem of urban overpopulation, in the Valley or elsewhere.
I'm talking about self-driving tech. Does Bosch makes that?
More specifically, in another post [1] he's admitted outright that his "opportunists, idealists and pragmatists" are just a more polite renaming of the Gervais Principle's dark triad.

[1] https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/
The HPV Vaccine (and consequent drop in cervical cancer rates - [1]) certainly seems like an improvement. Similarly, the near fanatical application of sunscreen, reduction in cancer causing chemicals, etc. I would have thought would have brought the cancer rate down as well.

1 - https://www.sciencealert.com/the-hpv-vaccine-has-halved-cerv...
Homeopathic co. expands recall as FDA warns of “life-threatening” infections
This makes sense, yet it contradicts with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17869727, which argues that there's a trade-off between income and freedom.

But maybe they all fit into some sort of balance between income, self-marketing, and freedom?
Oh man, that really makes me want to get into contracting again!
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