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I guess it depends on the company. But most of the time it seems bloated bureaucracy is a symptom of dysfunctional work relationships. When people know what to expect from each other and stuff "just works", then there is no need for any such thing and indeed you probably won't find it I think
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A desire for wealth is distinct from materialism.

The main benefit of having enough money is to have security in one's self - stable living situation, health taken care of, and so on and so forth.
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This is a garbage article when compared with the headline. The “experts” is two property managers who don’t even agree on what’s happening or why. The 20% figure comes from a quote that sounds like an off-the-too-of-my-head assessment from one of them:

”What we’re seeing is that rental rates have decreased up to 20 per cent from the spring of 2017, and it’s getting even worse.”

They also say they’ve never seen anything like this in their TEN whole years of property management!!

Rents might be dropping by this much, or even more, but this is hardly even evidence of that, let alone data from “experts”.

Better title: “One property manager estimates that some luxury property rents in Vancouver have declined by up to 20% over the past year.”
> It's more like they got bullied into this by the media, Apple and the tech community.

Oh, yes of course they got bullied! They got bullied into having a totally overengineered OS that is probably a nightmare to maintain, even without the many special switches that keeps faulty big player software from crashing. They got totally bullied into a naive design philosophy for their APIs and into churning out new framework after framework. And of course they got bullied into this by Apple and the media!!1 Google and Apple and all the rest bullied them with their despicable efficiency in rolling out features! /s

Sorry, but painting Microsoft as the poor victim here is a bit rich.

Windows is probably a nightmare to maintain and test for. I can really understand why the engineers wanted telemetry to track which API calls actually are still in use. They probably dream of having just to deal with a handful of subversions of Windows 10 and not with a zoo of rotting 7s, 8s, and XPs. Hence the forced updates.

Many other platforms are lighter and more agile. This entire container thing, e.g., would have been impossible to get started in the byzantine environment of Windows. Heck, I have a hard time imagining the elastic cloud getting started on an operating system that doesn't even allow your processes to continue after logout, and has a footprint in the 10s of gigabytes. Just for the basic needs.

And all of this is not caused by the inconsiderate craziness of evil outsiders, but by how Microsoft operated and designed in the 90s and early 2000s.
These look well-supported. A bit bigger than what I hoped for but if they are indeed whisper-quiet then it's well worth it.

Thanks!
Meowhash claims to be faster (16B/cycle) than CityHashCrc (4.3-5.5 B/cycle), which is a variant of CityHash (ab)using the x86 CRC32C intrinsics (but with much better hash properties than plain CRC32).

Both are faster than xxHash on machines with AESNI and CRC intrinsics (~1.7B/cycle). The advantage of xxHash is that it is very fast on machines without these instrinsics.

Other hashes tend to be slower although I'm sure there are some other intrinsics-based hashes I don't have at the tip of my tongue.
Yes. Ultimely, no funds === "failure." None the less, what I read was someone expecting the process to be easier than a traditional job. If you have less money then time + energy is your next best asset. Sucks. But that's the nature of the beast.

I feel for this person(s). But they didn't do their homework. That is on them.
Another problem with mmap is that there is no good way to handle I/O errors.

The application will get a signal (SIGSEGV/SIGBUS, can't remember), and no information about what the problem could possibly be. Most applications do not catch these signals and will instead just terminate.

Even if you do catch the signal there is a real challenge to know what caused the signal and to keep consistent book-keeping to be able to perform any sane action in response.

At a previous employer we started seeing this problem when scaling things in production which was no fun.
You are talking about this anecdote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

And I partially agree! But do not throw out the baby with the bathwater! I am a physicist myself and have seen how the Gell-Mann effect has become less problematic over time, especially in respected journals that want to be taken seriously by scientists: Just make a decisive effort to 1) go out of your bubble and 2) learn about logical fallacies.
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Ten whole years—almost one market cycle...
You wrote a lot but I think you answered my question: "we could be a little behind."

I'd argue that we would likely be a lot behind. Advancements don't just "happen." Progress can be lost, windows of opportunity can be closed, and risk can be avoided. I'd argue there's a good chance we'd have never gotten re-usable rockets if it wasn't for Musk's (at the time, foolish) risk taking with his personal funds to keep SpaceX solvent. Everyone at the time said it couldn't be done, if you recall, and in that kind of world, nobody is "doing the work." It's just considered not worth working on. It's out of mind. People allocate resources and time elsewhere. It's too risky anyway. We're in a period of relative peace that may or may not last. So there's a good chance no, we may have never gotten re-usable rockets, if the odds of a risk-taker coming along and giving it a shot comes along one or twice every couple of generations.

Our current space program regressing so far is evidence enough that willpower and human decision-making, not just waiting for people to "do the work", constitute a large part of what causes progress to happen.

And if we ever get to Mars, I'll argue it's even more likely that we would have never gotten to Mars without that risk taking. And who knows what potential futures unlock for humanity if that ever happens that can be traced back to Musk's decisions.

Being thankful that people like Musk are out there taking huge personal risks to advance human progress isn't "hero worship", and it doesn't disparage the work of the thousands of people who have helped achieve the goals. You are arguing with strawmen.
Yeah, but we don't generate prime numbers with them by scoring them based on how few common factors they have. Pattern matching only works for certain things. At some point it's necessary to conceptualize at which point I'm pretty convinced you have hard AI.
Not only apps. There is a reason why the principle of “caveat emptor” was already known to the Romans.

And your question is answered by the article: Now, Apple might get bad press over it.
Here's the government info: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-taxes/spec...

Essentially the tax targets secondary home ownership in certain non-tourism related hot housing markets of the province. A British Columbian that has a cabin in the woods somewhere is not terribly likely to be impacted.

There has been criticism from people saying "but I'm not 'speculating' I have a second home in Vancouver because (whatever reason)", but the tax seems generally popular so far. When so many don't own a single home, and with homelessness such a significant issue in Vancouver, I don't think there's much empathy for people upset that they'll be taxed on their second home.
Thanks for the sources. I've definitely seen/know of the gag order business. It was the suggested extension to that I'm curious about ("firms are allowed and even required to lie about things").
It will, for a couple reasons. The first is, Intel doesn't include the SHA intrinsics in their high end consumer processors. Only the low end Atom stuff so far.

The second is that even with the intrinsics, this is (supposedly) faster. The SHA instructions only get you a few gigabytes a second (single digits). This purportedly gets tens of GB/s.
Thank you for the kind words. I'll buy you a beer if we ever meet!
My guess is that it uses analytical geometry to compute the equations of the drawn items. This also may includes a mapping to some canonical dimension(size) and orientation(rotations).
Apple themselves should promote their own native features more. For example, the built-in Notes app has fantastic document scanning already built in. Paying for a document scanning app is just mindless (generally.)
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When you have record strings you get slicing for free though. Without the indirection of a pointer you have to copy data when you slice (or you must have a separate 'sliced string' type).
I don't really understand the hysteria over larger (multi block) inputs?

To construct a multiblock hash in terms of a single block hash, which multiblock hash do you expect to generate more collisions, the one based on a colliding single-block hash or the one based on a non-colliding single block hash?

Do the downvoters really believe in some kind of universal contrarian principle? Remember the attack model is "o fortuna" not a cryptographic one.

EDIT:

perhaps we can settle this in a more constructive fashion:

You (or one of the other downvoters) comes up with an 16-bit irreversible hash function, and I come up with a 16-bit reversible one. Then we look how many collisions we each have on all possible 2 block inputs (32 bits). Let's for simplicity agree on the following structure:

MultiBlockHash16( < Block1 , Block2 > ){

return SingleBlockHash16(Block1) xor SingleBlockHash16(Block2);

}

Then to count the collisions over all possible 32 bit inputs, we set an 65536 bit string S to 0, have a counter c iterate through all 32-bit values, and set S[ MultiBlockHash16(c) ] = 1. If it was already one we increase the number of found collisions.

Once the superstition is gone you'll agree that it is a useful concept since it means you can focus on the other desirable aspects of your hash function...
I believe the city has been adding different things for the last couple years trying to open up more rentals. If I recall correctly something like 25% of all condos downtown are unoccupied which is insane. They arent even available to rent, just sitting their empty.

It has had a real effect on employment, especially in tech. A friend of mine at hootsuite laments that sometimes they miss on great hires because even though the salary is competitive, there is literally nowhere within an hour of the office for the candidate to afford to live.
And it looks more or less fundamentally identical to the 3-clause BSD license.
The speculation tax was a Provincial level election promise by the NDP. Interestingly since it is a minority government that governs with the support of the BC Green party, the legislation needed to be tweaked slightly to gain Green Party support.

The City of Vancouver implemented an empty homes tax, which has similar impacts on demand, but they had to ask the province for new powers in order to levy that.
I also saw this labeling when I was in Spain. For example, I often saw pork labeled as "Acorn-fed, pasture raised pigs". Beyond the labeling, their culture seems place a higher value over quality food compared to Americans who seems to value cheap food.

I've traveled to both the American farmland and Spanish countryside. The difference is night and day. In America's factory farm areas, the animals are crowed in mud/feces, whose stench can be smelled for miles away. In Spain, the animals were happily grazing in lush pasture land.

I believe this is a consumer demand issue. America is a rich nation. The question my mind is why do European countries like Span and Netherlands have such difference values?
The gist of the article is that Watterson was a guest artist on Patsis's Pearls Before Swine comic, and drew some panels on three of the daily strips.

Ironically, the strips reveal why Watterson was so successful, he was an excellent artist in a time when most newspaper comics were illustrated poorly or with idiosyncratic but only functional art. However he really only excelled in the Sunday comics, which gave him room to express his wonderful art; the dailies were much more friendly to the functional art he stood as a counterpart to.

I don't think he has any intention of returning, though. I'm more surprised he hasn't worked on anything at all since then; you'd think the graphic novel format would be more amenable to him because of the control he could have; his comic days seemed to be one fight after another with the powers that be.
And it's slow af, meeting neither cryptographic nor performance needs.
Germany has a nice legal entity for stuff like this: the eingetragener Verein, or "Registered Association." This is used for pretty much every village football team, so you can raise money, have a bank account, sign contracts, etc. It's also used for larger things: my first encounter with the form was in the 80's as an exchange student. The whole exchange program was an e.V. It's also used for a lot of things that would be Foundations or Nonprofits in other countries.

The catch, if it's a catch, is that you have to have at least 7 people and there's no way to be "in charge" if four of them think you shouldn't be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_association_(German...
I thought you were specifying a partnership, not an LLC.
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I joined Google few months back, and I feel the same way. I even discussed this with my manager. Heck, I even cried at office one day. But things are slowly getting better. The feeling has defiantly reduced over time or I have stopped giving a fuck a lot of times. Either way, it has reduced but is still present. I felt the same way at my previous employer for the first 6 months I guess, but then I felt like God :P I could get shit done fast and with a better design than my peers. So I am hoping it turns the same way at Google for me, and you. :)
I humorously think that when Microsoft does bad hires, it puts them in the Windows Update team (Google makes them work on Google Keep, instead).

I've always wondered (seriously, not rhetorically) which are the technical grounds that make Windows update so bad.

In addition to reboot loops:

- WU has a long history of hanging; it took I think a couple of years to release the "final" patch for update hangs. I'm not even sure if it works; I wouldn't bet that a machine with Windows 7 would be able to download all the updates without hanging or taking days (we're talking about around 100 updates; apt, for reference, manages a pool at least 2 orders of magnitude bigger)

- the workflow is not deterministic; updates may or may not succeed

- the UX is abysmal: the status descriptions are unclear; the progress percentage doesn't reflect the actual time, or is disbalanced towards stages which don't make evident why they take so much time; the error messages are completely unhelpful.

- it's also completely unclear why some updates need to be applied both after shutdown and before startup.

"Thankfully" they gave the option to download them once a month, which all in all, equals to choose between usability and security.
And they create a lot of stress and anxiety for the individual.
Interesting. The assumption is that the Normal Distribution is two dimensional, that it's rotationally invariant and that the X and Y coordinate are statistically independent. From this, they find the polar equation, phi(r) is proportional to a Cartesian one, f(x) * f(y). Since phi(r) = phi(sqrt(x^2 + y^2)) which is then proportional to f(x) * f(y).

More succinctly:

phi(r) = phi(sqrt(x^2 + y^2)) = f(x) * f(y)
phi(sqrt(x^2 + 0)) = f(x) * f(0) = lamba * f(x)
-> phi(x) = lamba * f(x)
-> phi(r) = lamba f(sqrt(x^2 + y^2)) = f(x) * f(y)

With the last line because of rotational invariance and statistical independence of the two dimensional axies. I haven't followed the rest but I assume (maybe with some other minor assumptions?) that the equation, lambda f(sqrt(x^2 + y^2)) = f(x) * f(y), uniquely determines the Gaussian.

I've long struggled to find a clear explanation of where the Normal formula comes from. The best description I've seen is by deriving limiting distribution of sums of uniform distributions on a unit interval, say. The sum of identical and independently distributed random variables is a convolution which can be 'de-convolved' by taking the Fourier Transform. After the Fourier transform, the sum of the random variables turns into a product which can easily be approximated. There's extra work involved in proving the Fourier transform of a Gaussian is itself Gaussian and some other technicalities (not to mention this is only for uniform distributions that are identical) but this seems much more motivated to me than any other descriptions I've heard, including this one.

As a benefit, if I remember correctly, the same trick works to derive the basics of Levy stable distributions as well.
I met super conservative friends of my parents the other day. They blamed the falling fertility rates on narcissism and social media.

I'm like uh.... what about cost of living outpacing salaries? Cost of medical care? Education debt?

All the young people I know aren't avoiding pregnancy because of their social media engagement, they are however wondering out loud in conversations with me if they can afford children.
You really do not need anything that complicated (definitely not a block chain, when you only need the merkle tree). All of this is exactly what cryptographic signatures are for, a tech that is decades old.

And as mentioned in the above comments, it does not help with analog loopholes and trust in the person being photographed.
I don't know that they're whisper quiet though. You'll probably hear the clicking of the mechanical hard drives when they're doing I/O.

I'm not sure you can avoid size when you're dealing with multiple NAS appropriate drives, i.e. those in the 3.5" form factor.

My 2 drive unit is about the size of a small toaster.
People are getting dogs instead.
That's not what I'm getting at. I believe in crystallized design. Once something is fixed, don't go breaking it. If any changes for any reason break something I need, I'm not introducing those changes into my system, because I need it to work, and I need it to work the way it works right now on my setup - not the way some other fool thinks it should work in the future. So yes, I do believe that something I installed 8 years ago, which has worked perfectly for the last 8 years and has become foundational to my workflow, needs to continue working the exact same way it has.
Actually both of your positions aren’t contradictory. Free markets are predicated on free flows of information: fully informing people of what they are potentially buying or agreeing to is not inconsistent with free markets. I’d argue that misleading information is really not a free market thing at all, quite the contrary.

If your app is worth the money, you should gladly accept the price. The fact that some apps use “tricks” means that their app isn’t worth what is being asked.
As a false equivalence fallacy...
Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
Specifically in the context of engineering management, how frequently do you have 1-on-1s with your direct reports, how do you structure them, and what have you found to work and not work well?
Yeah, I guess I think gp is wrong - they are crap in any os.
For Burning Man, I presume?
By defining one's terms (for instance, I think factory farming is cruel, but that killing animals is not - provided the death is swift and as painless as we're able to make it) and accepting one's own hypocrisy.

In my case, I simply recognize that I do not have sufficient self-discipline to remain fully healthy on a vegetarian (let alone vegan) diet. And that I'd rather be a hypocrite than sick or dead.

And even acknowledging that, one can take measures to minimize one's impact. I consume a lot of eggs for protein and vitamins, and almost never prepare meat at home, though I'll eat it at other people's homes, restaurants, etc. I pay a little extra for pasture-raised eggs in the hope that those chickens have slightly less awful lives than the ones packed head to toe in barns. I eat dairy substitutes instead of actual dairy for many purposes (though not almond milk, which I dislike and is absolutely terrible for the environment).

As soon as lab-grown meat becomes a viable substitute (within, say, double the price), I'll gladly switch to that.

If you ask millions or billions of people to completely change their lives and eliminate something that they find pleasurable, all but a tiny percentage will either reject the idea outright or find they don't have the willpower to change. Willpower is hard; everyone has a finite amount of it in a given day; and we have to apply it constantly to a thousand other temptations of modern life.

If you ask people to cut back a bit on things and make some compromises, you're more likely to get cooperation. And 50% of the population cutting their meat consumption even by 20% gets you a lot further than 5% eliminating it from their diet entirely.
"free" if you ignore the cost of doing lifetime management. So beneficial in some use cases but not others.
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>For me, and I suspect many others, once I'm putting something in a pocket it might as well be more or less as large as it can be (while, in my case at least, being fairly usable with one hand).

Some popular designer jeans can't fit anything much bigger than the SE into their front pockets. It might seem crazy, but the're people who buy the phone that fits into their favorite jeans vs. the other way round.
It's not about paying or not paying - if you want to give them money for non-physical goods and/or services, that's entirely your choice. It's about being positive that some outside force isn't going to come along and force your entire workflow to change for what amounts to their whimsy.
> If I recall correctly something like 25% of all condos downtown are unoccupied which is insane. They arent even available to rent, just sitting their empty.

You do not recall correctly. https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-housing-vancouver/nea...