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My conclusion to the BS inherent to any job is this: get your "brain food" outside your job. Start today if you haven't been doing this. It's fine that sometimes we get to learn interesting things while on the clock, but we have way, way, way less control over what we learn. I have followed this strategy for some years:

1) Look for a low-stress job with manageable time. In tech this doesn't mean "low-pay" as well. I'm being paid quite well and I will never do more than 40 hours a week.

2) Treat that job as your day job to pay the bills, and learn whatever you want during your (relatively abundant) free time. Learn a new programming language, learn about any other topic of computer science or software engineering, get any skill not related to your job, get a new degree, whatever. It is up to you whether you want to learn something that will make you more money in the future or not. Beware: open source projects are nice but, unless it's a project of yours and yours only, you have less control over what you do, and in that sense it's a bit closer to a job.

It's also true that mundane tasks will make you much better at your job, but TBH, while that's helpful (and helps building a career more than most young people would think), it's not something that important to me. I'd rather be good at things that are important to me. A job is there to pay the bills and nothing more; anything else is a bonus which I won't take for granted, and this includes the social aspect of the job.
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There is no point at which people would be doing to both do the labor and others would still buy the resulting product at an increased price.

You are dealing in a hypothetical where there aren't market forces at work.
> Quantum annealing is most certainly not what quantum computing is about

Near as I can tell, it's the only form of practical quantum computation that's available to end-users in any meaningful way. Everything else so far is vaporware with ridiculously high error rates.

> (it is not particularly "quantum" either)

The qubits - josephson junctions and superconducting loops - are indeed in quantum superposition with each other if their claims are true. This is a macroscopic quantum-mechanical effect; to call it "not particularly quantum" belies a lack of understanding as to what they're doing.

> most researchers are fairly annoyed at D-wave for originally pushing this nonsense

D-Wave is making their system publicly available for free. Have you signed up and taken a look at their demos? Admittedly it's a bit beyond my mathematical ability but it's clear the basic seed is there for something that works; they just need a bigger graph and more connections between qubits. There's no reason to assume they won't have their own equivalent of Moore's Law at some point where these things grow year over year.

> transmon qubits at Google/IBM/Yale for some well known prototypes of quantum computing hardware (which are admittedly quite far from being practical or usable).

Do they have _any_ results worth caring about yet? I don't think they're anywhere near something working on a practical scale. You can buy a D-Wave machine, or time on it - it's not vaporware, even if most people don't find it useful. For the first few years of gate model machines people aren't really going to find them all that useful for day to day things either - just like computers in the 1940s and 50s, it was very specific, high-dollar applications first, and things for the common man decades later.
Random thought: why doesn’t the DNC use all their money to fund voter relocation programs? Surely the surplus of California and New York voters could move the needle if they were injected into smaller districts across the board.
Creating 500 new humans takes 500 women and 1-2 men, most men are totally superfluous for procreation, thus us needing to define our value in other ways.

Granted that isn't great for genetic diversity :(
It's much more than that. :) If you have a large collection of photos uploaded to google, you can make some pretty insidious searches that will return extremely accurate results.

Try searching "bikini" if you have any snapshots from your beach vacation uploaded. Even with all location metadata/camera information stripped from the images, Google was able to find 99% of them using keyword searches like that. You can go further and search specific body parts, too. I think that's pretty creepy as well.

The typical HN response is to dismiss arguments like this with, "Well, don't be so careless to upload photos in the first place!" but what happens when laypeople use Google Photos as marketed and as a backup service for their entire lives? I don't think those people would be comfortable knowing that Google can not only accurately identify 1) people and their friends implicitly and 2) identify when those people are scantily clad or nude.

Just imagine a bad actor getting access to your photos via Google and being able to instantly pull up any compromising or sensitive information you may have forgotten about with a simple keyword search because that's something they, for some reason, index.
My out-of-pocket maximum resets on July 1st. Found out after having a baby in late June...
How much fatigue though? I'm often tired but I've gotten used to it and can go through my day.
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It's really basic. When I read the code I felt disappointed, though maybe someone else will feel energized to expand it.

I thought I had seen another recreation, in Bratko's book on Prolog programming for AI, but if it is there then it got dropped in the second edition. Maybe my memory got confused between that book and Tanimoto's.
Man, I wish I understood frequentist statistics to know if your reasoning makes sense. Bayesianly, if O = "the XXXYYY ordering", and F = "algo B is faster than algo" A, then

P(F|O) = P(O|F) * P(F) / P(O)

then... what? There isn't even a clear P(O|F) likelihood without making assumptions about the process' noise. If the measurement is very noisy compared to the gain, then XXXYYY is just dumb luck, and doesn't tell you anything. If there is no noise at all, then just getting XY is enough to make a decision.
I work remotely, in Bend, and am quite happy with it. It's dry enough to be habitable, which the western half of the state where I grew up is, sadly, not. Lots of great outdoor stuff.
Ah, back in the day when the major browsers all supported XSLT stylesheets, it seemed like the obvious way forward.
Which is hilarious in this context since they're pretty much opposite climates.
I wish my updates didn't get borked recently with some grub efi/non-efi issue :-( Amazing news otherwise
There is one lurking competitor to Airtable that no one knows: Notion.

Except Notion is far more capable than Airtable. You can do all these table joins across pages but in Notion everything is a page whereas in Airtable it's just a form. That is the ultimate flexibility which makes it exceptionally well suited for any kind planning effort. And it's a great canvas for creative projects.

It's amazing to see that there's a billion dollar company building something comparatively so... bad.

Plus Notion has some of the best customer service around. Half the company are there for support!
This seems important, if true. 3X speedup of forward and backward automatic differentiation on GPUs.
> Sorts in Kanban view don't automatically resort when you add cards, so you have to manually resort every time.

Ugh, same in Grid View.

I use it for PM work also, and it's still the closest thing to useful I've found.
The article briefly mentions magnetrons and X-ray tubes, the former of which is made in massive quantities today for consumer appliances. Other vacuum tubes in current use include the vacuum fluorescent display, the photomultiplier tube and the electron multiplier tube. I believe old school vacuum tubes also still have application in high-wattage class-C RF power amps. Vacuum tubes for audio receive a lot of lip service, but they really are botique, lunatic fringe stuff in that application. Magnetron tubes are the only practical choice for microwave ovens; in contrast, power output tubes for audio amplifiers are inferior to semiconductors in every way.
Are you being paid to post anti-media and anti-left articles? You've registered only 13 hours ago and the majority of your posts are anti-media, anti-left, pro-government. Smells like a paid plant.
You say this like the perception of him is entirely manufactured and divorced from any reality. Assange's image changed abruptly in 2016 because that is the year he went from politically agnostic public interest leaks to actively trying to influence an election and backing a candidate who considers the free press an "enemy of the people". It doesn't take a conspiratorial cabal to explain how Assange ruined his own image.
I still don't see them as hit pieces though, and I've seen only two NYT pieces about FB hit HN today. This one is talking of a specific company they hired. The piece about students not wanting to work there is a bit more woolly, granted.

It doesn't seem like they're being singled out unfairly to me.
I am running webrender under xwayland, and it is super smooth. This system is damn near the best laptop I have ever had. I have replaced the bios with core boot and have a fully encrypted luks disk. I get near 15 hours battery life. All that for the price of $150 + plus a few premium upgrades (ssd, and ips panel).

My T450s cost me ~$2700 new, and it is faster in some cases, but the cost/performance ratio just does not pay off to have such a expensive system these days.

Should also note, that because the x220 has a higher TDP than newer ultrabooks I can get a few things done faster. The last time I tried emacs compiles near 20 seconds faster on the x220 than a T450s.

I also found a neat hack, not related to the x220, but any laptop really. When I am waiting on long compiles I take a compressed air can and turn it upside down and jet the cool liquid into the heat sink. The temp drops and you can shave a bit of time off a compile or what not if you have the wherewithal to continue to deliver small shots of cool fluid. I mostly feel okay doing it because it is only a $150 laptop...
You can have email notifications without filling up your inbox. Just set up a filter rule to move all emails from an address to a folder. I do that for all spammy things like mailing lists or issue tracker comments.
I can’t articulate how your comment makes me feel, but please no.
Anyone know what their revenue multiplier is? I was pretty surprised when I saw the $1B number.
This study says the effect was small. http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
Even Nate Silver acknowledges the effect of Russia was modest. Maybe he's changed his tune now? This was written before the fervor around this nonsense really got cooking.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-did-russian-in...

An indictment isn't proof. You aren't 100% certain of anything. Assange has never lied to us. The intelligence agencies have. Assange says it wasn't Russia. Its amazing how the left has turned on him.

Yes, Russia wanted Trump that was why the Buff Bernie meme was out there. My point is its probably a trivial impact. People who have the slightest ability to be open-minded about this issue generally can see that. $100,000 for facebook memes compared to Hillary getting questions in advance from U.S. media? https://www.cnet.com/news/russian-trolls-targeted-teens-on-f...

None of this stuff is certain and it really is amazing how blown out of proportion it is in people's minds.
The shortage of high end parts due to crypto demand definitely drove prices up, inflating their income.
It's not that Wall Street will take over. It's that Silicon Valley has become Wall Street but it doesn't realize it yet. It still thinks it's those counter-culture rebels hacking away in a garage, building products for the masses.

Just look at them!

They don't wear suits, they wear t-shirts with corporate logos - completely different. They're relaxed and chill and they take Soylent because they like it not because their corporate non-corporate overlords demand the time something resembling lunch would take.

They celebrate losing money! Who else does that (other than activist investors who will intentionally restructure a company to bankrupt it)?

They're not greedy, they just want to be fairly compensated with life-changing amounts of equity. That's just the value they bring.

They're anti-capitalism man! They just voted in favour of more taxes so that they don't have to see as many homeless while they wait for the company bus to take them from their company-issued container home to the company campus. They don't live to work like those Wall Street drones.

They're not cocaine-infused Wall Street Dude Bros! They're micro-dosing LSD and Adderall because they're performance hacking - can't you see the difference?

It's totally not like Wall Street. Have you not seen the map? It's California man. West coast is the best coast!
There are zero citations in that entry at this time. It’s essentially an op-ed.
When most of the web looks like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655316

I'm happy about Drew's decision to not include JS.
Interestingly enough, the topic of tonight's CBS TV show, "Young Sheldon", was this very topic of moving to Tulsa for work.

At least it's an interesting coincidence to me. Not that I ever watch TV or anything.
I live in Tulsa now. Don't do it.

Just because this website says it is exciting doesn't mean it is. They are throwing money at the issue of a brain drain and lagging economy.

Tons of people who "went to school in Tulsa" don't live there now because it is the opposite of exciting.
It's clear they were underestimating how much demand crypto was driving. They deliberately tried to limit how many gaming cards crypto people could buy. A predictable consequence of that is that crypto people would start to hide how much they were buying from Nvidia and Nvidia would lose their ability to tell who was buying their cards.
Ask HN: How to deal with losing personal email address?
So... I'm about to lose my personal email address because the organization through which I received it has recently changed their policy.

Beyond updating all of my various accounts is there anything else for which I should prepare? I expect that the email address will at some point be associated with someone else.
There will be lots of used ones dumped on the market soon, presumably. From what I've read there's really no difference between a working used card and a working new one - no matter how heavily used they were. So there are bound to be some bargains to be had in the used department.
The obsession with SEO is what leads to things like this in the first place.

Maybe the sooner people stop paying attention to it, the sooner search engines will learn to find better metrics.
Desktop bridge apps can request "full access" permission, which effectively evades sandboxing, but those apps are heavily scrutinized on review. In comparison, the Play Store has no manual approval process and an automated malware scanner that's industry-worst according to independent review. ;) Apple does a pretty good job though, and would be my general recommendation for mobile security.

Note that while Android and iOS both have numerous examples of malicious apps in their store, AFAIK, Windows Store does not (though there are definitely ad-ridden nightmares in there). I found their reviews annoyingly onerous for a literally 50-line UWP app with a single function when I tried to submit something.

The biggest benefit of their sandboxing though is not actually the security limitations of what they can access, but how it's installed, and more importantly, uninstalled. UWP apps are one-click remove, and do not leave any lingering garbage in the registry, as they have kind of like a "registry diff" inside their own folder.

Apps like iTunes which are notoriously messy for install and removal I prefer over UWP because it's much easier to purge them safely.
And even more :)

Someone, sometime, took a party photo with you in background on Android. Google recognized your sorry mug, and stamped it with location, date, time and list of present people. And now it is evidence in court.
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>The really shameful thing about Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg trying to malign Soros is that both Sandberg and Zuckerberg are Jewish

Why does that matter? Are Jews supposed to have some sort of special group loyalty or something? Seems common for billionaires to fight with one another
Things can change:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/kansas-laura-kell...
While we're sharing stories:

My wife was in a near-fatal traffic accident on 2015 (she was a pedestrian). She spent about a month in the hospital and a month in in-patient rehab. Extremely fortunate for us (and most importantly), she's made a 99% full recovery

She was insured, so that absorbed most of the $1M bill (though the insurance negotiated the bill from the hospital and rehab center to 400k somehow) associated with her care. Several months ago (i.e. 2 years later) we were informed that the insurance company had deemed my wife's last week in rehab "not medically necessary" and refused to pay the rehab center. So the rehab center responded by sending us a $26,000 bill. Due in 30 days lol.

The rehab center is the one who fixed her discharge date (we had no input) and it's not like we're in a position to determine when she's fit to facilitate her recovery on her own. The insurance company still refuses to pay after we called them.

So we're left with a) don't pay the bill and see what happens (credit score hit? Law suits?); b) hire attorneys that will likely cost about as much as the original bill; or c) pay?

Luckily my wife and I have the savings on hand to pay the bill without threatening our livelihood, but is there really no other options for us? How would the average American whose after-tax salary is ~30-40k deal with this?

Btw, if anyone has advice it would be much appreciated. We've talked to some attorneys about Option B but it's uncertain if the cost of retaining a lawyer would outweigh the size of the bill itself.
I am also running the very latest Sway and have no issues with other Wayland applications. I am seeing the same slowness you describe, as I'd been seeing with the Flatpak nightly Wayland builds. It's also still not respecting my Caps Lock.

I'm waiting to hear from someone running it under GNOME/Wayland before filing bugs, though.
Not all new grads will be making 250k, I know at least 2 were making around that 1 year out of undergrad. (+-20k)

https://www.paysa.com/salaries/facebook

I saw an offer for Facebook that included a 100k signing bonus.

I believe one acre funds highest salary for a software engineer is in the neighborhood of 120k.

I'm also speaking from experience, I am regularly trying to hire top tier talent to work on ending poverty in subsaharan Africa. I, and other I talk with in the space, have all seen this phenomena in Bay area candidates. I honestly don't blame people, it's an incredibly expensive place, it's just meant we do a lot less recruiting out of the us/bay area.
It seems like every dozen threads or so in the last year have at least one thread with bizarrely cantankerous / dismissive replies, with a few lonely voices saying when did you all get so unhappy?

Tulsa's initiative here is really, really good. It doesn't matter if you want to live in Tulsa, specifically (fine! don't move!), and it doesn't matter if the incentive is high enough to make it Worth It to You Personally.

What matters is that somebody has figured out that the dynamics of the Amazon HQ2 bidding war (roundly critiqued elsewhere, but I'll leave that for another thread) apply to individual remote workers as well --- in other words, potentially to basically everyone reading HN.

Quit whining, and start celebrating. Get this in front of your own city. Show them that there's an opportunity. It has never been a better time to be in software.
Is lower latency the main benefit? Because there are other ways to combat that, like locating servers closer to where users are. Yes, there are some applications like HFT or gaming or whatever that need lower latency, but I think it would be more useful to the world at large if Starlink provides people all over the world with affordable broadband Internet access with a minimum speed of say 20mbps, say. People far from cities, people in developing countries with bad infrastructure (till a few years back, I had a 4mbps connection), people on islands with bad connectivity, trains, ships, planes, etc. Does it do the latter?
This form of problem reminds me a little of the Sofa Problem (although there you are maximising rather than minimising).
Nice, and I agree!

That's sad though, because it means my x230 probably won't fare any better. Are you using modesetting or the SNA (xf86-video-intel) driver?

edit: don't mind me, it uses modesetting.
I just hope the EU has the foresight to make the legislation enforceable in a post-EU European legal environment.
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While you are right that conduction is not really a problem, and right that embers are really important, it's worth mentioning that radiation from a fire can also be a significant source of ignition. And a large "flame front" can ignite structures from surprisingly large distances!

I haven't read whole article yet, but here's an abstract:

Residential losses associated with wildland fires have become a serious international fire protection problem. The radiant heat flux from burning vegetation adjacent to a structure is a principal ignition factor. A thermal radiation and ignition model estimated structure ignition potential using designated flame characteristics (inferred from various types and densities of vegetation) and flame- to-structure distances. Model results indicate that ignitions from flame radiation are unlikely to occur from burning vegetation beyond 40 meters of a structure. Thinning vegetation within 40 meters has a significant ignition mitigation effect.

https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_1998_cohen_j001.pdf
Not sure if I understand you here.

Google, for all the negative press and bashing they are getting lately, has not hidden what they collect, how they collect. They also do not sell user data (that's not their business model). Sure, they have had their share of issues, but I don't think they are systematic or intentional. They are happy if you want to take your data and go to someone else - they released takeaway tool more than 10 years ago.

Fb, on the other hand, never were trustworthy, even before any of the recent scandals became public. They have had history of changing things around that led to users unknowingly expose their details they thought they had locked down, more than once. They have been caught lying to advertisers about clicks and views.

But those finer points are lost when they have successfully dragged Google in the mudbath with their smear campaign, irrespective of the scale or intentions at Google.
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