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The first season's acting was also very daytime soap opera... don't get me wrong, I loved the show as a whole, I just found the first season in particular sometimes hard to watch.

Would LOVE to see a well crafted remaster, with some of the techniques that can improve images based on neighboring frames, and maybe a rework of all the CGI for higher detail. I'm have surprised there hasn't been a fan effort considering how far even desktop gaming tech has come since the series.
It seems to me that worker productivity gains come primarily from better technology and processes - from business investments - rather than from workers themselves. The rewards flow accordingly. Workers who enhance their own productivity actually do provide more value and hence gain a competitive advantage. Plenty of individuals could improve their productivity and value.

I've never understood the claim that higher productivity somehow entitles workers to the surplus. The key component of actually being substantially responsible for productivity gains is missing.
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Gates is a billionaire thanks to a lot of wartime technology.
I'm very interested to read this paper, but the grammar mistake in the first sentence of the first section doesn't bode well...
Google has a history of using shell companies to hide its tax breaks.
> “a two-acre wheat field that was planted in May 1982 on the landfill that would eventually become Battery Park City”

I would not eat wheat grown from a New York landfill.
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Those are all wealth transfers, though, not really value creation. The only value creation by the baseball players is the entertainment provided (which is definitely not nothing).
The question is a bit weird to me because the things you suggest seem like what you would do before you even apply. But when you say "before they take a job there", it seems to imply after the interview, and offer on hand.

When you're interviewing, you're not just letting the employer assess you; you're also assessing the company and the team. You should be asking questions about working there. There's no need to "email people who work there" to ask because you should be asking them during the interview!

My current job is the first time (out of 6 jobs over 14 years) where I am joining a company without anyone I know there -- as in, I responded to a recruiter pinging me, interviewed, and got an offer. I didn't have a friend refer me or anything. It was a risky leap, and made more risky by the fact that it's fully remote (my first remote job), so I had no idea if it was going to be like everyone being overworked, or feeling completely disconnected, or anything. One thing I did that may have appeared weird but was worth doing was, after getting an offer, I asked to speak with yet one more engineer on the team, in a sort of reverse-interview. I extensively asked about working there.

Like someone said, because people don't want to risk their jobs, most of the time they won't say anything negative in such a scenario. But as long as you learn to read between the lines, you can still get useful information out of it.

On the other hand if this is before you interview, none of this matters. Just go interview and decide from there.
Wish this could be ported to every other repls
> emulation and scripting language byte code engines

You get that these are outliers right? The majority of software doesn't need to concern itself with these problems. They're examples of software that deals with analyzing and running other software.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering to respond to these comments. This whole discussion has apparently been system developers telling app developers they need to start micro-optimizing their cold loops because "what if your user clicks the button 12 million times in under a minute".
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I published my first npm module today, https://github.com/coughlanio/pocketcasts and I'd like to write a few more to help beef up my portfolio.

Any ideas or fun things you can think of?
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How many stores do they have? (too lazy to search)
Sure, but their price is entirely about what people are willing to pay and not at all connected to the cost of production. There are some Swiss watches that take an incredible amount of work by highly skilled craftsmen to make, but that's not Rolex. They're cranking out a million watches every year thanks to automation.
If I understand this correctly, since MUSL's USP is static linking of musl-libc thereby removing any dependency on breaking changes in glibc, we now have the ability to build with the exact same compiler and generate stand-alone binaries without a libc dependency on Windows, Mac, Linux, across multiple processors (x86, x64, ARM, ARM-64, ...).

This is fantastic news!
It doesn't. Mine paperweighted itself last week.
That first article is fantastic. Especially the personal vs. 1099 deductions chart. I'd love to know what else falls in "... and so on", but I guess that's where your service comes in :)
This fascinates me.

On a side note, can somebody much smarted then me tell me if it's possible to "sling shot" (Gravity assist?) Off a Lagrange point?
> 7 videos a day at 30-60 minutes each

I think you're looking at a very extreme end of the spectrum here. Is this channel a large company focused on pushing out content? Because I have a hard time imagining how an independent creator can churn out an average of 5 hours of video a day, every day, for years on end - unless they're just wearing a GoPro and streaming their daily life.

Most YouTubers I follow seem to post a 10-20 minutes video a few times a week, and even that probably counts as very active. E.g. PewDiePie, likely the most successful creator on Youtube at the moment, posts a ~15 minute video every day.
Yup, must be Mola tecta. This tail is not from M. mola or M. alexandrini (syn. Mola ramsayi).

Apart of USA, the species has been found in New Zealand, Chile, South Africa... and Netherlands.

Sunfish have often huge loads of parasitic worms inside.
Yes of course it's a bug. Maybe read what I've written about this in my OP. Everything you mentioned is predicated on things working as intended when I am talking about working around bugs users have no control over this whole time.

For those cases, like in the examples, we need to keep the real hard reset that's been there the entire history of personal computing.

> Firefox also doesn't auto restore tabs if it was shutdown improperly

Okay how do you think that is implemented? There is no magic fairy dust that settles in the hard drive, it's code. Code with bugs, code with limitations. Safe mode is code, code with bugs and limitations. With your restore-reboot you now rely on two components to not fail in every single program that could cause something like the examples mentioned. Amazing design, let's make airplanes like that.

> they would be fired on the spot

spare me the power tripping garbage, instead try to show some comprehension

> strawman

You don't seem to know what a strawman is.
"For each distribution, we downloaded all its packages, and analyzed the hardening schemes of their enclosed binaries... Our findings confirm that even basic hardening schemes, such as stack canaries and position independent code, are not fully adopted."

Is this finding that basic hardening techniques are not applied to every available binary? I would expect some hardening techniques to break some binaries.
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Could you give an example? I have a hard time understanding what you could mean, as Algorithm Configuration & Selection is such a general framework. If you are solely talking about the current state of the art, I would agree that techniques from AutoML do not have the generality and autonomity of an expert human.
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I don't exactly understand the use case, here. What problem does this solve? Why should I want to buy this?

Seems like Casper is stretching to find bed-related accessories, if this is what they came up with first. If anything, I'd want my sleep space to be darker when I want to sleep. As one might get with motorized blackout window shades, blinds, or curtains. As it is, I can reach the toilet perfectly fine on just starlight through windows.

And what kind of fancy expensive night light doesn't have a red/orange mode so as to not screw up one's night vision?
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How does a 'periodic backup using pg_basebackup' compare to barman's rsync and reuse_backup = link for speed of backups, and size of files?

I want to look at this (and Wal-G) but am not sure how much of a load I would be putting on our db servers when they do the periodic backups. Our database is pretty heavy on 'history' tables that don't change much once they are written to.
I recently bought the donut-shaped Phillips wake-up light and I really like it, though it is pretty expensive and not as slick as a "new tech" product like this Casper light.
Thanks, I was not aware and will follow in future.
Being able to mute and outright block annoying people is the main thing for me. The channels I'm in on slack don't allow that. It could be the plan type, not sure. I'm not a heavy user of either and try to avoid them if possible.

I actually prefer the UI of Discord. I like having all people just listed on the right instead of typing `@` and having to scroll through a list that pops up and blocks the main active content.

I've just seen too many games on slack compared to Discord that I find really annoying, with people being banned and instantly rejoining and flooding crap. It reminds me of EFNET in the late 90s with bot floods and all of the crap that ended up ruining it. It's not nearly as bad as efnet was, but it's still annoying enough for me to not want to use it. That might not be the case for a private company's slack or something, but I'm not really in any of those - mostly public type channels.
Depends how deeply it was covered.
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What I hate about all the team chats altogether is lack of threading (discussion trees). IMHO threaded discussion model like we do here on HN is by order of magnitude more constructive and I can see no benefit in real-time chatting as compared to the way it works here.
Wow, I'll have to add this to my set of "how can I show people, especially my Apple zealot friends who obsess about the original Mac 128k, just how advanced the Amiga was" videos. This video, is one of my favorites (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7rKj0DU8Xs), it shows just how advanced the Amiga was in 1985, let alone after 1987 when the 2000 was introduced.

I learned to code on a Vic-20 and C64 (basic and assembly), but the Amiga was my first exposure to C, and LaTeX, and 3D modeling / video editing. I grew up relatively poor in Baltimore City, and this was an astonishing amount of capability for something so affordable. (I also learned soldering because I only had 512k of chip ram on my A500, and Commodore's official RAM upgrade was too expensive, so I bought my own RAM chips and soldered them directly to the mainboard)

I have an unlimited amount of nostalgia for this machine (and Babylon-5!)
One of the best documentaries I've seen on the subject is BBC's A Volatile History : https://youtu.be/g_2bo4abkPI
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It's definitely synthetic. There are a few phrases which are clearly spoken other than how a human would. But yes, one of the best synths I've heard. And also very annoying.
Why? The concept of AutoML does include the design of novel algorithms.
LISP

- has survived a very long time already

- can trivially be implemented on top of any instruction set or VM that will be used in the future

- basically no syntax, so its (nonexistent) syntax can't go out of style

- supports every possible programming paradigm, even ones that don't exist yet
So if NYC gains a reputation of being hostile to big tax breaks for companies, that's not going to really change corporate behavior, except in the desired direction.

Really? Because I'd say this example exactly proves it changes corporate behavior.

Don't forget the US is full of cities that are now shells of their former selfs. I'm sure they never felt they need to be "open for business" either. NYC isn't going away, but it wasn't that long ago it was viewed as a bit of a "crap hole".
Bill Clinton was tougher on immigration than Donald Trump is. The Left made it a partisan issue, not the right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RzlviQH4FhQ

https://www.fairus.org/issue/legal-immigration/us-commission...
The bipartisan Jordan Commission recommended cutting legal immigration in half and punishing employers for hirin illegals. The democrats made this a partisan issue.
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That makes sense. $300 is enough to cover Airbnb housing costs for at least a few days in pretty much any location around the world, so they probably still get value out of it.
1) Succeed at it
2) Write a post for HN
3) Profit
Flex circuits are not that hightech nor expensive. IIRC the per square inch price of single layer kapton flex PCB is comparable to your traditional four layer FR4 board.

On the other hand large amount of cheap(-ish, as it tends to include even high-end AV receivers) tries very hard to avoid FR4 and multilayer boards in general (apparently in high enough volume making four times larger board than required and the huge setup cost for THT assembly autamation makes economic sende)
NY has access to Boston, NYC, Phili, Baltamore, Washington DC, and Richmond talent. At what point does something like Huston, which has access to Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans talent become "good enough." Same argument can be made for Chicago or Indianapolis with Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, , Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Toronto.

Is the Northeast talent really worth that much more than the Texas Triangle+Gulf Coast or the Great Lakes?

Choosing NYC has to be more than JUST talent pool. It's about being close to other businesses, close to wall street, close to trade and immigration. It's about joining a community that dictates a lot onto the rest of the country.
> 1. The $27 billion number assumes no other development in the land under consideration, which just makes no sense. Nobody to my knowledge has calculated the opportunity cost, and therefore the net benefit, of this deal.

There is no other deal even approximating this one in scale, and so there is no way to do this analysis. The alternative is much, much slower jobs, and thus tax revenue, growth.

"In my 23 years in the State Capitol, three as Budget Director, Amazon was the single greatest economic development opportunity we have had...For a sense of scale, the next largest economic development project the state has completed was for approximately 1,000 jobs."

> 2. We don't know actual the distribution of salaries

Honestly, I don't really think this is a legitimate issue. We know that they are overwhelmingly white collar technology jobs at an average of $150,000. It is extremely unlikely we'd get any surprises here and it's hard to understand what they'd even look like (5000 managers and 20,000 janitors?).

> 3. Beyond the existing Future Engineer program, there is no specific commitment to training and hiring from within NYC (instead of importing talent), beyond a $5 million promise to do.. something? in the Queensbridge Houses.

These aren't requirements we put on any other company going through the Excelsior Jobs Program. New York City is a melting pot city. What makes us great is that we have people from all around the world here. One of the prime things we want to do as a city to make it a great place to live is make it a place people want to move to work. If people aren't moving here to work than New York City is in bad shape.

> 4. We don't have any specific commitments to infrastructure development, again, beyond than a rough dollar amount.

Beyond $27 billion dollars in additional tax revenue. If we can't deploy that money to adequately fix our infrastructure problems it's difficult to see how that is Amazon's fault, or how any other company would do better. In fact: assuming we were able to get anything close to the level of scale we'd get from the Amazon deal from smaller companies we wouldn't be able to get any additional commitments from them beyond the discounted tax revenue, so it's difficult to understand where this expectation comes from. They make no contribution to infrastructure other than the massive one that the law already says they have to make.

> 5. Absolutely no word on handling externalities and market distortions imposed on housing markets in nearby neighborhoods.

Again, it's difficult to imagine the alternate reality you want to live in here, but it seems to be not growing the city.
That's why I said "majority". Obviously you should optimize code that is run frequently. I could be wrong, but last time I checked most applications don't involve even "simple machine learning" and when they do it's in a library or service that abstracts those concerns away.
There has been a discussion about WAL-G just a few days ago here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259099
Elon invested more than $100M in SpaceX and they came very close to death before they finally succeeded with their last rocket. So it's not clear that you can do all of those and more, easily, with $90M.
Really? Sounds like a nightmare to me. Why do you think it’s better?
I feel like we're still in the uncanny valley for voice synthesis for this type of narration. It's good but just bad enough for people to be unforgiving and have it feel creepy.
There was a very similar art installation in downtown Los Angeles in 2005:

https://www.kcet.org/shows/earth-focus/field-of-dreams-the-c...
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I doubt that, but it's hard to tell as this is kind of vague. CLP(FD) talks about integers, CLP(Q) and CLP(R) talk about rationals and reals, respectively. If you approximate rationals or reals with floating point, you will get into situations where you compute nonsense, so in that sense at least CLP(R) has issues, but that kind of issue would have nothing to do with CLP(FD).
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I promise you weren't actually doing your costing correctly to arrive at that conclusion. Engineers always badly mis-underestimate the costs of things and "rack & stack data center management" is way more costly than you are actually accounting for. Especially in terms of opportunity cost and, well, just wasted resources that aren't actually adding value to the company.

There is way, way, way, way, way more to a running a successful business than "saving money".
It's interesting that that is the case while interest in Bitcoin as evidenced by twitter activity seems to have dropped back to levels seen in 2014 and 2016 https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-tweets.html

I'm not quite sure why. More algo trading perhaps?
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