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There is a video. Are you sure you aren't using Netscape? The video is webm, which is supported by all major browsers.
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This is a company in absolute turmoil.

How can a company go from closing almost all their stores, to reversing that decision in a week. How was that initial decision made in the first place? Was it Elon Musk snapping his fingers like Thanos? And then to turn it around in less than week shows a complete misread of the situation. Whoever made that initial decision should be fired, including Elon Musk.

I think Elon Musk has great vision, but he is in over his head with running and growing the company. He needs to hand the reins over to something who is better at this than he is. His behavior, including calling a person a pedophile, tweeting about going private, and fighting the SEC over Twitter shows a person who is mentally unfit to be a CEO. This last decision really cements it, and the company, employees and shareholders could truly suffer going forward if he continues as CEO.
A common problem with FIRE is that people don't have hobbies other than FIRE. Once they retire they don't know what to do. Get some hobbies, try new things, build something physical, volunteer with non-profits.

If I could stop working today I'd never be bored. I've taken two extended periods of time off (6 months and 18 months) and both times the primary reason for going back to work was money. I had plenty of things to do.
Acceleration clearly impacts interactions between drivers.

If I see a car stationary at a junction, I can assume that 0.5 seconds from now, it will either still be stationary, be a little further forward or a little further back.

The range of possible positions is significantly reduced with an acceleration limit.
Yes, I'm still planning to install a home charger and share it.
Tell HN: I ate only food in pill format for 3 months and lost 65 lbs
(40 food pills per meal x 8 meals = 320 food pills a day)

After reading hundreds of white papers about microbiome, diets, weight loss, etc. A really interesting thing stuck with me.

· When people get older and start to lose the sense of taste, they consistently start to lose weight.

· If someone has surgery on throat and this causes them to lose their sense of taste during healing process, they consistently lose weight.

· If someone takes a medicine that has a side effect of them losing their sense of taste while on it, they consistently lose weight.

This core concept is what led me down this path to create this Food Pill Diet. I theorized if you could get food into your body without tasting it then you could help mitigate hunger. The quick overview is that if you don't taste food and feed yourself 40 food pills every 2 hours (8 times/meals a day) then the hunger hormone ghrelin is kept in check and you can get all your daily recommended vitamins and minerals, be on a 1,000-calorie daily diet, not be hungry and easily lose weight. It worked. I consistently lost 5 lbs every week and just didn't feel hungry.

In this world of meal replacement drinks like Soylent or Huel I'm wondering if other people would do what I did or if it seems too crazy?

Mind you I really hurt my back, ruptured my L5 S1 disc, and put on a ton of weight by not being able to move much and after a year my doctor ran my blood work and I had high cholesterol (hypertension stage 2), high triglycerides, pre-diabetic, and doctor told me I was heading for early grave so I guess I was really motivated to lose the weight and get healthy again by diet alone seeing I couldn't work out the traditional way.
I agree with what is being said, but I don't really see any new thoughts here. This is such a tired conversation. I used to have opinions about this, but I've grown to have a position of, "ship over anything else". Do whatever you can to ship faster. If that is nextjs, great. If that just a bunch of PHP files on an apache server? great. None of it is one-sized fits-all. /shrug
What will you do when you retire for good?
Direct link to Sprint's complaint for those interested in such things: https://www.scribd.com/document/399188291/Sprint-sues-AT-T-o...

(I only realized after Googling for it that the article posted here links to another article that itself links to the complaint, figured I'd save others the clicks)
It’s already regulated as reckless driving. If you burn rubber starting from a stoplight a cop will probably write you a ticket for it.
Presuming that your goal is to have children...
The tool is one sentence (personal or work-life-balance goal) printed out, e.g. "I want to go to the gym twice per week". Then ask your manager and peers to hold you accountable.

I'm surprised one can write 1000 word blog post to announce it and then a newspaper another 1000 words reporting on it.

> Years of research to create "One Simple Thing"

> Oh, and it’s completely free.

I downloaded the PDF. It's indeed a single page with a big box where you can write down you goal.
Only if you optimize for distance to door. Thing is walking 2 minutes is actually good for us and just because other people are competing to get the closest spot doesn't mean you should fall for that as well.
Keybase's main competitor seems to be Slack. I don't use Slack but I assume that Slack can read all your messages if they want to, so privacy is the main differentiator.

All these little quality-of-life improvements on top of that can only be a good thing, IMHO.
Legislation already on the books covering "display of speed" (intentional wheel-spinning, name varies by jurisdiction) and posted speed limits should already address your concern, don't they?
Thanks! Front end is NextJS on now.sh -- including server side rendering. Backend is AWS. Whole thing is serverless.
My rule has always been: "write down the entire manual process". Follow the steps and do a deployment and time it. Do you have that much time? Are you likely to make an error? If not, just do it manually. If so, break out the easiest parts and automate that. Then reassess.

Automation should follow the same rule as other things in a business. Only automate when it becomes painful not to. Or if it is trivially simple to.
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Do you feel it? The tectonic plates of developer sentiment slowly shifting below your feet. It won't all come in a wave. It is the gradual investment in tools like this that over time amount to a viable alternative to the MacBook Pro running macOS. WSL, Open source .NET, Investing in making Edge work like Chrome (more important to developers and consumers than your ideological quandries with Google owning the web will ever be). The last few years have been great for MS
I get that part. If only all startups could afford managed PaaS services. I might be biased given I've spun up and managed my own infrastructure without much difficulty, and I can see how some startups would prefer spending the dough on PaaS instead of say hiring or putting it towards marketing.

I just had an issue with that blanket statement that it's not kosher to be using a server still. It's totally fine for a startup to be managing their own infrastructure if they've done the cost benefit analysis on it.
Comparing Foxconn employees to the general populace is not necessarily the right cohort for comparison. For starters, the natural prior for suicides is that you would expect unemployed people to have a higher suicide rate than employed people. Nevertheless, I think that Foxconn's suicide rate was shown to be in line with the typical suicide rate for Chinese manufacturers.
From what I understand the reason it hasn't increased is because primarily of PCIe, it is set to double in speed with PCIe 4.0 and again with 5.0 once those are made more available with maximum speeds of 1.6 and 4.0 TB for IB x16.

IB still has lower latency than Ethernet at least on paper especially when it comes to RDMA but I don't know how much of an issue that is for these applications.

But overall I'm not sure how much it matters to Mellanox since they are also the ones who are making the high speed Ethernet switches and host adapters.
If you are trying maximise the benefit to society it may be necessary to crack AGI before Google or some other corporation does. That's probably not going to happen without serious resources.
Huge pages mainly exist to alleviate TLB pressure and page fault latency. But that performance penalty is tiny compared to the alternative of in-program bounds checking that we currently use.

Similarly, pointers don't necessarily need to be changed and your array problem isn't valid. Cachelines could be marked with canaries that fault on read/write, similar to how the NX bit currently works.

The NX bit is actually a good example of a hardware security-performance trade off that nearly everyone agrees on. Now 20 years later, we can afford to mark several more bits at some cache offset for a hardware bounds field.
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I saw elsewhere that the power supply is from a bug zapper, so I'm guessing about like touching a bug zapper. A little more googling has told me that the answer is "it's bad, but not lethal or burning if you move your hand quickly"
I am far more perplexed by the fact that this author believes too many people are using mathematically derived models for making life decisions and that we need a serious discussion of their merits to avoid suboptimal decisions than any of the modeling concerns other people here have pointed out.
>it also does not support a relatively common video editing feature as multiple timelines.

Multiple timelines, not multiple tracks?
Sucrase: Super-Fast Babel Alternative
Lots of cities have land that previously saw industrial use and is essentially unused at the moment. Sure, it might be better if people lived there but maybe they don't want to.
There's a short explanation and a very nice 2 minute video demonstrating how it works. I think expecting people to be able to view a webm video is pretty reasonable.
Are they doing their math on a napkin? I don't understand why they make such dramatic spins on pricing and cost in less than a month.

Either they have real-time data that supports the rationale of changing the model based on revenue predictions or they financial math is a joke.

I'm inclined to think is the latter, simply because I really doubt they have any early indicators to compare physical floor vs online performance. But if they do, then this means that their early online performance is way way lower than they expected, which is troubling by itself.
Try loading it with Firefox in extensions disabled mode. The last time I had an issue with Firefox and YouTube, it was due to an extension.
> [Burnout]: In the last 1-2 years IT has been showing up as #1 in the studies done. Up around ~65%. Major corps like Nvidia and Cisco being worse yet.

I've read all of your comments here with great interest, thank you for sharing all of that.

In what follows, I'm not doubting or challenging what you said. It's just that my professional experience has been really different.

I've been getting paid to do what I guess is called 'IT' since 1993. The first few years, it was extremely broad work, everything from installing new desktops (Windows 95 Beta!) to writing web apps to installing and configuring Cisco routers.

Starting in the late 1990s, my work focused on and has pretty much remained on what is now called devops or SRE. Working with apps teams and writing code to automate all the things.

I have worked at a > $250billion USD (revenue) company, and a 35 person startup, and a big tech company based in Germany (from California), and two different companies in the 'FAANG' group, and several in between.

I not only have, overall, really enjoyed my work, but most of the people I worked with have as well.

Not perfect; lots of different kinds of bullshit, and many frustrations.

More objectively, I've never seen a lot of turnover.

So...a question: is the 'IT' you've been in fundamentally different than the 'IT' I've been in?

Thanks!
I've been wondering over the last couple years what the state of the art is on server side rendering. There seems to be a lot of energy on the FE side with react and angular, but other than dockerization, I don't hear about the same class of big FAANG shiny backend rendering tools. Even the article is just pointing out that server side exists.
I'm working on setting up a small website for my wife's business and am still thinking of running Flask/gUnicorn just like I did years ago. Maybe there is something with Elixer / Erlang, but that seems niche.
What should I be looking at, if I want to skill up to the new shiny in server side rendering.
Cryptonomicon really hammered home how very much we depend on undersea cables to power the internet. Great read for those who have not had the pleasure. Plus you get to learn something.
Because of this reason, AV1 is now disabled for mobile devices.

On desktop hardware support is not critical.
Lots of good conversation on this challenging topic. I would like to throw out a nugget of information for anyone finding themselves having to go down this path: There are many different levels of care when it comes to 'old folks homes'.

We had to go down this path last year with my mom to get her out of living alone in a house. I thought the options were to move in with one of us or put her in an old folks home. Turns out there are many different levels and options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Nursing, Private Duty Nursing, Hospice, Continuing Care Retirement Communities, etc.

We found an independent living situation that gives my mom the independence she needs but also the social, dining, and transportation needs that enable her to live a good life without us having to worry about her safety and well-being. Of course, she does like to say with a wink that we put her in an old folks home but she enjoys it.
I don't think the problem of "renormalizing" signed distance fields can be cracked, at least not in a generic way that's fast enough for realtime rendering. I would agree this strongly limits the possibilities for making simple modeling tools based on SDFs, because whenever you use interesting transformations, you also need to be hacking away at the correctness of the field. Because of this, it's hard to make simplified tools for modeling and rendering interesting things using SDFs: you can't abstract away the fact that you're effectively writing a distance estimator function, and you'll always want to be able to dig down to the lowest programming level in order to make things work. This is a problem for popularization, but it doesn't prevent the technique from being useful in some domains and applications.
I'm interested too. I've been looking and looking but can't seem to find a good terminal on mac... There's plenty on Linux (tilda did the job I asked perfectly) but none on macos
All of those things are possible now, yet they don't happen. I see no reason to think electronic voting would make it more likely. And in fact, we have a test case: Estonia. Is there any evidence of any of this happening there?
Foxtons profits distributed since impact of Brexit shadows the housing market
Equally it's acceptable to go down the single-page-application route and just make sure you prioritise performance. A lot of SPAs/"rich" web applications are not slow because of inherent performance disadvantage to that model, they're slow because they're poorly written.

Perhaps just because I've dedicated a lot of time to it but I think something like React makes it a lot easier for me to find where my performance bottlenecks are and eliminate them vs. mixed server-side dynamic HTML / progressive enhancement.
Liberal arts grad here. It is infuriating how much I here how schools are a waste of time (money at today's rates, I totally agree). Like university is the only place you can go to learn things. And the only way to make a living is through the degree you earned in university.
Yeah, it's pretty decent.
This may not have always been the case, per the other reply to this comment. In my experience that is correct, because we cut them open and there was no such beads, just an opaque gel that, while could've been simply water, didn't seem like it (I've never seen "pure" water in a gelatinous form). I only recall reading that it was drain-safe, so maybe that supports the water theory (though we put much more than water down drains), or at least some mostly-safe substance.
It's not many it's 2 unless I'm mistaken?
Precisely that's why I stated it is a personal opinion.
Kdenlive: How to fuzz a complex GUI application?
That system is not inherently cheaper: people that go private pay twice (pay for public through taxes and then pay privately).

I dont think its palatable in the US to make policies that could increase national healthcare spending.
Excessive acceleration is already written into state speed laws.
But Debian ships default with X still right? So what distros are wayland native with Sway in the repos?
That's what we have investigative agencies for. We already offer these kinds of monetary incentives to criminals all the time. We also offer them for reporting tax evasion. Seems to work fine there.
> No amount of marketing can give you the thrill that you get when you slam the accelerator.

Have you driven another high-performance car such as a Porsche Turbo or GTS? They have similar acceleration times as the best Tesla.
This is broadly how Intel memory segments were supposed to work.

The 8086 did not check bounds, so nobody bothered using them, and when the 80286 came out that could check, everybody disabled that feature and used it as a faster 8086.

Probably too many key programs played too many tricks assuming a flat memory model that this was never going to fly.
That might be, but it wasn’t the case for me.

I play music, have some pretty cool coding projects, am self-studying science, do sports, and have good friends. When this contract is up I’ll def take some months off, maybe another half year. Would have never imagined the situation to turn out like this for me, but apparently that’s the kind of guy I am. Born a work horse, distressed with no heavy load to carry.

I just wish I knew this during my working time, so that I wouldn’t had been such a resentful, selfish, prick.
what about cinerella? when i researched what video editor to learn next after kdenlive it was cinerella. it seems to work fine, and i am surprised not to see any comments regarding it. seems like it is completely out of the running?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_president

"Not all vice presidents in a company in the modern business environment are named as an official corporate officer."

Unfortunately there is no citation there, either...
Brave vs. Chrome (With Ad Blockers)
"Professional" just means someone paid you for the work.
Of course, but they don't know if the props come from a HOC or another "normal" component. If you're updating the render() of a component, you don't care where the props come from.

It's not that important TBH, the abstraction is pretty thin
Hybrid Mobile App Development:Why It's a Great Option for Building Business Apps
Not suggesting this should actually be done by other distros, but from what I understand, Ubuntu basically just ignored the license and included it anyways
Yes, I'm also trying to talk to residential charger OEMs on potential partnerships. I want to stay out of the hardware business if possible.
> If you're a musician, I'm pretty surprised you're using a USB mic. Particularly a Snowball--it's designed mostly for spoken-word.

My 2¢: Based on my experience with podcasters, I wouldn't recommend a Snowball for beginners doing spoken-word recordings. This is a "worse is better" scenario where a cheap dynamic will give you better out-of-the-box results than a condenser mic like the Snowball, in part because it forces speakers to get closer to the mic (increasing the ratio of signal to ambient noise), and in part because dynamics usually can't record anything over ~15 kHz (spoken word tops out around 8 kHz).

A Snowball is fine for folks savvy enough to use an EQ to roll off everything over, say, 10 kHz during production.
Who is acting in the best interest of the open source community, Elastic or AWS?
When dealing with bullshit is voluntary it can be cathartic to not be responsible - its the fault of the system when things go wrong or things are inefficient, and you just get to go along with it.

Sadly, for most people, they are compelled to labor in bullshit without any other option, and that is what makes people bitter and resentful. Which in practice severely curtails their productivity or capacity to try to positively influence the environment away from bullshit... its a self perpetuating cycle for most.
Cuba maybe?
I'm struggling with it. I guess that realizing that it is a problem helps. Remember, porn is not the problem, abuse of it is.

Its to the point that I can't sleep well without it. That's bad.

What I'm doing, right now, is to create a simple chart of the days that I venture to the "dark side". So when I do go, I know in the back of my mind that I will have to write this stuff down.

Another step is, when you find yourself going down that rabbit hole, to do you best to stop it immediately. Your mind is very clever at making excuses like "You deserve to see this. Its just this one time. Promise." For me, what I ended up having to do is to get out of the room of the device and let myself relax.

Its getting warmer out. So I'll probably take a walk around the block if I notice the habit returning. I want to get rid of it so badly.

Support groups are out there either virtually or in person. Perhaps that's another way to go about it.

Good luck!
That thread does indicate things are changing though and it's becoming more and more accepted.
Good luck getting concrete interfaces locked down to the point where you can write meaningful tests - all the while managing the rest of your workload - when the business requirements change every week or so.
Model Assertions as a Tool for Quality Assurance and Improving ML Models
> Federal bureau of prisons will not let you mail books on any subject to inmates unless directly from the publisher.

That's not precisely true. BOP allows softcover books at minimum and low security facilities from any source, but hardcover books or any books at medium and higher security facilities must be shipped directly from “the publisher, from a book club, or from a bookstore.” (And exceptions can be made, though it requires a special request, if the book is no longer available from those sources.) But shipping from Amazon direct, as was reported elsewhere in the thread to be the case here, would seem to be okay.

Software engineering would not categorically seem to fall into any of the explicitly listed (but expressly not exhaustive) problem categories (unless you perversely misread “written in code”, which seems clearly intended to refer to encyphered/encrypted content), but the threat to order justification is fairly elastic (though a warden’s decision on this can be appealed by the inmate or an independent review may be requested by the sender or publisher.)

https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5266_011.pdf
Reorgs Don't Have to Suck
SPAs should just die out. As a user the experience virtually always means slow loading, large downloads, and more fragility.

Seeing a loading spinner makes me cringe.
What a delight. I'd never read that before. Thank you for posting it!