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In the late 90s I installed Slackware on a 386DX 40mhz with kernel 1.2.8, XFree86, elvis vi clone, etc. I've been using Linux for a long time, on and off as my main desktop. I have various Linux machines around the house, but it's not my main desktop today.

There's too much fiddling around to get it working right as a desktop. Audio has always been a ghetto. Wifi drivers are still binary blobs. Fonts, hidpi, multi monitor support, wayland, systemd are all still issues today. I really don't want my development machine to match production. Production is a stripped down image for a reason. I spend far more time writing code than running it, so the VM performance hit is a moot point.

To be fair, Windows 10 has plenty of issues of its own that need tweaking, like having the only way to disable cortana is through group policy edits. And then they reenable it on the next update, and give me some candy crush ads in my start menu. It's pretty infuriating, but still less so than manually fixing wifi drivers through USB boot drives.
Americans seem to make a really massive deal out of calculus. I wonder if that's counter-productive and puts people off.

You give it a special name, you talk about other topics purely in relation to calculus ('pre-calculus') as if calculus is the central big thing, and people talk about dreading it at college.

In the UK we never used the term 'calculus' when we learned it at school - we were just introduced to differentiation one day without any fanfare as part of an ongoing maths course, and then integration later. You didn't get a chance to get apprehensive about it and build up a mental block because you didn't know it was coming and it was no big deal.
I gave up on VOTT, ended up going with RectLabel on macOS. IMO better workflow, and being able to copy and paste annotations from one image to another (to then go fine tune them) blows both VOTT and labelImg our of the water.
> employees themselves has to be responsible for their output in such a way that higher output leads to more money for them

But what metric would you use to measure output that solves the gamification problem?

Even for contractors or sales people (where you could use the sales volume), this could lead them to favor short term results and compromise the long-term health of the company (e.g. by favoring quick, low-quality solutions by contractors, or selling features that don't yet exist and creating unsustainable roadmaps by sales people).
From that angle my view isn't that principled that I equate the use of child pornography with being a political dissident.

And would Google provide child pornography if mandated to do so?

I don't expect very much from a corporation trying to get into new markets. But I will still point my finger at them.
when you say programmed, do you mean biologically, or culturally?
A few decades of international trade does wonders for making the rest of the world forget what kind of an entity China is. This is the beginning of an Asian holocaust and nobody gives a damn because what's a couple million poor people in a country of over a billion?
There are rumored to be nuclear weapons stationed in South Korea also. Admitting it would complicate the peace talks significantly.
Ask HN: I'm not happy, should I resign from my company or power through?
I'm a full stack engineer working as a frontend developer at a tech company and I am bored out of my mind working here. This is my first full-time position and I've completed a year at this company now. I'm in my mid-twenties and I want to try starting a tech company, but I barely get any time during the day to get anything done.

Everyday is just office, gym, shower, dinner, 1-2 hour gap, sleep. I try to get some side project work done during that 1-2 hour gap but I'm exhausted by that time so I don't get much done. My parents said that they would be willing to put me up, if I decided to resign and tried to start a company.

But I know that, that support will not last very long, because all our friends and family members will judge me and my parents for spoiling me like that. They will say that I'm just slacking off and tricking my parents into thinking that I'm trying to start a company, so eventually either I or my parents will get too frustrated with me living like that and I'll have to start looking for a job again. My guess is this will last about 1-2 years.

My therapist says I should quit if its making me miserable or change my point of view towards my work. My father, on the other hand, is of the opinion that I should power through the misery and continue working on the startup on the side, but at the same time he is willing to support me no matter what path I choose. He has a point plus my skills have improved a lot, but I get very depressed thinking that I would be throwing away my youth for job security instead of using to do something more ambitious. I have no dependents and a decent amount of savings.

I was also considering improving my skillset during the time I would be staying with my parents, like doing an online bootcamp like Lambda school.

What should I do HN community? Am I being stupid and selfish for considering this? Should I take a leap of faith and resign and see what happens or should I power through this path that makes me miserable?
Not illegal, but rather not granted (and not denied either). Only the author decides, as it's his right, not someone's else.
You're not alone.

I love creating things. Software, metal models, lego models, house improvements... I just love creating things, big and small.

Sure, there are parts of all of those things that suck and I work to get through them and on to the good parts, but there's nothing else in life that gives me a high like creating something.
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Cute, but it would be super annoying these days if a platform vendor picked some otherwise completely legitimate value out of an API's parameter domain and used it for an easter egg...

(Yes, you can wait for a value in any of 65,535 memory locations... but not this one, because we needed an easter egg...)
If you see biweekly somewhere, it is impossible to know what it means without more explanations, even context isn't enough. This has been like this for years and nobody's even tried to fix it.

What is the point of having such confusion?

Also, why having dictionaries at all? And who decides which one is right?

Why not have a body made up of experts who make that decisions once and for all when natural evolution leads to bad results?
So did the British...

a more cogent rebuttal is to point out that US companies like IBM didn't really need to do business with Nazi Germany for their survival.

I trust Google to not be generally evil, but when they still do something evil or with bad consequence we should still hold them (and any other capitalist behemoth) accountable.
Another high cost of healthcare source is the lack of competition on price. You have zero idea how much each procedure costs. Imagine going to a supermarket where there are no price tags, and you must buy the items once you pick them off the shelf. It's madness.
Busyness is not a virtue. The consequences of your actions being good... that has always been the classic definition of virtue.

Do good things. 1 small action can have massive consequences. Creating something good and useful to others, it does not matter if it took 20 minutes, for sufficiently good actions, if you did 1 a decade, nobody cares how busy you are or if you were "productive".

This is called being constructive. Rather than productive or rather than optimizing busyness (a fake appearance of doing work or "good") instead we just do things that are good. This takes cultures of trust and requires belief products actually benefit people create viability & wealth.

We can define a good action as one that has good consequnces.

Busyness makes nobody happy... it doesn't even make your boss happy. It's just... something you're meant to be, I guess. It's stupid and dumb.

Do good things. "make something other people want"... is a good description of viability, only problem is people also want crack and being a crack dealer is pretty stessful (I imagine) so if you don't want stress or to be to busy and still manage to do great stuff... let's narrow this down. Make something other people want... people want good stuff, don't they? :)

Do good. Don't do not good.

There, simplified everything.
A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: https://imgur.com/gallery/XwzByK7

Something needs to be done, I'm not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.
> Economists [..] report that in recent years the only increase in total-factor productivity in the US economy has been in the information technology-producing industries.

And guess how those industries did that? Metrics.

Metrics are a simple tool. They are almost worthless by themselves and can even be a detriment. But like any tool, if you pick the right ones and use them right, it's much better than not having the tool. There are tons of ways business processes can improve by analyzing metrics, it's not just an employee productivity stick.
> I was at Microsoft from 1986-1991, working on Windows (2 and 3)

What was that like? What parts did you work on?

(And thank you... I cut my teeth on Windows 3 in particular and learned a lot, I am sure, from code you helped contribute to.)
Probably not a lot.

The estimates I’ve seen for bitcoin energy usage puts it at 1% world energy usage. That’s a lot of power, enough to run a country like Ireland, but it’s not enough to explain the jump in the chart.
Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes
> Better that, than the mix of pop culture references and business weasel words, the English have become.

That makes little sense. Anyway, I'm going to go and synergise my Kim Kardashians.
But you rewrote it all from scratch in a “clean room” so as to not incur any license issues ;)
They all have rusty nukes shhhh.
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The word "interblocage" has been used for at least a century in mechanics though. It's just a very straightforward word that anyone could come up with to describe such a situation, and one that is immediately understandable to a French speaker. I'm pretty sure the confusion would come from using "deadlock" to someone who knows "interblocage", rather than the contrary.
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>Second, in certain right turn situations on a red light, it will hever turn if there is traffic in far lanes even if the nearest lane has a generous opening. I see this all the time on the right turn from eastbound Central turning onto southbound Castro St., for example.

To be fair, even I do that sometimes if I just don't trust oncoming traffic not to do something like changing lanes in the intersection or at the last second. To your point, though, it's all dependent upon the intersection, number of lanes, etc., and I'm not familiar with the intersection in question.
I'm sure you're joking. Information is not a consumable, it doesn't get used up in the process.
"How do you track their whereabouts and communication channels if everything is encrypted?"

You need to consider what is also unecrypted which may be used.

Given you have a username you can rather easily check whether that username is registered on any other socialmedia-platform; a site like knowem.com lets you search for a username across +500 socialmedia sites.

From there on you can start to interpolate information from usercontent as well as usercontent-metadata.

I think you are the OP, so I will add this also: The security agency properly have software toolsets which are used for hacking.. If you ain't familiar with Vault7 you should definitely give it some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

Related to Vault7 there was also a lot of fuzz about 0-day threats which the NSA had stockpiled, these 0-day's may be used for other things not related to cyber-warfare, like e.g. monitoring potential terrorist activites..

Besides this you have whole pentesting-suites like Kali Linux and similars, which may be used to exploit weaknesses on target-machines.
> like The Matrix where humans are farmed for energy

That's how Morpheus was told or wanted to present the reality. You cannot produce energy by breeding and feeding humans due to the law of conservation of energy.

As later in Animatrix Wachowski sisters showed, the machines were simply conserving humanity.
I wonder if it's partly our broadened scope as adults. We can do real things in the real world, so pretend (more or less elaborate or formalized) is less appealing.
I haven't specifically edited film, but I've done some similar things, and I've found when you have agency over the result it wears differently. You may still "get tired" of it, but it's a different sort of thing. I think it's easier to watch the same scene a hundred times if you're editing it actively than if you are just passively consuming it and making no active decisions. My bigger problem was really losing the perspective of someone who is brand new to the content than exhaustion.
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It’s not that they could not build a “civilization that doesn’t get flattened by a hurricane” . Let’s speak facts and not some semi 4chan baseless insults. Haiti’s slave revolt the only successful one in history saw African people pummel Napoleons French army, the British army and the Spanish army. From 1804-1825 there was a economic embargo on the country (similar to what we do to North Korea). It only stopped when Haitians agreed to pay French slave owners reparations for the money they lost and property (slaves and land ). “In 1838, France agreed to reduce the debt to 90 million francs to be paid over a period of 30 years to compensate former plantation owners who had lost their property. The modern equivalent of $21 billion was paid from Haiti to France.” So, French banks actually loaned Haiti money with very high interest to pay the French government and avoid sanctions thus very deliberately stifling the growth of the country almost haunting it altogether. Note also this was the colony that made the French more money than all 13 of its colonies put together. Therefore the predicament we have today is due to the pure wickedness and greed of the French coupled with natural disasters.
People aren't downvoting this within 7 minutes of you posting.
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In light of current energy crisis and other considerations, I implore you to consider the following proposal.
I think you’d prove the problem though because everybody would want to work on projects/bugs/teams that have clearly measurable results. I work at a company with clearly(ish) defined “this is what a Level X engineer does” so you can measure yourself against the current and next level for promotion’s sake. I’ve mentioned to my manager that I struggle with authentically choosing projects/tasks, I want to work on things that I see as valuable to me and/or the company but I also want to be promoted and some projects are clearly better promotion material but are not necessarily as valuable... I strive for value but probably overthink the situation :p
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We were in a similar situation (20/80 Linux/Mac devs, respectively)

You can use Windows, but none of the rest of us do so you're on your own.

You can have a MBP, iMac, or ThinkPad with Linux when you start. Your choice.

We had two developers actually say they were wary of learning Mac/Linux and didn't take the job for that reason.
I wonder if YC readers can see this comment due to YC censorship.

But to answer your question; it was recently shown that hundreds of millions of Chinese had never even heard of Tiananmen Square, let alone ever seen the picture that is iconic in the west through it's propaganda.

But to be fair, look in the mirror, folks. As we wag our fingers at China, the is currently doing exactly the same thing as the strangle hold of authoritarian thought control cinches up ever tighter. Only in the west it is taking an ever more pernicious and, in many ways, more lasting form; when, e.g., Twitter (Muslim controlled), Reddit (Chinese controlled), Facebook (global domination of all of humanity inspired), YC (foreign national and Indian and deranged liberal VC tech tyrant controlled), Google (beholden and submissive to China), etc. all censor what they deem heretical and use the very same types of tactics against the wrongthinkers.

Just saying something here that is not glowing about "immigration", aka, the disposition of wealth and control over one's society in order to shatter democracy and the middle class and to advantage, empower, and enrich the wealthy at the expense of regular people through bribes and the plundering by foreigners ... the soldiers of the wealthy elite trying to destroy democracy and the middle class exactly as they are doing.
Are cables really ugly?
The current tech boom is nothing like the dot-com bubble...
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Unfortunately that command is not supported in [0]. What does it do?

[0] https://virtualconsoles.com/online-emulators/c64/
Admittedly, the American Red Cross has problems distributing humanitarian aid effectively, but the ICRC creates a separate set of problems for itself by departing from its founding mission as an impartial and neutral distributor of humanitarian aid. They risk losing their access to monitoring prisoners of war by advocating for certain interpretations of international law, something that's certainly important, but better left to organizations that don't need the same kind of cooperation from otherwise hostile regimes that the ICRC does.
Good intent from the labellers isn't always required for a good model but it certainly helps, especially if the model training process is unsophisticated. I'm sceptical enough of this being the case for poorly-paid annotators - surely for prisoners it could be even worse?
No browser by default runs WebGL on native OpenGL on Windows either.
No work is mundane if you can find a higher reason why you're doing the task.
I mean yeah, you can exploit it to your benefit by going full pickup artist with your profile(s) but that's a) a lot of work if you're just trying to get normal dates and b) generally frowned upon in polite society.
You could reward them in the same way that executives are increasingly remunerated for their performance-based pay - in shares or other financial instruments with an enforced holding period that are linked to the health of the business / business unit as appropriate.
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i think he means that humans will abuse the ai (tech) and then use it for bad purpose
I really do appreciate the sentiment, but with an authoritarian regime like this there's isn't an awful lot other nations can practically do that would actually make a difference. Just look at North Korea, it's under total economic lock-down but still continues along on it's brutally oppressive way. It's not that I'm happy about it, any suggestions welcome.
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A way to cheat that adds speed?

If you’ve ever paid much attention to some of the big time high schools err “sports academies” in California where they “recruit” from the entire state and more, it’s crazy. We are probably dramatically better at finding and training kids to throw heat.
I used to swear by exercise to sweat out a cold, but then a couple of times it seemed to pull it deeper into my lungs and linger as bronchitis for a long time. "Rest and fluids" seems to do better now.

Except when it doesn't.

There doesn't seem to be much predictive power in personal anecdotes.
Who needs to plan a language? I love the mess that is English, there's so much history encoded in it - like how our words for common farm animals are Anglo-Saxon but the words for their meat are French, which is a snapshot of England being invaded by a French speaking Norman aristocracy who ate what the Anglo-Saxon peasants raised.

I love the different dialects that are developing of it. I particularly love my country's variant, enriched with Maori. "Kia ora bro" as a greeting captures our spirit nicely.

I love the fact that English "pursues other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary". It's a glorious organic mess. Much like humanity.

Of course, I'm glad I'm not having to learn it as a second language.
progress towards type 1 civilization is good.
> For personal projects I would never ever use java just because the amount of friction around builds and packaging is so terrible.

As a counterpoint, I do tend to use the JVM for personal projects, but I'm also pretty strict about keeping complexity out of the build and deploy process. What that means, practically speaking, is that I compile to uberjars, and deploy as Unix services. I also have a little library that makes it easier to use an embedded in-process database for persistence.

There are surely limitations to this approach, but I don't have enough time for my side projects to get to the point where I ever hit them. So I wind up in a spot where I can generally focus on whatever the small goal of the project is.
Indeed, and his military successes were also a threat.

But my point is more subtle. Caesar was a arguably a populist, and was both ambitious and wildly popular with the common people of Rome. But there were a few incidents where Caesar was offered to be crowned king, and the people of Rome hated it. It would be a few more generations before the idea of being ruled by a guy in purple whose dad had done the same would be okay to Romans.
Dude, don’t leave everyone hanging, spill the beans!
exactly, the only outrage is them being paid and not using that money to help the victims of their actions
Holy.., for some reason those photo's hit me hard here at work. Especially burying the child.
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If we trust for profit private prisons to fight wildfires I don't see why we wouldn't trust them for other things.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/california-is-paying-inmates...
> I'm not convinced that China is outright evil. I think they're just taking a different approach.

How about apply the same logic to hate speech, racism and dictatorship. Sure, everything can be termed as "different approach", but there is a certain global world view that defines or normalizes what is considered evil and what is not.
In today's world, refusing people their freedom to express their opinion is normally considered evil. Let's not mix democracy and freedom of expression. There are ample examples of bad functioning democracies(governmental systems) which have granted their citizens with good freedom of self expression.

I'm rather appalled to see how Chinese government gets away with it's treatment of it's 1.3 billion population, while other semi dictatorial nations often earn a bad reputation.

Probably now that China is rich and powerful, all their actions will be forgiven, and their actions be considered as a "different approach" to the mainstream opinion.

China's one child policy, it's treatment of minorities, and it's censorship are evil in my opinion/world view.
> you basically said dont hire that person to someone. because of your bad experience with that ex-colleague ?. you are denying that person a chance. how come ?

I disagree. If you had a bad experience with an employee and you're asked to validate the quality of that candidate why should you lie or omit that info?

When you're looking for a job do you also feel that it's wrong to ask current and former employees for references?

Furthermore, it seems you're oblivious to how many candidates outright lie about their CV and working experience.

You need info to make good informed decisions. Otherwise you have no alternative other than to fell for con jobs.