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Have you ever contacted your federal representatives? Who is your representative? I’ll contact them for you.
There's some forcing for sure, but they already had a lot of the hard parts in place when they started the process. I've witnessed since the fall of 2016 their sending me many packages from various locations to almost always shipping one package, and without any promises many of those packages then and now arrive the next day if I order them in the morning.
I never make a big deal of it, just say casually, "sorry, I don't have any ID with me". If they really want something I hand over a credit card or business card. In general nobody really has a need for ID and would rather not lose your business. You show up with an Amex platinum card and a haircut no hotel is going to deny you a room just because you don't have ID.

When you fly without ID (note: this is different from having ID but refusing to provide it -- I never do this) you just get a pat down search and your luggage looked at, basically. And this is true in general, though some NY buildings really will enforce an ID (absurd! It's just to keep poor people out) and some federal courthouses for some reason. I mean, it's not like people are checking IDs against some watch list when you walk into a building, nor do most people know what all forms of ID look like, so what's the purpose of all that nonsense?

So for the ID case, like most things in life, I simply tell the truth. But for SSN I do fib: when asked for SSN (say at a drugstore or whatever) I say "sorry, I'm a foreigner and don't have one". Yes, I have one, but again, most people who ask for an SSN collect it for no reason that is useful to me.

If you make a big deal of it then of course people won't want to deal with you -- it's generally not the decision of the person you're talking with anyway. But if you act like it's the most natural thing in the world then life usually just goes on, as it should.
> That bus isn't running anyway though.

Did Estonia have no public transportation before it was made free?
The first is on Hacker News as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911715 .

It hyperlinks to https://zombieloadattack.com/ , which is currently on Hacker News as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911341 .
It’s generally not good for services to share write privileges to a database for this very reason.

Also you can end up with services communicating between an implicit database api rather than a well established rest or rpc (or whatever) api.
I grew up on the Great Plains of the US. I remember my first visit to Switzerland clearly. We get into this town in a valley with these massive mountains all around. I had this really strong sense of being confined, along with feeling like the mountains could come tumbling down on me at anytime.

It was strange, but also really odd when it felt like the sun would go down so early as it crossed behind the mountains.
Good for Dave, although if your whole operation can't function because one person doesn't come to work (justified or not), maybe that's a sign something is wrong.
> why should any tax breaks be considered in the future for any company

Unemployment in the USA after the tax cuts is at historically low levels that haven’t been seen in more than four decades. The economy is booming.

Taxes on corporations are mainly good to encourage corporate behavior, revenue can be obtained by taxing the wealthy directly as well. Increasing taxes such as the capital gains tax while keeping corporate taxes at their reformed, globally competitive levels seems the way to go to me...
He said they’d be investing an additional $1 billion and said that is equivalent to 7,000 jobs. The article never proves otherwise. He never said AT&T’s global workforce would be 7,000 positions larger or even implied that.
So people should stop claiming that nuclear is one. It's an advertising term used by the industry, nothing more.
> access photos in the background

Google photos on iOS is able to upload my photos in the background so its possible
That's fair, it's all mostly going to be conjecture until we see actions in the Fall. I tried to couch my wording as what I've read and how it sounds in between the lines of shareholder reports and generic statements that could be taken either way until we see action.

If money is speech, Disney has been talking a lot in how much money it has spent on both the Disney+ project and the Hulu buyout. But speech of the money will always be a bit of reading the tea leaves and the color of the wind.
Except that we are now seeing this is WRONG. Look at AI and machine learning. We are now finding algorithms that have implicit racial biases because the only people who worked on them were Asian and Caucasian. Not that the people working on them explicitly tried to write the algorithms with bias, they simply did because humans are BAD at projecting outside of their own experiences and what they see in the mirror. That's not politics, that's facts. You can get angry about it and yell "POLITICS POLITICS", but the fact is we are creating bias AI by not having representation at the table when those algorithms are being built. How many other parts of science, like disease research, can be affected by this? We don't know because we can't even have the conversation without people yelling about politicizing and SJWs.
That probably goes for a lot of shows for kids :)
I really hate these descriptions of SMT as some kind of violation of the natural relationship between CPU frontend and backend. The idea that there is a “physical core” and a “logical core” does not map to reality.
Granted, my son now wants toys based on this "new" show he was watching and is sad to find out that toys for this are no longer made and the only ones that exist are collectibles.
Similar to the phrase "Lies, damned lies, and Benchmarks", should be the phrase "Lies, damned lies, and AWS costs"
The web is quite fast already, if you don't weigh down your web pages with tens of megabytes of crap...
I mean, is it bad? This is everyone I know back home. They go to work, come home, eat, and watch TV. It's a life. It's not for me, but like, what else are they going to do with their time? I could make a bunch of value-judgement statements like "they should read a book!" or "they should learn python!" but like, why? Who cares? They don't have ambitions beyond a comfortable life.

Just as my life is not for them, their life is not for me. At least they have some way to entertain themselves, whereas every second I spend relaxing comes with anxiety over whether I'm spending my time "usefully."
But if you’re not getting the results you want, then you need to change your approach. This often means realizing that you need to give more importance to things that you currently think are not important. Making connections with people at your temp jobs would be one of those things that, if you prioritized, would help you get to your goal of a stable career. You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect to get different results.

I’m not saying you need to stop coding and spend all your time shmoozing with people, just have a conversation here and there, go out to lunch with people, etc.
I don't know that their assumption about bandwidth getting maximized period is correct.
> I always find the people who don't believe writing raw SQL is preferable to using an ORM is usually down to a lack of experience

> The ORMers, as I call them, don't have confidence in their
own SQL ability

SQL is leaky abstraction too. Every time you look at query plans and try to tweak the right amount and kind of indices, you are having to deal with the drawbacks of the SQL abstraction. That does not make people who do that "don't have confidence in their own file-system ability".
For those of you that want to see the data behind this story: https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...

I think the history is one of a failed economic subsidy program that accidentally accelerated the PV-industry by a few years.

There were several growing PV manufacturers in germany up to around 2011/2012. In that timeframe the manufacturers were all busy building new factories, but the government noticed that the subsidy program became large enough to be expensive and suddenly severely cut the subsidies.
None of the manufacturers survived that, the remains were sold to the chinese.
Flip over any plastic doo-dad; where is it now? Who bought it? Who decided that we'd rather get these things from China than manufacture them here according to our environmental standards and regulations?
For me as a home user, taking a performance hit of any kind in response to threats which haven't yet been seen in the wild simply isn't good math.
They install tracking boxes in the TV's of a sample of the population. This is done with the family authorization and often they get compensated for it. There's a lot of work that goes into choosing the sample so it's representative of the total population.

Source: a friend that worked in the field.
I don't know how many PJ Masks toys and shirts I've bought based on that show.

The thing that got me as a kid was seeing all the cool food everyone else got that my parents wouldn't give me. I just wanted hot pockets in my house like they had. Kids will always want toys like the shows they like. But the other stuff isn't necessary.
9% hit potentially on performance in data center. Add in all the Spectre and meltdown mitigations and we have potentially lost nearly two generations of Intel performance increases.

Just shows the hoops and tricks needed to keep making, on paper, faster processors year on year but without node shrinks to give headroom.

14nm++++ is played out.
Why do experiments make people uneasy?
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The passport is a physically-robust booklet, while the drivers license is a comparatively fragile card. I can put the printed boarding pass in the passport, so it's easy to present to the TSA agent. As to how often I travel, I barely got to 10 nights on my highest-status hotel loyalty program, so I guess that means I travel some, but not lots.
Oh, I didn't know you meant to imply that qualifier; I was responding only to what you said, which was absurd, not what you meant, which I now see was reasonable.
I think you misunderstood my point. Hypocrites are liars, deceivers, manipulators, immoral and unethical among other things.

If the people calling for changes in society related to climate change are of this ilk/type/caliber, then there is no way anything will ever change ethically.

Though, it could be done through propaganda, deceit and force. In other words, tyranny.

Or, end the hypocrisy and lead by example. Everything else is hand waving and rhetoric or worse.
The point is that while you can spend a lot of money you can't spend infinite money. There's a finite pile of euros. Every euro you spend on something stupid is one less euro you can spend on something smart.
That article is interesting. It says:

> If you, a non-loyal shopper, mosey into CVS and buy some Tylenol and a package of seasonal candy, you will get a receipt that is unspectacular (read: a normal length).

However, that's never been my experience. If I buy a pack of gum in a CVS, I'll get an insanely long (although not five-feet long) receipt for it even though I certainly am not a member of any CVS affinity program or anything.
CO2 is not the only thing that counts. One of those "clean" nuclear plants blows up and we can essentially close our countries or all die of cancer.
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When these issues are raised, people tend to have two counter-productive reactions. The first is abject defeatism. The second anger at the messenger and accusations that they're a part of the problem. Or, in other words, talking about politicizing science is politicizing science. Both have justifiable viewpoints at their core but are harmful in the long-term nonetheless.

The first is harmful and wrong for a straightforward reason; the range of outcomes that emerge from defeatism are universally bad. The range of outcomes that arise from a worldview that everything can be fixed stem from the bad to the okay to the somewhat good. The range of results that are possible through action outweigh those of inaction. So what's the point in giving up?

The second bit is the science is being used in such and such ways bit. This reminds me of the debates I've had with people who have a hardline view of individual freedoms and clauses in the constitution. I often like to tell them that the constitution is a guiding document, not a suicide pact.

Ideally, we should live by the idealized impartiality and objectivity that Scientists should have while interacting with the world. The idea that Scientists should be in the ivory tower, away from the grime of humanity and refraining from commenting on matters that connect and are of import with the body politic. People will mention gender, sexuality, climate change, abortion etc as these pivotal points where science can't give the answers and therefore science must ixnay and look away.

But I would like to raise the idea of science Carl Sagan had. Science as a candle in the dark. Sagan would talk at length about the development of science in ancient societies, and how unconnected these developments were from the lives of the population. Heron of Alexandria created a steam engine in the ancient world, but he never applied to alleviate the burdens of humans. It was used as a curiosity for the powerful. To quote his immortal words, "The permanence of the stars was questioned; the justice of slavery was not."

Why shouldn't we use our insight into the human condition and the broader perspective science offers us to inform our moral choices? Why should scientists bind themselves into an idealized suicide pact when they're under assault? Why can't scientists bring down the fire from Olympus and share it with the populace?

Our problem stems from the fires of ignorance and the idea that someone's ignorance is equal to someone else's research or knowledge. Why can't scientists use the scientific method to investigate it and share their perspective with the world?

Science tends to give people something akin to the overseer effect; why shouldn't that be shared with the world, if it moves us just a bit in the right direction?

Is the potential for misuse great? Yes, but what's the alternative? Stagnation? An absence of the humanizing presence of science in the great moral debates? Why should that be the realm of charlatans and the working of mitochondria that of science? Why can't scientists connect the two and work to illuminate the darkness?
Revert copyright back to the original 28 years and Disney's increasing domination of the media market becomes less of a concern. Of course this probably won't happen because the US and other world governments exist to serve Disney and their shareholders, but it's the easiest way to fix this that doesn't involve a long and complicated antitrust case that the government might lose in the courts.

If you want to be even more daring and spend a little bit of public money, you could have a publicly financed streaming service with most major public domain works. You could make it available through the Library of Congress.
How do you evacuate Miami or New York should an MCA occur? Large numbers of people would be irradiated while stuck in traffic.
Sounds like Dave enjoyed having the entire company as hostage. Pretty good for getting paid I guess but not someone I would want to work with.
were the ads really all that bad though? I don't remember asking for much more than video games, board games, hungry hungry hippos, McDonalds, Sunny D, etc.

Kids today get crazy ads on Instagram and are asking for Supreme shirts, Yeezus shoes, Kylie Jenner makeup kits.
That just can't be the average. That must be the very top of the curve. For it to be the average, with the very bi-modal distribution coming from parents who have no-screens policies, the average in that other cluster would have to be like 8 hours a day. I just don't believe that's possible with any frequency.
Looks like AMD Cpus are safe again.
In fact we can tell from Googlers commenting here on HN that individual engineers often disagree with some of the practices of their (huge) employer.
"Minimizing hours worked" is a great positive sign. You hire a programmer to solve problems (or better yet, identify and solve problems), not to sit on their butt for the maximum number of hours.

There's always a limited amount of resources (time, money, etc), regardless of how many hours are worked. So someone whose goal is minimizing hours worked will tend to come up with much better solutions than someone whose only solution is to work longer hours. Because instead of saying "I'll just work longer!" they'll actively try to come up with a fundamentally more efficient solution.

(Long version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/02/11/working-long-hours/)
>So maybe if you actually finished doing the math instead of stopping in the middle

I'm glad we have you for this time, will finish the math next time ;-)
He does have a point about composability though. Wonder how, things would have turned out had prolog become the default query language.
I suggest that the "coding test" Bonus Round has a few secret side purposes, especially when used on experienced candidates:

* The candidate focuses on hoop-jumping for the frat hazing, rather than on how skilled the people giving the one-way interviewing are, and what they'd be like to work with. (In any other context, this one-way behavior would be an oblivious and kinda jerky move, and also suggest a dysfunctional organizational culture -- something you wouldn't want to work with, but we don't make that connection.)

* Tries to estabish the power dynamic of the company as the cool kids and the authority, and the candidate is the one applying for acceptance. (The terminology is already loaded: "candidate", "applicant".)

* Related Jedi mind trick on the candidate: the fact that the candidate is investing in submitting to employer games makes them think that this must be something they want, or they wouldn't have invested.
Childcare is super expensive. I think there are a ton of people who can’t afford it and use screen time to supplement. It keeps the kid safe in one spot while you can get stuff done. Keep in mind that letting a child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.
> ...on the tail of wanting to ban plastic everywhere.

One-time use plastic bags and more recently drinking straws[0], not all plastic everywhere. The world can’t run without plastic.

Your own link says the recycleable (fwiw) balls have a 10 year lifespan.

...and the carbon black is a carcinogen if inhaled as dust, but is used (in part) to reduce a suspected carcinogen (bromate) and made for the sun (...with carbon black additive to protect the plastic from ultraviolet radiation.)

It’s in your cited article. What would you propose as an alternative?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_pla...
Growing up I had the opposite experience. I grew up in a mountain valley in Montana and would go to Minnesota each summer. It was strange not having something on the horizon.
I downvoted your initial post. I find it disingenous at best, and dangerous at worst, to suggest that increases in monitoring and govt. power are to thank for any trends in terrorist activity. (Not to mention factually incorrect, boston bomber was in 2015, just to name one)

It also ignores prior abuses of govt power entirely aside from terrorist threats, that might be fair reason alone to distrust the current mechanisms being applied.

I also donate regularly to the ACLU and EFF, and do what I can to impact local politics, although these issues don't come up as much there, so no need to expect hypocrisy just because people disagree with you. (And frankly, even if they aren't active in these organizations, I support anyone who desires scrutanization, even if only in spreading that zeitgeist online. A few people being the "Watchmen" is no substitute for a cultural awareness that govts. _require_ checks, balances, and a tight reign by the people.)
It's true but I don't like how I can't filter content for my son. He's 4yo and is a little prone to act in real life like the characters in the cartoons do and I would like to at least temporarily filter things that have fighting in it (like power rangers) because he tends to fight his classmates (they like it, the teachers give us endless grief about it).

No way to do that and it seems like a pretty basic form of control that should be table stakes for a kids oriented service.
Is because of memory. Old people remember how things were and want those memories to be continuously valuable.

If everything changes they have nothing over the younger competition.
60 hours is a joke, I have done 60 hours handful of times. When I was young and when our all systems got hit with ransomware and I was helping out the IT dept.

I agree and think 5-6 hours is the magic number. Then, I start making errors, taking shortcuts and producing shit code. However, if someone is a super human and can code for 60 hours every week, breath code and make $400k at some unicorn all power to them.

In reality, after $75k your happiness will generally not increase very much if you increase your income.
The difference is that in my whole programming career I've never had a problem with a compiler.

I have spent so many hours battling Entity Framework when writing the exact query I need is absolutely trivial. It's a rabbit hole, and it can blow up deadlines unpredictably.

Next time I start a new project I'm just using straight Dapper.
Tim Ferris got famous (arguably) writing a book about this. It's a bit winding and some of the content is out of date, but the general concepts are good - Four Hour Workweek, probably most here have already heard of it / read it though.

I'm mildly surprised at people's skepticism though, this has been a thing for a while.
The idea that there is a “physical core” and a “logical core” does not map to reality.

This is the terminology that Intel itself uses in its documentation to describe its products, though. To be fair, they say "physical processor" and "logical processor", not "core".
Yeah that's fair, and we're pretty aware that we don't have e.g. the social functions that GitHub has. Your comment has sparked some internal discussion though, a full integration would be interesting.
I agree. This whole article reminds me of the "pick-up artist" content I used to read when I was younger, which was all about techniques to fake being a well-rounded, decent person with an interesting, exciting life, instead of putting in the actual work to be that person.
>it feels filthy wrong

Fortunately science is about facts, not feelings.
Yes. If a company doing X makes it to powerful, regulators should prevent X.
Yeah that was my first thought. Maybe kids are being saved from commercials but not from the screen.
We use the BEAM with native language NIFs to do numeric computation on Nvidia GPUs with CUDA/C++. Works great. JVM wouldn't help us much (and would be much more unstable due to JVMs inherent problems with memory leaks and performance.)
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His main point is to have people start their own businesses. Whereas what I'm talking about (and in fact also wrote a book about: https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/) is working shorter hours while still being an employee.
I know everyone wants to judge productivity instead of hours per week. But, I feel that 40 hours per week is a reasonable amount to request and that MOST (not all) employees are better managed by an hour standard instead of a productivity standard (which is hard to measure anyways). All of my employees work from home and at first I was all about judging by productivity, but then I realized it was being abused for the most part and that if I set rules for timings and hours worked, it would be simpler and easier, at least for now.