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The writing is great but the message is bullshit. It's easy to focus on one thing and let yourself devoured by it, to drop every responsibility while fighting your challenge. What's hard is to juggle everything while trying.

On a tangent Yoda in Star Wars is also bullshit. You should always try.
As you can see above, Google aren't that easily fooled! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20712209

At least AWS are actually quite good at providing support to paying customers, such as raising API limits ...
You're an apologist who is spouting nonsense.

Other companies solve this problem, Google hasn't and they should do better. Perhaps by involving a real support person.
Security is about managing risks in a world where resources are limited.

Building your own silicon is the last thing you do to ensure security even if you are Google, you only do that when it’s the last broad viable attack vector left for your adversaries to exploit.
And Sweden is nowhere near as well off either.
Many electric cars have a much lower drag. This means lower noise.
Photopea is much better than gimp in my opinion. It works really-really well for a web app.

https://www.photopea.com/
When I used to be a manager who did hiring, I was always open to accommodating the candidates needs. Like instead of whiteboard, using paper or laptop. So far nobody asked for take-home projects. A few times people asked for a second chance and I'd agree to it.
I think it's referring to the part where the web page says "that we’ve “sold out” due to “overwhelming demand”" when obviously there is no overwhelming demand at first. If you say there is huge demand for your product even though there isn't any, that's going a bit further than just "we're sold out". But since in the end the demand does pick up I get the argument that it's a grey area.
Very amusing, but definitely missing a trick on the Blue/KNOB combo.
360 isn't in response to open source pressure. It's competing with Solidworks/Onshape,etc. but trying to capitalize on the hobbyist market that grew when 3D printing became viable. The only FOSS equivalent is FreeCAD, but that was not good enough when I tried it.
Much easier would be for the utility to transmit the current price of power and have the car or charger charge the car when the price is below a certain threshold.

The problem is that the best time to charge a car is immediately after it has been used, so it is ready to go the next time. Who wants a half dead car sitting around?
> We expect faster improvements by using open source software.

As a long-time consumer and contributor to open-source, I would caution one to temper their expectations when it comes to velocity. Glaring problems (like CVEs) get immediate attention, but features are another story - remember that open-source projects are a democracy and the loudest guy in the room often gets their way...
That was pretty mind-blowing.
This is a very Corgi name.
I see a lot of negative comments about how "AI" is a fad here. While I don't think it's uses are as great as advertised in the business sector, which is where most of this forum seems to originate, AI applications in academic discplines, especially the natural sciences haven't even begun scratching the surface. You can make a fantastic living keeping on top of the latest ML papers and having a degree in a physical science. There are so many obvious problems to be solved by AI algorithms that people haven't even gotten around to applying CNN's to yet. Source: me with 500 paper ideas in my head
He also perpetuates what I call abstinence based environmentalism. It won't work for the same reason abstinence based sex ed won't work. You are not going to guilt trip people into being poor.

It's failing hardest in the developing world because do you really expect people in Africa, South America, and Asia to listen to rich Westerners guilt trip them into not doing what those same rich Westerners are doing? "To save the planet we need you to stay poor." The response is a predictable "fuck you."

There are only two possible futures:

1. We develop ways of running our civilization in a more sustainable way. This is a huge multifaceted roll up your sleeves engineering problem. Electric cars are a huge piece because they break a big part of our hard dependence on carbon based energy and free us to substitute other things. Anything that gets hot, blows, flows, or shines can make electricity, while ICE cars only run on petroleum. No, it is not enough, but the way you do things like this is piece by piece.

2. We adapt to climate change and other major environmental problems as they unfold.

Some world where people stop wanting transport and air conditioning and such is as realistic as the one where teens dont have sex.

Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that this is an engineering problem not a moral problem. Environmentalists have treated it as a moral problem for 50 years and this has accomplished nothing at all. It reminds me a lot of the drug war.

Edit #2: I also see a similarity in the human reaction. When you shame teens about sex they still have sex but they hide it. Shame people about industry and they outsource it all to China, in other words hide it.
So? I’m not talking about “industrialized nations”. I’m talking about you, personally.

If you elect to have one fewer child, you can drive a car everywhere and fly first class for vacation and eat a big steak every week of your life, and you’ll still be greener than your neighbor with the solar panels and the Tesla. Doesn’t matter what birth rates are in the industrialized world.
Ask HN: How do you assess culture before you join a company?
Hi all,

I've been thinking long and hard about cultural/mental health in the tech community for quite a few years now, as I haven't been involved with the most supportive teams and haven't come across a mentor in many years. I've bounced between thinking the problem is me, to them, to giving up completely.

I'm trying to see if many other people have this problem, and how deep it goes. Particularly what kind of problems people have in finding a new workplace that is more compatible to their values and personal growth.

Perhaps other people are able to find an empathetic work environment in a way that I haven't thought of before, and I'd appreciate it if anyone could share their insight with a 4 question survey:
https://forms.gle/Eb3MmW5wrXFrF9QbA

If I'm not the only one having this problem, I think I have a couple of solutions in mind that should help people find mentally healthy workplaces, as well as hold abusive workplaces more accountable. Interested for your perspectives here.
Create your own Private Dropbox at home – no server, no complicated installation
It's strange why are you downvoted because it's exactly this. Nobody wants to risk being misunderstood and the get fired because he phrased his opinion wrongly.
Perhaps. The keyword is moderate. However, based on historic levels there are plenty of people well past moderate.
I tell people who are waiting for self-driving cars to take the bus.
>I'd no sooner swap out my own bike tire than I'd swap out my own car tire.

In my neighborhood I get a flat every other month. If I had to pay someone else to replace inner tubes it'd cost as much as driving a car.
I don't think it is a social cues thing either. I switched back and forth between Droid and Apple for awhile until I read some fairly disturbing predictions on how all these personal data warehouses could be used to digitally enslave us. I am not sure it is a social cues things, although I will concede frothing at the mouth Android and Apple fans are not people I like to be around.

TBH the biggest driver towards Apple for me (aside from privacy) is now that I am older and have kids and more responsibilities at work and don't have time to tinker I don't want to have to figure out what the best messaging app for my phone is. (I gave up using Linux in favor of MacOS as well for similar reasons).

(Cue all the neckbeard Linux/Droid guys without a family or kids saying "its not hard you just need to...<vaporize 30 minutes of your Saturday or evening>")
> I have a hard time believing that this isn't just classism.

It is also classism, but not just.

> Android has about 40% market share in the US [0], are you claiming that 40% of the us are unable to identify social cues?

No, but they are getting weeded out all the same along with the privileged enthusiasts that do miss social cues.

> Most of my friends from poorer areas, especially the ones who grew up without access to the internet, have an Android.

Yes, android use, and continued aversion to switching, will more often tell you a lot about someone's price sensitivities and not just their preferences. Its usually the HTC Obsolete, not the sexy flagship device. We all know people have payment plans or some other kind of multi-year lockin for a lot of their phones or got them for free in the bad part of town from some group trying to provide basic opportunities, so its not a cheap decision to get an older cheap iphone (assuming they actually wanted that). So its always a mixture of price sensitivity and preference which people weed out from their social circle since the beginning of time, with few exceptions. Throw in a worse user experience for mixed company on top of that and its the perfect storm.
It’s very common for stores to advertise money losing items to get people into the store. In store they often promote their extremely low price on something to make a positive association with their customers and move more products.

Amazon’s approach is micro optimized to make money today at the cost of customer satisfaction, a long term losing strategy.

PS: It might just be my circle of friends, but many Amazon early adopters have mostly moved on. That opening the box and wondering how you where screwed this time feeling is a major issue for the company.
Let's avoid the contorted legal definition here, and instead use the real-world definition where "common carrier network" means using an established protocol for routing and delivery, in which many separate entities work together to establish network reach.
Ok, so of 2 billion desktops (estimated 2015), that's 40 million Linux users. Of that number, the cross section between "Linux Users" and "readers of Neal Stephenson's works" are probably quite high. It doesn't take much to be faced with a "horde" as any person popular among a niche crowd can easily attest to.
The workplace is the perfect place for politics.

Imagine if nobody every asked:
"Should blacks, LGBTQ+, women even deserve to work these types of jobs or be promoted?"

Taking that even further, imagine if nobody ever asked:
"Should we be using slaves?"

If you don't have to think about politics in the workplace, then you have a very special privilege-- and I think you should consider how you can share that power with others so they too can simply think about getting a paycheck.
This type of meditation - a secularized form of Vipassana in which one passively observers mental events - is very popular in the West.

But it's not the only one, and shouldn't be called merely "meditation" without regard to the vast body of practices that exist.

Another form of meditation that's traditionally talked about in Buddhism is shamatha, which translates to something like "concentration" or "tranquility." In this type of practice, the meditator works with a meditation object, commonly the breath, but possibly a sound, mental image, etc. The meditator learns to stabilize the mind and remain fully aware of the object, and in the process learns to debug the mechanisms that direct (and destabilize) conscious attention.

A recently published book called _The_Mind_Illustrated_ by John Yates is fa fantastic resource for this kind of practice.

If you're interested in scientific attempts to categorize and study meditation, the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison does some fantastic neuroscience & psychology research.

https://centerhealthyminds.org/assets/files-publications/Dah...

In the scientific terminology that is emerging these days, Attentional, Constructive, and Deconstructive types of meditation are mapped onto various types of traditional practices (there's a handy chart in the paper).
Much lower wear and slightly less friction. But they cost roughly 10x as much going from a quality steel bearing. They are marketed as being faster but it's not noticeable in real world conditions. They might be worth it in some non-cycling applications (high precision motors or something). They also break if abused. Steel bearings might deform the balls or dent the race, but they will still turn.

However, as long as there are people with $250 to spend someone will make a $250 set of bearings- don't forget to lube them with snake oil for the fastest results.
Setting aside the difficulty in growing, algae will have the advantage of a continuous growing cycle, as opposed to corn which has a full year's crop harvested in ~25 days.
the most salient insight from the diamond age is in my opinion the isolated and fragmented nature of the internet and the extreme segregation into cultural communities, when at the same time everyone was talking about how the internet is going to connect everyone and erode all borders.
:D

"Disciplinary usage"

"In accordance with the House Rules, on the rare occasion that a member becomes unruly, the Sergeant at Arms, upon order of the Speaker, lifts the mace from its pedestal and presents it before the offenders, thereby restoring order. There have been at least six instances where the Mace was used to quell disorder."

"During President Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union speech, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wore a brooch styled after the Mace, presumably as a symbol of her authority as speaker."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_Hous...
Yeah, I hear you -- but it was just so perfectly set up for it..
Police shut down Amazon’s ‘Maisel Day’ gas promo after it snarled traffic
Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley
I was thinking of a somewhat different use case. I was thinking of a flight simulator where tessellation only occurred close to the camera, to provide the appearance of a more detailed mesh when viewed up close.

The problem is, with a quad mesh where each vertex is 20 or 30 meters apart a plane flying nap of the earth could end up clipping through the tessellated mesh but not actually collide with the non-tessellated terrain quad mesh being used for collision detection. Or worse, the player could collide with the terrain quad mesh but the tessellation makes it visually appear to have not collided with the terrain.

To only two ways I see to solve this are to either not use tessellation up close, or to compute with the CPU the vertices produced by the tessellation and use that mesh for collision.
My great aunt was taken by the same scam twice. The second time even after I told her it was a scam. After the second time I locked her account down on her PC to not have install or remote desktop permissions and I had the only admin access. She only read email and chatted on skype with her grandkids. So she never felt the restrictions but it eliminated the problem of her giving access to these scammers.
> But unfortunate it's not enough. Especially because other websocket created in RCTPackagerConnection (funcition socketForLocation) and as I can see it can't be disabled from AppDelegate :-(
The world isn’t Amazon or Microsoft, and even for them it’s borderline questionable if designing silicon at scale is the best use of their resources at this point.

As I’ve stated already it’s the last thing you do when you think about security not the first.

When the security posture of your code, configuration, facilities, supply chain etc. is so good that the only attack vector left for adversaries to exploit to compromise your organization in a sufficiently broad manner is the hardware is when you start thinking about building your own silicon.

Or when ofc there are actual business needs for this e.g. you want to be independent of other SoC/ASIC designers or there aren’t any solutions that meet your needs.

Which also comes to the actual point other than the Google key/hsm solutions that look more of a rebadge than a home grown design Google is focusing on things like the TPU due to business reasons aka $$$ not security.

Google isn’t going away from Xeon/EPYC or x86 any time soon, and I find it very questionable if anyone would make a security argument against NVIDIA GPUs as far as Google goes since Google even wrote their own driver stack and CUDA compiler.
They called a suicide hotline. They did not want to die.

Edit: I have attempted suicide before and self harmed many times. I dated a woman who attempted 12 times.

It turns out life can get much much better. I haven't self harmed in years, she's very happy and hasn't either.

It's very hard to know what living well feels like until you've done it. It took years but I like waking up in the morning.
I've been using SystemD with little complaint since around 2011 or so when Fedora switched. I don't count myself among the systems haters, but that talk is hot garbage. It's just a big ad hominem that boils down to "people just hate change."

But that lacks explanatory power. Lots of things change and don't receive backlash, even in the desktop Linux domain. Plenty of people are skeptical of Wayland for instance, but the conversations tend to stay relatively cool-headed.

I think there are two things going on; the first and most significant is that most Linux desktop users (not sys admins or packagers, just desktop users) never had to know what a sysv init system was and never fucked with it, but then their distro switched, something broke (maybe their packagers' fault, maybe not!), they googled the problem and at the end of that Google dive they found out the answer involved a component they were previously unaware of, making itself known to them in a way that caused them hassle. Any upsides were washed out by this initial first bad experience. For me, I was using Fedora at the time so I knew I was getting bleeding edge shit and might get cut. That was exciting for me. It was my hobby, so I liked systemd. But that didn't blind me to the wants and desires of more typical desktop users who wanted the "just werks" experience.

(The other factor is that Lennart has bad social skills and it seems to rub off on the people he works with. Some might argue that the critics started it, but I don't care who started it. Stop jabbing your little sister or I'm turning this car around!)
Mhm... Looking at the numbers again:

291,000 metric tons per day => ~ 106 Million metric tons per year.

In 2014 the world wide Aquatic Plants (which include ALL Macro-Algae) production was around 27 Million tons [0].

[0]: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5555e.pdf, page 24, table 7
Neglected 43-year-old stepchild of US military industrial complex
> The US is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic.

This is facile: it is both, and there is no contradiction.

> the Constitution does not give individuals the right to use corporate places

Certainly it does: the right of free association. But that's not what you meant; you meant that the Constitution does not compel the corporate place to allow individual speech. Which is true but incomplete, since we have other laws currently about a related concept, "common carriers". The debate is much higher level than the Constitution: it's about how far to extend the idea that a private conveyance has become so essential to public use that it is subject to regulation. (Meaning, yes, that some of the private entity's rights are curtailed.)
I was going to point this: It is simply a too complicated workflow. No amount of UI revamping will solve the issue of "having a shit ton of actions that can be done and parameters that can be tweaked". One just needs to bear with the process of learning until it becomes second nature.

I had the same "issue" when I was learning music production on a tracker-inspired daw: Renoise. Really steep learning curve, Lots and lots of buttons because you have lots and lots of doable actions. You just need to do it badly enough until you are okay with it. It becomes second nature, part of your hands, really.
People who needed to make a lot of phone calls would often do this because it was faster than waiting for the rotary wheel to return to the start

You sometimes see it in old movies
> Mitigating lawsuit risks is costly.

It certainly has a cost, but it's part of the cost of lawsuit risk, not a separate, additional cost.
To add to the confusion, there are plenty of people whose families have lived in Guangdong for generations that are not ethnically Cantonese at all.

Linguistically, Southern China has many different groups. In Guangdong alone there are plenty of Hakka and Teochew speakers, both of which are languages quite different to Cantonese. Even within the Cantonese topolect there are a significant number of different groups, for example Taishanese, whose speech is not mutually intelligible with Guangzhou Cantonese. Add Guangxi and Hainan and there are even more different languages and ethnic groups.

I think what the original poster was trying to point out is that due to British rule, Hong Kong did not take part in the advancements (and catastrophes) that happened on the mainland over the past century. That is undeniable fact. The implication was that this was a good thing, but i disagree.

Nowadays in the mainland people who grew up in villages hundreds or thousands of miles apart can communicate using their second language - the lingua franca of Mandarin... meanwhile many Hongkongers are stuck only knowing the language of their local town. Perhaps they preserved their local language better than people in Jiangmen (Taishanese) or Huizhou (Hakka) or Chaozhou and Shantou (Teochew), but a downside is they also can't really talk to people from those cities the way the younger generations of mainlanders can.
If you grow up comparing yourself to what you see on the social media, you are going to have profound unhappiness and anxiety. This almost always leads to withdrawal from the world for both men and women.
Oh holy fuck! I forgot abt softimage being killed by them

I went to mesmer animations labs school for softimage... (all still on SGI machines.

One of the best pieces of software ive used.

I was really good at building bodies on metaclay.

I built the entire human muscular system with meta clay, and was able to animate its movements in natural form. In 1995.

Sadly we had a tape backup system for all our data (these were all done on SGI machines) and after several years i lost that tape which hd all my projects on them.... i cant recall what format the backups were in.

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Also, whatever happened to Poser and Kai's Power Tools -- what are those groups upto these days?
Exactly. This harsh reaction to what should be an obvious statement of fact underscores the ridiculousness of the conversation, and the point of the original post.

It’s not surprising at all (as I said, people don’t want to actually change their lives), but it does become a self-satire.
Figure out a way to fix the culture so minorities can feel safe and others learn to be more aware of such issues.
Looks like you're going to get a response from GTM team. Can you post a follow up and let us know why they ignored your initial requests?
HK is simultaneously supporting the vilification of China and the continued integration of China into the world. How are we supposed to oppose China and have cheap iPhones? If the citizen's of the world actually understood the situation then they would have more opportunity to exercise their economic and diplomatic powers.
> (Cue all the neckbeard Linux/Droid guys without a family or kids saying "its not hard you just need to...<vaporize 30 minutes of your Saturday or evening>")

Now we're talking, and this is a social cues thing.

For example, a discussion about airdrop - which many android users don't know they are missing - often has an android user rationalizing their existence about some other convoluted way to share images maybe offline that is still worse.