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> Having to recompile doesn't make the applications kernel dependent, now to consider porting such applications from macOS to Linux to Windows, kernel dependent?!?

So you concur with me that if Google changed the Android kernel it would be a big change? Just imagine, you would have to recompile all applications using NDK to work with this new Android. It is not something trivial, sure they can make it work, however it would probably need quite some time with Google making obligatory to having developers to ship both Linux and new Kernel binaries.

And even them, you can't make sure that everything will work. A small change in behavior of a specific syscall may break a random application somewhere that depends on it, because even if this syscall is not directly used, Android NDK uses this syscall to implements its API. Now multiply this for the number of NDK applications that Android have and you will have a huge amount of breakage.

So yeah, Google can make it work, however it is not as trivial as you think.

> And the point wasn't that it isn't profitable as such, rather it isn't the money maker that some here are making waves for, rather a wannabe versus the revenue made across desktop, consoles and iOS.

Sure, we can concur at this point. However the market for Android gaming is still more expressive than you seem to think (not wannabe by any means, but lower than iOS sure).
The fact that range of downsides is pretty much unlimited, and that customers are unwilling to recognize that until the moment arrives. In the airline business crashes are a statistical thing, but in IT everybody seems to think that disasters only happen to other operators.
Any community is going to be an echo chamber around something.

HN is generally a "tech is good" camp, given that we're all in tech. We might recognize boundaries and nuance in there, but most HNers generally believe tech solves problems (myself included).

The concern imo is when a network, say your Facebook friends, ends up becoming a secret echo chamber without understanding it. Instead of realizing you are engaging in a biased group you assume you have a representative sampling and that people who disagree with you are the outliers.
High major numbers with semver is a "stay far far away" signal for me; each major increment is a non-backwards compatible change.
It is surprising how little has been done here. A failure of the pharma/academic model perhaps. I am going to write more on why biotech does not innovate as much as it could, in another post.
So he's still renting then?
Most of America that isn't in a major coastal city. Cable internet promises more, but it's a shared backbone that is not properly provisioned in most locations during primetime. Streaming from Netflix and YouTube in 1080p is problematic in many of those areas.
Like half of Germany (+): Select >30 Mbit/sec and see how the map color changes to light blue in many places https://www.bmvi.de/DE/Themen/Digitales/Breitbandausbau/Brei...

(+) only slightly exaggerating
It actually is just another type of SSD. It's just a NVMe drive.

It's a little confusing because Intel markets "Optane" as so many different things. "Optane" as marketed to the consumer is a combination of an Optane NVMe drive and motherboard-level support for disk caching. However, if you choose not to use the caching software, it just turns into a SSD.

The only catch is that most optane drives are pretty small. The consumer ones intended for cache are about 16GB. However, you can buy bigger ones up to about 120GB in M.2 format, and PCIe or U.2 based ones up to 1.5 TB aimed at the prosumer market.

AMD actually does really well with these because they have an extra x4 PCIe lanes (16+4 + 4 more for chipset) so you can run a graphics card at x16 speed and still have 4 more CPU-direct lanes for an Optane drive.

Then on servers you have Optane DIMMs which sorta-not-really replace RAM for massive in-memory servers.
I generally expect patch version bumps (0.8.0 to 0.8.1)to give me fixes I want, without regressions or new bugs.
Appreciated. The reason that isn't my first choice is, while it unasks their question by shifting cognitive load back on them, it doesn't build trust by establishing a way of relating.

To me this is a really interesting generational communication style question.

What I'll admit to criticizing as the Teflon PM approach is a very nuanced skill, but it is about enforcing that boundary instead of establishing a foundation of trust.

It's philosophical whether value comes more from the quality of relationships or from individual leverage, and of course that's dynamic, but this underlying tension between what has been problematized as transactional vs. collaborative communication, and whether it actually creates value or rides it out is the defining cultural question of companies today.

I really like your blog, and I"m a bit chuffed you've responded directly. So, tactically, yes, "how would you prioritize your request?" disarms their urgency, but to provoke, I'd say it doesn't take the necessary risk or build a relationship that yields value.
Likely because trying to measure using some nth order variable will leave you open to attacks on the quality of your data. Measuring cyclone landfall events, number of cyclones, and cyclone energy are all first order events, nearly impossible to argue with, and certainly impossible to argue against general trends.

But I'm starting to think throwing crap against the wall for people to argue about is now the point since it divides us into tribes. If all we discussed were incontrovertible facts, we'd quickly reach consensus.
Thank you for sharing this! Another useful library with "missing" functions is Medley[0] by James Reeves.

[0] https://github.com/weavejester/medley
This is incorrect. The Sabbath mode allows the oven to stay on for longer than it normally would, so the oven can be left on the entire Sabbath or holiday with food kept warm inside, as lighting a fire is prohibited, and cooking is prohibited on Sabbath (but not on holidays). In some senses it is a misnomer - it should really be called holiday mode, because that is when cooking is permitted but lighting a fire (without a preexisting flame) is not.
Wow, imagine if he had been caught attempting this getaway. Can't wait to read the book when it comes out.
I mean, it's not that different than the current model. With XB1 for example, you lose access to the 'free' games, as well as the ability to play online, if you don't have a monthly subscription. For single player offline games, it might be ok. But Stadia supposedly will have a free tier I think, I don't keep up with its news much.
> I've seen a lot of slackers suddenly explode into a powerhouse when given the right conditions

They must have had a powerhouse manager
Amazon wants Fire TV in more cars and devices
The Hofeller Files
I mean I totally agree with your second paragraph, however I've found that protestant "mega churches" are typically the better ones for that simply because they are FAR more open minded to different interpretations, and have a broader age group. I was catholic so it was just 50-80 year old women and men and the militant families.

For your first paragraph, you're attributing something you can't explain to another thing you can't explain. The events that occur in your life are through sheer coincidence, not by divine providence. I know this is a pointless argument because you'll never agree, but you should come to terms with the fact that at best, god is a deist god. He doesn't influence the outcome of anything. It is you who does everything.
Thanks - #10 was a typo. Updated to "human". :)
As mentioned in my comment on the parent, this is incorrect. This is not what Sabbath mode does.
Your last paragraph basically translates to me to 'doesnt matter what I believe there was an open woman who took me when I hadn't had a chance otherwise.'

Sure why not.
In 2017, an average 20% of households in the EU did not have access to internet connections faster than 30 megabit/s and a report a year ago found that the original goal of 100% coverage by 2020 would not be reached.

Figure 2: "30 Mbps coverage in all Member States in 2011 and in 2017" https://op.europa.eu/webpub/eca/special-reports/broadband-12...
Library Science Helped Me Understand Databases
I've gone down this rabbit hole, it's amazing how often orgs reinvent the wheel. I don't fault them, there's not support and guidance on this sort of stuff & incentives aren't aligned for product & development teams to focus on their corp's primary value prop vs basic stuff like user management and customer service tooling.

Hoping to get a white paper or at least a one-two pager in the next few weeks.

Shameless plug, follow here for updates if this sort of stuff interests you: https://hipspec.com/
Digital Detox May Be Toxic for Advertising
Unconventional Computing
I liked your comment until you brought Trump vs Clinton politics into it. I think it's better if you leave that part out.
I have 250/100 mbit/s, my brother has 1000/1000 mbit/s. Both are included in our rent.

I don't like Stadia for other reasons but saying that consumer access is not capable because you live in a country that sucks on that part is not really a good argument.

Do you think modern cars are a bad idea as well because there are parts in Africa that doesn't have good roads?
35MB is a big number but luckily the requirement is 35Mbs. My experience with Comcast is limited to 2 areas. Northern Virginia where Comcast has competition and rural central Florida where they don't have any. In both locations Comcast is more than able to provide the required 35Mbs even during busy times of the day.
I was going to say the same thing. Kaiser (KP) is a "full stack" healthcare provider, which means they save money by being vertically integrated (healthcare payer + provider). The downside is that it means you get very little choice of your doctor, the hospitals you use, etc. I had both KP and UHC, and UHC was far better (more specifically UHC + the providers I chose).

I think the only reason people consider it a gold standard is because they market it really well (especially in the bay).
Agreed on not crazy ambitious for most of these. Honestly, this really is just a list of products I would like to use (with 1 or 2 exceptions).

There are a lot of things that should exist but are harder to do:
-Safe, cheap nuclear power
-Longevity drugs (I am involved with two companies in that area)
-Independent journalism school/foundation
-Pioneer on steroids (how to identify and nurture the top global talent for every area of human endeavor)
-Etc.

But that is perhaps another post / different topic?

What else would you add?
This. So true.
Computing literature (especially in short from - read blog) is to blame.

You no longer require the polish once required to publish. Furthermore, publications have a short lifetime, so you’re easily able to get your audience to forget the past. Finally, there’s no system (formal or otherwise) designed to filter. It creates a world where popularity is truth.
Can that do shared calendars? (I know that's technically challenging with ETE encryption). If it does, I will drop my self-hosted davical for it in a heartbeat.
The Stadia requirements state 35 Megabits - not bytes - which is more like 4MB of throughput - and that is just for the 4k stream.

If you can stream video at decent quality, you have the bandwidth for Stadia.
You don't even need as good as on average in the right circumstances. Take Britain, which only has a sample size of its 650 constituents and whose votes within those are not represented if not the majority. In fact, the seat of power rests in those seats which can flip flop by very small margins.
The original comment from Linus is much more insightful than the “its's complete garbage” quote that was picked for the article: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
There are much better paying companies in RDU now, including Microsoft which is seems to be growing rapidly.
Show HN: MyProxy – easily setup free SSL on your server
Then you aren't talking about complexity (an objective quality), you are talking about difficulty to read (a subjective quality relative to the reader). There is no doubt that macros can make a given piece of code harder to read, if the reader is unfamiliar with the macro being used. Complexity describes how intertwined different pieces of something are internally, which has nothing to do with a given vantage point.
It’s absolutely wild to me that, with the benefit of 2020 hindsight, we’re still drawing conclusions about the public based on the fact that the person who earned by far the most votes of any candidate in the race still technically lost the election.

For people who pride ourselves so much on understanding how systems work, we’re consistently really bad at understanding this one.

Maybe public opinion in the US is fickle or uninformed. Maybe it’s not. Either way it’s not reflected in the US political landscape, for the simple reason that the US political landscape reflects many things more consequential than public opinion.
It sounds like the management/salespeople of CA have been telling potential clients that they could affect election results whether it was true or not.
Virus used in gene therapies may pose cancer risk, dog study hints
https://www.lexico.com/definition/interest

OED will disagree with your remark. It says that one of the meanings of the word "interest" is "the advantage or benefit of a person or group" (see example sentences and synonyms), which is kind of what I meant by "in your interest".

Anyway, in my first comment I specified very clearly what I meant by "interest" of a person -- it was whatever the person wants. And it's very easy to find out what's in the person's interest, you just need to ask them what they want.

> In fact making them aware of the fact is acting against their interests by directly harming them.

Looks like you suggest a sweet lie instead of a bitter truth. I prefer the bitter truth.

> If you consider that people with different tastes to yours are a hazard to children, where is the line?

Again, you pretend to misinterpret what I said to make it easier to criticize.

The tastes I consider harmful to my children (future children, I should add; I don't have any yet) are not exactly equal to the tastes which are different from mine. There are plenty of things which I don't enjoy, but which I'd like my children to appreciate better. And vice versa, there are things I kind of like, but I'd want my children to be less susceptible to them.

And my point wasn't whether porn performers should teach in schools or not, it wasn't about my preferences. What I said is that some parents may prefer not to let porn performers teach their children, and we should respect their preference.
>Every well-designed study of political advertising I've ever seen has shown that it's impact is very small, in some cases unmeasurably small.

Skeptical about that.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "political advertising". Does that include targeted misinformation campaigns?

Surveillance capitalism does work, there's no question about that. What happens when a customer of these platforms "tweaks" them for the purpose politics instead of selling shoes (or whatever)? I don't think the answer is clear, yet, but I expect there's some very ugly stuff in there that's "not compatible with democracy"-- as Shoshana Zuboff has said.
A fairly large chunk of the border areas around my lawn are left wild with trees and tall grasses and etc.

But otherwise I have kids and such a while they love to climb through the wild areas, they also love playing on the open lawn too.... I'm not ready to take that from them even if it was feasible.

If I were in the southwest where lawns were more or less optional then yeah, but not where I am now.
Hey thanks! right, that's the link. It's hosted on glitch so you can see/edit/fork it.

I've tried to keep it simple, but couldn't improve latency anymore. No matter if it's using socket.io or some faster network transport, there will be some latency. So I've used server's time as reference for clients to adjust the player's current time across devices.

However, there's still a delay added by the YouTube player when triggering the play action. It's an async action, and YouTube's embed player API _seekTo_ method seems to be rounding or not updating if the player is already playing in the nearby time. I'm not sure what else to do to achieve a perfect sync.
Reality TV star? Or are you just cherry picking something that can be made to sound unfit for office?

How about American business magnate and billionaire playboy who even in his 70s was loved enough by the public to become a TV star?

Yeah I just played the opposite card but for the sake of balance and honesty, here:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?187762-1/united-nations-headqu...

https://youtu.be/CXmXd1xrBUQ
The point about "bunching" donations is really interesting, and a very savvy option for people whose annual donations are a little below the threshold for itemizing deductions. Thanks for pointing that out!
Or just use a futex alone, since that mimics its behavior enough.
As far as I can tell all this shows is they didn't expect people to use the site in landscape on an 18.5:9 phone while spoofing a desktop user agent. Which is fair enough since pretty much no one does that.

I've run into honestly much more bizarre stuff without ever venturing outside portrait...

But I assume I'm missing something really obvious.
U.S. retailers rush to comply with CCPA
You could literally be the only man in town, if you're not the kind of person other people want to date, they'd rather be single.
> Is it just the most SV jobs are not in FANG companies.

Yes. Even in SF the majority of jobs will not be tech based at all let alone FANG
Have you tried it? Works awesome for games like Tomb Raider.
Really that highlights another trend I noticed with rivalry and paradigms and "being on the attack". If they have to bill themselves as the foo-Killer they aren't and will almost certainly fail as they don't establish their own niche even, let alone a good reason to choose them.

I wonder why it is failing /that/ hard though. Failure to deliver value for their money? SUV + Electric not a good fit for the local market?
Or create a new NATO that does not repeatedly exclude the Russians[1]. And could also hold a rule not to invade other countries (yes looking at you US).

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-russia-pitch...
The Pharisees that Jesus preached against for their absurd legalism were the direct predecessors to these Rabbinical Jews today.
If you have nice, solid walls, the signal will mostly bounce off them and pass through doors.

It will usually pass a single wall, so you will hear some first-degree neighbors, in some places, but it's significantly better than interference from 2nd degree neighbors.
> Ive was just one voice

That's what I said!

Problem is the other executives gave him leeway to steer product development as he saw fit. It's a side effect of Jobs' passing that he didn't have the counterbalancing voices. You could blame the executive team I suppose, but you cant really blame people for "not being Steve".

When the other executives decided to speak up it was Ive's decision to leave when he was told he couldn't have things his way any more.
That's the underappreciated part.

Also, I found that stylus makes a world of a difference in case of 2-in-1 devices. A touch-enabled laptop is a gimmick; add a stylus, and you may just start using the touch screen quite a lot.
City ordinances require it. My local ordinances specify that it is to minimize health hazards adjacent to public property. Tall grass allows insect and rodent populations to grow, but they are carriers of diseases that can spread to humans.
Even worse, SB now casts shade on the startups by claiming they do more rigorous diligence with the implication that if a deal doesn’t close it was because something was wrong with the startup.
Production-Oriented Development
How are you defining 'high performance'? I think R's data.table is quicker on a number of metrics than comparable packages from Python.
I have difficulty matching the shades of blue in the legend with those of the map, but I think most areas are at ≥ 75% coverage, no?
The "SaaS-ification" of security cameras should also worry us. Ring — not its customers — controls the videos taken with their cameras, creating a video surveillance network that the police can access without needing a warrant. They've partnered with 400 police forces to give them access to that data [1]. Although they claim to let customers deny police requests for footage, their terms of service allow them to hand video over to police if they deem the request "reasonable".

And it's not just Ring customers that are affected, it's anyone in the general vicinity. If your house is in the field of view of a neighbor's Ring camera, you're being surveilled too.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbel...
100% agree - I joined a FAANG company 2.5 years ago and was given a $280k package as a mid-level. After two annual review cycles, I currently make $318k. My initial RSU grant is about to hit double what it was ($105k initially), and my refresh RSU grants are close to hitting 50% above their initial value (two grants of $125k) still as a mid-level. Benefits like 401k matching and ESPP stock purchasing also push up effective compensation.

I worked about 5 years in startups and small companies beforehand, and I probably work about the same as in a startup (long hours, partially because I'm a workaholic/ambitious), but with far better quality of life due to management being more competent and working with me to manage stress.

Some comments on specific bullets:

> - Vesting schedules can vary. Some are monthly, some every 3 months, some annually. Try to avoid anything less frequent than once every 3 months. It can create bad incentives for the company to get rid of you before a big vest date.

I have not seen Apple trying to play that game at all (their vesting schedule is every 6 months) - my understanding is if the company wants to get rid of someone, they give them zero refresh RSUs come annual review time as a strong hint.

> - Vacation days vary but 4 weeks (20 days) should be considered the norm for the US (30 for Europe/Australia).

Apple is a bit abnormal in that they give you 12 days to start, but the company typically has ~18 company holidays. Creative folks could negotiate with their manager to make those more flexible with comp time after showing competence.

> - Unlimited time off is bullshit. Think of this as no time off.

I agree for most companies, but Netflix I think is an exception here - my Netflix friends all enjoy copious time off and still get sizable annual raises, one even being offered a promotion to manager.
the guy was always a laughingstock
I found this part about unreliable airspeed indicators interesting: "Thus flight envelope protections based on airspeed data from unreliable ADRs may activate. This may lead to pitch inputs from the flight computers that cannot be overridden with the sidesticks. In this case, immediately switch off any two ADRs"

Aside from actually having plenty of redundancy to avoid this scenario (this can only happen if two out of three sensors fail), this is basically the Airbus equivalent of MCAS. I wonder how well documented (and trained) this scenario is (and suspect that pilots are a lot more aware of it).
The first as it implies a positive second derivative.
It's apparently UPI now[1], but they'll still need to do a lot of updating to the CPU and UPI to get the bandwidth of pci-e 4.0. Best info I can find[1] puts pci-e 4.0 x16 at around 64GB/s, and UPI at a max of 28GB/s on their best xeon cpus and fpgas. Having that kind of bottleneck at the chipset would make it nearly pointless since even pci-e 3.0 with a 16x link is 32GB/s.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-stratix-10-dx-upi-cx...
That person could rent entire 4 BR house to themselves, and be stuck with an equivalent of a measly 340k+ a year. It's obviously out of choice.