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I think the more interesting question here is why don't Stadia games use isocpu and sched_setaffinity to ensure their games have the best CPU cache performance and lowest latencies possible.

They control the whole box, it should be more like a console than a regular PC.
It's not about what they want typically, it's what they need. Most customers/users aren't incentivized to solve upstream problems for themselves, instead they just need to use the tools they're given to do their job (at least in B2B area).

Product people should rarely if ever react directly to WHAT customers ask for, but instead dig in and understand WHY this ask is coming up. Then you'll get to the good stuff.

EDIT: For clarity, I fully agree that product people must learn the customer's problems. Just be careful responding to what they ask for when doing so.
Very well, lambda in feet and frequency in nanohertz!
I vehemently disagree that any part of my comment is name-calling or a personal attack. Can you specifically point to it? Stating the background facts of the author is not name calling, and if it loses the author credibility, that’s not an attack but a reasonable consequence.

Comparing the author to a satirical character in a Coupland novel is likewise in no way name calling or attacking. The author herself uses satire as a judgement mechanism for coworkers and others she observed and mentioning eg Coupland serves to point out her hypocrisy.

I strongly disagree with the reprimand on this one.
Do you think it is unreasonable to want to surround oneself with like-minded individuals? I am not trying to imply the opposite isn't _also_ reasonable.
Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers
IMO the main problem with Rust is that it's tied to cargo, which tries to link in multiple versions of the same crate.
Show HN: HTML5 remake of Inkball (the bouncing ball game from Windows Vista)
Airbnb Clone with React Native Part 11: Implement a Splash Screen [Android]
‘Loneliness on the Job Is a Public Health Crisis’: Former Surgeon General
There's a greater concentration of lesbians and other queer (not cis gay) people in the East Bay — especially those in families, raising kids and so on.
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Get a couple chickens? I'm only partially joking, they do eat a ton of ticks.
I think you would have got a better reaction if you had kept it vague / respectful of other creeds. Stated like that, it is effectively proselytism - which I understand is something your creed might encourage, but most people are wont to react badly to people telling them what to believe in.

Next time, if you replace that sentence with “I concentrated on my faith rituals”, you will likely not get any bad reaction.
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Except they need to change their aesthetics
To add, how you play and what you play matters too. 30fps on a TV with a controller in a racing game won't feel that bad compared to 30fps in CS:GO with a mouse - where 30fps will make the game a LOT harder to play.
Yeah, but the canvas API sucks bad enough (mostly due to the constraints of JS) that PostScript is an appealing alternative. Super verbose and can't even produce a PDF. If you can print it it's all pixelated.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but No 5 already exists?! I'm from Europe. I have an app on my phone that shows me the pollution in the city I am. I check on it every time I'm in different places. It's called AirVisual. I installed it from google play, I have android.
I don't agree.

For many domains, being able to implement a domain-specific language with a set of expressive rules for the domain is an incredible productivity boost and also prevents many mistakes because you cannot represent them.

Not being able to manipulate the AST means that you are restricted on the embedded DSLs that you can provide.
And embedded DSLs encompasses code generation for:

- state machines

- parsing grammars (PEGs for example)

- shader languages

- numerical computing (i.e. having more math like syntax to manipulate indices)

- deep learning (neural network DSL)

- HTML templates / generators

- monad composition

There is a reason most people are not building in Assembly anymore, there is a right-level of abstraction for every domain.
A language that provides building block for domain expert to build up to the right level of abstraction is very valuable.
I don't have personal experience with this organization, but it's one I've heard of for bringing diverse viewpoints together: https://www.livingroomconversations.org/
”The number of publications per year per academic seems to me to have increased over the last 50 years. I don't have a citation.”

Yeah, that’s not evidence.

The absolute number of papers is growing - along with the number of working scientists. There’s been huge growth in academic science since the 1970s.
We tell serial killers with an appreciation for the grotesque to cut it out all the time.
The land is what you're generally paying for in any real estate deal. It doesn't cost millions to build these houses, but the land is valued as such because it's finite.
A Response to Hello World in Go
I think that's a stretch. Field did a lot more than just fail to defend his copyright:

> Field created a robots.txt file for his site and set the permissions within this file to allow all robots to visit and index all of the pages on the site. [...] Field created the robots.txt file because he wanted search engines to visit his site and include the site within their search results.

and (regarding meta-tags):

> Field concedes he was aware of these industry standard mechanisms, and knew that the presence of a “no archive” meta-tag on the pages of his Web site would have informed Google not to display “Cached” links to his pages. Despite this knowledge, Field chose not to include the no-archive meta-tag on the pages of his site. He did so, knowing that Google would interpret the absence of the meta-tag as permission to allow access to the pages via “Cached” links. Thus, with knowledge of how Google would use the copyrighted works he placed on those pages, and with knowledge that he could prevent such use, Field instead made a conscious decision to permit it. His conduct is reasonably interpreted as the grant of a license to Google for that use.

Field was trying to get his site indexed and cached (so that he could sue Google), and Google indexed and cached it. The court ruled that Field's actions were active encouragement and implied the grant of a license to do the thing he wanted Google to do.
Do you attribute the benefit to a meditative process which has been studied, or peace of mind (I suppose this overlaps), or God choosing to grant you relief by virtue of worship
She wasn’t a coder.
Surprise me, how many people in the developed world don't even have access to this?
I've written the game in TypeScript, using matter.js as the physics engine and my own 2D renderer that renders to HTML5 <canvas>. I'm still working on the map generation, but it works well enough for the project to be shown to the public.

Source code is available here: https://github.com/mat-sz/inkball
Essentially. The root failure mode of FB's API solution is that it's an API for accessing private data and their only protection against clients abusing that access was a terms of service.

Back in the mid-'00s, we started implementing something against FB's API and I was more than a bit shocked to discover that their solution for preventing someone from building a parallel network of friend relationships out of the available dataset was "Please don't do that, and anyway if you try to do it at scale we'll probably detect the bandwidth consumption and shut you down." Not great.
Haha that's funny. I was going to say it seems so backwards for HN to have "female" while BBC didn't.
"Some have relatively big community, such as Colmak.They have forums, where there are thousands of touch-typists, mostly programers, trying different layouts, discussing their efficiency pros and cons. If Dvorak, or any of these, are not much efficient than QWERTY, then these thousands of people must be one of those flat-earthers."

This article seems to be written in 2013, given how many crazy communities that cropped up on the internet since, I wonder whether that argument (inherent fallacies set aside) would have passed the proof-reading stage these days.

On the other hand, I think Xah was a regular on c.l.l. in the olden days, so he should've been aware of over-enthusiastic, hair-splitting, bike-shedding communities before.
No way. Those suckers are all dried up and not 'soft'. They're scratchy and the branches can be sharp when broken. Jump in and you'll come out bleeding.

This coming from years of experience cleaning up tumbleweed piles against fences here in Colorado.
A list of books recommended by Bryan Johnson
While only a footnote, I like the nod to nuclear energy.

I remember in the 1950s, there was a Popular Mechanics cover touting nuclear as a coming technology to power homes and even cars.

Imagine the next Tesla-like company offering to install a small nuclear reactor in houses. Like solar, you can sell electricity back to the grid, charge your electric car with it, literally use it to heat your water....

Also might be a very attractive option to going off-grid.
It's also semi-unnerving for what it portends regarding the possibility of deep rot in our political economy. Yes, we've seen treatments like this before. Yes, the author is probably missing the mark a bit (or missing it even more if you're an optimist or realist or whatever). But still.

I recently read a number of historical treatments of the late gilded age and the roaring twenties, as well as some notable treatments of 20th century American history that partially covered that era, or provided additional insight into it (e.g. "The Glory and The Dream").

There are two strong impressions of that era that jump out from the historical literature. They are something like: "where are the adults?" and "business activity at full-speed, moving nowhere at all".
This makes a ton of sense. I can so totally relate to the emotional attachment to code you write vs stuff you buy. And also how yaml declarative stuff is a pain compared to the relative joys of imperative code that does “your thing”, but it’s better to stick to it.

... but having started reading the good parts of AWS and also in parallel playing around with cloud66, I have to say, kubernetes (at least the wrapped-up cloud66 variation) felt compelling. And codeploy and IAM roles and all that sticky glue? Not really.

Am I falling into a trap?
There has not been an increase in frequency of hurricanes, but there has been an increase in the energy carried by hurricanes and hurricanes intensify faster than they used to. It is wrong to imply all of the increase in damages is due to economic growth.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atlantic-hurricanes-are-becomin...
Yeah, I'm lucky to have no kids and a bookworm partner so I don't get roped into playing with toys or watching reality TV. The other option in such cases would probably be their commute to work, if they have one. Audiobooks can be a real savior there.
> A gross salary of $150k is going to be more like $175k including those taxes and costs.

So, I checked and indeed there is a small fraction of gross/super-gross difference in US salaries. But that should just be 6% total medical/medicare. Far from the 45% you often find in Europe.

> if you max out your 401k contribution

I don't think accounting for employee/employer triggered retirement contributions should enter the comparison here... Because it exists in pretty much every country, and it depends on what the employee wants to spend.

> If you do that, your retirement benefits will be much more than you would receive in France.

France has exactly the same as US 401k, since 1970, it's called a PEE. It's tax free and company contribution can go up to 3:1, it's limited to 25% of your total income though. There's also the more recent PERCO which is pretty much the same thing but can be cumulated, so you can go over 25% if you want.
I signed up to our Nextdoor (uk).

There seems to be four things on here:
- an avon lady over agressively spamming her stuff (blocked)
- people asking for small job recommendations (who should I get to fix my garden gate, babysitter, tv ariel fitting)
- some notices about local events (when / where fireworks, Remembrence, carolling)
- group commiseration that one time some group was speeding all over town at midnight running red lights and keeping us up with their skidding and revving.

Honestly pretty good. I see it maybe once a week.
Concepts in Data Management
I'd guess they stack more than one game instance on a single server. The instances need to play fair for resources.
I'm not too surprised by the makeup of this list. West Virginia and Kentucky are resource extraction states that are primarily focused around coal, and Oklahoma is focused around oil & gas. New Jersey and Connecticut have high taxes, and are having a wave of retirees leave and take their spending dollars with them. Vermont has very low population growth and is also facing a demographic issue just like Jersey and Connecticut.
It's curious that you say that, I searched for comparisons between New York and Paris[0],[1] and NY comes on top. Are this inaccurate? I'm genuinely curious

[0]:https://www.expatica.com/fr/housing/buying/buying-property-i...
[1]:https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/paris/n...
The boilerplate views do not accurately reflect the situation. For example,

Essentially, she says: “It’s important to remember that Google is an ad platform and that Facebook is a surveillance platform.”

Google does indeed run an ad platform. But that's like calling any magazine or newspaper an ad platform. True, yet neither accurate nor interesting.

And don't get me wrong. I'm all for adblocking and razing Facebook to the ground. But I don't want to read empty mood affiliation pieces.
Adding to the chorus: this was superb and I'm looking forward to the book.

Here's the HN post from April 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565691
802.11ac is already capable of 400Mb/s or so. So you'd need a link faster than that, plus devices which have Wifi 6 AND can push/pull data that fast and do something with it. For most folks that's a no, so far.
> I really really really don't want to commit it without having a clear plan in mind

This is the core of your problem. Having commits that show exploratory work you've done is useful, especially having a record of paths you went down that you later decided against. Do whatever it takes to change your mindset. Maybe make a toy repo and do a bunch of ridiculous commits to loosen yourself up.
Not just similar, functionally nearly identical to TM which relies on 'mantra'.
It's not always the money you're currently making that matters. The potential to make money is also subconsciously considered in dating.
It works as storage just like a traditional SSD. It does not work as a caching solution for memory.
Yes, definitely fourfold, shipping in 5 years!!1

Meanwhile Li-ion batteries were invented in seventies, it took 20 years to commercialization. First cells had 100W h/kg, and 30 years later we are slowly approaching 300W h/kg.
I apologize: the USDA uses only the 2 hour rule. The 2/4 hour rule is common in most of the rest of the world, most prominently in Australia, e.g.:
https://timestrip.com/2-hour-4-hour-rule-haccp-plans/
Consumers can be assholes as well. I was harassed by one of my neighbors and the police because their ring camera caught me walking through the parking lot in front of my building on the same afternoon this neighbors car was broken into.
They were getting a small number of users to fill out quizzes on Facebook. Unfortunately, the Facebook API gave them information not just about the user who filled out the quiz, but of all of that user's friends.

It was against the Facebook ToS, but the data was still provided easily via the API. That's what allowed them to quickly build a database of most eligible voters with very little direct outreach.
> Gitlab famously publishes a bizarrely micromanaged & comprehensive policy on how they will reduce your salary based on where you choose to move, and they are a fully remote company.

They literally punish you for working in your own country. Today I work for a company based in the Valley that pays me a great salary, maybe not SV, but also not "median local (Mexico) rates".

When I started looking to opportunities at GitLab, I was surprised at how they punished remote workers based on where they were from.

I could always move to SF or around on a TN1 and earn the full salary, but I am happy where I am.
> Of course, all of this may be a dumb corporate-run idea and maybe people should really focus on forming good relationships with their neighbors in meatspace and talk to them in person aka HUMINT.

But then how do we filter out the political rants, insanity, dumb jokes, hoaxes, and common scams?
This is the viable alternative, having similar aesthetics to a traditional lawn. However there's still a fair amount of push-back. I just bought a house and am planning a clover lawn this spring, and discussing it with extended family over the holidays was met with a large amount of skepticism.
Can't disagree more. I don't live in a big city. My best guess at where the data center is would be a mid-size city about an hour away, or more likely, a big city about 2.5 hours away (driving time). I didn't have high hopes for Stadia but wanted to check it out. I have zero problems with latency, and never think about it when playing. It does have its bugs...random crashes, a few seconds of LoFi here or there probably due to jitter somewhere...but overall, it really works well for me.
The Guardian article you link is simply reporting on the Wikipedia vote from a couple of years ago. Wikipedia keeps a unreliable sources list, and a perusal of it will show you that it's not an impressive exercise in fairness. In fact, Wikipedia's fairness standards are somewhat notorious.

As a minor funny/sad side point to all this, Peter Hitchens over at the Mail on Sunday -- owned by the Daily Mail, but with a separate editorial team -- has complained frequently about his Wikipedia page being defaced by this very policy. Apparently some enterprising editors thought that it was their duty to remove all Hitchens quotes from the article because his articles had appeared in the Mail on Sunday, and was therefore an "unreliable source" despite being a quote of what the man said. What a shitshow!

My own guess, as a sometimes Daily Mail reader from the States, is that the "unreliable" thing is simply a talking point somehow related to UK politics. The Daily Mail has a severe sensationalist bias, but their reporting is often quite good, and they have more than their fair share of scoops.
Yes, the transaction costs of sending money over the internet (even BTC has a pretty high energy-cost per transaction, that's ultimately paid by BTC hodlers) mean that the relatively-wealthy are far more likely to provide this kind of support. It's a lot cheaper for one person to fund a journalist, blogger etc. with $10,000 than for 10,000 people to fund her with $1 each.
Software is Synthetic
This is assuming that intra-apt walls magically allow wifi penetration whereas inter-apt walls magically block it.

Neither of these things are the case, tragically.
Okay I think we’re saying pretty similar things then!

The “top two” technique works particularly well for addressing “performance” type features for products already in market. Most customer requests, and most of the things that my stakeholders come to me with, are around ways the current product could better address the existing problem it’s trying to solve, rather than finding whole new customer pain points.
I'm always leery when media begins to tout a new word. Maybe economic contraction has some history to it and a precise definition, but maybe its being coopted or is void and ready to fill with whatever new line of rhetoric we will soon be assaulted with.

Would be great to have a headlines database to see trending terms and when something is really unprecedented in headlines.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t be skeptical. The reviewers’ job is to ask whether the approach used and data collected make sense and if so, whether and how well they support the authors’ claims.

At the same time, peer review is meant to be an advisory process, not an adversarial one. You should certainly flag things that seem problematic, and ideally offer solutions, but you’re not expected to—-and cannot, really—-tear down the experiment and root out every possible mistake or malfeasance. All you’ve got is a day or so and a 6000 word description of the project, so if the manuscript claims that the mouse weighed 12.3 grams, you’ve basically got to take that number at face value. Trust might be too strong of a word—-you could certainly question a weight of 123 grams, which is improbably large—-but you should at least start in equipoise with respect to some stuff.

I also don’t see the mutual benefit, beyond nebulous things like enjoying consensus. A short review is also easier to write than a long one, but it’s just as easy to be dismissive as uncritical. Reviews are usually unsigned—-and the authors and reviewers may not even know each other[0] so it’s hard for there to be an explicit quid pro quo.

[0] Of the stuff I reviewed in 2019, I knew exactly one of the authors, and here ‘knew’ means ‘Once amiably chatted with them in a coffee line at a conference’.
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Thanks for the post, I enjoy the format although why the decision to not include direct sources for each event on the timeline?
I am surprised by your comment: "After a year I still haven’t found a way to adapt their model to the IT world"

I have worked in "disaster recovery" modes within a larger group of companies (think "Berkshire Hathaway" large), where we were basically meeting regularly to discuss opportunities, new findings and, above all, knew each other phone numbers & area of expertises.

There were basically no issues wtr to the business model, as we were all owned by the same company and when were working in "commando/disaster mode" shit had hit the fan furiously enough for noone to care about the costs. That may have simplified the things a great deal...

To me, Kenyon (and a few other players in their fields) is nothing more than an on-call, dependable team of experts with pre-set rates and a yearly fee for availability. I know for a fact that companies dealing in IT security do have such contracts (there's been numerous articles in the press about the Maersk disaster a few months/years back) and would expect that services similar for every aspects of IT ("our billing system has been offline for the past 13 hours", "our main DC has just been destroyed by an earthquake" and so on...)?

What have been the blockers you stumbled upon?