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> But what is not true is that these workers were unrepresented at the salary negotiation.

But many are if every year brings about a new set of graduate students. Perhaps you started your PhD at UCSC 4 years ago, with the understanding that compensation would be different, a wildly different real estate market than today, and under a different agreement by the school.

So yes, future students were not represented at the salary negotiation, and a the same time, students who came to the school before the negotiation came under a different pretext with a different understanding of the local rental economy and graduate compensation that is no longer true today.
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I was surprised that Samsung was not on the list. It must be that Samsung is not popular in Canada.

We bought the Samsung washer because it was highly rated by Consumer Reports. Boo on Consumer Reports.

Our washer was defective from the factory. It had a deformed part that leaked water on the floor. Luckily we purchased the extra warranty. Unluckily Samsung was giving us the run around about fixing the washer. We even said that we would make the repair if they sent us the part. Boo on Samsung.

Finally the store that sold us the washer replaced it and sent the defective washer back to Samsung. I wish I could praise the store (Western Appliance) - but they are sadly going out of business.
It’s estimated that Youtube is barely break even between what they pay creators and bandwidth and storage costs.
> ⌥⌘P

Those are breadcrumbs, not an address bar. Note the fact you cannot type or paste a path into it, as is a core feature in practically every file manager in every other OS. There is no apparent difference to breaking this convention, beyond impairing users' workflows. Finder also has the "Go to" dialogue, but again, it is a functionally inferior solution.

There is absolutely no good reason for these design choices other than to "be different for the sake of it" at the expense of good UX
Agreed... I remember during Ebola feeling almost as if we simply gave up trying to stamp every little possibility and instead focused on making sure the right patients made it through the system to get the right care. At the same time it’s a little hard to excuse the lack of measurements or even the ability to determine if the virus is present.
It's in another cool fantasy movie, with signal towers, I can't find it now despite frantic Google (results terrible). Was very cool, wish I could remember the name.
Passenger traffic between the USA and the rest of the world was about 20m in March 2019. Not all of this is into the USA, but a sizable fraction must be. Quarantining
millions of people in the USA sounds extremely hard.
You've broken several the site guidelines in this thread. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?

Crossing into making an argument personal is especially not ok, and we have had to ask you about this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797575.
There's an oversupply of this kind of comment, so I'm not going to read this one.
I use Warp web server, Blaze for constructing HTML, and Selda for interfacing with a PostgreSQL/SQLite database.

I use a simple hand-rolled monad to construct a response, which handles threading state and accessing the DB. It’s similar to the one described in “Build Your Own Haskell Web Framework on WAI” https://broch.io/posts/build-your-own-wai-framework/

I love the ease of deploying a single small binary. No worries about maintaining a remote language environment and ensuring parity, installing dependencies, and running a Git server just to deploy a new version. And it’s more secure than downloading and running packages from NPM or gems or whatever on the application server.
Or the enterprise. Between the three cloud providers, GCP is by far the worse when it comes to enterprise engagements or support.
We're just taking your word for this. For all I know, you're making some mistake or skipping some step and blaming it on the documentation.

I'm not sure if you're implicitly wanting us to diagnose your issue for you without providing any actual information, but seeing as I have no idea if you have GTK properly installed, the headers in the right place, or anything else like that, I can't help but be sceptical that the documentation isn't up to snuff.
Yes, completely unlike Chrome browser, or Android OS, or gmail, or YouTube, or any other Google service.
Yes but you can't physically look at and process all the independent monitors anyways. So you have one physical monitor addressing n-virtual monitors.
Sure, but why would you pay Google for that same experience when you can already get it at a very low cost?
After seeing this I reread the post you're replying to. I don't see the pretention.

Pretentious: adjective. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious. full of pretense or pretension; having no factual basis; false.

If you're suggesting that their analysis is false, you should probably point out why. The self importance part I'm not seeing. Aren't they just stating the facts as they see them?
Maybe it's more common than I thought... I've only ever seen TAs teaching discussion sections.
Does this have any repercussions into cloning @ all ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
Brilliant response, thanks for taking the time to write it up! Realize that the community here is not a fixed quantity. If you lead with high effort comments like this, eventually the community might return the favor. Unfortunately, I don't understand the politics here enough to personally offer any useful critique. If you don't get the feedback you want here, posting a version of this to an Open Thread on Slate Star Codex might start a good conversation.
The operative word here is ‘should be.’ In practice, at the state school where I did my doctorate, more than half of undergrad courses are taught by grad students...academia is a broken system that doesn’t work very well for anyone involved in it

Edit: this was the case in my department, a STEM subject required for graduation in multiple unrelated majors
On the other hand, what to the grad students at UCSC do if they weren't represented at the bargaining table by their own union in the first place?

The agreement is not one the grad students at UCSC and UCSC, but with the grad students at all UC campuses with the University of California, et al. 83% of UCSC grad students opposed the original UC wide negotiation because the salary minimums did not take into account the rising cost of living in Santa Cruz due to market pressure in the bay area. They are striking without the support of their union because the union never supported their situation in the first place.
How is it exploitation? These people are students who are compensated while learning -- they're not full time staff. They get a degree at the end.
WHO urges stocking up on ventilators to combat coronavirus
A proper train wreck requires an engineer.
People hear this statement and think it means that anyone that is exposed and catches the virus is able to infect anyone else, just the same as if they were completely symptomatic. But it doesn't mean it is as likely. People with symptoms are more contagious, people without symptoms are less contagious. One simple reason why is that people without symptoms tend to cough and sneeze less.
> It really sounds like you’ve never worked on a product team that actually used analytics tbh

Please don't cross into personal attack. You don't need to, it poisons discussion, and it evokes worse from others. Your post would be fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's why Chrome market share is so important for Google, and why they will stop other advertiser to use it, and adblockers too. Chrome is the advertising channel for Google... and the entry point for Google Ads
I love to hear other people doing this.

In the last year I've repaired the dishwasher, washer, and dryer at my rental unit, and the dishwasher at our home. These are all old and cheap units but were surprisingly fixable. Lots of videos and service manuals online.

I found all the parts I need at reliableparts.com (no affiliation) who have a location here in Vancouver, BC and who are always knowledgeable and helpful.

I spend maybe $75 in parts (total for all 4 appliances) and a cumulative 6 hours of my time. Most importantly to me, I kept these things out of the landfill.
I think you’re right, edited. As far as I can tell they’re using this number as a baseline for wage increases so the rest of the comment should still hold.
Mainstream news site from Singapore, creditable afaik
Just in time! )'(
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I thought written language was invented independently as Chinese, Sumerian, and Mayan. [1] Cuneiform influenced Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the Phoenician -> Latin alphabet.

I'll include an honourable mention to Arabic & Hebrew here, which are quite different to Latin, but I think are still related to Sumerian somehow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing#Bronze_Age_...
That's actually a really good idea, you could couple them with some frosted (plexi?) glass to get a "screen"

I think this warrants more investigation!!
This problem will be solved by service/subscription business models.

If you pay for a service, it is in the interest of the supplier to make the product last for as long as possible.
Creative solution, nicely done.

For 15 years I traveled with some flavor of 23"/24" monitor, putting it into my checked bag, and paying that checked bag fee over and over and over (probably $5K USD over the years).

This year I scrapped the big monitor setup and got an ultra lightweight 16" USB-C powered monitor along with a Dell Precision 5540.

Now I just stuff everything into an REI Trail pack (40L) and walk on the plane, it's beautiful. Pack weight is around 7KG, which works for most airlines in the world.

No longer muling around tons of gear is wonderful. Not sure what I was thinking, the extra screen real estate isn't that important to my work, two screens about 16" is enough.

Here's the 16" external monitor [1], out of stock presently, but can vouch for it, great addition to the toolbox.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WJJMV48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
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On the subject:

"WHO urges stocking up on ventilators to combat coronavirus"

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/who-urges-stockin...
They're not workers in the traditional sense. What are other workers get degrees for their work?
Man its a shame New Zealand has such bad obesity figures. The outdoors activities are great. Tons of great trail running/backpacking/hiking to be done
As usual, you get what you pay for. Junk appliances are all over our stores here in Canada.
Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities
Ack, can't believe I missed that! Still, the same question could be asked for other particles that can be split in the same manner ... if such particles exist.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is a story involving a competition between a traditional post office and a light-based telegraph system called "clacks." You might enjoy the book and/or television adaptation.

After his death a few years ago, an idea from the book was actually implemented on the internet and is the reason you see "GNU Terry Pratchett" around.[0][1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terr...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry...
It's hard to think of universities as the capitalist class.
Some inventions are gated by scientific discovery, particularly in materials.

For example, ductile iron (which involves adding 1% magnesium to molten iron, causing carbon to precipitate on cooling as small spheroids instead of dendrites, making the iron much less brittle than ordinary cast iron) could have been invented any time after 1808, when Davy produced magnesium. But it wasn't invented until 1948. No one had done the experiment and seen that effect.

Another example, also coincidentally involving magnesium, is magnesium diboride. It was synthesized and its structure characterized in 1953, but it wasn't until 2001 that it was realized it was a superconductor with a critical temperature of 39 K.
I think you can find research here and there but I still don’t think we’re spending “massive” amounts on it like the OP said.
I write a "major" app that uses GTK (via Gtkmm, the C++ language binding). We don't use GObject for anything that isn't already a part of GTK. Put differently ... if we implement or extend a widget, it will necessarily inherit from GObject. But if we implement our own non-GUI objects, we just ignore GObject entirely.
Whether or not it hurts the students is up to the administration. Professors can grade their own exams, as they do in many courses already. The university doesn't even have to dip into their own pockets, they can use federally subsidized work study labor if they were short on labor.

However, by hurting students and adhering to draconian policies that serve to hurt more students, the school is paradoxically increasing support because the administration knows students are going to be enraged without looking into the nuance of why these things are happening to them, and who decides why these things should happen the way that they do.
Yes but the man didn't claim to be a registered PE, qualified and entitled to practice in Oregon, he simply said that he has an engineering degree and is employed as an engineer. There are many many people who are engineers but who are not registered Professional Engineers.
> vocal minority

> Linux gamer

I fail to see the contradiction. Per Steam’s October 2019 user survey, all Linux distros together total 0.43% of their users. I am using the notably pro-Linux Steam as a benchmark for how many gamers are affected by this.
Ardour, a cross-platform DAW, is written using GTK via the C++ language bindings (Gtkmm).
Quill – An asynchronous low latency logging library (C++14)
After having written an asynchronous logging library from scratch at least four times, I am happy to share my project with the community.

The main motivation behind the project was that I wanted to achieve as low latency as possible on each caller thread. At the same time I wanted a type safe API and to be able to watch the log file in real time. Non of the existing open source logging libraries seemed to achieve that.

The project can be found on github

https://github.com/odygrd/quill

The current version requires at least C++14. If people like it and use it, I plan to create a C++20 fork in the future without any third-party dependencies and support for modules.
I am planning to actively maintain it. Any comments on code / API usage or feature requests are all welcome.

Looking forward to your questions, suggestions, or thoughts. Thank you!
I didn't understand it until I saw that the landscape was being selectively repeated to match the music. It took me quite long to realize this; it's very well done.
Hyperbole is not really helpful for this discussion.
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Looking at lines 460-521 in the modified file (https://github.com/miguelxpn/php-src/blob/f4b2089b642d504be3...), is there not a benefit to `break` out of the while loop in the nested if statements?

Otherwise, it looks like it will call strstr() one extra time, even though you may have already determined that the specific header is present.
Ah I see. If it comes up, you can point to this subthread, or you can always ping us at hn@ycombinator.com. Thanks for quoting the rules and helping to preserve this place!
Yes but that has nothing to do with the State Board of Engineering Examiners or whatever Florida's equivalent is.
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I did about a decade as a digital nomad, spending a couple months in each city. These days I'm still fairly nomadic, but stay longer (3-6mos) in each place.

I've experimented with a couple different multi-monitor setups. Notably, dual 24" displays, and a single Thunderbolt 27". For a while I had Skyteam Platinum and shipped my Thunderbolt display as my free extra checked bag on a couple trips to Brazil and Holland. When the shipping was free and I was staying in the same place for a while, it was marginally worth it bringing the second monitor. When I was making more frequent jumps between cities it was definitely not.

Personally, I find having additional monitors to not be a huge productivity boost to my work (software engineering, team/account management, writing, coaching, and managing an import/ecommerce business) relative to a good virtual desktop setup, particularly when weighed against increased pack weight and shipping costs. The place where it helps me the most is to be able to have API docs open alongside my editor/IDE, but I can do the same on retina macbook display, so having a lightweight and portable setup wins out for me.
According to one of the authors of The Long Dark, which has also been pulled, it's because NVidia didn't bother asking, they just... put it online (source: https://twitter.com/RaphLife/status/1234181315840229376). Apparently they offered a graphics card by way of compensation, so...
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From what I’ve gathered, the exams were turned over to the grad students for grading. The school asked for the grades, the grad students refused.

Has the school asked for the exams to be returned, so they could be graded? I don’t know. I assume the graduate students wouldn’t turn them over anyways.
Isn't this a natural outcome of efficiency improvements in refrigeration? I thought the rule of thumb was replacing them every 4 years or so, why would they over-engineer components with lifespans greater than this?
There was a vacuum repair tech AMA on reddit many years back. That post was insanely popular. People are hungry for this type of information (if it's actually honest).

He too was a big fan of Miele (for vacuums).

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_re...
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Please take the time to enjoy this. I’ll leave it to others who know the work of James Burke to explain https://youtu.be/7G8YHWbi-9U
> taking some risks by skipping to late stage trials for anything that looks promising. Sort of like what happened with Ebola.

I was in Africa when all that went down.

The huge difference here is that the West didn't really care about giving a not-completely-tested drug to Africans in the middle of nowhere.

I don't believe they'll accept that for their own important citizens.
Oregon Engineer Makes History with New Traffic Light Timing Formula
How is "Go to Folder" worse? Finder just splits the two actions up…
Is it better to have one machine that does not follow regulations, or throw away four onto the landfill, that does?
“Mats’s work was generally met with interest, but when he e-mailed the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying, things took an abrupt illegal U-turn. The Board told Mats it had no interest in hearing about his ideas. Fair enough. But the Board didn’t stop there. After a two-year investigation, it fined him $500 for publicly criticizing the timing of traffic lights without having a Professional Engineer license. The Board also forbid him from continuing to discuss his research.”
Some of the most exciting potentials for cloud streaming for me are some of the things they've toted as not possible on consumer hardware.

Most of these are just related to scale (like 1,000-person Battle Royales, 500-car races, MMOs that don't have to shard players in the same area into separate "worlds", etc), but there's other features that'd be exciting to see when games have effectively unlimited resources (instead of having to worry about what's available on each consumer's PC); Google's got a lot of resources in NLP and language recognition/generation they could apply to NPC dialogues, massive amounts of resources could make enemy/npc AI way more impressive than what you'd see on local hardware (I'd love to play against DeepMind's Dota 2 bots!), or even something as mundane as Maps-like navigation as a first-party feature to help you navigate through game worlds.

I'm less excited about some of the streaming-based features they've advertised (streamers being able to share save-states with viewers that viewers can click to start playing from, viewers being able to instantly jump in and play live with streamers, being easier to stream at 4K while also playing in 4K, etc), but I guess those are probably appealing to some people also.
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I agree with you, and no one can take the time to research everything from evidence. The chain of trust does have a place.

However I'd also argue that this is the only time in history that we have almost the whole of human knowledge accessible at our fingertips from anywhere in the world within fractions of a second. If there ever were a time that we could look up actual evidence without expending inordinate effort, that time is now!
Doesn't AirPlay do rerouting to?
"I don't really need to be close to my friends or be in a place that I know but I need ... three 24 inches monitors an external GPU and an ergonomic keyboard."

Does anyone else have a hard time coming to grips with this prioritization? Even looking at this objectively with something like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, yes we do need friends, though 3 24" monitors don't seem to appear.
Good catch! That's indeed the case. Another commit was made where that piece of code was refactored into a function and it returns 1 in case the header is present so strstr isn't being called an extra time in the current code.

[1] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/3d9c02364db62a6d8e2794...
More like mass produced bread from the grocery store is good enough for busy lives.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/france-bakery-bread...
I'm not sure what you are trying to say exactly but it seems like you are making some sort of prediction of the future.

Video encoding, especially newer codecs like HEVC and VP9 are CPU intensive and SIMD optimized tasks that people are doing right now.
> A 64-bit capable JDK currently ignores this option and instead uses the Java Hotspot Server VM.
I don't understand why this is called an "amplifier" rather than simply "a clutch". The torque input is always the same; there is no "amplification" of the torque. The tensioned rope or spring simply applies more or less of the torque to the output, by varying the friction on the drum.
Steam does indicate on the store page when games have additional third party DRM.
currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456867
It's weird though, because GSuite -- esp google docs, google sheets, and google calendar -- are really good and pretty well supported. So they _can_ do it. Now to be fair, we're rapidly approaching $15k/year in spend with them.

I'm desperately wishing google would build a company-aimed wiki because confluence is atrocious.

And if anyone is going to deliver cloud gaming, my bet is it's google. It plays to their strengths: their ability to orchestrate and deliver scaled computing at the highest possible speeds. Further, it addresses one of the few markets at a large enough scale to make an impact on their revenues.
Ah, much cleaner!
And the US government had the balls to challenge China on their slow response? Gross incompetence by the CDC and the federal government.

This is why people are scared and panic buying. Zero faith in authority to provide accurate and up to date information. Zero faith that the public isn’t being lied to.

The CDC wasn’t even testing people until the last 24-48 hours. There are people from virtually every major city in the US with a story similar to this who went sent home without a test.