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I tried typescript lsp in emacs (tide) and it gave me a lot for free (realtime type check, formatting). What else VSCode has ? nicer hints (dom based) and refactoring ? Genuinely curious.

Also VSCode puts my poor laptop to its knees. Core i5 cannot handle few keystrokes in a row.. that was quite a shocker tbh.
Its not bribery, its MCP (Meet Comp Program)!

Nowadays its no longer in a form of clear $cash money$ bribe, instead Intel offers cross promotion (including you in their marketing, pushing your product to their clients), bundle deals (buy hiend motherboard, receive CPU and/or SSD for free), or bonuses (sell X amount at $MSRP, receive free product bumping your margins by as much as 20-30%).

BTW That $1.45 billion European Commission (EC) penalty? Intel not only never paid that, but actually managed to fight and bribe their way to possibility of overturning it altogether. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/06/victory-in...
I’ve thought about buying one of those big sacks of flour—I bake bread and other stuff routinely, so I know I’d use it up eventually. I mean, I just got a half-pound of vanilla beans. But storage becomes an issue. I’m already struggling a bit to find places for the extra stocking up.
Not creating money out of thin air. Creating it out of military
I've tried writing an OS purely in assembly before, but gave up while writing the virtual file system.
Thanks - nice work with stockdaddy, just signed up. Can you configure the markets tab at the top (add in futures, UST 5yr for example)?
I think being good with a proprietary technology like Qlik isn't so bad. That is a rare skill and there are jobs.

The question is what you want in life and your job. You are saying you have the feeling you should have learned more but why is that? Do you want more money, fame or freedom?
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article207246011/Heidelberg-...

"Die am Ostersonntag in die Psychiatrie gebrachte Anwältin hat inzwischen die Einrichtung verlassen können. Das bestätigte die Klinik am Mittwoch gegenüber t-online."

The bar to hold somebody in a psychiatric environment against their will is pretty high in Germany.
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We have plenty of air to air drones. They're mostly prefixed with "Standard Missile", but that's what they are.
I was working as a SWE for a large defense contractor on some pretty neat projects, and I felt like I was good at what I did. It was 40 hour weeks, good benefits, good pay, but I was bored and miserable. I lived in a town with no friends, and was so desperate for a change and some adventure, that I left the industry to join the military.

I took what I call a 12 year sabbatical from tech. I became an officer, went to pilot training, learned lots of new and useful skills, met lots of very good and interesting people, some of whom are my best friends.

Taking off from a short airfield in a blizzard, at night, wearing NVGs is an experience I don't care to re-live, but I'm glad I have something to talk about at parties.

A quote that affected me greatly during the time I was thinking about leaving: "if somebody wrote a book about your life, would anybody want to read it?"

After getting married (to somebody I met during one of my training courses), settling down, and having kids, a quieter, 40-hour-a-week lifestyle started to sound pretty good again. I had always been a hacker at heart, and realized that I was getting to the age where it was probably now-or-never if I wanted to re-enter the industry. So I went back into tech! It's better the 2nd time around.

Zero regrets.
I think the OP is just saying that people often forget about what separation of powers is and what it implies. If cops didn't have to follow orders this would mean giving them more powers than just executive. Would that really be a good thing ? Probably in some cases for sure, probably not in others ...
Your calculation is only true if the economy will jump back to normal after the two months, which will not happen. 3% is VERY optimistic IMHO.
Do you have a link for this 500,000 tests per day? Every article I am reading says they only started ramping up testing in the past few weeks.

> And the total number of swab tests done by 4 April was well over 1.3 million.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52234061

The population of Germany is 83 million. I find it hard to believe that they've tested more than 5 million or so people in 10 days.
And when the next virus emerges from the Amazon rainforest that we humans are felling at an unprecedented rate? Or from under the Siberian permafrost which is melting due to climate change? Who are you going to blame then?

Bottom line - if a single viral outbreak can bring the entire global economy to its knees, and turn us all into volunteer prisoners, then you’d have to agree this system we’ve collectively built is not particularly robust.

EDITED to correct spelling.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, and enough of it right here at home that I can actually do something about, that the boogeyman of the CCP doesn’t really hold much water.

Also it’s a gross oversimplification.
Latent Sciences?? https://latentsci.com/
Not printing money could be far worse.

Check out the Ray Dalio video on how QE is used for stability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
> 99% of the reduction in transmission comes from physical distancing alone while inside of closed spaces with strangers.

This is an extremely strong statement. Although it might be plausibly true, my impression is that the transmission of the disease isn't well enough understood to make such assertions with confidence.

Can you cite a reference for your claim?

I think it is agreed that physical distancing alone while inside of closed spaces with strangers is an extremely good idea. Wearing masks is, potentially, also an extremely good idea.

Shouldn't we adopt any and all measures that have the potential (not certainty; potential is enough) to substantially cut down on Covid-19 transmission, and whose economic and other costs are comparatively modest? Even if we later determine that only one of these measures was really necessary, I doubt that we'll regret our efforts.
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Now I want to learn why there aren't more defamation lawsuits.

I'm uncomfortable muzzling people. But I enthusiastically support holding everyone accountable for the harm they cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation

If you say it, you gotta own it, for better or for worse.
By sits in front of I mean that it's a completely separate web application rather than a framework, library or proxy that is somehow bundled with your application.

Whenever you want someone authenticated you redirect the user's browser to Keycloak. Keycloak will redirect the user's browser back to you once authentication has been completed. In the best case scenario you will find a library that integrates with your choice of web framework, provide configuration (i.e. the URL to Keycloak), and the library will do all the heavy lifting for you.

I found Keycloak as a product relatively easy to get started with. But I still don't think I fully understand the authentication landscape with its' many alternatives and their many security implications.
excellent observation and explication
... torpedos can go 50 knots for 100km/over an hour, but a drone can't?

Fundamentally underwater hydrodynamics is still in its infancy. How do I know? I just have to look at a shark.
Not on the same day, but apparently in the meantime: https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article207246011/Heidelberg-... (link posted by /u/tastroder below)
I'm not convinced this is true. Surely the power afforded to police attracts a disproportionate amount of recruits that want to use that power the wrong way.

Not that any individual policeman is sadistic by default, but the likelihood is higher than a random sample of people.

Domestic violence stats among police is significantly higher than the general public, for example. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865127
Checks stock...hasn’t even gone down. Your current “efficient market”, ladies and gentlemen.
This is an insane amount of funding when you look at the projected revenue for machine learning over the next couple years.

Maybe those projections are wrong, and I certainly love all the energy in this space, but it feels like a lot of investors are going to get burned.
here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06YK2SExixo
That would be great, but to date hbm is always part of the board. I'm all for selling motherboards with the ram already on it if it means higher bandwidth, but it's just never happened before.
Thanks! I had seen a report that the official decision about this was to be made today, but nothing about the result yet.
I'm not an expert but I don't think our money is based on nothing. As I understand it it is based on the relative debts and wealth of other nations [0].

[0] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12715/why-did-us-abandon...
Its all symbols, so you can say whatever. But if it looks like a pointer, walks like a pointer, and quacks like a pointer, Its A Pointer.
>I don't want to subscribe to just one paper. There are so many good articles in all the papers.

A few years back I just went ahead and subscribed to the ones I wanted to support to try to support journalism. It was more affordable than I thought, but there is friction to keep them from taking advantage of you. For instance, at one point it was cheaper for me to subscribe to the Sunday edition of the NY Times to get digital access than just digital access. I live 1000 miles from New York City. lol Renewals are a pain if they try to shift you to the vanilla rates; no one has email support and it requires a call.

Anyway, I currently subscribe to NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Cincinnati Enquirer, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Las Vegas Review Journal and The Guardian US Edition. I would subscribe to the NY Post if they allowed it. Former WSJ subscriber, but they do not offer long time subscriber discounts. Bloomberg is too expensive.

My main complaint is only a few allow yearly subscriptions.
It was all about missiles. Once the missiles got fixed, the kill ratio turned around very quickly.

And yes, had nothing to do with guns. Guns are and have been obsolete on fighter aircraft for decades.
Ask HN: Why can't I get a job as a developer?
I've been looking for a job since July. I've had a few freelance projects in the meantime, but most of my time has been spent on doing coding challenges, followed by rejections with no explanation. I'm exhausted, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I have 10 years of experience, NASA on my resume (https://github.com/localjo/resume), a pretty good list of open source contributions and code samples (https://github.com/localjo/code-samples), personal references, and good interviewing skills. I get interviews all the time, and usually get to the final stages, and then get a generic rejection letter.

Today, I got rejected from a company I just did a coding challenge for. My submission (https://github.com/localjo/react-tater) far exceeded their requirements but after reviewing it, their response was "we're looking for frontend engineers with more experience".

I'm incredibly frustrated by that response. Usually I just archive the email and move on, but this time I decided to ask for more specific feedback, and they said "it's less to do with something you've missed and more to do with other candidates having more relevant expertise having shaped similar products".

This is basically the same scenario that I've repeated about 25 times in the last 10 months. It seems impossible to get a job, even though I'm fully qualified. Meanwhile, a lot of my peers seem to think it's easy to get similar jobs, often making almost double my target rate of $100k/yr.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong, and how I can break out of this cycle of job search frustration? I'd love some honest feedback on my code samples.
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Meanwhile, if you ask a pilot today on advice... They will say, get a university degree and look elsewhere than aviation
As a die-hard Emacs user, this is also something that has been occupying me lately. There is too little thought going into the deficits of Emacs; many people I convinced to give it a try went back to Sublime, VSCode etc. Emacs has two main shortcomings, in my opinion. The first is that the visual aspect of programming is completely left out. You can have nice outlines, pop-ups, tree views etc. in most other editors; Emacs completely ignored these. The main argument has always been "won't work in a tty", but there should come a point where tty is deprecated or at least treated differently. The other is evolving the language. Elisp was great for its time, but compared to modern languages its age clearly shows. There are no namespaces, it can be dead slow, support for networking is limited, regular expressions are weird etc. I think there should be more work going into modernizing the language, which can also be used to introduce facilities for GUI elements and networking code, especially async.
> I’m definitely in the camp that “the cure cannot be worse than the disease” itself. Sitting in California where there are so few cases makes me wonder if the economic toll is totally worth it. Seems like we’ve used a tsunami to put out a campfire.

You do realize that there are so few cases because of the lockdown, and otherwise those cases would not only be an order of magnitude higher, but also much much MUCH more likely to result in death because the medical system would be entirely saturated and unable to admit 80% of the people who show up ?
This is a reasonable suggestion. I too hit paywalls on all those papers several times per month and more, but not remotely enough to be worth paying a full subscription to almost any of them save the NYT (which I do have a shared family subscription to). A newspaper passport that allows some form of limited access to all of them, like a multi-resort annual ski passport, would be pretty useful.

I would expect said passport to cost in the range of $100-200 per year (though they'd want to bill it at something like $15 per month to avoid sticker shock), and allow me to read a good number of articles from each newspaper, but maybe not an unlimited amount. And the funds from the passport could be distributed proportionally to members based on which papers you actually read most frequently, like how a ski mountain passport works.
I recently had no problem buying organic flour from the organic aisle, despite the regular aisle being sold out. People are stupid when they panic.
Ask HN: Are there other internet forums that have the discussion quality of HN?
Like many here, I enjoy reading the discussions on HN. Especially the non-tech ones.

That is why I was wondering: Do you know of other internet forums that have a similar discussion quality but are focused on other topics like politics, economics or (insert topic)?
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Not a submariner, but I always thought that was the essence of the existence of the fast attack.
HUGE fan of Keycloak! It's an outstanding IAM platform. AuthN/AuthZ? Great! SAML? OIDC? Awesome! Token translation??? (SAML->JWT) Incredible! It's really a delight to work with. If I had one item on my wishlist it would be support for non-SQL datastores. It hums along on our PostgreSQL instance with no problem. We'd love to be able to easily geolocate it as part of our AWS infrastructure using global DynamoDB tables for data storage. That would greatly improve the login experience for our users as they are located all over the world.
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Same here. But I instead run a loop over a range around MAX_INT (or wherever the issue is) and print the result, so I know I'm doing what I think I'm doing. Exhaustive testing is quick, with a computer!
Your suspicion is largely correct, in my experience. I've worked as a consultant on a number of different AI / ML projects for start-ups. Most aren't doing anything all that new or groundbreaking from an ML point of view. Their real innovation is usually more about applying ML to industries / areas where it hasn't been used much before. But that doesn't get the investor dollars flowing in, so the founders try to make it seem like they have some radical new ML breakthrough. And in recent times, it has worked.
I think I’m misunderstanding your point (and I agree with your conclusions): how are you disagreeing?
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I haven't left myself yet, but at almost-55 I know a fair number who have. Here's what I know of what their answers would be.

The first simply had another passion - travel. Work was just a way to pay for that. Eventually went to work for an agency, been there a long time and AFAICT couldn't be happier (despite being less well off materially). I've known a couple of others who fit this pattern. One left the industry to raise goats and make cheese instead.

Multiple have left to become full time parents. I hope they don't regret it, since this group includes my wife. ;)

Several others have left the industry but have not necessarily left tech. Some do light consulting. One's writing a book. Most are working on long-deferred personal tech projects.

I just about joined this third group before my savings took a 15% hit, so I might as well say why. I'm tired. I'm tired of the artificial deadlines, and processes that slow people down more than they improve quality, and the omnipresence of coworkers who exhibit every kind of bad engineering or interpersonal behavior (even though others are awesome). I want to enjoy making things again, and the moments when I can do that within the industry seem all too fleeting. Even the best of my dozen jobs stopped being fun, or just stopped. The thought of going through a modern tech interview process yet again so that I can do all the rest again just fills me with dread.
Were you referring to when I brought up Latent AI? If so, this is them: https://latentai.com/
Doesn't seem like a threat? More of a recognition of the necessary consequences of this particular order. If the court says to stop doing some things, and the wheels are too big to be changed while in flight, then Amazon should shut down for the time it takes to figure out how to comply. That's just obeying the court, right?
So can Intel, but they don't. Hbm would likely require them to sell a fixed-size memory amount, which can be severely limiting for server applications. Not to mention it's extremely power hungry compared to ddr, so you won't get anywhere near the amounts ddr gives without making power consumption go way up.
Author mentions web browsers and extensions in the context of barriers to creating a successful malleable system.

Surely the web browser - considered in relation to web pages & technologies (HTML, Javascript etc), rather than extensions - is perhaps the most successful malleable system in history.

The core browser "functionality" has been and can be extended in an almost infinite number of ways via web "pages". You could consider his dichotomy between "foundational" features (unavailable to the user/tinkerer) and extendable features to be comparable between Emacs (C vs elisp) and the Browser (C++ [for example] vs HTML/Javascript/CSS).

I realise that to "extend" the browser by building a web page includes a great deal more friction than playing with elisp in scratch. Does this rule out the browser as a "malleable" system?
> For instance, at one point it was cheaper for me to subscribe to the Sunday edition of the NY Times to get digital access than just digital access. I live 1000 miles from New York City.

The New York Times has nationwide printing and delivery in a lot of cities, so that's actually not that surprising. My parents had it delivered when I was growing up, and that was hundreds of miles from NYC. There's very few other papers that this is true of.
Empty transatlantics aren't unheard-of. I was one of only two passengers on a Lufthansa MUC-EWR last year.

It's better for them to run highly unprofitable flights than miss their contract obligations with big corporations that want a plane available to move people transatlantic on a day's notice.
So they were deployed but then abandoned?

I wonder if you could have a flotilla of heli-drones that drop in sampling microphones/active sonar. Wind might be hard to deal with in storms or heck even typical conditions.
Look into working at a university, "research programmer" is the title to search for. It won't pay well, but the benefits are usually world-class, the environment is incredibly fulfilling, and you can take courses for free.
Decentralization doesn't mean that everybody has to run their own node, but rather that anybody can do it without asking for permission from a central authority. It was always the plan that as the network grew the cost of running a node would increase, and they would be run in server farms. In the words of Satoshi Nakamoto [1]:

> The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate.

Keeping the block size down just to allow underpowered nodes in the network has the negative effect of hampering scalability, increasing transaction fees and keeping BTC from following its intended design as P2P electronic cash.

Note that the size of the blockchain is not an issue for users, who can rely on SPV protocol to verify transactions without having to download the full blockchain nor having to blindly trust a third-party. SPV is secure as long as the blockchain is secure (i.e. there are no 51% attacks).

Also I want to mention that in Bitcoin full nodes described the miners, i.e. nodes that generate blocks. Validating blocks without mining serves no purpose in the Bitcoin whitepaper.

[1] https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/287/
Okay that's true, no idea why there's even two press releases on this. Might be some odd privacy protection technicality / maybe it's technically two different calls / cases or something. Apologies, I'm just a bit annoyed that this conspiracy theory crap gets airtime at the moment.
there’s an american version, as well. I, too, have made this solemn affirmation — my ring is unfaceted 501 stainless though.
I keep getting laid off after criticizing upper management. I don't see any reason to regret my choices; they made their choices, too. I'm only here to share links, to show people how they are wrong, and to follow the Prime Directive.
I wonder if you pick a company that is both small (<20 people) and doing something you believe in if you'd have a different experience.

At a startup, you get to have a large impact on the company so it definitely can feel like you're making a difference.
I suspect that most people, like me, don't want to be "nickel and dimed" for their news. There are very few articles that I want to read bad enough to pay $1 for. Almost as few for $.50.

For $50/yr, that means I could read 1 NYT article per week, or I could have the yearly subscription. If I care about that newspaper at all, the subscription makes a lot more sense.

The others are more like 2/wk instead, but still, if I'm only reading 2 articles per week from them, that seems really low.

But even if the price per article made economic sense, there's psychology to worry about. I can't find them at the moment, but I've read articles detailing that people will pick the 'unlimited' option over the cheaper per-piece option even when they know they'd pay less in the long run on the per-piece.

So while you might prefer to buy each article, that's generally not how people work.
From 2014. The original discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7568675
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