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> Anecdotally, where I live in Seattle, the people who are still driving are driving like maniacs...speeding, ignoring stop signs, lights, etc

This is likely similar everywhere. Traffic controls idiots speeding. For another anecdote, check out these statistics from Toronto [1], approx 460% year-over-year increase in stunting charges ("stunting" being the charge when someone is going more than 50km/hr over the speed limit.) One person recently was going 270km/hr in a 100km/hr zone (cops caught them because a tire blew).

[1] "Between March 16 and April 22, police have issued 6,978 speeding tickets and 224 stunt driving charges. In the same period last year, police issued 5,504 speeding tickets and 40 stunt driving charges." https://www.toronto.com/news-story/9960534-toronto-police-ch...
Deoxy.org, it's been offline for years now. There was a mirror running at Reoxy.org but that too has gone down. I comment here because there was a wonderful IRC community there that I lost contact with when Deoxy went down, and I'd love to find it again.

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Declining as in the machine that is the U.S. is broken and there is no apparent fix in sight. This generation won’t experience famine or regress into a developing nation but we will experience a decoupling of some of the preconceived notions of what being an American is.

I believe if we make some changes we can push the U.S. back to being the beacon of freedom that it has the potential to be. We have a lot of brilliant minds here.
I see. While I don't know the details, it seems it would promote the use of "entry/barrel" files once again.
As a recovering Dvorak user, I would very much like the match-the-legends behavior, because for quite a long time I used a keymap which was not the default. At one job I had an Advantage2 that I carried around with me because the keys were internally remapped (when you pressed a key it reported the scancode for that letter on QWERTY) because of how time consuming it is to add a keyboard layout in most operating systems. Unfortunately that kind of internal remapping is mostly only found in some very expensive keyboards. There's at least one vendor that sells a USB dongle that does the same remapping to a pass-through USB keyboard for the same reason.

This problem would be infrequently encountered in the US (mostly just Dvorak and Colemak addicts) but is a lot more common in Europe due to AZERTY.
>> You cant just move manufacturing elsewhere

That's exactly what China and the United States are trying to do: To Africa.
Yeah...I'm now mildly curious what could be done using this, plus a genetic algorithm decided either by a human listener, or a suitability function encoding basic ideas in music.
Unlike other countries which announce fatalities on the date they become known to authorities. Sweden updates its fatality chart retroactively on the day each person actually died. Since it takes a long time to get/process death information to/in the national government, the effect of this is that Sweden's Covid fatality chart always looks like it has just peaked. The apparent dip in daily deaths is just a delay in reporting.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NiklasJonsson91/status/1252976186...
> Why did you make a mistake if you're arguing that you could have not made one?

This is bizarre. Where on earth did you get the idea that I am arguing that one could have not made a mistake? The whole issue is about one's attitude and behavior after having done so.

I am not going to consider anything else you write here until you clear up that mystery, which seems to be the root of your confusion.
But you would be surprised if they all had 11, 10 is your null hypothesis. It’s not context, it’s proper controls and the scientific method. This was very very careless
Clear your medium cookies. It's a "lots of visits" thing.
Yes, I loved the Weasel!
I added a 'Why' section to the [readme](https://github.com/bessiambre/casync). Maybe this helps understand the reasoning better?
Not to mention the lead times on factory construction being two orders of magnitude longer in the United States.

Steve Jobs told Obama manufacturing is never coming home, but it only partly had to do with cost. Impossibility of scaling like China was the major blocker.
I'm in Atlanta and noticed the exact same thing today. Biking here is usually hairy, but I was almost hit twice by people making a rushed left turn in the course of a 20 mile ride. I wonder if it's because people are driving less, and their skills have fallen off, or if people are living some kind of zombie apocalypse fantasy.
Glad it's not just me. I'm halfway through reading the linked post, and it seems like he hasn't yet gotten to the point.
Is there any information available about this "Delphi" OS?

I've always found obscure historical operating systems fascinating.
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Disable JavaScript or use a text browser like Lynx. I've put the article in this paste: https://pastebin.com/raw/pe6dfUtJ
No sir, was there such a thing?
Interestingly, Japan ended up going down a low-growth path in part due to demographics--lots of old people, not many immigrants. China's former one child policy and a preference for boys set the stage for stagnation in 10-20 years. China just has 10x the population of Japan.

https://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/china-...
Experiences vary wildly so take my with a grain of salt. From what I've seen though good EM positions are acquired more from social engineering than anything else. It's all about who you know. Get to the know the right people, work at darling companies, take a risk on a startup that ends up going big, etc. Moving from a non-tech retail company sounds extremely boring to anyone interviewing you (no offense).

My personal take on this is it's very difficult to measure an EM's ability before hiring. The job just feels really subjective with infinite variations on how to approach it. So what you need is some other kind of je ne sais quoi to get people excited about you. Maybe you have a lot of mutual contacts that praise you highly. Maybe you come in as part of an acquisition and the acquiring company has a lot of respect for you. Stuff like that. Either way I don't think the ability to do the day-to-day work is a good enough to get hired (which sucks, but remember "grain of salt").

Tasks and differences from tech lead vary between companies. In general though an EM isn't writing as much code. Mostly focused on coordinating meetings, hiring, and making sure their team's projects are headed in the right direction. EMs also tend have a strong influence on the engineering culture (establishing and enforcing it). So for example an EM might push heavily for TDD and pair programming on their team while another EM might focus on other stuff like rapid prototyping.

Tech lead OTOH may also influence a decision on TDD/pairing from the previous example, but not exactly establish the guideline for the team to do it. Tech lead would choose the testing framework not the EM. OTOH EMs might have a strong influence over larger engineering decisions (like using K8s or not).
But those discussions happen all the time. If there is a drug that can extend the life of this person for 5 years but it costs X - should it be covered by society ? At what X does it become unacceptable ? The highest numbers I've seen argued are in the 200k/year but realistically it's much lower depending on the country.
...or he didn't plan for the pandemic and got wiped out like most everyone else? It doesn't have to be Ray's fault for not being prescient.
How does one fully remove McAfee?
Recently I downloaded a pdf document in chrome, and a banner appeared at the top of the browser window saying that McAfee Webadvisor was scanning the file.

Interesting, because I did not install it.

So I go to add remove programs, and uninstall anything that I see that is McAfee related.

A couple of days later, the fan in my pc is spinning louder than usual, so I open up task manager, and lo and behold - the resource hog is non other than McAfee Webadvisor.

Question: how does one completely remove every trace of McAfee from a Windows PC, and ensure that it does not reappear?
I’ve been really sad lately, see just how quickly we’re trading our liberty as a society for the semblance of security.

Privacy invasive tracking, governors enacting law by decree, closing beaches, moms arrested in parks and people responding with “good”. Makes me sad. The virus came and gave our leaders all the excuses they needed.
He would be the first to tell you to do your own research. Not sure why you attribute prophecy to Ray's writings; he has repeatedly said to consider all information.

I'd read his books on debt cycles. It's novel thinking. Not necessarily correct, but fairly well-researched and presents data in a different view. Nowhere does he say to take the advice as gospel.
You first.

Admission to an exclusive university MAY be indicative of some achievement-but that achievement might be "how best to impress the sort of people who work for an Exclusive University's admissions office."

I might not feel that those are the best sorts to try and spend one's teenage years working to impress.
I always wonder how much of each factor is true.

Just as we were once young, so was "the (internet) world"/the websites.

It's maybe kind of like missing flying before 9/11 changed security procedures permanently across the globe. There's nothing invalid at all about saying that was an overall better quality of experience and I'm sad that there seems to be no means to bring it back.

I read some article about back when train travel was new and borders weren't secured and passports weren't a thing. IIRC, "wander lust" was a bonafide mental health diagnosis applied to people who would just up and leave and go elsewhere for a time, abandoning their lives and families and claiming to forget they existed.

That mental health diagnosis ceased to exist once that more of travel ceased to exist. Trains still exist, but you can't just up and go somewhere on a whim without a passport in the same way.

The world actually does, in fact, change in important ways. It's not really fair to dismiss that entirely on the idea that you just miss being young.

Though I certainly do miss being young in some ways. I miss being young and naive and just talking with people without wondering what their agenda is and whether or not it will be a serious problem for me because I've seen too much of that. In some sense, worrying about that doesn't seem to do a great job of protecting me from a certain type of person, but it does kill a lot of spontaneity and my online relationships just aren't the same.

And I wonder at what I've gained and at what I've lost and if it's worth it. But like with post 9/11 plane flight, there's no going back and I'm stuck with it, for better or worse, like it or not.
I couldn’t tolerate this writing long enough to get through more than half the article. There’s the “history is cyclical” trope, the “I have learned how to read history” repeated self-aggrandizement without any specifics, despite going on long enough to repeat himself, and really obvious statements meant to read like profundity (“when there’s great inequality of wealth, there will be social tensions”, paraphrasing only slightly.)

I read a book by him once. It was short and vapid and full of pseudo-profundity. It was cheap and highly rated on Amazon, so I’d given it a try. I didn’t realize he was banking on his name as an investor. Now I understand why anyone would bother reading his writing once, but not why they would read it twice.
> The U.S. greatest competitive advantage has been culture

I'd argue it's being the global reserve currency not culture.
The UK and French government proposals for contact tracing violate GACT privacy design.
I'm not sure that the West can move manufacturing back home, but I can see manufacturing moving to the next poorest country, in perpetuity. China's standard of living is increasing, and it will eventually be as economical to outsource work to China as it is to outsource labor to Japan or South Korea.

Instead, I can see the world gradually shifting manufacturing to the next cheapest labor pool until there is none left, and then the ensuing equilibrium would have diversified supply chains, with any concentration largely being a function of 1) access to natural resources, and 2) access to expertise.
This seems really short-sited given the reality of pandemics. Walking or biking or high utilization of public transport implies high density. In a pandemic, the more people you encounter, the higher the chance of contracting the disease. Cars decrease density by increasing the effective area where people can work/shop/live. The area accessible grows as the square of the distance you can travel. In addition, in a car, increased travel time does not increase exposure. With walking or public transport, your exposure increases the longer you travel.
Mi sendis al vi inviton ludi en la aplikaĵo. Mia enluda nomo estas "egeto". Se vi akceptas mian peton mi provos helpi vin uzante la babilejon, kiu estas parto de la aplikaĵo.
Tell that to anyone who is poor in an economic depression. Or anyone who has a serious illness. I once spent three months bedridden from an autoimmune illness. I never once "liked" what I had.
One of the poorest imaginable ways to frame the subject.

'First Nations' flags are flown in various capacities all over the world, sometimes related to the local national forces.

Totems, elements of the local culture, flags are more common than not even in Colonial regalia.

Of course, castigation 1/2 of a nation as 'traitors' for seceding from a union is so problematic I wouldn't know where to begin with that.
I think it's very hard to extrapolate Sweden's result to other parts of the world. We have seen what New York and Italy have had to deal with in terms of deaths and that's after they went into a lockdown. I'm sure there are parts in the world where a lockdown was not needed but how can you figure that out beforehand.

I'm sure there have been mistakes made during this pandemic but it's too early to decide which have been good or bad.
Basic healthcare in prison is free (I believe?), and I reckon the food is comparatively less likely to give you diabetes?
It's been waaaay more than 2 years. The current rate is $5mil for a kid who might've gotten in on their merits, $10mil for a kid who has no business being there at all.

Gentlemen, start your checkbooks!
I guarantee you that when the data comes out:

* It will also show an undercount of at least an order of magnitude.

* Commenters will still pop up to explain why the results can't be trusted and which further studies are absolutely required before we believe them.
The Modem is still Fabbed By Intel. So Apple only purchase the relevant tools and IP as Apple has no access to Intel's Fab. I was Surprised because Intel is operating at maximum capacity and it would make sense to cut the high volume low margin item like Modem.
Billions is absolutely based on reality. Steve Cohen / SAC Capital.
It will move to places like India and Vietnam and other countries that are more open and transparent but also Cheap.

It was accelerating before the pandemic.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3045141/c...
@fallat:

I started to take a look at your problem, but I wasn't able to run the code that you posted to test.

For the C code, the "#include" statements at the top are missing their <header.h>. Easy to solve now that you posted the link to the original, but maybe you could fix?

For the assembly, you are relying on "list.macro", which I couldn't find. Could you post this, or even better link to a repository that can be used?

Separately, it would probably be helpful to post the exact model number of your processor. Speed doesn't (shouldn't?) really matter, but the "generation" is essential.

Also, I don't think you mention the number of iterations you are running for your timing. [I see now in the assembly that you seem to be using 5000000?]

Post a bit more info, and someone here (maybe me, maybe not) will figure it what's causing the slowdown.
Some days at work, if I wrote buggy code, I go to my boss and return my paycheck. No! Wait, that never happens.

Sometimes there are going to be mistakes.
If your commits are clean and improperly ordered, this may be useful.

A perforce implementation I used in the past supported checking into a development branch and reviewing the set of CLNs that hadn’t been merged to mainline. I don’t necessarily agree with the workflow, but it was nice to have code complete, but not yet ready to ship things in everyone’s working branch.
Without the government providing free food and healthcare, consumer capitalism is all we have to sustain ourselves. It's easier to give freedom pursuit of property than to give out property directly.
As someone who just finished their undergrad in CS I can say that the majority of the people I know who dropped did so because of the workload and the nature of it. Coding up a robust LZW compression algo or a small version of BASH in a week and a half on top of other classes can make for a stressful time. But every school is different of course.
So your professor was Dijkstra?
While technically true my experience is that doing makes learning easier. Whether it's chemistry labs or running modified examples through a computer the process helps things click for me.
Yes! Whatever happened to Dave Green?
TouchID doesn’t work with my gloves
A modern spin on the old saying:
Your freedom to cough ends at my nose.
Oh shit, I totally forgot about bash.org. hunter2, DISREGARD THAT, "I put on my robe and wizard hat"... a lotta old memes came from IRC.
That’s for pharma trials. Medical devices flow through the CDRH.
The purpose of this grant was to run follow-up studies and to work on productionizing the intervention. The purpose of follow-up studies is to detect if result extends. The follow-up work detected result was due to experiment setup error. Grant worked.

Actually, encountering this I think I suddenly understand why people get upset about Kickstarter projects not delivering. It is a misunderstanding of a probabilistic situation.
Regional food shortages can have a global ripple effect. Sound familiar?
Cooking at home is not stressful like working at a restaurant, come on.
Fondly remember planetquake [0] and checking the latest plan updates from id software on quakefinger [1].

0 - http://web.archive.org/web/19990502092711/http://www.planetq...

1 - http://web.archive.org/web/19991002143618/http://finger.plan...
There is more precipitation during a warmer half of the year on their territory outside of ocean shores where it's in reverse, also the gap between those grows further to north.
What do you think about training a binary classifier to distinguish between human and generated samples? E.g. choose a state of the art model designed to classify composers or styles, and finetune it for this task.
Remote work doesn't work well for certain jobs that require dealing with physical objects.

This may change with advances in robotics and remote control.
Generic dissing of other commenters just adds noise to HN. If you know more than others, why not share some of what you know so we all can learn?

(Edit: I originally wrote "one of the worst ways to add noise". That was overkill; it gets worse.)
Here is for Europe if you are interested. There are charts for excess morality by country, by age, and by year.

https://www.euromomo.eu/

There is a very noticeable spike in the worst hit countries: Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands and the UK.
The cumulative excess deaths for all Europe in the last two months matches the COVID-19 reported deaths (around 100000).
Seconding this opinion.

China may need no help from US to jeopardise its ascendancy.

So far, China's progress came at a greatest expense of its political establishment.

For long, people have expected that at some point the people in power will decide that they need to put a leash on the country that gets too far ahead of its political leadership, and prevent it from getting "too successful" for them to manage.

They way Xi's administration not simply acting on that, but like tripling and quadrupling down on it in the last few years is the biggest proof that they have passed that point.
My first language was a Pascal-like DSL, learned for the sole purpose of mining ores while I was at school.

I think I should credit my salary to Jagex.
Candystand games and shockwave.com
Georgia's actions don't seem so dumb now...
It is not quite the same thing. If your boss had sold your code to a customer who paid based on the buggy result then would the customer be unreasonable seeking a refund? Would your boss be ethical offering the customer a refund?
How does the molecule arrangement and information get passed to offspring?
London’s Embankment from Westminster to Blackfriars (and the rest of CS3 on other roads) added a bike lane by removing car capacity despite it being full every rush hour. The road as a whole has higher throughput now.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-cycle-lane-superhighway-em...
I never even got a drivers license and have lived just fine so I'm also always shocked by the comments here in transport-related threads when people talk about not having a car as if this is somehow a fantasy utopian vision.

And this also I might add includes families with children. While I don't have any I know a lot of parents who don't rely on cars either.
The US Constitution has always been treated as having a huge asterisk of the form "X is required/banned unless there is a really good reason", even by original signatories, because humans matter more than paper. Now, what's considered "a good reason" is the heart of politics.
And the real question is: will history repeat itself with Netflix, et al?

HBO demonstrates that it’s still an open question.
This submission was flagged. I wonder why? Political reasons? I don't think it's a bad article.
For just ellipses (which includes circles), a 2nd derivative prediction will work perfectly. Obviously there are paths that are not predictable though
No, people express values by insisting that definitions include their values implicitly. That's because they think it's a clever trick to force other people to accept their values, but I think it's overrated. You know how in 1984, they controlled thought through language? I always thought that was dumb. But everyone certainly tries.
> Why Zoom? Simple: Zoom is winning.

For now. But it isn't really a compelling reason to build a startup on top on someone else's 'winning' ecosystem. The assumption here is that these 'startups' believe that they could get acquired by Zoom someday which is at best a 50/50 risk of allowing Zoom to compete with or copy you, if you're on their platform. So what do you do? Add support for Zoom's competitors.

Now even if you support Google Meet, Skype, etc there is nothing stopping them from also copying you. Once that happens you're finished. The moral of this story is control. Zoom, Google and Skype win by default and all the startups building upon them risk being at their mercy.
I have to say that yours and the parent comment seem to espouse similar points (despite coming from different ideological perspectives). One of the explicit goals of PPP is providing wage support, after all.
My strongest argument for remote work is that I find typical offices almost completely useless for getting work done, because of interruptions, distractions, noise, required in-person activities, shared physical space, and general lack of privacy, so I end up doing most work at home anyway.

Many physical offices seem to be designed largely to enforce social pecking orders (sustaining and visibly rewarding high status while punishing low status) and/or to cram more people into fewer square feet, rather than to facilitate sustainable productivity along with physical and mental health.

Private, walled offices with closed doors can help somewhat, but most workplaces I'm familiar with seem to have switched to productivity-destroying open plan offices to save on facilities costs.
And since that time what have they secured?