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Have you left an opportunity that “should” have worked out well?
Have you had a significant career/business/project opportunity that should have been great on paper, but for whatever reason didn't work out, and that you left or walked away from? If so, how did you move on?

I had a very significant career opportunity, a once in a lifetime sort of thing, and although it worked well for awhile, at some point it became miserable. I blame myself in part, but there were also significant changes in the environment, and it became extremely dysfunctional. I was not the only one who left, many others did as well.

For whatever reason, I'm having trouble moving on, trapped between feeling like I escaped what became a horrible situation, and feeling like I should have just stoically dealt with the problems and stayed. Others who know of my situation either see me either as letting bullies get their way, or a courageous badass for leaving, or (I suppose), a failure for not functioning in the newer dysfunctional system (which they might even see as improved).

Part of the issue, I think, is that others (not all) often assume something like "X was such a great opportunity, why would you be unhappy?" This comes from friends in similar positions that aren't dysfunctional, or people not in that type of position.

I'm wondering if others have felt this way and moved on, and if so, if there were insights they had that helped.
True about the feedback loops!

However I think we often underestimate what can be done simply by scaling up an economy. Nobody (as in no published estimates) anticipated the precipitous drop in battery costs, or solar PV costs. And even more people were skeptical of the dramatic costs on wind turbines.

Many (most?) utility executives and planners aren't aware of these cost drops, based on their planned deployments and their IRP processes. They often use old cost estimates rather than projections of costs into the future, even!

I wish you tons of luck on your ventures, we really need more people like you out there!
While these kind of papers are technically very exciting, I think they miss the reality that our tax (or any other) policies are the way they are because lobbying has been done to keep them that way, not because economists haven’t been able to come up with fairer policies.
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The fab is probably the safest public place on earth right now.
Seconded. TMAH is particularly scary, though less common than HF. If enough splashes on your skin, you die. Highly toxic stuff.
This is also known as “gradually shift from exploration to exploitation”
It's not an epidemic any longer and hasn't been for a while. It's a full blown global pandemic headed towards being endemic long term.

All three are very different scenarios that require different strategies and where we should have very different expectations for what is and is not achievable.

People are praising countries like New Zealand, but what's their endgame? Be in a situation where their citizens can't even safely travel from their country until global herd immunity is achieved because every vacation or business trip is a chance to end up being sick far from home?

This isn't going away just like the seasonal flu and common cold are not ever going to go away.
Why is that unlawful termination?
I'm not the biggest "law and order" fan, but we are asking law enforcement officers to make split-second decisions with limited information about the intention of the people they're interacting with.

Even believing that government power must be carefully and scrupulously limited, I would hesitate to put a police officer into a mindset where they're adopting the obligations to enforce society's laws but where we force them out somewhat naked in terms of support from that society.
Yeah, of course.

And I do feel bad for being so harsh, because I really like the concept. It is just so chunky and looks no fun to lug around.

I do look forward though to maybe getting a copy of the trackball/keyboard to use with other devices.
I fear particularly for a subset of countries for whom this could easily be an opportunity for highly punative destruction of rights that has been forming in the background already. South Africa for example.
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"Most complete" is laughable.
What's telling here is that you refactored the individual task into a single query, and nothing outside of that. That's fantastic! You scoped your work into a small unit and derived a significant impact. You maximized your impact to effort ratio.

Notably, you did NOT decide to write your own dialect of SQL to "scratch an itch". Knowing the layer below the abstraction you're working at can be useful at times, but only in relation to understanding the context of how all the layers fit together and making effective, pragmatic decisions. Pointless rewrites are anything but. Good on you for avoiding that impulse and doing the right thing.
Perhaps I missed it, but I don't see anywhere in this article where it implies this is a scandal in any way. There's no axiological statement here, just a pretty decent overview of the facts. I agree with you that not having a need for these field hospitals is a good thing (obviously) and I don't see the article implying otherwise.
Why wasn't this enforced 3+ months ago?
In addition, he is possibly the most prolific podcaster of our time. He's started no less than 6 different podcasts over the last decade or so, collectively known as the TWIx podcasts (This Week in Virology/Microbiology/Parasitology/etc. I'm a huge fan of TWIV, but they're all top-notch.

https://www.microbe.tv/
> but that doesn't punch the emotional and neurochemical pathways the way politicians and news peddlers want

Every discussion involving advertising or app marketing here inevitably attracts tons of comments adopting a let's-be-real-here, this-is-just-how-it-is tone about the realities of the industry. And yet these same people are also experts on the news industry and know the exact opposite is true there, that "de-politicized" or "balanced" news is somehow a thing that is not only possible but stupidly trivial to produce.

I mean, I get it, I utterly despise crabbed, shoddy, stupid journalism, too. But don't pretend there's some trivial fix. It is the way it is because of a combination of economic and ultimately social pressures. It is as much a symptom as a cause.
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That's what I did. Vouch didn't work nor was there a reply link.
Are you comparing facebook to a utility company? But honestly, misinformation in this day and age is such a huge problem. If a source is willfully spreading misinformation (that can be fact checked) then yeah, why should they be allowed to do that? They have absolutely no value, except for the people trying to deceive in order to further their agendas.
It is not the only one

https://www.csail.mit.edu/event/safe-parallel-programming-pa...

https://chapel-lang.org/docs/master/builtins/OwnedObject.htm...

And a couple more with affine types, or algebraic effects.

Yes, this might be the future, but we are still far from the overall convenience of GC for common programming scenarios.

If anything one was to thank the Rust community for pushing more people to look into this area, regardless of its outcome in the language market.
This is a company-wide "show HN" for us here at FullStory. We had a workforce that was 80% office-based and went to 100% remote. There was a lot we lost in that transition, so a number of engineers started working on a tool that would give us back that interaction.

On our weekly company-wide meeting we've got 100-200 people joining into the BWAMP session alongside the hangout and it adds a ton of colour.

There's also a volume slider so you can get "just enough BWAMP" and not go crazy.
TSMC 20nm didn't fail, it could be made in volume just fine, even if thermals were a bit disappointing.

The bigger TSMC failure was on 32nm, which had to be killed outright.
BBEdit's indenting and completion engines just aren't as smart as other editors -- I suspect in the latter case they'll have to add LSP support on their own (right now I don't think it can even be added externally because their API doesn't expose the right event hooks), and in the former case, I have a suspicion Bare Bones Software just has a philosophical objection to context-aware indenting. With those objections aside, BBEdit is still pretty good for development.

For the technical writing, I actually wrote a comment here somewhere about that in another post; I'll have to dig it up and turn it into a blog post at some point. But I called it a "fast Swiss army knife for text." Its "open file by name via fuzzy searching" command lets you enter multiple files, its multi-file search window lets you save file filters with meaningful names (and you can save grep patterns the same way, and in BBEdit 13 there's even a "Pattern Playground" that lets you nondestructively test out complex regexes on your current document). Projects get their own persistent scratchpads and Unix worksheets. And, a bit relevant to an Emacs thread, BBEdit has a bit of Emacs-ish keybinding support over and what Mac editors normally do, although it's decidedly not an Emacs emulation layer.
People don't always oppose larger social programs just because they want to screw people over. They sometimes oppose the programs because they think they do more harm than good. Generally speaking, not a lot of people are going to change their political opinions in a crisis. There's a lot of confirmation bias going around right now, although some people may pivot and argue for whatever would benefit / did benefit / would have benefited them personally.
Are there any startup or community out there who are still using IRC? If so, what are the reasons?

I wonder what are the advantages of that over newer technologies like Slack, Discord, or even XMPP.
the question is, would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?
The role of government is to protect the weak from the strong, and in order to do that, unfortunately, government has to be strong.

Have you read about the history of the US? Segregation? Laws against interracial marriage? “Sodomy” laws to persecute homosexuality? The Mulliford Act?

Historically the US has only “protected” the majority. The same is true today if you look where the “War on Drugs” is taking place compared to “treating drug addiction like a disease” is taking place.

“Powerful corporations” can’t take away your liberty or your property.
Planning to do that, try searching for "product <location>" for now. Should work to some extent.
Instead of “peace officers”, or even “police” we have “law enforcement” which pretty much shows how the priorities have shifted over the last 50 years. Whom now do they “protect and serve?” Not the citizens but the legal code.

This same kind of language has transformed the system output as well: instead of “penitentiary” (where you reflect on your crime and perhaps resolve to be better” or “correctional” facilities we just have a “department of prisons”. That’s been a longer shift.

The process has become the focus rather than the end result much less the broader good.
you´re missing the point.
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My impression is that Andorra has a favourable tax regime and is close to Spain and France...
"Flatten the curve" != "wait until the epidemic burns out"

The fact that the rhetoric started with one and ended with the other makes the whole process feel dishonest.
...yes? do you think bad things should be ignored if your side did them also or something?
Propaganda is one hell of a drug.
I'm guessing this deployed on a secondary computer, not on any flight-critical computers; no way it would have passed airworthiness otherwise (even in a demo). As a result, the worst that could probably happen would be the pilot having to power-cycle the secondary computer.
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It's a fairly common occurrence for me to drive to the grocery store, buy my groceries, and return home without crashing. Yet, I wear my seatbelt for the worst-case outcome not the typical or most common outcome.

Likewise, I wouldn't issue police equipment based on the extremely common case where a policeman doesn't need a vest nor a gun all day and, in fact, on the majority of days doesn't even need their set of handcuffs.
> Or did people just die at home afraid to go to the hospital?

Probably yes. In the UK there is a significant surge in non covid related deaths above historical stats. Bear in mind also the definition of a covid 19 related death is, err, generous in the first place

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/non-covid-deaths-are-als...
About getting to 0 (as i noted elsewhere): One of the best things I can recommend is getting control of finances, instead of letting others and money control you, using Dave Ramsey's 7 baby steps: https://www.daveramsey.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps

I can attest it makes life better!

(...with or without purchasing one of his books/dvds/etc; no affiliation but customer; we bought some of his materials for our children. Some of them told us they prefer a free BYU personal finance course, but I dont have that link as handy at the moment).
And Dow Jones is up by almost 400 points. Go figure..
What do you think is overhyped? The situation in Italy? Or the thousands of people dying a day?
Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable feeling when one sees through the effect you are describing. Perhaps "illusory cognitive consonance"? It's a bit of a mouthful...

Of course, confirmation biases and other related phenomena help us construct and reinforce these perspectives.
Would be nice if you could filter those fortnite kiddies
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The parsing cost for 100+ kB of JavaScript is not negligible. Sure maybe the transfer over the network is comparable to an image file, but you can’t stop measuring there. And to claim “Lightweight” on the homepage for something that should be tiny when uncompressed is a bit of a stretch—lightweight compared to what?
I once wrote a stored procedure that did something that has now been built into most databases. I didn't write the original code, I just modified the code to use the information schema. It took me two days to understand the original code and two days to make my changes. For a few years after I wrote that code I got emails from random people asking me questions about it and I sadly could not help them.
Intel ran out of 9th gen chips started fishing Quality Control reject chips out of the trash and selling them as F chips (9100F etc), which are chips that failed GPU quality controls and so got GPU disabled. credit for using honest label - F for F grade GPU.
I believe IRC and other old school text based protocols definitely inspired the idea of the protocol itself. But there is also kinda of a complementary aspect to that: in the past I had to write, for work, things like a non blocking POP3d for busy mail servers. The way the normal implementations worked was pretty terrible, so I developed a lot of appreciation for event-driven designs like the one in Redis, that tend to be very efficient. About IRC and the other text based protocols of the early days of Internet, I always thought that their inefficiency for certain tasks was never about the fact of being text-only, but because of the lack of prefixed length information. No prefixed length means two terrible things, an EOF signal of some kind but especially a way to quote such EOF in case it is present in the data part itself. Then HTTP arrived and showed that it was possible to do great things with text protocols, and now, the irony, it is a binary one as well :-D So Redis uses a prefixed-length but otherwise textual protocol for this reasons.
Amazon has 5% of retail and 30% of online commerce - neither is a monopoly.
And yet the Denver Convention Center laid off the vast majority of their staff shortly after converting to one of these field hospitals.
> In order to mutually trust what we do on each others' machines, we give up some rights

I trust what people do on their machines to the extent they can cryptographically prove it to me. Anything else is, for me, an unacceptable compromise.
Haha great, enjoy your food! I wonder how do you structure your search term?
I think this has been submitted a few times but probably didn't get any traction because this site is pretty allergic to anything Mark Cuban.

However this is a great data first approach to seeing how companies are opening up, especially since many of these are regional and national chains which would follow similar/smae procedures across the nation when re-opening.

He mentioned revisiting these stores as well to track progress so I look forward to seeing how this data evolves.

Hopefully in a couple weeks, compliance goes up as stores and employees adjust to these new standards.
There are quite a few schools in America already doing this. A friend’s kids attended all the way to 18yo. They seem to have turned out ok, but I haven’t checked in recently. IIRC, they found jobs doing things they love.

They are given pretty much total freedom. At the end of the year they have to justify their time and what they accomplished.

Like another said, I don’t know if ADD me would have thrived here, but we’ll never know. People say boredom is essential for a variety of reasons, so maybe this works in the small but for a country.
no, the virus didn't somehow get more contagious in march, it had just spread farther/deeper. the same measures would have reduced risk equally in either case. only the likelihood of need (that those measures would have non-trivially helped prevent spread) would have gone up on a per-interaction basis.
I read and watched a lot about the story since this post.

It's a very sad story on many aspects and likely controversial (giving him publicity, contacting authorities, ignoring him, banning him, etc); all these actions had consequences and forged his mind this way.

I wish more people would support him and his family instead of encouraging him in his dementia.

This software is certainly good food for thoughts, not just about computers, but life in general, so it could be worth including it in some sort of museum.
I'm willing to bet that a lot of these stores were pushed on Amazon FBA sellers that were frustrated with Amazon by Facebook "masterminds" hawking "Shopify Courses". These stores will see zero sales or will be forced to purchase so much in Facebook ads that the margins are drilled into negative territory. What I do has been the opposite. I run niche sites for products not selling on Amazon and lately have moved into selling on Amazon MFN. Note to FBA sellers, just do MF and you'll be fine.
I went looking for data to refute this, because it didn't seem right to me. But, looks like you're correct here.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics [0], among all state-level prisoners, 14.3% of them are in for murder, and 13.1% are in for rape. That's 27.4% for the combination, or about 350,000 inmates. 106 per 100,000.

If you add in Federal prisoners, the inmate count goes to ~370,000, or about 112/100k

[0] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p18.pdf (PDF, see table 13, page 21.)
What about in the case where animals can extract more nutrients from plant food than we can? Cows in particular have specially built stomachs that can extract nutrients from plants than we can. I don't think this would be enough to make eating meat more efficient, but it may be necessary to eat some meat to get nutrients you wouldn't otherwise get from plants.
Have you guys tried Olvid https://olvid.io/en/, they removed the servers principle entirely. Worth trying
State of JS is also biased to the group that opts to fill the State of JS survey. I do think it's a great survey with real value, but it's quite likely it's own distinct group too.
Are workers rights a thing in the USA? Seems like it's not.
It's pretty common, I do it (shameless plug https://www.twitch.tv/nickbusey)

My stream setup is open source on GitLab https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/CodingStream

Here's an article I used in my early days to help get going https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2...
These statistics are collected from web browsing activity. I doubt many people are browsing the web from WSL.
If you think cookie consents are messed up I recommend you to check out the advertising industry's IAB consent framework, which is their attempt to self-regulate in order to avoid or at least deflect external regulation: Its purpose is to enable them to share your personal data between hundreds or thousands of ad networks.

I always suspected this and mistrusted those opt-out tools, but I never had any evidence for it. Would you mind elaborating?
The word "nature" is meant to specifically exclude humans so the argument "we are nature" is self-defeating
Edits and updates I made within minutes. The replies to my comment ultimately forced me to be more thoughtful in my words, resulting in me being able to better lay out my thoughts.

I specifically left my original comments in there because I don't want to pretend that I said anything perfectly right from the beginning, without the help of others.
> with the tools available in 2020, they should be able to do this without stopping the person to ask for their license and registration.

What tools would those be? Specifically how do you positively identify the driver without checking their ID?
We also issue them bullet-resistant vests, so no, it's not the only possible counter, but is there another ranged weapon you find more appropriate? Crossbows and long bows seem fairly unwieldy in the field.
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Chunky isn't necessarily bad if it's light. It looks like there's a lot of empty space inside compared to modern non-repairable laptops.
And because privacy chokes out their advertising competition.
Don't they then become targets? There is a subculture of anti-police thought and behavior in the US (witness this thread). Do the mental exercise: will police injuries/deaths increase/decrease if they were unarmed?
> It's not well suited for bigger programs built from many modules. It should be possible to have highly modular program code, but still end up with a single monolithic "root data layout".

You can still have modules per file, where the globals can be thought as members of a virtual root. And the globals can be either shared or private to the module.

I have seen very complex programs done like that. There are some advantages like proving the program does not run out of memory, but the problem is that you end up with code that is harder to reuse, harder to test, etc. as soon as you start sharing state.

But yeah, it is sometimes done like that.
I'm genuinely baffled that one of the big proposals being floated is a payroll tax holiday, which would only really help the still employed folks.
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Anxiety over an inability to procure resources due to economic uncertainty for the future and lack of income is also an epidemic.
It's depressing that people think 25% of the workforce can be out of work for an indeterminate period of time without massive, potentially society-ending effects.
"They own stakes in many american media companies and movie production houses. They use this influence to also change our Media and push pro-Jewish propaganda to the American public."

Just criticism of the Israeli government?