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Do you mean Unix domain sockets by "IPC"? TCP sockets are also a perfectly valid IPC mechanism, as are many others. Win32 generally promotes pipes (named, if needed) for this purpose. For sockets, if you insist on them, it offers some optimizations for local/local TCP connections. Win10 eventually added Unix sockets, mostly for WSL integration (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...). In the end, it's all just byte streams, so it doesn't matter much once you get past establishing connection.

The biggest annoyance with Windows sockets is that they aren't really unified with files - as in, a socket file descriptor cannot be passed to file APIs that work on FDs, like read() and write(); you have to use send/recv(). This makes it harder to write generic code in C, since you need an abstraction layer for code that deals with I/O streams. But most frameworks already offer such an abstraction layer - e.g. a .NET API would just use Stream (and if it's a socket, it would be a NetworkStream instance).
Sure, and we can technically build another Silicon Valley somewhere in the midwest as well.

The thing is, do young people want to spend their youth and efforts "reimagining" this (the effects of which they won't even see, even in the most optimistic scenario, until they are well past their youth)? I know that I, personally, don't. And it seems unlikely that a lot of young people would be willing to latch onto this kind of "opportunity" either.

It isn't even about "white picket fences", it is about the number of opportunities around, which you only get with high population density. Which is the antithesis of the suburban style of living.
My work said today we should probably expect to work from home through the summer. But haven’t medical professionals said that there might be a new outbreak next Fall? Maybe I’ll never go back to the office.
Which is so ironic to leave the economy of a country up to the whims of a private entity, where the people running it indulge in parasitic and immoral practices (interest/usury) to always profit off of the backs of people.
Do you ever go to team dinners?
> We aren't allowed to sell people something that doesn't exist?

Have you heard of this thing called Kickstarter?
Looks like the parent is saying that the right answer is somewhere in between. When enough engineers can be educated without watering down the entire cohort
> whether or not it seems to violate a prior expectation of anonymity or privacy

Anything sent over the air cannot be assumed to be anonymous or private. The bits are being transmitted through a shared medium.

If I'm using semaphores to communicate with my girlfriend across the road, I can't be upset if her neighbor looks at me as I wave flags around in my living room.
Well, the poor need the most government handouts, and if you make the people who need the most government handouts have to give away most of their income in this manner, you've essentially just taken government debt and given it to the landlords. That doesn't make economic sense either.

As for discussion being stale, I have children, my ability to monitor threads is impaired. It might not be much of a discussion easily visible to outsiders, but we are both continuing to engage. Or will up to a point.
The problem is formal scholarly training and employment demands are 4-8 years dislocated from each other.

Universities do their best to keep a bead on the market (at least, the good ones do), but without medical school-style coordination it's almost impossible not to under- or over-shoot substantially in terms of graduate supply.
PowerShell has been around since 2006, not just the past 3 or 4 years. And there was a good deal of CLI-based administration / scripting before then, too.
FWIW the output can be significantly better using PhotoScan app, also from Google, no idea why they don’t integrate them.
The Hidden Costs of Software Dependencies
Why? I'm really trying to understand. If you're directly modifying the DOM, why would you need comments or CDATA tags? Is CDATA useful in a DOM if you don't actually need a textual representation?
A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity [pdf]
Spawning a process is a rather heavyweight operation on Windows, compared to Linux, so it's not surprising that it's slower. But 5 seconds definitely makes it sound like an I/O caching issue.
It uses the platform’s native APIs to render UI widgets, so it looks and feels like a true native desktop application, while still giving you a web flavored dev experience.
It states in the article that it will be all stock. You take all these meal delivery companies, mix in other frothy VC-funded nonsense of uber and somehow end up with a triple-A portfolio made entirely of dog shit.
Maybe. But German grocery stores are also quite small.

Like, the setup works fine for the way Germans go grocery shopping: smaller amounts of groceries, two or three times a week. It just sucks for families if you wanna buy more at once.

I miss Costco.
I guess my overall point is that the other factors you mention (the 2-year delay and lack of launch titles even with that delay), plus a couple not yet mentioned (like some rather nasty bottlenecks in the otherwise state-of-the-art graphics pipeline, especially around textures, which made things harder for developers and therefore harder to get third-party titles) were a greater factor in why the Nintendo 64 wasn't the dominant console. And yeah, the cartridges might've contributed to the lack of launch titles somewhat, but I suspect it really had more to do with tighter quality controls (this was the cited reason why Shadows of the Empire didn't end up being a launch title; LucasArts explicitly prioritized an extra couple months of polishing over trying to force the originally-planned release date) plus the N64's somewhat more exotic hardware (this being the same problem the Saturn had, but in the N64's case it wasn't quite as extreme).

That is: I think the N64 not being the "lead" console was a foregone conclusion regardless of whether it used cartridges or CDs, and that had the Nintendo 64 jumped on the optical bandwagon it would've suffered rather than prospered, all other factors being constant. The Gamecube is evidence of this, with Nintendo's market dominance slipping further even after making the switch to optical media (though one could definitely argue that the choice of Mini-DVDs kneecapped the Gamecube right from the start, introducing the worst of both worlds re: load times and capacity relative to other consoles in its generation). Yet, even the Gamecube and the N64 before it were popular enough to be commercial successes; neither of them really "lost" the Console Wars the same way SEGA's and Atari's consoles did (or the same way the Wii U arguably did).

> the options [for roleplaying/fighting/sports games] on Nintendo were so bad

The third-party options were unremarkable, sure, but the Nintendo 64 was the debut platform for Super Smash Bros., which was a pretty massive commercial success even then (let alone in future iterations like Melee and Brawl). Can't speak much to RPGs or sports games, since I didn't play very many RPGs back then (and never really found much enjoyment in sports games, on any platform), though I'm pretty sure the Legend of Zelda games and Paper Mario all fall into the RPG genre and all had pretty great critical acclaim and commercial success.
Exactly!

A distinction that doesn't make a difference is a very poor distinction.

"If I take my Tesla car and beat it up with a hammer, it's my right to do it. My neighbor might think that I am crazy, but it's my property. It's just a machine and I can do with it what I want. But if I beat up my dog, the police will come and arrest me. What is the difference? The dog can suffer, the dog is a conscious being; it has some rights. The Tesla is not a conscious being. But if machines at some point become conscious, then there will be ethical, legal, and political consequences. So, it matters a great deal whether or not a machine is conscious."

At various times, in certain circles, it has been argued that animals are not 'sensate' (or 'conscious' or various other terms); if you poke a dog with a needle, it acts like it is hurt. But it isn't really in pain. Instead it is 'pretending', acting like it is in pain to avoid further damage or to gain sympathy. Mostly, this kind of idea has been discarded. Mostly.

Koch is making the same kind of argument. If you had a computer based system that looked and acted in all ways like a human being, or an animal, you could cheerfully "beat it up with a hammer" because it's not a 'conscious' being. Even if it looks and acts like one, it simply cannot be because you aren't looking "at the behavior of the machine, but at the actual substrate that has causal power" which is a von Neumann architecture, and "the causal power of Von Neumann-chips is minute" and therefore "any AI that runs on such a chip, however intelligent it might behave, will still not be conscious like a human brain."

To me, this is a philosophically uninteresting theory. (And I fear the day that they start applying their consciousness -meter to random people: "The theory has given rise to the construction of a consciousness-meter that is being tested in various clinics in the U.S. and in Europe. The idea is to detect whether seriously brain-injured patients are conscious, or whether truly no one is home.") The idea that yes, you could build a machine that looks and acts intelligent, conscious, causal, or whatever word you like, but it still would not be real intelligence, or whatever. It always struck me as very akin to the "we don't understand it, so therefore it's magic" school.
It's not true that all HN threads are like that, though it can be fun to make general claims about that. In reality there's a lot of variation in thread quality, and also in article quality. This is a case where the thread/article quality seemed particularly low; hence I posted that admonition. Funnily enough there was an inverse case at the same time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23159028).

(I detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158853)
I could take off about three months of vacation right now, but I don’t because I’m so busy that I know that taking time off and then playing catch up is worse than not taking time off at all.
Yep, definitely - I've been working in Windows/ASP.NET for 10 years. More on the sysadmin side of things now, but it's still big enough to have a career.
Ah cool. Will try that, thanks a bunch.
What about https://blockstack.org/? With this approach you own the data
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Yet L4 is still nowhere in sight. What Tesla has now, Waymo had a demo for almost a decade ago. Either Waymo has been doing literally nothing for the past decade, or there's something more subtle and far more difficult about getting to L4.
Turns out that some outdoor environmental dust is ferromagnetic.

A particular vertical-axis wind turbine project was destroyed by buildup of magnetic dust on the generator magnets.

I'm not saying that's what was killing your drives directly. Normally HDDs are fully sealed. But the amount of dust you mention is awfully suspicious. It might change your investigative perspective a bit when you consider that some small percentage of all that dust is ferromagnetic.
Great solution to “economic inequality”. We should do it here too, increase admissions in ivy leagues by 100 fold. Will solve the inequality problem the television pundits and grifter politicians breathlessly blabber about.
Choice is like junk food
How to generate great startup ideas
I guess there is no problem in using gh pages for this, see [1]. They won't shut you down, and most probably the site the views will slow down, so you won't reach the bandwith limit.

[1]: https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Pages/Can-I-use-github-pa...
It's factual that a policy exists or does not, however one feels about it.
How to Not Choke on Your Dropshipping Business During a Crisis
with an outlook like this why would you go anywhere? an office you have at least a chance of professionalism which is far different than what you can encounter in the open
I don't think there were any non-DMSMR WD Red disks that had the same SKU as the DMSMR Reds. It was just a particular consumer SKU that didn't mention whether it was DMSMR or not (and was.) But anyone ordering that SKU was going to get a DMSMR drive. They weren't sending enterprise customers ordering that SKU one drive and sending consumers ordering the same SKU something else. Enterprise customers had their own catalogue of enterprisey SKUs to order from, that had no overlap with the consumer-level SKUs.
Thank you for clarification. I must have missed the floss links from the homepage.
Woohoo! I just noticed Deno is at release candidate stage for v1.0.
They seem to be antithetical ideas somehow.

Business inherently relies on secrecy (proprietary stuff). Hackers try to make secret things open.
Commotio Cordis
You mention this in passing at the end, but I think it’s worth emphasizing: Reducing commute time driving yourself to work has been well studied to have a very large marginal improvement in happiness.

Reducing time commuting on a comfy megacorporation’s arms-length-contracted-carriage-provider bus has been studied much less, and it’s not nearly as clear it improves people’s happiness that much.

Also, taking your commute time to zero isn’t obviously an improvement in happiness; there’s a lot of psychological benefit to having a separate space for work and home life. It’s possible for some people to prepare a home office that successfully feels separate, but it’s not automatic.
I don’t think we produce enough for every minimum wage worker to earn enough to have 2-3 kids and raise them in a dignified manner (or the equivalent in Ferraris and hedonism). Kids are really, really expensive.
Sick days aren't a real solution because people only take the days that they are the most sick off. But will happily work while contagious and 'just starting' to feel sick.
Teach a person how to make a song and they might buy your hardware.

Teach a person how to make a song in Logic Pro X and they must buy your hardware. (so that their workflow doesn't get impacted)
Thanks to everyone who checked pyp out!

Not sure if this comment will ever get seen, but I just added the ability to configure pyp with statically analysed Python, so it's easy to define your own functions, import aliases, or use libraries like pipetools to make your life easier! More details at https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp#pyp-is-configurable
I think I've kinda protected myself from that by working across multiple operating systems and different stacks. I think a lot of devs would do well to try different frameworks, different ways of programming (myself included).

I think EF might get a bad rap because it's pretty closely tied to MS SQL Server - and if you don't know exactly what you're doing it will write some pretty hideous queries for you.
React doesn't suffer from this. It's React Native.
I had the same issue recently. What I did is sign a blank paper, take a pic of it with my phone and copypasted the text over the blank page with The Gimp.
One could argue anything they like, it doesn’t mean their argument (or sophistry in general) leads to a better acquiring of knowledge through discussion.

In my opinion, the gp’s discussion is one worth having.
Markets never pay you what you contribute, they pay you some number between "what you contribute" and "what you can earn working elsewhere". Your contribution sets a ceiling on your compensation; your opportunity cost sets a floor. What you actually make is whatever you can negotiate in between.

When you work in an area with fewer jobs in your field, it's far less likely that you'll have a competing offer that'll jeopardize the company's ability to keep you. That means your opportunity cost is much less, which means that the floor on what they can pay you is less.

(A similar dynamic on the investor side is why startups end up starting in the Bay Area to begin with. In most other regions of the company, there are very few investors willing to invest in high-risk tech startups. That means that a prospective startup needs to take the only financing option they can get, which means that the investor ends up owning the majority of the company. The Bay Area has a liquid and competitive market for funding, which means that there's a real chance of a VC firm losing the deal, which is what allows startups to raise capital on fair terms.)
1. Delayed function argument expression evaluation. Only evaluate the argument if the result is consumed.

You can get close using Callable<V>/.call in Java or better with 'lazy' in Kotlin, but I want it to be default behaviour. Even 'let' in Lisp/Clojure is sometimes annoying being eagerly evaluated.

2. 'var' function argument and return types. Basically allow type inference to work through a call stack.

Basically I want F# features to be in more popular languages.
I get the comparison, but TON was intended to be an investment instrument. So, it'd be comparable if every Kickstarter was someone saying, "For your $5, I'll give you $7 if this works, and $3 if it doesn't."
> For people without underlying risk factors, the illness is generally quite minor.

1. Kawasaki disease increase for children is not yet tied to a risk factor other than covid19

2. Pulmonary fibrosis occurs also with patients with no risk factors. Although most of those patient spent time in ICU tied with an intrusive ventilator, this is not the case everytime (not enough data yet to know how many have minor lung scarring though).

3. Hypoxemia caused by covid19, even with very mild symptoms is dangerous for the longterm heart and brain health. If you do sleep apnea AND you have covid19, please do not hesitate to go to a hospital (22 millions americans are suffering from sleep apnea and 80% are undiagnosticed according to this [0]). Hypoxemia also have impact on mental health.

I agree that other view exists and should be allowed to be heard. But you probably don't have family in a hotspot, and if you have, it's probably in a major city where the effect are not that visible, especially with lockdown (and overall a few percentage is hit). I have family in a low-density hotspot (around Colmar, France) and they are medical workers. Everyone was hit around them. Around 300% excess mortality in the area (still less than Bergame, so lucky them), at least three parents died, as well as a long-time friends and two colleagues. He told us that not going in self-lockdown was criminal and begged us to ask to work from home if we could (this was 5 day before government-enforced lockdown).

[0] https://www.sleepapnea.org/learn/sleep-apnea-information-cli...
> Real time means that there is no delay between frames going in and going out.

As long as you don't put in a >30FPS source. This mindset seems prevalent throughout the modern broadcast industry, as evidenced by most modern "web" releases of old TV shows being in 30FPS progressive with the misunderstanding that it's somehow equivalent to 60i despite throwing away half the motion information found in the interlaced fields. Take an old Simpsons (or whatever) DVD, run an episode through QTGMC to get 60 progressive frames, and compare it to the same episode on a streaming service. You'll see what I mean.
Thinking in a Pandemic: Good Science Is Good Science
React native doesn't really use css - there are no .css files, no cascading either. It's more like a style engine that uses a subset of css ideas as a starting point.

It uses flex-box (and only flex-box) for layout, adds some convenient shorthands - marginVertical, marginHorizontal, and does some surprising (but useful) things like has transform take a JS array of key value pairs - https://reactnative.dev/docs/transforms#transform
> It's a tired analogy but we can understand quite a lot about flight and even build a plane without first birthing a bird.

The problem is we don't know if we're attempting to solve something as "simple" as flight with a rudimentary understanding of airflow and lift, or if we're attempting to achieve stable planetary orbit without fully understanding gravity and with a rudimentary understanding of chemistry.

I think it's still worth trying stuff because it could be closer to the former, and trying more stuff may help us better understand where it is on that spectrum, and because if it is closer to the the harder end, the stuff we're doing is probably so cheap and easy compared to what needs to be done to get to the end that it's a drop in the bucket compared to the eventual output required, even if it adds nothing.
Well, consciousness is to a large degree a product of social interaction - in a way similar to a reflection requiring both a mirror and a light source; so, building a mirror alone is not enough. Therefore, if you "replicate" all neurons, synapses, etc. and emulate sensory inputs then you'll get a "literal copy" of a functioning brain of an actual person and then it will indeed be fully conscious.
He talks about this in his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. He's my favourite guest, fascinating guy.
It looks like all of LA County has about 30 empty ICU beds today. To me that seems pretty low (although not "overwhelmed").
No, it’s formal. Much as there are certain groups in the US that are held to lower standards in the US for purposes of admission to universities and some other opportunities so it is in India. There are reservations for Scheduled Castes and Backward Tribes. If you don’t come from them the grade you need to get into a good college will be higher, much as if you want to get into Harvard it’ll be harder if you’re Li or Nguyen than if you’re Jones or Ramirez.
I can't put my finger on it, but this seems less like a helpful incremental improvement and more like sowing the seeds of our own destruction. Like it's obviously bad to only write code that you've seen other people write in circumstances you can recognize as similar, and it's bad to only write code nobody has ever written in history, and this just barely crosses the line.
>This gets a bit rambling but I am too lazy to edit right now.

No worries, as I said I'm interested so I appreciate the write up.

>Long story short, ETFs track NAV closer in more efficient markets. In less efficient markets, ETFs or any liquidity transformation vehicle usually lead the underlying because it's easier/cheaper to transact in them. From there it's price discovery on the underlying which happens at varying speeds and the process goes back and forth.

Totally get this relationship, that's not entirely where my question lies though.

>One of the reasons why the Fed decided to include ETFs in this facility is because the ETFs were trading at a steep discount to NAV at some points earlier this year.

So is the Fed just buying these ETFs in order to shore up this discount regardless of whatever they believe to be "true" NAV? Why would the Fed consider it important enough for intervention? Or are they really just at a point where they're truly raising the tide and this boat is getting more publicity?
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Just to be clear, the public official who tweeted that has nothing to do with Alameda County. She's an assemblywoman from San Diego. And I'll note that her angry tweet doesn't endanger anyone's life.

So far, Alameda County officials have been very subdued in their response - too subdued, in my opinion. They're afraid of Musk moving his factory out of town. It's a terrible message to send that large businesses can ignore public health regulations, and avoid consequences by threatening to leave.