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Apologies for my verbiage. I should not have done the "people like you" crap. Wrong and uncalled for.

You are correct. I don't know all of your opinions on this virus response, and shouldn't have characterized it so.

In that note, I certainly don't HOPE to hear anything from experts. I just want to make sure the experts are being consulted on all sides, to better weigh the costs vs. the benefits.

Regarding the NPR article you sent, a rather grim detail that I didn't see addressed in that conversation (but maybe I missed it!!) is how that valuation changes for people when they are near the end of their life.

Is a person's life more "valuable" (putting it in the harsh aspects of policy decision making, that frankly cause me great discomfort) if they are younger, and in prime earning years, than a person in a nursing home who has a rich social life with their grandkids and other patients in their assisted care facility?

It's a horrible thing to try to quantify things that, to me, are objectively valuable, and even sacred. However, our decisions are doing just that, but on the side of people at highest risk vs. others.

I've just come back from my barber after her shop reopened. She's not the owner, just an employee. The visit was very interesting.

I had to wait outside, and a woman (87 years old, but looked MUCH younger) came out of the shop. My son and I both were wearing masks and keeping distant, but we spoke to her and asked how she was. It was her first time leaving her facility since the lockdown, and she told us a good friend of hers had died of the virus. She was a wonderful person to talk to, and had visited my same stylist for years.

My stylist/barber (she is licensed for both in my state) then told me she is leaving the state and moving back to the east coast. Her husband is a mechanic, and they have been financially ruined by this. She applied for benefits right away, but only received them 3 days before the shop was allowed to reopen. She has 3 children, 1 of them special needs. They are good working class people, but they didn't have the savings to weather this shut down, and now have to move in with family on the east coast. Today was my last time seeing her. She'll be gone in 2 weeks.

She expressed frustration at not being able to have the shop opened weeks ago in a controlled manner, with her and the owners radically changing how they operate the business to protect the high-risk populations. She stated that the high cost of housing here also exacerbated the issue, so it's not 100% covid, but the shutdown, she said, was the tipping point. She and her family are all alive, and I'm hoping they do ok on the east coast, but I thought this little visit to the barber shop captured an interesting moment. BTW, when she applied for her unemployment benefits in Colorado, an apalling thing with the legislation: Her tip income, which is 40% of her total, was legally not included with her unemployment payout. So she got a reduced amount of what she normally earns, AND she got it late. Other states probably did a far superior job, but I don't have any ideas if that's the case.

This whole thing is a tragedy, one way or another.
You can reliably lose money in absence of commissions by buying at the ask and selling at the bid. You can't invert that to make money.
How much software depends on Apple, AMD, Nvidia, or Qualcomm chips? TSMC is an indispensable part of our industry's supply chain.

Most of its chips are produced in Taiwan and over 75% are sold to customers in either the USA or (mainland) China, so TSMC understandably tries to remain neutral in trade disputes between the two. Tim Culpan at Bloomberg recently predicted that this neutrality may not hold for long, and TSMC will be forced to move some production to the USA. [1]

Especially if Intel continues to decline, increased investment by TSMC could be good news for American chip fabs and the communities that depend on them. On the other hand, the factory isn't built yet.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-11/tsmc-m...
Huh, I just realized that I have no idea about two fundamental questions re: semiconductor fabrication. 1) Do fabs make their own silicon wafers? 2) Are silicon crystals for wafers made from sand relatively directly, or is it broken down and then reformed? I can't think of it and my google-fu is failing me, but I know there's a simple compound that reacts with water to create (relatively) pure silicon dioxide, so I'm wondering if that -- or something like it -- is used.
Same for me. My team members have all told me their productivity is up sharply without me prompting them during 1:1s. I was a strong advocate of in-office work before, but now I think we'll probably plan 2-3 days weekly from home once work returns to the office.
I would agree. Senior level developers in Virginia, can get 200k as a minimum. The only downside I have found is that companies with high salaries either have more difficult work, or poor work life balance.
he's an investor, not a trader, and has outsized influence on the outcomes of his investments.
Trading fees are a valid counterargument here, and while they are non-negligible (especially back when the "90% of day traders lose money" rule was established), I don't think they account for the full 40%.

For point 2, if there is an expected return of 0, then on average this should push the portfolio toward 50% chance of profitability.

It is the psychological factors combined with a non-random market that ensure most traders lock in losses (usually after riding them too long or not long enough).
Here's my problem with the US, why do people feel the need to defend companies that have all the tools in evaluating risk in lending and dealing with payment delinquencies?

"Oh legalized theft". So, cash advance abusive loans aren't? Overdraft fees (and the ways bank forces an overdraft)? Wage theft? Patent trolling? ATM fees?

Even more naive than that is thinking the bank is losing money at the end. Sure, they might lose money on one lending operation. But they know how many people are going to pay back or not. If they don't they have multiple ways of losing much less than the nominal value.

All businesses have a risk and I guarantee the bank knows that better than people who defend them.
Taken seriously: RAM often does get offloaded to disk as needed, so realistically this changes nothing in terms of specs needed to handle what's in memory.

Taken less seriously: Do you not already need this just to run JIRA on Chrome? Or apps on Electron, generally?
Those kids bouncing up and down in the back seat with no seatbelts on looks like madness.
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Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
> Doesn't sound like a bad thing, IMHO.

It's not really supposed to, it's just something to think about.

> But I'm not sure whether they could actually manage to communicate "the existing tipping system should be venerated" during an experience that directly involves exposure to/use of a different tipping paradigm.

They could emphasize how bad "being cheap" is. Make "looking poor" and "being stingy" be bad qualities that cause people to look down on you, that ruin relationships, and so on.
Yeah, for all the complaining we do about the various app stores, shitty devs like Adobe really forced the platform vendors' hands on this. Users and devs can't be trusted with that capability, the platform vendor needs to be the adult in the room.
It would be "2^32", not "2^32+1". 2^32 isn't representable in a 32-bit integer, the same way 256 isn't representable in an 8-bit integer--the maximum is 2^8-1, or 255.

But the argument that they need to represent 2^32 and therefore that's why they used 64-bit integers is dubious. No 32-bit WebAssembly program could ever operate on and pass an object as large as 2^32 bytes because the code and data structures for the smallest possible program would already take up more than 1 byte in that 32-bit address space.
Headspace is now free for people who are unemployed in the US
Who is not a trader.
Yeah... I'm aware. My list of things to do is extensive and over the last week I committed to a PoC of the app, which is now done. Time to clean up the landing page
I love the direction you're tracking here (pun not intended). The feature list is impressive, too. userTrack is now on the front of my list of options.

I've been working on a self-hosted social media scheduling tool (buffer/meetedgar-alike). So far it's just for my own use, but you've given me hope that there's a non-SaaS path to market. Thanks.
This lack of differentiation really grinds my gears. Why in the world do both of these activities share a name? It would be really interesting to take a random sample of the population and ask them some basic context like their occupation/education, and ask them whether a digital signature comprises a graphic of handwriting (validated with eyeballs) or something more sophisticated (validated with math).

There will be some obvious trends, but I suspect there will also be some surprises.
Party in a Shared Google Doc
> but went wrong because the Iraqi people are simply allergic to democracy

There's an assumption in what you're saying that the "Iraqi people" is a meaningful entity with a collective will that is expressed through collective action. We use that kind of thinking to reason about liberal democracies where there is a meaningful entity (a voting public with a storng shared national identity) and a mechanism (elections) for expressing preferences and a means (representative government, civil society) of taking collective action. It's not a very useful way to analyze a bunch of people who have none of those things.

My point wasn't that "Iraq is allergic to democracy." It was that thinking in terms of societies being drawn to or repulsed by democracy is an error in itself. The way to avoid those errors is to study lots of societies over a long period of time. That's where history helps you identify and understand the narratives and categories you unconsciously use to understand the world.
I pay for Youtube Premium, but I find it curious (and objectionable) that their "View in Incognito" function (in Youtube) will not reflect Premium-ness. They show ads. They still know who you are -- because it's just an option to leave Incognito mode to get back to Premium/not-incognito mode.
It's back up as of 3:48 PM ET
I am rebuilding the "framework" I wrote for doing my MSc dissertation on the classification of fake reviews. Now that I have the time, the code is far better organized and the higher level structure pretty clean in that I can copy a module, customize it a bit and now a different feature set can be generated. Churning out different ensembles should be fairly easy as well. And of course I'm throwing dask, mlflow and dvc into the mix...

I don't really need to do this (ought to be looking for a job...) <and I'd rather write code than pay to use someone else's SaaS>

but now that I have quite a number of different review datasets to play with, a framework that lets me spin up 10+ processes across the 5 machines I have at my disposal will make short work of most the sets. I will need the uni's HPC cluster to deal with the Amazon dataset, though. Using dask will surely help with that.

Then it's writing yet another paper... Not being allowed to go outside is rather motivating.
And there’s existing talent because Intel has chip fabs there.
The "Folder Location" option determines the parent directory where the "Creative Cloud Files" folder is stored, which is the actual sync folder. You can verify this by creating an empty directory and moving the sync location there. Bad, alarming UI though.
Comments like this show up on all stories about layoffs. I don’t really understand your point. There’s never any reason to have layoffs unless the company deems it a good financial decision, right? And surely all layoffs would hit the lowest performers (by the company’s estimation of performance, which obviously might be flawed), right? So what is the difference between “the company did layoffs of its lowest performers due to financial pressure caused in part by the pandemic” and “the company did layoffs of its lowest performers using the pandemic as an excuse to avoid bad PR”? To me those are nearly identical scenarios.
> Do extrovert stuff, speak at conferences, network make lots of friends / contacts, be popular.

Dangerous advice in the Covid era :-P
^ This. Also explains why there's so many data centers. Cost too. Land & power are both cheap.
>Wow, can anyone imagine reading this in the beginning of 2019? The totalitarians come out in huge numbers recently.

sorry, are you saying a national id is totalitarian? Virtually every democratic country requires one. Using it to say, verify online age-sensitive purchases like booze or in South Korea for things that require identification is common, and of course for everyday interaction with public agencies and whatnot.
Intel has a big AZ presence, I wonder why AZ specifically. Maybe climate? Maybe so TSMC can poach some talent? It's a really great question and if anyone has specifics I hope they chime in.
Hi, work for Adobe. Where do you see this feature?
Rust has a PTX backend.
I guess that makes it official that there won't be a new AirPort any time soon.
Understanding Technical Debt
Notes they're including this:
"In aggregate, round-trip trades cost about one percent for the bid-ask spread and about 1.4 percent in commissions."
Not necessarily the case anymore. The spread on apple is 0.04 cents on $300.
In theory, yes.

In practice, who the editor is and how they execute the task matters tremendously.

There's a frequent mantra by a certain segment of the population, tending to "but who should judge?", or the more pointed "what gives you the right to judge?"

My answer to the first is "someone who's quite good at it, and takes the responsibility seriously".

To the second: "who are you to say I cannot?" We are all judgement-making machines, so long as we have a functioning intellect. We're trying to fit our heads around an external reality, and, generally, make better rather than worse choices.

I'm a fan of systems with checks and balances, with principle, and with transparency. HN scores well on some points, less so on. others (notably transparency). A problem with transparency reports is that excessive detail is tedious and cantip off malevolent actors, insufficient can hide many sins.
If we start playing crossplatform, browser-based wasm games[0], we might. And we should. OS independence when.

0: https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
I can see how this would be true for a ramen-stage startup but it’s not true in the normal startup job market where engineers get paid six figures. Lots of good places available downtown for <2k per bedroom. If you don’t want a roommate you can get a decent small apartment for 3k or a lower-end place for 2k in other neighborhoods. You don’t need to leave the city, and you don’t save all that much by doing so anyway. Good neighborhoods outside the city are also expensive.

One good reason to leave the city would be if you prioritize renting a house with a 6000 sqft suburban lot, which you can’t find in the city. Another would be if you have kids and want a good school district.
would love to see a blog post about it!
When you say "expected value" are you trying to say most likely value?
TSMC develops the tech often times in partnerships. AMD definitely paid for a lot of the tech and manufacturing research that went into the current state.
This could be dangerous, restarting your life somewhere sight unseen just because it looks great on paper. You sell and move to that house in location x for cost alone, always pining for that life you had in location y with all the intangibles you never realized you were reliant on, and never will make enough to reverse the play and relocate back to y which has experienced ever higher property values since you've been gone.

A better move would be to move laterally, to a place with the same benefits that the one you are in gives you, be it leisure activities or a network for your field. That might limit you to metros, and particular metros that are most favorable to your activities (skiers might like CO, sailors might like FL). Suddenly your options become limited, and you find among these limited choices the same housing issues that have plagued states like CA as demand ramps up, because everyone had the same idea as you. No city in the U.S. actually builds sufficient supply for their influx in labor; even the ones that we applaud are doing quite poorly in terms of how much housing should be built and where. The ones that don't seem to have a housing crisis are experiencing a contracting local economy, and that doesn't bode well with your networking prospects and career options.
I do that too. But I have often wondered, if the Big One hits the economy at large, how many of those recruiters will still have jobs?
Cruise (the SF company) doesn't do any work related to GM's current cars, we are focused 100% on full self driving.

Note GM has another product called SuperCruise which is a totally different thing.
Same reason people think the lotto will make you rich. They see one person do it and think that can be them.
Statistical Performance Comparisons of Computers [pdf]
The article says it would be a 5nm fab and the core reason behind it would be to sell to America which is getting more and more worried about dependence on Asian supply chains. As a US government backed initiative, it seems likely that the US would help financially in some way.
We can mount each others drives and collab that way.

For a full “union” mount experience we still have some research to do but we are working on it.

The mount setup is really good though and fully p2p
Which e-bikes have you been looking at? I've ridden the Trek Powerfly and the YT Decoy and they're both exactly like what you're looking for. They only add to your output and in proportion to it. I also have a Raleigh cruiser e-bike and it works the same way. I was under the impression that all but the cheapest class 1 bikes work the same. I have ridden a couple rear hub drive bikes like the Rad Rover and they have a more "on or off" feel. The motor starts as soon as you start pedalling at whatever power setting you have selected
Lol, MobX literally uses the concept of atoms under the hood.
Facebook is not the web, it is a toy devoted to advertisement.

It is not were potential Einsteins or Galileos debut their big new ideas. It is not were cover ups about WMD or anything else are initially exposed. All of that is very sensibly on real sites. To the contrary, rather than being where good ideas originate, it's sole purpose is to attract eyes for advertisement.

The catastrophic problem is their algorithm that massively pushes conspiracy theories, outrage and demagogue's propaganda that would otherwise never be seen and would never get beyond the crackpot website they happened to be posted on.

Facebook is not were any valuable information originates, it is instead where failed ideas and advertisements are endlessly push on it's users. But any attempt to correct that algorithm, manually or otherwise is now portrayed as censorship by those who benefit form it to get support from everyone else. Likewise, it is very effectively used as a propaganda tool by some parties yet ironically any attempt to slow that is portrayed as censorship.

It is not remotely where ideas fairly compete. To the contrary: shocking but false ideas are given an enormous advantage but adding an annotation contradicting them is called censorship. To such an extreme that there is a warning on Lysol bottles not to drink it but if a meme on Facebook telling people to drink Lysol has a similar warning attached by Facebook, it is called censorship.

The notion Facebook could ever afford to bother with any but a tiny silver of the most conspicuously false and harmful posts, let alone judge every post for accuracy, is not reasonable. It could not remotely be picking sides on every tv debate, reading every user's post or reviewing posts about the photoelectric effect for accuracy. And at any rate, Facebook is not the web.
>We intend to get rid of pagination once the next implementation of Arc is ready.

Why? Pagination seems like a good idea for really long threads.
Yeah, "we want to encourage positive behavior, so we added money" doesn't strike me as being realistic.

I'm sure the real goal is to sell tokens and to shift to a microtransaction model where users have to pay for "premium" features. That's why there's a hard cap on tokens and they're consumed on use.

Worse though, I think it might be an underhanded way to sell influence for money if it doesn't stay a closed system. While the users are distracted with "premium" stickers and emojis, bad actors will be paying real money to buy visibility and influence.

For me, the appeal of Reddit is that I can jump in and participate and it's fairly democratic, at least in the smaller subreddits. As soon as they turn it into money = visibility = credibility it's ruined.
Wow, I’ll have to double check my system when I get home, that’s horrible.

I’ve been meaning to get out of the adobe photo software ecosystem, maybe this weekend is the time to find the right alternatives. Save a few bucks per month too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alden_penny

Set "show dead" == "yes".

(For other users: your own account page.)
Note that the average or median “quality” of employees isn’t really that relevant if you just need more employees to do more total work.
I would try the account recovery process: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7682439?hl=en
> You don't need any of that if you just use React.

You do need it if you use ReactRouter. Otherwise your state will be spread (or duplicated even) across multiple components, and it will be a nightmare to deal with.
Ask HN: What do you think about FB new UX?
Accelerate your website by optimizing image and video
Completely agree that you can't compare Bazel and CMake directly, they are not on the same level. But for compiling C++ Bazel will have to compare itself to CMake, which is plain and simple the defacto standard.

All the complex things that Bazel brings into the game (distributed builds and caches primarily) simply don't have any value when the main task that you're trying to make faster is not done well.

I would much rather like to see more tooling that does these things but builds upon layers of battle-tested existing software.
Looking at all those problems and issues with social media platform one could come to the conclusion that the real issue is not with the platforms but with the entity using it.
I've never used Pixelmator, but Pixelmator is Mac Only where Affinity works on Windows too.
Unsolicited cold recruiting emails aren't owed any sort of response. Apologies are not needed or expected. Just a "Thanks for getting in touch. Would you still like to talk?" is sufficient.

Alternatively compose a "Thanks, not now" template that you send to all recruiters when they email. Then later on hit them with a "How about now?"
It matters a great deal because of the subreddit namespace land-grabs. Someone coming to reddit for the first time might naturally go to r/politics (which has become notoriously left-leaning) and not be aware of the rich history of censorship there.
At least one component of the "America First" strategy I can fully get behind is bringing manufacturing back to the US mainline. If anything that last few months has taught us, it's that we must not lose our ability to produce quality, vital products. Semiconductors definitely falls into that category.

I don't care how it's accomplished, either carrots (tax incentives) or sticks (tariffs). Do what's necessary to bring the production of these vital components here.