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I heavily use AHK to make my Windows 10 an enjoyable and keyboard focused environment. Between AHK and an hardware keyboard with full keyboard macro's, I have Windows working with my Macintosh inspired keyboard bindings.

Of course on the Mac, I heavily use Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar so I am really implementing my own keyboard centric UI
You can get more info about this by reading up on GoogleX, but more importantly the articles that came out when Alphabet was formed. Those graduated companies would need a parent company, and that company was Alphabet. It was done to separate these graduated companies from Google's name (and accounting depts).
To clarify, my complaints about Kite being heavyweight are 90% about the UX flow being heavy, not the CPU/RAM usage.

Kite seems to require a background daemon, Electron copilot app, and editor plugin, with a multi-step setup to customize what things are shown on hover vs ctrl+space vs tab. By comparison, Tab Nine was a single command to install in SublimeText, and I have never had to interact with it since other than pressing "tab". It seems to be completely language-agnostic with no additional setup as well.

FWIW, here are a few pain points from trying Kite today:

- Kite is a 1GB download vs TabNine's 64mb

- Kite Engine is using 300MB of RAM on my machine right now, and I don't have a single editor open, and there's no way to stop the daemon in the UI

- "sending usage metrics" is on by default in the preferences :/ this is really scary to someone who remembers Kite's issues with code exfiltration and telemetry in the past, haven't ya'll learned that lesson? I had hoped all of that stuff was disabled these days but I guess not.

- there is no uninstall option provided, and you cannot delete the .app on macOS because "the application is in use", yet there is no UI to stop or diasble the daemon anywhere, do I really have to manually `pkill kite; rm -RF /Applications/Kite.app` to remove it?

- Your "Start free trial" link on the homepage appears to redirect to forms filled with real user email addresses? Who do those addresses belong to, are you leaking your users emails? [screenshot link redacted]
Show me a robot that can FIND a rusty bolt. The act of cleaning, of scrubbing away the dust and dirt from a work area, is beyond AI at the moment. If that rusty bolt has been painted over it might as well not exist.
What's biologically different about submariners? Mostly male, I guess, but anything else?
I would make the loan repayment conditional in a similar way to Lambda school: borrowers that go on to earn a high enough income have to make payments, but nobody else does. Then investors can make bets on who will make enough money to pay the loans back. They won't pay full price, but they'll pay something, and that will hold back inflation a bit.
I'm not a crypto nerd or an os dev.

Is it ever ok to let the key leave ram unencrypted? serialize_key() seems like a recipe for doom.
Honestly, the tools to remotely onboard employees from anywhere in the world is possible now.

Virtual machines that live in the cloud. Apple DEP. Microsoft InTune. All of these tools allow companies to drop ship computers to employees from a warehouse or reseller to the employees doorstep. Turn it on and the IT tools take over and set the machine up.
I have to wonder what percentage of the Windows 10 codebase is for backwards compatibility.
The Little Schemer, by Felleisen and Friedman.

Entertaining style, and amazing at conveying very complex ideas. I had understood recursion for years prior, but this really showed me what it was to truly "think" in recursion, and to understand the Y Combinator and its significance.
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For what little it is worth, I read on the Verge or somewhere that the "official" pronunciation is "Ecks Ash Ayy Twelve", so it is pronounced almost exactly as it is spelled. (Ash actually is the old English name for the "ae" ligature, derived from its Futhorc rune, rather than any traditional pronunciation [1].)

Apparently for meaning they intended "[Unknown variable] [Closest traditional ligature to AI] [Model number of favorite plane]", which I suppose is some sort of meaning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
Not technology related... At all.
AutoHotKey was my first programming language, years and years ago on my couple hundred dollar laptop. It wasn't much, but it was definitely a great introduction to basic CS concepts (if statements, loops, functions, etc.).

I remember using it to automate login for a variety of websites, and to automate resource collection for a game I played (Lord of Ultima, in case anyone remembers it).
> it feels creepy in a way that their regular internet behavior does not

And that is, of course, where people come to reasonable disagreement; it simply doesn't feel creepy to a lot of folk. I assume the difference in feel is whether one interprets "capturing unsecured wifi packets via wardriving" as akin to peeping-Tomming into every neighbor's house or akin to sailing along a coastline full of lighthouses broadcasting their beacons and writing down the strobe patterns.
Underrated comment. Need a tech accelerator that is the inverse of the Fed, optimizing for minimum employment instead of maximum employment (one of the Fed's two mandates).
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The office distractions and chitchat are never going to go away regardless of format
This is great. I've always been an advocate for companies to set themselves up as remote first, even if they have an office, so that people who are remote can still be just as involved.

One thing I predict happening if this becomes widespread is a reversion to the mean on salaries. I think the pay for people outside the Bay Area will go up and inside the Bay Area it will go down, as being in the Bay Area will no longer be nearly as essential.

This will have a nice second order effect on Bay Area real estate prices, bringing them closer in line to reality (but we will still have all the problems of massive undersupply, because it's just a nice place to live, tech employee or not).
Also, they don't GA anything without a good reason. Introducing a new socket is not trivial - all their FCLGA3647 boxes introduced in 2017 can be updated to second generation ones introduced this year - or they can just build these machines without having to redesign the motherboards.

Introducing EPYC Rome boxes would require, besides a volume price agreement (that AMD could be reluctant to enter, as they can sell the whole capacity with better margins, at least for now) new supply chains for motherboards and PCIe 4 peripherals that can't be used with their Intel stuff yet. That's a lot of disruption.
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> Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored

I've been having very productive conversations with someone on twitter whom I'm pretty sure is a Catholic fundamentalist. I'm specifically following a few other accounts because the provide outside-filter-bubble views, and they're all rather further than "right of center." Haven't heard a peep from any of them about Twitter censorship.

TL;DR: Not sure what you're talking about here.
It does feel quite bizzaro doesn’t it? The manager here says

Happy to let you do it, but know that the market rate for your skills there is X, which means an adjustment in salary for a voluntary move.

my question is: in this hypothetical, did my skills somehow lose monetary value to the company because I left the west coast and bought a house in Indiana? What’s the calculation on that one? Let’s talk numbers.

I’d love to sit down to coffee with a hiring budget manager one day and get into the weeds on CoL against present value and just do all of the math until the cafe closes or one of us has to take the first coffee induced “bio break”.

Or at least, this is how it would go if my company tried to sell me on this. Hell, I might even be amenable to the pay cut if the company was otherwise doing right by our relationship as employer and employee and I felt sufficiently invested in continuing that relationship, but we’re going to get real mechanical and be VERY thorough about it.
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COVID-19 is confusing. There's a lot of conflicting information out there— can you get the virus from food? Is there such a thing as immunity? What kind of tests are really out there? Who is most at risk? And all the conflicting information can make it hard to make decisions, from whether to go to the grocery store to when to send your kids back to day care.
I don't have actual numbers obviously, but I'd imagine that a lot of Xbox multiplayer game backends and probably all of Xbox Live is running on Azure Windows servers, and Xbox is a pretty big platform by number of users.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/microsoft-wants-azur...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/
Very true and no one should be surprised that the Fed is stepping in as buyer of last resort. It is one of their roles.

I'd argue that the more important part of monetary policy is the rate setting and I think that is quite different than fiscal policy. In my opinion, fiscal policy should be employed if we can get a greater percentage of return on GDP than the yield on the treasury note. In this case, the government is getting free money.
Uuuuuhmmmm, yes, agreed. That whole story still gives me the existential shivers sometimes. The juxtaposition of the big and small. Brilliant, raw, too elegant, too calculatingly cold, too far out - and all because of its hardness (as in I don't even know if you have to suspend disbelief, it seems so perfectly real/possible), truly a masterpiece of science-fiction.
Some argue this data has mainly historical value. By the time it's available vendors may have changed many aspects of respective models, from geometry to controller chip to motors, let alone firmware. You might end up bying a very different product under the same SKU, to which this data has no relation at all.
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It's not supposed to be in anything. I do know yhere's a famous variation on it called double skin milk.
But the point of Cantonese cooking is a kind of minimalism (think: steamed fish). Use the best ginger you can get, and really good milk. Wikipedia says Buffalo milk is traditional. If you use good ingredients the result can be sublime.
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So they get to keep half a billion and never had to offer anything of value?
>That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Wow, thanks a lot! I didn't realize you could do this! Just tried and it's perfect.
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Yes. Stripe and Gitlab follow that model for their remote workforce.
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Just tried that and it works. I didn't realize you could do this. Thanks!
No, seriously, representative government is both the spirit and the implementation! Go read the treatises that underpin the design of the system. They had this debate and came down on the side of vesting all the power in representatives, rather than directly in the people.

You seem to disagree with where they landed on this question. That's fine and great, you're entitled to your opinion and dissenting voices are important. But our system simply was not designed to place power directly in the hands of the masses, not even in spirit.

Are we talking circles around each other? Are you talking about how you think it should work? I'm talking about how it was designed to work, which remains closer to how it does work in practice than what you are describing.

And one of the reasons it was designed this way is right there in your comment: the government should not be unable to respond to new questions awaiting a vote on those questions by the electorate. The voters are instead expected to elect people they trust to act with good judgement when such new questions come up, and to boot out people whose judgement was shown to be unsound, the next time they have a chance. This is one of a number of reasons I prefer our system to the direct democracy you seem to be advocating.
As far as I understand it, they're doing this under the Telgram brand, but it's effectively whatever organization "owns" the TON effort and where they are incorporated.

It looks like there are at least two "Telegram" orgs, one located in the UK (according to the Bloomgberg profile), and I'm not clear if this other one is in the US or somewhere in the EU.

There's an issue if they're offering a security (which they basically are). They could make that security available through a foreign regulated market legally, but they can't allow "the world" to buy it. If they could restrict purchasing with a legal framework then they may be able to resist the judge's orders that forces them to never sell it.

But yes, US anti-money laundering law is some very intense stuff.
> I work for places that pay me for what I'm worth, I don't work for places that pay me based on where I live.

That is very short sighted. Your dollar value is highly dependent on where you live, that's just reality.
I'd like a language that allows me to explicitly annotate my code for vectorization/SIMD. Too often compilers aren't able to vectorize efficiently because the heuristics don't detect the opportunity.
If it's unidirectional, true. If it's supposed to be a discussion it's different.
Yeah employers should pay employees for the value of their work, which does not depend on their physical location.

Also, employers always pay employees less than the value of their work and pocket the rest. This is called profit.
The current gig I've got, if they'd had a senior engineer - even as an advisor - from the outset, basically the last ~8 mo of work split between myself and a different senior engineer would have been unnecessary.
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Perhaps because it could lead eventually to the most undetectable cheats yet and undermine their Skinner box cash extractors.
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You have to pay SF rates if you want to hire SF level talent, even if you are hiring outside of SF. The average engineer is cheaper outside of SF because the average engineer is worse, not because you are getting the same quality of employee for the less money. Most of the good engineers move to SF to get access to better career opportunities.

I'm not saying all engineers outside SF are mediocre, but if you want the ones that aren't mediocre you have to pay them the same salaries the SF engineers are getting, so you're not saving any money.

If the average engineer in a non tech hub was just as competent as the average SF engineer at half the price, no one would bother paying through the nose to operate an SF office (but clearly many companies feel the compensation premium is worth the access to better talent).
Unfortunately, AutoKey is not similar to AutoHotkey. I tries to be, but fails so far.
Lacks a loooot of AHK functionality and contains lots of bugs.
The development is so slow that something new after Linux will come out sooner than they reach AHK's state of, say, 2010.
This seems interesting but is surprisingly dense for wikipedia. Can you explain how this works?
Fossuser gave the best answer thus far to your question. [0]

A few confounders I haven't seen though:

1) Waymo is its own entity, but its brand is linked to Google/Alphabet. A reader of this article will be clear on that by the time they have gotten through the sub-headline.

Any success or catastrophic failure of Waymo/self-driving will have Google spoken of in the same breath as Waymo.

2) Capital Allocation & Diversification
- Google had $119 Billion of cash on hand at the end of FY2019 earning no return. More than any other company.

- Alphabet is not Berkshire Hathaway waiting in the wings to deploy its capital in a downturn or buy up unrelated businesses.

- Diversification is a fine strategy, but when you have this much capital to allocate—and ostensibly Alphabet has this much because they don't know what to do with it—not fully funding Waymo itself doesn't make sense.

3) The Waymo blog post about this that Rutledge linked below gives a possible alternative [1]

> “Today, we're expanding that team, adding financial investors and important strategic partners who bring decades of experience investing in and supporting successful technology companies building transformative products. With this injection of capital and business acumen, alongside Alphabet, we’ll deepen our investment in our people, our technology, and our operations, all in support of the deployment of the Waymo Driver around the world.”

Building technology is hard, but building out a car company that can produce vehicles on any scale is also hard. Tesla and Elon now know this.

So maybe by opening up to outside investment they allow strategic partners to share in the risk and outsized reward of success.

Curiously though, only one of the six outside investors listed seem to be "strategic." That would be Magna International, "a leading global automotive supplier."

The other investors are:

- AutoNation: a used/new car buying/selling website

- Andreessen Horowitz: VC firm

- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

- Silver Lake: private equity

- Mubadala Investment Company: United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund

From the outside looking in, I have further questions as to how those are "strategic" investments that could help develop and/or bring Waymo cars to market.

tl;dr Alphabet/Google has so much capital it needs to deploy not using it to fully fund Waymo is curious. Waymo is not a distinct brand from Google/Alphabet. It's not readily apparent how six of the seven outside investors chosen for the "strategic" investment add value beyond capital.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157082

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23156434
So, as a director of a big team, you also offer to increase the salary of employees who want to move to higher col areas like, say London or Tokyo right? I mean, it's only fair. You pay what the market rate for the talent in that area is.
A 30 minute commute doesn't really tell the whole story though. Theres still the hour of getting ready, waking up, alarm clocks. Ive used an alarm clock maybe once or twice and thats because someone scheduled a meeting at 9am. now i make breakfast while doing things like check email in the morning.
Socializing is just as easily possible when working from home. Just meet for a coffee in Zoom or Skype or Whereby and "video chat" for an hour or so. Those are usually my most productive meetings.
I have yet to hear a good argument against the idea that we can create a conscious artificial intelligence. We know that we are conscious, whatever the definition is we use ourselves as the benchmark. So at the very worst, we can artificially create a human brain. But beyond that, we have plenty of things that imitate roles in the human body by doing the same actions the body does (artificial limbs, respirators, assisting with blood filtering). There is just no evidence that something about the brain is special to the extent that we will never be able to replicate it. All arguments seem to come down to having a soul, but without saying that because it's clearly a non-scientific claim.

I can appreciate that architecture may be a hard limit for us here. However, if we build systems that replicate human consciousness effectively enough, I don't actually see any difference between reality and artificial conscious beyond the definition.
It's interesting to see so much commentary (on HN and elsewhere) about Apple having lost its way with "pro" users from a hardware perspective (touchbar, butterfly mechanism, lack of a desktop tower)... But not see this as its attempt to avoid the same criticism from a software perspective.

I suspect they continue to invest (at least some) into their "pro" software because they have a loyal user-base that they don't want to tick off in the same way they did with their hardware business.
"Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse"

That's just not true - Donald Trump hasn't been "casually censored", neither have any of the GOP representatives who have Twitter accounts.

If you say abhorrent stuff, then yes, their platform, and they can say "you're not welcome here", but just look at the cesspit of comments on the recent "gate" hashtag and you'll see there are MANY right of center (some cases miles right of center) voices on there.
Here's what we really need - a tool that monitors the various user actions like specific application functionality used, website actions taken, and maybe keystrokes too (but that gets dicey), and then every month or so it recommends the most frequently done actions that you should automate with AHK or some other tool. What does the community think of this?

PS - I use Alfred and Keyboard Maestro to get functionality similar to AHK on a Mac.
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Nobody's excluded from doing their own wardriving and data-collection on open SSID network names, as far as I'm aware. Hell, if someone just wanted to drive around and record the radio flux sans information, perhaps to build a fun map correlating population density or income levels to broadcast emissions, that's perfectly fair.
A rock seems unlikely to be conscious in any real way. Something as complex as a star, however...maybe all of the humans worshipping the sun throughout many thousands of years were onto something after all.
Genius. Nice work.
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Can we have emotions without consciousness?
For much more limited uses, which still covers a lot of what I care about, there's xdotool. A major difference is that xdotool just creates input events, but doesn't hook triggers; I just use my window manager for that.
Your "implicit" statement is a false inference. The public health authority's decision is the very thing that I'm objecting to.

Secondly, since that unfortunate soul is locked in their home, how are they touching anything I've touched, and how are they breathing the air I breathe?

Lastly, why did you decide to make this about me personally?
Waymo did considering the iterative method and decided against it intentionally. Putting aside the obvious danger of incrementally getting to L4 (the inbetween state where the system feels safe enough for users to not pay attention, but actually isn't), it's actually not obvious that there is an obvious smooth transition from L2 to L4.

Yes, Tesla may be getting more data in the field, but Waymo is still much further ahead with actual fully self-driving car without anyone at the wheel (within a small region + good weather). Also worth pointing out that the quality of the data also matters, not only the quantity.
To me it’s a cost/benefit compromise. I really go out of my way to make sure I use exactly zero google products, but I think the utility that Street View provides to the average citizen is quite sizeable and cannot just be dismissed. However the CIA would never provide this utility to the average person, they keep everything they touch for themselves like a dragon on a pile of gold.
Doesn't seem logical to me. Unless they are also offering to increase salaries if you decide to move to a higher col area.
Emotions arise in consciousness, but I don't think they're the result of consciousness. You can measure the physiology of an emotion. Thoughts, emotions, sensations, all arise in consciousness, but I don't think any of those are the result of it.
lets say you can usually interact with 5-10 people closely everyday. Even a tech company is going to be more diverse than the average person's 10 closest friends/family members.
A company has to be able to operate on its own. Look at BRK; they don't fund every last bit of debt for all of their holdings. They will pull profits from company A even if A needs money to e.g. invest in operations if they can get credit at a decent rate. They may put that money in company B which has more growth potential and is not in as good a position to take on debt to do so.
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Top talent from Canada is less than one third the price of the US top talent though.