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> It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?

Congratulations, friend. You have arrived at a kind of limbo that in all likelihood you will end up at again in the future. I congratulate you, because you have arrived at the point where you have "synced" -- that is to say, you have processed material from your desired channels from the post to the present moment such that this feeling you are experiencing, an almost emptiness or that of negative space, encapsulates and closes in upon the definition of "present moment".

Give it a day, and new content will arrive in your familiar channels. You'll consume it, and return to this familiar, interstitial area.

Perhaps now is as good a time as any to consider directionality. Is it a good time to go back on material you've previously processed and re-process it for refinement? It will only deepen your intuition and the firmness of your intellectual grip. Is it time for you to seek out a new channel, as you're doing here? That too, is a new adventure. Is it maybe time to begin forming your own channel? So too could that be a new adventure.

And if none of those sound appealing? Well, perhaps that is even more appealing. Perhaps you, like many other folks, have finally come to that point where you ask "what's next?" to a deafeningly loud internal silence. This is good. This is where the interesting stuff happens.

If I can give you a word of advice -- don't feel so inclined to have to come up with an answer immediately. It's possible that you may need to keep your internal eyes and ears open for when the answer finds /you/.

And to answer your question in a more literal manner -- take a look at what you've liked, commented on, and favorited on Hacker News. You can probably identify some areas that you tend to enjoy exploring. Try and find folks/communal spaces on Twitter and Reddit (maybe YouTube too, if possible) that also explore those areas. From there, you can branch out, whether it's talking directly with those folks to get a sense of what they think is interesting that you might not know about (this is the best way, IMO) or following new paths out further.

But, I will stress: try and soak in the feeling and fully absorb it. To run away from it could be to waste it, and it's something that you may one day look back upon as more rare and valuable than it originally felt.
It's also the atomic weight of Molybdenum or the first page of my old web site. http://www.chrisbennet.com/
You assume we will lose all record of our discoveries so far, which has some precedence with Roman sewage treatment being forgotten, but we are much better at keeping records and we have too many artefacts from this period that will naturally prompt curiosity to future generations.

Even if some unforseen solar event disables our electronics for a millennia, and we devolve into infighting, the winners will still be those with the technological superiority, mechanically gas-powered or otherwise.

The only threat I can envision is a wild asteroid, but then it's game over for all of us.
Me too. And every time I get to oceans boiling out I get somewhat depressed and worried for my children. No kidding.
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Not the OP but yes if cost is a factor. As far as I know no managed K8S offerings are cheap.
I mean, I'd love to have my body be so useful after I die.
Great article! Bookmarked!
Whatever contemporary technical arguments for and against are, it's worth bearing in mind that people were asking the exact same question, with similar arguments at least 10 years ago (and probably more), so I would say:

Yes.
The video of this in action is pretty cool.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=pbAvY6bwZD8
Spotify on the desktop is just a big Chromium Embedded Framework frame, thats what makes it not-native for the purposes of this discussion
Yes I agree. I understand the point you are making and I don't think what we have contradicted each other. I accept South Korea's measures won't get most Western countries near their death rate. However I felt the need to add that the methods are based on past experience and just because they won't have the same power they will still be extremely effective in combating the virus.
Right but every proposition suggesting those elements gets struck down. It isn’t about voter ID, it’s about not letting poor people vote
sometimes sarcasm is like well written code self explaining :-)
We may be living in the future of The Running Man
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Best bang for your buck is interval/HIIT hill sprints. 2 mile warm up, 8x20-30 secs all out, .5-1 mile cooldown. This will get you in the best shape for the time spent. Do some pushups, pullups, body squats, planks. Super straightforward and will get you most of the benefits of quality exercise for minimal time input.
> Unfortunately the political Left believes that such ID, specifically when used as a means of election security, would lead to discrimination.

I'm not an US citizen but this is the first time ever I've heard this extraordinary claim.

Do you have any source to substantiate your assertion?
What are they testing for? To make sure you’re taking the ADHD meds or to make sure you aren’t taking other meds?
And Winamp is 4MB (after removing the stock plugins that I don’t need, like modern skins and the long-broken media library internet lookup stuff).

How big is Spotify now?
I sometimes forget to take my ADHD medication on several days and only realize after the fact that I was very unproductive. My friends will also notice that my mind was more cluttered again. I dive from tangentially related thing to the next, only connected in my mind by emotion. Eventually I reach a stack overflow - I'll have no idea how the conversation started or what the real topic or task were.
I've been working on a sort of hybrid of the two by configuring a web app to use CouchDB installed on the user's desktop pc to store the user's data.

The app code is delivered by a web server and runs entirely in the user's browser and with service workers configured it runs offline too.

Personally, I think it would be cool to have a sort of secure "runtime engine" on the client side that could manage permissions to system functions for client side web apps.
You want a reason, watch this

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/

I have no idea whether or not to trust frontline because they've seemed on the wrong side of things for certain topics I know more about but, at least that made it clear to me why that stuff might be a controlled substance
You may have seen this resolution to the Fermi Paradox, but if not I thought I'd post it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

"The Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a high {\em ex ante} probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe. The expectation that the universe should be teeming with intelligent life is linked to models like the Drake equation, which suggest that even if the probability of intelligent life developing at a given site is small, the sheer multitude of possible sites should nonetheless yield a large number of potentially observable civilizations. We show that this conflict arises from the use of Drake-like equations, which implicitly assume certainty regarding highly uncertain parameters. We examine these parameters, incorporating models of chemical and genetic transitions on paths to the origin of life, and show that extant scientific knowledge corresponds to uncertainties that span multiple orders of magnitude. This makes a stark difference. When the model is recast to represent realistic distributions of uncertainty, we find a substantial {\em ex ante} probability of there being no other intelligent life in our observable universe, and thus that there should be little surprise when we fail to detect any signs of it. This result dissolves the Fermi paradox, and in doing so removes any need to invoke speculative mechanisms by which civilizations would inevitably fail to have observable effects upon the universe."
Indeed. Half the things on this list happened after 2010.

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/the-singula...

I wrote it in 2016. I should make a new list.
I agree, and I'm even fairly liberal. Showing proof of who you are, to be allowed to vote in the most fundamental process in a democracy is not a dumb idea. Why would you not want the most rudimentary election security?

The only reason that it's a ridiculous situation here is that (and you can debate whether widespread or not, or believed or not) some people use it as a means to make voting difficult for others. And we tolerate / compromise on the situation because we have no good (or widely believed) stats to document the frequency of the risks.

And with your point above, why don't we simply make getting an ID easier for everyone and this will no longer be an issue. Take one year to have roaming DMV offices, voter ID, licensing stations, and take care of this stupid problem once and for all. No more arguments or patches to look the other way.

And I will say also, it's a fucking sad situation when the people you want to be voting can't get it together in their lives to get an ID renewed once every 5 years. You don't even have to go in person in most cases. If that's the issue, I don't think you would've gotten their vote even if they had ID.
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> my superstitious cab driver begged me to buy her wares, otherwise he feared she would place a hex on him and his family

My guess would be there was no superstition involved, they just thought you could afford it, and he was trying to help her out by getting a sale for her. Heck, maybe he even got a commission.
Obligatory plug for my subreddit, where I collect interesting links: https://www.reddit.com/r/sonyasupposedly/

There's some crossover with HN, but plenty that you won't have seen.

Less obligatory plug for gwern's subreddit, which is great: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/
This is odd, isn't it standard Silicon Valley practice to do layoffs on a Friday?
Humans: A short lived species that produced some interesting grammars.
It’s not though. Not even close. And I know this partially a matter of taste but I have one of the fastest computers you can buy and I can’t even participate in text chats without input lag and delays in interaction. It’s not a good user experience for me at least but that’s ok, we’ll keep stacking more cpu power until it’s all in the cloud anyways.
Yea it competed with Pocket, that is the actual reason it was removed
Sure, it's a fact of Sanskrit that of all the well-attested classical IE languages it's done the best job of preserving PIE's case system. But what's this have to do with the question of whether Sanskrit has some especial status as a tool for thought, AI, or whatever people are claiming in this paper and elsewhere? Is it that using inflection for indicating grammatical relations is somehow superior to using adpositions? I'd be very interested to hear an argument that makes the case for this for something more than aesthetics, but I can't imagine one myself.
That sucks for for a lot of people, but I don't think Uber/Lyft and many other startup afford to pay what they have been paying. I can understand google, facebook, apple etc. paying 300-500k salaries, but how can companies that don't generate that kind of cash flow afford to do the same?
That's true, although there are sometimes workarounds for that by modifying the algorithm to iterate over a small groups where there is still a data-dependency between iterations, but not within each group, allowing one to use SIMD. e.g. instead of delta compression over an array of integers where you subtract each integer from the prior one, you can subtract each group from the prior one with only a small loss of compression ratio.

The question is, is there such a dependency in this algorithm? I didn't check.
It isn't odd at all. It's written right into the law.

The fact everyone ignores it isn't really an excuse. National ID #'s for many are the top of a slippery slope. Once you start going down that path, that's it. You opened the door to surveillance nirvana. It is part of the reason I'm not terribly fond of driver's licenses; as even those are so damn networked the police don't even need your insurance to know whether you're insured or any of a myriad of other things. In the absence of a network integration, these concessions to traceability were fine. Now, the potential for abuse is just way to prescient. It isn't even about State's rights to me. It's about keeping the abuse enabled by a highly organized bureaucracy in check.

If the government of the last couple decades hadn't continually escalated the erosion of civil/constitutionally guaranteed rights, I'd be more amenable to giving a bit of slack to the idea. That isn't how it has worked out though. Do I think a unique identifier can be used benevolently? Yes. Do I think the society I share my life with can be trusted with such a thing? Not demonstrably.
With 50 I can't remember things I've learned with 20 and need to look up many things from my youth, so I guess I've never learned a thing. Thanks for that cherry blossom thought.
I strongly disagree with the idea that lower level is better.

Yes, lower-level languages allow for programs with good performance, small executables, and so forth. There are many domains where they are clearly the way to go.

But higher-level languages allow for better safety, tremendous productivity, portability, exploration, and flexibility.

If you keep your data in an SQL database and you can easily query and update it in any number of ways that you didn't initially realize you wanted. If you instead keep it in hand-crafted C structs, you can probably provide awesome performance. for whatever you originally thought you needed. Once your needs go outside of that box, you'll have to spend significant development effort.

The correct choice depends almost entirely on the domain.
If it were assigned for free when you were born and there was no effort associated with getting it or working with it, then there would be no issue. The current problem is that a driver’s license takes a long time to obtain (because the DMV wait time sucks as we all know), and because it’s not free. This means that it’s a lot harder for someone holding down 3 jobs or working during DMV hours to get one. You are basically making it more difficult for an already under-represented group of people to vote. It’s not that it’s impossibly hard or totally preventative, it’s just another obstacle.
I was reacting more to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23180680 from earlier in the day. But actually I think I overreacted here. You shouldn't have added the flamey swipe about countries and health care, but the intention of your comment was clearly to express support to someone, and I should have weighted that more. Sorry! I've unbanned your account.
Not ideal for the people affected. Didn't read the entire article so not sure what regions are affected. Hopefully they'll all get a good severance package. Not too bad if you can add "Ex-Uber" to your list of titles..
And someone not living in Berlin can live significantly cheaper too - do you want to pick a city similar to Des Moines in Germany?

EDIT: I took your number of 1/2 as truth, went through the numbers, and... our worker in Des Moines makes about 5k a year more than the one in Berlin. It'd still take 12 years to pay off the person above's unexpected medical expenses.

Then, after running the numbers for a high-tech worker, do you want to run the numbers for your janitor?

The definition of "health insurance" in the US is weird - it doesn't actually seem to mean you're going to be able to be able to access either expected or unexpected healthcare needs at a price you can afford.
Yes, it totally sucks, and it almost caused me harm trying to avoid it. I am sure I was not the only one. I imagine some poor souls got into some real trouble even suicide.

The American Medical Association, et al., sold out their patients in exchange for not being held accountable for the US opioid crisis. (my opinion of course.)

My doc didn't think it was any big deal, she said I was her first patient to question it. She thought the waiver had some limitations, I showed her that it did not have any limitations except that access had to be for official use (which is not much of a limitation.) The records are stored in an electronic registry that various local or federal government agencies can access without warrants or notice.

As a lawyer I cannot imagine voluntarily entering into such an agreement against the interest of my clients. I still find it shocking.
Total coronavirus cases per 100K residents at a county level
This is quite a common claim from the Left in the US. If you do a quick search in Left leaning publications on the issue of voter ID you'll see that stance dominates their discussion of the issue. I agree it's an extraordinary claim, but it's a conspiracy they've latched onto.

You can in fact see a child comment below where someone is commenting that the purpose of such ID is to disenfranchise the poor.
I'm not necessarily agreeing with you. Kubernetes really is a complex beast, and I wouldn't recommend self-hosting it for companies that don't have people that can focus solely on managing it.

I would also not recommend it for hosting a WordPress site, or a simple CRUD app.

However, when you get to the level where autoscaling is required, and where you are deploying multiple services, managed Kubernetes is not such a bad idea.

Using EKS (especially with Fargate) on AWS is not much harder than figuring out and properly utilizing EC2/ASG/ELB. GKE or DigitalOcean offerings seem to be even easier to use and understand.
"I'm sorry you don't live in a country with real health care" broke this guideline: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

On second look, though, I think I mis-moderated and have unbanned the account. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23214383.
Heh welp pardon me for having more than one bank account
I think it's time we just eliminated the concept of personally identifiable information (PII). Your SSN, birthdate, name, etc. are no longer secret. Operate with that assumption. Invest in a department in the government (e.g. digital service) to make this change once and for all. Heck, let's eliminate DST and move to the metric system while we're at it. Let's call this "moving to new standards" that will pay off in dividends in the future.
On the subject of failures, you might like this blog post https://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/ if you haven't seen it before.
The linked article has a really bad title. There was another article I think by The Information as well that said that Uber was planning 800 layoffs for engineers, which would still bring them over 3000 engineers. That seems quite high for a company whose main revenue has been catastrophically impacted globally.

Asking employees to take a pay cut is always a bad idea. Having gone through the dotcom bust, I can tell you that paycuts across the board will demotivate employees, even if they keep their jobs. As soon as this pandemic is over, they will flee to another company willing to pay them more.

The best way to handle crises like this, or the dotcom bust, or the next recession, is to cut deeply once. Too many times you get into situations where you want to do the least amount of damage and you don't have the courage to make the cuts you need. And then you end up going through multiple cuts over and over again, which paralyzes the company. Cut deeply, and preserve the cash bonuses and promotion cycles for the ones who remain. Show that you will take care of the employees laid off with generous severance packages, and then you will take care of the employees that stay, and this will cement loyalty.
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Low probability compared to what though? This makes less sense to me on closer inspection. I agree that there may be some meaningful observation in there, but it's hard to even figure out what the paradox or observation is.

An individual (or hive mind, whatever) living in the year 300,000 AD may very much dispute the claim that progress has stagnated. It's entirely possible that civilization has continued an exponential expansion (within limits) from now until then. As such, history is one continued exponential.

Provided that this civilization still is not bumping against the thermodynamic computational limits of space by several orders of magnitude, then the Fermi paradox is still a paradox.

That's how an exponential works, every point sees itself as a privileged point, right before it increases massively.
I don't live in the Valley but I have been wondering how engineers are going to cope when the supply-demand ratio changes in favour of employers. With the spate of SV layoffs I think we are about to head into challenging times.

Now is the time to:-

- Get your resume up-to-date

- Keep on top of friends/ex-colleagues who are at other companies still hiring

- Be ready (to move out of state, start your own gig, etc.)
doh! I thought this was going to be about remote work.
> (...) as soon as your single, de facto trusted top Google search result of their organization's own website is presented as the beginning and the end of your argument,

You claimed the Gates foundation didn't promoted access to clean water.

The Gates' foundation website clearly shows that they do in fact promote access to clean water. And sanitation. And hygiene.

Either you were lying or you were just blabbering about stuff you did not knew.

That, if anything, is enough reason to end an argument, because your claim is clearly bullshit.
Interesting, thanks for the link. I just noticed it is also packaged into Debian.
>The fair market price for content is $0.

That's a gross oversimplification. Lots of content isn't worth anything but some is. If you're a stock trader, for example, certain timely information is well-worth paying for. And there's a market for that served by Bloomberg, Thomson-Reuters, and so on.

The term "content" obscures the differences by suggesting its all interchangeable. That's certainly in the interest of the Googles and Facebooks of the world: When all content is equal, no content creator has any negotiating power.

But there's a distinction between a multi-month investigative report and hastily paraphrased rewrite at some fly-by-night website intent on capturing algorithmic ad dollars.

Pricing news content is hard because it has a different value to different people and often the value is only apparent after it has been consumed.

It's worth asking how much we will pay for reports on political corruption, civic injustice, and so on. If the price for content is $0, the signal to noise ratio will disappear.
President Trump already did this, right before the coronavirus crisis.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/8...

Why? Because cutting benefits is popular with his supporters.

Callously cutting benefits for a miniority of the populat is populist for the selfish majority.
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I can't read the full article because of paywall. But the headline:

> Uber Managers Asked for Pay Cut to Save Jobs. The CEO Said No

In a small startup the "company-wide pay cuts" might fly for a while, if everyone is truly motivated. But in a massive public company, where the majority doesn't feel connected to leadership, this would never work. The star employees would jump ship immediately if there weren't carve-outs for some people to avoid the cuts, which defeats the whole "we are in this together" purpose of the company-wide pay cuts.

I'll say this straight - if I was a non-upper management employee and they asked me to lose 25% of my income, I would leave ASAP.