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Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out.

Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut.

From the interview:

> What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many people are too shy or afraid of failure. If there's something you want to do you just have to go for it.

That's a bit of a non-answer. It's like asking someone how they ran a 100 mile ultra-marathon, and they said "one step at a time!". I'd be more interested in the qualifications and skills they're looking for? What age are astronauts and where do they recruit from? How much time do you spend in space or otherwise away from your family. Are all the jobs clustered in one geographical location?

Also, I think you should make the About section feel a bit more personal. You linked to your personal twitter elsewhere but not in this page.
When talking about worth in the capitalist sense, the human body is worth over half a million dollars. That is a lot of value to society. But I suppose you mean in the philosophical sense.

I suggest reading from the great philosophers: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/
I don’t think you ever used CS before and don’t understand it regardless of the current situation (which will resolve eventually)

COVID surely affected all hospitality, but money isn’t relevant to CS anyway.
> Just because he was there doesn’t mean he agreed with it all.

My evidence is that he didn't leave. When you're working for an unethical company you have but one choice: leave. If you don't - and especially not at that level - you are implicitly ok'ing it.

At a guess with your MS advocacy all over this thread you don't see anything wrong with it, past or present. And if you did then you'd think twice about staking your reputation on this. But as always, the mortgage comes first.
You still need to renew it every 8 yrs or so, pay a small tax and no you can't get it from a small rural place. Talking of Europe here, I believe both types or Americans have distorted view how things are arranged here.
Google says they killed Reader because of declining usage[1], and there was little reason to doubt that at the time. It's very true that people were switching to mobile consumption and no longer reading lots of news all at once.

I was a heavy user of Reader (and did huge amounts of work on RSS/Atom/etc), and I agreed with this assessment at the time.

More and more publishers were just putting headlines in RSS, so you had to click through anyway, and commercial blog sites were publishing a much larger volume of content, most of which I ignored. But I didn't want to unsubscribe, because occasionally there was something good.

Given that, I was finding much better content through aggregators like HN or via Twitter/FB.

Maybe they could have iterated and built something different, but what they had really wasn't useful.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-google-reader-got-the-ax/
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I think the expectation is that a deployed system will be used to keep drones airborne longer.
The argument was: only packages which are good enough for production use ought to be published on official package repositories. This allows people to assume that all packages on the repository are stable, well maintained, good quality software without manually verifying each dependency.

So why even let random people sign up a developer account and publish packages? Maybe they need a separate curated "serious packages only" repository.
Those kids could retake normal proctored tests November, assuming the world stops burning and CB seta up testing.
I’ve never used couchsurfing. Can you elaborate a few more details for outsiders like myself who perhaps can’t read between the lines you’re drawing on the topic?

It doesn’t seem that far disconnected from reality to posit that COVID has had some affect on this?
On the other hand, the unpublished archive of Kennedy photos was stored in the basement of one of the World Trade Centers. And there was that HP archive that burned down. And the storage center for military records burned down. Etc.
Maybe this is a super duper space plane?
It is because where it matters, it is too often easy to avoid the problem by better system design. And, it doesn't show up in benchmarks, in part because benchmarks don't unmap, or because they are well designed systems that neatly sidestep the problem.
The main point though, is that running Python in the browser it's an unnecessary abstraction because you get a crappier version of something that runs pretty well natively. If you're starting from scratch, I think that the browser might be close to native performance in some tasks. Porting existing applications is a pain when you start looking into the details.
>If community powered websites like Reddit can survive

Reddit is backed by venture capital and shifted heavily to be more advertiser friendly.
It would be enforced by the DEA, but as far as I remember, the requirement that only paper prescriptions are accepted for C-IIs is written into the law itself. So only Congress could change it.

There is actually a way to e-prescribe, but there are strict security requirements and I think it varies by state. IDK why blockchain is needed though, an ordinary digital signature ought to be enough and that's what the e-prescribing rule requires.
And most fail to realize that if I was a unicorn, I would likely be working at one of 200 or so companies or my own gig..
Start Notepad++ or https://github.com/rxi/lite and then compare the startup speed with VSCode.
And the Spring link is a 404
>Central Park worked because the existing density was already high and there was no way for Manhattan to grow outward

Central Park was built before the first subway and before the bridges connecting Brooklyn, Queens and Jersey. The dirt dug from the tunnels was added to lower Manhattan. Prior to elevators buildings rarely went higher than 5 stories. There was in fact ways for Manhattan to grow outwards (effectively).
> Much harder to read this as you propose.

It has the exact same ambiguity. They even put the same comma between "under penalty of perjury that he is an authorized representative of the copyright owner" and "that he has a good-faith belief that the material is unlicensed."

> Both cases are obiter dictum, since it's not relevant to the ruling. But they provide a strong indication of what a court ruling on the perjury issue directly would say, and they would certainly be persuasive authority.

This was kind of my point. Having to bring in some dicta from unrelated cases because there are no actual perjury cases to cite pretty well implies that there are no teeth in the perjury requirement one way or another.

It's not as if there have been a lack of fraudulent DMCA claims to prosecute either.
I have IIS on my Windows 10 Home Surface 6. I have encountered no problems at all; I did not buy it with this in mind, but now it's doing all my dev work. Biggest problem is that Teams uses 600 MB to sit idle so I never have any memory to do anything interesting.
Using a Pearson-controlled compu-text is a very simple sign that the professor or administration (whoever has decision making power) is terrible and not worth attending.
It's hard for me to judge, despite being quite libertarian, because to me the closure orders were finally in line with what I had already been doing. The closure orders certainly seemed abrupt compared to the past several decades, but not necessarily in the context of previous pandemics.

I get your general point with regards to say the "patriot" act, mass surveillance, etc. But on the other side of that, intelligence agents have complained of there simply being too much data to sift through. So once again it could be a kind of miswielded faux power rather than actual power.

I think you'd have to dig into the historical record to really find out. I'm not a big reader of history, but many things from the past seem more authoritarian. I mean, the draft. Can you even imagine that today?
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Or to put it mathematically, the optimal amount of exploration time in this explore/exploit problem is far less than you might think.
That's how etorphine was discovered! Well, having tea and stirring it with a "clean" glass rod.
Same goes for Isaac Newton. He’s practically been elevated to godhood for his contributions to calculus and physics. What about his occult studies, alchemy, and chronology [1]? It seems only historians (academic and amateur), Newton buffs, and compulsive Wikipedia clickers know or care about these weird ideas that were so important to Newton.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studie...
If that’s the case there’s about eight of them in New York City.
> The best part is that law enforcement can review the records at will (as long as they can articulate an official reason which is a very low bar.)

True, but a positive test wouldn't be enough to arrest someone for drug possession. I doubt it would even be enough to get a search warrant with.
I meant "content" as in cultural content--articles, Q&A submissions, blog posts, takes, memes, recipes, how-tos, tutorials. Content that makes up >80% of G search results. At one time, there was a price for such content because you could only get it from a print publication or from broadcast television. Now that there are no barriers to posting, we see how many people actually want to publish content even if they have to pay out of pocket to host it (i.e., making the price of their content negative since the consumer gets to freeload bandwidth without ads and consume content).

> 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.

You're suggesting that journalism is a public good because the value is captured by society as a whole as opposed to by the individual newspaper subscriber. I wouldn't argue against investigative journalism being important for democracy etc., but why does it need to cost anything (even by the public)? What about the whole Harvey Weinstein/MeToo saga which started after some individuals made some tweets without being paid by a journalism company to do so. There is no shortage of outraged citizen activists who will do "investigative journalism". I don't know why their free work should automatically be considered inferior just because they don't have a journalism degree and aren't being paid by a journalism company.
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I Just made the jump from a macbook to a dual GPU nvidia Razer Blade 15 running pop!_os. Everything more or less works out of box except for thermal CPU boosting ( which works with some minor tweaks). With the hybrid power mode you still need to manually decide which apps to run on the dedicated GPU, but it mostly powers down when not in use.

Still, all the issues running linux on heterogeneous desktop hardware leads me to think that we need a better business model for linux on the laptop.
The repercussions for not following protocol in Shanghai is probably a bit different than Alameda County..
BeWelcome is open-source, has been around for a decade already, and has excellent financial transparency. Their fundraising target for this year is 1300€.

I've already contacted their developer to ask if I can help create a data import tool so people can easily transfer their C$ profiles.

It's heartbreaking to see such a wonderful community be divided like this. There are no "rich" and "poor" countries, only ones with more inequality. Ideally I wish that the HQ would change their mind, but my support is now behind BeWelcome as the alternative.

We must work together and stay united as a community. Travel will continue, despite government lockdowns. Contact tracing is much easier with hospex sites like BeWelcome than with 11 strangers in a hostel room. Economic troubles will lead people to cheaper alternatives. Even if C$ has been ruined by venture capitalists, giving freely and paying it forward will live on elsewhere.

In case this message reaches the C$ investors in Silicon Valley, I don't hate you personally, and I wish that internal reform is possible so that we don't all have to flee to a new platform. But the new change, brought without consultation, is contrary to the principles that CS was founded on. CS is not Airbnb, nor is it a dating site, nor is it exclusive. Selling personal data and private messages didn't bother me too much - Facebook does the same. But trying to charge a monthly subscription from people who don't even have stable countries, never mind bank accounts, is totally ignorant. Change your mind, quickly, because the community is already one foot out of the door.
Lets just say someone at booking.com or tripping.com or some other hungry and less-that-totally-ethical AirBNB competitor works this out, and offers to buy the library or pay Zac $bignum in return for adding in some "additional analytics" aka industrial espionage allowing them to see searches/bookings made by users of apps with the library embedded.

Now Zac probably isn't the sort of person who'd do that, but once you get to a project like React which has 10,000 or so dependancies - surely _some_ of those dependancy authors would do that, for enough pieces of silver...
Ask HN: How to build skills for leadership roles
Recently, I have been interviewing for senior leadership roles at mid-size/large companies. I am currently a VP but I do not manage a very large team.

The feedback I usually get is: although I excelled in the skills required for the job, I lacked executive presence & gravitas. I have a little bit of impostor syndrome and English is not my first language although I am pretty good at it. I am not sure how to improve my chances or in general get better with gravitas/executive presence.
Would appreciate any resources/ideas.

Thanks
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It’s also not the choice that Tesla is forcing people to make, and I really don’t understand how such an easily debunked falsehood became so popular here. The CA EDD specifically covers this in their COVID-19 FAQ:

> My employer furloughed me when its business closed due to the COVID-19 stay-at- home order. I am currently receiving regular UI benefits. My employer is reopening and has asked me to return to work. Will I lose my regular UI benefits if I refuse to return to work because I am afraid of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace?

> An individual is disqualified for UI if they refuse to accept “suitable” employment when offered. Under California law, the EDD will consider whether the particular work is “suitable” in light of factors such as the degree of risk involved to the individual’s health and safety. For example, if your employer has complied with the state’s requirements for reopening, and any and all government safety regulations, you may not have good cause to refuse to return to work and could be disqualified from continuing to receive regular UI benefits for a designated period of time.

Whether you lose your unemployment comes down entirely to whether the government of California deems the working conditions suitable, Tesla’s judgement “suitable” does not enter into the equation in any way whatsoever. Elsewhere in the FAQ they also specifically state that your own individual risk factors are taken into account when making this judgement. If you have an issue with people choosing between unemployment or unsafe working conditions, that issue lies exclusively with the state.

https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/faqs.htm
Kubernetes doesn't benefit Google? How not?
I disagree, I had 100,000 uniques on my third blog post. Of course, there was less Internet in 2005.
Not even an American but this number is convicted people for voter fraud. It's not even a study or some intelligence agency estimate, so you're dishonest here.
Well, how can you expect an astronaut to have a good answer to the biggest roadblock? You need to poll some people who tried but failed to become astronauts. They would know more.
That's a pretty aggressive comment. Let's try to be civil.
this is part of the Air Force budget (~$165.6 billion)
IMO there's a lot to dislike about Elons handling of this.. but the conditions are different than a meat packing plant.

This is a meat packing plant:
https://postmediacalgaryherald2.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/...
Shoulder to shoulder all day long. Those are their stations for their entire shift.

Notice also: no masks. And because they've been deemed a critical industry, they aren't necessarily getting masks now either. So no distancing, and no masks. These are also very poorly paid jobs, and it would be unusual if they had health insurance or paid time off.

It's pretty much the perfect conditions for covid.

Cars tend to be a bit bigger than chickens.. so in a car factory, the workers are usually more than 6 ft apart.
Indeed. This complex Nigerian crime ring is best known as PRINCE.
It did during the Great Depression. Then it realized that was dumb and it took a world war to fully recover.
I'm honestly curious what reaction from "the people" you would expect. Even if I was concerned with the source of the orders, if the measures are perfectly reasonable and expected then... should I still defy them? Serious question.
I started to avoid using such sites and services with the “unmagical” email link. Was especially frustrating when I don’t have the multiple emails on my multiple devices. The iPad I use does not have my work email set up for example. I use a password manager and this annoyance is not necessary at all.

Maybe sites can offer both choices if they insist on email authentication.

There is also a huge swath of humanity who do not interact with emails anymore, especially in developing countries.

Many sites in India offer both username/password and the option of logging with your mobile number and a text entry code sent.
Imagine a program that, instead of calling munmap() directly, spins up a separate thread to call it, with the main thread proceeding on its way.

Doesn't such a program today already observe all the weirdness of the page "disappearing" from different threads at different points in time?

What difference would there be with a lazy mmap(), except that the window during which these inconsistencies are observable would be longer?
Yes; that’s true, it’s not a land tax. But many have pointed out that land fails to capture the scarce raw material that makes up an economy, such as human attention. These are very hard to assess. Land is too, and frankly the productivity of land alone is probably not enough to pay for the government, so all profits get collected as tax and the value of the land drops to zero.
There is a theorem (called the "Henry George Theorem", but ironically discovered by Joseph Stiglitz in 1977) [1] that an LVT in the presence of democratic government results in an optimal tax rate and allocation of public/private benefits, and that an LVT can solely fund government.

The idea behind the theorem is that all of these public benefits - open space, parks, museums and cultural attractions, mass transit, transportation, safety, etc. - increase the relative attraction of living in a location. Hence, they raise the rents that landlords can charge. Places like NYC or the Bay Area are attractive in a large part because of public investments in social goods there. The increase in rent due to public goods is specifically the increase in land value - private improvements to an individual property are not reflected in the LVT, but that portion of the property's value that is common among all properties in the area is.

Therefore, every landowner has an incentive to pass a tax increase iff it will raise the rent they can collect (or the implicit rent, for an owner-occupied property) by greater than the amount of the tax. And they have an incentive to ensure that the tax is spent on benefits that actually improve the appeal of living in a place, because otherwise they're losing money on the deal. Hence the theory implies that a LVT is not only the optimal way of collecting revenue for a government, but also leads to an optimal size of government, making it popular among many left-libertarian types.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem
How is that different from subreddits - Or communities like HN? Those aren't technical decisions, but social ones, so why do we need a new internet to implement them?
One thing to watch for with pod antiAffinity - if you use required vs preferred, and your pod count exceeds the node count, the remainder will be left in Pending and won't spin up anywhere.
I don't know how Hacker News manages to stay so pure, given that it's run by venture capitalists, yet still remains free of ads and open to newcomers. Monetising CS is like demanding a signup fee to join HN: it will drastically change the community.
I use VS Code daily (because it seems to be the only full-featured editor that Just Works(TM) with WSL), but it can get pretty sluggish, especially with the Vim plugin.
Yes, thank you for the clarification :)
This gets said a lot, and granted VSCode is certainly one of the best performing Electron apps, but it definitely is not indistinguishable from native apps. Sublime, Notepad++, or TextAdept all fly compared to VSCode in terms of performance and RAM efficiency.
There are more places than Alameda County that need those things.
I'm mostly locked in my room.

Things that seemed not important now get me quite upset (like my roommate leaving dirty dishes in the sink or over using common spaces).

I'm still working, from home, so I spend the most of my days between my bed and my desk.

I'm starting to feel pain in my lower back in the morning.

I'm swinging between the idea of buying a place just for myself and the idea of going living in the woods.

I wasted quite a bit of money on delivery food in the first period. Now I'm spending very little.

I've had a period where I drank at least a can of beer every day. Now I stopped because that was getting out of hand.

I have very little to do besides work and maybe reading yet I despise and loathe phone calls. My relatives keep me on the phone for like 45 minutes every time. 45 minutes of nothing (because there's no big news really).

FUCK PEOPLE ARE LOUD. THE NEIGHBORS ARE LOUD. WHY DON'T PEOPLE USE HEADPHONES? WHY DO PEOPLE SCREAM AT ALEXA?

Lockdown is officially lifted but things aren't well enough yet. But I see people walking around with incorrectly worn masks and I have to try very hard not to lose my temper at such people.

When I go to the grocery store I often see old people (at higher risk) that could have asked for free delivery buying like 2-3 things. I get some unpleasant thoughts that I won't write here.

What impact has this had on my life? Probably makinflg me realize that space is super important. I don't want to share my spaces anymore. I want my own spaces. Fuck sharing a flat.

I'm generally carrying on, because I know that after all I haven't been infected (don't know really, I haven't been tested) and I got to keep my job (and salary). But I'm having an harder and harder time at keeping calm.
You realise what the most successful thing built on top of that open social graph was, right?

Cambridge Analytica.
Simply put, what the article recommends is in most situations, dead wrong advice.

If configured as suggested, and for some reason you lose enoguh nodes in your cluster for not having single node for each of your replicas, you will have less replicas than you intended, since the scheduler can't schedule a pod to a node where identical pod is already running.

Additionally, the affinity and anti affinity features are costly from the cluster perspective, so the configuration recommended by the author cost you performance.

And why isn't Kubernetes doing the obvious thing and spread apart your pods? well, it's simple - it does the right thing:

https://v1-15.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling/ku...

The first scoring parameter is SelectorSpreadPriority.