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> It seems utterly insane that in the early 90's I could just run Windows 3.1 on a bit of kit that in all likelihood wouldn't even power a toaster today, and the experience was, well, frictionless. I don't recall ever thinking "wtf is this thing doing?" ...

I generally agree, but I sometimes ran Windows 3.0 on a 386SX-16 in the early 90s, and often wondered why it ran so slow on my admittedly underpowered but supported system.

At some point I read (perhaps in Compute! or BYTE) that Windows made something like 20 or 30 syscalls to draw one line of a window's border. That seemed exceptionally inefficient to me, so I stopped using Windows. I generally worked in DOS, but if I wanted a GUI, Geoworks provided an experience at least ten times better (subjectively) -- smooth UI, ability to multitask, a surprisingly good word processor and other well-designed software included.
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Remote working can be great for companies that are large and/or in the development/web service sector. In large companies most people already interact remotely (i.e., emails and calls). With all that this entails: clear communication, well documented processes, etc.
So a good part of the work is already remote, in some sense.
You only need to understand what part of the rest can be made remote.

Companies that work primarily with development/web service probably already work in good part with (remote) software. So working remotely is an easy step.

In short, I think that basically companies like Facebook are the one that have it easiest in being remote-first companies. And the ones that would get the most benefit from it. So, it is great that they adopted a remote-first approach, when they literally had no alternative.

However, we should remember that there are still lots of companies and people that will never thrive in a remote-first environment. And these might very well be the majority.
>Well, all apps are vetted by Apple

And as such, Apple is responsible for it existing in their store.

>making me believe that this was likely treated as a normal app and was vetted as a normal app.

You'd think with the privacy issues surrounding contact tracing apps, they would have taken a closer look. Seems negligent not to.

How does Apple get away with both the accolades when it keeps a 'curated walled garden' that's supposed to protect users from themselves, as i've seen quoted many times on hn, yet they get a pass when they end up allowing things users would be upset about and well it's not their fault?

It can't be both ways. If they advertise a safe curated garden, then they do.have responsibility when.something slips through.
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Check out developerbox.

https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/
> I'm not really sure why more people don't do their own thing.

I've certainly considered it, but one thing holds me back: cross-platform targeting. I'd love for my game to eventually run on the Switch, to say nothing of more basic targets like MacOS, Windows and Linux. Targeting those platforms would be a herculean effort.
The purpose of a shovel is to drain water from fields? Making money for the owners are a side effect of the purpose of a company unless it is a holding company.
My biggest grief with Unity is that they only made the C#, but not the C++ part of the engine open source. So there can be release-blocking bugs that you cannot fix yourself, due to lack of source code. And when I tried to purchase Unity source code access, I was just ignored.

Unreal Engine on the other hand has source code available for everything, so you can be sure that if such a bug hits, you can just patch it yourself and continue working.
This happened to me in one of my first real jobs. It was a very small company and I'm in the US. I worked for 7 weeks with while my paychecks bounced. It took me that long to quit because the economy was bad and I didn't want to burn relationships with anybody. Looking back now, I was too young and naive to realize I should have stop showing up the day the first paycheck bounced. I never kept in touch with anybody, so the whole "relationships" logic was wrong as well.

I eventually got my pay after constantly contacting the CEO and basically begging for it. I think he took it out of his personal savings or borrowed it from a friend. I wonder if one of the other employees went through the legal route and that scared him into paying everybody.

The company never recovered and obviously not being able to pay me was a huge sign that the company was mismanaged and had bigger issues that would lead to failure.

I'm not going to advise you on legal issues, but I will say that you should use your time to find another job. If you're not getting paid to work, you should be focused on your next steps, not helping the CEO keep their business running for free. Imagine if you work for 2 months, the company closes, and then you have to go through legal channels to get even a small bit of money. It's just a waste of your time and life.
The idea would be to spread people out and build new attractive areas.
Yeah, the bash ecosystem looks fairly different with regards to dealing with structured data since jq became popular. Basically jq means that as long as you can safely get your input from whatever custom format into json, and from json to whatever output format, you can safely work with structured data.

Incidentally, I think it would have been possible to use only `csvkit` commands and skip the format munging to and from json, but I have an allergy to working with csvs since the format is a bit underspecified and there exist "csv" files that break even the few rules the format is supposed to have. You would be horrified at some of the things I have seen that called themselves "csv".

> In my experience, I can write a "proper" command line tool with all the bells & whistles using C/C++ in about a few thousand lines of code

Yeah, in my experience trying to write command line tools in low level languages is an exercise in pain. I usually write new tools in Python, where similar to your experience writing a simple command is ~20 lines of code, ~10 of which is boilerplate that is the same for every command.

That said, powershell does look pretty cool. And I see that it's possible to install on linux as well[1], and as far as I can tell even to write my commands in python[2], so it almost looks like "a unix-style shell but with types" which would be useful.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/instal...
[2] http://pythonnet.github.io/
All very interesting - this is great!
What I've been reminded of this year is that panicking is not useful. Shit can happen at anytime, and being prepared to weather a downturn of any type is always in fashion. Have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund is a good idea, improving your skills for unexpected job loss is a good idea, regular disciplined investing if a good idea, yada yada. So I'm just doing my best to ensure my butt is covered for if/when the defecation hits the ventilation.
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> In spite of all these, US/North America is where you would rather be than say, Europe, Africa or even Asia.

Why?
No, I played around with Terminal.app for quite a while already. Actually the category does show up on another machine of mine (see edit)... I suspected that maybe I never ran Xcode on the first machine since I upgraded to Catalina, so I launched Xcode, but again, no luck. I'm at a complete loss now.
Huh. Me, I've always used soft iron twisted wire.
Of course they "got it". When any human says a context-less "London", except maybe people literally in London ON and surrounding areas, they obviously mean the London. It's a little human communication nuance but understanding "what I mean" vs bare "what I say" is a huge part of getting AI-ish assistants to be useful.
I recommend WBO : https://wbo.ophir.dev/

I am the main developer, and I have been maintaining and using it for several years now. Some of its advantages :

- It is fully open-source, free, and without advertisement. You can easily deploy it to your own server.

- All the whiteboards have an infinite size.

- It is fully web-based, you can use it without installing anything, even on relatively old browsers.

- It's translated in several languages.

- It's actively developed. In-development features include image upload, element resizing, new tools, and others...
> they consider the Declaration non-binding

But others may think differently and act accordingly.

> has a permanent seat on the UNSC and so can veto

Russia has a permanent seat. And is under sanctions. Not even strongest possible - could be worse.
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and there are a lot of background processes.

running just firefox and terminal, ps -ef|wc -l is 198

and many of them have no reason to be on my system.
Are there any tools to migrate from elasticsearch to timescale ? We are considering a switch from our es and are evaluating options. Timeseries is also one of the contenders. We are not looking for text search just some nested queries on a timeseries data.
Based on a small sample size, Wikipedia seems to be numerically dominated by tiny one- or two-sentence entries.

> Fresneda de la Sierra is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 72.

> Caciomorpha batesi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pascoe in 1858.

> Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) campestris is a species of mosquito belonging to the genus Uranotaenia. It is found in Thailand, Sri Lanka,[1] Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Timor, and Vietnam.

> Vreme (Macedonian: Време), translated: Time, was a Macedonian daily newspaper.

> Sagra is a village in the province of Alicante and autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 5.6 square kilometres (2.2 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 454 people.

> Renocera stroblii is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic

About half of them (randomly chosen articles) are like this.
If that information can’t be used to identify anyone then it retains privacy while being secure. Being slow would still be an issue.
We don't have unemployment insurance in the UK.
Mint been my daily driver for a year, does a fine job so far
My main complaints about UNET could be summarized as "the order in which things happen is very chaotic" (in unbelievably many ways!). I've not checked to what degree Mirror has improved on this.

Based on a superficial look, I'm worried it might have been more concerned with adding features than fixing and simplifying the fundamentals, but I don't really know.
Haha yes it has become muscle memory.
Sure, but almost all the times (I'm not specifically referring to person in the comment I'm responding to and should have been more clear on that) people were making it fundamentally an sql vs. non-sql argument.

As in you need to switch your entire database system or make a bet on this completely new player instead of battle proven tech, because with relational databases schema migrations are hard. Among a bunch of other questionable claims.

Sure if you take the vanilla databases without their ecosystem, there is some merit to that, but I don't find it a very practical argument to ignore all the tooling and workflows that do exists and are used by people.

When MongoDB first came out, I was eager to check it out. I was using mainly Django with Postgres at the time, but had my career start on ZODB, an object-oriented non-sql database created in the late 90s. So I was hopeful that MongoDB could give me the best of both worlds. One of the reasons I backed of Mongo very quickly was the lack of tooling as soon as you have something resembling a schema or relationship and you'd want to change it.
The answer is a bowline or sheet bend (same knot).
They show how to do it with pictures.
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> The Mail app will now randomly play the "new mail" sound.

It’s not quite random: it plays the sounds as it gets new email, but then it takes anywhere between a couple of seconds to a minute for the new email to be visible in the UI. Infuriating.

> Xcode was stuck upgrading in the App Store. It would start the process and never make any progress. Cancelling it had no effect. Rebooting cancelled it but the second attempt, while making progress, ended up failing with a generic error message with no actual information.

I just normally kill the store-related daemons when that happens.
It's possible that plants detect the chemical markers of the insects while they bite the leaves. A response to pests could be early flowering, to give the plant a better chance to complete its life cycle.

Chitosan is derived from chitin, and it acts in a similar way, it induces an immune response in plants, and makes them more vigorous. Plants treated with chitosan usually grow larger, flower earlier, and produce more fruit.
Just try doing basic rendering with Unity and you will understand how bloated it is.
Try to do some kind of fast line drawing / loading fbx / etc. Anything that a basic engine does pretty good.
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Is it possible to create a phone which can be customized, repaired, or able to replace/upgrade any module and update software so that it can be used and maintained until there is a major trend change?
I don't know man, just looked at front page of /r/ unemployment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unemployment/comments/gofuf5/illino...

The "anti-rich" topic has been going on for so long without a real conclusion, I definitely would not discredit the possibility of riots in certain US cities.
Most high income nations have been overproduce food via subsidies for decades. For most countries, food security is part of national security. The obesity crisis is a side effect of that:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...

I think there's enough slack in the system we won't see food shortage. The lines at food banks are a different problem entirely. That's because people don't have jobs, and are afraid to spend what they do have in savings and unemployment.
Yes it's probably the end medically, but it's not the end of its use as a political wedge.

To people who believe the current political rhetoric promoting hydroxychloroquine, a study in a medical journal doesn't change anything, as their interest in it was never based its medical efficacy, but rather as a symbol used to rally around their leader and their movement. Just look at the anti-vaccination movement, which continues despite being debunked for years.

And we shouldn't so quickly dismiss this phenomenon. We underestimate the power of that kind of fictional narrative group-think to our peril. The only way to fight falsehood based narrative is truth based narrative. The dry statistical or scientifically derived truth that eggheads like most of us wish would prevail is largely powerless. Stories are what ultimately wins.
Anyone who actually reads the Podesta email archive knows why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384573
It's not really necessary to say `This despite Epic developing both a cutting edge game engine + Fortnite.`. Fortnite as most people know it is Fortnite Battle Royale. FNBR was essentially a weekend game mod project to an already existing, but floundering, multiplayer game. Most people that play Fortnite today have probably never even played the original game mode.
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Same here.

I don't understand where people get the idea it is a good pattern. It feels like a designer meme, or more like cargo cult, that people add just because everybody else does.
Given this, I don't believe the this person's original argument is, to use their words, meaningful, then.

> Velocity isn't a productivity metric, so your findings probably aren't meaningful.

They were responding to someone that was using their average story point completion rate to track their productivity.

This person seems to be talking about what sorts of work to work on - the kind that makes the company money.

If it's already been predicted or measured that a certain project is going to earn the company money, then you need to know how long it's going to take to complete that project, which means either estimating it as a whole, or breaking the project into parts and estimating each part.

Assuming two projects of similar mathematical proportionality of size and value, you can then estimate velocity based on how much projected time it's going to take to complete each step of each project, as estimated by story points or similar.

In this way, story points can still be a meaningful metric that you can estimate velocity on.

In short, the discussion is on two separate things and their initial premise of velocity being meaningless is not correct.
I've been using linux distros (~5 years of Ubuntu and ~3 years of Arch) before switching to macOS somewhere around 2013-2014. And now years later I'm thinking about moving back. But every time I'm think about this I start with digging about current Linux situation and every time I realise than it is still a horrible system for anything outside of work, especially if you can't really do without a decent UI\UX.

Apple's ecosystem is also an issue. iOS + macOS is still much better than anything on the market (no alternatives really).
Denmark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22571624
I thought the whole octal business stemmed from the time mainframes and minis used 36b, 18b words respectively as 6bit (early mainframe character width) can be conveniently represented as two digit octal. This changed when computers went 16/32bit and started to use 8bit bytes (and ASCII encoding of characters).
Wasnt Zinc supposed to be part of the equation along with Hydroxychloroquine?
Most anecdotal evidence from practitioners includes Zinc along with Hydroxychloroquine.
Some interesting points but some of them are not internally consistent:

Author claims that the stock market is up because people are sitting at home day-trading driving up prices. Then a few paragraphs later claims that cash is king and people are unlikely to spend.

Author claims that 2009 Fed spending made sense because it was an aggregate demand issue. That was not very clear then as it was unclear that many of the mortgage-backed securities actually had a positive value. Coronavirus in comparison is much more clearly a demand issue (people are effectively being ordered not to go out and spend).
Yea it's the new craze in webdev these days, and a lot of people are fixating on it.

Still I really like the insights, I feel like they were once little known secrets only experienced devs were keen to
At this point, Unity is a WIP engine with a boat load of alpha packages.
True but the GP asked about "literally everyone in the world" and the parent is a correct and useful answer to that question.
The delusion is the opposite, in that everyone else thinks management should magically have all the right and best answers at the drop of a dime. In reality, management is people too with varied levels of experience and competence. And like all people, they make mistakes so we shouldn't be surprised they don't get it right all the time.
They really do need that reminder.

The people making money from Unity-based games are primarily mobile/F2P devs, and smaller indie developers.

They need stability and ease-of-use/very-rapid-development much more than they need performance or the latest shiny high-end graphics features.
Yes, we hear Splunk complaints quite often. :)

Here is a doc on using TimescaleDB as a horizontally-scalable, easy-to-deploy, operationally-mature data store for Prometheus data (i.e., metrics), put together by another of our engineering teams:

Building an open-source analytical platform for Prometheus

https://tsdb.co/prom-design-doc

I'm also happy to discuss privately if you'd prefer - ajay (at) timescale.com.
Student loan debt is interesting because it could swing an election. All it needs is a candidate offering to write it off and a large enough portion of the population that stands to gain. I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen in the next decade or two.
It’s basically the same ones you’re running, possibly a couple builds ahead and with all the security features turned off.
I can imagine a hundred products that can benefit from 5G, and I’m just one person. WiFi is great for high power products that stay within trusted networks, but not everything does stay within a trusted network. 5G can also offer a convince of being pre-configured out of the box to work.
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FP16 tensorcore = 312 tflops

x 2 (counting sparse as dense) = 624 tflops

x 8 GPUs = 5 "pflops"

The missing 8x you are looking for is just because tensorcore math is much faster than their normal fma path.
He argues that that's going to happen in July. I just can't see the States letting that happening. Here in Canada they are continually expanding out benefits, and I think the States will have to follow that as well. I can't see the tap being just turned off.
I’m convinced the only reason this is being advocated by laypeople is to provide false reassurance to vulnerable populations that an effective treatment is available.
It is still an extremely frustrating experience. All of them: Google, Amazon, Apple. That it gets it wrong, ever, is too much for me. The first time I ever had to repeat myself getting directions on the road I was done.

I don't understand why anyone other than hobbyists can stand to use these things. They are so obviously years away from ready for serious use, and the novelty value wore off years ago.

Not shitposting here, these are serious comments about absurdly bad UX.
Which instantly reminds me of another weird mash up, the Amstrad Mega PC¹. A literal Japanese game console stuffed in to a DOS PC.

I've never seen one in real life, but I find the idea intriguing. Another chunk of Friday afternoon has gone now ;)

Edit: Add also the Sega TeraDrive² which I hadn't seen before.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_TeraDrive
Why would I want to use a product specific IDE? Do you support vim keybindings? All of the VS plugins I use?

How would I work on both cliet / server code at the same time?
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Is the shop in such dire shape that you need to advertise it here? I’m not against that if it is, but let people know it’s the case, it’s the difference between spam and the kind of useful information people are here to find.
At that point it was webscale ready. The problem was that MongoDB lied in their documentation what guarantees it provided. It took them a decade to improve, and now that data is safer (still not completely) it no longer offers performance edge over its competition.

Originally it was super fast, because it kept everything in RAM and didn't worry about writing data to disk, which caused many people to lose data.
Networking things makes sense when remote interaction is useful.

There is very little you can do with a toaster, microwave, or coffee machine while you are not physically present. You can't send toast, coffee, or leftovers over a network. The 'internet of things' isn't useful in and of itself. There has to first be a practical use-case that justifies it.

I haven't had to worry about the coffee pot being on for decades. My $20 coffee pot has a positive temperature coefficient heating element, thermal fuse, and automatic shutoff.