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And that's the problem for the Swiss Franc. After all, if something is scarce it is expensive.

The Swiss National Bank has foreign exchange reserves worth of about $800 billion today. Not even included is something like a sovereign wealth fund. I read that the Swiss bought a lot of Apple shares, for example.

I don't know whether this is good or bad for the Swiss. I imagine they could play this game: if everybody wants the Swiss Franc, sell them out of thin air for a price they can set themselves by just selling as long as there is demand. If demand plummets, buy the Francs back for a lower price. Nothing is lost?

It's almost a scam the Swiss are playing to the world. But what can the Swiss do? If they don't do anything, the Swiss franc will rise like a rocket and wreck the export-oriented economy. If they play this game the reserves of the Swiss National Bank are ballooning like crazy.

The Swiss National Bank director is saying that it is dangerous to have these large balances because of the other side of the balance sheet: the obligations. They could be due suddenly and brutally. I really don't know.
I think they, and other social platforms should charge by number of followers an account has. Free for anyone with less than 100 followers, $10 a month for 1000, $100 a month for 10K followers, etc. (and the account owner sets the follower limit but can raise it to the next tier if they want)
I'll take a stab and say, despite having not met him, that tony hoare is probably not witless or naive.

In this he was referring to simplicity in implementation, and simplicity in the final product where achievable (AKA don't over-ask).

I've worked with a guy that, given a choice, would pick the most complex and extreme way of doing things. I've also met plenty of manager types who will elaborate a simple functional and useful 90% product into monster with repeated scope creep, and who's going to say no to them?

Another relevant Hoare quote for exactly this:

"There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way — and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."

KISS, or do you disagree with that too?
I don't think you are wrong about the DAGs, though in programming language parlance they are called abstract syntax trees (AST). Sure you can do like Scratch, which is basically an AST editor instead of a code editor. Not a bad idea in of itself, but what if you start writing those basic blocks in your language of choice? Keep looking up the function definition in your IDE and at some point you end at some assembly with long jumps all over the place.

The point I wanted to make was that no matter what design choice you make as a language author, to make this DAG/AST as palatable for the end user, be it with a imperative, functional, logic or concatenive style of programming, a price is aways payed, in terms of complexity at some level (time, space, ergonomics), no matter what you do.
>As for "career ambition", you can make plenty of money or a modest income from remote jobs. Beyond jobs, you can easily own an online business or some other digital capital through the same infrastructure. There is more to life and to work than a high salary. Greed is not a virtue.

>You don't have to sell your soul and most of the waking hours of your life to commute to an office, deal with the attached bullshit, and integrate yourself into the corporate machine.

I'm sorry but that came across as both condescending and judgmental. I know plenty of people chose the life they have here because they want to, not because they have to sell their soul or what not. There is a lot more perks from having a fulfilling job other than making a big paycheck, it ranges from working closely with amazing people to tackling challenging and fun problems.

I know for sure the reason I go to work these days isn't because of money, since I'm past the point where I care too much about it.

Finally there is absolutely nothing wrong with pursuing financial success. Having desire to "enjoy nature" and having desire to "have money" are both greed, just in different forms. I definitely do not consider myself morally superior just because I enjoy hiking...

>From the outside looking in, the mirage of SV corporate culture seems really fake and hollow. I do not want a hip fancy office full of zany perks and a weird cult.

I've been both inside and outside of SV (worked in Texas, Bay Area, and now in Seattle), and I have to say your understanding of SV culture is extremely superficial, likely augmented by the cherry-picking examples and sensationalized media portrayal.
In the sense that “being exposed to the literal rest of humanity’s innovations” is culture, yes.

Anything and everything had to be independently developed in the Americas prior to contact due to isolation, the white man backwater of Europe got to ride the coattails of R&D across the entire Eurasiafrican supercontinent for millennia, as a comparison.

For a concept like a wheel to spread from, say, Northern China to Southern Spain, they could literally just roll on over.
Were there many of these old trucks and buses around in Kathmandu in the 1920s?
I'm puzzled as to what a phone has to do with .NET in this particular discussion. It's not at all about phones.
> Cessna has no timeline for the JT-A and the diesel 172. [1]

This is quite interesting, as I have flown in a diesel trial Cessna 182. They paid people some nominal amount to test their diesel engine, and there were several failures (though not fatal as far as I know). That plane was sold eventually, but it seems like overall the trial was a failure. I am not aware of technical reasons that should in theory stop a jet or diesel engine. I can only share the anecdote of small recurrent problems.

And yes, it's loud! That's true; as is the fact that the attendant at the airport will refuse to put jet fuel in your 182 until you start it or otherwise convince them that you are not mistaken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_182_Skylane#Development
> "Why isn't visual programming a bigger thing for trained programmers?" What needs to improve for that to happen?

Because it's inefficient as hell. That may be mostly a problem with existing tooling, but it is a problem.

For context, I'm currently doing a side project with Unreal Engine 4, which uses visual programming for scripting and defining shaders; I'm sticking strictly to these tools, because I can't be arsed to set up yet another C++ dev environment on yet another machine. Because of that, the pros and cons of visual programming are on the top of my mind right now. Here are some thoughts:

Visual programming is fun while you assemble high-level blocks together. But god forbid, you have to do any maths. You end up spending 10 minutes assembling an unreadable mess of additions, multiplications, LERPs, etc. taking half of your screen, to build an equivalent of three lines of code you would've typed in 30 seconds in your editor.

(This presents an opportunity for improvement: why not give a generic "math" node, where I could just type a math expression by hand, and have the free variables show up as input pins? There's really no point in assembling things like "lerp(A x B, C x D, alpha) * -beta" from half a dozen nodes.)

(EDIT: turns out this exists in UE4, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23256317. I learned about it just now.)

In general, all the dragging quickly becomes annoying. As a trained programmer, you can type faster than you can move your mouse around. You have an algorithm clear in your head, but by the time you've assembled it half-way on the screen, you already want to give up and go do something else.

Visual programming is fun while your program fits on the screen. Because of the graphical representation, you'll usually fit much less code this way than you would in text. This, plus the fact that anything nontrivial won't form a planar graph (i.e. edges will have to cross somewhere), makes you want to abstract your code hard, otherwise it gets impossible to read. And here is where Unreal Engine starts to fail you. Yes, you can make perfectly fine functions - which are their own little subgraphs. But that also means they're different "tabs"; it's hard to see the code using a function and the code of a function simultaneously on the screen, it's hard to dig in and back out, jump around the references.

As an improvement in that particular case, I'd love if I could expend individual blocks into their definitions "inline", as a popup semi-transparent overlay, or something that otherwise pushes other nodes out while still keeping them on the same sheet. But given the performance of the editor, that would just burn my CPU down.

I think visual programming works well for artists, because when building shaders, you mostly stay on a single level of abstraction - so a flowsheet you can zoom around makes sense. But when you start coding logic and have to start DRYing code, dividing it up into layers of abstraction, the ergonomics starts to wear you down. Then again, I hear good things about LabVIEW, so maybe it can be made to work.
Bell Labs and Xerox PARC are the poster children for successful corporate R&D labs, but I wonder if, to some extent, they were in the right place at the right time? The advent of modern computing and digital telephony provided rich soil for impactful research.

I worked for a large R&D lab a while back after completing my PhD, but the organization turned out to be completely directionless. Funding went to snake-oil salesmen who charmed executives with flashy proposals that they could never deliver on. I don't think there were any major successes during the time I was there, or since.

They also paid their Bay Area researchers about half the salary of FAANG senior engineers, so they really couldn't retain top talent. This is the downside of being a corporate R&D lab that's not funded by a near-monopoly.
Having lived in Asia and Singapore for a while, I can assure you that they don't infantilize their people.

In fact, some of the government reminders can seem cruel to westerners. For example, public signs that count the number of drunk driving deaths per month.

The reason why everything important in Singapore has to be in picture language is because they have so many nationalities living together.

If I remember correctly, the subway signs were already in English, Malaysian and Chinese. But there's also plenty of Indian, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Thai citizens. And of course Japanese tourists.

An 8-language sign starts to be unwieldy, so I applaud their approach of using graphics instead.
There many ways to do that, the format Rogan chose is to try and let each guest feel at ease and let them properly explain their stances. Rogan's role is then to play the audience role in the conversation, asking question/clarifications.

What rogan usually does not do for example is to bring up controversies about his guests.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned interviews as a possible problem here.

If you buy into the notion that coding interviews generate a lot of false negatives then there is a lot of talent that's underemployed. If that's the case, it wouldn't matter at the company level because they can afford false negatives, but it would matter a lot at the national level if there are a lot of people that are capable of much more than they are placed at.

And even if it doesn't generate false negatives, the current hiring practices encourage people to not switch to newer roles:

- Practicing leetcode takes a long time and you have to brush up on it every time you look for a new job

- Coding projects often take a long time, 4-8+ hours

- Multiple whiteboard interviews with the coding projects

- Getting ghosted after submitting coding projects leading to burnout

- Exclusively hiring people that know some very specific libraries or languages. It might only take a week or two to get up to speed on these. This encourages devs to devote a ton of their free time into learning new libraries that they might not even use just to land a job

All of these could also discourage smart people from joining tech, since the high salaries aren't as high as they look when you factor in all of the extra time involved here, and some people don't want to sacrifice their leisure time for higher pay. From what I understand, the tech scene in Europe is bad exactly because they're way underpaid, so Europe has trouble attracting talent and getting people to enter into tech.

China might have the same problems here, I'm not sure, but if these assumptions are true then just finding better ways to match people to jobs they'd perform the best at would give whatever nation a competitive edge.
Exactly! Meets all of the requirements.
Even Apple is taking small steps in that direction. See their web site.

Until recently, Apple's design aesthetic seemed to be borrowed from Bang and Olufsen audio gear from the 1980s. Hard-edged, stark, monochrome, good materials, barely visible controls. Sony long had a playful look, but lost out. Will Apple go with the playful look, or fight it? So far, Apple has lightened up enough to ship phones that have colored cases, but no decorative artwork.
Yes, I have read it. The book is about how it is difficult to improve matters by adding more software engineers to an overdue software engineering project. The book does not claim that, for instance, 100 astronomers and 100 construction workers can not solve more problems than merely 100 construction workers.
Not a great example if it's not a platform for only Korean people. If you have a field for middle name, there will probably be some-one with the language set to Korean still be interested in reading or writing that field (ie expats learning the language, or perhaps people with mixed heritage?). I think assuming because Korean (people) have no middle names you don't need to translate it is more careless than the other way around.
Why so many identical links to the cited paper? I would understand if they had anchors, but they haven't.
I've been trying to remember where I read this word a long time ago, like decades. Was it a well known brand? Music? Electronics? Sports?
>> Linux came from Finland, not the U.S.

> Not really.

Yes really. Linux is technically Unix-like, wherein the code is original. The closest analogue is BSD which is based off the Unix source code. This history notwithstanding, the re-implementation of Unix came from Finland, not the US.

Software is almost universally designed and built from the lessons of other software. This doesn't discount the achievements.
First: Your English is perfectly fine. As someone that speaks English as a first language; I greatly respect and appreciate you even trying. That's an admirable trait, friend; don't ever feel bad, or especially let someone else make you feel bad for trying to communicate. It's the most human thing there is.

Second: That's kind of my perspective. Ideas are cheap and easy. Idealism paints the perfect outcome, without the really hard parts of making it happen, or the incredibly complicated network of systems that would be effected by trying to reach the target. These are huge problems; entrenchment is incentivized and reinforced on many levels. We often don't solve problems, we treat symptoms, because it's easier than doing what needs to be done to solve the problems.
I'm trying to think what 5 levers you are thinking of. Obviously, throttle, prop, mixture. Carb heat is probably the 4th. The 5th is where things get a bit esoteric, perhaps manual turbo waste gate (aka second throttle)?

Ah, less esoteric, probably the cowl flaps.
Blaming would be to claim that it is their fault for not understanding.
Here it is not blame, it is a statement that anything above the most basic maths concepts will stump a surprisingly large number of people. I'm not sure 'surprisingly' is the right word but here it is.
What I meant was that if the system is only interested in pursuing cases where there's a very likely conviction at the end, there must be a large percentage of unsolved crimes even if the absolute amount is smaller than the USA/UK/Germany/$comparisonCountry.
you don't think the US companies don't corroborate with US gov surveillance or Google doesn't track user data?
This may be a bit challenging -- especially I can appreciate how most Americans would fear a world where China is the world that "they" create. However, for a lot of people in the world, there is actually a gap of values where America is the "they" in this picture. I still remember the celebrations in Japan when Obama was elected as president (which I thought was being a bit optimistic, personally -- only so much a president can do, no matter how much they wish to do good (or not)). But the thing for me was, why are all the people in my office so invested in an election, half way around the world, where they have absolutely no say? Of course it is obvious. What the US does affects everybody and it doesn't always affect non-Americans in a good way. In some ways, I think it is good that Americans get some inkling that you don't really want a single country imposing their set of values on the rest of the world. Of course, I have no idea what the best alternative is, but I think it's food for thought.
That's because the first time you start it, it actually unzips itself to a temporary folder, and then runs from there.
Well all I can say is grandma won't be installing kiss any time soon, looking at the instructions.
So it's quantity v. quality. As others said, don't pretend to make people believe you have 1.800 repos worth of useful software. EA may have only 27, but at least it's something you may benefit from even if you're not a customer of theirs.
It would also be nice to make these googleplay/applestore buttons link to the app stores (they even have a "cta-button" class, but they're just images doing nothing on click…)
>but would global warming not also impact on those

Other way around. By focusing on biodiversity preservation we increase the robustness of the ecosystem and stop the dominoes from falling. Removing biodiversity cascades through the whole ecosystem and accelerates climate change. Also once bio-diversity is gone it's impossible to get back but we can always invent technology to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. Remember most of the species we're losing we don't even know they exist.
I do not recall the metro warning signs in France. I do remember them in Japan. It's because the Japanese ones were funny and draw you in to a story.

You could have the following without the pictures:
https://pradt.co/imgs/poster/pleasedoit02.gif

There's different styles to this, there's variations which are more Disney or Anime like, what's the issue? The point is to draw attention, I don't see what the need is for the ostensible seriousness, if it's not effective at educating and drawing people in to your message.
Did they check the source of the request? My guess would have been an extension doing this instead of the site.
Quite simple: you don't. Time and space complexity is an implementation detail, if you care about those things then declarative programming is out.
The problem is that it likely snowballs one way or another if you allow full flexibility.

If more people initially chose to work at the office, then the minority WFH people will inevitably be at a disadvantage and they would feel potentially left out of a lot of developments that take place in the office. Then they may end up forcing themselves to go to the office from time to time or move to a different company where more people WFH.

Or if more people initially choose to WFH, then the value of going to office gets diminished and then one may start WFH more and more since not a lot of people go to the office in the first place, then the places becomes pretty much full remote and the company may just close it down to save real estate cost. Then you either are forced to embrace WFH or you have to find a different job with a different culture.
I agree with the authors implied reason that Kawaii is a way for people to escape reality.

It first became popular in Japan, where there is also Hikkomori (adults refusing to leave the house), Grasseaters (young men refusing to date), and lots of fantasy harem videos on TV.

And now that the pressure increases in western societies, we see similar problems and similar escape mechanisms.

FYI alcohol is not accessible to people under 21 in Japan, thereby denying them one of the most popular western stress relieve drugs.
Just keep pulling back in a spiral. Count to 10. Off they go.
> maybe I'm the exception to the rule and most engineers just want to stay focused on their immediate work and not leave the house and minimize human interaction

This is a bit of a false premise, I've been working from home for over a decade and I don't mind human interaction at all, I get plenty of it when hanging out with friends and family, but I do prefer my office space at home to some open space office with lots of noise and people constantly coming by and asking for stuff.

> The cynical part of me thinks all this "WFH Permanently" initiative is just a disguise for companies to start lowering cost for entry to mid-level IC positions by hiring from areas with much cheaper CoL.

While this could be true, it's entirely up to you if you want to work for such a company. Great developers will not work for cheap regardless of where they're from, and just because you live in a cheaper place doesn't mean the work you're doing is somehow lower value than the work employees in the SF office are doing.
The real question is why states care about inaccurate corona test results in the first place.

Oh, silly me. Some governors plan a Whitehouse run.

"What good are the test results if you can't trust them?"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/health/testing-coronavirus-ci...
I love log graph but I understand the sentiment.

Yesterday I was looking at a COVID-19 log graph and I was interested in a point of the curve right at the middle between the 100 and the 1000 tick mark. It's hard to have an intuition on what the value was.

edit: I double checked for the record, the value halfway between 100 and 1000 is 316.2.
Don't CSS transforms work on image maps? I bet you could do some media query magic + scale() to make it work.
My guess is that in the majority of areas of programming the work is to express rules, and here text is simply more powerful. Are laws written using graphics? Visual programming can be useful for workflow (3D, movies or music DAWs). But otherwise for expressing rules (which is a good part of programming) visual is too limiting.
Initial announcement of the lawsuit: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-l...

Discussion on HN at that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21071699
TLDR Aerobic exercise improves the cognitive function of humans. A tremendous breakthrough.
I have a huge dislike to ActiveRecord because its high abuse rate.

Beginners will most certainly will have highly inefficient start with it.

There are others in Ruby world which needs more praise such as Sequel and ROM(which is what Hanami uses also).

With Rails having the monopoly and most gems having AR as dependency, it's hard to see where we will go regarding ORMs in Ruby world.
All of .net is open source? So you can now run any winforms or wpf app in the operating system of your choice? That's great.
A lot of it probably has to do with income. Linux is free, but everybody I know that uses it only uses it for work.
The flow physics of Covid-19
tl;dr it definitely helps, we're not sure how much, a proper large-scale trial is needed.
Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger: Your Stories Needed
Mac GUI alternative (I use both this and du in different circumstances):

http://www.derlien.com/
Oh hell yes, I'm all for this. Though with the proviso of NO javasccript for document mode at all. I think this is a great idea.