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> GPUs are mainly useful for 3D graphics, physics and raytracing.

GPU's are quite usable as sprite engines. A Wayland compositor is essentially blitting client-controlled sprites as "surfaces", and the final render is pixel perfect (other than perhaps during animations). There's no reason whatsoever to use software rendering if hardware acceleration is available.
I use drawio plugin in VSCode and push to origin in GitHub.
I'd say that does an end run around the process the Founders put in place for good reason.

It was not specified in the Constitution that the Congress shall delegate the finer details of lawmaking to the Executive Branch in the form of Administrative Law. It said that legislative power is wielded specifically by the Congress. Given that judicial review takes as an input the intent Oof the Congress, it seems daft to leave the intent to question by not having the details worked out by the legislature.

This has the practical upshot in disincentivizing unnecessary or frivolous lawmaking to boot. If instead of spending time trying to jam in notionary laws into an omnibus bill somewhere, a legislator had to come to terms with the how, not just the what, I'd wager we'd over time start to see a far morecohesive legal landscape begin to take shape.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/well-try-to-help-you-follo...

The police?
Why don't the restaurants just dramatically inflate their prices to accomodate the Grubhub fee? I don't understand why it would be better to contact the restaurant directly for the restaurant -- they benefit from Grubhub too, and if they don't want to pay the cost they should just pass it on to the customers.

The restaurants have voluntarily entered into this arrangement. If they can't afford to operate with the fees on top of their regular prices, then they have to increase their prices.
Java Thread States
Labor costs, labor costs, labor costs. They dictate everything. Companies will find ways to drive them down. All this remote stuff, the first thought you have should be “labor costs”. Same with “learn to code”
Software development as advanced damage control
Conspiracy theorists are harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers
Yeah this just isn't true. I'm sure that there's been some false flag attacks but to say that most of the looters are undercover cops is asinine.
>3. Most "good" programmers move to the high-income countries

Your example of Germany and Switzerland in this case is less illustrative than say India and US - the poorest places automatically lose the best talent because the standard of living is not comparable even if you were earning the same remotely and had 1/10 living expenses. And then you factor in the quality of education available, projects available, etc. Juniors have a hard time getting remote jobs - so they are limited to local job market - and if most projects in your country are low end outsourcing jobs you get experienced in those vs. more demanding work.
Hmm, that's a good idea, though my focus is on oneshot, so half-pressing the shutter locks focus anyway. I don't really shoot moving things, so oneshot works well for me.
Embarrassment discount.

The theoretical benefits of offshoring are obvious: get the same thing for less. The same goes for juniorization, find a young guy who can do the same thing for less (this worked out great one time in an HFT I worked for).

Your problem is there's a chance -whether you offshored or not- that not only do you not get the same thing, you get a steaming pile that your boss will not appreciate. And it's not like a 80% working software solution is worth 80% of the money, it's worth maybe 20%.

So how do we compensate? Fall back on crutches like "we only hire Ivy League or Oxbridge grads". Or make sure whoever it is had a roughly similar culture to yourself (comms style, language), is available in a similar time zone, or has done similar work in the past. It's not that these will ensure you have good programmers, it's more that you can say to your boss, "I acted conservatively but even then sometimes you don't get the right hire".

All of which point towards advantaging programmers in the West. Either you have all these qualities (culture, tz, experience), or you have to discount quite a bit.

Naturally this isn't universal. You are gonna find people in Asia who somehow make a Western salary, and good on them.
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This is EXACTLY what was predicted would happen by net neutrality advocates. Good job, America, as always! /s
I am also in the middle of moving off graphql to REST api. It is a 5 years old project and the graphql part was implemented with a very old spec. Since it has not been well maintained, it could not catch up with any features offered by graphql and users need to write their own queries by hand due to spec compatibility.

Rewriting it to REST allows us to "rebrand" these apis. At least, it does not scare our api users as the word "graphql" did.
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> Not having laws against being weird

Well, being gay is legally much more accepted now. Does that count as progress? Or does it not count, because most people don't consider being gay "weird" anymore, as it's become more acceptable?

That's what I'm saying: whether you still call being gay "weird" and we've become more accepting, or it's just more accepted because it's no longer considered weird, that's still the same progress.
Show HN: Golang Authentication Service: allows setup authentication in minutes
Have you considered using the federal TTY program that is made for people who need accommodations over the phone?

https://www.federalrelay.us/tty
As a Canadian, I would say that if Huawei was not selected due to issues relating to national security -- then why not take some time to setup a crown corporation / Government-owned company and have them develop indigenous hardware/software for 5G networks?

I am sure if Canadians can develop their own smartphones, space mission components (Canada arm) and airplanes, they can develop 5G network equipment.
The police seemingly operate with impunity. If you accuse them, they will deny wrongdoing. Trying to gaslight people about their tactics seems like par for the course.

The question is: who will police the police? They can't be trusted to police themselves as we're seeing.
Also fair!
Don’t Fall for the ‘Chaos’ Theory of the Protests
Also, division and hate are good for the bottom line:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio...
Is it more stoic to keep the beard and leave, or shave the beard and stay.
From the conclusion:

> One could argue a huge inefficiency still exists if you assume that offices are not useful and companies should always work&hire remotely (thus removing the cost of living from the picture).

> But in that case, I would at least expect office working to go away before we see any dent in the wage gap. However, a lot of companies seem to be set on office work. Whether or not this is a good thing, I don't know, I lean strongly towards "no" but that's a post for another time.

I've been a full-time telecommuter for 6 years: Offices aren't going away anytime soon. So many people need face-to-face communication with their colleagues. Even I need to travel to the office from time to time. I've always had a technical role; when the opportunity came to be a "manager" I rejected it because I just couldn't envision myself as a manager without being physically in the office at least 1-2 times a week.

So, if you ask me, the reason for the salary difference is because we need regular face-to-face contact with our peers.
I get where you are coming from, but I believe the above poster is suggesting that the colloquial _definitions_ of “weird” and “cool”* make them antonyms. That is, “cool” kind of means “conforming to the current zeitgeist” where “weird” invokes connotations of “not fitting in”. When understood in this way it makes being both “weird” and “cool” a bit oxymoronic.

Now of course there is spectrum, and I agree with the GP that a big part of this moment is “being yourself” so eccentricity and uniqueness _are_ factors that can make somebody “cool”, but with that the bar for truly being “weird” has also shifted.

To be clear, I’m not value-judging anything here. Back in high school I definitely rode the line between “cool” and “weird” myself! Was called “weird” to my face semi-often. Looking back I can see that I was fortunate to be a weird kid that was both athletic and rather good looking, so I was still allowed to hang out with the “cool” kids and date “popular” girls.

* the dictionary defines neither in the terms we are using here
Are outliers really that convincing? A large volume of people trying to make it on social media earn pennies.
The reality I see, is that all of us are overworked / with a lot of responsibilities. So it is easy to miss important emails or details.

As long as we are close to each other, very important things don't get lost.
Being excellent to others, in my book, means giving people the benefit of the doubt and not presuming that they will find any excuse to be entitled cunts to others.

In my experience, most people are not like that. There are, of course, self-righteous jerks everywhere, but in every society I find them to be a small minority.
Ask HN: How to help local business advertise stock online?
I want to help my local businesses in my neighbourhood who are now starting to offer delivery services and do not have an online presence to show their stock (there are more than you might think). Examples include a Butcher, Fish mongers and a Nursery for plants.

I am doing this pro bono so need to keep my costs down (will not be zero but close to).

This doesn't need to be complicated, all I need is a domain that links to a series of pages, one for each store, where they can update their own stock.

I was actually thinking something like Google Sheet, one sheet for each store and each store could maintain their own stock list.

After advice on what off-the-shelf technology stack I can use to stitch this together with zero-code?
Interesting how the battery container is a stressed member of the chassis, I don't think any other manufacturer is doing that.
'Hey Beeb': new BBC digital assistant gets northern male accent
Definitely a strange thing opening access to only free subscribers. There's probably an argument to made on both sides, but putting this as an 'added value' for paying? Tone deaf for sure.
If you use a smaller sensor camera, like a 1" or 4/3, wide open can appear sharper because of the increased depth of field, and give you a greater margin of error.
They also struggle with the culture of software.

From what I've heard from employees, software is looked down on by management and is not really something they 'get'. Things like app connectivity are after thoughts and not core to their products.

A good chunk of what makes a Tesla unique is the radically different software and digital user experience. Dyson (the company) are not ready to embrace the fast moving culture that enables that.
I just remembered reading something years back about how “because” is a magical word.

People are surprisingly more susceptible and accepting of any request if you add a “because X” where the reason can be almost entirely arbitrary.

Examples included “can I cut in line, because I’m parked in a tow-away zone”, which resulted in something like 70% compliance vs 10-20% if the person didn’t proffer the added “because”

Was also examples of ridiculous ones like “can I use the photocopier before you (to a person copying 2 pages), because I have to make 200 copies of this (significantly bigger paper)”
Surprisingly this also got a higher rate of compliance even though the request did not make any sense per-se.

TL;DR:
Providing an explanation for any questionable request “closes” the narrative in a sense. The person now feels there is a justification for whatever made the situation weird to begin with, and therefore the situation no longer requires them to come up with justifications on their own.

(Brains/minds being lazy and whatnot)
Fastest C++ LRU cache, using a hashset
Strap in for encryption: why it should be a basic feature
Great tool, will start using as soon as it launches!
No context on the order size, so we can't really say whether that's the case or not :-)

Maybe it was a $5,000 order for the whole office!

Or maybe it was a $50 at-home binge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IKuUgEWAqg

Here is the Engineer Alan Hawse taking about how he "doses" his espresso with his CNC milled equipment.

Utterly alien to me (I'm not a coffee guy)
I'm sorry, this is a little unclear. The idea that a lab having an accident is reasonable because of my "political biases"? Are Chinese labs any different from Western labs, where this would also be entirely possible?

Or is it calling the Chinese dictatorship a dictatorship that's supposed to show my supposed "political biases"? I didn't realize pointing out directly observable facts has become so politically charged and controversial.
I agree that’s the current state, but someone is going to crack it sooner or later. As the article implies, there’s a trillion dollars riding on it. Programming is my only skill, so after that happens I guess I’ll just go live in the forest.
I fell down the rabbit hole trying to answer "what is the smallest JVM that could be implemented".

I've come to TinyVM [1] made for some Lego system which uses about 10kB of RAM. I was wondering about porting it to other micro-controllers...

[1] http://tinyvm.sourceforge.net/
(Product) managers decide what to build. Engineers decide how to build it. You make it sound as if software engineering has no value. Clearly this isn't true as small local banks will have awful sites and apps despite the problem statement being pretty clear cut. The most successful tech companies also happen to be the ones that have attracted the top engineering talent. Generally, ime, an engineer you pay $150k is worth more than two engineers at $75k.
As an outsider, I thought the opposite had happened.

Early in the pandemic, The virus was thought to be both more deadly and more contagious. Many countries adopted a goal of flattening the curve, with the understanding that the the virus could not be suppressed.

Sweden pursued a fatten the curve policy in a very sensible manner, keep infections as high as your health system can handle until herd resistance is achieved.
Finding truth through direct action
Potentially my Mighty Wallet - https://mightywallet.shop/collections/classic-mighty-wallet/...

The rulers on the edge have come in handy the most.
Ask HN: How are your companies addressing systemic racism?
I am a black leader at a startup. I sent a memo to our team on Monday to share how I'm feeling as a black person in light of George Floyd's death and the events of the last week. I've heard that many companies have shied away from directly addressing what's happening in the world and I know that that's due at least in part to lack of representation. Black people represent just 3.3% of senior leadership roles in our country (CNN). We're donating to charity and discussing D & I initiatives, but I know there are companies that will shy away from the conversations needed for change to happen.

What are your companies doing? Where are they failing? What's holding you back from speaking up?
The good ones are still somewhat expensive (i.e, Sony RX100 series) and they are chunky enough that you want or need bigger pockets.
The crucial difference between those markets and the auto market is that consumers already have an idea of the value of autos across the range of prices. Even a teenager tooling around in a used Civic could tell you why his car cost $4000 and why a Lambo is 6 figures. Meanwhile, while I'm sure there were luxury or industrial vacuums, fans, etc., before Dyson's, most couldn't tell you their cost, nor what features justified that cost, to Dyson's advantage. With cars, though, he can't just say, "These are the features you'll get, and this is what I'll sell it to you for," because people will just point to other, similarly-priced cars and say, "How come it doesn't have [premium feature] like this one?".
> maybe I am wrong

Yeah, uh, I have bad news for you...
Would it be a social taboo to eat a fellow cannibal since by definition it would reduce to size of the ingroup?
I've got that mkIII too, and I'd agree that the ergonomics just aren't great. It does make me wonder how much of a difference the touch-screen on the mkVI makes.
Recognizing corporations as legal persons, as far as I know, has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not the people who work at those corporations can or should be prosecuted, personally, when they break criminal law (at work or otherwise).

Corporations cannot act, and thus cannot break the law. It is similar to how a military or country cannot kill people: it simply employs murderers.
There is a ton of oversight on the executive branch- by congress. The only problem is half of congress doesn't care because it's their guy.
I'm fascinated how people don't seem to be receptive to your promotion of positivity (by how you've been downvoted)

IMO, your outlook is exactly what we need more of in the world.

In a related vein to you I don't get any satisfaction out of hating others. Especially knowing how easy it is for the human psyche to latch onto those behaviors (othering, outgroup, tribalism, etc.)
I definitely recommend Cannery Row, it was fun and rowdy and not all that long but still as memorable to me as Grapes of Wrath even if vastly different.
Dyson should have gone with another manufacturer's EV platform for their first few cars, like Volkswagen's MEB platform:

https://jalopnik.com/volkswagen-wants-other-automakers-to-us...

https://jalopnik.com/the-fascinating-engineering-behind-vws-...

It wouldn't have been a Dyson from the ground up but it would have gotten their EV effort started at the lowest cost and they could have worked on their own in-house designs in the meantime.
Isnt the old rule, if a title is a question, the answer is 'no'.
We're looking at building OPA support into Polaris as well, given how much the community has invested in it. For all the promise of OPA, we haven't seen it gain much traction outside of large enterprises, for many of the reasons we outline in the article.

Polaris is also 100% free. My guess is you're referring to Insights[0], which is a SaaS that incorporates Polaris, as well as several other open source auditing tools. We do offer per-node discounts for customers with a large number of nodes.

[0] https://www.fairwinds.com/insights
None of them got fired, though.

Revealed preference is a mother.
>you have to bother a person who is probably already extremely busy and overworked to clarify the menu.

That is built into the price of the food you ordering. You aren't bothering someone. You're giving them a job.
Interesting. I didn't know this. BTW I wonder where the assorted silent downvotes are coming from - just from my suggesting an alternative browser and your posting useful info.
Pretty consistent with what we know of Park Police in and around DC. The shooting of Bijan Ghaisar, in this case, went unpunished by the feds:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-park-p...

Though props to Fairfax for seeking indictments and for releasing the footage in the face of Park Police silence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/12/18/fairfax-...
> One thing I consistently dislike in these efforts is the misappropriation of HTML tags with certain semantics.

As a counterpoint, I don't understand people pushing strict semantics in html elements where they're not really strictly defined or generally useful. Because of how loose the spec with how these things can be used (it it weren't it'd be like schema.org meets html) scraper and other UI tools don't really look for these things and are very flexible in parsing and identifying structure. It'd be foolish to implement a html parser for the general web that strictly expects articles to be in article tags.

Browser default CSS for these things mostly suck and are rarely used, in this case they're overriding them anyway. So why stay pseudo-semantic?

Besides general accessibility (which is tag attribute based mostly), its not obvious to me how this critique is repeated so often with such little value.
That's precisely my point. I'm in no way suggesting that such incidents are only possible in China. Simply put, shit happens and protocols get violated. I work at a research institute with a level 3 lab and find it entirely plausible that it can happen here. So do the health and safety people who meticulously check whatever they can think of multiple times a year.
Usually Net Neutrality is not about having or not political leanings, but making sure that everyone has equal access to internet regardless of them (as far as I understand it).

> Net Neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. [1]

1) https://www.freepress.net/issues/free-open-internet/net-neut...
> why is programming difficult to offshore"

Lack of professionalism and absence of a professional engineering culture in many of the places you'd seek to outsource to save money.

Doesn't mean that professionalism doesn't exist, it's just that the ones that have it are already busy with their own thing and not interested in being low-cost labor
Thanks, I updated my comment to reflect that.
I've never used Self personally, but I remember reading that JavaScript's OO provisions are modeled after it rather than, say, C++ or Java. Does that sound right to you? I always thought Javascript's class provisions were a bit counterintuitive myself.
You mean like this book? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/jvms8.pdf

I'm very tempted to pick a hard copy up!
Most of Squeak is MIT License. They did a big project to switch.

https://squeak.org/license/
We use "nested spreadsheets" that can live in any cell, and combined with aggregate functions like GROUP_BY() we're able to get this behavior.

Would be genuinely curious -- would our approach [1] help w/what you're working on?

[1] Here's an example of how we think about multiple dimensions in spreadsheets (videos + text):
https://mintdata.com/docs/learn/core-mechanics/work-with-dat...
The murderous part implies they are criminals. :)
Yes, If text is lang is EN and browser is DE, translate is fired.
You can disable this.

"When Google recognizes that the contents of a page are not in the language that the user is likely to want to read, Google often provides a link to a translation in the search results. In general, this gives you the chance to provide your unique and compelling content to a much larger group of users. However, there may be situations where this is not desired. This meta tag tells Google that you don't want us to provide a translation for this page."

<meta name="google" content="notranslate">

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812
If the President can behave that way why can't they..
I’m sick of Firefox megabar. I’ve downgraded Firefox to the 76.0.1 already. It’s time to switch to another browser. Can you suggest any good ones? Or there is only one choice left?
Getting Wing Commander to work with a sound card, and a joystick, and in conventional memory was my intro to a lifetime working with computers.
>Car runs over a cop

>https://streamable.com/q4nat7

This video is cut short (full video at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/newyork/video-2183600/Vide... ) but unmarked police car parks without lights or sirens facing the wrong way on a one way street. Police officer dressed fully in black proceeds to exit the vehicle on the passenger side and walk directly into traffic with no right of way. I know memes are discouraged here but shocked pikachu face.

Regular citizens are told "if you don't want police to hit you with their car door, don't stand in the middle of the road", the irony... https://twitter.com/DriveWendys/status/1266555286678048770