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You are right. But for the people in charge, it's probably in their selfish interests to kick the can down the road (like they always did in the past for just about everything else) for future politicians and hopefully a stronger economy to deal with. It's a little baffling they're fighting so hard against it now, especially in an election year.

You can certainly not give any money out to anyone, and watch as society crumbles, the government overthrown, and a new government put in place. Have fun with that. Might be where we are headed anyway, they just delayed it a couple of months with the one time stimulus check.

I think it still might not happen, but that's mainly because Americans have gotten so soft from inertia and just enough kitchen scraps given to the working class over the years that it'll take a lot to get us to that point. But then again we did just have one of the largest demonstrations of civil unrest in the country in about 50 years, so who knows.
> It doesn't matter. [Repeats previous argument.]

Not sure why I bothered replying to you if you're literally saying "I don't care what you just wrote"
You may not think it's necessary but languages evolve and tend to add features. Unfortunately it' not practical to remove features from a mature language. This might look like bloat.

I happily use a subset of Python including a smattering of new features when they add value to the task at hand. This set of features has evolved over time and makes me more productive and allows me to write clean simple code.

If you don't like a new feature just don't use it. There is no rule that says you should use any feature which doesn't help you write great code.
It agree wholeheartedly I was just going to post the same comment!
I had that happen to me once. But they said 'here's the paperwork, take it home and review it, have a lawyer look at, whatever you feel like; you have two weeks to decide'.

Any reasonable company would do it this way unless they are trying to screw you.
> It's a C++-killer: same strengths, none of the weaknesses

Not used Rust yet, used a lot of C++; isn't a weakness that it also is extremely slow in compiling? Not sure about others but to me that's a big weakness (if it still applies, but as far as I can find on Google it does).
this is one of those ideas where you have the name of the idea first, then you have the concept.
> News is fake. Science is fake. Schools are barriers. Everything is subjective, objective reality is nonexistent.
How do we have productive disagreements going forward?

Funny you describe it that way. I'd argue that young people in STEM fields, including IS/CIS/CompSci undergrad programs, think everything can be objective when that clearly is not the case.

You don't need to go to college to press buttons, fill out spreadsheets, or input code until you get the output you seek. You need to go to college to make the subjective decisions, which don't have a clear right/wrong answer.
Lets say you are $150k into a $200k mortgage, then default. What prevents the bank from selling it at $50k, which is just enough to recover their principle?
Hmm. I'm kind of surprised nobody brought up the "nature" argument more strongly.

First of, yes, if you are starving you eat everything. You basically fall back to the level of tribe behavior or below.

However, two things:

One, we are very very far from needing to hunt here in the west.
Second: I find it very strange that usually the people who reject the idea that we are coming from and still in many ways are animals are the ones arguing with that it is natural that we eat meat and treating animals like we often do even though it would not be a necessity.
"It is how nature does it"

I on the other hand really hope that humans get away from nature (not in the way of disrespecting, disconnecting form it, but in the way nature handles most things like eg. violence, problem solving, cooperation, long term impact vs short term dopamine reward) and really evolves to be a totally different thing not by selection but by intellect, chosen behavior and technology.
Thank you very much!! I rewrote the article a couple of times
Think of it this way: traditional geo satellite has a theoretical latency of 430-500ms in most cases. That means there's AT LEAST another 100ms purely due to processing delay and other hops, but typically much more.
This is actually nice! If only CTRL+W didn't kill the tabs...
We still got a long way to achieve the glorious web everything but progress is progress and I'll give them that.
Oh yeah. I have friends who work or have worked at Intel.

Management who runs this company are straight lunatics. The sheer amount of shelved projects, pointless reorgs, layoffs-for-show is staggering.

I do work in a corp, but thanks God our leadership is much more down-to-earth, even if I earn less money, I am able to retain relative sanity (due to my allergy to bullshit).
I don’t hear much about Nim. Will this language ever take off? It seems this language needs a large corporation backing it, to get a chance to succeed.
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This has changed slightly, recently.

https://www.eetasia.com/arm-opens-instruction-set-architectu...
Every language has its quirks!
It seems humans are bad at long-term thinking, the ongoing environmental collapse is evidence of it. We're quite smart on short time scales but then seem to become yeast-like on longer time scales.
From here [1]

> Most of these plastic particles are synthetic microfibers used for making clothing

How do I buy clothes that don't have synthetic microfibers? What do I look for on the tag?

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1257
Anecdotally, I've always preferred light mode. Specially for coding. First thing I do on a fresh OS install is to change the terminal to white background with black text. I definitely feel more eye strain on dark UIs.

I don't understand those who prefer Dark mode, but hey, if that's what you like, and it works for you, I'm all for having that choice on every program. Not all eyes are equal.

Although I read somewhere that weather Dark or Light background is better depends a lot on your environment. If you are in a very bright environment, next to big windows or intense artificial light, then Light is better. If you are in a darker environment then Dark is better. This matches my experience.

What I think it's definitely bad is constantly switching between Dark and Light. If I do that I get a headache very quickly. This makes Dark specially bad for me because even if I code in a Dark IDE, if I switch to the browser, the majority of websites use Light mode. And this switch causes me pain.
Governments can be fatally dysfunctional before they are overthrown. In this analogy, prior to a shareholder revolt (which do happen), usually the company just goes bankrupt.

Now introduce a powerful union - and now you have TWO incompetent authorities fighting one another, which often results in a hopelessly ineffective company - not a better one.

I appreciate the humor in your responses - but the difference is that my examples were real-world examples - not theoretical.

A company cannot put process in front of every theoretical risk - that will just run you into the ground because an unbounded inefficiency.
We haven't had time to optimize for mobile. Most of the users are kids watching on a computer at home, but it's on the list!
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Nope, he's talking about actual tech companies. Competition is fierce there and "just doing what the boss wants/expects one to do" is the bare minimum or even underperforming. Being able to articulate your ideas and persuade others that your're right and follow your lead is crucial to rising through the ranks.
Here's an aspect of this I never see mentioned:
DARK MODE SAVES BATTERY on mobile devices.

The screen uses energy to emit light. The less light it has to emit, the less energy it needs. The longer your battery lasts.
> Shakespeare's plays, say, had to be approved by a government censor

Can you point me to some literature on that? The infamous law in England that all plays had to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain (a situation which persisted until the late 1960s) dates from 1737, and thus over a century after Shakespeare’s time.
I'll check it out! I didn't try further because the manual tests I was doing seemed sufficient enough. But I love this kind of theory!
In most parts of Europe teachers are public servants / state / government employeed. As such, they are bound to predefined salary ranges. Upside, they are employeed for life.

And no every union is about teachers, which are by defenition not comparable to white collar tech employees (coming back to the FB example).
it is absolutely not. 90% of visible UI is dark grey painted over a black background. a lot of apps also use dark tones too, like dark blue or green.
This was my experience learning music theory. So much of the reference material tries to describe the motion of notes while not providing any visuals. I guess that works for a lot of people, but I didn't really get stuff like chords and scales and the relationship between them until I spent years painting notes out on a scale-snapped MIDI roll.

I still can't make sense of what they're talking about half the time despite being on the other side of it, regularly using concepts they try to explain, but I let my inability to follow that way of explaining be a road block to learning-by-doing for way too long.

See also: math. I thought I was bad at it! It turns out the books in school and the teachers just didn't teach it in a way I could follow. It's a weird inversion of my usual problem. For most things, I learn best with text and illustration and struggle to follow videos. For math, I can't follow text and most illustrations might as well be blank, but videos work. It's the same with music: I made most of my progress from watching videos.

I would implore anyone who thinks they're "bad at math" or they "can't learn to make music", or anything they struggle with, to skip the ways they've tried in the past and go at it from another angle. There are so many angles. So many.
It's very heavy to do this is it not? Like you inspect the function on each call to figure out if it's async or not?
Someone could use this for DDOS or Coinhive
just so I can calibrate the scale of all those descriptors, could you give a list of descriptors you would use for yourself and how you spend your time? does your brain not regulate with dopamine?
I think that's hasty.

Starship is not an SSTO and is not expected to reach orbit on its own.

To do an orbital flight they'll need to also develop Super Heavy. That's not too crazy because Super Heavy is a stretched Starship, but it will take some time.
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Mouse tracking is clearly broken on Firefox here. The input lag is insance. I wouldn't link this to any of my friends with the intention of getting them to play Counter Strike with me.
Some of these are gorgeous! Hilariously impractical, but gorgeous. Nice job. Shame it's rendered; I was kinda hoping they actually made these bikes. Although I suspect they'd be too dangerous to try them out.
Serious question - maybe the word "union" or "guild" is a branding problem? We could do some basic user research and come up with a more appealing name.(Think Universal Basic Income -> Freedom Dividend)

I'd be more likely to join an organization called "Gathered Friends for Salary Negation And Fair Treatment".
When you're Jim Keller you can probably negotiate away the non-compete
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The reasons why MS windows and GPT-3 cannot easily be modified by anyone are different, but the result is the same: you're stuck with what you're sold.

To clarify: MS windows is closed source, but you can't very well train a large GPT model unless you're someone with the resources of OpenAI. So you're stuck with whatever they choose to train and make available to you.
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No, FOSS/proprietary is orthogonal to that. You can find simple and performant software. The problem is in something else.
There's something I can really respect about that, if that is the case. Imagine you hate working for your company, but you're still going out, giving positive interviews, and doing your job well.

I know a lot of folks (almost certainly myself included) who struggle to not make it obvious when they loathe coming to work in the morning.
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Could be that they brought him in for his expertise and then didn't let him use that expertise. Bad management has a way of doing that.
The way to prevent "the wrong way" is to have a collaborative relation to the unions, rather than one of all out war.

Don't like your deal, which doesn't let everyone move tables? Negotiate a new one. Maybe you can offer them something they'd rather want instead.

Having a let hostile environment also let smaller, more agile unions thrive, instead of forcing them to all join together.
nervous laughter...... thanks for this.
>... is not necessarily a performance improvement over a sync version that just starts more workers and has the OS kernel scheduler organise things.

This is very true, especially when actual work is involved.

Remember, the kernel uses the exact same mechanism to have a process wait on a synchronous read/write, as it does for a processes issuing epoll_wait. Furthermore, isolating tasks into their own processes (or, sigh, threads), allows the kernel scheduler to make much better decisions, such as scheduling fairness and QoS to keep the system responsive under load surges.

Now, async might be more efficient if you serve extreme numbers of concurrent requests from a single thread if your request processing is so simple that the scheduling cost becomes a significant portion of the processing time.

... but if your request processing happens in Python, that's not the case. Your own scheduler implementation (your event loop) will likely also end up eating some resources (remember, you're not bypassing anything, just duplicating functionality), and is very unlikely to be as smart or as fair as that of the kernel. It's probably also entirely unable to do parallel processing.

And this is all before we get into the details of how you easily end up fighting against the scheduler...
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The failure mode of UBW is having make-work jobs with high oversight, no productive output, and no path forward to a different job. I'd recommend this essay [1], which goes into the topic in more detail than I can in a comment.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...
No. They were pointing out it's possible that you prefer dark mode, even though it may not have the benefits you believe it does. Your preference may be more about aesthetic taste than a physiological response - and that's okay.
Yes I mean inside the database engine. The engine receives SQL and parses it and then pass the query tree to the optimizer which generate a query plan. My question is how the optimizer could have problems if the SQL is generated as opposed to hand-written? How could that make a difference?
My view of RSUs was always to see them as a bonus, money that is nice to have but that I don't need. If I can't live my life with the base pay, I don't tke the job.

Sure, AMZN exploded over the last years, no idea why so. I had doubts i would ever go above 1k, not to speak about approaching 3k.
At least here (Finland) that kind of agreements are only legal for board level positions and even then for half a year. Some conversations around the subject seems to indicate that might also be similar case in the other side of Atlantic
Putting aside the question of who is going to attack these people, that's my point. It's not a summer festival.
Show HN: Scantron – A distributed NMAP/masscan scanner
Scantron is a distributed nmap and masscan scanner comprised of two components. The first is a Master node that consists of a web front end used for scheduling scans and storing nmap/masscan scan targets and results. The second component is an agent that pulls scan jobs from Master and conducts the actual nmap/masscan scanning. A majority of the application's logic is purposely placed on Master to make the agent(s) as "dumb" as possible. All nmap/masscan target files and nmap/masscan results reside on Master and are shared through a network file share (NFS) leveraging SSH tunnels. The agents call back to Master periodically using a REST API to check for scan tasks and provide scan status updates.

There is also a Python client for interacting with the Scantron API and driving automated workflows.
Good question. I assumed that's how foreclosures work, and why you can get such good prices on them.
In a similar vein, http://www.quakejs.com/ is a JavaScript port of Quake 3 (using GPL'd engine code and Q3 Demo assets) and is equally impressive
JIT engines like this one don't receive much benefit from being rewritten in a memory-safe language. Errors typically occur in the generated machine code, not in the compiler itself. The benefit would be small.
Ask HN: easist way to build digital logic on civilization collapse?
Assume civilization collapses (to set the stage). What is the easiest way to build digital logic given copious scrap material at-hand? Is there any design I can use to build digital logic at-home? Enough to build _small but useful_ processors? Something like Intell 4004 or the 8086.
Nothing, in fact the bank might actually make more profits from fees (and they collect the interest in advance). So while you might get away with a few months of delinquencies, it's not a situation you might even want to be in.
What exactly improved?
And that will stop people from shaming you on social media how? All you need to harm someone is to send a Twitter mob at them. If your union becomes political enough then toy can just do that, just like Google did.
Thanks!

The environments introduced by Smalltalk, Self - and Racket, if we talk Lisp ;) - are one of major inspirations for this project. Another idea is to focus more on the JavaScript prototypical nature, instead of adapting solutions or design patterns from programming languages such as Java or C# as OOP is different in JavaScript.

The project, however, is in early alpha, still far from being close to a programming environment per se.
Disagree. Change the genes enough, a human becomes a chimpanzee (and not very many genes either). Or change more, and you have a pig.

So is a pig that started with human genes, still human? Of course not. What about a human that started from pig genes? Hm.

That's what I mean, by being defined by existing humans. Because that's all we really have to go by.

You add wings to a person, lots of folks would be happy to call it a new kind of being. Some would argue its non-human. The proposal is to add disease resistance or other blood factors or cellular machinery, which are invisible and not obvious. But isn't it similar to adding wings?

"All humans that are possible" has to include the pig-human, and the winged-human, and so on. Clear to me, they are non-human.
Great questions. I, too, watch for the answers here but am not above fanciful predictions.

The trillions will create continued inflation which will push up rent prices and evictions will continue. Certainly there will be an increase in subsidies and any political tactics, it is an election year.

Lower unemployment and continued pay cuts are trends that will stay in place for a while.
So called social housing wasn't a huge success in other countries either. However the failures aren't because of the housing per se. What a lot of those schemes did, was simply getting a large piece of land and building large, soulless housing estates and filling them with often poor people with a lot of challenges.And then everyone says: OK, this isn't working. But housing is only a part of the equation: the location, access to education,work,and health services. How dangerous and antisocial behaviour isdealt with in such estates.Can people be simply kicked out for poor behaviour instead of semi tolerated for years?
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Why is this the only other option? How about removing rent controls and other regulations around building smaller low cost units and then charging a 15% vacancy tax on any unit that is empty for 3 months?

This way we are increasing supply and not encouraging hoarding.
Custom site, built on Vue, Quasar and Firebase. Streamyard + Twitch did work but lacked a lot of functionality we wanted. We built out a lot of realtime functionality like polls. We used Streamyard worked for a little bit but because we wanted to give our streamers only one view to mess with we went with Agora's API.
I graduated from Bob Jones University. During my time there, BJU was Nationally Accredited and not Regionally Accredited.

This didn't personally affect me very much, but I know of many people who had difficulty getting into graduate school or professional work because of this.

A degree from a nationally accredited university limits your options. I'm not saying you'll be completely screwed if you get it, but not as many graduate schools will consider you.
That's fine. The point of those particular statements is to say that they are not only factually incorrect, but not even self consistent, which is intrinsically snarky. We're not in a formal debate.
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> But doesn't the huge project like CPU development require a lot of good workers rather than one genius?

It requires a lot of good workers and one genius.

Some people are just masters at seeing the big picture.
It's not only mentioned quite often, it is especially in the article. They argue that dark mode only saves battery if:

* Dark mode is truly black (not dark grey) and

* You use OLED or AMOLED screens.

But when that's the case it can save up to 41% of energy. They then argue, that if dark mode were to be a health detriment, that would be more important than battery charge.

(Note: That's what they argue. There are results that show that power consumtion scales mostly linearly with output brightness. Which would contradict the results in the article.)
nice. i once spent a week trying to hack the engine to support widescreen resolutions. time to re-play it :D
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I downloaded and looked at it. Very cool. Superset has the broad alchemy integration, which is pretty nice.

Integrating into a larger enterprise data dictionary would be nice. Eg, amazon glue

This is really a big data visualization tool. There's a whole gigantic rich market there to capture. You seem to be looking at it from the perspective of csv files, which is a fresh take, I guess.

It's also unfortunately a very competitive space being worked on by folks with insanely deep pockets and hyper smart engineers: https://www.newgenapps.com/blog/10-big-data-visualization-to...

Still, a lot of what's out there is ungainly bloat ware meant for business logic data. If you target specific engineering/science verticals with clear use cases, it would compete.
That was amazing! This is so awesome. I just played for 30 minutes since I haven't played since I was a kid. I use to be very good and apparently still have it since I landed #1 after playing all the rounds :)

Thanks for sharing this, made my morning and took me away from development work for once!
To me that sounds like an orthogonal statement from the article. The article is talking about objective performance and efficiency of the two and you're talking about how they make you feel.

Feeling efficient and being efficient are both valid bases for choosing, but the point of the article is that they don't have high correlation.