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I had a manager do this to me once. In a situation where I knew for sure he was joking. I was top of the department, and it wasn't even in the context of having done anything wrong. He had just been given some new responsibilities, and I asked him what he was planning to change, and he said, totally jokingly, 'well, today is your last day.' And I knew 100% it was a joke, and I still felt a horrible sinking feeling for a fraction of a second that was enough for me to promise myself that, should I ever be a manager, I would never ever do that to anyone.

Fast forward a couple of years, I'm a manager in a different company, the company wants to move everyone over to a different legal entity by firing and then rehiring them. Totally innocuous. Remembering the above conversation and self-promise, I planned very carefully how to tell my team and in which order to say the words, and... someone interrupted with a question and I managed to cause exactly that moment of panic I'd been trying to avoid. You win some, you lose some...but at least I wasn't doing it as a joke.
What is going on with your account, everything you post is dead?

Yes, I see that the WIV associated researcher Shi Zheng-Li just provided the genetic materials, and the experiment itself was carried out by Baric.

I don't believe the lab origin theory. As you point out, all the scientists believe it is ludicrous. I am just trying to make sense of this weird connection between Fauci and the WIV with an experiment that to my uninformed mind looks like it contradicts the official debunking article's claims that recently appeared in Nature. If nothing else, I hope to improve my bioinformatics knowledge through this research :)
Stung by losses, SoftBank slashes 15% of jobs from Vision Fund arm
You're working at the wrong place.

I've worked at startups that had more of the culture you desire, as well as places that have the culture you're current describing.

During the interview process you need to ask the right set of questions to help you understand the culture of the company & that it's a fit for you.

I found this out the hard way, but each job I learned a bit about what I didn't like & added to my questions to understand the next gig better. Over time I learned what I actually wanted & sought that out.
Predator drones were deployed over the protests
Yeah. One manager I worked with used to "joke" like this towards a specific coworker in a weekly basis. It was never funny and she always seemed upset by the "joke". It didn't take long before I found out how red that flag was. Worst manager I've ever had the misfortune to work with. He's been fired recently and I couldn't feel more relieved. Not having him around makes working at our company so much less stressful.
You could imagine it as an ELF note of some kind. It's not a direction I've love to go in, and catching illegal exception traps seems fast enough that the more complicated design doesn't seem worthwhile.
No, they said they could not prove themselves to have done nothing. I know those things feel equivalent, but they represent entirely opposite ends of perspective. In the scenario they have to prove themselves innocent, the cop needs provide no justification.
.. and within a function because the scheduler decided to move you to a different core.
Get numb before you get good
Media want to control the narrative , even if their advice is wrong (as was in this pandemic). So does facebook, even though it isn't willing to do any work (i.e. pay a penny) to create it. The media is also (rightfully) mad because FB stole their ad revenue. Regardless it's fascinating to watch the transformation of mass media and the discovery of individual voices over prepackaged narratives.
I bought a Chuwi Surbook Mini for $300 two years ago and am running Linux on it:
https://www.chuwi.com/product/buy/Chuwi-SurBook-mini.html

It works reasonably well. I have touch screen driver support (even managed to get it working with Wayland, once, though that was too slow for the Atom processor), the keyboard is good, and the speed is o.k. The major downside is that the touchpad on the keyboard is terrible. They also went with a custom connector, not the Surface Go one, so you're stuck with a subpar touchpad. Since Linux is not always very touch friendly, it is a bit tricky to use (when no external mouse is available).

Edit: It also has one USB-C and two USB-A and a SD Slot, which is quite handy for a device of such a size
Unless one of those things is "trap," that's just a horribly byzantine heterogeneous compute design that no general purpose OS will target.
There's a GNOME mailing list discussion which suggests the etymology is different.

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First appearance of "master" in git is in a CVS helper script...
Why is that branch called master? Probably because BitKeeper uses "master" for its main branch...
But maybe this "master" isn't the same one that's in "master/slave"?
"""

It then links to a BitKeeper file saying:

"We are then going to modify the file on both the master and slave repository and then merge the work."

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
What about all the other paywalls I would have to pay to read an article? I just instantly close the tab when I met with one. I get it they live out of money, but I dont feel like paying to 10+ different websites.
Insurers limit which coronavirus tests they'll pay for
I'd like that too, but I think we've all also seen when there's an "easy" workaround it's too often neglected.

I'm hopeful that the hard _requirement_ to have encryption will force better management and security.
It's a good question. On-chain transactions don't scale well but there are many solutions which only require on-chain transactions to fund some initial channels and then subsequently if a participant misbehaves. One additional benefit is the micro-transactions are not stored on the main blockchain, further improving privacy.

Bitcoin's lightning network is an example of this, and is currently up and running. Fees are incredibly low, currently averaging .0098 cents: https://1ml.com/statistics
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. I think this is an interesting point. They're not cycling that money back into the economy, they're holding onto it. Which, in general, is considered bad for the economy, no?
Any number of factors can cause an attempted marriage to fail. Impaired consent is one major one. Unwillingness to have children is another. Even entering marriage with the expectation that divorce is possible means no sacramental marriage was formed. I suppose one can choose to view those factors as loopholes and I imagine some poorly formed Catholics do just that. That said, a validly celebrated marriage cannot be annulled.

Whether or not tribunals are erroneously issuing declarations of nullity is a question I don’t know the answer to. In any event a Catholic who tries to game the system this way would be well advised to consider that God won’t be fooled.
> HR tends to avoid making waves. The only time I've seen HR (excuse the metaphor) plant the flag on the hill they intend to die on, it's because the person being fired or managed out was a protected class of worker. I have never seen HR push back just because the manager had insufficient reasons or suspect reasoning.

Second guessing management hiring/firing decisions that don't expose the company to unacceptable risk of liability for labor law violations generally isn't HR’s function.
Just to get it straight, I don't like what China is doing to public speech, and I don't like what the West is doing either. I grew up in a country (Soviet Union) that took it to the extreme, and I don't like where this road is going.

I strongly believe that the key to building a long-term stable society is a culture where people of opposing beliefs are still able to peacefully debate with each other, and respect the other's opinion even if they don't agree with it. Just like the professional boxers that would let out their worst at the ring, but would find it inconceivable to try and hurt their opponent's private life or family.
I love what Pine is trying to do, but man those A53 CPUs and Mali-400 GPUs are really pretty crummy. Similarly spec'd Allwinner chips were on the PlayStation Classic and Nintendo Classic microconsoles.
How well does QUIC perform over networks with relatively high packet loss? It seems like Aspera (https://www.ibm.com/products/aspera) is the industry standard for high performance WAN transfers, but it's a proprietary protocol. I'm wondering if QUIC performs better than HTTP1/2 in this respect?
TAP isn't a framework, it's a specification/protocol. Sort of like how HTTP isn't a webserver, it's a protocol that a webserver can speak.

TAP is more about the question of "how does a test suite report success/failure to whatever launched it", and all it describes is what the test-suite should report on stdout. It doesn't offer any opinions about language or implementation.
What if my program has like 1 avx2 instruction? Then we still wake up the big core and run my process there? And keep running it there? Or do we try to migrate back to the little core every once in a while? And then go back to the big core when we trap again?
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> I like to check out videos that do real life speed tests (mainly opening apps but other tasks as well)

Those "tests" almost invariably suck at measuring anything useful or being accurate.
It doesn't matter if the banks crash again if the Fed will just bail everybody out again and push stock market inflation even higher than it is now. It's clearly unsustainable, but the question is, how and why will the bubble burst?

The author posits one option, of political intervention precluding another bailout. But the Federal Reserve is non-political precisely to shield it from attempted short-term political machinations. Congress will complain to the cameras and the Fed will go right back to "rescuing" the market.

No, the bottom will only well and truly drop out when there's significant capital flight - when the dearth of real investment opportunities relative to currency glut becomes so acute that capital leaves American borders in search of real return. But to where? And under which circumstances?
As much as I don't like consolidation of tech, I've had really good experiences with Google Meet. No scummy practices like forcing users to pretend that the app installer doesn't download just to connect from the browser either. What are Zoom's advantages?
Relays help protect privacy. The more independent relays that exist the harder it is to attack the network.
The article claims that the LRADs in use do not use ultrasonics. However this is a good point for other directed-sound weapons that might be in use.
The keyboards are. Fair is fair.
As a long time BeOS (and Haiku) developer, I agree that the design is significantly cleaner. Your argument however is significantly false. Haiku has several design problems in the Kernel and the Filesystem, any serious use other than hobbyist is quite limited. Definitely Linux could have a better Desktop, but saying that the Haiku design is less fundamentally fragile is a complete lie. Linux desktop may be more conservative, and may not really adhere to a truly common standard, but they offer several orders of magnitude more what Haiku could hope to have by far. This includes Security, IPC capabilities, Virtualization, Containerization. Android is an example of a Linux platform, that still retains an high number of native apps, coherence of UI etc.
You have it backwards. The police must show that they were justified in throwing the tear gas in the first place. The burden of proof lies on them to prove that force was justified.
What's going to happen when he's gone? Does the next leader understand well enough? How about the next?

It's the same reason we're seeing so much strife in the US. In the US, societal opinion and legislative action hardly follow the same path. In fact, IIRC, public opinion has almost no impact on legislation. Wonder why everyone here feels like we're going down the wrong track?
If you copy enough styles then you will eventually see the connections between the styles and come up with your own. This is exactly how you become exceptional, by copying the best over and over again in as many styles as possible until you 'get it'. You have to think about it and understand it too but that comes naturally to anyone who is capable of becoming exceptional, that's the seeing the connections part.
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> the same behavior for "sensitive topics" back home

I'm not aware of any government action regarding speech and sensitive topics like we see in China, or other dramatically less free countries.
Or they could read the OP from which you copied.
Lol, no; it is exactly the same thing.

Anyhow, this is about a private company suppressing speech, so I guess you are OK with that?
Buried lede warning.

>But there’s another threat to the economy, too. It lurks on the balance sheets of the big banks, and it could be cataclysmic.

(10 paragraphs later)

>I ran my finger across the page to see the total for these investments, investments that Powell and Mnuchin have asserted are “outside the banking system.”

The total is $29.7 billion. It is a massive number. And it is inside the bank.
And WordPress, which is hated even by PHP devs, continues to grow now powering 37.3% of all websites [1]. Until last year, it maintained compatibility with PHP 5.2 essentially relying on PHP of the 2007 (now bumped to 5.6 which was released in 2014).

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
I'll be honest there is absolutely no need for average or even very technical home users to pay for a 10gig connection right now. If you want to make municipal broadband attractive, the focus should be on providing cheap and reliable 100-250 Mbps connections to a large area.
Plus, assert() is commonly used for runtime checks, not static analysis.
>It is ironic how the western public

Only part of the US public, to be fair.

That said, the US public does certainly seem to be mostly apathetic about the giant US government surveillance system, even though that system, if the right sort of political will appeared, could be rapidly turned into a system of social control rivaling what China has.
I visualized how much it cost me to commute without owning a car in 2019
I figured out how much I spent last year commuting without owning a car, and then visualized it as an interactive infographic. This data includes my 2019 e-scooter rides, e-bike rides, ride shares, public transit rides and the costs of purchasing and maintaining a used Xiaomi M365 scooter. It doesn’t include any plane or train rides I purchased in 2019.
Please keep this and other canned arguments off HN. They're typically used as reflexes to try to stop discussion, which isn't in the spirit of intellectual curiosity. If a comment is bad, explain specifically what's bad about it, or downvote/flag as appropriate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

"Whataboutism" is a strange case because the name is catchy and sounds convincing, but it's a fallacy. Comparables are relevant. Humans evaluate things by comparing them.

Pointing out inconsistencies is also relevant because it adds context to an argument. The same thing can appear completely different depending on the context it's surrounded by. Negotiating context (what's included vs. excluded) is a critical aspect of debate, not something that can be shut down with just a word.

Adding information can be perfectly legitimate, or it can be distracting or misleading. In the latter case the proper response is to explain specifically why, not play a wild card like "whataboutism" which basically says "I determine the context and you're not allowed to change it." That amounts to power to control an entire discussion.

Previous explanations at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20338307 and links back from there. I particularly like the analogy to programming languages, because it illustrates the issue in a non-political context (though static vs. dynamic is about as intense a flamewar topic is it gets in programming discussions).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You're asking for sources and then citing unnamed “real life speed test” videos without any way for people to see what they're measuring or how solid their methodology was?

The main area where normal people notice this is in web usage, where Mobile Safari has handily outpaced Android browsing for many years — see e.g. https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/why-was-ember-3x-5x-slower-on-... from 2014. How much that matters depends on how much a particular website is limited by single-core JavaScript performance — well-engineered sites probably don't have a huge impact but it's quite noticeable on anything which has a bloated SPA and the web has been moving in the latter direction for years.

Gaming is the other area where this is fairly noticeable but that varies both in where the bottlenecks are (CPU vs. GPU), how prominent the effect is, and the relative quality of the ports so it's harder to do a fair comparison.
Heck, I still find sites that don't like "nonstandard" TLDs in your email address. Try putting an address that's not .com, .net, etc and it throws an error.
To add to my own comment, this [1] was the submission that I originally had in mind. It was in the 2007-2008 operating year that Wikipedia's expenses crossed the $3 million threshold. In 2015-2016 the expenses were >$65 million. In 2019, they were $91 million. Remember that the content creators work for free.

The reports are available here [2]. Looking at the most recent report here for FY18-19, the amount spent on hosting is $2.3 million. That's less than half of the "donation processing expenses"!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235

[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/
In an ideal world, LRAD's are an improvement over rifles. Fewer people would die if police used them in the same situations where they would otherwise use guns. The trouble is that police use LRAD's in situations where they wouldn't use guns.

The inconvenient thing about guns is that they leave dead bodies behind. If police use guns in inappropriate situations, the bodies will be there to incriminate them even though the law in some jurisdictions makes it difficult to prosecute police for murder.

With a LRAD, there is no body. An inappropriately targeted victim has to come forward and press charges. They may not want to do that for a variety of reasons and, if they do press charges, wantonly causing someone hearing damage is a less serious charge than murder.

If you're a police officer, it's a lot easier and less risky for you, personally, to fire a LRAD at someone than a rifle, even though they were designed to be used in similar situations.

The law needs to treat the inappropriate discharge of "less than lethal" weapons much more seriously than it does now. The police, evidently, need serious consequences to be in place.
So much of coding and seeing good and bad design patterns is unconscious pattern matching and unconscious heuristics. I have the same experience of trying to put into words why one design pattern is better than another and it definitely is frustrating because from experience I do have a tacit "feel" about why something is wrong but to convey that to someone else is a challenge.
At the same time if they're willing to do 60 hours a week of work (not if it takes them 60 hours to do 40 hours worth of work) they should probably be pointed out positively in the team meeting for putting the effort in, and privately told that it's probably not maintainable in the long term, and if they need to work that much to meet their objectives they have too much work.

But I don't see anything wrong with praising more output under the right circumstances. Everything ebbs and flows. As an IC there are times I go 3-4 days without a single commit. And there are times I have commits for 12 days straight because I'm on a roll.

I've been fighting for an "unlimited with minimum" vacation policy for the developers at my current job for a while now. It was fight to get the base increased from 2 weeks to 3, and the system doesn't allow negative PTO balances, which seems kind of draconian to me. But I'd love to see my coworkers taking 4-5 weeks a year.
That is an effect. But the standard states that a fully qualified domain ends with the dot. The reason your resolver doesn't use the search domains is because the dot tells it that what you provided is the entire thing so there is no point in looking up the domain in a search list.
Downvote brigading over another post I made elsewhere. No big deal, I'm used to it around here.
It's not quite relevant to your point, but generally you wouldn't want to have one AVX2 instruction as they are only really useful if you have a bunch of data.
> The federal government stepped in to rescue the other big banks and forestall a panic. The intervention worked—though its success did not seem assured at the time—and the system righted itself. Of course, many Americans suffered as a result of the crash, losing homes, jobs, and wealth. An already troubling gap between America’s haves and have-nots grew wider still. Yet by March 2009, the economy was on the upswing, and the longest bull market in history had begun.

This paragraph is conceding a point that should not be conceded. The system did not right itself if many Americans lost homes, jobs, and wealth. 12 years later, not everyone has recovered from the 2008 collapse.
How recyclable are these newer battery chemistries? I know that lead acid batteries are fairly easy to recycle, but many of these more exotic ones seem harder to recycle.
> I have a checking account and a home mortgage with Wells Fargo; I decided to see how heavily invested my bank is in CLOs. I had to dig deep into the footnotes of the bank’s most recent annual report, all the way to page 144... The total is $29.7 billion. It is a massive number. And it is inside the bank.

To put $29.7B that into context -- Table 4 of the most recent 10K says that Wells has ~1.7 trillion dollars of earning assets. Tables 1 & 2 indicate they hold around 180B of shareholder capital buffer.
Paying to remove ads creates an incentive to make ads more annoying, which punishes people who can't afford to pay.

I donate to a few creators. As for YouTube, Google can close it down for all I care, we'll figure it out. We'd probably better off, in fact.
Why is it so that PHP attracts condescending assholes like shit attracts flies?
eh they probably just can't be bothered. how many other accounts have they closed? what other normal company things is the company doing on a day to day basis, journalists can't expect to circumvent the whole company calendar for something they latched on to as controversial.

this is a misaligned expectation from the journalists and everyone swayed by what the media, and thats true without making any opinion on the particular issue at hand

you have to assume this is going to harm the company for their lack of defensive response to mean anything. but maybe they are still converting customers into paying ones, maybe there is still enough liquidity for a secondary offering, maybe there are partnerships in the works that are more important and lucrative that don't care about the media frenzy
No mention of electricity costs and/or usage.
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Zoom seems to be botching this unique opportunity that the pandemic has presented to them. They are getting dragged way too deep into a geopolitical crisis. I know several companies in N. America that are already transitioning from them. That's all what their competitors wanted to see.
EDIT: Deleted. Not relevant.
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As a description of the limits of this strategy, your assessment is probably accurate. This is a reasonable strategy for developing common competence. Whether that means you should adopt it probably depends on where on the relevant competency curves you are -- or how uncommon the competence around you is.