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I'm having trouble understanding your perspective on what's "anti-democratic".

As you note, neither github nor hardly any company has any kind of "democratic decision-making" at all. It's just not how companies work in America. So I don't understand hwo you can be "bypassing" something that doesn't exist.

When the executive and other decision makers at a company make decisions with no democratic decision making whatsoever, do you think that is "no different than any authoritarian movement"? Personally, I think saying it's "no different" is a bit much, it's a differnet in a bunch of ways -- but I think it's not great, I think we should work to put democratic decision-making in all companies. Do you agree?

In the meantime though, we don't have that. So what are people who want to have impact on the decision-making supposed to do? Even when there is democratic decision-making, it's considered normal to try to convince your fellow-decision makers of things. I don't understand where you are drawing the line between allowable ways to effect decision-making and "like an authoritarian movement". I mean, nobody's threatening anyone with violence, are they? What means of persuasion or pressure are according to you allowed, and what means are not?

It doesn't help that I don't think either of us has actually read the article, because it's behind a paywall? So I actually have no idea what methods or persuasion or pressure they are using. Do you know more than me? If so, feel free to tell me (ideally with a link to another article so I can get it from the source), and explain why you think those methods have crossed the line into "authoritarian"?

Since I don't know specificcally what they are doing, I can't really defend it specifically. Like, if they were beating people up who didn't agree with them, I'd definitely agree that's something authoritarian movements do! (I still don't think I'd agree it's "no different", there are always differences, that's a kind of lazy thing to say, "no different"). But I don't see any reason to think or assume they are doing that? Do you have more information than me? I'm confused why you are assuming they are using unethical methods, or even what you think those methods they are using are. Are you saying just that going to the press makes it "no different than any authoritarian movement", but if you just talked about it quietly inside the company that would be okay? That would seem an odd distinction to me.
It is certainly possible to still monorphize some cases, but the point is it can't work as a comprehensive strategy like it does in rust; it's an optimization that applies in some cases.
The way I look at it, information is a force multiplier on action. If there's no action then 50 times zero is still zero.
There are many other aerospace companies that are in principle capable of designing high performance airplanes in the US. There are literally no other companies in the US with modern semiconductor manufacturing expertise (in logic, not memory, GF doesn't count). The level of capital expenditures and technological expertise and IP required to manufacture leading edge semiconductors is staggering. It's unlikely you could even start a new company that could manufacture leading edge semiconductors for the entire $23 billion that is in that bill. (They'd also probably get sued into oblivion by existing manufacturers with basically zero patent protection.) Just look at what happened to Globalfoundries. It was given effectively free capital for close to a decade, a not totally instate starting point of starting from nothing AMD's old fabs, and in the end gave up.

The "diagnosis" of Intel is that it threw away the chance of higher volume for lower margin which gave TSMC a bunch of money to catch up to them. (I think that's a very hindsight is 20/20 kind of view too...I don't think anyone thought that the iPhone would become larger than the entire PC market when it came out...and at those volumes Apple would eventually realize anyway that it wouldn't make sense to keep paying Intel to make chips for them.) I don't see how a start up is going to capture that volume without some sort of pseudo-captive market to grow with (which is basically how the various companies in China are progressing...).
I read this, and I have also read "The Practicing Mind" which is exactly what this post is about. My issue isn't in understanding the premise. It all makes sense, and I get a sense of "ah hah!" every time I read it (I've read it twice).

The issue for me is that I really struggle to turn this theory in to effective practice. Each time after reading "The Practicing Mind" I have tried to cognitively remind myself whenever I was frustrated, to stop and look at the problem as a beginner would, to drop my ego, etc.

The problem is that it would sort of help, temporarily. I'd find myself a little bit better at getting a solid day of work done, but not dramatically better. After a week or so, I'd forget to even do the exercises, and I'd be back to struggling.

What honestly helps more than anything, the "magic bullet" really is pharmacology (aderall). For me, it somehow calms me down. I don't feel more energy, I feel tranquil, and able to let defeat roll off my shoulders.

Sadly, taking aderall is not a sustainable solution. Amphetamine is a neurotoxin which raises blood pressure. Not to mention, I don't like being "tranquil" for anything other than my work. I like my 'normal' state of semi-uncontrolled energy, which is great for exercising and video games. I'd like to be able to turn this feeling on or off, and taking a medication doesn't allow for this.

So I tend to see saw between three states... 1) Struggling at work, barely getting by, quality of life sucks. 2) On medication, happy at work, feeling productive and peaceful, but desire to get off medication 3) Off medication, using "Beginners Mind" but find my ability to implement it in a way that is strongly effective, absent.
Reminds me of any “security” product. Next time you get the chance, I suggest you tear into any industry standard security tool and you’ll be surprised at what you find.
If we keep reposting the article, it won't feel so exceptional…
"RISC" isn't a single architecture, it's a philosophy for designing architectures. The "RISC" Apple was using before x86 was called PowerPC, and it was designed mostly by IBM. It was also a horrible piece of overheating garbage that I'm still honestly surprised wound up in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The "RISC" Apple is using now, ARM, is a far more practical architecture that Apple has already beat Intel with in single-thread perf... at a lower clock rate, with strict power limits. Letting the A13 stretch it's legs with wall power and a big heatsink would completely crush Intel and x86 in every benchmark except multi-threading.

User-perceived latency has little to do with the clock rate of a processor, though. What you need is:

1. Immediate feedback upon user input
2. Progress animations that move, even if progress is indeterminate
3. High frame rates on your animations
4. No frame stutter or torn frames

Out of the four, low clock rate will mainly impact frame rates and pacing, but that can still be mitigated by using what you have as efficiently as possible.
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Nowadays both men and women have the option of finding occupations that give them the most satisfaction. You might be surprised at how many people consider this progress.
You mean the ones which explained that the poor whites are actually privileged racists, who are too lazy to learn to code?
Ask HN: How to find high quality engineering orgs?
A little of my background: I'm self taught with about 10 years of professional experience, worked for fortune 100 companies and startups. I've been both an IC and manager. I have not worked for FAANG, mostly because of imposter syndrome I believe.

The problem is it feels like every time I join an org engineering is in disarray, lacks tests, and low quality work. I only care about that because it affects me personally as on call schedules are hell, and work is harder then it needs to be. By the time I leave it's either at a really good point (1-2 pages per calendar year and deploying multiple times a day) or management has blocked progress.

My question is how can I find an org where engineering is already in a good state, and I can come in and learn instead of fixing?
I believe the TLDR of this article is, "skunkworks"
Ask HN: What is your view on Haxe?
This language looks quite familiar with Java. It can be transpiled into multiple langauge target, including js,c++,python

From the official website:

Haxe can build cross-platform applications targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash, and allows access to each platform's native capabilities. Haxe has its own VMs (HashLink and NekoVM) but can also run in interpreted mode.
Code written in Haxe can be compiled to any target Haxe supports.
You can thank Intel for that. Single thread performance has stagnated since 2016. Some say 2014.
Local news sites tend to be extremely slow and ad-heavy in my experience. So I thought of a medium-sized US city, searched for "Cincinnati news" and picked the top result.

I found what I was looking for, this is the article I ran the tests on: https://www.wcpo.com/news/education/higher-education/miami-u...
There's a good reason that they're making it more possible to boot a Raspberry Pi from USB. It's more reliable storage and has better performance for many use cases :)
When and bow will we know the results of this study?
It might seem like a tangent by I would recommend studying (self-)hypnosis.
It's fine for simple transcoding jobs. Once it reaches certain complexity you at the very minimum want to outsource it to a shell script to organize the arguments in multiple lines or switch to some other language bindings that aren't limited by shell argument parsing.

Compare the CLI and python invocation in this example:
https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python#complex-filter-gr...

For some subsets of ffmpeg functionality (e.g. creating webm videos from other sources) there also are dedicated GUIs.
In Colorado all high school Juniors take the SAT in April for free. I think they have to pay to add the writing section but most universities have removed the writing requirement.
Don't ever install extensions. There is no limit to the trouble and pain they can cause.
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The AI is to determine which products are removed and charge accordingly (a la Amazon Go)
PBS Spacetime had a good episode about this IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z91oGI5aP0A
Words can't describe how normal that is. Exploit tools are require local systems to be super open in order to be frictionless.

Even in the consumer industry; anyone remember all those very silly people who installed backtrack2 (precursor to kali, based on slackware not debian) to their main drive and then went to defcon and got rekt because their OS was insecure (and couldn't be updated!)

Exploit development is a glass cannon, remove all friction to modify the system and craft packets, invoke monitoring modes for hardware and frictionless tracing... that's going to have a security cost.

This echo's a wider issue in the industry "Development" vs "Sysadmin" mindsets, where sysadmins are stifling and developers are all about removing barriers to progress faster and iterate more.
Harvard started the institutionalization of "hollistic admission": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in. According to the article, it was not about being fair, it was about limiting the admission of a specific group of people.

In general, the more complex a system is, the easier it is for people to game the system, and therefore the easier it is to hide inequality. It's hard to believe that Harvard does not know this, but I guess I'm dead wrong here as our progressives always ask for a more complex system to battle inequality.

In contrast, look at China. Their National College Entrance Examination is widely considered the most equal system in the country. Is it perfect? Of course not. However, students from poor country-side have a shot to get into elite universities. All they need are good teachers and well designed problem sets and text books . The cost of the books cost less than few Burger King's double cheese burgers. In the meantime, the government invested heavily on teachers. The result is that the best teachers are always in public schools. The inequality really lies in the fact that fewer and fewer quality teachers are willing to go to the poor areas nowadays. But hey, it's not like our government are focusing on raising teacher quality in the US either, right?

What about the fact that tests themselves can be gamed, we may ask, like students cramming for exams? The problem turns out to be relatively "easy" to solve: make tests differentiable. Just take a look at a problem set from India's JEE, China's NCEE, Korea's CSAT, or Japan's entrance exams from different universities. You'll see how hard it is to cram or to "tutor" for an exam. If we use math as an example, the only patterns one sees in a problem will be mathematical patterns. If one can cram for that, well congratulations, the person just learned good math.
TIL there’s a 9to5Linux. Is it new/affiliated with the other 9to5 properties?
Why is that a counter point?
Dropping the per/unit cost of CPUs by $200/ system would allow Apple to retain their margins while decreasing prices. Or (more likely) push performance at the same price.

Take a look at the "Low End" iPad and the iPhone SE. They are both excellent price/ performance devices with highly competitive processors.
RHEL 6 is end of life (product retirement) this November. ELS indeed extends out till 2024, but that's after the product has been officially retired/EOLed.

Essentially, come November, there will not be a generally supported Linux OS that will have this issue.
Ahh, I see. You misunderstand your true customer. It is not the purchaser. It is the investor — PE. Or, "the market".
Yes, I know it's confusing because the language has been so thoroughly corrupted over the last decade.

Let me show you my reasoning:

JSON is not a hypertext, even if you include URLs in it. [0]

HATEOAS requires a hypertext (see the first word of the acronym)

HATEOAS is "an essential part of the of the 'uniform interface' feature of REST" [1]

Therefore a JSON API, even with some embedded URLs, using multiple HTTP Methods and following a traditional hierarchical path scheme, is not REST-ful.

[0] - A sufficiently advanced client could interpret a JSON-encoded hypertext in a general, uniform manner. However, in practice, this is almost never the case.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
"Why would anyone dismiss it as slander?"

Because in WW1 the English and French governments manufactured propaganda that claimed all sorts of preposterously horrible things were perpetrated by the germans. After the war (WW1) it became obvious they were mostly extremely exaggerated lies.

That's why in WW2 it was initiallly very hard to start discussion about this. "You know, in last war we claimed the germans were commiting inhuman acts of horror? And we were kind of ... lying? Well, this time its totally true! Please believe us"

It's the case of boy crying wolf... and then wolf comes.
What makes you think Newtonian physics is in any form more real than computation? If Wolfram is correct, physics is inherently a computation in the form of cellular automata.

Intelligence might be so messy that the only way to get to it is to grow it organically, which to me seems to be happening in research. People are trying a bunch of stuff based on intuitions for what may work, and post hoc adding some theoretical justification for why it's working. Human intelligence didn't emerge from some grand theory of intelligence either.
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Some of those features are available on other cars if you combine different options (line assist, adaptive cruise control, etc).
I should have stated earlier that I agree with the theory that the true primary cause of crime/murder is poverty.

>Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers?

Perhaps to ignore the broader context so as to avoid confronting a big, uncomfortable, politically incorrect issue?

Dead people don't care if they were murdered by a family member or a stranger. If anything, this data is more evidence of the destruction of the family structure since the 1960s.

In 1960, 78% of black children were being raised in 2 parent households.[1]

In 2018, 65% of black children were being raised in a single parent households.[2]

[1]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-legacy-o...

[2]https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in...
Absolutely. The years in my life between when my daughter was ~ 7-11 I don't really remember at all, it's still quite painful to not really remember those years.

I was alive, but not really living. I could not get the simplest things done, only things that were fun or immediately rewarding, at times barely that.
It reminded me of what people referred to as depression, but without much of anything that could actually be called depression, not without doing injustice to anyone who have ever suffered an actual depression.
CDC estimated it at 0.26%:

https://in.dental-tribune.com/news/new-estimate-by-the-cdc-b...
'code' would be the code of whatever kernel is in use and 'sql' would a notebook-level feature like 'markdown' is today.
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The downside probably being that an employer paid you during that time of learning and didn't get much work product out of it.

Learning for the sake of learning is an infinite endeavour.

I try to practice strategic learning - learning skills/frameworks/topics that will have a high likelihood of being used in the course of my current project.

There's just so so much out there... focus is everything.
Nitpick: “audiophile-quality sound” it seems, is becoming the new “military-grade encryption.”

I don’t have many other comments to make other than I am surprised rust-analyzer was only mentioned in passing.
But we're not in that world, because the biggest reason for there to be a problem in that world is Microsoft's market share.

Apple doesn't have anywhere near the market share in the phone world that Microsoft has or had in the PC world. There really is another option: Android; and, if you don't trust the standard Android or Google, I hear there's alternatives you can put on your phone for the more privacy conscious.

You really can vote with your wallet, still. I don't think that's the case for a product that doesn't even control 50% of the marketshare of devices in its main space.
I saw no-code and poor eyesight picked out what looked like an amateur 2x2 callsign so I thought this was about licensing and morse code.

Cool workflow he has developed. It seems taxes are too crazy everywhere.
I can relate to the parallels between programming, and athletics. I like to consider myself an athlete, and if there is one thing I have learned about sports it's that the process of falling from the top to the middle of the pack can happen in a week despite that it can take years to get from the middle of the pack to the top.

So when the author was talking about how being an expert is really just a matter of become a great student I was quickly reminded of my golf game. Where I often time find myself with the lowest handicap I have ever had without actually feeling like I am improving. I shave a stroke one day. Then another.. and another, and before I know it I am a 3 instead of a 10.

That being said, I wouldn't say I have an ego problem in coding myself because tbh I have always felt like a bit of an imposter. I think my imposter syndrome has actually ended up being a good thing over time in my career as a programmer. It seems to have kept me grounded, and as the author suggested is a good thing, it seems to have kept me in the forever a student mentality.
Not a higher count of authoritatian states. A higher fraction.

Far-left: 100%
Far-right: 100%
I am developer, a heavy user running docker containers, IntelliJ, etc. I have been using Macs for a long time and not considering a switch to a Linux or Windows. If I buy a laptop today I will not be buying another one for at least 5 years. So I wanted understand what I lose if I buy another laptop with an Intel chip versus the new Arm based one.
I really admire what Comma.ai project is doing right now.
This is pure conjecture. The younger generation currently consumes way less alcohol and is overall much more studious and serious than previous generations. Years of austerity have eroded the "animal house" culture you are picturing from your youth.

They are pushing college WAY less and pushing vocational training WAY MORE. I've had my younger cousins reach out to me interested in vocational training and my opinions on that. ( My opinion? Pick a major with a career. Do two years of community college, finish up at a major university. Vocational jobs are well paying and are perfectly respectable, but tend to be pretty hard. )
One of the drivers for Colorado moving to the SAT from the ACT was the amount of free SAT prep courses online. SAT partnered with Khan Academy to offer a lot of test prep and practice tests online for free.
Nah, I am agreement with the poster that you replied to.

Our tech lead is a bit of a diva. He is smart but basically he just programs and doesn't bother with much else. He bangs out code quickly, but it can be buggy and its usually the rest of the team that fix the bugs, keep the infrastructure running, write the tests. He is good at tricky algorithmic stuff. His code is fairly well organised. I don't find his abstractions particularly good. The REST API he created is terrible (poor abstraction) and not RESTful a lot of it uses POST requests, 200 success contains errors. No tests. Terrible at explaining his work to other people. Poor at listening.

Give me a good team player with average ability over a good programmer that lacks the other skills any day.
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Yes, 100% agree. Unless we change the system to stop these abuses, then the good people who "do the right thing" and quit will simply be replaced by other new employees who don't give a shit. The end result is that bad people are rewarded with huge paychecks while good people are punished with fewer opportunities and/or lower paying jobs.
Funny you mention Adderall, as I just took one today to help be more productive after a long, exhaustive weekend out of town. I totally agree what you say about how it affects work in a positive way, but that it isn't a sustainable solution. I believe the key is moderation. I won't allow myself to use one more than once a week at most, which I feel does a good job of keeping any sort of psychological dependence on it away, minimizes the negative physical repercussions it could cause, and to keep the feeling fresh.
How are their prices on hardware unrealistic?
Let's look at laptops: any other manufacturer(razer, dell) charges comparable prices for unibody ultrabooks.
Several years ago I was attempting to automate a very long chain of AV transformations using ffmepg and such. I distinctly remember having a dream of a green-text black window command line prompt of ffmpeg incantations and that is when I realized that I had been perhaps digging too deep.