skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You overestimate how much "abundance" there is. Every year, about 3 million people die in the US. Say we could extend each of those lives a few years by spending $1 million. That would cost $2.8 trillion, or almost a quarter of what we aren't already spending on government services. Spending just half that over 10 years would nearly eliminate the black-white wealth gap in the U.S. Which is a better use of the money?
Very small sample size and a different issue to be sure, but with people I've interacted with that dispute the validity/importance of the Coronavirus, they are being driven primarily by denial/dismissal.

To accept it and and work from there to adapt and mitigate is terrifying. I think you can probably say the same about climate change.

Additionally, I think you could draw a line that these denials are influenced by those protecting their "salaries"
Grandma has arthritis and bad eyes and has a hard time pushing "buttons" on the screen. She accidentally swipes the screen when trying to use it.

Older/differently abled folks have real issues with tech designed for the young and nimble.
Any suggestions for doing so would be helpful to me (and hopefully the OP). If you have any specific ideas, please reply. When you don't have a small group of people to begin with, this is really difficult advice to follow
Factoring is the point at which a lot of people start truly hating math. As in going from having a weakly negative or even somewhat positive opinion of the field to hating it. I'd avoid the name.
Compared to traditional linking and UNIX, which is an early 70s one?
Damn, I thought did his friend execute him?! That is very Kafka-esque. But no, his friend was the executor of Kafkas' last will.
I never said I wasn't relaxed about it. I don't even use a Mac much.

But the platform does seem to have been in a multi-year process of technical decline, and much of that does speak to a "we know better than you, and everybody else" attitude.
Hey Genie – You have 15 minutes to solve my team's problems GO
In today’s business environment, where things change so quickly, a monthly goal qualifies as a long-term goal. Setting the right monthly goals is hard; hitting them is even harder. Companies of all sizes struggle with this. It’s an important skillset for an organization to master, though – monthly targets are rallying points to denote progress, and consistently hitting them enables better capital planning.
So, how do you get better at it? You become a data-driven company. Not a company led by data-driven executives; a data-focused company. That involves deep cultural change. The fastest way to achieve that total makeover is to talk about your monthly goal pacing every day…with your entire company.
To become a data-driven company that hits its goals consistently, we made a radical decision: implement a daily 9am meeting with the entire company. During this 15-minute meeting, called the Standup, review your day-over-day progress on your monthly goals and your pacing.
This weekly ~75-minute investment will revamp your business, and cure your challenges around hitting monthly goals.
There are three reasons why it is so effective:

1. Became accountable to the morning report every day.
2. Leverage the entire company’s creative power to hit our goals.
3. Make the transition to a data-driven company, as opposed to a Leadership Team of data-driven individuals.
For teams, what gets measured and communicated actively gets managed.
If a company-wide 15-minute daily meeting sounds like a big investment, it is. And the bigger your company is, the more collective time is spent in the meeting. It’s not insignificant. But here’s the important question you have to ask: How costly is it for you to not leverage the total brainpower of your human capital?
Today is June 23rd. Seven days left in the month. Are you on pace or off? If you know, that’s a good start. Does everyone?

- Trent Hawthorne
This is a great description. Sums up well my thoughts about Kafka but that I hadn't verbalised.
I get the following value from video calls:

I see management sitting on a porch swing with beautiful scenery in the background and know I need to ask for a god-damn raise
Or they're just giving Intel the finger, banking on having a warchest of defensive patents from acquiring nearly every promising fabless CPU startup of the past 15 years.

Edit: Also, I don't think Transmeta's license would include SSE4. They were defunct at that point.
Do Amazon have an ARM server product?
ITER's successor, DEMO is in planning, with a similar planned timeframe as this new collider... If we wanted to assign them to "generations", ITER should be compared against LHC.

ITER is considered very expensive exactly because nobody wants to spend all their money on one type of project, but in fact are concerned about ensuring their science funding is well rounded.
So $23 billion over 40 years that would make it about 50 million a year. Just a few million more than what the US military spends on viagra.
might be SFLphone -> Ring -> Jami?
> I'm in township, he's in the city

They're in different municipalities, so the rates are different. They could easily be using the exact same amount of water each month.
Alternatively there's this: https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3
Like... it's not ideal, maybe, but kernel extensions are already a little touchy so I'm not surprised that they at least need to recompile, and VMs likewise are unfortunate but they can just rebuild and be good (i.e. I'm betting less than a month before people are running around using qemu-system-x86_64 natively built for ARM again).
I have a hard time seeing how the statistic that the Times receives twice as much money from readers as from advertisers is evidence that the NYT "serves advertisers rather than readers". I think that probably puts them in the top 10% of media outlets in terms of how financially independent of advertising they are.
How do we know it's "very useable" performance wise?

I'd say that we've moved away from virtualisation completely, we now use containers, so developers will expect native performance, as we get on other platforms.
Shit flows down hill putting New Orleans in a difficult position with regard to sewage as it is below sea level and all the sewage has to be pumped uphill eventually and on the level before that. Pumping sewage is a hard problem involving grinders, strainers, big pipes and big pumps. On top of all the other shit New Orleans has to deal with, it has to deal with a lot of literal shit.
I make a lot of memes for Reddit with MS Paint. I tend to avoid WebP because of compatibility issues. Neither Reddit's native image host nor Imgur allows WebP files, and I save memes using images from multiple formats (e.g. a jpg, a png, and a WebP) in jpg or png to avoid that. When a WebP file is saved into jpg or png Paint gives an error message about how this will erase all transparency, but for my purposes that is not a problem.
$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
$1500-worth of VSCode.pro masterclasses giveaway
It is hot & humid but likely not exceeding 35C. There are figures in [0] that show the 99.9% wet bulb typically is in the range 27-29C for the south eastern US. The "hot" spots are in the UAE, Iran, etc. Being close to very hot body of water does not help.

[0] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838
I've improved the demo with <details>/<summary> and fixed the erroneous list elements form the original: https://habarnam.ro/s/demo.html
32 comments so far and no mention of the word budget. There's a great analogy between software engineering and construction. Does your organization build skyscrapers and gorge-spanning bridges? Or does it build driveways and swimming pools? Commercially developed software consumes capital to get something in return. Are the people spending capital budgeting for a driveway or for a skyscraper? Must it be done this month or in two years? Sure, those are false dichotomies, but they illustrate the point: it is desirable for the bosses to clearly define engineering spend.

Over-engineering can be avoided by carefully sticking to a budget.

For a lot of developers, there's a trade-off between rationality (in the sense of ROI) and feeling good. It doesn't feel good to make every engineering decision against a budget. My dopamine levels [0] skyrocket when I visualize making some component generic, or future proof. I come crashing back to earth when I realize the budget is for a driveway. Budgeting earns the bosses / customer / capital a better return. Engineering for future use cases or making things generic (or the mere anticipation thereof) is an easy way to get a massive hit of neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.

[0] Not a neuroscientist. But I think it's useful to label that spike of feel good and motivation. It may have nothing to do with dopamine.
DMA units are back, baby!
An apology and some pro-forma introspection doesn't render its past deeds irrelevant. This is part of a pattern, and it persists to this day.
Then your company is cheating the system.

H1-B visas are for highly skilled workers, either holding higher education diplomas or similar qualifications. They also come with a minimum salary requirement, which for most tech companies would start at $150,000.

Any company paying their visa holders less than the required minimum salary cap, is indeed committing a crime.

Also, this move is obviously directed against tech companies. It does not make any distinction between large IT providers such as TATA, well known for their dumping tactics, and Microsoft, Google, or Apple.

I would even go further to say that, given the lack of interest in banning the entry of seasonal workers, who focus mostly on blue collar jobs, and given that the highest contribution to the rising unemployment numbers come from lower paid service and manual jobs, this is just another move to appeal to the rural, hard right wing Trump base.

As it will not impact them in any significant manner, yet it would create more uncertainty in wealthier, highly educated, urban areas.
I'm happy to say that things are going better now.

Since I'm not in a relationship and I live alone, loneliness kicked in hard. Dating is also very impractical right now, so all I've done is just working 7 days a week.

Luckily in my country (Netherlands) the COVID counter-measures are now slowly being relaxed. Social live is slowly picking up again.

I have returned to my office a couple of weeks ago already. I have a private office in a shared building, so I can keep distance. This helped tremendously, I am happy to have people around me again. Since 2 weeks bars and restaurants are also allowed to open, I noticed that the ability to go out for a drink (although alone) tremendously helps my well-being.
>Why are they locking down my device from me?

Because it belongs to the end users, and it should be as task focused, opaque, and easy to use as an appliance, not something you tinker with.
I'd say "blacklist" and "whitelist" are more offensive / have a stronger argument of colour being used to discriminate (albeit not directly related to races) / would be better to have "deny list" and "allow list".

"Race condition" is just as offensive as "Master Branch" - neither are relating to prejudice / historic injustice; but use different meanings of these potentially loaded words.

That said, nothing against switching to non-loaded terms; especially if the effort to do so is less than the effort to debate it. But we mustn't accuse people of being racist just because they're using terminology that some are offended by when those using the terminology are simply using terminology they've learnt, and could have no reasonable expectation to have considered that it may be deemed offsensive.
> Isn't there a serious risk of bias, there, though? For example, if a journalist is specialized in CS and have to write about the ecological impact of technology, you can expect them to be biased in favor of technology, even in good faith.

All journalists are biased. Pretending they can be unbiased is silly.

Beyond that, a journalist specialized in CS writing about the ecological impact of technology is no longer "sticking to what they've studied and know" any more than a sportswriter would be writing about the ecological impact of a new stadium.
Meh, kernel extensions are on life support at this point.
> trying to ignore everyone's amazing and enriching family activities posted in photo albums on Facebook when our kids are sat in pyjamas on the Nintendo Switch at 2pm

Keep in mind that people only post when they've made the effort to get the kids dressed and doing something enriching. My wife and I, without children, only post something when the dogs are doing something cute or we've made some impressive food or when we've finished a project.

We don't post anything about when we're showering at 4pm because we worked all day in pajamas or when we're searching amazon for an upholstery cleaner because our office chairs start smelling like body odor.

There's JUST as much fail going on in families that are posting all that "look how sparkly we are" stuff. There's the families of teenagers who have given up trying to stop them going out, even after explaining to the teenagers "your parents are 50 and if you get them sick they may die." ... But Mom's "anxiety sourdough" is definitely on point, so she's got that going for her, which is good!

But I agree with the other posters that you should probably turn off or at very least timebox social media consumption. And the "kids in PJs at 2pm playing on the Switch" is one type of coping mechanism (because kids have different stresses right now too with not having enough social interaction and some of your stress rolls downhill on top of it), so don't necessarily stop allowing them to have outlets, but maybe set a focus for a while on something like hygiene and get everyone to bathe by a certain time every day. Everything else... well, let it go, let it go, let it go...
This is great! But what are your thoughts about MuZero? :)
Been Never better. Saved on commute time, can work and see family, managing to be much more focused than noisy work env open space, Going jogging midday. Cooking my own meals (very simple mostly vegetables so really healthy! ). At evening, I do some bike and tennis class, then at night when all are back to sleep I'm back to work, finish the day watching a lecture, sleep, wake up, repeat!
My lease will end without the option for renewing because the apartment was rented out from under me sight-unseen. I'm fully paid up on rent. I was never given notice or the ability to renew said lease. This isn't just "It's the landlord's fault" in my opinion. I've seen plenty about evictions - but leases expiring are something I see under represented.
You also don't need to live in the expensive SV area.
It also helps that Slate Star Cortex isn't expected to be unbiased, so instead of pretending to be the diffuse gaze from nowhere, he can simply be up-front about what you should expect.
I completely understand your point. I just can't imagine a scenario where some state authority takes the time to look at your phone and then:

- gives you a bad time if they see the word Riot.im on your phone

- or, lets you go about your business if they don't, or sees [generic chat app name]

If someone is intent on abusing their authority, then they will abuse it. There's no reason [generic chat app name] won't become the new "evidence" for tomorrow's abusers, even if it does accurately describe the app's function.

I appreciate the argument about not giving them cause to abuse their authority. But, as you say, if simply standing in the wrong place at the wrong time is enough cause, then it is completely impossible to stay safe by keeping a low profile. The system has been designed to give citizens little control and blur the lines of criminality.

edit
I want to clarify that I don't want anyone to suffer, especially over something as mundane as an app name. The realist in me is happy for any measures to prevent abuse to happen. The idealist in me finds it disheartening that the motivations of abusive regimes and cynical legal systems even have to be given a moment's thought.
I mean, they have a better emulator that they bought from the QuickTransit folk.
Facebook continues its VR-studio acquisition spree
You've read my comment wrong
Profit is the carrot on the economic stick, driving productivity and innovation.
Feel free to use Trim to remove all paywalls and JavaScript from places like the New York Times: https://beta.trimread.com.
Same here. I do daily exercise now since I don't have to waste 3 hours every day commuting. I'm spending more quality time with family. It just feels that I have more time to do more things. I'm also more productive at doing my work for whatever reason.

But, I see anxiety and depression around me and I'm talking about people that didn't had a bad economic or job impact. It's just uncertainty and insecurity that breaks people. I try to support them.

Try to be creative with your time. Take it easier and have fun with your family. Don't stick to social media because it fills your day with negative content and disappointment. And don't waste your time with Youtube and Netflix because deep down you will feel pointless if you do that. And speak up and share your pain with others.

Also remember this is not the end of world.
It only has been a few months and the amount of uncertainty, pain, and insecurity that you feel right now is million times less than what people have to deal for many years in some countries with civil war, sanctions, dictatorships. And they are holding up. So don't suddenly feel that you living in the worst time ever. We have everything needed to overcome this.

It's obviously different for different people and it's easy to give advice. I also know people that lost someone which makes it much harder. Don't stay alone and find something that motivates you.
Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why
Analyzing item distribution in Super Metroid randomizer
Can you be an influential character and asked to remain anonymous? If you have opinions and you've broadcasted them you can assume them. We blame politics, journalist but at least they sign their articles. Don't you think they receive death treats all the time ?

You can blame NYT but at least they have a clear policy, whether you agree with it or not. I feel a lot of people here are reacting emotionally, as part of the SSC community.

Is the problem a journalist revealing a name, or is it virtual trolls and mobs?
As Congressional elections become more and more a national affair, why do we still have districts? Say a state gets 24 reps. Give me a ballot with all the candidates and let me mark the 24 I want. Yes the ballot will be more complicated, but this way we entirely avoid districting and the process is entirely fair (well until you consider states not being fairly drawn, but that’s one level up).
>terrible proprietary cpu architecture

Err, there are more cpus with ARM than x86 by an order of magnitude...

It's also less proprietary...

>Before they dropped powerpc for intel, no one would have considered using a mac for dev work.

Huh? Where did you get that from? OS X Macs where quite popular for dev work pre-Intel, popular for web devs, and with good Java support...
So what's this AVIF format they mention that's actually better than both?

WebP did not take off.

But will AVIF be any better?
This.

In most parts of the world, $100k/year allows you to live very comfortably indeed.
Yes! There are people you can send a numbered list of questions - 5, even 10 - and get a structured, definitive response from them in return, and your task is done.

And there are people you just can't collaborate with in that way - you'll never get back what you need.
And it checks out, too.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
Oh wow! I'll try this out.
As an anecdotal datapoint, I've never heard of Wirecard until the past few days. Although I'm American and not in finance.
Congrats! Inspiring to see that you can make a living on your own without coding within a corporate structure.
This is a really exciting project, can't wait to try it out. I love Laravel. Amazing job.
Also maybe more leisurely in terms of pace.
Started a new software engineering job just before stay-at-home orders. Joined the team in March. Nobody is training me. My teammates don’t like meetings so I never see them in video calls. I haven’t been getting any work done. Manager is asking me why I haven’t been getting any work done. I don’t even know where to begin.

The documentation is garbage but that’s not so unusual. What’s unusual is that I have to ask questions in writing or schedule video calls with teammates if I want to learn anything that’s not in the documentation.

I know what onboarding is supposed to look like and this isn’t it. I’ve expressed these problems to my manager but I feel like I’m not being heard. Stress levels are through the roof.
I think it's best to hear from NYT about why they strictly only use real names.
Having big flashbacks to the switch from PPC to x86 here. Rosetta worked relatively smoothly during that transition so fingers crossed it will be ok here too.

Though with Docker support on the mac already being a second class citizen to running on Linux I wonder if a lot of devs will stop using macs for dev
This was also a huge thing in the Soviet Union, opening the biggest Truck factory in the world, fantastic propaganda. Actually economically efficiently producing trucks, far less relevant.

I totally agree that public unions are a huge issue. The prison guard union is one of the worst, basically undermining criminal justice reform. The police union is terrible, as everybody is slowly learning. But even teacher unions had negative effects.
The value really depends on the use case, but having the image sent instantly enables finer temporal resolution. Not all flights will have working wifi so all the devices (including the app) can save the data and upload once the flight has landed.
I'm using Firefox and just tried to save a webp image and it tried to save as a web page. [initially, I said no.. see edit below]

Edit: Looks like it was that specific website and they are doing something odd, so I retract my initial judgement.
I wish we would use less plastic and packaging in general. Its depressing when you buy a product and it has layers and layers of packaging. When I visited a poor part of Mexico in 2000 they still had a system where you purchased a soda in a glass bottle and then returned it for a small refund from the place you purchased it. If a poor city in Mexico does this why cant we do so in the USA? Please do understand that in almost all other ways though this city in Mexico had garbage ever-where.
Good. Apple is basically the only entity seriously looking at dynamic linking performance these days. We can do a lot better in the ELF world. We should not only copy dyld's closure cache, but also teach the kernel to do relocations on demand, like NT does. A relocated data-segment page should be a clean page, not a dirty page!
That of course defeats the purpose of smaller districts getting a voice and not being crushed by larger districts.