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Well I'm going to capitalize Brown but not white or black. This is the world we live in now, I guess!
A canary indeed. Except that instead of being the early warning, what we see here is the last person you would hope to succumb.
Good and bad is simply perspective, my friend.

Go on Youtube and look for:

- Eckhart Tolle - The park bench (and everything else)

- Adyashanti - Enlightenment Unfolding (and everything else)

It takes years, but you'll come to terms with it.
It's sure worth handing guns to everyone for defense. If everyone is armed that really makes the world a safer place. How else could you e.g shoot somebody to defend your parking spot? /s

But seriously.. do you have been to Europe? You need to visit some very extreme areas to be in real danger. What you describe is pure hyperbole.
I am fully aware that I still have lots of room for improvement. I realise that every December when I reflect on myself and see how much I have improved throughout the year.

To avoid annoying you too much, I will now use a spell checker, since English is not my mother tongue. But enough about me.

It looks like you are going through a rough time right now. Do you want to talk about it?
If the newspapers/sites expect every reader to subscribe, it can add up quickly, if you're reading 2 articles in each of 20 publications every month.

I do wish more people would pay for content, but the market hasn't really adjusted to the way people read 1% of dozens of different publications.
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Thanks for your feedback :) Running IHP with WSL works pretty well so far. Some of our closed-beta testers have been running IHP on windows. We even made a video to get people started easier on WSL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM0WTMLdmVw
> How can Forbes justify using this headline?

Forbes is now a content host - when you see an article from forbes.com/sites/xxxx, that means that it's essentially a blog from a rando that Forbes selected as a 'contributor'.

See https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-forbes-contributor-mod...

> Contributors have access to the same publishing platform as Forbes's own journalists, a platform which was built by Forbes itself. And keeping the system simple is vital, Federle said, to allow them "to focus on the journalism", and not get distracted by technicalities.
> Second is the Most Popular section, which Federle explained is "algorithmically generated" and "driven by velocity engine" which looks at social shares and comments to rank stories.
> "We've taken our platform and will shrink wrap it down to a product they can plug into their platform. This is a new business for us."
> Although 930k individuals in the US suffer from Parkinsons given the economic cost including medication, lose of income etc which averages about 24k per individual it seems likely that few of them are enjoying mac laptops even compared to the general population that is 10 times more likely to run windows.

I would note that many people with disabilities use iOS devices. The layer-stack of iOS APIs has been top-to-bottom engineered with accessibility considerations in mind, rather than it being worked in after-the-fact; so accessibility features on iOS are a lot more “universal” than ones on other OSes. iPhones are basically “the” phone for the blind, for one thing.

Not saying that rebuts your other points. Just pointing out that when you have a disability, “cost” becomes just a matter of how long you need to save up for it; while “has the particular benefit” is the difference between the device being at all useful for you, vs. not. There’s no point in buying something that’s half the price if you can’t use it.
Can you give an example?I think this is probably country dependent (I'm from Europe) but in my experience calling yourself "communist" or even just agitating for democratic control over means of production is enough to be "canceled" in the sense that most large employers will be wary to higher you and our mainstream media will lump you in with Stalin. And that is in Europe, on the US I have less experience but I think until Bernie I wasn't aware of any visible socialist in the US.

Meanwhile, from my perspective, we Europeans lookt at North America and see a lot of racists, transphobes and anti-poor agitators complaining about being cancelled on national Media and while giving speeches at universities (e.g. fox news, Jordan Peterson). Which feels...off.
> content which teaches people to hate

It's called "critical race theory".
> Even with paying some taxes to support the US billionaires

Medicare and social security alone account for nearly half of the US fed govt spend.

Taxes do not support billionaires. The lack of them does.
If you value your privacy, don't speak to reporters and take every protection to protect your identity. This thinking goes from the basement dweller to the billionaire.

However, if your information is revealed, don't be shocked when someone approaches you with that information because you didn't cover your tracks.
Shades of IE6 Stockholm syndrome.
> Even in in the worst case situation where everyone eventually will get infected (including me), it didn't bother me.

Like I said, the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands to millions doesn't bother you. That is repugnant, and sociopathic.
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I think you answered your own question right there.

I'm not going to use a dumptruck to bring a single sack of sand to my garden.
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>30 dollars is extremely cheap

There is a wide world out there where $30 is not cheap at all.

I wish Americans consider stuff like that before commenting but I gave up years ago.
"Unbiased" != "Factual".
It's interesting how many posts I can think back and identify with on here. This was me a while ago, but ya know without lock-down.

>The excuse of covid has only made justifications against self improvement easier.

Recognize that and address that problem in the tiniest way possible. For me, when I was at one of the lowest parts of my life, I started flossing every night. It was literally the only new habit I hated to do that I added to my life at the time. It cascaded to working out and a lot more self improvement. I ABHOR structure in my life, but I also very much need it. If you're anything like me, set something small up and keep that structure while you figure out new and awesome things you like to do.

Group activities also worked well for me but aren't for everyone. For me it was DND and Rugby. One I did online, and the other isn't really an option right now.

Good luck, and I hope things get better. I can't imagine COVID hitting when I was in similar place mentally.
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One thing I didn't cover is that "cancer" isn't one thing.

And neither is pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs had a rarer and less aggressive form.

That's why he lived with his diagnosis as long as he did.

His pancreatic cancer was a different pancreatic cancer from the most common pancreatic cancer.

The median survival rate for pancreatic cancer is low because it tends to be diagnosed late.

This is the case with your friend because the cancer is at stage four.

In terms of quality of life, seeking enrollment in a clinical trial involves a lot of meetings and paperwork and often travel.

Keep in mind that the driving force of the clinical trial you link is a business venture with a medical component.

The trial is randomized which means some enrollees won't get the treatment being tested.

In terms of anecdotal evidence of long survival, misdiagnosis is a real possibility as one goes further and further back, e.g. a person diagnosed in 1955 who lived to 1985.

I'm not sure why the patient can't make their own decisions, but I don't have all the facts.

I am sorry that you are dealing with this.
Somebody asked on Twitter, "doesn't this break all of Brew?"

Does anybody know?
Thanks for sharing. Hope it helps some people out.

I took a look at it and have a small nitpick: you refer to the '\' character as "slash". See Lesson 2 for example.

Cheers
even before the pandemic, it was known as the most reliable chat for largish meetings. Nothing else worked so well, and it still doesn.t
Lighthouse Syndrome
Perhaps, but bringing up a fab production line is (massiveley) expensive. It could just as easily be a business decision to outsource the GPU production to TSMC for the time being, or indefinitely, depending on anticipated volumes.

I'm looking for more than assumptions and inference based on public information. Sure, Intel might not have the capability to build at 5nm even if they wanted to, but a lack of public evidence that they are building at that node does not mean they can't.
H1B visas provide employers every incentive to lie to import cheap talent and work them hard.

There are ways to meet the very real need to import the best brains from around the world. But H1B isn't set up to do this very effectively.

Off the top of my head, a better option would be to allow immigration with a $60k bond to the government that has to be paid down at $1k/month by the current employer. With the employee in question able to transfer jobs at any time with the bond transferring to the new employer.
And yet the stock went up 18% this morning. It’s really baffling.
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My point is that ceasing to participate will make nothing better. Democracy requires participation, invluding engaging with whatever you see as wrong.
> Ehhh, I don't think this accurately represents the situation with "on the record" or "off the record"

I am not tying SSC's situation with the general theme of on- and off-the-record.

I will say your explanation of the difference is spot on.
My observation is that as I’m getting older as an SDE the number of classes I create in a project goes down! Like a lot of people in this thread point out: almost most of your code has to be changed anyway in a refactor no matter how clever and abstract the design is, what’s the point in over engineering and thinking too far ahead of success? I would rather focus on my data structures and their flows. I know if I screw up the foundational of the data, I could be in a lot of trouble comparing to just a bad code organization.
IF is great. Y'ain't getting me to give up my coffee, though. It's got zero calories, anyway!
The "American century" was largely built on the USA being the recipient of brain drain from the rest of the world. Brain drain from Germany alone, even just before the war, helped propel America to the top of the global game in science and technology. Germany was once the world's great physics powerhouse, and it passed that baton to the USA in part because many of those physicists were Jewish.

Actively trying to keep talent out to appease idiots who believe in the type of ideology all those great physicists were running away from is national suicide.

BTW, the rise of Xi Jinpeng is an incredible opportunity to absorb top talent from China, and we are squandering it by making ourselves inhospitable. Same goes for top talent who doesn't feel like swinging on Vladimir Putin's nuts.
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> Complaining on the internet should not be a support channel. Developers should not have to rely on the internet attention lottery.

None of the huge tech companies (Google/Apple/MS/Amazon/etc) have an easy (or in many cases any) way to contact human service representatives. This is intentional.

People have been complaining about this for more than a decade. Every week there are multiple writeups on the front page of HN about apps and extensions being killed off.

These corporations will never fix this. They have no incentive to do so. They don't care about individual users or small developers, and don't want to get involved in their "petty" issues.

Why? Because these have no impact on how much money they make.

The only way to fix this is through government regulation, but good luck with that.
It becomes a lot more explicable if you assume that the journalist was lying and the piece was not going to be positive.
> I don't think this is a "that one writer" issue.

I think the problems with journalism are bigger than this one writer. Simultaneously, I would like to see NYT take a stance against its writers doing what this one did to Scott.

> I don't think Scott is saying this is a "that one writer" issue.

Point taken, but I didn't claim to speak for him.

> Any such choice is down to newspaper-wide policy.

Agreed. I wrote another comment in response to 'rachelshu, adjusting my original comment to something more reflecting my actual views.
> might be nice to stick it to the sort of people

It can only be satisfying if you are alive to experience that emotion, however.

I can't say that I have anything personally invested in your choice in this regard, but I will observe that suicide is a fairly permanent solution to what is most likely a temporary problem. And that eternity is an awful long time, so why go there any sooner than necessary.
I haven't checked the data and I'm not sure why you're being downvoted since you don't seem to be breaking any of HN code of conduct.

That said, isn't median a better measure in this context, though?
There can be a set of salaries that skews the average by a significant amounts, but most receive ~110k$
I was let go by my company 2 months ago. I stuck in a small country on the other side of the world. There’s no flights to my country (and there’s unlikely going to be any at least until winter). My temporary visa is expiring in 2 weeks, I don’t have any evidence that they are going to extend it. The day before I was let go I moved to another apartment with a 2 years lease contract. I don’t have any broadband connection here (long story short - because covvid). I can’t find a job. I’ve no idea what’s going to happen with me, my wife and our two cats in a month from now.

On the bright side, I have got a lot of free time. I’m learning lisp, doing excercises from SICP, jogging and cycling long distances. I don’t feel bad about what’s happened, I am re-evaluating my life now and I know that it’s going to work out one way or another.
> How many billions of dollars?

Rounding-error-sized marginal costs.

Even if you don't plan on pivoting architectures, it's good practice to write as much code as possible without assembly/intrinsics. If you're writing standards-compliant C/C++/Objective-C/Swift/* it's not a huge burden to change architectures. They also have past-experience with such transitions, so hopefully they kept the "keep the code portable" mantra close over the past 10+ years.

The choice to do this seems relatively obvious for Apple. They have spent years building up their silicon game with portables. Their frustration with Intel is also palpable, so it was probably "just" a waiting game (not "how" or "if") in deciding when to pull the trigger and start using those chips outside of iPhones/iPads.
> Clang is a compiler front end for the programming languages C, C++, Objective-C,
Objective-C++, OpenMP, OpenCL, and CUDA. It uses LLVM as its back end.
The Clang workload compiles a 1,094 line C source file (of which 729 lines are code). The
workload uses AArch64 as the target architecture for code generation.

729 LOC within a single file doesn't represent ANYTHING about real world compilation. It neatly fits within a single system call and the entire thing fits within L2 cache (maybe even within L1 cache).

https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf
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This is kind of neat, but when I think of "HEVC-based image codec" I think of Apple's .heic format. Unfortunately I didn't see a high-level comparison to HEIC on Bellard's site, so I'm not sure what the advantages of BPG are. Wouldn't I want to use the more common format?
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the iOS app is trash. I built my own version of it with react-native and it is faster than the crap they threw together.
I’m not sure I’d call Slack async, it’s somewhere between async and slow synchronous. There’s a cultural expectation in many places that you respond to Slack messages ASAP that I’ve never experienced using email.
Every time I run an image comparison, the webp version looks worse and yet Google insists it's the same quality. It's baffling.

Even if the above were just an individual... bafflement? and not an actual issue, the size savings really don't seem worth the compatibility hassle, the extra manpower/workflow complexity to support 2 formats, the additional storage (and caching) caused by this duplication.

And the above is if it's done RIGHT. 80% of people outside this forum won't understand that you're not supposed to convert from a lossy format to another, and just convert jpegs to webp.

Webp seems so pointless. A progressive jpeg with an optimized Huffman table can be understood by a 27 year old decoder without issues, achieves 90% of the quality/size claims of webp and can be produced losslessly from your source jpegs. This is without even touching Arithmetic Coding (also lossless, part of the official standard, but poorly supported due to some software patents, even though they all expired by now), or playing with customized DCT quantization matrices to get more compressible outputs (incurs a generation loss, but produces standard files).
Does this include having a family?
It's crazy but from a European perspective, stories like this sound more like what I imagine police forces to behave like in dictatorships, not in a democracy.

After living in Europe for six years now, my wife is still puzzled sometimes by the differences between Europe and North-America when it comes to the police: how they are experienced by the population and how they see and present themselves and which role they think they're playing in society. Big difference. I'm certainly over-generalizing but here, we see cops as approachable and helpful in general (with exceptions) while in North-America, at least my wife's impression is that of cops being mostly intimidating (again, with exceptions).

Of course, this is all complex and different social and societal aspects play a big role, such as e.g., the odds for a cop of running into an armed person. But when I read how the police handled the situation with the group of black trick-or-treaters, it seems so foreign to me now from a more European perspective.

I suppose accountability is always going to be an issue - who watches the watchmen? But it should not be - in a democracy especially, there should be functioning mechanism to prevent abuse of power, and that of course applies to police actions, too.
Don't worry, apple already tiers most of it's hardware by soldering in the ram / storage & charging an offensive, obviously price gouging amount to upgrade - even though the maximum spec has a base cost to them of 1/4 to 1/6 of what they charge FOR AN UPGRADE.
Where are these ‘plenty of resources’?

The Weinstein case seems to tell us nothing about the general risk of talking to reporters even though it is a data point.

It sounds like you are in full agreement with me otherwise though.

“Talking to reporters is very dangerous. Never do so without extensive study of the available resources.”
In the electricity world, things are divided between production, transmission and distribution. You might have tons of generation, but insufficient capacity to get it to markets.

Then there’s the discharge/storm water issue. Farmers may not contribute to that, but urban/suburban usage does. A well-watered lawn doesn’t hold much water when a storm rushes in.
AFAIC, somewhere around 25C / 80F is ideal sunbathing weather. 38C / 101F is brutal; well beyond the point at which finding air conditioning is my number one priority. When it's that hot out, I'd sooner sit in a tub of ice cubes than lounge around under the sun.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted.

The point of abolishing police isn't so that nobody shows up when you call 911. It's so that the right person for the right situation shows up when you call 911.

Given the current state of American policing, there is only one situation where I would call the police, and expect the right person to show up.

That situation is an active shooter. For nearly everything else, I don't need an armed-to-the-teeth, compliance-at-gunpoint, qualified-immunity-protected man with a gun to show up. He is not the right person for 99% of the work the police currently engage in.
I keep seeing this narrative where people say, "We need law enforcement to prevent crimes, we can't defund the police." And I 100% agree, we need law enforcement. But the police aren't law enforcement if they refuse to enforce the laws.
If it is shutdown we will reupload it somewhere else.
if there was a big litigious tech company called Matrix threatening everyone who tried to use the word Matrix in their name, then yes - it might be a similar situation. luckily there doesn't seem to be one.
Lol I didn't notice there wasn't a 'k' in there and was really impressed for a moment.
What would such a new public safety department be and how would it differ from police? What would such a department do differently in the circumstance of failure to follow lawful orders and how would it have no systemic racism?
vector is perfect.

"too techie" is only too techie
if you are too techie
otherwise it is just an appropriate name

I am very glad you are moving away from riot.
makes it easier to talk about.
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yeah, like most technical stuff it seems like a lottery ticket, but if it's a lottery ticket that costs almost $0 it's worth at least setting it up...
The "without chaining it to a specific company" is critical. When the employee is chained to a company, the company has every incentive to lie then treat the employee poorly. When the employee is not chained to the company, the company has incentives to tell the truth then treat the employee well.
I consider myself quite experienced in technology, and I do that whenever I go to a popular website that it's not in my browser history. I simply don't trust the variety of .com, .org, .net, .io, .tv... domains to know which one is the right one, but Google organic first results below the ads are usually accurate.

For downloading software for which I don't know the publisher's name, I usually look for the Wikipedia article and check the "official website" external link. Sometimes I even double-check the article's history, just to be sure.
Effective civilian oversight is made damn hard by the political power wielded by the police. Most of this article is in fact about the ways in which NYC's existing civilian review board is neutered and undermined by police department control of every aspect of its work: investigation, adjudication, and punishment.

Investigation:

> civilian investigators don’t have direct access to the [body cam] footage. They email requests to the NYPD, which decides which footage is relevant. The department takes its time.

Adjudication:

> [E]ven if the CCRB substantiates a case, the commissioner still has complete authority over what to do next. He can decide to simply ignore the recommended punishment. The commissioner can also let the case go before an internal NYPD judge (whose boss is the commissioner). If the judge decides punishment is merited, the commissioner can overturn or downgrade that, too.

Punishment:

>In 2018, the CCRB looked into about 3,000 allegations of misuse of force. It was able to substantiate 73 of those allegations. The biggest punishment? Nine officers who lost vacation days, according to CCRB records.