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Yes the obvious answer is to pay everyone FAANG salaries. The other obvious follow up is that, the same economics don't work for all companies. Even in Silicon Valley, not every company offers Facebook salaries, and there is a reason for that. It simply is not feasible. This becomes especially true when you start going to public sector. Local governments that run crucial pieces of infrastructure, like the system for food stamps don't have those kinds of budgets.

Besides, it's not just about the money. When I briefly worked for non profits in rural America, despite offering VERY lucrative salaries, we were simply not able to fill positions because no one wants to relocate to middle of nowhere.
If factory workers are getting pennies while other people in the chain make orders of magnitude more per sale, that's a price signal saying you shouldn't take a factory job becasue other roles are more needed. If you mess with those motivators you'll just end up with a less efficient system as yet more people pile into such jobs when we need them to learn skills and contribute elsewhere.
I think you're missing my point. But anyway thank you, it's always nice to get a feedback from a mammal.
I believe they have added Chromecast support
I'm not seeing his this relates to ambiguity traps. What is the trap?

In general, I think doubling down in success makes sense versus starting over. Even if it is small success. But, most people making drastic changes probably aren't doing so by choice alone. Are they?
It might be that I've used a wrong name for it.
This is basically a kind of oil to fix squeaking car door rubber gaskets.
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There is certainly a log of triggers that the subscriber can access. Any suggestions on how to make that distinction?
Me, windows 7: *turns off as much indexing and search rubbish as possible.

Me, windows 10: "Oh please search box deliver me the local result I need, without your knowledge I would be lost in this wasteland of cobbled together UI design."
In the case of phone cases, you can get Chinese domestic
shipping costs as low as $0.2 if your daily volume is high enough. It's a special offer tho, since it's light weight and compact.

And yes, shipping companies can still make normal profit on these.

From this standpoint, your example isn't nearly the cheapest it can get. Sellers regularly offer entirely free ones in exchange for reviews.
Oh, now this is a revelation, I had no idea!

P.S. the link has hotlink protection for anyone wanting to click; you'll need to paste the link straight into your address bar
Same leadership, different labels.
I don't know I can't answer for you why you'd want to do something or not, or how you've managed to get a beef with people you've never met.
It was xkcd inspired, and now only the twitter feed lives on.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/576:_Packages

https://web.archive.org/web/20150116084115/http://www.urlesq...

https://mobile.twitter.com/trademe_xkcd576
That's certainly true but how often do you really go to the bookstore in search of this thrill?

The keyword here is "browsing". That's better done at a physical bookstore than online.

But it's much more efficient to buy books online. I often went to a bookstore looking for some kind of book I couldn't find there but could have ordered immediately online.

I like doing both, at different times though.
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Yeah I always have to read in between the highly engineering/tech comments on HN. they're super useful but it's always challenging balancing these details /w shipping!
This actually needed to be fixed. It allowed for dumping of cheap products and made american companies uncompetitive. This fix was long time coming.
> It's interesting to see how strongly change-averse most people are when it comes to those things.

Change is only good if it improves things. Win8 and later were a massive usability regression for keyboard+mouse/trackpad users. Windows 10 rolled some changes back, but those that weren't rolled back are still an inconsistent mess (and with no signs of improvement, that's the actually worrying part). There's no rational way to call the Windows 10 start menu or system settings an improvement over Windows7 all the way back to Windows95. And both the start menu and the control panel area weren't all that great to begin with in Win95+, but somehow Windows 8 and 10 still managed to make it worse.

PS: The main reason why the Win8 start screen and Win10 start menu are bad seems to be that they assume that a Windows application is just the executable, like on macOS. But Windows applications usually have more files associated with them, mostly other tools, readme files, uninstallers. Visual Studio is the best example, it's nearly impossible to find the tools associated with Visual Studio in Windows 10 without installing a proper start menu replacement. And Visual Studio is a Microsoft product. Go figure.
Big enough that American Tiktok users would regularly see Indian content.
> I believe this is one of the factors why women hesitate to enter the field.

That's assuming women are after social status, which is a strong claim.
Musk isn't a physicist. He's a programmer who retrained as a rocket engine specialist and business leader. Rockets involve physics but only in the sense that computers involve physics, they're applications of fairly basic physical theories. I mean, he's not doing string theory in his corporate offices.

Angela Merkel is also not a physicist. She studied physics and then published a few papers in 'quantum chemistry' but for basically her whole adult life she's been in politics. She's as close to a professional politician as you'll find.

I know it wasn't you but Rowling and Obama are odd picks for high status individuals. Rowling is well known but is currently having her reputation blown up and being stabbed in the back by the starlets she birthed, because she's not on board with "people can pick their own gender at will". Obama was high status when he was POTUS; where is he now? Does anyone know what he's up to these days? It's not Obama himself that had high status but the position.

In my experience Musk gets a lot of respect. I know a totally non-technical financial CEO who always cites Musk as his inspiration. The guy even likes to see himself as kind of like Musk which is hilarious to me, as he is slightly more likely to be struck by lightning than sit down with a pile of textbooks to learn a new technical skill. That's just not who he is.
"High-end-ness" can and does carry connotations of exclusivity, design, price signaling, and so forth, not just product quality. It doesn't stink of scumminess to me at all. There is no requirement, be it moral, legal, or whatever, that there be a tight correlation between manufacture cost and retail price.

Why did you launch into a "oh please" rant instead of directly answering GP's reasonable question? What precisely do you take issue with? You seem to have some mental model here, so let's talk about it.
I love it. As someone who is putting more and more energy into making music this resonates with me strongly. I need to figure out a way to get to part time work.

One piece of advice about creative hobbies - set it up so you have a feedback loop. Maybe I'm just an insecure jerk, but I really found that getting feedback and encouragement motivates me to keep trying. Oh, and try to get that feedback from your peers, not friends and family. They mean well but you'll never get honest criticism.
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> Primary school teaching and nursing are low status professions, and they're both dominated by women. If you're going to try and explain gender imbalances exclusively via reference to status you need to explain why it's not universally predictive.

It's because men and women judge status differently. The statistics on revealed preference are clear: for example, in aggregate male doctors are happy to marry nurses, but female doctors are not happy to marry male nurses[1].

I understand that it's taboo to acknowledge double standards with respect to sex these days, but the data is solid and clear so I'm going to present it in the name of intellectual curiosity.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/
> He’s highly qualified for that job

He is, yes. And one of his essential qualifications needed for the job is being respected by the establishment because he's come through the establishment institutions and a profession respected by society with a combat action badge, rather than a technical contributor, which society does not respect.
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It also doesn't help that the perceived uniform of the programmer is a hoodie or an ironic t-shirt and chinos style of pants or similar regalia.

Like, that just doesn't look cool. I've been saying this for years. It's no wonder it doesn't look sexy nor command much respect. Especially not compared to a guy wearing a well tailored suit.

Sure, it feels good, but that's the same rationale for wearing crocs. You feel great until you look down and realize you're wearing crocs.
View from the other side... India is weak. China is strong. India should be nice to China because China is strong and can beat up India / punish it economically.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3090796/can...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3090840/chi...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3090924/che...
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Good Work :) !!
Do you have an alternative to sanctions? I agree they aren't particularly effective, but they seem to be the "kindest" of actions you can take against an oppressive government that might lead to a civilian uprising.

History is rife with examples of failures to stop oppressive regimes. Hell, look at North Korea. We fought a war, we've tried sanctions, we've tried lifting sanctions. Sure, they are propped up by China, but what else could be done to improve the lives of civilians there?
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I was a bit disappointed in this book for reasons more about me than the book, ultimately: I expected the book to be more about writing than running, but it was ultimately exactly what it said on the cover.
CS is a specialty. It is in high demand, but it's also centralizing. If you are in the periphery, it's easy to miss out on a lot of that demand.

It makes sense to reach out to build diverse CS talent, but I'm not sure that it makes sense to reach out for greater numbers.
Russia, in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/world/europe/russia-nucle...
Online reviews are not inherently more trustworthy than the marketing copy on the dust jacket. Online reviews can be bought (for very little money). A publisher can easily astroturf the reviews on their books, making it very difficult to establish the quality of a book from online reviews (search is hard when there is a lot of extraneous information).
A good book store will provide recommendations (staff picks), which can be pretty spot on. Having an actual person who loves books giving a recommendation is high quality information.
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This is a right move, in my view.

Chinese infiltration takes a myriad of forms and data collection is one of the biggest.

And those apps form a basis for click-of-the-button hacking.

And ordinary users will find it very very difficult to determine if an app is Chinese made or not.

And the Chinese govt. will have it's fingers in everyone of them, one way or the other.

What I do worry now is that since China has been exposed, it will resort to even elaborate deceptive methods to hide itself and it's infiltration.

China is not to be trusted.
Apple's moat has increasingly become incentivised of late by being the privacy-conscious option to its competitors - thanks primarily to Google's infringement of the same
I went to the store to have a look at that desk. They had three on the floor including one that was assembled three days ago according to the staff there.

They were all so wobbly as to be unusable. Put some pressure on where the monitors or where you’re hands would be and everything shook.

Knowing how robust ikea is, I hard passed and got the stationary bekant. It still comes with legs that are quite adjustable (but only when you assemble it, I wouldn’t think it’s easy to set it with stuff on it)

So yes a word of caution I guess, that desk can be rather wobbly.

I didn’t go with the motorized bekant because I heard the electronics are not reliable at all and fails way too much needing warranty service. The less I go to ikea the better, and since their warranty is bring in (30kg desk)...
If you think selling dirt cheap products under a "premium" brand name is a con, let me point you to the nearest shopping mall...
I guess there's a lot I could have said, but what I actually said was "oh", and left.
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I'm curious to learn why this is the case. Does your transfer involve non-US account? If both accounts are in the U.S. there are bank accounts that don't charge wire fee, or you can use Zelle / Venmo / FB Messenger / Square Cash and avoid paying altogether if the amount is small.
Haha.

My wife got one for herself and we were impressed enough that I got one as well a week later.

It’s been about 2 months and they are doing excellently.

Honestly, I was surprised by the weight and sturdiness for the cost (under $400).

4 memory positions and a very decent vertical range (it goes higher than I would find useful being 5’8” tall, although I wish it went slightly lower than its current lower limit).

It has 4 auto memory positions that is convenient since we occasionally swap desks, so it holds both our standing and sitting positions.

I honestly have no complaints.

I found the accessories a little annoying though. The swivel drawer accessory wanted me to drill a hole, which I was not comfortable doing in the desk at all. So I returned that. I can’t speak to how useful it would have been. The cable holding undercarriage is excellent to hide all the wires, etc, but it sits really close to the desk, so it’s a little difficult to maneuver stuff in there, especially since I’m using it to hold my spike guard and have all the plugs plug into it. But once I managed to get everything plugged in it looks great.

So my wife and I are huge fans so far. I’m not sure how good it will be a few years from now, but I have no reason to believe it won’t last and be excellent.

So much so I am considering buying their ergonomic chairs as well, once this whole pandemic situation clears up a bit.
> All the slow Chinese mail gets put on a boat, and taken to say a port in LA where it is offloaded and then inserted into the US mail system.

It's shipped by air. It is so slow because of sorting, customs, paperwork. The last mile postal shipment is actually quite fast in USA.
100%. Bill Gate and Mark Zuckerberg both grew up fantastically wealthy. Their decision making process should be different than the average person.

Gate's parents had friends in high places, went to high quality schools, and he was a trust fund kid. He was in no danger of failing and didn't need to worry about money. He could always just go back.

Zuckerberg had a private tutor. They had basically already had a college education by the time they graduated high school.

Jobs was a smart, hard working dude who was in the right place at the right time. America in the 70s is a VERY different place than America now. The ladder has been pulled up.

Trying to emulate that is foolish.

Also, since we are throwing around anecdotes like "I find my untrained co-workers to be better than my trained co-workers": I have never worked with someone who does not have a college degree that I was happy with. It does not have to be in CS. I am well aware there are counter examples, but that has been my observation.
Again, you're cherry picking things. Just google nasa roi please.
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Because there is no 'we' doing it to 'ourselves' :)

If you want there to be a 'we', that would be called a workers' union.

'Professional' is when you have a strong union that forces companies to treat you as a human being, something they'd much rather not bother with.
I don't really understand what "welcome" means. Historically on the internet people are simultaneously "welcome" and "not welcome," i.e. people discover places of socializing and choose to participate or not. In my decades of socializing on the internet, most places are hostile to some degree. I also wouldn't bother to complain, because hostility is an unavoidable part of human nature, even hostility toward hostility. Some set of people within a given community will be "nice," and some will be "mean." Most people inhabit some indefinite point on the nice-mean continuum. It would be ideal if comments like "females suk lol" were removed, but something tells me that's uncommon.

I think that "I would feel more welcome if..." (a very common motif in modern activism) suggests a few things:

(1) The operators should care about me/my demographic
(2) The operators should signal that they care about me/my demographic
(3) The operators should preferentially signal that they care about me/my demographic
(4) The operators should counter-signal, i.e. counter-welcome other people/other demographics (determined by perceived opposition to me/my demographic)

This may seem like a trivial exercise, but consider how non-welcome a person with conservative political interests would be not only on HN, but in the tech industry as a whole. Consider how non-welcome a white male might feel on Twitter, etc.. Hell, consider how non-welcome a person who thinks Rust sucks would feel on news.ycombinator.com. (tip: very non-welcome)

It seems futile to resolve each individual's sense of welcome; to provide a safe-space concurrently for religious white nationalists and black trans activists, and assorted fringes.
Meh, last time I was in a bookstore I found that the floor was being dominated by:

- school materials (pens, paper, rulers, glue etc. etc.)

- trash tier romance "novels"

- (auto-)biographies of all kinds of wastes of flesh (politicians, "comedians")

- the latest in teenager literature (Harry Potter, Twilight etc.)

But IMHO the straw that really broke the camels back was that the "Technik" (technical) section was reduced to one shelf about 0.5m wide x 2m tall filled with nothing but book(let)s on "how to learn touch-typing" and "how to teach my grandparents to use the computer". That section had just a few years prior been a whole corner of that store filled with all kinds of learning materials on programming, computer science, electrical engineering and the like.

What a collossal decline...
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Our desks accelerate and deccelerate. Maybe they’ve updated the model? I think mine is the smart desk 2 (their model numbers are confusing. I’m pretty sure I was looking at the wrong YouTube video while building it).
1950's version: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/rossi1/

At one point I'd found someone's doctoral thesis on the subject, but now it's not quickly popping up in searches on Project Pluto or SLAM.
interesting - runs contrary (to the most part) - of The Range which I read recently (https://amzn.to/3dCTqcE). There is something to be said on focussing though, to easy to get distracted.
Earlier discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662241
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Evolving word definitions is not the exclusive domain of the English language. That's just how human language works.
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Counterpoint: At 6 significant digits you have a margin of error of thousandths of a millimeter when measuring degrees longitude near the prime meridian, but the error balloons to whole meters when measuring longitudes in Australia.

I have a piece of software that I wrote ages ago where I looked at the max error in the US and concluded that 32bit floats were enough. This made sense since at the time I was reasonably confident that the tool would only be used with locations in the continental US and it simplified my architecture. Fast forward a few years and we ended up open sourcing the tool and people started using it all over the world. I'm still dealing with the fallout to this day.

I'm dreading the day that the tool gets used in some inter-planetary context and I have to repeat all of the work to add support for 128 bit/arbitrary precision location data.
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In addition, Mac and Windows always lift the most recently clicked window to the top, whereas RISC OS would not, making it much easier to set up a screen layout in which several apps cooperate as equals. I still find this to be a pain on my Mac today.
Copying large objects is significantly more expensive than copying small objects, and the cost is exacerbated due to cache effects. The C++ language contains a lot of optimizations for trivially copyable objects, e.g. std::copy, so having a realloc optimization for vectors would seem to be natural.

glibc malloc switches to mmap for allocations above ~128KB by default, which could be reached by vectors with just a few thousand elements (or a few very large objects). glibc does use mremap to reallocate mmap’d chunks - so in that sense the memory remapping hacks are already present in a general purpose library.
>China is not to be trusted.

Same as the US i suppose.
Ask HN: Does your organization have a handbook?
GitLab has a handbook [1] which describes virtually all of their internal processes.

I wonder how many organizations use a similar approach.

I also wonder if anyone tried starting their handbook by just cloning parts of GitLab's handbook. Sharing processes between organizations would be interesting.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
> most popular video game in history

* citation needed

The most popular game by player count is CrossFire [1]. All I see is that Minecraft has the highest unit sales for a video game across all platforms, but Minecraft for consoles and mobile (which make up a majority of sales [2]) are written in C++.

I would argue that Java would have been a limiting factor for Minecraft reaching its current levels of success given the fact that the PC gaming market is relatively small compared to the console and mobile gaming markets, and it would've been nearly impossible to port the Java edition to so many different platforms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...

[2] https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bedrock_Edition#Sales
>Microsoft Windows 95, OSR 2.1 provided OEM support for the devices in August 1997. The first widely used version of USB was 1.1, which was released in September 1998. Apple Inc.'s iMac was the first mainstream product with USB and the iMac's success popularized USB itself. Following Apple's design decision to remove all legacy ports from the iMac, many PC manufacturers began building legacy-free PCs, which led to the broader PC market using USB as a standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#History

The issue with USB on the PC side is that USB on Windows 95/OSR2 just never worked properly. People may remember the infamous Bill Gates demo of Windows 98 at Comdex where plugging in a USB scanner to demo Plug and Play crashed the computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wMnU7xbwE

When Windows 98 SE came out everything worked fine.