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I think Loom is thrown around too haphazardly here.

Loom will present an ergonomic alternative for concurrency that is strictly superior to futures, but it will not replace or significantly simplify RxJava[1].

Project Loom is also orthogonal to actors - it really doesn't dictate any specific concurrency model, it just provides fiber support in the JVM. We will definitely see actor libraries once project loom is released, but these are already available now, and they are not widely used. The only thing Loom can help them with (I hope) is better performance, but I don't think that's the reason the actor model lost ground in the Java world.

[1] Project Loom can be the basis for some minor simplifications, as JetBrains did in kotlinx.coroutines.flow.
So, castration ? :)
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I don't doubt some are hard to recruit.

But as someone who was trying to break into one area (web development) of tech from another area (networking)....I felt like the whole industrial complex of hiring and getting ghosted by recruiters was there to keep me from talking with anyone actually technical... and only after randomly getting through those hoops (often just alphabet soup matching games) did get job offers.

I just seems that if places are so desperate, it would be easier to get a job....

In the meantime some engineers at my old job told me I should apply for a job at the company that bought the piece of the company that I worked at for nearly two decades. They're desperate they said and they referred me....I got a call two months+ later and was told that my old job "data center networking support", now required a CS degree and I didn't have one.
"Flash was never good on Linux (IME)."
It was never good on anything! You can half a laptop's battery by watching videos during a 30 minute break.
I don't believe the dominance of a small number of social media empires is due to anti-trust violations, specifically anit-competitive behavior. Instead, I believe these industries have incredibly strong network effects with the value of the platform growing faster than linear with the number of members.

If there were thousands of social media networks, each of roughly the same size, then content would be highly fragmented. If say your closest ten friends and family members in aggregate use seven different networks, then you'd have to belong to all seven and regularly interact with all seven to stay up to date with your community. A similar situation exists for following famous and influential people.

Further, as any single social network grows, it naturally acquires a moat in that with more members there is a larger reason for new members to join that network since there is a higher percentage of people of interest already on the social network in question. Over time we've seen this lead to dominant social networks over several generations of social media. E.g., Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook.
Shaun King: A private LEO group on Facebook is literally plotting to kill me
I think, for example, https://www.tutanota.com/
This is absolutely a thing I’ll read to my four year old tomorrow. He’ll love it
Laptop computers and hard disks are a big source of frustration. Either one is a hassle but combined they become a mess.

With desktops, I can tell people that they are supposed to leave their computers on 24/7 but most normal people will use their laptop and shut the lid when done. That’s what they do with phones and iPads and that’s what they expect from their laptops.

That being said, I sincerely detest automatic reboots. It doesn’t affect me anymore because I have an ssd now but an operating system that reboots the computer without explicit approval from the user is trash. There is no excuse for this kind of nonsense.

I like Mozilla Firefox’s approach on my fedora machine. After I dnf update, Firefox refuses to open any more tabs until I close and open Firefox again. However, existing tabs continue working just fine and I can continue indefinitely before I close and open Firefox again. This is actual trust in computing. Trust your users to know best.
In Canada, retail phone stores are kind of an artificial construct. There are only three large national carriers, but they all have multiple flanker brands and subsidiaries, so a mall will frequently have seven or eight phone stores by the same three companies in order to carpet bomb consumer consciousness. This isn't useful for consumers in any way - they're effectively just paying for redundant staff and infrastructure via inflated monthly plan prices.
You point is interesting how speech patterns catch on and become the phrase 'du jour'. I think the internet has changed that dynamic, it used to be only withing people you saw face to face. Now we're exposed to a much wider range of people and styles.

Anyhow, I haven't seen the trend of calling out an entity as being a LARPer. But I have to admit, it's kind of funny. It does make me giggle :)
There is in fact a minimum mass for a black hole. That's called the Plank Mass, which is the amount of mass that forms a Black Hole with a size of 1 plank length. This is also the maximum mass of an elementary point particle.
I've never heard of genode before, ref: https://genode.org/about/index
I agree, if free speech isn't exercised regularly by everyone; it'll become extinct.

Btw, Wisecrack did an interesting episode on News by comedians recently[1] which goes bit deeper on the history and where it is now.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QumeDEv3DyM
It’s underground because anaerobic decay of organic material with heat and pressure produces oil. Chemicals aren’t inherently good or evil. Some, like oxygen, we’ve evolved to live with, while some we haven’t had the chance.

In millions of years something will probably evolve to eat all this plastic, just like it did with cellulose.
The state of Utah will even pay you $50 per coyote you kill, up to 10 times per year. All you have to do is register on this website in advance: https://wildlife.utah.gov/predator-control-program.html
Yep. Was meaning to reference Animal Crossing specifically here.
Fair enough, but any sate of the art technology first reaches the urban center especially when it's privacy focussed.
Also multiplayer. One does not simply go online with pirated games! This didn’t matter to pirates when games were mostly singleplayer with local multi as a bonus.
For the record, the Thymus does not produce new T cells. New T cells are formed from stem cells in bone marrow.

What the Thymus does do, is it plays a key role in prune auto-reactive T cell lines. As the only organ in the body which expresses pretty much the entire antigenic profile of the body, it is critical in ensuring that the cells which keep us safe from viral/parasitic/microbial threats do not end up waging a war against our own body.

By cruel twist of fate, however, this critical gland is progressively atrophied by long term exposure to sex hormones.

Last I was actively researching it, this was positedto be a factor in increased prevalence of auto-immune problems in the elderly.

Interestingly enough, this does explain a couple Thai (or was it Taiwanese?) studies I remember seeing early on in the Coronavirus outbreakthat apparently showed some promise in using HIV drugs to help with treating the Coronavirus.
"We're about to see a whole lot of software that "doesn't work" on Macs and especially software that "doesn't work well". Is the solution to ban the software? Should we impose a short time limit on improving software and ban the stragglers? These would be ridiculous things to do to software on ARM Macs."

WHAT? Why would it be ridiculous. You have about 6 years to get your app to run on ARM. Same as the 32-bit app owners. Apple gave devs an 8 year warning. If your app developer does not switch to ARM in the next 3 years then it is time to find an alternative.
Why the kiwi name? I'm in NZ and thought there may be some connection.
I'm currently using Kubuntu, and sometimes the jobs that run at bootup hang the login screen and even prevent the TTY gettys (i.e. ctrl-alt-f2) from starting at all. In those cases I alt-sysrq-u and reset. Haven't determined whether it's fstrim, unattended-upgrades, a search indexer, or something else, because alt-sysrq-t is disabled in Ubuntu kernels and I can't start a task manager if I can't log in.

It's pretty frustrating, but it's still slightly better than Windows.
It's not "unkillable" as long as I can still modify arbitrary blocks of the hard drive... even if it means doing so from another OS ;-)

But you're right, they seem to be escalating the fight.
Very cool. I think filtering tags like "[OC]" could make it look even better.
I've looked at Desalination in Southern California. One thing they're trying is to mix the saline water with waste water discharge. One assumes that's better. Other thing I found when poking about is the energy expenditure for some of LA's water sources is close to that of desalination.

I think I'm firmly down on the side of I'm against desalination if it just means more water for almonds. For desalination if it means replacing expensive imported water sources and leaving more water for what's left of the states natural environment.

I feel like things are complicated with a inescapable level of fucked.
but lost his balance and brought his foot down hard, right on my phone!

That shouldn't be a problem.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/mVPku-xItv8
What does this have to do with systematic abuse of specific groups? Criminals are people who break laws, they aren't a cultural group. They aren't some collection of people that are oppressed. I'd be impressed if you could show me some data showing that criminals (not prisoners) are systematically abused. What are you arguing for?
I hate Google for this. I love Google Play Music, and have had a premium subscription for many, many years. Youtube Music doesn't come close, the interface is absolutely horrible, a UX disaster. Way to go in alienating your paying customers, Google.

Sorry for the rant. I know it is not what you were looking for. I have no solutions for people that use the upload stuff (which I don't).
The parent comment is the most useful one in the thread so far for anyone who seriously wants to learn about quantitative trading.

Sports betting is essentially the same thing as proprietary trading in financial markets. The paper gives a good summary of a technique that was very successful in its day.

There is very little publicly available material on quantitative techniques that are useful for proprietary trading. Lo and Mackinlay's "non-random walk down wall st" was good, but that's 20 years old.

The mathematical literature on gambling is a lot more accessible. It's also probably easier to consistently make at least small money gambling, because the barriers to entry are lower.
No it isn't. That's one possible approach for UBI but hardly the one that everyone agrees on.
Not sure what you are talking about. JS and HTML Video is as lightweight as you can get. The 3 main browsers just keep optimizing performance with JS on every release. If you need to compare Flash to something then compare it to Java Web Applets
Also would be cool to have some sort of ML NLP that makes the headlines ‘read’ more like a newspaper.
In 2011 I worked at a startup in the online marketing / advertising space.

It was a surreal, over-crowded, confusing, fact-light, peer-pressure driven, mystical, big promises, metrics-resistant, yet bewilderingly optimistic market place.

In the past decade it's gotten much, much worse.

Compare the field in 2011 [1] to now [2].

Then consider that there are people to whom all of this makes sense.

[1] https://chiefmartec.com/post_images/marketing_technology_lan...

[2] https://cdn.chiefmartec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/marte...
The similar battle in newspaper and television included heavy moderation and legislation to limit this. E.g., do you think the Wall Street Journal was regularly publishing letters to the editor that focused on the arguments for abolishing private property?

The only legal question unique to social media is the 230 provision that protects a platform from legal action from third parties due to hosting user-generated content. That is still an open question. Social media companies always have the option to apply stringent moderation and declare themselves a publisher. They could even do this selectively. E.g., a newspaper with an online presence still receives 230 protection for user generated comments on an article when there is a clear denotation differentiating what is published by the site and what is user generated.
What exactly do you think causes echo chambers? When algorithms inSocial networks reward bad behaviors bad behaviors will dominant. One of those bad behaviors is lazily espousing the dominant viewpoints in pursuit of social acceptance. Another is avoiding broadcasting certain beliefs out of fear of holding the unpopular opinion. Who disagrees with a highly comment? These are the behaviors which create mono cultures and echo chambers.
Interestingly, the GDPR comes close to the requirement you suggest. It defines a "right to data portability"[0] saying that users "shall have the right to have [their] personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible."

If this were interpreted by a court or regulator (perhaps as part of an EU anti-trust investigation) as a requirement to have new data automatically exported on an on-going basis, then that is very similar to requiring effectively federation between big services.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
The article is half truth because Unilever has exited advertising from ALL social media platforms including Twitter, not just FB.
I had to disable Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection for the site in order for it to work. (GNU/Linux, Firefox 77.0.1)
Would you be glad if your government forced you to live in the way it wanted you to, "for your health and safety"?

This gradual creeping rise of authoritarianism in all aspects of our life really really boils my blood.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
It is not because you cannot name something that you don't understand something, even in profound levels.. the knowledge of the name is only conventional against the underlaying mechanism. It suffice to repair one wc, one time to have a pretty good idea on how it work without much effort
Goods with enough supply: no inflation even in case of UBI or printed money. This can be observed in present day measures of inflation which are based on cheap goods oversupplied by China

Goods with not enough supply: massive inflation in case of printed money or UBI. Examples are "good investments" with the only safe ones and available for common folks being real estate.

That's in case cities don't get destroyed by rioters and looters and people don't escape to safety out of the cities.
I'd love for someone to explain how UBI wouldn't just end up replacing part of people's salaries and turning into a wage subsidy for corporations.
Nope. Different domains shouldn’t share code or data. One domain may have a customer record with address info and another domain may have a customer record with past purchases.

Abstractions end up wiring things together that blur business rules.
If you haven’t read RL Forward’s Dragon’s Egg then take the weekend off and treat yourself.

A 1980s hard sci-fi novel depicting the saga of a species called cheela: creatures who have evolved to live on the surface of a neutron star, where the forces of nature are so powerful that daily life is 1,000,000x faster than that of human beings.

...with hilarious consequences!!
Maybe your employer is running their own update server with their own update policies? If only at-home pro users could do that.
Mupen64Plus-Next – v2.1 release for RetroArch (includes ParaLLEl RDP)
and hemp, one of the best fabrics for many reasons.
He said the bit about returning 100% in a very old Berkshire meeting (90s). He's recently commented that the market has become either too volatile or crowded to allow the same type of value investing that got him to where he is
> I agree with all of your points except for anonymity.

I think the result is well-identified but not the cause:

> This creates extremely unproductive conversations without consequences. Platforms such as Twitter propel this behavior to new heights. When it was local, you'd lose friends for being unpleasant, you'd lose credibility in your community for being inflammatory.

In real life, if you accidentally invite a local Karen to your party, they show up and screech at everyone and don't get invited again. Karen is thereafter stuck at home alone screeching at her cats. Problem solved.

On the internet, the local Karen screeches and other Karens from all over the world retweet it. Karen is thereby emboldened by the attention and joins a roving band of Karens who blanket the world in screeching and hatred like a plague of angry locusts. Which can happen even if Karen is her real name.

What prevents this in real life isn't the lack of anonymity/pseudonymity, it's the lack of equally deranged local compatriots providing a support network and validation for ridiculous anti-social behavior.

Presumably what's needed is more localized communities. It shouldn't be Twitter and Facebook but rather separate communities based on interests or locality and moderated by people who are themselves members of the community being moderated rather than some unaccountable corporate monopolist.
If thats the case, more often than not you wont be in the high-frequency realm. In other words, the "self-fulfilling" trades are usually short ideas that hedge funds highly publicize or maybe a penny stock someone wants to pump (illegally) - and everything in between.

Where higher frequency trades do become "self fulfilling" can be in intraday technical analysis. For example, there are many people that follow RSI signals in options. Youll see retail people trade this, and then market makers will step in and bring things back in line - because options dont trade on technicals...
They wanted to see whether a guaranteed basic income for those below the poverty line could improve quality of life

This is what drives me crazy about these experiments. Obviously, using straight donations to keep people above a certain poverty line will improve the lives of those particular people. What's always missing is the other half of the equation: the analysis of whether UBI is the most efficient way to spend that money. Every study seems laser-focused on the outcomes of people who received the benefit while ignoring the projected effect on the society as a whole. It's entirely possible UBI is a great choice but its proponents seem bound and determined not to prove it.
Cotton and wool are totally in style, not sure why they wouldn't be? I'm slowly eliminating polyesters from my wardrobe. If you like the feel, you can do rayon or other processed natural fibers.
With the notable exception of Ed Thorp, who managed to write Beat the Market first, and then start a hedge fund to exploit the strategy 7 years later, and only when a reader proposed they go into business together.

Though it helped that the period was 1967 to 1974. The piranhas were a little slower back then
> This is particularly problematic when it comes to arrests for crimes that are inherently 'selective' in their enforcement

All crimes are selective in enforcement; reporting, police response, and prosecution all, for all crimes, have both unintentional biases and deliberate prioritization and acts of discretion involved.

> There's a worrying trend in the conversation these days that has shifted from "there's a serious problem with racism in how police go about their job" to "we need less police".

Well, worrying to people who are invested in the biases of the present law enforcement structure, and who perceive it as working well for their interests.

> Folks in neighborhoods living with the constant threat of gang violence don't have the luxury to sit in their aeron chairs and argue about defunding the police.

And yet they are where the movement is strongest.

> They face the very real threat of themselves or their loved ones being shot on the streets and statistically not by police.

And, even then, the police don't care, don't help, further traumatize the victims when thet get involved in crime in those neighborhoods at all, and still drain resources that could be used to deal with the problems producing crime out of the community via their voracious appetite for funding.
I thought cotton was pretty much the default fibre?
The kind of dedicated habitual abuser bawolff is talking about will also use an endless series of free/cheap VPSes an VPN services, at least the subset of ones that might also use tor.

So yes, letting them get away with tor some will let them in a little more, but not a huge qualitative change to not allowing them to do so.

Not allowing the access, however, blocks a significant amount of legitimate contributions too.
The main reason why we might want to "feed everyone for free" is that there are strong indications it could improve the health of our society (more innovation, more self-directed time for individuals, more freedom) and reduce things we don't like (crime, homelessness, drug abuse). On top of that, some people just think it's the moral thing to do. No one asked to be born into a poor starving family or a corrupt fucked up world, but the only people around who could possibly stop this from happening to more people in the future are those of us pre-existing humans who set all the policy around here.
I don't think it's just the "strictest, most technical" sense. It's a significant example of how "if you took the people out of the system, you'd still get biased outcomes based on race." (or, if you prefer, an example of where "an entirely non-racist staff would still produce racially-based biased outcomes")
I think what’s likely to happen is that the price of the inelastically-supplied products (housing, medical care, services) inflate to the point where there is no money left over to buy more of the elastically-supplied (optional) products. Thus, no net gain from UBI. If there were a net gain, expect UBI to cause service costs to inflate as labor supply is removed from the market, or the labor supply remains constant and the population grows in response to surplus resources which can be used for breeding (which then inflates the costs of inelastic goods, like housing).
1,300 employees for 4300 meals a day? that couldn't be right. That's less than 4 meals delivered per employee.
Man I would really like to read the text version of this.
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Here here! I just met one other person on the internet who sees that the emperor has no clothes. The adherence and attractiveness of MWI to so many CS programmers (and a few physicists) is mind boggling to me.
Some see this as a feature, not a bug. It means that companies don't have to pay as much to hire people, because companies don't have to be on the hook for giving people enough money to survive. You wouldn't need a minimum wage, for example.
Oxygen originally killed off most of the biosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
My point to GP was that libertarian views are not popular, I don't really care about karma.

I love discussing all topics on HN that I'm passionate and informed about, including politics.

When I do see political topics (which is often these days) and such a one sided view, I feel the need to voice the other side.