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Internet Explorer yes, Chrome no.
It's more that the price problem follows the workers.

A decade ago, Seattle was cheap. You could get 4/5 BR homes in Kirkland for $400K. I just checked, and those homes are going for $1.2M now. Similarly, one of my former Google coworkers moved out to the Boulder office. When I'd checked on Boulder in the late 00s, you could get nice homes for $250-300K. He paid about $850K.

Wherever you have highly paid tech workers, you will have highly paid tech workers bidding up houses. You just have to get ahead of them, and buy where the FAANG offices are just being constructed rather than wait until you work there. True remote work (where you could dial in from anywhere, not just a city near an office) would fix this, but that's not really what's being offered these days, and when it is the salaries are more inline with what people make in the Midwest than what they make in Silicon Valley.
Why else would you buy an E46 M3 over another E46 3 series if you didn't care about performance? According to you it's the last good car BMW made. The M2 Comp is an objectively better car than the E46 M3 if you care about performance, which you certainly do. Stop playing the victim because you suddenly don't want to have a discussion about a comment you made on a public forum.
Also chips are rigid bodies, while tape & ribbon is flexible and can push back and fold in unpredictable ways.
"Unlimited vacation" is a deception.

I see this being repeated over and over but I can't help but think that it's become a way to discourage giving employees time off from a company's perspective. I've successfully taken 30+ days off in an unlimited vacation environment (not consecutively) and not been reprimanded in any way because I was able to operate responsibly. Before I left for any length of vacation, I made sure that projects were delivered and successfully launched weeks before hand and I created documentation and trained others on continuing work processes (the lack of my presences should not have ANY impact).

"Unlimited vacation" should be a work perk that is attractive. Often times I find that it's the managers who don't believe employees should be given time off or the company decides to just implement unlimited vacation without any process in place to revoke the privilege or guidelines as to what a responsible policy looks like. It's easy to say something doesn't work when there was never any intention or effort to make it work.

Just my 2 cents.
people dont want to pay 2 rents for no reason though, unless the rents are very cheap, so they won't be able to price these things high anymore. probably
Can the USA even build a new ICBM without using made-in-china electronics? And then there is not just the missile itself, but all the ground support equipment.
The robots are accurate, but the cables are not. Pick and place robots deal with uniformly sized parts that come in nice reels.

Cables and tape are not as uniform and have a tendency to move in random directions.
But the article does account for inflation?

> Adjusted for inflation, a $60 “Call of Duty” title in 2005 would be about $78 today, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator.
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Yes, you are naive. We just love the idea of the perfectability of human nature, but the empirical evidence seems to be somewhat lacking.
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Keep in mind that this is not mainly a technological problem, it's a problem caused by technology; which means that technological solutions will only go so far.

I've spent several months in similar or more extreme forms [0] of isolation, and I'd recommend anyone to consider trying it out just to get a taste of what's possible.

These days I don't even carry a smartphone anymore, as I've found the sum of it's effects to be negative.

[0] https://www.yogameditation.com/retreats/the-3-month-sadhana-...
Having done tiling WM with lots of logic implemented in Lua myself, ten or so years ago, I never met any performance issues, besides repainting of dragging indicators for free floating windows
What stuck out for me was the bit about farmers in Myanmar playing Clash of Clans. This is something I noticed when I was in South Korea for work a few years ago, everyone was constantly playing CoC and similar games. Of course these are very different countries, but I wonder if there's a cultural factor at play that makes these games popular in East Asia? I live in a developing country but I never see people playing games on public transportation, usually people browse Facebook or Instagram or whatever.

As for the rest of the article, `echo "0.0.0.0 twitter.com" >> /etc/hosts` works for me.
Oof... yeah, that's terrible and not intuitive at all. appendChild or innerHTML = ... should be enough. That override is pretty unnecessary.
"They don’t merely seek to display information about a system but to generate insights that human analysts use to change that system"

Hasn't everyone noticed by now that it's those with the least knowledge of business and economics that are very often tasked with doing BI reports? Dare I say that the majority are "trained" in completely different socio-political institutions than the ones they are supposedly advising for? Seems like a recipe for data science disaster.
Gold plating is used a lot in electronics contacts to prevent corrosion, it's a pretty proven method that should work just fine without wearing away easily. As far as I understand it, the gold chemically bonds to the metal it coats, so it's not easy to wear it away.
In all seriousness -- why can't you move into architecture and design? I know it sounds a little trite, but I've seen many times where people don't do what they want or dream just because they haven't bothered to figure out how to get to their goal or simply because they don't let themselves. I know the world isn't always that simple, but I truly believe it is sometimes (plus some work and planning).
I think by "13 days and 160 days" you mean "13 hours and 160 hours".
> do not wait until they are asking for raises.

This really annoyed me with a previous employer. They gave me every raise I ever asked, but they always made me ask, and they never gave me more than I asked. It took all of the goodwill out of the raise.
I'll take "things literally nobody is saying" for 500, Alex.
I'm more convinced the solution exists in information rejection.

Though a good Otletian content metadata store would likely be useful.
You can find an article about it on my website :)

https://marvinblum.de/blog/server-side-tracking-without-cook...
Ask HN: Is Frontier having internet problems?
Seems to be having a large outage: https://downdetector.com/status/frontier/map/

However, if I use a VPN it works without a problem. Does that mean it's some sort of DNS issue?
My guess is that they have flex cables (and not so much ribbons) and tape. Other electronic devices - including modern ones - that I've taken apart lately include quite a lot of both.

There are three flexes in just this one iFixit photo of one side of a Switch Lite: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/sbTwHYTEZOaWX3IQ.f...

Tape takes a number of forms. Holding down flexes to manage pull-out forces is pretty common. You can do that with traditional single-sided tape if you have the space on something to adhere it, but increasingly common is a double-sided tape on the flex itself. You peel off a liner and stick it down. It wouldn't surprise me if there are liner-less heat-activated tapes too, but I don't know of them myself. That's outside my domain.
Powerful example of operational innovation, and that there is so much untapped opportunity we are not leveraging in so many areas.

A company like Apple may not have the wherewithal or impetus to do something like this. When they need manufacturing, they are resigned to the traditional approach: China. Since labour is cheap there, and they just may not be thinking in these terms and may not have the wherewithal either ... the cost-effective solution invariable involves high labour intensity.

It may very well take factories like this to inspire other organisations to have the necessary 'Eureka!' moment to grasp that they too, might be better off 'fully automated' as well.

Note the eye-watering scale of the business however, quoted at nearly $100 Billion in sales, which is rather a lot of money indicating that it may take a product with a very long life cycle wherein there are considerable profits for this to be feasible.

Looking at this, one has to wonder why Western nations are not more keen to duplicate.
I imagine those in the Bay area are making a lot more than 50k/year, or at least there are always SV devs chiming in saying they are making 300-600k/year (the OP said 100k for a couple).

I make the equivalent of 100k USD in a tier 2 city in Scotland (a single income that is, not a couple combined). It's not outlandish for senior roles across much of the UK (with "normal" companies, not FAANG).
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I changed the board on my 3D printer today, the biggest hurdle was all the wire and plug manipulation. I play guitar, piano, type all day, you'd think I'd be good at it. It was like trying to pick up a grain of rice with two cucumbers.
It shifts the trust to a single CA instead of all the CAs.
Gold Standard? Hardly. It is barely more than a regurgitation of the older Wescott-Horte manuscript.

They decided to use the Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, and Codex Alexandrinus. These are of very questionable origin and the presence of forgeries like Tobit in the Siniaticus throw them into serious doubt (and that's before looking at the poor quality of the copy, erasures/replacements, etc).

Another point of contention is the dating. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, the Church of Rome was at open war with other Christian factions over both doctrine and the Bishop of Rome's desire to coalesce political power. They seem to support the Bishop of Rome's claim to power rather well (as well as supporting their side of the doctrinal dispute).

While they may be the oldest Bibles with that much intact, they are hardly the oldest manuscript in general and the Textus Receptus seems to agree much better with the body of work (something like 95+% of all found texts agree with the Textus Receptus). These works were known and rejected by Protestant translators because of their dubious origin and low quality.

I agree with holding it as a translation of interest, but it is hardly a gold standard of anything.
Another side often missing in these dicussions is that Japan's tax laws are relatively sane and are the same through all states. You will not be taxed differently just because you're living in a different state or are living between states.

There are some issues regarding where your residence tax should be paid to but those are minor compared to what I've read on here about crossing state lines in the US.
M60 is compatible with MacOS, even media keys.
That's Bing anyway.
Does cleaning out any dust etc. that's built up inside make any difference?
At only 2 workers per line to package them, would it be worth it to automate that role? Seems like they might've min/maxed the automation already.
I think it looks great!
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I am really curious to find out if anyone has found a potential client or full time job through hacker news even though this platform is great and I love it and I have learned a lot from this place.
Business transactions aren't solely financial. I don't think the comment you replied to is suggesting "focus only on career" but rather "maximize dollars earned per hours worked".

The "brainwashing" is people who don't pursue or request raises because "I'm already comfortable".
I understand. Purely anecdotal:

This is probably a very bad thing to admit, but it is true in my case. Once I stopped listening to researchers and professionals, I started becoming truly happy. I feel like I'm making my own decisions. Doing research and weighing options leads to self doubt which leads me down a painful dilemma. Now I just experiment and make my own decisions that feels right and it is very empowering.
I recommend using stretched links like in bootstrap[0] on social links and maybe others as well it'll improve experience on mobile users I think

[0]: https://v5.getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/helpers/stretched-link/
This article is crying out for GIFs, great pictures but you can't hype me up about how these robots move and not show me.
> I need to basically use either proprietary (paid) or GPL software to do it.

> It's GPL, because I need to use the GPL ffmpeg H.264 codec.

I don't understand the problem?

I can see the problem with people patenting things and preventing you from writing your own implementation, but it seems you just want other people to do the hard work of implementing it so you can wrap a skin around it and do what?
I will be trying this out later! One of the first thoughts I had was creating a middle tier, you have a big gap between what the free tier and $8 tier offers. Assuming it works well for me, I could see myself going for something in the $1.99-$3.99 range that offers 5-10 newspapers, 1 delivery per day, 10-20 articles/delivery, etc. Congrats on receiving the HN hug of death!
Copyright != patents. A copyright license for a codec implementation or a spec text doesn't grant you patents for the ideas it contains.

A GPL implementation doesn't guarantee a patent grant. Even if you wrote the code yourself, even just for your personal use, your own work could still be illegal to use due to lacking a patent license from the original patent holders.

Be careful about using implementations of H.26x codecs, because in countries that recognize software patents the code may be illegal to use, regardless whether you've got a license for the code or not. Even when a FLOSS license says something about patent grants, it's still meaningless if the code author didn't own the patents to grant.
Related message for students / new-grads: Find an internship. Internship interviews tend to be much easier as the stakes are lower. If you perform well during your internship (arguably easier / more accurate indicator of success), the company will likely extend an offer. At big companies I've seen internship to offer rates exceed 30%.
Yeah, that same article was top of mind when reading this article.

It's a little hand-wavy I'll admit. The article makes accusations that they don't back up very well.

That said, I thought it was a decent attempt to be somewhat balanced.
Thanks! That looks really nice. Yeah there's a surprising amount of challenges in creating a service like this that targets the Kindle. If you end up signing up, let me know and I'll add some some special access flags to your account.
Nah. They are killing it because of amazing exclusives. That's all.
Amazon showing me a selection of typical buy-once products of the kind I just bought is a depressing sight. They have infinite money and his is the best they can come up with?
It should be self-evident that if you add race as a variable the resulting function at the very least could easily end up racist. If you add biases to a function it will be biased. Which is fine, sometimes the biases are necessary to solve difficult problems!

Even if you insist that a gradient or mathematical function is unbiased and can never have negative impact based on race or gender or other demographics, you have to explain any resulting negative impact somehow. Saying that the function or gradient is racially biased is a generous interpretation of the situation because it allows the creators to deflect blame towards an error in their mathematics or training set. If you insist on claiming that the training set and mathematics are infallible, one of the only remaining explanations is that the creator intended to discriminate. I'd rather not assume that!
All the manufacturing engineers I've talked to hate doing fluid dispense. Glue is in a class all its own because if you take the line down it tends to cure in the dispenser or nozzle.
> Because it is a well known fact that it is trivially easy for a resourced attacker to retrieve data from a storage medium well after your computer claims it is deleted.

No it isn't. You said nothing about a browser. You said storage medium.
brave's biggest innovation is the introduction of direct payments. i hope that catches on, even if brave fails, because it will truly transform the economics of the internet.
Indeed. From an article here on HN there is a lack of vaapi support on Firefox and I think Chrome in linux. Furthermore there are special profiles(looking at you H264) that only work reliably in software decoders.
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Yeah, dude, there's a site "Levels FYI" that gives real data. If anyone's having trouble wrapping their brains around it, just keep in mind that every business needs to send a sizable chunk of its revenue through Silicon Valley to stay competitive (via advertising, office equipment/software, apps, etc)

100k is attainable even in the middle of nowhere in the USA, but you'd probably be better off working remotely for someone for 120k+
That was brought home to me, when I asked the guy that I shared an office why they used band new non rechargeable batteries for each run of a particular experiment - testing how to improve mixing for the chemical industry.

He commented that some of the runs cost 20k (about 10x my salary at the time) in chemicals to fill the tank (this was a full size 1:1 experiment) so using a brand new set every time made sense - and also the environmental cost of disposing of the several tons of chemicals was not trivial either.
Looks like delta has an open issue: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/86
Make people play with good ping between continents, currently people have 80-100ms between NY and London, it's possible to make them play with ~35ms today and possibly as low as 25ms.

Currently researching if it's needed and if people would pay for this. Note it's only useful for gaming/cloud gaming, not for other applications.
Local solutions to stop humans from destroying their environment.

Problem is that much of the problem is systemic and gobal, and w/o addressing that, even good local solutions are ultimately self-defeating.

Jevons paradox, Gresham's law, race-to-the-bottom, etc.
Semi-supervised document clustering of research papers on arXiv. I struggled heavily in the first year of my PhD just learning the meta-game to staying on top of my field (computer security + computer architecture).

It turns out semi-supervised document recommender systems aren't easy to bootstrap with zero user data.
> What’s the best way to test if someone can do a particular job well? Get them to carry out tasks that are part of the job. See if they can do what they say they can do. It’s much harder for someone to lie and mislead an interviewer during actual work than during an interview. Using competency tests for a blinded interview process is also possible—interviewers could look at depersonalized test results to make unbiased judgments.

Why would a practical test be more effective than a discussion about prior work experience? Short coding tests under pressure are extremely unrepresentative of real work and I'm not sure homework-style interviews are much better. I personally don't want to spend an entire weekend on your test and I've dropped opportunities for that reason in the past.

All these "competency tests" are good for is catching blatant lying. Is this a serious problem? In my view job interviews are mostly about finding a match between skills/interests and project needs.

Communications skills are a very big advantage in interviewing and that feels unfair but I'm not sure that true. Communication and persuasion skills are extremely useful and important to all office jobs, even the most technical.

I'd bet that people who interview well also write beautiful code comments and commit messages.
The PS4 officially supports replacing the internal hard drive, and that's not even getting into the question of repairs
Ah, so the idea isn't that dopamin makes you feel good, but that "when" you feel good dopamin tries to help you to get this feeling quicker the next time in that context.

Makes much more sense now, thanks!
understood, but the issue with assuming logarithmic expansion is "normal / desirable" is that it hides the fact that exponential inflation is the same as negative compounding returns on cash. With compounding inflation eventually it will take all of the money currently(today) in circulation just to buy a single loaf of bread.
Watch out... Maybe the algorithm knows EXACTLY what she is thinking during any given surfing session?
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vimdiff does that.
> His time in the woods doesn't make sense, his anger doesn't make sense, his slow (yes slow) self-radicalization and his terrorism doesn't make sense.

What part of this doesn't make sense? He did hide from society to wallow in his loathing of society until he had radicalised him self all the while blaming society for his actions. Yes that is exactly what I got from reading the manifesto he is an uncomfortable human-being who blames every one else for his uncomfortableness and uses technology as a scape goat.

> but to understand the man you got to read what actually radicalized him. Read Ellul!

This I agree with there is no reason to read his manifesto as no understanding can be gained from it without first understanding the topic and if you know the topic there is no reason to read it because it doesn't raise any new or interesting ideas in the topic.

People can read it if they wan't I did im not going to stop any one, but even if I wanted to recommend some one understand the ideas he was talking about I wouldn't recommend him simply because he just doesn't know what he's on about.
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Any deets?
Take a look at the requirements.txt: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/ecf216205ccfe72bbdee3183...

All the heavy lifting is offloaded to C libraries. So, no, you shouldn't see a significant performance penalty, unless your Python WM is doing bitcoin mining in the background or something.
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I tend to agree in that coming in only one or two days a week gives you some greater flexibility in where you live, but only some. For a lot of people whose companies are in expensive urban areas, WFH a few days per week means they need more housing than they might otherwise need but they can't move somewhere that's cheaper/preferable.

And while teams can coordinate time in the office, the more people are mostly remote the less value there is in others coming in.

>Obvious choice #1 is near extended family. What else motivates people to move?

They like the environment more? I work with someone who just ditched their downtown city apartment and bought a place on the coast of Maine.
buying vc1/mpeg licenses to use hardware decoding on raspberry pi's pre-4 was annoying
https://codecs.raspberrypi.org/license-keys/

is this because of licensing/copyright?