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The general wisdom of language/library design is that abbreviations should be used only for very common things, and only when those abbreviations are unambiguous in context. Prehistoric Rust had a rule that all keywords could be no longer than five characters (in defiance of Javascript's `function`), but forums (including HN) endlessly complained about `ret`, hence today it's `return`. :P (I admit that I wanted to Rust to change its `fn` to `func` once Swift showed its hand, but such is life.)

Meanwhile, in 2020 `Option` might be on its way to becoming a widely-accepted concept in language design, but back in 2011 it was still a radical idea that Rust was trying to smuggle over the border from functional languages, against the will of people used to languages with pervasive nullity. The language that eventually supplants Rust someday might call it `Opt` (in the same way that Rust turned C++'s `vector` into `Vec`), but back then `Option` needed all the lubrication it could get without having to get bogged down in the abbreviation bikeshedding.
The fractious urban/rural divides kinda suggest to me that many people do not agree with the way the states are cut anyway.
I understand your sentiment to some degree, but I also see the benefits of modern development:

> [food]

Even when we live in rather harsh conditions we can have a balanced diet (where I live, without modern means of transportation, my diet would be exclusively Barbary figs, fish and mussels. If I wanted meat, someone would have to tend goats and sheep full time and that person would have to roam a huge area to find enough food for them).

> [medicine]

I am not dying of an infection, I take antibiotics.

> [raising kids]

Kids can now easily try out things their parents never did, understood or appreciated. The cost for the parents is negligible while the benefit for the kids can be tremendous. (That's why know how to play the flute, how I got into software development and into theatre).

> [education]

I have at least a basic understand of the problem domain when writing software for chemists or biologists; I understand political processes and have a broad cultural knowledge. Even when I don't know, I know that I don't know.

> [travel]

I really understand that there are different cultures, way beyond hearsay. That allows me (to some degree) to critically reflect on my own culture, to understand what shaped it.
You mean by saving billions from abject poverty? Yes, what a disaster.
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If Intel had their shit together they would have released AVX512 years ago with Skylake desktop, but they prefer to artificially segment the market, and have still not managed to release a desktop chip with AVX512--allowing AMD to catch up and now in many ways surpass them.
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Great tool for doing this and more.
The less economically developed nations that are now being raised from poverty at an unprecedented rate? I don't support extractive colonialism or anything like that, but it's weird how free and open trade is so often described as one nation "exploiting" another.
Fair point. What I mean is, if we want to be allowed to be contemplative, even for brief periods of time, we need to help society find value in contemplation, or else it will be squeezed out of us.
HN is more than one thing to multiple people and those things do not have a very large overlap. I'd love it if we could extract out the hackers/makers portion of HN and give it it's own tab so that the threads there would become longer lived.
In case you are unaware we were losing babies by the truckload just a century ago. There was death, but we all forgot since we dont see it anymore.
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The Twitter thread seems to contradict this claim.

> Seconda domanda: da cosa dipendono allora le lungaggini, se non dall’affidamento? La risposta è esattamente quella che state pensando: dalla burocrazia.

"Second question: what is the cause of slowness, if not when a work is actually given [to whoever got the contract]? The answer is exactly what you're thinking about: bureaucracy."

The next few tweets bring data which supports this.
"A man's got to know his limitations"
This explains part of the reason for massive egos in large organisations. I am referring to toxic environments where management has little positive influence and people don't feel valued, e.g Banks.

In response for not feeling valued or by hiding in the organisation due to their lack of skills, these people resort to building up a massive ego to compensate. Often, many of these individuals are not valued at home either - they tend to be divorced/living alone or with little personal value from another person. Pair that with no appreciation or value from work and you have a recipe for disaster.
That is true :)
> You can have a career as a software engineer with a 40 hour week if you want. It just won't be at Amazon.

Even if you are a software engineer you can make top-tier, simply insane amounts of money at most big companies with a sub-40 hour workweek.

It is simply a matter of finding the right team and having a good manager. The former is something you can affect and the latter can be luck. But you can definitely make some of the best compensation in CS and have cushy working hours if you play your cards right.
6-8 hours a day, rarely productive more than that and actually only hands on 4-5 hours max
That's still < 4 KHz.
Have you ever heard of the industrialization of agriculture? We dont use humans to pick up everything anymore. If that were the case your food would cost 100 times more.
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Thanks for the feedback! Will definitely take these two points back and make some changes give you and your child commenters’ notes.
> Apple is the only company I can see that won't be hit.

This is kind of astonishing logic. The obvious case against Apple is that they control totally the market for iOS apps, but even if you take the Apple supporter's argument that you should use the overall app market (i.e. including Android apps), even though they can't run on the same devices, Apple would still have more of the overall phone app market than Amazon has of the online retail market. And yet Amazon is a problematic monopoly and Apple isn't?
Living in a hut in the woods is quite different from living in pre-industrial society.
> Culturally vacuous commercial enterprise.

I suspect that given a longer historical perspective, Disneyland will be seen as something other than "culturally vacuous". Much of our evaluation of "high" vs "low" culture is due to cultural snobbery. Low culture becomes more valued as time passes and the distinctions fade.

We nearly lost centuries of folk music because it wasn't considered worth preserving and only the efforts of a few weirdos like Bartok, Vaughan Williams and Alan Lomax who acted at just the the right moment saved some knowledge of it for future generations.

And it's not "folk" vs "commercial" either Commercial Art from the turn of the century (and before and after) is immensely interesting and of great aesthetic value to my eyes.
> rust doesn't look like it has a steep learning curve

I'll have to strongly disagree. I tried learning it as my first language and was blown away by the prerequisite knowledge I had to have in order to understand even the basic concepts.

Added to the fact that currently there aren't even learning resources available for people like me, makes this language mostly suitable for people already familiar with other languages.
It is easy to call your perspective subjective, and people often will. You have listed many variables here, and considered together they paint a certain picture of the world. And yet, someone else could come up with many more other variables which would paint a completely different picture and outcome. Our life and the world in general are indeed very complex.

However, when I hear proponents of the anti-modernity, it is hard to take them seriously because I immediately start to wonder why is it that that they don't walk the walk and demonstrate the correctness of their estimation of the inadequacy of the modern world by moving their lives to a small village, a forest, a wild the tribe or any other place still existing today that lives by the old standards.

There is no shortage of these places, that by modern standards should be considered prehistoric. There are many perfectly functional tribes existing today, that are still operating in largely the same way as they did thousands of years ago. They live in tight connection with nature, they don't use technology, they are not subjected to apparently very dangerous and devious hazards of our modern world like small smartphone screens, long commutes in personal vehicles and overwhelming amounts of freedoms that we suffer in the city life. These tribes would be perfectly willing to accept in new members because in their present condition they always require more workforce. If the tribe life is not what one is looking for, it would surely be just as easy to move out into a forest or another natural place. 100% of the problems discussed in this topic would be completely resolved by changing the life situation in this way.

And yet you don't see people moving out of the modern society into prehistoric tribes by the hundreds of thousands. They complain about how bad the life is in the modern world, and yet don't take any of the obvious steps available to them for quickly resolving all of the issues.

This observation makes me seriously question how much of what these people say and what they are complaining about can we really trust even as accurate representations of what they believe. Life is much easier and makes much more sense when we start judging what people believe by what they do and not by what they say.
Developing nations are actually very happy to have work instead of abject poverty which was their state before.
Thank you for the pointers. This is all super interesting to me, both because I really am bothered by sound pollution on a daily basis and because I think we have all the parts in place to really deal with this, even if it is anything but a trivial problem. And in a way those are the best problems to be working on.
Cloudflare can be difficult at times.

I am in New Zealand and a company I worked for used Cloudflare and we found out that our site was being served from Japan most of the time (8800 km away). This meant a request would go: Auckland -> Japan -> Sydney (our data center)

The fix was to upgrade to their $200/mo plan and we found we would be served from AKL or SYD most of the time, occasionally still Japan.
Maybe the speakers could serve as microphones at the same time that they are driven by measuring their back-emf?
I like FreeCAD but it keeps crashing, slow operations freeze the UI and by slow I mean for up to a minute, it's a bit ugly, failing operations usually just give you a cryptic error message when you apply an operation. If you can get used to the quirks it's a pretty nice tool. I've used worse software but I don't use truly bad software every day.
They exist today, but they were added after AVX. Every year we figure out how to cram more transistors on a cubic cm, and once the low hanging fruit was added and we knew how to add more transistors, we decided to start putting more and more specific functions.

That is the point of Linus. He would have preferred to use that increase in transistor count for other things, like more cache.
Thats such a selfish outlook. The same outlook that leads to overfishing, soil erosion and monoculture agricuture. We think we are optimising for human welfare and happiness whilst simultaneously destroying our ability to give future generations the same prospects that we have.

So why are you happy for the untold billions who will never be born because we've ruined out planets ability to sustain us?

Sustainability is about being able to give future generations the same quality of life that you have had. And society as it stands is not sustainable
Have you considered registering your foundation in another country? For example The Document Foundation - the non-profit organization behind Libre Office - is legally registered in Germany. Here is what Florian Effenberger the foundation's Executive Director had to say about the decision to register in Germany in an interview in 2011 (my translation):

"You have decided to establish the Document Foundation in Germany. Why should it become a foundation under German law?

A lot of people have asked whether it is necessary to establish the Document Foundation in Germany, because such a large amount of foundation capital is required here. In contrast, countries such as Great Britain or the United States offer similar legal constructs for a foundation without the requirement for a high foundation capital. The Steering Committee, after a thorough investigation, decided in a public telephone conference that the location of registration of the future foundation should ideally be Germany.

Germany is the best choice for the future foundation for several reasons: Not only do German foundations stand for security, stability, and trustworthiness, but Germany also has a large distribution of free and open source software. The roots of the product lie in Germany in the mid-1980s. In addition, Germany offers advantages in terms of taxes, tax deductibility for donors, as well as in terms of the foundation's activities, which are not restricted to a specific country from Germany.

Most importantly, many active members of the community who are willing to advance the Foundation are from Germany. Even if other countries would require fewer resources to set up the Foundation - if people who are willing to advance the Foundation are not on site, there would be higher costs for representatives and lawyers. Ultimately, however, a solid financial basis for the foundation would also be required in other countries."

Original source of the interview in German: https://ikhaya.ubuntuusers.de/2011/03/10/interview-mit-der-d...
This is different from the recorded cases, after all it's a "perception" index.

> In recent experience, I remember the World Expo Milan fair in 2015

I don't think the trials have been finished yet.
What are you talking about?

Fugaku is the opposite of that, each CPU chip is 48 cores with 512 bit wide SVE(arm version of AVX512).

They deliberately went for something easier to program, that didn't require doing the CPU/GPU dance.
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Thanks, that makes sense - I've not used ReactJS, but guessed that your site only needed the top-level index.html, so that was handy.
This is almost any Reddit "advice" sub, like /r/relationships. People write stories for fun and to create conflict.
Is it the immigrants harvesting corn you are thinking about:
https://www.crushpixel.com/stock-photo/harvesting-machine-fi...
Second the question!
Sounds like a fine example of American culture
I don't know if you're doing ceilings or floors as well, but a cork underlay can go under your current flooring and works WONDERS for footsteps, running and other transition sounds between floors. We did ours through Home Depot- you can order it in the carpet section. You can hire them to install or do it yourself. Went from hearing a herd of buffalo walking to glorious silence.
There’s plenty of jobs in demand that still don’t pay enough to house and feed more than one person.

Unions are a way of making HR listen.
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> Search for "Google Nest Mini" on Amazon and the top result is an Echo Dot followed by dozens of accessories for the Google Nest Mini but no Google Nest Minis.

Type this into Google:

site:amazon.com google nest mini

The results are basically the same as you're describing. Maybe Amazon just doesn't sell it?
Im sure nations are very happy with increasing GDP, and im sure families are happy to receive 5c/h manufacturing clothes for a multibillion dollar multinational corperation.

Just because their lives are better doesnt mean we are doing good. Not to mention that india and most of africa wouldnt be living in abject poverty were it not for western colonialism.

Let's go to your country, destroy your society and culture, then build a factory and pay you pennies. Then you can thank me for pulling you out of poverty. It's a tough sell
I worry that people read things like this to inform what they do with their children. A child is a person and its reasonable to explore what they need and want through your life with them. We should always remember that children are not simply another of life's projects to be maximised.
Intel's FP performance sucked (relatively speaking), and it matter not one iota. Because absolutely nobody cares outside of benchmarks.

Today I learned that even Linus Torvalds has a bozo bit. [1]
When's the last time he actually did anything with a computer?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_bit
(I have no connection to the mods, all of this is just me guessing.)

People who behave poorly, especially if it's something they've done for a long time, can dislike being held to account for that. dang has a range of tools available, and these get used to hold people to account for their destructive behaviours. These people get increasing levels of warnings before they eventually get banned.

And then, when they've been banned, they see some other account that posts similar content that hasn't been banned and they say "inconsistent!". What they've missed is the "yet" part of "hasn't been banned yet" -- that other account may be banned in future, or if they drop the destructive behaviour they may have all the measures removed.

> He also applies penalties that last for years, and people are too afraid to say anything.

I don't know what dang's email account is like but I'm guessing it's full of people who are not too afraid to say anything.
Maybe corn is the wrong example. But most harvesting in still done manually, by immigrants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-undocument...

> "Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become ‘Essential’ During Pandemic"

> "Immigrant field workers have been told to keep working despite stay-at-home directives, and given letters attesting to their “critical” role in feeding the country."
According to one AF general, the purpose of the F-35 is "to spend money". So in that aspect it is performing admirably :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba63OVl1MHw
Why would shooting two R77 missiles cost the SU-27 its energy?
Those are medium/long range missilea, why on earth would you need super maneuverability to do that?
Even for very close range, if you use aim-9x or python 5, you can just shoot at an enemy on your back without turning at all.
they elected the people who put them in a war. It didn't happen in a vacuum
I don't doubt apple, I doubt the devs of the software I rely on will put forth effort right away.
A few points:

* People scale poorly. There is a reason Agile favors a "less is more" approach.

* There is more than one dimension. Money is an easy metric, but not the sole one. Diminishing returns kick in when we optimize for frog$kins.

* Wisdom is hard to communicate. If human wisdom were cumulative, we should have long ago reached some paradise where everyone shares their toys nicely. Doesn't happen, and great parents are followed by dull kids. And the wiser parents somehow have less offspring than the fools. This, too, is counterproductive.
Please state clearly which parts of the term “a scientific investigation into how COVID-19 is different” you claim to not hold.
Are GPU's really easier to program than scalar w/ SIMD (or vector insns)? The programming models you have to work with for GPGPU seem quite obscure, whereas with CPU and SIMD flipping a compiler switch gets you most of the way there, and self-contained intrinsics do the rest.
this made me laugh so hard... brilliant observation :-D

Here's a pseudo-symmetrical Venn diagram for four sets, as an alternative representation :-) [1]

1: https://www.combinatorics.org/files/Surveys/ds5/VennSymmVari...
Would you mind telling how does she do it?
Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world
This is often an internet routing issue. Also their Argo product can sometimes have bad routes chosen. Did you try their support? As a CDN, they’re very interested in fixing any performance problems quickly.
Ironic how aiming at being inclusive manifests itself so often as being exclusive.
You could take a bigger perspective and in this bigger perspective we outsource a lot of dangerous and dirty work to countries where human rights hardly exists, or can be bought.

Ever heard about sweat-shops and children in mines? This goes for parts of the food industry as well - bananas springs to mind as an example.

We do use human labour, just not as much in the west, and most of us live in convenient ignorance.
Azure. From blob storage to DevOps. Almost every interface attached to it, UI or API, is an overcomplicated wedge of grief.

I can navigate it, sure. But I'd also use an elevator caked in dried urine, to get to the top of a 14 story building, like most people would. So go figure.
Confluence and Jira.
> Rewards like burnout, lower quality of life, worsening relationships with friends and family...?

But what are those things worth to you? As they have different values to everyone.

A friend of mine is currently working on his software project at work (and this is for a massive non tech company, so it is not as if it is a startup). It is 6AM on a Sunday and that is what he is doing. And he is doing it out of boredom as he is in many ways the stereotypical software guy.

Another good friend is in Seattle. He logged in to work at midnight today while chatting with me. Why? He has nothing else to do.

I spend 100+ hours at my computer a week and have since high school. Spending a greater percentage of that time coding for work does not meaningfully impact my quality of life other than taking away from commenting on forums or my hobby of solving innovation challenges. Whether I am unemployed or facing a major deadline, I am going to be online anyway.

I get why long hours would be terrible for people with families requiring attention or girlfriends or those who like hiking, but a lot of software engineers (like me or the aforementioned friends) have none of those, making more work very cheap for us.
What do you think about Italians voting Silvio for so long?
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> Because outside artificial intelligence, graphics and audio, there is little else that common applications would use the GPGPU for, so the large majority of software developers keeps ignoring heterogeneous programming models.

I think you got this backwards - the lack of developers' interest is what leads to the mistaken impression that GPU compute is only good for multimedia and FP-crunching workloads. Even looking at the success of GPU compute in mining cryptocoins (only ASIC's do better) ought to be enough to tell you that we could do a lot more with them if we cared to.
Normally one optimises GDP because that's (a) more or less measurable, and (b) more or less correlates with things that individual wants out of society. Part of Bray's point is that going for too much efficiency is like going for pure returns at the expense of risk, another part is that GDP is merely means, not the end, and blindly optimising for GDP continues to do so even when increasing GDP starts negatively correlating with having a worthwhile society.

Efficiency yes, but please to measure in human utility per input, not in currency output per input?
Thanks for the link. It was great to read them side by side. I had my suspicions, but I think I'm more of a Go person than a Rust person.
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