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> A large fraction of an entire city (Cork) depend on it

That is not true. They employee a few thousand people in an industrial estate outside a suburb of cork in fairly low ranking jobs. If they were to disappear overnight they would doubtless have an impact but not a fraction of €14bn
The reasoning is simple.

The reality is complex.

Always, always think about second order effects.
If a poor person were murdered like this, it would be newsworthy.

The fact that this may be a politically charged murder makes it even more newsworthy.
I'd say it's common knowledge in Europe.

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8whym9/rising_propo...

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/bbimot/share_of_you...

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ct33wa/neet_rate_in...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8vriuq/share_of_pe...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gplbtg/share_of_yo...
I think it is worth remembering how tightly tech companies
are with the military industrial intelligence media congress complex.

A lot has come from (D)arpa, intelligence contracts, military development, law enforcement.

The US has also privatized a lot of intelligence and military sectors where consultants and others perform jobs that the government might not strictly be allowed.
> 80+ Gold or better is a good choice.

The selection was "gold", specifically. And that's not as bad as it might be, but titanium is better across the board and much better at low load. A titanium supply is more efficient at 20% load than a gold supply at 50%, for instance.

If you're over-sizing your power supply by ~60% (as is the case here) then this is significant.
It could be private funding that makes up the difference. Or that money is spent elsewhere (maybe more counseling, meals, etc)

Looking at the conditions externally should not be enough to contradict data, assuming the data exists ave is accurate (I didn’t check).
The possibility of some fighters going unmanned and under the control of the ground or of another fighter in some scenarios has been discussed in other places, yes. It sounds like it's still in the planning stages.
Did you miss the next sentence?
The Temporal/Cadence/SWF operate as libraries any application can include to be able to implement workflow and activity logic. So hooking into low-level VM event loop was not an option.
So they rely purely on event sourcing to reexecute the program code from the beginning assuming that the workflow code is deterministic. The library provides various API wrappers to execute multithreaded code deterministically using cooperative multithreading.
In the future, WebAssembly can be used as a container as determinism is one of its core features.
Okay, to play devil's advocate for a moment.

What is there to gain financially from killing him, if his previous business was gutted by regulatory changes?

The killer was evidently belonging to a highly capable skillset, and I'm extrapolating that they very nearly got away with his body in tow, and nobody would've been the wiser.

Could they not have kidnapped him and ransomed the company? If there's financial qualms on the board, I just don't understand why they'd just kill him then. If they went to deliveries, does that mean other delivery couriers are to be scrutinized?

Maybe he was involved with something dirty?

If it was a state agent of Nigeria that is responsible, idk, that'd be geopolitical suicide, putting hits out on private entrepreneurs across national borders...

Of course, had they gotten away, it may have seemed as though he just vanished, which I suppose is the ideal scenario for a state-sanctioned killing.

Ugh. This is beyond horrible all the way around.
Is the hubbub about popularity contest or about the Snap store?
Why, in the middle of a ban on international travel, would somebody smuggle a killer across the Atlantic when there are plenty of perfectly capable killers in the extremely violent United States?
Meditation helped me out with my ADHD way, way more than I expected. It took about a month of daily 10-20 minute practice but it gave me this control over my racing thoughts and shiny distractions that felt completely foreign to me. Like oh, I do have this willpower muscle I just haven't been using it much.

I'm speaking in past tense because since covid I haven't meditated and my mind has become a racing mess. If you can will yourself into doing it I'd highly recommend trying it. You can always stop if you don't see a benefit.
> You can't quite stash the condition in a database and wait until everyone returns from the holiday to resume progress, but that's merely a technical limitation of the normal lisp compilers that are currently available.

I think that in a multithreaded environment you can try to hang a particular thread by forcing it into the debugger in order to preserve all stack information inside it, but I don't know if that is feasible in the long run on production systems since it opens a gate to possibly DoSing the machine.
In Brazil we call it "Zap".
WhatsApp dominates Brazil completely as well, and people called it ZapZap or just zap.
ThinkPad T61 models changed from 1400x1050 (SXGA+) to 1440x900 (WXGA+) when they went widescreen.

They literally just lopped off 150 vertical pixels. There wasn’t some corresponding gain in horizontal space. You could fit the same number of xterms side-by-side on either laptop.
The article headline literally says "luxury condo".
> This mentality leads to systems that are a mess of callbacks, don't scale, and practically impossible to maintain.

Why would it? I can put the same types of abstractions into my application layer in the form of a common library. Only difference is they can be a lot fewer and simpler because they only need to meet my exact requirements.

I often do make the same argument about SQL databases in cases where RDBMSs are not an appropriate tool for the job. In the case I mentioned, where I'm using it as a shared datastore that supports ACID transactions with concurrent access, I find Postgres (and many others, including many NoSQL stores) to be suitably placed in the abstraction spectrum to be worth using rather than rolling my own solution.
I think a lot of people’s reaction today might be more like: “First they came for the communists, and because a lot of people spoke out about it, I assumed they didn’t actually come for the communists and I got sick of hearing all of their dumb communist whining, and that’s why it’s actually a good thing that we came for the communists.”
"housing costs" can also refer to the cost to the consumer in order to obtain housing. I think everyone in this thread is talking about what you refer to as "prices" rather than what you refer to as "costs".
That doesn’t say anything about a Uber style bake sale lose money on every order scheme. PTAs accept donations.

I agree with your overall premise, there was no need to make up a story around it.
Not sure why everybody is suggesting a professional hitman based on the fact the murderer used a mask, gloves and a suitcase. I suppose you get that idea after watching an arbitrary crime movie. All it proves is intention.
Is PG necessarily defending himself, personally? What he's saying applies to everyone who might want to say something online, from Google executives to janitors. Furthermore, no matter how much you have it's still possible for someone to harm you unfairly. "PG is a billionaire" doesn't automatically mean that it's impossible to do something morally wrong that results in him being worse off. Rich people deserve all of the same standards of fairness that anyone else does.
Without a population at least being more or less constant, there is essentially no way at all that the average person can retire.

Why? Because if we all start saving enough to retire without relying on growth, then that has a deletrious impact on the economy that makes retirement even more difficult.

This is because no matter how much paper you have, you still need people to grow food, build houses and run services once you retire. If there are more retirees than working people, you're in deep trouble. The average person simply won't be able to retire, ever.
Just because neither party is progressive doesn't mean that the conservative choice isn't far, faaaaar better than the regressive one.

And yes indeed it would be awesome to revamp the US political system, but that won't happen anytime soon short of armed revolt, and keeping people alive in the meantime is still important.
Why is this even on here?
Why not just write a blog and post a link to it?
In the 50s it was a lot easier to evade taxes as well. Less electronic systems that are easier to track and also a lot of loopholes in the system. https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nocera-tax-avoidance-...
I guess that depends if you meant murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo or in a sewer. The latter happens all the time and is ignored.

But a poor person being murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo in the same fashion is certainly newsworthy.
Ah nice, that's smart. May steal that idea =) Good stuff, thanks for the post!
You can take your hands off the keyboard and mouse, dig your phone out of your pocket, unlock it, open the app drawer, scroll and find calculator, tap it and open it, under 3 seconds? I doubt that.
> Do you tell managers this as well? That the developers need deep focus time?

It's a delicate balance. When I was in a manager-of-managers position, I didn't explicitly micromanage how managers ran their teams or run their days. People don't respond well to that. Instead, I tried to lead by example by setting my own focus hours, giving ample notice for upcoming meetings, setting expectations for response times at the tops of e-mail messages, and so on. If you try to create an atmosphere that fosters sustained focus throughout the whole company, people tend to notice. If a specific manager becomes bad about interruptions, we'd have an offline conversation.

> I'm not sure if the distractions you're referring to are people just scrolling through twitter all day and not working or actual work distractions.

It's not an either-or. It's always both. It's not uncommon for juniors devs to complain that their workplace doesn't let them focus while their phone buzzes every 5 minutes from some notifications that they've opted-in to receive.

Work distractions tend to trigger people to check Twitter, HN, Reddit, or other sites before they get back to work. It's easy to turn a 5-minute work interruption into a 15-minute break because getting back into focus is an uphill battle. It's much easier and more enjoyable to catch up on those notifications on your phone.

The difference is that people tend to overlook the distraction of notifications they like, and instead blame everything on the notifications for distractions they don't like.

One of the most valuable skills people can learn is how to return to focus quickly. That's not to say that distractions are okay, but it's up to the person to cultivate a habit of descending back into their work as efficiently as possible when interrupted.
IMO, as someone who has struggled with mental health problems throughout my life, the needs of good mental health are pretty easy to understand but extremely difficult to achieve.

Good mental health comes from feeling loved and needed and having a purpose in life. Love can come from one person or a community but it's absolutely essential. Having a purpose and feeling needed are as important as having the time and energy to feel like you're living up to these obligations.

I feel like the idea of communities has all but been broken down. Similarly with purpose. Simply working to achieve more comfort doesn't seem to be a fulfilling purpose. Most people work just to get by without any sense of what they're doing is important. People are generally made to feel replaceable and powerless.

I have no idea how to solve these problems as I feel like they are fundamental problems of our society. How can you feel necessary when you compare yourself to billions of others instead of 100s? How do you feel connected to other people when you don't even know your neighbors?

I can tell you what I try to do for myself. First, I make sure I'm being healthy. I get enough sleep, exercise regularly, and cook a large portion of my meals. I try to prioritize my relationships with other people over work. Within my work, I left software to start a company that made me feel more connected with the people benefiting from my work. I still struggle with mental health a lot but when I look at where my life was 10 years ago to now, I feel a much deeper sense of fulfillment.
Race and Identity are being flogged hard because any actual economic changes aren't happening -- real Marxist revolution in the US died in the 70s, and utterly vanished after the USSR crumbled and the Chinese embraced capitalism (aka "Communism with Chinese Characteristics" a la Deng).

Many hot button SJW issues are driven by conservatives, such as how Blacktivist was getting paid by conservative groups (and probably Russian intelligence) before Trump's election. This isn't new -- anyone remember how the W Bush era GOP was just hammering gay marriage? This creates instability and empowers extreme POV's, and changes the discussion from "let's implement Basic Income" and "let's not invade Iraq" to "gays and immigrants are ruining America!" and "which statues should go down?!".

Thus, all we get from the left are symbolic changes but not systemic changes. We're more 'woke' than ever but wealth is even more consolidated than it's been in a century: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/08/wealth-c...
It's the same definition that says you "can't" steal your coworkers' lunch as they are eating it.
Your points do stand, but if I may:

1) One certainly can do this cheaper. But I’m going to hazard a guess (sight unseen) that bandcamp doesn’t provide as much for that 15%. The original point wasn’t “can you do it cheaper”, it was “do you get a desirable amount of value for the 30%”. I’m a consultant, and there are cheaper options than me. I feel I provide good value for the money, and I guess the fact that I have customers says the market agrees, but that doesn’t mean that some less expensive competitor isn’t a perfectly fine option. It means that the market says I am worth X so I can charge X... Nothing more.

2) The $99 argument is interesting. From my persepective: Enterprise tools cost a lot and 99$ yearly is insanely reasonable. I’d guess that it basically just covers the cost to them of supporting the devs and maintaining the interface to the dev side of security infrastructure. What I can say with some confidence is that it can’t cover even a fraction of the cost of creating and maintaining Xcode. I think the $99 is a way to recover some cost, and create a barrier to entry that makes sure that people who join are at least a tiny bit somewhat serious.

(oh, and I love your username... awesomeness)
The caller needs to know the protocol. The API writer has to document something like widget-frob may raise a widget-error condition, in which case the foo and bar restarts are available which proceed in such and such ways.

The behavior is also discoverable interactively. You play with widget-frob at the REPL, and hit a widget-error condition. This recurses into a debug prompt where you are told about the available restarts, which have docstring-like descriptions.
I understood those parts of the article as answering the question “how hard would it have been to get into the building?”
no, they want people to get fired and lose sources of revenue. Look what's happening with uncle bob on twitter. Plenty of examples where people are kicked of conferences for wearing a red hat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484676 Jordan Peterson gets his offer to teach at Cambridge University rejected after a twitter cancel culture mob started attacking the Uni.

You are chosing to ignore the cancel culture that exists.
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QAnon and the growing conspiracy theory trend on social media [pdf]
What should you know about a navigation history stack in iOS 14
Have you ever lived on a different country? Despite it's ugliness, Athens is a vibrant and diverse city that never sleeps. Everything you need to do is close to your home. Jobs, night life, shops, bookstores, etc even a walk by the sea near mikrolimano. It's an interconnected community of human randomness that depicts the randomess of the real life.
> have you checked house prices near big German cities like Munich?

People generally don’t buy but rent and the rental market is set in such a way as not to gouge people. Still expensive but salaries are relatively high and in all other respects costs of living is very reasonable
>(or perhaps the only factory outside the US?)

The only one I know is in US making Mac Pro.

Interesting, what else is assembled in Cork ? If I buy an iMac in UK, would it be assembled in Cork?

Why is a plant in Cork entry to EUR? Couldn't those be shipped from China?

( Considering this is Apple related I cant be the only keep reading Cork as Cook XD )
"the new model is even smaller and lighter, with a weight of less than 1 kg. To achieve this, Lenovo uses a slightly smaller 48 Wh battery and also slashes most ports that are present on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon"

Sounds like the X1 Nano is marginally better than a Macbook (the super small one, not Air or Pro).

I'm on my second X1 Carbon gen-5 (third X1C overall), and it already has nearly the fewest ports I prefer in a laptop. While I could do without the headphone jack (controversial I know) and Ethernet port (proprietary? I lost the OEM adapter long ago), I think two each of USB-C and USB-A is minimal enough.

USB-C for power
USB-A for yubikey nano
One of each for expansion

It's too bad there aren't more high-res (2k+) laptops in the slim form factor that Intel used to call "ultrabooks". I was really hoping the Purism Librem 14 would have that as an option.

edit: ...and I'm unwilling to give up anymore battery life as long as it's used for video conferencing
10 weeks of changelogs as a 2 person startup
I used to maintain a large FORTRAN codebase - it seemed like every time new grad students showed up, everyone got a wise idea to re-build everything in a modern language.

This question is revisited a lot, but the general consensus has been that FORTRAN is fast, simple, easy to understand and code, and the compilers used are super optimized (Intel's FORTRAN compiler was really a gem - it managed to do a ton of automatic parallelization on modern hardware)

I'll see if I can find it, but I remember attending a conference talk at AGU in ~'08-10 called "Do-over or make-do" [1] that analyzed how many people-hours it would take to update all the climate modeling software (earth and space sciences are really huge on legacy FORTRAN code), and the conclusion of that talk was: use modern code/tools for glue, keep your climate models in FORTRAN.

There's a ton relating to precision - we had a huge ordeal converting our 32-bit space weather model to 64-bit because the change in precision changed our results, so we couldn't publish (in good conscious) without making sure the results weren't within a good margin of error. Anyhow.

This is always a fun thing to revisit now that I'm really far away from having to maintain any FORTRAN code any more :)

edit found it!
[1]: https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2010/12/agu-session-on-soft...
[2]: slides http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/presentations/Easterbrook-AGU...
Also randomly found this: http://www.moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-stil...
I wouldn't be so sure. 14nm is already competitive with Xilinx FPGAs in terms of efficiency. All Huawei has to do is build ASICs instead, and they should keep or improve their performance. Xilinx is on a mix of 20nm and 16nm, by the way.

The billions of dollars that the Chinese Government will invest in order to compensate for the sanctions might have the unintended side effects of actually making performance of Huawei gear more efficient. The jump from FPGA to ASIC is pretty big as far as efficiency, and being able to have it financed for free to defend against US sanctions is pretty sweet.

They also happen to have stockpiled enough FPGAs to buy time for the transition.
Aggregation of candidates based on their own perception of their attributes is not discrimination. This isn't saying noone else can apply to the offered jobs, right?
Ah, I thought we were just about due for a revisit on the importance of Deep Work. I'll take this an an opportunity to paste one of the highlights from the book I found to be interesting:

"As the journalist Daniel Coyle surveys in his 2009 book, The Talent Code , these scientists increasingly believe the answer includes myelin—a layer of fatty tissue that grows around neurons, acting like an insulator that allows the cells to fire faster and cleaner. To understand the role of myelin in improvement, keep in mind that skills, be they intellectual or physical, eventually reduce down to brain circuits. This new science of performance argues that you get better at a skill as you develop more myelin around the relevant neurons, allowing the corresponding circuit to fire more effortlessly and effectively. To be great at something is to be well myelinated. This understanding is important because it provides a neurological foundation for why deliberate practice works. By focusing intensely on a specific skill, you’re forcing the specific relevant circuit to fire, again and again, in isolation. This repetitive use of a specific circuit triggers cells called oligodendrocytes to begin wrapping layers of myelin around the neurons in the circuits—effectively..."

This seems to be supportive to the argument for deep work. Happy myelination, everyone.
ORide was not in any form the "chosen winners" - in fact, they were driven out of the market by the regulation in question.

I know there is the tendency for Westerners to clutch pearls when anything even remotely referencing China is mentioned but at least temper it with reason.
probably similar to the dude who had his genitals eaten after meeting up with an online date.

https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/crime-story-investigator/w...
Yes, the leaders of USSR could do that and did just that, but I don't understand what this has got to do with any challenges to the original assertion that large quantities of people worldwide would be "very grateful to relocate to Georgia" - they would be. At the moment despite all the immigration restrictions that USA has implemented, the Green Card queue indicates a mass willingness to become residents of USA.

It's not about boasting, it's about whether USA can rely on people wanting to immigrate to ensure that places like Georgia stay sufficiently populated even if population naturally declines - and IMHO they can.
Maybe that was possible 50-100 years ago when you were not living in a global village where everyone around the world can come and knock on your door and demand your attention. Nowadays we need to constantly remind ourselves that we need to find time for uninterrupted focus. And these articles about deep work are just that for me, reminders.
wtf... :-(

EDIT: any idea why this also got flagged on HN?
Who is getting cut up into a million pieces and dumped into the sewers? How common is such an occurrence?
If you really cared to learn about life expectancy of Paleolithic area it’s pretty simple to google, and Where did I claim if you eat like them you will live long like them?
We came uncomfortably close sometimes. Like the Russian submarine commander who defied his "party supervisor" when ordered to launch his nuclear weapons during the Cuban missile crises. It was not an isolated incident either. We've been lucky so far.
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Fabulous idea. I will definitely use this for future early-stage demos.
Bring back 4:3!