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It's difficult that in this covid pandemic you'll come off as esoteric or uninformed because you don't stay immediately up to date with the hyperbolized and polarizing news.

For example, just tonight, I wasn't sure exactly the status of bars: whether they are allowed to be open (legally), which ones might choose to be open (socially), which ones have favorable conditions (physically; outdoor seating, mask regulation, that sort of thing). When I asked my friends about the general status, they were somewhat incredulous.

Regardless, I had a nice time socializing, until my girlfriend and I went back to the car, and she immediately started a very uncomfortable diatribe on which of our friends she suspected were Republican based on innocuous comments of recent events.

I guess my point is that even if you try to abstain from the toxicity of current events and of the news, your friends and families can drag you back down, and I don't know how to improve the situation.
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When I was attempting to prove Bloom's original incorrect bound, the work never progressed to the point where I was actively working directly on proving his bound - I managed to prove some intermediate theorems, but was unable to work out a way to compose them. The issue ended up being that that I was unable to derive the independence required to prove the inductive step.

If you're interested at looking at the sources, I think the following commit was around the place where I was working on this: https://github.com/certichain/ceramist/commit/70927c5b50e21a...
I miss fruits in general in japan. It’s one of those things I’m willing to pay a premium for because they are just that much better. I can’t eat honey dew and cantaloupe in the states anymore.
Oskar Stålberg makes some great games. Dude did Bad North before this one.
It’s easy to tar the entire Indian IT industry with the same brush, but it’s a much richer ecosystem than just the Big Five.

For example, I work in a small product based company in a niche segment where we’re among the very few people who can provide the solutions we can, and I’d happily pit my colleagues’ skills against the best of SV.

Keep in mind that this article is only about the Big Five. They have a certain business model, a value proposition and a set of clients whom they service. A particular niche that’s been very lucrative and productive for them. This, as the article says, may be drying up.

But that doesn’t mean that Indian IT as a whole, or even most of Indian IT is in trouble.
You can be a Full Stack Engineer if you want to hack together an application that works. However, if you really want to do the interesting work, in both FE and BE, you need to choose one domain and dive deeper. There is a difference between building the next Kafka and the next React and it would be challenging if not impossible for one person to be an expert in both domains.
I've had colleagues with surprising blind spots as well, even at Google. Sometimes I've wondered "how was this person hired here and they don't know X" (e.g. how to use the command line, what a CPU architecture is, etc...). But then those people have ramped up and done excellent work.
Sometimes I stoke my gray beard and sigh.

It depends. Funny how such an indiscriminate answer is so acutely accurate.

Both sides (all sides really — hello devops), should have an appreciation of the other.

But so much depends on team size. 3? 30? 300? 3000? 30000?

When a company is young, you hire generalists. Fullstack. But as you grow, the dynamic changes. Fullstack devs end up doing more one side vs the other. You hire more specialists.

Team dynamics, engineering structure, product embeds, matrix orgs... so much can have an impact. What is your ratio of senior to junior? Do you document like a remote first? How orthogonal is your problem space? So many things. Not taking them into consideration is the real antipattern.
> Their schedule seems to have 5 years for development, and 5 more for certification.

>That seems reasonable

That sounds laughable. Garmin, an established, well-funded, and well-connected company, spent multiple decades to certify one system with the FAA.
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Nope, but given the prevalence of plastics in human households, packaging materials and the fact that we literally eat with plastic forks and straws and drink from plastic cups...I'd say you're getting a lot more plastic in your diet than a wild salmon off the Alaskan coast.
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I'm confused. You're saying that people are reinventing existing ideas at larger scale, but you also are saying that people don't know how to extend what came before? Those sound like the same exact thing.
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Controlling production in one or more ways.

See: CDC patents on vaccines/treatments.
https://www.randonautica.com/

https://bot.randonauts.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/randonauts/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.randonauti...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/randonautica/id1493743521

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h148J7ym7W

https://medium.com/@TheAndromedus/randonauting-for-dummies-h...

https://archive.is/wOdvb

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200722032338/https://www.theat...

https://archive.is/Pn26l
rrweb's author here.
Very happy to see people building commercial products on top of rrweb.
Also paid a lot of time in the last several months to design and implement some new features to help the rrweb scale in production, such as the storage size.
Hope it will keep helping people make more interesting stuff in this area.
Yeah try to fix that from happening in future. You need it to swap not shut down when updating. I will check my Heroku too!
Non-paywall link: http://archive.today/qmmkt
I don't know enough about the APIs involved but - that seems like something you should be able to write as a pair of apps.

You'd need a native iPad app to capture and transmit pen events, and then something on the desktop side to receive the events and turn them into the equivalent wacom tablet events. How does wacom send tablet events to apps? Is it a named socket or something? It shouldn't be too hard to emulate. I wonder if anyone's made something like that in the app store.

Mind you, I'd much rather if Apple baked it into macos through Sidecar.
I don't think this is true at all. The tech bubble in the West is huge and claiming junior devs in the West are anywhere less afflicted by the rat race syndrome than India is outrageously false.
Are you buying only local? As I agree with you, most people I know just order from Amazon even though the local places deliver too (the owners often drive themselves; or their children). Or, if not a Covid spot, go there ofcourse. Still, why pay a cent extra right? Not saying you think like that but most people do.

Restaurant/fastfood chains are preferred over local ones as well. I have no clue why (outside money, but cooking yourself is cheaper and nicer): if I wanted to eat plastic, I could just eat a garbage bag. But it is what it is.

Same goes for wine, beer etc; you fav craftbeer is probably owned by Heineken, while the local brewers are going out of business, even if their beer is far better.

Stimulating local businesses starts with completely cutting out the companies that own everything. People will never do that though for many reasons. It starts with money; without subsidising local companies by the gov, there is no way they can compete.
OK So this sending zip files doesn't just happen in Indian IT companies, it happens in IBM India aswell, a friend of mine tells me how she sends her code in email or use some dropbox like service. These dinosaurs are quite antiquated because of the head of something something BS manager prefers zip over git. In other instances they dont get a testing server for months and then she has to navigate the buereucracy writing emails to get access to some proprietary database or OS.
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Not on a random blog.
Ask your lawyer for an "academic equivalency evaluation" from a professional US education advisory firm that specializes in assessing foreign educational credentials.

Or Google those terms to find a provider (or email me, for the same result), and buy it yourself (price starts at $110; just expense it later). If they like your degree, you'll get like a 2-3 page wall of text that should usually be sufficient for USCIS. Take that to your lawyers, and make them include it in your application. I'm surprised they didn't get one already for your L-1B.

3 years B.Sc. can definitely be fine, but maybe it depends on the country/university/courses? (In my case it didn't matter; I also have an M.Sc. But they certify what you give them, not just the highest, and so I know my 3 year B.Sc. is ok, at least for the evaluator, don't know about USCIS.). One potential problem is if your subject of study doesn't match exactly (e.g. an EE MSc doing software dev). USCIS has been stricter in those cases in past years afaik.

Also, it's more risky, but x% of a degree + y years progressive experience can sometimes be summed up and then in total considered equivalent to the degree. (Progressive means you can show your job continuously became harder. y years of beginner level wouldn't count. Any work that doesn't directly relate doesn't count either.)

IANAL

(You may have already done this; I couldn't tell from your post. "certificate that proves it does" could refer either to a (useless) piece of paper by your university, or an independent academic equivalence evaluation. So posting this just in case you don't have the latter one yet.)
Which is the strategy no doubt!
I've wondered if part of the discrepancy between the stock market and the broader economy, is that the pandemic is going to disproportionately crush small / private / not-publicly-traded businesses who don't have any financial buffer to weather a downturn.

Like, maybe Starbucks traffic is down 20% or whatever, but if 50% of their competition (independent coffeeshops) permanently close, they'll be better set up for success in the 5 years to come, and this accounts for their current relatively strong valuation.

(obviously even stronger in the case of AMZN, but even Target and Wal-Mart are benefitting from being allowed to stay open, while a lot of their competition was shut down -- speciality stores like salons and clothing stores were closed, but big-box stores selling everything stayed open)
As someone who was likely exposed back in March (no tests available at the time, and antibody test now is showing negative, which I don’t believe), I will anecdotally mention a few observations:

1. While you don’t get “really” sick again, you do “feel it” when re-exposed. Specifically I noticed diarrhea and a being a bit “off” on two separate instances where I believe I was Re-exposed.

2. I am 90% certain that even with immunity you remain a carrier when Re-exposed. I don’t know how much of a carrier, but just my strong suspicion (and why I have been extra careful when I have felt “off”)

Would love more medical data to back my hypothesis/observations/thoughts, but thought I would mention it.
> Certainly, you're not talking about working in the Bay Area because a $115K total compensation is borderline impossible to live on anywhere between SF and SJ.

People raise families on less than that. If this person is single, they can certainly live very comfortably in the Peninsula.
Ask HN: Favorite remote work realtime collaboration tool(s)?
I'm about to start a large highly complex and creative project with a strong team. Unfortunatly, with distancing in place, we can't spend all day in a room with a whiteboard. I imagine others have faced this dilemma. What are your favorite tools (or features if within common telecom SW like MS Teams/Zoom) for realtime, day-long remote ideation and collaborative design?
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It is mixing Wiby's index with pages from Bings index. Wiby has criteria for the types of pages that can be part of its index, and those pages must be submitted directly by users.
> one extra byte of lookahead would never SIGSEGV; `size` is enormous, and by definition, that is presumably more than our lookahead

But `size` is just arbitrary number, while the code as written will not proceed past the first negative char. For example some jerk may write:

c_is_ascii_branchy("\xFF", a_gazillion);

but the function has to stop at the first char.

> It is not the early exit that prevents a loop unroll

It really is!
My psychologist had a bad review saying that he made her talk about her problems and said that it sounded like it was her fault. She got all defensive and put him on blast. I don’t remember the specifics but reading her “bad” review made me think he’d be a good psychologist, tough but fair type. He was!
They are based on reasons that are statistically founded in some way because not everyone's blood can be tested as extensively as anyone would like, so reducing risk factors helps. I can't speak for every country but this is at least the case for the ones I've lived in and donated in.

Also, it's no longer true in many (most?) places that "gay people" can't give blood, as the distinguishing factor nowadays is usually recent sexual activity.
Thanks man. I honestly had no idea. I'm not a gamer. The reason I like the Switch is because it offers some fun cartoonish sort of games. Nothing serious. I can barely beat my wife in Super Smash Bros Ultimate! :D I like MarioKart and Rocket League (I suck at it too). I'd probably be more interested in running Linux on the Switch! It will probably brick it. hahaha.. I reckon I'm part of a very small segment of "gamers", even for Nintendo!
There are variants of the Bloomfilter that do try and do this - one way is to have each hash function map to a separate distinct subsequence of the bitvector.

It does indeed reduce the false positive rate, but comes at the cost of increased space usage. As always, utility of this modification would depend on where you wanted to balance space-vs-accuracy constraints.
Previous discussion from a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923172
It is important to distinguish between meritocracy, and the ideology of meritocracy. The article fails to make this distinction when it says in int conclusion

> Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.

when the evidence presented attacks the ideology of it, but not meritocracy itself. The former refers to

* Putting people with merit into positions of responsibility, or

* Rewarding people who have merit.

The ideology includes 2nd-order and nth-order effects like:

* believing that people who are rewarded have merit (including that one had merited the success/failure one has)

* believing that proxies for measuring merit are accurate

* believing that our present implementation of meritocratic principles is both widespread and fair

In my opinion, ideally, we should retain the first principle of trying to give responsibility to people of merit, but abolish the ideological notions that meritocracy is successfully being practiced to good moral effect. And because merit and capability itself is so greatly affected by chance, and so too its measurement, we should strive to reduce how much we reward those seemingly with merit vs. those without.
Due to the nature of HN I have no idea if you'll actually see a response at this point, but ...

You said it yourself. Smaller states can amend the constitution while representing a minority of the population. (I didn't do the math on that but it sounds about right.) So why would they ever agree to directly proportional representation? It's not in their best interests!

Even today, proportional representation is bound to dissatisfy the less populous states whose interests would end up dwarfed by the majority of the population. Meanwhile the more populous states would hardly take well to a fixed number of votes per state. Applying one method to the house and the other to the senate makes perfect sense since bills have to pass both. The problem is that it's not clear how to apply such an arrangement to an election (the obvious schemes would be far too cumbersome). The electoral college seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

(Of course the house is no longer adjusted IIRC, so it's not really proportional representation either. Arguably the states should wield far more power and the feds far less - that would shift attention much closer to home for the majority of issues.)
Also, memory is way slower than the CPU cache(s). So operating within a small subset of the available memory is still beneficial if you need the top performance.
That article only lists MS and Oracle though. Apart from IBM, I don't think CockroachDB Enterprise has such a prohibition, nor does Google Spanner (I think?), nor does Amazon Aurora (again I think?). And of course all the open source competitors don't have this clause.

Basically my impression is that DeWitt clauses are common enough to be well-known, but still in the distinct minority. That's just an impression though.
building on the surface of the moon is not without benefit. as a static location, it would be much easier to build larger sensors with larger mirrors, rather than having to build one giant thing and hope it deploys safely. You could build an arbitrarily large-sized mirror. Or, you could build large radio telescopes that do not need to contest with the noise of the earth's atmosphere.

all spectra are important for astrological observations—there is a serious lack of radio observations made with large telescopes outside of the earth's atmosphere in particular.

NASA has funded an early study into the feasibility of building such a telescope. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_...
No, when I say "America's elites allowed American institutions become something like a dumpster fire I mean traditional American institutions - the courts, the congress, the presidency, our schools, our health care system etc.

It seems like you imagine that out-of-control social media is happening in a vacuum or can be fixed in a vacuum. It's not and it cannot.

I'm sure almost everyone would prefer not be (hopefully) living through a era in which things fall apart on a multitude of levels. But hey, we should try to do something and if we can't do something immediately, at least analyze it.
Atom is technically substantially superior. RSS is an awful hack that leaves far too much to chance, such as in not specifying the format of fields that could be HTML or text. Probably the most significant thing is that Atom encodes whether a field is text or HTML. If you want your feed item’s title to contain things that could be parsed as HTML (e.g. “how to use the <hr> tag”), you’re in for a miserable time: some feed readers will treat it as plain text; some will treat it as HTML (and then probably strip out the <hr>); some may even double-encode it (“how to use the &lt;hr&gt; tag”). If you use Atom, you can specify that the title is plain text, so that the intent is clearly conveyed, and any client that mangles it in any of the aforementioned ways (and I’m not going to rule that out, though I’ve observed fewer problems with handling of Atom feeds) is clearly and definitely wrong. You can also use this to deliberately write HTML in your titles, e.g. <strong>, <em>, <code>. I like to do that, especially for <code>. Most readers will probably subsequently strip the HTML (which is a bit of a shame for inline formatting), but the idea is nice anyway, and more importantly it makes it clear what the correct way of handling it is, rather than leaving it unspecified and hoping for the best.

For normal feeds, I recommend developers use Atom every time. No need to subject yourself to the pain RSS engenders.

However, there’s one place where you still need to use RSS: podcast feeds. Most podcast software doesn’t support Atom, despite the fact that at the time when all that software was written RSS had been obsoleted by Atom. The industry just doesn’t seem to have realised Atom exists, which is stupid: they all just keep on copying one another instead, and adding their own namespace both to add their own fields and to fix the shortcomings of RSS, so that if you follow all of the recommendations from Apple, Spotify, &c. &c. you’ll end up with most of the fields written out in 3–6 different ways (e.g. <foo>…</foo>, <itunes:foo>…</itunes:foo>, <spotify:foo>…</spotify:foo>, <something-else:foo value="…"/>, that kind of thing).

Pretty much all progress in feeds happened between about 2002 and 2007. Roughly no documentation or review of the situation has been published since then. It’s a very unhealthy ecosystem.

Summary: RSS for podcast feeds, Atom for everything else.
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This is subjective though, a makefile could also be considered minimal, but it's still a makefile
Cool, but you could also just use software such as GoldenCheetah or rubiTrack.
Wacom uses kernel extensions, which is another reason why I’d rather it be a first party solution. Not sure what Astropad uses because their service requires an overpriced subscription, has a bad UI, and only functions well with an extra peripheral.

But Sidecar is also pretty half-baked and Apple is flakey about supporting features like in general, so who knows how it will all pan out.
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Most things we have to use for work have no native equivalents though. I would be i3wm all the way if I could but most of everything is browser (badly done so even taking more battery power) or Electron. I mean how horrible is postman and yet everyone insists on using that pool of bugs.

That said, my linux laptops, where I use the same apps and where I have no safari, have far better battery life. So it is not only that.
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