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He was wrong on MSFT. But at the time there were maybe 100 companies like MSFT, for example Worldcom, Enron, PET.COM etc. So if you average over those 100 companies that he didn't understand and didn't invest in, maybe he was right not getting into unfamiliar waters.
There were a lot of risks that he could not foresee - potential rise of a competing OS, the rise of mobile phones (which even BillG did not foresee), anti-monopoly lawsuits etc etc.
I recently got obsessed with some music made for the OPN2, one of the chips modeled here - Yuzo Koshiro's soundtracks for the Sega Genesis:

Streets of Rage 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5g-QHq925o

Streets of Rage 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrf-WxRsgs

The SOR3 soundtrack in particular showcases an avant-garde edge, closer to Autechre or Aphex Twin than traditional video game music, and generally more of a "club" aesthetic than anything I've heard in other 90's game music.
For context: I live in austria, where we have the alps that provide a large amount of storage capacity.

Sadly we never got that nuclear power plant.
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Maybe, doesn't make the judgement criteria any less arbitrary though. And given how dark my corner of the room is, I suspect I'd need a pretty expensive lighting setup to make it any better :)
Honestly, you are too old in European market. There are no influential technical companies in Europe, no place to accommodate old people like you and me. I am couple years younger than you, but still oldest after my manager in the department. I tried to write few applications before coronavirus, had couple interviews and saw, that many places hire only young guys with couple years experience. Remote work wasn’t even a topic back then.
Europe wasn't built around cars, car infrastructure or car manufacturing. Consequently they are also not subsidized as much, this is reflected in the price of fuel and the sticker price of the vehicles themselves.

There are other side effects: better public transport (though there is great variation and some of the old advantages are being rolled back), better bike infrastructure (again, not everywhere) and more local shopping rather than just malls.
I asked this on HN a few days back.

I open sourced a library and its become heavily used by some of the largest enterprises who make lot of money using that library as one of many.

It takes a lot of my time to keep it updated so I would like to be compensated some how for the time it takes me away from my family

Even though its used by small and medium businesses I would like only the largest businesses to pay for it.

So how do I keep it open source as well as have the largest business pay for it? Any examples of open sourced applications doing the same?
I recall reading about the large scale defense programmer layoff a few decades ago. Bus driver was a common 2nd career.
Delivery of mail is not a public good by the economics definition used in the Wikipedia article:

(1) A provider of postal services can exclude you from either sending or receiving mail. (Excludable)

(2) There's only a limited capacity to send mail at any given time. The postman can only carry so much. (Rivalrous)

(Of course, sustained high demand for mail delivery services can lead to an expansion of supply, ie they can higher more mail man. Just like sustained high demand for bread means more bakeries will produce more bread.)

That postal services charge the sender rather the receiver is mostly incidental and not important for the distinction. They could just as well charge you for receiving mail. Similar to how people in the US seem to pay for receiving calls on their cell phones (I heard).

It's not that hard. Have a look at the examples section in the Wikipedia article for a discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)#Exampl...

The rivalrous nature of the providing postal services is the whole point of the article we are commenting on, btw.
Mitsubishi had a similar prototype at DSEI Tokyo last year. Good to see lots of effort put into these concepts.

These are frequently argued as useful for special operations forces. I think they are more applicable for logistics personnel, aviation maintenance, etc.....people who are lifting heavy objects regularly, and yet are close enough to power sources/repair facilities that power-efficiency and ruggedness don't need to be perfect.
> std::declval<typename std::decay<Lists>::type::value_type>()

Yes, nothing hard to understand or discover about that at all...
If I was able to receive a definite answer from my employer about a real remote date, I would have purchased a house for under 100k in Montana months ago by now.
"Centres of excellence" was something promised to my last company after a round of outsourcing to TCS. They claimed that since TCS is such a large company that they had these COE teams that were domain experts on certain enterprise software.

Once the contract was signed we never heard of this again. We were stuck hiring consultants that were almost as bad as TCS.
There's no need for baseline power in any power grid. The only type of power needed is peak power. You could run a grid on 100% natural gas peaker plants. The only reason to add baseline or intermittent power is if they're cheaper than the peaker plants or have some other advantage like being more green.
Can you give some examples of the alternatives to regulation you refer to?
That looks awesome! Unfortunately there is zero chance I'll use an app for this, especially if I'm at home on my computer.

Why would I switch up to a smaller screen and the worse experience you get on a phone?
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There th Kabuki theater of business management. Precise calculations over phoy assumptions to rationalize political choices.
> they accomplish the same goals as full VMs

Not if you're doing things that require certain kernel features. For example, if I have an application that uses io_uring, it's _very_ pertinent as to which kernel it runs on. A VM has that in scope, a Docker container does not.
`ls -F` is good enough for me
I suffer a lot of neck and shoulder pain, my girlfriend too. We changed the bed and the pillows and it remains. I just downloaded the app to give it a try. So far, so good.
While I definitely had a couple packages arrive late in the April/May timeframe, since June I've had a couple packages actually show up before the delivery date Canada Post gave.
This. I haven’t been out of work as a developer in 28 years. And I’m definitely not in the top 5% of developers skill or intelligence-wise.
Back in the 1980s I considered the VW Golf a small car, but not anymore. Not sure if it's gotten larger since then, or my view of a small car has shrunk. But I don't think the Tesla 3 is that much larger than a Golf.
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The new Polo is as large as the Golf used to be and the new Golf, especially the station is as large as the early model Passats. This is mostly an arms race, not so much on size as on crash safety, to maintain those precious stars car models creep up in their outside dimensions. Interiors are fairly static.
Do most TLS-based protocols and applications use session tickets? From the gnutls documentation it looks like it's something that needs to be supported in the code, on both servers and clients. Is a client that cannot resume a session vulnerable to this issue?
I did do healthcare - $10k becomes $22k. Housing $10k becomes $17k (rent is a little higher at $20k but housing in general brings it down)

That rent figure is based on "Raw Consumer Price Index data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for Rent of primary residence"

Clearly that can vary by city/state
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As a python dev my mind is kinda blown that php didn't have keyword arguments yet. Especially with the current trend of using kwargs exclusively for better code quality and readability.
The returns diminish over time.

What you learn over those years is incredibly helpful, as it takes a lot of breadth/depth and time. But the rate at which you learn things goes down.
Similar to learning a foreign language. At first you are learning new words everyday. At some point, you know all the common words, so learning new words is impossible at the same rate as before.
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Running electricity cables to streetside parking spaces and parking lots near apartment buildings is now considered key infrastructure that the EU governments are rolling out. It's slow at the moment, but we'll get there.
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I agree, but when reading book-like HTML content I miss bookmarking, highlighting and note-taking. Ideas for how to solve this? Other than personally by keeping a separate document for notes while I read.
That's not quite what Warren Buffett is saying. He's saying that Coca-Cola's revenue stream will continue unless something pretty much impossible happens; like finding out it causes cancer.

To quote:

"I feel 100% sure (perhaps mistakenly) that I know the odds of this continuing - again 100% as long as cola doesn't cause cancer."
Get used to it. Engineers are expensive, so if they can be replaced with button pushers they will be. Learn to push the buttons if you want to stay in the industry. You'll protect your value as an engineer because an engineer who can push buttons is more valuable than an engineer and a button pusher (especially if the company can get away with not paying an increased salary for the increased responsibility, which they usually can).
> how could they hide something like that?

Very carefully. I mean, that's not much of an argument. Lots of stuff is successfully kept secret. The US managed to keep a lid on their surveilance for decades (iirc) before the lid got blown on that, and people used to give the same argument you are in that context, too.

What's the alternative? Do you think megacorps never keep illicit things under wraps for extended periods of time?
I think there is some cyclic property here, but I like to think of it as a sort of meta-refactoring. As we go back to SOAP-like APIs, as we return to mainframe computing, as we rediscover peer-to-peer networks, we take all the knowledge and improvements from exploring an alternate area with us. The advancement is in the nuance.

And, of course, there's also just the Eternal September effect with the vast majority of developers needing to learn things that the grey beards have already learned but have no succinct way to communicate (or just aren't heard over the roar of constantly greater numbers of developers with each passing year)
TBH depending on circumstances, working five days a week at home also won't work for a lot of people this year.

I have family trying to raise two kids during this pandemic. Turns out, children aren't just little adults who will go off and do assigned tasks unsupervised; they require attention and crave personal feedback, and those aren't things they can get from either teachers or peers in a distance-learning configuration. Not in the quantities they get them in school. A lot of working parents are going to find they're splitting their time between their day jobs and keeping their children on their tasks, which will be a huge adjustment for a lot of families (especially families with two working parents who can remote-work).

I don't know that the US has a firm understanding of how much the babysitting aspect of regular primary (and in some cases, high school) education adds value, and the whole economy is in for a rude shock come Q42020 / Q12021 as everyone's projections get missed unless companies are writing down goal-hitting expectations right now.
Are you using Wavelet to tune them? Stock they sound pretty bad, far too bass heavy.
TLDR: The human and primate outer cell membrane is covered by a sugar coating (sialic acids) which protects the cells from foreign microbial invasion. Human cells are coated with one type of sialic acid, N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac). But apes and most other mammals also carry a different one, N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc). 2 million years ago a mutation in a certain gene led to overproduction in one type while dicontinuing production of the other type.

This abundance of one type of silaic acid sharpened our immune system to specific microbes but since we discarded the other type or silaic acid, left us also vulnerable to certain microbes.
> I'm basically just learning a library/framework that does the exact same thing but with different names in the API"?

I won’t say I reconcile anything, but I get a chuckle out of it. Makes it easier to learn the new flavor.

As The Who said, “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”

To add another example to the two you provided: how many different designs and implementations have you seen for pub/sub and message-based systems (topics/queues). I literally lost count. Even fucking Redis has an implementation!

They go back at least to the 1970s.
(Remember Enterprise Service Busses in the 90s?)
> They also seem reluctant to really want to learn anything else which is antithetical to software engineering where a new framework is out every day.

Actually I'd say that's a sign of maturity. They've grown wise to the idea that our industry has a fetish for reinventing the wheel and refuse to take part in it.
This is actually brilliant. Fantastic way to put it. Especially the part that people who don't do it must be some kind of outcast: ignorant, evil, pathological...
There was huge consolidation “for efficiency” in the past decade. They shut down lots of distribution centers. Local mail that used to be delivered over night wis now delivered in 3 days at best.
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I am pretty new to this space, but isn't one of the main advantages of WASI the fact that we can skip a lot of this containerization and simplify deployment?
It's discussed at the end of the article. Water level is dropping at ~3m/year. One NGO estimates the boom will only last ~10 years before causing massive problems for everyone living there (not just the farmers). Ironically solar is the opposite of sustainable here. Diesel power would at least be more self limiting.
Do it if that's what you want!
The thing is, the concept of religion as a distinct, separate part of culture is basically a Western concept itself - and one that many scholars don't find to be very solid. Take Japan for example: Shintoism and Buddhism are very woven into the culture of modern Japan. Rituals, shrines, and other associated practices are quite prevalent and most of the population interacts with them on a regular basis. Yet your link lists Japan as being the second-least religious country, after China, which also has a number of beliefs that essentially qualify as 'religious' in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan

In the Western world, the concept of humanist, egalitarian democracy is more-or-less an extension of certain Christian ethical beliefs that preceded it, so again, this definition of 'not-religious' is itself pretty problematic.
I'm so happy to see named parameters become more common.

They're absolutely critical to writing code that is easy to read. The name of a function tells you what it does, arguments equally need names to tell you what they do.

Even if I have a great IDE, I don't want to hover/cursor over the line to see what each argument does, each random "0" or "null" or "1" or whatever. There are also plenty of times I'm viewing code that isn't in an IDE, like a diff.

Obviously they're not always needed, like in functions that take only one or two required obvious parameters.

But otherwise, they can make the intent of a line of code obvious at a glance, and are a huge step toward making code self-documenting.

I just can't believe this is a change that's only picking up now, rather than 20 years ago.
Give me a dumb pair of headphones with a 3.5mm jack and I'm happy.

Edit: Thinking about this article more, it really goes back to hardware not getting funding unless there's a model for recurrent income. It's going to get a LOT worse before we either wise up or give up.
Any framework/library code which abstracts over invoking a callable must also be extended to support associative arrays, and to avoid assuming that parameters will be given in the order they're defined. For example, things which play around with call_user_func and func_get_args (e.g. delayed evaluation, partial evaluation, currying, mapping over datastructures, composing/pipelining, etc.)
Is sentiment analysis really that good already?

Every time I’ve looked at the start of the art in sentiment analysis, it seems to be suffering from the same issue that bag-of-words has with modifiers like “not”. Or is that more a theoretical problem than a practical one?

I appreciate this is a rapidly moving field, so my knowledge could easily be out of date.
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Well, I was rejected by one company because I don't have public GitHub projects.
Whoa, I don’t see this in OP post. Perhaps a political motivation was edited out to make their argument appear technically grounded when it has ideological underpinnings?
For me, it is a setting to tick, which mentions the country:

https://i.imgur.com/fML3x0l.png (in French)

Once it is set to my country (France), then I get almost identical results.

I don't know how to deactivate this feature on Bing, so I could not compare Bing and DDG in the case where the "location" setting would be ticked off on both sites.
> In 2020: E-tron, Golf, Leaf, Kona, Model 3, Soul, Zoe.

Wow to me this is bigger news, Tesla is #5 on the list.
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I've been remote for ~5 years, and I definitely think the remote==forgotten is true... but it's also plenty true for the in person crowd.

In the past year my team has lost ~4 people, and I don't think they've been discussed once, save for one or two long running projects that had some of their input, aka "we need to get access to $old_employee's OneDrive to get $document".

Even in person, a year later no one will remember that you were there; plan accordingly.
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Name some.

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I come to HN because it's my access to grey hairs. Unfortunately I haven't ever met a grey hair that really enjoyed coaching.
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Shane Gillis, not sure with how his career has been faring since the SNL fallout. Dennis Miller somewhat but he's still getting work. I'm not sure whether Michael Richards fits.
There are drawbacks too, usually such solutions are very Japan centric and hard to port to other countries, leading to Galapagos syndrome.

One example is bullet trains - my most favorite form of transportation but sadly only few countries can adopt it with success similar to Japan.

Second is Osaifu-Ketai - I think this the best NFC based payment system in the world, extremely fast and almost no learning curve. But it took way too long to modernize it and put it inside smartphones. Is very inflexible. Licensing is too expensive so won't be ever globally opted, so we ended up with much inferior QR codes and slow NFC systems.
This is exciting. Something I have wanted to work on myself for a long time. I hope Ubuntu Web’s UX is influenced more by Jolicloud Joli OS and Palm webOS than Chrome OS. Chrome OS always seemed like such a disappointment after using the other Web-centric OSes.
My wife and I have already opted in to the virtual option provided here in South Dakota. I'm diabetic and she's pregnant, thankfully we're in a position where we both work remotely and my employer is incredibly flexible for at-home needs, particularly right now.

This whole pandemic situation has really opened up my wife's eyes re: my reasoning for insisting on working remotely.
I think you're both right.

The primary motivator isn't to save a few bucks.

But also, it's going to save them a lot of cash. Those amenities are incredibly expensive. So much so that the IRS has probed around as to whether they're properly taxed at a compensation level commensurate with their value.
You don't need secrets for your theory of insiders to work. What Thiel and Musk saw was DeepMind. Then they invested in it. Altman acted later.

And the vision of what AI was becoming was voiced much earlier by Yudkowsky, whose Singularity Institute received funding from Thiel.

If anything, they heard what a few prophets were shouting. They saw some early demos in a startup pitch. They responded and DeepMind's work soon became as public as AI research is. That is to say, most people ignored it until the Google acquisition.
I should not respond to this red meat but I am human after all. From what I see, we have a largely peaceful protest with a few bad actors. "Congress shall make no law ... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." What I see are a "Wall of Moms", a "Wall of Dads", and a "Wall of Vets". These people are being gassed, attacked, and abducted by the Federal Government, in clear violation of federal, state, local, and city statues to say nothing of their Human Rights. When you say the political establishment is losing power, do you mean the one started during the Enlightenment or the one founded during the new world order established after World War II? And which communists are you referring to? Do you really believe these protesters are supportive of the ideas of Karl Marx? Or are they asking for justice and for fair and equal treatment under our laws, as guaranteed by the Constitution?
Then it's on us to make sure that society can provide opportunities beyond putting the best minds of our generation into generating more clicks.
Obviously a lot of people take the train or fly. I'm just saying that a lot of people drive, as well. I'm not sure EVs are ready for this sort of trip in any case.
5 years of X just says that the job market can sustain some number of requests for candidates that don’t require as much ramp-up time once hired. It doesn’t mean the candidates will be old, in fact looking for highly specialized tech stacks rather than experience in the business domain of the product is a sign of someone looking to hire young.
I hope Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t talks about this, he spends tons of time in the Mojave Desert!

“Okay, so, here ya got a species of MAHSS, dat seems like it doesn’t really like bein’ in the desert, but that’s where it lives anyway. Why would you do that? I hear ya though, I know the feeling. I live in the city, that’s like a desert of the soul, ya know? Surrounded by the ongoing catastrophe that is modern humanity.”

Followed by an accurate and detailed description of the moss’ morphology and lifecycle.
> No one uses AGPL for libraries, except maybe by mistake.

This isn't my experience at all. Here's an example:

https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf/blob/master/LICENSE.md

> The AGPL is not viral in the sense that all client software accessing an AGPL-licensed service are required to use the AGPL, but rather, such clients are entitled to the source of that service. It puts no obligations whatsoever on client software.

This depends on what your "client" is. If you're making library calls, lawyers get uncomfortable.

> Maybe you should actually read up on the AGPL license before you make assumptions about it? It seems like you don't really understand it.

I understand it quite well, and I even use it myself! There are just problems associated with it that most proponents gloss over.