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Frankly, this whole "gives access to Russia's core, without natural barriers" is ridiculous. I'm not saying that having the geopoliticsl wheels turn is not possible, but Russia has absolutely no expansionist neighbors and I seriously doubt there had been anyone in the last, oh, 30 years, that wanted to invade Russia. Overall, the current pose of Russia is of its own doing.
12 KM that’s the dual graviton posited by DeWitt. I have written a WZW that predicts exactly this; but the proof itself, at this point. Remains mathematical. What you’re witnessing is the apparent perihelion between two gravitons acting; one short distance, the other long; the solution is a Gromov holomorphic homotopy of the seven sphere contraction to two dots on the Celestial plane.
Remote working has positive and negative effects. First come the positive, over long term the negatives become self evident.

Hopefully Covid-19 exposed people to the positive effects and there will be more remote work opportunities than before. People frequently working 1-3 days a week from home in many professions might become accepted norm.
A lot of employers have turned their culture more into a cult than anything else. I feel the same way about working for AWS.
Journalism is dead. Completely dead.

Just look at the Covington High School fiasco. Or look at YouTube for 'The Walls are closing in'. Or look how long the Russiagate narrative dominated the headlines, only to dissolve in a day.

Yes, true journalism is dead.
Can you come to my meetings and tell my CTO how to make decisions faster?
I take this kind of approach but tend to do full-time for a few months then have a month or two off when it ends, depending on how I feel.
> I'd momentarily feel superior over having a different idea about how to accomplish those goals, only to feel deflated once my idea also showed short-comings.

That just means you weren't valuing the right things.

At the end of the day, that's what it's about. It's not about "technique A should have been used instead of technique B", it's more about what you value. It matters because those values will inform both your decisions and your actions.

For example, someone who values performance will not write slow code. Someone who values productivity will write slow code. Someone who values stability may or may not write slow code and may or may not be productive, but their systems won't arbitrarily go down.
What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too
This made me cry, very suddenly and unexpectedly. I know it will probably not mean anything tangible but I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you and your daughter are able to come out of this ordeal stronger than you went in.
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Pony is an amazing language, but I feel like it burned its entire complexity budget. Reference capabilities are really great, but they have this weird special syntax around them, and they're all termed in a very unique way.

I very much want a language like Pony because, as this talk demonstrates, it's doing some incredibly cool and powerful things. But it's pretty confusing.

Rust types like Arc, Mutex, &, &mut, and affine, have been wayyyy easier to learn for me because they aren't totally new concepts - I know what Arc is, Mutex, references are, moves are new but that's just one thing and it wasn't too crazy coming from C++. I know how to convert between these types because they're regular structures, with methods and documentation like all other structures. This is in really direct contrast to my experience with Pony where I had to learn like 6 new keywords, try to map them back to my own reference model, and, worst of all, trying to remember the strange incantation to map between them. I bet this is a "learn it once" thing, and it would be fine if that were the only new thing, but it's not - there are object capabilities, actors, learning the runtime/GC, learning new libraries, etc - there just isn't enough complexity budget in my brain for all of these things.

I contrast this with Rust, which people consider quite hard to learn, and Pony has just been way, way harder. It's a little "too good" - nothing in Pony is unjustifiable, like not having assertions/ failures, but I really want those things! Division by 0 is a perfectly fine thing to define as returning 0, I seriously don't even care, but it's just one more straw.

All in all, I was so hooked on learning Pony at first, totally enamored, and then I just found that I couldn't justify putting in the time.

I ended up writing an actor library inspired in part by Pony for Rust, using macros, and I've been fairly satisfied - though there's much more Pony offers, by far. I'd really like to see more actor model languages crop up, and incorporating many features that Pony has, but maybe making some 'worse is better' decisions in a few places.
I just (4th week tomorrow) started a similar thing with my company.

I work 16 hours / week and am on a support rotation (albeit 3rd tier). I only cover unplanned work on weekends. I took a 60% pay cut but keep all my pre-existing benefits.

So far it has been wonderful for my mental health, although with social distancing and the pandy it certainly has been difficult to keep busy some days. I am passively looking for supplemental work as I don't make enough to deposit into my savings. I imagine as winter rolls in this will be a necessity to stay busy/sane.

In the meantime, though, I have picked up lots of cooking, baking, and work on some personal coding projects. I have also been focusing much more of my time on art, which is really awesome! It's too early to tell but this might end up a more permanent situation for me (if not at the current company then maybe at the next one?).

I think this has also made me more productive at my job. I have 16 hours this week - what NEEDS to get done? What is a nice to have? Constraints are wonderful for productivity.
Are any unrelated observers trying to defend this suspension? How would one even begin to go about doing that?

This seems like a topic where everybody can and does agree that the reaction is wrong.
My great fear is not dying but leaving the people behind who depend on me.

I mean as the only earning member of my family the scariest post part about dying is what will happen to family.

I don't have a big life insurance and not a lot of savings. So it gives me chills that my wife and daughter will have to fend for themselves or live a lesser life should I cease to exist suddenly one day.
For some maybe, but some people have no problem separating work and personal life. My guess it that the people that have the most trouble with this are the ones that have no hobbies outside of work, so they just end up working more since they have nothing else to do.
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I disagree, we use Office 365 and experience frequent information loss. You edit a document, you get visual feedback that is "Saved", then reload it and all your changes are gone.

It is also much slower compared to Google Docs, in terms of loading time and latency, and has an abundance of rendering glitches.
I've been hoping that cheap Boston dynamics clones would start coming out. I wonder how long it will take before something is really consumer affordable
Yes the few will wear out, I even believe the regime will replace Lukashenko. But my point is that these regimes are wider than they seem. As one man put it in twitter about Russia: KGB and 90s Mafia merged, and it became the state of Russia.

I think there is similar situation in Belarus, the criminals are in charge at all levels of state and each city. Sweeping it away without organized opposition requires a miracle.
Coming to the office once a week on friday made me realise how starved I was for social connection.
This could be an amazing chip, I imagine its a replacement for the R5?
Question: are GPUs a consideration in the SDR world?

I'm no expert on SDR, but it seems to me that SDRs are the high bandwidth and parallel workloads where GPUs excel in. (GPUs can perform fourier transforms very efficiently)

The only possible qualm would be the latency of a GPU. But I don't imagine that SDR workloads are very latency sensitive? Or am I mistaken there?

GPU kernels are just software, but the parallel nature of GPUs means that it's better if most of the GPU is sharing the same code (very small L1 code cache per thread). So it's far more flexible than a FPGA but somewhat less flexible than a CPU (where different cores and threads can be executing very different code with large and unique L1 caches)
Wait, I don't recall seeing third-party products on Target. When did that change? I see some mention of it online, but cursory search for products doesn't bring it up.

Edit: Looks like Target even hides that the product is third-party!
Sure, and I think they are being presented civilly - the "math is racist" CNN article is quite mild in tone https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/weapons-of-math-... - but that doesn't help much when your interlocutors think that certain ideas are inherently uncivil.

(The problem in some sense is the opposite of what the interlocutors say - "racist" is a well-defined term, and one can debate whether a thing is racist or not, but they're not willing to engage with any argument that something is racist, and they respond to it by shutting down debate and saying their opponents are unreasonable.)
I wouldn't view it as a step backwards at all. FAANG employees are just about the most pampered workers on earth and they know how hard freelancing can be. Only thing that really matters is having engineer in the title. Everyone does the dishes. Two to three years is like the blink of a eye.
This article seems to confuse some terms.

Just one little example

> ...offers an additional layer of encryption, where messages can get deleted after a specific time.

That’s not encryption. That’s application logic which you must trust is working on the recipients device as well as yours.

There are a lot of other mistakes. It seems like regurgitated blog spam, and I won’t spend time correcting the rest of it.

doing some quick googling shows these clearer, shorter, and more correct articles:

Very short explainer: https://protonmail.com/blog/what-is-end-to-end-encryption/

More in depth: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/deep-dive-end-end-encryption-h...
Why do you want a commute?
They probably won't though, because the R core I don't believe has an MMU for Linux
This is why any of the "ilities" is a red flag for me. Don't tell me it isn't scalable, make it concrete. Tell me what specific numbers we're supposed to meet. Don't tell me it isn't readable, tell me specifically what the problem is.
Reed Hastings just released a management book (written before the pandemic) which is heavy on traditional, in-person management styles. I think the statements in the book make it difficult for him to suddenly welcome remote work on a permanent basis.

In addition, certain (but not all) aspects of the media business such as creating media do work better in person. This is true of many industries, not just media, and may explain some of his thinking.
True, but that one project is just a drop in the bucket of scientific computing and C++ interop in Python, even despite the success and popularity of PyTorch - so it doesn’t really say much in favor of pybind that this or that project got good mileage out of it, it’s still such a deep minority compared to Cython.
What are units of the geometric product of two vectors?

Edit: didn't read clearly. Better question is why would we want to have a scalar with units of square meters in this case? Shouldn't 0-grade objects all have the same units?
I'm genuinely curious why it's pure hell for you.
Meetings where everyone is essential and required, for both input and task assignment are important.

Meetings where people are there just to listen in, or for FYI purposes are utterly useless.
Nice. It's an actual experimental result.
Yeah. My early years (up to age 12) were ok. After that though was very... not good.

One memory really stands out though, from about a week (rough guess) before I turned 13. It was my mother saying she was dreading my 13th birthday, as that's when things go bad.

It completely surprised me, as I hadn't thought anything special about it.

However from (literally) my 13th birthday onwards, life became hell. On the day.

My mother turned into an absolute control freak, full on, with no-let up. For years. If I didn't do something she wanted, in exactly the way she wanted (generally with no explanation), it was name calling, taking away of <whatever she knew I felt was important>, and doing whatever she could to belittle and degrade me try try and "teach me a lesson". There are no words to describe the mental abuse from that day onwards. It never stopped, and there was no way of getting it to stop.

I eventually dropped out of school (age ~15), lived on the streets for a while, then went to live with my grandmother.

All because some idiot bitch thought teenagers were the problem. :( :( :(

Please, don't take this approach with your kids.
Not at the moment, but we're working on it :)
It's amusing reading all of the HN comments that insist that any attempts to not work remote must be some ploy by "the suits" and act like remote work is some panacea for all the problems in the world.

My very large tech company did a survey this summer about remote working conditions. Out of tens of thousands of respondents, less than one third said they wanted to continue working 100% remote. Nearly half said that their work/life balance was worse when working remotely. Over one third said they are less productive.

HN lives in a bubble of pro-remote talking points. In reality, most of the tech workforce (to say nothing of the non-tech workforce, which I assure you is much more anti-remote) does not enjoy it.
The article talks about it like it's a replacement for the R8.
This video goes into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOumvtTZO8

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24189188, but no comments there)
Lots of powerful nodes. That cluster was all dual xeon 2690v4. My in-depth knowledge of the clusters ends when they moved from FreeBSD at SoftLayer to Linux at Facebook. I didn't care for the environment and it made a nice boundary for me --- once I ran out of FreeBSD systems, I was free to go, and I didn't have to train people to do my job.

We did some trials of quad socket x86, but didn't see good results. I didn't run the tests, but my guess from future reading is we were probably running into NUMA issues, but didn't know how to measure or address them. I have also seen that often two dual socket machines are way less expensive than a quad socket with the same total number of cores and equivalent speeds; with Epyc's core counts, single socket looks pretty good too. Keeping node count down is good, but it's a balance between operation costs and capital costs, and lead time for replacements.

The BEAM ecosystem is fairly small too, so you might be the only one running a 16 socket POWER 10 beast, and you'll need to debug it. It might be a lot simpler to run 16 single socket nodes. Distribution scales well for most problems too.
https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/viewstatus

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/sunrise-claims-...
I've been doing 20 hours per week (Mon-Wed) remote for nearly 3 years and I absolutely love it. I'm at a $bigco and worked there for 10 years before changing to this part time arrangement.

I believe it's harder to do for small companies due to legal/tax reasons (something about less than 32 hours complicates things a lot although I don't know the details why).

The "simple" solution is to be good enough that you have the bargaining leverage to propose it and make it an ultimatum. Other ideas:

* Grind in a project for some years and become indispensable and then propose it.

* Propose it as an experiment for 6 months.

* Create an "excuse" of why you need the extra time such as pursuing an M.S./PhD.
Here is the study I read it from, there might be others. In my experience, yes, it doesn't work for managers, only those who are individual contributors doing programming full time. I doubt however that even the senior managers are coding the entire time for 4 to 6 hours, it is difficult to do so every single day. More likely, you perceive them to be doing that much work since they are present during that time, which is the same reaction I get as well; colleagues and bosses speak of how much work I get done compared to others, yet they don't realize I work a lot fewer hours. It's all about efficiency.

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...
I love this explanation. Any thoughts on the second part of the quote about hair style?
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From the article: "Another big change to the microarchitecture is the inclusion of an MMU"
Their recommendation engine is beyond terrible. It sucks so bad that a flat list of all movies in alphabetical order would be much, much better.

I would say that I am able to find something I want to watch on Netflix about one out of every five attempts. The other four end with me giving up in frustration after 20-30 minutes of looking.

I wouldn't pay even a single dime for the service, myself. My partner does, and every now and then I get bored enough to give it another shot. Usually I regret it.
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Google is FedRAMP compliant, however if you need to make sure it is encrypted then that is what rclone is for. You could setup an rclone encrypted mount and then share it on the local network.
Ya, I suspect this very fact is going to keep wfh from becoming a broad reality. There is a lot of upper middle management that have nothing to do but meet with people. If talking and collaborating is all you do then you are going to push for in person.
The classic study on this topic that everyone loves to cite is "“Constant, Constant, Multi-tasking Craziness”: Managing Multiple Working Spheres", from 2004, where anthropologists observed 14 workers building software, specifically:
* Four software engineers
* Six analysts (more like a Project Manager)
* Four managers (like an Engineering Lead)

What they found is in a ~nine hour day, the people did between ninety minutes to 4 and a half hours a day doing their 'focused work'. You can imagine that project managers are pushing 90 minutes, and the engineers are closer to 5 hours.

All of this is on top of two hours a day chatting with people across cubical walls.

In reading a bunch of these studies, you find small populations, and a focus on law firms and consulting because their work is significantly more legible.
If you want the qualification study part time as a distance student with the lowest cost possible. There may be some worth to this degree but not $200k. You've proven you know this stuff. Distance learning will be easy for you.
It's also called the R82 so I think that makes sense.
I'd point out parent used "Far-left" in the same way I'd use Rar-right. They absolutely would not be calling everyone to the left of center crazy, in the same way I'm sure you wouldn't say everyone who is a member of the far-right represents everyone who is right-leaning.

Assuming parent was lumping left-leaning and far-left together is hardly a good-faith interpretation of their comment
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Because the commute worked as a great buffer to get into "work mode" in the morning and then transition back into "home mode" in the afternoon. Without this well-defined separation, I never get the productivity boost for work in the morning, and nor do I get the "work done for the day" feeling at the end of the day. Commute and getting out of my home is absolutely essential for me to remain productive and happy.
No, I want this https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25677/ak-47-history-1...

Particularly over some QAnon believer’s tweet roll.

If you’re an expert or in a position of particular insight, a great deal of articles are going to have annoying errors or miss context. It’s like Neil Degrasse Tyson getting angry that we say the sun sets when it’s actually the earth rotating. This hasn’t gotten any better with amateur journalism and less sophistication.

Having left at least one environment where I considered my insider information to give me a superior perspective, I realized my insider position itself created bias. We’re all subject to Rashomon, and should be in conversation with each other to hone working models.

NB I know people with A+ or MCSE certs that obtained them as part of the non-collegiate path into tech and who are genuinely great engineers.
Since you are playing devil's advocate anyway, could you try to defend the concept of dog whistles? Recent events suggest that if someone wants to be racist they simply will, without any attempt to disguise it.

I also think it is too convenient to give one political movement the ability to say that their enemies are secretly racist (aka evil) even though everything they say is actually innocuous.

While the antisemitism example resonates somewhat, antisemitism withing the anti-Israel political movements is:
A) not coded at all, and
B) not a good reason to dismiss all anti-Israel arguments all of the time.
Therefore, it is hard to see how the concept of dog-whistles is at all useful.
"Another big change to the microarchitecture is the inclusion of an MMU, which allows the Cortex-82 to actually serve as a general-purpose CPU for a rich operating system such as Linux."

That's interesting, but they seem to be removing most of the differences between the A and R series.
Ask HN: I feel stuck in my career. How can I find a (good) mentor?
I feel stuck. I don't even know if I want to continue working with tech. The more I read and research, the more useless I feel. It may be some sort of "impostor's syndrome", I don't know, but I just feel like I'm doing the same thing over and over again and that I'm not growing as a professional.

I've tried doing 1:1 with my managers over time, but it didn't help. I've also tried signing up for Career Advices on LinkedIn but it also didn't help (it was mostly showing up managers from fields other than tech).

How can I find a good mentor? I think I need someone with a similar background and more experience to talk and (may) help me find goals I want to pursue.

I can give more details if needed.
I bought one of those mini keyboard/trackpad things for my own battery powered rpi project. It sucked.
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I haven't seen any downsides to having these smaller meetings via zoom though. Sure if someone has kids running around that would be less than ideal, but that's not so much a WFH problem as it is a pandemic problem which will eventually go away.
I'm using Firefox on a 4GB RPi4 daily, without problem (with uMatrix that disables unneeded scripts however). It is a bit slow on media-heavy sites (youtube, ...).

It tried the same software configuration previously on a RPi 3B+ (1GB): there, Firefox was quickly exhausting the RAM.
If I'm understanding this correctly, whenever Mars goes through a solar eclipse, the Mars InSight lander picks up something on its seismometer, indicating some ground activity (like a minor earthquake, etc)?