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> coming up with an RFC means [I assume: requires, first] putting together a viable plan.

Okay, so it's actually number 2[2], then? Which is a prefectly resonable position, except that it's the opposite of what you said before.

> "The discussion" has often happened outside of the contexts that the teams are supposed to evaluate;

(Also:

> 1 is correct, sorta. Comments on an RFC are absolutely fine. That is their purpose. Random forum threads aren't the wrong place for that, like, you can discuss ideas for RFCs on forum threads, but you can't expect the team to always weigh in on threads.

but I'm not clear on how much of that was attributable to my poor phrasing of 1.)

2: "non-comprehensive discussions [eg, ones lacking a viable plan] are not appropriate for a RFC" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24449289
In some countries, it can become a high bar.
In a large company, it's not possible for a single person to be immersed in all of the products and projects.

Therefore, any decision on resource allocation to different projects must necessarily involve input from people who are a few steps removed from what's actually happening.

Do you think there's a way around this?
Goryōkaku (五稜郭) in Japan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goryōkaku
I can get behind most of what you said except the idea that tax policy should match the economic situation of the day. We need stable tax policies that normalize for the booms/busts.
This comment is all kinds of wrong. FAANG is "used to" pulling down anywhere from 150-400k.

On the flipside, many many remote jobs pay significantly more than you're describing, more in line with every other non-FAANG developer jobs. If you're just looking at those poorly managed "Remote Job Board" sites, of course you'll think that, because most of those jobs are just subcontracts and gig-type roles.

Yes, there'll be a COL difference, but it's not like you're describing. Gitlab, as an example, pays a Data Engineer in nowhere Indiana 90-120k for remote work.
Corporations only put money into things they can monetize. Anything that works best as commons will be neglected like it's OpenSSL.
Joined about 6months ago, after 7.5 yrs at google.
Eden still doesn't support all repos :(

I do Android occasionally, from laptop, given wfh.
Tweet seems pretty click-baity. Reality seems much more boring -- Google probably isn't going to be our evil overlords just yet.

Summary of [1] (detail from the "redacted" site) and [2] (linked from [1]):

Google was the first to implement a W3C spec (not a standard, nor on a standards track [2]), and I guess this Web site is one of the first to use the spec.

Other actively-maintained browsers are in various stages of implementation or haven't announced plans.

1. https://webcaptioner.com/help/getting-started/web-speech-api

2. https://wicg.github.io/speech-api/
Genuinely confused about the parks and plazas comment. Is this a specific regional air pollution concern or related to covid?

I thought that overall air pollution was way down, and covid dispersion outdoors was a minor concern. Where I'm at, I avoid indoor space maximally, but outdoors I am comfortable with 6 ft and a mask.
We don't mention this at all in the technical report, but there was a lot of interest in applying reinforcement learning to the control problem, and there was some work done in this direction. (I was one of several who groaned whenever we were admonished to "just use machine learning." )

Ultimately we couldn't afford to dedicate much effort to the rather speculative RL approach (our team was small and we were always scrambling to meet our rather ambitious milestones - you know, the usual story :-) ). Instead we chose to continue to pursue tried-and-true controls techniques.
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Oh the joys of stock markets. Nvidia makes around 3B a year (profit), they have 10B cash. IIRC Arm isn't really a cash cow. How can they afford such a deal? There market capitalization is 330B - for whatever reason people are willing to pay that much for their shares. Money is cheap nowadays - also thanks to Corona. So, they sell some warrants, sell a few new shares and it's done.
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Here's the exclusive rights copyright gives you under American law:

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106

> Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

> (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

> (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

> (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

> (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

> (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and

> (6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

Note that running the program is not listed in those exclusive rights. The copyright owner doesn't have the exclusive right to run the program, so the copyright owner cannot take it away from you, any more than I can take away your right to wear yellow socks.
Beginners don't struggle in Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, Ruby, and the dozen (at least) other languages that exclusively pass arrays by reference.

But all of this is way off-topic from the OP: the original point was, "Passing a pointer and length separately is error-prone; there should be a way to easily package the two together and this should be the default pattern for 90% of cases." Then you came in and said "No, instead C should support this totally orthogonal side-case that's a bad idea 90% of the time but has some niche uses." It's not a bad suggestion in itself, necessarily, but it's totally unrelated to the original proposal, much less an alternative to it.
If I had to describe it in two words I would say it’s kind of like a mild ‘coconut curry’. Kind of similar to some Thai food I’ve had that was given that exact two word name. I also usually use more or less one to two Serrano peppers usually instead of the chili fingers.
> AB5 extended the applicability of the ABC test from wage orders to the full labor code and unemployment insurance code.

That's true. A big point was limiting it's reach as to working arrangements. Another was to harmonize the employee vs. contractor distinction indifferent areas of employment law, since it's really inconvenient for business if it's different for each of those areas.
Totally agreed. I live in a fairly rural town with forested backyards, trees, canyons and creeks and it is only 7 miles from Oakland and 15 miles from SF. Even within Oakland and Berkeley you will find enclaves which feel very rural and quiet
Apple almost certainly has some kind of long term or perpetual contract that assures access to ARM instruction set and perhaps some other IP, given they co-created ARM Holdings back in 1990. While A-series chips use ARM instruction set, they've moved on from using actual ARM cores to their own custom cores with the A6 (2012), so they're probably not that exposed on IP if ARM changes hands.

Additionally, since Apple controls the whole stack including dev tools on their platforms, they have a lot more freedom to change underlying chip architecture changes than many others, who must rely entirely on third party software ecosystems to move.

Apple probably wouldn't get their money's worth at current price, given they wouldn't want to take on ARM's tech licensing business, since it's well out of scope for Apple's core business. A consortium would only be another messy strategic entanglement to deal with.
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Or maybe critics like Dyson forced climate scientists to grow up and become a real science, instead of relying on hand-wavy fallacies. Often the best thing for science is vigorous opposition. Maybe a populist irrationally posing opposition to climate science innoculated climate science, making it able to stand up against the likes of Trump. If your critics are all people you can dismiss, you don't know if your theory will survive a political enemy until it happens.
The introduction of the fork in the middle ages caused the development of the overbite.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/how-forks...
Not a lawyer.

I suspect it's not enforceable as a contract, but that it is a valid revocation of the license. That is to say you could still use the project within the bounds of what you can do without a license, but not do anything that copyright law restricts (e.g. reproduce the copyrighted material).
As an Australian, I would argue nothing. I think it protects us from the extremes in political opinions that we see in the US and I hate for us to lose it.
All day doing presentations? That isn't what we are talking about here. Starting the day with 30 minutes of "open mic" to introduce yourself and tell us about something cool that you did is an outright invitation to start the day by getting us excited to hire you, a 30-minute uninterrupted opportunity to show yourself in the best light. How can that be a bad thing? Some so presentation-phobic that they won't do that is not going to bring a lot of value to the organization.
Need an unemployment check? Help build a bridge, road, dam, etc.

In my mind it’s super simple. Money for labor. Problem is, most Americans would revolt if you asked them to break a sweat.
The need for transport will not go away. The moment uber and Lyft leave, other companies will come in. There may not be 1:1 replacement of the drivers, but a lot can jump ship. Others? It will suck when it happens, but hopefully they can find other jobs. There's going to be quite a few office jobs for people with cab experience at companies trying to take over the market though.
I responded above, but look into Orinda, Lafayette, Moraga, Kensington, Albany. You can also north to Novato, San Rafael, Petaluma. Also, along the coast Pacifica, Moss Bay, Montarra, Half Moon Bay, Pescadero. I would also explore Oakland and Berkeley hills
Even if you had a magical fuel plant on the moon to produce infinite fuel for free, what would be the effects of reducing the amount of light earth receives? It's not just turning down the AC. It's fundamentally altering a variable that features in almost every biological and meteorological system on earth.

On top of that, you have Poynting–Robertson drag stopping you from putting dust into stable solar orbit in the first place.
Vitamins are something already required by the body, and with these two taking slightly too much rarely causes an problems.

HCQ is a drug that most people will never consume, can have adverse effects and cause allergic reactions, and was often recommended at doses more likely to cause side effects. Taking it is better than having malaria, but taking it without a proven benefit is a dangerous choice.
China’s funding for science and research to reach 2.5 per cent of GDP in 2019: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2189427/chin...

A documentary by WIRED UK done in 2016 explains many cultural and legal reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

China has hardware industries that work similar to how open source software works.

An article on effects of expiring patents on 3D printing (2013): https://qz.com/106483/3d-printing-will-explode-in-2014-thank...

90 Minutes a Day, Until 10 P.M.: China Sets Rules for Young Gamers: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/china-video-game...

Many Asian countries have already taken strong steps for digital addiction (which will be the next important problem to tackle after covid, I bet).

China’s sustainable urban transport revolution: https://dialogochino.net/en/infrastructure/11025-chinas-sust...

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/no-hong-kong-has-best-t...

> Overall, 79% of people between the ages of 12 and 24 in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia say they feel optimistic about the direction of the world, compared to only about half of those in far more well-off places like Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden. In the United States, the number is 63%.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90241302/where-in-the-world-are-...

> Of the top countries on our survey, China has developers that are the most optimistic, believing that people born today will have a better life than their parents. Developers in Western European countries like France and Germany are among the least optimistic about the future.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

China is also much larger country than US. It has 3x more people than US. Those individuals are going to be at par with people in west at some point. There are so many interesting things to discuss and question.
It seems like you’re correctly identifying the tragedy of the commons nature of environmentalism, but then advocating that we ruin the environment because if we don’t someone else will, which is to say the only sure-fire way to lose. Maybe I’m misreading—it’s late. Hopefully you will correct my error.
The most important feature of goodreads for me is: https://www.goodreads.com/new_releases/2020/9 This shows you new releases of authors whose books you have read.

The recommendations basically crapped out on me after a few hundred books. It seems there are a few cliques (graph) of recommendations that are pretty independent and if you have read these cliques in a genre recommendations just suck.

But plz give me some query syntax like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/lwef/-search-... and most importantly the ability to filter out certain tags.
> Google the name of the person before responding to them

Is it a rule at HN that you can't take someone else's name? Otherwise, there's no guarantee that you're talking to the "Real" Walter Bright...

... or that you're talking to that Walter Bright, come to think of it.
Most of these are what one might call "first order effects" - i.e. factors immediately associatable with work location. For prolonged situation, higher order effects are going to become more important.

Here are some candidates -

1. Improvement in city air quality due to reduced commute - road and flight.

2. Erosion of "social credits" over time due to lower bandwidth interactions when remote.

3. Cumulative impact of serendipitous but significant learning arising from in-person interactions.

4. Impact on the body - prolonged unmoderated sitting in bad postures, eye strain due to constant staring into the screen, bad eating habits, etc.

5. Reduction in sense of belonging / identity / cohesiveness as the "molecules" that make up a cell can move more freely through the "cell boundary".

6. Impact on cognitive development during early childhood - due to school-from-home and lack of social interactions. Joint family homes are great to counter this!

7. Eroding knowledge and awareness of local geography due to reduced travel. Reduced attachment here can lead to apathy when local environs get trashed.
This is something an effective government would have in queue at all times. We have a track record of poor disaster planning. We generally ignore the fact that disasters will even happen.
^ Look into NSCAI, a DoD think tank he's on the board of. Specifically, their plans for competing against China in essentially an AI arms race
Totally agree! And for what it's worth, sorry it didn't work out.

My reply above was to the parent who seemed to think it wasn't all that useful. I looked through the code and found a lot of goodies in there. :)

If nothing else, looking at how you've approached problems can help inspire solutions related problems.
I really liked this linked article below which talks about what makes people most productive. Its starts off talking about brainstorming, which it says doesn't work, but goes on to talking about more general collaboration and is relevant for this debate.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/30/groupthink
> working from home most time in an area that provides me with the chance to buy a home and have a reasonable commute to a satellite office

Companies will lower our salaries as we move to more affordable places to live. It already is dependent on location, people in the same team living in US and EU have different compensations.
Does that imply the key factor wax runway (captilal) rather than the remote work itself?
Experiments needed to confirm "fundamental" physics predictions (eg. large accelerators a la CERN) too costly to be pragmatic, or at least to continue the tradition of timely theory-experiment interplay.

Bear in mind though that the comment was made in the 1980s; people on both sides will debate how prescient he was.

Some background and counterpoints in the context of the proposed Chinese super-collider:

http://ias.ust.hk/ias/files/pdf/1508403651_b2.pdf
If you want randos on the internet but not big corps, then probably the latest GPL is the best bet.

Or just put "non commercial use" somewhere in the text.
I love goodreads, but I've wished for so long for two things way more basic than good recommendations which I don't really care about (except the finding people with similar ratings, I would kill for that):

- Proper search engine (all books with x+ ratings, rated y+ start, in genre z). From what I've heard one has to scrape the site to get any useful information.
- Forbidding rated reviews before release dates. This seriously skews ratings for some genres and is insanely annoying.

Okay maybe three... managing shelves is super slow. I want to be able to drag and drop and have things instantly re-ordered without a reload.
This feels weird. Almost like it’s a rule of law issue that’s at stake when regulations and regulators get left behind.
Hopefully they use it to f&#@ Qualcomm.
That's an interesting take as news organizations are not nonprofits. They are only businesses. The government is supposed to be acting as the central source of good information not a collection of for-profit companies. The issue we face now is our government is manipulating messages for political gain and the media is manipulating filters to further viewership both of which feed upon each other. I don't see how you place no blame on the government here.
> I have no doubt that I could personally move to another country and do my job

Yes, but your compensation will be reduced. You can't take you SF salary into Eastern Europe.
Yep, he could have been less evasive, and then they'd have a recording of him saying "I marked it as high importance."

Being evasive like this is only a problem in depositions to the extent that it gives the media fuel to make the general public hate you. It's pretty much the optimal strategy in terms of the deposition itself.
I never knew about this project. It would have been my dream job.
Right - they thought that it was only spread by symptomatic carriers so they advised people that were buying up the limited mask stockpiles to not buy them. It turned out that they were wrong, and that asymptomatic spread was already happening so they revised their advice and by early April were encouraging people to use homemade masks (to preserve hospital supplies of surgery masks and N95s).

I don't think their credibility should be negatively impacted for updating their advice with the latest science. It's a shame people are reading it in the most negative light possible.
Why would you expect anything to happen? Apple has obviously already negotiated and signed the licensing deal.
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The belief keeps the system going. If people accepted reality, they'd be more likely to move on to something more likely to help meet their goals.
Exactly what thought process leads you to believe we can put 10 million tons of dust into solar orbit for the same amount of fuel we used to send 1/222,222 of that mass to the moon?
I had the privilege of being part of the documentation team preparing some of the materials that were released yesterday (in particular: the code and the chapter on the autopilot/control system). Now I'm taking a little break but I hope to start something new around January. Definitely open to ideas. :-)
Kinda reminds me of https://youtu.be/JSTpRCscfKI?t=187
EDIT: I mixed up two retro gaming YouTubers. The below refers to Bisqwit, not Bismuth. His personal views aside, I hope you find Bisqwit's other videos interesting.

I really respect this guy as an engineer and a retro gaming enthusiast, but he has some videos explaining his personal irrational Islamophobia that really make me wonder about him as a person -- here's one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVxSAi4sueQ
So was DOS. That doesn't mean Microsoft doesn't get credit for Windows.
Honestly guys, don't even waste your time on SwiftUI prior to version 2.0. It's the most raw and crapiest framework apple has ever released. It only looks good on paper, and drastically misses basic functionality. SwiftUI 2 looks a bit more mature though
That seems rather dismissive of engineering practices and ignorant of scientific development.

If we want to get into the philosophical difference between engineering and physics, engineering at its core is solving problems and science is answering questions. There is obvious overlap and no clear distinction.
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Apple “employs” 140K people only if you don’t count the thousands of people that basically “work for” Apple making hardware in China.

Historically, manufacturers didn’t outsource their entire manufacturing facilities.
That article was actually the motivation behind my serious of PGP fan articles. I wondered what the opposite would look like, completely partisan, rabidly pro-PGP:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:index

It turned out that PGP is not all that bad...
This cracks me up I had to google and check it wasn't a made up joke. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_London_Tech_City
> “Kids these days” have their eyes wide open. Just a few decades ago you used to have access to an affordable college education with good jobs on graduation. With a modest level of saving you’d have enough for the deposit on a house within a few years.

Except if those kids would get degrees in the right areas (like the thread is complaining they aren't), they would absolutely be able to get excellent jobs upon graduation. The unemployment rate in engineering has been almost nil for years. Even fields like civil and biomedical engineering, previously at the bottom of engineering in terms of prospects and pay, are now a lock for jobs, with employers desperate to hire anyone they can get. And of course computer science is now doing even better than all of them despite being much easier, frankly.
Amazing stuff. Just made my Saturday night.
It depends on what kind of understanding you want to achieve. It can be helpful to think of DNN as approximating the corresponding infinitely-wide versions. Depending on how you deal with certain scaling, they then act like a linear filter of the error signal in function space, or for single-hidden-layer networks at least, an interacting particle system. In both cases you can understand the convergence of gradient descent training using these analogies, although gaps from real-world practice exist.
People don't work for YouTube or Etsy. (Apart for the relatively low number where there exist YouTube partnership contracts)
I think if we could, we wouldn't need to. A ringworld has most of the downsides of living on a planetary surface plus many more. For the same investment in materials and energy you could build a fleet of orbiting habitats that wouldn't be vulnerable to the kind of centralized threats a ringworld would be.
It was a dream job! Not sure what to do next.