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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this as well. It’s very rare I read blog posts of this length to the end but I was hooked
I think it unreasonable to expect “go mod” to support any compiler version other than what is officially supported for Go - latest Go major and one older version. You are right about your case, but your use case of continuing to use an old version of Go is not something they support.
will fix that. thank you!
There's always this kind of narrative floating around that's simply not true. Sure things are getting bad right now but times have been good for a decade. Also people always say this kind of thing and extrapolate current trends into the future. After the 2008 crisis which many thought would take a long time to recover from we've had unbelievable growth for a decade.
It isn't necessarily different. Mass die-offs with birds happen periodically, and it is always jarring and always causes some form of investigation or introspection. Sometimes the introspection rules out any human involvement, other times it doesn't.

This article is about noting its happening and looking at what's visibly different right now, while the actual investigation goes on.
What I mean is, if you want to buy a shipping container, they cost $5k to $8k (used). People buy them all the time. If they were doing this in about 9 months from now, I would take some of them off their hands. They could sell them for much less to get rid of them quickly and stop paying the rent.
They were wrong. Emphatically. Ridiculously wrong. Remember for context that virtually nobody was using virtual desktops for windows as it not part of the UI unless you installed it and it sucked besides. Also remember most people's internet was very very slow. Screens were also not that big. Not that they are much bigger now with everyone using laptops.

Grouping related windows in the task bar makes it frustrating to use it because everything involves multiple clicks. Once you got beyond a certain number of apps the task bar sucked without grouping because there wasn't enough text to display a long enough label to distinguish between windows.

When something takes a long time to load you are incentivized to create a new tab if you might want to come back to that resource rather than waiting for it to load again. This absolutely incentivizes using multiple tabs. If you have 8-12 browser windows + 2 or 3 other windows you are already past the threshold where you have to group windows in the task bar to use it and are now changing tabs by moving your mouse at the way to the bottom of the screen clicking on the browser icon and then hunting for the desired text then clicking again. This is in a word annoying.

if your browser supports tabs you can have 2-3 other windows and 2 browser windows and use an ungrouped taskbar. You can also hit one hotkey to open a new tab or use in browser tab switching in place of all desktop window switching to switch between several. This is much much much better.

Even if all other sins were removed the browser tabs represent a logical grouping and additional context that would be lost with just windows.

I can close them as a group I can book mark them as a group I can save them for later perusal as a group. I can use a side tab extension to more easily switch between a large number of tabs. I can right click on a link and open several links in the background without changing my current context.

They designed a user interface that was only useful for grandma opening 1 browser window at a time and maybe 2 apps at a time.
I agree on segmentation, but at an early stage it's really hard to figure who your ideal prospects are. We're working towards that after our 1-1 conversations helped us identify who are the people we can provide value for.

Not sure I follow you on job postings, but also agree on domain expertise as an important trait, and think ageism is a big problem in the tech industry
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture – worth watching every year (2007)
If someone wants to make a charge against Google, then by all means do it. But the people making the charge have a responsibility to communicate their position clearly. Complaining that the the wider population is not following along with an intentional abuse of language sounds like a bad faith argument, especially when we're talking about a well established term like "monopoly".
> Seems like total insanity to me and I don't understand it.

They want to tear down Apple's defenses so they can feast unhindered upon the billions of users as they are rendered helpless.

Honestly, any entity that constantly cries foul about the high bars set up by Apple, makes me very wary of any product from that entity.
This might be unpopular, but they're not going to let major things fail because of political reasons. Popular opinion thinks the US is declining, and failures only add to that perceived momentum. That's why there's endless stimulus.

For letting major businesses fail, we really do have the resources to let those former employees do nothing but sit at home and use the internet all day and have no bills. But the US can't handle someone not working and still being able to pay their bills.
Which distros are your parents and nieces running? Every time I try to find the ‘user friendliest’ Linux, there’s just too much outdated and/or bad info out there.
Enticing developers to use their platform isn’t “extending their walled garden.” In a healthy free market, competition is good. Microsoft is encouraging using Linux, just through a VM instead of dual booting (or even removing Windows).

Vendor lock-in, OTOH, would be a valid criticism. But again, this is not that.
Maybe, I judged only on the words I read.
Just the most distinct ones. I'm not agains drums or anything like that (hell, I usually code with heave metal in my headphones), but it's one thing when it's part of the picture and a whole different thing when the music goes like this:

____..__._A_.___.___

Where A is the beat.

I'll try to do something using EQ (never though about this option for some reason)
This statement is flat out false. Tax rates are significantly lower than they were in the past.
I'd love to see the specifics of these players. Facebook targeting is actually more effective in many cases then google (I don't even use facebook personally or have the app myself). A lot of the claims by folks fall apart when you look deeper (ie, scam review sites complaining about google rankings etc). The CUSTOMER should benefit - I don't give a crap if some scammers get ranked down.
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The reason retired people can’t live off of cash is simple - inflation. In many countries, governments provide and guarantee retirement. US has largely shifted to saved retirements in the form of IRA/401Ks. These are investment accounts, which means your principle is not protected, but you earn interest to, hopefully, protect you from inflation and build returns. In practice, those retired end up bearing the same market risk as normal investors, whereas a government insured pension is only as risky as the government itself (which differs by country).
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We privileged few may have experienced unbelievable growth, but most of my generation has not.
If so, the point of view in the comment wasn't obfuscated very effectively, considering that we are all talking about it.
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Yea neural image compression looks pretty neat! The reason I bring up jpeg is because it's so well established and if you come up with a more optimized jpeg (which I'm not really convinced is possible, again a pipedream) you don't have to force people to transition to a new image format. In the end methods like neural style or whatever comes after are probably the better pick but there is a transition period.
That’s not an argument against taxes, that’s an argument for redistributing where our taxes go. I would suspect that a reduction in the tax rate would mean a less-than-proportional decrease in military spending, anyways, so it’s not clear lowering the tax rate would even help.
So I figured out part of it. Google News pulled a TikTok and introduced a #ForYou page. Somewhere along the way, the #ForYou page became the default option. I switched the default back to top stories. We’ll see how it goes.
Sometimes, if you find something like this to be unbelievable, you have to step back and ask yourself: What would things look like if the "climate crisis" answer was true? Take the premise that you disagree with, assume that it's true, and try to follow logically from there.

In this case, a real climate crisis would have incredibly broad effects. It could very plausibly be pointed to as the cause for the many things people are pointing to as being related to a "climate crisis."

So the idea that climate change as at least a significant factor in many unusual happenings in the country (and the world) is a "lazy" explanation doesn't follow logically. Either significant climate change is happening, in which case it is affecting basically everything, or it isn't, in which case it's not "lazy", it's just wrong, but based on a premise that makes it reasonable. (And also, we would need a whole bunch of new explanations for why all these previously-extremely-unusual events were happening, which, honestly, isn't that actually even scarier than the idea that it's climate change? We can see all these crazy things happening; if we don't even have a clue what's causing them, how is that not much scarier than what we already know?)
Habitability for humans. It's more or less a self-correcting problem
pretty sure my problem is >50% of my pay goes on rent :P
What's your model?
It's so great that there are actually people dedicated in scientific studies about DMT! I have a degree in CS and work in the field for 10 years. For 6 years now I've been participating in those mediunic rituals with ayahuasca and everything that comes to me is love, greatefulness and a contact with my inner self. When it comes to God we are actually talking about a more intense contact with our inner selves which already can be explained by psychology, but then it comes the interesting part: it feels like technology is inside my mind in such a way that when I'm under effect of ayahuasca the "beings" that I encounter are very much like "elven" machines but I don't see them, I feel an energic presence and the visual manifestation of that energy in my brain reflects in the form of patterns thus this "machine" looking visuals. Something very interesting about me being on DMT is that I'm able to render those voxels words indefinitely and visualize everything with sound like the sound is the code behind those renderers in my mind. I believe guys like Tesla, Einstein and so many others did have this same capacity to interact with their inner selves / sub consciousness and fully use their mental capacity in such a way that the "energic entities" (read the energy in your own brain parts) were able to describe to them the factories of the universe in the middle of a dream. You may actually follow up on this work with convicted man in Brazil: https://revistatrip.uol.com.br/trip/presos-de-rondonia-usam-...
That's a perspective, but bear in mind that this magazine has been around for 175 years and didn't weigh in on Hitler. That would lend credence to the people claiming it is the former.
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FYI - this isn't true. Valve's approach to self-management is different than the Holacracy approach.
We live in the bowl of Pasadena a few miles (~6) from the Bobcat fire. Current AQI is 343.

We have a lot of hummingbirds in our yard usually. We do a lot of planter boxing farming and gardening. For the past three days we’ve seen most of the hummingbirds on the ground in clover instead of in our trees where they normally are.

We’ve been wondering if they are flying low to avoid smoke or if they are being impeded by smoke inhalation. :(
It's OK Steve, Jesus was also misunderstood :-).
> The only things I can think of are how a user interacts with a page - I don't particularly think this is too concerning

Except that many people don't want others to know how much they read something... I don't care, but many believe that is private.

> If this does turn out to be a privacy concern, browser settings/privacy addons could simply load all lazy images or images refered to in CSS/JS files on load which would nullify this technique.

So you load more invisible pixel and make this even more effective as now you'll be able to get much more granular data, like the scroll position!
Just in general, if you ever want to kill someone in the US, run them over with a car. So long as nobody sees you do it and you aren't drunk or do something silly to make it obvious it was deliberate, it's unlikely you will be convicted.

If they are on a bike, it's even easier to get away with.
We're not reaping the benefits of work anymore, it's mostly trickling upwards now so not really interesting. Makes sense to spend time on video games where you feel a bit more rewarded.
> Everyone should be afraid of this

> It's not FUD.

I'm sorry, but the sentence "every should be afraid of this" is literally Fear.

Yes, Microsoft has a history and yes, we should be cautious. But that's very different than calling for every person to be afraid.
> Tell us why it’s different.

Scope and scale. A larger part of the country is on fire than is typical, and the resulting smoke is denser and deadlier.

But to broadly address your question, the answer will usually be "Scope and Scale" (and occasionally quantity), with both being larger for a given natural phenomenon.
Is Starlink going to cover oceans where there are just a few boats?
>Engineers are almost never to blame in these situations

I strongly disagree with this. Engineering is a profession of public trust, even if operating under an industrial exemption to circumnavigate licensure. We need to hold ourselves accountable to those standards or else it risks becoming a vocation devoid of responsibility and lacking accountability similar to the C-suite positions that people rail against in this thread. I don't think society would cut a doctor or lawyer slack for 'just doing as they're told' and I think engineers are in the same area of public trust.

Good organizations should have dissenting opinion processes. The advantage is that it gives a way to hold management accountable (e.g., they must formally acknowledge that risk). Sure, using that process may come with professional risk, but that should come with the territory of a position of public trust.
It is important to remember this framing, though. So that we remember what we want, and can take the right actions to get there. We want a healthy, happy life for these X humans and to accommodate that we need Y, Z.

I don't think everyone understands this, and I also think it is a key to reaching more people with the message - of why we need to make changes to the status quo.
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Let me make it really simple: The problem with the tech industry is vertical monopoly, but many people want to just think about horizontal monopoly.
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> any guarantees on the output of any particular image though

You don't have any guarantees with this non-convex optimization.

I think most of these methods would work OK on out-of-domain data.
Nanometer wars became marketing bullshit pretty much around the shift down from 22nm to 14nm and lower (2013-ish and later)

At this point, we should just be looking at IPC improvements at the same frequency/voltage and power consumption to see if there are any improvements.

And yes, sure, more cores are nice, but tons of useful software is still bottlenecked by single core speed. So is general computer responsiveness.
The problem with this analysis is that “monopoly” is only one part of antitrust law, and there are plenty of other abuses of dominant market positions that don’t require a monopoly to be present.

Furthermore, in the legal context the meaning is more clear-cut than you make out, though there is significant room for debate. I would not put it anywhere near “freedom” in terms of loose definitions. There are rigorous tests for determining whether a company should be deemed to be a monopoly within a specific market (which requires both a method for defining the boundary of a market, and what “dominant” means.)

This is also different by country, see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_189...
Vs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_l...

I think your general point is to stop focusing on monopoly and get more familiar with all of the different antitrust provisions, to which I would wholeheartedly agree.
And if someone were to audit those "anonymous" 8 Billion, I'm sure they would find that all of it made it to the front lines right? Right? Definitely no issues with corruption and oversight occurring within charitable organizations around the globe.
> The form and nature of these beings vary in reports, but one thing remains curiously constant: People tend to rank these encounters among the most meaningful experiences of their lives. For some people, these encounters change their beliefs about reality, the existence of an afterlife, and God.

Wonder how much of this is simply the fact this is a highly illegal and hard to obtain drug. By definition it would be an unusual experience for anybody and people tend to assign more meaning to the not-mundane. I sincerely doubt you'd be hearing all these stories if you could get these drugs in a grocery store.
To what extent should we be faulting the SEC for requiring quarterly earnings reports, which is a rather meaningless frequency for an aircraft company? How many companies have cut corners on safety due to earnings report requirements?

To what extent should shareholders take some of the brunt for their fickle behavior and threatening to short Boeing stock if they don't sell sell sell earn earn earn, instead of holding long term for Boeing to resolve safety issues at the right pace, which in turn sets the behavior of internal managers at Boeing?
EU courts have arrived at similar conclusions re: Adwords. Specifically, they found that adwords does this sort of thing to its "search partners," competitors to google monetising via Adwords.

Google fought it, lost it, and then took its puny (in google terms) $1.5bn fine as a (affordable) cost of doing business. They certainly would have be happy to pay more than this for the gains they made by operating this way.

The issue with Antitrust as it is, is that the "crime" requires active proof and specificity. Essentially, the (practically) inevitable side effects of market dominance. You might need to prove specific violations like price fixing or (like with Adwords, Amazon and other current cases) using market data to gain an edge as a participant. You might need to prove market dominance by "proving" price effects and other microeconomic effects.

The problem is, these are hard to prove. You certainly can't prove all of them. But, they are a problem to the extent that monopolies exist. An occasional, multi year case ending in a fine <5% of annual revenue... this is a farce. Antitrust law is having almost no effects.

It doesn't help that software economics are very different, and that a lot of both theory and legislation practically assumes that the "market" is commodity-like. It just so happens that dominating literal "marketplaces" like adwords, amazon marketplace, etc. is an area with precedents.

Meanwhile, it's not like we particularly care if the adwords marketplace is efficient. There is simultaneously a massive public interest in 2020 monopolies, ooh. Otoh, the cases that prosecutors are making are very disconnected from the actual public interest. The public isn't all that interested in ad marketplaces being "better," cheaper or whatnot.
Thanks. Now purchased.
Why Apple shouldn't allow websites to email you instead of causing those websites to create iOS apps?
Adding to this, if you have markdown files in your website directory and simply pull them in and render them via Javascript, search engines will still index your markdown files. Your content is still discoverable.
Blockchain is again a buzz word.
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The WiFi claim kept getting repeated even when it made no sense. WiFi doesn’t have the signal strength for miles of distance. Not to mention that if the ship were close enough to shore such that WiFi could reach, it wouldn’t be so much of a shore, but a very deep cliff.
Perhaps we should fix the thing that they’re protesting about?
> Japanese train drivers even pointing at signs to ensure they're paying attention.

I think pointing out things in the environment is a great idea for safety drivers in this kind of setting. It helps keep them engaged, possibly helps the system notice when they're distracted, and possibly provides additional useful training data.
That's not a headline that's a paragraph.
CPU design is a mature field that has been studied extensively. I've thrown together a few toy CPUs, and studied some F/OSS RISC-V designs. New tricks are still being developed for modern software workloads and modern constraints (low-power is key now, whereas before other things might have been priority), but architecture things really haven't changed much since the 90s.

My comparison with JS frameworks comes from my perception that CPU designs are all, kinda, the same. There are also a million ways to do things, but the core principles are obvious to people who study CPU design.
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My parents (who are both pensioners) switched over from Macs to Thinkpads with Linux.

The only help I gave them was recommending compatible hardware. They've been using them full-time for the last year, and have been really happy with them.

Even Steam games seem to work reasonably well, which I was impressed by.
We are capable of holding more than one identity in our minds and switching between them. Some people use that ability to create "characters" (tulpas: https://www.businessinsider.com/hearing-voices-in-your-head-...) that they interact with or even allow to take over their bodies. Apparently some people go as far as replacing themselves with a tulpa they've created (they call this ego-suicide).
For perspective, the Soviet Union lost something in the region of TWENTY MILLION people. Exact numbers are disputed in the range of millions; the Soviet state lacked the capacity to track accurately, having convulsively emerged from feudalism only twenty years previously. It also, frankly, displayed a spectacular disregard for human life even of its own troops and civilians.

> The US is losing people to covid faster than it did during WWII.

This is a huge tragedy; the US responded to the war by trying to win it, deploying huge scientific and technical resources to that purpose. The US (and the UK) has responded to COVID largely by wishing it would go away, leaving the public to their own devices, locking down too late and too incoherently, and waiting for the private sector to develop a cure.
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Ask HN: Which US bank has best online banking, to run operations from overseas?
Hi, We are newly registered US (New York) Nonprofit - GiveInternet.org.
The whole team is based overseas, so which US bank do you suggest that has the best and most convinient mob & online banking to run all operations from overseas?

Thanks
George