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I don't think this is true. Google doesn't let you run java that was compiled for the JVM. They have an entirely different mechanism that is not the jvm for their java code to compile to.

All they did was port the language to a new compile target. When you port a language over you also port the standard library or at least the parts that you need. This is standard across the industry. Every language implementation does it. What Oracle is trying to say is that you need a license to do it and that is a dramatic change in the industry practice right now.

It's also short sighted. If Oracle wins then you'll need a license to implement java the language (as opposed to the JVM) anywhere. Short term Oracle get's a pile of money. Long term everyone stops using Java. But then again if you are Oracle, with it's current values, Java's only real value is short term money gains. It's hard to make money on a programming language the way Oracle prefers to operate so this may be the best they can do.
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The dictionary would list it as Spanish not denoted with US English.
Yup. It's going to be a bit before it percolates through to lower price point devices, but I'm a very, very happy usb-c/thunderbolt user.

My phone, headphones, drawing tablet, personal laptop, work laptop, and monitors all plug in using a single port.

Not just for connectivity, but also for power.

It's incredibly liberating. Everything charges from the same charger, everything plugs together.

I vividly remember the days of trying to find the right wall wart for the right device. I can't tell you how happy I am that my work laptop and personal laptop can both share chargers. That alone would make me ecstatic. That my phone/headphones/tablet also all work with just that charger is candy on top. That my monitor can provide that power while also using the same cable for display in? Incredible!

There are absolutely still issues, and it requires more research than it should, but once it works, it's SO DAMN NICE that I simply can't imagine going back.
Lambda especially has good support with CLI, SAM and CloudFormation.

Pretty much everyone moves on to one after getting introduced in AWS Console Web UI.
i've found it helpful realizing that in procrastinating, my mind tricks itself into the nice, subconscious feeling of passing on the task to someone else who's more likely to do it.

basically worth reminding myself when i procrastinate that i'm passing the baton onto someone with no more interest/discipline than i have right now -- so if i'm passing it on, why wouldn't he?
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> I'm genuinely curious, could you explain how the touchscreen is a disaster?

Touchscreens in cars are a disaster, in general. They're a bad technology for the use case. They're more so in a Tesla, because Tesla relies on them far more heavily than any other manufacturer, and gives users no alternative for most functions.

Cars should be designed to minimize touchscreen use, not maximize it.
Different states have dramatically different taxes. Some states have no income taxes.

So in one sense, it's a "solved problem", with the solution being that licensing requirements would be dramatically different based on locality, but in the sense that people want — a uniform standard for hiring software developers — it's not solved at all.
I feel like the website needs a way to enter how long the person has owned the product and if it was light/heavy use.

The ratings could then be weighted by that.
If doctors were really interviewed like programmers, it would be possible to get into top medical position without a major degree. I only have a BS in computer engineering from a mid-tier college, but I was able to get into two FAANGs based on passing the interviews and using skills I learned outside of college. And I know people in similar positions who have a worse formal education but were also able to get into positions that pay better than most doctors in the US because they were able to teach themselves the required skills and learn the rest on the job.

This doctor vs programmer comparison would also be more useful if there was an order of magnitude difference in effectiveness of doctors. Compare that with the order of magnitude difference in the utility of the systems that programmers can build. There are no real "10x" doctors except for those with medical + management training that can do things like set up a new hospital in an impoverished country and revamp their medical system. But it's much more likely to have programmers that can build systems with many orders of magnitude difference in terms of QPS or a similar utility metric. That is, there is no version of Big-O notation for doctors that matters as much as the big O notation for programmers.
This is why grapefruits are such a recurring element in Fear & Loathing.
It seems to me like you are describing some kind of viral meningitis
Yes I share that hunch too and been trying it with the kids off and on.

The team's work with Bootstrap (https://www.bootstrapworld.org) is actually pretty awesome .. where they're trying to accommodate even kids who may not have access to a computer. One of the best CS educational efforts I've come across. Check out racketcon2020 ( https://con.racket-lang.org/) where Kathi Fisler (co-founder of Bootstrapworld) is keynoting on "data centric computing".
That's a pretty basic tenant of democracy. The government is by the people and for the people.
> because you aren't aggregating professional reviews of these products

outdoorgearlab.com looks like a professional review site to me in the context of being an affiliate marketing / review site. IMHO almost all reviews online are affiliate marketing these days, so what I'd really be interested in is a site that hosts reviews and doesn't allow _any_ affiliate marketing or external links. IE: No incentive to game the system with inflated review scores.

And if you pay attention to those affiliate marketing sites that are disguised as review sites, note how they never give anything a bad review. "Poisoned my dog, caused my house to be condemned - 4.0/5.0 stars." Getting you to buy _something_ is the only goal.
Hi everyone, I’m the founder of Sonero.

The idea came out of the pandemic after companies shifted to remote work and Zoom, Teams, etc. for meetings at a scale never seen before. I thought this provided a great opportunity to surface key insights from meetings automatically.

Happy to answer any questions and hear your thoughts and feedback!
You say that now but what about Mary dev who consistently pulls high effort tasks and does not finish them in the right timeframe because she goes home on time? When someone consistently shows up in the bottom of the chart because they work regular hours instead of overtime, it will be demotivating, cause your employees to resent those at the bottom for not working hard enough, and will creep into performance reviews.

I'm in the same boat as other posters, I am a hard no on this idea and would never subject my employees to it. When you build employee-facing metrics like this, you end up judging your employees by those metrics. Build smarter metrics.

ETA: "your company culture" is dictated by things like this. So the incentive it creates in your culture is to work longer hours so you can get to the top. This is literally building company culture, and trying to say you can avoid the negative incentive by having a better culture is missing the point.
Something like "fair" tax policy is impossible because the world isn't fair. It's like trying to find mathematical formula to make 2 x 2 equal 5. Anyone trying to shape tax policy is biased one way or another and is causing detachment from effort and reward which is extremely demotivating. It looks innocent on a spreadsheet, but tell someone who worked hard all their life that now they need to part with half of their salary to fund some vanity projects meanwhile they neighbour gets paid for watching telly all day.
Ah, brain cramp. I was thinking of patent, not copyright. Until State Street, nobody thought you could patent software, so nobody tried.

Copyright... of the top of my head, I don't recall much about copyrightability of software.
This looks super cool and polished.

That it's a 11401 line shell script is blowing my mind.
The text isnt reversed, you're seeing it from the back.

The leading A and the trailing E are in the same right to left position that they are in the real sign. There is no reversal.
One falsifiable prediction. In chapter XI, which reads like GPT trained on Alan Sokal and QAnon[1], he says exact science arose in the eighteenth, peaked in the nineteenth, and will decline over the twentieth.

From the vantage of the twenty-first, I say: false.

[1] examples: "Above all, this is manifested in the bizarre hypotheses of atomic disintegration which elucidate the phenomena of radioactivity ... With ideas like these the mythopoetic force of the Faustian soul is returning to its origins."

"Every physics, as I have shown, must break down over the motion-problem, in which the living person of the knower methodically intrudes into the inorganic form-world of the known."

Force is "(1) in the 17th century (Galileo, Newton, Leibniz) ... pictorially formed and in unison with the great art of oil-painting that died out about 1630: (2) in the 18th century (...Laplace, Lagrange...) ... abstract character of the fugue style and is in unison with Bach ...(3) with the Culture at its end ... the theory of functions of several complex variables ..."

etc. etc.
But it happens all the time (according to my tiny sample size). A tong time ago, I was in an American coffee shop (probably Starbucks, I guess), and they asked for my name. I found that very strange and weird. You would neither be able to spell or pronouce it, so let's just go with James.

This trend is beginning in Denmark as well, and I don't like it. It'd be easier for everyone if you just assign me a number and announce that when my drink is ready.

I also encountered store greeters, which was the most bizarre thing ever.
Don't Talk to the Police (Regent University School of Law, 2012)
> "you'll have to mitigate a subset of people passing their income through foreign banks."

just tax it like any other income, which will likely allow the overall rate to be a bit lower. there's no moral or legal reason not to. the wealthy might threaten to leave (and take their tax payments with them), but it's largely a hollow threat, as people really want to live among their friends, peers, families, communities, their familiar amenities, and their accumulated stuff.
> No Bitcoin needed: Vapor only uses Bitcoin transactions as data packets. You do not even need to own Bitcoins.

Don’t confuse the Bitcoin protocol with the public Bitcoin ledger!
I couldn’t tolerate my ps4 pro noise so I had to repaste it every couple of months (or weeks if I played a lot). I even tried graphite pads (didn’t work at all for me).

The only thing that worked is liquid metal. I suspect it’s because it’s not susceptible to the pump out effect from repeated heating and cooling (and expansion contraction of the cooler). Since the cooler has a copper plate, liquid metal works on it (it melts aluminum so wouldn’t work on the normal PS4)

If you haven’t already, you should try applying liquid metal to the APU die. It’s night and day for me, keeps the console whisper quiet.
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I really like your idea, pushing sustainable products of every day use is essential for our society.
"The Right to Remain Silent: A New Answer to an Old Question" (2010)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1998119
Your stomach is already much more acidic than Coca Cola
Every time this comes up, they have always been pretty clear that they felt he didn’t earn his spot and was MIA for most of the early work. So he joined after they started reddit, making him not a cofounder, and he abdicated his responsibilities after joining and being told by PG to give him a cofounder title, which they weren’t in a great position to decline. It’s hard to set the record straight here without denigrating someone, so they were always in an awkward position when this came up.

I don’t know anyone involved, but that’s the impression I got after seeing this topic beat to death on HN and reddit over the last 10ish years.

I doubt they cared at all that he was charged years after he left.
This just sounds like a heavy dose of confirmation and/or affinity bias. The best developers I've worked with had no degree at all or a degree in something completely separate from development. I think a healthy mix of both academic and purely practical experience is the best.
RabbitMQ is written in Erlang.
Loosely related, but flickchart is a moving ranking site whose tagline is: "If they're all 5 star movies, which one's the best?" I wonder if something like that could be adapted for product review sites? I suppose that would require you to have purchased 2 different cast iron pans, for example, to pick a favorite though.
This is probably why a cat doesn't recognize itself, even as another animal, in a mirror.
> That stand is a crazy piece of unnecessary engineering just to make the customer's life a wee little bit easier. Very cool.

I loved this little detail as well. Now that I know about this I'll probably pull it out of the box and look at it in more detail, where I probably wouldn't have bothered before.

> but I also expect Sony will have some PS5 branded SSDs right in the Best Buy gaming accessories isle so hopefully too many people don't get burned by this. Definitely prefer it to Microsoft's proprietary strategy.

I expect that this generation, due to price increases in games, that I do a lot less buying of random games because I happen to be in the store. Which will force me to finish the games I have before moving on, waiting for games to go on sale. I don't know if I'll have much concern about storage space this time around. I'll keep a couple of online games on for good and some arcade games I can pickup and putdown easily. But otherwise, it'll probably be buy game, install game, finish game, uninstall game.

We'll see how this is impacted by how large the installs get I guess.
How many of the incredibly successful people we know of in the industry were drop outs? I can think of quite a few, and I know of other engineers who thought their CS program was vastly inferior to devoting 100% attention to their company, which they could give maybe 33% to due to classes and undergrad life.
It's not just about "developer interoperability" vs "program interoprability". Implementing Java APIs means that entire libraries can run.

Sure you might not be able to take a legacy SWING Windows Java app and run it on android, but you can run entire libraries in your android app. It absolutely _is_ about interoperability in both cases. Perhaps to varying degrees
Sorry about the marketing speak, I read it again and it does sound cheesy and I updated to tone it down. It still sounds a bit cheesy but I had to explain it that way to make my point.

Because the goal is not to lower hosting costs and avoid DDoS, but to create a data structure that can be routed around in a trustless manner (by double signing the HTTP requests and encapsulating in an offchain Bitcoin transaction format with unique SHA256 hash ids for secure synchronization), it's solving a completely different problem. The features were derived from this goal.
Maybe there should be leagues of reviewer companies that can get promoted and relegated, based off of how well their reviews align to purchasing boosts and complaints. That's probably a horrible idea.

I really like wire cutter but they convinced me to buy an awesome convection toaster oven that takes seven minutes to lightly toast a piece of bread on its highest setting.
The problem is that it is anecdotal. I have been frequently approached by my skip level manager and asked if I know anyone that we could hire since we have headcount that's open for months (this was MSFT) and we won't be able to work on everything we wanted to. This is also something I heard from other people (managers) as well. So now how do we measure if the shortage is real or not? Your gut feeling?
That's indeed exactly what happened. Lots of moonshot products that were dead on arrival such as FirefoxOS (and TV/IoT) or BrowserID, features nobody really wanted, while taking away features that people did want. Even right now, with their "refocusing" they killed or stymied features/products that people do want or at least gave them some rep with the power users and tech people (aka the people who will later recommend/install the browser to/for friends and family), e.g. devtools and MDN.
Your story seems cool, can you elaborate? I'm familiar with there being 1 or 2 tides a day, but 4?
Number of parameters remains an important practical concern, and an important goal for research (see [1] for a recent example).

It is true that this model requires a large amount of unlabeled data, in addition to a small amount of labeled data, but gathering unlabeled data is often easy.

So I think it's potentially misleading to say "this approach remains at a severe disadvantage when amount of effort and time required to gather data and train something useful is accounted for".

I'd say this approach actually has a serious advantage compared to GPT3, which is locked inside the walls of OpenAI, can only be used with their permission, and is too big for most people to use (let alone train) anyway. The cost and effort to use this approach on large real world problems is probably less than using GPT3.

And it may also have an advantage in terms of the total amount of data and training required, when all of the data and training in the original pretrained models is included. That is, it may be a more efficient way to train new models from scratch for tasks for which few labeled examples are available.

1: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/09/advancing-nlp-with-efficie...
After reading some of his view of physics, with phrases suitable for an art-gallery opening, I'm not spending any more time unless one of you all cares to raise things you think his model got right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24710096

Kaka ere apapish, kaka ere perepish.
There is AI involved. That means data and visual identification.

It would be very easy to turn this into an automatic plating robot. When they were giving out google glass years ago, I remember talking to a Belgium company that was using it in food service to train employees.

Example: assembling a hamburger. First teach glass what is lettuce, bun, condiments etc and the order in which it will go. Next when a new employee comes..all they have to do is wear glass..then it would highlight which item would go in which order to assemble a hamburger. Etc.

The dishwashing robot ..IMO..should be the first step to an automated restaurant kitchen. Or catering outfit. Or cruise ship. I have fine dining BoH experience and I can see that there are many possibilities here. So easy to train if it has a vision system. My 2c.
> But should the government really step in and force me to continue to employ a holocaust denier just because he makes me a lot of money?

Should the government force you to keep muslims, lgbt, minorities, etc ( protected classes ) even if you disagree with their views? "Free association right"

> Should the government really stop me from kicking out a dude dressed in a KKK outfit from my store?

What about a burqa or an lgbt flag? But then again the guy was doing his stuff at home in his private life, not in someone's store. Do you think people should be banned from stores for what they wear in their homes?

So you agree that it's okay for companies to terminate lgbt employees? People can be fired for what they do in their private lives? What happened to "as long as it's legal, people's private lives shouldn't be used to fire employees"?

If what he did was illegal, sure that's grounds for termination. But firing people for what they legally do in their private lives, it's what people here rail against normally.

Seems like people have no principles, just political agenda.
> But it happens all the time

Doesn't mean people like it. I think there's also a difference between a low-level employee being friendly personally to me because it's their job and also it's just polite, vs some marketing employee being "friendly" to the 500k people on their mailing list.

It's also always worth noting, is the case with many countries, the US is very diverse. People in NYC probably think very differently about this vs. people in L.A. or Boise, Montana.
Ooh, that's good intuition. Citrus genetics is complicated, but pomelo is the ancestor of grapefruit. (Bergamot and bitter orange are also closely related.)
does Vapor solve any of the issues with SSL? I'm genuinely asking because I can't see that it does
Just link the YouTube video. The article is nothing but a summary of the video, and a very incomplete summary at that.
Way to highlight the soft skills, they can be the hardest to master.
Regardless of code quality, are these models really useful if, as you say, they are "accurate", but still make predictions wildly out of step with reality?
Forearm artery reveals humans evolving from changes in natural selection
web apps are a small fraction of the software development world. Software Engineers are responsible for code that runs in hospitals, aircraft, power switching stations, and many many other safety critical systems. In many cases code that was never written for safety critical work is deployed in those environments. What OS and software runs the elevator controls in a hospital or military base? We never know the real impact of our work.
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The difference is we entrust doctors with ethical and moral power predicated on hundreds of innovations which can kill or harm their patients.

In contrast, we entrust SWEs with massively scaled applications with moral and ethical implications that can lead to societal change like misinformation and indirect death.

Hmmm.
Didn't he do it in the video?
I didn't see it myself but my wife Alice did.
What is your salary? What is the salary of a doctor?

You're probably aware of the first but not the second. Just so you know, doctors are not paid little and developers are really not paid that much in comparison.

You should also consider that FANG are 4 extremely selective companies only existing in the valley (the cream of the crop) while doctors can work pretty much anywhere in a country and do very well.
The completeness of the tool combined with the madness of shell scripting. The author is a demigod, no doubt.
So why do you trust what they say? If Google or MS says it it's irrelevant but if a small company without any supervision says it it's true?

It's like ppl saying Telegram is private just because they say so.
It's hardly a myth. It's not exceptionally common these days with everyone assuming Google's requirements for hiring, but it's not impossible.

How do I know it's not a myth? I have a software architect title, having moved my way up to here from QA.

One of the staff developers I work with has a degree in Physics. So does a senior operations engineer.
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It's complicated so we should just not care?
We gave up on nonstick - we never found a good one that wasn't ruined within a year. With the right balance of a bit of olive oil and a bit of butter, I can fry and scramble eggs in my cast iron without it sticking.
It looks incredible, rich in features and the git syncing capability is neat.

My only wish would be to be able to import my bookmarks somehow. A few months back wrote my one CLI bookmark manager in Elixir (https://github.com/tefter/cli). It's impressive how much nb achieves yet being written in Bash.
You're making an argument in favor of software engineering licensing, just not that every individual involved needs to be licensed.