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I don’t care about their motivations. I care about what they do. Trump is a vulgarian, a clown, a walking affront to civility while Obama was born and raised to the haute bourgeoisie but one fanned the flames of war in Libya and Syria and the other has burned no nations. Obama dedicated his adult life to the quest for power and he’s a liberal at heart. Trump has no principles, just a lust for adulation. They were still both the executive. Seek power, accrue power, use power. Stamp on any inconvenient speech.

> Obama's war on whistleblowers leaves administration insiders unscathed

> Since Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, his government has waged a war against whistleblowers and official leakers. On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined.

> And yet other apparent leaks have gone entirely unpunished or have been treated, as in the case of General David Petraeus, as misdemeanors. As Abbe Lowell, lawyer for one of the Espionage Act eight, Stephen Kim, has argued in a letter to the Department of Justice, low-level officials who lack the political connections to fight back have had the book thrown at them, while high-level figures have been allowed to leak with “virtual impunity”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowe...
Out of curiosity, how do you manage under performance in that setting?
If the return rate is truly 30-40% wouldn’t this be easily proven by quarterly income statements? Even at the generous assumption that every item is sold for double the wholesale price if 1 of 3 packages are returned and tossed/recycled or otherwise not resold I can’t imagine Amazon being even close to profitable as a retailer. I know Amazon was famously unprofitable for years but those days are gone now right?
Have you tried SuperMemo? Intervals matter because they correlate with rep loads. The more accurate the intervals, the lower daily rep loads can be.

The SuperMemo creator has spent 3 decades and collected plenty of data, it's hard to imagine that he wouldn't be able to improve on an algorithm from 1990.
In case anyone is wondering what’s happening with this, there was a progress report in Sept https://bjorn3.github.io/2020/09/28/progress-report-sep-2020...
So this was a lot about Amazon, but it leaves out comparisons to any other store. What do others do? Is this the common practice?
> Do most (or any) languages in which people take this approach actually enforce handling of all cases?

I'm not familiar with most languages, but I can state that Rust requires matching sum types to cover all possible variants. For example:

enum Animal {
Dog,
Cat,
Pigeon
}
let pet = Animal::Dog;
let sound = match pet {
Animal::Dog => String::from("ouaf"),
Animal::Cat => String::from("miaou")
};

This would not compile, because you've forgotten to cover the pigeon. You would need to either add one of the two lines below:

Animal::Pigeon => String::from("rou rou")

or

_ => String::from("eeeeeeeeeeeei")

The last line is a catch all, which would cover anything not checked for explicitly.
You're right that the pace has slowed. But yes, I do still feel that every year it still gets a lot better... but perhaps the "massiveness" is indeed decreasing.

The phone isn't even how I ever choose to spend my free time; it's a last resort. I am known at work as the curmudgeonly phone-hater, always astonished that people use their phone to say, order from Amazon or UberEats, or reply to an email — surely such tasks are better left until you are at a large-screen device with high-precision input devices! (I mainly read or listen to stuff with it.)

Nevertheless, I use my phone in the elevator, while waiting for a train, while waiting in any kind of line, while, uh, you know on the toilet, etc... even if relegated to garbage time, it's still dozens of times per day.

I think it is even less that $5 per day — recently I buy the $1700 maxed out phone but usually sell it for $800 or so. So maybe $3 per day. Worth it, IMO.
By observing "meat" on this strange new world they have discovered.
How are roles/employees mapped to the seniority level which corresponds to the 45/95 percentile bounds? Is this a sliding scale or a binary distinction?
When you hire an H1B you have to do something called a Labor Condition Application where you mention the occupation, salary offered and compare it against the prevailing wage. The salary offered needs to be higher than the prevailing wage.

You can find the prevailing wage for each occupation code at flcdatacenter.com
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I use a slightly configured Kinesis Advantage 2 and colemak as my keyboard layout (I used to make the Kinesis do the colemak, but now its just qwerty and the OS handles colemak). I find typing on it extremely comfortable. I've also found these beneficial: https://www.mycarpaltunnel.com/

I like Ergodox, especially because of their super flexible configuration, but I dislike the flatness of the keyboard compared to the Kinesis and last time I looked, they limited the length of macros "so you don't store passwords in them".. ehh, that's a stupid reason for adding limitations. As an adult, I can make my own decisions on what I store in my macros, thanks (I use a password manager, so its not passwords)
Suppose you created a faithful simulation of yourself, surely that's not you and any pleasure or pain it experiences has no effect on you. So what exactly is the point?
Funnily enough, you can use it to process email (which I have tried, and used): http://super-memory.com/help/e-mail.htm
It may just mean that tying immigration to employment invites abuse. If one wants to support immigration per se, it would be better to just bring in X number of people per year by whatever criteria you want (could even be skills or education based, who knows), and then give them total economic freedom within the US.
I think you confused a few things

> You seem to imply that the number of posts that reach over 10 points means

> ...

> 40% is the increase after posts with less then 10 votes have been removed AND posts without the negative keywords have been removed.

what you've written doesn't make sense nor does it reflect the original kaggle. better reread it.

you know that you can fork kaggles and improve them
DHS gets rejection-happy for renewals, forces companies' HR people to do the RFE dance, rejects, candidate has to get on the next flight out.

Not fun to watch happen, but I blame the companies, not the government.
The first things we've sent to space have been probes and robots. I think our first alien encounter will be with one of those.
> I wonder if it is just due to many sleepers having quite predictable stages

That is what I wondered. The Garmin reports my deep sleep in ways that don't match predictable patterns and do approximate times of random events like being woken by animal noises or sirens. Its much better than I expected and I can see it getting much better with the incorporation of additional sensor/external data.
Not for H1Bs. This is a popular misconception. You can hire an H1B as long as you're paying above prevailing wage for that job as set by DOL.
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Rule is for base pay, contingent pay (bonus/incentives) is not allowed.
All of the discussion generated about this story on Hacker News all the times it has been submitted is an existence proof against this claim.
This simply isn't true; it's funny how often this criticism pops up in response to unorthodox layouts. Learning a different layout has, in my experience, and in that of most folks I've talked to that have done it, been more like learning to do everyday tasks with your non-dominant hand than some irreversible magical transformation that completely robs you of that ability to use a "normal" keyboard.
"Droid" copyright LucasFilm, and Google and Motorola pay a licensing fee for the right to put that in products.
I dislike using other keyboards (certainly non-mechanical ones), but have no problems doing so. I still use laptop keyboards (macbook pro, Dell XPS) when I'm not at home (rare in current situation) or if I want to use it away from my desk (not that often, but sometimes).

I do have to look at the keys if I'm not using Colemak though.
> a 30-40% return rate would make one's business unviable at best and bankrupt at worst.

Amazon's retail business has poor profitability.
I didn't know about that. Hopefully it's going to still be around the next time I'll install Arch, in maybe ten years?

Before two years ago, when I got a new computer, the last time I had to install Arch it still had an installer.
Back in the days of brick-and-mortar shopping there used to be people who bought a large screen TV shortly before a big sports game and then returned it afterwards. A lot of stores revised their return policies because of this.
> Fulfillment by Amazon Donations, which Amazon says will help sellers send returns directly to charities instead of disposing of them.

So the seller ends up having to take the loss?
Fair enough. Based on news I completely agree with you. I found no evidence online of any Belarus police being killed or even harmed. (I'd edit my GP message to clarify that if I could but the time limit has passed.)

In referring to identified people being killed I contemplated a worst case scenario, following up on comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737255 "in Hong Kong similar channels were used to kill police" and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737546 "possibly leading to innocent people being lynched or killed by the mob because almost no one will verify whether that someone was really to blame".

However, a bit of Googling later and I haven't found any confirmation that any police in Hong Kong were killed either. Perhaps the HN commenter was a bit overzealous to say so. Only death threats to them... and their children (which is pretty bad in its way).

Meanwhile, the same Googling revealed a lot about Belarus: Shooting protestors with live ammo, horrendous abuse, medical abuse, torture, and some death; it sounds pretty bad there. I can see why doxxing them is compelling and perhaps moral.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/15/belarus-systematic-beati...

Some police resigning in disgust too. That's good to hear.

The possibility of innocents getting harmed due to false identification remains though. Those AI face recognition and deep fake reconstruction techniques really are prone to errors that look convincing. I hope the committed doxxers have high standards of review and understanding, and are able to correct mistakes. I've read enough stories about innocents being attacked and sometimes killed in the past due to an angry vigilante group's lack of care that I think it's a genuine concern if AI-assisted doxxing ever escalates to violence.

I found this article about Hong Kong interesting for how doxxing and counter-doxxing are evolving: https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Hong-Kong-protesters-are-nam...

> "There is power in being able to name those who have wronged you. Doxxing may not be good practice -- the pro-democracy camp has the moral high ground right now -- but few condemn it while the police operate with impunity. Right now, the police doxxing channel on Telegram has more than 242,000 subscribers. As a comparison, the movement's fact-check channel has 60,000."

> "Unsurprisingly, the police have found ways to hide their identities. Since late June, their helmets have had one-way-mirror privacy film adhered to what were see-through visors. Almost none wear their warrant cards or produce them when requested, even under circumstances where force regulations compel them to."
It's not the first time I get an almost left-libertarian vibe from Paul Graham's writing.

As before, I feel he almost nails it, but not quite. I do think that a world of small companies populated by intrinsically motivated people who are mostly equals would be much better than what we currently have.

However, we have to acknowledge that the way the economic game is set up, this kind of endeavour is disincentivized. Neo-liberal capitalism favours concentration of power, mega-corporations with kill-zones around them and with huge lobbying power. Outside finding highly specialised niches, I think tech companies can find it hard to stay both successful and small.

The VC funding model also seems to go against this idea. As far as I understand it (I don't work in SV, so my understanding is all second-hand), the approach is to fund lots of companies hoping that a few will make it big and accepting that most would fail. This is in complete contradiction with the idea of small, non-hierarchical enterprises.
Yeah, that's definitely a problem.
I will say though, if you use a VM you can get a not too bad experience on both mac and linux (I've tried both and found it usable enough for daily use).
How would one go about purchasing the returned goods between the buyer and the wastebasket?
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In fact, Lucasfilm has a trademark on Droid and Google/Motorola license it.
@avx does a ton more than just use AVX instructions. It'll reorder and unroll loops when advantageous, swap out some functions for more vectorizable version of those functions and a few other tricks.

Julia uses avx instructions by default if your code is amenable to it.
Yes, if you deliberately run commands as administrator to create an encrypted volume, then move all your files to that encrypted volume, I suppose you've gotten yourself into a quandary.

This isn't a vulnerability, as suggested by the "Apple was notified one month ago" comment. It's neat that all those commands fit into one tweet, but ransomware it is not.
Yes, it is simplified for sake of argument. I have one foot in LA and one in the country and a wide range of friends from extensive travels. I could make a list of right wing absurdities as well, but I don’t need to because of pieces like this.

A lot of the discussion above was from Facebook neighborhood and local news pages. Which may have had a different character in other areas.
I have friends who send back nearly everything. Not sure about shoe size? Order 3 sizes, keep the one you like and send back the other two (or return all 3 if you dont like it). Want a shirt? Order 5 and keep the ones you like, if any.
Furthermore you can buy a new smartphone every 24 months and still not buy the latest model. I on average buy a new smartphone about every 24 to 36 months but I tend to buy used smartphones.
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No, this is absolutely a "thing", and I know several people who shop clothes from Amazon this way. It is incredibly wasteful.
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I've had none of those types of issues using XFCE and GPUs with in kernel drivers. Avoid gnome, avoid Closed source GPUs and I think you avoid 90% of these issues
> Edit2: HN blocked me, so I can't reply any more on my own thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738722#

Any idea why sunnysofa has been blocked?
At a previous job, I had to use newgrp quite frequently. There's a limit on the number of "active" groups you can be in at a time, typically 16. Groups were used for permissions for directories on network storage and our version control system at the time. As far as I'm aware, I was the only person at the company affected because I touched so many different repositories, I was a member of around 20 groups. I had to bounce between them using newgrp (albeit without passwords as in TFA).

I forget the exact reason for the limit of 16, but I think it was an NFS limit.
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This is cool. Gives some intuition as to how object files work.
I've been using kinesis advantage 2 for about 8 years.. I can still use random keyboards just fine!
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Yes, this is so common that there is a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobing
Ads should have a comment section
Given the nature of ads on HN, not offering a comment section for folks to ask for clarification in promoted posts devalues the ad itself. If a YC2019 company is hiring, and their job page is lacking, the comment section can help get it improved. If someone makes a tech announcement as an ad, then all we've done is sold a spot on the front page without the freedom of discourse.

Whether it's paid placement or user-submitted, the community should have a voice (and if that voice is one of dissent and disapproval, that's an important signal that is currently unavailable to those deciding whether to sell that front page spot to X or whether to let Y have it instead)
According to this source[1] an endurance horse riding 100 miles per day requires 78,800 KCal of energy, which translates to about 329 MJ or 91 KWh of energy. That's equivalent to 2.55 gallons of gasoline, so about 39 mpg. The world record for Teslas using hypermiling techniques and a similar amount of energy is about 700 miles, so it's close to an order of magnitude better for electric cars. With multiple passengers in the car the energy efficiency per passenger increases. Trains are also quite efficient on a per passenger basis, with the ability to carry a passenger about 2000 miles for the same amount of energy as a horse traveling 100 miles. Aircraft can go about 80 mpg per passenger, so they are about 2x as efficient as a horse.

[1]:https://thehorse.com/16472/feeding-the-endurance-horse/
How do these trackers read a GPS signal from inside these bulky items, plus packaged, plus inside a building?
I disagree that the only viable enforcement is preemptive blocking. Plenty of offenses in the physical world only have after-the-fact punishments. There aren't spike strips physically preventing you from parking in the red zone.
Roughly you have to keep methane losses well under 1% from wellhead to burner to realize the potential of methane as a low-carbon fuel compared to liquid hydrocarbons.

A methane pipeline passes within a few miles of my house and there is a compression station where I've occasionally seen a giant flame burning. In case they are not able to send the gas they are receiving onward, or the gas cannot be received at the next station, they will burn the gas to prevent a dangerous situation in terms of fire. (The old "synthesis gas" from the age of gaslight was 50% or more Carbon Monoxide as was immediately toxic to life.)

The system is resilient and pretty easy to manage because at worst you have a small hole in a large volume of pipe. The loss can be contained by closing a valve upstream of the leak; the sealed pipe is a huge volume and can accommodate a lot of gas just by pressuring up, giving the upstream time to stop pumping.

The spacing of the shut off valves is usually set by safety concerns in residential areas that the pipeline passes through. If you are pumping Carbon Dioxide back into the ground you have to install more shut off valves because the gas sinks and can asphyxiate people in nearby low spots.

In deep rural areas the shut off valves could be far apart and the network not well maintained -- it would not destroy the economics of a natural gas network to lose 2-3% of the gas that way.

===

Accidents are a real thing: neighborhoods around Boston were blew up (pressure wave first then fire) by the residential methane network a few years ago; earlier Time Warner Cable blew up a block of downtown Kansas City when their fiber optic excavator hit a gas line; uninigited gas leaks from a malfunctioning methane network have been a problem in Southern California.

Look for trouble at the well-head too. In many places people want liquid hydrocarbons and have no market for the methane and are tempted to burn it right there rather than face immediate or eventual calamity from venting it.
Have you tried it with a Rust project? Is there a real gain? Really curious and willing to try.
Sometimes jumping right into every single thing is not the best, ideal decisions do not all come the same way, and self-esteem has its ups and downs.

Independently, opportunity can be a real wild card.

Regardless, I think an investor can expect a prospect to be putting full time effort into building a relationship that can lead to a growth partnership, and not wanting to miss a day.

Once you get into ongoing communication you may not want to miss an hour.

If there is good allowance for urgency you're still going to need to go full professional and be able to pick up the phone.

Sometimes around-the-clock with backup.

When you can start out that way there's no need for email at all.

Might also be best at a high point of self-esteem, decisiveness, and undelayed action.

Other times when those are not all completely within reach, related actions should be in progress to more than compensate, in preparation for less inhibited times.
I keep getting advertised Theraguns and similar things almost non-stop on Instagram. Are they worth the expense? And how/where are you using it to improve carpal tunnel?
> But salary isn’t necessarily correlated with rarity of talents right?

No, but requiring a high salary is a disincentive for companies to seek or continue with H-1B without genuinely exhausting local alternatives.

Now, personally, I think H-1B is fundamentally a bad idea and the visa category should not exist at all and prefer a radically different approach, but if you accept the premise of the H-1B, high salary floors make perfect sense as a way to improve the alignment of incentives with the notional purpose of the program.
I take no issue with wanting to remove content that doxxes people, even if those people are doing bad things. I do, however, take issue with Apple pushing this idea that they can decide what information you can and cannot give users. Barring people from saying "Hey, we didn't delete this because we wanted to, Apple asked us to" is a bit suspect as it leads to people associating the act with the app by default. It takes away agency from companies while giving Apple free reign to rule without being blamed for any mistakes.
That is all OK, but remember that Zen 2 really tries hard to hit 90C. Especially if you go into Ryzen Master and turn on Automatic Overclocking (very conservative overclocking by enthusiast standards), and your motherboard doesn't have power delivery limitations, the CPU's main goal is to try to hit 90C under load. It will automatically adjust frequency and core voltage up until it hits a thermal limit; by taking more heat away from the CPU with better cooling, you end up with better performance because the CPU will try to automatically give you the best performance that your thermal solution can deliver. AMD didn't document any of this very well (lots of confusion between Precision Boost 2 and Precision Boost Overdrive), but the technology is very impressive.

I guess what I'm saying is that you might be interested in exploring some of these options in Ryzen Master. You have some thermal headroom, so if your motherboard has good power delivery, you can max out the power limits and boost clock limits, and probably squeeze out a little extra performance. Power (and therefore heat) is going to scale quadratically with core voltage, and frequency is going to scale less than linearly with voltage, so you might not see much gain (and might prefer not spinning your fans up to full speed under load). But, it's an option that's available if that sort of thing interests you.

I got about 6% more real-world speed out of my Threadripper 3970X by switching from OC off to Automatic Overclocking; with air cooling. AMD's technology here is pretty impressive.
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So only visa for FAANG and finance? Who is going to work outside of New York and Silicon Valley? Who is going to work at the universities?
Jain likes the convenience of online shopping but worries about Amazon's carbon footprint.

What is this article about exactly?
Can you work remotely? I've worked all my career for North American tech companies remotely from the UK.

And it shouldn't be a pain! When you do get a job you know you'll be earning 95th!