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After 11 years at various tech companies in Silicon Valley, unwilling to spend a million bucks on a small house on a tiny parcel, I decided to leave early this year. So I left solid FAANG position and joined a fairly small but well established tech company based in San Francisco, but full time remote. I told them up front that while I currently lived in Mountain View, an hour south, my family and I were going to move to Washington State as soon as possible.

This was June, a couple of months into the Covid19 lockdown.

For 3/4 of the rent I was paying in Mountain View, we bought an big, beautiful home a few miles outside of Olympia, Washington on five acres of woods, where we enjoy stable, high speed Internet, privacy but also effectively more proximity to most things than we had in the bay area, where driving to Costco could take 30 minutes. Now we can get to anything we want in down time Olympia in 11 minutes, even though it's further away.

Yes, I took a pretty steep pay cut, but it's been largely offset by no state income taxes, lower monthly living payments, cheaper food, cheaper electricity, etc etc. Oh, and I'm finally actually building equity in a property that would easily go more than $20M in the bay area.

In the end, it was an easy decision.
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Oh yes, I remember the programming guides! When a friend of mine and I wrote the text editor Tincta we spend days to go through the typesetting, font, glyphs documents. We didn't really use it but we learned so much (we were still students and couldn't imagine how complicated all that is). Same for the maps and location APIs. You could really appreciate all the work and design that went into the APIs.

Now I feel some of that information is hidden in WWDC videos but it's not the same.

I also had good experience with the Android documentation, same (as the article stated) for PHP and most of Microsoft.
Musk is objectively speaking quite bad at that too. Like, exceptionally bad for someone at that level.

What we saw when Ma freestyled was something quite else though. It exposed something much more important than his inability to talk eloquently in English. Which noone really expected anyway, even though his background is being an English language teacher in China.

Edit: His pronounciation, vocabulary and grammar is excellent! It's just the content...
How is this evil being promoted openly on hacker news? You really want our daughters putting themselves through college through sex work? Evil evil people. You're all jerking off to them yet my comment is the one that will be censored.
Try out https://asciiwwdc.com next time you need this.
The trust in this case is trust of strangers who are calling you to ask you polling questions.

When it comes to media, all information you consume must be read with a critical eye. You need to understand what assumptions are driving what is said, what the tone is and where they are drawing their conclusions from.
The same FAA that let the faulty aircraft to fly in the first place?
Seriously though what’s the connection between it being 2020 and there being more default RAM? Are you suggesting that in the year 2030 we should expect 100gb of RAM?

The goal shouldn’t be to increase ageing technology but to replace it with something better.
No, but exploitation of the type of man that thinks the stripper is actually into him is not among the most pressing issues surrounding sex work. It's an extremely strange thing to focus on. It's like focusing on anti-white racism. Sure it exists, and it is bad. But it has nowhere near the consequences of anti-black racism, so there is no equivalence between the problems.
Pennsylvania voter here - in 2018 they asked me for my party affiliation and then remarked (jokingly) on the fact that my affiliation was an extreme minority for the district. I was a bit put off by this. 2020 and a few districts over however, totally secret somehow. No idea what changed.
Very good writeup. It's amusing that Ubuntu didn't double check in the user creation tool to ensure there was in fact no current administrator account.

Sounds like a fun day to me.
A crazy number of new websites are created every day and some crazy number is deleted. Which is bigger I don't know but the ones going are the hard worked blogs (without readers thanks to google) and the ones coming are commercial spa type of crap.

From experience, at some point many went from say 10-20 spam for every 1 comment with every 10th comment really being worth something to something like 200 spam for 1 comment and nothing really worth reading. Writing good comments use to be a viable method to advertise your own website. The link sat under your username and the content you commented on was related to your own site. If the comment was good enough people would naturally look for more of your writings.

Then came the "comments are spam" paradigm and it all went down hill from there.

But on the up side, the fast rate of change does mean it can be something entirely different tomorrow. All it takes is one or more good ideas.

(I just had one: turn downloaded yt videos into torrents and use the yt url to find the magnet. Independent users can download build and revive the same torrents)
“The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it’s ruining polling.”

This is true everywhere. I’ve been involved polling in for a popular AAA game, a small retail business, school events, online forums, and more; they all fail to account for the “who chooses to answer” bias (is there a name for this?).

I speculate that the “average 4.7 million viewers“ rating Firefly received when it aired was totally off. The Fox executives (who clearly didn’t care for the show, if you read the full story) used this as ammunition to have it cancelled. (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings for criticisms of the rating system used at the time).

The people who would take the time to answer a poll (or connect a device to their TV for some cash) are a small subset of people who will skew your data in unintuitive ways. If more business people understood this, our world would be a better place.
I'm waiting on a larger study to confirm or dispel the results of that small study that showed significant risk of aphasia and FTD associated with vasectomy.
You're taking about these guys like they're children who are incapable of fending for themselves. They're paying for nudes over the internet, I'm sure most of them know that and are fine with it. If they delude themselves into thinking it's more, maybe they do need someone to watch their wallet for them after all.
"A hurts me, so it's ok to hurt B" mentality is destructive indeed.
What permanence would you expect from transactional intimacy? It’s like going to the movies, you’re paying someone for a temporary escape from reality.

Permanence would be a sex worker on retainer or a committed partner.
By time I've lifted my screen in to position it's ready for me to log in. It's very quick. I've never felt held up by it.
Craig Federighi Said himself that they don’t boot other operating systems.
Could you link the talk where they said it can run binaries not signed by Apple? The only thing I could find is where they still allow you to boot older versions which they don’t let you download anymore. To keep the actual mac experience.
If PG put his name in the byline, would you appreciate the piece more?
Not sure the downvoting ...

Even with 16, 32gb of ram, Android phones still don’t have buttery smooth 60 FPS while iOS has never been smoother
I do that with Wine: giving each program its own WINEPREFIX. For example, EAC lives under ~/wine/eac. This makes program removal easy as well.
#typescript-can-do-this-better
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Yes, that's true, and because of that the lower class systematically vote for parties and policies that harm lower class to benefit the wealthy.

Actually, this - class consciousness / false consciousness; the understanding (or lack of it) of the role and interests of the class you're in - was one of key concepts of Marx writings, too bad that this association currently makes many people automatically discard these ideas even if they actually are quite relevant to their interests.
Fits right in with their social credit idea. I don't think it's even a veiled reference.
This is probably more of a Epstein move than a tax dodge move
> And it's baffling to me how people who tend to be "against capitalism" somehow rally to the free market when it comes to selling sex.

People that are against capitalism on the left tend not to be against volintary exchange of labor for money but the power relations between capitalist and laborer in capitalist industry. That's not an issue with individual sales of labor on the marketplace direct to end consumers of a service, which seems to be the issue here. The fact that the kind of service involved is sexual is beside the point.
I dunno about unbiased, seems pretty concerned about 18 year old girls specifically might be "at risk" but then wants to say "well maybe that 18 year old comes from an abusive household and so she could use the money", like come on

Women profiting from OF is not some bubble-like behavior that might sabotage American society down the line if we're not 'careful', sex work has existed since the beginning of time and in much much more liberal forums than American society, and will continue to exist to a non-trivial degree wherever urban populations exist. Like no shit, lotta single people stuck in front of their screens so its a gold rush at the moment; who cares.

The more concerning problem is the growing puerility of hetero men for lack of a better term and porn trends in America tend to confirm that. These women aren't putting a gun to anyone's head, and Jordan Peterson had a very big audience for a reason
> I'm not trying to give voice to every gamer, just pointing out that there's more to gaming than games that rely on this crap, and that some of us accept that.

That wasn't what I was taking umbrage with. You dismissing the concerns as absurd was what I was taking umbrage with.

> Life is full of quasi-moral choices like this.

Yes understand this.

> You can choose to support hardware that supports your platform. You can choose to buy local rather than carrots flown in from South Africa; wtf Waitrose! You can donate your time to helping people hoping it makes the world slightly better.

I don't wish to be rude but you are being so overly dramatic.

> Not playing games that go out of their way to force me to run Windows is my moral stand here. I get that it's not for you, and it's not for a lot of other Windows gamers, and it might even be stopping the Year of the Linux Desktop...

The dramatic language aside. Yes that is your choice. However a lot of games at the moment require this, so proton as good as it is won't run these games and that is a deal breaker for many people. Whether or not you continue with your moral crusade will make no difference to the current reality.

As for the year of the Linux desktop. It is never going to happen. I've been using alternative Operating systems such as Lnux for about 17 years. I've tried 21 XFCE, Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, mucked about with windows managers and there is always some really irritating bugs that never get resolved and have been there for years on end. That combined with almost every Linux distribution kinda breaking itself as time goes on and requiring you to drop to the terminal to fix it (I have used many distros over the years).

> But my view is this too shall pass. Trusted Clients are bound to fail, as they have again and again and again. They're running out of options. Engines with action integrity checks are the future. And e-sports will move to the cloud because that just makes sense for everybody involved.

I doubt it. It is a good enough solution. These cloud based services have bunch of input latency which is just unacceptable. Many of the large games before covid happened over lan in stadiums, once covid is over we will go back to this.

I suspect with esports I think cheating will be discovered by observing replays at the higher levels. (this already happens in the speed running community).
The exploitation of lonely socially disabled men is not something insignificant. It's actually quite big on the severity scale compared to the exposure of the material of the performer as Onlyfans is in the process of being normalized to society.
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>The real concern is that people are wasting money on multivitamins that would better benefit their health if spent elsewhere, Paranjpe said.

Curious if there would be a concrete suggestion to replace the $5/month on vitamins.

Full disclosure: I started taking a multivitamin recently, on the basis of it seems like it can't hurt, and who knows, maybe it could help for corona.
> The real choice was likely this deal where we let the 800k go, or future uncertainty

And not just "future uncertainty", but "the future of a company that's spent 7 years trying and doesn't look any closer to launching the rocketship, who's founder is onto his second attempt to sell out, and clearly is out of enthusiasm and ideas".

There was no 3x or even 2x future here for them, certainly no 100x - there was just another 2, 5, or 10 years of slow flameout with a 0x - or a quick and tidy 0x with a significant PR goodwill upside.
They basically do account downweighting for people they don't like. Just make a new account with clean cookies and if you are using the same IP check your comment visibility from other IPs from time to time, as they record which accounts were on which IP and might invent some other bullshit measure against you in the future as more people become aware of the downweighting.
A 30% solution rate is great when you're asking whether it happens at all. Certainly we can agree that the number should be higher, but, until you propose an alternative, I can't imagine that the answer is taking money away from the people who are doing the solving.

You asked whether police solve crimes and whether that matters to people, and you gestured at the existence of alternatives. I answered your two questions, and you didn't contest those answers. And I asked what those alternatives might be. I guess what I'm saying is I don't know why you're talking about the complaint rate for patrol cops now.
A critical point being "... and it was clearly not in jest" because Mel Brooks would be capable of being miscast, in this reading.

There is the concept of the "self-hating jew" which is a bit of a "thing" and it's often thrown by proponents of the state of Israel, and any Jew which questions the legitimacy of actions of the state in current times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_Jew
Thanks. I appreciate the counterpoint. I don't remember when class libraries became part of the Mac programming experience, but like you say it might not have been with the original docs.
> Not the politics of the person firing it, but those directing the fire.

... you're almost there... and yet ...

> It is possible to try to be non-partisan, but an apolitical military is an oxymoron.
>
> The US military is the guarantor of a host of political lines across the world; supporting South Korea or Taiwan or Israel or Germany or Bosnia is a political act.

At the direction of the duly elected civilian leadership.

> You can't sign up and then disclaim responsibility for the political results of following orders "apolitically". The last people who tried that got shot at Nuremberg.

This isn't considered a matter of politics. Its a matter of honor and lawfulness.
Can you provide more context on why you feel that's true (or even possible)?

For the last few years, I managed the Container Runtime group at Facebook. My experience has been:

1. `if (has_capability(..., X)) { ... }` gets put into code pretty haphazardly in a way that's not necessarily super well structured. Once it's there, it's ABI, and you're screwed if you want to iterate on it. That's why cap_sys_admin is /almost/ root.

2. If you wanted to do the right thing from the jump (e.g. for bpf itself), you'd have to add a new capability. This is a heavy lift for something that might not actually get any traction. It requires changing a bunch of common tools, and you likely end up breaking a bunch of applications.

3. Debugging capability failures is a pain in the ass. We ended up building and deploying capability tracing infrastructure just to figure out what people are actually using.

4. For gradual roll outs of enforcement/changes, you need the flexibility to warn first, enforce second. We did large scale monitoring of all such changes to make sure we didn't break the workloads.

5. Even if you nail all of the above, the ability to make finer-than-capability-grained decisions (i.e. binding to port 20 or 80 is okay but not port 22) is really valuable.

I'm all for kernel abstractions that just work and solve all problems for all people, but I think the overwhelming trend has been towards kernel interfaces that provide a lot of flexibility and then more opinionated libraries/tools that kind of let us have our cake and eat it to (io_uring => liburing, bpf => libbpf, btrfs => btrfstools).
> The stockmarket is a comparative market where higher profitability compared to other companies is what affects stock price.

Can you provide evidence for this? I was under the impression that price is dictated by long-term underlying company value. That is to say, time-discounted, risk-adjusted dividends, including buy-outs. Dividends are just paid out via stock-buybacks these days because the dividends are taxed more, despite them being functionally equivalent.
No Google Voice outside the US and I've never found a satisfactory alternative.
So your rich life became a little richer?

To contrast that, I have been wanting to move to San Francisco since a little kid and can't and most likely won't make that possibility. I am greatly excited for people like you, who clearly don't care where they live and care about crap like family values and property, to leave so this place so it can become liveable again.
That hasn't come close to replacing lost ad revenue.

In 2000, total revenue was $3B+ [1]

In 2019, total revenue was $1.8B [2]

[1] https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2020/06/2000_Annual_Report....
[2] https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2020/04/Final-2019-Annual-R...

Helps explain why they dislike Google/FB so much.
People seem to think that the presence of neural nets and deep learning means that most of types of models are practically superseded whereas in my experience if some non-deep-learning model even gets you mostly there, then the efficiency and explain-ability wins make it worth it.

At my previous job I had a ML-based service that used a basic random-forest model instead of a neural net because it was faster to train and operate, not to mention easier to maintain and had equivalent accuracy with little to no effort required on my part. It was a solid little service.
I would argue that the normalization of virtual sex work is in the process of being socially accepted because a lot of sex workers are forced into it due to unemployment and the current COVID-19 situation, and due to the sheer amount of girls getting into it. It seems quite trivial compared to people losing their wealth and emotional health because they "don't know what the world is really like".
The purpose of APIs it to provide a “uniform” interface. HTML layouts can change. JavaScript could be added to download the images after page load. An API shouldn’t change as often. And if the API is “versioned”, you can usually use the old version (old HTML layout) for a while before you upgrade (compared to your tool breaking as soon as the HTML changes).
Fly to Reno, pick up a uhaul truck. $140 for a 1 way ticket, about $300 in gas and mileage to get a huge truck back to SF. Of course, its also about 6 hours of your time, but hey.
Good point. The ideal scenario sounds like big tech making a permanent shift towards remote work while startup founders continue to amass in the valley.
More likely, it was an attempt for Steam to compete with consoles - Steam can run on HTPCs with Big Picture, but consoles are (or at least were) all about the OOTB experience. It makes a lot of sense to simply ship a pre-configured OS when pushing HTPCs.

You could say that making it Linux-based shows that SteamOS is all about Windows, but if anything that logic suggests it's all about the Xbox. If it were competing with Windows it'd be a KB+M-based distro.

If you say "but they didn't need a separate Linux distro, they were already focusing on Ubuntu", that just proves that SteamOS wasn't about Windows.
My guess - that you couldn't get a Macbook without the TouchBar. I'd like to be able to choose between a Macbook with or without a TouchBar, but with otherwise entirely identical specs.

I've been holding out on upgrading my 2013 MBP (mostly out of frugality) to a newer version, mostly due to the butterfly keys and the TouchBar.
Video encoding is one example of a laptop use case where the iPad Pro has very competitive performance. Gaming is another.
The M1's RAM is integrated into the SoC package. But it's still separate RAM chips, not actually on the same die as the M1.
This happened to me multiple times across multiple jobs. The first time, I was laid off with severance--a small mercy.

The second time, I was run into the ground repeatedly as I tried to manage it. That time, I was dropkicked by my manager far over the line, and exited myself.

This last job, I left the moment I felt it happening.

My struggle now is to not make it a reflex, and a huge amount of my personal and life work has gone into improving communication (aka yowling techniques), and drawing lines in work/life/etc balance to sustain myself.

Currently, I'm just avoiding the washing machine entirely.
If it's AWS, the quickest path to doing this securely is AWS API Gateway mTLS authN[0]. You generate some certs, stuff the public halves in S3, slap an ACM cert on the Gateway, and you're done.

I have also used certificate authentication on TLS-terminating reverse proxies (e.g., this is easy to do with HAProxy) to do the same in other environments. You can pin the API's certificate on the client end in order to further reduce MITM risks.

If you don't want to supply a client certificate in your client application, Stunnel[1] is an acceptable wrapper that lets your clients remain TLS-unaware. You could use it for both ends of the tunnel, if you felt like it.

Either way, you end up with a secure tunnel through the internet to the proxy, at which point you're back inside private networks.

(Source: I build this kind of thing for a living.)

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-mutual-tls-...

[1]: https://www.stunnel.org/auth.html
IMHO there are still some edges that drive you mad until you remember them but the documentation is really good and every release is full of improvements. Also many available frameworks and tools in PHP world are outstanding. For me PHP provides a serious Rapid to Market Edge.
Given the other responses, consider it a gray area at best. And for something fundamental to the integrity of elections, I'd say it's best to err on the side of not having any possible appearance of impropriety.
Maybe that's true for Marxists but it's not true for "the left" more generally. What bothers people on the left about capitalism is, from the article:

> The environment it creates is ruthlessly competitive. Winners win big, losers starve.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to use Belarusian ў for ł? They both actually seem to represent [w] sound.
A postal worker who claimed voting fraud admits lying. Donors gave him $130k