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> an arms treaty that caps the number of interceptors leaves relative great power parity stable

I don't know much about this topic, but why would you want to cap the number of interceptors? Surely we would want everyone to have lots and lots of interceptors such that nuclear warheads are devalued (not worth stockpiling because their effectiveness is lower)? What's the worst outcome in an arms race on interceptors? Nations spend too much on interceptors?
I don't really like the article, but to me there is a problem and it isn't just teenagers but adults as well, everywhere you go people are just mindlessly phone out and scrolling. Games are sucking a bunch of time as well. Quarantining has made it worse.

You'd hope people were more educated or exposed to cool ideas but given the debate on the election and the most popular videos on youtube it doesn't seem to be that way.

Maybe its just a new normal and I'm old. I feel lucky the internet didn't exist when I was young.
Most of software on market doesn't support OpenCL. ROCm worked quite well, but again AMD decide not to invest into software.
> "Just because I'm in Atlanta doesn't make me inherently worth less than my peers in SF."

Should a person be charged SF prices for groceries when they're living in Atlanta because they're getting SF pay? Clearly not. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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I was going to wait for an AMD card for that, however im feeling somewhat happier that i ended up getting the 3080 rtx
My dad smashed my computer around the laundry (where the computer lived) with my cricket bat because I was "playing games" instead of studying.

"playing games" was using assembly language and pascal with s3m libraries to program a game.

With my kids I've felt the rise of anger when they want to be autonomous and pursue their own interests. I mean, I was taught that parenthood is subjugation.

But just like my dad couldn't realise that there was a rising future in gaming as an industry or the internet, because it was so far removed from his traditional roots, who am I to say that Minecraft, Youtube, or some variant of it won't be the future operating system of society.
The lower to mid-skill positions already have been.

The IT jobs that were like assembly line jobs (support, helpdesk, CRUD programming) has been outsourced like crazy to the rest of the world.
- cool story. are you living in alaska for fun?

- also w3m.

- why don't you git clone everything to your laptop when you have a chance? then keeping it up to date won't be expensive.
The reason why many remote jobs exist is because companies can hire people remotely for less. I see no problem with that. This is a classic economic demand curve: at a lower price, there is demand for more workers. At a higher price, there is demand for fewer. If you want fewer jobs to exist, demand that everyone get paid SFBA salaries.
All of these things can be true at the same time:

1) They are bad parents
2) They are good parents
3) Smartphones are a qualitatively different addiction problem than TV, comic books, or other demonized technology of yore
4) It is correlation not causation
5) Her problems were partly caused by the iPhone
Real asset prices have had a historic run this year. As the government goes into further debt, the relative value of the dollar decreases resulting in an increase price for housing, equities, precious metals and even bitcoin
Yeah, I'm looking at the rationale for HBM which looks physically similar and it seems to be closeness and the ability to have more wires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory

But the HBM photos have the 'interposer' layer and look to be using bare dies, the M1 looks to not have the interposer and to be using the DRAM package. I'm not fully convinced with why the DRAM needs to be on the M1 but there must be a reason. Apple's marketing site says their 'Unified Memeory Architecture' uses a 'custom package' so maybe the DRAM package appearance is the same but the interface is not.
Except the competition isn’t suppressed, and there’s no actual monopoly here.

What we have is a pretty clear case of a minuscule minority of users bitterly complaining that a company isn’t making its products exactly the way they want them to.

A store is allowed to charge what it wants for its products. A store is allowed to set the policies that it wants for the goods that it sells in its own stores.

It just so happens that Apple’s customers absolutely love its products, and that Apple’s products are absolute technological leaders in their space.

Apple didn’t get there, e.g. like Facebook by buying up the competition any time it started to emerge as a threat. They got there through decades of focused development and investment.
A clever move. Apple essentially knee-capped the Epic claim that they’re in the same boat as small developers by putting a high cap on post-commission earnings ($1m sounds like a lot).
@SXX: They might want to QA the results on particular games even if not trained per game. And/or they may want the game publishers approval to meddle with how the game works/looks. And they possibly have royalty deals with the game publishers.
I'm ok with this bailout, but ONLY IF ITS CONTINGENT ON RADICALLY REFORMING UNIVERSITIES.

This crisis was teed up by colleges taking advantage of endlessly subsidized debt being signed onto by 17-18 year old kids. They need to fix it. Immediately. I'm not keen on doing this every few years as a taxpayer so that asshole administrators in universities can continue to not hire professors, underpay graduate staff, and generally give two shits about teaching employable skills.
It can replace casks too, as mac apps can also be packaged in Nix.
There are a few things people make sure they have paid first. Rent is at the top of that list. However, if they're behind, continue to be behind, and can't find employment with an economy contraction... they're not going to catch up. That $2,000 they're behind right now will balloon and become an eviction.
During the rise of smart phones I wouldn’t have blamed parents. It was an unknown, assumed to be like tv (which the article states)

But with everything we know now, there’s no excuse. Parents are being irresponsible letting their child have a smart device.

A ten year old? Forget it.
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"more dollars chasing fewer goods" is the classic expression. Its obviously highly simplified.
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Nice job on the video update! Despite (because of?) the amateur video vibes, I found it really entertaining.
This generation is somewhat weird. It seems like the bulk of the launch titles have been pushed into 2021 or beyond, so the new consoles are somewhat akin to PC upgrades: play the same games, but at a better frame rate and higher resolution.
You have mis-read the content. It state's that only companies with less than $1.07 bil can qualify.

Not sure about you, but my mom and pop definitely fall in that category.
For poor people in third world countries(well everywhere actually) food represents a bigger % of your budget. So OK, they are not starving, they can eat OK, but even buying a new pair of jeans is an investment.
The value you bring is the ceiling on your compensation; employers are not going to pay more than that. Your cost of living is the floor; you're not going to take less than that. The spread between the two is what you're negotiating over.
Either or --

1. An eviction tsunami

or

2. A foreclosure tsunami as "landlords" renting out their lower unit/extra room cannot make their mortgage.

Note that just as there is a moratorium (in some cases) for rent, there is also one on mortgages (in some cases). Except the rent will probably never be paid once it is backed up enough, but the mortgage is still going to be due eventually. Secondly, there is also the carry of properties besides mortgages (property taxes, heating, maintenance.)
It feels like a bit of both. The phone is probably a focal point for other issues. But, I don't think we should downplay the fact that the finely tuned, variable reward scheduled, Skinner boxs that are many modern apps are anywhere near comic books, rock'n'roll, or videogames of old. I'm pretty conscious of intrusive notifications and apps that aggressively vie for my attention. Even with those limits in place, I'm acutely aware of the effect of having reddit available from my pocket in < 2 seconds. Maybe I'm weak, but I feel that it affects most of us in a fundamental way to some degree.

I'm not saying that you said anything counter to this. I just think that apps which are hyper-tuned to captivate our every moment are a different beast.
Amazing how we can go from "one billion calculations per second" being an incredible marketing claim [1], to components hitting 20 teraflops...in just 20 years.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7EhYy-2RE
It's not hard - work in the office will always be paid more than remote work because communication in the office requires less inertia and is more efficient.
Does it technically work? Yes.

Does it work as well as RDP? Not even close.

With RDP I get a near-local experience. With NoMachine, VLC, whatever else it's very, very obvious I'm working remotely.

Maybe it's my setup, but I've tried many times over many years with different hardware on both ends and internet connections.
There's some decent evidence of long-term (permanently?) lowered VO2Max in a large proportion of cases in younger people, along with lower quality evidence of prevalence of scarier post-infective consequences. I don't really want even a minor case of COVID-19.

Yes, the vaccines may be riskier than we're accustomed to. GBS is a 1 per million side effect in most vaccines, with some proportion of these people having permanent side effects. I wouldn't be surprised if we find that these vaccines are more like 1 in 25k. But that's better than the odds even young people face from COVID-19.
The British government's first disaster of 2021? A food shortage
I've heard of companies planning on paying people less money, since they don't need to commute, buy dress clothes, etc.
Unfortunately, I think unions are culpable as well. When they protect bad employees, act to extend their power for it's own sake, refuse to concede despite potentially ruining the company etc. Ironically, they can end up displaying the same qualities they originated to prevent.
One can master owns native language being an adult, why not?

I am Russian and I enjoy translating wonderfully sounding English concepts to Russian. As you can understand, it takes a little bit of mastery in both languages. The upside I get is that these wonderfully sounding language concepts often lose all their charm when translated into Russian. They turn into a pumpkin. This way I can better focus on what is essential.

As I am here on the matter of focusing on essential things, please look at "Being Popular" essay by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html

Let me quote: "They're perfectly justified: the majority of hot new whatevers do turn out to be a waste of time, and eventually go away. By delaying learning VRML, I avoided having to learn it at all."

Another upside of translating things is that you often cannot apply same questions to English and Russian terms. There are questions applicable only to English term and there are questions for Russian term which are not applicable to English one. You have to do analysis anew, finding new sides of the problem, which either show you the problem's true underwater size or help you solve it.
Ahh I see! Thanks for the clarification.
You are a lucky one, because at that time to your interests in computing would lead to job opportunities.

I’m afraid it is not so with an iPhone. Our phones take without giving. Now excuse me I should probably log off and do something useful.
Thanks a million!
IDE: How do you estimate which one is going to be best /after/ you invest in the training? I have been really trying to get better at emacs, for example, but it still feels clunky a lot of the time so I only use it for org-mode. I also switched to VS Code and honestly don't see what the hype is about - but does that mean I just need more training? From who? ("If brute force isn't working, use more of it!")

Hardware: I bought a gamer laptop (for use with Ubuntu) recently because it had a GPU, but was shocked to discover that I never got used to the keyboard. Again, I thought that I would get better, but it really hasn't. Fortunately, my Kenesis keyboard /was/ something with a continuously rising learning curve (I'm not hopeless, contra the evidence above!) But now I'm doing a lot of work in Looker which tries to do extraordinary things in the browser, but brings my machine to a crawl. My Mac-using coworker says it's less of an issue for him, but I can't quite bear to drop $2k just for that one application. That said, the value-of-my-time-over-1y calculation suggests I should. But does "good computer" just mean a Mac?

Monitor: What would be a good monitor buying guide? I'm happy with mine now but don't know what any of the specs mean for the future

Chair: This is like the definition of "YMMV" but how would you go about evaluating chairs, esp in the covid era?

Standing desk: I've been procrastinating on this one because while I understand how to measure things, I foresee myself visiting a half dozen diffent sites with different ways of representing the size/specs of their desks and getting pretty overwhelmed. And that would be the hardest thing to return.

Quality noise cancelling headphones: OK I guess I have no excuse here.

Thanks again, you've already forced me to think through several mental blocks and realize they are real but entirely surmountable. Any answers (from anyone) to the questions above would also be appreciated!
And check your local library. Here in Seattle you get to use Safari if you have a library card.
The year is 2050.

"My daughter was a creative genius, then we bought her first neural lace."
A decent desktop computer.
It’s interconnected. You can’t claim that the relationship goes in one direction.
The problem isn’t the phone, is that she’s being socialized into adulthood by a bad influence: the crowd. Not just her friends at school, but the national and global crowd she can access through the phone.

You can stop it, but you won’t. The messages we give to girls now are awful. They are taught by the crowd to freely wield their sexual and social power instead of being taught to use it thoughtfully. This power is intoxicating and can only be tamed by strong values. They will be indoctrinated against your “outdated” parental authority. Their “heroes” will be criminals and bad women like Cardi B. If you really want to stop that, pull her out of the school she’s going to, find a ‘conservative’ school to send her to, and spend time teaching your values at home. You probably won’t do any of this. It’s not the phone, it’s the values and who is teaching them. And right now, that’s not you.
With regard to Whatsapp, it should run on Anbox (Android emulation for PinePhone), because Whatsapp does not require Google Play Services and runs on vanilla Android.
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I don't see how there won't be. With so many unemployed and so much unpaid rent. I find it hard to believe that landlords won't try and recoop those lost rents. Short of interesting payment plans, which don't work for the unemployed, they still have property taxes, property up-keep, loans, paychecks for themselves to manage.
Big picture, there will be as many housing units and as many people in 2021 as in 2019.

Landlord won't evict people, unless they know they can get new, better tenants.

So, if 2020 made us poorer, I'd expect lowered rents rather than fewer people housed.
Their drivers are quite good, the claims in this thread that they are flakey are rather bizarre and seem based on outdated information.
Thanks, believe it or not it helps to get any pointers on this.

I started my career working in C++, Ruby on Rails and Sybase in Investment Banking. Then moved to Telecom and it was Python, C++, Javascript, Oracle, and MongoDB. Few years later I'm working on Cloud (AWS, Azure, Golang and .NET Core). Again after few more years it's Golang, C++, Image Processing, machine Learning, ReactJS and AWS.

In a span of 6 odd years having to learn all this, it's been taking toll on me as I didn't know where I was going with all this. Hence the feeling of being lost :-)
While getting accepted is obviously not a given, the program's admission rate is very high. The founder, Zvi Galil, is on record speaking to the philosophy of democratizing CS education that motivated the program.

Which is a flowery way of saying that getting into OMSCS is much more about affording it than any other similar program.

Getting out with the degree, however, requires some serious commitment.

-Disclosure: I am currently a student in the program.
Cost of living is only part of the explanation, but “market price” isn’t even an explanation at all.
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Ask HN: How can one continue to grow after reaching the top?
I'm one of the 3 most senior team members where I work. Working with these colleagues has helped a lot with grow my skills, simply through discussions, and other normal work interactions. From their feedback I'm convinced this goes
both ways.

Recently, a friend of min asked (read: begged) me to come working at his company, in a kind of CTO-like position. I've done odd jobs for this company, and like working there very much (they have fostered a great atmosphere). Due to the nature of the company, most of the employees are unskilled laborers. The tech team currently consists of 2 college students and the aforementiond friend, a CEO with only limited tech experience. I get to stipulate the terms of me working there, so I could probably add a few team members, but it's not likely I'll get to add any seniors to the team, as those are hard to find, and may not be in the budget.

I've learned that growth is very important to me, and in the past I've always grown by working with people with more or equal experience. If I take this job, that style of growth will no longer be available to me. How do other HN-ers improve their tech skills, when they are not surrounded by experienced collegaues?

TLDR; I'm about to reach the top, and I don't know how to grow from there.
replace 'apple' with 'standard oil', 'iphone' with 'kerosene' and '2020' with '1900'.
The book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith helped me become a better, more empathetic, teammate. It’s less than $20, but worth far more.
For the Mac Mini, I'd rather see it grow the ability to use more power than get smaller. More RAM, more cores, more GPU, more ports, eGPU capability. It's already a fairly convenient size that you can buy server racks and brackets for.

The new system design I want to see is an update on the 11" MacBook Air or the 12" MacBook. I'd like to see if they can get a clamshell with good battery life and decent performance under two pounds and just wide enough for a full-size keyboard. The 11" MacBook Air is still my favorite laptop I've ever owned; I'm sad they discontinued it and didn't refresh the design. Maybe it can come back with an M1 or M2 chip, though.
> Yeah, laptops that look like bricks.

Eh, the laptop I'm using at the moment has a 15.6" display and 91Wh battery and is less than 100g heavier and about 1mm thicker than the 13" MBP. It's also 500g lighter than the 16" MBP. Lots of other properly tuned modern x86 laptops can perform similarly. For example the 14" 1.48kg 18mm 56Wh battery HP EliteBook 845 G7 manages >12h on NBC's wifi websurfing test: https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-EliteBook-845-G7-review-AMD...

> This isn’t how memory works :/

Fair point that free might not be the best way to measure things, I have more tabs open now but still not doing work (obviously), so let's compare:

total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 65328424 26679236 31393956 1165140 7255232 36284812
Swap: 67108860 3197072 63911788

With totaling per-process shared/private memory (I uses memstat.sh for this). And the total I get is: 18.37 GiB - lower, but actually not so far off.

This is only with a two browsers (a few hundred tabs) and some resident electron apps open, mind you. Before upgrading (w/ 16GB memory) I was often hitting swap, and now I'm not. But if you don't ever need >16GB of RAM, lucky for you I guess.
> Somewhere along the way, I realize that apps like TikTok and Instagram are impervious to Apple’s Screen Time limit. They work even when the rest of her phone shuts down. To keep the peace, I let it slide.

The author is completely wrong about this, so I can only assume that their kid is indeed being creative and has manipulated them into believing it.

Overall... this does seem like an "onset of adolescence" thing. 20 years ago this author would have been bemoaning that their teenage daughter spent all day on the land-line with her friends.
So, I am 53 years old, a white guy with two engineering degrees, who's been programming for a while now. I still get imposter syndrome, whenever I am on a new project where we're using a new technology. So don't get too hung up on the idea that you're going to get rid of it.

BUT, now that you know (intellectually) that it's a normal mental illusion, it can be disregarded. This doesn't make it stop happening, any more than knowing about the blind spot makes it stop being a blind spot. But, you know not to listen to it, like you know that something disappearing in your blind spot doesn't really mean it's not there.

In fact, I now use it as a metric of whether or not I'm learning enough new tech, or if I'm staying with what I'm comfortable in too much (which is a path towards obsolescence when you're a programmer). When I get feelings that I recognize as Imposter Syndrome, I know (intellectually) that it means I'm working on new knowledge, and that's a good thing. It doesn't make the feelings go away; learning more about the new thing will eventually help with that (temporarily). But intellectually I know I've worked on enough projects to not be an imposter, more or less by definition, and I know that the feelings of "I don't know what I'm doing maybe I'm not cut out for this" are normal, and not an accurate guide to whether or not I am able to do this. They are, of course, an indication that I need to keep working on learning whatever the new thing is.
Is that the SSD soldered directly to the board? If so, that's a big disappointment considering the amount of free space in there.
Tasker.

But, it's an android app. Helps automate your phone.
Having never been an 11 year old girl in a pandemic, I can't really speak to what "normal" is. Based on the the girl's behavior as described in the article, it certainly has had no noticeable negative effects.
> AMD's encoder/s are apparently still pretty bad

This affects everyone who uses Steam Streaming (or Parsec) too, I don't know why reviewers don't test it regularly. Its a no-go for me then, the current H.264 encoder on AMD hardware is beyond terrible.
ha, should have checked that. Thanks for pointing out :-)
They weren't lying about the the puppetry degree.

https://drama.uconn.edu/programs/puppet-arts/mamfa-puppetry/...
This is incorrect according to this Phoronix article. Rocm opencl supposedly works on the 6800. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-rx68... It might take a while for it to be available through standard distro distribution channels.
Rents will likely increase as housing assets have risen across the country. Tenants will continue to get shafted as long as interest rates remain low
+6 GBs of VRAM is a pretty solid spec.

There's some degree of worry that 10GB on the 3080 is not enough for the high-end games of the future. NVidia made a mistake leaving a huge gaping hole between the 10GB 3080 and the 24GB 3090.

A 6800 XT fills that hole with a nice little 16GB.
How about Gopple?
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