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> People don't bother giving feedback to those who they don't care about or have to work with again.

This mindset is basically trying to cast good intentions on the criticizer to reduce the sting of the critique.

I don't like these mindsets because they aren't reliably true.

While some managers or teammates will give you feedback with good intentions in mind, others will critique you out of frustration and negative emotions.

Instead of tricking yourself into thinking that everyone is acting with your best interests in mind, why not accept reality.

The path forward is to embrace the fact that you can't please everyone. Instead, have a deep understanding of what your goals and values are. And, act accordingly. How others react or judge your actions are only important insofar as they help you achieve your goals or align your actions with your values.
Excess milk production acts as a buffer, because shortages in food can be quite severe depending on what happens any given year and it takes a while to ramp up production in response.

The program was developed in response to shortages of milk during wartime.
Non-paywalled link: https://medium.com/forwardtick/twitter-starts-testing-epheme...
Xerox machines also played a crucial role in the Pentagon Papers story.

You're familiar with Elizabeth Eisenstein? *The Printing Press as an Agent of Change.
> After stopping completely about 8 or 9 months ago, I no longer have acid reflux or that burning feeling in the back of my throat from spicy food.

How long did it take before you noticed this change?
Netflix does run their own CDN for video content, presumably to avoid that exact problem. I would imagine that's by far the most expensive part of their business.
> It is funny how tech employees complain about this when it hits them personally

That's a good point, because no other groups of people only complain about issues when they start to affect them personally.
I suppose we all have a “that Japanese woodcut”.

For me, it is the one with two octopuses and the fisherman’s wife. Quite perplexing.
> I had one candidate straight up tell me that they were more senior than our senior developers because they spent a year or whatever "living and breathing this stuff everyday, all day" whereas our senior devs wasted their time at college and probably have the same amount of "real practical experience" as this program grad did even though they'd been working there for 3-5 years.

Unbelievable
I talked with a Spanish scientist that has developed a vaccine for covid and other vaccines for other illnesses before that.

He said something like that most of the work in testing is for the "carrier" or something like that(in Spanish). Once your vaccine works with that you could modify the vaccine very fast with little consequences.

Hew also told me that you can share "carriers" for different illnesses and he had tried to convince politicians for decades trying to create "generic carriers" in order to be prepared for something like this.
There is a lot of spectrum in the middle between AWS micro and your own datacenter(s). One don't have to jump from the cloud to datacenter - just rent/buy a server or two, or rack of server or two.
Is therapy the same as counselling?
This is a good definition based on how Capitalism works.
Just as a mild counterpoint, it's nice to see the Panfrost team getting official support from ARM.

They've been able to make some really rapid progress on bug fixes and efficiency improvements just by re-designing based on the official design docs instead of relying on reverse engineering.
If you’re willing to read documentation, OpenBSD is best-in-class for a secure, stable home router. The interfaces (configuration, CLI) are extremely simple and the man pages top notch.
No complaints about Photos? Should I remind you that we will not be able to upload pictures in high resolution for free in a couple of months?
> but all I see is a community consciously putting efforts to become more inclusive

In my opinion, agitating for these types of changes makes tech communities more polarized since you are now making things that didn't used to be political, highly politicized.

It's not clear to me how changing the default branch name in a version control system and similar "inclusivity changes" makes the tech communities more inclusive, but I do very clearly see how it increases discord and contention in tech communities (see: this thread, previous threads on the topic, Code of Conduct threads, etc).

And I think that increased discord and contention in communities is not worth increased inclusivity (however you measure that).

I think a better, more compromising change would have been to leave default as master, but fix up the code base (remove hard-coded instances of "master") so that you can choose a different default branch name more easily (i.e. with `git init <default name>`. It's forcing the default name change upon everyone that people find unpalatable.
> So many times I found myself trying to explain something and realizing that either I didn't actually know how it worked and ended up spending hours (days?) researching the inner workings of said thing

This has been, by far, the best thing about writing.

It is also, by far, the worst thing about writing. The constant terror that I am full of shit.
Wyze just started to promote one.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/wyze-releasing-199-robot-vacuu...
> None of which is possible on iPhones and iPads these kids are growing up with.

Err.... Wasm? WebGL?
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As others mentioned, different languages have different typography rules. Our toolset is English-based and making it generic for any language would be extremely difficult and time consuming. Additionally, all of us read in (at least) English, and at least I can't credibly say I'm a grammar/typography expert in any other language.

In the past people have expressed interest in forking the toolset for other languages, which is totally fine. But I don't think I've seen any of those attempts come to fruition yet.
No but it does mean a higher chance that the legal battle ends up being protracted enough that the smaller party is forced to abandon their case because they can't afford legal fees anymore. Saying that having more money doesn't magically win court battles ignores the ways in which having deeper pockets lets you bog the other side down until they literally can't afford to keep fighting.
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I used to look at yelp reviews before deciding on a restaurant to eat at. I'm now completely ignoring yelp reviews because I don't trust them. Strange I do still trust google reviews. Maybe I shouldn't since I don't know how reliable that is either. But at least I'm not hearing about the same shaddy tactics there.
Address business concerns, don't just write code. Almost anyone can write some spaghetti Java and get it to build, but most people who can do that can't operate well in a business environment dealing with executives and C-level people. If you can do both, you're no longer a commodity.
hope virus mutates so that masks don't work since we don't have any mask in existence which can protect against it.
Cool project! I wonder if your price points are randomly picked or if 100 is the sweet spot, which would be odd.

Do you plan to add some text-to-speech magic, so one can search for the actual podcast content? That would be a killer feature for me :)
Sometimes they give critiques as a part of a bureaucratic process that makes termination easier down the road.
Map tiling APIs do this, like Mapbox and Google. Else you could circumvent all but their lowest-tier subscription plans with a brain-dead caching proxy and a large disk which is what they want to avoid.

Amazon's API famously does this as well (or used to, it's been a while) by requiring any prices you show to be no more out of date than N minutes forcing you to basically request on demand every time you need to show it. They'd rather you just send the traffic their way for people to see the price.
Video editing has nothing to do with being an influencer lol. That is a very transferrable skill to a lot of industries.
Could it be those who abstain from alcohol tend to lean towards having other unhealthy vices that fill the gap? Poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, etc.?
I take your point there - maybe I was a little short with no reason.

I'm in a similar position, I bought a 16 i9 at basically the same time. Certainly not adopting the first generation of a new processor architecture on a machine I use for work.

However, render time in FCP and number of channels in Logic Pro cannot be understated if they're really this good. It's crazy to see a sudden uplift in what's capable there. A lot of what I've read even indicates that general system use (windows opening /closing, scrolling, system animations) are noticeably faster on the M1.

Plus, I'm happy to take Apples word as they were totally right with the A12z in the iPad Pro. That thing outperforms most windows laptop in creative workflows.
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Why must Amazon pass off its savings to your org, in this example, rather than taking most of those realized R&D savings to their own investors?

Sure, AWS may be constantly innovating on doing things more cheaply and scalably. Sometimes, those savings get passed off to the customer; but not most of it, and not necessarily all that frequently.
Are there online T-groups?
SF vs Kansas are two extremes though. You can live in the suburbs of another urban center with cheaper CoL and have similar effects. For instance, the Seattle/Tacoma area (which also has easy access to an airport with short flights to SFO and SJC.)
Are there a lot of Great Depression survivors on HN? Here’s hoping they chime in.
My dad was an electrical engineer and used to keep a cutout of a press release from a company. It announced the company's production of its billionth transistor.

I really wish I still had that. I don't remember the company or the date. But it's incredible that we've gone from a company's total lifetime production of an item to now selling more than that amount in every single chip.
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Lol up until two years ago I thought that Bing was a joke and could be only used to find porn. I have to probably reconsider it and give props to Microsoft in this case.

Google Search has seriously become super bad, unfortunately :(
The problem is fentanyl is super cheap to make, so it's used as a filler in other opioid based drugs on the street right now. Problem is the OD threshold is so low, you don't know if you're going to get super weak heroin or heroin that will kill you when taking a quarter of your normal dose. Because of this people start defaulting to buying fentanyl, not because it's better, but because they have no other option.

These are the kind of people who aren't smart enough or well enough to get a prescription of what they need, so they have to turn to the streets.

In the 1950s there was an antidepressant that worked on the kind of depression today we call treatment-resistant depression. You can still get it prescribed, but it's a pain in the ass, because it's opioid based. It's a long lasting 12 or 24 hour patch that normalizes the persons pain and emotional state. It doesn't get them high but it normalizes them. It's not ideal for physical pain, but for most forms of mental pain, which is why many turn to the street, it is ideal. These people should be getting prescribed with this, but they don't know about it and getting it is near impossible because of the stigma.

Every new iteration of drug is worse than the last. People were not out in the street shooting up when the drug war started, but before the drug war heroin was easy for anyone to obtain. They had better tools then. As counter intuitive as it is, the drug war created this mess.
Not the OP but I think your reaction is exactly what Apple is hoping for here - contentment with more money in your pocket.

But it also shows behavioral economics at work: developers have been so anchored to the 30% split that this change looks amazing, but why isn't the 15% the norm regardless of revenue size? Effectively Apple is "settling" or "bribing" small developers with this change, so they aren't compelled to join the antitrust movement led by bigger players.

From a business standpoint, Apple is trying to splinter the critics into various factions. A bit extreme analogy but it's akin to inciting conflict within the opposition - actually almost textbook monopolistic behavior. Segment the market by offering tiered incentives.

This reminds me a bit of the Netflix stance on net neutrality. They were for until they grew big enough and could pay off ISPs. ISPs essentially created the proverbial moat for Netflix.
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Not a bad analogy, but the taxi also comes with a driver, which makes it expensive but allows you to get work done in the back while you're en route. It'd be like a cloud provider that came with a devops person dedicated to you.
Basically it makes sense to set up your own infrastructure when your business IS your infrastructure.
For a newbie Python developer & pycharm user (~15 months, at work) , pls share points on the benefits of pycharm professional edition over the free one
> There are a ridiculous amount of games on the iOS platform

not comparable at all, 95% of them are simplistic games that can be built by a team of 5-10 people, max. they're things in the same general category as candy crush.

there is nothing analogous to horizon zero dawn, or destiny 2, or death stranding, or cyberpunk 2077 on the ios platform. I define that as AAA size games that require significant GPU horsepower, 70GB+ disk space, and a dedicated handheld game controller.

Things are that are not compatible in any user-interface way with fingers on a touchscreen don't really exist for ios.
No- the UK enters a WTO agreement on the 1st jan, that means imports taxes, duties and restrictions on a whole bunch of things. It’s impossible to plan for because it can all change at the last minute.

It’s easy to say nothing will change if it doesn’t affect you. I don’t understand why a trade agreement with a few extra bits of international legislation was put to a general public referendum. It’s got nothing to do with the average joe on the street, the general public has no understanding of this.
I've been writing CSS since the beginning of the web2.0 days and so it was really hard for me to adjust to the Tailwind approach. It's by no means perfect, but after working almost exclusively with it (and Tailwind UI) I am a big believer. I find myself wanting all the utilities almost immediately as soon as I am back on any other project/codebase.
Google may be the last company on earth I want to handle my banking. Well, maybe I would choose it over Facebook. But seriously... no thank you.
The author is being ironic and having a laugh at himself. He does not think reading Agatha Christie is a waste of time at all. At worst, he considers it a guilty pleasure.
There is no scenario where you can be a remote employee and still be reasonably expected to meet in person with such short notice that you couldn't make the trip if it's actually worth the pay differential.
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Looks cool! Do you know by any chance who are they selling the floor map data to?
I have some questions for you too. I have a goal of digitizing photo albums, photo slides, VHS, camcorder tapes, and 8mm tape reels that had been kept by my grandmother.

What software tools did you use to organize your archive?

How did you add the metadata?
Roborock are really nice and not that expensive. I've actually been really impressed with just how well it maps the floors. The other day I had to clean some cat fur out of it mid cycle, placed it in a totally different part of the room that wasn't in sight of the dock and it was able to fairly quickly figure out where it was.
I mean it's more than CPU - losing power regulators, or anything else that causes your machine not to boot to a DFU mode. Watch Louis Rossman's channel for long enough and you'll see how many possible failure modes there are.

My 2014 MBP died a few years back of power regulator cause, but I was able to pull the SSD and image it in the case that they were unable to repair the device.
It is more like a market than a store. I buy from the stall / seller rather than the Market, but Market stalls still pay rent to the market to set up shop.
Sorry to hear this, my friend. There are some real princes out there.

My stepfather refused to let me take piano lessons, because those would turn you into a "sissy" (e.g., Liberace).

Yeah, I'm still angry about it.
Farm subsidies generally serve a few purposes in the US:

1. Maintaining the political support of farmers

2. Maintaining surplus food production capacity in case of some contingency (e.g. war).

The same is true for many developed countries. The US government actually produced “government cheese” with surplus milk to help support dairy farmers, providing the cheese to schools and welfare recipients. The EU has also experienced subsidy-related supply surpluses, including a “butter mountain” and a “wine lake”.
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The direction does matter, actually. The virus particles leaving an infected person will generally be inside droplets large enough to be caught by a mask before they get a chance to evaporate and atomize. Meanwhile, the virus encountered by an uninfected person nearby will naturally be either in smaller droplets or in airborne form. Much harder to defend against.
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Is there a setting to disable the personal point system on HN?

To be clear, I'm only looking to "make invisible" my points. I understand the ranking of comments are such are important to the flow of the conversation.

I still care about points for articles.

And, other user's points can still be visible.

Thanks!
Depending on the use case, possibly a whole lot of disks.
Deadlines are definitely a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they can be really inconvenient if something takes longer, other priorities pop up, you just feel you need to release a chapter even though you're not really happy with it, etc. On the other hand, in the absence of deadlines, it's easy to put things to the side for a "week" that turns into a month or two.
It isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple
Countries which are no longer major automotive manufacturers can afford to accelerate the transition. Basically, they can just import different cars. The countries where automotive lobby is still influential, will have to adjust the transition period to keep their ICE industry happy.

As for the charging infrastructure, I think it's easier to solve. It's not much more complicated than laying optical fiber everywhere. A massive undertaking, without doubt, but the revenue potential of the public charging is enormous. It's like building a network of gas stations, but without having to move fuel ever again.
No, equal pay for equal work, especially in remote jobs isn't going to work. Why is it that for almost the entire history of man, we've had wages decided based on COL, and suddenly when it comes to tech bros who are seeing a pay cut, we are all up in the arms?

A Starbucks barista in SF gets paid one and half times that in Oklahoma. They do equal work, just different locations. A lady in the Zara sweatshops in Bangladesh gets paid a dollar for the entire day, while a lady in a luxury boutique in LA probably earns 100x that. They do the same jobs, why don't we all globally decide the pay in a single currency?

Simple answer: economics. Adjusting for COL was always a thing, moving away from a high COL area always meant a pay cut. Similarly anyone who moved from India or China or Europe to the Bay, got a pay hike. And the reason this happens is supply and demand. Some people are valuable enough to companies that regardless of where they live they get the same money. Bezos or Musk can move to Madagascar for all they care. For 99.999999999% of the rest, we are replaceable. If you're gonna move to Indiana and demand Bay Area salaries, there'll be plenty of people there who can do your job for less with the same set of skills. And if not in Indiana, somewhere else, maybe India. Economics. Simple. Otherwise, we'd all be drinking $200 coffees and $500 avocado toasts.
There's a bunch of steps along the way between AWS[1] and managing your own infrastructure.

Virtual private servers, bare metal hosting, cabinet, rack, or cage in a colo, and then operating your own datacenters.

The more you buy into the AWS services and not just EC2 instances, the harder it is to move out. In other parts of the thread, people are saying you need to have a good team to run your own infra, but you also need to have a good team to run on other people's infra, and debug their bugs without visibility, so that you can guide their techs to fixing your issues, so I don't think that using other people's services absolves you of having a good team.

Really the issue isn't age of company or number of engineers. It's the number of servers you need, and how stable that is. If you can't predict your server count 3 months out, you need to host with someone who has stock on hand to buffer your growth. If your server count is small, you get better geographic redundancy picking up an instance here and there from around the world from a single vendor; colo space is available everywhere, of course, but you would likely be dealing with different vendors in each locality.

If you can take advantage of growing and shrinking your deployment throughout the day in response to load, and there's a dramatic difference between peak and trough, it makes a lot of sense to be somewhere that you pay by the hour, instead of by the month or have to buy for the peak and let it idle.

[1] Or Google Cloud, or Azure, or Oracle Cloud or whoever.
In Dostoyevski Crime and Punishment, there is a similar 'reveal' monologue with an extremely interesting twist (spoiler alert): the narrator knows the murderer, the reader knows the murderer, the detective knows the murderer, the reader knows that the detective knows the murderer - but the murderer, a naive student who is convinced he is the Übermensch and committed a perfect crime, is unaware that everyone knows he did it. It's both an extremely tragic and extremely funny scene: at one point they have a lengthy conversation where both of them "try" to find out who the real murder is, and the student, thinking he is helping the dumb detective with his superior mind, suggests one murderer after the other, one theory after another. The detective dismisses them all. Finally, the student grows frustrated and blurts out: "Then who is the murderer?". And the detective just answers: "The murderer? Why, you are, of course!". The silence that follows is one of the best moments in literature and a testament to Dostoyevski's genius regarding character development.

Of course, as many people know, that scene and in particular that seemingly clueless but extremely clever 19th century St. Petersburg detective inspired the Columbo series, which repeated this particular kind of "reveal dialogue" in basically every episode.
They aren’t shrinking at all, we have the same talent pool and are trying to thinly spread it over all of the problems we can solve with networked computers. The amount of problems you can solve with networked computers has scaled way faster than our industries capability to find talent and train employees.
I want to see the kind of R&D Amazon has to do to bring down their insane egress prices ;)
You mean high cost areas like Western Europe?
> Note that the id and the pub_date of a podcast or an episode are exempt from the caching restriction

> it really limits what you could even use it for, not being able to store the `id` even for a later reference