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Certificates are useful to you when you are the one selling them (or selling training programs for them).
> Was it meaningful, given how many billions of birds raised for meat face a far more gruesome life and death?

Surely farmers are more merciful in their euthanizations than the later story where the turkey hits a power line and breaks both of its legs.
In many ways that ecosystem for such laptops is already there thanks to Google and Chromebooks, many of which ARM based. So adding a bit more memory and storage and if the Windows fans don't get to bite, be many a Linux folk who would snap up such offerings if the price is right and they certainly could be.
I'm a US citizen who has been working in Chile for a US company for several years. My wife of 12 years is Russian and has had a green card since 2000. She grew up in New York. She came here with me for my work, and due to COVID was unable to return to the US to renew her green card before it expired in April.

The company I work for is being acquired, and we are preparing to move back to the US. The consulate here said that because she has been away for more than a year, and because "staying with my US husband who was working for a US company in Chile" doesn't count as extenuating circumstances, her LPR status no longer applies, and she has to refile the IR1 from zero.

We've started that process, but having to stay in Chile for another 12+ months while they sort it out is at odds with needing to return to the US and perform my job for the new company. The consulate here isn't very friendly towards her (literally telling her she could have just divorced me and moved back to the US if she wanted to remain an LPR). We didn't have a problem returning after we lived in Poland for 3 years from 2008-2011 (also for my work), and your statement of, "...and even there really isn't a restriction..." caught my attention.

Is there some magic incantation or specific words she can say to the consulate here to grant her permission to return with me to the US and get her green card reinstated from within the US? My employer is being super cool about this, but it's clear that my role (Director of Community and Evangelism) will be executed better from _within_ the US.

If this constitutes legal advice you can't give in this forum, I'm perfectly willing to retain you to discuss it further. We're literally sitting in our house in Chile, bags packed, movers on standby, waiting for them to say she can return to the country where she's lived since she was 9.
I have always wondered how much server costs are these websites saving by using captchas instead of more respectful anti-spam techniques? 30%? 50%? 90%?
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This is true. My wife has renewed her Russian passport from Poland and from Chile, as well as from within the United States.
So far for me I keep an eye on

https://matestack.io/ and https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/

On a longer timeframe I plan to play with https://deno.land.
Yeah my point was about empathizing with people being expected to make statement after statement, instead of vilifying them when they stop jumping when people say jump. Aside from the topic sentence of that paragraph it was no longer about Coinbase.

I’m saying we can all address this better.
It is super exciting, but when do you think 5800 powered laptops will be widely available? April or May of next year? Close to 6 months after M1 powered machines.
It’s super concerning that the actual implementation detail is so hidden with all these services. You know when you should use glacier with route 53 and lambda or whatever, but do you really know why and how they work?

Maybe most people don’t need to know. But the truth is that a lot of these managed cloud services are wrappers/reimplementations around OSS tech or can be a massive overhead for your actual problem.

A great exercise to figure this out is to implement some of the cloud products as a toy project, targeted at your use case. You’ll quickly learn whats fluff and where the meat is.
Joplin has a bookmarklet that lets you screenshot or copy html if you want webpages: https://joplinapp.org/clipper/ I haven't gotten too deep into the "media" aspects -- but it's been great to act as a "digital note hub" that encompasses writing, research, and tagging.
Even if Iran did have nuclear weapons, does anyone honestly believe they would try to destroy Israel with it? I mean Israel not only have nuclear weapons, they are 10/11 th most advanced military in the entire world, with history of single-handedly defeating multiple neighbors combined. This is nothing but shallow rhetoric by Iranian politicians desperate to maintain an unpopular regime.

A far, far more likely scenario is Israeli right-wing hawkish politicians starting a war with Iran in the name of "pre-emptive" strike.
Bootstrapping support for the STM32WLE with the Embedded Rust ecosystem
Note that you can also create custom fortune messages:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/36523/creating-a-fortunes-fi...

I have actually used fortune similar to the above script to randomly select inspirational messages as part of a weekly church newsletter.
The 42 comes from the article itself.

Both solutions make sense... the blog post refers to a ieee<->integer representation hack that likely finds answers faster, because it more quickly finds the values that tend to be in realistic numbers. It works by doing a binary search of all possible values representable in floating point (of which there are more for smaller numbers, due to the design tradeoff of IEEE floating point).

The TruffleRuby binary search solution is also "correct" in its own way, in that it's binary searching using the actual floating point values themselves.
> You see this especially among political extremists. They think themselves nonconformists, but actually they're niche conformists. Their opinions may be different from the average person's, but they are often more influenced by their peers' opinions than the average person's are.

This reminds me of my arguments (many many years ago) about the alleged "non-conformist" credentials of the "Goth" kids. I'm sure, of course, that PG has captured some insight or subtlety that my socially maladjusted insular teenaged self missed...
>spending a little time understanding and implementing aerodynamically efficient body posture

You might be interested in what we're up to [0], get in touch if it interests you.

[0] https://bodyrocket.cc
When minorities get hired just because companies want to show they are doing their part, doesn't it make sense people hired because of their skin color have harder times to get promotions?
Meh. He's an old, fragile, religious leader, he can't actually implement it himself.

On a serious note, I think the many Palestinians imprisoned on questionable grounds would disagree with you.

Apart from that, Israel is known to have tested experimental drugs etc. on Palestinians[1] and aims to cripple[2], so as far as inflicting harm, they're quite credible.

1 - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190220-israel-pharmaceut...

2 - https://apnews.com/article/6035b1d3293c4a298145afbff50ab844
Life is a mixed bag of good and bad decisions, it has nothing to do with going against or with the grain. Your alternative story could be that you partied too much in college, not finishing it, buying a house beyond your means and going bankrupt and then succeeding with some obscure technology that suddenly became fashionable and important.
Why would you say it’s not the real thing? Defining champagne to be made in a specific region of France is a cop-out. That is almost a meaningless definition because even within the region there are different types and recipes being used. It’s not like they have magical grapes. Sure it might taste a little different due to regional differences but that doesn’t make it worse or even not champagne. Whether it’s quality has to do with the vineyard rather than the geographic region.

If it’s bad because it cuts corners and uses cheap ingredients then that’s the problem.
Redis on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid for Redis vs. Azure Cache
Nah.

The speed of light is slower in water, yes, which is why Cherenkov radiation exists -- that's basically the photon equivalent of a supersonic shockwave. The speed of causality doesn't change, and it's easy to demonstrate that by throwing particles through it at superluminal speeds; nuclear reactors do it all day long.
I like to think of certificates as a way to show that the person will know the terminology to communicate effectively. Management taking those course is also a great way to have better awareness of the underlying field/tech.

It's a signal among other equally valid signals and while it doesn't replace actual experience, it's still a nice plus.
The pre-Covid 19 answer is "lol, no."
I was there and this is utter nonsense. Windows crashed all the time, and Linux was rock solid with years of uptime.
These are right in the article:

wrote in a Slack message that was viewed by The Times.

according to a copy of the message seen by The Times

according to a copy reviewed by The Times.
Sadly, TDP is far from held on those. What you get at 15W is the base clock present at: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15324/amd-ryzen-4000-mobile-a...

For the Ryzen 7 4800U, that's just 1.8GHz. 4.2GHz which is the turbo clock blows through that limit by a lot. (of course that's for multi-core workloads)

For Ryzen 5th generation, we have this for per-core only power draw, without the I/O: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...

We can see from the graph at https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/PerCore-1-5950X_575p... that to reach 6.6W per core, the clock has to fall to 3.8GHz. At such a clock, Zen 3 is way behind the Apple M1 performance wise.
> Why are your reasons for believing something more plausible. But that is not the mindset of an emotionally charged person.

Unfortunately, that is so. But usually, that person's motivation is to feel understood, valued, respected, and safe within the reality / status quo they've come to understand is their best guess. When you realize their specific fears, it makes it easier to empathize and work with them on seeing from other perspectives, and that those perspectives don't threaten them, even though they are not innately familiar or intuitive initially... But that can be quite challenging.

I'm not sure what Giuliani's motivations are, but if they aren't emotional on a personal level, they aren't his own fears, which doesn't work the same way...
See e.g. https://ethz.ch/en/industry/entrepreneurs/spinoff.html, https://ethz.ch/en/industry/entrepreneurs/spinoff/uebersicht..., or https://www.technopark.ch/

Why do you think Google and other big companies have large development departments in Switzerland? There are a lot of very well educated and hardworking people, and job satisfaction is high.
I use Pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net) to block my Roku TV from sending out analytics (and from displaying ads).
Containers were created in the 60's for mainframes, Linux doesn't have anything to do with them.
How much was that? Prices seem to vary wildly around the world.
you're apparently the last and only chrome user here
Sure, but do they use a "master" branch in their git repo?
I think the commenter is saying that passion doesn't last. At some point in a long enough project, you'll lose your passion, and then what will carry the project forward?
> How come I know exactly where this essay is going?

This is the question I've been thinking as I've checked back in on comments here a few times this morning. Why do so many people "know" that this essay is all about aggrandizing pg's own intellect or that of startup founders, when it's almost entirely composed of two parts: (1) discussion on when independent thinking is and isn't valuable, and (2) advice on cultivating independent thinking? Where does this impression come from?

There's always some negativity toward any widely-read essay, but there seems to be a higher quantity with this one, making me think there's something actually wrong with it. My hypothesis is that its presentation is too neatly wrapped. This essay espouses curiosity, but does not model it. It comes across as having all the answers. This is especially true of the brief part that confidently explains the lack of negative reaction to another essay, with no details of how such confidence was arrived at.

This is too bad. I'd like for this essay to have engendered more discussion on cultivating independent thinking, and less discussion about pg's mindset.
Agreed. My girlfriend is t1 diabetic and during periods of stress (recently, starting a new job) her blood glucose becomes much more sporadic.
But why did he share these particular thoughts?
Ahh yes, the USA. That nation well-known for travelling abroad...
The 'Elephant in the Room' he failed to mention is that the vast, vast majority of 'independent thought' has nothing to do with 'Truth', it's just more or less egosim.

Also missing from the articulation is that independence from the group can be at odds with your loyalty and respect for the cause of the group, and our sense of civil duty towards it.

90% of 'independent thinking' is akin to conspiracy theory, or people arbitrarily rejecting authority, even if that authority is legitimate.

9% of 'independent thinking' is raw creativity, art, or people just expressing themselves one way or another in a variety of ways.

Only 1% of independant thinking is of the type he is describing, which is conscientious.

The problem is that it's very hard to have the self awareness to know which type you are.

There is logic in conformity, even imperfect systems, it's much better that we have a standard than otherwise.

The most enlightened people I find are those that seem actually fairly conformist not so much because they have been 'told' to do a certain thing, but because they understand why - and - have a sense of duty or obligation towards the outcome - and then conscientiously chose to take that path. It's not conformist to do what everyone else is doing if there's reason in it.
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I understand where you are coming from, but do you understand why someone might look at “tabs are an advanced feature for a terminal” and laugh knowing that tabs in a chat-terminal in a 120fps physics enabled computer game is an absolutely minute and completely ignorable feature?

I think that’s the point being made here, that taken at face value it’s just ridicules that what is on the user-side minor improvements in usability over the status quo 20 years ago is still considered “an advanced feature”.
Is it out of whack? San Francisco has one of the highest costs of living in the country - I'd say the pay is correct in that it allows those middle-class professionals to live comfortably in the city where they work.
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One could argue that it would be unethical to use your investors’ money as a political (or even idealogical) bullhorn.

Notwithstanding, such a position places zero restrictions on doing the same with your own money..but corporations make for more interesting headlines than the individuals that run them.
I did thanks, editing mistake
I'm not sure why you got downvoted, because that's actually something in my post. Thanks for the compliment, and sorry for your downvotes. Take this thank you instead. :(
I use Zotero. The native UI search is horrible and is very slow as it needs to load gigabytes of info but it uses SQLite internally and I use my own software for doing serious things.

The author of the article is overcomplicating things. He wants the moon and as a result, gets nothing. He is paralyzed in the quest to perfection.

If instead of this, you start using your own tools today, you improve it over time. For example I use structured text files for hierarchical info storage and my tools are quite sophisticated compared with how I started. At first it was a simple S-expression lisp file done in an afternoon.

I also use databases.

I log the time I spend in HN and it is quite small. I just read as fast as I can(5 minutes) whatever interest me and organize it, every day. I write but don't read replies or anything that goes over my allocated distributed time.

Then after a while I spend time for getting deep on something and then I read all the books, all the articles,ask my friends, watch all the videos of a given subject in parallel.

Take for example Clojure. I spend a week doing nothing but immersing myself on it, real work, and use Anki to learn it.

If I were to read just one book isolated, I would not understand anything. Multiple perspectives is much better and funnier.
A good, multifaceted joke; kudos.

(For those not getting it, Rust’s primary library distribution website is crates.io, one letter different)
Thanks! I must be misunderstanding something then.

I was going off: https://www.path2usa.com/h4-dependent-visa

> An H4 visa allows visa holders to:

> Get a driver's license

> Pursue education

> Open bank account(s)

> Become eligible for an ITIN (Tax ID for IRS Tax purposes)

> Work in the US

Is this site just completely incorrect? Or are you aware of additional requirements they might not be stating?
I’ll be eligible to apply for naturalisation next year. N-400 processing times for the SF office are currently 14.5-17.5 months, compared to 9.1 months nationally and 5.6 months 4 years ago. Speculatively, is this something the new administration could remedy quickly?
Just to add to this, it was the general-purpose undergraduate newspaper (the News-Letter), posting an interview with the author of this "study". The News-Letter is not a scientific or economic journal, and the staff don't validate or endorse the academic accuracy of this type of content.

Additionally, the Applied Economics master’s degree program is an adult extension program located on a satellite campus. Its student admission requirements [1] are substantially less rigorous than a traditional master's program at one of JHU's main schools.

I agree the headline here is completely misleading, as it attempts to tie the content to other schools/divisions of JHU that have a much more solid academic reputation.

[1] https://advanced.jhu.edu/academics/graduate/ms-applied-econo...
reCAPTCHA’s audio CAPTCHAs (at least in English) are much saner these days, it’s a voice snippet from a YouTube video their AI had issues transcribing.
Keys too, like when a modal dialogs pops up and treats your Enter key as a confirmation for... something. Stuff that seems like it should have been ironed out at a deep layer 20 years ago.

And in the meantime, we have a constant stream of innovation: new ways to use angle brackets in your code, new ways to avoid angle brackets in your code, a new library that renders buttons and toggles, ways to add a depth illusion to the UI, ways to remove the depth illusion. None of it makes anything more usable.
Your view of PG and SV culture is following the standard sentiment curve. Just like the culture at large.

20 years ago we were the innovative pioneers shaking up the all-powerful old guard, and everybody loves to root for the underdog.

Now we’re the new seemingly all-powerful incumbents (look at the top 5 S&P 500 companies right now). Underdogs no longer.

You can see this very clearly in media coverage of Silicon Valley over the past 15 years. Look at Google. It’s gone from “Google is our savior and the greatest corporation to ever exist,” to “Google is an evil destructive power bent on world domination.”

Was either characterization ever true? Of course not. The truth has always been in the middle.

You’re seeing what has always been there...But viewing it with an overly critical lens this time, whereas last time you viewed everything overly optimistically.

You’re ignoring the good stuff now, when you used to ignore the bad stuff.
Doing something that most people advise against is by definition unconventional but we can agree to disagree on this matter.
Had dinner with some randoms tonight in a lesser known corner of China. Although we were in a small place and the bill for 6 people was perhaps $150, it turned out one of them was a (foreign) billionaire. He took an interest in our venture and we made dinner plans tomorrow. One of the topics of conversation: resistance of crowd mentality and thinking for yourself. YMMV.
This kind of response is not generally productive, because the people asking the questions are obviously looking for help getting organized / motivated / productive.

If you're able to focus on ideas you are passionate about, that's great, but not everyone is the same. Some people have issues focusing, AD/HD, or self-destructive procrastination habits. If they are posting on HN asking for help, saying "I'm just able to do it naturally, why don't you try that?" isn't really helpful.

We've built a society where being distracted by mindless consumption is by far the easiest path through life. Some people need help getting out of that swamp, and the way to help is not to say, "don't bother".
Then you haven't been paying attention to the "rewrite in WASM" advocacy force and how WASM "has invented" polyglot bytecode.
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Why are you flying to California? For onboarding? I would recommend getting a TN prior to your flight in case there are problems.

You don't need a TN if you're physically in Canada. You only need the TN if you're entering the United States to work. If you don't need to enter the United States, you can avoid this for now.
If you are concerned more about raising your "ranking" rather than acquiring some specific knowledge, look for a school that doesn't label its only degrees "online".

I know that the University of Illinois provides degree programs online through coursera which are treated the same as non-online in that the diploma is the same, you can join the alumni association etc. I happen to know this somewhat randomly (from a coursera employee who worked on it) so I am sure there are others; I don't know if you can tell this by visiting Coursera or if the university does it and doesn't mention their platform provider.

As others have remarked in practice the education isn't the same, but in some cases I could imagine it could be better (depending on the student, quality of instructor, etc). For me the "cultural" aspects are quite important (discussions, people you meet, etc) but that may not be true for everyone.

Also if you are perfectly capable but feel you need to alter your "credibility brand" the actual quality of the education may not matter. I have a friend who enrolled in grad school entirely to meet people, ended dropping out part way through to start a company, and did fine. So there are many paths to "success".
The body learns from its mistakes.

Are you sure about that? If the body could truly learn on such fast turnaround times, we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic, I think.
Big Sur battery drain? Karabiner Elements is to blame
On a side note, I like how The Expanse sidesteps the scientific issues of interstellar travel with alien magic.

On yet another note, I read an unsettling sci-fi/theory about how the expansion of space is perhaps being caused by whatever tech allows interstellar travel in lightspeed-like time. So whatever intelligent species that evolved first may have a monopoly on such tech, while inadvertently altering the fabric of physics to make interstellar travel gradually impossible for any younger species.