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> Another effect we seem to be seeing is that streaming seems less inclined to grind out endless seasons of a show until even most of its fans just can't bring themselves to watch any longer. I expect the economics of streaming favor freshness rather than milking a cash cow through a decline when it's got little chance of bringing in fresh viewers.

it's an interesting reversal of the trend. back in the '00s, it seemed like even the best tv shows had a pretty scrappy first season: obviously low budget, little chemistry in the talent. if a show managed to get enough viewers in the first season, it would get a larger budget and hit its stride in the second one. nowadays it seems to be the opposite; most shows seem to give it all they have in a strong first season, then start phoning it in for the next couple, then getting culled without remorse when the viewership drops. I'm curious whether there's an economic reason for this, or if it's all in my head.
So permanently abandon a vulnerable creature because GP's spouse can't take Claritin for a few hours?

I'm being hyperbolic, but still the "pets (or kids) are a choice" argument falls apart after a moment's scrutiny.
Outside of University, a third crowd gathered at the bottom of corridors and dilapidated stairwells, throwing whatever scraps they could find into the air or onto their bodies in whichever pattern would let them move onto a new one https://youtu.be/SVpQlNaDzW8?t=2020 A siteswapper once tried(?) noting the patterns: https://youtu.be/Aldm6n7Sg4M?t=2231
Lost was a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the traditional network-tv system. And it’s a shame, because some of the storytelling was remarkable.
They used to offer them alternatives but Amazon put those companies out of business. The idea that it’s Amazon or homelessness doesn’t really make Amazon look better.
It's a little trickier than that, but yes, that's why I mentioned 50 years. Before that gold was a different animal.
She called it being fired because Google terminated her employment earlier than she offered to resign.
> prioritizing based on salary would be a good short term fix

You have to remember that H1-Bs are used for many occupations and industries outside of tech. Prioritizing by salary only effectively means that 99% of all H1-Bs would go to 3-4 large companies.

Yes, nurses, doctors, etc may not get paid as much as a FAANG engineer a couple of years out of college, but they are still often needed.

I think that if you want to prioritize by salary within industries that could potentially work, but then you're bordering on a "new immigration framework".
In the real world, "rights" are not inalienable. I mean, who among the lower classes wrote the US constitution? Not a single one. That's because it was written by the bourgeoisie who were protecting their interests.
IMO the correct path from the get-go was only allowing licensed therapy dogs. It's still not perfect, but unlike "emotional support animals" there are actually pretty strict testing guidelines. I went through it with one of my old dogs to volunteer at a children's shelter and the testing authorities that I worked with took it VERY seriously. Likely because I'm sure they'd face pretty serious backlash if a dog they passed were to attack someone at a nursing home/hospital.

The support animal thing of "I just need this animal near me" without any regards to the temperament of the animal itself never made sense to me.
I just but a New mac air after looking at the prices for used ones.
"What happens to a software engineer when full feature completeness and bug-free-ness is achieved?"

Try working in the games industry all the way to the end of the project and find out for yourself. Your work doesn't even need to be "bug free" but "good enough."
I can't think of a better description of their EKS launch than "half-assed product introduced with great fanfare when the lack of an alternative to GKE was a disadvantage for customer acquisition." EKS had much improved when I last played with it around a year ago, though.
The Air throttled is still faster than a majority of laptops out there. And fanless.
IMHO she is saying it’s reasonable to believe that social and systemic issues have an impact on creating ML models (as the teams designing, building, and deploying said models are members of society) in ways in addition to the data sets.

I don’t know what the right answer is but plenty of institutions come up with ways they attempt to deal with systemic biases. For example, blind auditions for positions in orchestras (you only hear the person auditioning, you can’t see them). Used to not be a thing. Now it is.

Point being that when people are motivated they are able to come up with stuff.
I mean, how do you even manage to break curl...

Depending on where you tried to write to, you might need to grant "Full Disk Access" permission to your Terminal app.
if you have a few minutes & have seen it already: now is a fantastic time to re-watch. if you haven't seen it yet: you are in for a treat!
It's hard to make too much sense about what happened. Here's what I made of it, if anyone can point out any important mistakes/inaccuracies/details:

1. She and her co-authors submitted a paper for review 1 day before its (external, for publication?) due date. It's supposed to be submitted to Google 2 weeks prior, so they can review.

2. The authors submitted it externally before the review was returned.

3. Google decided that the paper "didn’t meet our bar for publication" and demanded a retraction.

4. Timnit Gebru demanded access to all of the internal feedback, along with the author of the feedback. If Google wouldn't provide this access, she said that she intended to resign and would set a final day.

5. Google declined her demands and took her ultimatum as a resignation. Rather than setting a final date, they made the separation effective immediately.
Fairly sure that's a native Dutch speaker. e.g. "Thingss" rather than "thingz"
The fact that you have to compare a high-end CPU against the base level M1 to show it isn't the fastest underlines Gruber's point pretty well.
I don’t get the purpose of your comment. Are you saying WASM isn’t a good intermediary virtual machine target because it provides locals? If so, I never said it was. I was simply clarifying a claim made in the OP.
> And if apple ever brings out a M1 Workstation, i can probably buy 3 other Server/Workstations with that money.

Based on the MacBook Air/ Mac mini/ MacBook Pro pricing, I don't think this is the case.

Apple has delivered a significantly faster MacBook Air for the same price as the previous generation. Not only did they increase the CPU speed, they essentially doubled the performance of their the SSD while maintaining their base price.

Apple dropped the price of the base mini by $100 while delivering a significantly faster Mac mini.

I suspect whatever Apple delivers for their top end machines will be equal or lower price to their current Intel machines.
Devil's advocate, much of the first (and second...) times you watch the movie, your main job is to figure out the forward/backward time stuff. The sound mixing makes it less clear that the backwards speech is backwards. This a) sucks, but b) makes it more rewarding when you eventually figure it out.

But overall, I'd rather Christopher Nolan sit in a normal theater and listen to it before he signs off on the final sound product.
30 degrees vertical is actually a recommendation for work[1], not for movies. If you look around for guide about ergonomics, you will often see that 30 degrees figure, or "top of the screen at eye level, center 15 degrees down", which mean the same thing.

For movies, THX recommends a 36 degrees horizontal viewing angle[2], which is about 20 degrees vertical. Recommendations vary, sometimes it is 30 degrees, sometimes it is 40, but always horizontal.

Now, no one will force you. If you prefer to have a very large screen right up your nose, that's your choice, and maybe your work environment calls for it. But it is just not what it is generally recommended and I would put it into the "exception" category. And sure, in that case, increased resolution is good.

As for antialiasing, it will not make the image sharper, quite the opposite in fact. However, if your resolution is so that it is over your visual acuity (you can't distinguish between 2 thin parallel lines and 1 thicker line), antialiasing will take care of superaccuity. That's the ability of your brain to use image processing techniques to detect jaggies that are finer than what you eye can see. If you have good vision and a 4k monitor closer to you than the recommended distance, it is normal to see the difference even with anti-aliasing turned on.

[1] https://www.viewsonic.com/library/business/best-computer-scr...

[2] https://www.thx.com/questions/thx-certified-screen-placement...
I drove long distance and it was not much experience. Most difficult is to have discipline to not drive too much.
I don't think she's saying she's marginalized because she's a well known researcher who people listen to, she's saying she's marginalized because one or more people, who have their identities concealed, asked her to retract a paper she already published via HR.

Granted, because the process she described is anonymous and opaque by design, it could have happened to other people at the company and only they, HR, and the people requesting/ordering the retraction would know about it. At the same time, if that's the case, then Google needs to stop that, because it looks really bad, especially when it involves a minority researcher who published a paper on how certain models Google uses may have some degree of discriminatory bias built into them.

Imagine this: You’ve sent a paper for feedback to 30+ researchers, you’re awaiting feedback from PR & Policy who you gave a heads up before you even wrote the work saying “we’re thinking of doing this”, working on a revision plan figuring out how to address different feedback from people, haven’t heard from PR & Policy besides them asking you for updates (in 2 months). A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar (this popped up at around 2pm). No one would tell you what the meeting was about in advance. Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells you “it has been decided” that you need to retract this paper by next week, Nov. 27, the week when almost everyone would be out (and a date which has nothing to do with the conference process). You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.

Then, you ask for more information. What specific feedback exists? Who is it coming from? Why now? Why not before? Can you go back and forth with anyone? Can you understand what exactly is problematic and what can be changed?

And you are told after a while, that your manager can read you a privileged and confidential document and you’re not supposed to even know who contributed to this document, who wrote this feedback, what process was followed or anything. You write a detailed document discussing whatever pieces of feedback you can find, asking for questions and clarifications, and it is completely ignored. And you’re met with, once again, an order to retract the paper with no engagement whatsoever.

Jeff Dean's response about mitigations being made to minimize the issues she highlighted could be justified too, but again, because the process she described is opaque, no one external to the process has any idea about the merits of the arguments raised.
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Statistically, everyone trading across all different asset classes evens out, so ... sure, if you're consistently good at finding needles, power to you. Most people aren't. Many people however think they are. I prefer not to worry about it either way.
A developer's machine doesn't really require a lot of graphic horsepower, as long as it can drive multiple high resolution monitors.

I see the use case at least, but I agree that I rather AMD use the die space for a faster CPU and release cheap (sub $100) and low power graphics cards with multiple display outputs.
> Why shouldn’t Apple get what amounts to a referral fee here?

Why should they? I feel like you are not getting the point that everyone is trying to make to you.
Maybe if I throw a few more examples at you. Otherwise I give up...

If I buy a smart TV at Wall-Mart, Wall-Mart gets a 'referral' fee for the TV but not for the Netflix subscription I use on that TV.

If I buy an Xbox at Wall-Mart, Wall-Mart gets a 'referral' fee for the Xbox but not for the Xbox live subscription I run on that console.

If I buy a physical copy of Adobe Photoshop at Wall-Mart, Wall-Mart gets a 'referral' fee for the purchase but does not get a cut when I sign up to Adobe's CS subscription each year (because at that point there is no more 'referral' going on!).

If I buy a fridge at Wall-Mart I am allowed to purchase my groceries I put in it from stores other than Wall-Mart. Imagine if Wall-Mart set up a system to block any non-Wall-Mart purchased groceries from going into the fridge? Then you'd be forced to pay a 'referral' fee to Wall-Mart every time you want to use your device. No one could set up a competing store to sell you groceries for your Wall-Mart fridge.
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You can check reporting of the Social Planbureau, Politie, of which some gets through to rijksoverheid.nl. Then there the usual suspects of publications that still maintain dedicated investigative journalists such as De Groene Amsterdammer and FTM. NRC and Volkskrant on occasion. De Telegraaf is an unusual exception to the pattern because their journalism is afwul, except their crime reporting (it sells so they pay for it).

You can also checkout where journalistic prizes go.

Keywords are ondermijnende of ontwrichtende criminaliteit.
I haven't gotten far enough to see how expensive it actually is but there are services that will transport your pet. Seems a lot better than air as they have more room and get checked on regularly.

https://www.petvanlines.com/
What a salty jerk.

1. How else are you going to transfer or store wealth across borders?

2. How do you know which business to start/invest in.

3. You are just more of the same, angry and lashing out because you missed the boat.
You're right; I was accustomed over the years to point to PS/2 as an example of the PC world being slow to give up on an outdated port, and carelessly conflated that with Apple using it.
Sooner or later all analyses for many problems here in Colombia (e.g. violence, poverty, education, corruption et al) get to the conclusion that drug trafficking influences if it's not the root cause for all of them. If you as the government take the monopoly of drugs then drug trafficking is over and with it many other problems.

The key is, taking that monopoly has side-effects for us like being put on US blacklists which will badly affect our economy in other ways.

We've been talking about this for a long time and have concluded that legalization in the states is the only way [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/ballot-measures-propos...
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duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25293867
I have two Malamutes...
Right. But the DOJ is saying you cannot use the law that way.
Most undergrad computer science graduates cannot find jobs right now
You need to change the HTML to point to the tsx file too:

<script type="module" src="./index.tsx"></script>

There are ambient TS definitions for CSS Modules, it just had a bug in 1.0.0 - fix is merged and will be released shortly.
>"fluff" padding is much worse than "can we get an extra season or three out of this show", IMO.

You're kind of close. They would fluff the seasons to get the episode count to 100 as soon as possible. 100 episodes was the magic number to qualifying for syndication. Syndication is where the money used to be made on content. Ask Jerry Seinfeild or the cast from Friends. Syndication is no longer the holy grail. You are making your content for the syndication platforms from the beginning now. This has allowed for the freedom to use enough episodes to tell your story correctly, and then getting out of the way. No more bottle episodes.
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Google? Ethics?
Indexes are built during the inserts for copies and for normal inserts, in general copies are faster because many people use single row inserts that need to instantiate executor nodes and other bits for every row. I think there used to be some other differences, but in general we've seen that multi-row inserts are around as fast as copies and I'm honestly not sure which one our benchmarking tool uses. (I'm at Timescale, btw). Aside from that, the MySQL vs Postgres comment above actually has to do with updates not with inserts and the main difference here is that PG stores rows in the heap whereas MySQL has primary keys that actually organize tables (and also things around copy-on-write MVCC model). So, in some ways, PG should actually be faster for raw inserts, because you don't have to deal with as many page splits and other bits for the organization of the heap, things are just written there (and indexes are secondary). We limit the overhead of building indexes by making sure our chunks are "right-sized" so that you don't end up swapping too much as you're doing inserts into recent data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25050625

showed https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1-1804

which determined the M1's memory is LPDDR4X-4266 or LPDDR5-5500. If those memories are not high performance, what is?
Of course! I wasn't refuting your claims either to its popularity or significance. I was only acknowledging that there is very little in this world that boggles my mind somebody doesn't know. There's a long tail on acquiring knowledge.
There's more to it than chip design though. There is the OS work to take advantage of the chip's new features. And designing new chip features to accommodate sw bottlenecks. Apple has very close collaboration between software and hardware engineering, while in the competitive space, those two things are not under the same roof. Makes it tougher.
So you’re arguing compensation has zero to do with preference for H1-Bs over American workers?
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Go look on linked in. Of FB engineers, probably at least 40% are Chinese.
Is there any statement Dell will build Ryzen XPSs?
I wasn't super clear about what exactly this permissive system would look like, but I'll flesh it out a bit in response.

I'm in support of open borders. Somebody wants to enter the country? Do a background check, give them a tax ID and let them in. Everyone is a resident without fear of deportation unless they commit a felony. After 5 or 10 years of residency, anyone can become a citizen.

I realize that's pretty extreme, though, so here's a more conservative reform approach:

End the H1-B program entirely. Just grant people temporary work visas on request after a background check. No company needs to be involved at the beginning. If a person is able to find at least 3 months of full-time work in the first 6 months, they're given work residency.
No definitely ponzi. Maybe a central authority is in the definition for ponzi, but I think this is exactly Ponzi without a CA. The whole thing isn't fraud or manipulation because again there is no one single owner, though looking at all the junk on social media there is definitely lots of both.
I'm a simple man. i see NandGame i upvote
I’d be curious what odds people would venture that within 10 years, Amazon becomes a unionized workforce; and qualitatively, what the impact on their operations would be if so.

Consensus seems to be that the tech monopolies have become so powerful (and acquisitive when necessary) that anti-trust is the only existential threat to their continued monopolistic dominance, but perhaps in Amazon’s case a unionized workforce would be another.
Interfering with a union or the formation of a union are explicitly illegal. This includes firing someone for trying to organize, at-will employment or no. However, this doesn't keep employers from trying, or from retaliation using pretextual explanations to avoid penalties. It's also common for employers to force employees to watch anti-union propaganda. Much of the overall culture in the US, as well, has turned hostile to unions.

State and federal law have been growing increasingly hostile to unions. Since 1910, if a union is formed by way of a majority vote of the employees, then they are required to represent all employees, whether or not they pay dues. Many states, including New York, California, and most "blue" states, allow "union shops", requiring all employees to pay dues whether or not they choose to join. But many, including most "red" states, have "Right to Work" laws banning union shops and allowing only "open shops". Any employee can therefore benefit from a union without contributing to it. The immediate free-rider problem cripples labor organization in those states. The problem is compounded by manufacturers moving their production to RtW states to save on labor costs. Boeing, for example, has moved much of its production from Washington, where its employees are unionized, to South Carolina, where they aren't. Membership has fallen from 20% in 1984 to 10% in 2018. Moreover, the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that unionized public sector jobs must all be open shops, overturning a 1977 decision. That covers about half of the country's membership, so we can expect it to weaken labor even more in the years to come.

The overall result is that the power of organized labor is a pale shadow of what it was in the mid-20th century.
Opinions vary. We walked out of the cinema when cars starting traveling in reverse. Simply unwatchable, utter crap. For reference, I liked Interstellar very much.

I'm almost sure it would have bombed in any year, in fact, because everyone is postponing releases and freezing production until Covid-19 passes, it probably got an even higher box office than what it would have got in a competitive environment.
But the feedback itself wasn't shared with her. That part doesn't make sense unless management didn't want her to see it, and why would that be the case?
Oh, it's not about the badness or anything of the sort of their opinions. It's about being informed about who shares your objectives and who doesn't. Totally kind and good people can have opposing objectives. I don't want to claim that the people are bad or that their views are bad.

But it's useful to know who aligns with you. And this is a golden opportunity.
> Why? Are you suggesting some form of subsidy? Transporting live animals is expensive, and pet ownership (let alone flying with them) is not a human right. If the market does not land on a safe and affordable option, then so be it, solely the pet owner should bare that cost.

Not at all lol. What is the option though currently, renting a private jet?

edit: To think of it differently, the airlines have chosen, and that choice of theirs resulted in deaths of pets, repeatedly. They want to let pet owners pay for tickets but not give them the safety of traveling without killing their pet.

If they're going to allow pet travel it should have safety regulations just like people - that don't result in pets being left on a 130deg tarmac for literal hours, and dying.

The "free market" should not get to decide things that kill people, pets, etc.
Would you consider offering some kind of VM or container hosting (perhaps similar to Heroku - maybe even built on top of Dokku)? Serverless Functions are very popular for some reason but (much like the firebase databases) they seem to have a lot of downsides (cold starts, hard to test locally), and not a lot of upsides (a simple always-on VM is cheap anyway).