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> Of course Santa Monica is expensive, but the point is that it shouldn't be

Not sure if your "should" is in the sense that logically it doesn't make sense to be, or that morally or ethically it had no right to be. For the first meaning, neighborhoods rise and fall in popularity based on trends, often driven by the tastes of young people, and is a natural cycle just like clothing fashion. Thus logically it should not be surprising that certain locations rise in housing costs as it increases in popularity. If you intend the second meaning, I'd be interested in your reasons.

> Your argument also doesn't work because most LA tech jobs are in Santa Monica.

I'd be interested in seeing the numbers, but there are a large amount of tech jobs in the South Bay area as well, along the 405 going south around Gardena and such.

> The idea that it should be status quo to commute to your job because you can't afford to live around where you work is nonsensical.

The problem is that traffic around Santa Monica is horrendous, making the housing more expensive. My previous commute from Torrance to Culver City was 40 min in the morning and 20 at night, but going from Culver City to Santa Monica was an extra half an hour. If you pick some of the worst traffic areas in LA, I don't think you should be surprised or incensed that people will pay to cut that traffic time down. It's an infrastructure problem, really.

> Professional, educated, well-off young people can't afford to buy houses in California

There are still lots of cities with affordable house prices, unless they insist on competing to live in the worst traffic areas of California.
Vitaliks recent blog post is probably the best place for a quick overview of Pos/PoW attack costs and why PoS looks to be a more secure approach https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
It's hard for a CSR to qualify a lead, though. I mean, a CSR may identify some obvious need, but will only be in contact with the techs at the target company, not the decision makers. And they won't understand the customer's budget, so they may not realize that there's no budget for the customer to get what they actually need.

The sales guys tend to understand that structure a lot better, so they can qualify the leads from support and perhaps package that advice for the people who need to hear it if it's funneled to them appropriately.
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It's unfair to be downvoting you for this, even as the OP and someone sympathetic with the strikes I can acknowledge that this is a motivated source and the headline number is probably embellished. I can't edit now but it might be good for mods to just remove the specific number from the title.
I think that Solyndra was specifically a terrible choice for the government to make an investment in, but it was exactly the type of industry they should generally be investing in.

But I guess at least Seagate got a nice building out of it.
It's not the first proof of stake blockchain, but it's the first that allows hundreds of thousands of nodes to fully participate, while also having high security and rapid finality. This is only possible because of math that was developed three years ago.

https://twitter.com/technocrypto/status/1330150362427387910

In proof of stake, mining equipment and electricity consumption is replaced by the cryptocurrency itself. You put up your currency as a bond, get rewarded more for running the network, and lose your bond if you misbehave.

The other big advance for ETH2 will be sharding, so each node doesn't have to process every transaction. But that's not the part that launched today.
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Yes, I know that it's NOT possible. Anything that uses the same libraries, e.g. GTK+, will end up calling gtk_init() multiple times. Callback functions with the same names will collide at link-time.

Despite the madness of the code that would be generated if the compiler allowed it, since it doesn't, you can expect a list of linker errors so long, that you can go to bed and wake up in the morning and it's still spewing to stderr.
In order to get that to 1Kb you would probably have to drop the `.idata` section and resolve syscalls from the PEB like I did.
We’re talking about people some of which literally cannot afford to feed their families. Your comment is ignorant and offensive
A year after a federal misconduct finding, a cancer researcher loses a paper
As talked about here when then 2nd cable broke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151342

Some people asking why not just fix it, however as the last story said too much risk of full collapse putting workers at risk. That has happened now, as predicted.
Erlang (the language, the runtime and the OTP framework) is a fascinating alternative in the design space for programming languages. Always happy to read about it, even if I don't use it for my projects.
It is the chip causing the runaway thermals. Yes Apple could have gone crazy with fans or water cooling, but just like the PowerPC to Intel Core transition, the execution performance per watt is what this is about.

You can tell even more so on the massive battery life increase. That electricity being burned so quickly on the Intel chip is translated into increased thermal output as well. TANSTAAFL
If something is bad, and everyone knows it's bad, and it's thus ignored, that's fine.

If something is bad, but people believe it's a magical oracle, that's _very_ dangerous.
Finally we have good alternatives to Airtable coming out! I'm really liking where this is going.
Why do you say that, if I may? I looked at the index and preface and it did not give me that impression at all - the only thing that surprised me is that I was reading “foundations” as “introduction”, and at least part of the book is focused more on “foundational theory”/“underpinnings” (e.g. measure theory aspects, or how you can construct a lambda calculus that should demonstrate that general probabilistic programming ( as in languages such as anglican[1]) can be achieved.

[1] I only have hands-on experience with anglican and PyMC3. They differ in approach: in anglican you write anglican code (not clojure) that is parsed as a model; whereas in PyMC, you write python code that constructs the PyMC model, by calling PyMC library functions. To me, the former is closer to the idea of probabilistic programming, being Turing-complete and all, but perhaps this is not a productive segregation.
> Why stipulate this unless they want to ... inflate usage arbitrarily

That's exactly it. If you could rent Macs by the minute, you wouldn't need to own Mac hardware anymore to build Mac apps, and the cloud provider wouldn't need to own as much.
> Putting multiple Erlang functions into a single C function to avoid using C’s stack sounds awesome but also horrifying.

Why's that horrifying? Isn't inlining a super-basic and well-understood optimisation that any serious compiler would be doing?
I think ewasm is a bit up in the air, may come along at some point but i think the developer tools built up on the evm (and dev knowledge of evm) isnt going to be quickly replaced.
My father was a farmer in Punjab. I have family at these protests right now. I can tell you that the anger is very real. Their livelihoods are being stripped away from them just so Modi’s friends can make a quick buck. I like free markets, but it should not have to come at the expense of those at the bottom of the chain.
The good thing about "me time" is that it's for ME. So you don't necessarily need to agree that it is quality "me time" for me to think that and enjoy it. In general I agree that spending time in front of a phone is not the best time spent, but if the goal is for individuals to enjoy themselves then it may best. I know lots of people that live for movies, shows, content from youtube, and more. So for them, spending a couple of hours in front of a phone watching their favorite show works as "me time"

I'm sure some people would love to spend their "me time" in the daylight, outside, or even being "productive" and learning new hobbies or practicing current ones. Unfortunately we have to prove value to society so we can get money for food and shelter.
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Fantastic article and read. It would be really interesting to see something like this for online advertising and selling ad campaigns.
This is exactly what Netflix is betting on.

” Not Amazon Video, not YouTube, not even old-fashioned broadcasters. No, according to the company's chief executive, Reed Hastings, Netflix's biggest competitor is the pesky human need to close your eyes and sleep for a third of the day.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/netflix-c...
I’m really surprised to read this far down without anyone mentioning DeFi.

Decentralized finance is already happening. You can take out loans against your Ethereum or borrowing or lend already without a bank or an intermediary like LendingClub.

The orchestration of money and being able to program money is limitless without the intermediary is huge. True peer to peer financial instruments are now possible.
I do try... with some success. My kids are still very small though so they get bored after a few minutes if I am reading out loud from anything other than a children's book. We are still in the "high entropy" stage of childhood with most of our kids.
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Apparently not. Wild-type adenoviruses seem to prevent cell division while they replicate their DNA on their own until they cause cell lysis to distribute the virions. Adenoviral vectors, on the other hand, leave the free DNA particle in the nucleus where it gets transcribed to RNA but it does not get replicated during mitosis.

https://www.genetherapynet.com/viral-vector/adenoviruses.htm...
Heh, around here (61° N) the sun currently sets at about 3:15 pm or so :D Need a light therapy lamp to convince my body that no, it's not time to go to sleep yet. Paradoxically, once it's actually time to go to sleep, my brain/body suddenly refuses to feel tired! Melatonin helps, though.
Honestly, I'm team dynamic linking. I prefer to have things clearly separated in functionality and easily upgradeable.

Statically linking all the OS utilities to their dependency libraries, over and over again? Dear god that sounds awful.
Hey!

How many hours does Samantha work for you on a monthly basis, and how often do you publish?
My uni had me TA this semester which included proctoring exams over zoom. They gave me zero info what I’m supposed to do or even look for while sitting there in the zoom room. I think I was just there to add some semblance of authority. Total waste of time.

Its stupid easy to cheat in this remote world: write your cheat sheet out on a piece of paper and put it just out of sight of the webcam. No technology can beat that.
Replace "nap" with any other life maintenance that is an impediment to work.

It is much quicker to just pause work for an hour, fix the problem and then get back to it. I'm not trapped in an office twiddling my thumbs while having to put off the problem for later.

I also find this makes me much more amenable to dealing with work problems on non-work hours. You aren't leeching my life problem solving time during the entire work day, so I don't have to be as protective of it when I'm on personal time.
I’m not suggesting that my specific scenario is everyone’s dream but that the bar for “I don’t have to work full time anymore” can be pretty low. If it’s not low for your specific wants, then that’s fine —- you’ve consciously made the choice that you want something different and your needs are higher.

I very rarely hear about FU money from people that don’t need millions of dollars to leave their job. It’s important (IMO) for people to know that that doesn’t necessarily _have_ to be the case.
It's pretty clear that the "unhealthy habit", like most unhealthy habits, is a symptom not the disease.

In this article the problem is being overworked. The solution isn't to remove that little bit of extra pleasure from your life so you can sleep better and be an even better, harder worker, but to find a better balance.

If you have this problem is very likely because you have a major part of your life you don't feel like you have control over: maybe your jobs is awful, maybe your marriage is awful, maybe you just feel too stressed about the world.

Treating the symptom and not the root cause will not yield the results you are looking for even if you succeed.
Airbnb looks to raise up to $2.5bn in IPO
That's why it's no surprise that crypto has mostly sucked at a role that Hawala has been filling just fine.
I'm glad you appreciate the role of the CIA and that's why, in a democracy we should have it accountable to the people
Ceiba is a traditional three-mast schooner [1] that carries an equivalent of 9 shipping containers but not actual containers:

> The design of the Ceiba Line vessels boasts two cargo hatches to access the holds, which can be used simultaneously. This increases flexibility and storage options when loading and unloading cargo.

Construction [2] of the first ship started January 2019 in Costa Rica and is ongoing. The company strategy is ethical shipping that removes modern container ships from the supply chain. I suspect that this ship/company will be part of the marketing message for Fair Trade coffee and other organic/sustainable products from the tropics.

The story [3] is not about automation, engineering, or productivity; it is about pre-industrial purity.

[1] https://www.sailcargo.org/en/vessel

[2] https://www.sailcargo.org/en/milestones

[3] https://youtu.be/rNf7-34tW8I
They would still exist. When a company's entire shop is set up in AWS they want to keep it that way, not buy physical hardware to install in their office, create a VPN to make build pipelines, worry about physical security, etc.
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Here's a quote from the end of that article:

Miller believes that the Mac mini "could be huge" for the industry. He says the main issues for all editors, regardless of what software they use, are rendering times and preparing viewable videos for clients to review — and that the M1 should help with both.

"They are computer-processing-intensive actions," he said. "We have to see if this new M1 chip speeds that up. It should. Dramatically. Then Avid, Adobe and DaVinci... have to use those hardware and OS advances in their software development."

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Notice all the hedging. "We'll have to see..." and "it should ..."

> A college student now has access to the kind of video, graphics and sound production and editing capability that required a $4000 or $5000 workstation a few years ago.

Sure. That's the usual march forward of computer technology for the last 30 years. But note: the fastest standard architecture system you can buy STILL costs about $5000, and it does mind-bogglingly more than that college student will be able to do on their M1.

So this isn't changing the game at all, it's just a continuation. A few years ago, almost nobody talked about being able to edit 8k video, but how that's more or less a given. The requirements expand, the machines get faster.

Don't get me wrong, I'm tremendously impressed by what Apple appears to have done with the M1 (there's me hedging too). I just get tired of it being described in a context where the comparisons don't include a wide enough range of possible options. Before the M1 there were much more powerful systems available than anything Apple offered. After the M1, there continue to be more powerful systems available than anything Apple is offering. That doesn't mean that an M1 Mac Mini is a dumb choice - it might indeed be the perfect combination of CPU/Watt/$. But it's not changing what the high end is (yet).
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So could I spin one up for 24 hours, then simply power it off and pay by the second thereafter (every time I turn it back on)?
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As someone who uses linux casually, I often experience pain when I download a program, try to run it, and it fails because some dependency is not installed or is not the right version. So you try to figure out how to install it and it in turn needs a couple of things.

All of this works fine if whatever package manager your distro uses has the program you want, but the package managers don't have evertying!

So I'd love an ecosystem where things tend to be statically linked unless there is a good reason not to.
How much you can attribute the success of a sales person to the quality of their work is hard to know. Sometimes you get lucky and you get a hot lead which virtually signs itself, sometimes you put lots of time and effort in and for no apparent reason the client backs out at the last minute. Yet typically you are only measured on completed deals.

A target driven job with unemployment as the cost of failure, judged on simple metrics which do not correlate to effort or skill, and may be almost entirely out of personal control, creates a tension that most programmers are not subject to.