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> the harrowing conclusion that, at scale, they don’t need as many people.

That might be true at the same time as the realization that they are increasingly struggling with loss of knowledge on employee turnover, since they rely on complex systems more and more.

> I also want to add that many people in the service economy literally fight for extra shifts.

Anything shift-based already works under custom rules most of the time. Where trade-unions are a thing, for example, they often reduce working times "in solidarity" to avoid layoffs, it's been the case for decades. Or they do week-on-week-off etc etc. I don't expect those areas to significantly reduce their hours across the board, at least not until it's normalized in white-collar sectors first.

> The incentives just don’t align.

I am as suspicious of the owning classes as the next guy, but it's not unusual to see the most enlightened industrialists trying to find a better balance for all parties in the equation. See for example XIX-century mill-owners building entire towns out of their own pockets, including schools and community centres, because it benefited them in the long run as much as the workers in the immediate.

I am not particularly suspicious of intentions here, but rather skeptical that it can work piecemeal. France tried something like that in the '90s but got weak-kneed when it came to enforcement, which means it didn't work in practice and got watered down into irrelevance very quickly (I don't know if it was eventually scrapped entirely).
Yes, for many, their job is a matter of survival. There is something really horrific in how a society as technologically advanced and productive as ours has almost eliminated leisure time, rather than increased it.
The point I was trying to make - apologies for not making it clearer - is that from the point of view of the ETH{insert favorite fiat currency here} market figuring out what the how the supply will behave is hard, and therefore hard to price.
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Visualizing Memory Management in JVM(Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, Clojure)
It can be regarded as an ordinary docker application, and k8s is recommended. Postgres can split table by listid, but the database is not recommended to be installed with docker

Concurrency has not been tested yet
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For the Western audience, tl;dr is that these reforms will allow free market to decide the price. This has made a lot of people very mad who had their own monopoly. Farmers do have legitimate concerns about predatory pricing by private institutions but as a whole, the agriculture employs 45% of the country's population and contributes a measly 14% or so to the economy. There's a big problem of hidden unemployment in India and farmers almost always get the bottom end of the stick.

BJP (the current ruling party) has a history of having good ideas but implementing them in the worst and most authoritarian manner possible. But these will be passed if the past is any indication.

Edit: I wonder precisely which inaccuracy tipped off some people.
Safari support (and even chrome, FF on macs) is horrible. They've become the new IE in terms of typical web programming that works everywhere except that platform. In the past year, every browser-based support issue we've had to deal with across multiple projects is due to Safari not handling things the way the rest of the browsers do.

Worse, there's issues that are specific to Apple devices (iPad rendering of certain CSS, works everywhere else, including Mac's own emulators, but renders fubar on the actual iPad), leaving the debugging/fixing process a trial and error issue. It's horrible.

And even worse, this can't be debugged on anything but a Mac anymore, so if you don't use Mac as your primary dev platform, you're near-screwed when it comes to trying to resolve web app issues that only arise on their platform.

Then there's mobile app management, which is just as bad in it's own way. We had an app on the App Store for three years, then all of a sudden during one minor maintenance update they decided it wasn't allowed on the store any more and immediately pulled it. Thousands of business users affected, and two months to get the app propped back up on a custom business distribution channel, thousands of dollars worth of process re-development, etc.

Apple is the absolute worst platform for business-productivity programming. They screw the developers with a far stiffer rod than any other company has ever done.
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The marriage rate isn't different enough across these states to justify the argument of housing. In fact, most places where housing is cheapest isn't the place where marriage rates are higher than the national rate.

Oregon and Washington outperform many southeastern states, in fact they surpass every southeastern state, according to the US census. And while N-E and CA do have a lower marriage rate, it isn't that much lower.
I agree with you, and I'll go a step further. The US should not have any colonial territories or federal districts where US citizens live who have second-class rights compared to citizens of the 50 states.

That means DC, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa (collectively 3.8 million US citizens) should all be made states.

There are undoubtedly lots of issues and hiccups with implementing that, but fundamentally I think that having classes of citizens with abridged rights is wrong.
Not sure what the point is?

My best guess is: “hey you who made enough dough to retire early and live large forever, go back to work because I need AR.” Let me know what I missed if that’s not apt.

But builders are hungry, even if it’s just a gluttony for more cash. The target of this piece doesn’t sound hungry anymore. And that’s fine, lots of us still are and more born every day.
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A lot more so than most! Is this your regular and main form of income?
Please enlighten me as to how you create new ICU nurses without a four year (at best) lead time.

Honestly, if this was possible, it would make a lot of things much easier.
Thanks, English is my third language, I will try to improve it.
That doesn't make any sense. OTH radars work by skipping off the atmosphere back to Earth (shortwave style). If the signals escaped to the Moon and back, it wouldn't work OTH.
Surely this just means that more people won't bother and we're back to hackintoshes or upgrading old Apple hardware. Making something uneconomical isn't a great strategy to drive growth.
The deepmind research team is essentially all PhD though, so it seems academia isn't doing such a bad job.
I found this critique misdirected. The thesis is that the ending of Metropolis, not the plot, has some fascist undertones. The author even admits:

> while Metropolis might posit some ideas with regard to cooperation between the classes for the ‘greater good’

But the movie does not stop there. It actually says "Gee, wouldn't it be nice if there was some Mediator guy that made everyone get along?". That's the "slight nod" I was referring to.

And the thesis that a movie is not leaning towards a certain ideology because it does not present all of its principles in spades is untenable. Olympia and Triumph of the Will also lack an "evil Jewish caricature" and "enemy-exterminating technology", but does that means they "object to the pillars of Nazism"?

Edit: I should clarify, I do not want to diminish the artistic value of Metropolis, which I love. I am just pointing out that it's better seen as a "fairy tale" (as Lang himself said) than as a "political" movie.
Russia would be the Kremlin
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the logic that "the multiplier is close to 0 because it's taxable" watch this ready.... male it untaxable
In the UK, you're looking for JTRIG, Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative, and the 77th Brigade, and probably tens to hundreds of smaller organizations.
I don't think it would be any less sad if it was a deliberate decommissioning.
> small, passive object in freefall

That's probably anomalously hot as it plows back through the atmosphere.

I think radar stealth coatings are sufficiently advanced that they swung the balance back in favor of IR for tracking purposes.

Historically: it was hard / unknown how to make a flying object that resisted reflecting radar

Current: it's hard / unknown how to make a flying object that's resistant to radiating heat
How?

I've done both. The reason people are in support is because it's a fundamentally different role.

I don't have to try and push a single damn thing on anyone. It's the opposite, you are on the receiving end of the problem. Every interaction I have is because of a need, I don't have to try and create said need or make a prospect think there is even a need.
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They don't always. Bitcoin is the Sun in the crypto solar system - it provides the primary source of value. Many (maybe most) traders trade crypto like Eth against BTC (how many sats is Eth worth?) as opposed to USD or fiat. Check out a chart of Eth sats over time.
Perhaps not, but blockchains, as well central bank digital currencies, will definitely have a big impact on society. People will have an alternative to the monetary system provided by their government. Eventually this could well lead to alternative governmental systems becoming available. There is also a chance that old tax codes will never adaquetely adapt to the way that crypto currencies are used. It looks set to reduce the role of central governments and banks in finance.
> I would suspect that the timestamp being prefix is no accident.

Yeah, it's what they created Snowflake for.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
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That seems to be the plan, in the sense that there is no plan for what exactly to listen for. Just start listening.

That said, there are some signals (like the 21cm hydrogen line) from the Universe's Dark Age that have redshifted to what we can expect to listen for in the multiple meter wavelengths, even 10m or more. But what we will learn from this? I agree with you, it will be exciting.
The "Network Collective" podcast had a nice episode w/ Paul Mockapetris, co-inventor of DNS: https://networkcollective.com/2018/01/hon-dns-origins/
Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore (2013)
India’s ‘Ghost Towns’ Saddle Middle Class with Debt–and Broken Dreams
USD is an interchange format and runtime. It's meant to preserve as much of the scene as possible as you go between different applications and allow for parallel editing.

Houdini is a great example of this.

But yes, you can also just use it as a last mile format. Though that's certainly not the main purpose
Eth2 dev here, maintainer of https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm, one of the implementations currently running the blockchain written in Go. This has been a monumental effort. There are 3 other implementations in mainnet, and consensus is running perfectly. Few other protocols in blockchain have more than one dominant implementation. The beauty of eth2 comes from its efficiency in signature aggregation: https://twitter.com/technocrypto/status/1330150362427387910. This tweet thread summarizes the importance of the technology used.
Ah sorry, I meant in atmosphere! But you are of course right!
Great! Now they can replace it with something new instead of trying to salvage outdated equipment, software and engineers!
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At the assembly level, barriers are not required in many cases because x86 have total-store ordering. There are a few cases where memory-barriers are still needed... but not nearly as many examples as in ARM-world.

At the C / C++ level, barriers are required because almost all compilers rearrange code in the name of optimization (especially as you go from -O to -O1, to -O2, to -O3... more aggressive rearrangements happen).

The optimizer needs to know "not" to rearrange some code, so a compiler barrier is needed.

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It turns out that a compiler barrier (hey compiler: do not rearrange this read/write I'm specifying) is identical in concept to a CPU-memory barrier on a weak-ordered system (hey CPU: don't reorder this read/write I'm specifying).
I can't find any.
No problem :) It was a feature that had no changes for a long time, and now has had a bunch of improvements and is finally on a path to stable. It can be hard to keep up with things sometimes.
This is more of a jealous rant than anything of substance.
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Build DSLs with Decision Tables in collaboration with your stakeholders/clients.

Look into the works of Markus Voelter : https://voelter.de/ and https://medium.com/@markusvoelter There is also an implementation of the ideas at http://mbeddr.com/

You might also find the book; The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology useful.
This person should never be allowed on hacker news because of the disgusting sexist tweets he's sent over the last few days:

https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1333514691533025284
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If you are interested in learning more about DNS history, check out my thesis on the topic [1]. There is plenty of fascinating correspondence from the time, and interesting bouts of controversy!

[1] https://gade.us/thesis/naming-the-net.pdf
there is also a web version
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I don't think he was the creator. None of the more reliable sources I see say that he is. They all say he was an employee.
In person, I can exchange information with someone without anyone interfering.

In person, I can exchange value (e.g.: chocolate for firewood) without anyone interfering.

Online, I can exchange information without anyone interfering (using encryption).

Online, I cannot exchange value without anyone interfering.

Exchanging value at a distance is complicated, because there’s so many different laws, bank APIs, apps, regulations, etc etc. We use middle-man services to simplify these problems for us — but they charge hefty fees. There’s delays, and arbitrary restrictions. All these complications also introduce additional risk (compared to exchanging the value in person).

A single, perfect global bank, or a perfect standard for all banks to follow, would allow me to exchange value online without anyone interfering. However, such a thing isn’t likely to happen.

Cryptocurrencies, if executed well, offer a real pathway to “I can exchange value online without anyone interfering.”
I haven't looked into it too deeply, but my (Win 10) laptop can tell when I'm tethering and goes into a "metered connection" mode, where at least the windows native apps don't connect without explicit interaction.
Any content you see on the screen hasn't changed at all.

On a typical website all of the analytics are causing page bloat.

Sometimes there are frameworks like bootstrap but hypothetically those should be cached.

If you are looking at a web application then it has a framework that is a magnitude higher and the rest of it you see a significant increase.
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The link is to a retraction paper that was submitted last Wednesday.
If the paper is accepted there will no longer be a covid-19 PCR test.
Documenting CLI tools in a UI world
Lots of flags and banners with hammers and sickles?
I sincerely don't understand what that post is about.
afaik 1st-gen bbr is somewhat unfair to other cc-algos to the point that it will starve them. use it if you want to be 'that guy' (or google :)

update:
slide 27 and onwards
https://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2018-05-10-bbr.pdf
It's important developers (or their QA people) be able to use the device they're publishing to.
They recently voted for statehood in a plebescite. I believe the official GOP platform does actually support statehood, but I'm of the view that GOP politicians and voters don't actually know what their platform is beyond revanchism
Ethereum and other blockchain systems are very foundational, they do not need to care about real-life applications. You probably also don't understand what your central bank is doing, while it supports all your financial transactions. The good news is that the new version of Ethereum is at least more climate friendly.
Hi everybody,

I am Lukas, founder of Bugbattle . We are super excited to share the product we’ve been building over the past few years with you all.

Developing apps and websites ourselves at BoehlerBrothers, our software agency in Austria, we wasted a lot of time and nerves on battling bugs internally as well as in our collaborations with customers. Basic contextual details were missing from bug reports, such as information on the testing device, what android or iOS version the smartphone was running on or which browser testers were using. Our PM team would spend hours collecting feedback and packing all the infos together with screenshots into Jira and Notion tickets.

After facing the same struggles time and time again and failing to find an existing solution to solve our problems (because they either did not provide the right features or were simply too expensive), we started building our own in-app bug reporting tool . After all, we are developers ourselves. This is how Bugbattle was born.

Bugbattle automatically lets users take screenshots of a bug by shaking their device, then lets them mark it and send it to a developer without ever leaving the app or website. You developers then receive the bug as a ticket in your Bugbattle dashboard with all the important metadata such as console logs, session data and steps to reproduce. You can also integrate Bugbattle into your existing Jira or Trello boards and have tickets created for you in your PM tool of choice. Our CTO Niklas has written a Blogpost on our launch if you’d like to find out more.

It is our dream to empower developers to spend less time on debugging and focus on the more beautiful things in a developer’s life. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Me and my team will be hanging out in this thread for a while if you have questions or feedback for us. Would love to hear from you!

Best,
Lukas
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"Cue the X-Files theme, folks. The monolith mystery has deepened."

It's not a mystery at all. It's clearly an avant-garde artist or a viral marketer at work.
I am trying the opposite. Wake up at 7, and focus exclusively on productive work until around noon, then if I am successful (I wasn't today), I allow the rest of the day to be guilt-free whatever I choose to do.
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>We have all kinds of markets already, ones that are much faster, more liquid and more efficient than any blockchain-backed exchanges.

You are talking probably from a developed country point of view. For those like me who lives in a developing country none of those are accessible for everyone, only for a few percentage of the society.
Cryptocurrencies solves a lot of problems for people in oppressed countries or with a lot of terrible regulations and high inflation rates.
Why are we examining weight, when the cheapest source of electricity is hydroelectric, and they are the heaviest structures ever constructed?

The Hoover Dam weighs like 120 battleships.

Its just the wrong metric to measure.
Neither have any of us, so don't worry about it.
Is "velox" (mentioned in the article) a display server or a window manager?
Thanks. Looking at that registration form it seems that the domain to pick is actually a 3rd level domain, always ending in element.io.

Another requirement of my list would be "Use your own domain". That would increase portability. I didn't think about it.
I love this story - the fact it was invented in Los Angeles not in Minnesota or Canada etc.
You should care because that little trick you used to hop careers into a successful programming career isn’t because Google and Apple built really cool and powerful software and phones.
Damage from multiple hurricanes as well
Something about a man rambling on a bus.

It turns out article poster became the man rambling on Internet.
Did you read the article or simply took a look at the images?
Thank you.

The most surprising bit of info is how any of this is surprising.

OF COURSE I sacrifice sleep for leisure. I would be happy to sacrifice work instead, but guess what?
I used to work tech support Midnight to 8am.

I'd get home exhausted ... but I honestly couldn't sleep unless I did some 'non work' a game or something at home away from work. I didn't feel stressed by work or anything, it was a great job with great people.... I just felt driven to do something ELSE no matter how tired I was.
Lots of folks in this thread seem to be unaware that other companies offer Mac mini hosting, at less than one tenth the cost. If you don’t need the full AWS ecosystem for your workload it’s worth doing some research.
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Reminds me of the girl who said, "I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_would_rather_cry_in_a_BMW
Here's how you fix this (and how you fix nearly any social problem): organise with your fellow workers and demand better work conditions for all workers from your government and employers, with the threat of general strike across all industries.
It's crazy how much the original machines still resemble the latest models. Other than a little styling here and there, they pretty much still look like the original models.
Couple of years back I bought a big gaming laptop to do ML and deep learning on, TensorFlow, Keras, all that. i7 and NVidia 1080, 8G of GPU ram. I know TensorFlow has been ported to Big Sur/M1, anyone know how well it performs with sharing memory between CPU and GPU?
I didn't mean to say that there isn't any race-specific research, but that there is a risk of being called a racist (or a "race realist") associated with doing such research, especially when it gets attention from sensationalist media and keyboard warriors on social media.

Therefore, if there is such a risk, it must have a chilling effect on actual research and on public health relations, even if doesn't outright prevent it from happening at all.

You are demonstrating that there indeed is such a risk, by suggesting that I'm one step away from proclaiming the superiority of the white race. You're not doing anyone any favors with that.
Also loved the write-up (have to, really, it's how I do it too.)

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