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Some people lament the decline of Silicon Vally companies like Tesla and Oracle moving out. I argue it could be a good thing. These giant enterprises are not really a pinnacle of entrepreneurship and innovation anymore. Let them move elsewhere and keep the Bay Area nurturing new entrepreneurs and startups. It is huge cubicle farms vs. garages and coworking places kind of distinction.
Any fixed amount only makes sense in a world with sound money, otherwise inflation or deflation will make the fixed number shift over time. Unfortunately because of these pernicious "inflation targets" with monetary and fiscal policy being popular the purchasing power of currency isn't even being attempted to be held stable in many parts of the world at the moment.
You can measure productivity just fine on any tasks that repeat. How long does it take you to run the right tests, find the implementation for a failing test case, make a merge request, create a patch release, pull up the logs in case of an incident? All these tasks repeat over and over again and a good developed can do them much quicker.
A way to submit an URL for (re)crawling would be good instead of having to wait until the spider somehow finds or revisits it.

You could add a maximum of once per day per domain if you are worried about abuse.
Youtube is a private company and can therefore do what it wants with its property - the Youtube platform.
However, it may be a bad decision to act as a Ministry of Truth while a number of court cases are still ongoing.
Especially since the evidence presented in court proves electoral fraud - even if it is not entirely clear whether it is relevant enough to impact the outcome of the election.
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> One of the biggest nuclear issues today is using them way past their lifespan because they are so expensive to build.

Or they're trying to avoid the staggering and bankrupting cost of decommissioning them.
In every organization I've worked in, it was obvious who the high performers were and who the low performers were. It was obvious to everyone. The only blind spots were people usually seriously misjudged their own performance.

The problem, however, is that management is always being pushed to make objective measurements. For example, to fire someone, you have to first put him on an improvement plan with objective measurements. Otherwise, you're wide open to a lawsuit over discrimination, etc. You have to prove to a judge someone isn't performing, or that you gave raises based on performance.

Management also gets pushed into these attempts at objective measurements by attempts to optimize the numbers like what works great for a manufacturing process.
> I'm saying the PHP community has certain values and approaches problems with a certain perspective

What are those values and what is that perspective? Your argument is getting rather hand-wavy. I'm not entirely sure what I would be arguing if I attempted to disagree.

Without a more concrete formulation my current hypothesis is that you are simply disguising your ignorance as projection.
Since you've defined free speech as being published by Youtube, a private publisher, I guess you think democracy didn't exist before Youtube and free speech didn't before Youtube?
I thought people were intelligent enough, until we found out that some 75M voted for x. Now x is saying that it's a global conspiracy and bringing 75M believing that lie.
So grifting is personality type? :)
Funny you should ask, someone else linked the github repo of Maelstrom 3.0 SDL port! https://github.com/richardjs/maelstrom

So, I'm not sure how much of the code is near-original Macintosh version code, and how much was revised/replaced to support SDL. Probably lots of original stuff though, surely.
Regarding point 3 - isn’t it just that they haven’t studied that yet? The trials for the mRNA vaccines did not test for asymptomatic carriers, so they don’t know if it prevents transmission.
No doubt it is complicated. Yet I was replying to a claim that there is not enough work, presented with no evidence or argument, that contradicts the most basic employment statistic. I think the burden is on the original claim.
A lurker logging in just to recommend a book? As a fellow lurker, now I'll have to give this one a whirl. To echo my comment above, what is your favorite part about this book in particular?
The misinformation campaign around this is intense. Assault rifles, really?
Location, education propel Asian income growth in US
Why is it ironic? The stakeholders for increased developer productivity go beyond just developers. Even the slightest increase in developer productivity, let alone the ability to objectively measure it, is the holy grail of software development. Companies with access to nearly infinite resources can and would deploy them for a marginal gain in developer productivity. So much emphasis is spent on hiring the most brilliant minds and then on managing their projects and time so why not on optimizing their output.
1. American education isn't 'amazing' by default just because other countries do things differently
2. The article is about the interrelationship between high-level education and the economy. There is cause and effect at play here, you can't just say 'at some point this happened, move on and don't ask why'
3. Just because something worked in the past does not imply it will continue that way
> It may be my age now

I assume it's probably in part an increase in wealth as you've gotten older. I think a Hilton is normally upwards of $200 a night, plus $50 per night for parking ($1400-1750 depending if you have a car). The average American earns $900 per week and is probably not dropping that kind of money on a hotel.

They're also pretty geared towards business travelers, with lots of premium conveniences that aren't needed by someone traveling to visit friends or something. For example, I usually prefer a basic kitchen with a fridge rather than room service for $40 per meal. I'll happily take the room service if I have work to do and my employer is paying, though.
Thank you, that’s REALLY helpful, I really appreciate it.
If you don't know whether you're immune but do know that the vaccine works on most people, the vaccine seems a good bet.
> those who decide to offer compensation based on value added instead of a magic HR approved formula

You're leaving out "what the candidate will accept"
If corporations can't discriminate in hiring due to an American principle of anti-racism, then we can also prevent corporations from discriminating in speech on an American principle of free speech.
That what I find most amusing about the “everyone should vote”. Then they complain about the stupid people and policies that get voted in.

I might be okay with “every informed person should vote”. But that “informed” part can be heavily politically interpreted.

People have largely missed the fact that politics used to be the domain of informed groups fighting for power blocs. Now it’s been “decentralized” and radicalized on Twitter and Reddit and made into glorified reality Tv entertainment by the mass media (who are clearly serving a market with high demand who treat politics like sports teams).

I’d rather have way less people voting and it go back to being mostly boring educated people topic than it’s below common denominator mess it is today.

But I’m unabashedly elitist and understand that there are plenty of well funded groups who want dumb malleable voters and as many as possible.
Never heard of this one, but I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
A real life case of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110004. I need a name for these!
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elon grew up not rich at all and his mother and his father had an abusive relationship, difference is elon at 13 sold a video game(https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/) to get pubished by atari...at 13.

with a mediocre education, you aint competing with that.
I'm not sure if this is the dogfood version or not.
I actually had an employee that would write up highly convoluted big reports that I just couldn't understand. he would close them a week later - sometimes with a meaningless patch, sometimes without. couldn't fire him - he was my cofounders toady.

the only reason I beat him on 'bugs fixed' is that one of my jobs was to dig through the old issues and remove them if they weren't clear or relevant.
Nitpick: The article on Hunter Biden which Twitter blocked came from the New York Post rather than the New York Times.

Furthermore, the Right being more permissive with respect to public speech is true, but rather recent. Historically, the Right tended to argue for the moral legitimacy of censorship whereas the Left tended to call any such effort a step towards tyranny.

Our current trends are very unusual, historically speaking.
Realistically speaking, the community here spans the range and seems to have significant representation from every part of the left-right spectrum. If it seems right-leaning to you that's probably because you're left of the theoretical median hn community member.
I've had Covid-19. As far as I know we still don't know if having it leads to immunity but wouldn't having it and recovering be "better" than a vaccine?
If so, why get a vaccine for something you are immune to?
Slack missed the opportunity to add video communication and replace webex. They somehow didn't take that next step after conquering chat. I thought with video + enterprise integration they would have become the de facto tool for all collaboration. I guess that is still there on the cards for them. Instead they left that door open for Microsoft to add Teams.
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas
I'm inclined to agree, but that is not the direction things seem to be headed. Dorsey called for increasingly personalized algorithms before congress a few weeks ago, while Zuckerberg basically implied FB would continue to acquiesce to congressional requests for censorship.
Their target market has never heard of Grado, this comes up every post. Gruber makes a good comparison to the Macbook, incredibly expensive but the nicest industrial design on the market at the time.
Comparable, I don't know. But during the swine flue influenza, the Swedish government rolled out a large vaccination campaign, encouraging everyone to get vaccinated. Unfortunately, it turned out that children in a certain age could get chronic narcolepsy from the vaccine Pandemrix. About 230 children have been reported suspected to get this side effect from the vaccine.
Thanks! :) I figured if I could market and learn about marketing at the same time then why not go for it?
I didn’t really have a problem with the article. I wonder if the issue is that the article looks too much like the (false) claim that sales tax always works like your example, which is refuted by pointing out the exemptions, rather than the claim that the exemptions don’t always work.

I can imagine that pointing out some (hypothetical) tax where rates aren’t marginal could get a similar reaction here (ie lots of “OP doesn’t understand marginal tax rates, but that’s ok because lots of people are stupid,” rather than “oh dear, that’s not a very good tax system, I wonder how that flaw slipped through.”)
It's particularly interesting given Ellison and Musk have become close in recent years, with Ellison buying a large chunk of Tesla and joining the board (now a $9.5 billion personal holding). Zero chance these moves weren't widely discussed between them over time.
> 3. It apparently doesn't stop people from getting or becoming transmissions vectors. So, if you get the vaccine and it makes you less sick, then you may take "riskier" actions than if you were to get it and actually have some symptoms. (IOW, why take it?)

From what I've seen this is not established at all. They are careful to say that they don't have conclusive proof that the people who were in their study were not ever contagious - but that doesn't mean that they were contagious either.

They have simply called out that further studies will be needed before we can say whether and to what degree.
Oh I see, according to wikipedia, in 2006 the laws changed. The Federal government gave themselves power to control the state organized militias. That is intriguing, as there have been arguments in the past against non government funded militias being required, due to the existence of the National Guard making them redundant. In that case, the states have been rendered defenseless against the Federal government.

Who's part of the next layer? State police?
This view comes from the largely flawed assumption that making money is a zero or negative sum endeavour. In some cases it is but in many it's not. Whatever you think of his character, if Musk just threw in the towel at PayPal we wouldn't have SpaceX. I can say the same thing for Jobs, eg if he gave up after Next where would Apple be.

Making money is generally a positive sum endeavour as long as you're not generating unpriced externalities such as carbon pollution, and as such I don't like the idea that rich people stop working after they're rich. As long as they're not creating externalities we want them to continue building and contributing to society. It's a much better alternative to them relaxing on a yacht somewhere, which contributes nothing.

It's also inaccurate to think that making money by building crowds out other people from doing so. The opposite is the case. It's the same mindset behind the "immigrants took our jobs" train of thinking.
And, of course the #1 reasons even in tech circles: ”BILL GATES IS GOING TO MICROCHIP AS ALL” or ”Covid is just a flu, it’s not going to affect me”
Californians in LA/SF are used to paying $800k for a house, and the Cali salaries are high enough to support it. A Texan in Dallas/Austin is used to paying $250k for that same house, and has a relatively lower salary to match.

The Californians, after years of having higher salary, more savings, and a job that lets them move, goes to Texas and offers $400k for that same house. The Californian thinks it's a great deal, because they get the same size house they previously lived in for only half the price! And the seller thinks it's great, because he now suddenly gets a huge premium on his previously-valued-at-$250k-house. All of the real estate responds in kind, expecting to get $400k+ from all the Cali transplants. However, the average Texan, who doesn't have that high paying salary, gets priced out and can no longer afford a house in their city.

This has been happening en masse to the northern suburbs of Dallas, as well as many neighborhoods in Austin. It's gentrification, more or less, and it comes with all the same problems.
The vaccine is not field tested, so there is a risk in the unknown. The Canadian government at least is warning that some people may have an allergic reaction and are creating a tracking database to find out who is most at risk to such. Also, people are not perfect, so the entire supply chain poses some risk in delivering a bad batch of vaccine.

In short, you should not be injecting things into your system unless you really need them.
This is the only way you can scale your time, by ramping up others to be as efficient as you are. Although you might be becoming less of a contributor individually, you are enabling the larger group. This type of productivity can definitely be tracked based on how many people you have helped and their corresponding lineage of knowledge and work output.
Yes but still marginally easier to get it up and running
Company still pays most of its taxes in HQ.
I also played many many hours of Maelstrom! That particular game is now open source [1].

On the whole, the main code of most games was not written by Ambrosia. There was a form on the website where you could submit a simple demo of a game idea you had. If Ambrosia thought it had potential then we would sign you up, to support the development, publishing and distribution.

Ambrosia had a series of libraries, which were a mixture of C and Assembler, for graphics and sound etc. We had an in house graphic artist. And, of course, the shareware licensing code and mechanism.

It was a great model. Coders with an idea could get support to take their game to the next level, and sell it etc. It all seems so easy now but the net was in its infancy then. We were mailing out CDs filled with the games.

I never got my hands dirty of the game code, but I know the libraries we had were well polished and optimised, and so were very valuable to coders (no stack overflow back then!).

[1] https://github.com/richardjs/Maelstrom
I quickly skimmed over OP's previous posts and I don't think they mention it. According to [0], CPython's GC is ran every X instructions (not sure how up to date the source is).

From this, I guess CPython opted for simplicity instead of implementing something like a memory-usage monitor.

[0] https://realpython.com/cpython-source-code-guide/#garbage-co...
> Lately there have been "smart" people thinking they can just install ROS and presto robot AI startup. These people are in for a harsh lesson.

Oh, but they can. The "presto AI" part is easy. Making a working product after ROS collapses under its own weight is the tough bit.
i'm terrified of needles, gonna wait till at risk people have it and then going to face my fear.

FDA approved, im not scared of whats in the vaccine, i just hate the idea of getting stabbed.
Well, if the comment wanted to make some insightful points about Apple’s speculative ability to compete with the incumbents in the market, it should have done that. It didn’t, though, and that’s why I responded to it with the words I did. If it had been more explicitly speculative and less vaguely negative, I probably would have ignored it completely, because I don’t think that’s a very interesting discussion. Most of the points I’ve heard so far are fairly obvious, and the proof will be in the product pudding.

Since we’re talking about it now, though ... Apple has a decent record building products that meet a reasonable quality bar, even in markets they’re relatively new to. So I think there is a good chance these will end up being regarded as pretty good headphones, worth the asking price for a certain class of consumer. There is also some chance that they will be regarded as overpriced Beats by Dre trash, though I think that window is closing as more positive
impressions come in. Outcomes in between those extremes are, obviously, also possible.

Apple’s hardware design and engineering are first rate, and the things they build with speakers in them don’t sound half bad. Personally, I’d be surprised if these weren’t competitive on features alone, and I’ve paid up to around $1000 for (wired) headphones.
People keep forgetting that the vast majority of people under 45 that get in never have any idea that even had it and over 97% of deaths are people over 45.
+ Really good idea to make use of the electricity in other ways than just driving. (generators, lamps, etc.)

+ 10 hours covers up a good day in field.

- a lot of farms are away from electricity sources to charge and sometimes internet connection is non-existent. It is risky to leave a 50k machine on its own to do its job. And what to do if battery runs out on the field?

- how long does it take to recharge? A lot of farmers will not have fast charges on their farm.
Time has value, it takes time to get it. Also there are unknowns to any new medication and side effects of some vaccines. Of course there's also unknowns to getting covid, but it's at least internally consistent to favor one over the other.
> Reality has a well-known liberal bias

Except when it comes to nuclear, GMO, gender science, nature vs nurture, I'm sure there are other things I'm not remembering right now.
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COBOL even exists on Windows these days. Combined with a mainframe editor simulation like SPF, it all comes to fruition in some way.
I played sooo much of Bolo. Still one of my top-favorite games ever. I was so into it, I printed out guides and read them when I couldn't actively play the game. I started to memorize the different "pill-taking" layouts so I could easily take a base so quickly and flawlessly. Well, needless to say my skills weren't too useful because I wasn't able to arrange AppleTalk games of Bolo very often... but when we played, I usually destroyed!!! hahaha :) Ahh, such a great game. :)
It's the same as Amiga fanaticism. Hardware is more expensive, software is a lot more arcane. People put a lot of work into getting their computers to work the way they wanted to.

iOS is a utility to me, I already have my set patterns of working with it, and some new feature that changes that only happens once in a few years.
Also a bit of "how does this work" from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13460124
I bought a Mac Plus recently, and one of the new things I installed on it's MASSIVE 20 megabytes hard drive was Bolo. And then I proceeded to waste a good hour playing it all sadly by myself without the Localtalk network that used to be full of games, back in the day. sniffle
You left out scorpions.
I've heard this one brought up before, but I've never read it. I didn't realize it was the founder of DuckDuckGo either so that's pretty cool. I'll add it to the list!
If a function is inherently sync, then it shouldn't be using promises.
I’m no anti-vaxxer, but the current situation feels like a scam to me. “Hurry, take this vaccine, save lives!” I’m being asked to suspend critical thinking and accept a chemical into my body under duress and time constraints. “Take it now, this is your time! It’s finally available to you. Don’t you want to resume your normal life?” I’d rather wait and see, even if waiting carries a small, known amount of infection risk. That’s much better than the unknown risk of taking a brand new vaccine in hurry. “While supplies last!”
There has been people in several countries who have got Covid twice so having it does not equal immunity.
Drawing experienced personnel from established firms has, as I understand it, long been a big driver for startups in the region. While some established firms leaving isn’t a problem, if it becomes too common, its a problem for entrepreneurship.

OTOH, a few established firms with large campuses leaving also means a lot of space without the usual problems involved available for other established firms that get into lots of conflicts with other local constituencies when they try to expand.
You're assuming distribution will work fairly and optimally. That's very unlikely, especially because the initial rollout will still be overseen by the Trump admin.
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'Something like Groupon to find something to do' is the pitch though, because actual Groupon isn't the ideal place to find things which are interesting to experience on holiday. (And in many of places asking locals meets with either utter bemusement or a commission-paying introduction to a standard tourist activity)

AirBNB aren't the first people to try this, but they're pretty well placed brand-wise to sell the 'real local experience curated by ordinary local people' image. And yes, in practice it'll leverage that to sell standard tourist activities and some customers will be delighted, just like they use AirBNB to find ideally situated self-catering holiday apartments run as businesses rather than airbeds in suburban spare rooms
Not really but a big transit bond just passed that intends to expand the light rail system, eventually linking the airport to downtown and downtown to more of the central area.
There's going to be some sort of huge construction project on the interstate that bisects the town but the particulars have not yet been decided on that.
LOL, the nerds of sillicon valley discussing the effectiveness of the vaccine. What is this? A group of 50 year old ladies with Facebook?