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Ask HN: What was burnout like for you?
For those of you who have experienced burnout in your job, how did it manifest in your life and how did you overcome it?
Wrong. I am arguing that if everyone stayed at home the virus would go away.
https://youtube.com/user/Ceropegia Sage Reynolds is my goto
Can I make a scene graph using PGA?
> Ideally, a VM should be indistinguishable from real hardware

Why? I mean, it's possible to make a VM that's indistinguishable (except for speed), but what's the purpose of doing so?

Most people who run VMs have the purpose of "I want this application to run more conveniently than having dedicated hardware for it." For that purpose, it's useful to provide abstractions (e.g., providing dedicated access to CPUs in a way normal kernels usually don't) and usually to provide sandboxing (e.g., prohibiting disk writes outside of the VM disk), but there's generally little point in lying, unless the software you want to run won't run right without lying. And it's often counterproductive to lie, because software can adapt to the ways the abstraction is leaky if you're truthful about the nature of the abstraction. (In this case, the VMware graphics driver can achieve much better performance by cooperating with the host than a normal graphics driver expecting physical hardware could get on a software emulation of that hardware.)

It's also often pointless to lie - if you pay for a VM from Amazon EC2, and you log into it and it pretends to be a 1U physical server, are you going to believe it?
Biden is bad, Obama is a murderer, and libs are hypocrites. The Trump thing is weird, but I think maybe he's trying to appeal to him to get Snowden off.
> Blender Foundation will start recruiting in the course of Q1 2021, pending the current travel and meeting restrictions being lifted or relaxed.

Why wait for travel restrictions to be lifted?
Textbooks are expensive and the hardware/software solutions just aren't as low latency, tangible or as cheap as pen and paper. Also, not staring at a screen (especially before bed) is a plus.
You’ve never watched tv with music playing in the background?
I think you're on to something. One of the challenges that teams at Google have is service dependencies. In theory, Google is one big, happy family and everyone is responsible for everyone's code. In practice, teams have focuses, software interdepends and interoperates, and mistakes get made at the margin where the linkages between two software systems are neither team's direct responsibility---or the responsibility of both teams.

It's not malice, it's incentives and information flow. Integrating with a service that one is not responsible for, one can get tripped by unknown unknowns that the team that maintains the service has failed the document. And while a migration mistake is embarrassing, software engineering teams are generally rewarded for task completion, not for the time spent preparing for a failure that doesn't occur.
I think we can consistently predict they’ll go after what’s financially best for them, but they won’t collaborate with nation states in quite this way.
The vaccine itself is free. Insurance or patient or Medicaid will be billed for an office visit to administer the injection.
Ways to look after yourself and others in 2021
But crimes of mere "possession" (e.g. child pornography, drugs) are especially susceptible to framing because the existence of the contraband in a person's personal effects are all that is needed to presume guilt. Child pornography, or really any digital asset, is doubly suspect because it is so much easier to "place" these digital assets on someone's computer or phone, whereas with drugs you'd need physical access to someone's home or personal effects.
Sometimes people put games and desktop apps in websites.

And, really, when you download a game or desktop app as a traditional executable, the OS gives it so much access to your private data that the term "leak" isn't meaningful any more. Any video game you install as a .exe can silently access every email and online banking account you either are logged into or will log into in the future.
Thriving in a crowded and changing world: C++ 2006–2020 – Proceedings of the ACM
Try listening to older music. It's less boring and tries to bring out an emotion. A lot of the newer music has proshopped out any real emotion.
Internet-in-a-Box
Worth noting that while Preact specifically doesn’t support React Native, JSX does. So to the extent the dev APIs stay in line you can always swap out the underlying library for that target (or other renderers).
One of these companies builds critical infrastructure. The other sells a software service with many equivalent replacements with which it can be swapped out at a moment's notice.
Those are the allegations, or at least quotes from the press release announcing the charges. But nothing has been proved yet. Jin's innocent until proven otherwise, though they may yet prove otherwise.

I don't mean to pick on you. As someone who works in legal---albeit not in criminal law---citing a complaint as fact, when it's essentially one side's declaration of what they intend to prove, does bother me.
My favorite example of this hypocrisy is still that the Disney film sleeping beauty would have been illegal to make because Tchaikovsky's ballet would have still been under copyright had the rules that Disney themselves later lobbied for been in effect
I think you are asserting misinformation. If Gebru did not list a resignation date and made the resignation conditional on demands in her ultimatum, then the resignation would be effective instantly under the conditions of not fulfilling her ultimatum, just as she said.

You would need example case law of employees declaring a resignation conditional not on any date or time, but on specific demands which are immediately denied by the employer.

>> If you don’t give me a raise then consider me resigned.

>> I don’t give you a raise, therefore I accept your instantaneous resignation.

This linked example where an employee listed a departing date and then was terminated sooner than that does not seen applicable to Gebru’s situation, and I don’t appreciate you saying my comment is misinformation if this is the level of countering material you’re providing. I’m happy to be shown to be wrong, but that’s not what your link describes at all.
> highest salary: 58.4 k€

Is that the best you get for working on a complicated app that should have the ability to be used professionally?

Do developers take the fame as part of their pay or else they can easily go elsewhere and get a double pay?
If you can, I’d recommend getting a good pair of Hi Fi speakers and a subscription to a FLAC streaming service (like Deezer) or a record player. It’s an investment of course, but it really does change just having music on in the background to making it more of an experience, like going to a concert. I got a pair of Snell J II’s recently and sitting down to listen to the depth of my favorite songs is one of my new favorite Covid hobbies.

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I'm convinced that people would generally not place success above morals when isolated. But a corporation isn't a person and without regulation and oversight it will do this every time. Some will transition faster than others. Some will find success in morals (Apple's privacy policy) - but in the end it's a means to success over just doing the right thing.
My take on it is this.

As a whole, there are fewer jobs to be had because we've really upped efficiency by magnitudes. Things like coal mining used to be done by teams of people (it's what my grandpa did) but now can be mostly done by machines. Houses can be mass produced by a handful of orgs. And of course the US also used to do much more manufacturing before it was mostly outsourced. So we became a service economy.

Except we automated the heck out of services too. Bookkeeping types of jobs have been mostly replaced by software tools. Likewise the kinds of jobs that connect people to other people like phone operators or marketing/advertising agencies have either been made obsolete or so efficient that a handful of companies (e.g. Google, Facebook, Amazon) can basically meet the needs of the entire nation. Nearly every industry has been disrupted now by tech, which means we've increased efficiency & reduced jobs in all those fields

On top of all of this, we have had great success in bringing women and minorities into the workforce. The economic prosperity we had post-WW2 was primarily not shared with African Americans, so the vision of getting a good job and buying a house while young was not a possibility for that group. Probably the best time for economic opportunity for minorities in the US is right now.

Most of the above is good. And I wouldn't even label what we have as "bad Boomer policies" so much as just outdated ones. We are sooo slow to adopt any sort of policy changes whatsoever. The free market is good at solving lots of problems, but it is utterly incapable of solving problems related to distribution of wealth, because companies only have the power to direct wealth inward (if the company were, on average, directing wealth outward it would very quickly go bankrupt and cease to exist).

As for academia, a lot of low hanging fruit has been had across multiple disciplines, so testing new theories has become exponenially more expensive. Cutting edge research 100 years ago would have cost $10k to set up a bunch of mirrors to measure the speed of light. Now it costs in the $billions to measure the presense of certain kinds of matter. So the return value of scientific funding has gone down... so scientific funding has gone down. Despite this, the state of the job market in the US is not very appealing so more people than ever are pursuing / staying in academia.

I have no idea what the fix is but I think a basic income policy would help
AWS hired a whole bunch of core developers: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-a...
If you wire the bits as numbered to a conventional memory device designed with LSB as bit-0, the internal address bus will induce more switching from sequential access than normal. The internal row and column decoders will be working overtime consuming more power than necessary. Reversing the bus to deal with that isn't always straightforward on a space constrained board.
that is absolutely false
I would think that you would not be allowed to deduct the full $500 because you are getting a service — the ability to "skip the line" and grab a graphics card. You can only deduce $500 - FMV of that service, which a reasonable person might say is the difference between the street price of the scalped non-DWB cards and the DWB cards.

If the street price of the scalped cards is higher than the DWB edition, then you would not be able to deduct anything.
It reminds me of Lance Armstrong's common refrain before he was outed as a drug cheat, "I am the most tested athlete in professional sports and I have never been found guilty of taking performance enhancing drugs!" All while he was a heavy drug user.
On the one hand you're somewhat right: there are certainly many of those who fear marijuana with the only reason being that it is among "the drugs"; but is marijuana abuse not the greater issue of the two? Certainly you can agree that inhaling any smoke is bad for the lungs, for a start?
I was going to say the same, this seems too low.
VPNs, proxies, Tor, you name it.
> Oh, and keeping methods to 5 lines or less, except in genuinely extreme, rare cases.

This confuses me. Extreme, rare cases? Don't get me wrong, I code Lisp as much as anyone and love keeping my functions short and simple, but not going above 5 lines (esp. in Java or .NET) is masochistic.

By that metric, an if in Java takes up 60% of a function's real-estate, a local variable 20%, and a try-catch is your maximum complexity.
It could go one of two ways:

Passenger: I want to declare this painting.

Customs agent #1: That's revolting. It can't possibly be worth anything. Have a good day.

Customs agent #2: That's revolting. It must be valuable, otherwise nobody would keep it. Pay up!

(Note I don't actually know if the painting is revolting, I only saw a tiny thumbnail of it, and I do like modern art).
That particular detail doesn't really effect my overall statement. Congress may at times contradict regulators. My point would be that congress isn't going to change the regulatory capture situation because congress itself is part of the "revolving door" of regulators, corporate bureaucrats and congressional staff.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
Hackers Targeted the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Chain; Vaccine Sold in Darkweb
> Why not both?

It’s a win-win-win situation.

But yeah, the fact that the entire world is dependent on China for cheap manufacturing is probably a bad thing.
A video game installation is a conscious choice that I can make depending on whether I trust the vendor or not. Me visiting New York Times and getting 58 trackers scraping my device configuration and preferences is not a choice.
My impression is that places like DeepMind are more of a social good than a profit seeker. Most universities simply cannot afford such big and expensive AI. So I suspect that DeepMind is Google’s way of expanding the frontier of AI knowledge through charitable donations. It’s ultimately good PR for them and maybe influences businesses to pick Google Cloud Services for brand appeal. Also I’m guessing since it’s research, they get a huge tax write-off.

Perhaps they will deliver once-in-decade unicorn breakthroughs that can ultimately be monetized? Maybe Google’s next phase will be AI generated content. With that they can completely cut out other content creators, and thereby collect affiliate cash through sales. For example, generating those “Top 10 Holiday Toys” guides automatically.
He’s also way too dismissive of Russia’s influence. They’re way more than a “medium regional power”. Dismissing the country with one of the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world and one of the most significant and extensive intelligence apparatuses this way raises serious questions about his impartiality.
New Vegas has an actually deep story and interplay between several factions. You have great freedom and influence in world events. The characters have strong personality and motivations of their own.

Fallout 4 to my understanding is more or less devoid of such.
In the bit about the "now-former employee", it sounds like they admit they banned accounts hosting meetings about Tiananmen Square.

> During the time this individual was employed by Zoom, he took actions resulting in the termination of several meetings in remembrance of Tiananmen Square and meetings involving religious and/or political activities, some of which were hosted by non-China-based users. We terminated the host accounts associated with certain of these meetings.

And about sharing information on dissidents with the government,

> While the complaint alleges that the former employee obtained Zoom account and user IDs associated with the Xinjiang region of China, our investigation shows that this data was anonymized, and at this time we do not have reason to believe that it was shared with the Chinese government.

This is hard to believe given how difficult it is to operate any company in China without very close ties with the CCP.
When are non-governmental parties bound by the bill of rights?
Shorter is easier to read and understand at first glance.

Writing a paragraph kills any formatting in vi/vim.

Why not write a comment if a paragraph is required to understand what you are doing.

This sounds like Hungarian notion taken to the extreme.
Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam 'from nearby star'
Why the downvotes - it's an obvious reference to Charlie Farquharson's commentary on the moon missions. :-)
I think less people commuting during the pandemic and sheltering in place probably corresponded to less hours streaming music. My biggest use of spotify was when I commuted and now that I wfh I rarely even open the app. I've been finding audiobooks more relaxing lately than music, not entirely sure why.
You can use marijuana/cannabis without smoke in a million different ways.
I mean, doctors have been telling people not to smoke for sixty years and smoking rates have certainly declined over that period so I don't think this is universally the case.
Being a vector of a deadly infectious disease, and not taking basic precautions infringes on the human rights of people around you.

Anti-vaxxers are generally tolerated until there's a critical mass of them, which start causing problems for everyone else.
But who else could've turned down such a huge profit business model as Apple did?

We could see Apple become as crazy as Google on advertising business, yet they turned it down.

I like how they're "Kill the evil" than the well known "Don't be evil" from Google. Apparently, that's one giant step ahead of them.
If the rich pay most of the taxes (because they have most of the money), and taxes on the poor and middle class didn't meaningfully increase, and the total amount of taxes being paid didn't meaningfully change, what does that tell you about the amount of taxes paid by the rich?
It feels like you don’t have enough time at the end of the week to get everything done that is not just work related and you end up making self sacrifices in terms of health in well being that take free time to climb out of. More time than a weekend or the sorry amount of vacation the average American gets. Sometimes quitting your job is the best thing you can do. Obviously not recommended if you don’t have a good savings but everyone should have the freedom to take a sabbatical for a solid month or two each year to live your life and spend time with family and friends.
Does anyone know a good Bluetooth device that has a separation alert? I would like to put on my bag. Phone would ring if the device is left behind.
You don’t need to change or limit Medicaid payments to make this work. Just give it to everyone. Yes, the wealthy will have a benefit that they “don’t need” but that’s not actually a problem. A simpler program is more efficient and easier to administer. And if the wealthy have even a small stake in how the program is run they may hesitate to make cuts to it.

It is entirely possible to pay for health care for everyone with modest tax increases - taxes that will be instead of insurance premiums for most people.
This is the main reason I'm skeptical that other forms of media are distracting from streaming. Someone could easily turn of Dota 2's music and listen to Spotify in the background.
Really? Given Goebbels' Freudian slip here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech) and the Wannsee conference?
It is something you can get better at. You can treat attention like a skill that needs training. Sit there and listen even if you are feeling restless and eventually you will gain back some control over your focus. You will eventually start truly noticing the music again, which is yourself getting better at the ability to be more mindful and engaged.

I did this with books but it wildly helped my ability to enjoy music too.
Tesla called her a criminal. Her fight could be a milestone for employees rights
It's not an unreasonable suggestion (and a lot of people are making it now), but the risk with a single dose is low persistence. We know that the first dose has high effectiveness in the first month, but it may trail off sharply. Or it might not. Since we haven't tried a single dose, we don't know.

In animal studies, the second dose was required for a durable response, that's why Pfizer decided to go with it in their trial.
Hmm that could be it. Like, Python has json and it works like pickle before it. I don’t think that’s a helper and I like that it reinforces that serialization pattern.

What I think of as helpers are like base64_auth_to_username_password. That’s factoring out like 2-3 lines of code that may be duplicated in a half dozen places, but in truth represents an incomplete abstraction, layer, or subsystem.
When I first got my new 8gb Air there was some indexing process running for a while that was using 6gb. The machine was a bit slower but still quite responsive. I think there’s some truth to the claim that you need to think about ram a little bit differently with this new hardware.
As long as he sources everything correctly I don't mind. He's still a great investigative journalist.
Challenge trials don’t work when 40% of infected are asymptomatic. And challenge trials especially don’t work when 15% of cases require hospitalization and ICU beds are already maxed out.
It’s not nationalism - it’s rejecting knee-jerk false equivalence. It’s downvoted because it usually comes up immediately and just isn’t true.

I say this as someone who would have made similar knee-jerk comments when I was 18 so I have some understanding of where they come from.

Believing the behavior of all governments is equivalently bad makes you a mark for bad governments (which want you to believe that).

The USG isn’t without fault, but it’s a far cry from the actions of the CCP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24888552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887606
I edited my comment to make it clear these are allegations.
No, it’s just apples and oranges. The USA is a flawed constitutional republic that runs on a messy democratic process. It’s ugly sometimes, but it’s fundamentally good.

The PRC is something else.
" Some activities superficially familiar to you are merely stupid and should be avoided for your safety, [..] These include: giving your bank account details to the son of the Nigerian Minister of Finance; buying title to bridges [..] and entering into financial contracts with entities running Economics 2.0 or higher. "

- Accelerando by Charles Stross
I can't say I agree with that. There is a lot of really good new music, just like there is a lot of bad old music. The difference is the bad old music has already been forgotten, but the bad new music is recent enough to still be somewhat memorable. For now.
How does it differ from: https://www.littlebird.com.au/blogs/news/colourful-printed-c.... ?
Why would it? You can legally include any number of family members in a will as heirs, including zero. If you want to specifically exclude individual family members as well, you can do that, too.
It's going to require some extreme climate change effects for silicon valley to come anywhere close to approaching a "Detroit of today" scenario.
One doesn’t necessarily lead to the other. You can easily run universal social programs that don’t have means testing. You don’t need to replace them with UBI.
IIRC, the banning accounts part isn't new info. They were called out for it and I think their reasoning was that at the time they didn't have a way to just block certain regions from a meeting, so they banned the meetings altogether because people from China were joining them, and they wanted to stay on the CCPs good side.
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> What is Amazon's interest in this ?

The page says Amazon is funding 'character animation tools development.'

Best guess: Amazon is about to disrupt clothing/fashion industry [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/JRLl8_StWGw
A means tested phase out of a cash benefit is indistinguishable from a tax.

If you had a $12,000 UBI with a 30% phase out up to $40,000 in income, that's the same thing as putting a 30% marginal tax rate on people making less than $40,000. On top of whatever other taxes they're paying. Which is probably not what you wanted if you have a 22% marginal tax rate on people making $50,000, right?

What you really want is to forget about the phase out and just combine the UBI with a flat tax, so that the people making less money are paying the same marginal rate instead of a higher one than people who make more money.
And then I will have spent double the money and then some vs buying just one and some memory later when I can afford it.
Great initiative
WHO and the UN agree it does have positive health effects -

https://www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-programme/hiv-preventio...