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>If society decides that everyone should have minimum standard of living despite their skill level or net contributions

There is a fallacy here where you assumed society operates in a certain manner but provided no evidence to support that. The idea that people's standards of living is a directly a function of their skill level and not deeply influenced by other uncontrollable factors is a very contested and argued point of view. On the contrary, it's clear to see that despite individual productivity sky rocketing over the last 40 years, wages have remained stagnant.

Even the framing of your question is odd - who is the "society as a whole" that bares that burden, when most people who make up society are working class? Rephrased you could have simply stated that the majority working poor shouldn't cause undue burden on the aristocrats.

Lastly, I'll add that the state is already burdened in one way or another. Having a large amount of uninsured people due to corporations off loading their social contract creates a public policy problem. The state can't have people dying in the street or spreading disease because the vast majority of them are underinsured - and to solve these problems the state then increases taxes on everyone just so a corporation or two and get away with the bare minimum.
That would be a short essay. The answer is: Rarely, unless you belong to the old boys club or work on the same projects as GvR or have the correct political opinions.
Smalltalk, Java and .NET users have enjoyed as well. :)
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Serialization/deserialization is rarely the bottleneck, so don't prematurely optimise for it.

The candidates for fast serialization/deserialization that have implementations for all major programming languages are:

* Plain JSON using the simdjson library, optionally in NDJSON format (line separated), optionally compressed with LZ4.

* CBOR (like msgpack but with more datatypes/features)

* msgpack

* Protocol Buffers (optionally with gRPC)
351ELEC 1.0.6, An open source firmware for the Anbernic RG351P, is released
Anyone in retro hand-held gaming? I freaking love this device, especially with the great community around it. Another great alternative firmware is ArkOS
I think he's talking about

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
$ mv .ssh/id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
$ cat .ssh/id_rsa
$ exit
logout
Yeah, that's right. Before we escaped JIRA, my team would often do that, too, even for regular sprints. Make a checklist in a collaborative editor tool like Google Docs or Notion, and just do the day to day work there.

Then somebody would have to copy it to JIRA so the work would get tracked.

But very little of the planning, work breakdown, day to day updates, or discussion actually happened on JIRA because it was literally like a hundred times slower (with the convoluted UI compounded by incessant "wait... is it even loading?... oh, OK, it finally loaded" at each step of the way).
> So why isn’t it causing a Flash-style revolution?

From the animators I've listened to, the answer is that Animate sucks to work with and is a royal pain in the butt, so they either use different tools or stick to older versions of Adobe or even Macromedia Flash/MX.
> Automatons that can play chess, some real and some fake, have existed for hundreds of years

Those were midgets inside a box.

> The gold standard test for human level intelligence has long been and still remains the Turing Test.

Most HN readers, and most of Gen X, would fail a Turing test today as being "too ignorant to even talk to." So not sure what you're expecting.
Sure, just don't call it "Autopilot" then.

I know about the comparisons to a plane's autopilot, but when driving you don't have the luxury of minutes to react. The name puts an image of confidence in drivers' minds while failing to deliver.

(I don't own a Tesla; I just find they terribly misnamed the feature.)
It would be considered incredibly bad practice for such a dev's machine to be used to perform almost any calculation of significant business importance. It's why mediocre Tech Executives are able to appear like they got some work done by focusing on "no access from dev to production."

With Excel there is no such separation, and when there is it would make a great punchline to an XKCD or Dilbert cartoon.
My company's product is using Linux under the hood, that's why I'll continue using it professionally.
That said, I feel the M1 is too good to ignore. It is such an attractive platform for indie developers now. The Hardware is way ahead of the competition but still affordable, SwiftUI provides an easy native platform development option, the Appstore fees are down to 15%.
It's the perfect time to make the switch.
That's an old version of the emulator from the APE blog post back in August. Download blinkenlights.com which should work fine in the windows command prompt. https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/index.html
We never discussed this in our SR lectures - instead, I stumbled upon it in a creationist paper where someone tried to finagle a young earth out of it.

For example, you can use a convention where the speed of light is infinite for infalling light rays, and twice as slow than normal for outgoing ones. It's a bit weird (when you look into the mirror, light from the sun reaches you instantaneously, 'slowly' moves towards the mirror, and then jumps back to your retina instantaneously), but predictions will work out the same. Of course, it'll affect more than just travel time of light, you'll also mess with anything that inludes a gamma factor, eg making inertia anisotropic (the force you need will depend on the direction you push in).

Ultimately, it doesn't help the creationists, because things like time passed since the big bang for an observer following the Hubble flow does not depend on such conventions. All you'll achive is changing the big bang from an instantaneous thing (which in itself is already a bit of a dicy concept in relativity) that happened everywhere all at one into a continuous thing that started 13.8 billion years ago and has been going on ever since.
How to ensure company growth by M&A
If %20 is too much (in terms of hour reduction for the employer or salary reduction for the employee), perhaps one could negotiate a 4-day work week by proposing four 9-hour days for a %10 reduction in pay.
Last time I was downvoted to oblivion for stating that. Not a popular view on HN for some strange reason. ( Along with no one use SSB on Desktop as with the Firefox thread. )
I know about Smalltalk, but I didn't know about Java and .NET! Could you point me to utilities for those languages that allowed for features like autocompletions, introspection, live debugging, recompilation, REPLs - standard stuff in Slime/Swank?
Is that something that others can’t replicate, maybe due to Tesla having patents on the specifics?
The prototype will be run on shell scripts.
Native PyCharm Performance on Apple M1
What we really want to know is: How does it taste?
Ha! On that composition: I have no ear for Western classical music, and familiarity with neither the organ as a musical instrument nor the Bible's Book of Revelation, but even so, I can guess this project is… unique. He calls it (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html) a "somewhat literal translation" of the book into music. So for example he goes over each verse of the book, and (almost) each time it mentions "angel" he plays an 8-note arpeggio, every time it mentions "blood" he has "coagulated" (clustered) notes, and so on, setting up "dictionary" of 100+ motifs (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/motif-dict-utf8.html). He explains it in these videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvdanSygfg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1R9eY-8jL4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo). Looking through his list of musical allusions (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/rev-cite) I see things like Bruce Springsteen, even a washing machine's power on/off cycle sound. He mentions a couple of pieces of rap music for verse Revelation 3:20; maybe the reason is the same joke as https://xkcd.com/133/? Overall, the project seems so crazy (is this the way anyone writes music?) that one can't help being impressed.

The full performance is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxsZa3Ylao — haven't listened to it, but online I've seen both some extremely negative and some extremely positive comments. :-)

I have heard that he is a skilled organ player as you said; just earlier while searching for something else I saw a blog post about Rajeev Motwani's memorial (http://blog.geomblog.org/2009/09/rajeev-motwani-memorial.htm...) which mentions “Don Knuth was the organist for the entire ceremony, and played pieces you didn't think could be played on a church organ”.
> most people don’t know what a panel gap is and would never think to measure the ground clearance

No, most people would just describe this as 'general poor quality'.

Six Sigma quality manufacturing is all based on reducing deviation and defects - these are red flags.

And although they might not know to check these things, I think if you explained to the average consumer that some cars are 25% lower to the ground, while some are 25% higher, because of general manufacturing inaccuracy, they wouldn't be impressed.
> We are no where close to automating most basic labors.

There's plenty of stuff at the margins. Labor is getting expensive, so McDonald's has machines to fill drink orders now. Some places have robots mopping the floors, etc. Self-checkout is more and more available.

We're not going to see McDonald's or wherever fully automated anytime soon, but the number of people needed to run the restaurant will decrease.
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Ask HN: How is employee performance measured in your company?
For developers especially but I would be interested to know how it's measured for other people too.
Gitlab (self-hosted).

The community/FOSS version mainly lacks the kind of reporting that jira has (the paid/Enterprise version has some basic reports, such as burndown charts). It's not perfect, but it's fast, simple and has an easy API and webhooks.

In the field I work in (CRM/webdev/consulting), JIRA used to be everywhere. Now all those shops have moved to Gitlab.
> it is at least theoretically possible to do with cameras

Theoretically, yes. But that’s different than confidently claiming it’s “perfectly possible” and that it’s only a question of computation and modeling.
Leave. The world is a big, diverse place and few other places are like that.
As others have said here, the main problem is just that it’s really slow.

Apart from that, I think the only item on this list that really puts its finger on a key problem is #1, inability to manage dependencies between projects. You try to work around Jira’s problems by splitting the work into separate projects, but then they’re almost completely siloed, and Jira doesn’t help you connect them up.

The other problem I have with it is that it’s too fussy about the hierarchy of issue types. You have sub-tasks, stories, epics, and initiatives. Each one has special semantics and certain supported operations. If you started defining some work at the wrong level of granularity, too bad, because switching everything to a different tier is complicated and massively slow (literally a multi-page wizard, a progress bar and a confirmation screen when making a “mass edit”, i.e. a trivial edit to two or more issues).

Hierarchical issues is a good idea, because that’s a very natural way to break down and refine work estimates, but it should just be an arbitrary tree, not a strict and limited set of tiers.

Too much complexity, not enough generality. (And not enough speed.)
Don't see anything wrong with Gentoo in their context.

Author says in disclaimer This guide is focused purely on security and privacy, not performance, usability, or anything else. He's not wrong. Gentoo makes it easier to have compile flags while building your system. Say you want to disable pulseaudio support completely? You can get rid of it completely from anything that might link to it by setting it globally as a flag you want to avoid.

Sure the guide doesn't follow a threat model, but there's still some good advice in there. If someone follows the guide as dogmatic gospel, as a list of rules to follow at all cost, that's on them. If one is responsible for securing down their stack, maybe they should know better than following everything down to the bone as if it's some gospel.
And you find a bug that costs you $$$$,

I worked for a company that used an opaque excel spread sheet as a part of its accounting system - turns out there where bugs and we found a massive short fall one of the contributing factors in the collapse of the company.
This article leads to an obvious question: does Eroom’s Law apply as much to the sciences as a whole as it does to pharmaceutical drug discovery? Are we seeing the same dynamics play out in both cases?
>All I needed to do was export the flash document as an exe and boom:

Yes there were huge Gaming communities around it. Flash at the time was like Unity today. And may be even better than Unity from ease of use perspective. Lots of interesting Indie games.

Sometimes I just wish Adobe had open sourced Flash.
Yes, but no. You can check some details here https://spartez-software.com/blog/2020/10/27/two-spartez-com...
This[0] seems to be what `microLED5nano` is referring to.

My interpretation of the comment:

For the past two years (i.e. since 2018), I've read and summarised 25 years of computer news. Finally published this year after editing/adding some chapters, like one about SSDs. You can find it by searching on Amazon "Google Phone News September 2020 micro LED TV, 5 nano meter chips". I paid for a little advertisement [to no success].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-News-2018-19-micro-meter-ebo...
Consider yourself lucky that you have never had to use Jira.
Yeah, that's to put it mildly.

This gem is right up there in the first page:

Use a distribution with an init system other than systemd. systemd contains a lot of unnecessary attack surface; it attempts to do far more things than necessary and goes beyond what an init system should do. An init system should not need many lines of code to function properly.

Wow! To put such a controversial feature, and present it as "this is the truth, just how it is", without even mentioning that it's just an opinion and a lot of people have a completely opposite one, and both for good reasons. That just makes me distrust this guide because it is so opinionated and subjective.
I do find it that I reach for an English swear word far easier and with less effort even in the context I should perhaps refrain from saying it. Especially in work context when expressing dissatisfaction. Funny enough whenever I hit my self I will always reach for my mother tongue (Croatian) swear expression.
For the shear ability to to be creative when swearing, Croatian/Serbian beats English and so does Italian. A professor of mine 'swears' that for him Portuguese is the best or at least 'juiciest' for swearing.
1. Assemble a “great books” list

2. Make a serious dent in that

3. ...

4. Profit!
Why is it that infinite growth is always assumed possible and desirable? Can anybody enlighten me?
> 6. “I’ve lost weight!”

Well, actually weight is a force that depends on the
gravitational pull of the planet you are on, and it’s also a
vector, meaning it has a direction. You probably meant you
lost mass.

Most people expect to not leave the earth, so for all purposes, losing mass is the same as reducing the earth's effect on one's body, which is what people feel. We don't feel mass, we feel weight, so if we feel lighter, we've lost weight.
And I have seen a board member not wanted anything but linear regression from his own data scientist team (If I remember well, they were like 5~ PHD or master in stats) because he couldn't understand anything. And that was in one of the largest organization in the world.
Since lockdowns and covid make urban living and mass transit less attractive, driving is a skill many people should acquire.
> Do people not just use Electron App on Desktop

It would be nice to not have 80+ slightly different chrome installs on a desktop for all the apps these days.

Shipping just the app code and using the runtime (edge or chrome i guess, would've been nice to have firefox as a modern xulrunner successor) on the end users machine makes more sense to me.
Managing state with immutable data in JavaScript
I am having big hopes with Blazor and Uno.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted - someone from Atlassian, maybe?

I wholeheartedly agree with your suggestions. Trello won't scale, but it's good for n < 3 users, especially if working with non-engineers / non-PMs.
That's lovely, Thank you for the link.
In my job I use:

* Google Analytics

* Google Search Console

* Jira

So basically I wait and wait and wait to manage projects to make websites fast.
If it makes no profit, what value is it gaining?

There's value in the stock, but that's taxed as stockholders sell and realize the capital gains.
What about the other hardware, the computer doing the actual computations?
What’s killing Jira and the other tools in Atlassian’s suite for us is them killing off the on-premises server products. Some of the companies I work with have defense security requirements and just can’t use it in the cloud (unless they followed a lot of stringent requirements that are not on their roadmap, and I assume they would charge a lot more for that).

The cloud versions are also far more expensive and while I’ve always liked the software in general (apart from it being dog slow), a big draw was how cost effective the server products were. So I’m about to start evaluating GitLab, YouTrack, etc. to start moving these companies off Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence in the next year or so.
> his old employer used non-protected but difficult-to-find preview links for ticketing pages.

Oh come on, I find it difficult to have sympathy for a company that does this.

It's a ticking time bomb, and certainly not hacking.
The article specific mention that the environment is the browser using python notebook. In the author use case there is no docker, no pip, no window desktop for which I.T. support is managing python on client machines.

I also wonder, if I.T. support were to use docker, are they doing that for python, or would they still continue to use docker even if they move away from python?
IntelliJ, Clion, and the host of JetBrains IDEs are written in Java, and they're the best IDEs on the planet. Better than VisualStudio.

Minecraft Java Edition is fantastic.

Java is just a tool. Atlassian isn't a good workshop.
Probably the GNU/Linux users that now jump of joy when given Electron apps or Wine/Proton based games.
FYI, those images don't seem to open.
Workers don’t work for themselves because they lack means of production like tools, premises, access to supply and distribution chains, copyrights and patents, etc. They all require initial capital, which workers are far less likely to have than owners and their descendants.

Since we don’t own means of production, all of us workers are forced to sell our labour or perish. We are coerced into working for one set of owners or another, all of which became owners from the profit generated by other workers’ unpaid labour.
How about a reward for choosing the "correct" answer.

If the side with the most votes is the side you chose, you get 2 points. If the side with the most votes is not the side that you chose, then you get only a single point.
There's a huge change in technology that made doing what flash did well very dificult and that's not html5 fault. We now live in a world of multiple screen sizes. one of the huge benefits of flash as a creative tool was the wysiwyg interface, but that worked well when you could optimize for 1024x768, when you start having multiple screen sizes that creates a dramatic shift on how things are designed. I know quite a few graphic designers that to this day cannot wrap their heads around the fact that you have to be designing to multiple screen sizes and proportions.
Unpopular opinion: it doesn’t suck.

Let me walk that back a bit - I have no experience of the cloudy version which unanimously seems to be derided as slow. Atlassian - you might wanna fix that. Like yesterday.

But server (& datacentre) editions - best in class for my money.

In terms of features, the Rally / Agile Central (did that just re-brand again?) rollup roadmap view is the only missing feature i crave. Atlassian should just merge the portfolio product into jira.

As for everything else - speed is absolutely fine if hosted well.

I tend to council people to try to use less features not more - often jira features are used to attempt to work around challenges that are best addressed by talking to people instead.

It integrates with everything, no matter what source control, build pipeline or IDE tooling is in use, there’s integration with jira.

The REST API is absolutely usable (mostly for workflow automation and analysis purposes).
I'm not convinced. I'm no expert on aging simulation however. But heating a DVD to 90°C seems like it would do different things to the disc than normal aging at recommended temperatures, wouldn't it?
Whoosh, that was his point entirely. Globes are Northern hemisphere biased because of the history of European colonialism.
Largely. The other source of value is nature, hence all of the environmental degradation we see.
btrfs is mentioned so roll on the "I had dataloss when I tried btrfs in 2010" comments

So fwiw, I have been using it on my personal machines for nearly a decade and not had any issues. That said, I am using the most boring subset of its functionality.

LVM always brings me some trepidation as the result of various imploding RHEL5 machines
WebGL/GPU + WebAssembly
To be fair I can't blame the author. The why part probably doesn't exist because he wrote it for himself, or, he wrote it for people who he knows and would be able to seperate what advice to follow for their use-case.

This is just an assumption on my part, but I feel like he just wrote down a list of what he has followed down in the past. He didn't write down the "why" because he wrote it in context of his own experiences.

Like that systemd portion looks very icky, but when you have the disclaimer in context. You'd want to go to something with the least amount of attack surface. Systemd is a giant project, and a very useful one at that, and for context I am firm supporter of systemd, but I can see why he'd put that in the guide, since his disclaimer says the guide isn't really about usability but minimizing the attack surface.

In turn it got submitted to hackernews by someone who read their article, and unfortunately some people would treat it as gospel and turn off their brains, since as you mentioned there's no "Why?", but it makes sense to not include it if he didn't really write it for the masses but just to document something for himself and his friends/colleagues.
I use rclone[1] to do a daily local backup, just in case.

[1] https://rclone.org/
It is insane to Suggest people working 3 jobs are using Uber.
Comparing SAM and Terraform is like comparing apples and oranges. Comparing Terraform to CloudFormation is more appropriate, and Terraform wins in terms of verbosity there every time.

SAM generates CloudFormation templates/stacks, which create your AWS resources.
Serverless generates CloudFormation templates/stacks, which create your AWS resources.

Related: I wouldn't recommend deploying raw lambda's without a framework. The development workflow really sucks without one. Use SAM or Serverless.
Which is what the original poster wrote which you for some reason have a problem decoding:

"it’s possible that most Teslas on the road today will be capable of being upgraded to L5 capability via a software update."

He didn't say it will definitely guaranteed happen.

The antonym of the word possible is impossible, which if you try in that same sentence you'll see that it doesn't make any sense that way.
withFile also has the drawback that you can invalidly return the Handle from the handler.