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Is that really any different from leaning a language, tool, framework, library, service, etc.? You learned the new thing, you're excited to try to out, and you should still be judicious in analyzing whether this is or isn't the place for it. And some developers just want to play with the new shiny.

None of that is an argument against learning new things. Just keep adding tools to your toolbox, so you don't end up with every problem looking like a nail.
It's funny you mention subtitles. I'm English, with just a smattering of French when I watched The Wire (that is, I'm definitely not a polyglot) and when I watched it I hooked into the language really quickly, revelled in it in fact, and didn't need subtitles at all - but I also know friends that really struggled. I think it helped that at the time I was only working a three-day week and didn't have kids: one of the most glorious memories of The Wire for me was getting Series 3 as a DVD box set through the post just after it was released (I was in Scotland at the time, and didn't have access to HBO) and watched the entire series in one day with just occasional breaks for food and drinks.
> Have you ever heard of mdev? As described in "mdev like a boss"? Or its cousin mdevd from https://skarnet.org/software/ ?

I have. I also have heard it runs into trouble with the likes of GNOME/KDE.

Is this seriously your 'competitor'? I did have a good belly laugh at this one, thanks!
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My understanding of what you said is that most productive things we do are for someone else's benefit, therefore we shouldn't have an interest in tracking our productivity.

But why not argue the following instead: Most productive things we do are for someone else's benefit, so let's try to fill our time with more things that our productive to ourselves. Would you agree with this take?
I always miss out on this stuff too. Always late to the party.
What is the purpose of this gratuitous non sequitur potshot?
You're right, but what matters much more is that the investors realized the potential (5x in 1 year after the correction). Moderna was on the roadmap for ARK invest for a long time (and compensated for it heavily).

Now that mRNA is proven technology, it can bring all other gene technologies up with it.
A vaccine is NOT medical treatment. The trials to prove this will take at least 5 years.
> but saying that only the Chinese Government benefits from this is misleading.

No, the Chinese version has all the telemetry code removed. There's nothing to turn off, unlike in the Enterprise edition.
Open source is stifling progress
What about a part-time nanny? Few hours a week of paid time off for parents doesn't feel like it would diminish the parents/children bond in any way - but parents get some rest (or a chance to work on their own relationship, or even to catch up with chores), the kid gets someone new to play with, and then slightly less tired parents.
I really wish web browsers would strip tracking code bullshit from URLs. When I copy/paste a link for friends I always manually edit that crap.

On the other hand I do love websites like WireCutter which only exists because of referral codes.
Not for the Chinese government. Their Windows version has no telemetry code at all.
ASICs only make sense if you have high volume. PCI-e takes a lot of resources/space. The sweet spot for FPGA-CPU hybrid chips are embedded devices that are latency sensitive. For example, time-of-flight sensors and specialty cameras.
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You don't need it to use libraries, but it aids heavily in reading other rust code which is probably the best way to understand rust idioms.
you are right; some of the biggest brands need to do the least advertising
I think the task of propagating such information could suit well the Church of Reality: http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/
In Italy? Italy's not a third world country... Do you have any proof for that?
Progression in guitar makes you happy because guitar makes you happy. It isn't the other way around.
Positive is meaningless with the current test which is accurate maybe 3% of the time.
Oh I don't think anyone is confused about why this happens or why it's still worth it. The next step we need to take is to agree that it is unethical to steal many people's time for a little reward.
That one appears to be for the desktop; is there an Android link that I overlooked?
(50 – 1) when it comes to GA Senate runoffs
A too short or complete lack of an alternatives section has become red flag for me when reviewing proposals.

I often scroll to the alternatives section first thing to see whether at least a few alternatives were honestly evaluated. Too often I just find some bullet points with abstract URLs (without any summary for the reader) and a statement that they would not be as great as the proposed solution - or no section at all.

It becomes impossible to provide constructive feedback at that point. It leaves me with the dreaded “Have you considered Alternative X, Y, Z?” or a passive-aggressive “Could you do an unbiased research of alternatives against the requirements?”

Even though the alternatives section tends to be towards the end of the document it doesn’t mean that it should be filled out at the end.
Turning the waste into building & construction materials is definitely going to be one of the major industrial ways of low-carbon polymer recycling.
There's so much more to design than just aesthetics.

If the intent is to grab attention or pique curiosity perhaps we can say option B is better designed than option A :)
> If C# and Go preclude 95% of the errors found in Python and JS

Well Go and C#[1] still suffer from the billion dollar mistake (null pointers), which represents at least 1/3 of errors I've witnessed in JavaScript code, so I'd say they at best removes 70% of errors. And there's also logic errors, for which neither Go's or C#'s type system helps either, so maybe we're at 50% error reductions with Go and C# compared to JS and Python. I don't even think that Rust, with its really helpfull type system (ADT + Affine types) achieves 95% error reductions though.

[1]: for C#, at least last time I used it, which was 2011
It's a future prediction, agree aggregate status don't show it yet, but the people who drive long-term trends (for example, the early adopters of Facebook) no longer use it, and the brand crisis I think is only going to continue.

Totally agree that Facebook isn't going to vanish any time soon, I'm just saying that basically they won't win because people are slowly but steadily losing trust in them, and they will lose their data & talent advantage.

People are also becoming more willing to pay for software over time, I think/hope the pendulum will swing back to the "user pays for product" model. We'll see!
Ekioh is essentially a competitor of Vewd, the former TV/devices part of Opera.
A relevant Bryan Cantrill talk segment on this, which heightens the paranoia around this. Namely, firmware hiding correctable errors and only reporting uncorrectable errors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2104&v=fE2KDzZaxvE
I always liked logging my actions to see what's really going on. I think the most common one I do every few months is tracking my diet for a few days to see what bad habits I've picked up and where I need to improve. The first time I did it I realized by protein intake was way too low and that's why I wasn't seeing improvements in working out. It also enlightens me into how sodium filled so much of the food I'm eating is and helps me plan around those.

Same goes with tracking time spent on "human function" as the author described it. While I intentionally try not to be super anal about how much time I spent on certain activities, I think it's almost like a game to make the boring stuff as efficient as possible. As I've added more steps to my daily routines, I've also found ways to keep my time spent reasonable and make certain things asynchronous. Perfect simple example is doing the dishes during idle cooking time. My roommates don't do this and it boggles me.

Also, making those boring moments more exciting is always a plus. Music or a podcast in the shower and kitchen goes a long way, at least for me.
Sorry that happened to you. Moving is basically the worst.

Most movers are not end to end and there's a broker network in between. I mean if Amazon started a moving company I would use them.

I think one problem is that people generally don't do long distance moves individually that frequently so basically we put up with it. You can go higher end though and I think get decent service.

It's too bad you couldn't move via the military as they are pretty reliable.

My rules for long distances moves is to sell everything I have and only ship the essential. Then insure that cargo. When something is insured they seem to be less likely to lose it.

Outside of moving, I look at Amazon fakespot reviews but I try to not buy anything third party. Even then the drones I bought turned out to be turds. For other things I use reddit. And for cars I try to find the a website forum that specifically addresses the brand or model.
x96 has been used in context of x64 + x32 architectures
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> I don't see a future for Scala.

Yeah. It was pretty clumsy before it got less clumsy - and it makes me sad because a lot of the graph-based databased technologies glomed onto it pretty early on - and I mostly like where they say they are going. And their base compile Suxxor and they messed up their community with the new compile Python3 style.

I guess Kotlin is cool and clean - which is good. And has no ecosystem - which is bad. But stapling JVM language together for ad-hoc purposes is what we have learned how to do, neh?

For my part, I'm probably going to go back to high performance renderers and embedded systems. Like the man said bad in the day: "You can all go to hell - I am going to Texas". (Unfortunately I have been there for 30 years since I learned that I hate it.
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to work with others through something as formal as RFCs, because honestly it sounds like it would only work if you have massive amounts of time to invest in planning. It seems really easy for one or more people to spend tons of time working the perfect proposal only for one or more people to shoot it down. It’s probably just the environments I have worked in that lead me to feel this way, I’m sure this process actual works well for some teams.
I've hacked something like this using a Pebble and Tasker for Android.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625346 for the description of source code (it's unfortunately not easy to actually share source code of Tasker scripts, at least not in an easy-to-read form).

The benefits of this approach over writing an app are, to quote: "I made it one afternoon in a grand total of ~30 minutes (including debugging and testing). It requires no Internet connection, doesn't spy on me, I can use it anywhere I am as long as I have my phone in my pocket, I get to own my data in a machine-readable format, which I can trivially send out to my desktop for processing later."
Privately knowledgeable parties (not me) have been talking about this for ages. A close friend quoted the same %age as the podcast underlying the tweet did as being fake.

By the way how impressive is the scammer level of sophistication. App level man-in—middle-esque (probably imprecise terminology) forging of attribution based on massive monitoring and siphoning of what otherwise would have been organic conversions. Super cool. And those were the ones they caught imagine what they didn’t.
If advertising is an arms race with more total cost than total benefit, that would be an argument that advertising works. Because anyone, at any given time, will benefit from running advertising.

It also means advertising is a net loss to society, but that is separate from the question 'does advertising work'
But then why do they keep doing laughably bad advertising?
I can see how the ugly ad could get more clicks. It looks so different from everything else that you're naturally curious to see what it leads to.

I will also add that the "professionally designed" ad is kind of busy. It has so many things going on (some text in all caps, different colors, some quoted, illustration doesn't add much value, arrows that don't mean anything) that it doesn't really catch your attention or call you to action. The "ugly" ad, however, gets to the point.
Even if you do this the ad-people will claim that showing people ads repeatedly will make them buy your product eventually. Maybe when they actually need such a product.
At this point you cannot connect the events anymore.
This effect is probably weak but not falsifiable.
Every time Clojure comes up on HN there always seems to be a lot of negativity. I've come to flinch just seeing a mention of the language, which I do still love and have used for a decade, but perhaps this is how everyone feels about their pet language. I think there's a bit of a tension with Clojure, that it's a weird combination of being principled and being pragmatic, which means that there are always languages that on paper beat it out on any given axis. At the same time Clojure people do have a tendency to paper over the cracks quite a lot, at least some of which must be cognitive dissonance.

The biggest problem is that it's very hard to picture why, at the end of the day, all the choices that went into Clojure come together into a productive whole for building real-world software. It's a really nice mix of terseness without preventing clarity, simple lightweight modelling paradigms, interactive development, easy access to multiple cores, and all on top of the JVM with its enormous ecosystem. It's not as Lispy as other Lisps. It's not as pure as other functional languages. It doesn't have a fancy type system. It doesn't have native performance. But it gets stuff done and it does so fairly elegantly in most cases. I've found it a really solid career choice, there's really very little that you can't solve in a satisfying way. Plus whatever you think about parentheses, Clojure syntax basically hasn't changed in 10 years, most new features are just libraries of new functions and macros, and for me that validates that it's the correct approach.
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I always saw ads as a zero sum game. We all have limited dollars and attention. When you advertise, you might slightly change the allocation of attention and dollar to your product.

That's worth thinking hard about. Is advertising worth it? With most US consumers spent out to the limit of their income, all advertising does is try to move demand around. It's thus zero-sum and a waste of resources for the country.

I'd argue that ads should not be a tax-deductible business expense.
He who cracks the code of the call center assisted lead gen in the online world will win the day. This is why "influencer" marketing is such a draw. There is NO more attributable conversion statistic than "I talked to THIS person, and had them talk to YOU in order to make a purchase". I've run agent-assisted call center lead gen for education industry and over the past 10 years, nothing has been more profitable or effective. The call center conversion rates subsidized the HUGE losses on pure digital and other ads.
Ahaha. Reminds me of when I worked there. One day a large service tanked in some datacenter because BigTable replication in that location just stopped. Digging in, it turned out the BigTable should have been replicating from YQ but had started trying to use QQ instead, which didn't exist. Q being one bit away from Y. Or it was something like that, I don't remember exactly. There'd been a bit flip in the exact part of memory that contained the name of the database cluster to replicate from!
IMHO the main fallacy here is that the "professional" design is not very professional, nor good. This is basically a fight between two ugly designs.
Awesome, clean UI
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am not used to seeing 10K IU so it's useful to see the real numbers backed by doctors.
Whenever this topic comes up I wonder how much more resilient are CPU registers compared to DRAM.
I worked in wealth management up until recently and can testify this exact behavioral bias was to be found in almost every single client, and sometimes in professionals as well, especially during market downturns. It's likely to be a mix of several factors, such as the fact that losses have a much stronger emotional impact than gains of similar entity, or the fact that most people aren't really trained to reason probabilistically in an intuitive manner. It is easy to be lured in by someone promising the moon when most people won't settle for anything less.
Nodejs is incredible fast for a interpreted language. It is only ~4 times slower than Rust and only a bit slower than Go or Java (compiled GC languages) in the benchmarks. Compare that with Python 3, also interpreted but ~30 times slower than Rust.

I know that Python 3 can do some runtime stuff that Nodejs can't, but I wonder whether that's worth so much performance. Maybe if the answer is that you would include C modules in Python if you need the speed, but I don't know if that's a good answer to the problem.
I understand the downvotes, given this is HN, but while this is "duh", lots of people don't actively think about it whenever they see a shortened link. Posts like this are okay now and again to remind people that they can and will be tracked wherever possible.
This is so clearly the optimal organization for a productive firm. But it falls on deaf ears every time. I gave up trying to proselytize. We're going to plan the whole product at the beginning of each quarter, save technical debt for later, over promise and under deliver. But why oh why are we burnt out working the weekends?
Even then,it is treatable. I have a 72 yr old friend who was in ICU for 5 days, but now he is fine. Death from nothing but covid is extremely rare; maybe 1% of hospitalized cases.
Yea, you have some larger goals, Everyone does.

Are you going to track goals every 15 minutes? I doubt it.
The use case I'm surprised we don't see is for refurbishing embedded devices without changing software. Plenty of things like tills and gambling machines were built around things like Pentium IIIs running embedded flavours of WinXP. The software isn't necessarily an issue (if it's not exposed to the outside world) but eventually the hardware is going to die.

One of these boards would be an undisputable upgrade-- fast enough for purpose, but also fanless, no spinning-rust disc, and lower electrical consuption. It would require some careful design decisions to provide, say, a video and I/O solutions with WinXP drivers. Imagine one with ISA and PCI slots!
4chan probably.
It would be the downfall of the Google empire (and probably half of the Internet) if the majority of companies realized that most of their online/mobile ad budget is absolutely wasted. I don't know of any other industry where people put so much money into it only to have so little tangible evidence at the end of the day of what they really paid for ("look, X real people clicked on your ad.... at least that's what we tell you and whatever that means for you.").
I have a concern about REPL driven development, which is around how maintainable the result is.

The reason people like REPLs is because they can experiment to discover the right way to write the code in a very fast feedback loop. This alleviates a huge pain when you are operating with uncertainties or at the edge of your knowledge - 'does this function return null if no matching entries or an empty list?' - etc.

The problem is that the reader of your code is not going on that journey with you. They are coming in naively without knowing all of that experimentation you did. The writer now has the opportunity to create code that "just happens" to work by a magic of coincidences and conveniences based on very subtle non-obvious properties of the APIs and systems they are working with. The reader is severely disadvantaged and will have a much harder time to reach parity with the state of knowledge that the writer had. For example, some property of a function or object may not be documented at all, but through the REPL the writer has ascertained it is true. How can the reader know this?

So its a double edged sword in that the more you empower the original creator of the code, the greater imbalance you create to the later readers and maintainers of the code. Used well and with great discipline I could see it being very powerful and positive force to make better code. But in the worst case scenario, you'll end up with extremely unmaintainable code.
Many of the landmarks that still exist (and of those that don't, e.g. the Septizodium), except for those saved by being directly converted into a church (the Pantheon), saw heavy repurposing as fortifications in the endless and often violent power struggles between patrician families. The Circus Maximus was a Frangipani stronghold.

Others (and the Circus Maximus before it was taken over by the Frangipani) were simply saved from getting used as a quarry by getting incorporated in-place as structural elements for new, well, shacks, as documented by the many, many square holes hewn into the formerly flat stone surfaces. Square holes for holding wooden beams I suppose. The (still in use!) appartment on top of the Theatre of Marcellus give an idea of how that went. In this case, they are the outcome of a slow fortress->palace->middle class residential transition.
adapp solutions, hasoffers, tatto media, tune have been defrauding their customers for quite some time now
You can also use CRDTs for offline mode.

Say you wanted to build a rich text editor, which can't diff-and-merge as easily as with plain text. Instead of using git for version control, you can use CRDTs very similarly by fetching the remote state, merging with local state, and then pushing.

In that sense, you could build local first software with interoperable hosting platforms (like Github for git) [1].

See [2] as an another example but for a budgeting app.

[1] https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
[2] https://actualbudget.com/blog/porting-local-app-web
Interesting to see this data released, but I'm a little dubious.

According to the spreadsheet, Aetna is always paying 100% of list, and SEIU 1199 is always paying exactly 50%.

Most of the other private providers are listed with almost-flat discounts (85% for CHP, 71% for Empire, 60% for Healthfirst) with a handful of operations at other price points. Cigna has a little more variety but is mostly listed at 51%.

Only Emblem shows real variety across the board, with prices listed from 21.9% to 174%. It also has the lowest mean/median, at 45% and 34% respectively.

I know from personal experience that Aetna does have negotiated rates with NYP, and the flat discounts for all providers other than Emblem are also suspicious.
I tested by attempting to do a full restore to a temp directory.
It's not about payoffs.

I really challenge anyone to say with a straight face that they'd say on their deathbed "I wish I would have done more spreadsheets on the minutae of my life."
Seek cameras are rather noisy though. More expensive, but much less noisy and still reasonable to buy as a expensive toy would be TE-Q1 from i3system: http://nicesuper3.cafe24.com/down/TE-Q1-compressed.pdf
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Yeah, outside of simple use cases, I mainly interact with the clojure REPL by evaluating forms directly from my editor. It’s about being able to incrementally build something while having it running and updated as you go.

I also tend to often just reload changed namespaces and resetting the (component/mount/integrant based) application too. Or letting shadow-cljs live reload my clojurescript. But having the REPL directly accessible is still super useful.
> De Beers is obviously highly derided, but this a pretty clear cut case that advertising is NOT zero sum

If you take into consideration the money wasted on overpriced stones, it's zero sum. How did people ever get engaged before De Beers?
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