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This thread is about a Slack outage, which you have no control over. Mattermost and similar software is self-hosted, which of course doesn't mean you're getting 100% uptime, but you have (more) control over it.
The web arrived too early - we developed the ability to massively spread and monetize (mis)information before people developed the ability to filter it and think critically.
We really need telephoto zoom on phones if we're going to be able to get clear evidence of UFOs (I mean the aliens from outer space kind).
https://pastebin.com/iywLhh8Y

Don't expect much. I threw this entire thing together as quickly and lazily as possible.
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Fight Fight Fight.
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BREAKING NEWS: Productivity Hits Sky High today as...
BREAKING NEWS: Productivity Hits Sky High today

...as tech workers forced to work at home

and not use Slack
:-)
No, the job market isn't zero sum. If the west produces more goods/services it needs a higher input of lesser tier goods and services to which value can be added.
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I thought so as well until I got shipped a product I ordered from the Apple store from Italy. Then I remembered I got an English book I ordered from Amazon.de shipped from Italy.
> This report of someone spending 800k already might well even be part of the scam, the same way any con artist on the street will have stooges pretending to throw in cash in order to convince others that it's legit.

That's exactly what it is. This sale was to their "partner" company Polyient Games, and they're putting 10 more up for auction next week. This sale was to anchor the price.
(OP here)

>Are you building vertex buffers?

yes

>Are you creating backing layers?

I am not sure what those are.

>Even the immediate mode APIs retain information!

Yes, immediate mode only refers to the way the API is designed, it has nothing to do with how the framework works internally.

>Oh, you can’t paint then scale later? Oh, so to do transparency effects you have to redraw the primitives every frame with new alphas instead of sending a different alpha to your shader? OK. Sure.

Yes, in my implementation, I redraw every primitive every frame.

>What’s your invalidation strategy? You don’t have one because it’s all “immediate,” sure. That’s really interesting. If there’s no performance difference, then well, hmm, why didn’t we do this back in the win32 era?

Because the graphics hardware wasn't there. Todays GPUs are crazy fast, which enables you to just push tens of thousands of vertices to the GPU and be done in less than a millisecond. In the early days this all had to happen on the CPU, which were way too slow for this, so you had to be very careful about what to redraw.
> Michael Saylor is the guy who "legitimized" Bitcoin

This is greatly overstating his role and impact.
Pay gap for sure, last time I looked I would be taking a 20-50% pay cut on similar roles
A lot of it is virtue signalling, and that's not a bad thing if you want people to actually think "we're all in this together"

Young people can't play football, so rich old white men play golf or go grouse shooting

Premier league footballers don't care much if they're playing or not, but the average person wants to watch it on TV.

Food delivery is fine, but they don't want people buying alcohol and meeting on the street to drink with friends
>For example, a large employer may want a willingness to do arbitrary, difficult tasks that appear meaningless

Exactly! Thank you for formulating what I always knew subconsciously.
I think we can just end the whole thread with this comment (the parent’s). It’s perfect.

To summarize: unions might in general be good or bad, but any talk of tech unions on HN will be controversial because of how massively—and this cannot be overstated—, stupendously better the average HN reader is compared to the average tech worker. Thread over.
Doctors can’t override the captain, except on medical choices and only narrowly.

They can relieve the captain — but they can do that in the US, too.
AMD can't possibly overtake Intel until the mass market PC makers switch to AMD. Have any done so yet?
How does a cloud VM for each user solve the problem of offline, local storage, or make anything simpler?
Why in 2020 can't people record with more than 240p? And the very least you should be able to hold the camera still.
It's also the name of a company. https://www.solarwinds.com/
Unfortunately, they don’t seem to own tesla.co.il, which is an objectively great domain name.
But those sentences are also perfectly meaningful assuming the other sense of "satisfied", which may be what GP meant. Ie. "I am convinced that you did your best" and "I am convinced that it contains no gluten".
I wonder if this is an opportunity for business insurance.

I.e., being shunned by Facebook or Google is a high-consequence, low-probability, hard-to-predict event.

You may as well treat it like building a factory in an earthquake zone.
No one but Google, Apple or Amazon are remotely close to being 'partners' with Facebook. Unless you count hedge finds or multinationals in other industries.

Facebook's cash flow is enough that even this company's revenue is a rounding error on _weekly_ numbers.

In other words, FB don't care, don't let the door hit you.

If some player has a few billion in FB revenue at stake, I'll bet they can at least reach a first tier CSR.
Whining at the right people has a nonzero chance of getting him back on Facebook.

Lawyering up has zero chance.
Since the 1970's UFO sightings have always been shaky, blurry, distant and indistinct. No matter how much video and camera technology has improved, UFOs have avoided clear, sharp, stable close up imaging. I suppose it's because any clear, stable, close up image is by definition not a UFO any more.
Can someone explain what does this claim "x is y years old" even mean?

Isn't time coordinate (of creation of x) dependent on the reference frame of the observer? Which frame is used here?
The top starred repo (according to query: https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/#counting-stars) by stars is:

https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/#counting-stars

Which is a 'protest' against 996 work schedule.

That's notable because I wouldn't have thought of GitHub as being a conduit for Chinese labour concerns before 2020.

Secondarily: TS has shot up the ranks, arguably a flavour of JS (already #1), together making them overwhelmingly the top dog.

Python now #2.

It would be interesting to see the types of information repo'd there by language, if anyone has resources on that please feel free to share.

We roughly know what people are doing in JS and C++ ... but in Python? What exactly is happening? We can only speculate. Is it Django? Devop scripts? Data? Education? AI?
> An internal team change is often a lot less stressful and less risky than going to a different company.

This statement really nails it. If you change teams and are still unhappy you can always quit. If you quit without having changed teams and then hate your new job, you might not be able to go back to your previous company (but new team). I think it's general good practice to give another team a change before you leave the company if you're on the fence. If you know it's a company problem, bail, but if you think it could just be your team, give it a shot.

Maybe it's just me, but I like to minimize the amount of decisions I make that I cannot undo.
Is he out already? Be good to hear it’s going okay... must be feeling very relieved but I would have convinced myself I was ending up in a high-max. Emotional disorientating I’d say.
I am conflicted abiut this - he was working full time at 2 places and performing adequately? Was he that good?

If this continued for a while and you were happy with his work prior to discovering this, why let him go?
Have been working from home from my bedroom for the last year, got a small desk with a 27" monitor and a second hand high end office chair. At the least its significantly better ergonomics than using a laptop in bed. Downside is I can't use my camera in calls since my background looks like crap and usually has my bf sleeping behind me.
Tell that to my best friend in the UK who's Italian flatmate committed suicide back in March.
I've been using the Adobe equivalent, and it seems to work pretty well. It's not quite as good as a flatbed scanner, but it does a good-enough job with nothing more than my existing phone.

Still, if there were a better one, I'd use it. Its interface is slightly clunky and it's only so-so with documents that have been folded. Is the MS one any better?
Well, most companies run background checks which would reveal all the short and long jobs. At that point, you would still need to explain it somehow.
Assuming this is real - very interesting read, thanks for sharing.
No, you give them more bullets. If the NHS says they need more supplies, then give it to them.

But you don't listen to the foot soldier when they tell you how you should position your troops. And that's exactly what you're suggesting.
If anyone is looking for an alternative way for fast and seamless chat with colleagues, friends, or strangers, you're welcome to check out Sqwok (https://sqwok.im)

Although it's built as a live news discussion site versus a team messaging app, the topics can be about anything, are public, and inviting others is as simple as sharing the url of the post (mobile/desktop web).

Example (reposted this hn post to sqwok): https://sqwok.im/p/Q3-1AZFLCSpjew
If the government is going to tell me I can't leave my house, I want that decision being made by an elected official with some accountability to the public, not by a staff doctor of some sort.
I want your sources.
I quit a job before even starting. They called me and told me that they had decided to pay me a good chunk less than we had agreed upon. I was in the last days of my two weeks notice for my current job. I had no option. Except that... five minutes later, my current boss made a counter-offer. And ten minutes later it was me who called those charming people to apologize for the inconvenience.

After what they had done, it was a surprise how bad they took it. Very serious threats to my future employability and well being. I really suffered during the whole call, trying not to laugh and keep it professional.

It was also a hardware company. I worked for another hardware company later. Not sure if there are other kind of hardware companies there in the Valley. But for me, there's a clear rule: never work for another hardware company.
I played SimCity 2000 off of GOG a few months ago (around when I was also playing City Skylines). A few things:

1. SimCity2000 has much higher relative costs for infrastructure. Roads, Police, Firefighters, etc. etc. cost lots of recurring money, to the point where a typical player even on $20,000 "Easy" mode will probably fail the first few times they play. I've never run out of money on City Skylines, literally never. But even with all my experience on SimCity 2000, I can "fail to bootstrap" on medium ($10,000) or hard (Bonds/Debt) mode. (Especially if an unlucky early game fire disaster happens). In contrast, the recurring costs in Skylines is so puny that I forget about that aspect entirely.

2. Disasters in Sim City 2000 force you to rebuild occasionally. Or at least, carefully consider the placement of your items. (Ex: low-lands may flood, getting destroyed. Airplanes may crash, causing fires near airports). Despite being a pain in the ass, the chaos of disasters grossly changes the feel.

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Ultimately, Skylines has more similarities to Rollercoaster Tycoon and/or Tropico than SimCity. Skylines simulates every individual sim (with HEAVY emphasis on traffic). The emergent behavior of each individual sim following simple rules is a particular style of gameplay.

However, SimCity was more of a abstract economic simulator, where larger decisions had more pronounced effects. Opening commercial roads to neighbors would create trade between cities. Airports and/or seaports need to be managed with your neighbors. This style of gameplay: a "big picture" city simulator, ultimately plays extremely differently than City Skylines.

In City Skylines: building an airport or seaport causes a traffic spike that you need to manage. In SimCity, building an airport or seaport causes an increase in commercial demand and/or industrial demand. Its just fundamentally different.

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Really: its just that one thing: Skylines's infrastructure costs are laughably low. There's no worry about ever running out of money... no matter what you build, you're always flush with cash.

In SimCity, you'd worry whether or not you've saved up enough cash to bootstrap a new section of your city. In Skylines, you just build it, and if it doesn't work (unforeseen traffic issues or whatnot), delete it and build it again.
It's not the place of the judge to consider the treaty one way or another. Judges judge based on the actual laws put in place in their court.

If the current state really isn't what the lawmakers had intended with their treaties, then they need to update the domestic laws that go along with them.
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> The response from the isp was basically “happens all the time, new kit’s coming”

I'm in Germany and worked in construction (digging) as a sub's employee for Telekom... they have digging crews on standby and spare equipment for the sidewalk boxes and cellphone towers spread across the country, as it's routine that cars crash into them, other construction workers hit underground lines, anarchists/nazis/conspiracy nuts committing arson attacks, storm damage trips poles or boxes, sometimes lightning hits and entire hoods are knocked off the net because the surge protection had issues, tree roots or water intrudes in below-ground cables, heavy snow takes out poles...
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> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

You’re being downvoted because your comment doesn’t add to the discussion. You’re (rudely) telling the parent poster they are wrong while providing no basis for the assertion.

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>I realize that HN is very employee-centric, but "exploring new opportunities but don’t quit until something better is lined up" is rather harmful to the team you're working with.

And how about their bills? People have to pay for shelter and other things. There's ethics and there are material needs. Not everyone is a made man / woman.
Sounds like cases of 'play with fire, you're going to get burned'.

If your business is dependent on FB, time to pivot. Q. E. D.
The quote uses the word "scarce" in a way that implies that the supply isn't limited, which is obviously false.
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Some are. It depends on how they work. Remember utility patents are about how things work, not what they are.

There are probably 1000's of issued patents for chat bots each one claiming different hows.
It's a blue smear.

Come on, people, if posting UFO footage is going to be a thing here we should at least have some standards. This wouldn't even fly on Reddit.
It's not an advantage that China can maintain though, hence the movement upwards. China, and other countries like that, was cheap because they were underdeveloped and the goals/wants of their population were minimal. But now some of the highest home prices in the world are in Shanghai. Many of China's coastal cities have gotten wealthy and China's remaining source of cheap labor are in the interior cities, hence the development of major railways into the interior, etc. But everyone knows how that story is going to go. The interior cities will also become wealthy and then the last remaining source of cheap manual labor will dry up. Making your people wealthier and moving up the value chain are good goals but once you get there you need to switch. which is what China is preparing for.
Completely different type of work, but I once quit a new job at a factory after two days. First day, I arrive early to fill out the paperwork and watch the HR job safety video. Video finishes and I wait for the HR person to return. After a few minutes, I go look for her, but can't find her so I go back to the video room.

Eventually someone else (upset) comes in and tells me that I'm supposed to be working rather than sitting there. I tell him I'm waiting for the HR lady to come back. "She went home for the day." Okay, I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. Guy gets even more upset, takes me to the back room, points at one of the other workers, tells me to do what he's doing, and then I never see him again.

The only time anyone talks to me is (a) to tell me every couple hours I'm doing something wrong, (b) tell me it's break time, and (c) to shout at me for coming back from break two minutes early. (c) was my supervisor, and that was the only contact I had with him. When the second day was just like the first, I decided I didn't need that job.
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Computer controlled manufacturing, robotics, and other forms of automation, like Elon Musk's gigafactories.

I don't know the reality of the gigafactories though:

- how many "corner cases" are handled by humans

- would it (un)scale for things with smaller production numbers?
They almost certainly did it as a joke. If they had some other motivation they wouldn't have picked something easily identifiable as analog audio equipment.
It's natural selection [1]. Videos with >240p and stable camera don't look like unidentified objects. Those who are in shitty quality make to breaking news because they look like UFOs.

[1] EDIT or survivor bias, or sampling bias, whatever you wanna call it.
> Do you realise that in two successive comments, you have literally just claimed that hospitals are not really filling up, then claimed that reports from front-line staff working in those hospitals don't prove anything?

Um, what? That's exactly right. Hospitals are not filling up. The NHS own data shows this. The fact that doctors think the hospitals are filling up is irrelevant. People's estimates of things are notoriously incorrect, especially when they are under pressure. I'm not sure what you've taken issue with.

Are you disputing the NHS data that hospitals are not filling up?

> There is a reason for the saying that an army is run by its sergeants. All the plans made by generals aren't worth squat if you don't have boots on the ground who know what they're doing to implement those plans.

Right, Sergents run the implementation, not the planning. What we are talking about is the planning. But the bigger issue with this logic is that this isn't a medical plan. It's a social one. The people who should develop a strategy around a global pandemic are not the same people who intubate the casualties of said pandemic. It's like asking a car mechanic how we should build safer roads...they're just not the same thing.
This is absurd. Even with a beefy severance package, employees can face very serious risks after being laid off, while companies face minimal risks.
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The problem with Google's promo/perf process for years is that this trajectory towards upper level positioning was essentially mandatory. When I started they used to say that if you didn't get to L5 in 4 years or so, you would start getting scrutiny applied to you. L5 is sort of "team-lead light" and does require inter-team collaboration, project/code leadership/ownership, etc. I always felt like this process is corrosive towards individual contributors, and doesn't recognize long-standing committed but less-ambitious or less-social people.

This policy was eventually dropped, thankfully, but among some managers I feel like the attitude has remained.
What is the value of this article to HN? It's ad hominem against a group of people that are irrelevant to this audience. It needlessly smears an entire generality of people, while doing little to advance facts or truth. @dang
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> The number of cases

Please research PCR and the amplification cycles. Right now most tests are using over 40 cycles and it's causing a lot of false positives. Cases should never be the number to use, fatalities should (and even then many people get marked for COVID deaths because they test positive yet die of something unrelated).

The way PCR is being used is insane and a lot of the numbers are just plain misleading to increase the amount of fear.
(OP here) I adressed that caveat in the late part of the answer. I also noted that I don't even think the performance difference is attributable to immediate vs retained mode. This was just a comparison agains existing applications.

As far as I am concerned though, it is pretty irrelevant to the user if an application is slow because the developer made a mistake, or because they wanted it that way.