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PC you use to transact is physical too. Your Internet can also be traced. In China, accessing wiki gets you prison time even though the users use VPN. Graphics cards for mining can be taxed very high. Kiddy porn is a better example here instead of drugs. You could be walking around with trillions usd in the form of diamonds. And yet if you're in a desert you are likely not able to use it and die of thirst. In everyday live you need liquidity. Governments ensure liquidity legally. Crypto can't. At best it is like rare baseball cards collections that you need to specifically find buyers that willing to pay for it through specialized locations (which governments can control). Pro cypto arguments are out of touch with realities. They basically banging on government will accept it. It is basically like hoping Myanmar will back off after seeing protestor. In general direct firing to kill should be expected and proven to work. Expecting government to give the ability to print money is very naive.
An issue with year around DST is that at latitudes were there isn't enough daylight to have both the morning commute and the evening commute in daylight it is generally better to have the morning commute be the one that gets the light based upon both weather and volume.

First, weather. In the cold months, when you have to worry about icy roads and fog, the worst time for those is in the morning. The coldest time of day is usually right around sunrise. A morning commute in darkness, or even shortly after sunrise, is before the ice has melted and the fog has cleared.

The evening commute comes after a day where the sun has been warming things. It is much more likely that the road conditions will be better by then.

Second, volume. People tend to head out to work or school or their first outside of the day during a narrower range of hours than when they come home.

A morning darkness commute then ends up combining the worst road conditions of the day with the most people on the roads. The evening commute usually has better road conditions and is spread out over more hours so traffic isn't as dense.
>Their intent is to print without limit until the economy is working the way they think it should.

That's not in evidence. You are assuming their intentions without providing evidence to backup your claim.

It's a fact that the Fed has unlimited lending powers. Jerome Powell is the chair of the Federal Reserve. Explaining his powers doesn't show he intends to use them. Maybe you have the quote or you miswrote?
Not everyone runs their own nginx and apache servers, like gazillion wordpress hosting site, so its better the cute way.
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that shows how little you know of and understand the problem.
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It's pretty well-established that a nation's fertility reduces as it grows richer. So Niger will either remain poor but irrelevant to climate change. Or it'll leave poverty behind, but also cut its birth rate.

Either way, only what developed countries (and China, India, Brazil, maybe Nigeria and Indonesia) do today matters in the fight against climate change. There's no one else to point fingers at, unless you're looking for an excuse to do nothing.

As a percentage of total population, the number of people who emigrate from a poor country like Niger to a developed country is quite small. And they'd likely be poor there too, and consume fewer resources on average.
I wouldn't fixate too much on that line of thought.

Perhaps the capability is there but we didn't exactly want to signal to the world we had the capability of doing so. Tinfoil hat I guess.
Hacker News sells inline advertising. Job posting adverts crop up pretty much daily on here which are adverts. It's a recruiting tool.

As for expenses, HN seems like a lean site and likely doesn't require a ton of resources. I think there is only 1 full time moderator, dang. I have no idea whether YC makes money on HN or not, but I'd be surprised if it didn't at least break even.
Actually, they do give a comprehensive analysis of infection points and singularities for the cubic polynomial segment with given endpoints, tangents and magnitudes. There's a diagram of square with some (maybe superficial) similarity to the one in "High Accuracy Geometric Hermite Interpolation".

Chapter III Parametric Cubic Spline Curves

4 A Theorem Concerning Segments of Parametric Cubic Curves

Also, it's based on earlier papers by Su Buqing from around 1977.
The thing that breaks on 800XLs is the flexPCB used for the keyboard. But you can buy a replacement:

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If you find an 800XL with the phenolic PCB keyboard you are better off- even if you step on it, you can fix it with soldering iron and wires.
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It would be fantastic if something like this were part of the modern apis. Vulkan, Metal DX12. But I guess it's not as sexy as raytracing.
To be fair they listed the first 10 companies by market cap. It's not their fault neither Shell nor United Airlines made it to the top 10.
Nvidia tried to make it happen[0].

Sadly, it didn't catch on.

0. https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering
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Software Engineers are probably more intelligent than people from other engineering disciplines, or people in general?

If other engineering disciplines, it seems a bit pretentious.
I don’t have a sister. Did my parents rob her of the opportunity to live a meaningful life? There is nothing that could be robbed of anything.
Ah, a time honored tradition: http://resident-theology.blogspot.com/2009/10/augustine-and-...
You could always run your transactions from a VPS in another country. Sure that won't work in China but India hasn't quite reached that level of totalitarianism.
I exposed them to it enough that they are able to make an informed choice about programming and computer science in early adulthood. That’s the better alternative to forcing it upon them.

I mean it’s your interest and that’s cool and all, but your child is not you and won’t be because they can’t be. Even if you became a programmer because your parents were programmers and you just followed in the family business...but if that were the case you probably wouldn’t be asking because you would have first hand experience.

It’s great to share your interest because sharing your interest means spending time with your child and that’s what your child wants and needs. And will even once they are into adulthood if you do things right.

But honestly, fishing is a better way to spend time together because both of you will remember it longer and more fondly than sitting at a screen.

And later you will be glad for the ways your child is not like you and the ways they are like you only better.

It goes fast but it’s a long time still. Not a sprint to be the top seventh grader.

Good luck.
There is crap in every comments feed everywhere. There is crap on Twitter, on Facebook, on YouTube.

If good auto moderation tools were readily available, they would be used on a lot of these platforms. Moderating comments is hard. The big guys can't get it right. You can't expect little companies who make their money on something other than user content to get it right. Most blogs have binned comments ages ago because the comments add near zero value to the site and often bring it down.
It's kind of crazy that "vendor your dependencies, and review changes to them as with other code" is not even mentioned in the "Conclusion & Recommendations" section.
"The Urbit platform was conceived and first developed in 2002"[1]

"Bitcoin (₿) is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008"[2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
the key takeaway here is that programming is a means to an end to accomplish a goal.

Figure out what kind of goals your kids have and how programming can get them there. Then show them.
Definitely. I'd be interested to see how this breaks down for the S&P 500, with more rigor around what constitutes an engineer - maybe have different categories?
tldr; Based on the available data, about 3/4 of the total market cap is from companies whose initial back-end language was Ruby.

Python is a distant second place and then it trails off quickly.
Yes, sorry for being unclear. I meant print magazines in general. We've lost many but some still remain.
Yeah and the bottom really dropped out on the drug market when the US criminalized it... oh wait, no the opposite happened.
> Hey, he was one of main answers in today's NYT Sunday Crossword today. Probably coincidence.

For his hundredth birthday? Sounds less like a coincidence and more like a tribute.
> Humans don't seem to naturally rise with the sun.

Ever been camping for more than a day or two? Rising by the sun happens pretty naturally and quickly.

Endless artificial light is a very recent invention. What do you think life was like before electricity?
Something else worth looking at: the slug font renderer[0]. Sadly it's patented, but the paper[1] is there for those of you in the EU.

0. http://sluglibrary.com/

1. http://jcgt.org/published/0006/02/02/paper.pdf
Yeah, but it's not possible for everyone to do it, because sunrise changes depending on both your latitude and longitude. Some places the sun never sets and rises for months at a time. We interact with businesses that aren't close to us.

For those who are just doing it on their own, I think DST actually helps them. The government creates a very rough movement following sunrise, and you can use personal adjustments to zero in on the exact sunrise time.
Well the fun thing about putting the north in charge is that everyone will learn about how Kim Il didn’t need to ever use the restroom and had 11 hole-in-ones the 1St time he golfed :p
We don't know what "etc" includes. If they disabled JavaScript for example then I'm not at all surprised the site wouldn't work.
I had hoped that this article wouldn’t require x86 assembly fluency to read; it really is a “port” of my prior article on x86-64 assembly. I wrote it because mobile developers, at least, probably care more about ARM64 than x86-64. Is there anything I can do to make this article similarly approachable to the x86-64 one?
> If you are regularly working 45+ hours a week, your position is under-resourced for what is expected.

I might start thinking that I don’t work fast or good enough. I know this is usually not the case; I try to ignore it and I recommend the same, the impostor syndrome is real and it’s easy to take advantage of it.
>By ensuring that nobody will bother using your service? Sure, I guess.

You're begging the question (i.e. whether or not Urbit ID would succeed). Besides, Urbit ID needn't be forced on users, it could be offered side-by-side other options.

>Besides, what you're proposing is essentially the same as "charging for account creation", but with extra steps.

There are several major differences, the most obvious of which is that an Urbit ID user would not have to pay to create an account. This is because the Urbit ID could be tied to many different accounts across the internets. In other words, a person could pay for one Urbit ID, and then be able to comment on many on-line internet journals using that single Urbit ID.
I'm a bit surprised that this username wasn't already taken.
Facebook has 10k engineers working on AR/VR
Not the cocaine as far as I know, but meth, heroin, and some others are produced here.

Cocaine is about 150-180$ a gram in Southeast Asia, whereas most other drugs are dirt cheap.
I’d love to hear more about why this issue is more important to you than any other reason to vote. Is the time shift causing you serious problems, or do you have a business that is hurt by it, or anything like that?
To be fair 2^64 keys is a lot, to the point that it cannot possibly fit into memory with today’s hardware.
It's a sad state of affairs when online comment sections have become an integral part of the social cohesion (such as it is) of a society.

In my opinion, the current state of our response to Covid shows that the social cohesion of society has already been destroyed, mostly by pigeonholing everyone into neat little online boxes.

The corporate press doesn't care about being "called out" in an online comments section.

Real-life cohesion is incredibly more powerful than anything online.
Agreed, I got into reading Greenwald because of his generally sane viewpoints and his good work with the Snowden leaks in the past. Yet he now seems to be going down a rabbit hole I can't follow. I wonder what happened to him?
There is(was?); this was in 2014/15. I don’t remember exactly why it was called. It was a hipaa data security certification. I sat in a weekend class and got a cert that was required by the 3 hospital data companies we were working with in the Denver/Colorado Springs area.
Yep, seeing a lot of these pop up lately. Probably an attempted supply chain attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack

edit: To be clear, if it was this, it wasn't successful. Blender team checked out the downloads and everything's fine. But that's a likely motive I'd say.
I’ve pointed to countries we can compare strategies with to back up my case. What’s backing up yours beyond “I said so?”
Why are tools like github and gitlab like this? All the work has to be done server side, the JavaScript stuff (especially hiding the tree when the window is smaller, that's the whole point of the thing!) is just annoying.

Github's PR UI is nice but it's times like these where I wonder if it really improves on a mailing list and a few cgit instances.
I think it's going to need both. We are in a phase where we can basically do the low hanging fruits. I assume we'll be able to save a lot of CO2 that way. But the goal is ZERO. I just can't imagine a world with net zero CO2 and everybody is driving a Tesla. The mining, fabrication, transport, materials is all very resource hungry. I think current studies suggest an electric car uses about half as much CO2 in it's lifetime. I'm sure it can be improved.. but ZERO ?
Blender users are one of the most profitable targets if you could get crypto mining malware on their PC.
> This is not true. The paper was submitted for internal review with about the median amount of notice.

This is true. There was a requested amount of time and it was not met. To show discrimination you'd also have to show median quality and median editing work required. This paper had a lot of flaws that would be hard to correct without writing it again.

> Importantly, the paper actually passed the normal review process before being submitted to the conference.

But not the corporate review where the people paying the money decided if they thought it was good to attach their name to.

> It's unclear to what extent the special review was a go/no-go review.

Not at all. There was a strong 'No Go' message given. That's how you know.

> The review however was not due to the paper being submitted late.

The "don't bother fixing stuff, we're just kiboshing it" part was.

> after the paper had been submitted externally and approved by the normal internal process.

The normal internal process is about writing quality and fact-checking. The corporate review is entirely separate and always last in the process in order to see the latest version.

> Even after submission for conference review, there was ample time for back and forth and review internally.

No, not for the level of rework they thought it should receive. If it had passed then sure. The reason to meet the deadline is to handle the situation where it doesn't pass on the first go.

> Timnit asked if there was feedback she could incorporate into the paper

And her bosses decided that the paper wasn't worth the last-minute work. I imagine they felt she submitted it late to game the system.

> Google's response was initially to not provide any specific feedback, and then to say that the feedback could not be addressed, the paper could only be unsubmitted

Right, because it wasn't feedback to her. That ship had sailed. It was confidential feedback to her boss about their belief in the quality of the work. To share that feedback would put innocent employees in a Damore position, attacked for feedback they'd been asked to write. Given how she attacked her boss by name it's reasonable to think she'd have included the coworkers, where they'd be pounced on by an angry twitter mob.

> Actually yes, that appears to be precisely what happened.

No. The preprint was released. Google just said "not in our name". And now that she resigned she has the freedom.
Maybe better ads? Maybe parents thought a computer from a "business machines" company was better than one from a video game company?

The 800XL OS and disk system were way better. The BASIC was better, though slower. The 800 keyboard is better than C64 which is slightly better than 800XL. The reason is that although the C64 keyboard is mushy, you can type faster on it for some reason.
Hardware you'd get for good performance with Blender also happens to be the hardware you'd get for crypto mining..
I couldn’t disagree more. Many people don’t have accounts with these other websites like Reddit, or don’t want to make them, or don’t want to deal with the biases of those various echo chambers. Having a community of news readers has a lot of utility. And from the news sites that I read (both local and national), I see very few outright spammy comments. I see a lot of legitimate push back and diverse opinions that provide different shades of perspectives on issues.

What I do see as an increasing and disturbing trend is newspapers selectively turning off comment sections on stories that are controversial. The Seattle Times does this, and in 2020 the readers were robbed of the opportunity to discuss controversial situations freely (like CHAZ or a violent BLM riot). This was presumably done to avoid the trouble of moderation of PR, but a less charitable and very believable take is that this amounts to controlled manufacturing of public opinion by disallowing a dissenting viewpoint.

In the absence of comment sections, all that’s left is one journalist’s biased take and characterization. With news houses across the country experiencing left-leaning employee activism and newsroom revolts, the opinions of readers is extremely important to not just platform, but feature prominently as a balancing force. And yes, anonymous comments in particular must be permitted, so the voice of those who aren’t in power is heard.
I guess as a customer I don’t really care why they suck, I just know that they do. I also don’t care about small business if they provide bad service.

From a policy standpoint as a citizen - I think it’s terrible the telecom monopolies took public money and did nothing, but I think they’ll start feeling competitive pressure from Starlink too, hopefully this will force them to adapt or die (I don’t really care which).

In SF with Google webpass fiber, Comcast is not competitive.
It would be massive mess. Unless we tie large regions to some specific point. Entire idea of timezones was to get rid off local times. Bringing them back would just cause more issues specially in current world with all the electronic communications we do.

The time when sunrises changes both when travelling west to east and south to north... Not to even mention being beyond artic circle. Where sun never rises or sets at least on some days...
Can you be more specific?

He's describing what a lot of us are seeing in the media these days. I closely identify with and agree with what he has written here. It seems like he is one of the few in the industry that actually has some level of self-awareness.

Also, what would he have to do to "find his way back"?
Frankly all of this advice sounds a lot like “don’t water your lawn in a drought” while the almond farmers down the road continue to guzzle it up. One tends to throw their arms up in exasperation and drown their lawn in water out of sheer hopelessness.
Doesn't winterize wind turbines

Blames turbines for not working when it freezes.

I'm so freaking tired of hearing this.
I think cracking the JEE at that time was clearly correlated to him being smart. He was obviously going to be successful wherever he went.
The attention... give him it... all the attention... waaaaaaahh!!
Exactly. The computer systems have no way way to subjugate each other, with perhaps the exception of the rather extreme STONITH. I think dominant and submissive better captures the relationship between nodes: the nodes agree upon their roles and exchange power in a consenting relationship. If nodes are not agreeing to power exchange, you end up with all kinds of split brain behavior and data corruption.
There’s value in a discussion being tied to the community of news readers as its own social environment. Twitter and Reddit have heavy, biased moderation that don’t even allow many legitimate viewpoints. Plus you have to deal with their user bases, who are strongly opinionated and would drown out the voices of dedicated followers of a newspaper. Just like any community subset has some value in its separation and identity, there is value in the news comment sections.
It's still there on all NVIDIA GPUs as an extension, just nobody uses it.

IMO it didn't catch on because all three of these points:

1. It only works on NVIDIA GPUs, and is riddled with joint patents from NVIDIA and Microsoft forbidding anyone like AMD or Intel from supporting it.

2. It's hard to use: you need to get your data into a format it can consume, usage is non-trivial, and often video game artists are already working with rasterized textures anyway so it's easy to omit.

3. Vector graphics suck for artists. The number of graphic designers I have met (who are the most likely subset of artists to work with vector graphics) that simply hate or do not understand the cubic bezier curve control points in Adobe, Inkscape, and other tools is incredible.
n-gate is going to have a field day with this one
Given the article refers to x86 (as basic) it might assume familiarity or even current platform is x86. VM, QEMU or Docker would all helps to move on to doing it, not reading it. (Docker might help to ease the setup e.g. I run under macOS and docker might setup you up with a Linux / Ubuntu environment. See my other link posted (which I just google and hence not necessary the best ...).
To your note on Bezos, this section of the article is what really juxtaposed nicely for me with your comment on Bezos not coding:

>So, obviously, those that understand the super infrastructure that is software have a competitive advantage over those that don’t. But, as these leaders move up, they aren’t actually the ones writing the software. So, what differentiates their management practices such that those under them are better able to create and scale value? Other forces must be at play, it’s not as simple as the company’s products and services are software based. In the next sections, we will drill into the value stages for likely causes.

I mean, he clearly isn't writing the code, but he also clearly understands how to run a software org based on him telling wall street that his team is working on a quarter 3 years out.