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> It’s a misalignment of our biological clocks for eight months of the year

Hahaha, that’s not a thing. First of all, entrainment happens in a matter of days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(chronobiology)). This is why you can move across the country, or just fly to Europe for a vacation, and be on the new schedule after just a few nights there. Nobody has jet lag for eight months when flying to the other side of the planet twelve time zones away. The idea that a one hour shift stays with you forever is just hyperbole, don’t fall for it.

It’s also silly to say you’re out of sync for the longer duration of the year. You spend more time there, so if being out of sync for months at a time was a thing (and it’s not) then it would be out of sync for four months, not eight, because the longer duration is the baseline because it’s longer.

Our biological clocks and circadian rhythms are driven by light. We’d be rising with the sun if it weren’t for all our iPads and streetlights and other artificial light. The changes to and from DST put us closer to rising with the sun. It’s a blunt tool, however staying on the same time all year would be further away, causing a larger misalignment.

Anyway, many people’s typical weekly bedtimes and wake up times varies by more than 1 hour. There’s a term called “social jet lag” which is the discrepancy between your weekend sleep patterns and your mid-week work sleep patterns. It’s pretty common for that to be two or three hours. The effect of DST one hour twice a year is relatively in the noise.
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We're getting close. There's way more RAM than that in the world, and a quick search turned up a single machine from a few years ago that was only off by 160x or so.

Even without relying on the pigeonhole principle though you still have the birthday paradox. As a ballpark estimate, if you have N keys then you'd expect a 50/50 chance of at least one collision with sqrt(N) hashes -- 2^32 for this problem.
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You're admittedly talking about a difference in compression rate of 13MB in a 1400MB package, and a 5s difference in writing a 1400MB file to disk.

Come on, let's be honest here: that's nitpicking.

Unless you are running batch processes that store TB of compressed data, no one would even bother to switch app for thosd residual gains.

Let's put it this way: would you get any VC fund if your sales pitch was "I can improve compression in a 1400MB package by 13MB and shorten file write times by 5 seconds"? Odds are, you'd be asked why not just gzip it and get it over with.
I've noticed that a higher price tag means I'll be more likely to enjoy something out of a randomly sampled collection. However, to me it doesn't really make the wine that much better.

In other words, if I were in a store with only unfamiliar wine, needing to buy something for a dinner party, I'd probably buy a step above normal.

For normal occasions, there are tons of options in the $10 to $15 price range that I know I like. A $10 bottle I like is always better than a $25 bottle I don't like.
I will go on record here:

There will never be so much as one single, solitary erg of competitive commercial energy production from any Tokamak plant, ever. Every cent spent on Tokamak is stolen from more viable energy research--which might reasonably even include some non-Tokamak, aneutronic fusion, after solar, wind, and geo capacity are fully built out. Thus, each person-day of work on Tokamak takes our species a day farther away from any desirable goal.
Slight tangent. There was a program on Dutch TV yesterday (we have elections now) and it appeared that just about 500 twitter accounts are doing much to influence public opinion. There were some script kiddy bots (one posting every 14 seconds from a wide range of pre-cooked responses), but a significant amount of the influencing came from pensionados. People around 75 years old (mostly male) having nothing else to do, and not anonymous but really very proud of their work.
Some people want to deploy cool technology to hit the frontpage

Other people want to deploy robust, tested and tried solutions, that won't break in mysterious ways, just to make money.

I side with the later.
OP probably means the title "Narco Submarine Found in Spain" sounds like a password from the comic.
Wouldn't this imply that doctors, perticularly those working in mental health, are practicing philosophy on their patients while not being experts in it?
Who can forget Al Jaffee's fold in's?
Some issues were meh...
Other issues were really fantastic.

They were a part of my teen years on Jamaican bookshelves as I spent the money my dad gave me for lunch on each month's MAD magazine.

Then as I moved to the USA back in the early nineties, they were still there, a bit harder to find, until it was rare to see them on the shelves anymore and you had to go to specific street-side magazine stands in NYC.

Good to know Al is still out there!
Say what you will about CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox: their news departments meet editorial standards that Greenwald can’t handle. He chose to ragequit and declared “censorship” instead.
> 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.

Why do companies do this? What do they expect to get out of creating an API that is proprietary to their specific non-monopoly device, and that therefore very obviously nobody will ever actually use?
Unclear. Ecosystem collapse is hard to predict.
You know, there were more than 100 tunnels dug in WW1. Most were used to insert explosives to blow up the trenches above them. The largest man-made explosion at the time was one of those.

Losing track of one of those tunnels isn't really noteworthy, and the French have no love for the Germans. On their retreat back to Germany, they destroyed the Alsace region "just because."

Most people today think of the Allies and Axis countries as equivalent, but even as early as WW1 the Axis had a reputation as mean and brutal.
Furthermore, IMO there are a ton of questionable assumptions littered throughout the article.

The author goes into extreme detail describing exactly why software itself scales. This seems to have little to do with the CEO, though they keep jumping to comparisons between a software engineer's 'predictable' behavior, and the 'non-software' CEO's 'predictable' behavior.
What this seems to show is that CEOs in a particular sector often have expertise in that sector. And that Tech is currently the most highly valued sector as measured by market capitalisation. To find evidence of Software Engineers being the best CEOs overall you'd really need to find examples of them running non-tech firms successfully or examples of non-Software Engineers running tech firms poorly.
There's no physically even remotely plausible way for that to work.
I don't doubt that Amazon will overtake Walmart, but I have an issue with calling someone the best CEO today based on a metric that is dependent on future projections.
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Ask HN: Where do you look for remote jobs?
For those of you who have searched for remote developer jobs recently, what sites do you check?

My assumption is that most people will check Indeed since they've got the most listings these days, and since they offer free listings, they tend to have a lot that aren't found elsewhere. But I want to check that assumption. Perhaps those who are already employed but just looking to see if something else is out there has different criteria. Maybe there are other sites you stick with because you figure the employers are better there. Or does anyone prefer to work with recruiters over applying to jobs directly? (That one's hard for me to understand myself, but you must be out there!)

PS: If you're curious about our opening or want to critique the posting, you can find it by searching 'AutoTempest' on Indeed.
Remains to be seen ??

How many more trillion dollar do you need , to give Tim Cook his due credit for operational excellence
No affiliation.. just stumbled upon it and thought it was a cool site/business..
There will be a lot of comments on how $2 wine taste good. Burger from McD taste pretty good as well, right? The problem with those cheap wines is not the taste itself, but the way they are made.

The price of wine is determined by price of grapes. To achieve low price of your input you need vineyards that are hugely productive (say 10 to 20 times of those used for quality production). Even vineyards used for high quality production need a lot of chemical inputs (compared to rest of agriculture), but here we need to go even higher due to high density of grapes and zero green management.

All of the vineyards are optimised for mechanical prunning, management and harvest. No problem with that and we are also seeing this trend in more and more premium wines due to rising cost of work and technological progress.

At the end of growing stage we are having grapes that are not that ripe: probably not a lot of sugar, harsh tanins, lots of acids (and also structure of various acids will be on harsh acid types) and probably some rot on wines (this is normal even in high quality wines).

No problem with any of those parameters: low sugars could be fixed by infusing sucrose, acid could be removed by using potasium bicarbonate, tanin structure could be improved by using artifical tanins (or tanins extracted from wood), color could be fixed by acetaldehyde (cause of headaches, together with high SO2 levels) and whole structure might be balanced by using reverse osmosis.

After use of ten or maybe 50 different additive you get your $2 bottle of wine-like drink. It might even taste good.
This article goes into why they chose to move to Ethereum:
https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-and-the-blockchain/
NNPC may spend N102.96 bln on fuel subsidy this month
> You will get better performance, with simpler maintenance, by replicating everything into an appropriate analytical database

If you intentionally get rid of your original data then you're saying goodbye to provenance tracking and also open the door to lose information with each conversion you believe makes things "simpler to maintain".
wyhash crate is not wyhash itself. It depends on the skill of the translator and the wyhash version. wyhash has been improved significantly version by version. Also ahash should submit a PR to smhasher and play with ~100 other hash functions there.
Very interesting info. It doesn’t seem too surprising that there might have been some consistency issue with manufacturing early on. Though it seems a little late to be trying to spread misinformation about the Pyzer vaccine. A manipulated leak like this could have done a lot of harm a few months ago though.
It wouldn’t have been better, it just would have been more high level and generalized, but I don’t think that’s what the author was going for. I found the amount of detail refreshing, and as someone about to make a GPU based 2D display tree renderer, it was written at just the right level to be quite useful.
I agree in principle - but assuming that school ends at 5, that means it'd be problematic picking up/being home in time for your kids in winter becomes an issue.

That could be solved by summer/winter schedule being recommended across industries - but then you might end up back with an effective DST anyway - forcing new sleeping patterns in the shift...
It does, you’re missing “ketchup in plastic pouch” google search.
Washington state has passed this, pending federal approval. For years, not knowing it had any real momentum, I made the case for it because our days get so short in the winter.

Having experienced a few life changes that have me more consistently waking earlier (most specifically having a puppy who wakes on a schedule of her own, and having developed sleep habit around that), I’m not so sure anymore. It was very very hard to get through the darkest months of this winter where my first couple waking hours felt more like bedtime than bedtime did.

I’m still open to the idea, but I’m a lot more sympathetic to the morning difficulties than I was before.
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It's approachable either way. The main reason I mentioned x86 familiarity is because you make references to your previous post as well. I'm already reasonably fluent in both x86 and arm assembly, so I may not be the best judge though
Ironic location:

Presently you are on a server called Caddie in Control that is located in Coal City, Newcastle as this is the server receiving the most sunshine in our network at the moment.
>It's an interesting point, though: is it better long term for environmentally-conscious people to have fewer or more children?

Earth has produced a grand total of one species that even has the potential to be effective stewards. That's us. Earth is already on the far backside of how much longer it will be habitable due to the Sun. And I see no reason to think that any other intelligence that did evolve here wouldn't be beset by the same problems we have now.

So (IMO) intelligent, conscientious people having fewer children helps nothing. We (humans) are the best thing our biosphere has got, by a long shot, in terms of long-term preservation of life, which is something that I personally think is of great importance.
There is a lot of work and craft that goes into the 20 euro bottle - especially when it comes from a small producer.
It takes years to mature, there is uncertainty in the harvest, good barrels, tanks, cork, etc are expensive, lot's of knowledge and experience are required. A high-quality natural cork alone can cost 1.50$.

For 2 dollars you get industrial mass production. Taste-wise it might be fine for some, but it is unlikely to be sustainable and you definitely miss the fun and artisanal part of wine.

It's similar to small local organic farming vs. industrial farming for a more difficult to produce product.
Yes that is true. You get good at typing and debugging over the years. After a few years we did get a floppy drive so that helped a lot.
That's fair. Although I still think blacklist/whitelist is more natural/easier for most people to understand.
What about skia?
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Operational excellence he gets all the credit for, just like Ballmer.
Sorting by what?? Type.
Why do you feel he shouldn't be considered a hero?
Nonsense.

Many of the 'top companies' at the moment are youngish software companies, many still run by their founders or early employees, which include lots of software engineers.

If the current big thing was biotech the 'best' (ie most) CEOs would be chemists.
nothing in the comment implied that, if anything it asked for a stop to look at people as "asians", "whites", "blacks" or anything else and just look at them as people (while remembering that your ability to do so is likely imperfect). we do not need blame we need unity
Thanks for elaborating. I sort of wish this was mentioned somewhere in a FAQ section but maybe that’s just me.
If your day/part time job pays well, you can also outsource time consuming tasks. This should work well when you are a contractor (high wage, self-employed or own limited company) you can write off the out sourcing costs as expenses.

I haven’t done this myself yet, but this idea has been running through my head for a while.
You were doing pretty good right up until you tried to channel GamerGame... that was a huge mistake. I get that you believe the "Official Party Line"(TM), but a lot of people don't, and a lot of us watched this whole thing unfold real-time across The Zoe Post, 4chan, reddit, and every other major venue on which it presented itself.

Furthermore, some of us actually know the participants involved in a professional and private capacity.

Yes, Gjoni "did a bad thing" by posting all the duplicitous shitty things Quinn did... but therein lies the rub. If you don't want to be called out for being a cheater who fucks game journalists for good reviews... then don't cheat on your boyfriend and fuck game journalists for reviews. It really is that goddamn simple.

What GamerGate really was, was that gamers - the naive idiots they tend to be - found out that their little subculture was NOT immune to all the awful shit that plagues every other human interest. They, however, decided to start fighting back instead of just shrugging their shoulders and saying, "Oh well, everything's corrupt and awful, what can you do?"

But the real root cause problem here is that people don't want to accept human nature, almost all people, on almost all sides.
My conservative guess is three years. How about revenue growth rate? That's now right?

Edit: one thing about revenue and profit is that there are businesses that operate off of graft that kind of throw a monkey wrench into those measures
I'm the author bawolff, and I completely agree that the success of software engineers as CEOs is correlation, not causation. The likely cause is that software engineers learn to discover value by running value experiments. Zuckerberg and Bezos are well known for their value experiments in production. I believe that the nature of pursuing new value, in effect, taught them this practice. And to the comment below, when it comes to oil, new value in the form of oil fields is also discovered. Prospecting for oil is one concrete form of the abstract pattern of discovering value, iterating in software is also prospecting for value. It's just that unlike oil, you can use software to prospect for all kinds of value very quickly.
That's like 10x more than Apple's reported 1000 engineers working on Mixed Reality.
Looks like they include the Hulu property in their metric/prediction, so this pronouncement is a bit misleading— and not exactly a fair fight if Disney can count/include Hulu to say they are “#1,” whenever that might be.. (they are forecasting that to be 2024)
I wonder if it's profitable right now or that they see a future were it's so important to the loss is worth it.
always appreciate raph's work on rendering and UI programming, but want to ask a somewhat unrelated question to this post: does anyone have a lot of experience doing 2d graphics on the cpu? i wonder if there'll be a day we're confident doing all 2d stuff on the cpu since cpus are much easier to work with and have much more control, i also read some old 3d games are also using software rendering and did well on old hardwares, that gave me a lot of confidence in software render every (lowrez) thing
Considering what Quest 1 has achievied on the 10nm process and Quest 2 has achieved on the 7nm process, I can see how this quick escalation of compute power will enable extensivly immersive experiences that are going to be very accessible and user-friendly.

5nm is already shipping (Apple M1) and 3nm is planned for the next year.

Facebook is betting on being the leader and the sole owner of the new class of human-computer interaction.
The Spanish Inquisition was executing people up until 1826. The last 2itch was executed in England in 1716. Both hundreds of years after the fall of the Aztec Empire.

Oxford is a strange callout. It was founded in 1096. About 700 years before the enlightenment. I doubt they were teaching heliocentrism and the scientific method.
Well, depends a bit on where. I live at 69 degrees northern latitude, with a 2 month polar night/day in winter/summer - all this talk of DST and schedules following the sun seems a bit silly from up here (and we do have forced DST in Norway - although I hope we'll drop it).

An interesting counter point: in summer it's quite easy to drift into a pattern of following the weather -sometimes day will be overcast/rainy, nights clear and sunny. On vacation/camping you can sometimes flip the day to night in summer.
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> Some people don't want to understand that there are discussion places which limit certain topics.

Twitter and Facebook aren't such spaces.

They're both based on models of unlimited growth, which means you're going to have unlimited viewpoints, which means you're going to have to #DealWithIt.

What you want, can be done on Hacker News because we're a focused community and most of us all have similar jobs, come from similar backgrounds, etc., or at least, there's enough of us that work in tech and enough of us that went to good schools that we're a more or less cohesive community with fairly similar values.

You don't have that with 5 billion users, sorry.
If you haven't seen it, this article [1] on the London Review of Books about Glenn Gould is a good start. It's a really long essay on why Glenn Gould is amazing while Alfred Brendel doesn't get it, only for Brendel to show up in the "comments". These comments are actually letters to the editor, so it's the world's most educated and polite internet fight.

And if you can tolerate the meme format, [2] is my favorite academic fight of all times.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n06/nicholas-spice/how-t...

[2] https://twitter.com/phonologist/status/982023915319906304
Except there is no year-round extra sunlight for most people in the US, at least if the workday is entirely during sunlight hours. The only time we get to choose when we want our extra sunlight is in the summer.

I used to want to abolish the time change, until I looked at the year long plot of sunrise and sunset time, and realized what happens without DST and switching. I changed my mind, because I discovered I like the outcome and I don’t actually want the alternative. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco
Ask HN: Quickest way to learn cloud computing?
Hey HN! I had an idea for a SaaS product and decided to build it myself as a chance to (finally) learn cloud technologies as well. I want to build a simple CRUD web-app where a user can upload information to the cloud and can be retrieved later. I work primarily in C/C++ and Python and previously have built sites using HTML and CSS. I'd like to know how where I can learn the necessary cloud tech to build this basic app so that I can have a basic framework to get up and running.

Thanks a ton HN!
I do, but for slightly different reasons.

Even if we did want to accept the definition of "better CEO" from the article, we'd need to look at performance over time: increase in market cap over their tenure.

Next, a cut off at 10 in an attempt to generalize is silly: why not top 1 when we are at 0%. Or top 2? Or top 1000? Top 10 is arbitrary and not telling.

And I am sure real data actually hides in the smaller companies market cap movement.
Indeed, regarding portability moew was definitely made with gamedev in mind, without concern for portability.
I'm the original author, value is the organizing force of secular society in my opinion.

Read the potential value portion of article or read further about my understanding of value here: https://iism.org/post/glossary-value-76

"Economic value is also theorized to be the universal organizing force of secular society, and the nature of value is thought to be responsible for the emergence of the three dominant value management systems, each having proceeded out of its own particular value state. Individual contributors are often attracted to a particular type of value, and they are therefore intrinsically motivated by the unique properties of that value type. Often, humans perceive their own value to society in terms of their ability to produce or replicate a thing of value such as a meal, or concert, or a manufactured good. Others might perceive their value in terms of their net worth, and creative individuals might perceive their value in terms of their ability to discover new solutions or their ability to create new works of value."
Any alternative solutions for the problem of GPU text rendering (that are not patent infringing)?
FOSS does not magically circumvent patents.