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I don't agree. Ideally, everyone could make their own decisions for their own so they aren't forced to go along with others. In that case there isn't even a need for democracy. But frequently, that is not possible – what you call "tyranny" I consider unavoidable and democracy the best way to deal with it.

Majority rule is inherently better than rule by any specific group in two respects: One, more people benefit from it. Even if you have two blocks who always vote together, it's better if 60% benefit at the expense of 40% than vice versa. Two, that doesn't actually happen: Sometimes you are on the winning side, sometimes on the losing one so it somewhat (not perfectly) cancels out.

And democracy isn't just majority rule. Separation of powers and a catalog of fundamental rights are also important to ensure everyone's interests are considered when making a collective decision. So is a culture of just doing so, when voting and in general.
What you do is short them on the stock market. Put your money where your mouth is!
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Are you talking about the 1st or 2nd Gen Buds? Because the 2nd gens seem to have severe connection issues:

a) they frequently flip flop between at least two BT profiles, leading to a lackluster listening experience
b) they lose connection to each other (leading to intermittend profile switches during reconnects, possibly due to lack of available bandwidth)
c) they have severe signal quality issues, leading to limited range and audio interruptions

All these issues only happen with the 2nd Gen Pixel Buds, but not with a random sample of various other true wireless earbuds (I tested Sony WF-1000XM3, 1More True Wireless ANC, Airpods Pro) leading me to believe that this must be a hardware issue on Google's side, especially because the amount of people with the same issues is pretty high.

No other pair of true wireless earbuds hat any issues with music playback while I'm on a road bike, with my phone being on my back, only the Pixel Buds do - and I'm on my 2nd replacement already.
this feels like an episode from the Silicon Valley show lol
Yep, and then employees have a harder time challenging it - because how is an employee without the power of HR, facilities etc. going to gather the almighty data?
I mean, most people didn't believe that this was real. It's not like he was the lone voice saying "nah this is surely bollocks...".
I just saw this and after a quick checkout of the latest release (which is what I can quickly install), I feel a bit disappointed. Here is yet another GPU-accelerated terminal that claims to be a VT500 (judging by its Device Attributes report), sets TERM to xterm-256color, while having holes in basic VT100 support (just ran VTTEST in it and saw glaring issues, need not look further than basic VT100 tests, TAB setting/resetting, cursor save/restore).

Please note that I am not attacking wezterm here, my criticism is aimed to be constructive because terminals are important. I think wezterm is a very cool project, and I wish all the best to it, but why not make a terminal that actually (correctly) implements those escape sequences? (We are talking about a couple dozen controls here.) Given the development history (3+ years, 3k+ commits) I would say that this is not a resource issue but a prioritization issue.

For an example of a GPU-accelerated terminal with much less polish, less unicode/ligature support and less portability, but one that takes fundamental correctness very seriously (coupled with excellent performance and very low latency) in a tenth of the source code and (presumably) a mere fraction of development resources spent on it, take a look at zutty. Note, if you like wezterm, you will probably NOT want to switch to zutty, because it's a much more basic program.
I genuinely wish more people held this attitude. Is it really worth 10% (or even 20%) productivity gains if the price is that your employees have to waste 1-2 hours a day sitting behind the wheel of a car?

To the executives and bean counters, yes, it obviously is. But from the overall perspective of society and mental health, hell no, it is absolutely horrifying to put people through that.
Would search for local communities and go back to disk swapping.
The knowledge that we have gained from this experiment is that the experimental data disagrees with the theoretical justificiation for the idea. That isn't the same as proving that the theory is wrong, even if that seems the more likely explanation. To be sure that the theory is wrong we would need an analysis of why that is the case and what were the false assumptions and faulty reasoning behind it. Any volounteers?
Do you have any links to data that people at Google work more? That's certainly not my experience or understanding
You’re taking advantage of modern UI tools and modern levels of screen resolution and not intentionally recreating the old way of interacting with multiple terminals simultaneously.

Literally no shame in that. GUIs with multiple windows and tabs were invented for a reason.
No, tax revenue decline is only one facet of a declining population. A decline in population causes many other things that are dependent upon human beings to also decline: social interaction, art production, and a bunch of other stuff you might file under "economy": tax revenues, jobs, new businesses, new research, et c.

Taking a purely economic view of these things is to misunderstand what is happening. Sure, it's an economic stagnation/downturn when new jobs aren't created, but more important than the money is the loss of the things those jobs produced in society outside of their economic impact: tools, art, research, creativity.
To think that Intel and Samsung recently made the news with their $20b [1] resp. $17b [2] investments...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26631041

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26094524
>"spending time with family" - no, I'm single and alone and so are most of my co-workers

>"living in a nicer / cheaper location" - no, my office is nicer than my home and same for most of my co-workers.

Nickname checks out.
There are quite a few IC manufacturers, CPUs are produced by far less but that probably has more to do with international IP laws and government backed corporations monopolizing the supply chains for regents and workforce through buyouts, mergers and imigration(I bet it's pretty easy for a qualified cpu designer to get a green card a.k.a. Brain Drain).
I had hoped Covid would normalize at least partial WFH. I'm somewhere in the middle on this scale, but the reason to WFH is that it gives me some flexibility around chores and appointments outside of work, and saves me a commute. I hope we'll get to keep that freedom at least. 2/3 days at the office and 2/3 days at home would be great for me.
What I concluded, especially I took a few neuroscience courses, after was that the computer/database/memory model is not good to explain school and learning.

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My take:

You don't learn to remember what you learn. You learn to build roads, pretty much literally inside your brain (it constantly rewires).

It's more like unpaved paths before road building: First there is wilderness, then there is a lot of traffic, and increasingly that traffic concentrates on more and more clear paths.

The learning of "stuff" is creating paths. The things - ideas, knowledge, facts - that you learn are like the carts travelling the paths. They may be gone - but the paths remain.

So even after every single thing is forgotten - every single traveler and cart is no longer there - what remains is the paths. The wiring inside your brain changes in the learning process. You may not remember much of what traveled through your brain, what created the paths, but your brain nevertheless remains changed.

Even if you forget every single thing, the way you think and react will have changed forever.

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Using the metric "what I remember from my courses" is the wrong metric. Instead, it should be "how did my way of thinking change".

I took a lot (really a lot) of (mostly university level) courses long after university, in fields unrelated to my career and previous study. That's when I noticed far more clearly than ever before, despite very good success (I was even made TA a few times), the concrete things I was able to recall even just a year later was really small. Then I noticed it's the same with my core field really.

The concrete things we know is actually rather small. I forgot sooooo much. Only things I use regularly are available in a way that I could pass an exam (school or university). Still, I changed quite a bit, but it's all "meta". I now know the path I have to take instead of being lost. Even if I don't understand the concrete items e.g. in a medical paper (e.g. names of some genes or proteins), instead of feeling lost I have a "feeling" what it is about, and I can easily look it up and understand very quickly because I have a framework ready to receive what I read.

Our actual "memory" is pretty small, it's all about the paths. Literally, in the brain.
"with manager approval" is just a decoy. won't work out. if your whole team is in the office it's much harder for you to be remote. it must be set as company policy otherwise just a handful will do it and likely suffer for it as their teams won't take all the measures to make it work well and they'll be at a promotion disadvantage compared to people that get face time.

and "with manager approval" remote isn't really new. there were already people working remotely before the pandemic.
Google has heaps of horrible code. The problem with lots of small isolated CLs and little time invested in revisiting broader architectures.

Then they’ll finally rewrite the thing some day, after a massive and often unnecessary design doc filled with needless bike-shedding that ultimately proposes an overengineered solution to help the person make L+1.
M3 money supply in 2004 was 6.41T

M3 money supply in 2009 was 8.48T

M3 money supply in 2014 was 11.67T

M3 money supply in 2019 was 15.32T

So 60% of money in existence in 2019 was created in the previous 15 years

Are you imply that means that the purchasing power of the dollar has dropped 70% then, and a dohicky that cost $1 in 2004 would cost $2.40 in 2019 in line with M3 increase?

The cost of bread in 2004 was 97c, and was $1.36 in 2019 - increasing at 2.3% per year. [0]

A pound of chicken went from $1.03 to $1.45 - 2.3% per year [2]

A gallon of milk dropped from $3.23 to $3.19 in that time period [1]

Official inflation figures for 2004-2019 are $1.35, about 2% per year, and that includes the time period of the 2008 crash.

Rental price for an acre of cropland across the US in 2004 was $76.5, in 2019 it was $140, increase of 4.1% per year [4]

Rental price for a primary residence has increased 3.05% per year [5]

In that time GDP has increased by about 3.8% per year [3]

Median wages have increased by about 2.6% per year [6]

That period included the massive money printing of 2008 crash, none of it says hyperinflation, despite the federal reserve "printing" $3.9T between 2009 and 2014.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236635/retail-price-of-w...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236854/retail-price-of-m...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236834/retail-price-of-f...

[3] https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/usa?year=2019

[4] https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/results/58B27A06-F574-315B-...

[5] https://www.in2013dollars.com/Rent-of-primary-residence/pric...

[6] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html
Accepting that mistakes will sometimes happen does not absolve the need to prevent said mistakes from happening in the future. It certainly doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't be critical of the events leading up to those mistakes.
> amazing free market

> everyone can

No. Most people don't have good options. It's a little ironic to say the OP needs more empathy and then go on to make an argument that's almost breathtakingly disconnected from reality.
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Play more single player games and board games

NO social media anymore yesss...
It's normal. There's no place to complain. Disable password authentication, allow login using SSH keys only.
Hm, ok, yeah. So I guess I can see what you mean. I've never had a use case where I felt comfortable relying on any kind of message ordering, and always rely on my application level logic to handle that, or ensure the system is resilient despite ordering (ie: commutative operations only).

To me, it seemed at odds with the parallelism of a partition, but I suppose in this case you'd be partitioning on some sort of semantic key vs, say, a hash.

Thanks for bearing with me on that, this was just an unfamiliar idea for me.
When 99% of people say "good for the environment" it's implied that the point of protecting the environment is to sustain human life on Earth. Nuclear conflict is not compatible with sustainable human life.
This comment was just a joke.

My comments are mild, compared to everyone else’s inflammatory comments. Can you ban them also?
That was a good rant, thank you.
The by far biggest factor on the quality of video conferencin is the microphone, speakers and camera.

If you participate in video conferences, do yourself a favor and buy a "HDMI capture USB stick" so you can hook up your "real" camera to your PC and get a great image.

They cost less than $20, work with Windows, macOS and Linux and don't even require any drivers.

Some of the fairly recent cameras also support a USB connection directly.
> for whatever reasons

If you can't speak to people unless they're forced to, that doesn't mean that you need to make it so that everyone else is forced to because otherwise you're uncomfortable.
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The US's appalling lack of basic social safety nets, specially regarding healthcare, coupled with its poverty rate (over twice of Brazil's) and violence epidemic don't make it a shining beacon of a functioning society.

Just because STEM graduates in the US can aspire to live in a comfort bubble due to their access to a cushy job, that does not make it an example of a well-functioning society by no means.

It makes absolutely no sense to claim that a country has a well-functioning society if it happens to have a hand full of ultra-rich billionaires while the whole population suffers to barely make ends meet, let alone have a shot at a decent life.
If climate change is real, then commuting is going to die sooner or later.
Problem is, we have put genocide on such a high level of seriousness that denying it or even calling for it can get you banned in several places, because for most people it means "ethnic cleansing with mass killings"

There are some cultural group I want to see disappear. Like white supremacism or US southern slaver culture. I will even support governmental efforts to press on them as long as it does not involve violence.

My problem if that this definition of genocide is so broad that it includes a lot of process I see as natural evolution of a culture. Hell, under that definition, Algerian independence could be presented as a genocide against Pied-Noir! [1]

I know very well the legal definitions of genocide, but using that word to frame a moral debate is a dishonest manipulation in my opinion. What China is doing is akin to the Cultural Revolution and I suspect that the reason we use "genocide" for something so remote from the officially recognized genocides is because we (as a society, I am sure there are political scientists who have done the work) have never taken the time to have the moral debate about what this policy actually is and means and why it is bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-Noir
This is so HN. Thanks!
If you are specializing in a particular stack, building your portfolio site on the stack can make it a good project to showcase. Otherwise, can't beat HTML, CSS and (if you absolutely must) JS.
Very reasable, I like the balance berween just writing code and the commenting in how it works.

I wish somebidy had done this for python3.
Apologies, I thought OP was just talking about flying in general rather than specifically the 737 max but I have re-read and it's clear. I think I just forgot as I was writing the response!

> Don't know if deaths includes pedestrian or bikes killed by cars, could be irrelevant if you only compare your odds to be alive after journey.

I agree this could be debated, but I don't think it's too useful to say "The journey was safer because rather than kill the person travelling it only killed a random pedestrian".
> 4K video is 16Mbps

Highly compressed 4k. With enough bandwidth we could actually stream Bluray quality without compromises. Sure, it's probably not the first item on the list priorities but it's a needless limitation entirely due to lacking network infrastructure.
This is a perfectly realistic technique that has already been seen in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnvh08GBOII
This model sounds a lot like songthaews in Thailand.

Also brings to mind UberPool.
That's a good point indeed
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I haven't heard it mentioned often as a nice feature. However, it used to be a regular complaint from people I know that GPS would send you on awkward routes through tiny streets with many turns. That's something I haven't heard in a while.
This analogy would have also worked for a quantum computer proposal at the beginning of the 20th century.
NFC tags too
Can we please just shift the bulk medical research funding to problems like gradual replacement for eventual consciousness upload, so we can “solve” all biological diseases in one go?

Seems woefully inefficient to tackle ten thousand independent fatal ailments - and fund each effort separately - when we could be working on abandoning this frail form entirely.
I've never had one, can you expound more on this topic?

The S21 Ultra seems like a very good purchase from reviews. QHD screen with dynamically adjusted 120Hz seems really like the best spec.
As someone that's renting a EV for a few months, I quickly realized GMaps was kinda useless in actually planning longer trips. ABRP has worked very well for me, and given me peace of mind when planning long trips over the mountains in winter times.
You mean geostationary satellites.

Internet service via satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) can achieve 20-50ms RTT.
The short-sellers are having a party right now.
Ransomware is entirely made possible due to cryptocurrencies.

Your funny James Bond Scenario is just dishonest, you know this doesn’t scale and dead drops won’t protect you. The risk is too high.
Animatrix....
There are more types of cancer than we have organs. The practice of naming cancers after where they are found is maybe a bit misleading. Especially since the aggressive/deadly varieties tend to spread through the body. Some cancers are very treatable at this point. The hard part is usually classifying them correctly and before they do a lot of damage. Breast cancer sounds more specific than it is. The reason it's such a common location for cancer and why it used to be so deadly is that they are connected to the lymphatic system, which how a lot of aggressive cancers spread through your body. Generally very treatable but some varieties still kill young women.

Fun fact, the Pfizer corona vaccine was developed by Turkish-German women who has been working on developing a solution on fighting cancer with basically an mRNA vaccine. She pivoted to tackling corona last year but is looking to get back to tackling cancer. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-v...

2012 was maybe a bit optimistic but the last year has shown we can get results in under 12 months if the stakes are high enough.
> Obviously the secretary won't do a simple message count, but try to take substance and length into account, but it is the primary feature under evaluation, as it's written.

Substance and length are the second and third criteria. The list isn't ordered, so I don't think one could call a particular criterion "primary".
Hah, trying to find the name of the "super-kumi" I learned that this terminology is known in the west for being used by Yakuza. It makes sense, organizing the matsuri, which involves finding young men for carrying the mikoshi (a heavy palanquin you have to carry around) must be an excellent way to recruit people straying away.
What about those who _do_ want a friendly workplace with some element of social interaction?
Careful setting next year's quotas based on last year's shortages...
They would have to prove negligence of some sort, and I guarantee Google has enough lawyers on payroll to make that absolutely impossible without the most egregious evidence (like multiple videos of your manager walking up to you and saying "look at this nice bottle of pure COVID-19... be a real shame if I drop... OOPS I SPILLED IT ON YOU! ahhhh!!").

Remember, this is a company that has had senior executives have extremely real and credible sexual misconduct allegations made against them only to see them sent off with million dollar golden parachutes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

You will not win a legal battle against Google, period.
from experience, most of those are really not that great, they tend to have a lot of problem reading disk and often refuse to even acknowledge the presence of a disk that my other devices (i keep a couple of old computer around for this purpose) read fine, and they don't always support lower density disk.
I highly recommend ibm usb disk drive, they work much more reliably and you can find them for very reasonably price (i bought 10 of them), also they support more formats.

But if you want to read floppy from home computers (and the various format/disk layout that they use) the only solution that i found is KryoFlux or Greaseweazle.

If someone know of others "modern" floppy disk controller please share.
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This is how the GDPR makes a lot of sense.
Ever thought that these executives are not as dumb as you think they are, and maybe that they are aware that individual developer productivity may drop, but there are broader benefits to having everyone on site.
Judging by the state of other metadata there, every single third-party product would have "carbon footprint <1g".
...only to discover that there's nobody left in Zone 1 in your LATA and polling a guy across the continent will cost you gobs of cash you'd rather not spend, so you buddy-up with a HAM buddy who's into packet-radio to see if you can find a way to tunnel packets over a long-haul radio link to save money.

It would take a year or two for the network to re-establish itself, and we wouldn't have the kind of bandwidth or instantaneous interaction we have now, but we could rebuild.
It’s creative sure but also the scariest that could be a real idea…. On some accountants bank sheet.
Also: move sshd to a different port, install fail2ban, maybe a honeypot on port 22, etc.
> This is quiet a false dichotomy you're running with here.

Hang on no I’m arguing against the false dichotomy someone else presented, subscribing totally to ‘love not war’. I don’t think it’s either-or, that’s what they said.
The existing political "solutions" stagger on like walking corpses until they completely collapse, and are replaced by something that may or may not be any better based on the luck of who ends up making the decisions.

Fixed in place is rare unless something, usually external, overwhelms entrenched interests.
This reminds me of Moore's Second Law, namely that the cost of maintaining Moore's Law will itself follow an exponential growth curve. You figure there will come a date where any attempt to maintain Moore's Law will become so expensive that there's no way it can avoid slowing down drastically. At which point the semiconductor industry will behave like other heavy industries and improves at a much more modest rate.