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Wait, what year is it again? Didn't they fire 30ish people around same time last year?

Patreon has horrible UX. It's a walled garden and all engineering seems to go towards building higher wall. Compare that to itch.io, which is not the same model but the site is superior in every way.
I pretty much agree and share the love for Nano, but - just as a comment - it happened to me that it wasn't available in some Red Hat servers. Depending on your regular work and the type of servers you SSH into, you could expect Nano to be already installed or not
Not to be too glib, but as a non-ML person with decent numerics ability:

... did this post just spend a ton of boring math explaining that a neural network has the ability to detect whether an image is bumpy or smooth?

I mean, Fourier analysis has a very straightforward "intuitive" interpretation. That's the point of its value in applied domains, after all. Straightforward intuitive things are "neural" by their nature, no?
I am currently looking for a work from home job making games or other complex systems...

Reason is that when I did that in a office little would get done, not just endless meeting but people interrupting, distractions, and weird office-only issues (like drama, office politics, HR nagging people because they left books on their desk, etc...)

At home even with family around, I can tell them it is my worktime, and then focus on work, and they will respect that.
Fewer restrictions and less questioning of your use of time and your activities is typical the higher one observes the class ladder. WFH (absent remote monitoring tools, which take it back down below an in-person job without such tools) is like bumping up to the upper-middle, or professional, class, which most programmers are not in, ordinarily, socially speaking.

... and yes, a taste of class privilege is, frankly, wonderful.
I live in Fremont and had a job in Los Angeles. Had to fly in every week. It was exhausting. Then Covid came and got rid of the flight and commute. It was awesome.

But after a year of being cooped up with a wife and a 4 year old, I yearn to be back at the office about twice a week.
It is hypocritical for China or Russia to care about us inequality without considering their own.. Likewise, both countries stances on sexuality, identity, and race/heritage are quite a bit worse than domestic US policy.
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I think vim has a pretty good tutorial within it. If you ever give it another chance, try that tutorial.
Main problem is old pools that don't have space for this (would make the pool under length). In general the same rules are used in all levels of competition. The only difference at the moment is minimum pool depth for world championships and olympics which is a bit deeper.

But yes in general new competition pools are built to be slightly larger than 50m and you just adjust the pads at the ends.
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These threads are pure gold, thank you folks <3
Learning from this HN thread that apparently Nano gets hate. I've been programming for years, nano is still my go-to for "I'm in the terminal and I need to make a small modification". I use it daily.
> That's an interesting thought. What would happen in court if you went with that? "The license said to only install if you accept the license, but since I reject the license, I'm not bound by its contents, so I installed even though I didn't accept it".

The license is what gives you legal permission to make copies in the process of installation; copying is otherwise an exclusive right of the copyright owner. So that’s very much an “if you win the argument on rejecting the license, you still lose” situation.
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A lot of brands have extreme profit margins on what they sell, but this is not considered illegal. Hell, a lot of brands are just reselling the same cheap goods as everyone else and charging more simply for having their name on it, but this is considered a perfectly valid business model.
It doesnt make me question that at all. There are no "right" people. All human behaviors are present at all income levels.
I want Epic to win.
It's fine if you want to have Apple as an option.
It's not fine to have Apple as the only option. Apple should either allow 3rd party IAPs or 3rd party app stores. Having neither is Apple abusing it's power and forcing it on consumers.
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That's pretty wholesome and reasonable, but I don't think that's they type of behavior and views tha people are worried about.

I have a feeling the type of progressiveness that people are concerned about is this kind:

> "Sixteen percent [of progressives] have tried to have something banned, versus a seven percent national average.

>"We asked whether it is “fair or unfair for people who say grossly offensive things to be at risk of losing their livelihoods?” Nationally, 48 percent believe it is “fair,” but this figure rises to 65 percent for social democrat-aligned Labour voters, compared with 39 percent for right-leaning Conservative voters."

>"Our polling found that while the most popular word selected, from a list of nine, by Conservatives to describe people “with strongly different political views to my own” was “honest” (39 percent), the most popular among Labour voters was “closed minded” (28 percent)"
Frankly, outside of Indira Gandhi, I don't like the Nehru family. The last great PM from the Congress was PV Narasimha Rao and we all know how shamefully he was treated in the end by mother and son.

> Have we seen him as a PM yet? Or at least as a CM?

The Congress was in power at the center for 10 years: 2004-2014. And it has been in control of multiple state governments since forever. So whose fault is it that he cannot even manage to become the CM of a state?

> borderline dictator

Calling someone who the people have elected with massive majorities twice in a row a "dictator" is nothing but propaganda. If Modi loses in an election and appoints himself Emperor of India, like Indira did, then we can think about using that term.

> we could have 28 regional parties elect a PM from among them

Never going to happen, because people don't want that.

The situation right now is, after 70 years of terrible economic policies and government-funded Hinduphobic policies, people woke up and started voting for the BJP across caste and linguistic lines. Outside of a couple of states, the only thing driving unnatural alliances between political parties is opposition to the BJP. Even today, I can guarantee that if Mamata falls a few seats short in the Bengal elections, the Congress will rush to her defense.

The problem with Modi is, he is slowly converting the BJP into another version of the Congress Party. And his reliance on the incompetent and corrupt IAS bureaucracy is nullifying his promises to his electorate.
No, I honestly can't imagine why you'd need a conference for a tool. Maybe I'm missing something and the construction industry is similarly excited about DrillConf or TruckConf.
You reply hints at these <issues> when you allow developers to distribute their software but doesn't give any specifics. What is your specific issue with how app distribution works on macOS? Are you running into low quality software that you purchased that's full of malware?

I enjoy the freedom of going to a repository and building or download a binary without having to use Apple's centralized system. I like paying the developer directly if you want. I've done it with 1Password and other applications. They're high quality software.
> Using your own metric of a broad view, it's probably more of a problem than a specific man versus a specific woman, because it points to a theory that societal norms serve to re-enforce the expectation of taking jobs in lower paying fields on women versus men.

The problem is "societal norms" are incredibly vague and difficult to pin down or prove or even define.

It is very dangerous to start socially engineering all of society and our economy by a small, unrepresentative, self selected group of activists arbitrarily determining each person's "value" and rearranging society to fit their whims.

> The problem is, these types of arguments are (in my experience as a professional) a thin veneer of 'civility' over a massive ocean of bigotry and idiocy in many cases.

Yes, I've definitely seen this coming from many self proclaimed progressives.
If this strikes you as wrong, write your representative and ask them to cut both taxes and government spending. Your voice does matter, and if enough of us do this, it will help.
I feel like I can do my daily work in 2-3 hours, but I end up spending all day procastinating between tasks.
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It’s the trashed/smouldering streets, riots, CHAZ. Optics are very bad. For a country that went through what China did this sort of internal unrest is an indicator of massive weakness. I am not even sure they are wrong. If they had naval lift capacity they could probably land on Taiwan and US government would do nothing.

We will see what happens in US as weather warms up.
Taking this one more step forward, generating spectrograms with neural networks: https://0xfe.blogspot.com/2020/03/generating-spectrograms-wi...
The Bloomberg articles are definitely the closest I've seen coming to substantive evidence, that is for sure.

I do, however, think that there is a big difference between being "affiliated with Russian intelligence" and providing an anti-DDOS service to the FSB, which is what this article is discussing, and really all it gives evidence for. Kapersky also provided services to the US intelligence services, I don't think it would be described as "affiliated with American intelligence."
I think a lot of this boils down to power and bias, and a lot of the discussion around race/gender/sexuality seems overly simplified (they are correlated with certain patterns of power and bias, but not perfectly so). I think the aspect of class is generally underappreciated in public discussions, and in my context the minimum-wage and pay-equity concerns have a pretty significant racial component (when I refer to location adjustments that's primarily about continents, not urban/rural).
Some of #2 holds for academia as well

'Travel whores', lol
Really enjoying working remotely. Looking back in time, it seems silly that people at my company were disallowed to work a few days from home whenever they asked. When I think back to the time I was in the office, I believe I spent roughly 80% of my time focusing on what needed to be done, and the remaining 20% in face-to-face discussion, whether casual or not. That 20% is very valuable and I would not want to replace that. Based on that, and what my team needs, I believe it would be optimal to come into the office 1 or 2 days a week. It should be easy to defer the necessary conversations and face-to-face meetings to those days. But of course, everyone's needs are different and a balance must be struck.
One of the purposes of meetings (in person or remote) is to get a sense of the other group's values, and how they will treat the least of your staff. As a vendor, it's critically important to listen carefully and not interrupt. Conversely, I've rejected vendors when they've talked over one of my colleagues. I don't care how good the product is... if they are not going to be good collaborators.

Edit: This is related to the above comment -- a colleague may be summarizing an uncomfortable experience not in terms of behavior (a rude vendor that talked over them) but in terms of identity (white male).
this. Also the camera is intentionally not aligned to the black strip on the tarmac as tires are black and this would make it hard to see them.
The problem isn't the 30 lines, though. The problem is "millions of users, billions/trillions of objects" and both are non-hierarchical with pairwise sharing etc.

If the requirements were simple, the POSIX model would still work too :)
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Yes: you can make solid money as a salesforce admin/developer, especially if you are good at working with non-technical stakeholders.

Personally, I think that working with salesforce is the worst of CRUD development combined with the worst of SaaS platforms. If you want fun work, I would not recommend Salesforce.
I don't. I want to full remote. I don't mind going in for team building exercises, happy hours, kick-off meetings, etc..
That's the same as a IntelliJ hating on Notepad.exe, it's ridiculous.

For what Nano is mostly used for, Nano has won.
And it's about time
> I intend to start a couple of for profit side businesses

Not saying this applies to you, but a thing a lot of people are going to find out is how little they actually accomplish with the extra time. It's so much easier (and fun!) to dream about going to the gym, having a garden, and starting a business while stuck in traffic than to actually follow through and do those things.
Look at this 6-finger claw technique: https://youtu.be/0SUCmew8BQE
Social media did a lot to foster outrage and destroy nuanced thinking.

But also decades of materialism and "me me me" culture: I think people learn to follow their desires no-matter-what when buying goods or services and the same emotional mechanism is transferred into "buying in" an idea.

Modern advertising and branding is based on emotion and vague ideas. The same algorithms to target online ads have been used to influence politics (see cambridge analytica).

> stances that lay outside dogmatic groupthink

Yes, but with a caveat: an idea can be labeled "groupthink" and "too political" as a tactic to dismiss it easily.
Neither of those sound like remotely difficult problems. And honestly the first point sounds like an imaginary problem.

1. When banning people, include a field saying whether or not they should be allowed to access Takeout.

2. Include a one-time authentication token for Takeout in the ban email.

I'm sure it would require some work to implement but so what?
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You mean as in linear and logistic regression, two popular classical ML models whose parameters can be optimised using gradient descent?
Hey Ben! Thanks again for your work on Litestream and for your help with this post. I'm excited to see Litestream continue growing in popularity.
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30% is not too much considering that iOS apps generate far more $$$ than android apps. https://insights.dice.com/2020/02/06/android-vs-ios-earns-de...

Why do iOS apps make more? Possibly because iOS is marketed as the premium experience, explicitly including “limitations” like not having to deal with other app stores or be told to install apk from the web.

Of course this ignores that Epic IS ALSO SUING GOOGLE. All caps because people are completely blind to this because it doesn’t fit their preferred narrative. Note that Apple is leading Google in terms of fees on their App Store. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-taking-less-of-a-cut-from-its-...

If Google is also being sued, is it not clear that additional app stores _is not_ what Epic is looking for?
I think we have a miscommunication and an issue with a lack of common definitions between the two of us.

>The idea that the pay is based on someone's innate abilities or merits is insane

Merit is not innate ability. Merit is just ability - not natural ability. This is a combination of skill, willingness to learn, hard work, grit, access to resources, and (yes some innate factors such as disability status) other factors contained inside the person - but very few of these are predetermined. Overall, merit is 'how good you are' and innate ability is 'how good you could be' by my definition. I am not talking about innate ability. I feel that i did not do a good job of explaining that.

>If you're claiming some inherent characteristic at birth is fatalistic in determining one's outcome, you are greatly mistaken

I am not saying it is 100% fatalistic. That is an extreme view that I did not claim. Let me explain further. What I am saying is that, in theory, and what I am responding to OP with in regards to his/her statement about the gender pay gap, is that some careers are, from an early age, taught to us as being more masculine (engineer, doctor, that sort of thing) than others (teaching, social work, those sorts of things). And, further, more classically masculine jobs tend to pay better than the more classically feminine job. No one person is 'predetermined', but we, as a society, instill a values system that says girls do 'x' and boys do 'y'; also 'x' is valued in 'x1' career fields (lower paid) and 'y' is valued in 'y1' career fields (higher paid). Therefore, society is at least partially responsible for a disparity in employment in certain fields, which leads to the pay gap originally claimed. Yes, individuals have responsibility for their own futures, but there needs to be an acknowledgment and work toward overcoming the arbitrary barriers society has put in place for some people based on innate characteristics such as gender.

>People choose work because they are driven by money (which your argument focuses on). Other people choose work on if it's their passion. Or they might want to make the world a better place. Assuming it's all about money is a huge mistake.

I am not assuming it's all about money. I am simply using that metric, because it's what we started with, and it seems to be the easiest/most popular.

What I am saying----- the playing field is not level for all contenders, based on external factors. These factors do NOT predetermine outcomes, but they absolutely DO influence choices. If the playing field were level, and men still chose some careers over others, and women some other careers over the first, that's fine. It's about equality in opportunity, not equality in outcome.

God, I hope that makes sense.
I may be the malcontent, but I'm tired of being at home. I want to keep the option of being at home, but I miss the community I found at work, I miss the non-work adventures our team had, and frankly, I think the new folks joining our teams are not nearly as integrated into our family as those of that came before the pandemic. I've worked remote for a decade and the option to work remote for 2ish days a week makes life incredible, but beyond that, teams I've been a part of tend to be less cohesive.
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Surprised to see so many people in this thread who don't want to go back to the office at all, but I do understand.

I've been given the flexibility to define my own schedule with regards to when I'm in the office and when I'm working from home. I can't WAIT to go back: it's great having a dedicated work space, I like hallway conversations and in-person meetings, and it'll be AWESOME to be able to snag a hot meal at our cafeteria without having to prep or think about it.

BUT, I'll probably never go in for a Friday ever again, and realistically I'll be working from home 2-3 days/week.

So yes, I feel very fortunate my employer is extending that flexibility post-COVID.
> Why is it that it just so happens that every job that is more likely for women to work also is paid less?

I am quite confident this is not true, in the broad way you have stated it.

There are many categories of jobs with a greater proportion of women, that pay higher than many categories of jobs with a greater proportion of men.
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Upstarts, perhaps. Startups, I wonder if seeing that the $50 gadget costs $60 to make will have a positive impact. It may signal that the cost is being subsidized by investors (and the business may disappear) or by selling your data. But I'm all for transparency to make better decisions.
My favorite model is: morning until lunch at home; commute close to the office and get lunch; finish the day in the office.
If you want to go back a little further and understand why Germany and Kraftwerk always feature so prominently in articles written about the history of Techno then I recommend reading about WDR Studio in Köln.

WDR Electronic Music Studio was sponsored by the then West German state beginning in the early 1950s. Its charter was basically to promote a musical identity that was a contrast to the GDR's populist state music policy. Kraftwerk's Ralf Hutter listened to the radio broadcasts that came out WDR. Everyone from Karlheinz Stockhausen to Conny Plank worked out of WDR Studios. The following are couple of good articles on WDR Studio:

http://120years.net/wdr-electronic-music-studio-germany-1951...

and

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/08/stockhausen-ph...

This is also a good article on the environment in and around Dusseldorf that birthed some of the artists mentioned in the Beatport article:

https://www.factmag.com/2016/02/02/dusseldorf-krautrock/
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WFH is great but I'm concerned it would hinder career advancement.

I think managers, given two equally skilled and productive staff, would be more likely to promote the one they see more (whether consciously or subconsciously)
Did you read the whole interview? He repeats the same statements, well basically because he was Asker the same stuff as always. Now his statements are zen level pragmatic. He doesn't want to get into a new editor that gets in his way.

I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering.

So, nano, why not.
I for one use jed. I also finally learnt how to exit vim.
You are making an assumption that we work on bright lit rooms. I don't. I prefer the ambiance of darker rooms. The themes I use etc reflect that preference, otherwise my eyes have to look at something really bright when everything else is dark.

They say that black on white is better because the cornea tightens giving better focus. However in my experience as a developer you tend to sit in front of a screen for hours. Bright themes get tiring after a while, even in well lit rooms. Having said that I don't prefer white on black. I actually have off white on dark grey.

Example: https://i.imgur.com/YPGYzGJ.png
I had already worked remotely for years and loved it. On average, I would travel to the office every 2-3 months. The trips were always a fun change of scenery (other than dealing with the TSA) and often found that all the face time and in-person planning / design sessions were key to keeping me productive the rest of the time. But overall I hated the trips because I wouldn't sleep well, I'd work extra long hours, and I did actually find all the interaction exhausting. Given the choice, I would have stopped the trips altogether, and I wasn't that broken up about mass quarantines.

Now that it's been over a year, I absolutely yearn for a trip to see my coworkers in person. And I think the needs of people vary in this regard: my heart breaks for some coworkers who have clearly struggled through all this and who feel extremely isolated. I'd gladly inconvenience myself regularly for them to stop feeling like that.
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I can't tell if this is a joke or an actual game, but I find this blurring of the lines interesting.

Another game that blurred the lines that is actually one of my all-time favorites is Papers, Please. This is a game about being an immigration officer, a bureaucrat stamping papers and examining work permits... and it's brilliant and tremendously engaging. It can only exist as an indie game, of course -- imagine EA saying "yes, let's spend money on building and publishing a bureaucrat simulator".