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> Also I notice you didn't say anything about the Magic Bullet. So at least one of my analogies were ok. If there was one that worked, there exist others. Don't bash the concept just because I couldn't furnish a list of 100 examples for you off the top of my head.

It's not about examples specifically. It's about bullshit marketing. Same as with the Tesla Autopilot, but in this case, you're not the customer so probably that's why you're missing the point. For each analogy you make, I can counter it with one that proves it's bullshit.

> Also, most people call their SUVs or CUVs "trucks". They are not trucks, yet we call them that.

I haven't met anyone on this content to call a SUV a 'truck'. Also, I was saying something about sedans though..

> It's just how language is used, dude.

Not a dude.

> better to just be a leaf on a stream.

You're right. I'll go outside now to unwind and ride my gunboat on the bike trail.
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If I buy a car with airbags, I am buying the confidence that they are there to protect me. Indirectly I'm also buying the confidence to not need to check them before setting off.

In this instance, if I need to check the safety of my safety equipment before using it, that's a negative for me.

As a daily motorbike rider, I can definitively say that I will not be buying one of these because they have the capability to remotely disable the functionality. That's an absolute no-no for me.
We have friends who are into their car rallying.

They drive in a group of 4 or 5 families half way across the country towing their rally cars and entourage, let alone the actual racing part. It's a huge gas guzzling event.

Yes, they probably consider that they need to keep up this hobby "to live".

One of them said to me that she did feel bad about the environmental impact, but she had no way to offset it.

In her eyes, higher petrol prices would be good - unpleasant but good - because she could then be guilt-free about her carbon-spewing lifestyle.

This to me is the true beauty of a carbon tax.
explanation makes sense, I didn't get the right interpretation from the initial comment - I guess there is just technical debt they are dealing with.

They aren't trying to delete the feature itself, just roll it into their abstractions
AFAIU, at least as it regards federal copyright law "scope of employment" is usually interpreted very liberally in favor of the employer. I can't speak to California case law, but I suspect that the tolerance Silicon Valley has historically shown to employees walking away w/ their "personal time" projects is more a reflection of the normative business culture than a legal restraint. I wouldn't expect IBM to walk away from WhatsApp the same way Yahoo did if one of their Almaden employees had created it.

Twice I've asked an employer for an amendment to the assignment contract to say that only works developed on my own time "with the primary purpose of benefiting the company" were assignable. Though, the second time I was told to f' off; to take it or leave it.

Now, California's legal hostility toward non-compete agreements is clear. It's not just because of the statutory law, but also because of precedent. Other jurisdictions could and have interpreted similar language differently (including other states interpreting California statutes, IIRC). That hostility is usually what people refer to, or would mean to refer to it they understood the nuances.
Even the blue bird apparently
Do you have a suggestion for what we ought to use instead, and why it might be preferable to CPI? As your link notes, "It is the most widely watched and used measure of the U.S. inflation rate." I have not seen a reputable measure that suggests we are seeing "rampant" inflation somehow not captured by the CPI.
Your CNBC article is from over a decade ago.

The Statscan numbers (reverted or not) were all under 2%, which is certainly not anywhere near record levels.
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My bet is a massive legislative battle over a patchwork temporary salve, which may not pass even with the party most likely to support said patchwork in control. I hope I’m wrong, but this has been a catastrophe in queue behind borrowed time for far too long already.
The persuasivity of an argument does not guarantee its truthfulness.

There are plenty of sources, including court documents, that verify that the USDA was trying to prevent private testing, not just claims being made on the basisnof private testing.

The ban on testing was justified by the USDA based on the potential for safety claims, but the ban itself was on testing.

I don't personally buy the argument, if the US testing was sufficient to guarantee safety I see no consumer harm in allowing additional (potentially ineffective) testing that could help a US producer satisfy other countries' import controls.
Moves, copies and clones in Rust (2020)
Vulture has to also inspect the template files for this to work, which is probably out of the scope of the project.
> unless "disk" is super fast and thus more likely memory, and your data is ephemeral, you probably shouldn't

Can you elaborate why Arrow is not a good format for storing to disk? If you’re using it for in-memory querying, why would you not want to also serialize it directly to disk instead of using some intermediary format?
Real rates become more negative with inflation though. US can’t afford high real rates, debt is 130% of GDP and Social Security is unfunded by $35T
The "Mathematics Framework" in question is at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/

Having looked at that, I am skeptical of the Reason article.
I agree there have been weird relative price increases. See for example this graphic: https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/price-changes-in-usa-in-pas....

But this is not inflation. It's a completely different issue, with different causes and possible solutions.
It also has some of the downsides of both too. You need a space big enough to work from home comfortably while still being within commuting distance of the office.
Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?
I recently spoke to a woman in her 40s or 50s who would like to go back to work after two decades of not being in the workforce. She worked for the US army as a programmer before she had kids, but took a long time off to raise them. Just talking to her I could tell she was quick, conscientious, and would learn fast, but she doesn't know current frameworks in depth. (For reference, she learned COBOL in college.) She's also looking for flexible or part-time hours, so that she can be home for her kids.

I think there are a lot of companies that would like to hire people like this - not FAANG perhaps, but smaller companies who would want someone smart and with life experience, and are willing to train a new employee in their specific technologies. She'd be happy to do a trial period or internship first. But we weren't sure how to reach such companies. Does anyone have experience finding jobs that would fit this profile? Where would you look?

(If you would like to hire such a worker in the NY area or remotely, PM me!)
Do they hand out good chunks of equity for this at least?
Just to clarify - Gambit, Chicken, and Carp all compile to portable C.

I hadn't realized LLVM mainline doesn't support Xtensa. I'm surprised.

D does support Xtensa via LDC (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/rpdwiusbevvphqyvjhdj@forum.dl...). It looks like GDC also nearly supports it, requiring only a minor patch at present.

A functioning LLVM backend does exist (https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project/issues/4) and appears to be making very slow progress towards being merged. A quick search shows that it works for Rust. I suspect (but don't know) that it might work for Terra as well.

There's also the LLVM C backend (https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llvm-cbe) but I've no idea how efficient such an approach is when applied to real world embedded tasks.
As I posted elsewhere with references the data shows that’s actually preferable. You get better quality immunity and reduce the number of deaths and hospitalizations by waiting 9-15 weeks vs the prescribed 4. [1]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
so which elite-minority do we pick then, philosophically speaking?
What's stopping HS students from just enrolling in community college? I know that was an option when I lived in Oregon. Once you're in CC you can sign up for all the advanced classes you like.
If you liked OW, maybe you would like Quake(and 2 and 3), Openarena, Xonotic, Sauerbraten or Assault Cube.

Those are nearly free these days ;) (at least the online part). Maybe not current AAA quality, but nothing better than the raw speed and fraggin everything you can see (and where the crosshair sees it) with no waits and respawning every time...

Seriously, try one of them. Sauer or xonotic would be a nice start.
> Whether you choose to transfer to a different office or opt for completely remote work, your compensation will be adjusted according to your new location.

That's it, the end of geographic arbitrage. No more working from the mountains on a Silicon Valley salary. Hope everyone enjoyed it while it lasted.
The problem is if the entire west coast adds up to 1 million people at the beach it might make very little difference which state their in. A 7pm July 4th quake resulting in a massive Tsunami would be vastly more deadly than an identical 4am quake the next day.
Who decides which part of the majority opinion to push back against?
Just a friendly reminder that the HN site guidelines discourage comments that ask "did you even read it?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I feel exactly the same way.

I sometimes wonder what "or eligible to obtain the required authorizations" means. Does that just mean that SpaceX has to sponsor the clearance process for you?

I remember reading another thread where they were talking about one or two non-US people working there, it would be nice if they elaborated more on what the process is for foreigners and maybe had some profiles of non-US people in their employee gallery. Even confirmation from a SpaceX person here that they do have people like that would be nice :)
Great work, feeling some heavy nostalgia!
makes me wonder what would happen if you called your credit card company and did a stop payment? Basically say it's a subscription and they're not letting you cancel.
I'm making an FPS game right now that is comparatively an extreme technical challenge for players. You're a first person tentacle monster with a mechanical typewriter, and the words in your heart, as your weapon.

No multiplayer planned yet (besides what people can do with copy/paste and email) need to carve the niche first.
What constitutes "Modern C++"?
"Dude" has been a genderless term for like a decade now.

> For each analogy you make, I can counter it with one that proves it's bullshit.

This sounds like a fun game, but count me out.

> I haven't met anyone on this content to call a SUV a 'truck'.

Super common around NY/NJ.

I can see that "bullshit marketing" and product naming is a real buggaboo for you. We'll just have to agree to disagree. You did pose the question, after all. You may get responses that disagree with you.
TIL P2000 and USP have identical stats. Somehow I alway feel USP is more accurate to P2000.
It's actually really fun to see it play so well, and then think back to those times, wonder what would have been possible, what people might say
First, what does "willing to pay more than they're worth" mean? (If something can be sold for $X, then it's worth $X.)

Stimulus checks is one option. Another is the end of pandemic-related uncertainty. A third is increased employment with the winding down of the pandemic. I haven't seen any numbers on any of those.
Yeah having used many Macs from that era even a species out II series Mac would have a lot of stuttering playing any video larger than about 320x240, and definitely nowhere near 24 FPS.
Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?
Okay, so, you've got ideas in your to-do list probably if you're anything like me.

I want to know how do you find the time to build that idea out and even during that process of building, do some of the good ideas get left out? Is it partially because you don't have the right kind of developers to work with? If you had your developers friends working with you, would you get more products built?

How do you tackle this problem generally and ultimately, what does the process ends up looking like when you turn that to-do list idea into a product?
This doesn't really help. I've found plenty of code before that isn't marked by the IDE/linters as unused because it's called by a unit test, but nothing else.
The commodity index is only up 12% in the exact last 12mo because it fell sharply before that, and is up 3.99% total in the 6.76 years since July 2014. Do you really believe inflation since then has been a half a percent annually?
Don’t the kids miss being with other children, how did you handle that?

Also, did you look into the various online schools or did you just manage the entire curriculum yourself? If so, how do you manage/track that?
Heck just buy a bunch of doge, paint the rocket with the dog, launch it and sell all the profits when it spikes from the memes.
Wow our main supplier is German, and so is our tool supplier. I'll have to look into this.
Here’s the personal savings rate:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

And here’s the money velocity:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

When the economy actually reopens and people start spending again, prices will go boom.
I think this is at least part of the reason why - rich families have healthier physical environments. Living next to a highway for example will damage your breathing and disrupt your sleep, making you functionally stupider. Having houses built with more expensive premium materials can drastically reduce your exposure to VOCs.
The ultrabay could even be switched for more ports as well.
For an 850K home at 15% down which is 127K, you need to have about 170K saved to comfortably buy the home. Even on a relatively modest tech industry salary or with a 2-income household at a salary of 60K (120K joint) without children this is a very attainable amount of savings over say 5 years. Obviously not everyone makes this much money but it is an attainable amount, But just realize that almost nobody buys for cash and buyers are usually saddled with the debt for the rest of their lives. This is how home buying has worked in high income areas for 30 years at least.
Elon Musk scammers on Twitter earning a fortune
This is just nuts when you consider how persistent the problem is, how much money these guys make, and the inability of twitter to do anything.

here is one of them

https://twitter.com/kutayhiz1903/status/1390088114174140418

and the address

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1q7es4wh9tdjly85xycmmv5nv54k78n97u9y0nxe

https://twitter.com/Vabs_/status/1390104085974687744

I found at least four separate individuals doing this. Each address as of the 5th of march has BTC in it, between .05 to .35, and all within the past day. So people still falling for this. Never ending stream of victims.

These ppl are making more than even quants, execs, consultants, etc. Earning just .5 btc/day at today's prices is about 10-15x more than a Janes Street 5-year quant (someone who has been at the firm for 5 years according to salry data online, but I dunno if it includes bonusses). Or a Google L6-L8 engineer. That is approaching Goldman Sachs top exec level salaries. Goes to show crime can sometimes pay , at least for crypto and twitter. After factoring in taxes, the diffeence is even greater. I am guessing these guys reside in eastern bloc countries and are not paying taxes.
But without the limiting anti compete clauses like California does, it's basically toothless.

At least in NC I was informed by lawyers I hired that my employer wouldn't let me moonlight in a 500 mile radius, as while they wouldn't own the output. any software was considered "in competition".
Bad. That’s why you don’t hold equities during hyperinflation. You hold physical assets, like gold and real estate.
We know the mechanism by which radiation causes damage: Particles knock into DNA, changing its structure. This causes mutations, and once too many of those accumulate, you get cancer, or your cells just stop working and you die.

This would suggest that the risk should be linear with radiation dose. But cells have DNA repair mechanisms. If a person receives a very large dose in a short amount of time, it makes sense that the repair systems might be too overwhelmed to fix all the damage that has occurred. Of course, the repair system isn't perfect, and some small fraction of damage will be permanent. This suggests that LNT should be true for small doses, but the harmfulness of radiation per particle should increase at larger doses.

A few consequences if that's true:

Depending on how the constant coefficient is determined, a fully linear health risk model will tend to overestimate risk at low dose rates, but underestimate at high dose rates.

This also suggests that radiation concentrated in a particular spot on the body is particularly dangerous. The cells in that location will be bearing the brunt of the radiation dose, so their repair systems are more likely to fail. So inhaling a bit of plutonium dust means you're in for a worse time than absorbing an equivalent dose spread out over your body.

Of course, whatever health risk model we choose, it should also be applied to the regulation of coal plants, since they put radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere as a part of their regular operation.
That is how humans behave instinctively. It isn't work. It just happens. The same will happen to your TV series. At some point, you'll like different stuff.

It also isn't "little gain" - it's the most efficient approach to the multi-armed bandit problem. Other approaches are less efficient.
I love his stream and was watching as well, but decided to also try out NASASpaceFlight (https://www.youtube.com/c/NASASpaceflightVideos) and was pleasantly surprised. They had video feeds from multiple sides so you could really see the landing, as well as integrating the SpaceX live feed. I hope Tim does the same in the future, as they only showed a view of the landing pad and clouds during the entire flight i.e. we only saw 3 seconds of take-off and landing.
I'd argue that celebrities of all kinds should be held to higher standards for truth and good behavior.

More followers means more potential for misuse.
There are certainly outcomes like yours. However if you look at the aggregate statistics, it is rather different.

One can remind oneself that a child neither chooses their genetic inheritance nor their social environment which may lead to a hard-working mentality and the opportunities that comes with studying and making efforts.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-bad-luck/
What did it for me was financial independence. It's easier to set boundaries when the fear of missing out is gone.

When I started setting those boundaries (eg: not working evenings, weekends, etc) I discovered a few interesting things.

1) No one even noticed. It turns out most people are busy enough with their personal lives that my work schedule isn't on anyone's mind.

2) When there are delays we just push the date or adjust the scope. I'm no longer getting pats on the back for moving the needle at light speed, but I'm still outperforming my peers.

3) Now I need to be mindful about how I make my decisions. When I brute forced, I would throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. I'd eventually find the optimal solution to a problem and that's the only thing other people would see. They didn't see the 100 other failed attempts and wasted time. Now I don't have 100 attempts at solving a problem: I have like 5 attempts. It works out fine.

Could I have been doing this all along? Was my chaotic brute force working model just a lot of wasted energy? Could I have just worked smarter, not harder?
Perhaps, at the individual level, you can claim that 'voluntary' can never mean abusive.

But this would be too simplistic. Many 'voluntary' relationships are abusive.

Think about the system implications and dynamics over time here. There are power imbalances and changing expectations. People rarely have the unfettered freedom implicit in your claim.

And, if you think beyond the individual level -- at the society level, one's analysis must go much deeper.
> You either choose to be fully digital, and make digital communication the way work gets done, or you harm people out of the office.

I say this as someone who managed mixed distributed / WFH teams: If in-person conversations are an advantage (and they are), no company is going to willingly surrender them for the sake of catering to the people who aren't in the office.

That doesn't mean teams can ignore the remote team members. It's everyone's responsibility to communicate and share information. However, there's no sense in reducing the efficiency of in-office employees just to level the playing field.

The strategies that worked best for my teams were to structure the hires and the workloads according to who could work best together. For example, having an in-office back end team combined with a WFH front-end team works well, because the communication is naturally segmented across team boundaries anyway.

On the other hand, if you put one of the front-end devs in the office with the back-end devs while everyone else is WFH, you need to be prepared to make that in-office person the team lead because they're going to become the primary communication point whether you want it or not.

I love my mixed distributed/WFH teams, but I'll never deny that in-office communication still reigns supreme. That said, distributed can be made to work as long as you do your planning and structuring around the natural communication lines rather than trying to fight it.
Same thing with Slack. I like the idea of open hours.
Can you link this? I tried finding it
If you liked OW or UT (or any arena fps), maybe you would like Quake(and 2 and 3), Openarena, Xonotic, Sauerbraten or Assault Cube.
Those are nearly free these days ;) (at least the online part). Maybe not current AAA quality, but nothing better than the raw speed and fraggin everything you can see (and where the crosshair sees it) with no waits and respawning every time...

Seriously, try one of them. Sauer or xonotic would be a nice start. They are open source too,
Awesome list! The '<ol> tip reminds me that I wish there was a better way to do nested list numbering of the kind you'd likely find in a table of contents, such as "1.1.2" and so on. As far as I'm aware there's no simple way to do this natively without using CSS or JS to change the list item prefix.
As a kid you form basic views from basic presumptions with often little information.

Having the "revelation" that XYZ important person are simply humans like the rest of us is an adjustment of those views.

And I would argue that while it may not be groundbreaking, it is no less poignant.

By taking the hero off the pedestal they become our equal, which means we too are capable of being important to someone.
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