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Amazon’s my go to e-commerce place. I use chewy for dog things due to the 30% auto ship price hack. And niche sites for all else.

Amazon just has a superior webpage and shopping experience than all the other major players.

If it’s a big ticket item I might get it from a retail store. But with the recent kohls Amazon return policy I’m slowly changing that behavior as well.
I miss that sense of wonder from the early computing days.
Per the letter, that is precisely what they're asking for. It's not asking for a blanket statement to make it up to each employee, but rather to make it up acceptable for teams to have remote employees if they so choose.

Also to collect the information regarding how the lack of remote work factors in to hiring/churn to then further allow those teams to make decisions
Global sea level rise also doesn't affect all places equally. Northern Europe is expected to be below average for sea level rise. https://www.climatecentral.org/news/ice-melt-means-uneven-se...
> lacking destructors

seriously? write a `deinit(self: *Self)` function into your struct and explicitly call `defer obj.deinit()`. Explicit is better than implicit. And the penalty? One line of code per destroy site, plus writing the `allocator.destroy(self)` line in your deinit method. As a result of being explicit, SO many headaches are solved. What are the rules again when you have a C++ class that polymorphically inherits destruction? What were the override rules, if your child class needs to implement its destructor? What order do destructors trigger when there's more than one for stack-objects? what about in std::vector?? What about in std::map??
>most management jobs ... are easy

{{Citation needed}}
Man I should've done my research before joining, my team was regularly pulling 70+ hour weeks including weekends for the first four/five months I was there (granted we were understaffed and behind schedule for launch at re:Invent at the time). Grateful for the experience because everything else feels like a breeze afterwards, but also definitely never putting up with that again lol
> people spend almost all their time at work now

I see this claim made a lot every time the "politics in the workplace" conversation happens, but really? "Almost all their time"? Isn't a normal person supposed to work 8 hours a day, sleep 8/10hours at night and spent 8/6 hours doing something else? If my math is correct that's not "almost all their time".

If some people are incapable of having a life outside of work, well balanced people shouldn't have to pay the price of their obsessions.
You are correct. YC emphasizes regularly that the forums are private and otherwise the people wouldn’t share as much or give blunter truth.

Having seen screenshots of the post in question, it was bad, but it also would have been strange to kick someone out for that. The poster is an asshole and proud of it, but the community seems to have responded directly.
Yeah, I understand you don't want to set it aside in general which is fine. I was only requesting you set it aside to entertain what I was saying in the above comment.

And sure, happy to review the guidelines, all prior points aside.

Though to be clear, the problems of this community go deep when a moderator is dismissing this kind of serious issue as petty drama.
They are anti consumer on returns lately.

I bought a Keurig that broke on the 3rd day and they wouldn’t take it back because I bought the extra warranty they sell on them.

Warranty company wouldn’t do anything because it was within the store refund timeframe.

I’ve not had that problem with Amazon.
> I mean, a bullshit job is someone who spends their entire workday in meetings, answering e-mails and generating reports. None of which is useful if it isn't actually in support of _real_ work.

What counts as real work? How many levels of indirection is allowed?
> Worst case you get banned.

I would much rather stop for 30 seconds than be banned from my local grocery store.
I think a bullshit job is one where you don't get paid, or get paid very little.
Didn’t Coda Lite do that? Or do you mean compiling?
Thank you for bringing up complex differentiability.

Complex analysis is the only field I've found that seems to genuinely require complex numbers rather than just polar coordinate notation. However I get the impression that complex analysis, as a research field, has been a dead end for a long time now with few people working on it [1].

If pure research has come to a halt then it's fair to judge the field based on the practical applications it has achieved. Are there many? The class of holomorphic functions is pretty rigidly constrained -- infinitely differentiable, equivalent to a Taylor series at each point. I once heard that even physicists doubt the legitimacy of assuming that all physical functions are holomorphic (but now I'm speaking beyond my expertise). Continuing to speak beyond my expertise, I don't think Feynman had holomorphic functions in mind when he said "our jewel".

I have to say that the definition of limits for complex numbers always seemed like an artificial straitjacket. I understand why you can't have complex limits defined any other way, but maybe the take-away here isn't "complex limits should work like this" so much as "complex limits, and therefore complex analysis, is not very useful".

[1] "Complex analysis is pretty much dead. There are some remaining problems but most of them are either too specialised or too difficult. This is not a very healthy situation, and there are relatively few people working in complex analysis nowadays.", Dmitry Beliaev
, former Assistant Professor (Mathematics) at Princeton University, https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-mathematics-faculty-at-P...
It always sucks to find out afterwards that certain game-changing resources were available and went unused.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of response would surpass the one that you received. I am impressed that the surgeon himself took the time to reach out, and I would value that immensely if I were in your shoes.

Here's hoping the surgery went far better than the hospital's communication of its resources. My layman's understanding is that pancreatic surgery is challenging.
R.A. Lafferty: “The Greatest Catholic Novelist You Never Heard Of” (2018)
They had a code but not a name. The media can't refer to things by a confusing jumble of letters and numbers, they need a name, and if there's no official name then the media will create one themselves. Hence "India variant".

This is basic PR, e.g. when Heartbleed was disclosed it was given a name so that people could discuss it and attach meaning to it.
Ew, and some years ago I almost but not quite entirely rewrote pnglite exactly because med data has to be lossless, mostly grayscale, in tens of megabytes, and JPEG2000 doesn't even approach to cut it. Something like 10-20Mpix lossless grayscale, well, actually approaching good old xray photos.

What possesed someone to actually attempt to use JPEG2000 I do not understand.
It depends very much on what happens with Antarctic and (to a lesser extent) Greenland ice sheets.
I don't think so. I think NTSC's color issues (compared to PAL) were due more to how PAL alternates the phase of the lines (PAL = phase alternating lines, btw). The alternating phases or PAL had the effect of canceling out transmission errors (in the colors), providing more stable color than NTSC. This is somewhat similar to how balanced pairs in ethernet cables cancel out transmission errors. (see also: balanced lines in long pro audio cables or differential pairs in PCB routing)
Most of politics is arguments about what is common sense.
Let's try: bombing civilians.
Top 10%? More like top 1%.
> “petty drama” speaks volumes

Big time agree here. The comment was substantive and succinct. Saying it was “petty drama” in the top comment sets a tone for the convo.
Why is the date of the scan important? I do believe there is a blog post from 2005 on the front page right now! I just found this today and think its so cool that a high quality scan of such a historically significant document is available online for free :)
It's a wildcat bank. That's what wildcat banks are.
I seldom lock my house (or car). So I'm in the same boat. But, I live in a town (technically city) of 20 000. I have 30 neighbors. When I'm in New York City, I lock my car. The same goes for the Internet. It's Huge. I have billions of neighbors. So I lock my door. Even though my house is not national security infrastructure.
Companies existing in the free market could pay people all day long to do useless work, like digging ditches and filling them. Government can also pay people all day long to do useless work, like digging ditches and filling them. However the company can go out of business - the government retains their make-work labor force in perpetuity without consequence.
They get different answer by asking a different question and moving the bar and then pass the entire thesis off as envy? Dismal science, indeed.
...and yet, it would have been better than this setup.
>Why is it difficult to keep the political leanings, opinions, activism away from the workplace and act like professionals?

Some people have made these things part of their core identity.
That profit margin sounds very off. Is there a reference you are using to determine that? For an average $200 bill the store makes 1 dollar?
My first Windows system was a Win 95 Pentium 75 with 8 megabytes of memory. Can't remember how big the hard drive was. At the time - coming from an Amiga with 1 megabyte - 8 megabytes seemed like an obcene amount of memory but due to the demands of that OS I pretty much instantly upgraded to 16.
Right. Companies insist employees believe in the mission. Employees insist on a mission they can believe in.
CPUC Approves First Driverless Autonomous Vehicle Service [pdf]
I lost at least a week when I figured out you could change the WinXP start menu text with a hex editor and went down the rabbit hole from there.

Having a start menu that read "na85" in lieu of "Start" made teenage me feel like the leetest of haxors.
It's seems to be possible according to this video.

https://youtu.be/vzbhb__khDE
Apple is upping AirTags' privacy measures, will alert you if strange ones nearby
Your case is a bit different. If you hadn’t taken the shots, they would have been wasted because half-filled vials are disposed of at the end of the day. So in your case it was either vaccinate someone or vaccinate no one.

It’s not the same as the accusation of someone skipping the line.
Fun fact, it's named after its creators: Joe and Jay Bonzi.

But, it's basically malware.
Debatable. My $300,000 FANG job was bullshit. In the end I worked 6 hours a week and was still considered a top performer. I had to quit because of how bored I was. Either the job was bullshit or I’m just very very competent. I lean towards the former though.
I'll applaud what you did. Early on there was a very clear need for those at risk to be vaccinated and the guidelines for essential farm workers were pretty clearly meant for those getting food to tables who were working in close quarters with others.

The odds of one of them getting and spreading it to many others were much greater for them than you, and that's what needed to be considered.
I don't think he's asking for video cards to natively handle JPEG images. ISTM what he is advocating for is keeping the JPEG decompressed in memory in a YUV format rather than RGB. The savings come from the fact that the UV parts are downsampled, not from any sort of compression.

So since you already have to process the image, it doesn't seem like a big ask to convert from JPEG-flavored YUV to GPU-flavored YUV. But I'm not an expert, so maybe this is hard/lossy?
>Advertising is mostly zero sum

I'm not an economist, but I think this is very incorrect if you include the higher-order effects. It would seem to me that advertising is a massive driver of increased consumption and production, causing people to work more to buy things they otherwise wouldn't. As such, depending on which metric you measure (e.g. productivity vs. wellbeing), advertising is either strongly positive sum or negative sum.
Essentially yes. Once you get the first, you are scheduled for the 2nd, and aren’t questioned (and really, it’s all very honor system anyways).

Early in vaccination, I believe sites were reserving 2nd doses for everyone who got the first. Then production became predictable enough where cdc instructed sites to not reserve in favor of increasing vaccine rates. Then sites always prioritized people returning for 2nd doses (internally, or through scheduling systems)
>or worse, as a way to keep workers busy so they don't cause trouble for "the system". Which I believe was one of Mr. Graeber's main points.

Are you suggesting there's a global cabal of executives colluding to create bullshit jobs to keep the populace in check? Absent that, I doubt this is actually the reason, because it suffers from the free rider problem. If you spend money keeping workers occupied, you'll be reaping the benefits (them not revolting) but so will your competitors who aren't spending any money on such jobs. Prisoner's dilemma would suggest that companies that don't collude would defect, and none of them would be hiring for bullshit jobs.
That logic exists mainly to paint a target on your back and to internalize guilt and disempowerment. It's missing the hidden condition that distinguishes someone claiming to be anti-racist, admitting that they are racist, and acknowledging that other people are calling them racist: they are meant to feel shame and be put into an inverted power situation favoring the person doing the accusing. Else every troll on Twitter would be antiracist in all but name.
Jet is gone. Shame, I was a fan.
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're referring to.
Sounds a bit like going back in time to the 1700s when misprision of felony was still on the books.
On the second half, I saw a quote from C.S. Lewis (here on HN[1]) which I thought captured the same sentiment well:

Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out.
Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible?

If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.

-- C.S. Lewis

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26614034
They exist. They are real. They aren't ours.

Strong words for what’s essentially a blurry black dot on a grainy black and white video.

It’s 2021, until we see a clear video of an actual vehicle that looks like something other than a blurry smudge I’m not believing anything.
The one nearer me has a great self-checkout area. I usually prefer self-checkout, and my wait is rarely longer than 1 minute. I don't shop there often - perhaps 2x per month for some specific items, but long checkout is never an issue.

That said, it used to be, before the self-checkout area.
And, when traveling, I end up popping in to Walmarts in various parts of the country now and then, and the checkout times are always a gamble.

re: #6 - I wonder if it has something to do with the aisles being there more for the convenience of the packers and movement of goods in the store, vs the convenience of shoppers. I understand your point, and do notice it sometimes, and have tried to compare it to other shops. However, in the last few years, I found myself going to shops less and less overall, so it's harder for me to remember and compare against competitors fairly.
Open communications, but only as long as it stays totally within FB? Looks like an oxymoron !
> They don’t even know they have a mask on. White people think it’s their actual face. We need to get to know the mask.

I know this is the post, but good grief
The new doc sounds exciting! I'm looking forward to giving it a read.

I think the approach Oil takes is pretty cool. It just seems like a lot of work, and I'm much more interested in Oil than in OSH.

I can see how it might make Oil attractive to Linux distros for choosing as a system shell, though, since it means they could just ship the one binary, and then offer experienced POSIX shell users OSH as an escape hatch while still presenting Oil as the preferred way to write scripts.

It does also partially spare users from the problems Fish users face where CLI tools ship with scripts to initialize a bunch of env vars, and now suddenly you either need them to ship a Fish script, translate it yourself, or do some hacking where you run a BASH shell and mirror its env var changes.

So I can see some benefits for sure, but to me those are less exciting than the new stuff. :D
What is reproductive capital?
>- Advertising is mostly zero sum; if you have competition fighting over the same pool of potential customers, any marginal dollar you spend will work mostly to offset the marginal dollar your competition spends.

wars are zero sum too (the land up for grabs is fixed). does that mean armies are bullshit?
Exactly one. The whole point of supporting someone doing real work is that you are valuable to that person and therefore your work is real. The moment the number of levels of indirection can go beyond 1 is where it spirals to infinity, and you enter the bureaucratic nightmare world.
>2) They've obviously carefully tuned their check out staffing so that the lines are always long. This is such a constant that it has to be intentional, and they're doing a good job of it.

---

This is actually an anti-pattern in their org;

They have FAILED to properly train to and address this problem, thus it persists.

Its not intentional - it is through lack of taking a focus on this aspect of their business, or looking at it - and determining they prefer/dont mind it...
Yikes! Sorry all, and especially Hnrobert42 - I didn't see that I was replying to someone else than the GP commenter. I've added to my post to clarify that now.

Thank you for the heads up! I usually don't make that mistake, and it's embarrassing.
This is an astounding amount of work for such a small project. Looks like the 0.7.0 release was about a year and a half ago.

I've been sponsoring for a couple months now. I love the passion here and want to support a smart, dedicated guy leading a project in the open. I'm curious just to see what happens and where the project goes. Watching Andy brainstorm, experiment, and triage in GitHub issues has been worth the $5/mo, in project management tips alone!

One of these days I'll have to actually give Zig a try...
Or a Windows Update that requires a reboot.
I think you're right, but I also think what Graeber was legitimate in the sense that he went at it from the other end.

Yes, economists (especially the non-neoclassical ones) came up with all sorts of market failures. But they can seem to be a bit theoretical, as in, well, maybe these things happen in the wild, but maybe mostly not. In other words, they treat it as interesting, but disconnected, phenomena.

Graeber, as an anthropologist, just noticed lots of people being unhappy even in the situation of material abundance. And he looked for an unifying explanation. I think there definitely is a connection, but it will have to wait for somebody to analyze it in more detail.
Looks like a fun project! Would this be used for writing a point-to-point protocol on top of LoRa?
> And don't get me started on his debt book

I must admit I'm tempted to get you started :). Can you recommend a review of it that shares your criticism?
Ahh, thank you for the explanation. That's an awesome tool!

I actually could really see using it, now that I understand what it does.

I've worked on some firmware projects where we did OTA updates and were guilty of shipping the entire binary. Luckily, even the entire binary was rather small, but still it would have been very cool to be able to create a diff and ship only the diff!
delete it?
Oh, I really didn't think it was clear from your comment or follow up.

Honestly I have friends who lied to get the vaccine early and I don't really want to blame them. We were all in different circumstances in this pandemic and like I tried to say I don't want to pass judgement.

If you didn't lie I cannot see in any way how you did anything wrong. I read that you did from your follow-up post calling other people Karen's.

Not that it matters, but I did get vaccinated the very first day it was open for me where I live.
Just shut up about it dork, not hatd
This talks about how to configure it: https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/parallel-collections/c...
>Saying it was “petty drama” in the top comment sets a tone for the convo.

Top comment is the top comment because it was voted to the top. One doesn't say anything in a top comment; one says something in a comment which may become the top comment.
Dentists outside the USA do this, too. I once had a dentist outside the US even admit this to me. She seemed embarassed by her former classmates from dental school who were operating this way.
HEB Central Market has excellent cheeses.
You can have strict lint checks enforced with pre-commit hooks/ci checks. My current team I've been adding type checker tests (mypy + pyright) and for now as we're missing types I have type checkers on a nice rule of any prs you make must decrease the number of type errors (by 5, but up to you how harsh you want to be) in master to be merged forcing people to add more types. Once the type hints eventually hit 0 on our current strictness settings I'll gradually increase strictness requirements higher. Full strictness of no Any's anywhere including intermediates isn't really possible as a number of 3rd party packages lack types (tensorflow is especially sad with types). But we can get many of the strictness and that should cover a large number of basic bugs.
The rules work!
I’m inclined to agree with you, despite your downvotes. Woke ideology is steeped in fundamentalism and it seems to have filled the void where religion used to be. Some people can’t help but be religious; it’s an emergent quality of humans in large societies.
>For instance, the financial markets are extremely competitive, but they are largely based around marketing bullshit products to more clueless people. [...] For example, selling you overpriced insurance enriches me and makes you feel better. Win-win!

It goes beyond making people "feel better". It's about variance and/or managing risk. eg. so if you die of cancer with a wife and 3 kids they won't end up in the poor house.
I agree. Except this:

> these "allies" are worse than ... overtly prejudiced/racist people.

I disagree. By my reckoning, there just isn't a comparison, by almost any metric of societal damage. Of course, it doesn't have to be a contest. That's not the important thing.
Depends on the outfit, some are better than others, but this source[1] puts the ave at 2.2%. I knew an mgr at one of these and they told me 0.5% to 1%.

[1]https://smallbusiness.chron.com/profit-margin-supermarket-22...