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Yea, I kind of cringe when I read the all-hands e-mails from my company that say things like "We know this has been incredibly difficult for all of you..." and "Everyone wants to get back into the office..." Wow, speak for yourself--it's been the best year of my life, and no, I'd rather just stay remote permanently, thankyouverymuch!

On the other hand, it gives me a chance to step back and develop some real empathy for everyone else. I recognize that I am blessed, and most people aren't wired like me, and the isolation has been really tough for them. When I interact with people over videoconference, I have to remind myself that this person might very well be suffering to the point of a mental breakdown from all this, and I need to communicate with care and thoughtfulness.
Last time I looked at INS the state of the art was laser gyroscopes. They were pretty good at maintaining your position, but still suffer from error buildup like any INS system. IIRC the drift became significant (more than 10m) over about a couple of hours of over-land driving. Very good by INS standards, but not something you can solely rely on.
Right, but the choice is actually "Being able to hire to solve a problem" or "Being required to upskill any developer to become productive", and most would (rightly) choose the former.
#2 does indeed sound like a huge potential source of problems. "Total number of changes" is a terrible metric.

It blows my mind that there are some major issues with Gmail that haven't been fixed - for instance, if I find a message in my Spam folder that isn't spam and mark it as such from inside the message, it instantly disappears from my spam box and the view returns to the spam folder view instead of staying on the message. The message is now marked as Read so I can't find it by going to my inbox and viewing unread messages, and I can't use the browser's back button to navigate back to it because when it's out of spam it gets a different URL. So I have to remember exactly what I was looking at if I want to go back and find it. It's a hugely inconvenient UX made even worse by the fact that Gmail flat-out IGNORES my whitelisting certain email addresses from people I work with, so I'm always digging around my Spam folder looking for stuff they say they sent me that didn't land in my inbox.

Uncle Meat may not be Zappa's best albums, but it's definitely one of his best and most catchy album names.
I've not done it myself yet but I've known people who've sworn by this and I'm intrigued what the rest of HN thinks.. Apparently long challenges/walks can hugely reset the brain and expand perspectives. Stuff like doing the Camino de Santiago, the Pacific Crest Trail, hiking to Everest Base Camp, the Appalachian Trial, etc. Might be difficult in this environment though I'm hoping to do a pilgrimage myself one day.
> Can we go back to 1995 when $9.99 VHS exercise tapes were still an option?

Exercise DVDs in that price range (same nominal price, substantially lower real price than $9.99 in 1995 dollars) are readily available and DVD players are cheap.
> Treat sleep like it is your full time job.

Well said. More time off and/or WFH will not cure what a shitty lifestyle of going to bed late, eating badly and not exercising does to one's life.

Ironically, coming back to the office, has forced me to better choices than the ones I had when WFH. Even though I spend more time commuting and have less time to myself, I am getting more done now by sheer virtue of going to bed early, spending less on junk food cause I plan my lunches, have lost weight and have better stamina from just having to walk my ass off to and from train stations to get to work early.

More discipline will set you free. It sounds paradoxical but it does.
Enforced boredom. Like, seriously, the three phases of a burnout recovery vacation are “I’m trying to relax”, “I am so incredibly bored”, and “I’m resting”, in that order. The trick is not to try and override the boredom through complex intense activities. Same deal with healing an injury: once it stops hurting, you have to take more care to let it heal, not less.
Go work with System76 and get me a RISC-V RV64GCV Laptop. That would be awesome.
Optical illusion, atmospheric phenomenon, weather balloon, bird, commercial aviation, civil aviation, private drone.
And don't even get me started on berries!

Fun fact, eggplants and tomatoes are berries, raspberries and blackberries are not.
I wonder how many ARM cores are built into a typical PC motherboard and other components these days.
You would have to share your phone which you are probably less likely. Scanner doesn't need to know who the code was generated for only if this is a legit authorized app - it's easy to check if this is a real app with some challenge-response instead of one way-communication
The problem with cryptocurrencies is very simple.

At some point X-COIN will reach a maximum price, $MAX. Why would anyone buy X-COIN at $MAX? By definition it will lose you money. You can repeat this argument with any amount, because ultimately you're just going to subject someone else to the same situation.

Regress this to its logical extreme and you see there's no point of buying it at all, unless crypto itself has some meaningful value beyond its converted price to fiat. That itself has yet to be proven.
I looked over the Silice readme yesterday, and as a seasoned HDL engineer, I didn't see anything for me but I could see it's merit as a learning tool.

On HLS in general, I was a skeptic too until I read this paper. [1] I am still more a verilog and verilog-mode [2] kinda guy but I can definitely see the benefits. For me, it's hard to look at figures 5,6,7 & 8 and not be impressed. I've actually started using Chisel [3] because of that paper.

That said, it's not all unicorns and rainbows. Unfortunately dealing with back end CAD is kinda an issue because they use verilog as an intermediate language and one basically ends up with the C++ name mangling issue. Chisel is not so bad about it, but it's not great either.

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~magyar/documents/firrtl-ic...
[2] https://veripool.org/verilog-mode/help/
[3] https://github.com/schoeberl/chisel-book
I am not sure when the titular Alien reveals its additional set of moray-like jaws but that certainly comes to mind.
> Angry gamers accused the company of "selling out to Facebook" or "handing the future over to a deranged billionaire and his ad-fuelled dreams".
This is a VERY crowded market. What are you bringing that makes your product unique and valuable? Videos?

Is the video content curated? By whom and how?

Are you charging the video suppliers? What's the model for you and for them?

If not, do you have copyright coverage for the videos?

This seems like a challenging app space for an independent developer
ONE MANTRA OF WISDOM ALWAYS TRUE:

Security and closed source OS do not live in the same house.
The Backblaze Rebrand Reveal
The point is that just because there is something unidentified does not mean its aliens.
Nothing is perfect, this is better than nothing though. [1]

The way my company does this is they ask a lot of questions and then mostly look at aggregates. E.g. they might ask 6 questions about "how do you feel about the size of your workload", "do you feel you have time to do the important things in your life", "are you satisfied with the amount of vacation you take", "do you feel stressed", ... and then roll those into a single "work life balance" metric (questions and specific metric entirely made up).

And actually we outsource to a survey company that does that for us, which apart from outsourcing the non-core competency, means that there is a reasonably neutral party deciding how to aggregate things (I think, I'm not involved in the survey design).

[1] Therefore this is better than perfect?
But paying $35+ for a single one hour spinning class?

Pricing like this happens when there are enough people that can afford it without thinking about it, and they don't want to be surrounded by people who can not afford it.

It's a smaller scale version of a town with very high taxes, and no extra benefits for those taxes.
There are 0 unicorns and 3.9 billion women out there. Many of those are dateable. I can see why somebody would think like you if they've been single for a long time, but my experience has been that arranging dates in my mid-late twenties and early thirties is easier than ever.
I'm sorry you're dealing with this as well, but at least in a twisted way that validates us both. What you described as your burnout is the same as mine. I definitely am dying for some purpose and I haven't had much interaction with my coworkers lately other than when something breaks. I've been pushing for other work and better pay so we'll see where that leads.
Where can I sign the petition to blast The Guardian to space? The articles there have turned to absurdity...
> "Why such secrecy?"

I don't know, but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where the US military benefits from people believing they have access to such advanced technology. Much like how Russia uses literal inflatable "tanks" to bolster the appearance of their military.

If you were them, would you really want to dispel the belief that you might be even more powerful than you let on?
Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
For as long as I've been working professionally, I have been slacking around a lot of the time, reading blog posts, HN, often even reading (tech, biz-related) books and just doing the bare minimum for appearances sake but no one seems to notice. In the office I book a booth to work in to have some peace & quiet and have a couple of code commits prepared to not arouse suspicion. In companies with perf reviews I get some useful feedback here and there but most of the time it's positive, people love to work with me, I do get stuff done if I have to, but as soon as I can get away with doing close to nothing, I'll take the chance. I don't think I'm blocking other teams and I don't think I'm preventing my own team from having accomplishments and often people refer to me as being either partially or mostly responsible for shipping something because I manage to have a clear mind and focus when things get close to a deadline.

If I am motivated and the task/project/product is fun I throw myself into it but that isn't sustainable. I've read a few of these posts from people at FAANG doing almost the same so I don't really feel bad about it. I'm just wondering how wide-spread this is. One of my theories for this behavior is that this is related to 40+ hour work weeks. I think I'd be able to get my devopsy work done in ~3 hours/day if I manage my time well and schedule most meetings on Mondays.
why would they visit us? We have an average sun, a weird planet with a bit too much iron, but no more ressources than any other planetary system. Would they want to study us? In this case they have a technology capable of contourning any physic law we nknow of, and bypassing any method of detecting invisible objects based on particles that we know exist, and still manage to disable this tech at weird moments? Because of a glitch? And don't get me started on Alien "crashes".

(also, if they are among us and capable of feat we can't imagine, this is hugely improbable that the presence is recent. Like one in a billion)

There is two solutions: Either aliens visited us or they didn't. If they did, this would be VERY concerning that their software is glitching that bad.

My rational theory is this: Aliens visited us or did not, and i don't really care (treating them the same as god or any new-age consciousness theory), but UFOs are a bigger proof of human bias than alien visit in any case.
Software services would all support being plugged into a distributed transaction manager, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_XA . Instead there has been more of a shift toward embracing inconsistency.

Another: There was always this idea that in the future, applications would be built to run on the database, such as with stored procedures. Obviously, this was widely done, and continues to be done, but it never really matured in the way we expected. There is still a big gap in tooling to make this easy.

This is also related to the ideas we had back then about object persistence. One day, we imagined, we would just manipulate objects in memory, and all of the concerns about persisting those changes, including making it performant, would be taken care of.

Also, transactional memory was surely going to be the norm, whether in software or hardware.
> In the US, bars often ask for photo ID to verify that customers are old enough to be served alcohol

If I saw the person pull out a notebook and write my information down I would physically take my ID back and walk away. I'm pretty sure most people would be put off by this action.
That's a 24 V AC power supply with a 8 meter cable, which requires a lot more copper and iron than a little switch-mode DC plugpack with as little cable as they can get away with. They're very different products.
There's nothing quite as delicious as slowly waking up without an alarm.
For example, Russia could create disinformation that implicates NATO for some incident.
It's not as simple as that (and I don't think your halving of purchasing power number comes from anywhere). And your argument ignores the negative effects of offshoring on entire communities in parts of the developed world.
Jose wrote a blog post on this exact question http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/10/kubernetes-and-the-...
Desktop operating systems as a differentiating feature started being a strategic failure because of the web. Ballmer doubled down on Windows at the expense of other stuff.

There is a common HN trope that Ballmer was doing everything perfectly and Nadella just continued it.

I don’t buy it and neither did the market. (Neither did Microsoft’s board presumably)

I think Ballmer’s entire strategic direction was long-term wrong and Nadella changed it. This isn’t to say no projects started under Ballmer (they definitely did) it’s about whether those were prioritized or would have ever shipped under him successfully.

If the wrong things are considered important - it doesn’t really matter what projects are happening.
You serious? The guy/girl is taking on the task of trying to help with understanding of one of the most complex, and well known, books we have as a species! And he/she is trying to do so using technology that most here are familiar with. How in hell (pardon the pun) is this not relevant?
Its a super interesting challenge
I've never created a consumer facing webapp in Django, but because of the automatic admin stuff I love to use it for quick internal webapps where the prettiness of the UI doesn't really matter.
I use the Nvidia card on my P50 with Linux (Mint) and the results are... OK. The biggest problem is that when it resumes from suspend, about 50% of the time it forgets that there are external monitors connected. Sometimes it forgets both (falling back to the laptop panel), sometimes it forgets one or the other. Sometimes it enables both, but forgets to apply the rotation, so the positioning is all weird. I have to re-enable and re-position both external monitors, and then move all my windows around to where they're supposed to be.
Did Nike address anything? I assumed everyone was still manufacturing in poorer countries due to more lax labor and environmental laws.

They might run some ads how they changed suppliers or something, but people are not going to pay double or triple for clothing so a factory worker in Bangladesh can get a better quality of life at work. People will not even pay more so their neighbors and countryman can have a better quality of life.
I will echo the other sentiment here about the lack of support for anything other than RSA keys in various products that have SSH tooling is both maddening and absurd considering that it's just a string that's passed around.

Microsoft Azure, for instance, doesn't support them. Pure idiocy.
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I think there are essentially 2 approaches.

First, maybe it's not really burnout. Try taking a bit of vacation, hanging with friends, clocking a little less than 40 hours a week, sleeping eating and exercising better, or learning some new hobby. If that all does nothing, then you may have real burnout, which needs a more extreme solution.

1. Step back and unplug from the professional world for 6+ months. Do something totally new and orthogonal. Wait until you get thrilled at the prospect of joining a new team and only then get back into it.

2. Take a motivational inventory and see if there's anything with the power to continue to drive you in your current situation. You may want to talk to a therapist to work on some of this life goal stuff. I'd personally recommend someone who practices positive psychology or Logotherapy. If you find something in your current situation that has the spark, lean into it for all it's worth.

I've been there and back again a few times. It gets better if you work on it.
I think Python definitely has its drawbacks, and it's not fast. The other downsides listed in that article (whitespace, variable scoping, lambdas, mobile, etc.) may also be get in your way sometimes, but seems doubtful that they are language killers...I agree the argument presented in that article is weak.

I'm biased, but I think Python as your daily driver language is a great choice.
> Well, now everyone are using Javascript and Python, and no one seems to be complaining.

Read more Hacker News and you'll see complaints about both languages.
Maybe he is too charitable in his assessment, but the reality is the rapist allegations are not true (entirely mob escalated nonsense) and from what I can gather largely the reason he was "canceled". I suspect the shitty creepy sexual predator label is simply the author internalizing the mobs reaction. There's a very very fine line between "creepy" and "has game" and it usually comes down to how attractive you are which moulds how other people happen to perceive your advances.
> Maybe the solution is to have a smart compiler that compiles out these inefficiencies?

Compilers are software. A "smarter" compiler is probably going to consume more resources.
NeutralinoJS adds Menu TrayIcon support
I was also curious about this too, it took a few steps to get the SHC data into something human readable. I posted what worked for me here - https://github.com/ogarraux/california-vaccine-record-reader.
I'm not talking food, but items like automatic watering bowls, nail clippers, pet carriers, still in package, some sealed in that plastic that is really hard to cut open.
I've burnt out a hundred times and come back a hundred times. Give your body and mind some time to regain inspiration. Each time you come back, you come back stronger than before. Your mind will find new things it's interested in.

Turn of all computers, go outside, force yourself to "exist" without any stimulation like your cell phone, caffeine, alcohol etc. All of these things prevent us from experiencing boredom which means recovering from burnout takes longer.

Burnout is a normal part of the creative process and expect it to happen again.
Given that figuratively all the causes of death in the Western World are directly caused (strokes) or heavily correlated (depression) with a sedentary life style, I am quite sure that regular hiking will massively improve life length and quality.

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if people cared about the things that actually kill. Like, what if we would invest 300 trillion dollars into fighting prostate cancer instead of "terrorists"? What if we would design an entire education system around healthy sport instead of the prevention of "stranger danger"?
Actually I think it was a Goblin Shark.
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This is an extremely low valuation for how famous BD is. They could have gone public and sold 10-20% of their stock for $1B.
Can you explain in detail further?

How would the smart contract confirm the decryption works... without having access to the key and data (and therefor making it all public?)

How does this protect against meaningless data being sent - all you've confirmed is that something can be decrypted... but says nothing about what is being decrypted.

What use case do you have for this. What situation is there where you need data from someone, but so little trust exists you can't pay them before or after the data is sent?
Seems that would be a supply chain nightmare, plus it would multiply capital costs. I doubt it's worth it.
Animals That Asked People for Help
Modeling Volatility in Cryptocurrencies (2018)
FWIW The Motley Fool discloses under each article whether they own stock or options on each company they talk about.
I wonder how Kubernetes would look like if it was built on top of the BEAM.
That’s not how vaccine effectiveness works. There’s already a probability less than one of getting Covid if unvaccinated, and the effectiveness of the vaccine is the reduction from that.

So if over the course of their study period, 100 unvaccinated people got covid out of a thousand tracked, with a 98% effectiveness, only 2 people in the 1000 people vaccinated group would have gotten it.

So vaccines are really effective. Even more so for preventing serious complications.
This. I’m dealing with all the consequences of ignoring health and burnout for years. I always had an excuse about some deadline or other.
I’m serious about it now, but it’s a brutal road back.

Health first, diet and exercise. Cut the sugar. Physical hobbies are a must.

Work after those are being handled.

Consider it an reinvestment, drop in productivity for a few weeks as your body gets used to it. Huge payouts later on.

Don’t feel guilt for paying technical debt. Same for health debt.
What about -Wall and -Werror? :)
Well, which explanation would you prefer then? JES3, which is the closest extant example of such tech?

I'm comparing it to statically assigned k8s not because it's manually assigned applications, but because it's a cluster system where the equivalent of k8s scheduler was run offline to resolve various performance and deadline constraints, both between specific application threads on the cluster, and between devices on the AFDX (modified ethernet) network that are managed from said cluster.

Comparing ARINC-653 partitions to k8s pods and the overall setup of typical IMA cluster with k8s makes for simplest way, IMO, to describe the setup to people who have some experience with servers and cloud, but none with aviation embedded :)
In terms of just using the app and not the bike: The bike hardware is very good. Peloton claims to only break even on it and I can believe that - it’s an extremely sturdy bike.
In what world is stopping a deadly disease that also paralyzes healthcare for everyone abuse? The virus is abusing us, that's for sure. Unfortunately it doesn't quite adhere to law, otherwise tens of thousands of people more would still be alive in my country. The only way to stand up to a force of nature like that is to stick to some common sense rules as a society, like "let's avoid crowds" or "let's all get vaccines".
Maybe you need to provide a citation?

According to https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-...

they've had a 30% reduction in traffic.

If that means all the weirdos with genitalia in their profile pics are gone and stop messaging me randomly (which is who actually left as far as I can tell), then good!

The remaining MAU might actually be the users they wanted to keep.

But as someone who never used tumblr for porn, I've seen no evidence that tumblr is dying for anyone other than aficionados of porn.