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Then threads just fill up with people going 'agree, yup, right on.' Upvotes are like applause. Are concert audiences trying to put performers in their place by clapping, or just expressing their enthusiasm?
I know, it is about the never ending saga that evolves into ever more unexpected needs/requirements that truly begin to look absurd.

We are all playing a game of Simon Says.
He Wrote a Gardening Column. He Ended Up Documenting Climate Change
My corp laptop auto-locks the screen (if that's what you mean), but can also be unlocked by biometrics, but only if it's already on. (And only for a limited time; I think after a week, the password is required again.) If the laptop is booting fresh, the password is required.

I wouldn't call it a burden.
A combination of superchargers and plugshare helps a lot!

What you say is indeed right for some EVs and some locales, but give it time, it’s getting better.
It is not complicated. It is using different conventions.

You can say that ZFS/BTRFS are more complicated than XFS/EXT4 + device mapper, but while it may be slightly more complicated, the more important thing is that they are different.

It took me a while for IPv6 to "click". I still don't like a couple of RA/NDP related settings, but it works and is much much easier not to deal with NAT.
Preposterous, they might have even paid international calling fees instead of getting clean water to Africa!
LLVM has an openMP implementation
On an iPhone and some other devices you have attention detection your eyes have to be open for it to work.

The question here is still how the court would actually see this.
Wait so now you ARE in favor of restricting the liberty of those who eat fast food because it costs you???? Which is it liberty for all or just liberty as long it doesn't cost you a cent?
iirc fibre7 ceo said that they did it "because they can", to put pressure on the incumbant telcos and also to reduce complexity with simply connecting customers at the best speed supported by the infrastructure.
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Still, it's a tenth of what an entire room costs. When you do something like weigh the cost of commuting vs. the cost of that space, a desk is probably going to win.

And maybe I'm weird but I'm going to have a desk no matter what.
How many browser tabs do you usually have open?
Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)
It's obvious we need booster vaccinations. But not another intramuscular that only seeps in serum IgG antibodies into the lower lungs. The levels of antibodies in the upper respiratory mucosa are never very high and drop rapidly. Viral infection of the mucosa and shedding still occurs.

We need operation warp speed type money for funding the two good intranasal sars-cov-2 vaccine trials going on right now and to start more. Intranasal vaccination after intramuscular will recruit and specialize B and T cells to the upper respiratory mucosa and establish IgA antibodies resident for long periods there. Being intranasally vaccinated after intramuscular could actually stop the spread and end the pandemic.

edit: btw, all this has been known about aerosol spread respiratory viruses and human physiology since the 1960s.
> The individual does, ostensibly, have voting power and economic decision making capability.

I'd say the voting power is the #1 thing individuals can do to affect change. The economic decisions are, frankly, only something that the well off can afford to do.

However, it must be understood that real impact needs regulation. It's not enough for all the well off to drive Teslas. It's not enough to install solar on your home. It's not enough to run your own home garden.

Does it have impact? Some. But we are talking about orders of magnitude problems. All the work you do gardening doesn't come close to addressing the amount of CO2 pushed out by the airline industry, cruise industry, or shipping industry.

The main thing you can do is vote for politicians that will go after climate change (or at a minimum, won't stand in the way of politicians that do).

This is an Amdahl's law problem.
Depends on what the sleep time is. If it’s after 1 minute, yes. After 10, I think that’s fair.
Programming actually started as just a professional activity for me, and then only became a hobby after I was good enough in it.
That I think has more to do with the downing of F117 a month prior. I'm thinking the Chinese bought some secret parts, and the Americans made a last ditch attempt to prevent the Chinese from obtaining some tech.
I disagree that they shouldn’t be able to state their option, they should be able to.

But no one should believe them or take what they say at face value.
I realized about 5 years ago that I definitely don’t want to be doing this when I’m 50, and I don’t want the money to be the reason I keep doing it. Started getting very serious about income investing aside from my 401k/retirement account. My hope is over the next 15 years I will hit a point where “pretirement” will become a very real possibility.
I think not sarcasm. I’ve found that an 8 hour eating window 1200-2000 works very well for me. N=1
The rural areas still without building codes represent a vanishingly small fraction of the US population.

Here in New Mexico, where there was no building code until the 1980s, we now have a tasty legacy of houses built not to code that are being sold to 2nd, 3rd and even 4th owners-after-building, and the stories are not great. People calling out contractors to fix this and that to be told that the entire plumbing/electrical system needs replacing to meet code. I own a copy of "The Owner Builder and the Code" and several other books from the heyday of the owner-builder "movement". I want people to be able to construct their own dwellings in ways that liberate their creativity and imagination. Decades on, however, I have to concede that this does have some downsides that need to be addressed.
Most ISPs in Western companies will hand out public IPs because they were bought when they were cheap.

The danger associated with public IPs is not that high as long as you use software that binds to localhost instead of 0.0.0.0 for network services or use a firewall on your PC. The problem is that many software developers don't expect end user devices to be reachable from the internet so security practices are sometimes lax.
Historically their (internal) culture was a monorepo, keep things clean, refactor, OK to break things because you could also refactor the entire code / API.

Sounds kind of awesome!

The problem is externally this is total madness. You CANNOT just keep on breaking everything on your customers.

I was very early on both AWS and GCP. There is literally no comparison between these companies in terms of cloud offerings and how much has been blown up, neglected etc on the GCP side vs AWS.

This cloud stuff is going to be less "cool" than google is used to - it's going to need them to carry around some older API's (ie, technical debt) etc etc so they don't constantly screw their customers. So it just doesn't feel like its in their DNA.

AWS is all about making customer happy -> that work well.

Google is about cool tech and doing the new things -> that doesn't work well.

Maybe spin GCP off with some old industry folks mixed into the new hotness?
Its not easy, but I agree with the above poster on this - it can be learned. Maybe we all have different approaches. Here's one of my tricks:

When stepping away from a technical task, I often jot down a bunch of notes that really only I could ever comprehend - words, doodles, whatever scrawl. Usually its related to the problem I'm trying to solve, but I often suspect it doesn't even matter what I wrote down. Because of the fact that I wrote it down while my brain was steeped in the technical task, reviewing the notes helps me get back into that headspace.

You learn to do what you need to, in time.
Research. https://healthyindoors.com/2018/11/lead-paint-sweet-aint
Add hosting for one year to your offer and I'm in, otherwise I simply pick a free and open source starter from GitHub.
I've done no work to diagnose where the failure is, but I have Google Fiber, with the supplied Google Wifi device, am on my Google Pixelbook running Google's Chrome OS, and I cannot access Google via IPv6. I don't think I could have a more streamlined setup where Google has full control from end to end to make IPv6 a reality. I can find blog posts by Google talking about the importance of IPv6 adoption, and yet I can't access ipv6.google.com.
I think most experts have already said they expect it to be endemic going forward. But we can definitely use vaccines to get it to levels where it no longer qualifies as a pandemic.
The truly astoundingly productive engineers I've worked with have been masters of context-switching and gaining expertise in multiple domains. I believe the latter comes from the first: if you can switch domains quickly, you can more rapidly put in more hours of useful experience in multiple domains.

So I largely agree with the OP here: you can either use this as an excuse - "I'm just not that good at context switching, so it's out of my control, if only my manger understood!" - or you can take it as a growth opportunity and decide to try to get better at it. For me, that's looked like a lot more note-taking (I can use this to "reload" my previous context later) and a lot of practice at discipline at just getting back to work even if it means I have to duplicate some steps from before.

The note-taking, it's turned out, has also helped massively, since it makes it easier to bring other people up to speed on what I learned and all the nuances of it.

But obviously this is a work in progress, since I'm here on HN instead of immediately jumping back in to the previous context I had before getting lunch. ;)
No government on the planet has enough balls to enact enough taxes for it to be worth companies to switch to cleaner energies. That's why it won't work.
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Surprisingly inexpensive.
The task-based parallelism in LLVM leaves much to be desired however. Ideally, you'd want a more efficient implementation.

But yeah, good enough to play with. But maybe not good enough to achieve high levels of performance. The SIMD stuff is probably simple enough to implement... maybe I should checkout how well LLVM works with OMP SIMD keywords.
I love they are around as a check on AWS. I do think they are sorting things out a bit just to get the money (which is huge).
There is a case to be made that since the number of programmers are increasing to the point of approximately doubling the number of programmers every five years, every old programmer could still potentially be active in the field, but constantly be more and more obscured by the ever-increasing mass of new programmers, and all the programmers you see around you should have on average less than five years’ experience. In other words, nothing happened to those older people, except that they are now dispersed among an ocean of new programmers.
Just look at the patterns of voting by user. If we interact regularly but only pay attention to the content of each others' comments, and sometimes agree and sometimes disagree, then there will be little correlation between our accounts. But if I have a personal dislike o you and make a thing out of downvoting every comment of yours that I see, that will become obvious very quickly.
That is only possible if you have engines and fuel capable of sustaining a powered flight. We puny humans so far don't have it.
For me, 'office days' as you'd see in a university also works well. At work, people value and like to request my input on various architectual or technical things, so managing interuptions besides some technical tasks can be a challenge.

As such, I've been pushing all of these discussions and meetings to tuesday afternoon, or maybe thursday afternoon on some weeks. Sure, there might be 6 or 8 different topics on that afternoon, but that's fine with decent meeting culture and some preparation.
It tells you when, though. And could give some cues like vehicle paths.
Yes sales... sales from insanely binding contracts which of course say Pfizer is in no way shape or form responsible for anything that goes wrong with highly experimental, largely untested and rushed through drugs with completely unknown long-term side effects... that states companies are not allowed to return or take partial shipments of their vaccines...which PFIZER ITSELF dictates how many units the labs and medical facilities are going to buy. So 33b from using a global pandemic to rig and rip the entire supply chain, medical industry, and taxpayers of countries around the world off to insane levels of profit, all in the name of greed.. And yet here they are, demanding MORE money...

And yet people still sit around trying to click two brain cells together wondering why people refuse to get vaccinated, are sick of having this crap shoved down their throats, and further distrust big pharma and the medical industry at large.

Can't wait for the big pharma shills here on HN to come crawling out defending these scumbags and big industries and institutional corruption and greed.
But better still to get a more efficient pc and a heat pump
I find it very odd that there is so much push-back these days on here about this idea that engineers actually need to be able to concentrate and that the typical modern workplace is the absolute worst possible conditions for this to occur.

It's of a piece with the impulse I see so often to also downplay and denigrate the difficulty of doing engineering work.
Its not “bypassing” if you have to write the code used to setup the timer to do it.

I suppose it implies the existence of a class of potential problems if an application (1) accepts user input for timer delays, (2) requires a certain minimum delay, (3) only checks that the entered amount is >= the minimum without considering overflow behavior. But, since this behavior is well-documented (the MDN page on setTimeout covers it), it doesn't seem like any kind of notable discovery.
If they were the ones making the decision I'd have a problem. Just stating their opinion without any attempt to claim it's objective seems... fine. I'd personally be pretty surprised if my government (UK) authorised a 3rd booster dose of the same formula (as opposed to one that adjusted the formula to better target new variants).
The game is very good to train yourself even without knowing ahead of time what you're watching for. That said, there's a relatively close up video here and it actually takes the lifeguard a while to react:

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/video/can-you-spot-drowning
We can and do, if the engines are upgraded with goodies like electronic ignition (yeah, all those old aircraft engines are using fixed timing magnetos). But a lot of aircraft engines just aren't. And if you're in a certified plane instead of an experimental plane, good luck ever getting it.

Basically any engine made by a European engine manufacturer takes "mogas" without incident, and prefers it because lead causes issues. But to the sibling comment's point, those engines also have goodies like single lever power (so no direct mixture or rpm control). That changes the parameters a lot.

Edit: to add on, if you're in an experimental plane, you can do all sorts of things to your engine. You can buy aftermarket electronic fuel injection and ignition kits with variable timing, and reclaim a good deal of fuel economy in the process. Most engines that these kits support will then quite happily run along with a fuel like 94UL. Some people have even converted automobile fuel ignition controllers for the purpose (I hear the Ford V8 ECU is pretty popular for this).
Totally agree with what you said here. There's no reason you can't start something ambitious in the morning even with a meeting in a few hours.

Sure you'll pay the cost of context switching, but that's 15 minutes at the max.

Not working because you've got a meeting in the near future is just not working. You don't have to do everything all at once. You don't have to have 100% efficiency or 0%
Good information, but those numbers always need to be traded off against the number of people who (a) would have died anyway (b) would have died from COVID19 had they not been vaccinated.
I think they jump without return...
Post-Olympic Depression
Oh it does happen. But it isn’t the norm in my experience, both personally and in the communities I mod. I rarely see sensible comments having negative karma.

And my own innocuous comments tend to be “1” rather than anything negative. If downvotes rings were more common you’d expect more negative karma comments.
Use a domain-specific compiler to generate custom, stand-alone, massively multi-threaded AVX-512 inference C code:

https://NN-512.com

The generated code is easily twice as fast as TensorFlow's AVX-512 kernels (Intel's oneAPI).
I always thought there would be a huge surplus of programmers soon. The recent wage stagnation (outside SV), lots of h1bs and bootcamp craze seemed to bring on a new wave of people that was going to prove my view.

But right now there is still a shortage of devs and pay is growing, I dont understand it. It has to stop some time.
https://archive.is/QMl6M
I have always had these distortions throughout my life. I sometimes feel like high-functioning psychotic. I recall the story of that researcher James Fallon that found out he was a psychopath when he scanned his own brain. Everything feels intellectualized rather than a concrete physical reality.
A lot of the economics around software and programming are going to change as that rate of growth slows.
> So if a company wants to take the other side here and say they only want to work with unvaccinated people, would that be ok too?

Sure but outside of politically charged reasons, I can’t see why they would care. It doesn’t pose any danger to them. Same for below.

> If unvaccinated employees can just find other jobs, why can't vaccinated employees just find other jobs?

They can, if they find themselves at a company that somehow targets those who get vaccinated. It would then be great to make it well known that such company is hostile towards public health and science in general. Can’t imagine they would last long as a business with the type of staff they retain.
> Even if drowning looked like drowning there is just so much going on in a crowded pool I cannot imagine how people can pick on anything. To me it seems like an audio-visual version of drinking from a firehose.

Watch for the kid playing on their float or doing other dangerous things, I'm convinced it's what most of the lifeguards are doing.
> a permissive licence that effectively prevents use by megacorps

_Why_ do mega corps like Google and Intel refuse to use it? There's nothing on Wikipedia [0], and the license is extremely short and clear.

From your description I expected a license that explicitly denies permissions for certain purposes or types of companies. It's very much the opposite of that! :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station
Who cares about Islamic leaders? Don't Muslims have freedom of conscience independently of them.

Religion is, ultimately, about the individual's relationship with the higher. To dismiss someone's religious complaint because of a supposed leader is to destroy freedom of conscience.

If you had said "Pope" instead of "Islamic leader" it would have been classic WASP anti-Catholic bigotry that JFK faced in when running for president.

[EDIT] changed post to reflect that I don't have any problems against muslims' opinions (half my family is muslim in fact), just their leaders.
I think you mean "smallpox and other viruses should already have evolved."

The difference is that the smallpox vaccine prevented infection of the vaccinated. That's not the case for existing SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. https://www.verywellhealth.com/covid-19-vaccines-and-sterili... gives an approachable overview of the difference.

Smallpox was eradicated. The likelihood of the same happening to SARS-CoV-2 is lower. At least, it would be the first example of a respiratory infection being eliminated. Influenza hasn't been eradicated and it does continue to evolve.

More broadly, the idea of "immune escape" is hardly something I can lay claim to. You can read about it in existing literature.
Anecdotal, but where I work, I noticed most of the older programmers are working on systems like AS/400. Makes sense though, many such systems are still running and functional in many businesses, and they have a skill that few have nowadays.

From what I've gathered from talking to them, IBM still provides regular updates for these systems, and while change is slower than would be experienced by a web developer, they still are learning and adapting to changes made in these updates, and have to adapt to interfacing with new technologies adopted by other areas of the business.
Party might be ending for Pfizer if this early report plays out as stated and data shows viral blood titers are being found to have higher loads in the vaccinated vs non vaxxed.

It would suggest the worst nightmare for a vaccine, ADE could be happening.

From NBC Twitter:
New data suggests that fully vaccinated individuals are not just contracting COVID, but could be carrying higher levels of virus than previously understood, facilitating spread, my NBC News colleagues are reporting. New indoor masking guidance expected today.
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/142002439326320640...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...

(Edit, added note about viral blood tigers being needed for confirmation)
Ah, right, the mapping can be per server IP, thanks for pointing this out.

If Facebook started throwing persistent connections left and right, it imagine it could cause a problem, but short of that, it should be fine.
25mi EV only is like an electric scooter range.
I'm currently in the middle of building such a thing. It's nice to see that there are more efforts in that directon.

I'm do it more "on the side", the actual goal is an SaaS product.

Also, I'm looking more into non-AWS solutions right now. Cloudflare Workers, FaunaDB, Auth0, Paddle, etc.
Exactly my thoughts, but then again, commodity gatherers have to do everything and anything - including blowing up archeological sites - to make living money these days due to extremely low commodity prices. Not that I sympathize with those guys, but rather that I can smell the desperation on them.
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> Around 99% of hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated

"unvaccinated" includes people who have had one dose or people who had the second dose less than two weeks ago[1]:

>> a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined as the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen in a respiratory specimen collected from a person ≥14 days after receipt of all recommended doses of an FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine.[1]

>> ... A total of 10,262 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections had been reported from 46 U.S. states and territories as of April 30, 2021. Among these cases, 6,446 (63%) occurred in females, and the median patient age was 58 years (interquartile range = 40–74 years). Based on preliminary data, 2,725 (27%) vaccine breakthrough infections were asymptomatic, 995 (10%) patients were known to be hospitalized, and 160 (2%) patients died.[1]

>> ... As of April 30, 2021, approximately 101 million persons in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. [1]

Now, let's look at a more recent report[2]:

>>> As of July 19, 2021, more than 161 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

>>> Hospitalizations* 5,601 (95%)

>>> Deaths† 1,141 (19%)

So, "fully vaccinated" increased by 60% over that period, but deaths among the fully vaccinated increased by 613%.

That's curious.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...