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Ah, I misunderstood you. Without the local apps, unless you are connected to a network, there is literally nothing to do with this device. That's because it is more-or-less a terminal only (excluding the few PF local apps). There are no notifications to speak of.

A Linux OS based device can't meet the goals of the device from a couple of standpoints (power, availability, and the limited RAM/resources on the microcontroller pop to mind right away). Think of this as an instant on appliance. You turn on your old Commodore 64 and you are instantly able to type.

I hear ya, when it comes to "just wanting to be able to open the thing and start typing into vim (or whatever)". We're working on sanding down those edges in a couple of ways--1) eventually, we'd like to point people to a very cheap, simple cloud linux deployment if they don't want to setup their own, with lots of conveniences. 2) regarding actually getting a network connection since we're talking terminal-only the bandwidth requirements are tiny; because of that, it looks like we're going to want to add cell network connectivity. This is early-stages in thinking this through, but there are plans in the $40 - $60 range for an ENTIRE YEAR that would give you unlimited bandwidth that is plenty fast for terminal purposes (128kbps after using a limited amount of faster 4G bandwidth).

I will take a look at the reMarkable ether over USB. Thanks for pointing it out. It'll be a while before we've got a full USB stack working though. Remember, the software footprint for this device is tiny by design.
Step 2, realise teachers are not actively trying to brainwash your kids
We're talking about clouds that are located above major shipping routes.
Can I ask what that job is you found? Mainly the general company goal and what your job/function in it is.
If you go and reduce your RAM because the limit is elsewhere, you may find out that it quickly becomes the bottleneck.
Microsoft Viva – Employee Experience and Engagement
The bottom line seems to be "licensing cost savings make up for hardware cost differences"; but the assumption to that is running Oracle, which is a terrible business decision for almost any company.

Overall, I want to find a reason to get excited about this market segment because I'm a processor nerd, but the arguments are profoundly uncompelling.
This is why I believe the TSA wasn’t made to protect citizens it was only made to prevent airplanes from being used as projectiles against the government/military.
You mentioned a runtime though.

Debating whether some language feature can exist on an mcu is somewhat unrelated - the point was about code size bloat not whether you can fake one instruction set with another...

You can fake e.g. multiply with a for loop and an add instruction (1 or 2 cycles) but that will run orders of magnitude slower than a 2 or 3 clock cycle multiply instruction...

So the point about osx arch is not really addressed, if you have runtime that cannot be easily ported or osx cpu arch which produces prohibitive instruction sets it doesn't matter if gcc can target an old version of objective C, it is, as stated, not that simple.
Having climate change experts is great but flocking to careers around climate change is not the solution. We need people in power who want to change. Fact of the matter is that there are still far too many climate denying anti-scientist career politicians, most of whom are boomers, in office. It's these people we need to drive out. We need the right people to kick out the career politicians that have done nothing to fight climate change. Both Democrats and Republicans. Both Labour and Conservatives.

It is insane that the democrats, the so-called "centre-left", have yet to take any action around climate change. It's either "manchin this manchin that" or "republicans this republicans that". While here in the UK we have the likes of Boris who can increase taxes on the rich to pay for the pandemic, and instead puts it on the working class and the poor, while Labour can only stand by and complain that they're not in power (before any Labour supporter says, they'll probably make just as little progress if they were in power).

We need the young to take these offices. We need climate change champions as our Prime Ministers and as our Presidents. Not as yet another scientist that will practically be ignored by politicians.
The first episode (the “pilot”) of most dramas isn’t a great measure because they have to do so much work to a setup the world and the characters. So they can be very workman-like as they’re intended first and foremost to sell executives on the show. I honestly don’t like watching most pilots so I’ve trained myself to at least give shows two episodes to compensate.

Comedy is different. If the first episode isn’t funny it rarely improves imho. One doesn’t build a funny character slowly; the human frailties that make them funny are obvious, typically to everyone but them.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28445028.
You can find CDC estimates of deaths by age group here.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
$85 and it lasts for 5 years. Quite the deal.
Cliff Asness Urges Investors ‘Short Your Way’ to Greener Future
This is a good way to just get banned until you pay.

AWS bills work a lot like postpaid phone bills. When you use the service you agree to pay the bill for usage.

Your suggestion is kind of like saying “If your card declines you don’t have to pay for your meal.” Not really true.

In my experience AWS support has been good about reversing accidental/fraudulent usage charges and helping to prevent them in the future.
saving water is not all that matters. actually, saving soap is a lot more important. the more concentrated the dirt and soap is in the water, the harder it is for the biological wastewater treatment to work.

i can't find the reference but i remember reading an article in a german magazine lamenting about exactly that problem, suggesting that people don't use enough water instead of to much.

as a consequence, i prefer to spend more time scrubbing and rinsing and trying to remove as much dirt as possible without using soap, and only add a bit of soap at the end to remove the remaining oils that scrubbing can't get rid of.

given how much soap some people use when handwashing, the dishwasher may still be more effective on average, but i wouldn't use one just to save water.
This gives me an idea for recycling the powered down worlds into "new" worlds for new users. Being able to see and use the abandoned bases of past players would be quite fun.

You could take this a step further by "decaying" the bases in some way (remove torches, remove some large percent of the items in chests, add vines, weather rock, move blocks from the ceiling to the floor, etc)
Confluence is too often used in use cases it was not design for. That includes being used by companies with less 50 people. This probably contributes to its criticisms. But Confluence will almost always beat Notion when the company reach more than 150 people.

<100 employess : Notion clear winner

> 150 employees : Confluence clear winner
I think you're missing the point, as a Twitter user, do you expect other users to be paid money to post and retweet things that they were told to post and retweet by some patron? Do you expect to be baited by some fake account that is sold to the best bidder for amplification? And do you expect the recommendations and trending to be full of manipulated content that actually all come from a single source of coordinated promotion?

It doesn't really matter what the messages in those are, it could be wishing everyone a good day, it is still disinformation, because it is trying to masquerade itself as a popular opinion on Twitter, and as being a real representation of real people's personal opinion that they hold so strongly they are willing to be actively expressing it publicly on Twitter.

To me, this amounts to fraud, and Twitter has a huge problem with this stuff. It's similar in nature to fraud on Amazon with fake reviews, and with selling aftermarket goods and fake brands.
Policy and regulation are indeed extremely important, at least as much as engineering. Implementing a carbon tax would probably be the single most effective thing we can do.

However, I do not agree that climate change is no longer an engineering/science issue: Even if we were to magically stop emitting any GHG tomorrow, we would still be in for a pretty rough time (albeit much better than our current trajectory). And realistically, even with the best imaginable policies in place everywhere around the world we will still need to emit GHGs for decades no matter what. Developing carbon removal technologies is absolutely essential to solve this problem.
> How did you first get into programming? Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particularly helpful for your growth? What is it about coding that got you hooked?

My interest for computers in general started with modding and cheating in Diablo 2. I learned about how programs worked and how to change local files in order to get other items and change the game in various ways.

I remember the site mewgood.net (I think it was, which was extremely helpful at the time).

> What is your experience with university? Did you get a degree, was it worth it, do you think it helped you find work, what did you love/hate about uni?

Went to uni but never finished to get a degree. It was fun, so in that sense it was worth it but the education itself could have come from a much shorter work education that we have in the country I live in.

I think today going to university is probably still very fun for the students (except covid restrictions) but it's not really worth it education wise. You can get a better and shorter education with less fluff.

> How did you get your first paid work (family & friends, internship, freelance, full-time)?

I got a part time job at the same time as I got accepted at a company to do my Bachelors degree (which I never completed).

> What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

I work as a developer. I love the freedom that I get. I can work remotely, leave the job earlier or come in later. It is fun and interestin but the thin I hate is that it sometimes can feel like a jail. I am bound to my computer with too little human interaction.

I think part of that is because I work remote and live on the country side. But I have taken action to involve myself in meeting new people on my spare time. Covid was thouh for my mental health tho. Felt very lonely.

Also even if I walk a lot, it feels like sitting still like a shrimp in front of a computer is not very healthy. I have been gettin much more issues with reflux that I don't think I would've had if I had a job where I moved around all the time.
MARSOC
That's a way more intelligible voice than I was expecting.
Every time I visit! Though not without its own flaws. We live where we live because of family. Otherwise I'd really love to live/retire in Scotland. Also it kind of sucks but seems like it's hard to immigrate to places like this.
Of course it does. It's an ancient rhetorical trick. I could say, "famous world leaders like Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot and Barack Obama." It's technically true, but it implies a second categorization which is false.
I can see it fine right here - https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-su...
Have you visited their S3 console recently? It's gotten pretty striking visual markers now for Public visibility. I don't have a screenshot handy, but thought I'd mention it
Downsides of a White Hot Economy
Show HN: Aid – System for quickly installing and running machine learning models
A distraction free word processor that could display PDFs along with the text (for writing LaTeX) would be a real godsend for me. In fact I am writing this very comment while distracting myself from some LaTex I am supposed to be writing...
> It’s fast and responsive

What parts of notion are you claiming are fast and responsive?

In my experience using the web app is very slow, and search is monstrously slow. We still use it but slowness is our chief complaint for the platform.
That equity ends up being really expensive when unicorns ipo. Unicorns generally don’t raise non-convertible-debt because they simply can’t find lenders willing to take single digit interest rates coupled with even a small chance of failure.
Yes, I wish they would list the up-front costs clearly, provide a comparison between their products and have a simple checkout page.
> We have secure ID schemes that I believe most if not all of the 9/11 attackers would have qualified to get ...

Secure ID is designed so people on various no fly lists won’t be allowed to fly should they acquire a fake ID. How well this works in practice remains to be seen, but it’s the theory at least.
Ya know, this would be a lot more comforting if the attention span required for each new medium wasn't lower and lower...
> Now, we will likely add further controls on travel in the form of digital health passports with infinitely more possibility for government mischief.

How do you see digital health passports as having infinitely more possibility for govt mischief? Right now TSA has the ability to treat you like a criminal if they think you looked at them funny.

The health passport "mischief" seems more along the lines of "you don't have vaccine X, so you can't board the plane." While potentially problematic, that's kind of the end of it. It becomes a no-fly list, but one where you can actually control your status on it.
Exactly - you are robbing your dopamine reward loop by "stealing" the dopamine hit usually reserved for accomplishment or achievement with the comparatively easy and low-effort social reward of stating your aspirations.
Maybe it's just for discouraging people from any attempt.
If you think that’s crazy, you would be surprised at the kind of stuff that can get into almost any journal on any subject. The point is that research fraud and poor vetting are a problem for many fields, not just the ones that you or I may dislike… so you have to wonder what would motivate someone to only point out their ideological enemies flaws.
Notion acquires India’s Automate.io in push to accelerate product expansion
There's also a correlation does not imply causation in this. People get worse at acquiring new skills compared to a younger person but there's lots of things that change with age outside of physical fitness. For instance, a kid delegates all worries outside of studying and games to the parents. Experts at fields might also underperform in some school subjects in favor of focusing in those they enjoy the most, so they can optimize their time even further.

And then we come to the society component. Anyone seeing a 12 year old shipping an app in the app store will omit the fact that the kid might be receiving training from an expert (maybe even a family member) since the age of 4. They won't judge it as "a person who learned programming for 4 years and shipped an app" but "a 12 year old that shipped an app". You might think the difference is semantic but if I were to told you that I was learning programming for 4 years and shipped an app you'd be like "what do you want now, a cookie? You're 30".

People who believe that over a certain age you're not gonna do anything good might consider suggesting software development as an activity to a 40 year old as a hobby, not as a profession. I cannot imagine them telling the same thing to a child. Don't get me wrong. I do believe that physical change exists and that my 15-year old self would run circles around me. But everyone gives advice on the grounds of seeking masters, not professionals. Translate that belief to the hiring process and it's easy to see where ageism starts. Someone might say that hiring a 40 year old who wants a junior developer position is "settling for less" in spite of the fact that your product can be shipped just as efficiently.
Having had the (unfortunate) opportunity to personally compare the Miele to the top-of-the-line-in-2014 Maytag back-to-back, the Miele is a different animal.

Maytag does not build them like they used to.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16924/did-ibm-just-preview-th...
But, that wasn’t even a problem pre-2001. Do you not remember what things were like pre 9/11?
“Special Delivery” errors in commodities trading
There is a scarcity of the best medical care. The doctor who has pioneered breakthrough treatments is more scarce than the doctor who graduated last in his class.
Do we think security theater is symbolism? It has had some positives over the years just as masks have a huge positive health impact during COVID but on both sides of the issue, people treat it as a signal as well, no?
Let's all be grateful this dude didn't try to pull his underwear bomb stunt on an airplane.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/30/saudi.arabia.a...
You beg the question. You can't claim that markets are the arbiter of fair value by arguing that markets decide fair value.

See my other reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457605

> people voting with their money

This also begs the question. If the system is unfair, then what you say is "their money" is at question. There are also challenges to the notion of any Earth resources being private property. You don't get to assume capitalist principles to argue that capitalism is correct.

Agreed that we won't come to consensus. There is no consensus that capitalism and so-called "free labor markets" are the right way. You preference just happens to own the day. But so once did Feudalism. And slavery. And the divine right of kings. To believe that humanity has now arrived at the be all and end all of economic systems is sheer human arrogance and folly.
But a service cart and flight attendant seems like an entirely ineffective obstacle so what's the point? I think I don't know enough about how this "dance" works to comment, so maybe I'll just shut up :)
Lovely graphic about Center of Population. At each census (10 years) we see a neat dotted line marching West through Pennsylvania and Ohio. The first 100 years of the USA were all about settlement.
Very nice--added!
I'm a bit older and have experienced a handful of 9/11-like events [0]. They always stand out more vividly as a shared global/national experience whereas things like family members passing is highly localized to your family. You could easily escape the mourning by talking to friends/coworkers/etc that had no idea your family member passed and the conversation would give you a sense of normalcy. During/following 9/11, there was nobody to talk to that wasn't thinking about the events that just occurred. It consumed the nation for a fair bit of time.

[0] Challenger, OKC, 9/11, even the first WTC attacks and princess Diana & OJ fit this category in terms of memory imprinting. I'm too young for JFK, but that was a big one too. My uncle says he can remember everyone being very sad and glued to the TV, he was 3.
Has it only been since 2010? I could have sworn I was first hearing about Miegakure in, like, 2003.
Yes.. Thinking about it, before 9/11 I had the TV pictures of the Berlin Wall being torn down by an excavator in my mind. But I was way too young at this age to understand it.
All I want is to never have to look for the right window again while switching apps. Such a tiny but constant tax on focus.
The person who unloads should decide. Nothing worse than unloading a dishwasher with the spoons sticking together, cups full of pools of water, dishes still dirty because they were stacked too tightly, etc etc
Doesn't this still make tyranny where the data provider censors? At which point, the UI representation of the censored data doesn't matter.
You're right, and I was remiss in not including this, and yet it is most important:

Support political candidates and run for office in order to put those who understand the science behind and believe in climate change and who will commit to policy to contribute towards solutions (and tilt the scales away from fossil fuels). Otherwise everyone working towards the cause is swimming upstream.
I knew based on the headline alone, this was going to be a fun read. After I read the article, I went to get some popcorns.

"Whether intentional or through ignorance, there is a great deal of bias against the mainframe. It’s too expensive! (It clearly is not.) It’s old and dusty! (Obviously not.) It’s hopelessly outdated!"

There might be 'some' bias against the mainframe purely from technology perspective, but I feel a large part of it is due to culture and people around mainframe. So the management uses the 'bias' as a guise to clean up the shop.
Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but a quick Google gave me: 0395355362
> It would be far more effective to do something at the gates dude to the density of humanity

Maybe it is about shifting the blame. If something happens outside, it's the police failure but if something happens inside it is venue management failure.

Anyway, I completely agree that we have given up way too much in the name of security. If it's not the terrorist, then it is "think of the children" scare and we are about to get our personal devices scanning our personal files and report us to the authorities. For now it is CSAM material but I don't see any reason why the same devices wouldn't be scanning for other stuff once the system is in place.

I totally expect our devices to start checking on us for "betrayal" patterns once the conflict with China intensifies, for example. Once you become a "human resource" and nothing more in the eyes of the political structures, you will need to be managed and in 2020s the tools for it are plenty and powerful.
I intentionally alternate spoons with forks to ensure that adjacent spoons don't prevent each other from getting cleaned. And I put all knives in one area by themselves; I still have to avoid poking myself, but keeping them separate makes it easier to focus on the knives all at once.

But agreed, no idea why a kitchen steak knife would need a pointed tip.
I no longer work there, but I was glad to see that Qualcomm was not on the list.I worked with a number of people at the Boulder office when I was at Qualcomm, they were a great team of people.
> But as with all taking on debt to pay off debt, it's like wetting yourself.

??

Feels like something didn't translate well from Danish to English in that saying:)
Very short version. I didn’t go to university. I worked a bunch of odd jobs, then went to flight school. Worked as a pilot, owned a small school myself. I took up coding for fun. I started with Head First PHP. I was always trying to make small apps to make money (never really worked). I made some Wordpress websites for gyms and restaurants. I’d highly recommend that as a way to pad a resume. Just don’t do the hosting yourself.

Decided to learn Python and just read a bunch of books. Got a job at a startup in SF. Did that, then another job, then tried sales, founded a startup (failed) and just got a job as a software engineer at Netflix.

I just like ideas. Software is great because it’s like math in that a lot of it is just pure idea stuff, and you also get to test if you’re right or wrong (say compared to writing prose). Some stuff isn’t proven and that’s cool too. If the job market for aerobatic instructor and software engineer were switched, I’d probably be flying for a living and coding for fun.

I wouldn’t exactly suggest following my path. I’ve been quite lucky. If I could go back in time and spend a week with my young self, I’d make a plan to get a math or CS degree, probably math. I like graphs a lot. I’d also learn how to code on my own.

But I can’t go back in time and that’s fine. Probably for the best.
This is a very fair answer, and all "permalinks" are lies. At the same time, I wonder if it might not be possible to have snapshots up on, I dunno, IPFS or torrent sites or something such that when the unavoidable happens, not all is lost.