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I have heard it used exactly once before in Canada; seeing it here today was a “hug so they didn’t just make that up themselves” moment.

A quick entertaining story from that, that really highlighted the need to get all stakeholders involved at the design stage. The activity was designing the interior of a 10,000 sq ft startup incubator space. We were given the empty floor plan (inside a larger building), broke into groups, and each group independently did a floor plan. Lots of discussion about noisy/quiet areas, collaboration spaces/meeting rooms, small private spaces for phone calls, kitchen spaces and how to maximize the collision potential in the kitchens (people from different companies having conversations). It went really well and some great ideas came out of it.

And then one of the founders whose company would likely be inhabiting the space raised his hand. “I love all the variations we’ve all come up with, but I feel like no one is talking about the elephant in the room.” he says. Blank states all around. “We’ve all been focused on how to fill the empty area we’ve been given, but no one has said anything about the washroom on the floor plan we were given.”

The architects who were running the session bristled a little, while the rest of the room looked pretty confused. “What’s wrong with the washrooms? They’re placed close to the working area so that it’s a minimal interruption.”

“Ok, sure, but… I want you all to think about guys like me. I’m a 21 year old nerd with a barely funded company. We work long hours. We live our day-to-day lives on a super small budget. What do you think my diet is like? Do you really want the washroom that a guy who has eaten a $6 pizza every night for the last two weeks right next to the quiet desk you’re using every day?!”

Much laughter. Architects scribbling notes. And in the final built building, the washrooms are down a hallway, on the other side of a set of glass doors :D. Apparently it caused a huge hassle for the MEP contractors, since all of the plumbing had already been designed at that point, but I’m really not confident that that oversight would have been caught without that meeting.
Yes, that's why Google doesn't exist and Altavista rules world search.
If confirmed, this should hopefully put to bed all the lab-leak theories (and indeed the more insane lab-design conspiracies). Looking forward to future studies.
Is your code somehow tied to revenue? Woot. If not, you're just overhead to the PHBs. No matter how much money you save, misery you prevent.

So generally, IT vs product development.

I have been on IT projects (internal development) tied to revenue. It was pretty sweet while it lasted.
Some anecdata: updating packages on Linux will finish in less than 20 minutes (given a high DL speed), no reboots inbetween, and afterwards you can keep working, unless you want to boot a newly installed Kernel.
Declassified FBI Report Reveals Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hijackers
Why the Ex-Spooks Who Hacked Americans in Project Raven Are Getting Off So Easy
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I'm not familiar with the third link but the first two are prime wacko-left and wacko-right, and reality is unlikely to inhabit the midpoint.
Most existing coal was once trees, but large scale conversion of trees into coal was only possible in the carboniferous, when trees were new on the biological scene and there wasn't anything that could decompose them, so dead trees just piled up and slowly turned into coal under the anaerobic conditions of being buried under other trees.

You can still get coal made from trees, when a forest fire turns some wood into charcoal and that gets buried in the soil, or under unusual circumstances where a tree gets buried somewhere inhospitable to the microbes that can decompose lignin.
Why is she getting an MSIS? If she isn't interested in coding and already has an MBA with finance background, then what does she plan to do here - change careers, just credentialing, or work in an area unrelated to coding?
I think a lot of it is that managers aren't really the captain, or at least lack the same expectations. They are more a contracted operations manager who can hop in a lifeboat first or can get paid more steadily if the ship runs aground and therefore they are more needed to clean up the mess.
https://archive.is/iMh1A

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459727 Previously
These comparisons have been around for a while and they always look really bad for Bitcoin [0], not just in terms of resources but particularly in terms of speed and responsiveness.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/a-single-...
History books.
It's called sortition[1] and I think it'd be a wonderful method of choosing the 2nd house in a bicameral legislature like the UK's. Imagine replacing all the lords and bishops who've been placed there by heredity or backscratching with people chosen by sortition. That'd really hold the elected politicians to account.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
You're absolutely right. I'll make a big personal sacrifice and close down my oil company. Everyone has to do their part, right?

In seriousness, carbon emissions are overwhelmingly emitted from large corporations and state level actors (like the military). Which isn't to say that people shouldn't do what they can to reduce their own carbon footprint, but the world won't be saved if everyone buys local and starts biking to work.
Can someone "sell me" on snap? I've had nothing but trouble with it in my limited experience
> The axles are thin, flimsy pieces of metal...

They have to be for the sake of friction. The older cars certainly had very thin axles as well, perhaps the metal was better quality and they were mounted better.

Anyways, as a kid in the 70's, I remember always preferring Matchbox cars. They rolled better than Hot Wheels back in the day.
The tax situation will likely become unbearable, gov preparing to attack those who refuse to (or can't) pay. We will live interesting times when the IRS goes after millions who can't find the spare money to fill public funds.
Hmm, that "hello" executable is 43M for me, for anyone who is interested.
I don't think it's a good argument that Bitcoin is boring and others are exciting and therefore criticizing Bitcoin does not criticize Etheruem.

You're posting on HN, a site where "Use Boring Technology" is often cited. I think there is good odds that Bitcoin is the Windows Forms of cryptocurrency and everything else that is currently "interesting" will be proved to have made mistakes and crumble. In the end only Windows Forms and HTML will survive.
Someone points out a legitimate problem with something, and the "response" is to point out a "bigger" problem with something else. Its not a response, its a misdirection. Changing the subject doesnt work.

We have seen this "response" so many times that its laughable. Its like a person who owns large number of shares of Company X and everytime someone brings up the serious problems at Company X she tries to change the subject.
So, if I'm understanding correctly, the author used Lisp in this story?
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since you asked for "left leaning" and you are looking to have sources from all "sides", you should check out the New Republic and Mother Jones, in addition to mostly middle of the road picks like Washington Post (edit: yes and also The Guardian as someone else mentioned). I also highly recommend Talking Points Memo. Clearly not the HN user's cup of tea but that's what we libs are reading.
>it takes renewable energy reserves away from something useful

Not necessarily true because energy transport and storage can be a serious issue that makes other usages impractical. Bitcoin mining can be done at the energy source regardless of the location.
Just don’t read the news: it’s an addictive consumer product developed to keep folks on all sides of the spectrum continuously in crisis mode.
> China seems to be the only country still exploring new nuclear fission technologies commercialization at government level

Maybe you should head over to the US Department of Energy website and take a look [1], [2].

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/advanced-reactor-technologies

[2] https://www.energy.gov/ne/our-budget
This isn't quite on topic so I risk the downvotes, but the best fantasy series I've read in a long time is heavily Norse influenced https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YLWK2WF/ref=kinw_myk_ro....
Earlier posts here (134 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320640

and here (58 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762526

Also NPR's Planet Money (audio) also covered this interviewing Goodhart himself: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/11/19/669395064/epis...
Another error: a couple of “repo” that should be “.repo”:

mv ../ProjectX-v0.zip repo/commits/c0.zip
mv ../ProjectX-v1.zip repo/commits/c1.zip
I would literally murder for 100 million.
The idea that Substack have a moat seems a bit implausible, given how new they are.

Have they finished displacing Medium yet? Who in turn only appeared a few years ago?

Have any normal people even heard of these companies?
There's a company doing AirPod battery replacements, it's a fair bit cheaper than buying new AirPods

https://www.ifixit.com/News/49433/two-college-roommates-and-...

https://www.thepodswap.com/
That's such a bad example. Let's just look at a few differences from Taliban:

* the government controls your money and can freeze all your accounts.

* the government controls all the imports and exports. You're not going to get massive shipments of reinforcements.

* the government has all your information, where you live, where your parents live, how many kids you have, and who your friends are

* the government controls all the roads, toll booths and CC cameras. Where you're going to hide? At Yosemite? Are you going to burrow yourself in the ground and dig networks of tunnels?

You've been spoon fed this story of a militia since you were little. It's not the 1800s anymore. You can't take a gun and multiply it by 10000, and then walk into DC from Nebraska to take your freedoms back. That's a dream.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, there's school shootings, mass murders at a scale that's not found in any other country... but it's a small price to pay, because one day you'll get to play out that militia fantasy of yours, right?
Not OP, but many systems will scale the amount of threads based on the core count in your system. So on a 32-core system you might have 32 GC threads. On ECS (and many other container orchestrators) when you set some CPU allocation like perhaps 0.2 CPU, your process will still "see" all the CPUs present in the system but the process will just not be scheduled if the allocation for this time period has been used up. This could cause Shenandoah to over-allocate GC threads and eat into your CPU allocation.
Yeah, like it's totally fine to be against lockdowns on principle -- I know a lot of people in my social circle that are against mandatory lockdowns (and want advisory only) because it gives yet another thing for police to selectively enforce in poor and minority areas.

But then there's this internet mass that self-identifies using the label "anti-lockdown" which is full of people who are at best crazy and unhinged. But people read the headline and assume that "$social_media is censoring my opinions!" when it really just a specific group that has co-opted some label to pseudolegitimze their views.
I also remember using NT 4.0 (with the "hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to login" quirk) and then 2000 at home as a kid. Dad, being a sysop/dev/IT manager/"tech guy", really liked the stability of NTs. It took the first Service Pack for XP to really start catching on. Good times!
I've never understood why people complain so much about the environmental impact of AirPods. I mean it would be great if they were rechargeable and recyclable etc - but they weigh 4g - about 1/50 of a pair of headphones.

If the average person uses them for 2 years they'll be a drop in the ocean to the tens or hundreds of kilos of plastic and other objects they don't recycle fully in that time.
How do you figure? Technology roles are well understood to be exempt, no? Don't get me wrong, I think it's stupid and should be changed, but it is what it is (for now).
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I think you misunderstand. The Sinclair model was to design something as cheaply as possible using insane engineering workarounds to shave every last possible penny off the price. Then to package it with better-than-average industrial design and sell it through a marketing blitzkrieg.

Sinclair came to give a talk at our college and explained this was a deliberate and calculate strategy. He sketched a graph showing that maximum profit for his way of working was around a margin of 50%. Unlike most engineers, he was thinking in business terms throughout - while also appreciating the engineering challenges.

It was an excellent strategy for his market, which was mostly nerds and engineers who appreciated low cost access to advanced tech.

Compare the HP and TI calculators with the Sinclair models for context.

There was an engineering-led tradition at HP etc which produced leading edge no-compromise products, but they were sold at leading-edge no-compromise prices. The HP-65 cost the equivalent of >$4000 in modern money.

When you bought a Sinclair calculator you didn't just buy a plastic package with a TI chip inside. You bought the chance to feel a part of a British engineering tradition of cut corners and minimal solutions which nonetheless still sort-of-mostly worked.

You would read about the various hacks and cost saving tricks and think "That's really clever. How does that work, exactly? I wonder if I could that?"

That was the core of the Sinclair branding. It was the ethic that created the ZX series and gave developers and bedroom entrepreneurs a start. It was a scene, and it was the reason he was so influential when more conventional calculator companies - of which there were very many - weren't.
Surveillance capitalism will transform the domain name system
I understand that, but why keep those rules?

There are plenty of rules about emissions that make little to no sense in the light of what we know today.

That's kind of my point: the rules are already changing, and they are trending in one direction.
It is. It's just a skin.
> Such PWA is easy to block because the government can block a website with it.

They can also block whichever server is hosting the API native apps connect to. Doesn't seem much of a win for native on that front, unless the data is stored permanently on device.
Something I discovered as a reviewer was the importance of reigning in my own negativity tendency, i.e. to pick holes in things. If I reviewed something that I didn't personally like, but which would in fact still work, I learned to decide whether or not it was worth mentioning it or not. That way I wouldn't overload the reviewee with a mass of criticism, and the things that would genuinely need changing weren't hidden in a flood of picky little points.
Evading a temporary ban is _universally_ reason for a permanent ban at any competently moderated venue.
That's completely unrelated to whether your rural neighbors will be friendly, though. In fact, both things he mentions - crime and police - are going to be primarily experienced in urban, democratic areas by African Americans.
SLS Linux was my first distro. It was probably early 1993 when I first installed it, on a 386SX/20 with 3 megs of RAM. I think it was on 12 or 16 floppies.
Yes, but is it more effective to catch and eat a 10lb trout, of which there are plenty and they're easy to identify using established laws and technologies (tip: they hang around Jackson Hole), or try to dip net and fillet 300 creek chubs scattered all over the place?

You are right in that it isn't only about the money. It has to be the surveillance aspect with the revenue generation as an added bonus. If something like this doesn't succeed now, then next time will it be for national security or the safety of the children?

We love to enforce the laws against the poor. This just seems like another avenue by which to do so. Look at how frequently crimes like robbery are mentioned in the news-- but what about much more endemic crimes typically perpetuated by the ownership class, like wage theft (https://i.redd.it/grnr8kxbl6zz.jpg), and how little you hear about them.
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Yeah, good point. It's really impossible to disentangle the costs of traditional finance operations analogous to bitcoin from other costs of traditional finance. The comparison would not be perfect, bit I still feel like it would be a useful insight to get a sense of scale.
For a $120k signing bonus, and a salary / incentive comparable to what I make now; I'd start today.

This is a good point. I should probably start interviewing now to at least get practice, and at best I can land an amazing job or with someone who will compensate me for lost severance.

Either way, win-win.
Schools were teaching version control long before git.
You're right, I didn't know that. In a quick "long double" vs "double" microbenchmark, I see a negligible penalty for additions and comparisons, and 37% penalty when multiplications are involved.
You are probably pushing yourself too hard, become demotivated and quit. Think about it this way: you are never going to beat Usain Bolt no matter how hard you try. So just go for small improvements.

Run half a mile, limp another half, go home. Repeat this 3 times weekly for a month. By the end of the month you'll be running that whole mile. Now keep it up and get to 2!
group culture != negativity/positivity. This is a motte and bailey[0] fallacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Yeah, it is seriously worth thinking about.
That's a good one, here's the feature request:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182566
Matrix is mostly used to chat. But really it is just a distributed graph database. Some of the founders of the project have very nice memories of NNTP and something like NNTP (but modern) can certainly be built on top of matrix.
The claim was "no one wants x", the reply "I want x", your counter "others don't want x" as an attempt to dismiss the reply. That is unfair, the original claim that no one wants it was wrong and it was correct to point out that it was wrong.
> took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately

That's absolutely common practice in places where you can accrue PTO without limits. People rest with compensation they earned and then leave re-energized. And that's a good thing.
That is amusing

A bit insulting to communists/marxists/state-capitalists since CCP tax rates are lower than combined Federal+CA taxes. they're seizing less of the means of production.
Another A+ company Backblaze!
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Every cloud service that holds your photos in a non-e2ee way (read: Google, FB, et. Al.) scans your photos. They’re all afraid of the .gov accusing them of holding illegal content.
Then learn to code.

Edit: It's a legitimate solution. I've survived 3 reorgs at my company because I could code. I read up on the new incoming system and became effective.
If people were the same back then:-
Most people hung out and watched the Camels being carved, many watched others `reacting` to the Camel carvings, and a few critiqued the Carvings.
Only a few did the carving.
Micron (the makers of those chips) has a 90nm process fab since 2011.
This headline seems odd. It feels like it's implying that carving a life size camel into rock is more technologically sophisticated than assembling Stonehenge or the pyramids and therefore we should be surprised.

I get that they thought they were newer, and now think they are older, still strange headline to lead with.
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In a privately-held company, you usually can't sell your stock without approval (from the board, a shareholder vote, or some other mechanism). That generally makes it quite difficult to sell.

Dividends are the main source of value from stock in a company that doesn't plan to sell. But dividends are also determined by the board. In a closely-held company, the majority owners may also be the board, and they may prefer to leave the profits in the company or take them out a different way.

"Worthless" is an extreme characterization, but the value you receive from owning a minority amount of private stock is much less predictable and controllable than publicly-traded stock.
> Big solutions to the big problems. Exactly what consultancies sell.

The problem is most consultants are not good at what they do. It why the sales guys for the consulting company are not the devs. Most the time consultants come in for 3-6-12 months, cause some trouble and then just leave the mess to the company to address later. There are some good consultants but most are just people that couldn't work in house because they are not up to par for long term engagements of products that need to stand the test of time to add legitimate value.

> It's hard to quantify their revenue so they are treated as an expense not cost saving or revenue generating.

This depends on the business, most the time, unless you make software you are an expense. The company makes their money in different departments and making money is the name of the game. It's takes a different set of skills (albeit better/stronger, industry knowledge and communication skills) to be an in-house developer vs a contractor.
I think you don't appreciate how rockets kill other rockets.

The rockets close head on (so the speeds add together) and then the rocket trying to kill the other one explodes at right distance to the side of the other rocket, exploding in a cone of debris.

That cone of debris must intersect the other rocket at a right point. It can't just hit anywhere, to reliably kill it must hit a specific part of the other rocket.

So, realistically, you have to time your explosion to something like tens of microseconds.

Also getting there is a control loop problem and it requires very precise control. The more jitter in execution of the control loop the worse steering it will be and less chance it will get to the right place at the right time.
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

Good quote. But, if everyone buys local and starts biking to work, why would the oil companies keep producing as much oil?
I'm no expert here but I thought it was the other way around. I remember seeing Rocket Internet clone several US based startups in the European market successfully. Either in selling them back to the original startup or dominating the market e.g. Zalando
Keeping employees out of a country due to hostile government behavior is actually the simpler world.
I find the James Webb the most interesting scientific instrument ever. Finding indications of life on planets light years away just boggles the mind.
Yggdrasil OG in the house. I still have 40-odd floppies around, was a great day they shipped a bootable CD that went straight to X if you had the right hardware .. that blew a lot of our minds, back then ..
Roughly 1 in 5 workers do earn just that or very close to it. Easy to forget working in tech. But labor laws aren't just for in-demand techies. They are for everyone, including your cashier.