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> > Government regulation is different because it forces everyone (...)

> It really isn't. It just stops unscrupulous employers from abusing their employees.

If you're objecting to my use of the phrase "forces everyone", fair enough, but the point stands. If you're objecting to the point being made, I'm afraid I've missed your point.

> There are already plenty of tech companies that went full remote, and clearly they don't interpret that as a competitive disadvantage.

Indeed, one imagines that's because they don't see the (total) cons as outweighing the (total) benefits, and they (like me) don't see much use in separating out "benfits to employees" and "harm to the employer"... this is basically my original point (though going in the employee->employer direction as well as the employer->employee direction).
Ringtone fell into status symbol, I'd say - just like bit ago the cases with "window" for manufacturer logo. If you hear marimba or opening or whatever is the default nowadays, it's hardly unlikely its something else than iPhone.

Besides, I believe it's a matter of choice anyway and a will to fiddle with overwhelming options of the device. I still prefer my custom cut, trimmed, faded in and out ringtones and sounds for all phone events rather than dull defaults.
Soon. Still, .NET Core is already faster even without AOT on most cases: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
SEO may have been worth the effort prior to 2014, but now everything is so saturated that it is hard to find ROI. There has always been snake oil salespeople in the field. Write high quality content that spiders can index (no SPA) and that other sites link to is all you can do and by no means guarantees success from the channel.
Thanks for pointing this out, will investigate.
The better comparison would be : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon
This.

Using robots.txt to retroactively block content is no longer effective.

IA will unpublish (but not delete) content on request. Email info@archive.org, the process is largely painless.
If inflation is reduction in broad (not one single item) purchasing power of the monetary unit, then inflation will be felt when people lose confidence in the money or the organization backing the money. USA will feel significant inflation when the public loses confidence in the federal government. EU is much further down that path.
Uhhhh no.

A C API can called by every language under the sun. C is the lingua franca of computer science.

A C++ API can't even be reliably called by other C++ programs. If I produce a shared library with C API it can be used broadly and easily. If I produce a shared library with a C++ it can only be used by C++ programs compiled with precisely the same settings.

Providing a C++ API really just means "compile this entire library from source". I do indeed compile a lot of great third-party C++ code from source. That's not always possible or even desirable.

If I need to use that code from a different language - for example C# for Unity or matlab for data science - then that C++ API is worthless and needs to be wrapped with a C API.

I've recently been integrating some C++ libraries into C++ based Unreal Engine. It's easier to integrate a C API with Unreal C++ than it is to integrate random C++ project with C++ based Unreal.

The fact that C++ doesn't have a standard build system doesn't help. Integrating a C++ library to compile from source requires adapting random build system A with your build system B. There's a reason C++ projects love single-header (or single header + single cpp) C++ libraries with no additional dependencies. Because they don't require jumping through a million hoops.
A Fire upon the Deep is more flawed and uneven, but correspondingly more ambitious and thought-provoking. To me both are easily among the top 5 sci-fi novels ever written. I wish Vinge would keep writing more about Pham Nuwen's adventures. And to the grandparent poster's point, there are far more dimensions to A Deepness in the Sky than the one about communicating with alien cultures (the Focused is just one example). Both books are brilliantly multi-faceted, though the Tines World is a slog.
Exactly, gas-powered anything should be more than an acceptable solution during the transition from petrol/diesel/coal to electric
That’s an interesting question and one I don’t know the answer to. PageMaker is the first serious DTP package, but it wasn’t capable of laying out a magazine in 1985: for one thing MacUser is in colour! The Macintosh II with colour support didn’t appear until 1987.
I like to go for a short walk after work to the local supermarket or walk to the local parks (like Hyde or Regent's Park)
I find the freshest view is typically in the foundational papers (not necessarily in computer science, but generally). Always go back and look.
I hope Matt and Trey work this into an episode
I think he meant 1-3 per day
I'm with you 100%.

You would think CEOs would might notice the bump in productivity in awake workers?

Spending 2-3 hours going to an office most people despise, and listening to that clueless middle manager yap must alienated a lot of workers? An alienated worker gets back in weird ways.

I was thinking the genie is out of the bottle, and they will never bring us back, but no.

They can't wait until they can bring us back though.

(Maybe using Global Warming as an excuse to stay home? Not commuting must be better for the earth? It will be decades before we see 90% electric.)
I disagree; type safety is something that is missing from almost every C api I've used; you end up with opaque handles that are just integers that can be easily misused. Consider the glBufferSubData method [0] - 2 of 4 of those parameters are really just integers that the programmer needs to know about, that the compiler won't check,and the last two are tightly coupled and not type safe; thetes nothing stopping you from passing an array of doubles (or whatever pointer you have lying around).

Opengl also gets away with because you're almost always working with either floats or integers (for say index buffers) but once you start dealing with containers of containers, a C api ends up really messy with everything being an "object" and having to call function_str(my_obj_handle) with the correct handle - see sentry's api [1] for an example of what this looks like.

A C++ api for OpenGL would allow for type safe flags, type and bounds checked buffers, RAII handles with all the good (and granted, bad) that comes with them.

[0] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4/html/gl...

[1] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native
In Russia the Oligarchs are mob bosses. It's really that simple. And who do they work with ? Putin who has access to 100% of all government capabilities. It's a big birthday cake and there are plenty slices to go around.
disclamer: work for carvana... the cool things is that fueled by all this growth, in spite of carvana being a large-ish company there's still so much tech innovation and greenfield projects in this space which makes it quite fun to be part of this used-car-frenzy!!
Here's what I don't understand about this drama: is it really a serious burden to just deny these PRs? It looks like these are immediately obvious as spam, so the it's hard for me to see how it's a time sink.
It really depends what “most optimal” means. For example, our regulatory system today is the result of companies crossing a line that society is unhappy with:

- Massive pollution. Think of the burning Cuyahoga River or the terribly smoggy Pittsburgh.

- Horrible working conditions. Where plenty of employees (including children) were forced to work more hours than healthy, and in environments which kill them.

A similar modern example is hospitals price gouging super basic medical supplies.

Those are the natural results of companies operating in a purely profit-driven manner. A laissez-faire economy has no concept of morality or rights, just of profit.

Given that most people are completely unwilling to live under those sorts of conditions, our society has interjected itself into the economy to protect our rights. That happens via government regulation.

If we remove regulations and “stop meddling with the economy,” companies will take the cheapest route to profit, because they basically have to. With no regulations, that means many companies won’t build expensive filtering systems to reduce pollution or wool quickly disregard expensive or time consuming safety rules.

I’m also not convinced that laissez-faire actually works at all when the primary goal of the sector in question ought to be different from profit. A great example is health care, where the primary goal should be human well-being and health, but being profit focused would be completely at odds. If you’re profit-focused, there’s nothing stopping you from fixing prices very high because the person getting emergency services doesn’t have a chance to shop around or look at competition.

In fact, any place that competition can’t or doesn’t exist is very bad for society and consumers. Any sort of monopoly means prices are very high and quality is very low.

And monopolies always form over time in a laissez-fairs economy because it’s the best way to increase profit. And yet this is completely to the detriment of society and consumers —- e.g. to the detriment of everyone who exists. (I would posit that even a Walmart exec would have parts of their life that would be better if Walmart wasn’t monopolizing small markets.)

How do these problems get solved without “meddling” in the economy?
> something that could be addressed by going to sleep earlier

Please don't make bullshit assumptions like this when I've already said I didn't want to go into personal circumstances. In my case, the problem is medical, not motivational. And that's all I want to discuss because it's personal and, frankly put, none of your fucking business why I'm tired on an evening.

> We shouldn't be going into offices for these secondary effects.

I'm not advocating that people should be going into offices. What I'm advocating is that people should be allowed to decide for themselves if they want to go in. Having someone like yourself tell me I should work from home is just as toxic as any discussions arguing that employees should go in. What I'm suggesting is companies should offer flexibility because people will have different preferences.

Also you've just latched on the sleep thing as if that's the only benefit I get from going into the office. That's simply not the case. It was just a detail this tangent zeroed in on.
I doubt they have, given the way their post was written. Expecting tech people to have empathy is a bit much.
Sure, there are more power efficient platforms, but the project uses Selenium and PIL which I’m pretty sure won’t run on any of those boards.
Thank you. I’ve already started work on the December ‘85 post.
Do you have JS enabled for archive.org?

Seems that's necessary, sadly.
Yes, that's what makes it even worse. Flying as fast as you can means you have very little reserve for velocity losses from extensive maneuvering.
Rolls-Royce Finally Goes Fully Electric with a Striking New Car
And which free do you call? Do you call "free", "my_free", "3rdparty_typea_free" or "3rdparty_typeb_free"?
I use simple HTTP auth with an easy username and password on most my sites. It is rarely a problem for anyone I invite, except perhaps Instagram's browser, but no crawler traffic.
As the Romans said, "panem et circenses"; nowadays in the first world, even the relatively poor classes have access to a plenty of cheap entertainment and food; it's perhaps not good but it's enough to take off enough of the edge that people are merely angry but not so desperate (for the masses - individual exceptions of course happen, but they don't matter) to actually go ahead and risk their lives trying to change everything.
This is so true. Sometimes when I WFH I feel depressed after realizing I haven't been out for like two days.
If I move to London now, I’m entitled to demand all the commuters stop “invading” my city?
Hundred dollars for the printer, probably 20 cents a day for the consumables (paper, toner, electricity). The paper is recyclable. At one page a day, I would guess lifetime will be dominated by mechanical lubrication or degradation of capacitors, dust clogs, etc.
Your model of X, Y, and Z cannot make predictions. How do you validate it?
Any idea why this would be (other than incompetence)?
As someone born in the eighties I'd mention that it has actually gotten less unthinkable that mass riots happen in the western world as I've grown up. If everyone's reaction to January 6th surprised you it's because when most of the middle-aged working folks (including the folks in the media) were growing up this was unthinkable. The Arab Spring happened "over there" and ditto for North Africa - it's only recently that we've had substantive protests domestically.

The WTO always brings a decent sized chunk of protest when it comes - but the biggest protest in my memory is Occupy Wall Street which ended up being incredibly peaceful and polite and thus absolutely ignored by the media. The largest one before that was probably the '92 LA Riots which I was born just late enough to not notice.

Most of the more media grabbing protests of my life time have actually been sports related - the Red Sox winning and the Stanley Cup Riot. I don't know how true your statement really is.
I'd call that the "swing voter group".
Your tangential acceleration is zero in a sustained flight. So it works, then.
The real test will be whether they are able to continue to make money once the car market gets back to "normal" (whatever that will mean)
If Electric leaf blowers was the biggest consumer of rare earth metals for every hour of usage, then we would likely have an issue with those.

Leaf blowers could do what boat motors have been mostly forced to do and switch over to four-stroke motors. Motors have emission standards to follow. Battery manufacturers has environment laws to follow and if they produce products that fall below the minimum standard then they have to improve their product or be banned from selling their products.
Obligatory Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad reference.
It does not look that any of these sources confirm cell to cell transfer. Can you point to the source of this claim?
> Council tax was never meant to be anything like property tax

Well, it was meant to look like a property tax, while at the same time ensuring it would disproportionately affect the lower classes, for sure. It was a Conservative measure, after all (which Tony Blair was obviously "intensely relaxed about", since it directed money to local authorities Labour controlled, hence it was never repealed). As wikipedia reports: "the Valuation Tribunal Service [...] states that: "The tax is a mix of a property tax and a personal tax".

> They set one rate which is the Band D rate.

Yeah, and they can't even be arsed to figure out if a Band D property in 1991 is still a Band D today - the roof might have fallen off since then, but hey, who's got time to do periodic surveys? Local councils have better things to do, obviously.
Pedantically, none of them are C++ either.
I’d never call my old ride home nuts to butts on BART “unwinding” but it certainly created a coda between work and home. Now when I walk out of my office at home I’m still in problem solving “work talk” mode and it takes a bit to get out of it.
These projects have a pleasant "lo-fi zen" aspect that makes them attractive, I think. They are simple, provide value yet fade into the background without sucking your attention like some other gadgets.
I have a large enough house with a full-bedroom sized dedicated work office. I also don’t have a work phone (nor work email on my personal phone) and don’t check my computer outside work hours.

I’d say there is still plenty of psychological bleed-over for me. Not having a 100% physically separated work/home boundary has more of an effect than you might imagine. I can’t fully switch in and out of work mode.

Just my personal viewpoint

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"would've been vastly higher" is an unfalsifiable statement. The only thing we can conclude from the actual real data is that Australia's outcome has been relatively poor, just like the rest of the world accounting for population density/etc.
Every single article on HN that is remotely related to WFH has the same two camps coming out to.. state their case.. again.. to the crowd.

Group (1) loves WFH and can't understand how anyone would ever want to work in an office and will only work remotely from now on if they can.
Group (2) hates WFH and desperately needs the interactions an office provides and will be quitting any job that permanently works from home.

These two groups are two totally different types of people. They will never understand each other. It is probably not productive for each of them to keep rehashing their stances to each other. I don't know what the relative ratios of the two are, but I imagine we're gonna live in this two-types-of-employees world forever and ought to get used it. And we should probably stop belligerently pontificating to each other; nothing is going to change and it is just going to keep being a cycle of failing-to-communicate.
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That's just a bit of lag though. ED is becoming increasingly common.
> hypersonics can get there fast enough that you might not need high-quality targeting information

The strategic systems hypersonics are hyped to hit have been hardened against ballistics. Hypersonics are slower than ballistics. (Their plasma envelope also makes them easier to track by satellite.)

This is a tactical evolution. Meaningful. Helpful. But not a strategic shift.
> can you share some examples of where your work was duplicated instead of built upon?

Wookie (http://wookie.lyonbros.com/) was the main one, or at least the most obnoxious to me. I was trying to create a general-purpose HTTP application server on top of cl-async. Without naming any specific projects, it was duplicated because it (and/or cl-async) wasn't fast enough.

> At the very least, it seemed uncontroversial so I’m interested to see why others would choose not to build upon it.

A superficial need for raw performance seemed to be the biggest reason. The thing is, I wasn't opposed at all to discussions and contributions regarding performance. I was all about it.

Oh well.
> I don't see why I would want to exclude my site from any index? Being in indexes helps people find my writing, which I like!

It's essentially a form of boycott. If one believes Google is a problematic entity (too many fingers in too many aspects of our lives), it's a way to sever connections with them at some personal cost.

At least, if you care about search traffic - one might argue the assumption that Google-like search is the default way to navigate the web is one worth reconsidering and encouraging alternatives to anyway.
Non white groups are also becoming more Republican, as seen in the 2029 election.
Anything that might interfere with the interests of western democracies is okay with the Russian authorities as long as it doesn't affect Russians finances.
Regarding London trains: it very much depends what line you go on and how far down that line you are as to whether you get a seat. The reliability and expense problems are very real though :(
That's a shitty solution. The whole point is to keep the website public.
The tradesmen likely know more about the logistical structure of a functioning society than most STEM employees, who too often live in ivory towers.

The restaurant staff often know more about human nature and behavior than the Psychiatrist who’s been trained to see all our flaws as chemical imbalances to be fixed.

Comments like yours are increasing the divide in this country, and are deeply problematic.
In the end, it all comes down to food and comfort.

I can't imagine a life form that won't look fondly upon another life form that helps them get their preferred food, and helps limit or avoid discomfort.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Point notwithstanding, this article says that its own title is wrong: "Non-college whites over 50 are a minority of the electorate".
Which is one of several reasons for a lot of the emotion around the question. People are already discovering that if you’re largely a pre-pandemic office person, that doesn’t work if most of your co-workers are only wandering in maybe a day per week if at all.
Hired in the middle of the pandemic, worked for one year before stepping into the office.

It's now impossible to get 3 people in a 15 minute meetings to clear requirements.

Before: email -> problems -> let's do a zoom call -> done.

Now: email -> problems -> nobody has time in the office for a meeting.

It might be the culture but still...
> You're moving the goalpost on this. For me, as someone else stated, the separation between home life and work life is a bit easier with a commute.

The point is that separation from home and work life does not require or mandate a commute or even getting back to the office. That position is indefensible. Being forced to endure something unsavoury against your best wishes ever single work day is not easier nor the only effective way to get some separation between your personal and work life. That's something you do, not something that's done to you.

Some people are quite happy with a home office, some people opt to work anywhere. I have a team member that works by the pool, and another team member who worked while travelling through Europe. If you are not forced to be present on a specific cubicle in a specific building for X hours a day then you have quite literally the whole world at your disposal, and your imagination is the only limit.

And you know what? That reflects on quality of life work/life balance, and overall job satisfaction. Your life matters and enjoying how you live it matters. That's the whole point of working, not a whimsical position where a post happened to be moved.

So no, being packed like sardines along with dozens of depressed and tired and often smelly fellow drones in a train or subway or bus, of being forced to endure traffic jams or road rages, is neither the only way to separate work from personal life, nor the most enjoyable or even effective at all. There are far better things to do in life, and you're free to pick them all.
As a pedestrian in Paris we are not anti bikes! We think it’s a great idea but we are not going to accept bad behavior and breaking of laws that put our citizens in danger!
I totally agree with you, most arguments are obsolete at best, and ignorant at worst.

> no threads

Worker threads are a thing since Node v10.
Also, I like the single thread concurrency, it makes state management easier (since there is no race condition).

> node does not have a concurrency and parallelism story

- https://nodejs.dev/learn/understanding-javascript-promises
- https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html

> standard library is tiny

You have sockets, http(s) (even http2), multiprocessing, readline, streams, timers, promises, JSON, etc...

They want String.capitalize()? They would complain about the implementation being bloated because it handles edge cases like other alphabets, etc...

> async makes your program more difficult to reason about

That may have been true with the callback hell before async/await. But now, it's just non-sense.

> the ecosystem is an absolute dumpster fire

Ironically, for an ecosystem based on the philosophy of "Don't reinvent the wheel", there are a lot of packages that does the same thing.

There is the leftpad fiasco, the colorette/nanocolors "scandal", the is-odd/is-even packages, ...

But as I said in this thread, this is not Node's fault, nor npm's fault. This is the developer's fault.

Cargo (rust), Mix (elixir), pip (python), they could all serve such an ecosystem.

It's up to the developer to be careful about his dependency tree. For example, if I need VueJS which depends on a specific library, I'll avoid installing another library doing the same thing.