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for debates to be healthy, one must use the right words to describe a situation

once proper description of the situation is done, one can argument whether something is good/bad fair/unfair legal/illegal an atrocity or something wonderful

burning steps is the best way to not think properly

and i'm not arguing anything, i state facts and i use the right words for it

i don't care about what's gonna happen in the pacific, whether china gonna nuke the west coast first or it's gonna escalate with one of the US's paws aka australia, who cares?

i also find it funny that you extrapolate what i may think, based on what? what did i say about the Taiwanese? i'm not qualified to have an opinion about it, but i'm qualified to state historical facts
So what actually happens to fabs outside of Taiwan if China do take Taiwan and presumably also TSMC the company.
This article is great and has good insights. I never used these technologies but it is a good overview of the caching part.
"Ultimately it's as we would expect: executive leadership deciding to pull people back in has little to do with data and more to do with feelings."

One of the few things the far left has been right about all along: it is not a meritocracy, it is all about perception and feelings.
I think there's a little-discussed connection between dev happiness and motivation/productivity. I for one am much more driven when I feel good about the thing I'm producing, and the language it's written in has a big impact on that.
The alternative is a catamaran.

Your point on the diesels still stands. Properly designed cats are unsinkable and don't readily capsize, but not weathering a storm is worth every penny invested in diesels. Besides one needs them in marinas anyway.
I'm not allowed (have a wife) to leave my current area (Philly-ish). I have applied for a couple jobs. I dont apply to most jobs because there is no salary info or the salary range listed is not any better than my current job.

I'm an intermediate developer. I've unofficially filled roles like senior dev and tech lead. I've also worked as an ASC (supposed to be reserved for senior devs). Oh well
What is stopping local restaurants and retailers from serving downtown workers? Back when I worked in a CBD, I almost always ate lunch at local/regional businesses.
I’m gonna go against the HN grain here and, despite having been fully for remote work for the first year or so of the pandemic, come out and say that life has really gotten a lot more repetitive and frankly disappointing since covid and the death of the office. I kind of miss meeting people in the office.

I was in the unfortunate position of having moved to a new city for a new tech job where I knew nobody just seven months before the pandemic began and everything was shut down. I was making many friends both inside and outside the office before that time, but during and since the lockdowns I just feel like socializing has become so much harder and my days are just blurred together computer screens. I guess at this point I’m an extroverted introvert, whereas most of HN is very introverted or has pre-existing families/friends to socialize with.

My company is hybrid at the moment and I’m actually writing this from the very empty office. Things just aren’t the same.
I agree with your conclusion, but in any discussion about web scraping it's probably a good idea to mention BeautifulSoup given how popular it is (virtually a builtin in terms how much it's used) and given all the documentation available for it, a good starting point if perf is not going to be a concern.
Interesting to hear his opinion on joining companies with lots of fires to put out. That feels pretty risky to me, since putting out fires is collaborative, and those who let the fires be set in the first place are probably still around.

As for me, I just don't need the stress. It's possible to have hard, rewarding problems to solve without them being fires that need to be put out ASAP. Life's too short.

On the subject of the quality of Databricks, I'm half impressed and half annoyed. As a source of ad hoc, notebook-based compute it's magical. But stuff like proper git integration simply took too long. Further, the lengths that data scientists at my org go through to leverage Databricks in MLOps pipelines could be minimized with a better design.
That's not even remotely true. Fessenheim was a huge security risk and would not have passed any security checks in a country not as fanatically pro-nuclear as France.

See https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Pannen-AKW-Fessenheim-geht-vom-N...:

> Fessenheim liegt in einem Erdbebengebiet, das Kraftwerk ist gegen einen Flugzeugabsturz oder Anschlag unzureichend geschützt. Zudem kam es immer wieder zu Pannen.

That says: It was in an seismic active zone, unprotected against plane crashes or terror attacks. There also were a bunch of accidents.

Those old reactor designs weren't safe.
My first programming job was at minimum wage.

They were using me for cheap labour, I was using them to get a CV that allowed me to get a real salary somewhere else later.

I literally said this to the director who hired me (a few months in, in his office with nobody else around) and was rewarded with a huge grin because I'd guessed correctly that he'd prefer cheap labour who -understood- that was the deal and wasn't afraid to own their half of it.

Worked out fine for me, and I did duly leave to take a much better paid job after about a year.
This is GUI code present in the very first commit https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/4405b78d6059e536c3... just to be removed few days and commits later: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/85c33b960211722e21...
This sounds like a fairly normal interview process. How do tech interviews typically work in Brazil?
I have (had) been developing for the Mac, then iOS, since 2002, coming originally from a UNIX/Linux background. I essentially got out of doing any iOS development work specifically because of the review process and its hoop-jumping and awful opaqueness. I was only able to do it as long as I did because I was making developer-facing tools for seven years at Mapbox and didn't have to submit apps.
Isn't this the same situation that the USA eventually found itself in with respect to the USSR? I think the whole cold war can be re-envisioned as a socioeconomic conflict.
It depends on the nature of your work imo. Sometimes you need key tools or infrastructure that cannot physically be in your home, like a mechanic's shop. If you are just working on a computer in an office, however, there's no point to ever coming in just to work on a computer in this particular location vs your home or elsewhere. Internal team meetings seem more productive on zoom than dragging everyone into a conference room in my experience. Use the commuting hours for your own free time instead instead of volunteering them to your employer for free, since in commuting out of pocket, you are subsidizing their costs to bring in the labor they need to their workplace to do their work for their client (note how any contractor will take note of and bill you for travel time, but employees are expected to front it themselves).

If you work in something more client facing, you'd probably benefit a lot more from stuff like in person slide decks in front of clients you flew in and are accommodating, and other corporate schmoozing and boozing that is just impossible and awkward on zoom or any other electronic platform.
Been remote for 5+ years and I feel more connected with my co-workers than I did when I worked 9-5 in an office.
"But renewables are much harder to monopolize so the big players never really wanted to support them."

Compared to nuclear power? Yeah. Almost by default getting nuclear power up and running requires government intervention and this is where it hurts. There is no privatization money to skim ( unlike renewables ). It is monopolized, but it is monopolized the way government monopolizes things ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly ).

"if we poured the trillions that have been poured into nuclear into renewables the world already would be a lot nicer. "

It is possible ( I was wrong before ), but I would like you to consider the following:

Solar panels require rare earths. They are called rare not for shits and giggles. What do you think will happen when entire Earth starts looking for them. Consider scalability issues and all of a sudden, digging for oil looks better. We have an interesting view of the coming attractions with Tesla ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-25/musk-says... ) and some of the tall tales of him supporting a coup to get the resources he needed.

Similar list of issues run for other renewables with possible exception of geothermal, so I think 'a lot nicer' may be a bit of exaggeration. It is going to sound really cynical, but to me it sounds like pockets where the money reside will change.

That is it. With nuclear -- some of that money will dry up. Hence, partially, the cry out against it.
My friend runs a company that is remote first in the way described here. They have employees all over the world, but they all get together at some random place on the planet (pre-covid) about once every two months.

The employees love it because of all the free trips around the world (and often tie their vacation to the beginning or end of a meeting so they can explore that place on their own) and it's great for the company because they can hire talent all over the world.

It also makes their in person time far more productive because everyone puts effort into planning that time for effectiveness and everyone knows that they only have limited time together and have to make the most of it.
The article states

> Memcached slabs once assigned never change their size.

This is incorrect. Modern versions of Memcached has support for this. See for example [1].

[1] https://www.loginradius.com/blog/async/memcach-memory-manage...
Most important distinction - out of all Lisps, only in Clojure it is encouraged to use primitive types directly. Higher level abstractions, "inventing your own languages" are considered as a bad style.
How much of this is fixable though if you could have a normal social calendar? I don't think current circumstances offer a fair comparison.
If refusing to obey laws for ideological reasons they are doing some form of civil disobedience, that is still obeying the "law"[1]. Even when refusing to follow a specific law you still follow the Law, the point is that you willingly accept the consequence of your (in)action as per that law, i.e. that usually means go to jail. Thoreau's seminal essay or Gandhi or King's(and many others) writings talk about the topic in length . King actually frames civil disobedience as the expression of highest respect for the law.

All behavior is motivated by either seeking gratification/pleasure or for avoiding pain, however such a reductive mental model is not useful work with in this context. Coercion in the context of leak (MICE) usually is understood as unwilling participant who is being blackmailed to leak. Money, Ideology and Ego are voluntary, Coercion is forced is the idea i believe.

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[1] I am talking about the conventionally held definition of Civil Disobedience, non-violent and public are generally accepted qualifiers . It is not really required under many definitions.

Ellmann states that covert lawbreaking is just valid way of expressing your morality ( ideology ) as public disobedience. There are similar arguments for revolutionary and violent variations as well. It boils down does common(yours) morality allow deceit or violence under this situation. Morality being more subjective( you may agree violence is justified someone else will not) most popular commentators try to stick to non-violent and public conditions to make their case stronger and widely supported. Whether that public or non-violent is a component or not it doesn't matter.

The point I am trying to make is: if is ideological then consequences will be readily accepted, otherwise it just common crime.
Wouldn't it make more sense to convert the video to greyscale and e.g. detect significant changes of brightness during frames and store them as vector coordinates (% of the playtime, brightness delta)?
Me too. Looks like I got redirected two or three times there. Not sure if it's a bug or marketing crap.
> you still have to live within a few hours drive of Seattle

That encompasses the entire state of Washington, and includes a good chunk of Oregon.

Not a burden.

P.S. Friends of mine have lived in Seattle and commuted to eastern Washington some decades ago. It's entirely workable.
Our team has started monthly in-person get togethers. We recently went kayaking and had dinner after. Each month we pick someone to plan the next month's activities and use this as a way to bond and realize we are people, not just online aliases. It's worked pretty well now that vaccines and such are readily available and people are becoming more comfortable with in person stuff.
Pardon the confusion, this was about LGPL, not GPL—and the former does allow linking.
Was there an era when comedians weren’t controversial?
Users here with Keybase in their profile remind me of citizen PATRIOT Act supporters
350-500k annual comp levels exist (that’s E5-E6 at Facebook, for example). There are a lot of E5s, but fewer E6s.

Your friends might also be including the full four-year grant in a single number, which creates a sort of nonsense figure? Another thing that increases comp is if the stock rises a lot after grant — but that would not show up in offers.

Levels.fyi is as legit as any other source, as far as I know.
true but I mean its been a year and a half since the first lockdowns...this kind of seems like it is the new normal, right?
Physical gamepads are supported by memory mapping, the game itself doesn't know if the player is using a keyboard, touchscreen, or real gamepad.

I think if multiplayer will ever be supported, it should be abstracted in the same way. We might create a runtime for libretro, which could enable adhoc netplay "for free".
> Sails have several major downsides[..]

Yes, but it makes less noise.
I was not objecting to your claim that Musk is not qualified to make an assessment about terraforming. I was objecting to your claim that Musk has no scientific training.
The moment Taiwan officially drops their claims and declares Taiwanese Independence, China will attack.
Who has made a second career out of condescendingly presenting his own opinions as fact.
Humans use language to accomplish tasks in their environment - establishing relationships, making deals, coaxing others, etc. By contrast, all neural language models do is predict the next word as a function of the previous word. So far, these language models have nothing at all to do with language learning. They're only valuable insofar as they advance downstream engineering tasks like machine translation.
You need social hobbies on the weekend. I just wish weekends were three days so I got two days for hobbies and one day break for rest, errands and other life necessities.
Isn't that more an effect of your local social scene being shut down though, and not lack of commuting to an office?

If all the local bars/clubs/libraries/whatever you like to do were open, wouldn't that solve the problem?
Unraveling the Mystery of Touch
I'd ask how realistic this idea is. Maybe it is the cheapest, but how long would that last if there was real and widespread demand?

More importantly, have you considered the pollution and carbon footprint this would create?
No idea why this factual statement sits at -1 but I guess that's the state of HN. ARPANET was 1969.
Maybe a new OS project with a focus on directly funding things like driver ports. Funnelling donations to something like Ethlance.
Oh, they announced it just now https://twitter.com/remix_run/status/1447649474038222851
I use scp now its cool it works
This is unfair. In an uncaring universe, humans have done quite well. The world was never “fixed” for us to break, and it never will be. The fact most of us live in civil societies of any kind is a miracle or the first order.

I get frustrated at this nihilism. A quick trip to any point in the part would reveal how truly lucky we are right now, and would inspire us to drag our sorry species even further from the abyss.
Finland lobbied EU to declare nuclear power sustainable supported by Greens
> I don't know how productive it is to search for the true definition of "WFH".

It's very productive, because abusing terms like "WFH" will be the technique that companies use to try and get through this without giving up anything. If you thought you were going to be "working from home" and discovered that your boss had the option to demand a commute from you at will on short notice, you would probably feel like you'd been tricked, no? Or if you landed that dream WFH job only to discover that it required you be X miles from Y expensive city, you would probably have some questions about what exactly they meant by "work from home".

Personally, I'd call the environment OP described above as semi-remote or "Flexible Working Arrangements", although I'm sure there are other terms that would suffice.

> Regardless of what we call it, it seems reasonable to have an intermediate model like Amazon's proposing, where you can mostly work from wherever you'd like but you have to be available for in-person meetings because the company thinks they're valuable.

Not for me, but that's fine I guess. But it's very important that everyone be clear about what this is, and it's not WFH. If the expectation is that you'll commute regularly or on the demand of your boss (ew), then that's not a WFH job. Come up with a new name for it if you want, but it does not meet the social expectation of what "WFH" means.

Unrelated to the terminology, I find this intermediate proposition utterly perplexing. So I have to live within reasonable commute range for the 2-3x times I commute per week, and I have to pay higher per foot cost if I want to work from my home? You do you, but I find this to be the worst of both worlds; I'd rather have a short commute to an office all the time, or no commute and more personal space.

(Excepting of course the “I have a dentist appointment in the other direction, I’m going to WFH for that.” But even my non-remote jobs have offered one-off remote days for logistical reasons for years, so I implicitly exclude that from such discussions).
Jeff was still with the company when the last version of the policy was announced, i.e. "3 days from office, 2 days from home." It was probably the head of HR who came up with it.

Jeff accepted it like, "Oh well." You could tell he couldn't care less.

But Andy Jassy looked ashen. I think his becoming CEO was the reason Amazon changed course. If Jeff had stayed, he would have let HR decide the policy for the entire company, and it would have been disastrous for AWS.
They may be measuring productivity wrong. People may be working. But are they working on the right things and solving the problems correctly? For example, is creativity and genuine cross-team collaboration suffering? Those are much harder to measure, and at certain companies like startups that have ill-defined processes, these may be breaking down. Again, I’m not saying this with certainty. But perhaps this could be one view from the C-suite.
KaraSinger: Score-free singing voice synthesis with VQ-VAE using Mel-spectrogram
> whether china gonna nuke the west coast first or it's gonna escalate with one of the US's paws aka australia, who cares?

Oh good lord. Go away shill. At least you make yourself obvious.
More like "farm equipment manufacturers have insecure backoffice web services" with some tenuous and unsubstantiated highly contrived links to fanciful action movie sub-plots.

I agree that automotive and farm equipment have generally mediocre security track records and that, with the addition of remote connectivity, these issues are concerning. But all hyperbole and breathless reporting like this gains us is an excuse for repair hostility under the guise of "security."
It seems like "Three Mile Island accident" is the name that is used in the US. Do not think anyone died.

> Cleanup started in August 1979 and officially ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of about $1 billion
Yes. Also, given the huge volume of radioactive waste (eg. like 10s of thousands cubic meters just in France) it would require thousands of rocket launches for such an endeavour.

Launch failure rates at best nearing 1%, space don't look like our best option here.
does this use vcpkg at all?
That a very significant part of the human population could, at any point (!), decide to switch to crypto as its currency. A currency that gives 1 million coin to each living human and says go and prosper. Could this happen? Maybe when is the better question.
Working from home during the pandemic is different than working from home during normal times
Cramming most socializing into whatever bits of free time are left after hobbies seems unlikely to work for most people.
> What is stopping local restaurants and retailers from serving downtown workers

The lack of downtown workers going into offices. Effectively there is no one working near those restaurants.
I used to work from home at a relatively fast paced job (software engineer / trader for a hedge fund) and it really didn't work for me. I needed the face to face communication of an office setting to work at the pace required. I would also be afraid that working from home would disconnect me from things going on at the company and make me seem less essential, more redundant, more likely to be laid off, which DID happen to a person I know who insisted on remote work. I think the remote life works if you are a specialist hired to hammer your personal nail for a company, over and over again without much change to daily requirements, but I think that is a fragile circumstance.
¿Por qué no los dos?

It looks like solar-powered zeppelins are a thing, although with the brief googling I did it looks like nothing really exists just yet.
> People seem to forget that outside of the supermega metro areas the typical downtown/financial districts are basically dead.

Before working in tech I lived in mostly small and medium sized cities. The downtowns were always packed, and usually the artists were local, but as much as I hear "artists and musicians" brought up with respect to a cities value, they don't lure people in. It's just a bonus. What does is good schools, affordable home prices, stable jobs, and a decent economy.
I and a friend have just done the interview cycle this year and, anecdotally at least, it seems like most companies are giving the take home test _and_ leet code questions.

The average number of rounds I was going through was 10-11 and that was consistent through applying at companies via Hired, recruiters, and applying to jobs off of HN and StackOverflow.

The only job I applied to that had less than 5 rounds was a small business that wanted to hired a senior engineer to rebuild their Java 5 app entirely for 120k/yr and no benefits beyond healthcare and be in office several times a week.

It’s kinda made me dead to any complaints from software businesses about not being able to hire anyone. They are simultaneously forcing their employees to jump ship if they want a raise, trying to force people back into the office for seemingly no reason but to show they can, _and_ constantly raising the level of effort needed to even apply for their positions.

Anecdotally again, it’s gotten to the point where I know three engineers who’ve just dropped out of the industry entirely and they are all <30 and not financially independent. They’ve taken the extra money they saved from working tech and are now using it to get themselves into a position where they are doing _anything_ but work for a tech company.

At some point the industry is going to have to face the fact that it can’t scale anymore due to the jobs being antithetical to most people’s mental well being