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The decision whether the West will fight for Taiwan will not be affected by TSMC.

HN crowd absurdly overestimates the need for the smallest node. At worst, the West will have a mildly smaller amount of slower chips for a few years until sufficient investment allows catching up.
I’m a data scientist so I work with JSON and csv all the time. It’s amazing how the back bone of data serialization and reporting are so ambiguous.

But I wonder if I’m part of the probably. Know one notices all the inconsistencies because so much of my job is ironing it out.
> While it has not been brought to court, some lawyers, include the Free Software Foundation’s legal counsel, feel the CDDL may be incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Which is irrelevant as the code does not contain any GPL code, right?
A couple threads from long ago. Others?

The Friendster Story (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032529 - Sept 2011 (7 comments)

Why Did Friendster Fail? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18674 - May 2007 (9 comments)
We're in total agreement--that was probably not a great example.
I didn't know about salt! The internet is full of lovely tools! Although it does look generate really dated looking pictures but definitely interested in looking at its parser etc.

Thanks!
We've been staying home for well over a year now. Virtually all shopping is delivered and have eaten at a restaraunt once I think. Our work as had one outdoor happy hour that I would have gone to, except for non-pandemic issues. I've been blown away at the recent movie box office ticket sales. Maybe the covid blasé people are going out 50% more often than they did pre-pandemic.
Democracy's are will of the average intelligence and sub-average emotional state. They seldom act with prudence.

This is why nearly all nuclear plants under construction today are occurring in non-democratic nations.
You’re looking for mutual aid(1), egalitarianism, and maybe humanism.

1. https://givingcompass.org/partners/ncrp/the-importance-of-gr...

Mutual aid is inherently local. It’s someone asking for help on Twitter or Facebook, or at work. It’s someone offering aid, or connecting someone in need to someone able and willing to help. These networks sprung up all across the country last year, mostly in big cities with large protest movements, but also among communities with strong ties. At one point in time churches and governments filled this role, however both have been derelict in their duties for many many decades.
So I agree with you conceptually, that would be a better way to eat meat and I'd likely join in if that were our reality. But I think you may be overestimating how daring Americans are with food... or just how familiar they are with food in general.

A lot of the country has almost a toddler-like relationship with food. They like what they like and you have to practically shove it down their throats to get them to try anything new... just look at the restaurant options available in some parts of rural america... they're basically large chains microwaving frozen foods (at least the south gets exposure to some authentic mexican food and barbeque... the midwest is... well... limited)

People literally die because they will not eat healthier to save their lives. It's not at all unusual for a diabetic person to lose a limb and still not change their diet.

I'd wager that a meat-like replacement that tastes enough like meat and looks like meat will be more successful than anything on the BK menu containing the word falafel. It's like tricking children to eat healthier by putting a food they don't want to try into a fun shape.
So you don't think the new $5 Billion new HQ sent the warm fuzzy feelings they'd hoped for?

Nothing at all like a Fortress Temple of Elitism...
They also sort of shoot themself in the foot with their interview process. I recommended the absolute best person I know for a position he was exceedingly qualified for. Amazon would have been lucky to have him.

They blitzed him with leadership questions and were “not inclined”. Incredibly dumb given their current situation. He’s not even bad on those dimensions, they just can’t get pretty off topic imo.
A much better description of this phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-raCm2-rObI
Who will implement self driving features?
The Imminent Collapse of Digital Advertising
No, we use antlr, we have no dependency on Java.
Do you know what sort of density and discharge rates they're talking?
The waves of deactivations on the ground stations have already started. We're on a trajectory of GPS over-reliance.

https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/navigation/the-faa-i...

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/23/vor...
Used fuel from thermal reactors can be processed into fuel for fast reactors. The fast reactor burns up all the transuranium elements so that the waste ends up with only the short lived fission products. These short lived products decay to background in 300 years or so, so the amount of time it needs to be stored is much more manageable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor#Advantag...
> But in general, it isn’t in a business’s best interest to just offer raises without any negotiation or discussion. If a person isn’t asking for more, why should you offer it? Like, morally, I totally see the argument to do it preemptively, but as a business function I don’t.

It demonstrates that a business values its employees, literally, and this does build good will. Honestly, this is how you keep the better employees, and you're probably keeping them at below-replacement rates, even if yo do give "generous" raises. I have a friend who gets a consistent 4-8% annual raise and he refuses to interview because he likes that reliable growth.

Replacing a worker is a dice roll, and if you already have a five, it doesn't really make sense to let them leave for greener pastures in the hopes of scoring a six on the next role.

But it definitely doesn't make sense to keep raising pay on take-em-or-leave-em middling employees. Let them keep doing a mediocre, but useful job for a few years until they leave, then hope you role a five or six on their replacement.
> Funny (well, not really) thing is NaN and Inf are perfectly valid floating point numbers acoording to most (?) standards used on computers. To the point that I don’t understand why it was left out of JSON.

There are all kinds of ways to encode that in JSON, but (contrary to JS, where “numbers” or IEEE doubles, which include various things which are either not numbers or not finite), JSON numbers are generic finite (both in size or decimal representation) numbers, so “as JSON numbers” is not one of them. (And there’s no explicit way defined in JSON, so if you want it to be unambiguous, you need externally defined semantics, but you need that for most real uses anyway.)
The old grannies are Stayin' Alive!

You can tell by the way I use my wok.

Funny story about dancing grannies in Taipei, back in 2016. My boss asked me to go up from Kaohsiung to attend the Python Conference. But I was facing some very tight financial times, and paying several thousand NTD for the conference fee (which wasn't refunded by the company later) was difficult for me.

So I took a cheap night bus instead of HSR train, rode a city bike instead of the MRT, and arrived at 6 am for the conference at 11 am, hoping to sneak inside the conference venue during setup.

How could I loiter there without attracting attention? Well, there were a group of grannies dancing. So I joined them!

We had a great time, and some of them even offered to introduce me to their granddaughters. And when the time came, I bid them farewell, tailgated into the venue, opened my laptop and looked busy. The dancing grannies were so hospitable, though, welcoming a crazy foreign boy and being rather too trusting.
Maybe I'm just used to it already. My team has employees in several different states (due to having offices there through a series of old acquisitions), as well as contractors both in South America and Eastern Europe. So, even before COVID, our meetings were already online-centric.

In fact I started working remote full time because after our company moved us to a fancy new open-office floorplan in the city my commute went from 20 mins to 75 and I realized I was wasting all that time just to be on virtual meetings in the office, so I stopped going in. Even when we were all in the office, meetings tended to be online anyway because the company did not build nearly enough conference rooms.

Having an online-first culture even before COVID never seemed to be a big problem for us. Obviously YMMV.
What if we could throw what generations of people collectively built for a concoction some random dude came up with on their own? What about using the same time investment to contribute to improving our current systems?

Whatever you come up by yourself has zero chances of coming to fruition outside your apartment. Working on your local community to improve lives of real people or joining a political party and influencing the direction of debate is way more actionable.
If only we had another monetary system. That was more...cryptic.
> I recommend doing everything you can to cultivate friendships outside of work.

More than half of all my friends outside the office started out as coworkers in the past. And the remainder are almost exclusively people that I met as a result of social activities with these 'original' friends.
It's just an electron app. Rather than just flinging mud, it'd be relatively easy for anyone to actually find evidence of this.

That there are several articles about people reverse engineering the client and protocol and nobody else has brought this up, I feel pretty comfortable calling this unfounded unless you can provide some indication otherwise.
I learned a few years ago about barnacles, which by virtue of being unaerodynamic and super heavy if you let them form huge colonies on the bottom of your ship, can decrease fuel efficiency severely. I saw how much work maintanence was, I said 'nope!' I guess a house is similar in some ways. Shingles don't last forever, pipes get corroded. The salty sea though, it's a bit more unkind to things, aye?
Might want to consider moving if your internet connection is bad enough to result in material time being spent getting it fixed. And maybe drink less coffee if there is material time being spent on making it and rinsing the cup and putting it in the dishwasher.
This is obviously not correct.
This is very cool. I wish I were more mechanically inclined. One of my fantasies is buying an end-of-lifed helicopter turbine and building a tractor around it, but I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Yeah I agree with you, 2FA unlocking PCs isn't how we should use a security key. However, I do not trust using the key alone to unlock my PC as well, so I guess maybe using a YubiKey Bio is better for replacing password authentication with fingerprints.
They exist. They're just not your almost stereotypical, mostly working class, traditional organizations.

Depending upon age and interests, at least larger cities have options and, as you get involved, more options get opened up.
A weighted graph can include weights for both the vertices and edges. For example a network latency diagram may include the physical wires as separate from the router as the router latency may depend on network load. Similarly routers themselves have internal bandwidth limitations etc.

As to the rest separating the NN from everything needed to generate it is a useful distinction. You’re not going to generate a different f(x) by slightly changing the training set etc. It’s however a somewhat arbitrary distinction.
I agree. In the US, trademark dilution needs to be defended against in order to secure the defense of the trademark in the future.
Our work is very collaborative and being able to get quick feedback on some issue is nice.

Having to ping them over chat is annoying because while it may result in a quick answer it may also just disappear into the ether (or the chat app fails to deliver, the person steps away but you don't know this, etc.).

Again, our work is collaborative and if someone wants to be left alone they throw on headphones in which case everyone knows to just ping them over chat so they can respond whenever is convenient for them.
Anne Frank’s Complete Manuscripts Go Online for the First Time
Waste disposal is a solved problem. One barrel per reactor per year is not a meaningful amount of waste.
This seems odd to write, as [I believe] YC has one of the strongest, least-founder-favorable versions of pro rata. YC sets so many market terms for startups, they could change this dynamic.
Looking at some of the output... I think I'll stick with Tinker Hatfield and Sergio Lozano.

Also, New Balance 574s definitely exist.
Since they're having problems with retention, I wonder if they'll also get rid of that 6 month rejection cooldown? I had an Amazon recruiter cold e-mail me 2 months ago and me, being off the market for 8 years, had no idea software engineering interviewing was its own skillset, and subsequently bombed the online assessment. 2 months later, I've "grinded Leetcode" and passed a few phone interviews, but I'd be interested in circling back to Amazon. I will probably find another job before that 6 month cooldown is up, so as it is, Amazon basically is missing out on someone who is otherwise qualified just because they reached out to me first.
I kind of guessed a different situation, where a small development team has asked repeatedly for more staff, since they were not making acceptable progress. Owner balks for months because maybe money is tight, but finally relents. Says 'you can add someone, but we can only pay 30K.' Devs probably thought they could at least unload some gruntwork onto the new person and free up time to accelerate development.

This was a small business with a late product. Probably circling the drain, and not much cash flow to play with.

The only way an owner would approve a rewrite suggested by his most junior dev with only a few weeks on the job, is out of pure desperation.
Going out unnecessary feels socially unacceptable.

This is silly if you're vaccinated and not in an unusually high risk group.
I have tried this but struggled to find people in coworking spaces that I wanted to socialise with.

The one time it has worked was when friends who worked in the same niche sector would sometimes all cowork at a cafe for a day. Maybe once a month. That was incredible. We were expected to be in our offices most of the time though.
> "And how much do you value the opinions of online communities?"

Seems a more difficult question, but a more indicative one, which is why I included it.

Per my experience, you can easily find individuals who spend similar amounts of clock time in online communities, but are very different in how much the community can influence them.

F.ex. HN could offer me dang's karma count, and I wouldn't feel any compulsion to leak classified information here.
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> 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'm sorry you're having a tough time with it. That sounds really unpleasant.

> My company is hybrid at the moment and I’m actually writing this from the very empty office. Things just aren’t the same.

Ignoring the pandemic, it sounds like the people at your company just don't agree that in-person work is necessary for them to get what they need out of their employment. The issue is either side attempting to force its preferred working conditions on the other. aka the solution isn't to make all of those people that don't want to be in an office come in again, but instead for you to find companies/circles that have people with similar interests as you. Being around people that don't want to be around you is unpleasant for both sides.
> Is Going to the Office a Broken Way of Working?

No, it is not. I recommend trying to understand "The F-Connection: Families, Friends, and Firms and the Organization of Exchange"[1].

Firms consist of humans. Humans need human connections. One frequently finds a new job due to a connection with a friend. And, while you don't have to love everyone you work with, one does develop (or used to develop) friendships at work. Or, on the way to work. Or, during lunch break.

When everyone lives in their little pod and only connect with work over video conferencing, their very human connection to other people in their firm weakens.

I understand this is appealing to people who are only familiar with living in a bedroom community, hopping on the company bus every morning where they stare at their laptop screens, go to the company campus and not interact with the outside world, and repeat the same trip in the other direction in the evening.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, people who just want to live in their own pods seem to have the power to determine our destiny.

sigh

[1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1972655
Sure, I know sailing catamarans well (via Youtube vids mostly admittedly). But I switched drooling focus when these things started appearing- I suspect they will eventually displace many if not most other boat types (albeit not in my lifetime), possibly using hydrogen (not battery packs) as energy storage. Sunshine is not required if I understand it correctly. No wear and tear on the sails, not dependent on winds to go from point a to b, more like driving than sailing, except no pollution, no noise.
You are absolutely not wrong. But if it can happen in Montana (and Colorado, and Texas, and...), there's nothing stopping it from spreading.
> Being forced to travel somewhere random on the planet every two months for work and live out of a hotel room sounds terrible frankly. The company would have to spend lavishly and find exotic / fun locations I think otherwise I'd resent it and quit.

There is always someone huh. Such an arrangement literally sounds like the dream remote arrangement to me.
It never even crossed my mind that there would be people who would say no to a fully paid pseudo-vacation every couple of months.

I am completely unable to empathize.
That literally flies in the face of the first amendment. Forcing a website to host something they don’t like is compelled speech. They’re private corporations and can do what they want. The courts are very clear on that. If you want them to be forced to host everyone, you nationalize them into a utility.
I was going to say that it was sometimes hard to hold a conversation over the music, but two people with noise-canceling earbuds would definitely up the difficulty. (Or we could just call each other.) ;)
Has anyone tried GNU IceCat?
> It just seems harder to meet people _in general_ than it did even two years ago. Like where is everybody? Does everyone stay home literally all the time now?

The pandemic is probably a bigger deal to others than it is to you.
No. People are more eager than ever to meet. I have made more friends than ever before.

However, I definitely give new people who are übermaskers a bit of a wide berth mostly out of respect for them.
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Personally I'd like the exact opposite. The people who post every day, I'm not really missing much if I don't see their latest posts. But the friend who posts once a year? I want to see that post, even if it's from a while ago already and I haven't logged in since.
Personally, I'm vaccinated and I feel pretty safe. I'd like to resume a more normal way of life. It's just that there's nothing happening. There's no office, no happy hour or hanging out after work. Very few dinner or coffee invitations. No meetups. No going out dancing. Just way less events in general.

> Going out unnecessary feels socially unacceptable.

Human beings are social creatures and it's normal that we have a need to see people and connect. The directive to self-isolate has been very detrimental for a lot of people's mental health. I'm privileged enough to have access to a therapist, but I feel like I'm kind of on the edge of depression, very apathetic about life.

I don't want to make this a political discussion, it's hard to balance self-sacrifice vs the greater good, but we've all sacrificed a lot considering this disease has killed about 6.2 people per ten thousand over the last 18 months, whereas about 200 people per ten thousand would have died otherwise. Are we going to keep this up for several more years? What's the impact on our society going to be?
It's way better than Python (type warnings, speed, expressivity, stability, ease of deployment…). You won't build a web app as fast though. But if you plan to build a software that lasts and is easy to maintain, I'd recommend to give it a try.
Even so, it's not hard to see why India remains alluring for tech companies. Wages are low and there's a massive number of young workers with more on the way. In these respects, India is, now, what China was a few decades ago. Plus, it's right next door to existing supply chains and less encumbered by international politics.

If the problems can be solved, the returns will be great.
There are certainly exceptions but the vast majority of the largest churches in the US are very homogeneous, more so than the communities they are a part of. There are some groups, for example the Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's witnesses that seem to buck this trend but your average Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Jewish, Mormon, etc congregations tend to be very homogeneous.
I'm with you, 100%
You wouldn't need that many. The line of sight area has 300 km radius.
There's even a precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision
But sitting in a cubicle can be bad for you even if it helps your productivity metrics in the short term.
I was surprised that this also bans gas-powered generators. What about people who live in rural areas? What are they supposed to do if they want to live off-grid or simply run a generator from time to time? What about those who need a generator backup for medical reasons (like refrigerating insulin)? And how would those working in the timber industry manage with just electric chainsaws? Battery-powered ones may not be powerful enough - and if you have to use a cord, you also need a way to recharge your power source out there.
You miss the point entirely. No commercial aircraft is going to be allowed to take off with only 1/2 engines in operation. If one goes out in flight they'll usually find a place to land bc it's understood that if that last engine dies then that's a bad situation. Which is the entire reason they have backups in the first place.

I'm not arguing about whether it's possible, I'm arguing whether it's smart. Airplanes have backups, and yes they can run on those backups, or else what would even be the point of having them? This kind of goes without saying...

If planes are DESIGNED to have backup systems, in case there is a failure, then do you think it's smart to arbitrarily remove one of said backup systems?
Hooligan grannies lol, that's a new one. On another note where can I get this magical gun that silences loudspeakers from a distance?
where i live (in LA), you see folks out jogging and walking their dog at that time, but it’s mostly all solitary activity.

In some of the large American cities where I've lived, the parks are populated by groups of Lululemons doing yoga in the morning. Some cities, like Chicago and Houston, even organize the events.

Considering the lifestyle I remember from my L.A. days, I'd say there's probably a yoga group in a park not too far from where you live.
Physical security of these boxes is really interesting (e.g. as CF holds a lot of SSL certificates the profit of hacking into these boxes is likely a lot higher than looks at first glance)
Absolutely, that was the worst part of office working. I've worked from home for 5 years now and love that part.