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The title is on point for me... I used to spend a fair amount of free time training on technology or working side projects. Since I became a manager, I lost my taste for it. The temptation to do work any time I'm at a computer is too strong. So now, my free time is for learning to draw and paint.
It’s not clear to me that American poor are actually more happy with all their Nike shoes, big screen TVs and fast food than Soviet poor with nothing but cheap vodka. I think seeing others be rich is more unhappiness producing than having everyone be generally poor
> Especially when you are union, thus generally pro gov't spending so are pushing everyone else to pay taxes.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would pro-union equal pro-government spending and also pro-higher taxes? They seem unrelated to each other.
Non-glib answer: some of the items do deal with overwork, and while they don’t effectively connect that to burnout the connection is reasonable to make if you’re looking for it.

Glib answer: the goal is to provide such an absurdly long list of facts you should know, as performance art to demonstrate the burnout pressures inherent in the work.
This. I don't know why people think of the Mayan empire or Cahokia as fundamentally different from the numerous "failed states" of the Mediterranean. I use quotes because there's increasing consensus that it's not so much a matter of failure as a matter of political revolution amongst the enslaved class forced to work in agriculture for the ruling class
I live in a small, gated city in Los Angeles with 1 acre minimum lot sizes and rigorously enforced exterior styles, like white paint and single-story elevations. The average lot size is closer to 2 acres. You could snip the street map in one place and have a tree, meaning most streets end in cul-de-sacs. With a couple of exceptions, canyons have not been filled or bridged for roads; roads respect the preexisting contours of the land.

The city isn't walkable at all—and it's on average 1 hour from my office in Santa Monica—but the open spaces between houses, the lack of terraforming abominations you see in other hilly developments in LA, and the white ranch motif make the neighborhood "nice" to me.

Much of what I personally find "not nice" about modern neighborhoods is the clumsy imposition of our collective human needs—architectural, infrastructural—on the land itself.
You're not looking at any of the criticisms I've seen, then. Here's a brief summary, off the top of my head:

* Jared Diamond posits an explanation of megafauna extinction in North America that's heavily predicated on the Clovis-first hypothesis and the overextinction hypothesis. The former hypothesis is very thoroughly discredited, and the latter is also generally disfavored, especially in the it's-the-primary-cause way that Jared Diamond uses it. (Specifically, it should be noted that the megafauna extinction in North America also coincides pretty closely with the Younger Dryas, whose climatic effects were most pronounced in North America).

* The primary north-south/east-west transmission hypothesis doesn't actually hold that well up to evidence. The two things I'd note are a) local topography has a major effect on climate that's not accounted for, and b) if you look at the transmission of cereal crops, there's very little transmission between the Mediterranean/Mesopotamian basin and China basin but universal spread of maize along the vertical axis of the Americas--the complete opposite of what the theory predicts.

* I don't have a link handy, but I've seen someone more versed in the history of infectious diseases point out that the killer diseases that Diamond identifies don't appear to have actually become epidemic in the manner that Diamond asserts.

* Diamond also places way too heavy on emphasis on the unreliable accounts of the conquistadors in explaining how the Spanish conquests happened.

In short, the main problem with Guns, Germs, and Steel is that... it gets the facts wrong. And people have brought these complaints to Diamond previously, so it's not like he's aware that there are facts which destroy his thesis, and Diamond's response is to double-down on the thesis without trying to explain why the countervailing facts might be incorrect interpretations or whatnot, or providing other nuggets of insight to bolster his thesis, just continually reassert that he's right.

Try reading Charles Mann's 1491. It goes into more well-researched explanations of pre-Columbian cultures that would help you understand why Diamond's thesis is wrong.
It's not even just Kaczynski. Grothendieck, Perelman became recluses too.
Wondering whether it will be more profitable to work for AMD or APPLE in the next few years?
By the outrage I more mean where people are spending time complaining and trying to fix the system. I want people to focus efforts into trying to get larger funding into defense (and not defense as in building weapons, but security, if that wasn't clear).
There was just a report on HN about Expensify doing that. I don't know if they switched to AI, or if it's still just people.
Not just an odd comparison. I don't think it's a valid comparison at all.
I remember playing ET, it was really challenging to understand the goal of the game, but solving the phone puzzle and seeing ET flying on the UFO for the first time was incredible, it took me weeks of daily play. Also restarted the Asteroids score counter, and used to play at full volume to piss off the neighbors.
This attitude is a good-sized chunk of the reason why the article was written. The constant focus on "how to make it as cheaply as possible, now" has brought some benefits: we can make housing that in many ways (not all) is better and cheaper than it ever has been in the past. But ... building neighborhoods of "desirable" character is about more than how much your house costs right now. It's about the legacy a culture leaves to the future. It's about the difference between driving through small towns in America and small towns in Europe (probably the middle east and asia too). It's an investment, not in your home, but in your culture's future.
This is based on AOSP and not Closed source Google Android. So wait for Google to cancel Microsofts licence to make Android devices.
Exactly, this is why I love HN.. I woupd never have found this. I will shelf it for a long weekend. Wonderful stuff!
Let's say I see a big problem in the codebase. I want to hire fifteen engineers to solve it. You are the CFO. I tell you "I'm improving code quality." Do you give me the money to hire those fifteen people? All I can tell you is that I am qualitatively improving code quality.
I don’t think they will come back. There are too many remote friendly well paying opportunities.

The Bay Area is a pretty shitty place to live if you’re looking to start a family. A lot of people who have moved out can see the higher QoL… they won’t be coming back.

In fact I’ve seen even more people leave SF recently. It only makes sense if you’re single or DINKing; once children come into play it becomes very expensive.
Would you say that there exists something in common between the 21 sheep and the 21 dry peas in the shepherd's pocket which he uses every evening to see if any of the sheep have been lost? That common which exists, in a very clear and practical sense, is called a Number.
Is that the part that's only worth usable money in a liquidity event?
This is a pretty frequent thing to encounter actually. Just some years ago many websites actually preferred to use ISO/Windows codepages to save space on multibyte Unicode symbols adding HTML entities to represent everything which is not in it the basic ASCII and their primary language alphabet.

Fun fact: I was looking for an e-mail solution for a small company about a decade ago and found Zarafa. It seemed nice and I deployed it happily. Just to find out it only supports the Western European ISO codepage which was hardcoded. I hope they have switched to UTF-8 since then.
The US gov can easily maintain an offensive advantage while doing massive amounts of patching. Red teaming is much easier.

The problem here is that we're essentially building glass cannons. Yeah, we can hit hard but you can't win a fight that way. Eventually you're going to get punched in the face.
I think there is more to that disclaimer then you think. With the ongoing trend of the young moving out from rural areas to more urban areas, it would make sense that some of those people still desire the type of housing you could get where land is cheap and material is cheaper.
IIRC VNC passwords are still like this.
so it sounds like American companies helping the US government spy on Americans is OK, American companies helping the US government spy on people in other countries is OK, American companies helping foreign governments spy on their own people is not OK. If they believe these tools are effective, it sounds like they want to prevent foreign governments from using American technology to defend themselves against American agents. “Computer powered super surveillance is our thing, you don’t get to play with it” is how it reads to me.
because 9 is bigger than 6-- atleast I think. I am american so I could be wrong.

could someone from the EU confirm please?
I don't know much about unions but that particular union in CA represents a lot of government employees. In San Francisco every union leader I talked to was also very pro-government spending, like usually the way they see problems getting solved is by the government spending more money on them, but my sample may be biased.
Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones (2019)
Luckily for Tesla, pretty much everyone rates themselves as a good driver, so they'll all be expecting to get the good low-risk rates.
I think this is aimed at developers. "You can build your app for Android and can test it directly on Windows. Pick a Windows machine, not a Mac..."
How about comparing it to the busiest ports in Eurpoe, Rotterdam and Antwerp, which scored much higher on the list.

I wouldn't think the Netherlands or Belgians achieve high efficiency by cutting safety
We can and we are!

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Hiring-wise, we're hiring in Tempe or remote. Dm me on socials if you can’t find something. https://www.culdesac.com/jobs

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Not just with campuses, but cities too. We generally need to import good aesthetics from the past, which should be a sign that the current system is broken. Good things should be possible to create in the present.
I went down another rabbit hole on r/badhistory.

There's definitely plenty of holes in the theories of GG&S, if that's what you mean by "academics have problems with it" === "it is not a perfect theory."

But overall, it seems most of the points hold more than enough water to be worth merit. None of them perfect, but vastly better than throwing the whole thing out.

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Also, holy crap I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, but the first few threads I went into were... blatantly far left (as Reddit tends to be). Seriously though: spiraling into tangents of communism, your classic woke/sassy "dunk" lingo, clearly had some external bias bone to pick. I'm not sure r/badhistory is a community worth considering the acme of academia, only based off my short interactions with it. But maybe the worst just came up first?
> Plus hospitals have monetary incentives to record these covid deaths

Hospitals have been deferring elective procedures, which are big revenue and profit drivers, due to COVID. I doubt this has been a huge moneymaker for them
It depends. Tin pest is an autocalaytic reaction that doesn't produce enough energy to destabilize its own progression. One could say the same for rust, as it flakes and is porous allowing further rusting. Or the chain reaction could proceed faster than the environmental changes destabilize it - like a nuclear chain reaction, or metastable vacuum collapse. Or it could self regulate into a steady state, like a nuclear reactor. Also consider that the energy released could itself cause further reactions - like a fire. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalysis for more.
Yes, it seems unlikely that any such transition exists for liquid water - a water molecule doesn't have any molecular degrees of freedom like a protein does, nor any easy way to extract energy from it (it's "already burnt"), and we haven't found any exotic structures of water that are stable at atmospheric pressures.
I didn't have anything to do with what Ryan is talking about in that Tweet thread, but it's representative of the positive attitude, competence, fairness, and energy that he brings to Flexport and culture that we are all trying to build.

Flexport is a great place to work and this makes me proud to work here.
Why the 0xxxx dates?
Reality of Craziness
I've published a post titled "Reality of Craziness" that addresses our different kinds of thinking, why our thinking rarely changes, and how we see this in mental health, history, and culture. This is pertinent to our current crisis in critical thinking emerging from the Covid pandemic. While this post is behind my paywall on Substack, you can read it at NO COST here: https://www.mindstrengthbalance.com/paywall/reality-of-craziness/
Being fully vaccinated I'm still concerned about the precedent of making a medical procedure a requirement for employment. Almost two years of working remote might lead one to think that accommodation was possible but willfully ignored.
Totally agree. Even if you can afford it, all the "bonus" rooms that aren't bedrooms are just more space to keep clean, keep warm and maintain. Unless you close those rooms off, but then what's the point?
It’s almost entirely about PERM interviews conducted by Facebook for their H-1B holders looking to adjust status, yes. My main issue is with your earlier statement that this has nothing to do with the H-1B, when it almost exclusively concerns H-1B visa holders at Facebook in practice.
Even if we're talking about wealth and not income, the amount necessary to be in the top 10% wealth is...not that much.

It's about $800,000 in net worth: https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta...

This is largely attainable for the majority of Americans when you factor in the value of one's home, retirement accounts, and general lifetime savings. Keep in mind we're not talking about how much net worth the majority of Americans have at any snapshot-in-time, we're talking about the maximum net worth attainable in one's lifetime, and what that looks like for the majority of Americans.

There's absolutely no evidence that the top 10% wealth holders has been a static group of people over the last 60 years.
This would be important if GDP was at all related to standard of living.
These cards can run idle (e.g. desktop 2D mode) at about 15W, so it might run just fine.

Actual power draw depends on monitor resolution, number of attached displays, and refresh rate, though.
I think you will get access to the documentation after you signed up as an enterprise customer. Maybe when you look at older versions with the wayback machine you find a public documentation.
I run Arch on my homelab, and the AUR is a lifesaver. Not to mention, the basic Arch repos contain more Podman Cockpit modules than apt, to my surprise. Very nice OS for server stuff if you're brave enough to wrangle pacman.
Nah, you don't need a fancy car for the nightmare. Insurance companies are already letting you put in a device that measures your driving. It connects to the OBD-II port - standard on all vehicles since 1996.
if it's a public company, RSUs are basically cash
This study stopped collecting data on May 30, it's way out of date at this point especially wrt Delta and could not have captured the waning efficacy the vaccines have exhibited over time.

> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus.

A reduction was also observed in people vaccinated with the jab made by US company Pfizer and German firm BioNTech. The risk of spreading the Delta infection soon after vaccination with that jab was 42%, but increased to 58% with time.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
> "Physical reality" is just your way brain's way of interpreting the mathematical rules that constitute our existence

You state this as though it is a fact, but really this is the main point of disagreement. You cannot take this as given.
I live in a wonderful neighbourhood that was developed in the early 1900s in an old factory converted to lofts. The workers lived around the area, the GM home was across the street. Similar factories, all lofts now, randomly dot the neighbourhood.

Our "main" street is half a kilometre away and has shopping, bookstores, restaurants. All small businesses.

Several transit routes run by the edges of the neighbourhood.

Everybody walks. Everybody used to walk to work. Streets are almost all one way.

It's cars. It's always cars that make neighbourhoods terrible.
It does provide marketing value, but I take Ryan at his word when he says it was to show appreciation to the workers at the port. Flexport's customers around the world are effected by the LA/LB port slowdowns, so any small thing we can do to help pays off for us.
The 2060 and 3090 on these compares are the desktop chips, right?
To be fair, many, if not most, of the failed experiments in California are voter enacted conservative pet projects (Prop 8, Property Tax Cap, Ban on Affirmative Action, Making Uber drivers unable to be considered employees...) Either way, the idea of governing by Constitutional amendment seems like a terrible idea. We ostensibly elect leaders so that they can be deeply informed on public policy and make wise decisions. Personally, I feel uneasy voting on the 20+ propositions each year, since I don't have the time or capacity to fully research and appreciate the public policy implications of my votes. I'd much rather offload this responsibility to an elected Representative (and their staff) who broadly shares my worldview.
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well....M1 Max single core also beating a 5950x

But tbh, it doesn't seem the new hotness in chips is single core CPU, it's about how fancy you spend the die space in custom processors, in which case the M1 will always be tailored to Apple (and presumably Mac users') specific use-cases...
Also that damn load hit store penalty. PPEs and Xenon cores could only detect and stall if a read was for an address that was currently being flushed out of the write buffers. Most sane uarchs will bypass out of the store queue, but those cores needed to flush all of the way out to L1 and read it back in.

Also, IIRC, shift by variable amount was microcoded and would take a cycle for each bit distance shifted.
You don't _need_ an air gap. I live in a high rise apartment building which has very soundproof walls. You can be having a full party in your apartment and only get the faintest of sounds from the hallway, and absolutely nothing from inside your own apt .
I'd appreciate the net gain of a few left leaning Senators.
But is being variative necessary in order to exist? (In the context of mathematics, for example, the homeo-something seems to be all that's required.)
Brings back memories. I worked on tools for the PS2, and I have vivid memories of SCEI disclosing their PS3 plans in 2000; how it would be Power-based and that IBM would be doing all of the tools work for free. Bah. In the end it worked out because IBM bought our company for $34B.
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There are some very nice older suburbs, with much higher densities than would be thought of as suburban today, that provision parking for every home. The venerable alley is basically an accommodation for cars, but a much more humane one.

The sweet spot seems to be about 1920-1940.
It reports the currently free memory as device memory.
It should but it is too big to fail, so it won’t happen.
> unless there's some software fix to get it up to 64 GB.

I very much doubt that this would even be possible. The OS and other on-chip devices require dedicated memory as well and need to reserve address space.

You simply cannot max out physical RAM with a single device in a UMA configuration.
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> Levels.fyi

In my experience sites like that are only good for a few months of popularity before they start getting too much gamification and/or corruption.

Given how old and popular levels.fyi is now, how can we know that it still provides a good reference point?
I guess the interesting thing here is if they are willing to use that as an argument.

"You can't sue us because we don't have a license!"

I imagine that would make a following case by the actual copyright holders really easy to win.
Is there any other way to read into the government's authority at large? The entire premise of government is that is assumes power over others. Monopoly on violence. If said power becomes distributed to other parties, it becomes moot. How that power is wielded, and with what intent are separate discussions, but the power itself is core to the idea of government.

I feel like the idea that "The US government wants to have certain powers, and wants no one else to have them" is just baked into the fact that it is the US government, and should neither surprise nor alarm anyone who isn't an Anarchist.
Ahhh ToT. Wonder what happened to him, it’s been almost 8 months since he’s released a video.
It is a good idea in the abstract, but ignoring that natural immunity is better is extremely expensive.
yeah sorry im sticking to my car as long as our population behaves like this

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10109987/Fiston-Ngo...
Most of these points don't seem central to Diamonds thesis as I interpreted it.

They do negate some of the spurious theories, but the central theory (IMO) is that there's a whole lot of luck involved in global domination, and that luck is not evenly spread.

The one about germs being less of a killer is definitely very interesting though. That's totally central, though -- if not germs doing the killing -- it'd just fall back onto guns. If you happen to dig up the link, I'd love to read through it.
For the article to say that the "Existence" claim is "tolerably clear" is rather disingenuous. The basis for this statement in the article is that you can formalize the "Existence" claim with an existential quantifier; but the whole point of an existential quantifier in mathematics is that it has no meaning unless you already know what domain is being quantified over. And in the absence of some well-defined mathematical domain, the existential quantifier basically becomes a tautology: it means "object x exists in the domain of whatever objects exist".

Given this, it's no wonder that such "existence" claims have always been problematic and have always been viewed with skepticism by many non-philosophers and even many philosophers.