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Not just special needs any more. I live with my 5 adult sons because 4 incomes is the new minimum to afford basic living expenses. I don't see this changing anytime soon.
I share the disdain (if that's the word) for modern literary fiction, and in fact I don't read much, if any. I'm currently reading (and loving) The Count of Monte Cristo.

And yet, I wrote some! [1] Why? I suppose that, contrary to what I said about universal human truths, I thought that the subjective experience of living through the graphical UI revolution was worth capturing. No one's done that, and honestly, since I'm retired I just felt like it. Inventing the Future isn't exactly "identity" but I doubt people will be reading it in 300 years, any more than they're reading Balzac now. I'd love to write a timeless novel but I don't think I'm up to it.

I think you're wrong about the emergence of literary culture, though, by 100 years or so. The first "novels" in England were in the 1700s. It wasn't quite as "mass" as now, of course, but there was a middle class who could read.

[1] https://www.albertcory.io
One hour to build up the universe, only to have it shattered. One more hour to get you back to where you were.

I feel your assessment of 30 minutes to build the universe in the purest sense is fair, but I'm not sure it accounts for the additional friction involved. You might be the exception, but humans in general are known to avoid building up the universe, so to speak, if they anticipate an interruption. It takes even more time for the mind to accept that the time is right.

And so, all told, I think two hours is quite reasonable.
>Your disconnects will flag it in the metadata.

This would make too many false positives, for which you'd have to do in person surveillance to verify.

>You don’t think they can identify phones in bulk collection? What evidence is there of that?

It doesn't matter if a cell tower can read your IMEI. It matters if that IMEI can be associated with your real name. Have you seen anyone's location data successfully correlated with a real identity when that location data doesn't include travel to residence or place of work? If you can solve this problem, you can sell it for more money than you could fathom.
To put it in concrete terms, where does GA really fit into the story of undergraduate physics (or mathematics)?

Suppose I want to teach first-semester mechanics. I can get through this fine with the usual vector notation. Vectors and dot products are intuitive when taught well (the latter just being projections), and while cross products are a little hairy, they don't play a major role in the course. There's no time for GA, and it would confuse more than illuminate in any case.

Next, I want to teach E&M. Here, I'd probably lead with the usual vector calculus notation (because even if it's ugly, it's standard and students should know it), and then follow with an explanation in terms of differential forms. [I assume this is a more theoretical, or honors, class; I might stick with vector calculus if it's more computational.] So now students know differential forms, they can do everything in a coordinate-free way and on manifolds, and they can access a significant amount of standard physics and mathematics literature.

Having proceeded in this way, what does introducing GA do except suck up a lot of class time? To me, it seems clunky and without any distinctive advantages.

Another question to think about: if this notation system is so good, why don't working mathematicians or physicists actually use it? For example, people thought Feynman diagrams were strange at first, but they proved their value and consequently caught on.

Again, my argument is that this is not some revolutionary esoteric knowledge, it's well-understood stuff that people don't teach for good reasons.
Very much this. Anyone who does machine learning will notice their CPU sitting at 100% of one core a significant fraction of the time.

Doesn't matter how fast a GPU you have; Python and the GIL is the bottleneck.
Sure, but ICE is still a customer
bring back the trackball from the macintosh portable, please
Results aside, I give this article points for clear and persuasive writing!
The crypto miners who set up shop in Northern NY to take advantage of cheap hydro and wind power caused electricity prices to spike for local residents, resulting in municipalities leveraging new taxes on the companies or issuing outright bans. This article is from 2018:

Plattsburgh went over its power allotment and was forced to purchase electricity on the open market for far higher prices. This cost was distributed among the city’s residents, some of whom ended up paying between $100 and $200 more for their electricity than usual.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xk4qv/bitcoin-ban-plattsbur...

Massena (near the Alcoa facility) this year issued a moratorium so the city could draw up new regulations:

“The moratorium is a pretty straightforward procedure. The language is relatively clear. The idea is that we place a moratorium on any further cryptocurrency mining development while we get some regulations in place that will govern those types of facilities. The planning board had indicated, and I agreed that the code lacked any real regulatory scheme for these types of facilities within the town,” Mr. Gustafson said.

https://www.nny360.com/communitynews/business/town-of-massen...

https://www.northcountrynow.com/letters/snake-oil-alert-bloc...
There being a price difference between business and residential does not imply a subsidy. It can simply cost more to distribute electricity to businesses, the time power is supplied may be different, and the nature of what is supplied may also be different. Commonly (in the US) businesses have larger supplies, three phase power, and lines and transformers may be buried or harder to access. Midday electricity is also more expensive typically and businesses use more electricity midday (which is why it is more expensive). Further, businesses may be charged real time rates while residential rates lag spikes in price or are averaged over time.

That said, Kazakhstan may subsidize their power, I don’t know.
Haven't seen this one before, thanks for sharing!
Well I think "high quality" is doing a lot there. Obviously autonomous vehicles would be safer if they work perfectly -- the concern is that they will not.
'Jews as moneylenders' has a strong religious context I don't see in this story. That's all. Thanks for vouching for the comment.
No complaints over here.
I'd prefer people get offended. That company has a decent nonzero chance of raising its future offers.

Your initial offer as a company signals a lot of things aside from the raw value. Even a $10000 improvement in starting point may signal "we won't cheapskate you on:"

- personal computing equipment
- infrastructure
- benefits
- actual use of vacation
- training/development
- office/cube/chair
- functioning HR/support systems
- proper staffing

Let's not pretend there is perfect information on companies. All large companies have good and bad teams. I wouldn't bother with Amazon because landing a "good" amazon team lottery ticket attempt is not worth the interviewing time, stack ranking, hostile culture, and "new job vulnerability" etc that Amazon imposes.

It's why the best IT jobs are found via networking, and the best candidates don't really hit the open market.

So HR opening with an insulting offer is very likely ruining a far better hire/fit than an open market negotiation. Typically HR does not distinguish between the two. They should. Of course it can be hard to distinguish between a "good hire" via recommendation and someone building an organization of lackeys, but that is also something HR needs to evaluate, and not simply revert to "cheap offer for everyone".

It is very important to emphasize how vulnerable you are switching jobs. Unless your skillset VERY CLOSELY matches the new job (and that is pretty rare), you won't know their codebase, processes, political/budgeting/power structure, business requirements.

Depending on the company, they'll either have good onboarding and tolerance, or... sink or swim. And people fundamentally don't like helping new hires outside of whatever perverse virtue signalling they want to show to their bosses. Every company's HR and Ticket systems are byzantine and annoying, and helping new hires through that is basically reliving the torturous new hire process for whomever helps them.

A cheap offer also shows that they will pull the plug on your quickly. A good offer is a willing sign of investment. All those common fallacies in human nature with sunk cost / valuing things what they cost you / etc are very very very much things in a human organization.
I've also hated that trend. Ill preface this with the caveat that I'm extremely biased against PMs.

What we've seen is the birth of a new profession, "Project Manager" (Agile/Scrum); and its filled by a ton of people who read a travel brochure size sheet of paper detailing how to be one and that's how they all operate, all while demanding outsized pay for the "skill" (really if they were paid minimum wage that's still too much)

They take zero consideration for team structure, working dynamic, the business that the org is operating in and tries to shove every uniquely shaped team into a square peg.

What's more annoying is that I've seen some hardcore PM run shop promoting project managers into people managers, often overseeing highly technical teams while they themselves not being technical which leads to all sort of pain and cost to the the ICs they oversee.

Agile has managed to 'codify' middle management, very poorly.
You're asking what your legal recourse is. For that you need to speak to a lawyer, who will need — at a minimum — knowledge of what jurisdiction this is, what the specific acts are that you allege are harassment, and what evidence (e-mails? the voicemail? witnesses?) exists.

For what it's worth, I personally don't think you have a strong case (or, rather, you likely wouldn't in a context in which I practice).

Much of your post is bare assertions and conclusions. The only specific facts you present are that, on Friday night, you said you were available by phone if anything went wrong, and the next day he tried to contact you by phone, but you didn't respond. Everything else — "psychotic," "unreasonable," whether something is "pointing out problems" or just "complaining" — is subjective.

However, IANYL.
Know so many people who worked in food-service, but were always kept below 20hrs a week. Couldn't really work another job to make up for it either, because the hours were never predictable. Real BS.
Is there a name for this effect in an abstract sense? I see it pop up a lot where the gains from scaling are super-linear to the scale itself. Or is it just called "economies of scale".
Yeah, that guy definitely should be fired for addressing a customer that way. Assuming this is all accurate.
On the basis of what evidence? Seems quite pessimistic given that waymo has been stepping up its activity in sf considerably over the last year.
Malignant cancer is certainly worse, but many prostate cancers that are exposed by this test are totally benign.
Ask HN: Self-study resources for electrical engineering?
op has put it correctly. Here people can't eat due to increasing prices (transportation of goods) and people are talking about climate change. fml
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Glad this is (at the moment at least) the top comment. Add another to the infinitely growing pile of HN news posts that are either out of date, massively misleading in making a calamity out of a non-issue, or both. Not that it's HN's fault. This is just modern "media." Yeck.

Still, worth griping about 2FA while we're here.
Given he was writing about a mix of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, I don't think the tendency for social justice people to assign overly provocative words to their ideas is worse than those places.
That's a lot of hand-wringing for 1.7 seconds.
One of the links in the article, www.celeryproject.org, doesn't seem to work at this time
Yeah stop with this Boring Company crazy talk! /s
Do you think US intelligence agencies were hindered whatsoever by their bad reputation?
I personally had only Windows laptops and had no problem with the trackpads, even with the tap-to-click option activated, which I really love. Tap-to-click make me drag and drop a lot faster than any other way.

One problem in Windows laptops are usually the customized software that come with the trackpad, and some are so bad that would make me refund the PC (like the Asus ones), and other problem is that most people doesn't know that touchpad palm rejection can be adjusted, in conjunction to other settings (like areas where you don't want the touchpad to work or make clicks), to make it more comfortable, when you are using a OEM driver.

The Macbook touchpads are really great both in hardware and in software, I don't know how they aren't already implemented touch/click areas in addition to what already have.
In this example you can read the abstract for free as well as the references.
I must admit - after having been a loyal Apple trackpad user for the past 10 or so years, I've never really had an issue with miss clicks or unexpected behaviour.

With the recent WFH trend - I did convince myself to buy an actual mouse about 6 months ago (MX Master 3 for those curious) and I must say, despite never having a problem with the trackpad I now find it to be far superior to the trackpad. In fact using the trackpad now for a prolonged period makes my hands/wrists hurt somewhat which I'm sure I never struggled with in the past.

I can tell you however that the touchbar is a daily source of annoyance when it comes to miss clicked items - despite having a 2019 Macbook for the last year or so now I still manage to press random keys on the touchbar on an almost daily basis - so happy to hear that the new MBPs do not have the touchbar.
I have a consulting gig where I pair program with my client. We do up to a four hour session before I can’t really think too much.

Unfortunately, nowadays I dont have large blocks of personal time where I also have the energy and motivation to do programming.

When I had my own company, it wasn’t uncommon for me to put in 6 hours of straight development after hours since there were no distractions.
Maybe I have big hands? https://i.imgur.com/1sagLm0.jpg

I am on a 16" 2019 Macbook pro. I'm also 6'4" (1.9m) with relatively sized hands. You can see in that photo that just one hand covers enough of the trackpad, imagine 2. I usually angle my palms so that I'm only resting on the outer sides of them, but I move during typing and sometimes my whole palm rests and then I'm putting pressure on the trackpad. I usually type with an external keyboard and I have a pad at the base of the keyboard that I rest my palms on so I'm used to resting my entire palms while typing. Switching to the laptop I have to retrain myself not to do that and I use my laptop keyboard so infrequently that it doesn't stick

> Also, even when I deliberately rest them on the trackpad in order to emulate this issue, I still can't do it.

I'm not sure but it seems to happen the most for me in vscode. I'm coding and suddenly vscode is starting a debug session. It's happened too many times.

I also want to note that I have turned off "tap to click" in my settings.
> Nah, I don't think it can be banned. At least not in the non-authoritarian parts of the world.

Why can't it be banned? It's wasteful and closer to a Ponzi scheme than an actual currency.

> Even if it is, they would need to break my fingers to prevent me running a Bitcoin node. And I will get the blocks via Satellite. If there was a credible threat, we would go somewhere it is not.

That could be hard if many of the worthwhile places ban it :-)

> If your economic thesis is based on hoping the government bans something, why are you even playing with state-resistant decentralized monetary systems?

Most people in crypto are in it for the money, not for idealism.
It's interesting after the Centos changes that at <current job> we've lost all appetite for anything RHEL related.

It kind of doesn't make any difference in a containerised world where the base OS is going to be one of any number of slim shims, but I can't see how RH are going to keep their numbers up.
Show HN: Talk is cheap, just show me the code
Yea I don't know how one can look at NYC traffic and claim it's anything other than a total shitshow.
This is an aburdly bad result, mostly caused by the questionable 14W base power draw, but also due to the questionable choice of gzip compression, which is not exactly on the frontier of compression technology. Even zlib-deflate would decompress twice as fast at the same size ratios, but something like lz4 or snappy would be an order of magnitude less CPU time cost for similar compressed size.

The real way to have an energy-efficient service is to amortize away your idle usage and all of these inefficient conversion steps by just hosting your junk on App Engine.
One alternative (though it's absurd it has to be this way) is to use two separate google accounts - one for your phone, one for everything else. It actually solves a few invasive/dark patterns Google employs.
It looks more like bookdown for Julia
Are you referring to the steam pipes?

What is this? An underground metro for ANTS!?! It needs to be at least twice as large!!
>Edit: Kind of funny that 1-5% is characterized as "hefty", compared to what legitimate marketplaces charge.

... but legitimate marketplaces pay taxes ... hem, no, wait, bad argument ...
This is great news, this finally means Hetzner has ambitions beyond Europe.

It is also interesting that Linode, DO, Vultr and UpCloud are all moving up the value chain and try to be a simplify, mini AWS with managed services. Hetzner will now take their place and becomes the more affordable cloud hosting provider with very little features.

And I am surprised at all the dedicated box comments, really wish Hetzer will some day do that on US or may be Canada. But my guess is that it would require something like OVH with huge investment on Datacenter.
There has been research in this area. It's shocking (in both the literal and figurative sense) how much time is wasted by interruptions for people who do "thought work" like software development. If you have a daily standup around 10am, like the last place I had them, it's possible that you have instantly reduced the effective productivity of your entire team by 20% or even more.

Of course that is in addition to all the other costs that come with standups. For example any fixed daily meeting kills the possibility of flexible working hours. That is one of the top perks for many developers and some developers are also much more productive working at non-traditional times.

The standup meeting can also feel like an inquisition, particularly for juniors or new starters. It doesn't even have to be the classic manager-holding-court effect, just whoever is leading the meeting having a bad day and speaking in the wrong tone. Again, there goes your productivity for that person for possibly the entire rest of the day.

If anyone reading this does use daily standups and everyone on their team wants to then that's great. Every team is different and doing what works for your team is what matters. But personally I have found that while sometimes useful points do arise during standups the benefits are greatly exaggerated. Valuable insights and awesome collaborations do not happen anything like often enough to justify all the downsides of the meetings, not least because IME the same information would probably have been passed on some other way and often faster in any moderately functional development team anyway.
Yes. I write them in a book. The book lives in a locked desk drawer.

My threat model does not include "Nation state adversary breaks into my home and... reads the contents of the book". If I annoy the Russians enough, presumably they would just try to outright murder me.

In contrast, "Person I annoyed online plans elaborate Internet revenge" is definitely a potential threat I want to cope with, as are "Scam email claiming to be from company I have account with", "Facebook lose everybody's passwords", and so on.
Like I said, I can't find the study right now, and I originally saw the data anywhere between 5-10 years ago. They may also have been measuring some cytokine. Even without AD, memories really aren't reliable over that time span.

The point the authors were trying to make is that if you have AD, any inflammation, even asymptomatic ones, will potentially worsen your cognitive performance. The most interesting feature of that graph was to me that the cognitive performance actually remained fairly constant in between infections/inflammations, and decline was not gradual but in a step-wise fashion.
If you're going to talk to a lawyer, I'd do it before you leave, so you can get advice on what to document and how.

It's a lot harder to document things as needed when you're outside the situation.
Correct in most respects, except the multi-touch gestures on Mac (and presumably newer versions of Windows) are really good. It's so convenient and smooth to be able to just swipe three fingers up to see all open windows, or left and right to switch between virtual desktops.

But for anything precise, yeah, please just use a mouse.
Hundreds of developers were moved from Azure teams to the GitHub org about a year or so ago. Several new features they have added are effectively rebranding/built on top of other Azure projects.

GitHub is hardly at arms length from MS.
As far as formats stick to either very popular or very simple. E.g. for video in 100 years time there is still going to be a way to be able to decode h.264 videos just because of the shear amount of content from this era that was encoded in it. Alternatively use a format that is so simple it doesn't matter if there is a decoder in 1,000,000 years as it's trivial to make. On the simplicity side take PPM or bitmap images for example, one can get a decoder up and running from scratch in a matter of minutes.

The harder half is the storage of the digital information over time. Interfaces, filesystems, formats, and devices are not made to last decades as there is no need for the vast majority of data to sit for decades without being transferred to newer, cheaper, and smaller media. Any solution you come up with to avoid copying will therefore be esoteric and one off, not to mention likely complicated for any significant amount of data, making it hard to guarantee easy enough readability even if it is physically fine in 100 years.
As a newer user that's actually one of the things I love about HN, that people accurately and succinctly summarise the link's content in the title. And if not, someone will ask them to do so in the comments.
I see your point but unlike climate change, privacy is not a one-way loss. It can be restored so long as some other technology prevails. Wishful thinking perhaps, but it's well within the realm of possibilty.