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Downloaded murex to try it out. It was really janky, unusually so, with red colored text that is difficult to see on a black console. Requires libpthreads. Interesting first impressions. I will be dead before anything like this ever replaces the Bourne shell. There is little incentive to switch and lots of incentive to continue toward mastery of the ubiquitous shell, the one I have to use on POSIX-like OS, on computers of all sizes, like it or not.
> The remarkable thing about YC is that they truly innovated on the schooling aspect of venture and transformed the meaning of accelerator to business flywheel.

What exactly is the innovation? Don't get me wrong, YC as an investor is truly compelling but I don't see anything uniquely innovative about their "schooling aspect". They are commercially successful because they have the largest and greatest deal flow engine in tech venture.

> For high school students with aspirations in the tech field it is like the MIT, Caltech and Stanford all rolled into one.

Precisely - it carries a level of prestige that those schools also have - a signaling towards bigger investors if you will. Some of Silicon Valley's most successful engineers went to U of I, which also has an incredible comp sci degree, yet MIT/CalTech/Stanford aren't innovating their curriculums any better, they just have a more prestigious name.
Fruit and vegetables are pretty popular test objects: they sit nice and still, they have interesting structures (i.e., look cool), and they avoid ethics/safety issues involved in scanning humans or animals.

"Phantoms", test devices with specific and well-known properties, are used for more careful testing but produce works pretty well for a quick sanity check.
For a lot of people, that 1BR apartment is heaven. It's easy to get to work, easy to see friends, easy to go to bars and restaurants. Cost-wise, it's a great deal too. Even with rents being "high" (maybe $3000/month all-in) that renter never needs to replace a roof, a boiler, repair hardwood flooring, pay the electrician or plumber, renovate after a flood, or any other huge costs that can balloon into the $10k+ range.

Some people see housing as more a means-to-an-end and like the city life. Other people hate the city and want green space and bonus rooms.

The problem is that America is getting more urban (just look at the 2020 census) but our housing stock hasn't build the townhomes and condos needed to support it.
The marginal cost may go up which at a large enough scale may actually do some damage to some organizations, but it's all consumption based so (to your point) just remember to shut down idle resources.
Or option 3, the plaintiff counsel successfully convinces some or all members of the jury that a biased testimony is unbiased.

These are "experts", after all. They're already starting from a position of credibility, and I don't think the defense lawyer is necessarily equipped to deconstruct whatever the "experts" spend their professional lives working on, regardless of the objectivity of their teatimony.
Though he does admit [1]

> So I had learned already that names don't constitute knowledge... That's caused me a certain trouble since because I refuse to learn the name of anything... What [my father] forgot to tell me was that the knowing the names of things is useful if you wanna talk to somebody else.

I think an interview might count :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc
I left a job after nine months, and have to defend that decision 6+ years later.
That's not an excuse for not being able to reason about data structures if your job requires working with data structures and algorithms. The logical extension of your argument is "put everything in a linked list and let the OS work it out."
i had the same question. i think it’s an unfortunate and confusing choice of words, where ‘delta resistance’ means resistance to delta (i.e. hospitalization, etc) rather than delta being resistant to the vaccine.

it’s a curious mistake to make in a medical outlet given the obvious implications of the word in context.
The simple answer is yes.
You could make some elaborate post-modernist point about the impossibility of a value neutral perspective, and there is some merit to such claims, but there are also clear mathematical criteria that can be used to asses the fairness of a voting/districting scheme. This is as unbiased of a criteria as one can establish for voting rights and districting (unless your idea of bias is simply, defined in terms of agreement with the prevailing political ideologies, in which case we open the door to all sorts of procedural abuse).
> Purchasing real estate is an investment, not a consumer expenditure.

Yeah I remember when I was living under a bridge and then decided to invest in Real Estate.

Renters have a greatly impaired ability to build wealth. If everyone has to rent except "investors" then there is no more middle class. In a market that is majority renters landlords can raise rent until it consumes virtually all surplus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

The CPI is correct as the CPI is defined, but that's circular. I can index inflation to the number of nose hairs in the President's nose if I want. The question is whether it's a meaningful statistic for driving a policy that benefits anyone except the government or the financial industry.

The CPI should include the cost per square foot of residential real estate. It should also be weighted heavily toward necessities like food, energy, education, and health care, which perhaps coincidentally are hard to outsource and therefore are more directly influenced by domestic inflation.
That is exactly why it's important to ask questions during your interviews. When it's my turn to ask questions when I'm on a job hunt - I start with "How do you develop software? Please explain it from requirement gathering till deployment". Afterwards, I ask few more to get the pulse of their work style.
Pitbulls remain the most dangerous dog breeds around, there are tons of breeds for people to choose yet for some reason we still see people with kids go out of their way to get one. There is a reason there are so many of them in dog shelters.

Sure maybe your pitbull likes you but as someone who used to work in a family run dog watching business when I was younger, I can assure you that we got more than a few dogs that got very aggressive the second their owners walked out the door. These dogs had to be isolated from the others and they were always fighting dog breeds.

> In those days most families lived in a single room, so kids and dogs would share a space

Dogs used to be kept outside.

> any bull dog that showed the slightest sign of aggression towards a human was killed.

This applies to all dog breeds. Dogs that attack humans are culled even to this day, I'm not sure why a "bull dog" would be special in this regard. The only thing unique to fighting breeds is they were bred to be good at killing without reason.
This was true in 2016 but not anymore today. I cannot find a single blurry app on my laptop now.
> modulo any security issues

I'm not sure there are any security issues associated with using an older edition. I think when soundness holes and other things like that are fixed, they're usually fixed across all editions. Sometimes that's technically a backwards-incompatible change/fix, but Rust's back compat policy considers that acceptable if the breakage isn't widespread.
Behold the dizzying pace of Apple's innovations

(C'mon, how can one not snark at such a headline)
I agree that 'hedonic value' should be tracked, but it has no place in inflation calculations, IMHO.

For example, let's say I enjoy a fast-food burger, a BK whopper. It costs, for sake of argument $4. Now suppose, BK add some extra pickles, sauce and a bigger burger across their range, but up the price of a whopper to $4.50.

But, with a hedonic adjustment, the burger still only costs $4, since the $4.50 price rise is 'fake news' as it includes extra burger, etc.

Because this adjustment is included in the inflation figures, my next wage review will reflect the fact that I can still get 'just as much burger' for the same price as last year.

But the reality of course is that I have to pay more for the same 'level' of burger, even though it got better.

IMHO, Inflation figures should reflect the cost of inhabiting various social levels, and average those.

The overall material quality of life of a society should be an entirely separate metric, probably a replacement for GDP which is quite flawed.
I agree, resolution independence should be a higher priority for macos. They've been able to dance around the subject by just doubling everything and calling it retina, but true accessibility would allow everyone to set the scale that works best for them.
> As far as the second part of your comment, you should get your head out of the clouds and look around at working-class America. Perhaps 20% of retirees own a significant amount of stock, or own a house worth enough to cash out of. The US median home price didn't even cross $250k until 2018. https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

Those "retirees" also do not have enough money to retire. To retire and live off the interest of a theoretical 5% interest savings account for 30 years requires you to already be wealthy. If you're a working-class baby boomer, you may have gotten that from your house when you sold it and moved into a bad neighborhood or an apartment. But that's just about the only way other than Social Security and old pensions that you're going to keep eating.
Quite so. Of course, in most countries all drivers will have had mandatory driving lessons before they got their license and the instructor will have told them about the handbrake. No such license requirement exists for databases and it shows.
Interviews are creative fiction: the applicant pretends to be competent and the employer pretends not to be a toxic workplace environment. I’m increasingly convinced that this is not a solvable problem.
So far we're just detecting individual bidi characters, but looking at characters in their greater context could be quite interesting. This would seem like quite a good use-case for machine-learning too, if you wanted to get super into it.
Fascinating. I thought that HN was more like a 100K community (of monthly active users). I guess my ballpark is correct? I now think it's slightly less.
> It’s not for average users. It’s for library writers

Justifying the complexity of an interface by appeal to caste system is pretty poor, IMO.

A very common methodology for solving big problems is to break them down into smaller problems, solve each one in turn, and compose them together. In other words, we use library-oriented programming. A productive feature in a programming language makes it easy to both create the library elements of the solution and to compose them together.
My sleek and modern Linux development machine in 2021
Did everyone forget about Second Life? That had the exact same premise and it ended up exactly like most of us are predicting for Meta.
> Though I don’t understand the point of the Unicode characters in the comment string so I must be missing something.

There is no comment string.
This happens often enough and is far from a new phenomenon.

Look up the meme and phrase “funds are safu” that covers this.

https://youtu.be/DelF6zEHXpE
Well, I for one have never heard anyone "evangelize" other use cases. Can you name some advantages, or point me to an article? Because I did hear about the set up difficulties...
I did something similar and loved it but a friend pointed out That he will fall over with an anxiety attack in such a situation. I always thought the best case would be to offer a choice to the candidate among 2 or 3 different ways to do the interview.
Exactly. And that's the reason you'd probably layer the question with some more complex asks after the initial answer. If somebody has memorized the algorithm but then can't explain further, it's obvious they've "regurgitated" without really having a deep understanding of the problem being solved with the data structure. By contrast, a good candidate may not be able to immediately repeat the algorithm, but can reason their way there pretty quickly.
I have a colleague who does environmental litigation. (Think Erin Brockovich.) They have a big civil case against a large energy company in a southern, “energy-friendly” state. They had an expert witness all lined up - a professor at the (public!) state university. Well this expert happened to be up for tenure and was (allegedly) told in no uncertain terms that, should they testify as an expert witness in this case, tenure was off the table.

It’s absolutely outrageous that we allow those in positions of power to manipulate the justice system in such a way.
I totally missed the sarcasm - sorry, I'm far more used to it on other platforms than here. I also spent a few days fighting with <cloud storage provider> uploads from our NAS recently, so I'm a little bitter ;)
10,000 hours is how much time you need to master something apparently, so he should be really good at HN now.
And, off we go to fantasyland. Again.
Some spiders even use threads as a sort of sail that can carry them around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)
I think you're still missing the point here.

Not every hobby OS needs or even wants networking, gpu support, even storage I/O, etc. See TempleOS.

The goal typically isn't to make a fully featured OS.
from the article, its likely you'd not even notice - unless you pasted in an ascii only editor that doesn't allow anything other than plain old text.
Having lived through hyperinflation, two of the early signs are jolts in prices of common goods and shortages. I really really wish I am not going to live through another such period late in life, but who am I kidding?
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Leave if your financial situation allows for it, and you can see that other options might be found before your personal runnway ends.

If not, then start searching and leave when you have found something you'd be happy with. Having been in a burn out situation my self, I'd give my 2 cents and recommend maybe downgrading in responsibility to give yourself some time to heal (some people heal through doing a lot of very fun but hard work, so do what is right for you).

Staying on for too long, especially if it has impacts on your health is the wrong option if others exist.

If anyone asks in later interviews why you did not stick with it, simply explain that you did try to change the culture but it simply would not stick. Explain that you are a professional, and would like to work with other professionals of the same caliber.
I fail to understand why the press in western countries gives this story so much air time. It's a regular fixture in the Canadian, UK and NZ press as well. I think it speaks to the lobbying effort and quality of PR retained by Huawei.

There are certain things that a country, or group of allies, absolutely should retain control over. Communications infrastructure is absolutely one of those things.

There is a reason China and Russia both have their own GPS alternative.

There is probably no good reason to distrust Huawei. But equally there is no good reason to trust Huawei.
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I tend to agree with you that the HDMI port is actually a 'stop gap' - TB4 mandates 32Gbit - so every port requires the equivalent of a 4x PCIe3 link, (this is what the previous models used to drive two ports).

So 4 TB4 ports would mean 16 PCIe3 lanes (I can't find if the M1 derivatives are v3 or v4 - if they're v4 I believe they'd require half the lanes per port as the lanes are double the speed), which maybe is more than they wanted to allocate.

The only way I can see this makes sense in anyway, that isn't just "Apple cheaped out on the bandwidth" is that they were caught off guard by Intel's TB4 (which sets the minimum bandwidth requirement) announcement last January, just 6 months before they announced they were transitioning off Intel. They no doubt had the CPU designs at least somewhat done already, so maybe they'd been planning for TB3 ports - but even in that scenario, it's a cop out if their brand spanking new CPU designed in 2021 can't support more external I/O than it's predecessor from half a decade earlier.

I've seen people saying the SD card is "a great option for a storage upgrade".. I guess it's an option but I wouldn't call it great, given the speed difference compared to a modern NVMe (either the built in drive or an external one).
When paypal/banks put a temporary hold on transactions is that fraud? Binance is reputable among those who use it.
Reminds me of http://github.55860.com/ from a few weeks or months ago. I still don't know if that was setup to steal passwords from a fake login form, or for a Chinese company to access GitHub from behind the Great Firewall.
>Unfortunately I cannot change the title, but this one would be the most accurate: "Using a VPN to bypass a GeoIp block could become a criminal offence under Linkedin's CFAA interpretation"

I'm a little confused by that interpretation of the specific case in question (Hiq Labs v. LinkedIn).

IIUC, LinkedIn isn't doing GeoIP blocks (AFAIK, the San Francisco bay area is not being blocked by LinkedIn, just HiQ Labs' IP range).

What's more, HiQ Labs is scraping publicly available content. Most GeoIP blocking (such as Netflix/BBC, etc.) is done to keep subscribers from accessing content that the provider isn't licensed to provide in the location where the connection originates.

Even more, accessing such content even if you are in a location where that content is available requires a login (i.e., isn't publicly available) to access that content.

I don't see a parallel here.

As such, I'm not sure how the result here (either way) could impact the use of VPNs more broadly.

Then again, IANAL and may well be missing something.

If you'd expound on your reasoning around this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: Fixed typo.
By this logic, no experts should be allowed in court unless the opposing lawyer has as much education as the expert in their subject.
I had to develop a taste for walnut pesto. Pine nuts make better pesto but not so much better that they're worth the extra cost.
> Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?

No. It's totally okay to run from a sinking ship if you haven't been able to develop a good sense of mutual loyalty. (Mutual, meaning the company recognizes its problems AND supports you in fixing them.)

> I'm senior and was hired as such

There's a lot of different advice in this situation. Many people say "Don't quit until you find another job," which isn't always practical, especially given that senior roles tend to take longer to find.

Given your level, another approach is to basically ask to be laid off. It won't always work, but if you believe it's easier for "your job to be finding a job," figure out how to ask for a severance package. Something like, in a 1-1 with your manager, just say something like, "Look, I'm really not happy here and I don't see a long-term career here. What's the best exit strategy?"
> Seems like market valuations aren't that closely tied to profitability at the moment...

This trope needs to die. Not all "profitability" is the same.

A few things to note:

- "You will see many people talk about Amazon’s focus on “growth” vs. margins, but the right focus is instead absolute dollar fee cash flow."[0]

- SaaS revenue is different.[1]

- NetSuite's most profitable year was in 2009 (yes that 2009 when the great recession happened) because they simply turned off the S&M engine. [2]

[0] - https://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...
[1] - https://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-valuation-pri...
[2] - https://soundcloud.com/a16z/a16z-podcast-why-saas-revenue-is...
Agreed, and yet there are still new dog shows repeating Cesar Milan esque tripe.

"The Culture Clash" is another excellent book for understanding dogs.
> You can't (any more)¹.

That was my understanding too, until this last week when I figured out you could.

I'm pretty certain this: and this: are the same rendering, but are different Unicode, and I can register them both as domain names under some TLDs. Google displays them the same in their result pages too.
I thought it was all about easing container deployment and orchestration (not that I know anything about it).
I find this comment to be the epitome of science denial.
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This is an obvious sham “institute”.
What an abysmal take. Academia is arguably the one place in modern society where the human drive for curiosity does not need to be tied to some notion of utility. It would be terrible to corrupt this with the introduction of a market. Saying that the problem with academia is a matter of assessing “market impact” is missing the point entirely. First and foremost, academia should be about advancing our understanding of the world around us. Figuring out potential applications of this knowledge is a secondary goal, best left to engineers and researchers at companies whose role it is to extract profit from scientific knowledge.
"don't penalize whites for the perceived sins of some of their ancestors."

The fact that you wrote "perceived sins" clearly shows your real perspective.
> The Defence Cultural Specialist Unit (DCSU) of the British army’s 77th Brigade [...] has also reportedly been monitoring anti-vax groups in order to counteract narratives that go against the government’s line on the Chinese coronavirus.

Saddest job on the planet? I guess some regard propagandists as useful...

> killing of Sir David Amess MP last month, Conservative MPs have been calling on the government to end online anonymity

He was killed by anonymous online comments? I don't know if that is a joke or if they are serious but it certainly isn't thinking about the victim and how such deeds can be minimized. Just a hint, curbing civil liberties doesn't really help against such deeds, regardless if motivated by Islamic terror or other groups. So you abuse the death of one of your colleagues as an opportunity to follow other aspirations. I don't envy Mr Amess about his friends...
It is none of U of F's business whether or not their testimony is politically biased.
Yes, the plebs must be shielded from information we deem harmful.
I can only guess that small sites frequently experiencing the hug of death when they get #1 on HN leads some people to believe you need some insane setup, when in reality it's more like this case: it works just fine on a smallish setup as soon as you remember to enable caching.
We have the same hours clocked on DOTA & DOTA 2; It became a big part of growing up.
Any headline I see with a question in that manner I don't click on. I know they will conclude with either "we don't know" or "no". It's just not worth reading unless you are interested in two sides of an argument but generally these articles are cheap fluff.
That's the point, you can't.

Put quite many people say "you cannot have all three of Conistency, Available, Partition Tolerance", which sounds like you can keep any two / drop one at will.

But the right starting point is: "Partitions will happen. When they do, do you drop A or C?"
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EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]
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Actually there exists a shell, "scsh", which uses the Scheme language, i.e. a LISP variant.

"scsh" is less convenient for interactive use than bash or zsh, because it is more verbose, but it was quite good for scripts, certainly more convenient as a replacement for shell scripts than Python or the like (because it had a better syntax for the equivalent of a POSIX command list, with pipes, and/or lists, redirections and parameter expansions).

Many years ago, I have written and used with good results a lot of "scsh" scripts, for things deemed to be too complex for POSIX shell scripts.

However, AFAIK, "scsh" has not been updated in recent years, so I do not know how good it would still be today.