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> We have, in Western society, managed to simultaneously botch the dreams of democracy, capitalism, social coherence, and techno-utopianism, all at once. It's embarrassing actually. I am embarrassed. You should be embarrassed.

maybe i'm crazy, but it just seems weird to lump these all together like they are expected to work well together

democracy: one person, one vote (egalitarianism)

capitalism: money is power, and capital is used to accumulate more of it (competitively and socially)

if you base your society on those two contradictory ideas, it seems inevitable a competitive system that encourages commodification and selling anything and everything to make increasing profits will cause all sorts of havoc on society and warp institutions to support those who "have" vs "have not"

> We don't need deregulation. We need better designed regulation.

this sounds good at first, but we used to have "good regulation" and obviously we are where we are because those "good" regulations were torn down.... running the clock back on regulation will just put us back in the same place again because those with power and influence (monetary and social capital) will warp them for their own ends
I don’t (just) mean with regards to audibility but also lip sync and intonation. It depends on the original language of course. The lip sync in squid game was noticeably off for example (Watched it with my family who dont like subs).
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How to Land an Interview at Google (and Other Top Tech Companies)
What role do Tasks play within Swift’s concurrency system?
My contrarian take: I prefer to work from a small laptop, with a non-fullscreen terminal window, and no IDE. This forces me to understand the code I’m working on better - since I can’t see a lot of things at a glance, I got really good at juggling concepts in my working memory. I’ve read that visually challenged people who get really good at super fast text-to-speech almost acquire a super power of quick comprehension, and I guess I’m emulating something like that with my minimalistic setup.
That is definitely a key problem. Why pay for even one security professional when the consequences are just a few grand in credit monitoring for your customers?
Perhaps even more relevantly, how would any sort of decentralization help when the issue is an excessively unregulated market simply moving to the logical conclusion of its evolution?
I keep hearing that argument and I am inclined to believe this is some sort of Chinese propaganda. Walking through the local ikea in Northern Europe for example, I find it’s hard to find anything made in china these days.

I checked the last three pieces of electronics I bought also and none were made in china. One in Thailand and two in Vietnam.

It can’t be food, so not sure which shelves are going to be empty here except for the baskets in the supermarket with cheap junk toys.
A bias towards very positive claims in the presence of little data does, though. All of our expectations around covid would have benefitted from the health agencies being capable of communicating what they know for certain and what they don’t, but unfortunately they decided to make strong claims in the hopes of getting strong compliance.
It's curious that when the memetically-preferred version of this story is told, it's always the person in power who is revealed to lack expertise and the person without power who has hidden, superior expertise.

There never seem to be versions of this story shared where, to use the link's example, the movie manager turns out to be a semi-retired audio engineer.

But statistically, surely that happens at least equally?
I think you're missing a key point that because of the 2008 crisis the regulations were updated. Bank reserves are higher now than pre-2008. So in fact this is basically like the OP said, regulators regularly mess up, and then update the regulation.
Agree. For me, I always preferred the ‘nub’ present on some laptop models over the trackpad (despite their sad tendency to wear and drift over time).
Oh for the love of god
I've never actually reached out to a webmaster to ask permission, but I think that's a great idea. (They may even have some suggestions for a better way to achieve what I'm doing.)

How do you typically find contact info for someone like that?

I'm running very generous politeness intervals at the moment to try and ensure I'm not a nuisance - one query every two seconds.
USA is probably the country with the highest cost for an hospital visit.
I am sure the hospital are able to afford hiring more staff :)
I've stayed in over a hundred, frequently in suites (upgrades), often at 4* hotels, in 22 countries (Full set of brands - Marriot, Hyatt, JW, etc...) Ice Buckets are pretty common - but I have never once seen a drink shaker in a room mini-bar.
Potentially saves your life if you're in a risk group with co-morbidities yes...

Not downplaying anything here. Reducing the symptoms is great. But interesting also to not that we don't even knows why it does that:

> The reason for the efficacy of the new mRNA vaccines is not clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Efficacy
I’d love to hear more details; who was the writer if you don’t mind sharing?
I agree partially, but SIGGRAPH and CVPR are highly regarded and aren't known to accept crappy work. There are some "soft" sub-fields of CS that can be a wash, like HCI and Software Engineering. Those fields have relied more and more on "marketability" of ideas instead of depth of technical contribution. But top conferences in fields like graphics and programming languages (POPL, PLDI) are no joke, you will not be able to get a paper that isn't top-notch into those confs.
Antivaxxers, but also unvaccinated children. In the current Covid wave in Austria children 5-14 years old have the highest 7-day incidence.
They're a business so the question is not whether they technically have the cash available to do a thing, the question is whether doing that thing will yield the best return on investment compared to all the other things they could do.

Specifically, if Slack created new development teams to build native clients for Mac and Windows, would that effort eventually yield enough additional revenue to be worthwhile?

(Mind you, I don't know the answer to that question because I don't know Slack's financials, just pointing out that it's the real question governing whether they should use Electron.)
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Germany has "only a few thousand" ICU beds (and while this nber has trended downward over time, it was never more than 10,000). It's misleading to not phrase this as a percentage, which is something like a sudden 50%+ spike in need for ICU capacity.

Of course that will overwhelm the system.

(Also paradoxically, an improved healthcare system should need fewer ICU beds, so the decrease is probably a good thing)
The Democratization of Chip Design
Few years ago, I designed my own ISA. In that time I investigated design decisions in lots of ISAs and compared them. There was nothing in the RISC-V instruction set that stood out to me, like for example, the SuperH instruction set, which is remarkably well designed.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I don't think RISC-V is "garbage" or anything like that. I just think it could have been better. But of course, most of an architecture's value comes from its ecosystem and the time spent optimizing and tailoring everything...
InFLUEnza and the shortened version is pronounced like “blue” in English? Seems reasonable for a non-native speaker to infer it should be spelled with an e at the end.
He’s a wallstreetbets degenerate, they tend to turn $2k or some other stupidly low amount into 6-7 figures gambling on options, and then swiftly lose it all.
Many people upvote things not necessarily because they agree with them, but rather to bump it in hopes that someone with good insights will chime in in the comments section.

This especially applies to potentially controversial things.
To a certain extent yes they embrace variance but to a certain extent they don't.

The idea is that what is dominates is software. If you add your own extensions, literally all software in the world wont support it. You will need to provide a huge amount of stuff to fully take advantage of that.

The availability of software both open and commercial on top of standardized profiles targets should be what manufacturers target.

Early on of course, manufactures have provided things that are not standard yet. However over time, does it really make sense to supply your own bit manipulation extension? As the standard grows the waste majority of application should not require or be really improved by proprietary extensions.

Of course if somebody comes along and makes a chip that is just vastly better then what anybody else has with some extensions. That could break that paradigm and people might embrace it.
There's also a lower-tech solution in some places, with a display at the back of the theater showing subtitles and a mirror on a stick that fits into a cupholder to reflect it.
Thanks for the insight. I'm curious; is the problem staffing, "beds" (which I assume means actual physical beds, or is this a term of art?), or a combination?

Also curious how one squares the resource constraint issue with the exceptional nature of the events of the past couple years. What I mean is, did anyone think it made sense to massively increase capacity before the pandemic began? I'm not in health care so I don't have any special insight here; i.e. I'm asking, not challenging. From an outsider's perspective it seems like it would've been a tough sell to advocate for what was, in the "before times," an unnecessary increase in capacity.
CDK is convenient but CloudFormation is horribly slow.
In the context of gmp, people write architecture-specific assembly for the inner loop anyway.

Besides that, you raise good points on sources of complexity. I’m waiting for the benchmarks once such developments have been incorporated. Everything else is guesswork.
It's not one. It's like one per week.

And every smart contract is a self-funded hack bounty.

Smart contracts are a complete misunderstanding of what contracts are, and what the hard parts of the space of contracts are. They're simply changing the simple problem to be enormously complex, without making the hard problems any easier. In fact it makes the hard problems harder too.

causing great public interest and excitement.

> OP making sensational claims

Def 1. "causing great public interest and excitement"

Well, not really. This story is just "huh, another one". Brings to mind the meme "I'm shocked, shocked!, to see another one of the cryptocurrency LARPers topple over"

Def 2. "very good indeed; very impressive or attractive."

Thank you!
The guy who took over Freenode styles himself as the crown prince of korea; IFC is his company.
I like this. Probably because a few years ago I switched to Emacs for a year and loved doing outlines in Org-mode; but everything else was cumbersome and I switched back to what use for most everything else, zim-wiki.

Now I have a specific thing that I'd like to use that org-mode outline flow for and, true story, right now it's looking like it's not going to happen because I don't think I have the time or patience to relearn Emacs; like I'm genuinely surprised at how long it's taking me to get back with it. Very much an "exact opposite of riding a bike." thing.
just great. we really need a new alternative because I don't like where Firefox is heading and I have been using it since the beginning.
Implementing a Content-Addressed Nix
A bit of a computer history question: I have never looked at the ISA of the Alpha (referenced in post), but RISC V has always struck me as being nearly identical to (early) MIPS, just without the HI and LO registers for multiply results and the addition of variable length instruction support, even if the core ISA doesn't use them.

MIPS didn't have a flag register either and depended on a dedicated zero register and slt instructions (set if less than)
A map of the 68 churches that were vandalized or burned in Canada in 2021
I've given more than a few lectures on how packets and queues and aqm are supposed to work, with very physical demos, using "packets as people", such as this one: https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/22/bufferbloat-may-be-solved-...

I'm cited in the article, participated in the study, and have been trying to counter this mis-impression about "priority" vs filling the pipes, not the queues, as the answer to better network latency for many, many years now. It's still a tough slog, it seems, and I fear this will be a long day on reddit for me! But with comcast's now enormous and deployed existence proof, perhaps more will deeply grok it, and we'll see movement by other isps to apply the same technologies so all their users would benefit.
Analog phone networks break down (you get no dialtone) if everyone in the service area picked up their handset and want to dial-out, they have much fewer lines than handsets, because they calculated what capacity they might need (how many calls would be ongoing at one time) and just have that many lines, plus maybe a safety margin.

I'm guessing it's the same with ICU beds... And now we have a situation where a high percentage of people have picked up their handsets...
>I don't believe in passive index investing.

Says the guy who lost $400k. Needless to say his beliefs are wrong.
Oh, definitely. It's fairly obvious to anyone who understands molecular clocks that this strain is already widely spread.

We're panicking and closing borders and doing untold damage because...we continue to overestimate our ability to see what nature is doing in an unbiased way.
My birthday is on this list. I am happy about that...
It already has this.
Makes me think of Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple. I wish I knew the details, but it was apparently unsupported by VMware.
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I've had a lot of success just saving the data into gzipped tarballs, like a few thousand documents per tarball. That way I can replay the data and tweak the algorithms without causing traffic.
So true and not mentioned enough by the media. The fact that we lost more than 4000 ICU beds over last year (during the Corona pandemic!!) because of personnel shortage is mind-boggling.

Instead of rewarding those who worked these horrible jobs and maybe attract new workers with better conditions (e.g. more holidays), better pay or tax reduction, our politicians did campaigning and ignored the upcoming winter.

Now they blame it on the unvaccinated and want to force high-speed vaccinating as many people as possible. But it won't help now. And it won't work either because they also messed up the whole vaccine supply chain.

I have long lost all hope in politicians. 99% of them are ridiculous creatures without a spine and only interested in their own progress.
Which isn't an "American Heart Association warning".
I think the reason is that it ultimately encourages deep and thoughtful conversation. If nothing controversial was ever proposed, the motivation for participating and "proving others wrong" is lessened. It might not be the healthiest way, but I certainly find myself putting a lot more thought into my comments if its a contrary point or in some broader controversial context.

Overall, I feel HN is most fun when a lot of people are in disagreement but also operating in good faith.
I’m waiting for your post to turn into one that makes sense. We will both be waiting a very long time.
Sex ratio of babies linked to pollution and poverty indicators
Selling covered calls and collecting the premium, profiting solely on time decay (theta)
if for no other reason than to quickly formulate counterarguments. Next time at some meeting or other get together, if someone pipes up with an anti-RISC comment, most people won't be able to quickly refute it. But having had this discussion here, we're inocculated and able to respond with intelligence and experience.
> And it's not even on-topic.

It's an illustration of how we as a society cannot agree on what a good outcome looks like. If we can't agree on that, then there is no hope of agreeing on what "better designed regulation" looks like.
I miss i3 on win - do you have a how-to for that? I use powertoys but only to tweak window layout a bit.
Counter argument: Medical personel is hard to find and expensive, as is IC infrastructure. Why would we've needed to keep spare IC capacity for decades only to find out we need it in case of a pandemic? The German argument could be re-constructed into an argument that any country will run into IC shortages regardless of the level of IC availability. In an exponential curve it's only three or four cycles (8-12 days?) away, regardless of capacity. Hence, keep your IC capacity at regular efficient rates and use vaccination to get out of the hot seat. IC's save some but lose many. Vaccinations save many.

I can't say that I like the Dutch approach to covid in general, but in my first job I was deep into governement budgetting of hospitals (just before the introduction of the current Dutch reimbursement system) and it was a whole lot about 'keeping beds' and keeping patients in them to fulfill the budget. That was not what I'd call a generally efficient system. Even the health outcomes were worse since outpatient treatments usually have fewer side effects. What I've learned in that job is that doctors are like people. They respond to incentives. If that incentive is to have beds filled with people, you get just that. Beds with people.
> To have barely relevant results today you need to be good

An easy way to become way better than google — detect google ads on pages, and penalize these pages in the index. For obvious reason, google search is incapable of doing so.
Sweet spot seems to be 16-bit instructions with 32/64-bit registers. With 64-bit registers you need some clever way to load your immediates, e.g., like the shift/offset in ARM instructions.
>I struggle with the speciation aspect of Evolution.

You might find that pondering the existence of "ring species" proves enlightening. It turns out that "species" isn't even a well defined concept when you look closely enough.

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

(Also, you needn't capitalize "evolution". It's not a god :))
As a user I care about having the features I want, working the way they're supposed to. And, as someone who uses all of Windows, macOS, and Linux in a typical day, I want these features to work consistently across platforms. There is really nothing worse than a "cross platform" application that fucks you when you try to move back and forth, and the Electron applications I've used consistently do better at this than anything else. If Electron itself is the reason these teams are able to focus on features and let compatibility "just work" for the most part, that is IMO a huge point in its favor.

More broadly, I think the popularity of Electron apps is evidence that users are actually very happy with them. There's an argument to be made that modern software is in general bad for users, but plenty of Electron applications (e.g. vscode, Obsidian) are IMO relatively unimpeachable in terms of offering real useful functionality with a minimum of dark patterns and/or other sketchy practices.
I totally missed that! You're right, I was just more focused on the logic.
I want to see what people say against it.
>40ms latency is insane if true. Got a source?
What about a vector of 1 element
I'm optimistic more people will look at moving to places where they can afford to pay rent.

The average income in LA is only around $70,000 for a household, but the rent keeps skyrocketing every single year. Back when I was a bit younger could still find an apartment in LA for $600, try doing that now.

I very much miss the working class city of my youth. It was such a fun, funky place.

While you do have tons of homeless people who have no interest in changing their situation, many are just stuck. Help people who want to relocate relocate. I'm extremely fortunate in that I make enough money where I can just up and move to practically anywhere in the United States. But if you're working class, this is near impossible.

It wouldn't be a bad thing if people fled LA en mass for the next 20 years or so while housing catches up. Then in 2040 the city might have a middle class again.
Ask HN: What's the most interesting thing you've learned or consumed this year?
Ok, I think initial estimates (back in 2020) were that we'd need a vaccination rate of around 80-85% (which many countries have now). But that got thrown out of the window with force with Delta.
It's staffing. See my other comment. Germany lost > 4000 ICU beds during the past year.
It really sounds like a Silicon Valley startup name.
> making the entire application 1000 times slower than it could have been.

Everything you think you gain in speed in Chrome/Firefox, you instantly lose when having to deal with their oversimplified UX.
Vivaldi's focus on features means that I can easily manage and switch between tens of tabs - having an equivalent functionality on other browsers via extensions is both very slow and clunky, and the simple act of switching between two tabs is annoyingly unergonomic. By using Vivaldi I must've gained so far entire days of life that would've been otherwise lost by blindly ctrl-tabbing my way to the desired tab.
Yeah. I'm not qualified to judge the quality of an instruction set, but this writer destroyed all credibility with me by claiming that an undergraduate could design a better architecture (than this enormous collective effort) in a term. It's right up there with claiming you could create Spotify in a weekend or whatever.
The system design part of interviews seems to be much rarer than ten years ago, when it was quite common.
You can always buy a inch+10% 4k 16:9 display and just set a 3:2, 16:10 or whatever resolution with cropping edges, e.g. 3456x2160 or 3240x2160 (check if your vcard can do that). It may be hard psychologically, but it’s so less expensive.