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> more personal freedom

This is big to me (and not in a "muh freedum!" way). My perception is that in the US, you can just do something. Start a business. Start a political party. Start a protest. Change your name. Change your face. Change your profession. Change your religion. Change your gender. Some of those may be non-trivial, and you have no guarantee of success, but you can do them in the US easier than you can anywhere else.

I said "my perception", because I haven't lived anywhere else, so... yeah. My perception.
Oh, for a family it can definitely be more; I was citing numbers for a single person. For a single person it depends on your age I think. If you're young then it doesn't need to be anywhere near that high, but it of course gets higher as you get older.
It never was? We are just good at advertising because that’s what runs this country.
> GitHub has always been about "social coding".

Yeah, you're right: they weren't "one of the good guys" even before the acquisition. Microsoft were only the biggest and most well-known proponent, but never a monopolist of EEE.
Yeah, there's a whole other universe of specialized chips for special purposes, and I used PCI-style DSP cards when I could. I just think a standard VLIW on the desktop/server would've been useful for the stuff I'm interested in.

GPUs can definitely carry that load, but I avoided them in my career because I could rarely guarantee that my customer's computers would have a sufficient GPU. In the world where I worked, x86 and AMD64 became standard - I could always count on that. It had to be a pretty special project for my customers to let me dictate a dedicated rack of specific hardware was required.

> Intel and HP had hundreds of smart people trying to solve the "software problem" of Itanium and they did not succeed.

Yeah, but that's tied up in the market too. A big name customer screaming, "But I don't want to retrain my programmers, it has to work with Java/C++" would certainly sway them from a Verilog or Cuda style language. Hell even OpenCL and Cuda have to look like C++. Double hell, the FPGA folks have been trying to make a C++-like language for decades so that they can increase their market. That doesn't mean another possibility couldn't exist for Itanium.

It's very clear that Itanium is dead. Maybe I'm just saying the market was foolish, and you're saying Intel/HP couldn't satisfy the market.
Yep, this story sounds like an attempt to get social media pressure on Upwork to try to get them to cave.

I mean if Robin used someone else's card to pay, he never paid anyone for the services he received. So it sounds like instead of being angry at Upwork, the author should be angry at Robin.

Strange that he's not.
I fully relate with this article. Especially this point:

> Why in the world has this idiotic trend of abstracting everything away by layers upon layers of complexity gained such a strong foothold in the industry? Has everyone except the "unix greybeards" gone mad!?

The complexity adds brittleness and security vulnerabilities to software. Essentially every popular tool these days is over-complicated. Also, the fact that the industry has evolved into some kind of monolithic hivemind has had the effect of forcing everyone into these brittle, over-complicated technologies and has censored much of the nuanced dialog around software design in favor of blunt dogma.
When you're on a fixed timeline something has to be sacrificed. Features, quality, or the deadline. Guess which one business stakeholders prioritize the least.
New developers optimizes time to get a well paying job, so technologies that are quick to learn are optimal. Companies optimizes for worker replaceability, so technologies with lots of fresh candidates constantly being available is optimal.

Those two aren't the only thing those groups optimizes for, but they are two of the main things. Which is why we have software bloat, neither group cares that much about user experience.
What part of the article should I reread? This part?

> Did previous PCR tests confuse COVID-19 cases for influenza cases?
> Not at all.

Or is it this part?

> Dr. Broadhurst says, "The PCR test is validated against many different coronaviruses and common respiratory viruses, including influenza so that it would not give false-positive results."

Maybe you're referring to this part?

> How do we know COVID-19 cases aren't actually influenza?
> Every PCR test must be validated, meaning checked for its sensitivity and specificity. The Nebraska Medicine PCR test has been extensively vetted with multiple ways of validation.

> Dr. Broadhurst explains, "At the beginning of the pandemic, we went through a very rigorous process. That includes demonstrating the specificity of the test to exclude anything that may cause a false positive."

Or perhaps you mean this part?

> Researchers also looked through large databases of viral genetic sequences – the building blocks of a virus. That way, they ensured the PCR test only picked up a piece unique to SARS-CoV-2 and not another coronavirus or influenza.

I don't know how many ways your article needs to tell you you're wrong before you'll believe it, except that it's larger than four.

Once you understand that, your entire argument that Covid is less dangerous for kids than the flu falls apart. The reason there was only one flu death is due to masking, social distancing, and lockdowns. In that same setting, Covid caused hundreds of deaths.
The super majority of liberals on this site have been repeatedly flagging/downvoting/censoring this all day long. Why?
> It also reminds of something sad, which is the tendency of westerners to assume that their culture and technology is "default"

I remember how surprised I was to learn that many ancient cultures oriented their maps so East (the direction of the rising sun) was at the top, instead of North (the direction a compass points) as we do. It had never occurred to me before that North being the default direction was cultural, but of course it is.
> Yet, domestic electric power use is in sharp decline.

Sharp decline? EIA shows about 4.0 trillion kWh in USA and slightly increasing over the past 20 years with a few little dips here and there. 2020 saw a dip, but that's largely attributed to COVID.

Lights may be set, but bitcoin electricity use has been skyrocketing.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
I’d keep it as is. It’s not scammy, it’s optimizing based on what potential users would search for.
I'm not normally one to fuss much over typos, but I similarly found it hard to take the author seriously when he makes a typo in the very same sentence that he attempts to extol the superior intelligence of IT professionals of yore.

> In the past IT people, whether we're talking about programmers or something else, where very clever people.

If you're going to talk down to people and insult their intelligence, please at least have the good sense to spell "were" correctly.
I use Envy on VA Smalltalk professionally. Coming from Mercurial and SVN, when I first encountered it, I thought "WTF".

Now I regard it as the greatest version control tool I have ever used. (It is also a package manager as well as a build tool). Version control at the method level!
> And you cannot really plan to not get infected, everybody will.

They said exactly the same thing about Delta over the last summer, until reality proved the prediction WRONG as today Delta is almost exstinct.
It already is, every hw/chip designer is pretty much a software engineer coding in verilog(c-like), all testbench/verification is also pure software, designer normally uses powerful CAD software daily, the hardware part for many designers are minimal.

the true hardware is those who design the boards (PCB), which, before COVID, was mostly outsourced to China, I'm unsure if this "hardware" will ever move back.
Hahahaha. I know why this was posted, and it's someone who read this comment chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896326
The problem with high latitude places like the northern half of Alberta is that hardly anyone lives there. The population is not high enough to justify something as large as a nuclear power plant.

A similar thing happens in Alaska. The largest grid there, the Railbelt grid, has an average power flow of just 600 MW.
Even Spotify don't make it easy. The librespot library is a rewrite of libspot, which Spotify deprecated.
I'll throw my hat in the ring: https://iobio.io/2019/06/12/introducing-fibridge/
RCS e2e can be disabled by anyone with your phone number and technical ability/means to sim swap. There’s a public site to do this:

https://messages.google.com/disable-chat
My comment is at the top of this thread. So naturally, I have made a genuine effort to reply to replies.

You constantly try to debase the conversation. Someone even reposted your comments to highlight how disingenuous your comments are [0]. Others have repeatedly pointed out how your comments have nothing to do with the current subject matter [1] or are simply regurgitating CCP talking points [2].

Clearly, engaging with your comments is not constructive. You are not interested in a genuine conversation. You attempt to deflate a potentially constructive conversation thread at every turn and trigger a flame war.

But it is a testament to Hacker News that by and large, the community has recognized your comments and efforts to derail the conversation for what they are.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894558
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29893838
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896092
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29893832
How many major walled guardians other than Apple are not supported by Adds?
Like young people in general don't know what a file is any more, young developers don't know what git is: they think GitHub is git.
They do build prototypes and test them.
Because systems were simpler, the teams that produced them were simpler, too. In the 1980s it was common for one person to have developed an entire commercial program. Just take a look at The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers (https://dadgum.com/giantlist/) and note how many amazing games were written by just one person. It's a lot easier to QA a program when you wrote the entire thing and can manually test it in a few minutes.

But simpler has its cost. Whenever I fire up an emulator to relive my childhood Apple II days, I'm amazed how crude that stuff was. I remember magical worlds and incredible, fast animations. Today they're just flickering 16x16 blobs.
You have to factor in forced tip-outs which didn't exist all that long ago.
a lot of people have undiagnosed sleep apnea or sub-clinical sleep breathing problems that can be improved by changing their position-- a logging spo2 meter that you can wear while sleeping can be a justifiable investment on that basis.
10GB Ethernet requires at least CAT6 or CAT6a cabling. CAT5e is insufficient. For home use, that means that the newer standards of 2.5GB and 5GB which do work over 5e are more reasonable for personal computers.
Yes, of course. Every iPhone can switch of iMessage if desired.
Dealing with nuclear waste is still a thing, even with safe reactors. Here in the US, we can't seem to find a permanent place to bury waste.

Don't forget, either: Nuclear waste isn't just spent fuel. The reactor core remains radioactive after the plant is decommissioned.

That's one of the things that nuclear fusion proponents seem to forget. Even without the spent fuel problem, fusion reactors still produce nuclear waste.
Purely from waves and air currents - that's impressively deep knowledge!

These days we have to ask birds to help.

Albatrosses detecting ships who turned off their beacons, possibly for illegal fishing:

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/new-insights-close-encoun...
2 of my colleagues lost their personal accounts (which they had linked to the corpo account) when they disabled/deleted the trial corpo account.

They were the only 2 of us who were trialling the linked account approach so I cannot say what the chance of losing your personal account is/was under this scenario.

This was a couple of years ago but understandably prompted a mass migration way from LastPass.
What's this about lambdas and GC? Are they reference counted?
Right. Software is more like a form of artistic/literary expression.

We can fight this and find ourselves confused and frustrated.

Or we can embrace this and start adopting the techniques of the worlds of art and literature.

* Design Crits as an available alternative to doing code reviews solo -- https://digitalblog.coop.co.uk/2018/03/28/how-to-run-a-desig...

* Embrace writing first drafts and then revising them -- https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1363503835390558208
Fact Check:

Apple does not hijack or intercept SMS messages. Apple respects the delivery label(s) you put on your Apple Messages.

The messages people say are hijacked are from other Messages users, sent to an individual's Messages label that happens to look like their phone number. This label can also look like an arbitrary email address of choice that does not even have to be your Apple ID.

Anyone using SMS can SMS your number on your new phone, since SMS is not being hijacked, and Apple is not intercepting SMS to do anything with it.

If you don't want Apple friends using that label that looks like your number to reach your remaining Apple devices (a normal use case!), then remove the label yourself before ditching your iPhone:

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

Or, remove it yourself after:

- https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
This still describes a very standard industrial sabotage. Quite often workers will continue deliberating confusion as part of the sabotage, either to cover their tracks or to maximize the time of diminished production. The goal is still the same.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments. I'm not saying you're wrong, but leads to tedious, dumbed down threads, and usually flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Something like 97% of domestic terror plots adhere to this modus operandi.

Can you support this assertion?
I suppose it depends on whether the purpose of the exam is to see if you know how to write working code to solve new problems or how to look up known solutions to well-known problems. Both are valuable skills, but they are definitely not the same skill. Perhaps telling the difference is one reason interviews frequently include in-person programming challenges rather than using take-home exams.

In most cases the right way to do a binary search is not to copy and paste a binary search implementation from Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/41956372 is similar to the formulation I gave above), but to call a binary-search library function. If calling a library function isn't the solution the interviewer is looking for, probably they wouldn't be satisfied with you searching for it on Stack Overflow either.
Should it not be possible to style a native GUI application with the same framework language as for a website?
Back in my day, China took our garbage and said they were recycling it!
It's very frustrating that people are now trying to redefine censorship to include "moderation on a private website".

Despite the guise of free speech, it ironically has a tinge of authoritarianism: you must broadcast my message I think it's Correct, but you can continue deleting the ones I think are Wrong.

It's also dangerous because it's obscuring the real meaning of censorship and polluting actual discourse about that topic.
> Why don't they use encryption? Wouldn't it be preferable for your messages to be completely inscrutable?

They don't? The letters read out in a phonetic alphabet are most certainly a code that's completely inscrutable without a codebook, which is probably rotated frequently. Encryption like we use it (e.g. encode arbitrary messages) is probably unnecessary and too complicated. All they're probably trying to do is transmit an authenticated order to execute an action that's been agreed upon ahead of time.
Related article from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818050
> In the past IT people ... where very clever people. People with a high level of intelligence ...

I normally don't mind typos and would never comment on a misspelling like this. But I also cringe pretty hard at people lamenting over how dumb people around them are. The fact that this kind of rant is so full of typos is fairly appropriate.
I think you misunderstood me.

It’s not a matter of apple seeing your IP address. It’s that private relay only applies to plain http traffic, or traffic from safari.

So if you want to prevent your ISP from watching ssh/irc/discord what have you, you would need a VPN.

If you’re just browsing the web in safari then iCloud proxy is strictly superior to a regular VPN company.
This looks incredible! Definitely adding it to my toolbelt. Thanks!
Some thoughts on El Salvadore's adoption of Bitcoin as currency from an expat
I think a lot of the real world occurrences of this phenomenon are actually due to bad incentive structures though. For example if you finish early (or go under budget) on a project you can generally expect the next project to have a tighter deadline/allowance.

A friend of mine was a postal worker for a brief period a couple decades ago, and at that time (in his location at least) he was told to make sure he took the full day to complete his route, because if there was a consistent pattern of finishing early they would lay off some of the workers.

It's not always possible to make sure incentives are well balanced, but managers should at least take a minute to put themselves in the shoes of the employees. If finishing early has only negative consequences, then maybe that could be addressed directly instead of just setting impossibly early deadlines
Small companies loves protocols, but as they become big and dominant they start pivoting to platforms to exert control and extract more profits from the ecosystem.

We need regulations around platforms, protocols are inherently more powerful and from the perspective of humanity almost always preferable over platforms, so the incentives of companies should reflect that, but it isn't right now.

Stuff like email, http etc is what makes computers great. I doubt anything like that could get invented today, companies would just create their own proprietary protocols and there would be no web browsers. Imagine if we just continued along that route and made protocols for everything instead of having big companies lock down computing habits via platforms.
The headline number is network I/O, but IIRC, the bottleneck is really in/around system RAM. Since most of the content isn't in cache and neither the disks nor the network cards have sufficient buffering, you need to have the disk write to system RAM and indicate readiness, then the network card reads from system RAM. NUMA bandwidth and latency can be an issue there too.

But, I don't think there was room on the pci-e lanes to do something like put a gpu in to use as a DMA buffer to get more ram bandwidth.

I think the next Epyc generation should have PCIe 5 and DDR5, both of which should help.
I think that would fall under a slightly different but very similar concept know as induced demand. Basically that occurs when an increase in supply leads to an increase in demand.

Roads are the most commons example of induced demand. Adding new roads rarely decreases travel times because new roads encourage more people to drive which leads to more traffic that soaks up any benefit the new roads added.

The impact is the same regardless of whether the supply increase is real in a quantifiable way or whether the actual amount is fixed but the same quantity is able to satisfy more buyers due to an increase in efficiency.

Your example is more induced demand because we weren't making more efficient use of existing bandwidth. More bandwidth was now being supplied which caused demand to also increase.
“ It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry.”

Someone has never worked in a restaurant!
Ukraine: We will defend ourselves against Russia 'until the last drop of blood'
No, you should treat people like adults, set a deadline, and let them execute to that deadline. Many people balance multiple tasks, objectives, and goals and so taking 10 hours for a task that was assigned 10 hours is perfectly reasonable. If you keep planning 10 hour car rides and they continuously come in at 5 hours, you're bad at estimating.
The cost of lighting has come down by a large amount. So looking at lighting in isolation, (and its attendant power consumption) we can see Jevon's Paradox hasn't born out.

From where I'm sitting as I write this, I can see 9 light bulbs turned on. These are bulbs that would have been 60W apiece 20 years ago, but are now about 7W each. They're all on and drawing a total of 63W. If they were incandescents, I'd probably have 4 of them off, and still be pulling 300W.

So I definitely use more lighting now than I did when it was expensive, but the efficiency improvement is so good that my current "wasteful" consumption is 1/5th of what my "thrifty" usage would have been.

At nighttime, I leave on my porch lights, patio lights, driveway lights, and lights in rooms I don't occupy. The entire house draws about 200W for lighting, which is what one room would have done in the old days.

I'm not saying Jevon is wrong or anything, but there are efficiency gains that are so great, that some other limiting factor will prevent increased utilization from erasing those gains. In the case of light, my rooms can only be so bright. If light were literally free I don't think I'd add any more lamps.
For the first time ever, I saw an 18% tip automatically added to the bill at a casual restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale. Party of 2 and there was absolutely no hint it would be added from the menu or server. I caught that it was there by accident because I am not in the habit of checking the receipt in detail and they were clearly trying to dark pattern me into tipping twice. From now on I will be more careful if restaurants think they can get away with that.
Favoring science myself in such debates, I do think often it becomes too similar to a religious belief, uncritically consumed and needlessly polarizing—even as itself it’s relatively narrow in its scope, building different models of reality that tend to be highly useful but are ultimately never complete (nor are they claimed to be).

> This new “scientist,” stipulated Whewell, was not merely an observer of nature, but an active participant. He — for the scientist was most definitely male — was disciplined and rigorous, but also creative and intuitive.

Wasn’t this term coined literally in a review of a woman’s work?
I wish that was true. Recently in Europe and couldn’t sign up for a few taxi apps because they required sms and it didn’t route correctly.
I thought the political goal was maintaining nuclear as high as 50%.