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Is "100% speed" here the speed the actual Superbowl happens at, or the speed the game would proceed at if, in fact the goal was to play football not sell advertisements?

It's a sixty minute football game. So to me 100% is sixty minutes. Whereas when broadcast it's a four hour TV show.
I appreciate your point that as many people need to know the meaning accusations and that meaning is important, and I agree.

However regarding your other claims- I dont work on websites, I know the term "dark pattern". so your assertion that "nobody else knows what it is" is false. You might then argue that I'm still in tech, but that's just another goalpost that I can reach anyway: if you google for the term you'll find vox articles, explainer sites, even newyorktimes articles using this term.

So yes, it's a common place term and your assertion to the contrary does not hold any water.
Not sure what is hard about this? its a solved problem. Mounting a human skull has been an effectve sign for stay away for 10k years already. It wont change in 10k years.
Chipolo does

Samsung Trackers might have even more devices than Apple does

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What sucks about hustle culture is that 90% don't make it and they waste valuable time.

When there is an alternative that's been around for decades (centuries?) and it works.

Build skills, work hard, live frugally, invest whatever you can for 40 years, you will end up just fine.

Heck you don't even need to get all of those right, the only mandatory one is the last one, the other three just make it easier.

But this strategy is slow and nobody wants to hear it, it's preached by lame boomers like Warren Buffet and Robert Kiyosaki.

People would rather scroll through the Instagrams of a couple hustlers who are living large and dream. I get it on some level, there's never been a better time in history to get lost in fantasy.
Intel May Enable Discrete GPU Driver Development for Arm, RISC-V
The trend kick started when the iPhone X has a OLED screen, and people start mentioning you can save a lot of power by turning on “invert color” switch. And then gradually apps are adding dark mode as a kind of differentiation factor. Gradually this spread to desktop (perhaps because macOS starts to offer it systemwide) and recently to the web too (I notice now I browse something like GitHub and it will follow OS setting to turn to dark mode, where I set it to sync with the sun.)
We have two seasons in BC, Avalanche[0] and Wildfire[1] - other than that, it's the "Best Place on Earth"

[0]https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/driving-an...

[1]https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f0ac328d88c74d07aa2ee...
"Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status."

It's a framing to see "making decisions in groups" as only a matter of power relations. Why view it as only adversarial, when it could just as easily be cooperative?
If you're coming from C, I understand that 11MB seems like a lot to you. I've done quite a bit of serverless Node.js, a relatively slim docker image is always a few hundred MB and can easily stretch to a GB. However, I don't consider using C a viable alternative for that purpose.

What's cool about Cloudflare workers, for example, is that they provide the V8 runtime, you just provide the code, which like with Lua will be a very small footprint.

I'm curious, as a C developer, would you say that you prefer Go over Rust? I've used both and in my opinion Rust feels closer to C/C++ in terms of control and flexibility that the language gives you. To me (from a web service point of view, not systems programming), Go is just a faster (and better designed) pre-compiled version of JS/Node, it may look like C with it's simplicity (you end up having to write a lot of repetitive code), but still packs a garbage collector and (albeit very fast!) runtime under the hood.
I think blind does this. But it's mostly like a forum. I don't think there's a review website that specializes in reviewing managers at companies.

Reviewers would have to register by company email of course to make sure they're legit.

>It got to be thousands of names long, and at least a few of the men didn't deserve to be on it.

I think there needs to be a voting process to make sure it's not a smear campaign generated by a small minority. If the votes cross a certain threshold all the negative reviews are revealed.
I built a small raspberry pi zero "laptop"[1] with 4" screen and usb battery that does not have X and inits directly into openvt that starts vim (takes like 2 seconds to boot) and it has python and you can directly write pixels into /dev/fb0, there are also console games that are quite fun.

The best part was "no distraction environment" no internet, no messages, nothing, you have to be bored a bit to get creative.

Though my daughter doesnt use it much (she did in the beginning), it is super hard to compete with modern entertainment which is so reachable and so instant. All kids get what they want immediately after they want it. I want a football, order online, it arrives same day. I want to watch this movie, they start watching.

I am trying to create some time per day, in a safe space where she can be creative and bored.

[1]: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...
Getting a 403. Is there a mirror?
Goven the shortage of devs I hope there will be smart employers who hire this guy, he has a spine and core principles.

David vs Goliath story
All researchers know very well that grants are assigned somewhat randomly. I mean bad science is usually filtered out, then there is good marketing, which shouldn't count but it does, and the rest basically depends on some random evaluation from some random person. It's a lottery.
I support the idea of having a sort of 3 tiers: crap, excellent and good enough. The third one could be, at least partially, be assigned randomly.
I have a similar, slightly more usable (but still stupid) project in the works :P
It's just people being happy about something that's happened for them. Given how capricious a company like Amazon is, though, the professional speech is probably to avoid giving Amazon a different reason to complain.

It's gonna be a different situation for someone taking their first programming job out of college, and someone who's been doing it for long enough that they don't care (and would probably fire a company like Amazon before being fired themselves).
His job history agrees with you. It has been less than 2 years since he graduated, in which he has held 4 jobs. 3 months at his first job, then 4 months, 5 months and 10 months at Amazon.

I would not take his given statement at face value.
> Rather than facing fair pay as a practical and ethical problem the industry needs to solve for itself, a hypothetical universal basic income transforms our drama into one instance of a generalized, society-wide problem that government must solve across the board.

> This sounds kind of ridiculous, for anyone familiar with government, taxation, or political change.

Maybe UBI does sound ridiculous, but it sounds to me about 0.1% as ridiculous as "industry [solving the problem] for itself".

The problem here is very analogous to "basic research." Industry simply won't ever fund it because it's not profitable to individual firms. Government can _sometimes_ fund it though. Classic government function: funding public goods.

Government's track record is vastly better than industry here. The snark about "anyone familiar with government" is pointed backwards.
IMO this timeline places too much emphasis on Xi and his Mao aspirations.

- 2008 PRC puts on successful Olympics.

- Also 2008 PRC disillusioned with US system post GFC.

- 2009 PRC releases Indigenous Innovation Policy - precursor to MIC2025 that seeks to eventually undermine US monopoly on advanced manufacturing.

- ~2010 China dismantles US CIA network and found out full extent of infiltration of US in PRC politics.

Simultaneously ~2010s US think tanks started developing Obamas East Asia Policy, then "official" Pivot to East in 2012, which accounts for trend of PRC becoming competitor. This is all pre-Xi, whose policies were continuation of above:

- further eroded US influence by crushing NGOs, retaliatory kicking out of western press, HK (western influence)

- credibly modernized the military when previous efforts failed, built SCS islands

- was public about MIC2025, Huawei become preview for PRC dominated tech

- increasing development/maturity of PRC R&D and manufacturing

This was until 2018 when US/west options to influence PRC have been thoroughly eroded, while PRC reach spread, and it become more obvious PRC industrial policy and acquisitions abroad was tailored to compete with other advanced economies. Even then it could have gone either way (at least for a little while), XJ was below radar stuff, HK was subject to Trump Trade deal until covid changed US domestic policy sufficiently to hand reigns to Chinahawks. It has nothing to do with Xi having Mao aspirations but Xi doing what others could not, comprehensively undermine US influence within PRC while also picking away at US military and economic primacy. First is just good statecraft, last two inevitable - can't expect world's largest economy by PPP to have weak military or stay down on the value chain forever.

In terms of turning off west, you have PRC daring to directly competing with US turning off immediate US sphere (FVEY, east asia security SKR / JP) first, Then you have PRC wolf warrior asserting privileges of great power that turned off EU (TBD)... sanctioning EU (politicians and now secondary sanctions to Lithuania) for thinking it can sanction or undermine PRC core interests consequence free. PRC would have had to hide and bide in 2000s, but less politically tentable in 2020s. Xi hasn't changed since 2012, the geopolitical balance has. Could it all have been avoided, maybe a few years. But PRC pursuing her interests with her resources was going to butt heads eventually. Xi/Trump dynamic accelerated things. Xi's fault was being competent where it matters to westerns interests, and no doubt his foreseeable tenure will only add to ongoing anxieties.
I used slackware while in university for quite a while. Not my first distro, that was Suse (and I still use it today), but there is something about slackware I still love. Maybe if IT would still be only a hobby for me and not my day job I would use it. But when I'm off from work I don't wanna mess much. Tumbleweed is enough for me on my old laptop.
Commit 1 yarn lockfile, done
Just get an old computer. Old computers don't die - their users do.

You can get a nicely specc'ed ZX Next (https://www.specnext.com/) or Amstrad CPC6128 for the budget, or find an old C64 and deck it out with some solid-state storage (actually do this for all the machines, they all have it now).

My kids learned hacking on an Oric Atmos with a Cumulus drive (SD-card storage), which was just mind-blowing to see and also very, very inspiring for me personally, as a 40-year veteran of the art of programming.

These systems are still out there, and still work. AND, they are amazing - just look at the beauty of the 10liner Basic competition, which this year was won by an Oric Atmos program that implemented a fully working Lunar Lander game in 10 lines of Basic, custom graphics, sound and all!

https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/games-list-2022

(Winning entry here: https://bunsen.itch.io/moon-landing-by-rax)

Failing that, check out the Clockwork Pi options: https://www.clockworkpi.com/
> And, to be fair, _most_ of the kids when I was in school just wanted to play Space Invader clones and not write Basic programs.

Exactly. When I was a teenager in the 80's the kids in school came in three classes: the majority who did not know what computers were or thought they were lame, a minority who dabbled in the nascent gaming scene and an even smaller minority (of maybe 5 people in a school of 1500) that was interested in programming a computer. I happened to be part of the latter minority.

The gamers were all about getting the newest (cracked) games as quickly as possible. Meanwhile we were cutting our teeth on the internals of the c64. While we were lousy gamers with zero connections, we had a certain amount of respect in the gamer community because we were actually capable of programming the intro's to their cracked games. In return we got to feed on their scraps, so there was a living in that. :-)
Explaining Drawnapart, a unique GPU fingerprinting technique
When I graduated with my degree in electronics, I found the software industry paid much more than the electronics industry, so I entered the software industry.

If the electronics industry wants to hire me, they would have to pay higher salaries. So the salaries in one industry (software) can drive up salaries in another (electronics)

Admittedly, nobody's leaving programming to become a miner - but plenty of jobs pay less than mining, so it could explain a pay gap in some parts of the salary range. Especially in countries like Australia with big resource extraction industries.
It's always kind of amazing the level of privilege that can be displayed in HN comments.

Not everyone has the opportunities you have had. Some people actually have to struggle to climb for X reasons, and make tradeoffs to enable them to survive / grow.

Some people actually need money and can't just ignore wads of cash being thrown at them for the first time in their lives.
Is it the fact that a computer doesn’t have one of a sort?
Instead they’ll be wondering why these managers are so good at identifying poor performers. /s
People here are too busy justifying their corporate overlord and billionaire of choice and getting cheap labor from Xinjiang to care.
I'm not sure I'd call it 'partisan'. Opinions were divided, but in terms of 'party politics', especially mainstream party politics, I don't know. Kerry voted for the Iraq war, for instance. along with a majority of Democrats. I'd imagine positive votes were correlated with party influence, too.

Regarding popular culture, you're totally right. I think on a grassroots level, politics never went away. It just got excluded from public discourse.
I get a few leads from the SEEKING FREELANCER monthly thread here on HN. Not enough to fill my dance card yet but it is snowballing.

A few years back, I landed a high-paying gig through Upwork. I think it was mostly luck and I wouldn't use the site to find clients anymore. I do use it to hire the occasional contractor though; I hired my accountant there, and have recently found a great front-end dev there as well. The issue with Upwork is that as a client, you get bombarded by dozens of generic bids and sifting through them to find a quality candidate is a chore.

Most of my work has come through recruiters, which is both a blessing (I didn't have to do any marketing) and a curse (I don't "own" the client relationships). These days I am focusing on building my online presence and finding ways to get in front of people who need my expertise.
It is fancy to a lot of people. I think the parent tweet is funny, but no need to dunk on people that don’t have a lot of money.
I think the important part is that you can represent more things in consciousness than just "five-sense data", ie. exotic sense data like emotions, reactions, imagination, memory, impulses, selfhood, and correlate them with the ordinary sensory data. A non-conscious animal may see a predator and get scared, but I don't know if it knows that it's scared because of the predator. I think you need an integrated space for both direct data and metadata for that.

Also, in humans, I'd presume that consciousness, being introspectable, relates to our ability to understand our own interests and behaviors, and those of others, in symbolic terms and express them with language. It's how we close the circle between thinking and "I think".

(I agree with the article that people vastly overestimate the mystery of consciousness.)

PS: I think consciousness being introspectable is very underrated. We can perceive memories of perception, we can feel nostalgic for having felt a certain way in the past, and we can realize and name that we are doing this. The "reentrancy" of consciousness is a core aspect of our cognitive and strategic flexibility.
This comment killed me :

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Engineering @ Cohere (cohere.io)
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Back when I worked at Amazon as a software engineer, the CRAZIEST thing happened to me. Here’s the story…

I was working from home with my girlfriend (at the time), when suddenly I get an urgent ping from my coworker: “Our service is experiencing a SEV 2! We need all hands on deck!” Uh oh, our team’s application has gone down!

However, as I scrambled to figure out how to fix the issue, I smelled something burning from another room and heard a fire alarm go off. “Will! There’s a fire! Help!” I heard my girlfriend shout. Now I was stuck in a conundrum — restore a critical Amazon service, or put out the fire in my apartment?

It was at that time I remembered Amazon’s famous leadership principle “Customer Obsession”. There are customers who depend on my team’s application — I can’t let them down! So I ignored the fire and my girlfriend’s pleas, and started debugging the production issue.

But all of a sudden, the smoke in my apartment cleared and the fire alarm fell silent. My girlfriend walked into the room, and to my astonishment, peeled off a wig and revealed herself to be Jeff Bezos himself! “I’m proud of you for being obsessed with our customers,” he said, and gave me a $5 Amazon gift card. He then leaped out of my window and hopped into a waiting Amazon Prime delivery van that quickly peeled away.

Even though I no longer work at Amazon, I’m so grateful for these experiences that taught me lessons I’ll never forget. Agree?
I've been using Slackware on a laptop since around 2014, the 14.1 release days. The default (i.e full) install contains almost everything I need. I just add LibreOffice and R/RStudio and Octave and a few bits and pieces - nearly all available pre-compiled.

As another post has pointed out, if you decide to try Slackware 15.0 your previous knowledge will be mostly reusable (but slackpkg makes updating the base easier).
I need to try to do this for HEOS
The public would certainly got upset with the idea above. Fortunately that idea has nothing to do with reality - we don’t need to bid ransom to Google to make it stop tracking, same way we don’t have to bid against car thieves to get our cars back.
Democracy is essentially populist, because elites fight for votes through media. Parties optimize their selection process for those more suited to deal with public opinion.

Reaching as many votes as possible forces parties to draw their discourses around the lowest common denominator, which dumbs it down a lot.

The competition is fierce, so small by small step parties push the boundaries. There's an inverse correlation between the results in the last election with the incentive to push the boundaries. So if you're losing by a wide gap, dumb it down and appeal to emotions even more. Then your competition is forced to react, hopefully not quick enough.

I've been a consultant in a company for political parties for a brief period of time in my country, and the level of technification and specialization is on par, if not better, with the best marketing campaigns in the private sector. I laughed when I saw the scandal about cambridge Analytica. IDK in the US but in Spain microtargeting and segmented audiences were already being used by that time.

It didn't feel right to me so I left before I made a year in it. It wasn't only my job, it was the people I had to speak with, the feeling after the meetings that we were in the hands of completely idiot sociopaths.
Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf]
PICO-8 is awesome, and you can run it on lots of inexpensive hardware for even more awesome!
> It's not that there is a chance that you'll get mugged, it's that it's likely it'll happen.

Fake news: there's actually very few places where this would be true. You are being told that because in these countries most people are poor and afraid of losing their hard earned money/stuff more than in America generally. Doesn't mean it's likely to happen at all. Most of the times directly violent crimes don't pay as well as drug dealing, and the criminals sure know it: there's favelas in Sao Paulo and Rio where if there's a thief on the territory, drug gangs will hunt him down: they know drug clients need to feel secure to go in there and spend money.

Once I had my car stolen near the uni I was attending, and also near a favela. One of my colleagues lived there, and I told him the fact: next day he told me drug gangs assured him, and he was assuring me, that they would investigate and if the thief was found to be a local resident they would find him and return my car. The car was found 2 days after the fact, in very bad condition with a hole underneath the motor (they were probably using it to go into ramps/offroad), by the police, in another favela a few miles away - by the looks of it, the thiefs didn't want to gain money on this: they took the car only to have drinks and fun and trash it, then abandon it.
I can't see faith in politics returning in the UK unless the successor to Johnson gets very lucky. The trouble is, right now we're facing a major cost of living and energy crisis that's the direct result of policies which had bipartisan support from the entire mainstream establishment, such as pushing for renweables in a way that actually just makes us highly dependent on natural gas whilst blocking any new natural gas sources in the UK or funded by the UK finance industry that could make up for the decline of the current ones, and trying to stop Covid without regard to the cost to the economy (which most people wrongly understood to just mean big corporations and the super-wealthy).

Also, a lot of pressure on Johnson comes from the press and opposition claiming that any competent leader should be able to achieve things that are likely impossible and that no-one else in the Western world has, like solve the cost of living crisis, prevent large numbers of people from dying of Covid, and stop new Covid variants from coming into existence by vaccinating the world. It's amazing how many people falsely think the UK has the worst Covid deaths per capita in Europe rather than middle of the pack, just because all the headlines carefully cherry-pick whatever narrow figure makes the UK look worse. Then there's all the endless articles about how much other European countries are doing to protect people from high energy costs which mysteriously neglect to compare how much they're actually paying for power. And of course, the current vaccines can't stop new variants both because they don't stop Covid spreading nearly enough and because most of the unvaccinated global population already has natural immunity anyway, plus the UK doesn't have a pharmaceutical industry big enough to supply the world (we're not an empire anymore!) Any successor to Johnson will have expectations placed on them that they couldn't possibly live up to, which is probably why no-one is keen to try and take his place.

There's also been a lot of attacks on the government lately for "wasting" money by buying more PPE than ended up being used in the end. Imagine trying to do any kind of emergency planning when the political climate is like that.
Wow, that is vile.
Every state has some rules about safety. Traffic, food production, health care and so one. These rules are in place because they are a good thing that creates order out of chaos, it makes things more predictable.

Does it make every government totalitarian?

I do not know if that move Austrian government made is a smart one but I certainly can understand the motivation behind it. I do not support their decision wholeheartedly but I'm not sure I should oppose it either.

We can argue at the moment that the situation has changed. Perhaps. But the main principle I described here remains.