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Taken to certain extremes, yes it is a bad thing.

In moderation — for example if you take a wholistic view that incorporates benefit to the society at large as well, then it can be very good.
Importantly, prior to this (and, hell, even since) state of the art was to try atomically, then yield (or sleep(0)) then try usleep.

The kernel had no idea what was going on, so had no idea how to schedule such a thing. It particularly didn't know to wake you when the lock (which it has no idea about) became available.
Perhaps they need it to ensure robustness of geometric predicates, in edge cases.

E.g. if the determinant of some matrix becomes too close to zero, switch to exact arithmetic.
Author here! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for all of your suggestions in the comments here. I’ll try and find some time to apply the feedback here amid my current parental leave.
The idea that in 2020 maybe they were continuing to conduct GOF research on SARS-CoV-2, with everything going on, and then being so sloppy as to infect antarctic soil samples is better... I guess?

I'd think the nature of the three mutations in between circulating virus and bat coronavirus maybe lowers the odds of it being postpandemic but maybe not.
> I don't know why apple don't just allow third-party app stores

I'll tell you why: money.
This part of the optimisation is well-known and had been for years before futex was invented, so there's no need to provide it as a vDSO or any other special work, userspace can (and was ready to) do that part anyway.

The futex is clever because previously the heavyweight locking is in the kernel, but all you actually needed was this very flimsy wait feature. BeOS for example, has a "Benaphore" construction where you initialise an expensive heavyweight lock but you try the userspace trick before needing to actually take it. So that looks superficially just as good as a futex...

... and then you realise oh, the underlying locks need kernel RAM to store their state, so the OS can only allow each process to have so many of them and thus you can't have so many Benaphores, they were expensive after all. But a futex doesn't use any kernel resources when you aren't calling the OS, Linux doesn't mind if your program uses a billion futexes, that's fine, any particular thread can only be waiting on one of them, and Linux is only tracking the waiting.
Sure, I love questions.

I still don't know what a pessary is. I didn't really read women's magazines before I transitioned, and I still don't.

I feel fine being a tomboy with "guy" interests. It's not an end goal of mine to go "stealth" (That is, pass as cis 100% of the time) or fit in to any female-coded social group in particular. Transitioning is something I do for myself, so presenting feminine but still being a little bit "masculine" in my interests and hobbies just doesn't bother me.

I've always been attracted to women, so I went from being a straight guy to being a lesbian. There's a few specific heterosexual scenarios where I can identify with the woman now, but not enough to say I'm attracted to men in general.

> it helps me situate you (and maybe inductively other trans women) in these male-female ML things.

Yeah I'm definitely speaking for myself here. The only things that are likely to be true of all trans women is that they use (or want to use, if they're still in the closet) she/her pronouns, and that they were not assigned female at birth.

Everything else can vary:

- Lots of trans people want to be stealth. It's safer on average, but I live in a queer-friendly town

- Not everyone wants to reclaim "queer" but personally I don't want to type out LGBTQIAA+ every time...

- Some trans people report that their sexuality changes (or they realize they're actually asexual) after they begin transitioning or after they begin hormone therapy. It isn't clear what percent of this is caused by the hormones and what percent is purely psychological.

- Most trans women don't say things like "I used to be a guy". I don't have an internal sense of gender, so I don't feel like the common story of "I was always a woman on the inside" applies to me, even though it applies to many trans women. When I was younger, people assumed I was male and I was fine with it, so I don't feel wrong to say I used to be a boy or used to be a guy. I transitioned when I decided that I didn't need an internal sense of gender - If I wanted to be a woman on the outside, that's all I needed, and maybe for me in particular, I only have an outside.
Indeed, and it's fun to look at the remarkable differences, which are usually more visible in these early stages of development. It gets to the very heart of what "state" is; the beginning of computation really goes back further, to automata and Charles Babbage, where state is encoded into the position of a cog, and decoded by looking at the cog.

For quantum computing, state is written into the wave function of an isolated particle, which is entangled with other isolated particles such that you can perform a read and get something useful out of it. (TBH I'm a little confused about how QC works at the physical level, because it seems like your program could require different patterns of entanglement, but AFAIK the pattern of qubit entanglement is determined by the hardware setup, and cannot be modified at runtime. Maybe there is a generally reusable "shape" that can be interacted with, cleared, setup for a new computation, etc by poking at the particles in some specific order. It's probably a really nice problem for physics folks who feared they'd never get to use their QM classes.)
Netflix is cheap enough with enough content to make it a keeper. There are lots of other options but they are too niche (Curiosity Stream, Gaia) or too expensive (Fubu, YouTube TV). It feels like a weird redux but eventually maybe the big platforms - AppleTV, Roku, Youtube TV will be just like the giant aggregators of the past Cable TV world but you'll be able to pick and chose which channels to pay for (Netflix, Tennis Channel, Disney, HBO, etc.)
That's flattering! but by far the strongest force is that most of the community wants HN to remain a site for intellectual curiosity. If that weren't true, it would be a lost cause; but because it is true, I feel empowered to make posts that represent that point of view.
I'm so utterly torn on this. I want sideloading for my own purposes, like installing classes of apps Apple would never approve (such as a real Unix shell with native code compilers). On the other hand, I absolutely don't want my older relatives to be able to install stuff from wherever. I just know I'll have a Thanksgiving conversation like "hey, could you look at my phone? It's been getting hot after Microsoft called and helped me install the new antivirus."

I don't have an answer for this. I'm all for people being able to get around the garden walls. I just hope and pray that no one in my "you use computers so you're my de facto tech support" circles does it.
What about the slots i plug my RAM sticks into? Do they not count because it goes over the north bridge?
Starting to send love letters to co-conspirators might be considered altering your normal habits.
Thanks for the kind reply. It doesn't always turn out that way :)
Pelosi Insider trading: opinion/suspicion or fact? If so, please provide source.

Fyi, the possibility for trading stocks does not mean insider trading. A lot of people trade stocks and this would be the first "job" to make it illegal.

What should be done is improving transparency and accountability. Not the witch hunt you are proposing.

And i mean a real check/punishment on insider trading+family. Not the weak enforcement that is going on now, which is the real problem.
Exactly this. Google sign-on equity is actually front loaded now: 33%, 33%, 22%, 12%. Refresh grants (nominally every year) vest equally at 25% per year. Vests are monthly or quarterly, depending on the size of your grant.

Since initial grants are larger (roughly 2x) than refresher grants, the equal vesting of the initial grant (old behavior) could cause a significant drop in compensation for new hires after 4 years at the company (the dreaded equity cliff). This would only happen for relatively "flat" performers, as if you're on an upwards trajectory the larger size of later grants would eventually catch up to your initial equity grant.

Let's say the sign on equity was 200 shares, and refreshers were 100. With equal vesting it would look like:

Year 1: 50 shares

Year 2: 50 + 1 x 25 = 75 shares total

Year 3: 50 + 2 x 25 = 100 shares total

Year 4: 50 + 3 x 25 = 125 shares total

Years 5+: 4 x 25 = 100 shares total (20% drop!)

The problem has actually been worse, because grants are actually in dollars and the stock has been growing consistently year over year. Which means earlier grants are worth more in dollars in later years than new grants, despite having the same dollar value at the time of issue. Let's say 20% yoy, which is not far off from average over the last 10 years. We'll work in dollars and say the initial grant was worth $200K at sign-on time and later grants worth $100K.

Year 1: $50K = $50K

Year 2: $50K * 1.2 + $25K = $85K

Year 3: $50K * 1.2^2 + $25K * 1.2 + $25K = $127K

Year 4: $50K * 1.2^3 + $25K * 1.2^2 + $25K * 1.2 + $25K = $177.4K

Years 5+: $25K * 1.2^3 + $25K * 1.2^2 + $25K * 1.2 + $25K = $134.2K (23% drop!)

With the frontloading this becomes:

Year 1: 66 shares

Year 2: 66 + 1 x 25 = 91 shares

Year 3: 44 + 2 x 25 = 94 shares

Year 4: 12 + 3 x 25 = 87 shares (7% drop)

Years 5+: 4 x 25 = 100 shares

With stock appreciation this becomes:

Year 1: $66K

Year 2: $66K * 1.2 + $25K = $104K

Year 3: $44K * 1.2^2 + $25K * 1.2 + $25K = $118.4K

Year 4: $24k * 1.2^3 + $25K * 1.2^2 + $25K * 1.2 + $25K = $132.5K

Years 5+: $25K * 1.2^3 + $25K * 1.2^2 + $25K * 1.2 + $25K = $134.2K

So the dip is entirely smoothed over. Add in natural increases do to career growth and you no longer notice it.
What was the alternative strategy? Any ideas?

Maybe if they had “channels” that I could add-on like in Prime then many would pay for Paramount, HBO, etc and bundle it into their Netflix. If they opened it up then other networks could build on it as a platform (e.g. Masterclass could build an channel integration and it gets approved by Netflix much like an App Store). Netflix’s childrens content is weak, so this approach would allow me as a parent to bundle in PBS Kids or Nick Jr.

If Netflix took 10-20% from channel subscriptions then they could easily get to $20/mo revenue for many users. No need to raise rates like they are currently doing.
I loaded up minecraft for the first time since pre covid a couple weeks back. Was surprised to see it telling me my mojang account was on life support vOv
My bachelor pad looked exactly like that except I had a sofabed instead of the recliner; surely everyone has one friend that refuses to sleep on the floor?
Multiple databases in postgres fundamentally share the same underlying infrastructure (i.e., WAL), and so do not offer much in terms of scalability or blast-radius protection compared to putting all tables in the same database.
I was shocked at first to see that most women didn't know what a "servo" was, then I remembered it means something different in Australia...
> A plant-based lifestyle is better for you

This isn't conclusive by any means. There are conflicting meta-studies regarding red meat consumption and health.
> The more a woman earns the smaller her dating pool becomes. Perhaps she could be more flexible in partner selection?

This will take more than a generation to solve. Culturally this is not acceptable for women. Women are looked down upon for dating men who make less than them.

For the next 20-30 years, women will continue to shame themselves and others for dating men of “lower” or even equal value.
I ramped up to do a bunch of interviews last year after some covid layoffs and, I'd rather the format stayed in its current form. It isn't great, but I can study one style of interviews and apply that across the board to all the companies I interview for. The system interviews are easy, it's just talking about side projects or work I do for a living anyway. After ramping up and successfully landed a role last year I do a couple of leetcode questions every few days to keep my skills sharp.

I have been burnt doing so many take home exercises, getting ghosted, zero feedback declines that I am drawing a line under the sand and not doing them anymore.

The alternative is prepping for many different interview types, sometimes full of people blindly happy for candidates to burn a weekend in homes of getting a callback, other-times full of unprepared, unmotivated interviewers who pull crappy nonsensical tests out their ass. No thanks. While the leetcode style isn't perfect at least it's reasonably standardized and consistent. I'll stick with that thanks.
Wow I’m so happy people are working on this. I love the program but Ive had to abandon several interesting ideas due to never rendering.
Gender roles certainly exist. Why wouldn't age roles, socioeconomic roles, or racial roles exist as well?
> I'm listed as a founder of crypto startup [...] I don't do any work there. It's just my name/face

You're the fall guy.

Don't be the fall guy.
All of the previous lab leaks were of known viruses that had previously spilled over into humans via natural processes, then were collected and later leaked out (again). I'm not aware of any truly novel viruses that spilled into humans through a lab leak. Are there any examples?
SARS-CoV-1 was not a novel virus, these were lab accidents that happened after the initial outbreak which was unrelated to labs. Obviously, it's not impossible for an outbreak involving a novel virus to happen because of a lab leak but 'completely precedented' doesn't sound quite right - you're equating two fairly different kinds of event.
The only problem I see if that white, straight men are far more likely to be armed and use violence in response to their perceived plight. If I had to pick one group to not be subject to declining economic and romantic opportunities, it would be straight, white men, but only out of fear.
I've been maintaining my own list of questions for quite a few years. I added some based on this post and the discussion here on HN.

Here's the full list - https://gist.github.com/autarch/6e7e25e85db62a359f91aa090033...

There's a few that are very specific to my future travel plans and my height, but the vast majority are potentially useful for everyone.

Note that my goal is to _get answers to these questions during the interview process_. I do not expect to sit there and ask _all of them_ in a single interview. In my experience, quite a bit of this comes about naturally. For example, I'll often find out about their dev process, tech stack, tools, and so on from the technical questions they ask me, and the conversations those questions lead to.

But my goal would be to have satisfying answers to all of these by the time I'm making my decisions about whether to accept an offer.
Apple isn't the same exact company it was with Steve Jobs, but they still have loads of clever employees. I think speculating that Apple is basically done innovating other than refining their existing stuff is the least imaginative opinion possible.

For instance, I think that they have the tools in place to do amazing stuff with Augmented Reality in a way that people might actually want to use. While Zuckerberg is puttering about doing the blandest and most cringe possible metaverse stuff, Apple might be able to do something that bridges the real world with the virtual.
> It was labelled as racist and sold through the news. Many people felt that xenophobia aftertaste.

You don't remember when the sitting president called it "kung flu"[1]? I don't need a newspaper to see the xenophobia in that.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-53173436
I just got a firmware update, actually. It was categorized as a recall, which spooked me before I realized what it actually was.
Don't worry, native English speakers are also surprised about their spelling.
Metaverse Homemaker Addition allows you to do what every you want between wash cycles.
It is such a shame that the Chinese government has been actively trying to obscure the origins of this virus from impartial investigations for the last 2 years.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Everything involving people
> Describe to me the scenario where billions don't die?

There is not one.

I was merely pointing what I think is an euphemism.

> we've chosen not to even publicly allow conversations about what's really happening and the choices we have to make.

Because we are ashamed. We all know that the price of our current comfort is blood. Now and in the future. And our human nature seem to be unable to abandon comfort once we have it.
All the consistently loud people at my company are promoted. I'll fight for what's right. But if 75% of the things discussed are things I agree with, then I'm not going to talk just to reiterate what someone else said.

Being loud is how my company measures engagement, and they're all about that.
They also have the most responsive streams by a mile. Seeking on Netflix is so much less painful than their competitors...especially AppleTV.
Mabybe, When SARS break into Asia, WHO recommended closure of all airports and the governments instituted quarantine into the region. If the Chinese government did not tried to hide covid from the world, maybe it could be contianed in a smaller region. Maybe.
When it was racist to wear a mask? Have to admit that's a new one for me.
It is the weathly countries where people move out younger.
Zombie apocalypse 24-7 forever. That's how it is. Not to sound nihilistic or anything.
The thing is, the people that do the systems planning of our economy and social structure have an incentive for every man to move into a productive lifestyle the minute he turns 18. But there's a misalignment of incentives; what appears productive for society is not productive for the young men in question.

So of course, in print, there's a crisis of young men staying at home with their parents til they're 30. But for young men, there's a crisis of incentive. Why on earth would a young man want to go give half his waking life to barely pay his own rent, then run on the treadmill that is modern online dating for, at best, meaningless hedonistic interactions with maybe, maybe not, women he's attracted to?

What it comes down to is that men have no incentive to do anything other than low effort, intangible self service, because the other alternative is just a more expensive version of the exact same thing.
Netflix has the numbers, they need the programming to survive. They should show more patience with shows.

I don't thing Paramount+ or Peacock/NBC will penetrate enough, I think Disney+ will. HBO is kinda like Netflix, I think those two should merge: Netflix provides the tech/platform and a huge eyeball base, and HBO has better production. HBO could strengthen its cable offerings with Netflix programming, seems very win-win.

No idea what Cabletown's plans are for NBC/Peacock, but I think they should consider merging with Netflix too.

Who knows about Paramount+. CBS owns older viewers and network TV, so I think they are too stubborn to merge or capitulate. CBS cranks out a lot of "good for TV" programming, but is it appointment viewing? More like they've mastered the older viewer that plops down and surfs the main networks. They won't claim the younger viewer, won't get a good enough subscriber base, and they won't have a valuable enough catalog to demand good merger or licensing terms.

What is FOX doing? Do they have a big streaming platform?

One thing that is for sure, cable is on a deathmarch. The next round of NFL negotiations should be interesting, because ESPN (and by extension cable TV itself) is already stretched to the limit for the NFL contract, and the next one might break them if the cable economics continue to degrade in viewership (and portion of the cable bill ESPN gets to claim)
It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

You can't do anything about the past, but you can do something about the future. I can't begin to tell you how much potential I have squandered, but I'm making the best of my remaining time. Don't limit yourself!
? what does that have to do with anything?

Spotify doesn't let you do that either, and OP mentioned "Spotify alternatives", not "Spotify Alternatives that aren't really alternatives because you buy the music instead of streaming which is a completely different service that has existed since iTunes"
I have a pile of them in my drawer, as many as I could get my hands on (maybe 8 or 12?)

They're great. In my head they were "something that had the stuff that annoyed me about RaspberryPis fixed".

I should dig some out and see if there's a way to update the OS to something recent-ish.

I think I've still got a cluster of 4 of them, 3 running RTL SDR and one analysing the signals and pulling interesting data out. (Last data file I have here from that is Dec 2018...)
Sweet. I use OpenSCAD for my models and it’s been really cool. Wish I was better after designing more organic looking shapes but lost times I need simple objects anyways so it doesn’t matter as much.
It matters that the Chinese government is actively trying to prevent any third-party investigation into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
"Taking personal responsibility" is always an option, and it's usually the best option in terms of maximizing personal wellbeing.

At the same time, it's important to recognize the social forces that constrain different groups and limit the power that personal agency can exert over outcomes. The masculine gender role is extremely narrow, and if you deviate much from it, society will punish you: so-called "personal responsibility" plays the role of telling men to shut up and fit their role. As a man seeking a female partner, if I want to be a homemaker who teaches belly dance part time, I'm going to be in for a really hard time, no matter how much personal agency I embrace.

That also ignores the shittiness that even people who do manage to fit neatly into the masculine gender role still have to experience.

It's worth calling out these things in the hopes of driving social change, and it's something both men and women must participate in if we want to see a change.
> The crisis, if there is one

I mean it is a crisis (at least potentially), creating a large group of disenfranchised men is not going to lead anywhere good.
Yes.

However, the number of years people complain about societal decay is irrelevant to the question about whether it's happening or not.

The Roman Empire was "going to hell in a handbasket" for centuries prior to 410, according to the social critics of the time. It doesn't make them wrong.

Applying one's personal normalcy bias on timescales of a single lifetime to societal evolution that happens on the scales of tens of generations is rather short-sighted.