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It was the dome discussion that did it for me.

> JD: The dome in Mount Pleasant, the glass orb that Foxconn built, what is inside of it?

> AY: I think there are data center capabilities, including equipment and servers.

> NP: In the dome?

> AY: Oh, you’ve never been there? There are a lot of people who have actually gone through the tour.

> NP: Okay, but what is in the actual glass dome?

> AY: I cannot tell you what it is now, but to the best of my knowledge from back then, it is their data center capabilities. Everything that Foxconn did there on campus inside the dome is pioneering work. As our chairman Young Liu said, we did all this based on business, not politics. If the scale for the data center equipment and some of the work that they would do is pioneering, they probably would not tell you. A lot of that is actually in partnership with some of the biggest names within the data center world and they may not carry the Foxconn label when it becomes commercialized. I can assure you that the dome is needed.

> NP: The dome is needed to do pioneering data center work?

> AY: The dome should have been better and bigger. Okay?

> NP: I agree. If anyone says to me that a dome should be bigger, I always agree with them. That is true.
> It's amazing to me how resistant people are to the idea that housing is expensive because there aren't enough homes for people to live in.

I have to wonder if it is ever possible to build enough in the places everyone wants to live for it to become cheap?

Manhattan is extremely dense and yet, incredible expensive. More expensive than nearly every less-dense area. So density isn't helping drive cost down.
Nor can he be impeached. That’s why it’s a joke.
I start by making the decision. Wait a day, then see how I feel about it. If I’m reasonably confident, I go to a few people that I trust and tell them about the decision I made. I get feedback, and take some time to process it. Adjust my decision if necessary, and if so repeat the process.

If there’s a time limit (decision needs to be made by this day) I still go about the same process, but if I’m not 100% confident by the deadline I don’t make the decision (as in, whatever decision is made by default or which minimizes change).
They are all still divisive terms by their very nature. And by intention, in most cases.
Really doesn't matter how much we build if tax law continues to scream at everyone to reallocate everything they have into bets on land value
Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land
> what's its fair market value? Most optimists would divide total dollar supply ($21T) by total Bitcoin supply ($21M) and come out with $1M. But the true answer is infinite: if this scenario actually comes to pass, the dollar's value will trend to zero and the question will become meaningless, as you won't be able to trade your dollars for Bitcoin at any price.

This isn’t valid. You’ve said the question would be meaningless and then use its answer. There’s a shell game here. You’re saying we can measure value in dollars, then we can’t, therefore anything measured in dollars truly has infinite value. I think this is obviously not true. In this scenario, the value of my hat would also be infinite.
In a lot of fields that's changing, but not in nearly as many fields as it should be. Outside of academic fields a training program could provide just as much, if not more knowledge needed for a specific career as a college. Especially with college requirements including a lot of things not necessary for the specific degree being sought.

Obviously there's many exceptions. I don't want a doctor that just took a training course, but my doctor not taking american history or calculus? Not a deal breaker at all.
> College is a scam (specifically the debt-based form of it) and nearly completely unnecessary for most work.

Signalling remains incredibly important. Employers want to know that their junior employees are capable of overcoming adversity. There are many ways to check for that, but the easiest is check if they've succeeded in a stressful environment before. That's effectively all a degree is for most jobs.

No, you don't need a college degree to get a white collar job, but convincing employers that you are the type of person who overcomes adversity is much harder without the degree.

As far as the price, last time I checked getting a college education is still statistically the best investment you can make. The price is increasing because people are willing to pay since they recognize how much it will add to their earning potential.
The sad reality is that we've not really had truly independent foreign policy since WW2. The US military never left our soil, and we've been in lock step with Washington on everything serious since then.

We're a vassal state, there's no Brexit on the special relationship.
I was actually thinking of the internal google study about their teams from a few years back. And a similar (unpublished outside the org) study a company I worked for did, where they found that teams with the highest racial and educational diversity had new members onboard faster than ones with less.

But if we're at the point of looking around at this world and saying "Ah yes, human nature caused this and certainly nothing else did" then I don't think I have anything to contribute to that project.
My favorite part about the "why are you so upset" argument is that it almost always gets used against both sides in the "culture wars". I doubt anybody commenting on HN is frothing at the mouth, but given that we treat stating an opinion as being upset these days, literally everyone that has any opinion at all is upset over something trivial - because the whole fucking thing is stupid.

Like sure I should be doing something better with my time than philosophizing about whether it is okay to delist a couple random Dr. Seuss books. It's true I never actually intended to buy them and would've never noticed otherwise. But hello somebody went through the effort to cancel them in the first place. Don't those people have something better to do than worry about whether one of the dated illustrations in a not particularly popular children's book is a little culturally insensitive?

Google is the one that put a non-trivial amount of engineering hours into this feature. I can see ways in which it would be helpful, I can also see how it could be problematic. Regardless though, if we think about the big picture, Google is the one that could have meaningfully increased their impact by redirecting their efforts towards more serious problems. The time spent commenting on this issue on HN pales in comparison and I'm not sure how one could ask the "don't you have anything better to do?" question of commenters without asking it of Google. At least if their opinion truly is that this doesn't matter either way.
> 1982 was strictly better

> sweeping linear statements like "decline"

Who are you talking to? When did I make any statements of that nature?

I was pointing out the provided example was stupid. Smart phones are "cool" and all, but it'd be a tough sell to argue successfully that connectivity has increased societal cohesion, education, information dispersal, or any of the other virtues you might hope for.

Instead, iPhones and virtual doctor appointments are like bandaids on a societal-wide decline, where increased privatization combines with government inflation to create a caste system they disguise as capitalism. Inflation-adjusted salaries are lower than ever across the board, housing prices are skyrocketing both absolutely and as a function of salary-years, corporate control of information has reached unprecedented levels, and the "relative value story" of now vs 40 years ago makes it pretty clear it's tougher to have a good life now even if you can have fancy toys to interact with corporate-controlled data-mined ad-laced entertainment
Color me impressed / angry / smile / old
This site puts inflation in Boston at 4.6% in 2022 while national CPI is close to twice that. I'm not buying it.
I still can't find any mentions of external memory mapping without copying it into the heap. _Very_ disappointing as it makes yet another version of WASM completely unusable for many high-performance applications :(
And do we now have to watch "Death of a Sales Associate"?
Google Docs changing language and speech. This is how it starts
So the crux of this article is that kids shouldn't go to college because they feel like they are meant to but they should go because it makes sense for their personal goals and I agree. I have long held the belief that America needs more apprenticeships and technical schools.

That being said, this is one of those things where people are instead going to want to debate the value of college itself(because they didn't actually read the article).

I'm an American that didn't go to college. And as I've said, college is far less than ideal but here are some reasons why I personally wish I got my degree

1. I have a harder time getting jobs than people with degrees. Not people with CS degrees, people with any degrees. Despite having job experience, I have a rougher time getting interviews and emails back than my friends with degrees. I have worked at the same companies as my peers and they have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back.

2. If you want to move to another country, a degree will more than likely be part of your visa requirements. Even if it isn't, it would absolutely help in a points based system.

3. I still get imposter syndrome because I can barely solve leetcode questions in interviews and feel like I'm missing something. Would a degree resolve that issue? No idea. But fact or fiction there is a part of me that believes it would've at least given me a bit more confidence in my abilities.
Is this superstition or more received wisdom, which may have been true at one point in the past as is now just orthodoxy?
I think Lemire's measurements are unacceptably lazy. WebAssembly is faster than JavaScript on the right things; there are many measurements showing this. Typically, measurements that show JS on par or beating Wasm either end up falling into microbenchmarking traps (one small, hot loop, something gets deadcode-eliminated), or they end up relying on a particular type of dynamic optimization that Wasm engines don't yet do (inlining, escape analysis).

With SIMD and threads, Wasm can absolutely crush JS performance.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/webassembly-simd-multithreadi...
I don't know how or why but nobody ever asked me once, they just sort of assumed. I'm guessing this isn't the common experience.
Saw a really excellent/overkill install of a heatpump this morning that's worth sharing. It shows what a chore a real install can be. https://youtu.be/ZEJ0VUINV0s

This is obviously super nicely done, no expense spared. ut there's some real difficulties it shows off. Heat pumps dont generate as big a differential, so you have to upsize radiators... a lot. Pumping becomes a new expense whereas boilers could generate pressure, and oh yeah, high temperature pumps are crazy expensive.

It's a gorgoeus video. I want someone to go through & explain in full each of the little devices & their purpose, translate a lot of this shop talk down to us. Good potential use for video annotations.
El Gato Malo, was banned from twitter for what was an innocuous post, probably for being 2 years ahead on the COVID narrative and used public data sources to refute the consensus on lockdowns.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/
"However, on our 4 TB production database, the initial dump and restore never completed: DMS encountered an error but failed to report the error to us."

THERE IS NO CLOUD: It’s just someone else’s computer
My understanding is not that independence as a trait is more common in men, its that independent women are less likely to apply for positions when its specified they're looking for an independent person.

Like, for example, if I read for a competitive, independent, ownership, whatever buzzword position, I think "wow is this some kinda hostile all-blame culture or something where everyone is out for themselves? I'll pass, thanks".

I would say I'm a fairly independent dev who takes a lot of pride in my craft. But a lot of toxic workplaces in my time excuse their toxicity in saying their employees just aren't tough enough to handle the workplace.
$51,574 in 2011 to $79,760 in 2022 represents a growth rate of ~4.04%

$51,574 invested into the S&P 500 in 2011 would be worth more than $225,000 today.

BU enrollment was 32,727 in 2011, and is currently 33,678. I'm surprised it hasn't gone up considerably more.
Not enough for me to work on this full-time, but enough that it continues to be an energizing side project. I'm sure there could be more if I would pull my head out of the sand and spend more than ~0% of the time doing marketing haha. Certainly all the options and customization appeal more to the DIY types and/or people interested in building detailed plans for financial independence / FIRE.
tl;dr SIMD

- new: vector types - 128-bit width FP and integer types and values for SIMD, with related instructions (and validation thereof) plus memory instructions for wide loads, and support in the runtime for wide values (consts, etc.), and in the text and binary formats

- value types (i32, i64, f32, f64) are now called number types

- new: reference types - basically function pointers and pointers to objects in the host, values of which can be stored in tables, with related instructions for accessing them and checking for null

- new: table instructions - get, set, size, grow, fill, copy, etc.

- element and data segments - not new but expanded definition and given more runtime support (added to the store, can be referenced by address like other runtime objects), plus new indices for referencing segments and their modes (basically, how they are initialized during instantiation)

- limited form of subtyping allowed when importing external values

- result types can be a sequence of values (i.e., multiple return values from functions)

- new instructions to avoid trapping on floating-point to integer conversions ("saturation")
The parent you're responding to is saying that Vancouver has a massive supply issue caused by zoning, and these measures are targeting a relatively small source of demand.
..Or just use landlord as the default unisex term. Like we are starting to do with 'actor'.
OK, so you're both wrong.
It's not about the degree, it's about the money. It's not like the dates looking for some sort of Doctor or Rocket Scientists are changing their opinion over a "regular" 4 year degree anyways, no point in worry about them.

We could talk about the "fairness" of this all century, but for traversing in 2022; focus on your successes, not your shortcomings. It's harder, but not impossible to have a successful career without a degree.
As energy costs go down energy usage goes up under Bitcoin
We know the answer to that, but the GP was asking why we aren't building in "all that extra space you have" and that's what I was responding to.
I'm not sure I could easily find an example but there have been some lesbians who had calls of violence against them because they are a so called TERF.

I was, however, talking about general calls to violence not specifically against LGBT people. The first paragraph from the post I was replying to made no mention of LGBT. I should have quoted that part to make it more clear what exactly I was talking about. Sorry about the confusion.
There is still one big thing that hasn't changed but has been the subject of discussion on whether x86-64 is fundamentally bottlenecking CPU architecture. Variable length instructions means decoder complexity scales quadratically rather than linearly. It's been speculated this is one reason why even the latest x86 architectures stick with relatively narrow decode but Arm CPUs with lower performance levels (e.g. Cortex X1/2) are already 5-wide and Apple is 8-wide.
Fun fact: Hathora means hammer in Hindi. Sensed an Indian connection the moment I saw the logo and name. Congratulations on the launch.
I’m talking about saving data received from an asynchronous fetch response as a file on oval file system.
Cool! I hope they'll eventually have a feature where you can put $placeholders in your document, and they get replaced automatically with the latest politically correct phrasing!
Depending on how rigorous you want to be, for over $20k a year minimum you can use Medini, but it's pretty hard core.

https://www.ansys.com/products/safety-analysis/ansys-medini-...
Thanks for noticing the issues, I will fix the issues and add the other features.

> Did you not add use-package because it's not in the repositories you're using, or something else?

Mainly that, but also I am not too fond of use-package. If I add support, it would be with my own package (setup) as an alternative.

> Great choice adding Modus themes!

Well they are bundled in by default.

> * undo-tree.
Not sure about this, I have heard people having issues with undo-tree due to the way it is implemented. Vundo seems to be an interesting alternative, but that is Emacs 28+ only.

> * Magit keybind seems redundant as the package itself adds them, and it's swapped.
True, but it binds to the C-x prefix which I think is a mistake (especially because it is one automatically).
I hope “Hey Ladies” is still ok, since that’s what I’ve been using for decades.
You are clearly bias. You are taking the worst arguments from one side and the best from the other.

The NY subway shooting was perpetrated by a black supremacist. So much for dignity and respect of every human being. Of course you would say that is just a small minority and people denounce what he did. So what? He did it and you are clearly ignoring that.

Burden of proof is not on the original person making an anecdotal statement, but the person stating their anecdotal experience is different? Nice consistency.

Every side has bad people and you can't whitewash one side and claim the other side is only their bad parts if you want a fair understanding of the situation. Nobody is making extraordinary claims except you. I can do the same thing as you: one side believes in killing every cop and the other side just believes in living peacefully with everybody. This is as fair of an assessment as you made.
perhaps it has become a scam (and it certainly has become expensive), but i defnly got a ton of value from my education at University of Oregon back in 2001-2006ish.

you've got your whole life to work! it's valuable to take some time as an adult (or almost-adult) to learn random stuff in some depth; this will be hard for 99% of us to do once we've got the rest of the real world to deal with.

(now, if we could restructure life to allow for a more lesiurely pace, that would be great. but until then, college is a pretty precious "out" from the rat race imo.)
Weird flex, but ok?
Fifty bucks says it isn't even about performance, but is instead about passing pointers to C code. Zero-overhead FFI has killed a lot of radical performance improvements that Rust could have otherwise made.

I don't know, because nobody's actually posting a link to it.
It’s both actually. If you’re making 7-fig then sure - no one bats an eye. But work in the trades? Do something that isn’t known for having an educated workforce? Please accept your new destination: Purgatory.

By all means - come to SF or NYC as a plumber and let me know how it goes.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Arch and Arch-based distros like EndeavorOS, maybe Debian Sid (it's been a while since I've used it, don't know how up-to-date the packages actually are), maybe Fedora Rawhide. There's also Manjaro, but I can't really recommend it when there are better options. Then there are some other rolling release distributions that I can't speak for, some of them new and some of them old like Gentoo.

I've used Ubuntu and Debian stable and testing for decades, but have migrated over to rolling releases for desktop use because of better hardware support.
So eBay has a 0.63% share of black males, or 20 in the entire company across all roles. Cool.

This industry is absolutely brutal if you are not white or asian, and that's seemingly just how it's gonna be.
If there is a natural key and updates are infrequent then table partitioning can help extend the capacity of a table almost indefinitely. There are limitations of course but even for non-insane time series workloads, Postgres with partitioned tables will work just fine.
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The system screwed up my last six packages in a row. Ain't no hyperlogistic about shipping.

* Mislabeled apartment number in sharpie.

* Double registered package in the database.

* Mass confusion about signature requirements.

* Delivery driver refuses to leave package after office hours close.

* Surprise customs fees.

* Retailer taking weeks to ship item.
That's how every FaaS (Function as a Service) offering works.

A caveat is that most non trivial applications need something more than running a function.

You might need secrets management, ephemeral and non ephemeral storage, relational databases, non relational databases, dependency management, AAA capabilities, observability, queues/async, caching, custom domains... That's where said offerings differ.

EDIT: actually most FaaS offerings take code as input, not binaries. I'm not sure if that was the relevant part of your question. If it was, then yeah I don't know of such service.
I recall Quicktime VR videos could be one of two types: you rotate around to see a 360 scene (inside of car), or you rotate an object to see 360 (outside of car). VR360 is the first kind, I haven't seen VR360 videos that let you rotate objects on YouTube. That would be pretty cool to see an 'actual VR' roomscale VR video, walk around while scrubbing it.
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