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Can someone summarize what the article want to say?

I am not happy about spending 10 minutes on it but realized I need another 10 minutes, and in the end would still be confused, and would need post this comment anyway.

So I just stopped there and wrote this comment.

Rip writing clarity, and the effective communication...
one suggestion is that rotation should be disabled by default, disable itself when you manually move the globe, or at least not hidden behind a toggle

otherwise very cool
There is a silent backlash against Proton, the most obvious is the domain is blocked by the US Antivirus company who scans all UK politicians emails through the UK parliament email address parliament.uk or British politicians are ignoring their constituents, some website contact forms reject protonmail email address as well. So I hope they give Google a run for their money.

Edit
IF its not politicians ignoring emails, then we have evidence that a private US antivirus companies is illegally interfering in the democratic process of so called allies and you can work this out with mxtoolbox.com, but we all know the US of A views everyone including allies as an enemy, because their actions and occupations speak louder than words! Can send a man to the moon but cant stop a shooter speaks volumes!
Big data didn't lose. It became so common that now what was once big data is just data.
Gather a list of techniques to illuminate people who are trying to sell you a red herring. We do critical thinking all the time in a basic way when we try and determine if an advertisement for a product is 'bull ship' or not. It's likely you are going to do a lot of automatic and basic critical thinking on the answers in this thread.

The same principle is used to filter your own mental direction, thoughts and assumptions. It's like panning for gold. Panning for gold involves sifting through a river of dirt to find specks of gold in your sieve. You're training your thinking to analyze out all the words and meanings that could trap you and find the specks of gold.

Critical thinking and analysis is very helpful for programming problems you find hard and/or debugging some nightmare you've accidentally created. Challenging your own historical reasoning, thoughts and assumptions helps save you from your own programming hubris.

It's possible to become reactionary to new information or too closed off, if you over-analyze everything. You might not notice the real things you need to analyze in life until much later. Analysis isn't protected from your personal beliefs, they will be a soft spot for jumping to conclusions. It's a narrow path and the answers you find might not be the ones you wanted when you started.
Thanks for both of these links.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1365
Different strokes.

I will say that I have experience teaching academic subjects in exotic locations including some of those mentioned (Semester at Sea/Abroad type programs) and it is HARD to effectively teach somewhere that isn't a classroom. A boring/utilitarian classroom (the room itself) is a feature, and classrooms the world over look the same for that reason..

If my company is paying for it though...
I'm a big fan of Jonathan Stark. As well as value-pricing he has lots of great content on writing proposals, developing productised services, moving to advisory roles etc. He has two podcasts that are worth listening to, The Business of Authority [0] and Ditching Hourly [1]

[0] https://www.thebusinessofauthority.com/
[1] https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/
RSUs are only taxed when the company is liquid, not when they are vested (which is one and the same post IPO).

So the tax free options are really just locking in long term cap gains. Of course the con is that it’s not actual compensation as the stroke will be equal to the present valuation.
Right? I am pretty much fully onboard with the Agile Manifesto but in industry, “agile” has come to be synonymous with “scrum”. And scrum is terrible.
I don't agree. The reason why people use Google products is varies. Some rely on docs heavily, others need (like myself) just email + cal + drive
My side gig is that I have a few clients who pay me $1K a month for 10 hours of retainer. Most months, I barely put in 3 hours. A few, I might work 12 and I don't charge them because everyone's happy. They realize I have a day job and as such, I'm not going to be immediately available unless I can take a lunch break. A win for everyone.
Been using whatboard.app for things like this and has the ability to import/embed graphs.
“have your cake and eat it privately” has now permanently entered my lexicon, thank you.
Things that have really helped me:

1. A more ergonomic setup to help with my RSI - an ergodox ez keyboard, with a tilting keyboard tray attached to my standing desk and adjustable monitor arms makes it very easy to adjust things and make it comfortable for me

2. Having some greenery around me in terms of plants helps.

3. I prefer having a cup to drink water from (instead of drinking from a bottle directly)

4. I spray-painted my keyboard and changed the keycaps - made it a little more joyful for me. Might do it again after a while to bring some variety.
I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
This 100%. There's this quote I like from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (I haven't read it in context or have any familiarity with his work, but it comes up a lot of other different places): "The limits of my language are the limits of my world".

You can't think critically if you let other peoples' reasoning (or their words) replace your own, and mainstream thinking limits your sense of what's posssible if it doesn't have the language to describe something new or unorthodox.

As ComradePhil says, question all assumptions (there are a lot you use to function every day you don't ever think about, as well as those held by people you disagree with) and seek out the furthest things from the mainstream you can find, including dissenting/marginalized opinions. Great idea about showdead, didn't know that was a thing!

Paul Graham turned me onto lots of great ideas, I greatly improved my work environment by sharing his 'Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule' with my boss, it also made me realize that I was putting pressure on myself to work unnaturally.

http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Avoid getting your news from corporate media as much as possible and avoid all forms of advertising. Try to form your own opinions instead of feeling like you have to join a tribe of like-minded people (social media makes it really easy to fall into this trap).

Though it's also OK to not have an opinion if you're not familiar with something, rather being tempted to defer to someone else's strong opinion.

And above all else, avoid mental clutter as much as possible so you can find your own clarity.
Another downside of the billable hour: it encourages perverse incentives. I was recently talking with a potential customer in the legal field, and he was interested in my startup's software, which helps people read on screen more quickly/easily. But at one point he turned to me and said "I know one of the senior lawyers is going to ask me if using your software is going to cause the billable volume to go down for their associates. I know that sounds like a silly question, but how should I answer?"

In short, efficiency is discouraged when dollars are on the line.
The full set would be something like who the target market is, whether it's a completely internal or completely standalone thing that just happens to be built with web tech, whether it's intended to be offline-capable and whether there's a lot of state involved in the interactive capabilities of most views, should there be the capability to do any kind of concurrent UI things like picture-in-picture video while someone navigates the rest of the screens and changes data frequently, and then the importance/complexity of maintaining a high-level of accessibility.

What I was describing could maybe be conceptualized as multiple applications that serve one larger site. You have the public facing staticly rendered site, built in whichever way, but that ultimately has accessible rendered content on page load and as fast as possible. Then you also have interfaces to the data that is rendered there, which might be completely separate codebases for different purposes.

These could also take place in things like a reporting portal inside a company, where stakeholders need to regularly see static or filterable reports of pre-rendered data, and then you have other internally available apps that different departments can use to manipulate that data in ways that they can easily receive immediate feedback on whether or not it's valid or how it looks etc..
Some of the people who worked on Wunderlist are working on a new todo app, Superlist. https://superlistapp.com
Well, there’s Griffin-Lim, but there is a reason most recent work uses a trained neural vocoder.
> That butterfly was the worst.

Agree completely. Larry Wall is pretty brilliant, but he shouldn't be doing graphics design.

Actually, I tend to dislike cutsey-poo cartoon icons, in general. If you want to pick an animal totem, there are plenty of public domain photos of actual animals courtesy of the NSF and such...
> Once all the smoke and hullabaloo has cleared, and all the grandiose promises have fallen to the wayside, what remains is a core of genuinely useful and relatively simple core concepts that enter the canon, along with standards and protocols

has this happened with blockchain yet? I'm not seeing it.

Maybe I haven't been around the block enough because blockchain is the first hype tech I've seen that keeps not doing anything that existing tech can't do better. And yes I've looked, a lot.

The underlying tech sounds super promising and I hope someone figures something out. Not much luck so far.
Why do you care?

Do you want to buy/remake it and seek VC funding and exit before getting customers?

Asking for a friend!
We speak of evidence for having had writing systems, but it’s worth noting that we preselect for mineral-based writing systems.
Paper/papyrus/neet-weavings tend to rot if made from organic matter.
We certainly find marked sticks where preservation of organic matter is possible, I.e. frozen crag falling victims.

The article references these jungle cities to have disappeared around 1400ce, and I wonder what this estimate is based upon and if it’s not 1500ce instead, as disease could be the culprit…
Watch these ‘pop-up’ robots scuttle like bitty crabs
I've graphed my income since 2008. For a annual review,I inflation adjusted that salary from ,,2008 to today. In my mind, since ,,2018 it seemed the company's upgrades in pay were lagging.

So I graph it all and compare my pay with job descriptions at bls?gov.

It looked like since 2015, inflation has been eating my bottom line and even a professional cert bonus was clawed back by the company, etc. It took just a ,,8% raise to stagnate the decline this year.

I think prices and stock market values have distorted our perception of actual wages.
How do you find things to do then? I’ll share what worked for me: follow a particular interest in depth, that way you can rely on your unique expertise to guide yourself off the tourist track. But that doesn’t always feel sustainable.
SawStudio. A DAW written in x86 assembly with 64 bit integer computations throughout and excellent but non-standard UX. It's not dead, but the community using it seems smaller everyday. It's an impressive technical achievement. Practically bug-free (the only bugs that I ever encountered were due to external plugins).
As a couterpoint, I've never been happier than at my current role where I'm expected to put in 40 hours per week, and not a minute more. Sure I do timesheets, but they cap at 40 hours.

Prior jobs always had the implicit expectation that I could be working a little harder, or clocking off early on a Friday was evil. Now, 40 hours a week can be done any time, and that flexibility is hugely liberating. I honestly think they get more out of me as well.
> I've yet to take a holiday cause I always think this week of holiday will cost me $$$

I'm a long-time hourly freelancer, and it's absolutely true - the lack of revenue for that period will indeed cost you money. But not taking the holiday will cost you a vacation. I personally think about the value lost from not working, and the value gained from the vacation, and usually conclude that taking the vacation is the clear winner. It's all about establishing a proper value system and being honest with yourself about it.
>A US Citizen has more legal and practical safeguards with their data hosted in the US than abroad

Citation needed.

I get that, in theory, US state level actors shouldn't be spying on US citizens acting within the US but the vast majority of us are more likely to get caught up in bog standard law enforcement activities. A US based provider will be forced to comply with a lawful court order from a US court. A Swiss based company (for example) can safely ignore such requests.
Opera 12, with its insanely fast Presto engine and tab grouping that Chromium-based browsers only recently emulated.

Yes, I know about Vivaldi, but it's just not the same.
Sure, but browsers have done a lot of work to make cookies far more convenient (they're automatically sent with requests, you have browser APIs to work with them), and secure (Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite, etc.)
Normally, the exercise window starts when you leave and lasts 90 days. The 10 years works the same way, except much longer! It has nothing to do with how long you're at the company (although some companies only trigger an extended window after you've hit X years).

Here's more: https://zachholman.com/posts/fuck-your-90-day-exercise-windo...
You need to include all that risk in your hourly rate, otherwise you're being severely underpaid.
Oh, the excuse this time is "he was bullied". I was wondering what we'd settle on this time.

But alas, we settled on that on 1999, that was the excuse for Columbine. As you can see, it's false to fact.

Carry on.
Tbump: Bump Software Releases
> There was only one possible way to be, and everything was that way. Zero entropy.

The issue I’m having is this:

There are a lot of states that initial singularity could have been in, leading to a whole diversity of universes.

How is it different than your smoke example?
I believe the 6s and (original) SE had the exact same internals. Here is a comparison: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=7969&idPhone2...

I haven't upgraded to iOS 15 though, I'm on 14.4, maybe that's the issue?
Neither is old Jersey in old England.
> I think people tend to get distracted by things as they get older.

What things?
The word you used was "related to". Unsure if you're making a grammatical or spelling mistake here.

White supremacists have used many symbols. Should all swastikas be banned from Buddhist and Hindu temples? Should Roman Eagles be destroyed?

"Dog whistles" and massive reaches for equivalence and connection are precisely why the majority of people are tuning out the left.
If you connect various steps of what can already be done well, such as melody generation (my project), lyrics generation, singing voice synthesis, chord generation, and various semi-automated VST plugins with generation features, you can create some good stuff already. Automating them completely is not even a huge leap forward but you'll still need to do some cherry picking of the results.
Deep dive into how Terra worked and why it crashed
Often you do not get the choice of whether you want to be parsing json or not.
Oh cool! I played for a while back in the post-TribesNext days, but haven't touched it in years. Are there still pubs at all, or do you pretty much have to wait for a scheduled game?
100 Gigabit Networking with L3 Hardware Offloading
My company VPN also blocks ProtonMail. I'm not sure exactly why, and I have zero evidence, but I suspect it's because it's the email that a whistleblower used a while back that was featured in congressional testimony.
Depends on what you consider reasonable. Worst case is 512-bit vpermi2*, which could be implemented with 16x 128-bit vpermi2-like uops, if the needed masking was implicit.

Which to me is reasonable for ISA compatibility. (Also considering that having to deal with ISA incompatibility across active cores is not reasonable at all.)
It doesn't protect us because it isn't designed to. That's the sales pitch, but that's not what it's for. People think it's odd because they don't understand what it is. Why spy on everyone if the point is not to protect people? Even if your idea of protecting society is jailing homosexuals or minority activists, what purpose do these tools serve but someone's idea of protecting society?

It's a big blackmail operation. To maintain power in an economic system where people can make something of themselves on their own, you need to know a lot about them throughout their lives. Having power in a system where people can't do that is great, but it doesn't give you a good economic engine to manipulate. So they just prepare to control you if you ever make it, for everyone, and let us all do our thing. No matter who makes it in life, they've got them by the balls.

They also blackmail each other for their own personal interest.

The whole intelligence apparatus is J Edgar Hoover's FBI on alien steroids, a big machine designed to preserve power for the people operating it.
I like this idea! In fact I have wondered what effect it would have on government if citizens could literally vote with their dollars, ie. democratically decide how government funds are allocated. So every year each citizen would be allocated ( yearly budget / total population ) dollars and could choose how their dollars are spent.
The whole brouhaha that led to a mass exodus. I don’t know the specifics, but to alienate such a substantial amount of a workforce after decades of pontificating on the proper way to build company culture shows that the wisdom they were hocking ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
SpinRite

I really miss the super-obvious read-read-read-read-read, map bad sectors and move data to good sectors process. With modern data recovery software, I can't always tell what it's doing (with mechanical drives).

-- Okay so after looking up Spinrite on Wikipedia, I'm confused. I thought it was long discontinued. It was last updated in 2014 but Steve Gibson still has it as a current product.

Either way, I'm skeptical it'll recreate the recovery experience of my MFM days.
> But we never connected these dots during our evaluation because the story Databricks told was buzzwords. Snowflake’s was boring, and all we wanted—at least at first—was boring.

How do you describe a chocolate gâteau to someone who has only ever eaten rice?

> Databricks is a big, fast database that you can write SQL and Python against

It really isn’t. Spark is not a database, certainly not an RDBMS. This reminds me of the people in the office who used to call the computer on their desk “the hard drive”.

If you’ve never worked with tools like Pandas, or R, or SAS, you’re just not going to understand Spark and Databricks.
Many of autoconf's more fraught checks work by attempting to compile and run little C programs to see what happens. These checks enable not just static analysis (seeing what the compiler does), but also "edge-case analysis" ala a fuzzer — e.g. seeing if the runtime environment of the compilation environment is one where passing certain printf(3) format-specifiers makes it choke, etc.

So if splice(2) no longer works when the source is e.g. /dev/random, then autoconf could attempt to compile+run a program that splice(2)s from /dev/random to a known-working sink, and see whether that program SIGSEGVs or not when run; and use that to decide whether to allow an --enable-splice configure flag to be passed, vs. bailing out if such a flag is passed.

Of course, there's the implicit assumption that if you're passing such a flag, the build environment is going to be the deploy environment; or at least, the build environment's feature-set will be a subset of the deploy environment's, such that the build environment's runtime features can be used as a conservative underestimate of the deploy environment's runtime features.

This "build is a subset of deploy" is usually a sensible assumption. Build environments are controllable, while deploy environments are arbitrary; so anyone who wants to make a build that works on many different deploy environments, can just set up their build environment to have the "lowest common denominator" of the features of the systems they want to target.

(Compare and contrast: microarchitectural optimizations. Same story.)
Some of the best programmers I know are always stoned. Funny to see this take on HN of all places.
Iirc, it was Edison who said something along the lines "stealing is common in business, but I know how to steal." So Google is just whining about competition here, and probably appealing to adults (the gov) to resolve the "unfairness" in their favor.
> no, there's been quite a few.

Yes, most of them relatively minor though, which is why the OP has never stumbled across one.

(I found one once-- it turned out one coder had invented his own hash slice syntax. It wasn't supposed to work, but it did, until a particular upgrade...).

In general, Perl has been traditionally committed to backwards compatibility, but not fanatically so-- there is a deprecation cycle that can be used to remove the more problematic things.
As a Christian who observes the Sabbath---is this not common among Christians? (I am genuinely asking, somewhat disconnected from the wider world of Christianity)
Show HN: Yet another crossplatform keyboard launcher CPLauncher
In my free time I am working on this application. I like the OSX Alfred a lot, I like it's workflows a lot, but I miss it in Windows, and I do not like that it is not free. I have tested a lot of popular launchers, but everytime something was wrong(not crossplatform, does not have easy automation like workflows in Alfred, implemented in Electron). And at the end I desided to make my own.
The project is on very early development stage, that is why something may not work properly(but I hope it will), or not as fast as it should but I will try to develop the project to make it better.

I am not a C++ developer, that is why the code quality is not the best. The early version of the application was implemented in Java, and only after some time I decided to make it properly with C++. And wrote in C++ as in Java...and failed. That is why the project is a mess of code written in headers and cpp files. But I hope that at some time I will refactor it.

I am open to suggestions, bugs submitions and PRs.
I am not a native English speaker, that is why sorry for grammar errors.
They had a word for people who weren't officers in Germany, but did nothing to stop the violence?

Nazis, they were all Nazis.

Seriously dog, an organization is not some organic disconnected and siloed creature, it's all together in playing the song.
A space trading and combat game (like Elite or Wing Commander: Privateer), but set in the Star Wars galaxy. An addition thing you can do is search for new hyperspace lanes.

The same thing, but in the setting of The Expanse books and TV series.
You can be very talented and do a ton of work without having a bigger business impact than another person doing 50% less than you.

At the end whether you have a design system, if you have infinite scalability, if you use node or Ruby, having that feature or that other feature it doesn't matter. The only thing that matter is the revenue the company make.

If what matters was the people then ngo would be unicorns
I agree it's not perfect but they have some pretty great instructions. I've been using the Bridge with thunderbird for multiple accounts and it works awesome.