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Everything is going down right now. -10% over the last 3 months doesn't seem that epic to me.
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Thinking about this, I think you would end up with something like O(s^2*b) where s is the size of your biggest block (e.g. all the "Smith"s or company names containing "Inc." if that doesn't get removed), and b is the number of blocks. This would be at least n, so O(kn) with a big k makes some sense. If you have some way to get away with not comparing every element in a block to every other element, e.g. exact string match only I think you could get away with O(s*log(s)*b), but most of the time the matches are not going to be good enough.
absolutely agreed, it is quite a stretch but its not how I would have led with the conversation because people want this guy to have consequences.
Veiled comments in departure announcements are the way the executive class communicates about their peers to the outside world.
What sort of workloads are those? I have yet to see a workload where macOS's system allocator is not substantially slower than alternatives like jemalloc.
This looks cool in theory, but if there is one thing I have learnt about lawns in Texas, that would be that snakes love tall grass.
This echo chamber might have a lot to do with it.

Get the hell away. Now. For several weeks.

Make decisions for yourself instead of consulting the great HN oracle.

You'll be glad you did.
-44% ytd is epic
That is not how inflation works. Anyone complaining about the government printing money has an incredible naive view on the economy.
> Cities are full of drug addicts, homeless people, and empty shops. And crime. I don’t even like going downtown for leisure.

That doesn't at all describe the cities I've seen post-pandemic. Cities are full of restaurants, arts, people, and energy. I don't see many empty shops, though more than usual (I assume businesses went bankrupt at higher rate during the pandemic). It does describe the beliefs of people who listen to reactionary commentary but don't go to cities, or believe the talk shows rather than simply looking around them.

There are people who are homeless or addicted to drugs, but they have no impact on me and never have. Try just talking to someone - they are just people, not monsters, no different than the other people I meet except in their clothes.
Where is the Apache (httpd) server?
> That's in your local bubble. In some countries Facebook is no. 1 and on same level or even more important as Google Maps for businesses. Wished it was not the case though.

Facebook is an American company, if it fails in that market, it will most likely eventually fail globally as well. Orkut being super popular in India and Brazil didn't save it.
the COO of facebook stepping down isn't a major event outside of some niche circles , if anything it's announced today because it's the 1st of the month
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-44% ytd lol

why write something in bad faith?
I’m a sad. No Mac. :-(

Looks really good. Congrats man. 84% overwhelmingly positive isn’t anything to sneeze at too. The experience must have been amazing. I learned more about computers in developing games that were 1% of what you’ve done. No matter the financial outcome you are winning at nerd life, which is the only life that matters (other than to your spouse your family and friends).
What consequences? Ones that aren't near as bad as the economic and sociological destruction that the lockdowns brought?

What's really disgusting is the health "leadership" have shot their wad overplaying COVID. God help us if there ever is a contagion worthy of all the fuss because half the people are going to extend a middle finger no matter how valid. And it's not their fault for feeling that way either.

Credibility - incredibly hard to earn, very easy to piss away. Once pissed away on frivolous shit, it's even harder to earn back.
1. I suspect we have very different needs. I've never worked with 10 bit video, for example.

2. The closest equivalent to VFW in linux is not ffmpeg but gstreamer. My experience with the latter is ... not good.

3. ffmpeg is great when it does what you need but VFW lets you draw from a vast ocean of third party plugins that do all sorts of niche things.
I think there's a place for offline maps, both in terms of connection reliability and privacy.
Wouldn't it be cool if everyone kept their jobs but only had to work 90% of the time?
It's not a bad idea to give free meetings and charge extra for normal hours.

It also allows you to give free intro and consultations, subsidized by existing clients.

Architects and lawyers (even a few doctors) frequently do this and it makes for a smooth way of onboarding new customers - I'm glad I'm not paying just for some basic info and I don't mind paying a bit more once I get the service.
I think, for me, a meaningful job implies at least a few basic things. One is that you’re doing work that someone else finds useful. Secondly, that you are not (consciously) screwing over your customer. Third thing is that you’re getting some sort of stimulation, whether that’s through intellectual problem solving, meeting people, travelling or the good fitness feeling after a physical workout. The final thing is feeling that your work is not taken for granted. This is without considering compensation. I don’t think I’ve worked anywhere that satisfied all of these things.
Who could've predicted that patents, legal instruments designed to create monopolies, would be used to create monopolies?

EDIT: Apparently, Qualcomm won the appeal[1]. I wonder if the situation is still as bad today as it was when this article came out?

https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...
I must be an outlier. On the remote ordering side, I feel like inevitably it won't work out and will end up taking as much time as just ordering - but I do see the the appeal if it works well enough that it doesn't leave me pissed off once a week because they gave away my order or something.

For the rest of it, it's just a meaningless distraction to me. I have enough going on without caring about tracking coffee rewards, or managing yet another payment method. I just don't find they make my life easier, and they take time and focus, plus nudge me to buy stuff I don't need or load money onto cards or whatever. I have frequent flyer memberships for the perks, but otherwise I've always found loyalty cards to be a gimmick, even more so when they want me to install a data harvesting app.
It's called a "BFF" (Backend For Frontend) https://blog.bitsrc.io/bff-pattern-backend-for-frontend-an-i...

It's a really nice pattern particularly for multi-client applications consuming the same resources. Instead of trying to make a single REST api work for desktop, mobile, and web, you can have a BFF for each which all share the same GQL definitions and data access patterns, but can have platform specific routing/handling/auth logic.
Prior use is an absolute defence. You might have problems with expansion (geographic, and type of business).

This is not legal advice, just my opinion.
> If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.

That's because CEOs aren't public figures such as actors or musicians. They should not be that and they should not be politicians. The fact that people know Mark Zuckerberg name or his face at all is in itself an anomaly.

CEOs are the ones who get to sign off the quality of life that their company provides. That's about it.

I don't know the name of Shell CEO but I know they are the person who get to sign off the quality of life which comes when I take a trip to Mexico or fill the tank of my Navigator and they also get the blame for externalities in lieu of me, which is nice...otherwise the green tree hugger loons such as extinction rebellion would attack my car.
Just curious, how would these awards cancel eachother out if Amber Heard needs to receive from Depp less than she has to pay out to him? And what would happen if Amber Heard is unable to pay due to bancrupcy?
Does that still matter the second year and after that? In other words, is there a difference between having 100m and 200m? I would assume you can afford pretty much the same things with both of the amounts... (no first-hand experience)
Just went through our PI planning last week. For those who have experienced it - I feel your pain!
Congrats on the release. It looks really solid from the video, I'll probably pick up a copy soonish. I hope it does end up being a good financial decision for you.

I used to be in the game industry a long time ago, and while I'm no longer in it I still try to work on game in Unity (turn based strategy game right now) with my very limited energy in my spare time. I've been out of the whole industry long enough I don't really even know where to chat and bounce ideas off of other indie devs, or find people to work with. Some Discord channels? Itch.io forums?

About how much did you have saved up to take that year leap to work on it full time? How far along were you? At some point I'd like to make a similar leap but I don't think I have enough cushion built up to do that yet.

Also at one point did you decide the game was good enough to put up on Early Access? Core game loop? Core game loop plus certain nice to have features?
Note that while she linked to Dave's FB profile, she did not link to (her new fiance) Tom's profile. I guess even those at the top of FB value their privacy while they continue to invade ours....?
Its easy to feel worthless with figures promoted by sensationlist media and social networks. Do not allow this to diminish who you are - otherwise its doing what it intended: creating a shocking and depressing reaction from its readers.
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Yep. Business need to take that into account. Considering that they will in general be spending less on office buildings and equipment, it shouldn't be hard to justify enough budget for each home worker's equipment and Internet connection.
No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language
Our firm has a stipulation in the sabbatical wherein one would forfeit their severance / payout if they leave within one year of returning from sabbatical.

You're probably right in that most of those employees are itching to leave already, but financially it would make more sense just quit than take a 2 month sabbatical and then lose a larger payout.
If only Rich Hickey could time machine himself back to when they were about to decide for the first time to integrate JavaScript with the browser and replace it with ClojureScript...
What are people doing with entity resolution/record linkage? At Doximity we use it to match messy physician, hospital, and medical publication data from various sources into more coherent data sets to power profiles and research tools. Mostly with https://dedupe.io/ but with some custom tooling to handle larger (1m+ entities) datasets.
What about whatsapp? It’s huuuuuge.
Sounds close to FastAPI[1]. Anyone know of equivalent / better frameworks in other languages?

[1]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
Adam Neumann’s carbon credit crypto project sounds like a scam in a scam
libpas can do that, though some of the code to do it is not in the WebKit repo (but the enumerator support - a complex component that is necessary to fully replace system malloc - is in the repo).

libpas can already determine if it owns a pointer in O(1) time and no locking. It uses megapages for this purpose. Though, right now, it's not configured to fully leverage this (if you pass an unknown ptr to free then as a last step it'll lock the heap_lock even though it would be a small change to just use megapages there).
Ads are the past.
I'm 40 and never been on either of those. Facebook came out when I was in college. If I didn't have it I don't have a good alternative to keeping track of all the friends I made at that time. I'm sure I'm not alone with that.
And then cut taxes
I think this is a naive take, the glib view of a worker with no practical insight into company operations and decision making.

It's doubtful that TomTom's foray into mobile was 'accidental' and it's also hard to understand how much money is being spent, and the risks involved in finding other revenue streams.

When mega corps come in and suddenly make a major part of your business unworkable, yes, companies go into reactionary mode. That's normal.
I feel like there needs to be a hyper-specific term for when the CEO of a social media company personally directs the ads targeted to you based off what he observes of your behavior by shoulder surfing your internet browsing.
What's the elevator pitch for this game? "Factorio meets Civilization"?
I don't think so. Certainly, EBITDA is part of any story. What I was trying to convey was that Broadcom very much wants their customers to be engaged in a strong subscription model... big, recurring license agreements. Customers who, year after year, can be relied upon to send Broadcom money...even if they buy nothing new. Broadcom likes those Big Companies who can be counted upon to spend a consistent (but never shrinking) amount every year. Hock is ruthless in this...and has a pretty good bullshit detector... again, he probably makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
Nothing wrong with that approach... it's very pragmatic... especially for shareholders. Broadcom might give you more for your money every year, but you will never spend less of it.
How is this different from quarterly OKR planning and KPI reporting?
God dammit you made me spit out my coffee.
The VISL translator is not CG-3 - it's GramTrans, with the commercial vendor being GrammarSoft ApS. CG-3 is merely one of the general purpose langtech tools used in the pipeline. Apertium also uses CG-3.

Both GramTrans and Apertium are rule-based. Very similar technology.

(I wrote CG-3, and work for both GrammarSoft and Apertium.)
Another week of releasing features and changing specs 2 hours before they're supposed to be shown to the public in a presentation.
There was an interview on the radio with a woman who can see in the future.

As long as media is somehow seen as normal and people don't question e everything, you need consumer protection laws.

It's that easy.
GCP loses money? (edit: I see a comment landed elsewhere that they lose money, and might get shutdown)
They are already outselling Microsoft's gaming consoles (though both use heavy subsidies) in dollar volume by a large margin.
GPS has nothing to do with cell signal. GPS is it's own signal from satellites that your phone has no problem receiving in a place like Iowa. In fact Iowa has a lot of things going for it to enhance GPS receivership - it's flat so you can see most of the sky, it's open - there's just not a lot of vegetation to absorb the signal coming from overhead (e.g. trees), its in the middle of the US which means there's always going to be 4 or 5 satellites with a line of sight to your phone.
My office started going hybrid recently (two days / week right now, three eventually).

I'm introverted and used to be bullish on remote work, but I did a mix of remote and in-person collaboration in grad school and observed first-hand that there really is no comparison. Consequently, starting my job during COVID I was skeptical about remote work and was gratified to seemingly find that it at least kind-of worked. Things got done, the ball kept moving...

But now that we have in-person days there's no question. The level of engagement, collaboration, ideas, 'hallway conversations' that crop up is massively higher...to the point that it feels like a waste of time. I'm so distracted from my main focus of making widgets to talk about hypothetical futures that it feels like I'm falling behind my main 'assigned' duties, but already the fruits of this are starting to be born out and we're probably avoiding mishaps and more fully sucking talent out of everyone due to lower barrier of participatory entry.

I understand not everyone feels this way, but I will note that some of our team is still (and will forever be) remote. In mixed meetings they're the same as they ever were, which is to say, mostly silent. The in-person people are much more engaged.

Bottom-line: if your work is well-defined or scoped at the individual or perhaps small-team level, remote might work. If you're pushing boundaries I'm skeptical--not that remote work can't work, but that it works best.
ah yes, i should look into doing that.
Worse than that - there are several highly contagious respiratory diseases common to children. Yes, let's force them to concentrate and re-breath their moist breath.

That's what is (still) the most galling about all of this; that any discussion of alternative solutions was immediately shouted down as you being a neanderthal science denier.

A bunch of people espousing "science", yet with no apparent understanding of what science actually means.
Well isn't that great! Have to look at this. Thanks!!
I was discussing low-load index investing with a friend, and the 7% over the last 200 years sounds great.

He suggested the hypothesis that that's a reflection of the rise of the United States as a superpower over the last 200 years, and if anything were to impugn the United States' status as the market of refuge, those numbers would not be predictive of consistent long-run returns in the future.

That's a hard hypothesis to refute. Are there similar long-run numbers from all stable countries around the world, or is the US market unique in that aspect?
America is unconcerned with the opinions of other countries (I don't blame them the reality is that might makes right) and I really don't see what the rest of the world can do to stop Starlink launches that wouldn't involve WW3.

But I'm sure that if it all goes tits up the US will fix it all and humbly apologize.
WhatsApp is not making any money though, they bought it just because it competed with Messenger on B2C.
10% is about what everyone in today's economy seems to be doing. it's the bigger slide from Apple blocking their tracking that should be more worrisome than a natural economic hiccup
Price gouging is only a thing when you have both inelastic demand and a monopoly (which is why patented products like prescription drugs can be price gouging).

If someone is charging $1M per bottle for water in the desert, then pretty quickly a dozen more water sellers are going to make tracks for the desert.
> Short and succinct is not the same as shallow.

No it isn't. Which is presumably why they didn't use those words.
I managed to survive three rounds of PI Planning before going nuts. Wasn't the only reason to leave that company but surely a big pain point.
Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by Fed
> which is a contradiction

Being a capitalist who thinks they believe in anti-capitalism may be hypocritical but it is not a logical impossibility.

> libertarian socialism is popular among a subset of rich people, which also seems pretty suspect at this point in time

What do you think is the median income of someone who knows who Proudhon even is? I will confess that I am absolutely speaking from anecdata, not from some income survey of Proudhon supporters, but anybody I have ever discussed him with has been quite well off.

Even most libertarian socialists seem to have been aware of this themselves. Straying from Proudhon, consider this essay (Appeal to the Young) [0] by Peter Kropotkin. Look at the audience he is writing to - it is precisely young, rich professionals!

> collective action, exactly what Proudhon (and almost all libertarian socialists, including mutualists) argued for, is the alternative, which is also a contradiction

That's fair enough, I should have been clearer - I was referring to hierarchical, centralized action as in the form of the state. The
"governmental" was modifying the "collective," the comma was not operating as an "or" there.

[0]: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/appe...
> The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it.

We should not confuse the technology with the use case. Once you are the standard-bearer on technology, any future use case is something you can easily piggyback and dominate.

E.g. early versions of iPhone did not support NFC payments, while some competitor models did. Nevertheless, Apple Pay is fairly dominant.
I'm no Zuckerberg fan, but I imagine being in his inner circle is probably a very good experience.

I fundamentally and vehemently disagree with his goals and the effect Facebook has on the world, but (outside of the early years) I haven't heard anything toxic about him as an executive.
Have you ever heard of the Home Shopping Network?
Downtown Montreal has 7 Tim Hortons in 1 square kilometer.
> All preferences change over time; this is one of many problems with Rawls' logic.

No, not even close. Aversion to torture and torture doesn't. Need for air, water, food, hygiene, clothes, shelter, etc. doesn't.
That test compares them to modern violins. Maybe comparing them with their contemporaries would provide more accurate results? I know I prefer the sound of a Guarneri violin, but Strads are reputed to have better piercing power for carrying to the back of a concert hall, which was definitely an advantage in the days before electric amplification and computationally modeled and strategically baffled reverberant chambers for maximum audio enjoyment over the widest possible range of listeners.