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>In his manifesto he argued that the average male is better suited to computer programming than the average female.

That's not what I remember it saying. Are you sure you're remembering it right?
Why write about anything when there's smarter people than you?
170w to 300w for an older (2010-2015 era) dual-processor Xeon idling is what I've measured at my house across numerous Supermicro builds.

2018 and newer server chips may have better low-power idle mode support.
2-3x local market is doable even outside of fangs, usually with more flexibility (remote was a nice perk pre-pandemic) and no bullshit interview.

If you pair it with working via your own limited company and get your taxes down to single digits or low double digits you can make as much as salaried people on 300k - and with no equity that can go up or down (sure, and no holidays or sick days if you're the kind of person that does those).

Yet, even when you hit 200+k in EU, you're still left thinking you could be making 600k in SV.
My knowledge is like 10 years old - For a long time, Microsoft's stl implementation was based on their licensning of dinkumware's STL (https://www.dinkumware.com/). Not something maintained in house. It seemed to work OK'ish - giving lowest common denominator functionality. However, it was pretty easy to create higher performing specialized data structures for your use case then what seemed like simple uses of dinkumware STL.
> You picked a bad example

He's an actor. He acts for a living.

There are Navy pilots. They fly fast jets with live weapons for a living.

It really isn't a bad example.

Did this discussion slip into some kind of metaverse where we can't tell the difference between an action movie and real Navy pilots?
Getting contracts is a different skillset.
Definitely ! And I’m also not opposed at all to having step kids. I’d love them and mother them with all my heart !
I'm sorry, I didn't mean whether it's safe toxicologically, but rather as "does oil increase the likelihood of burns"?
I think you've got a good approach, and realistically collaboration can be accomplished after you reach a stopping point, with other individuals having their own diverse approaches too.

There's something to be said about mindless increases in observation and familiarity even when focused mindful action is fairly urgent.

Either way you will often come to the same conclusions but if not, the relatively mindless session will sometimes yield ideas that you could not come up with any other way.

>How do you solve big, complex problems?

The most direct thing I try to do is have straightforward simplifying solutions that are no more complex than necessary. And that will lead to further simplification if possible.

Looking at all the variables at once may make things seem unsurmountable, but there is no other way to get the big picture even when nobody will ever fully understand it at first glance.

Edit: this is basically what AI is supposed to do, come up with worthwhile conclusions by just staring at the data. If you're also a living breathing subject matter expert and you do this in parallel that should be even better.
To me it sounds like you're going through the moves to find the right guy, but you don't actually take the ideas and self-reflection parts to heart.

Some questions: Why do you want kids? (There are basically two answers, either it is because you have something to give or because you want something. I guess you can figure out which mindset is healthier.)

Are you actually interested in the people around you? Not only men, but people in general? Do you make an effort to get to know them? And by the same token, are you ready to experience intimacy? I am not (only) talking about sex, but about the effort it takes to open up to someone and to trust them.

Something that can (!) happen when you grow up with a single parent is that the parent confides in you just as if you were their partner, which leads to an unhealthy dynamic (parentification). Since children learn relationship dynamics from their parents, the learning experience in this case is "my needs and boundaries do not matter". As the child grows up, this can (!) lead to a pattern where they avoid intimacy in order to keep their needs and boundaries.

You may want to google "fear of intimacy", "attachment styles", "scared of commitment" and if this resonates with you have a look at books like "He's scared, She's scared" by Steven Carter and Julia Sokol and David Schnarch's books on intimacy (his book "Passionate Marriage" does not only deal with marriage but mostly with the connection between sex and intimacy in general).
It seems you are trying too hard and also "selling the farm" in the process.
How many calories will the Tour de France winner burn?
The good news is you've practiced the situation a lot and you can find a date easily. I guess there's no point in asking your friends if you managed that many on your own.

120 seems like a heck of a lot of dates, I would think most people find their life partner in under 20 first dates. That's including random hookups, for most people I've known well enough to tally. It's also enough of a sample that it would drown out any noise, meaning your average dating mistake or unattractive trait would not really matter, someone will bite regardless of whether you pick your nose or confess to a love of pineapple pizza.

My guess is there's something about how you're proceeding with things that is unorthodox. Some kind of wrong vibe thing where either guys hit the panic button, or you hit the panic button. Perhaps you are anxious, that's a common hangup that can be dealt with once identified.

From your 120 dates:

- Did you keep some sort of summary of what happened?

- How did you meet? Why did you want to go on the date?

- Do you have specific requirements that were not met? Did they?

- Did you get any feedback that wasn't a canned response (No chemistry/Not sure I'm ready/It's me not you/etc)? Sometimes you will get someone who gives you a real insight.

Couple of random suggestions:

- Hire a professional matchmaker. I almost did this once, ended up meeting my wife right before paying the guy. Seems like a good enough deal, you basically pay a person to find some candidates and go and date them.

- Move to another country. London, Sydney, maybe somewhere in Europe if you're comfortable with the languages. You may find there's something odd about American dating culture that you won't understand until you leave it.
It's clearly arguing that we expect many things that we have no right to. Open source developers aren't bound by any expectations that we have of them, but we also have no duty or obligation not to have expectations.

My 2¢ is that some open source maintainers have severe boundary issues that are pretty natural for people to have. They need to be liked by everyone, which is probably why they decided to do OSS, because if you give people things for free, they like you.

People's expectations rise to the challenge and demand the maximum amount of free stuff, and the maintainer is pushed to their limits to satisfy them for little or no renumeration. But if they stop, people won't like them, and that sets off some useful animal heuristic where that possibility causes them to feel in actual danger (which they may project onto the project i.e. "the project is being endangered by entitled users asking for things.") The loss of what you think people love you for (giving away free shit) is a loss of identity and one's place in the world.

The reaction of the demanding users is just as natural. Remember: if you feed a stray dog, people don't naturally feel the dog is now obligated to you, they feel that you are now obligated to the dog.

You have to be modern, establish boundaries, and not place enough of yourself in the expectations of other people that they can destroy you with disappointment.

It might be better to move to proprietary or Free software. With Free software, you're establishing something and granting it to the public (not becoming something), and you can walk into and out of it with no feeling of guilt or of being taken advantage of. No one else will get rich off your work, and if your work helps people it will live forever. With proprietary software, you're dealing with safe, formalized purchase and support relationships. It's this OSS shit that seems to drive everyone crazy.
But, obviously, the web hasn't gotten faster, because the increased bandwidth has been filled with increased nonsense, and browsers now download 2MB of nonsense to show a 200-character text post.

A 10KB page at 14.4kbps takes 5 seconds to download. A 2MB page on a typical 30Mbps connection take less than 1s (ignoring improvements latency, changes in TCP frame size, better line conditions, etc). Web pages are definitely much bigger, and arguably bloated with unnecessary junk, but they still download faster than they did in the 14.4kbps days.

Bandwidth speed and page sizes don't explain why you think the web was faster decades ago.

I think it's more likely that you're just wrong. I remember using the web in 1995 on a 28kbps modem (such speed!), and it was slow as hell. It was genuinely click-a-link-and-get-cup-of-tea slow a lot of the time. Not only wasy connection awful, a lot of hosting companies were slow too. Servers would throttle and kill sites that used too much bandwidth. Pages often failed to load compared to today. I still used it of course because it was amazing, but I didn't enjoy it. Surfing wasn't really possible. Uploading anything was a pipedream. When I went to uni in 1997 and got access to broadband for the first time it was a revelation. The web became truly useful. I had my first website up and running 3 months later and I've never looked back...
Strong agree. I recently wrote a semi-popular blog post about this. https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/benchmarking-malloc-wit...

It's interesting that LLVM is suffering so horrifically using default malloc. I really wish the author did a deeper investigation into why exactly.
If this person was taught game dev any time before about 2005, that would have still been relevant knowledge. Doing a large malloc or causing paging could have slaughtered game execution, especially during streaming.

>If you want a good malloc impl just use tcmalloc or jemalloc and be done with it

This wasn't applicable until relatively recently.
Do let me know if you find a decent place in Austin to meet new folk, I'm also trying to do similar and just moved also (from Chicago/UK)
Bragging rights. ”That’s my company, right there on the left shoulder of Wayne G”
maybe I misunderstand your point, but this doesn't sound like something a team player would say. Everyone can learn something and better. The better your team, the better your managing results will be. As easy as that.

If it's really that bad, then I wonder how someone ended up in such a place.
The host of a podcast I enjoy held an AMA recently added an anecdote to your, and my, opinion.

While He readily appreciated the Patreon subscribers & tailored special features for their contributions, he admitted the funds from the subscribers were eclipsed by several(?) factors by the ad revenues.
That’s lovely
OK - so roughly 2x. 1/3 was an exaggeration in reply to his 1/3 salary, but I actually did these calculations a couple of years ago and it wasn't that far off, I'm from Croatia and before settling down I considered moving to Western Europe. Turns out when I started freelancing and took advantage of low corporate income tax here (10% below 1M EUR/year and 10% gains tax) - the math for moving abroad never checked out - I made more money than my friends who moved to Germany/Ireland even before COVID, and it's just been getting easier with the move to remote working (that's commenting purely on cost of living/lifestyle I can afford - there are other factors to consider in these decisions).
https://staticexport.com/
https://github.com/genevieve/leftovers

A co-worker made this when we worked together on a project that ran a large number of terraform configurations in CI against real IaaSes. Each account was a sandbox, so we would run this at the end of a pipeline to clean up any failures or faulty teardowns.
There is a solid system that I have seen work quite well in the workplace and a few of my colleagues relationships.

https://issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html

Use demographics to your advantage.

An obvious example: Chinese men have to clear a very high bar to be marriage material because of the shortage of women. Take advantage of this. You could start learning a martial art popular in China, then do an extended trip over there to “study” that style. That would give you the excuse to meet thousands of men self selected for attractive traits and a setting for in depth interaction several hours a day.

Hire a private researcher like gwern.org to research a source of unfair demographic advantage for you. I think Elisabeth from LessWrong is also available for arbitrary research hire but I don’t remember her website. Maybe someone else can link?
I can echo the sentiment. I would love to start over and save only the good stuff.

With that said, I am wary of my memory of the web of the 90's because everything was so new.

There are games I remember loving and seeing no serious flaws in twenty-five years ago, that I now go back to at original resolutions and original framerates and find completely unplayable. But having no point of comparison, what I was enthralled by at the time wasn't necessarily excellent control or excellent design -- it was being able to move in virtual 3d space at all.

My dad tells a similar story about Atari's Pong in the 1970's. Everyone was so excited by being able to control something on the TV screen that nothing else about the experience really mattered by comparison.

When the web became popular, the prospect of being able to interact with like-minded people anywhere in the world and from all walks of life and in communities of a size and power and with resources otherwise impossible -- it was all so new. And when I remember the time, I remember that. I didn't care about having to log into web sites on every visit. I didn't care about replicating data across devices. I didn't care about unprofessional web pages. I didn't care that everything was under construction, the design was universally bad, and that things often broke. I didn't care that any interaction had to go back to the server. I didn't care that pages were typically pretty static, and exploring meant constantly finding new ones rather than connecting with an author or community.

But if you dropped me back in the 90's now, I would care about all of that stuff.

I'm not defending the bloated and the awful. I often install video games now and think "GIGAbytes? What on earth FOR??" I often work on software now and see chains of chains of chains of dependencies and despair that we have clearly lost our way. Web sites crowded with ad-blocker defeating ads make me wish for the days when they would merely blink at you, rather than waiting 15 seconds and then starting up a video with sound in some random corner of the site. I do feel like if someone made me emperor, I could start over and do it right. I do wish we could all collectively agree to just not suck.

I'm just very skeptical that going back in time is quite as awesome as memory would lead one to expect.
Bureaucratic processes are the repeatable builds of government decision making. If you want the same results from every run, you have to dehumanize the process
open source has been used as a way of fighting patent trolls and also claiming ownership of similar systems.
Russia Blocks Access to Chess.com
The fact that they STILL don't see how this constant surveillance could backfire any day is beyond me!

What if a country like the UAE or Hungary start asking for location data matching LGBTQ events or locations? How about political/media headquarters location data?

At what point will they realize that surveillance data is radioactive, and manually patching categories will leave people at risk?
Ask HN: Has anyone used ZScaler products?
Hello HN!

I just accepted a role at ZScaler that will be starting relatively soon so I wanted to ask whether anyone has any experience with ZScaler as an end-user.

Any stories or personal views would be greatly appreciated!
The situation in New Zealand is similar. There is an infinite demand for health services, so our public health system is busy, so you go on a waiting list. The UK and NZ spend about 10% of GDP each (~$4kUSD/capita).

The well-off pay for health insurance which will get you faster service, and the very well off just pay privately.

The first site I looked at for a private arthrogram was ~USD1050 (Single joint or region Arthrogram including Gadolinium) https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=mri+private+price+list+sit...

For more expensive procedures, some NZers travel to Asia to get medical procedures. The prices in Asia including flights and accomodation can be very affordable for the middle class, depending on what needs doing and how much risk you are willing to take.
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Currently in the market for:

* Senior Frontend Developer
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Our stack is mainly React, TypeScript, Elixir and PostgreSQL. Nearly the whole company is product people, founders are a designer and a programmer.

TalkJS touches millions of people and is growing quickly. We want to be the tool that every developer thinks of for building communication features, a bit like what Stripe is for payments.

To accomplish this, we give great engineers the maximum amount of freedom to ship fantastic SDKs, APIs and features. This means a healthy work/life balance, no meetings, no red tape and a lot of responsibility. Sound good?

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Trust me with all the coaches and support groups I’ve been through, plus my willingness to throw myself to the wolves about my dating life on hacker news, I’m open and have heard many honest opinions about myself ! And iterated on that feedback !
I would think they should probably change the name so it doesn’t come across as an official AWS product but seems nice.
The Not Just Bikes YT channel recently observed that building new walkable neighborhoods in the US and Canada is not legal.

The existing pre-war walkable neighborhoods are all we are going to get and they are expensive. We made walking to school a thing for rich kids.
Needs a flag to run non-interactively
A USB mouse just sends x/y distance traveled over USB HID protocol. All the details are integrated into silicon. The sensor is a camera and the processor diffs the images to calculate the distance. To learn about the algorithms for that you could look into patents by Avago or PixArt.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring in NYC – subscriptions for Shopify, ReCharge migrations
If you're depending on the performance of malloc, you're either using the language incorrectly or using the wrong language. There is no such thing as a general purpose anything when you care about performance, there's only good enough. If you are 1) determined to stick with malloc and 2) want something predictable and better, then you are necessarily on the market for one of the alternatives to the system malloc anyway.
Shout out to AWS batch, where if you delete the role assigned to a compute cluster the cluster itself becomes impossible to delete.

Found this out after using AWS nuke
I was legitimately curious about this--my memory of Windows 95 is not this nice--so I looked at Wikipedia's list of software released in 1995:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1995_software

What software specifically do you recall being "an order of magnitude more complex" than today's popular web apps?
> More people means less energy and resources per person though

Malthusianism didn't work in 1700s and doesn't work now. Economists produced endogenous growth theories explaining how more population could lead to higher output per capita in the 80s. Romer won a Nobel prize for it.

The evidence we have now strongly supports their arguments. Productivity scales superlinearly with urban population so that each doubling leads to a 15% increase in p.c output. This is true everywhere we look i.e. regressing log(income per capita) on log(city population) produces near-perfect lines with slopes close to 1.15 whether you're looking at the U.S or Bangladesh. This is easily explicable in terms of the network externalities. Furthermore, studies comparing the networked lives of people living in more/less populous areas (inferred from phone usage data) show that people living in bigger cities do indeed communicate more. How much more? 15% for every doubling of city size! All of this can be explained in terms of graph theory. More nodes -> more cultural and technical niches (interconnected node clusters) -> more potential synergies as every niche has more niches to connect to. And so on. Connectivity increases faster than linearly, hence the superlinear scaling. Not coincidentally, the connectivity of brains seems to be the same (double the number of cortical neurons in a mammal, the number of synapses per neuron increases by 15-20%).

All this to say, we certainly aren't approaching a world of less abundance per capita as the world continues to urbanise. Anybody who thinks this just isn't acquainted with the evidence.
Many states in middle America receive net federal subsidies while exercising outsized per capita political influence in presidential elections and Congress. You tell me how that's fair or right.
The explanations are the same, yours is just more polite.

A fun social experience is where cool happens.
I guess if you’re a founder-CEO, you may get tired after 20 years. Passing the ship over to market forces is probably the most widespread solution.

And maybe there is no good option, no matter how “down-to-earth” they are.
It is a bit like Kubernetes, you end up needing 3 chiefs and 12 workers to run something that a single one was doing before. Then you realize that anyway you can't reuse that process for something new you are trying to do and need another team of 3+12...
The anecdotes from supposedly-superior socialized medical systems in Europe always throw cold water on USA leftist dreams. The left here has been saying it’s a utopia for a fraction of the cost for decades. The reality is so much more complex.
I don’t believe in the concept of out of your league or better or worse people . I don’t think there are better or worse people. I’ve dated all kind of guys, the last one I truly loved most people said was way “below my league” but love doesn’t work that way. It’s about fit.
Ask HN: Resources for New Async Teams?
I’m working with a couple of collaborators and we’re about to launch a new app. We work entirely async/distributed with no meetings, a bit like an OSS project.

Are there any examples of for-profit companies that work this way (async/remote first) that we could look to for guidance or inspiration? Any blogs, books, etc. that cover this topic? Anyone had success with this model and has wisdom to share?

Most of what I find online is resources helping larger orgs transition to remote. The best I’ve found is 37signals.com and Twist’s blog https://twist.com/remote-work-guides
Hey--I maintain a port of dplyr to python, called siuba[1]!

Right now it supports a decent number of verbs + SQL generation. I tried to break down why R users find pandas difficult in an RStudioConf talk last year[2].

Between siuba and tools like polars and duckdb, I'm hopeful that someone hits the data analysis sweet spot for python in the next couple years.

[1]: http://github.com/machow/siuba

[2]: https://youtu.be/w4Mi0u4urbQ