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Ask HN: What would you work on if you had 100 devs
I was wondering after the discussion of Googles crazy hiring, If you just had such a number of developers that you then had to find a reason to justify within a year or two, what would you work on? Would your perceived quality of these developers impact what you aimed for, and what would you do to assess their quality?

Maybe the question is a bit broad but if you have a direction you're interested in taking this what-if, please run with it.
For most humans, experiential learning/knowledge hits us differently than just reading a wall of text/bullet point list. For me personally, I started incorporating a mental model of real people who struggled to use a feature that I had previously developed.
There is no amount of management experience that will get us back into the office, we will quit first
How can they exit India if they never entered it?

As long as they don't have a business entity there they can still keep running it, and it would be upto India to create a national firewall if they so wish to, otherwise their citizens would be able to still access Signal without any issues.
Interesting how a language written solely for websites, beats others in their own game which isn't about websites.
I credit Age of Empires 2 for teaching me about managing an economy and medieval history. I credit Age of Wonders for teaching me what strategy really means.

Lots of other great games helped me build my English skills, most of all The Legacy of Kain series.
Oh right - somehow my brain glossed over that in the article. Probably due to the official-looking sign
Lots of C#, too. And I specialized in C# since it seemed a little bit more enjoyable than Java at the time and the jobs were plenty. Of course, Java changed quite a bit since then so it might be more desirable than it was.
Agree, this email format is also so easy to parse. It's like I'm dropped right into the action.
I recently saw a conversation somewhere about this, people said turning off swipe-typing made a significant difference in the keyboard experience. Haven't tested it myself as I use swipe, and have no issues. But might be worth a try.
Voodoo Science.
From the consumer point of view, web-based distribution isn't really any easier than the status quo anyway.
A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations are not actually interested in colonization.
Rather, they had already freed themselves from the chains of their physical bodies and "live" in virtual worlds that are generated by a super AI.
Or just call it a nuclear power plant to avoid confusion?
I mean ok, but Signal is not big tech and provides orders of magnitude more positive value to society than say Facebook.
Yeah, this could have been a small npm package for node. Node already supports workers that communicate with serialization or shared array buffers+locks.
The 2nd amendment is still there and it still means the same thing. If it's no longer necessary, repeal it.
And they will keep attempting to do so until they succeed or we have a circulation of elites. It will be a pincer movement between increasing prices for hunting gear and restricting access to licenses, parks, etc with the cherry on top of using media to pounce on hunters ala Walter Palmer & Cecil the Lion.
Mark Zuckerberg urged to spend less on metaverse
Okay, I misunderstood your original point. Thought by cloud you meant subscription.
This was all over the US, but the number may have been different.
EverDoor uses https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema to facilitate mapping, meaning some suitable tags to the main tag are automatically suggested.
1.2.3gamma is not a pre-release version, it is a malformed version string (assuming SemVer). A proper SemVer is something like [0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+(-[0-9a-zA-Z]+)?([+][0-9a-zA-Z]+)?

> 2. A normal version number MUST take the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are non-negative integers, and MUST NOT contain leading zeroes. X is the major version, Y is the minor version, and Z is the patch version.
Why do so many people never consider the cost of things these days?

Would make for a good essay or video.
You seem to have replied to an argument nobody was making.
Sounds like nice way to DoS target at worst, trigger some IDS/IPS at best ?
China does it just fine
More likely that wind power is the third power of wind speed, and rated capacities are usually 8m/s

If they don't outright state swept area or rated speed, assume a random house will see 5-10% capacity factor. This is why wind is huge and only in specific places.

Plus anything over about 200W per household on average will create turbulence which will mean the neighbors can't also get that much.

Wind is for utility (where it still dominates for now in northern climes) and select industrial or commercial sites.
Conspiracy in general, yes.

"Conspiracy theory" is another thing, more specific than conspiracy.
I've posted some negative stuff in this thread but I had some great fun hacking my rM1.

https://blog.afandian.com/2020/10/pipes-and-paper-remarkable...

https://gitlab.com/afandian/pipes-and-paper/

There's some quite good forks of that code too.
The financial statements would disagree.
> I never use three way string comparison, and so I wondered when other programmers use it.

Three-way comparisons show up naturally when doing a binary search or implementing binary trees.

Interestingly, the binary search implementation in the Go stdlib doesn't need it, but that's because it's only doing part of what you'd normally expect a binary search function to do and shifts the responsibility for the actual equality check to the caller [1].

[1] https://go.dev/src/sort/search.go
I had such a bad experience with a Precision M90 that I decided to never ever buy Dell again. Motherboard changed 3 times until the warranty ran out and it was over.

I discussed with the last contractor that came to repair my machine and he told me that a) he would never buy from Dell, b) that the pieces use for repair were often refurbished, c) they knew that there was an issue with my particular laptop model but was running the warranty expiring game.

With that being said, their onsite servicing is outstanding.
Is this such a strong component of the American teenager identity? I know exactly one person here (Southern Europe) who plays videogames and nobody talked about it. Sports, music, fashion, movies, politics: that were the things that could make you or break you in high school.
We went from the Wright Brothers to landing on the moon within a single lifespan. It's crazy to think about how fast aerospace developed.
'You are getting exactly that' - sounds like Bordeaux is one specific thing.
You can get shit Saint-Émilion, even within the same appellation.
AEB, lane departure warning, blind spot detection, parking assist I all understand. I understand the "wink wink, nudge nudge" reasons to buy systems like autopilot, blue cruise, toyota lane tracing, etc. What I don't get is the by-the-books reasons to buy it. What the hell value are you getting out of autopilot if you're actually keeping your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road? I'm not saying you shouldn't, I'm asking why the hell you're paying thousands of dollars to do it.
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It’s not real in the sense that you shouldn’t need to have to worry about paying for heat in the winter.

Our rate of technological improvement has outpaced the ability of our existing economic paradigm to keep up, which is why we’ve ended up in this strange late stage pre post-scarcity landscape.
I kinda don't get the use case, isn't the whole point of mostly disposable containers to make tasks such as migration easy ?

The whole use case of "I have a container that CANNOT EVER GO DOWN even when I migrate hardware" seems to be vanishingly small one
Main constraint being $10k a year per person.
I run a wishlisting service, and I find creating my own wishlist for Christmas/birthday is the hardest thing about it, as I have to work pretty hard to actually figure out things to wish for.

Considering how hard I find this myself, how hard isn't it for someone else to know what I would like to receive if I didn't tell them? A close few manage this anyway, as they might keep notes of things I mention during the year, or know me well enough to know what I will appreciate, but for other family and friends, I honestly think it's too much to expect.

The solution for me is to wish for things I know I'll appreciate like "∞ of experiences with you", "∞ of home-made stuff", and specific items in various price-ranges that I want and can post-pone buying myself, like "Physical copy of this book", "This specific game (on GOG)", and "This somewhat expensive clothing item". The more things I can wish for, the more options friends and family have, the less it feels like I'm ordering stuff, and the less I know what exactly I can expect under the tree.

TL;DR: Giving good gifts is hard, and putting some thought into a wishlist can make it better for both parties. YMMV.
Some games do but I've seen people roam aimlessly in FPS~ games (say assassin's creed, GTA), without even much fun, to the point I was questionning the potential benefits.

Later in life I also realized how 'real life' is a lot subtler than it appear. Using a weapon, being far out in the woods, crafting tools .. which are all things I did in video games but had no relation to the real life versions.

Makes me curious to try runescape though
Hypertext Demo Video – A Sane Wysiwyg HTML Editor (PWA)
> Big govt vs big tech

Signal has 40 employees.
Engineers talking to customers? I’ll wait for that freight train to ram straight through a Prius. No two groups should remain further apart.
Thanks. This bill seems to be about telecom infrastructure. Does not talk about metadata, or encryption. As far as I can find does not seem to touch on messaging apps as well. Was anyone able to find anything related to which provision in the bill would impact Signal.
Most metrics. Tiobe, Redmonk, Pypl, Stack Overflow survey. Top 10 and even top 5 is generally the same, the order might differ a bit.

I've looked at various sources since the last 5 years and not much changed. I hoped some languages like Nim, Crystal or Zig would pick up a bit of steam, but no.

Go and Rust moved up a bit and now seem safer bets to invest some time into.
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If you have a broken electoral system (like the US arguably has), and/or can ignore election results (as nearly happened in 2020), then you have no unchangeable bedrock. Don't kid yourself that you're not vulnerable to tyrants.
Credit Suisse Posts $4B Loss Ahead of Crucial Revamp
IMHO this is long overdue! Many people have died who relied on their Tesla's to drive them to work (sometimes even taking a nap while it drove).

And Tesla's claim that "Full Self Driving" is merely a phrase that doesn't describe the capabilities of its software is weak and criminally deceitful.

Tesla needs to be held accountable for this.
This becomes interesting only when we discuss ways of quantifying attention. It's not money until you can define a unit of attention that is interchangeable with other units. Until then it's something we know has value... But it's not money.
It's on the southern coast of the Australian mainland so pretty much as cool as Australia gets outside of Tasmania or the few mountain peaks we have.

Summer there can be hot if the winds are driving desert air over the coast, but for my time there the weather was beautiful - a few gusty gale force squalls driven by southern winds with cutting rainfall .. otherwise between ~ 8 to 18 C degrees or so (comfortably above freezing, well short of summer temps.).
I studied physics, and I did a bit of 3D graphics back in the day, and I could never remember the difference between column and row vectors (or co- and contravariant vectors, bra and ket vectors, ...) and when to use which. My guilty secret is that I don't care.

For me a vector is just abstractly three or four numbers together. (Maybe with some defined transformation properties if I'm doing physics.) Whether a matrix is stored row-major or column-major is an implementation detail I try to hide.

In fact I used to make indexing errors all the time. But now when I need to deal with vectors and matrices, I look up or decide on the "correct" way, hide everything behind Vector and Matrix classes, implement dot and cross product once, and never fall back to the raw vector elements if possible.
It's definitely also a think in the UK
There are enough signals in this paper to warrant caution, although the paper has a careful title, as well as abstract. I congratulate authors with that, but it hasn't stopped this crowd from overinterpreting the results.

First, they don't measure general "cognitive performance," they measure something very specific, this one: https://www.cambridgecognition.com/cantab/cognitive-tests/me.... That task is very close to video gaming. I know of another study that shows that FPS gamers have a somewhat better peripheral vision. It makes sense that playing games improves reaction time and control on some tasks.

Second, the difference between gamers and non-gamers on this task is very small: 299ms vs 307ms. That's really far below any interesting effect. Effects in fMRI are not interesting: it is unknown what a larger signal in a certain area means. You cannot draw conclusions from it.

Third, the statistical logic is the classic NHST with all its problems. They even commit the error of drawing conclusions from lack of significance.

Fourth, they don't give specifics, but potential confounds were modelled with some linear modelling. It's highly unlikely that the effects of those external factors are linear, and there aren't many of them. There are however some really large difference between the groups (parental income, sex, and watching video/streaming).

Concluding, there's no reason to suppose the effect must be attributed to video gaming, and certainly not that it is positive for general cognitive performance.
America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People
> It's crazy fun on the cloud provider side too. Live migrating entire instances between two hypervisors isn't exactly the simplest thing to do.

Migrating VMs works pretty decently actually, biggest latency is from telling the network equipment where the traffic should now go.

The attached hardware is the issue, as you said. If all you talk is paravirtualized stuff it generally works, just need to make sure target CPU supports required stuff (we had to downgrade exposed CPU temporarily to migrate between intel and AMD hypervisors), but good luck with having GPU attached...

Moving to "migrate the process" (which is essentially what is required to migrate containers) adds a whole level of mess to deal with.
You could consider getting rid of such customers in some systematic way. Not everyone is worth it; curated customer base can save a lot of headache.

And pretty cool startup idea on the small-scale Support aaS thing.
I guess it depends on the type of developers. If we are to generalise I believe that we would let about ~25 (or a quarter) just create new things on their own, like let them ideate, and build their own ideas that can possibly be big or really innovative things (obviously aligning with the company mission/objectives). You can see very often the creativity of developers being absolutely suppressed by boring or very straightforward/linear projects that leads to very little excitement from the people developing or implementing them. The rest would probably go to making those potential bold ideas happening and keep on building a great product with input from users.

note: this is possibly only viable with a large enough number of devs (>100) and enough money to spare.
Wb – A wizard that brings old files from Wayback Machine
Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed
They are not within 3% or even close. They are 2,000x worse than Cruise which is still at least 8x worse than human drivers. Being generous they are 16,000x (1,600,000%) worse at unassisted, intervention-less driving than humans. To put that into perspective, if every car in the US had Tesla FSD Beta and they were all using it as a fully autonomous system without babysitting, it would average 1,750,000 deaths per day and everybody in the US would be dead in 6 months. Within a week it would kill more people than have ever died from traffic accidents in the US. We are literally talking 1 deca-Hiroshima per day of badness. The only saving grace of this whole thing is that hardly anybody is insane enough to use it unattended more than a few times so we do not see the sheer catastrophe that would occur if it was actually used as advertised.
The macOS init manager, LaunchD, doesn't offer an easy way to execute an script at shutdown.

By definition, it sends a SIGTERM signal to all of the daemons that it started. But as the script isn't started before, and doesn't keep a running PID, you don't have a clean way to do it.

I don't understand why they only implemented the SIGTERM call without any alternative.
Anti-service oriented architecture: continually asking myself in what way could I solve a problem with less complexity, fewer dependencies, and permitting shitty solutions as long as they are vaguely adequate to customer need.
Your entire argument falls under when you take into consideration that the very judicial power that's "vested" to the Supreme Court in its jurisdiction is solely delegated to Judges that Congress appoints.

Congress should not get to seat its own checks and balances, and it doesn't particularly matter if Congress is only allowed to establish and ordain inferior courts to that of the Supreme Court, if they already effectively establish and ordain the Supreme Court's delegations - and thereby its power.
That's not the list I've asked for. Those are deaths in car crashes that involved Teslas that were using automated systems. This does not mean the Tesla was at fault (could be other driver or Tesla driver) or that autopilot was involved (the cruise control counts as an automated system) and certainly doesn't mean that system misunderstandings caused by marketing were the cause.

I'm fairly sure the grandparent just didn't consider what the sentence constructed was actually saying and was just expressing a dislike of automated car marketing. Unfortunately, people often believe unsourced comments on hackernews to be literally true rather than sentimentally true.
I totally agree! Either the car drives itself or I drive. There's no need to let a car take the wheel if you have to baby-sit it all the time, intervening when it runs off the road. It's dangerous and lulls drivers into thinking the car can drive itself.
> WhatsApp does not protect metadata the way that Signal does. Signal knows nothing about who you are.

This isn't strictly true though, no? Signal knows your mobile phone number.

I appreciate that this is for facilitating usability, but its still a piece of metadata that can specifically be used to identify you - and signal knows it. You cant even use signal without verifying a mobile phone number AFAIK.

They really shouldnt be making false statements like this. It undermines their (otherwise admirable) position.
When I was still working full-time back in the Before Times, every now and then people from my professional network would reach out, asking for my take on some technical subject. I would do what I could, of course, offering advice or recommending a resource. Occasionally, they’d become a client.

Among the clients I took on, a pattern developed: early-stage startups with a working MVP that outgrew the outsourced dev team who built it. Typically, these were companies without technical founders. I realized there was a niche market out there that I could help. Even better, the value I could add had nothing to do with code per se; it had to do with disciplines that I, as a young engineer, used to scoff at: client service, change management, Human Resources, etc—subjects I learned to be good at incidentally, after working in tech for 20+ years.

I’d love to target this market and help them either build an in-house team or establish the criteria they need for better partners. The pandemic gave me the courage to freelance full-time; I just wish I was better at marketing!
> be susceptible to foreign owned apps influencing its citizenry

Are they banning all of the internet, books, movies and everything else too? Your position is that a state needs to control what the citizens can consume otherwise it's a vassal state?

My country lived under dictatorship with hard censorship before, and reading your comment that was the vibes I got.
Tox doesn't leak anything, but it's not widely used.
Maybe if Ubisoft had licensed out the Dunia Engine
Does it nowadays not mostly do that, including following waypoints and being able to execute most or all of the landing?
No, the “while” loop I was commenting would not.
Not in love with GL as someone that's written GL drivers and re-implemented GL on top of modern APIs, but....

for me, the GL style (whatever you decide to call it) seems to make sense from a performance POV. I often want one axis or the translation. It's a single SIMD load since vs if they were stored the other way I'd have to load every 4th float.

Also, while you do type them out in code different from math

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If you squint you can view them as columns

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matrix = [xaxis, yaxis, zaxis, translation] // 4 columns side by side