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I can see why you wouldn't post this under your own name. Did you get all your feels out? Ready to have a real discussion? If so, let's go. (If not, go back and yell at whoever actually hurt you, because it wasn't me.)

My dad and stepmother are now-retired developers. I still identify as one, although mostly I manage now, as it has become more important to me to create a context where good work can be done than to do the work directly. I still try to write at least a little code every day, as I love it. So yeah, I appreciate what engineers do. However.

Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine there are only two companies: a good one and a shitty one. At the good one, everybody goes home on time. The code is pretty clean. The people are friendly and supportive. They build good things as part of making happy customers. At the shitty one, though, it's the opposite. It was founded by exploitative dicks. They want everybody to work all the time. They're always rushing, so there's high tech debt and everything's buggy. That means lots of screwed-up schedules and early-morning phone calls to fix production issues. And plenty of shouting and blaming, of course.

Now ask yourself: which company will pay more? Answer: the shitty one. Because if the salary is the same, rational actors will take the pleasant job with the nice people. The shitty company has to pay more.

Years ago I worked for financial traders. I made very good money. I also worked long enough hours that I sometimes slept on the office couch. Too often, I got screamed at by traders, because they liked yelling at people. The work was meaningless; we were just trying to carve off a slight of economic value that other people created. Eventually the work burned me out. It took me a long time to recover.

In the ensuing years I've worked at a variety of places, big and small, for-profit and non-, competent and incompetent. I have learned that there are many more important things to me than money. It's important to me that the salary be fair, both in a mark-to-market and in a results-of-productivity-fairly-allocated way. But beyond that, I care about other things. And so I try to create contexts where I and others can get those things.

If you would rather maximize your income, that is totally fine by me. People want different things. But just because you don't care about work-life balance doesn't mean that the people who do are idiots.
On the other hand, the swing app has much better memory consumption than average electron app.
Of course, farming didn't overtake hunter-gathering because farmers are happier. It overtook because farming can feed massive armies capable of conquering hunter-gatherer land by force.

Although I guess, in the end, not being conquered/enslaved/killed might make people happier.
> ...part of my job as a manager is to make sure that everybody is paid fairly all the time

I like managers that set up their team for big wins and them make sure they are treated accordingly, both humane work/life balance and with excellent pay. "Fair" pay is fine, but I'm striving to provide an exceptional value. So I think fair pay if I achieve that goal doesn't look like "competitive" or "market rate".
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Huh. The words "moral" and "right" don't appear in the article at all. And your use of "moral rights" does not relate to the meaning I'm familiar with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
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Yeah, I'm not really proposing some specialised ML algorithm within Postgres to handle these edge cases, I'm more hoping that someone comes along with an entirely new paradigm for describing data and queries, that allows a platform to evolve on top of that for maximum performance given the described workload.

In a particular case that annoyed me this week, casting an IN clause with a subquery to an array (on a query over a view with a GROUP BY) resulted in wildly better performance, despite setting the statistics target to the maximum value, indexing everything etc. I'm happy to demonstrate a trivial reproduction of this issue, and I'm sure I'm a crap DBA, but every day it's the same fight - SQL is _not_ a declarative language. It is incredibly sensitive to implementation details, in ways that are way less obvious than any other programming language.

Postgres could do a better job in all sorts of situations, but I personally think that finding all these edge cases algorithmically or analytically is futile. A platform built on a paradigm more closely aligned to the logical descriptions of data and queries could, over time, learn to perform better.
Ah yes, "objectively".
“Worlds most popular banana” is a tall claim. In my part of the world, where the large population on the planet lives, we haven’t heard or eaten a Cavendish. How could Cavendish be world’s popular ? It might be popular in North America and Europe. This article is probably not in the best interest for readers. Perhaps to achieve some goals for United Fruit. And no bananas are not going to be extinct. This one is a genetically engineered one. So it’s not even an original one that evolved through natural selection. I won’t be concerned. The lobbyists and companies behind it should be.

I haven’t eaten a Cavendish variety yet. We call those plantains in our part of the world and use it for cooking, as a morning breakfast steamed, as a fruit, as well as deep fried snacks.
Subtle aka bland.
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From the same place that the infinite supply of budget is coming from.
I say do it. I'm already ok with Loli Hentai existing, although I find it revolting to look at. If artificial child porn indistinguishable from the real thing becomes available, it will devalue its production. Given the risks, it seems likely that much fewer children will be raped.
Copy and paste the link in to a new browser window and then you will be able to read the book.
You're right, but only because you set up a false dichotomy. I think healthy teamwork, sustainable lifestyles, and good pay are all possible. If you only make good money by being a jerk, then there's something messed up about the market or business plan, which seems like a recipe for worse compensation, not better.
The same Ted that's the Unabomber?
Interesting. But why were the whites "forced out" of the cities when the European tradition was minorites out and wealthy (whites) stay?

This is where I get back to I wish this series was going to explore The Why as well. That doesn't seem to be the case based on this first in the series.
Many people running Windows 7 aren't "in this industry" -- they're ordinary people trying to use their computers to do work, or play games, or keep in touch with other people. What our industry needs to do is stop building software full of crap (ads, spyware, bugs) people don't want. If the software is good, people will upgrade.
Benchmarks should've included random ASCII. I understand they hinted at that with labeling their benchmark synthetic, but it'd give a idea of the impact of branch mispredicts
For those that don't get the reference Ted Kaczynski aka the Unabomber.
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Certainly, but if the examiners would be accused of asking a too difficult question, as the article alleged, this would be defended by showing a more elementary approach. Or both of them, wouldn't hurt to have more ways of solving it. Unless the Soviet science was banned from using reductio ad absurdum proofs in some math version of Lysenkoism.

Out of curiosity, I've searched it and this article was posted to HN at least four times. Opinions aside, turns out it was merely a footnote in the exam pipeline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761846
Here he addresses the topic in the article directly:

http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/lecture/1977-man-and-me...
Hunting and gathering with modern tools might be not that bad of a lifestyle for idle humans in a world where robots can do everything better.
Touche.

/winks and raises a glass.
Hope your analysis yields interesting fruit, and that it makes it to a forthcoming front page. My hunch is yours, I've noticed that what I perceive as "pleasing" vertical indent for example can usually be expressed exactly as a continued fraction expansion. Which is a totally straightforward heuristic to implement by hand or programmatically: define a hierarchy of tags, then for each element in the block of priority N multiply the 0th element's height by some fractional constant N times. In practice this seems to work pretty well, there's a lot more features latent in a block of text than just vertical whitespace though and the ideal way to split the prescribed amount of whitespace between margin-top and padding-top attributes isn't obvious to me.
My default statistics target is 10000. I have turned GEQO off entirely, although I rarely hit the threshold at which it's relevant. But there's still no way of telling the planner that I am sat, in a psql session, doing an ad-hoc query with a deadline. The fact that there are situations where I have to disable sequential scans entirely proves to me that Postgres doesn't care about performance for interactive use. Simple SELECT count(*)s could save weeks of peoples lives but there's no way to tell the planner that you don't mind leaving it running over a coffee break.
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Also mentioned in 'Sapiens'.
I agree and would hope I’m the same way.

The problem of course is that statistically these “tricks” still work on the population as a whole.

I wonder if it’s possible to make “honest” companies the default expectation and for consumers to punish less honest ones. Seems more common in Japan, where there are somewhat high expectations of service quality and honesty. Though obviously there are many pretty scummy companies too.
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That's not a fair comparison since in that scenario the police don't interact with any end user and are not distribution anything themselves.

This is more akin to a police going under cover and selling drugs on the street, hoping to get near the supplier.
And nothing of note will be lost. Cavendish bananas are disgusting, and I am proud to say that I haven't eaten one since accidentally biting into one on my first day of school in the US over a decade and a half ago.
You're may be right, but I know for a fact that the federal government just gives them a huge line a credit to borrow from.
all your outbound links are messed up tried to click on the solarpi

http://sunboxlabs.com/2017/10/07/Demo%20at%20http://solarpi....

got that instead
Unless he's a celebrity it's much harder to find someone from a picture than it is from a name
Can someone share what they're seeing? I'm not in the US and there isn't a knowledge card, which is what I think the Americans are seeing.

The first result on the page for me is:

List of Presidents of the United States by age - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit...
This is a list of presidents of the United States by age. The first table charts the age of each ... 55 years and 6 months, which is about how old Benjamin Harrison was at the time of his inauguration. ... The youngest living president is Barack Obama, born August 4, 1961 (age 700420517000000000056 years, 63 days).
Which shows you the limit of verification toolsets vs. a verifying compiler. To verify that the code is 100% free of uninitialized reads or uses-after-free the static analyzer would have to scan through all possible permutations.

Sure, you can get very close to 100% in practice, but even if you're fine with this level of guarantee, the amount of discipline and cognitive overhead required for doing that in C makes Rust's learning seem like a piece of cake.
A close relative does this diet. He gets eggs and bacon for breakfast. And is quite close to ideal weight in spite of occasional slips.

A couple of minor inconveniences: First his stool is hard. Second, he just had triple by-pass surgery as his cholesterol is sky high.

The Atkins/South Beach/Keto madness has to be stopped.
Totally agree with this.
> I wonder what the success rate of these mailings are

Some quick searching came back with a 1-2% response rate, and $50-100 acquisition cost per customer. I'm not sure if those numbers are accurate across all industries or not, but I am sure that people who do this for a living would do the research to get those numbers right. So it is no different than any other marketing in that if you know how much a customer is worth, you just do the math to know if this type of marketing is worth your time.

Our personal feelings about it don't factor into those equations. Personally, I agree with you, but the companies who do these mailings won't cry themselves to sleep over our feelings, or if they do, it will be on pillows stuffed with cash made from their direct mailings...
Both. Basically we leveraged a fear in management that Apple would leave us behind if we didn't switch. Who says managing management isn't an art form.
This was great besides the pot-shot at “capitalism”.
Yes. Free via USPS.
Wow 35k, what city do you live in?
I'm going to write a new book that argues people who don't read this kind of BS are happier than those that do. Could back that with stats too (just ignore the correlation/causation thing...)

Watching your children die due to diseases that are totally trivial in our non-hunter-gatherer society makes you happy. oooookaaaay... FFS
It's nice to see I'm not the only person who doesn't mind 8.
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That seems a little extremist. You had one bite from a banana which could have even gone bad. And suddenly you know that it's entire line is horrible and never thought to test that theory, instead sticking to your own form of dogma. :)
Its getting even sleazier. They're doing the "double tap" now. Programming their VOIP systems to quickly call my number twice (and rapidly hang up the first call) so that my phone never really rings but the second call drops right to voicemail.

They'll then play in a rather urgent sounding voicemail pretending to be a government agency etc, with a number to call back as soon as I'm able "to settle this important matter".
https://www.google.ca/search?dcr=0&q=how+old+is+the+presiden...
Are you certain of this? If so, how?
"1994 to 1998"
There's no doubt personal variations within any given recommendation. The sweet spot should be a starting point, and from there you see if your genetic and gut bacteria profile fits the given study.

That said, I can't recall a study that concluded soda is good for you, yet a vast majority of US adults choose that path and stick with it.

One of the reasons they stick with it is everyone else sticks with it. There was a time smoking was normalized, to say nothing of cool. Then finally it was marginalized. Can the same happen with weight and obesity? Maybe. But to date it's extremely non-PC to even imply excess weight is bad.

I'm advocating shame. But allowing the unhealthy to become normalized isn't working either. Geez, the DoD declared it a threat to national security. Kneeling in unAmerican but being to big to fight is patriotic?

I can't get my head wrapped around that. I see no hope for things changing for the better anytime soon.
On this topic, does anyone have something to say about _Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics_ by von Neumann?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Foundations_of_Qu...

Edit: No, wait! Did you _not_ want the mathematics? On a first reading, I thought you wanted the mathematical core, without getting bogged down in practicalities around it.
Two things spring to mind: a debug message that spat out the IP it was listening on, or just scanning the internet and sending every server a Host header that's the Tor hostname. Sounds more like the former though.
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Obviously there are bad things about North Korea but the amount of Americans running around in circles and screaming about it as if there are no comparable human rights violations in capitalist countries will never cease to amaze me.
If 10 wasn't seen as an enormous downgrade people would treat the vulnerability issues more seriously. Just the other day I saw a huge powershell script whose purpose was to remove all the bloatware (which apparently re-installs itself on its own if you uninstall it normally). I don't want to bother with that stuff...

And on top of that you have the telemetry, endless horror stories of forced restarts for updates, updates resetting settings and/or degrading performance (which took 5 months to resolve in the case of the Creators Update: https://betanews.com/2017/09/11/windows-10-game-performance-...)...7 works like clockwork, with no bullshit.
Probably because it's not that scary. In practice, it would generally be a non-issue.

1) mysql server restarts are rare. you'd need a delete followed by a restart to trigger this.
2) you may be using soft deletes, which wouldn't trigger this problem anyway.
3) even if an ID gets reused, it may not actually matter (application dependent.)
The only time I'm relaxed and feel happy is when I am out in untamed nature - seeing and hearing nature. It doesn't matter if its just a hike or "working" hard on trail maintenance. If this[1] is true, "Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field worth of natural area to human development."

Walking down the street among human development just doesn't do anything for me, so I quit going outside. It seems like expulsion from the biosphere.

I wonder if other people feel this way, whether consciously or not.

[1] https://www.disappearingwest.org/
https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgAN8.png Displays a snippet suggesting Barack Obama is 56 years old.
When I search from the USA, it displays a card informing me that Barack Obama is 56 years old.
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I don't imagine "going out of business" is a preferred outcome for a billion dollar business to avoid refunding presales for a failed product. But your right, unsecured creditors are screwed in a bankruptcy.
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Barack Obama / Age
56 years
August 4, 1961
Large companies just have better odds of delivering the product than the average Joe (because you are not guaranteed a product on Kickstarter alikes).
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It got flak because of the random hodge podge of menu screens that could to decide if they were desktop or tablet oriented. Also getting thrown into full screen apps, the “charms”, and the broken windows store were other favorite targets of criticism. All this for basically no visible improvements if you weren’t using a tablet/laptop hybrid.
Skylark is the name of the build language used by Bazel, Google's build system. The main version is written in Java, but isn't available separately from Bazel as far as I know. Definitely not abandoned; most teams at Google use it.

The Go version is new and I don't know what it's used for.
Please report some of these cases to the list. We're much more likely to fix things that we hear are practical problems than the ones that we know theoretically exist, but are much more likely waste of plan time for everyone, not to speak of development and maintenance overhead.

I find "disable sequential scans entirely proves to me that Postgres doesn't care about performance for interactive use." in combination with not reporting the issue a bit contradictory. We care about stuff we get diagnosable reports for.
If there was a single high end mainstream laptop on the market which had comparable full hardware support of everything on the machine as macOS does to a MBP, then you could say something, but alas there isn’t and likely never will be.
Your analogy of cigarette companies and Facebook was accurate but deeply shocking, I felt a chill in my hands and almost lost my grip on my phone.

I’ve always wondered if in the near future, working for Facebook and Google might be considered shameful, just like how working for Big Tobacco became. I remember one person from college who got a job with a tobacco company promoting Reynolds brands cigarettes to his regions Walgreens and Gas Stations. Despite making more than me (and I’m a Linux / AWS Engineer), he was ashamed, didn’t have a LinkedIn, and would tell people he was unemployed.
There's also a huge mental cost induced by society. Everything, has to have a purpose, a ROI; everything has a price (even free, it takes space).

When you live in nature, you just do as you feel. No reference, no efficiency, it's freeing; and that's a feeling you rarely get in society.
Speculation: It may require more time and effort to do so. Time is very frequently a scant resource and is even more rare when the project isn't supporting itself financially.

Perhaps they can do both? When there is a specific product in mind, they can link directly to it it with the affiliate links. When that's not needed, they can just let the script scan the page and insert relevant results? Then they can do so when they have free time.

That still takes time, but it may not take as much time? I'm speculating, as stated.
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I guess it depends on your definition of happy for the dead and never born. Hunter-Gathers couldn't specialize, and that has made all of the difference in our lives. Without specialization a lot of the joyful activities that we participate in would not be available and most of us wouldn't be here.

Yes, I get it. Some find joy in the primitive, the promise of stripping way the complications of modern life, and feeling the raw world again. That's fine for a weekend or a week, but understand what you give up.

Me, well, I like indoor plumbing, heat, and refrigeration.
This is why any server you want hidden should be behind something like whonix where no process running on the server should know the IP.
Is it true or just extrapolated hint ?

I like to criticize "modern" societies, but some times I think that having predictable source of food was an obvious goal for any human being.
The Cavendish evolved through human cultivation like most varieties consumed by humans. It's an entirely different cultivar from the plantain.
> Watching your children die due to diseases that are totally trivial in our non-hunter-gatherer society makes you happy. oooookaaaay... FFS

In fairness, people not packed into cities don’t have exactly the same issues with childhood diseases.

I don’t disagree with your sentiment, by the way. I just don’t think it’s directly comparable that way.

It’s also worth noting that many societies are not hunter gatherer and have high child mortality rates. The road from “tribal” to “modern” is full of dysentery.
> age 700420517000000000056 years

Hmmm.... I don’t believe President Obama is older than the universe. YMMV!
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Right, but that is just the language and VM implementation. The most important libraries in Ruby are not written by the core team who supports the VM.