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I'm currently a programmer as well.

Yes, at any point, I can go "I should take a 5 min walk around" or just stretch my legs, which I do relatively often. Most "sitting" jobs have that luxury. Even just stretching your arms out is a luxury. Always one hand has to be on that wheel in a confined area.
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The parent, while very informative, doesn't seem to address the actual issue:

What is an alternate hypothesis for a strong correlation between A) volume of patents granted by the examiner, and B) applicant hiring that patent examiner & applicant hiring the same year as the grant of patent?
I'm pretty sure Sumokoin is wrong.

It doesn't use standard CryptoNight anymore but rather a custom "CryptoNight-Heavy" that I don't think is even available on NiceHash.
Sure, sure, but... everything is buggy, by that metric. I think that's what the parent comment was getting at.
Last couples weeks especially. Packages being published but not updated on the main registry. Super super frustrating.
> This equation has two sides, remember? Minimum wages will benefit the poorest people the most by increasing their income, all while increasing prices generally - which everyone pays for. Among the poorest you will see an increase in purchasing power, while everyone else's will be slightly reduced.

The problem is most of the poor don't actually get that bump. None of the people who lose their jobs do, nor anyone who was already unemployed, nor the people whose wages were already just above the new minimum wage. But they all have to pay the higher prices.

> Also, at least in Germany, there has been no statistically significant change to general employment when the minimum wage was introduced.

This is quite unsurprising. The vast majority of people make more than minimum wage so instituting a minimum wage would have little to no effect on their employment. The loss of employment is to the people who had been making less than the new minimum wage.

People are often surprised how few people actually make minimum wage. It's a low single digit percentage of people.

> There have however been some marginal price increases as well as reduced employment (< -2% according to some sources) in those sectors affected, which are offset by roughly 5% higher wages in those sectors, as well as increased employment in other sectors. Total employment even increased. That works out to a net positive in my book.

This is purporting to show the effects of a minimum wage that only existed for little more than a year when the studies were done. It takes longer than that for some companies to realign their operations with the new costs, e.g. to replace your checkout clerks with machines you have to negotiate with suppliers, evaluate the machines, deploy them, etc. In the meantime you keep the employees and eat the higher cost, but only temporarily.

This is why evaluating this kind of thing is extremely difficult. It can take a decade or more to fully shake out, but the number of confounders that can appear in that time frame make it difficult to distinguish the effects of the minimum wage from everything else that happens in the economy. That's why the issue remains contentious.

More annoyingly, studies in different economies are not comparable. To see why, imagine the effects of a $5000/hour minimum wage. Obviously an unemployment disaster. Meanwhile a $0.05/hour minimum wage would cause approximately no unemployment, but also yield no other benefits.

The amount of unemployment caused by a given minimum wage is determined by dynamic characteristics of the economy. The same minimum wage will cause different amounts of unemployment in Pennsylvania than California etc., or different amounts in 2005 than 2015.

It's all too easy to screw it up and end up on the wrong side of the equation. And even when it's "working" you're still severely screwing over a small percentage of the working poor in exchange for a very modest wage increase for the remainder.
I actually removed my ad blocker recently because I realized most sites I go to either don't have ads or they don't really bother me (hackernews, reddit, facebook, netflix, gmail, stackoverflow, various webcomics, etc...) and they pay for all that free content I consume. My life generally isn't better for the ads themselves but I think it is better for the services that these ad supported sites provide.
> performance of Java apps on ordinary computers was often much much worse than Electron on its worst day

Does this statement hold true nowadays?
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Honestly as a Kenyan American, its scary to see my country move in manners wholly authoritative. It seems the government is consolidating its power. As we get closer ties to China, our government gets stronger without fixong existing corruption that is rampant and widespread.
> We’re going to end up with some HIPAA like regulations on collecting data and it’s going to be a massive pain in the ass.

Yes, that's the point: at the moment, vacuuming up every bit of data is essentially free, so companies take a maximalist approach to it, and aren't paying nearly their fair share of the resulting externality costs. Personal data storage needs to become costly enough that companies are forced to decide if it's actually worth it.

I would also add that, just like every other time an industry failed completely at self-regulation and just ran wild until public outrage forced the government to step in, this wouldn't be happening if companies had been responsible. But CA and Experia and Unroll.me proved that was never a possibility.
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Yes, they do support AWS instances on behalf of clients. It is indeed a new service they’ve added to their roster.

But their own servers, networks, all product offerings are what they were.
I’m sure the anti-NPM brigade is on its way, but I recall there being a huge backlash against removing this error code from Node a few years ago.
Comprehensive list! Thanks for sharing.
Not sure why you were down-voted. It's a valid option IMO.
> and includes many hours of waiting to get loaded/unloaded which can also be just a few minutes and once they're done they want you out of their property ASAP.

If drivers are only responsible for the last mile(s) it’s quite possible the job changes from “drive one truck, sit and wait for it to be unloaded, leave” to “pick up the truck, drive it to the destination, go pick up another truck”
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I was visiting friends in Canada and I asked “is it true that Canadians don’t lock their doors?” And they responded “oh no, Steve right? Yeah we know a guy, he locks his door”. Always polite, trying to make me feel OK for being from a place where everyone locks their door.
Been my goal since I got my first remote programming job. Have a ball and chain of a house to deal with first but hopefully soon.
Nope, it's worse. Websites will use it as an authentication method in password-reset workflows, which means hacking your account reduces to intercepting or redirecting text messages (easily accomplished). Rampant cryptocurrency theft over the past year has conclusively demonstrated that SMS-based 2FA is worse than no 2FA at all. The worst offender? Gmail. It uses your phone number for password recovery and is in turn used for password recovery by every other website.
Rivigo I think
If I'm doing quick generic error handling, I'm going to assume anything in the 500 range is a server issue and display an error of the sort. If it's in the 400 range I'm going to handle the common ones and then assume it's the client's or user's fault. (And of course a user fault is really a client validation fault.)

So yes, returning a 4XX for a 5XX is problematic.
The problem is that a lot of people think that way, but "middle of the road" actually means average where the average is people who are middle of the road to people trying to be nice to a future employer.

The result is a ratchet effect making patent examiners more and more friendly to patent applicants over time.
My sister developed a psychosomatic peanut (amongst other things) allergy and insomnia because of a toxic work environment.

There is definitely a price for that but if you are comfortable emotionally and physically now 'double' isn't enough in a lot of cases.
Good one for me.
It is an artifact of the down sampling being used, yes. It wouldn't be the same if you were watching the 8k source directly, but few people are probably able to do that.
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which one is worse for data collection, google harvesting my every move, everything I do on my phone, or a chinese company who started by scaling down google stuff on android, but now have their own data collection [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/15/16479330/oneplus-privacy-complaints-oxygenos-cybersecurity
One possible hole based on interpretation is that the language refers to the "creation of a film meant for public exhibition". You could argue that uploading to Facebook with some restriction on privacy settings is not for 'public' exhibition, even if the group that it is meant for exhibition to is very large.

The document shown also doesn't specify that the actual exhibition is a problem. So, if I create a film intended for private exhibition and then later exhibit it publicly, is that okay?
LTL trucking is how just about everything you buy in a store is delivered, and it you ever buy anything online that is large or heavy it is also shipped this way to your house. The UPS truck isn't delivering pallets of bananas to the grocery store.
Maybe we all are...
The language Racket (https://racket-lang.org) sort of approaches this. It allows you to quickly switch which compiler a given source file is actually sent into, the goal being that you solve each problem with sub-languages particularly suited to the task at hand. For instance, the webserver language has HTML build in as a primitive.
By your logic has there ever been a shortage of anything?
There was also the issue where npm filter bots accidentally expelled some large, legitimate users and then made the namespace available, thus allowing random people to take the packages over, and inject code into any applications that used those projects.
Or maybe you're asking a teapot to install npm packages.
APL has flourished, as a DSL embedded in a language with excellent I/O. It's just got weird syntax and is called Numpy. Or Tensorflow. Or PyTorch...
What I don’t get is that tangerine was originally ING Direct. Which was a new bank that just started in Canada toward the end of 90s or early 2000s. How did they end up with a COBOL system?
That's an interesting observation.

While EST has the reputation of having been abusive, its descendant The Landmark Forum is not. A lot of The Forum consists of people opening up about their lives, their fears and emotions, events that have shaped them, and their inner life.

Of course the attendees are a self-selecting group, but my #1 take-away from The Forum was the discovery that everyone else in the room was insecure, too. The stories they shared were fascinating and worth the price of admission.
The native code isn't being inlined into the compiled LUA code - it is still making a function call.

It's just that the way it happens to do the call is faster than C calling a function in a shared object.
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Who are you defrauding? Under what jurisdiction? The ability to be 51% attacked is a feature of the design. You expect all the actors to commit enough computing capacity to prevent such an attack as it’s in their own best interest.
Once a take-down resistant network is assembled, it can be filled with any sort of content.

Given that the content may be arbitrary, looking at the content alone is not enough. Analysis of at-risk "swing voting" audiences would be the qualifier for an offending orchestrated botnet.

The intent of these botnets for the past victory was to "milgram" people into voting Trump (influence opinion, by surrounding and immersing of easily swindled individuals in currated content, many sources creating a magnitude perception for illusory peer pressure) [0] so, the content is nothing if it isn't seen.

Whatever the case, this is last year's tactic. It's possible that it may never be used again, in anticipation of adaptaion to defend against it. That's if you buy into the hypothesis that this is why people voted the way they did in the 2016 election, and that external technical influence was truly responsible, and even capable of such a manner of attack.

To be honest, it also sounds like a kissing cousing to the hand-wavey premise of flashing inserts of suggestive hypnotic single-frame advertisments (BUY MORE POPCORN fnord) in movie theaters to provoke subliminal brainwashing so that people buy more popcorn at movie theaters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Torontonians generally lock their doors, as do Vancouverites; so, definitely not all Canadians.
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Stealing a bracelet from a store is made illegal typically through the force of a state.
I’m new to Openshift (about a month in) after a year of low level (hand rolled HA cluster) kubernetes experience. I don’t rate the experience in Openshift. It seems like they are trying to tack things on which are superfluous to most teams requirements, loosely defined, and not well advertised.

I’m constantly trying to figure out what it’s hiding from the Kubernetes layer or what it is being manipulated to provide its behaviour.

I personally wouldn’t recommend Openshift->Kubernetes but the other way round would be a better approach once you know you need the additional functionality.

(Edit: fix typo)
Bezos pointed out that the moon is conveniently located, reachable in just a couple of days with the right rocket. Scientists have determined that it has deposits of water ice near the poles that could be converted into drinkable water, breathable air and propellants for refuelable rockets.

If this is true, it seems the moon has a lot going for it which is quite surprising given Elon has been so bullish on Mars. Can someone explain what advantage colonizing Mars has compared to Moon?
In other words, shortage of people willing to forego having a personal life, are expected to speed/break the law daily and risk losing their job as a part of doing their job, are verifiably destroying their health long term in order to do said boring menial job for long hours in exchange for low to medium pay.

Of course there’s a shortage. If pay was 200-300% higher and drivers could afford to work 2/3 of the time and get adequate rest/healing/family time, the shortage probably would not be so severe.
Huh? He mentions his whole family moved to Costa Rica. The new sleep schedule (8ish hours per night) is more healthy than before. I don’t see what in the excerpt
or elsewhere indicates any sort of mental break/crisis.
Cardano is POS so no NiceHashing.

(rather, it will be POS when full decentralization and staking are implemented later this year, but it's not and never has been POW).

Agreed, it seems like a very thoughtful design and I'm excited about it.
No, it is not. It still makes a call to the method in the shared object, it's just the way this call is made is more efficient than C.

"Inlinig" compiled assembly from a shared object is basically impossible because you can't just move machine code around arbitrary since it may access arbitrary additional code or data at relative offsets. If you move it, you'll break it.
I think this is one reason GitHub rolled out the "thumbs-up" reactions, too many comments just state "+1", which pollutes actual technical discussion, but at the same time it is crucial to know if many people have the same issue
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I think the relevant idiom is "closing the stable door after the horse has bolted".
Lisp recognizes that the difference between code and data is the context they're interpreted in. A more accurate phrasing of "code is not data" should be, "data from untrusted sources should not be interpreted as code".
But is that relevant to _this specific_ case? The problem is not 3rd party clients, it's the npm client itself - so I don't know how error handling is relevant? (In the general case, yes of course it is, but in this and the parent comment I'm specifically talking about issues in only the narrow use case here.)
500 “Internal Server Error” is the code you should be using for generic server errors.
I’d really like to read the paper to see what they’re facts are. I suppose my underlying argument is that there may be inocuous reasons for the statistics the paper cites. I’d be super interested if it is a smoking gun on a wide scale type of thing. As someone who’s been on both sides and intimately familiar with the whole patent industry, it just doesn’t jive with my experience.
> Scaffold generators for common elements would be great. Need a MySQL database? Having a command like [...] to create a stateful set, service and everything else necessary would go a long way. Then just a single command to deploy the scaffold into your k8s environment and you’d have a production-worthy database in just a few console commands. The same could be created for the popular application frameworks, message brokers, and anything else we can think of.

Rook sort of does this. You deploy a Rook operator, then just one other kubectl command to get an object store, database, shared filesystem, etc...

https://blog.rook.io/rooks-framework-for-cloud-native-storag...
Sadly it isn't just an Australian thing :(

I just don't get it. I mean I do get it, in the US it's largely wealthy donors pushing policy that is really all about cutting anything to get them short term tax breaks or whatever..... but damn it if you're really fiscally conservative then finding programs that get these people off welfare and paying taxes is a GOOD THING, but no... just cut everything....
I have TD and RBC, both can have complex longer passwords upto 32 character, but not a requirement(atleast when I changed passwords last time).

RBC supports finger print auth with their app, and forced security questions.
Does it matter? There’s no point to any of this, it’s fun stuff for rich guys like golfing or art collecting. Mars or Moon is just a matter of preference like Pebble Beach vs. St. Andrews.
(Oops, before I meant to write a few more percent probably isn't worth it at the start)

Did you consider Paddle who offer EU VAT processing as well? Paddle offers 5% + $0.50 on every transaction. Fastspring you can pick between 1) 5.9% + $0.95 on every transaction or 2) a flat 8.9% with a minimum of $0.75. I agree you're best getting on with things but when they're comparable in terms of integration it's worth considering the fees.
I tried to infect a quantified self company with the same gist about 7y ago. They did quite well at first, but failed to continue innovating in my point of view. Anyway, whenever my ideas were gaining traction the marketing head would convince the CEO that my ideas would be bad for the company. Now I'll never know :P
Being first party doesn't mean it's the same person/team writing both sides.

And error handling is always relevant.
Because the Liberal Party (which in Australia is actually the conservative party, confusingly) believes that being poor or addicted to drugs are moral failings, and not due to poor social support and the environment around them.
Wikipedia is not the sum of all knowledge. It's an encyclopedia. Many people seem confused about what that means.

Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia we find:

Wikipedia seeks to create a summary of all human knowledge in the form of an online encyclopedia, with each topic covered encyclopedically in one article.
I'd argue that 418 veers more towards "trivial" than it does "famous." Expecting knowledge of more than 400, 401, 403, 404, and maybe 412 is pushing it.
Yes, I was talking about Z8000. Amazing processors (Z8001 and Z8002), but Zilog took too long to clean the bugs. That, and the lack of retrocompatibilty sealed its fate and Motorola 68k took over.
Zilog tried again and again (Z80000, Z180 with Hitachi, Z280, Z380...) but never recovered.
I have two Z380 waiting for the completion of its motherboards... :-)
I'm not following you. Clearly in a pure JIT environment or with custom calling conventions you can do better than a typical "blind" C call restricted by the platform ABI - but we're talking about FFI calling into a "plain" shared object, right?

Such functions obey the platform ABI, so the caller needs to save exactly every callee-clobbered register they are using.

Also, if the external C function wants to use any callee-saved registers, it needs to save them. It doesn't know that it's being called by a VM that allows FFI functions to clobber everything (if that's what you're saying).

So yeah, there is all kinds of great stuff you can do with respect to function calls within a VM, or when you are working outside the platform C ABI (e.g., if you invented your own ABI), but it isn't clear how that relates to making fast FFI calls from higher level languages.
I didn't know 418 and I'm a web dev. Http status codes are a tiny part of my job
Yes a 500. Not sure how anything else would ever pass the smell test of even a lazy pull request.
So 1 million possible passwords? That's straight-up terrible entropy these days.
> "- There is no reason to think that the drowners wouldn't have passed a "do three laps in the pool and tread water for N minutes" type test"

Just to be clear so you understand where I'm coming from, I'd say that somebody who could do three laps but not four is a poor swimmer. 75 yards (or even 150 meters assuming a 50 meter pool) is a very lax standard for calling somebody a swimmer. Technically yes, it proves you can swim. But it certainly doesn't prove you're good at it.

In my experience one of the core facets of being a skilled swimmer is being less likely to panic (the others being endurance and technical skill.) Without one of these three it's easy to find yourself in hot water. Technical skill is important because without enough of it, even a very fit person will reach the limits of their endurance quickly. A cool head is important because if you panic, your technical skill can't be put into practice (this is the most difficult part of teaching most kids how to swim. A lot of time goes into making them comfortable in the water so that they're less likely to panic. I've still got that damn "wheels on the bus" song stuck in my head many years later...) Endurance is arguably the least important of the three, provided you have a cool head and sufficient technical skill to float on your back until rescued, but it's still obviously important.

The reason I'm saying that person is probably a poor swimmer at best is because of the severity of the circumstances that caused her to panic. It's unlikely but not impossible that a skilled swimmer would panic when unexpectedly dunked like that. I'm trying not to speak in absolutes. Maybe she's a skilled swimmer who got a lung-full of water when she went over backwards, but that's less likely than her being a poor swimmer or nonswimmer. I've seen a lot of skilled swimmers put themselves in much worse situations than that and recover from it fine. I'm sure sometimes they don't, but most of the time they do. I once saw a very skilled swimmer full of teenage bravado do a cannonball jump into the middle of a floating pool cover, a literal death trap, but he didn't panic and got out of it alive.

Whether or not she attended drivers ed, aka swimming lessons, I cannot say. For all I know she might have several weeks of swim practice under her belt, or zero. Some people take to swimming very quickly, while other people struggle with it despite the best efforts of the instructors. Attending swimming lessons doesn't make you a good swimmer anymore than attending drivers ed makes you a good driver. It aims to, but won't necessarily succeed.