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You can also be tracked via local wi-fi access points. Google has built a database mapping access points to GPS coordinates. All they need is access to wi-fi information and they can find your location even if you have GPS and 4G disabled. There is really little you can do nowadays to protect your privacy.
There's lies, damned lies and statistics. I think it's very nice that percentage-wise an improvement has been made. However, when looking at the absolute numbers from a different perspective;

US 5087M tonnes, 327M inhabitants -> ~15 tonnes/inhabitant
EU 4152M tonnes, 511M inhabitants -> ~8 tonnes/inhabitant

Seems to me that the US still has a long way to go...
I agree social media is more of a symptom here. I've been worrying about that recently too. From what I see on-line, I feel like his behaviour has become pretty... erratic. He used to be more focused on solving big problems in the past. I worry he'll go completely off the rails at some point, and destroy all the efforts around space access and Mars.
I think that article is a necessary read after the original posted article. The original posted article seems a bit too keen to convince you of its point of view that it seems a bit disingenuous.

My feeling about unit testing / integration test is you do as much of it as you can, trying to sincerely learn the lessons of how to do it it effectively, until you know why you don't need to do it. Or until you know what the right mix is. I started with Extreme Programming and testing around 18 years ago and my thinking has constantly evolved over that time. One of the biggest factors, I think, is project context and the nature of the software you are developing.

I find in embedded systems, unit tests done extensively are very very useful. As is integration testing.

In web systems, I find integration tests are often most useful as so much is all about gluing together various tech, and it's often the gluing the comes unstuck. However there is often chunks that have some interesting logic that lends itself to more extensive unit tests.

Sometimes testing is just a mess because of the design. Too many things that are not really needed, too many layers, too many levels of abstractions, too much "future proofing". Then you see people start trying to throw unit testing around it, and it is mostly just useless and explodes out the amount of work to do. Often I think articles like the original are reactions to this scenario.
I usually get shower thoughts about SaaS products. So I built https://saasible.com , so I and others can share these ideas.
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No wonder it doesn't work properly.
Hard edges are difficult for the DCT/DST used in most video codecs. A wavelet-based codec would most likely be better suited.

However, all modern codecs that I know of have directional intra prediction, which should be pretty effective in anime. Basically, what it does is that the decoder is able to follow lines with a variety of angles.

There are other things that help compression in anime: static frames, large flat areas, lack of film grain in computer drawn animation.
> Having to switch to a terminal and using an alias is too much friction.

Given that the examples are all for 'vim', this appears to have been written from the viewpoint that one is already in a terminal, so there is no switching friction when one's focus is a terminal at the start.
If twitter stopped operating on the internet, and started terrestrially broadcasting their content into people’s homes then you might have a point.
I watched quite a few matches and among the things I saw in the matches but not in any statistics are:

- motivation (Germany and Croatia were the two extremes here, no idea how to measure it)

- team cohesion (number of articles in a few journals questioning the team cohesion, maybe also articles about individual players)

- creativity in offense (maybe measurable via "target missed from close distance" + "ball passed front of the goal")

- number of errors in defense that didn't lead to a goal

- percentage of times ball possession was lost from own goal to enemy's area (England was really bad here against Croatia)
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As part of my work, I've had to read a fair amount of the legislation and reports coming out in this sector and also the "Consumer Data Rights" legislation (similar to the UK's open banking scheme.

What I found was a massive difference in policy coming out from the same government but in two seperate streams of work.

A) Consumer Data Right (legislation being built into Australia Privacy Act) focusing on banking, energy and then telecommunications: The user has complete control of their data. If a consumer asks a business to delete, they must do so (except for information that is legally required).

B) MyHealthRecords: The government has complete control of your data. You cannot delete your account or your data.

I'll add sources if I can, but its in the legislation.
I got a kick out of him sending a car into space, I'm impressed by SpaceX, Tesla and I'm at least curious about the Boring Company.

But what people are annoyed about here is that a very influential person is directing the internet hate machine at someone who he didn't like. Calling someone a paedophile is not a fun creative action in my book. Any defence of this as some kind of engineer-specific personality quirk we can all identify with isn't something I'm going to agree with
> A lot of STEM toys have been dumbed down to the extreme irrespective of gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_La...
It’s implemented as a auth mechanism to memento, it might be open sourced at some point.

The reason yubikey doesn’t do this is that it will kill their business and product.
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They even have a propaganda youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8UWg1-qaHAOKrzJA17EHLQ
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Are there any of them that actually are any good? You read these stories, and deal with a few different ones personally, and the whole sector quickly starts to look like a barely competent disorganized mess.
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No, it is scientific progress, specifically. Science is about reproducability, not explainability (which, in many cases, is not even possible).
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Dunno, but I shuddered to find "...the creation of a new government agency - Service NSW - supported by the Salesforce Service Cloud. ..." https://www.salesforce.com/au/customer-success-stories/servi...

I trust government with my private data, not Salesforce or any other corporation.
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Quite obviously. Also "the Tesla CEO appears to be committed to proving his design would have worked. He wrote: 'We will make [a video] of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo.'" I mean, come on, that's not that great a "design" that you (or your engineers for that matter) made up but a stopgap solution. Nothing wrong with that, thanks for helping. But just let go now.
it can indeed be both (no sarcasm intended - the menial jobs nobody else wants and the high-skill ones not enough people are capable of doing).
AWS is expensive if you are an extremely heavy user.

Checking out whether the pricing works for you is an easy exercise. A p3 instance costs $3.06 per hour at the time of writing. It runs an Nvidia V100, which costs around $10k. So you've got yourself around 3000 hours of use before it makes sense to buy your own.

If you want something cheaper, you can go with the p2 instances at $0.90 an hour. These cost around $2k, so you're looking at around 2200 hours of use before it might become economical to buy your own.

I don't want to sound like an AWS fanboy, but I do believe it's a good democratising catalyst for deep learning and scientific computing.

EDIT: p2 instances run on K80 GPUs, which I neglected to mention above.
The World Cup is about the worst sporting event for data led predictions like this, far too much can rely on a few events that are basically a coin flip. It would be interesting to see how the predictions went for something like the Premiere League tables.
I find this article misleading; with a biased PoV. The author says "empirical evidence is missing", yet advocates a testing methodology, banking largely on articles and PoVs of other individuals. Is there any software project the author would like to quote as a case-study? Is there any evidence to prove that the Lean method is better OR, the definition of what is better?

It is OK to be economical in what one would see as a cost of testing a product end-to-end. Call it whatever term you like, but functionally testing a product end-to-end has always followed an economical approach, as all such testing is a factor of time & resources. You'd perhaps be less economical if you were testing life-safety systems, but you could choose to be more economical if you considered your software to be not-that-critical, or, you needn't have to set exceptionally high standards.

I find it extremely odd that unittests are even considered into this equation of 'testing-costs', despite decades of improvements in software development processes. Unittests should be part of 'core' engineering & a part of development. Not a task that's added to testing costs. If you aren't writing unittests (irrespective of whether its TDD or not), you are not developing/engineering your product right. You are only building a stack of cards _hoping_ that it wouldn't collapse at some point in the future.

It's a sad state of affairs if one gives code 1st level treatment, but treats unittests, documentation, build scripts and other support infra as something less important; worth economizing. This is really what _matters_ when it comes to overall quality of a software.

One must remember that software is always improved, refactored, expanded, ported or worked on in some way or another. When unittests are missing, then the very boundaries that were meant to dictate the rules of the software don't apply anymore. This leads to human errors causing portions of software to break.

Critical pieces of software that exist today, exist strongly because they were engineered right (Linux kernel for example). Not because their developers followed an _economical_ approach to testing. If an OS disto claimed to perform economical end-to-end testing (of a potential user's most commonly performed paths), would the author of this article want to use that OS over one that has had strong ground-up unittests and testing of interfaces where they matter?
I picture a very jobsian future. Ousted because of damaging management. Then a come back with more wisdom and turtlenecks.
Given the amount of land the Japanese conquered by 1939, and the amount of resistance they faced, I don't see why their estimation from 1905 had been incorrect.
Exactly, for high correctness I like to use F#, which is also reasonably fast (almost C# speed, with a lot of ML goodies).

For high correctness & high performance I think Rust is a great choice, although some of the libraries aren't there yet in terms of maturity. So I usually only use Rust for programs with a small scope where I know that everything I need is available. Or make a DLL with a C interface that I can then call from F#.
I wrote a satirical piece about all the "advice" given on Medium.

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-be-productive-according-to-ev...
Fair enough, "fluke" may not be the correct word. What I mean is that it wasn't a permanent increase, but a response to an occasional event (even if those events are expected to become more common).
I don't think this is a correct assessment. Domain fronting / boring domains can still be blocked, and this is precisely what caused the whole Signal / AWS issue recently. This is a commercial risk to the domain holder, and to any organisation with shareholders it makes sense for them not to want their domain to be used for this purpose.

The engineers are looking for an alternative solution which pleases both camps: no more domain fronting, and no more possible blocking of domains by adversaries.

I think it's a bit idealist to say that if they're serious about making sites unblockable, they should put their commercial interests aside. This will not happen. But they are working on an alternative solution where both parties (engineers and shareholders) are happy, and I can only support that.
There is a test for that.

Try building a tennis game, just in code with no gui, and take note of how much you would either write tests for things like the score, set points etc., or how much time you spend debugging to justify if your code works.

Unit tests are a great documentation tool as well, both for developers but also for the business needs of the software — the value.
I am constantly approached with adhoc requests, often unrelated to the application I work on, probably more of these than actual ticket items.

I've started to number these myself in my own ticket system where I keep scripts, screenshots and logs etc. but I'm using OneNote, because it's so unrestrictive.
I agree, that's what I'm saying.

If he's prepared to go around slinging that accusation, then I have no respect for him at all.

The best possible outcome would be if he makes a public apology, and approaches the guy in an attempt to make reparations.

Just a simple: "Yeah, look, that was out of line. I'm seeing an anger management psychologist in an effort to curb my behaviour, and I'll donate a million to a children's charity of your choice."
ts-loader / fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin maintainer here. I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience. It hasn't been my own; it could be worth you comparing your setup with one of the examples available. These are some good candidates:

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader/tree/master/examples...

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader/tree/master/examples...

https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader/tree/master/examples... (written by Kenneth Chau of the Outlook.com team)

You may of course you may be using another typescript loader (there are several!). I thought it worth sharing in case you are using ts-loader and your config is catching you out.

Best of luck!
> in order to do those sweet things that we 'feel like' doing

You mean like not dying ? So basically, it's work or die. We have a word for that, it's called slavery. But wait, in our capitalist system I get to choose my own slavedriver, wow, that changes everything... NOT.

If you get a dog, you're expected to take care of that dog for it's entire life. Yet, if you produce a child it's somehow acceptable to abandon it after 18 years and expect it to take care of itself. It never asked to be born, yet it has to deal with the financial consequences of a decision someone else made. It's like taking an 80+ year mortgage and expecting someone else to pay for it after 18 years.

If you're going to have kids, you should take care of them for their entire lives.
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Even if there is a risk of this. It might be a risk worth taking.

Edit: I don't know the specifics, but I sometimes wonder what good stats on more health records could do for future treatments.
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For the record: I strongly criticize the pedophile slur. It's infantile, inconsiderate and entirely non-productive. In my comment, I was trying to explain why people admire Musk, but he is full of flaws.

The world, in general, isn't black and white. One must exercise critical judgment.
My argument is not that the government will require root CAs for all clients due to a lack of surveillance options. My argument is that without the ability to enforce the law, the government may force a change that allows them to enforce the law.

The logical extension would not be "there should be no security features", and this is obvious, because the whole problem was not the existence of security features. The problem was the lack of ability to enforce policies, which organizations (companies, governments) are often required to do. I think the logical extension should be that security features should be developed with policy enforcement capabilities in mind.

Also, it's not logical to conflate this privacy feature with security features. Secure connections do not require SNI hiding at all. DNS-over-HTTPS is closer to a security feature, because without enabling DNSSEC, exploits are possible to the DNS which can impact non-TLS connections. That has a much easier workaround, which is to point DNS-over-HTTPS to a local provider.
If anything, this is a clear illustration of poor use of probabilistic prediction. When used for investments you have many outcomes. If the model is any good, you will most of them right. In the World Cup you have very few. Even if you count all games played. Definitely not excusing Goldman Sachs here, they should have known better than to try to predict this. There was only a tiny chance this could be great advertisement for their model.
Hopefully people will idolize Musk a little less.
I never minded jokes against me or mine too much so long as they contained actual humour.
The offensive thing about Dunham for me is that he's just not funny.
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I'm the creator of Ekko - https://ekko.site/ - "Create your business website in seconds, using your Facebook page".

Me: I'm a full-time software consultant (https://benhowdle.im/), Ekko was intended as a side-project to generate passive income, not to be a fully fledged startup from day 1.

My aim was/is to make it incredibly simple for small businesses to create and keep their business website online and updated. The user connects their Facebook Page to my service, picks a theme and their new site is online. Every time they update their FB Page, the website (on my service) is instantly updated. This part is free, as you have a subdomain URL. To add a custom domain, it's a monthly fee.

I launched the SaaS in early 2017 and spent 3 months promoting/pushing it out to my networks online. This led to a lot of positive feedback, but almost zero paying customers (in fact, only 1 person ever paid, then subsequently cancelled their subscription due to budgetary reasons). Since then, I've occasionally tweeted about it, and gone through various phases of motivation to properly push/advertise/market it, but that side of it feels completely unnatural to me, I'm far more happier sitting behind the screen, building the product.

It gathers 1-2 sign ups a week, but zero conversions.

My specific question is, what the heck do I do with it?

In my opinion, it is my most complete piece of software that I've released. Everything works nicely, payment integrations with Stripe and GoCardless, domains through DNSimple, themes are just a set of React Components, so they'd be easy for people to build. It seems a real shame for it to be sat online, doing very little. I really don't want to abandon/take it down, because I spent a lot of time building it.

Should I try and sell it? Should I just give up? Am I missing something blatantly obvious? If anyone's got any advice, broad/specific/big/small, I'm all ears.

If you want to drop me an email, I'm at hello@benhowdle.im
Well Unsworth had behind him many years of experience diving in these caves and had been instrumental to locating the children and the rescue operation.

Can't blame him for his outburst at Musk's PR stunt
If the subject is seen as a system rather than a thing you can make some progress. On the one hand we have Artificial Intelligence, where insights from cognition and biology are used to model and explain reasoning and behaviour. On the other we have AI where people use the outcome of Artificial Intelligence research with other pragmatically selected technical components to develop technology. I think that there is interdependence and exchange between the two, but they have different methodologies and processes. I also think that huge trouble is created when members of one community use the other communities clothes and achievements. For example Artificial Intelligence researchers talking about the practical impact of AI and near term application of their work and conversely AI researchers claiming that their work "works like a brain".
Interesting, the augmentation reminds me of the Etak Navigator [1] which took a similar approach to remove accumulated errors.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgot...
I'm all for donating health record information for the greater good to universities and researches to analyse and progress science and knowledge etc.

However, this government has no idea what is doing, the framework is poor, oversight is poor, without a doubt the implementation will be poor and its pulling a "swift on" on the public.

Lets not forget, this is a government that couldn't handle an IT system thad a few million people filling out a census form online.
It seems clear that this paper (and many papers like it that try to produce higher level abstractions casting one field’s concepts into theorems of some other field) is only meant for that 1% you mention. In fact this is why I don’t get excited about these sorts of results. For people outside the main fields, it ends up sounding like some dramatic philosophical discovery, but for people in the field it’s borderline meaningless. If you play around with definitions long enough, you can always find some notion of X that looks like “equilibrium” or “convergence” or “entropy” or “orthogonality” or some decomposition or some transformation for some other concept Y. Finding these results is almost always just about rejiggering definitions so that something mundane can be reinterpreted as something significant “in the right space.”
This site is a good counter-example for website optimization: While it uses many assets, so a CDN domain makes sense, it spreads them out thinly. It loads over 100 CSS files, most of which are below 1K. Similarly it loads approximately 30 JS scripts, most of which are just a few K each. This is mitigated to a large extent by using HTTP/2.0, which permits a few dozen or so parallel requests, but it still means that a repeated load of the page takes 2-3 seconds. (Without HTTP/2.0 this probably takes ages, since browsers open only a few connections to each origin at most). There is also almost no difference between reloading with and without the cache.
The Australian government gets away with a lot more authoritarian BS than other comparable governments, and there seems to be less of an emphasis on individual rights.
I wouldn't trust them with medical records.
> Also I miss Alexa when I'm in a hotel.

Just bring a hockey puck one with you when you travel.
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Having a centralised system with health records is bad? I've had that since I was born in my country and I think it's useful and handy. Something happens to you, they know what could've been, if you're on meds, what things and meds you're allergic to, etc.

I guess the outrage makes sense when looked from an American point of view where you distrust the government by principle?
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Speaking of oil, there was another forgotten war, when in 1941 both Soviet and British troops invaded Persia / Iran, secured the oil fields, and replaced the then-current Shakh with his son. Significant Soviet forces stayed in Iran until 1945, to prevent Germans from attempting to capture the oil fields.