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> They're only unique in trivial ways. Roads are made of the same material everywhere - they're different only in some strict geometric sense.

That's about as accurate as saying that software projects are only unique in trivial ways because there's probably already a free library or plugin that can do whatever else you need. It's easy to assume your occupation is much harder than everyone else's but we rarely have deep knowledge of the challenges other people face day to day outside of our own line of work.

As a simplified example, the design of a road, its pavement layers and its foundation is determined by factors like traffic loading characteristics, service requirements (peak capacity), speed limits and visibility, ground conditions, climate and more (see Caltrans' Highway Design Manual at http://www.dot.ca.gov/design/manuals/hdm.html), many of which rely on professionals in entirely other fields.
When attempting to open the website I was greeted with:

uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:

https://blog.logrocket.com/the-easiest-way-to-keep-your-web-apps-accessible-c2b57506cc2a

I never blacklisted the website on uMatrix[0] myself so I checked the list of hosts files I'm using. It's apparently part of Peter Lowe’s Ad and Tracking Server List[1]

[0] Obligatory "How do you know someone uses uMatrix? They'll tell you"-joke. I know, I know... mea culpa

[1] https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/, https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hos...
Since wealth and power can be freely converted from one to the other, in order to maintain some semblance of a society where power is roughly equally distributed among the people, it is necessary to ensure that wealth is also roughly evenly shared among the people.
> Want to tell me why workers shouldn't have a say yet shareholders who do literally nothing except thirst for profit get all of the say?

Ignoring your hyperbole, shareholders have tangible, actual property in the form of shares in the company while the average worker does not, and they likely can be replaced rather easily. I'm not sure how simply working at a company should grant more than what the worker accepted when hired. It's not like a single worker or even a group of workers can independently create output similar to what they can at the company.
Does anyone know the probabilities of HN moving between states “animated Markov chains article at the top” and “animated Markov chains article not at the top”?
My first reaction based on the title was probably the same as a bunch of people here, but then I reread the title. I agree, it absolutely is the manager's job to make sure the process is positive.
There are plenty of human rights abuses in eastern China against Hans even that get reported without mentioning Uighurs. I’m sure you can find a few those in the current stack of China articles from those sites, they make them easy to find.

Eg they released Liu Xiaobao’s widow today from imprisonment for...reasons. No references to xinjiang: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-lets-widow-of-dissident-n...
You can enable reader mode by default on Safari. It's in Preferences -> Websites -> Reader.
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You're right about the double review, but I think the argument still loosely applies even removed one step.

For instance, I've worked somewhere with a rule that x% of code should be unit tested. In fact that was the rule applied in code reviews, anything else was a free for all between projects including any other form of testing coverage. And the rule was applied regardless of the size of the project, whether it was UI code, an I/O library or a few lines of tcl running on an F5.

If I was running a project and we didn't make the mark for unit testing it was usually something I could justify to a player (or ex-player) manager. A couple of others would call a full stop to development, pull everyone they could into a meeting and try and berate us for being substandard. Eventually someone with a technical background further up the chain would calm them down until it happened again.

I guess that's partly a function of them being poor managers and I'm sure some less technical mangers know where the line is, but I've come to consider anything about the tools and process as the responsibility of the technical lead and their team and outside the remit of management. If what the team produce is substandard they need to fire everyone, have someone technical look at who to fire first, or some smaller tweak, rather than have people who've never done the job make a judgement on the efficacy of the approach.

Of course, there isn't a binary divide between technical and non-technical and all projects are different so YMMV.
Oh no, they've been grilled - that'll stop them from ever doing something like that again...
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It is mostly males that become transgender women – female transitions to male are extremely rare...

From that point on, his work belongs to the woman’s family, and it’s the woman who decides whether her husband can share his fish, coconuts or plantains with his own parents or siblings.

Taken together, these two observations make a lot of sense. In a closed society where women have consolidated power like that, why would anyone become a man?
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Just goes to show -- the drug providers making quality product are keeping people safe! People will still seek their escape/bliss, but if they can find something with predictable effects it's way better than allowing free market forces to take over in the vacuum left behind when you bust a drug provider.
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I can’t tell if you’re serious, but in the case you are:

It would be hard to find or read any serious writings of Marx that doesn’t espouse this idea. Das Kapital is essentially nothing but an elaboration of why workers should control the means of production.

Most of Marx’s influential work was academic, and Europeans generally understand that his legacy lives in the the laws described here. Dissenters usually highlight the early stuff like Capitalist Manifesto; the equivalent of a student protest flyer. But this is terribly short-sighted and misrepresents his impact on European economics and law. He is the one of the most studied men of the 19th century for a reason.

And the only ultimate recommendation Marx made with confidence in his academic work was exactly that workers own the means of production by way of democracy.

He was something of a democracy absolutist and basically called out liberal capitalist economies for encouraging democracy in every part of society except for the workplace.

There is really not anything more Marxist than giving more control to workers.
Out of curiosity, why would you ever run a SELECT COUNT(*)? What use case demands that versus, say, SELECT COUNT(col) where col is the name of a column in the table?
As a confused undergrad first learning about random dynamical systems on my own (outside of any classes), this really bothered me. How could the Markov assumption be so powerful when it's clearly trivial to add memory and retain the Markov property?!

After reading through theorems and proofs for dynamical systems theory, and especially considering applications of that theory, I came up with basically two practical take-aways:

1. Complexity matters and the curse of dimensionality is real.

2. All those nice theorems (stability, convergence, splitting, invariance, bifurcations, ...) are stated with respect to a state space and make assumptions about the dynamics on that state space. So if you code up a state space representation that is history-aware with respect to the dynamics you really care about, then:

a) you might lose some theorems that hold for the original process, and

b) you sometimes realize the theorems lose a lot of power when they're telling you something about a tuple of things you care about instead of the actual thing you care about.

If I ever teach people about random dynamical systems, this explanation will come immediately after the definition of a Markov process and I'll continually remind my audience throughout the course. Understanding what goes wrong when a system is "technically" Markovian is probably the best way to obtain a deep intuition. Or at least, it was very helpful to me.
I think you harmed your claim by elaborating. I have a tendency to do so as well. I often stop myself from replying to those who reply to me, in order to provide someone else a chance who agrees with my position to reinforce.
This truly awesome, the visualization really helped cement the idea in my mind.
"Taxation is theft" is a very common refrain because the government is taking "your property" in the form of currency.
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Bullets know no jurisdiction. Here in San Diego boarder patrol is happy to shoot over to the Mexican size of the border.
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A common pattern to implement this is an audit table: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/15186/what-is-an-aud...

...which is itself a special case of an audit trail or log: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit_trail
> but we have so many weird little needs to introduce elements just for styling purposes.

I think this is the number one reason why I prefer mobile dev over front-end web dev.
It's better than being too hot. At least if you're cold you can add clothes. If you're too hot there's a limit to how naked you can get!
Shameless plug since I am the author, but you could be interested in https://redisql.com/

Basically an Redis module that embed SQLite, I offer replication on the PRO version, if you want to try it out you can download the trial version for free.

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==This information is conspicuously absent from the article.==

Did you read the article? This part seems to answer your question:

"The FCC's lies to Congress were contained in letters Pai sent to lawmakers but were based on the assertions of former FCC CIO David Bray, the IG's report said. Pai has claimed that the IG report proves that he did nothing wrong, but House Democrats want to know exactly when Pai found out that Bray's statements about DDoS attacks were false."
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$100M is still big money.
It has nothing to do with age. if it cant be cracked it cant be cracked. choose 12 words at random from a small dictionary, write em' down somewhere safe and secret, and forget about it. That will work forever. Overkill security is better than trying to find the computational limit and then going one bit above that. keys are cracked when the process of generating them is flawed or the key is not big enough. That's why bitcoin private keys are so long and why 12 words are used even though 8 would probably still be enough.
I'm still looking for "just use links". So many frontends I see use fancy onclicks to emulate links (including updating window.location). However they are either not links or are void links. This breaks all sorts of useful things (copy link location, open in new tab &c.).
I've just read and 2/3 of this article shows TS has more advantage than InfluxDB. I just wonder why TS instead of just use PostgreSQL directly?
There's an easy fix for folks like yourself: most (all?) modern browsers support setting a minimum font size. Jack that up way into the double digits, and stop justifying ridiculously large font sizes for everyone.
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And Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are just ones where the symbols are emitted upon interaction with an edge of the graph instead of the node. The nodes are still the "states" of the system, but in general you can't know which state the model is in just by observing the symbols emitted by the edges as there may be equivalent structures in the graph associated with different states.
You can be a servant leader and still take credit for things. Servant leadership is about enabling success, not sacrificing one's self.

Sure there is a notion the time taken to help someone is time taken from helping yourself, but if management doesnt view that as a global optimizing act, you've bigger problems
A life of comfort is very much an ideal we should aspire to. There will always be people who have the intrinsic motivation to accomplish grander things. People don't accomplish great things because they are forced to.
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Very interesting read. The thing stood out to me most is that it says the islands didn't start getting discriminatory until they started encountering western culture and having it rub off on them. They still aren't overly discriminatory, but it is a minor side effect of contact with external influences.

It is fascinating to know that there are islands where gender identify doesn't matter. If you want to be a woman, just act like one and you will be accepted. I figured all places in the world shunned that type of behavior as a community, but these people had no outside influence on their behavior. To see that type of acceptance come from a natural perspective is eye opening.

It was hard to tell how men are treated. It keeps going back and forth, one sentence says the men are treated fairly, the next says they are bound by the woman's decisions. Then that the men have no problems, but still have basically all their decisions made by woman.

It is worth noting that the article mentions the hardships these people face when going off the island to the mainland places. Sure their gender acceptance at home is fine, but they face the typical discrimination you'd expect from any established society.
This is awesome! Does anyone know if this update will effect the sqldf package in R?
So you're arguing against all democracy? If there are regular votes to keep/replace this director if they are not performing to the benefit of the workers I don't see an issue. Sure they're will be some bad choices sometimes but the existence of the position in itself will exert some pressure to consider worker issues that the company didn't have to think about before.

Treating low paid workers as interchangeable, disposable resources needs to change and this is a very small step towards giving them a little more control of their situation. It's not perfect but it's better.
? German components are always known to "fail often" (oftentimes without adequate maintenance), especially compared to Japanese cars (outside of Porsche). This hasn't changed much with time.

German cars have always been about luxury and performance,not beauty (that would be the italians) and they are still top of the pile. The M3/M5 are the definitive sports sedans still, the S-Class is the definitive full-size luxury sedan, and Porsche is the go to brand for performance sports offerings (look at caranddriver's website, Porsche has 0 offerings with less than 4 stars).
Exactly - even if your process is conceptually a Markov chain, your code doesn't have to explicitly enumerate all of the states.

I used a similar scheme to your example, but with letters for generating a word for http://password.supply
That's not a great argument because happiness leads to productivity. Productivity and happiness are not mutually exclusive at all. And at the end of the day what's the point if you're not happy.

Some grand, hand wavy idea of great fulfilment somewhere down the line doesn't cut it, because you know what never built a great bridge, cured a disease, or discovered a new particle? Living with crushing debt, stagnant wages whilst working paycheck to paycheck.
Nutrition research is really hard. You want a good study, you have to take a large population, randomly assign them to two different diets, then make sure they follow those diets, for some long period of time. This is incredibly expensive.

One of the ways people have tried to get around this expense is to take a large population and ask them what they have been eating over their lives. This has two major problems that make it almost useless: People don't remember what they actually ate, only what they think they ate. And there are too many co-founding variables. Some people try to be healthy, so they make lots of changes to their lifestyle, and you can't separate out the effects from diet, exercise, stress levels, and everything else people do.
I’m a big proponent of this argument and often repeat it myself. However, it is worth considering that it only applies to founder level executives who were there at the beginning. For a 100+ year old company like GE, the argument falls apart as the original founders are not around anymore and most employees have taken the same amount of risk (or lack thereof).
No way. That’s incredible.

Edit: Awww, so close. Sadly, I can see Safari still loads all the crap. So I'd still have to disable/enable JS manually, and have other blocking in place for the extraneous requests that don't belong in a reader view. Maybe one day.
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Yeah, this is insanity. It's not common. Its still the 1% of startups, at best.
> meta review

Is "meta review" really a value add for software companies? Is this advice for Managers of peace-time companies who can't find anything more valuable to do with their time?
I meant that Marx did not advocate codetermination, as in, leaving most control to the capitalists.
Conversely, in a publicly traded company if you don't like the way it's being run you can exit your position with the press of a button.
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(Timescaler here.) That's a common question, and one we address in this post: https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e

tl;dr TimescaleDB vs. PostgreSQL: 20x higher inserts, 2000x faster deletes, 1.2x-14,000x faster queries, additional functions for time-series analytics (e.g., first(), last(), time_bucket() [1])

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Exactly. Nothing is built in a vacuum. It’s also running on top of cpu firmware, etc
> We in the US fund our defense and Germany's defense (and cover the rest of the free world too)

I agree that the USA has used its military to keep a kind of pax americana. But that is not the complete story. The super expensive wars on Afghanistan and Irak didn't had anything to do with "the free world" and a lot with oil.

BTW That may have changed nowadays, but it was a very good idea that Germany had a low military budged.
While I'm not sure of the mechanics of a lot of what's outlined here, and I'm especially not sure about the board of directors part, I think the idea of the "benefit corporation" could be a real game changer.

Currently, as you probably know, the management of a public company has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. What's funny about this is that, in doing so, management may undermine every other _value_ the shareholders have -- and, in fact, is duty-and-legally-bound to do so if it increases shareholder value as measured in money.

A legal framework like this gives management a way to maximize not only shareholder value but shareholder values. Without it, there's no legal/ethical basis do so. Companies sometimes act like they're about shareholder values, and to some degree maybe even meekly are, but, without a legal basis like this, that 's all marketing, in essence.

I've always thought it was amazing that we create these institutions (companies) that don't represent any of the values of the people in them. It's as if we've played a trick on our humanity by given it to an institution that itself isn't human nor values anything humans value despite being made up entirely of humans.
Most applications don't need the level of concurrency that Pg or MySQL provide and they will be just fine with something simple to operate, which is why I wrote https://redisql.com/
Right, so systems with taxpayer-funded healthcare are at a big disadvantage in this comparison?
I agree that everyone needs some management skills, but I'm not convinced that most teams can be run without a dedicated manager.
> it only has one index per-table source

I don't know for sure what this means, but it sounds like it is incorrect.
I don't feel comfortable with DNS services being "observed".
> It's hinged on the false idea that a manager always knows best.

No it's not. It's hinged on the idea that the manager's job is to teach his people with the knowledge and experience he's acquired. None of this suggests he's infallible, nor does the article say as much at any point.

> Now the developer has to choose between arguing with the manager and risk being viewed as insubordinate or just going along with the feedback and letting the software suffer the consequences.

If the culture is such a rigid hierarchy, they're not going to be able to deal with a senior engineer any better.

And when you have subordinates this cultural problem is easy to fix. They'll invariably think you're wrong, and if they're reluctant to say so, you just tell them, "if you think I'm wrong, it's your job to say so, so out with it."
> input button is hidden using CSS tricks because the actual button can't be styled.

Buttons can be styled.
What do the internal US trade balances between e.g. California and the rest look like?
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Yes, the wrap point is literally infinity, wrapping to negative infinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature is not terrible, for an overview, though the disclaimer is just annoying at this level.

For thinking about this point, it's much easier to talk about "thermodynamic beta" (sometimes called "coolness" or "coldness") which is just 1/T = partial S/partial E. The behavior of a spin system that admits negative temperatures can be described smoothly in terms of beta -- hotter systems have beta that is lower, and zero is not particularly special.

Now, any real system is coupled to the rest of the environment, so can't be in equilibrium at a negative temperature, as it would continuously leak heat until it cooled down enough to have some positive temperature. But if its internal equilibration proceeds much faster, then it's still useful to talk about its temperature as a quasi-equilibrium case.
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