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I look forward to your future posts and I hope one of them addresses open office plans and how they negatively affect the workplace.
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Short selling is generally good.

The negative reputation comes mainly from the cases where short selling is used for market manipulation like coordinated bear raids. If the market regulators are awake, this should not be a reason to oppose short selling in general.
The shell(s) and console are two different things, I’m talking about the second.
It’s one of those assymetries: disengagement is much easier to create than engagement, and hard to repair
How do you square the following notions?

a) dark matter does not interact with measurable matter

b) proof of dark matter's existence derived by the measurable, relative, interaction of mass and energy
I've been doing some coding against the "distributed places" API in Racket, and it's been really nice to work with: https://docs.racket-lang.org/distributed-places/index.html
> Monopolies are never good for markets, pretty much but definition. Regulated monopolies, such as utility companies, are sometimes good for consumers though.

I actually have the exact opposite opinion, natural monopolies are good for the market while government granted monopolies are not.

Natural monopolies (i.e., ones not protected by fiat) gained their position through being the best in that space and there's nothing to stop competitors from overthrowing them if they lose their way while the opposite is far from true -- try to overthrow a gov't granted monopoly and you end up in court for patent (or whatever) infringement.
What's good for markets is for there to be a variety of opinions about a stock. Long term opinions, short term opinions, positive opinions, negative opinions. Absolute values (TSLA is worth $500), relative values (TSLA should be worth more than GM).

What would be bad would be for us to censure certain expressions, so that we only hear certain ideas.
Interesting, the studies i’ve Read pegged the average reduction at 4%.
“More precisely:” is not how to start a joke, typically they are the opposite of precise.
Both of my kids were delivered by c-section. I'm not arguing that they're bad. I'm arguing that they're riskier than natural birth.
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A lot of that is due to this "blank slate" idea of humans. All bias, instincts, gut reactions, etc is all learned behaviour, and if we just changed culture it would all go away. (Not that I agree with that)
This would be perfect, but unfortunately doesn't seem to work on most downvoted comments (negative scored), for example:

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/18204620.json

This comment is light gray, but doesn't return anything different in this API from a regular (positive scored) comment.
It isn’t for the EU. The EU budget for 2018 is €160 billion (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-annual-budget...)

For comparison, the USA has a federal budget of about $4 trillion.

The problem is that “the EU” doesn’t have an economy, and still is mostly built from individual economies.
After a couple weeks I stopped thinking about eating until it was time to eat in the morning. Your body gets used to it. You just have to power through the adjustment period.
But did you ever care about openness, vendor lock-in and portability? Most people in the world can't afford 600$ Nvidia GPUs.
In practice, it is far, far more common for bad actors to run the pump and dump than to short and issue fake news. The latter is rare enough that we don't have a word for it. The former is common enough to be called "pump and dump". There's a good reason why shorting is not a common scam technique: your gains are capped at 100% and your risk is unlimited. On the long side, it's the opposite. A pump-and-dump has unlimited upside and the you can only lose 100%.
Good idea, I've also been hearing for a while that collaborative workspaces improve employee engagement, which is garbage.
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There is not scientific consensus on this issue. The article is written as if particle dark matter is the only viable option. I would recommend reading another expert on this issue for comparison. https://tritonstation.wordpress.com

Dark matter and Lambda-CDM have fundamental problems too.
They should learn to use React & understand Redux
> I believe the WHO recommends around 10-15% of births should be C-Section in a healthy population, but the figures in first world countries are at least 3-5 times that.

Apparently 45% in China, 25-35% in many Western countries. I had no idea that the numbers in many countries are that high; Northern Europe (where I'm from) is evidently something of an outlier at 15% or so.
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I could not disagree with you more about that, but anyway this seems to be a good video showing the ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKz6qdexetY
It seems like (the stories in) this is more about remembering faces than names. Prosopagnosia is face blindness which people often mask by matching hair clothes and other features... while remembering a name or a meeting is something else. You can be great at one and terrible at the others.
A filesystem using complex data structures, with no mention of reliability? It seems like a huge omission. Personally I think simplicity (and reliability, which usually accompanies it) is the most important for a filesystem --- it doesn't matter how fast it is, if it is prone to data loss from bugs or whatever else.
>you'll occasionally get 503's from their APIs, so you need to wrap all your calls to them in retries.

No matter which cloud platform you're using you should do this[1]. I'm not familiar with the GCP SDK but I know the AWS SDK has it built in[2]. If you're not using the SDK then you have to build it yourself. There will always be a small percentage of transient errors due to the network, DNS, timeouts, hardware failure, etc.

[1] This is a blanket generalization, there are some situations where you shouldn't use the backoff/retry pattern even for retryable errors.

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/api-retries.ht...
Hmmm....not sure about natural monopolies...think Amazon or Bloomberg...
I'm not an astrophysicist, but how do we know we're not measuring overlapping folds of relative spacetime, and erroneously counting the same observable matter more than once?
I think the rut being referred to is an inability (rooted in complacency and habit, not actual inability) to learn, change, or adapt. Nothing to do with specific technologies, or even new vs old technologies. Just a far too strong inclination to stay in one’s comfort zone, and for that comfort zone to never expand.

I’m pushing 50 and know many older engineers. An occupational hazard is getting complacent and ceasing to evolve and learn as an ongoing part of one’s career. This is a hazard with life in general as people get older, but if we’re not wary of it, it can have professional consequences too.

As far as what does it look like- they go to a new team or employer, which naturally has different tools and practices and technical domains, and they expend titanic amounts of effort to continue working just like they used to in the new surroundings, rather than simply making an effort to adapt and learn new skills.

I’m not saying this is a common problem when hiring older engineers, just something we all have to grapple with as we age. I think that’s all that was meant by a rut. Resistance to all change, regardless of whether that change is good or bad.
Slow as hell
> "I challenge you to find a vendor in this space who puts some skin in the game, charging by results delivered to the income statement. Vendors have an incentive to ensure that engagement scores stay low, otherwise, they don’t have a product to sell."

I worked for years in this space at my startup but we found success coming at it from a different angle. We started with a gamification platform and transitioned into enterprise integrations to measure "Employee Engagement". The difference was that we didn't just measure it through employee surveys but through objective goals on measurable KPIs. Essentially we hooked into live data sources from our customers and provided a way for managers to create leaderboards, achievements, goals, etc. against it.

Every time we renewed our contract with our customers we would measure and compare the performance of employees using the system against to those who were not and provide an ROI report. Most of our customers felt it was a no-brainer to renew once you could tie our costs to their increased revenue.

> "While measuring on a more frequent interval is a helpful start, the act of measuring doesn’t lead to improvement. It’s like if I step on a scale and expect to lose weight. If I couple the measurement with action, change can be made."

I think what it boils down to is "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.". It's very difficult to measure something nebulous such as Employee Engagement which is an intangible moving target.
One prominent counterpoint to this article is the school of Afrofuturism. Lately, we have seen a resurgence in this thought line ranging from Black Panther to Janelle Monae. But those of us in technology often are not aware of this very important, visionary futuristic movement.

I'll also add if you haven't seen Black Panther, go and see it. Most science fiction reminds me of Kowloon by day, Tokyo by night. It is so refreshing to see a different, Africa-centric view of the future. Think Nairobi 2080.
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That is interesting, because the advice I always hear for businesses is to keep in house their core business and contract/outsource everything else. That 'bring everything in house' strategy only works for the biggest companies that have enough scale.

For almost everyone else, the cost of providing a profit margin to the contracting company is dwarfed by the savings you get from the economy of scale the contractor is able to provide.

Really, this is the microeconomics version of the ideas behind free trade. It is better to produce what you are best at and trade for the rest.
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Hi Todd - Has your team looked at GraphBLAS [1] yet for MapD [2] now that Tim Davis has released a 2.0 reference C implementation (included in SuiteSparse 5.3) [3]? There is a GraphBLAS 2.0 CPU implementation in RedisGraph now [4] and official GraphBLAS 2.x GPU implementations are in the works.

[1] GraphBLAS http://graphblas.org

[2] OmniSci MapD DB https://github.com/omnisci/mapd-core

[3] SuiteSparse::GraphBLAS http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html

[4] Previous Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099520
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Apple Watch doesn’t support roaming even on officially supported providers.

I’m on EE (T-Mobile and Orange consortium in the UK) which means when I roam in the EU it connects to T-Mobile and Orange which support the watch in their local countries but the roaming doesn’t work.

Also with LTE there is no sync with the phone the sync won’t work unless you are connected to WiFi it doesn’t use BT afaik it uses airdrop.

The airdrop is also anecdotally supported by the fact that my company has disabled airdrop recently when they rolled out DEP to all work issued phones since then I can’t sync the watch with my company phone.
“practically killed”? No one I know uses WhatsApp; they all text
> you can write puts and calls without being needing short selling

Put-call parity [1] makes option markets work. It lets anyone to manufacture a put from a call and a short, or a call from a put and a long. This ability to spin up options on demand is critical to options market making. (Source: former options market maker.)

Take away shorting and you vastly increase the risk of correcting option mispricing. Given how fundamental options are to other instruments, e.g. convertible debt, this would directly decrease funding options (and increase funding costs) to companies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put–call_parity
https://alphaarchitect.com/2017/12/18/academic-research-insi...
They've been specifically bred to exaggerate characteristics that are not healthy. The predominant result is brachycephalism which causes breathing and heat regulation issues amongst other things. This is also why they can't give birth naturally.
You're comparing mathematics term which have been established since before your grandfather was born with a peculiarity of the C language that confuse more people than it helps. People willing to Obtain a small amount of LOC for less clarity deserves neither.
There is not scientific consensus on this issue. I would recommend reading another expert on this issue for comparison. https://tritonstation.wordpress.com

Dark matter and Lamda-CDM have some fundamental problems.
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We don't have that good idea of what the earth consists of. I think much of those theories are based on counting backwards from knowing the mass, and if we have 5% dark mass orbiting Earth, it wouldn't make any material difference.
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When I was 30, people just looked at me and assumed I was a competent software engineer because I looked exactly like a very senior software engineer, and I presented myself in that way. But I was very junior, having made a recent career change. Yet they paid me like a prince, and I rose so rapidly through the ranks that I became an executive.

Now I'm 50, and my company folded and I went to the curb, and am looking for a new job. Now I don't look like that bright young engineer. I look like an old has-been who is stuck in a rut and stuck in my ways. Except I'm not. I'm highly experienced, an innovator, get along great with many kinds of people and can contribute at all levels of an org, from production support to development to architecture to the boardroom.

But the first question I get asked on interviews is "Are you technical?"

My over-40 career advice for you is to remember what they do to engineers that are over 40.
Another definition of mine: employee engagement is the proportion of the total employee cost that can be cut before the productivity starts decreasing, over the total of these expenses. Ranges between 0% and 100%. "100% engaged" ==> most probably the business owner: ready to pay all expenses from own pocket.
is there anything close to or similar to this for C?
What does "close to DC" mean?

And "end facets of the optical filter"? What is being thrown around?
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The headline indicates that forgetting someone's name is bad, however the article treats that as forgetting someone entirely. I'm curious what the impact of the inbetween would be; that is "I remember I've met you before, but I can't remember your name".
Retrying localizable errors (such as 503 Service Unavailable) should be universally practiced in any RPC scheme. Nobody can make a backend that's 100% reliable.
If you need to build a product that relies heavily on real time updates, I would look into using Elixir and Phoenix.[0] They nailed the channel abstraction which is the main entry point for realtime communication over websockets. It takes me hours to make scalable realtime applications in what would normally take me days using other systems. The language may take some time to get used to, and the ecosystem isn't as mature as other languages, but what is there is incredibly impressive.

[0]: https://phoenixframework.org/
Also if you look at the price graph for Tesla it's been kind of flat for the last 5 years with the price around $200-300 give or take.
If you are a previous server/network guy then you will probably just want the best of the best as anything else would just waste your time and be a pain to use.

I recommend the following if you need quiet
https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/categories/racks-and-accessor...

If you have the space and height, might as well just put in a full rack that is also deep so you can put anything in it.
https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/categories/racks-and-accessor...

This way you are not bending over to reach things that would be much easier to reach while standing and it looks very professional, and will align with what is used in the data centers. Security wise, it locks at the front and back, if you need to you can pop the sides off the rack and put them back with little to no effort. Best of all there is room to put a full PDU or PDUs. There are also variants that you can easily move so you only have to unplug the power and fiber uplink(s).

As the smaller 19 inch racks are normally not tall/deep enough to do an advanced home setup (e.g. UPS (2U) at the bottom, routers (2U each for the good ones), KVM (1U), KVM Switch (1U to 2U), switches (1U each) at the top, storage server (2U to 4U), couple of virtualization servers (1U to 4U), firewall (1U to 2U), backup server (2U to 4U)).

My 19 inch rack did not last very long and I decided to chuck it and upgrade to a full rack and never looked back. Small investment for the connivence and flexibility to use a more realistic setup, especially if you are a professional engineer.

If you are not able to get it through regular house doors you can get a split colo rack or rack that is split in two so you can move each piece in and do not have to have it at it's full height until it needs to be finally positioned.
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You can also have both or neither. There is no dichotomy between tech aptitude and social aptitude.

Moreover, there not one tech aptitude, but more like multiple different aptitudes that makes you more or less suitable for different positions.
The current administration is actively dismantling the EPA, so I'm not sure this is the best analogy.

There's no real appetite for regulation of commercial data use in the US on either end of the political spectrum. And this is a good thing, because GDPR-style regulation would do nothing but further entrench the big players and crowd out innovation.
Precisely. Rational? It's a multivariate problem. Get married, buy a house, have kids. Now you're juggling daycare and school schedules and dependent benefits. At the same time, you have to balance developing enough technical expertise to increase your value, learning new tech to say current (while likely having less time for learning), and paying close attention to your work projects to be sure you can reduce your accomplishments to a cold, hard ROI so the angel of death passes by when the economy slows and the RIF times come.

And while more junior engineers can be forgiven 3 jobs in 5 years as they ratchet themselves up, seniors need to demonstrate they can stay somewhere for long enough to amortize their hiring, while avoiding getting stuck in a rut.

Good luck!
I think this conclusion results from the form of projection discussed in the article, except that you're applying it to the past. The risk is of overemphasizing even slight similarities (projecting your own circumstances onto past conditions) rather than acknowledging those things that have changed beyond all recognition.
Or more concrete do:

s = """
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and
expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the #endnote-1
master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure
#endnote-10 advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man
that produces no resultant pleasure?
"""

import re

def bump(match):
return '#endnote-{}'.format(int(match.group(1))+1)
r = re.sub(r'#endnote-(\d+)', bump, s)
print(r)
One of my hobbies is birding: specifically going out and trying to count all the birds I can find down to a species level. This requires a good ear to do well. Many times I find myself closing my eyes and pausing all bodily motion to really listen intently for the low chips of a sparrow, or distant drumming of a woodpecker.
The article also seems to conflate forgetting appointments with forgetting facts. I can easily see how if someone forgot an appointment with me, it would be annoying and damage the closeness of a relationship. I have zero resentment, however, for someone forgetting my name. I have forgotten people's names far too many times to get angry over such things.
This article does not address the core issue with today's short sellers. They target companies that are dependent on financing and use fear uncertainty and doubt to ruin the company's reputation. They corrupt journalists, analysts, regulators, law enforcement, and ratings agencies... They work with known criminals and recruit saboteurs. Details in this link

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...
I forget and “re-meet” people regularly.

A few years ago, I picked up a habit I saw Michelle Obama use: she says “nice to see you” instead of “nice to meet you.”

The phrase feels warm and appropriate to new folks, but keeps the ones I’ve met before from feeling forgotten.
Yes. I often spend time self reflecting my current solutions and chosen paths to consider if I’m in a rut. This is a common topic of discuss at my office especially when evaluating the cost of technical debt: should we continue editing the old tooling in the old technology or should we invest in a larger project to migrate to a newer solution.

We use a mix of older and newer technologies. We try to identify the “best” solution where best is a function of: implementation cost (time and dollars), technical debt, learning curve, future extensibility, performance, simplicity, and personal intellectual interest.
Epic Games = Epic Assholes... Boycott may be in order. Or we could all just pirate their software for a few months until they get the hint. Vote with your wallet people!
The Safari team has quietly kicking ass regarding web and privacy features: https://webkit.org/status/
This calls for me to cite by super most favorite page in all of Wikipedia: topographic prominence.

See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence?wprov=s...

/Acey
> If you take away short selling, you take away many other healthy components of functioning markets. You won't have functioning options markets for example, because market makers can't hedge their positions

I'd say this isn't actually true. You'd hedge your short deltas and let the long deltas ride, prefer to sell delta to flatten risk (in other words charge more when selling puts and pay less
when buying calls to compensate for P&L variance), and expect put-call disparities to level out in a slightly different manner. You could also sell well-correlated futures to hedge, or just trade combos and pass the risk off to someone else.

Empirically, many of the hard to borrow names are the most well-traded in the options world. When people can't sell short, they buy puts and pass the risk off to a market-maker.

Specifically about what I said about put-call parity: In the status quo, if puts are more expensive than stocks, you generally sell a put, sell 100 shares of stock, and buy a call. In the hypothetical world where you can't sell short, if you don't already have long shares then you can't take advantage of the inefficiency. So, put implied vol would trade over, and large banks and other dealers who are already long stock would have an advantage over small shops that don't already have a long shares position.

The only real difference is that options markets would be less liquid, wider and less efficient.
TFA has a leftist emphasis, but this is happening on the other side too:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-11/facebook-purges-ov...

Wow I'm so shocked that these two awful antisocial media platforms from which I fled long ago are now full-fledged members of the war media.
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