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An electric vehicle with very good regenerative braking would probably be much more efficient, but I imagine that any internal combustion powered vehicle that accelerates and decelerates as often as a mail carrier is going to have terrible effective gas mileage.
You know, I've noticed that I sometimes laugh when I hear about horrible news. I've never understood why - since there is nothing funny or laughable about those bad things. I wonder if this is related?
Check out the Chris Manning book and Stanford course videos.
Answer: Someone will have to clean the bus.
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You can't unprint a libelous article in a newspaper either. You can sue them and they can print an apology, but you cannot erase history.

The internet poses new hurdles because information is so easily accessible, but we have to be very careful about imposing rules which restrict an adult's ability to consume information.
> what happened with Torvalds' position this year

Read: He went on vacation for five weeks.
While there are many people who do make non-optimal choices, the increasing rate of this, IMHO points to systemic economic fairness issues much more than systemic self-sabotage.
I use Pencil, too.

It has some limited features and the UX could be better, but it is open source and works across Linux, OSX and Windows, so other people on the team can edit diagrams I have created.
The graphs you link to show Vitamin D having "good" evidence of improving well-being, well above the "worth it" line.

But I would expect studies showing Vitamin D only effective in some cases of depression, just like Coffee is helpful in some cases of headaches. Depression seems much closer to being a symptom than to being a disease. So anything that fights a root cause of depression will only work for those people whose depression is caused by that specific root cause, and will have many people reporting it doesn't work for them at all.
It's hard to answer conclusively but early evidence is good. Their vague goal is a million miles on the drivetrain of the 3 but they warranty 100k miles, so the million is really an aspiration. There are people with 300k on their Ss already. No spark plugs, no oil to change. No fan belt, no transmission, no spark plugs or gas filter or muffler. Tires are the main thing people change. The early worries were about battery degredation. No degredation for me after almost 40k miles.
Books on child abuse? I wouldn't really recommend that.

What he actually should have suggested is either books on war (Sun Tzu comes to mind) because business basically is a shape of war. Or monkey behavior, because many organizations tend to look quite similar to a monkey colony (including people fighting with and backstabbing each other to have a chance to take a step higher on the organizational ladder).

Another good suggestion would be to read books on psychology and psychiatry, especially the ones dealing with three traits known as the Dark Triad (psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism) [1], because they are prevalent in big business environments -- especially in leadership positions.

In fact in many ways the author is correct, only I would not necessarily blame men for this shit system because - believe it or not - many men suffer within it aswell. As described above I would blame the Dark Triad. Get rid of the people who treat other people like they are human garbage for whatever reason and the problem is most likely solved -- for both women AND men.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Many people are very easily falling for the schadenfreude approach to others. It's not helping at all when a teacher who works two jobs gets bashed by their neighbours for not working hard enough.

Somehow, along the way, many people lost all compassion. I am really not sure what do they have to gain from being a-holes to genuinely struggling people. (Not everybody wants to change profession at 40-50 and they should not be forced to.)

As you said, nobody who is working full-time should be below the poverty line. Nobody.
There is a paper by Josef Rukavicka called "Dickson's Method for Generating Pythagorean Triples Revisited"[1]. It is a very nice proof without words. Based on it, the Project Euler solution was almost an oneliner in Prolog.

[1] https://www.ejpam.com/index.php/ejpam/article/view/1844
> 192:168:1:1 is not a valid IPv6 address

Ack, you’re right. For some reason, I was thinking it would get parsed as “192:168::1:1”.

That mapping does make sense.
I read somewhere that learning ML/AI isn't the hard part. It is having enough data science background to be able to tell tell what problems fit ML. ML isn't the hard part, finding a problem ML can approximate is.

Maybe that is too simplistic but I can't help after my 1 semester ML course think that most of the ML problems people are solving aren't really suited at all. Like SWE see this cool hammer and now everything is a nail. Maybe I should read up on startups using it successfully for anything but I haven't seen many of those on the frontpage.
Compatibility. Code written for layer 4 should be compatible even if layer 3 is changed. In practice much code had to be changed anyways, but the amount of violence applied to existing code was limited by not getting rid of ports. It's not just that either, but much else, including cognitive load.
There are fewer moving parts in an EV, so I'd expect them to last longer with less maintenance. With moving parts, it's usually all about them being properly lubricated. Batteries are a problem, but they can be replaced.

What usually kills the body is corrosion. Eventually, fatigue damage will set in and the body will crack.
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I'm about to set up a C-Corp using Stripe Atlas, and they push for SVB (or Azlo, for LLCs). Being bootstrapped and not seeking funding for a while, is there any reason we shouldn't go with Azlo? Azlo appears to market their product to freelancers/etc
common tactics obvious to people on the receiving end
I'm not sure lack of healthcare and low wages _is_ the main issue[1]. As the parent comment points out, it seems like that would lead to a pretty different pattern of this phenomenon. It seems to me that there's a couple broad categories that can lead to paycheck-to-paycheck living:

1) Poverty, at the level where spending on a reasonable floor of basics (food, shelter, education, leisure) leaves little for savings. This is a resource constraint, and even a perfectly optimally-run household would end up living paycheck-to-paycheck.

2) Severe exogenous financial shocks that exceed whatever buffer you were able to build, and an inability to adjust consumption downwards due to sticky commitments or psychological reasons. For lower-middle and middle-class households, this is possible simply due to bad luck; one thing the US economy is pretty bad at is providing a solid way to derisk tail risks, the obvious example being healthcare. This is naturally less common the more severe the shock, and irresponsible financial management can be a contributor in some of these cases (ie not saving an emergency fund, etc).

3) Consumption rising to meet one's income. The resource constraint is irrelevant here, as above the poverty level, this is primarily about hedonism and jockeying for status. The big caveat here is that people tend to short-circuit cost-benefit analyses when it comes to their kids: neighborhood safety and public school quality can lead to people substantially (and understandably) overextending themselves wrt housing costs. I'd caution against leaning too blindly on this mitigating factor though, as there are lots of differences between living modestly in a good school district and living generally beyond your means.

There's a degree of freedom around consumption that's likely a lot more significant than your comment assumes; this seems to follow directly from the fact that someone living beyond their means at percentile X would substantially improve their financial security if they spent as much as percentile X-10 (or whatever). For all but the lowest percentiles, this is completely feasible, and yet these low-savings studies consistently find a much larger swathe of people in these categories.

The model that makes the most sense to me is that, excluding the lowest quintile, the habit of clamping consumption to income is one of the biggest factors in our low savings.
As mentioned above, the US systemically tends to put a lot more risk on the individual than a lot of societies do; you can be better off if you manage this responsibly (and aren't in the lowest income brackets), but financial illiteracy is IME rampant, even among generally well-educated people.

[1] Lack of access to quality education likely is, but through the mechanism of low numeracy/personal finance skills/critical thinking skills.
Honestly from my perspective as an ex-gearhead, older cars die from engine failure but newer cars just tend to wear out (assuming maintenance). The whole suspension starts to go (shocks, springs, ball joints, rubber bushings everywhere) and body welds, door joints, etc start to crack and sag. All of this is fixable, but at too high a cost. Thus electric cars won't really help this, to my eyes.

Although, it's very possibly a legacy of planned obsolescence (the good cost-saving kind) where the engine would last 200k so the rest of the car was only made to last 200k as well. Perhaps as engines start to last far longer, the rest of the car will be built to match.
If there were credible threats, can you show me the arrest records? If credible threats are made, what does blocking the websites do? Is it better to ignore those threats rather than address them? Credible threats are a criminal matter after all. And I did read the article. Didn't find any credible threats that were listed.

And we care because we are americans and we don't like censorship and we don't want to live in an oppressive and censored environment. I was just curious as to why you care as a foreigner. I wasn't trying to offend you. Just curious.
I wouldn't bet on that. I owned a vehicle that had the same engine and was lighter, and it was a complete slug. Also, the tech underneath these is almost 40 years old, and was bad when new. These have no AC, so imagine driving one all day in 90F heat. I'm sure they all have a bazillion miles on them by now and are in poor repair.
Your description reminds me of our FedEx guy here on dirt/sand roads near Joshua Tree National Park.

He drives one of the smaller box trucks, from the sound of it I assume it's a gas V8. It's always towards the end of the day and he's clearly in a hurry to finish his final deliveries in an empty truck and it's like seeing a FedEx truck compete in a rally race. I can hear him coming a mile away with the taps wide open, and the thing is fishtailing and bouncing all over the place blasting across the desert at 80+ MPH.

None of the locals I've seen, not even the guys on ATVs, sustain the FedEx guy's pace.
They are strings, sometimes, and that is what this article is about. Another non-obvious fix to this issue is to start using DNS. (Well obvious to some)
Interesting response, thanks. Your comment gives me even more questions, though!

> The best you can say here is that it’s within the margin of error

What is preventing JPEG-XR from becoming faster and a net ux positive, tomorrow or in the future? Isn't the best I can say that today's results might be a bug or fluke or a quick and dirty implementation, and not a permanent problem?

> IE11 as tested in the article is not getting anything other than security patches.

The title and conclusion both said we should avoid JPEG-XR on the web, not that we should avoid it on IE11.

You're right, the article focused on the problem with IE11. Is it already a net positive on Edge? (The article didn't say.) Should the shim to make it work in the old browser that fewer people use really override the potential benefits on the newer browser that more people are already using?

Does it seem reasonable or unreasonable to make future web decisions depend on an old browser that's on life support today and has small and declining market share?
Intelligent aliens? Yes, of course. But there are many lines of evidence which makes it extraordinarily unlikely and almost no one is looking for little green men out there.

What people are searching for, and orienting our exploration programmes around, is the possibility of a second genesis and non-intelligent, probably microbial life on other worlds. That, frankly, is uninteresting to me as both a humanist and a scientist, compared with what we could be working on instead. It’s a gigantic, PR driven self-perpetuating hype machine that eats up budget and resources that could have been put to better uses.
Hmmm, for non-scientific discussions, I tend to like the XKCD scale for global temperature averages.

https://xkcd.com/1379/

Going above Paris gets into the "there be dragons" realm of human survival. The Pentagon is predicting mass migrations, wars, famine, and economic implosion[1]. I feel like that certainly constitutes "race for our lives" level of rhetoric.

Usually, when someone balks at strong rhetoric on climate change they are (1) unaware of the scale and severity of the problem or (2) don't see those affected as within their "our" definition (e.g. it will happen to other people, not my people). The former is slowly being solved through increased education and awareness, the later will likely always be present due to human tribalism and racism.

As far as the malaria theory, it's a very different strategy when you are actively causing the problem you are trying to solve. It's as if we are repeatedly shooting ourselves in the foot, then some of us say we should stop, then you say why are you so focused on the foot-shooting vs cancer killing us. One is an immediately addressable problem caused by ourselves, one is a natural threat that is not under our direct and immediate control (thus takes much longer to understand and solve).

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/us/pentagon-says-global-w...
I see all the comments about needing huge pay bumps every 2-3 years and then I also see things about how you can’t get a job in sv over 40. I wonder if it’s related
Mind providing a source for this? I read this all the time but it doesn't match my experience here in Germany.
I'm curious how startups or venture capitalists handle risk around DevOps, especially certificates, encryption keys, access to dns/domain names etc.

Legal processes take time, you typically need this info quickly in production. I'm not a VC, but if I was, I would want a backup plan in place before handing over an XX Million $ check. A smaller startup, or a seed level/pre-launch team may only have 1 or 2 founders with "admin" level access to this info.

I always thought a "Swiss bank account" type service for DevOps would be useful. It could handle this situation in a modern way (with a secure, modern API etc) and would execute a certain disaster recovery plan reliably.

Obviously centralizing that kind of data/ would be a security nightmare in itself. I'm curious how a larger VC with many companies deals with this consistently.

I know there are services available in different areas that specialize in handling certain data (corporate branding/identity, domain names etc) but not as a whole.
For 10$/year I am running a VPS server in Amsterdam with strongswan ([1] VPN server) and dnscrypt-proxy 2.0 ([2] DNS server which is dispersing queries to multiple DNSCrypt servers and also blocking various ads and bad agents) on it.

I also keep nginx to avoid pinging Apple or Google for checking if internet works (captive.apple.com, http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204 are re-routed to my own server).

Finally it is incredibly simple to use nginx to serve DNS-over-TLS from your own machine (so from my dnscypt-proxy) for using on Android Pie. Works on mobile as well. [3]

[1] https://strongswan.org/
[2] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy
[3] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Connecting-t...
> We're not going to wake up one day and be instantly vaporized.

Nice strawman. No one ever said we're going to "wake up and be instantly vaporized". What's actually going to happen is this:

- Food is going to continuously get more expensive as droughts shorten growing seasons, desertification and flooding eliminate arable land, the ocean depopulates, and increased atmospheric CO2 "de-nutrients" the crops that do grow.

- We're going to rack up unbelievable debt trying to either migrate people out of flood zones or try to delay their immersion. I've said before that once Miami starts flooding enough that people can no longer stick their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong, Florida real estate owners will probably demand some ultra-expensive engineering megaproject to try and save the city on the taxpayers' dime. The same will happen in every other low-lying coastal region. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12342617 quotes a figure of $180 million just to migrate 600 people in Alaska; now multiply that by the size of the population in coastal areas and get a glimpse of the hole we're driving into.

- Building on that last point, human migration is going to increase dramatically as people try to escape more affected regions for better-off ones. The current level of migration, relatively tiny all things considered, is already causing fatal autoimmune reactions in Europe and North America, and it's going to increase by orders of magnitude. Not to mention the additional unrest when the wealthy inevitably retreat to (literal or metaphorical) walled cities to escape the problem.

- The above factors of resource scarcity, political unrest, and finger-pointing are going to cause global wars.

So yes, this will affect all of us on the personal level of having a lower standard of living in a world of permanent social turmoil. It is not going to be fine.

> Maybe this will push us to go to space sooner than we would have? Maybe we'll create underground cities? This is an opportunity to advance human technology and society,

Even disregarding that your own use of the word "maybe" already indicates a certain amount of hopelessness about the situation, this is a fallacy of "just because circumstances forced us to develop this technology, that technology is a Good Thing and represents societal progress". I don't want to live underground or in space, I want to live on a healthy planet with lots of open space and diverse environments. At the very best, either of these options would be like spending your entire life in a climate-controlled office building. I'd prefer death.
Why? I can think of multiple reasons.

Some essentially boil down to human nature - short-term thinking, preferring politicians who make rosier promises ("assume high rate of return on pension investments and lower the taxes") against honest politicians ("increase taxes since current levels are unfunded"), etc

Some are about societal changes no one can honestly predict - avg lifespans increasing (avg life expectancy in the US was 61 when social security was enacted), pensions were promised in 70's / 80's before globalization wave hit forcing Western companies to either die or compete with leaner overseas firms, internet and e-commerce bringing b&m retail apocalypse, etc.

To find out true cost of funding a pension, try buying an annuity for the similar level of monetary coverage where seller has to do more due diligence. And that will show you the true cost, and my guess is that there is very little appetite to bear that cost in our society.
> isn't Congress made up of 50% women + 50% men?

it is true if Congress would be engaged in sex related questions only
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A college economics professor would say that this is behavior at the optimal consumer utility boundary.
I want to ask a genuine question to folks here about disaster recovery and management. It sounds pretty horrible, but at what point do you just throw up your hands and give up? How many people in your company would need to be hit by a bus? Or maybe if aws went down completely for a week? I guess I'm wondering: how far into the rabbit hole must we go?

I guess the changes of a coworker passing away are more than aws going down for a week. I guess I'm just overwhelmed by how many scenarios we need to plan for.
I'm 27.

You know, it's funny - most of my friends who were "well enough" are the same ones who'd blame people for not working enough thus not being "successful". Modern conservatives, if you like.

Nah, I am well enough because I was intelligent enough to see beyond the horizon of my abilities back then (you could also say I was idealistic enough to be reckless and believe in that distant future).

Most of the poor people of my background never had that chance, to see beyond that horizon. They gave up earlier than they should have - but can you blame them?

Because as I've already said in my first paragraph those who are "well enough" in the first place, today are as blind to their privilege as much the poor are blind to what they could have if they worked enough.

I am in a good place now. Probably even better than those who were "well enough", but the price for that is the realisation of how lucky I am and how much I wish the world wasn't this way.
Its certainly good to know that ML doesn't require a CS background. In my own case, My thinking was that because ML/AI has a strong programming component in addition to Math&Stats, my strong Hardware background might work against me. In an ideal scenario, i would like to develop AI/ML applications and wouldn't mind morphing into a SW engineer if the role requires me to. THough SWE by itself would be another steep hill to climb.
This is a little bit wrong in that the other CPU-bound tasks during loading are generally in the main thread, whereas image decoding is usually on a different thread (so, depending on how many images you have, and how many CPUs, it may not increase overall page load time in reality).

Now, overall time to decode still matters. If it's a gigantic hero image above the fold, then it could take a noticeable amount of time to decode, but it's probably still a win.

With the only good JPEG 2000 encoder, its quality at small file sizes is easily better than webp, but in practice it seems virtually nobody uses JPEG 2000, because the open source encoders are not really that great (probably because the patents are a guessing game, although technically the known holders are willing to grant royalty-free licenses).
Yea... We'll see. Rust has had quite awhile to make an attempt at Embedded and unless you count drivers for a couple STMs and a few other (mostly outdated) chips - I haven't seen a single thing that says progress.

I'd like to see Rust happen, because I don't see C++ as the embedded future. At least Rust had the good sense to leave garbage collection out.

However... I'll believe it when I see it. And by that, I mean when STM and Nordic and NXP and others are pushing out their own Rust device support files on their sites. When Keil or IAR or Rowley or Atollic pushes out a full featured IDE that uses a Rust compiler. When Rust is not only supporting the latest run of chips but there is a way to debug them with code-overlay. But until then...
> Swiss bank account" type service for DevOps

What does this mean? That nobody has access to production systems except devops?
Vote Progressive, small money politics. 7 of those people got elected this last cycle. There will be a small caucus in the house. It's a start.
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Or your partner has a fatal disease or accident.
Yes. They're actually not that heavy compared to a big plastic boat.

Fun bit of trivia is that they're still made. Grumman sold off the division to another company at one point but about 15 years ago, some ex-Grumman managers bought it and spun it out--and then bought the rights to use the Grumman name again from Northrup Grumman.

https://www.marathonboat.com/about.asp