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Location: Moscow, Russia

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Redux (Sagas, Reselect), JavaScript, Clojure & ClojureScript (Reagent, re-frame). A bit of PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Kafka, Vue.

Interests: Haskell, Coq, PL theory, DevOps culture (monorepos, trunk-based development).

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-argunov/

Email: sajkoooo@gmail.com
>Hanlons razor is a logical fallacy

I'm not see'ing it, and a quick google search isn't finding any support for that idea; it seems to me quite reasonable: Given 2 common possible explanations, prefer one. Perhaps the "Never" is at issue, but I doubt anyone ever actually interprets never as never.
Well, they seem to do OK in Hawaii. Not perfect by any stretch, but it isn't gulags and cold borcht.
I think it's a shame sodium vapor lamps are being replaced. Low pressure sodium (LPS) is actually highly efficient, provide a very soothing color for nighttime, and for me most importantly are easily filtered by astronomical observations (their spectrum is nearly a single line). Their size and unwieldiness is justified in utility street lightning setting.

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> until it raised money at an outrageous valuation and had an outrageous IPO

Lots of companies go public without developing a psychopathic culture. As Tim Cook has said, supposed conflicts between privacy-versus-profits or privacy-versus-innovation are false choices [1].

These are strategic choices Zuckerberg made and which his employees fell into step to execute. They are strategic choices investors profit from and voters tolerate. Each of these constituencies could, relatively unilaterally, knee-cap Facebook.

McNamee is making good points. This is a classic case of ad hominum.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/7fafec06-1ea2-11e9-b126-46fc3ad87...
Poor choice perhaps, given how many security holes there were in Sendmail.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the failure was something generic like running out of disk space, which nobody had both the authority and time to fix.
> Wouldn't it be more productive to praise for what you like than crap on how someone used to do something you didn't like?

My apologies; I don't mean to insult. Thanks for the reply. My point is that it says something about what the core team thinks is important. Glad to hear that the team has been accepting doc PR's for years now.

> Isn't it a good thing that Clojure is such as productive tool that it can support a consulting company that can afford to pay decent salaries so the core team can continue working full time on Clojure making it even better?

I think we're arguing at cross-purposes. Certainly Clojure is a productive environment. But I'm interested in community-focused projects. These projects often have less corporate adoption than projects like Clojure. I was disappointed with Clojure, but not because it lacked a company championing it (it has one), not because it lacked corporate adoption (it doesn't), and not because there's anything in particular wrong with the language (I think it's an excellent language) -- by those metrics Clojure is certainly successful.

I'm amazed when people complain that they can't get their boss on board with introducing Clojure into their enterprise Java project. That appears to me to be exactly the market Clojure is targeting and succeeding in, when employed there.
Ops mitigation techniques, 1 triangle
I dream of the day where there is an original content only Instagram. It will never happen in reality, but I spend a small percentage of my week submitting copyright requests to Instagram. They are surprisingly responsive, but the monstrous aggregation accounts are a plague that I shouldn't have to waste time with.
Yup, from the article:

The Navy inquiries determined that there had been widespread problems with leaders regarding shortfalls in training, manning and equipment in the 7th Fleet. The Navy fired admirals, captains and commanders, punished sailors and criminally prosecuted officers for neglecting their duties.

Adm. John Richardson, head of the Navy, called the two collisions “avoidable tragedies.” The ships’ commanders and their superiors, he said in a written statement to ProPublica, were responsible for the results.

“The tragedies of USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain reminded us that all commanders, from the unit level to the fleet commander, must constantly assess and manage risks and opportunities in a very complex and dynamic environment,” Richardson said. “But at the end of the day, our commanders make decisions and our sailors execute and there is an outcome — a result of that decision. The commander ‘owns’ that outcome.”

As an aside, the use of illustrations in this article are really great, from the collision graphics, to the busy sea routes.
People who do handyman work for a living can and should carry liability coverage.

example: https://www.progressivecommercial.com/business-insurance/han...
For all intents and purposes it's the same central authority powers. You can split hairs over hypothetical scenarios where Satoshi doesn't have as large a share in some future, but the fact is that now they have the same control as a central bank does over putting currency into circulation.
There's far more romanticizing the past than there is of romanticizing the present. So naturally it presents a better focus for critical examination.

If you ask the average person, the majority (in my experience) are far more likely to think that the world has more poor people than ever or that people have fewer rights, that opportunities are less, that corporations have more power, that kids were safer, etc.

Pinker and the rest do a valuable service to point out that these lazy assumptions are questionable to say the least and they do so using quantifiable indicators and statistics. This is important in my opinion because this narrative of a world getting worse and worse seems to be promoted by the extremists at both left and the right.

I had to force myself to read past the words "neoliberal globalists" in Hickel's rebuttal. Like the phrase "neomarxist progressives", you know already that the content will be about politics instead of any sort of historiography, statistics, facts, etc. Generally articles containing phrases like this are about appealing to an existing political base - and not about honest debate. Some other comment got downvoted for claiming this article is "pure politics" but I agree with this assessment.

The article's link to Pinker's rebuttal of Hickel (strictly speaking the rebuttal isn't Pinker's although the meat of it includes lengthy quotes from Pinker) is actually worth a read - https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/is-the-w... - as the quoted email from Pinker clearly provides supporting citations. Admittedly, I think he could have avoided pointing out Hickel's professed political leanings as the facts themselves are convincing enough.
Mythical people are the only ones who have made systemic change. They overcame all of the people who said, "Get real, that'll never happen."
> Suck it up.

Why?
State of the Union: european
Give First! <- This is business networking done right.
The people who are the most enthusiastic about cryptocurrency are typically the least informed.

"You know nothing, your opinion is invalid" is a classic "crypto" talking point.

"You don't understand Bitcoin," they shriek while failing to comprehend the precarious position their beloved asset is in. "Bitcoin can't have bubbles, it's mathematically impossible," yell their cheerleaders.
I think humanity has gone too far with companies being too data-driven. Companies have been data driven for a long time, but instead of using MAUs or "engagement" (which produces optimized garbage like facebook) we use revenue and income which, when becomes the primary driving metrics, produces another kind of garbage. Products are getting cheaper, more disposable, and less sustainable.

That last thought makes me upset when I think of people as the product.
If conversion is easy and fast, then I wouldn't care what my employer pays me with. The onus is on me to figure out which currency is used by the smartest and most productive people on the planet because that's the one I want to hold onto in the long term.
> The truth is that parental involvement is at least if not more important than the sort of school they go to.

Sure, home-life makes a big difference, but there's a lot of kids for whom a solid education at a non-dysfunctional school would do wonders.

It doesn't even have to be private-school mastery-based education with a 6-1 student/teacher ratio to make a significant difference, nor do we need to use Zuckerberg/Gates or other unicorns as the role models here.

What would it take to reverse the downward spiral in public education? Teachers who are paid a decent wage and aren't overwhelmed with 40-1 or higher ratios, crumbling infrastructure and insane administrations. That's totally doable-- if our culture is worth a damn.
It's not half as tiring as the insistence that companies like Google follow the law and pay the taxes they are supposed to even in cases where courts have specifically ruled that they haven't. You can accept that corporations aim for tax efficiency without pretending that creating imaginary entities to pay imaginary royalties to or pretending that sales of UK eyeballs to UK companies by UK-based commissioned sales reps were actually completed in Ireland is simply paying what the law requires rather than actively subverting the relevant law.
I think the message is "don't trust yourself to interpret ads, it's really complex and you should just take your gospel(no pun intended) from us".
I'm not sure why having trusted actors is necessarily a bad thing. DNS Authorities, and Certificate authorities are both examples of decentralized systems with trusted entities.
Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5B Deal with Foxconn
Did you create an account expressly to misrepresent labor law? Why?
Well. I think a good school would provide a lot of resources. Sure some parents, especially the wealthy will provide those when they can but they may not even know about opportunities out there.

Some private schools offer scholarships and those have been shown to significantly help less well to do kids succeed. I think there's a private school in Oakland that does this.

I think, as a first order of business, we should have our schools providing 3 meals a day to the kids. That will help things tremendously.
That's a good question. setInterval definitely also has its strengths and weaknesses, but it does beat rAF() here in that you can guarantee at least one frame will be ran every X milliseconds.

With regards to Javascript physics engines, I'm only versed with Matter.js.

Matter.js's Engine.update() takes a frame delta as an argument and uses Verlet integration [0] to make things work under the hood. You can optionally calculate a correction factor to be applied each frame in order to smooth out calculations with janky framerates, but if you can maintain constant FPS then it's not an issue.

Unfortunately, rAF() once again becomes a pain because of the lack of proper control over FPS capping, so monitors with higher refresh rates have a larger window for variable frame deltas. I'm hopeful that these shortcomings will eventually be addressed in the spec.

[0] https://lonesock.net/article/verlet.html
> bugs tend to happen most of the time.

They do? Software not working most of the time is indicative of poor quality software and untested requirements.

Yes, poor quality software has lots of bugs. Yes, many companies are selling poor quality software. But, high quality software does not have any bugs for the required use cases.

“Bugs tend to happen most of the time” sounds like someone is not taking responsibility.
Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years:

1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; next

2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; then

3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then

4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally

5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop.

It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account. But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?"
(It's been months since I've cared to log into Facebook. Feels more like trudging through spam in an old e-mail inbox, now, than anything compelling.)
Modern History TV has an episode on this, in case it's useful for future reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVcey0Ng-w&list=PLEdnpoTDGX... .
The "talent waste" problem described in this article focuses on fairness--who gets access to which learning communities, which opportunities within those communities, and which support structures.

Regarding fairness, maybe it's less important to think about access to learning experiences and more important to think about access to evaluation experiences. If everyone had fair access to proving their talent regardless of how they cultivated it, we might see an increase in learning efficiency. I wonder if this could lead to some sort of market efficiency for talent cultivation.
Calm becomes the world's first mental health unicorn
I think his point is that SV has had a lot of companies lately which ignore regulations that are inconvenient.

This helps them grow when they are are small, and then when they get bigger they can either fight it in court, lobby, etc.

For example, Airbnb, Uber, Lime, etc.
Imagine if the "100 spies" were representatives you could vote for.
I think most people get the impression that they would rather still be doing this, if only there hadn't been a social media outcry.
Got a link? Sounds interesting.
> Suck it up.

Why don't you suck up me not having any?
Does amazon's grocery service count?

Separately was I about to sign up for instacart through www.bjs.com before this story dropped.
Sure, but as a PM at reddit, you're not going to release new features like blanket URL parameters that push behavior that leads to security issues. Just to cater to a self-selecting demographic that doesn't directly contribute to your P&Ls.
In a genius stroke of irony, the claim that binarization has some inherent effect on things the author implies are "more than binary"... is expressed in good old UTF-8.
These drivers aren't even entitled to minimum wage protections, let alone car maintenance and gas. While I agree that tipping is a bad form of compensation because it is so volatile, this is the only way folks like this are keeping their head above water.
> Always tip cash to service people.

It's more nuanced than that. Do you tip pest control, plumbers, locksmiths, that guy that fixes the spring in your garage opener? As a consumer, I'd rather pay a fixed price and not worry about carrying enough cash to supplement their income.
1) Apologize, explaining that he made a mistake. Self-deprecation is good here.

"Hey - we tried to cheat you blind. We thought we could cheat you without you noticing. Clearly that was a mistake - you noticed. I'm sorry that you noticed when we tried to cheat you."

2) Make it right, not just going forward - they are retroactively paying the delta to the impacted employees.

"The state attorney general's office phoned me and it was scary. I'm going to return the money that we cheated you out of because I don't want to go to jail."

"In the future, I promise to not cheat you in ways that you will notice."
Bruce Hauman has given a few good talks about how you can use tools like Figwheel to bring a REPL-like development experience to web development.

You can watch him live-code the game 2048 in the screencast where he introduces DevCards[0]. Notice that the video came out 4 years ago!

One thing that really drew me to Clojure is that it seems to be a nexus of really good ideas that have trickled out into the larger community. If Clojure was where all the smart kids ate their lunch, maybe if I ate lunch with them too (so to speak), some of their smarts might rub off on me :)

[0]: https://vimeo.com/97078905
I don't really want all of my personal actions on a publicly visible system. Consider Facebook's internal data or the Chinese Social Credit system available to the public.

I do like the idea of an internet where every action is traceable to a human, via public keys or sovereign identity.

How you'd retain and verify is an unknown for me.
It seems tied to having a single bucket for everybody.

I'd probably participate in some discussions if I couldn't see and wasn't involved in the likes, up/downvotes, brownie point scramble. If I just saw similarly inclined people there would be a different kind of discussion.
yeah, I mean, the like button is an example of exactly what the internet is good for: sorting and summarizing information. It makes far more sense to me that the pathological culture is created by the perverse incentives of a social network monetized by ads.
Instacart waited over a week since news of this first broke to issue this kind of an apology and change their course - they only did so after Buzzfeed and the NYTimes started to give the story more visibility. So not only was their decision to pay employees this way a conscious one, but so was choosing to respond not when they realized that their "contractors" felt screwed, but when too many of their customers would be aware of the issue and it became a PR concern.

They can apologize all they want, that's fine. But apologies don't always necessitate forgiveness. An apology is a start, and their actions going forward are what will truly determine whether or not people should forgive them.
Objective harm is visible damage backed by reality. Subjective harm is mostly puritan nonsense.

Unless you make distinctions, I don't think this argument can continue.
Cross-lingual pretraining sets new state of the art for NLU
> The average joe doesn't need to grok the whole tax code to know it's wrong when one of the most high profile profitable companies doesn't pay any income tax.

The problem is that this is false. I mean, it is true on very short term - but then you can as well be outraged about Netflix not paying taxes this Monday, and ignore the fact that they paid tax on Thursday. If you read the article and try to figure out what it actually says, you'll find out that they do pay taxes (albeit, claimed that at lower rate - 13.6% - no idea why, or how it was calculated, based on what, so one can't verify it) even if they didn't pay income taxes (they probably still pay a lot of other taxes) in one particular period of time. If the average joe can't grok this, it's ok, but then it's probably premature for the average joe to have an opinion on the tax policy. Not that this ever stopped anybody...

> That indicates the system is fucked.

No it does not. It indicates that a clickbait article successfully triggered you into an outrage fit without informing you or enhancing your knowledge.

> There isn't a technicality in the universe that will indicate that somehow our perception is wrong.

If you actually read the article, you'll easily find out why your perception is wrong. It plainly says that Netflix does pay taxes, if you bother to look beyond one single year. Given how many corporations are in the US, and how uneven business cycle and investment/profit undulations are, there always would be cases where some corporation lost a ton last year, and then made some profit this year, but this profit is offset with last year's loss, so they pay little or no taxes in single year. You can always find such examples and blow an outrage out of it. But if you bother to understand it, then you'd see there's nothing to be outraged about - if the profits over longer term are higher than losses over the same term, it will be taxed. Maybe not this year but next - who cares.
As above, look for architectural bulbs that are deep dimming rated (< 10% dimming). They cost more. I personally have had good luck with Cree, but probably the other top shelf vendors have similarly good products.
In some ways, it doesn't really matter how much we throw at the schools because they are expected to solve for very large societal problems such as the massive inequality that exists in this country.

In the US at least, schools bear the brunt of consequence of the lack of social safety nets. They are expected to not only teach but also raise kids that have no real parents (who are either working two jobs or the victims of a life time of poverty themselves)

If we want to improve education, we need to take a broader look at inequality and the cycles of poverty that feed into each other.
That is not how marginal tax rates work. I'm also completely fine moving to an inflation based basis system if capital gets the same tax treatment as labor.
Visma SPCS is Swedish, founded in the 80s. Visma bought them in the early 2000s.
You are comparing people defending their own property to people stealing other people's property.

Fortunately, humanity came to agreement about which of these two were acceptable at the dawn of civilization. Stealing is not acceptable, and property rights are essential for freedom. Capitalism does not rely on any "state" to enforce violence. It requires that people go about their lives without interfering with other people's lives except through mutually beneficial trade. States have developed as a means for people to collectively secure their freedom to cooperate in this way so that they don't need to be constantly under the threat of invasion from cavemen who do not share any of those values.

Of course, I am willing to concede that states do not have impeccable records when it comes to utilizing its violence - but if anything, this only adds to the argument for small government. Big government has more resources to squander on wars and less ability for the constituents it purports to represent to have any effect on its policies. A communist government is the biggest form of government you can get. It is also unaccountable, because you can't vote them out.

Ultimately, while regressive thinkers exist, there exists a need for people to collectively pool their resources to defending their freedoms and their properties from those who would like to steal and enslave them.
It is harsh, but where's the fun in the comment section of an HN post on psychology without a little hyperbole?

My disdain comes from seeing people I'm close to repeatedly pushed towards those treatments by practitioners who, when asked to provide references supporting their endorsement supply anecdotes about past or current patients rather than DOIs. There are specific TMS protocols that appear to have some growing amount of evidence behind them, but ketamine still seems to be a wildly variable cash grab that requires further data before anything can be said about its efficacy.
service will check MX record of your email and refuse to register if it match mailinator's MX.
Request for feature: Chrome extension: a shortcut fills in guerillaclick+<random_hash>@gmail.com
I was in the circle of friends that contained our high school valedictorian. She gave her real commencement speech in the lunch room, to us, because she wanted to say things fairly close to what you just did, and the school wasn't having it.
You'll just end up with Burning Man.
The connector is the network