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I see a lot of saves work like this:

f = open( "the_file.new.$$" );
write( f, new_contents );
close( f );
rename( "the_file.new.$$", "the_file.new" )

If not implemented like this, then something that attempts to read "the_file.new" may get partial contents, normally truncated along the file system block size.

Backups often take place, too, like you mentioned, depending on editor.
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The Kubernetes certifications are also hands on, and actually require a lot of operational knowledge that someone who uses it on a daily basis probably wouldn't even be exposed to (like bootstrapping it from scratch as opposed to using more commonly accepted tools).

From what I can tell, AWS recently offloaded their certification program onto a third party, so I doubt it will improve anytime soon.
Loved your inetd/xinetd analogy.
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If you like programming more just go for it and be happy. It is very likely you will be much more successful at the thing you enjoy and software is definitely not a bad place to be in with a lot of opportunities and possible roads.
I personally detest the whole XDG thing but lots of non-XDG applications are guilty of littering the home directory. For example, every time I use the Less pager, it creates a .lesshst file (fixable by setting "LESSHISTFILE" to "-"). Vim creates .viminfo files so I had to create an alias to it where vim equals "vim -i NONE".
IMO this is why Google Cloud was behind AWS (talking 2008-2013 or so). Google bet on PaaS while Amazon bet on IaaS. The dumb corporate money is still behind IaaS, as inefficient as it can be.
I know a few people who work at RenTech. I would be very surprised if the operation turned out to be fraudulent. It certainly could be, but I very much doubt it.

If you have your ear to the ground you can find many proprietary trading firms which have similar or even superior returns. It's much harder to find a fund deploying similar strategies at the same capacity.

As a corollary, every single new hire at the firm is expensive in more than the traditional ways. They only have so much room in Medallion, and so they tend to be both extremely secretive and extremely protective when hiring. They've lessened up on that somewhat recently, but it's still there.
'The firm initially terminated its 401(k) plan for employees in 2010, a step that permitted them to roll the savings into traditional IRAs. Then, employees took advantage of a rule change that year allowing affluent Americans to convert their traditional IRAs into Roths. '

Looks like they rolled all their savings in to traditional IRAs and then converted them in to Roth IRAs. This procedure, known as a 'Backdoor Roth' conversion, effectively allows unlimited Roth IRA contributions beyond the income limits. If you are scratching your head and asking, why this is legal - so are many other people, but it appears to be accepted as within regulation by tax experts.
I really recommend this Ars Technica podcast that features a long and in-depth interview with Avi Loeb:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/nailing-down-the-nat...

He makes a pretty convincing case that there are several highly unusual properties of Oumaumau that makes it reasonable to hypothesize that it is of unnatural origin. Whether or not you're convinced, you'll at least come away much better informed about his arguments that from the soundbite back-and-forth that passes for debate in articles like the BI one.
Cloudflare is the kind of technical company I always wanted to build. Glad to see their success as a happy customer.
Like Blackberry used to be?
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> First, it'd be illegal to do in secret.

There isn't any need for secrecy. An anti-ballistic missile is also a missile. So they can theoretically be designed to be both defensive and offensive. That's what the indians did - converted one of their offensive missile to also be a defensive missile that can shoot down other missiles (I am not claiming that the Indians are using the same missile both as an offensive arsenal and in their missile defence shield, but just that it may be possible in the future for them. Both Russia and the US are well ahead of India in missile R&D, and it may not be far fetched to think that they may have already developed configurable missiles that could be used for both offence and defence.)
To me, McKinsey is so many layers away from the actual problem that I find it difficult to single them out.
The main responsibility lies with the doctor prescribing the medicine. Then with the company that pushed and produced them, then with McKinsey that consulted them and finally with the Uber drivers that brought the sales people and the patients to the doctors.
This gets into very deep water about what the "real" self it. And using this in the machine feedback loop produces weird side effects, like the tendency of Youtube to recommend far-right, conspiracy, anti-vax etc videos because those have high engagement. It's almost a dissociative effect, where people keep watching or clicking but understand less and less why they're doing it.

People who wire a machine directly into the id have obviously never seen or understood Forbidden Planet.
This is why corporate standards in 2019 should address how systems integrate into the rest of the company, and not how they are implemented. The history of the past 2 decades bears this out.
At least use the NoScript plugin and opt-in to only the JS you need.
pcengines apu2 should be good for hacking. Very open platform (it runs coreboot). Not very cheap though.
This isn't an objection to your comment, but it should be pointed out that titles do not do anything except represent the article. Articles are the things that say things. One of the reasons why Hacker News is strict about titles is because readers act as though they're information in and of themselves, and we predictably get nonsense discussions as a result.

We have Twitter for one-liners about one-liners; we're trying for something a little less slapdash here.
This. I would also add that renters with such strong rights as they have in SF also constitute a mutex on a property. When so many of the units have these mutexes, it makes it basically impossible to develop property in San Francisco. The other policies such as minimum parking requirements, CEQA lawsuits and "you'll block my view" lawsuits, etc. are all basically mutexes on a property held by everyone but the property owner, which is the only person with an incentive to develop their property for profit. And by "develop" I mean build more housing that would help alleviate the shortage.
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> one criticism of Uber has been using investor capital to artificially reduce those costs down to levels totally unsustainable in terms of the actual demand and built-in costs. Essentially taking a loss to artificially over-service those areas

This would seem at first glance to either be a case of predatory pricing, or it is not?

I still don’t see the why regulators shouldn’t separate the issue of minimum wage from the other issues (competition etc). Even if the regulation means killing Uber’s competitors, isn’t it the right decision to impose a minimum wage? Is there a similar debate about e.g what a minimum wage does to small vs large actors in retail?

If Uber uses a dominating market position unfairly or uses predatory pricing with investor money that should be addressed, but if Uber needs to “pad” their drivers wages $2 per hour and Lyft needs to pad $4 to reach minimum level due to Uber being able to use its size to get higher utilization, then that seems like competition as it should work?

I appreciate your attempt to explain why and how this is complicated - and I apologize for being thick here.
Do you just have a /snap directory and no $HOME/snap? Normally, snap creates /snap for the binaries (shared among all users) and $HOME/snap for the per-user configuration/data files.
And do it while suddenly homeless.
I swear a lot irl but I agree the title is not really appealing. Using wtf does not add anything useful over using just what.
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You're not wrong - I have to watch myself to be sure I don't fall into that trap. I hope I succeed in bringing forward valuable lessons, but none of us are perfect. In addition, the advice I find myself giving most often to
a variety of people is to stop saying, "This is what we did back when I worked at X". If you cannot abstract it into broader reasons why an action is applicable and helpful to the current situation, then having done it before is simply an anecdote.
With a lens added, the iPhone will beat most fancy digital cameras.
Can I pay you like I'd pay 22 year olds? :)
Would you please adjust your comments towards more information and less guidelines breakage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Having worked for McKinsey myself, I can assure you they are/were not. Client confidentiality is holy and you normally do not talk to your colleagues about the work you do.
McKinsey oftentimes serves clients on both sides of an M&A deal for example and has strict procedures in place to keep teams separate.
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The treaty of Versailles?

How did that come about?

British: Your troops are retreating, your civilians are starving, surrender now.

Germany: Ok

France: And you will tune your instruments to 435hz

Germany: Noooooooo....

Edit:
Still havent got a reason, this adds more detail but says 440hz?
http://capionlarsen.com/history-pitch/
I reject that this is porns fault. The man was young and disturbed. There’s a lot of things about present day society that drive people’s insecurities. Porn can be one. Porn addiction can definitely be a problem. It sounded more like this guy needed a real friend or therapist to talk to.

This guy could have spent 5000 dollars on having sex with a very attractive escort, rather then guns and shooting up a place. Maybe society shouldn’t make paying for sex a humiliating and degrading thing. Sex workers can be good people and people that pay for sex don’t have to be weak or sad people. The man was convinced sex and women would be forever alien to him and that didn’t have to be the case.
Writing a concurrent runtime system including garbage collector is a serious effort, and that's why all those other versions of Python don't support it and are stuck with a GIL. Hence, I highly doubt that this Rust version of Python has gotten rid of the GIL.

I'd love to see a better separation of language and VMs. I think it's a bit sad that a language designer has to either implement their runtime system from scratch, or has to run it on top of a VM that was designed for another language (Java in the case of Jython).

Therefore, the thing I'm looking forward to most is a concurrent, generic and portable VM written in Rust.
I think they mean the houses are 5x cheaper, but tax is 5x higher, therefore they wouldn't want to buy a 'mansion' in Texas
Because become very popular and are being hyped, and so the press has decided to shone some light on them?
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Good heavens! Yes, thanks. Lexer error on my part.
Exactly. Whereas porting away from OpenVMS is a lot of effort, so it's worth the effort for VMS Software to port OpenVMS to x86_64
Thanks for the link; that was an extremely well written article.
If you’re really that paranoid why wouldn’t work just go to a library and research the old fashioned way, books.
MS Research also does quite a few cool things, some of them landed up on Windows USB stack, WSL, SQL Server deployment on Linux, .NET Native, async/await, driver validation with Z3, for example.
A lot of people have good jobs supporting and incrementally enhancing legacy products and product lines of various kinds in software, computer hardware, and in many other areas. It’s mostly a Silicon Valley concept that if you’re not working on something ground-breaking you’re wasting your life. And how many people at some of those big SV companies are mostly just working on ad tech?
Every so often one of these articles comes along and someone writes at length about the struggle of living in the bay area. I've been here over 13 years now and these articles are a constant.

First, the Bay Area never promised to be anything to anyone. It had its roots in the gold rush and then the military, followed by the semiconductor rush and today the internet. At each iteration, people flooded into the region to work in lucrative jobs and push out the farmers that lived here for generations.

There may have been a larger creative scene in SF, but it never was as rich and diverse as people think they remember it to be. 13 years ago, the entire eastern 1/2 of SF was abandoned warehouses and homeless encampments. I mean, potrero hill was where you could go buy your coke, it was full of drug dealers! Now look at that neighborhood.

But ultimately, SF is a small city, not that diverse and lacks many of the things that make paying NYC prices worth it for NYers. That has been true for its entire history and I don't think that will change.

However, if creative industries are your thing, and what you crave, move to LA or NYC. That's where you'll find all of that, from amazing artists to bands that are amazing, even if they're playing at your local pub.
Neat. Now keep a hash of the types/info for instructions at runtime, and when a set is called enough times and appears reasonably pure/simple, JIT it with cranelift (akin to a tracing JIT).
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Interestingly enough, this is also supported - sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly - by several top tech companies. It can be a bit tricky to pull off if it's not systematically endorsed by the organization, but it's often very doable.
"my privacy is compromised"

As well as the privacy of your ( possibly still unborn ) children.
My project cihai (http://cihai.git-pull.com/) and
unihan-etl (https://github.com/cihai/unihan-etl) both use
the XDG specification.

The reason I like it is it provides directories to
use across platforms (edit: Not sure about Windows), relative to the user. Since the
applications download a file (UNIHAN database [1]) to bootstrap,
we want to store it in the user's files, not the systems.
The other thing I do that's helpful is using sqlite (which is
often built with Python).

This combination gives a database, and a place to store
configuration, downloaded/built files, in an organized
way across systems.

The nice things XDG "standardizes" which I'm using:

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

$XDG_CACHE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific non-essential data files should be stored. If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.cache should be used.

Why the implementation is helpful:

It defines a common directory for cache/data/config files, with applications inside them, e.g. ~/.config/i3, ~/.config/tmuxp, rather than adding more stuff to ~/.i3, ~/.tmuxp. When standards aren't being followed, programs end up storing their configurations / data / etc all over.

Another thing is it defines directories relative to the user themselves and for the system files. Dotfiles may imply configuration / artifacts in the users home directory, it doesn't have. The thing I like is I can check for configuration in user files (for instance ~/.gtk-3.0/), then fall back on checking the system files (/etc/gtk-3.0).

The benefit of user files is they're writable out of the box, so if there's going to be any file generated that the user needs to keep (like an unzipped version of UNIHAN) that can be cached so they don't have to download it again.

(XDG Link: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...)

[1] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/
Any interesting links to papers?
I agreed, right up until the unnecessary second paragraph!
I tend to carry $HOME around with me when I change systems. When I ls -Alr it was like opening up a time capsule, or a hope chest. The first 4 pages on a 23 line terminal had file and directory names for content old enough to buy liquor in all 50 states, old friends like .cshrc, .addressbook, .X11Startup, .nofinger, amd.home, .zirconrc, dot.signature, aub.home, and so on.
Yeah, they didn't mean to restrict supply to their kids, just to 'those' people...
I think the short answer is: kinda. Mercer was co-CEO, with Peter Brown. He was demoted when his political activities impacted recruitment.

My understanding is that Simons is still holds the majority of RenTec shares, with Mercer around 3rd place. RenTec made Mercer rich, but it is isn't his.
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The GIL comes with great convenience as you don't have to worry about a whole host of data races. It's no silver bullet but it's mighty convenient if you only do some multi-threading like in a web-server.

Many libraries are not prepared for the disappearance of the GIL and while it's not a general problem for python per se it will be a great amount of work to make every library compatible with GILless python.

Therefore I think that you must always provide an option for the GIL that is enabled by default in order to provide backward compatibility.
> Sounds to me like this is an opportunity to sell security/disaster prevention services to the companies you describe.

I have an acquaintance that is aiming at that market:

https://backstop.it/
This is particularly weird, since click (snap's "predecessor" at Canonical/Ubuntu) was fully XDG compliant, even encouraging developers to separate data from cache etc. (unlike flatpak which just dumps everything in ~/.local/share/[...], though that is still infinitely better than using ~/snap).
It’s not based on age is what im getting at, there’s more opertunity to learn with age, but is by no means a guarantee that your insights are correct.
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My favorite of all of these.

For an executive, spending money on a brand-name consultant certainly can have value in that he's able to hand off responsibility for failing to solve a problem to an entity whose brand is more or less impervious to failure. It's a win for everyone but the company putting up the money.
Me too. :)

We used it for a Clipper based management application.

My first task was bringing back to life our school labs network, so that we could use it for that application, got to love those coaxial cable terminators.
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An extract from the article: “23andMe has said that its health tests can raise awareness about various medical conditions and empower _consumers_ to take charge of their health information.”

It’s a damn NEW DARK AGE way of thinking to refer PEOPLE through one single universal word all the time - A CONSUMER!

Choose any word from x, and carefully observe your thoughts afterwards:

”23andMe has said that its health tests can raise awareness about various medical conditions and empower _x_ to take charge of their health information.”

x = [“customers”, “individuals”, “humans”, “people”, “citizens”, etc]
The chronology doesn't really line up for this story. The other funds didn't come online until Medallion had had 15+ years of stellar performance.
Just don't be one of these: 54 with 1 year of experience, 32 times over again. :)
This is awesome. I hope more features from CPython are ported. It looks a little bare bones right now. Is there any chance it will gain full Python compatibility ?
Cavemen probably had sex in front of everyone without any shame.
Insurance is putting the risk of a loss onto someone else. Millionaires absolutely buy insurance because it is often the smart thing to do. It is no different than buying/selling options to hedge your stocks during a down turn.
I guess McKinsey erred in accepting the work from Purdue, but it seems like the consulting provided was obvious and likely overpriced. More at fault, in my estimation, is the AMA and other physician standards bodies. Propublica released a search tool [0] last year based on Open Payments Data [1] and the numbers are ridiculous. My small state shows 10s of physicians receiving over $100k over the recorded 2013-2016 period and a very long tail. Many on the list are orthopedic surgeons and psychiatrists.

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

[1] https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
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I think people are beginning to think of the "tech industry" as a whole, as being a two edged sword. The honeymoon is over.
> CPython is really quite slow by design.

The data structures are slow by design.

The way we use these data structures is quite inefficient.

Having a fast interpreter only about doubles the execution speed in most programs leaving another factor of 50 open for future generations.
Damn!

I've got a 2000 sqft condo in Atlanta with 20 foot ceilings that costs less than that.

The land is utilized much better here. I'm in an eight story converted factory (each condo is two stories) from the 1800s. If we just had single story homes, prices would be a nightmare.

I work for a tech company based in sf making the same wages as my peers in sf do. It's not scary to leave sf for elsewhere.
Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766216. This is a somewhat better discussion, though.
This is precisely what Mitt Romney did with his Bain Capital shares.
Yes, I too wonder the same - they have abundant natural resources (even oil) and have well established R&D centres that can match the west in output, and yet they seem to not have any capable economist?
agree totally. Millenials (in my experience) are much, much more likely to turn down a job because of the ethics of it. People my age (I'm over 50) are more jaded ;)
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Oh 20-somethings need money; it just hasn't occurred to them.

Upside:

> no mortgage

Downside: can't make down payment and perhaps never will.
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You are needlessly offensive.

Tools are rarely a problem. The person using the tool is more often the problem.

This is the equivalent of someone wondering if they should the latest MacBook or the latest Surface to do some very basic sysadmin.

It doesn't matter!

Said otherwise, with total result as the sum of contributing factors like tools_factor + skill_factor + luck_factor + …, the partial derivative of tool is not significant.
> It can use all the C libraries natively

Literally all of them, without any issues? I'm working on implementing support for Ruby's C extensions in an alternative implementation and it's a right slog.
It's just the interface, serial peripheral interface.
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I agree with you. I'm responding to what I think is the spirit of the question. These days if someone is asking about RenTech in the context of Mercer, they're doing so because they're mostly heard about the firm as an auxiliary topic to Mercer's political activity.

And last I was aware, yes, Simons still has the majority of shares. If I recall correctly that's publicly disclosed though.