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Simply that Macs are one of the smallest sources of revenue for Apple. Around 10% if I remember correctly.
XKCD's "Up Goer Five" (written using only the 1000 most common English words) was no doubt inspired by this: https://xkcd.com/1133/
It will be interesting to see if this guy gets a black bar on HN. Seems to be reserved only for old-and-dead.
Interesting.

Do you have any thoughts on composite-based aircraft like a Cirrus and flutter? A few times I've had a Cirrus SR22 into a pretty steep descent with poor controller sequencing for an approach into busy terminal space and had to push it down, but the plane felt solid even at 180-190kts TAS. I backed it off only because I get nervous with any unexpected turbulence which is not uncommon in Florida.

The Piper Saratoga I flew for a bit didn't seem to like the speed as much, that or the toga was a bit more vocal than the Cirrus in what it was feeling with regards to airspeed.
> How ... whatever was the reason for thinking that you needed a ML-specific compiler?

As the slides say, you need the program to be differentiable. Do general purpose compilers make it easy to automatically differentiate a program? No, not until very recent work. So people thought a better idea until we figured out how to do that was ML-specific compilers and frameworks.

> Do people also think you need a timecard-tracking-specific compiler?

No, nobody thinks this, because timecard-tracking does not need any special properties such as being differentiable.

The answer isn't as crazy as your extremely snarky question makes it out to be, is it?
There's been much discussion in this thread about the role of HR and corporate processes in these kinds of situations. I would encourage anyone that works in a BigCo to read the book "Corporate Confidential".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62085.Corporate_Confiden...
I am a thyroid cancer survivor. My mom had lung cancer. My dad had kidney cancer. We've had cats with cancer.

One thing I've learned is that the single most important resource we get in life is the amount of time we have on this planet, and what we do with it.

Once you get to the point where there are no more treatments that doctors can give you to try to stop or slow down cancer, and the only thing they can do is try to make you as comfortable as possible, I don't see any other way that we could possibly look at this situation than an almost complete loss.

But maybe I'm too close to the problem.
There are two types of drag, parasitic drag and lift-induced drag, but they are both drag.
Somebody is going to point out that you and your wife made the decision to have children as well as having your wife stay at home with them instead of working, so it might as well be me. You made conscious decisions that excluded you from opportunities, sorry.
There is one quote that leads the reader to believe that the radiation was pretty strong:

> at levels he calculated to be 1,400 times the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's safe level for children.

Note that it doesn’t mention the timeframe that the children would have to be exposed to the buckets to get that number. It mentions 30 minutes earlier, but it’s unclear whether 30 minutes was used to get the “1400 times” figure.
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This sounds cool and makes me want to fiddle with it, but I can’t think of any use-cases. What kinds of things would you use this for? It can’t connect to a db, except over some REST-like interface, presumably, as it’s just a vanilla v8 worker. Right? And using v8 for compute alone seems a bit of a bad fit. So I’m genuinely curious what the use-case is.
Hmm, "Zeug" is uncountable and without plural (like "stuff"), while "Ding" is countable and has a plural (like "thing"). I think I've seen "Flugzeug" rendered as "Flything", but "Flystuff" feels closer.
Admit it to yourself. Then come prepared (to the job interview or inception meeting).
How do society treat men who leave?

How do society treat men who stay?

How do society treat women who leave?

How do society treat men who stay?

Society in this case mean social status, divorce rates, size of social networks, number of children, and other measurable factors. Answer all four and we likely have a clear answer why men don't leave at the same rate as women after they have a child.
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Equality of outcome means an external force like the government will step in to correct a situation such that person A gets the same results as person B. That can be income, job opportunities, taxes, etc. and it quickly disincentivizes hard work because the desired outcome has already been decided before you start.

For a less sensitive example, imagine how hard football teams would practice if the NFL wanted the equality of outcome with each team winning the Super Bowl every 32 years. The worse my team is the harder the league has to try to make my team win which is great for me but bad for competition. And if I just won, I have no reason to try because the league doesn't want me to keep winning and will do whatever it takes to stop me from hogging all the trophies.

Equality of opportunity means an external force will step in to correct a situation to ensure that person A and person B are playing by the same rules.

Back to the OC, we should be obsessed with a level playing field in STEM but not obsessed with a 50/50 ratio.
Yes, for the general population. Hence why I was careful to say "professional, healthy". Can you address that version of the proposal?

Say, limiting it to people who are well-screened and known to be healthy and not have risky lifestyles.

I assume this isn't a case of "oh we tried something like this ages ago and failed so we can't do anything like it again".
There's a terrific book called "Tell them who I am." It was written, I think, in the last year of the life of a man dying of cancer. He wanted to spend his final days doing something meaningful.

It's about the lives and identities of homeless women at shelters where he volunteered.

I am sympathetic to your rage. I wish I knew how to help such people. But I don't.

Death comes for us all, sooner or later, one way or another. That's one of the few truisms in life.
...which is pennies compared to tech CEO salaries.
It's also the technology, currently outside of crypto you're always going to be connecting to some company's servers using their API after you get their authorization.

There's no way the current system can have a stable and uniform API that works globally.
I am vaguely reminded of plans for spelling reform to make English look more like German, https://www.smart-jokes.org/english-spelling-reform.html.
I don't particularly care whether I am right. It is what it is. The point was understood.
> But it also gets harder and harder to get that kind of money by skill and hard work. Large amounts of money are more difficult to obtain by any means than small amounts of money.

You don't seem to be understanding the point. Let's take an example. Do you think that it is more common, in general, for the wealthiest person in the world to be the result of skill or luck? I think empirically, and simply reasoning a priori we should conclude that the wealthiest person in the world will most commonly be skill-based, in all possible worlds.

Why is that? Well, because the dynamical process that produces wealthy people through luck has a squashed distribution relative to the one that produces them through skill. Skill allows you to create new things that have never existed before (tech billionaires) or understand the world in some new way that is statistically outlying (e.g. the very wealthiest investors, Buffet, Simons, etc.). The dynamical process that produces luck-based wealth is related to knowing people, gambling, and/or inheritance. That process is inherently more constrained by practical dynamics. Nobody is going to be your counterparty to multi-billion dollar gambles, inheritances tend to get split among many heirs, lotteries don't generally mint deca-billionaires, etc..

> And again, if you are just going to assert that obtaining vast wealth by hard work and skill is more likely than obtaining it by luck, then you are begging the question.

I am not asserting that, at least, not exactly. I am asserting that the distribution of wealth produced by each is different, and that has consequences for the base rates of either in the general population. The skill-based wealth distribution has a longer tail than the luck-based one. Which means, that at the very edges of the distribution, the ratio of luck to skill should favor skill.
You can have organizational breath with smaller teams. You pair a great programmer with an exceptional programmer and it helps if they are specialized in roughly the same topics.
> One manager I had was pretty candid about it, he said he couldn't find another job and was looking to retire so he was going to give me a bad performance review despite actually being the top performer so he wouldn't be affected.

How would he be affected by giving you a well-deserved good performance review? I don't understand.
Cars will still crash. We have 2 options - build the cost of insurance into the price of the car, or let owners buy it themselves.

IMO Id rather have the ability to buy my own insurance and have various choices of coverage. Nothing needs to change.
Came here just to say this. Before OW, my other multiplayer games were Valve's (CS, TF2, L4D), and I didn't know any girls/women in real-life who played them. Given the hours/years of time I played, I would have to guess that I played in a game with a female player at least a few times, but I could not for the life of me ever recall a single time. It would be such a rare occurrence that if it did happen, I think I would remember it generally.

With OW, I'll hear a female voice at least a third or fourth of my random games, as well as see female-gendered screennames who may not actively participate in chat. I haven't played many games between old-school CS and TF2, so I don't know if the overall demographic has changed. But I wouldn't be surprised if OW's diverse and welcoming cast and lore was a major factor in attracting female gamers. As much as I liked the older games, OW was the first game that made me realize how much diversity could itself be a feature -- not just in attracting a playerbase, but just more creative designs (though I understand it may be too cartoony for some, of course). If only Blizzard's writing could be as clever and less clichéd-ridden than Valve's...
So by your definition, one is an adjective, so asking them for a noun that represents the adjective "one" violates the definition. It's sort of a trivially false disingenuous question.
Immensely saddening. I just read through some of his cancer tagged posts on his blog and it seemed like he was finally reclaiming his life back. So sad to read that it came back.

Hope that you find peace, my friend.
Agreed on Apex Legends, which now that I think about it seems kind of odd. I think a game that builds tension like that, where games can last 20-30mins, where a teammates mistakes can easily cost you the game, is asking for toxicity, but I don't recall any at all in the ~20ish hours I've played so far. And that's with a lot of mic usage (both me and other players).
You could say that about most language we use: it's meant for transmitting thoughts between human brains. Why would it be bad at it?

Besides, there are plenty of mathematical concepts which are hard to understand. I don't see any uniqueness to math here.
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Sony Computer Entertainment does this, but then they don't pay back for 6-9 months, forcing your personal credit to be their credit cushion. One of the reasons I quit.
Or, furthermore, by standard induction, or by standard conduction via the extracellular matrix (assuming the ECM can deal w/400microns and axons/dendrites cannot—idk if this holds)
If you ever decide to put together remote teams be sure to announce it. It looks like you are doing interesting work, but I'm not interested in moving to any of those cities (and I'm probably not alone).
Isn't the best flag `-march=native`? It gives you all the vectorization that your processor supports, or at least I think that's the case? At least if you don't have to provide builds for other people's machines.
That is gross over-simplification IMHO.
Booking those whole two months wouldn't even blow through standard 25 day allotment of PTO :) Which makes it even more obvious just how shortchanged you get with unlimited.
A laser's aim doesn't require elevation to compensate for drop. Its aim is also not perturbed by wind, though affected by refraction due to air temperature differences, and attenuated by smoke/fog/dust, which also reveal its path.
I agree with you. Self driving cars will become the norm the minute it's cheaper to insure the automated car instead of the human being
> Legal liability will shift to the manufacturers

Why? If you're operating a vehicle with known and manufacturer specified risks, thats on you.
What? A script is exactly like a vague description at the start of a software project. It doesn’t detail what sets are built, costumes, who will star, how much it will all cost, who will be hired, where the lights go, the music, and a 1000 other things.

Your comparison is silly.
McKinsey should do nothing because responding to a non-story is terrible PR.
I see little reason to suppose that that will be the end game. Those for whom the total cost of ownership of a car are lower than the cost of taxis will continue to own a car.

What fraction of people that currently own cars will that be? Probably depends on where you live. Taxi will probably never be the popular choice in, say, South Dakota. The economics just don't work out.
Lots of one off gender swaps that have been shared and showed similar bias.
Eg https://blog.olark.com/live-chat-gender-equality-experiment
That's super disgusting if that happened to you :( Maybe at some point we need to stop interacting in person completely and instead use gender-less avatars with their own voices so that we can bypass both sexual harassment as well as trying to land better positions by our own physical attractiveness.
Increasing tensile strength is super easy compared to improving bending and twist resistance, especially when the aerodynamics not only constrains the thickness of the wing but also rewards high aspect ratios (the tip-to-tip length of a wing compared to its front/back dimension).

Imagine a wing that's 20+ times longer than it is deep, and is only 5% as thick is it is deep (so, for example, a 20m wide wing, that's 1m deep front-to-back, and 5cm thick top-to-bottom) - that's really hard to get stiff in bending along it's long axis, and in twisting stiffness around that long axis. This is why - as the article mentions, a sailplanes long thin wings account for 40+% of the airframe weight, when a stubby-winged but less aerodynamically efficient wing (like, say a Cessna 172) the wing might only account for 10-20%$ of the total airframe weight.

This TURN design minimises bending/twisting forces by replacing the load bearing and alignment forces with mostly end-to-end tension ones - which are much easier to resist (just load the structure up with "axial" carbon fibre...).
My dad had one month and one day from diagnosis ("surprise, you have stage 4 lung cancer") to death.

Fuck cancer.

Thank you, Alex, for trying to make the world a better place. Open source is a wonderful legacy.
>Suppose we reach a final description of reality that is entirely accurate (no longer an approximation that fails to account for some structures and processes).

> Won't that description consist of nothing but math?

Math is just words. Any description of anything can be reduced to math if you assume the proper math will be developed to describe it. But the same could be said of any subject. You could say the universe is Mandarin Chinese if you find a perfect description in that language. You could say the universe is binary code if you found a perfect description of it in binary. You could say the universe is tree bark if you found a perfect description of it in tree bark.

You're saying nothing useful. You're just confusing the map for the territory. (And arguably, you will never find a complete description of the entire universe that fits in a network of human brains, so the universe can't be math for that reason alone.)
Not unless there is legislation preventing cars from being told to drive above the limit.

I set my adaptive cruise control over the limit so I catch up to the car in front of me, for example.
> But, this change didn't pass, because the 4 or 5 people who controlled the bitcoin core github repository, and reference client disagreed with the changes, it prevented it from happening.

This is blatant re-writing of history.

A fork was written, Bitcoin Cash, but most people/miners/companies didn't want to use it. It was widely known and the differences/advantages/disadvantages were discussed ad nauseum for months/years.

A Github repo can't force people to run it's code instead of another.

> And this was in spite of the fact that almost every single major player in the space wanted this change.

So why did they keep running Bitcoin Core instead of the fork?
That’s a cool idea. I hadn’t thought of using them to build security tools.
> Once people around you are taking time off, it becomes easy to justify taking time off. (And so, like most cultural things, you'd better have management doing it first.)

Also once teams and management get used to people taking time off, the business processes also become more resilient to people missing for a week or two and taking PTO becomes less of a problem for everyone. Suddenly someone missing for a week is just not a big deal.
It's disappointing to see just how much articles like these inspire some frequenters here to come out with their pet sexist theories on why this is expected and why such studies are not warranted.

To address one aspect of criticism, studies like these are not necessarily with an interest toward equal representation for its own sake, nor something that is best dealt with by resigning to the status quo that people are free to make choices and they deal with the consequences of it. There is talent lost in the field when stuff like this happens, and this is a first step to understanding if there are more efficient ways to address a need among families that is not currently being adequately addressed. If these can be addressed efficiently, then people will make different choices, and the consequences of those different decisions may be a net benefit to everyone.
> That second part is precisely my point. They're both self-made success stories, but they are in no way equal. They're both self-made success stories in the sense that a dolphin and a cat are both mammals.

I would argue they're fairly close to equal, since Gates's success is many orders of magnitude greater than Schwarzeneggers in absolute terms. Gates started higher and ended up higher. The amount each moved seems comparable to me.

> The inequality in United States is very, very pronounced and it's getting worse with time. The "self-made success" trope, which involves treating different self-made success stories as equal, is a way of defending and perpetuating that inequality.

I agree, it is. But the question i'm interested in is not what it is used to 'defend and perpetuate', but rather, whether or not it is true.

> People who are getting more and more oppressed by that inequality are rallying against the use of that trope.

Totally, though i'd also add that I think the focus on 'inequality' per se is fairly misguided. I think a much better thing to focus on would be the absolute wellbeing of the bottom. But I don't get to set the cultural agenda.

> Which brings me back to what you said about "making it": if you come from nothing, then just having a well-compensated profession is qualifies as "making it". Is that self-made success? Because that's the topic of our discussion here, remember?

Ya, I would absolutely call that success. If someone immigrates here from Africa with nothing and becomes a lawyer or other professional, that's success. That is making it. Their kids will then have the opportunity to make it on a global scale, just like Gates, et al.

> The truth is that the discussions about the "self-made success as a trope" are not really about the clear cut definitions. It's turtles all the way down, in the sense that almost everyone relies on other people in some ways, so arguing about the precise definition of "self-made success" is a bit pointless. The discourse is really about the role of the trope in the growing inequality in this society and, to that purpose, arguing about some of the most common abuses of the trope -- like this article does -- is much more useful.

My point is simply this: The notion of 'self made success' is not, in any meaningful sense, a myth. It is a real thing that real people do.

Is the story used to justify the status quo? Yes. But lots of stories are used to justify lots of things. The question we should be asking is: is the story true? And if it's true, is it harmful? I don't think it is, but many people seem to.
That feels like a broken process. How will you mitigate that?
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Pro-tip: never expect your work environment to change. The chances of a report overcoming the whims of a shitty manager are very, very small especially in the context of a company that tolerates the shitty manager in the first place.

Generally speaking, the best thing to do is to smile, appear to do reasonably decent work, and begin looking elsewhere.
Someone talented enough to work at Amazon has the option of going out on their own. This was the best decision I’ve made and now I have all the time in the world to spend with my child. There was an excellent post on how to be a consultant and charge good rates. It doesn’t matter where you live or your accent if you do it right. Sucks for the poster to be treated the way he was, these companies need to be held accountable for human suffering on all levels but at the same time it’s hard to sympathize when the company is that large and the chance that the CEO can control what one asshole supervisor does is tiny. Bezos probably has no clue about this or has few reasons to care. He rightfully stated that he is making others rich, hence all the more reasons not to keep doing it at other places. Russia is a beautiful country where highly paid developers can live comfortably. I’m not saying he shouldn’t live where he wants (US) but there are means of doing well outside of working for behemoths like Amazon, google or Facebook.