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This is a really good comment.

One thing your comment made me think about was a story I heard about a company who had a fairly draconian contract. One of the employees brought this up with the CEO and the CEO said it was what their lawyer suggested and so they did it.

Lawyers are there to protect the company. Sometimes they make recommendations that will help with the law but not necessarily with company culture and hiring people.

Kudos for knowing enough not to get suckered into a contract that wasn't good for you.
There is actually movement to cap the broker's fee at one month's rent, cap the security deposit at one month's rent (and allow for paying the deposit over six months), and mandate the return of security deposits within two months of the lease ending.

https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/pros-cons-capping-brok...
> Okay, just make life harder for everybody. Nice.

If you spend less on one thing, you can spend more on other things (or tax less), so I don't see how that follows.

> How does subsidizing education, thus creating more college graduates, increase the value of a degree?

I would think about it like this instead: subsidizing education lowers the cost, making it more attractive than it otherwise would be compared to the alternatives (e.g., trade school).

For example, if the government decided to subsidize Ford car purchases, more people would buy Ford, right? Doesn't mean Ford cars became any better.
Initial indicators seem to be that they're not ready for prime time.

Albuquerque returned BYD buses because of problems with range not performing as advertised. https://www.abqjournal.com/1246094/abq-rejecting-all-byd-art...

Battery-electrics still have major issues with range; buses cannot last a full day on a single charge, and midday charging takes too long. And if it gets cold or the route has hills, you're completely out of luck. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/electric-bus-...
Pervasive use of HOFs is kinda difficult without generics or some equivalent.
On any 32-bit OS, processes have at most 4GB of address space, because that's how much you can address with 32 bits.

In practice some of that is reserved for the kernel, so you get less for use by the process itself. Historically 2GB on Windows, though there were some non-default compilation/linking options you could set to get 3GB.

A 32-bit process running on a 64-bit kernel can get 4GB of address space.

And yes, lots of computers have >4GB physical RAM, even if you don't count swap/page files.
I'll admit I don't know the first thing about escalator repair but I'm confident that a 4 year apprenticeship is absurd. Perhaps that's the real problem. The rules should be amended such that you can get an escalator repair license in 60 days. Problem solved.
So $125/hr is what the tech takes home from the elevator service company. The company is paying for insurance and general overhead, and billing the tech out at around $500/hour. The real money is in starting an independent elevator service company after getting some experience with somebody like KONE or Otis or Schindler.
It's not AI that's going to change that, it's mass surveillance and ubiquitous proprietary software. AI may contribute to it, but it's the fact that we've given away control over our life and our society that's the real issue.
> If schools aim to boost students’ future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world?

Because the aim of school is to teach compliance, to sit quietly for 8 hours a day and do what you're told. I don't think it has ever been about learning truly practical skills. I don't even remember taking basic finance classes in high school.
The fact that we limit some things is not a valid argument that we should be able to limit any thing. That's Billy Madison levels of wrong.
What a beautiful, efficient world. Sadly, what one can do instead is not budget enough for escalator mechanics, complain that the escalator mechanic union is unreasonable or that there is a skills shortage, then let the escalators break down.
I enjoyed the story of a giant grease fire that could have been. Though, I was curious as to why milk.com was owned by a computer company, and not, say a milk company or organization. I read the explanation[0] and enjoyed it as well.

[0] https://milk.com/value/
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What are the odds this is completely fabricated by Boeing? Not saying I think this, but if it was a movie and this was a cover-up, this would be a great plot twist. I suppose I'm maybe just a little jaded from all the fake news these days.
They will override it for 10 seconds, then MCAS gets back up like a zombie and tries to kill you again. If you want it dead you need to flip two cutout switches behind the throttle quadrant.
$125/hr billed or $125/hr employed?
This is true. Naval reactors need to be relatively small and light, which means that they end up using HEU fuel, which is a security risk.
Indeed, this is an example, it scores a grade "F" with fakespot.com, It doesn't detail that the listing appears to be changed, but does say "Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered and removed reviews from this listing"
It is because of articles/books like this one which try to complicate basic ideas more than they need to be. People have forgotten how to convey concepts in a simple manner before formalizing with symbolic notation. As an example, i really understood the basics of NN only after reading Sandhya Samarasinghe's book "Neural Networks for Applied Sciences and Engineering: From Fundamentals to Complex Pattern Recognition" which explains everything simply and directly.
Regulations don't have to be perfect to be effective.

It's easy to keep driving your car through an intersection without stopping at a stop sign, and some people get away with it.

Even though stop signs can be circumvented, we're all a lot safer with stop signs than without them.
I agree with some of what you said but as an educator, the statement "Not everyone is cut out for college." doesn't sit well with me. Outside of some severe disabilities, I don't think there's anything inherent about who can and can't eventually succeed in college. Some people aren't adequately prepared for college by the time they turn 18 and that's a societal failure. Everyone should have the opportunity to go to and succeed in college but I agree that that shouldn't be the path everyone chooses. But proper incentives must be in place for that to be the case. As it stands, would you (rhetorical "you" I don't know if you personally have kids or how you would answer this questions) push your own children toward trades over university currently? Why or why not?
I think the paper as it stands is deficient. As I've mentioned in my previous comment, in the tech sector particularly, compensation is a combination of salary, stocks, bonuses, etc.

Unless it adopts a more rigorous methodology, the paper paints a limited picture. [1]

For example, according to PayScale, Google pays on average $15,030 in annual employee bonuses (anywhere from $1,000 to $80,000), and for comparison, Facebook pays $12,860. These numbers will have a significant effect on hourly compensation.

Unfortunately, statistical analysis is tricky to get right, and plenty of papers contain errors and omissions, and I'm not necessarily saying that's the case here, but one ought to be aware. More on this topic, in case anyone is interested – Statistics Done Wrong [2]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ncbr0002.pdf

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593276206
Two decades ago, Java was 3 years old.

It's still true, though, but it's a compliment. Most languages have no hope of ever becoming the next COBOL. For Java, it is practically a certainty, even if Oracle were to pull the plug on it this very moment. It's too big and too important to die.
Been there, done that (well actually a PhD after 20+ years experience).

It depends on your motivation, is it to learn a lot about something you are interested in or is it to earn more money?

To clarify, masters degrees are about advanced learning about a specialised topic. Typically there is a capstone project which requires some research and a thesis. But for extensive research into a topic you pursue a PhD. The criteria being that you make a contribution to the existing body of knowledge. Whilst with a masters you learn the body of knowledge as it stands at that time of your studies.

If you expect to earn more, then you would first need to research the jobs in your area of interest and see if any require a masters degree. Some companies prefer industry experience over academic credentials and others are the other way around. It wouldn't hurt to apply for some jobs in your area of interest and see what the feedback is.
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The author could sell a script to modify the defaults for different situations. The popularity of the oss gives the developer a build-in platform.
We are using elasticsearch for non-critical log management. But as for the mysql server, what maintenance/management are you really getting from a managed service like Aurora or Google Cloud SQL?

Our K8s deployment is setup to automatically make backups and test those backups periodically with a full restore. It also notifies us in case of a failed backup. Updating the software is as easy as a single helm command and scaling is about the same as with Aurora. Either you set it up to scale up automatically or you go in and upgrade instances when needed.

Aurora admins aren't monitoring your server for performance issues then making configuration tweaks to speed things up. So I'm not really seeing a lot of difference.
if you want to normalize the gini coefficient, then all welfare programs and benefits have to be scrapped. Minimum wages and rent controls have to be abolished. No more affordable housing quota by the state.

I would be for that.

Further, there is also nothing wrong with social unrest. We don’t live in a vacuum where everything is frozen. Social unrest leads to paradigm shifting changes in society. This is why things change and don’t stay the same for ‘thousands of years’.

Sure. The violent kind, no one should need in the USA in 2019.

Go attempt to protect society from social unrest is symptomatic of a saviour complex that is irresponsible and dangerous.

Keeping violence out of society is simply a good idea. You can't have commerce and markets without order. Giving people the opportunity for the pursuit of happiness is a good idea. Everything which is the "fabric of life" should be within the means of everyman and everywoman. I think this should be achievable in the free market. The organizations and forces which dominate society have a practical obligation to provide such things. Historically, it's a good way to make money. Also, the disappearance of true everyman/everywoman activities and goods seems to be associated with dying industries trying to hold on by raising prices.

I think you and I would agree that giving stuff away would create more problems than it would solve. That's not what I'm proposing here. Also, saviors are dangerous. The real ones wield power in a more concentrated form than is wise.

I just don’t understand your stance.

Markets aren't the be-all end-all. They're just a tool. Everyone in business should be biased towards getting ahead by creating delight and avoiding resentment. On one level, that's just good brand management. On another level, the dignity of all levels of society is necessary for a long lasting, healthy society. Powerful people all working together informally and voluntarily towards this end are the hallmark of the healthiest societies.

You say: ‘Principles are important’. True. But your principles are important only to you. I may define mine differently.

Making sure large swathes of the public don't feel put upon is something to keep in mind as well. Principles may not be important at all, to minds taken by instincts more deeply rooted than rationality. Like the status calculations of young men and women who decide they no longer have a stake in society.

We are not rational animals but we are all ‘rationalising’ creatures. I don’t see the relevance either bring to this discussion.

You seem to be biased towards prioritizing only principles, rationality, and markets. Those are great, but they don't cover everything.
My personal love for Rails is recent. I had been trying in my one to two hours of spare time on weekends (I am busy with exercise/family/gaming/etc) to build a simple website for my wife's company (simple crud stuff mostly). I found that several ways I had attempted to build the site were time consuming to learn/compile/test/demo/repeat. Even though I program for a living, starting from scratch takes time and one/two hours per weekend is almost nothing when it comes to getting stuff done. When the PC I was using for building kicked the bucket and I got an old Macbook air, I tried Rails and within an hour I had got most of the base moved from Spring Boot to Rails. I can't complain about Rails. The time investment to usable results are there. I think Rails is going to relevant like other web frameworks for a good long time.
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> Patreon is a classic VC tragedy. They are already a monopoly. They could be fantastically profitable right now. All the growth that is there to get in their market segment, they are already getting.

The $64,000 is - would they have reached this position without the initial venture capital?

I assume they burned a lot of money to get initial mindshare/awareness amongst creators.

Without that, they may have died on the vine (or had a competitor swoop in to cut their lunch).
The little (i) in the top left of the address bar, then under permissions click allow. The article has a screen shot and details on this
Smalltalk blocks are anonymous functions sure, but the evaluation is delayed - you have to pass the message #value (and its variants) to it. This not the case in Scheme and maybe Lisps, where evaluation is eager.

Passing Smalltalk blocks and Scheme/Lisp lambdas into functions have different behaviours.
> The real question is: do you -really- need an external lib with 20 dependencies just to show a freakin’ loading spinner? Remaking the wheel is bad but so is never making truly simple things yourself, or just not using them.

So the problem is the sheer number of dependencies? What is a reasonable upper limit?

Yes, javascript should continue to standardize commonly used features, but avoiding dependencies doesn't seem to be a solution.

If anything, more dependencies are a good sign because they imply that other people have spent more time and effort on a solution than anything you'll be able to hand-roll for single-use.

It sounds like the root issue here is just dependency management. If our package managers were solving this issue well enough, there should be no practical difference between 2 big dependencies with significant functionality (and more code to review) or 20 tiny, easy-to-review dependencies.
Why are 100% of the BART escalators in such dire need of repair or replacement? Are they poor products? Are they very old? Are they poorly maintained?
Quake, back in the late 90s, would preload assets for all entities in a level at level load time explicitly to avoid stutter when the entity finally shows up and needs to make a noise or whatever.

And some games much later didn't. I recall needing to fire off a shot on each new gun I picked up in Far Cry to be sure I wouldn't get a stutter later at a more critical moment.
Most people don't want an electric supercar

We NEED NOW an affordable 2 door electric car that can go 105KM/per hour, for a distance of 80KM on single charge.
With the ability to recharge it off solar panels or mains
My parents are also the least likely to install a browser other than what comes default
Media-bashing has got to stop
We should celebrate what makes things available to everyone, not just to rich clients. Tesla is still far away from selling cars to everyone.
> I don't know the first thing about escalator repair

I agree with at least that much of what you said.

It is near or at the top of OSHA's list of most dangerous construction trades. Elevators and escalators have extreme safety requirements for carrying passengers. I have been in enough elevator control rooms with qualified mechanics to be able to assure you that a 60-day wonder would be a very dangerous actor to let loose. After four years, I would not send a guy out on a job alone unless it was pretty simple.

Sending an elevator mechanic with 60 days of training out to work by himself is a death sentence for him, if you are lucky. For the passengers, if you are less lucky.
A more philosophical question. If they manage it with a hard, computationally and bandwidth intensive problem like games, does this mean that this kind of computing is coming for good for every kind of activity?

Is this is the last time we need to upgrade to an expensive graphics card?
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What is at peril is freedom to admit to be upwardly mobile.

No disagreement there either.

The tall poppy syndrome describes aspects of a culture where people of high status are resented, attacked, cut down, strung up or criticised because they have been classified as superior to their peers.

Don't merely rail against your haters, when there are ways of converting them into your allies. Does blame only flow in one direction here?
Yes, it's one of the officially supported platforms (albeit the least used one).
> Maybe more people should go into the trades - and not be funneled into higher education.

Or maybe not create this arbitrary distinction, and let people who are going to school with the intention of ultimately becoming a welder or a mechanic be able to take an English or a history class.

For some reason, people who go to college for basketball get to take art history, but not people learning to be machinists.

Maybe it's the mentality that you go to university to earn the honor of not having to work with your hands that's the problem; I also think that it's why the sciences and medicine often seem awkward there. I'm not exactly sure what the difference between a computer programmer and an elevator repairman is supposed to be, exactly.
This doesn't make jive with disaster being averted by a third pilot. Assuming the third was totally dedicated to checklist vs preventing the plane from diving, it was only his insight that stopped the plane from going down.

The MCAS system apparently increased downward trim without any speed considerations, to over 2.5 degrees in 10 seconds. I don't have the full flight control details but it sure sounds like pilots would lose control within minutes at most. In the LionAir crash the pilot reported control problems and asked to return to airport within 3 minutes, and they slammed into the ocean in 12.

Not sure where you're getting this info but I'm more than sure they knew something was wrong in the last 2 minutes (while they were heading into the earth at almost the speed of sound).

You really think they have ten minutes to react when by then everyone on LionAir was doomed to die?
I would be very surprised if they dont have a clickbaity machine learning algorithm to optimize headlines for more clicks. That would be a very natural thing to do in this kind of business.
That would be a bit crazy because the line for funding is about 15-20 years long. Seriously ten years ago Gov Christie killed the replacement train tunnels between New Jersey and New York and it took ten years to get them refunded. And then President Trump killed that.
The apprenticeship isn’t really the problem, as that’s pretty common because a newbie can really screw things up including causing deaths. The problem is the basic training. It costs a fair amount of money to setup the basic training facility and to keep it running.
Website just about crashed my browser. I hope I can find out what it's about here.
Funny thing is in California, trade schools are shutting down left and right.
What I mean by the value, is what employers are willing to pay. Even Kaplan admits that college graduates get paid more. The subsidy should drive more people into college, but depress the wages of college graduates.

In fact, Kaplan admits that college increases pay more than it increases productivity -- that it benefits graduates more than it benefits countries as a whole, suggesting that something about college education enables people to keep more of their own production.
Why would any logical rational common sense person still be using Patreon over Subscribestar
The answer is working fewer hours. As a society, we are overworked. We should all be pushing for shorter work weeks.
> I'm not aware of any business like yours (consumer-focused desktop software) that's been successful as donationware, are you?

Blender

While they do sell books and DVDs along with various other things in their e-store the majority(?) of their income is from donations "to the cause".

They've actually started to become a viable alternative to the Autodesk monopoly and are being used in more and more commercial projects which leads to more donations which makes the software better which leads to more usage, rinse and repeat.
The docker daemon runs as a privileged user, so if you're able to break out of the container (which has been shown possible recently) then you can compromise the entire host OS.
And not reporting your gains to the IRS?

This wasn't a case of someone having had a previous developer account, but of someone having being banned for posting malware on the Play store.
I would have to agree. Find usages along with figuring out where/what variables are or used for will get you a long way. You can also go from the entry point and follow execution order, to the extent that you can.
> Cities are seeming increasingly more able to be proactive than countries.

> Encourage local cities to one by one electrify the bus network and this effect goes global. It’s obvious tangible action that citizens can demand and mayors can visibly deliver.

This is known as Libertarian Municipalism. ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Murray_Bookchin#/Libertarian_mun... )

A small book on the matter: http://new-compass.net/sites/new-compass.net/files/Bookchin%...
Not necessarily shorter, but predictable pauses.
Related article:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-the-College-Degree-Is-...
See "Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2572

The 'bowl' you described are these saddle points, and this 2014 paper was pretty big for tackling it. But, as others pointed out Adam or such optimizers are used more often than steepest descent.
> so far, more than 66 billion trees have been planted

That’s...a hell of a lot of trees. The article mentions that a lot die without human intervention, which is pretty unfortunate. Makes you wonder if there’s a more surefire way to prevent deserts from expanding...if there is, it seems like China has the will to do it.
Cellular phone deal with this when you are in motion anyway. You just need redundant routes to offset the volatility of the network. A half mile per hop range could work, if the network is sufficiently dense (and the number of egress points is sufficiently high).

This is the kind of thing you do a test with in a specific targeted community though...
>What will conjure up the constant resources

Probably the sun and small scale fusion for at least the next thousand years or so. Eventually other stars/large scale fusion/some type of energy production we haven't discovered yet.

>and space

There is enormous amounts of room left on earth. Everyone on earth could have an acre of land to themselves with 10x the current population, and that completely ignores multi-level construction (either above or below the surface). But long term there is a lot of space outside of earth.
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They heavily blanket every metro area surrounding their home base in southeastern NY.