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Direct Air Capture Technology – Carbon Engineering
These already exist, eg. Idex and other distributed exchanges.

People use them - Idex is one of the most-used Ethereum dApps - but they suffer from ease-of-use problems. Either you go through a web interface (which defeats the purpose of them being decentralized, since you have to trust the website you're making the trades on) or you put up with the hassle of sending individual transactions to smart contracts with your Ethereum wallet, which is pretty error-prone for most ordinary users.
I spent a few days developing a Kubernetes Cluster with some Docker knowledge. Other than creating the config file, I didn't see too much of a problem. It definitely has a learning curve and takes a lot of time to setup (even with GKE).

From reading this article, I'm liking Nomad.
Well, let's not mince words here -- The new Air was released to capitalize on the popularity of the Air name. I am still working on a mid-2012 MacBook Air (this very post), and it serves me extremely well. That's 7 years almost on the same machine and the only application that gives me any trouble is Microsoft Teams, but even on my Windows desktop Teams runs like a drunk sloth, so I don't even consider it a fault.

Apple's only mistake with the new Air, IMO, is not keeping the old keyboard. I'm right on the verge of needing a new laptop and I'm eagerly looking at a MacBook Air 2018; the keyboard gives me pause, just because it's different than what I'm used to. But the Air name alone, the form factor, and how it's built is basically perfect for me. It does everything I need and then some without making me wait.

As to which you should be choosing though...that is a tough one. The MBP line doesn't feel as unique as it used to, as the price point is just too high for me to justify it to anyone, and the low-end MBPs are basically just heavier MacBook Airs.
It doesn't really affect your subscriptions at least. It does affect searching for anything current that isn't in your subscriptions, though.

I discovered this a few days ago when a band I'm subscribed to announced an upcoming album, and that their agent released 2 songs off of it. Not knowing the agent's name or the new song titles sure made them hard to find since this band has a LOT of significantly older stuff showing up before the 2 new songs finally appear.

I wish they'd just add a 24 hour delay or something less extreme than punishing the legit content makers this way.
For companies that are trying to monetize outside of North America.
I took a look at it, and if you were starting from scratch, I'd give it a serious look. The main reason I didn't push for it were mostly internal politics - we'd have to setup an on-premise installation of the Habitat Builder. And we have rather (ridiculous) requirements that would have made that a massive hurdle.

Habitat is very new, so I'd expect to spend some time nailing down exactly what you want for your stuff. But, it's very easy to use.
Could you describe the slow-erosion strategy?
Karta – Matching Open Sources in Binaries
The article does point out that "Nothing in the official record suggests his motivation."

But agreed on all points.
This is bad policy, but in my experience also an outlier. I'm actually quite surprised that a company would publish this policy, as opposed to simply executing it under the rug. I have to ask -- how large is your company? Is it public?

Secondly, I'd also disagree that about the general attitudes of folks pushing diversity initiatives. No one is trying to eliminate white and Asian men from the workforce. This is more about bringing people in, not excluding populations.
I've heard a lot of discussions of the glory of formal argumentation but I've seen some compelling arguments against it.

The issue is that these rules can be exploited by a bad faith actor. Just throw arguments at somebody rapid fire, a gish gallop, and it basically works like a DOS attack. Eventually your opponent will stop responding after which you can declare victory since your opponent was unable to refute your argument. This incidentally is an argument against free speech absolutist positions.

I feel a lot of these rules assume you're debating an academic acting in good faith who wouldn't want to resort to such tactics for fear of hurting their own reputation. They're for people who argur with eachother by writing books about how their opponents are wrong. They're not adapted to the pseudoanonymous low barrier to entry environment of the internet.

You're best off taking shortcuts that result in you making weak arguments to avoid getting bogged down in discussions with bad faith/unintelligent actors and that allows you to be the among the first to opine on an issue which grants you a wider audience. At least to some extent.
What is the desired demographic makeup? Is it 50:50? Should it be across all professions?
I'm guessing the 12" MacBook isn't getting updated until they get macOS on ARM.

Because as a 12" MB user who'd like some 2019 performance, I can't think of any other good reason.
I can't speak for all those who've made homogeneity arguments, but I've made them before in the context of Norway and will say this:

Often, you'll hear people say something like, "Norway did X and it works, so we should do X in the U.S." These are typically fairly naive claims. Regardless of the normative dimension of the claim (whether X is worth doing in the U.S. in the first place), there is a non-trivial amount of complexity that is swept under the rug. For instance, NYC has twice the population of Norway. The U.S. really is significantly more demographically diverse than Norway (or, if this claim isn't good, then we can just say they are equally diverse, but at the scale of the U.S. this diversity increases complexity a non-trivial amount). The U.S. has a more fragmented legal system. Etc. Etc. Etc.

If a Martian were asked which nation would be easier to implement new policies in, maintain those policies, and have them bring about the desired end, which do you think they'd choose? I wager they would immediately choose Norway.
Yeah this behavior sounds entirely on-brand to me.
How much money Pinterest execs made last year
I don't know. I haven't had any random failures using EKS. Anything crashing was of my own doing.
Barriers to programming are very, very low:

1. no degree is required, not even a high school diploma

2. a Windows laptop can be had for $100 at a pawn shop

3. an incredible amount of programming tutorials exist for free on the internet, including a complete CS degree course from MIT

4. a business license can be had by just filing a bit of paperwork with the state

5. operating a business on the internet means nobody needs to know what sex/religion/age/whatever you are

6. programming tools and SDKs are available for free

7. you can work from home

How much more can one ask for?
All biases flow together. You are right that tech companies cannot stop this man from doing this. We must instead holistically approach these topics. But tech does play a role (via advertising and other media) in planting an image of what tech is like in people's minds, which can make them more or less likely to behave in this way.

The most important point here is that this stuff is everywhere and deep. When people say they've never seen any bias I encourage them to ask all their male peers if they used toys as children as an entry into tech. Then I ask if those toys were marketed at boys. Repeat for female peers. You find a lot of influence in this manner.
Reminds me of Github removing search due to security concerns.

Now it's back; it just doesn't work very well.
Surprisingly, step 1 is the most important thing to me.

I often debug in the same way I design software. Step away from the computer and write something down.

It's probably a personal thing, but I solve problems much faster with a pen in my hand as opposed to a keyboard at my fingertips.
For anything criminal, or liability is high, simply remove it, act quickly, and make it very public and very clear. Everything I wrote above is for non-criminal but toxic speech.
For us, it's much more economical to binpack multiple apps onto a VM than to run one service per VM. Also it makes it much easier to scale out particular services once they outgrow your chosen VM size.
How is that different from how a modern Android manages memory? That's all I've ever noticed from limited RAM for many years now.
Enjoy it while it lasts, but keep an eye out for the writing on the wall and move on when you see it. It is Oracle, after all
It's much cheaper to go somewhere like Asia..and the weather is really nice too.

7 years ago, I was burnt out from my job and wanted a change, so I quit and picked up everything and moved to Asia with my girlfriend (now wife).

Luckily, I had some savings, so I didn't have to work for a month or two. But, I didn't want to eat through it all, so I got a contracting development job and I stayed there for a year and a half.

My rent for a really nice apartment in a great part of town was around $200 USD/month. Food was insanely cheap and good.

It's easy to get lost in that lifestyle though. It's fun, but it's difficult to save money or build a career. There are many distractions and almost all the other expats that I met were only interested in drinking/partying.

I was glad to finally come home, but happy I had the experience.
by default every employee in the US is "at-will" and can quit or be fired at any time unless they have a contract or are in union which has a contract.
One interesting metric to think about is valuation vs. money raised.

Zoom will go public at $3b+ after only raising $145m. That's a 20x+

Compare to Lyft. $25b valuation after $5b in capital. That's 5x.
They listened as a river of incandescent margarine ignited fuel tanks and burst the tires of abandoned vehicles.

This may be the most evocative sentence I've read this year.
It's true that Bitcoin doesn't have a lot of transaction volume, but this isn't where you'd see that. "Spot volume" (trading volume) is taking place on centralized exchanges -- not on the blockchain.
Broadly agree with this. Use K8S at LastCo -- was great so long as I didn't have to manage it, but actively managing our own K8S cluster was a nightmare. Using Heroku at CurrentCo and it's a breeze. I highly recommend it. The only thing I think that could unseat it of its ilk would be Zeit, which looks very promising. I'm skeptical of all things serverless right now but Zeit looks promising and most impressively, extremely (perhaps as much as is possible) cost effective.
FEMA data breach hits 2.5M disaster survivors
Anyone feeling like explaining why this is important to a cryptodummy?
I thought, the format string is unintutive if there are nested binary structures or if there are arrays of nested binary structures.
If your application is 50 microservices, how would you manage that on ec2 instances?
Yes, this is what I meant. I should have been more clear in my statement. Maybe I'm mistaken, but being in a startup seems like a riskier career move than taking a job with an established player in tech, which is why women would be more averse to joining a startup.
Thanks for the write-up, very interesting! Reading it I had a few questions:

1.
How can DAG based workflows express events that are iterative in nature, ie. would result in a cycle? For example I have an empty shopping cart as a start state and I want to put X items in it?

2.
Is undo/rollback possible? If so how does cleanup work and does an undo/rollback means forking into a new state as opposed to going back to a previous state we logically want to be in?
I'd choose "none of the above".
CoinMarketCap simply reports what exchanges report. There's no way for them to get real data.
And their entire UI too. The company is run by furries and 12 year olds. (Which sorta makes sense now that I think about it).
> I bought a bunch of Yubikeys and tried giving them away like candy to friends and family. I couldn't even give them away; people still weren't interested, including several developers (!).

My problem is what if I lose it. I know there are ways round it, but it's a layer of complexity passwords just _don't_ have. That's enough of a hurdle for me.
Consistency is a virtue.

'Tacky' is a consistency. O:-)
Not really... wages suck and taxes are massive. They just have an absurd level of government welfare
I wouldn't believe anything Nader says. He has an agenda, and crafts his narratives to fit it.

Nader's article title makes his bias and agenda clear.
it's possible that revolution becomes impossible.

So I'm the one who took the thread on a tangent.

OK, got it.
I didn't play (to be honest, I think the genre is exploitative), but knew some people who did. The game was high quality in its category, particularly the art. I imagine this was a big reason they are being shut down - Activision Blizzard, Inc is panicking for a variety of reasons and this game was way too costly, even if they were turning a profit, when you can have the same developers shovel out crap at higher margin.
> I really don't know how to adequately describe the ginormous Wall of China style deafening silence that faces me and that helps keep me poor, unable to figure out coding and a zillion other things that drive me crazy.

I genuinely do wish you success. But I've been complicit in this wall of silence for a long time, and I make no apologies for that. Your comment history suggests that any good faith attempt to engage with you will most likely be futile.

You preemptively dismiss anyone who doesn't pander to your claims of sexism and class-ism. A minor disagreement about even the most banal of topics can lead to accusations of "pissing" or "crapping" all over you. Your constant Gish gallop of grievances makes it difficult to focus on any one of them for long enough to make any constructive difference.

I wish I could be of some help, but I'm pretty certain that any good advice will continue to go unheeded. Until that changes, I can only say: Best wishes to you.
Why do you think rates need to be higher? Inflation has been to high or unemployment has been too low?

And I've never heard anyone say the fed caused the 2008 recession. It's pretty much universally agreed upon it was finance blowing up.
The first-order issues are:

a) Money. Most places do not have a lot of surplus wealth, and only a few places in Europe do. Consumers need to have extra money to spend on 'stuff' beyond the very basics, i.e. a consumer oriented economy for a lot of ads to work.

b) Fragmentation. This is a two-sided problem. Most countries are very small, have their own laws, regs, and networks for everything that are very established. So the unit cost of marketing to advertisers etc. is going to be higher. And things move slower in most places.

c) Behaviour. American culture is pop culture. Sometimes it's hard to explain that one. Americans move according to trends. Social mores change quickly depending on whoever has the biggest megaphone: news, broadcasters, even advertisers. It's a place where commercial interests drive aspiration, even morality - witness the amount of virtue signalling in ads, i.e. Nike's recent campaign etc.

W. Europe, the other lucrative market - they are really traditional in their ways. They already have their day full of things to do. Germans leave work at 5 and go and drink a specific kind of beer at the local pub. They play certain kinds of sports. They buy certain things. In the UK, I've been to 'rich people's' homes and they have these ancient toasters. But they work! They don't just 'buy new stuff' it's not part of their culture. It's the same in most of the rest of the world.

The rest of the world is really just not designed as a big commercial vehicle.
I was also on SmartOS for a long time; however with what happened to most of us old timers when sun went down in the back of my mind, and with the way things are looking in illumos land -- we decided finally it's not a good bet for us to be dependent on a single company for our OS anymore.

While I'm sure Samsung will keep Joyent/SmartOS kicking for now, I'm uneasy being dependent on them. We've since started a migration over to FreeBSD for our infra hosts which do all the same things (mostly running linux and bsd guests, zfs tricks and so on) and the experience has been largely positive. No numbers to back it up, but I've observed performance is a bit better and having more options than ipfilter in the base system is very welcome.

YMMV of course, but you may want to consider an extra basket for all those eggs!
We probably have abused the free plan and have been warned about >40 min calls but never disconnected. Builds loyalty.
As well as hiring engineers who will be familiar with it from day 1, as opposed to having to learn whatever custom system you use.
This is well known/suspected in the cryptocurrency circles.

The problem is correcting for bad volumes.
Only 4% of Stanford students come from the bottom 20% of family incomes, while 66% come from the top 20%. That's 15 times as many students from wealthy families as poor families.[1]

The numbers are similar at other top schools, and feed into everything beyond, including startups.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
AR Navigation – Changing how we navigate
UK government e-petitions web site
I guess I am a little behind the times, but no one uses the orchestration stuff that comes with Docker?
Sorry, but you genuinely do need fancy tech to detect it. There are multiple businesses that do nothing but that, plus teams at most of the big ad tech companies. You may notice this article cites Protected Media and DoubleVerify. You can't manually audit that kind of traffic volume.

Several of the ad tech companies have pressed law enforcement to prosecute some of these people, but mostly unsuccessfully. They're often in places that are difficult to extradite from like Russia, hiding behind some botnet: https://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/why-the-doj-final...
Why does the number of microservices have anything to do with where they might live? Wouldn't that be much more related to CPU load?
> Literacy allows for creation and understanding beyond what can be attained via delegating the ability to read and write. It’s the same with coding, and I think you aren’t seeing how coding — or rather, being able to think the way code requires — is an ability that goes beyond building a web app.

Yeah I've heard the meme that "coding teaches you how to think". I don't buy it. I could make the same unsubstantiated claim about playing chess or some other mental gymnastics.

> Here’s a good write up from author Clive Thompson about how he learned to code, and how it helped him, when he was writing a book

He doesn't really give very convincing examples that it helped him professionally, but the time investment was substantial. That's called a hobby.
> Taking the bus instead of the car to work will "pay for" like 4 cross-continental trips a year.

Only if you want to maintain the same levels of unsustainable CO2 output. That's totally unacceptable. We need to get to as close to zero emissions as we can as fast as we can, which means taking mass transit to work, living closer to work, and not flying so much.

> Driving the same trip is 2500 pounds - more than 4x.

Not if you do it in an electric, sustainably powered car (or better yet train).
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> He said one of the reasons for USB C in the Pro is that the tablet draws too much power to charge and operate at the same time over lightning. Also, for 'pro-level' jobs like editing 4K, USB C has much, much faster transfer speeds.

That doesn't sound right - current iPhones support the fast charging rates of the 18W Apple iPad charger over lightning. And the 10.5" and 12.9" iPads Pro support USB 3 (5 gbps, not 10 gbps like the new iPads) speeds over lightning.
So... any else thinking Sterling Engine?
I was curious how Pinterest addresses that in their S-1. Here’s how they put it:

> We depend in part on internet search engines to direct traffic and refer new users to our service. If search engines’ methodologies and policies are modified or enforced in ways we do not anticipate, or if our search results page rankings decline for other reasons, traffic to our service or user growth, retention or engagement could decline, any of which could harm our business, revenue and financial results.

> We depend in part on internet search engines, such as Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex, to direct a significant amount of traffic to our service. For example, when a user types a query into a search engine, we may receive traffic and acquire new users when those search results include Pins, boards, Pinners and other features of our service that cause the user to click on the Pinterest result or create a Pinterest account. These actions increase Pinner growth due to signups of new users and increase retention and engagement of existing Pinners.

> Our ability to maintain and increase the number of visitors directed to our service from search engines is not within our control. Search engines, such as Google, may modify their search algorithms and policies or enforce those policies in ways that are detrimental to us, that we are not able to predict or without prior notice. When that occurs, we expect to experience declines or de-indexing in the organic search ranking of certain Pinterest search results, leading to a decrease in traffic to our service, new user signups and existing user retention and engagement. We have experienced
declines in traffic and user growth as a result of these changes in the past, and anticipate fluctuations as a result of such actions in the future. For example, in the first quarter of 2018, Google de-indexed our keyword landing pages, which negatively impacted traffic and user growth in the quarters that followed. Our ability to appeal these actions is limited, and we may not be able to revise our search engine optimization (“SEO”) strategies to recover the loss in traffic or user growth resulting from such actions. Changes in policies or their enforcement may not apply in the same manner to our competitors, or our competitors’ SEO strategies may be more successful than ours. In addition, some of these search engines are owned by companies that compete with various aspects of our business. To offset the impact on our user growth, we would need to increase our investment in other growth strategies, such as paid marketing or other initiatives that drive user acquisition, which may cost more and be less effective. Any significant reduction in the number of Pinners directed to our website or mobile application from search engines could harm our business, revenue and financial results.
This has actually changed and a fair amount of Walmarts don't allow this anymore. Which is sad because it was a big ideal of the founding of Walmart.
There's an acute problem with using the iPad Mini that no one has yet mentioned here. The text is too damn small unless you have perfect eyesight. For example, Hacker News in Safari on the Mini appears in a super tiny font. If you pinch-zoom, the edges of the page roll off the screen, and you'd be constantly panning left and right. I've tried extensions that increase the font size on web pages -- they all have some failing, like making the letters run together or messing up tables.

I'll grant that this is not the fault of the iPad Mini itself. I blame web standards and browsers for not requiring all parts of a page to scale linearly and re-flow cleanly. It is (in theory) a problem solvable entirely by software. However, the reality of the web is what it is. If you don't have perfect eyesight, it's better to buy a large iPad with the same resolution as the Mini, and then everything is nice and legible. It's a shame because I love the portability of the Mini.
> I think I'm happy with the status quo on this one.

That's probably because you're not one of the cheap people.