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Man... Azure seems to be an order of magnitude worse than AWS and GCP when it comes to reliability.

Seems like they have tons of global dependencies within their services which cause these cascading failures rather often... Seems like only a few months ago we were reading about a global outage that affected auth?

Regardless: Godspeed to the engineers working to fix this.
Nope, only compilers/interpreters were optimized, not the languages themselves. Languages are the same as conceived in the era of single-core CPUs with one-cycle memory latencies.
There aren't many software companies that would let a programmer just code these day. Daily stand-ups must be torture for those with autistic traits.
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My (very limited, anecdotal) experience is the opposite. When filing in ~'08, there was some stimulus credit I didn't claim, like $400, which I was eligible for.

After filing, I got a letter that said (in more formal language) "oh, you missed this, we're direct depositing it."

In any case, even for stuff the IRS might legitimately not know about, it would still be a tremendous simplification to reduce it down to, "Hey, here's a list of things that have deductions or credits. If you think something's missing, enter the info."
I am amazed how much money and effort goes into building software on top of the ancient wasp nest that is C. People boldly taking on that issue deserve our support.
Why did they reject him the first time around?

As a recruiter what percentage of the time are you throwing candidates at jobs to see what sticks?
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Maybe hundreds could, but only one of them was having a really good day on the day of the interview. Which is why candidates have to do so many interviews and companies have to interview so many people.
I right-clicked to inspect it, and it was still "stressed" in the debugger. I almost didn't believe it until I copied and pasted it into a code editor, and sure enough, "dessert" appeared. Oddly, said editor was VSCode, which I believe is Electron-based. They must have some custom way of rendering text.
> Our current planet was made habitable by organisms infinitesimally less intelligent than humans.

I'm a big Musk/Bezos fan too and share their dreams of colonizing the solar system but let's be fair, our amoeba ancestors had billions of years in which to adapt to the planet. Homo-sapiens have barely been around for 400 000 years and there's little evidence our current societal structures will be sustainable for a fraction of that time.
All you guys using freemarket/private enterprise excuses to support this have no justification supporting net neutrality or any antidiscrimination 'public accommodation' laws ie (forced SSM cake baking, government interference in private business's choice of customer/employee). Either government steps in for the greater good or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways.
The way I’ve approached it in my compiler [1] is that garbage collection can never occur while Lisp/RFI (Rust function interface) code is executing. Once the program returns to the event loop GC can occur with a small number of known roots. This works because there will be no way to block without waiting on a future which can then return to the event loop. I’m considering adding a `conditional-gc` macro for long running computations that’s internally implemented as waiting on a future that’s immediately resolved.

This means that RFI code can treat GCed values as having a `'static` lifetime. One caveat is that RFI code cannot capture values except for a few special runtime functions. This works naturally with the language’s pure functional design, however.

As far as data structures go its impossible to support performant Lisp code by implementing lists as native vectors; the guarantees and idioms are too different. My runtime [2] provides Rust bindings for data types that e.g. allow you to create an `Iterator` from a list or construct a list from one. That should allow transparent interoperability with idiomatic Rust patterns and data structures.

[1] https://arret-lang.org/

[2] https://rustdoc.arret-lang.org/arret_runtime/index.html
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Their actual goal is to make people resent taxes by forcing them to calculate themselves just how much money they are giving the government. It's less painful if you get something akin to a credit card statement from the IRS.
Didn't read the article, did it specify international flights? It makes sense if they're doing this for intranational flights too
I spent my past life at a fund of funds and partially agree.

In general though, hedge funds are more likely to be up to some strange or "non-traditional" activities.

At times, our notes about fund manager visits and due diligence read more like the investment version of National Enquirer. Private investigators. Massive power struggles. Odd characters.

And only partially tongue-in-cheek, there's always https://village-us.albourne.com/village/home who organized the infamous Hedge Stock: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/business/09hedge.html
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This is probably the first time I remember seeing a paid browser extension in these days — good job if it's actually making revenue, since you're competing with free!
Yes [1]. And prior to WWII, there was no withholding and everyone had to file quarterly. During WWII, withholding was introduced so the employer is now responsible for filing quarterly tax estimates, although if you are self-employed, you need to do that anyway (as you are your own employer).

[1] Unless you made below a certain threshold (which is quite low), but you are still encouraged to file anyway.
Oh, I misunderstood then. Yeah, there's a lot there.
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Wasn't Milo's book literally titled "Dangerous"?
> The system should never had become so complex as to need a program.

Actually there were bills in congress that would have made it so a program wasn't needed because the government would file on your behalf (https://slate.com/business/2019/04/turbotax-bipartisan-tax-f...). In most cases the government knows enough about you to calculate your taxes for you. Turbotax lobbied the government to kill these bills because it would have destroyed their business model.

So the reason you have to use a complicated form or program to file, is entirely Turbotax's fault because they have lobbied the government from making it simpler for users.

Of course a bigger root cause is that lobbying is undermining our democracy.
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>> Why did they reject him the first time around?

Because most people do a really bad job at technical interviewing and selection - there's so much to say about why it would take a book to explain it all. BUT importantly - everyone thinks they do a great job at interviewing and selection.

>> As a recruiter what percentage of the time are you throwing candidates at jobs to see what sticks?

I'm not sure I understand the question. Is it saying "recruiters send any old person for a job in the random hope they might get it, how often do you do that?".

I don't do that.

I try to find the right person for the job, I look for people who are smart and get stuff done and I send people who I think are going to contribute something meaningful to a company. I use my technical expertise to try to understand the candidates level of technical experience, and I articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to the employer.
Let’s say you have a life-threatening illness. all legal treatments have failed. there is a potentially life-saving treatment that has passed FDA safety trials but is still in efficacy trials and has not been approved for any legal use. You’re fine with just throwing up your hands and dying, because you’re not allowed to make that decision?
I wonder if this is why www.cdc.gov is (was? appears to be back) offline.
Nah, that will happen once someone implements a Javascript compiler written in a Scheme dialect with a VM which is written in Rust, with the entire stack compiling to WASM so it can run in the browser.
For what it's worth, I agree*

*I know that "me too" comments are discouraged here, but when I see someone so downvoted I'd like to show my support, even though it doesn't really offer anything.
Sign languages absolutely do have a phonology. From the first sentence of the Wikipedia page on phonology:

> Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in spoken languages and signs in sign languages.

I am using "syntax" in a very precise sense, as tied to linguistics generally and the Minimalist program specifically. Having a syntax = having a grammar with a merge operation and a move operation that governs relationships of the word or morpheme level units in your language. By that definition syntax is a domain "traditionally only applied to spoken languages", with the one caveat that there are a few papers out there examining whether non-linguistic grammars have merge or move operations.

Because it wasn't always clear that sign languages have morphemes or words (it became widely known during the 1970s and 1980s), the syntacticians that were developing early ideas in mainstream syntax weren't doing so with sign languages in mind. So as the linguistic dogma "all languages are equally expressive" was developed, people were often not thinking explicitly of sign languages. That "all languages (including sign languages) are equally expressive" came to be appreciated was precisely because linguists started to examine how syntax and morphology might apply sign languages.

If you can cite a single paper published before 1970 that discusses the syntax of a sign language from the perspective of generative linguistics, I will recant my whole statement and acknowledge that there is nothing meaningful tying the first half of the problematic sentence to the second half and that my understanding of the history of linguistics was incorrect. The earliest example I am aware of was from 1974.
Reminds me a bit of like 2019's version of RMI...
There's a lot more problems involved than just data collection. The algorithms do not exist to safely and reliably solve these problems even with all the data in the world. Simply put Tesla is declaring it can do something with a restricted set of sensors and compute that the current state of the art in research doesn't support. Even Waymo who have no real production restrictions and can spend >$100k in equipment per car and have a lot more compute is not claiming anything like this will be feasible in the next year. He is claiming cheaper, faster and better than anyone else.

The problems just get harder and harder as you move from a nice controlled environment like a freeway and even there Tesla has shown there are many issues with the system where a driver needs to pay full attention for it to be safe.

From first hand experience with these problems and their complexity I fully expect a slightly better version of autopilot to be delivered and Musk to declare success despite it not being anywhere close to an autonomous fleet of Tesla robo-taxis and justify the difference with the caveats he quietly snuck in that he knew wouldn't make headlines.

That might be enough for his customers and investors so from a business sense it might pay off.
There's a new "confidential" toggle on the web Gmail (at least for gapps accounts) that let newly composed email expire after a certain amount of time. Not available on Android Gmail yet. Just saw it yesterday.

The actual email to non-gmail addresses is just a link to fetch the mail body, which can be validated with SMS.
Aren't Debian or Arch Linux packages in public git repos?
that study is a case study in selection bias by someone with a political agenda.

You can't just look at actions by one somewhat arbitrary group against another, and not look at the actions of anyone else, unless you are expressly trying to be misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime_in_Germa...

You can see that the other "group" here, whos actions are deliberately being ignored by the author and everyone else with an agenda, have brought a lot of violence of their own to the table. Or at least have enough conflicting data points to not pretend to "know" something about facebook and framed studies.

"The group represented roughly 2 percent of the German population by end of 2017,[10] but was suspected of committing 8.5 percent of crimes (violations off the German alien law are not included). The numbers suggest that the differences could at least to some extent have to do with the fact that the refugees are younger and more often male than the average German. The statistics show that the asylum-group is highly overrepresented for some types of crime. They account for 14.3 percent of all suspects in crimes against life (which include murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter), 12.2 percent of sexual offences, 11.4 percent of thefts and 9.7 percent of body injuries The report also shows differences between the origin of migrants. Syrians are underrepresented as suspects, whereas citizens from most African countries, especially northern Africans are strongly overerrepresented. Afghans and Pakistanis are particularly overerrepresented in sexual offenses.[7][10]"
Oh, so "we should pull all the stops" turns out to be "please don't impact local ecology and communities"? Concerns about local ecology seems like a bit of climb down from "I'll pay the bloody premium"
Global dependencies. Something in DNS had a dependency on something central within Azure, and when that breaks, you're done for.

I'm not in the cloud provider game, but it seems like it would be important to audit and ensure that there are no critical cross-region dependencies. I assume GCP and AWS do this regularly?

It seems like there are some things that have to be somewhat global (IAM comes to mind), but minimization of that seems important.

IMO this is the most embarrassing non-security thing that can happen to you as a cloud provider.
Also having sold the autonomous product already to customers ensures constituents will put a lot of pressure on politicians instead of the company having to do that lobbying by themselves.
> If you want to know what's making men docile and feminine look towards pollution of the air and water supplies.

But not the food supplies? Just air and water?
So it's still an "estimate" not hard data yet? Does that mean anything?

From the chart it looks like coal will still be cheaper for most of the next two years, at least the majority of the time. But it looks like intermittently renewable energy will be cheaper, which is good news. Which hopefully also means renewables are getting cheaper, not just coal getting more expensive.
Probably. I also switched to DuckDuckGo, and it generally works fine. On Google, I would get banners suggesting that I set my privacy settings, but it would say I had to log into a Google account to use it.
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Have you tried creating an alias in your statement(s)? Using `AS` to make this explicit may further help. Just a suggestion.
> Charities don’t send records of their donors to the IRS.

In fact, charities are prohibited from valuing donations of property for the donor. The donor must do that, and justify the valuation if audited.
Yep [0].

They had cooling issues at one of their data centers that took most of South Central off line for hours to days, depending on the services you were using

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910916
Sure, but if you say things like "I'll pay the bloody premium" I expect you're willing to take the environment and political issues for the sake of clean, reliable, and fast power.
Oh it really is an awesome low-level tool, but it's not as complicated as it sounds! Here's my attempt at explaining it, hope this helps :)

The gist of it is that your CPU loves to multitask (because that's so much faster), and if you like performance you want to maximize how many things it's doing at once at any time. You want every part of the CPU to have work on its schedule all the time so it doesn't sit idle. This shows you what the schedule for your code looks like so you can optimize it.

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In more details, this tool is going to read your code instruction by instruction, compute what kind of schedule the hardware will be able to make for executing each instruction, and tell you which circuits might be overworked or going unused. (Caveat: the CPU makes its own schedule on the fly as best as it can — this tool is just an approximation in software — but your compiler's best guess is still a pretty good guess in general!)

For example (actual numbers! [0]) your CPU could have 4 "ports" (circuits) that can start doing math on integers (with their ALUs) at any instant in time, or 2 of those "ports" could also multiply floating-points numbers, but each circuit can only be given one kind of task at a time to keep things manageable.
Well it turns out making a good schedule is a surprisingly hard problem, since if you send int work to the first two ports and you didn't foresee there'd be float work coming after, the first two ports will have a full schedule while the other two will be doing nothing. A better schedule could have had all four of them busy in parallel!

You don't directly have a say in the schedule — the hardware does its best — but with LLVM-Mca (or Intel's IACA, which inspired it) you can write code that you know will be easy to schedule in parallel, and that's already some pretty awesome tools to have!

[0]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...
Generally speaking, auditing is allowed solely at the professor's discretion (though as you surmise, I don't think institutions are fans of the concept). So, I'd definitely approach the professor directly. BUT I do think you might have a hard time winning them over -- usually it's only people who are registered students or faculty/staff at the institution that are allowed to audit there (and plenty of faculty will say no, esp. if the class isn't a large lecture). Sometimes alumni are allowed to audit, but there may be security concerns, etc. about letting total outsiders into the classroom. (And as test grading takes time, that may also be a no-go.)

My advice would be to 1) consider MOOCs or MIT OCW, and 2) attend lectures and events open to the public at the institution. The latter may be interesting in themselves, and would be a way for you to get to know the scholarly community a bit better (so you're not just a random person asking for consideration).
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This is it for me as well.

A lot of online publications frustrate me with this as well. They're only supported through advertisements, and request that you disable your ad blocker.

LET ME GIVE YOU MONEY! I would pay for the ability to read your site. Right now I have the choice of ad blocking and preventing them from earning much of anything or giving up my privacy to support them.

It's especially ironic given that many of these sites are increasingly writing about the dangers of "surveillance capitalism" and big tech.
The groups doing those things have been funded by the US government quite recently, and would likely not exist if the US government hadn't tried to meddle in the middle east decades ago.

This is not true at all, based on an even cursory understanding of the history of tribal and religious warfare in the Middle East.

Sort of. The wars would likely not have escalated if the information in the Iraq war logs was known earlier. The war logs showed that the US classified information about what was actually going on in the war so that the public would continue to support it. If the American people knew that it was a proxy war against Iran and that the US was abetting war crimes against former Baath party members, it is unlikely that the war would have continued.

This is even less true. The Iraq war was not a legitimate war, but had popular support from most of the electorate because 9/11 just happened. However, Afghanistan was a legitimate war, with popular support from both parties and the electorate, because Al Qaeda was actually located in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was not, and never was, a proxy for Iran, nor was ISIS. Both groups were violently opposed to Iran on ideological grounds (and I mean "were" because they're both dead now).

Don't conflate one group of brown people with another. That's how the Iraq War happened.

If you think the major parties are in disagreement on war related issues you are not paying close attention. There are only minor points of disagreement.

I volunteered with a number of congressional campaigns of legislators opposed to the Iraq war and the subsequent extended occupation. I opened letters containing death threats targeting the candidates from budding alt-right idiots.

The disagreement between the parties over the war and the occupation was not minor. It was a wide gaping maw in many places where the two sides could not agree due to fundamental ideological differences. Hell, in 2008, the parties ran presidential campaigns with completely different positions on continuing the war. Obama intended to shift the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, McCain intended to continue the war in Iraq without moving into Afghanistan. Obama followed through--and was pilloried by the right for it until US special forces killed Osama.

Assange's decision not to publish material related to Trump was based on it already having been widely published or based on its questionable authenticity. Do you really think that anything damning about Trump could have been kept secret? I think that sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory :)

No, it was based on Assange's declared support for Donald Trump's presidency, and there is substantial evidence that Wikileaks coordinated its release of the DNC files with the Trump campaign to maximize political effect. Wikileaks was also known to have received leaked copies during the campaign of documents related to Trump's many scandals and refused to publish them until after Trump was sworn in.
I'm slightly confused, but I think "beat" in this context means "generated more megawatts in a single day than coal did on the same day".

That's encouraging I guess, but looking at their chart it looks like coal will still remain dominant for a few more years. Also, price isn't mentioned at all.
The topic at hand is how fringe his beliefs are, not how accurate or original.