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I worked at an agency who's manifesto was built on quality over all. It permeated the culture and decision making. If we thought a particular way was the best approach but the client couldn't afford it, we would sometimes even split the cost as to avoid the cost of maintenance down the road. The clients were usually long term clients so this made sense.

Eventually we grew to the point of needing some project managers and I learned so much about project management during that period. We had some that absolutely understood the ethos, advocated for the engineering team and communicated to the client why we do things the way we do.

Then we had the PMs who saw the client as their paymaster, wanted to please them by making big promises, saw engineering as their personal work force, and were happy throwing engineering under the bus when it didn't work out.

The worst work was done under the latter PMs and it always came back to bite us. Half baked features needing rewriting, third party modules hacked into the codebase, bugs and untested code needing weeks of client back and forth.
You are talking about hypernormalisation.

TBH only recently have people been able to do this due to how media works.
It seems to be becoming more of a problem on stackoverflow.

Organizations change their documentation site and then everything that links to the old one is irrelevant.
I've read the second sentence 5 times, but I can't understand it. Could you rephrase it please?
> The right person could absolutely pitch this as a reality TV show.

American Ninja Warrior / Unbeatable Banzuke, but for walking.
I don't know that I've ever seen a rackmount server where the fans weren't by far the loudest part. Granted, I haven't bought a new server from the last few years, but manufacturers seem to have very little desire to reduce fan noise, and without that it's unlikely they'll be quieter than even a rack full of drives.
I used this configuration when I was in grad school and developed RSI in my left pinky. I highly recommend caps to esc and alt to ctrl so that thumbs can hold down keys while other digits just tap keys. Less stress on pinky.
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Are you claiming that being infected with HIV makes a person more likely to commit crimes?
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I didn't see too much light being shined. The summary of the argument is that there is a military program worth $100 BN where the only 2 allowed bidders are Boeing and Northrop. Than, based on zero evidence, he speculates that the Pentagon will grant the program to Boeing and accelerate the payments as a form of bailout for the 737-Max debacle. He doesn't really hide the details, but it's worth pointing out that:

* this procurement program was initiated in 2016 [1] (prehistory as far as 737-Max is concerned)

* the "finalists", Boeing and Northrop were selected in 2017 (again prehistory)

* the $100 BN (actually wikipedia states $86) contract is for a period of 50 years. That is less than $2BN/year. Even accelerating this program, this would be an increased revenue of the order of $0.5 BN per year (at most), and much less net income (it's a wild guess here, but I believe the Pentagon gives money upon delivery of stuff, or at least upon hitting some milestones; acceleration of cash payments must be accompanied by acceleration of deliverables).

* the actual winner of the program will be announced at the end of 2020. So all the money we are talking here must be multiplied with a probability of winning the contract, which is nowhere close to 1 (you think Northrop does not have their own lobbyists?)

* as someone correctly pointed out in the comments here, Boeing already took a charge of $5BN. That is real dollars, today dollars. Not probabilistic dollars extended over a period of 50 years.

Also, here's my own little speculation. The Minuteman missile that is being replaced was built by Boeing, but the first stage (i.e. largest part of the missile) was build by Thiokol, later acquired by Northrop [2]. I think there is a very high likelihood that in the end the money will be split between Boeing and Northrop, and not go entirely to only one of them. Another bit of supporting evidence is that in 2017 the Pentagon granted both about the same amount of money for the Phase 1 of the project (about $300 MM) (see [1] again).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Based_Strategic_Deterre...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman#Replacement
That’s almost 10 years ago. Was the backdoor ever found?
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> Because if I can do my job from home office just as well why should I not also get that?

The usual reason not every employer is ok with remote work: if everyone does it, it damages the team.

It's not unreasonable to insist employees work from the office, neither is it unreasonable to make exceptions for employees with disabilities.
IMO there's a difference of scale - Amazon has quasi-monopoly power in the "buying things online" space, so much so that e.g. Anker, which makes cables and chargers and competes directly with Amazon Basics, has no distribution channel other than Amazon.

If I make Unprovable Loops ("Part of this Turing-complete breakfast") and I'm not satisfied with the distribution deal I get from Safeway, I can always call up Von's or CVS or Target or Whole Foods or Walmart and see what they'll do, and in most cities there are multiple such options.

I do wonder if the problem here is inherent to being an online store. If there's a Safeway in one part of town, a new Walmart in another part of town will sell roughly as much cereal as a second Safeway. But if Amazon.com exists and is generally useful, why would people go to another site? So perhaps some of the traditional/historical safeguards against any one store becoming a monopoly on the market no longer apply.
I'm surprised by the downvotes for this. There are downsides to using Javascript for everything, so it isn't a free lunch.

Move fast and break things is increasingly less defensible for what is a mature technology that the world relies on. And Moores Law is a thing of the past, it isn't really tenable to just take the view that hardware will 'fix' your performance problems. Then there are the security and accessibility considerations.

I suppose Javascript is the single use plastic of the digital world. In its place there aren't really any good alternatives, that doesn't mean you should use it everywhere.
I liked the specific note that two brothels were established there.
According to WikiPedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_app_distributio... ):

Google Play: 3.5 million apps
App Store: 2.2 million apps
F-Droid: 1,878

Several orders of magnitude off.
But, hypothetically, what if it's not possible?

And what if the company were legally precluded from offering you more money to compensate for not being able to provide the same thing to you?

Would you still feel the accommodation is unfair of the company, and want to leave the company?

Or would you see it as something the organization is collectively happy to do, to be inclusive and supportive of your fellow people? Or as something you understand the organization legally has to do, and you don't resent the organization for it?

(BTW, I think we might agree that some accommodations are actually things that probably can and should be offered to everyone. But I'm asking a hypothetical of a different situation, to understand better.)
> Rackmount server in home people so often brag about on the Internet is a very loud and impractical way to run network services from home, unless you have separate room for it.

I definitely wouldn't have my rackmount server in my bedroom, but instead I have it in a separate office/study room.

If you get decent fans (like Noctua) it's definitely not that loud, though the main problem is it's hard to find a cheap power supply that has decent (or replaceable) fans for a 2U rack. You can replace the fans on PSUs by cutting wires and soldering but that's always felt like a bad idea to me.
Why not go for an RPi or mintbox? Both can be passively cooled.

And you can use an RPi to switch on a "real" server in case you need it.
You are right, 3.5" disks can be loud, 2.5" drives or SSDs are better in that respect. Other option is to spin down / suspend the box after inactivity.
They emit, to produce, for us to buy. Stop buying, they stop emitting.
IMHO, your analogy is exactly correct and if Safeway was as big as Amazon, Warren would be calling for them to be broken up too.

On the other hand, maybe the analogy isn't good because safeway displays products side by side while Amazon can more easily promote their own products. Level on a shelf has much less effect than a product being out of sight at the bottom of a webpage or even the second page of search results.

Grocery store margins are razor thin though, they compete with each other a lot.
If you're using consumer gear in a rackmount form factor (which I'd recommend, given that AMD Ryzen and Threadripper support ECC and are really cheap compared to Xeons), then you can get nice Noctua fans which really help make the fans much more reasonable.

Right now the PSU fan is the loudest thing in my rack, but I think I'm going to cut and solder a much quieter fan in place.
Yep, Spotify I use every day on Linux and it does work fine, but it's not quite as easy to install (though this is the best it gets on my list).

VPN support would be fine wrt OpenVPN, but I'm using NordVPN. To be fair I just checked and they also have a .deb so that's fine too.

Drive is a pain, Dropbox suggestion is good. IIRC I've used "Grive" before, and it worked, but wasn't a delight to use.

Definitely agree on hardware. Even the XPS range from Dell which offers Linux pre-installed has been pretty choppy in the past. I'm using a Thinkpad now and imo it's the best option.

I can't do macs, that's the one thing!
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You won’t ever catch me saying that vanilla vim is the best editor out there but it’s sufficient, as are all of the others you named. At some point, the bottleneck becomes thinking up the correct solution and not the data entry. In my opinion, we passed that point at least a decade ago; even if you reduced the amount of data entry effort to zero, it’ll make little difference in my overall efficiency as a programmer.
Smooth animations.
Only, it's highly consequential.

Describing people in this way puts them into a category of 'other'. It defines people by their immigration status, diminishing their value as people.

This allows people to justify a belief that people perceived to be in this category do not require or deserve basic human rights.

Recognising that people are in a vulnerable situation is important, I agree. Happy to hear what positive action would be useful :)
I wanted to add my "anecdata": I've run ddclient with namecheap for years and never had a single issue.
Both of these are in the article, under "crude approximation". The criticism made in the article was that it can be off by ~3 degrees Fahrenheit at normal temperatures.
OtS is wonderful. Such a succinct and effective pedagogical style.
It's not unreasonable for someone to find another employer...

I am pointing out that treating people differently damages teams.
I'd suggest restic for backups (it's encrypted and deduplicated automatically, with the ability to have very simple retention policies). It backs up to basically any dumb storage service (S3, Backblaze, Google Cloud) and you can sync it yourself since it's just a tree of files like a git repo. For storage on the actual machine, use ZFS or something similar so that you can do your restic backups on an atomic snapshot.
Imagine being the nerd working hard day and night to create truly behemoth companies like Amazon and Google. Watch Bezos' interview from 1999. His office looks like that of a company going out of business, his desk is made of old office doors. He was already a billionaire, but the razor focus of efficiency made him the richest person in the world.

Now a scummy politician who has built her career and education by lying about her family is being seriously considered when she talks about using state coercion to take away from Bezos what he has rightfully and legally earned.

Shame on you HNers who partake in this.
There’s another point of view that says “if it’s workable for person D who happens to have a disability, it is likely also workable for persons A-C and E-Z.”
My rule of thumb with regard to objections to Many Worlds is that if the article discusses consciousness, or brains, in any way, it’s not about Many Worlds, but about consciousness, or brains, and I will stop reading it at once.
First off the EPA would get proper funding:
https://www.edf.org/deep-epa-cuts-put-public-health-risk

And would admit clearly that it is something we can change and start promoting policies that help move society in the right direction. Instead they are censoring themselves and the organization is all but toothless.

https://time.com/5075265/epa-website-climate-change-censorsh...

So yea things would be different.
I'm Greek also. I was taught at school that you place commas where you would naturally have a pause when speaking a sentence aloud. You can hear that rule very clearly in operation in the way school kids read when asked to read a text aloud (e.g. in national holidays etc). They always very deliberately pause after each and every comma.

Anyway, other than the last two examples, the examples above don't look wrong to me.
Article says the vehicle was a truck I was expecting a DeLorean.
Yes! My next server is definitely going to be a custom build, probably with Ryzen. I've gotten far too tired of the problems I've had with Enterprise hardware, and forced incompatibilities. It will probably still be a tower though, in order to get it as quiet as possible for my apartment.
Yes and no. It is definitely true that companies aren't just burning coal for the fun of it, but the primary problem is that companies have no (economic) incentive to use processes that are less environmentally damaging. In fact, given that we know for a fact that fossil fuel companies knew about global warming in the 70s and tried to hide it from the public[1] shows that they have a profit incentive to stop research into alternatives.

Getting those 100 companies to cut their emissions even down by 50% (or spend significant amounts of their massive profits on renewable energy research) would have a larger impact than any individual action you could attempt (and fail) to get the public to do.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10... is an article on the figure if anyone is interested.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
Unfortunately, in my experience, denying a raise is the standard.
Although this is normal in the sense that it often happens it should not be considered normal in the sense that it is a situation that should be allowed to endure. You should educate yourself up to the point that it no longer is true. The thing that greatly increased my quality as a programmer is to learn TDD and also the book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code' by Michael Feathers. It might be something different for you but you should go find out what it is.
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Why? It's not self-evident that as far as is necessary is the correct answer here. If the costs are far outstripping the value delivered by the employee, then at the very least it's become a question of disabled rights, and not a business decision.

There's clearly a limit to the reasonable accommodations we can expect of an employer.
Is that intel ARK published spec sheet bandwidth, or actual usable bandwidth? There is a difference.

I've found I get about 75-80% of the advertised bandwidth both from my real app (TLS crypto) and a toy memory copy benchmark using AVX256 instructions. The toy memory copy benchmark is how I realized that my bottleneck was actually memory bandwidth and not CPU horsepower on Broadwell based servers.
In the past I have swallowed such arguements about desks and chairs - now I have a bad back. I won't put myself at a disadvantage again.

Regular home office is not even close to being in the same class as specific software or food or even a disabled car parking spot.

Everything is case by case of course so I can't tell you. Often I wouldn't tell you. If I felt undervalued at work I would just get another job.
If you just want it accessible from any of your other devices in a secure/private way without fussing much with DNS and port forwarding, ZeroTier is an excellent modern solution.

https://zerotier.com/
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>Microsoft never amassed the data on their "customers" that Google and Facebook and every Tom, Dick, and Harry do now.

They caught wind of their "mistake" and "corrected" that error in Windows 10 but have since slightly changed course under pressure[0].

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15188636/microsoft-windows...
It’s expensive and we don’t really need it. Would be nice, though.
An interesting look at the film and Jackson’s selectivity:

https://kottke.org/18/12/against-peter-jacksons-they-shall-n...
http://www.buckminster.info/Ideas/10-EndEnergyCoolingFree.ht...
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Some routers (e.g. Asus) come with a free service to do that out the box. That'll be MyButterfly.asuscomm.com domain though.

>asymmetrical upload/download speeds of most home connections?

If it's something fibre like then it's probably enough for casual hosting
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Hopefully they're m monitoring system knows the difference between direct 404 access and legitimately not found pages.
My previous comment literally started with the phrase 'as a straight white man', and it received several up votes. Does this website count as tech?

The trick is: don't be an asshole and recognize that other people have different experiences which are just as valid as your own. Every time I've seen someone talking about how it's terrible to be a white man these days, it's because they want to be an asshole to someone and are being told that's wrong. Straight white men who are actually kind and listen to others, seriously considering their opinions don't get much flak for being straight and white. Is this really that difficult to understand?
Are the developers not taxpayers?

No spending is avoided here, it’s merely obscured a little.

Taxing the developers for straight cash would at least give the government more control on how it is spend.
I have a Fractal Design Define R5 case (https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-ser...) in my living room at the side of my television where I sit a few feet away in a small apartment and can not hear it unless I put my head right next to it, then I can just about hear the case fans.

It's fitted with 4 x 4TB WD Reds, a stock AMD Ryzen 2600 cooler, Corsair RM850x PSU and the cheapest graphics card I could find with a HDMI out, the graphic card has a small fan. I also have a HBA card I modded adding a small Noctua fan as they are passively cooled and designed to go in rack mount cases where they have high airflow passing over them so get to hot in a desktop.

The case has rubber mountings for the hard drives and sound reducing material on the side panels.

I built it to be quiet but didn't go massively out my way or spend massively to make it quieter i.e. I choose a good case but have stock case fans, stock cpu cooler and choose a PSU where the fan only spins up under load which I'll never hit.

It's not to hard to build something that for all intent and purposes is silent as long as you don't pimp it out with the latest fastest graphic cards, have it maxed out 24/7, or go small.
Well. Using headphones all day damages our hearing... We work better without constant distractions. We are pretty expensive to employ and then use at 50% potential.
I've got 3+ year old who gets ~20 mins of screen time each evening. We push for her to read books, go play, go on a walk, color, etc. but it's nice for her to get a little break right before bed to chill out and see her favorite characters.

Our limit is not hard, there are days where we're wiped out or she's sick or something's happened and we're struggling so give her more(the most ever was 3 or 4 90 min movies on snow day when everyone was sick).

She occasionally will get a handful of youtube videos(which are limited to what she already likes) but she generally wants to re-watch movies she loves.

We'll occasionally throw on a nature documentary instead of a standard movie, she loves seeing the animals and it's a good break in the routine.

If you set a rule(like screentime) and you've hit your limit, then you've hit your limit. Screen time is a metric like calories in my mind. You do your best to stay at a healthy weight and teach your kids what a healthy and unhealthy way to consume are...then hope for the best.
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I'm gonna stick to just using my previous gen laptop as I upgrade.

Need fresh ones due to GPU so the old one is perfectly fine for server duty still. Stick a couple USB3 docks on there & good to go

But...now I'm unsure what to do with the old old one...
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I'm completely amazed this was accomplished in one month's time.
> I wonder how "American" a multinational company really is, or what it even means for a company to be "located" in a particular country.

The cynic in me thinks the acid test is whether the NSA can lean on them.
I haven't a clue. I just got it off the link quoted. It's a good question and when there's a difference, you know what marketing will say.

To make a stab, I suppose it might depend on whether all requests are coming from a single memory bank or spread evenly across all memory banks, assuming fully populated (again from the link "Octa-channel (up from hexa-channel)")
What an amazing world-changing battle! Brother versus brother, English longbows versus French heavy cavalry (again) . . . Try to imagine a world without a Henry the Navigator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aljubarrota
Not necessarily, a risk can be part of the model but not accurately quantified. Having a model doesn't mean it's perfect.
The fact that the embassy talks to the mothership is not secret.

How much it does so might be, and what it talks certainly is, but that's easily fixed by getting a line with dedicated bandwidth, running an encrypted connection (VPN or something custom) over it, and padding the traffic to ensure the bandwidth usage is constant (if you have a 100 Mbit line and 10 Mbit of traffic, you send 90 Mbit of padding).

The keys for the VPN get delivered via diplomatic courier.
This is less a problem with differentiable rendering than a problem of defining image distance, which I agree is hard (though there are plenty of interesting approaches, like losses defined by conv nets).

More interesting though is when the renderer is part of a larger pipeline, and the loss is defined some other way (such as how well the agent is driving, in our DuckieTown simulator). Backprop through the renderer lets us do BPTT, which is very powerful, but we don't ever have to compare images, avoiding that non-differentiability issue. Another example would be the autoencoder-like setups you can use to bootstrap CV models.

It remains to be seen how effective these things are in practice, of course, but there are plenty of interesting directions.
FWIW iOS Search (swipe down from the middle of the Home screen) can do conversions too.

https://i.imgur.com/16AAqDG.png