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I agree that Slack is a productivity-minimizer. However, my deeper qualm is how conversations about Slack (and other tools) inevitably end with someone saying,

“It isn’t the tool, it is how you use it.”

Malarkey. Tools dictate usage. The phrase people need is,

“When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

Slack is a tool for communication. But it is helpful to define communication and then to ask what kind of communication Slack facilitates (and thus encourages).

Communication is a poor word, because it embeds within the word many slightly different but important meanings. Communication can mean the mere transfer of information. But communication can also mean a successful transfer of information.

So really, we can’t simply define “communication”, but must rather define “good communication”. And its definition is simple: transmitting the right information to the right entity at the right time and in the right manner (i.e., in a way the entity can understand correctly).

Slack facilitates transmitting any information to any person at any time, and (with the use of plugins) in almost any manner. This is almost the definition of bad communication.

Yes, you can try to limit the use of Slack to avoid these problems. But you are working against Slack, not with it. Every tool that facilitates good communication does so by disciplining and focusing the transmission of information. Slack’s mission is the opposite. Slack aims to achieve a riot of information. Slack is information anarchy.

Maybe this helps for work that is by nature anarchic, where information flow is more important than knowledge exchange. But for the rest of us, it is a cursed tool.
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Is 20 days period for seeing your family doctor or some kind of specialist?
I'll link to the wikipedia graphic of Moore's Law:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Moore%27...

It makes the point that Moore's law is dead. You can see the slope change in in 2006 with the Dual Core Itanium2. So it died after Dennard scaling toppled (and some of the fastest growth ever), and although transistor count continues to increase it is noticeably slower... I fear that it may go slower still since economic costs continue to increase, but profits don't (as fast). When the CFO figures out it's not worth investing in scaling, you just won't build new fabs (unless the gov just says so).

To put some numbers to this (topline growth):

1971 TMS1000 (8k) to 1979 M68000 (70k) 2.6yr/double

1979 M68000 (70k) to 2003 Itanium M6 (400M) 1.9yr/double

2003 Itanium2 6M (400M) to 2006 Dual Itanium (1.6B) 1.5yr/double

2006 Dual Itanium2 (1.6B) to 2018 GC2 IPU (24B) 3.1yr/double

Personally, I think that an era of backend improvements (wafer stacking etc) to combine processes (Memory/Logic/Flash) into locally interconnected 2.5D is possible, if there remains sufficient investment, and that in turn could drive some improvements to performance and pricing. However, that relies on ever more complex system design and integration... and heat dissipation issues. I don't see full 3D scaling or Quantum compute on the 3-5 year horizon where big new investments will be required.

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>but at the end everybody gets the healthcare

I'm saying that this is not true. Estonia requires you to contribute (pay for it through taxes), or be registered as a student, retired or be a recipient of unemployment benefits to have healthcare. If you're unemployed, but don't receive unemployment benefits (eg you don't qualify) then you don't get healthcare.
>"Millennials move from job to job in order to climb the ladder…. For baby boomers and other generations…loyalty and dedication to a single company or career drove, and still drives, much of their working lives."

Can someone tell me where the companies are that will return such loyalty? I've been looking and they don't seem to exist any more (if they ever really did).
Relevant:

"Plastic-bag ban led to hep A health crisis?"

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/sep/08/stringers-pl...
> It had a lot of negative impact on poor people in general. Mentally ill homeless people skipped the line for subsidized housing and had an outsized impact on crime and quality of life issues in public housing.

I don't know much about this but there's got to be more to that story. Personally, I'm more than okay with policies that attract some additional homeless people to our city if it means that (1) those people get to sleep in a bed each night and (2) there are fewer people sleeping on NYC streets in general.

What I legitimately don't understand is why there are still so many people sleeping on the street...
I understand that it is a ticker symbol, but nobody on Hacker News means Diamondback Engegy when they say "FANG" "FAANG" or "FANG/FAANG Companies".

But great point though.
I completely agree with that last part. That's one of the biggest arguments to move towards a more universal healthcare system.
Cod should not be difficult to farm like any other animal.
We have the technology.

I was a fisheries observer before I changed careers to programming.

Longline fishing is insanely unsustainable. Seeing and recording the bycatch is both heartbreaking and makes you incredibly angry.
I cannot imagine how having both long and short options flags can not be portable. Care to enlighten me?
> This just isn't true.

Sure it is. People on our team need to take time to onboard the new hire. That's good and expected. The new hire will work slower and that's ok; they will need extra help, time to learn the codebases, etc. After a couple of months, a particular new hire did not work out. Time had to be taken to document reasons, meet with HR, meeting to talk about expectations, etc. In the end, the new hire is gone and so is the time the team spent helping, and the slowdowns on real deliverables, and the hit to team morale. It sucks when someone is let go. It was a net negative for our team and thus the whole org. Depending on a combination of level (leadership position?) and toxicity, negative impact on the team or company culture can occur. Bad hires can have a real cost.
Thanks for the read. Its utterly bizarre to hear the math of it

All this points to orphaned octopus babies having an advantage over those with living parents,
which is easy enough to fathom. Without mom and dad around, the kids are left with more food and territory for themselves.
However I’m still confused. Wouldn’t a given gene be more likely to replicate itself residing
in an individual that reproduced multiple times in addition to being in half the octopus babies it helped produce?

How does a gene that a parent only passes down (typically) once that inhibits survival after mating outlive a mutation that doesn't?
>If it really, truly cost less to go without plastic, poor people would do it, they do any and everything to save a dollar on food.

I think it's more about the effort that goes into it. If you look at what the op said, op travels to farmers markets, hits up bulk stores and butcher shops and generally puts effort into tracking down and sourcing out these things. For the op, it may well be cheaper, but it comes with a pretty large time sink(comparatively) and some amount of planning, I also wonder if op is factoring in travel time to their costs. It costs more to travel to a few different stores, both in gas or bus fare if these places are distant, plus in the time it takes to get around to these places. If someone has limited time and resources, in the end, it ends up being easier and more efficient to go to one store and spend the money on packaged foods than to make the trips op says.

This is from my own personal experience. I used to live pretty close to a butcher shop and a fresh produce and bulk place, the food quality was always better, the prices were better for what you got, you'd pay a lot more at the grocery store for the quality of meat you got from the butcher, but in the end I found myself going to the grocery store more often then not, just because it was easier after work or during the limited free time I had.
I’m listening to a collection of Malcolm Gladwell essays and was somewhat blown over by one about power-law distribution of homelessness[1]. Basically a small, stubborn minority of the homeless population are financially worth housing (by far).
“That is what is so perplexing about power-law homeless policy. From an economic perspective the approach makes perfect sense. But from a moral perspective it doesn’t seem fair.”
[1] http://dpbh.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/A%20MillionDollarMurray.pdf
Design doesn't have to mean lots of color or weird use of white space though. One can "design" a great resumé in LaTeX.
> ... allegedly mentally ill ... ... disregarding the norms of society ... seemingly mentally ill

I think you are giving yourself too much leeway with your weasel words here. I lived in San Francisco and saw first hand the homeless problem. These are not a group of free-spirits, bucking the norms of society and living an honest drifter lifestyle. Maybe you would like to call to mind the counter-culture described by beat poets like Jack Kerouac. Or maybe you want to warn against the kind of authoritarian cruelty fictionalized in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

However, it is my experience that the people living on the streets in the Tenderloin aren't down on their luck Woody Guthrie types, pining for a pre-technology, more social friendly USA that valued simple folk.

I think we need to avoid painting ourselves into corners with false dichotomies. It isn't like the only options are to round them up and lock them away in a mental hospital or to leave them completely free on the streets. And like it or not, the middle ground may require some intervention that is forceful.
I found this is a great summary of non-technical side of the interviews. Thanks for sharing!
I would think your question boils down to “how do these layers of paint survive reentry?”

Firstly, they aren’t on the heat shield, but on the part of the capsule it shields.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry#Ablative explains how that shielding works:

”The ablative heat shield functions by lifting the hot shock layer gas away from the heat shield's outer wall (creating a cooler boundary layer)”

So, it’s not only that insulation layers in the heat shield slow down direct heat transfer to the capsule. Also, evaporation of the heat shield pushes the place where heat is produced away from the heat shield.

The shape of the capsule also helps, as it prevents (most of) the hot gases from coming close to the wall of the capsule. https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/re-entry-gettin...:

“WHY IS THE CAPSULE BLUNT?

When we think of vehicles that are designed to go fast, they are usually sharp and slender to minimise the drag. However, with a space capsule we want to maximise drag to slow down for a safe landing. The blunt capsule design was first proposed by Harvey Julian Allen in 1953 at NASA Ames research centre. It had two advantages—not only the high drag needed to reduce speed but also the blunt shape, which resulted in the shock wave detaching from the surface of the vehicle. This helped to reduce the very high temperatures (around 1,648°C for the space shuttle nose) from directly contacting the surface, which would otherwise melt.“

(That page has a photo of the shock waves around a Soyuz during recently)
> . Electing a Republican or conservative/centrist Democrat every now and then wouldn't be a bad thing, Democrats do not have a monopoly on solving local issues in a compassionate yet effective manner, in fact I'd claim that the increasing ease with which the Democrat candidate wins elections in major American cities contributes to the lack of urgency and a sense of complacency with the status quo.

In California cities there is no one “Democratic candidate”; mayor's offices are nonpartisan elections and in a city like San Francisco there will be multiple competitive cabdidates, who might all notionally be Demcorats, some of whom will have a local government approach that is indistinguishable from what one might, based on party alignment on similar national issues, expect from a Republican.
Yeah, this is really cool. While the grammar remains the same, seeing something like:

```
kmc =: right (step power infinity) initialise
initialise =: (left deal tally at right) from right
step =: (left groupby allocate rank 1 2) then (mean every)
allocate =: euclidean then (equal minimum) then indices then head
euclidean =: (minus then square then sum) vectors
```

That's quite readable and compact. I'm fascinated by J now.
Note for other readers: The parent post probably means incremental ZFS snapshots, which won't store multiple copies of any given block unless the piece of data has been moved.

ZFS also has a block deduplication scheme, but turning it on is a poor idea. The deduplication table needs to be stored in memory for decent performance, and this takes a lot of memory. Even then, performance is rarely as good as with dedup turned off. It doesn't even save as much space as you'd hope -- it's per-record, and ZFS storage records are 128KiB by default. If you're trying to deduplicate 10KiB files with that, you're going to have a bad time.

(Note also: The ZFS record size is dynamic; the 128KiB default is the maximum record size it'll allow, i.e. the most data that has to be read and rewritten (somewhere else) if you modify one byte in a larger file. If you just write a single 10KiB file and force it to disk, then you'll get a 10KiB record. It's complicated; try not to read more into this than "dedup is rarely a good idea," though if I'm allowed a second line, I'll add "compression is always a good idea; enable zle at a minimum.")
G.E. Is Accused of Major Fraud, and Stocks Take a Beating
Yeah. The first article he linked to specifically called out Windows for doing fonts in kernel-space, to put that gstreamer vulnerability in context.
Nginx doesn't cache files by default, but it has a file based caching module and a file based store module that can be used to retrieve files from backends and cache on local filesystem.
> Instead, the classification of phases is “more like a periodic table. There are many elements, but they fall into categories and we can understand the categories.”

> Before these zero-temperature phases cropped up, physicists thought they had phases all figured out.

Ahh, the irony. This is an endless loop: hey, we figured it all out! Some years/decades later: hah! Past scientists didn't have the full picture. Now we have figured it all out...
"Hiring based on merit" is obviously not. Declaring that you don't like fluffy CV's (which obviously has nothing to do with merit) BECAUSE you "hire based on merit" certainly can be.

I'm not saying people need to hire based on who's got a better photo on their resume. I'm saying that you shouldn't be surprised when people take your rhetoric about that stuff as a signal that you aren't going to be as fair a boss as you might think you are.

And maybe that's unfair. I've certainly never worked for you. But you need to be willing to market to free spirits if you actually want to hire the best people.
And they will cover a small part of what is found in research papers.

Python has the best ecosystem, but Rust was made by a competent team so we will root for it.
Woodworking might give you a (tiny) edge if the job is somehow mechanically-oriented, or maybe fishing signals an interest in the outdoors.

However, I’ve been told that it’s most useful as hook so that interviewers have something to remember beyond “dev from good school” or “consultant living in NYC”, which might describe a huge fraction of the candidate pool.
Those cardboard tubs will have a plastic liner and thus be un-recyclable and non-compostable. Nearly no consumer cardboard containers for non-dry food are pure cardboard, they all have liners to protect the cardboard. Very few will have a wax lining but that is the legacy method and more expensive than plastic so they are few and far between.

The litmus test is does the packaging begin to break down after 10 or so minutes holding wet food, if yes then the packaging is likely just paper, i.e. cardboard, if it can sit in a fridge for 48 hours without issue it has plastic.
I am from Europe. I'm speaking from experience here - I've had years with no access to healthcare. It just meant that I didn't go to a doctor when I was sick and I just ignored my chronic conditions (asthma with no inhaler during allergy season is not fun).
Sometimes all you need is a good toss https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140414044726-2259773-a-guid...
I put myself through hell as an IPCC convening lead author, but it was worth it
Well, I'm guessing the shelters don't let you shoot up, so...tent cities form.
It does not help what? How would you know?
> Because these problems encourages you to write unreadable code.

First off, no, writing good code in an interview wins you additional points. Second, why do you think candidates can (or will) continue doing that on the job? New employees aren't allowed free rein to check in code from day 1 at most places - trust has to be earned. And I don't think any decent company allows check-ins without review.
The article was written in 2016 (from the URL). Have some of the authors criticisms been addressed in the latest release? I know that startup time for Julia is now much faster (and also faster than my IPython profile from anaconda).
Nvidia just made it easier to build smarter chatbots and slicker fake news
It will just amplify your opportunities in my opinion. You'll still be a software engineer, you'll just have hardware experience as well.
Without maps or persistent data structures, it won't feel Clojure-ish beyond simple examples. But a lisp on top of the Python ecosystem is an exciting project.
Poland is the same. In such case, you explicitly need to self-insure with the state, and pay about $100 per month. I believe it was done to move people out of the grey economy - now, even if they don't pay taxes, they still need to pay the insurance (whilst if you pay taxes, most of the insurance premium is deduced from the taxes you pay, i.e. "free").
Email does indeed require discipline. Poorly phrased messages, inconsistent quoting, too many recipients are all bad.

Checking email too often is a productivity killing habit.

However, the worst, most common, problem with email is disorganization. It takes a great deal of effort to organize received emails so they are appropriately handled.

I do not miss the days where I’d spend an hour every weekend filing my inbox.
I really hate how printf and sprintf are macros. I have no idea why they would have these in the standard library instead of replacing them with function forms.
Combined cycle thermal efficiency’s are breaking 60%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant

But, for very long term storage efficiency is not that import. If you’re buying at an average of say 1c/kWh and selling at 20c/kWh in 6 months it’s mostly a question of what your storage costs per day as well as maximum output is.
I think this post is pretty outdated... Julia has come a very long way since v0.4.
Here you go: https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
I don’t disagree, it watching the same ad for coke or Taco Bell during a TV add is the same thing.

(side note - using TV as a high bar for the Internet would be...well, disappointing to say the least)
Back when I was at Mapbox and we were developing the library used for this sort of visualization, I did a take on my home city of Portland, OR in a similar fashion:

https://blog.mapbox.com/visualizing-an-entire-citys-building...

(Disclaimer: some of the images, and especially the code formatting, don’t seem to have survived very well)

I wrote there a bit more about the data processing side of this, and I tried to make a compelling mobile visualization that was fast. I’d use it a lot for demo and pitch-type meetings, and especially with an HDMI connector direct from iPhone to a 50, 60 or 70” display, the frame rate and fluidity was super impressive.

To this day, I just plain love the tech that we built.
It’s funny, I live in Japan where contrary to my experience in the states, I can go see a doctor any time - just walk in. No need for specialist referrals either. If doc says I need to see a specialist, I just walk in.

US politics, specifically from the right, lobbies pretty hard and uses fearmongering to the max. Lower standard of care? What’s that? Wait times? Sure, you may wait a bit longer that one day, but someone will see you. I remember when my wife needed to see a therapist for her depression, we had to wait 2 weeks to see someone “in network” in CA. This was with good insurance. Here, walk in, wait, see doc, walk out. My fellow Americans need to wake up to reality and try to understand that powerful interests are lobbying against you and using fear as primary means for arguing against “universal” healthcare. Let me be clear, I still pay a monthly premium and I still have co-payments, but one this is for sure - it’s practically impossible for me to go bankrupt due to a medical issue.
can you provide source for the percentages? thanks.

CA is leading the path towards socialism, i'm surprised it's lagging behind to take care of the homeless there, which should be a core action item for that ideology. Maybe they're just good at talk the talk, as always.

Seattle seems no better as far as homeless is concerned. Austin is becoming a favorite destination city for homeless nowadays too, tents up everywhere in hot summer.
There are things that were easy to do with flash, and are still a nightmare with html, like group video lectures with chat. Adobe even provided their own media server. Replicating that with html is not at all easy to solve.

And no, making “an app for that” is no replacement
For me, I can only read DFW short stories. I love his writing, but, like a very rich dessert, I prefer limited to large amounts.
https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs

already exists
"...and destroyed their breeding ground."

I'm not sure about the fishing industry but there's an odd phenomenon among loggers. Loggers hate tree-planters. It's as if it's a war on trees, and hippies are supporting the enemy. The notion that today's saplings are next-generation loggers' income never seems to take
Yes and?

I don't believe in 100% free speech. I don't think it's needed for society to function. That's fine if you do. But slippery slope arguments or "when the tides change" future-scenarios aren't super convincing.

I'm fine with being intolerant of intolerance. I also understand it's personal opinion. That's how the world works. It's a bunch of individuals trying their best to get by in their lives.

I say we ban the Nazis. You say "let the Nazis talk". Then society as a whole fights it out and comes to a conclusion (with inertia favoring inaction). The same will happen for ANTIFA and Communists and the Alt-Right and Libertarians being allowed to have platforms. And American society as a whole will keep moving forward in the same weird twisting way it has for the past ~250 years.

I'm not unaware of the ramifications of my opinions if enacted as policy, I'm just not afraid of the fight when someone seeks to use them against me.
Well organized, but a lot of noise. This is honestly the best guide I saw (got a job at a FAANG company following it):

https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-i...
I was referring to the actual map of the World, instead of legacy labels that just seem out of touch in the modern World.
I've been working in the data space with R since 2014 and Python/Pyspark since 2017 and I'd love to switch to Julia, but whenever I look up for "production" examples I don't feel safe enough to start a real, paid project on it.
Hmm I thought this was about this guy dumping his girlfriend.
Ask HN: How close are we, really, to having a quantum computer for the home?
I’m curious how realistic the timeframe is of having a quantum computer for the home? Is it possible in 10 years tops?