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Look at the hyperlinks in the Wired article:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/w...

https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-screen-time-navy-reverts...

https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/09/07/ship-exhaust-make...

https://www.wired.com/story/cleaner-ships-more-expensive-hol...

https://www.wired.com/story/cleaner-ships-more-expensive-hol...

Five links, three back to their own site, two away from their site. But none of them link to the academic paper! This is totally unacceptable. Is this not the web, aren't hyperlinks the most basic tool we have when creating the web? Aren't hyperlinks what make the "web" a web in the first place? So why then do media organizations refuse to use them properly?

(Sometimes they have the excuse of "not wanting to send precious eyeballs to somebody else's site" which I don't think is an excuse that should be tolerated but isn't even relevant here since they did include two links that leave Wired.)

I don't think we should be rewarding this sort of gatekeeping behavior. This isn't a one time fluke. Refusing to link to source material even though it's available on the web is the status quo for scientific journalism in particular. It's gatekeeping, and shouldn't be accepted as the status quo.
This sounds a lot like people living in New York all their life and saying that the planet is overpopulated and that there is no space left.

What you are saying might apply to the bay area, but it doesn't apply to almost anywhere else. No one is entitled to live in the most desirable places on earth.

You could live almost anywhere else and not have the same problems.
I do get what you're saying, but what I'm really interested in is what are their skills? Any moron can tell me I'm good whether I am or not.
Yeah. That's exactly what I said. They don't work for what we intend to accomplish with them.
Which, for the right job, can be a perfect example of the system working: the firm wants to hire someone super comfortable with AWS, for that person, the tool might just take 30 minutes to bang out, and so it works as a filter.
I have used WeWorks on occasion when traveling and was always happy with the offering. Currently I use the major local coworking space when I need one or a coffee shop. If there were a WeWork in my city, I would consider it again.

There aren't tons of them, but I really prefer the Galvanize coworking spaces [1] -- the crowd is a more diverse mix of people, and they feel more laid back to me.

[1]: https://www.galvanize.com/entrepreneur#campuses
For as long as journals refuse to publish negative results, researchers will scrounge for some type of positive result, even if it's causally questionable, because to do otherwise is to see years of work go for nought. Until these incentives change, the rest of us are right to be skeptical.
What would happen on those interview calls then?
I agree that those robots on wheels seem pretty silly whenever I've seen them but:

>All the tech for remote work is here already

I'm not sure collaboration software/hardware is really there yet. It incrementally improves and at least part of the problem is probably getting widespread adoption of some specific solutions.

But working on something collaboratively in a conference room versus remotely is still a lot better for certain things. Mind you, I don't think tech can ever get all the way there for some purposes but it feels as if we can still do better than we do.
Our company has a 9 and 6 person office in NYC. The space is clean, there are conference rooms available when we need them, and mostly everything works well enough. We mostly don't care about any of the community stuff, just that it is an effective way to get space without a long term lease or the need to worry about an office build out.
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No, but the person I'm responding to is implying that using old, known languages is somehow a bad thing.
The bet behind WeWork is that there's a ton of value currently being left on the table in outsourced office management; that everyone's doing it wrong, and doing it right is worth untold billions of dollars.

I'm not sure I can get behind that bet, but it's not an inherently absurd idea. Imagine explaining to someone in the early 70s why Wal-Mart is going to grow from a Southern department store chain to the largest company in the US.
So what's the point of attempting to max out the count of idle connections on some cloud engine?
I lived in a country that recently had an election and while you may think that this is "evil" (judging from the public sentiment of Erdogan and his rezime), I have to say that Social Media is very very ugly pre-Election and during Election (even post-election).

So much propaganda from _BOTH_ sides. Even what perceived to be the "good" side also had their own dirty Social Media move.

What makes it even worse is that Social Media recommendation engine tend to create some sort of Bubble so you will see propaganda that you've already subscribed to and your counter-part will see propaganda that they subscribed to.
> the only alternative seems to be placing the whole burden of cooking on the host.

Or burden the host with getting the ingredients and recipes, and have the guests help with the actual cooking once they arrive. If the dinner party is supposed to be a social event, why not make the cooking part of that event? Social cooking can be fun!
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It doesn't contribute in that it burns the dirtiest fuels out in the middle of nowhere, both causing the effect to be much more diluted, and allowing cleaner fuel to be used in dense areas.

If we reversed it, it would not be a measurable difference to over-sea pollution, but it would drastically increase over-land pollution.
Android has a few of those too. Heck, there's an ssh server for Android.
They aren't, though. If the big "Enterprise Software" players like Salesforce and SAP sell to healthcare providers it's either not with their flagship products, or else it's with incidental business processes not related to their core and peculiar requirements.
> Just 125 US Minuteman III warheads could set fire to some 8,000 square miles of forest area where the road-mobile missiles are most likely to be deployed

Russia has over 3 million square miles of forest, and is over 6 million square miles total. 8,000/3,000,000 seems like pretty poor odds to get all the ICBMs hiding in the woods.
Load testing tools like Tsung.
My point was that if you pick the right hardware, you don't even need dongles most of the time on Linux. The laptop I'm this comment on (a Thinkpad X1 Carbon) has a built-in HDMI port, so I can plug into external displays without having to worry about compatibility. Similarly, if ethernet is a concern for you, there are plenty of laptops available with built-in ethernet ports, so you wouldn't need to use a dongle.
How about not being able to rename devices? And vendors choosing the most ridiculous device names?

I bought my kids two identical headphones. How do I make sure each headphone is connected to the right device? It's infuriating.

(It's possible to change the name of all Apple bluetooth devices, but why other vendors don't copy this feature is something I just don't understand)
If you reached out at Latacora and asked "is there any way you'd be able to pay $X" before you did any of our challenges, we'd get you a quick, straight answer. Why wouldn't we? If you're outside the ballpark for us, working to recruit you isn't a good use of our time.
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I wonder if they took demographics into account?
That's not the reality of the story being told; that's the embellishments of the narrator when telling the story to the second wave of soldiers the night before battle.
This might be true, however, I’m of the opinion that the prize should go to people that are making hard choices to de-escalate actual armed conflicts.
All the tech might exist, but it's going to take a lot more than a change in mentality. My organization has tons of cool toys that are designed to enable remote meetings. Every time we try to use them something goes wrong and even the people who attended multi-day formal training on the system can't get it to work. So instead we just use plain old telecons with moderate audio quality and no visual feedback at all.
I agree.

I kind of wish https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ had taken off, as instead of doing a coding challenge for every company, you can do one really well designed challenge, and use that challenge with multiple companies.

Note: I'm an employee of gravitational.
I'm not sure what I'm attacking, certainly not Vim.

I'm just saying that you can perfectly use Vim without a mouse, in fact most guides recommend you to disable mouse (and cursor) support.

But you can't use Photoshop or Blender without a mouse. Sure, you technically can, in a limited way, you can for example crop images or apply global filters in PS with just the keyboard, the same in Blender, but certain core manipulations are impossible in both without a mouse.

I would argue that it's because of the much higher resolution of images/3d data. 80x50 with a 100 character alphabet versus 2000x2000 with a 16.7 mil alphabet. In Vim you say "move the cursor after 'func'". How would that work in Photoshop? "move the cursor after RGB(25, 15, 9) RGB(98, 126, 22)?" You can't even see the pixels in PS, let alone guess their values.

There are pixel art editors which are completely usable with just the keyboard, but they are used for images smaller than 256x256.
Analytics, logging, "Artificial Intelligence", the latest Fad in devops/application development, System administration duties, help desk duties, hiring/interviewing duties (you don't get to 1500+ without A LOT of this!), the refactoring after the clusterf* of using the latest Fad in devops/application development.

"BIG" data pipelines, managing an Elasticsearch cluster, PM for the design of app 1, PM for the design of App 2, (for probably dozens of apps), QA teams, Design teams, Localization teams, Accessibility teams, SEO and marketing automation teams, teams to build out their CRM, and the all important management layer to interface all these teams together!

This, this ladies and gentlemen, is how Silicon Valley changes the world.
I read a couple of articles on the case, and it doesn't seem like Pierce was the founder of Quintillion. She previously had a role as FCC advisor.

She's a crook sure, but to think that this will have blowback on female founders is a bit of a stretch. They certainly face institutional barriers and negative stereotypes, but "more likely to commit fraud" isn't what VCs are usually thinking when they turn down female founders.
Hi, the SPARK is an industrial-grade toolsuite around an actual specified language, used in actual real-world applications. Since it's a subset of Ada, it's completely integrable in an Ada project. The idea is that you'd have parts of your project in Ada (with all its static and runtime guarantees) and parts in SPARK (and here you also have latitude in which level of proof you want in which part of your code: absence of runtime errors, functional properties, full spec proof...). The SPARK people really thought about the adoption path from Ada (even C) to SPARK.

And they are purely pragmatic: the subset of Ada that constitutes SPARK is the actual subset that is actually tractable to proof.

So they're adding pointers and proofs with pointers using a rust-like ownership model, the SPARK subset will be updated to pointers (yay that was missing).

This is actually an incredible achievement.

I also think all these 'ownership' checks might trickle into Ada later on, and improve static checks without going to proof.

Exciting time to be working with Ada!
Those workflows are typically mandated and can't be significantly changed without incurring compliance problems.
That whole article read as some weird neo-colonial piece, blaming other countries training processes rather than a badly designed aircraft.
no social media? now watch Turkey's GDP double overnight!
Common sense says there is usually a LOT of foul play among high ranking banking officials.
The trick of properly applying operations to cached posts is cool. But the overall experience is bad. It's so frustrating to see an interesting post appear for a fraction of a second and then disappear. It would be far more usable to simply focus on getting fresh data as quickly as possible.
But the chance of getting it right goes down if they don't have direct evidence of their conclusion.
Non-sense. It only needs to support the toolchains and OSes people actually want, by no stretch of the imagination does it have to support all of the same stuff CMake does. It is not a non-starter for many.

It is the build system of lots of projects already, not just GNOME but also freedesktop stuff too, libinput is one.
Except in the context of Switzerland, and the Swiss banking / Zurich bubble specifically, this is absolutely a major scandal. What was once a 'pristine' banking organisation that upheld the highest standards and ideals (at least, in the private banking sector) is now significantly tarnished.

This isn't going to make mainstream press headlines, but I don't think this is going to go away anytime soon.
Yet another example of Megacorp attempting to swallow smaller fish (Tableau), which showed a great example of leading the market with something innovative and high quality. I haven't used PowerBI, but I have a feeling already that this is going to work great for Microsoft.
Is this statistic for the total hours watched each person or the whole family, meaning 4 people watching 1 hour of TV is 4 hours of viewing? Because I don’t see how anyone, even people who don’t sleep much, could have 8 hours a day for television.

That would require a person to get home from work at 5pm and watch until midnight or 1am continuously.
Startups aren't going out of business because they don't have a place to work from. They'll go out of business when funding dries up because valuations are in question now.
How is it not? The IPCC models predict a > 4°C average temperature increase for the business-as-usual scenario. This is means billions of people migrating across national boundaries and/or dead, extinction of most species, a dramatic reduction in farm land, tropical rainforests ceasing to exist. I doubt humanity's technological advances can be sustained when we can't even feed ourselves.

Even a 2°C average increase is very, very bad, with intense weather events every year, countries like India not being able to support their population density, tropical rainforests turning into savannahs. It is also a mass extinction scenario.
Same issue as NLB, they charge for units based on concurrent connections and it gets very expensive very quickly.
Yes, and the equivalent of 175 billion dollars per year (4% of federal budget times 4.4T$/y). I'm going to go out on a limb and propose that the money may have helped, too.
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That's because you don't know how to use Excel (this isn't a knock on you, no one ever tells people how to use Excel). Excel sheets have a hard row limit of around a million rows, but long before you approach that you will have moved your data into the "Data Model", which is a relational table engine stapled on to Excel, or to some other backend which you will query from Excel (often via the Data Model).
"Kneejerk" skepticism is a good thing. The real problem is posting kneejerk incredulous comments before bothering to read all there is to read about the matter, since reading further would often clear up such concerns.
`curl --head` (short form: `-I`) is converted correctly though, and `curl -X HEAD` (or `-XHEAD`) does generate warnings telling you to use `--head`/`-I`.
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thanks for the comment.

Yes the performance boost in training is critical.

So what I'm saying is this performance boost is thanks to the switch to non-binary neuron (which allows a reversible operation to transmit a magnitude) - that's MOST important.

And separately ReLu are just better at this, because they are linear they don't have "vanishing edges" (which prevents the vanish/explode)

Separately I'm glad you brought up CNNs because CNN's are old, and go back to rosenblatt (1958), his perception had a first layer of local connections in it based on the findings in biological systems.

and of course that's because nature has found it's more efficient, and so the efficiency is huge.

but the point is CNN = fewer knobs to train.

and there are lots of simple ways to help reduce knobs
- fix some connections
- drop some connections
Atari definitely isn't the same caliber as Nintendo/Sony, but I think it's the same market which is why they were able to get $3M in funding. All the other mini remakes sold gangbusters from what I recall.
Side note, I miss the East River ferry. It made my commute 100x more enjoyable than the subway (except when the ferries would leave my dock early and then yell at me for it).
"The point is, some products are sold directly to the end user, and are forced to prioritize usability. Other products are sold to an intermediary whose concerns are typically different from the user's needs. Such products don't HAVE to end up as unusable garbage, but usually do."

This is also why I've often said software built under government contract sucks and has terrible UI/UX, and why I'm glad I no longer work in that industry.

The moment you separate "customer" from "user", you end up building software for some senior paper-pusher who is just trying to check all the boxes on a requirements checklist. And guess what? "The software shall have a quality user experience" is not something that can be included in said list of requirements.

And in this environment, most developers even think their job is to "build software that satisfies all the requirements" to the point that they're completely oblivious to all those other concerns that would be downright mandatory if the software was sold to the end-user.
Coding challanges are used pretty often to scam programmers to do work for free before the company rejects them.
Distribution itself might be a world of pain depending on the nature of your application. For example stateful apps where low latency is expected.
Every place I've seen over the last couple years (other than where I am right now, and the consulting I do) has on and off phone screens and then several hours interview loop as well as at least 6 hours code that they swore was only 3 hours.

So I am currently only accepting interviews that give a 20% raise - and I am already quite high priced for my region.
I really don't think this issue is as widespread as commonly held, and I think it is used to perpetuate the horrible hiring culture that is common in our industry.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to hire people based on resume, references, and conversation. If they can't handle the job once hired then they should be let go.

I do not think that the idea that all candidates are complete idiots unless they can be "proven" to be good engineers (by faked tests that rarely cover the actual job requirements but do have a way of discriminating against those who don't enjoy brainteasers, didn't go to college, or are older) is good or healthy.
Legality, public disclosure and outcomes. Bribery is a way to ensure an outcome in your favor, regardless of law or process. Lobbying is using your resources to argue a position. Lobbying can be a corrupt process but it isn't inherently so and lobbying doesn't come with a guaranteed outcome.
Well yes, when you (Google) control the entire vertical stack, you get nicer integrations like that.
This seems like a great way to increase the capability of your nuclear arsenal without adding more nuclear material / missiles. While I understand this tips the balance a bit in terms of lethality, I would consider it much less destabilizing than full-on development - not to mention much more friendly to the national budget.

A fascinating article. Thanks for posting. Currently reading "The making of the hydrogen bomb" by Richard Rhodes (a great follow-up to the Making of the Atomic Bomb, and these discussions are all super interesting.
Robot on a stick doesn't do alot. I speak from experience using a telepresence robot at work to interact with my boss. It's basically a walking tablet that can't really navigate because it's wrapped in a consumer toy grade vehicle system to meet price point. Just pay an intern to hold a phone up and walk around. I agree that telepresence is the future of remote work, and by work I mean physically moving atoms around not just using social media to exchange information. The trick is creating reliable and efficient robotic systems that are actually suitable to the types of work needed. Thats not so easy and why I work in robotics. Lots of problems to solve.
> However, as the product grew, a side effect was that our web performance began to slow. Over the last year we made a conscious effort to improve this.

We’ve [1] been advocating strongly for using performance budgets [2] as a means of protecting hard-earned performance improvements. There’s some depressing stat around performance regressions... something like 25-50% of big sites regress in performance 6 months after a big push to optimize. Don’t quote me on the specific number, I believe it’s mentioned in [3].

[1]: Google Web DevRel

[2]: https://web.dev/performance-budgets-101

[3]: https://youtu.be/YJGCZCaIZkQ
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Hoo boy. This seems to be the worst aspects of the Bobiverse[1] without any of the benefits. If my future is to be an iPad on a stick, can I at least get to go to the stars? :)

[1] We Are Legion, Dennis E Taylor - thoroughly recommended, along with his other SciFi.
The patent office has approved all sorts of weird patents including some that violate known physics, and some of those by this same author.

I agree it'd be nice to see commentary from a non-anonymous fusion researcher. But it's possible to be skeptical of vague claims from people who've "invented" both working fusion and inertia manipulation, without thinking fusion is fairy technology. There are lots of fusion projects with real experiments and clear publicly-known details on their physical principles. Here are some:

ITER (the big dog, a giant tokamak)

Wendelstein 7-X (stellerator)

Tokamak Energy (high field tokamak)

Commonwealth (same, from MIT)

First Light Fusion (inertial confinement with fast projectile)

HB11 Energy (petawatt picosecond laser for boron fusion)

TAE (formerly Tri Alpha, boron fusion with magnetic confinement)

Helion (deuterium/he3 fusion, with funding from YCombinator)

General Fusion (compression by acoustic shockwave from steam-driven pistons)

LPP's focus fusion (uses a plasma configuration that collapses itself into high compression)

Sandia's Z-pinch

ZAP Energy (a private z-pinch effort)
Talk with the person, get to know them. Ask about previous projects, get into details about what went wrong and what went right and how they'd change things. Get into technology details.
Completely agree. After a few years as a startup founder (ie: in super high stress environment), I now no longer work anywhere where time outside of contractual work hours are not 100% mine, I don't do "on call" anymore and won't work anywhere that contractually asks me to work longer than normal for my country hours or on weekends.

This means that I leave/stop as soon as the day ends and am not reachable for work stuff.

Yes, I will make the occasional exception when it really is an emergency, but in return I expect that the company makes occasional exceptions for me when I need some flexibility.

Its been much less stressful.
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