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To me, the journalism is not responsible. You hinted in your previous posts that this piece has signs of sensationalism. If you mean that, then we agree.

The scenario I want to see is less fear mongering in general. It's a vague and subjective desire, but to me, based on the content, the writing, the contradictions, the lack of research, this article lands firmly as mainly fear mongering. To me, it is irresponsible.

I can see you have a different opinion, and I'm fairly sure I grasp it: that journalism like this serves as a motivator to pursuing/researching and correcting truly harmful conditions. I just disagree with you on the method's overall impact, all things considered. I don't think science should be driven by whatever collective hysteria (justified, or not justified) has been whipped up by sensationalist journalism. There are always exceptions and gray area of course, but that's where I stand on this particular example.
Yeah sorry I might have made some mistakes with my emphasis. A sense of grammar shaped by years at the codeface ...

Empty vessels make the most noise, or so the saying goes ...
No it doesn’t. Pragmatic thinking is just another mental algorithm. You just haven’t learn any good out-of-the-box thinking algorithms. May I suggest Inside the Box? https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Box-Creativity-Breakthrough-Re...
> The average price, according to a 2013 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report, is about 4 cents per dollar, which means a $200 credit card balance goes for $8 on the secondary market.

Wow, that is cheap. Is there a way to buy your own debt?
You can buy support from a third party.
I've given clearer examples in updated answer here - https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3437700/725808

Basically, OP has not provided a base case for his recursive question. As a result, it goes on infinitely, ending up in stackoverflow.
Words often go through phases where they stop meaning what they mean to groups of people. Sometimes large groups. “Feminism” is the classic example in my head.

You don’t have to bend to that. People often try to destroy words for political reasons, but in then end, I think, the words often stand resilient.

Our languages are really impressive structures that define real spaces. There is power to learning them and knowing how to use them well.

That power does diminish when words are abused, but it doesn’t disappear.

Personally, I am happy to have words be refined, but when people try to redefine them to the point where they are useless... I listen, and parse their words as intended, but I keep using those words correctly with others.
Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture
Why would someone bring it up at every meeting? That's a pretty big straw man argument. I'm sure there are outliers that do that, but they are rare.

On the other hand, many gay folks are afraid to even mention their partner at all at work, even casually in the what that most people do. In that case, the belief that "gay rights are political" that some folks have are creating a toxic environment.
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You can't seriously say "more than 3/4 of appealed cases being overturned" and "within 10% of the most overturned court" as if they are both significant in the same sentence.

The supreme court (according to the same article) overturns 70% of all cases it takes. The 9th circuit (and 3/4) is within 10% of the average.
To me it inspires supporting electrification of automobiles.
Mexico City's 'Walking Fish'
New Stanford Hospital Takes Holistic Approach to Technology
Tad ironic seeing as they are behind a paywall
For my own mental (and moral) health, I always remind myself to focus on what's published, not the publisher. Too often when I see a cool math result I think, "darn, I wish I published that." Then I realize what that attitude does to me.
From the article:

>I don’t go for runs along roads, I always run in a park.

>She cycles, despite the proximity to high particle counts, because “even if you cycle in heavy traffic you are offsetting the exposure to air pollution with exercise.”

Run along roads: bad (exercise doesn't offset impact)
Cycle along roads: good (exercise offsets impact)
Sounds like she's running for fitness/recreation and cycling for transport. The fitness/recreation use case allows for far more freedom in route selection than transport. Perfectly reasonable approach.
Great article! I'm curious if you have anything to add about Window's "Your Phone" app. Which gives Microsoft full access to your android phone and your behavior and data on your mobile device. Unlike apple which provides this feature with end to end encryption.
I feel like this is a next level of evil.
This one is specifically the assumed values of some types when declared in a struct or variable. Like, a struct with a string field gets an empty string value by default. I appreciate the reason for it; it just jars horribly with my expectations.

The worst offender is `Time` – to quote from the documentation:

"The zero value of type Time is January 1, year 1, 00:00:00.000000000 UTC. As this time is unlikely to come up in practice, the IsZero method gives a simple way of detecting a time that has not been initialized explicitly."

That seems to be an absolutely baffling decision.
One of Terry Tao's recent results shows that an equation that he calls the "averaged Navier-Stokes equation" can have solutions that "blow up" in finite time, starting from a perfectly nice initial condition [0]. Presumably the writer is referring to this, as such solutions would not be very nice to have if they are actually physically realizable, for example by an airfoil.

[0] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup...
> If 20 years ago we had raised the possibility that a computer could come up with a 1000 page proof of a statement which humans had formulated, however “easy” the objects in question were, I think that it would not have been hard to find people who would have been very skeptical.

Isn't that pretty much what happened with the 1970s computer-based proof of the four color theorem?
Typescript utilizes black magic to help building large systems based on the shaky foundations of javascripts type system. C# is very conservative in comparison. It only adds concepts that have been implemented by (often times several) other languages before, and are therefore well understood.
This looks like a viable alternative to docker, at least for BSD. Any opinions on that statement?
That's not true. The EA crew DID follow the proceedure and DID uss the cutout switches. See the report: https://flightsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Prelimin...

Timeline:
"At 05:40:35, the First-Officer called out “stab trim cut-out” two times. Captain agreed and FirstOfficer confirmed stab trim cut-out."

Initial Findings:
"The crew performed runaway stabilizer checklist and put the stab trim cutout switch to
cutout position and confirmed that the manual trim operation was not working."

What happened was by the time they did, they were trimmed nose down really far and it took all their effort on the controls to keep the nose up. The aerodynamic forces prevented them from being able to manually trim. They eventually turned the trim back on because they had to use the electric manual control to try to get the nose up because it was physically impossible for them to do so manually. They adjusted the trim in the ANU direction electrically, but then "an AND automatic trim command occurred and the stabilizer moved in the AND direction from 2.3 to 1.0 unit in approximately 5 seconds" which caused them to lose control completely.
They’re all just different names for the same ISA, and both parties have extended it since. Are you complaining about credit? AMD just extended Intel’s design to a wider format. Why should AMD get more credit? I do write AMD64 myself, but title is fine.
> They are a real time laboratory for testing dynamics mathematics.

I wouldn't say "testing", but perhaps "observing"?
I believe the author might be trying to say, for example, "let's hope water won't blow up." To make this implication, I believe the author meant to refer to "Tao's most fanciful work" rather than the equations themselves.
I never liked to do CSS, but I must admit with the library this guy released (tailwindcss), it's really fun :)
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Slightly off-topic: is there anything that is as or more powerful than RPi4 but has more/expandable memory (say 16G or more) and still works with mainline kernel/distributions? In other words, something that I could setup as a build machine for CI?
What the solution?
A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Driving Car Future
It didn't change in a way that would have not stabilized the plane.

What it did do is remove granularity (again, not sure why, as the 737NG setup is perfectly fine) in the options available to the pilot. Regardless, the SOP on using the cutout switches did not change.
They don't like to do this, but I think some people do it in a roundabout manner.

A service that lets you do this would be hilarious, but would probably collapse the marketability of consumer debt instruments.
People who are well of are very resistant even to changes that don't directly impact them. Things are fine. Sure, if we change this things could improve, but what if they get worse.

Poorer people often act similar for everything that touches their livelihood, but can often easily be sold on changing anything else. They have little to lose, and who knows, maybe driving all the Jews out of the country or building a wall over there does help after all. If it didn't help the individual person didn't lose much.

Both behaviours are completely rational for each person, but lead to completely irrational behavior in aggregate.
>my level-headedness could be one of the factors for my failure to come up with some out-of-the-box thinking.

You need to be able to turn this off during brainstorming. i.e. Suspend disbelief for a bit. Like watching a Marvel movie - live in the moment.

Broadly - quite the opposite.

The stuff my cash constrained cousins living in Namibia come up with blows my mind. Both practical and imaginative.

e.g. Building large RC planes from scratch (electronics excl). And here I thought my paper planes were grand.

e.g.

One of them got told there is no cash for uni, if he wants to go he needs to make it happen on his own. Guess who is now the proud owner of a bee keeping operation.
Scaling happens at two levels: both for the deployments and for the size of the cluster itself. Clusterman operates on the cluster itself.

If you scale just the number of pods, if there isn't enough available capacity in the cluster, they are unable to deploy until that capacity brought online. By emitting a signal to increase the number of nodes in the cluster just before we think that capacity is about to be needed, we can ensure that the new pods are launched near instantly when the deployment is actually scaled up. This is mostly useful when you're scaling by large increments (i.e. hundreds of pods) that far exceed the spare capacity available in your cluster.
Is the RPi4 mainlined in the kernel, or does the board require porting new kernel versions?
another discussion in 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzERXJgi5vQ
But if they really wanted to limit damage (in their eyes) wouldn't the politically smart play be to go the Pelosi route?

Instead of dealing with negative post-impeachment fallout, and potentially ending up in a worse place on the eve of next years election, politically?

Also genuinely curious if you've watched hearings this week, and if it's affected your opinion of Schiff.
That's all hunky dory but no amount of software innovation is going to speed up running x64 code on ARM. Qualcomm would just need to build that into the CPU and at that point it is a circus.

So yeah I am cool with trying out things that have potential but something that has not upside and will never be good - because CS - I will justly call it stupid.
Microsoft is pretty good, indeed, but they don't match the Google pay. A senior at Google pulls 350 (add free food and gym to that), while a principal at Microsoft will be lucky to cross 250 (no free food and no gym on site). Sample size: a few tens of people. And the limited housing supply means that prices are tuned to the more successful folks.

Amazon seems to be very focused on squeezing out most out of its employees. The curious vesting schedule means you instantly lose 10% of your stock grant value. The company expects you to pull more hours and do some real oncall duties: this means less free time for you and less pay/hour rate. Good and gym are out if question. And don't forget to pay for your parking spot. IMHO, if you aren't big enough to demand a custom contract, you don't go to Amazon unless you have no better choices.

My question is still open: what are those better places?
The original definition of inflation is a decrease in the value of money.And since the value of money really is a measure of what value there is to buy divided by total amount of money it is quite clear that "printing money" causes inflation.
I just go to this page and download via bittorrent:

http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/stat
Having the value returned together with the error is convenient for a couple of reasons.

First, it's often possible for the function to return a meaningful value even in an error case (e.g., number of bytes read before the error occurred).

Second, it's often possible to return a sensible 'null' value together with an error which can be handled correctly without checking the error value. (A map lookup is the obvious example of this.) This simplifies logic in some places.

Using sum types for errors in Go wouldn't actually work very well unless you fundamentally changed other aspects of the language. You'd need pattern matching, a whole bunch of generic higher order functions for manipulating option/result types, etc. etc.
People only usually sell bad debt. If the debt isn’t bad and is making you money why would you sell it? The only reason may be to release capital. So if you’re a bad debtor or your creditor is in trouble then yes your debt may be worth this little, and in which case you may already be able to call your creditor and offer to settle now at a discount.

If you’re a normal professional with a standing credit card debt that you pay off every month? Then no this debt is likely not for sale at a discount.
Exactly. The <title> of typescriptlang.org is "javascript that scales". All those features in TypeScript exists to express common js idioms in terms of a static type system, which in turn enables stuff that makes programming in the large easier.
I believe that constraints breed creative solutions.
I'd argue that x86-64 is more clear and precise. Intel has other 64 bit architectures...
+1 to that. Creative solutions come when you apply a working pattern to an unexpected subject. You need both knowing multiple fields and experience crossing ideas.
> Your comment can literally be applied to any other industry that someone might try to get into when changing careers.

I think that is their point. Software developers are no different than any other craft.
... or drop acid! Just mind your set and setting.

And whatever you do, don't share ideas with colleagues until you've sobered up.
Why do people look upon the hideous face of complexity and brittleness and configuration hell and decide that the solution is to introduce yet ANOTHER piece of technology? Don't they understand that this is the exact instinct that led us to hell in the first place?
Look at the poverty curve again. We basically have made zero progress on the poverty rate since the 1970s and actually are drifting higher. Yet from our technology base, and continuously rising productivity, it really should be easier than ever to ensure everyone has shelter and food, and yet homelessness is exploding right now too.
Not really. Reporting requirements don’t require daily reporting for mutual funds. So you only have quarterly resolution.
As much as I applaud any initiatives of creating workable solutions with great FreeBSD primitives (Jail containers, ZFS, great TCP/IP stack and so on) pretty much anything that's not working with widespread adopted standards (Kubernetes, Docker, OCI, etc.) doesn't stand a chance of becoming relevant on the market.
Yeah, but their total comp is shit compared to the tech industry.
Can I ask you why? Do you know what you will be gaining and what you will be giving up? If it's just geeky dream it's ok but saying it like it would be objectively a better result to throw away standardized x86 for ARM on the desktop when you can also just carry a iPad instead is just silly. In Apple's case it's not going to be x86 and ARM macs - just ARM macs and for their business it makes total monetary sense to control everything from SoC/CPU to the OS. But if you are getting excited about that as a consumer, you don't really understand the irony - move away from Intel monopoly to more Apple monopoly.
Maybe one general remark, from one engineer who spent half his professional life in aerospace to another. Aerospace is, rightly so, proud of the whole industries relentless pursuit to eliminate errors, improve systems and learn from accidents. Your argumentation, in the whole discussion, conveys a different image and does no favour to the sector in general. Some people are already afraid to fly, so the very least we all can do is to be open and honest about errors in the system and the actions taken to prevent the same accident from happening twice.

And generally on engineering. If a system, regardless of the application, fails I consider it bad engineer behavior to single out the user. Systems, especially in aerospace, include everything from design over manufacturing, software, the parts to maintenance, logistics and ultimately training. Failure in any single one of these means failure of the system. Which directly implies all entities involved in development and certification. Failure in more than one is catastrophic. Defending it is bad engineering. Just my 5 cents.

EDIT: MCAS relied on a single AoA sensor. Non-redundant safety critical systems in an aircraft? Seriously?
You're right of course, but I think after the monarchies were overthrown, people thought that OKAY now we can have a more equal economy with lots of small independent producers competing with each other. Consolidation showed that this story is (at least now) completely untrue.
That already exists. You’re describing mortgage-backed securities broken into tranches.
> windows XP classic style (not the blue, silver or green one)

So, like, the Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows NT / etc type of look, or?

It’s been so many years since I used Windows XP, so I no longer quite remember what it was like exactly. I do have fond memories of using it though :)
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Lots of people are writing tests as an end goal rather than a means to the “malleability” end goal. They end up writing tests that satisfy code coverage metrics, but are too closely tied to implementation.
Not really. Plot can be shown above and below the x-axis.
Coming with the next update!
No, I like it this way. I feel like I'm not a client of the community but a participant. It's my favourite part about open-source.
This yet again pushes the issue onto just the pilots. Anything but the planemaker. I agree with the GP, there's far too much apologism for boeing here.
> This looks like a viable alternative to docker, [...]

This looks more like something in the spirit of systemd-nspawn plus templates if I'd compare it to the Linux domain.
The money quote for me:

"The reason I call the approach I take to CSS utility-first is because I try to build everything I can out of utilities, and only extract repeating patterns as they emerge."

I've been puzzling over the same "Separation of Concerns vs. Mixing Concerns" dichotomy ever since the rise of Bootstrap. Something about using Bootstrap's classes never felt right to me, but I was never happy with the amount of duplication in my traditional CSS either... I eventually settled on BEM, but that didn't 100% solve the issues either, and it seems to be getting left behind as the ecosystem gets older.

The idea of starting with the Bootstrap-like functional CSS, and then compositing repeated patterns into components, definitely seems to have tremendous upsides... Looking forward to trying this methodology out in a future project.
It's not even banks as we know it, it's trusts that hold bundles of mortgage loans and are insulated from the mortgagors whose loans are serviced by entities with incentives that aren't aligned with either the trust investors or the mortgagor.

In the 08 meltdown we saw fee-based servicers incentivized to hang onto badly performing mortgages and the fees the servicing thereof generated rather than enter into workouts that 40 years ago the S&L down the street would have rushed into. The experience taught us nothing other than homeowners make great runway foam.
Running can cause you to take in more of the pollutant because you’re spending about the same amount of time exposed to it but taking in way more air. Cycling may or may not cause you to take in more air depending on effort, but exposes you for less time so your overall exposure can be less. Cycling also operates as an alternative to the transport that produces the particles in the first place.
Thank you so much for this article.

I read his book and one of the points he made was you could never "make up" missing sleep.

For example, if you pulled an all nighter, you couldn't make it up the next few days if you slept more. Basically the health effects of missing a day of sleep would affect you for the rest of your life.

That was a quite shocking. Were you able to find any information on whether he was exaggerating this?
By “current policy framework”, I meant the way things are working right now. The person I was referring to has been involved with policy making all over the UK, and knows a great deal about the subject. I believe you misinterpreted this as “labour’s detailed plans.” Just wanted to make that clear.

If you’d have been civil, I would have been happy to ask my contact for appropriate reading and share them with you. As it is, I feel even responding is giving a nasty troll too much of my time.
What would happen if you transferred your student debt to a credit card and then declared bankruptcy?
I feel bad for all of the suckers that paid for and freely submitted their DNA to these private companies.

I have been saying this for years, but your DNA and health should only be viewed by you and your healthcare providers. With this contract, you are protected by strict federal and state laws (ie, HIPAA)

Using it for vanity bullshit like “I just found out I am 2% Cherokee” is absolutely insane.
It isn't clear to me how this differs from iocage, other than it expects to run on the loopback interface instead of the public one.
I don't think you need to worry about being judged too much for that on HN; I (and a lot of people here) tend to live in the terminal with tmux and Vim.

I'm a big fan of keystrokes, and terminals are simple, high-contrast, play nicely with high-dpi screens, and tend to use lower resources; I know that plenty of people here like things like IntelliJ and Visual Studio, and I certainly don't mean to knock those people if that's what makes them most productive, but I think I'll always like the simple "get out of my way" interfaces.
You do know that training manuals are covered by certification procedures, right? It's not a canard, it's a fact.
We make things protectable so that private entities can cordon them off from the public so that they can make money from them by selling copies. If we had a different funding arrangement for the arts, such things would certainly be unnecessary. In this case, we can clearly see that privatizing APIs gains the public nothing and Oracle and co. lots of things.