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I think it really helps that you can write mostly functional code in Ruby by just chaining higher-order array functions, and you can use Pipes in Elixir to do this almost identically -- when you consider the fact that all the higher-order array functions have identical or very similar names and parameters in the two languages.

My Ruby code is like 95% chained higher-order array functions. My classes almost never have state. I'm basically writing functional code, and it seems like this is a pretty common paradigm in Ruby. I will say this was HEAVILY influenced by learning Elixir.

When not taking external libraries into account, my Elixir code (at least to me) seems almost identical to my Ruby code.

I think Python and Ruby are very close. But I personally think list comprehensions are un-intuitive and you can't easily chain higher-order array functions in Python.

So although I feel the spirit of my Ruby and Python code is identical, in no way do they look and feel identical. In the same way, I think my Elixir and Python are quite different.

Sample size of 1. I know. Just thought I'd share.
Well it's f that has the problem, rather obviously, and the other three lines are unrelated. So I don't see how this is some especially simple way of triggering that error.
You would love this essay by James Altucher: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/work-prison/

Key point: Other entities may capture up to 80% of the value you create.

1. Your boss, their boss, and their boss.

2. Shareholders.

3. Vendors.

4. Other employees in the company.

5. Taxes.

Better off working for your own self.
One third of our healthcare by cost is socialized in the US, and yet people seem to not understand that basic fact. There is no anti-socialism debate, it already is one third socialism.
This is as suspicious and creepy to me as the unbridled control Alphabet sought with Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto experiment.
This is a great post, but it was a choice he made. Either way really entertaining
We have unemployment, Medicaid, social security, workman’s comp, social healthcare won’t be any different.

I’m a doc.
That works for small teams/projects. If you're looking at hundreds, thousand, or even tens of thousands person orgs you're spending time training everyone on every individual build system (very time-consuming and error-prone). Additionally because of the lack of consistency & unfamiliarity with having to deal with multiple interconnected projects, these tools fall apart spectacularly in that each team will end up with their own flavor of the build system. This makes transitioning between projects very hard & silos off teams.

That can be fine but can make it even more of an efficiency loss for someone switching projects/contributing partially to another project. Uniformity reduces costs on many fronts but like anything else it's a tradeoff. Now you need a team to maintain your Bazel/Buck/etc for each language & it may not jive 100% well with languages that have opinionated package managers/build systems alread (Node, Cargo, SBT, etc). On the other hand you'd probably end up having to create teams to maintain your company's Node, Cargo, SBT builds anyway except now you need to hire domain experts who not only understand each language but also how it should integrate within your larger infrastructure. A single uniform build system framework makes that easier.
Is NeurIPS getting too big?
The failure of chatbots was pretty easy to guess IMO: Anyone else remember SmarterChild from AIM? We got the same wave-of-the-future hype back when it first appeared (albeit on a smaller scale), not much happened then either.
I was referring to the non-transferability of health insurance in the USA; e.g. you get fired at Microsoft or anywhere with great healthcare and that is only extendable temporarily via COBRA. Then you either have to find another job or get insurance through one of the Obamacare exchanges. What I am arguing is that this reduces the mobility of labor.

Also as someone who has switched jobs in the last year setting up new insurance/dentist/optometrist multiple times is a absolute waste of my time and would be entirely eliminated if we stopped tying insurance to the employer.
Maybe they're being honest?
Whose healthcare did the Republicans decimate? People get worked up any time the system changes (e.g. Obamacare caused some people to lose their health insurance plans and in-network doctors); many Democrats were voted out of office after the passage of the ACA. The Republicans realized that and (narrowly) chose not to repeal Obamacare.
He is asking why is it good for the workers. You're basically advocating for price controls on one field. How would you like if you were only allowed to make $30/hr for writing code?

We already have massive shortages of doctors (and nurses, I think). This will only make it worse.
Possibly, but there's also the fact that private providers in the UK don't usually cover emergency, ICU, primary care or maternity care. It's more of a top-up service to avoid waiting times on the NHS. They also have a tendency to drop their patients who suffer complications after surgery back into the NHS
If you want a good reason to not join Google in particular, Google does not train their managers. When I was interviewing with Google, I interviewed around 8 friends of mine that worked or previously worked at Google. Lack of management training was a something that every one of them brought up. Two of them had even been managers at Google and basically said "yeah, we weren't trained".

The way it's been described to me is that most managers at Google are TLMs - Tech Lead Managers. They are responsible primarily for the tech lead part and are only coincidentally responsible for the management part. Some teams do have separate Tech Leads and Managers, but for most teams, it's a single person.
I agree -- ideally, it shouldn't be about the money. But, everything comes at a cost, and the cost to short cycles with users and more control over your product is quite literally thousands of dollars, endless perks, and a cushion not affordable by most startups. That's the classic early-stage startup dilemma I've experienced -- when left to the decision of good potential hires, I've noticed a disproportionate number not willing to forgo all of that. Big companies are only getting larger and the requirement for startups to outcompete them on everything besides money and perks is higher than ever. At the very least, I think startups should be fully transparent about this instead of waving equity in front of you as though it will be worth anything.
The entire idea of an “AI arms race” that we are losing to China is fear-mongering by those with a vested interest in defense spending, ie military industrial complex.

This is a human rights issue more than an arms race. The fact that SF is banning facial recognition tech while the Chinese state is going all in (as another commenter notes) is a win.
I thought down-clocking was on the first generation of low-end almost-not-Xeons with AVX-512? Will a 2018/19 Xeon Gold or Platinum really down-clock?
Billing is done largely manually, there is a lot of room for human error.
Chronically underfunded with taxes going up repeatedly beyond what was initially promised?
Have you tried tailwind css before?
It's a similar philosophy to Atomic but slightly higher level (similar to Tachyons) more opinionated, and potentially even faster to develop with.
The A320 family actually includes the A319 (smaller) and the A321 (bigger), and the A321 (or A321neo) is quite similar to the 737 you selected: 737-800. Even the 320 is only slightly smaller than the 800; and it is quite bigger than the 700.
And rates are going up for everyone.
The 737 is larger but has less usable space.

A 737-800 is 39.6m long to the 320neo’s 38.6, they have the same wingspan, the 320neo seats up to 195 versus 189 for the 737.

The 320 also has significantly more range (6500km to 5500) and needs a bit less runway (1950m to 2300).
We have corporations as big or bigger as countries. The class war has ended. What are we going to do?
Would your company hire part-time developers? Or maybe short-term?
Say 3 to 6 months work contracts.
Listen to your body and mind. Especially in the winter season.
What part of the Porsche Taycan has been disappointing when compared to Tesla?

My only complaint is the price, but it's a Porsche so what can I do?
Chinese gangs are using drones to infect the livestock with African swine fever
The system is broken. I think a fundamental issue is that insurance is not really insurance - it is used to cover routine, expected things such as a flu shot (while increasing cost for these and adding complexity, bureaucracy, middlemen). E.g. car insurance does not cover oil changes and home insurance does not cover getting the gutters cleaned - they're there for major events.
From this comment on Reddit [1]:

> He opted out of his bonuses for 2019 and 2020 a few months ago. Looking at the Boeing 2019 shareholder voting information [2], he had a base pay of $1.7 million in 2018, and his retirement package seems to have totaled about $32.4 million. Tack another $6.6 million on if the board treats this as a layoff instead of a retirement. He may also be eligible for another $807,018 per year in retirement pay. See pp. 46-48 for details.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/eelg8h/breaking_boei...
[2] https://s2.q4cdn.com/661678649/files/doc_financials/annual/2...
Money in politics <-> Data in politics

Sounds like a new conversation to be had
They are vastly different things. Feeling the ground, constantly adapting your gait, managing your resources (consciously or otherwise), navigating, pacing yourself, the smells, the sounds, wind and weather. Your thoughts. Eventually hunger, thirst, and maybe an ache or so become noticeable. Pushing through anyway.

A car on the other hand has layers and layers of abstraction between you and your environment. Satnav, ABS, suspension, petrol gages, heated seats, lane-assist, gear boxes, seatbelts, AC, and automatic windscreen wipers.

Unless you're a racing driver in a suitably setup car, of course.
So I always wonder how Google does this. Somehow they're able to determine which individual unit test are impacted by a change. Maybe this is only for Java but I'm pretty sure I recall claims that they can change 1 line & know that only 1 other test case is impacted (i.e. not even the other test cases within the same unit). Now Google's monorepo does imply also that if you are changing a line that is foundationally part of a lot of other components that they get rebuilt & retested too - that's the risk tolerance Google has chosen (i.e. they'd rather tests take longer if you're changing a core component rather than skipping tests & risking destabilizing 1000+ other engineers).
It's not always clear to be in these types of stories if the money actually changed hands. Just because it was invoiced, doesn't mean that's actually what was transacted.
>Jeff, if you're still lurking in the thread -- we've chatted at the Kairos & the Arena summits. I've got the political and tech background to make an impact. If you're willing to take a flier on me, I'm all-in. Email is in my profile.

Is solicitation posts for a job after being turned down post interview a thing?

What impact (specifically) would you like to contribute to?
Agreed. hard to be upset that amazon has improved my quality of life (+ millions of others') just because it improved bezos' more...
Sir, you are choking and dying would you like the premium $500 intubation tube or the discount $10 one? Oh thats riiiight he cant talk lets just assume he values his life and give him the good one.

Oh, sincere apologies about not trying to save you money.
No people just don't assume very obvious defense spending is the US doing so. SV was built in its very beginning was built for the US army. It still is with startups like Palantír.
I'm reasonably sure satellite imaging happens pretty far below geostationary, though. It'd be interesting if we could someday park satellites in geostationary and just stare at a given spot continuously, but lens technology just ain't there yet, last I checked.
At some threshold of productivity difference it becomes cost effective to move employees to the antipodes for a season each year.
Not only that, there's also only one Network Rail doing the maintenance. So the local monopoly on passengers relies on another monopoly.

End result is it costs upwards of £4k for an annual pass for a half hour train journey.

Add to that the fact that nobody would ever allow the trains to cease operating, and you have a really big question mark over what the point of privatizing was?
That isn't what I said. I said I found the contrast amusing at face value, which doesn't mean I assumed anything about the person.
Ultimately any country/state needs a variety of services, from utilities like water/sewage/electricity to emergency services like ambulance/fire/police to a military to defend what you've got from other countries. you also need things like roads, telecomms infrastructure and other things that have been built over decades/centuries in established countries.

You also need things like a foreign service to liaise with other countries so that the fate of your state isn't the same as the Thai SeaStedding adventure. Then you may also need things in the longer term like social services, pension funds etc to care for your citizens in the long term.

Those all need to be paid for somehow, and that somehow is taxes. A "low tax" environment inevitably has to skimp on those services somehow. I'd guess that these low tax environments intention would be to skimp on the services that richer people don't need in exchange for having those richer people pay less tax...

So I'm not really surprised by the comments in the article that they're having trouble getting "host" countries to buy into this, what's the upside for them? These low tax environments will obviously not provide good long term environments for workers (the low tax is likely to == low social care standards) so it'd seem likely they'll take in workers where it's suitable and ship them back out once they're not productive any more, back to the host countries they came from.
Literally this - doctors are gatekeepers and are paid handsomely for it.
Mad Max was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
I agree with both you and jhbadger that the argument about recording dark scenes is one of the weakest he makes. I just didn't want to truncate any of the sentences I was quoting.

What are some examples of successful historical fiction or fantasy on the screen that aren't just contemporary views, mores, and habits dressed up in costumes? According to the original article, "Borgia: Faith and Fear" should count. I watched it because I read this very Ex Urbe article back in 2013. But nobody else I know watched it except at my recommendation. I knew a number of people who watched Showtime's The Borgias. I think that The Borgias reached more viewers. I don't know which one was a better investment, financially. Maybe the smaller audiences and budgets of Faith and Fear delivered a ROI equal or better to that of The Borgias.

Audience might tolerate significantly more historicity than they typically get now. But there doesn't seem to be an audience-driven clamor for more history in historical drama (at least on the screen; it's easier to find and cater to niche preferences among readers). It also takes more effort to understand a period and write for it than to just drape costumes over contemporary conflicts and ideals. That's one of the reasons that I read more drama than I watch. Productions for the screen tend to be more small-c conservative about imitating what succeeded recently, probably because failed experiments are more costly for movies and TV series than for books.

My favorite short take on ahistorical historical fiction:

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/
That would only be true if the "hot spots" represented the majority of the crime, which they evidently don't.
How is comparing incarceration rate relevant to this discussion when countries have differing laws? People aren't wrongly imprisoned if they've broken agreed upon laws, especially in a democratic society where popularly elected officials pass the laws.

If society Z passed a law with a minimum three year prison sentence for jaywalking (pedestrian crossing a street without the right of away provided by a traffic signal), the incarceration rate may rise, but no one is wrongly imprisoned.

(replace with the war on drugs in the US, of course).
Did you read the full article by chance? Saying 'the patient just went along for the ride' insinuates that the patient was complicit when in reality the patient reported the whole incident themselves after they received the bills. They did this even though they didn't have to pay anything. And they told the provider they were going to report them.

> "I made it very clear [to the doctor's office] that I was unhappy about it," Kasdan says. In fact, she told them she would report the doctor to New York state's Office of Professional Medical Conduct.

> Kasdan says she was not told that the throat swab was being sent out of network at the time of her appointment, though it's possible one of the many papers she signed included a broad caveat that some services might not be in network.
Yes this is exactly what dealing with medical billing is like and why it's awful, and not a non-sequitur.
He met Peter Thiel before he got so famous.

It's important to be in an industry that's about to blow up. Getting access to future billionaires is much easier than access to current ones.

I agree with the sentiment that you can do a lot more in smaller companies, which is why I work at one that doesn't happen to be a startup. However, thus far I've received no $200 million checks.

Working in Silicon Valley might have felt like fighting the status quo a few years back, but right now, to me, an outsider, it feels a whole lot like the status quo.

With respect to the author, I do not believe this is legitimate life advice but instead is mostly humblebragging.
The US healthcare system is just fundamentally broken. Its not even about private or public. Even if they made it public, it would probably still be far and a away the most expensive system in the world.

People who believe that making it public will massively lower the cost because other socialized systems are cheaper are up for a rude awakening.

No matter in what direction the US system evolved those problems need some amount of addressing and those questions are more practically important then the question about public or not.
Nice, Swift also handles having all the transition changes as well. I wrote a small post about how to do this: https://gist.github.com/kolodny/6fa6aa34a711d36e9de01cec4409...
The author may be right for the reason that, the criticism is based on linear extrapolations of what people wanted in the past decades. Perhaps they don't want flying cars, but instead the ability to tele-work and telecommunicate. Perhaps flying cars are the "faster horses" of our time , which will be overtaken by some yet-unknown tech in the future. Physical infrastructure is good, if there is going to be a lot of use for it. With industrial production shifting to china and then africa, there's little incentive to build new roads. There is a case to be made however about "weird" overregulation in biotech/medicine. As populations are aging we will be forced to remove barriers and move faster there.

The author's conclusion "Silicon Valley will almost certainly keep playing a big role in them" is not well justified imho. Silicon Valley has failed in most its major promises in 2010s: VR, IoT, blockchain, Selfdriving robots (and soon satellite internet). Instead, the advertising money that is fueling its economy, is being recycled through SaaS/Paas companies that make the developers job ever-so-slightly easier, creating a closed, inward looking economy. IMHO , the real failure is the lack of ambitious consumer-facing tech
Sure but,

What is stopping them from discovering a cure, patenting it, and then never manufacturing it?
Remember folks, physicians are the root of the problem. Don't let anybody fool you into thinking otherwise.

It's easier politically to blame corporations and whatnot. And it's true - there's plenty of leeching downstream by pharmas, PBMs, hospital admins, device makers, insurance companies, vendors, labs, and many others. But at the base of the supply funnel sit the doctors (and numerous associations like AMA, ACR, ABP, AHA, AAMC, etc) who control the entire supply through licensing and state-level regulations, and are entirely responsible for all of the atrocities. It's effectively a cartel.

There's a reason why any time there's a talk about pro-consumer regulation on the Hill like anti-surprise billing, pro-price transparency, and Medicare for All, each of these association is blasting their members with calls to contact their representatives and resist at all cost. Their argument is easy to understand emotionally - doctors will protect you from the harm, and hence there should be more licensing and supply restrictions. But this is the root of all problems in US healthcare.
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I've been altering my sleep schedule the past couple years to be more in sync with the seasons (more in the winter less in the summer, essentially). This was the first year in a while that work got in the way of that in the winter and it has been miserable. My lifting/workout schedule is out of wack again, and my diet isn't as good (more cravings for bad stuff). Usually I can dial it down during November/December because of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday but I work in a more "global" role now and can't really do that anymore. Definitely considering moving on to something else soon.

Can't emphasize the sleep timing thing enough. It's been a game changer, especially in the summer. Productivity through the roof and I am generally in great shape July - September.
The U.S., through employer-provided private healthcare, has not just wage slavery, but pseudo medical-slavery. If you quit your job (In the U.S.), you lose health your employer-provided health insurance and could be stuck footing the $28k bill (or at least having to negotiate / deal with it) for a sore throat.

Canada does not have such a system. Canada has taxpayer-funded healthcare. Therefore you have the liberty to quit your job and find more favourable employment without having to deal with the risk of one surprise hospitalization from bankrupting you.

GP is saying Canada did that right. The confusion arises because GP said "here" right after praising Canada, possibly misleading you to think they were referring again to Canada, which they were not.
He did come across as a basically decent person.

He was not ousted for being unable to undo the MBA damage. He was let go for being unable to jedi mind fuck the plane back into the air. This, as far as his employers are concerned, is the measure of his failing.
For myself I am not against the procedure. I am against allowing children to do so without the consent of their parent. We don't let children drink, drive, or hold employment until certain ages. Yet is is completely fine for them to have life altering changes done to their bodies at very young ages.
I am an advocate of E2EE, but your argument is a little thin I feel.

Let's turn it around. Imagine if law enforcement were completely unable to enter any home, even if they had a warrant to search it and reasonable suspicion that there was incriminating evidence inside. Anyone could do anything they wanted and as long as they kept the evidence inside their home there would be nothing law enforcement could do about it.

The arguments in favour of there being some way for law enforcement to be able to search messages when they have a warrant to do so are certainly worth considering, and (for what it's worth) I feel the sentiments in the open letter strike a good balance; but, I also feel that what they want is, currently, impossible without compromising security for everyone.