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Consider the website is Crypto Coin News, I'm sure they want you to do exactly that. It's not "nonsensical" if it's essentially targeted propaganda put out from someone who would do quite well for themselves if people left traditional stocks and tried their hand at trading hopes and dreams of lambos instead.
Hope they find making cluster bombs a rewarding career choice.
> Friends from college that kept drinking 4-5 times a week (2-7 drinks per outing), especially women, appear to have aged years more than me.

I have observed this too. Not sure why but this and also smoking seems to hit women's age appearance a lot more than men's.
> If by “the Democrats” you mean “the center-right neoliberal Democratic establishment”, sure.

Yeah, that's what I mean, and from across the Ocean it looked like those people "controlled the narrative" (to use an "americanism") well after the elections. I have to admit though that the recent prominency of both Warren and Sanders (who's less demonized compared to 4-5 years ago) make me think that those "center-right neoliberal Democratic" people you mention might have lost their grip on the party, which would be a really interesting development.

Re: Michelle Obama: she'd still be regarded as "dynasty" material, no matter how long she'll want to spend in Senate or as a potential State governor. And I have a feeling that if Trump wins it this year she'll be looked at in 2024 as a potential saviour for the Democrats and for the nation itself.

And then there's also the elephant in the room, i.e. race. Afaik Obama left aside almost all mentions of race during his 2008 campaign, or at least made them as brief as possible, for obvious electoral reasons (and those reasons proved out to be correct, as he won said election). He also didn't put much accent on race relations inside the US during his presidency, not even during his second term. I have a feeling a potential candidacy coming from Michelle Obama won't be able to leave the race thing on the side like her husband managed to, things have changed a lot in the meantime (and one could say that 4 more years of Trump will change things even more regarding this subject), can't see a potential Michelle Obama presidency campaign managing to be race-agnostic, at least not in this day and age and in this tense political climate.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.
It would be right for California to purchase the property via eminent domain. There is an existing mechanism, and I don't see why California doesn't do this rather than demanding a private citizen open his private property at a loss. This is like that bookstore in NYC, only Khosla is a Big Bad Billionaire so I see very different attitudes of "Oh, he can afford it." I'm not saying Khosla should keep the beach, but right is right; if California wants a public beach, she should re-purchase and pay for it.
Can Google release a patch to prevent it?
Honestly, I like tabs for indent in C, but still support this language choice by Zig. It's hard to do tabs wrong if you don't allow tabs at all. Python3 went part of the way to disallowing tabs completely, but instead only disallowed mixed tabs and spaces. (And in Python, it's a bigger problem as the indentation level is significant to the syntax.)
India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Preserves Everything, Including the Past
So at datadog, after aggregation with spark and storage into parquet, what is used for serving queries of all the datadog aggregated telemetry data (logs, apm and infra telemetry) to the consumers?

(interestingly, we have a nearly identical data ingestion/ETL stack running on spot instances and saving to parquet/s3)
A New Alternative to ETFs and Mutual Funds
I wonder what a plausible model for productivity by hours work is, and whether it varies by occupation.

Especially for piecemeal labor, after getting to the point where you maintain your baseline level of skill (say, 10 hours/week?), it seems like each marginal hour will have less productivity than the previous. It probably never drops to negative, unless we're talking 80 hour weeks.

It's less clear to me that the same is true of so-called knowledge workers. Or, at least, the baseline is much higher. My bet would be that an engineer who only works 10 hours/week is going to be less productive, on an hourly basis, than one who works 20 hours/week. I'm not sure what the inflection point would be, though.

I think a better model would be having a year or two of relatively long workweeks (40 hours a week) to be followed by a year or two of vacation and education, instead of 20 hours/week consistently.

Another approach would be decreasing the retirement age. I'm less a fan of this, as too many people end up depressed and lost after they leave the workforce. Plus, it's a raw deal for people who die before they retire.
So... Big Rip is postponed indefinitely?
You're correct that Friends of Martins Beach is technically the plaintiff in the two earlier Court of Appeals cases, but the issue in those cases is the State of California's property rights in Khosla's property. The Coastal Commission continued to press ahead with its regulatory efforts despite two appeals court rulings saying it didn't have a public easement as to Khosla's property.
#1. Internet is no longer the source of truth. I can buy it by CPC or CPM.

#2. Within the first paragraph of the first hit on search results, a policeman is enforcing the restriction. I would be encouraged to dig in if I were in a similar situation instead of being intimidated.

#3. I am not on either side. Just watching and weighing in from far away as an indifferent observer.
The rest of the world is rapidly removing coal while the delusional politicians of Australia are still trying to ramp up the production of it. How many properties and wildlife would have been saved if Australia had shut down its coal production?
I attended a Big Nerd Ranch Advanced iOS bootcamp, in 2012 (It was still ObjC, back then).

It was an excellent (and expensive) experience. One of my fondest memories of the last decade. I feel it was worth every penny of it. My company did not pay for it. I took a week's vacation, and paid for it out of pocket.

I don't pretend that it was anything more than a fairly basic "primer," to get me "back on the bicycle again," but it did a great job with that.

That said, it was a different animal from the types of bootcamps that the author is talking about. It was a "prototypical" bootcamp; a week-long, immersion course, with a fairly narrow agenda.
It looks like the neoliberal cult of "progress" has its acolytes on Hacker News, but that really shouldn't surprise.

What is sad, though, is the distinct lack of empathy that this ideology instills in its adherents. Leaving people behind is not a sign of progress; instead, it's a sign of an ill society.
How is a lowered retirement age a raw deal for people who die before they retire?
Did I detect sarcasm?
It is my impression that dark energy is generally accepted in cosmology. Whether that counts as "proceeding as if dark energy is well evidenced" is perhaps a different question. If everyone believes it's there, but nobody knows what it is, well... there was still something that convinced them that it was there. That something should be evidence. Is it enough to count as "well evidenced"? Perhaps not, especially if this new study is correct that one piece of the evidence does not actually support dark energy.
Good! Even Windows Notepad, the extreme example of "not a code editor editor," supports \n newlines now: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...
I think the transition from capitalism to Star Trek Utopia is where basic income guarantee can be very helpful
Is it really better to be sued by a bunch of people plus the state of California like he currently is than to potentially at some point in the future be sued by some idiot with a very weak case?

I also do not think that it is a good thing to make an enemy of the state government if he wins the current set of lawsuits.
That's a common misconception. See [1] for more.

[1] https://www.dummies.com/education/science/forensics/direct-v...
It's not cheating, but it gives one a perspective on just how far humanity can go in figuring out ways some humans can get an advantage over other humans in a silly, arbitrary, zero-sum PvP game we've somehow evolved.

I know that's unfair. But the way I feel, there's lots of absurdity in this. In a more reasonable world, if you wanted to know when some CEO is leaving on vacation, you'd just ask them. You wouldn't have to spy on them with a satellite.
...improving as an "extrovert pleaser."

Extroverts seem to think their personality is "a huge part of the job."
Khosla is wrong, he doesn't have to provide anything except access to a path to the beach that already exists.

And California basically already seized an easement on his land years ago when they passed the law requiring beach access (although I'm not 100% sure how that's structured legally).

He might have a point about needing to maintain a relatively safe path, but so does every property owner in Malibu and they all seem to have it figured out.
Less obvious since I found out that my city's council taxes those cards. When the rain turns the usual dozen of flyers into a plaster that harden later with the sun, it takes a few minutes to clean at best.
Do you honestly believe that he meant it in a literal sense? You as well as I know that he meant it would be better to emphasize on short term plans as opposed to long term plans. It is simply a question of time preference and I'm simply saying that he would therefore not be best placed to make plans for our grandchildren. He'd be inclined optimize for the present as opposed to the future especially when we're resource constrained as we often are.
Doesn't "small claims" court ameliorate this somewhat? Genuinely curious
Come on.

The previous owners had been allowing public access, as is the (not) "ancient" standard and law.

And Khosla's best argument is the property deed is based on Mexican land grants prior to California being ratified as a state?!? I'm sure he had precisely zero idea of that, and the fact that his lawyers are using that as an argument shows just how grasping it is.

The cases lost by the governments were also very careful in not trying to make some of the claims you say they do. They were very narrow in focus. Which is why California is still able to pursue this.
I thought there was little reason to expect a big rip, because it requires assumptions about an increasing cosmological constant, which there’s no evidence for.
Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube
https://xkcd.com/955/ comes to mind.

I am going to wait to get excited about this until it is replicated by others.
Yes, for v2 that sounds perfect
Dams also interfere with fish migration and reproduction. Even small ones are not exempt from that without careful workarounds.
C can't break backwards compatibility and remain C. So... how would you make language changes without resulting in the entire C++ mess new languages are trying to get away from?
The unfortunate thing is that people have been predicting that increased automation should lead to lower working hours and higher pay since 1930 when John Maynard Keynes predicted that we'd all be working 15 hour weeks. It's nice to just assume that we'll all benefit from more automation and more efficient processes but unless we all act to ensure that it is so it is not likely to happen.
No. We know that sometimes companies have random spikes that don’t correlate to sustained user growth. Higher pricing would kick in after the 2nd month of being above the volume limit.
Anyone trying to make economic predictions about timescales that large is blowing hot air.
and ironically ETFs or something seem the only "sane" way to do so
I define technical writing as written communication where your main goal is to transfer knowledge. By that definition this post is technical writing.
You are responsible for making yourself aware of any public easements or responsibilities within the property before you purchase it.
That's their choice. That's their life to do with as they wish.

One can just as well "vegetate" as an employee to a boss; indeed, we know that the nature of the current work setup is such that many come home drained from work all day, sit in front of the TV, take up drinking as a hobby, argue with strangers online (see me, now), decay into nihilism, etc, all the same.

The purpose of life isn't to work; the purpose of life is the other things, the fun and play.
When you ride a bike you breathe a lot more. Staying indoors and exercising less (therefore breathing less) while you are outside are the two main things you can do when air quality is bad.
This is exactly my point. I honestly don't know how anything would ever get done with this kind of attitude. I'm not saying that we should overwork our labor force but what we have now seems fairly optimal.
Integration of Large-Scale Data Systems and Traditional Parallel Databases
C had a standard published in 2018. It's "ancient" in that it's not new, but not ancient in that it's abandoned or unused.
I tried doing starts for the first couple years including during school. I've been personally involved in 5 different startups and after my involvement I conducted research to see if my experience was typical. To make a long story short, all 5 starts I participated in were badly managed to the point of failure and this is typical.

Any promise of eventually being the smarter move due to ownership or profit share is not worth it. Only 1 in 10 startups is likely to exist at the 10 year mark, and the majority of those still won't be well funded or be issuing dividends. Working for a startup is roughly similar to playing the lottery, somebody is going to win and it won't be you.

To your point FAANG companies used to be the worst career option because managerial expectations were impossible, but that ended almost a decade ago. If anything, FAANG companies will likely be among the first to even implement a 30 hour 4 day work week in the next 10 years for the same salary as the 40 hour 5 day work week. It's getting batter to work for an established company, and most of the bad managers that insisted on making the working environment terrible are now running the startups.

After years of research the clearest conclusion about who you should work for should always be answered by who has the best management team. Good managers enable work life balance, compensate above average and rarely dictate how to get things done. They should be more interested in making you valuable than whether you plan to stick around, and all of this is supported by real research into successful management techniques (See books like Good to Great, Team of Teams and The Goal for supporting reference materials).
If you're implying that I am overestimating risk by comparing it to barbecued meat and exposure to vehicle exhaust then I would say that maybe you're underestimating risk from those two things.

I personally avoid barbecued meat for that exact reason, as well as refrain as much as possible from huffing exhaust fumes. If a lifestyle that allowed me to avoid being near cars were reasonably easy to achieve I would choose it. Because as you say, car exhaust is neurotoxic and carcinogenic.
I've been at Netflix a few years now as a SWE.

There's no forced PTO, though good managers will encourage you to take it. That's relatively common from what I gather.

I've never had any friction around taking time off, if I was responsible about clearing/delaying/delegating projects and getting my day-to-day work covered.

It's easy to fall in the psychological trap of thinking you never can, sure, but since Netflix pretty much starts at the Senior level for hires (biggest reason they aren't in the first two sections probably) I think it's less of an issue. The fact you see your coworkers taking time off without the world blowing up is also a powerful social cue.

I'd never trust a startup with unlimited PTO, but Netflix actually does mean it.
We're working on it! Still very sparse data for Europe right now, but you can search for UK specific salaries on our compensation page at https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...

We also have a very preliminary salary page for London available at https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/London/
There is also Plume Labs, which includes free app for viewing air quality, and a personal sensor.

https://plumelabs.com/en/
It would be a pity. Their pizza is pretty decent, compared to some alternatives.
SemVer is about the public API, it says nothing about test-coverage, internal changes or transient dependencies.

The point of SemVer is to answer "if I trust the authors of this library to be as good or better than me at writing libraries, is it safe to upgrade?". The moment you don't trust the authors of the library to be as good or better than you it sorta breaks apart as a covenant, but it will still show the intent of the author.

So SemVer has problems, but CalVer just shows "I tagged a release at a date".

IMO badly practiced SemVer is better than perfect CalVer simply because I can open an issue of fix something that was broken because of SemVer, but with CalVer I need to live with any breakages regardless of if they were intentional or not.
> Now you have "news" repeated, and to group this into buckets for rendering summary tables and such (with sub totals at each level), you need to iterate through the flattened results and generate nested structures. This is something Elasticsearch gives you out of the box.

ClickHouse has a number of optimization for solving 'visitor' problems that you describe. Assuming you just want to group in different ways an idiomatic ClickHouse solution is to construct a materialized view that aggregates counts (e.g., of unique users like uniq(user)). You can then select from the materialized view and further aggregate to have larger buckets. ClickHouse can also compute single-level totals using the WITH TOTALS modifier.

If you need to have cascading sub-totals within the same listing as far as I know you'll have to compute the totals yourself. (That feature actually might be an interesting pull request since ClickHouse generates JSON output.)

> Last I looked at Clickhouse, it had master/slave replication only, and if you want shards of data distributed across a cluster it's something you need to manually manage?

ClickHouse replication is multi-master. The model is eventually consistent. Also, ClickHouse can automatically shard INSERTs across a cluster using distributed tables. That said, many users insert directly to local nodes because it's faster and uses fewer resources.
I use the Visa gift cards for charitable contributions. The nice thing about charities, as opposed to random purchases, is you get to pick the amount.
I can't speak for other companies, but our HR was run by the corporate Counsel (lawyer). I think that's increasingly common, these days, as the job of HR is generally to protect the corporation from its own employees.

Lawyers have a naturally adversarial mindset. They never pass up any opportunity for an edge, as that edge can give them some leverage.

That's not really a good or bad thing. That's their job, but it can be a bit jarring, when you encounter it.
This doesn't really address your point, but the 2011 physics Nobel [1] said that "What is known is that dark energy constitutes about three quarters of the Universe."

Not saying the Nobel write-ups constitute evidence, but dark energy has certainly been popular, at least.

1 = https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2011/press-release...
I sometimes do that for Berlin stations. E.g. Gesundbrunnen ⇨ Healthy fountain or well well. Hermannstr ⇨ man man street.
Yeah, my disagreement was fairly narrow; I'm not endorsing the morality of Thiel’s or Harder’s behavior, only saying that it doesn't seem to obviously conflict with Thiel’s description of the legal representation of mere millionaires.
SpaceX will test less shiny Starlink satellites to not disturb astronomers
This is exactly what Path tried to do.
Not the poster nor am I endorsing this, just explaining it. Everyone who works full time would benefit from a shorter work week. Only people who live to retire benefit from a lower retirement age. So if you're considering the two policies as alternatives, then one is definitely a raw deal for people who die early. Given relatively few people die after starting to work full time but before retirement age, I don't think that's the issue with this proposal.
Well it's worth noting that the original title is an accusation. The guy who is the target of the attack thinks this is lax security, but do we know that? We haven't heard what the people from Goodreads are doing to address this.
Can someone tell me how quick and easily nature can bounce back? I guess the speed of tree growth might be a bottleneck.
> and wanted to keep any riffraff away

Right. It's just like David Geffen's fake driveway to stop people parking near his house on the street. That he had painted with yellow and red lines too, to "imply" (mislead) into thinking other areas were Fire Lanes.

People would park there because they knew that it was a sham. They would get towed by police / security because "how did they 'know' it was a scam".

To the point where people would park there posting articles in their windshield saying that they know it's not actually a driveway, not actually a fire lane, etc., etc.

They still get towed. And even if you get your money back, there's the repeated issue of coming back from the beach to find your car gone. Because a rich asshole doesn't want the riff raff to use the public street he built a house on.
There is some aphorism about perfection, the enemy of good, and some way in which they relate. It is relevant to understanding "why Zig?"
Is that really a "good" thing?

USA innovated and created POTS, land line phones - and then again with wireless phones/radio phones that ultimately became cell phones.

Emerging countries skipped all that, landline, pots, regulation of monopolies and ultimately in the end just were able to put in some towers and voila, cell phones all w/ imported technology that majority of people in that emerging country do not understand to the equilivent of magic.

If there is no profit, it won't be built. Many countries didn't get cell phones until late 00's. Where now it's not really a cell phone, but "facebook."
Strong point IMHO. Also, the indicator has been close to the same level since 2014 (6 years). If this indicator were perfectly predictive, then we would have seen a recession shortly after 2014.