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If you think $120-180k is cheap you are speaking from a place of immense privilege.
Just deploy it on your local network. No need to expose it to the internet. Sure, authentication is a nice bonus, but a simple firewall goes a long way.
I think PHP is also implemented in a lot of large scale apps, I've worked in some large e-commerce companies that use it as the main language. If you want to go for bigger companies, I think they do use a lot of Java or C#.

JavaScript is pretty much everywhere, Python is popular, but as a web developer, I don't get as many inquiries as PHP or JavaScript. Could be that mostly webdev recruiters contact me, but could also be regional (I'm in Germany).
Whose ethics?

This question is never explicitly brought up and I think it ought to be, because in the silence a tacit assumption that it is the ethics of those pleading which will be adopted. When people harangue me to vote, I will light up and ask, "What if I voted for the exact opposite candidate you want?" So for some people I suggested Trump, for others Clinton. The silence becomes uncomfortable.

It isn't "consider ethical issues" or "vote," it's "adopt the ethics I have," and "vote the way I will."

Not admitting this and being explicit about it is what makes me doubt the ethics of those pushing the considerations in the first place.
> Okay buddy. A cursory search for what you're saying only turns up conspiracy theories but I'll ignore that.

> If you were to have it your way, and abolish public schools, what would you propose as the alternative if anything?

Yes, only listen to the history that the obedience centers have provided you to memorize. It is well known that such centers do not teach critical thinking, because for certain you will place John Taylor Gatto into the category of "conspiracy theorist" as evaluating anything you have not been provided for memorization will require critical thinking (even, you know, looking at those funny numbers placed in the text).

I'm not a central planner but I know that parents work to make certain their children are educated. I cannot tell you how USSR best converted its empty grocery stores and rotting field crops into stocked grocery stores and harvested crops other than to say remove the interference of the government and let people choose.

Developing nations commonly have privately funded schools operating on shoe-string budgets that outperform pretty much all of the "indispensable and irreplaceable" inner-city (and ignored rural) public schools.

Public schools are thick bureaucracies that reward employees for seniority and people who know how to follow orders and fill out forms. They have no accountability when they have a failing product (human beings!) and all employees get pensions and are nearly impossible to fire. The service is provided free of charge while taxing nearly as much money as desired.

They attempt to measure school results through standardized testing, which operates under the assumption that there is a standard person we are all supposed to be become. Then they teach to the test only, so despite where a child may have interests, the test is all that matters so the school can get better funding.

Teachers receive special training so that they understand how to have more influence over a child than the child's parent. They go to conferences in Florida to learn this wonderful skill.
IIRC, FORTRAN is used heavily in the LINPACK/LAPACK libraries which are further used in higher level libraries such as numpy. So it’s likely true that it still sees use in control software running trains, banks, air traffic control, etc.
Yeah, but then you take a corner at 4 times the recommended speed, and it's all worth it...

Got a chance to take an Elise around some good roads. What a blast.
During my early days, I looked for jobs that let me maximize my learning. I preferred onsite jobs so I can have stronger professional relationships with my co-workers and have high bandwidth visual and oral communication when I needed help.

Later in my career, now that I worked remotely, I am much more independent and don't have as much interest in synchronous communication with my co-workers.
I was unaware that IB's rates are so low. From reading about it, it looks like they make the money back on other fees, including inactivity fees and commissions. So the real rate is not really as low as what it says, although I suppose on large accounts those fixed fees would make up only a small fraction of the total value. Either way, I was wrong about there being "no" options with interest terms as favorable as mortgages. There is plainly at least one. Your point about hedging is well-taken, also.
> What we did not expect, and perhaps are now beginning to, is that human beings are endlessly resourceful when personally motivated. Laws, norms, and institutions are static structures, simple obstacles for people to overcome when they really want to.

I wonder whether the staffers of politicians engage in game theoretic modeling, have red teams etc. to try to anticipate these kinds of exploits.
In the late 90s I remember a saying roughly "I don't know what language scientists will be using in 20 years, but it will probably be named Fortran"
Table detection is useful for line item extraction from financial documents and it is solvable. However, generic table extraction is very difficult.
It's a meme, not a metaphor. Though you can argue that a meme is at its core a metaphor, in this case you're better off trying to understand this specific meme, it's quite funny.
Pascal web framework?
> “lead and tin isotope data as well as trace element analysis” to identify where the metal was originally mined.

A problem could be that metals scrappings can be recycled. Who grants that a tin was not part of a ship's hull before?
Coming from a C++/Java background, I loved the fact that in 2 hours I was able to learn enough Fortran 77 to take ownership of a very large app.
I have used simpleanalytics for a while. It offers a lot less granular information because it deliberately collects less for privacy reasons
There's not even a claim that this is an actual letter. The author reports simply that it "showed up in one of the car forums I'm in" - he's not claiming that he personally got it, or that he knows the person who got it, or that anyone in particular says they were sent it.

Like, I don't want to overgeneralize, but it's pretty disturbing to see how many people are willing to guess whether a meme tweet is true based entirely on their preconceptions of what companies in general are like.
Would love to find something like this for rural areas. Maddening sometimes how details disappear from most online maps based only on zoom level rather than on feature density.
I really hate this kind of response. Just because Mozilla isn't a saint doesn't mean that their words don't ring true.

Mr Gotcha is a boring person. Don't be Mr Gotcha.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha-vs-the-green-new-deal/

https://images.dailykos.com/images/723537/story_image/1406.p...

Just because we're all living in the status quo doesn't mean we can't change because we're all hypocrites for living with the status quo. Aspire to something better. Even if you're currently benefitting from or struggling against the status quo.

We should be taking ethical jobs and who cares if it's Mozilla who said it. They're right about this, even if they're wrong about other things.
It isn't meant literally. It is another way of saying that using FORTRAN for this kind of work is unholy.

And of course "unholy" is itself a metaphor for something which should not be allowed.
It's a shared skill with calculators (including those with printer tape, which auditing groups seem to adore), and it seems to have the side effect of high keying rates sustained over time.

With a centering mark in the middle of the pad, and only the need to move fingers forwards and backwards (no sideways motion), sustained input of 10,000 digits per hour, with 0 mistakes, is not just possible to expected.
So as I read it this is ransomware that was built using nodejs... not a compromised npm package or anything like that. Is that right?
The Atlas is on the short list for my wife's next vehicle. Nice to hear some good impressions!
If I did that with everything, not just water. It would be way more waste than 1 tonne.

What about frequently checking replies page out of FOMA?

What about the content I watch or read? The anime I watched last took lot to produce and there is no doubt, people wasted shit ton of paper along with other things are?

That is quite a lot of waste in terms of energy.
I see that usually you need to add a file mentioning the list of the original licenses.

See https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#redistribution

You must give any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License;
Yeah the no notice.

By the way Microsoft has absolutely terrible azure support. If you have a legitimate issue and you dont have a dedicated support consultant good luck to you.
Surveillance is easy when all our communications are going through centralized services. Just another side effect of centralization.
Next day, roll up in Messerschmidt KR200. Is this better?
If you have enough money to buy a few metropolitan homes to add "diversification" to your portfolio (you know, well north of a $10 Million net worth), you're not at risk of feeling any sort of pain from major market downturns.

FWIW, broad-market index funds hold REITS, which give you a market-weighted chunk of the RE market. No need to "diversify" into RE. Doing so only skews your portfolio to be overweight in RE.
This is an argument I see all the time from the supply & demand denier side of the housing argument, and I'm sorry but it's just so incredibly stupid.

It would be like if someone was dying of dehydration, they drink a couple drops of water but are still dehydrated, then conclude oh well, I guess water is not what I need.

If you're not going to address the quantities involved how can you possible conclude that it's not working? I know less about Toronto but to use San Francisco as an example, there were something like 150,000 new jobs added in the last decade and 20,000 new housing units built. Of course it's not solving the problem yet, it doesn't mean that we don't need more housing, exactly the opposite.
It's amazing to see SF arguing against free public transport while supposed back-sliding places like Kansas City doing it right now.
Yeah. My contrarian opinion on burnout cones from about 10 years of observation as an academic track researcher in the physical sciences (typical 80+, occasional 100h+ workweeks in sometimes physically dangerous environments - carcinogens, implosion and explosion risks, one time a Dewar imploded in my face at 2am). The two leading triggers for burnout were "literally the universe" causing your experiment to repeatedly fail, and possibly more pernicious, "your boss switches tracks on you", due to funding or political concerns. Of course the management class (PIs) has zero empathy because the funnel is so selective that almost all of them had it easy, and anything less is merely a dumb or incompetent employee.

One of my buddies went into a burnout phase where he would use his pipette tips in a geometrical pattern and play flash Gameboy Tetris, or sometimes go to the casino and play poker (all of which he got really good at).

By contrast, programming is a cakewalk.
Organizing Programs Without Classes (1991) [pdf]
Paradise! We had to wake up a half an hour before we went to bed to use FRTRN 0.1, with punch cards made from rolled-up, discarded newspapers!
We don't have sysadmins anymore "because of the cloud"
I didn't call cities overcrowded. There are many cities that are perfectly stable and have healthy housing markets and costs of living.

I said the migrations caused overcrowding, and it caused it only in specific cities.
If this is real, it is reprehensible. I drive a 15 year old Toyota with a couple dents and a touch of rust. I also don't have a car payment. I feel that is far more responsible, in a financial sense, than purchasing a brand new car and having to make payments.
It refers to the "model".
This is a prisoners dilemma in multiple dimensions.

One, if you don’t take the job someone else will.

Two, if your country acts ethically, will other countries?

So, the only real solution would be to establish an international framework to define what is ethical and not and have some sticks behind that for enforcement. Otherwise it can end up as a self inflicted wound.
Far more interesting than the mimosa plant is the fact that Gagliano went on to perform Pavlov's experiment with pea plants - successfully.

She trained Pea Plants to associate airflow with light, causing them to grow towards a breeze expecting it to soon be followed with light.

That shows far more than just desensitization memory.

https://theconversation.com/pavlovs-plants-new-study-shows-p...
I glean from your comment that you consider ethical principledness to be arbitrary "judgmentalness", and giving up any opportunity to make as much money as possible is "acting against your best interests"?
This is not true according to my inbox. There a certain few behemoths that keep their Elixir usage closer to their chest as they consider it a competitive advantage
Oracle?!
I didn't know that! Thank you.
Worth reading this afterwards: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/18/all-you-need-to-know-about-i...
Like paying their CEO in the millions while laying staff?
Since I have no background knowledge on what this person's occupation is, I think it's at least plausible.

For example, if you drive a really beat up car, and park it every day in front of your place of business, then it might actually reflect negatively on the business. People might see it and think "I wanted to go somewhere professional, why is this rusty junk here?".

Now, if your business doesn't deal with clients or customers, then the argument of impressing people goes away, but without more information it's impossible to say whether it's reasonable or unreasonable.
I benefited from a public speaking course in college, and I've heard that ToastMasters is great.

Somewhat surprisingly, I discovered in that course that it's far easier to talk about something I know and care very little about. Not sure what to make of that.
Stadia, from what I've heard, appears to be near-dead on arrival, and a big part of that is skepticism of streaming video games and skepticism around Google killing the service (and rendering any purchased games totally unplayable).
All those things you mentioned are part of residential water usage, which is just 5% of society's freshwater usage. Industry (the products you buy) uses a similar amount alone. Dwarfing residential and industry is agriculture (42%, the food you buy) and energy generation (34%, the electrical power).

https://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/top-us-fresh...
> That doesn't seem entirely accurate.

How so?

Super Cruise requires that the car's forward collision avoidance, and adaptive cruise control technologies be enabled. It utilizes pre-scanned high precision LIDAR and GPS derived maps that limit where it can travel, and is 100% reliant on GPS to maintain it's lane.

It cannot change lanes or steer around navigate traffic. It won't function in exit lanes. It won't function in tunnels. It can't navigate exchanges. It doesn't work in adverse weather conditions where GPS is spotty.

The built-in safety technologies keep it from colliding with other vehicles, and the GPS/Maps keep it in it's lane. It functions like a slot car and can't deviate from it's slot. It's not a sophisticated AND that's not necessarily a bad thing.

> it gets updates at a dealership instead of over the air.

That might be true of the software but Super Cruise receives updated Map data at least quarterly via OTA updates from the On-Star system.

> both appear to use ML.

The most sophisticated part of the system is the camera that monitors the driver to determine if they're paying attention. I suppose that could be using ML but that's arguably the least important part of the system.

In comparison, Tesla's Autopilot is sophisticated. It can function without GPS. It can suggest lane changes by observing traffic. It can navigate interchanges and construction. It recognizes and classifies objects then reacts accordingly.

Does all of that sophistication in Tesla's system perform better? Eh... it's debatable. But it's definitely more sophisticated and is absolutely doing more advanced things than Super Cruise.
Are there any notable examples of worker cooperatives in the open source space? It would seem to be an interesting model, at least as an alternative to a non-profit foundation model of organization.
Why not spin your own? This tool comes with a lot of tools out of the box and can also run personalization techniques and more: https://harvest.graindata.com/en/store
I went to dinner with a C-level exec in our organization. After dinner, he said: "oh, hey, check out this car with duct tape on the bumper...can you believe it?"

"that's my car, Brian."

"oh, well, it's still hilarious." And he took a picture.

I don't know if the letter on Twitter is true, but I'm 100% sure that story happened to me. People are weird about cars. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Scientists Confirm That Stress Can Indeed Turn Hair Grey
Clearview AI: The company that might end privacy as we know it
I think oil concerns are much less problematic since you can decide what oil to use (or use no oil altogether) than ones that come from the chemicals you can't control because they are already in the water or your frying pan. You can simply cook, not fry if you worry about oil. On the other hand you can't avoid poisoned water unless you filter it.

So it's a false argument here.
For what it's worth, I don't know many developers who'd want to work 100% remote. I think the samples that one implicitly takes from online comments can be really skewed.

I do know lots of developers who'd like to work from home periodically, sometimes up to a few days a week. But they still like to be able to come into a physical office, have their own seat/desk, etc., the rest of the time.
> If I sold it today, I don't know if the 3-4% gain would be enough to offset the costs of repairs/taxes etc. that I have spent in last 7 years.

Sure, agreed, but let's think that through a minute. So your housing has 'only' beaten inflation by ~25%, and that if you sold it today, you would have 'only' gotten 7 years of effectively-rent-free living?

Imagine if you had actually had to rent a house during that time. I don't know what rates are in NJ, but you would have spent about $1200/month in rent (or ~$100k over 7 years) to have done something like that in Michigan.

The common "bad" scenario I hear about is one like yours, where you got 7 years of housing, and the appreciation "only" covered almost all of that maintenance/upkeep, but didn't also cut you a free-money bonus check on top of it.

That's where the "housing is always a good investment" line comes from. Yes, you had to take out a loan and front all the other money out-of-pocket yourself (and not everyone can afford to do that). But if you get it most-to-all of it back when you sell the house, then even in your "bad" example, you came out ~$100,000 ahead of any regular person who had not owned.
Most given humans haven't hired high-price security consultants to audit their lives and establish protocols to lower vulnerabilities.

Billionaires on the other hand...
IIRC, most people who use Fortran use it because there are extremely specialized physics libraries (or astronomy, or chemistry, and so on) that were probably written three to four decades ago by an extremely intelligent PhD student who lacks a proper programming background.

Which suggests that the biggest source of horror would be that most code you'll come across was written by a non-programmer who is intelligent enough to translate an extremely complicated and niche problem domain into very clever and completely un-idiomatic code, who likely was unable to read their own library mere months after graduating because most PhDs don't fully understand their own thesis within months after graduating.
Hell, I want to look up the series he did about weapons of war a long time ago. I remember watching a bit of it and then couldn't find it...time to trawl YouTube.
IIUC, you would usually have a separate subprocess responsible for file access only, communicating over IPC with a less trusted and more complex process (eg. one that parses documents and renders fonts).

See: architecture of acme-client(1): https://kristaps.bsd.lv/acme-client/
Now that I think about it, it's also interesting that it's shared with Jef Raskin's Canon Cat. (Which had to be a frustration with Raskin, given that Jobs took over his original Macintosh project and then arranged to have Canon kill the Cat, in relation to Canon's funding of NeXT.)
On the front page of HN. WTF.

I think it was on r/funny on Reddit or something too.
I think these goals are necessary, but not sufficient, solutions to the IoT security nightmare. In particular, they miss the biggest problem that leads to these problems -- manufacturers simply do not care.

Many (most?) companies making IoT systems not only don't care about making sure their OTA update systems comply with these constraints, they probably don't even care about implementing any update system at all.

Then, even in cases where (rudimentary) update systems exist, such as consumer-grade routers for example, the time frame for when updates are actually available is laughably small -- perhaps 12-18 months after the device's launch?

Approaches which focus on the technical challenges of OTA updates (a key area of my doctoral thesis, and one I care deeply about!) miss the mark, in my opinion, because the primary reasons why we've ended up in this mess in the first place is due to business challenges, not technical ones.

Until consumers actually care about their devices being updated, or legislation arrives to force businesses to care even when consumers don't, improving technical solutions to the problem is putting the cart before the horse.
It's about time we had another fad.
As someone professionally involved with computational physics / geophysics, I can vouch that Fortran is still heavily used in these domains.

EDIT: for a modern, relatively new and highly-used scientific codebase that uses Fortran90 exclusively, see PFLOTRAN: https://bitbucket.org/pflotran/pflotran/src/master/
> Do you still stand by that position?

I stand by that and what I say in my next tweet about why I don't believe those rgs mean what people think they mean, which you apparently did not bother to read while trawling through my tweets.

> But, setting aside that plausible alternative hypotheses are easily found, what I was asking for something less hand-wavy than "probably" to explain away the finding.

There is lots of good evidence for both hygiene and myopia. They do not require dismissing an entire century of research based on a single completely wacky sample which is internally insane and has guaranteed bias due to double self-selection effects. One man's modus ponens... https://www.gwern.net/Modus
Works fine for me. And this is not the place to alert about downtime of some services.
Related, and worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774

It's a video about the Self language, which I think was designed using the principles in this paper.

I like it because (like Oberon) it shows that programming and graphics can be much more closely interwoven than we're used to. They were doing it in the 90's. Then we lost it somewhere along the way by trying to make everything big and user-facing.
Drifting further from god is a metaphor for moving closer to hell. He is implying that developing for the web using FORTRAN is moving us closer to existing in hell.