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An early draft of 2001 A Space Odyssey had Discovery as an Orion, but apparently Kubrick having just done Dr. Strangelove didn't want to do another film with nukes.
> The drugs aren't curing cancer - they're extending the lives of those with cancer,

They often aren't doing that though, and if they are they're only doing it on average for a couple of weeks and are causing significant side effects. That "on average" means that for some people they're shortening life.

> particularly if that extended period of life can be at an acceptable quality

It usually isn't.

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097
This seems written by someone with an axe to grind.
Unless you are a critically important hire / executive level, asking a company to sign an NDA for an interview would be the kiss of death for the vast majority of candidates. To get an NDA signed, I would have to get company lawyers and my upper management involved, which is not something I would do unless we desperately needed your skillset and had zero other options.
You seem to be missing the point entirely (most clearly evidenced by you using the term "clear minority", when no one made anything resembling that claim), so let me try to break it down for you.

The goal is to eventually reach a 50/50 gender distribution (or as close as possible) for the sake of diversity, right?

If you understand the concept of trends, and you are actually looking at all of the things that you just listed, then you should be able to see that we are heading towards an outcome where the female 50% is overwhelmingly Asian, from middle and upper-class backgrounds.

I personally don't have a problem with this. I really don't care. I'm not Asian or white, but all of my friends are. More culture fit matches for me.

But I'm not the one who thinks that classism (and the subtle racism associated with it) can just be swept under the rug by focusing exclusively on gender. You don't actually support diversity if you're okay with the way things are currently headed, so please don't claim as much.

I also suggest you google the term "plurality" and learn what it means within the same context as minorities and majorities. That may have been the word you were looking for.
Exactly why STIR/SHAKEN is currently being deployed. That's the issue with widespread legacy systems, you can't pull it out and rebuild from scratch without causing a major disruption.
It's like taking a tour of the Smithsonian, but only being allowed to view it through a paper towel tube.
I’ve found #8 to be very important. If you don’t allow for revisions you get code rot and suddenly every new feature becomes exponentially more difficult to implement.
Anytime I see anything with the phrase "open source" + "google" I immediately think programmer API trap.
I live in Germany and work for US companies, which is quite lucrative.

I only work a few months a year.
You have to break eggs to make omelettes. The US is the only country in the world (perhaps excepting China) with any tech industry of value, just as it is the only country with any finance industry of value.

Europe has some companies with IT departments, some American companies with European offices, and some no-name consultancies (which are often US-owned). The indigenous European tech industry is a complete joke, since there is hardly any of it.

A normal programmer in Europe earns maybe $2-4k per month, or $24-48k per year. For context, the American poverty line for a family of four is $24.3k, so they are earning about $21/month above the poverty line.

A normal programmer in the USA earns maybe $100k per year, and up to $300-400k if they work at a big company. In Europe, the CEO of an ostensibly big company might earn $300-400k. It's an utter joke.

That I haven't heard of the alleged European tech companies just goes to show my point. DeepL, what the hell is that? Spotify is somewhat larger-scale web development, but still just a Mickey Mouse startup. The NYSE couldn't even get their flag right! The other two (relatively serious companies) are located in the UK, which is slated to leave the European Union soon.
Opposite view: Salary disclosure primarily destroys value for people with strong negotiating skills but who are not necessarily the best contenders for the actual job - especially when it comes to highly specialized tech jobs as many of them are introverts. It also enables work force diversity which is actually the best outcome for the company in the long run.

Salary disclosure is also a prerequisite for having a public discourse about equal pay and equal rights based on factual information. You might call that to: "gang up", but I certainly wouldn't.

Our daughters, girldfriends, mothers and sisters are all living breating people in our lives - maybe even the most important ones we have where as a company is just a thing. My own startups are just a piece of paper, a tax information number, an organizational construct, nothing more. I can create another one in 2-3 days. Close a company and if there's customer demand, another one will just spring to life and fill the gap. I might be sad and in debt for a while, but society at large will not even notice. It doesn't matter.
The problem is that "shipping stuff" is not what companies are supposed to be solving. They're supposed to be providing _value_ to customers and investors.

A "feature factory" model is bad because it masquerades as progress.

"Value" is harder to define, and often can't be measured _simply_ with metrics - you need metrics for insights, but most metrics are very much trailing indicators. Also there are lots of silly metrics like "tickets closed" that are easy, and naturally companies gravitate towards anything easy as the number of people rises. And factories love metrics.
Industry-first bedside MRI secures FDA 510(k) clearance
Sure, well aware that Babel and Webpack are not the same thing.

SWC has a Webpack plugin, whereas ESBuild seems to aim to replace both Webpack and Babel. Correct me if I'm wrong.

This is a big reason why I think SWC is more likely to succeed, and why I say they're in "competition" since they overlap partially, even if it's not 1-1.
Sure, but my point was that this article seems to be focused on data-driven product decision-making. Creating good designs with far reach in my view is unrelated. I wanted to counter the narrative that unless you are spying on your users and using that to 'prove' your features are being successful you are doing a bad job at product development.

It's certainly possible in my mind to do requirements gathering, feature design, implementation, deployment, and iteration without automated data collection from user behavior. You can, you know, talk to people. Nowadays when someone says "data-driven" they typically mean "instrument the hell out of your product and observe user behavior." Perhaps that's not what the author is getting at. But if they are, I think it's important to tell people to not feel guilty for not spying on their users. If you are doing the follow-up work to actually communicate with customers to understand their needs, you should feel confident that you're doing your job well. And you should be proud that you are doing so without having to spy on people.
If trying to speak to the layperson I think lines like this can be misleading:

"When you are sending a message over HTTP, anyone on the network can see what message is being sent. Further, anyone can intercept the message, modify it and send it to the server."

To me a network is a graph of clients and servers and peers. Ie. Nodes on your graph that your message doesn't visit. The above sentence suggests that those peer nodes can somehow grab your message on its way and modify it, even if your message isn't routing through that node.

Or maybe that is actually the case?
This, I feel like Linux was just sexier for kernel devs, robbing Hurd of potential support
Most times when users say they won't use a product because it's missing a feature:

- Those specific users won't use it anyway even if you add it

- The problem they identified is a legitimate problem that was preventing other people from using it

- Whether your metrics actually go up depends on where that feature was in the critical path of your funnel. All else being equal, fixing legitimate problems with your product is unlikely to move your metrics much, because most (randomly distributed) problems aren't at the frontier of the critical path.

It's a mistake to think that adding features that customers ask for will immediately improve your core metrics, but it's also a mistake to think that features that don't visibly improve your core metrics were a mistake to add.
They don't have any funding-caused dilution yet on their unicorn startup, so the equity estimate is accurate.
2.81 is what brought it near zbrush, not 2.80:

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-81/

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.81/S...

It was almost all focused on sculpting improvements, adding a voxel remesh workflow.
For a start, people having a problem with our current society on earth can build a life away from it. Have you ever noticed racists yearning for "their own" homeland? With a self-sustaining colony on mars, the tech should be available for them to build one. I'd love reading about their attempt to govern something independent with no one else to blame.

Many people also like having bigger goals to strive for, and this one might cause less conflict than those wanting to reorganize society in whatever direction.

At the same time I also hardly see it hurting us. The cash is certainly better spend that way than putting another few billions into entertainment, cosmetics or the likes.

But yes, the direct impact on your own backyard will be limited, if that is all you care about.
To that list, I'd add:

* Qt is a pure joy to work with compared to every other cross platform widget toolkit out there.

Over the years, I've worked with gtk 2, gtk 3, Tk, wxWidgets, SWT along with proprietary toolkits like MFC and Cocoa. Qt stands above them all in terms of ease of use and quality of output(among the cross platform).

Putting the LTS as your first bullet makes no sense to me. Developers are not cheap. Qt does not owe companies the engineering resources to support and maintain an LTS product. All of their code is still open source and development in the open, working with their community. (I've personally found the paid developers very responsive to issues I've raised.) So if Companies aren't paying for Qt, who should? If that minor change helps keep Qt alive, I'm all for it.
> Well the number one threat to Earth is an impact event. If we can hypothesize a rapidly growing lift capacity, why not use that mass budget to develop a solar-system-wide system for detecting and if necessary altering the trajectory of potential impacting objects? It would be WAY better to protect the Earth than any other backup plan.

Detection is a solved problem.

Altering the trajectory of an asteroid requires a large amount of lifting capacity to be available on relatively short notice. That is, it has to already exist when the crisis is identified.

Congratulations. You've identified a positive externality of Starship.
Absolutely :-)
< sparkles in their eyes

Does the iron core of Earth imply magnetic repellent of the sight of these Cosmic ray retina inducing sparkles?
It’s also up to the residents to pay property taxes, and owners not to horde empty housing units as investments. Also, I’ve been a resident here for over a decasde, and I’m sick of paying small fortunes to landed gentry.

Bay area housing is a ponzi scheme, and younger families have to choose between their careers and buying in at nonsensical pricing.

Local governments suppress housing starts and intentionally snarl the roads to keep the house of cards standing.

Sooner or later the older residents will be outnumbered by people that moved here, and the reckoning will probably be swift and severe. As you said, it’ll be up to the residents to decide.

A few years back, there were signs in Cupertino saying “no four story apartments”. I agree. If you’re within 0.25 miles of transit, it should be illegal to build (or improve) anything that short. I’m guessing this isn’t what the NIMBYs had in mind though.
This is true. I got a similar raise and having a friend working at the company I was negotiating with helped a lot.
> The Kardashev scale is essentially sci-fi.

Okay. And we're embarking on a mission that would achieve an 'essentially sci-fi' objective. With the funding of a billionaire that you chose to shit on over the rest, that instead embark on.... Sex crimes? Petty regional politics? Rent seeking? Expanding their empires? Setting their offspring up to follow in their steps?

I don't follow.
“Updated ZFS. This is the first release with ZFS usable for daily use, but there is no support for booting from ZFS nor using ZFS as root filesystem yet”

Grateful for this
Let's be honest here, the article is to demonstrate that you have some grasp of how https works.

In particular the statement "They confirm the identity of the certificate owner & provide proof that a
certificate is valid. " is dangerously misleading for the "layman" as the basic HTTPS certificate issuance does not involve any sort of owner identity confirmation, just that whoever requested the certificate had control of the DNS record for that domain at the time of the request.
I doubt most of the big earners will disclose their salary. It seems to be going in a way where mostly people that are in a less than optimal situation are gonna disclose their salary, so the whole thing is underestimating the situation
Procedral zztop whiskey runner and physics, completely done in shader
totally agree, it's also possible to have built a feature that users have to use but aren't happy about - then the data can be misleading.
> collude to apply political pressure

Also known as "organized labor"
Sure it is. "Spying" is just a deliberately loaded term to make it seem bad. What would you think of an office manager who set things up only according to requests, never trying to observe and anticipate employee needs?
From the headline I was hoping he’d be covering the rather weird divide of diets that’s forming between left and right in America. How libertarians and conservatives are exploring options like carnivore and low carb high fat ketogenic diets, whereas more liberal sensibilities are embracing vegetarian/vegan clean eating diets. Both have come to the conclusion that the standard American diet is deeply flawed. It’s weird because it feels like we’re seeing the origin of red/blue tribes with dietary restrictions as part of the tribal taboos.

It’s hard to invite someone to dinner when there is literally no overlap in what you eat.
One notable thing about the constant power draw of ECL and Cray-1 in particular is that power draw is constant enough that the logic supply is unregulated, just rectified and filtered output of 400Hz transformers (placed physically in the "bench part" of the chasis). What is regulated is the 208V/400Hz supply for the thing (produced by the motor generator shown in the article), but regulation of that IIRC involves manual turning of physical knobs during installation/maintenance and is more about compensating for unstable mains on the input side.
Burton passed a couple years ago :(
The prime parts of the Bay Area have long been relatively expensive. I was recruited a few times in the mid 90s and one reason I ended up deciding to stay put was that, even with higher salaries than I was making, I'd have taken a net hit overall.

Of course, neither the housing prices nor the salaries on offer were anywhere near today's levels.
I'm not assuming the residency of the commenter, my comments are directed to commenters in general. Everyone seems to have a strong view of how many homes SF ought to have, moreover, most are making false assumptions about the nature of the problem, and the unassailable civic virtue of their own motivations without respecting the valid lamentations of 'the other side'.

In particular, tech people, or even the intelligentsia in general, tend to have an odd disregard for cultural issues and tend to see 'housing' as entirely an economic or civic function (i.e. numbers, pricing, density, affordability) while disregarding the nature of the fact that these are communities and homes. (Witness the fact that everyone on this thread, and in most reference articles tend to talk about issues such as 'price')

I watched in my lifetime the city of Vancouver get bulldozed over and replace with a zillion apartment buildings. The money is nice, but otherwise, it's a brutally garish city, the architecture is thoughtless, it's just another 'pop up' city of the theme of the New Millenium / Pacific Rim. It will not age well. What's more - even as Van has evolved towards this super-high density Hong Kong / New York physicality, costs have skyrocketed and affordability has plummeted. This should be of no surprise of course, as almost everyone in the Western world, more density generally implies less affordability and certainly 'less space'. Have a look [1]. Texan cities like Dallas are considerably more affordable and considerably less dense.

Bulldozing most of a beautiful city possibly against the wishes of its citizens to drive some kind of risky civic/industrial experiment is ... an extreme view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Ok, mostly there. Will try to find more.
I think the high-level summary of the article is ‘fire-and-forget development’ - ie producing features, but not measuring impact/benefit/usage.

I’m not convinced ‘feature factory’ in itself is problematic (definition not provided). There is no problem (IMO) in optimising to ship features - as long as the overall approach is to measure impact/benefit/usage and then learn and iterate.
I see, it should have been written "screening-detected" to be as clear as possible.

Yes, the latter is more likely to be comparable over time but it will still have issues with changes in how likely someone is to report it to their doctor, etc.
Won't natural selection take care of this within a few generations? The 'career women' and 'divorcee' genes get heavily selected against, and those with religiosity get heavily selected for.

We already see this in some Western countries where Muslims have much higher birth rates. Also in the US, we have the Mormons. If this development continues, it is not unlikely to see a return to historical, more efficient, social norms.
> The FDA would require that those two extra months usually aren't spent suffering unbearable additional side effects from the treatment,

I can't speak about FDA, but I can speak about NICE and the Cancer Drugs Fund.

NICE was set up to look at the cost effectiveness of medications and treatments. They were refusing to recommend new cancer drugs. This was politically tricky, so the Cancer Drugs Fund was set up to provide novel meds.

We spent over £1bn on it, and most of the drugs provided no meaningful benefit and caused harm. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097
A combination of sign 3, 8 and 12 can be awful. The features that are shipped are half-baked, teams always say that they will come back and refactor it but of course never do. Developers start to care less and less about quality because that isn't what gets rewarded. Feature ship rates go up in the short term but in the long term slow down as the spaghetti gets worse and worse.

Good developers either see what is happening and jump ship or just get bored and leave.
There is a danger of a useless product which has 120 features.
Factories are fine, but if you walk into a factory you're going to be finding a lot of people working on the factory itself. Process tweaks, new machines, maintenance, etc.

In the software "feature factory", people have mostly forgotten about that, usually because someone does it "in their spare time". I guarantee you that no factory worker lubricates the machines off the clock. I am not sure why we should treat software any differently.
Isn't that just due to them having early push, mentors etc more than active discrimination?

Again, I like to think all people discriminate somewhat if they see someone not familiar or from their groups. It is biological, you can try eliminate it as much as possible but it's never enough. What we can do possibly is probably ask whether white guys you speak of are being more discriminatory than someone else from other racial segment in those positions.

Outside discrimination is a factor but what isn't talked about is the inter-discrimination due to the history of a specific culture, system etc. You will be discriminated for pursuing a different career choice in certain cultures or taking routes different than how your mentors did (which well was due to discrimination).

If you think it's somehow due to discrimination for a person coming from a culture where one is more attracted or nutured for certain jobs or positions you don't think are good, then isn't that odd?

Indians are often pushed into STEM engineering because of cultural notions alone without any more thought put into it than assuming it is a trip to high salary and rep. That oversimplication and gross attitude stops a lot of Indians from pursuing things they would have otherwise. White dude isn't discriminating them otherwise on those positions, the culture is.

I often wonder why is there such dependence on for-profit corporates to drive cultural and environmental changes. Just somewhat astounding to me. Why isn't there more done from the government or public as a whole? Why are non profits not as visible as x for-profit shill making it known they are fighting discrimination by hiring more than there is in the supply chain. How is that fighting against discrimination from the bottom.

Don't understand the focus on race either. The way everyone talks about millions or even billions of people being discriminated in the same way is a gross generalization or its ok somehow?

Like thinking for a bit, if your race has millions of people while the specific disease you have, interests, background or lot of other stuff that might not have millions in representation and people constantly discriminate based on that. You would be hard pressed to take the later more seriously because of the statistical chance of falling prey to being discriminated.
So what will we use? Electron?

Developing a massive professional grade UI library and platform is a monstrous undertaking. Who is going to pay for it? The alternative is for it not to exist.
I'd like to see comparisons of compilation time. I wish there was a standard for benchmarking CPUs by compilation time. I know quite often a compilation of the Firefox source code is used, as well as the Linux kernel, I just wish it was more prevalent in these reviews.
In principle agile is supposed to be guided by higher level processes accounting for this kind of strategic problem. In practice, yeah, I do sometimes see agile teams get away with writing "objective: ship my features, KR: 5 features are shipped".
My understanding is that immunotherapy has been shown to work great for cancers without solid tumors and results have been disappointing with solid tumors. It isn't that it's marching steadily forward and will eventually have been shown successfully everywhere.

I think people running down John Horgan's editorial keep citing successes -- multiple myeloma! cured! -- but aren't addressing his overarching argument, which, as I understand it, is that people are being sold false hope in the majority of cases -- familiar cancers like breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, colo-rectal cancer -- which has the negative consequences of impoverishing them and increasing their suffering for negligible benefit.

To be clear, I don't have any horse in this race aside from insurance bills.
DeFi exploit caused the loss of a portion of Fulcrum's ETH