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Author here: I just released an Oberon IDE with a validating Oberon-07 to LuaJIT bytecode compiler and source level debugger. Here are two screenshots: http://software.rochus-keller.info/screenshot_oberon_system_... and http://software.rochus-keller.info/screenshot_oberon_ide_0.5.... You can download a complete Windows binary from here: http://software.rochus-keller.info/OberonIDE_win32.zip.

As you might know from my previous posts I'm interested in re-using LuaJIT (see http://luajit.org/ ) as a runtime environment for strictly/statically typed languages (and later as a HDL simulation engine). As proof-of-concept I have written a validating Oberon-07 compiler that directly generates LuaJIT bytecode (before that I had already written a transpiler that generates Lua source code). Oberon has proved to be very suitable for this project because it is not a complex language but still powerful enough to demonstrate the feasibility.

As a test case for the compiler I have created a version of the Oberon System (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) ) which runs stand-alone on the LuaJIT VM using a Qt based backend instead of the original Oberon System inner modules. Note that this is a prototype and still work in progress. I developed the IDE for this purpose, but it should also be suitable for other projects (but don't expect all features of a full fledged IDE like MS VisualStudio). The IDE and compiler are implemented in C++ using Qt.

See https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon, https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools and https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem for more information.
>My team have chosen Google Cloud

Why though? AWS, Azure etc all look much more competent and friendlier to customers, and without Google's history of killing services they don't care for anymore...
Non-rhetorical question: Is this because international travel has always been a major part of commercial flight, while trains spring up in regions?

I skimmed a couple Wikipedia articles and tolerated the International Civil Aviation Organization's website[0], but couldn't find a group that decided the traveler-facing standards.

[0] https://www.icao.int/Pages/default.aspx
A company that cannot come up with a better more interesting process isn’t somewhere I want to work.

How about making the questions broad enough for every candidate to have some input and evaluate them on what they choose to focus on? Something like, “How would you design an ATM?”

There should never be a right answer to an interview question, just a candidate that solves problems in a way that fills a gap in your company.
Can the teardrops from reading bad science writing generate electricity?
Except for one throwaway sentence about life extension averaged across 72 drugs, the huge point the author is missing is that the mortality rate is not what matters. The drugs aren't curing cancer - they're extending the lives of those with cancer, even though those same people eventually die of cancer. That won't show up in the mortality rates that aren't improving, but it's a very important positive effect of the drugs, particularly if that extended period of life can be at an acceptable quality. The industry actually measures its success by "quality adjusted life years," not by mortality, and I think that's the correct measure.
Well those benefits still go towards payments you have to do anyway and it’s never 100%... (eg in NL you’d pay ~1k/month in childcare, and get back ~800. You’re still down ~2.5k/year)
Working at Google. My opinion is my own, etc etc

What you get told is What needs to be accomplished, but not How, if that makes sense.

E.G. IF you choose to accept this challenge, this platform is running at XX% availability and we need to run it at YY% availability. HOW you get to do that, it's up to you.

Some folks don't accept these challenges and they go and find and fix their own interesting problems. But that's harder because you have to get buy-in from managers in order to get resources for that.

There is space and need for everyone.
It does follow. Question why they would steal it and realize the Chinese government can force them to do whatever they want. Given they’ve been stealing IP it’s clear this is already happening. Then start questioning why? It’s a very interesting position to be in to have built a majority of the worlds wireless networks, especially with that type of gov.
Those were default Catalina settings that I do want to change now.

Low price for this macbook + "@Huawei*" really scared me, hehe
is this the tiered internet we were warned about?
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Mars is significantly less hospitable than either the summit of Mt Everest or Antarctica; by developing the necessary tech to colonise Mars, you could re-populate the Earth after any environmental catastrophe short of the planet being physically dismantled.

One more immediate benefit is that the ability to refuel on Mars is identical to the ability to take CO2 out of the air and turn it into (un)natural gas.

Doesn’t do much for bigotry or inequality though.
Are they? In London perhaps, but so are salaries. Healthcare hardly makes a difference? How much does a natural birth cost in the US vs one in UK?
This article says it all about biological research. The brain is a network and yet a big deal here is how the researchers recorded several areas of the brain simultaneously. Really?! Such an obvious thing is considered 'original'. And then, "None of this helps much with the big questions around what consciousness is on a more philosophical level, and of course drawing conclusions about our own species based on non-human models is also problematic." Yes. Biology is not a science. Ugh
Hi, I'm Will, the creator of Unbounded. I co-founded the security company Cambia, later acquired by Tripwire, Inc.
Unbounded is a schemaless, serverless, NoSQL cloud database you query with Javascript. If you can code it, it's a valid query.

Store any JSON data with no limitations on primary key names, property names or embedded objects. Map, reduce, and receive query results to your webhooks.

Free starter tier, only pay for what you use.

https://www.unbounded.cloud

Unbounded was conceived as an elegant solution to the problems introduced by managing massive contact lists for an enterprise CRM platform, while being carefully designed to reduce developer friction.

For example, one reason we use Javascript as a query language is because it's likely a language you're already familiar with, instead of forcing you to learn yet another quirky dialect of SQL.

Unbounded is more than a database, it’s a turnkey way to create a data transformation pipeline that can scale, without setting up servers, lambda functions, message queues, task processors, “Glue,” etc.

You send us Javascript, and we'll execute it against your data in parallel, writing the results back to disk or sending them to you via S3 or webhooks, while queuing and retrying any failures. At the same time, you can still execute queries directly to pull out records like you would in a DBMS.

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It wasn't obvious so I checked: zero runtime since it typescript and the @types/aws-lambda stuff is not needed in resulting compiled JS. Still I'm not sure what this does beyond until functions for events you receive in Lambda and have to parse raw yourself?
In the long term, reducing infant mortality consistently leads to a reduction in the number of children per mother.
Is the machine connected to the network/internet? Are you planning on any software updates? I'm curious how you plan on handling https root certificate updates.
You’ll get shouted down for this suggestion.

But there is no amount of money the MTA can’t waste. The MTA is a bloated, incompetent, and completely unsalvageable organization. The subway system in NYC will never be fixed, properly upgraded, or properly maintained while the MTA is in charge.

At minimum the actual construction and maintenance wings should be privatized.
I am also personally aware of several large tech companies hiring practices in California. The statement above is completely false. Race and gender is explicitly asserted as a non factor in evaluation.
Then use Glassdoor.
As a child of the 70's, TV is pretty much a fundamental part of my life, and I have never really explored the idea of "quitting" it. My 11 year old son however, I don't think he's watched 100 hours of broadcast TV in his entire life, and probably zero in the last five years. He's watched exponentially more YouTube than I have though.
100%. I really miss it.
Well, Ireland is just 6.5 million people, not exactly a large country, and I think Germany's DB is more or less similar to the Dutch NS?

I lived in the UK for a while, and things are really complex there with a patchwork of private companies. Either way, I stopped complaining about the Dutch trains very shortly after moving there :-)
Signal is on route to add contact/data recovery:

https://www.signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

... they also cite this as a bottleneck for adding non-phone identifiers. It seems like they are putting the infrastructure in place to fix a lot of the remaining usability issues that people have with them.
With fusion rockets, we could get to at least one percent light speed, and maybe ten percent. At one percent, assuming exponential growth, we could colonize the entire galaxy in a million years or so, barely a blink in geological time.

We could also colonize objects in the Oort Cloud, just gradually hopping outward from rock to rock, with fusion to power our little colonies, ultimately reaching interstellar distances. It'd be a little slower, but it'd happen without any special effort.
“A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.”

Add it to the long list of things Blade Runner got so right about the future.

I stopped reading this article because in all the rocket talk, nowhere did it acknowledge just how completely inhospitable Mars will be once you finally get it there. Every single aspect of the planet is not conducive to life. I don’t doubt that one day extremely rich people will (very far in the future, far past Elon Musk’s lifespan) live there and the toil of humans here will fund the exotic ways they deal with the massive radiation there etc. Just so they can not be around the poor serfs back on the planet custom made for life.
Why do you think it is even possible to effectively redirect and utilize those resources for the projects that you don't consider to be childish flights of fancy? It sounds like you're making an argument to stop tangible progress in favor of just trying something different because the progress being made isn't the right kind for you.
Your point stands, but the OPM breach was done by the Chinese government: https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/09/21/bolton-confirms-china-be....

It seems like governments have gotten good at cyber attacks but not so good at cyber defense.
Anything CPU-bound is a very bad fit for node. But most web services are IO-bound, and Node is excellent for them.
Luxury? Keyless entry and ignition is quickly becoming standard. My 2014 Mazda 6, and my 2018 VW Passat are not luxury cars.
Straight from the horses mouth I once asked Gayle Lackman on quora: does their exist engineers who no matter how hard they study can NEVER make it through the google interview process? She said yes.

She said that this is because Google optimizes their interviews for IQ. Not just raw knowledge.
Additionally, of all the pure science research we do with public money, the discovery of alien intelligence would have probably the greatest impact on human day-to-day life.

Many of the other commenters seem to believe the research would fail. .... something we obviously cannot possibly know without doing the research.

The only thing prior SETI research has demonstrated is that no one is purposely beaming a signal right at us. ...which is actually pretty informative. ...after all, being totally alone in the universe seems somewhat less plausible than the opposite.
It's off-topic, but I would like to thank you for your blog[0], I really like how open you are about your journey.

[0]https://successfulsoftware.net/
Yes of course, you love diversity.
Do you know who generally pays who for these services? The ISP saves on transit but racks aren't free either...

(I suppose the flippant argument is 'the end user' but that's not quite what I mean...) :)
Even if so, you'd want electric buses to replace the kinds of routes currently served by regular buses - they'd hardly be a replacement for inter-city trains.
For those unfamiliar with Blender's versioning, the major number is effectively meaningless. The 8 is effectively the major number and the 2 the minor.

Anyway the big items in this release IMHO are:

- preliminary support for the Pixar USD format ( https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html ) which is gaining large traction in film studios, gradually in game engines and is the format of choice for Apple's AR ecosystem

- coming in line with the VFX reference platform ( https://vfxplatform.com/ )

The combination of both which means that Blender will be easier to integrate in existing pipelines rather than being a very interesting curiosity for large studios with preexisting pipelines.

Blender is certainly very powerful, and with the 2.8x releases, I think they're really opening up appeal to a larger set of artists and studios.

Just recently been talking to some large studios that are actively considering adding it to their toolset.

An overview of some of the major features in this release with accompanying videos can be found here : https://www.blendernation.com/2020/02/14/the-five-key-featur...
Come on man
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I like the question and how you think about the rabbit hole, but you need to sharpen your knife A LOT before being able to ask such questions, you need to be prepared for all the kinds of answers, which might be right even if you don't have a clue about what the candidate is talking about...
Qt for device creation is when you want to create an embedded device (medical hardware, car dashboard, TV screen, etc). It is fairly irrelevant for anything that runs on desktop, mobile or even simple embedded such as Linux on a RPi.
> What's this mania you have of disseminating yourself?

I’m told there was a book on this exact topic. I’ve never read it, because other people tell me it’s now wildly out of date.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Geology Can Ease Your Mind (2018)
If we assume a great filter exists and that we haven't passed it already, it follows that we should be concerned about events that could wipe out humanity (or human civilisation). Establishing at least one self-sustaining human colony outside earth, preferably followed by one outside the solar system, drastically lowers the number of possible doomsday scenarios. Everything from asteroid impacts to thermonuclear war and biological warfare to pandemics becomes much less likely to wipe us out if we live on more than one planet. The independence wars of those colonies might become brutal, but the small risk from interplanetary warfare is dwarfed by all the scenarios that are solved by inhabiting more than one planet.
Why not put the onus on the last mile?

If you get spam calls, your carrier is liable unless they can point to the source of the disruption. If they can't point to where they got it from, they are liable, and so on. If they can identify them but they're unwilling to pay out, their link to you is still liable.

Eventually, the buck has to stop somewhere.
Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
The only thing that matters license wise for 99% of people is https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/dev/LICENSE.LGPLv3 which cannot be changed without renegotiating with KDE.
We dropped cable about 10yrs ago, just streaming services. It’s pretty great.
Even if that was the case, you would still not need bitcoin for that
Personally I think it'd be interesting to compare the expected price/weight to how much it cost to cross the Atlantic back in the 1600s.
Does anyone happen to have any good references for goods/people crossing back then?

For instance, one person writes on Quora[0] that between 1600 and 1800 one could cross the Atlantic from Europe by becoming an indentured servant, working 4-7 years for someone. By looking at the average US income, this corresponds to roughly $2-300,000 per one-way "ticket".

This is somewhat comparable to Musk's aspirational price for a one-way ticket to Mars, no?

On another note, I'm sure there were discussions back then about why bother to spend months crossing the Atlantic..!

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-it-cost-in-today%E2%80%99...
The great thing about the fediverse is if you still want to use mastodon, you can find a better instance that suits your needs, or run your own instance.
I’m at a 1000 person org and this is also how we hire. We have KPIs for “diversity” and the entire company gets a huge bonus when we meet all our targets, so there is a incentive all the way from the CEO to panel ICs.
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I see just as many asian female engineers as white male software engineers in the bay. And more asian female engineers than male black+hispanic+pacific islander+native american engineers combined. You should be much more concerned with class than gender, otherwise you won't actually solve any issues related to diversity. You'll only make it worse.
Social security and Medicare are both social safety nets that one cannot take advantage of while they're working in most cases, and everything else you've mentioned either requires a person to be in extreme poverty or severely disabled.

Meanwhile a healthy, young, gainfully employed person in France can take advantage of a wealth of social services and benefits.

Mentioning them the way you have requires a very uncharitable interpretation of the previous posters point.
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Yeah, right, it must be a child game to scale by an order of magnitude the only full flow engine that ever flew in Human history...
No, in the UK, for example, the busses and trains are owned and operated by private companies, not the government. But no reasonable person would call them anything but public transport.
First of all, the SpaceX plans on colonizing Mars are not built onto the asumption, that the project is funded by the taxpayer, that is, draining the resources of a nation. They plan to fund the project by the money they are making, like for example enabling global internet access via Starlink. So even if SpaceX never makes it to Mark, it would be a benefit. And of course, reaching Mars would indeed have many benefits for humankind. First, there is science of course. Why are people living at the south pole, there are nicer places on Earth? Science.

Then there is the huge gain in perspective. Even if the direct utility of all the space missions might not be large, looking onto our planet has given us a clear perspective. That we shouldn't waste this precious place.

Finally, not at least trying to go to Mars and beyond would have a negative impact on the long-time development of the species. We either eventually leave this planet or eventually will be consumed by the expanding sun. Sure, there is plenty of time till then and I hope there are others why try to make humankind eventually an interstellar species. But if we don't even try, because it is "stupid and wasteful", we already have lost.

And I am sure, even if the colony on Mars might not do anything useful in the short term, just having space launch capability available as the article describes, will find many other beneficial uses.
It's funny that the other day I was reading about the door policies of some top-tier Berlin nightclubs and it seems that the underlying processes are similar. The bouncers there do a "door interview" designed to not only filter likely bottom of the barrel (too drunk/high, tourists) but you also need to know arbitrary and often unwritten codes (e.g. the name of the event, line-up, dress code, physical appearance) which is a proxy for showing you've put in some amount of effort and "know the rules". It doesn't seem to help much to possess the real values they desire (actually not causing problems once inside, actually enjoying the music, actually contributing to the party's atmosphere) because they simply can't screen those quickly enough.

In both cases this seems to be the market solution to the problem of having limited capacity, high demand, necessarily short interviewing/screening processes, high cost for admitting sub-par candidates but low reward for admitting good candidates. And in both cases it seems most dislike the process for being ripe for arbitrariness and routinely turning away good candidates and "there ought to be a better way" but the process seems to have evolved naturally and doesn't seem to go away despite there apparently being no major barrier for using a better process should it exist.

Just a random though.
The shtick about minorities was absurd. If the poster wanted to really inform his audience, all he had to do was link to levels.fyi with several thousand anonymous salary reports and skip the virtue signaling. Weird flex but ok ....
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This is an excellent example of what I’m talking about. We tell ourselves stories about what’s going on here based on our own biases, not solely on the objective facts.

If you want diverse engineering teams but you have a serious pipeline problem where few minority and female engineers apply, what can you do? One answer is to encourage more referrals for those candidates by paying a higher referral bonus. It doesn’t seem like “blatant discrimination” to me, any more than having a recruiting fair at a historically black college would be.

Also, as a side note, what company is this? And how are bonuses 5x as high for women but also “especially” for minority women. Which is it?
>Contractors in the US are also paid significantly more than employees.

Not really surprising all other things being equal. Contractors are often not getting benefits which can be more than a quarter of the total comp package.

Furthermore, contractors are often assumed to be being paid on an as-needed basis with less downtime like training that are factors with full-time employees.

When I had clients, a had a pretty high effective daily rate. But that didn't really translate into outsized take-home pay because so much "free" work went into being able to charge that sometime high daily rate.
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They often - or maybe even usually - get paid less for the same work. Plenty of studies and articles out there discussing this from both sides (saying it happens, saying it doesn’t) so imho google is the best way to go if you are curious.
I forsee comp sci students being unable to type, or atleast type very slowly, in 10 years
Let’s get serious here, who would finish writing the story once he’s 6 feet underground and can’t get a cell signal?
I would use a Qt fork such as https://www.copperspice.com

I can see your point. However, who knows what crazy curves Microsoft or Apple are going to throw into their O/S'es in the future? I would still feel safer depending on a team of full-time, paid, commercial engineers to stay abreast.
Just listen to 15 minutes him answering questions in any but the most mainstream (thus: time-limited, chunked into 10-seconds slots) channel and you will see that he has most accurate technical information and numbers and tradeoffs and materials etc. in his head than most engineers with 10 year experience. Say what you want about the stock price, about whether you agree with his policies, about his personality, but if you say something so blatantly obviously wrong as "he is not an engineer", it just tells everyone that you haven't done even a 15 minutes of proper research about him.