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> And our support systems have changed dramatically; we’ve often moved away from the close-knit communities and extended families that used to be the norm. And when we go online we see an overwhelming amount of advice that’s often contradictory and just doesn’t feel applicable to our specific situation.

Definitely that is a thing. My kid is 3 - this is something we've wrestled with ourselves. A niche business idea, but I think it has validity. Checking Trustle out!
The main improvement is not spending time and energy to define such a thing and maintain it.

We have done some breaking stuff too, and that has been useful, but in my mind, that’s less important.
And, if that child flubbed all those skills, then they'd skill live a comfortable and rich life, there just might not be much left for the next generation.

Also, how is learning how to fence a good skill to avoid destitution? The rich had leisure time and invested that time in cultural skills, this isn't actually a bad thing either - it's my hope that everyone can afford to develop a hobby and be creative in their life... but that has nothing to do with avoiding destitution.
Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago. The money dried up
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Seriously, a cheap flintlock pistol/rifle replica (which you can easily buy and modify to actually work) would be safer for the user than that thing.
According to Wikipedia, the daughter and husband "quickly reached an undisclosed settlement" with Uber.

That's what's called a settlement, a.k.a. hush money.

Very, very different from criminal charges.
>> I always found the dichotomy of Soviet culture interesting - that engineers were the most pragmatic I've ever seen, and the politicians were just...fucking idiots.

I'm not familiar with that history, but I'm quite familiar with Corporate America. One thing I've seen is that when Engineering is great, it gives the company great momentum and allows the Management/"Business"/Strategy/etc functions to lag and get lazy. Good Engineering momentum essentially produces enough residual value for others to leech off from.
I don't know much about jobs outside of tech, but I know most of them at the entry level to a few years of experience in accounting, finance, real estate, etc. do not pay much over $60k (if that) and pretty much all of those jobs are going to use things like Salesforce or other expensive SAAS tools and software.
Thank you for creating and sharing that, I hadn't thought to look for an Emacs to Anki connector before.

Being able to add my slow-but-steady Lisp learning notes into Anki would be very cool.
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Based on my layman understanding, while that changes how numbers are reflected on the books, the reality of how SaaS products improve customers' cashflow is still true.
If you have your k8s cluster in a single region, you probably aren't much more HA than a couple of instances load balanced.
Philosophically that makes sense.. but in practice I honestly don't recall a time that I've found NULLs being incomparable to be useful. It's always been the case that I want NULL to match NULL.
New shelf-stable film could revolutionize how medicines are distributed
Would AWS Elastic Beanstalk fit that <10 services profile?
>People aren't so stupid that they'd do something that completely against their best interests.

The world is actually full of such examples. There's quite a bit of work done in psychology and sociology as to why this happens. Often, the move from, for example substinence farming to other jobs is a kind of throffer - and so it was, historically documented, in the 16th and 17th centuries in England, too with the move from rural cottage industry to wide-scale factory production.
Star Engineer Who Crossed Google Is Ordered to Pay $179M to Company
On the other hand most other goods are much cheaper in the US than in Europe and also US consumers also have more disposable income than Europeans making the price difference of a BMW negligible.

And anyway, complaining that some luxury cars are a bit more expensive somewhere is a first world problem most people aren't lucky enough to have.
When writing bash scripts, I use shellcheck.net to help find problems like this. It's great!
There's usually a few core systems like the CRM, the marketing suite, ERP (in bigger companies) that cost literally magnitudes more than your Slack's and G Suites. Even in a small company you may be spending most of your SaaS budget on just the first two.

Not that companies tend to have a SaaS budget, it's more like a Sales budget, a Marketing budget, Engineering budget etc. That's why sales and marketing doesn't mind spending 5-6 digits on their software without sweating it if there's clear ROI. Hey, it's probably still cheaper than a single rep or two. If anything, Engineering seriously undervalues their time and overvalues building their own worse versions of popular SaaS software (no, your ad-hoc Lambda function hooked up to send an SMS is not better than PagerDuty), I see it all the time. Software that saves you an hour a month is probably worth at least $1K+/year as an engineer in the US, and most engineering tools are way cheaper than that.
Fine. It's bunny slippers, then.
GCs by and large are tuned to have a very high amount of spare free memory that they don't return to the OS because GC'd languages by & large churn through memory allocations at a much higher rate.

There are arguments that GCs can be faster, yes, but that speed almost always comes with an increase in memory usage not a reduction. After all asynchronous periodic collection must necessarily increase the transient working set of memory used over immediate synchronous collection.

The advantages of a GC here in typical contexts are that GC'd languages usually allow for compaction which can reduce fragmentation. But this isn't an inherent benefit of a GC. You can have a GC'd language where you don't get this benefit, though, it's not an inherent property of the GC itself.

For example D is a GC'd language, but because D's allocations are allowed to interop with C libraries you can no longer do compaction. There's thoughts on how you could do it with automatic pining but it's not done currently. But either way it's really the lack of raw pointers that make compaction possible, not whether or not you have a GC.
Where did you get the idea that all current social programs would continue unchanged if something as radical as UBI were introduced?
Reminds me of the open-source app Polar[1], which allows you to create Anki flashcards while you read.

[1] https://getpolarized.io
Perhaps this is an effect of learning to program in the 2010s, but paying for a programming language (Java, PHP) sounds crazy to me.

Do people actually do this?
How exactly do you end up with ten thousand cards on Anki on a light semester? Are you using it for problem sets?
Rolling your own payroll is about as good an idea as rolling your own crypto.
It's rare. How you are born pretty much sets your future in stone. Those rags to riches stories and vice versa are the outliers
> They pride themselves in craftsmanship.

Designing a good logo is also craftsmanship.
That's exactly what my therapist said.
More importantly, can naps trigger it?
Well, you can try that out right now: Hook up a 24h video/audio feed to your phone, then share it with your wife, ex, parents, friends, co-workers, boss and the annoying uncle from Utah that you're obligated to invite to Christmas. Also give them full access to your browsing history, messengers, purchase history and location data. Then come back to us in a month and tell us how it all worked out.

Really, no, I think this is a fundamentally bad idea. The idea of everyone surveiling everyone else can only be remotely appealing if you pretend there are no power differences in the world and everyone is equal - a fiction that the tech works for whatever reason loves to subscribe to.

In the real world, people will have vastly different amounts of understanding for whatever weird sides you have and their knowledge can have serious consequences. Only because your boss may have some weird sides himself does not necessarily mean that he will be understanding of yours - or that whatever he did will be as equally relevant as what you did.
It depends if the market is demand-side or supply-side constrained. If everyone had more money and wanted a new TV, TV manufacturers would just spin up production to meet demand over time. If everyone needs a house and housing is restricted by zoning then the price will go up.

One reason basic income might sidestep the housing issue is that unlike city jobs, if a basic income is portable then it makes it easier to avoid living in the city, reducing competition for housing. That's also a good reason against making the basic income dependent on location (e.g. you get paid more in NYC than Reno), since that would just incentivize people to flock to cities.

Also if that seems hand wave-y to you, consider that in Alaska when the oil money goes out, stores usually have sales, lowering their prices to compete for customers.
Why would anyone sane want to live in NYC anyway, if UBI was a thing?
People move to big cities with expensive housing because that's where the well paying jobs are.
There are 3 lies which exist.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
> everything there is a thread

Microsoft Teams is the same, but in certain tech circles MS Teams seems to be hated.

As someone who's staunchly in the Linux camp, I don't have any strong feelings -- I use MS Teams and it's ok. In the corporate world people are ok with it too.

Which brings up an interesting cultural disconnect: people in tech use different tools from folks in the non-tech enterprise/corporate world. As someone who straddles both worlds, it's an interesting divide to observe.

(Side note: this is also why many tech folks vastly underestimate the influence of Azure in most enterprises, which always seemed to me to be an interesting blind spot. This seems very similar to the blind spots that occur in politics.)
>So why don't managers and administrators work to produce things? They seem capable of labor, and they're paid extra, but they work less. Why?

Management and administration is a skill that not everyone possesses. There are such things as good and bad managers. Just because the work they do doesn't directly output a tangible product doesn't mean it's not valuable. Additionally, it's typically a position with more responsibility as well as accountability which tends to reflect in higher pay. That's not to say it's a perfect system but this is generally how it works.

As for working less, unless you mean they do less physical labour than the people they manage, they often work more. It's unfair to say managers work less because they do management tasks rather than the work their subordinates do. In virtually every job I've had, the more senior the manager, the more hours they worked. Retail especially.

>So let's answer them! Managers and administrators don't produce things because they claim that their positions allow them to optimize labor. Specifically, their bonus pay is based upon the idea that management and administration increases output proportional to their efficacy. It follows that we should measure the output of management practices, and compensate managers according to their actual impact.

They don't just claim their positions optimize labour, it actually does optimize it. I don't understand where this idea that managers are merely irrelevant middlemen who have no impact on the people they manage comes from. Companies seek profit and have no desire to pay people simply for existing, especially if they do not meaningfully contribute to the bottom line. Managers are hired exactly because they do affect the bottom line in a sufficiently meaningful way to justify their presence. And, as with almost any other job, a manager that fails to contribute will be replaced much like any other underperforming employee.

That isn't to say there isn't a thing as too many managers or levels of management or even bad managers that do not get fired, but to sweep them all aside as irrelevant is simply not a realistic interpretation.
Feminists reject The Guardian column's argument that trans rights threaten women
This looks awesome! Super fast Snorkel with even better performance? Yes, please.
It's more likely that something like Cyrus or Perl will be a key part of the business at Fastmail than at some random similarly sized shop where email is something they use rather than a key part of the business, and hence worth spending time/money on.

And there's economies of scale. A few cents from the payment by each of our customers adds up to a decent amount of money to spend on an open source project.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22489994
Presumably, a lot more. From the story, it seems his health condition was the main cause for the "downfall" and barely getting by. Sad, and not uncommon.
I agree. @camgunz' post is very naive. I never use a tool unless I understand it, and having read up on various GCs, conservative GCs are not something I could ever trust in production. False pointers cause leaks, and if the pointer graph is highly interconnected as happens with functional programs, then boom. In non-FP programs there's less risk but it's just not worth it I feel.
I have been using X-Windows in that timeframe - on VMS workstations. The biggest problem was indeed, that X-Windows mostly was a place to run xterms on. But there were a few native GUI applicatons and they were quite nice. The biggest problem was, that Motiv wasn't freely available. You had to pay license costs. If not for that, "Unix on the desktop" might have actually happened. And as the time progressed, Motiv wasn't unbearably slow any more.
Doesn't help your own career, though.

After leaving a certain well known tech company, I also wanted to reflect honestly on the experience of working there. I tried to be honest, in a blog post you can probably find, about the problems with the place as well as moments when I wasn't at my best and could've done better.

Later, when I decided to go back to work, a prospective boss found the post and basically didn't hire me over it.

In this case, I felt fine about it. I could stand by what I wrote, and this person's not getting it was a signal for me that he wouldn't be a great boss.

But if I had written a rant and dropped some f bombs, I might have felt more silly.

Great respect for Rachel, I love her blog and she's clearly an amazing person and I wouldn't presume to tell her what to do. But, other readers, you're not Rachel. Consider your actions.
>Less work means less is produced

If we were all just moving rocks around, that statement might be true. But human productivity is a much richer equation than time work in == value produced.

Where would we be if we took that to its logical conclusion and put kids to work rather than send them to school? If we all worked 16 hour days?

Your model doesn't consider productivity/unit time, nor the case of win-lose bargaining in the case where the 'lose' party is at a disadvantage and bargaining to lose less rather than for gain.

Disincentivizing work (in the near term) can be a net positive over time if the person that turns away from that trade uses their unsold time to increase their overall productivity/unit time or if they use their enhanced alternative to a negotiated agreement to turn a negotiation that would have otherwise been a 'lose but lose a bit less' or 'tread water' situation into a gain for themselves.

My only question is whether the productivity and value gains from enhanced productivity/unit time and employee/employer negotiations where the employee always has a workable alternative to employment will be more than what is lost in the reallocation through taxes?

Considering how much the top has and how little it would take to move those still in desperate poverty to merely being poor, I'd be willing to bet the overall value creation would far outstrip the losses in taxes. But it's a fair question.
Nothing much happens if SO goes down, they are not doing a ton of business transactions.
Some of us put accounts on pause if they've been inactive for 30 days. It's not the norm (yet), but the good PR and happy customers were well worth the extra business logic.
nah, we genuinely prefer working for ourselves if that's an option.
Yes - the contradicting advice is very real and overwhelming for parents. It is myth that there is "one way" to tackle most parenting things - there are too many factors at play (child temperament, parenting values, etc). Combining evidence-based advised with individualized support can actually help - but a blog/passive content can't do that. Thanks for checking us out! Would love to hear what you think!
Ok, but work (productivity) is how you actually pay for UBI.

So by giving UBI, you are decreasing the resources that pay for it.
Having worked with them in the past, there are plenty that are one Meals on Wheels delivery away from being hungry and unable to buy food. Hunger rate in the US is 12%.
Out of curiosity, if you’re comfortable saying, what country was it and were you a citizen there?

I’m always curious what the breakdown is.
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This is a negative view of it, but it makes me wonder what the culture is in the biological and medical fields. Is there a resistance to new concepts?
IRC for Slack was one that happened at a company I worked at.
The statistics behind the spread of ideas
Really, and this is an OK choice, but is a choice all the same:

What happened is others settled on a subset of multi user graphical computing.

That is not replacing X. It is something different, less.

Maybe less is more too. I have an open mind.

However that goes, X nailed multi user graphical computing. Pretty much any crazy thing you can think of can be done on X.

Want to make a computer that several people use locally, each with their own screen, keyboard, mouse? X can do that, and permit those users to view and interact with any combination of each others display data.

One says, hey can you sort this for me? Another says, "sure", and a window pops up on their screen...

Now, replicate that same setup, each user has their own powerful computer, maybe with a common, shared display among them, like a wall display or something.

No problem. X does that too, and chances are only the sysadmin differs. The apps will have no clue.

It may be that we just do not work that way, or maybe not enough know how, but let's be clear here.

X is not being replaced. A subset at best is being put forward.

I think that means we just are not really doing multi user graphical computing. And that is OK.
I'm getting there fast. As a young man I could drink caffeine any time, and it didn't really seem to have any effect on my sleep. Nowadays I'm seeing a very strong, definite correlation. Just this morning I told myself that it might be time to pull the trigger and drop caffeine altogether. Getting old sucks ;-)
Name some examples of price increases that were unfair?

Price increases due to inflation are a necessity.

I can't see a world where I would buy a software once and use it forever, so paying for upgrades is necessary at some point.
With basic income you make $4000 + $1000, which removes the discontinuities associated with means testing.

Whether increased taxes used to pay for the UBI end up eating up your UBI depends on the plan and how much you make/spend. Some UBI proposals are paid for with a wealth tax, others with a consumption tax, others by cutting most of the existing programs). They usually end up being redistributive in the grand scheme.
People who have issues with unmaintained docker containers are doing it wrong. You still need to assess the quality of your dependencies for container images just like you should be doing for any other dependency.

The issue is that docker lets some developers get in over their head very easily. Many orgs have system admins to install and configure server operating systems, but docker shifts some of those responsibilities back on to the developer.
Heh, it’s quite amusing to see the posts here arguing that “you can do the same thing with multi az deployments on aws with VMs, packer and ebs. Kubernetes needs you to learn so much shit” ... do you even read what you write?

Kubernetes is not gospel. It’s an opinionated, incomplete framework for orchestrating container workloads. There are other ways to do the same thing which are fine too. It works well for the most part but has disgusting failure scenarios. So do other techs.

People who use and like kubernetes are comfortable with its trade offs and portability. You may not be. It’s fine.

Shitting on kubernetes just because you’re comfortable with another technology just because you can: that’s not fine.
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I remember watching a documentary about the Ordnance Survey department and it mentioned that the artists would hid their name in things like rivers because they did not get official credit.

I think it is somewhere in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5_kWzUahQU
Same: single decks are nice. It’s still hard if you break your habit though...
I agree, the CoreOS thing went down grossly. It was a technical nightmare tho. They deeply merged CoreOS and Fedora/RHEL and created a hybrid animal. Creating an upgrade path would have been an insane challenge, and in the end the advice would have been to rebuild anyway to avoid unforeseen issues. They could have left CoreOS repos and stuff up tho and given a longer transition period.
A pretty simple program that fools your brain is one testing the Collatz conjecture: https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/44875

Or did you mean something else?
The Java default garbage collector promptly return memory to the operating system when on idle, since Java 12.
I wonder if some of their optimizations to make this possible could be transposed to glibc malloc :0
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/346
Those other benefits combined don't come remotely close to $4T. I'd be curious to see which benefits you think could be eliminated or cut back and how much that would save.
Ask HN: Privacy issue on the latest Edge (Can you reproduce it?)
Hi!
Im having this issue since Edge Chromium launched as stable, I've reported it a couple of times without answer.

It would be cool if someone can try to reproduce it as it is very simple and let me know if someone else can see it.

Details and steps to reproduce:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/msedge_search-msedge_win10/privacy-issue-with-browser-bar-autocompletions-not/da065a06-18c5-4f71-88d1-5b408769b47a?tm=1583432199944

Steps to reproduce:
1. Configure Edge to delete all data on exit
2. Search something specific as "SecretExample968123" on address bar
3. Stop and start Edge, type "SecretExample96" and the autocomplete appears
4. This persists on system restarts

Video with proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQJ0A3fxjMY

If you are a Microsoft employee please escalate this issue if you can reproduce it.
"spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain."

$200K is not a good benchmark for what companies spend.

Median salary in the US is about $50K [1]

Average overhead per/employee is 18-26% [2]

So a $10K spend for 10% increase in productivity on someone earning about $60K ... is not a bargain.

But there's a problem with this, because SaaS can be

1) Individual productivity
2) Operational productivity
3) Product spending (i.e. like GMaps integration as a feature in your product)

So 1/2 and 3 represent a very different type of calculus to the point wherein that kind of spending should definitely fall into different buckets for accounting.

[1] https://www.thebalancecareers.com/average-salary-information...

[2] https://beebole.com/blog/how-to-calculate-the-real-cost-of-a...
If you know aviation, literally anything that will decrease fuel usage. Also maintenance & repair operations (a whole lot of dirty fingerprints going on there).