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I mentioned this a while ago and I was chastised for thinking there was a coordinated effort to astroturf on hackernews. I imagine you'll get the same treatment, followed by a barrage of comments because you don't follow the anti-union narrative that is being pushed here. Move along, nothing to see here.
You should come back in time 30-40 years and try a dose of prime-time communism yourself since you are so sure of yourself.
Or, since you admit being ignorant about history, go read a book or two about Stalin. Keyboard warrior.

No, they didn't fail from the communism. They failed from the people in power that made sure that competency was not to be rewarded. That no-one else but _them_ would continue to rule. That is communism! Dumbass!
> and while we're "changing the world" it's really not in any egalitarian or progressive way

There is a good argument to be made that increasing the GDP is a moral imperative [0]. I know it's increasingly trendy to think all of capitalism is evil and we should tear the whole global economic system down (and to tweet about it from your iPhone while sitting in your air conditioned home, eating your meal delivered by Doordash). As much as it is true that inequality is higher than it should be, and there are lots of things in the world that should be improved, it's also true that for the vast majority of people in the US and around the world, their living conditions today are much better than they would have been at any other time in history. Which is the simple result of compounding economic growth.

Talking about "changing the world" by building an app sounds a bit quaint and too self-serious these days, but I really don't think it's true that the average person working in tech contributes nothing positive to society.

[0] https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/essays/economic-growth-moral...
Nobody is arguing that they are forced to work a non-union job.
RTLinux is soft real time, FWIW.
The EVE Spectrum[1]. I actually pre-ordered a while back, so got it for less than what it's priced at now. Their first project had some issues with delivery, but they seem to have done a great job with this one and I'm cautiously optimistic.

[1]: https://evedevices.com/pages/full-specs
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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Connectome-How-Brains-Wiring-Makes/dp...
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I saw this a while ago and I haven’t been able to remember the name for the life of me, thank you. It’s a really, really good short.
Bottlerocket runs containers using containerd, so containers are visible as processes on the host, from its perspective, not currently isolated from each other via a hypervisor. Bottlerocket limits containers ability to interact with the host or each other via SELinux, among other things.

We do have firecracker-containerd (https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...) which is designed to allow the containerd runtime to launch containers as microVMs via Firecracker, with that additional layer of isolation via the KVM hypervisor. This stack is not currently fully compatible with K8s or ECS though, so it is not implemented using that approach yet. Rather Bottlerocket is built as a progressive improvement on the current state of container hosts, which is that many people are running all their containers on their hosts without any strong security hardening at all.

I think from the similar naming scheme of Firecracker and Bottlerocket you can already see the pieces of the puzzle that are in progress and the future potential though.
Do you mind sharing what industry you work in and how you got there? I am mainly caught by "as both a mathematician and a programmer who often works on projects where high reliability is essential". I was a mathematician (or more strictly am a failed mathematician) who also does software, and so I am always curious what other domains people with this background work in.

In general, I am turned off as well from the abstractionauts in the software world, particularly those found in the Haskell realm, and highly prefer more pragmatic functional languages like F#, Racket, and Elixir/Erlang.
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Teachers unions exist at the detriment of children's education.
I literally mentioned Fargate in the same comment:

>> It would hopefully feel more similar to using Fargate than not, except without paying the higher price for Fargate, and having access to the wider variety of hardware configurations available to regular ECS.

If you're using an ECS Fargate Cluster or EKS Fargate Cluster, I don't consider those the same as an ECS Cluster or EKS Cluster. Unfortunately, there's no specific term commonly used for non-Fargate Clusters that I know of. AWS offers ECS Clusters and ECS Fargate Clusters.

If you were legitimately confused by my comment, I’m sorry. I could have said "non-Fargate" repeatedly, if it would have helped, but I thought the context made things clear, especially with the additional explicit mention of Fargate as a separate thing.
Firefighters are far above the "living wage" line already. They should make whatever lets the department keep headcount up.
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That would mean those philosophy students wouldn't be able to get a job at McDonalds :)
I never played EVE Online, but a friend of mine told me a fascinating story. When players exploited a "loophole" in the rules, the game didn't change the rules. They introduced new tools.

Mining is an inherently risky operation, because mining ships are poorly armored, and generally defenseless. One risk is that someone can destroy your ship, and steal your hard worked for cargo. However, attacking someone in a civilized system would brand the attacker as a pirate, and NPC police would instantly warp in to execute justice. Even if they were able to escape, it would be difficult to return.

The pirates got clever, though. What if we were to load up a ship with explosive material, fly next to a mining ship, and detonate? The mining vessel would still be destroyed, but since it's an "accident", it won't summon the police. A partner in crime can scoop up the debris, and we can share the profits.

Now, EVE admins could have simply said, this is cheating, and you can report players who do this to our administration. But EVE has a famously hands-off approach to their game, to the extent that when a clan decided to declare war on a high traffic area, the administrators thanked them for the heads up, and promised to allocate additional server resources to handle the load.

Instead, EVE created a new class of ship that would prevent warping within a certain range of your vessel. This would create a buffer zone between you and hostile pirates, giving you equal footing.

I may have some of the details wrong, but hopefully you can see the point I'm illustrating. One strategy is to say, "Trying to circumvent the rules of the platform will result in a ban." However, this requires a moderation team. Furthermore, such decisions are subjective, and even the moderators can be gamed.

And finally, the spammers have an asymmetric advantage that Facebook will simply never be able to beat. Posting something is easy. Identifying things to take down is hard, and requires ten moderators to every one spammer.

Facebook should take a lesson from EVE Online. Instead of setting up censorship rules they can neither enforce or maintain, they should invest their energy into introducing game mechanics that accomplish the goal for them.

So in effect, yes -- I definitely agree!
One of the funniest instances of software intentionally kneecapping itself are compositors. As far as I know compositors universally treat all monitors together as a single surface and just assume that they're synchronized. On Windows, this causes all sorts of hilarious stuttering and hitching. On Linux, compositors just vsync on the slowest display.
It's quite simple. They either cut profits, or offer employees equity in compensation for lower wages. That goes against what the owners want, but it helps the workers and maintains the usefulness of the enterprise.
This is a pointless thought experiment that has practically no basis in reality.
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Definitely agree with you on the labor protections - they are gig workers at the end of the day. And they're probably even less likely to "organize" (whatever that means nowadays) than other gig workers.

By luxury service work, I mean something where you perform services for people with much higher than average disposable income. Basically think of all the bottom rung jobs in the most expensive parts of the most expensive cities.
For years, I was profoundly puzzled by people that are willing to give hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars to (mostly women) they'll never meet for what's basically freely available offline. I saw a very interesting mini-documentary on YouTube[0] not too long ago that kind of opened my eyes. The idea here is that places like Onlyfans, and to a lesser extent Twitch, monetize loneliness via parasocial relationships[1]. This is fundamentally different than being a fan of, say, an actress like Emma Stone, or an athlete like LeBron James.

Viewers (the subject) actually believe they have a relationship with the object (be they a pro gamer or scantily-clad model). To most well-adjusted folks with a healthy social circle, this seems kind of nuts, but parasocial relationships have a long and sordid history -- starting with the invention of the "fireside chat" on radio. Loneliness is a powerful motivator and the psychology here is profoundly interesting. At the end of the day, I'd say places like Onlyfans end up being net negatives for both the models as well as the fans. It's a bit sick that the internet -- the very thing which was supposed to bring people together -- ends up cannibalizing its own.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMojvschs0

[1] https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20...
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The error was that they stated so bluntly in a public job listing that they wanted a union buster with an intelligence background. They still are looking for someone like that, of course (or many someones), the error was that the job posting wasn't written in a properly deniable way.
Cool stuff! Here are a few interesting resources:

http://www.techlib.com/science/ion.html - old and gold. A friend tried building these ion chambers, but apparently getting high enough isolation between the container and the electrode was very hard.

http://physicsopenlab.org/2016/04/24/diy-cherenkov-detector/ - one for detecting muons (a PMT taped inside a thermos)

And a fun little application note from Maxim to build a gamma detector from a photodiode : https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/technical-document...
> How so? I mean, obviously it's impossible to make a decent educated guess since basically the entirety of most peoples' interactions with computers stems from the near-monopoly Microsoft had on personal computing in the 90s. But I'm still curious to know what you predict would be different if MS didn't strike their deal with IBM.

I've occasionally seen speculation that in the absence of the de-facto DOS monoculture that deal created, CP/M may have been the most likely desktop platform winner, at least initially.
Again, it's important to focus on video, not screenshots. Video is processed differently by the brain.

"The Dress" illustrates how easy it is to fool people with still images. Movement gives crucial context. Our visual system has evolved for millions of years specifically to exploit that context.
> the majority consensus in the industry is that a union would do more harm than good

Most people also think they are smarter than average. I have seen people that thought they were great at negotiating their own wages/benefits in a ritualized yearly pissing match with their boss only to be outdone by new hires. Lots of overinflated egos around that would rather rip their own arms of than pull on the same rope.
The PDP-8/S was a bit serial version of the popular PDP-8 minicomputer. It was introduced in 1966 and is said to be the first computer sold for under $10,000. It used discrete transistors, no integrated circuits. It was slow, with a 36 microsecond add time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/models/#PDP8S
The tax base is fleeing. Not sure who's going to fund the renaissance he's imagining but it would be neat if it could happen. It would probably help if they could clean the poop and needles up too.

Work brought me to SF many times in the 90's and as long as you were in the right parts it was still safe, clean and interesting (and good food - oh my the crabs!). It would be very nice if that could return.
Yes, indeed, but a jetpack specifically refers to a device that is able to hover and take off vertically. But yes, you could make it even cheaper and lighter then, but would need something to help you take off.
> The NES example is not really a good one because it’s a created object and knowledge of it is complete, therefore replicating it is possible.

One could replicate the NES hardware without any knowledge of how it was built by reverse engineering it

> Ultimately any “transfers” will actually just be the creation of new minds, which IMO is more interesting anyway.

I actually agree but in the same way that you have a "new mind" when you wake up in the morning. The continuity of self is an illusion. "I" would be very happy to one day wake up having been transferred into a non-biological system the same way that "I" would be very happy to wake up tomorrow.
With a caveat: the real images should not be cherry picked to look as close to cgi as possible but the other way around. Real and render can look indistinguishable that way too, but we want real looking cgi, not carefully arranged cgi-looking reality. The biggest giveaway is the simplicity and pristine sterility of the rendered scenes, no mess, clutter, irregularity. Just look at photos that people haphazardly snap in the real world.pick those for a blind study and cgi is nowhere near. Pick carefully lit and arranged artificial scenes with heavy post-processing, like studio shoots or hotel brochures or car ads and the difference will be less obvious.
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> The greatest change that happened in the 21st century is that ideas spread at the speed of light, and any bullshit can be broadcast to billions of eyeballs very quickly.

On the other hand: those billions of eyeballs now have three gajillion hours of youtube presented to them any second. I'm fairly certain that a few large newspapers a hundred years ago had a much, much better reach when it came to implementing ideas into the general public, because there was so little else.

It's like hearing somebody speak that stands 5m from you in an otherwise silent room vs hearing somebody shout at the other end of a football stadium. If all the fans in that stadium coordinate to amplify their message, you will hear it and it will vibrate the seat you're sitting on, but they barely get that coordinated unless it's very simple messages that are incredible light on information.
Hm, Eve as a whole feels pretty suspect after what they did with the V. I wonder if they'll really ship these this time, but I doubt it.
I looked and yup you are right. I misremembered. Thanks! My point still stands with affirmative action being common in movies, but I'll try to avoid unintentional hyperbole.
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I do not do any specific things to block cookies. I am seeing these symptoms at least on Safari/iOS with AdGuard and NextDNS, but if I disable every privacy feature I can think of it still behaves the same for me.
This isn't a firmware issue, because enabling this would require adding the hardware to the scaler ASIC to actually process multiple video streams, and to increase the buffer size and bandwidth n-fold so that it can synchronize and composite the unsynced video sources (also introducing 1+ frames of latency).
Maybe they can ask Sammy Gravano for recommendations
You can only keep your previous property tax assessment level if you buy another property that is worth less than the one you sell and you buy in the same county (a few counties join together in this rule). If you want to move from a small house to a more expensive condo, you don't keep your lower tax assessment. If you want to move from your expensive condo in the city to similarly priced ranch in the foothills, you don't keep your lower tax assessment.

Prop 13 causes so many problems, but it has been around for so long and has been so important to so many peoples plans that I don't see any reasonable path to repealing it. I think eliminating property tax and state income tax and replacing it with a land value tax would be something to try. Unfortunately, there is no where that has such a tax system and trying to implement it first in such a large and complex economy as California is probably not a good idea.
I made an app to wrap around ddcctl that works on osx, it works fine for my own uses and if anyone want to improve it feels free.

https://github.com/bshep/ASUS-DDC-Volume
I would guess it's a combination of getting it closer to the store and improving cell signal.
I agree with you. This seems more complex than just having a auto scale group that auto rotates nodes after a certain amount of time and just picking a new update when the node launches.
Well, 2 generations ago the MSRP of the 1070 was $379 and the 1080 was $599, so I'd say we've just gotten used to the higher prices which they successfully normalized.
Do you mean that gave us Reagan as President? Reagan was elected Governor of California in 1966.
I'm not sure how to think about tornadoes, not living in a particularly tornado-prone area. But with respect to hurricanes, there are certainly areas of the country where you will periodically have significant hurricane-related drama. I'm not sure how that translates into death/destruction in the "equivalent" earthquake zone, but it's certainly much more of a given over time.
That's fine with me - if the developer was caught with one malware-infected app, I would worry about the other malware they shipped that wasn't caught.
Off topic but tangentially related: Is there a brightness tool for the iPhone that has a better colour profile that harmonizes "dark mode" and "light mode"?

On my iPhone 11 late at night, turning the brightness down to 20% makes black text on white readable, but if I switch to a dark mode app, it's not comfortable, so I have to turn the brightness up again. To me, that implies the brightness just linearly applies to the whole colour spectrum, when it'd be better to weight the brightness logarithmically: Colours close to the dark should stay the same at both 20% and 100% brightness.

I'm not sure if this is even possible on an iPhone. I don't have the same problem on my external Dell screen with my Mac, not sure why.
They'll go through an adequately discreet private headhunter. Those responsible for this leaking to the media, have been sacked.
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> Those two, yes (and vectors really only apply -as such- in C++), but the rest? It depends (the best answer to every conundrum).

I think other systems langs make the distinction, Rust does also, this is what I've been doing at my day job lately.

> That means, that, in over thirty years of writing software, I have encountered exactly 0.000000 binary trees.

I've been doing it for a third of that time and I've encountered binary trees and all kinds of other data structures a bunch of times. I don't do any big data or ML stuff, I was writing React frontends for about half of that, the last few years it's been systems programming with Rust; I still encountered these types of structures writing JS though.

> BTW: Binary trees and linked lists can be an issue in parallel-type programming. We had some image processing algorithms we did that used similar structures, and we had to be very careful. We often had to back out optimizations.

When sharing any memory between threads or tasks you have to be careful, I'm not sure there's anything special about binary trees or linked lists. Consequently Rust makes this sort of thing very nice.

I'm not sure how to respond to the rest of the comment. Personally, I'll take an expressive type system over a comprehensive unit test suite.

I'm not discounting your personal experience but I find it hard to believe you aren't encountering these types of problems, unless you are but just not noticing it. Curious about what kind of 'optimized' (optimized for what?) code is 'the worst'?

edit: I just re-read this and realized the tone was a little aggressive, I don't mean to come across that way, my bad.
As a note on presentation - can we avoid stock ticker shortenings in article titles and switch AMZN to Amazon?
Android and ChromeOS beg to differ, as Google has been using clang with them for at least around three years now.
It's too late this year (I bought some cat food during the winter), but next year I'm shooting for zero orders from Amazon.
This article has a lot of useful information. I've developed some web scrapers myself and have noticed a couple of things:

A lot of developers will write scrapers that download a page, parses whatever information it needs, discards the page, then moves on. A better practice is to save the contents of the page in case a piece of data was missed or parsed incorrectly. It saves a lot of time and bandwidth over re-scraping the pages, though that would have to be accounted for during development.

The second thing is that the article mentions using concurrent requests. This will definitely speed things up, but it can be dangerous. Some domains use protection like Cloudflare to block aggressive requests, so a high number of requests to one domain from one source may result in the bot's requests being blocked or the bot's IP being blacklisted entirely.
Yeah, it's meant in the sense of respect. People who discuss "destigmatizing sex work" are saying they want it to be something like creating Youtube videos or running an Etsy shop: not necessarily a stable career, but something you wouldn't be embarassed for people to discover.
A couple possibilities:

1. There is a conspiracy to bad mouth unions to protect the capitalist class.

2. Unions have problems and people are expressing their opinions about those problems
Disgraceful. But will anything be done, judicially, legally? Not a chance. Tells you all you need to know.
It seems perfectly fine and honest to post a job listing and then take it down hours later due to backlash, claim it was a mistake, and refuse to answer follow-up questions on it? What part of that sounds honest to you?
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