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Latest episode of BALL featuring Mossberg, where he shares his journey, lessons learnt and best advice for entrepreneurs in tech.
Not anymore, but it sure used to be, around the time Jekyll came into the mainstream.
You were kind of right - page gets reparsed (and frontend cdn cache cleared, along with a backend cache cleared) anytime someone edits a wikidata entry the lua script uses.
MPW was pretty neat, and I've not seen its equal since I left Apple. It's a simple concept, a shell-plus-screen-editor that lets you have both source code and commands in the same window, and the combination let you do things like put context-sensitive commands in project directories. A little like Jupyter, I suppose.

The NIH attitude of the team didn't help the toolset make inroads anywhere. MPW had its own take on Make and a bunch of other Unix-y tools. Basically it was a license to revisit a bunch of hoary, old (even then) utilities, sometimes improving them, sometimes striking out.

My lord, it was slow. It didn't help that the fastest I/O on a Mac back then was a 5Mhz SCSI bus hooked to spinning rust. Builds could take hours. The symbolic debugger was . . . interesting (okay, it was awful).

[I worked on a bunch of its tools, including the linker and some runtime stuff.]
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I can’t downvote yet on this account, so I’ll just comment instead: the truth is almost certainly in the middle.

COVID-19 isn’t a death sentence, it it’s also not “just the flu”. It’s not even related to the flu, and it shares only a subset of symptoms. It’s also got a significantly higher mortality rate and different R0, - it seems to spread more readily and it’s therefore reasonable to believe through slightly different means,

There’s growing evidence that there is a much larger proportion of people who acquire it and develop either no or very minimal symptoms. It’s not at all clear yet if those people shed enough virus particles to be a significant transmission vector.

So, yeah - for many people, COVID-19 is “just the flu” or even “just a runny nose”. We just don’t know how many people are going to react that way, why, who they will be, or what impact they may have in friends and family.

Discounting it as you seem to be is a recipe for unnecessary deaths. Overestimating it is as well.
cough Debian has enforced this for at least two decades.
Most companies (and every company I've ever worked for) do a background check on hire (the offer is contingent on passing the background check).

If you know you're not going to pass the background check then you're probably better off working at a startup.
Cheers!

> It's unfortunate that the solution seems to be to just leave—(I don't think stopping and trying to make a friend is realistic the vast majority of the time, or even safe sometimes)—and I'm realizing I'm at that same conclusion.

It works out in my case: I'm a huge Venture Bro.'s fan and my dream is to create a 1:1 scale model of the Venture Compound complete with H.E.L.P.eR. and G.U.A.R.D.O.. I'm even going to make the tunnels underneath and invite people to live there (but only if they stay in character as VH1-imitating troglodytes.) You better believe the laser turrets will be very realistic.

As for everybody else, yeah, I think the average person is already screwed, and doesn't care because it's comfortable enough. Maybe the Amish will see an uptick in converts but I doubt it.

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I want to point out, because some of the other sib comments miss it, my gripe isn't so much with one clueless tourist snapping photos, it's that his camera is connected to the world-wide internet and all that entails. For all I know the video has been seen by millions of people by now, eh? Keeping chickens in the city isn't illegal but I don't want to attract attention. (They're not supposed to be on the front lawn, they got out of their run.)
I like the go way: import a url. If you want to alias the namespace however you want afterward then that's your problem. It doesn't solve every single security issues, obviously. But at the very least the source of the code is more transparent.

Second option: signed packages. A warning when a package is not digitally signed.

Finally, a package repository curated by whatever language foundation. But then we are getting close to OS wide native package management...

But at the very least namespace+package name should be the norm for every single package manager out there. instead of just a package name.

So it should be "pip install code.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup", not just "pip install beautifulsoup4", if it's not possible already. And then

import "code.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup" as beautifulsoup

in the code.
I've seen the guts of a few major financial organizations, and there are some common themes regarding their infrastructures.

The one that really sticks out to me as an engineer is the fact that the whole system in most cases seems to be tied together by a fragile arrangement of 100+ different vendors' systems & middleware that were each tailored to fit specific audit items that cropped up over the years.

Individually, all of these components have highly-available assurances up and down their contracts, but combine all these durable components together haphazardly and you get emergent properties that no one person or vendor can account for comprehensively.

When the article says a full reset entails killing the power and restarting, this is my actual experience. These complex leviathans have to be brought up in a special snowflake sequence or your infra state machine gets fucked up and you have to start all over. When dependency chains are 10+ systems long and part of a complex web of other dependency chains it starts to get hopeless pretty quickly.
Intra-system shouldn't be too hard with today's technology. NASA has highly accurate models that could run on a computer that tracks the ship's movement using similar parameters to the calculations they do for space flight today. So instead of GPS satellites you could rely on internal systems. If everyone is calibrated the same, then the results/coordinates should be sufficiently accurate.

Inter-system will be very difficult. If you're talking full universe, then you would need to map the universe. If possible, picking a stationary reference to use as the core of the navigation coordinates would be good, but I wouldn't hold my breath since everything is moving. Otherwise we could use the reference we know the most about - earth. This could work, but would require extensive mapping and testing since at the further distances we would essentially be calculating our trip to where a planet will be based on where it was given that they light we use to observe it took so long to get here.

So really, mapping is the big deal and there's no way of knowing if the greatly distant object we are travelling to is in the place we expect it to be, or if it even still exists today (the light is so "old"). It's a very interesting problem. One I probably will never live to see the answer to.
> If a country has figured out how to provide for its people w/o jobs, so what?

Except no country has done that yet. We are far from full automation and most of the structural unemployment is due to emerging differential between labor demand and existing labor supply, not because we are in a state to provide everyone everything they want.

Also I want you to consider that a vocation is not only about covering one's needs, but also about our need to do something that matters for other people, with other people, to feel useful (vocation = calling). There is only so much need for every unemployed person doing arts and crafts, or another youtube channel to watch gadgets shredded in blenders or mentos put into a swimming pool full of coke. We deep down desire to do things that really matter, really meaningful.

> "Living with their parents" - Again, so what?

There is "living with parents because I value kin work and kin relationships" and there is "living with parents because I need to financially and psychologically". Meaningful participation in society requires having a degree of autonomy, individuation and agency. I would push even further; freedom from serious mental health problems, societally and individually, requires those. This is not an advocacy of hyperindividualism, it is about healthy ego-separation and self-actualization, which counter-intuitively also helps with social cohesion because it prevents ressentiment.
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Smartphone emphasize efficiency. Most of them are computer vision that Convolution-based algorithms is powerful enough to be the general algorithm that any asic vendors can target. And that is also a highly mature and established market.

They often have similar architecture in terms of the execution workflow, but added NN-flavored instruction units and instructions. That drives down cost and makes them easier to program with.

Drone, they are more energy limited than smartphone, as the propulsion system consumes more energy. Inference throughput seems a secondary problem to drones.
I think it's "monolith".
Just like Chernobyl.
I don't understand the threats, risk, or solution here.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Remote: Remote only. I've been remote contracting for years, and accustomed to working in distributed teams both locally and in timezones around the world.

Willing to relocate: No. I know when I've got it good!

Technologies: The usual web stuff: Node, React, TypeScript, React Native, GraphQL, Postgres, Docker, Linux, AWS etc. However I cut my teeth on statically-typed compiled languages like C++ when I was younger, and I'm writing Rust on the side. Have worked with Python in the past. Would love the chance to skill up in some system-level work if the opportunity presents itself.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/richchurcher/cv/raw/master/Rich_Churcher_...

Email: rich.churcher@gmail.com

Right now I'm contracting and writing quite a lot of SQL. I'm interested in remote opportunities anywhere in the world, either contract or permanent. If you're worried about the timezone, it actually ties in rather well with the US (I'm just a day in the future, so I can tell you how it all turns out).
I believe this is how many companies get started. You consult a lawyer, build things in your free time, then rent it back to your old employer as a SaaS and maybe give them 10% off for being your first customer.

So companies are effectively driving their employees towards creating future competition, as that seems to be the only way left for inventors to capture the value they create.
Hi! Thanks for the question.

I haven’t written anything, or really thought this far ahead yet. But $4/pound is close to what they sell greenhouse grown tomatoes for, and their yield/sqft is likely similar to what I could get. I do not suspect that the greenhouse will be located in wine country, as land is too expensive there.
Telegraphy was invented in the late 18th century and electric telegraphy in the 19th.
I see what you're getting at. Yes, a ) is needed... eventually. I think the key with "loose" is that it's forgiving. You won't encounter many syntax errors in average programming because the syntax has few rules. In that case, "very simple" would be better said than "loose".
Yes, I meant Yubikey's TOTP with PayPal where the secret is in the hardware.

They should ideally support >1 TOTP authenticator if they don't intend to support U2F.

I don't want SMS as a backup option; I have deprecated SMS, it's old tech and needs to die along with telegrams.
> Further, such an influx would have knock-on effects on unrelated patients, whose care would suffer due to the severe lack of resources.

Hypothetically, let's assume over a long period of time new devices are alerting users to possible medical conditions. Those appointments are paid for (I'm guessing). Will that money not fund more availability over time? The supply of doctors is not supposed to be fixed.
I agree.

Choices are like wealth/money. You need to build it up before you can use them (practically).

Some people are born with / work their way to / create the bank of choices for themselves. Others find themselves down roads where they don't have the money/bank of credibility, experience to make choices freely.

The wealthy often think that everyone has the same choices as they do. As if it were just like the amount of $ they do.

You might have choices, but to use them you need to create the margin for yourself to do so.
You project a lot of problems onto people who provide their pronouns in their user descriptions.

Not everyone is American, and not all issues are about American politics.

I find it interesting how much emphasis has been placed on an afterthought that I edited in. A lot of really emotional reactions like yours. I described it as a beneficial side effect and suddenly the whole conversation is about "evil trans people" and "bad liberals".

Having your pronouns available is beneficial to more than just trans people. It benefits everyone, avoids mistakes and makes conversations more accurate. It also breaks the myth that there are no women online and that there are no computer-savvy women. It also brings visibility to non-binary people who are otherwise invisible.
Oh, but they are miracle devices, and were considered as such initially. But the difference between them and the hypothetical miracle device is accessibility. MRIs and CT scans are not something you can use to casually test half of the country's population.
don't know why people are down-voting you. but a simple case would be if people look at weWork's founder. adam simply borrowed money from the bank using weWork shares as collateral. then he used the borrowed money to buy more buildings, lease the buildings back to weWork. weWork valuation goes up. then borrows more money from the bank. that's the modern economy these days. and yeah if you ain't moneyed you can't compete. selling widgets ain't enough.
Is your company prepared for the great remote work experiment?
The cost appears to be higher to cover the development/systems cost for the app?
I feel like "traits" is just one particular feature, which by itself is not a good proxy for whether php is modern

Disclaimer: am mediawiki dev. No opinion on if the codebase is "modern" because everyone defines that differently.
I use pelican-katex plugin to render math once during website generation, and then not have to load the katex.js file at all. Only a katex.css file and fonts loaded from my own server.

https://github.com/cqql/pelican-katex
No they do not
Is there a way to shield/block the antenna without the Check Engine light coming on?
Maybe you've answered this but how is running powerful indoor grow lights which use lots of electricity rather than relying on sunlight "sustainable"?
Unless something has changed, he is in the camp of people like t' Hooft that claim QM is really an approximation to underlying classical/deterministic/superdeterminism.

And while that is possible, the trade-offs are usually far worse or harder to explain than the baggage QM brings. Or just based on an incorrect understanding of QM

Here is one breakdown: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0206089.pdf
And there are actual real deaths from undertreatment. You don't have any reported reason to believe that anyone is dying because of their Apple watch reports.
It also allow people who are not comfortable using "they/them" to know what to use.
Compared to something like Slack or Office 365 products it could as well be carved in stone. I'm guessing 99+ % of requests are non-authenticated, the data is easy to cache and freshness (on the timescale of minutes or hours) is almost worthless.

Even something as simple as HN probably have much much lower value of "usefulness if the service is served completely static from caches", due to upvotes and comments. If the front-page and comments stayed static both during breakfast and lunch, my WFH routine would sadly be impacted...
I'd argue that it depends on the incursion.

The federal government has it's hands in every state. Most states seem to resist one or more of those programs/directives. It's based on the state government's disposition which was chosen by the people. This is most evident in divisive topics like gun control and abortion.
I think the grandparent means the new version in 1.35 where the backend should just "work" (i think it is out of beta now)
Please see my response to metanoia! I addressed this there.
That really does sound like ideology cloaked in common sense. Demand for great healthcare is already essentially infinite no matter what new technology comes along, and we need a sane way to deal with that. Pointing fingers at the demand side is a common diversionary tactic.
Wait - but if I'm reading the article correctly, it's not the case that all these people are flooding the ER, requiring urgent care. An alert pops up, a person is concerned, they decide to schedule a visit to their doctor.

If the healthcare system - paid healthcare system - can't handle a slow baseline increase in non-emergency visits, then something is seriously wrong with this picture.
Here in southern Germany the checkouts are always very slow and crowded and always understaffed. Basically a normal situation is to have 20ppl wait for a single checkout. Then they begrudgingly open another, take 5 customers and close it again only to have the same thing repeat. I'd be happy to even pay extra just to have access to a speedier checkout self serviced or not and not have to waste half of my day waiting for this world's worst service.
I've had a very similar experience when I was alone, where I sat across from myself on four seats at my kitchen table. I played a game of cards with myself for what felt like an hour, repeating each play from the vantage point of my other selves.

I have absolutely no rational explanation for how I could have imagined this or what phenomena made it take place. The only explanation I can really believe is that I somehow was able to see between the cosmic fabric that separates the multiverses.
The problem isn't job or jobless, it's the lack of social validation and self actualization.

People don't want to stay home and play video games all day. They want to be able to create, or master some sort of skills.
I know of one other non-mainstream explanation from Max Tegmark: the mathematical universe hypothesis says reality is actually mathematics.

I'm not sure your explanation is an alternative explanation of what reality is. You've laid out some characteristics and consequences, but haven't described what's at the bottom of it.

I've heard that matter is a consequence of quantum field excitations, but what is a field? From the little bit I've read it sounds like mathematics again.
I think context is really key here. A friend (who is a descendant of slaves) once told me that one reason hairstyles in particular are are such a sensitive subject, they were literally the only piece of culture/heritage people were able to bring with them on slave ships.

When families were ripped apart it it was a connection/ritual they could hold onto no matter what. Fast forward to the recent past and black people are still discriminated against because of their hairstyles. Some progress has been made in the past decade[0] but black women are still told their natural hair is unprofessional or unattractive and they are required to spend large amounts of $$, time and pain (styling techniques often require high heat/caustic chemicals) in order to be acceptable to corporate America.

Can you imagine the frustration of then watching wealthy white women be celebrated/complimented for adopting these hairstyles? One of the only cultural links you have to your ancestors, hairstyles you've been discriminated against, punished, and harassed for wearing?

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/19/more-stat...
> A new device is created that alerts 50% of the US population that they have a condition that needs to be treated. Only 10% of those cases warranted further action.

This just improved the lives of 16 million people. That is not insignificant. And that's assuming 16 million people would have the same condition.

This also might be underestimating the number of false positives doctors already deal with and that these devices may actually lower that number.
> but whose predictions aren’t testable?

Until we can test it, we should avoid calling it a theory.

In the meantime develop it until we can test it. We continue observing until we find something that isn't quite right.
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I’m not making any claim about what the Apple Watch detects, or where we are w.r.t. detecting abnormalities in heart rate/rhythm/…, but the better our measurements get, the less serious the average detected abnormality will get.

In this case, all we know is they had they had a “clinically actionable cardiovascular diagnosis”. That action might have saved lives or might have added a few healthy months to the lives of a few, at the cost of requiring 20 to undergo treatment, spend time waiting for treatment, be worried, etc.

There can be a point where the cost and risks of testing people we can’t make healthier (either because they aren’t ill or because they are, but no effective treatment exists) outweighs the gains made by treating people we can treat.

That’s what the article being discussed, IMO rightfully, tries to measure.
My GP is an “old school” family doctor in a small town. I’ve had similar inquiries in the past, and just scheduled an appointment with his receptionist. She had me describe the concern, his nurse - an NP, I think - approved the tests and the results were discussed at my next scheduled checkup. The actual physician had maybe an added couple of minutes demand on his time to view the results.

I don’t think this is anywhere near enough of an impact in terms of “false positives” to be a net negative.
> So one of the ways I have slowly begun making my life work is by walking away from a zillion opportunities to be a chump and be helpful to people who will never, ever, ever, ever do a fucking thing in return for me.

I really hate this, and it's so stupidly common.

I constantly hear "How can I get so-and-so to do X?" and my response is almost always "Did you think about paying him money?"

And, when I deal with artists, it's sad how little money it takes to actually get the attention of people who are world-class but not celebrity famous.

I once had a discussion with one about why he was wasting time dealing with me (who will never be world class on my musical instrument) and he confided that I was the only person to actually pay him any money in the last month and a half.

I was completely shocked and appalled.
Broadly I agree, but as a South African currently sitting in the economic capital of the country: The article is way off, with a mostly rubbish conclusion(edit).

What happened to us started long, long before the collapse of SARS (our tax agency).

The collapse of SARS was the result of corruption, not the catalyst.

It wasn't the SARS reshuffle that bled a few percentage of our GDP into the hands of private individuals. It wasn't SARS who funneled that money out of the country (almost certainly HSBC). It's not SARS that is refusing to attend court dates for a criminal trial into the matter. It was a long, well planned and well executed hijacking of social structure and just jaw dropping corruption.

That Zuma dodged tax responsibilities is nowhere near as problematic as the arms deal [0], or state capture [1]

The New York Times completely misses the point with this article.

CORRUPTION is the root of collapse of a system of governance. A better argument to make here is that the IRS's woes are a red flag that should be jumped on. Trump hasn't paid much tax (like Zuma) and the Church of Scientology straight up bullied the IRS into submission.

Those are 2 very concerning thoughts.

To reword my argument: Tax colletion becoming compromised is the result of a larger societal impact from corruption upstream.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Arms_Deal

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capture
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