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Directed by John Ford: 35 Movies, and a Lifetime, in One Weekend (1999)
Ah... I thought I was familiar with most Britishisms that would lead to this level of confusion, but definitely was not familiar with this one! That explains it, thanks.
Corn is any cereal grain used for food, e.g. wheat, rye or even (in parts of Scotland) oats, not specifically maize (aka corn on the cob).
Nobody hires directly for it but it is considered favourably. SIG also has Bill Chen heading stat arb. Most firms I know of have a reasonably vibrant poker culture internally.
Remember when you could just go to a website without being humiliated by cloudflare when you least expect?

They keep saying it all as if centralizing the internet around a single point of failure and letting it also see unencrypted data of millions of websites is a good thing. Maybe I'm too old, but I'm just not having it. That's not at all how the internet is supposed to work.
The guestroom/hotel thing misses one important point: The hotel is far away. Your guests have to leave you and get back to you at some point. Especially the leaving part might make it difficult to enjoy a shared dinner (when the guests have small kids).
All of the pictures are of very modern houses. I'd be fine with that, but my wife wouldn't. She prefers more of the Victorian/Queen Anne style of architecture. I wonder if there is a way they could design this system so that the innards are all the same but then you can put different shells around the innards so the home could look modern, craftsman, victorian, etc. Sort of like how you could have 10 cakes that are identical on the inside, but dramatically different on the outside from the frosting.

I've often compared HTML, CSS, JS to a house. HTML is the foundation, studs, joists, rafters, sheeting, subflooring, etc. JS is the wiring, plumbing, HVAC, etc. CSS is the paint, tiling, carpet, millwork, and other decorative elements. Maybe the prefab system can be the HTML and JS and then decorative elements can be layered on top to make it look like very different designs.
"Limited Programming Languages"

AWS Lambda can run all programming languages via layers.

Cloudflare Workers can run all programming languages that compile to WebAssembly.

"Vendor Lock"

True, but being locked into Kubetnetes isn't a cakewalk either.

"Performance"

Cold-starts aren't a thing for Cloudflare Workers and can be mitigated for AWS Lambda. AppSync and API Gateway don't even have them if you directly integrate with AWS services.

"You Can't Run Entire Applications"

You can and it has been done multiple times. Sure, you shouldn't blindly build everything with Lambda and API-Gateway without measuring. But many services, especially Cloudflare Workers are quite cheap.
I've been putting more and more effort into my side projects recently (all on GitHub). It's kept me sharp, passionate, always gives me something to optionally think about (e.g. when exercising), provides conversation pieces (with the right crowd of course), has taught me a whole bunch of new techniques and has kept me relevant in this fast moving industry.

My side projects include:

- An Air Quality Monitoring Dashboard

- A leaderboard app built with redis

- A WebGL globe to show live wikipedia edits

- A web service to scrape any number of GitHub stars from any number of people

- A node.js app which extracts 1 second of footage from your media library, and combines it into a '1 second everyday'-style video

- An audio reactive image slideshow from instagram selfies

- A visualisation dashboard to show stats about your blood from some diabetes bluetooth thingymajig

- 3D renders of popular logos, like the GitHub logo

- An Alfred workflow app to trim X seconds from the currently playing video from VLC

- A script which downloads the top 250 websites to your drive, so you can then run other scripts upon them, as often as you want, without getting blocked

- An augmented reality music website (where you can use the webcam to control audio)

I'm really grateful I'm able to do such things and have no intention of stopping.
Interestingly, there's very little discussion of the Transformer architecture aside from the known text implementations like AI Dungeon 2 (using GPT-2/GPT-3).

There's no mechanical restriction from using it on text only (with OpenAI's ImageGPT being an extreme example), and it will be interesting to see how/if it competes with LSTMs for nontext domains.
There was actual activism and political organizing that took place. Conscious and thought out attempts to change laws and society generally. It was not "one-on-one conversations" and much less millions of them. To large extend, issue was legal and it took Supreme Court decision. Those are not won by personal conversations, those require legal strategy, selection of the right case, right Supreme Court composition (e.g. picking right time) and so on.

The individual gay were not about to go out of closet unless it was safe to do or unless they had strong motivation to risk.
> recruiters are bottom-of-the-totem-pole, lowest-common-denominator, bottom-feeders

Recruiters are just people just doing their jobs. It's a shame that you've labelled a diverse group of people so heavy-handedly.
Presumably use them for AWS. Amazon bought part of the 18 block from MIT (another class A owner) awhile back and allocated the purchased IPs for that use.
Corporate networks weren't designed for working from home
Exactly, but a third party can't see that set from the cache, they see the union of every website recently visited. They would see hundreds of files from many websites and if only one of those uses one of the three files yours does, it's impossible to tell for sure without a file that isn't used anywhere else on the Web.
Your site uses A+B+C, site 2 uses A+D+E, site 3 uses B+F, site 4 uses C. The cache contents is A+B+C+D+E+F+... did the user visit your site?
It's like trying to get individual pictures out of a single piece of film that was exposed multiple times - you can make some guesses and rule some possibilities out, but nothing other than that will be conclusive.
I should have added “in Germany”. Of course it’s not outside my imagination, but I think the idea that freedoms without limits should exist is super misguided and one of the central flaws of American democracy.

It’s like allowing someone to claim something that is an absolute fact like the existence of the sun was a lie. But that’s ok because it doesn’t invalidate the unspeakable suffering of millions at the hands of industrialized slaughterers.

That’s also why the slippery slope doesn’t apply. The line is clear as can be.
Since this is the intended operation of a tamper induced security lock, I think "locked out" is much more accurate than "bricked" (at least according to the reddit thread).
Many flagship phones ship this way now, including everything current from Samsung and LG.
But remember the Microsoft loves Linux vision, and look at Azure, .NET Core, WSL2. Although unlikely, I can see that happening... Firefox and Chromium is different.
I have yet to see a human being thats happy about Microsoft edge that's getting shoved down his throat every other windows update. Or one that loves the way every mildly interesting aspect about vscode is proprietary. Or directx12, because why support vulkan when you can just continue locking as many programs to your platform as possible.

Also both telemetry and forced updates impose a giant problem for all administrators in every coporation i worked for since widows 10 was deployed, because they want to get rid of it from a security point of view but management refuses. A former colleague of mine quit his job because he couldn't handle the responsibility and had develeoped serious problems with sleep and general wellbeing
>The counterpoint to this is the amount of resumes I've had to read and subsequent interviews I've had to sit on from "seniors" or "principals" that they themselves haven't gone fully into the weeds on whatever technology they've been practicing for 10+ years. The amount is staggering.

You know this is a risk. If you went deep on something like Silverlight, you'd have just thrown away all that time. And then people will casually dismiss your 10 years away as not being relevant. And now you get to pick a new technology to maybe invest the next 10 years on, risking the same thing happening again. If a product dies, you go back to square one as a junior again on some new technology.

Picking a long-lasting technology is hard. You're predicting the future.

I'm really tired of people who think they have this industry figured out like it's easy to predict what will be around in 10 years so you can make safe choices about what to invest time into.
I think we need to differentiate between a "learning project" and a "side project." Those are two very different things, at least to me.

A learning project is a project you're doing with the express intent of learning a new technology. The focus is on the learning, not the delivered functionality.

A side project is a project you're doing for the community. It's a labor of love. The focus is on functionality and meeting the needs of your users, not learning technology. You may even be able to grow it into an actual business.

From a career perspective you want to focus on learning projects. As you've mentioned learning projects are very important for your continued learning. Side projects on the other hand have the risk of distracting you from your work and my advice would be to avoid them unless you're scratching your own itch or maybe even want to explore starting a side business.

Bottom line - be clear with yourself on what you're doing and why you're doing it.
> Consider Ubuntu with its snap store that can only be run by Canonical.

That's a Canonical thing, what other Linux vendor does this?

Distros have less lock-in than ever thanks to userland defragmentation.
From what company?
> This sickens me.

"Market-liberal party legally jostles for votes with welfare-liberal party in strongly welfare-liberal state, news at 11."
This part:

> The bricking shows that all these “smart” cars with remote software control are liable to hacking

No remote control or wireless communication was used here, so this can't provide evidence that it is liable to hacking.
Yeah, presumptuous, but based off of the words you chose to type - and continue to type.

Often, I find that discussion of "personal responsibility" often comes without a minimum of empathy or understanding. It is really easy to become comfortable with some things you buy regularly to be in your car, and really easy to forget that it is in your car. People forget things all the time. This is a common human error, and penalizing folks for life for a simple error seems harsh.

And sure, you can't speak on being homeless, but you can read about it and emphasize, at least. If anything, you can pretend you are planning on being homeless. Most of the stuff written won't enlighten you on being in a big city, and are written by folks that managed to come out the other side. Like this.
http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/2004/10/introduction-...
It's a good thing Steve Wozniak didn't get this advice (Woz created the Apple I as a side project while he was working for HP).
there's plenty of suggestions and there are companies / teams that adapt those suggestions. Just big companies and startups, and clueless management refuse to. I can't control how my company hires people but I can control how I interview internal candidates.
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That makes sense, but lists of links don't make good HN submissions, since there isn't much to discuss beyond the lowest common denominator of the items on the list. It's best to pick the most interesting element from the list and submit that—especially since HN is itself a list of links already. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

(yes, we always do that with x.0.0 version numbers)
Disney says its ‘primary focus’ for entertainment is streaming
> Our largest and most targeted cities (e.g. NYC, DC) absolutely should have dedicated heavy weapons troops on call to respond in real time to a terrorist attack.

Absolutely not. The military does not handle issues like this on US soil. (If you meant something else by "troops", please choose your words more carefully.)

I have zero confidence that, with such a force on standby all the time, departments will resist using that force for more mundane matters until it becomes routine.

> They've targeted huge international cities: DC, NYC, London, Paris, Mumbai. These are the kinds of targets (and the only kinds of targets) that plausibly need military-level policing on stand-by 24/7.

Would "military-level policing" have actually helped in any of these terrorist attacks? I fail to see how a tricked-out army would have stopped 9/11. I did a quick search for "terrorist attacks in washington dc", and nothing really came up, except for some theoretical worries and a few foiled plots, which clearly did not need "military-level policing" to deal with.

I'm really tired of how "oh my, terrorists!" is used as an excuse for domestic militarization and draconian domestic policy. The threat of terrorism in the US is hugely overblown, and traditional policing at the local and federal level is what we need to handle these sorts of things, by catching them during the planning phases. And with most terrorist attacks, if you get to a point where there's an active attack, it's too late to do all that much that's meaningful, and bringing in militarized units has just as much potential to make the situation worse. Sure, there are exceptions, but not enough to warrant militarized police on call 24/7.
What prevents someone from just BSin'g you in response to your questions? Code doesn't lie.
You can learn so very much about a person and build a highly accurate and surprisingly detailed "profile" of them from just the "metadata" of their calls and text messages [0].

They almost certainly already know where you live and whom you live with, where you work, where you shop for groceries and hang on, where you travel to on vacation, and so on.

For many years now, they've been capturing this "metadata" (at minimum) anyways -- to hand over to the U.S. Government on a daily basis -- so we really shouldn't be surprised that they decided to take advantage of that and use this information in any way that they can.

Personally, for quite a while now, my "default" has been to automatically assume that pretty much ANY data I provide to any company WILL be kept -- forever -- and used in absolutely any way whatsoever they they desire and/or for any purpose, including "sharing" it with any other company to be used in any way and for any purpose (and even if they aren't right now, that can change at any time).

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As an aside, Gen. Hayden (former DIRCIA/DIRNSA) testified that, "We kill people based on metadata".

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[0]: Additionally, any "missing pieces" of their profile of you can probably be "filled in", thanks to their access to your (Internet) data that also travels across their network. Of course, I'm sure they would NEVER do anything like that -- nor anything they might ever need "retroactive immunity" for!
I'm not sure if they are back from the brink ... global outlook for travel is looking grim for the next 2 years. I'd say 2022 Q1 is when you can look signs of being "back from the brink"

Claiming anything before that is ... unwise. I think this article is part of getting more money for Airbnb (promo and marketing wise) so they can try to live through 2021.
The trick is that the middle layer of N95 masks is an electret, a material that will hold an electric charge. It's the electrostatic equivalent of a permanent magnet. It's not a very strong charge, but it's enough to pull particles a few microns out of line and catch them in the filter.[1]

It's a mini version of an electrostatic precipitator, which has a coarse charged mesh and a strong charge. Those are good for pulling particles out of air.

If you want to test this, there are standard "fit test kits" for respirators. They're little packets of scented smoke particles. You put on the mask, break the ampule to let the smoke out, and if you can smell it, the respirator isn't working, or, more likely, is leaking.

[1] https://youtu.be/426IpWoEQsc
GMT = Greenwich Mean Time, not Meridian Time.

It's the "Mean Solar Time[1]" at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, not the legal time observed there.

The legal time switches back and forth between GMT and BST, but the mean solar time doesn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time#Mean_solar_time
~1k people/sq mi is not "very rural"
> The 0.59% figure is nonsense

Do you have a better source on the scale of Steam that can represent a accurate market share for Linux desktop? I'm willing to wager money this number is pretty close to accurate.
K8s can go almost anywhere any
time with fairly minimal ramp. With the frequency I am hearing about AWS billing disputes these days it's probably best to not seal the keys to your kingdom in their service.
A checklist is quite a bit different from a textbook
> I'm not against serverless solutions per se. I promise. It's just that developers should realize – especially if they are exploring serverless models for the first time – that this technology is not a straight replacement for servers.

Ha. So the name didn't give that away then?

In all seriousness though, I think another avenue for serverless to still explore seriously is declarative application definitions rather than just functions/runtime as a service. Hasura[0] are doing this with GraphQL but I think we'll soon seen (are already seeing?) a surge in these kinds of cloud abstractions that do much more for you than a simple on-demand runtime ever could.

[0] - https://hasura.io/
There is one company in the USA that is trying this but China and Germany seem to be leading in pre-fab.
Are there any Life patterns that have unbounded quadratic growth?
I split time between a successful side project and early Twitter, both at around 30 hours a week, with spikes up to 50hrs.

While they both netted positive outcomes for me, if I had gone all-in on either one, I think I would have had an order-of-magnitude better outcome. Splitting my attention cost me serious advancement & money at both.
I'd do the same if parking here wasn't 100$ a month.
Thanks to both you and coddingtonbear for the clarification. I updated the English and Simple English Wikipedia pages to refer to "grain" instead of "corn."
Checklist, sure.

Textbook, no.
The police in Atlanta, collectively, made a point to hit home how OK it was and how any else of them would do the same thing, with police management saying such under oath during her trial.

They don't get a "only once" pass under those circumstances.
One big area where modular prefab can potentially make a difference is by reducing the need for skilled tradesmen, particularly electricians, plumbers and HVAC techs.

In most growing American metros, a major constraining factor on housing supply is the lack of these skilled tradesmen. In contrast, drywall, painting, and landscaping tend to be lower-skilled and easier to draw from the general labor pool.

You can have a high-productivity manufacturing center start with a pre-fab "core" built out of a modular shipping container, and pre-fab roof trusses. In parallel, you prep the site including any lot development and laying the concrete foundation. You then install the core and trusses on site, and can finish up the drywall and paining very quickly.

The core contains all the complex plumbing, electrical work, HVAC and kitchen work. The finished house looks indistinguishable from regular construction, and you can stand up single family homes or duplexes in under two months.
I'm an optimist -- I think with the arrival of multiple vaccines of varying efficacies, potentially needing to be "boosted" or recalibrated at varying frequencies, coupled with cheap/fast/accurate tests and a supply chain that can keep up, I'm confident we can get to a state which resembled the previous in at least a few important ways: social interaction is sufficiently derisked that social gatherings can resume, travel will pick up again, large gathering places like schools can go back to in-person if not at 100% capacity, then maybe at 80-90%. WFH will likely persist.

I personally miss going to conferences.

It won't be the same (no period is ever exactly the same as some period in the past), but it will have some of the same qualities as the world in 2019. That's my hope.
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tbh I suspect it's at a fairly reasonable effort/reward point for them. There's so little you can factually learn from a short glance that confidence will always be low, and there are so many applicants (because applying is super low cost) that spending sufficient time to get a clearer answer is not worthwhile.

There probably are some high-quality-only recruiter groups out there, but they're not what most companies use. Which is probably why referrals are so valued in many places.
It costs more than it is worth to have them do better. As a framer is takes me a couple minutes more to compensate. To have the do it would take hours of labor.
Computer Science has nothing to do with computers, and for the most part, is no more science than mathematics. Computer Science is not programming, but instead a subset of mathematics. A computer is to a computer scientist what a telescope is to an astronomer. Software Engineering is programming (though maybe the reverse is not true), and though many will insist that it is, I fail to see how it can be engineering unless a hair styist is also a hair style engineer.
"In the case of COVID, why can't individuals choose goals for themselves?"

In case of driving, why can't individuals choose which side of the road to use for themselves?

"while assisting those who want to prioritize virus avoidance (e.g. subsidized food delivery services for the elderly, a modest stipend for those who want to avoid the workplace for a while, etc."

Who is going to pay for that? Those who are maintaining their personal liberties? Keep in mind that the poorer parts of the community are impacted worse by both COVID and the economy.

In a situation where a large part of the population is "taking their chances", those who "want to prioritize virus avoidance" must avoid all contact with others. That's quite a different trade off than handwashing, masks, and social distance.
POSIX's atomicity guarantees relate to a running system; durability is about systems that are shut down (possibly unexpected and in an uncontrolled manner). POSIX is carefully worded to not give any durability guarantees. Naturally, writes are generally not atomic w.r.t. unexpected system maintenance and there are no ordering guarantees at all unless you give ordering hints (like fsync/fdatasync/sync_file_range) yourself, which the system (kernel, filesystem, hardware) may or may not honor.
Serverless is the new microservice. Fortunately, for the most part it’s fallen flat on its face and for good reason - most companies don’t need it: it adds unnecessary complexity for minimal gains.
We had a frank conversation with the builder about costs, as well as what was and wasn't worth fighting over. Some items were able to be repaired without impacting the budget by subcontractors that were already coming in to do other things. Other things we didn't care enough about to make a fuss over (like the roof line not matching up right on the back side of the house, where no one will ever notice). Some things we asked her to fix at her expense.

We were very aware that big projects, be they software or home construction, don't ever go perfectly, so we made a conscious effort to stay calm and solution-oriented through the entire multi-year process. We came in very slightly under budget, and things that need to get addressed are getting addressed, whereas a lawsuit would have turned things adversarial very quickly.