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>> 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.

> To what end?

To the end that you can get your house built on a schedule that you want. A neighbour is a general contractor who has a good reputation: he, and the specialty teams he uses, are booked at least a year out.

This isn't too say we shouldn't train more skilled trades, but having a spectrum of of people available helps those you can't afford to pay top dollar for top talent to also get quality results.

It should also be noted that not everyone is gifted enough to be a top or even decent trade, yet we want as many people as possible to be productively employed. There will some percentage of the population that may be most productive simply following what the computer tells them to do:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnnwJi40Wzo

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl3_bo-XWGQ
This is a very interesting article and I think it points to the main reason its so important to reach the winners:

> If, like Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), you live in California and the call comes, unanswered, in the middle of the night, then it could be the television news vans outside your house that alert you of your prize.
Your calculation doesn't count for insurance, tax, maintenance and fuel. That being said, I consider nearly 2 hours a day spent in a car to be a massive amount of time and would definitely want to have my own car if that was the case.

Then again I used to walk to school and today I walk or cycle to most places. I wouldn't be able to do that if I was living in one of those US suburbs.
Good Question:
ssivark 2 hours ago [–]

Is it even meaningful for a company to be valued at ~$30B if it cannot guarantee survival & stability? In what sense of reality is this a “unicorn”?

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Fed is printing infinite money

So $30 billion is not $30 billion

AirBnB offers the potential of high upside

Do you park your 'free, Feb printed money' in the bank, and then at some point its value is less than it started

Or do you park it in AirBnB or another IPO, where it might go to zero, or it might go ten times

Everywhere IPOs are booming. Because money is being printed and there is nowhere for it to go for a good return
I live in Melbourne, Australia. Whilst I understand the reasons and generally approve of our COVID-19 response, a side-effect is that any activities outside of 5km from one's home have been banned for the last three months (and with about a two week break in the middle, effectively the last six months.) Riding a motorbike within that 5km radius is not considered exercise, which is otherwise permitted. Net result - no riding for me... :-(

I miss exactly what you're describing. It's amazing how much solo time on a bike clears my head!
As an example, torrents are not particularly vulnerable to ddos. The Internet isn't vulnerable to it as a whole, just specific endpoints.

I'm not sure this is fixable for single endpoints: if you want to tell everyone something different, but there are millions coming per second, you're not going to succeed, be it in real life or a webserver.

So the answer seems to be: avoid centralizing too much, and pick existing, DDOS-resistant protocols whenever you can.
First Nintendo 64 Game Jam
> we should begin with elimination of single-zoned tracts of land

Not everyone's needs and preferences are the same. It's great that your city meets your needs and preferences. That doesn't give you the right to impose your preferred solution on everybody else.
It sounds like they were trying to build a Buick on the Ford Model T assembly line.
I'd argue that even as engineer 2, or VP of whatever, you're still replaceable.

Outside whatever thin veil of prestige your job offers you, the larger world couldn't care less about what you do or what you make.
We are at 2nd one actually, with their WSL. I keep telling people that right there is a move to migrate developers from Linux to Windows but every time I do that they downvote and disagree.
This is fluff
I'm sure that's unintentional - don't blame the university, but I'm sure Nest and Ring anticipated their network of cameras worldwide to generate enough notable videos of unusual or funny antics that would be shared, so they shove their logo on their videos.

Some people claim you can have the watermarked logo removed but you have to contact Google/Nest directly. I'm going to do that right now (I have 5 cameras... which I bought a week before Google announced they were locking-down the Nest ecosystem and web-service, so I now refuse to buy any more Nest products and I recommend Ubiqiti gear instead now - Ubiqiti have everything Nest does except a thermostat and smoke detector (but they do have a temperature sensor product ("mFI-THS") - and an adapter to bridge any RS-232 connected device ("mPort"), so you could attach an RS-232 controllable thermostat that way - it just wouldn't be as sexy as Nest's giant metal knob).
I would gladly take a roman bathroom over what I had at the office. I have no shame about the act, merely hate having to hold it in during a long meeting because there was a line for the bathrooms before hand.

Oddly enough, I think the shift to open offices deserves at least some credit here. I think most office spaces were designed with a median estimate of occupancy in mind. Before open offices, it was a mix of offices and cubicles, with much less density. When I worked in a cube farm, we had 4 stalls and 2 urinals for about 60-70 men on two floors. My most recent office had 2 single occupancy bathrooms for about 40 people. If we count the urinal as 0.5 toilet, we get almost double the per-bathroom density in the open office.

And the other confounding factor is when you combine open offices with cell phones, the bathroom turns into the 'Candy Crush break'. I imagine median occupancy times were lower back in the day, as lugging a newspaper or magazine to the bathroom was a little too obvious.
I don't know where this advice comes from. If this can be advice to your young self, good luck with your young self.

Do you know how many successful startups come from side projects? To some extent, a large number of startups are from "side projects":

If a college student starts a company when they are at school, by definition, that's pretty much their side project from the beginning, because their main job is to study and get degree at school. Those are side projects. Zuckerberg stole the FB idea from his side project.

Look at how many successful people quit their jobs and then started their successful companies. You think they all really quit their jobs first and then begin to work on the startup they founded? Come on, very few of them have this clean start. Even if they are on paper looking clean, there are overlaps. Those are side projects, side ideas.
The author's ultimate solution of "use OSX/iOS shortcuts for every word to speed up your typing" is pretty wild.

I could imagine myself using this method when I think about the _tens of minutes_ of my life I've probably saved now by just making "@@" a shortcut for my email address.

Unfortunately, like Dvorak, which the author also proposes, it has the "doesn't work on my friend's computer" problem. Although, maybe a little easier to untrain your fingers from than Dvorak...
People do amoral stuff all the time, even those who claim they have high morals.

What most morals are is boils down to what behavior is acceptable and beneficial or to be more exact the set of incentives and repercussions that society enforces.

No one can really argue that downloading a movie or a songs is an objectively moral act, however most people can easily justify it as a victimless crime, some even justify it by claiming that the entertainment industry itself is immoral.

What you essentially have is people with targets and an incentive structure that is misaligned with what you or society at large consider to be moral.

If a business can make a large sum of money by doing something against the rules and the punishment is smaller than the profits it will essentially always lead to “amoral” behavior.
^ Same. The last time I was out of work my wife was asking why I wasn't pounding the pavement sending out tons of cover letters and resumes and the like. I told her that in the 21 years I've been working, I've not gotten a single job via that route. It's always been networking. At some point about 10-15 years ago I just stopped even bothering with a resume at all. If I can't get in front of a decision maker, I don't consider it a viable opportunity. In contrast, About 75% of the time I've been able to speak directly to a department head, manager, or C-suite executive I've been hired on the back of a 30-45 minute conversation. I'll take a 3 out of 4 hit rate on a pair of conversations over sending out dozens of customized cover letters and resumes any day of the week.
> They also want the best of class software.

That's exactly what I doubt (again - professionals and semi-pros aside).

People associate video editing with Final Cut Pro or Premiere. Image editing? Photoshop! Recording, editing and mixing - Pro Logic or Cubase of course!

Is it because the vast majority of hobbyists and occasional users need the features these packages offer? No! It's because "the pros" use it and therefore it has to be good and what I need. It's because these are names that pop up when I search the internet. It's because that's what the tutorials on YT use.

Nobody needs Photoshop to crop an image, to do some quick colour correction, make a collage or a meme.

You don't need Pro Logic to do a podcast or edit a recording of your daughter's garage band.

Premiere and AfterEffects are overkill times 20 for editing the footage of your brother's wedding shot on a variety of smartphones, etc.

Sure, some users may want move on from the likes of Kdenlive, Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Ardour or Reaper at some point. For the average user, however, lack of functionality or workflow support is not the problem.
Proving that you can be a Nobel laureate, and still dumb enough to have a telescreen in your home.
Trying to debunk this demagoguery is a waste of time. I'll continue being part of the Linux gaming market, and you can claim that it doesn't exist, while whitewashing anti-competitive behavior of MS and the like.

That's totally going to convince anyone who can look at actual stores that sell Linux games which supposedly shouldn't exist according to Linux deniers.
The problem for me is rarely typing speed, unless if I'm transcribing something.

No, the bandwidth chokepoint is organizing thoughts, and those thoughts into sentences (or into code snippets).

It is always nice to be able to express things as quickly as possible, but I'm not sure how much this might actually speed someone up (practically) past a certain threshold (say, 70wpm). The biggest thing that comes to mind might only be accuracy, which can boost output.
Wait until you get to work with the CDK, it's worse.
This should solve one of the problems Uber had with PostgreSQL
reported by Christophe Pettus back in 2017[1].

1- https://thebuild.com/presentations/uber-perconalive-2017.pdf

Previous discussion from 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16526623
The thread says:

The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night. When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. She got to watch live as Wilson told Milgrom he'd won the #NobelPrize.

The most funny comment on it, in my opinion is:

- Knock, knock

- Who’s there?

- Nobel

- Nobel who?

- No bell - that’s why I knocked.
I think side projects have become a casualty of Goodhart's law, they stopped being a very good metric for hiring as people started gaming the recruitment system and building side projects that were really showpieces. But a genuine curiosity for technology outside work is still a very valuable attribute I think.
ah sorry I read the whole thing in a sarcastic voice
Here in the Metamath proof verification system:
http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/1p1e2.html

More interestingly, 2+2=4: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/2p2e4.html

(also have a look at the trivia: http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmset.html#trivia !)
> Isn't there some sort of security built-in, like "if suddenly the bill becomes 1500% the norm, kill the instance and start serving 404s"?

How about we call it auto-snailing. "I wanted to grow fast, but not THAT fast! Slow it down there buddy."
No offense taken! I have narcolepsy, which means attending a 9-5 job is difficult. I woke up at 2pm today, for example.

It’s an advantage to conceal that fact, and the one company I did disclose it to, fired me about a month later. For completely unrelated reasons that totally didn’t violate any disabilities laws, of course /s.

It was also partly my own fault, but in hindsight I wasn’t able to recover until I even understood what was happening. I wrote a bit about it several years ago, shortly after being diagnosed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984478

So my career progression has been more of a stochastic random walk. And I’m fine with that. :) Ended up being able to contribute one or two things to the ML scene, which is all I really wanted anyway. Just a scientist at heart, I suppose.

There’s nothing wrong with being used, and using someone, by the way, if it’s mutually beneficial. Aligned incentives are how society comes together.
You've got some good hair.
All this from the company where the default SSL option is "Make the user think they are accessing a secure website, then tunnel that data over the internet entirely unencrypted to the origin server"...

Oh, and we'll call it "Flexible SSL" so it doesn't sound so horrendously insecure...
They can do the same thing with fargate, and that’s tons easier to manage.
Also on Android!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.macrostrat...
Except some independents still have the latch which means you can fill and wash your windows at the same time.
3-ish weeks is what it takes to learn to touch-type in general, whatever layout. Put in the time and choose a layout to learn. Dworak is better if you are typing only english, there are other layouts for other languages. This is where it broke down for me, I can't learn several layouts depending on the language I want to type. And convincing some programs to use the dworak layout for hotkeys can be tricky too.
>I sense you've never been in a position where you have $3,000 in the bank, your wife is depending on you to get through college, and you have to get a job or you lose your apartment.

When I was at my lowest point I was delivering sushi rather than waiting for a job that would look good on a resume. Most of the people in desperate situations like that aren't (don't have time to be) padding their resume with side-projects, and therefore aren't the topic of the original argument.
> The Gateway machine was, for the most part, clean. It came with a Norton virus checker, but it was probably a good thing to keep.

_Ew_
I can't tell if the author sees it as a feature rather than a bug, but this basically describes the feudal system of land use, wherein the best areas are exclusively occupied by the priesthood, aristocracy, and their retainers, while the peasantry toils under their control outside the fortified walls.

That shouldn't be a surprise because the text in question was written nearly 2,000 years ago.

It's recommendations hold few lessons for the modern era except as a reminder of the inhumanity of the feudal system. Bear in mind that we only disposed of feudalism (though not completely) in the last few centuries.
A coworker had a similar story with his prefab.

After it was delivered (and it comes delivered with sheetrock walls, electrical, and subfloor), my coworker noticed that the the factory forgot a step: the plumbing. The builder had to rip out lots of the sheetrock and install plumbing.

Lots of mistakes occur while building a house. The difference is that when the workers are already in the field, it is generally quite inexpensive to identify and fix any problems. Not so for the prefab stuff.
There are "public cloud" providers? I thought all major providers were private for-profit entities.
when you win "Not a Nobel Prize" ...

https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
Yes. Rows are variable length. Think null values, strings, etc.

Only really large values that don't fit into a page are stored elsewhere, and only if they can't be compressed and made to fit. I think it's > 3kb. But I don't remember why that number comes to mind. Pages are 8kb.
It's in cloud vendor's interests to charge more money regardless of mistakes. They do offer charge limits, but they don't want you to use them.

There are lots of posts online that document "talk to amazon and they'll take out the extra charges" but there are even more cases where the people just pay the bill and thus amazon makes money and profit.
Okay, I removed that phrase, but what do you want me to say here? Entire disciplines have devoted decades of research into providing useful guarantees and yet you're here observing that no human could possibly prevent some disasters... and using that logic to just trash everything and everyone's associated work along the way. I mean, you're clearly technically right that there is no such thing as an absolute guarantee, but... what am I supposed to do with this assertion? Find it insightful? Give up on the notion of a guarantee? Declare everything is useless? What response were you hoping for that you're still not getting?
Hi-vis clothing for cyclists does not reduce number of crashes
We generally assume that an attacker with physical access is going to win, but there are limits on that - the usual assumption is that it's going to take some time, and potentially leave evidence that can be picked up with enough attention to detail (such as screws not being in precisely the same alignment). This attack violates all of that - there's no physical modification of the machine, and it takes under a minute. That's the difference between an attack where you know the machine has left your control for some time and an attack that can take place while you're momentarily distracted.

The lack of response to this from Apple is deeply disappointing. The attack isn't technically persistent - rebooting the T2 will clear it. But the T2 doesn't reboot when the host OS does, and Apple haven't published any guidance on how to guarantee that it has been (eg, does holding the power button down for long enough cut power to the T2? Does performing an SMC reset? Both seem to, but is that guaranteed to be the case if the T2 is running malicious code?). In addition, the Blackbird SEP exploit probably means that we have to assume that all secrets kept in the Secure Enclave can be stolen - but we don't have a full enumeration of what those typically are, or what the security impact of this is as a result.
like VIM commands, you can't expect yourself to read the manual and master them all on the first try. You add them as you find yourself frustrated with how inefficient an operation is. I suspect it's going to be something that you slowly add and improve overtime, and, likewise, prune as your vocabulary changes.
Not necessarily. After I discovered node/typescript I don’t think I will ever go back to PHP.
I've been following the situation in Hawaii too. It seems like it is a different situation from continental travel, since like many island nations, they shut down visitor arrivals and thus airline travel with the 14-day quarantine you mention. You can't do that at Tahoe or Mammoth. It seems like each island has different requirements now, or at least each island wants a stricter 3-day negative retesting protocol.

And the locals were really vigilant, they were reporting any quarantine breakers on Facebook and to local authorities. In some cases, people who refused to cooperate got flown back off the islands.

And from what I read, even though the local economies are decimated by the lack of tourist dollars, a lot of locals are really happy to not be overrun with tourists at their favorite beaches. There is also talk of less tourist numbers, to be made up for with higher value tourists--less budget options. I wonder if things will ever go back to what they were before, because a lot of people didn't like it before.
Tulip prices can only go up.

See also 1929, 2008, etc etc.
The author proposes that we're somehow blocked from success because we can't type fast enough. Is that true? I don't agree; in fact, I'd rather be concise and communicate well than vomit more words onto the screen.

Additionally, beyond Dvorak, is there a better way to increase typing speed than spending what must be hours and hours building a bespoke solution for each one of your machines? And what is the cost of the inevitable tsunami of errors you make in the learning process? Are these neural pathways more valuable than say, learning a new language or practicing a different skill?
Police exist (in theory) to enforce law. The military does not.

Edge cases like MPs and the Coast Guard exist, and some countries blur the line more than others. The Paris fire department, for example, is a military branch for historical reasons.
It's an aspect of someone's life that may mean better odds of making more money or pursuing some intellectual path. Your parents' degree does not prevent them from being shitty parents.
A lot of these DX (developer experience) concerns are, imo, rooted in what the article describes as "Vendor Lock".

Sure, you can write a bunch of tools to work around the crufty, terrible development environment's shortcomings. But ultimately, you are just locking yourself further & further & further in to the hostile, hard to work with environment, bending yourself into the bizarre abnormal geometry the serverless environment has demanded of you.

To me, as a developer who values being able to understand & comprehend & try, I would prefer staying far far far away from any serverless environment that is vendor locked. I would be willing & interested to try serverless environments that give me, the developer, the traditional great & vast powers of running as root locally that I expect. Short of a local dev environment, one meets both vendor lock in, & faces ongoing difficulties trying to understand what is happening, with what performance profiles/costs. I'd rather not invest my creativity & effort in trying to eek more & more signals out of the vendor's black box. Especially if trouble is knocking, then I would very much like to be able to fall back on the amazing toolkits I know & love.
>"I'd agree that it's stalled, but moreso out of fear and ignorance than anything else."

How about simple common sense instead of "fear and ignorance". I have a C++ monolith that serves me just fine already for years. The performance is great and I am able to rent dedicated servers that can serve at least 10 times more requests that I have at a price that is a tiny fraction of AWS for the same work.

Why would I switch and incure more expenses? What's the ROI?
Interestingly what ultimately sold me on a serverless deployment for one of our apps was security. When I compare the attack surface area of us deploying our own OS in the cloud vs just a handful of lambdas, it seems like a great way to let Amazon do the security work for us. If we were doing more in the cloud it may make sense for us to own that, but otherwise it would require us to spin up a whole set of dedicated devops just to maintain it and monitor it that we can avoid with serverless.
I'd argue, good (let's say) usability is about communicating the/a mental model via your interface. Is your interface up to it? Is the model stringent and concise enough to be communicated just by the arrangement of elements? It's a bit like world building.

(That's what Apple used to be particularly good at, once. I'd also argue, software has become quite bad at this, recently.)
Ursula K. Le Guin's Essay 'The Operating Instructions'