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Quote the original piece:

> "In your first six months, you’re gonna be useless anyways. You’re going to be drowning in new information and context and it’ll take you a few months to learn how to swim."

Useless is their word here, and the way they continue to describe it gives the same impression.

I'm in agreement that knowing how organizations work takes time and experience, but six months is indicative of a larger problem in the org. Brevity and succinct, digestive philosophy is valuable. If you can't at least communicate a good outline to new hires in a month or two, something has gone wrong. The minutiae of course will take far longer than 6 months in total, but you should be able to "swim" by then, just not as fast as a 2-4 year vet.
I don't see any evidence that that explanation wasn't considered. What I do see is cautious scientific skepticism and a willingness to investigate the truth and take all evidence into account instead of jumping to a politically-correct conclusion.
Surely, where we have no other alternatives, as with hydrogen, we must push forward no matter the cost.

Nuclear is not on the critical path, as we have several alternative paths that reach the same carbon neutral end result. They will do this so with less cost than nuclear, by nearly all accounts (but not all accounts. However it seems quite likely to me that climate scientists will change their opinion as they revise the costs of nuclear to incorporate modern construction attempts.)

Why are we to choose the more expensive option? Simply because we like nuclear and want to subsidize it more than other clean energy sources? What good comes from nuclear's extra expense?
Sweden's approach may have been a good idea for Sweden, but it wasn't directly applicable everywhere.
Still, they did, and currently do, worse than their neighbours[0][1].

[0] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/situation-updates/wee...

[1] saved image in case it changes https://imgur.com/a/bVtvv92
The most important factor is how well you protect the elderly and in particularly nursing homes. Sweden did a relatively poor job at that in the beginning. New York did a very poor job at that. Strict lockdowns don't seem to help. In fact, some of the places with the strictest lockdowns have the largest numbers of deaths (UK, France, Italy...)
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Kafka and SNS only conceptually intersect, SNS is more for intra-service and endpoint notification at huge scale (millions of subscribers) and is directly integrated into a variety of AWS services (e.g. S3 event notifications). You can set up a topic, subscribe a customer via SMS and send a message in just a few lines of python:

$ python3
>>> import boto3
>>> sns=boto3.client('sns')
>>> sns.create_topic(Name='DopeService')
>>> sns.subscribe(TopicArn='arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxx:DopeService',Protocol='sms',Endpoint='+18008675309')
>>> ...<repeat for other SMS #'s>...
>>> sns.publish(TopicArn='arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxx:DopeService',Message='sup')

If you're a masochist you can have Amazon notify everyone on the topic every time someone uploads to your bucket

>>> sns.set_topic_attributes(TopicArn='arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxxx:DopeService',AttributeName='Policy',AttributeValue='<policy>')
>>> s3.put_bucket_notification_configuration(Bucket='dopebucket',NotificationConfiguration={<notification config>})

You send directly to HTTP/HTTPS service endpoints, other SNS topics, Lambdas, SQS queues and mobile app push notifications. SNS is more about signaling than a raw message pipe. Relative to Kafka it's basically apples and oranges.
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You need to compare relatively similar countries to verify how successful their strategy was vs differences in population demographics etc from playing a role. As such Sweden vs Norway shows how Sweden failed from a public health standpoint, but both countries had significant advantages over the UK due to their dramatically lower population density.

In that context Sweden’s strategy is actually reasonable for such a low population country to attempt.
Do you really think China is being truthful? I don’t trust their government to be honest about anything, let alone something that makes them look bad to a global audience.
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This is an easily misinterpretable factoid.
I think in an alternate world where Apple enabled easy rip/mix/burn we would end up in the same place we are now - with Spotify and other streaming services dominating.
If that's the case, the pollsters have an easy way to regain trust in their methodologies. They can simply reweight their 2016 data to ensure education sampling matches the population and show that they now predict 2016 correctly. Have any of them done so?
We used to use 0xDEADBEEF for this purpose in hex.
It actually sounds like their structure is really sycophantic and codependent. Possibly even cult-like. You are taught to view things as a small handful of leaders and never challenge their viewpoint. Sounds kind of not a great place to work.
Oh, come on, all we need to do is to keep the entire world in "summer holiday" mode for a few years! :-)
I love it. As an older Windows coder, it's one of the few things on HN I can fully grasp. There's no monads/shaders/ML/business involved--just plain old C. Almost everything else posted here makes me feel depressed and inadequate.

Some people view abstraction as something they can happily ignore. They use libraries, upon frameworks, in VMs, on blockchains, just so that they can pile on. If all we do is add, there's no purpose. Absolutum obsoletum.

Maybe it's some sort of existential crisis I'm going through, but I'm starting to ditch many advanced programs/services in favor of simple tools I can fully build and understand myself. YMMV, of course.
I think what some people take from this is the opposite: that Sweden's strategy hasn't been a catastrophe many predicted (aside from poor initial elderly protections).
Just want to second this.

I live somewhere were having your phone out is dangerous so I'm forced to use it only when needed. The number one thing I use my phone for is checking bus routes (second is store times which can be very odd, especially with the pandemic). I know some routes off the top of my head but not the majority. Plus although I always plan where I'm going before hand so I know the streets (although many are missing signs), what time things are open, if the buses are actually working (apart from strikes, sometimes a bus line might be diverted due to construction/protests), often I end up going more places than I plan and end up needing to take a different bus than I had planned back.

I mean if I get my phone stolen or something I'll still be fine, but I don't get how having to hunt down road signs and depending on others to tell you the right info can possible feel liberating? I have navigated the city before it's bus app was built and internet was reliable, and it was not fun. Plus recently I've had problems with my contacts and because I can't stand my full prescription in glasses I can't see far away so it's been even more liberating to have my phone. I can quickly glance at google maps (even without internet and just gps on) and see where I am. Extremely useful in buses where I'm too far to see the road signs at all. I would hate having to ask the driver all the time to drop me off at the right street.
Gitlab is working on federation, or they at least have an open issue about it.[1]

Meanwhile there is a federated git as a reference implementation called Forgefed.[2]

1. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468

2. https://forgefed.peers.community/
I’m not sure about Google however last time I checked Apple had both encryption at rest and E2EE.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT202303
This is a great dramatisation of the 80s, it is well worth a watch
I think even more important to learn is how we "act" about money. Kids need to learn the psychology of money/finance as much as the knowledge about it. Just finished Morgan Housel's "Psychology of Money" and it should be required curriculum (every year) for high school and especially college students. When my kids are older, they are definitely reading it!
Track corporate lobbying spending by issue and by company
No, but the other countries are well worth looking at. They seem to be getting something right.
A Svelte CLI
mincy - A Svelte CLI A single interface to help develop Svelte apps
- Run dev server
- Sirv public
- Publish Svelte apps
https://github.com/rajikaimal/minc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Erw7X63lA
I think you’re misunderstanding the suggestion. The OP isn’t claiming the things you describe are dumb or wasteful or that you should never carry your phone. The suggestion is that sometimes doing without it can teach you interesting things, including about your phone.

I’m an avid backpacker (>60 nights on the trail most years) and I experience the same phenomenon (I don’t mean the phone, which is just a deadweight in the country). I sometimes just do without some piece of equipment and find out I’m fine. You often don’t need a tent, even in the snow.

It turns out less clutter makes much of the experience more enjoyable; you have fewer decisions to make and more “attention” to pay to other things which could be where you are or it could be something in your head you brought with you. It can also be a real PITN if, say, it’s raining and you foolishly don’t have shelter.

Do I bring a tent? Often. But it’s ok if I don’t.

And what is the phone but an infinitely large backpack full of clutter? Worse, much of that clutter is actively designed to distract you and imbue FOMO (suggesting new things precisely as you complete the old, ruining the cognitive desire for “completion”). Phones are great and I always carry mine around in town. But losing it would be inconvenient, not devastating.
Not to mention brevity being a sign of good communication. The same point is covered over and over with slight changes. You really slog through and feel like things aren't really clear. I have worked a bunch of tech companies and am having trouble figuring out how I could possibly be "useless" for an entire 6 months. What is going on there? He never really says.
Not really, to be honest!

Originally, I had written a linker script that could generate really small ELF executables, using the information I found on this website: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

That meant I had to implement functions for myself, including ‘write’ in x86 assembly.

As soon as I started storing function pointers, however, my program started to segfault, and I didn’t bother to figure out how to fix it. Do I stopped providing those builds on the website, and decided to start using other standard library functions, such as the time‐related functions.

Since I already had those functionalities there, I decided to keep them anyway. It would make sense to reuse the library functions, though, I agree!
Since you evaluate arguments based on the spelling of proper nouns from foreign places I'm afraid I can't bring myself to care about the esteem with which you regard my analysis.
Left or right recursion makes a semantic difference for non-associative operators like subtraction.
I can't tell if this is an attempt at a crappy joke or you actually think a) Stallman is not exactly the kind of person to make the argument and b) the overwhelming majority of people who prescribe to that line of though aren't aligned with Stallman in other thoughts on technology

Elbakyan doesn't hide behind these kinds of tired non-arguments and instead admits SciHub is illegal and pushes people to take action so it's not: https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/why-sci-hub-is-...
But how one defines consciousness (without relying on synonyms - "sentience", "awareness", etc.).
The horrors of communism never fail to bring out the lowest of the low in humanity.
I understand the sentiment “JS sucks,” but not in relation to C for most things. Modern js is rather nice in syntax, and quite performant in V8. Heck, you can transpile it to C with Bellard’s QuickJS (or just compile directly to binary) if there’s some C library interop that your comment is based on (although nodejs has a perfectly good C++ plugin system for this).
Definitely not. Very few people die of traffic accidents, and that number has been sinking steadily since 1970. (1950: 595, 1960: 1036, 1970: 1307, 1980: 848, 1990: 772, 2000: 591, 2010: 266)
We can easily discound NZ, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Japan (islands), China (liars) and Korea (practically an island).

Thailand and Malaysia are interesting, though.
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> If we really want them to see shouldn't they be tweeting this instead or may be in India post it on WhatsApp.

The letter is for parents and old people.
Really? I may be the author, but I have been utterly unable to extract that meaning from… any of the text I wrote.
OpenAudible works to remove the DRM on Audible books. Worst case, grab the CD versions from your library and rip them yourself.

It’s a shame about the notes on Kindle, I don’t think those are something you can back up / transfer. Really makes me wish that the open source alternatives had the same level of polish and feature set.
Machine learning is here and it’s time to unionize
I mean supporters of Elbakyan, when I say Elbakyanism, not Elbakyan herself. Indeed, Stallman also asks for people to take action to end copyright entirely, but he uses a legal tool that twists the law to the opposite of intended purpose, instead of, say, creating a cracked software repository (like Sci-Hub does for scientific articles). Two opposite approaches that have the same intended result.
Well, I wanted to mention that to use the program, you should type ‘greg’, not ‘cal’. But it does also skip those couple days in 1752 with the same arguments: ‘greg 9 1752’.
It isn’t anything specific to communism. The horrors human inflict upon each other is pretty sad and telling.
From the comments:

"One forgotten contribution could possibly be the large number of canceled surgeries.

The last number I saw was appx 30k canceled surgeries in Sweden since Mar -20. Historical data from Argentina, Israel and Denmark show significant reductions in death rates when doctors go on strike. The last strike was in the 1960's and I have been repeatedly promised (by doctors) that "..it is different now.."

We have also noted a quite dramatic reduction of cancer diagnoses because of reduced screening for breast- and gyn cancer. The common wisdom among "experts" is that there is a large number of undiscovered cases which will show up later and with much more severe and deadly cancer in the months and years ahead. I doubt this. I have read a couple of the research papers defining guidelines for interpretation of pathological finds and they state explicitly that it is better to "overdiagnose" by at least a factor of 10 (and in reality up to a factor of 50) in order to not miss any "real" cases of cancer. Better to cut nine healthy breasts or prostates than to have one undiagnosed case.

Well, in just a couple of years we will have clear and unambigous evidence for or against the efficency of the cancer screening programs. This is a form of full scale clinical trial happening in front of our eyes."

And

"Oh, todays newspaper say it is 75k less surgeries in Sweden since Mar -20."
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There is a new kind of Real-Time & Historical US Stock Market Data Provider, you can build financial applications and platform with that data.
Words worth looking up because oh man do they change meaning include: nice, buxom, and lewd.

My first exposure to this with any rigor was in high school. We were given one of shakespeare’s sonnets to analyze and the first thing we had to to was go to the library and look up literally every word in the sonnet in the OED and consider only those senses of the word that dated to date of composition or prior. A LOT of words didn’t mean to shakespeare what you think they mean now!
> admit that functional programming is the wrong paradigm for some types of problems.

Absolutely. Some problems are just so much simpler in an imperative style that it's worth the lack of confidence you get with the functional solution in its correctness and robustness.

That's why I love languages that have fairly powerful functional features but have an imperative escape hatch. I think more and more languages are becoming that. Rust does it very well, but the lisps, probably Scala, and a few others I'm not thinking of may be better, don't have much experience with those though.
I've not said Epstein and Rotherham were evidence for Q. I've said they're examples of pedophiles intermixed with governments and examples of where holding high standards for what is appropriate to say resulted in the rape of innumerable children.

My point is not "Because Epstein therefore Q" but rather "We should allow speculation and conspiracies, even hurtful, hateful, or baseless, because the alternative is restricting what people can say, and such restrictions enabled and perpetuated some horrible crimes of a similar nature that happened recently."
Generally, school doesn't teach practical things, it teaches the fundamentals for learning practical things later.

Finance by itself is not that complicated. If you know the underlying maths, that's the kind of thing you can learn on the spot, at least on a basic level. If you want more than that, you probably should hire an accountant, or it becomes specialized studies.

For the rest, I don't know what kids learn in the US but I guess things like the great depression are part of the history lessons. Do they teach that without any insight about the economics of it?

So there you have it, you know the stock market and taxes exist from history lessons and you learn the mathematical operations to run the numbers. I don't remember learning about the legal aspect of finance (which may be the most important of all), but we certainly had on overview on how the legal system works.
I made it because I felt like it would be fun! There is not much reason to actually install it if you already have ‘cal’, unless for some reason you really want your weeks to start on e.g. Wednesday.
>http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/Pagim/GC.html

Welcome back 1999. Holy cow. Comments in good humor:
1) No preview image of what you are selling.
2) Several links are broken. One is a Flash based website!?!? Others are just no longer hosted.
3) Owww, my eyes!!! Also, Yay! Tables!

I get it. If it's not broken, don't fix it. However, you are making it difficult for an interested person to make an informed purchase. I am looking exactly for this kind of art to fill up my astronomy room, so this has piqued my interest. It's not like I don't know what the galactic center looks like, but not buying something sight unseen
(and aside from any comparisons to its neighboring countries too?)

Yes, it has been a catestrophic fuck-up. As predicted.
Yeah, the radical right is faster, a bullet to your head and it is done.

/s
What is warping the barrier's space? The barrier's mass?
Politics is just getting what you want.

Software is already political. Commercial software traditionally does this through direct and indirect lobbying efforts. The DMCA didn't just spontaneously appear out of thin air. There must be action-for-action retaliation.
There's plenty of evidence. If you want to live in denial I can't help you. I do worry about how we'll respond to climate change when there are attitudes like this.

Also, I've been assuming so far that you were debating in good faith so I didn't ask. Where is the evidence that masks don't work? Can you cite any studies?
Jens-Fabian Goetzmann shares helpful formats you can experiment with when considering your organizational structure. Every organization has different needs to fit the people they have and the challenges at hand, so adjust the structure (and potentially the format) based on the pains and requirements you experience. It will be painful (every change is) but it might put you in a better position to scale the organization.
The IOS app also has the ability to set a notification at a certain time.
One of the reasons that I prefer containers over VMs which rarely gets discussed is that Docker doesn't make me configure SSH, process managers, logging, monitoring, etc. Further, as much as I dislike the standard Docker image build tooling, it's generally much easier than building and managing VM images. I think AWS Fargate gets it pretty correct by using Firecracker to spin up distinct VMs for every Kubernetes pod or ECS task (basically units of 1+ collocated containers). I would like to see more support for this in Kubernetes offerings for bare metal and other cloud providers.

As an aside, there's also krustlet--an experimental project that uses Kubernetes to schedule WASM programs (instead of containers) which are less versatile but which are much lighter-weight and more secure than containers. I'm really excited for WASM orchestrators like this.

EDIT: Wow, I really didn't expect this to be controversial. I'm really curious about what people are objecting to with this?
not to mention its a console cmd and works well in scripts. i used it for a lot of sites that have their videos free but i used a console browser and used this in a script that i could call through the browser. i never looked at how it worked or what i could do with it in a non legitimate way but i wonder if i did unintentionally. i wonder if its the download part that is the issue though for some sites can have free to watch but might have issue with downloading funnily enough screen recording does exist.
Ah so you've made up a term for supporters for a person, given them a collective philosophy that doesn't align with their "leader's" much less silly ideas.

My apologies for not divining the tea leaves on your made up term that I guess was not meant as a bad joke, but ends up being one anyways.
I’m one of those schmucks who thinks the solution to ignorance and misinformation is education, and that there should always be more options for voters, not fewer. It’s not about credit to the voters, it’s about making sure the avenues for change are always open. That’s one thing I love about California — it’s a fucking mess, we have no one to blame but ourselves, and there’s always someone trying to do something about it. Compare this to the Texas style of democracy — legislature meets only ever other year and if you don’t like something you can get out - I’ll take the California way.
alias script-checker="echo 'echo unsafe'"