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It is strange to see this opinion voiced by an EMT. There are millions of people in this country that grew up in a world without EMTs. If you were hurt or sick you had to get yourself to the hospital or rely on the police getting you there. Police obviously weren't able to properly handle these situations from either a training or equipment perspective. This resulted in countless people dying unnecessarily. That was seen as an obvious failure and eventually a job was created to bring medical attention to the scene of an emergency and remove police from the handling of these medical issues.

We have already made this transition once. Police are no more able to handle someone experiencing an emergency mental issue as they are able to handle someone having a heart attack. Why not change the system to get the proper people on site as fast as possible?

99 Percent Invisible recently did a great podcast on the early history of EMT services and ambulances.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/freedom-house-ambulan...
Ignorance of who he's replying to aside, Guthur has an important technical point. Avro's separation of schema & binary is better than protobuf's field tags. You need a schema to meaningfully parse protobufs anyway (usually baked into the codegen), so you might as well make that schema a first-class object and package it with the data. Then you don't need to include or maintain the field tags (shrinking the binary size), you can explicitly reconcile different versions by sending along the new schema, and you don't need to codegen for each language, letting you easily support reflection and dynamic languages.
Indeed, while monopoly prevents from improvement/bug fixes I think
Another great example how a couple of traditional unix tools (if you want to count perl and gnuplot as traditional unix tools) can replace 250 lines of high-level language code (https://github.com/orf/gping/blob/master/src/main.rs).
While Intel is indeed losing the performance game, even with the shady management engine shenanigans intel CPUs are still much more open than the locked down proprietary nightmare that apparently are the new Apple ARM SoCs.
> employees had to pay for everything (snacks/drinks/etc.).

That’s not entirely true, at least in Hillsboro (I interned there recently). Drinks were free, and so was fruit, but you had to pay for e.g. donuts or chips.
Services that create separate accounts for email, Google and Facebook despite providing the same email are the worst.
The thing about the top tech companies, particularly Intel and other chip companies where postgraduate degrees are more or less required to do anything interesting, is that people there have literally gone though over a decade of intense competition in the educational system to qualify to get their foot in the door. And then, to stay there and rise through the ranks is another decade or more of intense competition, both technical and political, against similar elites. Needless to say, this can have some pretty corrosive effects without proper supervision.
An Apple alternative to AWS would be interesting, but it would probably be heavily geared toward iOS and Mac app backends, with little flexibility outside those use cases. The Xcode integration would probably be amazing, though.
I am confused on why the polglot program is required, especially PE files are designed to contain MZ files (the MSDOS format), and Doom is not greater than 2GB (half the limit of MZ+PE file). Is there an alignment issue on the DOS version of Doom that requires this trickery? Possible licensing issues?
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I think the Matrix folks shoot themselves in the foot each time they mention identity servers and how they're "not decentralised yet" because it just leads to confusion and makes it sound like their architecture is half-baked. To their credit, they're being painfully honest but all the same I think it does more harm than good when explaining Matrix to technical people who aren't familiar with Matrix.

As others have mentioned, identity servers only exist to map third party identifiers like email addresses or phone numbers to MXIDs. Most people just use MXIDs to start chats (mine is @cyphar:cyphar.com -- it's no more complicated than an email address). It is a useful feature to have, but given that other chat systems don't even have such a system (you can't find someone's email address using just their phone number -- GMail might implement this but that's just as centralised as Matrix's identity servers) it seems pretty unreasonable to say that Matrix's claims of decentralisation are "bullshit".

People have been working to make this system decentralised but it's actually an unreasonably hard problem to prove to everyone else that you actually have verified someone else's email address or phone number. And to be honest, I'd prefer they'd spend their time polishing the actual chat UX instead of a feature most users won't even use (let alone redesigning it to provide guarantees that only a handful of users claim to care about).
You're missing the wildly different target that Apple can follow.

Apple designs chips and devices in lockstep. When designers were working on various A-series chips, they knew the details of the device, and could optimise on that.

Qualcomm doesn't get that kind of view. They make a generic CPU design for given market segment, and have to "please" much wider buyer range. As such, if they tried to apply some of the things that are publicly known about Apple designs, they would probably end up with a chip that would be hard to sell due to taking more space or having higher TDP etc. And before advent of multicore, Qualcomm was using the available space budget heavily to integrate the radio functionality internally (then it oscillated a bit over time depending on chip and market segment).
Every story is unique. I was responding to a comment that was making sweeping claims

My story likely isn't replicable, but everyone has to find their way

I interviewed for Citus a couple weeks before they announced being acquired. I found out about the acquisition on Hacker News before having received an offer. They were able to get me in without going through the hiring process again

Initially I'd be moving to San Francisco but I wasn't eligible for any visas as I don't have a post secondary education. Staying in Canada's worked out

Some examples of things working out here: I was asked to implement some parsing, & well that's not so hard when you've written a Lua parser a year beforehand: https://github.com/serprex/luwa/blob/master/rt/astgen.lua (an astute reader will notice I don't handle precedence here, which is pretty important for arithmetic parsing. That's because I opted to implement shunting yard during codegen phase)

What value does this story give a reader? I only think it'd serve to continue an argument about how not everyone is so lucky, which isn't the original argument of "unless you're VP/Distinguished Engineer, not even Guido van Rossum gets to skip whiteboarding"
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> How did we end up in this world where we so utterly rely on 3rd parties for such everyday critical Internet services?

The same way we ended up in a world where we so utterly rely on 3rd parties for such everyday critical services as growing our food and fixing our cars. There's too many things to do for everyone to do them all on their own.
If your house could be removed at a whim because a bot decided you were a bad person

It can.

it would likely cause an uproar,

It doesn’t.

it wouldn't be tolerated.

It is.

Big fat article in the New York Times some months ago about AI deciding that landlords shouldn’t rent to certain people, and the AI often being wrong. Very wrong. Like tagging someone as a convicted drug dealer, when the reality is that person has never been in trouble with the law, and never been to the state where the alleged offense supposedly happened.

We have to stop calling this “artificial intelligence,” because it simply is not intelligent. Humans put faith in machines because were told they are intelligent. But all the evidence shows that at best “AI” is good at guessing.

If we started calling these “artificial guessing” systems, people would treat them appropriately. But that doesn’t buy investors a boat.
Absolutely, not. Seeing my 4 years old son experiment with social skills I’m learning soo much about the most inexplicable conflict situations I’ve been through in 15 years of IT
Ultimately, your first and foremost need is to move to a different email address: It's the hardest thing to change, it'll take you the longest. Get your own domain name, and set up an email address on that domain name. (I recommend Fastmail, but you can usually just do some rudimentary forwarding of it to your Gmail if you want too.)

Everything else you can mostly download from Google in advance, but it's key to update all of your accounts to not refer to a Gmail address. In the event of losing your Gmail address, you might lose any related account that requires access to it to verify your identity or login.
What situation is that?

Most of the abuse I've seen is by officers who either were never given the training Remsburg presents in his books or ignored it.
Exactly my thoughts. Even if it's audience is definitely amateur, it's incredible how Dan Carlin gives all the points me ruined in the post throughout all of his series. Especially, to me, ww1 and supernova in the East.
One nice trick I use to avoid boilerplate is SetModel msg which just sets new model state (passed in message itself). Good for simple and stupid messages like text input that just updates the model.
> people there have literally gone though over a decade of intense competition in the educational system to qualify to get their foot in the door. And then, to stay there and rise through the ranks is another decade or more of intense competition

Two decades of requisite grunt work will also encourage your best junior talent to seek out start-up opportunities.
It's just not economical when Proton does the porting "for free" compared to 6-months ports by Aspyr/Feral for very little change in performance.
They should have to pay the carrier for the bandwidth.
Mushrooms make a nice patty too!
Glad you like my site. It was fun to build. I remember bing use to have a site years ago where you would search for a term and see bing vs google results and you'd pick the one you preferred, and apparently 2/3 people preferred bing results. But I couldn't find it, so it gave me an idea to build a site but I didn't build the gamified portion.

Yeah, you're right about search results. I'm seeing more normal sites now as well. The results are not deterministic. I'm not sure whats causing it, but I saw different results for the vaccines query earlier. "Flat earth" still gives me a fair amount of flat earth content.

From the FAQ:

> For Duck Duck Go, search-compare searches the html version (e.g. duckduckgo.com/html/?q=search). The results are different than the canonical duckduckgo search, but its easier to scrape. For Google, search-compare uses the main google site (e.g. google.com/search?hl=en&q=search), but it doesn't pass any personally identifiable information
Do you think the Ketamine helped his chances of survival? Even at therapeutic levels drugs can cause adverse effects. Why are EMTs injecting Ketamine into effectively dead people at the behest of the police?
You shouldn't downvote things you disagree with. This place would be a lot more interesting if less people did that.
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That's fair; I suppose it's inevitable that search engines move more in a similar direction to what we know as the main high street when it comes to high profile searches, keeping more mainstream stuff while losing the off the wall areas but it does seem a shame to loose some of the weirder side streets in the process (the sort of weirdness from the early 2000s internet for example).
The funding rounds are not a good way to describe the embryology of a company. Different kinds of companies, like different species, develop in different ways.

Look at a company like si5 that's making hardware: it had several rounds before getting into revenue, each one reducing risk for new (and existing) investors.

When I worked in pharma I thought of company stages from a tech perspective. I once characterised them as "pre revenue -> pre profit -> profit". Our chief scientist asked, "what's pre profit?" In her experience you went from pre revenue either straight to profit or dead. No ramp up in the tech sense.
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Not only are you being unacceptably rude, you’re making the unfounded assumption that these developers have anything to do with the mobile apps.
And that, my friend, is exactly why they bought Logic. Don't know if you were in the music game back then, but they way it played out was:

- Logic had the pole position for non-pro-tools music at the time, and sold (IIRC) for about $600

- Apple bought Logic and stated publicly "we will not discontinue it on windows"

- I think a year later, might have been two, they cancelled it on windows

- Some time later, they dropped the price, and also put out garage band, using Logic's engine.

- Logic's product roadmap (from what I've heard) became more general user friendly (can't attest to this personally though)

Basically, anything Apple owns becomes part of the plan to get you on a mac and iEverything, secondary to whatever it's originally purpose is. I won't touch any music software now that doesn't run on at least 2 operating systems. Fortunately most of them now realize the importance of this.

I'd recommend looking at other options like Reaper, Cubase, or Digital Performer, all of which have been improving steadily and can on windows or OSX.

Personally I'm sticking on High Sierra, and doubt my next machine will be a mac. Man I'm going to miss Bash everywhere though. Sigh
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Well that's the thing the article touches, people tend to think that military history is not studied in a serious manner as far as an academic discipline goes. Military academies can do the bare minimum in rigor as far as they need to impart their military tradition and form effective officers, just like the author said about aristocrats learning how other aristocrats did their thing before smashing some peasants.
I.e. you want this article to be clickbait and now you are unhappy that it is not.
On the contrary: https://www.armyupress.army.mil/
Such a perfect synopsis of the situation in so few words.
Shriram Krishnamurthi is the real deal. When I started at Brown I was majoring in Mech-E and took a programming course with Shriram on a whim. It was the hardest course I took in undergrad. Needless to say, I switched my major to Computer Science right after.
Matrix isn't peer-to-peer, it's federated. Messages are stored on "homeservers", which is similar in concept to an email server except it's much easier to host your own Matrix homeserver. Only the homeservers which have involved in a chatroom ever see a copy of the message. For private chatrooms, everything is E2E encrypted by default so the homeservers don't have access to the plaintext of your messages.
There was nothing more that had to be said by the parent. You were - quite clearly - trying to discredit the parent poster for making a very reasonable statement.

I am not moved at all by your "hopes." I am quite certain that I am right. I would not have written anything, otherwise. But of course, that's none of your business - my words are more than enough to convey the meaning I intend, as are yours, and as were the parent poster's.

My intellectual curiosity is what allowed me to land on both of my feet and look at the COVID situation for what it really is. It wasn't hard and it only takes some "distancing" from corporate media sources to see what's going on.
I make music, and I have to say, the jump to 64 bit and the jump to macOS 11 have been pretty damaging to my workflow in the short term. My DAW, my drivers, and my plugins are all written by different developers and they all need to update for me to get fully back to work (In fairness, I made the mistake of upgrading eagerly to macOS 11, which is on me).

At the same time, working on a Mac in general has been so, so much more reliable than working on windows. I used to have endless problems with dropouts or latency problems on windows, regardless of the driver, sound card, or buffer size I used. I’m sure things have improved in the time since, but I’ve been so much happier making music on the Mac. I’ve used my 2013 laptop at plenty of live shows and haven’t had any sort of problem yet. We’ll see what happens in the next year, but I’m not ready to count macOS out as an audio workstation OS.
Do Android phones do that if you don't sign up for Google?

I didn't. When I first powered up a new Android phone, it asked for a Google login. But there's a "Later" option. I did that, and then removed the app that runs on first use, plus various other Google stuff. Installed F-Droid and Fennec. So I've never agreed to Google's terms.
Same story BTW. I held back to Windows 7 for as long as it was feasible, and then switched to Linux. Was painful at first, but freedom has a price.
The author makes a distinction between the "drums and trumpets" / "cult of the badass" following and the actual academic discipline, so I think this field is doing fine. It has a similar problem as the "pop sci" fluff resulting from badly copied university press releases which were inaccurate in the first place. The enthusiasts which then pick up from there are just a lot more, because to them war is just too interesting and emotionally satisfying. This then has an effect on the society as a whole, something for maybe military sociologists to research? But nothing the field itself can be blamed for, if anything without it the situation might be a lot worse.

I found this quote fitting: "[..] military historians study conflict in the same way that doctors study disease; no one assumes that doctors like diseases, quite the opposite."

Edit: Also thought provoking and reflecting on the fascination of war, in the comments the user TomBombadil quotes musings of a sentient machine from Iain M. Banks Culture novel Excession:

"It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed from a kind of insecurity, a sort of childishness. It could see that—by some criteria—a warship, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beautiful single artifact the Culture was capable of producing, and at the same time understand the paucity of moral vision such a judgment implied. To fully appreciate the beauty of the weapon was to admit to a kind of shortsightedness close to blindness, to confess to a sort of stupidity. The weapon was not itself; nothing was solely itself. The weapon, like anything else, could only finally be judged by the effect it had on others, by the consequences it produced in some outside context, by its place in the rest of the universe. By this measure the love, or just the appreciation, of weapons was a kind of tragedy."
Nah, still showing up on bing.
Maybe, and with FDNY where this pilot is being tested I don't know how the pay compares, but it'd still be a big shift in how EMS is presented from the very beginning to trainees.

I personally like EMS because even though it's not exactly _safe_, if someone is acting out the cops deal with them, and if something is on fire or spewing ethyl-bethyl-bad-stuff into the air, fire/HAZMAT deals with it. We're the smart people in the wee-woo box that primarily focus on patient care with our friends in law enforcement and fire close by.

My issue with it is that EMS and a "mental health professional" could easily get stuck in a situation with a violent, armed person and be at the mercy of police coming from a separate location to help in an emergency. Sure, the vast majority of patients are not like that, but it doesn't make sense to me to take the risk. In my experience, having police on scene but keeping their distance is fine and patients usually understand when we say they're not in trouble and anything they say to us is confidential. Some other services probably don't do it as well, especially since police get there faster most of the time.
Sure, it depends on where you are, who you are trying to contact, and how urgent the situation is. I'm just saying it can be an option. I've done this.
What if the fear is real though - fear of survival - how is that a problem in itself? With Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - if base needs are met the envy-jealousy-anger will turn into inspiration, as one example.

To copy/paste what my other reply said:

And this ties into a problem that Eric Weinstein is trying to bring attention to that the whole of society importing talent/allowing them to tap into the network and stability should be getting a dividend from that talent's produce, along with the misunderstanding that it's technology and automation taking jobs away. The main part of the solution is UBI - or as Andrew Yang calls it, a Freedom Dividend - citizens as shareholders.
Or Italian food without tomato sauce, Ireland and Poland without potatoes, or Switzerland without chocolate. It really was one of the most consequential moments in human history.
Japan agrees! (or at least their folktale story does) [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutte...
This confuses me. Those individuals who are

> very privacy and security leaning in nature

were not already on Matrix?
If you make $12 an hour, you are not in NY state were the minimum wage is $15.

This is not to underrate your personal experiences, just that situations can be different in different places. Guns in NYC are fairly rare, but your comment holds true with any weapon.

NYC has an extreamly low violent crime rate, and a murder rate that is nearly non-existent. And that crime rate is dropping lower and lower: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statist...

It is possible that our crime rate is reaching a low enough valley that this might be successful here.
According to Wikipedia the most famous book on the depression, Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 offers a single cause for the great depression, falling money supply. That might be right or wrong, I don't know. But I know that Housel's "it was a lot of things" is lazy thinking that sounds like wisdom.
It sounds to me like you're saying mental illness is irrelevant when it comes to predicting a person committing harmful behavior, which is a bold claim to make, to say the least.
I personally don’t invest on margin. It just feels weird to take a short-term loan (whatever the interest rate) when I have the cash to cover the loan. And if I don’t have the cash to cover the margin loan, I should be working on increasing my emergency fund instead.

In short, there’s no set of circumstances where my decision tree comes down on the side of taking the loan.