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Sad to see you go, but kind of happy too since it appears you're now working in a position that gives you influence over government intelligence agencies and who they decide to prosecute.
That's interesting - your final paragraph implies that there's a perverse incentive for local authorities to discourage testing to avoid being locked down..
I used to live in a place that was walkable to a lot of places, but VERY bikeable to everywhere else.

It had very low car traffic at the worst of times.

It was also hilly.

My commute to work was also a bus; but, there was an optional bike path I could take. I strongly considered getting an electric bike to go about the "longer" distances than were easy by walking.

These e-bikes are perfect for the "everything's within a couple miles" distance that's just a bit far for walking when you have other things you want to do. I love the concept of them, so long as you respect the reality that you're both a bike and a potentially very fast one for pedestrians.
Every schoolchild in the United States starting at the age of ~six is expected (but not legally required) to participate in a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

"I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."

There are a number of obvious questions about the ethics of indoctrinating children with this sort of thing, but that is left as an exercise for the reader.
> Make each application one file.
> Make the operating system one file.

So another level of abstraction will make things easier? I doubt!
Nice. I did not know those.
But that's untrue. Radicalisation also includes far-right radicalisation.

In the UK the numbers of people referred for right wing vs Islamic extremism are pretty close.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/individuals-refer...

> Of the 697 Channel cases, the most common were cases referred due to concerns regarding right-wing radicalisation (302; 43%), followed by Islamist radicalisation (210; 30%).
Is there data on how big companies such as Amazon treat workers?

People I talk actually want to work for Amazon. The pay is great! Granted, these are software developers.

Where can I see data on the wages and perks of warehouse workers? I would like to see how they are treated by Amazon and non-Amazon.
Last time I looked at PM2.5 I found the source below[1]. Which lists PM2.5 from tire wear at 0.001 gm per miles. Which is less than brake wear at 0.003. Notable that as you said EV's have much less brake wear.

https://www.bts.gov/content/estimated-national-average-vehic...

[1] Was a lot harder to find it again because someones running an SEO agitprop campaign to blame PM2.5 on tires instead of diesel exhaust. I had wade through GIS pages of trash websites to find it again.
Just in case anyone wants to build one, you may find this useful. I made a 3D model that uses a small DC toy motor. I never got around to the software so I don't know if it will actually work.

https://github.com/inc/nipkow-tv
Yeah see, that's why there are bike lanes in the street too. If you want to travel at traffic speeds join traffic. Ebikes are great for this.

Instead people ride ebikes at 20+mph within feet (or inches!) of pedestrians. While hardcore cyclists are in the street dodging cars.

You're describing fantasy.
Why not for commuters? If you're a well-to-do software engineer that lives 10 hilly miles from work, but with great bike paths the whole way, this is a perfect vehicle as with the electric assist, you're not going to work up a sweat on your way!
Amazon still has a much more significant investment in Java than Rust, just as Microsoft does with C# and TypeScript than Rust even though both companies are investing more and more in Rust for low level projects.
I don't think we have made peace. The issue is the market is being flooded with new recruits that don't care and grew up in the cloud, and these companies are actively involved in the education system to make it the new norm. We used to have actual computer science degrees and now we have IT training camps ran by the companies that have their own selfish interests.
Do you have anything constructive to say as well or is it all cynicism?
Not all micros used tapes, many used floppies. The classic Mac mentioned in the linked article even knew when you had a floppy inserted and could show (and open) an icon on the desktop once you did.

But you could also say the same for Windows 95 though, after you inserted the CD and had the window open then what? You still had to read a manual or whatever to figure out how the application worked.

Or even Windows 95 itself. Which isn't something that modern PCs have solved either - people who haven't used computers before to this day treat them as (black) magic boxes that they might break if they do something slightly odd because of how complex things are. And a modern Windows 10 computer has a ton more stuff on screen than a Windows 95 computer ever had.
Wow, didn't know it was this bad. Though it makes sense that Google, Cloudflare, and co would grab every DNS query they can get get, as additional sensor data for tracking. As if this wasn't crystal clear already from the push towards DNS-over-HTTP.
There's a bit of that happening in security research, so in that way, yes. A quick search suggests that they exist independently as well, for example http://www.noat.com/
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Being a person who does give a shit, having such people could be advantageous to the overall and long-term quality of the product.

However, hiring such people has the problem of identifying them. I don't fare particularly well in interviews; most of the opportunities I have excelled in happened via internal movements.

I have difficulty when coupled with bosses that have the attitude but don't have the necessary chops because accepting shitty decisions by the way of "I'm-getting-paid-why-do-I-care" is quite difficult (though this becomes easier with age/perspective). Giving shit also has impact on stress level of the employee in situations when wrong choices are made.
When I talked to some Googlers, they said me that majority of Google code uses Java and C++, not Go. That was few years ago, may be now that changed, but it seems to me that Java and C++ really runs everything everywhere.
Only the MacBook Air is fanless, and of course it throttles after a while, that's why there's the Pro with a fan on the M1
> Why would I then base a development project on Rust, if there's neither a spec nor an alternate implementation? This is strictly worse than what we have now.

This is a double standard. C was created in 1972 and standardized in 1989. A major C compiler (MSVC) doesn't even fully implement C99 from 21 years ago.

C++ itself was created in 1985 and standardised in 1998. Yet it was adopted.

Yes, things have changed and the bar has been raised. But people don't seem to have followed your reasoning even for C and C++.

> Apart from kernels and drivers (where Rust seems an outright no-go)

Why? From what I've read Rust can actually help with managing hardware resources through its semantics. What blocks it from being used?
The soon to be released "xk6 - k6 extensions"[1] will bring support for many new protocols.
There are already proof of concept extensions for Redis, ZeroMQ, kafka, SQL, and others.

Adding MQTT should be rather straightforward.

[1] https://github.com/k6io/xk6
,,due to complications from injuries sustained in a house fire.”

Wow, I don't want to think about how painful it must have been :(
I would gladly recommend this to anyone needing to load test their endpoints. We were using Gatling at work to do load testing and it was very slow to develop in it as we were lacking experience in scala. We found this and never looked back. The impact it had on benchmarking, profiling and tuning the servers was massive. I'm pretty sure the company saves a few thousand dollars every month till today because of those optimizations.
Bert is a common guest at my favourite Dutch podcast, the terribly named "BNR Digitaal". I hope he doesn't stop doing that! All the best to you, Bert!
Bitcoin is probably an example of this. I really doubt its creator knew about the state of the art in the field, yet he still created the state of the art in the field.

But yes, you are unlikely to do state of the art math without extensive education. However most other fields aren't like that, software engineering included.
I have AVX512 on my laptop. Is it used by any software I use? No. Does it take up a lot of die area? Definitely.
I don't think you're right. When MS Office started using the new formats it was considered a breaking change. I think you're too fixated on one point of view.
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> then knowing AT commands to disable "wait for dial tone", because somehow that didn't work in my country,

I spent the good part of a week thinking my Smartlink 2400 was defective before I figured that one out...
not yet it's not, but once upon a time, the dollar was backed by precious metals. Not a terribly outrageous leap.
It's not as easy as it seems.

For this question you for example need to know that such cross-region snapshot functionality exists. It could also be an answer made to confuse you, because maybe there is only same-region snapshot functionality at the moment. Also conditions like "minimal cost" can make an obvious looking answer the wrong one if don't know details about the cost of the affected services.
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Never mind, thought we were talking about internal gear hubs.
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Your point is exactly what I'm saying: because of the network effect you are now required to get the useless certificates.
And even if it is not your intention, you will also participate in the effect once you get it.

For example, if employers would not find any good candidate with the certificate, they would not think of it as valuable.

Also, on the general topic, what should be more valuable:

A) an aws certificate on Route53

B) a certicate of training in dns and dns configuration

Which one will give you transferable knowledge to the other? But which one will be favored by a clueless HR recruiter?
R is a useful value for statisticians. For policy makers it’s just mumbo jumbo that means exactly the same as the infections graph: if it’s going up, R is above 1, if it’s going down R is below 1. It’s not magic.
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Hmm, I've read it as suicide is a bigger problem for them that doesn't get the attention needed than suicides spike because of x corona measures (that have been rather light weight compared to western world).
> I spent most of my life suicidal.

same here. things only turned around once I started embracing it and no longer guilt trip myself about whether it would be damaging to my surrounding. since telling myself I can always get it over with "tomorrow" but "let's see what the rest of the day brings", I am actually doing really well. I also tell myself it's not just OK to end it but it's one day my duty to do it "on my terms" (if it is in my control to make that choice ofc).

it sounds morbid because it is. but only facing my reality like an alcoholic faces that they'll be an addict for life, regardless if they don't drink for 20 years - is why not only am I still here but am able to life an incredibly full life.

If I weren't suicidal then _I know_ that it would make me more ignorant to the suffering of others. I'd rather be dead than go through life like that. life without death is meaningless and we should cherish it the same way as we celebrate being born.

edit: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, perfectly articulates how messed up our relationship with death/disease/dying has become in modern society.
You know that we still have actual computer science degrees though, right? I don’t even know what point you are trying to make with this misinformation.
Honestly haven't seen a clear answer till now. We had tried multiple ways to link high satisfaction scores with purchase behavior - correlation/regression of NPS with frequency/value of purchase.

At least in myntra case, the detractors turned out to be much more valuable than the entire universe, we put it down to customers who love us enough to hate us!
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The most informative post at the moment for me, with more detailed technical information for those who are interested in what's actually making Apple's M1 CPU fast, based on the article by Anandtech, is much lower on this page, by
GeekyBear:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235214
Here's a post on how he influenced companies halfway across the globe https://helloworld-adi.medium.com/delivering-happiness-an-ev...
Oh yeah, that's my own load testing tool, written in the high-performance language Bash. It is a bit feature sparse but produces about the same RPS numbers as Drill (https://github.com/fcsonline/drill) and not too far behind Artillery. And it is about 0.0025 times as fast as Wrk!
Everybody * scans papers for the piece of info they happen to be searching for, before reading it in any detail. The abstract should contain that, but might not. And nobody * reads the entire abstract anyway.

A clinician scanning a medical paper is looking for patient relevance: should they use the approach described? The statistical details are too intimidating, the preamble is irrelevant, they know the scope of the problem already.

This is not what "should" happen, but it is what actually happens.

The gap between published findings and clinical practice is several years. The peer review and publication process are way out of touch with clinical reality.

On top of this, people find articles using Google and read them on their phones. (In reality, they read summarised opinion pieces found via Google.)

A systematic reviewer may read papers in full. But even they scan papers for inclusion/exclusion criteria first. The deeper the information is buried, the greater the risk of misclassification. I'm not suggesting that TLDRs will fix this, it's just another data point in why we're seeing TLDRs being created.

* "Everybody" and "nobody" here excludes researchers :)
"Fresher's flu" is the name given to the phenomenon of nearly everyone at uni getting a cold when returning for the new academic semester; everyone congregating from across the country/planet brings their own strain and gives it to everyone else.

We know that this happens every year, so we knew that it would happen this year too.
Yeah but what I mean is that is a lot of extra complexity, compared with just building code on your own workstation.

I would rather use my workstation's CPU & memory resources to actually compile the code rather than masking the complexity of moving that compilation process onto hardware which I do not own.
That's very interesting, I didn't know there's a country already where fossil heating is rare. In the Netherlands we're trying to get houses off of gas for years and have pretty much no results. Nobody wants to pay much more for heating (operationally) nor for a renovation to change the entire heating system to something electric in every household. Municipal heating is also not coming off the ground, and afaik most that do are burning stuff to create the heat. Frankly it almost seems hard to believe that it's rare to heat with fossil fuel anywhere in the EU after hearing all the aspects of all the problems with making it happen in our relatively mild climate, let alone in the colder north.

Where can I read more about how you guys managed to switch everyone to heat pumps? Or is hydro power cheap enough that you can just create heat rather than pump it around? Because that would make it a simple "replace 1 device" transition from heating water with gas to heating water with electricity. And for burning garbage, do you filter the CO2 at the exhaust or how is that green? (I don't know much about garbage burning or what kind of pollution does/doesn't come from it.)
I think there's a few states where it is not required. And the state requirements only apply to public schools so who knows what all the private and parochial schools are doing.
I'm hesitating about whether I agree or disagree with you. I also do not like distasteful / disrespectful comments; and I can understand that people prefer privacy. However, this was simple factual information. I'm not sure keeping facts secret is a good thing even if done out of respect.

It is important that the public sees how many lives are destroyed by domestic abuse, suicides, addiction, and other social ills. And I fear that not talking about those details out of respect / privacy may do more harm than good.
Religion would seem culty since a cult is literally a religion.
It's a good question, and I think the article's author unfortunately brings two different things together:

i) People who are intrinsically motivated to do good work, regardless of who it is for. Personality psychologists call this quality conscientiousness, and it's as predictive of good outcomes as intelligence.

ii) People who are willing to sacrifice all other aspects of their life in their employer's interest.

Hiring type i people is an admirable goal. Hiring and taking advantage of type ii people is not.
Beautiful words. Thanks for sharing.
Mozilla pays salary to the core team members, who approve/decline pull requests, vote on RFCs. So far there haven't been any reasons for concern, and Mozilla is more of a dying husk without too many interests to affect rust's development, but the situation could be improved with more neutrality/independence.
No you dont get it, its not a projection. Some people dont want to deal with police complaint. If you dont understand that you will never get it.
Being very efficient at mostly extractive summarization and abstaining from abstractive summarization does seem a better bet though, because fewer things can go wrong and it is easier to check the summaries against the full text.
But it clearly isn’t a small industry, and wearables are now responsible for c$40bn annual revenue at Apple (includes AirPods now though, also invented after jobs), so dismissing it does seem to be changing the goalposts.
The commitment to encrypt is "within the next year". That means it's been telemetry for the last two years, and will likely continue to be so until the next major macOS release, approximately a year from now.

The fact that Apple isn't logging the IPs any longer is irrelevant. The data is unencrypted, and your ISP and their ISP and everyone in between can log the data.

The fact that it doesn't include the Apple ID or device identity is similarly irrelevant. The IP address also communicates unique identifiers to other services (including at Apple), so the IP address is sufficient unique identifier in this instance. Additionally, even if one doesn't have any access to those other records mapping the IP address to the user (held by Apple, the carrier, and many others), simply monitoring the specific set of apps that are opened (again, because the data is unencrypted) is sufficient in many cases to fingerprint and uniquely identify the device.
Having seen a similar case, this is truly a traumatic ordeal for the patient’s family (and possibly the patient too, though we don’t know how they feel in that state).

Keeping such person alive is a huge project. A team of experts is needed, not to treat the patient, but to help prevent his/her situation getting worse. I mean, you need several people just to move the patient.

Eventually, the support wears down and the family goes from the help mode to, well, let the next infection take its course.

It’s a dead end and I don’t wish that for my worst enemy.

Brain diseases are horrible. I would take cancer anytime!
I've been using this for nearly a year and it's by far the best thing I've found so far for testing realistic websockets load where servers are put under strain not just by connections but interactions between each other. Many thanks for the dev team behind this. It's a great piece of work.
> For this question you for example need to know that such cross-region snapshot functionality exists.

Do they put services AWS doesn't have in the answers? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't since it would make themselves look bad. But yeah if they put in a lot of nonsense answers I agree it works to prove that the guy knows AWS, but I wont believe they do until someone proves otherwise.

> Also conditions like "minimal cost" can make an obvious looking answer the wrong one if don't know details about the cost of the affected services.

Not really, the only time you can make sweeping statements about "minimum cost" is when it is both minimal both in engineering hours and running costs. Therefore the solution with the least number of engineering hours spent will be the right answer.
I disagree. Cert studying is a good way of learning and validating your knowledge of a certain providers tool stack and way of doing things. My company provided the learning time for me as a junior so that I could get up to speed with how they operate. I work with people who have a LOT more experience with Linux and enterprise networking, but they are understandably stumped if they have to deal with a cloud platform. It’s pretty confusing since everything has a ”name” and there are dependencies that aren’t obvious.

Calling it purely marketing content is cynical because even documentation or tech talks could be interpreted as marketing if you are cynical enough.

You can always choose not to go through their hoops and just study learning content but not book an exam. Learning platforms don’t really care.
I, too, think about this stuff. And then I remember that most governments won't legalize cannabis (while alcohol is legal) and will ban drugs for no good reason (piracetam, gabapentin, melatonin, salbutamol). And the majority of people support it.

Even if you can get the funding and the scientists, you'll be roadblocked and quite possibly imprisoned for doing what you're suggesting.
For anyone into file formats I can strongly recommend the work of Ange Albertini - polyglots, visual documentation of file layouts, and the legendary PoC||GTFO.
Why do people always try to create a local environment that would be quite different from the production environment?

Run a real Linux under VMware fusion or rent a remote $5 Linux and set up Docker and other stuff there.
Yes, thanks to the sibling comment, I'm more aware than I was when I made my initial comment.

The startup bent seems to be toward cutting edge in hard sciences (bio, materials, etc.), and as a result, most of the startups are outside my typical sphere and interests, so I didn't know where to look for them!

I stand by my original comment that I didn't move here for the startups, and if I were looking for a place to move for a startup ecosystem, I'd probably still look elsewhere, but there is significantly more technical development that's being commercialized than I realized.
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