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This quote comes from Blaise Pascal's Pensées, accessible here.

"That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible. That is, in fact, the main joy of the condition of kingship, because people are constantly trying to amuse kings and provide them with all sorts of distraction.—The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself. King though he may be, he is unhappy if he thinks about it"

https://books.google.com/books?id=KezeDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=P...
So this is happening. Personality over truth.
rtpg above has hit the nail on the head. Mocking someone for climbing the wrong ladder isn't necessarily anti intellectualism.
Look into the physics of how this technology works. If you do that, and take the time to grok it, you'll have the information to understand that this type of radar cannot penetrate any of the materials that buildings are made.
I don't get the logic.

Couldn't someone just as easily use that quiet time to concoct 17 brand new ways to repackage trickle-down economics?
I'd be curious how thing would look if the cloud providers broken up horizontally. Like, if the companies that provided VM's were different from the ones who provided higher-level services. That's kind of how it was originally with Heroku and its add-ins, and AWS/Rackspace. I liked that so much better and wish it stayed that way. If you want a VM, go to Rackspace and knock yourself out. If you want a hosted thing then go to Heroku, or whichever service hosts things in the language of your choice. But the point is, you make a choice, when you sign up for whichever service, what level of the stack you want to operate in.
> Right up until something crashes or some hardware fails.

Unlike the public cloud where Nothing Ever Goes Wrong (tm).

There are never brownouts.

There are never latency spikes.

No undocumented quota limits.

Documented but confusing quota limits.

Unexpected performance issues caused by other customers.

Forced upgrades.

Forced patching.

Shock bills.

No siree Bob, that kind of thing just doesn't go on in the public cloud! It's all rainbows and unicorns....
That is a beautiful poem.

Eliot is often beyond me, but The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Ash Wednesday both made intuitive sense to me in many ways.
Very same experience here, except that I ended up with a simple webdav server to share with family and friends. And it was already quite frustrating to realize how few servers are available and how many client applications pretending to support that rather simple protocol were actually not working properly.
Tells a lot about how badly selfhosting have fallen out of fashion. I can remember a time when you would get better service when hosting your own file sharing, emails, DNS, VoIP... and plenty of good free software servers for everything to choose from, but it seems not to be the case any more.
Going by that definition, the rules here are not defining the steps to be followed to do the calculation. The rules here are defining the answer that they want, not the steps necessary to figure it out.
So, this only occurs when manually invoking ChkDsk with repair, or when Windows decides to do so on bad shutdown?

I don't understand how such core things break in Windows.
If you've abandoned chess.com for lichess.org, you might be surprised to learn that chess.com now hosts 15 variants.
The reason I thought it was implausible is because in my experience, such dramatic drops in price never happen in only a few years.

The other responses did help clarify how it can occur with Starship.
The only part of Apple's marketing material that even references desktops are related to integrated graphics.

So what's clear is that a lot of people are acting irrationally especially since the M1 is their low-end laptop CPU. At least wait for their mid-range laptop/desktop CPU scheduled for next year to make proper judgements.
Why am I not surprised at all? Heard that M$ has completely removed the testing team by adapting to DevOPs, which makes end users in production environment the white mouse.
It is trying to see if you have a URL in the clipboard to ask if you want to save.
I had auto-CHKDSK-on-restart trash an NTFS drive circa early noughties, FWIW. Never stored anything valuable on NTFS after that.
Just a bit more on why Pascal thought even a king is unhappy when he thinks about himself:

Whatever condition we picture to ourselves, if we muster all the good
things which it is possible to possess, royalty is the finest position
in the world. Yet, when we imagine a king attended with every pleasure
he can feel, if he be without diversion, and be left to consider and
reflect on what he is, this feeble happiness will not sustain him; he
will necessarily fall into forebodings of dangers, of revolutions which
may happen, and, finally, of death and inevitable disease; so that if he
be without what is called diversion, he is unhappy, and more unhappy
than the least of his subjects who plays and diverts himself.

Hence it comes that play and the society of women, war, and high posts,
are so sought after. Not that there is in fact any happiness in them, or
that men imagine true bliss to consist in money won at play, or in the
hare which they hunt; we would not take these as a gift. We do not seek
that easy and peaceful lot which permits us to think of our unhappy
condition, nor the dangers of war, nor the labour of office, but the
bustle which averts these thoughts of ours, and amuses us.

Reasons why we like the chase better than the quarry.

Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that
the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure
of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest
source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly
to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures.

The king is surrounded by persons whose only thought is to divert the
king, and to prevent his thinking of self. For he is unhappy, king
though he be, if he think of himself.

This is all that men have been able to discover to make themselves
happy. And those who philosophise on the matter, and who think men
unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would
not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not
screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase which
turns away our attention from these, does screen us.
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Depends. Imagine doing so and having him or her be marked for life over a parents overreaction. Kid could end up on every no fly list in the world overnight and never fly their whole lives. The parents surely worry about these things, especially if they think the person will grow out of it. In any case, I can’t imagine how stressful it must be for those parents
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I been there. Laid off. Mortgage. Desperate. Accepted low ball arrogant offer from small startup company. That got me into more calm mood of not being that desperate.
Got a call from another company offering me 3x.

Shown middle finger to startup and left in 2 days to way more exciting career.
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The variables here are:

* where your boundaries lie along the spectrum from self-serving to doormat

* your propensity to be generous to people on the good side of your boundaries

I myself trend close to what you'd call a stoic. Probably out of fear of being a doormat. My boundaries are healthyish, but I don't quite trust them. So I don't seek out help from others, and in return I hope they don't ask for generosity from me. Being generous without crossing my boundaries is something I have to work on.

I know some narcissists who can actually be quite generous. This fools them into thinking, "There's no way I'm a narcissist!" because they can easily recall past instances of generosity. Yet they're still regarded by others as selfish. Their boundaries are shifted so far in their favor that they feel taxed being generous to others who most would deem worthy of generosity. And they expect sympathy, attention, and generosity in situations where most would not have that expectation.

These abusers often do end up ostracized, but that doesn't always look like solitude. They become victims, upset at their crummy relationships and unable to garner sympathy from others, yet unwilling to ever point the finger at themselves. Some end up alone, yes. Others befriend other victims who they can commiserate with, but those relationships don't last long for obvious reasons. So it's sort of a fleeting, on-again off-again ostracism.

Of course I'm speaking in generalities here. Plenty of victims aren't narcissists, etc. And I do have sympathy. Nobody chooses to be a narcissist. I think some people are just wired that way, or perhaps set on that course by environmental factors early in life. Either way, it's not a choice. So I think it's somewhat of a tragic condition.

My advice would be that if you're consistently getting negative feedback about your personality traits, take it seriously. It'll be tempting to deny and seek disconfirmation, e.g. by changing the subject, blaming your accusers, deflecting to other causes (e.g. race or gender), or running away to find people who will say nice things about you. But for all our follies, human beings are naturally pretty decent judges of character. If you're getting consistent character feedback from lots of different people, it's probably accurate.
Not delaying updates is like opting in to be a beta tester. I don’t want to sound smug, that was just a word of warning. It’s just a switch to flip and it will save you from many headaches.
The affiliate links are a great source of revenue. There is a YouTube called TechLead that explains his revenue as well and affiliate links were about half.
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>You'll probably just break it

Via web interface? I’m not saying configuration should be exposed. I’m saying basic diagnostics that do not rely a T1 support’s honor should be available. Every modem I’ve ever seen has its permissions locked down just fine.
>i have seen beggars in india with one limb and living in a shack with three children boiling pebbles for soup who are happier than millionaires in california.

We've got yachting communities in the US where some of the natives are surviving off of food banks and charity too because of high taxes, and they're still happy compared to the perceived grumpiness of California billionaires.

So i guess it's all relative, extreme inequality can be so unfair.
I thought I was just talking about vm/compute, which is quite a lot different than using a mail service where you are essentially the product.
there’s another big problem that I read about a few days ago: many sites are blocking all crawlers that are not google through robots.txt file.
Could you cite historic evidence for that?

It seems as likely the new settlers will signal their loyalty to their new home by visibly supporting the culture of their new location. No more rabid Prohibitionist than an ex-drunk. And nobody likes a carpetbagger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger

Once they are “culturally assimilated”, or at least think of it as home, the politics will follows whichever way it wants. Takes four to eight years in my limited experience.

Pushing any agenda before they are settled will make life very difficult for them. More because they will sound grossly naive, because they will be. Also, when they say “we” should do something, the locals will be thinking, “what do you mean ‘we’, paleface?”

https://alt.usage.english.narkive.com/ZfSmkb7M/what-is-origi...

If they stay in some cultural enclave and push the sort of agenda that a busybody in an HOA development does, they will be OK. “Yeah, well they’re from X, so...”

This is not the first migration these places have seen, and they have their ways of managing it.
> Why is the alternative to serverless, colocating servers in a DC?

Because that’s what the author was comparing it to. Yes you can rent vms, and that works for many workloads. However serverless platforms provide other benefits like deployments, load balancing, and auto scaling that you’d need to setup yourself on raw vms. Plus, with services like AppEngine Flex you can run serverless on vms to cut costs if you have consistent traffic.

> Per request pricing and "scaling to zero" is just old fashioned unbundling. You are selling a smaller quantity of a product at a higher unit price and putting a bit of lipstick on that pig to convince people they are not getting hosed.

It really depends on your problem. Sometimes you might have a very low QPS service (like maybe a few QPH) and running a whole vm would be overkill. Some business have really bursty traffic and maybe some regions won’t get any traffic at all during the night but they still want to deliver low latency service to the people living on that side of the globe. Additionally, these are just reasons to serverless for scale to zero and ignores other benefits, like reduced operational costs, that business can use to justify paying more for compute time.

There are lots of reasons to use and not use serverless for compute. I don’t think it is the solution for everyone and everything, but I do think the hate and FUD directed towards it is unwarranted and uniformed.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, opinions are my own

Edit: typos and disclaimer
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Okay as a personal example I like to take warm showers - they’re extremely comfortable and relaxing - essentially a makeshift sauna. I find that if I’m not deliberate enough about actually completing the shower, I can get lost in my own thoughts and spend over 30 minutes showering. Now I’m certainly more introverted than average, but I would guess that a lot of other people can likewise get lost in their own thoughts in a sufficiently relaxing environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
I care how it compares to other products on the market for my use case. It doesn't matter what it's built for. This is a relevant comparison from that perspective.
Find a technical friend you can pay to do it on the side. Share it with friends and all chip into the cost.
Why should you be taxed when you do things? That seems arbitrary.
It’s not switching from Google to Oracle. It’s just a place to spin up your own vm/instance, and for very little. You are conflating services.
Yep, all they gotta do is that thing they're not going to be doing for a while.
Why couldn't he simply say "Big Government cities", which overwhelmingly tend to be governed by the corrupt Democratic (socialist) party?

You'd think there's some mystery to it: cities growing to a point where they simply can't help it and become expensive. Laughable.
I come away from this way more impressed by the M1 than I was going in. It's a comparison of a ~$700 stock, low end full computer Vs. $700 for high end CPU only. And the high end CPU has overclocking tweaks enabled, and overclocked memory.

The M1 generally keeps up quite well, which blows my mind.
The power use difference Is pretty big as well.

Yeah, it would be great if Apple was totally open source.

But this is going to push the entire industry to do way better.
That is capital gains tax. Not a wealth tax.
If you mean the 3rd gen server chips, they're not released yet.

Also there are diminishing returns as core count increases. I'm doubting that a 5950x is worth it over the 5900x for me.
Do people here feel the same way? That is, do you feel that it is uncomfortable to not do anything? I, like most people I guess, am easily distracted with various things like reading HN or fiddling with whatever is on the table. When given the opportunity to sit down with nothing with my thoughts however, I always feel very enjoyable. It is definitely nothing I would think about as uncomfortable.
Except the room wasn’t cold. The only extreme condition is that it is empty and there is nothing but yourself to inspect and feel.
I don't think that's true with Zen 3. If you have a source to the contrary I'm interested to see it.
Seconded. Move the goalposts, because the question without moving them is absurdly uninteresting. I can live a horrible, miserable, shorter life, but it's not a literal death sentence? So, OK, that's better than them taking me out and shooting me, but...

So we concede. smnrchrds wins the point. It's not a point we cared about, though, and we're going to move on to talk about a question we find more interesting: Can a person live a decent life without working?
>apples marketing suggesting that the M1 beats everything

Nope—Apple’s marketing never said that. Everything they said in their November 10, 2020 press release has been backed up by reviewers and testers. It's you guys that blew their claims out of proportion.

For example, there's no reason to disbelieve that the M1 13-inch MacBook Pro is up to 3x faster than the best-selling laptops (of the 9 months leading up to November 10, 2020) in it's class—13″ to 14″ laptops that cost around $1200.

Is there a popular PC desktop that cost $600-$699 that's faster than the Mac mini? I've already seen the M1 Mac mini discounted to $625…

From the Apple press release [0]:

And in MacBook Air, M1 is faster than the chips in 98 percent of PC laptops sold in the past year. [1]

And with M1, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is up to 3x faster than the best-selling Windows laptop in its class. [2]

And when compared to the best-selling Windows desktop in its price range, the Mac mini is just one-tenth the size, yet delivers up to 5x faster performance. [3]

[0]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/introducing-the-next-...

[1]: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM. Performance measured using select industry-standard benchmarks. PC configurations from publicly available sales data over the last 12 months. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro.

[2]: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip, as well as production Intel Core i7-based PC systems with Intel Iris Plus Graphics and the latest version of Windows 10 available at the time of testing. Best-selling system based on publicly available sales data over the last nine months. Tested with graphics-intensive workloads in commercial applications. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro.

[3]: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction Mac mini systems with Apple M1 chip, as well as production Intel Core i5-based PC systems with Intel UHD Graphics 630 and the latest version of Windows 10 available at the time of testing. Best-selling system based on publicly available sales data over the last nine months. Tested with select industry-standard graphics benchmarks. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac mini.
Indeed, and not only did they develop the Perceus technique for the Koka language, but the immediately practical mimalloc allocator came out of that work as well.

https://github.com/koka-lang/koka
https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc
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Most organizations don't have hundreds or thousands of developers working on some coherent product.

In fact this is quite seldom. So all the tech that solves problems that occur in such constellation should be quite exotic.

But it isn't. The reason is that computing "on a mainframe" (the cloud) can be sold orders of magnitude more expensive. The rest is marketing of the mainframe owners.
Immediate action isn't a virtue either, and trust me, I grew up with people who think their immediate action is virtuous enough, and no, you're not gonna get much community from that in the last resort as reassuring as it appears in real-time; most people do not recognize their own anxieties spurring them into some form of immediate action or other.

Also, we don't know what the subject was between OP and whoever, so its kinda hard to gauge what kind of lesson to derive from it
Ah yes, the freedom to burn down a forest for the freedom to have a gender reveal party. Freedoms comes with responsibility, and a lot of people don't have either.
It's not so much a policy itself so much as it is the entirely-foreseeable consequence of other policies. As far as I know, the NIH has only one mechanism for directly supporting staff scientists: the R50. I think the NCI is the only institute that does them, and there aren't many.

You're right that staff scientist can, theoretically, be funded by research project grants...but it's tricky. Students and postdoc funding comes from many sources: institutional training grants to the program, individual fellowships from the NIH, NSF, and private foundations, and sometimes even internal money (either as a RAship or in exchange for TAing). Virtually all of these are limited to those within a few years of their PhD[0]. Anyone more senior needs to be paid from research funds. The "workhorse" grant of the NIH is an R01. Most labs have 1, maybe 2, and their standard "modular" budget is $250k/year [1]. Profs with soft money jobs typically have to cover much of their salary from these grants. Adding on another $75k + 25-30% fringe for a staff scientist therefore puts a pretty big hole in the budget, even before you've started to buy reagents, equipment, scan time, etc.

This biases labs towards hiring trainees. Even if you are paying several of them them with grant money now, there's a decent chance that some of them can be moved onto a non-research grant funding stream later. In contrast, the staff scientist costs more now and will definitely cost even more later. Some places are also wary of letting staff scientists write grants[2], which makes it even harder for them to defray their own costs.

[0] The CZI-funded "Imaging Scientist" is one notable exception, but for a fairly specific type of person.

[1] You can do some extra paperwork to request more than this amount, but people's advice on whether this is wise is all over the map and depends on your study section, career stage, and the phase of the moon.

[2] Ghostwriting one for the prof to submit is an option, but an unsatisfying one since it won't show up on your CV, which makes it harder to (eventually) move on.
Thanks for all this detail.

That's my laymen's guess at the end - even if spike changes too much we can just fire up a new yearly vaccine, maybe bundle with the flu.
Well, everyone consumes public infrastructure directly (driving on roads, suing someone, calling police) or indirectly (be assured of a safe investment environment for wealth building in the US vs Syria/Zimbabwe). How will you measure and tax this consumption to pay for the underlying infrastructure and labor?