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> Writing out a type is only a few characters if it's a type that's already built into your type system.

Right, but if it is not, then you also have write extra code in python (e.g. create a new class).

Of course alternatively you can also just use "String" for everything (you can do that with a statical typesystem too), but I hope you agree with me that this isn't a great idea in any language.

I also have the feeling that you might change your mind if you try out a modern fully fledged IDE with a good statically typed language. The reason why I think this is because of things that you said such as "But in such cases, you're not gaining any documentation benefit from it." which are correct if you are not using an IDE. But if you do, it's actually wrong. IDEs like IntelliJ can be configured to show all (or only certain) types that are not written in text but that the compiler infers - without pressing any key. I like to use this feature a lot when diving into an unknown code base.

> Meaning, not well documented compared to APIs in other languages?

No, just not being well documented. Many popular libraries in python are well documented, but not all are. And the less popular/public ones are often poorly documented. The same is true for other languages as well, but in those, you at least you often have a "basic" documentation through the types.
Is this natural dynamics in an increasingly large company? As a company grows, individual's impact diminishes and so does visibility, and revenue per employee dwindles. Consequently, resources increasingly concentrate to the top. That's why we hear Microsoft's engineers below level 68 complain about pay, and Amazon's entry-level engineers are known for their relatively small package. Ebay's situation was probably even worse, as their business stopped growing fast long ago.

All the more reason for working for a blow-out small-to-medium-sized company, except for those few who are truly good at climbing up corporate ladders. The accumulated chance of getting outsized equity return is larger than working for a big company.
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The selection of arbitrary objective metrics and the weight associated to them is subjective by nature. Every ranking system is subjective by definition even if the outcomes are measured objectively. Every ranking system is by definition mathematical garbage that we use to evaluate whatever we feel the need to evaluate. We still need them as filters and for other reasons.
I think that’s a bit irrelevant. Finance has had a culture of paying a lot and paying based on performance for quite a long time. It is also mostly easy to measure performance of a trader’s accounts or of the firm as a whole. I think some just-so arguments for this structure are that the skills are transferable and the companies are all competing with one another, so someone can easily jump ship, and performance is easy to measure so people know what value they are creating.

Two downsides of this are that it can be unfair to people who just get unlucky (eg working on a less-profitable desk), and that it encourages taking large risks for higher returns, which is especially bad if they are taking on long-term positions. One way to try to address the latter is with a partnership structure where partners are incentivised to rein in big risks, but having joint and several liability is unusual and scary.
I thought you believed bitcoin didn't run on coal. Why the sudden return to reality?
I also understood it that way but I can understand how some folks may get it the other way.
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Hi, I used to work on ML and ran experiments like this one at FB. Just want to point out that the effect of experiments like this on an individual is smaller than the effect of making the app start 0.1 seconds faster, or retraining the network used to filter hate speech. The only reason the effect is significant is because N>650k, so tiny effect sizes can be detected.
What if companies contribute best to society by following the law?

There's at least one major party in the US that wouldn't see it as particularly ethical for companies to pay more than what the law requires. One Presidential candidate for that party, when challenged on using every loophole allowed to him, quipped he does it "because I'm smart."

Then he was elected President, and his administration oversaw the spending of tax dollars Congress authorized it.
> you need to actively look for loopholes, and get access to tax lawyers and accountants in order to do something like a 'double-Irish'

What is the alternative? Multinational companies have to file tax returns in tons of different jurisdictions. Tax authorities are heavily biased and don't agree how transactions should be priced (they always want more tax revenue). Tax authorities often fight over the same profits and double tax.

Listen, I'm not saying that "these poor corporations have it so tough". But complying with tax laws for multinationals is ridiculously complex. And these tax structures are needed to lower the compliance burden.

The compliance burden can be huge for smaller companies. I've seen negotiations for small amounts of profit between tax authorities draw on for years. It's can be a massive cost for smaller multinationals.

Do I think there should be something better, yes. But that feeling goes for the entire tax code. I think the US tax code is garbage. Some other countries are even worse.
I see a lot of comments bemoaning performance-based bonuses, but consider the following:

> I remember being in shouting matches with our signal integrity team about among other things, how many capacitors we needed. These tiny devices evened out the power of the system, but they wanted far too many to be added to allow the design cheap and easy to build

> Meanwhile I was waking up at 4AM on most days, in full-stress-insomnia. Sometimes I would just give up on sleep and go into work at that early hour, and while there, sometimes run into other stressed-out engineers who also could not sleep. I had shaved as much time as I could possibly get off the schedule, and a little cost. A $25K bonus was out of the question at this point, but $10K or more, still in the running.

> Because manufacturing, as discussed, was not on the secret bonus program, did not even know it existed, and had very little incentive to speed up the rework. As far as they were concerned the project was slightly ahead of schedule, so why rush the job and make another mistake? More time ticked by. They actually did make another mistake anyway, and mounted incorrect rams a second time, which I remember being really mad about.

> Meanwhile, our sister project had managed to minimize their cost target and beat the target schedule of their project, such that each member of that team received the full $25,000.

Sounds to me like the bonus program was working exactly as intended. OP got into shouting matches with other stakeholders to trim overly cautious expenses. He and his teammates voluntarily worked far outside regular working hours. Both him and his sister team succeeded in delivering a successful project ahead of time, with lower costs, and were ultimately tripped up only by the incompetence of other teams that had minimal bonus incentives.

I've noticed a huge difference between orgs where people have skin in the game, and orgs where people don't. People with skin in the game, have a real fire under their ass. It's inspiring to see how much they are able to get done, and how quickly. At orgs where people don't have skin in the game, I spend half my time sitting in meetings, discussing what doc we should write next, what format we should use for the doc, and when to schedule the next meeting to review that doc. It's as though people are more interesting in impressing one another and putting in facetime, rather than actually getting stuff done. In fact, I've noticed that people often add a net-negative value to many projects - their urge to add their 2 cents and make their impact felt, results in goalposts getting constantly shifted and launches getting continually delayed.

Is it possible for a badly designed bonus program to produce disastrously bad results? Definitely. But there has to be a better way to give people more skin in the game, when it comes to doing their job as effectively as possible.
it might have been a mechanical issue on the guitar itself ( i remember a similar issue when i played the game, it would sometimes detect a double strum or miss it )

Anyway it looks awesome!
They are called regulators because they can, among other mandatory powers, establish mandatory standards for products and ban product categories.

Outside of the areas where they can and have done that, they also can recommend recalls that are voluntary, and publish consumer guidance.
You claimed it was not an alternative. But it is an alternative; I use it all day every day at work and at home, and I have for years. It's obviously working.

Market share has nothing to do with whether something is an option.
Half the outrage is the claim that these companies are paying no U.S. taxes. Is that claim substantially incorrect? There are all these details you mention, but if Google is avoiding paying US taxes on billions in profit then how much detail do people really need to know?
If the target had been hit every quarter for a few years, if anything it was set too low.
I'm surprised there isn't more discussion on this. That's more than 4x more for managers than engineers.
I'm wondering what happens when all these companies relocate their infrastructure in space and suck all the money out of the planet. (only partially kidding)
Management lesson: Money is fungible. Making some part of compensation variable on a whim is giving management a rope to hang themselves with.
The vectors are in a configuration vector space, not a physical vector space.
> Reasonably well it would seem from the outside. 11% of congress is "black", which is roughly in line with population

That picture turns to the opposite when looking at statistics of jail and prison inmates representation, or when looking at how the wealth in the country is racially divided and whole neighborhoods still racially and economically segregated.

In that context BLM is not really a new thing, it's just the most modern manifestation of a rather old and still very on-going issue [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_riots#United_St...
When I was a kid in the 70s I had a small stamp collection. We'd trade them with my friends. Bought a few. A friends Mom worked at a university and would get a lot from overseas stamps to bring to us.

They're like little pieces of art and are pretty cheap. They're a window into history.

For example 2020 US stamps cover a range of topics:
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2019/1022-...

There is even a Stamp Museum we'd visit from time to time (Its still there in Wellsley Ma).

http://www.spellmanmuseum.org

They have a brief overview of the museum. Its a targeted a little at the younger set, but a decent overveiw. (They have boxes of stamps they sell to kids for a couple cents each according to the video). They show the first stamp, an owl stamp collection (hedwig included) a box for mailing eggs, and a dress made of stamps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giZs2ZNkbXU&t=4s

I stopped collecting in high school. One wonders if stamp collecting will continue to be a thing?
Better an angry customer than a dead child?
This is the curse of 95% reliability. People will rely on it even though they shouldn't. It's better if it's only like 66% reliable.
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Horizontally I can add as much displays as I want but as soon as my main ones are higher than a typical 32" height my eyes begin to suffer.
Could be because top and bottom areas start to lie on too different focal planes. Horizontally you can arrange them on an arc to be all at the same distance and the problem is mitigated
Yeah that chipset. I haven't stress tested it though. When I need to do something I just use wired LAN.
Is it not enough to understand that this is the double-irish is tax evasion?

edit: tax avoidance* (this changes nothing about the intent of my question, but is literally incorrect)
This article is pointless - how do you even talk about this without talking about worldwide vs territorial based systems of taxation and the US’s history with them + the recently enacted TCJA
I recommend rethinking how you stem the input words —- I searched for “socialism” but all I get has to do with “social media.”
This is truly terrible design and I hope the machines are recalled... but there is more than a little onus on the parents here (at least in case of the linked video - can't speak to the other incidents). If you are responsible for children that age you should be actively evaluating your home for these types of risks. Letting them play on a piece of machinery like that unsupervised is neglect imo. From the time the little girl notices something is wrong (and is presumably and making a lot of noise) there is still no adult visible after a full 35 seconds has elapsed.
How about Proof-Of-Poverty?
This is how things look, as far as shares of upper-income country GDP: https://i.imgur.com/CaUcjcH.png

This is a reasonable graph to "eyeball" because it's not distorted significantly by starting point or overall underlying growth trend.

Neither Germany nor Japan looks great, and Japan looks worse. Then you consider Japan has 1.5x the population and a lower per-capita GDP...
Well, a) it's based of base salary, so managers may be making a lower base than others, and b) while both bonuses are based on company revenue, managers may have a higher target.

It makes sense to have a larger part of sales' income be commission than, say, engineers, who may have less control over meeting revenue targets.
>And the one quarter, we didn't get the max bonus. In fact, I don't think we got it all. People screamed and yelled and were pissed. At the company all hands they spent a lot of time explaining that bonuses weren't guaranteed.

This is only understandable if the company didn't perform well but did the CEO and other executives not get a bonus as well?? If they didn't it's 100% reasonable. Not so if they continued getting their fat bonuses while everybody else didn't. It's understandable employees become unhappy about this. Let's face it, compensation is mostly one of heaviest factor considered in a job and bonus is factored in to some extent. Hence from bonus to no bonus make that position look less attractive. Pissed? It's an overreaction but maybe it's time to move on. If there are better pastures some people will not hesitate to go. I'd appreciate if the downvoters tell me how is it fair that executives don't get affected by a downturn at all while everyone pays the price collectively, sometimes even the executives mistakes. It completely eludes me and I'm sure I didn't get downvoted by executives.
Yes, because tax evasion is illegal while tax avoidance / reduction through legal means is distinctly not. The Double Irish was as illegal at the time doing something like registering your mostly SF based company in Delaware.
No, it's not. Tax evasion is a crime. This is just mere tax avoidance: using the tax code to legally avoid paying tax.
Employees forget that they sell their labor. Sell your labor to the highest bidder.
Fair enough, I've followed your stuff a bit and you definitely know more about Flashlight than I do.

What would you say the motivation is for yet another ML framework, but in C++ this time?
How violent would cannabis delirium be, if he truly were in that state?

I’ve always thought “the drugs made me do it” was more of an indictment than an excuse.
I can't imagine what a treadmill design that is safe for children the age of the those in the video -- my guess 3 for the boy and 5 for the girl? -- to play on would be. If for no other reason than they can turn it on to a speed which will chuck them off. Or stick their fingers in the belt, etc.
It's the same with competition. Who wants to enter a competition that's an easy win? There's no joy in that. Far more fun competing with people who are very good.
Multinationals have such a ridiculously complex time complying with the tax code so we should accept that they will create structures to pay little or no taxes?

It is only complex because it has been setup that way. If they setup a simple structure they would pay more. So they don't.
The not-shifting of the R10 number could also be because it's using the same motherboard, which is possible with AMD but not with Intel.

However if they haven't redesigned the motherboard it would mean that they couldn't take advantage of PCIe 4.0 on the AMD which would be a problem in itself of course.

I wonder if it's really pressure from intel that makes this bias happen by the way. Intel can hardy keep up with demand and performance right now, and many OEMs have already started AMD offerings, especially in the crucial business market. Additionally, regulators are more aware of these practices now.
> National Endowment for Democracy that specializes in overthrowing non-white democracies and regime change.

They also don't mind white regime change, NED, along with NATO, the US DoS, and a couple of other rather relevant names, where openly sponsoring [0] "Yat's our man" [1], who ended up becoming PM of Ukraine after Euromaidan escalated into a full blown coup.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200328203654/https://openukrai...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
I too see GDPR more as an opportunity than a threat. Time to move Silicon Valley to Europe.
It should be a wash either way unless someone falls into some weird edge case where deductions are limited. The corporation is deducting the payment either way, either as comp paid out to employees or as a charitable donation directly.
Sorry, slipped up there, tax avoidance. So, to restate my question, is it not enough to understand that this is the double-irish is tax avoidance?
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I think it's fine to hold the opinion "companies should be taxed more, and loopholes should be closed that allow them to legally avoid paying tax".

But I assume you're trying to head off the usual spate of anger at Google (or whatever company) for taking advantage of these loopholes to legally avoid paying tax. I think that's in general a good idea, though these loopholes are in part shaped by the lobbying that Google (and others) take part in, so I don't think this anger is 100% misplaced.

At the end of the day, though, if you believe companies should be paying more tax, expressing anger at the companies themselves is pointless; call up your elected government representative and give them your thoughts instead.
Delaware has a healthy corporate tax rate. Incorporations are popular there because of the extensive case law, which means few surprises.

South Dakota has no corporate income tax and might be a better analogy if it worked harder to court large companies. South Dakota is popular with certain kinds of companies and individuals (libertarians, for example, who are willing to go to lengths to have South Dakota plates so they don't have to pay tax on the vehicle.)
If it is a thousand dollar donation, what am I going to do with the tax break? I still have to take a standard deduction. What am I missing?
Self-help books for wannabe anythings is not a bad idea. Imagine a self help book for wannabe app developers.
That's not going to qualify for 501(c)(3) status: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
I've updated my post, though the legality is irrelevant - I haven't seen anyone complain that this is illegal but that it is unethical.
> Having spent so much time in the horse world

I wonder if it's about the expenditure. If you spend a bunch of money on something, it's probably natural to get more serious/nervous about it. (Though, for all I know, maybe rock collecting is expensive too.)

Or maybe it's about how serious it is to a layman. Rocks are serious! Geologists write papers and hold conferences! Horses, stamps, model trains, people are passionate about them, but it's maybe a little funnier to the layman.
When I search for perl it returns entries for HyperloopTT which doesn't have any openings for perl. I assume you are just sub-string matching against all text. If I add a blank before and after perl it doesn't match any text. Wrapping blanks around perl would also preclude matching "^perl" or "perl\.".

Do you have any plans to allow matching only words?
> corporate influence over the tax code is deeply unethical in many ways.

It is problematic in that corporations have a lot more resources to bring to bear than the average person does.

I don't find it unethical though. People have a right to express their concerns to the government and advocate for their interests, even if those people group themselves together into a legal entity such as a corporation.

It would be more unethical to single out certain groups of people and say "everyone else is allowed to talk to the government and advocate for their interests, but you are not".

Edit to add:

It's the government's job to listen to everybody's concerns and balance the interests of different groups against each other. If we're unhappy with the job they're doing, we should elect a different government that will do a better job, not just silence groups we don't like. They are not passive elements in this who are just helplessly acted on by outside forces.
Along with that, gogs and gitea support automatic mirroring of repositories. I know that's just a crontab wmtry away but it's got a nice ui on top of it. It also then gives you a place to push private repos and other stuff you don't want to have publically hosted.
The article lists several points (I believe at least 6) where the Intel system is either configured better than the AMD one or the language used indicates it's the "better" system. And these configuration changes are choices – like dual-channel RAM for Intel and single-channel for AMD.
GitHub can, and will, change forks for you if send a request through the support form. It is not exposed in the user interface, but the functionality is there.
Thank you for writing this. you brought back some good young adulthood memories of VMS, OSF/1 and Tru64. All seemed like alien technologies at the time :). Thank you for your service and hard work
The review that you got there was pretty cool! The reader was actually surprised by the innovative way that you've put together your narrative :)
> setting up the system and maintaining it seemed to be more effort for an experienced person on a small project than doing the work without it.

I love articles like this that put into words what I am feeling but am not articulate enough to put into my own words.
I believe the point the other person is making is that multinational tax compliance is inherently complicated. Moreover, it does not become simple and easy if a company just adopts a simple structure because the forces that drive that complexity are not a result of the complexity of a company's structure.
To take a quote out of context: """

As the economist Robert Frank wrote, “building wealth to them is a creative process, and the closest thing they have to fun.”

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So the wealthy are accumulating the fruits of workers' labor as a pastime?
It’s all about the psychology of expectations.

Those with high expectations that can never be satisfied are not happy people.