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If I am working in the huge company or project.
I will use `if` statement to increase my code readability.

This essay just sit in good to know level.
It's not optimized at all, and they say so, so this is really jumping the gun for an alpha tech preview.
thanks! I've read that and this part sticks out:

""they assume racism is present in everything and look for it “Critically” until they find it.""

that doesn't seem like the scientific method to me. am I the dumb?

edit: also the founder of the linked site is critical of Critical Race Theory - so maybe there is bias in this article. Whatever, I asked for a place to start - so, thanks again.
When there is a lot of consensus then the states just independently decide to do similar things as each other, so it works fine in that case too.
something very soothing about this project. I love it.
Yeah, that's an elastic IP, check under EC2.

People forget to clean them up after shutting down the instance (probably kept in case you want to keep your IP)
Oh, all of that seems less interesting to me, at present, than chain link. The defi applications are interesting but it isn’t clear how any of it affects the real economy. It seems to be a lot of intra-crypto speculation and money moving.

That would also apply to the stock market etc but ultimately traditional finance does allocate capital to businesses and actually produces things in the economy.

However, if Chainlink etc can link all of that Defi stuff to real activities, it could be powerful.

I’m still on the fence as I haven’t seen too many practical examples, but it definitely seems to be the space to produce one if they can be made to happen.
AWS represents over 60% of the net profit of the entire Amazon empire across all its divisions and acquisitions. If they truly helped the customer to waste less money, it would have a massive impact on everyone who has stock, from sovereign funds to junior engineers. They have a vested interest in dinging your sandbox account $1/month for storing secrets you haven’t used in 2 years. I don’t see this changing anytime soon, especially when the competition is no better.
He didn't do it at the debate.

He did it before, and he did it after. Some times more quickly than other, almost always with that rambling I-don't-even-get-the-question-non-answer sort of thing that people do when they are usually making fun of politicians. But here's the problem.

In a debate, in a high-reward scenario, on national television, Chris Wallace asked if he would denounce these groups and his first response was indignation. Arguing with Wallace over whether or not he'd done it in the past. Asking which groups specifically. Telling the Proud Boys to "stand by." The problem with all of that, right or wrong, is that he could have shut everyone up by denouncing white supremacy in all its forms and all fringe groups associated with it. He could have immediately followed up with "and you know what Chris, I've already done this on these occasions" and listed out all the times he actually did it. He could have dunked on Wallace, dunked on Biden, and picked up 25k votes across the country in the process.

But instead he did exactly what you would do if you were trying to avoid actually saying the thing someone was trying to get you to say. He played right into their hands.
It’s an American consumer culture thing.
> In 2019, PyCon US generated 63% of the PSF’s revenue.
Bill aims to halt Bitcoin mining until its environmental impact can be assessed
You almost certainly do, they just keep silent.
I'm so miserable that I finally got around to embracing open ecosystems after almost a decade of being Microsoft-poisoned and now everyone is all in on some baffling walled garden with abysmal UX and about 300 different services that you need a damn NASA PhD to understand.

Like the number of times I find myself in some random service/feature/part of AWS like "do we use one of these? how would I even tell?".
Which clouds do this? I work quite a bit with AWS and GCP, and Azure to a lesser extent, and I've yet to see a spending limit on any of them. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Also fun: the border between the NWT and Yukon has never been surveyed, so no ones really sure exactly where it is.
It should be codified into law that schools have to use open source software.
> I still can't imagine how sick a person can be to do this. If he wanted to kill himself he should just have jumped off a bridge.

Jumping off a bridge seems quite difficult in the moment. Whereas it may be much easier to simply do what you always do, being distracted a bit by the need to execute details (that may feel emotionally innocuous) until you gradually slip across a point of no return and the decision is out of your hands. You could even work on controlling the plane all the way to the water, just as you were trained to until, of course, there was nothing further you could do.

I do imagine that some passengers and crew must have noticed something weird about the in flight maps. Almost the entire flight path is out of phone range though so unless there was satellite internet there would have been nothing any crew could have done. Cockpit doors are armored these days.
ok this is going to sound stupid, but I don't care. learning time, for me.

do you type the literal characters "esc + ." or do you press CTRL+[ then period, or do you push the escape key, then period, or do you push escape and period at the same time?

I'm not at a terminal to try any of this and find out for myself.
That's a feature of Google's web dominance - they can churn out tons of features which means their competitors have to expend most of their productive output just to keep parity.
Marxism is about the politics of the underclass - the revolutionary struggle to achieve a just society by upending the inequities of Capitalism. So the proletarian uprising wrests control of society from the bourgeoisie.

Cultural Marxism redefines the oppressed and oppressor along the lines of identity rather than economy. This makes it much more palatable to a capitalist society.
If that many employees think they can get another, comparable, job quickly then that is implicitly saying Basecamp's overall compensation package (including how interesting the work is, extra time off in summer, profit sharing, etc, etc) isn't actually especially unique or valuable. Which kind of says something not great about Basecamp in and of itself.
I was once obese, but I lost 100+ pounds and have been a normal weight for many years. I believe that the first step towards overcoming obesity is personally accepting that being fat is a problem that you are not willing to accept. The solution is ultimately having discipline. To this day, I still step on the scale every single night in order to be aware of my weight and whether the number is drifting upwards. I'm nominally 200lbs at night and 198lbs in the morning. If the scales says 201, it's not a big deal. However, if it says 202, I know I'm doing something wrong and I address it the next day. I take it very seriously.

I have obese family members who refuse to change their lifestyle. When I talk to them about it, they accuse me of "having an unhealthy relationship with food" and they make excuses that sound exactly like this article. This "fatness apologist" mindset is totally BS. I'm not saying that fatness itself is always the issue and that it cannot be a symptom of another problem. However, I do think that fat people would be better off if they took their weight seriously. Don't make excuses and rationalize it like this article does.
Once you go public, you can no longer call yourself a “startup”. All of the companies mentioned were public.

Facebook was profitable before they went public. The main reason they went public if I remember correctly, is because they had more than 500 shareholders and it made it more difficult to stay private.

As far as Amazon, Amazon wasn’t GAAP profitable. But it did have positive cash flow and was investing in infrastructure. The companies mentioned above have very slim to no marginal profit. They are literally selling dollars for 95 cents.
DAOs that will be incorporated and so on.

Assuming personal liability by engaging into a DAO in personal capacity is just dumb.
No, it is uncomputable, not an NP problem.
I believe the product was called "CityDesk" and the in-house language that compiled to several different target languages was called Wasabi.

Edit: I was wrong, Fog Creek did have a "CityDesk" product at one point, but Wasabi was for on-prem FogBugz[1].

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/wasabi/
SWIFT is a Belgian company, not American. They are subject to European law, not the US. However, the US has pressured SWIFT to eject Iranian banks from their system or risk being sanctioned from doing business with the US banking system. SWIFT is not some magic sword that the US can wave around to do their bidding and that the US would be crippled without. Rather, the US banking system is significant enough that they can pressure not just SWIFT but any entity with significant financial ties to the US to enforce sanctions on America's behalf.
Agreed. Children can't give informed consent to whatever the software may be doing behind the scenes (or in the backend) esp. if it handles their personal data. This is exactly the sort of thing the AGPL was made for: it should be possible for others to host and inspect software rather than blindly trust.
There’s a fun 1970s book “Motel of the Mysteries” by the brilliant illustrator David Macaulay with this basic premise.

A single motel room is discovered underground by future archeologists, who proceed to interpret everything as if entering Tutankhamen’s tomb. The dusty motel room and its “treasures” are illustrated with the same precision that Macaulay brought to his classic works like “City” and “Pyramid” (which this 80s child remembers fondly enough that I bought them used for my kids a few years back, along with “Motel”.)
I think you are absolutely on the money here, but I also think we didn't benefit and he benefitted greatly from the fact that people jumped to comparing him with one of the worst dictators of all time. Did his personality dispose him to possibly becoming something like that? Had his coup succeeded I'm sure we'd be closer. But he was compared to a mass murderer (conveniently in living memory, no comparisons to Timur or other autocrats) before he'd done anything but say tactless things. That enabled him to paint all criticisms of him as absurd (even though he would have anyway).
Even if 99.9% is lost, that still leaves behind far more than we have about the Romans.

I recall an hour-long history program on TV where a whole narrative was concocted out of the engraving of a gladiator's name on a stone.
amazing how much it has gone up since then. in large part due to the stuff that is not public like the insurance businesses
Yup, and go is particularly bad for this because it handles allocations automatically (and poorly). I can double a go program's performance by going through the memory profile and rearranging the instructions to minimize hidden applications.

The worst offender is slices, since you can't mark them read only or stack allocated.
I remember when the political right branded everyone as a communist.
> I just generated the html page inside a function.

But that's also a template - just your own kind rather than framework's.

I guess it's hard to really understand the tradeoffs here without concrete examples... which is not great for HN either.
The point that I’m trying to make is that the biggest beneficiaries of collaborative problem solving here are the very Black engineers you’re talking about.

Playing rhetorical tricks in an attempt to “make people uncomfortable” just muddies the water since everyone sees what’s going on. At best, nothing changes, and at worst this strategy just sets us back.

As long as we continue down the path of polarization and resentment, the further we stray from solving our problems as we remain in the status quo. In the status quo the biggest loser is the very person that stands to benefit the least from the status quo. From what you’ve told me, you’re probably not going to be the loser there.
The encoder is a neural network which is a nonlinear and highly expressive function family. The encoder function is optimized to produce a set of "factors" which are designed to be linearly comparable. If the "factors" aren't expressive enough, you can add more (increase the embedding dimension) or make them more sophisticated (increase the encoder network complexity). There's nothing stopping you from allowing them to interact in a more complex way as well, except that you give up the ability to easily do operations like indexing.
Instagram wrote https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType to help type their Python code
I've not read the original report (and am unlikely to), but this quotation: '“WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams (graphic below), but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe,” Mr. Godfrey says.' is not an accurate characterization of this (or any) use of WSPR. It implies a degree of precision and clarity of signal that is completely misleading. I'm also very concerned about Godfrey's clear comfort with taking this very weak and contingent signal and using it to ascribe thoughts, motives and behaviour to the aircrew of MH370. You don't do that without substantial corroborating evidence from other sources when you have an intact Cockpit Data Recorder, much less whatever this is. Looks a lot like a familiar pattern: starting with a theory, finding some nice noisy data that needs 'expert interpretation', and then massaging it to confirm your theory.
The counterpoint spends most of its words (rightfully) dismissing analysis of the pilot's psychology but does not persuasively address the flight simulator evidence. The arguments against that evidence mostly amount to how it is not conclusively incriminating. But this is not a court of law - we are not putting him on trial.
> ...an updated free tier that treats “personal learning” AWS accounts differently from “new corporate” accounts, and sets hard billing limits that you can’t exceed.

Honestly, this is needed for corporate accounts as well. Not all companies are FAANG scale behemoths who can shrug off an unexpected charge.

For a scrappy startup in India, an unexpected $5000 bill would be an existential threat.
Oops sorry I was referencing grep not awk
> That may mean they were staying with friends or family for just a few months, or it may mean they were born and raised here and just couldn't afford the ever-rising rents.

This would be an important distinction, right? I met someone when I was in college there, that was supposed to meet their relative after arriving from the Midwest, and they never showed up. So he had to be homeless for a few months, but I guess being young he got a job and got out of it. This is 15 years ago. However I would not have considered him as someone who is from SF and became homeless. Clearly there are people coming into the city for whatever opportunity, and it doesn't work out.

I've personally talked to several unfortunate people in SF, and one of the major reasons they're in SF is because police doesn't do anything and they know this!

And then I think some of that data must be wrong for this claim: "Nobody wants to sleep outside. Nobody wants to hunt for a bathroom or be unable to bathe. ", in my experience talking to people living on the streets of SF, they will tell you they do want housing and all that, but when you ask them how much it is worth for them, you will get honest answers that it isn't a big deal to sleep outside, especially if you're younger. People really value saving the rent money.

Again, the problem here is there are many reasons people are outside, and they vary as much as the people themselves. I don't know what the solution is, but people have been saying it's housing for more than a decade... why is this not solved? How many more decades until people understand they don't understand?
I read both his pieces where he did apologise for the list (that he wasn't directly part of, but had overlooked). And then from my reading, he did try to shut down escalation and move on.
A scrappy startup in India is not AWS' ICP.
The cost explorer is beyond deplorable. It provides either too little information or information that is so fine-grained it becomes useless.

It infuriates me the hoops we need to jump through just to understand how much a single virtual machine costs. Or in cases like yours - to find out what resource a charge was for. Impossible.

Designed to be impossible. FFS. We would spend more money if we were able to manage costs better.
Macaulay made "the way things work" too

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304889.The_Way_Things_Wo...

that book really inspired 12yr old me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...
there are many ways in which these do apply on Windows, these days.

please work on separating the semantics of someone's statement from the pragmatics. don't bother with the "how they phrased it" bit, and instead try to focus on the "what are they trying to say" part more. you may be, like I did all too often in my youth, over-emphasizing English correctness, missing the message being communicated entirely.

maybe you're not doing that! maybe you are. only you can know for sure. if you are, then try to work on that. it will help you communicate and it will help others communicate with you. we all grow as people over time, and no one is flawless, and that's fine. just try to be better every day.
Lack of sex causes depression and anxiety. It's a vicious circle.
Did exactly this, and it’s so far going pretty well.

Anything questionable, I can confront, or be prepared for, they know it’s happening, I’m good with it…

And then my punk ass teenager decided to change the id on the phone to get past the controls.

I’m mad, but more proud. Way to think around the problem!

You’re grounded.

“Hacking” has real world consequences if you get caught. Try harder, padawan.
Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook
Oh boy! No having cash cows or taking bullshit, or taking a gander, or goosing the numbers, etc., etc.

What the hell happened to us?!
I think David Graeber called these "bullshit jobs"

I think aversion to inefficiency, risk, and loss is an excuse, nor really an effort made to avoid those things in good faith. All those efforts are so un-introspective about their own methods is seems facial.
It's bad where I work too. I'd call myself anti-woke. I just keep to myself. The sad thing is that I feel completely demoralized by it all. Like no one is on my side and I can't express myself at all anymore.
I can't understand the people who say quit, because for every Basecamp or Coinbase there are 10,000 other companies who haven't banned it where it's taking over.
I knew that and still botched the logo. Memory is weird. https://twitter.com/esesci/status/1389775324930404359
“Small, cheap things like "a single DynamoDB query" or "a byte of bandwidth" are often also high-volume, and you don't want to introduce billing checks to critical paths for reliability / latency / cost reasons”

That’s hardly necessary. Let’s suppose you have some service that costs 1 cent every 1,000 queries. If you’re billing it then you need to be keeping track of it and incrementing some counter somewhere. If old number mod x < new number mod x them do some check, that’s very cheap on average and doesn’t add latency if done after the fact.

PS: Phone companies can pull this stuff off successfully for millions of cellphones. If you’re arguing keeping up with AT&T is to hard, you have serious organizational problems.
Open borders = unaffordable housing, no universal borders, less time for friends and family
> The argument is simply that the behavior everyone claims to decry (e.g. racial violence) starts somewhere, far below violence. "Funny names" turn into off-color jokes. Off-color jokes turn into jokes with a darker edge. Then it turns into "just asking questions", and before too long your organization is acting as much as a group radicalization effort as it is a business.

Aren't you (or whoever makes these claims) purposely stopping the "pyramid of hate" where you see fit? You could go on and say "people who joke", "people who talk", "people who meet". You just set the bar where you find a culprit/cause you are willing to demonize, as if it was that clear cut
I used the free tier account to play around for a while. I thought I had deleted everything before the end of the year free tier. I was wrong! For 2 months I paid $10 as I could not figure it out what the heck was running.

I had to close my account in order to stop the charges. Today when I hear anyone speak of AWS free tier for a year, first thing I warn them about is to make sure they keep track of what they create so they will know what to delete, otherwise they will keep buying Starbucks every month to AWS.
40 hours a week spent on "General and Administrative". All 40 hours spent in the system, entering the 40 hours, thus the timecode is correct.
Hey, thanks for the info.

I was looking at https://github.com/quartiq/rayopt (found on HN) earlier. (Check out https://github.com/quartiq/rayopt-notebooks for examples.) I've also tinkered a bit with Lytro files; they have maybe 8 "angle" samples per "pixel" - not quite enough to do much.

My idea was to try to use something like a privacy filter (blocks some angles of light) inside a lens for the purpose of having a nonlinear bokeh falloff. One of the issues with using something like F1.2 for a portrait is that while the background will be nice and blurry, so will the ear and the nose if you focus on the eyes. But if you're able to set up a "smart aperture" that filters out rays that are just out of focus, and keep the ones that are either perfectly in focus or way out of focus, you'd get a really blurry background while keeping the depth of field workable.
That's really interesting. Thanks for posting this.
Most of the time the “solutions” to quantifying efficient production of programmers is, for the best of us, a gradual descent into frequent focus destroying forms of micromanagement - and for the worst of us this is a welcomed phenomenon. If you want to do your work, it sucks. If you don’t actually want to do your work, it’s great.

For non programmers, of course, the idea that someone valuable is doing something that they have no control over is absolutely terrifying.
One of the best recent write-ups on what likely happened and the different possible scenarios. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-y...
We would definitely spend more money on AWS services if our company could feel more secure in understanding which project those costs were associated with and were able to track the costs without spending multiple hours.
So let’s say they “turn everything off”. Does that include deleting all of your objects in S3? Deleting your database? Deleting your attached disks (AMIs)? Deleting your DNS entries?
as others have pointed out, he'll probably make more money giving this away and putting ads on his page.
The thing that always gets me: I _think_ some of this is a solved problem within AWS. I've never used it before, but the AWS Educate "offers students no-cost access to a specified, capped amount of AWS cloud resources without requiring a credit card for payment".

That sounds a lot like what I want a free tier to be. Let me play for a bit, set hard guard rails so I can't accidently spend $100, or much much worse. I mean, I can understand requiring a CC to do this, but that's mostly so I don't spin up a ton of free accounts and also so the friction to going to a paid plan is lower.

It's too late for me, my personal AWS account is well outside of the free tier, but the first time I spun on a large instance to test it out I was so insanely nervous I'd screw up and end up with a huge bill. I can totally see someone else backing out at that point out of fear, but if I knew I'd hit the guardrail before spending money, even if it meant losing an instance, I'd have totally be happier to play around.