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> all of the systems that were designed to take away the need for administrative assistants may once again require an assistant to navigate efficiently

Made me laugh. My org has a completely automated online self-service travel booking system that even includes dedicated support from a corporate travel agent - and I recently needed a single flight booked for a day in another city (about the simplest travel you can do) and somebody "loaned" me their PA to do the booking because it takes much time and knowledge to do it right. Part of the problem is that the org has implemented a gigantic set of strict rules about what kinds of flights can be booked to save money. So it can be quite hard to select the right flight that won't get knocked back further downstream or alternatively navigate through the forms to justify why you aren't selecting a compliant flight...
Shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic, a highly-influential think tank (the Bertelsmann-Stiftung) suggested closing half of Germany's hospitals because of the low bed utilization and simple inefficiencies that pop up when smaller hospitals deal with less-common cases.

That plan has now been effectively scrapped. The large number of ICU beds per capita has been one of the main reasons why Germany got so well through the first wave. The plan also overlooked that the main bottleneck has always been staff, who were already running with very low slack.
Reproduction may be the most fundamental desire that humans have and is essential to the continuation of the species.
It's hard to say.

I've known people who are happy and fulfilled living alone, but it's hard for me to picture myself in their shoes.

My wife and I have an awesome relationship. I would be okay-ish, but it couldn't hold a candle to what I have now.

The big bright spots in my life are my work, my relationship with my wife, and my kids. I would have more time to play video games and consume media, and I'm sure I'd have some more friends and hobbies... But it's hard for me to picture papering over her absence with friendships and hobbies.
Make haste slowly: quantify economics
As a short guy, I chuckled at being grouped with dumb guys, and guys with terrible hygiene lol

You're not wrong though, both men and women love to make fun of a short guys.
I'm so excited about this release. I use and like Vega-Lite, and this is openly inspired by that.

The ideas embedded in Vega-Lite are such good ideas that having an alternative implementation of them - especially with the pedigree of D3 and Observable behind them - is a big win. I can't wait to see what happens as Vega-Lite and Observable Plot continue to be inspired by each other in the future.
> Not really. Local people suffer the most from local pollution and low local wages etc., so they have the most incentive to strike a reasonable balance.

I don't know. On the one hand, you can look at the Kansas Experiment[1] as vindication of the federal and state system, where the states experiment. On the other hand, you could see that as stupid people (or at least some a bit divorced from reality) willing to throw caution to the wind to the detriment of their constituents, and for the most part not learn anything from the fallout.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
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Well, Canada does manufacture other types of chips, there’s a huge case of brain drain to the US, we just need the government to incentivize Canadians who work in tech to stay in Canada
This seems unnecessarily cynical. The large block of caveats seems mainly designed set expectations for potential users about the level of (total lack of) support.

Using (and modifying!) a piece of software in accordance with its license is not appropriation, it's the point of open source! Users - even corporate users - are free to make changes to suit their needs and aren't required to seek anyone's permission do so. All changes do not need be contributed back to the parent project, especially if (as the sibling comment notes) the changes don't align with the goals and values of parent.

That this hacked-up internal fork is even seeing the light of day is a Good Thing.
[STEM Education](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=STEM+education...) as a term used in writing, has grown quickly and steadily from the late 90s through today.

CS grads/year have tripled since the late 90s.

The only “egalitarian” measure I’ve seen near STEM are efforts to bring more STEM education to more people.

But the reality is, this is an opinion piece by a shoddy writer who gets paid for clicks and who doesn’t care about factual errors that stand between him and a storyline that his audience enjoys.
I love this project, and this is meant as an honest question rather than criticism: has the creator given any thought to FCC certification?

My understanding is that in the US, this device would be classified as an "unintentional radiator". If you want to sell it as a finished product to consumers, then you're legally required to get it tested by an ANSI C63.4 compliant lab to ensure that it meets the legal limits for RF emissions into the air and the power grid. AFAIK the typical cost for a round of testing is >US$1000, and it needs to be repeated if you make hardware changes of pretty much any kind.

I've occasionally considered making and selling projects kind of like this one as a hobbyist, but it seems like the cost of compliance testing means that you have to be reasonably sure that you'll sell at least a few units, or else you're just throwing money away.
The usual explanation is that they want to tax only in-state travel, so they need the location data.

That seems like something that one ought to be allowed to opt out of in favor of an odometer reading; I do something like 99% of my driving in my home state, and would rather just go with an annual odometer reading and maybe slightly overpay on my road taxes than have a tracking device in my car.
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Shorter work weeks, universal healthcare, affordable housing, open borders, freedom to travel, less consumerism, more time for friends/family...
Note 8 here, my phone will not communicate with the computer that I am plugged to unless I give it permission. It been like that since years ago.

Educated guess is that it is generally people blindly hitting yes situation. Often people just want to quickly setting it up and ready to be used. They don't want to wait 30 sec or more to look through the dialogs. They want instant results, that what they get for blindly hitting yes. In my experience, most of my friends and family are impatient when it come to pairing the phone to the head console.
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> A company/product/feature is never going to live or die on that 30 hours of coding that you managed to squeeze into 48 hours.

Sort of.

Several 'death marches' over my career were in fact necessary for business reasons. Large penalties can exist in contracts when deadlines are not met. No one is going to reschedule CES, the Christmas shopping season, or the Superbowl for you because you were running behind. In some cases, missing a deadline throws off the schedule of hundreds or thousands of people in your organization who depend on your work. It's true that many times it doesn't matter, but many times it does absolutely matter. I'd like to think I got to where I am in my career because I'm willing to put in the effort to make those sorts of deadlines.

> My reasons for doing these marathon sessions was a lie.

My reason for doing it is because it's the job. I came into engineering with the expectation that it is an important job that often demands much of you but also affords you with a great deal of flexibility and self-determination. I get to take off time whenever I want and WFH whenever I want because I accept that there will be times when I absolutely cannot do whatever I want.

It depends on the specifics of your job as well. Some indie game dev can probably just delay their release a few days. Embedded devs are often on a schedule dictated by hardware schedules, production schedules, factory availability, shipping time, etc. etc. Just because the job is software doesn't mean it has to resemble any other software job.
Abstaining from sex is not useful advice. Sex and intimacy is a fundamental human desire and it’s cruel and unethical to tell people that they should just suck it up and suppress it.
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It's almost certainly a wheel sensor rather than the ABS module itself. They can be damaged during a brake job, etc.
This is true.

I was only able to reflect on these things after "making it". I feel comfortable financially and confident that I'll get work for the rest of my life, if I need it.

There was a cost though. Like a greek tragedy of sorts.

It cost me my health. I don't get to enjoy the spoils of "victory" as much as I would have when I felt healthy. Health is now a factor to consider daily and, in my case, it's directly attributed to the insane amount of myself that I put into the work.

Another cost was missing out on precious time with my wife and child. That one really sucks. No undoing that one.
I still hope for a blackbox law, but all the privacy police will just scream that they will get caught going to see their mistress, I mean about their privacy.
Bureaucracy and Feudalism are just opposite poles of a spectrum. Of course the extremes lead to bad outcomes. Not sure what I said that suggested otherwise.
I recently had to do a quick proof of concept in Android. To my very surprise there does not seem any „right“ way to do anything. Especially overlapping and competing concepts everywhere. „Activitiy“ vs „Fragment“, Camera, camera2, camerax, kotlon, java, rxjava…
The official android architecture repo illustrates this perfectly.
https://github.com/android/architecture-samples
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That's beyond the pale. You can't post like this here.

I was about to ban your account for it, but then I checked your previous comments and they don't suggest a pattern, so I'm going to refrain from banning you this time. No more of this, though, please, because if you do it again, we'll have to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps if these companies were not such illegally large monopolies then they would have less perceived value as "foreign tools".
The GitHub survey showed that datadog is eating Prometheus market share very quickly.
I've also recently come across Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics and Design.

It's absolutely about other groups trying to pile on and say "we're important and deserve extra funding too".
There is a lot of value in leveraging existing programming languages than rewriting in something else. My team rewrote large chunks of code from python -> Go and it wasn't a pleasant experience. We were able to justify it, since it _inadvertently_ reduced our infra cost.

But, if we could make python a lot faster at compiler level, it doesn't break the dev experience and lengthen dev on-boarding time. This helps the team productivity as a whole. I hope the CPython community is able to leverage few things from Cinder. This would benefit the entire python community.
No but the groups behaviour however does; behaviour illustrated in just one example I have given. And I never claimed one example was what it took to make the situation, I stated the situation and gave an example when pressed for evidence.

The "memeplex" offers no such nuance to any of those that they oppose; and for all the claimed diversity within the movement the resultant behaviour remains the same.
In the AWS console, no.

However, I have used those extensions that merge Google Calendar events together and that was borderline for me. I think if I had a tool that would generate Terraform based on the summary page of an AWS construct I might consider using the extension. It would still be a reach though.
>It's not something you can talk yourself or someone else into.

This seems based in some fantasy land, though. I'd be absolutely stunned if you didn't have at least a few unattractive friends who do very well in dating/relationships/finding sex partners, because they are funny, or charismatic, etc (speaking about male friends here generally but this can apply to anyone).

If attraction was as you described, no one would be attracted to anyone outside of pro athletes and supermodels. Clearly, many normal, non-models are quite attracted to their non-model partners.
The Amazon and Costco situations are different.

When they start by doing independent market research, selecting a product, building/sourcing it and marketing it, then analyzing data generated by their own sales of these products in their own stores (brick & mortar or online), they are the same.

The DIFFERENCE is that Amazon also hosts other sellers and uses THEIR data.

So, an entrepreneur comes along having designed, arranged fabrication, and imports a product, then pays fees to sell it on Amazon. Amazon now uses THE MERCHANT's own data against them to notice the successful product, decide that it will be profitable, then search out the same manufacturer, offer a better deal, start selling on their own market as Amazon Basics, then kick the original seller off the market. [1], [2] It happens repeatedly enough to call it systematic.

So, if you are only marginally successful, you can continue selling unmolested.

But, if you find good success, Amazon will use your data to chop the top success zone right off of your business, after charging you for services while you spend decades building it.

It is even better than Zuckerberg's plan - at least Farcebook doesn't charge you to hijack your data for their purposes - Amazon charges you AND hijacks your data.

Just because it evades existing laws does not make it right.

I will certainly not be selling anything on Amazon that either 1) I'm 100% certain cannot be reproduced elsewhere or 2) I only intend to be a small or temporary market.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-competition-shopify-wayf...

[2] https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/12/24/amazon-tripod-company-...
The Open Source Definition doesn't include "free for non-commercial use" licenses.
Facebook shut down Signal's ads because they exposed too much
Porn has been around since the 70’s, internet porn since the 2000s. The incel phenomenon arrived in the 2010s, around the same time dating apps took off.
whats wrong with it? My AP Calc in high school classes (two semesters) in Virgina (Halifax Country) was just as good as Calc 1 in college.
I wished I had skipped it. Calc 2 was the class that I found challenging.

I also in high school, I took Pascal as a learning to program/into class. I college I learned Ada, and it was a breeze due to my high school.

I feel thankful to my last year in public school in middle of no where, rural VA, as it gave me great education/foundation that I did really well in college.

I feel bad, as now Virginia is doing the same crap with math in the name of equity. Dumbing things down to the least common denominator is terrible, especially for smart/capable immigrants like I was. We don't have the luxury of private schools, and public schools are starting to pull the rug out as well.

It is awful
I saw some ads for three recently.

Oh, they are being sneaky and getting into news too:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/why-you-dont-need-to-spend-t....
Cancer was common in pre-industrial medieval Britain
I feel bad giving our employees „fillers“ when there is no important work to be done.

I feel like a dirty capitalist exploiting the fact that we have a contract of employment with this person and I can legally command what he will do in his next 30 minutes (and I‘m fairly conservative otherwise, mind you).

I rather wait until there is meaningful stuff to do. Of course at some point „hey we have a few days of no urgent tasks. how about we try to improve our test coverage a bit?“ becomes a completely reasonable thing and I believe/hope that the employee will agree and be motivated since he knows that he I value his time even though I am paying for it and don‘t give him fillers.

But things like „ok wow that was quick! well umm, lets check the issues list...oh yeah! since you have 26 minutes left, could you fix that one misaligned pixel please?“ make me cringe.
We tried PyPy without much success (and we really tried, six month project just to get it to run our codebase.) Our workload is very heavy on the CPython C API, which makes life difficult for PyPy or any other alternative Python implementation. PyPy is great for a lot of uses, just not a great fit for us.
I think the internet can act like an insulating force and for certain people a viscous feedback loop. Like it’s far more easy for certain types of personalities to call themselves “incel” and whine about it on the internet than get out of their bubble and talk to people. The insularly force is clearly amplifying other communities so this is probably “just another” instantiation of the same effect.

Edit-I don’t know the best way to exit this problem. But I’d probably start with telling the disparate groups that their positions are not so abnormal and maybe they would be happier focusing on other things-like hobbies that require time offline. Have your “incel” days and have days you force yourself to do something, anything else than think that.
> Large penalties can exist in contracts when deadlines are not met.

If you are cutting it so close that an extra few hours are the difference between delivering or not, _ the project has been a failure for quite a while _

Some things cannot be easily foreseen and you have to fight some fires. That's fine. But let's not normalize lack of planning.
I'd guess this has got this level of accuracy via back-and-forth mis-translation. "A good 2 metres" (as Flemish news is quoting) became "7.5ft" became "2.29m"

Or, if you can identify where a stone has been moved from and to, you can use the pre-installed iOS app 'Measure', which always gives you a number to the nearest cm over this distance.
I understand the sentiment. However, are you saying that you think AC between your legs is a worthwhile feature but airbags are not?
Well sure, thankfully all these myriad ways of doing the same thing coexist without much issues, since they're all just wrappers around findViewById(). But I just wish they'd settle on a pattern that will endure for more than a single major version of the library.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27040470
> In this example are they really arguing about the something in question or are they arguing about the definition of "allophone" without realizing it. The followup question is "what is the reason why this edge case is relevant?" and "if this edge case isn't relevant, is the term 'allophone' even useful?"

I do not believe they are arguing about the definition either, nor do I believe that the classification has any use as whichever way it falls changes nothing.

Linguistics is a field plagued by classification for it's own sake, as many others are. Objects are classified but no conclusions can be drawn from the classification. — perhaps it is but simply a form of mental file organization.
It is ridiculous how frustrating this aspect is. The pattern of deprecating stuff doesn't help. :(
New forms of mass communication can certainly create political instability. The connection between the rise of Nazi Germany and the increasing widespread radios in everyone's homes is an interesting link (1)

(1) https://daily.jstor.org/an-affordable-radio-brought-nazi-pro...
Is it really an interesting distinction whether PHP is handled via dlopen of mod_php.so or via UNIX sockets to php-fpm?
No mention of Apache Spark? Thinking about where Spark would fit in here, because it has both structured and unstructured APIs--I think it would fall under most of these categories depending how you use, going back to the comment in the article:

> Most of these systems are equally expressive and can emulate each other

But a quick stab at how I think it could fall under this taxonomy:

[structured]

If using the DataFrame API

[unstructured]

If using the DStream API

---

[low temporal locality]

If you don't watermark and let the state grow--which I don't have much experience with,
but I think could possibly run into scalability issues, you'd have to write some
imperative logic to cull state--but it's very necessary for low temporal locality.

[high temporal locality]

If using watermarks, it will close the and take the output for you

---

[internally consistent / internally inconsistent]

Not really sure how Spark falls here, I think if you use the DataFrame API, you can have
it be consistent, but a lot of operations aren't supported, so you may end up having to
switch to DStreams and write code imperatively.

And then further, what if one of the streams is processed faster than each the other in
an aggregation? I'm not sure if there's a way to specific business rules around making
things atomic--but I'm sure you could hack it if you dropped low level enough.

I think this is touched upon in the other article:
> When combining multiple streams it's important to synchronize them so that the outputs
> of each reflect the same set of inputs.

If someone has more experience with Spark [Structured] Streaming, I would love to hear your thoughts. I stick mostly with Spark's batch jobs, playing around with datasets in a REPL/Notebook--which it really shines for.

That said, I'm really excited by the future of Spark Structured Streaming--I want to write declarative code and say how my data gets from A to B--not what needs to happen to get from A to B.
I definitely find dual monitors or more for splitting code, documentation, or other relevant project information to be similar to having multiple papers lying across my desk. I don’t want to stack the pages on top of one another but instead I prefer to lie them all on one large desk. Usually I’m only working on one page but need other references. If another paper truly is important than I can use Spectacle to quickly reorganize.

Having email, slack, discord, or HN open is an absolute no go. Nothing more distracting than focusing on a project and seeing new emails or messages stream in. I try to limit those to a separate laptop or tablet at all times.
Little video on that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo
Ohhhh ok, then yes I agree with your observation. Media thrives on sensationalism so things that are rare get biased reporting which skews perspectives.
Some Product Managers must be having a really bad day.

AWS is usually super secret about the profit margin on their various cloud services, but now we know that the margin on Prometheus was at least 84%...