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Nobody is arguing that, but they're saying it doesn't matter to the majority of scientists who just want to invert a matrix for some study and don't need to implement a new matrix inversion algorithm. I would use C or C++ for that most likely. That is a valid use case for some scientists, but I would expect it to be a very small number compared to those that just need to use the existing tools in the ecosystem.

I think we may be speaking past each other a bit.
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Of course it is to a degree (I don't remember anyone I personally know complaining about the latency, but there is very likely a self-selection that those that would didn't try or didn't talk about it). But I'm not sure why that matters when addressing the claim that the product is a priori useless?
My parents fought like cats and dogs. I was relieved when they finally separated after 25 years. They were together because of me. I wish they weren't.
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Yes, that's absolutely correct. In my case at least I remember occasionally waking up when I was very young in hysterics because of general existential dread related to death.
Even the vote during the elections is selfish. And in general stupid.
We do have it good with chinooks, let's be fair.
If you go somewhere upmarket in the UK, they will be cod goujons, and will be an artfully irregular shape.
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No, it's not. Marx was critical of the capitalist mode of production. Marxism is a lens of looking at economics and sociology.

Communism and socialism, which are considered different in modern writing but were the same in Marx's time, are something Marx believes are an inevitable outcome of capitalism.

Marxism suggests that when the workers own the companies, then benefits are distributed to the workers who own/operate the company. Profit doesn't get centered in individuals, it gets spread across the workers of a company.

Folks like Lenin/Stalin took this idea further and created an authoritarian regime out of the ideas, and create what we commonly think of as 'communism' in the states.

Edit: Parent comment asked a question about Marxism, I'm getting downvoted for explaining some high level concepts of Marxism? Do folks want me to dive deeper into the dialectical models Marx discussed? Lol
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Is it a given that because the software is open-source, the decision-making will be, too? Almost seems there should be a separate set of claims for what the decision-making process will be (like how there are various software licenses).
I truly mean this to be thoughtful and not antagonistic, and your notion of value being subjective is accurate. But I think I can somewhat snarkily summarize a lot of the doubt some HNers are feeling (I'm not saying I agree or disagree): it's basically saying diamonds are like NFTs.

EDIT: Just did a ctrl-f for NFT and I guess I wasn't the first to say that, although those comments are much lower on the page.
This is kind of ignoring that people get and look for different things in sex work than they do in regular relationships. There's no indication that 20% actually would prefer to be sex workers to get more men.
In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math
> Without supporting evidence, this is nothing more than a post hoc fallacy.

Not really - it could also mean you don’t have industry experience to know what I mean. I’m guessing you weren’t around at the time.

The evidence is widely available for you to check out.

Just read accounts of how industry committees work and look at how industry alternatives have failed to keep pace with Apple’s proprietary alternatives.
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When someone says something has '0% chance', I interpret that as 'less than 0.5%', rounded to 1 significant figure.

Taken this way, smt88's estimate seems reasonable.
They would need a catchy name, though...

Something like Naturally Famous Treasure, or NFT for short?
One of the key differences is that (the various components of) nature has no common goal except that each individual component wants to reproduce, while large computing systems are almost always constructed to achieve some particular objective. Thus, nature is OK with it if predators randomly kill some percent of the population while most factories would frown very much if a random employee started sabotaging lathes or something..

You could argue that netflix-style chaos engineering is an attempt to introduce more resilience into the system precisely by mimicking natures "anything can die at any moment" principle, but even then it typically only applies to computers. Netflix is known for firing fast but I don't think even they would consider randomly firing employees to make sure there are no single points of failure in the employee makeup. Would be interesting though: tax filing need to be submitted next Tuesday but the CFO was just fired, what is your recovery plan?
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>While the ring contains a mined diamond, it has quite a bit of sentimental value

If I said it once, I have said it a million times, if your SO insists on a diamond from the ground as opposed to a lab, say fine, but I am getting my shots flying to Africa and will mine it myself. It won't matter if you bring back a opaque brown rock, with 0 marketing your SO would wear it with pride and most others would be jealous when they hear the story behind it.

It goes hand in hand with your obtaining a stone from family and the sentiment of it. My Mom has 5 boys and my Dad gave her a ring with 5 diamonds, and she has made 1 available to each of us for an engagement ring, which she would replace with the birthstone of each son. As you say its not scalable, and no one ever marketed the idea, but the sentiment is extremely powerful.
I agree with this post 200%.

> Irecently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system

Reframe as "Shit That Needs To Run To Make The Customer Happy" and you get closer to what you want. Which is to say, it's completely product-specific. A general list of technical things to monitor is about as useful as monitoring the cotton thread fiber integrity of a pair of shoelaces. Is it the cotton thread fiber integrity what you care about, or a general quality of the shoelaces? Are they shitty laces, or just decent, or great laces? Quantify that.

> Typically, the former kind of PRR will take a quarter or more, because invariably, new large services have a significant amount of tasks to do to get them production-ready. The SRE team onboarding the service will spend significant time finding gaps, understanding what happens when dependencies of the service fail, improving monitoring and runbooks and automation.

I deal with these a lot of the time, and I hate them because they are so stupid. We could make these reviews completely self-service and automated and they'd move a lot faster, and could even be on-going as the product is actually released to customers. But SRE and Architecture remain their own silos, and neither of them work closely enough with the product team or core engineering groups to find the streamlined, agile ways of doing these things. Basically, none of them grok the concept of finding quicker and better ways to get this shit done. Or they just don't care to.

> The second kind of PRR typically does not uncover much to be done, and devolves into a tick-box exercise where the developers attempt to demonstrate compliance with the organisation’s production standards.

Architecture and SRE don't explain to the product team WTF they are going on about, so of course they just tick boxes mindlessly. Nobody wants to stop and understand the whole picture, so you end up with empty formalism.

The way to "formalize" and "standardize" the operationalizing of a product is to make it clear what the fuck is going on at each stage of your product. Who the fuck are my customers? What the fuck are they doing with the product? How the fuck does the product work for them, and internally? What the fuck are the external dependencies and how do they work? You need simple, practical ways to express these things.

And you also need to train people as to why everyone needs to understand these things. Why you cannot just allow someone to sit in their little corner of a room and jerk off and collect a paycheck. I often hear it from developers ("I just want to write code") but literally everyone else in the organization does it too.
At any given time, there are founders in the "sprint-to-buyout" camp and those in a "build to own" camp. In any given year, there are many founders who hold to their principle and those who change their minds.

People make choices. Nothing is deterministic. That said, the number of companies founded, run or exited with a buyout win condition mentality is governed by price economics. FB, Google, etc offered a very high price for Android, Instagram, etc. because those M&As were worth a lot to them. Given this, a lot of M&As are going to happen.

The interesting question, to me, is "why is the price so high?" It's silly to get all huffy about M&As and ignore the consequences of M&As.
Yes, for the rest of your life.

Edit: As a random google you can get items like this which combine the wedding band with the engagement ring: https://www.kay.com/diamond-bridal-set-18-ct-tw-roundcut-10k...
It's weird to try and explain this from a sterile alien-studying-humans perspective, but since that's the HN theme I'll do my best. Marriage and having dependents carries with it a lot of economic cost. By revealed choice theory, that implies it has significant benefits, or else nobody would ever do it.
I have no issues with reverse engineering, especially in the name of interoperability (which is btw an exception from copyright laws in many countries), but the rest... yikes.
(and why) to rid software of insensitive words
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Both this post and the OP strike me as "if it works, it's great, but if it doesn't, it's bad". Different things work for different people, and generalizing too much leads to suggestions that aren't useful for any particular individual situation.
Agreed- not only is it overly judgmental and presumptuous, it’s also a nitpick of a single passage from an entire article. It’s not off-topic, but it really swerves discussion into a tangent.
Not at all. Marxism is a method of analyzing history and the present through the lens of class conflict.

Generally "Marxism" is thrown around as a boogie man term by people with little understanding for something approximating extreme authoritarianism in which the state owns all the means of production and allocates everyone the same resources.
.. and how would they stop such a spaceship, once it arrives at its point of destination?
>you don't want to increase the staff to 20, just in case. That's just a waste of money.

I believe OP's point is that you do want the staff of 20, for the once-in-a-lifetime fire that requires 20 people. See also: the recent Texas power grid debacle, or the saturation of ERs due to COVID.
Tomato ketchup is also pretty good - even if broadsheet journalists might dismiss it as "a bit childish":

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/15/how-to-...
One thing I've always wondered, are these drives what people would recommend that you stick in a desktop or nas or are these 'datacenter' drives that are overkill for consumer use?
Yes, my actual cap may have been a bad fit for some construction practices, and I should have said that the actual numbers were not thought through.

The part I believe more strongly in is decoupling the political process from geographic-specific height restrictions. We need to have a political process to derive the general rules for automatically allowing increased density, but any specific site should not have special rules except perhaps for geographic or environmental reasons, and that should be decided at the same time as the general zoning rules.

The real error in California and most of the US has been to downzone everything to current structure levels, then only allow additional building through a political process of granting exceptions. This leads to massive corruption (see LA's city council, for example), as well as increased land speculation.
> razor thin margin clothing industry that means the pockets are going to be missing or tiny.

Some parts of the clothing industry have razor-thin margins. Some of them sell you a $200 shirt that cost $20 to make, and they don't care that for every shirt they sell, eight will be returned to the manufacturer.
LispWorks talks about this in their blog.

http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html
> Genuine question: Isn't this equivalent to equity vs equality?

Not generally, no; “equity” generally refers to fairness of treatment (as distinct from non-differentiation in equality); while concepts of fairness vary, equivalence of outcomes not the moat common understanding pursued under the banner of “equity”.

Which is not to say that the two are never (especially in particular narrow domains) the same, but they aren’t in general the same.
Think of the classic "bathtub" curve (which says that young drives fail more frequently, old drives fail more frequently, and mid-age drives are most reliable).

That curve doesn't seem to match the data here. Or if it does, it says the "old" increase in failure rate happens at over 5 years.

I would guess backblaze will replace these old drives because they are too small/too slow/use too much power before they replace them for being too unreliable.
the last 5 years of non-stop propaganda is quite extraordinary
> if Trump had tried the same tactics NZ did he would have been met with vitriol about how racist and xenophobic he was.

This point doesn't follow from the article you linked. The HuffPo article has two major complaints:

1) Trump's major focus on dealing with covid at the moment was the existing travel restrictions for China and the new restrictions for Europe. He should have pivoted to addressing the internal spread within the US.

2) Trump was trying to direct blame to specific nationalities/ethnic groups instead of saying that anyone and any travel could be spreading the virus. They were deflect blame by calling it the "Wuhan virus" and "China coronavirus".

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the manner he closed the borders was xenophobic. Furthermore, he wasn't doing the things necessary to stop the internal spread, and those were more important once the virus arrived. NZ's new cases only started falling in mid-April, a month after Trump's expanded travel restrictions. Additional travel restrictions were necessary, but not sufficient to reduce covid's impact.

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...
At least in the bay area there are plenty of cuddle parties for platonic physical touch.

Feminism has a pretty convincing answer to the problem like I edited my original comment to include. Toxic masculinity is the social exclusion of deep emotional relationships between men, including the "suck it up" culture. The key is that only men can really participate in that healing because it's entirely a problem between men. Women, as I've observed, seek out deep emotional friendships with other women and have most of their emotional needs met that way. Men, for the most part, do not do that with other men.
My parents' house is a good example of this. The rear boundary of the property is defined as being some distance from the road. It's not totally clear (although I assume that there is a standard) whether this means the curtilage or something else. When the land behind the property was redeveloped (from a run down witches cottage to a block of flats) it was important to my parents that the treeline at the rear of the property not be cut down. The deciding factor was the rusted remains of an old fence on the far side of the trees. I had been under instructions as a kid to not mess with that or pull it up because my parents knew that it was important to preserve this kind of evidence
Why is this idea repulsive?
I would argue that a high level of devotion is not the same thing as codependency. I'm not sure you and OP are actually disagreeing with each other here.

It's entirely possible to have an enduring, meaningful, devoted, monogamous relationship that brings a great deal of happiness to both partners without that relationship being a requirement for the people involved to experience any amount of happiness or fulfillment in their lives.
> until some point after the slide begins that has slowly eaten away at your own ability.

Whats your commentary on people who marry and then divorce very late in life like Bill Gates? After all if the primary purpose was to protect against this aggressively lonely stage in life -- no fault divorce has thrown that guarantee out the window.

They seem to now be in the same position as long term single people -- except it's a massive uprooting stressor placed on you in your final years.
I did not mention any god nor was I trying to make anyone feel good or bad. What's your point?
It's not easy to get acquired by a FANG, but if you're okay with acqui-hire terms of most companies, you'll eventually get acquisition requests if the startup gets a little bit of press or has some traction. I've personally gone through this process several times already, turned down a few acqui-hire requests, and eventually accepted one. One of my startups only lived for 4 months before it was acqui-hired, which was still more enjoyable than doing 4 months of interview prep.

In hindsight, if I accepted my first acqui-hire request, I would've eventually got hired into Google because the startup that wanted to hire us was eventually folded into google, but honestly it's hard to tell from a distance which companies are going to be acquired by a FAANG.
Progressives advocate abolishing advanced classes in high school because “they have too many white and Asian students”. Several schools have done so. That is equality of outcome in practice.
It's marketing (and effective, too). I became a Backblaze customer after reading one of these reports (many years ago!).
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As the article points out, weak antitrust enforcement has allowed companies to become monopolies, or near-monopolies. It's not just "tech". Look at banking. The US is down to four big banks. Until 1995, US banks couldn't operate in more than one state.

Right after deregulation, there are new entrants. Twenty years later, there are a very few giant companies. See telecom, airlines, etc.
inceldom is a form of covert narcissism.
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I agree that OP should not have used such absolutist terms, but you are guilty of the same thing. There are couples which are *devoted* to each other. And there are couples that simply have a deep friendship and know that in 30 years they will probably drift apart but continue having respect for each other. Self-awareness and honesty are obviously necessary, but you describing "life-long devotion and complete dependence on one-other" as the only way to build lasting meaningful relationships is simply harmful. Just as harmful as saying that such type of devotion should not exist.
But of course doing it the way you described is subtly unintuitive because it leads to either (1) duplication of the default value (or the need to pass it around as a constant to every access point) and (2) does not work anywhere the dict is accessed directly like:

d['foo']

whereas defaultdict handles the default value for you correctly independently of the access method.

IMO defaultdict is ideal for this use case.
If it has a USB port, it can get data. If you have Android auto or native iOS integration, same story.

People need to understand, despite the efforts of sticks in the mud like me, industry should be considered malicious by default. If you don't pay attention to what people are doing and call it out, nobody even raises a finger. Those that do are ignored, or told there's a place for people like them with a condescending smirk.
Our inability to talk about sex is a big problem that enhances all the others. Some people are happy abstaining from sex altogether, those folks might have useful advice for the Incels but they're shy of offering from having been burnt before.

There's plenty of people for whom sex isn't necessarily involved in romance; I personally think a lot of people suffer because they confuse and conflate those two ideas.
wow, a knowledge base in a calculator. Did the calculator have any relation to Japans fifth generation project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
Why would you not support your friends through depression?
Poor souls.
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