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Yeah, code reviews (like any other process) can be done wrong.

The way to propose a change, in a "good way" (I am assuming here that no one has unilateral capability of merging to master, and things thus have to pass through review), to my mind, involve doing a few things.

<ul>
<li> keep the change small ("small" here is a very fungible quality, but "probably less than n * 1000 lines")
<li> does NOT mix "fix bug" / "add feature" / "refactor" (arguably, there are cases where feature-adding and bug fixing are instrinsically linked, let those through)
<li> has a change description detailing the why of the change (the "what" is the change itself)
</ul>

As a reviewer, your task is not to critique the design (that is why everyone agreed on a design doc up front, no?). It is OK to review the structure of the code, though.

Hopefully, you have a "run this through a linter / style-checker" integrated into your pipeline, so that should be pretty much already done. But, if there are a few things left over, it is OK to point those out.

It is OK to point out that things that should be (but aren't) tested should have tests. If you can spot an edge case that isn't (or doesn't seem to be) tested, ask for that to be tested, also.

People need to be permitted to take the time to do a review.

With these things in place, a review should be pretty quick (at the pace of up to a few lines per second), and most of the time frictionless. But, it does require some discipline, both from the writer and the reviewer.
Open source is not a business model, and I think the expectation to get paid for open source is a bit disingenuous. There is also the ideological aspect of free as in freedom licensing, while it doesn't exclude monetization, often detracts from the incentive to pay for software.

To play the devil's advocate, I would suggest that there is price discovery at play here and people + corporations are willing to pay for what they get value out of. Which is suggesting that many companies don't get much value out of Babel or it is one of many tools utilized in a toolchain. The value proposition is to be able to run new JS in old JS runtime, which may be less valuable now than it was 5 years ago, since evergreen browsers exist and outside of stale corporate environments, most browsers are auto-updating now.
The French revolutionary regime started the wars and literally expend in all direction and were absorbing country after county.

Instead of negotiation an end to war they attempted to take much of Europe and Napoleon continued that.

Peace was temporary and only as long as you followed what Napoleon wanted.

Russia tried peace with Napoleon but they realized that Napoleon only accepted piece if he was in control and could dedicated all policies they should. Once they didn't he invaded.
Yes, it goes back to ES3.

Babel does have a neat automatic polyfill system typescript doesn't. But both can target real old JS versions. Most JS packages you'll find on NPM are still ES5.

Transpilers are quickly making JS a compiled language where the bytecode format is ES5 :)
I'm also intrigued where the Actor model will leave Combine. Are they designed to work together?

Many of the Rx based architectures (The Composable Architecture in Swift, React, Cycle.js, etc) that have appeared – all inspired by Elm (itself inspired by Erlang/OTP?) – seem to lean on a kind of pseudo actor model where messages are passed into a kind of 'actor', its state is modified, side-effects are initiated and performed asynchronously, and subscribers are updated in turn.

With the Rx based architectures at least this created a lot of boiler plate and the need to create a separate enum just to pass messages into the monad with a big switch statement to route them all.

Now, if I understand correctly, this actor model would facilitate a very similar workflow but without an additional dependency and far less boilerplate.

Instead of passing messages into the 'actor' via a messages stream – you can just call methods on the actor. Then, an actor can manage a 'state' property internally and simply forward changes to that state to via a publisher (PassthroughSubject/BehaviorSubject).

That would be pretty nice!
One may argue this as problematic, the other may argue this as increasing competition.
Not to be confused with Quaker Oats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Oats_Company
I have a Chromebook running Linux that can get 7-8 hours on web browsing; integration might be part of it but I don't think it's a major one.
And nuclear physics got us the nuclear disarmament program.
The article pointed out that with the new system the online transactions liability shifts to the banks. Thus the article claims banks may reject a payment request if they consider the merchant suspicious.
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The thing I continue to find interesting is the fear involved with an "autopilot" crash (even if this was not one).

Every day around the world, hundreds (1000s?) of people are killed in standard car accidents, whereas, as a proportion of the market, driverlss cars cause a tiny number of crashes, yet people panic, regulators bear their teeth and protesters speak up as soon as single accident was caused by (or assumed to be caused by) a driverless car.

I guess it is an illusion of control in normal cars, despite the fact that electronics should be better in almost every regard for safer driving.
I wish people didn’t use html at all for emails…
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If you split by 3 full time devs, that's more 90k/year which allows for a decent living in most places. Probably not enough for San Francisco though.
Probably, but not definitely. The only thing preventing you from understanding the sources yourself is some effort. It's not as hard as it is sometimes imagined.
this is direct from wikipedia's article on ancient roman demographics. first result on google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire....
All Firefoxes report UTC when that's turned on, so it's not that unique.
> My car has never allowed

That is an anecdotal result

> There was no update that took that functionality away

Maybe not explicitly, but we all know how software works
I might be downvoted to hell, but it's more likely because of same supply-demand thing. Teacher is not a high skilled job, not to mention most teachers are outright bad at their jobs thus not producing much value anyway.
Sounds like multiple frames for DNA translation.
I think I learned how to read by watching Sesame Street. My mom told me that I watched a lot of Sesame Street as a small toddler and she discovered I was able to read when I started reading words written on the fridge out loud.
My point is that, from the perspective of email, you frequently receive internal feedback that doesn't correspond to how users actually use email.

For example, if the org uses desktop Outlook but < 1% of your audience does, is it worth optimising the email for that audience based on internal feedback?

If someone notices that something weird happens when an email is replied to or forwarded, is that something worth acting on based on the real world frequency of that action?
Facebook is testing a prompt to encourage users to open articles before sharing
It's that dude who can't figure out how to use ssl?
tsc produces ES3, yes.
> Libertarians who support UBI think of it as replacing the other stuff. This is a wildly unpopular opinion on the left

AFAICT, as a left-wing UBI supporter who sees it as replacing lots of other stuff, that depends which other stuff and how you plan on replacing it; phased (such as by counting a UBI introduced at a low rate and increased over time) displacement of means-tested welfare programs is not all unpopular on the left. Displacing means-tested healthcare (Medicaid/CHIP) has more mixed reactions (healthcare policy in general is contentious within the left). Displacing earned benefits (Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment insurance) is even more likely to be rejected (though in this case the general controversy over healthcare works in your favor with Medicare, as its probably the least universally toxic of these on the left.)

Displacing minimum wage with it also isn't too popular on the left.

Where you run into problems with some stuff that isn’t problematic on its own is when you don’t have a plan for a robust, mature UBI but you want a big-bang cold-turkey replacement of programs that what you do propose for UBI can’t come close to dollar-for-dollar substituting for for current recipients.
This is not true. Apple of course does optimize their software for ARM, and there are a handful of "magic tricks" in the processor for some workloads. But in general the processor is just really, really fast.
Rome is able to raise VC funding because it's a product that doesn't exist yet.

Babel has the key advantage that you can actually use it now to do real work.

It's not unreasonable for the developers of a real, currently-existing product to want to be paid for the work that they're doing on it, rather than for some pie-in-the-sky business proposition.
Re: rebooting is easy

Full agreement. We were remotely powering on/off hundreds of machines with a single command line. Then just a web page because we needed non-IT people doing it on regular basis.

We used to change wallpapers of certain groups of machines on a daily or even hourly basis due to special events. Do people really think we remotely logged into each one? Or manually remoted each one? Hmmm.

Next someone will be saying its impossible to get the event logs from each machine... truly bizarre. (Yes you can, and we did, even from client machines if a machine had developed "quirks")

Again, these complaints are just strange. Its as if they weren't using their infrastructure.

None of this is any kind of wizardry. I'd expect any linux or windows admin to know the tools required.
Yeah we would be talking about paying taxes and having a record of the funds for more social benefits in society.

AccountA is just a speculator. Stuff you speculate on right now has other accounts pumping it from funds that just appeared out of Tornado.cash, or were just swapped from Monero. There is no way to distinguish between you controlling those or someone else, and there isn’t probable cause from this behavior to investigate the accounts that appeared with funds from obfuscated sources. Just some OPSEC considerations.
AWS or Amazon?
It’s not the accuracy (although that’s obviously table stakes). It’s the quality & reliability.

There are a ton of cooking thermometers on Amazon. A majority of them are awful. Either they’re woefully inaccurate, or they fail after only a few months of use. You only have to read the reviews (when they’re not completely gamed by the sellers) to see this.

So you can either a) buy cheap thermometers one after the other until you happen to hit on one that works or b) buy a quality product first time that professional chefs rave about.

Sure, you might get lucky with option a), but after two or three duds, option b) starts to look increasingly sane.

Thermopens just work. They do one thing & have been honed to do that one thing incredibly well. When you buy one, you know exactly what you’re getting & you know that the company will stand behind their product. WHat you’re buying is a combination of certainty & quality. Why shouldn’t they charge a premium for that?
> all inspired by Elm

No, Elm is just another implementation, not the invention.
They claim that it allows feasible computation of PCA (principal component analysis) on very large datasets. The key idea as I understand it is, instead of using some global technique to solve PCA (SVD), which cannot take advantage of the parallelism of GPU / TPU, they formulate PCA as a multiple-agent problem where each agent is trying individually to optimize its own "goal" (maximally explaining variance and being orthogonal to other "players"). There are two key non-trivialities, one is that the Nash equilibrium of such a formulation is achieved at the solution of "classical" PCA, and the other is that iterative, independent gradient ascent converges to this equilibrium.
Distros don't even automatically install and configure TLP when they detect an internal battery. So yeah, it is 'Linux' that is the problem on laptops.

That and automatically activating a 'small speaker' EQ for when a device is detected to be portable / be a laptop and have internal speakers would be a massive user experience improvement for laptop Linux users.
Anyone in Vietnam (Devops, SD), Philippines (BA, Sale BA) or Singapore? (Back-End?)
Russia defeated Napoleon more then anybody else. Yes Britain did a lot and helped with money, but fundamentally, just as in WW2 Russia defeated Napoleon.

This gets lost in the nationalist history that were written in the next 100 years.

Money and supplies is valuable, but the Russian Army broke the French army. Russian intelligence borrowed deep into the French state and had all the information Russian light cavalry cut Napoleon of from information and made him blind. Russian light cavalry captured his communication and that is how they learned Paris was not defended. Russia supplied the largest amount of troupes.

Russia was Prussias senior partner. German historians make a great deal about the 'Volkssturm' but in reality the Prussian army was dependent on the Russian state. Prussian artillery was using Russian artillery.

Check out:

> Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
I find them strange and charming
But he essentially is an independent contractor, that's the point. And talking about Sweden, you miss the pension, health insurance and the employer contribution to the taxes.
It's super reliable until you get water in the hinge. I lost mine that way.

I'll probably get another one when the cheap ones that I'm using annoy me one too many times.
This is the problem with business people being let loose to sell ideas without the technical depth.

A data warehouse is not a capability, it's a data system. Company A with a warehouse and company B without do not necessarily differ in any capabilities.
Hadn't seen those, really interesting, thanks!

Also can't help smiling at their use of "BLT" as an abbreviation for the company name, I guess we know what their Official Company Lunch is going to be [1]. :)

I wonder if there has been any progress, the site is kind of ... light on the details. The prototype single-container ship was cute, though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLT
I’d love to know where FastMail ranks on here.
> Many libertarians (Milton Friedman among them) support a concept like this.

Most of the libertarian supporters (Milton Friedman among them) are dead, making them not particularly effective activists, though.

> It isn't a left/right thing.

It actually is, but a left-and-(right-libertarian) thing, not a left-vs-right thing.

> In fact, many liberals staunchly oppose UBI-type initiatives.

liberals (center-right) tend to, yes, progressives (center-left to left) tend to be in favor.
Isn't that a bit of a tautology? Most boat owners can't afford a boat. (Talking about recreational of course)
In Norway after the redirect to the payment page from a bank to approve the transaction the only thing one typically types is the phone number and the birthday. The rest happens on the mobile.

A bank in Spain implemented this even better as one does not enter anything on the site. Rather one has to go to the bank app on the phone and approve the purchase there. The latter is very frictionless especially with biometric authentication.
Thanks, I didn’t know it’s not a requirement. Hopefully it’ll be a requirement for every CA in the future.
Not CPI, but Western China-watchers (eg Morningstar) use various proxies for China's GDP since they assert that the official numbers are often politicized.
I can see it backfire

Maybe some donors will donate to other projects

So many other OSS projects barely getting even 100 USD a month and Babel is complaining they're unable to work with over 300k a year and a number of corporate sponsors which have been supporting the project for a long time.

And the nodejs ecosystem already seems like an outlier getting more funding than most other languages/systems/projects.
"Significantly above that salary, even in most of Europe."

LOL you're saying someone, in a rank and file (even if senior) developer position would be paid 'significantly above' $11k per month anywhere in Europe? This is a serious case of "citation needed".
Seems legit. Want to try this out.

Why did it take so long to build?
I'll readily admit that English is not my first language, so there might undertones in that quote I'm unaware of. I also agree that the use of "feminist academics" was unnecessary, but mostly for not making a greater effort at "avoiding unrelated controversies" as per guidelines [1].

I might glossed over some detail there, and instead gave the original poster the benefit of the doubt, and assumed that the meaning was as following:

- Unknown female geniuses lost to history due to gender inequality are many
- The article itself does not make a good argument of why Ranelagh in particular might be a good example. The bar should be higher.
- Maybe the book gives a better argument

As mentioned, I might have gotten the first one wrong, though I did not, as you put it, defend it. Disagreements are appreciated. Instead, I believed you created an argument, which was based on a lot of assumptions (gender, motive, misogyny, etc, hence "straw man") and went much, much further in the opposite of "avoiding unrelated controversies".

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, they aren't like Fosun. Fosun took possession of finished product and sent it to people doing the vaccinations. That's it.

Pfizer did: 1) scaled up production to hundreds of millions of doses, 2) ran clinical trials in dozens of countries for tens of thousands of patients, 3) put together all the regulatory documentation for dozens of countries, including negotiations with regulators, 4) then developed a worldwide logistics system to get the vaccine where it's needed, including to local distributors like Fosun.
There is a group of people who are into cars and who agree that autopilot is generally safer. They consider themselves being exceptional drivers (and to be fair they often are pretty good drivers) and therefore they think that in their particular case it's safer to not use it.

Of course determining so on individual feelings is dubious (and perhaps there is or soon will be no person outperforming the AP).
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It's like the Sam Vines theory of Economic Injustice: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...

Pay for quality. It's cheaper in the long run.
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One problem with that is that any individual study should be read in the context of other published literature, if you want to form an informed opinion. The only alternative is authority - either looking at the journal where it was published, the authority of the authors, or the authority of someone who recommended the paper.

Otherwise, it's easy to find plausible-sounding papers that have failed to reproduce in subsequent studies, that use too low samples compared to similar studies with different conclusions, that were later retracted etc.
Would be helpful to have some details otherwise this is just an unsubstantiated allegation on Twitter.
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I agree that that is an interpretation worth considering if Parent Commenter has provided corroborating evidence. A charitable interpretation would suggest that this man has seen many arguments about the ostensible brilliance of some otherwise unknown or lesser-known person and that such people make for good propaganda (I use the word propaganda without trying to imply that this piece is propaganda, just to be very clear). A charitable interpretation would also admit there is no necessary malice in saying describing someone as a feminist academic. Feminist academics are, approximately, a class of academic and they do have idiosyncrasies, views, and methods unique to them. It is not an insult to say something is from feminist academia and feminist academia itself would like to admit that that is the standpoint from which it is arguing.

There are many women who have failed to get the recognition they deserve. In fact, there are many people who have, full stop. There is also a market for upselling historical figures.

Saying someone or something is underrated and then making a compelling case for it is incredibly difficult, man, woman, art, or whatever.
Some of my favorite tools are from harbor freight. As an example, the 1/4" ratchet with composite handle is such a pleasure to use compared to any other ratchet I've owned. I thought it was a gimmick, but I gave it a shot and now it's now my favorite ratchet.
The GP is not telling everyone to go to FAANG. They are telling fellow engineers to not get themselves exploited by low paying companies.
Interesting observation. I wonder if these are issues intrinsic to the sites themselves, or if instead there’s some fundamental law that states once a publishing platform reaches a critical mass of popularity, it ceases to yield high-quality content (on average).

I do wonder how Substack is thinking about this problem. They obviously have a different business model than Medium, but I think they are still susceptible to this issue.
I was/am! It's an instant thermometer, it shows the temperature reading in less than a second or two. They're really useful for cooking.

I'm sure there are cheaper brands which are just as good, but Thermapen has brand recognition among home chefs. (Probably mostly due to America's Test Kitchen's endorsement of it.)
It's a matter of trust. Do you trust a robot to make decisions of life or death? You can't empathize with the robot, you know it can't empathize with you, and you instinctively don't feel like you can understand or predict the actions of agents that you don't empathize with and don't think empathizes with you. Humans make mistakes but they're understandable or comprehendible mistakes; with a robot you don't know types of mistakes to expect. You don't have a theory of mind for a robot.
I do a lot of urban photography and can imagine using this where I photo a street name and send all images between street names to a named folder.
Given the proper conditions, life might form once in a thousand planets, and intelligent life might be one in a billion. We don't know, but there's some probability for both. It could be really low, or it could be relatively high.

The Rare Earth solution to the Fermi Paradox is as good a guess as any. Life of some kind might be relatively common, but intelligent life could still be really rare. We are the only species on Earth in 3.5 billion years to make radio telescopes and spacecraft.

On other worlds, it might never happen because of the thousand different factors that led to hominid evolution which might be different elsewhere. For example, If the non-avian dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct from a large meteor impact, who knows whether any technological civilization would have ever formed. At any rate, mammalian evolution would have gone differently, and it's anyone's guess whether some non-hominid intelligent species would have evolved instead. They didn't during the age of the dinosaurs.

We don't even know whether multicellular life is a low probability event. Maybe Cambrian explosions don't happen very often.

There's no inevitability here, only unknown probabilities.
It's an interesting article, but I don't think the premise is likely to be true. There's no particular reverence for trees in Quakerism (though there is a concern for the environment in general, as the author notes) and meeting houses in England and Wales aren't particularly known for having large trees. They're generally quite well kept, and the older ones do often have mature trees, but no more than a parish church or any other similarly old religious building would.