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Apple's numbers here are a lot better than I expected!

For comparison, many of the other FAANG companies fare much worse, and many of the smaller companies I saw when consulting and doing a startup looked even less diverse than big tech.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/six-years-into-diversity-rep...
I don't think that is true. Small bits of the Northeast corridor were opened in 1834 but the whole thing wasn't complete until 1880 or something like that. I think a lot of Europe's infrastructure is as old or older. Especially in the UK where trains were invented and first commercially operated at scale. If you compare to a route of similar length in the UK, on average the ~400miles of line between London and Edinburgh/Glasgow is probably about 20-30 years older. Trains were racing to Scotland from London up the West and East coasts from the 1860's onwards and there was a lot of competition between the two routes to be the fastest. The time over the 400 mile route was down to about 8hrs by 1880 and about 7hrs in the 1930's. These days trains operate on the two main routes at up to 140mph now and it's possible to get a train that does it in about 4h30m with a few intermediate stops. This is not so hot compared to TGV Paris-Bordeaux at 2h10 on a dedicated HSR route but it does compare favourably to Acela's 6h30 over a similar distance also on a legacy route. This is because the alignment has been worked on continuously over the years to improve speed, it's not the same alignment as it was in the 1850's when it was first completed and both East and West routes pass through quite a few cities and towns on the way.
Is T-Mobile's 5G Internet service available in your area?
Luc(as) de Groot hosts a battle between TrueType and PostScript curves here: https://youtu.be/I75Efo7whrs

Once there you'll find other TypoLabs talks...

Mike Abbink gave a great presentation about the development of IBM Plex - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzLKjeuXLQY

Yves Peters has a few talks about fonts and type - his "Trajan in movie posters: the rise and fall of the Roman Empire" is a popular talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ELcasdlXY (2015 date) His talk about fonts and sex is good too: https://youtu.be/JfdTZDNE3Xw

I enjoyed this talk about crazy OpenType techniques - "Yes, But Can Variable Fonts Do This — Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer" which is at https://youtu.be/ZM1vSHzD3HI
Agreed, except why bother pop up again? They just got a big fat payment of $5m. Plenty to split with a small team. It's a good time to cash out and disappear.
> zero contracts between dependencies.

Isn't typescript contract?

This is not really about JS, if I want to replace JS I'll pick a language with similar characteristics that make it successful. Similar to how you replace C++ with rust, another language that gives you control of memory. For app developments they are simplicity and a focus on domain modelling with a good type system (this is typescript teritory), NOT memory safey.

And don't tell me that rust's type system is powerful too, yes, but it's also complex and the focus isn't domain modelling. Like C++ and golang's type systems, it's there to aid the compilers/borrow checker, not developers.

Example of such language in my other comment: kotlin, F#
Good to know. Still awful on MacOS, and you'd presumably need to check distro by distro for Linux.
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Perhaps an unpopular opinion but I don't think these concepts should be taught as part of a BS program for Computer Science.

Teaching tools of the trade is, well, a trade school thing. I suppose you have to decide if the degree program is more like "Prep school for FAANG" or a program to teach people how to be computer scientists. When I see classes like this I flashback to the required "Problem Solving" class I had to take as part of my CS degree which was a full semester of "How many windows are there in NYC?" or "How many bowling balls fit inside a Boeing 747?" Biggest waste of time considering Google and the like had moved on to HackerRank/LeetCode style questions years ago.

Coming from a school that's known as a good technical/engineering school I found the CS program to be a bit lacking on the "CS" part. Lots of outdated classes on "how to develop for the web/mobile" and such.
Sure, if it is warranted. I am not partisan. I presume you do not mean while he was acting SecState.
The auction for the first onion service private key and generative NFT
Orbit, an Open Source Package for Time Series Inference and Forecasting
It's easier to launder and transfer the BTC than to do the same with real money. According to the article, the people behind Darkside were also behind a bitcoin "mixing" service that was recently shut down.
SELinux is nothing but a maintenance burden for developers and users. There's a reason no major distro beyond the Fedora line that enables it by default, including the one I work one; it almost invariably frustrates users, has incomplete support for the workflows they use, and so they turn it off anyway. I literally turned off SELinux on my new ARM64 Fedora machine last week, because it prevented me from installing a third party binary (which I am a developer of.) That binary in turn needed its own ability to use namespacing support to sandbox applications (in a manner that works and offers enhanced security on any Linux distro, not just SELinux ones), etc. It's a non-starter.

> Since that’s generally believed to be the case, no sandboxing is necessary.

That's where you're wrong. It's necessary even if you believe it's not. It's been proven time and time again that this is the case and that the "belief" no flaws exist is wrong.

Sandboxing approaches that use techniques like namespaces, and capability security have become vastly, vastly more popular over the years on Linux, and they're going to keep getting more popular, precisely because they work where SELinux fails (that is, 98% of the running Linux systems and distros that actually exist). Browsers, WebAssembly, systems like Flatpak with "Portals" -- all of them have moved into capability-inspired and "component" sandboxing approaches, to achieve this level of security independent of the host operating system. If Chrome had decided to use SELinux instead of its own sandboxing approach, it's security model would be completely inferior to what it is today.
Transactions between monero accounts can't be tracked, or at least there's no evidence that they can be tracked.
> Isn't this the exact value-prop of Filecoin

Yes, exactly. Would love being able to use Filecoin or any of the alternatives (Storj, Sia and those) but they are all very immature right now, both UX and stability wise. If it's not hard to get the files into the networks, it's hard to get them out again.

IPFS could work as it's not ruined by the whole blockchain mess, but then you might as well use torrents (which people are successfully using already for Sci-Hub).
I also think the logic is flawed.

Usually I see comments like this from people who think "Frontend is easy, backend is hard" and then you look at the frontend code and you scream in pain.

Its not like you can not write bad code in Rust. Rust has for example 6 String types. You can also write unsafe rust code. There were example in the past were major Lib's did it just to make it faster.

Also the rust frontend eco system has a very low maturity. So you probably will be writing a lot of stuff on your own (what script kiddies do because they think they can do it better).

If for you it is important to have someone which is not a script kiddie then you could also go for someone who understands RxJS and Angular. This would also "filter".

I'm not sure how many people you will find with good rust skills and good UI/UX skills. If this is not important then go for it.
>These features are being driven by enterprise Java user pain points

By Java devs who only ever wrote Java, and suddenly had to write Kotlin for Android. They're now aware of these features as a result and are demanding them in Java.
I agree that this is something that EVs and batteries could replace, but if your baseload is coming from oil, all you've done is transfer the combustion to a more efficient central site and then sent the power through the grid.

Regarding base load, my suspicion is that SMRs inherently accommodate transients better because leakage becomes a bigger factor and starts to compete with poisoning effectively, so maybe you get more bang for your buck out of influencing the moderator. Regardless, even if it's only ever good for base load, that's a lot of ground nuclear could still cover in the US.

Finally, the cost of nuclear comes mostly from the aggressive safety standards. There's space to fix some of that (enormous cost to the fact that radiation workers typically experience less exposure than aircrews) and also space to acknowledge that we're lowballing standards in fossil fuels, with pipeline leaks and ransomware compromise being easy examples. That's before you talk about the pollution released by fossil fuels, including the radioactive contamination released by mining and burning coal.
I'm not advocating anything for the current employees, I'm only advocating this for new employees. I think this is where we have gotten confused so I'll update the original post.

Also I'm currently running a poll and the majority of people so far (84%) would prefer to either work 3 days @ 60% or 4 days @ 80%. This has also been shown to be the case in my larger studies [1].

[1] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/0...
Excludes commute time from work-from-office hours, which makes the comparison moot. I'd rather be unproductive at home, than unproductive in traffic.

Also, this surveyed a single "large Asian IT services company". Its an anecdote with significant cultural work biases that may make this inapplicable to eg. American firms.
This doesn't make sense. Consider right now, in the restaurant industry in the US.

Resaurants are increasing their pay. These are for jobs like McDonalds. The kind of jobs that people always use to point out work that is trivial, and shouldn't be paid minimum wage...

And yet, they are paying more than minimum wage. Why? Because McDonalds is a 143.8 billion dollar company. They aren't worth that much because they are running charity. They make that much money from selling fries.

So even if you think that fry cook is stupid and has to have their work double checked, who cares? If they weren't there, then you couldn't sell the fries to begin with. And then how will you make 143.8 billion dollars?

The simple fact that the company has such value should make it obvious that the frycook is producing more value than they are paid.
I'm not referring to using Amp-hours - note that I quoted capacities of competing products using the same unit.

What grinds my gears is copy-pasting without understanding the notation. mAh g-1 is not a unit. mA⋅h⋅g<sup>-1</sup> or mA⋅h/g is. I expect a technical article to at least use the correct notation for SI units. If your publishing system is so crappy that it doesn't support middle-dots and proper superscript, use division instead.

The mess seen in the article is the result of mindless copypasta.

Nonsense like "gigaWatts" shouldn't even be possible and causes red squiggly lines even while typing this in a browser; not to mention "gW" (grams times Watts?, Wattgrams?).

If you present technical information and include technical data, use the correct notation. Failing to do so demonstrates that there's no or a very poor editorial process and that the author has no clue what they're even writing about. This doesn't inspire confidence in the actual substance of the article, much like proper grammar and orthography are an essential part of a good essay.
I'm interested to understand the psychology of ransomware types who go after these enormous and important targets. That includes the pipeline, which obviously claimed at least a few lives of its own via people not being able to drive to get medical care, etc.

Are they armchair criminal masterminds who don't really have a visceral understanding of how much damage they're doing? Or just straight up psychopaths? I can't think of any other options.
Everyone freaks out about oil. Japan attacked the United States in World War 2 because the United States stopped exporting oil to Japan. It was the primary motivator behind Pearl Harbor.
Ransoming Colonial basically put Darkside out of business. no one is going to hit them again
Interesting. I prefer writing that as an if/else on one line when rufmt lets me, but I see your point.
Re-posted comment from a previous thread[0]

Still relevant

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097966

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There is a theory floating about that some ransomware attacks were done purely to damage a country's infra and making money was a bonus, but not the main aim. So the perpetrators used ransomware as a front and the real goal is to destroy and disrupt a country's computer infra.

But then we could argue ransomware is just going to bolster and make our systems antifragile and resilient against such attacks in the future, so the ransomware attacks could backfire since in the future it would be much harder to attack the US for example with other types of malware.

It also means people are going to be storing mission critical and crown-jewels type data in airgapped systems and making filesystems read-only. The data would also be encrypted and compartmented into separate containers so attacks can't affect the whole filesystem if the airgap was breached.
You scroll whatsapp for a bit, and then it takes 30s to load messages. Telegram scroll is Instant, and trully endless, like a native app loading text should be
There are few jurisdictions where the US Government can't easily get at you, either physically or financially. China, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia the list is super thin and almost exclusively places you either don't want to be or where you better be a protected local (otherwise they'll just hang you out to dry for their own benefit or amusement).

Most authorities around the world will want to nail you - and or your money - in cooperation with the US authorities (or otherwise for their own benefit). Once they know the US wants you, you become a toy to be used to some end, you're toast, your life is over.
This doesn't affect me because I https://www.grepular.com/Sandbox_Rust_Development_with_Rust_...
> business side of the oil company

What are the sides of any company other than "business"?
It was unknown whether they could spread the disease for a long time. A bunch of research has done out in recent weeks/months showing it's also effective to slow the spread.
Or they used something like Grammarly...
Believe I'm supposed to get it in October (maybe September?). We'll see. The reported speeds here are more than I'm getting from Spectrum, where I pay for 400 down and consistently can't get any better than 80. And hopefully Starlink won't make it possible for prospective neighbors to DOS me by accidentally typoing their move-in address and Spectrum shutting down my account without asking because they just assume that must mean I'm moving out. Lost a full day of work thanks to that one. I am more than willing to accept a beta product just to stick it to existing ISPs. If it gets better, great. If it doesn't, it's still better than Spectrum.

I do have an unobstructured view and have the tallest building in my neighborhood, so that shouldn't be a problem.
>Most were horrible. I got around 5 good ones.

Probably because $50-100 PFH is a pretty low rate. So you're getting entry level narrators. Narrators willing to work at or around minimum wage, and in actuality much less.

Here is why I say that - authors/non-narrators don't consider that the ACX narrator is expected to do all the following: pre-read, script interpretation, direction (i.e. rehearsal), re-reads, editing, quality review, technical compliance / finalization (i.e. mastering) and uploading. There is not less than 4 hours work PFH (per finished hour) of audio, and it's probably closer to 6 to 7 hours PFH for a moderately experienced narrator willing to work for $100pfh, and 12 to 14 hours PFH for the novice narrator. I've been narrating a long time and have tons of automation built into my workflow, and I am still quite often more than 4 hours actual work to create a single hour of final audio.
Is this sarcastic? Because you’re a native Russian speaker and yet your English isn’t recognizably Russian…
If you have single point of failure, either on technical or human level, you aren’t doing it correctly.

But it’s really hard to build systems and organizations like that.
Just vm’s? No syscall emulation?
Do you have any extraordinary evidence for these extraordinary claims?
I think the pendulum has swung a bit too far from its optimum with serverless and microservices. The main issue I have with both is the huge complexity and friction between how it runs on a developer machine vs how it runs in production.

For me the sweet spot is monolith(-ish) 12-factor applications packaged up in containers. In this setup I can just `docker-compose up` my dependencies (postgres, redis, rabbitmq, other services, ...) and run the application from my IDE against those (so I can use the debugger instead of printf-to-cloudwatch). For production I can package the app in a container and deploy to a container orchestration platform (Kubernetes, ECS, or something else).

To answer your question, what comes after Kubernetes?: I'm hoping for a platform that is somehow a consolidation of the good ideas that we've seen in Terraform/Pulumi/Kubernetes/Cmake/DockerCompose/Swarm. I want to write a portable idempotent "deployment build script" that I can apply against a cloud provider or bare metal or localhost in a similar way. With good support for different configurations depending on the environment (like C ifdefs or cmake options).

For example: when I apply the script against my localhost it spins up a postgres container, when I apply the same script against my AWS account it configures an RDS postgres instance. Both invocations will pass along the connection string to dependant services.

Basically morph docker-compose.yml into a portable Cmake for container orchestration.
Idiots. They have every arm-chair analyst saying “cryptocureency is the cause of ransomware!” and they don't even use multisig to leverage the cryptocurrency technology preventing that prevents its unilateral seizure?

Looking forward to the day when someone proves there is nothing the state can do. But for now we have to watch these lackadaisical shit shows.
Thank you for pointing this out. To add to what @karterk said, we had upgraded just one of the 3 nodes in the Typesense cluster powering the home page demo to an internal RC build which has some new changes. So some queries were hitting that new node, and the others were hitting the old node, which is why the results were inconsistent.

I've now updated the demo to send queries to a node that's closest to the user, so it shouldn't jump around any more.
Crypto currency itself can be completely anonymous, but the difficulty is in the on-ramp and off-ramps to and from state fiat money.

For example, I want to buy ZCash that is untraceable to me. I need to exchange ownership of a hardware wallet (like a physical USB device) for a pre-determined amount of state fiat, lets say USD in this case. In order to facilitate this I need to find a trusted seller, arrange a meeting, verify the actual value of the physical wallet, and make the exchange. There are non-physical means of making it harder to trace state fiat back to you, but not impossible. The state has simply had too much influence over these places of transaction for too long for anybody to be truly un-findable given a long enough period of time.

Assuming I can find someone willing to on-ramp me like this I will need to take steps to ensure that our communications are encrypted and untraceable. This means not only do I need a decentralized encrypted messaging service, I also need to conduct this communication in a way that does not give away my geographical location and is not vulnerable to security logs (say by checking the cafe's video feed from the time I was messaging my seller). Then I need to go to the meet, exchange the physical wallet for cash, and verify the amount in it is accurate (and also preferably not stolen). I need to do this without revealing my identity to my seller and avoiding security logs once again. This is all now possible whereas before Satoshi it was impossible, but it is still difficult.

Alternatively, I could just sell some kind of digital asset in exchange for ZCash to begin with. Now I do not have to worry about an on-ramp. If I control my distribution server then I can erase or encrypt my sales logs in order to prevent any estimation of my total sales for the year.

Off-ramping is much harder. I either need to become a seller of a physical wallet which has all the same problems that plagued me before, or I need to live in an economy where off-ramping is not required. This would be a physical location where all transactions are conducted in secure, anonymize, cyrpto-currency transactions. Similar to my earlier problem, this is now possible but extremely difficult. An individual or a group of individuals is going to have to bootstrap an entire local economy.

Being localized is also an issue since there is nothing preventing the USG from simply rolling in the tanks to break up this localized tax haven.
I would say that's not enough information...

And getting a candidate because of that one metric would be insane..
Apart from running make which of course runs the makefile, under what scenario does viewing a makefile run it?
That explanation seems off? (Anyone who has enough to live off of can just do that, witholding both their capital and their labor.)

But anyway I meant supply of labor for startups specifically. Like, people are too willing to forgo FAANG comp for low equity numbers at startups.
It sounds like you're describing Kubernetes. It already does container and volume management that way. All that's left is to continue building on top of it so that it can provision managed services like storage buckets and databases.
How many times are we going to learn that that's just not true.

There is no safe, only shades of safer.

Is the mathematical underpinnings of Monero sound? That's a good starting point. There are still implementation bugs, compiler bugs, architecture bugs, supply chain vulnerabilities, and state actors with unlimited $.
>What's your definition of a normal worker? Lawyers, doctors, dentists, pilots, architects and programmers sound like normal workers to me.

We're not. Lawyer income is not on a normal distribution.

People making >400k a year are owners/partners in a successful firm. Most of these people work hard, yes, but they make their big dollars off leverage; the amount of margin they can accrue from billing out the work of lower ranked lawyers on files they've brought in. Some don't even do legal work. It's very tough to lump these guys in with 'normal workers'.

For the people doing low-cost-jurisdiction bulk lawyer work, they make closer to 25-35$/hr as contractors. Which is almost an order of magnitude less. These are normal workers.
I think parent may mean infrastructure side. If it had just attacked the office side of things, it would be the usual 'company infected with ransomware' story without affecting the public.
okay. so the vaccine itself is different, but the end result spike protein is the same. I assumed that the spike proteins would look similar (99.5%+) and was actually expecting differences in the “area that holds the protein together at the base where it would normally bind to the useful virus payload”. i guess i was wrong
"with minimal trial" is the operative word, which didn't happen. The point being there is a balance between waiting for perfect data and making risk based policies.
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