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> The fact that offering an idea that's better than what's already being done is seen as rebellious at all, as opposed to being the entire job of an engineer, or the definition of what engineers do, is not a good sign for any organization.

That is exactly what happens, but not because your management isn't listening. The sacrifice of good ideas is done in the name of predictability or viability.

I've been witness to and driven a few of these sorts of moves and what has struck me is that successful "by-pass of management" rebellion costs time, effort and most importantly is a test of active leadership skills.

There was a system which I was working on which absolutely sucked (for me personally, because I worked on performance and it couldn't be improved without changing the architecture). There was a way to rewrite about 25% of the system under different assumptions which would fix the performance issues, but the system that was in production already had several other issues which needed to be prioritized over performance.

For a manager in front of a customer, of course, we're absolutely committed to fixing whatever is broken. That goes back into engineering, where the rewrite wouldn't have half the bugs we have, but it looks like Dunkirk when it fails. The manager has no way to actually approve the rewrite, when they're trying to hire immediately to just do the work that's already on the plan.

Anyway, long story short, there was an intern for the summer who did the rewrite and get it working to the point where the next generation system was almost entirely built out by a single uninterrupted intern over two months (& his code is still in prod today).

The methods needed to break rules and succeed are often just the same qualities needed to "just succeed", except the breaking of rules is necessary to prevent the regression to mean.

And if you don't succeed, being disavowed like this means worse results than following orders. There's something to be said about the motivation of a team after burning their boats.

I'm gearing up to do one of those off-the-books project right now. And the tolerance for risk is clearly something I'm having less of each year. That said, surviving failure does more for your confidence than clutch, but definitely would like less red in the ledger.
oh great, it's an EPR

if there's a significant incident then that really is the end of the nuclear industry
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> to the moment you stop thinking about it

In that case, i work 168 hours a week and i’m the most productive when walking my dog.
Well, for one you can just nod along while other people speak, or shake your head. Video just increases the communication bandwidth a bit.

You can also quickly switch to screen sharing some chart and discuss it. Or you can look at a backlog, or some bit of code, or a mockup.

I've been remote for 12 years, in my experience video calls are strictly better than audio only, but of course it's fine if someone can't join with video.

It's not video that makes meetings bad, it's people.
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It's not just a video. There is a table of contents on the left side with the links.
It’s very romantic about these pirates. But what if the flight director was not leader from ancient times? I really like HP way and other antique management theories. But now I meet very often people that are really really comfortable in their management positions and only care about their compensation. Every rebellious idea is a risk project for them and must be killed ASAP. From I own experience I can say one thing: don’t rock the boat. In different organizations the risk level varies. Wanna risk and rebellion - start your own company!
Biden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archmere_Academy
not sarcastic, and yes I'll probably use a crawler library :)
yeah - the phone scammers seem to like gift cards...
Why bother with old technology? (2013)
Yes, you said read write, but to answer your question at an industrial level, set your AWS IAM permissions to write only for your normal backup role. No delete or modify.
Currently you can.
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IMO the main issue is that you're punishing (or at least inconveniencing) the person whose predicted to be bad. The 21 year old man did nothing wrong being a 21 year old man, and just because he's super suspicious doesn't mean he's actually dangerous. And you have to imagine what happens when you are the one who seems super suspicious.

Similarly, 80 year olds and especially people with pre-existing conditions, they did nothing wrong, so it's not fair to make them pay more.

Possible solutions are 1) monitor the suspicious individuals without inconveniencing them (e.g. monitor the 21-year old via a security camera), 2) distribute the inconvenience when possible (e.g. raise everyone's premiums a small amount for those who are more likely to be sick), or 3) offer some sort of compensation to people who have to be targeted.
> Yeah, that's a decent point. To answer your question, it's as if it's the string "secure string" for the purposes of other string methods.

That’s a problem because you are enforcing all your functions accepting normal strings to either have to check if it’s NOT a SecretString or to return some nonsense. For exemple a function that returns the 2 firsts characters without caring about secret string could be passed one as argument and return « *s ».

The Liskov Substitution Principle states that a function accepting an Animal (a String) should never care about wether it’s a Cat (a Secret) and don’t fear Animal (String) methods to return meaningful values.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

If you have a mossad problem, big integers were never going to save you from that before or indeed, after QC.
Yes, but none of them have been able to do anything faster than a classical computer can so far. It is not clear it will ever be possible to build a QC that is.
And you'd end up building more trucks because of Jevon's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox.

Bitcoin mining does respond to market pressure, if the price goes down, or you wait until the subsidy halves, there will be less incentive to mine.
Likewise ancient people thought about a F-16 before ever inventing a one.
The sad part of this is that we've know these kinds of trends were going to happen since the advent of the computer and automation. Computing and automation leave the average physical and intellectual ability behind. Someone born in the last 20 years could be forgiven for thinking that Science Fiction is only about dystopian stories of despair. Why? Because one cornerstone of SciFi is that the average IQ is worth less every day and is being replaced by technology. Those left behind will revolt. This easily explains Trump's appeal. Average people are feeling more irrelevant ever day. Trump is proof that even the worst of con men can tap into that despair. Andrew Yang ran his Presidential campaign in part on this theme, but UBI does nothing for helping people feel relevant or in control of their lives. The title of this article could have easily been, "Silicon Valley thought the US was its future, now things have changed." The disaffected are only becoming more disaffected every day because those in the technological advancement industries don't care.
Polygon right now has capped the number of validators at 100, and the protocol atop which it is built (Tendermint/“Peppermint”) only remains fast and cheap if the “active set” of validators remains small. Polygon team have said they will introduce an “auction” mechanism for new validators to join the active set, but one would anticipate that will just favor validators with large stakes (i.e. the existing validator active set). Cosmos/ATOM is the sort of keeper of Tendermint and responsible for the reference implementation and they too cap the validator active set at 125 or 130. Practically speaking none of these L2s are very decentralized. They are fast and cheap which is what most people want but practically pretty centralized...(i.e. project founders and early operators are totally capable of launching 50% or 2/3rds attacks...they probably just don’t want to, and the small “active set” of validators is likely to mostly stay the same). A genuinely decentralized PoS L2 (i.e. can accommodate very large number of validators) that is also fast and cheap is something I’d love to see
It would be interesting to calculate $/TPS instead of using sticker shock as a metric.
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The requirements seemed a bit extreme to say the least...
I still don't see how is it my problem?
Pitchers are putting the substance on every ball. Nearly all strikeouts are caught directly by the catcher, and the 3rd strike is the hardest to get, so it would be a very good sample indeed.
My perspective as a maintainer is _surprisingly beneficial_ in aggregate.

The changes aren't necessarily going to be the most impactful, or most visible, but I'm sure you've seen after N years on a project all the small "I'd love to fix this but can't reasonably prioritize it" items that accumulate, and someone with less expertise may often be the perfect candidate to help burn that down (it also helps build that expertise in doing so.)

I can see situations in which there might be more difficult tradeoffs of "time spent vetting contributions/ramping up new people" vs. "utility per capita" but at least for the projects I've had touch on, there are always a healthy slice of up-for-grabs issues that I was/am more than happy to see get knocked off and were often reasonably self-contained, but would still contribute incrementally to the polish+overall-goodness of the project.
This is awesome! I’ve been using Vercel for awhile but will give this a shot.

Lately I’ve been trying to consolidate services in my life and this looks like it could help consolidate a lot of my side project web work to AWS
in other words, if you really must have your data, you want two drives.

On the bright side, since it's removable media, anyone with a working drive can read your tapes for you.
> He is openly racist and hates Muslims

Indian Muslims are the same race as Hindus.

I distrust Islam just like the vast majority of the world. Muslims are victims of Islam, especially Indian Muslims because it was never their choice.

There isn't a single muslim country to the west of India that has any minority rights.

An overwhelming 87% of Indian Muslim voted for the Muslim league and hence the creation of Pakistan.

That is political Islam and it has killed millions of Hindus in the past 70 years.

One big problem with Muslims is that they always think of themselves as victims but seem to have no remorse for the millions of kafirs they have killed.

I do not want India to turn into a Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria.

> Muslims have always been the perpetrators of unwarranted violence

That was in response to your mention of Gujarat. The whole incident started when Muslim mobs burnt alive 59 Hindu pilgrims including children.

Clearly they had planned for violence and were sufficiently armed.

This has always been the case with Muslims around the world. Start the violence and cry victim.
But the EXO module is not one of those Windows-only modules.
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Legendary.
Please scroll to the comments of the top answer if you haven’t. There’s another “MS Paint IDE” there
> ... outperformed every other investment class over the past 12 years of its existence?

Because past performance isn't indicative of future performance. The XLF has dramatically outperformed Bitcoin in the last few months hasn't it? Really puts a damper on the "long bitcoin short banks" narrative.

> Given that you have been wrong about it’s performance so consistently would you consider checking your assumptions?

Who says I've been wrong about its performance?

I'm saying it's driven by fraud and manipulation. Frauds go up until they don't. I'm not confident in catching the top before the music stops. I don't think I've ever said the price is guaranteed to go down on any particular time horizon.
C++ still don't have ecosystem anywhere as easy-to-use compared to npm. There are two package managers with a lot of libraries (Vcpkg and MinGW / MXE), but:

* Only very popular libraries actually available.

* Sometimes they break on package manager and no one notice for months since test coverage is often limited.

* Each extra library might cause tons of little issues and make your build system more and more complex.

* Libraries often don't support all OS equally well.

* Most of mature C++ projects avoid those libraries and package managers.

So much often than with npm you will have to test each library on your own and what worse you might only learn that something fundamentally broken (on specific OS or architecture) inside it much much later. And with C++ it's just harder to do refactoring to replace said library with something else.
That's fascinating! Thank you for sharing :) Feels completely otherworldly.
I buy Trader Joes Omega 3's, those are molecularly distilled. They also are 1200 mg per softgel, most others I've seen in stores are only 1000.
"A bad actor simply has to con the contraband onto an unsuspecting low-risk passenger"

While it's true that this will happen, this isn't a valid argument for exactly equal search frequency across demographics.

Lone wolf attacks are almost exclusively young or middle aged men. That isn't changing in response to venue or airport search policy.

Young people might be easier to convert into drug smugglers due to financial need, higher risk appetite, less family responsibilities and a higher chance of having gang affiliations. Even if smugglers recruit more old people in response to a skew towards searching young people more frequently, such a policy may still maximize the number of successful searches.
Maybe that is the problem here, we do not have a defined workflow. Do you know of any good workflow sheet for git we can lift ideas from?
This is simply what I’ve come to expect of HN xD. I agree with you.
> I think it’s fundamentally immoral, period

Nope.
No, the chips and internals are from the bulb. The screen obviously is not.
You had 18+ years spending 24/7 with your parents. Also, I'm sure the weekly calls aren't quite enough from their end, they never are for a parent--understandably!
I was asking if that algorithm was meant to be part of "the mindset of a culture far removed" from the typical reader or not.

You wouldn't know what the author intended, but you would know if you ever heard of how to do square roots by hand.
No, he was saying we, implying that we [humans] have to take some responsibility or whatever grandiose idea he has in his mind.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I don't envy your job, and you've always appeared to be quite good at it.
Constructing a training dataset is a separate problem. You could potentially crowdsource enough negative examples. Once you have the dataset, a neural network would most likely be able to learn to classify sentences with a reasonably good accuracy.

Unlike current DL models, humans have a world model (common sense) which is formed through an ability to create/update/lookup explicit rules/facts. Once we figure out how to incorporate that into a learning algorithm and/or a model architecture, AI will become a lot smarter.
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As the previous poster mentioned, wood would only be used for particularly large poster type, but (if I recall correctly) even at large scale the printing press does wear out the wood blocks more quickly than metal type; the good designs that you see in wood would anticipate that distortion without compromising legibility.

Wood type was also often very trendy, insofar that new designs that were bigger and bolder were developed and produced quickly — the aesthetic lifespan may not have been longer than the physical one.
I absolutely agree, and at the same time it’s how large and (!) mid-sized companies often work. And it’s not only management that behaves like that but many employees as well.

When I was a manager in a mid-sized companies I was a strong proponent of what I called “The dictatorship of ideas”. Let’s not care where the idea is coming from but try to create better and better ideas all the time. Not everyone liked it.
This isn’t for static sites deployment.
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> Break the slab like form factor and my addictive habits dropped, drastically.

I think this is an important point and one of the potential problems with the PinePhone - by having the same form factor as Android and iOS devices, it will end up being sucked into copying along with their designs the way the Linux desktop iterates towards MacOS.
Disagree completely. webOS and Maemo were pretty great and open source. It took half of a decade for Android and iOS to adopt some of the principle features webOS shipped with. Both had large communities developing, often open source, software for them.
I don’t care what brand of chainsaw I may use, but we’re going to have trouble hiring and retaining chainsaw experts if our staff is only allowed steak knives (which is what other teams are familiar with).
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Betraying the trust of others in any context is wrong, and has moral implications beyond the immediate harm to the counter-party.

Your GoT example is nonsensical: it ignores the difference between fictional immorality and real-world immorality. Your assertion that this article is mere spectacle is baseless. It seems to me that you give no weight at all to betrayal, and I believe that has real implications for those considering taking you on as a counter-party in any context. Heck, I'd probably avoid playing board games with someone who espoused these kinds of views; apart from cheaters being less fun to play with, I find the "If you get away with it, it's fine" attitude to trigger a strong feeling of disgust, akin to the stench of fresh shit.
Do a HPC course, the whole point is to tax your system.
> If you believe Telegram's numbers

I have a hard time believing anything from Telegram because of the owner. But that number does seem feasible.

> People did leave WhatsApp

I don't think people joining Telegram directly leads to people actually leaving WhatsApp. I joined Signal, but am still in WhatsApp because most people are still on there.
> putting aside the security theatre aspect

> Does wanting to reduce this justify clear resource wastage, such as in the airport security example above?

Hold on, your argument can't put aside the "security theatre aspect" while also using it as justification for policies. If it really is theatre, this wouldn't be doing anything more effectively except getting more people invested in the show going on.
> Is the lack of construction the fault of the people arriving

No!

> or of the people that have lived there a long time and have set the political agenda?

Hardly less so!

Why we don't build more is a complex issue with failures on all levels of government, and it's certainly not something New Yorkers specifically asked for.

Rich NIMBYs complaining are damn hypocrites and the worse sure, but the type of New York Eric Adams (fuck him, to be clear) was ostencibly trying to appeal has no power over this stuff. Remember NYC is still a 1-party state shit show with way to many "veto points". It's structurally quite hard to do anything.

I think the best way out is mix-rate public housing. Public housing that looses money because it's only the poorest is stupid and doomed to fail. Mix rate so it can pay for itself but no "extractive" profit is much more sustainable, i.e. can survive right-wing state and federal governments. I don't know anywhere that has enough housing in good dense locations with just the private sector.
yeah, nice find, you're right - it is there - (although uBlock Origin seems to have blocked it from successfully connecting). it's weird that that is there in the first place, as they would already have the IP info in their HTTP server logs if they wanted to keep track of IPs, right?
I like how you have stated your beliefs simply and clearly. Let's not pretend that your vote for modi is based on some car factory.

Also, for your future reference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_secularism#Secular...
Somebody only read the title.
Is this limited to fish oil or can flax oil (Omega 3) and hemp oil (Omega 3, 6, and 9) be a substitute as well?
> The worldwide Bitcoin network uses about 12 GW, mostly renewable, because Bitcoin mining is unprofitable if it's using anything but the absolute cheapest electricity, and scalable renewable electricity is about a third the price of fossil-fuel electricity now, with the gap constantly widening.

If I'm following this right, the only evidence for Bitcoin being mostly based on renewable energy is because people believe it's uneconomical to not be renewable, and not based on any actual attempt to figure out what energy types are actually being used by large mining groups?

Because, especially when you compare across international countries, retail prices are only vaguely correlated with production prices. Many places subsidize the crap out of energy prices, and electricity in a subsidized place could well be much cheaper than in a non-subsidized place, even if the first plant is burning coal and other plant is using wind.

For some specific data points, I believe a large clutch of miners operated out of Inner Mongolia, whose electricity capacity increases in recent years has been dominated by coal-fired power plants (because it's a coal-rich region that doesn't give two whits about environmental effects). I'll also note that there was a story a few weeks back about a coal powered plant being recommissioned solely for mining bitcoin.
Nice. Thanks for this. I really appreciate being enlightened on this topic.

Cheers
Because everyone in the world who distills things just distills them (and might feel fancy and say what kind of still they use), but fish oil purveyors molecularly distill the oil. At least it’s fish oil and not snake oil.

Look for independent lab reports, not the magic words “molecularly distilled.”

(P.S. mercury is quite volatile. Methylmercury appears to have a boiling point below that of water. I know nothing about distilling fish oil, but I would expect that mercury and it’s compounds could end up in the distillate if done carelessly and that the oils would oxidize or otherwise degrade. So they must either use a molecular still, whatever that is, or perhaps it’s done in an inert atmosphere or under vacuum.)
1) Solana has hundreds of validators (>800 if I remember).

While requirements are quite high (few $k hardware) it's also possible to rent dedicated hardware for 100/200 a month. Somewhat more accessible.

Or use a managed staking provider (ankr or the likes) to set it up for you.

There was also some incentives from Solana to support new people setting up validators on their own and ensure they stay online for a long time.

AWS is quite expensive, for this, given the compensation you get from validating transactions.

Hetzner is quite popular, it was 15% of capacity at some point, not sure now.