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What do banks have to do with Covid, did they create it?

I get it people don't like banks. Banks print money, banks can have shady business in addition to plain old banking...

And if I recall correctly, most landlords are not multi-building owners.
His work is seriously amazing. In some cases priceless for people who have never been interviewed and pass away not long after he talks with them. The collection of interviews he's amassed provide an absolutely unique and invaluable insight into the beginnings of the computing industry that have ramifications all the way to today.
Helped with some chip production quality management software at Kodak in Rochester back in 1992. It was really scary seeing this behemoth company with its lunch canteens full of top engineers as the numbers were headed steeply down and the bleak future was already unfolding. Strange how at that time the rank and file, to the extent that average engineers could be called that, could clearly see that digital was the future and yet their latest offerings were mediocre performers with lots of overdone features hardly anyone used that cost a ton to develop.
LIDAR is valuable as a safety feature, i.e. it can (unlike radars or cameras) reliably see (at least in clear weather) if there's anything in the car's path warranting evasion/braking maneuvers. In particular it's important that the LIDAR is dumb, i.e. its failure mores are predictable
know someone paying > $4k a year in car insurance because of speeding tickets from areas like that. Going the speed everyone else is going but over the speed limit. Life lesson I got from that was obey the speed limit even if everyone else is speeding.
Another non-security angle: doesn't computer science also face a kind of replicability crisis related to the ability to acquire and compile source code associated with some published papers? Reproducible builds directly address that.

And it seems like even when that problem is resolved for the empirical component of computer science, bit-identical reproducibility could be valuable in case binaries are never submitted or distributed. This NixOS release is in a way a benchmark for how far we can currently get on a 'useful' system with that kind of reproducibility.
I’d still have rented while in college. I’d still have rented for my first two or three places after college. After that, I bought a place, lived in it for a while, then moved and rented in the city in two places (including one with a girlfriend which seems like a bad idea to jump right into home ownership), then bought the house I live in now.

There’s plenty of beneficial flexibility afforded by renting, even if you can afford to do either one.

Plus, if housing doesn’t go up in value like an investment, why would you want to tie up a downpayment and tie yourself down, losing money all the while? You’d have more incentive to rent and invest your down payment money.
Not sure why you got downvoted -- land is cheap, you can easily find land for sale for $500 and acre or even less.

But buildable land with utility access (whether municipal utilities or septic/well) that's in a place where people want to live is harder to find and that makes it valuable.
Lots of people here on HN have contact with "famous" people. It's not usually a big deal.

It shouldn't really be surprising that an article about Google (a company with 145K full-time-employees) might attract a few people who know people. Isn't that why we read HN?
That’s because Elon is essentially cancel proof. True freedom is to not have to care what the mob thinks, but sadly they vast majority of us have to answer to someone.
Furthermore, real estate prices anyway always raise due to inflation.
This is absolutely 100% wrong, and I don't know where it comes from.
I unfortunately can't agree with that sentiment. If I have to rely on production traffic to test my feature, then, at minimum, my feedback cycle is:

1) Make change. Think really hard about it to make sure it's correct.

2) put out code review.

3) get approval. Merge change.

4) CI pipeline builds and deploys to prod.

5) absent of alerts must mean it works?

Even if you have no QA environment and nothing between you and prod, I've rarely seen deployment to prod take less than 30 minutes. That's an hour feedback cycle. Contrast with:

1) write code.

2) write unit tests.

3) run tests locally.

The feedback cycle, especially when you get iterative, can get as low as single digit seconds. I run my tests and see a bug. I fix the bug, then re-run the tests. Similarly, for a more complex feature, I can break the feature down into multiple cycles of build, test, verify.

And that's not even accounting for the overhead of managing feature flags, which is not free. In the best case, you need to at least release a second PR to remove the feature flag when the feature is successful. At my previous employer, this step was often forgotten and resulted in real, consequential technical debt as it became harder to figure out how the product behaved based on which feature flags were turned off or on.

If you have an experience leads you to believe that production testing can more productive than local automated testing, I at least have never seen it occur in and I find it difficult to even imagine it being true.
An alternate progression could involve exponential height growth, leading to every suburb eventually looking like a cluster of space elevators (and beyond).
Home values show the costs people are willing pay to be home owners in desirable areas. There is no Ponzi system here (there are some markets which are, mind you, but not all)

Having said this, the US government's insistence on tax subsidies for home ownership is bull. It restricts geographic mobility, encourages people to get mortgages they cannot afford, creates unnecessary pollution, and creates a delusion that being a home owner is an aspiration. It's another case of the government trying to help and hurting people instead. As the author mentioned, if you want to help the housing situation, stop subsidizing at the federal level.
FAANG interviewing has nothing to do with your skill as an engineer. FAANG interviews only evaluate how good you are at jumping through the specific hoops they require for their special interview process. For Amazon, it's all about how well you can bullshit your way around the LPs.

It's the professional equivalent of "being good at taking multiple choice exams". But just because someone got 100s on every biology exam in high school doesn't mean they are an expert in biology, just that they are a good test taker.

If you want to look up to someone because they are actually a good engineer, then that's great. But don't look up to someone just because they are a good test taker. And don't look down on yourself just because you are a bad test taker. Taking tests has so little relevance to how good you actually are as an engineer. Amazon is chock-full of completely mediocre engineers, and also rejects plenty of actual engineering wizards.
Correct, but the number of shares outstanding isn't infinite: it's always a fixed number. Just like there's a fixed number of square miles of land. And you can make and remove land. Lots of dredging along coastlines is done to make land. It isn't a great analogy and investment decisions should not be based on the concept.
Diesel engines in large trucks have a similar feature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...

However, unlike regenerative braking, you won't end up with more fuel in the tank afterwards.
I haven't read Zeihan.

> Artistic license, and so forth

I know, but because this is a history book (even if it's more "pop" history) the shape of the authorial voice matters more than in a fictional novel. Beevor's voice is often misleadingly disguised as impartial information, enough that I'm sure lots of his readers actually think everything he describes happened exactly like he said, inner thoughts included.

Now, if "Stalingrad" was a historical novel like "I, Claudius", where you understand the author is making many things up for the sake of entertainment, that'd be fine -- but I don't think that's what Beevor intends.
Well yes, but I think they'll be singing a different tune in 5 years, and even more so when more Tesla cars actually start driving in weather conditions less favorable than Palo Alto and Austin.

At some point when LIDAR is cheap enough there is no reason for Elon Musk to not give in and use them. Right now he's constraining the problem to the cost of the car.
Your digestive system may not get at the raw bean as quickly or at all.
Isn’t it the case that Republicans live in more sparsely populated areas on average? In that case the discrepancy in vaccination rates probably doesn’t matter much.
I believe he does have legal recourse against false accusations. Slander and libel law is pretty old and well-established. Also, outside of protected classes, we have a legal system that assumes people do not have a right to be hired.

I think each employer would need to make their own decision. There is nothing in his account that would make me uncomfortable working with him. But, I think your critique really points away from 'cancel culture' and towards a more robust set of employment protections. I favor those, but they aren't really related to 'cancelling' people.
For starters, Waymo reported 1 disengagement per 29,944 miles driven in 2020 to the California DMV [1], while in the talk, Karpathy implies that a Tesla being able to drive around the SF area for 2 hours without a disengagement is unusual. Note that Tesla didn't file a disengagement report because they didn't do any autonomous testing on public roads in California in 2020.

There are issues with reading too much into disengagements, but there certainly seems to be a large difference here.

[1] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2021/02/09/2020-disen...
I would hope so as well.
I think it's because the commands are poorly named. "Reset" vs. "Revert" tells me nothing about what is happening at the low level, I just have to remember it. And yet the two operations, despite having fairly similar English language meanings, have entirely different meanings in the context of Git.
Just need to add Osteopathy believe that the Subluxation is the cause of disease, just like Chiroprators.

(Modern Osteopathy Schools are basically medical schools, usually for people who didn't get a spot in a med school. Are they as prestigious, or fancy--no, but the graduate can prescribe, and do surgery.)
> You get sparse point cloud from LIDAR sensors

Take a look at how dense the point cloud from Waymo's 5th gen LIDAR is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COgEQuqTAug&t=11599s. They just talked about this a few days ago.
Works great when you disable javascript on the domain.
I'd love to hear more about what you found fussy in terms of shape of data... I've worked really hard to make Plotly Express as flexible as possible in terms of input formats (https://plotly.com/python/px-arguments/) and Graph Objects will eat pretty much anything list-like :)
Github's been a top of mind #WebComponents (custom elements) web-tech company for me for a while. It really makes me nervous watching their web architecture quality dissolve like this.

Makes me want to take an omniscient debugging session every couple months. Then try to see how data-flow through the on-page js works, and try to see how it changes over time. Answers to: "When did this div get rendered? What scope did it use to do that?"
Over the past 9 months though the stock has been flat, so this willingness to suffer for rewards will hit a brick wall soon
First I was like "what's the big deal" and then I realised this thing runs in the browser.
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Most bar raisers are limp noodles that will just do whatever the hiring manager says. It's trivially easy to hire a mediocre person with full intent to fire them, and a bar raiser would likely be none-the-wiser nor would they stop it.
AppClips and AR actually fit together really well. If a museum, theatre or other space has an AR app, it’ll be a lot smoother to get people to use it if they just have to tap their phone on a thing and then hit “OK”. Then when they leave the venue and no longer need it it’s gone.
> Many companies I talk to have no idea what "copywriting" is.

It's not just companies, I don't think I have ever heard about the term before.

If I want all this I would go to a Marketing specialist maybe a Marketing Agency
Yeah sorry, I know you were saying it has gone overboard, I didn't mean to present your comment as praising cancel culture in its entirety. But I did read it as praising some aspects of what these mobs can do, which the person I was replying to claimed wasn't a thing at all. More to your point, I get that there have been some positive applications, but I'm just not sure it is possible to avoid much of the bad (which IMO outweighs the good). At least not without fundamental changes to how the call outs are currently done.
Increased housing supply will solve the problem of expensive housing.

But increasing supply in cities could be difficult (all the challenges that come with increased population density).

Building out was historically an issue due to commute time to city centers but we have an opportunity here with the new work from home environment.

We need more micro towns, that geographically don’t have to be near a major metro (2+ hours out), and that can sustain a decent economy based on the WFH population. In turn new business will open (grabbing lunch locally versus near the old office).
More people are sane than are crazy. I live in a major city in Texas and I like that the mostly sane people around me might be carrying.

I see it as a type of herd immunity against people who are actually crazy
Would you agree that "Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary" is a generally true statement then?

>Anyway, killing more than you can eat right now and storing it "for later" is exactly what humans do, that the OP is trying to say animals don't do.

The OP was referring to hunting for sport (and other similar excesses)[0]. That is, they were making a moral argument. "Saving things for later" is a weird thing to be hung up on and has nothing to do with the article or this thread.

[0] Yes I know some animals have been known to do this, but they are the exception.
Or wash them with soap? Sometimes my own home grown sprouts from a certain batch of seeds will all smell manky, but then I wash them with dish soap and then they don't anymore. What does "impossible to sanitize" mean? If I can eat with my hands after washing them with soap, why would sprouts be different?
It is worth it if you run out of battery away from a charger.
That first one sounds like throwing away security. Unlock my computer because my watch is nearby? No thanks. Why even have a password or TouchID at that point especially when the watch has none of that...

I can configure Windows to lock my PC if my phone is not nearby. Which makes a ton more sense than unlocking it if it
is.

As for the rest, I've never had much success with all that being "seamless". I could hardly ever get my Airpods to show the battery level of the case by opening it and holding it near my iPhone.
Keycloak-as-a-Service

I can build it for you if you like.
The GPS trace is not practically anonymized, comparison with public and semipublic datasets would deanonymize a large portion of the GPS traces.
I actually did something a bit similar[1], but with a Raspberry Pi 4, which has native composite out. I have it looping through Plex playlists of media that was originally released towards the end of the SD era (although most of it is high-quality HD rereleases that get naively cropped to 4:3 by VLC). I do also happen to have a Miyazaki playlist, but it starts at Nausicaä instead of The Castle of Cagliostro. I'd love to replace my cheap thrift store CRT with a nice PVM/BVM though!

[1] https://twitter.com/dstaley/status/1406385596185006085
This framing is a common error in the debate. It's not cameras or lidar, it's cameras or cameras + lidar + radar. Nobody is driving on lidar alone. Many others actually have more cameras and are doing substantially more vision than Tesla is, they're just fusing lidar and radar perception with their vision pipeline. It gives you a more robust view of the world than using a single sensor modality.
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
Oh nice. I was thinking sun. But wasn’t sure.
Classical mathematical logic requires complete consistency.

Discourse using empirical information inevitably involves some disagreement requiring robust inference.

See the following article:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3789701
Bring back Home Economics!! Perhaps I’m old, but when I was in school we learned how to balance a checkbook, use a washing machine, even to sew a pillow for my mother.
Your friend could switch jobs, then use his salary to buy Amazon's stock :)
Ultimately, I suppose, git usage is somewhat cultural. I personally have an aversion to push -f, along the premise that once it’s pushed it’s public and someone else may have branched (and pushed changes of their own) or simply had it checked out for review; doing push -f “changes reality,” while checking out a new branch is idempotent. If someone else has committed on that branch it’s especially jerky to push -f.

I try to be pragmatic about this sort of thing yet push —force is one of those cultural no-no’s for me.
You write as if that would be a bad thing. Debian is probably the gold standard for reliability, longevity and user control today. If all software was so well managed, most of us would be better off. If there was also a good process for updating application software to a new major version if you wanted it, that would be ideal.
FWIW, I know quite a few people from FAANG and associated companies, and those coming from Amazon are consistently the most unhappy about work there. So, while this may not be universal inside the company, Amazon definitely does have a problem compared to the industry at large.
I know I will never work for them, they constantly reach out to me and its all nope on my side.

As a side note there's always new college grads(a sucker born every minute according to PT Barnum) willing to suffer for their chance to work at a FANG.
Is there a housing market that has has 5x’d in the last few years?
Quick question for you: does your negotiation service help deal with raises/promotions at an existing job? I could use some help with for next year. P.S. Kudos on the site, it definitely opened my eyes two years ago when I was looking to move to a larger company.
I wonder if there's a good way to sell such a concept onto a political landscape. Anyone who already owns anything would want to keep things as they are. Feels like a very central political problem.

Those that have accumulated wealth and power it would be in their interest to increase rather than decrease the scheme-ines of the political system.

This concept has to have a name?
> i think an armed marxist, anarchist or antifa movment that focus on autodefense and street occupation is the best way to fight back.

Fight back against what? I want to fight back against Marxists, not join them, why would you want to fight with Marxists if you're pro-gun?

Can you name a single Marxist movement or revolution that ended in the establishment of a state with gun rights?
> Without changing the supply of housing how is this anything other than another attempt from boomers to steal more wealth from their children so they can line their coffins with more gold.

I don't think you can reduce this so easily. Houses can be profitable without be exorbitantly expensive. For example, a 6% increase per year would beat inflation and provide a small gain as an investment. Housing is, even under your proposed system, the largest purchase most people will ever make. People want to know the largest purchase they will ever make will be net profitable. Even marginally so. You have to be careful because disincentivizing ownership of houses (by making them net neutral or negative) will simply push more money into the rental market. The exact opposite of your intention of "striking back at the rich boomers".

Moreover, there are several concerns regarding government interventionism. Some of housing prices can be described by the law of unintended consequences. I'm speaking as an American:

(1) Land Use Rights: governments in many states won't let you bulldoze public land to build houses. This dwindles supply.

(2) Disability requirements. Houses need to be built to support disabled people. ADA requirements can often significantly increase not only material costs (compliant walkways and such are not cheap) as well as legal costs (in case you get sued).

(3) Foreign investment. In America foreign citizens can own property. This means prosperous nationals (for example from China and Saudi Arabia) can buy large swaths of houses to rent.

So with (1) we lose supply because of land use. (2) we lose supply because of legal requirements. (3) we lose supply because foreign investment, ostensibly good for the country, is terrible for housing.

Now you turn to finance and realize that with money easier to get through FHA loans, military-specific loans, and other hand out programs the amount of capital available in the market is much higher than 40 years ago.

The solution isn't as simple as blaming boomers. There are many reasons housing is absurdly expensive and I don't think it's a conspiracy recently created to screw over millennials. This has been in the works for many, many decades and in my eyes the majority of it can be explained by unintended consequences.
Alternatively, I see this as an anti-rulebook for GMs.

Many players will be actively trying to minimize risk, so the GM needs to make the PP a losing proposition at least some of the time to keep things interesting:

> When the costs of waiting are low.

Add some form of urgency. This is particularly important in systems like D&D 5e where the party can restore limited resources by literally doing nothing (short and long rests). If there is no urgency, the party has no rational reason to not spend 8 hours resting after every encounter.

> When preserving optionality is a priority.

Not sure how to apply this one...

[edit] Maybe if you convince the party they are "safe" they will think it's okay to use up their stock of a renewable resource.

> When the potential costs of a risk are far greater than the cost of preventative action.

It needs to cost some amount of resources that the party cares about to take precautionary measures, or else they will prepare for everything. In D&D style worlds, characters with a large bag of holding and a king's ransom in treasure will invest in many niche preventative measures. Even worse, many groups will not pay much attention to the encumbrance rules, making the bag-of-holding unnecessary.

> When alternatives are available.

You don't need to railroad groups to make alternatives unavailable. Putting obstacles in their paths that require either risk or using up a limited resource will circumscribe options. They can try to bluff their way past a chokepoint (risk), fight through it (risk), call in a favor (resource) or teleport past it (resource).
I've moved from some senior exec roles (for years), back to being an IC. I had other stuff going on in life and overall, something had to give. I never lost the love for coding, and apart from the massive drop in salary I'm much happier.

I have to be careful to stay in my lane sometimes. I have a lot more experience than the leadership I report through, so I generally just leave them to it, and sometimes offer the odd little nudge.
Is it something that can be retrofitted on existing models?