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I don’t mean campaign donations to support candidates who agree with your cause. I mean strait up bribery where you hand people cash to do stuff for you.
Intiuit is medium-large tech, like a twitter, ebay, paypal, square, uber, etc. Also they pay crap and the work is uninteresting which is why nobody focuses on them.
While I am really glad Robinhood existed back when I started working to introduce me to investing, their amateurish ops (see their outages in the past few years) and customer support (they managed to bungle a position transfer costing me a few hundred bucks) pushed me to more established players. Most of these established players now have low to zero commissions with much better customer support, order execution etc. I doubt any serious investor uses (or should be using!) Robinhood.
> [Not me. Just empathizing]

You made it all up, right? Not cool to wait until the end to say so.
“In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. Lord Takandobu said, “If discrimination is long, it will spoil.” Lord Naoshige said, “When matters are done leisurely, seven out of ten will turn out badly. A warrior is a person who does things quickly.

When your mind is going hither and thither, discrimination will never be brought to a conclusion. With an intense, fresh and undelaying spirit, one will make his judgments within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break right through to the other side.”

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Not as old as the others in this thread, but Fire Emblem for the Gameboy Advance were so good. I never got to play them on the original console, only on an Android emulator.

Somehow, they're better than most modern RPGs. I can't explain it.

I like the storylines and somehow the visuals are great and it can all fit in a tiny amount of memory.

Completely offline, too, which is a rarity these days.
Good luck using type-based autocomplete to write entire functions for you.
"On average, people with degrees are way better than people without degrees." says person with degree.

I'm not convinced. By far, the thing I find correlates most with degree possession is familial wealth.
True, although a lot of smaller houses/tiny homes will use mini splits for their heating/cooling, which are significantly more energy efficient than central AC units. Insulation is also relatively cheap. Solar is an option to offset it as well, although extra insulation is a much easier and cost effective option here (at least in the short term).

Most houses that are classified as tiny are in the 200-400sqft area, so while a "small home" is about twice as large at 500-700sqft, we gotta remember that most houses are 1500sqft anyways, so we are still coming out ahead.

Plus, I think it's much much easier to convince the average joe to live in a 500-700sqft home than in a 200-400sqft home.
Big pharma. They have a significant incentive to make sure that doesn’t happen.
And you would have a whole lot of blue marbles.
Running a master in us-west and having read replica in europe, what could go wrong ...

My advice is don't do those things in the blog and keep the DB and the app in the same region it will save you so many problems. If you can't just use a DB that was designed for that like Spanner or Cockroach.
The flipside of this is that some defects can get through because assumptions made by the data used for QA/development might not be true for production but you don't find that out until the code is actually in production working with production data.
Same deal here, switched to Vanguard. After a few weeks I called in to ask about it and they offered to send a letter to RH on my behalf to get that information transferred. Sure enough, about 2 weeks later all my information was in Vanguard!
That's not how fair use works. It doesn't matter how unlikely it is, if Copilot one day decides to "suggest" a significant snippet of ckxd from a GPLed app, you'd better be planning to GPL your project.
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Agreed. I was there from the early days from one of the forums I was at. Probably something awful. He pivoted so many times, it was for the longest time supposed to be the most expansive and realistic (2D) RPG there ever was. Then the Nintendo drama and the pivots to puzzle games and at some point I stopped paying attention
> Many of your points were being lauded as good things just a year ago

I'm sure some people did.

I personally have never said these were a good thing, and am still not saying they were ever a good thing.

> Robinhood made advanced financial instruments accessible to the average Joe

This is definitely a very charitable interpretation of what I said.
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Incorrect. This is not an "assumption". Though I'll admit my comment is U.S. specific. Read up on your state and county laws, there are many states and counities in the U.S. where structures <= 120 square feet require no permits, no certificates, no regulation at all.

Also no one mentioned living in one.
I did, of course :). But eventually the product revision I was consulting on was discontinued, I didn't feel like being a salesperson and a dev anymore, and I slowly found my way back into the traditional job market.
What makes a comparison between Netanyahu and Hitler “disinformation” but a comparison between Trump and Hitler normal? Besides the wide gulf in IQs, Netanyahu and Trump are fairly close on the political spectrum.
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I find that I'm more likely to get an item as expected from another store, and will only need to use the return policy if I change my mind or something else happens.

Whereas Amazon basically doesn't care about the inventory it ships and your only choice, really, is to use the return policy to actually get what you want.

I'm in the UK so I enjoy some solid consumer rights (at least for the time being). Plenty of online retailers ship return labels and packaging with your order, should you need to send something back.
>The Child Tax Credit is a seriously good piece of policy...

Maybe in intent, but certainly not in implementation. Fine if you want to give money to the poor / people with no income, but enacting that through our tax system (designed to collect tax dollars) seems like a particularly poor proscription to achieve the ends. Here's another take (that I'm sure will be unpopular)...

'In 2021, progressives cloaked an expansion to our entitlement programs through a tax cut to get the bill through Congress. This has been hard to implement, and company's like Inuit aren't helping as much as they could.'
It's a bad idea to solve a loneliness epidemic with workplace romance. Women in particular have a lot of things to worry about in an office, and the pressure to be somebody's solution to loneliness makes it even harder.

There are a million ways to be un-lonely outside of the office, both romantically and platonically. And if something goes sideways, nobody's livelihood gets messed with.
ouch.. that hit home
This very article explains how they're deliberately blocking millions of desperately impoverished people from receiving billions of dollars. How is that not a big deal?
The blog post makes zero sense. Apart from the circle-jerk references to writers in the same space, should people not exercise because they might not be widely appreciated by people passing by? I started writing with good frequency a few months ago and people can read me, not read me, whatever. I enjoy writing, and it is more than enough motivation for me. Maybe some people would appreciate what I write, others will continue reading Hobart, Alexander etc., which, by the way, I find a boring group of writers: always the same dry topics, always the same books that they read, so US-centric that if it wasn't for some anthropological digression, one would expect the rest of the world to be as big as Ohio.
Oh, there have been a lot of other shocks that aren't strictly morality-related, and how much economic (and other) activity is wasteful, or even harmful, play-pretend has been another. Like, damn, it's a lot. No wonder people sometimes look at a market economy and go, "surely we can do better..."—even if they end up being wrong about that, the motivation for the idea is evident.

Most people not actually being as amazing at their jobs as you might imagine given their titles, background, or organizations they're associated with (though a few are! But this seems only weakly correlated to expectations based on context), and most (but not quite all) famous people (especially in academics and business, and to some extent in art) becoming famous not because of what they personally did, but because they're great at taking credit for things, is another. Oh, and nepotism. Lots and lots of that. This is all related to the above, about much of adult life being a show, where people's roles are largely based on stage-dressing and expectations. "There but for the grace of god..." is the rule, not the exception. So much circumstance, chance, and external validation of same reinforcing early luck or fortunate circumstances into patterns of apparent excellence that's not actually more than bare competence plus positive expectations and support.

Hell, anyone who's switched employers with a significant title-bump in the process, and abruptly had shockingly more respect and deference in meetings has seen this stage-like reality-behind-the-reality in action. Same person as last week, totally different treatment, and all it took was a scenery & costume change. All eyes on you, people deferentially raising points plainly seeking validation, and your words carry actual weight. Days earlier, you were on the other side. No change on your part, you're just playing a new character.

Overall, the world of adults is just way less different from the world of kids than I'd thought it was, when I was a kid. The main differences are that you're a bit freer to choose the company you keep, and that if life gets very very bad for you it will be entirely "your fault" (if you're a kid that can still happen, but it's at-most only partially your fault, as folks judge it).
Love this. We’re building a similar architecture at Splitgraph [0] which we refer to as a “Data Delivery Network.” The basic idea is we implement a proxy that forwards queries to backend data (either live data sources via an FDW, or versioned snapshots via our Docker-inspired “layered querying”).

Soon anyone will be able to connect data sources by adding their read only credentials in the web (already possible via CLI but undocumented). The idea is to make exposing a database to the DDN as simple as exposing a website to a CDN.

We’ve designed all this to be multi-tenant and horizontally scalable, but we’re not actually running it on a distributed network yet. Personally, I’ve followed Fly for a long time and always loved the angle you’re taking. If any of you at Fly read this and want to potentially collaborate on a solution in this space, my email is in my profile.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com
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So would you encourage people not get vaccinated and just take vitamin D?

Do you believe the evidence for their effectiveness is equal?
"The U.S. Postal Inspection Service—which is the oldest law enforcement agency operating in the U.S.—used Clearview A.I. to identify people suspected of damaging Postal Service property, opening and stealing mail, and committing arson during the protests."

What exactly is the alternative here? Assuming there is actual video footage of someone committing a serious crime, what would you do?

Option 1 - do nothing.

Option 2 - find the person, which necessarily involves identifying them.

I can see an argument that we need much better regulation around false positives and an appropriate identification threshold for different kinds of circumstances, but play the tape forward and say someone got arrested and is now in court.

The only evidence is surveillance video and maybe the guys location history was subpoenaed. Aren't we just outsourcing the facial recognition to the judge at that point? And who's regulating that?

Or maybe a unanimous jury should be required to identify a suspect in a video of a crime?

I don't know the answer, but at some level, there is always facial recognition happening somewhere.
It's rarely developers turning estimates into commitments. Many even have stories of managers refusing to accept estimates because the deadline was decided already.

A developer trying to communicate a clear perspective that does not make commitments will be seen as attempting to weasel out of a discussion in such an organization.

Customers understand 95% confidence better than they understand coding spikes in my experience.
Seconded. The Martian is still my favorite, but Hail Mary is #2 now, pushing Daemon from Daniel Suarez to third place.
While true, it'll definitely hurt RH more than they expected. They only set aside about $26M for this settlement.
I'm curious how people here advise specifically negotiating work-life balance?

WLB (fewer hours per week/more vacation) is the single most important factor for me, but I always feel weird asking/pushing for it because it feels like I'll give a slacker impression.

Even asking how many hours a team works feels delicate.
The nice thing about co-pilot is that it will suggest to do the same mistakes as in other software. If you accept all autosuggestions in C++ you might end up with Windows.
That isn't what the author said though.
YSQL. From their docs:

> Successive YugabyteDB releases honor PostgreSQL syntax and semantics, although some features (for example those that are specific to the PostgreSQL monolithic SQL database architecture) might not be supported for distributed SQL. The YSQL documentation specifies the supported syntax and extensions.

It is psql compatible, but you may run into missing features, so you will have to find a way around that. The documentation says that their latest release is based on psql 11.2, and psql 14 will be released soon.
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Yugabyte with replica placement and tablespaces does this for free without having to do any try / catch.
>It lets one paint the opposition as extremists

This happens regardless of how extreme or radical the proposal is, so why start from a position of compromise? This is what happens when one party cries "wolf" for 40 years.
As the other user said, I never mentioned wanting to work for Apple. I was responding to this part of the original comment:

> Only privileged person wouldn't value that [being in california, etc]

Privilege has nothing to do with not valuing california, bright minds, etc
you can also use Firefox containers to keep it all within Firefox
Seattle has an air-conditioning rate of about 44% as of 2019.

I know plenty of AMZN and MS employees without AC.
They won’t stop collecting your data even if you pay them
There are valid use cases for robots in elder care. But most elderly people would be better off if they spent their money on a gym membership and personal training sessions so that they can continue climbing stairs and carrying things longer. Muscular atrophy is a huge risk and once a person loses the ability to do basic physical activities they usually die soon.
or wsl?
This might be in the docs somewhere, but can you bring your own postgres image to your managed service?
> I am increasingly worried about the valuable content on YouTube.

Download it? This continues to be not difficult for YouTube.

> I suspect that one day, they will make their ads unblockable by embedding them in the video files.

That's fine. I honestly wish they would because most of the hangs in YouTube I experience when the stream changes to an ad, and then changes back. If it was embedded in the video then the stream wouldn't be interrupted.

If I hate the ads that much one can edit them out after it's downloaded.
No it's not a fact of life, it's a known quantity but not a fact and not life-related. And you can definitely ban it as well. It's not a requirement, and it's not the best, only or 'current' way. It's just a weak side-effect of the status quo (yes, technically that means 'weak' and 'current' but that is besides the point).
I was of the same mind until I saw the iOS/macOS reveal and now I’m fairly certain whatever WFH system Apple is doing isn’t working.
I see this as a more general pattern on HN: Opinions not-yet-adopted by academia are often downvoted instead of being argued with. This stifles innovation because alternative opinions do not even show up in the casual reader's screen.
Well as long as humans are more energy-efficient to deploy than robots you will always have a job. It might mean conditions for most humans will be like a century ago.
Same. Management offered an exception, but I'd rather not be the odd one out, so I just left.
The Walton family that owns Walmart has a higher net worth than Bezos, according to google ($235B Walton vs $196B Bezos), so the owners of Walmart are still more wealthy than the owners of Amazon. And whatever they are doing in brick and mortar is orthogonal to Amazon, Amazon can't do B&M at the same scale, and Walmart can't do online sales at the same scale.
Cliff, if you ever read this, I have a computer science book club that could use reading suggestions. Thoughts? Anything from management to best practices ... we will be adding your seminal work to our list too :)
You're never going to know that. I rather track for example DORA metrics like MLT or DF versus tshirt sizes.
Hashes are the answer.

How they get implemented in solving this problem is the question
Tiktok stands out. Their algorithm is the best, it basically hooks you. YouTube shorts or fb reels most times a copied video from tiktok. One of them should buy tiktok or stand aside...
> Political note: calls for nationalisation, in American politics, is a gift to the other side.

Populism changes the equation. Populism blurs the left/right split.

Populists of all political persuasions can get behind nationalizing Intuit.
A counfounder here is that a strong accent is correlated with outsourcing customer support to low-cost providers to companies with far-away, underpaid staff who lack cultural context and social power within the company they nominally work for.

Personally, I think the much bigger problem is the shitty outsourcing. But semi-sensical corporatese excuse-making is definitely not improved by language and accent barriers.
Honestly I think a large part of the value add of machine learning is going to be the ability for huge entities to launder intellectual property violations.

As an example, my grandfather (an old school EE who got his start on radar systems in the 50s, who then got his radiology MD when my jewish grandmother berated him enough with "engineer's not doctor though...") has some really cool patents around highlighting interesting parts of the frequency domain in MRIs that should make detection of cancer a whole lot easier. As an implementation he did a bunch of tensor calculus by hand to extract and highlight those features because he's an incredibly smart old school EE with 70 years experience cranking that kind of thing out with only his trusty slide rule. He hasn't gotten any uptake from MRI manufacturers, but they're all suddenly really into recurrent machine learning models to highlight the same sorts of stuff. Part of me wants to tell him to try selling it as a machine learning model and just obfuscate the fact that the model was carefully hand written rather than back propagated.

I'm personally pretty anti intellectual property (at least how it's implemented in the states), but a system where large entities that have the capital investment to compute the large ML models can launder IP violations, but little guys get stuck to the letter of the law certainly seems like the worst of both worlds to me.
I don’t think the C standard says much about its implementation. As far as I can tell

#define RAND_MAX 32767
int rand (void){return 0;}

(Edit: changed RAND_MAX from zero. That can’t be zero, but I think rand is allowed to be spectacularly bad)

is a valid implementation.

In real life, implementations are a bit better. The small seed (just a single int) can’t make it much better, though.

The original version also is a LCG, so it has the nasty habit of very short cycle lengths when only looking at least significant bits.

C++ has multiple well-defined engines (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random)
The ads make content less valuable. They distract and mislead and manipulate emotions, especially when the youtuber sponsors something during the video itself. The content isn’t abstract and isolated, the content and the ads come as a bundle. The digital procedural product placement on the way will make this 10x worse
I started my career as a dev, and when given the opportunity I spent a few years in a Dev Evangelist/Advocate role. I loved it, and still remember it fondly - probably the most fun I've ever had at work.

As for opportunities, for me, this became a direct stepping stone to a Product Management role. I also strongly believe I could have shifted back to a dev role if I wanted to. YMMV, and maybe the PM track isn't for you, but I think Evangelist/Advocate roles can be great "generalist" positions that set you up nicely for the next thing, whatever that is.
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I think it is unfair to compare KinD with an actual Kubernetes cluster which comes with Load Balancers, External IP addresses etc.

My Terraform scripts get a HA K3s cluster in Google Cloud VMs in less than 9 minutes, which in my opinion is fantastic.
If that happens you’re just supposed to include what is still to be done in the next PI while you stop everything for PI planning.

There are too many people involved to just skip it to keep working.
I'm not going to dismiss your experience, or your knowledge about the environment you describe, but we are most definitively not doing small scale development. Our company has a large software stack comprised of several backends and frontends, maintained by 8+ teams.

I maintain one frontend in this stack, and the review app produced will only contain my version of the front-end, and the API calls will go to the backends in the development environment.

Review apps for backend services will also point to the development environment if this particular backend needs to communicate with other services.

When a feature touches a frontend and a backend simultaneously, we can solve that in various ways. Sometimes the backend can be finished first, but if that's not feasible we can supply URL overrides for endpoints to the review app of the frontend, so it communicates with the review app of the backend (and uses the rest of the development environment for the other calls).

This works for us and might not be feasible for all projects/stacks/companies for various reasons. YMMV I guess :)
Pair programming is sooo much better than PR’s.
I really loathe reviewing pull requests, no matter if you do it absolutely correct, and don’t miss anything, it’s extremely wasteful of the time of both the coder and the reviewer, even if there are no changes that need to be made. There is the context switch for the reviewer, ditto for the coder, waiting for feedback. Ugh.
Just have two people do the work together, and lose the need for constant context switches and wasted time.
And probably adds quite a lot of latency under load.
All the next-gen distributed SQL databases are neat. We are definitely not trying to compete with them; that's not at all where we're heading (though we'd be happy to work with them to bring their databases to our platform).

This is just a neat hack you can do with totally standard Postgres. It's a thing other people do outside of Fly; we just like how easy you can make it if you can program both the CDN and the applications.
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