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The original reason for the ban on benchmarks is that it's difficult to do a rigorous and fair comparison between two databases. Even if you're an expert on one, it's unlikely you're an expert on two.

However, everybody publishes TPCC results.

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/

The results of a stress test utility by MySQL AB were published, which encouraged various vendors to fix crash problems, thus preparing them for Internet-scale loads.

Source: DBA.
Not thinking in reverse, but starting at the goal and working backwards to the start (thus pruning the graph search space.)

I use it daily.
True, but it doesn’t help the person who has is making this assumption to have an accurate view of the world. They are still wrong even as they smugly blame the person they have misunderstood for not communicating less ambiguously.
Is there a plugin that filters HN links for websites that commonly throw up a paywall screen? I know Archive.is exists and a slew of other tools, but I'm finding that I rely on these more and more.

I think I'm done browsing websites that gate content this way. While I appreciate that these other services exist to let me still read the content, I think this friction is a personal compromise that I should cut back on and evaluate whether this is content worth paying for or if I am better served just passing it up.
This is a very good step, but I wouldn't mind an outright prohibition either.
Should have put more emphasis on the word "best"
Cameras, sensors, tracking systems etc have never been more sensitive, complex and ubiquitous. As a result I would expect to see plenty of marginal, unusual or transitory signals that are hard to identify. I think that's perfectly normal.
This article shows the biases of the author. The actual report makes no judgment that amounts to "shrugging", it concludes that the vast majority of observed phenomena have no explanation and asks for more funding for figuring them out.
For a second I thought this was about Light Table [0] and got excited. What ever did happen to that project?

[0] http://lighttable.com/
Afghanistan is extremely rich in mineral resources. The fact that we failed to secure them isn’t really proof of anything. We have a long history of trying to install foreign leaders who are friendly to US business interests with mixed results.
> The threat about driving is hilarious. So she drives, gets caught driving or speeding. Who are they then going to charge? Whatever answer you come up with, the response will be: But she's dead. Now what? They'll have to charge her. Won't that be hilarious: charging a dead person. For driving. Take that to court.

Say this happens in America.

The defendant files for habeas corpus.

"Here I am, Your Honor, filing for my own body to be produced for trial. Shall I leave and walk back in or will it suffice for your bailiff to say that I am in fact standing in front of you making this motion? Thank you."
Damn, $50 is quite sweet for unlimited. $150 seems bit on the higher on the side. I am cursing myself for missing that offer
> IRC networks don't want Eternal September to happen to them. Not that anyone is beating down their door.

Too late for that. In late 90's/early 00's, you had web clients for IRC.
Basically they give you mechanisms to run nearly the full gamut of IT operations remotely.
Managed service providers will use these products as the foundation for their offerings...some of which are compete IT outsourcing, others are domain specific and some package it with turnkey products in which they retain responsibility to maintain the hardware.

I used to run a small security consultancy and nearly got into this business to expand our operations and get some of that sweet sweet recurring revenue. The problem I found at the time was that none of the software companies selling products that I would use were building in a security posture that I was even remotely (hur dur) comfortable with.
Most of the file warehouse solutions I’m familiar with do something similar. If you want your files you pay a exit fee to download it.

Also, it sounds like you haven’t paid them for a couple of years. The fact that they still have your files at all is kind of amazing. There $59 doesn’t look arbitrary. It’s their lowest tier.

I know it’s frustrating, It doesn’t seem to me that they’re acting unethical here.
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There are sports that are almost only about the human, sports that are almost only about the machine, and everything in between. Cycling is in between and always has been, people have looked for an edge since the beginning. It is part of the fun for some, a chore for others.
In my experience, in practice a software engineer salary in England is usually advertised in the range, or just below, other middle-class jobs, such as a solicitor.
Lot of the rolling stock is 40 years and older though, with new locos costing millions of dollars apiece it takes lots of time to modernize fleets.

Europe still uses screw and hook/buffers for that reason, and it took well over a decade to mandate silent composite brakes.
nobody has permission to think about disasters when estimating project completion time

I've been a part of a few large scale system implementations and we documented every significant risk to the project at the beginning and as we went if new ones presented themselves. This seemed to be a standard part of the PM's playbook, and I used to to save critical organizational capabilities when things collapsed:

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I raised risk on a must-not-fail deadline, but it actually failed and was the camel straw that brought the project down. (An Oracle product) PM's were didn't appreciate the risk. There's still probably an Oracle VP out there who really doesn't like me for using the established project protocols that allowed me to escalate the issue to the president where I worked and way above the VP in Oracle. On my own initiative I kept the legacy system-- supposedly partly decommissioned-- updated just in case so we could fail-over softly. This was unexpected: When failure became obvious I reminded the VP that I had raised the original risk, and then I had prepared for it. I think their plan had been to box us in to meet their increased $ demands.

It was part of another missed deadline required for a major milestone 25% payment on the contract, and it was a fixed-price contract so they should have absorbed the costs.

Instead, when the failure progressed to my area, we all showed up to work one day and everything was gone. No contactors, nothing was left, like a cleaning crew had cleared it out. A week of negotiations failed when they wouldn't budge from demands for extra $$millions to keep working on the project, plus their missed 25% milestone payment.

Ultimately I lost a years worth of work when things entered lawsuit land and sued each other for breach of contract. (we won-- or settled at least. The fixed price contract was clear, and the missed deadline were partly due to demos of fake functionality that didn't actually exist or components they knew would be EOL'ed after signing the contract & before implementation would begin. The case for outright fraud was pretty strong: We had videos of the demo.)

In case you're wondering, I don't like Oracle. Though with a different product we were still forced to use Oracle DB's. Those I actually don't mind and were a huge step up from the ~2000 MS SQL Server & much older DEC VMS file-based database that wasn't SQL compliant or relational.
Increased demand drives up construction rates before it drives up prices. The only thing close to what you are describing is approximate commute distance.
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IMO https://roamresearch.com/ offers a more practical way of maintaining notes using graphs.
Nice. :)

Looks like a good minimum example to show that the intuitive natural language semantics of try and finally don't work with statements like continue that change control flow.
Did you consider creating a backend for Matplotlib which rendered to ascii?? That way a matplotlib user could simply switch backends when on the terminal, and then switch to something else when the execution context changes. I don't know if that's even feasible, but that was what I first this was when I saw plt.
Of course they will because they have a crime and there's someone in front of them to pin it on. Thats the hot potato approach that most legal systems rely on. The follow up is to determine whether the person they have is the right one. Even if they have to drag it out for years. Which in some cases they do.
why unfortunate?
Conan went from being young and funny-quirky and edgy at the beginning of his career, to trying to transform himself into a beloved mass audience icon like Johnny Carson, but the suit didn't fit and it gave him a deer-in-the-headlights sort of look. And don't get me started on the orange hair logo...
From what I can tell, Clang+LLVM is where all the innovation is happening. Clang in particular has seen many new security features for a modern compiler like the implementation of SafeStack[1] and Control Flow Integrity[2]. Even just on the functional side of things Clang has thinLTO[3], which makes building link-time optimized binaries easier on lower-end systems. None of these features are currently planned for GCC.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SafeStack.html

[2] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html

[3] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThinLTO.html
Because these aren't big brain operations.
Read the book because the video got me interested, one of the most entertaining reads of my life and definitely the one book that could somehow count as self-help that I'd ever recommend.
Qualcomms only priority is having a passable performing SoC that they can couple with the real silicon they care about, their 5G modems, and it shows.
I am absolutely specifically thinking of unpaid internships in the tech/startup industry. Trades are an example of getting paid as a journeyman, while doing useful work for the company from day 1.

I've interned at an art gallery. I didn't mind getting paid, as I was also getting course credit (and the work wasn't all that hard anyways). But the art was sold on consignment - NO ONE got paid unless the art moved off the walls, and if I did sell a piece, I got a commission for that. But I wasn't interning for a future career working in an art gallery, I was interning as an artist.

The art world is its own special type of hell for those who aren't super wealthy. To sell items that intrinsically have no utility is a pretty weird business. The unpaid intern that's watching a gallery while doing their coursework on a Thursday afternoon while no one comes in is the least of its problems.
Google is not the cause of the housing crisis. It’s purely demographic. Count up all the people that graduated high school in your town and subtract the number of people who died, and that’s how many houses you need to build that year. Simple demographics and this figure has been ignored in most Bay Area cities for fifty years.
Great, now I'm going to have that Porno For Pyros song from the 90s stuck in my head all day.
When nothing has a smoking gun, and you've got volumes more circumstantial evidence for one thing than another, it does not serve one well to stick their head in the sand and not move forward under the assumption both can be right.

When you run into massive resistance to doing so, it only points one in the direction that there may be more to be uncovered in one direction than another.

>Come on in guys, let's compare notes research wise!

Would have done volumes more to defuse suspicions than nothing but stonewalling and saber rattling.
I can imagine so. That is probably true for many regions in Europe. But I would betcha it’s not true for London though.
"Half the websites I try to use nowadays dont even work on Firefox on desktop and I need to use a chromium browser to get them to work."

Are you sure they don't work because some parts are axed by an adblocker? I use only Firefox without any issues, except a few cases in which turning off or reconfiguring the usual adblockers does the job. And I keep uMatrix on, which blocks a lot of stuff by default.
Qualcomm already tried a custom ARM chip and failed at it. That was Krait. The "secret sauce" behind the M1 is that it's actually more expensive than a similarly powerful Intel chip, and far, far more expensive than a typical ARM chip. The BOM cost for ARM Cortex is pennies, while M1 is easily 100x that. Apple is in the luxury business, so they can afford to spend a lot and take margins. Android phones are not luxury devices and spending as little as possible gets you poor performance and unimpressive results.

ARM's greatest marketing trick was convincing people their architecture was so much better while it was really just their interest in entering low margin industries to begin with that secured them the mobile market. Intel was never interested in low margins, so they never entered that market segment. If you want a good CPU, you have to spend money on it.
I live in one of those cities (Edinburgh). The old town (completely unplanned, grew naturally) is a beautiful place but utterly impractical for the size of the city now. The new town was meticulously planned and has fared much better.

Meanwhile, all of the brownfield sites that are appearing are being turned into student accomodation en masse; even with planning restrictions. I can only Imagine the state of the city if we just blindly allowed building.
Cool. The frontier for all of us is now to get screen and tmux to support it. Unfortunately it needs their buy-in (escapes/passthroughs don't work at all with scrollback)
Coop is the chain the article we're commenting on is about.
So basically I wanted to test and see how viable it is to build programs using Smart Contracts. Even though its relatively simple (once you have a grasp), I don't know how well it will scale.
And yet it is possible to fix given an agreed-upon validator on being alive /being trustable (the french goverment), assuming she still lives by then.

In our decentralized future[1] this kind of error will be impossible to rectify, as long as someone believes you are dead or just untrustable.

1. Companies like https://www.identiq.com/ (they are far from only ones)
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“Coop” is the supermarket chain that TFA is referring to.

It’s bad because they will lose revenue and the customers can’t shop there currently.
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I would love to self-host but I'm worried about losing emails. I self-host many services but this is the one thing that I need to be reliable (both inbound and outbound) and I can't claim to understand fully (DKIM etc).

Redirecting emails doesn't work great though, Gmail marks a lot of incoming emails as spam, I assume signatures don't match after redirection.
The job of any person whose output other people depend on is to enable those people to do their jobs.

A junior software developer's job is to enable customers to do their jobs (as customers). An architect's job is to enable developers, sysadmins, etc to do their jobs. We are all part of a team, and we all depend on each other.
If the legal concerns are well-known, then what you are describing might be viewed as criminal negligence (at worst) and or insufficient duty of care (at best). Such engineers should be held fully responsible and accountable for their actions.
Actually, this smells a lot like a financing decision. Delay near term revenue to ultimately land a bigger purse down the line with additional features or bugs squashed provided the competition doesn’t beat us to the finish line. As the enterprise grows (customers/features -> lines of code) the liability associated with an attack increases—suggesting more care is needed with every release. And, knowing that you cannot keep up with scale by adding workers in parallel implies the following unsubstantiated claim:

As a piece of software grows in length, the releases must be fewer and further apart. Otherwise, the team is taking shortcuts and the liability will eventually catch up with them.

With that framework in mind: if large software company X stretches out their release schedule, their share price will fall, eventually appealing to activists who want to control/replace leadership (ironically for doing the right thing).

I’m a true and through capitalist—please don’t get me wrong, but this is creative destruction at its finest!
Then you aren’t arguing for eliminating copyright, you’re arguing for restrictions on copyright. If an author has no right to control the use of their work, they have no right to control the use of their work.
If you're going to install an extension you might as well just install one that removes the paywall.
I've never considered a good code review to be "kind" -- and I don't think much will change that.

Helping an old lady cross the street. Buying a friend a coffee and listening to their troubles. That is kindness: an ethical consideration for others, and a pleasant disposition.

It's absolutely essential to have design reviews be rational, and to untangle complicated emotions. The reason flight travel is so safe today is because of these principles -- crash reviews are not about assigning blame, but finding the cause of the crash to prevent further loss of life. But "kindness" does not come into play here, and introducing it will create problems, not solve them.

I agree with you, that the "bring the whole person" and "be yourself" part is unrelated good engineering practices. But these are the grounding framework of "psychological safety", which puts the responsibility for my well being in your hands. That's a responsibility that no one can (or should) bear.
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Is it possible that you're being a little too judgemental about the author's biases? A shrug can often be used as a physical way of saying, "Huh, yeah, I have no idea," which as you say is basically what the report says.
Those are valid objections to fourplexes, but there are still plenty of things in between SFH and fourplexes -- including, most particularly, semi-detached duplexes, which are much easier and still double the density on the lot! I do agree that much of the hype about fourplexes is suspect (including the noise isolation of units that are one-atop-another), but there are many other possibilities, including ADUs.

Also, small elevators are definitely something that could benefit from an economy of scale, and anyway make a big difference in accessibility for any building above one story. Likewise, the possible designs of multi-unit homes on small lots could become more standardized. And the regulations could improve, and the regulatory institutions could gain more experience handling these kinds of projects.

All of that starts with the zoning.
Ok, if you won't provide the URL for the search (for some bizarre reason), will you at least provide the search phrase?
"just" is thrown around far too much on this site

I'm sure my boss and customers will appreciate me saying "it takes as long as it takes", nothing will go wrong, it's clearly just that simple :)

Why not instead of working at all just earn a million a year off the interest from a well performing stock portfolio instead?
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I cannot upvote this more. Are you me? I've identified these 2 exact things as my sources of misery.

Unfortunately, both of them are kind of unavoidable if you work for someone else.
If I understand correctly, they really are not doing actual hard engineering, level of programming or chip design. But part sales, operation and managmentmanagment and are referred to as "engineers with techinical knowledge no one knows"
> Those developers just want to keep the code complex so that only 100 unit projects are viable so that huge firms are the only ones who can execute projects.

Strong disagreement.

The best thing for developers would be minimal zoning, Houston style.

As the Bay Area built to expand from 7M people to, say, 20M in a decade, enormous fortunes and livelihoods would be made from all that construction work.
That's a really good opinion. Thanks for sharing it!
I do not know what commute distance has to do with anything. You can build a million dwelling units 5 hours west of Austin in the desert, and they will not sell for much if at all.

> Increased demand drives up construction rates before it drives up prices.

The rate of construction will go up if prices are going up, or the entities doing the construction believe prices will go up (and there is capacity to increase rate of construction, of course). These are all very fluid measures, but all are a function of supply and demand.

There is no situation where increase in supply of a good alone by itself causes the price of the good to increase.
Ehh I think it’s a little more complicated than that, and I’ve argued this for years, that Google et al certainly plays a part. Consider their infamous busses, that allow employees who simply can’t fathom the idea of living in Mountain View to easily live in SF and commute. Without those I think employees wouldn’t be shielded from the consequences of the whole “live in the city, commute into the suburbs” thing.
> general
It's an indicator of a lack of empathy, which can come from many places. You need to find empathy for those people who don't take the time, and barring that, compassionately help them reach an empathy for you and others they might be frustrating.

I have a short fuse any time I think people aren't helping their coworkers or don't put in the work so others can do their jobs, and it's making other people quite frustrated. For me it comes from a couple places (perfectionism, ego, self-criticism, differing priorities). I'm still struggling with it, and I'm very lucky my boss is very understanding.
Depends on the browser but the one I use (and which works here) is https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome.
Based on inkscape and gimp, you'll be waiting for a better ui forever.
My suspicion is that this might end up like more/wider streets and highways: You built it => it will be filled to capacity asap and there is no difference in the end, only more of the same (literally). Of course, this won't happen to infinity but far enough. In the end the area is just too attractive, combined with the industries there generate a lot of money.
Yet this likely wouldn't help. This is how messed up the whole thing can get.

From the article:
In 2013, an Ohio judge ruled that Donald E Miller Jr would have to stay legally deceased, even though Miller was sitting in the courtroom to hear his fate, perfectly healthy. He had been declared dead in 1994.
There's no enforced dichotomy here, and tbqh you can take the sliding slope right out the door.

Nobody delivers "cancel culture" and those railing against the consequences of their actions are generally assholes.
Demolition and construction are nearly completely regulated out of existence here.
We've had electronics that can survive 20,000 Gs since the 1940s. (Using vacuum tubes!) There's no reason these couldn't be some highly advanced drones from a skunkworks somewhere.

The behavior of the top brass in regard to the Navy incidents seems to suggest they knew what the UFOs were, and weren't overly concerned as a result.

[Edit] The Proximity Fuze was screwed on to the front of artillery shells, and had to deal with 20,000 G of acceleration. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze
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The ss command has won me over over netstat. All still useful though
I can't figure out where you're getting that.

A shrug literally means "I don't know". If the evidence is "largely inconclusive" that literally means "we don't know".

Where on earth are you finding bias in that?