skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting theory but it’s not fully-formed. The author elevates popular gripes about the consumer internet industry innovating the wrong things like games and ad tech…

> ‘The internet companies in San Francisco and Beijing are highly skilled at business model innovation and leveraging network effects, not necessarily R&D and the creation of new IP….I wish we would drop the notion that China is leading in technology because it has a vibrant consumer internet. A large population of people who play games, buy household goods online, and order food delivery does not make a country a technological or scientific leader…’

This is missing the forest for the trees. Sure, Facebook makes money optimizing ad targeting and is kind of a psychological drain on society. They also wrote Torch and are pioneers of deep learning. Amazon (who “enables people to buy household goods online”) has completely revolutionized supply chain logistics, probably to an extent that people outside Amazon can’t fully appreciate.

Then the author basically goes on to say “China is divesting from consumer internet because it doesn’t help win wars”

> If you’re going to fight a cold war or a hot war against the U.S. or Japan or India or whoever, you need a bunch of military hardware. That means you need materials, engines, fuel, engineering and design, and so on. You also need chips to run that hardware, because military tech is increasingly software-driven… Technologies like Facebook and Amazon.com, which are fundamentally about leisure and consumption, went from being fun and profitable spinoffs of defense efforts to the center of what Americans thought of as “tech”. … [China’s leaders] probably took a look at their consumer internet sector and decided that the link between that sector and geopolitical power had simply become too tenuous to keep throwing capital and high-skilled labor at it.

Huh?? So China doesn’t want to foster an innovative software/internet economy because they want to win wars which require materials and chips and.. software? Not to mention wars are essentially a battle of supply chains, which as we said above is one of the key innovations of Amazon…

There’s probably an explanation for the tech crackdown, but this does not feel like the complete story. My theory is there’s a simpler and more short-sighted element to it: yes, it’s about power, but it’s simply about demonstrating the absolute power of the CCP within China, and tech giants in China have flown too close to the sun, pissed off the wrong people, etc.
All linux distros bias towards command line. It's not because of the distro or the GUI itself. It's because the entire FOSS ecosystem itself biases towards that interface so it doesn't matter how advanced Gnome or KDE or any of those GUI layers get a command line shell will always be a major part of linux and that brings usability down quite low when compared with closed source.

Of course I will caveat this by saying "overall" usability. Clearly with training CLI's can be superior to GUIs. But most people won't be willing to do this, so ONLY from an overall perspective CLIs are worse.
Can confirm. At the height of Peppa, we had a long (and hilariously fun) conversation with our 4 year old about whether the word 'lever' was pronounced "LEE-ver" or "LEH-ver". He also likes to ask if we'd like to "have a go" and other little Britishisms.
The Los Angeles Times had a Pulitzer-prize winning writer explore one of the recent meta-analyses - who found this key detail:

All the members of the research team are associated with a British pro-invermectin organization and the money for the research was raised by a Gofundme campaign headlined "Help us get a life-saving drug approved for COVID-19."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/column-ivermectin-a...

The Times also points out that Elgazzar's dubious data "was not peer-reviewed before publication, so it probably should never have been incorporated in the meta-analysis at all."
I had the same experience with lunchclub.
> Taxes specifically on the value of land held enjoy broad academic support: land is hard to hide or smuggle out of the country, and its supply is fixed.

Interesting point. As far as I'm aware though, Zakat laws do not apply to land. Only if that land is making produce, then Zakat is owed on that produce. Zakat does not apply to properties either.

> Yes, that's what I alluded to: making unemployment the condition to get assistance, gives a certain (perhaps small) disincentive to employment.

Yes I think I agree. It also goes both ways. Not every unemployed person needs assistance. A rich retired person does not need any for example.

> making being needy the condition instead of being unemployed, gives a certain incentive to staying needy

This only seems to be a problem in modern Western societies that have certain social programs which people keep debating. To be more specific, just because someone is unemployed, they are not automatically immediately eligible to receive Zakat. They only take Zakat if they fall under one of the categories of people eligible to receive it.

Islam encourages people not to be needy and depend on others; they should work to sustain themselves and not be a burden (e.g. https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:296). Living one's life purposefully relying on Zakat is not something that is common (of course barring certain situations that are beyond one's control, e.g. some severe injury or an old person who has no family members left). If you look at historic accounts, there was a time during the Ummayad Caliphate where in Iraq there were no people left to take Zakat, because everyone paid their share and everyone was working. The poor class was all but eliminated.
Those are plausible, but pretty niche situations.
Few applications need them for correctness according to domain requirements. Compare with fixed-precision decimal encodings, which are mathematically less fundamental, but are common in programming because many applications require monetary amounts to be calculated using fixed-precision arithmetic.

It's true that floating point calculations are much faster, but we do a lot of expensive things in code when we need to, and people do use rational types when they need exact rational arithmetic. It just doesn't happen very often.
This is an example of non-dead butterflies (even if the painting is about death) https://www.carolinegaudreault.com/fr/oeuvres/sanctuaire/

Disclaimer: my partner painted it.
Commendable work @Stubish on writing that script. You've nailed the exact problem that I'm referring to here.

Strong privacy is a kind of anachronistic issue in that the regulations came long after many systems were designed/built but also most of the common methods used to continue to design systems. So consistent data deletion across distributed system should be easy, but of course in truth as you know, it's a nightmare and often a brittle solution that needs to be updated as your software continues to change.

This specific example you've taken is a really good one of how painful privacy can be and how avoidable this issue should be for all devs, both software and data teams.
That's 'median pay', though, not 'average starting pay'.
Probable late lyme disease: a manifestation of untreated B.burgdorferi infection
I can’t wait to visit Japan once it’s safe. There is so much cool history.
There's not much difference between the two, is there?
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The main library I know about is libsodium. Is that one of the 3 libraries you were talking about?
> Being anti-ivermectin is like being anti-aspirin or anti-vitamin-C. Maybe you're emitting some kind of political virtue signal, but it's almost (but not quite) as dumb as being anti-vax. We don't have RCTs on vitamin C vs COVID-19 but most practitioners use it anyways.

I too am pro-vaccine, pro-ivermectin, pro-masks and pro-lockdowns.

Am also pro-socialdistancing, pro-vitamins, and risk mgmt around patients based on their age and risk factors

HCQ, Ivermectin, Fapavir, or IV antivirals like Remdesivir - support all of their use for stopping the scourge, as prescribed by doctors.
They also seem to pick on "seasonal work". I'm sure there are many people who are willing to take a job that's a bit of a "grind" to have some extra cash for a holiday celebration. If you know you'll only be doing this job for two months, you'll have a different mindset and you won't feel trapped.
It makes 3 points better. Just needs a few thousand more!
Also group of humans in general.
> Moreover, the article says that one third of the houses have been reserved for those who cannot afford to buy such a house, so a majority of the current locals might belong to the "gentry", but a significant part should have a lower income.

Hah!

>The royal family has used a secretive procedure to vet three parliamentary acts that have prevented residents on Prince Charles’ estate from buying their own homes for decades, the Guardian can reveal.

>His £1bn Duchy of Cornwall estate was later given special exemptions in the acts that denied residents the legal right to buy their own homes outright. [1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/09/prince-charl...
I think you’re conflating this phenomenon with the condiment research of L. Ron Mustard.
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One thing I remember from my own time in AWS was that there was inherit tension in the LPs. Customer Obsession might have you spending months to find the product / market fit, whereas Bias for Action might dictate you should ship-to-learn. There was no priority in them - they were rubrics to help guide decision making.
So a measure less skewed by outliers, even better.
Good question, no budget for it, for localization I would pay $2000-$5000+ or even more. There are tons of words.
If on launch I was selling the game (Argentina) for $0.5, like 30% of that goes to me, so $0.15. Then for the pay of localization I would need to sell 13k-60k copies in Argentina. No chances. 13k copies just for paying for localization or even more copies.

Even big indie games don't pay for localizations, it's not worth it, selling 13-60k copies in xx country is hard.

Right now, the game is translated in 70% to Spanish by community. I know indie games that earned millions of cash, but still, they rely on the community translations.
I think one piece of the Agile origin story that’s missing is that it was heavily influenced by software contractors - people who worked on software that had a definitive “end”: either because it was feature-complete, it was time sensitive, or the client had a fixed budget.

Many of Agile’s problems arise when you begin to apply them to long-running products that undergo continuous cycles of improvements - stretching years rather than months.
Agreed that treatments and FDA approval will change the dynamics and medical need for c19 vaccination - when they happen. Dexamethasone is a corticocosteroid used as an immunosuppressor to clear airways, and not an alleged prophalactic treatment like Ivermectin, or an antiviral like HCQ, so that's a bit of a misdirection in comparing it to a treatment. It's like saying a defibrillator is an alternative heart disease treatment.

And if there are treatments, passports are unnecessary. If you have followed the hesitancy reasoning and indeed, now movement judging by european protests, there is a consistent logic in their objections. They aren't standard hippie anti-vaxers. Whether the facts their logic uses as premises are true or falsifiable should be the focus of debate.

Maybe there's an example of what level of c19 vaccination is strictly necessary to reopen economies that bears some scrutiny. If we keep enabling this constant apopleptic personal response to people with legitimate questions, we're going to lose a good 30%+ of people who don't respond to that kind of thing.
We're both agreed on this point @pjmlp - regulations must have teeth and that often takes time.
I can't speak to it, as it's not my area of expertise but we also have allowed a type of golem to form, in that big tech is now "too big to fail" and many governments struggle with balancing their ability to enforce against the level of employment that tech provides their country (look at Ireland for a prime example of how tough this balance is)

TLDR; I agree with you, but I'm not a politician and can't effect change there, so I'll keep chasing a realistic solution that makes it easier for devs to do of their own accord as we (dev community) are pretty good at solving things when we turn our mind to it.
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This is not true. Copernican theory allowed the existences of moons around other planets and explained the phases of Venus when seen through a telescope. The Copernican model allowed things that the Aristotlean model did not and those things exist in the universe. The Aesthetics of having an Earth centered Universe prevented these truths from being quickly and easily accepted.
Good spot, but I think this happens by accident rather than by design. If you have AdBlock Plus, and chose some option to allow YouTube ads on certain channels, it edits URLs to include this [0]. So @saivan may have just copied it from his browser's URL bar.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/69037368/url-chang...
They should have remained very small, very exclusive, and you have to pay for access. There's a market for a private social media platform for "elites" with premium features based around privacy and data protection.
The problem I have with these renamed is that by "simplifying" the name, they often cut out major pieces of functionality. The original names are at least "brandable" so that when I think of that name, I think of the entire suite of functionality. Some examples:

1. IAM -> Users, Keys and Certs. But other commenters have already pointed out this leaves out the whole roles, permissioning and policies that is really the core of IAM.

2. S3 -> Amazon Unlimited FTP Server would imply to me that S3 actually just follows the FTP protocol, which is totally false.

3. Lambda -> AWS App Scripts. I have news for the author, but I know some companies and architectures that use Lambda as a basis for an entire serverless infrastructure, a heck of a lot more than "little scripts", e.g. serving whole websites.

4. Cognito -> Amazon OAuth as a Service - except many companies use it to store plain user accounts (e.g. username and password), not just setting up OAuth for accounts managed elsewhere.

5. SNS -> Amazon Messenger. But SNS can be used for a lot more than just sending emails, texts or push notifications. For example, it can be used to trigger lambdas. "Notification Service" seems to much better encompass the generic nature of the notification handling that SNS provides.
It always amazes me how people will confidently broadcast their arrogant ignorance in comments like like this.
The CLI I would argue sucks. Compared with powershell? Powershell is better designed.

But that's besides the point. CLIs in itself are harder to use than GUI and the entire FOSS ecosystem biases itself towards CLI. So that in itself is a marker for inferior usability.

With training a CLI can be made superior in many aspects to a GUI. But it takes training and mostly only people in IT are willing to go through this training. Overall from a common users' standpoint, GUIs are superior.
https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/02/french-and-eu-flags-comp...

For obvious reasons there's no British equivalent.
you can do those things under the assumption "the compiler is correct".
That still very much counts as formal verification.
They’re purposely ill defined.

The outputs they seek are emergent.

You also belittle scrum for becoming too specific.

Seems you’re still processing what to make of any of it.

Knowledge work is immaterial and should have no prescribed rails or all you get is run of the mill outputs.

It’s similar to business; billions have been spent investigating what technology or management style brought the biggest gains. The math quickly becomes so Byzantine there no meaningful conclusions.

No matter how detailed our consciousness will let us imagine, there’s still one reality ruled by physics. Esoteric math may be correct in that it has the order of operations right, but that truth doesn’t give it any real influence on physical reality.
Would not it be cheaper to implement follow the sun model and have engineers in different timezones?
The dude who made this is one of the more hilarious grifting pundits I've come across lately.

What a lame little shameless dork lol.
>This smells more of medieval style feudalism.

In what way? Are people obligated to work for amazon?
In case it wasn’t clear I’m with you. As someone that’s lived almost all his adult life in a deep blue city in a blue state, I’m not a fan of letting incompetent or corrupt politicians and civil servants off the hook merely because they share my party registration. Competence matters.
Ditto here. And Russinovic was the one who revealed the infamous sony rootkit using these tools IIRC. Great memories of my time when I
used Windows.
That’s cool! I could envision buying something like that someday, but in the meantime and for the past 10 years I was hoping to do it with a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.
For me Clubhouse worked for a few weeks, not a few days…
I haven’t used it for the past few months, but I think it’s just a matter of time before they figure things out to make it more usable again:

1) I feel the growth in the number of users (and rooms) has overwhelmed their notifications-based system;

2) the “enjoy the live conversation or nothing” approach they have works great for content creators (which is key), and for people that enjoy serendipity (which is great), but makes it hard to use for many users that may just want to enjoy the content and are not in creator mode at all times.

A lot of the great stuff that happens on CH just happens at the wrong time of the day.

Adding DMs was a great way to help translate participation in rooms into something more valuable and that continues to bring value beyond (outside) CH.

I suspect next steps are going to be in the direction of:

1) supporting the many people that would be willing to trade interactivity in a room for greater flexibility to listen to it passively but at any time;

2) introducing a content recommendation system that allows users to discover the right content that is not live;

3) bring on a user rating system that relies on more than just the number of followers.
I'm wondering what the rest of the plant supposed to do with that warning?

Remain perfectly still like Drax so it doesn't see us?

Try to taste bad?
Definitely true that enforcement has to be proportional to both the infraction and the size of the organization.

However, I would argue that there are plenty of very small companies that also take advantage of that. i.e. very high growth, early stage companies with loads of vc backing that don't prioritize this because they're small and there's only two founders.

All I mean to say here is, again I'm not a regulator, however we do need a way to enforce against bad behavior.

In the 1950's no one wanted seatbelts, not car owners/public or auto manufacturers. Today no one would get in a car without seatbelts without thinking it was weird/crazy. Sometimes we have to enforce rules to drive change, otherwise bad behavior (particularly at large companies) goes unchecked.
There's just too much ceremony and process with agile. How do you feel about http://programming-motherfucker.com/ ?
Benfords law is used to find evidence that the numbers came from a person, not a measurement or mathematical process, right? So anyone who knows what a limit order is should not be surprised to find evidence that humans are involved in picking the prices, right?

It should be obvious that violating Benfords law isn't evidence of fraud or manipulation or even fomo, just evidence that the price is impacted by the people typing in the orders having to pick what number to type in.

Edit: I've softened the language in my comment a bit, but I stand by the fact that this only shows humans are affecting prices, this analysis can't distinguish between fraud and psychological effects around "key" prices, like $10,000.
Perhaps others think differently about this but after all the interview prep I have done, I can appreciate posts like this a lot.

It seems I have gained a new appreciation of a topic! Which is something I am grateful for :)
So we're presented with one design philosophy and one design Gabriel admits is a strawman. This was written before steelmanning was common and he was open about it, so the strawman is forgivable.

Then again, maybe they're both stickmen of those design approaches. All of the important context is stripped from both. What is the goal of the designed thing? How will it be used? What are the costs?

The "better" "MIT/Stanford style" was designing things to be as perfect as possible when considered in a vacuum. The "worse" "NJ style" was intended for use in industry. I still see That jarring difference between the academic and industry approaches today. And I'd rather make a difference in the world with running software, but I can see value in academics, too.
I wonder if it makes sense to render at 120hz internally but skip every other frame? That should have a similar improvement on latency as actual 120hz.

I agree that following things across the screen is a use case for higher rendering rates.
most probably it won't get better. I think you should leave the position since it is obvious you are unstaisfied.

What I'm saying is that you are in three month trial period, to see if you are a good fit for the company.

But the company is also in a trial period with you. The relationship is reciprocal, so since you don't really like it there I think you should leave.

No shame in that.
Depends what you want to do with it.

I have a 0dB system:

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdel-Powerful-Desktop-Computer-Ind...

Works fine as my primary linux server.
Why is every player connection getting a dedicated port? Are the clients connecting directly to their Redis instance? In every CRUD app I’ve seen, access to the data store is done by a public facing intermediary that listens on one port.
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I don't think you are correctly using "orders of magnitude" in benford's law in this analysis. The orders of magnitude are in percent change over a few days, which is similar for both BTC and BRK.
My father grew up on a farm that was mostly for subsistence. He said to pinch off the first few green tomatoes to improve yields. I occasionally do this but have not tried to measure any yield differences.
Hundreds of communes have been started in the US, and the only ones that survive are the religious ones. The people who join political ones often just want to pontificate on the sofa while someone else does the dishes. That’s not sustainable. What makes the religious ones survive? Perhaps they have in their mind a higher being, which gives them the strength to continue.