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Online reeing is irrelevant, people in their hacker bubble don't realize the public at large doesn't give a shit. Google and Facebook still post increasing profits and anecdotally I still see computers without ad blockers.
J. K. Rowling too, though not on quite the same scale: she would be a self-made billionaire, but she's given away enough that I don't think she's a billionaire anymore.

To me, she seems like a really admirable public figure in general.
Yes, they can. No, you can't force them to learn it in a practical way quite the same as you can, say, algebra. It's like teaching kids to paint. If you magically made everyone interested in painting most kids could become decent painters, but in real life they just aren't. Teaching a programming course to the general school population won't make 80% of kids capable of programming any more than compulsory art classes would make them into graphic designers.
Couldn’t agree more! The crazy, ridiculous Rube Goldberg machines that are being strung together from those AWS components to solve the most mundane problems are getting ridiculous.
Now I was under the impression "gurday" kapooray came with kidneys too?
Depends on how you define "violent". There was *one*--a guy used a machine gun to shoot up the *car* belonging to someone he was mad at (I forget the exact situation.) The car was parked and empty at the time, nobody was in danger beyond the inherent danger of firing without an adequate backstop.
> I think you misunderstood. I am not insisting anything about security keys

And yet here's a thread in which you did exactly that.
I would never call myself a software engineer, simply for the fact simply for the fact that I never cared about the “engineering” piece. enough to be any good at it. For similar reasons, I’m not a “computer scientist either”.

In a professional capacity, I refer to myself as a software developer, but in an more accurate, general context, I refer to myself as a hacker, though not a a particularly good one. That’s seems to be that best way to describe my brain works and how I work.
Yes, I recall the MCA, it was born a dead horse and never run a furlong. I recall all the companies who went through the lengthy MCA add-in card signup process - that took a year or more to be granted, whereupon they fielded cards that never sold. I recall the surplus tables at the Dayton hamfest being piled high with MCA detritus - cards that were eventually scrapped for gold. IBM tried mightily to force this dead interface, few bought the idea and made boxes - few sold.
They were dead before they sold one.
The supposed superior MCA bus, was soon humbled by a string of faster and better busses.
There were a few old fogies who clung to big blue - I see them from time to time wandering in the wilderness...
So maybe we should be taxing wealth instead of productivity (i.e. income). Or at least let's tax both, with a 0% tax rate on the first $100m of wealth.

The median US household pays an amount of tax each year equivalent to about 8% of their net worth, so that would be an obvious rate for billionaires to pay on their wealth.
Have you had the opportunity to try ketamine treatments for chronic pain? I know they have been highly successful for some people.
By into I assume you meant on. The OS courses at UIUC (not a wine, btw :)), MIT, and Stanford def prepare you some kernel hacking if needed.
Didn't Amazon also do a whole bunch of union busting before that vote, including trying to film the ballot box? (Or am I getting my Amazon union busting stories confused?)

I wonder if 71% of workers who voted against the union really believed that, or what percentage just voted it down for fear of losing their jobs.
India may well reach herd immunity - the hard way...
It bothers me too. It's just that the part about the phone call doesn't seem relevant to me. If the caller had used text or video instead, the problem is the same.

Availability of military-style shoot-first-ask-later force to anyone is a problem, regardless of the communication mechanism used to request it.
Straight people tend to get offended when a gay person hits on them, and drunk offended people can sometimes get violent. On the flip side of the coin, heteronormative bars present an added challenge for gay people looking for a hookup as they can't always tell who will be receptive. There was a need and the market filled it.

And for the record, straight people are allowed in too, it's not like they scan you with a gaydar at the door. You just have to be ok with people hitting on you who you're probably not interested in. So it's like being a woman in a normal bar.
You really only need a single interview to find out companies care a lot about premature optimization.

They’re always asking if you’ve worked with the latest tech stacks, never if you can set up a really well optimized nginx server.
I blame Airbnb in everything. Crime rates, sure. Homeless people, sure. Corruption in the government, def airbnb. Opioids, airbnb. (not really, I think that even though crime rates are correlated, they also should be handled by local government, culture, police and airbnb can't take the whole burden of blame. There're criminals, dumb people etc etc, and as a society we need to improve it)
Sure, you don't have to use k8s. You can roll your own solutions to what it solves.

Your own custom built solution will work, but what in 5 years? 10 years? When it all becomes legacy what then?

Will you find the talent who'll want to fix your esoteric environment, just like those COBOL devs?

Will anyone respond to your job posts to fix your snowflake environment. Will you pay above average wages to fix your snowflake ways of solving problems that k8s standardized?

I bet your C-Level is thinking this. What's to say they won't rip out all of your awesomeness and replace it with standard k8s down the line as its dominating the marketshare.

When you're laid off in the next recession, is your amazing problem-solving on your snowflake environment going to help you when everyone else is fully well versed with k8s?
I just don’t understand the glee over Clubhouse’s demise. They tried something different and it failed. People complain on and on about Facebook and Twitter but when a new social app comes around it seemed like people already had knives out for it.

It’s just kinda sad to see the only new social media app to breakthrough was TikTok and that required an already massive company like Bytedance being able to burn billions of dollars on marketing for it to succeed.
I don't think Craigslist gets used much for vacation rentals. Its certainly not well designed for that use case.
Right all these comments are just baffling me. This is premature optimization on steroids. For a random analogy, I really hope these people aren't in meetings arguing about how to design a DB schema to last for 50000000 years, when the meeting topic was how to fix slow queries on an unindexed field.

The US life expectancy dropped one of the largest drops ever (1.5 years) and instead of facing the actual real-life disasters happening, "science enthusiasts" are quoting TV shows about science fiction disasters that might happen in 50000000 years... while the scene outside the window literally looks like this: https://abc7news.com/why-is-the-sky-orange-sf-yellow-califor...
This is a classic case of a business losing a market because they didn't want to let go of a dying but profitable business. The market always wins in the long run.

Don't feel sad. This market dynamic is how startups can get ahead. Otherwise everything would be dominated by the huge incumbents forever.
I'm confused about all the ill will I'm seeing. Mozilla actually respects my privacy, and are one of the few obstacles standing in front of a browser monoculture. I very much want to see them succeed.
Because what Musk is doing is pushing a technological frontier that can create new technologies to serve humankind while Bezos and Branson are not. It’s like inventing a new kind of ship vs. buying a super yacht.
No, Multics was easier to understand, easier to manage, and more reliable.

However Multics didn't offer automatic/elastic cloud scaling, which seems to be the main selling point of modern, usually very complicated, container orchestration systems, nor was it designed for building distributed systems.

However, if modern Linux had a Multics-style ring architecture, it could replace many of the uses for virtualization and containers.
In what way does that negate tax burden. You have to sell (some of) the assets to pay the loan you borrowed. That causes a tax to be paid.
Award BIOS was probably a huge game changer. Knowing the contents of BIOS wasn't enough, after Franklin lost their lawsuit with Apple. Someone had to come up with a functional equivalent. A third party BIOS meant that anybody could crank out a machine.
Depends whether it happens literally during the middle of your stay, as I have experienced.
> But AirBnB is clearly used to create illegal hotels and that's the problem.

The solution is increased enforcement of the laws that make these illegal.

The incentives aren't difficult: Create an anonymous tip line to report illegal AirBnB operations that violate zoning regulations. Have submitters provide the street address and URL of the AirBnB to make it easy. The person operating the AirBnB (or owner of the house) gets fined. The person submitting the tip about an illegal AirBnB receives 25% of the fine.

It wouldn't take long for illegal AirBnBs to close up shop when they realize there are negative repercussions for what they're doing. Keep it anonymous to avoid retribution.

I could even see bargain hunters looking for illegal AirBnBs to stay in, then reporting their hosts to collect their share of the resulting fine to recover some of the cost. The incentives are deeply stacked against the illegal AirBnB operators in this scenario.

Of course, this only works in areas where it's illegal to run temporary rentals. I expect we'll see more of those regulations as the problems with short-term AirBnBs in residential areas become more apparent.
First car analogy on HN that makes sense.

Well played!
OMG HAHAHAHAHA I just realised that you're the "pretty technical user" who "uses the internet a lot".

bwahahahahaha. Yep. Didn't realise you had switched applications. Real technical.

They have this new thing now for totally technical users like you. It's called a speak-n-spell. You'll love it. And you might not even find it confusing!
I agree with all this.

I'll further add that the landlord being there means they can't simply foist loud, unruly or unsafe temporary residents on an area where he or she does not have any skin in the game. That is, they have to suffer the consequences too. This invariably will lead to less negative externalities.

But this fits into a broader belief that I have, which is that cities should generally be for the residents of them first and foremost before being simply an investment vehicle for a foreign pension fund (for example).

That would mean that in NYC, for example, you get charged much higher property tax if you yourself are not a NYC resident (or possibly NYS resident).
>> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Pretty ironic coming from someone from Perth:

http://www.watoindia.in/wa/html/perth-majorindustries.htm

>By virtue of its population and role as the administrative centre for business and government, Perth dominates the Western Australian economy, despite the major mining, petroleum and agricultural export industries located elsewhere in the state.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with people living in Australia. But it's clear Perth and its residents exist off the back of negative externalities and need to be banned.
I sometimes wish someone would just blow the top 2/3 of thoover damn away.

If we can't be proactive about the real problem let's fake it being reactive to artificial acceleration.
The 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel (a well regarded channel that publishes visualizations of various mathematical and other processes) also uses Python to programmatically generate the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
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I saw one of the most accomplished physicists in the world unable to solve a (hard) first year Physics problem in Office Hours. He did it three times and got three different wrong answers, threw the chalk down and walked away and asked us to come back tomorrow. Does that mean he’s not qualified for his job?
>Not to mention that these options are usually cheaper than Airbnb!

Not in my experience, at least not for anything comparable. Yes, a 3-star queen room in the city without a kitchenette is cheaper than a studio queen Airbnb ten minutes out from downtown, but it's not comparable.
"Large scale enterprise" is the key here.

Kubernetes was made by Google. Google is not your startup, it has millions of servers serving billions of users, of course it needs complex systems, and it has thousands of people to maintain them.

In a small company, you probably don't need much of what's in that "need to" list. Rent a server, maybe a second one for redundancy, install your packages, run your app, and if you did things well, you can do quite a lot with a single machine.

But a lot of people think they are Google, and get ready to scale to a level they will never reach, and do it badly.

I think that where most of the pooh-poohing comes from, the use of overly complicated solutions for your scale.
I think you and OP are talking about two mostly different things. “Market order” is an overloaded term. One definition is a specific order type that instructs the exchange at whatever price is immediately available. The other is an order that’s priced to immediately execute without resting in the book.

By definition all of the former are contained in the latter category. But not vice versa, with the set difference being “marketable limit orders”. That is orders with instructions to not trade beyond a set price, but where that price is set wide enough that we expect the order to cross the market and fill at arrival.

I think what you’re saying is why use a pure market order instead of a marketable limit. And there I mostly agree with you. There’s not much argument besides convenience of not having to fill in the limit price.

But in terms of market impact, marketable limits are no different than market orders. In fact to everyone else, they look identical in the data feed.
Do you miss out on a lot or are otherwise forced to upgrade the OS Gui or WM?
As far as I can tell there are a ton of forks of gnome 2 specifically because of dislike against gnome 3.
> Thousands of false positives and less than ten true positives after hundreds of hours were spent going through it.

Ten true positives could very well be worth thousands of programmer hours if they're severe enough.
Also an armchair quarterback, but yes, to me one of the great mentionable intellectual/ecological "crimes" is the non-updateability of billions of phones. We don't have infinite retries at using physical resources on the scale we have.

That said, I haven't looked at how many tools work all the way back to much older versions of Android.
This is the same guy that has his employees pee in bottles to make quotas. I guess he's rewarding people that helped him over the last year. I can see how CNN deserves it for being so kind to him and not criticize too much the lockdowns. Though I feel like part of that money should have gone to BLM for helping his business grow too.
The Oracle approach is:

- Good terms with proprietary lock-in.

- Milk that cow for all it's worth.

It's more nuanced than that -- I gave an oversimplified model -- but I've never seen anyone come out ahead doing business with Oracle long-term.
That's the point though right? A good (couple of) sysadmins can run a k8s cluster that can be leveraged by dozens (even hundreds) of dev teams. Instead of every team having to re-invent the wheel you get a common platform and set of deployment patterns that can fit most any use case. Of course if you don't have multiple different teams (or every team is running their own k8s cluster) then that is definitely a problem. But just because a handful of teams make an ill-advised investment in k8s when they could do easily with something much simpler doesn't mean that k8s is "too complex." Too complex for that use case sure, but for the vast majority of k8s deployments I would wager that it does add a lot of value and subsume a lot of the inherent complexity of running distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant applications.
It's a classic worse is better scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
I agree in principle but also this feels like retroactive justification for the current state or affairs.

I think it’s safe to assume that the “actors” that created the “surveillance state” weren’t acting from some profound philosophy of mass control but rather some more immediate KPIs be it “increased user engagement” or “reduction of terror threats” that seemed important at the time.

In other words we stumbled into this mess and now we need to figure out how to stumble out again.
> you need to fly at higher speeds, which means you need to fight more drag

I could not find a non-technical source for this, thank for explaining well. In summary, drag increases quadratically with mass flow while thrust increases linearly to density. So a slower-turning prop in denser air moving the air frame slower keeps the frame aloft and works more efficiently than the same frame running higher and (necessarily) faster. The power plant (turboprop or piston prop) is independent of all this.
The last sentence is the one that hit me really hard.
People have no idea how nasty serialization of parts is going to get if it isn't stopped by new legislation. You'll be lucky if you don't have to buy your socks and shoes from the same vendor in 2030 :-(
The issue with this line of reasoning is that money is generally not going to solve the problem of people barely surviving. In the vast majority of cases, sociopolitical issues are the root cause and throwing money at things doesn't really help. If you don't believe me, look at the history of aid to sub-saharan Africa. So there's no reason we can't both spend billionaires' money on space development and fix terrestrial problems with social and political reform.

And if you want to argue that billionaires only became so wealthy by exploiting people... well, yes, and? Their wealth already exists so the options are 1) they spend it on stupid stuff like more yachts and mansions, 2) they spend it on humanity-advancing things like space exploration (Musk/Bezos) and philanthropy (Gates), or 3) we have bloody revolutions to claw it back and hope for the best.
Heck, the main reason I originally figured out how to root my high school's 3.1 setup was so I could enable the "black leather jacket" theme.
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Yup--doing things the way the military does them doesn't make you someone interested in killing. The military goes to a *lot* of effort to design things to do the job well, you can be pretty sure any bit of equipment the military uses will be good at it's job. It may be overengineered for civilian use (for example, the infamous toilet seats. Civilians don't care if their toilets throw splinters or make toxic smoke when they take battle damage, bu if it's going on a combat aircraft the military does care), but it won't be bad at it's job.
I used to use Applescripts with BBEdit but it's got unix script support too.

For example, I write Ruby scripts that act on the file, either to change to the text or just to run commands, and snippets are available to fill out text with a jumping cursor to replacement points. I'm not sure what Sublime Text packages offer that BBEdit can't as it's been a while since I used ST/Textmate regularly.
One point where the analogy fails, is that Multics was never particularly popular. Although it was historically influential (especially but not purely through its influence on Unix), it was only ever a small player in the market. It was positioned as an operating system for high-end multi-million dollar mainframes, but in that market IBM was king (with thousands of sites), Multics wasn't even near being second place (with a mere 80 sites at its peak). Even for its vendor, GE/Honeywell, it was an also-ran – Honeywell ended up preferring GCOS as the solution for that market, which is part of why it killed Multics off. GCOS was no doubt technically inferior, but it was a simpler system which made more frugal use of system resources.

By contrast, k8s is wildly popular. I have no idea how many installations of it exist in the world, but it probably numbers into the millions.
You could say this about basically all progress anywhere in human history, though. Leonardo Da Vinci's patrons were spending their money on art and research when they could have been feeding their peasants better. The same with Isaac Newton's patrons and countless others.

We fund science and technology research because it improves expected outcomes in the future, for everyone. The idea that we can't fund research until everyone is fed is an oxymoron, we would never be able to get there without funding research.
As always, it’s an issue of reach. AirBnB is the place to book non-hotel accommodations. Anyone who wants to can put their room or flat on there, and everyone who wants to find one knows where to look.
With or without airbnb, states aren't about to create anything close to a policy which compels existing landowners to rent out parts of their property. How do you increase housing supply?
Absolutely they are legal to sell, but you have to go through type acceptance under part 15, and then you need to make it so the user cannot modify them.

“ The rules require any manufacturer certifying a device under the new process to take steps to prevent “unauthorized” changes to the software on the device that might alter its radio frequency and power parameters in a way that takes it out of compliance with the regulations known as FCC Part 15 regulations.”

Test equipment is exempt because it is not licensed as an intentional emitter under part 15.
Why? You still need to manage all that for your server even if you are running kubernetes on top of it.

I can’t imagine anyone with root access to a kubernetes server is any less dangerous that root on a simple webserver.
> and they can't use their phone

Have you not been in a men's room in the past decade?
Also, gate-keeping is not helpful.

This term is really getting over-used. The purpose of job interviews is to decide who gets to pass through the gate. It is literally keeping of a gate.
I'm creating a web version of flash, the animation software, I was considering adding video support to it, so people could import video clips and make animations on top of it. Right now I'm exporting movies using the canvas capture stream, but I'm considering using ffmpeg (js) also. Cool project, I'm gonna star it so I could use it later.
Can you explain what it means for a complexity analysis result to be wrong by literal orders of magnitude? I don't understand what that means, even with the clarification.
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No, I think he's got something here. Surely Bezos could also spend some of his billions overthrowing African kleptocracies.
Whoa dude, ease up on the cool aid
Is this your first emulator? I've been meaning to write one myself for ages now. How was the experience?
What’s lazy is not holding the people who are supposed to represent your interests accountable.