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> I can’t tell if I crashed my Tesla or if the Tesla crashed me.

Wouldn't the logs make that pretty clear? Or were you and/or the police not able to access those for whatever reason?
Yeah, it depends on use case. For business use cases in the event of a big issue / local data loss - $1,000 range might be a rounding error - that's def who they are targeting.

For 40 TB range stuff I've benchmarked some of the free / unlimited options and I'm not sure you could really get data back out and local that efficiently? It's still a week with AWS though as well.

One note - ingress to AWS is free - so if your job model is mostly writing into AWS, with a once every 5 years extract - the overall cost per GB transferred may not be that bad.

rsync.net is 2 cents per GB/month.

AWS glacier and deep glacier are .4 and .1 cents per GB/month.
Free ingress.
40TB on AWS + ingress = $40/month.

A lot of the "outrage" on HN around AWS pricing is not necessarily looking at total costs of solutions AWS offers.

The other things - AWS offers fully transparent pricing.

Even folks like cloudflare - folks say it's an unlimited CDN for $200/month. No it's not.

"Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited."

For business - they like the clarity / simplicity of AWS. For bigger data you can backup locally and have your offsite be AWS - hopefully never to use it or pay the ship out expense.
Agreed. I believe the lines between editorial and news has become (purposefully?) blurred, or at least many no longer recognize the difference. It can be interesting to see how headlines and emphasis on news stories in both publications can differ for the same topic, but they both follow a predictable standard. As you suggest, the editorial boards are echo chambers, but they both give time to opposing views there, as well.
This was my favorite, the 37 year old manager:

"Fearful of losing one more junior employee in what has become a tight job market, Mr. Singer has allowed a young colleague to work from home one day a week with an understanding that they would revisit the issue in the future."

One day a week! Yeah, that'll retain 'em for sure.
I think this misses the fundamental issue, isn't necessarily absolute growth, but the right to force people to pay taxes. There are lots of things that are morally correct, but in the short/medium term are inneficient.
Many citizens can't tell the difference between gunshots and other explosive sounds like fireworks.
Still, I prefer not to give the person additional exposure.
FreeType already has a v40 byte code mode that mimics the look and feel of DirectWrite hinting by disabling the horizontal adjustments; see https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/hinting/subpixel-hin....
Surprised? No. Upset? Yes.

Every time someone dares to suggest that a policy designed to benefit elites will hurt others, a clown car full of economists drives up. They pile out, tripping over each other to explain to us how we just aren't smart enough to understand economics and how actually cutting taxes for the rich (for the Nth time) will create such extraordinary economic growth that everyone's boat will float upwards as a result.

Of course, they are wrong, but next time this topic comes around I guarantee the clown car will be there and in the meantime it behooves us to stockpile ammunition.

See also: shipping all the manufacturing to China.
During the pre-smartphone days, at least, I found Japanese input to be much more efficient than English/French due to the need to input far fewer characters to say the same thing. The difference was signficant enough that if I was writing to another foreigner who spoke Japanese, we'd generally just write in Japanese.

I remember being disappointed at the original iPhone since it didn't include a fingerprint scanner, digital wallet/train pass, or video recording support, all of which were available on my Japanese flip-phone that had been released 3 years earlier at less than half the price.
>> The NY Times actually does a lot of good journalism these days. At least the level of the individual story and/or writer.

> And what about the level above that? The level of giving readers an accurate picture of the world, not distorted by selective editing?

All editing is selective, that's pretty much definitional.

I think you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. The alternative to the NY Times (and similar publications) isn't some ideal publication that gives an accurate picture without distortion, it's talk radio and other opinionated sources that give pictures that are even more distorted.

The NY Times is like a plate of food with a fly in it. There are salesmen out there that spend a lot of time talking about the fly, reminding you how gross it is and how bad they must be for it to get there, etc. Then they'll offer a plate of dogshit as a substitute, and distressingly a lot of people will take it because they've been successfully fixated on that damn fly.
The problem isn't that Apple is "directly or indirectly involved in abhorrent practices." The problem is that the abhorrent practices in question are specifically the licensing and technical design decisions of MacOS, and how they affect the owners of Apple M1 computers, especially those who run MacOS on them.

I'm not talking about arm's-length issues like the extent of Apple's responsibility for Foxconn-factory worker welfare and to what extent Foxconn's workers are better or worse off than they would have been without Apple—whatever the truth of the accusations, they are unaffected by whether your Macintosh runs Linux or MacOS.

I'm talking about proprietary software licensing turning your own computer into a weapon against you, and reserving the understanding and control of the world you live in (the birthright of every human being) for Apple's anointed priesthood of licensed developers, who retain their status purely at Apple's pleasure. This is the central issue solved by installing a free-software operating system like Linux.
Its 10am PT on Monday and on the front page, and the time stamp on the post is "5 hours ago" so not the weekend - you must have seen it during the weekend, yet your comment says "1 hour ago". So does the HN second chance pool also reset comment timestamps? interesting.
So we should get rid of laws against murder, rape, theft, etc? Some people do not believe those things are immoral. That means when we create laws banning them we are imposing our morality onto others.
I would say wealthy people have added disproportionately to society.

Amazon, Walmart, and Microsoft have added tremendous value to the world.
Makes sense. And unless I'm mistaken, to be entangled, they have to be very close to each others at some point, right? And then we can send one of the pair far away and they'd still be entangled. I can imagine some sort of more fundamental link connecting the two, but it's still not breaking ftl
We do not, but sometimes people who want to disparage me, Rust, or both, say stuff like this. It was said a lot more often in the earlier days.
I think you misspelled "contributed".
So send all the homeless people to Bakersfield then? I wonder how the current residents of Bakersfield would feel about that.
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Once I can pay my taxes in Bitcoin will be the day that it's backed by the US Economy.

I've helped friends move in exchange for beer and pizza but nobody would call that a transaction "backed by the US Economy".
Okay, let me explain this. The way it's actually done is in-between. You can't really seriously agile your way into a great distributed architecture without some sort of planning process. You create a very high level document explaining the main components of the program. You make a second one with details (in a waterfall way) explaining everything you are going to be concentrating on in depth for the next 1-2 months. The rest is kept very high level. Then you can just change course if the reception of the 1-2 month work isn't ideal or the company needs to change direction.
The two are probably connected - these members of Congress were the ones they needed to target for for whatever reason, and somebody made a decision that this effort was worth the potential PR hit.
Intergenerational wealth and meritocracy are not incompatible. People can spend thier money how they want, if they want to give it to thier kids they still earned it.
The Importance of Written Communication for Engineering Teams
I think it's fundamentally a question of incentives. A mathematician's career prospects and status depends heavily on being able to prove things that others can't. Why spend extra time helping your 'competitors'? Not saying this is ideal, but it seems to explain many behaviours in the community, and it seems unavoidable given the ever-increasing competition for jobs.
Could we? Maybe. I don't think we want to. Not the way we consume our resources. We already have water issues in much of the country when there is a drought.

We do not need that many people. The planet does not need it. We need to learn to live with less and without never ending growth.

Just as we target the 1990s or some other period for C02 production, we should do the same for population stabilization. A couple of droughts here and there (as we used to suffer from in the past) and we'll have massive hunger and famine problems.

We need slack in the system for safety. We cannot operate at the limits and not expect catastrophes.
Yes, sounds like they got that backwards. Although, if mimicking the eye, you'd need a lens with variable focal length to take full advantage.
I've never understood why ML folks insist on using precision, which depends on the base rate. Why do they not use probability of false alarm as in traditional detection theory?
Inside Julia compiler/runtime there is an interpreter, because Julia uses a heuristic to determine whether to compile or interpret a function. There is also interpreter code in Julia debugger. I don't know how full featured they are, but one does not have to start from scratch.

On the other hand, implementing a tracing JIT for Julia is going to be such a big task, I am not sure how much help existing interpreters are going to be. At the very least there needs to be a new GC, which necessitates changes everywhere except the parser. LLVM integration may also prove awkward for a tracing JIT.
They would have to explain in great detail how their amazing culture is worth exchanging 5-10 hours per week of living my life with 5-10 hours per week of a lonely, expensive and often-times miserable commute.
In Norway, sales of new gasoline and diesel cars ends in 2025. No exceptions for hybrids, plug-in or otherwise. Norway is a microscopic market but it still is astounding to me that Toyota will likely be shut out of the country in four years as they have almost nothing in the pipeline except an as-yet nameless crossover using some GM EV platform.

Must be weird to be a dealer in Oslo now, considering the RAV-4 and Yaris hybrids still sell in ok numbers.
Composability in Functional Programming
A tad bit unfair re: Caruana, considering he's flipped back and forth between the US and Italy a bit, most recently as 2015. Hikaru Nakamura is a bigger personality, he might have marginally more name recognition, though generally the point is well made.

Hikaru is making inroads with streaming culture, so honestly the group that might know him best are younger people, not even necessarily chess players. He's known for... well, being exactly himself, and it fits perfectly with the rest of streaming culture, so honestly it's a great match.

While we're talking about money, Hikaru has 4.4k subscribers [0] on his twitch channel, of which he makes $2.49 per (so $11,115.36 per month), in case you were curious about what kind of monetization he's able to create out of this.

[0] - https://twitchtracker.com/gmhikaru
There's no going back. WFH will be a perk that draws top talent like catered lunches or "nap rooms" before.
I don't see why Japanese men shouldn't be up to the job compared to the groups you listed with their obvious downsides:

younger - lack of experience

female - women to the rescue

international - lack exposure to local customs

"Fresh perspective" / "leaders in the decision making process" (leadership positions) - Hacker News agrees that "it's all about execution" and that "adding more ideas/perspectives" as you suggest here might be rather counterproductive or at least not a benefit.

It's software engineers that get payed a multiple of other (regular) jobs in silicon valley, which sets SV apart from the rest of the world.

People arguing like you are either young, not-male and/or not-native and want one of the financially attractive leadership positions for the money. They don't want or promote diversity anywhere else but in this limited area (leadership positions), which just quickly exposes their true underlying motivation: Hypocrisy and your own greed.
> mixed display DPI.

I believe Wayland may be better than X with this, but my displays have the same DPI so I haven't tested myself. My displays do have different refresh rates and Wayland handles that better in my experience.

NVIDIA has been slow on the Wayland front though, but I think they may have made decent progress with recent driver releases.
I didn't take a quote out of context, the context was not provided. There is no a priori expectation that somebody should read a Wikipedia page to find out the missing context behind a quote.

> Its shifting goalpost fallacy.

There's no fallacy here. I have my opinion, I stand by it regardless of the quote's context. I understand that Morphy didn't mean what I thought he meant. It's just that my opinion on the usefulness of chess is still the same.
I just want to say that in the case of the classification of finite simple groups, there's actually a bit of a problem. Exactly because "a lot of the deep expertise mathematicians" have left the field; but on the other hand "a small, curated subset of these techniques" is still missing. A small group of experts (all in their 70's or 80's) are currently writing a dozen volumes on this classification, and the rest of the community hopes that they get it done before they pass away.

This proof has a seriously low bus factor at the moment :scared:
We trend towards using many small open-source libraries which are essentially undocumented these days. The average case seems to be a README with a few examples rather than a clear API specification. Digging through Stack Overflow is essentially looking for someone who has already reverse engineered the exposed API in a library so you don’t have to.

If projects were documented — like, actually documented, not just a cursory README — we would all be able to program without the internet. Honestly, it’s much easier than the way things are now.
At this point it is not Tesla vs the rest of the industry. The other two of the 3 biggest manufacturers, GM and VW, are both intensely invested in battery electric vehicles. Among the big players it is only Toyota playing this FUD game now (even Mazda who were panning BEVs for a long time seems to have decided to do some EV stuff, even if it looks a bit mediocre).

Elon was smart to see the potential early on. But GM also started around the same time with the original Volt (which is still an awesome vehicle.)
Amid massive hospital sell-off, corporate giant continues suing patients
You'd have to corroborate with the network I guess
One thing I found about Julia which turned me off was the library used for distributions used 64bit floats while that used for neural Nets used less precision, so it's hard to connect the dots there. Also there wasn't a lot of great tooling for RL
This is moving the goalposts. I’ve absolutely heard countless people state, with total conviction, that huge tax cuts for the rich will definitely boost growth, and even be revenue-positive because of all that additional growth. You’re backpedaling now that that clearly isn’t true.
Housing boom is over as new home sales fall to pandemic low
It makes sense until you cross the point of diminishing returns. And I think many countries crossed that point by at least 20 percentage points.
Why do you need to be snarky? It's hard because every time I ask questions or challenge the narrative, I get the same passive aggressive bullshit response (especially so on HN).

Your comment is a veiled "you're an idiot," which immediately makes me disregard what you're saying.
>We find that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income.

This isn't surprising; a tautology almost. But it doesn't really give us any answers. The real question is: is that a bad thing, and if so how bad is it?. Wealth inequality has been a constant of the human condition since the first farmers learned to aggregate more grain than others. But what, if any, deleterious effect does this actually have on society? And does the concentration of wealth lead to innovations only possible with such an ability to deploy capital in a highly targeted manner?
It is accurate in my experience.

We had "team (tech) leads" in the old days that took the place of marketing more or less — setting the general course for the software as a whole, the architecture as a whole.

But each engineer was given their own sandbox, their own piece of the framework/app to own. "Go implement an image cache."

Image cache engineer got to style their code however they pleased. They could tear it up and rewrite it when there was excessive technical debt. They knew it inside and out since they wrote it.

Often if it was code they inherited they would end up rewriting it eventually regardless — maybe piecemeal.

I don't remember every having code reviews. Sanity check? Sure, when there was some tricky bit of hacking required.

Yes, QA. Unit tests seem to make management happy these days. "I want to see 85% coverage!" as though that magically means we have less bugs.
Potential role of manufactured citric acid eliciting inflammatory reactions
> I believe his claim: if we tried, we could turn "any healthy newborn" into "a genius".

I don't. Intelligence is partially heritable, which is also the problem with his experiment. He was himself a leading intellectual, the probability that his daughters will inherit his high intelligence is pretty good. (it's not that much known about the mother, but I assume he married someone with above average intelligence as well).
“In statistics it’s enough for our results to be cool. In psychology they’re supposed to be correct. In economics they’re supposed to be correct and consistent with your ideology.”

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/gelman_quotes.pdf

Possibly the most fundamental distinction between economics and other fields is that, in economics, it seems to still be permissible to start with your conclusions and then work back from there.
Anyone have suggestions to prepare for this scenario?
It's been obvious for 5+ years that hydrogen was the wrong tech though, and Toyota just kept stubbornly doubling down on it. I don't really feel sorry for them. There's just so many problems with hydrogen, from distribution to storage, to the more fundamental problem that most hydrogen today is produced from fossil fuels and we don't have a way to efficiently produce it from renewables.

Most large automakers have really been dragging their feet when it comes to electric vehicles. Tesla has had a real and visible impact. Now, years after Dieselgate, VW is pretty openly trying to copy Tesla's plan, bringing battery production in-house, etc. Their new CEO seems to admire Elon Musk. Car companies are doing preorders and trying to model new EV launches after what Tesla is doing, etc.
Google and Facebook control 70% of online advertising revenue in Spain
that comment is spot on. India is a country that struggles with distributing electrical energy. EVs there are nothing but a pipe dream or a plaything for the rich.

In the average western country where almost everyone has their electrical energy needs met, EVs do not have a technological limitation to adoption.
The intercom system at my building is "single user". Only the apartment for the last-pressed buzzer can unlock the door, or activate the microphone. If I do the latter, the person outside is stuck talking to me until I disconnect, or it times out — about a minute, I think.

It doesn't happen very often, but I've left people stuck outside when they've intentionally wasted my time. The best was a couple of Jehova's Witnesses who dragged me out of the shower with their call, then proceeded to grumble that I was wasting their time as they realized they couldn't buzz anyone else.

Sometimes delivery people try the all-buttons thing, but the screen on my intercom unit switches off as soon as they press the next button.
>at least has tags so links can associate with multiple topics

This has applied since ever to regular bookmarks as well. Basically you can just throw everything in unsorted and use tags only.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be snarky. It’s just that it’s a weird argument for the head of a car company to make, as the alternative to EVs currently is no cars at all. That seems pretty bad from a profit perspective.
Subnautica 1 yes. Subnautica 2 (below zero) is far less epic. The world is smaller and denser. There aren't the big open spaces, much less deep water. It's prettier and has some better features here and there, but lacks the majesty of the original.
I cannot endorse this article, full of personal experience that were never true in Amazon or Google.

Particularly it's the testing done by other people and the unit testing. Testing people are certainly needed in many cases, but the article gave no reason why it has to be done by other people. Just because devs spent a lot of time working with tester, and they enjoy that time, does not make that way of testing the better choice. I worked with tester in Google, absolutely the most unproductive organization inside Google. All normal places have conducted their own testing before releasing to customers, internally most (had no experience working on consumer products).

Edit:

> Sounds like you had a bad tester. Opposite of my experience. A good tester is a gift from the Heavens.

This sounds like just a statement without backup.
Solving climate change AND sea rising at the same time. Too bad we may end having as much water as Dune by the time we reach a healthy amount of CO2.
The kids didn't earn it though ;)
i think the idea is that the kids did not earn their inheritances.
This has no connection to the point i was making. Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment?
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By "traditional statically typed languages" I assume you mean things like C or Java, whereas I'm talking more about Haskell-like type systems. Perhaps that's really an optional first step in the journey: from [Java to] Ruby/Python/JS/Groovy/Lua [to Lisp] to a language with a real type system. The further along you go, the more mathematification your programming undergoes.
> Do you think she would just let go of a criminal prosecution?

Yes? Those are my tax dollars at work. There are better places to prosecute. Let the Feds do the international heavy lifting such a prosecution will require.
Using that same example, you could consider American statistics misleading. US studies show that wage theft by corporations is a multi billion dollar a year industry. Things like that lead to underreporting of actual hours worked, hence, skewing statistics.
would casync [1] fit in this list?

[1] https://github.com/systemd/casync/
> The quote is from Paul Morphy, the best player of the 19th century.

The point was taken, see my comment below. I didn't know the context behind the quote, I understand that Morphy didn't mean it the way I took it.

Nevertheless, I think that under the general interpretation of what it means to know chess well (which is surely different from Morphy's), I stand by my idea that knowing chess well can be a positive thing.