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> No one uses a TLA+ model directly in production either

This is false. Many, many companies use software derived from TLA+ models "directly in production." Amazon and Microsoft (Azure) are the two biggest examples. Neither relegate TLA+ usage to "R&D" on experimental system. Both are using it to develop and harden actual production systems used by millions (billions?) of people daily, and the TLA+ toolset is used daily by normal production engineers, not academics (as is true of Coq).

Coq is great, I like it a lot. As of 2021, it's not very practical for the kinds of problems normal software engineers encounter whereas TLA+ is.
How many at each?

Edit: To be perfectly clear, I mean no disrespect to anyone who teaches at a community college. It is valuable and important work.

But I think it’s fair to say that people going into a Phd program, and dedicating 6-10 years of their life to working themselves ragged as the OP describes, are not doing so with the hope that they may one day teach at a community college. So, holding that up and saying “See, they had a perfectly fine outcome from getting a PhD, they got to teach at a community college!” is just disingenuous.
> In that sense, most corporations of today are way more powerful than governments of the past. Thus, they ought to be treated the same way, and we ought to demand the same rights from them as the government.

This is one of the main reasons antitrust law was created. They ought not to be treated the same as government, they ought to be broken up and not allowed to be as powerful as government.
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No safety steps are needed. The criteria should be whether the cost of the intervention results in more benefit than if that cost was spent elsewhere. If you're going to have no defined ceiling on additional safety measures, the obvious step is to stop bicycling and choose a safer form of transport, or to stop traveling.

Virtually everything can be made safer, including sleeping and breathing. You don't have to prove it. You have to prove its cost-effectiveness.
It's a serious issue and not one that should be taken lightly, but I think it warrants taking a small step back and thinking a bit more about it.

The claim in this comment is that Facebook's business is to sell ads, but facebook users actually the thing being sold, rather than the customers. This has caused Facebook to become evil and do evil things.

However, if you think about it, almost any social "product" follows the same pattern.

Consider Bars and Clubs. On the surface it seems like their only purpose is to sell alcohol to the patrons, and in a way the patrons are just a way to make the club look more popular to attract more alcohol consumers. But most bars don't become propaganda organizations delivering ethanol via an IV drip. Bars want to create a fun environment that is sustainable in the long term, so they avoid strategies that are likely to harm their customers and prevent them from coming back. Some bars are undoubtedly evil, but it's usually pretty obvious and there are regulations to detect and limit misleading or dangerous behavior (spiking drinks, racial discrimination on entry).

For a lot of people, Instagram is more like a Bar than a physical product. It's a place you go to interact with people and have fun or catch up. Facebook wants people to enjoy themselves and keep coming back. Sometimes people have a bad time or are harmed, but it's in Facebook's best interest to understand that and change things to make Instagram safer and more enjoyable, so people will keep coming back and "buying drinks".
> to ban being fat or drinking alcohol.

No, you can't. At least not unless you ignore research and still believe that weight gain and addiction are purely choices and can be morally condemned. See e.g. Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters: Leshner, A. I. (1997). Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 278(5335), 45–47. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.278.5335.45
Maybe, but that's now how addictions are generally fixed. Even for simple physical ones, like caffeine, kicking the habit is a complicated process, and is best done with careful preparation and a nuanced understanding of how the addict benefits from the addiction.

That's even more true for more serious addictions. There are always reasons somebody became an addict, and preventing relapse often requires solving those problems first before any real headway is made.

Generally, the "just say no" advice is much more fun to say than it is useful to the addict.
Are they better at writing software or do they just care less about how safety critical it is?
I worked for a very small company that had people in different states and even a different country. That said, it's reasonable for a small business to decide that you don't want to hire out of state. Unless you have specific needs and are located somewhere unusual, hiring a few people in-state shouldn't be that big a limitation.

In general, the overall trend seems to be people moving away from urban areas but staying in cities--with a few obvious exceptions where a greater metro area spans into neighboring states as in New England.
A forest's advance across denuded ground can be quite slow in some conditions. Hypothetically humans really could lend a significant helping hand to accelerate recovery in those cases.

For example if seed dispersal is low, or if the absence of shade kills the saplings (through exposure or lack of moisture retention)
I use crypto because the financial system does not allow me to make a transaction anonymously unless I use cash, that I can't use on the internet. Make the government remove its retarded KYC and anti money laundering laws that create state mandated invasion of privacy and I will stop. Crypto exists only because there is a demand not met by "real money". The answer is not to ban crypto but to make "real money" competitive again.
Climate change news reminds me of that "truck almost hitting a pole" meme [1]. I know it's a growing problem that will likely mean big, uncomfortable changes, but the constant crisis rhetoric is just exhausting. I'm GenX so I've been hearing this every day of my life for decades. Right in that awkward age between the generation that doesn't care even in the slightest about Climate Change and the generation that thinks it's the worst problem the world has ever faced.

Politicians my age are slowly seeping into power now. If Climate Change activists want to convince them, constant Dialed-up-to-10 alarmism is just not the way they're going to do it.

1: https://imgur.com/r/gifs/kuplW0m
It's a thought experiment, not a statement of fact.
> For starters, the enormous rock poses no threat to Earth. [...] The comet's closest approach to Earth will occur sometime in the year 2031, when scientists predict the comet will swoop within 10.97 AU of the sun — putting it just outside of Saturn's orbit,

This "for starters" is buried 6 paragraphs into the article.
Swoop (a low-cost airline in Canada) runs their customer support portal through Facebook Messenger, and has a surcharge on their phone support.

You literally have to pay to avoid Facebook with Swoop.
Not "we often ... too" but that cases of convicting people for bonafide self-defense are actually very rare and we mostly do it for people who were closer to murder than self-defense.
I think most people just don't want to be under someone's control. At least, that is the case for me. Simple as. People not returning to their wage cages is a non problem. Spend less on childcare, spend less on food, commute less, improve health, spend exactly the needed time to achieve assigned tasks. WFH options are good for everyone except for megalomaniacs.
> > the sameso that you can’t accidentally or intentionally choke someone with the windows.

> But who in the world wants to intentionally choke somebody with a power window?

Accidental is the more significant problem, particularly with children.
You said you agreed with my main point so I probably should have left it at that, but for the record:

The OP says: Most organizations seem to hire their first part-time IT person before they reach 20 employees. When that first IT person is replaced, the new IT person bores everybody with complaints about how "totally incompetent" the first person must have been, and, usually, is correct. When you hire somebody's teenage kid, you almost invariably get the competence you pay for.

By "somebody's teenage kid" I gather we're meant to assume this character is not qualified or certified; that's the very point of the article. I've certainly known of such people, and have even been that person. Indeed the first five years of my career were in helpdesk and network design roles, and I had no certifications.

Sure, I know what you mean, that to be serious support professional for products from vendors like Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, etc, you need certifications. But plenty of small-business networks are set up by young, inexperienced, uncertified people such as family members and friends, and if the business stays small it's often fine.

But sure, among software developers, plenty of highly paid ones don't have qualifications/certifications, where it's not deemed necessary by employers/clients. And plenty do, where it is deemed necessary or legally required.

I guess the real point is that people are paid more for their impact and the uniqueness of their abilities, not their certifications, and it's more common to be high-impact and unique as a developer than as a helpdesk tech.
The choice isn’t between perfect rationality and hypocrisy, it’s between useful norms and harmful ones. People of every intelligence level defer some decision making to the community and culture, it’s how the species moves forward without having to constantly rethink and re-explain.

Right now it’s likely better to have people wearing masks too often than the other way around.
What does that have to do with anything? They aren't immune to COVID-19.
… if you’re a small company then your other option is to offer a large relocation benefit and high salary to get someone to move to the location you’re in. So a return to in person work wouldn’t solve your issue of hiring someone out of state
Honest question: how big is the trade off of not offering an employee insurance and instead increasing compensation and letting them get their own? Is there a ton of cost savings in companies offering insurance vs going the other route?
That’s a valid point. How did you decide which rate crossed the line? A defined rate is needed to enforce this fairly.

To get ahead of this, I’m probably going to respond we should focus on combatting obesity over anything you can propose. The rate it’s consuming both hospital and other resources dwarfs nearly any other condition aside from old age.
This is less of a problem with WFH and more of a problem with regulation, IMO.
I can't upset the NDA Gods on this one, unfortunately. I can say one is a traditional OEM that you wouldn't necessarily expect to be the sort to take vanguard steps like this and the other is a newer OEM that's not as encumbered by tradition (though due to the supply-chain also can't rid themselves of it).

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20 years ago, my IT friends and I were all enviously looking at California as a model to replicate. TC and Michael Arrington made us understand daily the opportunities we were missing.

Today, I honestly feel sad to see the decrepitude of this once beautiful lady we were in love with. She does not inspire me anymore. Sad.
Why can't they just make pin-compatible versions of the chips using new processes? That would take time, but surely easier than investing in new fabs for old processes?
I run one of those companies and hence speaking from experience. I want to hire employees (not contractors) all over the United States but it is such a pain. I did that in 2 states already (in addition to primary state) and drowning with shitty paperwork.
Yeah, but what other social media exists beyond Twitter?
This doesn't make sense. Why does a business need to be registered in a state to have employees there? Tons of businesses are registered in Delaware without them having any but token employees or owners there.

We've used ADP to handle the taxes, unemployment, and payment paperwork, but several providers in this space. Insurance seems to be flexible enough to handle as well.

Zenefits and others work fine to ensure benefits are built appropriately.
FB is primarily a data collection and behavior directing organization. Surveillance Capitalism is real.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
That's what a large fraction of the winners on /r/hermancainaward say in regard to pretty much anyone wanting to take any measures against COVID.

It's the battle cry of those who think that a problem isn't real or will just go away on its own with little harm if we ignore it.

That doesn't work, and the longer the problem is ignored before dealing with it the more disruptive and intrusive the action needed becomes.
> "I wonder if the balance is shifting towards taking action."

I can't find a public source, but some actions are being taken. Bear in mind that any major shifts would happen in a new product, that is, something 5-7 years out.
The "right" way to do it, is to put something big at the L1 Lagrange Point.

That is permanently between Earth and the sun, and you'd see it as a black dot at the center of the Sun.

Downside is it needs to be real big. 2000 km, according to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
But then you are asking people to relocate which these days, people don't want to do. I mean young people may if given a good relocation but people with families are not willing to do it that easily.
I'm not sure, I haven't seen that many millennials advocating for mandatory setbacks and parking spaces at city planning meetings
I personally like gpustat -- it's a nvidia-smi wrapper but it has colors...

They also i guess now have a web sever plugged into it which seems pretty cool

https://github.com/wookayin/gpustat
https://github.com/wookayin/gpustat-web
> For those who say "you don't need a helmet on campus," there's a simple science-based way to test your theory:

> Look at the stats on brain injuries for bicycle accidents on campus.

That's not science, that's looking. What you have to do is compare stats of the results and frequency of accidents with helmets and accidents without. There have been very good statistical cases made that the accidents that helmets protect against aren't the accidents that bicyclists get in (unlike the situation with motorcyclists, for example.)
His wikipedia page goes into more detail on that front. Considered the top mathematician of his time (with also major contributions to physics and computer science), other world-class mathematicians and physicists being in awe of his abilities, sometimes solving (never before answered) math problems easily, being able to recite word-for-word the books and articles he read, years after reading them, simultaneously translating them as necessary, etc.

Ordinarily that would be hyperbole...
Taxes are a big deal for tbis
Ah, along those lines. Yes, I can confirm there is no discouragement of cycling. Like ever, not even when you are totally drunk.
Let's start by assuming that the engineers are at least basically competent, shall we?

I mean, I could implement a PID controller without any 74xxx logic at all: a basic op-amp, a handful of resistors and capacitors and boom I'm done!

But there's a reason that engineering doesn't do that these days and it's not that engineers don't know how. My PID control built from an opamp? In 2021 that's almost always a stupid idea. We use computers because doing it digitally has many advantages. We don't use 74xx (or any other logic family) for this because microcontrollers are far more flexible, allow for behavior changes without reworking hardware, allow inventories to scale (the same component can be used in hundreds of products) and more reasons I won't detail.

The reality is that in 2021, often the simplest, most robust and cost-effective way to do something trivial is by using a computer to do it.
But to an extent, they are linked. I want to open up candidate pool by hiring anywhere in the US but too much bullshit to hire an employee who will work out of state.
Why do they insist on having their employees in the office? Are they so hidebound they can't innovate ways to disrupt office culture and build the future of work?
> Reining it in also presumes that legislative methods will work. I think it is already clear that they don't.

How is it clear? What legislation has been attempted?

The simplest legislation--I could fit it on a page--would be to ban M&A by social media companies over a certain size and force break-ups of past mergers that would have violated that restriction had it been in place since, I don't know, February 4, 2004.
What's New in Office 2021
Jim Cramer is a shit-artist and so I assume that anyone on his show talking about any issue is also a shit-artist with an agenda. As such, I have to assume that this is just a bunch of hot air and that businesses are going to try to use this to change labour laws to their benefit to address this "real issue"
That's interesting thanks, I suppose that's why we've not heard anything about this discovery since
My understanding is that you typically need a business license for a state where you have employees and, while various companies can handle a lot of the day to day payroll/benefits, you can't outsource everything and there are typically legal and other costs associated with adding an employee in a different state.
Yubico founded 2007

TPM(ISO/IEC 11889) started 2009

So your timing is off, but otherwise yes, TPM effectively can do what a yubikey can do, but it can also do more than that, especially in the TPM2 version.
No generation ever has had this, full-stop. The only thing that comes close is cigarettes and they were fucking awful for people.

A 24/7 lie machine producing and creating lies around them with the people they know as the stars of the lies. It's a constant bombardment of imagery using people they know this has never been seen before because it has literally been impossible. There is no walking away or shutting it off, it happens outside of school and inside school.

I think your eagerness to dismiss this as a non-threat is a luxury of your age, privilege, and your likely enjoyment of the platform. I find it truly incredible you think other generations have experienced this... because it's quite plain none have.
I agree this is a huge pain, but the benefits of being able to hire the best people where they already are still outweighs the paperwork overhead. I have found the least painful solution to be using Rippling as an HR/payroll system and Northwest Registered Agent to register an entity in each needed state. Between the two, it takes relatively little time and no physical mailing of forms to get set up in each new state.
I'm not asking you to convince me. I do study decision making. Your contention that it's to your advantage for others to not have as good of a decision making process seems like a pretty strikingly perspectiveless position; if you study game theory, it's pretty clear that being in a coalition with sub-optimal players reduces your ability to perform.

If you don't already value other people making good decisions, I can only say: perhaps you should.
There are always trade offs.

This issue will NOT be solved without substantial costs.
However, reach on any one platform becomes limited.

Also, it doesn’t seem like their position in the market has really encouraged Facebook to “hold back” on anything. Growth is their only goal.
This website (and all the author's libraries) was such a refresher. It has been important for me to not run away from CL (again). At that time, the "official" website, the first Google result for CL looked like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305135106/https://common-li... Fortunately, they revamped it circa 2018: https://common-lisp.net/ (work mainly due to @mmontone if I'm not mistaken). Since then, the Cookbook was expanded with useful content (it was kind of hard to find up to date information online, on even simple matters like how to build a binary) and we got some useful lists too, like https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl and a list of (current, existing) companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ Hopefully it's easier than ever to have your questions answered and start hacking in Lisp!

Another very helpful resource by Fernando was his state of CL ecosystem: https://borretti.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015 It really helped have an overview of the ecosystem, pick libraries and work on consolidation. I compiled one for 2020 here: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/state-of-the-common-lisp...

(ps: yes people, you can avoid Emacs and use VSCode to have a good experience! and even Atom, Jupyter notebooks and more. See https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...)
> the information about their privacy abuses are quite public and people still choose to use the product

I don't. I'm still tracked. Also negatively affected by its effects. People are free to smoke cigarettes, but we will pass measures to limit its damage, particularly to innocent bystanders.
> Tons of businesses are registered in Delaware without them having any but token employees or owners there.

If your company is registered in Delaware but your office is in California, you’re also required to register your company in California. Repeat this for every state you operate in or have employees.
It's also the most popular language for Lambda functions on AWS.
Optics and appearances affect how others feel.

This could be a sentence summarising the 20s
Even better, combine it with that methane to carbon black process from the other day, and all of the carbon from the biomass is now solid form…
> COVID situation is still such that a lot of companies don't feel they can force people back in the office

If only someone had done something about 18 months ago and stopped the virus from blowing up into a economy-wrecking disaster.
THIS. 100%
at one point for a brief moment that was MySpace's claim
You honestly think COVID is more dangerous to a college student than a head injury?