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Air travel sucks and I wanted less of it - for years. Then COVID made all of our work remote and life has improved quite a bit as a result of that.

Air travel isn't 'good', it is good in the same sense that driving electric is good, it isn't as bad as some of the alternatives but it is better to do without by moving to something even better. In my case: to simply stop traveling.
Biochemist here, you are spot on. I came here to say the same thing.
Same here, I uses it for hours and minutes.
> I was also really confused how police sketch artists worked.

There are standard "algorithms" how to draw people. You kind of draw standard shapes and then make differences against "standard". Proportions of peoples heads, eyes, noses and other features are surprisingly similar among people.

Sketch artists basically learned very well how to draw peoples faces specifically and what are important features people notice.
COL is lower in many places for a reason. This is not enough to state that somewhere else is "better" to live. It is only better for individuals making money in a higher GDP country. What do you think happens to that country if everyone decides to move away? This is a case of wanting to have your cake and eat it too. It only works if a small percentage of people do it.
_vti_ is a SharePoint thing. It does have its origins in FrontPage but the folder naming carried over into SharePoint and the functionality has morphed somewhat.
I don't understand the OPs attitude around publishing basic information without signing up.

Here's the pricing for those who are curious:

Starter
- 300 tests/month
$99
/mo

Startup
- 1,000 tests/month
$300
/mo

Competitors are cheaper and include more tests.
This isn’t at all true.

In addition to very favorable net income/interest expense ratios, most large companies have increased the duration of their debt.

So, pretty low interest expense relative to income plus longer dated, low interest debt.

Will refinancing some of this debt be more expensive if rates increase? Maybe a little, but this definitely does not look to be a systemic risk.
You might be right. You might be wrong. I have no clue. And it doesn't matter a whit.

The point is - LET PEOPLE CHOOSE. Apple and Windows generally do not do this, Linux does. Or at least used to; this is why I'm actively hostile to things like GNOME getting more popular.
The autodidax section of the jax docs is such a wonderful thing. I wish every library had that.
> who travel maybe once a year or less, say for vacation or to visit their families, feel now attacked as well and fight back.

They should. France recently stated that we'd need to go from 11T to 2T of co2 per year per inhabitant by 2050. A classic short distance vacation flight (Paris -> Barcelona for example) is already ~0.5T

> This may be their only bit of luxury which they saved up for. I can totally understand such a reaction.

The thing is people get used to convenience and leisure, no matter the environmental cost. So yeah, if you didn't leave your home town to go work for a mega corp on the other side of the country/world to gain more money to consume more, maybe you wouldn't "need" to take a plane to see your family, &c. We all live like fucking kings, better than kings in fact. It's time to swallow our pride and take our responsibilities. The world won't function with 8B+ people taking the plane once a year to roast on a beach or ski for a week

Of course people don't want to let go what they've been told is their goal in life: "consume and travel", the problem is that it simply doesn't scale
I hope you take the critical comments here constructively, we just think that you're missing out on a lot of potential users by not being transparent with pricing. As the other comment points out, we've come to expect that no pricing page means sales contact etc., individual customers are typically not interested in that.
Exactly. How shameless can you get.
Yup. And I always am weary of any manager at a startup. They think just because they were a manager at a startup, it means they can be a manager at a much larger company. How many people did you manage? (some of them managed 1 person) What did you actually manage? (can't explain other than order people around) Don't assume the title means they know how to actually do the job at your company. Titles tend to be severely inflated at small startups.
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I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too).

Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split screen via a siri shortcut (and hence, any Shortcut script) would be unbelievably useful for automating pieces of my workflow.
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I got my start in Clojure with ClojureScript. If you do front end web development it's a great way to jump in. I think I actually now prefer ClojureScript with the Reagent and Re-frame libraries more than standard React using js/TypeScript.
It depends.

On the whole my responsibilities are a mix of things:

1. Technical strategy - primarily writing strategy docs and discussing with other tech PEs. Usually precursor to architecture.

2. Business Strategy - reviews with non tech staff and leadership (across the org) about what the business needs are, where we see the future going. Often takes the form of reviewing other peoples documents or contributing sections to those

3. Product design reviews - reviewing CX/UX documentation

4. Architecture - Creating architecture documents - lots of text and boxes and lines. Several rounds of reviews. Usually precursor to coding or reading other people's code.

5. Coding - takes the form of staring at various IDEs and scratching my head.

6. Reading other people's code - same as above. Also include code reviews.

7. Operations - On call stuff. Usually where all the architecture stuff falls apart :-)

8. Mentorship - structured 1:1s, feedback, etc

9. Prototyping and demos

I spend probably 90% of my time doing the items above. The mix among these items varies but I consider all of it my work. For the rest I sometimes get pulled into the items below that are not officially my responsibilities

- Conferences and public speaking - I could, but choose not to

- Project tracking and reporting

- Managing people's careers directly

- Funding decisions

My work is rarely political depending on how you define politics. To me politics is about "who gets the cool stuff" so mostly funding decisions. I do get pulled in occasionally to sort out "who should build this" discussions but they are usually good faith discussions trying to align expertise and charters before funding decisions are made. Biz and tech strategy does involve consensus building but I suspect the Real Politics™ happen behind the scenes at higher levels.
I can't find an answer to this anywhere: is there a backup JWST (or parts thereof) if this one fails to launch?
> Can we never, not even once, be a little optimistic?

I'm optimistic.

A version of Covid that is much more contagious, but less likely to be severe is a great way to get the immune system of the vaccine avoidant trained on how to recognize and fight Covid.

For those who have already been vaccinated, a mild breakthrough infection would serve the same function as a booster shot.
There's ~15 million VR units sitting around and there's steady growth. That's much more than the zero from a few years ago but you're right its not massive popular. There's just enough that some VR game devs are finding success but by no means is it a gold rush and I don't mean to imply that.
It won't be reported as an Omicron death unless it is sequenced, which excludes a vast amount of cases and lags cases by up to 2 weeks.

Initially reported Omicron cases in the US predate knowledge of Omicron, confirmed cases are from November, and today's story of 13% of samples in Washington state likely being Omicron is based on test data from a week ago.

0 or 1 deaths being reported so far as caused by Omicron is still consistent with "Omicron is roughly as bad as previous strains, and will result in a lot of excess deaths."
> their OS is equivalent to Windows.

Yeah, they're basically identical, except macOS doesn't even have Defender.
> What I got out of this article is that the author knows the value of his time.

Her time.
Or a page full of ads.
> “Organizations are now in a race against time to figure out if they have computers running the vulnerable software”

As a client platform engineer for the last couple years, patch management / versioning is one of my primary job duties. Are there cybersecurity “professionals” out there enjoying hefty pay raises for doing a job someone at their organization is doing for them?

Perhaps I should change my job title to “Cybersecurity Analyst” and get a extra $30k per year for the same thing I’m already doing.
The current PCR tests detect three different regions of RNA that are expected to be relatively well conserved, so there's no single mutation that can cause PCR tests to not detect them and we'll hopefully get a substantial early warning that allows the tests to be adapted if they ever head in that direction. One of the three markers detected by some of the PCR tests is actually invalidated by Omicron and some other variants but it's likely either bad luck or the result of some other benefit this mutation gives the virus. In order to get much benefit the virus would basically have to dodge all the things the PCR tests check for at once and that's hard to evolve.
Hypophantasia is what limited visualization is called. As with all things biological it is a spectrum of experiences.
Thank you for sharing this important story.
I haven't had a good time with people who guess my compensation way off. I think that was just a flag here though, the 6 month creeping was starting to ask for more work
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Its a vaccine, not a force field. You can get sick with covid even if you're vaccinated, you're body is just better at fighting it. And you can still shed the virus.
You call it "humanist", I call it "lying to the public to convince them that the end is nigh and to force the behaviour you want". This is not just morally repugnant, but also can backfire spectacularly as truth tends to come out in the end. In fact, arguably that's what makes people tune out already, you can listen to "Arctic will be completely ice free next year" and believe it only so many times.
Sounds good. 2 years on with enough vaccines and antiviral pills on the way if you still believe hospitals are "filled to capacity", I'd like what you're smoking.
Yes, but the author continued anyway.

They could have ghosted. They could have made a reasonable counter.

Instead they decided to sling mud.

Childish and unprofessional.
That sounds like it would be a radicalization engine for at least some portion of the population. I strongly encourage you to not pursue this idea.
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That article is so bad it might as well be misinformation. 79% of the people in the study were hospitalized, and the authors did not correct for this.
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Agreed - JAX is really cool. It will be interesting to see how TF & JAX develop considering they're both made by Google. I also think JAX has the potential to be the fastest, although right now it's neck-and-neck with PyTorch.

Yes - a lot of TF users don't realize that knowing the "tricks of the trade" for wrangling TF don't apply in PT because it just works more easily.

I agree that industry-centric applications should probably use TF. TFX is just invaluable. Have you checked out Google's Coral devices? TFLite + Coral = revolution for a lot of industries.

Thanks for all your comments - I'm also really excited to see what the coming years bring. While we might debate if PT or TF is better, they're both undoubtedly improving very rapidly! So excited to see how ML/DL applications start permeating other industries
> How would you test a REST endpoint, if I may ask?

Functional test (or integration test if you like). That wasn't the point.

> For anything more complex you should be writing a service which can and should be unit tested.

You're special casing a function based on how it's placed in the flow of the project. Unit (fn being a unit) tests are necessarily agnostic as to the overall functionality. If you want to special case how you are handling functions in a project, good luck. You'll continue to have failures that you'll handwave away as "not following the patterns" or "simple mistakes" rather than recognizing that you should have had useful unit tests to prevent it.

People often conflate the reasons that unit testing doesn't prevent bugs.
The primary weakness of unit testing is that you cannot assert "no additional functionality" in the function implementation (code). When languages adopt testing as a first class concern and provide function hashes as a validation, we will see it adopted en-mass and these runtime compositions strategies will be left out, and rightly so.
> Every day spent learning JAX is another day spent not reviewing literature, writing papers, or developing new models.

Every day spent learning JAX is also another day spent not trying to fit a round peg into a square hole of other libraries. I made the leap when I was doing things that were painful in pytorch. In terms of time, I think I came out ahead.

Not everything is a nail, and pytorch is better for some things, an jax is better for others. "Every day spent learning the screwdriver is a day spent not using your hammer."
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The connection bandwidth, and to a lesser extent the computer hardware, push validators to run in data centers. The reliable fat bandwidth is a big requirement which drives centralization.

If most Solana validators run on AWS, then it is as centralized as the AWS datacenters. I think they have 50+ facilities now.
Consumers are also the ones voting for the politicians who aren't changing the law. So again, it's on us. We need to actually want to change before we actually will.
General security awareness training in CS programs (not the 'don't get phished' type of security awareness) would certainly go a long way, in my opinion. Security being taught as a fundamental necessity of programming would, down the road, lessen the load everywhere else.

But there is also a fundamental disconnect between what schools are teaching and what industry is hiring for. The answer right now is "Go to school for cybersec, get your certs, then work for X years as a low-level help desk agent or call-center phone jockey".

Industry needs to tell educational institutions what candidates get from being a password-resetter that isn't taught in school, and work with those institutions to get those skills into the curriculum.

I have a lot more to say on the topic of cybersecurity and hiring, but I'm getting into rant territory.

Edit to add: You mentioned 'spreading out the 15 years of required experience'. I firmly do not believe it takes anywhere near 15 years of experience to become competent at cybersec.
The article argues in a totally different direction but the impact of planes on climate change is not only from its green house gas emission. Studies are not totally clear about this but generally attribute a far larger fraction to the caused increase in cirrus clouds. Accordingly, even a plane fueled by renewable gasoline will have an impact on climate change. On the other hand, that impact on climate change should not last and disappear once all planes are grounded again.
That's one link vs several I gave you. Are you implying that your science is better than mine? Why? What standard proves this? All of the links I gave you are peer reviewed studies. You've proved nothing.

I'll choose my studies over yours. You're just bloviating cult like adherence to "the science".
There is Xanadu [0], which features a royalty mechanism and authentication. Early planning began in 1960, but it didn't help that Xanadu became one of the world's longest-running vaporware efforts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
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A blog is more about the content of a single post than about the links inside.

When I'm reading a post, I rarely click any links at all.
Right, but some might consider the other end of the spectrum as also bad.

Extremely stable societies are often marked by low social mobility and oppressive social mores, yet they fulfill every check mark according to your definition of good. It would also deem the emancipation of slaves an evil deed, since it disrupts a stable pattern of social order that's extended for a long stretch of time.

I don't know if I would deem something like ancient egypt, which had a social order that persisted largely unchanged for several thousand years, one of the most stable societies known in history (also an oppressive theocracy), I don't know if that is my idea of good.
> I know the common refrain with this inflation is that it's temporary due to COVID

Public figure's also don't want to yell fire in a crowded theater. Because that can directly feed whichever economic bogey-man people are worried about.

> In my humble opinion, I expect to see CPI start reflecting cost increases throughout the economy over the next 12-18 months.

The data is already there if you look.

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1469438747292880898
Slightly off topic, but I'm a bit of a paper snob at this point. While Moleskine is not the bottom of the barrel I still find for use with fountain pen inks they're not the best. You haven't lived until you try out some Tomoe river paper.

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The solution that sprung in my mind was akin to an artificial gravity simulator ring, slowly spinning beds arranged like a flower petal.
Pricing: https://i.imgur.com/Hhv747C.png

$99/mo 300 tests / month

$300/mo 1000 tests / month

Aside from hiding prices, the sign up process has another annoying dark pattern - you sign up, they prompt you to schedule onboarding call (only option, no other button), then if you click anywhere or wait a few seconds a "Continue to Dashboard" button appears. If you click it you have an "Are you sure?" button instead.

Instant turn off.
The LTT video[1] is also from their ShortCircuit channel, their unboxing/ first-impressions channel and should not be confused with their review content.

I personally watched the 54 minute in-depth overview from My Life in Gaming[2], and it was clear that LTT/ShortCircuit overlooked or were incorrect in some parts of their initial impressions.

EDIT: Specially in regards to the display, they spent no time at all to experiment with the 3 built-in GBA display modes; if they used the modes that replicated the original GBA or GBA SP (AGS-101) screens, they would've had a more color-equivalent appearance. MLiG in their video spent 10+ minutes on display modes alone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6l5fAbcim0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro9QQrTOnT0
Nope, Musk and Bezos should fly less recreational rockets first. After they stop and abandon their scale up plans, then I will stop visiting my overseas family.
This sounds interesting. I just googled this and there seem to be some proposals:

https://stay-grounded.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/progres...
This sort of "logic" attempts to rationalize what would rapidly become a catastrophic Tragedy of the Commons. The world cannot sustain itself if everyone were to become a self-absorbed narcissist who feels entitled to "Me first. F everyone else."
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That's awesome, glad to hear it!
Imo, it is something new and different.

We are not celebrating winter solstice. Most people dont even know there is winter solstice and dont care. And I doubt pagans did tree, santa claus, snowman and gifts.
Of course a leader provides tens or hundreds of times the value of a follower, what an absurd question.

But that doesn't mean it's reasonable that he collects 10000 times more of the value. There is so functional difference between having 1 or 10 billion, except the amount of undue influence you can have on politics.
Judging just from the headline, I assumed the article would mainly be about Cloudflare's entry into that market. The whole point of their strategy has been to position themselves as the foremost middle-men of the Web and then start eating all the service providers "behind" them, including and perhaps especially cloud hosts. They've set everything up and now they're executing on that plan, and things are starting to get interesting.
Your solution is a good one and makes logical sense but do you think that this pandemic is going to end? It shows no signs of abating currently and the new variant is even more communicable. How does one determine when the pandemic has ended, what is the benchmark? Covid will always be with us going forward. your solution also involves kids wearing masks in school for potentially years and years. I noticed a massive difference in behavior with my youngest kid during his year of wearing a mask in school and after the mandate went away. He went from a reserved almost sad little kid when I picked him up each day back to his prior outgoing happy self after a few weeks. Obviously my experience is anecdotal but I have spoken with other parents that observed the same.
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Almost all of the missing employed workers are in the 25 to 29 and in the 45 to 59 age groups.

This data would suggest most of the missing workers are prime age or took early retirement (the missing workers in their '50s).
But if I'm moving an hour away, why not move farther? I was born, raised and have lived 31 out of 34 years in California and I just can't fathom why anyone would choose to live here anymore. I bought a house in Southern Oregon 4 years ago and moved up here full time a year ago thanks to the pandemic. I really hope I never have to move back.
Obviously he was excited about the opportunity and not walking into it with both eyes open, but they continued springing new terms on him after he'd accepted a weak offer. And what he talks about at the end affects others, not just him.
Propaganda can be truthful. In fact, truth makes for the best propaganda, as it is easy to defend. For example, someone might opt to amplify truths that support their position, even if they're inconsequential, meaningless, or flimsy in the conclusions drawn.

(but for the record, I am not saying that this is propaganda)
I'm honestly not even sure if someone could describe their own experience of thinking about visual things with enough detail that I could tell whether my own experience of thinking about visual things is significantly different. When you started talking about having no concept of seeing something in your head I thought "whoa, that's very different from my experience." But then what you went on to describe sounds precisely like my experience. I can make poor but recognizable drawings of commonly-known objects like animals. I can also imagine large human spaces I've spent a lot of time in, like my apartment building or old Counter-Strike levels, with a fair amount of detail (certainly enough to describe how to navigate). But now I'm wondering what distinction you're making between being able to use your imagination to accomplish these tasks and "seeing" or "picturing" these objects in your mind. Are you expecting to be able to literally summon a visual hallucination of these objects? Surely that ability is extremely rare, and isn't what people mean when they say they're picturing something in their head, right?
Glad you found it. A very simple explanation I heard a while back (NPR?) was that the system is able to keep "mugshots" of intruders it has seen and then snip their DNA when there's a match with the mugshot.
This isn't good news. The title says it's more resistant to the vaccine. That is the worst possible thing.