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> were that those employees should have their human rights limited

I repeat it: I don't like Eich, I don't like his opinions, but he never laid off entire dev teams, he used his personal money to support his personal world view, it has nothing to do with what people at Mozilla could or couldn't do.

> You can’t lead effectively if the people you are trying to lead justifiably view you as hostile to them.

Is it better if your righteous new CEO fires you?
Why is that a default explanation when you have no natural carrier habitats at the ground zero, but you do have a virology lab there?
Just in the unlikely event of disarmament negotiations between cyber super powers in the future. You can count nukes and explosive power, but you can't count cyber weapons.

A new deterrence doctrine,nobody knows what will happen.
At this point I think there is simply too much money floating around. People (as a collective mass, not criticizing any single person) spend it on stuff like LEGO, retro consoles and such, priced well over what it takes to produce/sell/develop it.

Buying behavior seems to be so emotional and impulse-driven these days.
I really like WET (write everything twice). It also fits nicely with the rule of 3.
I think that's a good approach as well.

I don't want to belabor the point, but I had been ignored on previous project estimations as well. Management was going to use whatever estimate they wanted.

My focus was on the blockers and risks.
When this thing started, I did some quick research on the Spanish Flu. It lasted about 3 years or so, so I had a baseline of what we were in for. When (insert government entity) said "2 weeks of lockdowns to get this under control," or "we'll be COVID free by Independence Day," I knew that was overly optimistic.

Anyhow, keeping that 3 year baseline helped me whether through it better mentally I think. Based on that, I'm still prepared for another year of this stuff. I also think of Smallpox, something everyone dealt with for at least 3000 years and had a 30% mortality rate and was more contagious than COVID. I'm glad it isn't that.
It also helps not to tell yourself "I suck at math", that's a very common self-fulfilling prophecy.
The EU already does this. I'm sympathetic, but once you have witnessed how their research grants program works, or what the results are when bureaucrats fund "art", you might not be as excited. These things have a way of becoming something different than what was originally envisioned.
Who specifically is "their"?
Agreed.

In many ways Miyazaki's style is "nonstandard" for anime, possibly because he was partly inspired by European artists (think Moebius, whose influences can be seen in Nausicaa for example).
>> What makes you think human creativity is anything more than statistical modelling?

For example, humans don't need to see millions of examples of waifu before they can draw their own.

Also, humans can draw in different styles, including novel styles that look nothing like styles they have seen before. Statistical models like GANs can only draw in styles similar to the ones in their training sets.

Statistical modelling can only represent the data in a training dataset and is incapable of novelty. Humans are capable of novelty.

>> Well describe to me the way it is different to the processes of the human brain?

We haven't created the human brain and it's very unlikely it uses a technology we understand, like linear algebra.
If I where to write a small command line tool utility that needs to be fast, safe and lean I would definitely write it in Rust. It's got the tooling C++ don't (cargo), the ability to statically compile a minimal binary that small and fast (because we don't pay for abstraction like C++) and allow me to write reasonably clean code using functional paradigm. It is reasonably easy to interface with C code (did that recently to access libelf and fuse). Unit testing and documentation is embedded with the language.

So, I agree with you, it will probably not become a replacement, but it succeeded in providing a credible alternative that has been used by many already.
The British political circus's priorities doesnt reflect the priorities of British people.

In most cases the fought over symbols (like this party) are reflective of the less well publicized power struggles and under the surface lobbying.
> Journalists work for private corporations who write things for a target audience to make money.

Sure, but let's not pretend that stuff like NPR is devoid of bias. They are clearly choosing their teams as well, even if they don't do it for money.
So you need Apple Developer account and these apps sign ipas using your own key?
Swap car and bus in that sentence, and it's still a good argument. Anyway.

My old boss Eric Carlsen had a degree in City Planning. His thesis was modelling LA with busses running on every major cross-street on 15-minute schedules, and funding it with a gas tax. Ridership would be low at first, but as folks came to prefer busses over cars it could change.

The thing was, at ever stage of adoption it was a better system than we have now. Less congestion; less cost per-capita and so on.

So we can make up excuses for 'everybody needs a car' but we can also do the numbers.
Seconding the suggestions that you may be able to turn your history into an asset in the right hands. It might be worth taking a look at some of the IT suppliers for the prison system. Unilink are one I am aware of - they do self serve kiosks that are in use in a number of prisons in the UK for stuff like canteen orders and visit booking. They look to be recruiting at the moment as well, so getting in touch can't hurt! https://www.unilink.com/vacancies/
I see a lot of comments with "it is not about numbers but quality." Well, this is akin to a rich person advising the poor, "It is not about money."

Getting someone to start reading or read more, let them start with the easy target -- numbers. It is in-fact the best way to start off, "I will read 10 books this year" is way better than "I will read high quality books on life philosophies." It is difficult to quantify the second and will never make it easier for a non-reader to start off.

Start with the numbers, then the quality will eventually follow.

I'm an avid reader, and many have asked me, including quite a few from HackerNews on the topic of reading. I have been giving out this link from my Digital Notebook -- https://oinam.fyi/books/

During the 2020 Pandemic, too many things blew up for me at once and I ended up reading over 100+ books. I slowed down to less than 50 in 2021.
I started working on a raylib binding for pharo using pharo's ffi...I have to say pharo's ffi system is very easy to use. It works and I got a few demos working, but I haven't put in the function calls for most of raylib. https://github.com/Zenchess/pharoRaylib

There's also native pharo smalltalk stuff like athens, woden, and maybe others...
Personally I have moved to using Dolphin Smalltalk and raylib bindings there as it's been more performant and I prefer Dolphin over pharo. Dolphin also has good external interfacing support and is more of a native Windows OS smalltalk distro. If you're looking for building native windows looking applications on windows at least probably your best bet is dolphin and it's free and open source.
One should also caveat here that unvaccinated are far and above the ones ending up hospitalized, and dying, with Omicron. Those who are vaccinated and hospitalized very often have other underlying conditions that Omicron is exacerbating.

Everyone else who is vaccinated is just getting sick, like a strong flu or cold.

GET VACCINATED. At this point, it's the only way this pandemic will end.
At what moments do you feel that your math knowledge limits your programming skills?

Also: what kind of programming are you doing? E.g. working with 3d games relies on different math skills than dealing with AB testing.
That's why I don't think it was more than a fig leaf for Google's true reasons for closing up their chat network. That was during the period where they were axing anything trying out-Facebook Facebook and I wouldn't trust the stated rationale for any of those decisions.

It would be interesting to see whether Facebook/WhatsApp and iMessage have made them desperate enough to reverse course on XMPP but I'm skeptical that they'd be trusted enough to be successful.
That's an interesting theory. How do you square that with France not joining the war until more than halfway through, and only after the Americans started winning major battles at, e.g., Saratoga?

There's no doubt the French were instrumental in, par exemple, Yorktown. But my admittedly not well-informed view is that "crushed" is a significant overstatement.
Hard disagree.

The main reason I've wrote so much python in the last 10 years is due to it's stdlib being comprehensive enough to do 95% of the tasks I need without adding any dependency.

This despite the fact that I never was super-fond of python's syntax and ideology, although I just learned to accept it. I was writing a ton of perl before that, and with python I could do more with less "CPAN". I would have _never_ made the switch without.

A good stdlib ensures decent performance, stability and overall code quality to your project. Without that, you need tons of dependencies along with version pinning (as developers nowdays understand semver even less than 20 years ago) and duplication due to your dependencies picking different packages as their own base due to the lacking stdlib.

I hate the sort of ecosystem which is built around this pattern. See npm for one extreme, although I see cargo not too far away in the horizon.
In my experience, Elixir (I haven't used Erlang much, so can't comment on that too) is the first language that removed async concerns. With the lightweight thread approach and message passing, things can get "embarrassingly parallel" very easily.
Not those languages in particular no[0], but the general method yes. Just pick a language and start using it for a small project and if it is too frictionful after a while then ditch it and start over with a different one.

[0] I would recommend not doing web dev at all, but that plane has sailed, so...
Hey.. ill just say look at kevin mitnick, his history and his current company (KnowBe4): he is an exconvict criminal hacker that nowadays gives security talks and has this great security company.

I'm not in the uk but here in Mexico most finTechs must adhere to a though AML regulations. In a past startup, my team had to implement an AML system to catch high risk transactions, flag them and eventually report them.

Maybe not as a full time employee, but you may be hirable as an expert consultant, with strong tech knowledge .

Best of luck!!
Why does the "does it actually work" go down over time? I would expect to be the other way round: more experience, more chances your software "actually works", even if it's not following strict rules anymore.
Agree! I’ve seen many a mathematics professor struggle with math. It’s not innate to any of us. But certain of us have spent more time with it and seen more of it. The time and familiarity eventually goes a long way - to a phd, even.
Look at getting involved in Salesforce. It's a cert driven technology and the cert process is actually helpful if you take the time to learn. Start with a Salesforce Administrator cert (few months to get it) and go from there. In the US, these jobs are starting in the $80K range and you can easily find remote and part time positions, maybe as a contractor for a smaller company where the background check won't come up.
I thought platform support was part of it, too, but I must have been mixing up the abandonment of non-Apple-platform Safari with the Blink/WebKit fork.
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What sort of real uses?
GraalVM/Truffle aims to make high performance multi language interop a reality.
I would create Ada++ - so that people could use the power of Ada in a syntax more familar to them.

http://adapplang.com/
The ONLY lib missing from stdlib.
Is the time library.

Maybe unified interface to work with DB.

Cryptographic functions while useful age poorly, and require constant change.

Serde while extremely useful won't fit every usecase. Sometimes you want something smaller or faster.

Http(s) clients also tend to age poorly. Python also had http client/server in std lib that aged like warm milk.

For a thing to be in std, it needs to be imo something you don't want implented in several different ways. Something that is essentially solved and will change very little over time.
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I don't think anyone is claiming that Rust is as simple as Python. Nor is Rust really targeting Python users. Java isn't as simple as Python either, but nobody thinks that makes Java unsuccessful.

> Being in the position of "I need to learn a first systems language, should I pick C++ or Rust" is not very common, IMO.

What makes you think that. Everyone who learns systems programming is in this position at some point. Perhaps not if they learn at university and the language is chosen for them, but that just pushes the choice onto the university itself. And universities are increasingly offering Rust courses.

Of course, plenty of programmers aren't systems programmers and never will be. But that doesn't negate the need for systems programming languages, as demonstrated by the continued use of C and C++. If you do need a systems languages then Rust can make a good case for being the simplest. And could well become the de facto standard over the next few years.
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Statistics is usually considered a subset of ML, except maybe by statisticians.

While R definitely leads the pack on variety of useful stats packages, there are excellent tools for certain tasks in other languages. I do a lot of probabilistic programming, and PyMC in Python and Turing in Julia are excellent packages. And both languages have official Stan interfaces. Not knowing R has not been a problem for me.
Thanks - I think I'll have to puzzle over this one for a little longer (so I don't have much to add here), but wanted to acknowledge your response (it does help in understanding your top-level comment).
I've used MLJ for some small projects at work without issue.
> On the one side there’s no point in convincing the IT folks that what you’ve got to offer is awesome, if the OT folks don’t know about it. The OT folks are the ones doing the decisions. Everything in the OT world is pay-to-play. You’ll never get an article posted in an OT magazine, if you don’t pay for it. In the OT world there are also almost no conferences, like in the IT world. Everything is about industrial fairs with extremely expensive booths. The budgets the big players have at their disposal are simply unbelievable. As an open-source project you have no chance of being noticed at all.

This is a key lesson. Open Source has not won in this part of the technology world, and it's a HUGE walled garden.
Well, maybe terrifying how much more we could do with modern hardware, but yes.

While I'm not firmly in the camp that "everything was better in the old days", it clearly wasn't, I do wonder if we've taken a detour. There's nothing wrong with taking some of the added speed we gain from modern hardware, and use it to great language and frameworks that get us through implementation faster, but are we developing things faster? Best I can tell, SAGE took four years to build, that's pretty fast for what it is and given that much of the hardware also had to be designed and build. I don't think the modern day equivalent could be build that fast, regardless of much better tooling.

Part of the problem, as I see it, is misdirected effort. Most problems we're trying to solve is attacked with way more effort and ambition that required. Electron is a great example, it really does solve a problem and it truly does speedup development. That great, but why use it to build chat applications? Chat was basically solved by the year 2000. I use Google Chat of work, it's only better than IRC in two key feature. 1) I can instantly setup a video call. 2) I can bombard my coworkers with stupid reaction gifs. That is it. Add TLS to IRC, and it is better in most other aspects.

Or how about webshops? We've been able to buy stuff only since 1995, has the experience really improved? No, not really, not in any meaningful sense. Yet somehow I now need a Kubernetes cluster, even tough my servers are a 1000 times faster. Can't a modern server handle at least the same amount of traffic? Why do I need 5MB of Javascript to buy a book?

We're spending too much time solving problems that we successfully handled decades ago, and we're often claim to have a better solution, when it's really just prettier.
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I was asking a similar question a few years ago and found Ivan Savov’s “No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics” to be really helpful.
> doing a master's degree wasn't such a good choice

Curious why you feel that way? I did mine because my employer paid for 100% of it - I don't think it would have been worth it if I'd had to pay for it myself, but otherwise I got a lot out of it.
Gods no. No more. We already have hundreds (if not thousands) of programming languages for pretty much every niche out there (not to mention languages so flexible they can be adapted to meet any new niche).

What this kind of question tells me is that folks are tired of solving business cases, and long for technical challenges. There's nothing inherently wrong with this longing, but we have enough programming languages. Pick something else to solve. Please.
It's starting to feel like the #1 go-forward privacy law needs to be a mandatory opt-in choice requirement, with a viable refuse option.

It can be asked once at the device level, but regulated information needs to be specified at the highest level (e.g. "location information about an individual"), and then the concrete technical implementation left unspecified.

"Does it, or does it not?" is more important than "How?" Because legislation specifying "How?" will always lag technology by decades.

(But then again, this probably should have been done in the mid-90s, once it was apparent which way cookies were going)
The comments section is hilarious, some spam bot must have misinterpreted the title:

> searching for a good hacker that could successfully change my university
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The other most famous outbreak with wet market specified as culprit (Sverdlovsk 1979 anthrax) was in fact a lab leak.
Have you looked at https://roonlabs.com/ ? I'd be interested in your opinion if you have
Isn't that LINQ ?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
> Any time Telegram is mentioned it's always being attacked, as if it's only purpose was to enable crime and terrorism.

When the media is used as propaganda - surely this has never happened before?
It's funny to me economists think they can measure inflation/deflation down to a single digit percentile with any level of certainty.
To run with part of this: I want a language that can truly do almost everything, everywhere. Start with a FORTH-like base of primitives that can have different implementations (usually assembly, but also, say, JVM bytecode), and then aggressively build a rich language and standard library out from that so most users just see "enable the full standard library and get all the batteries included", embedded folks see "enable the minimal subset of the standard library and it's still a nice language", and porting consists of "implement these 10 functions and the language works, implement these 25 functions and the whole stdlib works". Also, enough community/commercial support that it actually has those parts implemented for everything from ESP32 to AMD64 OpenBSD to aarch64 Linux to Haiku to....
My dream feature would be for an interpreted language: when you start the program the interpreter would randomly choose one of the keywords in the language to be considered "hot lava", meaning when the program encounters that keyword the computer running the program would be shut down permanently. If this language were universally adopted it would only be a matter of time before all computers were rendered inoperable.
Yeah when the Atlantic says it’s long enough, you know Americans are no longer buying the cheap propaganda and hysteria their outlets been selling for last two years continuously. Or they are trying to do some damage control to redeem the leftover credibility that their so called journalists might have.
This sort of “glass half-full” analysis is often coming from white collar workers.

The actual problem is that blue collar workers aren’t getting paid enough to risk getting Covid. So as much as you might want to go out and re-create a feeling of “normal”, that doesn’t work if people aren’t showing up to work because they’re sick.

The lockdowns let us blame the government, but individuals are making decisions about their own health and service levels suffer as a result. And in many cases, the risk of getting sick and permanently disabled (yes omicron still has long-term side effects) is not worth $10/hr. We still effectively have lockdowns with many stores and restaurants closed, they’re just driven by low customer traffic or worker call-outs.

Never mind that a lot of people’s buying habits have changed to purchasing more online and via delivery — it’s convenient enough I don’t think we’re ever going back. Same with remote work; city centers are never going to open back up the way they used to be if the wealthy parts of their workforce are working from home. Remote work is here to stay. It is the norm already and companies trying to force workers back are having extreme turnover issues.

Unless you’re planning to compel workers back to their jobs at the end of a gun, we’re probably not going back to the version normal we had in 2019 ever again. We’ll eventually hit another island of stability, but given the political situation and immediacy of climate change effects, we will probably be jumping from crisis to crisis for the rest of our lives. Get used to it.
Building a report for business is a critical responsibility for Data Analytics and Data scientists. R programming language is most famous for its knit and RMarkdown files for building out a great report. However, python is lacking such a tool. Jupyter notebook is a great tool for data scientists and data analysts to do a quick analysis. However, It takes a lot of effort to build visually appealing reports for the business.

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Have you had issues around the distribution size? I've been playing with building a kvision based app for the past year as a side project, and I can't get much lower than 2MB. I suppose I might try a "hello world" with compose web and see how that shakes out.
Guys this is just beggining, I am working in cyber security since 2013, After the discovery of log4shell, almost whole internet is at risk of supply-chain attacks, Hackers are continuously targeting open-source packages because it's really easy way to hack big organization.
We literally track 100's of attack on daily basis. Services like vulert.com can play a vital role, let me know what do you think.

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I’m not sure why you think that or what data you are looking at, but current daily reported case count is 3x the same time last year (250k vs 800k) while reported deaths are half (4K vs 1.6k).
One only needs a work permit if physically in the EU country, not working remotely from the UK.
They do have much better healthcare outcomes.