skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I would expect to happen. Everyone wants the government to "simply" violate property rights and seize it but is there not a way for the market to sort itself out fairly? Are they forbidden from selling their water rights? Or is the water actually worth more to the farmers than the city residents so that the current situation is actually fine?
$450k/yr at FAANG for senior is definitely the very top of the band and to get there after 5 years is extremely optimistic. Again - if you're comparing Stanford graduates then maybe it's more common but for your average FAANG eng isn't making that in 5 years out of college especially with just 40-hr work weeks. Very few engineers are making that money even after transferring to another company. Maybe if you have some stock appreciation or stacked refreshers working in your favor you're at $450k/yr. Levels backs this up...

Surgeon money is generally $500-700k/yr (this might be my sampling bias - looking at stats online, it varies a lot - this is like tech incomes, there's a wide distribution). The nice thing about surgeon money is that you can make that in a lot of places - not just in SV. The same cannot be said of FAANG. You're gonna have a hard time getting remotely hired in BFE making $400k+/yr. Yet, the local hospital always needs a surgeon and most surgeons don't want to live in BFE... So, you're gonna be fine.

Even then if you assume you're making $450k/yr at 27 - you're not gonna have $5m by 40 unless you somehow are beating the market or save every penny and live like scrooge. (Which - again - why bother saving $5m if you're gonna live like a peasant?)

If you assume you're gonna live like you would on a safe withdrawal rate (let's say the more optimistic 4% - $200k/yr at $5m) then you're gonna only have $250k/yr gross income to save - which turns out to be ~$150k/yr net. (You can play with the numbers however you see fit but the point will come around) If you decide to save $12.5k every month for 13 years at 6% return rate (just a simple return - we assume same value dollars) then after those 13 years you have $2.9m. It would take 19 years until you crossed $5m. So, you'd be 45-46 assuming you saved every penny, never went above a $200k/yr income lifestyle (LOL at that in the bay area - you're a renter for life!), and you somehow made $450k/yr starting at 27. Which - is again - uncommon. It has happened due to wild stock appreciation but it isn't the norm offer people receive for senior level - levels backs this up.

It sounds nice until you do the math and realize $200k/yr is shit to live on here. God forbid you marry someone who isn't in tech/law/finance/$400k+ income.
Some people want to own bare land? You were the one who brought up the issue of vacancy.
Britain wants to revive imperial measurements to mark Queen's jubilee
I made that leap too (moved from a company that used Pagerduty to a company that used Opsgenie) and it is the same feature set but not the same quality. Pagerduty in my experience is rock solid - I used it on various high-page-frequency rotations for something like seven straight years and literally never saw a dropped alert/notification once.

On the flip side in the 8ish months I used Opsgenie I saw a litany of issues, like the mobile app silently logging people out (and thus not delivering push notifications) and the app failing to send SMS notifications. We had pages get dropped by the primary because they never got a notification.

I want exactly one feature from my pager, delivering 100% of my pages. It's not a situation where I'm ok with 99% success rate, and that seemed to be the tradeoff and what you are paying for with Pagerduty.
Hopefully watching a bit closer than the FAA was watching Boeing.
They make money on price too. They have a % fee, so their dollar-denominated revenue for a given trade with the same # of coins but 50% lower dollar-denominated exchange rate is still 50% lower.

They pay people in fiat currency, their expenses are denominated in fiat currency. It doesn't matter if they traded 1M bitcoins daily 6 month ago and still trade 1M daily today, their dollar-denominated fees on that trade has plummeted.
More info:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/john-barilaro-awarded-71...
Rather expensive by my standards these days. When I was a starving student, I would not have hesitated to buy it from that corner in the back of Cody's Books.

Springer runs occasional sales up to 40% discount about once a year, but a don't recall if "The Grammar of Graphics" was eligible last time.
> In my experience, the most abject software development failures stem from building the wrong thing, not from building the thing wrong, and the former failure occurs outside anything that the authors even attempt to measure.

> ...

> ...the Accelerate view of high performance amounts to “the team can push a button and deploy changes to prod quickly”. If you care about any software quality outcome other than that, then Accelerate does not even claim to measure it.

This is correct, and I don't really think the authors try to claim otherwise.

The underlying reasoning is that if you cannot deploy quickly, then it will be very expensive for you to notice that you've built the wrong thing (because testing in the field with real users is an amazing way to get design feedback), much less course-correct quickly.

I've read the analogy of a big ship. If it takes you a day to turn, you will end up in the wrong place more severely than if you have a small ship and can turn on a dime -- even assuming that you're equally observant about heading errors in both cases.

So it's not so much that being able to deploy quickly guarantees quality, but it's sort of a prerequisite for being able to achieve quality. (As borne out by their further investigation into business metrics.)

Most of that reasoning is pure logic and doesn't need substantiation. The one blind assertion is that "deploying to prod is a cheaper way to validate design ideas than the alternatives."

Niwbthat might sound like a tautology too -- if you can deploy quickly to prod it's cheap to deploy quickly to prod! But what claiming is that going from expensive deploys to cheap deploys (a potentially significant investment!) is still cheaper than other ways of validating design ideas.

What do I base that on? Nothing solid. I feel like it's a recurring theme when reading about high-performance design/engineering teams throughout history: examples that immediately come to mind are China Lake, Skunk Works, Toyota.

Additionally, I trust that the DORA researchers have indeed verified that this is the case, as they say. I have yet to see evidence that slow course-corrections are an improvement. (Which is reasonable argument to make: if you're able to course correct too quickly, you might end up with "pilot-induced oscillations" where you overcompensate in a naturally damped system. Maybe there's an optimal deploy frequency that's impedance matched to the underlying system? But that's getting very speculative.)
China uses Covid health code to restrict movement of financial scandal victims
While fascinating to see, I’d be more interested in details about the court case that lead to these contempt charges, since it sounds like someone really lost their shit, but more often a contempt charge is due to obstinate behaviour of various levels of politeness.
Umm yeah fuck that. I'd much rather pay $4 a month and keep my hair haha.
Completely agree. I suspect this wasnt just empiricism, it was also behaviorism which purported to be empirically based but added in a theoretically motivated (and ultimately empirically unsupported) skepticism about using minds to explain the observations of animals. If you don’t think babies have minds and pain is a mental state then this insane position follows quite logically.
Not true. People have been arrested for keeping expensive electronics like TVs that were shipped to the wrong address.
Not all climate change is global warming. Our actions change the environment in numerous, and often unpredictable, ways.
same, but I pissed off Onno when I pirated Ircle, and ended up going with a different program. ShadowIRC. :) still friends on Facebook with the developer all these years later.
Building future facing front end architectures
>I took one (1) college philosophy course.

One course is enough to generate bias. You actually studied the stuff to get an A. There's no avoiding indoctrination when you work that hard on it to get that high of a grade.

If you got a D and still worship philosophy then you have a legit argument here, but I'm absolutely positive you got an A given your "logic" is just telling me to take the class.

I'm pretty sure that class changed the way you view the world. This kind of catharsis happens in a lot of places after intense study of something, especially religious fundamentalists. Certain Christians study the bible for so long they reach this point of Catharsis, not realizing that it's just an illusion.

>Please don't even try to pretend, around intelligent people, that philosophy as a whole is remotely similar to Scientology.

Intelligent people? Where? Don't worry. In this thread, I haven't nor will I ever even communicate with an intelligent person.

Come back with an actual argument if you want to change my mind. It looks like you don't care though, so goodbye.
Same thing with pregnant women and Finasteride. Doesn't really matter unless you plan on feeding your pregnant wife your finasteride pills.
It's not that simple. Denser housing means denser infrastructure. You have to build bigger sewers, bigger water feeds, add more power. More substations and distribution centers. Denser trash collection. Access; stronger roads to support more traffic. (Ban cars? Awesome! You still have to support buses and garbage trucks and delivery vehicles, all of which cause exponentially more wear on a road surface than private vehicles.) All the stuff it takes to support humans.

That doesn't mean that American cities' zoning isn't deeply flawed, but zoning is not itself "terrorism against the poor."
On a previous thread a month ago... some more links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384931

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...

https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-files/pdf/shippingwaterputnam.p...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140123-co...

https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.7/how-we-export-our-water-to-a...

https://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339753108/in-time-of-drought-... (earlier than the one you link to)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444517304577653...
Lots of problems look like they'd be solved with heavy-handed authoritarianism, but there are costs to that both for individuals getting screwed over and the long term trust in the government to honor its agreements, reducing its strength in making future agreements. Plenty of 3rd world governments have happily seized property rights all over the place and it's not really a recipe for success.

Why not go a step further and just "solve" water shortages around the world by "forcing" some neighboring country that has too much water to sell it to you at the same price as to themselves? They weren't using it anyway, so that's fair, right?
ah ok I was assuming over public internet timing attacks. This requires local hardware access or a local ssh account. Got it
That account’s as good as drained, kiddo
If you consider such behavior 'AWOL' then you've bought into modern development micromanagement and may be part of the issue. That perspective doesn't believe any degree of autonomy and desires drone teams who just crank out on orders. I would never work in such a role or environment, but to each their own I suppose.

There's also an assumption buried in there that any time spent working is somehow owned by you, your leadership, or the organization and not your team or teammates time. I've personally spent plenty of hours "off the clock" investing in directions I think are correct in an IC environment and it's paid off many times (I've also wasted my time on occasion but it's my own time and my choice). If you have slack in your schedule or want to push something out by taking initiative, then the type of management philosophy describe loathes initiative, creativity, and innovation in engineering. It's a great way to drive those abilities out of your teams and organizations.

It's good to foster teamwork and target goals but you also have to give your teams some degree of autonomy, otherwise just as the article describes, they will leave from the drudgery. The allure of technology is the tangibility of innovation. If you rip that off development, for many, the work becomes unenjoyable, tedious, repetitive, etc.
The same with nuclear plants dumping warm water in the ocean after using it to make steam and for cooling. Perhaps in both cases the waste water could be stored and evaporated in a salt flat or something.
That is not true at all. I have been taking finasteride for years, since I noticed a little recession around my temples and a small loss of density around the front. I noticed it because I know my hair well.

The only other people that might actually be able to tell it are my parents. Except for that, every other person to whom I mention I use finasteride and minoxidil says something of the sort: "wtf, you have a full, dense head of hair, why would you take anything?".
> the government will launch consultations on how to change the law on weights and other measurements to capitalise on freedoms after leaving the European Union

I wish journalists didn't blindly repeat people's claims about motivations. It doesn't take much sophistication to think that people often aren't open about their motivations (they often don't realize what they are), and that sophisticated public communicators such as powerful politicians tend to lie about them in order to manipulate the public.

Another disruptive, populist distraction, and I'm sure Johnson knows it.
Sorry, meant 16th Amendment. I've been talking about the 17th a lot lately.
> It includes instructions for people outside the UK.

wow thanks, that's good to know.
Look up the Redfin et al layoffs, the housing market has cooled off tremendously (anecdata: the house for sale on my block had a sold sign under it that is now gone, still on the market a month later; earlier things weren't lasting a week).

However, there's always a delay as sellers refuse to admit what's happening, and so supplies grown and sales plummet until the prices adjust.

Bad news: the monthly payments may remain the same.

Continue to collect cash and keep an eye out.
Bitcoin has crashed by 70%. The recession has come for Coinbase, they will probably lose money next quarter
I think it depends on the group.

For example, I have more-or-less free rein a small cluster which belongs to my professor (my group is small enough to just manually coordinate to not annoy each other), then there's a university cluster if I feel like messing around with bsub and waiting in a queue. I'm also under the impression that it isn't super difficult to get a handful of xsede credits when starting a new project.

I prefer to debug on my local machine or the group cluster, so I don't have to risk putting pointless buggy runs into the shared queues (which might be costly, depending on policy, but even if they aren't costly I don't want to hog resources for no reason).

If I write the code that tunes performance for a particular machine, then I have codepaths that I wrote and can't test locally very easily. Better to use the existing OpenMP and MPI knobs to tune. Sure, you can end up with an evil thread interleaving that only shown up when you have 100 cores, but this should hopefully be rare.

That's my perspective at least. I do numerical stuff, so I'm shielded by some of the real nitty-gritty "perfectly synchronized threads" stuff by the fact that my costly operations are usually decent sized linear algebra calls, so it is usually best to give the lowest NUMA level(s) to BLAS, LAPACK, or maybe some sparse solver (which should be reasonably scalable and pretty well tested).
I also find that writing SVG directly is easiest.

There are a few primitives that d3 uses, and once you implement those you can produce easy SVG results. `Scale` is the most important, for mapping your x,y plane into SVG pixel coordinates. Then some of the ticks helpers can be handy too.

Writing the SVG directly is just the fastest way to get what you need.
Migrating away from the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (2019)
The fun and, the status and the power come from controlling wealth to build or do things. As soon as you limit control, it stops being fun and they stop generating value.

If you think 100 million dollar houses are egregious, you could try to make building them illegal. But then they'll just buy one in another country, or a yacht, or something similar.

A lot of this is why capitalism works.
True! But medicine just so happens to be one of those fields that lends itself well to RCT’s. Perhaps if the OP had reworded their statement to everything in medicine it might make more sense.
I thought this was going to be interesting but it’s a markdown file of information your partner should already have.

The lesson from this markdown file is that if your partner can’t figure this stuff out on their own you need to sort it out yesterday. I doubt that the information being open source or being in markdown format is going to help out your partner whatsoever.
if only they could put a little red led in the core.

I realize the wafer has no bus, but I have an irrational desire for an all plastic 4 bit connection machine. I can handle failed nodes on the front machine. I want to allocate a zector of bites and make the lights blink.
Because elected officials have a had a bad track record on how to spend money. And governments are notoriously inefficient
This reads like "make Musk write a book report" and likely has some bureaucratic reason for existing, but still.
> The triple vaccinated in Ontario are now the highest risk of getting COVID

I don't understand how the source you shared supports this claim*. If anything, it shows the opposite - you're at far higher risk of death if you're unvaccinated. And that's after considering the fact that unvaccinated people are likely to be younger and fitter.

The unvaccinated have, at best, half as many deaths per 100k as those who are fully vaccinated + booster (in reality, the two lines mostly track each other). Which sounds good, until you realize that the unvaccinated make up only 9% of the population. 33% of the deaths coming from 9% of the population - healthier, they are not. Delusional, would be more correct.

* I'm assuming "getting COVID" here means "having serious consequences from an infection" as opposed to merely being infected. The vaccinated make up the vast majority of the population, so it's obvious that they are also at the highest risk of being infected by COVID. There are very few unvaccinated people left for the virus to infect.
But also, maybe he could have gotten better without the meds
It was literally never claimed that it was 97% effective at stopping COVID. The Pfizer vaccine was 97% effective at preventing severe disease after two doses in early 2021. Don't bring conspiracy nonsense into every discussion about healthcare.
Observation: While there may very well be security implications of adding these kernel parameters to a Linux system that is running directly on bare-metal x86 hardware (as other posters have alluded to) -- some of these flags might have no negative effect on security IF the Linux in question is running in an emulated and/or code-transpiled and/or virtualized environment -- i.e., Bochs or QEMU or various x86 emulators written in JavaScript that run on a browser...

(Simple example: You probably wouldn't care much about Spectre mitigations if you're running Linux on a x86 emulator on an ARM CPU...)

In other words, some of these kernel parameters COULD give speed increases in virtualized environments WITHOUT sacrificing a corresponding loss of security, due to differences between a software-emulated x86 environment, and a hardware bare-metal actual x86 environment...

The trick then, can be boiled down to:

a) Know your Linux host environment...

b) Know what implications given kernel parameters will have in that environment...

c) Choose trade-offs accordingly...
But GA, statcounter et al don’t use server logs. They use JavaScript.
Any concerns about glucosamine raising eye pressure? And also, if NAG is a component of GAGs, doesn’t that mean taking an NAG supplement could contribute towards increased ocular pressure as well?

Or are the chemical pathways in the body too dissimilar for that to happen?
I actually really like the "mailboxes are on the receiver's heap" thing. One of the big reasons why Go's channels bother me is that they're bounded. This makes things far more complicated, because they're not bound to a go routine, and an irresponsive goroutune can't get terminated.
Your criteria is arbitrary. Ubiquity is not a necessity, neither is feature parity with WhatsApp. There are dozens of messaging apps and people typically use many different messaging apps, if the communication is worthwhile your friend will install an app to communicate with you.
Time and time again.

"Business should focus on its core competency"

* Outsource in-house infra to cloud. This begets lock-in as every engineer is doing heaven knows what with Lambda. Still need that huge infra team to manage AWS.

* Outsource in-house metrics and visibility to SignalFx, Splunk, DataDog, NewRelic, etc. Still need a team to manage it. Costs get raised by more than double because we're beholden, so now we need to fund 20+ engineer quarters to migrate everything ASAP.

* Feature flagging system built in house works like a charm and needs one engineer for maintenance. Let's fund a team to migrate it all to LaunchDarkly. Year+ later and we still don't have proper support or rollout and their stuff doesn't work as expected.

Madness.

Expensive madness.

SaaS won't magically reduce your staffing needs. Open source solutions won't reduce your staffing needs either, but they'll make costs predictable. As these tools become more prevalent and standard, you can even hire experts for them.
Not your key? Not your coin.
This reference agrees with you in the short/mid term (to your credit, which you explicitly mention), but states in the long term climate change is the most important factor, regardless of demand. Taking action against alfalfa is a sensible thing to do right away, but won't address the looming crisis:

> In the
near-term (2012 through 2026), water
demands are similar across scenarios, and the
largest factor affecting the system reliability
is water supply. In the mid-term (2027
through 2040), the demand for water is an
increasingly important element in the
reliability of the system, as are assumptions
regarding the operations of Lakes Powell and
Mead. In the long-term (2041 through 2060),
the futures that consider the Downscaled
GCM Projected water supply scenario, which
incorporates projections of future climate,
show a high inability to meet resource needs,
regardless of the demand scenario and the
operation of Lakes Powell and Mead. "
> Desalination requires energy and creates waste.

This is true for basically every human endeavor.
I feel like people ignore that most areas of a business grow in lock step with its size and that IT is the exception not the rule.

Like insurance companies and banks are just as much “tech” as anything else in crypto and nobody balks at them having skyscrapers plural worth of employees.
Hinge and Its Implementation of the Gale–Shapley algorithm
I'm almost at totalis stage now, and haven't had eyebrows for close to a decade?

I had periods of regrowth, and new patches, as well as long periods of steroids to try and spur growth. I just accepted it, and lived life.

There were periods where I should have just gone bald, as it would have looked way better. So it goes.

It will be annoying, but I never felt like it really held me back, just my "thing" that I pay attention to, like others with their "thing".