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We do build things. I'm in SF where we have recently replaced the Bay Bridge, dug a big ol' tunnel, put up skyscrapers and luxury condos, etc.

What we don't do is build housing. (A lot of people blame NIMBYism for that but the situation is complex.)

> The lack of power generation, power transmission, and pretty much any infrastructure you can think of is another.

A friend of mine drives a Tesla, he says charging stations are cropping up all over. 5G is rolling out. There is a lot of aging infrastructure that needs to be repaired, rebuilt, or retired, but we're not quite Mad Max yet.

> I agree that there is some conflict of interest between humans and untouched nature, and I am firmly on the side of us, humanity!

I don't agree with that framing.

First of all, tactically, you're siding with the underdog! :)

Nature could literally wipe us out in the blink of an eye. A single hurricane can devastate a whole city in a few hours, Godzilla-style.

However, that's not the real reason why I don't think there's a real conflict of interest.

The reason is that untouched nature is the only baseline (in the entire known universe) for sanity. We need nature.

As we enter a computer-mediated "metaverse" or cyberspace, and especially as we allow our infants and children to grow up in it, untouched nature will become exponentially more important as (literal!) grounding for humanity.

That's why something like E. O. Wilson's Half Earth proposal is so important ( https://www.half-earthproject.org/ )

We only have one biosphere in the entire universe, of course we should try to preserve it intact and in working order! After all we have the rest of the solar system to do human stuff, eh?
> I expect that when Apple complies, they will see huge market share gains

> but people who don't because they want the freedom of Android might jump to Apple once that platform is more in line with their wants.

i don’t think so for two reasons:

1. people in europe have much less disposable income and as such prefer cheaper devices.

2. people don’t really care about the so called “freedom of android”

thus android has a steady 60 something percent in europe and as long as there are super cheap android devices, this will continue.
> a video game known for its super-realistic simulations of real vehicles and tracks

Don't let the hardcore simmers read this!
"A lot of people suspect"? Are we being overt? Am I the only one that not very subtly got offered insider trading of NFT tokens as a perk for joining a crypto company?
So how about the overlap between this, and the people who think the U.S is heading for a civil war?
It happens to people who live on the property too, and have to leave for a while.

I read about a person who had to go to the US for cancer treatment and in the interim his otherwise full-time primary residence was stolen.
One incident that really stands out for me was BitMEX conveniently having "server issues" at one point during the March 2020 crash. Their liquidation engine was hammering the price down - then they took an outage - when they were back up BTC recovered.
And that big, fancy agency will outsource the whole project for 1/20 of the paying price to a small company.
> I generally disagree with the premise that scientists are becoming less productive.

Do you believe the average academic research paper or project written/done today is of the same quality or better as the average in 1980, or 1950?
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So, a user story takes for form of, “As a User, I want to achieve Goal, to serve Purpose.” E.g., “As an SRE in charge of Kafka for the customer account service, I want not to be surprised by topic starvation, so that I can get home and have dinner with my family on time.”

In practice, sometimes I abbreviate these to just the Goal:
* I want not to be surprised by topic starvation.
* I want to be able to look at the report and right away know if there’s anything I should fix.
* I want to be able to see what configuration changes have been made recently.

Or, let’s take this for a simple product feature:
* I want my alarm to go off at 7:15 every morning.
* I want my alarm to wake me in time for early meetings.
* I want never to be woken early by mistake.

You can see that those goals may conflict. What if their first morning meeting is at 7am? Then we’ll need to override goal #1. What if they’ve been invited to a meeting but not accepted it? That surfaces a conflict between goal #2 and goal #3.

So a user may give you those three goals, and then as you design you’ll see the conflicts. That enables you to have a principled discussion with the user — which goal is most important? How do you want to handle goal conflicts?

The anti-pattern here is to design one UI that solves all problems with equal difficulty. A better solution is to prioritize those problems, and solve the common ones easily and the rare ones perhaps with extra work, but not at the expense of clarity.

Start with this list of goals to keep the work honest and focused. Update the goals as you learn more from users to keep the product responsive to their needs. Make sure, before each release, that the product/feature actually does meet these goals. Use the goals as focus points for user testing.
More importantly, how do you know whether the keystrokes should be displayed at all? For example, take vi. When it starts up, it sets cc.c_lflag &= ~ECHO (basically like “stty -echo”) so that normal mode commands aren’t printed onscreen. The kernel knows whether ECHO is set, which is why it handles echoing.
And what is the solution? Essentially at the end of the day you want to design: effective labour as service. If only it was this simple we would have it already. Not saying you should not put important clauses into contract to perhaps later have some backing in court, but...

Essentially, I think it's good to not treat business parties as friends. However, I would put a lot of attention into this relationship to increase common/shared understanding. For as long as we think we have common understanding and somehow at the end of the day I makes me very unhappy -> I might give it a one more try and do another session of explaining, but finally I will just switch if it happens to often.
We just got a common enemy in the EU the US only real enemy is itself.
> I expect the iphones will all be usb-c compatible by 2024 globally

or maybe they just drop usbc altogether?
So the massive sold out box office will go elsewhere.

The market will eventually decide if this behavior is sustainable (it isn’t).
> It’s only significant weakness now is in Materialized views, with their lack of incremental refresh.

> That work towards incrementally updated views is happening and progressing. For now, it's a separate extension, though: https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32098603
I don't disagree, but there are ramifications. A big one being sprawl. If existing urban/suburban areas are to remain stagnant, then development will just push outward into areas where land is cheap and landowners more than happy to pocket a nice chunk for their former farmland. Wrap an urban growth boundary around the city, and then you can stop some of that and instead watch your housing prices skyrocket.

Wait a second, I think I just described Portland.
We've released 3D-printable files for a case for the Mainboard: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard

We've also seen some great community developed cases. We can't share any plans around commercial cases of our own, but we'd love to see third party ones come around.
That is a comedy for sure. The particular ruling seems to run straight against the Californian libel tourism law of 2010, at the very least in spirit.
Closer to toggling in the case of ^?.
You're a software engineer, you're in the upper echelon of the upper echelon, please don't try and appeal to some unearned sympathy. I am arguing that you, as a person of privilege, should do the best you can do to bring about the world you want to see. I would not have the same argument with a person living in poverty, I would not argue that someone struggling to survive should be concerned about their carbon footprint. Most people in Europe are not struggling to survive by global standards.

The obligation you and I have is very different, because you and I (and the others on this website) are in a position of privilege, we are in a position of power, our actions influence the lives of the less fortunate. "The big corporations" are just a convenient get out for not taking responsibility for your own choices. Who do the big corporations answer to? Their customers. Who are their customers? You and I. If you choose to purchase petrol, you're creating demand. If you choose to purchase food grown overseas, you're creating demand for fossil fuels to be burned to transport the food thousands of miles. Are there ~8,000 planes in the sky right now because corporations are evil, or because there's 8,000 planes worth of demand for planes to be in the air? If everyone chose to fly half as much, how many planes would there be in the sky?

You're trying to shift blame to boogeymen, you're trying to argue that "developed countries" and "big corporations" are to blame without acknowledging that you're a part of a developed country, you're a customer of big corporations, you are creating demand. Every time you burn fossil fuels for convenience, you're choosing to pay for your convenience with the suffering of the people in the global south impacted by fossil fuels.

My point is not that you must be perfect, not that you must live a saintly life with no worldly pleasures, my point is that you should do your best, and that if we all do our best, it will have a meaningful impact on the world around us. If what you're doing today is your best, so be it, but from what you've said, it doesn't sound like it at all.
> they kept letting T_D exist despite its obvious flouting of the rules around brigading

Some like to claim that it's because high engagement means more advertising dollars, but I think it's more like they knew that banning T_D would cause a massive backlash as people claimed they were banned simply for having different political opinions.
Author of the talk here. Thank you, you made my day by sharing my presentation. :)

One thing I would like to add after reading some of the comments here. The "1 billion requests/day" is actually an understatement so the title has a nicer ring. Last time I checked we were around 2B -and that's according the most conservative approximation-. Those are requests that hit the application, excluding the CDN caching layer.

BTW, happy to answer any questions!
So red and blue America will join together to demand a more authoritarian scale of corn syrup regulation, overthrowing the control of the armies of lobbyists and their megabucks, welding American ideological differences together from a tossed salad to more of a gazpacho.

I'll have whatever he's having.
Not sure how I feel about this. I see a similar issue in what I consider mistreatment of delivery workers. There have been delivery services and transport services for disabled/elderly for a while now. People have been replacing them with gig workers and I'm not exactly sure who to blame or feel sorry for.

A post a while ago on reddit was someone who was complaining about a doordasher who didn't want to wait and bring like multiple bags of cat litter like up 3 flights of stairs. The amount of inconsiderate abuse people have towards them (making them wait, navigate buildings) is a poor allocation of resources.
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I generally disagree with the premise that scientists are becoming less productive.

This one's tricky to measure. If you go by the number of words published, they're a lot more productive than they used to be. Ten papers won't even get you tenure. In terms of metrics, the game is a lot more competitive.

I would argue that the bigger problem is that academic science is now consumptive. Think of all those tuitions dollars the universities get because they run a protection racket over (what's left of) the middle class job market. Now consider how terrible the academic job market has been for the past 30 years, and that professors who want even a chance of getting respect basically need to self-fund by getting grants. Lots of money is going in, and how much is coming out? Something, for sure, but is it worth it? Or is it like U.S. healthcare, where we're paying 4x for a not terrible but merely acceptable product?

I was the most creatively productive when I had a longer planning horizon in front of me.

Right, and this kind of opportunity has gone extinct, due to the hypercompetitive culture you get as our society disinvests itself in research and as funding becomes harder to find and more winner-take-all. If the neoliberals have their way, being a professor will just be another next-quarter focused corporate job within ten years.
Agreed, you don't need to pursue a degree to pass these interviews. You can learn all you need to know about time complexity in probably a few hours, then it's just practice/pattern matching.
I prefer it pre-colour too. I have no idea why they thought the ones that scream 'messaging app' were a good idea. The face ones are weird.

I think there's two jobs involved really though, and (as an armchair expert who's never done it) that ideally you do the first one of roughing out an idea for what it should look like yourself. The second job is refining it, tweaking the edges, weight, choosing exactly the right colour, etc.

Again as someone who's never had the luxury of having to do it, I think I'd request those things separately on Fiverr/Upwork/whatever and not pay a lot for it. 1) Here's some info about my company, give me 25 distinct rough sketches for a logo; 2) I like this logo, please be designery and refine it for me. You could even break (1) up and hire 5 people to give you 5 each or whatever.
Even though I don't quite agree with everything in your postmortem, I do want to thank you for reflecting and sharing your experience. It's not easy to admit mistakes in public and open yourself up for criticism. Cheers!
One extra observation I would make on top of the sibling's detailed answer is why I believe iRacing is by far the best online racing game.

iRacing has an MMR value called iRating which is used to match you against drivers of a similar skill level (like every online game) but it also has the unique concept called 'safety rating'. Safety rating is based on your 'incidents per corner' over some recent history of corners (in the 1000 to 10000 range). Safety rating controls which official racing series you're allowed to enter - higher level stuff like F1 cars requires a better safety rating than the entry level Mazda MX-5.

Having the need to maintain (or improve) this safety rating gives the 'risk' incentive to drivers which most online games are lacking. In real racing a desire not to put your car into a wall at high speed controls how dangerously people drive, but that risk doesn't exist online and so in a lot of games (e.g. the F1 games) people attempt stupid dive-bomb overtakes, take out their competitors and make it less fun to play. Safety rating puts that incentive back. It's not perfect of course, but it does help iRacing feel more 'real' and 'fair'.
> EU Digital Markets act will do the job of fighting for citizens rights.

not sure we can say this without seeing the effects and considering the gdpr semi disaster.
You should research what’s required to do so and the odds of it occurring. Only in rare/limited circumstances can the easement be terminated, and the IRS has some oversight into this because of the tax consequences of these easements (as you can claim a charitable tax deduction for donating and extinguishing the development capability of the parcel).
From another angle, he defrauded Coinbase, through violating the terms of employment as part of the listing team.
Thanks, that’s actually the “better” model that I referenced. You can buy it with an in-app purchase using the waifu2x app.
Importantly it depends on how often these things are run and who has to maintain a server.
Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance Transmission of Virulent Pathogens (2015)
The salary ranges are largely meaningless though? Equity compensation for good tech roles is like half or more. Also, levels.fyi has most salary information you could need.
How is using property to profit private business "for public use"?

> "[the decision eliminates] any distinction between private and public use of property—and thereby effectively delete[s] the words 'for public use' from the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment."

> "This deferential shift in phraseology enables the Court to hold, against all common sense, that a costly urban-renewal project whose stated purpose is a vague promise of new jobs and increased tax revenue, but which is also suspiciously agreeable to the Pfizer Corporation, is for a 'public use.'"
I don't know, why do generalizations sometimes fail on specific anecdotes? My relatives need help with iPhones and Windows devices about equally.
"Nikhil Wahi and Ramani allegedly purchased at least 25 crypto assets, at least nine of which were securities, and then typically sold them shortly after the announcements for a profit." https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-127
Strong disagreement

Forward was expanding to my city and I joined based on SF friend’s recommendation. They charged me a total of $500 without ever actually opening the office.

When I requested a refund they said they could only give one month, then took so long to process that I got another monthly charge in the meantime! I had to follow up weekly for months just to get back to the original promise.

Bad, bad experience, and I’m not even medically complex.
Some of these questions really depend on context. They give you usually three numbers and the right answer is usually either the highest or lowest number.

For example, it asks how many women are CEO's in a America? And it gives the choice of 5% , 10% and 18% . The right answer is 18% which then makes you feel like 'oh that's a lot'.

But I think the sentiment would be different if it started at 18% being the lowest. The result and how you feel about it changes.
The app is free to use. Future plans depend on user engagement and interest. Will see.
"In India"
Are you experiencing a lack of knowledge in an entire field, or are there gaps? If there are gaps, maybe you could self-study those away. Self study is a good idea even if you weren't having this problem.

You may simply have applied for a role that wasn't suitable for you. It's seems that the role you currently play doesn't require a CS Bachelor.
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Yes, but I usually find myself playing with this stuff when I have some free time and relaxing outside or on the couch, and it’s nice to be able to do it all on the phone.
Sure, but it has a 30 year lineage in their active product line. It would be like prefixing a library with Direct in the early 00s. It seems ignorant and derivative.
Don't use floating point for monetary calculations.
Buy high, sell low?
They are different, but you can't generally mix and match.
Indeed and of course I am downvoted for pointing out their Uber trashy behavior! Which is relevant to the post/the article noting their disgusting behavior against the disabled.
The only reason to say grandma can’t pay her property tax is because grandma’s house has appreciated substantially and now grandma is wealthy.

Wealthy people should pay their taxes.
I want to continue using Apple’s App Store, but most people are less aware of things like location harvesting, and are less privacy-sensitive than I am. Today, Apple can set policies that benefit users without those users having to be aware of those policies or understand why those policies benefit them. In a world where Apple’s policies can be sidestepped simply by asking the user to sideload the app, many, even most users will likely agree to do so without any awareness of what they’re giving up. The shady app developer certainly won’t tell them!

Users unambiguously benefit from most of Apple’s App Store policies (the payment rules less so, but even then there are benefits such as mandatory subscription cancellation support), but often in ways they can’t or don’t see. Apple’s policies are obviously negative for app developers, but I don’t care and nobody should care that Apple chooses to benefit its consumers at the expense of its third-party corporate partners. That’s just normal business behavior.
Those numbers are assuming only natural causes. Under current scenarios, there is basically a guarantee of a hot war between nuclear powers at least in South Asia.
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With 1. I think it depends on intent. For example when Tesla purchased BTC before announcing they were taking payments to have some liquidity on it for financial reasons or whatever, then it's ok. If you can prove they are front-running the market because for example right after announcing they are listing a coin they dump what they got before listing it then yeah maybe that's insider trading.

The thing is if they take enough measures to prevent their employees from doing it. It's hard considering they can do it on another exchange, but at least on their own exchange my understanding is they should prevent their employees from trading if they have privileged information.
"This AI is amazing and destroys humans!"

I have about 25 years in the games industry and have worked on a variety of racing games. The "AI" could literally be replaced by any technique we developed for solving this very problem in the last 30 years that has access to the underlying game data, e.g. the physics models and vehicle positions. Until the AI has the same information as the player, it is not an equivalent AI. It is simply a very clever aimbot. Any of the classical techniques would also pretty much destroy any human player too, those techniques are usually turned down from 11 to give each of them a personality or make it realistic for the human to win.

This is no different to an RTS "AI" bot destroying a human because it can mash a virtual key a thousand times a second and has complete information on the entire map and all units and all orders issued and can even see through the fog of war.

I congratulate the team for what they have achieved, but this is more marketing fluff than meat.

My bonafides as to why I hold this opinion on this subject: About 25 years in the games industry as a systems (graphics/engine/gameplay) programmer that has worked on many triple-A games and about 20 years in AI/robotics/machine learning with a MSc CompSci and an MSc in applied AI.
It’s legal for the company to do it. Not legal for individuals. Coinbase could have bought assets ahead of time and done the same thing legally.

There was a case where a person had access to the credit card transaction data[1] and used that data to figure out sales prior to earning calls. That same data is available to hedgefunds willing to purchase it from Bloomberg. They call legally get a companies sales data prior to earnings and trade off that information.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-capitalone-insidertra...
Actually, the robot in the video appears to retail for US$2700: https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitreeyushutechnologydog-...

You could probably build two of these, small arms included, for that 10K GBP (if you did it on the cheap).