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Interviewers/recruiters who don’t quickly screen out salary mismatches get fired by management for wasting management’s time.
I can't believe how conservative the responses are here. This guy is the epitome of a hacker, an embodiment of the title of this site.
That's a really strange portrayal of Lyndon Johnson. Under Johnson we had numerous efforts to improve society that went beyond GDP - the creation of Medicare, creation of Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Public Broadcasting Act, the Higher Education Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, etc. He was also instrumental in getting many of these passed.

Here's what he said when signing the Public Broadcasting Act:

> It announces to the world that our nation wants more than just material wealth; our nation wants more than a 'chicken in every pot.' We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act."

And here is Johnson talking about his "Great Society" goals[1]:

> The purpose of protecting the life of our Nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people. Our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a Nation.

> For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people.

> The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization.

> Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

> The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning.

> The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.

> It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

> But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

**

> Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?"

[1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-univer...
what are those? searching for JBHIFI terminal only brings up a store in Australia of that name selling square POS terminals.

Bloomberg terminals also have a custom keyboard and are essentially a terminal program.
A friend told me once he lost control of his car while driving. In that moment, he spontaneously reacted doing the same thing he did when that happened in Gran Turismo. That saved his life.
> Author is unfamiliar with actual Christianity (ie. dogmatic Catholicism). Unbaptized children go to a part of Hell where there is no fire (The Limbo of the Children); they are denied the beatific vision

You are presenting the "Limbo of the Children" as "dogmatic". The International Theological Commission (a body of expert professional theologians whose members are appointed by the Pope) has a rather different view on that Limbo [0] than you do (my emphasis): "This theory, elaborated by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the dogmatic definitions of the Magisterium, even if that same Magisterium did at times mention the theory in its ordinary teaching up until the Second Vatican Council. It remains therefore a possible theological hypothesis". [1]

[0] I say "that Limbo", there is also much talk of "the Limbo of the Fathers"; and more rarely and controversially the "Limbo of Virtuous Pagans"

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_...
One of the things that worries me about this philosophy is it's callousness to the people currently living, a longtermist may decide (and try to enact a plan) around the fact that relieving the world of a few billion people gives humanity the greatest chance of survival.

The last time rich people said it was okay to kill people in the name of the greater good, a World War had to shut that shit down. This is just disguised fascism and it's dangerous.

I care that we exist a billion years from now, I can adopt some longterminism, but I'm also a humanist and what's the point of humanity continuing if we can't solve poverty, and make it so everybody has a decent quality of life - all things a spacefaring civilization or (one day) should be able to aspire to.

Before we plan for a billion years from now, we should first figure out how to comfortably support the billions we have now and plan for maximum comfort for the poorest person, not full socialism, but surely better social safety nets in all countries and better democracies.

Our society is so flawed, hell making it through the end of this century seems like a 50/50 proposition, so lets make here and now better.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927 "How Standards Proliferate"
I cut my Assembly teeth on S/360. In those days IBM source code was widely available and provided an excellent practice example for learning Assembler and the finer points of various instructions.

We should not forget that macro processing vastly expanded the power of Assembly language.

There is an analogy with DCF, Document Composition Language. The first MarkUp Language was GML which was a set of DCF macros.

GML evolved into BookMaster which underlayed IBM becoming the world's second most prolific publisher.

I wrote XPSProf which was a DCF ML used by Xerox Canada for writing manuals for its IBM compatible software offerings.
Ask HN: What are the cons of experimentation driven products?
Experimentation (like A/B) testing is a big part of product development in the industry. I see plenty of articles about the goodness of experimentation and was wondering what are the cons of experimentation driven development to keep in mind.
I love this clip so much - I pulled it off so many times in Need For Speed but games like Gran Turismo always nerfed to move.

There are so many moves that were obvious in video games but (bafflingly, to a kid like me) were never adopted until much, much later like:

• NFL - Going for it on 4th down

• NFL - QB spamming scramble moves (w/ Michael Vick)

• NBA - Spamming 3 pointers (w/ Steph Curry)
It sounds like we should consider and test the possibility that users of the software will become extremely familiar and want to use it much more quickly than we anticipate.
Here's the first that blew my mind, from the early 1980s: It was a BASIC "AI" program that would guess what animal you were thinking of just by asking a few questions. "That's crazy," I thought.

And, it learned more each time you ran it - even more crazy! It was only when I looked at the source code and realized that it was using self-modifying code that I went, "Wait a minute - THAT'S A THING?"

I had so many of those moments. The very first was realizing you could use an iterator variable to do other things within the loop. That's the exact moment when programming clicked for me. My perception of it changed from being a glorified way to write out steps (like a hair-washing algorithm on a shampoo bottle) to realizing it could be very expressive and flexible.
In fact, according to Catholicism, "only Catholics are Christian" is actually a heresy (Feeneyism aka "the Boston heresy")
Too heavy, too complex and too slow.

Although ansible can be used in local machine, but it is design for multiple remote machine. For example, if you want copy a config file to target, you must use some tools like `scp` or do some hacking. And it's much slow than shell script, and the print in stdio is ugly. (because it's design for running in 100 machines in one time.)

Ansible also had a steep learning curve, and redhat did not prepare a good beginner's manual for it. Searching the web there is only the experience of people who have used it for years, each with their own way of writing. There are no best practices for getting started easily.
I'm pretty sure that song is a blatant ripoff of "Regular Everyday Normal Guy" which predates it by about a decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw
Musk made an offer, voluntarily closed off his ability to back out, then tried to back out and couldn't. He has been thoroughly outmaneuvered by Twitter's management (or outmaneuvered himself, same effect). So I'm not super high on his ability to foresee consequences at the moment.

Also, because of being outmaneuvered, he may be seeking any chance to stick his finger in the eye of the people who did it. That the logical consequences will be that his finger gets cut off... well, as I said, I'm not sold on his foresight at the moment.
Rakuten's Cloud business (aka Symphony) is made for Telecom Companies wanting to switch away from traditional RAN model to OpenRAN. It's not really a direct competitor to AWS or GCP (although AWS, GCP and Azure seems to be making big progress in getting Telecos to switch their 5G infra to public cloud).

Symphony is nothing but a wrapper on top of vendor software from the likes of Mavenir, Nokia, NEC, Altiostar etc. There is not much real engineering done by Rakuten themselves, they just get different vendors under same umbrella and ask them to play nice with each other.

Source: Used to work in Rakuten's Cloud divisions
nitro_force - friction_force > max_force_before_you_slip_on_that_turn
One of the things that struck me as weird after landing in the US - is how wasteful the lightning here is. If I was an autocratic ruler, I would definitely scaled it back a couple of times.
It is complicated. It was rising for the past several years but rising from a point below peak consumption from about a decade ago. The same applies to China individually.

The US rate was falling. India and China were rising. China probably would have leveled off and declined shortly after. India would likely have continued to rise but not enough to have offset losses on other sides.

The loss of Russian gas to Europe increases LNG prices for everyone because now there’s a much smaller supply because shipping it is harder and there’s a big competition for the smaller amounts that are floating about.
In general, when someone suggests the only solution to "too much free speech" is for people to be filtered, I say "You first."
More depressing -number of cores will also level off eventually and where does that leave us then?

Will we actually have to optimize our code instead of pushing each hello world request through hundreds of function calls?

I also assume some niches are actually already 90%+ optimized. Once the cores level off it‘s stagnation here too.
The trade off isn't in terms of the order, it's that you get back the time waiting in line behind several very slow people.
Not really. Employees aren’t stupid. If they are paid below market they are a serious flight risk, especially in today’s tight labor market. We thus raise valued employee’s compensation to keep up with market.
> like remove the special status of the City of London

For sure, because it would sink the country, these days the UK is more dependent on the city than the city is on the UK
I'm not sure the Wired writer is a football person either.

I can probably best explain it this way: that play does not have a name, because it's pretty basic and that guy didn't invent it. Clock management is so integral to gridiron football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_out_the_clock#American...

You probably see that move a little bit more in video games. In real life there's more that can go wrong; you have eleven guys chasing you and you do not have 360-degree awareness. The ball could be knocked away from you, etc. Worst case scenario you hurt your teammates, lose your job, etc. So you will be more conservative.

I think video games have influenced football in a lot of ways, just not that one. Particularly TV coverage - the "sky cams" on high tension wires crisscrossing the arenas, mimicking the unfettered virtual cameras in video games. Also, the superimposed CGI first down lines on the field.
It is his favourite poet, so that might be why. A bit like a dimwit might remember all the lyrics to a beatles song.
It is not the latency which is killing that Dunkin Dounts, but the throughput.

It could be the customers think waiting in the drive through line is a great use of their time but the workers who could be serving customers who don't want hash browns are left twiddling their thumbs because the drive-through is serialized.
in-depth link:

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/ruth-marie-terry-the-lad...
> GDP is a concrete measure that is difficult to fake.

It's trivial to fake. Just pull some asset values out of your ass, which Wall Street does a million times a day. GDP became a lot less useful when the economy shifted from mostly tangible goods to mostly intangibles (e.g. software) and services, then utterly useless with the over-financialization of our economy. There are many measures that are more informative than GDP (or GDP per capita), that enable more rational decision making. GDP is just a vanity number.
Then go "Office Space" on it - Damn it feels good to be a gangsta!
I like the idea of planning to colonize the galaxy, etc.. but as a humanist that should come second to ensuring the most upward mobility of earths inhabitants, if we can't maximize happiness, and get some bleak dystopian world order, what's the use existing and keeping existing?

Longtermism (the concept of us maximizing humanity's existence) is okay with humanism and effective altruism leading the charge, without those it's just veiled fascism, kill the billion to save 10 billion in the future sounds like a war cry from Nazi Germany, and is dangerous to allow to spread.
Regardless of personal beliefs, there's the other issues here. First, what does "massive growth in government" even mean? Do you mean in government meddling in people's personal lives, like restricting bodily autonomy for women or banning books? Yes, I agree. Do you mean in government spending? Sure, agreed, the numbers agree. But you seems to be referring to some other kinda vaguely defined concept of like... government bureaucratic-ness? I'm not really sure what you mean and how to measure what you mean.

The second issue is your overall thesis seems to be "the government is inefficient," which is fine to say and to criticize, it certainly is inefficient by many measures, but I feel like you're hinting at some kind of alternative that I can't possibly guess at. Usually these discussions take two routes: the capitalist one, wherein you argue that private industry is more efficient, which even if we accept that efficiency is the only valid measure of how we should choose to do things (amazon builds road faster and cheaper than government: then puts a toll on it so only the rich are allowed to use it. this is bad), is probably not true[0] or possibly the opposite of the truth. Maybe you're more anarchist in your leanings, in which case you're arguing for more distributed and local management of these kinds of services? That could be a really interesting conversation, is that what you're suggesting?

[0] https://gsdrc.org/document-library/is-the-private-sector-mor...
This is silly. You don't game God with cutesy game theory in Christianity. He says don't kill, you don't kill.
This. As an employer, we ask rough salary expectations up front. We take into account seniority, experience etc… in adjusting the salary to match a person’s worth too.
Unless you are spending probably 5mil+ a year, AWS doesn’t really give a shit about you, in my experience
Scandiknavery.
They aren’t legit.
> ”No ads in the App Store, period” would have been a powerful, appealing message.

Shocking to me, even before this recent change was how often (always?) the top search result was an ad in the App Store - even if I specifically spelled out the exact app I wanted.

Because of the sewer the App Store has become, I don’t even go there anymore. Does anyone?

Edit: just searched “perfboard”, an app of mine from years back. Only two results, Perfboard and Peleton: Fitness. Guess which was first?
There are a number of reasons a person might not be able to get pregnant again after an abortion. Abortion always carries a risk of sterilization. Other life factors such as age or health can also mean that a pregnancy can't happen again.
What makes no sense is looking at pandemic increases in productivity and ascribing it to remote work. There were 2 obviously much larger reasons for that increase.

1. At the macro level, the increase was heavily driven by the fact that the least productive jobs were simply not being done. Blue collar workers were not working while white collar workers were.

2. At an individual level a massive increase in productivity was a result of people not having anything else to do so they were working a lot more.

Remote work might have led to an increase in productivity but these 2 factors definitely did. Yet people have been talking as if all the productivity increase was entirely because of remote work when it was almost certainly behind at least these 2 factors.
I was wondering about the "Activated Sludge Troubleshooting Chart", which turns out not to be some McMurdo internal documentation, but a commercial product sold as a poster... for US$94.95! https://www.tetratech.com/en/markets/one-water/solutions/was...
That made me think of MC Frontalot's "Secrets From the Future" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPstXCqyus

"by 2025 a children's Speak-and-Spell could crack it"
I've been using Zenburn everywhere I can for the past few years (Sublime Text, Windows Terminal, VS Code).
Are they based in Utah?
I like this dichotomy. I'd want to add a third, the product. The product has ego, it needs to look nice, it needs to demo well, it is marketing. This is what the auto industry has become since the model T and it's what software has become since it was a tool. The problem is with software, things like productivity typically take a hit as it moves further from tool to product. More so when the domain is something like EHR or ERP or E anything.
Though I'm totally with you on that approach, I'm unaware of native/vanilla tools that offer hot reloading, which is pretty awesome.
Apple’s Online Store and Information Systems Chiefs Are Leaving
The people this will hurt the most is talented employees who can negotiate.
Was your hospital by any chance using Meditech as the terminal based application?
That isn't it though. It isn't like pumping a baby out in 1 month using 9 women. No, the problem is the fusion of too much information that varies substantially. They have completely different views of the world and you can't just lerp them together.

I bring up the programmers working on a project example just to illustrate how more isn't always better even if it theoretically can be.
If you do A/B testing wrong it can be bad (search around that and you’ll find stuff)

If you maximize signups you may be fishing with too large a net and catch customers who aren’t appropriate. A/B won’t tell you that.

You may end up at a local maxima optimizing things when you should be fixing major real issues.

Experimentation should have a hypothesis and a test, not throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
> I love this clip so much

what clip?
Lol, so Musk tweets out one semi-vague private message (one that includes the word "lol"). I wouldn't take that as evidence of shit until it is discussed in court.
1900 car companies were started in the US. There are only 2 that have never gone bankrupt: Ford and Tesla.
Quiet Quitting Surges in Finance as It Gains Steam Across Sectors
Interesting thought. Could we please add “within the limits of law”?
I wonder how long until software will also need to shift.

The hardware can only become so parallel before the software will have to change to more closely match its reality.
Vandalism at its finest. Makes you wonder what a professional could do with the right motives.
There’s me, you, and the person reading this. So at least three.
Setup message forwarding on iOS and leave your device at home.
For consumer use and probably many commercial uses too, I am becoming skeptical about hardware performance improvements and whether users are gaining sufficient benefits from these improvements.

Software has become so wasteful of resources that the hardware improvements are offset and there is little perceptible improvement for the end user. This is of course not the fault of the chip makers, but the fault of the movement to inefficient web apps and more resource intensive languages and frameworks.
This is the correct perspective. I think the singularity and "AI general intelligence" are mostly nonsense, but what we are doing is "creating very cool and interesting tools so that we humans can share more with other humans."

Gonna go play some more with stable diffusion now.
Oh, not helm.sh (for Kubernetes)
He kept them in the series and likely secured millions and millions of dollars worth of ad impressions for their sponsors.
> If they spent even a small fraction of their metaverse billions developing high-end, niche products (flight/mech sims etc.) then they could cultivate a loyal base of affluent users.

They've actually already cultivated these affluent users almost by accident (they aren't interested in gaming, but they are interested in fitness). But these users tend to be older even if they are richer...it isn't a demographic that Facebook was going for.
And those places, do, in fact have processes regarding deceased and/or power of attorney. [0] This is not something that has sprung up out of nowhere. People die, everyday, which means that these companies have to deal with that fallout, today, not at some strange point out in the distant future.

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590?h...
The IDPH identity proofing vulnerability is particularly annoying as I have been repeatedly pestering them and the IL governor’s office to move Vax Verify to Login.gov to no avail. Thanks for red teaming this!
>But there's a certain social expectation that you won't game the rules so blatantly, so that's a disincentive.

There's also the concept of good sportsmanship. Doing this kind of "move" could be considered disrespectful and a show of bad sportsmanship.

The other football has its time honored ways of wasting time, keeping the ball in the opponent's corner, the keeper waiting until the last second to pick up a ball, someone getting "hurt", nobody open on a throw-in, walking off for a sub, etc. Then there's the sportsmanship thing of kicking the ball out of play for an opposing player to receive treatment. How much of the time wasting is good/bad sportsmanship vs good stratechery?
RISC-V has been engineered to support this very shift.

It can thus be the base ISA for all these accelerators to be built on.
Competitive motor sports are all about winning. There are so many rules and regulations and inspections, and cheating is. . . well, not condoned exactly, but part of the game. If someone else does it it’s an outrage, but if your driver does it and wins, ok.