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Most people in "the IT industry" are not coders and do not need github, a code repository, or even the most basic understanding of coding in order to do their jobs. Install a satellite dish? You're an IT worker. Do customer service for a telecom? You're an IT worker. Swap out failing hard drives in a server farm? You're an IT worker.

The impact of github being down is large, but it isn't going to take out 7-10% of India's GDP.
Oral exams are more scalable than you would expect, it's most of how military training and training verification works. Some of those fields are highly technical like Navy Nukes (IE: even unfavorable colleges will transfer 70 credits from the program). And most rates, even nontechnical ones eventually have a board with the captain for a final qualification (wouldn't be surprised if even culinary specialists have something, or something you would technically count like advancing to khakis).
I realize that this highly depends on the country and its medical system.

I live in a country where there is universal healthcare and you can just book an appointment with any doctor of any kind without going through any gatekeeping.

I think the placebo effect is at work here: While I don't doubt any nurse could handle 95% of the cases a general practitioner has to face here every day, elderly patients want that expert opinion from the guy they value highly and trust in so much.
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> Worker cooperatives exist and are perfectly functional and successful

Ha sure. Ok, which brand of socialism do you support and why? Socialism is a sad joke, socialists group under a banner that does not even exist in reality.

Socialism: social control of the means of production

What does that even mean in practice? Nobody knows. This is why socialists and communists always end up killing each other.

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edit: because I'm getting rate limited because socialists like to flag posts they disagree with, my response to the post below:

> Yes, worker cooperatives exist and are successful. Mondragon[1] is probably the biggest and most well known

Small private corporations that are worker run under capitalism is a very unique definition of socialism. Socialism under the silly wikipedia definition you provided mandates social ownership of the means of production. For something to be considered socialist, property rights need to be abolished and "control" needs to be redistributed in some manner. Of course "control" is in quotes because under socialism nobody owns anything, "society" owns it. Workers don't really have control either because they can't choose to sell their control, that would obviously just be capitalism with extra steps.

Nobody ever actually explains the details of any of this. The communist manifesto gets close because Marx clearly understood that to steal from people you need to kill them but he never actually prescribes the details of running the damn thing after killing all the property owners.

> In other words, there are any number of ways social control can be constructed, and has been constructed. Some more successful than others

In other words you did not contradict anything I said.

> Social control through the state of large segments of the economy has been perfectly successful both in the US and in Europe.

Perfectly successful under what definition? Neither the US or Europe have complete social control of the means of production and the little control they do exert is widely known to be extremely wasteful and inefficient.

> Driven on a road? Congrats, you've benefited from social control of infrastructure

The roads are terrible and filled with pot holes in San Francisco. The sidewalks are covered in shit. The storm drains did not function when a small storm passed the city. Please don't tell me they need more money to fix those problems.
> Are there any real alternatives to Stripe?

Paddle.

More expensive than some, but they become the Merchant of Record and handle sales taxes / VAT / GST / etc. in many countries for you.
there is a huge opportunity for environmental conservation and clean-up, and care-giving for the sick / elderly / mentally ill.

unfortunately there isn't a profit motive for those things, so the work in those industries tends to be low paying and requiring a high level of education.

there is definitely still a ton of work to do in the world, we just don't have anyone willing to pay for it.
You might find "Why Liberalism Failed" by Patrick Deneen interesting if you haven't read it already. He argues that modern liberalism is the inevitable successor to classical liberalism.
This is a regressive opinion.

If we have tools available that can solve problems—as humans are not perfect—then why not use them? Do you not enjoy the benefits of other medicine that solves problems you have, like susceptibility to Covid?

We should always be on the conquest to improve our livelihoods. If that means introducing a drug to combat obesity so that scores of people can extend their lifespans by being healthier, that is a good thing.
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This seems rather extreme, and likely to cause a lot of backlash due to how disruptive calendar manipulation is.

At my company, we have started "async weeks", where, basically once a quarter, we try to basically use async communication instead of recurring meetings.

First, this is executed without a lot of shock. You know it's coming and plan around it. But two, it does help promote writing - teams experiment with doing one or two things differently. It's a slow roll, but I'm seeing a bit more adoption of written tools, like doing reviews in Google docs instead of just reading them, etc.

Importantly, the lame "status update" meetings have become much more tighter and focused. We used to pack things into these generic one hour sessions, and now more meetings are starting to have better focused agendas, people get used to saying "you know, maybe only two of us need to discuss this...", etc.

Taking a week 2-3x a year to iterate and experiment with process changes like this feels pretty useful. Teams _should_ be doing this frequently if they're "agile", but I've rarely seen that actually pan out in reality. But it's a lot easier to take than the CEO surprising everyone electronically the first week back after a break.
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I've finished barbara oakley's classes. What next for me. It's been few years since I finished the course and I'm quite rusty with learning skills atm. Don't want to revisit same course.
The question that must be asked is instead, "What will they do with us?"
> you have to scale up the entire thing which is huge, expensive, etc.

Yes, yet people still do it that way. This is tradeoff against the costs of microservices. I'm not saying it is worth it, but yes, sometimes you can just inefficiently throw hardware resources at scaling problems.

> this is interesting. a monolith with some form of IPC? why not do microservices at that point? that sounds like microservices-ish?

Because you are incrementally changing an existing monolith, but still getting some of the benefits of scaling distinct workloads independently. If you do this right, it does lend it self to reworking the new "service" to be become its own microservice. Or you can just keep going with the shared codebase.
Look at this other prompt: https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/write-the-first-page-of-a-c...

this is absolutely terrifying.
the future is getting bleaker and bleaker.
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are you aware that we can make progress on multiple things at once?
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Although he's a despicable person this is completely legal and I would've done the same. Staying at your parents house is two orders of a magnitude more comfortable than being in jail.

So no, this isn't a lapse of justice. just good negotiating or good lawyers.
But is also very rare that you ask directly for domain name resolution in the first place; you are usually instead using something directly or indirectly that happens to be remote, and that eventually happens to have a punycode encoded non-ascii hostname or top level domain. But there's no garantee that you (or the libraries, or the libraries that your libraries use...) are only handling the ascii punycode.

I can count on my fingers the number of places I invoked manual DNS lookups inside production code.
It's interesting to me that the eyewitness is "Jane Smith" - sometimes the fact that we're just predicting the most probable next word really shines through.
> That's only because editors are not programmed to do the work.

No; it is not decidable where a block ends and the next line of the out block starts when there is no marker for block ends ('}', or 'END', etc).
Try doing that in a studio apartment
The interesting part

> [Update: As of Jan 1, 2023 this is fixed! Thanks to Danny Sullivan and John Mueller of Google for figuring out what was going on. Yay!]
> What does one become when you effectively sell out to the analytics?

We know what happens... you get Mr. Beast. He's known for hyper optimizing the metrics. Watch one of his interviews. His Joe Rogan interview was an eye opener.
That’s why you still need a system (government) that regulates the rules within which we play.
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I'm not aware of other companies that fiddle with the Outlook admin calendar settings to improve productivity.
Exactly. Conway's Law is descriptive not prescriptive!
> patients who lose weight this way still needs this drug to keep it off.

Purely anecdotal N=1 but I was also 285 at one point in my life and went through an intensive weight loss program through my work and lost about 60 lbs in 3 months. That was about 15 years ago. Since then I've done several 3 day fasts and many weeks of One Meal A Day. I think that program showed me experientially what its like to go without as much food as I thought I needed.. so even when the program ended I had a totally different concept of food. Maybe this drug can do something similar. I think so much of overeating for a lot of people is just purely habitual or a misconception that 'my body needs food every 3 hours' when really it doesn't at all, that's just how you've currently conditioned it.
So... How can I mine crypto with this? :)
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Right, they really just function as frustration absorbers more than anything else.
Excellent, I can't find anything to correct, and I was there :) This is also an old video.

Maybe a note expanding on "Bill Atkinsons had not seen or experienced the Star." That's because in Dec. 1979 there was nothing he could see. It was introduced in May, 1981 and barely worked even then.

I have all the facts about Inventing the Future, including the lightning storm that took down the Ethernet: Jan. 5, 1978. Maybe on the 45th anniversary this Jan. 5 we'll have another networking disaster with the big storm.

https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future

I knew about the ARPANet connection, but I don't have a list of names. Eric Harslem, my boss, was on RFC 39 and 40.
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The AI was writing satirically in the style of a breaking news story.
Not "not de facto," "if not de facto." Definitely not de facto if some ISPs don't block it.
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And yet the pro-nuclear argument is that nuclear power is safe thanks to regulations. That's circular reasoning.
> Great, now free the Leopards, Abrams and IFVs/APCs. This ain't gonna end unless Ukraine gets more armor to (re)form battalions.

IIRC, since the war started, Ukraine has more than doubled its number of operational tanks, some from Soviet-era tanks from NATO member inventories, but mostly with captured Russian ones.

> I really don't get the whole "don't anger Putin" vibe, during the Vietnam War the USSR would send pretty much anything they could against the American forces. Even aircraft together with crews, as aircraft weapon systems really really require trained personnel. And no WW3 happened.

It came pretty close (also in Korea), but you’ll note that those were quite far from the US itself, and innthe Vietnam War the US still did escalate against neighboring countries, which is also something the US wishes to avoid Russia doing.
Freedom means having the ability to fuck up your own life. Having a kid means I end up with piss and shit on me and wear out my body faster yet society seems to think that's fine. I realize that's entirely different but I'm not really interested in being in the business of how you want to harm your own health.
This site is great. I'd love to contribute but could there be an option to sign up other then Google?
This reminds me of an issue my sister is having with Etsy.

She runs an Etsy store with $1-2 million in annual sales, and her store keeps getting taken down by Etsy's automated copyright infringement system -- which keeps getting triggered by someone submitting fraudulent copyright claims and then immediately asking her to pay $5k/month in exchange for the person to stop submitting the infringement claims (in other words, she's being extorted).

Basically Etsy immediately takes down listings with no human review upon receiving a copyright complaint, which can be used by black hat scammers to extort stores into paying $5k-10k/month in exchange for the black hat to stop submitting fraudulent claims.

It's really astounding that companies build these automated systems that hurt their customers with no humans on standby to resolve these kind of edge cases (false positives).
Meth and shrooms are about as related as meth and coffee.
This is a classic problem of binary thinking, identity politics, and crab bucket mentality.

Any progress and help will always be met with resistance if you lump huge swaths of the population together and view it as a competition.
Having done a fair bit of programming outside of text, text is not "loose" or less "rich" than the programs it is used to describe. It's actually far more explicit and easier to grok than alternative representations of programs. Problems like code style have been solved by linters and auto-formatters.

A lot of the ideas you're pitching have been pitched before and died for the same reason: parsing text is easy for humans and computers. Although I'd quibble with some minor points, like "compilation of such code would be faster". The major bottlenecks in a compiler are codegen, optimization, and linking compilation units. Even bad parsers are extremely fast.
Given how confident AI can be when it's incorrect, it feels like a bit of a problem to use AI with legal docs, since you can't really trust it to be correct (and the cost of being incorrect may be absurdly high).
I'll add that beyond strictly "offensive" tooling, Nim has more or less replaced Python in my toolkit for things like reimplementing custom encryption routines during an engagement.

Static types are a huge benefit in staying sane, IMO, especially when doing bit/structure twiddling. Sure, there are ways of accomplishing this is dynamic languages, but Nim is both fast and fun to use.
I thought that ChatGPT was incapable of anything like real humor, but I have been proven wrong.
You can't compare Python to something like Rust, Java, or C++. Compare to for example Scala, that would make more sense.
> the odds of two unrelated people matching at all of them are less than one in 1 billion.

Sounds like on a world with 7 billion people for each crime there are on average 7 people that can be convicted using the incontrovertible evidence delivered by the DNA lab.
We've done the round trip of splitting up a monolith into microservices and then going back the other way. Network API overhead being the biggest reason. This kind of hell is totally unnecessary until it absolutely is (i.e. hard information theory requirements demand you spread your app across more than 1 physical computer).

Monolith is better in almost every way. The only thing that still bothers us is the build/iteration time. We could resolve this by breaking our gigantic dll into smaller ones that can be built more incrementally. This is on my list for 2023.
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Not that it matters (bypasses exist), but why do you want the Indian govt to completely block github ?
More surprising to me: Xerox patents were allowed to expire. What I draw from this is that when patents are allowed to work as intended[0], that corporations are very much more likely to invest in new technologies and push for new innovations. They were able to still reap billions off the printer market they invented, but this seems to have kept them on their toes, founding PARC, which inspired / lead to tons of innovation in its own right (even if it wasn't owned by Xerox).

I know this isn't the direct point of the video, but that is my ultimate takeaway here, that the patent system, when applied as intended[0], actually drives innovation and reasonably protects innovators long enough for them to make enough to fund their next thing etc.

[0]: Approximate definition I mean of this: Giving the inventor(s) the monopoly on a technology / innovation for a finite period of time, then released into the public domain

edit: apparently I got my facts wrong (took video at its word that the patents expired) but that is, in fact, not the whole story. Though, I think my broader point is still sensible, that a functioning patent system, when working as intended, would foster innovation & investment that otherwise wouldn't be fostered.
Will self driving cars ever become a reality?
My question is simple. Will self driving cars become a reality such that people who don't know driving will be comfortable sitting on those cars alone? If not,I don't see a point.
Hrrrm. Interesting.

I wonder if they hit some unspoken of limit whereby they had to provide extra diligence to a bank/creditor to justify the large movement of funds? Or if something about you having 6 seperate accounts had something to do with it. The inability to get a timely resolution likely had something to do with the review team having decreased availibility during the holidays (remember, they probably work hard and have families too, and may have been on vacation or operating at a significantly lower throughput).

I can confirm most places do a horrible job at maintaining customer relationship history, and actually making it readily available to customer service. Furthermore, customer service tends to be just a dispatch point, after an async message is sent, it tends to be the norm that they by default will ask if there's anything else they can do, and if not, on to the next caller/customer.

I've started to push more places toward engaging in synchronous issue resolution for high value issues, as it gets a lot more awkward and has a bigger organizational blast radius when process is so dysfunctional someone external to the organization has to excavate in house communication channels to get an issue resolved.

Far too many places have abandoned customer service/Quality Assurance as high priority operational mandates. The success metric as of late is number of customers who haven't been pissed off enough to leave, thus are still profittable due to willingness to accept our cheapo subpar offering. Not actually happy customers.

If I worked there, y'all woulda been a case study for my group, if it's any comfort.
I've had three reorgs in the past six months. Each one changed our projects and priorities.

Yeah, didn't get a lot done...
Well, I have one. I am guessing I won't be able to post the link as I have a new account - but you can pull it up by adding .com to my username or by viewing my profile.

I envisioned creating a few articles a month, but look at the pathetic state of it! I actually have a number of articles queued up, but it's a matter of finding time to select pictures, size them, and finally publish it.

I am using the 11ty blog engine and hosting on GitHub. I like the setup quite a bit, I just need to set aside a day to my content published.
I understand what you're saying, but for many of us, the threshold is much higher for a call.

I tend to, and I know I'm not alone here, accomplish most of my work in very focused blocks that often take me multiple hours to get into. Often I'll go a whole work day without being able to get there, and often when I'm in the flow, I'll work 12+ hours because that's how I'm most productive.

Your 5 minute call may cost me 3-6 hours of productivity. Once I've pulled my head out of what I'm working on, it's not a given that I can jump right back in. Sometimes that's worth it. It's possible not having that call may cost you 3 hours of productivity. But because some people have different work styles, people who focus easily (or are working on easier problems) often don't think of the costs for those who don't.
Would that make overdosing a criminal offense?

In the UK, being treated for an overdose is an expense of the tax payer. Obviously people still overdose, and that expense already exists. But the legality of dangerous substances is to minimize the harm, and therefore the cost associated with that harm.

A free-for-all approach would either have to accept a greater expense (not just economically) or introduce other measures to minimize the harm.
Descriptivist dictionaries aren't about giving advice on usage that best communicates, so consulting them as a usage guide is usually not the best idea. They're to help one understand unfamiliar words or usage—including common but maybe-not-great ones!—not to use as a guide to what's best. Finding a definition in a dictionary isn't enough to justify a choice, aside from confirming that one has not done something entirely novel.
If that were true then there would be a reactor somewhere in the world beating wind power on cost, and there isn't. Even Chinese reactors, constructed under a regime that criminalizes hippies and regulates only for the benefit of the party leaders, are reliably late and over budget. Ex: Fangchenggang-3 is a new unit of an existing design on an already-operating site. It began construction 8 years ago, was supposed to be operational two years ago, and hasn't reached criticality yet.

It just doesn't work. You can blame your political enemies if you want, but that's not going to make a reactor appear.
> I wish there were a better alternative, but I really am at a loss to think what that could be.

The alternative is to empower customer support reps to look up the cause of a problem. This would not affect general operations when everything is running smooth, but would solve the case where clueless reps keep asking for the same documents and can't follow through or actually do anything.

What you're describing is how modern tech companies have eliminated support level 1.

But if that was the plan, it should be followed by making all the remaining reps level 2 and giving them the proper tools and training to do their job.
Land yes, square foot of housing no. The latter is IMO far more important.
Yeah, he made his decision. What's your point?
A person with low HN Karma and no obvious social media presence can do a lot of damage to Stripe’s reputation on HN. Or at least a dozen such people in succession can (which is exactly what we got here in recent years).
Wind turbines are a bit loud, and there is a reason why they can't be placed near places where people leave.

Hydroelectric - if it is a damn, then again, there is a possibility of the damn breaking and flooding.

Solar is the real alternative, but not effective enough, yet.
What are they doing with all the uploaded document data? I didn't see that in their terms of use.
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