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Here's an example from my wife: they are working in cooperation with some hospital. They were tasked with extracting breathing information from the EKGs. (This could be helpful in detecting when to take patients off the ventilator). Worked for half a year with some previously acquired data. The hospital part of the team aren't particularly tech-savvy and didn't participate in the research as much. But once they actually had to produce current EKG data, it turned out that the sampling frequency of their equipment is half of the minimum required in order to detect breathing.

Now the research is worth nothing.

Another similar story where I got tangentially involved: my wife had to reproduce a notebook of some guy who wrote a thesis on detecting something in EEG signals. After a lot of digging and research into that guy's work, I discovered that the format they used to acquire EEG signal in could have either 32 or 16 bits per "event", the event streams were not contiguous, but per sampling per electrode attached to the scalp. I.e. physically, they were written as event1_electorde1, event1_electrode2, ... event1_electrodeN, ... event2_electrode1, ... etc.

The original research author didn't understand this aspect, and the data he used was generated by different EEG machines in different format. He used some framework function that tried to guess how many bits per signal were used, and when it failed to guess, it'd print a warning. He simply silenced the warnings. And that's how he ran his ML models, and that's how he submitted his thesis. He has a graduate degree now and had moved to a different country. His work is worthless.
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> Microsoft is definitely pivoting towards making most of their money from their subscription game pass

I'm not convinced this is going to be a winning strategy. It clearly doesn't work for TV/Movies. I'm not kidding. The model of "grow as fast a possible" means low prices and lots of content. Once the bean counters show up, the prices go up and content development becomes a trickle. Look at Netflix. By that point, it is way easier to launch a product with preorders to pay off investment. Microsoft's key play will be that they own the console and can force game pass/etc but seemingly, gamers prefer the other platforms so they may run. If Valve builds a living room next-gen console from Steam OS, they may have the most well-liked platform for devs.
I doubt that will happen. The cancel mobs are just a very vocal minority. For example, look how popular Hogwarts Legacy is even though the cancel mob has been viciously attacking it.
I don't think your reasoning is safe at all. I'm obviously also not a lawyer, but when doing commercial work it's better to assume everything is copyrighted unless explicitly otherwise mentioned.
Esther commented on Twitter[0]:

> The worst take you could have from watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or hard work was a mistake. Those who jeer & mock are necessarily on the sidelines and not in the arena. I’m deeply proud of the team for building through so much noise & chaos.

[0]: https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/163004021988091494...
Everything I learned about mainframes I learned from dumpster diving at SUNY New Paltz and an IBM (submarine?) facility nearby.
Same thing that happened to Alaska airlines twice, supposedly fixed by a software update?

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34895061
European cheeses have lot of mold (penicillium roqueforti, camemberti, etc.) that is perfectly safe to eat though
Yes, to two 737s, and the cause was a software bug. https://mentourpilot.com/how-alaska-airlines-reacted-to-two-...

And minor nit: the airline is Alaska Airlines (no final n).
Maybe the women who never write the first message and the men who write "hey" to everybody deserve each other.

Though there's an important distinction between writing a message and real-time chat. "Hey" may be perfectly fine for a chat, but not for an email or similar type of direct message. I tend towards the latter.
I always thought technical debt was a euphemism for speed over quality. Slap the stuff together so it meets the milestone or deadline set by non-technical 'experts'. As in, the result lacks technical correctness & quality.

It is most often used in my experience not to hurt the feelings of Vice Presidents, while conveying the problem to those in the know. (/s)
> But if you want me to buy the whole paper to read a single article, well, ain't gonna happen.

This was common for non-subscribers in the print days. Newspapers would print a number of enticing headlines and images on the front page above the fold, and display those folded newspapers for sale at dispensers, newsstands, and stores. Many people who bought a one-off paper would buy for a single article that interested them.
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> The effect of lack of sleep and a shitty work/life balance is abundantly obvious in a PR.

It is high time more bosses understood this
Let's just call it deferred maintenance and be done with it.
I didn't think I'd use it a load when I pre-ordered mine, but I figured it would be great for use when I went to my girlfriend's home, or to visit my own family, and not lug a laptop or PC.

Boy I was wrong, I've used it in bed, on planes, couch, and over lunch. Heck, I even convinced my girlfriend to buy one so she could play games with me, and we not worry about Linux/windows compatibility between our computers, let alone this being her first gaming 'computer' to begin with.
Anti-takeover measures have been around for 40+ years and generally are referred to as "poison pills".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_rights_plan
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If you're a christian then creation/young earth is very important to protect, without it you have no "fall of man" and therefore no reason for a saviour. Accepting death before sin also complicates matters significantly (as you must if you accept evolution).

That and Jesus' legitimacy as a saviour is based off a bunch of prophecy and lineage from some of the earlier texts, including Genesis.
The biggest difference is, that with financial debt you basically always have to pay it back in a way or another. With technical debt in startup context, it happens very often that you don't have to pay it back (failures). It is quite logical why startup founders prefer to have technical debt, as the venture is risky in any case it is the kind of liability that you only have to pay if you are successful.
I can't speak to "data" jobs in particular, but I have had programming jobs in my career where I felt like the OP, and ones where I didn't. If it is important to you that your work be valuable in some way, I suggest you not give up. Do what you can to find work that is. It is out there, maybe you have to better yourself to raise the odds, so try to do that if you can.
You would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of deaths attributed to "being in lockdown", especially when compared against the 6.5 million extra deaths from COVID.

Economists tend to see workers as replaceable cogs, so deaths aren't a major factor until it starts affecting the labor supply. To maximize income in cases like this the best strategy is to get your entire workforce sick at once, take the two weeks off, then hire enough people to replace the 5% that died so you can get back to work as fast as possible. Also, make sure to suspend all health benefits for the two weeks to make sure nobody tries to use expensive hospital stays. You probably think this sounds extreme, but it's a real strategy (apart from suspending health insurance) that some powerful people were very angry about not being able to implement due to government interference.
My biggest AWS surprise bill (so far!) was due to a bug in AWS console region switching.
At the end of the day, a mistake was made and corrected by the medical/pharma industry. It's obviously an effective drug when used correctly, as you indicated. Still, ordinary people had to bear the consequences for a lifetime.

Which, to bring the discussion back to speech and your original comment, is why I'm arguing that platforms should be impartial with regard to what they amplify and let the legal system define and handle illegal speech.
> I constantly read on the internet about "unfireable" employees which is a ridiculous concept.

Anecdotally, I've heard about companies with these, which got that way by getting sued over and over again for wrongful termination. Now they are scared to even discipline employees engaged in sub-extremely-egregious behavior.

Like one story I heard was, "As long as they spend more time working than looking at porn, let's just let it be."

My 2 cents on this: Your company gets this way with poor leadership. Terminations without your i's dotted and t's crossed, and also an unwillingness to take some things on the chin for a broader view of how things are going to go.
The parent is probably talking about the medium paywall, which is usually bypassed by getting it archived on the internet archive. The archive link to the post is preferable to the medium link to the post, at least for me.
My point is that it's meaningless to make the argument that CONTINUE and BREAK can be implemented with GOTO, because every control flow structure can be. That you could use a GOTO to implement them isn't in question, what's in question is if you could do the reverse.

It's a subtyping problem, and you have the is-a relationship backwards: a cat is an animal but not every animal is a cat. GOTO is a BREAK (could always be substituted for one), but a BREAK is not a GOTO.

When you need a BREAK you could implement that in terms of GOTO, but no amount of coercion will allow you to use a BREAK as a generic GOTO.
Could you correct them? I don't know enough to know what's wrong but if there's something seriously wrong I'd love to learn
Wouldn't it just take someone to flip the industry over and do it privately?

Something like how SpaceX is so much cheaper than NASA.
A lot is used in bio research labs as well
We all know that /dev/null is an adequate substitute, as long as it gets those kickass benchmark numbers.
Hilarious. I was evaluating Zig, I took a look at Bun, probably the most well known Zig project. Multiple issues related to seg faults.
You open-sourced your code - isn't this scrutiny exactly what you would want to achieve? Alternatively, I would expect these reports to be reported via your issues tracker.
What text are you talking about?
I'm answering the question because it's a simple one. Some people like and feel better when they are productive. Other people have jobs where they are rewarded. Neither of these points should be a surprise. If you are happy, you do you.

If this is a passive aggressive post about how you wish you were compensated more based on productivity, that is an entirely different challenge for you to sort out
Another similarity with financial debt is that a large enough entity can just keep marching on, taking on more and more debt to fuel growth for a surprisingly long time before it all collapses.
I have this genotype and if I have a mouthful of coffee at 8 am, I will be able to feel it at 1 AM the following morning.
Would you say GitLab didn't manage to keep it right over the period of many years?

I agree that it's very hard but that's also why we talk to our community and wee what they say about what features they need. I really happy hope that we can create a great open product for small teams and individuals over a long term too.
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It would be interesting to see it tried. It's effectively "digital transformation" with the host/mutator roles reversed. Rather than have an organisation call in outsiders to do the transformation, the transforming group "eats" (buys) the transformed organisation.

The risk is definitely in the squishy unknown unknowns that are hard to quantify and therefore get obliterated early on in a digital transition.
This is the best thing I read in months. People should read David Graeber’s (in memoriam) Bullshit Jobs.

People are great at fooling themselves but on the other hand we often instinctively know when our jobs are bullshit.

And I think 30%-50% of IT jobs, it being operations, software development or supporting roles, it doesn’t matter.

It’s a combination of incompetence of people and the incentives of capitalism.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34956646
The fact that women mature earlier is one element, the fact that they seek qualities that men acquire later (stability, resources) is another.

But I think that what makes the situation very sad is that our western society has decided to close its eyes to the intrinsic value of women's virtue in the eyes of men.
When a young man can't find an interested partner during his younger years and then he is supposed to either fall back on the women over 30 who are left or play on his newly acquired skills as a thirty year old to seduce a woman 10 years younger.
In the end, everyone is sad, there are fewer children, society is less virtuous, women change partners throughout their lives, while men wonder if there is any marryable woman left around them.
Cell networks have a special "call emergency" code, which doesn't actually call a number at all; phones are required by the (ETSI) standard to translate dialling 112 into the call emergency code, and also to translate the national emergency number in the country they are in. Mostly, they solve this by treating 911 and 999 as the emergency number everywhere.

This is so the cell network can prioritise emergency calls and also will allow them to be made even when other calls are blocked (e.g. if you have no credit, or you only have signal on another network, or even if your phone is blocked by IMEI because it was reported stolen).

Landlines are different, they do treat emergency calls as a call to the emergency number and whether they will reroute another country's emergency number to the one where you are will depend on the specific exchange you are connected to (e.g. in the UK, 999 will work on all landlines; 112 on almost all except the oldest analogue exchanges and 911 on most but missing some older exchanges).
You should be able to view a YouTube video on a Pi 4 with enough RAM, while running Mathematica in another window. With the newer hardware the performance problems should only come if you try to use 4k video or something.
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I thought this was going to be about dumpster diving for hardware, not food.
I too live in aurora country (grew up in Northern Alberta), and while it does stop being novel every once in a while it can still surprise. I can still remember a night 20 years ago when the sky was a bright red, stretching from the horizon to directly overhead. It was quite spooky.
Posted this because I read that article too and found it a strange coincidence. Does anyone know if they are using the same software?
If I had a dollar for ever "good faith" thing that fell apart, I could retire. :)

Everyone over-commits and under-delivers. There's very little incentive to do otherwise. That's why I like "fuck you, pay me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
Similar boat but for me it was narcolepsy. Still working on getting the right prescription but it was definitely a feeling I could describe as "relief" to hear that there was a specific physiological cause my constant fatigue. And that sense of overpowering weakness that I was thinking of as being "really, really tired" was actually cataplexy. Just putting a name on it feels like a weight being lifted. Although I'll actually feel better when I land on a practical treatment.
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Ack. Thanks for the points. Un-packing a few things:

3. Definitely — We're working to cut our dependencies in the coming months. Most existing dependencies (the backend at least - I focus more on this area) we stick to those widely used and those essential to the platform; there're also certain dependencies directly linked to integrations with third-party platforms (e.g. AWS, Octokit - GitHub, etc.).

4. We'll definitely take a look at this — This is on our immediate roadmap as well. We had a few ideas in mind related to a mix of components in browser-memory, session-storage, etc. as well but wanted to make sure we get it 100% right before deploying any changes - based on recommended practices like from Auth0. This article may be relevant: https://auth0.com/docs/secure/security-guidance/data-securit...

5. We actually did evaluate both PKDF2 and Argon2id options in addition to seeing what other secure platforms are doing. We found most to start out with PKDF2 but overtime to introduce support for Argon2id — Take Bitwarden and Dashlane as two examples of this; Bitwarden of which introduced it as of only a few months back. This article may help: https://soatok.blog/2022/12/29/what-we-do-in-the-etc-shadow-...

The choice of Argon2id KDF is sound and recommended; we have it with memory cost of 64MiB, ops cost of 3, and parallelism of 1.

6. argon2-browser is still used well and reliably throughout the ecosystem — take Bitwarden as the biggest example of a solution recently making the switch to use it.

Anyways, happy to move this discussion to email!
Those are safe depending on what kind they are.
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Technical debt is like organizational debt. Organizational debt often gets you promoted, create a large department full of bad practices and you could become a director.

Is organizational or technical debt good for the company? No. Is it good for the individuals creating it? Oftentimes yes, they never have to pay it back, they get to hire someone to deal with the mess instead.
Pretty sure Atlassian has a lower per-employee efficiency than what a smaller startup providing a product in the same market would have, but there might be specific sticky features in the Atlassian product that make it difficult for one to migrate. The effective market hypothesis is great at finding local maxima.
If you're a baseball player, you don't want to work for a football team. You'll be undervalued and hate your job.

Less metaphorically, I've always looked for jobs where my skills are aligned with the "company mission" - first at a bunch of startups, and now as an academic researcher where I get to define that mission.
I can't be the only one who finds headlines that tell you what to do highly irritating.

How about you don't tell me what to do.

Convince me.

Show, don't tell.
I wonder how this reads to Germans who have what amounts to a national holiday of tossing things out before tax time. I recall the first time seeing what appeared to be brand new furniture and electronics sitting on the side walk; it was quite a surprise. Can anyone from Germany comment?
I used to live somewhere where there was a grocery store that was positioned between a lower socioeconomic community and a higher one. It mostly served the lower one, but stocked specialty goods (think organic). I used to hit the dumpster every day after work, and found lots of good stuff in there. I too found a couple gallons of olive oil once. At one point my girlfriend and I went all February living off of nothing but dumpster dived food (except I think we bought some almond milk) and I remember eating fine (this was a year out of college so fine is relative). The takeaway I had was that there is all kinds of food that gets thrown out which is perfectly fine to eat. I never ate disgusting rotting food like one would picture coming out of a dumpster - everything was packaged and pretty much equivalent to what you'd take off the shelves. Also that not all dumpsters are created equal.
I was going to subscribe to NYTdigital .. but I saw the reviews talking about this experience.
Dude, just get a USB-C to 3.5mm DAC adaptor. It's not expensive.
> gcp should be designed in a way where the term “global outage” isn’t a word in their vocabulary.

As I understand it, GCP is already designed to make global outages impossible. Obviously this outage shows that they messed up somehow and some global point of failure still remains. Looking forward to the post-mortem.
I hear lots of folks rant about the term. However, if anyone asked me, I would say that you need to think closely about the word "Debt". Debt powers our economy - from bonds, to Mortgages, to student loans. Debt makes the world go around - it's a decision to pay more money later to get something done now. Tech debt is the same thing - once you just realize how amazing it is, e.g "you want tech debt because it makes something happen now" then this is a positive term, not a negative term.

So I say strongly - use the term. Don't let it be a synonym for bad engineering, but for choices.
Isn't "luxury Android phone" an oxymoron?
Predictably may have been the wrong word, because that does imply non-determinism. It might be better to say that CONTINUE and BREAK are limited: given a scope, the keyword can take you to exactly one place, while GOTO could be used to take you anywhere, and you have to go hunting for the corresponding label to find that place.
Sadly that seems to be the norm. It stems from a culture where "research" gets abused to support preconceived ideologies. It should be the exact opposite way, organizations forming their ideology based on proper research.
Process of elimination. Keep a food diary. Look for patterns. Start with knowns (e.g., sugar, dairy, gluten, etc.) and work your way into the weeds.
Take a look at TigerBeetle which is also written in Zig, if you find segfaults there they even give you money :^)

https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle
I don't really understand the benchmarking aspect researchers are touting. The public never cared about LLMs until they had a proper conversation with one. You can beat GPT3 at any benchmark you'd like, but if you can't get people that "feeling" when chatting with your model, is it worth anything?

In the future there's going to have to be a way to benchmark the "human-ness" or "intrigue" or "feistiness" of a model to show us if its getting better at what we want
It must be pretty powerful if you can see the Northern Lights in New Zealand
Thanks, thought it was 3 dots on the Arabic "b". It really doesn't take long until you Farsi tries to sneak in some extra letters to figure out it's not Arabic.

Looking back on it, I remember feeling like I can't remember Arabic, but part of it is that this also happens during that time when I'm getting used to the script. There is always an adjustment period with every new font/handwriting that takes a sentence or two to sort out the style before I truly start reading.
Also, sometimes the things that developers consider "technical debt" end up working just fine and don't cause that much trouble.

There is always the urge to build something "the right way" where it's fully modular and extensible, but if you never need to extend something the additional layers of abstraction end up being more of a hindrance than a help.

There is a certain level of efficiency in building things the cheap and easy way by default and only rewriting the parts where it was actually a problem.
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