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I lived without a car in the Western Cape for years. I had a shopping center, day care, and office all within ten minutes of where I stayed.

Yes it was expensive, but car free living is going to be expensive until cities actually prioritize it. We've already funded car infrastructure for so long, and urban cores directly subsidize the rest of the area, even in areas where the urban core is poor. It's not absurd to expect a redistribution of funding.
not super impressive but negotiated a promotion (got it on paper) to be retained if I stayed when I gave my notice. I still didn't take it but it was a small personal victory.
This is definitely a huge challenge, but the progress that Waymo is making (stark contrast to Tesla or Cruise) is very encouraging. An attentive driver can definitely handle the most confusing situations better than the current self-driving vehicles currently, but attentive and courteous drivers are rare in the US.
If you want to see how the Curry-Howard isomorphism works in practice, this is a very accessible introduction: https://groups.seas.harvard.edu/courses/cs152/2021sp/lecture...
I have yet to see evidence that it's out of whack. Vets are are doctors, have to employ staff, and have training, processes and tools analogous to human medicine.

There's no vet industrial complex, so no administrative/insurance/legal parasitic overhead like in human medicine (in the US).
Thanks for the advice ! I'll try speak slowly, and not to overload the presentation.

I was thinking that maybe, instead of the support being slides, it could be a website written in SQLPage itself... Or do you think it's too much ?
This is an awesome mode. I enabled it once and then just left it in there and it quietly does its thing. I really miss it in other editors.

(Of course, $employer enforces whitespace style globally with a linter so the files here can't end up in a state where ws-butler is meaningful. Not sure what I prefer.)
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It's a luxury product because, unlike car infrastructure, it's not funded extensively by the state.
Buses typically aren't frequent enough except on the most popular routes to just turn up without planning. Subways / light rail systems usually are frequent enough.
There was one glorious summer where everyone was on vacation for two weeks and I finally had some time to set up some CI...

Afterwards all the devs started to rely on it and I was stuck fixing CI problems for other people's projects without getting any thanks from management...
The Culture doesn't have gendered pronouns and you can change your sex by thinking really hard (really); there's a social expectation that each individual should sire a child and be pregnant with one during their lifetime. Most people in the XXI century would agree that's at least a bit gay :)
A lot of your lifestyle changes.

You buy groceries more often, but less of them. Or you bring a wagon or those metal carts.

Furniture etc. gets delivered. Because everyone gets deliveries, the cost is lower because they have stable demand.

With good transit, you take it to the station or rental car if you're doing a road trip.
Take a trip to Utrecht and you'll feel like you've died and gone to heaven. Or Houten (right next to Utrecht) which is one of the best designed suburbs in the world

25% walking
48% biking
5% public transport
18% car

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

or

https://www.cbs.nl/-/media/_pdf/2020/14/modal-split-2018-gem...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/16/welcome-cycle...

And the thing is - Utrecht is amazing. I don't think people there are bemoaning their sad existence lacking in freedom or mobility. But part of the success of Utrecht and Houten is taking space away from cars and giving it to bikes (and walking and public transport). I'm struggling to find a source but recently Utrecht determined that a street had too much traffic and was clogged with cars so the solution was that obviously it needed more throughput - so it should be made in to a bike route.

I just wish I hadn't needed to move 8,000 km to have this level of freedom.
I interviewed a drunk alcoholic dev once. Kept falling off his chair during the interview. We rejected him so he doctored his CV and applied via a different recruitment agency again. Got rejected again. Didn't bite me, but was close to getting physically violent. Had to call security.
It works reasonably well at the level of the entire planet. Every conceivable lifestyle is acceptable somewhere, and nobody has yet managed to conquer all nations to undo that. Where that doesn't help in practice is relocation is often difficult logistically and emotionally, communities exert a grip on people forcing them to stay, some countries forcibly won't let you leave, and, as far as I know, no country lets you freely enter and stay.
That's neither logarithmic nor what log cameras capture. See the link posted by the sibling comment[1] for the actual curves.

If you see an S-curve, that's usually what you will try to map the captured images too because it allows for increased detail in both shadows and highlights, while allowing a natural dynamic range in the middle areas. Log capturing allows you to have a much higher dynamic range (with a given number of bits), and thus more easily map to the S-curve that you want.

1: https://www.enriquepacheco.com/blog/s-log-tutorial
It's not just useless, but actively harmful.

Especially when reading code, there's yet another special syntax form to learn, and one which has no real utility to structure the code better or to better communicate it's intent and/or operation.
> TFA?

Sorry, didn't mean to confuse.

I've seen the idiom so many times here on HN I assumed it was widespread. It means "The Fine Article" (replace Fine with Fucking if feeling impatient).

It comes from the extremely well known idiom RTFM, for Read The Fucking Manual, used in unixy/hacker circles when someone asks for something trivially answerable by simply reading the manual.

I forgot that with new generations of techies, the old idioms become obscure or are replaced by newer idioms!
Building from scratch, requires scratching out many 'unhappy' people. But that point is always glossed over, until it is just a statistic.
difference is that the C-levels are having off the record chats to protect from the SEC or other regulators.
race relations
Nice mormot.
As a UK interviewer I'd find them both unusual and annoying.

We already discussed you immediately after the interview. It's not going to change anything, but it might hurt your chances if it comes across as cringy or brown-nosing - we're also looking for cultural fit, and most Brits just don't do that. If you introduced new information in the email, you're probably going to force us to discuss you again, which is at best annoying and certainly burns up staff time.

So in a UK context, you're best off just saying "Great to meet you all - hope I'll get to work with you" at the end of the interview, and leave it at that.
Blood biomarker profiles and exceptional longevity
Years ago me and my colleague got tired with all the people we were interviewing for a dev position and started interviewing the ones with the most insane CVs ("I follow Yeardly Smith everywhere she goes in the world", "Greatest achievement: I once drove 30 miles for KFC" etc).

One guy said he was a "black belt Ninjitsu." We had him in.

He started talking about his dev skills and I put a quick stop to that. "Tell me about the ninja shit."

"Oh, yeah, I'm a black belt. I can even make myself invisible."

Me and my colleague: O_O "Show me!"

"Right now?"

"Yes! Right now!"

"Well, I can't right now as you know I'm here."

"OK, go out of the room and then come back in invisible!"

"Well, it don't work like that. Like, basically I can walk straight through a crowded party and nobody will even see me."

Methinks there are other reasons nobody is looking at Comic Book Guy-looking man creeping through a party in a ninja outfit....
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In the late 90s, I took a geology course at Seattle Central, and the teacher told us the reason Alki Point has such a nice flat area all along the beach is because that area used to be the tide flats, but during an ancient earthquake, that entire chunk of West Seattle rose something like 10m in less than a minute and retained that elevation from then on. Is that still the current understanding?
I have found the opposite. Tokyo, Kyoto, Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, all of them public transportation was way way WAY more convenient than a car. Lived with a car the first 16 years of my adult life followed by 16 years no car. The no car years were better. Now I live in SF with car. SF might be considered to have good public transportation by many in the USA but it's shit compared to those other cites and it's not convenient. It's really only useful if you live really close to one of the tram lines.

Further, in those other cities, public transportation is clean and something everyone uses. In USA cities outside of NYC, public transportation is largely considered a service provided to those too poor to own a car. As such it's always shit.
Agree. Dreams of "starting from scratch" are directly analogous to programmers who don't care to learn the existing business situation or read someone else's code.
I personally prefer "age old". I was going for the same opening statement as the original comment :)
Inserting tech buzzwords into pitch decks is as old as the Valley itself. Not long ago "powered by blockchain" was all the rage and some of these companies were funded regardless of whether there was any working blockchain behind the curtain.

How many have pivoted to "powered by AI," I wonder?
haclog: An extremely fast plain c logging library
Fun Sin City story...

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/301497...

I'm the (formerly) young guy who rented the 550 to the production team for a few days. Pretty fun story to be tied to the movie.
Powerful ICE cars have this same problem. One of my cars is turbocharged and has a torque spike at 2500 RPMs that with shred the tires even in higher gears if the throttle pedal is to the floor when the engine crosses over that rev band. And my other one has a V8 that will squeal the tires anytime I am remotely aggressive with the throttle.

Car companies can tune the EVs to damp torque spikes, but there's no way around the fundamental fact that hard acceleration uses up tires. EVs accelerate hard, but they don't have to. That just happens to be a major selling point for most of them.

AWD works in their favor here though, since it's distributing the torque across four wheels, and traction control on EVs can be incredibly effective.

I'd be surprised if people in Model 3 Performances went through tires at nearly the rate that I do in similarly powerful ICE cars (~8-10k for driven wheels).
South Africa has fairly low car ownership: https://mg.co.za/motoring/2023-01-31-are-the-days-of-car-own...

12 million cars for 60 million people, about 1/5. By comparison, the US has nine cars for every ten people.

I suspect there are a lot of South Africans who are too poor to own a car.
That's a deep thought, it puts the discussion in a great perspective for further thinking. Thanks!
my first train experience in japan was it being delayed 2 hours
If medical science can't find anything wrong, what exactly would they be treating?
Weird is the right term: do they want to demonstrate with this arxiv paper that they manage reformat a blog post into latex and upload it to a preprint site after publication?
I've had a much more pleasant experience with Bluetooth under Pipewire, though fixing issues such as incorrect Bluetooth profiles requires understanding still-pretty-young projects like WirePlumber.
It is actually incredibly clever and never thought about it until now. I can relate to so many services I have spent some time curating, managing, triaging, etc ...
It helped me create an emotional connection with the product I am using and certainly will generate an emotion if the service will closed or if they introduce features that break the existing user flow.
Inline assembler was a killer feature: you could optimize bits of your code without having to understand how an assembler works and without having to deal with a linker as Pascal compiler did everything itself.

Great time indeed !
I think about this a lot with my brother. He took his life in the alleyway behind the gun shop where he just bought the ammo -- I have no idea what his mental state was (estranged from family for many years) but I have to think there was some impulsive decision-making involved.
Seattle's public transport is not on the level of London or Paris. The stops are not close enough and the service is not frequent enough.
This study is showing that many people perceive their jobs to be useless, but it neither asks for nor studies any factual basis for their perceptions. The study just assumes that certain jobs are "more useless" than others and looks for correlations between people's perceptions and those assumptions. In other words, all this study really shows is that the jobs of the people who did the study are basically useless, since they are producing no information that is of actual value.
Metal by Example
No they're not. It's thankfully been deleted now, but they responded with a very explicit "yes"
one issue with default on with power is that in the event of a temporary power outage, all of your lights will turn on.

Probably better than the alternative for most people but just something to be aware of.
I live in an admittedly more rural part of the USA but one of the things I love doing is hopping in my Jeep and going out into the many thousands of miles of off-road wilderness to camp, go shooting, or go for a hike, where more often than not I never have to interact with another human being.

My "quality of life" is 1000% better than if I required a crowded train to take me to an urban "communal space" in order to enjoy nature.
And yet, most people somehow never get DUIs. Weird, isn’t it?
The problem is not so much with the use of the word "namespace" per se, but with saying that packages are name spaces for symbols. That's just wrong, and is in direct conflict with the definition of things that are actually talked about as name spaces for symbols, most notably, variable and function bindings. The difference is that the domains of these "name spaces" are disjoint. The domain of packages is the set of strings, but the domain of (say) lexical variable bindings is the set of symbols. So, for example, lexical environments and dynamic environments are name spaces for symbols because their domains are symbols. If you insist on thinking about packages as name spaces (which no one actually does, which is another reason the sentence is misleading) then they are name spaces for strings, not for symbols.
Someone needs to pay all those lawyers.
I am not an influencer. I am not a fashion model. I am not an interior designer. I don't use my cellphone camera to generate "content". I use it to document things. I need it to take clear pictures that accurately represent things that I see. We are now moving away from auto-focus and auto shutter speeds toward on-the-fly retouching, editing, of material by the camera. This is dangerous. Pictures taken buy such cameras can no longer be considered accurate representations. Correction of shadows, the replacement of dull color with vibrant, the smoothing of textures ... every photo is now a crafted work of art by the machine. They are a distorted representation. This will come back to haunt us.

Think of this: a cop body camera that auto-adjusts faces to display them more clearly at night. Sounds like a good idea. Then something happens. The cop says "I couldn't see the guy's face" but the body camera shows the face clear as day. Yes, the camera did take a more clear and useful photo, but it is not a proper depiction of the reality experienced by the officer.
Wow, could you point me to other resources to read about this?
I remember reading about how "sticking your head in an oven" was a legitimate suicide method when using coal gas ovens. When people switched to natural gas/electric, the suicide rate dropped drastically:

>The switch from coal gas to natural gas also had one unexpected effect. During the ‘50s and ‘60s, about half of the suicides in Britain were by coal gas. By the ‘70s, when the transition to natural gas was complete, the number of gas suicides had dropped to zero and the overall suicide rate was down a third. Even the suicidal appreciate convenience. If it's too much trouble, as Dorothy Parker said, "You might as well live."[1]

1. https://gizmodo.com/why-have-people-stopped-committing-suici...
Disclaimer: I previously worked at Cypress for a relatively short period, though I don't really think that affects my thinking on this matter.

Optically this looks very bad, and I don't think there's any way around that. I would argue, however, that other companies choosing to replicate Cypress's service with Cypress's (open source) project is in bad taste. When I first read about the issue, I was pretty annoyed with Cypress, but after reading about the other companies profiting off of the project, I felt they were probably justified.

Obviously given the MIT licensing, people can do whatever they want with the project, including start a business, and I'm perfectly fine with that. But I also think it's within the company's rights to discourage such behavior, particularly when the businesses are just trying to undercut Cypress's only funding model. People who are particularly aggrieved can fork it, and go on with no hard feelings, but stewardship of a OSS project comes with a significant ability to guide its direction, and saying "don't kill us" doesn't seem unreasonable.

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On the other hand, Cypress's funding model is completely stagnant (from what little I know) and they have been unsuccessful at differentiating their paid offerings, other than by coercion (you must pay us for distributed CI, etc). In that way it would be sensible for other companies to provide new functionality/features, but not while drawing on the company's resources/goodwill, _and_ when some of them don't actually differentiate, they just replicate.

_I_ would almost never make this decision with my own product, but then again, I've never accepted VC funding or had many employees to look after.
RTFA and TFA are not equivalent! One is a verb, "you should RTFA, it answers your question!" while the other is a noun, "TFA mentions this syntax is useful because [...]".

In any case, I made the mistake of assuming everyone is currently familiar with the idiom just because it was widespread when I joined HN.

I suppose at one point it'll be a mistake to assume everyone knows what ROTFL or LOL or IMO mean, just because they used to be widespread internet culture at one point.
“Subspecies” feels a bit othering. Humans have been eating meat since Homo erectus (about 2M years).
> let KPIs get into research/education and healthcare

Research, sure, that’s a creative profession. But education and healthcare have obviously measurable outcomes, some of which are predictably desired ex ante.
can someone explain why the AI or language model community circles around arxiv?

I really hate the pseudo-academic gatekeeping in the AI/ML community, Google said you have no moat, we all know you have no moat, including that degree. we can all fine tune with consumer hardware we already have or even better cheaply on readily accessible clouds for this specific purpose. why are they still doing this fake academic junk.
I was being a bit flippant, but you are right of course :)
* FTC acts against private equity firm's acquisition of veterinary clinics[0]

* Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates [1]

I'm not opposed to people making money and having a comfortable life, but the fact that private equity is capitalizing on vet clinics is telling.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728350

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313967
big question, why? personal choice or is your team downsizing?

Re: skills - my standard advice is, every engineer should learn Next.js and launch a personal project using it. That builds familiarity with some modern tools.

Re: career development - just make sure you have a plan for where you're trying to go long term. Going back to being a contributor is fine if that's what you want, but don't sell yourself short as a leader.

I'm a mid-level engineering manager in a Fortune 1000 company, I spend about half my time doing "manager stuff" (mentoring, leading meetings, high level architecting) and half my time coding (mostly behind-the-scenes platform stuff like tooling, devops, testing). I was unfamiliar with much of our tech stack when I started, but started making small improvements where I saw they were needed, and slowly have been making my way thru the app and learning more.

hope this helps!
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An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking : ATM Networks, The Internet, and The Telephone Network by S.Keshav
Many of the proposals I've seen for car-free neighborhoods in the US have parking at the edges. You can't drive to your house, but you can drive to a parking structure 1000 feet from your house.
they were specifically saying that even if the infrastructure existed, regardless of lobbying and political influence, it would not work. obviously lobbying and influence is the reason we can't even try.
Once on a Data engineering interview I was explaining some diagrams and data flows when my nose decided to bleed, a lot.

The blood started to run over my white shirt, while I was still trying to explain why we were moving data from one database to another on a whiteboard, with one hand trying to stop the bleeding.

I got the job.
I think if anything availability increases, but may require more perceived effort (despite lower bar to discovery).
Yes, of course!

Slip of the orders of magnitude.

Hard to believe, but true.

Compound interest/inflation - the most powerful force in the universe (see Einstein). For good (interest) and ill (inflation).

All those investment advisors never mention the real interest rate, which is the key factor (and famously hard to measure, after all the Goodhart's Law shenanigans of govt and central banks manipulating RPI/CPI core/not and TIPS/breakevens).
The news articles exaggerate things either for effect or didn’t realize quakes diminish with distance. The shaking for mag 9 at Portland is similar to mag 7 nearby. One difference is that quake will go on for minutes making liquefaction worse.

There will be lots of damage in Portland. There are lots of unreinforced masonry that will collapse and kill occupants. Most of the bridges, big and small won’t survive cutting off from outside. Infrastructure will be destroyed and utilities will be out of months. All of those could be upgraded which is why Bay Area would be in better shape.

Also, this is talking about Portland and Seattle. Most of the destruction will be on the coast which is closer to the fault. The tsunami will cause lots of damage, destroying most of the towns and killi;g everyone that doesn’t evacuate to high ground.

The 2011 Japan quake is the best comparison but Portland/Seattle aren’t prepared like Tokyo, and there are minimal tsunami defenses.
They're implementing technical controls to scan what NPM packages you have installed and refuse to run if you have some "unsupported" ones installed. Their repo still appears to be MIT licensed though. Why not change their license like Terraform recently did? What's stopping someone from having a synchronized fork of cypress but with this commit removed? The blog article doesn't discuss licensing or why ending support was the option chosen.
Potentially a problem when editing any file with secrets, right? (though, tbh if your home directory is compromised you are in a lot of trouble already).
Can you share a link that shows their leadership?