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I have only rarely been a part of teams that actually valued its ops/infrastructure/platform teams. I think the biggest factors affecting burnout for me are long, inflexible on-call hours, and the fact that a huge majority of companies see ops as a cost to be reduced/minimized as much as possible, not a core part of the business. I've seen this attitude even when the platform itself is a product. Work done by ops is frequently invisible when it's going well, and extremely visible when it's not. This phenomenon also leads to patterns in ops infrastructure teams where it's reaction driven, and not preventative - it looks way better to management teams to be the one to swoop in at 3 am to save the day rather than preventing the outage in the first place, which can be difficult to quantify.
These taxes would only affect an incredibly small amount of the population, so it's pretty much invisible to anyone but billionaires. We definitely need accountability more than taxing billionaires though. Most billionaires would probably settle just under the threshold that they get hit with these taxes. There is also plenty of infrastructure to hold more assets without it counting towards your billionaire status. It may actually become an unenforceable tax, but I don't think we know yet.

Ukraine is destroying Russian military equipment and killing its soldiers; I think that's a strategic win to weaken Russia. Plus the US frankly needed to claw back some of its reputation after Trump, so aligning against an invader helps that while avoiding outright war.
> doesn't have such an easy and commonly accepted "THIS IS SIGNIFICANT AND BY GOLLY I AM RIGHT!" signal.

Part of the ongoing stats revolution is abandoning the binary significance test, because it's often misaligned with the fundamental business question at hand. If, instead, you have a probability distribution over hypotheses, you can make optimal business decisions based on standard utility theory, like this https://philosophy.hku.hk/think/stat/naode1.php.

> It's conceptually harder than NHST

From a different angle: Experimenters fundamentally want to know p(hypothesis | data): Does adding 20g sugar to 1kg cement prevent 98% of the units from crushing under 1000kg load? Below are two answers. Which would people rather tell their boss?

1) Likely yes, given our experimental data. The totality of evidence shows that there's a 70% probability that failure rates are below the limit, but we're not yet ready to commit changes to our manufacturing. We can run more experiments to nail this down and make a concrete decision (heh).

2) Sorry boss, I have no clue. The p-value was 0.15, so we can't say anything. Unfortunately old-school stats can't easily add new data to an existing experiment, so we have to run new experiments, and then combine everything with a fancy new meta-analysis. Or we could call the first experiment a sneak peek but then we have to do multiplicity corrections. But even after we do all that, I can't really tell you the probability that sugar strengthens cement. NHST doesn't work that way.

From the stakeholder's perspective, #1 is conceptually lots easier.
even if you did something wrong, do things like that really need to be preserved on the internet under your real name for the rest of your life? Probably not

Why not? It is a historical record of sort, like Nero burning Rome. Does Nero has a right to be forgotten? Also where is the freedom of speech of telling people that Nero burnt Rome?
You must be rather dense. Flatly disregard a provided source that counters your claim of "conspiracy theories" and then compare something like this to employers responding to employee criticisms. The two things are categorically different. The state spying on and punishing private citizens (even if they're government employees) for their criticisms of its policies is far ahead in danger from corporate employee monitoring bullshit.
Yes thank you I was wondering exactly this. Quite reasonable size one might say.
I don't think software used to be more secure. As computer users we were more trusting, if not to say naive. As more machines connected to networks, we learned a thing or two.

Open access by default. No passwords [1] or short passwords. Then insecurely stored passwords. Everything in plaintext. Input sanitation? Why bother, only I can input data, I trust myself. Don't get me started on telnet.

I suspect that's another reason why software is more bloated. We started noticing things, how they interact with each other. And once you see something, you can't unsee it. The edge cases we have to account for are growing, not decreasing. There's more hardware to support too.

I'm sure the whole process of writing performant code can be improved. At the same time the bar is being raised faster than we can (or want to) reach it.

1 - And now we're inching towards no passwords again.
Exactly. They spent Trillions which is insane.

What I was referring to is like 12 billion just unaccounted for!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_misappropriat....
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It's an option, but nobody will be excited about it. There's already a pilot shortage. (20 hours of paid time not flying a plane) x (all the pilots who fly) = a substantial loss of pilot availability. Plus some number of the majority of pilots who are mentally healthy would resent being "forced" to sit through mandatory therapy. They already have to do medicals often enough.
The fact that these pilots always (seemingly) remain cool as a cucumber, despite the fact that someone just tried to murder them and 82 other people, always amazes me.
Billionaires top of mind for me: Bloomberg, the Google guys, Steve Jobs, Bezos, Dalio, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg. Many grew up poor (probably Gates & Zuck had the most growing up but not billions) and none of them are famous for building products and companies with impact, not tax evasion.
Billionaires seem to be quite skilled at avoiding inheritance tax. They have avenues for passing on generational wealth besides what most people imagine as passing it all directly via a will. For example, they can create a corporation that owns and manages their vast assets, and then transfer control of that corporation.
That's the problem. The Commission does.
No idea what you do about this but it’s one of my biggest fears when flying. Fortunately you have two pilots but I don’t like seeing one step out to use the restroom ever.
Which therm did you get? Does it also measure humidity?
1. I'm pretty sure that background checks work beyond doubt. I'm pretty sure that skills tests work beyond doubt. I'm less confident in AI resume/profile analysis and skills matching tools - both are getting better.

3. Agree, it's simplified, but for most companies, field and "hiring" managers are barely able to do an effective interview, let alone smoke out someone lacking interview skills from one lacking communication skills.
> the VideoCore is no longer handling the bootup process.

Nope that part remains. The VideoCore VPU does almost nothing other than that and power management on the RPi5 though
I saw that, but it doesn't say how much of that is at risk for now or how fast it would happen. The paper has some rates of melting but doesn't translate that into rate of sea level rise.
It was named Starfighter after the movie 'The Last Starfighter' iirc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter
Care to debate the theory behind this particular policy proposal? What problem is it aiming to solve? Is this problem really so bad? Why or why won’t it be effective at solving said problem? Etc.

Structuring tax policy to incentivize behaviors deemed economically healthy is nothing new. You may not like this or agree with all the specific policies, but it’s still a thing. Why pretend otherwise? How those revenues are spent are again a matter of debate themselves and another topic altogether.
I am learning this just now from this comment, so I think you are right.
off topic, but I am stuck in a captcha loop where i fill it out correctly and its just giving me another one... have done 5 now and just give up. Anyone else or did i just do some "weird online behaviour"?
>Federal officials allege Joseph David Emerson tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots.

Why couldn't he? Does it take a long time to press the button, do you need several people to press it at once...?
>> There are industry sectors where performance and correctness have value.

> Care to provide examples of such sectors? Thanks.

I worked for years developing munitions control software.

Never once killed anyone by accident.
> We're giving billions to Ukraine with zero strategic interest to the United States.

This is a bewilderingly head-in-the-sand assertion.
You don’t think older men can lead military organizations?
The problem is that once they admit that they have suicidal thoughts, you can’t just continue therapy. They shouldn’t keep flying.
Don’t forget the invention of the healing practitioner (Heilpraktiker).
Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) nowadays is a good Markdown-based CMS with the right theme, and you can host it for free on GitHub Pages, with a GitHub Action to deploy to GitHub Pages on commit.

Here's the source code for my blog with utilizes that workflow, which could publish a post live just from uploading a single Markdown file: https://github.com/minimaxir/minimaxir.github.io
You have perfectly described my approach to tech tasks that lack intrinsic joy or interest
These being vector files, does it mean they can be styled on the fly?
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Which sea?
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I am writing a book on Generative AI. What questions do you have?
How do you get anyone to take an action that jeopardizes their career? By making their survival not depend upon their career.

That may sound glib, but I don't mean it to be. If there's a pilot that is hiding their mental health issues because they'll otherwise risk destitution, that's a problem that's solved by a social safety net. Such a safety net would also solve many other social ills, like people stuck with abusive employers, and so on.
It always blows my mind seeing a post like this on HN and the top comments nitpick whether such a tax is needed.

These people don't need defending and they don't need that much money (for comparison, this was posted on here the other day and really illustrates the disparity quite well: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/).

The reasons for taxing them (including a flat rate on their net worth which would be a terrible way to tax people in lower income brackets but could be a great way to level things off at the top end where avoidance is rampant) are many: funding climate change reversal, poverty, health, housing, medical research, the list goes on.

We don't need more pedants splitting hairs about how to more effectively use the existing tax revenues. That is a distraction. We should do that too, but we should absolutely tax the hell out of the billionaire class who have been taking more than their fair share from our resources for decades and living at the expense of all of our futures.
So is every ISP serving Australia.
It's time to stop populist drivel like this, if this was just a political decision that was easy to implement and had only positive impacts, it would have been done decades ago, but just like "let's end crime" and "end hunger" this is just another populist political message to basically lie to people and I'm fed with this stuff. Truth truly took the back seat in the past decade.
Probably the Comission is "fine" as the executive branch of the EU. But it should delegate all the legislative powers to the Parliament.
I was friends with a long-haul pilot that had cancer, and he joked that FAA recertification process was worse than the chemo.
"I'd Rather Not Know" – The Science Behind Willful Ignorance
"It's Time to Tax Billionaires Out of Existence (vice.com)"

There, FTFY.
> Here's where you blew it. Wealthy people aren't immune to greed. The wealthier you are, the more wealth you wan to amass because that's what everyone else around you is doing.

No, you didn't get what I wrote, the sentence you quoted starts with 'And so they convince themselves'. Whether it is true or not has no bearing on it.
I like that Yarn 4 is installed into the project directory.

This way you always have the right version when cloning a random Yarn repo.
> resent

Fine, step one, work on why you'd resent that.
I think First Officer can override the decision in these situations
No worries, you're not wrong. By default on the App Store the standard Apple's Licensed Application EULA applies. Optionally, Apple allows you to have your own license agreement instead of the standard one. And there is a special field for it on Apple's website where you edit your App Store app metadata. However, if you do not use your own agreement (you use the standard one) and also offer subscriptions, Apple wants the link to the standard agreement be explicitly specified in the app description. And in iOS UI it's called 'Terms of Use'.
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A flight attendant has to get in the cockpit if one goes to the restroom, they cannot be left alone.
I haven't seen any evidence showing that Ukraine provides any strategic interest to the United States.

I'm open to being wrong if I see any compelling evidence.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/6-suspects-arrested-in-one...

Hmm, sentence seems a bit light, no?
Yup. Dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine have all been shown to be produced by microbes in the gut, including fungi in some cases. The gut-serotonin angle has been largely ignored because it does not cross the blood brain barrier, but this seems like an oversight due to oversimplification and a myopic view of the vast interconnectedness of the body's various systems. After all, tryptophan does cross the BBB and indeed it must do so in order to supply the body with precursor for endogenous serotonin production in the brain. To say nothing of serotonins many roles outside of the brain that are increasingly being uncovered (all 15 serotonin receptor types are expressed throughout the body, not just the brain).

[Above is fairly well established in medical literature, the following is speculative:]

Gut microbes may be out-competing "us" for dietary tryptophan, or, alternatively, inflammatory conditions in the GI may trigger the body to send the majority of free tryptophan down the kynurenine pathway, with little left over to make it up to the brain for endogenous neurotransmitter production.
Since the encoding is explicitly for use in URLs and filenames, and those generally aren’t selectable by double-clicking either, I don’t see what the problem is.
How would we assess whether the scheme works? What are the metrics?
Gibson is of two minds about this. He's said he's bemused when people come up to him at a book signing thanking him for inspiring them to get into computing as a career (seemingly ignoring the problems of Neuromancer's future), but on the other hand he's said that people who say Neuromancer was dystopian forget that most SF writers in the 1980s doubted that there would be a 21st century society rather than a radioactive wasteland, so from that perspective Neuromancer was optimistic.
Indeed it is very good! I finished watching it last night and thoroughly enjoyed the dark ominous atmosphere.
A planet where you’d be fool to buy a dumb ice car, where Tesla’s competition is cringe or a complete joke
> I highly doubt we could come close to ending global poverty by simply throwing £10 trillion at the problem

That isobviously true

But we could make a huge dent in poverty in countries with functioning civil society.

Cash does not completely end poverty but it ameliorates the worst of it.

The best examples I know of are in India and Brazil

Redistributing money is very effective
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I’ve loved Henry Sugar since the 70s but assumed any video adaptation would make a mess of it - thankfully the Wes Anderson film is wonderful.
Microsoft announces Security Copilot early access program
It's certainly chilling to have confirmed what I've long suspected is being done.

If OpenAI are scraping public tweets for their LLM then it's hard for me to believe this government isn't also scraping for their own power and control.

Perhaps unsurprisingly this seems to be about as high quality as the track & trace system that looted £37 billion from the tax payer [0].

It makes one think about the importance of anonymous donations to NGOs who are trying to hold the government accountable for fear of future targeted surveillance for valuing "freedom".

[0] https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accoun...
I disagree. Maybe you've worked in more efficient government agencies, but I've worked in both sides and the private industry groups Ive worked with arent perfect but are massively more efficient.
> Isn’t this just shifting the issue?

No. See below.

> You might argue that John’s speech isn’t a direct issue and is a matter of political opinion and should be unlimited.

Yes.

> Jane might argue that the speech is directly dangerous.

No, because it is Jane's choice whether or not to act on what John says. Nobody is forcing her. John is not threatening her or publishing false information about her. And in a sane society, we would expect people to exercise their intelligence and common sense before acting on something some random person said on the Internet, and we would allow Jane to suffer the consequences of her extremely poor judgment if she chose to act on the obviously daft claim John made that the vaccine would turn her children into frogs. Similar remarks would apply if Jane made her claim on behalf of supposed other people who would "suffer" because of John's posts.
The concept of "red = stop" and "yellow = slow" existed prior to electricity and artificial light: in rail transportation, a yellow flag meant proceed with caution.

When traffic lights were first created, they simply didn't have the technology to create a great pure yellow, so amber was used instead, and people understood the color they were aiming for.
One of the benefits of quiet cycling streets... vividly cringeworthy reactions (and other human interactions, too...)
Not in the Constitution in my country, member of EU. What "EU Tax Observatory" wants is actually against the Constitution here.
I think the better question is, Which entity can better allocate the capital? The government or the billionaire? Given the historic track record of government spending I would argue the we are much better with the capital staying in the private sector. As a bonus, if capital is grossly misallocated in the private sector, the company may go out of business, and those resources are freed up the the highest bidder. When the government grossly misallocates resources, the burden falls on the tax payer and rarely gets fixed in any reasonable time horizon.
> Middling Excel skills still make you a wizard able to do things nobody else can, in most offices (though not most tech offices)

Do those skills translate directly to a job/pay, or are they simply nice-to-have competencies inside other jobs? I've always worked as an ops/analyst/spreadsheet guy but I've found over the years that those formula manipulation skills never actually translate to "advancement". They enable me and my company to do things easier than they would have otherwise, but appear as nice-to-have rather than valued in it's own right.

Put another way - Is there actually a career where the primary hard skill is "I'm good at excel"?
> Half of me thinks this is a stupid idea but the other half of me is fascinated with "mixed reality" turned inside out and would love the opportunity to paint motion graphics on a canvas this big.

This would be a nice target for some guerilla hacking. Have some Pac-Man ghosts chasing each other from screen to screen, or something like that.
> you're trying to avoid diagnosis, which is a slightly different game and seems harder to fake.

Even easier. Just answer ever question with what's "normal". If you're shooting for a particular diagnosis, or even a diagnosis in general, you have to actually know what the symptoms are, or else the doctor will notice something odd. If you want no diagnosis, you just have to have a general idea of what most people are like.
Don't pilots have a maximum number of hours per year that's way under 2000, leaving a lot of "office time"?
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Tatung also used them on the Einstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Einstein
> Pretty much no MCU in the same price range contains a DAC

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol...

10-bit DAC and Differential ADC at $1.00 right now at Digikey.

> most comparable MCUs don't have integrated OpAmps

STM32, AVR, and MSPM0 all have OpAmp chips in their family. No, not every chip. But this means that your assembly code / c-code and drivers just transfer over to the OpAmp family (Ex: AVR128DB48) when you need OpAmps.

So my code I wrote earlier on the AVR16DD14 $1 earlier just magically upgrades to the OpAmp version inside the family.

Bonus points to MSPM0 for having higher quality chopper/zero drift OpAmps even. (Though negative points for TI chips to be out of stock right now lol)

All of these are rail-to-rail in my experience as well. So.... Yeah... The competition is tough these days.

> If you need fast processing, with real multitasking, flexible (digital) pheriperals (PIOs can also simulate timers and up to ~22 total timers are nothing to scoff at)

Spend $5 more and get a real chip if you're actually processor limited. The Linux Capable SAM9X60 is sitting there at like $8. That's a full bore Linux 6.x kernel.

Anyone at the $1 to $3 market ain't doing this for cost/performance efficiency... but instead overall cost optimization. The 600MHz to Ghz class chips are all available at $10 and are a better choice for processor limitations.

If you're scared of BGA, then I'm still willing to bet that STM32F7 or STM32F4 are better choices with hardware Floats and like 200MHz to 800MHz.

But yeah, 8-bitters and Cortex-M0+ chips aren't here to win performance or compute benchmarks. They're here because a potato-chip is all you need to run an ADC + send data over SPI or I2C and/or react to a UART. For all deeper needs, please for good gracious... please buy a $3 or $5 or $8 chip instead.

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I do think the $1 to $3 market is mostly about "Making sure you don't have to buy something else". Like having on-board flash (cutting off another $1 from the BOM / assembly), or whatever.

RP2040 goes a different approach, $1 is very cheap and 264kB is a very large amount of SRAM, but it really doesn't contain anything else worth noting (I guess a single-ended ADC and the PIOs like you mentioned). But all the SRAM/PIO in the world isn't enough to get you to output a 10-bit analog signal through a DAC.
Yes, and while we're talking about probing, my favorite DMMs by far are the pen shaped DMMs because one hand holds both the DMM and the positive probe; small, no flat surface needed and always easy to read the screen. No more putting the DMM down on something and holding the probes on while craning my neck to read the DMM, pick up the DMM to move to another location, repeat, so tiring - I tried a pen DMM a few years ago on a whim and I'm always going to use a pen DMM now on.
MMT is mostly magical thinking

There is an element of truth