GreaterFool

> that governments need to put some "guardrails" around engineers and the tech titans they serve

The evil engineers! Not the managers, CEOs and so on, but engineers. The true root of evil.

Finally someone recognizes who's really at fault </sarcasm>

Maybe they just really didn't want to support it anymore? Sunset the service...

Even simple help/reminder can make a big difference. I recall a bunch of research on how simple checklists in operating rooms improve prognosis by a huge margin (and yet they aren't as widely used as they should be).

Had a quick look. None of this looks like features for power users. How are "spaces" different than having multiple open windows?

> no customers are really allowed to use a VPS as if it were bare-metal

I don't agree. What I'm paying for are vCPUs not actual CPUs. So I know I'm not getting bare metal and that the compute power is already managed by VPS provider.

Are you saying that on top of that I also have to monitor and be responsible my own CPU usage or risk getting banned?

What are the rules?

That's why I wouldn't do anything serious on DO, just use it for low-cost side projects.

AWS has explicit CPU credits on their cheaper instances. They built their system to allow bursts of activity. If Digital Ocean doesn't have that their offering is simply weak.

Also I recall few years ago Digital Ocean send me a message that referenced specific processes running on my VM. I know that they have access to that if they want to but looking into specific processes was stepping over the line in my book.

I moved my servers from Digital Ocean shortly after that.

> fraudulent high-cpu-loads

That's enough for me to never use DO again. One pays for a server but then using it is fraudulent?!

I've been spending some time in California and I noticed a worrying trend that it gets harder and harder to purchase marijuana. ID requirements are getting more onerous, MasterCard no longer accepted, etc. Things are going backwards!

A/C only has two settings: off and too cold. Some people like too cold though. And a nice vest fixes the problem. I don't actually mind the ambient temperature being low as long as I can keep warm.

This reminds me of all those articles I've read about Silicon Valley hoodie as some sort of way for techies to declare their tribe.

Then I went to Bay Area. And guess what? One really needs a hoodie there! It is the most versatile thing to wear for the local weather. Covers 90% of what you need!

Suit doesn't keep one warm one as warm as vest. I, and many colleagues, often wear a vest in the office because AC makes it too cold otherwise. I think the author here is overthinking it.

That said, I don't know what Wall Street is like these days. Maybe they do consider it some sort of status symbol.

Add Shibuya (mainly around the station) and Shinjuku and you basically covered all foreigner hotspots! Those are the most non-representative areas!

But go to Shimokitezawa or Gakuendaigaku or anywhere off the beaten path and foreigners will be few and far between.

Actually, Japan doesn't begin anything. Japan has been doing this for years. The major shift in the last couple of years was introduction of new unskilled visas.

I don't follow that too closely but IIRC what Japan introduced first was a guest worker visa for entry level positions such as convenience store workers. These workers would receive Japanese language training in their home countries and then come to work in Japan for 2 years, or something like that.

I think this was the pilot program. Must've gone well since later on Japan relaxed the requirements for unskilled workers in general.

Meanwhile Japan made it easier for skilled workers to get a PR. I think on "engineer" (there's nuance to what it means and how it works) one would require 10 years to get PR. Then HSFP (see my other comments) was introduced which I believe lowered that to 5 years, initially. Then HSFP was amended to to 1 and 3 years depending on Type 1 (more points on the scale) and Type 2. This happened while back. Year or two ago.

The most recent change is new visas for unskilled workers with a path to PR.

Again, all of this has been going on for years. Nothing began just now :)

The absolute fastest way to PR is through Highly Skilled Foreign Professional Type 1 visa. PR after a year. That's incredibly fast. Type 2 visa after 3 years IIRC. The difference between 1 and 2 is the number of points one scores.

> but it’s no longer quite right to call it homogeneous

Are you sure? Japan is maybe 99% homogeneous? I live in central Tokyo and I can go on for days and days without seeing a foreigner!

> it will inevitably introduce social strains

Sadly, yes. I've observed this on few occasions.

Downvoting on HN confuses me. I don't ever downvote anything, I think it's a bad idea. Upvoting is ok, downvoting should be removed.

Also, looking at comments, often I see only upvote and no downvote button. Why is that?

It is fascinating to see that I have negative points by simply recounting a bland personal experience. Who did I offend this time? :)

I found intermittent fasting hard on carb diet. It is super easy on keto diet. In fast I fast 2-3 days every now and then because it's just a seamless transition.

I'm not saying my personal experience should be considered universal, that'd be foolish. Just recounting that.

But it makes sense given how metabolizing fat and metabolizing sugar works. Insulin response, etc.

I can only speak to my personal experience. I’m not an athlete but I lift, bike and so on. On empty stomach. I don’t eat before training. I could never do that on carb diet.

Sounds reasonable to me. I've been eating keto for a long time and I always feel like I have fat energy reserves to draw on. I wonder if keto-adapted men and women would outperform carb-adapted counterparts in ultra-endurance.

From personal experience there is a difference and it is a big difference.

If men evolved to be bigger and stronger, as measured in some peak power output, surely there's a price on that? The candle that burns twice as bright burns twice as fast as the saying goes.

Also, the article is mainly about one woman. It mentions that the gap has narrowed but in order to have any meaningful analysis we'd need more stats.

Also, many, many people run marathons. So narrowing gap makes sense due to increased participation rate and better training; men and women aren't that different, on average. The extremes though are where differences truly manifest themselves.

How close 18 is to 10 in absolute sense has zero meaning. So does saying "10 most dangerous jobs" without quoting actual numbers. What if job 11 is 100x more safe than job 10? What if job 18 is 100000x more safe than job 10?

Wow. That is seriously unfair

It's mysterious enough if there's no one willing to explain how the system works. Just that the results are adjusted.

Why not actually? Instead of politicized solutions one could require schools at every level to create some sort of random admission pool for some percentage of yearly admissions.

For instance, take the mean SAT of admitted students, lower it by X% and pick candidates to random pool with scores above that level.

I imagine that to many people it wouldn't be "fair" because it wouldn't bring the outcome they want. But it'd be fun to watch them argue that random system privileges XYZ group!

My university (one of the top-ranked in the world) did have some sort of adjusted scaling for the final exams. The raw results were never released. One would get a number somehow adjusted for how to the whole cohort did. So that if some exams turn out to be just too damn hart it won't wipe out everybody. But it was opaque and I really hated that!

I did good enough and then went on to do a Masters degree. There I'd get my direct scores. I really feel much better about it. I knew what I did right and what I did wrong.

I think the adjusted score in my undergrad benefited me (some exams were too damn hard!) but I still hated the system.

Just introduce a random pool. RANDOM.

I don't trust any of these people to do it correctly. I wouldn't even trust them to make random truly random.

Given that the population of Japan is <130M and is only going to go down from now on, what's the point? :)

14-digits?!?! Yikes. Not looking forward to using that!

So one starts with 1 point. Someone clicks downvote, it goes to 0 and the comment disappears, right? That's too fast IMHO.

Perhaps a better system would be to upvote only? Then constructive comments would raise to the top and who really cares what's long way down?

I assume you're talking about CI? Not much more than that. But that only works in the most trivial cases. One repository, simple tests. I spent tons of time over the years always tweaking this and that to make whatever CI system we were using somehow work with GitHub. Lot's of setup, lots of trouble.

I feel bad for GitLab.

It's better than GitHub in almost every way. And yet GitHub is more popular both in open-source and enterprise. And in enterprise we are usually left with unholy combination of GitHub and JIRA because GitHub project management is a joke and they haven't done anything useful in that space for years.

But for some reason pushing for anything other than GitHub is always an uphill battle. And the web interface GitHub offers isn't any good either; I can't use it without OctoTree (amazing stuff BTW, works with GH and GL! Kudos!). So what does GitHub really offer that makes it so popular? A friendly name? A cute OctoCat?

And GL leads the way and GH copies their features some years down the line and GL fights and GH is still more successful.

I think this is sad.

Because Wasm could be used mobile as a native first class citizen, not limited to running within a browser or some browser view. And then Wasm code can be shared between multiple environments including mobile, browser, edge (CloudFlare workers), backend (multiple Wasm runtimes are emerging right now and some of then are very performant). And then one would not be limited to Swift but could use any language that compiles to Wasm. So code reuse would effectively skyrocket.

Wasm can be used in every corner of computing spectrum. It doesn't mean it's some perfect tool to solve all problems but it can lead to interesting places and those are worth exploring.