Take a minute and do some research. Advance owns Ars and the terms of the acquisition allow it to have total independence.

But again, I recommend you contact the Ars editors directly and share your theory that the Condé logo at the bottom of the page proves that they are in fact Condé stooges and have no editorial independence. See what they say. Their DMs are open.

And technically Condé does not own Ars, Advance does. Different leadership group.

The depth of articles or the decision to pull in Wired content is strictly an editorial decision made by Ars editorial leadership.

Running your own Spark, especially on prem, is a lot of work. Most companies would prefer to just provide their data and let someone else handle the query engine.

The parent is right however that Databricks has a feature store (tokenization) but it's not simple to set up and just getting content in and out of it is a major pain point right now.

"Validity of the SAT for Predicting First-Year College Grade Point Average"

TL;DR: High School GPA + SAT score produce correlation coefficient values between 0.44 and 0.62, depending on the population. How strong are those values?

> A general rule of thumb for interpreting correlation coefficients is offered by Cohen (1988): a small correlation has an absolute value of approximately 0.1; a medium correlation has an absolute value of approximately 0.3; and a large correlation has an absolute value of approximately 0.5 or higher.

From Dr. Shaw's paper on page 7, linked above.

In other words it's very strong, the strongest correlation coefficient that has been found for any signal associated with first year GPA at college.

This has been well understood in the academic community for decades, it's only outside of professional education circles that the validity of the SAT and ACT (when combined with high school GPA) as a predictor of future performance at college is even questioned.

Counter-example: Jenkins. It does what you ask of it, its base install is "naked" and only contains the minimum functionality in the core.

Everything then becomes a plugin. Git. GitHub. Branch for multi-branch pipelines. Credentials management. And on and on and on.

Now you have stay on top of maintaining the plugins in addition to the core. Also, many plugins require other plugins so just to do some basic stuff like set up a multi-branch pipeline from a GitHub repo you're suddenly staring down the barrel of dozens and dozens of bespoke plugins with varying levels of quality and support.

A monolithic application like curl is a dream to me by comparison. Everything is tested in every release. Sub-components are kept up to date by the maintainer. No plugins fighting each other's plugins.

From afar it's easy to see the praise simplicity and modularization but honestly monoliths can be undervalued too.

  Argentina
  Australia
  Belgium
  Bolivia
  Brazil
  Ecuador
  Liechtenstein
  Luxembourg
  Nauru
  North Korea
  Peru
  Pitcairn Islands
  Samoa
  Singapore
  Swiss canton of Schaffhausen
  Uruguay

Australia is probably the best of the bunch but it's demography and geography are not comparable to the US, a lot of things that work there don't translate here and vice versa.

The author theorizes:

> When the only question voters face is whose ideas they prefer, politicians will naturally focus on developing and debating real world ideas rather than fantasies, and democracy can live up to its moral and practical potential.

O RLY? Is that the situation in Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador? TL;DR: No.

This article also presumes the bedrock of democracy is elections, but in fact that's just one dimension and not necessarily the most important one -- rule of law, civil institutions, a functioning state are all equally if not more important than the selection of specific leaders.

Good book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Guns-Votes-Democracy-Dangerous/d...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting#:~:text=15)%...

It's not just about the sample size, I could get into the anatomy of my injuries but I don't want to divulge more of my medical privacy than I already have.

Suffice to say that when certain things are torn or detached surgical intervention is often the only way to re-attach or restore function to the affected joints. No mount of wishing it way mentally is going to change that.

I've had 5 orthopedic surgeries and they were transformative -- and this article is written by an orthopedist!

There's some data [1] against these operations:

- Arthoscopic knee surgery

- Subacromial shoulder decompression

- Acromioplasty for rotator cuffs

- Vertebroplasty for the spine

That's 4 techniques out of...how many exactly?

It's just an n=1 anecdote but my surgeries absolutely changed my life for the better. I don't want to get into the gory details but I feel incredibly grateful to have had such talented surgeons.

You can argue placebo but my years of ineffective physical therapy suggest otherwise.

Instead of saying "Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo" this article should say "A handful of specific surgeries shown to be no better than a placebo" -- generically describing all surgeries as a placebo is clickbait, in my non-medical-professional opinion.

[1] https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2020/11/07/some_surger...

Odessa is a city of less than a million people while 8 million are crammed into New York. The more apples-to-apples comparison would be Moscow (12 million).

Plenty of people are willing to trade space for location. They want to be in the center of all the action.

And prices are dropping rapidly as the city empties out because of Covid: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/big-drop-in-manhattan-rental...

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's life's work is about this, what he calls "System 1" and "System 2" of our brain, where System 1 is a fast responder that provides insta-feedback but is largely incapable of processing mathematical inputs. His 2011 book "Thinking Fast and Slow" summarizes his work well.

I'm not sure popular media can be trained to frame statistical probabilities in a way that doesn't provide people with the certainty they crave. But who knows?

Silver did a nice writeup of the whole experience: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-real-story-of-2016/

So I don't know if you can pin the blame for what happened to the Halo franchise on MSFT.

The first is Microsoft opposing an effort by the US government to force it to hand over information stored on servers physically outside the US. Which proves my point.

The second is an FAQ by the EFF about National Security Letters. These are times when the government covertly forces American companies to hand over information. Which is stupid. But it has nothing to do with the fact that US companies control certain parts of IT infrastructure in Europe. You don't think Siemens and DeutcheTelekom turn over information to the German government?

The third one is a totally unrelated story about Edward Snowden's e-mail service. Not sure what that has to do with anything. What company would want to host his email? He's a walking target for state adversaries.

So again, if you have links that prove your point, please post them -- but these do not even come close.

Problem is, the US government does not own US companies.

After the Snowden leaks, for example, Google did a lot of hardening to its servers i.e. ensure all of its internal traffic is encrypted.

If you have evidence that Microsoft, Amazon and Google are totally willing to forgo the security and privacy interests of their customers in favor of pleasing the US Government, please, present some evidence for it. I'm eager to read it.

Luckily Europe doesn't do any spying.

https://thecorrespondent.com/6257/how-european-spy-technolog...

Take logging. Super important - I spend a lot of time evangelizing logging to younger devs and how to do it well. But filtering? How? In what way? For what values? I don't have context but the expectation I should be able to filter for specific things you have secret preferences for strikes me as a signal that's not clear or universal.

Checking HTTP codes. In what context? There are plenty of times when it's not helpful -- for example there are many page not founds that DON'T return as 404 (even tho they should). So this a priori belief that all devs should automatically have this built-in preference for checking HTTP codes as some universal signal of quality in programming is, I think, a larger assumption than you might realize.

I don't think there is a perfect way to interview, but I do think if you're going to quiz developers it helps to give them some advance warning of what areas you prefer to focus on so it's not such a random, out-of-left field line of questioning.

You may not consider your questions abnormal -- but that's the problem, neither do the people who ask obscure algorithm questions! It's very hard to validate your assumptions.

Do you know what I do when I see a problem for the first time that I don't immediately know the answer to? I Google it. Because A) it's faster B) many minds greater than mine might have already come up with an optimal solution that I'm unlikely to self-produce in 2 hours.

What if a developer hasn't been deep in debugging production code for a while? Those edge cases might not be top of mind.

Maybe they're doing documentation or planning or writing Jira tickets and remembering all the ways to nullcheck a JavaScript variable isn't their current life goal. Instead they might try running the code locally or write some tests for it or research to see what others have done in similar patterns.

Dreaming up magical solutions while under the stressful glare of people judging your life's work may sound reasonable to you because presumably it matches up to some internal signals you value in each other, but every workplace is different -- different codebases, different problems, edge cases prevalent in one may not be prevalent in another.

You're better off doing a traditional Q&A about their experience and a take home mini-project (or asking them about theirs). If they don't want to spend time on that, then and only them give them some timed test you feel is applicable.