With all the overdose deaths and the lives ruined by opioids, I guess I'm a little bit surprised this didn't result in criminal charges for someone at McKinsey. Surely there must be some emails or texts that are inculpating.
As long as you hide behind a corporation, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Worst case, the company will pay a nominal fine as cost of doing business. And maybe somebody gets fired with a large severance.
As killings get normalized they will be more difficult to be caught. Less point blank pistoling, more IEDs and long range rifles is our future imo. The veil has been pierced for at least some people.
Not going to be "the norm" nor will there be an endless stream of vigilantes available to deter this level of sociopathy. Assassinations are obviously not the way we want society to work either, violence to settle grievances etc, no good.
The only way I think we could hope to stem the tide of this level of corruption is through education. I believe it's really in the ruling classes interest to keep as people as dumb as possible though, so I don't think it will happen.
Not sure what else the alternatives could be. Societal collapse?
> According to Kavanaugh, former McKinsey senior partner Martin Elling "personally deleted various Purdue related electronic materials from his McKinsey laptop with the intent to obstruct future investigations." DOJ officials said Elling has agreed to plead guilty to a felony count of obstruction of justice for destroying those company records.
You might've been too busy trying to force "inculpating."
Indeed! I feel like we as a community have taken a wrong turn with our use of notebooks. I think they have benefits in some specific use cases (e.g., teaching, demos, etc.), but otherwise, I think they mostly encourage bad practices for software development.
I've done some work with the public data from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA does a great job of making detailed data on inspections and accidents public. If memory serves me correctly, it turns out there are about two deaths per day from work-related causes in the US...
I think there is a fair bit of personal tastes in the answers to these kinds of questions. Personally, I've become a fan of Josh Comeau's "delightful React file/directory structure" [1].
I think it makes a ton of sense, but again, I suspect there's a fair bit of personal preference in these kinds of things.
I'm eager to see what other styles and architectures people suggest!
I don’t agree with everything in the filenaming (as you say, a lot of this is a matter of taste). But there are some excellent suggestions mixed in there around structure and organization. Bookmarked!
I usually assume these companies are using some of the popular schedulers (e.g., Slurm, MOAB, SGE) that have existed in the HPC community for many years.
I have anecdotally also heard that some are using k8s, but I've not seen that myself. Slurm [1] is basically built for this stuff; that's definitely what I would use!
Slurm is definitely still dominant, but OpenAI has been using k8s for training for many years now¹, and there are various ways to run slurm on top of Kubernetes, including the recent SUNK from coreweave²
at my company we use slurm "directly" for static compute we rent or own (i.e. not in a public cloud), but are considering using Kubernetes because that's how we run the rest of the company, and we'd rather invest more effort into being better at k8s than becoming good slurm admins.
I've only used Arc a bit, and generally had a good experience, but I do wish that they had chosen not to rely Chromium. I understand that would have massively increased the amount of work required initially, but I really worry about our collective reliance on Chromium. I don't know... maybe I'm a pessimist.
Very cool! I hope the Rust crate gets to take advantage of this. It might just be me, but I feel like the Python package gets all the love from the Polars devs.
This is exactly what I would argue. PostgreSQL makes it straightforward to create extremely powerful extensions.
PostGIS is one such extension, and I would argue that if your use case involves geospatial data, then PostGIS alone is enough of a reason to use PostgreSQL!
At least in the US, an institution’s “facilities and administrative” F&A rate gets negotiated with the Federal government every four or five years.
I know of some institutions with F&A rates at or above 70%!! I presume that an institution trying to negotiate a higher F&A rate than this would have some significant pushback!
70% is not that high these days -- there are institutions (normally non-university-affiliated research institutions like the Salk Institute that still apply for NIH and NSF grants) have overheads of 90%! It's important to realize that overheads aren't taken out of the grant given to the researcher, they are added to it. So if a researcher gets a $100K grant at institution with 70% overhead, the institution gets $170K.
