skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a tragic and preventable loss. It's incredible that a software bug might have been the root cause.

At the time, this incident really stuck out because it broke the illusion of our fabled Patriot missile shield protecting us. Civilian expats really believed the inflated Patriot interception rates parroted to us by mainstream media and our American military expat buddies.

A large number of remaining expats who had stuck out the Gulf War to that point decided to pack it in and leave when word got out that the Dhahran barracks were hit. Although history shows that Iraq surrendered days after this incident, at the time there was heightened fear and confusion amongst the remaining expats, especially the non-Americans.

We left on the last Lufthansa flight (crewed by military personnel) after hearing about this.

Nostalgic edit:

During the Gulf War embassies issued equipment and rations to expat citizens who chose to stay behind. Americans were issued full body suits (for adults and youths) due to the biological and chemical weapon payloads that Saddam boasted his SCUDs were carrying, along with MREs that tasted fabulous! In stark contrast, Commonwealth citizens were issued a bare gas mask (adult size only) and mono-flavour MREs that tasted like cardboard.

The British embassy sticks out in my mind: with stern stone-faced expressions they admonished us all for not evacuating and thus endangering children in a war zone. In addition to the terrible rations and gas masks, they wordlessly gave us a stack of translucent stickers. When asked what they were for, embassy staff explained that in the event of the air siren going off, we should get under our sturdiest tables and don our gas masks (standard procedure), and then slap the stickers on. If the stickers changed colour, it meant we were in the presence of a biochemical agent and would have approximately 10 seconds before we died a horrific death.

You kind of had to be there to appreciate the grim humour.
I'm one of the co-founders at Triplbyte. What this means is that our statistical model now significantly outperforms our own interviewers (and me) at performing a structured interview, and then making a judgment about whether a candidate will or will not go on to do well at interviews at other companies. It is slightly meta, because we're using an interview to predict other interviews. But I find it very exciting, because a) it means we're more accurate, and b) we know exacly what features we're feeding into our model, and can avoid a lot of the bias in the process.
Personally, I would recommend a smaller unstable company. At the time, I didn't recognize it as being such (but certainly not Top 4), and I wouldn't have possibly learned as much and as quickly in a less dysfunctional organization. To be fair, that's also why I eventually ended up leaving, but responsibility and opportunity can be very available in understaffed and unstable companies. Definitely find some good mentors wherever you end up.
Sure, but it sometimes is useful to remember that those fictions are indeed fictions, and can be changed. Doesn't mean they are not useful fictions. Doesn't mean they should be changed. Saying they are meaningless because they are fictions is, of course, absurd. Civilization is built pretty much exclusively of useful fictions. But is good to remember we can change the set of fictions we collectively believe in.

Think about rights and legal codes. When the law supposedly comes from god, like it did in many ancient societies, it makes no sense to ask whether it is just or unjust, as it can't be changed except by an act of god. When you recognize that law is human made, that doesn't mean it holds no power, but it means humans can change it, and unjust laws can be repealed when enough humans agree they are unjust. So is with nationality. Is not a fact of nature, is a distinction we agree on because it serves a purpose. Is that purpose necessary? Is it just? Is there a viable path towards changing it? Maybe, maybe not. But acknowledging it is made up allows us to at least ask those questions.
I use Tidal more often because it has higher quality audio most of the time and a better UI, but fall back to Spotify prn. The emphasis on original music is nice.

I subscribe to both because one is not a subset of the other, which I dislike.

But hey, it’s been great, and I’ve actually found new music I love on Spotify/Tidal, unlike every other platform which has attempted recommendations.
You provide a service write code for the company so that the company makes good profits in exchange you get a salary.

Nobody cares if you work hard over time unless your projects are late.

Lessons learnt spend time with your loved ones.
> and has multiple chat apps for the same reason GM has multiple automobiles.

But all of GM's cars (and their competitors) can use the same roads.

All those chat apps with their own user bases and incompatible protocols create isolated bubbles, ultimately harming all of them.
My thought exactly. This isn't new. It's just the East German Stasi system with a little bit of technology sprinkled in.
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Yeah, I read that for most of Earth's history, there were no polar ice caps. Our current ones are only a relic of the most recent ice age. And the next ice age is not due for 90,000 years.
>So if Google and I have a business relationship that exists to serve each side’s interests, why was I spending time on all these tasks that served Google’s interests instead of my own? If the promotion committee doesn’t reward bugfixing or team support work, why was I doing that?

That's where the culture failed.
This is bad, editorialized title that is not the title of the article.

Mods should change this. The "software fix" was a software patch which corrected the clocking bug.

The "software workaround" to use pre-fix was reboot.

I hate editorialized, lying titles :(
Will Spotify face the music for its unconventional public listing? https://news.alphastreet.com/will-spotify-face-the-music-for...
The only annoying issue I have with IOS Spotify is that it caches your playlists until ??? or the application gets restarted. I frequently add songs to my library at work, but find that the songs don't show up on my phone when leaving for the day.
> We started Triplebyte because we were frustrated by the noise present in every step of the hiring process.

This is largely just a software/technology problem. In all other professional industries there are means to validate a candidate's competency before they are allowed to interview for a position: licensing, required internships, legal certifications/authorizations, authorized relationships, and so forth.

Technology doesn't have this. The big difference is that in those other professions they are using the interview to actually interview the candidate, as in the person. In software and technology the entire interview is used to gauge basic competency and even then the trust relationship is inherently broken.

Contrary to what technologists will tell you the problem isn't the hiring process or low salaries (preposterous answer unless you live in the bay area). These are symptoms of a broken trust relationship. Hiring companies inherently do not trust the people they are interviewing as basically competent unless they have been told otherwise by somebody they know personally.

Hiring companies shouldn't trust a candidate is minimally competent, because there is no means to a standard baseline on which competency is measured. That is the primary problem. Solve for this problem and the resulting symptoms are easily addressed by the marketplace as a matter of economics.

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The problem is very clear to see when you have two simultaneous careers: one as a software developer and a different one in an unrelated industry that has professionally addressed these concerns with required professional education and accreditation/licensing.
> Modern languages are all converging to the same good feature set but don't have anything to differentiate from each other

You said "good feature set" rather than "feature set". I'd agree those languages are converging to the same feature set, but the features they're each really good at does differentiate them. Typescript is good for Javascript generation. Kotlin and Eclipse Ceylon are good at generating statically typed JVM bytecodes. Apache Groovy's good for those 20-liners in Gradle for specifying builds on the JVM and Android. Kotlin's good for Android code.
Again, if you're a cross-platform developer, make is not for you. Do you also expect zsh enthusiasts to court Windows devs?
Don't know why you're downvoted so much. You're completely spot on.
To be fair with myself I was mostly snarking around op comment who dismissed the C language as if it was some ancient relic.

But even without accounting for compiler optimizations and cpu architecture, the C language just straight up lies to its user. You could code something entirely with void*.

PS: what I meant by "real words" is that you're naming functions and calling them by their name. Which in itself is very powerful.
Came here to recommend that very book. It's a sober and thoughtful read, and changed how I see nations and other communities.
You define 'real' as: "likely to arise in any culture, perhaps in any species that's able". That's a strong claim. Look at your arguments supporting it:

> You have a greater interest in reaching consensus with people in the same democracy as you...

> People who live in the same country as you fund the same programs and projects...

> People who live in the same (democratic) country are co-responsible with you...

These all have the form: if democratic nation-states already exist, people will have reason to identify with them. This is plausible, but does not prove that nation-states are "likely to arise in any culture, perhaps in any species that's able".

What it means is that nation-states are a relatively stable arrangement - that, once extant, they by and large convince people to go along with their existence. But there have been many forms of social organization which were stable for long periods of time before modern nation-states came along. Why shouldn't there be many others succeeding it?
There's a memorable chick tract on the same theme as well.
Okay, likely a standard Exchange feature then.
Agree with most of your points!

Just one thing: you don't need a "buy/rent a jet" income to not have to commute to work daily. Retiring early appears to be surprisingly easy with decent income and good spending habits. Taking a year or two off even more so. Eg with the 80k (the more expensive car you mentioned), you can live handsomely for 4+ years in South-East Asia or Eastern Europe.
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You should read your sources more carefully:

> the first occurring about two million to 1.5 million years ago during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene epochs; a second during the mid Pleistocene, roughly one million to 500,000 years ago; and ending with the spread of modern humans, 50,000 to 30,000 years in the past.

> The new findings, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, casts doubt on the second migration out of Africa. "[The researchers] are not denying that it happened," Trinkaus says, "just that it was less important than movement across Eurasia."

The degree of second migration is what was brought into doubt, not that all humans today share a common ancestor from the 3rd migration.
I seem to recall hearing once that the names of most of the native American nations translate to "Humans" in their own language.
They sometimes project based on projections of estimates modeled from alternate facts scaled within fuzzy sliding windows and unrelated quantifiable numbers.
If you do not mind me asking, as a fellow artist, how have you reached the point of getting this regular influx of listeners on Spotify? Through external promotion or is this solely driven by the Spotify platform and its algorithms?
Challenge accepted: I'll deny it.

It's only a "complete" solution if you actually have the right person.
2nd grade, couldn't see the whiteboard from the last row of class. Teacher noticed and tried sitting me in the first row, which helped. Parents informed, had glasses the next week. Vision continuously got worse for 13 or so years, stabilized now. Thank goodness for polycarbonate lenses, the glass ones I had before I was 18 were immense.
And now they have put a join-wall that is hard to circumvent (erasing cookies does not seem to suffice). It is one of the reasons why I hope to never join Linkedin.
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BuyMeACoffee is geared towards creators, much like Patreon.

Buttons for websites, quick one-click payment, supporter comments, multiple payment options, etc. are some of the differentiators.
I could be reading this wrong, but 1/3 of a second within 100 hours seems really good, like something you'd get from a temperature-controlled crystal oven.

I don't mean to second-guess them in an area I know so little about, but if that was enough to cause a serious issue in the span of only a few days, shouldn't the devices be designed with a separate synchronization system, at least as a backup? Maybe GPS?

Which brings up a sort of interesting question...would a Patriot missile system even have receivers for a weak public signal like GPS, or is it all self-contained?
I really would like them to rebuild their Roku app. We recently got a TV with a Roku built in and it's been fantastic, except the Spotify app appears to be a beta from 2014 that never got finished.

We pay for Spotify but we use Pandora on the TV because of the app quality.
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Good. Now discover call/cc.
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Taking 60-90s completely out of protection to reboot a critical defensive system when someone might, at any moment, toss a Mach 5 projectile at you from a couple hundred miles away is a far-from-ideal fix, even if it had been communicated properly to the end users (which it wasn't.)

https://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2014/03/lethal-software-...
I just used the binomial distribution with n=12, p=12/262 (p = number of articles with deletion attempts / total number of articles). Then I just calculated the probabilities of 0 and 1 deletions and subtracted those from 1 to get the probability of 2 or more deletion attempts.
First thing is you need to actually be a good engineer. No point optimising if you suck, just put your head down and learn.

Next thing you need to know is the rules of the game in YOUR organisation. Every company is different and the rules are different. Google is unique, so at other companies the game is very different.

Then you need to move the needle on whatever matters. That might be improving metrics, that might mean becoming drinking buddies with the right people, it might be purposefully going to work for a failing team so you can be given the chance to take it over and prove yourself.
1. I normally just dedicate sprint points to training up new resources for a few sprints. I’m not so heavy-handed with the internal policies so it’s up to each team how they do it, but most have some form of pull request review / gating process.

2. I don’t! Well, not directly. Team metrics usually have some impact on bonus money and raises, but that’s all based on budget so it’s not consistent year-to-year. Metrics should be used to drive behavior, but behavior should be used to determine promotion. Is the person a team player? Have they developed the skills necessary to be successful at the next level? What does the next level look like for them — is it management or engineering? A lot plays into it, and you have to have career path discussions with folks. Can’t solve this one with metrics :)
Is anyone else unable to find the video? I don’t want to see it very bad, but I’d like to know if there is clear reason I’m unable to see it.
It's always been that way. Ethnicity is how you describe how people self-identify. Nationality is the political identity you build on top of that because ethnicities are too granular to form effective political blocs.
Since Apple sits on 285 billion dollars cash, it can't be that big of a problem.
I would disagree. I think Spotify is in much vulnerable position.

Twitter is selling user generated content, which costs nothing and not going anywhere. Twitter is as popular as ever. Trump, et al.

Spotify is selling something that belongs to major recording labels; Spotify just license it. Majors can change the licensing rules and torpedo the whole business in a one year, and there is nothing Spotify can do about it.

Of course they won't do it, it reckless, but I think they will be adjusting the licensing rules so Spotify will have almost zero profits for the years to come.

As investor, I would sleep much better as a Twitter shareholder.
I'm bemused by this repeated insistence that supporting colon in file names is somehow difficult.
I recommend chasing this with Ernest Gellner
Apple built its own custom GPU core starting with the iPhone 6 — and nobody noticed

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/238246-apple-built-its-ow...
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I will go a bit further: "general intelligence capable of empathy" identity.
Well yes, but you're explicitly ignoring instructions at that point.

But I agree, making it more difficult (force the user to consult the man page and look up the flag -- see openssl cert generation) would be better.
> The most interesting thing about smell is that it is so much an overriding factor in how we perceive taste. Everyone thinks it is the taste buds in the mouth, but no. Smell is so much more of it.

That is called the retronasal smell. [0][1] Basically we "taste" food with the nose. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronasal_smell

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronasale_Aromawahrnehmung (German)

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Weg_der_orthonasalen_und...
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Spotify's head of product was also head of product at last.fm
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I am a subscriber of Spotify, because I follow the "This Week's Releases" playlist of jlarome. It is some kind of ancestor of the automatic algorithms, but I always find some interesting new stuff in genres that I rarely listen to, otherwise.
cf https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY... (and https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6CfIDri6dejaB... for "Last week's releases").
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Um... no it doesn't. It takes each space delimited name as a new name. You will need to add "" and quote the names -- but Windows shell only has one level of quoting, (") which means you can't easily type the command you need. Unix shell is a bit better. Unix only appears worse because people do attempt scripting.

Directory of C:\Users\fred

12/14/2017 04:44 PM 1,556 new 2.txt
1 File(s) 1,556 bytes
0 Dir(s) 75,989,876,736 bytes free

C:\Users\fred>dir new 2.txt
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is BA05-C445

Directory of C:\Users\fred

Directory of C:\Users\fred

File Not Found

C:\Users\fred>
This is a weird argument ignoring the main reasons for nationality - locality and familiarity, i.e. a group of people living next to each other speaking the same language (even with dialects).
Was it just me or did the narrator's tone make it seem like he was talking to a child?
Parent is referencing an extremely insight-porn rich essay by Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I agree with you for the most part, but it's a bit disingenuous to interpret "Faster Internet" as just referring to latency, people are almost always talking about bandwidth + latency when using that term (really just how long files/webpages take to download on average - which equates to that).
The Patriot system was originally designed to operate in Europe against Soviet medium- to high-altitude aircraft and cruise missiles traveling at speeds up to about MACH 2 (1500 mph). To avoid detection it was designed to be mobile and operate for only a few hours at one location.

http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat6/145960.pdf

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I never did embedded programming or government programming, so what your saying make sense from a spec perspective.
Thanks for the honesty. Let's see if I can answer your question.

For the first part (nearby musicians/jams):
Jams is our attempt at finding the best solution for a specific problem/necessity. Musicians need to know specific info about other musicians before even thinking about getting together to jam that would be useless for other kinds of activities. (experience, what instruments they play, what genres, etc.)

For the second part (nearby anything):
There are already plenty of apps that let you do this. Nevertheless, we are indeed working on our take at this. Can't disclose a lot at the moment, but I'll be posting here again once its closer to launch.
> The fact that it is still in use in any form and still being discussed here is a testament to what an amazingly good job he did at the time.

Not necessarily.

> It’s also pretty much guaranteed to already be installed and working on every nix system, and that's not nothing.

First mover advantage.

The fact that no modern language, basically nothing outside of C/C++ uses it, says a lot. And even those are moving away, see Cmake & co.
BlackBerry tried that exact strategy with BlackBerry 10: brand new OS with an Android app compatibility layer. It didn't work.

Nokia was coming from a similar position as BlackBerry, so I don't see how it would have worked for them either.
MIL-SPEC was indeed famous for overspecified components. So it's not terribly shocking that the oscillator on that board would operate really well as an isolated system. You probably don't need temperature control per se, a temperature compensation circuit could probably do that.
Indeed, though it also seems that within the 'my country first and screw the rest' groups there are quite a few who believe that a large percentage of their fellow nationals are hell-bent on destroying it.
I enjoy Spotify so much that Apple's weird hard ball with Spotify is making me less interested in their products.

I actually think the Apple Watch is a pretty interesting product and I'm a bit interested in buying one, but the lack of Spotify support has turned me off the idea for the time being.
All property is doomed, but some properties are more doomed than others. 2 metres of sealevel rise won't be kind to The World, plus a projected wet bulb temp over 35 C by 2100 in that part of the world. https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2833

Even the very rich might prefer to not live on a sinking pile of sand, where an air conditioning failure results in death within hours.
Of course it is, you are just unaware of it, because, unlike its Chinese counterpart, NSA chooses to maintain illusion of freedom and democracy.
If nation-states don't already exist, then someone will invent them. This has happened over and over again in human history, and native American civilizations serve as a great example. If you have a single, global state, then all of the same identity arguments apply to the new global identity.

So, it sounds like the choices are between many national identities, one (global) national identity, and anarchy from which many national identities will arise given time.

Finally, if you're going to hold the universal single-state together, you would have to crush all civil wars or faction divides before they even started. To do this preemptively is the central tenant of fascism, and to not do it at all will just lead back to having multiple states. So, in the long-term, you'll end up with multiple national identities.
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This feels like a disingenuous comment. Yes, there are plenty of worse ways to divide ourselves. Instead of trying to find ways to divide ourselves why not focus on empathy and the reasons to work together.