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In a one-page article appearing in Naturwissenschaften, German scientist Svetla Balabanova (1992) and two of her colleagues reported findings of cocaine, hashish and nicotine in Egyptian mummies. The findings were immediately identified as improbable on the grounds that two of the substances were known to be derived only from American plants - cocaine from Erythroxylon coca, and nicotine from Nicotiana tabacum. The suggestion that such compounds could have found their way to Egypt before Columbus' discovery of America seemed patently impossible.

Meanwhile contamination or even a prank/hoax is quite likely. In fact if a lab tech had a big night and didn’t wash their hands properly, or one of their own hairs contaminated the sample, there you have it. Contrary to popular perception, one outlier result isn’t a breakthrough, replication is key.
Some years ago, when Vista was still a thing I had to package a .Net application. I think the tool was called Wix and creating an .msi package meant to declare each file separately in a giant XML file. A quite crazy task to do this manually, but I guess this speaks for the system and also that Microsoft learned from the past. (I remember using Windows 3.1 and I was aware of 3 significantly different version I could install for this Winsock.dll...)
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In theory yes of course, but there is no (other) physical evidence of possible trade between Europe/Africa and the Americas in that period. The possibility that the Phoenecians could have comes up from time to time, but their ships really weren’t well adapted to deep ocean travel.
30 Jan, 2018.
21e9 transistors.
Contamination of the mummy itself seems unlikely, while contamination from the lab or tech seems incredibly likely.
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Oh plz... just as Obama was given the Nobel peace prize before becoming President (and killing a lot of people by bombing them once he was President.)

Did we just award the Pulitzer to an undergrad? OK- but let's not pretend that the Pulitzer matters.
Usually scrum seems to be added for the sake of ‘predictability’

But nothing about the process fundamentally change the problems with software estimation. So in cases where teams are delivering rapidly at high quality but unpredictably, scrum acts as a place to hang paperwork & as a process to hide bad project managers. All while lying to management with charts.
Kanban, gantt, unified process, extreme programming, trello, rfc.

There are plenty of methodologies and tools that can replace or complement Scrum.
I'd say it's uncontested if you like using emacs. Because - for me - it's awful. Mostly because I find using vim or emacs awful and only use either of them when I absolutely can't avoid it.

But that said - it does it's job very well and magit is certainly excellent software for those that are interested in that interface.
Literally nobody else in the Trump administration minds drawing Democratic ire. If he was afraid of Democratic anger, he would be the only guy in the administration who does. Pompeo cheerleaded the Benghazi inquest when he was in Congress!

"Triggering the libs" is approximately 30% of the Trump administration's modus operandi. I don't see much evidence that Pompeo is an exception.

If he is, then Trump's goal of draining the swamp has been thwarted by his own appointee. So... why did Trump appoint him to be Secretary of State? He's obviously been coopted by the Dems, blinded to the truth, and willing to go along with Deep State shenanigans. But Trump trusts him to talk to Kim Jong Un. That seems like terrible judgment. The only resolution to this is that Trump himself has been compromised by the Deep State, or is too stupid to realize that his own guys are.

Either that or he's telling the truth as he understands it.
to recognize reality as the extension of the self, maybe. dunno. tough to think about.
As already answered, you get more done by being more efficient with the given effort. It doesn't matter whether it's factory work or CEO level. Increasing productivity usually leads to a decrease in net effort by workers.

If you want an example, look at the epitome of production line efficiency that is the Toyota Production System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
Maybe it's just me but I didn't read the comment that way. I'm sure everyone in the business would prefer to do that kind of deep reporting, but the economy of the business just doesn't reward that. It's a real problem but I don't think anyone is blaming the journalists. If anything, the ones to blame are the people reading the scandalous stories.

I'm certainly not perfect, but I'm increasingly good at ignoring click-bait links.

EDIT: fixed a critical typo
Is swearing, especially saying "fuck you", usual way to congratulate someone in US?
Ask HN: Finding it very hard to get a job
Hey Hacker News,
I've been applying to a lot of developer jobs(junior) in my area(Cork, Ireland) within the last 6 months and finding it very hard to get any sort of job. I've had a few interviews but some companies don't give feedback, another said I did not fit the role and another company just never got back to me.

Would be great to get some tips or best places to brush up on interview skills.
also here is my cv: seanoneill.me/cv.pdf
> one outlier result

> Of the nine mummies evaluated, all showed signs of cocaine and hashish Tetrahydrocannabinol), whereas all but one sampled positive for nicotine.

While I'm not saying you're incorrect- contamination seems so likely that I'd start investigating if this lab put anyone in prison over these sorts of tests- the article clearly says there were nine different mummies tested.
Right. A lot of people would be willing to risk their life for some really dangerous medical experiment in exchange for a couple of hits of Heroin. Very tricky situation.
> Although reading such accounts I can't help but feel what they really deserve is the gallows.

My reaction was quite different: I got the sense that these people are hurting badly. Being the vessel for state oppression must take a terrible spiritual toll.

Let's not be so unsympathetic to those tasked with oppression, even though they make the bad choice to go along with it. The combination of desperation and mental illness that leads a person to do these sorts of things is nobody's envy, and I believe that a humane world will look not only for revolution but salvation for these poor souls.
With such a drop required could you harness a tide to produce power. Like maybe allow the tide to fill San Francisco Bay and harness it when it recedes.
The best part about the program is you get access to quantum hardware from D-Wave and Regetti. We are in the process of building a quantum ecosystem in Toronto. I speak for myself and others in the program when I say that QML truly is one of a kind.
This is the exact opposite of the last corporate workplace I was in. Ceaseless meetings (programmers often spending the whole day away from their desk), pointless meetings, jargon, all decisions must be approved by the manager, all communication flows through the manager.
> Most westerners can probably name dozens of western countries that rose and fell, but are unlikely to be able to name more than one or two of the Chinese dynasties.

Not going to lie... I only know most of the few I do know from Wuxia movies and Dynasty Warriors :/
> On Windows, software installation/removal involves a deep analysis of machine configuration state ..

Windows installers are designed to fail if they detect software piracy. For instance a machine with MS Office installed, install Delphi, uninstall Delphi and Office refuses to run. Presumably because it thinks it's been copied from another machine.
The photon - or electron or whatever - hits the screen in exactly one spot, not in several and not in any smeared out way.
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For a different view, see "Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes".[1]

It's about extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation comes from outside of the person and is what's typically used by organizations to try to motivate people: salary, praise, bonuses, etc. Intrinsic motivation comes from within.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewards-Trouble-Incentive-Pr...
Your plan is to loop the government/regulators into the scam? What exactly is that incentivizing and how does that improve things for the average bank customer?
This is what code-quoted non-code HN text looks like on a narrow screen: http://imgur.com/LYwZWbT
how many new UIs was the windows team developing at the time? shouldn't "the new UI" suffice?
Which one of the recommendations given here do you think would entail workaholism?
I don’t mean one test, I mean one set of findings from the same source. Even if we’re to believe some ancient traveler made it to the Americas and back, they would have had a hell of a time finding those three things in the (likely one unplanned) trip. Besides, cocaine is the result of modern chemistry! Tripanone is the base alkaloid, from which cocaine is derived.

So not only would these people have had to identify the narcotic value of cannabis, tobacco and coca, they’d have to figure out how to press hashish, and process large amounts of coca leaves for tripanone, and then process that into cocaine base. In practice getting significant quantities of cocaine from coca without the intermediate chemistry isn’t feasible.

No.
It is unethical to perform such experiments on people regardless of what they say or why. It’s like I tell my children. We strive to be polite to other people because of who we are, not because of who they are. That’s what ethics is about.

To approach it another way, as long as one group of people has an economic benefit from abusing another group, there’s a problem. There’s no way you can ever be certain enough that such a system is being administered fairly and competently. The bureaucratic and ethical abuses and mistakes we get already are bad enough.

Finally, I f anyone is in such a desperate situation that this looks like a good option, then surely there must be other ethical options available for society to intervene?
If you don't think any factory has processes that can be improved, I'd like to know which factories you've worked at, and are they hiring?
I've been looking at products in this space myself lately, and stumbled upon the Maslow, which has similar, though not identical functionality, but is a DIY product an order of magnitude cheap than this (though obviously far less polished and producty): http://www.maslowcnc.com/
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So, do you ever experience cases where cron jobs don’t run?

In the 30+ years I have been doing Unix and Unix-like OSes, I have never once had a case where a cron job failed to fire. Sure, they haven’t always worked as desired, but that’s been more due to running out of disk space or some other required resource. Cron did it’s job just fine, it was the script that crapped out.

So, is there really a pressing need for this kind of solution?
Interesting point, seems obvious but isn't something I had directly thought about when considering Tesla's value.

I would wonder how long that demand holds, consumer "brand desire" if you will, if Elon is no longer at the helm. Maybe it wouldn't be affected much right away, but would it once they focused more on execution instead of innovation perhaps? Nonetheless, is an interesting line of thought.
Where are you getting this idea from?
My biggest problem is not being able to get sharp corners. Thats not a problem with Shaper Origin per se, but more with CNC based routers (note the chess board on their homepage, it doesn't have squares with 90 deg corners). If something like Shaper Origin supported being able to do this, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Actually, turns out I'm wrong. Funnily enough, Axel Springer AG has previously sued the German government before the EHCR and won: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22dmdocnumber%22:[%22900156...}

Who knew!
> It is unethical to perform such experiments on people regardless of what they say or why.

Why? Why shouldn't these people be free to make that choice for themselves?

> To approach it another way, as long as one group of people has an economic benefit from abusing another group, there’s a problem.

How, exactly, are you defining 'abuse'? Is it abuse to offer someone money to do something? It's hard to see how it could be abusive to give someone an option that they didn't previously have.
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Ideally there should be a middle ground.
I think your point is that awards are overrated.
I am not sure how Tesla's current situation is obvious. There is more demand and not much on inventory. No one has a decent autopilot (Driver assist) close to Tesla and they have hardware ready for level 5 autonomy(or close to) . I feel this is the real luxury to have. They have largest fleet of vehicles passively collecting all the data to achieve self driving.
I'm also in the 'not a fan of the Next logo' camp as well - to me it just seems too noisy, pretentious and out of whack. It reminds me of American cars of the period, which were gauche and terrible. It has an unsettling geometry, which almost seems unfinished. Plus the typeface is just .. wonky.

I guess all these things add up to 'cool logo by a millionaire for a billionaire' in some peoples minds, but to me it just seems like cat barf. Literally, as in .. something that was just spit up, with chunks of undigested stuff in it.
Mediocre developers will produce mediocre results. No methodology will pull great results from mediocre developers.
Doesn't sound like a great company to work for. Insane production targets coupled with 'by the way we're examining all costs under a microscope'.

The part about the midnight oil doesn't even make sense and seems to celebrate excessively hard work which I can't believe is a good thing - the studies I've seen seem to point to anything more than a 7 hour day being counter-productive.

Additionally some of the things he has written seem to smack of inexperience. Yeah hierarchies can be annoying but presumably they are there to serve a purpose (after all he set it up!).

Can't disagree with what he says about meetings though!
_Can_ Elon Musk be booted if the board wanted to? I'd bet he still has a ton of control.
Woops. Sorry about that. Don't know if there's a proper way of quoting text on HN.
To be entirely fair, Musk is an engineer, so that in general wouldn't happen, I'd imagine.
Less rework. Moving shorter distances. Reordering steps to defer work until it can be done more cheaply. Batching similar operations to reduce tool changes.

I'm sure there are many more ways. Source: I made this up. I don't work in the auto industry.
> Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.

It's cute lines like this that make the fanboys love Musk. Myself included.
So, what is it that iopipe really brings to the table here?

I’m not seeing anything about what iopipe is providing, just that it was somehow magically used to discover the problem with a recursive function.
That one (in your URL) looks like the result of a PR between mismatched branches. eg instead of being the intended/correct source and destination branch, it's between two branches fairly far apart.

Thus a shed load of commits to try and resolve the difference.

Hopefully this new behaviour does fix the problem. On the other hand, I have a feeling it might alienate potential contributors who just aren't that familiar with git yet and could instead do with some guidance (ie how to use the correct branch to base changes on).

I guess we get to find out. :)
Just guessing here, but perhaps it might be the bit where it's claimed he works 100 hours a week?
Great excerpts. Reposting them as more hn-mobile friendly.

"Btw, here are a few productivity recommendations:"

– Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over
time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to
the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.

– Also get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent
matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.

– Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding
value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.

– Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla.
In general, anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication. We don’t want
people to have to memorize a glossary just to function at Tesla.

– Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done,
not through the “chain of command”. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command
communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.

– A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this
is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done
between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a
director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks
to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super dumb things will
happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.

– In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a “company rule”
is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great
Dilbert cartoon, then the rule should change.
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I wouldn't mind if a moderator would replace the original link with the one you provided.
A couple more interesting things come to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnul6ixX90

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve

Also see: Viktor Schauberger (caution: will take you down quite a rabbit hole).
Black holes of any realistic size evaporate very slowly, and will be absorbing more mass than they will be radiating for most of the lifetime of the universe.

You’re talking billions of billions of billions of years before most of them even start shrinking.
My favorite youtube engineer (Ben Krasnow) did a video on this product a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8GFpSCK6Jk
You only cannot get sharp internal corners. External corners can be square/arbitrarily sharp. I don't think it's too big of a problem, usually you want things rounded to relieve stresses anyway, but indeed I can see situations such as aesthetics or piece compatibility this could be an issue.
This is the biggest barrier to making things better. Eventually it leads to fear and risk-averse stasis. You never do anything the best way the first time, but if you get locked into a shitty implementation because "fuckit, it works", that's a rot that will poison your codebase and team.
Maybe, but unlikely; other tests were done.

> “Since the initial work of Balabanova et. al., other studies have revealed the same drugs (cocaine, nicotine, and hashish) in Egyptian mummies, confirming the original results."
Like 4 companies, actually (although admittedly the other two are low effort compared to Tesla and SpaceX).
THat's not one of the recommendations he gives. That's not even part of the email itself.
It's conveying jealousy / flattery in the context of that text message.
Since we have this discussion every time a top-voted comment does this, and nobody has ever suggested a solution that I've seen, I don't think it can be done. Just throw a > or two in there and we'll figure it out.
Tesla's Autopilot seems to be little more than the same lane keeping and adaptive cruise control everyone else has with the safety tolerances lowered a whole lot, to the detriment of several dead drivers. You can readily buy other cars with the same EyeQ3 board that powered AutoPilot until Tesla's breakup with Mobileye, and their new Nvidia-based clone of it does little more than the original. The _hardware_ for level 5 autonomy is nothing proprietary or impressive, and they've shown zero evidence that the _software_ for level 5 autonomy exists in any state beyond the demo Nvidia hands its DRIVE PX2 customers essentially "out of the box". You're taking their marketing at face value while their EAP/FSD packages have largely been vaporware for 2.5 years now.
If you are working 7 hour work days, then I am coming for your company and for your job. It will happen sometime in the next 10 years but you will be unemployed and replaced by much more productive and engaged fellows.
I am actually surprised that given today's wide availability of cloud service, new low-level storage softwares are still getting invented.

Questions to fellow HNers:
- If you need to deploy such software for your business, was it because optimizing GCP/AWS is not cost-effective or the same level of performance is not possible on public cloud?
It would seem like it would be easier to contaminate with nicotine given the old school habits of smoking everywhere the cocaine is harder to explain because it's not that easy to contaminate with it, back in the old days cocaine unsers injected it, snorting didn't become a thing until the 1970s.
If people would be fully rational, then you would be correct. However, they are not (and shouldn't be imho, but that's another discussion).

Basically, it's about the ability or potential of going anywhere. I bought a car that technically has the ability to go off-road. The reality is that I probably never will. But it sure feels good to know that I could. Paid extra for it and all. Completely irrational, but makes me happy.

That's the reason that people worry about range and refueling time. It's not rational, it's just humane. We aspire to do more , see more and go further. Not all of us do, but it's a very human emotion. That's not a bad thing.
Yes, stock options. Also, being able to work on something great and having it succeed. Not only is that its own reward, but it’s also good on the résumé.
Audience doesn't necessarily mean "live" and can refer to an understanding that others will be appraising or reacting to your work. There's no measurable external "audience field" generated by groups of humans that other people can detect.

That said, I realized that I tend to model the expectations of those viewing what I produce, known and unknown, and I always get carried away trying to satisfy criteria that I wouldn't if I were just doing a thing for myself. In person, it's more a test of social intelligence where subtle reactions help influence and guide my actions.

In a physical setting, I can work longer and harder without tiring when I'm a part of a balanced team, sort of a time passing more quickly with good company experience. However, I have literally hid in a closet after being surprised in a meeting and failed to play during a solo because I saw someone staring at me in the audience, though, so it's certainly not an absolute effect.
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Idiotproof is in the eye of the beholder. Shapeoko is simple for people already exposed to far more complex tools, like machining centers, knee Mills, etc.

But for people who have never understood any of those tools on a low level, it remains indistinguishable from magic.

Thus, this tool is far more accessible to a complete novice, in terms of what they are comfortable exploring.
It's not all or nothing. These resources were most likely disparate and funneled from various sources until they reached Egypt. You think a grocery store needs to grow it's own wheat? The complexity is what you're not seeing.
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