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This has been a big issue in auto manufacturing for decades. At one time, the Detroit automakers ran "dealer preparation centers" to finish what the production line hadn't done. Toyota's big innovation was figuring out how to get it right the first time, which got costs down and quality up. In a Toyota plant, if you have to stop the line for 10 seconds to get it right, a worker can do that. Videos of Toyota plants show a cycle time display and a vehicles per hour display over the line. It's expected that a car will take an extra few seconds every once in a while.
Read the article and then use your noggin.
This is absolutely terrible idea. Studies should be conducted regarding curation of content. As we learned recently, what you read briefly online can change the entire world.
From the article, which does also mention the second law of thermodynamics.

> Saying that weight gain is caused by excess calories is true, but meaningless. It tells you nothing about the actual cause.

Most likely people were thin in the 60s because they consumed less calories then we do now.
Names & Faces is similar to a tool Adobe created many years ago - it was my favorite product!

A great way to navigate the org chart of a growing startup. Nice design. You should try to sell it to EasyPost. ;)
I think the insight is that you don’t really have to track down the points for everything you eat. you can guesstimate how many points something is and the measurement error will come out in the wash after you calibrate it to observes weight loss / gain. Pretty neat IMHO!
It's a symptom of people developing and not understanding the environment they develop in/for.

I've used attitudes towards cron, specifically, as a personal metric for judging someone's skill and output with systems. What this team did is exactly the wrong thing to do.

I would rather use the tool with over 40 years of development work gone into it than whatever this is.
Jetbrains is like a new Borland. I hope they don’t end the same...
NAND flash isn't random access even for reading, but generally these limitations are not inherent in the technology, but are motivated by reducing the die area per bit of storage (and thus cost). Purely random access "Flash" is typically called EEPROM and readily available with SRAM-compatible interface (and costs several times more than SRAM).

In the microcontroller space there is for example TI's MSP430FR series which has unified non-volatile storage based on what could be described as core-memory on chip.
It depends on the difficulty of the "fix". half an hour per car doesn't seem that bad, and while they will clearly try to fix that (and I'm not trying to imply they shouldn't), I don't think the fact that they are continuing to pump out cars with a "flawed" system (while presumably working on solving the problem internally) is any indication that they are unable to scale forever.
Per [0] it seems like line workers make ~$20/hr, so that's over $50,000 per week to fix the cars, not including the cost of parts or associated delays. It's only about $12 per car, but for Tesla I imagine every dollar counts.

[0]: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Tesla/salaries?location=US%2FCA%2...
>But at least they don't seem to skimp on quality control.

Then why are so many deliveries being canceled/postponed for quality issues? Their quality control, from what I read, is horrible.
Imho: GDPR allows keeping if required by law. E.g. for long term archival of accounting information for tax reasons. That information, in some systems, might be the same as the user account itself and therefore might be totally acceptable. However, in that sample there is no reason to keep your password and your preferences or non-anonymzed stats.
Yeah, and if we redirect $500 of your paycheck to me, I can eat for free. I find it extremely useful. Let's do it!

And yeah, I get what you're saying about the ridiculous military budget, I don't like it either. But can you change it is the real question. If you can't, it's all just a beautiful fantasy.
My argument is that the only reason Russia supports the Assad regime is for the benefit of its only foreign naval base. I don't claim that there is any malicious intent on the United States as far as that action is concerned.
Huh? The golden age of PC gaming was like 10 years ago and could run on a 8800GT perfectly.
Exactly. It's a nightmare scenario: you're a well-performing, well-paid (but still underpaid) Amazon employee. You change jobs for much better pay... But then Amazon sues.

Typically, you'll lose your new job, and probably become untouchable by most other employers. You'll be forced to pay a small fortune for lawyers, and spend numerous days in court, with the outcome uncertain, possibly for years, all while you're likely unemployed.

Not a chance most people would like to take.
No, sorry for the confusion (I'll update the comment) -- I think it was just a musing/speculation. However I don't think this was the first person to think of this explanation -- it's been thought of before, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963265
The FCC gains it's authority to create regulation from federal law though.
We changed the headline to make it less misleading, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
For conductors that the helicopter cannot safely hover close enough to for the line worker to work on from the helicopter, they sling load the worker below the helicopter, lower him down to the conductor he needs to work on, and he attaches himself to the conductor and detaches from the helicopter, and the helicopter moves away from the lines.

When the work is done, the above is reversed to extract the worker.

There's a segment showing this in "Modern Marvels" episode S11E45, "Wiring America" starting at 23:44 [1].

I've also seen a documentary somewhere [2] that was similar but more focused specifically on line work. That had a clip showing a worker being lowered to a particularly difficult to reach conductor. There were at least 3 horizontal layers of conductors, with at least 3 parallel conductors in each layers, and the one needing work was in the middle horizontally and had at last 2 layers above it.

For that one, they had several dry wooden poles connected end to end to form a kind of chain. They put this together in a dry area, then had a crew carry the pole chain outside careful to not let it touch the ground, so it would not get wet from the morning dew on the ground. One end was attached to the helicopter, which slowly started lifting it, with the crew that was holding it making sure to not release segments until they were sure they would not swing into the ground on the way up. Finally, the line worker was attached to the last segment. From then on, it was similar to the segment from Modern Marvels.

They used the dry wooden pole chain because there was no way to reach the work conductor without whatever was suspending the worker simultaneously touch two of the above conductors, so it was imperative that this not short out things.

I believe they used a pole chain rather than some non-conducting rope because a rope can get tangled in things or wrap around things. The pole chain consists of rigid segments, which are not going to get wrapped around anything.

[1] https://youtu.be/vuRNs50VMJ0?t=23m44s

[2] Probably on the History Channel or Discovery Channel.
I can't believe Oracle would do something so underhanded and unethical. Oh, wait. Yes, I can believe that.
> To be honest, your objection really confuses me. You seem to argue that ISPs can do whatever they want, because we're inconsistent with other sites/etc.

I don't have an objection against net neutrality. I have an objection to net neutrality policies that concentrate control with a small number of companies while stripping such autonomy from other companies. It's absurd to say that backbone providers are required to carry any traffic, but microblogging sites, video streaming sites, etc. can curate and have any bias they choose.

If it were me we'd have net neutrality, but the net neutrality policies would be conditional on whether a company wants to claim safe harbor under the DMCA or not. Anyone who wants to hide behind the DMCA has to be neutral on their platform. Anyone who is willing to take responsibility for the content they distribute can have any bias or opinion they want.

I'd also extend the DMCA safe harbor provisions to require that the customer be identifiable and within the legal jurisdiction of the United States.

> Lets fix all abusers, not just ISPs. That should satisfy your argument, no?

It would make me feel that we're being consistent and actually taking the internet closer to fairness and equity.
Thanks for that link - very informative.
> Prose can be as beautiful as any piece of visual art in a gallery

For many people, "prose" is just what you have to get through to find out what happens in the plot or to the characters. A lot of people have a minimal appreciation for most forms of art and literature is far more subtle and unappreciated than visual and auditory forms of art.

> Not only are you depriving yourself of an aesthetic experience, but also a learning experience. Reading will boost your vocabulary and help your writing and give you more cultural references to pull from (and recognize, when they come up in another's work).

I'm not sure what the inherent merit you see in boosting one's vocabulary is. I know a lot of words that I never use and no one I know ever uses. If I didn't know them, my life wouldn't be any different.

Reading is important for writers but most of us aren't writers. The vast majority of us that are writers write things like emails, internet comments, and work related documents. Not the kind of thing that reading fiction is going to help with.

As for cultural references, culture has been trending away from literature and towards movies and television for a very long time. I'd go so far as to say that in modern American culture, you're not going to be missing anything by not reading books.

Anyways, it's not that people "can't be assed", it's that books don't hold the same value for them that they hold for you. There's nothing wrong with that.
This reminds me of when my health insurer, Anthem, refused to cover a test performed during annual screening. Once I called them, waited patiently on hold, then read them a portion of their own document "Preventive care services covered with no member cost-share", they promptly waived the fee.

Makes me wonder how many people simply accept these fraudulent charges, because they don't have the time, the energy, or the resources to fight "the machine". Over 73 million people are served by Anthem and its affiliated companies, so that can't be a small number.
...no :(
I suppose someone figured that, after a point, the only question is how far your red mist will be spread should you have contact with a line. I mean, I'll put money on the fact that you're sitting in a room right now with nearly-exposed electrical contacts that can kill you. I guess it's not a great leap from there to "go ahead and hang them overhead, and try to make sure they won't fall down".

OTOH, the only thing I've ever seen take down high tension towers was an ice storm so bad, they collapsed under the weight.
Grav is amazing for simple sites and my current favorite. I've used Drupal quite a bit for more complicated stuff; It's a beast. Wordpress is a nightmare technically but easy to use when it's working.
It's not a personal attack if it is directed at a company or the actions of a company rather than at a person.

Its purpose is not to explain the frustration but to signal the intensity while clarifying the attribution: the person making the comment believes that Docker acted knowingly against their interest and does not buy the excuse that Docker put forward. I challenge you to express the same concepts with the same clarity in five times as many words.

I contest that name-calling is not an escalation over doublespeak.

Finally, whether or not something is socially acceptable is up to society, not to you.
I realize not everyone gets the same google results back, so this is not deterministic, but the first most naive search I could come up with based on the information available to both of us was:

culture of sadistic and malicious violence abu graib

and my first hit was https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0520/p02s01-usju.html .

Can you tell me what your first hit was? Where are you having trouble?
What project? I'm assuming most of this commentary is regarding the Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows products which are an assembly of a significant number of open source projects: OCI's runc, CNCF containerd, CNCF Kubernetes, CNI provider, the docker/cli project as well as docker compose and kubectl binaries built for the host OS, the Docker CE engine built and packaged in a VM run by LinuxKit, xhyve, DataKit, VPNKit (all open source projects). I guess you could fork all those, but since many of them are not even controlled by Docker I'm not sure what the purpose would be.

What I hope is relevant from the long list of projects that I just mentioned is that a company has spent a significant # of engineering years assembling, packaging, and supporting that combination in a way that makes it dead simple to do container-based development on non-Linux systems; mostly focused on developer laptops. No one else has that capability. It is a wide open field if anyone else wants to spend that same effort and time assembling a popular and free product that makes all that work together seamlessly on a Mac or Windows system.

I am not saying I don't have an opinion on whether it's good or bad to make people sign in to download this free product. That is a company's prerogative who controls that product, and market forces will determine whether people will deal with such additions/changes. I of course would love to see direct downloads not impeded by such a change, but that's just my opinion. The silliness of HN is revealed when people start listing a bunch of other totally unrelated projects (cri-o, rkt, containerd) which don't provide any of the functionality of Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows. I say that as a huge proponent and maintainer of containerd. Again, if there is any other offering that makes that possible out of the box for Mac and Windows-based developers, then people are free to get behind that. To me, the only alternatives are to throw a VM together with Docker, Kubernetes, and whatever else you want and hack together the scripting and updating to make it work for you, and Docker nor anyone else are preventing or impeding anyone from doing just that.
It doesn't look like they funded many companies under the YC Bio RFP, where companies get $500K-1M for longevity products / treatments for aging related disease. I see one regen med company working on regenerating liver cells (Hepatx), and then a few diagnostics / synbio / research tools companies that don't seem to fit the YC Bio / longevity bucket. Wonder if there will be more tomorrow...
Apps are allowed to track your location in the background. If you go into the Location Privacy settings in Settings, you should see that "Apple Store" is set to always.

Additionally, I bet they're using some iBeacons to track when you enter the store. These work over Bluetooth LE and the phone can do different things when it hits a nearby beacon.
The pilot has to be there anyway, right? So where's the profit in fixing this? And so it doesn't get done..
Gaza is a lost cause, the West Bank isn’t.

Without economic improvement and normalization there is no prospect for peace no Israeli government will take the chance on anything that isn’t already de facto the situation on the groun.
As without it any concession will be met by a military entrenchment; Lebanon and Gaza proved that much in their eyes.

If the situation is normalized a federated system with a constitution simmilar to what Lebanon has that would guarantee Jewish sovereignty despite the possible demographics might be plausible.
I worked as a mechanic several years ago, I can't tell you the number of times we were working on a car before it was sold. Cleaning up seals, fixing window motors, applying recalls.

2 years ago I bought an Audi that I was unable to get into after it dropped below freezing for the first time, because the window leaked water internally which froze and the door can't be opened unless the window comes down slightly. That doesn't mean the Audi was unfinished, or that all Audis are awful...

Shit happens, not every car is perfect, and i'm not saying it is, i'm just saying that they aren't selling half-finished cars. Defects are defects, not an incomplete product.
This is probably the straw that broke the camel's back for Docker. Not that anyone expected it to stick around for that long anyway, they've had a terrible history of failure and poor design choices.
You can download it here --> https://docs.docker.com/v17.09/docker-for-windows/install/#d...
The really sad part is those oppressive regimes can continuously blame outside interference (and have been doing so, see Iran) anytime there is a legitimate domestic uprising by using America's meddling as historical evidence.
That's why this whole "Russian meddling" story is so dangerous and should be approached with caution here in America. If things ever get bad enough for an uprising, they'll point to outside meddling.

One thing is for sure, these proxy wars constantly make people rich and powerful despite screwing over the masses, so I expect it to remain this way for many years to come.
>I don't think I could do it with an e-book reader. In those things, they put the distraction stuff just a click away. Hell, they'll sell you more distraction stuff you can play the millisecond you get bored with the text.

My first ereader did not have wifi. For me, the absence was a feature. Still, I now have a Kobo which has wifi, but I don't find it a distraction at all. Everything is pretty slow - if I wanted to browse the web, it's easier to put down the ereader and do it on my PC or phone. So for me, there isn't any distraction at all.
What counts as a need? Does one need land lines? Electricity? People live off the grid by generating these themselves and people live elsewhere without them at all.

Of course, one could bring a distinction between things that naturally grant a physical monopoly and things that don't, but I think one could make an argument that certain sites have effectively become the new public square and in doing so have a natural monopoly of our attention (or more pedantically a natural cartel).

There is also a natural monopoly of technology. If you have a patent for something, others can't use it unless you let them. Imagine if every major tech corporation aggressively pursued every possible patent claim against any companies trying to offer an alternate space for those banned from the mainstream, would the little company have any greater chance that a new electric company fighting against the entrenched players?
russia is one pole in a multipolar world since the end of the cold war.

the russian invasion of ukraine was an attempt to salvage a geopolitical rout in which the US politically captured ukraine, an area under russia's dominion for roughly a hundred years.

the attempted salvaging has mostly failed; an overtly anti-kremlin government sits in ukraine.

importantly, they have retained the strategically critical hinge point of crimea (militarily one of the doors to control of eurasia), which was the most valuable piece of ground at risk in the entire debacle, independent of the political aspect. note that their access to crimea is now much weaker than it was before because of how close it is to a US-orbit government.

you will notice the difference in importance of the objective by seeing how they did not leave the invasion of crimea up to their proxy/"rebel" forces, which are currently in eastern ukraine. indeed, as soon as it was at risk of being out of their hands, the russian marines were in crimea in force, with only a minimal denial of the effort. the justification for it was invented later.

they were scrambling, and the rough edges of their plan were heavily showing.

the russians are not wantonly destructive. the refugees are indeed helpful for their global position, and they do want to prevent the middle east from entering the western orbit -- you will recall that the US has been cozying up to russia's major client state in the area, iran.

but they don't want chaos. they would prefer it if there were no chaos, at this point. chaos costs them money, increases the chances of them not being able to react to another crisis, and damages the stability of their client states. furthermore, trouble in the middle east ends up coming home to russia fairly frequently thanks to their longstanding conflict with the sunni muslims.
On the plus side, now apparently only one year in Massachusetts.
Wait, can you tell me what indictment you were reading, which was pages and pages of the evils of prostitution and just a few bits about what the Backpage staff did, and where the only thing they're accused of doing to groom child trafficking ads is stripping the word "lolita"? I'm genuinely curious about what your sourcing is now.
I'm the author of this blog post and the original developer of this scheduler system.

Glad to see a lot of interesting and insightful comments in this thread!

Some contexts here:

0. Like any piece of software, this scheduler system is not perfect for every company -- legacy code, # of engineers, skillsets of existing employees, engineering culture, tech stack, business,...

1. Every engineer in Nextdoor needs to do on-call rotation -- 50+ engineers back in 2014 (100+ now?), when the scheduler was built. It's important to run a system that all 50+ engineers have confidence to debug on a Friday night if things go south. There are some blackbox-type alternatives of cron, which may be great for a small team of backend experts to operate, but may not be a good fit for 50~100 engineers with very diverse skillsets & backend experience. But why every engineer needs to be on call? Well, that may deserve a new thread of discussions :)

2. In 2014, there were ~200 production jobs with very different computing characteristics (450+ now). Jobs are owned by different teams and different people with different expertise. Jobs are frequently (every few weeks?) added, removed, and updated. Outages most likely happen during code deployment. It’s important to run a system that works well during deployment (and rollback), e.g., always run the RIGHT version of code for hundreds of jobs.

3. The core scheduler system was pretty tiny, which could be easily understood by any engineer in the company. I remembered it took me a few days (probably less than a week) to finish most of the code. The hard part was productionization, e.g., carefully migrating 200 production jobs to the new system, logging, monitoring/alerting at job level, deployment & rollback process, oncall-related things (documentation/training)… With this simple system, we could easily enumerate various failure situations, so oncall engineers have confidence how to respond.

4. I’m not with Nextdoor any more. But turns out this scheduler system is still working well now: https://github.com/Nextdoor/ndscheduler/issues/33#issuecomme... I think the ROI is pretty good -- a 3-man-month project (from design to run all 200+ jobs on the new system) => running 4 years and counting & easy oncall situation for 50~100+ engineers.

5. Why not Jenkins or other open source alternatives? We investigated a bunch of alternatives. Jenkins is great. Back in 2014, Nextdoor used Jenkins for CI (not sure if it's still true now). We ruled out Jenkins (and Rundeck or the like) for operational reasons, e.g., challenges to integrate with existing code deployment process, operational complexity for 50+ engineers with different backgrounds/expertise... Open source alternatives? Well, in 2014, we couldn't find a good Python-based project. It's important to limit the number of languages/external technologies in the tech stack.