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Always like to see SSC here.

Unbelievably, the medication example the author uses is a system I have direct experience with. It is a group whose job it is to make the decision of whether insurance covers a drug that a doctor has prescribed.

The triage is more sophisticated than a queue management ritual, but also has elements of it in it.

Some insurer programs require that the patient be declined by another one before paying for the prescription, so the doctors fill out hopeless requests because they need the rejection letter to achieve their outcome. This fills the decision queues, and everyone experiences the lag. Consider doctors handwriting as a next order CV problem, and then think about the attitude of the user demographic who doesn't feel obligated to be clear about their intentions - now design a digital product for them.

Bureaucracy in real life is a kind of cluster-governance, where nobody serves each other, and everyone presumes everyone else is coming to them to be regulated. Further, they really do think their job is to avoid obligations to others unless they are somehow mandated to have one.

I can say that agile development methods are disrupting bureaucracy in a big way. You don't see it, but every online license renewal and filing system wipes out layers of bureaucracy. The systems take years to develop because the personal/business relationships that made those systems work need to be identified and unraveled before you implement them in code. I would argue you don't understand stakeholder management unless you have spent time in a bureaucracy, and the people who do succeed at it in the private sector often do so as the result of both luck and negative anti-patterns.

I saw how the internet changed government almost 20 years ago, and can say that cloud and microservices are now also revolutionary.

Tech is an expression of how its users want to relate, and in this way it's culture. When we impose tech on institutions, it realigns them to organize around the relational patterns in the tech.

Bureaucracy is an active ingredient, and the tech we develop changes it. Want a better DMV? Build one.
Flat whites are everywhere these days.
YouTube sent me a takedown request for publishing a video to my own song (which is published on CD only).

They took down the song because I could not "prove" I was the owner.

I guess my name being on the cover and my picture was not enough...

I.e.

- they don't check even if you point out it's a mistake
- they always side with the copyright owner by default
Activate 3 finger dragging in Accessibility settings. I use tap to click, two finger for right click and 3 finger for drag.

Works great. I guess I never actually click the trackpad with these settings.
I guess it depends on how broad a definition of "art" we are using.
That's quite insightful, now if only after 50 years it would be terminated, regardless of whether the artist is dead or alive. If they want to give them a renewed copyright grant or something that's another story, and it should end the moment the artist dies. Till death do us part indeed.
On most devices tap-to-click is on by default. It’s always the first thing I turn off. I have always found it completely useless and it turns incidental touches into accidental clicks. “Oops, guess I sent that email.”

This isn’t relevant to the parent’s complaint, though. Without dedicated buttons, you’re relying on the driver to distinguish between a one and two finger click. That detection, even on Apple devices, is noticeably imperfect for reasons I don’t understand. (Click “anywhere” was solved by Apple with their haptic not-actually-clicking trackpads that are pretty awesome.)
If only there was a way for regular people to unite their resources and push back against corporations lobbying their copyrights into eternity.
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> Unit tests for existing projects often fail - Unit tests for existing projects take several minutes to run - Our current build process cannot be automated.

Same here. Except we have no almost no unit tests because

1) Most of the devs don't know how to write unit tests
2) Most of the devs don't know hot to write code that is testable, even if they could write the actual unit tests.

About a year or so ago we had a project that got a few unit tests added to it, within days they were broken nad failing. The dev just added a [TestCategory("Blah")] and excluded them from being run...
Finally! It was about time to end this annoying practice.
Interesting read. I thought all along that materials change state due to temperature changes. Time to track down my teachers and show them this article.

You learn something new everyday
It was bad, for more than 1 or two days, right ?
Here is the truth:

Due to climate change, forest fires are likely to get worse over time on average, which should impact Seattle air quality over time. Is this certain ? No, but there is a substantial probability it’s happening.
He didn't actually say that he was thinking of high pay in respect to being 'entitled'. There are lots of other ways SV based workforces show this characteristic, e.g. the constant complaints about the exact nature of the free food I saw when I was at Google.

Whilst the no-poach agreements were wrong, I don't think comp was kept artificially low in the way you mean. What drives up comp in the valley at the moment is the existence of companies that make tons of money but have voting, share structures and cultures that don't incentivise them to return any to investors. The combination of huge profits, endless vanity hiring and no dividends or share buybacks is fairly new and it's not clear to me it's a good trend. I don't believe Facebook, Google or Twitter actually need all those engineers they're hiring.
Could this be a consequence of the UK's sugar tax and an attempt to diversify as the revenue from traditional Coca-Cola shrinks? I appreciate they have no/low sugar alternate products but they must still have taken a big hit from that legislation.
double tap, stay pressed on the second, drag then release for dropping. works intuitively for me
I think you misunderstood my comment. The comment I replied to said we are far from realistic fakes. I was saying "are we really that far from realistic fakes?", not "are we really that far along?"
All rights, human rights included, are just some arbitrary rules some part of humans have decided to follow.

These laws could also set the counter for let's say 5 years after the death of all of the original authors or something like that. There is no reason for these rights to transfer indefinitely.
Hopefully they will destroy it, the UK is overrun with these mediocre coffee shops.
You just described T-Pain’s reasoning for using auto tune (he doesn’t actually need it but instead uses it stylistically).

I think you’re onto something here as well about how it may well get adopted as a ‘style’ in someone’s music video.
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I’d be curious to see the data upon which you base this false assertion.
It's still on by default. I just checked my clean Mac Mini that I never use Safari on and it is on.
What about just compartmentalizing the ship's cargo space?
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Even if a lid would work, I'd assume it would be too large and expensive to deal with. The lid would have to be rather heavy duty. As noted in the article, the solution needs to be cheap and relatively easy to deal with.
So by absolute spending, there are basically 3 centers:

1. USA
2. East Asia
3. West Europe

East Asia combined, their spending is bigger than USA and EU.

What will be more interesting is to break down those spending on what particular field they are spent on, but I guess that data is hard to collect.

Overall, in line with my every day feeling, but kinda unimpressed as well. South Korea is an outlier here, their spending in R&D is absolutely massive in both relative/absolute terms.
Ha, in all but one (Mattel?) you pointed to Arial as being Helvetica. Just invert your heuristic! :-)
Australians and Kiwis are to coffee what New Yorkers are to pizza: we didn't invent it, but we damn well perfected it.

So when Starbucks came with a poor product the only people who went were curious locals (who didn't return) and Asian students who liked the brand:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-08-07/32188
No, public to public.
I remember first checking out the Lenovo Book at a local store and being mightily impressed with the hardware (bar the keyboard).

All throughout the video I was thinking "I wonder how this fares against the Surface Go" but by the end the price was mentioned and... I'm afraid it's not a fair race. I thought the new Lenovo Book would be priced similarly as the previous version. Sad to see it isn't.
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> Except we have no almost no unit tests because

> 1) Most of the devs don't know how to write unit tests

> 2) Most of the devs don't know hot to write code that is testable, even if they could write the actual unit tests.

Sounds really familiar... I'd like to add the following one:

> 3) Cannot make the distinction between code that needs unit testsand code that does not need unit tests
If you were allowed to sue polluters for damages to your property is a common example I've seen. So for example you notice your building is being blackened and sue the coal fired plant down the street for the cleaning fees to restore it's facade.

Sounds good but it is totally impractical if you've had any experience with the legal system.
There are other budget airlines like Easyjet and Norwegian and they do care.
tokei is fast but isn't the smartest tool (at least for python). I compared it to pygount (and looked on individual files). Total lines is correct but it's grossly miscalculating code vs comments resulting in almost 2x total actual SLOC for a semi large project I manage.

I manually counted a few files for comparison, I believe tokei doesn't understand python-doc-comments and think it's code.
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I like the solution we came up with earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163984

Ten years of free protection, then costing $10 × 1.5 ⁿ ⁻ ¹ for each subsequent year. Year 10 costs $0, year 20 about $380, year 30 about $22,000, year 40 about $1,300,000, year 50 almost $75,000,000—and few fifty-year-old things will be worth $75,000,000 per year and growing to retain copyright to.
Dude start applying for jobs. Let the companies decide whether your good enough or not.
Love that idea. Although, the original Gameboy is a little bulky to carry around ;)
For what it's worth, I got the correct meaning from the title. An AI coach makes sense, but for dance? Seems weirdly specific.

Meanwhile composite videos really blend in with all the augmented reality phone apps that teenagers use nowadays.

I'm half surprised there isn't already something like this for smartphones (with inferior quality).
I wonder if this is where Apple are going to end up with their touch bar. At least you won't need to worry about dust killing your keyboard.
There has always been pressure against H1Bs in the US tech industry. The one time I tried to immigrate to the valley there the visa cap was hit and I couldn't go (no regrets though). For my whole life I've seen American talk about immigration = outsourcing = lower wages. It's not new and it's not based in racism but rather money.

As for Trump, he is only talking about illegal immigration. Nobody with an engineering degree is going to care about his views on immigration, they may even welcome them because Trump apparently (I did not know this until reading the sibling links) wants to move to merit based immigration instead of a lottery scheme, which would help high skilled workers.
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2600 calories man ... that number really blows my mind!
YouTube gave me a copyright strike because I posted video of a broken NES emulator I was developing.
https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/ McNealy knew, in 1999, what was happening, because he was selling the first commoditized computers to be used for world-wide-scale tracking of user data to the government.
You can't have looked very hard. So called "Third Wave" artisanal coffee shops hit London around 13 years ago, mostly started by Australian immigrants bringing with them the "Flat White". The flat white become such a hipster go to drink that by 2010 they were added to the Starbucks menu in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_white
Copyright should only have a term of life (with a minimum duration of 50 years in case the artist dies at 20-30) and that's all. Tell me one reason this shouldn't be the case. By then, the studios will have taken a profit (or been a commercial failure but that's not on us) and so will have the artist.

After the artist dies, there's no reason to "support the artist" anymore and while there is the effect of post-mortem sales spike, a celebration of now freely available music for all to enjoy would be a much better hommage.

As for the family, there really isn't any reason they should obtain that copyright. If they wanna earn money with art, they have to create art on their own. What the current laws create in most cases are lazy rich children who spend the rest of their lives managing the copyright legacy of their parent. That doesn't benefit society in any way. Either they work like normal people or they make their own art but they're not entitled to the copyright of their parents. If the parents don't want to leave them in poverty, they can still leave the money they earned with this copyright over the years for their children.

Also, with the minimum 50 years duration, they could still inherit the copyright if their parent dies at an early age. However, a term of life PLUS a ludicrous amount of years is a really bad idea for the cultural development of our society.
The article is hard to understand for anyone not immersed in the politics/events of the SV. For example:

> At google: air gap, maven, dragonfly. At microsoft, ICE detention. At amazon, rekognition.

I have no idea what this is in reference to. A better introduction even if very brief would've gone a long way.
I'm afraid you'll find Germany even more different than UK.
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Because without Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (granting many extra years of copyright), Mickey Mouse would be public domain. Simple as that - the agenda is obvious. Expect similar "extension" push as 2024 approaches.
It would be wonderful to simplify CPUs and ship this work off to the compiler. The two difficulties I see are:

Firstly, every microarchitecture will have a different optimal schedule. This means a significant shift in how binaries are deployed. Either the compiler is built into a distribution system aware of microarchitectures (for example, bitcode and the Apple App Store), or these tasks are brought online with a JIT compiler. For the sake of software freedom I hope for the latter.

Secondly, this paper shows 88% of the speedup is static. That means there will always be a little extra speed available to a chip maker that ships an OOO processor. For the same dollars, will you take the CPU that is 10% slower. Today in the middle of Intel's security disaster, sure. But ten years from now when CPU security is stable again, that free 10% performance will be compelling.
As someone that has moved a bit around, one eventually feels outsider everywhere, even at Home when among those that never traveled abroad.
I want to plug Jacob Collier though, who doesn't use pitch correction because it's less in tune than where he wants to place the notes naturally, up or down a few cents depending on the note's relationship to the prevailing chord.
Neat list, I like the Context app as switching with tab is always a bit awkward to me.

I usually try not to use too many third party apps just so setting up a new machine is fast and I don't have to maintain too many things. Especially if switching between work and personal machine. If it's something like snippets I try not to use them too much, or set them up in my IDE so I won't struggle if I have to work on another machine or environment. This is—of course—just a personal preference.

There are some that I use on both machines and a lot so I wrote them up a while ago for someone who got their first Mac, maybe there's something interesting in there too for someone:

https://blog.notmyhostna.me/essential-apps-on-macos/
Massively underwhelming read from the headline. This is basically just deepfakes for dancing. When machine learning can actually teach someone how to dance, then we’ll have something interesting on our hands.
Sorry, I updated with a much longer explantion about Freenet. It's not that using Freenet is illegal per se. It's that Freenet is loaded with child porn, and worse. And that investigators have tweaked Freenet software that logs content moving through all peers that they connect to. And there are databases with hashes of illicit content. So they see that your node is handling illicit content, contact your ISP to get your identity, and then SWAT you. That's how that ex cop in Philadelphia, who's still sitting in jail, after "forgetting" his FDE passphrase, got busted.
I have read The Baroque Cycle, but it is huge and my memory is imperfect. Mind reminding me of the details of this plot point, so I don't searching through the whole un-indexed stack of bricks on my bookcase? :)
I love the concept. I myself am a fan of physical, mechanical keyboards...but as a faux-tablet, I really am interested in this type of form factor.
This is by far the best setup for the trackpad. Ever since discovering 3-finger drag, I can't live without it. I don't understand why not everyone uses it, and why Apple decided to move it from the main settings screen to the accessibility settings.
> For instance, why then does the person that VP of Engineering reports to not need to be a qualified engineer?

Because that person isn't evaluating their direct reports on the basis of their engineering ability, or even their engineering leadership ability, but their management ability. Unlike the crummy boss in the parent comment.
Ah yes I love that, Disney keeps their rat and we all get more sane copyright.
That was my first thought too. Shipping liquids is a solved problem. You baffle containers to limit shifting and slapping. Doing the same for dry bulk seems like a no-brainer? There must be a consideration I'm entirely missing.
Love that movie.
fzf is awesome, but i don't combine it with a shortcut, i just feed its output to xdg-open

alias o="fzf --preview 'bat --color=always {}' | xargs -i '{}' xdg-open '{}'"
I don't think T-Pain is trying to sneak autotune past anyone...
Starbucks is far worse. Everything they sell tastes burned. Coca-Costa could just follow their example.
I clicked the first link.

I feel a strange need to show fairness to Trump here. The CNN headline is very misleading, it says "Trump basically called Mexicans rapists again" but then goes on to quote him and the quote doesn't contain any such statement. He doesn't even mention Mexicans. Rather he makes a general statement that women get raped a lot on the paths used for illegal immigration into the USA, a statement CNN actually agrees with according to their article:

"Nobody is arguing that the trip from Central America to the US is easy or that women are not attacked or exploited on it. That is a well-documented problem, one that Trump brought up to bolster his own case for tougher immigration laws."

Trump expressing concern about abuse of women on the paths used by illegal immigrants is an odd form of 'racism'.
And going all-cash, at this point, is futile. It's the same as the Google email or the Facebook profile conundrums. You can opt out, but they have enough context to infer most everything about your "hole" in their data anyway.
Let's not forget GA, Fonts, DNS and CDN services.
The usual solution, as with petrol tanks in cars and elsewhere, is to use baffles. It effectively turns one large tank into several smaller ones and stops the liquid from freely sloshing from one side to another. The sloshing causes problems non-linearly with size of tank, so reducing one tank into 4 or 8 has a huge impact on the risks of sloshing. The partitions/baffles are always vertical (although I expect aerospace baffles are a bit more fancy).
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Well, that's how things work in Human Resource Machine [0] so it probably works well in reality too, right?

[0] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
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Both are source available software [0], other than that you can't compare them. Krypton is fully proprietary nothing more nothing less, what RedisLabs did was a complete disservice to the whole open source phenomena without addressing any actual business concerns. They misinterpreted the whole clause thing to somehow say that your software can be both open and closed at the same time (it can't). They could at least had maybe done a minimal research and maybe learned somethings from Suns community source SCSL [1] or other similar liceses from the past and they even didn't bother doing that (the irony that SCSL is now hosted at Oracle speaks for itself).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
[1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/scsl-1-1-149938.txt
Your style of argumentation is peculiar; you are criticizing the decentralized outcome because "if everyone is acting game-theoretically optimally, then anyone who tries to improve the situation gets eliminated."

Yet now you write that everyone acting game-theoretically optimally is not actually possible.

So you were criticizing an impossible scenario?

Since I agree with you that literally everyone acting game-theoretically optimally is impossible, I took your earlier use of the concept to mean something possible, that is, everyone acting as close to game-theoretically optimally as they are capable, and used the concept in the same way.
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Flat whites are everywhere in the UK, even the crappy Pumpkin shops at train stations will make you one.
Since when is 'iPad' the generic word for tablets?
They kinda tried that in London with congestion charging - i.e. you have to pay £11.50 or £21.50 (depending on vehicle) a day to drive into central London.

Latest data I could easily find (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge) was that after 10 years of operation it reduced traffic by 10% (ten). A report from 2014 said that traffic levels are now close to pre-congestion-charge levels (https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/cc-changes-march-2014...). The public buses and privately-run taxis are everywhere and are significant causes of traffic in my anecdotal experience (e.g. bus blocking the road waiting for someone to finish talking to the driver, bus blocking junction, buses blocking road waiting to get into bus stop where 5 other buses already are waiting to pick-up or put-down, taxi-drivers stopping in illegal places to drop people off or doing illegal u-turns etc etc. Whats worse is the buses are diesel and pump out loads of fumes from their heavy diesel engines. Bus ridership is falling (http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/londons-bus-ridership-is-falling...) yet we still have to put up with them and their diesel.

tl;dr - charging doesn't work at the £10-20/day prices (equivalent to 3.6 to 6.7 Big Macs on the BigMacIndex a day to drive into london)

I guess it might work if the fees go up an order of magnitude.
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> I doubt he has any serious developer cred outside the agile methodologies circlejerk groups

He doesn't even have that much cred within those groups, now he's turned into a miserable old git with out-of-date ideas.

> Not like he is Linus or Carmack or Jeff Dean

Heh. Whereas i think he has much, much more general cred than Jeff Dean, who is a pretty obscure figure.
I like how they _visually marked 'F' and 'J' ........