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What you're describing sounds like the way pre-fab homes are built. A computer model is created which specifies every part, and that gets sent to the factory floor where all of the wood is picked, cut, and assembled into pre-fabbed shipable components. As much work is done in the factory as possible while keeping all of the parts flat so they're easy to stack onto a truck. The cutting is all done by CNC machines, the assembly is all done using jigs and much of it could be done by assembly-line-style robots, moving stuff around can be done by simple robots as well.

The components get stacked on a truck by humans running machines, but the stacking order is pre-determined by the computer model, so this can potentially be automated by an oversized version of common manufacturing machines. The truck is driven to the job site by a human, but that might one day be done with an autonomous vehicle.

The final step is assembly on-site, which is done by humans running big machines. This is potentially the only part where humans need to be heavily involved, to make sure everything goes correctly together and to do the fine adjustments and small details.
Ask HN: Why have graphical programming languages never taken off?
There's been many efforts, but why are all developers still writing code using characters?

I come from an engineering background and naively imagined plugging software components together like Lego. But in reality, you can never seem to get away from writing code...
This spawned a question for me that seems like it must be nonsensical but I don’t know the answer.

Why did the Big Bang not just produce a Big Hole? IOW, if all the current mass of the universe was in a small volume wouldn’t it have promptly created a black hole?

I’m assuming the answer has something to do with mass not actually existing in its current form until the universe expanded enough. However I don’t have any mental framework to understand why that would be true. If someone reading this knows the answer and can point me at it, I’d be grateful. TIA!
Locally great, globally average ruined quite a few years for me, until I realised collecting like minded people is the actual goal.
Not a pro here, but the greater the distance, the better my pictures look. ;)
Back to the subject at hand, it is a little surprising to me that a format closer to square didn't catch on at some point. I suppose that the image quality of the image deteriorates more toward the edge of a circle around the center point. The format that gets the most out of a circle of acceptable quality is a square. As the shape becomes more oblong, more of that 'acceptable quality area' falls outside the image. Perhaps this is one reason that larger formats are closer to square than 35mm.
What type of work do you offer? UX? Programming? (Which languages?)
We have observed their x-ray jets directly and have observed their creation (recently). Pretty sure they exist. :)
How does one find satisfaction in such a world? It's almost impossible for everyone to be best at something. This brings me down immensely.
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I propose an alternative lens:

What if "luck" was actually just an individual's ability to perceive an opportunity... intersected with their own feeling that they have permission to act upon it?
Because it's a lot easier for someone to convince himself that "genius" is a born trait, lest he look in the mirror and ask himself why he's not working harder to achieve something.
I'd start with ensuring the phone number is correct, the backup email address is correct, and adding TWO u2f keys. One for normal use, and one as backup.

You can have google remember your often used desktops and only require u2f tokens/dongles for new logins.

That way your account is less likely to be stolen and if it is hopefully you can trigger a recovery before all the recovery methods are wiped.

If you want to be proactive, google has an interface for "recent activity" that includes IP addresses. Guess you could scrape that regularly looking for suspicious activity.

But the only safe thing to do is register your own vanity domain, point it at google, and keep your account/contacts backed up. That way is someone steals it you can just repoint your account to a new gmail, restore from backup, and move on. The important thing is to never give the @gmail.com address to anyone you care about communicating with.
> blown away by the stories of Silicon Valley

What kind of stories? Housing prices? Management horrors?
Wouldn’t an impact that large have destabilized Mars’s orbit?
> the cleverness is in noticing when a task can be automated. Typically, the code itself is trivial.

> Anyhow: automation is surely one of the best reasons every person should learn a little bit of programming. And even with that task accomplished, I suspect that the rate of people seeing the opportunity to automate will stay roughly flat.

Absolutely. A minor observation I have, living in Operations/Finance. Don't merge cells in Excel. Observing a spreadsheet is a fantastic indicator of an individual's knowledge of automation vs manual process. Someone that uses lists without merged cells is someone that not only can save days of of the year with pivottables, various forms of looking up, but probably has the idea of 'tables' 'if' and 'for' in their head.

This is a great kicking-off point for coaching through ugly VBA. I like VBA. It's also often the only choice in corporate environments. But it is an option, and the chance to coach someone that's on the edge of...

> I suspect that the rate of people seeing the opportunity to automate will stay roughly flat.

...to push over that edge.
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This podcast by Gladwell also expands on his article: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/07-hallelujah
once a year Ilford produces a limited run of 127 bulk rolls (and other odd sizes). I’ve got a 127 Spartus I wanted to get some for, but figured i’d Never use the whole spool.
Single-digit Cortex-M models? Dinosaurs, all.

Hold your applause until we can see the innards of an AArch64 implementation.
As more and more occur, you'll see this more and more.
OS X is basically the XNU kernel (written mostly in C) + the FreeBSD userland (written mostly in C) + a few GNU utilities (written mostly in C) + a bunch of Apple stuff like iTunes, Safari, etc. (Written mostly in C++ and Objective-C). It's not really a "fork" of FreeBSD.
I think inflation had something to do with it, the only time in the history of the universe something faster than the speed of light was possible--but only because space and time itself was expanding so quickly.

Just stumbled upon this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8p7hnn/where_an...
Well, that's what I'm saying... right now, making it represent an open browser tab with a specific state and where everything DOES something isn't declarative. But it could be declarative if you changed how those commands are implemented.

Or, to phrase it another way: if the program represents a PLAN then it's declarative. If it represents a series of things to DO then it's imperative. It seems like it's doing things, but it could plan things with the same syntax.
There's too many possibilities. You need a narrow field of options for graphical programming to work. Blueprints works for Unreal because it is focused only on video games. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Blueprints
Advantage Tesla has is no legacy products of note. And most of the hard stuff they are trying to do is complex and expensive, but ultimately a solved problem.

Meaning there is no technical, economic, or skills related[1] reason that can't pull this off.

[1] Skills related. There are large numbers of engineers and techs that know how to work out Tesla's production issues. Meaning it's not like Tesla can't find people to fix these issues.
> It's better to demand cash upfront, period

In my experience the vast majority of businesses will not entertain the idea of cash up front, period. I bet that you wouldn't either. If you were building a house, and the builder demanded cash up front, you'd laugh in his face.

Finding good clients is important, but if you demand to be paid in advance, get used to waiting those tables because you're going to be doing it a long time. Note: you will not be paid in advance for waiting those tables, either.
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No black holes absolutely exist. The researches have established an upper limit on the fraction of mass of black holes compared to all of the matter in universe. Per quote below this comes out to no more than than 23%.

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An as-yet unpublished reanalysis by the same team using an updated list of 1,048 supernovas cuts the limit in half, to a maximum of about 23 percent, further slamming the door on the dark matter-black hole proposal.
"

Since dark matter makes up 85% of total matter this rules out black holes as the primary contributor.
What injury did you have? How did you solve it?
They are slow because they are complex as proven by the fact that it's complex to even explain why they are slow.
Titles are a way to divide responsibility in a team.

This is beneficial in some cases, for example the CTO is responsible for technology decisions in the company which allows them to make decisions without involving everyone.

But yes, in a startup the roles overlap much more. So there's no need to divide responsibility, hence no need for specific job titles.

However in getting rid of titles you disperse the responsibility of parts of the business to more people, so more people are to blame.

A good middle ground is to have a leader and employees with multiple titles.
I'm absolutely not an expert, but I believe there wasn't any mass at first; it was all energy. It had to slow down to become mass, at which point it was spread out enough. Or something along those lines.

Another possibility is that black holes are places where lots of mass accumulates in the same place in space, while the big bang was a rapid expansion of space itself. Even if there was enough mass in one spot to be what we'd consider a black hole, the space it occupied expanded, dragged the mass along with it, and ripped the black hole apart.
Possibly the casual maligning of "smart people".
If you're using ublock origin on Chromium, you already have this.

Go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts and set a shortcut on "Enter element zapper mode".

I set it to ctrl+shift+q because I kept accidentally closing my browser and I needed something to override it ...
at the train station we have some Haskell application which does one thing: it does accounting of the number of free and parked bicycles in each rack. in this case a comparison with another programming language is useful.

my comment is necessarily about applications where a comparison is useful, not those specialized financial applications at investment banks where Haskell is popular for undoubtedly good reasons i have absolutely no clue about.
>How big a raise are we talking here?

We're talking on the order of several dollars an hour, which is a lot when you're making minimum wage.

>The raise is not going to be enough for them to move from being workers to being owners.

I feel like this is intentionally obtuse. It may not directly make them an owner, but if they leveraged that raise it could put them on the path there. They could take management classes at a community college or something. Even without the classes they could double down on the behavior that was returning a good benefit and learn those management skills "on the job." Instead they reduced their hours to maintain the same weekly take home pay. Of course there's a nearly infinite number of options unrelated to Subway they could have spent their new money/time/leverage going towards. But not one time did it happen in ten years and across several stores.
>why wasn't there a proliferation of cameras that could shoot 24x24mm images on the same type of film?

There was. The 126 cartridge film was the same stock as 35mm, and square format. Since it was a cartridge and needed no sprockets, the image area 26mm x 26mm.
Neither space nor time existed prior to the big bang and energy levels were so high that a different set of laws of physics dominated the early evolution.
The New Deal was primarily a jobs program, not a rise in worker protection, and the things that pass for worker protection are really quite anti-progressive or subtle covers for various corruption.

For example, social security pays benefits based on past income rather than a fixed or need-based payment, and the social security tax is a flat rate with an income cap, making it one of the most regressive taxes short of a poll tax. Meanwhile the amount of political corruption and mafia involvement in labor unions in the era of the Wagner Act makes it highly suspicious that their original purpose or effect was actually labor protection.

And to the extent that there were new actual labor laws, they were often largely symbolic or ineffectual. For example, the original federal minimum wage only applied to jobs in interstate commerce, which at the time actually meant interstate commerce. By contrast, many of the actually-meaningful state-level minimum wage laws were passed during the boom times in the 1920s.

Most of the meaningful labor and safety regulations we have came out of the economically prosperous period of the 1950s and 60s, e.g. that's when the federal minimum wage was extended to other workers, and then extended further in the economically prosperous period in the 1990s.
My naive (and likely wrong) understanding is that cosmological inflation was caused by a "false vacuum" of the higgs field. Think of it as if the energy pressure of a system is higher than a vacuum, but has similar pressure properties of a vacuum. That had the effect of gravitational pressure pushing matter outwardly, instead of pulling it inwardly like we have it today (to answer your question). That caused enormously fast expansion of the universe. Very shortly afterwards, the false vacuum "decayed", and gravity started behaving as you know it.

Check out Alan Guth's inflationary universe - a surprisingly accessible book on a deeply complex subject.

Someone please correct me where I'm wrong!
If I'm starting development on a Windows 10 app tomorrow, with no legacy codebase, and I'm going to target only Windows 10, which framework would you suggest? I want it to be the best of both worlds: when running on a Surface or other detachable with the keyboard detached, it should have no compromise compared to an iPad Pro app in its UX, with fluid gestures, working well with high PPI screens, and so on. At the same time, when running on a system with keyboard and mouse, it should have no compromise relative to a classic desktop app with all the power users expect, like full multitasking.

Which framework provides the best of both worlds?

Not UWP, since it doesn't offer full multitasking and is limited in various other ways like sandboxing that I can't opt out of.

Is there ANY framework that provides the best of both worlds?
How Does Spotify Know You So Well? (2017)
“How Does Spotify Know You So Well?” https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-learning-finds-your-new-music-19a41ab76efe
Puzzled that systemd/bootctl isn't mentioned.
What would you consider elite marketing skills?
Screens to order at restaurants is one of the shittiest ideas ever. Got handed an iPad with a menu on it recently at a restaurant in LA. Took me about 5x longer to get an overview of what they have than a normal paper menu.

Sometimes, paper > screen.
Well, if that is true, you are the best evidence yet of the value of the degree.

https://poetsandquants.com/2018/09/29/whos-hardest-hit-in-th...
I agree.

To be fair, it's not new (only magnified).

I remember a kid in highschool in the 90's. He was the best in our entire highschool at math. Any math contest in our school, he would win it.

He go accepted into Aerospace engineering at an elite university. Suddenly, his math skills were only mediocre compared to his new peers. He became depressed after this. He was always the "math guy"... now what is he?

That was in the 90's.
You're referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Doesnt E=mc^2 form an equivalence? I would expect energy to warp space-time just as mass does.
70% ? If that's true then that's fantastic but also very worrying.

This shows that whereas the majority of the nation support some form of single-payer option the government (no matter who is in charge) resists it. This means that the government works for the few, not the many. This implies an oligarchy which turns out to be verifiable[0]. Out of interest I looked up all the countries that have neither free nor universal healthcare[1] and cross-ranked them according to their human development index[2]. The list is quite small. What we see is that the US is the only country with a _supposedly_ very high human development index (and the only one in the top 70 of countries) that has a healthcare system that is neither free nor fair. 8 out of the 10 least developed countries in the world are on this list. How Americans are not figuratively up in arms over this is beyond me. I think it is fair to say that the US political system is broken in a very real sense. This is worrying because traditionally only catastrophe curbs inequality this bad[3] and I'm not sure incrementalism works in a broken system. Oh well, time will tell.

Country	Free?	All?	Level	Rank
United States	No	No	V	13
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No	No	H	72
Grenada	No	No	H	75
Lebanon	No	No	H	80
Dominican Republic	No	No	H	94
Jordan	No	No	H	95
Suriname	No	No	H	100
Dominica	No	No	H	103
Marshall Islands	No	No	H	106
Turkmenistan	No	No	H	108
Indonesia	No	No	M	116
Iraq	No	No	M	120
Tajikistan	No	No	M	127
Micronesia	No	No	M	131
Kenya	No	No	M	142
Cambodia	No	No	M	146
Angola	No	No	M	147
Cameroon	No	No	M	151
Syrian Arab Republic	No	No	L	155
Zimbabwe	No	No	L	156
Nigeria	No	No	L	157
Mauritania	No	No	L	159
Senegal	No	No	L	164
Comoros	No	No	L	165
Sudan	No	No	L	167
Haiti	No	No	L	168
Afghanistan	No	No	L	168
Gambia	No	No	L	174
Guinea	No	No	L	175
Guinea-Bissau	No	No	L	177
Mozambique	No	No	L	180
Liberia	No	No	L	181
Mali	No	No	L	182
Sierra Leone	No	No	L	184
Burundi	No	No	L	185
Chad	No	No	L	186
South Sudan	No	No	L	187
Niger	No	No	L	189
Somalia	No	No	-	---

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheide...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-u...
But it doesn't matter.
Your life doesn't matter at all.
You will be dead one day.
Nobody will remember you on a long enough timescale.
So why care?
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Just like when they lost the sales tax battle. They flipped their position to lobby for sales tax for everyone.
I'd say it's mostly regulation, risk-aversion, and company size.

When you're small, it's easy to avoid regulatory attention and whatever slap-on-the-wrist fine you may get isn't a lot of money.

The change and risk aversion really just comes from keeping the business running. When things work, try not to break them. Old large enterprises tend to have a lot of business critical things that "just work" and have been for a long time. Younger/smaller companies tend to have fewer battle scarred systems.

But once they get scarred, they typically add a process or policy to prevent it from happening again. After enough of them, congrats, you're enterprise speed.
Predicting flight delays has been a favorite topic of research in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) community. There has been ongoing research on this topic even before Machine Learning gained traction. Accurate predictions of far out delays is of course impressive but refining these predictions to a point of making a product that someone will actually pay for is going to be steep challenge. The primary challenge is to account for airline operations through publicly available data e.g., airlines usually pad schedules to account for delays, flight arriving at the end of the day are more likely to get delayed, flights between hubs are less likely to be delayed - data features that can model these do not exist in public data. Instances that cause the most disruption (mechanical failure, staff shortage etc.) are impossible to predict with just schedule data and this is where people would be willing to pay of such an app.
That was an especially grating accusation coming from the “director of public relations” who probably had a private office, an assistant, a parking spot, and meaningful equity. Unlike anybody who knows how computers actually work.
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I use adblocker and I didn't even notice the ads.

Small amount of small static ad images on the side is perfectly OK for me, but they probably don't generate as much income as those that interrupt you.
The Intel guys offered not only to fully fund the development, but to fully staff it and pay Microsoft for all the bother. Intel would have gotten their money back in chip sales. Bill didn't care.
And early Intel 486 chips allowed both segmented and non-segmented programs to run - if the OS on top supported it. I was working at SCO at the time (we were working with Microsoft on XENIX). There was a processor mode to flip between segmented and non-segmented. We supported both - but who would use a segmented program when they could have 2GB of virtual space?
Anyway, this is all neither here nor there. If someone wants to philosophically believe in rational markets and insightful and honest executives, well, that is a choice they can make.
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speed > ui

programming with a graphic interfaces is good for visual feedback but slow at developing as it requires a mouse and then some laying out which is more of a designer tool.
You’d think Apple would at least want to take care of any visual inconsistencies, specially in one of the major features which are touted as the big incentives for upgrading. There are still some UI elements here and there which are out of place in Dark Mode at best, or almost illegible at worst.

Such lax approach to UX polish has traditionally been associated with Microsoft, not Apple.
Eh. Article is a bit short on facts. Starting with the first bullet, the only place I've ever worked that rolled out OS updates continuously with a maximum 15-day latency was also an enormous global enterprise with tens of thousands of employees and plenty of regulatory red tape. Now I work at a much smaller company that thinks of itself as "scrappy" but is utterly paralyzed by OS updates in their production fleet because they don't have the tooling and processes around it. It is the tooling and the process that gives you the ability to move quickly!
Hi,

my humble opinion: how much would "Immutable Types" add to the language? How much complexity would it add?
Things can already be made immutable from outside by hiding them in private variables/struct elements.

The question is: why did Go became successful without having "Immutable Types"? (or "Reference Types", ADTs too please?)
Maybe those things are just frills, "nice to have" features.

Example like "type ImmutableMapAndKey const map[const * const Object] const * const Object" looks like really ugly Go to me... this is starting to look like C++...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7STILAS0M
(why Golang is Sucessful by Creator of Golang Rob-pike)

P.S.: I wouldn't mind having "Immutable Types", "Reference Types", ADTs, etc. in Go. But not if it means abandoning simplicity of the language.
"If it doesn’t go well he’s out of a job and his boss might go to prison"

Yeah, I don't think that happens much.