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I don't think the "extended family " will be a problem if both families haven been in touch for well over two decades.
I've read this story before (likely on one of the two occasions linked) but I enjoyed reading it again.

I don't know how accessibly it is to the young guns today but one thing this story manages to elicit very well is the general zeitgeist I experienced myself during those days. Mind you, I was never as advanced a programmer as the author and his friend were. But the description of "facing a problem caused by the restricted architecture of the machine your working on, the puzzle-like search for a work-around, and simply just having the spare time to dedicate to a project" are memories I know very well too.

Unfortunately, this feeling really is a memory. Coding has changed so much since the days of the 6502 or 6509, it's a completely different ball game. That's why I wrote above, I don't know if those who haven't been there can relate to the story very much, other than it reading like a peculiarity. But it sure is a nice -- and even suspenseful! -- read for an old-timer like me.
I wonder how this will help EU people.

This decision doesn't seem pro consumer.

Maybe automakers control EU and it's a way to secure their future cash cow.
We already know that too many choices is a bad thing. For some apparently, taken to an extreme, it becomes anxiety. Toss in neuroplasticity and for a subset that becomes chronic.

Evolution is an infinite process. There's no reason to believe humans are no longer evolving. Survival is relative to current conditions. Some of us are, naturally, just not wired for the "amenities" of modern life.
Are there any tutorials for getting started with this?
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International flights are the only fights with sane pricing in the US now. What's even better is that you can avoid the slight nickel and diming they've begun to do by exclusively using international carriers.

I remember being blown away by the service I got on Singapore and Malaysia Airlines. Great food, decent amount of leg room, flight attendants that don't have complete and utter contempt for everyone that isn't in Business class or above, and free alcohol. That is until I realized they weren't that special, the North American companies were just significantly worse at pretty much all aspects of the flying experience. Often times the North American companies with their fees aren't even saving you much money, or none at all if you plan well, so its an easy choice when your flight is at least 12 hours. The dream would be to have them compete and operate domestic flights as well. It would be great to go from Chicago to Dulles on ANA instead of United.
> It's horrifying that hospitals will market a "natural birth" as anything that is vaginal. i.e. it doesn't matter how many drugs they give you, it doesn't matter what drugs they give you to speed up the afterbirth, etc. etc. It's still "natural

That's definitely not the definition used in the UK. Normal birth in the UK doesn't include epidural but does include some other pain relief. This is controversial because epidural is probably safer.
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I applaud Berea. Just want them not to take it for granted having witnessed other schools slide off the path they're on.
Interesting that you see that as a "jab against white men" - I read it as a jab against monoculture. That the company's monoculture is middle aged white cis dudes is kind of beside the point.

A company this big needs to address most, if not all, people. The need for escapist leisure activity is something only relatively privileged people have. You only have to look at Google Glass to see what that limited appeal does to a product. It's a valid commercial consideration.
James Titcombe and others are campaigning pretty hard on this. Women need to be given correct information, but their wishes also need to be respected.

These campaigners have persuaded the CQC to stop pressuring trusts over rates of C-section or normal birth, and to get the NMC to stop paying normal birth so hard.
This whole thing is a poster child for GDPR.

Step 1: hi TLO, what information do you have on me? Step 2: right, delete all of it.
Your bank was just trying to figure out which of two internet strangers not in your home territory was the real you.

Someone using your card isn't the main problem with "identity" theft. That's a minor issue. If it's more than a few hundred bucks you'll notice immediately.

Someone getting a loan or a social security card benefits or health insurance or tax refund or committing a felony in your name is the major issue, which can run your life with you not even knowing for possibly years.
That's an aviation website. Would you expect HN posts to explain all computer related terms?
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What is AR supposed to be good for anyways? I see all those fancy demo videos (which are of course fake) and still ask myself what problem AR could solve. Magic Leap as well as the HoloLens require much computing power sitting next to you under the table, so you are not mobile with those headsets. So what real problem could this solve?
I like the 7-cpu.com benchmarks that also look at both the latency and the throughput (latency/parallelism) of the memory hierarchy. https://www.7-cpu.com/
When someone changes a decision like that after multiple experiences with the outcome, they are overriding a natural human bias for consistency. That likely indicates a strong reason. Maybe the coffee or atmosphere was actually consistently better?

The article example is pretty dumb honestly. Chains are a mental shortcut for making decisions, but truthfully, there is much more variation between two Starbucks than they would like to admit.
I thought safe mode on windows 98 was also F8. I thought F8 has been the go-to key to get a list of boot options after POST.
When usage excluding software update and podcast. How many people are using RSS for consuming "news"?
Good for you, no good for people who wanted to take a structured+exhaustive approach to learning CS.
These are all strawmen in most cases. Most businesses operate software systems that are perpetually at critical breaking points, riddled with tech debt, long-unfixed bugs that severely degrade quality and actively make customers unhappy but are not prioritized.

The business and product side always say things like not choosing projects based on technical challenge, but that’s so extremely far away from the case of reality that it’s just FUD to better politically control things.

Most engineers I have worked with are really clever generally and can quickly grok sales or business considerations at a higher level than the sales or business people can. They want to build things that customers care about and don’t need anyone from sales or product hierarchies to “make” them follow that priority. They only want to test new tech stack choices in careful, isolated ways, not betting the farm on a new toy.

These are basically made up, misunderstood myths that business people tell because they’re insecure that smart engineers are good enough to make both engineering and business decisions.

And the flip side failure mode, where engineers are raising alarms about serious tech debt issues or inflexibility / incapability to innovate, and business people dismiss the seriousness of the issues in a genuine business sense, is rampant.

As an engineer one of my most frustrating experiences is when, _after taking business concerns into account very carefully_, my expert opinion that the business outcome is at high risk of failure due to lack of engineering investment and basic quality focus is just dismissed because “I’m not a product person” or some similar bullshit self-preservation from soft-skilled people writing Powerpoints all day while dismissing the idea that engineers can learn the business (usually very quickly).
Yeah, from what I understand, the options are basically to either get a new return vehicle up there before December, or abandoning the station.

It's a bad situation to be in. The end of ISS is certainly an option. I don't think they'll ever let astronauts stay there with an expired return vehicle.
aren't black holes mass already computed accurately ?
Indeed.

Physics is wrong on many fundamental levels, but everytime physicists find fundamental errors, they propose another entirely theoretical layer of complexity, with the "benfit" that no one is able to practically refute it.
It worked for neutrinos.
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I think that the young generation might still relate to this story. Hacks have changed, but they still exist.

The difference is that now, instead of looking for a particular CPU instruction, you'll look at hidden instructions in you JIT bytecode or ways to trick your sandbox (browser?) to let you use the GPU.
I hear you.

The culturally-encouraged pseudo-slavery of debt really bothers me.
Is there anything on Arxiv I could read to learn more about your approach?
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I've repeatedly found that the ability to paraphrase and summarise the opposing positions in a way that the opposition can agree with, is a good indicator of whether someone is interested in, and able to have a meaningful discussion in a controversial subject.

It might be illuminating to compare this heuristic to the requirement of a decent scientific paper to summarise related work properly.
I'm not sure which theory you refer to? Normal physics works pretty well for most stuff and no one claims it knows everything.
It'd be silly to assume that influencers are a necessary requirement for information to spread in a network, just because that's how it's worked a lot of the time in our society.
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I've been happily using paperwork for this task ; https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork/

A simple button for scanning a document, the software does all the processing for you (rotation, OCR,..). You can apply tags to documents, search them, export them. The storage format is more than open (a png file + OCR results as an HTML page,...)
> You just need to increase the size of the funnel. If you were going to interview 100 people, interview 150.

Then you are not in the "lowering the standards" part but in the "discriminating against men" part.

You cannot turn a 70/30 gender ratio into a 50/50 gender ratio without looking at the gender (Edit: When considering that all are all above the hiring bar).
This is great, I've been tempted by js1k a number of times but the concept of a deadline and 1k limit is actually quite procrastonation inducing for me... 140 bytes forces me to experiment and not over think.
Without agriculture we'd still be hunter gatherers with little to no technology and everyone would be struggling just to survive. Sure, there are unpleasant side effects that come along with technological development but quality of life is still vastly better as a result.
Not really. If there was a decompression the very first thing that the pilot would do is immediately descend to 10,000 feet. The aircraft is one giant pressure vessel with wings strapped to the sides. Taking that up into thin atmosphere when it might be compromised is a bad idea.
Sure, but if a different link is better for the community as a whole, that takes priority over the original poster's intention. We change links like this all the time; it is not a recent innovation.
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> It is telling that the most compelling glimpse of a possible future with Magic Leap was relayed to me by nonwhite, non-male product manager

Yeah but the language used here makes it seem like white male product managers can't relay compelling visions for Magic Leap's future which isn't necessarily a correct statement.
Today you learned that used Macs hold their value well! This works out well for you when buying new because if you spend a couple hundred bucks extra, you can anticipate getting it back when you sell it.
I would like to share my thoughts on this, as I consider that my experience is comparable with meuk's. I've graduated this summer with a master's degree in security in an Eastern European country and I am currently looking for a job.

Before master's, I worked as a full stack developer (1 year) and for a data science startup (8 months) which did not get off the ground. It seems that managers ask about short stints even for junior positions and one manager asked me "so you weren't working for the past 2 years?". On sites like https://www.honeypot.io/, a platform representative told me that I should write in my profile why I left the jobs after such a short time.

Regarding job ads, most of them are for specific languages and frameworks (Java developer, Python developer, Spring Developer, Django Developer) and very few have a generic title such as Software Engineer. Companies like to cram both language nuts and bolts questions and CTCI questions in 1 hour.

During recent interviews, I have received questions such as:
"In Java you have this try-catch-finally code, in what scenarios the finally block does not get executed?".
"How do Python generators work under the hood?"
"You have a Python class, when the __init__ method is called, does the object already exists?"
"In Python, what is with statement and why it is used?"

Btw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lmCu8wz8ro is a great presentation about Python features.
Belgium, except AFAIK the internet banking.
Still somewhat alive in HPC and maybe embedded (outside mass market mobile chips).
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The whole purpose of a HN thread is to share your opinion on linked articles first, and follow the paths that discussions goes, second.

It's meta-comments like yours (and now mine) that are a total waste of time.
So many have had their DNA sequenced, they've put other's privacy in jeopardy
But that's kind of my point: naturally, there are still "hacks" around, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But as much as the nature of coding has changed, so has the nature of the hacks. I still wonder how easy it is for someone who grew up with IDEs, frameworks/libraries, and StackOverflow to relate to an old-time story like the one above. Sure, you can relate to the general feeling of "something is in the way of me reaching my goal, is there a clever way around it?" but to me, a lot of the "magic" inherent in the older hacks is different from today's. Can that old-time magic still be felt by a kid of today when reading a story like this one?
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It worked with normal AAAs for me. It's just quite nuanced. When dropping from the right height the empty ones on my wooden table tend to fall over, the full ones stay more still and upright with minimal bounce.
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I agree, this is wholly disqualifying, if the other memos that have come out this weren't disqualifying enough (because they didn't come directly from Pichai). In addition to flat out being unAmerican, this will eat their culture away from the inside, and give them incentive to create tools and AIs that they should not be creating.
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I did blind tests and it totally worked.
> Got rejected for not 'technically competent' despite polished complex app on both the App Store and on Github. It's insulting to the point I want to start cancelling processes with all Unicorns...

Because "how do we know you didn't copy paste it from a tutorial and claim it as yours?"

It is insulting, and frankly discouraging. As if the only one true way to tell whether you know your stuff or not is to check if you can solve some silly riddle/puzzle under the gun.

One solution is to only apply to companies without a broken hiring process, but sadly they're very rare.
> Got rejected for not 'technically competent'

That sounds a bit harsh.

Unless you're going for a role that requires some kind of explicit/specific knowledge - and you're clearly not able to demonstrate any skill in that area - I wouldn't put too much stock in the interview processes of Unicorns actually being indicative of your true skill.

I've been told, during an interview, that I was clearly incompetent and the interviewer terminated the interview. This was because I stumbled on doing a series of whiteboard exercises to solve some obscure brain-teasers.

I ended up getting the job anyway (I had worked with people there, and they vouched for me) and learned that to many of the interviewers, they found great delight in finding the most obscure and weird problems, trick questions and coding challenges.

It didn't help with selecting for competency, and the product the company was shipping wasn't exactly ground breaking or needing of someone who could on the spot solve arcane bullshit.
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Exactly.

The article is from someone in the Oscar Health Insurance.

According to Wikipedia, the company:

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

is claiming transparency in claims pricing:

>Oscar Health Insurance is a technology-focused health insurance company founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City. The company has plans to change the health insurance industry through telemedicine, healthcare focused technological interfaces, and transparent claims pricing systems.

Maybe they extended the transparency to people's health data.

Here is another article (still on Medium) that incidentally talks of the Author (as engineer employed in the company):

https://medium.com/oscar-tech/whats-it-like-to-be-an-enginee...
This is the right answer.

Personally I’ve wrapped it up in some shell and python scripts[1], and it does the job just fine.

[1] https://github.com/josteink/autoarchiver
I'm only switching to build-in li-po batteries, which hover seem to take over now.
Just makes sense. They will move to Fuchsia and is starting the process of moving away from the "Android" brand.

We have seen it already with Wear OS and other places.
Can someone explain the '[A-Z][a-z]' '\012*' means ? Tried googling but to me it is transliteration of any two letter sequence beginning with a capital to a line feed?
They could have, but didn't.

The implication is that the PM in question was trying to advance their career on meritocracy grounds, while the other PMs get by on connections. I'm reminded of Theranos' extremely well-connected board.

I don't think there would be anything wrong with trying to market Leap as a gaming peripheral, but that implies a much smaller valuation, so ...
This was also the theme of Ishmael, a terrible book wrapped around an interesting idea—that the native Americans practiced the right balance with the rest of nature.
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From same link: "2017 was a very good year for aviation safety."

The link includes a comparison with the previous year (2016) - onboard fatalities were ~90% lower and jet hull losses were ~75% lower. You're cherry-picking a very atypical year.
and the vaunted Roman legionaries of Middle Republic to Early Empire were also Italian farmers...

in the Old World, for thousands of years, farmers and nomads fight each other. Sometimes the former won, sometimes the latter won - don't forget, the Indo-Europeans were steppe nomads who were the first to tame cavalry and make chariots!
It is much more likely that Air India dispatch wanted the airplane repaired at a base where they have maintenance.

I also suspect it was better for the crew to end their last airline flight as crew in their home country...

A few years ago, was on a Delta flight out of Detroit to Boston. Over halfway to Boston, we turned back as the airplane had a maintenance issue that Delta wanted to deal with at DTW rather than BOS. (They do have a permanent presence at BOS, but a larger one at DTW.)
I know, right? There is no people for "political correctness". There are only those who don't like it. Whole term is constructed to be disliked.
My attempt to summarize the reasons would be:

We haven't directly detected dark matter because we don't really know what we are looking for, and there are only a few things we can search for. Dark matter might not be structured in a way we can investigate with current technology.

Also, dark matter doesn't interact much with regular matter, which makes the search even harder.
Well, the writer compared Magic Leap to Apple Newton, which was... too early for the aims?
And you would want to stay at low altitude, where you can burn the fuel much, much faster as well as divert more quickly if anything went south.

Nothing gets better at FL360 in this situation if your intention all along was to divert.
We know how stars work, and we know how gravity works...These two numbers don’t match, and they don’t match spectacularly. There had to be something more than just stars responsible for the vast majority of mass in the Universe.

I think the problem here is that maybe there is something else we don't understand. We also did not understand the propagation of light in a vacuum in the 19th century, and invented a hidden medium called the "aether" to explain it. I think there is some fundamental thing we are missing, and we're inventing dark matter to explain it.
It's not adding a layer of complexity, it's peeling off a layer of abstraction. With the "benefit" that it describes better what we observe and that it allows to successfully make new predictions.

What's your alternative to the scientific method exactly?
I got a chuckle out of that. Thanks.
Authentication: Show your ID with the number, send a copy of your ID, etc.

Also companies don't treat your ID number as lavishly as in the US where you have them printing them gratuitously into easily stealable documents.
Interesting, you are not the first person to describe the article like "myths that business people tell". But I've never worked around the "business people": I'm a developer who has always been freelancing and bootstrapping. All my previous clients were 1-10 person teams, mostly staffed with developers.

This article is the result of my experience of trying to do business myself, watching other developers trying, and talking with ones who would like to try it one day.

But I agree, engineers can learn many of these skills quickly. My goal was to list the biases.
There's a few legitimate ramen shops along my way home. Okonomiyaki, tonkutsu ramen, karaage chicken, takoyaki balls, and even cold soba are things I can get here. Service is fast, foods good, cost is on the lower end, etc. I eat ramen like once a week, some of the shops in my town actually make their own ramen by hand too instead of buying premade.
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Nice article, especially showing how much experimental data about dark exists. Dark matter isn't just a crazy concept to "fix" gravity. As nicely described in the article, there are several experiments clearly showing some invisible matter. We know a lot about it, except which unknown particle causes it.
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