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A syntax error should never make it production if you have even half decent infrastructure... In a monolith or a micro service.

And if your microservice get to production with a syntax error do you really think the whole ecosystem is somehow more healthy? Not unless you wrote a ton of horrible defensive code with and retries and HTTP error/timeout catching code every time this service is called...
The "global 1%" stat doesn't seem entirely useless, as a guide to national prosperity after PPP. But you're obviously right that national corrections are totally inadequate to distinguish e.g. NYC incomes from Tulsa incomes. And using it to measure who in America is rich is simply stupid.

The more I think about it, the more I like $5M USD investable.

I was getting set to argue that the $3M-$5M range gets you an above-average income via pure investment, maybe suggest "wealth outside of primary residence", point out purchasing power discrepancies, but all that quibbling just proves it's the wrong metric.

At $5M in wealth, it ought to be possible to go basically anywhere in the world and live comfortably without working. I think that's indisputably "rich".
Your typical Linux stack is far more configurable and customizable than the Mac stack.

You typically have far more configuration levers, as well as deeper customization access. The stack is built entirely from open, accessible source, so you can ultimately customize every single part of it to your exact liking.

For example, KDE has an order of magnitude more levers than the OS X DE.
I mean when talking about real numbers this way, we mean numbers that can only we represented as compositions of periodic digits, or worse, transcendental numbers which lack even periodicity. However, unless you do Numerics, you probably choose a different representation, for instance as series. This is precise and there is a choice of Computer Algebra Systems available for that.

In fact Algebra has very deep connections to pen and paper geometry.

Apart from that... Due to the increased use of statistics, the postulates of CS might shift. One example being CAP theorem.
Coincidentally I do something similar for Rust, but in not nearly as grand a fashion... https://github.com/rayascott/fearless-rust-bloggers
I feel like in an emergency situation, voice would still be the preferred mode since ARES and other HF radio organizations are dispatched to fill in coverage gaps that would have been there otherwise. You also need a working computer with the latest software, a digital interface, and have practiced digital mode operating skills.
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JT65 is amazing for weak signals. So this is quite exciting. More data on the specs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_(amateur_radio_software...
Sort of. The "rules" to establish a contact generally state that you have to exchange some data, but doesn't define "data".
Mostly this devolves into a simple piece of data - your grid coordinate is one example. During contests (yes, there are amateur radio contests), a signal report (strength and clarity expressed as 2 digits) would be accepted.

With a low bandwidth mode like this, there is not much possibility of transmitting more than a few bits of data. So a grid square and callsign are about all that will fit.
We have different interpretations of what we mean by "distributed system". I mean a group of servers that provide a single service. Or more precisely, metadata is a single distributed shared memory layer, where file systems semantics are same regardless on which partition/shard of the metadata a metadata operation is performed.

What Ceph and many others do is support partitioned metadata. One volume == one metadata partition. But cross partition metadata operations do not have the same semantics as intra-partition metadata operations. So, moving a file/dir between volumes (partitions) is not atomic - they do not solve the hard consensus problem. We do. Gluster is also not solving the consensus problem. The end result is leaky filesystem abstractions. If you move a file between two directories, it may go fast. But between two different directories (across volumes), it can go very slow. Renaming a file in Gluster can cause it to move between hosts.
MacBook Pro is a piece of dog shit. Why would you pay $2000-3000 for a computer that has the performance of a $900 PC?
Even the brand new top of the line Mac book pros only have a AMD 555x gpu. That is completely unacceptable for the price. They get utterly and completely destroyed by cheaper PC's in virtually every benchmark.
I feel like this might be an opportunity for a larger provider to buy up this infrastructure for what would amount to pocket change for them.
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More sunspots are associated with increased solar flux, which cause ionization in the upper atmosphere. HF (3-30MHz) communication is generally enhanced by increased ionization (to a coarse first-order approximation -- the nuances fill many books and are not entirely understood.)

At other frequencies, sunspots may or may not be a good or bad thing, depending on your definition of "good" and "bad".
Would you have said the same of Troy right up until they found it a few years ago?

Can you point me to where in those podcast they discredit that the Richat structure in Africa does not fit the description of Atlantis?

This documentary is pretty sober and not at all fanciful, lays out how the Richat matches Plato's description exactly:

https://visitingatlantis.com/

You absolutely don't need to buy into the fanciful myths of Atlantis to speculate that is probably was an ancient bronze age city located at the Richat.
Simple explanation, sunspots energize the atmosphere making it easier for lower frequency signals to bounce off the upper atmosphere back down to the ground allowing longer range because you're not horizon limited.
The motor for the dryer also needs to power the fan that draws air through the unit. Without anything attached to the shaft, I previously measured the no-load power of the electric motor to be 200W.

I would expect the full load current to be considerably higher, as the dryer's drum rides on friction pads and not ball bearings.
I haven't needed to iron in a long time and I use dryers. Wash on medium and dry on permanent press. Remove immediately and hang or fold. As long as you don't pack the dryer with heavy items, clothes come out wrinkle-free.
It is about reach, a leaflet would reach one person. That person might talk to a person or two about the information in the leaflet. One person with a fan could be seen by many thousands of people on their daily commute.
Please don't post political or national flamewar comments to HN. We're trying for better than that here, regardless of how low the odds are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You edited to include additional claims, and some counterfactuals. I see no reason to believe that the anti-trust rulings against Microsoft, which were actually rather weak when all was said and done, is what allowed Google to come into existence. I don't see how they had any effect on Google, or how Google was stymied by Microsoft's monopoly. Can you substantiate that claim?

Likewise, you have to prove that these companies are destroying the ability for other folks to innovate through abuse of monopoly power (the point of the hearings), not just say that they're big so we need to "break them up".
That's true although professional dress is definitely more casual in the US (for the most part) than it was 20-30 years ago. When I started with a tech company in the mid-80s, suits were pretty much the norm for marketing and sales and even many in engineering. It would have been strange for the most part to, say, give a presentation at a conference without being dressed that way.

These days, in tech certainly but across many industries, "dressing up" is mostly an outlier.
My coworkers are currently on this same bent and it drives me mad.

They’d rather make a video than write an architecture document. And what happens when someone has a question or complaint about the middle of the video? How do you come back in a week to review the second to last part?

Learn to take screenshots and do some light typesetting. Spell it out for people (in my case, they are literally getting paid to do the work).
DX is a term for a long distance contact. Increased sunspot activity results in increasing ionosphere ionization, resulting in an increase in the refracting power of the ionosphere. Higher refracting power means radio waves can be bent more, resulting in longer distance communication (also, the ionosphere bends lower frequencies better, so you get an increase in the MUF, or Maximum Usable Frequency that will get bent back to the earth.)
Ask HN: Places where good engineering is done?
This is question is based on the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18256616

So what are the places where you think good engineering is done? "Good" is subjective. So please describe what makes the place(s) good.
The infrastructure and user experience is too bad to do that.
No. Small talk is, by definition, incidental to the functional, "business" parts of the transaction. It excludes things like: "Your total is $X". "Out of the $Y you gave me, your change is ..." -- i.e., the things the GP was describing in Japan.

Edit: "Welcome to the store [some mini sales pitch]" might count as small talk, but is not what most people have in mind.
Until Mozilla is free from Google et al., all "problems" related to blocking ads are merely theoretical.
The primary vulnerability here was that the author used the current time as the sole random seed for generating passwords. From there the output of a PRNG -looks- random, but is in fact based on something that happens every day and thus not really random.

If you can understand a PRNG algorithim and how it was seeded without source code using nothing but radare faster than I could read the code... then you really do have some superhuman skill, and most of my arguments fall flat.

Subtle cryprography flaws like this could be introduced intentionally as well by a bad actor, or pressure from a state actor. They are very hard to see without source code in my experience.

You just kind of made my point for me, in that seeing the output in something like radare -is- often much harder to understand what is going on than just looking at the source code.

Don't get me wrong, I have a deep respect for people that are very good at finding bugs this way. When you -don't have source code then finding bugs via methods like this is the only thing you have on the table, and it is impressive.

What I am taking issue with is you trying to in effect claim that some people like yourself are so good at blackbox testing that you could find all potential bugs faster with those tactics than you could reading the relevant source code.

Consider though that not all researchers work this way. Many bugs have been found by myself and other researchers I know by simply reading source code, so your argument that a vendor releasing source code gives it no security advantage is just not true.

While I am no fan of Signal, the fact they make their source code public makes it much easier to audit and trust its e2e cryptography implementation than say Whatsapp. Even the two tools you favor are wildly unequal in transparency and auditability.

Perhaps the majority of my background working with FOSS software has made me undervalue blackbox testing and you have made a good argument for it. It would make me more well rounded and I intend to pursue it.

I think if there is anything you can take from my side of this discussion it is seeing the value of providing source code to the right eyeballs that know how to quickly spot certian classes of issues.

That source code in the hands of the right person is a faster way to find some bugs than one could in a binary reverse engineering environment.
The perverse bit is the tax-kickback. Everything else is interesting!
> The idea that one has to retreat within their own home or personal vehicle is just kind of absurd to begin with.

If my home had two pairs of doors I'll be rushing through second one the moment I thought someone would try to brake in through the first one. Not because I had to, just because defending your stuff with your life and health is a bad choice. You have one life and body that will not be the same again after it's shot or stabbed or beaten, but you can always earn more money and get more stuff.
Basements are a structural necessity in regions where the ground freezes, and the deeper the frost penetrates the deeper the foundation must go.

If you have a basement, you may as well put the boiler or furnace down there, freeing up space on the main floor.
I think Australia is mostly set up this way. We call it "One Vote, One Value". Each member of parliament is meant to represent roughly the same number of voters, within a +/- 10% tolerance. When populations change, voting boundaries are redrawn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_vote,_one_value
Here's an article from the site calling for less race-baiting because it's harmful to the public perception of white nationalism, thereby hindering white nationalists from reaching their goals:

https://penetrate.blogspot.com/2015/05/you-can-fight-for-rac...

Here's an article that suggests it's counterproductive to beat up gay people because again, it's unpopular, and instead advocates that they be segregated and their behavior outlawed as an unpleasant nuisance:

https://penetrate.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-word-on-homosexuals...

Here's a link to a donation campaign being run by the organization "White Revolution" with the context that if white nationalist groups were more practical like this, the author would like them more.

https://penetrate.blogspot.com/2011/04/unbelievable-white-na...

Here is a link to a lighthearted funny meme about Anders Breivik, a neo-nazi who murdered 77 people.

https://penetrate.blogspot.com/2014/01/anders-breivik-king-o...

The general tone of the site seems to be that of a white supremacist and neo-nazi who believes that others who share his or her goals are not effective and should adopt other tactics in order to achieve their aims.

If you're not able to see this, I have to question whether you've reviewed the material your commenting on, or if you're incredibly politically naive, or if perhaps your questioning is not entirely in good faith.
An interesting benefit that I've never considered before would be a medicinal advantage.

With less genetic variable, effective treatments would be stumbled upon faster, if even just through GP trial and error.

Chinese medicine man who knew his clients inside and out, etc
1984 plus Terry Gilliam.
I’d like to see a codified system where elsctronic docs and records must have timestamps and certain kinds of content must get “forgotten” de-indexed, over time. Midemeanor mentions get de-indexed afer x-years, felonies y-years, murders and the sort, never.

Obviously this would require refinement. That said, someone could resurrect one of these records and reset the clock, but being derivative, the click would have to run much faster. Also it should not be automated (as that would subvert the while idea).

However, in practice this msy be unworkable without draconian enforcement.
I think it would give a constant time advantage. If humanity operates on O(f(t)) in that case we would operate on O(C f(t)). That is, as opposed, improvements that change the model itself (i.e. f) such as increased productivity, automation, cultural shifts etc...
I strongly support this strategy. It'd reduce both witchhunts and copycats.
I contribute to open source. However I fundamentally disagree. You can measure how well you are performing tasks that are based on your reading.
> It's hard to turn a monolith architecture into a architecture with micro-services

The other way around is 10 times harder... So think twice and make sure you need it before doing it.
Every startup's "founding story" is in some part fictional, so the easiest thing is to just find something that doesn't make sense in their pitch, and ask about it, directly.

In the startup world, bullshitters are pretty much the norm, so finding bullshit isn't difficult. What's difficult is ignoring the hype bubble and social pressures that come with challenging people who are well-funded (and of course, sometimes you're wrong, which is part of what makes it hard).

Even if you're wrong, though, a non-bullshit answer to a pointed question will address the question. Most people, however, will just say words that dance around your question, clarifying nothing. In that case, you have to have the guts to keep asking followup questions, even if it makes the bullshitter uncomfortable.

When I think back over my history, I've always had a pretty good idea about the bullshit level of various employers simply by asking simple things like "how do you make money?" Good entrepreneurs will simply tell you (even if the answer is "we don't, yet"). Bad entrepreneurs will dress it up and try to hide their answer in word salad. Avoid these people.
"The evidence suggests otherwise. Sex crimes researchers R. Karl Hanson and Kelly E. Morton-Bourgon of Public Safety Canada conducted a large-scale meta-analysis (quantitative review) of recidivism rates among adult sex offenders. They found a rate of 14 percent over a period averaging five to six years. Recidivism rates increased over time, reaching 24 percent by 15 years. The figures are clearly out of alignment with the public’s more dire expectations."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/misunderstood-cri...
So this pattern forces specific technology choices on you (GraphQL), and encourages vendor lock-in by going all-in on "Serverless" cloud functions. No thanks.
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I feel this is in the same vein as asking every girl on the street if she wants to have a drink.

That definitely can be one way to meet one’s life partner. But it’s so grating from the other side, even if the request is very polite and non pushy.

Some people live for the human contact, others don’t want any. Honestly it’s a PITA when the social norm puts an obligation to respond, even briefly, to not seem rude.

If it’s a protocol, there should be an option to just drop the incomming packets and go on with one’s life.
They could function as independent countries, for better or worse. But it generally looks like states don't want more autonomy: over 240 years the US federal government has taken on more and more power at the expense of the states, facing minimal resistance apart from a single bloody civil war where the heroes are universally agreed to be the side fighting for more powers for the federal government.
The ‘right to be forgotten’ is backwards. Much better would be a 'right to remember'. The right to be forgotten is a positive right, in that it requires other people to take action (e.g. delist a story from Google) to fulfill it. A right to remember would be a negative right. Like a freedom of the press doesn't require the government to subsidize a printing press or equivalent, a right to remember would just mean that the state can't compel anyone to delist a story, etc.

Positive rights are more open to abuse, and better serve the centralization of power.

A right to be forgotten cannot be applied without infringing on someone else's right to speak about what must be forgotten, as in the case of forcing Google to delist something. A right to remember only infringes on the very dubious "right" to control someone else's speech and/or memory prosthetics, e.g search engines.
Depends on the band and your application. So what the HAM radio operators are doing is bouncing signals off the ionosphere. With more sunspots active, the ionosphere is more electrically charged, making is easier to bounce signals off of.

People have bounced signals off of the ion trails of meteorites, space shuttle reentry, and other absurd stuff :)
Aside from the millions of deaths, you mean?
Elmo is an interesting study in the evolution of Sesame Street for many reasons. Big Bird was created to be the avatar of the children watching, and there is an interesting generational shift around the show as Big Bird become such a symbol of the establishment that children stopped seeing themselves in Big Bird and a new "child advocate" niche opened up for Elmo to fill. For Mr. Spinney, getting a puppet into that role was an intentional design choice, and for Mr. Clash getting a puppet into that role was a lightning-in-a-bottle lucky moment in the zeitgeist shift and creative renewal of the show. Arguably the show would not have survived if it didn't showcase Elmo as it did, given whatever that generation shift was that happened.

I would hope that there are entire Anthropology and Sociology graduate theses devoted to that shift, because it is fascinating to this lay observer.
It looks like I would love to live in Finland! I'm always annoyed by passengers in the bus talking loudly while I try to read my book. This is very common. Commuters are very noisy in Turkey. Also I wonder if in Finland they announce stations in public transportation. Like "next station is blah blah..." Here in Turkey in big cities they even announce stations in Turkish and in English! So annoying.
> A lot of pharmacies I see in Europe and UK sell homeopathy

Same at major chain pharmacies in the US.

Worse, it is often placed to promote it over actual medicine.

Go in looking for over the counter relief for runny or itchy eyes or for a runny or congested nose due to seasonal allergies, and you will often find that the homeopathic crap is placed on the chest level shelves so it is the first and easiest seen.

The real stuff is two or three shelves down.
Tesla makes John Deere look like they care about their customers.
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The back has a hinge section that folds down to fit a +6' person fully extended. I will work to make that part clearer by including a second picture at top of site. Also, I will include to find HT pallet rather than a chemically treated one. These completed Occupods run $50 each. The city can trash them if that is their prerogative and I am not opposed to shanty towns at all.
Narwhal – Commission-free algorithmic trading infrastructure
If you look at the map, you'll notice areas with white hot housing and rental markets (2k+ rents, 600k+ floors of houses). See my other comment for a concrete example.

Even worse, the zones are chosen by governors and the rules for selecting them are extremely lax.

I know enough about the local politics of where I grew up to know that at least one of the OZs makes literally no sense and is 100% a kickback to a major gubernatorial donor.
> What does the Department of Justice have to do with anything?

While I haven't heard anything about the DoJ related to the self-driving feature, how they might be involved is pretty obvious:

The DoJ prosecutes federal crimes, including, reportedly, a recent criminal referral from the SEC.

While the trigger for that was Musk's tweets, federal criminal investigations aren't narrowly restricted to the conduct which triggered them; Tesla has made representations, regarding the self-driving feature to investors as well as consumers; to the extent those representations did not fully accurately represent Tesla’s knowledge, and materially impacts Telsa’s expected costs and outlook, that's a potentially criminal securities fraud.
I think often people who have such big problems with small talk are not appreciating what it actually is and what it's for. I'm sorry but I actively do not want to solve life's big mysteries with you while we wait in the bank line. There are lots of times in life where what is being communicated and what is being said are different, I don't see why that distinction is more of a problem in the case of small talk than anywhere else.
Thanks! This is very useful.