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I agree with you, but somehow i feel like Marco gets a pass - he's not really trying to run a tech review site to give this thing an objective score, it's his personal blog and his opinion and this is the model he finds interesting.

I know it's probably not fair to give him a pass on reviewing the top-end, because really it is a review and should be held to the same standard as other reviews, but something about his tone makes me not care so much.
> This makes a lot of sense as a system, but who came up with "instant runoff"? should be called "ranked voting"

“Ranked Choice Voting” is one of th names for the system, but since their are dozens (maybe hundreds) of voting systems which use identical ranked choice ballots with different resolution procedure, naming it “instant runoff” (since it uses ranked choice ballots to implement a variation of majority/runoff) is much more specific of name.
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I think first impressions are key, no matter what.
While this is true, the personality type of the white/grey/blackhat may take that as provocative and a challenge. In my opinion, this is a risky approach. If their intent is malicious, they will not be turned away by threats.
"If it compiles it runs" does not mean that the result will be correct.
"All code is technical debt; some code just has a higher interest rate." Paul McMahon

Stroustrup’s Rule: "For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax. For established features, people want terse notation."

"Le meilleur moment du programmation, c'est quand on télécharge le compilateur." Georges Clemenceau
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Yes, thanks, I agree! In fact I realized a few hours ago that I'd miswritten by including the "difference," but didn't change it and even wondered if someone would comment on it and, yes!, you have. So thanks. As for the poem, I'm no authority here and I wonder how you see it; to me "that has made all the difference" feels intentionally ambiguous, partly ironic or not, able to reflect the reader's view from different angles and distances. But in any case yes I'm completely with you in that the poem's only stable claim is about the apparent sameness of the paths where the traveller makes their choice, a choice without any distinguishing information. I suppose it does raise the question, what is this "difference," to be mentioned after a sigh, and how valuable can it be when arriving at it versus some other destination came down to a coin flip?
Compared to the common “first past the post” voting, yes it is a good thing. This is because the common voting system encourages a “two extremist parties” system where everyone is effectively voting “greater horrible evil vs lesser horrible evil”.

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
Java and its ecosystem is great. It helps our teams easily solve business problems. And at the end of the day, what matters is business needs, I'm really tired of all these purists trashing a great framework.
No doubt. I didn't mean to minimize this aspect.

I think it will take a new generation of professionals like yourself involved in building not only the software systems, but also the hardware used, the clinic environment and entire patient experience. As it is, these terrible systems, designed by non-medical professionals, are dropped in the laps of practitioners who are not comfortable with technology in settings not designed around the use of technology.
Framing life as a game
Cool project! I will check this out.

Note: you have a typo on your home page: "never loose a bit" 'loose' => 'lose'
Wouldn't MMP at the Federal level require Provincial consent (1982 Constitution Act, sections 41a & 44) using the 7/10 & 50%+1 amendment formula?
The workers in this story said one reason they were told they couldn't take an ambulance was because Tesla couldn't afford to pay for the rides. That same quarter, Elon Musk paid himself $65mm and his cousin Lyndon Rive $17.5mm on a Solar City promissory note, which they had the option of rolling out to a later maturity.
Dunning-Kruger shows up in some front page discussion almost once a day. What does that say about the "effect"?
Pretty much every computer manufacturer provides review units, and always has. In fact, if anything, Apple's known for being a little on the stingy side here; for some of their product releases only the biggest publications have gotten early review units, whereas some vendors hand them out far more freely.
That's a bit of a tangent. Here we were discussing whether the concept itself makes sense.

But, as for empirical evidence, max entropy + Bayesian hypothesis selection makes the PHO hypothesis much more plausible than the TM hypothesis.
What are the specific operations? Will another batch of INSERTs / UPDATEs work? Does it matter if I use the analytical part of MemSQL ?
I wish there was a single flag to disable all that crap such that developers had to consider users who have the flag set, better still if it's on by default or behind a permission check

'This site would like to hijack your scroll wheel/touchpad', it's genuinely infuriating.
Visit the EC2 pricing table at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ , choose the US East (Northern Virginia) Region, and you will find prices.
Works great in reading view!
I'm curious, with much of the interview process focused in the "soft skills", how many experienced engineers are actually wrong on their actual performance?

That is, they may be more accurate in how they did on the tasks, but do they understand how they impressed on the interviewers?

Of course, some of this is a bit of a curve ball. Many people would love to think that the soft skills are not important. My personal take is it is much more nuanced. Easy to focus on the obvious outliers that are terrible at the social, but amazing at the technical. Think Feynman. Most of us are not in that ballpark, though.
Even the arguments presented here trivialize complaints and treat workers as subhuman. I understand patient privacy restricts what you can say, but not disputing any of the facts gives the story MORE weight. Actively conspiracing to avoid workers comp "for their own good" [in original: "avoid sometimes negative effects"]? It might be best, from a PR perspective, to limit the damage to what's already done.
Tax agencies argue about the fair value of assets and services all the time. Companies are already forced to do this when estimating VAT among subsidiaries.

So while it is a problem, its not a new one - nor an unsolvable one.
> Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem. - perldoc perlstyle

From that source it should rather be a joke. What is the meaning of `@` again?
The difference between the Buddhist swastika symbol and the Nazi swastika symbol
The central point of the original essay appeared to be that it was bad for renters.

The point of the article was that it simply shifts the distribution of economic rents from property developers to renters.
You realise that every single thing reviewed in a paper magazine is a loaner review unit, unless it's Consumer Reports, Which?, or one of about three others? It's an industry standard.
I can't seem to find a way to launch these instances through the AWS console. Does anyone else see them yet?
Apple's new iPad Pro is not compatible with any external storage devices
Interestingly, I had a unique view on the other side of this. I worked at Walmart Labs at the time of the acquisition as well- remotely, from Jersey City. Long story short, upper management had changed, they were no longer supporting remote, at least not for management level, and I saw the writing on the wall that my future wasn't looking great- I fought against their massive tightly coupled Pangaea system (that Java code, shockingly was only a few years old, nowhere close to ten) and lost that battle, I was remote, my saving grace that I was working on grocery which was absolutely taking off at the time.

Anyway, I happen to go to a brewery and meet one of your product guys- he had a Jet shirt on, and I just went over and said hello. We got along great, famously actually, and after a few beers I said "hey you know, this remote thing... its not looking like a long term thing... you guys seem pretty interesting..." and we set up an informal meet and greet. I get along with everyone, and had a trip out HQ the next week. I poked around about Jet, and mentioned hey you know I live about ten minutes from their office, and yeah- all the talk was about how quickly they could get off their stack and onto Pangaea. I just fought that, and gone through the painful task of moving some stuff to their stack, and another 2 years of dealing with migrations and not focusing on customers just seemed terrible. I ended up leaving.

But yeah WMT in general is all about the "one right way" to do things. Which is great if its the right way, but I often used to say that there were a few bad teams that were just absolute anchors around the entire firm. I understand you don't want 10 teams building the same thing, but a little healthy competition is ok to me...
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GCP also reduces costs as far as I know. The difference is that the cloud market has more competition
Yeah, the Apple Network Server running AIX with some Apple-specific customization. Interesting idea that didn't work out.
Interesting project but this is very different from MemSQL. Perhaps you should do a separate "show hn" post.
You forgot

* They track everything about the vehicles, including GPS. You have no privacy when driving in a Tesla.

* The cars have extensive DRM.

* Automatic remote updates that can, and sometimes do, brick the car.
Very true. In my company they are planning another office redesign and the people sitting in that environment had zero involvement. Our role is only to be cheerful once the new plan is revealed.

I have made a few practical suggestions to the facility people in the past always gut shrugged off.
I think removing unnecessary code and generalizing redundant parts should be a given. On the other hand, early optimizations such as caching or in-lining should be avoided unless needed.
Look at the results linked at zesty.ca: it’s not clear that IRV is progress. Meanwhile, approval voting is simple, easy to understand and to switch to, and a clearer improvement on the status quo. This is why the frustration.
I think the idea is that governments should tax things which aren’t as mobile (personal incomes, land, consumption etc) in order to minimise the distorting effects on the market tax can otherwise have. There are positives and negatives to that but it’s not totally obviously bad.
If you remap CapsLock to Esc, what key do you use for Control for doing Control A, Control E, Control K, Control Y, Control N, and Control P in every application?
> This is what libertarian and 'eliminate regulation' types want.

False. Healthcare is not a human right, but the insane inflation of healthcare costs would be avoided by removing a large portion of the regulation surrounding it. If hospitals actually had to compete to get patients, based on affordability, among other factors, healthcare would be far cheaper, and private charity/need-sharing would take the place of insurance.
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Why shouldn't the bureaucracy be fed? These companies make money off of it.

I don't see any justification for your position besides a nebulous wish for Europe to have an equivalent of google/facebook, and to be honest, besides adding an extra line on all those "european unicorn" blog posts, i don't see much advantage to it either. There's obviously positives to more profitable businesses - but why another google/facebook?
keep it professional please.
Should it be illegal to drive a partner to the ER then?
For me, moving out of the corporate world and into startup territory has removed most of the anxiety of feeling like an imposter.

When you can build and push major features of the product with little to no friction or stressful performance reviews, you can truly hone software as a craft.

95% of it is usually hammer and a nail, and the remaining 5% is a bottomless pit of version upgrades, new conventions, external libraries, changing requirements, performance bottlenecks, browser incompatibility, etc. No one should or can be an expert of these specific nuances, but you can learn to wrangle them all effectively at once.
Only in selected regions at the moment. I can see the m5a and r5a instances available in the console from the Ireland and Virginia regions.
> If a system reviews incoming medication refill requests from patients, evaluates protocols, and determines that a refill should be approved who does is listed as the authorizing provider for the purpose of the pharmacy and the patient's insurance?

If this system has really done all this work that presumably would have otherwise been done by a provider, what's the harm in presenting the recommendation to a doctor or pharmacist for final approval?

I'd think that it's important to get a trained professional to apply their experience to the final decision, which is perhaps why there is an "authorizing provider" field in the first place.
I occasionally work with a laptop that still runs Windows XP (because it also still has a serial port, you see) and it always shocks me a little how responsive it is compared to everything else I work with day to day.
Leases aren't offered with such flexibility in markets where the supply of available housing is small. I'm also interpreting "available" to mean available at a resident's income level, i.e. overlapping with "affordable." You sign the lease that's offered, or it goes to next candidate tenant.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

In this case, the measure is your position on the career ladder, not e.g. the success/failure of your product or company as a whole (unless that is required to advance). I feel that because of this, performance management at big companies leads to unnecessary product churn. Think about how many messaging apps Google has released, or how every product seems to get a top-to-bottom redesign every year or two... having been on the inside, I think this is definitely a symptom of employees optimizing for climbing the career ladder. Promotion Driven Development is a real phenomenon and is in the long-term detrimental to everyone. I don't know an easy solution to it, since bigger and bigger projects are required to "prove" that you should be promoted. Maybe in a few years people will have experienced this enough to think of a better way.
In my opinion and experience, if you decide to communicate with the individual, ask them to create an account on HackerOne [1]. You should do so as well. Even if the pay-out for your bugs was really small, at least you have given the person an opportunity to register a payment method that can potentially link back to them. You would have also given them and others a well defined process to report the bug.

[1] - https://www.hackerone.com/

On a side note, look through all of your access logs leading up to the communication. That can give you an idea of what bots and security tools were enumerating. Then dig deeper into each script they hit with your security team, or hire someone to analyze your code. Also, try to export dumps of your databases and look for things that should not be there. i.e. entries by unauthenticated services or users.
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Hi, Red Hatter here. Red Hat is not just a corporate job for many/most of us. I'm here because the culture is fantastic and the deep understanding of remote working is vital to me.
Fundamentally, are performance systems done objectively or "on a curve"? Meaning, if 100% of the engineers are operating at say Staff Engineer level, do they all end up with that title? Or does the Staff Engineer title really come down to some sort of percentile in a stack ranking?
I do this but instead of passwords like `NGIyNzgwMTEyNDczYTIyNjEwYWRhYWZh` I'd use `BatteryHorseStaple33` to the question: Where were you born.

I've never had it blow up in my face with any rep, and I make sure to keep the passwords in an offline (never touches any network) laptop.
I don't know why people thing IRV is complicated. Australia has been using this approach for more than a century with no problems.
Formal performance reviews are the worst method for evaluating your workforce that has ever been tried, except for all the others.

For me, performance reviews are the single most demoralizing aspect of working at a large company. They are doubly demoralizing because I can see so many things wrong with them, but also can't imagine any system that would work better.

So what's wrong with them?

1. Over the long term, they incentivize people to work on things that have easily measurable short term costs and benefits. More difficult to measure costs and benefits get ignored. They also encourage sunk-cost fallacy. In almost any company, you're better off, at least in the short term, if you ship something that turns out to be a huge waste of resources later on, than if you make the decision "this isn't turning out the way we wanted, we should just cancel this project".

2. They pretend to be a relatively objective system, when in fact your performance rating at most companies is strongly (though not entirely) dependent on how your manager views you. Attempts to lessen the impact of point 1 above will generally increase the impact of this point. Research suggests that most of what passes for rational justifications are made up after the fact to support gut-level emotional decisions.

3. They replace intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivation, which at least some research has shown can lead to much less durable motivation over the long run.

At one point I was very enamored of the way Valve does things, but now it seems that that sort of management approach produces super toxic cultures in the long run.

Ultimately it seems like the only way to get away from this stuff is to work for yourself or in a very small team with trusted partners.
It says that he 128GB version comes with High Availability features. Does that mean if I have 2 nodes, each one is limited to 64GB? Or each one can have 128?
According to the article, you just need a T6.
It doesn't help that job ads are wanting "Top 3% only!" or "Only top 1% Ninja Rockstars need apply!". Kind of reminds me of the market for singers or concert pianists, you absolutely need to be the best, even imperceptibly worse makes you unemployable.

Should those of us who aren't top 5%/didn't go to a top school just find another industry, one where sub-perfect work doesn't actively make other people's jobs harder?
I don't like income taxes either, but to be fair, all employees are paying taxes out of their 'revenues'.
As a side note, it is a good thing that Apple is supporting 16Gbit DDR4 on time and schedule. (this was not always true in the past)
What most (all?) of those alternatives are missing is the satellite view and street view. I look at it almost every time I search for a place to get an idea of the surroundings for when I'll be there. However links to the same location on Google Maps can fix that.
I think it would be more accurate to say it's not exactly quality that matters, but rather the ability to get attention. On 4chan, sometimes that's through a good quality math proof, sometimes it's through a live update of you murdering someone.
I don't see how you can add the Touchbar to desktops without creating a wired keyboard or adding an expensive big battery to it and jacking the price to $200.

Actually, I do: They'll raise the price of the cheapest iMac configuration and include the keyboard in the box. After seeing the starting Mac Mini prices, it makes total sense.
My bank (HDFC India) specifically states while setting up the security question that the bank will never ask for these (over phone or elsewhere), so I'm happily using random UUIDs
The practice interview point strikes me as odd. In large, because I have never done one. Do folks really typically do that many practice interviews?

I don't even know how to study. I sometimes consider it, but have never spent more than an hour prepping for an interview. :(

It worries me, because I know that interviewing is a skill. But are we not setting folks up to over index on that skill such that they have difficulty with actual job performance?

If anyone knows any literature into that general topic, I'd be very interested in perusing it.
I like to analyze Apple as if I were Warren Buffet, looking at from a fundamental valuation perspective.

Apple is more of a brand and high-end retailer these days (sales per sq ft rival and even exceed Nordstrom), with sticky customer retention through all of their service products. It helps they have made their tech fool-proof and continue to innovate in the direction of improving user experience, which is primarily social in nature with the smartphones.

In this regard, is the brand’s value compounding? Is the App Store, for instance, compounding in value the more it has aged? I think so.
> both a chemistry department and a chemical engineering department. They are different (but related) disciplines

I used to think chemical engineering is about chemistry until I talked to some chemical engineers on the bus I used to commute on. Most of what they study is mechanical engineering, and so, it's better to think of CE as a branch of ME. These people worked in the R&D department of a materials company, so they definitely knew what they were talking about. Their chemistry chops were only marginally better than mine, and I'm an EE.
Has the HN placement algorithm changed? This is #19 on the homepage with 1 point. It doesn't seem to be from the second chance pool but I may be wrong there.

Would be a cool change if it's something that lets more new submissions get a chance on the homepage
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If you've stumbled in your reading upon any hints on what to do with a two year old that barely sleeps more than 6 hours a day (including naptime) i'd kill for it.

We're having a neurologist appointment coming up because of it, but I can't shake the feeling we're just the worst parents. :/

We've taken away all screens from him a month ago, but he won't stop waking up at night, trying to breastfeed as much as possible and not falling asleep before 1 AM.
That was my point. Software aes-Xts gets slow when you use it on a raid.

If you do use it on raid put it under the raid so make one decrypt device for each drive then raid those.
At least a few years ago, when I was at Epic (not on a medical-user-facing team), the issue that caused this wasn't the data storage of the timestamps or whatever. It's figuring out how to display events during that repeated hour in charts that assume 24 hour days in patient-safe way.

Say you see on the chart that a patient received medication at 1:30. It's now 2:30, and the patient is supposed to receive medication every 2 hours. Do you give them another dose? Did they get their does at the first 1:30 or the 2nd 1:30? Expand that by the literal thousands of super (almost frustratingly) customizable workflows, custom charts, etc., and the problem gets pretty big.

Considering most (maybe all?) Epic upgrades require brief downtimes, a lot of hospitals chose to take their downtime to install updates during the DST changeover time and rely on their doctors/nurses/etc. to be extra careful on paper during the doubled hour. Is it a great system? Not really. But it kind of works I guess.
From TFA:

> Intel is labeling them "Cascade Lake Advanced Performance,"

The Anandtech article suggests they’re de-emphasising the “Lake” so it’s more of a C-AP.
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