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While I see what the author is getting at, I'm not sure I fully agree with him.

-Deadlines
This is literally every job. This is high school. This is easy to self impose. If you need a college degree to teach you the concept of deadlines I'm honestly a little surprised.

-Teamwork
I'll quote an old roommate on this: "College is just a piece of paper proving you can do group projects".
While yes working in teams on a technical task is a skill, the majority of the projects I worked on in college didn't teach me this. The meme of "the rest of my group is useless" does seem oddly universal. Plus the author act like no one has ever done a group project in a bootcamp or at another job.

-Communication
So you learned to code but never learned to ask for help? Not on IRC/Slack/Discord? Not on stack overflow? Never at another job?

-Prestige
Can't argue with that. Majority of jobs list a college degree as a requirement. I'm sure someone has a better counter argument for this.

Overall I don't really think this is a fair comparison. 4 years vs 6 months tops at a bootcamp vs whatever amount of time to just learn yourself.

I distinctly remember a good portion of my time in my degree not being focused on what I actually wanted to learn and instead on things the school decided I should. Anthropology is interesting but why should it be required for my CS degree? That's X amount I had to spend on 3 credits plus time spent I could have taken something else more relevant.
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The computer geniuses here at Hacker News have decided the main argument of this article are wrong. But among archaeologists ritual defacement is understood to be a regular thing that happens to art all over the world.

Roman coins defaced: https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Defacing-the-past-damnation-a...

Teotihuacan icons demolished and destroyed by fire: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/24/teotihu...
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream over Ethernet Fabrics
Kennedy, Nixon, and the culture of the image (2004)
Based on my experience cats tend to overeat a lot more than dogs.
Instead of an Airbnb-style bartering economy, I'd expect a Netflix for household items would be more feasible. No worries about strangers using and breaking your things, no microtransactions to track.

That sounds specially interesting in denser areas. Make it fast and easy for people to request and return stuff, and homes suddenly have a lot of extra space.
There's lots of spare capacity in the electrical grid. It's built to handle peak load (late afternoon/early evening). This can be solved with simple economic incentives to charge more for electricity at peak times. The cars are already smart enough to be programmed to charge themselves over night. Plug them in when you get home, and then they start charging once peak is over, with plenty of time to finish topping up by morning (especially considering most people won't drive close to a full battery's worth on the average day).
Well, one way to level the playing field would be to disallow monopolization via the winner-take-all effect.

One way to do this would be to require public APIs, so that competitors can make rival designs/experiences.

For example, if Amazon uses its monopoly to only show its own products in the first page of search results, even when they cost more or have worse reviews, then a competitor could build an interface that does better.
Quadratic voting. You can give as many "pushes" to a candidate as you like, but the first costs $1, the second $2, the third $9, the fourth $16... At the end of the game everyone shares in the spoils equally so people get some of their money back.
When I was two, my family took me to my grandma's farm, where she had all kinds of animals, including chickens. As a curious two-year-old, I ran up to the chicken pen to take a look, and a rooster lunged at me aggressively. Luckily there was wire between us, so no harm done, but it scared me so much that I had nightmares about that rooster for the next ten years.

We had that rooster for dinner that night, so he got what he deserved. :)
I see we have some Protoss among us here on HN :)
>NTSB final accident reports, with findings as to probable cause and recommendations intended to prevent future accidents, are statutorily prohibited from coming into evidence at trial; however, NTSB factual reports are generally admissible at trial. NTSB investigations typically last for a year or longer.

Just a quick Google there. Do note that the intent behind most NTSB reports being inadmissible in a trial is to secure cooperation from all parties in order to get an accurate representation of the problem that caused the disaster in the first place.

That's not to say lawsuits or criminal charges won't happen, but those proceedings will not be able to use NTSB investigatory results to make their case. They will have to independently prove their case through other means.

NTSB is not in the blame and punish game, and any civil case against Boeing will have a he'll of a time. Never mind that a criminal case will still be required to be levied against an individual at the company, and would have to prove criminal intent.

There will not likely be a terribly satisfying legal remedy to this. Taking VW and the financial industry as a starting point for successful pushback against industry, I'm not expecting a terribly satisfying legal conclusion on this one. There will probably be a review of corporate culture, maybe some extra scrutiny for Boeing for a while, some token legislation, and maybe a charity fund for victims.

Least that's what my magic 8 ball expects.
There is a Go port but upstream changes keep breaking builds on 9 so it's been difficult. Same situation lead to Python being neglected though it's still included in 9front but stuck at version 2.5.1. Makes for a nice calculator repl though.

Most of that stems from the use of the Plan 9 C library which is not ANSI but has many of the same functions. So to bridge the portability gap ANSI C/Unix/POSIX is via the APE (ANSI/POSIX Environment) library and the cpp preprocessor.
Browsers on OS X store this information in extended file system attribtes (accessible via the xattr command). It's also how the OS knows to prompt you the first time you open an executable--"you downloaded this from googlechrome.com via Safari, are you sure you want to run this?".

Calling it "secret", as the article does, seems disingenous. (Further, even if somebody downloads an application in an incog window, it is probably better for the system's security posture to record these xattrs for such a "hey, is this what you actually meant to download and execute?" situation.)
Anecdotally, iMessage’s voice feature doesn’t get much use. Everybody I know uses it text only and opts for dictation over voice messages.

Personally I prefer text. Telegram’s voice message support is much better, but without fail when someone sends me one I end up listening to it 2-3+ times to make sure I heard/understood it correctly. Never have that problem with text.
Maybe 7 sad chickens are worth one happy fox?
'Is there any credible doubt that electric cars are the future?' I think in the near term yes.
Hybrid is the only viable next generation of vehicles, with full EV possibly after that.
I read chicken coop and chicken coup automagically until reading the comments! How much context guessing happens in our brains!
Working backwards, I start by defining what data I care about tracking. This is actually one of the biggest ancillary benefits of rolling your own analytics. I get to perfectly fit my analytics to my application.

This could easily make the whole thing worthwhile. Ultimately, the number one ingredient for useful analytics is figuring out what you want to know, and how you are going to use that knowledge. It's usually a missing ingredient and GA encourages a much more passive approach.
My point was only for primary homes. I agree that land left undeveloped must be put to use but with incentive, not as punishment.
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If you find any bugs with the JavaScript syntax, definitely report them at https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/issues.

As far as I know, our syntax definition is pretty spot on with the current state of the language and I believe supports all of the stage-3 proposals in TC39 (see https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/issues/1269 for more info).

The major thing we don't support out-of-the-box right now is JSX. If you are using JSX or Flow I highly recommend https://packagecontrol.io/packages/JSCustom. It is maintained by the primary contributor to the default JavaScript syntax.

With our high-quality JavaScript syntax, things like Goto Definition and Goto References should work well.

I'm not sure what else you may be looking for in JS projects, but there are certainly tons of third-party packages for things like linting and so forth. Myself, I tend to run Sublime Text pretty vanilla as I use a full terminal emulator to run tasks like tests, linting, builds, etc.
I'm okay with this. If a user agent is attempting to block my tracking code (piwik.js), it's likely that the user doesn't want to be tracked.

Part of respecting user privacy is accepting the fact my tracking scripts will be blocked by most privacy extensions.

I feel Matomo does privacy correctly. By default it continues to use the well known piwik.js filename that extensions block and also respects the DNT (do not track) signal from browsers.
Fines are absorbed as a cost of doing business and are not a disincentive.

Jail. Jail for a looooong time. Only in negatively and significantly affecting the life or lives of those responsible will there be adequate justice.

Better question is, what is it with HN and rallying to the defense of unethical and illegal business practices?
AI Safety, Leaking Abstractions and Boeing’s 737 Max 8
That actually sounds like a good thing though.
I always find it interesting that a lot of prey animals sometimes fight back with success but they don’t seem to repeat that behavior next time. I have seen videos of zebras going after a lion without problem but next time they will just run away again and the slowest will get killed.
Shared Inbox Best Pratice: More Than Tips for Startups and SMB's
That's a pretty good strat, I guess.
I think "progress" is a culturally and personally subjective concept.

To me, a lot of the progress we're making is efficiency only for the sake of profit. We should be answering the deeper question of "what's the point of work?" Do businesses exist to make profit for a small group of people or do they exist as privately-owned community pillars providing services and wages to citizens?

Personally, I lean towards the latter. And that's as a business owner twice-over.

We should also be asking ourselves "why do we make the products we make?" Are we building and consuming to fulfill an urge created by advertising? If so, can we scale back advertising and thus consumption and thus waste?

Unionization and employee-ownership are other options for fairly distributing wealth based on effort. A shop that unionizes can vote to automate – or not – and thus control their own destiny. Granted we're not there yet legally; our laws skew heavily in the favor of business owners. So were a union shop to vote to _not_ automate, a shop that fired all of its employees and automated would more than likely succeed in the market.

And that brings me full-circle – is succeeding in the market and being profitable more important than keeping people employed in a democratically-controlled workplace?
Well the other side of the coin is, Indian civilization survives. The same language, rituals, stories, music, food, imagery used, are all pretty much alive outside and inside thousands of temple even today. Those aspects of culture have somehow weathered invasion, natural disasters, famine, and drought. You can't say the same about Egyptian civilization.
On most Linux distros you can use the `getfattr` command from the `attr` package, but it's usually not installed by default. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getfattr.1.html

With Python 3.3+, which often is installed by default, you can use os.listxattr() and os.getxattr(). https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#linux-extended-att...
Reading old IRC or ICQ logs from 2001 can be quite fun though, brings back some memories.
With the history of fires in clubs and at events, I’m comfortable with closures until things are rectified. They might be rare but they are devastating.
Lol @ software engineers complaining about ageism and at the same time thinking retraining a 50yo truck driver is a reasonable solution
Hah wow, mine actually went down to 105 when I just checked.

I did some brief testing and it looks like the usage is depending on your servers activity. If people are posting lots of gifs the memory goes up. I got up to 300 going to some of the communities I just follow, rather than actively participate in daily. When I went back to my "main server" where my close friends are (we dont gif much) it slowly droppped back down to ~110. I guess eventually once it releases the in memory fluff it will drop back down.

Does doing this help your memory usage? https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/206342858--...

I'll be honest and say I've never used roles so I'm sure you are right. That is unfortunate
Agreed. A product owner or a product manager is what people in OP's position usually go for. And they draw very high salaries from what I've seen. Companies must desperately want people in OP's position.
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You haven’t read it but you know egyptians could literally hear voices from statues? I call exaggeration :)

EDIT: I didn’t see your colon, I thought it was a period which made it sound like you were making the claim yourself, and I was eager to get resources other than his theory, only to hear his theory again lol.
It's fairly impressive.

Keeping a single server online for 111 days straight at full CPU and RAM usage over 96 cores and 1.4TB of RAM is a good start. The fact that such a machine exists is already mind-blowing. Then add 25 more nodes running iSCSI, all out 24/7 for 111 days. Hell, just mounting 240TB on a single system is a good stunt, go ahead and try it and let me know it's not "complex".

And your last point kind of IS the point of their marketing: any dev could do it if they have the skill, and they'll rent you the hardware.
Yes, this is the exact fix the article suggests making. And then goes on to say that he never did it because it was too hard to format dates in Java or some such nonsense.
That's actually most numbers, but we don't know any yet. https://youtu.be/5TkIe60y2GI numberphile (math YouTube series) describing some related concepts here.
It does a great job, apart from this, it's a really annoying thing that I have no idea why they've done it.
> Is this really what we want? To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? 99% of people are going to click through them anyway (note: this is a purely fabricated figure based on the common-sense assumption that people will generally click through anything that gets in the way of performing the task they set out to complete in the first place). And honestly, how on earth is your average person going to make an informed decision on a message like this:

I think the logic is "Yes, you're right, many regular people can't make freely informed consent for that sort of mass tracking... so the solution is to stop tracking people"
I actually liked it. It seems like a good place on the spectrum between ideologically obsessed and practical. Google sheets is convenient.
What's a growth rate, really?
Merge commits can contain changes not included in any parent commits. You can't just ignore them.
Probably because it's not a theory with any substantial evidence.
Ah, you're correct of course. Thank you for pointing it out.
Same with Audible. I was sitting in an airport, after finishing my last book, spending so much time trying to figure out how to buy a book through the app on my phone. Was so confused.
That's quite an assumption, though.

But even if it happens, then what? Any scheme you propose to handle it is at the mercy of the AGI. If it doesn't agree, your scheme doesn't happen.
I don't believe that a large proportion of Norwegians own boats and need tow hitches with which to move them around. Do you have a source on that?

A roof box can be attached to pretty much any vehicle, and if the market in Norway demands it then EV manufacturers can pretty easily add roof hooks for mounting as an option in-country if they don't already. There's no fundamental incompatibility with EVs here. Google searches reveal that plenty of people are already mounting roof boxes to Teslas, so this is already a solved problem.
Yeah unless you're going FAANG or finance that's a much, much nicer track to be on.
Not if it’s a primary home.

There is a tax at source. There is a tax at transfer/inheritance.

If it’s put to use, there is a tax at consumption. The house always wins. The govt always collects tax.

I disagree with the notion that redistribution should be coercion or punitive. A land tax for undeveloped land is punitive. Property and ownership is constitutionally protected. People shouldn’t be punished for being productive and wealthy.
I think comparing the switch from gas to EV to internet/mobile phones is quite the stretch. There's nothing really new or different about an EV.

The car market isn't going to experience several orders of magnitude growth spurred by EVs. Most buyers will compare across engine types. So to answer your question

>If you were a big auto company, what wouldn't you spend to not lose out on that wave

I'd spend nothing until the EV I can produce is expected to have profit margins on the order of my other vehicles in that class, discounted at maybe 30-50% of the development cost. Note that brand recognition/green efforts/etc gets wrapped up into the profit margin calculation.

The nail in the coffin here is that early movers get penalized unless they can effectively vertically integrate all the tech used for EVs (e.g. Tesla with their battery specialization). If you want to bet on the battery tech getting commoditized, its in your interest to wait as long as possible.
The Swift app and the original Objective-C app are native.
Are we talking about Plan 9 or Lisp Machines?
Better to just let people get away with whatever they want, right?

I mean, as long as the crime made a lot of money, it can't really be a crime, surely?
Speaking of them being assholes, won't they also pick at their _own_ eggs?
This is too fitting for this thread...a rap song about the woes of actually finishing a side project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GT2PCUN3Q
I think it's a sound, practical decision.
This is for support for Nintendo Switch gamepads when connected to a normal computer over USB or Bluetooth, not for running Chromium itself on the Switch console.
ArangoDB is a schema-less database.
There is currently no support for schemas or schema validation on the database core level, but it may be added later, because IMHO it is a very sensible feature.
When that is in place, AQL may also be extended to get more strict about the types used in queries. However, IMHO that should only be enforced if there is a schema present.

To keep things simple and manageable, we originally started with AQL just being a language for querying the database. It was extended years ago to support data manipulation operations. I don't exclude the possibility that at some point it will support database administration or DDL commands, however, I am just one of the developers and not the product manager.
And you are right about the main use case being OLTP workloads. For OLAP use cases, dedicated analytical databases (with fixed data schemas) are probably superior, because they can run much more specialized and streamlined operations on the data.
To my best knowledge we never published any TPC benchmark results somewhere. I think it's possible to implement TPC-C even without SQL, however, implementing the full benchmark is a huge amount of work, so we never did...
This is great! I’m actually building my own analytics site for similar reasons[1] and to learn Rails. It's still in early development, but I invite anyone to join and test it out in the meantime.

[1] https://analytics.zjm.me
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Slack has been very clear they are not a consumer service. They have no interest in being public social media, their market is businesses paying $$/user. Fair enough. But then Discord has deftly stepped into that void of Slack-for-consumers and it's working pretty well for them.

I've been a Discord fan since very early days. It's a great product and a good company.
Try avoiding displays using PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) for dimming. Unfortunately most monitors and high-end phones made by Samsung, Apple and Google make use of PWM.

For monitors you can check here:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/flicker_free_database.h...

For phones you can check the reviews on notebookcheck.net, they also test whether the display is PWM-free in the reviews.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/?&hide_youtube=1&typeArray[]=1
Some things are more successful than others, but it's not a one-bit distinction. Arguing over whether to set the "success" bit would be silly. But it seems arbitrary to say that Android is a failure when it has more users than iOS or Linux.

Browsers are another important example of sandboxing.
How would anyone be able to look at your house if they didn't own it?

No, the expansive licensing Discord demands here is not required to operate the service.
Also, the donation counter on his page was fake - it was simply a time-based counter done in JS, and the code took the time from local PC, not the server - if you'd change time on your pc to future (couple days) and refresh the page, donation count would go up.
Not really, it's something I was confronted to when I was working on military contracts a few years ago.

From what I recall, it's very waterfall minded in term of specification workflow, it's also quite document heavy, and the terminology and acronyms can take a while to get used to.

I found it was a bit lacking regarding how to put together all the pieces into a big system, aka the Integration step. IMHO It's a bit too software oriented, lacking on the system side of thing (http://www.abelia.com/498pdf/498GBOT.PDF page 60).
This really doesn't sound like a CIA operation.

Maybe some folks involved had some "connection" at some point in their lives, but this seems really weird as an official or even non official operation.

Like what do you get interrogating these folks anyway, you automatically give away what you're asking for. Strange.
There are many legal reasons for processing personal data. Consent is one, and that's what all this is about.

"Legitimate reasons" is another. You can process personal data (use cookies) under that reason, and you don't need to ask for consent.
Very interested in getting more info about that.

Do you have a demo made with Godot we could check out or a sample "shader" project?
I have had too with some support emails. With Gmail it’s really easy to not see some messages in long threads. Also reading a thread is quite difficult with gmail hiding parts all the time.
Early 90s isnt an explosion by a long shot.
Telegram is still banned in Russia.
Are you trying to say that my 4 hours of meetings a day actually hurt my productivity instead of help it?

We’re always meeting to find out how to be more productive though, discuss the scrum status, update our timelines or a variety of things that give the illusion of things progressing when nobody actually has any time to work.
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