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Many comments here make the point that configuration languages often pretend to be code and they do so badly. The conclusion is then that we should simply use code instead.

I'd like to propose that there is no fundamental distinction between code and configuration languages. The distinction is actually between total and non-total (Turing-complete) languages. Configuration languages are just programming languages of varying complexity. Some of them are total (i.e. non-Turing-complete) and that's a good thing.
It's worth noting that the Satoshi Kanazawa, the author of the study this article cites, is not considered a good scientist by most other scientists. He's known for producing "click-bait science" that grabs headlines due to its controversial nature, but doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

https://www.scribd.com/document/231350957/Kanazawa-Statement
I'm from Europe. I mostly clicked on the link to find out what a shooter drill is. I'm baffled by the article and the comments in this thread. Having to have drills for school shootings is apparently considered a normal part of life in the US.
Just a heads up...on your homepage when hovering over the artist's name "Anastasiia Andriichuk" the highlight seems to add padding on each side which makes the line break in between their first and last name and the page gets jumpy. This is using chrome on my laptop.
V would have to decrease. If V and Q remain constant, then an increase in M results in a linear increase in P.
That's too bad. I've taken the train from Denver to Iowa and from Chicago to Iowa several times. Very relaxing and very enjoyable. It's my favorite form of travel. You of course have to accept it takes much, much longer than flying and even driving.

Good to be aware longer train rides might not be as nice.
The number of cars with smashed windows that I see on my morning runs in SF is insane. In some cases it will be an entire block of cars. And I run in the 'nice' neighborhoods.
I like the way you think!!!
If by local you mean funnel their money back to corporate headquarters, while simultaneously driving up social welfare costs through shit wages and even more shit healthcare benefits, then yes, it's a local business.

But that's not what anyone means by local.
> Obviously NTSC was going to lose a lot of color detail, but it also lost quite a bit of vibrancy.

Remember that those who do a lot of video call NTSC "Never The Same Color"
So, let's say I think I am depressed. Should I seek out a psychiatrist, a psychologist, or a clinical social worker?

I sort of think psychiatrist is someone who treats personality disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline, etc. Almost always will involve use of medication as primary treatment.

Psychologist more for depression, anxiety, mood disorders. Not an MD so can't prescribe meds but often works with the patient's primary care physician if this is needed.

Clinical social worker for .... not sure? Interpersonal issues, behavior issues, anger management, etc.?

But no idea if that is even close to being on target.
Are you kidding? Nukes are great at:

1. Producing large quantities of power

2. Continuously, for several decades

3. Hiding most of the costs until long after those responsible have become unaccountable
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Okay but we aren't training solders here, they took teachers, told them to kneel against the wall, and shot them in the back repeatedly without telling them what was about to happen.

These are elementary schoolteachers - they're job is to educate (and half baby-sit) children.

I'm not making any statement with training, I'm just saying the method here is inappropriate.

EDIT: Plus how is this training? Are they expected to "fight back"? Okay cool a pellet gun hurts - what's the point? A gun hurts more anyway - if it doesn't kill you.
You know, there are countries where this kind of thing doesn’t happen. Like, all of them. Know how many such drills we had in Canada? Zero. Probably because most guns are illegal so we don’t need them.

That the solution isn’t gun control but instead making it illegal to shoot teachers unexpectedly with airsoft rifles is evidence of how insanely beyond the pail US gun policy and the whole discourse has become. New Zealand had a shooting, six days later, gun control. That’s how you solve the problem. Anything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
The 30% ruling isn't for those outside the EU, but to a first approximation for anyone who's a highly paid professional that's hard to hire domestically blah blah who wasn't previously residing in either The Netherlands or in the border regions of Belgium and Germany.

There's plenty of Germans, French etc. who have the 30% ruling.
Most tech companies have a “blame the process, learn, and fix the process” approach. I’m not sure what industries you’re talking about but manufacturing and aviation seem like they have a similar process.
It's true that you can alias into these frequencies, but that's not really an issue of reproduction but of capture and the filter chain. This is often confounded in discussions of "CD quality"
Good point, but my point was the message wasn't clear, it just seemed like cruelty from the cops.
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As soon as you say wrong, you start sounding like the people running these churches.

I am ok with people being wrong, that's why we have freedoms. It's society's job to pressure churches and other organizations to turn away from these dangerous beliefs. Not the governments.

That's part of why I fight for freedoms like this. Wrong is subjective, the objective truth of wrong comes from society. If you allow governments to determine what is "wrong" we would have never gotten to the point that we are having these conversations.

Some of our beliefs will be wrong to a future generation, by allowing them the freedom to change them through societal pressure we allow society to grow without creating the friction of civil unrest to grow from that vector.
Yes, some people would still be priced out, but the equilibrium price under ideal circumstances would result in all units being owner-occupied (almost certainly at a lower monthly payment than renting would entail - there is less demand on the buy side since landlording and speculation are discouraged, and with 0% down financing nobody would be priced out of ownership due to lack of capital).
This puts the terrorist and the government firmly on the same side.

Wasn't that the terrorists intention all along?
Not exactly. Wealthy people will just move their assets into something other than dollars. Low and middle income people (which probably have more of their assets in dollars) will have their savings constantly devalued. Interest rates in loans will skyrocket in order to offset inflation.
Low pay, rowdy students... what else can we do to make teacher's lives miserable. I know, let's shot them with things.
I was just wondering how Boeing could avoid the single-source prohibition that Gates writes about, but on reflection, I suppose it could take MCAS out of the hazardous class, and maybe limiting the degree to which it can change the trim will do that.
>The vast majority of musicians made nothing and a few got super wealthy

The vast majority of {entrepreneurs, actors, drug dealers, athletes, ...} made nothing and a few got super wealthy.

It's structurally a tournament in a lot of fields.
You make a lot of arguments here, most of which I won't touch (especially saying China is "a dream for both consumers and stores").

But to answer your question: no, we should not have 0 bounds on what is acceptable, and there should be some guardrails to make sure that the pedants in all of us don't take over, and that our economy doesn't end up running on pennies (not that they would, that argument is marginal at best). However, not accepting cash is a problem of a different magnitude than not accepting some annoying forms of cash. I support a ban on cashless stores, but, yes, like you pointed out, with some caveats on what they have to support and what they don't.
"Assault rifle" is a rather precise term that means it is capable of firing more than one round with a single pull of the trigger, has detachable magazines, and is chambered for an intermediate cartridge. If anything, it is more precise than "full auto" which encompasses other types of firearms as well.

The ambiguity comes in from the more recently coined term "assault weapon" that is rather similar to "assault rifle" but means something different. Some would say this similarity was intended to confuse the matter and provide the connotation of military "machine guns" when using the term to the general populace. And to further cloud the issue, there is no universal definition for "assault weapon" when used to refer to certain firearms. Generally it is used to define cosmetic features rather than any real functional differences.
Reminds me of DARE when they'd show a vial of crack. A picture would have been sufficient.
What if you have a gun on you and no place to escape, do you attack right away, or wait for the shooter to come in and take him by surprise?
this isnt any kind of whataboutism.
It's beautiful, really cool!
For sure. I haven't done any research, but I'm sure there are some areas, though, where the % pay cut is less than the % reduction in housing costs, though.
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All those things are not required by law in the US.
Yeah, it was all "luck" and certainly had nothing to do with execution. You can just make all that shit up later.
It's easy for someone who is somewhat mechanically inclined to manufacture a firearm, these law changes will not stop the next terrorist attack in New Zealand.
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I got back on Facebook this year after taking a break for a while. Here's whats changed and what hasn't:

- My attitude towards it changed. I no longer compare myself to how my friends are doing. This makes it a lot more fun to post things and to see what people are up to. I don't have this internal pressure to keep up / go do things because... I'm for the most part doing the things that I want to do.

- It is still fun / addictive to log in regularly to see how many likes / comments I've received. I guess I like the attention. I don't mind negative comments anymore - I guess I'm finally comfortable with disagreeing with those closest to me about my choices.

- Unlike before, I don't think about when it is appropriate to post. I post when I can.

- Sometimes I feel really proud of something and I share it to show off a little. But mostly, I try to post things that I think my friends would like to see.

- Unlike before, I don't get caught up in most things my friends post / talk about. Just as not everyone has to agree with everything I do, I don't need to agree with everything my friends do. I don't usually comment and I don't always like. And that's okay. Politically, career-wise, lifestyle, travel, relationships - I just don't get angry about how they feel about these things. I sometimes have a counterpoint / question about some things, but I try to remind myself that I'm only good at a few things.

- For a long time I thought about the privacy implications and "if you're not the customer, then you are the product". And to some degree this is still true.

Facebook is a fantastic tool to keep in touch with friends and to see what they've been up to, especially when you wonder what they've been up to. It is also a great way to get in touch with them directly. For me it is better than Instagram or any other social networking tool. The only thing that came close was ICQ.
This is design porn at its finest. Absolutely beautiful! What tools did you use to build this?
As opposed to "People Appear Lavender"?
Topological Data Analysis was the next big thing a couple of years ago, and it certainly has its applications [1], but the breadth of its applicability may have been overhyped and the energy has fizzled somewhat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_data_analysis#Appl...
> Robert Ghrist of UPenn has been at the forefront of bringing topology into applied fields; and has written a good text on the subject.

Found this on Dr. John D. Cook's blog.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/09/13/applied-topology-a...
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It's not. I don't know anyone that's ever been through an active shooter drill. The closest I know of is the college my wife taught at had an optional hour long seminar for teachers.
If I write a comment and my name is bryanrasmussen and then later I want to delete any data that can be publicly linked to me then I suppose a comment written with my name on it might count.

It also might not.

It might be worth it to some company to determine which it is, but who would expect that company to be Microsoft?
> Something that I've always wondered, did you pay income tax on your tips, or just the base wage? My understanding was that tips were equivalent to "under the counter" pay.

In my experience, management instructs servers to dramatically underreport cash tips. Many places instruct them to report an amount that equals the minimum wage - even where the federal minimum applies, if you don't make at least $7.25 with tips, the employer has to make up the difference.

I believe the reason for this is to reduce the employer FICA contribution. Servers are generally all-too-happy to go along with it since it means paying less income taxes.

The IRS has been taking some action on this, and larger companies apparently have gotten some kind of deal where servers must report an amount based on sales, or something like that - it's been a while since I looked at the specifics, and it didn't affect me personally, so I didn't look too closely at it. It seemed pretty unfair, but tax evasion is rampant.

This is one of the factors that make it unlikely business will pay servers what they make now - there's so much tax evasion going on, to net the same amount of money, businesses would have to pay much more money than you would think at first glance.

> I dislike tipping because oftentimes the people who are making your food make less money than the person who brings it to me, which seems wrong.

This is a very fair point. It's also another reason why businesses will not be likely to pay servers what they're making now. You can get away with making that much money when the customer is giving it directly to you. There will be a lot more agitation and drama if waitstaff is being paid much more highly than the kitchen staff on their actual paycheck.

Now, suddenly either labor costs are rising by a factor of 4-5 (ha!), or servers make merely twice as much as minimum wage, or something like it.

> . People are always crying about how little servers make while neglecting the fact that society has trained people to automatically tip, meaning that you don't even have to do an exceptional job to earn 15%+ on most checks.

I will be the first to tell you that a very large proportion of servers are incredibly spoiled and entitled and complain about how much money they're making even as they leave at the end of the night having made $40/hour, right in front of the kitchen staff being paid $7.25. I can't explain this phenomenon, other than loudly and publicly complaining about tipping and poormouthing might be believed to increase income as people feel bad.

My personal belief? Don't tip if you don't feel like it. I sometimes stiff servers now. I never would have done so before I worked as one. It’s rwally not that big a deal. Being stiffed is not that unusual, you’re not going to stand out, and it’s a lot better than religious pamphlets.
DevOps KPIs: Distance between latest and oldest production versions
Large orgs could have a central knowledge base of all places someone could type a password (as required by code reviews, and perhaps by automated detection of password-type inputs), and a bot which attempts to fill correct and incorrect passwords for a number of canary users, and scans across all logs for plaintext canary passwords. It's shocking that someone like Facebook, which has so many partner-facing and user-facing interfaces, wouldn't have developed something like this.

Free startup idea: build a SaaS for the bot phase of this, and make the log-scanner simple and open source so enterprise security teams can deploy it freely. Offer a certification process and consulting. Hire lobbyists (and folks with inroads into insurance companies) to paint plaintext passwords as the devil and make yourself a de facto legal requirement. And make sure your log-scanner doesn't do any logging of its own :)
I don’t know anything about IV or their business practices, but it sounds like in this case they are funding research in order to patent useful inventions that they could then presumably license to manufacturers. Doesn’t sound like patent trolling.
I heard about that rail line, it was supposed to be very slow given the gauge of the line put in by the French who built it. Passenger service stopped in 2005 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming–Haiphong_railway.
Is this a submarine piece for luxury watches? Because it reads so bizarre, and tries so hard to take itself seriously.
Taking it back about a million steps, did they know this was a drill? Having anyone think they're being executed is insane trauma. And if they did know, what is the point of shooting them with pellets?
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I wouldn't be too sure. There was a time where there were plenty of online competitors for purchasing such items, and what made Amazon stand out was user accessibility. Once he won that market, for sure he was just lucky with the timing to hit the billions.
Not to feed the troll, but I would put Boeing a hell of a lot higher on that list than Tesla.

I drive with AutoPilot every day. One thing is damn sure, you watch it vigilantly, and you can always, always take control by just turning wheel or tapping the brakes.

Tesla tells me every single time I engage AutoPilot to keep my hands on the wheel and be ready to take control.

A special place in hell for automation that you don’t even know exists, that was concealed from you for a profit motive, flying your plane into the ground.
>If the teachers signed a liability waiver making it okay, it's on the teachers for willingly participating in a clearly stupid and dangerous activity. If they didn't, then the injured teachers should hire a lawyer and sue...

I have to disagree here. Signing a waiver isn't iron-clad in court. You can't just sign a waiver saying it's OK for someone to shoot you, or do anything else illegal to you. Unless these teachers were clearly warned that this would injure them and draw blood, they have good cause to sue, and even if they were warned that way, they can still sue, arguing they were afraid for their jobs.

I'd like to see these teachers sue the bejesus out of this school district. It's absolutely incredible that anyone thought this was a good idea, and if no one goes to jail for it, the local government clearly deserves to pay dearly for it.
Hey HN, creator here. I made this satirical project for me to learn how to make NPM modules and my goal was to release it in one day. It’s not for serious use. The code isn’t great. Like I said, I’m still learning.

Here’s the GitHub: https://github.com/rockhopper72/no-cookie
Pull requests welcome.

Thanks!
And how worried you are about rigorous proofs. You can happily hand wave your way to some approximation in Applied Maths land (because you need the result, not that you are trying to prove that it is true). Then you can spend the next bit of time relaxing various assumptions about your approximation and see where it takes you. A lot of new tools come from thinking deeply about roadblocks to applied problems, that sort of thing tends to be the maths I am personally most engaged by.
How to reduce your phone's addiction potential in 5 minutes
The guidelines admonish us to "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
100% agree. Logging sensitive data is something that we should never do, but in orgs with 100s-1000s of devs, it’s something that almost always happens. At some point somewhere a piece of middleware or whatever logs full request bodies, query params, etc., and nobody notices. It’s an incredibly common mistake because it’s so easy to catch, and so easy to not notice.

This is still a very significant by Facebook, but as a dev I understand how it happens. It’s a mistake that happens at the vast, vast majority of tech companies.
Abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04822
> It would be accurate to say that Tesla is the largest manufacturer of car batteries,

Uh, duh? Last I checked, Tesla mostly sells cars. If they were the largest manufacturer of, say, cellphone batteries, THAT would have been surprising.
And if you don't recognize this man's name, take a look at his many youtube videos on using kicad and other electronics topics. [1] He also runs courses on all of this stuff too [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkJRycUz2CylxpiP-zMePow

[2] https://contextualelectronics.com/
As somebody who has actually benefited from psychiatry, I have to disagree strongly with a lot of people in this thread (respectfully). It isn't a lot of hand-waving, and what seemed like open-ended questions in the beginning were designed to work toward an ultimate truth - my issue.

There was no guessing involved or hand-wavy incantations, just a thorough assessment of my state of mind, both in the moment and across a span of time. This required me to be honest, which I strongly suspect many people aren't (due to things like fear of judgement) and this will hamper the capability of the doctor in doing their job.

To put this into perspective, while ill I was relatively high-functioning. You wouldn't guess I was ill, but you would likely find me abrasive and prone to apparent flights of fancy. What the worst symptom was, the crippling anxiety, you never would've been able to detect without a goal-driven conversation - the type of conversation I have with my doctor when we meet.

I think we're still largely in the dark on the methods of action within the brain that leads to these problems, but we have actually found useful tools in resolving these problems. This isn't to say it is perfect, I was put onto a completely incorrect drug by a non-psychiatrist based on my self-reporting.

The next step is going to be neuroscience explaining the modes of action in a failure state and how these drugs restore normal function.

To anybody out there suffering with mental disease, I'm with you.

edit: throwaway account for obvious reasons
Probably some poor engineers trying to check if their partners were cheating on them. Tools like FB make it easier after all.
Unfortunately, for the sake of some people's cowboy fantasies, a normal thing it shall stay.
> There are signs that the royalty-collecting agencies are beginning to catch up to the myriad array of digital offspring ranging from the internet to satellite television and radio.

They were never behind. Wherever there is music, they have their claws in it. They are also the single most important reason we can't have good things and why musicians don't get paid nearly enough.
There are other picker tools that are similar to mine and each of us has a unique take on the problem. It doesn’t worry me. If someone wants to make their own version that’s cool.

Thanks for the feedback!
Hmm ya you're right. I should probably have included the increase in birth control pill runoff in sewage.

Also, chemicals in plastic like Bisphenol A (BPA) mimic estrogen, and that's probably most responsible.
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin (1998)[0] is also a great read. The author explains in the forward that that was also part of his motivation to write the book. I have the 23 hour audiobook, which is also quite well narrated.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/896458.A_Man_on_the_Moon
Sure, but I'm saying they are costing themselves customer trust.