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The American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Century
Over the next decade, solid-state lithium batteries will likely become commercialized. That should provide enough headroom to keep the improvements going for quite a while.

Standard manufacturing and scale improvements should keep things going for several more years, even without a major change to chemistry.
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> leetCode, hackerRank

I think that broad knowledge of CS theory is useful, but I agree that being able to replicate specific algorithms from memory is not particularly helpful.

In fact I think that FAANG style whiteboard interviews are one of the worst interview systems ever devised.

>If the typical school is teaching software engineering and not just theory, I find it amazing that graduates have never heard of unit testing, automated deployments, or even how to use git for source control. I end up having to come in as adult supervision for both types of developers - boot camp or recent graduates.

Almost every class I had required us to submit projects using github (they wanted to teach source control, but they also wanted to see version history to discourage cheating). This was at both a middle tier state university for undergrad, and a top 5 university for grad school.

I've also hired plenty of people who were bad at unit testing, but I can't recall ever working with a junior who hadn't at least heard of the concept.
I think this one is going to be difficult to study, as often alcohol use is correlated to mental health issues - people self-medicate with alcohol in order to cope with their problems. There are also surely people who start drinking too much and then develop problems as a result, so it's a fairly classic correlation vs causation problem.
From Bank of America:
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CompuServe charged more if you connected at a higher baud rate, like $12.80 per hour for 14.4k... I think - I haven't worked there for 22 years, so my memory is hazy.

There was also an ecosystem of apps to script connections to minimize time you spent online. You'd pick the forums you wanted to scrape new messages from, fetch them in one session, compose replies offline, and post the replies in a second session.
Exercise for depression was a total nonstarter for me because I didn't have the energy or wherewithal to exercise when depressed.
The legal choreography of the UK’s Art. 50 extension, and serious problem ahead
Since when HN started (up)voting items by their title?

The title is nothing but a textbook example of clickbait: it's sensational but worse, it's deceiving (Google's response is NOT at all related to your electron based browser with <0.001% market share, nor has Google "blocked" you in the first place...)

Gosh I am angry.
That's assuming they do not properly destroy their data, which they are legally obligated to do as far as I understand. You could also just encrypt your data before uploading.
From the article, under "Unfollowing": "You have to unfollow the people you follow for two reasons. The first is that you cannot be following over 7,500 people at any time. The second is because — although artificial — you want to have your follower/following ratio as high as possible as it is a sign of a more desirable account."
I was assuming the person was trying to avoid dying, not trying to avoid plane crashes in particular. Someone who wants to avoid a plane crash but would ride a motorcycle without a helmet to the airport obviously needs to use a different strategy.
Machine to Machine, for one thing.

That is, that kind of system is a good communication fabric for many "internet of things" applications.
Basically identical to youtube. Forget putting AAA games on it, imagine a massively improved version of the flash games that were popular a decade ago.
> All high performance aircraft are, by definition, unstable.

This doesn't follow. Not even fighter jets were inherently unstable before modern control electronics. Using the electronics to make the flight characteristics better is not the same as the airframe being inherently unstable.
The part that makes the most sense to me, and that I’ve experienced, is the stressful transition of management into measuring specific projects. However, I think it’s good if the OKRs force those conversations to happen.

And obviously if the organization is too dysfunctional, the OKR setting process cannot be honestly conducted and will never work. I don’t think the average organization is this bad.
> then suddenly get an email that Google is discontinuing the product.

Google is unlikely to discontinue GCP
> What do you think would happen?

Consumers will have to purchase or rent horrible and overpriced hardware supplied by broadcasters. Like they were doing for decades with satellites, and early IPTV.

Piracy will raise a lot. Many users don’t want to pay, or can’t pay for that custom hardware. I was using Netflix service for some time without major issues, but they don’t have anything in my country, too small one, they won’t be selling and supporting their set top boxes any time soon. Unlike accepting credit cards and broadcasting videos, physical retail doesn’t scale that easily.
"As long as" certainly does not translate to a judgment as to this particular plane's issues. It is a limit as to the type of instability I am fine with - ie safe - or at least not unsafe - instability.

"I don't know" certainly does not translate to we don't know. Plenty of people know.

That is FUD. The level of instability was absolutely known to the manufacturer and certifying agencies before delivery, and even before first flight. The reason why I said "appears to have been far less" is because the summaries of this instability I have read did not describe it as major, and even now, nobody is pointing to the instability as a significant issue. The issue is with how it has been dealt with. Until information comes to light contradicting the information known publicly so far, it is unreasonable for me to be afraid of something I have zero evidence is an issue when evidence to the contrary exists.
> why this keeps happening, you need to understand the product and engineering culture at Google. As a group, Google engineers and PMs are obsessed with promotion.

For people outside the San Francisco and Silicon Valley bubble which are confused by this, it may be worth noting that promotion here does not need mean getting a new job. Everyone are not constantly getting new jobs.

“Promotion” here means internal, magic Google-points and seem to work
much like Chinese social credit.

Source: answer by Googler here on HN when I was confused about this very same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575875
> the 787-10

Not exactly. "The 787-10" as a whole is just fine.

Singapore airlines found a maintenance issue during routine inspection on two of its aircraft. Blade turbines are wear parts and are replaced as needed. The 787 can take two types of engines, one of them tends to wear out blades faster than expected. The article is sensationalism.
"Fly-by-wire" is a colloquialism for indirect, software-mediated control of an aircraft's control surfaces, whether to reduce pilot workload in some flight regimes, as with the 737 MAX 8, or to completely manage the aircraft's aerodynamics based on expressions of pilot intent made via cockpit control inputs, as with the last several generations of Airbus aircraft.

Recent 737 models, including the MAX 8, make partial use of fly-by-wire systems, such as the MCAS that's elicited so many hot takes recently. Airbus aircraft, by comparison, make heavy use of fly-by-wire systems, and have for years. In terms of functionality, it's perhaps the single largest difference between their product line and Boeing's.

On the other hand, the widebody 777 is the first Boeing product to go fully fly-by-wire, completely separating the pilots' control inputs from the aircraft's control surfaces in the way that all modern Airbus aircraft do.

If fly-by-wire is the problem - if, as you seem to suspect, these systems exist to compensate for the inherent flaws of aircraft designs which otherwise would not be able to stay safely in the sky - then these Airbus models, and the 777, should have pretty rough safety records, shouldn't they? We should expect to see these other aircraft fail due to problems of the same sort as affected the 737 MAX 8's MCAS, right?

Luckily, we don't actually need to expect anything in this case, because we have good information on the frequency, severity, and causes of airliner accidents more or less all over the world. Indeed, that information is so good, and so available, that it's a major scandal, and a fecund ground for conspiracy theories, in the rare case where it's not available, as with Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Thanks to that information, we know that the safest airliner on the planet, by flying hours, is the Airbus A340, which has not yet had a fatal accident. Second is the Boeing 777, which has seen only 541 fatalities in its almost quarter century of revenue service - and that's counting the 298 souls aboard MH 17, shot down five years ago over Ukraine.

Both of these aircraft are about 25 years old. Both have full fly-by-wire control systems. And both are, by any measure, among the safest commercial airliners in the world. If fly-by-wire were intended to cover up for the deficiencies in basic aerodynamic design you seem to lump into the term "instability", is this the safety record you'd expect to see?
I work remotely, and live share has VSCode has been an absolute godsend for me. Thanks for work you do. Looking forward to downloading the bits for vs 2019.
If anyone has an automated solution for sorting this kind of thing, I need it. Feel free to email me... insight@hiredinsight.co
The no longer existent corporate person is responsible. Same as if a real person copied all your info, published it, and died.
It's crappy in 3 of the 4 scenarios:

Gets free meal, writes a guaranteed positive review when the food was good. He, the restaurant and other customers win.

Gets free meal, writes a positive review when the food was bad. He and the restaurant win, but other customers get a false review.

Gets free meal, doesn't write a review. He's taken advantage of restaurant's good will.

Gets free meal, writes an honest review that's neutral or negative. He's taken advantage of restaurant's good will, but other customers get a real review.

Yeah I know - pretty much any restaurant can get by with providing a single free meal, but this is about the principle. And shame on the restaurant for attempting to inflate their reviews.
A Bank for Cryptocurrency Traders Opened in Puerto Rico
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I'm new here. Doesn't this sort of comment violate the guidelines?
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I grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio, and the closest access numbers made the toll charges the greatest cost.
Costa Rica is also a notable exception. People there are obsessed with keeping stuff clean and protecting wildlife, because I think they understand how much their livelihood depends on tourism. It’s a huge difference between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, even though culturally the countries are very similar otherwise.
Intel debuts Agilex family of FPGAs for datacenter workloads
Chemistry :)
I don't understand why Peter Bright reports on MS at Ars? He obviously doesn't like their tech (calling TypeScript a variant of js?) and doesn't bother to check facts (no Python in VS is not a novelty, PTVS supported VS 2013 already and IronPython is old as rocks.). Who wants to read 3 paragraph rant about releases and versioning?
To be honest all of this is on the border of my knowledge horizon. No I've never heard of AMDF but I will check it out for sure.

In the long run as I wrote I am aiming to support chords so that'll be necessery.

Would AMDF make the response time quicker?

For what purpose are you doing pitch detection?
Any place for prof development shizzle?
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Printer’s cyan is a color in the vicinity of #00A2CC, which is not at all close to #55FFFF.

Using the name “cyan” for the latter is very confusing. I would strongly advise against it.

If you want you can use names like “bluish green”, “greenish blue”, or “blue–green” to stay out of trouble.

If you have a blue–green color, maybe slightly on the greenish side, “teal” is a pretty safe name: people won’t misinterpret what you mean. The name “teal” can represent a quite large generic range of colors.
People seem to get surprised when Google acts like a for profit corporation... why? That's exactly what they are and have been for a very long time. I guess they have a good publicist. In reality, Google discourages competition in the browser, search engine, and email space by denying some of their many services (which you shouldn't depend on for open source software unless it has an open source license) and worse, blacklisting competitors. I've read posts from creators of search engines and email services on here that eventually were blacklisted by Google to squelch their growth.
This is why everyone used to understand the need to regulate in a way that promotes competition. The idea was promote.
You've always got to remember that the whole FOSS enchilada got started when RMS wanted to fix his printer and Xerox said, "No."

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Two main reasons to touch a computer: study formal systems, create wealth.

Mathematicians learned (in the Renaissance) to share their work. So if all you want to do is study the nature of formal systems you're good to go. (I can vouch for this. You don't need money to learn (although it helps.) Personally, I was more interested in the former and only "cashed in" later in life when being a homeless scholar got old.)

If you want to produce wealth using automation, there are two main strategies: maximize wealth, extract "rent".

The latter is relatively familiar: e.g. keep the generator and sell the electricity. In computers it's the "smart phone" that (while ostensible a portable computer) functions as a kind of shopping mall and arcade: the thing is designed to get your money. (It's impressive! People line up at the Apple store to be told how much money to put in the box to make the sacred artifact work again. No wonder Apple is sitting on a huge hoard of cash.)

The former, maximize wealth, is a little more obscure. Bucky Fuller is perhaps the best exemplar of the concept. In a nutshell, we have the technology already to create a "utopian" economic reality. Everybody could have the food, shelter, medical care, etc. to live a decent life, if only we applied the technology we already have to our basic needs. We can't solve every problem through tech, but we can and should solve the problems that are in reach.

From the POV of someone trying to maximize humanity's total wealth, the Free (copyleft) licenses are a tool, as steveklabnik says:

> The FSF sees copyleft, and therefore copyright, as a legal tool to enforce software freedom.

But "software freedom" is just an obvious corollary to building the automation feedback loop to achieve economic phase transition to a post-scarcity regime.

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As for how software should be produced going forward, first, there should be a general contraction in the amount of code in the world and of the number of people writing it. The current situation is a kind of "Thundering Herd" attack on human attention and memory.

To support contraction you need a formalism (notation or language) that makes it easy. Most of the necessary research has already been accomplished. The limiting factor is uptake. I suspect that it would be a thankless task, an uphill battle, to try to get existing computer industry to adopt, so that suggests that you have to take it directly to consumers (and businesses.) Just bypass everything.
Ideally, none. We're leaning toward FPGAs and CGRAs to accelerate tight inner loops. This means that it will have a huge effect on compilers. They will have to compile from a control flow behavioral description like C to a data-flow description to map onto the array. This compilation process is honestly not solved. This is why you have verilog instead of just compiling C to circuitry. I've taken a crack at it (in the form of QDI circuit synthesis from CHP) and every sub-problem is either NP-hard or NP-complete.

Though all of this is assuming we solve the memory bottleneck... which... might come about with upcoming work on 3D integration and memristors? who knows.
She hates him as a prince, though. He bombs pretty hard. Although, I have to admit she did really like the flying carpet.
I was under the impression that the AoA disagree "light" is an on-screen item: http://www.boeing.com/resources/boeingdotcom/commercial/737m...

Or does Boeing sell MAXes without that screen altogether? The Boeing update page (https://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/737-max-software-up...) says it is the "baseline primary flight display" , so sounds like it would be included in all MAXes already, so no physical change may be necessary.
the new solid state lithium batteries being developed are pretty astounding. i think i saw a video of a phone being powered by one, then the demonstrator cuts the battery in half while the phone is being powered by it and nothing happens -- the phone stays on.

could have been video trickery but I think the demo was legit. Once that technology goes mainstream it's gonna be as revolutionary as the increases in lithium ion energy density. We're on the cusp of some incredible battery breakthroughs in the very near future! The fact that the new tesla roadster (admittedly expensive at $250k) has a 600 mile charge capacity is aboslutely astonishing.
It definitely doesn't apply to Netflix. You can get good raises and promotions by optimizing an existing process. If you can show improvement in internal metrics, such as improving latency or lowering cost, that's a huge win. Even if you increase costs you can get a raise and promotion if you show that it increased code quality, such as creating the Chaos Monkey/Gorilla/Kong.
A lot of rental properties do the same. Each property is its' own LLC to minimize potential liability/risk.
Indeed that is also what I thought when reading the very relevant article from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19541475
The police and governments are often corrupt or non functional so effectively enforcing anything like litter laws is almost a nonsensical concept. A lot of these places can barely enforce laws of any kind.
Yes, sunlight plus a good prism, inside a box with a pinhole, projecting on white paper. Or a room with a window that faces the sun, covered except for a pinhole, projecting on a whitewashed wall. Which is what Newton did, or so I've read.

Anyway, when I do that, my moderate red-green color blindness is obvious. Because there's a gap in the spectrum. But on a good computer display, there's far less of a gap, because colors aren't spectral, just mixed. For example: https://www.deviantart.com/0bsidianfire/art/Sanguine-4676007...
The winnowing of small satellite launchers may be pretty brutal
Kodi's been around for like 15 years now so if you're hoping for it to become something else, I would stop holding your breath. I'm not thrilled that it's non-free nor about some of the changes they're making, but I've found Plex to be pretty pleasant to set up.
Yes, but he seems to be saying he wants the wide distribution that comes from being on the dominant browser without being in the "walled garden" of the Chrome store, since the other browsers have vanishing market share.
There's a quote I like from Jordan Peterson (yes, I know he's a mixed bag) that goes something like: If you come to me to get help with serious depression, the first thing I will do is prescribe an anti-depressant. Not because it's the long-term solution to the problem, but because they work, and I can't treat you if you're dead.
Will this handle (repeatable) “record” (struct/array) data types natively?

/disclaimer: work in google cloud
Guess I have to adjust my border between casual and mid-core ;)

You can have a hypercasual core loop with midcore meta/economics mechanics on top, think Merge Planes, any match 3 game with stuff tucked on. Pure hyper is normally fine.
We're talking about scientists, not computer scientists. As surely as business managers and industrial engineers don't need to know the best programming practices to be good SQL monkeys, surely scientists- neuroscientists at that- don't need to know general programming practices.

There's got to be a specific set!
Absolutely not. In deed, it has nothing to do with Simon Cohen.
See my comment below. I am office-mates with the scientist that discovered his own error.
Netflix only content isn't "rare" anymore, sorry if I don't purchase this particular red herring.

DRM benefits Netflix just as much, if not even more than it does traditional media companies.
It’s uncontroversial to say that on average, men are taller than women.

But other characteristics such as nutrition and genetics matter more: the average German woman (5’5”) is significantly taller than the average Peruvian man (5’1”).

My point here is that the difference between men and women on most metrics tends to be more heavily influenced by other external factors.
Getting promoted at Google requires serious gaming of the system, especially once you go for L5. Very few people in the system at L5 or below think it is easy to exploit, even if it is supposedly "straightforward".

Decision making is opaque, even if the process is technically well-documented. One committee isn't bound by what the previous committee decided and on and on.

And yes, I think quite a few of the rank and file are unhappy about it.
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A blockbuster analogy seems adequate and explains why people are satisfied with the way Netflix and Spotify work. DRM isn't restricted to Netflix and Spotify though.
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I think you're seriously overrating Google Search. Try DuckDuckGo or Startpage.com. They give you at least the exact same results as Google, and in many cases actually better, more up-to-date, or more fitting/filtered ones (except that Google image search seems consistently better, however). After all, these crawl the same web that Google is crawling, and there just isn't that much really new stuff out there these days.