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Seattle homes looks brand new compared to New England, and our taxes(MA) appear to be higher and our weather you could say is similarly bad but different if not worse. We also have a lot of jobs which pretty much drive everything.

I am curious about the tax side of things. What taxes in the Seattle area are high or increasing. I am asking because I am considering moving to the west coast.
I think I am congenitally unable to fold fitted sheets. I've tried every method I could find. In the end, I just decided to no longer use fitted sheets.
Ooh, instructions as to how would be super, please :)
So long as human labor is structured under Capital's impetus, we'll have such structures of idiocy because the VC is apodicticly talentless in the domain of his investment.
Yes it is, I’ll explain it in a top-level comment for any other frustrated readers.
Average South Asian wedding in California is $100-150k I read somewhere, so I wouldn't doubt it being real when weddings are generally paid for by the bride and groom's families.
The final conclusion is he was fired on the basis that someone _said_ they were harmed.

It's interesting to discuss wither they were actually harmed and felt that way and what kind of upbringing or circumstances might lead to that. Or, that they saw an opportunity to get a ahead and exert power over someone by pretending they were harmed.

It can be a gray area as well. They might have felt uncomfortable say a 5 on a 1-10 scale. But then also realized they could turn it around and fire this person.

I tried expound on that a bit in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745288
The status page was stating all green for about 20 or so minutes after this post was made.

Not really "up2date", so this post was valuable for everyone that was seeing errors and unsure how widespread it was.
I fully understand the frustration with people thinking Tesla's driver assist is more than what it is. But what I don't understand is the issue people have with the product name.

Almost all commercial airlines have an autopilot, but not one of them flies without an actual pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit. The only thing an airplane autopilot does is keep the bearing and altitude constant -- Tesla's "autopilot" actually does a bit more than that. Is the outrage over calling it "autopilot" based on the public's misunderstanding of how an airplane's autopilot works?
If the ones that are buying that shit don't know enough about how it works, it's not that difficult for a bullshitter to make the implausible sound plausible.
...and it will have to work a lot faster than these machines.
Damn, I was just about to code this!

Generative music is definitely on the come-up. If you like this, also check out https://generative.fm/ , which is from another HN member.
I really wish XUL had found uses beyond Mozilla -- IIRC it solved most of these issues.
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Well, I'm happy to use Tcl/Tk -- although using it on a mobile device doesn't result in a usable touch-based interface.

Really, that's the crux of the problem is that there are different paradigms that are not just a little bit different but fundamentally different. This is especially annoying on my Chromebook running Android apps -- they very often expect you to be using a touch-based system without a keyboard. The way this works with a docked Chromebook and a mouse is the mouse is treated as a VERY precise finger touch.

Additionally, on Android and other touch-based systems you're usually not using a Window Manager so, for example, using an Android mail client on my Chromebook, I can't start the reply in a new window so that I can read the message in one window while simultaneously replying... and I especially can't have a bunch of unfinished replies while reading other emails to gather information for the reply.

Creating a meta-layer that can represent the fundamentally different modes from the same data is VERY difficult. HTML and CSS do a terrible job as well unless you model your HTML in a very specific way, which cannot accommodate all GUI semantics.
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It appears I'm dead wrong about this - sorry for posting before I got the whole story.
8$/h for vacuuming? No way unless you're abusing illegal immigrants.
I'm using ProtonMail because I'm trying to de-Google-Amazon-Facebook my life somewhat as another user mentions. I'm tired of being the product and am willing to pay for certain things.
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If that was what the author was attempting then she totally failed at it and wasted everyone's time. Rationality doesn't get you anywhere when your starting assumptions are wrong or lack support from fundamental, universal principles. Garbage in / garbage out.
We got 1/6 of hourly pay for each hour on call. If actually called, paid straight time for time spent actually working. If required to come into office, 2 hour minimum.
Summary of conclusions:

"""

+ No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;

+ There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and

+ There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles.

"""

Where do you learn that they are "fake" ?
I've previously encountered just this same sort personality. Being pretty paranoid, it took a long wrenching journey for me to discover that he wasn't being deceptive: he just didn't have a handle on the facts, or whether or not he was competent.
Great feedback. Can you tell us more about your decision to leave? Besides the family stuff, what kind of "administrative nightmares" were you dealing with?
There are some recent instances of companies being forced into a liquidity event by hedge funds exploiting bonds in unforeseen ways. So, way more complicated than shorting stocks, but kind of related to the parent question:

Matt Levine has written a couple of excellent ruminations on the mechanics, social value or lack thereof, and ethics of this.

> In Windstream, a hedge fund (Aurelius Capital Management LP) discovered that a company (Windstream Holdings Inc.) had already violated the terms of its bonds, so it bought those bonds and sued for a declaration that they were in default. Nobody agreed on the default, or manufactured it, or cut any backroom deals. Last week Aurelius won in court, and yesterday Windstream filed for bankruptcy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-27/windst...
> Unfolded clothes take a larger storage space.

This is the only reason I fold my laundry.
> Is it possible to work with Flutter using Typescript, or is it Dart only?

You might be thinking that Flutter underneath is using JavaScript - to which Dart compiles. However this is not how Flutter works, there is no JavaScript involved anywhere in the stack.

Dart is its own language - and it can run natively, unlike TypeScript - which is just a type system over JavaScript and needs to be compiled to JavaScript to actually run.

So no, you can't use TypeScript with Flutter.
That sounds like a problem but it doesn’t live up to the clickbait title: the problem isn’t even in Mail.app, which shows you which address will be used to send the reply and allows you to select a different one, or the default calendar app, which normally replies using the address an invite was sent to.

If an edge case like that is enough to brand a huge app as sucking, well, there’s not going to be much left.
I've used PyQt some years ago and loved it. I can't remember any bigger issues at all. Super productive and fun.
I'd be much more interested in Flutter if the styling could be made wholly separate like CSS. I thought we all agreed inline-CSS is bad.
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>> Up next SVG. This takes a lot of effort, time and patience

Because SVG's not that different from HTML, I simply cheated when it came to learning the basics.

I would just create a base image (like a bar chart) in something like Inkscape and then open the file up in a browser.

I would then manually manipulate the SVG code in a text editor (or a browser's development tools) and refresh the browser to see changes. You get the feel for how an SVG image works pretty quickly by adding and removing elements and altering attribute values, etc.

On web projects where I'm using something like Haml, I sometimes create SVG templates in Haml (from a base Inkscape file) if the requirements for the image are simple and specific. I've used this method to create donut charts, and small microcharts like bar charts and win-loss charts. The amount of template code I used was minimal, and there was no large client side library required.

Disclaimer: I know this is not the best way to learn how to create SVGs, but it worked for me for certain use cases. YMMV.
You're replying after the quoted paragraph was snipped from the thread, so I'm not sure if you actually read my post with the full context.

The original paragraph was: "Paradoxical in its manifestations, disconcerting in its signs, the Middle Ages proposes to the sagacity of its admirers the resolution of a singular misconception. How to reconcile the unreconcilable? How to adjust the testimony of the historical facts to that of medieval art works?"

This paragraph is obfuscated at best, unintelligible at worst. This is a fairly common writing style in continental philosophy, and in that field the debate isn't whether or not the writing is bad. It's whether or not the writing is intentionally bad.
Military camouflage like Multicam is optimized for the outdoors (forest, desert, etc.) It's unlikely to work well in an urban environment where most facial recognition takes place.
I share your doubts concerning the fact that people won't pay 10 bucks for surpassing Pinterest, but it reflect a wider resentment against a company that has repeatedly punish spam. If they can't punish Pinterest the same way (because let's be honest it's f*ing SEO spam), I won't climb in a Waymo self driving car ...
Yes! I have yet to convince anyplace I've been working to do this, but I do make increases in traffic volume to status pages generate non-critical alerts. Has caught out a few problems much earlier than they otherwise would have been discovered.
Extra points for using a ftp in the URL.
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Check the Lazarus IDE (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/), it's very similar to Delphi with an integrated code editor, visual GUI designer and debugger - you can debug on the target platform including Linux, Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi, and so on.
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I think you're probably right.
I've used rcs,cvs, p4, svn and git.
I don't particularly have a favorite but I think git's security model is basically nonexistent BUT that lack of security basically lead to the genesis of GitHub/GitLab which are pretty handy.
Or better yet, wear a burqua.

Seriously. Unless you're in a handful of countries that forbid its use, it completely covers the face and occludes all attempts at identification, other than by gait and height.
Sorry to clarify - I'm not rejecting the idea of vocation as a supporting treatment to addiction. I, thankfully, have never had to deal with it in myself or a loved one, I am stating that if their innovation is beneficial - great, but now they need to shape up and stop abusing their patients - the money needs to go into their clients hands along so that the incentive to push this vocational opportunity too the point of abuse is removed.

So I agree that perfection is the enemy of the good in innovation, but it's been innovated so now it's time to incrementally improve the system if it's one that works. In this case unfortunately the company has been at it for more than twenty years, so they have refused to work to improving the system and instead have carried on with greedy exploitation which is a well warranted reason for punishment for those individuals.

Also, my apology if my statement seemed directed at you, it was not intended that way. I am quite serious about labour rights having worked in the gaming industry and my passion may have overflown.
When did asking where someone is from become rudeness? It's an icebreaker question...
Not so extraordinary. What's extraordinary isn't that brains can compute, it's that anything else can. Brains computing is ordinary. What's extraordinary about the brain isn't that it can compute. What's extraordinary about the brain is that it can be rational and self-aware, things that computers cannot do. Computers can only be deterministic. Brains can be deterministic, but they can also be non-deterministic
If people cared about those things they wouldn't be making crappy webapps with custom look n feel and no accessibility.
That video is actually two separate events. The first video is called GIMBAL and the date and location weren't publicly released. The second video is called FLIR1 and starts when the information layout on the screen changes. Both were officially released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Tool is embedded in the blog post: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/#try!
Indeed, Flutter would be much more compelling if I could use it with Rust or Swift instead. Dart really doesn’t interest me.
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Yea I had the same idea trying to use midi on gpt-2.
I think the word bullshitting is a harmfully imprecise way to describe what is actually several problems:

Naive over-confidence: People who lack the experience necessary to update their beliefs to more reasonable ones. I'd argue that this is both a good thing and a bad thing. When it works out well (Tesla) there are still people who are angry that it happened and call bullshit on it. Most examples of truly uncommon vision will be characterized as this sort of bullshit by skeptics, who are sometimes (in hindsight) wrong and sometimes right.

"Alpha" culture: Companies/teams where leadership is confused with stereotypical alpha behavior such as dominance, brashness, and artificial confidence/decisiveness. This one is predominantly negative, as it shuts down important thought and enquiry. To make matters worse, it creates a filter where the culture is blind to leadership that is not couched in stereotypical alpha behaviors. This is often referred to as bro culture.

Lying: Some people lie strategically about things that are important to a business or team. They do this often to serve their own goals at the expense of company goals. When looking at this one we must ask what incentives allow it to seem like a winning strategy for anyone? In my opinion it occurs when there is not a culture of trust to begin with.

Intimidation: This is similar to bro/alpha culture, but is more sinister, and has more to do with problem individuals behaving in antisocial ways and trying to opportunistically use pecking order, law of the jungle approaches to get what they want out of the situation. This resembles "bullshit" because it is a form of tactical speech that is not based in truth and is meant to create a desirable outcome for the person doing it. It is always harmful to a group dynamic and is often hard to detect because sometimes someone observing the situation will think that the person who is tactically intimidating others is more of a natural leader, or will interpret the successfully intimidated peoples' behavior as timid or un-leader-like.

Company-wide lies: All companies have an origin story, and some are more true than others. But when there is a big lie that starts at the top, it creates many opportunities for people in the organization to exploit information asymmetries to their own benefit. Since it is based on a lie, the information asymmetries exist due to politics and are not based on truth, so being observant and truth-oriented is not helpful in understanding when someone is trying to act opportunistically. This one is really bad, and the consequences are very broad and include everything from hiring or firing people based on dishonest metrics to leading to resumé inaccuracies, fudged metrics, and (worst of all) major strategic blind spots.
Those were rhetorical questions I fully understand what the point of the example was.
So Google/Youtube knows when I'm sad.
Ah I see. Agreed!
That same quote confuses me. If there are no events to measure time, why does that mean that time stopped? Can't it keep flowing just as space keeps expanding regardless of measurement? More so, photon decay is not completely ruled out yet, so events could keep happening in that cold photon bath.
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Can we crowdsource this banlist, just like an adblocker automatically updates?
Personally, I rarely need to iron anything. I have some fancy clothes I wear for fancy occasions, and they require ironing, but I only need them a few times a year.

The vast majority of my clothing doesn't really need to be ironed (even if it's not specifically "wrinkle free"). That's one of the criteria I use when I select my clothes.
> market certainly isn't watching for that yet

On the contrary. US Treasuries are plummeting in yield. 10-year is 2.53%.

People are keeping their money in stocks because the bond market is also pretty messed up. Where exactly do you put your money?

Treasury Yields suck, Stocks are risky. And Real Estate caused the last crash.
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And then switch to us-east-1 services?
Would it not be easier at some point to “simply” don a disguise ala mission impossible? The one issue is ensuring emergence is not detected (this disguise came out from this building/house).
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You dont need such a poorly designed study for the conclusions to have merit on their own. Just open your eyes and ears. But maybe you are a bullshitter..
If these increase in popularity [0], I'm pretty sure DoH will be the goto workaround for web apps and native apps, alike, which would be unfortunate because DNS based ad-blocking is all encompassing and takes very little effort to setup [1]. That makes me wonder why DoH was even conceived, if not for the benefit of ad-networks [2]?

Thinking along similar lines, can't help but wonder if cert-pinning does more harm than good.

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[0] Folks have been doing this since atleast 2002 http://sam.zoy.org/writings/internet/doubleclick.html

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-dns-announcement.html

[2] OpenDNS founder, davidu, has been crying foul about it too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257318
It could be said that I dumped my last four (four!) jobs due to the extreme bullshit artistry that agile/scrum methodologies engender.

That could be said, but it wouldn't be 100% The Truth.

Still, it almost feels right to say that. Because I started to feel truly dehumanized each time I found myself deeply mired in a process that revolved around a daily stand-up. I wanted to punch walls, strangle people, rip my hair out and scream in people's faces for all the polite stupidity and phoney baloney lip service we waded through every morning.

It was like, hey, let's start the day with complete fiction, and then try to build real progress on that foundation of laffy taffy and silly putty! YAAAYYYYY!

Why did I have to stand in a circle and tell lies and listen to lies for 20 minutes? Why did we go around the circle, look each other in the eye, not wink, and then say things that weren't even close to true?

I lost respect for most of my co-workers that way. It felt like the worst descriptions of a certain cult, where as you level up, you must, with ever-more convincing conviction, claim to believe in science fiction fairy tales revealed by The Word of a 1950's sci-author.

Before agile/scrum, it was safe and reasonable to take two or three weeks to complete a long-running chunk of serious effort that mattered to the success of a project.

After agile/scrum, that was no longer true. Daily incremental progress had to be "proven" and if that were not possible... UH OHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOTHING HAPPENS. (but still, uh ohhhhhhhh)

And then the fucking beating a dead horse sessions. Running back-to-back meetings (yes, these are called meetings, folks) for planning AND retrospectives. Two hours chopped out of each Friday, having planning for next week, and a retrospective for this past week, or I don't even know what week. Really? Seriously?

Two hours locked in a room where nothing happens, even though we have to stand around in a circle and prove something happened yesterday, or justify why it did not.

And oh yeah! Backlog grooming. Another hour for that. Where the rubber meets the road on the bullshit artistry, accumulated backlog garbage fires, for all the actual daily tasks like log scraping and urgent bug fixes that actually have to happen or a significant portion of real and necessary business falls flat on its face if neglected.

And oh yeah, multiple hours long actual design and planning sessions injected at random any given week, where we would be assembling the true-true goals that might ostensibly take shape next quarter or something. This is where you gain the realization of who the ghosts of Christmas past are. The dead, fired and quit employees who were responsible for all the backlog tickets, long long ago, before time immemorible, frolicking amid the primordial ooze with with prototypical vertebral boney plate exoskeletons and filter feeding mouth parts, must have experienced meeting like these... but where are they now?

I'm not going back. I won't work any such sort of job ever again. I won't interview for them. Apply to them. Talk to people. It doesn't matter. I never want to work again, if that's what work looks like now.
It is long overdue. China has 1.3B people and the second largest economy in the world. It is righteous for them to be Asia's military titan.
I did a couple. No one cared about those.

Save your money if thats your motivation.
This! And the two can coexist as well -- Data lake for everything (partitioned appropriately) and modern data warehouse for the stuff from your data lake that you want to curate (of course with partially structured intake first).
How do you prove someone doesn't know something?

It's an impossible task if it's not their job to implement. So it borders on impossible to be an IC and a bullshitter.

However if you're a supervisor or manager which I would argue are the majority of bullshitters, and you aren't committing code (or other similar technical work), then how would you prove that they don't know what they are talking about, without getting fired, until it's too late? What happens when the bullshitter has top cover and can't be called out/fired?

The standard response to these is "that's a bad place to work so quit." Ok, maybe sometimes. However most people don't have the ability to do that. So they just double duty the work and get the job done.

So, I'm curious how do you call out bullshitters when you can't prove they don't know something? Honestly asking cause I'd love to do this a lot but don't know how.