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As a scientist, use scientific notation off the base units; you eliminate opportunities for confusion. The prefixes don't really add anything.

The Sun is 1.5 x 10^11 meters from the Earth.

Calling it 1.5 x 10^8 kilometers doesn't help you visualize the distance better, nor calling it 150 gigameters. Now you have three numbers that mean the same thing floating around, and if you accidentally write 1.5 x 10^8 m somewhere instead of km, or read 1.5 x 10^11 km as m, you've just introduced a thousand-fold error.

Common units (eg, Angstrom) make sense when you do not need to convert between them; it's convenient if they are easily convertible to your standard unit, but having mg and ug and g and kg floating around is just an unnecessary headache, you inevitably accidentally interpret a microgram dose as a milligram dose from time to time and poison a patient or eight.
People are able to crack poor password comparison implementations over a jittery, latency heavy network. It’s possible to get almost arbitrarily high resolution when doing timing side channel attacks, you’ll just need many more samples.
I'm intrigued by the idea of replacing the "stand up" with the "check in". Especially, as the author of TFA says, when you have distributed teams, or teams where work hours don't always coincide.

I'd pitch it at my $DAYJOB, but I have a gut feeling I know how this idea would be received. We're pretty locked into Cargo Cult Agile here, and I don't see a lot of receptiveness to change. sigh
Those look the same to me.
Back in 2011, when the wild ride that was Anonymous was at its apogee, it looked like an incoming Western Digital Spring. It's not wonder that fizzled down. Even if disadvantaged in the digital front, some of the affected can intimidate very effectively in real life: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/02/anonymous...

Both organized crime and law enforcement can use violence, even if their objectives are opposed.
At the Model 3 price point? I own a TM3 and there’s no question in my mind that it’s far and above the best.

That’s my opinion, but factually it is the best selling luxury car in the US.
"Researchers". You mean people desperately trying to make a name for themselves with exaggerated pseudoscientific claims. The amount of food/diet related "studies" that have been retracted,contradicted and rinse/repeat is so staggering that "news" companies should stop publishing it because it's more harmful to the public than anything.

"Benefits of moderate alcohol consumption such as wine include a 30% reduction in the risk of heart attack compared to non-drinkers, a finding that has been repeated over 30 years and in various countries, according to Eric Rimm, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition who has been researching the effects of alcohol and chronic disease for decades at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Additionally, alcohol consumption has been associated with a 30% to 40% reduction in the risk of Type 2 diabetes, compared to those who don't drink. "

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/health/wine-healthy-food-dray...

How about moderation? I can't wait for the next studies:

"How much salt is safe to consume? None, Say These "Researchers"".

"How much sugar is safe to consume? None, Say These "Researchers"".

"How much water is safe to consume? None, Say These "Researchers"".
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Well, if it's Mac-native, it's likely made using ObjC or Swift with Cocoa. Porting this to Win32 would be a very substantial amount of work -- right of the top, you wouldn't be able to use Swift -- and that's work that's likely not worth it if 90%+ of your customer base are Mac users.
The answer to the question "why is the unit weight the kilogram instead of the gram" is "because the kilogram is about 2 Parisian pounds, which is what everyone at the time actually cared about".
> Having an embedded image from a third party server in an email is well within normal usage of email.

It is "normal" in the sense that it is a common practice, but it's also nefarious and shouldn't be done.

Fortunately, it's easy to defend against.
Sounds like you made a little Music Genome Project (by Pandora) like system. Lately I've been thinking about building something like that using machine learning and the hopes that it would scale better than Pandora's effort did.
I don't think it does make sense. Funded businesses die all the time. Google cancels products all the time. companies are acquihired and products end of lifed.

Even within organizations there are critically important employees.

So, no, it doesn't make sense.
Fair enough - I assumed it couldn't be that as the worst cock ups were far further back than Carnsore era - like the Windscale fire in the 50s. That and governments everywhere not really doing much consultation or reaction to public opinion back then. Recent issues have seemed more of privatisation than negligence - still not what we want of nuclear of course.

I'd like decommissioning to go far smoother as they're just down the road from us, should there be another cock up.

Wikipedia seems to think it is prohibited - 1999 Electricity Regulation Act. I only ever heard oblique references to it being banned, with no further explanation, so I know nothing more. Even Wikipedia raises more questions than answers.
Agreed on all points.

I just wanted to link this video, because it's a great example of what it means for farm labor to be skilled labor:

https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1005532868007739392

That's not an efficiency of movement you get after a week of doing this work; there's a LOT of practice in being able to do that all day long.

These people are paid extremely poorly for the expertise they bring to their work.
Shameless plug: I built an app for that. It’s not super polished but it is at a point where I use it to store technical documentation that doesn’t ship with the software (aka docs for every Javascript package I use). It works for moderately complex JavaScript apps as well.

https://github.com/CGamesPlay/chronicler
* Captive market of people sitting in the airplane shopping mall for hours.

* Extra charges for everything.

Compare airplane boarding with simply boarding a train in Switzerland / Europe: You get on the train. If you miss the train, you get on the next one. Air travel was like this a long time ago, and still is for short-haul flights, and short-haul fleets are going all electric.

I think fast electric rail is here [in Europe and China/Japan/Korea] and is the future. Hopefully flying will be reduced, but for now, airplane boarding is ridiculous.
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Not necessarily true. For example the enterprise I work in doesn't allow saving chat history. This makes email better for technical discussion that needs recorded.
That's my point exactly, relatively speaking you'll never be surrounded by ~30,000 university students who are forced to cohabit the same location in their most formative years.

The situation is much different when you have to find a babysitter for your kids to free up what little time you might have each day that is then split between you and your life partner to afford to socialize regularly.

I've just internalized this phenomenon as a fact of life after entering mid adulthood and settling down.
Luckily we only have to look at it nationally thanks to borders and immigration law. Which we can, and should.
> To truly level the playing field requires far earlier intervention

And what happens when intervention in preschool also doesn't produce equal outcomes? Is there a point at which we accept that certain groups are just going to do better in a way that we can't eliminate?
thats actually a very annoying feature that has thrown me off when i tried.

you can't even comment out your code while debugging. annoying as hell.
it'd be nice if we could get the hn link pointing to that instead, since it's actually got a bit more details than the reddit post and the reddit post doesn't seem to be getting updated, so it's only going to get more "stale"
There is a question as to whether it is legal or not, it is unequivocally unethical.
Except that they have actually installed solar roof on a few dozen houses as test cases while they continue to refine their product.

Theranos never had a functioning product, they used tradition equipment secretly behind the scenes.

Is this house secretly using solar panels?

https://youtu.be/zMR10vbo3A0

Tesla wants to iterate on Solar Roof a few more times to increase yield and performance before they install it on 10,000 houses with a Lifetime glass warranty and a 30 year weatherization warranty.
HTTrack does most of that, minus "seamless". You could probably write an extension that automatically sent bookmarked urls to HTTrack for mirroring/archival, then they would all be browsable offline.
This is one reason I always opt for a printed-out rental contract when I rent a car and they ask, "Do you want us to email you the rental agreement, or do you want a paper copy?"
The one in my field of view right now is an HP LaserJet Pro 400 series.

My previous LaserJet, a 5N, I found set out for the trash on the curb late one night, in a sprinkling of rain. So I hauled it home, plugged it in, and proceeded to run it for over a decade, very infrequently putting new toner in it (never even had to replace the rollers).

Eventually, the LaserJet 5N's fan started to fail (all the mechanics and fuser and everything still working fine), which presumably was a replaceable muffin fan, but I also wanted a sleep mode (and preferably to not dim the lights at warmup), so I parted it out (too heavy to ship, but the parts were still marketable), and bought a contemporary LaserJet.

The new LaserJet is not as bulletproof-looking, but is sturdy and has worked like a champ for a few years, for letter and envelopes, and it still respects the toner. My only complaints are that I wish they wouldn't play setup convenience tricks with USB, and that I'm unwilling to give its huge firmware direct network access. (For CUPS drivers, instead of using `hplip`, I now use the simpler "HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS".)
It also requires time travel to implement; the folding knowledge was not known at the time of decision.
Honestly, 99% of e-mails that force you to use images to be able to read them are garbage sales e-mails anyway, in my experience.

Substantive e-mails will have attachments most of the time, and be from trusted sources obviously, or will just be text.

Maybe that's just my experience?
Boeing switched to Agile development for T-X program
I suspect most contemporary CDs are just uncompressed dumps of bitrate/band limited compressed audio.
Interesting that agile was a key component in what allowed Boeing to underbid all their competitors on the T-X advanced trainer program and still produce a profitable aircraft:

"Another factor was adopting an agile approach to software development. Instead of building up large blocks of software over several months or even years, the functions are broken down into smaller increments that are integrated at the system level every two months.

“This had us basically releasing software every eight weeks,” Niewald said. “By doing this in such a disciplined manner at a frequency it allowed us to reduce our software [lines of code] by 50% [compared to a traditional aircraft development program].”

The approach allowed Boeing to build and fly two aircraft within three years of the program launch in 2013. When this journalist referred to the two T-X aircraft built so far as “prototypes," implying they don’t represent the production standard, a Boeing spokesperson stepped in to point out that they are not considered prototypes internally"
How is mental illness not a pre-existing condition?
I wouldn't know. Another thing to look at is worklist.net, which is a system in which developers are bidding to complete dev tasks for open source.
The entire UI is OS-specific. If this was a matter of #ifdefs, we wouldn't have 50 page weekly discussions on the merits of various cross-platform technologies.
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Every metatool you use does that - syntax highlighting, linters, formatters, ide’s, etc

You always end up adapting to the tool, while adapting the tool to you

Until you oneday reach a perfect harmony with your tool... until you introduce another one, and the equilibrium must once again be found.

Also of note, this is a general principle/behavior (eg you and your furniture..!)
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Wonder how many lives you could attribute to being lost because of this bug.
Their LaserJet printers are still top-tier. I've got several around twenty years old that are still chugging along only needing the occasional roller replacement.
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Could this be the next big sub-prime bubble?

The amount of people I see in the UK with two luxury cars (BMW, Audi, Merc) that are on hire-purchase or PCP is high.
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But what is interesting is the completely disastrous following investigation. The police in Stockholm fucked up in every possible way there is to fuck up. Records were not kept, witnesses were promised rewards for testifying, they didn't investigate the crime scene properly, chased after wild conspiracy theories about South Africa and PKK and so on.*

And that somehow gives people certainty that "it can't have been a conspiracy"?
Try spending ~20 hours in a week playing serious racing sims complete with wheel and real-feeling pedals, then hopping into your car on the weekend to drive cross-state to visit family.

I also got this with programming at least once. I had been spending all night trying to get something with my WPF view models working (and failing). When I finally got into bed, I was having trouble falling asleep because I was just "seeing" endless lines of code scrolling through my head. I very distinctly remember thinking, "What order do I have to call these methods again to successfully enter sleep mode?" Quite a bizarre experience.
Especially when it’s a gov prosecutor sending it to the opposing defence attorneys, when the organization sending it has a known capability to exploit those computers for intelligence gathering.

The privacy rights between attorneys and clients is particularly sensitive. Not to mention a government agent sending it to journalists with the freedom of the press rights.
> it's a little presumptuous of you to imagine that 1 i intend to be so cavalier

Considering you ask for a book for a "lay person" on "rigorous law", I don't think that was presumptuous at all. cormacrelf's point is that there is no such thing. If it's written for a layperson, it can't be rigorous; conversely, if it's rigorous it requires more than a lay understanding of law. Asking for such a thing indicates an unfamiliarity with the depths that constitute rigor in the legal profession.
A while a go there was a post on here describing exactly that. I can't find it anymore unfortunately (maybe someone else has it?), but judging from my memory of that discussion this should be doable-ish.

But if you're just running a local home system the chances of being targeted with such an unreliable attack are virtually zero.
Are you really surprised though?
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While ePubs can handle more complicated layouts, it's much easier to take an existing print book layout and export to PDF and have it retain the formatting than it is to do the same with ePub. So to export the same layout to ePub, you basically need a web designer to go over it and mark up the parts correctly and write the right CSS. Exporting to PDF is pretty much one step and you're done.
I can organize and search my mail archive much better than chat, and I disable the notifications on chat anyway, so I'm not sure about that.
Great read.

The thing is Slack wouldn't be as successful as it is without some merits. I think understanding why it is so successful could be a very interesting exercise for anyone wanting to get into that market.

We actually have the opposite problem where I work. We have Slack and only a handful of people out of 50 use it regularly, all of which are remote devs such as myself. The only communication that works is face to face meetings or casual corridor conversations, so remote people are basically excluded from everything that happens. Email is generally useless too. Writing skills are not abundant here, when the emails do get answered.
Speaking from an Eastern European perspective, the attitude you describe is neither unique to nor especially pronounced in America.
>Of course, the story itself kinda speaks against this view of the world.

Only in the sense that somebody dying from having a walnut stuck in their throats speaks against not eating walnuts.

Politicians of all kinds go by themselves all the time in Europe, and it's no big deal.

Meanwhile, people with guards and police, like JFK and Reagan had attempts (the first of course successful) against them. If the killer is determined (or worse, willing to be killed themselves, like some modern wackos), they can always find some moment.
"Defending society against it" could mean many things but "disarming everyone" isn't on the table. I'm not even in favor of those Red Flag laws because they destroy our due process. Think about it--due process is something we've had in some form since before the US Constitution even existed. It is a basic component of Western legal tradition. And we're now supposed to give that up out of fear?

I'd rather hang all the mentally ill people, then. That also would defend society if I am not mistaken. For you downvoters, I'm only making a point, I don't mean it.

You're being led by the nose down a dark path and you don't even realize it.
I just went on my Myspace account for the first time in probably 10 years. It was like going into a broken time capsule. Some pictures from a different age, others are gone.

Such is life?
"Lowest point" basically.

I.e. "Political threads are the nadir of discussion on HN"
Do you think it was okay for Felicity Huffman et al to pay for their children's admission?
Oh my goodness. I've committed some naughty deeds with the ast module before, but this is truly, wonderfully, heinous. You push this idea so far that I wouldn't even recognize some of these examples as syntactically valid, let alone predict their effects. I'm awestruck and a little frightened of you.
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Because most channels for delivering untrusted code have already been fixed. There's really only 2 channels for delivering code these days to attack consumers - app stores & web browsers. Web browsers had crude mitigations immediately (disable SharedArrayBuffer), and have improved since then (full site isolation https://v8.dev/blog/spectre )

As for app stores there's typically easier malware attack vectors if you manage to get an app installed & past the scanners in place with that typical back & forth escalation game. And those run in process-level sandboxes with clamped down syscalls. You can't exploit a spectre BPF attack if you can't use BPF at all due to selinux rules, for example.

Moving past consumer what else are you really going to attack? Sure you could rent some virtual hosting somewhere and hope you get lucky attacking a neighboring VM, but what's really your end goal there to justify the time & risk? It's not like you can reliably pick a target with that, you just have to go fishing and react to what you may or may not find.
And that s a great thing! There is no reason to maintain everything, in fact the entire function of our brains is to filter out useful information from a cataclysm of sensory input. The internet figures out what to keep and what to throw away, the hard thing seems to be to willingly make it forget stuff.
Seems like they were. It was discovered, after all.
More to the point IMO, it takes that data from anybody else you happen to forward the email to. If the journalist forwarded an email with the tracking pixel to their source, it wouldn't have to get any of that fine-grained information; even just the IP address could be enough to de-anonymize the source.
Reminds me of "Rainbows End". Remember the scene when the kids go to school and overlay the building on the way?
(And all the other overlays/skins.)
Simply put, what the government describes as normal (or ideal) is far different than what the alcohol-consuming populace considers normal.

(Side thought: Some of the risks in that article are suspect. STDs and domestic violence? Those are reflections of the individuals using the drug, not the drug itself.)
How useful would a group to group network be?
The whole insurance system is that your monthly premium is paying for someone else's treatment. Universal healthcare is just a larger insurance pool that brings costs down for everyone in it.
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It was assuredly not an angry drunk lashing out in a simple, poorly conceived, malign demonstration, for one simple reason:

2 shots, from a revolver. One serious wound, only killing the political leader. No one else was seriously injured.

These details speak volumes.

An ordinary idiot crossing the line, to commit murder, would have unloaded the entire gun, and probably would have scored a head shot, and probably would have killed the wife. A crime this big will only get bigger in the hands of a regular civilian that has no experience in killing people.

Instead, we see a quick, quiet, deadly single shot to the torso. Two pulls to the trigger, and only a minor wound to the woman, probably accidental.

The person that did it had help. The choice of a powerful revolver is significant. That they pounced in a quiet area with an escape route, and kept a few bullets to fend off any possible witness that might think about giving chase shows a depth of planning. The person that did it probably had an alibi and multiple conspirators.
I have a more readily falsifiable idea. My reclusive neighbor is a witch, she sometimes alters data away from expected predictions so that scientists have something to puzzle over.
What is "Extra Money?" I'm doing my best not to drown in debt. I've calculated it, and I can retire when I'm 142.
My time/value equation includes the experience of having had my luggage lost enough times that checking baggage only feels worthwhile when I'm not especially going to need whatever it is I would be checking on the other end of the trip, and in that case, why bother bringing it? I'd rather bring less stuff and be sure of having it. Saving money on baggage fees and time waiting for the loading/unloading process is a nice bonus.
The way I see it, it's not that people don't like Slack, it's that people don't like online chatting in general as the official way of communicating inside a company. I don't think that the solution to that problem could ever be another chatting tool.
>In particular the interiors of brutalist structures don't get enough appreciation. Boston City Hall — not done by Pei — stands out in that the exterior is quite ugly but the interior is utilitarian and soothingly cavernous.

As a resident of Boston who's had to travel to city hall many times on Business, I wouldn't call the interior "soothingly cavernous". Perhaps it was initially and has been modified since, but I find it dark sized to make both the visitor and the worker insignificant. Most open space is unusable and appears to have no purpose, but the spaces that are in-use, are somehow cramped and lifeless.
Because he said it on public broadcast. And i believe public broadcasts are the least likely to be deleted from the internet. Private stuff , or things said in a small circle of social network friends are much less important.