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It seems to be an ongoing truism that companies that see themselves as fundamentally hardware-oriented inevitably make terrible, terrible software.

Just look at the historical shitpile that is printer drivers.

Or the software bundled with digital cameras.

Car companies are all hardware-oriented, with Tesla being the first and only mass-producing exception.
Intentional misrepresentation of another's view.
I've wanted something like this for years. Thanks for making it [=
https://cwa-union.org/about/rights-on-job/legal-toolkit/my-e...

> As an independent contractor, the terms and conditions of the work you perform are set out in a contract between you and the employer. Even though you are not considered an “employee” under federal labor law, you may still join a union. However, you should keep in mind that a unit of independent contractors is not subject to the same privileges and protections as a regular union bargaining unit. For example, an employer is not under the same obligation to bargain with a union regarding contract terms for an independent contractor that it is to bargain over issues affecting its regular employees. Also, an independent contractor who went on strike would not be protected from employer reprisals under the National Labor Relations Act.

Plenty of contract plumbers, electricians, etc. are members of unions.
Almost never happen so much that someone wrote a handbook on how to successfully bring up false accusations https://www.amazon.com/How-Destroy-Man-Now-DAMN/dp/099982032...
I agree. The irccloud is trying to alleviate many of the problems in retro-compatible way. It has stuff like history, snippets, images and so on.
One of my biggest issues with systemd is that I don't like the idea of not being able to replace pieces of it. If I don't like their logging, dns, or ntp daemons, I can't easily replace them without feeling like a second-class citizen and/or having the overhead you've mentioned.

From my understanding, alternatives _could_ be written, but haven't yet and that means we currently having to ignore more battle-hardened software in favour of whatever is in systemd by default.
Interested in building open source project for automated apparel manufacturing?
This lawyer is grasping at straws. There's no way that having security cameras in your own embassy is an "illicit operation"
Should we be loaning out $100k at 5% interest to teenagers, without making kids pay it down for 4 years, and not being able to discharge it in bankruptcy?

Would a bank approve an 18 year old high school grad for a $100k mortgage at the same rates? Say, $0 down, 5% interest, no mortgage payments for 4 years?

Why can a high school grad get the first one and not the other? Is an 18 year old even smart enough about personal finance and debt to understand the differences between the two?

I was a kid who took out a huge student loan to attend university. At the time, all I knew was that “college was mandatory” and I was encouraged to “study my passion”. Fortunately for me I’ve been able to monetize my passion... but at the time, I had no concept of how much money I’d be needing, or how interest stacks debt on top of debt, or how it would affect my credit when I wanted to buy a house at the age of 30, because no one told me these things and with a verbal agreement my parents co-signed the loan (I never signed a paper myself) for me and now I have this baggage for probably a few more decades.

It’s almost impossible to expect an 18 year old in today’s American society to fully understand the crippling punishment of six figure debt and its long term effects on your life. When you have 1 year to figure it out, and the choices are “go to college” or “be a failure” then there is only one way forward — isn’t there? I feel so badly for people in my situation that aren’t working at tech industry wages... and there are many.
I think if a male manager doesn’t feel comfortable having a one on one meeting with a female employee, so be it, but then he has to be consistent and not have one on one meetings with any of his employees. If a guys gonna watch his back at the expense of getting work done, he has to do so in a way that treats everyone equally
There’s too much obfuscation of what this software does. “New projects set up lightning fast” makes me think this is a generator framework like https://yeoman.io/ but the examples show an abstraction around bash snippets for running tasks.

It does seem to do both things but only after a bit of digging; and it’s still not clear what kind of experience I’ll have using packs.

To make the homepage compelling, I suggest;

1. Remove the illustrations, double-headings (like “Example usage/How to use...”), hero stuff, testimonials from your team. These are distracting

2. Start with the features, not `curl | bash`. I’ll download after I’ve decided I need these features.

3. Number the core features and list them in order of importance. Show (gif or terminal session text) how each feature works. I think you should cover:

- task runner feature

- templating feature

- scaffolding feature

- dependencies/modules/reuse between repos.

4. Move tutorial to page 2 so the features take center stage.

5. Drain away talk of ecosystem. You are just starting out with this. There is no ecosystem yet, so it is not a feature. Instead, specifically talk about the add-ons you already built, and how they can help me.
I agree, if there is a region with the labor force and good policy for investment plus infra and a few other things. Vietnam is a close enough option, but other options are not abundant, so more than just a few years would be a plausible answer for me.
He supposedly gave Manning technical help to steal data, which is not the same as merely publishing it.
people are saying this is game over for huawei but i see it the other way, right now they have a good hold in the market as do other chinese manufacturers, they have the funds and resources to create a solid alternative which i imagine would be swiftly accepted by other manufacturers who will no doubt face the same issues huawei have

on top of that people are starting to become wary of the slight monopoly google have, many people are ready and waiting to jump ship, rather than the death of huawei as a major player i think this may be the start of google losing their stranglehold on the market
It's tough to say for sure what they are currently manipulating about your experience because they have so many vectors they can use. But I think the issue is that the amount of data they are collecting goes beyond the "lets improve the experience" argument. For example google "reads" all of your gmail[0]. They might want to do this for better targeted advertising which isn't nefarious (though it does exchange your privacy for the sake of their bottom line), but I think you or me would prefer they didn't in favor of less precise advertising. Same goes for your search results.

True they have the right to use your data since you used their apps, but as far as search/email goes I don't think it's too far off to suggest you don't have that many alternatives- and you probably don't have any reasonable alternatives that don't read your emails or track your search. In situations like this I think a lot of people would prefer their government step in and have a large amount of oversight into their business practices so thats probably where all the sentiment is coming from.

[0] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-third-party-apps-read-g...
Scaffolding is just a part of what Oya. The purpose is not just creating new projects but also making managing them easier with focus on devops.

You can:
1. Create bash-based tasks similar to what Makefiles do.

2. You can parametrize these tasks AND templates using YAML files such as values.oya (they can be encrypted).

3. You can share/reuse your scripts by just pushing them to Github and tagging using a version and then import them into your Oyafile (`oya import github.com/bilus/mypack`)
I think some of my pain came from attempts to unmount everything (particularly NFS) before letting long-running shutdowns (graphite/carbon) finished flushing, then never trying again. While diving into that and eventually coming up with a sufficient set of dependencies, I would fondly think back to the two (or more) phases of unmounting at shutdown that had that solved cold many years prior.
what is your climate?
> As WGS comes online for association studies it will both validate and more deeply explore the genetic nature of every disease. It is going to be mindblowing.

But there is another layer of confusion, because WGS implies resequencing, and resequencing is only as good as your reference genome, and will distort results when the genome you're inferring is to far from the reference (reference bias).

The real mind bend will come when we have thousands or millions of whole genome de novo assemblies and we compare these to each other to do our GWAS. Only then are we going to have a hope of knowing what is actually causal in a genomic sense. Until then we remain in the land of association.

In nature, most adaptive variation appears to be large and structural. All the recent studies that have used whole genome assemblies to look at this have found the same thing. I would be surprised if this isn't the case for humans too. If it is, then much of current perspective on GWAS (both based on chips and WGS) will need to be rewritten.
Great point, thanks!
All you need is a popular tweet.
Not sure how their antennas are constructed - if they are fabbed on a PCB, often at microwave frequencies you need exotic substrate material (e.g., Rogers) to cut down on losses. Those substrates are expensive compared to FR4 (fiberglass common in PCBs).
Yes, this. And SystemD adds to this monoculture (as does Docker).
We need a new word for "taxi companies with cute apps, unsustainable pricing/wages and lots of Silicon Valley venture capital propping them up" to distinguish them from old-school taxi companies if we're gonna quit saying "rideshare".

Any suggestions?
> What's the deal with the identical gifts of the twelve kings repeated twelve times?

The number twelve is prevalent in the religions of Mesopotamia. As examples: the horoscope, the twelve houses of Israel, the twelve apostles. Probably all of them are different retellings of the same ancient tale.
Scaffold AI – the easiest way to use machine learning (seeking beta users)
The seeds transported on their own would begin to germinate during the long voyage to India. The terrariums allowed the seeds to start sprouting and growing in a healthier environment than in the ships holds.
I find it quite convenient, although I do admit the integration with /etc/fstab is a little weird. I've used it to auto-mount application data directories, for example, before an application comes online.
These comments are already a toxic hellstew of nasty sexism couched in dispassionate pseudo-objective terms. HN reminds me regularly that the problem is even worse (at least in some corners of tech) than occasional links here suggest.

If your response to an article is to double-down on sexism, you are very much part of the problem.

For everyone else, working for and with women, or having women work for and with you, doesn't have to be scary at all. Just don't be awful, and they probably won't be either. Since you work in tech, presumably, or you wouldn't be here, try thinking of all of your colleagues as "people" instead of "men and women." It's not like it should matter in this field.
Melissa Locker would find a way to blame domestic violence in lesbian relationships on men.
The drivers are already there though. They've already committed to taking these passengers.

Imagine walking up to a taxi and having them say "wait 5 minutes until I can charge you more".
Our terrible health insurance situation makes potential spending any given month very bumpy. $10k should be enough to keep a single, frugal person in an OK situation for a good chunk of a year, at least, but could just as well be blown inside 24hrs by one slip on some ice or any number of other ER-worthy problems, and isn't enough to cover a healthcare plan that removes much of that uncertainty for any length of time while also paying rent and buying food.
The problem is the sugar in commercial cereals, it's often the second or third ingredient.

Be careful with that breakfast, because do look it up but I think one egg a day already exceeds the safe limit for heart disease, and bacon and ham are AFIK carcinogenic according to the World Health Organization (colon cancer I believe).

Most people aren't aware of this stuff and keep eating like that, but the science seems clear about that type of food.
AI Hasn’t Found Its Isaac Newton:Gary Marcus
Uber and Lyft are both losing money for a reason, though.
If you take him literally, I.e. without the social context, then his statements is essentially meaningless.

All it would take is one single example of a poor person being successful while all of the others fail and die in poverty to prove him right.

His example is part of the context, and the fact that his example was not in fact of a poor person demonstrates that he isn’t being responsible for what he says, and deserves the criticism he is receiving.
You're not being negative, that's super useful feedback. We're using Oya internally but are still struggling with making it 100% (or even 80%:) clear what it is that it does. :)
Was probably in my early twenties when I saw it first, saw it again twenty years later, still had the same impact.

Let's hope it won't be needed.
Is this a make reimplementation
It's comical and sad how effective the "he's dirty" smearing (true or not) riled up the layman.

I bet everyone is kicking themselves for not trying it years ago, coming up with elaborate accusations when all they needed to say is that he deserves it because he's a grumpy slob.
I'm a Machine Learning Engineer for a healthcare startup in Toronto. Just finished my MSc in CS.
Ironically, there are aircraft carriers moving around the oceans forcing some countries regarding some agenda.
Yeah, not really. It all depends on where you live. I doubt most developers here in Eastern Europe make the $100k you speak off.
Google Reaches One Billion Visual Searches
Tobias Macey recently interviewed David Holmes, director of engineering at USDS. There's plenty of background and insight into how USDS came about and how it works.
https://www.pythonpodcast.com/usds-government-software-episo...
I'm not certain about this. Of course gamers want everything for free, but gamers are generally smarter and more conservative than the average population (see the whole Epic Games Store debacle right now).

Consoles are exceedingly cheap nowadays. Even on the high end, it's a $400 (PS4P) cost spread over 4 or more years, which can work out to as low as $10/month. I haven't seen any "production" cloud streaming service that cheap; some can be cheaper if you don't play a lot, as they bill per hour of active time. Even Xbox Live Gold/PS+ isn't cheaper than that, and that's a FAR simpler service to run versus cloud streaming.

Services like Stadia or xCloud will cater well to the casual gaming crowd; 10 hours or less per month, not seriously invested. That's not where the money is at (in consoles, its DEFINITELY where the money is at in mobile). That's the flaw of all of these services; there's no way they can be offered at a cost competitive rate to running code inside the house, and that's not even considering internet speeds. The funny thing is, at least in my experience, it's the "serious" gamers who have the best internet and thus would be most eligible for these services, yet would also be most likely to want the best quality experience (audio, visual, input lag).
>it's the other humans on the road that make it so hard to solve.

Humans, cats and dogs, deer, tumbling rocks, low flying seagulls, tumbling trashbags or a toppled trashbin bin, palm fronds, drunk people jaywalking, drunk guy in a jeter jersey directing traffic after a yankees game, edgy teenagers pulling the invisible rope trick (or just yanking a sheet on a string), puddles reflecting humans on the sidewalk, blind turns and hidden driveways, competitors self driving tech, the metawars that will result by trying to raise a competitors accident rates (and not doing that would be leaving money on the table).
What is the default at the moment?
Most of this seems obvious to me.

I've been working mostly or completely remotely since October of 2001. For a brief period in there, at one startup, I had an office in an incubator a few blocks from my house, but after 6 months or so we decided it wasn't a good use of money, and everyone went remote.

The only other "exception" is my current job, which I've had for almost 12 years. We've never had office space anywhere, so it's been 100% remote EXCEPT that early on, we did a lot of travel to client sites.

We haven't really done that much AT ALL since about 2010/2011, owing to the greater acceptance of remote presence/screensharing tools, and that's been awesome. I haven't seen my boss in a year. I have coworkers I talk to (skype/voice/email) daily that I have never met in the flesh, because they're in other cities.

For us, this has worked VERY WELL. We all mostly work a normal day for our timezone, though obviously sometimes there are extended hours.

The only downside for us that I can really see is that we can't really hire fresh or inexperienced devs. There's no water cooler. You can't go sit with $senior_dev_guy for a day to get a feel for things, or learn the stack, or whatever, so we tend to only hire midcareer or later folks. OTOH, we also have absurdly low turnover, which means hiring doesn't come up THAT much anyway.
It would be an amazing business, if in fact it was tesla owners pressing a button on cars they own and letting it make some money for them as a robotaxi. The fact that even that declaration that Musk sees that happening in 2020 didn't move the needle for Tesla stock shows how little the market believes it's actually coming imo.
According to that page, it's only 2-10% of cases that police were able to determine that no crime had been committed. Given how difficult it is to disprove a sexual assault, the number of false accusations must be must higher. Consider also that those were just the cases that the accuser felt so confident in their ability to frame their victim that they reported it to the police instead of merely slandering their target to HR or via social media or similar.
This would be cool if it linked with Pocket. I like to book mark articles for later viewing on desktop.
On Mentoring
Great documentary on this, free to watch. [0]

[0] https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dome/
Is not a ridesharing company the one who sets and manipulates the prices?
“That's the first thing I think about when I see new cars with their fancy displays. How will this look and perform in five years? In ten?”

I wonder about the same. I think there is a good chance that cars will go the way of the computer where it’s almost inconceivable to use something that’s ten years old. So people may buy cars every five years and used cars will be recycled instead of being sold as used cars.
That’s like 99% of software these days. So frustrating.
> They pushed for Gnome to have a hard dependency on it so that everyone would be _forced_ to use it instead of just letting it be accepted by merits.

We should standardize on the interfaces, avoiding hard dependencies. There is dbus for that.
Average starting salary for CS undergrads today is $57,000. He did say "entry level dev gig".

If you live alone in a major city, have student loans, and don't have great healthcare benefits from your employer, you'd be lucky to save much of anything on that salary. Banking $10k is a pipe dream.
Let's have it try to commute in boston during a noreaster before we call it safe.
I agree with you on that one. It is certainly an advantage, if the interface to manage aspects of different Linux distributions is the same.
SpaceX is vertical integration taken literally.
That assumes machines will not consume goods.
It's a mercy. Nobody wants the cat.
Confidence comes with competence. Talking to others gets easier the more you do it, so take some initiative to get out of your comfort zone. Breathe deeply and bear in mind that whatever you might deem "awkward" is usually blown out of proportion from your perspective. If others hang out with you, they like you fine. Your inner voice is much, much harsher.

Would do wonders to join a sport also.

I've been the awkward introverted socially anxious guy, from me teens through early 20s. Being a hermit won't do you any favors. In school, capitalize on opportunities to go out with others, do fun activities, etc.

The solution to better socializing is socializing. Let yourself make mistakes. They will quickly dwindle in occurrence.
Agree with the cork part. Looks pretty new and loose.

Tradescantia is not growth from seeds, so I assume also that the first seeds had died or survived for some years and Tradescantia was added later, maybe in 1972.
State of the Port (VMS boots on x86-64)
I've struggled with self confidence my entire life. In an effort to change and grow I've read all the major self help books, developed a serious meditation habit, and even turned to potent psychedelics.

The only thing that I found that actually works, however, is internal family systems therapy. Because of IFS (and my therapist) I now know what it's like to be genuinely confident, rather than fighting or pretending to be.
> The quote "software is eating the world" has to do with the replacement of human beings

No, it was made by Marc Andreessen in reference to how software companies were taking over. It had nothing to do with replacement of humans.

https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...

The OP's comments are spot on IMO.

Tesla is presenting a new model for automobiles where your car isn't outdated every year by a new trim design or every 5-7 years by a generational uplift. Instead your car evolves as you own it and enhancements are made incrementally both to the software and hardware rather than being held back for annual or generational releases.

In the less than 6 months I've had my Tesla Model 3 it has had software updates to:

- improve braking performance

- increase surpercharger performance

- increase power output, speed, and acceleration

- increase range

- enhanced automatic electronic braking

- enhanced lane departure warnings

- add dashcam recording capabilities

- add deterrence, video monitoring, and logging security features

- add climate control management for pets

With a traditional car company all of those things would be added incrementally in subsequent years or not at all.

*edited for clarity.
Just use docker.
What's the percentage of accusations in the workplace that turn out to be unsubstantiated? And what percentage of those result in any consequence for the reportee rather than the reporter?

Most workplaces don't feature many accusations of rape, real or false, so a 2% rate for all of life doesn't seem particularly relevant.
By leveraging the supply controls, which are explicitly theirs to use to communicate willingness to take on work, in a two-sided market where you're not allowed to directly set prices? Please substantiate how that is fraudulent.

If Lyft and Uber allowed direct pricing, this wouldn't happen. Drivers would set the price they're willing to work for. Instead, drivers--who, once more for emphasis, are supposed to use price fluctuations as incentive or disincentive for working, that's what "surge pricing" was in the first place--only have one message that they can send: "nope, not at that price".

Or they can be obligated to work cheap because rich people demand their labor.

Hrm. I think I now understand where the claim of "fraud" comes from.
The ntp and dns are easy to replace, they're not part of the actual systemd binary. Fedora from what I remember, doesn't even enable systemds ntp service on Workstation.

Logging is a bit different, but you can tell journald to use syslog.