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> there have been complaints in the high-tech community that software documentation is hampering competitiveness
Oh yeah they put stuff like that stuff on BOGO all the time, which just shows how much they're marking up the normal price if they can give you a free one and still make money.
then dont live in a city.
Sorry, to clarify, I’m surprised my per-store calculation isn’t higher for WF/TJ. As you point out, the food aisles at CVS are minimal versus an entire store.
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Nearly the same happened in France years ago : https://www.thelocal.fr/20130130/doctors-jailed-over-cancer-...
In my field, we use this kind of example to tell people that testing sucks or is not enough and that we need to formally/mathematically prove that software is free of bugs for critical systems.
To do that, you would need to change the law first, and then go after FB.

Given the fact that what happens appears to be us going after tech firms under current law, I wouldn't hold out much hope for needed changes in the legal environment. For some reason, (money), people just don't want to do that.
How many pounds of helium did it take to float the baby Trump blimp?
GitHub, no - I don’t see how that would work. But LinkedIn may have fit nicely but it would have been a miracle if that deal was approved.
"Btw, it isn't society subsidising Tesla, its GM and Fiat Crysler customers. Or are you talking about tax credits?"
The term "concentration camp" is very inappropriate here.
Strangely enough I pasted 'Introducing Erasure Quant' into the title field, and HN shortened it to 'Erasure Quant'.
NSA probably have full access to the backend of this service
It's strange how the "Jack of all trades" phrase changed over time. The original phrase was:

"Jack of all traits,

Master of none,

Still better than a master of one"

The original phrase is much more against specialisation, however omitting the last two lines makes it almost belittle generalization... The meaning of the phrase has basically reversed over the years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_...
Try to find the one that confirms that. I did and failed.
This seemed like an extraordinary claim to me, so I tracked down an analysis by Consumer Checkbook for the Boston area. The basket of goods they examined cost over 20% more at Whole Foods than at e.g. Stop and Shop, and over 50% more than at Market Basket.

https://www.checkbook.org/boston-area/supermarkets/articles/...
This year Russia introduced new taxes and that worsened the already bad economic situation. Europe doesn't produce nearly the same amount of innovation and startups as US, most likely because of higher taxes on business. Because taxes in US are not higher, people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk can spend their money on things they find important instead of all that money being handled by the few people in the government.

I am not saying that the tax should be 0% as governments provide some useful services, but 50% is way too much to buy a bundle of services you can't pick from. The only way to find a better balance is to be able to experiment with different ways of organizing government, and seasteading could help with this.
Have you ever heard the word anecdotal?

Have you ever heard the word data?

You are trying to argue data that has been gathered meticulously with an anecdote.

If I need to explain more, I'm afraid we won't be able to communicate.
Flip this perspective.

Zuckerberg has iron-clad control of FB.

He could unilaterally decide that quarterly profits, hell, any profits, do not matter and there is nothing anyone could do.

Keep that in mind when it's discussed that FB can't really do anything about the problems it has spawned because it is part of the financial system and governed by Wall Street.

No, it is governed by Mark Zuckerberg and he can do whatever he wants. Every last dark pattern and shady thing they are pushing for with engagement, ultimately, he and he alone is is responsible for and condones.

Every other CEO on the planet has the "but the quarterly earnings" boogeyman to fall back on as a scapegoat for their malfeasance. Zuckerberg, due to his shrewd engineering of stock classes, does not and we should do well to remember that.
Wawa is a chain of large convenience stores, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic region. They typically have a sandwich counter inside, which I think is most comparable to having an in-store Subway.

Ask someone from Pennsylvania or New Jersey what they think of Wawa. In my experience, their eyes generally light up and they start raving in a way that most people don't talk about a gas station convenience store.
I agree. They are sitting on more and more data they will be very tempted to use if they can’t hit their growth rates in the future. It would be better if no single entity had that much data.
I got in an argument with a friend (a mechanical/electrical engineer) who knew about bayesian statistics. My other friend, a PhD in statistics, whom I had many discussions about because both personal interest and work interests, had supplied me with my modicum of statics knowledge.

My engineer friend called my PhD friend a "frequentist", like it was a dirty word, despite only having one, maybe two, classes in college about bayesian math/statistics/whatever (my ignorance).

This quote jumped out at me in the article:

"I wanted to write a book on Bayesian statistics that really anyone could pick up and use to gain real intuitions for how to think statistically and solve real problems using statistics."

In the context of the statement, it sounds like he is claimin any non-bayesian statistics is useless (or less valuable/reliable at best) than other forms of statistical analysis?
I know, that is why I said that everything is normal.

I am in complete agreement that all of those examples make Donald Trump appear quite normal.

This is because Donald Trump is an ordinary president in a very normal way.
That would be unfortunate, and would probably require /bin/bash to be a symlink to either /bin/zsh or /bin/sh to prevent many scripts from failing. For portability reasons, I always use #!/bin/sh unless I actually use some bash feature(s), but a lot of scripts explicitly invoke bash even when they don't have to.
You could even argue that the Dunning-Kruger effect applies MORE to specialists than generalists, as generalists are already approaching problems as if they don't have as much experience as a specialist and are more likely to research and learn as part of the problem solving process instead of assume that they are already experts at this and make a mistake.
It is my guess that the majority of those who raise concerns already have communication access, specifically high speed internet access, provided by other means. I would further guess that they are considering the cost to themselves and not the gains to others. Would they be willing to pay the price to provide internet access by other means to those who would be served by these satellites, or are they hoping that those who don't have it will continue to be able to do without?
That would violate GPLv3, wouldn't it?
Orbital telescopes are much better suited for this.
That's not the "full saying". It's an alternative, in my experience far less common, version of the one used by the author.
Last night (1900GMT), I’m sure we saw a Dragon capsule a few degrees ahead of the ISS as it went overhead. That’s with the naked eye.

Anyone know what the apparent magnitude of ISS, Dragon, and Star Link would be?
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The end result might be privacy, but the demand is for bypassing content blocking. Your average user of a VPN doesn't care if it prevents people from identifying them, all they care about is if it lets them watch The Office from wherever they are.
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>Please brush and floss. There's no downside.

I wouldn't go as far as to say there's NO downside. Of course this makes me sound like a kook, but in the interest of full transparency: If you are using fluoridated toothpaste there are side effects of the fluoride, not to mention the other synthetic chemicals in there like sulfates that mess with your gut - and Oral-B Glide floss is made with teflon-like substances (PFAS) that accumulate in your body and cause problems.
>> The combination of these means that screws work themselves loose over time, often wearing the threads out of the wood.

There are also dramatic differences between woods. Even if you use the same wood from the same tree, glues can impact moisture absorption rates. The only totally stable joints are those that don't use either fasteners or glues, the sort of stuff used to build Japanese temples, but these are complex and bulky. There is no perfect joint short of growing a tree in the shape you want.
NordVPN is one of the ugliest in the on its own shady VPN business. They did their best to slowly make the Tesonet scandal slide away. Here on HN some users provided extensive insights about their connections with the Lithuanian data mining company and convincingly demonstrated that NordVPN must be the most evil VPN honeypot and deceiver.
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Again, no one mentioned the word free.

Adults talk about other adults who have mental health issues and who cost society more money now than it would to house them.

We talk about directing existing resources.

We talk about data and studies.

I'm afraid you are making points based on things you are just pulling out of your... head - or you can prove me wrong and point me to a study that backs up what you said, explaining the significant percentage (it has to be since you are bringing it up) of homeless who feel the way you portray. I'll be glad to issue a retraction if you do.

I previously suggested to you a little compassion. I think a little thinking and research would also do you well. Maybe then you could formulate a cohesive argument without using some extreme 1% example to try and prove that 99% of the problem is not addressable.
Can anyone recommend any good woodworking books, preferably one that is friendly to beginners.
Seriously, I think this is actually a severe case of self-deception to cope with the realities of having to work in a modern environment. Or, for the other example, dying.

That said, people who get bored are difficult to be with in my opinion. Cannot remember that last time being bored. You always have the option to spam your unqualified opinion on HN or something, there is so much potential stuff to do that a lifetime probably wouldn't be enough.
Yes, I was absolutely aware of the irony of that while writing my original comment.
You do though. Weakness of theories is only relevant compared to each other, we use the best we currently have.
There's always a downside: the time lost. Over a year we loose 10+ hours on that.
Some Linux distributions already use "dash" instead of "bash", though dash is much more compatible.

Edit: debian does it. More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dash
Here's the recent EconTalk episode with the author.

http://www.econtalk.org/david-epstein-on-mastery-specializat...
I don't think the fields and people used as examples for the point are well chosen.

Sports is very unique because it is a lot more physical than intellectual compared to just about anything else. Meaning there are completely different aspects at play when it comes to being top brass.

Prominence in arts and music seems to only be loosely correlated to the raw skill itself. Cue everyone's favorite meme about modern paintings which are just lines.

This means for the average reader this seems not really relevant at all, because there is no proof you can project anything from these people right and wrongdoings to "normal" careers. How to become a top notch wind turbine mechanic? How can I become "that embedded systems guy"? Until someone got more on that, I'm sticking to the 10000 hour thing with a breath and depth that feels right to me...
"Not Facebook's problem at all"

I didn't say it was.

What's the easyness threshold where it becomes applicable?

I'm sure theres a fair few pension holders that would find it very difficult to avoid Facebook.
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Do businesses have to sell every aspect of your life to make money? Less than 10-15 years ago, they did not (not to this degree), and they survived just fine. Go back further and you'll find business made plenty of money with less and less of this practice.

As a society, we're able to establish laws and protections against trends where capitalism goes awry. We banned lead usage in products like paints and set regulations to protect dumping anything and eveverything into rivers (hey its cheap).

Privacy may be no different and if market forces are somehow perpetuating it to remain competitive, we as a society need to intervene in a regulatory fashion and redirect businesses to pursue other approaches to increasing revenue and implementing cost saving mechanisms.
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Websites track iPhone users too. Is that also Apple’s fault?
Would it be a difficult challenge to develop a imaging process that ignores such fast movements of a object?

Musk said they would try to avoid impact, making such an software product and releasing it for free would be a great step in that direction. I imagine, also, that good night shots are long exposures or multiple long exposures.
While I wouldn't recommend a gingery lathe, I don't see any reason to ignore an injection molding machine design that is small, known working, and simple to the point of being obvious. You can certainly build one faster than you could find a castoff on Craigslist, and unless your shop is quite large you may wish you'd built the smaller machine even once you got your used industrial one working.
Having known Will when I lived in Reno I'm certain your focus should be on "anyone could pick up and use" and not any statement about the usefulness of other approaches. The Will I know is fundamentally about teaching things in very easy to understand ways, and curious about all approaches to solving a problem.
You're right that this was obvious, but I think the people actually guiding this vote did read the prospectus. It's just random armchair commentators who are outraged that this outcome is unfair.

This vote was proposed by Trillium Asset Management, an activist investment group. They hold $7M of Facebook stock, and the group they lead to bring the ouster vote appear to control around $3B. These are people who knew what they were investing in, and decided to bring this vote to put pressure on Facebook, not in a deluded hope that it would pass. What's more, a bunch of the outside investors seem to want more leverage without wanting Zuckerberg out - there's a 15-point gap between "voted for a new chair" and "voted to end dual class stock".

More broadly, this is just a round of the kind of corporate advertising via news that PG called the 'submarine' (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html). Trillium called a vote that couldn't pass, and was on hand to provide a pithy closing quote to Business Insider's reporter. BoingBoing is running the story with a narrative of fighting the evil tech billionaires, never mind that Doctorow normally hates the idea of companies "disciplined by shareholder choices". Meanwhile, Trillium's website posted the story "Trillium's Ongoing Pressure on Facebook Governance in the News" - this is a conscious and apparently quite effective effort to create a "Zuckerberg ignores his shareholders" narrative.
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I wonder about the increasing use of x-rays in non-medical applications. Industrial applications, or even with the public- like the backscatter machines that TSA and police forces use. Therac-25 seems to be the only story we have where something went wrong - but what are the chances a bad thing could happen, or already happened, in another machine?

TSA employees are not permitted to wear dosimeters[1], which makes it hard to detect these things. Scientific American, the most established magazine in the US, is among respected bodies that have recommended dosimeters for accountability reasons.[2]

There are also extremely infrequent (and sometimes rigged) studies done on the equipment, and they often find dangerous conditions. For example:

>Doses for some of the baggage screeners exceeded the maximum dose for the public.... Some EDS machines were not well maintained (i.e., they had bent curtain rods and missing curtain flaps).... Most EDS machines emitted low levels of radiation; a few exceeded regulatory limits.[2]

[1]https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2011/06/30/tsa-cancer-cluster-myth-... [2]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/airport-screeners... [3]https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2003-0206-3067.pd...
The satellites are hard to spot already, the satellites still haven't been fully risen to their orbits, the solar arrays presumably aren't yet tracking the sun because they need to be oriented to point the engine in the right direction. Any complaints about this constellation seem either late (completely hypothetical and should been raised years ago when approval was sought from the FCC) or early (based on real world data that doesn't yet exist).

The article is substantially more sensational than the IAU letter is is based on:

https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann19035/
So true. It’s the feeling of, “the more I learn the more I realize I don’t know.”
Yes, there's a trade-off. Note, I didn't say Google Docs is better for every use case. I said it's better "If you use documents and spreadsheets as tools for collaboration".

The key difference I'm talking about is between:

A. Writing a document, and sending a version of that document to one or more other people, so that they can do something with it. (This might involve sending you back feedback or suggestions.)

B. Sharing a link to a 'living' document, with which people can interact in different ways (comment, participate in comment threads, add change suggestions, accept/decline changes).

In my experience, B is much harder to achieve, and unlikely to happen organically, if you use Microsoft Office.

Has anyone here witnessed an organisation that uses Microsoft Office, and where significant progress is made on people's thinking, through their online collaboration on docs/sheets?
whether you made it or not depends on what you want. you clearly have the capacity go whatever direction you prefer, so don't judge yourself based on other people's opinions. obviously you can't have everything at the same time, but the question is exactly this one: if you had to choose, would you go in the same direction again? yeah, there's always the "what if I had done this...", but if you are satisfied with what you are doing now, then you are making it. maybe tomorrow you change your mind, but hey, that will be another day.
We only really need to send telescopes to space for observing the wavelengths that are otherwise absorbed by the atmosphere. Adaptive optics are almost unbelievably effective at cutting out the interference that the Hubble telescope is practically obsolete (and indeed obsolete, since it will be de-orbited soon).
You edited the comment, only the first sentence was there when I responded.
nvidia drivers (probably ati too) let you create custom resolutions. I got my monitor to do 1080p@120hz that way. (default supported is only 60hz)
I don't think many commenters got what I was trying to say. I'll have another go. Assuming you haven't done all the things you want to do in (say) 70 years, why would you say you need or deserve more time?
It would just mean that nobody would invest in the small number of companies designed to have an unaccountable board.
Yeah, and it's not taught in a heavily biased way like Tiananmen is taught to Communist Party members.

At least in my school, it was taught as unequivocally wrong and one of the biggest mistakes the US government ever made. The focus was on how painful it was for the families and how much they lost. And this was in a rural, conservative community.
Yeah I have very little sympathy for "powerless" shareholders of a multi-billion dollar company. How could they not know what they were getting into before investing?
I use pine (alpine) as my primary (and only) mailtool - and have since 1993.

Further, all rsync.net employees use pine for all rsync.net email. One interesting side-effect of this is that employee to employee emails are simply a local copy operation - they never traverse a network.

If you're looking into a mailtool that can run in the terminal (like this, or like mutt or (al)pine) I encourage you to consider running that mailtool on the actual machine with your mailspool. It allows your email to show up in your INBOX immediately and, as described above, allows for email interactions that don't leave the server ...
When it comes to privacy, default settings matter
the staff at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto had decided to... measure all doses of radiation in the beam and, in a fraction of a second, stop excessive doses before they could reach the patient

Astonishing this basic safety precaution was not already in use. Do modern devices do this?

I guess nobody thought about Murphy's Law.
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