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the original meaning of naive is natural, I suppose that monopolies are unnatural and as such fall outside the normal argumentation about business quality.

Furthermore I also thought I put in enough qualifiers in my statement that I did not have to defend it as being my overarching philosophy regarding every situation it might possibly be applied to. After I wrote the preceding sentence I proceeded to write another 3 paragraphs until I realized that I was actually writing a bad version of an essay on aesthetics and requirements for being able to speak with critical insight, so I erased those paragraphs and here we are.
> As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything.

That part is just a terrible attempt by the journalist to summarize the theoretical background of the patent's (rather ludicrous) claims in a popular form. The polarization they're talking about is just the vacuum polarization in the standard QED sense. The funny stuff starts when the patent assumes that you can automagically generate fields close to or over the Schwinger limit.

As a fellow physics PhD, I recommend reading the actual patent for comic relief [1]. It has no other use as far as I can tell.

[1] https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/de/4c/43/62c585c...
(Note: my replies below assume a sane situation at a FANG company with good management.)

#define MM middle manager

> But they are never in any meetings

Do you mean they are never in any meetings that you are in, or do you mean that you have access to their calendars and can see that they have no meetings at all?

I have never seen a MM who's calendar isn't back-to-back meetings all day every day. Their job is basically 100% talking to people, whether that's face-to-face or via email or whatever. Note that depending on how senior they are, their calendar may be made private, since the names of their meetings and who they're meeting with might be sensitive ("Sync about possible layoffs" would be a really bad meeting name to leak).

A large number of these meetings are (1) people trying to influence the MM (i.e. get them to approve something) and (2) the MM trying to influence other people (i.e. get a partner team to do something, or get their boss to approve something).

> And they don't seem to affect the direction of projects in any way

The fact that your team exists and is staffed by N people was an MM's decision at some point. It may have been someone else who had the idea to create your team, but they had to make their case to an MM and convince them that it was worth staffing.

Has your team ever grown, i.e. gotten a slot for one more person? If so, an MM made the final decision that it was worth allocating another person.

MMs spend as much time managing "up" as "down". An MM's boss is asking them to justify why the company has 100 people working on X. To do this, the MM has to demonstrate that there is an important business problem to sole, and present a convincing strategy to solve it that requires 100 people to execute.

If your basic experience on the team doesn't seem to be directly influenced by MMs on a regular basis, that may just indicate that you're in a stable part of the org solving a clear business problem and the MM is satisfied that you are executing. You would see an MM's influence by (big) changes in team priorities, project direction, reorgs of your team, etc.
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Agree with everything you wrote, with the possible exception of referring to the stick-holder in the AF447 crash as a "pilot".
Apple - like every commercial vendor - is responsible for their products and services whether or not they use open source software and open protocols to implement them. Every service on the internet relies on open standards, it doesn't change their liability.
Could also be a 3 yr retention bonus or an earn out.
Isn't it more like functional backend with no UI?
Scale API seems like a fairly simple product (technically wise), however, they have presented a better UI for self-driving car companies to annotate their training data.
That's why you want devs who actually care about the business. Often a tough sell for management who do not expect feedback/collaboration from development; and that's also a skill that devs actually have to practice to get good at, else if you just ask them they give self-interested answers (cutting features etc..)
Since I learned about the Baader–Meinhof effect, I kept incurring into instances of it, like now: I'm just reading this book
I mostly belly breathe and have little upper chest expansion at rest. This caused some consternation during my test.
I have to run out the door but am going to write a more substantial reply later. I'm sure you have better things to do than listen to the complaints of some lunatic on the internet, but I think these things have genuine merit and may be more important (and perhaps simpler to improve) than you see, so hopefully you can check back later if even out of curiosity. Thanks...
The article tells us the non-Atari game retained a damning Morse message in its ROM. From another source[1] (unverified), this may be the ROM data the article refers to:

.BYTE 2, 0BB, 5A, 30 (where 0 is dot and 1 is dash and nothing for a space)
.BYTE 5F, 0EE, 7D, 0A8 ; Morse code for "COPYRIGHT 1980 ATARI"

[1] https://www.binarni.net/2013/07/centipede/

With all the ROM images floating around in the MAME/retro scene, someone can probably verify this.
Out of curiosity, which is more obscure: OCaml or Rust?
> it doesn’t detract from BER being relatively inexpensive compared to other airport projects

But it does incorrectly describe BER as a "brand new airport", where the reality is: "The northern runway of BER is the southern runway of the old Schönefeld Airport and has been in use since the 1960s." (Wikipedia) and also it's a single terminal. At this point, it's then very similar to the Heathrow project in what's being delivered, except for the added context I gave.
> Also, the train station is nowhere near the airport, especially for the RB9 express train which is the furthest platform.

It's less than 500m to the terminal A.

If one's really bothered by this (d'oh), they can take the U7+bus, which ends in front of terminal A (in addition to being much more frequent).
Thats interesting, it feels like that upper level you mention are more like individual contributors, except optimising very slow responding systems indirectly through policies.
I wrote a few game cartridges for the Atari 400/800 computers when I was there in the early 80s. We were told to include a specific bit pattern, I think it was 5 or 8 bytes long, somewhere in our code. The idea was that the presence of a non-functional, unique bit pattern was going to be very difficult for a defendant to explain in court, since pirates mostly just copied ROMs and made minimal changes to obvious bitmaps and strings. Even if they found the mysterious bit pattern and were clever enough to (say) zero it out, they'd have to explain why most of a ROM was identical except for visible assets and that one set of bytes with no function ("What are these bytes for? Oh, you don't know? Let us show you...")

We weren't told what the pattern meant. I played with it for a couple of hours once; I knew it wasn't executable 6502 code or simple logical bit operation (NOT, reverse bits, etc.) of anything obvious. Morse code makes sense now.

Some coinop machines (Tempest, for sure) used character encodings so that the visible copyright messages were also executable code; changing the message, even slightly, would crash or have unpredictable behavior. In the case of Tempest, when the "final" ROMs were released to manufacturing, the dev team went on vacation while production ramped up. Some lawyer decided that the copyright message had to change, so they patched the ROM on the factory floor. Unfortunately this modification didn't lead to an immediate crash, but opened up a hole where the contents of the score line could do things like give you 100 extra lives (e.g., die with the low digits of your score being "50" and you'd be able to play for free for hours).
Tell HN: Forget .io, Iceland's .is extension is here
Iceland owns the .is domain and recently (April) opened it up for registering from anywhere. I was surprised to see how wide open it still is, with only 64k domains taken. There are even a bunch of 3 letter words still available.

With .io domains getting squatted left and right, .is seems like a good alternative.

NameCheap has them for $33: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/cctld/is/
Most people want to use the proprietary drivers, because nouveau's performance is prohibitively low for gaming. And that only supports switching GPUs with a reboot.

It does work, but it's not very nice, which is what we are upset about.
What is are examples of cuisines that use no oils?
Adding technology to a social problem isn't going to fix it.
These books usually describe a very idealized version of the real world. I think the only way to find out what mid level managers do is to ask them or ideally to shadow them for a few days.

I think shadowing other roles would generally be very beneficial in a lot of companies so people understand each other better. I have had a lot of occasions where I basically thought that some role is useless until I worked with them and found out what they have to put up with the whole day.
One thing that stuck with me when I was taking a graduate course on network protocol design as an undergrad was overhearing the lamentations of a computer engineering student over having to deal the the ethics part of the curriculum, and how it was a waste of time.

I heard this mind, as someone who spent quite a bit of time in the Philosophy department. I had no idea that sentiment would be as widespread as the last few decades have made it obvious that it is.
"gcloud compute ssh instance-name" and "kubectl exec ..." with IAM

I am still surprised that AWS has not created the same experience as GCP. the instance connect from the co-comment is an improvement, but requires install on each server and client, plus an extra step when you want to connect.
At least 57 e-scooters and bikes found at the bottom of Portland river
My favorite line from slashdot "...and vultures like us to write up about"
This article explains everything. Holy cow.
"Rabin, the former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature."

Doesn't exactly make me confident in flying in their planes...
If you always give the contract to the company that offers the lowest price, don't be surprised that it eventually gets too low to cover the real costs.

80k for a project that likely consists of months of filing for permits, coordinating tens of people and machines? Sounds like a joke.
all you who voted me down, none of you read the article i'm guessing
Really? That's interesting.

I don't have that experience running Rails on Windows. Having said that, I do use thin for my development instance, so maybe that's why.
The context is good, but fwiw here's the direct link to the calculator: http://www.kevinrmcelwee.ml/scrabble_luck/
Can you share more of your experience?

Mine tends to be like the OP. For example, suppose a company has a new product and everyone believes there is a lot of opportunity with new product. So then each team figured out a strategy on how to approach said product independently
-product managers build new features and iterate
-marketers start launching campaigns to drive adoption and engagement
-data science is building new models to find the best customers for
-customer support is trying to figure out what the hell new product is and what all these complaints are referencing

Etc

Depending on the product / size there may be some self organizing collaboration but many times not, or certain teams are left out unconciously. At least one reason is that each team doesn’t yet trust other teams to help set their strategy - not maliciously but just from a lack of evidence. If you are trying to maximize impact the intuitive thing is to work out what you can contribute and ask for what you need from other teams vs developing a joint strategy / approach. Collaboration takes time with an unknown return. Now if you happen to know the other teams and already have worked a lot together you are more likely to reach out from the start.

It’s the senior managers / directors that are calling out that teams should be talking with each other sooner than later, getting buy in, etc.
Analogy breaks down because “horses” are just as smart as the “drivers” (sometimes more and sometimes less). Sometimes the horses work their way up to be drivers because of luck and drive. Sometimes the drivers were born into it because they went to posh boarding school.
There is a community Chromium port to PPC Linux[1]. Modern PPC Linux distros should have it in their repositories. So far Google has not accepted the patches to enable PPC support upstream[2].

[1] https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Chromium

[2] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...
Then I don't understand your comment. What's the irony in there ? Or do you mean humor instead of irony / is it not irony at all ?
> It's just that they taste good.

I don't know about others, but I don't really care about the taste of oil. My main use of oil is to lubricate so food doesn't stick to pans (non-stick coating doesn't completely eliminate this need) and also to penetrate food and aid in its thorough cooking.

I can live without oil, but, for example, that means I cannot make fried eggs, scrambled eggs, or omelettes. I can only think of making hard-boiled eggs, or poached eggs. Not using oil really seems to limit options.

Also, I don't think this is a problem limited to oil. It's probably a problem with most parts of our food sourcing.

There's also lots to be heard on the animal cruelty done to chickens in the interest of efficiency and bringing down costs for the production of eggs and chicken meat. For example, they're supposedly put in cages too small to stretch, and their beaks are broken to avoid them killing each other out of desperation[1]. From the source I referenced:

> Since birds crowded like this commonly go mad and peck one another to death, these birds were debeaked, a practice whereby workers grab baby chicks in one hand and thrust their beaks between hot, steaming blades. Workers cut off anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of chicks’ beaks while they’re fully conscious. The industry calls this “trimming their beaks.” But slicing chickens’ beaks off with a heated blade or a scissor device, as is frequently done, is not like trimming your nails. Birds’ beaks are sensitive, highly innervated and able to feel pain and other sensations. It would be like having your toes cut off without anesthesia. Not only do chickens rely on their beaks for many functions, having their beaks severed causes them immense, acute, and, often, lifelong pain.

Maybe I should just stop eating eggs altogether.

Really, maybe I should just go vegan.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2019/04/20/i-studied-factory-farms-for...
Even with ASOP it tends to be more of a code dump than an open source development process. If you're an OEM you get to see it earlier in development (and get to dump your own OEM patches in there) but for most people the actual development is done behind closed doors.
Please don't be snarky here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Stop with the conspiracy theories and your tinfoil hat
I could see myself using Fuchsia IFF we get the GNU userland and full Posix (including all the optional parts that Linux currently implements) on top of it. Closed drivers are a concession that doesn't sound too bad as long as the userland is proper GNU.

On the other hand, the mere existence of Fuchsia might lead to its best ideas being reimplemented in Linux itself, which would be a win as well.
People in the industry would instantly recognize that there are many layers to a big system and some are less critical than others. There is no proof here that the contractor touched any critical flight system software.

But this is written for a general audience who are unable to tell the difference. The piece rides on the narrative that Boeing was careless, which may be true overall wrt 737MAX, but not necessarily in the aspect the article is premised on. Hence, clickbait.
I don't think they could improve I/O speed without modifying NTFS itself (unlikely).
This new approach is certainly easier to maintain and develop
> The biggest benefit to dropping TLS 1.0 and 1.1 is that modern AEAD ciphers are only supported by TLS 1.2 and above.

Great. And that's a good reason to use a client that support 1.2. But what's so bad about keeping 1.0 and 1.1 around?

If I'm running a client that only supports <1.2, how does mandating only 1.2+ help me? If a client supports 1.2+, then it will use it anyway.

I understand supporting 1.2+, and everyone should have their server offer it. But what's the advantage of dropping 1.0 and 1.1? I'm just leaving those folks are may be stuck with older clients twisting in the wind with no service whatsoever.
I remember reading an article about the MAX fiasco that stated something about how all software engineers working in aeronautics could be assumed to be senior and extremely capable. I wondered how they could be so sure, with companies like IBM kicking out seniors (in both senses of the term) to lower costs, the rise of “code schools,” and the lure of outsourcing. Not surprised to read this at all.

At least in other industries cost-cutting just kills the business instead of killing actual human beings.
Fascinating that the author starts an article on the danger of monopolization with Bell Labs as an icon of American innovation, as the reason Bell Labs existed was Bell's monopoly of the American telephone system. I really wish he had addressed that, especially as it suggests that a well regulated monopoly may be desirable.

I also wish he'd addressed that the barriers to entry in many of these areas are extremely high, and not just for monopolistic reasons - There is an analogue to Moores law (I can't remember the name) that states that the cost of a semiconductor fab facility doubles roughly at the pace semiconductors shrink. Where this is happening (and its been happening in defense aerospace for a long time), there is a natural trend toward consolidation because the payoff is too low to up another facility or line.

Overall an amazing article though.
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Financial management has received a big bonus for optimizing processes and saving budget.
No it's the chips, these machines didn't exactly have the most user friendly heat dissipation design, on both models the CPU heat conducted straight through to the top case. maybe not cook an egg very fast but uncomfortable to touch for more than a second... maybe 1 EPH (one egg per hour) :)
Anyone that has ever worked with outsourced developers knows the truth of this.

If you give them a spec or requirements, they will do exactly what that thing says. Even including the typos or grammatical errors.

I don’t blame them. They have no incentive to care beyond this type of business transaction.

But applying this model to anything other than vaporware is terrifying.
I was thinking of set-it-and-forget-it backup systems as the antipattern, as opposed to e.g. designs that regularly force the "backup" system into active use under controlled circumstances. The battery connector represents sort of a backup of the backup though, so it may not be a good example of what I was thinking of.
> This kind of thing used to be seen as an important part of peacefully reabsorbing and reconciling the South with the rest of the nation. It strikes me as incredibly foolish to renege on this deal today ....

Except the South reneged on the deal almost as soon as the war ended, violently suppressing and oppressing the formerly-enslaved.
Yeah, those other issues are real and they suck, especially when one uses the most up-to-date software and they still happen. Point taken.
> The issue is simply that accurate estimation cannot be done for complex projects

I do not think so. There are plenty of previous examples with enough similarities to estimate costs to +/- 20% at most, usually better.

A bigger problem may be that quoting wildly optimistic price is more likely to get a public project started, even though most parties understand that the actual budget and time will be very different. But as long as the project takes a long time those who gave original estimates / started execution have plenty of chances to move away. And then "well, when I was running it, things were different" is a decent defense.
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More discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20309052
I am concerned that desensitizing the future generations to constant surveillance could have bad consequences down the line, when people suddenly become ok with living in a 1984 type environment because that's all they know through their formative/school years.

But yeah some kind of unobtrusive bodycam style system for forensic purposes only (no access for parents) seems a reasonable middle ground.
Paul Stamets (Mycologist) on Mushrooms, Saving Bees, Smallpox
I just picked up a G4 iBook and am grateful for TenFourFox. Combined with uBlock Origin legacy builds, it’s actually usable for some modern sites, which is pretty impressive.
Classics Mac OS isn’t based on NeXTSTEP; Mac OS X is, and the Mach kernel in particular is much older than Linux. It takes like thirty seconds of googling to get your history straight.
Presumably the JS's regex engine is implemented in C?

Can't believe the .NET implementation is so slow.
Tragic as it is I feel this piece illustrates the idea of bourgeois sentimentalism quite well.[0]

Some animals get a ton of support and money thrown at them while less marketable animals tend to produce no reaction when treated horrifically.

Whenever there is a tension between a group of poor locals and first world emotional interest around ecological conservation, the problem is that the locals can sense quite clearly (as the father does at the end of the piece) how little their lives are valued compared to that of animals. You can have a non-human species get a Swiss surgeon flown in, while they would never experience this level of medical care of attention themselves.

I'm certainly not condoning the horrific actions towards those animals, but underneath that tragedy there is a bigger issue at hand and a big reason why certain ecological projects fail due to zero interest in incentivizing locals. The best conservation programs tend to involve the entire community.

In the end you have frustrated first worlders wondering why the locals won't cooperate and do as they are told, even though the reason for this lack of interest is precisely the barely concealed contempt that emanates towards them. Sending trash in the guise of recycling, pollution and outsourcing negative externalities their way such as the palm oil industry while forbidding them from doing whatever might have a negative externality on first worlders.

[0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1881/12/25.htm
I've done some of these types of things using like an Intel NUC and either a couple of large screen LCD's or a high resolution projector. Just depends on budget and needs.

Not sure what the magnets are doing, or representing but a low end Intel NUC can be had for $200-300 then it is just figuring out LCD's and the software. Even cheaper 1080p TV's can be had for $200-300 for pretty large TV's. The NUC also has HDMI so it is easy to connect.
That wasn't an argument... It was an expression of confusion as to why the author would say what they said.
but the same is true for most proprietary formats... which is why I was hoping for web apps to catch ON more