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Tight feedback loops is precisely why I dislike the current devops culture.

For me, a tight feedback loop is cycling between repl/ide/compiler/tests as quickly as possible.

A loose feedback loop is pull requests, docker, CI, terraform. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate a fast, smooth 'release' pipeline. I just hate that it's now become the 'development' pipeline.
Whatever you do, do not order from gearbest. (See r/gearbest for the horror stories)
I actually find this less aesthetically pleasing. It removes the addition identity constant (0).

But that's subjective, who cares?
No, that hit has already been taken. The trump tariffs already added tariffs on the electronics components, hurting the US manufacturing of any electronics already.
Oh yeah? and did they get the Rhino's consent?
One Year Later – On Continuing and Concluding the Score to Celeste
Uncloseable popup obscures entire article - typical of HN posts.
One of my fondest memories from school was the biennial renovations of the dean of natural sciences' offices.
What would you do if someone wants to leave without swiping? Hold them there against their will? That would be eight million times more Orwellian than asking them to voluntarily install an app in exchange for some points.
Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
I chose a Lenovo Thinkpad with a Xeon processor, which you can't get in a MacBook Pro, which I also have 2 of, and from personal experience having owned and/or extensively used Dell Latitudes and Inspirons, a Toshiba Qosmio, and Surface laptops, my opinion is that the Lenovo is the best laptop available.
Had a colleague who went from near-obese to slim in about 6 months. One tip was to eat small amounts throughout the day, and stuff like bread that fills you up, not stuff like salad that will leave you feeling empty.

From my own experience I think being well attuned to your own appetite patterns is helpful, like you say. That's going to be hard if you have a volatile and busy lifestyle.
I recommend the food brand called Sportsman's Pride. If your dog has allergies choose the Chicken & Lamb blend. And of course jeg er norsk som en jævel. I feel sorry for everyone who has lost their dog.
> For a regulator body who's job it is to make sure medical products are safe and available. These comments, if true, lend credability that the FDA is more regulatory capture than actual useful regulation.

This feels like a typical right-wing playbook item: defund and de-scope government organizations until they can't be successful, then point at how bad they are, and privatize them or shut them down. Government agencies don't work unless you pay for them.
Yeah but the article and some others are making it seem like something unique to the FDA. It seems to be a global issue and they all need to improve their quality control and testing processes.
> Almost all concerns are about what could or would happen.

...which is why they now want to show the source code.

Where does this imply, that that implies, that backdoors have been planted in the past, from which you suppose a straw-man argument?
The article is slightly wrong. They opened with $19.53. It's currently hovering around $18.
it's difficult to manage the interests of the company vs the interests of the staff, it's clear here that both are not in line.You can't make everyone happy.
Don't know about Ubuntu because I use Debian.

docker.io calls their Debian images "official" and says they are maintained by two Debian developers.
People think welders regularly make six figures? Uhhh... I've been looking extensively at manufacturing positions lately because I'm helping a friend in his job search. All the welding ones I've seen in my area that have a salary listed pay around $28k-$38k (IIRC). Those jobs typically have benefits.

So much misinformation around anything to do with pay, don't believe anything you hear, I've heard some really outlandish numbers quoted from a variety of places. The BLS (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/) is probably the most accurate source of information you'll get. (Quoted in TFA)

>Its premise was that in rural Ohio, there was such a shortage of skilled tradespeople that employers were regularly hiring welders at salaries of $150,000 a year and up.

So because In-And-Out pays managers $160,000 a year [1] we should conclude that fast food is (in general) a highly paid occupation?

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/01/25/n...
Good! No longer will we be ripped off by funding shipping from China to the US with taxpayer money.

I actually think it would be better to stay in the agreement with most countries but slap a "transport fee" or creatively name it, on all the things coming from China, and use that to pay for the shipping cost. It should be looked at on a country by country basis, where countries we export more than import to get to send for free.
Every time every human exhales, they exhale carbon. That carbon comes from the food they eat.

If a person doesn't eat enough food, the carbon comes from stored fat cells.
Sirum (YC W15) gets unused pills to help cut costs on medication [video]
Huh? You would just overload the method then in another language. That is a lot safer than manually checking the argument type inside the method with the hack you proposed.

You're right if by "more expressive" you meant "not really safe at all". By using the types of hacks you proposed, you end up losing type information and safety guarantees. So why bother using Typescript in the first place then? Your example is the perfect argument against Typescript.

If you were referring to generic types, then there's no good reason to do that in the first place. Use a base type. Polymorphism 101. Anything else would be duck typing, and not safe.

There's no middle ground with type safety: it is either safe or not. And if there's a chance it's not, then you've lost and all of your efforts are pointless without resorting to manual checks.

And if you were somehow referring to C++ like templating (unlikely), then Typescript doesn't support that anyway.
I love that Xiph rant and have it bookmarked.

> Throw a BLE connection to a nice multicore GPU smartphone into the mix and we can start offloading really complicated processing to the thing in your pocket.

In principle yes, but latency is the nasty problem in this scenario. The wearer is still hearing some ambient sound in addition to processed sound, and if processing latency is greater than about 10 ms (IIRC) it drives the listener nuts and they won't wear the aid. The problem with smartphones is they have too many layers of general-purpose OS cruft sitting on top of the
A/D and D/A. I've read that IOS is better than Android in this regard, but for lowest latency you really need a dedicated realtime processor and a realtime OS.
I wouldn't think this would affect it at all. Any serious manufacturing operation will be moving freight, which isn't at issue here.
Helicopter repair to the Internet’s 'darkest reaches': 8chan owner Jim Watkins
"I get so much value from this, it's wrong that I have to pay for it."
Not something taught at the more advanced educational institutions in the US :)
By definition if person A pays person B for something, person A values that something. By definition a job is not meaningless or without value. David Graeber‘s “bullshit jobs” betrays an ignorance of basic economics, and an understanding of what a job is, what trade is, the fact that people have different preferences and values, etc.

The idea that people pay other people for no reason at all is completely divorced from reality.
We should make an effort to redefine how we use 'infrastructure-as-code', because right now Pulumi/Troposphere/Azure PowerShell and Ansible/Terraform/etc. are indistinguishable when viewed that way, despite the former being much more useful.

Infrastructure-as-verisonable-flat-configuration-files should not be thought of as infrastructure-as-code.
Its 50/50 in my experience..
It's because it ultimately does mean that.

I mean, sure, if we're being pedantic about it, devops is about the silos coming closer together, cross learning, culture and what have you, etc.

But the outcome of that the cross learning is pretty much release engineering, that includes the above and the products giving more data for helping run them, and simplicity leading to being easier to fix, and do the aforementioned things.

I also think we should just get over it and probably just adopt SRE, Release Engineer and Product. Not because I <3 google, just because the split makes a tad bit more sense.
Apparently the current view is that crocs abandoned one of their chambers, which seems to me an astonishing thing to achieve.

We can probably assume that the croc relatives that lived in trees or thundered across the tundra had four-chambered hearts. I gather most of them were taken by the mass extinction early in Jurassic era that opened the way for the dinosaurs.

The crocs we have now must have all evolved from little caiman-like things, all their bigger relatives done in by the K-T event.
Shoot me an email at daniel@thread-app.com with your account details and we'll get your account deleted.

I don't believe average users gain much from federated, distributed, decentralized services (after you factor in the cost and limitations of such systems), but we'll consider it if there's a lot of demand.

There's a long road ahead of building trust with users, but I think if we're intentional about being the most open, transparent social networking company, we can build that trust with our actions and track record.
All that’s really happened is that developers have learned or taken on the responsibility to build and deploy to production, and also be knowledgeable and responsible for the development stack, hence “full stack developer”.

Unfortunately, it’s incredibly dangerous if everyone involved doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Then kubernites and docker turn up. To make things easy?

No. They’re making the infrastructure more difficult to manage so that the developers can deploy things easier.

Developers should not be deploying. Large businesses should not be doing very regular deploys to live - it’s simply too risky without a shitload of testing.

Everyone praises startups with a few million customers that are open about their fuckups/downtime, but they are almost always because of their shitty modern deployments and lack of testing.

Crikey, look at Monzo. “We use a shit database and fucked up scaling it, but sorry your transactions failed and you looked like a twat buying your coffee”.

Try and revolutionise industries, fine. But ....
You have my deep sympathies.
I'm not sure what the unintended consequences are but I believe this is the right move. It is completely unfair that it's cheaper to ship from China to the United States than it is to ship from Chicago to New York. It naturally puts American businesses at a disadvantage. There is always the argument of semantics of what makes a developing country a developing country, but I think being the second largest economy on Earth isn't afforded that label.
Thank you for a very rare educated post in a HN discussion around sports. Wish this was a top level comment to get voted higher up.
Yes, we do.

Because if we don’t continually reflect on that balance of power, and the civil society institutions necessary to support it, we will loss it.
http://archive.is/2caG4
What about a headset (or glasses, contacts, whatever) that can provide anything from AR-style world annotations to a full VR experience, or anything in between? I agree that AR is something you'd use all the time, like a smartphone, but I do think the distinction between AR and VR is a bit artificial and due to what is technologically possible right now. There are many current VR experiences that would port surprisingly easily to AR (e.g., Tilt Brush, Oculus Medium, table tennis games, etc.) if there were AR hardware that was currently good enough.
That seems unlikely to me.. If you manufacture, you order components in bulk or they are large and expensive if it is a capital good. Things like small generalist repair shops lose out.
What led you to repeat bits in the 9->24 example instead of rescale the values? i.e. '(n * 255) / 0b111'? Repeating bits seems like it could potentially give an uneven curve (though not significantly so), and I would have expected the DAC to roughly do the equivalent of the divide.

Historically as a graphics programmer I always see rescaling, potentially with a response curve like sRGB on the back end.
The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Other adults might experience this, but I naturally fell into a 2-meal a day routine. It's what my body seems to prefer, and it seems sensible enough to me. I occasionally do 1 meal a day, but those seem kind of randomly dispersed: 1 or 2 of those days per week, rarely back-to-back, but sometimes that happens.
The escape hatch is deciding based on some pseudo-random criteria in your vicinity. This also reminds me of the TNG episode Peak Performance where Data starts going down this meta rabbit hole.
yeah but the "muh job creators" crowd would never let anything this sensible become law.
> The reduction in vaccine-preventable diseases (e.g., diphtheria, tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis, and Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis) has reduced infant morbidity and has had a modest effect on infant mortality

It says infant mortality, which I assume is 0-1 years of age. What about the effect on child mortality altogether?
But the definition of success evolved as well. Richer experiences are expected.
seems like you have to use it with a phone that matches the specific dimension of the holder
Treading carefully here...

It does not appear to me that Stallman is defending what we now know of Epstein's abhorrent conduct. Instead, he's engaging in a very reasonable debate about the terminology of accusations like these.

It's possible that I'm misreading this whole thing - if that's true, please point it out. But the article seems to indicate that the worst of Stallman's remarks are here:

<unknown>: Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it __rape__ in the Virgin Islands

<Stallman>:

Does it really? I think it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.

I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that the term ‘sexual assault’ is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

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On this specific passage (and again, there may be other bad stuff I'm not seeing), I basically agree with Stallman. Rape is a serious, heinous offense to nature. It is morally absurd - and insensitive to victims - to define it as the person to whom Stallman is responding is apparently trying to do.

The USA is a place of rampant sexism and obsession with alcohol (particularly its use as a date-rape drug, although for some reason we don't call it that). Rape is disgustingly commonplace. Talking about the laws of the Virgin Islands as they apply to a 17-year-old is a great example of distraction from this reality.
The big problem with this theory is that building manufacturing in the United States will be expensive, and if the next president is going to undo this, then what’s the point of building it? It could be less expensive to weather through those 4 years.

edit: could, not would
Not unless your this guy:

https://www.nboler.com/
DevOps is the intersection of three things.

1. Developers learning that running code is not the same thing as reliable code. Certain things must be put in at design time to allow for operations.

2. Operations people supporting development by formalizing/streamlining the deployment process to have changes occur faster, safer, and more often.

3. Aligning goals and attitudes in such a way that prevents conflict between teams. Development doesn't get to shift the costs of outage prone unmaintainable code onto an ops team. Or that ops doesn't roadblock/veto all changes.

In the bad old days, it was common for developers to act with little care for operational outcomes. The responsibility was far removed, and bugfixes didn't win many accolades. Managers want wish fulfillment and pushed developers to toss new features into the mix as fast as possible, resulting in tremendous pressure against ops teams to deploy despite increasingly crufty and debt laden code bases causing unpredictable problems. Ergo, ops teams who blocked all changes for trivial issues because they were judged only based on outages, not feature delivery.
Agreed. This loophole needed to be closed a long time ago. I hope other countries follow suit.
The article takes issue with Stallman commenting callously on a sensitive topic, having a view the author finds offensive, and directing those comments insensitively toward the wrong people. She never presents an argument why what he said was problematic. This makes me believe that regardless of the correctness of what he's saying, the mere fact that he's "defending" this side of the issue is itself offensive to her.

Suppose Stallman suddenly wanted to optimize himself to offend the author of this post as little as possible. Having a more correct point of view would hardly move his metrics. Having more tact would, drastically. That was my point in bringing up the tact article.

You're entirely right; everyone gets offended by something. I should've been more precise.
This is my experience in my slice of biology as well.
What would be the force actually shutting the capillaries, if the veins themselves aren't collapsing? The upper part of a siphon still has internal pressure, just less than at its base.
I guess I am one of those people who hope that if you really say something important it actually will end up getting known whether you are paywalled or not. I also must admit though that this is a feeling and probably countered by statistical evidence.
They are obviously playing by a totally different set of rules than we were. This is starting to even the playing field a little bit which we must do or get totally overtaken by China.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840054
Less practical than VR. VR has a niche.
It's Lamb & Rice, my inconsiderate clod. Typo. Their lamb and rice mix is wonderful. I'd try that if I was a dog with allergies.
If you skip breakfast 16-8 is easy to achieve. Lunch at noon, and dinner anytime before 8pm.
NYSE = scam business.
Anecdotally, this is a non-issue depending on the tools you use. IntelliJ IDEA and Metals both have Go To Definition support.
Regulatory capture is a separate issue from privatization.

Regulatory capture is when there is a powerful government regulator, but it has been compromised by the companies and is used to prevent competition to those companies.

For example - Boeing successfully convinced federal government regulators to prevent Bombardier from selling a 737 competitor in the US.
Traffickers were using the UPU to ship Fentanyl into the US from China, because are almost zero inspections compared to private shipping companies. This action may still be a pretext in the trade war, but it seems like it could slow down the overdoses significantly, so I'm all for it.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/withdrawal-universal-postal-unio...
You are posting like a troll.
I have no problems with this route to show that e^ix = cos(x) + i sin(x) but to do it properly does require showing that this is the unique analytic continuation of the exponential function.

The alternative method is to note that exp() is defined as the unique function satisfying exp(0) = 1 and dexp(ax)/dx = a exp(ax). So exp(ix) describes a point moving orthogonal to it's current position, which means it's a circle, and since it's speed is proportional to it's distance from the origin it is moving at a constant speed. So e^ix is just a point x radions around the unit circle.
I went to a lot of chess tournaments as a kid, and I never noticed this phenomenon. I can only name a few GMs that were on the fat side, though.

Not eating is, I think, part of it. Usually a tournament with 40/2+1 time control spaces rounds 6.5 hours apart, and a single round could take close to 6 hours. A full 6-hour game is unusual, but 4 hours of only staring at the board, drinking water, and walking around looking at other games is normal.

I can't remember if food was even allowed at the table; I only remember one time seeing food: at a scholastic tournament, my opponent ate a clementine before the match. Technically, 40/2+1 gives you enough time to drive to Taco Bell (even on your move), but I've never heard of anyone doing it.

If you ask my mom, she'll remember seeing kids from out-of-state wandering between rounds: "have you eaten lunch?" "No...?" like they hadn't even been thinking about it. Just total space cadet stuff, sometimes. (she drove the kid to McD's, I think)
Small time farmers seem to be a lot more likely to know these sorts of skills, because it allows them to save an obscene amount of money on specialty equipment by modifying something inexpensive to do the job.

When the commercial offerings are $100,000+ but you can make something good enough yourself for $20,000 or less, well, yeah, it is well worth it to take the time to learn welding, since you will more than make up for it with just one such project.
Felicity Huffman gets 14 days in prison for role in college admissions cheating
The traditional US way to change the rules: get other countries together to back up your position, suggest a principled approach, be willing to make concessions in other areas. The new way: flip the table over.
I was pointing to an actual case of state intelligence working with private entities to achieve shady goals. It is well documented, not a "conspiracy". You are simply refusing to read the material I have already provided and indicated (as in the Promis "incident"). Try reading the article and checking its sources before making snarky remarks.
Agreed, 100%, and certainly hoping there is no last-minute action. The change is sorely needed and long overdue.
DevOps is the channel in slack I check when my code didn't update. That the directs me to somewhere else where I just sort of randomly click things until it works or gets worse.

But yeah I'm with you on the wild definitions, it can be anything from some overnight IT grunt, to something far more respected and involved depending on how the company did things.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059572
Wonder if they get flagged for fraud or charge backs a lot. I ordered an item from them about a year ago. The second I hit the submit button on the order form, my phone rang (it was somewhat creepy how quick the phone call came). It was my bank checking to make sure it was a valid transaction. I've never had them call me to verify a transaction before. This was from an automated system but I received a follow up call the next day from a human double checking that it was a valid transaction. It was for maybe about $50 and everything went smoothly but it is interesting that they were instantly tagged for a fraud alert.
I think the parent is talking about compilation speed not runtime speed.
Isn't that the whole point of manslaughter? Killing people is (usually) a crime, but it's not always murder.
Ask HN: Why do we now need to inform Google via captcha when logging into HN?
How much of this stuff do you thing will be sent through the postal service? If you have large quantities and heavy stuff you use commercial shipping.

The ones it impacts the most are the resellers who sell direct to customers on Amazon, Etsy or Ebay.
Unless you're doing intermittent fasting, there's no reason for this. Eat smaller portions and/or lower-calorie food for each meal and you'll be fine.

I rarely eat breakfast, but not for metabolic reasons; I tend to sleep in and don't feel hungry until lunch time.

Really, though, do what works for you. But giving blanket advice like this isn't so great.