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Amazon's focus has really been on faster shipping and same day, more on fulfillment. I am sure they will be working on product quality eventually, right now that is up to the user. They are also heavily pushing Alexa/Echo. They'll no doubt be first to drone delivery.

Amazon though makes most of their money from AWS, they found a way to reap ROI on R&D for their own supply/services chain. That is what really nailed it, this only came from an engineering focused research and development push that reinvested every dollar for a long time back into it, breaking all the rules of showing profits for a long time.

Walmart also is very good at supply chain and fulfillment. They have always been early to technology improvements there including pushing suppliers to EDIINT/AS2 and digital purchase orders and invoicing, up until 2003 everything in retail ordering was still really fax or e-mail orders. They were doing RFID in warehouses really early on. They got tons of improvements early on Target and other retailers moving on this early. Walmart Labs knows you have to reinvest in research and development.

Sears, without a competitor for a long time, and a lack of product/engineering driven leadership, got fat, happy and nappy, eventually was decades behind before they woke up.
It is surprising more of these people don’t do highly visible philanthropy.

The world doesn’t need another university building for free.
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The issue is that the ecosystem as a whole tends to follow the tip of the version chain. This means that any human-oriented Python stuff (e.g. documentation/tutorials/code-review/etc...) requires you stay up to date with the language changes.

Asyncio was the worst culprit, as it essentially introduces an inner-platform with its own dataflow semantics, but at least there the upsides were large and tangible.
Huh. Exactly. The notches on the handle would be for lashing in another piece of wood to act as the lever arm.
There are probably tons of other public domain books like this one available online. Any reason why this one is posted here?
That's true but not what is being discussed here.
Because that response works until you run out of products/services to move on to.

If half the interesting posts on HN are blocking access, it merits conversation and I'd argue a few "fuck off"s as well.

I'm not sorry that we don't delete conversation you consider boring.
I already implied that this is a design flaw and stated clearly that Tesla should be responsible for fixing this (and it appears they did things to mitigate if not eliminate this flaw when they redesigned the MCU).

I am not defending Tesla here. I am simply pointing out that this is being covered in a fundamentally different way than other cars. My last car was recalled twice for electrical wiring issues. One of the problems could have resulted in a fire and the other one would have resulted in the exact same "bricking" that you see here. Neither of those issues would be covered or dissected like this Tesla issue.
is this actually written to flash?

concievably a big capacitor or watch battery could keep a 4 or 8k RAM going for quite a long time.
This is a good reminder of why I stopped going to most local tech meetups ran by meetup.com.

Not because of the upcoming $2 fee, but because most of the time it's a 2 hour tech meetup where you spend 15 minutes mingling at the start, then 1 hour and 30 minutes listening to advertisements disguised as talks where you sit down and remain silent and then another 15 minutes mingling at the end.

It feels so corporate and non-human. You get lured into a business' office with free food and drinks or stickers but then you have sign up forms, recruitment pitches and vendors giving talks about some technology but it's all focused on using their service around that tech.

I miss the good old days of 2600 meetups in the late 1990s. Everyone meets in a public place. There's no set schedule other than where to go and when it starts. Then you actually meet up with people and talk about things that you have in common. You can leave in 30 seconds or stay all night. There's no commitment, agenda or sales pitches.
Recently I had to get some old Rails 1.8 apps running so I could get some screenshots for an upcoming project. Docker containers are great for this. It took a while to get everything working, but now I can export those container images and always have a version of these old projects I can run on a container runtime. I'll never use them for production of course, but they're good historically.

As others have stated, those are old implementations, but I'm sure Debain will still accept security patches for them. Python2 is about to lose major support. You cannot just let rotting dependencies stick around in your tree. You're not going to have a good time.

If people really want that stuff, they can pack it into a Docker container, or Snap/Flatpack/whatever garbage for old GUI applications.
If it hasn't already, this will be used for the next round of phone scams.
This twitter thread from last year might enlighten you:

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376
> No mention of whether it supports 802.11ax.

Even if it does support WiFi6( 802.11AX), there are no client devices that support WiFi 6 yet.

EDIT: Apparently iPhone 11 pros support WiFi6 [0]

[0] (https://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-iphone-11-supports-wi-fi-6-h...)
Right. The further away you drift from the median, the more difficult life gets in certain aspects. Drift far enough and it becomes impossible to fit in society at large, which is a huge penalty. This is true for all kinds of things, not just IQ. Personality traits, for instance.
This links to https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent, not to an article.
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To my knowledge, this is only happening en masse with student loans.
The Austin, Texas area has a website that does something like this: https://do512.com/

Obviously this kind of thing only works for events likely to get general attention.
I had seriously considered moving to Vancouver (from SF) earlier this year, and had job opportunities lined up, but seeing the salary numbers was shocking. Vancouver is an expensive city, about on par with the bay area, but moving there meant taking a 40-50% pay cut. Toronto isn't much better either.

I would love to live there one day, but they really need more competitive salaries if they want to lure talent from the US tech hubs.
Hate oracle personally. But when Amazon mention cost savings, I assume they're not at list price for normal aws customers like us?
Yeah. People are saying that Tekton is the new Craftsman (for hand tools anyway, they don't sell anything with a motor in it). I haven't seen anyone recommend actual Craftsman brand in a long time.
Glyphosate is the anything else, it has costs and benefits. One benefit is that you can use it for no-till farming, which conserves the topsoil, and reduces the amount of diesel fuel , water, and fertilizer inputs required per acre.

A big part of no-till is always keeping some kind of plants growing in the fields. The theory being that acres of bare dirt are not found in healthy natural ecosystems. Cover crops are planted in the fall after cash crops are harvested. In the spring, Glyphosate is used to "burn down" the cover crop instead of ploughing it under. This allows the cash crop to grow through the mulch of the dead cover crop, keeping which protects the soil from the sun drying it out or the wind blowing it away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming
I agree. But reformatting SD card seems a less useful backup strategy. Both in terms of accelerated bit rot and by adding human error into the mix. Basically, reformatting is worse than filling and storing. Filling and storing is less work. And the work it eliminates is prone to serious errors.
The number of atrocities committed in that code are mind numbing -- this is what you get for writing such unmaintainable code.
I think the main concern comes from the mM-wave frequencies from what I've read. The others are more of the same, but a lot of what I've seen--and I can't remember where at the moment--focused exclusively on the high frequency nodes that would (theoretically) be deployed in urban areas.
This has been my experience as well. JetBrains Rider on my mac is nice. I prefer it to VSCode. I'd recommend it if you can afford it.
Does it matter what brand of mayonnaise? The parent is talking about H1Bs as a whole and is an anecdote.
Huh? Don't all the millions of new iPhone Pro's sold this year support Wifi 6?
EEC-IV and EEC-V (Ford) ECUs haven't yet found the "late" stage of the bathtub curve and they're 15-35yo give or take. I'm not familiar with other brands of ECU but I suspect that they tend to be similar. If you look at all brands there's probably some that don't last because they were subject to the capacitor plague but they're clearly so few and far between that no brand has developed a reputation for ECUs crapping out. I wouldn't personally be worried about electronics failures. Physical failures of the electronic systems are far more likely.

Because this is a decently upscale crowd on HN everyone is going to tell you Toyota/Honda. I'm not going to write the mini-novel it takes to explain why but it suffices to say that is one filter bubble's opinion and other bubbles will have other opinions. As someone who has fairly extensive experience with vehicles that most here would consider far beyond end of life I assure you the badge on the grill matters far far less than what you use the vehicle for and how you treat it. Anything will "last" 25yr if you're willing to baby it there, put a bunch of money into it or just deal with it having all sorts of NVH issues in years 20-25. Trying to predict what vehicle and configuration will last 25yr with the least work (the unstated assumption in these discussions) is a complete and total fools errand because the equation is dominated by variables outside, or mostly outside your control.
Isn't this old news?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903532804576566... (2011)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444433504577651... (2012)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wharton-applications-drop-12-ov... (2013)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/m-b-a-applications-decline-for-... (2017)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-flag-for-u-s-business-schoo... (2017)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/m-b-a-applications-keep-falling... (2018)
>every time I type dlang in google for something, it tries to correct it to golang and that's terrible

Doesn't do it at all to me...
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Don't buy a Wifi router from Google. We all know that they are incentivized to collect data from you
The housing

If you have a shower or run a bath or do laundry in your apartment outside of the designated hours, your neighbours will complain to the landlord and you may be evicted. The Swiss are very, very fond of rules, and even fonder of enforcing them.
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Can you share some company names? Seems rare
This is from Cambridge Press, copyright 2002. If it is in the public domain I don't understand why. But if it is, I want to know what other Cambridge Press titles are!
GP wasn't just pedantic but actively spreading wrong and misleading information.
> but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

It is not. The value fire-fighters, teachers or nurses provide is much higher than, say, an enterprise developer, yet in most places the other earns more.
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You can disable the microphone via a Hardware button.
This is the case for many, if not most, modern/high-tech cars, especially EVs.

The on-board systems have become very tightly coupled, if not monolithic to the point where a broken info unit will prevent the car from starting.

I had the infotainment system replaced in my e-Golf a few weeks ago, it took two technicians three days to install and configure to work with all the car's on-board systems.

Edit: If I _had_ to guess, I’d say this is because the car industry (especially electric) has been pushing to innovate features so rapidly that the time hasn't been available to engineer, test and prove decoupled systems.
pornhub is 100% PHP. some URLs don't even hide the fact that they are .php scripts.
Isn't it getting incredibly slow updates anyway? I mean, examining the release notes[1] suggests that there's not been an update since June, and there was a 1 year gap between the last two updates. So: Google behaving according to form, really.

[1]: https://support.google.com/wifi/answer/9378012?hl=en&ref_top...
Going from the context of the comment, I believe parent meant something along the lines of:

"we need a measured response instead of a purely reactionary response which will just make things work"

At least, that was my first impression, definitely could be interpreting the comment incorrectly.
Hats off to you for booting an old 1.8 app! That is prehistoric!
https://github.com/openbsd/src , as well as any software built by that team: https://github.com/openssh https://github.com/opensmtpd https://github.com/libressl-portable/ etc.
Wholeheartedly agree. I think the discipline in general has something to prove. For economists, it shouldn't be an alien concept to actually produce results and hard data. These particular people have done their part and more. But I feel this price is used to absolve the whole industry.

I already hear the open borders arguments again. No, if an underdeveloped nations completely opens up for trade, its domestic economy will get destroyed. And China should be the falsification of that theory anyway.

People lift themselves from poverty. Not by easily bored economists from the developed world and their insights. So don't let them experiment with your society too much.

Why is immigration good for developed countries? Maybe because you simply catch motivated individuals that have the means to migrate?

Think this comment sounds a bit hostile to the discipline? I think you would be correct.
We (my startup in my profile) switched over to Simple Analytics when we redid our website. While they don't have all the features we might want, the experience and privacy guarantees are fantastic.

Major congratulations to the team!
Article mentions that, yeah - cost savings are based on their already heavily discounted deal with Oracle.
Paris’ Bet on E-Bikes
I've never heard of them either. Meetup's demise will be a great opportunity for them, but I think a lot of them will be hobbled by having off-putting names.
Alternatively, do, and go in with eyes open on the fact it might collect data from you.
>"D" is so hopeless to even use in conversation.

Not any more hopeless than one of the top-10 most popular languages, C.

Except if you mean the juvenile joke it alludes to, in which case, nobody really cares between adults. No company is not gonna be use D because in some memes it means dick. Libraries, tooling, maturity, devs, speed, are the real concerns...
>but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

It should be but employee efficiency and revenue per employee has increased (in fact more than doubled on average in the last 20 years), but salary has roughly stayed the same.
Why can't D create static binaries? I've never heard that before.
Looking at places around me (Atlanta, Ga, USA), the second I filter down to < 750 sqft for any 1 bedroom apartment or condo on redfin.com I am left with about 5% of the search results. The average size seems to be about 900 sqft. Before buying a house most places I rented were also around that size, and my house 2200 sqft (204 sq m) with 3 bedrooms.
Switzerland is a complex system: instead of 1 high rate tax, you pay many low taxes. So cheating is not worth it individually (too risky/complex for a small saving). But the sum is crazy.

Exemple of taxes/mandatory ccharges a developper will pay: network tax, photocopy tax, radio tax, VAT, AHV/IV, garbage elimination tax, city tax, state tax, federal tax, healthcare (in some countries it is included in your "federal/state" tax), etc.

I just got my "final tax decision"... Switzerland is a fiscal inferno if your income comes from work (vs capital gain)...

Usually, I work 6 month per year for taxes. My grand parents were working 1 to 1.5 month in the 60s-70s to pay their taxes also as "independant".

Plus with all the crazy fix and variable costs, it is not competitive as an independant or small company.

Today, as a "personne morale" (corporation) only complex fiscally optimized structures can get a low tax rate (or as a "physical person" if you are ultra rich (3 comma club) not professionally active in the country you can negotiate a very low rate).

PS: also, can we definitively kill the ridiculous myth/reputation of Swiss data protection? (In case of criminal investigation, in many cantons (equivalent to states) a police investigator does not even need a judge warrant to have access to the data)
I didn't say it wasn't better and I didn't say it didn't transform content distribution for the independent producer. What I said was

1.) there used to be a lot of niche video sites
2.) many of those sites are gone
3.) The standardization of YouTube is one of the reasons many of those sites are gone.

The first two are facts and the second is my opinion, but which of those things do you not agree with?

I can miss something and understand that what we have now is better overall.
The /ref= isn't from afiliate/referral links, it's just tracking.
I think it has already been written:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

;-)

You are correct, a specific dive into what went wrong at Sears and why they aren't Amazon today would be incredibly valuable.

But re-reading "The Innovator's Dilemma" sheds some light as to why they not only didn't, but really couldn't catch the Internet wave.

Incumbents need to recognize when a disruptive, extinction event is looming, and everything in their culture works against that. Typically, when one of these things comes along, sales are robust, the incumbents have cemented the value of their brands, and their margins are industry-leading.

It's very difficult for incumbents to even see the disruption as a threat, much less to pivot, embrace the disruption, and disrupt themselves.

When you're running a successful business, it is nearly impossible to decide to go all-in on a new business that will cannibalize your existing business at lower margins. If you're a public company, your stock will head right down into the sewer to be gnawed upon by short-selling Norwegian Rats.
It's so vitally important to write tests. Years ago I started doing full tests suites, even for my open source, work, once it got mature enough I felt comfortable with the patterns I established. Then I'd add tests before developing new features.

Unit tests help make upgrading so much easier. I was once on a huge Scala codebase that needed to go up from Spray.io to Akka-HTTP. Tests help save me on tons of potential bugs in migrating over. The few things that got through, I could write more tests for.

On another open source project I maintain, my functional tests helped me migrate from Scala 2.11 to 2.12 along with all my dependencies with relatively low friction.

If you're porting your Python2 to Python3 stuff now, it's never too late to start writing some tests. Write them over the weird division stuff you've found. Make sure they run in Py2 and fail in Py3 so you can isolate what it is. Even a couple of small tests in a large code base that only cover stuff you're finding now is better than no tests at all.
Turn Post-It Notes into Trello Cards
They did and they have. I won't link to it because I strongly disagree with their decision to do so, but if you care about this you can find it.
This reads as if you're willfully misunderstanding the other person's point just so you have an excuse to leave a snarky comment. There are lots of other forums for that.
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I think the more worrying aspect is that they probably deprecate it in a few years and you don't get any firmware updates any more.
"Paris has been one of the first french cities to introduce a grant for e-bike (and cargo-bike) purchase in 2009. Any Parisian can now get up to 33% of the bike price (limited to 400€ for an e-bike, 600€ for a cargo-bike)."

…

"Ile-de-France Mobilités launched its long-term e-bike rental service Véligo, with a fleet of 10,000 e-bikes available for the people of the Métropole. For 40€/month, one can get access to a high-end e-bike, with maintenance included."
Yup. As well as Microsoft's latest Surface devices.
If you’d rather have a definitely-PD ePub than a probably-not-PD PDF then Standard Ebooks has a nice copy: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/friedrich-nietzsche/beyond...
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> With electric vehicles now on the market in masses and coming of age, we’re starting to see the real culprits of aging

The issue with the flash memory resides in the MCU (media control unit), which has nothing to do with the electric drivetrain. Cars with combustion engines can have this issue too.

> once the flash memory in a Tesla’s infotainment unit goes bad, it essentially bricks the entire car.

Essentially, yes. But as far as I am aware (correct me if i'm wrong) a Tesla with a bricked MCU will still drive.

I am annoyed that articles like this make it sound that these types of faults are only happening to electric cars, which it is not. It might be a Tesla issue, as they are both ambitious and inexperienced in car component design, but it could have happened with other brands as well.

> Fortunately, Jason Hughes, known as a ‘Tesla hacker,’ can service these units at a much lower cost.

Yes, many people can, there is no secret technique to it. Just like a local garage can fix any part with any brand of car for much cheaper than the dealership. That is because dealerships have to replace parts, rather than repair them. There are many good reasons why they do this, I wont go into details here.

Sure, a conventional car mechanic probably can't do it, but anyone with electronic repair experience can. That is a shift that is happening with all car brands. As cars are shifting towards computers on wheels, we must learn to distinguish mechanical repairs from electronic repairs.
I haven't used it in quite awhile but as I recall ora2pg[0] has some basic auto-conversion of PL-SQL.

[0] http://ora2pg.darold.net/
Sort of. With the old sears they had all the replacements in stock with no hassle. I tried to warranty a Husky torque wrench once, they don't have that in store, so I get to hassle with contacting husky myself... I didn't the replacement same day to finish my project, so I went elsewhere and swore not to buy husky again because a warranty is meaningless if I can get a replacement when I need it.
I've read elsewhere in this thread that those implementations are still being maintained, so they are not in the same situation ad Python 2.
That's definitely not accurate, unless you include stock and bonuses. As a base salary you'd need a senior title to make that much.
Depends on your definition of highly-skilled. Compared to an au pair? Very highly skilled.

An H-1B requires application of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equivalent of work experience. So it's all a matter of perspective, but the highly skilled formulation talks about the skills required to do the job, not the competency within that specialization. Beyond that, I agree though, that visa status is a despicable reason to pay people less than what they're worth
What would the number be for an Interaction Designer?
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