skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure the government is any more trustworthy? More importantly, are you sure that _everyone elected in the future_ will also be trustworthy? Remember, the "other side" can always gain power, so any system you conjure needs to work under the control of either party.
I think I understand what you're getting at, but I don't think weight classes will help. E.g., consider boxing and wrestling. The competitive pressures will still exist, and athletes will have to go to extremes to make the lowest weight class possible to maximize success.
Thank you for your insights. Good info.
Actually someone understands my trouble
It could have been both, I know it was Scotiabank for sure, because that's who I bank with.

Atleast Scotiabank didn't limit it to 6 characters.
Flatpak exists to solve this problem.
I agree with all that. If something really isn't working and you just keep flinging words and other content onto the page, that's a pretty good recipe for having a lot of throwaway work. I don't usually polish drafts as I'm writing them unless I do so for something to do while I'm mulling where to take the piece.

I'm not really a big outline person either for either writing or presentations. I almost always have some idea where I'm going though it's not unusual for that to diverge.
Seems like someone got fired for letting it come to public view and not so much what they did when filing these complaints.
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and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506403
Learning programming's easier even on an iPad than it was on, say, mid-90s desktops, overall. Granted earlier systems that booted straight to a programming environment forced you to grapple with code to do much with them, but they were a hell of a lot less accessible to the average person than a Raspberry Pi, say, price-wise. Even the crappy ones were a lot more expensive than that, especially inflation-adjusted.

The future is probably 10,000x as many total computing devices, most of which will be fairly locked down and not as hobbyist-programmer friendly as we've been used to but much better & safer for most folks—but also 100x as many tinkering-friendly computers, and much cheaper than they were "back in the day", and 1,000x the encouragement and free or cheap resources to learn to program as we had. My concern level that current trends will make programming anything other than more accessible, generally, to kids than it was back in the good ol' days, approaches zero. Even if the percentage of computing devices that are tinkering-friendly drops.
> I say this because bipolar disorder is a protected condition under the ADA, which allows for work modification.

Allows for but doesn't require. Workplace accommodations for any disability have to be reasonable and it's generally up to the business to decide what's reasonable. You can sue but most businesses would not find it difficult explain why it's important for employees to be working roughly equivalent hours and in the office if that's what everyone is doing.

BTW, deciding your own hours with little direction about how you complete tasks sounds more like a contractor than an employee.
Apple has lost its way.
I don’t equate hypothesizing the contents of a black box algorithm as conspiracy theory mongery. We’re looking at all possible inputs.

To add some anecdata, my relative in the financial software business has been telling me for years that they’ve been looking at mining public social media data to enhance risk management. I wouldn’t put it past Goldman (and their recent push into public banking) to consider this.

And the Chinese have just come right out and done it.
Doesn’t need to be a natural disaster. Not too long ago, a whole quarter of Berlin (Köpenick) was entirely without electricity for about 2 days because somebody drilled into both the primary and the backup 110kv cable. No water is the primary issue, but on top, without electricity, most people can’t cook their food stores and frozen/cooled stuff spoils. No shop can sell anything - cards and cash registers not working.
Don't buy the Surface Pro X, I guess?
So you want your lens covered 99.9% of the time, just in case someone points a laser at it?
Yes, the nerd conjunction of Apple Card, DHH, and twitter made this story go viral, but it illustrates a real problem.

The other day I saw a headline on HN saying "top 1% now has more wealth than the middle class."

Basically, the system is rigged. I'm for any story that brings this to light, short of one involving a guillotine.
You should try ed sometime :).
I'd do the same, because I like hymenopterans better than I do cows. It's not a question of logical consistency, but rather of ethical schemata. Yours changed in a particular way that mine hasn't.
I miss ThinApp for making portable apps
Sounds like you've assumed that rentech are running the same volatility as the S&P 500. That's very unlikely to be true - most systematic hedge funds ran crazy high risk in the '80s and '90s. But even if you assume it's a coin toss as to whether they perform well in any given year, twenty good years in a row is impressive.

My best guess is that it's a combination of luck, skill, and hindsight bias. Rentech probably had (has?) an edge. They were also partly lucky: in investment, you can do everything right and still lose money. There were also many other players: had LTCM not blown themselves up, we might be marvelling at their investment prowess now.
If you’re on macOS and iOS, either iCloud tabs, or Universal Clipboard would work.
But the company isn’t withdrawing 50+ requests that the U.S. Patent and Trademark office cancel the trademarks of other companies, Backcountry.com CEO Jonathan Nielsen said in an interview with The Sun.

Do I even need to read the rest of the article?
Not anymore. Especially not if you google "RHEL laser".
If you mean this [0], that was a very good read.

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21503851

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21502162

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500325
> Are you prepared to pay for it?

Sure. We're all paying for it anyway -- the only question is what currency we're paying with. I'd much prefer the currency be cash rather than data.
Some of us have reflow ovens, stencils, and past. It's not that hard with SMD. Through hole is where it gets time cosuming.
The usual advice is to add a TryClose method to your MyRAIIFile class that can signal failure, and that also keeps the object around in some well-defined state. This doesn't force you to handle the situation properly, but at least it makes it possible to do so.
RenTech recruited from NSA early on mostly due to Jim Simons' connections there. The recruiting they do nowadays is mostly because there are some excellent mathematicians, statisticians, information theorists, etc. there.
Can you provide the link to that AMA?
in the age of slack, where managers about to instant message you any second, you don't really get control of your schedule
I kind of blame UX for this. Most of these attempts at curating installation all started as well intended means of keeping malware out of the OS. If you think it’s bad today, you forgot what it was like 20 years ago.

However, the evolution of platform protection slowed down as it became clear this was an amazing revenue generator. Incentives became blurred, and it’s why you have so much malware on the App Store masquerading as casual games.
Too little too late. Been munching on popcorn watching all my camping and hiking forums and communities coming together saying they are done buying from them.
Evidently "consent" isn't lawfully required. The hope is that any breakthrough might lower healthcare costs, and in the worst case scenario at least some patients might benefit which is still a win.
Are you guilty of pseudo-work?
Reinventing YAML badly, with little or no apparent work done toward buy-in from the enormous ecosystem of medical providers whose existing EHR providers you would need to displace in order to make a market for your new thing, seems like a remarkably inefficient way to use time.
At some point in the future I believe there will be insurance comparison sites dealing with health, and using this ‘private’ data to tailor quotes to each customer. Zero privacy. Then comes spam coupons for Viagra and low cost hemorrhoid treatments.
But could you take on roid-dudes who also leaned toward technical competency?
Yeah, it’s within the realm of possibility that Apple truly is that dysfunctional these days (ie MacBook Pro debacle).

However I don’t think that’s the case here. You have to believe that they have their best resources working on wearables/smartglasses. Look at how Apple Watch and even more so AirPods are just crushing it. Because laptops are the past and wearables are the future. I would wager that this level of dysfunction is kept far from AR.
That's not what the parent comments are saying. The difference with technical writing isn't that you have a plan for what you're going to write. It's that you already have the domain knowledge that you're going to compile into prose. It's a communication process, rather than an invention process.

A good way to think of creative writing, if you're a technical writer, is to imagine attempting to write a textbook when you don't know the subject at all, and the "demand" from each new paragraph causes you to do the research necessary to acquire the knowledge necessary to write it.

How would you even structure a thing like that, in advance?

How would it ever attain a sensible shape if done a paragraph at a time, when something you learned while doing the research necessary to write paragraph 100 invalidates everything you wrote before it, or causes a complete restructuring of your mental model such that you realize the topic should be presented in an entirely different order? (And then you realize that again, and again, and again...)

A similar thing occurs in investigative journalism. How would you know how to present a story—know what story you're telling, really—before you know all the key facts? In est, before you've completed your investigation? You could certainly write notes about what you might write, but those have little to do with drafting the final story.
Retailer Orvis.com Leaked Hundreds of Internal Passwords on Pastebin
While the article may technically address these points, it's not very effective, judging by what people post here. At the time I posted my comment, all the top comments here on HN were complaining how Apple is limiting artistic expression or how hardware makers decide which software we can run.

That's why I wanted to post my clarifications. I don't think that the article is technically wrong, but it seems that people have not read it closely and just came to weird conclusions.
The homeless actually make great conversation and it humanizes them. If you don’t give cash, at least don’t alienate them.

Granted it can be very emotionally draining.
> ...if anything from that perspective Apple is more tightly coupled to an ISA than before this choice.

That really depends on what their long-term goal is. If the speculation & rumors about an eventual ARM transition have any merit at all, then sunsetting 32-bit support now can help them smooth that transition, since they'll have a lot less work to do to implement whatever Rosetta-esque dynamic binary translator they would need.
Thanks for replying so nicely!

Yes, we definitely don't merge all of them but we do get many:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It seems like this problem is solved by simply setting a sensible minimum in an autoscaling group. And not "everyone on Earth was abducted by aliens and stopped using the service" levels of minimum.

Say I'm an e-commerce site and on Black Friday I can see historically (or just make an educated guess if it's your first holiday sale) I get "n" requests per second to my service.

I'll set my autoscaling group the day before to be able to handle that "n" number of requests, with the ability to grow if my expectations are exceeded. If my expectations are not met, then my autoscaling group won't shrink. Then the day after the holiday sale, I can configure my autoscaling group to have a different minimum.

This solves the problem of balancing between capacity planning and saving money by not having idle resources running.

If you're the type of person who hates human intervention for running your operation, then fine. Put in a scheduled config change every year before a sale to change your autoscaling group size.

It's pretty rare to have enormous spikes in application usage without good reason. Such as video-game releases, holiday sales, startup openings, viral social media campaigns.
On one hand you're saying "clearly, Alberto has crossed the line with Mary" and on the other you're suggesting this is perhaps unknowable. (...how does one know if the coach is abusive or “that’s just how sports is, it’s hard and coaches are tough”?)

So which is it?

Put another way: how did you know that in this case Alberto crossed the line?
But in that case, it _really_ belongs to the government, not to you. "Your" SSN isn't yours; the government "owns" the number and uses it to uniquely identify you. I trust my medical records being on paper at my house, not in someone else's database (be it owned by a government or by a company).
I kind of blame UX and bad incentives for this. Most of these attempts at curating installation all started as well intended means of keeping malware out of the OS. If you think it’s bad today, you forgot what it was like 20 years ago.

However, the evolution of platform protection slowed down as it became clear this was an amazing revenue generator. Incentives became blurred. A new type of malware showed up aimed purely at collecting your data, and our protections haven’t kept up, because that’s no longer the goal.
Netflix creates caching boxes inside the local ISP which reduces both latency and bandwidth requirements for top content. These only store the most popular content.
Just like hackers that violate people’s privacy, Google is in the same business, only under the disguise of “ terms of service “ and other legal shields. It follows us daily from website to website, from location data to usage data, and on on. Surveillance capitalism is contrary to our values.
If by quoting this you are saying good faith applies to article sources as much as to other HN members then I think that guideline could be clearer.
Was this fairing caught by their recovery ship or did they restore one that splashed down?
> If a company the size of Microsoft are unable to maintain a “fork” of Chromium

Microsoft is entirely able to maintain a fork of Chromium, or even their own proprietary browser.

What Microsoft has done is a cost/benefit calculation and decided that the benefit for maintaining their own stuff is not sufficient to justify the costs.

The thing about those types of analyses is that they are very company-dependent. That the C/B ratio is not good enough for Microsoft doesn't imply that it can't be good enough for other companies.
In the US maybe. In Europe we have laws against that sort of behaviour, and generally the threat of massive legal fines is an effective counterbalance to the potential gain of data lakes.
They employ a lot of talented people and they are among the few organizations that have the resources and will to actually solve these intricate problems, so more power to them as far as I'm concerned.
Not evil. Remember. Totally not evil.
It was Phil Jackson (Rodman's coach at the time):

"Of course not. There is only room for one Dennis Rodman on this team. In fact, you really can only have a very few Dennis Rodmans in society as a whole; otherwise, we would degenerate into anarchy."

Similarly, John Madden on Terrell Owens:

"If you hold the bus for everyone on the team, then you’ll be so late that you’ll miss the game, so you can’t do that. The bus must leave on time. However, sometimes you’ll have a player that’s so good that you hold the bus for him, but only him."
Google was recently handed the confidential medical data of 1.6 million patients treated at a London hospital (Royal Free), for use by Deep Mind, in breach of the Data Protection Act: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/03/google-de...
The highest form of meditation can even make you conscious of your internal hormones and can give you fine-tuned control on how you secrete various hormones.
In the book (“The Man Who Solved the Markets”), the author actually provides the Sharpe ratios for their flagship fund (“Medallion”). Medallion’s Sharpe Ratio has almost never been below 2.0, and has been as high as 7.0 (!!!) in some years.

I’ll link to the Wikipedia page below for the math, but these figures would highly suggest that their returns are much less likely the result of luck, and more likely the result of some edge/alpha generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
Seriously. My credit score took a hit after I paid off my car and my credit cards. The justification I was given is that they penalize you if you don’t have some kind of ongoing debt you’re servicing.

Our system is ten kinds of messed up.
The VA seems to work approximately as well (or as badly) regardless of who's in charge.
What are you not buying? That it was bad marketing?

There are no underlying emotions its a big company driven by money.
The only thing you can buy is that they said the thing they did publicly. Now they might align their business with that statement for a while.
Most people won't live their lives intentionally no matter what you do. It's a noble goal to increase the number from, say, 10% to 20%. But getting even a majority of people are going to 'care for their health for their own good' is demonstrably impossible. At best you can turn self-care into a game or entertainment, but extrinsic motivation is kind of the exact opposite of the practice of meditation.
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I feel like we're only having this discussion at this point because:

- Agile brought interruptions to a new level of pain

- We have too many instant interruption communication points (slack)

- Open Offices have made interrution far worse

There were books about this concept 30 years ago. It was totally recognized that you shouldn't break up an engineer's time into tiny chunks with 1000 cuts worth of meetings.

But we threw it all out the window in the last 10-15 years with the rise of Agile + Open Office + Instant Message/Always-On communication programs.
I find it highly surprising that this task is carried by the US Military on US soil. Afaik dirty jobs like this one were in FBI's court, at least in so doing there was still a semblance of protecting the US Constitution. Granted, I'm not a US citizen so I may be be a little off about this, but from what I read about the subject (mostly from "The Federalist Papers") the non-involvement of the US Military on US soil is pretty much at the basis of the United States as a commonwealth.
20 years ago, when Paypal hit PMF
This conversation is simply the English-equivalent of TDD conversations.

* Conventional development = writing, then editing

* Test-driven development = writing and editing simultaneously

The preferences are endless and neither removes the most difficult part which is the conceptual architecture.

Personally, I like to splatter a whole bunch of ideas down first and then later go back and commit.
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I think I read somewhere that the concept of jaywalking was invented by the automobile industry. Go back to 1850 and the idea that you can't just walk across the street would be seen as inane.
The design may call out a specific material and how to manufacture it, say make this part out of 6061 Aluminum, and. mill it in this way. You can look up the standard properties of that material. But depending on how that material is worked, cut, bent etc, you would expect in come cases some changes in the material properties or just sensitivities to fatigue. E.g. if you cut a sharp corner into that metal, fatigue will increase in that corner over the life of the part, so maybe you specify rounded corner - but how much it makes a difference you won't do necessarily a whole specific detailed study on it unless its a critical part or corner. If it's milled, if the machine that day has a duller bit, maybe it heats up the part more, and the material properties shift a bit more due to the heating. All these and are controlled in the process, but are still little things lead to variation, and maybe the controls fail one day and some slightly different aluminum makes in into the process.

For critical parts on the aircraft, there is the backup of inspecting for aspects like accelerated fatigue just for variation of manufacturing, of environmental contributors, etc. It's a lot like security defense in depth - many layers of protection for lives (and aircraft industry trustability linked to profitability too) at stake.
I do wonder if that fairing endeavor will come out net positive over the lifetime of Falcon. They paid for a specialized boat to catch the things, and iterated on the boat design several times.

Starship is the real reusability project; Falcon is now just holding on to revenue while they get Starship ready to take over the entire launch market (including their own).

The fairing is passive, I really wonder if it would have been more cost effective to try and reduce the fairing cost to a (few) hundred thousand bucks or so instead of going to all the trouble of catching it.

Although maybe this is best seen as R&D cost for the eventual Starship architecture?
Firefox is a great alternative for many. But it is not great for everybody.
I did a few rotations through Iraq and Afghanistan, and one of the few things I really learned is that everyones experience is different....but the same. I think they ended the move 'Jarhead' with a similar quote, and it didn't truly resonate with me until I'd experienced it myself.

Some people get deployed and spend the whole time in Kuwait but in some ways they suffer just the same as those of us sleeping in the dirt getting mortared every 3 hours. Its just a different form of the same experience.
I wish I had the link of this BBC video journalist from years ago who wanted to bust the myth of the Himalayan swamis in India who meditate for days without eating food in freezing temperatures. He came back a convert when he witnessed with his own eyes how they do it with so much ease while not wearing much cloth on their bodies.
I thought this was a pretty solid response. Out of curiosity, is there anything that you think is "enough" to change your mind?
I also have no obligation to watch their ads.
20 Gbps per satellite, according to the FCC filings.

Which isn't that great.
It’s a lesser of two evils thing. Personally I find it creepier for a private employer to have that data than a (non-authoritarian) gov’t.
What software engineers need to learn is that their skills aren't magic, and they don't need to be coddled to be entirely productive.

So many engineers have learned this, that if you can't, you aren't competitive in the field unless you're literally in the top 0.001%, and no, you aren't.
Well, it's the government that keeps health data sort of confidential now. If the government stops caring about that, I doubt private companies would step up.

If you have to trust the government on this anyway, cutting private insurers out seems to be minimizing risk, no?
"earbuds in" is sort of like a social bloom filter. I'm not terribly social but I've started to try striking up casual conversation in lines and similar situations. most people don't really want to talk, but people wearing earbuds definitely don't want to talk. it's at least a mildly helpful signal.