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Ask HN: The unreasonable effectiveness of certain headlines on Hacker News
Certain headlings work really well such as:

The unreasonable effectiveness of X

n myths that people believe about X

These are the hacker news equivalents of

"X happened. You won't believe what happened next."

"Do X with this one weird trick."

My question is:

1. Do you have other examples of these repeating, and successful headlines?

2. Why do they work?
Fellow Floridian, same here.

Thing is, I've been curious about this. You mentioned, "I won't pay for a subscription to a worthless newspaper". So, I know this is the sentiment most people have. But, isn't that the problem? BTW, I'm not picking on you, this is more about the generality of the situation.

A lot of people think local politics and other issues are worthless. But then are annoyed when they don't know anything about what's going on, why no one is "doing anything about it", "how did they get away with that" or just generally complain that their local whatever is a POS. For politics that is more likely to affect you faster than state, fed or international level, why do we think it's worthless? I'm not going to pretend like I'm magically different. Our mayor is about as important to me as a dog turd in my neighbor's backyard is to me. I've been wondering how I even came to the idea myself about a month ago when local politics does heavily affect me, whether I like it or not.

Makes me wonder about some demographics. Like, what is the percentage of people that do "care" and actively read about their local area? And by how much (1hr, 3hrs, 5hrs a week, etc)? Then, what's their city like? Do they have relatively less corruption than other cities? Are their schools better? Parks? Roads? Rec centers? Gov employee well being any better? Crime rates? How many people are needed to care about "local politics", on average, to make a city "good"? 10%? 20%? 50%?

Then, what has to happen to make enough people give a shit?

Questions beyond this post and HN... but yea... why the hell do we think local politics and news is worthless when it's the issues that will affect us more and faster than anything else?
He made the right call by putting the cloud first, that's where real revenue come from.
Nevertheless, let's remind that $MSFT has around 150k employees, where literally thousands are top tier in their position all across the industry.
I think paper book sales are doomed for long-term decline.

On what grounds, may I ask? There currently doesn't seem to be a long-term declining trend in paper book sales, so are you expecting a significant change in technology or society that will cause a long-term decline? Or (possibly) did you conclude this (quite reasonably) when there was such a trend and haven't checked recently?
Microsoft currently capitalizes on their monopoliy for office software with their new form of cloud monetization. But many users are very discontent.
Let's say you are right and we can farm the newly methane heavy, sinkhole infested permafrost in Russia and Canada. What does it mean for everyone else? Will they rely on food supply from Russia and Canada? Will Russia and Canada end up having huge migrations and become the biggest countries with billions of people?
Apparently Erasmus coined it, around 1500. But there's earlier inspiration. But it's not from the Bible, as I initially thought it would be.
Snow Leopard was one of the best after two years of bug fixes.
I got a laugh out of the picture of the house; a stereotypical Eichler.

(https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-are-eichler-homes/)

Eichlers are very common in Palo Alto, but not so common throughout the rest of the US.

(Edit: And yes, I left the Bay Area, and bought what most people living in the Bay Area would consider a mansion, in a high-cost-of-living state. I paid less then my Bay Area rent for a 1-bedroom with a loft.)
I asked users for a desired feature list, and none of those were mentioned.
So it looks like you have to join one of their "Main Street Communities" and work remotely from there for 1 year, but I can't find a listing of the community locations anywhere. Do they not exist yet? What gives?

Terms: https://workonmainstreet.com/incentive-terms
Why is a center bias inherently better? You call it “pretty safe to call good”. That’s actually excellent framing: PBS (I should clarify, I refer specifically to the news hour) plays it safe and doesn’t report anything not on other comparable stations or news outlets, but they do it with an enormous amount of decorum.

That said, frontline occasionally covers things the news hour won’t and can be a serious investigative journalism outlet.
Or introduce some basic standards or curation of what you allow on your marketplace. I’m talking bare bones very low hurdle here, not censorship. Search for headphones on amazon and tell me that Amazon is better off with the hundreds of identical knockoffs under different oddly worded ‘brands’ like “ALIHEN” or “Picun” or “Onpie.” I think the only benefit to amazon is that each of those individual actors then has incentive to lie, cheat, and steal to con people into buying their SKU through all sorts of questionable ‘marketing’ such as this. The only winner is Amazon.
> Can you come up with an example where a oil or finance sector developer needs to understand MESIF?

Yes. When they're writing high performance multithreaded analysis software and they're deciding which cache lines to write to and which only to read from. Those lines you only read from can be in S (shared) or F (forward) state.

And why is this important? Performance characteristics of a line entering in M (modified) state are pretty bad, if the line is shared between multiple cores.

Perhaps you'll also want to do all reads at once, knowing the line will more likely remain in F state for short periods, instead of bouncing S/F line state between CPU cores?

NUMA comes also to play, making this mistake even more costly. You really want to keep inter-core (especially NUMA socket!) communication to the minimum.

Of course, you could say you don't strictly need to understand MESI (or MESIF), but it really helps understanding why you do things certain way and reasoning about multi-core performance. The thing is, you can say same "you don't need to know this" about a lot of "low level details" in software trade.

Just like you need to understand DOM as a front-end developer to minimize DOM changes, even if you don't access it directly.

In cache coherency case it's analogously about reducing unnecessary multicast and broadcast messages sent between cores.
> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area

It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating.

New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines out the door to taking reservations. (They may claim to take "reservations" at the door. Those aren't reservations. They're names on a wait list. Lots of waiting.)

It's a cultural factor loosely related to (a) recent population and affluence increases outstripping a locale's (b) ability to build new businesses in the midst of (c) a greater value placed on exclusivity than time. (It's also present in Brooklyn and parts of Los Angeles.)
Ask most people in SF or Oakland and they'll probably think SJ is not part of the bay area. Lol.

Mostly joking, but I grew up in the Bay Area and live in SJ so it's not actually that uncommon to hear, especially from new folks to the area.
It's "a bit" older than that. I've heard it as a proverb in my native (non-english) tongue so I thought it probably came from the Bible, but TIL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_land_of_the_blind,_the...
> it’s absolutely astounding how apocalyptic things are looking there

The breakdown of society? Unable to acquire basic goods? Roving gangs of marauders?
Even this restriction costs them money, as the advertisers have either worse targeting, so lower ROI, so they'll spend less, or they'll have to do the targeting work themselves, which removes part of the value chain from Google, so they'll pay less.
Fine print here https://workonmainstreet.com/incentive-terms
Meet OpenFaaS at KubeCon San Diego!
Try to connect your friend's generic bluetooth headphones to share audio from your iphone while connected to your airpods. Now do it with another pair of airpods. Check the list of headphones on this support page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210421. All apple-owned.
We have successful content writers
So being an obsequious toady is okay as long as there's money in it?
We're working on a way to focus programs by geography! Currently we have 25+ programs live; I've just listed some of our ones with a direct UK alignment here:

JPMorgan Chase [Software] [We talk to their UK team]: https://www.insidesherpa.com/virtual-internships/prototype/R...

White & Case UK [Law]: https://www.insidesherpa.com/virtual-internships/prototype/H...

Linklaters [Law]: https://www.insidesherpa.com/virtual-internships/prototype/x...

Pinsent Masons [Law]: https://www.insidesherpa.com/virtual-internships/prototype/P...
No I don't get it. Explain plz
Counterpoint: Maybe the departure of Steve Ballmer added $850B to Microsoft?
Are recruiting fees that high that they are able to pay their own staff and the recruits $10k (plus the "member" benefits) and make money?
> It does not have well-functioning and reliable file transfers.

If only there were some sort of Universal scheme for denoting the Location of a Resource. That would let you map a relatively short string to one of many possible file access services, and put that string in a text chat channel, rather than conflating two distinct problem domains.

Also every server I know and most clients do logging.
There is not much to prep. Move away from the most affected regions today. If you wait until its too late then you won't get to choose your destination because everyone else has already had the same idea.
Maybe if they start getting enough emails/tweets they will reconsider this...emailing them now...
The idea is sound. There are a lot of amazing places in Italy where I am from. Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands. Just think about it. No traffic. No over-crowded restaurants. Your own property. Sun. Sea side.

I think this is more an issue of community. Of course if you are the only remote worker in a place with aging population is not fun. But if some start up would be able to build a community of remote workers in a specific location, wouldn't that make a lot of sense? Also once you have a bunch of highly skilled people in a specific location it gets easier for companies to hire there.
Quarkus 1.0.0.CR2 Released – Last Stop Before Final
Have you tried Microsoft Project or the various web SaaS clones? The ones with the task hierarchy on the left (of arbitrary depth) and a Gantt chart on the right. I think they all support entering effort estimates (like “5 days work”), dependencies, and so on.

Was there something you didn’t like about them?
I think it's meant to be a synecdoche for all of the bad parts of living in a crowded metropolis.
Don't forget to complain using /feedback !
There's a difference between putting your thumb on companies, and an entire sector. Knee jerk hate for industry wide regulation makes no sense, it's precisely the job of the government to set the standards of operation for a particular market.
Yeah, they should definitely clarify that on the "how it works" page. However, they do state residency as a requirement in section 4(a) here: https://workonmainstreet.com/incentive-terms
Player Piano is a fantastic book and very topical in today's world awash in UBI, fears of automation, etc. Player piano is the GE's factory will take all jobs version of today's AI FUD.
slack tends to keep a process in the background that needs to be killed and restarted when you "close" it. did you run `pkill slack` or similar and then restart?
I just sold my ground level condo in nyc for pennies on the dollar. Rushing to get out before we’re underwater.
It's really not clear that water filters are doing anything positive (you'd have to get your water tested to know) and they do have a tendency to increase the bacterial load in the water because of the inevitable biofilm that accumulates on the filter surfaces. In addition it's just another single use plastic product
Yup, this. Funny how quickly everyone forgets the serious data loss bugged that plagued the release of Snow Leopard.
I wonder if she suffers from hoarding as well as she seems to be a bit in denial with her expenses. The article states:

> Almost every day, Jessica’s boyfriend of eight years begrudgingly hauls Amazon packages in from the porch. “He hates it,” she told BuzzFeed News. But Jessica proudly points to all the items she's acquired for their new house: “I got our new showerhead, shower organizer, side tables, coat rack, coat hangers. … We would have had to pay for all that stuff.”

Then it later states:

> The spreadsheet helps Jessica make sure she’s on top of due dates and getting paid on time. BuzzFeed News reviewed the document, which showed 117 open orders that hadn’t been refunded yet. A column titled “Total currently out of pocket” — or what she’s still owed — amounted to $2,282.01.

So she isn't _REALLY_ getting everything for free. According to her own records she is down $2,282.01 and it's quite possible she wont see that money. If this continues, that number will either grow into serious debt or "Jessica" will move on to something else.

Sounds like an addiction.
I am well aware of how to do this, yes. I do not find this a good solution.

So dial back the snark.
When you illegally conspire to hold down the salaries of your employees you lose the benefit of the doubt.
I haven't read anything profound or non-obvious on this topic and there's a lot written about it.

The one thing I have learned creating and trying to get a 2 sided marketplace off the ground (https://gearoffer.com) is that it's excruciating, painful and nearly impossible.

The one thing you must have is perseverance. A lot of perseverance.
Well, these days you _can_ run a company without a single Windows machine.

What you cannot do (once you are more than a handful) is to not use any Microsoft cloud services (exchange online, office 365, skype fb, teams, ...) while doing business with other companies.

Satya saw this way before the rest of us.
Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
Hrm, I've been using Netlify for static site hosting, and the ability to push from other cloud storage might actually make me want to switch, or at least try this out.

For small static sites, I really feel like it's overkill putting them in a repo or having to drag the "whole site" in everytime from a zip file or folder. Especially for small incremental changes that happen often.

If my understanding is correct, I can have a folder in another cloud storage service (or even on my PC), that when I change a single file there- Fast.IO will notice that change and publish/replicate it to the live site. That's pretty neat.
13 was the worst iOS release I can remember. Photos would crash from scrolling too fast. Mail wouldn't check for new messages for a whole day. Safari blank screens. Replying to messages in Mail was a 50/50 proposition. The phone would freeze for 5-10 seconds more than it ever did before. All kinds of visual artifacts like text appearing where it shouldn't, UI elements getting orphaned and just floating around, effects that didn't finish all the way...
I don't think it's always developers' call.
What many seem to forget is 2C or 4C of warming is not an end equilibrium state, it's merely an arbitrary date of measurement (end of 21st century) for the track we may irreparably lock in for centuries and millennia. One a tipping point tips it's damn near impossible to tip it back.

That seems more than a little cavalier given the limited range of regions we find our planet's landmass in. The future looks more and more terrifying, and despite public opinion supporting action in much the world, still the political class have little to no answer anywhere...
Easier: stop eating meat that you do not actually want. I ate cold cut or sausages for breakfast or dinner not because I actually wanted to but because it was there and I was used to eating it. Easiest way to change is to shop differently. Buy less meat-products to have less of them in the fridge, buy other tasty things instead to have them easily available.

By the way - this also means that you can eat all the meat you actually want. Cutting back on the meat you eat on auto-pilot will go a long way already.

Edit: inspired by a reply, I think that a rule like

Don't eat meat, except if you really want to

might be even more promising. It takes away the cognitive load of the decisions whether to eat meat or not while being an unfailable method because it includes exceptions to the rule by itself. You're not out just because you really wanted that burger or a steak at the barbecue.
How do you work around the lack of a kept history?
That does not appear to be correct.

https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html/wiki/How-it-Works#4-upda...

Excerpt:

update() simply iterates through each part and value (the parts array and values array are always the same length) and calls part.setvalue(v) for each part.

https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/guide

Excerpt:

Behind the scenes lit-html creates HTML <template> elements from your JavaScript templates and processes them so that it knows exactly where to insert and update the values from expressions.

This is very limited. You need to manually update DOM unless your updates are simple changes in values of expressions.
The argument was that Apple was denying the ability for third parties to create a feature by excluding the headphone jack. If Apple had a headphone jack you would get this:

https://www.amazon.com/Avantree-Headphone-Splitter-Earphone-...

Instead of this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PB93C96
"To collect the $10,000, you’ll need to become a MainStreet Member and work out of one of our MainStreet offices for at least 12 months."

This is raising red flags, somehow.
No way. Renewable energy still need a lot of maintenance/resources which are still heavily carbonated. Same for electric cars.

Changing the way we move is good, but there is still the model of consumption that needs to be changed : eating bananas that crossed oceans by boat, plane traffic and so on.

Yeah bikes are good, but we still need to consume less. Much less.

What you call 80% carbon neutrality is from a perspective of someone living in an desindustrialized country. But you still expect to have smartphones or computers produced at the other end of the world.
> Even in war very few people would be this brutal now, we have moved beyond what we were and I hope we can do it again.

While I appreciate your sentiments I can’t help but feel that you are quite incorrect.

ISIS? Burning people in cages for propaganda? Mass rapes and executions? That’s all happening in today’s age.
More details seem to be in https://workonmainstreet.com/how-it-works
Oooo! So they make even more money since the advertisers can’t target the ads and have to use more but less effective ads!!! That’s a nice side effect for business while pretending you’re being noble. Ah, the joy of signaling.
Microsoft has defintiely made great business decisions under Nadella. His vision in recognizing cloud investment must not have been an easy thing for the board to accept.

Two things I dislike about this article

1. It's tone is so favorable to Nadella and Microsoft, it feels like it was written by a fan. Amazon and Bezos are described as childish. They may be but it feels like the article has an agenda

2. Why is this a novel? The first third of this covers the main points but it keeps going
Stores in air conditioned shopping malls have much higher overhead and typically much lower and less diverse stocks. The result is better in only a limited sense.
If you're curious why this run-of-the-mill PR piece is rising on HN, keep in mind that Microsoft (and other FAANG) posts like these are gamed by employees. https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games'-hac...
At the risk of sounding overly woke, houses and cars are terrible for the climate. Also, there's a reason that big businesses and highly-educated professionals gravitate towards. More fluid labor and job markets. I'd think a better goal here would be build up technology industries in smaller cities.
This is all I want from an electron app, and is basically the main reason I really want PWAs to take off.
I do believe this will strengthen propaganda to be honest. I don't think I ever noticed a political ad from Google (not US based), but I am pretty certain that Google will ban those advertisements that are not in their interest. Google has close contaxts to many political circles.
I'm running catalina.
Or Amazon could just check who bought any three items from the random assortment in the picture..
Windows 7 Secure Desktop Escalation of Privilege
I'm a software engineer at a FANG, in a VHCOL city...and I feel completely out of touch with whatever cultural circles these people live in.

> We are three former Googlers who are on a mission to help create jobs in rural and suburban cities around America.

Ok, yeah, that explains it
Fun fact, there is also a Vonnegut-themed restaurant in Indy named after Bluebeard.
And what possible technology could completely de-carbonize the electric grid in time? Because last I check there are no scalable battery solutions which could feasibly be ramped up in ten years time.
It's dishonest at best and fraudulent at worst. In most widely accepted views of morality, it is immoral.

The intent is to deceive other shoppers. Sure she's not some evil scourge upon the world, but that doesn't make it right.
This is not a bug, this is a feature. Electronic consumption reduces physical consumption, as in demand for new statussymbols, new infrastructure, new every thing. And this was the goal all along. Harden humanity against alot of ugly scenarios.

Have distributed tutorials on video to restore society from the ashes (check)

Have self-surveilance to keep civil, even when the state fails, becaus observed permanently. (check)

Reduce ressource consumption, while keeping intellectual active and contribooting (even on lower level) (check).

All this is a bonus to the wastefull 60s, which scaled to the planet, would bankrupt us in years.
Does this mean there is no such thing as free will?
That's huge though, you need to know you will be able to open your documents in a decade or more.
To be fair, that's not an issue in the Swift runtime.
I switched to borg on all my macs, it’s so easy. I think most of the recent backup software is doing better than timemachine, which is really really slow via WiFi nowadays
A History of Human Waste as Fertilizer
Capsule networks are not failed experiments! Where is this coming from? They merely haven't been applied as much as CNNs or FCNs but there are lots of papers out there where capsule networks outperform those architectures.

Source: my thesis using capsule networks for semantic segmentation of aerial imagery
This integration test is way too late to be finding faults like these. This is top down design, which is expensive an error prone. The ship should be designed and tested in a bottom up fashion, such that the failure modes of every individual component is already known, as per Feynman. SpaceX is repeating the mistakes of the Space Shuttle program.