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Hear me out, Apple does this kind of stuff to keep the quality of the experience up.

So what if it’s only 15 out of 100 people who can’t or won’t pay to play that would be the ones to create a poor experience? They decided it’s worth keeping out the rest of them.

This is the same reason why they purposefully break apps on iOS updates (it’s not just about being too lean to care about backwards compat) but it forces people to update their apps and many times this comes with a QoL refresh from the developer.

They also require a DUNS number in order to publish an app as a company rather than an individual, and $100/year to publish at all.

Similar line of thinking, hoops that force people to show that they are capable of meeting a standard, even if it is just the 80/20 rule (20% of the producers who can’t jump the hoops produce 80% of the garbage) but they decided it’s worth the cost of the other 80%.
The population would likely speak it slower to compensate. Information density and speech rate are inversely correlated, with an average information rate around 39 bits/second.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594
Bazel advertises itself as

> Build and test software of any size, quickly and reliably

Given the comments here, a tagline focusing on its strengths for large orgs/projects probably would be better marketing.
That's really just the cycle of life forcing itself on us whether we like it or not. Sometimes humans collectively forget that we're biological entities first and foremost, with all the limitations and imperfections that come with that.

Possibly, the most damaging human trait is arrogance. It causes us to get trapped inside a box, unable to look outside for other approaches.
Right, but why would Japanese children be refusing to go to school because of racism toward non-Japanese?
There are a lot of good unions can do but I think they went way too far in their demands over the decades of their existence (like making it super hard to fire delinquent workers and hyper specialization where one guy does one job, and refuses to wear multiple hats like any modern business requires, because his union requires him only to do that one job).

It’s not like unions are bad or evil, this sort of scope creep and beaurucratic self destruction is common in countless organizations.

If unions were reformed, or we could get some form of union-lite where it really was just about wages and sane working hours/conditions then I’d be much more in support of them.

It’s just the disconnect between what it sounds like on paper (great for the working poor!) and what they actually do in practice with the myriad of negative side effects which heavily contributed to massive inefficiencies and making America (and other countries) less competitive... it’s just difficult to square the two.
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while I agree that it's a useful book for existing engineers who lack those skills, it's not something I'd recommend to people just learning to build stuff
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No, that's not what we do with other drugs. No one goes to an IRB with "We suspect this drug is bad for people, we should run a study to find out," and gets approval for that study.

If you wanted to perform an observational study on whether or not people already consuming LSD are at heightened risk of stroke, I highly doubt the federal ban would affect that.
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Wingspan, of course.
Do you mean the hypothetical part 6? It doesn't exist. Part 5 was published on December 14th but the author hasn't released anything since (I wouldn't be surprised if they were busy given it's the end-of-year).
This is a crazy story. The Internet is out because a car hit into a utility pole, and the airport can't operate. Are our airports that vulnerable?
An engineering background is the bare-minimum requirement, not all engineers are equal capable (or capable at all).
No, you could not. Not even close.

https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
I just don't agree. What's Old Town Road if not a common cultural touchstone?
Thanks for pointing that out. I read the whole article with my brain filling in "TikTok" in place of "ToTok".
No, it's only really a problem for payloads strapped to the side of the booster, like the space shuttle.
Yes, China benefits tremendously. However the African countries reap some rewards too. It’s hard to take away infrastructure once it’s built short of starting a war. If the African countries can figure out how to maintain and add to all the new infrastructure, they may have the upper hand in the very long term.
Instead of punishing the current CEO, they should slash previous leadership’s ownership by 30%
How to host a CMS site on GitHub for free?
One can host a static site on Github for free. (How)Can we somehow connect SQLite to it and create a CMS?
It's only required for applications that exclusively use third-party auth, and this rule is only being enforced for new applications at the moment. After April 2020, existing applications will also have to follow this rule.
Wealthy, yes. If the US is considered authoritarian then the word starts to lose any useful meaning.
Right, tagged unions are what I use, but when you start having many variants, nested tagged unions, etc., it gets quite awkward imo when you need a big ol’ switch statement to get at some property or other instead of just a simple property check.
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> An engineering background is the bare-minimum requirement

But why?

Is their problem an engineering one?

Or a culture, leadership and values ones?

Everyone's saying that they put profit before safety. That's a financial decision that they need to address not an engineering one!
Ask HN: What's your personnel management system / process / tools?
Hello HN,
What's your personnel management system, or process, and what tools do you use?

I am looking to improve how I track my goals (i.e. OKRs), and how I pursue learning & development. For the latter, I'm looking to improve how I manage the content consumed for the purpose of learning - between using multiple devices, and getting content across multiple mediums it gets messy (e.g. physical notebook, google docs, etc.).

Thanks,
No, I mean parts 2-5
Bean counters don't have any ability to understand if their reports are lying to them. If all their reports are saying "all systems go" and there isn't anyone doing any fact-checking, how can the organization be successful?
Nothing you need to write a driver is part of the NDK stable API contract either. They're orthogonal concepts.
The struct pointer itself wont be GC'd. It's intentional as the cache should be up for as long as the server process runs.

However, that struct contains data that can and will be GC'd once no longer used. This is the type of the variable: https://github.com/allegro/bigcache/blob/master/bigcache.go
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Is it because when something happens they tell you “this happened because you did X”?

I realized that being explicitly about game mechanics actually add to the pleasure of branching games. For example the “X will remember this” in telltale games.
I have no idea how the Boeing board works, but most boards aren't involved in the day-to-day operations of the corporation and would be considered separate from the "leadership team".
If/when the 737 MAX comes back into service, I'm honestly going to actively avoid flying on it if at all possible. I doubt I'm alone in this.
You're not supposed to notice any perceptual differences while the experience is happening. The whole point of microdosing is to experience the positive benefits and changes, over time, without any of the overt psychoactive effects commonly associated with larger doses of psychedelics.
Maybe https://youtu.be/rvkEpstd9os
Staying off the road, doing as little as feasibly possible.
This comment should not be downvoted. We have yet to explain all the inner workings of the brain nor the exact mechanism that drives human behavior. Some future discovery will, perhaps, make our current understanding look downright stupid and primeval in retrospect.

Let's state the obvious: humans _choose_ to modify themselves and their surroundings in a way trees do not, and it offers us the ability to move away from the light if we want. Failure to recognize this apparent difference stunts any drive to investigate further and it's insulting to both humans and trees.

On a level of empathy, I get it. We need compassion for eachother and predicaments that are often not of our choosing. Fine. Let's at least say that in some ways people are like trees and in other ways they are not. Ultimately that's not a very deep insight and rings very much like the kind of thing teenagers say while stoned.

However - I mean no disrespect to Richard or Ram or however he wanted to be called. The man did incredible work toward helping his fellow humans and for this reason alone he deserves great respect. I'm sad for his loss and I hope I can do even a portion of the good he did during his life.
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I believe Apple claiming this makes the experience better is very weak. What this really is is Apple creating a market where its apps thrive and competitors aren't allowed.

The other big sticking point for me? You can't develop for Apple without an Apple. I can write code for Android on any OS and don't force developers to pay thousands into the ECOsystem to release a _free_ application
I think everyone can agree that late 19th century up to the first half of the 20th century was an unusual time with many scientific breakthroughs. Science is moving much slower now, but it's still much faster than in the time before that.
"They repackage old ideas" Old in the East, new to the West. I'm sure Ram Dass would agree that he was a flawed person, except possibly the allegation that he lied. What kind of lies are you talking about? If you want to call students "gullible devotees" ok. You say "exploited women and men" to mean he had sex? You think he should have been celibate? You're looking at the finger, not at what the finger is pointing to.
Just curious how you'd explain Germany and the high levels of unions in the export industries there? You can hardly say that there is little global competition or high levels of protectionism for them.
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Zillow.
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Well, ok, so Crystal is 0 years old.
> Could you point out where you see a link between unions and the poor quality control that was observed in the plant?

Unions empower employees, and the quality control issues were getting raised by employees and getting ignored by management. Empowered employees could have more effectively pushed back.

Also, the union employees were more qualified to do this type of work. However management gave instructions not to hire any, so the Boeing hired less qualified non-union people to assemble the planes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...

> A New York Times review of hundreds of pages of internal emails, corporate documents and federal records, as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, reveals a culture that often valued production speed over quality. Facing long manufacturing delays, Boeing pushed its work force to quickly turn out Dreamliners, at times ignoring issues raised by employees....

> Mr. Barnett, who filed a whistle-blower complaint with regulators, said he had repeatedly urged his bosses to remove the [dangerous metal] shavings [near wiring]. But they refused and moved him to another part of the plant....

> Managers were also urged to not hire unionized employees from the Boeing factory in Everett, where the Dreamliner is also made, according to two former employees. “They didn’t want us bringing union employees out to a nonunion area,” said David Kitson, a former quality manager, who oversaw a team responsible for ensuring that planes are safe to fly. “We struggled with that,” said Mr. Kitson, who retired in 2015. “There wasn’t the qualified labor pool locally.” Another former manager, Michael Storey, confirmed his account....

> In the interest of meeting deadlines, managers sometimes played down or ignored problems, according to current and former workers. Mr. Barnett...learned in 2016 that a senior manager had pulled a dented hydraulic tube from a scrap bin, he said. He said the tube, part of the central system controlling the plane’s movement, was installed on a Dreamliner. Mr. Barnett said the senior manager had told him, “Don’t worry about it.” He filed a complaint with human resources, company documents show....

> But several former employees said high-level managers pushed internal quality inspectors to stop recording defects. Cynthia Kitchens, a former quality manager, said her superiors penalized her in performance reviews and berated her on the factory floor after she flagged wire bundles rife with metal shavings and defective metal parts that had been installed on planes.“It was intimidation,” she said. “Every time I started finding stuff, I was harassed.”...

> Mr. Barnett was reprimanded in 2014 for documenting errors. In a performance review seen by The Times, a senior manager downgraded him for “using email to express process violations,” instead of engaging “F2F,” or face to face. He took that to mean he shouldn’t put problems in writing. The manager said Mr. Barnett needed to get better at “working in the gray areas and help find a way while maintaining compliance.”
Thanks for an interesting read (and a blast from the past). As I mentioned in my post: the tech to pull that off would be extremely cool, terrestrial or otherwise!
China is doing what Europe did in the 19th century. Anti-colonial independence movements and wholesale nationalization of existing infrastructure put a hell of a clamp on that sort of investment after the second world war. Why would you put up money to build ports or railroads or factories when political instability could mean that next year a tinpot dictator might decide that he was taking it at bayonet-point and seizing all your in-country assets? Especially when your government had demonstrated time and again that they had no interest in retaliating for that kind of trespass.
> While Boeing has nurtured generations of aerospace professionals in the Seattle area, there was no comparable work force in South Carolina. Instead, managers had to recruit from technical colleges in Tulsa, Okla., and Atlanta.

> Managers were also urged to not hire unionized employees from the Boeing factory in Everett, where the Dreamliner is also made, according to two former employees.

> “They didn’t want us bringing union employees out to a nonunion area,” said David Kitson, a former quality manager, who oversaw a team responsible for ensuring that planes are safe to fly.

> “We struggled with that,” said Mr. Kitson, who retired in 2015. “There wasn’t the qualified labor pool locally.” Another former manager, Michael Storey, confirmed his account.
> the worst world we have since the last ice age

Yes and no. By some measures we have; CO2 and other greenhouse gases for example. Other things have improved; the ozone layer is repairing itself, and many countries have much better standards for clean water and so on.

We should address the problems we have but it's easy to despair and do nothing if we're too pessimistic.
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Getting downvoted for asking an honest question and trying to understand something..

I wish I could delete my account because I have an impulse control disorder and sometimes I accidentally antagonize the hivemind and then feel bad all day, but I can't, because Hacker News doesn't give me the power to do that, so I keep logging in for some reason. Neat!

Could someone please ban me? Delete my comments? Please?
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Back when the UK government decided that it should be possible to order records of TCP/IP connections to be kept for similar reasons the MPs asked if there shouldn't be an exception for them. Surely, they argued, as upstanding people they shouldn't be subject to the same rules as ordinary citizens. The Home Secretary of that time told them that unfortunately that was technically impossible, they'd just have to trust that it wouldn't be abused (for example to spy on opposition politicians)...

Lots of people comforted themselves that that law required the Home Secretary to send a letter to order any such collection, and they imagined her writing maybe a dozen letters on a busy day, something like "Dear Tiny ISP, please keep records for your subscriber Steve Smith who we suspect of being a pervert". People more familiar with the actual negotiations behind the scenes say the letters actually went "Dear large UK Internet Backbone provider, per this new law, please store absolutely everything until further notice"...
They're halting production because they can't deliver the planes.

They don't have any internal controls to halt production for safety reasons, that much should be evident by now.
It does not seem this sort of general behavior is punished much even in the long term. It's very hard to compete with Boeing so they can do pretty much anything they want if they would want to.
The rush to get these planes back in the air being stalled has allowed us to discover other safety issues. Seems management continued to be irresponsible even after calamity struck.
Interesting. I've got a monthlong holiday break and want to get some work experience in it. My expectation is that no one will want to go through the effort of hiring me for that. I don't need the money right now, I'm trying to create a history of having reliably done something for money that I can point to in the future.

For example, a project I bid on was offering $200 to implement an email signature with two columns and basic styling from an image spec. Since it looked trivial and interesting I spent two hours learning a DSL for emails (MJML) and making it and then submitted a bid with screenshots of it in a few email clients.

I'm not trying to get a job creating something of significant scale or significant duration right now.
In the two cases I know, because they are black Japanese (one parent Japanese, one African) and that it just breaks the mind of both students and teachers that you can be Japanese without being 100% ethnic Japanese.
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I could be wrong, but I think the payment for one pays for the others. International text is one of those "a large portion of the world wants this" sorts of features. Once you've gotten that, emojis sort of come along for the ride.
Caches keep data, they don't delete them. It makes sense that a low latency cache would always keep the root of its cache structure in memory.
That’s because the system is too simple. What you want is something that remembers your choices while taking the same path most of the time (like a telltale game). This is not possible if you can’t keep state.

Some games do this by associating objects with path you take, when you reach a branch they’ll tell you “if you have object X, go to page Y, otherwise go to Z”

I’ve never seen this but you might be able to do this with a jumptable at the end of the book that changes arithmetically according to your choice
The Kindle versions of the books I'm interested in are unavailable. Anybody know another place to purchase them? I have the money to not pirate these days but damn these hoops you have to jump through...
I was wondering the same. I get the message from the post but I don't think the examples are good.
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I rendered the relative size of Wolf 359 a long time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star-sizes.jpg

It's not much larger than Jupiter (in comparison to other stars).
That's a stunning number.
This is why people are so outraged. We were supposedly past the days where something like this can happen in a century old industry like commercial aviation.

I understand that ensuring the safety of new airplane designs is more complicated than adding odor to natural gas. But this is not a product where society wants producers to "move fast and break things". We expect a minimum level of safety i.e the plane not falling out of the sky.
To be fair I missed the note at the end of your commend on my first read. Still, in the specific C++ example, no other capture clause is valid.

Also, python could have chosen a slightly different closure semantics and preserved sanity: instead of closing over the binding itself, it could close over each object reference separately (exactly in the same way the default parameter hack works).
My mother (and thus me because I learned to cook from her) always used clarified butter (butterschmalz, or ghee if you source it from Indian stores). Once learning about the history of seed oils I am quite happy I stuck to this.
I doesn't matter. Aircraft is a dualopily right now, and I don't see anything changing that (Airbus/Boeing).

If I recall Boeing asks the US to tariff Bombardiers aircraft (300%?)[1] that pushed a potential competitor (Bombardier) to work with Airbus (The Airbus 220 is a Bombardier design).

edit: Added:
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/boeings-trade-dispute-canada...

[1]https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/analy...

I worked in defense as a boeing sub. Boeing was the prime on radars and all manner of defense contracts that will keep them afloat (defense industry is another not very competetive one..).
no business gives away anything for free. You “pay” for Google searches with you searches/data being sold (and this is mostly a good thing). Alternatively “free stuff” is paid for by being bundled with something you pay for.
(2) market share matters little compared to “profit” share which is what Apple is after
> With airplanes, everyone knows they're really safe. Everyone says they're safer than cars.

Though true by many metrics, the fact that this has entered into the public zeitgeist is a victory in marketing.

While commercial air travel is much safer per hour and per KM, it is less safe by the metric used by the industry and its insurers: Deaths per journey.[1]

However, there's a strong argument to be made that time and distance are more relevant to the consumer anyways. Still, the per-journey metric could have been weaponized by an opponent of commercial air travel to assert the opposite.

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16321985-200-flight-i...
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Love those days. You always felt like you were in a secret society. You couldn't talk to anyone else about what you were up to because they wouldn't understand it.

Thanks Randy and Ward for a great gift. BBSs are what sparked my interest in computers in the first place. Thanks Jason Scott for the great documentary. Watched it several months ago and it brought me back. Wow those were good times.
That's the interesting thing. As a white man, I thought "Oh, they are actually kind to foreigners!" and then I helped raise a black kid in Japan.

I remember a guy who helped us install in the village when we moved to the countryside. He had lived in the US for a while and told us "That's nice to have foreigners! I love foreigners! Especially white ones!"

Yeah, as a white guy, you dont get to experience much racism, doesnt mean it is not there.
> a field dominated by white men

Actually, as far as I can tell, it's dominated by asians - specifically Indians.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with your first point entirely unless you have some stats for it. My personal experience has been that Japanese people 1) are no more likely than others to have active hobbies, and 2) largely do not pick up long-term hobbies until college or later in life because their younger years were overburdened with schoolwork.
>To take them with no effect, your mind must be firmly fixed on God.

Reminds me of Mark 16:18 where Jesus is speaking of those who believe: "...and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them..."
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