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As long as you don't do anything out of the box , US won't take responsibility for their mess. Why should they ? Not their best interest to spend money at a small remote island. Calling Iran is just about making it their problem again. I think you are the type of people that don't ask for a raise because you are afraid not being seen a "team player". How nice of you !!
Read the long report by Slaughter and May (see top HN comment) with 250 pages of details, it is quite insightful and more than enough gory details.

New architecture, new platform, implementation takes too long, migration and testing insufficiently planned and when push comes to shove even the too low non functional testing goals not reached but still gone live.

With big bang approaches one has to keep in mind that complexity grows non-linear and at a certain size it becomes very hard. This migration was at a size that was getting hard but the approach taken and the way it was executed was clearly (see report) not on the level required. Big bang on smaller scale is the fastest and cheapest. Big bang on larger scale starts having big risks.

A more incremental approach may have been better and cost effective with much lower risks. A honest cost comparison may have shown that - provided the big bang approach would have been properly planed with sufficient large scale integration, migration and proofing milestones and buffers for risks inherent in this one-shot approach.
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You’re right that further research is required here but it’s also worth barring in mind that there is already a good body of evidence available that supports the power of social media bot accounts have public opinion. I mean this isn’t the first story like this to break in recent years ;)
There's lots of pro-cannabis and pro-LSD comments everywhere. My cynical view is that the "power" wants us all sedated, and it's investing its media to promote the "new" batch of drugs to get another generation hooked up.

I do think that there are probably quite beneficial uses of drugs, but probably not in a ludic way as most people prefer to use them.
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Yeah. That and "retrieves music" both sound like it's actually pulling encoded audio files down
Well that's fine too: the US will then need to deal with it's new colony's nuclear waste legacy! "Oh no, we lost and got everything we needed!" :)

Isn't there an old film where a small island declares independence from the US, declares war on the US and then surrenders after 5 minutes to get aid?

(Edited because I think it's actually colony's not colonies)
>because they were effectively earning more money (in the context of the value of their benefits) just because they had a family.

Well, because of that little fact, they also helped society, civilization, and ultimately business too, to continue existing going forward...
Sort of agree, but the "well done" part in your reply also represent a sad aspect of HN, in my view
...on Christmas Eve.

And this article is from 2009 for christmas's sakes.
:) Depends, what sort of shares are you offering and do you have at least 10 Olympic pools of plutonium-containing waste?
For every comment in here complaining about e-waste, I'm going to buy an attiny20 and throw it in a landfill.
FWIW I applied to AMD for an HPC application engineer position (GPU compute) and a couple of weeks later to a similar position by a direct competitor.

In the time it took the other company to contact me, do 6 interviews, negotiate contract, and get me signed, I haven’t even been contacted by AMD. Their position is still open, I’m a perfect fit and I haven’t been rejected either. I suppose I’ll get an automatic rejection letter at some point.

The online application system for AMD is just quite bad. Looking at my application in their system, everything is full with “Unknown” and I can’t event put in my skills. It wouldn’t surprise me if on their database I’m a horrible candidate.
Dunno about new signups but I've never added one and my account works fine. I use TOTP for the 2FA.
i'd say if a start-up is hiring outside of founders / stock offerings then they are no longer a startup and should offer somewhat realistic wages. before that time, people accept to get paid less with prospect of their stock options exploding and that compensating for the lack of initial wages.

that being said, if a person wants to work at a startup, i'd say they already accept that the wage will be much lower than at some big corporate or company who is making good income already. it seems a bit if not a lot silly to me that someone would join a startup in the early phases but then demand a corporate salary. startups are kind of a popular term, but think about it... people used to actually build stuff and then get funded / success, instead of wanting funding upfront without any actual effort put in (thats exaggerating i know). A lot of startups these days though really ask for ALOT of money from investors without having even an MVP or viable product yet. I can't see why someone would pay for just an idea ... it seems a lazy way to make a startup. Building something, prove it works, and investors will have no issue to invest?
Maybe the "Draw the obvious implied takeaway" mat would suit it better?
Speaking as an Australian raising Swedish kids, it's going to be weird watching this with them in s couple of hours and acting like it's a natural thing to do!

(Christmas is of course really about eating mangos and drinking cold beer in the sweltering Queensland sun...)
They can charge, just slowly. I think the driver was saying that he can change free on faster chargers, maybe?
„Too big to fail” is the last thing we need. And I’m not sure how the SSL part in consumer-facing part of IT relates to a botched internal data migration.
True, but a lot of the time it appears to people that the "site guidelines" are not applied in a blanket fashion.
Before Oracle there was Sun, which managed Java Card just the same way, and there is the consortium as well.

Given the December 12th release, I expect those issues from March, to have been fixed already.
While I see your point, I'll add that there is no language called "Lisp", or rather, that language stopped in the 1960s while other Lisp dialects developed. "Lisp evangelist" is instead applied to the wider set of Lisp-like languages.

As a point of pedantry, should Perl 6 (the programming language of 4 months ago) be considered a Raku dialect?

Or vice versa?
But isn't masking the phone number kinda defying the purpose?

Extremely impressive
Thanks! That means a lot.
Avoiding leaded solder is trivial, and it is something that's hopefully handled a bunch, so why not avoid lead? I didn't know "following best practices you have to follow in your daily work anyhow" is "obsessing".
Actually the main thing about simplicity is having an ego small enough that you don't need to show, in your code / design, everything you are capable of understanding, if less is already enough. The fact I understand strong consistency does not mean this is a good design choice for Redis. Actually who followed certain advices provided by experts, now closed the doors of their business in the database area. You can't be hostage of your users.
Where did he say that his friends were rich?
It's not only Donald Duck, it's a random collection on Disney clips. The only "bizarre" thing about it, is that every year seconds are cut away as the removed clips are no longer considered politically correct.
EU is just a yet another set of deals. Switzerland is not even a EU member - it has a yet another set of deals. There are reasons for such deals as with Blue card deals or similar. Preferring one deal over another just because of nationality or race is wrong.
The only reason Russia comes out okay in your comparison is because it simply lacks the capacity to project power the way the U.S. does - there's only one global superpower, for now. If you look at areas where Russia has had an effectively free hand - like Chechnya, for instance - adjusting for scale, the resulting atrocities are worse than anything the U.S. has done since Vietnam. And in terms of internal repression, there's just no comparison at all.

The EU is simply not a credible military force. For many EU states therefore "friendship" (which really means acquiescence) to the U.S. is the only effective antidote to the geographical malady of being next to Russia.
Most of the Chinese board fabs will sell you prototype-quality boards for a lower price if you use a leaded HASL finish (e.g. https://jlcpcb.com/quote#/?orderType=1&stencilWidth=100&sten...)

HASL is perfectly usable with stencils, in my experience.
The whole fear of outsourcing is a myth companies use to deregulate immigration and it needs to stop being used as fear mongering to justify lax regulations.

If outsourcing was so good why hasn't all of SV packed and moved abroad already to cheap countries or even to cheaper states in the US instead of offering insane salaries at home?

Companies stay in the west because of the ecosystem comprised of stable government, generous financing and skilled workforce.
is it some specific type of sand or whaT? i mean... china has loads of desert, it's a big issue there :D don't they just take their own sand?? is there some special type of sand required for good cement which is rare or something?
Well the CyberTruck response has validated the market and market surveys indicate that the major alternative players (GM, Ford and Rivian) also have significant market interest. While Rivian may have to bring its price point down a bit it should be still be viable and $1.3bn will allow a higher volume, lower cost per unit production run.
I share some of your cynicism but I think the “sedated” comment is a massive leap to make. However I do sometimes wonder if there has been a push from tobacco manufacturers as a way to booster profits now that smoking has fallen out of vogue. Admittedly I’ve done zero research to back up this suspicion.

Personally I do think laxer drug laws are a good thing. Those that want to get high will always find a way so it’s better to regulate the market than push it underground.
The HTML audio tag is quite limited, hence a million solutions to the problem.

However the video tag supports WebVTT subtitles (and plain audio tracks) which is quite close to SRT, so it should be possible without any kind of proprietary/custom solution.
My first thought when I saw this was of all the people and corporations investing in CBD and whatnot. Most corporations seem to be using adtech and social media (which are really the same) to perform mass manipulation. When that’s combined with all the crazy financial tools people can make a lot of money.

I think if lawmakers actually wanted people using drugs for the effects then drugs would be legal, I would argue they instead want the ability to arrest and incarcerate people at will.
>Sure, the lead may cross one or two layers of cloth and migrate from the pocket to your skin and bite you.

You get it on your hands and then ingest it when you eat. (People don't usually wash their hands after touching a business card.)
Lol, great minds!

It does amaze me when these things come up. It's like everyone wants to avoid paying the bill (I understand that). But if no one pays, the problem will be vastly more than the cost of the bill. So why don't people just sigh and say "we'll pay our share if the EU and China agree to contribute the same"!? Given the tininess of the sums compared to the budgets of the groups involved, its not rocket science.

I was amazed more countries were not willing to contribute to replacing the Chernobyl sarcophagus. If it starts leaking, everyone is will lost 100s of billions, but a few billion is too much to avoid that!?
I'm a pessimist/realist when it comes to it as well. We as a global population are still figuratively learning to clean up our own feces, faffing about with useless programs and dragging dead-weight because we refuse to properly fix problems.
For example, with Mercurial, there's at least four different ways to do a rebase-ish thing: transplant, graft, rebase, and rebase (w/ evolve enabled). It's not obvious which a newbie should pick (rebase+evolve... I think?).

You're cherrypicking--no pun intended.

By default, Mercurial doesn't do any of these operations; you have to activate extensions.

If I were a newbie coming from Git and I wanted a similar workflow using Mercurial, I would probably start with rebase.

But these days, the Evolve extension is the way to go--using it is a lot easier than anything I've seen or experienced using Git: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/user-guide.html.

I find it kinda ironic when in this message thread, people are praising a chart like this--http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/. It feels like the DVCS version of Helsinki Syndrome…

By design, Mercurial makes it much harder to shoot yourself in the foot.

In contrast, there's an entire cottage industry (https://ohshitgit.com and the like) to help when you--inevitably--get into a bad situation with Git.
In Germany they watch that old British sketch about a blind old woman and her butler having dinner with guests who aren't there.
It's because the founders think too highly of themselves, and have the thought that since it's their "idea", they deserve the lion's share of equity.

Do not ever work for a startup where the founder(s) have this sort of mentality.
> It really doesn't matter if the voltage regulator has them or not.

Not all LDOs are stable without external output capacitance in a particular range / ESR.
Very impressive stuff! There are so many stupid comments here.
Any food "additive" (including all chemicals used in farming) should be listed, carcinogen or not.

The fact that products can be sold as "cucumber" but actually have a long list of chems on their skin is a very dark practice. See how companies abused their power when ingredient lists where not enforced by law. Or how tobacco comps are still abusing their freedom not to list ingredients. This malpractice disgusts me daily.
Oh, that would be awesome! I’m very interested as well :)
Why is this bizarre? Most countries seems to have traditions relating to seasons. In the UK It's a Wonderful Life and The Snowman are iconic and broadcast every year.

Japanese traditionally eats KFC at Christmas. I'm sure most countries have quirks like these. They are harmless, they create a sense of togetherness and humans in general likes traditions and rituals. Considering how big especially Donald Duck is in Scandinavia, it seems natural that there would be a Christmas tradition that incorporates that.

The only bizarre thing is the condescending tone of the author.
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In America it's A Christmas Story I think. They have a TV channel dedicated to reruns of it.
Hiring restrictions to the EU exclusively have nothing to do with race but they do with nationality and there's nothing wrong with that.

As an EU national and EU taxpayer for decades, I expect to be a first class citizen of my region and the governing bodies to prioritize my well being first as much as I expect the US or Chinese or Indian governments to prioritize the well being of thier citizens first as opposed to mine.

Is it wrong if I can't get a work visa for SV? Or China? Or India?
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If your company does not pay above market rate, you may naturally end up with employees who are satisfied with their salaries.

The quality of living in Germany is in decline in recent years, unfortunately, as our government knows only how to waste money when economy boomed, but is completely incompetent what to do with growing challenges, and how to ensure its relevance and growth in future. Introducing new taxes every week is not a mark of competence.
I was talking about tiktok (apparently totok wasn’t a typo,) you can’t post ukulele videos here haha.
I call your vagueity and raise you another vagueity: Pretty much all of meat-scare tactics are terrible for you.
Personal accountability only applies to execs and is already a thing in financial services in the UK post financial crisis.
The article states that the sand in a desert is to "smooth" to properly bind in concrete. So yes, the demand is for sand with characteristics that work in concrete. The article also states that Cambodia has banned exporting sand and also that Singapore recorded record exports from Cambodia. I suspect that large scale corruption is in play.
Don't know why the downvotes either. Its not intuitive, but a sad fact of life and just the way supply and demand works.
This is true. I live in Bangalore and I see European companies paying like 30 - 40% more than what we get paid in India. This is so little when the cost of living and the cost of moving with your family are considered. It inevitably leads to the reduction in spending in those cities in Europe.
It presented as a runaway stab trim. Repeatedly coming on and driving the nose down is runaway trim. No two ways about it.

No, it didn't. From the latest QRH:

Condition: Uncommanded stabilizer trim movement occurs continuously.

Well that's not met as MCAS doesn't run continuously. By design it stops periodically. Put it another way. You're arguing semantics while the 737 MAX remains a smoldering pile of aluminum and hubris.

2.) Control airplane pitch attitude manually with control column and main electric trim as required.

4.) If the runaway stops after the autopilot is disengaged ....

MCAS also stops after the trim switches are hit. So, again MCAS activation is not a runaway trim condition.

From my reading of that incident, nothing of the sort happened. The 3rd pilot simply reached forward and flipped off the cutoff switches.

Reread the report. The third pilot went back into the cabin to fetch reading material.
They do likewise in Norway, on the 23:rd, even though the sketch itself is about New Years eve :)
Why not? They "vanished" around the time that we "appeared", so there is no contradiction.

Most recent evidence puts the earliest appearance of Homo Sapience between 300-500 Kya, perhaps even a bit more than 500 Kya. In practice with evolution there is often an overlap of ancestral and descendant species, especially in isolated environments, and thus the discovery that there probably were Homo Erectus on Java until 100 Kya thus also fits with this.
That certainly didn't play when Judith Miller [1] given the bull horn at the NYT allowed the Bush Administration to march us directly into a bullshit war. They are indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller
Yeah, maybe it's a "I don't like this" vote. I tend to agree - I find embedded software engineering skills quite intimidating. Nevertheless, the market demand just isn't as high.
You can model the optimal thing to learn mathematically, by framing learning as question asking, and using information and decision theory.

Any time you ask a question, the answer will update your internal distribution of potential future (or present unknown) states of the world. The information gain of a question is the reduction in entropy of your internal future world state distribution. You can assign a value to this information gain using a loss function, which will tell you the expected loss by making the maximum likelihood bet about the future state of the world given your current knowledge of the world. The difference in expected losses is the "value" of the information.

To bring this into the realm of the practical, if there is a payout for knowledge, you should choose to learn things that minimize the chance that you will make a costly bad decision, with an eye to how probable those outcomes are. If there is no payout, you should choose to learn things that will produce the greatest information gain, which is in areas where you are currently very ignorant.

TLDR: Choose to learn things that will help you avoid likely catastrophes when learning for profit, learn a little bit about a lot of very different things when learning for fun.
> I doubt this is a realistic consequence... I mean, who is following these bots? Would people really listen to a bot?

I'm not sure if you're serious, but misinformation in general is a big global concern that has tangible, unexpected and sometimes coordinated effects on political and social systems worldwide.

When misinformation becomes cheap to produce with software and easy to distribute via social media, and sophisticated enough to be indistinguishable from a real person, a) it's very difficult for an outsider to know whether they're being misinformed, and b) does it really matter if it's a human or a bot spreading it at that point?

I'm not sure what the short term solutions to this are, as it's easy to fall into the regulations trap (and some certainly are needed), but in the long term we need better educated individuals with a healthy dose of skepticism to combat this.
You're right that "startups" are harder statistically I'd suppose, more moonshots.

Still these numbers are general, not tech specific.

The mindset in entrepreneur circles:

- failing is ok. Happens to most. Those who eventually succeed try again, and again.

- you have about 2 years of surviving hell to overcome first

- going alone (by design) lowers your chances of success; hiring gets you in the right growth mindset, strategy (eg most people don't charge enough in the beginning)

Honestly, it's almost masochistic when you've failed twice yet keep trying. Obsessive. You could but just won't fold, get a regular job. This is what it takes.

That's why I said the money is far from the first goal of those who succeed. At best that kind of money is 10 years later when you first try. You'll suffer so much and statistically would probably do better at a regular job. You'll be broke often. Stressed and uncertain. Unable to make promises in your personal life to a certain extent. So why?.. Doesn't make sense from a utility standpoint. You do it because that's what you do, like artists or athletes. This is the general profile of entrepreneurs who make it, and age of success is 45-55 on average.
The sketch is called Dinner for One and in Germany it's watched on New Year's Eve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
Whatever you read about that is simply wrong. (I've seen a LOT of misinformation in popular print about this.) You're correct that the hand cranks were unusable. But the electric thumb switches WERE usable and were pointed out in the AD.

And if you enable the electric trim switches on a 737 MAX you get MCAS activation. MCAS, of course, trims faster than the switches. Using the electric switches is fighting a losing battle (look at the graphs of trim input vs output). How are you supposed to fly the plane when you can't trim the stabilizer?

Look at the graphs from the Indonesian report. The pilots were countering with trim up button presses and MCAS still managed to take the trim to a severe AND position.

Look at the graphs from the Ethiopian report. You'll see a long gap where the electric trim was disabled (leaving the pilots with no way to trim the stabilizer). Outside that gap you'll see an automatic (MCAS) AND command with no change in trim and a couple ANU clicks from the pilots with no resulting change in trim.

No guessing required. Follow the training, which is supposed to be a "memory item", meaning they weren't supposed to need to consult a checklist nor dig through anything nor guess.

And what memory items were they supposed to have in mind? Keeping in mind MCAS presented counter to how Boeing defines runaway trim.