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The best ideas can be implemented poorly. Software design principle that works for nimble Silicon Valley startups doesn’t work in your big corporate environment? Big surprise.

When I worked at a pretty large software co, a team there were always adopting the latest techniques and tools but their deployment pipeline was an over architected disaster that nobody could reliably deploy. Reason? Their CI/CD system consisted of a person manually clicking around to build Jenkins Jobs. There will be other such silly nonsense (hopefully less extreme) in other corporate environments too.
Seems so. More info here: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Boeing-737-MAX-aerodynamically-...

> what happens is that the stick force lessens as angle of attack increases at high AoA and low airspeed, whereas in order to be compliant with certification it has to gradually increase with increasing AoA, just like a 737–100.
Apple has 17.0.0.0/8 and then some
https://bgp.he.net/AS714
> There’s a lot of research on this, but in short, most people develop much stronger memories of the things they physically write (typing is less effective IIRC), whether they ever refer back to the notes or not.

Do you remember why typing would be less effective? Is it something to do with writing being much slower, therefore you have to think about it more while recording it?
I find Amazon.com to have turned into a mess. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to search only for items sold by Amazon.com. And on the product's page itself, it's confusing to figure out who is selling it. I'm pretty sure they keep moving it to confuse people.
PLA is pretty awesome as far as recycling goes. Also I’m under the impression that cellophane (the “plastic” used for food packaging) is digestible by earthworms. I’m not sure restricting things like that makes sense.
If you like Bristlecone Pines, I highly, highly recommend checking out Great Basin National Park and hiking up to the Bristlecone Pine Grove. It's a lovely day hike - I did it over Thanksgiving weekend and used those little snowtrax grippers over my hiking shoes.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bristlecone-pines-of...

Could be done around now-ish in snowshoes as well.

One of the least visited and most beautiful national parks in the US! Sparkling stars and dark skies make for great meteor viewing, and the bristlecone pine trail has a loop through all the interesting trees with little signs and "biographies" about each tree.

One of the largest is Prometheus:
https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/historyculture/the-prometheus...
System modeling is frequently the task of sorting the universal from particular, the substance from the accidents, etc. This is especially true in the object-oriented world. Functional programming and system integration are essentially answering the questions "what causes this?" and "what ought to cause this?"

I'm not a fan of the Nichomachean Ethics. I'm of the Augustinian school.
It seems it was hugged!

Nice game, was able to play it for a bit, got 8 right tops.

It seems like the density of bombs is much larger than a regular minesweeper? Or I've just been playing on easy mode in other times...
There's pizza and cake in the breakroom, let's all stay until 6:45!
The economic case against nuclear is largely a byproduct of falling prices from fracking. That obviously can’t go on forever, and pulling back subsidies for fossil fuels would slowly help the economics align.

Meanwhile nuclear plants are being built at a good pace throughout the world.

A lot of the “anti renewable” people I know are some of the biggest proponents of nuclear. It’s strangely a popular position among America’s “right”.
US employees are brainwashed to conflate identity with job.
Theres a great talk from gmunk that goes into the inspiration and process for a lot of his projects. And some general good life advice for anyone that creates with a passion

https://youtu.be/F93CP8UjRxk
> Four new dollar stores will open in the U.S. every single day of 2019. That's a new dollar store every six hours. There are more dollar stores than there are Walmarts, McDonald’s and CVS stores combined

I wonder what is causing that, in the times of Amazon, how do these stores survive?
You can simply use string.replace() with a global regex.
This reminds me of the old BBC and RTF Television logos:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/when-tv-logos-were-ph...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14391993
Why would using regex pollute your code?
Perhaps - I rarely write JS. I'm speaking purely based on this function alone.
> while other languages are 10x or more faster than python in some benchmarks it's very rare that computation time dominates server latency

Most applications spend most of their time waiting for the database or network. I suspect the fastest programming languages are those that have the lowest thread/process overhead. If most apps spend their time waiting, then a language with 10X lower process overhead can handle 10X more processes.
Even if it’s not in the union, it’s still part of Europe, the geographical region.
France Telecom has a higher suicide count than Foxconn. I'm eagerly waiting for the off-Broadway show about it.
Convenient perhaps, but the engineer in me doesn't want to accept that. Light is the fastest thing in the universe and it takes 642 years to reach us from this particular star.
So we are lagging by 642 years. Those are the facts.
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Why are paranoia and schizophrenia more common in cities? (2016)
As an over 35, best I could come up with was maybe the lack of expectation of privacy/willingness to post anything. For example, why would I post to all my friends that I paid someone on Venmo? default=private was the first setting I changed. That's more of a social evolution than technological.

But maybe I'm personally biased to accept new technology. (And my grandfather began using microcomputers in his 70s, so genetics/familial influence may play a role as well).
I tried to do this a while ago for a side project. There might be a really obscure way (and of course you can always write your own function), but I wasn't able to find anything built in.
They serve, almost exclusively, the poor. They end up being the line of last resort for the poor and very poor to eat food, buy toiletries, and other must-haves. They supply a facsimile of nutrition but because they are "cheap" in a way that everyone can conceive of, and because they have a strong supply chain that is affordable for the companies themselves to run, they end up filling in the gaps in much of suburban and rural America, where grocery stores are nearly nonexistent.

Some real interesting stories on their negative effects on communities here:

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/23/dollar-store-dominan...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2018/12/30/will-dol...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90278384/why-dollar-stores-are-b...

https://www.businessinsider.com/dollar-stores-taking-over-am...
> Old man Linux

^ that would be a pretty decent HN username!
According to the article, in France public employees have "jobs for life", so the only way to downsize the workforce was to harass them to death. Isn't socialism wonderful?
+1 for this. Clicking the fish open in a new tab for there Wikipedia page.
Efficient leachate control is an interesting area, but there are various families of techniques to do it and methods for monitoring effectiveness that have emerged from the last several decades of focused study.

Current facilities are way better equipped than the old solution of uncontrolled municipal dumps.
Regulation doesn’t mean it would be safer, just more bureaucratic. There are plenty of examples in the US of regulators failing to properly regulate like in Flint. Adding these regulations often benefits the capitalists more, as it raises the barrier of entry for smaller competitors and makes the market less competitive in the long run.
Same, dell xps13 is on fire. GPU 99%, cpu 30%. Unsure why.
Actually, no. You might say this about metals, for example, but nature does not produce the sort of high-energy low-information hydrocarbon chains that comprise nearly all plastics. Inserting massive quantities of manmade endocrine disruptors into the earth is massively disruptive.
I had always assumed it was digitally created.
Same. Moved from Python to Go, don’t write python much anymore.

It’s ridiculously easy to build things in go. The default tooling works just great. It’s a nice fit with docker for building tiny containers.

Perhaps the nicest thing though is how easy it is to write fast http servers. The default server is pretty good, but there are also so many choices for faster http server frameworks. Middle wares are easy to write and share. I can’t say that I truly understood how http servers worked until I started using go.
I don’t think it is. The problem with that statement is that leaving a country is a huge transition, with plenty of costs, and unclear rewards.

Leaving a job is sometimes a big deal, but it’s never as serious. One could argue that the more serious it is for your the greater the problem in question is because you don’t have any skills deemed valuable by your current employer or potential employers.

What to do with useless white collar labor is a hard problem. Mistreating people is a bad idea, but you need to do “something” otherwise you’ll eventually just go out of business if firing them is not an option.

Globalism is hard.
What is your opinion about the popular trend of making everything probabilistic, especially in ML, in favor of default logic? For example, does it make sense to say "mammals lay eggs by 98%" because of the Platypuses exception?
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> $2,500 hardly seems a large donation from a behemoth like Google.

It's half the legal maximum from a PAC (this was from a Google PAC; Google per se can't legally donate anything).
There is no link to the original study. There are two links within the text, but neither of them link to the study. In fact, one of those two links is misleadingly presented as the link to the study, but is not actually the link to the study.

Challenge question for stats and math nerds: if 93% of a sample of 1000 Americans claim they enjoy their job, and if 91% of a sample of ~650 Netherlanders claim that they love their job, then what are the odds that this is a statistical fluke and that a greater portion of Netherlanders enjoy their jobs than Americans?
That's how I felt when I ended up in oncology research. All these super smart, driven, funny & interesting people who love going to work every day and try to help patients while driving research forward.

After futzing around in other industries and doing bs work for waaaay too long, I felt like the girl in the bee costume from the 1990s Blind Melon video who at the end of the video finally comes across and parties it up with a bunch of other bee-people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58
30 reported suicides in 2008–2009 in a company employing 100,000 people. This is a suicide rate equivalent to France's average national suicide rate.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13204168
TL;DR: 0 is always NULL, but NULL is not always 0. Checking or assigning a pointer to 0 will work but converting NULL to an integer is implementation-defined.
> The economic case against nuclear is largely a byproduct of falling prices from fracking.

Fracking changed the economics of all energy production, not just nuclear. The economic case against nuclear is that it can potentially wipe out everyone in a 50 mile radius. The cost of a nuclear power plant is therefore proportional to the surrounding real estate value.
How does one keep a bouy moored in 5km deep water?
Perks don't necessarily make people happier with their jobs, even if state mandated.
So useless and not interesting!
How did this finish first on HN compared to more interesting topics?
GAE v2 let’s you use docker containers and ime it has been pretty stable and fantastic.
Normally I call it the NUL character to distinguish it.
You are massively underestimating the environmental impacts. Every form of plastic in widespread use has been found to be a significant endocrine disruptor. The rate of plastic waste has followed an exponential curve similar to emissions. Plastics are likely on the same order of magnitude as climate change and deforestation in terms of the long-term impact on species extinction (and to human health, if that is of greater concern).
Industrial Light and Magic would like to disagree, where Star Wars spaceships are still built in miniature model glory.

CGI is still not the same. Yet.
While this is a nice little addition to the language, personally I'd prefer to see more substantial changes like decorators, observables, class properties, optional static types, etc.
A disadvantage: in my experience as a sweaty person, fleece tends to stink after exposure to sweat, while wool resists this more.
Is France crazy or are we the bad guys?
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That surprises me, since I had heard being an oncologist is a very hard job because of all the bad news.

I guess doing the research rather than the practice is a key difference?
When it's a pointer.

Remember, a pointer contains the actual address in RAM, or 0 when the pointer is null.
We live in a ritzy town on the SF Peninsula where hhi is routinely 400k and up, and our dollar store is constantly mobbed. Sometimes it's so mobbed that it actually backs up traffic on El Camino Real because so many people are waiting to pull into the parking lot.

I think a lot of shoppers rely on it for basics like toiletries and other items you'd get from Target or Walmart. The markups on Amazon for these items are actually pretty outrageous. Amazon, imo is not cheap - and also way too high of a risk of getting a fake and knockoff product. At least in a brick and mortar store you can be confident in the supply chain and know you're not getting some sketchy reseller from China.

We bought some decorations for our wedding there and they were perfectly adequate. No lesser quality than anything we would have gotten from amazon or a party store, imo.
Can one of you explain why this is bad for partners? What’s wrong with saying “it’s reasonable for you to be ambitious”?
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Small replicas are generally quite adept at breaking computers. Often they’re so innately good at it that you have to teach them to stop ;)
Soon we will have autonomous f1.
I hate writing by hand. I have since elementary school. When we ran out of time for an "in class essay" in Junior High, and our teacher said finish it at home and turn it in, I typed it and turned it in.

And the great thing is, even with my handwriting, I can read what I've typed.

So I take notes in apps - searchability, persistence, and no need to manually copy data are the big wins of electronic data. That, and ease of writing (and reading). But I've been feeling like I need to consolidate to a single-app habit.

And I do keep a pen and notepad in a "planner"-style wallet, because 1) sometimes it's faster for a quick note, and 2) it can be socially more acceptable to write on paper than type into a device.

So I need to have one-app-to-rule-them-all, and it needs to easily incorporate the occasional hand-written or other paper note.
5.1km cables.
If the methodology is good, the chance of a fluke is pretty low, given the 2% difference and large sample size.

It is much more likely that the result would be thrown off by a sampling error.
Site looks pretty legit, can you explain why it's snake oil?
"Piece Of code" is too imprecise. A single instruction on a microprocessor? A subroutine? As another comment implied, does DNA count as code? Or transistor logic within a microprocessor?

A related but more subjective question I used to ask developer friends was "what's the most IMPORTANT piece of code written that can fit on one screen?".

The best answer I got was rc4, written by an anonymous author but what made security, privacy, and digital commerce possible on the web.
That would allow for quite a bit of drift–a kilometer in each direction.
I think you're missing the larger point. It's mostly the large companies and those in power that create these rules. I'm not siding with either side here, but simply saying that "the rules are the rules" is not enough if the rules themselves are wrong.

If we want to make it harder for unions to organize, then she was rightly fired. But ff she was fired for union organizing and we want to protect that activity, then she was wrongfully fired.
Learning to writing characters is now largely unnecessary, since most the writing is done in computer/mobile phone/etc, where Pinyin is ubiquitous.
This advice will sound like a joke, but getting drunk in your target language goes a long way. I studied Spanish for years but didn't feel like I had it "in flow", and couldn't quite nail down feeling comfortable communicating. A blurry month of partying in Spain fixed that. Within that month, I noticed the largest improvements after nights I had gotten pretty wasted talking to people in Spanish at local bars. My theory is that when you drink, you stop speaking from your pre-frontal cortex. You are forced to make connections to the language from deeper parts of the brain. Same thing goes for experiencing strong emotions and situations in a target language. Of course, you have to have enough vocabulary and grammar to be able to communicate if you try, this practice just seems to make it "click" more.
> Could you name one or two of those that are Google's (Alphabet's) size don't contribute?

All of them, including Google, because they are legally prohibited from it.

Google's PAC donates, but not with Google funds, because corporate PAC donations can't come from corporate treasury funds.

There are some large companies that lobby but don't operate PACs (IBM and Apple for instance.) It's debatable whether this is better or not, but it's certainly a different shape of political engagement.
If you really want to know, it was totally unfair dictatorial overreach. I got an email from dang:

> [original_posting] looks good, but didn't
get much attention. Would you care to repost it? You can do so here: [repost_link].

> ... the software will give the repost an upvote from the mods, plus we'll make sure it doesn't get flagged.

> This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you have any questions, let us know. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Tell us and we won't do it again.

As you can see, my posting started out with a whole one extra vote and thus the system was completely gamed. You were right :)

/s [edit: email is real]
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Cool process, but honestly this wallpaper has looked dated from day one in my opinion. The fog, depth, etc. give it a very 2008 feel. By 2015, skeuomorphism was already out and flat designs were in. It's extra jarring surrounded by the rest of Windows 10 which has such a modern look.
Irrelevant if you're not adjusting properly for demographic factors.

And even if the company suicide rate were no higher than average, thats simply an indication that immiserating employment conditions are widespread and commonplace.

Anybody who has ever worked a terrible job can tell you all about how it might make you feel suicidal.
Three of them, set in different directions.

I’m not saying that’s definitely how it’s done, but it’s how I’d think to do it with nothing other than my naïve geometric education.
> I hope it will go supernova in my lifetime

The inhabitants of any planets in the vicinity might disagree.
Sounds like a trick question. How about the array of the largest number?
I agree - It would be ridiculously easy to do this today with CG. Not just easy, but a few-magnitude-orders easy/fast. It kind of leaves a bad taste about the whole thing because most people don't know how easy it is to do in CG.

I could probably do this in an hour or two, including the fog (which really makes the image) - probably sounds condescending, but I cannot emphasize enough about the triviality of generating this wallpaper in CG. Most people don't realize what today's CG software can do, just look at the new features in Houdini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIcUW9QFMLE
Usually, but not always.
An example of Scala's pattern matching:

case class Person(name: String, age: Int)

// a collection of 3 people
val c1 = Vector(Person("A", 5), Person("B", 6), Person("C", 4))

// now I want a collection of people who have age > 4 and then their ages are doubled
val c2 = c1 collect { case Person(name, age) if age > 4 => Person(name, age*2) }

How do you write it in Java 14?
Want something lazy like Java streams? It's LazyList in Scala 2.13 and Stream in Scala < 2.13.
You don't fly?

...do you drive?
When your blog is getting beat by a typo website to the tune of thousands of visitors a day...

I love old-style internet websites like this. It makes me happy they haven't sold it and share some of the numbers.
Americans intentionally don't utilize a large number of paid vacation days each year. Work guilt may play a role:

"Americans left 768 million days of paid time off unused last year, according to research released by the U.S. Travel Association. The study found that 55 percent of Americans did not use all of their paid vacation time."

"More than half of U.S. workers ― 54 percent — reported feeling guilty about taking vacation time either sometimes, often or always, according to a survey of more than 2,000 full-time workers in the United States by TurnKey Vacation Rentals."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/08/28/what-does-a...
A company I am affiliated with made a decision to rewrite their code in microservices-oriented architecture thinking it would only take one year. Now we're 7 years into the transition and starting to come up against some hard deadlines that threaten revenue streams. It seems obvious to everyone except the leadership and the architects that this has been an unmitigated disaster. Other comments on this thread seem to indicate that many have had similar experiences.

For those who are curious, here is a classic article on why rewriting code from scratch is a bad idea: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-....

For a more in-depth analysis on the unforeseen challenges of microservices in particular, I would encourage a lot of careful research into how other companies have tried and failed at this. In particular, I might look at Uber's ongoing difficulties.

All I have to say to the Khan Academy engineers is to buckle up because frankly, moving from Python 2->3 is not that hard and you have no idea what you are getting yourself into.
Here's one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
One problem with comprehensible input methods (like what Rosetta Stone does?) is that it can be extremely boring as an adult and ultimately demotivating.

Studying grammar can be fun - and it feels like an accomplishment to be able to say some pretty complex things in Chinese.

Sure my listening isn't that great.. but on the other hand being limited to a two year old's conversation ability isn't particularly enticing.

Also, fwiw, reading and listening is a way different skill... Thanks to the ability to rewind when reading
It’s moored with a 16,210 foot cable. It is a weather station as well.

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010

The mooring itself allows for some sway due to current.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooring_(oceanography)
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