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I did appreciate how easy it was to liven it up inside your own cubicle though. There are entire lines of office products designed to work with cubicle walls. I had posters, calendars, and random knicknacks, and I was able to create a space where I felt happy. I've never been able to personalize a space the same way since.

Hell, at my current job personalization of your space is actively discouraged, since there's a culture of hot-desking if you're coming in from another office.
> The findings, based on samples from more than 2,500 tumours ...

Findings based on tumors sound like 20/20 hindsight!

If your crystal ball tells you where in a body tumor will develop five years from now, then if you look at the cells there, you might see some subtle signs that you know are not false positives.

Somehow, I don't think I'm holding my breath for new screening tests.
> So this study is kind of saying "The children of ambitious and effortful parents have higher rates of upward mobility than the general populace of US people"

But this is also important to note, as the common zeitgeist of the day says that upward mobility is impossible, but it is clear that with ambitious and effortful parents, children can have higher rates of social mobility. That is encouraging?
Oh I totally agree with you about immigration from other countries not necessarily being about finding jobs immediately. My family (including me) immigrated to Canada from another country (a third world country) because the opportunities would be better. I can't imagine us having not done that and what kind of life I would be living today.
Can you start a ICE vehicle remotely?

With a keyfob for decades, and with an app for years. It's virtually standard equipment in certain states, along with plug-in engine block heaters.

I thought it was mostly a EV thing

A guy at work likes to start his massive Ford Raptor with his phone at the end of the day and set off the alarms of the cars he's parked between.
Asians also have the highest median income in the U.S.[1]

Culture seems to play a significant role in their success. Notably they tend to focus on education and prioritize it over other things[2].

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/233324/median-household-...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/culture-explains-asians-educati...
Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio, QtCreator look quite nice to me.

Best of all, I can use Java in any Java IDE.
What I'm saying is that it goes beyond socializing; if I'm cut off from other people and heads-down all the time I get depressed and it's counter-productive. I socialize plenty outside of work, but I am happiest and most productive at when I can feed off other people's energy.

It's a balance, though, and overstimulation is still an issue, and I need periods of quiet and concentration like anyone else.
> 20% is a lot when we're talking about these outrageous numbers.

It’s not 20% net income, it’s 80% of premiums have to be paid out to healthcare providers. There’s still all the costs of operating the insurance organization, and financials of publicly listed health insurance companies show net income in the 3% to 6% range.
> and they have to bring enough to the table to convince U.S. immigration to let them in.

Eh... my parents came with zero dollars to this country as part of family migration (zero due to currency export restrictions from their original country).
Shift into an easier gear as you stop. Makes it significantly easier to accelerate. Stopping at lights is no longer "anxiety-inducing".

Bonus points, use a bike with internal geared hub and shift down after you stop.
Extroverts: I feel invisible and isolated and I hate it.

Introverts: I feel invisible and isolated and I love it.
How would manufacturers know when cars change hands?

The same way that every single marketing company, bank, finance and insurance company does. It's public information.
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>a huge part of craft is communication, and open offices are great for that.

Can you explain this to me? How does an open office lead to better communication than cubes or partitioned group work spaces?

I'm in an open office. A lot of communication is done via email and IM. When someone comes to my desk to ask a question, collaborate, or just say hey, I typically don't get up. If a group stops by, we'll usually move to a collaborative area or set up a meeting. This would be true no matter if I were in a cube or partitioned group area. If I have a private office, I may not even have to leave my desk.

The typical response I see to this is that open offices tend to have this implied notion of everyone is willing to communicate at any time. I'd argue that on an individual level for developers, that's more often false. Someone head-down probably doesn't want to be interrupted.
I hear this a lot, but I don't know if it's particularly true. For black immigrants, I find more compelling the notion that their comfort with, and belief in, pursuing higher education isn't rocked so profoundly by white supremacy, as is so for native blacks. They're simply not as exposed to anti-black messaging, from the history of discrimination in America to the demographically disproportionate reporting of crime in American media. Add to that the arguably superior education of black Caribbeans, who are free to support higher standards with the requisite resources and are not stymied by regressive funding policy, and you have a population that is often more prepared for the rigors of higher education.

Which is pretty damning of the way America treats its own people.

Edit: I want to add that this is not simply my own speculation; this is the explanation that I've heard in part from several friends and acquaintances. They're often horrified by the leniency of standards for even high performing American students, and they will often state that they are not "black" in the way that native African Americans are, and are therefore not subject to the same biases and limitations.
I feel that one of the issues that's never talked about is how government contracts are awarded. 'Analysts' and 'Architect' prepare a document outlining the spec of the program. Once the document is out, every consulting firm is free to access it and place a bid on how much they would charge to implement what was outlined in the procurement document. The government is then forced to pick the lowest bidder. It doesn't matter if what's asked by the government doesn't make any sense, the engineers on the contractor's side are forbidden from contacting government employees (for anti-corruption reasons).

I've heard many stories where the contractor knew the job would have to be done twice the moment they read the procurement documents. But they couldn't voice their concerns. And if they suggested doing what they knew was the right thing that would have made them ineligible for the contract as it wasn't what was required. Future-proofing the bid or trying to deliver something closer to what they ended-up shipping was also not possible because this would have made them more expensive than the bidders following exactly the request. In the end they ended-up rewriting most of the code at their usual billing rate on top of the original fixed cost contract.

In the case of Phoenix, I've read a lot of media articles outlining how bad of a job IBM did but despite all this it seems the contract itself was never challenged in court. What I heard from internal sources is that IBM did ship correctly all what was asked for in the contract, it's just that the government workers drafting the requirements didn't understand their own payroll needs enough to properly articulate them.

Of course CBC, the state-funded media where everyone is on the government's payroll, won't outright blame their bosses. But they would get sued and lose pretty bad in court if they claimed the contractors didn't deliver what was in the contract. So you get articles with a weird spin where they try to blame the contractors without going too far and paint the government as a victim.
Trying to tune out the background conversations is especially hard when most of them are in a language you speak usefully, but not fluently.
I usually hear stories of doctors dying from the diseases they treat in historical accounts. Hearing it from a news article is a stark reminder of what so many doctor's have sacrificed to treat people. Li Wenliang has joined a group of the noblest and most revered physicians.

However, the Chinese police made him sign a ticket for spreading "False Rumors." This is why I feel a thrill of panic whenever people talk about cracking down on Fake News in the United States. When the government determines what is true and prosecutes those who go against that narrative we will no longer live in a free society in even the faintest sense.
So? I find the quote very compelling as someone from a family of immigrants. My cousins left Bangladesh as children. Their parents left professional jobs to take service jobs (“hard times”). But the kids worked hard, majored in engineering, science, business, medicine, and accounting (“strong men and women”), and secured professional jobs for themselves (“good times”). I see the next generation being bombarded with ideas to make them weak. Culture that emphasizes personal fulfillment, pernicious individualism, hedonism, rebelling against authority, etc. And I’m profoundly afraid of the “weak men and women” that might follow in the next generation.
The legal obligation hospitals have is that they must treat you if you are have a life-threatening emergency happening. That treatment can be the minimal amount needed to stabilize you so that you aren't at immediate risk of death. There is no obligation to treat you beyond that, nor to engage in follow-up care.
A low tech example, but I bought a used car a couple years ago with navigation and still saved in the system were addresses the previous owner had entered. From this simple list, I was able to determine where they lived, and if was curious enough the businesses and homes they visited, or at least used navigation to find.
Can't find it anymore, but I could swear there was a study that recently hit the HN front page that found that everyone's productivity objectively takes a hit in a distracting environment. But, subjectively, extraverts perceive themselves as being more productive, while introverts don't.
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Sugar Man is a good one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man
Didn't happened only to you.
Looks very interesting. Too bad they don't have video lectures.
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> We haven't ever seen a disinformation campaign that was this effective before

Maybe not in your lifetime. How would you know anyway? The search for WMDs in Iraq was a good one. Misinformation has been modus operandi for the political elite forever. Bill Clinton on The Jon Stewart show stating that the US had negative immigration, was as much a lie as any other Bush or Trump has claimed. Bill (and Hillary) are very careful about their misinformation, which was frustrating, admittedly.
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Thank you!! I'm moving into a tech lead role as well only managing 2 people, but I need these cheat sheets.
Watched the adapted anime piece in China on TV when I was a kid. Deeply moved and I even used a cassette recorder to record the finale music from the speaker.

I would say it may not be a complex story but the feeling just conveyed really well.
But why not just add a method like “.copy()” that’s explicit about what it does? Have to say I’m not a fan of this callAsFunction feature...
Butterflies are actually pretty complex, especially relative to their usage as editors.
She says explicitly that she's pulling that information in the context of eligibility for "the charity program".

Further, unstated, perhaps speculative context: most people who go to the hospital pay through insurance and out of pocket. But if you go to the hospital without insurance, or can't cover your out of pocket component, most (every?) hospital will negotiate a lower rate; almost nobody pays rack rate out of pocket. So what they're calling "charity" might just as likely be the name they give the program where they come up with their real rate on the fly (I've been through this process with a large hospital chain in Chicagoland).

Either way: it doesn't support the post's claim that Experian's health score --- which I'm disinclined to trust, just like everyone else --- is being used to "deny care". That's an argument the article does not appear to marshal evidence to support.
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In their defense, the software industry is a complete joke in terms of quality control. I hope that this and the spate of ransomware will wake the industry up to realize we need new processes, languages and tooling to make software provably correct. It's clear we can't use our existing languages and tooling to make high quality software. Realistically though, that's not going to happen. The smart move is to eliminate as much software from your life as possible. It's only going to get worse as decades of laziness catches up to us.
I learned long ago never to trust dealerships

I traded in a car in Houston and the employees of the dealership (an actual big-name dealership, not some guy selling cars on his lawn) took it on joyrides for a week blowing through tolls.

I found out when I got a letter in the mail from the Harris County Toll Road Authority with a bill and photos of my old car zipping through the barriers.

I called HCTRA, and they were super nice about it, cancelled the fees, and said it happens all the time.
This ignores the fact that markets fail under certain circumstances. Removing regulation would not remove the fact that a significant portion of healthcare is a natural monopoly[1] due to the fact that a significant portion of the population cannot "shop around" when incurring medical costs and the starting costs to enter the healthcare market as a provider are high: provide adequate facilities, hiring staff, purchase of equipment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I don't know what this has to do with my point; you can do this "follow the money" analysis to take any argument anywhere. On message boards, at least, it seems to turn out that it's almost never a good idea to just "follow the money".
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I'm completely onboard with price transparency, but am skeptical as to the utility of it to the consumer. I suspect a lot of people will get "oh, we thought it'd be X, but it turned out to be Y, which is 3x the price" sort of scenarios.

I'm sure "colonoscopy, clear" and "colonoscopy, with removal of polyp and pathology on it" will have different prices, but you won't know which it is until after the procedure.
I think the main thing we are seeing here is hundreds of smaller fixes that usually form the steady stream of Airworthiness Directives that an aircraft currently supported by the manufacturer sees turning into a news event every single time one comes out.

So far only one "aircraft" has had perfect software, and that was the Space Shuttle, every single other aircraft out there has had software issues that are worked out over the life of the aircraft, just like every piece of software, even that which has very strict testing regimes, has had defects in it.
I regularly check the forums for Swift, and am dismayed at a lot of the discussion being interested in adding syntactic sugar over real new features. I fear that Swift will head down the route of C++ where there ends up being so many ways to do one thing that it's not reasonable to keep up with it all.
Absolutely. That's why I said Boeing and the FAA failed their responsibility as opposed to a Boeing exec or a particular legislator - there are organizational, structural problems. Sure, some individuals made the decision to ignore reports or set a new culture, but the fact that they succeeded is concerning - why did everyone else enable them? Is there anything we could have done to encourage those engineers to whistleblow their concerns before the planes crashed? Would they have been taken seriously by the FAA or the media or investors who were pushing for growth at all costs? These are deep, structural problems.
"cove of 2-3 people" isn't really open plan. Working next to a couple people who you'll probably end up getting friendly with if they aren't jerks is very different from working in an ocean of 50 people.
Not to discredit Clear's work at all, but it's not so much the 'OS' in standard parlance, it's still just another Linux distro. It's down to compiler flags and optimizations, which generally anyone can do given they have the time and patience.
I've wanted to do the keypath expressions thing for awhile. It's not a giant improvement, but it's certainly welcome.

Subscript default arguments will also be really useful.

Not sure about the callAsFunction() stuff, but I'm sure people will come up with good ideas for it.
Set up a Gmail account as a journal for my two year old and Google closed it
So, I setup a gmail account for my two year old to send journal posts to, images, videos, etc...Also to preserve his name as a username.

Basically a way to communicate with him in case something happens to me.

Google closed it for violating policies, no reason nothing. I responded that this was the purpose of the account and that I was not familiar with any violations and so far no response to that.

Seriously, this really makes me dislike google. I'm a huge PAID google user including: Fi, YoutubeTV, Play Music Premium-family account.

Anyone have any similar horror stories? Any resolution?
And the best friends compact map example will return the names of the best friends, not the users with best friends. The article needs a bit of fine tooth QA.
Well, the requirement is more specific: the hospital must treat you if you are in immediate danger of dying. They only have to treat to enough to stabilize you, though, then their legal responsibility is complete.
I don't know what planet you come from, but on my [primitive] planet people haven't yet learned how to build working software with exactly zero dependencies.
I've recently learned that it does not have to be a prefix. If you put !g anywhere in the query as its own word, DDG will do the thing.
And since all conversations require a conference room, the conference rooms are always full of people talking.
Still waiting for the KVM, given that Kotlin is so much better then it can have its own platform, written from scratch in Kotlin/Native, running circles around GraalVM, without dependencies on lower quality Java libraries.
The fact that the official numbers keep the death rate at a very precise number for a long periods of time indeed make them suspicious
Negative, sir. Actually, I was responding to the points you had made. I still trust his investigation and I find it to be significant even if he didn't address all the concerns you raised (which are outside of the area of software engineering). He doesn't need to address outside issues (like the physical safety of the device) to validate his findings or concerns.

Still, since you invited, I'll talk more about my own concerns. Do I trust Wacom as a company, as a whole? I think it depends on how they respond to this, right? Do I still trust them to make a tablet that doesn't have the problems you raised with "electric shock hazards, sharp edges"? Yes. At this moment, do I trust Wacom in the area of data collection? No, that seems to me like a questionable decision. I want to know more. I don't think I want an accessory manufacturer to compile a dossier of what programs I use at what time and from what (partially masked) IP address. More so when they're not being up-front about it (certainly from a layperson's perspective). I'm also not very confident right now that the behavioral data will stay within Wacom's walls and go no further.

In fact, I'm forwarding this to my CISO's office for further evaluation. Is that bad in some way?
Part of thinking for yourself is not to disregard the obvious disinformation campaigns Russia has been a part of, along the same lines of the Republican party as well.

Don't broadly accuse the media of disinformation when there's much more evidence to show certain actors have pushed disinformation/misinformation than to just lump them all into one, if you want to go after any media org how about Fox News aka the Rupert Murdoch scam.
I once turned off remote tracking on a Turo I rented. Within a few minutes I got a text from the owner asking me to turn it back on, pointing out it was part of the agreement for renting the car. I did, but it did make me wonder just how closely I was being watched.
Oh look, this isn't an argument. It's just contradiction. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
Why the usual “proof” for chain rule is broken – and how to fix it
I had a very similar experience, sans the degree, but in the embedded world for an RF company. I still like to write C in my free time today, nearly 8 years after leaving that job. I've shipped a few pieces of performance critical code in C for the Rails shop that I work for today, too, in the form of FFI and language extensions. I honestly don't think I'll ever ~be free from~ give up C explicitly for these reasons (it's also ludicrously satisfying to realize and share these sorts of performance gains in a production application).
This is awesome! The media loves to say your pocketwatch is more powerful than X form $date. This is a fun technical rundown.

I think at some point we have to start talking about how far from optimized we are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MenuetOS comes to mind when talking about what can be done in fasm. Are we ever going to get compilers to the point where we can squash things down to that size and efficiency? Is this yet another thing that AI can promise to solve someday?
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Intel’s CEO Talks Soaring Cloud Demand, Promising New Chips, and 5G
That educational attainment was a priority for my extended family, and that there are high-profile fights for educational equity in cities across the country, lead me to believe that even non-immigrant black families and communities do have similar values. I wonder how much resource access, rather than intention, matters.
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I have seen estimates that as much as two thirds of healthcare spending actually traces back to the govt when you count subsidies too. It is a mostly-socialized system at this point.

And of course even where the govt is not funding the product, they are stipulating in detail what it must include. E.g. insurance must include a long list of things from mental health care to nicotine patches, forcing people to go through their insurance rather than through a market where they would negotiate prices.
Stack overflow is a "popularity contest" and nothing has gone wrong with it so far, and science have always been popularity contest, i am just suggesting to give it better tools to measure the popularity.
First thing I do in any rental car is turn off any remote tracking, mobile apps, clear out bluetooth and turn off wifi if equipped.

The first thing I do when I rent a car is adjust the mirrors and the seat, and then get out of the airport as quickly as I can.

I might think about resetting stuff when I get to the hotel, but if I'm renting a car I have better things to do with my life.

I doubt that even 1% of the people in the world reset anything in a rental car. Including people on HN who state that they do. This is why pressure should be put on the rental companies to do this as part of the check-in process.