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aka we hate certain outlets and don't want to drive them views.

keep it up, dang ;)
Ok that makes sense. But I use Overcast, so how can I listen to it?
Facts < Ideology, right? HN readership showing their true colours
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Agreed, how about we change it to: "FDA Agrees to Expanded Access Program for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD"
This is generally true. Most billionaires are there because of their stock ownership in large corporations. And if they were to cash out their stock they'd lose control of their enterprises.
There's no reason it can't be both. Your theory that sociopath executives only exploit people for money and not for other things they personally enjoy is not one that matches my experience.

And of course there's a long history of the "old boys' club" excusing sexist abuse with a "boys will be boys" mentality. So even if we didn't have a lot of evidence of how bro-y Uber was, your notion that they somehow escaped society's baseline level of sexism doesn't really stand up to Occam's Razor.
You can keep calling it manipulation all you want. But I truly believe both HRC's message reached the voters and that Trump's message also reached the voters and they chose accordingly. Are you suggesting that their respective messages weren't heard?

At no point did someone fail to deliver their message. HRC's message (to the extent that it could be parsed) just didn't click with a lot of people. Trump's did.
Companies are assets and as such they are still part of his wealth. It is not like I said he sleeps on gold coins in a vault.

No need to get literal.
Well given that they were already doing this before software, probably not?
As much as I'm uncomfortable with the idea of taking housing policy from local control and moving some of it to the state, I think this is the only way to get communities to "cooperate". I do think Santa Cruz should do some building of its own, but relieving some of the pressure there and making it more feasible for people to live in larger cities with higher density needs to happen.

On the other hand, I do know several people who work on the peninsula or in south bay who have chosen to live in Santa Cruz because they actually like Santa Cruz. Not because of cost or availability or housing policy in the rest of the bay area.
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Your first step should be avoid complexity. Reject features (big or small) that don't add value to the system. And if you must add feature, try to make it as specific as possible. Generic features tend to get abused. I personally don't like it, but other do love it.
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>Amazon, for example, has been hoisting a giant middle finger to MBA dogma for years with their overinvestment

This is not a great way to think of Amazon. Amazon is basically a VC that only funds internal "start-ups" and "unicorns." You still go to Bezos and the leadership team with a business plan, financial model, path to profitability, market fit, differentiation, competitors, TAM/TAM growth, and "is it a land grab?"

They do not fund "interesting ideas for the sake of interesting ideas" like the Google X projects. Even the most secretive Amazon projects tend to tie pretty closely to their existing businesses and strategies when they are revealed.

Also, not sure if this is still true, but Amazon was the #1 largest hirer of MBAs from top programs for a couple years.
> it's a another red-haired woman

Why is it significant that this post was from a woman or that she has red hair? This comment sounds like a backhanded compliment, at best.
> Tesla has world class fit and finish.

Anyone who genuinely believes this is lying to themselves.

How come you’ve copypasted this same comment 3 times in a row?

And anyway, the quoted bit is about panel gaps, that’s only a relatively minor part of fit and finish. Try sitting in a tesla and an actually nice car.
Corporation that size isn't going to put up with Linux on the desktop if they're not FAANG and fuck deving on Windows.
> And the rural parts of the province usually just keep the same MPP in office.

Common Rural-vs-Urban divide that you see in the US, and plenty of other countries.

"Something something value of their vote is 4x as much something", etc.
Companies are trying to minimize the time/money they spend on each interview.

Clarifications cost money.

Hoping a company will engage in a "what really are your requirements? are you trying to test my basic coding competency or do you want to see the best I have got?" will elicit a very vague response, if any.
It's already been tried!

"During a phone interview, Mr. Lopes turned on the bracelet, resulting in static-like white noise for the listener on the other end."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/technology/alexa-jamming-...
My point is that it's poorly defined from a technical perspective but well defined from a business perspective.

If you define AI company from what AI means from a tech perspective, then yes, it's a useless categorization. But if you define AI company as any company that makes money through offering optimization through data as a service, then I think that's a useful definition, in that you can lump many companies together and make sensible generalizations about their business models, which the article does:

Saas business model - 80% margins, exponential scaling, 0 marginal costs, competitive moats through tech

AI business model - 30-50% margins, linear scaling, higher marginal costs, data isn't a great moat

Under the hood it could be deep learning or basic statistics, but it doesn't matter what technology they employ, the method of making money for these types of companies is the same.

(In large/mature markets though, it matters a lot what tech you use since these methods can be copied by your competitors and improved upon - you can't use basic statistics to beat top of the line models forever, so most if not all data companies can be treated as eventual AI companies. I suspect this is why they use the term AI company rather than data company).
No, a club will not imprison you in the club. They will just kick you out.
I've just checked it, but with API tokens, I can only allow 'edit' rights on DNS records for a specific domain.

There is no way to create a token allowing access only to _acme-challenge record.
Secured by the is the part I focused on. When a loan is secured by something, the underlying asset is what the loan originating company retains after you fail to pay for the loan.

So if I take out a mortgage, and fail to pay for it, the bank gets the house, I am not still obligated to pay the remaining loan amount. Sure there are a few other items that occur in that process, but ultimately the loan is forgiven, of course with some credit penalties and future ability to take out loans. But I am not responsible to continue repaying the loan.

If the loan is secured by the ISA the same thing applies here. Sure there could be other stipulations and without reviewing the contracts there is no way to know, but stands to reason that the more likely situation is that they get the ISA and then can use aggressive tactics to go after the students for collections such as garnishing wages and also potentially charging them an interest for failure to repay. Though the original ISA believe has no interest, that's not to say that late penalties or other fees can't be added in later potentially.
10% is the average-ish trophic efficiency in the wild. In industrialized farming we have optimized feed, antibiotic growth promotion, and lack of exercise that brings that down to 1/6 or so for cattle
I don't think it's a zero sum game. Just from the top of my mind, how about

- offer bug updates for v.2 existing customers with no additional feature development

- offer a paid upgrade with lower subscription for existing customers

- offer more affordable iphone-only or ipad-only subscriptions (currently it's $40/year for a suite of iphone, desktop, ipad apps)

- offer an ad-free v.3 upgrade locked to v.2 features to existing customers

- offer a v.3 upgrade requiring existing customer to make an informed choice vs. forcing it as an upgrade replacing their their current, paid for app with another one nagging them for subscription.

I spent 1 minute on these options, as an amateur in the field, and they all sound like viable possibilities for increasing revenue while retaining respectful trusting relationship with existing paying customers.
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Nor should it, assuming a fixed set of derived classes is a bad OOP/SOLID practice as it breaks the "objects should be opened to extension" principle and prior to introduction of RTTI in C++ it wasn't even a design possibility - you either specified the concrete type or relied on abstraction and polymorphism.
Minor factoid the article does not mention. ATM is an alternative to Ethernet that's used in many optical fiber environments. The "transfer unit" size of the ATM "cell" is 53 bytes (5 for the header and 48 for the payload). This is much smaller than 1500.

Another quirky story from the past:
Sometime around 20 years ago I was having a bizarre networking problem. I could telnet into a host with no trouble, and the interactive session would be going just fine until I did something that produced a large volume of output (such as 'cat' on a large file). At that point the session would freeze and I would eventually get disconnected. After troubleshooting for a while I identified the problem as one of the Ethernet NICs on the client host. It was a premium NIC (3Com 3C509). Nonetheless, the NIC crystal oscillator frequency had drifted sufficiently that it would lose clock synchronization to the incoming frame if the MTU was larger than about 1000.
It would take some work, but I'd really love to have a password that, if entered, would trigger an alert (and maybe power off the machine or something). Then put that booby-trapped password on a bit of paper and stick it under your keyboard or wherever.
Erlang doesn't check for exhaustiveness either, and pattern matching is awesome :)

Without exhaustiveness it might not be feasible for a statically types PL though, but I don't know nearly enough to even speculate on that.
I don't think the OP meant it in the way you think. My guess is they're speaking of the riskiness of Bernie winning the nomination, where as someone more centrist seems like a safer bet.

But who knows, the experts said Hillary would win too.

Edit: Nevermind, the OP meant what you thought :D
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> Hell, he wants to pay me $2500? I will pocket that and then vote for hopefully less obnoxious candidate.

What about the votes of the people you influenced in his direction? If just 2 other people turn to him as a result, your vote against him has been effectively negated. Perhaps the $2500 means more to you than the vote against Bloomberg? If so, that's fair. A lot of people could use that kind of money, and I don't blame them for taking it. Ironically, that speaks directly to the imbalance of political power caused by the existence of massively wealthy individuals like him.

But assuming you are OK with promoting a candidate in exchange for $, why not take money from a candidate you believe in, rather than one you plan to vote against? Is it because (just guessing) he's paying more? In which case, it seems a lot like he's just buying the primary.
I don't understand how the OP could write this article and not talk about FFI? What a glaring oversight. (FWIW: The FFI module works extremely well in NodeJS as well.)
spotted the commie!
Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function
Look into zygosity. Variants are either heterozygous or homozygous. A heterozygous variant is far less worse than a homozygous variant because the correct protein can still be produced to a certain extent.
This way looks more impressive and clean. Thank you so much.
All of the examples in there involve the government. What does a "sweetheart deal" between two private companies mean?
No one who supports the electoral college is opposed to the nature of democratic voting such as is used by the House of Representatives.

I believe it's a strength of the US that we have different voting methodologies for different roles. One for the House and a _different_ (yet also fair!) methodology for the President.

While these reasons were partially born as a result of compromise - the compromise is rooted in some good political theory.

We would be worse off if we only had one method and not the other. But we have both and we are stronger for it. I'd like to keep both. I think most ardent defenders of the electoral college would say the same.
> It's odd how the people that think this are generally the same ones most likely to argue

Don’t attack strawmen, it’s boring.
Ubiquiti has got you covered:

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I’d be interested to know why not the latter.
Not if you take into account the fact that I don't have to maintain the hosts the jobs are running on (which is a not inconsiderable amount of time when you get HIPAA and PCI into the mix). Liberal application of AWS Savings Plans with 1 year no up front helps a lot too.

At scale I agree, however if you're a small company (or, in our case, 6 small companies) and don't have dedicated DevOps (or, in our case, have 1.5 DevOps people split 6 ways), it's fantastic.
I appreciate the sentiment, but for those of us who have been negatively impacted by the policies of the current administration, it is worrying that a candidate with broad appeal has failed to materialize at this point.
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Arguably you're just a great big pile of grey goo.

ie. It's not an argument against grey goo, it's an argument the grey goo catastrophe rules everywhere and has done so for eons.
"Hell, he wants to pay me $2500? I will pocket that and then vote for hopefully less obnoxious candidate."

You mean, you'll pocket that $2500, then vote for him for another promised $2500, because your vote is for sale - that much is certain.
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Part of the problem is that it's a self-funded campaign. It's one thing when a campaign raises a bunch of money from donors and does an ad blitz, because at least it in theory represents real people (with contribution caps) who donated. When it's a billionaire self-funding, that's not the case. (PACs are also problematic, because they side-step the contribution caps)
That's how I do it. I understand the etymological reasons for "S-Q-L-ite", but SQLite is just too ubiquitous in my everyday work for me to speak 4 syllables when referring to it.
I’m sure lots of people would take a Model S over the Porsche in many scenarios considering the Model S has an epa estimated range of 390 miles whereas the Taycan has comparatively short 192 mile range. It doesn’t matter how nice the finish is if the car can’t get you to where you want to go.
People frequently seem to think this is about the line number it's on (666), but that doesn't have anything to do with it. That line number is a totally modern construction; the original source code was on punch cards. That particular comment was punched onto card number 0562 in the LUNAR LANDING GUIDANCE EQUATIONS log section. The original developers only referred to code by punch card number, and page number in the listing. So it really is just a coincidence, and the "NUMERO MYSTERIOSO" is referring to whatever is in GAINBRAK,1.
> If you are an older individual with your home making up a bulk of your retirement nest egg, you aren't going to vote for policies that make homes more affordable.

The thing about this though: this only matters if you intend to sell your home and move to a completely different area before you die. Alternatively, you're willing to sell your home and stay in the same area, but move into a much smaller home (and/or ditch your single family home for a condo or apartment).

For some retirees, sure, that's their plan. But for those that just plan to stay in their home until they die, the home value really doesn't matter, since they're not going to realize that value in their lifetime.

The one counterargument to that I can think of is that a dropping home value would also drop the amount of money a retiree could extract via a reverse mortgage, but I'm not sure those are all that popular (but I could be wrong).
That's great for investors, but the benefit to employees is minimal. No, free snacks don't count as a benefit lol.
oh yea, the musk fanboys are seriously next level delusional. once you buy one of those hunkers, you're defending your bad purchase and musk for the rest of your days ;)
Something that I’ve seen as a root to a lot of problems and inertia at big co IT is that theres been a couple of cycles where people where internally recruited from business to IT - the mainframe era and more recently the client/server era.

Nothing wrong with recruiting internally per-se, it’s more about the fact that many lacked basic knowledge.

I’m painting with a big brush here, but I’ve seen effects of this throughout my so called career.

- 40 years ago career-paths was opened as cobol programmers.
Knowledge was scarce and security was in many ways non-existing.

- 20 years ago guys got shifted to IT because they knew how to fix the printer.
Client/server knowledge was scarce and security non-existing.

You breed a segment of IT workers, many which are in ways clueless, but it’s big business. It’s enterprise IT.

Massive breaches, slow to change, and downtime by the buckets. Tickets churning along in “automated” workflows.

Queue the outsourcing strategies!

Might seem a sane choice considering the above - only... it’s difficulty to outsource something you’re not in control of.

This obvious lack of control have led to the ITSM field with it’s CABs, ITILs and other acronyms, all designed to lull everyone into a false sense of security.

I could go on, perhaps write a book. Anyway, I totally agree with what you’re saying, just wanted to share my perspective.
Casting light on the brain's inner workings
This community. Tech. HN.

Sometimes these discussions, as here, go relatively well. But that's relative. There's still a lot of misogynist nonsense, both subtle and blatant, and I can watch my antisexist posts get voted up and down. But quite often they go poorly. That's something that's easy to miss if one isn't intentionally antisexist. And since sexism is something guys can ignore if we want, it's especially easy for us to miss it.
> There is a lot more incompetence than you would ever want to believe

I work for a company that you've definitely heard of, and a lot of people have actively used our product. We're a very big company. We have domain admins browsing the public web via interactive RDP sessions on the domain controllers themselves. That is one of many horror stories of the security at this company.
New evidence that shows how the brain makes decisions
Although heating with gas will produce different amounts of CO2 than heating with electricity.
anyone who knows cars knows he made the right choice. you'll just have the rabid tesla fanboys saying the tesla is better because they are delusional.
It’s a common observation, and indeed known as one of the Three Virtues of a great programmer according to Larry Wall

http://threevirtues.com
> More to the point, I grew up with early Windows XP computers and early 90s Internet

He is talking about running local software before mainstream internet was a thing.

That is, locally installed software without a single line of network code in them.

MS Word started faster on my dads Motorola based Mac with a 7MHz CPU and super-slow spinning rust-drives than it does on my current PC with a 4GHz CPU and more L3 cache than the old Mac had RAM all together.

Modern software really is immensely slow.
> Just like if you take out a mortgage on a house and fail to pay the loan back, then the bank owns the house.

I think most homeowners would disagree that when they bought the house, it was actually sold to the bank.
Just be wary, they introduced a serious bug in v13
Ha! This selling point is just one in a miserable litany of poor reasons to use an ORM - you absolutely cannot simply switch between databases without doing some work to ensure that the data is migrated correctly and the SQL statements translate properly.
> That only works if you have 4 new people who want to live there.

I don't know about the rest of California, but in the bay area you can find those 4 people with your eyes closed.
> an ostensibly non-sexist HR/management would sanction the manager, not Fowler

Are you sure they would have sanctioned the manager if he was gay and harassing a gay subordinate? Everything I've seen says that women are taken much more seriously than men on issues like this, so I'd bet that they wouldn't. They took his side since he was more valuable to the company, not because she was a woman.
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he is an attention seeking cry baby, and nothing more.
Extending is ok, embedding is indeed quite horrid. Tcl got that right. Yu want to embed multiple interpreters in the same address space with no sharing -- no problem. The mantle has been passed to Lua I think, but Guile is pretty good and not as minimalistic as Lua (that's bit of an understatement though).
Love them or hate them, the one nice thing about Bloomberg and Trump is that, finally the billionaires are stepping out of the shadows. Instead of just bankrolling some frontman who looks good for the cameras, they are running as candidates themselves now.

Back in 2015 or 2016, The Atlantic had a great article that highlighted the billionaire donors behind each of the (traditional) Republican candidates in the presidential primary. It wasn't hard to see how the candidate's platform aligned with the donor's agenda in each case.

If some billionaire is going to be driving a political campaign, I'd much rather they were upfront about the whole thing and put their own name on it.
Mostly other politicians are running ads and campaign offices as politicians have done for decades - maybe with a social media manager or two per major office.

Bloomberg is doing that, also at a level of intensity not really seen before, but then also managing a uniquely expensive social media campaign.

Clinton's total campaign was something like $600e6. Bloomberg has already spent half of that, within the span of three state primaries. I would not be surprised if he spends at least that on the primary, and if he somehow gets the nomination, a billion minimum for the entire campaign.

It's unreal.
You're arguing semantics. Don't defend fraud artists.
It doesn't work like that. The big spenders drown out any alternative and they offer only a different interface for pretty much the same back end.

Since the US green party had 200-300 views per youtube video for them out of a million voters about 1 or 2 are not fooled. With candidates further "down" the list we all are fooled. I read maybe half the program for 1% of the alt-candidates. Definitely fooled I was.
Sounds like the P series is a better fit for you. Hot swappable batteries, easy access to RAM and disk storage bays, and plenty of power for everything you want to do.

I love mine to death, but it has that old school laptop weight and size.
It just makes it go faster. If every call to foo() spawns two threads, it spawns exponentially more threads than if each call spawns one thread.
Hillary outspending Trump 2:1 is a ridiculous way to look at it. When you combine the PAC/SuperPAC money spent for Trump with the Kremlin GRU efforts, it seems to me that Trump (including 3rd party efforts to help Trump and/or reduce Dem turnout) outspent Hillary roughly 100:1.
I think I should move to Japan and buy cheap haunted houses.
It's a pretty important point though. Compare with a student loan, which never goes away. Failing to mention that seems in pretty clear bad faith.
Heck, women couldn't wear pants until about a minute ago.
I've also received a notification email about my outdated acme client, thanks!