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Amusingly enough, until Tesla was successful, HN was all ablaze with why they shouldn't try new things. Tesla should just hire all the experts from Ford et. al. and do the same thing as everyone else, except electric. In fact, they were going to fail because they didn't understand "automotive grade". Touchscreens? Psh, guaranteed product failure.

SpaceX was going to fail because they didn't use conventional wisdom building their stuff. They used Electron for their UI (my god! guaranteed product failure! astronauts will hate them!). Their stuff exploded when they tried it out. Classic, should've done what ULA did. ULA are the experts.

"They don't listen". That was always the theme. They don't listen. That's why they win.
Exactly, add a checkbox in the settings menu and the problem is solved for everyone.
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I mean, all you really have to know is that the r0 for asymptomatic patients is > 1 or that symptomatic patients aren't going to be perfect and are going to be going out when they are sick (or most likely a combination of the two). I think we've had enough evidence of that for a while now. The way you write your comment seems rather condescending and anti-lockdown when what we've seen is that "shutdowns" have saved lives.
Torrent is not the most private way of downloading things, because if you share your already downloaded binary you are posting your ip in a tracker as a leecher or seeder. You actually can see live what torrents (at least the most popular) are you downloading[1], the site is only tracking the most popular hashes, but is easy to some entity track this intel hash specifically

[1] https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/
(a) This title is horribly editorialized "New York Attorney General Moves To Dissolve The NRA After Fraud Investigation"
(b) Repost from 10 hours ago (that was a WSJ article)[0]
(c) There's no mention of Uber - as ricefield mentions
(d) The article is pretty incongruent mentioning $1.2M in expenses, but then $3.6M as an apparent subset of those expenses (the WSJ article lists the $3.6M as all travel expenses, and has zero mention of black car services)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072129
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When I was at UCB in the 80's I regularly read the man pages. Learned so much. So, I would definitely disagree. I think it's an excellent way to learn about *nix and what it offers.
Who said someone used DMY combined with MD? DMY/MDY is not an exhaustive list of date formats, you know. It is not even an exhaustive list of "incredibly common date formats".
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Most Americans don’t have enough assets to withstand 3 months without income
I'm not so sure about your example.

Get a self-driving truck, and add some sort of people-sensing system that allows potential customers to intuitively flag it down. Then add a self-serve ice cream vending machine.

Now you can build a fleet of ice cream trucks that don't need human operators. I think you could make a few millionaires with that.

My point is not that automated ice cream trucks are the future. My point is that "small" improvements amortized across enough units can be significant.

Now, there's probably a pretty hard ceiling to the amount of income one of these trucks can bring in, so investing in business intelligence or a snazzy customer experience probably isn't a good investment. (Which is probably what parent was imagining.)

But don't underestimate the power of shrinking costs. If you sell a billion screws a year, a one-tenth of a cent improvement in unit manufacturing cost is a million dollars a year.
I palm strop my safety razor, the idea is to smooth the microscopic bumps. No idea if it's scientific.

https://www.bruceonshaving.com/2010/11/17/palm-stropping-raz...

[edit] Sorry, as Someone1234 points out I actually meant cartridge razor
I pay around $65 for service on 3 phones with Google Fi. But, I'm lucky, I live in an area where it works just fine. Many people live in Verizon-only country, and that's not cheap.
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Rust, Java, Swift...
The most comfortably I ever saw a person wield the telnet/rsh/ssh escape sequences was when I was an intern, visiting a Cray division, to port some software. He was juggling multiple hops, to get to a machine across the room, with the panels off.

I'm guessing that juggling multiple hops might've been ordinary in Internet-based supercomputing center practice at the time. Including through terminal servers?

Though it would've been aesthetically cooler to sit at the console of a front-end processor of a Cray or Connection Machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxell#/media/File:Blown_Away_...

(I ended up creating some multi-hop-to-go-10-feet situations myself at that company, such as for crudely gatewaying from our main Sun-dominated engineering LAN, to some porting systems, such as VAXstations that were only on DECnet. Half of the engineers had been developing things like LAN-accessed in-circuit emulators, borrowing other workstations' tape drives through rsh as part of a local Unix command pipeline, etc., so they were also unusually comfortable with the hops.)
The article here is not of that kind. Business publications tend to be the most report-fact-based, simply because their readers don’t make money by deluding themselves with confirmation bias.
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> I eventually gave up on trying to make the formatted rust-fuse code look pretty, and settled for "consistent".

Even though it's a bit ugly, this is a big win.

As for why it does this, from my experience, rust-fmt will try to keep lines under a column limit but not greedily. e.g. if a params list would extend past the limit, then all params get a newline. It seems to try to balance horizontal estate and vertical estate and I've become used to that (even though it is inconsistent at times).

Any formatting rule is going to fall over eventually. Rust-fmt seems to make sane choices the majority of the time.
Scale, baby, scale
Does banning transactions, mean Apple/Google will be forced to remove TikTok/WeChat from the app stores in the US?
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Agree. But some people will see lack of weapons as weakness to exploit. It's easier and higher ROI for 1 to arm, while rest disarm, than for all to remain disarmed, so it will happen. Making the current undesirable state where we have this fantasy of nuclear slugfest, paradoxically more stable.

But yeah, in a sense it's like we're storing AN in a warehouse beside a city. Seemingly stable, but bad if not. Unless we're not storing AN, but just sawdust. But who knows really?

an even more stable situation would be to have every country convinced they have a mutually assured destruction but then for there to be some higher power that can prevent that. so we don't start a war because we believe mad is true but even if we do there's a fallback. but who knows?
> Private black car service means Jeaves is waiting for you in an S Class anywhere you go in the world.

Source? This is not my understanding. My understanding is that black car service is just a fancier taxi.
Do you realize that you just posted an idea for a niche business?
What does the principle of the excluded middle have to do with this?
Why was the underlying database changed?

The most obvious reason I can think of being licensing concerns with both MS SQL and MySQL.
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I think python also takes the approach where strings must be valid unicode. Both Rust and Python use their String types to represent valid unicode, and something else ([] and byte strings, respectively) to represent other encodings and invalid unicode.
Anyone remember this scene from Enemy of The State (1998)? https://youtu.be/3EwZQddc3kY?t=45

Jon Voight: "Can the computer take us around to the other side?"

Jack Black: "It can HYPOTHESIZE"

:)
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Yeah but the data is still a legit leak, even though the means by which is was obtained wasn't hacking.
Just to clarify, both TARP and Emergency Economic Stabilization Act were signed into law in October 2008 before Obama was even elected president.

Not saying he wouldn't have also signed the acts but the crisis was well underway by the time Obama was in the White House.
There seems to be an agenda here. But juat because a few companies failed (and in venture it’s 65% - 90%) not all fail. That’s the venture capital business model and it’s given us Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Instacart, Impossible Foods, and probably a dozen goods and services we use every day. You don’t build these kinds of businesses as a lifestyle business.
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Airbnb’s original plan was basically that, for a fee. The “air“ in the name was an air mattress
The point was that it was a proof of concept
One might've thought that a conservative court would halt inappropriate expansion of federal power in order to preserve small, limited government and liberty.

Liberty of the governed to set laws at a local level (where they do not conflict with Constitutionally-protected rights and powers enumerated to the federal government).
They already penetrated the digital western world on a wild fire viral therefore it’s time to enable the Great Western Firewall.
Well played, get Reels!

Ps. How about all the cheap smart devices that send data to China mainland!?
"In some parts of the world,' the report says, '20 to 60 percent of all marriages are between close biological relatives."

Probably isolated areas, like small islands or remote settlements in the wilderness where there is not much to choose from.

I've lived a year in such a place and, while there weren't genetic illnesses that I was aware of, I wouldn't use that place as evidence of how inbreeding is innocuous. Let's leave it at that.
The thing is, usability is security. People will do anything to be able to do their job (because people like being able to, you know, eat and stuff). Things that stop you doing your job are bad for security.

I wish more of the security industry would get their frigging heads around this. PGP did less for messaging security over decades of availability than iMessage and Signal did in a few weeks of availability.
>Two Fortune 500 companies I worked at had projects in Django that used native SQL to do migrations. This led to errors in prod during deployment.

> The order of the scripts had to run in a proscribed order. They had to be listed on the deployment instructions. So the migrations would run, and then fail during a prod deployment for various reasons. Most notably a dependent script hadn't run in prod yet. They had run in the Dev/QA environments and everything had run just fine. Or Dev/QA had been hand tweaked and that change hadn't made it to the script during prod deployment because they were testing it for a month to see performance before moving to prod, etc... etc...

How do companies get this right? My organization has all these problems as well and I lose 10-15% of my time chasing misplaced SQL scripts or SQL scripts with improper tweaks.
The correct thing to do is let the market decide. If it's profitable to do something, people will do it.
Brain waves can be used to predict future pain sensitivity
I don't practice moral relativism, and that is likely outside the scope of this discussion.

My point is, it's not just a difference of opinion when a group of people promote racist, neo-Nazi views (alt-right), or peddle in conspiracy theories (Qanon).

Are we just going to ignore the significant presence of these groups on Twitter?

There's a reason why people are blocking and it's not merely disagreement. One side treats the other differently but not for the reasons being presented.
I have learned that flat out telling people that a hill isn't worth dying on tends to cause a bunch of corpses to collect up - if you don't want a molehill covered in bodies you need to persuade them to go die somewhere else.
Which is why a lot of the real money is in products that have wide appeal for non-disabled users.

This is where most of the bizarre "as seen on TV" products come from: The inventor made a tool for people with disabilities, found that the target market wasn't large enough to sustain a business, and frantically tried to pivot. Pivoting is hard when you already have a large inventory of hard products.

If you can build something that able-bodied people are not only willing to use but willing to pay extra for, then you're good to go.
Node.js (v.14) 2 features to check.
I loved contracting for Sun - you had to give them a discount if they paid early, and they always paid like net-5, so bump your rate a little and everyone is happy
> Having worked at companies like intel

I've worked at a company very much like Intel¹ and the really closely guarded secret — the one where two vetted people turn the launch key at the same time — was the microcode patching keys.

¹ I'm not saying it was Intel, but it was Intel
> Expected net utility given complete information of the consequences of a decision is the only plausible definition of need.

This doesn't exist in real life so it's almost laughable to talk about it like it's an actual thing. People don't have "Expected net utility" functions that spit out a number (denominated in what?) when faced with some choice.

> It doesn't, however correspond in any particular way (even ignoring the information problems that are enormous in healthcare) to the number of tokens one is willing to exchange for a thing in the market compared to other participants unless the quantity of tokens available to each participant is the same.

1) Even if everyone had the same amount of tokens at some time t different people have different values and thus would allocate their tokens differently to different things as they saw fit, not to mention there are other circumstances that people have in their life that are beyond cash reserves (having a house, having a car, having a family, having a pet, having a passion for art collection, etc). They would be allocating their tokens in accordance with this hierarchy since they need to reserve their tokens for other priorities in their life.

2) There's no way to even quantify "needs" across people without some market/pricing function unless you have some third party quantifying or ranking the needs of everyone but I already mentioned that. This is what universal healthcare does where some bureaucratic apparatus determines, quantifies, and ranks the needs of patients and allocates healthcare resources.
Conversely the arguments I've heard for namespaces is that multiple people want to reimplement or make bindings for the same C library.

In maven central, in my anecdotal experience, namespaces usually either distinguish forks of the same library, or to group related libraries. There has never been, in my experience, a case where I wanted two packages with the same name in different namespaces.

I think a better system of handling unmaintained crates; with the possibility of reclaiming a name would go a long way with the author's use case. I don't have any great ideas here: package with no update in some time (a year?) is eligible. Someone requests to take over name - the author is notified and has a period of time to click an "I'm still here" button. If they don't - new author gets the name. Some 'super version' number is incremented so crate authors opt into the new or old foo. That last part is where I'm the most hesitant.
Hyunjoo isn't a user.

She is a professional, with years of experience in the space that various startups are trying to "disrupt".

That's years of hard-won, hands-on experience that would benefit anybody trying to enter the market.

Which the average San Francisco startup -- both the founder and employees -- totally ignore, because (a) she's over thirty-five years of age; and (b) she doesn't have a degree from Stanford/Berkeley/Harvard.

We see this a lot in Japan when SV startups open shop here.
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The idea that the actions of a stranger can have permanent harmful effects on you is both (1) historically common as applied to supernatural effects, and (2) completely normal in ordinary life.

The very common beliefs that your soul might be damaged by someone mutilating your corpse, or stepping on your grave, aren't noticeably different from the belief that your soul might be damaged by someone anointing your corpse or a representative of your corpse.
Language and culture is usually a barrier. For example, one of my apps really blew up because we targeted Malaysian low carb dieters. Western low carb diets are well done and cover all kinds of things like steak and pizza alternatives. We covered local dishes like laksa (spicy noodle soup) and rendang (a kind of meat dish). We got 3,000 monthly active users with very little paid marketing and 3% of them were paying customers.

This fit in with your other requirements - it would be easy to hop from low carb recipes to say, Indian vegetarian recipes.

The 10x trick is done by looking for crappy apps with a substantial user base. In our case, we were competing with a FB group with 200 thousand users and a constant stream of posts that made it difficult for people to look for recipes. Our app competitor was a HTML5 app which someone did as a technical demo, with 50 thousand users.
It's complex and beautiful.

"We are all just a somewhat interesting random arrangement of photons"
Exploration of public areas isn't illegal. There's no law mandating that viewing a website though the browser is legal, and any other means not. Techies legitimately access websites in all kinds of programmatic ways. Intel made their data publicly available. That it wasn't accidental doesn't change that.
Book or tutorial recommendations please.
There are tools that help this:
Visual Studio Data Tools, RoundhousE, Flyway/Redgate - I highly recommend investing time in building them into your workflows.
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I assume they mean crystalline domain heterogeneity. The best metals are single-domain so that there are no fissures along the boundaries. But that takes very pure material and very slow cooling. A good alternative is nanacrystalline or amorphous domains, which are fairly simple, just blast with microwave energy during cooling. This can make a very strong metal with great working properties, a bit softer, but doesn’t fracture.
For this employee’s sake, I hope they have adequate legal representation, and that they intend to sue.

> While there are signs Facebook will stand up to Trump in cases where he violates its rules — as on Wednesday when it removed a video post from the president in which he claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19 — there are others who suggest the company is caving to critical voices on the right. In another recent Workplace post, a senior engineer collected internal evidence that showed Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content.

> The company responded by removing his post and restricting internal access to the information he cited. On Wednesday the engineer was fired, according to internal posts seen by BuzzFeed News.
Nothing wrong with trying to disrupt some industry - but I think the way too many startups handle it is, well, almost arrogant.

Traditionally, businesses grow very incrementally - in almost all aspects of the business. From the product itself, to infrastructure, etc. It's all mostly done on a need basis.

When demand ramps up, you expand. But at the very core, there's a product/products which have been developed probably since before the company itself. It's the secret sauce, if you want. Of course, later down the road, some products unfortunately take the backseat in a business - but that's another story.

With a lot of disruptive tech-fueled startups, it's a bit different - you start with some idea or desire of disrupting something, or identifying inefficiencies in traditional systems, through use and/or observation, or through surveying people.

So too often, you get people / entrepreneurs with limited domain knowledge, that try to learn and solve/improve some complex business or field.

Again - there's nothing wrong with trying to improve something, but throwing cash at something you may not know too well, can be a quick way to just wasting money.

A lot of energy and resources are going towards trying to engineer some system which is ready to scale, IF demand explodes. It's the software engineering equivalent of writing "enterprise" software from the go, pouring cash on ridiculous servers, and hiring a team of expensive sales engineers - even though you barely have a MVP. You're still in the early stages where you need to direct most of your focus on creating a great product.
Personally I use Android partly because of the lack of web engine choice on iOS, but this isn't strictly true AFAIK. Apple does require the same WebKit/JavaScriptCore, but other code beside the UI skin can be different, such as the networking layer, and for Chrome at least it is different.
A bubble around commercial real estate that results in competition and lower rents for other businesses... that doesn't sound terrible.

Yeah the knock on effects would be terrible, but the underlying results being lower costs for renters, seems pretty natural / appropriate.
If someone leaves their door unlocked and open it doesn't mean I have a right to walk in and take what I want.
I would argue the gambler's are those buying insane billions in MBS and derivatives of derivatives of MBS, with what turns out to be totally BS ratings and a whole lot of what should have been obvious to see fraud
Apple make my favourite operating systems and some of the best hardware but are increasingly doubling down on dubious platform control.

This is an unsustainable position going forward, and smacks of being not only arbitrary (see Steam Link) but perhaps anticompetitive. Is the idea that no games subscription is allowed except their own Apple Arcade (which are local downloads, not streaming)
Those fully informed and consenting adults may very well have significant selection bias and not represent the population very well. Meaning results obtained from them would not be generalizable and could run the gamut from ineffective treatment to dangerous or fatal when tried in the broader population.
Medical imaging like MRI. Put it in a truck trailer and tour the underserved communities.

Unfortunately, States have medical device approval hurdles which often explicitly consider competition, and prohibit the economic competition.
What you write makes a lot of sense in terms of successful startup strategy. It doesn’t detract from the vacuity of your original statement on “high variance“. When you cherry-pick two data points- from the same founder, even- while ignoring the high rate of failed startups, it makes for quite an empty fallacious statement indeed. One might as well argue for the merits of big government statism by singing the praises of the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program, while contrasting them with the DMV.
Using ImageMagick to make Contact Sheets (2013)
90 paying users is cool but I wouldn’t say it “really blew up”
I think parent was complaining that there's very little public information (particularly hard numbers) about the incumbents. GP was cruising Wikipedia for information about the apps' parent companies rather than just trying to identify the apps.

It's easy to see how many apps are in the store. It's a lot harder to know how much money they are grossing.
> albeit with lies

Depends on the religion. Islam doesn't need (and is actively against) lies.
Consistency > prettiness
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