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Ask HN: What does “Operations” mean to you?
I've been building a web app for operations teams, and I'm consistently surprised different people's definitions of "operations." There's manufacturing operations, IT operations, sales operations, HR operations...the list goes on.

What does "operations" mean to you?
From what I know and was also told by several doctors when a family member was dying of mesothelioma in his early 70's (despite never having worked more than casually a few times around asbestos in his much younger years), the illness is strongly suspected of being tied to a genetic predisposition that only affects a certain small percentage of people.

If one has this genetic disposition, it's apparently possible that even moderate or modest exposure early in life is enough to cause the (extremely deadly and almost impossible to treat) disease at some point later in life. This point can come years or decades after exposure.

And if one isn't predisposed, then even heavy exposure to asbestos probably won't cause mesothelioma. It is of course still possible to get other really shitty lung problems from the mineral regardless of genetic factors, but meso itself seems to be very selective. This apparently is why it's relatively rare despite widespread asbestos use for decades before recent years in much of the world.
>We have people traveling form out of state to start fights

Kyle Rittenhouse is from Antioch, which is on the northern border of Illinois and Wisconsin. Kenosha is 20 miles from Antioch by car.
Funny enough that idea was proposed in the 1920s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
I am not sure but it seems to me like:

-Medical establishment shrugs shoulders "Dunno. [Description-of-symptoms] Syndrome?"

then later:

-Medical establishment knowing look "Yeah we know that one. It is Name-of-cause/discoverer-of-cause disease."

Is this how it works?
I'm curious if there are other folks like me here - I have a peculiar hate of touch-screen pens/pencils. They're too thick at the tip.

When I write on (real) paper, I try to use the thinnest pen that I can still grip. I think I hold the pen at an odd enough angle that if the pen is fat enough before tapering, it starts covering the point where the tip touches the paper. Once that happens, I feel like I'm writing while holding one end of a yardstick. The alternative is to start angling the pen so I can still see the tip, but that makes writing awkward - I rather just type at that point.
I feel like there are many more moderate democrats, though I don’t have any stats on that.
I'm not sure what your point is exactly but I would disagree with the presented assertions none the less.

In C# async/await is essentially sugar around callbacks, which isn't really related to threads, per se. However, the language has the Task Parallel Library, and a Task promise type that has a lot of methods around scheduling and thread targeting. Essentially the TPL does dictate how many threads are used and is, as far as language design is concerned, inextricable from async/await.
Bluetooth has never not been a hassle in my experience - and that goes for Android, Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS. There’s always something with the device or driver.

This goes especially for audio.

I’m going to guess that Apple peripherals + Apple OS on Apple hardware is actually hassle-free but then what’s the point of a standard.
Most fish species don't migrate.
> "The love of money (greed) is the root of all evil": Google, Amazon, Facebook all are already deep down this hole. Apple might be the only company that still has some decency left.

While I largely agree with your impressions, I find it ironic to see Apple mentioned in that context. They are the third most valuable company on Earth, worth about $1.3 trillion: https://fxssi.com/top-10-most-valuable-companies-in-the-worl...
Julia might be a better fit for this use case.

That way you leverage a more developed data ecosystem, can call python when necessary and avoid writing low level code.

Depends on the task of course.
Bookmarking this comment section in case I ever need a prime example of bikeshedding.
This concept is one that fascinates me because in a strange twist of fate The British Museum is now also a historical artifact. Just like the Rosetta Stone or the Elgin Marbles, the museum is now a work of art created by a fallen empire. It can only exist in its current state as long as they have the political strength to protect it. It is probably only a matter of time until it is fittingly destroyed by the victimized nations reclaiming their artifacts.
Sure, 'some' of the stores closed, but store rent didnt even budge. Then we have this https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/july-home-sales-spike-a-reco... home prices _and_ sales up.
Regarding inane comments about the name, take a look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile#Pocket_PC_2000

Pocket PC 2000, originally codenamed "Rapier", was released on April 19, 2000, and was based on the Windows CE 3.0 kernel.
Consequences for the whistleblower should depend on the laws that were in place when (or if) they broke the law. For example, Edward Snowden probably committed treason and that carries a harsh penalty but it is good that he leaked the NSA classified docs.

Not sure what you mean by exposed, but I think the same logic applies. Those who suffered harm should get redress. Those who committed harm should be punished.
Quoted out of context from the report. The point was that they're not likely to be out in the open about their affiliation with white supremacists, which is not the same as there being no affiliation at all. Of course infiltrators don't announce that they're infiltrators. Blending in is part of the game. Supremacists even have a name for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_skin

Note the particular reference to law enforcement. That plus the ad hominem at the end of your comment adds up to a whole lot of Not Convincing. BTW here's another report on the same topic, from 2006. Can't wait to see what reason you come up with for dismissing it as well.

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-su...
Interesting. Must be a geographic restriction.
I was super impressed by the O’Reilly book, which throws you right in to writing a multithreaded Mandelbrot set plotter. It also goes through writing a multithreaded HTTP server. Pretty neat!
As someone who has been a paper notebook writer for decades, who went through boxes of paper ergonomic for writing a year, low dozens of pens, including fountain pens and ink, and who stored square meters of old notebooks for those decades, paying for every inch- for some users, the R reaches 1x ROI in less than a year.

Cheers.
I am currently working on something that is trying to solve this by more accurately pricing DERs https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/opus-one-tests-...
I have a reaction when we've got years (and years and years) of this and someone says "well, they're fighting about it on Wikipedia" like that means a single darn thing.

Glad you like the stuff; always up for people having the specific link.
While this is undoubtedly true, the 80/20 rule doesn't apply to wealth -- at least not anymore. Today, the top 1% of the world's population has more wealth than the other 99% combined.
where do you see that information on that page?
Legos to me are bit more premium than Ikea. Ikea for the most part, with some exceptions, comes across as cheap and disposable —the opposite of Legos which have durability built in.

The main commonality may be the “design language” but not so much the engineering language. Ikea plastics are cheap and degrade rapidly (compared to Legos’s premium polymers).
If you're so rich then why aren't you smart?
Many people find the "pozzy vibes only" philosophy much more annoying than relentless cynicism, which can at least be refuted by just ignoring it & building stuff.
Yeah, I (perhaps because of masochism) click on links to Quora answers I see in my email digest, and it will me to the answer within an infiniscroll page. If I follow any link and click back ... the answer is gone. I have to go back to my email again and get it from there if I want to see it again.

It almost seems like, beyond a very low threshold, UX gets worse as you throw more engineers at it.
√ I like shopping in IKEA

√ I like Lego

√ I like boxes..
Given the whole covid situation it is hardly shocking. I personally think they have been pretty upfront about it.
I think asking why I said Africa and not the specific country or region is fair. Had I traveled there instead, would I have said North America or Alaska? Would I have said Russia or Siberia? I'm not sure.

For what it's worth an initial rush of downvotes (or upvotes) is fairly common on HN; I'd ignore them for the first hour or so. After that you'll probably have a fair idea of the HN consensus (fickle as it is).

People that really care about an issue will sit there and refresh a thread constantly, so in the short term you're mostly knowing what they think about your comment. But they can't vote more than once.

My first comment in this tree was downvoted to -3 within two minutes of posting, but now sits at +40. I actually wasn't sure at first whether it was being downvoted by people for or against Starlink et al. Maybe both.
It was moved to a later course, thankfully. I’m a big SICP fan!

(Hi Chris!)
Amperes for charging EV is outrageous compared to other electric devices. It shouldn't be easy to deploy massively for power grid.
As a designer, I'm ashamed of reading this. This is the opposite of what designers are supposed to do. UI is not art, you can't just do whatever you want. You need to abide by user patterns and conventions, because our job is to get people from A to B in the most efficient way possible. Period. Your designer is just bad.
Fixing fake news with “truth bounties”
Android scrollbars have worked that way for quite a while iirc. Not sure about windows phone but I don't see why MS would change that behavior.
Why now, and not thirty-plus years ago? I suspect this may be the result of some lengthy negotiation process.

IKEA could have brought in off-brand LEGO-compatible blocks years ago. It seems like a no-brainer. Any half decent dollar store in North America has them.

Maybe IKEA carrying off-brand LEGO-like blocks would have pissed off LEGO, who protect their brand quite vehemently.

So then if you want real LEGO(tm) blocks that are simultaneously IKEA-branded, you need a deal; and who knows how long that had been brewing.
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For what it's worth, barring catastrophic failure, which seems to be rare, these things tend to hold up quite well. My previous Macbook lasted me about 6 years, I had its battery replaced half a year ago without any issues; it's my backup machine now, and if it weren't a tad too sluggish at some tasks, I would have postponed the upgrade another year. Lots of people (on HN, too) run even older Macbooks, apparently happily.

Just be sure to get the latest gen, especially for the 13" Pros ones – you absolutely want the 2020 keyboard (physical ESC key, no failure-prone butterfly mechanics, really nice feel, "old" arrow key arrangement that is easier to find by feel) and the newest CPUs. I have both keyboards (my own 2020 one and my 2018 work laptop) and the difference is crazy. But as I mentioned before, have a look at the current Air as well – cheaper and still plenty powerful, depending on what you need.
> Here, we have millions of eye witnesses and tons of corroborating evidence.

The fact that this report is up to questioning shows that it isn't true. If you read this report thoroughly, you can find out it just shows there are this sort of buildings in Xinjiang but no logic or proof that they are concentration camps and there is no evidence at least in the report that the buildings are in use.
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You got that right, 20 startups or even 200. And they might have made a great return. Instead, they focused on bars and public art (which I think is cool btw) and made a fundamental real estate mistake by loudly announcing where they were going to buy and how much they had to spend.
This isn't anything resembling what this FB post says, nor is there anything to indicate it is even talking about content that isn't on FB/Instagram itself.
are you sure? It doesn't work for me (UK-based)
Come on, map and filter difficult? That's hyperbole of the highest order.
There's nothing stopping you from tracking client state in a a simple window.state object. This object can be of arbitrary composition, so I see no reason you cannot manage even the most complex UI state in this manner.

For me, minimal web development means doing as much as I can at the server. This includes tracking client UI state if feasible. The more stuff you have in 1 domain like that the easier it becomes to control complexity.

When your state machine is split between 2 realms is when you get into traps that things like React were created to resolve.
Exactly, modern e-commerce convenience requires credit-card-equivalent payment mechanisms. The delays & extra expense/staff required for mailed checks are an onerous barrier to legal commerce, for both merchants & buyers.

The market is afraid to provide them to unpopular, but legal services. Earning a living is an important human right.

So perhaps the government – maybe the Department of Health & Human Services, or the Fed – should provide a alternative to protect this human right.
Keep in mind that the average income in Germany is about 5x higher than in Kazakhstan, the grid is much bigger and most of the price is taxes.

The actual price (before taxes) is less than 9ct/kWh (about 7.6ct/kWh to be precise - including profits, btw.) and that's what industrial customers pay.

edit: I tried to find some figures to seejust how much bigger the German grid is compared to Kazakhstan and it's mind boggling. 25000 km in Kazakhstan vs 135000 km of just high voltage- and supergrid in Germany. Germany's grid is 1.8 million km versus 25 thousand km in Kazakhstan [1] [2]. Different worlds.

[1] http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/energy/se/pp/eneff/9th__F... page 4

[2] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...
The issue is not effectiveness as much as measurement. Advertisers value the insight obtained by tracking user response to ads. That is something they are willing to pay premium for. Without the ability to do measurements, Facebook does not provide as much value.
I recall a point by Jobs et al. wherein the original case for GUI drop-down menus was motivated by a clear desire for discoverability, versus the arcane keyboard shortcuts of the IBM applications of the time.

That stuck with me for a long time, and I remembered it when MacOS and iOS first began departing from that philosophy with their modern looks. I would say Jony Ive contributed a lot to this transition from user-friendliness to design-led, form-over-function.
I'd venture to say that 99% of onlyfans content (that people are paying for anyway) is porn. Just because there's a small subset of non-porn doesn't change the fact that they're selling access to porn. Twitter is a completely different story as they're selling advertising, not access to nudes.
What's with the super painful shade of yellow for everything here?
I read somewhere that a significant fraction of the energy budget of the human body is spent on ion pumps (the difference is that ion channels are passive and ion pumps uses energy in form of ATP). That's because keeping an electric potential[1] across the cell membrane drives the mechanism described in this post (and others, like muscle contraction)

Anyway an overview of ion transport mechanisms across the cell membrane is [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_gradient

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_transport_protein
Poor squid. :(
I think you're misinterpreting the scale of Wellsfargo. The CEO probably doesn't even know what onlyfans is, and they manage almost 2 trillion dollars.
In much the same way that people will tell you there's not enough land in cities when their actual concern is that there aren't enough residences, we "need" the financial industry in the sense that other financial services are illegal, not in the sense that the financial industry is the only way to handle things. You may not like Wells Fargo, but they have a banking license.
I think you just solved a conundrum I was having thinking about this very question -- a video class that you watch in an app is in a sense a purely in-app digital good, and Apple appears to have recently been getting super-aggressive about interpreting it that way. But "not a purely digital good" is a great delineation, and one that Apple should probably be making.

(I'm not arguing that Apple's 30% cut requirement for even purely digital goods is appropriate; I think Ben Thompson's recent suggestion of a difference between goods with marginal costs vs. zero-marginal costs goods would be a better starting point, if there were a way to express it simply. Of course, a better suggestion might just be for Apple to allow developers to integrate their own in-app purchase systems for goods and services that aren't explicitly tied to the Apple ecosystem and use non-Apple infrastructure for delivery -- not just video classes but Netflix subscriptions, Kindle books, and so on.)
Have we addressed the privacy issues with QUIC?
This kind of reasoning also makes it hard in pyramid-scheme calculations.

When people say they lost X Billions from Madoff or whoever it's hard to know how much of that was on-paper losses. If I put in $10, got told I had $100 in earnings, then got $0 back, did I lose $10 (+ opportunity costs) or $100?
You are totally right about this (and thanks for sharing your personal perspective). I used to think the CS program at UNLV was excessively backward or old-school, which it is, but the root cause is those golden handcuffs. What company do you work for in LV? If we should take it offline, I am bo@blnqr.com
I don't know. I don't have control over a lot of things. A fridge, for instance: I was limited by what could fit up the stairs and in the door of my apartment. (It is small, but not too tiny). Showers, and therefor hot water, is generally done around schedules. I hand dry all of my clothes, but the shared washer is in the basement - I can't leave clothes in all night. Folks with children often must do lots of laundry when they have time - and not to mention that leaving clothes in the washer at night in hot weather can sometimes create stink. Eating, again, depends on schedule. I need heat when I need heat, not when it is convenient for the electricity. I'm not in a minority with this stuff and so many people have fewer choices than I do - and usually, the poorer folks who need it the most are the ones without as much control. And can't stay home to work around these things.
From what I understand USPS used to offer bank accounts. Seems the idea has had some revival recently. I'd love a public competitor to America's privatized financial system.

Also see Bank of North Dakota: https://bnd.nd.gov/. Municipal banking is also starting to come back in vogue. And why not? Why should Wall St. earn interest from our tax dollars? That's just silly.
Identification of Covid-19 hotspots empowered by Big data and AI
ICE's estimate also not precise but it's not problem because it's refueled in a few minutes.
Yeah for someone who writes that much it could make sense. But for me, I don't write notes on paper, I use it to draw diagrams and visualize things for myself as well as communicating. I use paper a bit like a whiteboard and a single notebook can last me years. The RM looks like a very cool tool but I would never justify the price.
> You're equating the existence of copyright as a principle/law and the existence of DRM as a technological means of enforcement. They are not the same thing at all.

I'm not comparing copyright and DRM. I'm saying DRM is a consequence of copyright.

As you noted, technology is the only way rightsholders can effectively protect their property. Since the copyright industry is worth many billions of dollars, they have more than enough money and influence to make their DRM technology a reality. The computer industry is going to back them up. The result will be computers that obey them, not us. Computers that only run the software that they approve, software that does their bidding.

The source of this evil is copyright. There should be no imaginary property to protect in the first place.
I looked at those but the price (859) and being tied to Android were no goes. Perhaps in time the price of the screen will come down so as to get the device cost to a more acceptable 400 ish.
This is exactly what I mean. Which specific group are you referring to?

Using “extremist”, “anti-government”, “right-wing”, and “white supremacist” almost interchangeably seems to be very common. Both this article and the report its based on repeatedly refer to “white supremacist or far-right militant groups”. Those are very different things.
> I never claimed that the US is democratic enough to fulfill that criteria.

I’m not just talking about the US. I called out every single developed/industrialized nation

> The entire point of the claim is how people feel

Sure, and the majority of people in the world just don’t feel that way. It’s just a small group of Marxist ideologues.

Your point about measures of happiness and freedom and social status and security etc etc are well and good...except the countries that rank the highest on those metrics are the ones that enjoy the greatest economic freedom. They are overwhelmingly societies which run on economic self-interest, per my earlier point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_economic_...
How solid is the evidence that accutane causes IBD? Because most people who took accutane would have first taken antibiotics, which is a more common treatment for acne.

It's strange that these two drugs, with two different mechanisms of action, would both increase risk of IBD.

I took both and I have IBD. Stay away from this stuff unless you really need it.
Tinyletter was one of the greatest missed opportunities in tech
UX is what has always set Apple apart. I don't see any universe where they would off-load that to a 3rd party.
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> I am partial to the idea of someone getting to decide, in advance, who they can see or hear. Letting the mob in, and then muting or banning after the fact can be exploited too easily.

I see that that could be done in a private group setting where everyone knows each other. In a forum for the general public though I have difficulty seeing how that could be done. Do you have any implementation details in mind?
I’ve been using a few Freenode channels via Matrix lately a while keeping my traditional irc clients open. A noticeable amount of messages never make it over to Matrix - as I collaborate with other developers in our irc, I don’t find these bridges very reliable unfortunately.
It has been a while, and I’m remembering from a discussion of new features in C++20, but I recall that constexpr isn’t capable of fully supporting memory allocations made during evaluation, while Rust’s const fn will eventually be able to.
The lesson is that sometimes patience pays off. If I have the time (and I don't like to stress myself), I always have an overview of the whole picture, in this case the questions. For example, if I have to sign a document, I first read it through once, and then another time to act. It might seem like lost time, but actually you have a much better understanding of the content.