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Tim Cook is arguably the greatest managerial operator of our times. Without him apple wouldn’t have been able to scale and refine their businesses processes like they needed to reach the $1T mark.

However, I believe it was Jobs who was the catalyst for the entire show. He was the spark that the rocket needed.

The company is in an incredible financial position but is still vulnerable to the next big innovation. The next usurper. The next Black Swan.

Jobs would be so antsy to have something new out at this point. And if he had a vision for something- which I think he would have Had- he would have made it happen.

Maybe some next great thing will happen for Apple soon? The device that cannibalizes the iPhone like the iPhone did to iPod.
This is explicitly false. Mastercard or Experian might know her name but this would not be shared for an audience. Its simply cookie123 is in audience456.
(author here) that's good feedback; thanks! I tried to make this accessible by at least linking to Wikipedia or elsewhere when introducing new terms (SSA, etc.); that way a curious person could use this as a starting point. A lot of the concepts really aren't too bad once one sees examples!
This is immediately falsifiable with public documents from OPM:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

A mid-grade GS-12 in SF/DC/NY makes 100k+ which would be a non supervisory Individual Contributor with a BS.

Colonel equivalent (GS-15) is indeed rare and would be closer to $150k+
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The key difference is the 737 MAX is a new airplane intended for many more decades of service. Presumably the older 737s will age out and already have well known behaviors that are not as troublesome due to a more forgiving pairing of engine size and airframe balance.
I have changed some default ports and seeing the number of connection attempts drop from <many> down to close to zero was just nice. There are just fewer connections opened, fewer logs to analyze and so on. In my view, fewer connection attempts means less data to analyze which in my view is a security and cost benefit.
My experience has been that if you are doing feature engineering and using summary vectors for time series classification, rather than algorithms which deal with time series directly, and it's working, the problem is not really complicated enough to need high-compute machine learning methods and you'll be fine with one of the more popular off-the-shelf methods.
Indeed; to debug either a loop or a recursive function (and whether the latter is using tail-call recursion optimization or not) you often need to see the data. Given a stack trace showing only calls without arguments, about the only extra datum you get with non-optimized recursion is how deep it went.

In terms of debugging, tail-call elimination is no worse than the optimizations typically applied to loops.
Not to mention the biggest gaming phenomenon at the moment is Among Us, which was made by one developer and one artist.
Good advice that is applicable towards doomsday cults as well.
I'd also wish that everyone were more environmentally conscious but I think we need solutions that are robust enough that they will even work despite people's bad attitudes and not just when people have good attitudes.
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I really hate the accusation that changing services to uncommon ports is security through obscurity. It's not a security practice, it's a high pass filter.

There's billions of hosts on the Internet and many millions of them running an SSH service. Even attackers with huge botnets at their disposal have finite resources and time to probe for hosts and then try exploiting vulnerable ones. Every exploit attempt has some percentage chance of being against a honeypot used to help catch the attacker.

There's little point in even sniffing non-standard/uncommon ports for different services. Anyone changing a service port has a higher likelihood of having a more secure system than someone with standard ports. So even if you scan high number ports for an SSH service you're unlikely to find one on a high port that's not using a more secure than default configuration.

So when you have SSH listening on some uncommon port and see hits in your logs you have a reasonable assurance the attacker isn't some script kiddy spamming the "attack" button on some stupid app. You also have reasonable assurance blocking that host/network with fail2ban or equivalent will actually be effective. You can also set way more strict fail2ban rules since you're far less likely to ever lock out authorized traffic. The more specific your allow criteria the better and more effective your block rules can be.

A "Beware of Dog" sign doesn't physically secure your house on its own. You might not even have a dog. What it does in change the calculus for a burglar. Why risk it when there's more obviously less risky targets nearby? The sign is a high pass filter.
"where" is the key word here I think. But at least in the vicinity of the major US coastal cities (SFBA, Seattle, NYC, probably LA and a few others) where a lot of tech jobs are concentrated, I would say most companies are in fact, leetcoding candidates to some degree.

Half my team is in London (big bank), as is my manager, and I know they leetcode candidates there too - and we're not even a tech company or elite financial firm, just a boring big conservative bank.

If you're looking for a job in this day and age, I think it's safer to assume you're going to get leetcoded and be prepared. Rather than try to find the rarer and rarer company that doesn't leetcode you.
> MCAS does not typically activate at all.

You don't have that data, and the FAA did not release the data. I looked for this information specifically in their report, they did not report this data whatsoever.

So, making ANY statement about the rate of activation is pure speculation, and it's merely a Boeing talking-point.
I can second this: Install Firefox on iPhone/Android, add uBlock origin. The web is reasonably fast and privacy friendly.
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You have to factor in the embodied energy into the equation of power per hectare, including replacement and maintenance, and once you’ve done that, ask if the other services provided by agroforestry are ever worth more than the energy from the PV farm that can only be used during the day (or stored, in which case include the embodied and maintenance energy of the storage system, too).

We need to stop looking for One Weird Fix. It’s not out there, and /or we keep breaking it by changing the conditions. You will be looking for hedges, and some of those hedges will have stacking functions.
Do you actually run any public server with ssh on 22 and monitoring logs about it? From my experience noise on port 22 is so high that you wouldn't even notice actual targeted attempt.
TaleWorlds were pretty lucky to stumble upon a community that could keep their game running for over a decade.
The problem is that the US in its international relationships never cares about any laws, normal or otherwise.

In this case they demand the extradition of Assange for supposedly having done some minor crime, but in the past the US have refused to extradite their people wanted for major crimes, like manslaughter, which were proven beyond any reasonable doubt.

For example, one of the cases that I am aware of happened some years ago at the US embassy from Bucharest, Romania.

Someone from the military personnel of the US embassy has driven a SUV while drunk and he hit a taxi cab killing the passenger. The American ran away from the accident place and in a few hours he was smuggled from the country by the embassy, so when the police came in the morning to arrest him he could no longer be found.

There was absolutely no doubt about his guilt, but nevertheless the US refused to extradite him and he was never punished for taking a human life.

There have been many such cases with US citizens in many countries, so whenever the US demands that other countries should extradite their people for supposedly breaking US laws, the US government shows extreme shamelessness, by asking others to do what the US will not do.

Unfortunately there are many servile foreign governments who accept this asymmetry in their relationship with the US.
Just gonna add this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589117 (mostly for the followup discussion, see for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589357).

There's tradeoffs. "Packed encoding type is generally superior" for some workflows (write-once serialization across the wire), but certainly not across the board.
Addendum: Minneapolis should also be considered, as their local government took similar actions which resulted in similar - predictable - results: https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/09/16/minneapo...

And they ask "where are the police?" after defunding the police.
> If you're a small-co, you should absolutely move your SSH port, AND DEFINITELY disable passwords

Totally agree. Except you can skip the port moving.
>when I was a teen we watched music videos, but a 70-year old man bought the network and decided that he didn't want us to watch music videos.

That's funny, but empirically that's not what happened. A quant working at MTV realized that reality TV like Real World, Jackass, and The Osbournes were way more lucrative and way more popular. At the same time music exploded in access (Napster). People voted with their eyeballs.

To make sense of the decisions that the TV industry makes you should also consider what their moat is and how they tried to protect it from the internet.

Studios still made content people wanted to watch, monetizing it became a lot harder which is why (strictly) ratings became less important. Bundling came around because it was easier for Disney to force Comcast to swallow channels like Lifetime and Toon Disney if they needed that to get access to ESPN. ESPN (live sports) has no digital compliment and for many people is the only reason they pay for Cable. The name of the game then became "How much money can we extract out of the remaining ESPN subscribers".
One needs a balance between economic and cultural analyses, and this does not get it right.

Dollars are America's chief export, and our country is geared around this, from absurd household finances, to imports buying dollars with the shittiest stuff they can get away with.
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>On a personal level he's also a much more compassionate/ empathetic person

I really dont see any of that. Definitely not to its customers or professional users and developers. If anything I think these compassionate and empathetic note, the so called "enrich" people's live is a recent thing in the past 4-5 years.

And personally I have not problem with that statement, except until you get caught not doing so people will judge you as a hypocrite. And it is exactly the same playbook as Google's do no evil. That is why Steve Jobs never talks much about any of that ( Despite I think he deeply cares about it ) and only talks about building GREAT products for their customers.

Steve cares or doesn't cares. You can tell. And he is being true to himself. Not the same could be said to Cook. I guess that is partly why Tim is an operational person and not a product person.
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Doesn't seem to be qutebrowser specific. I only see a date and nothing more on that page, no matter what browser I use (qutebrowser, Firefox, Chromium)
I do this on the (very few) internet-accessible boxes I have for one very simple reason - it _significantly_ cuts down on the amount of junk connections and log entries, somewhere between a 1000/1 or 10000/1 ratio.

All the rest (crypto, key setups, fail2ban or similar, etc.) is exactly the same as it would be on a "regular" setup, but at least I can actually _read_ the logs when I have to troubleshoot something else.
And your phone and headphones can be charged wirelessly. We are moving toward a world where the only wire you need is for laptop power. I guarantee by 2030 we're going to look back at all of our dongles of today and laugh!
What about a load of serverless functions?
[Insert default "its OSS, just create a fork" here]
Mercurial is a contender
Back in the early days of browser highjackers, we'd regularly charge $90 to re-install Windows 98 or XP. The same people would come back a few weeks later and pay for it again after getting a bunch more bugs.
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When I interned at Apple, every person from the mid-level upwards (who had been at Apple long enough) had a story of either being subjected to a negative experience at the hands of Jobs or else were party to one. Like... everyone. He was notoriously asshole-ish.

Cook does not have this reputation. Whether that's a persona or the real deal is impossible for us to say (I've never met him and I'm not at Apple anymore), but I think it's not very useful to think about what he's "really" like. We can only see how he presents himself, and so far his self-portrayal is significantly more positive than Jobs's, regardless of how the company is run at a larger scale.

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I also think it's impossible to compare Jobs's ethics to Cook's ethics by looking at how Apple as a company operates. The company has grown immensely in the past decade, so I think 2020-Apple can't be compared to 2010-Apple in this way. However, we can maybe look at Apple's increased commitment to certain real-world ethical concerns and stipulate a little bit.

Environmentally, they're 100% powered by renewable energy, and they recently announced they want to be 100% carbon-neutral by 2030. They have also said they want to manufacture new iPhones entirely from old iPhones, which would be great.

They're also a leader in consumer privacy and security, more than any other company of a similar size.

Then there's the manufacturing stuff. They certainly benefit from and make use of unethical manufacturing processes, but they seem to be trying to move away from that (to the extent that a company that requires as much manufacturing as they do can). I believe their chips are manufactured in the US (?), and I think they've started trying to manufacture certain other things in the US (I think the Mac Pro? or is that done with? I haven't checked in on it recently). Of course, they've got plenty of room to grow when it comes to ethical manufacturing, but what I'm highlighting here is that they've made some effort to improve as new issues have come to light, which can't be said of all companies with their manufacturing needs.

All that said, Apple as a company has plenty of room for growth in the ethical sense, but we can at least appreciate that these are issues that they address explicitly compared to the Apple of the past. As far as I'm aware, this has all been done under Cook's leadership, so perhaps it reflects on his personal values to some extent.
A QA is not the same as a tester but this argument has been going on for 20+ years and will never go away. I'm a tester and I fit into a QA process (which I may or may not have been involved in)
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Those actually seem to confirm my view. They don’t talk about Assange writing a story, or editing reports.

They talk about Wikileaks, his publishing organization, working as a peer in cooperation with the NYT, the Guardian, and other publishers. They describe his priorities and concerns and the protocols he wanted to use.

All of these are consistent with Assange as the creator of Wikileaks standing as a publisher.

Also, that testimony looks very good for Assange.
That's driven, in part, by the way it seems to be an empty threat. It would cost Facebook billions, and equally-good alternatives would pop up instantly -- alternatives willing to follow the rules.

The only loss would be Facebook's network power -- the fact that all of your friends are already on it. It has no real technological advantage, just being the good-enough solution. The loss of connectivity between Europe's Facebook-alternative and others would be real, but probably temporary. Conceivably, the winner could even out-innovate Facebook and take its place as the default social network.

There's more than a little schadenfreude about a loss to a badly-behaved company that offers no user-facing innovation over competitors. The loss to Facebook is large and the loss to Europeans is small. So that generates an unsurprising amount of sarcastic replies.
It will be a great day on the Internet when people stop conflating citizens of a country with that country's government.
Ask HN: Do robots need to follow loss aversion bias?
Loss aversion taken from prospect theory, refers to the tendency of humans to hate of taking risks when they have something to loss.

Do you think that Behaviour robotics engineering should follow that theory when they develop robotics?
All that in order to make them more "human like" or avoid that bias and become more efficient/rational when they take decision?
> It would be great if we stop adding features now... I wish there was a Postgres branch that took previous version and then just applied optimizations and bugfixes. No more.

To be fair, quoting from the article:

> There are no big new features in Postgres 13, but there are a lot of small but important incremental improvements. Let's take a look.

But also, in general, yes there are pieces of software that do this - most recently Moment.js[1]. There was some discussion earlier this week[2].

[1] https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477941
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There's also old with lots of experience but it's 20 years of doing the same thing, or 10 x 2 years experience vs. 20 years of xp
The FAA didn't even want to ground the Aircraft. It was completely reactionary after every other jurisdiction did and was reportedly demanded by the president. They are fundamentally untrustworthy, they thought 2 fatal crashes were not worthy of grounding a brand new design.
I'm agreeing with him.
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I was referring to all versions of the library. If companies are switching away from Angular, Angular's share will be shrinking.
There are three legitimate use cases for a VPN of some sort, one of which is well solved by using a browser extension like https everywhere and enabling dns over https in a modern browser.

1. Coffee shop WiFi: if an adversary ARP poisons your WiFi hotspot (or is the coffee shop owner), and you are browsing http websites, you can get owned pretty easily. This can be solved through things other than a VPN (see above).

2. Bypassing region locks

3. Piracy. If you live in a region where your ISP will snitch on you, using a VPN gives you some safety from that, especially if your VPN provider knows little about who you are, and couldn’t really snitch on you if it tried (see Mullvad paid in cash for instance). Most VPN providers will just throw out copyright infringement notices.
> That’s because the testers’ role is to hunt for untidy coding and to ensure that any user interaction with your software is free from error.

If the requirement can be stated formally, in an ideal world, this should not be the case. You can write automated tests and verify systems with a level of precision that humans cannot rival and it's not expensive to do so. If your QA teams are catching errors of this variety it's a symptom of another problem: communication issues. Your QA people shouldn't be catching errors of this variety -- it's way late in the development process to realize that your developers didn't understand the requirements or didn't write tests to specify them.

There are a lot of reasons why your QA team is doing this kind of work. Common causes are:

1. The development team is pressured to prioritize budgets and deadlines

2. The requirements are not communicated well, never gathered to begin with, or no single person knows what exactly is being built or why

In the first case developers might not be given the time and space to scrutinize the requirements, write tests specifying the appropriate behaviors, and making the effort to build a system to that specification. Your QA department is basically picking up the slack: the development team pushes what they think meets the requirements and waits for the QA team to give them the thumbs up or down.

The second is also pernicious and makes the former worse.

In an ideal world the QA team should be saving their time and energy for informally-specified requirements and difficult to qualify goals such as, "It must look good in IE 11." There's no way to formally specify that requirement so it must be checked by a human who does understand what that means.

I'd caution that if your QA team is growing with your development team then you should treat it as a symptom of a larger problem. In the real world QA teams end up doing a bit of both and development teams don't always have clear requirements. Aiming for the ideal goes a long way to keeping stress down.
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> Monthly: $49 / $99 / $249

So on the topic of ${X}0 vs ${X - 1}9 (ie. "50 vs 49", "100 vs 99", "250 vs 249"), what's the current "best practice"?

I feel like we might be like those 5 monkeys with a banana: someone figured out long ago in some context that X9 might convert better, now everyone's doing it and the reason might not still be valid.

I'd love to hear about some recent studies or comparative experiences related to this.

For me, subjectively, "49" has the "sleazy car salesman" vibe, compared to "50" being more "we're not ashamed to tell it like it is". On the other hand, I've always felt like this so I was an outlier before.
And if your trial won’t be subject to the oversight that other trials gets. In fact, just that one fact means you’ve got a problem.
I guess Intel 10th gen does exclude it from being cryptomining overstock...
I've seen a number of examples in my time, smart people who found a niche and then let the world pass them by.

Senior engineers, heads of engineering, architects, generally people who've been in one place for 20+ years, often who have been in charge of technical direction that whole time. Some of them even asked me for advice on getting out... These people tend to be respected within their organisation and have a lot of very narrow-focused domain knowledge, but because they don't move around they haven't had to think their way through any brand new challenges, or learn new techniques and systems.

It's not inevitable, but it is a pattern I've observed.
How does the introduction of new features negatively impact your use of Postgres?
Interesting. I suppose "insulation effect" would be more accurate, but I guess it's too late to change it now.
> I would love the game industry to fully embrace Linux.

Take a look at what all linux games are lacking and what nearly all AAA game that aren't on linux have.

...

DRM and Anti-Cheat.

Let's forget that DRM is trash. Publishers want to have it, and they don't care about our opinion of it. You can't really "port" DRM, you have to develop a whole new one for Linux and figure how to prevent easy-peasy eBPF programs to make cracking it easy.

Anti-Cheat is another story. Valve and Easy Anti-Cheat are currently working on bringing it to Linux. You need that and you want that for any online game. Probably not as hard as DRM, but still requires a lot of linux specific work.
I love how the justification of numerous AWS services is always "so it can scale" but if and when that scale ever happens, a new architecture is necessary because the costs become untenable.
The red flag for me is when QA is considered a non-coding team, divorced from product. QA engineers should be very technical, and should be writing code or automating. A non-automated QA process kills the feedback loop of the product.
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