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I think those of us who don’t use Linux as a daily driver forget how completely incompatible different distros are. I made the mistake of trying to provision Amazon Linux desktops to users via Workspaces, and quickly realised I was going to need to build almost everything I wanted from source.
> Note that, as I indicated above, M1 Macs can't readily boot from external drives. There are things you can do, if you have an external Thunderbolt 3 drive (USB-C isn't sufficient), but even that won't work if the internal drive is dead.

I’m trying to understand the impact of the internal drive dying in the last fragment here. Since these Macs have soldered-on-the-board SSD internal storage, wouldn’t the drive dying require a complete logic board replacement in the first place, which means this condition is not salvageable for an end user without professional repair service anyway? It’s not like an end user could replace it like with Macs of the past (or is it?).

On a general note, it’s extremely irritating when Apple drops macOS support for some Macs every year while the latest version still has several limitations and bugs. Anyone who gets on to the latest and greatest version of macOS with hardware that’s older than five years would be taking big risks. In general (with several exceptions), the longevity of the hardware was one of the attractive factors while paying a premium for Macs (also lesser e-waste is a bonus). But deeper problems in macOS could more than offset such benefits (resulting in more cries about planned obsolescence).
Ask HN: Should I leave FAANG to join a startup?
I've been at a FAANG company for a couple of years now. Accomplished everything that I wanted to and now I'm struggling to find any meaning in the work (of course, a common problem). The work is no longer interesting and I have no motivation to rise further up the ladder.

I've always wanted to start my own company but I'm not sure how to go about it. To maximize my chances of finding a cofounder with an idea or someone who would work on my idea with me, I'm considering joining an early stage startup. I assume I would find way more like-minded people and be far more likely to find someone to start something with. Joining a startup also ensures I learn the necessary skills to build one. However, this would mean leaving quite a bit of money on the table and forgoing all the connections I would make at FAANG.

I know "starting something" is an arbitrary goal, but one that I work on consistently with side-projects. But again, since I'm at a FAANG with coworkers who aren't interested in entrepreneurship, it's hard to not get exhausted by the menial labor during work hours. It's extremely hard to find people who want to think about startup ideas at FAANG, would be great to get recommendations on how to go about this at FAANG.

There's also one additional, critical downside of staying at FAANG: any side-projects I work on that could later turn into a full blown company could potentially be owned by my current company due to contract clauses.

I have a few options, but would love to get everyone's opinions:

1. Stay at current company (and even switch teams), start networking on the side, continue spending some time on side-projects

2. Leave and just start working on side-projects full time

3. Leave and join an early stage startup

What do you think would optimize my chances of some day finding a cofounder / starting a company? Would love to also hear from people who found themselves in similar situations. Thank you!
My experience as a hobbyist with an STM32F401CE dev board echoes "DFU doesn't work reliably". For some reason the success rate of getting the integrated DFU bootloader to work varied for the exact same board with different computers. But, given that flashing over SWD worked all the time, it's just easier to use that.

Micropython supported writing python programs as plaintext files to the flash-drive on the device. This was super convenient for hobbyist prototyping.
I'm trying to evaluate Coderrect (first without GitHub Actions), but most likely missed something as it found zero races: https://github.com/coderrect-inc/coderrect-github-action/iss...

Could you please help a little?
Yeah, I gave up on my subscription after I couldn't figure out how to list all the songs by a given musician. It's a simple feature that's part of all the music software that I've used before: Winamp, iTunes, Amarok, Gnome Music. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This part is totally misguided.

> What’s missing from MongoDB is a SQL-style join operation, which is the ability to write one query that mashes together the activity stream and all the users that the stream references. Because MongoDB doesn’t have this ability, you end up manually doing that mashup in your application code, instead.

Even with a normalized relational database one wouldn't make a single query to return rows from a join of tables T1, T2, T3, etc when there are repeating relations such as the users in the social graph. This might be done sometimes paying for the duplication to save a network round trip, that's all and no different.
Oh yeah, the Art Institute is amazing. The title really needs to be changed.

And that virtual tour is great! It really makes the miss going to the Art Institute. Looks like they might be reopening in a couple of weeks with reduced capacity - can't wait.
The desire to not get nuked?
You should be proud of how you came up with such a disgusting solution :).

Rule #1: if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
In your opinion, what is sketchy about dark pools. I have a couple answers (pertaining to marketing, but not operations of the pool), but am curious about what the popular perception of these pools are.
This is interestingly quite true, it seems that many of the original traditions, ceremonies as well as written Chinese language are kept alive by Taiwan.
That 'borrowed' position has to unwind sometime in the future and to unwind it requires a share purchase.

Now if no one is selling where do the shares required to fulfill these burrowed position come from?

If it was not that buy pressure created by the excessive short selling, what did drive up the share price?
> To take a ludicrous example my utility function for eating a sandwich is has a sharp discontinuity as a function of how much Polonium is in the sandwich.

Well, in the real world, every sandwich likely has a little bit of polonium in it; maybe an atom or two. If that increased to three or four, you would be slightly unhappier, but not sharply so. Every little increase in polonium slightly decreases your utility until you reach a point where you do not derive any utility from your polonium-laced sandwich, and so you would not eat it. Therefore, I argue that your utility function is still continuous wrt. polonium in your sandwich.

(In economics this isn't really how you'd model utility because the assumption is that you always have the option to throw away the sandwich; therefore, having the polonium sandwich gives you more utility than not having it.)

Same with money. Imagine you had a "life changing amount of money," whatever number that means to you. Call that number $X. Now imagine that you instead had $X - $1. And then $X - $2. Even $X - $1000. How much less happy do you feel in those imagined scenarios? A lot less happy? I bet you feel marginally less happy and not sharply. Which implies a "smooth" utility function.

I believe that non-continuous utility functions can exist -- suppose someone says that they will kill you unless you give them $50,000 -- but for most people that's not a real scenario.

> I don't think this is an experiment that a real economist (TM) has ever performed on an individual to discover what the true utility function is (happy to be wrong though).

I don't think ever with polonium, but here's a short video about revealed preference theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXov3D1tfA. In practice, applications of revealed preference theory happen all the time.

But your example did make me think more about "continuity" and "sharpness" and I now think that continuity is not strong enough to support my original claim. Continuous does not mean "smooth" [1]. To define "smooth," I would instead say that most people have utility functions that have positive first derivatives and negative second derivatives; that is, their marginal increase in utility for a good is positive but diminishing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
This coup shows how meaningless that "accommodation" really was - no major break with military policy would have been tolerated anyway.
I think the internet is far from perfect in its current state. However, I think implying it is not usable might be pretty hyperbolic.
And another thing to keep in mind: I've long advocated that most seminal/ground breaking ideas of the past have been breeding for some time, and it's only our tendency to assign them to individuals that has given some people status of an idol.

Perhaps they were instrumental in putting thought and ideas that came before them into self-supporting works, but thought and ideas were not necessarily (all) their own.

And if that is the case, how important is that we lose this easy "referencability"?
Outrage now. In 2 years we'll have forgotten what it was like before every website in the world did this. In 5 years your toaster will have people personality and you will fucking hate it.
> Cloudflare doesn't send the source IP with the DNS request

Yes, because (as they've stated elsewhere) EDNS subnet information leaks information about a requester's IP.

> Archive.is would rather not respond to broken requests at all than make a best-effort with a degraded experience

Broken responses = the most degraded experience.

Is there any other website that just fails when they aren't handed EDNS subnet information? I've never experienced any.
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In the past a Mac with a dead drive could run from an external indefinitely.
I don't understand this business model. How does taking podcasts (something people are used to getting for free with few or no ads) and breaking the currently open ecosystem there is around them benefit anyone, least of all Spotify themselves?
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On a side note, if you want to vote with your shares and have a margin account, you need to let your brokerage know in advance of the shareholder meeting, so they can get those loaned shares back to you in time to vote. Otherwise, the shares showing up in your account may or may not actually be there on the day for you to vote.
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If you think that a town of 200k can compete with NYC - you are deluded. People move to large cities for more than just the money* or the job.

You are aware that there are only two places in the world to have globally renowned theatre districts? NYC's Broadway and London's West End.

No periodic Osheaga can outdo music venues in Brooklyn.

There are things that stick. Things that would have to move. Things that seems "easily replicated", but are only possible in extremely densely populated areas.

PS: I just recently moved out of NYC to a town 1 hour north of NYC. And I hate NYC. And I still can see what is impossible without certain factors.

*Software Engineer in Bay area gets paid more, than in NYC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Capital

does seem like a relationship to me and if so they likely have Cohen's liquidity close by. Rarely are these groups independent, they all eat from the same bowl, a very large one at that.

I just do not believe they have thrown in the towel. Wouldn't you be drunk with lust when you realize a very rare opportunity? Timing isn't the concern here its the inevitability of the obvious in the long run. Anytime GME shoots up due to retail exuberance, the probability of bearish plays go up. There's simply no fundamentals that justifies its price.

Benjamin Graham said something about voting machines and weighing scale...
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It is legal, yes, that is indeed what I said. But it's legalised accounting fraud. Can I pay for a car by crediting my assets with 30.000$ plus creating an (interest-free) liability for 30,000$? No, but that is what the banks in effect do.
Chances are they’ll move to another city, and NY will regain that population sooner rather than later.

Meanwhile rural areas have been constantly and consistently depopulating for decades. My grandmother is buried in a graveyard in the middle of a soy field; the town that originally made that graveyard is just gone, and it happened within my lifetime.
I remember considering to buy into BTC about $100 worth when it was trading at $2.70. My password management then was nowhere near as robust as it is now and I have little doubt that I would not have been able to recover the password for a wallet even if I had made the decision.

+1 on the lessons learned, now I just need to loosen up and accept a tad more risk in my life.
This is insanity. I'm glad I gave up on this streaming nonsense a while ago when I realized it made me listen to music the platform wants me to listen, instead of music I want to listen.
This is one of those features that is good marketing because it makes headlines about their product.

It doesn't have to actually work particularly well (beyond what you can get with a pretty obvious guess), and probably won't. But it captures the media's attention and the public's imagination, just to claim that you're doing this.
Another stupid question: under what terms the licenses themselves are licensed? It is very clear in the Blue Oak Model license page. But what about all of these licenses like MIT, ISC, BSDs etc.?

Last question, how much change in the software allowes me to add my name and where to add it, before or after original author(s)?
> Aung San Suu Kyi has never been racist

"But her personal defence of the army's actions at the ICJ hearing last year in the Hague was seen as a new turning point that obliterated what little remained of her international reputation." [1] from this article itself.

"No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim" [2]

Will admit that I am not very familiar with Myanmar politics, but the above sentence from the article seems to indicate the opposite. Now, it is entirely possible that she was forced to do that due to military pressure at home.
Also, I have an allergic reaction to statements made that "everyone speaks in favor of an X leader" anywhere. I am pretty sure the Rohingyas aren't all that in favor of her, even though they have no good options any way.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11685977

[2] https://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11306856/aung-san-suu-kyi-musl...
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There's plenty of sad human decay - it's just very compartmentalized.
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Chicago in general has a really great open data initiative

https://data.cityofchicago.org/
> WhatsApp grew to its size because of its first mover advantage

Whaaaat? There were plenty of chat apps before WhatsApp that were free.

> WhatsApp squandered their early lead with slow development

Mmm, the story that _I_ have been told is that WhatsApp was prevented from getting any better because the desire was to get people to move to Messenger.

This has been a reasonably effective strategy, although I note their are markets (like Thailand) where everybody just switched to Line instead
Owners don't short, owners lend.

A owns a widget and lends it widget to B; B sells the widget to C; C lends a widget to B; C buys another widget from B.

A has 1 IOU from B and no widgets.

B has no widgets and owes one to A and 1 to C.

C has one IOU and one widget.

There you have 2 IOUs and only one widget. To settle debts, B will have to buy a widget from C, return it to him, and then buy it again and return it to A. The widget isn't "tainted" by being at one point borrowed, anybody buying it can lend it out. Doing so can create more IOUs than there are widgets.

Imagine getting in a circle with all of your friends, you have a dollar and the person on your right borrows it from you, then the person on their right borrows from them until you get around the circle and you borrow the dollar from the person on your left. There was only ever one dollar but now there are as many IOUs as people in the circle. That's of course a silly thing to happen, but if you rearrange it to make it messier the result is the same, more IOUs than there are things to be borrowed.
I assume they believe exclusive podcasts will gain them paying subscribers. Of course by fracturing the open ecosystem they may find themselves unable to acquire some podcasts, but given that they are a large player they are well positioned to out bid the competition.
If I skip a song ten times, do you really need to evaluate my emotions to not feed it to me again? KISS?
Nearly everybody is nostalgic for their youth.
This post conflates 'big data' with what Kafka offers. Yes it can scale up, but what it gives you at any scale is a reliable ordered log that supports multiple producers and consumers. If this is not what you need, then by all means don't use it or similarly complex software. I've used AWS SQS and Kinesis at small and large (not big data) scales and even then in retrospect believe Kafka would have served much better.
I was hoping this was in the style and color scheme of the NES case, controllers, cartridges, box art, etc. That would be rad. Fake pixelation, on the other hand, is not something I usually enjoy.
It’s worthy noting that bootable backups are almost a unique oddity of Mac OS X - though you can clone Linux and Windows systems I’ve not heard of people doing it regularly for backups.
I'm always amazed how badly designed software is. To the point that anyone trying to use the damn thing could point out problems within 10 seconds. I was shopping for a replacement bathroom fan on home depot website. I just want to find one that will fit in the old hole. You would think I would be able to filter by the actual size of the box. But no, its not apparent at all what their listed measurements refer to. Just give me a drawing with the dimension of the box. Thats all. Better yet, take the fan out of the box and showing me some pictures with measurements. But nope. Every fan has different included information. And this is after a year of Corona. And everyone needing to shop online.
What emotion should Spotify be shooting for? Good music can cause a lot of different emotions; dopamine can come from many emotional sources.

Even no emotion is fine. Music doesn’t need to exercise our brains all the time. Or even every time you listen to a particular song.
Luckily it seems like they finally did that! I recently was able to log in without my Facebook account (although I’m not sure if it removed Facebook from the account or not, but I no longer need to login with Facebook to access Spotify)
What we need is actually the Matrix protocol for app distribution. That is, a decentralized yet federated platform replacement for App Store. So the longevity and transparency of the platform is ensured by the distributed property.
TBH - NYC is really bad with road maintenance.

NYC should have had congestion zones and tolls on Manhattan long ago. Not to mention a lot less street parking.
I don't know much about the tech, but I'm curious if neural networks and/or machine learning is used to process data and find connections, correlations, or...cool stuff like that? I just think machine learning is neat man, and bio tech is also very neat. The two together....super neat...haha.

I know the example they put out, a horror game that responds to your fears by reading the data you produce. Is the tech actually at a point were a dedicated team can accurately and consistently identify bio markers correlated with a fear response? Or diffrentiate between fear, anger, happiness, etc?

Has there been any research into using this tech effectively to treat anxiety/depression? Really interested in this focus once "writing" information is possible, especially with more severe mental health issues that aren't related to physical brain deterioration. But it seems (per your comments) that that's still a ways a way, haha. Would be really cool to be able to see a psychatrist and have them treat my anxiety with a few bip bops from an industrial headset, or go home with a prescription program to run once a day, that just sounds like science fiction.
If your business can't function normally (i.e. you have to disallow the buying of stocks that should otherwise be purchasable) because you don't have enough money, that is a liquidity issue. This is costing them a huge amount of bad publicity and losing them a lot of customers, so it's clearly an issue. If that issue is because they do not have enough cash on hand for normal business functions, then it's a liquidity issue.
A quick comparison of the WHOIS results for each and this verbatim copy of the article seems to suggest the "San Francisco Telegraph" is a thinly veiled extension of RT:

https://www.rt.com/news/513966-spotify-monitor-emotions-pate...

It isn't directly relevant to the subject of this article, but a search for this headline/copy shows it has permeated a lot of right-wing and other questionable sources of info, but appears nowhere else.

https://www.editorials360.com/2021/01/29/in-spotify-music-li...

https://www.newswars.com/spotify-wins-patent-to-surveil-user...

That said, the patent it references may not be all that new:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
If I had a six year old Mac with a dead internal SSD, I'd sooner connect an external drive than shell out for a new logic board.
The fascinating thing about Python is the ability to write functions where the parameter can intake multiple data types.

I haven’t quite seen another language handle it this elegantly as Python does.

Then, inside the function, you can check the parameter’s data type, and handle it appropriately. And error out immediately if the wrong type is passed in.

This allows you to operate on the data at a more logical level (what it implies), as opposed to just at the technical level (what data type it is).

For example, you can pass in a single string, or a list of strings. And your function can check the type and handle it appropriately.

In C++ and Java, because of the rigidity of the function declaration, in order to do something like this, then you would need to create multiple functions to handle each of the different types that you want to allow. Then you’d need to create a wrapper function to dispatch it to its appropriate sub function. That becomes a complete mess after a while.
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Religion vs culture is a subtle but important difference. Religiously, India is not very diverse, but culturally- that is, along ethic, language and racial lines - it is probably the most diverse country in the world. I never claimed the Brits united India culturally (except perhaps over a shared hatred of the colonizer?), but rather administratively (which continues today)
Textile mill workers were often harmed, say by byssinosis (“brown lung”) or by amputations of fingers and other body parts in machinery lacking appropriate safety guards, etc.
People were looking for a job when they walked into the place, just as they are when they leave. It’s ordinary to the context.
And that's the problem. I wouldn't even care about it, since theoretically "no one forces me to use it" (and I don't), but in 10 years there simply aren't going to be any toasters on the market that don't do this.