skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - odds of being yelled at if you miss a deadline: 100%

> - odds of being yelled at due to an outage: unclear as it depends on the odds of an outage in general so let's say "less than 100%"

To reframe this, the odds of a dev having to crunch to hit a deadline they're behind on is 100%, but the odds of any developer catching a support escalation or on-call page from an outage are usually way less, especially on larger teams, because it's rare for every dev to always be on the hook for escalations. That's why things like goalies and pager rotations exist; the perception is that saddling one person with the responsibility occasionally is better than splitting it to everyone all the time. One weekend of abject hell a month is better than four weekends of annoyance.

But when any developer can shirk ownership of an outage, they all effectively do. Even from a support perspective, that doesn't even make me mad — who wouldn't want to sleep in, ignore Slack on weekends, and not feel dread every single time your phone pings with a notification?

On the other hand, teams _never_ let developers off the hook when there's a deadline that might slip. If you don't have something to do, you're pairing off to help someone else who does, or if you can't then you're more likely to be working on the next thing down the pipe so there's not as much deadline pressure, than supporting on stuff (like tests! and docs!) that won't be considered tech debt until someone (probably support!) hits something related to it and calls it out later.

Dedicated QA doesn't lift the outage ownership problem, it helps mitigate it before it happens. But QA teams that deflect outages struggle to provide data-driven reasons for their existence, because they can't track a negative, and credit for _n_ 9s of uptime is always split multiple ways such that nobody gets a big piece. QA winds up forever underappreciated because their wins are so much harder to count, but the times QA causes a deadline to slip are _always always always_ flagged.

Nevermind that outage response pulls engineering resources off hitting deadlines... so that becomes a self-perpetuating cycle...

The best route is to never have deadlines. Just convince sales and marketing of this and you're golden. /s
Interesting! I'm running Big Sur too, 11.4. Weird. Maybe I need to refresh my Apple login or something.
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That's false. QA can also be concerned about growing new features in the next release. We have embedded QA's on our teams. They QA new features, as well as help to triage current bugs.
Do you have statistics on what fraction of the pages on major outlets you have archived, and how often they change?
In the office, I was distracted by coworkers massively more often.

Maybe if the "office" actually gave everyone enough space to have their own office the push-back against going back wouldn't be so bad, but it seems like no company wants to spend the money to have comfortable and productive working environments.
What's the enforcement mechanism for these laws? Who compels who to do what?
> Fire up another business until capital runs out, and if it does, no worries, jut hop to another job!

I hear people say Google runs their business this way. So perhaps it makes sense that Kubernetes came from them.
New microchip sensor measures stress hormones from drop of blood
I've seen some very clever output from GPT-*, but zero indicating any kind of abstract generalized understanding of any topic in use.

Being able to predict the most likely succeeding string for a given input can be extremely useful. I've even used it with some success as a more sophisticated kind of search engine for some materials science questions.

But I'm under no illusions that it has the first shadow of a hint of minor understanding of the topics of materials science, nevermind any general understanding.

It seems we're discussing different meanings of the word "generalize".
I believe Icelandic fermented fish was one of the few foods Anthony Bourdain found revolting. Based on my own experience with Icelandic and Japanese approaches to flavor, I would bet Funazushi tastes better, though.
Well, then they are doing it wrong.

Or maybe "my" process only scales so far...

It worked well for me at this scale: 30 developers, 10 QA people, 3 ux people, 2 product people "vs" 50 sales people.

There was also a separate delivery/consulting team of about 50 people which was important early on for revenue.
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>However, when you ask your Product team to own QA, you get the real good stuff - "Why does this feature not actually work well with this other feature when you combine the configuration" etc. It's great!

This works right up until you hit a complexity point product can't handle, or worse, you find out that product is building something completely different from the requirements SME's are giving.

Your QA group (or misguided product group) can do jack squat about badly translated reqs or the right questions not being asked, which in the presence of the best devs and QA's degenerates into building the wrong thing perfectly, which has to get redone over and over again. A good QA that's been around the block is usually pretty good at sussing out major communication defects, but it can be tough to pull out of.

It's a surreal class of miscommunication to behold, and as close a death spiral as you can end up in, because everybody day in day out is working hard and getting frustrated but no one's getting closer to the end goal.
> The basic life script we all seem to have in western society seems pretty awful when you think critically about it.

Not if you've studied much history. Modern western society is awesome compared to what nearly all of our ancestors lived through. Wanting more is good, but denigrating things that nearly anyone from history would kill for doesn't sound right.
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So what's this mean, effectively, to other app stores on Android? I'm pretty sure most developers won't bother making APK's for third party app stores with very small user bases. And what's this mean to Microsoft who is bringing APK's to Windows? Existing APK apps sure, but can Microsoft use the new format as well or no?
A person doing manual testing, which is a gate to deployment would certainly be hard to make work for deploys as fast as you're targeting. It may still be valuable to have someone separate to the devs testing your product (in production, not as a gate to release) looking for things your automated testing, customer feedback or metrics may have missed. Whether this would be valuable is really context-dependent.
The most that you could have in the dogfights would have been around 30 (if =empire) or about 5? (if =dogfight), and the definition of 'real time' was 1 frame every few seconds, as one might expect when you are limited to 10 TIPS (thousand instructions per second).

Empire was built around a 10 second replot mechanic and you frequently used the STOP button to stop the screen from drawing so you could get interactivity back quickly.

Realtime chat was amazing, especially with the ability to move characters around/erase characters with the pixel addressable 512x512 plasma screens; people would draw art by using characters, then moving the cursor back over them, and then erasing, or drawing in another character. O shift-space * shift-space ? would be O, * and ? on top of each other, which kind of looked like a smiley face. Fun times.
The huge advantage with an untaxed investment account is that you can actively move assets around and never pay capital gains. If you realize gains in a regular brokerage account then you have to pay for them at the end of the year. Not the case with untaxed account. The effect compounds heavily over the years.
The article is unclear, but it seems there is only once insurance policy: the one taken out by the city. Gun owners are just paying a fee to support the premiums.

That means there is no risk pool (unless lots of other cities have this policy). If there’s no risk pool, the insurance company is simply taking the probability of a mass shooting and multiplying it by the cost.

That doesn’t make too much sense from the cities perspective. It would be cheaper to self-insure, or simply rely on taxes to generate the needed revenue.

Unless the city is requiring all gun owners to contact their insurer and get a policy (which the article seems to contradict), this move doesn’t make much sense.

It seems like a pretext to discourage gun ownership.
I still don’t get the model whereby <lock up> is unsafe with client funds but not broker funds. Were you presenting one? Did I miss it?

If you weren’t, you’re not really resolving my confusion here.
They should go back to OfficeVison (PROFS). That always worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_OfficeVision#Earlier_PROFS...
But most are, and they usually are most devastating. Mistakes in logic can sometimes be vulnerabilities that could, for example, disclose some information to an unintended party, but I can't imagine how one could lead to remote code execution.
Apparently the thing to do was get the Sears branded one, because Sears mandated plugin controllers, so you could replace them when they broke.
Couldn't it also be that a king intentionally sent unequal weights to different parts of their domain? It allows unequal taxing without an obvious bias, and exchanging between kingdoms could have been a part of diplomacy.
Every set of aphorisms contains these contradictions, eg "Look before you leap" and "He who hesitates is lost".
> Who could blame young adults for thinking that work is fake and meaningless if we prescribe fake and meaningless work for the first two decades of their existence?

This does not mean schoolwork would have been more meaningful to them if they had less meaningless work in their earlier years. Most schoolwork is complete crap that is highly irrelevant and should never be taught unless there is strong interest on the part of the student.

I love math and would explore every avenue available to learn more about it, to someone who hates math what's the point of teaching them derivates? Forcing people to learn stuff they aren't interested in only makes them resent the subject and kills any hope of them naturally becoming gravitated to it in the future.
I was exactly as accurate as I thought :D and as you point out the meanings thanks for making it clearer.
I feel I'm the target market for this thing. I had an original intellivision growing up. We really loved that thing in my house (at the time there wasn't much better till colecovision). .

The controllers weren't great, but 16 directions! And the number pad let you enter football plays without your opponent seeing them. It was kinda unique and used for some interesting games (utopia, mindstrike). The complete lack of AI to play against the computer forced "couch competition for a lot of the the games.

Couch games aren't that common now (overcooked? marioKart..). Its expensive, but seems to come with a set of games. Small volume tech is expensive and ideally it would be cheaper. The controllers looks interesting and I imagine the screen on each ads to the cost. I like that they're trying something different.

We'll see if the games are fun, ultimately the only thing that will matter. They should reboot mindstrike. We spent hours on that.
Indeed! there are all kinds of advances being made in everything from container homes, modular homes, "tiny homes", yurts, and more.

Although they are obviously not spacious mansions, they can be highly functional and comfortable, and obviously WAAAY better than nothing.

If I were in a situation where it was that or nothing, I'd be grateful for a small spot to call home (but then I decided to live for one summer job in a tent in a secluded spot outside of town instead of getting an apartment, and it was very enjoyable and functional).
My mother suffers from dementia and I would sign her up in a heartbeat. Worst case is it kills her, and her suffering is over. Best case it cures her and her suffering is over.

Dementia is the cruelest disease, more so than others like cancer.
I’m not the OP. The OP is the person who posted the article. But I am the one you’re replying to.

As I said elsewhere, self-victimized crimes can’t be externalities because in order to be an externality no cost must be paid by the producer.

Not the case with suicides.
Mindset is extremely important. I could easily get lost in my bookshelves and not emerge for 100 days. But with a camera on, when the act is a political statement, stress is amplified. With each passing day, evidence mounts that the project isn't just a failure, but a highly publicized failure. Fans and supporters might boost one's resolve, but he made the questionable choice to keep even them away. 30 days is actually impressive, given the circumstances.
> so nobody knows I've actually written something twice.

that's not really what a rewrite is. A rewrite is when something has already been in production, and the engineer re-do the same feature set, but refactored or rewritten in a different (possibly better, but not guaranteed) form. This rewrite takes up the time that would've been spent on something else.

If you were doing a "rewrite" during implementation, but still delivered on time, that's not a rewrite - that's just good engineering, doing exploratory coding! If you couldn't deliver on time because of the rewrite, then i guess you can call it a rewrite.
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No, restructuring the tax code, send out millions of physical mailers, and building multi-million dollar web apps would not be easier than Uncle Sam acquiring the assets and running Intuit like the USPS, i.e. Congress only sets pricing.
I also read it as a gun owner has to pay insurance to cover the cost of a shooting that has no relation to that person.

I pay car insurance to cover myself, not to cover my neighbor who decides to crash into another person.
This is how I've worked for most of the last decade. Empowered devs that are accountable for their releases and supported by metrics related to customer experience want good quality releases. Ownership works.
Hits close to home… had these exact thoughts a little over seven years ago. At one point I was convinced that sending my son to a public school would be child abuse… actually I still kinda feel that way, but I’ve softened my stance a bit.

I read up quite a bit on unschooling, which sounds great on paper but is probably only feasible when both parents are enthusiastically committed. Sudbury schools are probably the closest thing to unschooling without having to do it yourself, but there’s probably less than 100 such schools in the entire world.

One big realization I’ve had is that children really grow when their parents aren’t around. Schools may suppress agency, but so do parents. There’s a reason that all the stories in this article are about apprenticeships and first jobs—the outside world will always be a much richer source of new and unexpected interactions and discoveries than anything inside the home. Maybe that’s my suggestion: get your kid out of the house and around other trustworthy adults as much as possible. (I moved across the country to live near family just to make this happen)
Exactly, if I could go back to an office that was even remotely comparable to my home office I wouldn't be so resistant.

I don't want to go back to a small room crammed full of programmers shoulder to shoulder, stuck on depressingly out of date equipment, with shitty air conditioning and public restrooms.

I'm sooo much more productive and happy working from home
The way it currently stands is that as a U.S. Citizen/Permanent Resident you are required by law to have a documented health insurance with a defined minimal set of coverage based on your circumstances; however, there is no penalty, fee, or other legal method of enforcement of this law, which makes it effectively meaningless. It is on this basis that SCOTUS in recent weeks ruled that there is no reason to change the law, since there is no harm caused by it. A bit screwy, but it's logically sound.
> The limitation was that it takes 6 months+ to get there. Assemble a mission from scratch in weeks - it'll still take you six months to get there.

I'm pretty sure the plans are for ~4 month Starship trips to Mars. The real limitation may be in launch windows. But with SpaceX's "shotgun approach" the real solution would probably be to use an already landed cargo Starship.
You can have way more impact as a teen software developer than almost any field in history. It is a force multiplier to the sort of talent and energy that earlier generations showed by doing paper runs.

I reckon open source projects and app/game development are great ways for kids to "reach" today. You can have a meaningful impact, learn a lot, and possibly set yourself up for live.

This Australian Ben Pasternak developed a hit game as a teenager, and at 21 he is being featured in the Wall Street Journal after raising $50m for a food-tech startup.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-21-this-entrepreneur-has-lau...

But this goes back to Bill Gates and Paul Allen - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/microsoft-co-founders-bill-g...
I wouldn’t discount people’s ability to do some basic electrical repair. And maybe the neighbors can lend you some water till you get back up and running.

You might be right though, if it’s remote enough and you have room, perhaps a solar still is the cheapest and simplest option. It seems like it would have to be very large to give comparable amounts of water. Do you know someone selling such kits?

In any event, maybe this gives folks some ideas for lowish cost options.
An example might be a function that takes a vector3, adds 5 to the x value, then returns the vector's length. You could model that as "make a second vector v_2 {x = v.x + 5, y = v.y, z = v.z}; return v_2.length", but if you have struct semantics, you can just do "v.x += 5; return v.length", and be confident that you're not modifying the vector that the caller has.
From a couple different perspectives, docs and support also love (or should love) dedicated QA as a last line of defense against product changes that engineers don't consider worth documenting.

Every single release in an org with no dedicated QA and dev ownership of testing, I've seen something a dev has changed in the product that developers deemed weren't worth documenting, and every single release a user hits that thing and support is left not even knowing the change happened and looking like they aren't the product experts that sales told the user they were.

But aside from the dedicated viewpoint change of a QA analyst vs. an engineer, it's also a different relationship with other teams. Whether QA is part of engineering teams or siloed, it's usually a little easier for a tech writer or support engineer to pitch process improvements and regular communication to QA than developers. It's not about capacity, but value — adding a test to the product that confirms a code example in the documentation is accurate helps the product and the writer, so someone with a QA-first mindset doesn't have to think twice. But to a developer with a velocity-first mindset, it's busy work (shouldn't the tech writer own that check?) and maintenance load (isn't this another low-value test I have to manually update every release?).

Tests should be a form of docs for what's supported in the product. If a feature isn't tested, documenting it for users is a risk. If the tests don't confirm what's documented, it's a risk. If it's a risk, it's not the devs who'll deal with it first when it breaks, it's support. Having that healthy relationship between documentation, support, and testing is a force multiplier, and it's harder to build that relationship when development priorities like velocity conflict with testing priorities like coverage and accuracy.
> then it's just a baseless conspiracy theory, right?

I'm just saying that I find the motivation behind the conspiracy theory more interesting than the theories themselves, which are generally information light and insinuation rich.
The subpoenas are for cloud stored data.
> "The other issue is that developers will need to give Google their app signing key to export an AAB app as an APK. This gives Google quite a bit of power."

I can't even.
Will we be able to do offline installation of the .aab files like we can for .apk? Sucks if the answer is no.
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> then stop talking

This is so damn true… having a son has taught me that my words matter a lot, so choose them wisely and say no more than is necessary.
I'd recently started watching their youtube videos. I found it very interesting to take a peek inside the world of watch dealing.

On one side their business practices were absolutely shambolic. In one of their recent videos they talked about how they're managing their inventory (100's of watches) with a single shared excel spreadsheet and how they have mismatches between the spreadsheet and their actual inventory all the time. A death sentence for any business.

Then on the other side they were in talks about opening up a store and expanding very rapidly. Their plans for the store were extremely ambitious. Huge floorplan, floor to ceiling fishtanks, watch history museum. My gut was telling me that they were growing too fast and that this plan was not feasible. Then at the eleventh hour of negotiations for the lease they pulled out because the landlord was "taking too long" to finalize the paperwork! Huge red flag.

Hope the investors get their money back. They will have to show up eventually. With how high profile they were there's no way they can hide forever if they have run off with the inventory.
What about Figure 6.5? Why do you conveniently ignore that one which completely contradicts your point?
May be a myth as clarified somewhere else, it is important to run unix not Multics in pdp not mainframe. You do not simplify and dumb down, you cannot spread.

And Apple/Atari/… dominates and linux not unix …

To spread …

Buddhism says to be like this in its 5 cycles as well.
I'm no patent lawyer either, but I skimmed over the pages of "434" and it's clearly a bunch of half baked shit. Can you list one novelty in there worthy of patent, even for 1998?

I'll grant you that `malloc` might be a bit of a stretch for the full extent of the patent, but surely FPGA manufacturers aren't sweating about this, right!?

Anyway, space-time tradeoffs and the like, it's all basically the same shit, so why not just patent the whole shebang.

Well, at least Sparkfun's Nate is out to call you out.
The scary thing to me is that sometimes someone gets so gripped by a belief, it becomes impossible to imagine you are wrong. It feels like you believe something obvious and those who don’t are just fools or have malicious motives. And that assumption of malice is used as justification for dehumanizing people, while believing that you have some moral high ground.
Dang. That would have been an amazing ending.
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The difference is that Intuit also throws money in directions that make sure they get heard.

If the CEO of Intuit (or a representative of Intuit) just called the same phone line the rest of us get, sure there wouldn’t be a difference there. Even if the representatives were calling on Inuit from their side because they believed Intuit has relevant insights into the tax code, that would be fine. But that’s not what’s happening. It’s the way political donations buy access to representatives attention in ways that the non-rich don’t have access to that people take issue with.
Why not short USDT directly then rather than throwing BTC into the mix?