skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An aerospace it meant everyone's role was super strict and trying to do anything outside your role was against the rule.

Was it because of regulations (ie who's certified for maintenance on X airplane type) ?
Standard Oil did things like demanding a kickback from railroads on oil shipments, including their competitors' shipments. That's quite a bit more than "simply standardizing and improving quality, using innovative logistics systems and lowering prices". That's flat-out unfair competition. (The railroads went along because of the threat of losing Standard Oil's shipments, which was a really large amount of business.)

I mean, yes, Standard Oil did do a fair amount of standardizing and improving quality, and innovative logistics, and lowering prices. It also did unfair competition.
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that the programming education today comes from a top-down approach, where one starts with a high-level language with little knowledge of the underlying system or the layers of abstraction on top of which it runs. Your upper year courses is where you begin learning more about operating systems, computer architecture, and the like.

Naturally, those programmers become focused on the high-level content because that's what they're brought up with/am comfortable with.

It would be interesting to see courses being taught from a bottom-up approach, maybe not at the gate/transistor level but rather at the assembly level. Teach the basic instructions, move on to C, then move on the high level languages - I actually learned programming this way and found that it helped a lot in understanding why and how things happen the way they do.
Google Play gets mandatory app privacy labels in April 2022
Not in California.

If your jurisdiction has different laws than California for non-compete, that's a red flag.
Yeah actually deliving a product that sells is such legacy thinking...we badly need a hard crash to clear out the deadwood and hucksters in the economy.
By design, it is a term of derision.
That's ZIRP for ya.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world
and the likes of Matt Levine (and Bloomberg) are just bitter

Matt Levine has also struck me as more amused-- and perhaps confused-- than bitter about this.
I wanna chime in to say that's a great Mac. You could use a patcher to get it to Catalina but I definitely wouldn't go any higher. That will extend software support life a bit more.
Steganography: Hackers Hide Malware in Images
I've never heard of this until today.
Why Was Starbucks Born in Seattle and Not Milan?
This generalizes to automation of nonlethal means of population control -- crowd control weapons, surveillance and censorship. On the margin it'd hold for partial automation short of AGI -- reducing the needed size of the coalition on top.
Perhaps they are referring to methods used by the stasi but not commonly used by law enforcement?
Perhaps I can help.

Some of the sticker price of your not-cheap house is the quality of the house itself, and its desirable location.

Some is a cynical campaign to prevent owners of land from building more housing on land which, again, they own, through political maneuvering.

I would assert that your right to buy what you want implies their right to build what they want on the land they have bought, within reasonable limits, that the zoning regime in big West Coast cities is nothing resembling reasonable, and that we should change it so that those cities can have more, cheaper housing.

If you disagree, that's fine, that's democracy, but I consider you a NIMBY, an authoritarian busybody who handwaves about "neighborhood character" to disguise the fact that they feel entitled to prevent a lot owner from putting up a four-story building with eight condos in it.
I don't believe it's a native feature, but people have recorded them.
If you want wide standardization, share the specifications. Erecting a paywall around standards is the antithesis of promulgation.

Have run into "documentation for the standard costs $$" many times over the years in different organizations, large and small; it is always a barrier to adoption.
This was a plot point in the wonderful Oscar winning German film The Lives of Others.
Financial markets are not coupled to real economics anymore.

They’re coupled to speculative gamesmanship. Whoever can generate statistics to captivate the masses who do not understand them, via press releases, and media blitzes.

That sounds cynical, but I “hob nob” with people invited to Davos, and run depts at Ivy League schools.

Behind closed doors these are the conversations I’ve been privy too. How to captivate the “market” which is a euphemism created years ago to replace the religious concept of “flock”.

Mirror neurons really challenge the correctness of any wisdom to come from business leaders. It’s a pantomime, ingratiate ourselves before the socially rich

People see taxation as theft of property. I see it as reminding people there are no Gods or kings.
Possibly PR-driven: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Robinhood drops 10% in stock trading app's Nasdaq debut
About GitHub Copilot Telemetry
>The attitude of the backend people of looking down upon frontend people is really stupid and unsubstantiated.

I think the high horse is because frontend dev is hard. The backend has more methodical tooling. Javascript is not considered a clean language even if it has improved.

It would be nice if you could use clean modern tools but the web is forced to support legacy browsers so it is what it is.

I personally like the full stack and don't look down in either direction, but I understand the sentiment.
Don't know which discussion on HN this was, but it was about the same book. Basically, each of us produces a varying amount of fat in our sweat and that leads to different bacterial biomes. The bacteria that metabolize the fat in the sweat are what actually produce the odors we recognize.
>> For military parades, you can't afford 5% of people who intentionally don't march in lock step. That's why usually the troops which participate in such parades are isolated and fed propaganda leading up to the parade.

What? I've been on countless parades and don't remember any pre-parade propaganda. I've never even heard of such a think in a western military. Parades are just a regular day at the office. Honor guards and flag parties certainly practice heavily, but the idea that anyone "intentionally" doesn't march properly is ... odd.

Also, "lockstep" should not be used in reference to parades. The lockstep was a punishment once inflicted on convicts in an prisons. If you go back hundreds of year there was a style of marching, but it was nothing like the more recent method used as a punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstep
Depends on the book. I usually used Alice in wonderland, through the looking glass, and wizard of Oz as my first books in these languages, (except latin), and though I don't know the exact starting word count, I think a couple of hundred + familiarity with the book is enough for me. Some other easy and interesting books to consider are Tom Sawyer and The Hobbit, and Peter Pan.
That's a good point. I personally got numb against people not paying attention the past year, doesn't mean everyone is.

It's just an easy way to reclaim time. I agree the better solution is to trim meetings.
Quantum communication requires a continually renewed source of mutually shared entangled pairs to send communication. When entangled states collapse, which they must do in order to send information, the particle pairs are no longer entangled and can thus no longer send information. These civilizations would have to find a way to keep a stable quantum pairing which can be observed without collapsing the quantum state, which is the equivalent of finding a way to stop black holes from emitting Hawking radiation; essentially they would need to find a way to stop entropy as we know it in order to make long distance quantum communication sustainable.
This question I take to the grave.

I understand it derails the point of the exchange, but I cannot fathom how this could be a legitimate use case. I'm not saying it's not, quite the opposite, I'm sure it was, but my curiosity has been piqued and for no reason whatsoever I must know.

It reminds me of the Married with Children episode where AL has a piece of a chorus of a song he remembered and it drove him insane until he remembered. It was hm hm himmmm and the song was I Will Follow Him, I believe.

I felt that, I had read a book as a child and it fascinated me and started my lifelong obsession with books. I could remember parts of the book, but search engines sucked for many years. I don't remember when but at some point google crawl bot scraped the synopsis of the book-it was a Forgotten Realms book 'The Night Parade'. Incidentally it was very little like I had remembered but I still loved re-reading it.

Anyway, hopefully that will happen with this question one day. I'll remember it, search it, and maybe find the answer.
This. Duolingo is a great introduction to a language and can get you from not knowing a word to being able to understand something and maybe have basic tourist-level conversational skills.

Nothing gets you to fluency without actually just immersing yourself in a language for awhile.
Reputational hit from propping up literal fraud. Opportunity cost from not partnering with better companies in the space.
The XY problem in theory: An expert with broader knowledge than you realizes what you really should be asking.

The XY problem in practice: Someone doesn't know the answer to your question so they randomly choose a response from the ten things they do know.

Also: If we're calling it the "XY problem," does that make it mansplaining? (XY? Get it? Sorry.)
I agree. I feel like there's 3 phases to learning a new language.

Background: English first language, French second, and I've been trying to learn Japanese.

The three phases are:

1. Learning basic alphabet (if different from your own), basic grammar. Unlocks: being able to access more learning material and more rapid progress. Progress on these first building blocks is slow and can be discouraging.

2. Learning full grammar control. Even the most basic prose uses ~all of the tenses and conjugation rules. Unlocks: reading/watching non-educational native material.

3. Learning the culture and filling out vocab. Lots of languages are idiomatic, and understanding real-world usage can require just as much that you read Candide as that you memorize flashcards of more-obscure vocab (more-obscure meaning things like "chandelier". It's not an uncommon word, but a second-language learner probably won't run into it in wordbanks or anything.)

I think Duolingo is good for doing 1, and like, half of 2. I don't think it can get you to 3.
Well, I am layman regarding in general, particularly physics. I get what you are saying, but the analogy lose the point of what makes entanglement nonsensical and spooky for anybody, layman or not.

As I said before, if they had an analogy of balls which does not have a color and when you see one ball and it gets color and the other ball which was in contact with it become colored magically too, it would be fine. I am ranting and I am sure educators can come up with better analogy.

The point is, spookiness is important for understanding the significance of why this is big deal at all and some people think that should not get lost in translation.
I found watching French TV helped get the equivalent of language immersion.

One source that isn't region locked is TV5Monde [1], you can view programmes online if it isn't available as a broadcast channel where you are.

[1] http://www.tv5monde.com/
Why would that be surprising? For a single programmer working alone Git is an incredibly complicated tool.

P.S.: A lot of you are confusing "complicated" with "difficult".
This person is a troll. The Tesla semi is not “barely functional”. They have been spotted driving all over the place and doing real world testing on actual highways and in cold weather. Production was already to be started except for a shortage of battery cells (due to the extreme popularity of their existing cars and powerwalls/megapacks) which they are working to remedy.
Did he finally start using one? I know that was one of the things that blew most people away, is that he had no change history for most of his code...
This is super interesting list!

There are so many non-obvious moves for instance trivago moving from kubernetes to nomad or many people moving from postgres to mysql.

Thanks for sharing.
> This works until your boss understands software development

Like that ever happens!
This is HN, what do expect? :)
> If a user enters a number incorrectly on a frontend, a frontend can’t just say no.

Followed by the distant sound of enterprise, banking, and government frontend devs laughing.
Which languages and how well did it work for you to transition into reading books?
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You seem be saying there's a single "actual user", and that user happens to be identical to yourself.

In practice any product with more than a few users is going to have to separate out the different needs, situations, and personalities of the users. Personas and market segmentation are two of many ways to slice up the user base.

Some products can use that slicing to only address small niches and just say "to hell with everybody else". Indie games, for example, often address very specific audiences. Ditto a lot of books. Academic books especially might be written for an audience in the thousands or even hundreds.

But products like Google are going for extremely large audiences. Inevitably, needs will conflict. They can try to sort that out in product, and I think they've done a surprisingly good job of guessing what people actually want based on them typing a few words into a box. But when there's a conflict, it's no shock to me they're going to favor the vast majority of their audience over the relatively small niche of persnickety software developers like myself.
The world does not act in accordance with "society's" proclaimed values - it acts according to the sum of individual actual values.

On this basis, Bolsanaro is right: we can talk up a storm about how Brazil needs to protect the Amazon, but when push comes to shove those poor people in Brazil are going to have to tough it out by themselves.

And of course the rest of the world is not going to funnel funds to Brazil to protect the rainforest, because it will be on a hiding to nothing, forking out cash to a neverending stream of poor folk with increasingly outrageous demands.

Real change in many of the things we lament in the world at the moment would require a mindset shift in people en masse - either that or a tyrannical top-down command structure. I would be curious to know which of the two is more likely.
I love these stats because it doesn't account for age and CS graduation rates.

If all senior leadership has ~20 years of experience in the industry, it makes sense that it would be pretty representative of the graduating class of 20 years ago.
Are you seeing a lot of growth?

Is this just for maintenance or includes repairs?
No.
It’s like the return of call-on talk radio shows - in that if you don’t tune in at the specified time, you completely miss it.
I haven’t joined any clubhouse sessions that were worth moving my life around. Unlike podcasts which can fit in multiple places in my life.
This is exactly how startup valuations work though. Some minor chunk of equity gets bought up by an investor, so by extension the entire equity of the company is now worth billions on a per-share basis.
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Yes, there are plenty of recordings on youtube
Considering how hard they actually fight when you actually have to get care (e.g. having the doctor submit tons of justification that you actually need the required treatment vs. some half-assed cheaper approach), I don't think the monthly payments actually matter.
But to that same point, you can share only your Notepad screen as well...
I replied to your comment because I agree with you but I couldn't find any information online to support it. I cited research where they studied foam that's been in place for 40+ years and it's fine. I was hoping you had data that would support what we both want to hear.
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Americans are singled out because of two reasons: the fact that north-Americans [1] like the authors of this piece are incredibly north-America centred and consider north-America and northern-Americans the centre of the universe. Add to this the fact that self-flagellation is seen as a virtuous act in liberal western societies like those in the USA and Canada while criticising other countries and cultures is seen as offensive, especially when the criticism centres around those other cultures developing habits which the west is being criticised for - e.g. increased mobility, increased resource use. This is counterproductive since it exacerbates the problems caused by those habits - e.g. China building hundreds of coal-powered power stations - while it would have been possible to forestall this by developing viable [1] alternatives and making the technology available to those countries which do not have the resources to develop these by themselves.

[1] viable as in providing the same benefits while reducing or eliminating the negative aspects, e.g. nuclear instead of coal-fired power stations
I didn’t know that. At least that partially explains the expense of textbooks
Tsunamis from the 1964 Alaska earthquake (M9.2) killed 12 people in California and caused damage in Japan and Hawaii. Tsunamis can travel for a very long distance in open ocean.

Alaska is pretty close to Asia, especially if you look at the great circle distance.

Cargo planes from China, Korea, and Japan normally refuel in Anchorage, and before the extended range of modern passenger jets, most passenger planes also had a refueling stop there.

In 1983, KAL Flight 007, a Boeing 747 passenger airliner en route from New York to Seoul, was shot down by the Soviet Union after departing Anchorage and inadvertently entering Soviet airspace.
I believe the real issue is the state of mind, where two sides of dispute cannot find a consensus and tension keeps growing over time. Situation like this is leading to physical extermination of one of the sides. We have seen this in the history of humanity.
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> SO's "innovations" were mostly just efforts to game the system.

Rockefeller put together the trust in 1882. Within 3 years, the consumer cost of a gallon dropped 70%. If it was gaming the system, the consumers of oil were primary beneficiaries.

> clear-eyed view

Throughout the time of litigation of the anti-trust case against Standard Oil, SO was losing market share because Rockefeller's competitors had figured out to compete with him.

See "Titan" by Chernow.
I was definitely thinking of The Office when I wrote that comment, but in reality, all the shows that tried to "do Covid" weren't funny at all. Think of the cringy SNL skits and "specials" from other artists, filmed in their home offices. Ugh.
My biggest gripe is "all-hands" meetings that often run over an hour.
I'm pretty sure it's just upper management stroking their egos. I have no power in the decisions that have been already made, and are then relayed in these meetings. This crap could be summarized in a couple of paragraphs in an email, and I can read faster than they can talk.
The smoke point of Extra virgin olive oil (374–405) is too close to the temp you need to fry (350-375) and EVO has a very distinct taste which is not welcomed in most fried foods. Find some recipes or chefs that recommend frying with it - you wont.
Some really really good bluetooth improvements in here. Really nice. I'm ongoingly surprised how active PulseAudio releases have been in the past couple years.

It does make me a bit nervous for PipeWire. I want PipeWire to succeed, radically, but with PulseAudio continuing to make really good advances it feels like expectations/needs for PipeWire keep going up. The additional bluetooth capabilities here are an example. There's a bunch of new devices that have special handling by pulseaudio. The new udev based configuration makes pulseaudio even easier to configure. Hard to imagine replacing such a robust sound system!
They left it invite only for a bit too long I think, and the hype disappeared. Could be a fatal mistake for something that relies on network effects. I seem to remember google wave (?) made a similar mistake, but I that was so long ago I can't remember all the details now
> it’s easier to grok, as a human

People usually understand the difference between "cat" and a cat.
If you're dealing with user input, you should always be validating the type before working with it.

If you want to compare input to an int, you should be verifying the input is a valid int before comparing it.

Just hoping the language will do the right thing is a great way to inadvertently allow exploits in your service
This is for cellular connections.

"Amazon’s Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose the ability to connect to the internet on their own in the US in December, according to an email sent to customers on Wednesday. The change is due to mobile carriers transitioning from older 2G and 3G networking technology to newer 4G and 5G networks. For older Kindles without Wi-Fi, this change could mean not connecting to the internet at all."
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this is a pretty good series of posts but I was rather surprised at where the series ended, with more (hypothetical) OOP abstraction instead of less. trying to fit game rules into a language's type system is a common thing for novice programmers to attempt, because it seems like the perfect logical application of these type system rules you just learned about when learning the language you're using. I kept expecting the article series to get around to reducing the system down to something like a Player class with a PlayerClass enum and member (and ditto for Weapon), then branching logic based on that, instead of trying to pack it into the type system.