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> Ok, suppose programmers are 100% exempt from the internal meetings. Engineering managers and product owners then go ahead and just make every single decision there is. How’s that? The meetings are often used for people to sync on the progress and issues. Moreover, technical people can give their input and help non-technical ones to better understand the limitations, issues, etc.

That sounds horrendous. Those people shouldn't be making every decision. I don't know what that has to do with meetings. I'm not saying engineers should skip meetings. I'm saying abolish all internal meetings at your company. If you don't run the company then I can see how this is useless advice.

I find ad hoc "meetings" which are really just phone calls (we use Remotion at my company, it works great) to be far more useful. They aren't scheduled, so they don't take up mental space where you're dreading the meeting coming up. They aren't scheduled, so it's super easy to just say "hey I'm busy, can't talk". They aren't scheduled, so there's literally no pressure to take the call, and instead say something like "hey, can you just slack me what's happening and I can take a look in a bit?".

I also think overreliance on meetings leads to a lack of quality internal documentation, writing, and requirements gathering. If everyone is just shooting around ideas out loud, in a room, there's nothing making it on paper. I find that sitting down and actually writing out everything before I present the idea to anyone or discuss it, is far more useful than scrambling before a meeting I forgot that I had today.
Maybe it’s a fake link
An example of a bad case for random exploration would be a narrow ridge where you die if you fall off and you only receive reward if you get to the end.

So it's a worst case result with respect to the MDP, but expected time/high probability with wrt random chance.
I have to wonder, at some point with googles system not being the DMCA, when does it become copyright infringement on the part of youtube that they are hosting your copy righted works and making money off ads from them. Even if they are not taking a cut, they are still facilitating it. Someone selling fake gucci bags at cost of materials would still be in trouble even if they aren't making money off it.
Rubbish. TD Ameritrade, WeBull and half a dozen other brokers with gigantic balance sheets also suspended trading. This was a rug pull executed by Robinhood on behalf of it's clients.
You can unlock the back door of the honda if the electrics fail.
Go to about:serviceworkers (for Firefox, not sure about safari) and remove anything related to twitter. That should fix this (till the next buggy service worker)
I think that's a purposeful misinterpretation of the post at best.

They clearly mean they have purchased no further Blizz products since the news.
Silly question - what does "Super reflective" mean in this context?

I always assumed "reflective" is "bad" when it comes to screens, and contrast in variable lighting conditions - it would reflect too much of background, other lights, etc. Best screens for variety of lighting conditions (as opposed to dark room) seem to be matte.

Any thoughts / anything I'm missing?
I have seen this sentence of the link:

> CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses

Used to claim that many positive test results were not covid cases, but were flu cases.

This _isn’t_ the case — the CDC is now recommending tests that can check for multiple infections rather than just one.

But the wording does leave it open to being a possibility, on first reading that may even be a sensible assumption.

So the problem is complicated —

1) this is an official and authoritative source posting wording that’s explaining what’s changing with ambiguity about what the status quo is.

2) Amid that ambiguity, people are posting information that is not true, using this as a source.

3) Facebook’s response is the “Fake News” label, when while the source has its faults it is not Fake or News, it’s just having meaning attributed to it that’s not there
That's very generous.

And, now I'm kicking myself for dropping my 1st gen Kindle off at the e-waste recycler!
I suspect there's a connection with Wiccans, given their nature rituals and totem animals.
I think it is a failure on the part of the search engine if it falls for that SEO trickery.

I recall in the early 2000s it was popular to fill the bottom of a page with keywords in the same color as the background color, to trick the crawler into thinking the page was full of relevant content. After a little while that stopped working and would actually get your site penalized in ranking. The bad actors are never going to go away, they’re going to keep getting more clever and search engines like Google and Bing with billions in the corporate warchest ought to keep the edge in that arms race.
The Gameboy was introduced in 1989 with a price of $89 USD, factor inflation and that would cost $195 today.

None of the games on play date will be as good as the pack in Tetris game on gameboy but the price doesn’t seem that bad when put into context.
By adding content to user's newsfeed, they ( facebook's algorithm ) have made a explicit decision to share the piece of content and implicit decision that they deem the post safe for sharing. In that case shouldn't a speaker operator be responsible for the voices they amplify?
Would you eat recycled landfill meat?
In 26 years I've never worked anywhere that didn't use SCM.
Facebook isn't the only source of information, and in fact, I'd argue, more misinformation exists because of facebook, not more control.
>whatever activity Activision/Blizzard is engaging in is a-ok with that player

This is definitely how Activision/Blizzard will interpret it. However, not every single gamer is tuned into these kinds of stories about the game makers. Some will be totally unawares of any of the shenanigans that occur behind the game. Not everybody has the time and/or interest for that. Just like people do/don't care about Amazon, Walmart, Nike, etc. Someone that does care will bring to light something that may garner media attention. Some people will see that, and get worked up about it. However, the majority of people will be just as happy to put their head back in the sand and continue on with their day-to-day.

I also came here to see if anyone else was calling that Activision/Blizzard's next move were to call in the Pinkertons.
This was helpful to read, as someone currently collecting my own unreleased technical writing (possibly for a book). Thank you for focusing on the "why" here and sharing information on the range of possible outcomes.

Also, congrats on the launch of https://graphql.guide/! It is so critical to have well thought out, long-form content available in this day and age.
I recently switched from being a more general "software" dev to an embedded systems dev. Despite the fact that I'm using mostly C, I find everything much easier in general.

There are so many less layers of abstraction and "magic" to dig through that at I can always figure out what's going on easily enough. I think this article hits the nail on the head.
Sorry instead of Lockstep I meant the german term of Gleichschritt. At least in the GDR they infused the people who marched at the parades with propaganda for days before the parade. Yes, didn't mean a western country.
I look forward to Facebook losing their Section 230 protection because of this, and their platform(s) dying a slow death.
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We attribute way too much to random happenstance than real trends, and that is ultimately why our societies crumble over time.
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You are being disagreeable.
Requirements are requirements, sometimes they are easier, sometimes they are more complex.
But you dismissing an engineer who successfully shipped something on production that met their requirements because you think you have "industry advice" is pure arrogance.

Every piece of software is written with the actual requirements in mind, defined (usually) by the people who know the context they are working with the best. Not by armchair specialists.
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YouTube would required to materially alter or dismantle their system as part of such a judgement.
I was assuming it would be about environmental questions based on the context, but that may have been a poor assumption on my part.

Nothing of course makes environmental research immune to problems.

The question then becomes the same about the scientific community in general. When and about what has it been crying wolf?

You mention fraud, but is it really as prevalent a problem in academic research as it might seem from the headlines? Fraud or other instances of gross misconduct deservedly make the headlines but all the research staff toiling away and trying to do their best don't. (The occasional sexy enough result does, but those are few and far between.) From what little I've seen of academic research, the people in there haven't seemed to be dishonest or intending to defraud. I'm sure outright fraud does happen, but is it really such a widespread problem that it counts as the entire community becoming suspect?

Questionable methodology is of course a problem, and probably a much more widespread one, although it's probably not any worse than what people generally base their opinions and views on.

I really still fail to see how the scientific community has cried wolf. I can easily see how it would seem and feel like it has, but that would be more due to poor journalism and reporting than due to the actions of most of the community itself.

Of course I may be grossly underestimating the prevalence of scientific misconduct, but this has been my impression.
At this point, by sheer institutional volume, 'mainstream' means 'American East Coast Left-liberal'.
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>While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X.

That's absurd
Totally agree. Both Hades and Diablo are great, but the gameplay and art are considerably different between the two.
This isn't really a problem with Copyright as a legal concept. It's the horrible way that Youtube is detecting and enforcing that allows trolls to exploit it so easily.
No it's not a joke. Microsoft can license it's own code and pay for the rest if they wanted to. It's not like MS can't afford it. They're flagrantly violating the licenses of countless open-source project for their own gain. It would be one thing if they only used code with permissible licenses like the MIT license but they didn't. You can't just steal other people's work. If you or me did this with Microsoft's proprietary code we would be sued and/or arrested. Why should MS be able to get away with something that's illegal for us plebs?
YouTube says they hold the revenue and distribute to the appropriate party later. I don't know what actually happens in practice, but that is at least their stated policy.
How many times do people need to get the football pulled away before we collectively realize that putting content on Youtube is a bad idea?
> The prices costumers reflect do not cover the cost.

Yeah right, let's see if this assertion is true (keep in mind that all infra cost are budgeted into annual revenue). Numbers from 2019 which was not a great year for french companies (2020 was worse, but for everyone):

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200228005403/en/SNC...

So, -300m in 2019, with strikes costing 600m (so a net positive of 300m if not for the yellow vest and strikes). -300m for an EBITDA fo 5+bn, i'd consider that you assertion "The prices costumers reflect do not cover the cost" is false, and rail is profitable. High-speed rail even more so.

But i'd agree that some rails are not sustainable and are only still kept thanks to the profitable ones. But the Paris-Marseille or Paris-Bordeaux are definitly profitable.
Interestingly, if they had shorted it at the time they made the comment, they would currently be ahead.
and tech in general.. everything is getting more and more goof-around-able and I'm here for it!
> If that’s true, then, how can we be sure that flu hasn’t been misdiagnosed?

Because I haven't seen anything on Facebook, or self-censoring HN for that matter, validating those claims. So they must be but only false but really out-there wacky conspiracy theories.
This sounds awesome and I've also thought about a VR headset for regular console games. Can you comment on if that is a good idea and which specs/devices I might compare for that? I have no interest in most actual VR games until there is something "killer".
The fear of having any natural body odor in today's society is incredibly widespread. It's almost impossible to find information on the negative effects of our practices of putting ultra-scented substances on our skin via deodorants and perfumes, in our hair via shampoos, on our clothing via scented detergents, etc. Yet everywhere you look, there are vested corporate interests telling us that we stink, are repulsive in our natural state, and so on.
This is why it's so difficult to find people willing to forgo these products, and then to admit it and report on the results. Sure, basic hygiene is important. Shower after working out. Brush your teeth. Comb your hair and rinse your scalp.
I use to unquestioningly shampoo my hair every few days until I noticed I had to wash more and more frequently, as it started getting greasy quicker. In 2017 I decided to go cold turkey on using shampoo. The first few months were rough. But over time, my hair and scalp biome has normalized, and rinsing with warm water is enough to remove any grease build-up. My hair is also a lot healthier - less split ends and less dried out than before.
Deodorant is a much more difficult beast to escape from. B.O. in the workplace is definitely worse than a greasy looking ponytail. However, with the lockdowns, I've been experimenting with skipping the deodorant. So far I can't say I like the results, but I wonder if it's again the kind of thing that takes a while to normalize. Either my nose will become numb to it, or the bacteria in the skin will calm down after being tampered with for so long. It's a little shocking to think I've been smearing a costly cocktail of chemicals on my pores for more than half my life, and barely even recognize my own scent. Crazy to think that we might be blocking an important subconscious source of information on the people in our lives.
Not the author, but working through it and having read compiler books in the past... I is very practical vs theoretical, very hands on, and willing to engage with sticky problems rather than glossing over them. The language it implements feels modern (vs the Pascal you do in Let's Write a Compiler.) The writing is fun but not over the top. You hand write the parser instead of using a parser generator.
It's also the cheapest
OK, random thought experiment. As someone without a facebook it's hard for me to evaluate, but how much damage would really be caused if facebook just disappeared one day?
> I just think your division of categories is totally arbitrary and not grounded in any evidence.

You just agreed that adenoviruses are proven to be safe and effective at scale. I don't think anyone can argue conclusively that mRNA vaccines are, though there is mounting evidence that the incidence of short-time side effects is low. If you follow that rule, it should be obvious what rule the division of categories take and why they are grounded in evidence.

> You could describe the flat earth movement the same way.

Now that is a strawman if I've ever heard one, not sure if you actually intend to be taken seriously with that. There are provable ways to show that the earth is round based on physical laws. There is not enough evidence that the covid mRNA vaccine is safe and effective. One could argue about what would constitute evidence for safe and effective, but pick any reasonable metric (e.g. full FDA approval, long term studies). In fact, I would argue that to think that the COVID vaccines are completely safe without enough evidence to conclusively prove that falls under the kind of beliefs that you describe.

There are always going to be people who are non-rigorous and choose to believe what they want to but I hazard a guess that a large portion of the vaccine hesitant crowd falls under the category of people who want to see a rigorous analysis of the long term side effects of the vaccine before taking it.

Before you strawman this argument again by saying that you can apply this logic to anything, do some research about the history of mRNA vaccines and its associated risks (autoimmune disorders, myocardial inflammation, all the anecdotal reports of persistent side effects, etc.).

The point is not that mRNA vaccines produce these side effects with high probability but that there is high uncertainty as to whether they do or not because of the lack of long term studies.
Throw that system out!
After reading the article, it shows it to be worse than useless. Just as selling stocks that are failing, there will be pressure to hang on due to the invested money. But the results are bad, the concept is bad, the expenses are worse. That money could be used to provide a lot of people with extra support.
Not everything can be computerized. Human systems, are not necessarily modelable(?), just because they are systems.
Health care is always difficult on a government scale, because set rules don't work. Senior care, handicapped care, child care for that matter; require flexibility, adaptability, and passion. Systems don't work effectively.
One day someone needs 24 hour care, another day 2 hours. Diarrhea happens!
Is this a reformulated vaccine to take into account the newer variants? If so this is something to watch carefully. I know the UK has ordered the same for delivery in September.
Dang bans you for wrongthink long before then.
The article quotes a third party source who claims "According to the source close to the NSCC, the lower amount came about because of Robinhood’s decision to limit trading in GameStop and other meme shares." but then the article goes on to directly say "While Robinhood did speak with executives at NSCC, the conversation entailed confirming that limiting the stock sales would count toward reducing its $3 billion collateral demand—but did not result in the amount being reduced." I don't believe this is good counter evidence as mentioned in the above comment, it seems self contradictory if anything. How could it be conditional if there was no negotiations, yet the entire thing was waived on a discretional basis?
Hum, that does seem somewhat possible. I guess my counter is just pointing back at the biomass chart. Maybe labor intensive low fertilizer and pesticide farming can work, but we're talking about a majority of land vertebrate mass being either humans or the things we've grown to eat. There isn't a world in which we keep that up and don't massively distort the rest of the natural world. I think we have to accept that and sort of go on from there and decides what sort of distortions we want. Trading mechanization for pesticides seems great, but we'll still need massive amounts of land dedicated to farming and I definitely see it as a more technical not less solution
I heard the union also tried to get 400+ ballots thrown out. Does anyone know anything more about that - were they ever counted? Or was it Amazon that protested ballots?
I don't understand your point, you're building a strawman and then attacking it. This architecture works for them, and will probably keep doing so as you can see on the other response.

> Experience shows there’s just no reason to talk to people about these specifics because even though they’ve never implemented it before or even done the math, you definitely know better than I do.

But they DID implement it and it works perfectly well for them. I don't understand why you're splitting hairs about fantasy scenarios. If they had a different problem, they would solve it differently. If you've faced something like that, feel free to share you story, what were the constraints and how you solved them.
Ask HN: Resources for getting back up to speed on SQL
I have accepted a new role that uses MSSQL, I have been using NoSQL at work for the past 4 years but have previously use SQL.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best resources to use to get me back up to speed, ideally books?

Thanks
This is so depressing. It is such a strong signal that the general consumer just does not give a shit when it comes to privacy or hardware products being able to be remotely disabled by bloody facebook of all people.
Interesting! So I guess the enforcement will only start when it's needed to get rid of some troublemaker. "-The person is causing us grief, what can we do to expel them? -Check their vaccination status, and look for other normally unenforced rules, there's gotta be something!"

I hate selective enforcement of rules / laws.

Edit: fixed typo.
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"This theory" is the theory that "Robinhood runs a casino dressed up as a brokerage, and packaged their offering as if settlement was instantaneous, rather than an efficient fiction built out of loans extended to everyone involved in settling a stock transaction."
It tends to be hard to find outside of college towns....
Isn’t lithium actually a small part of the battery?
The first time I joined a cinema room I didn’t know I would be sitting next to people. I turned and looked on my left and a bunch of people were looking at me. I screamed out loud (didn’t know my mic was on also) and everybody laughed. That was magical somewhat.