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Some years ago, one of the UK's air traffic control systems needed to be uplifted off the deprecated hardware it ran on. Going anywhere near the code itself was a total no-no - even though there were known glitches, the risk of touching that code was just deemed too high. So they instead wrote an emulator for the old machine and ran the unaltered s/w that way. Never underestimate the power of legacy that works.
Of course they don’t “have to” hunt, they could just buy factory meat like everyone else.

But hunting is of course much more humane than meat factories. I don’t think there is anything wrong with killing animals per se, but animals farmed for meat live awful lives, hunted animals don’t.
One of the “equivalents” will be launched in a few years as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST). It isn’t quite an equivalent: it was designed to image the Earth, not distant objects. It has a wider field of view than Hubble, but is less useful for imaging distant galaxies and exoplanets in detail. Unfortunately it also doesn’t deliver the expected cost savings, since the telescopes came without instruments or electronics. Different people at NASA made different estimates, but most showed the NRO telescope as being roughly a wash compared to the earlier WFIRST concept, and it has overrun its cost substantially since then.
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Depending on the strength, Yes they are
An intermediary like the mob, perhaps?
Someone that actually manages things and takes away a lot of the communication between devs and users/customers.

Someone that has a broad overview of things and keeps things in line between devs in different teams, QA etc.

Someone that tackles existing or future problems hands on, by clearly communicating them and prioritising and assigning them to the right people.

Someone that makes sure, that requirements/backlog etc. are always in a workable shape.

Most managers that i work with lack in one or multiple of these areas.

Some managers i worked with do none of these and just report numbers and budgets, while avoiding to do anything useful towards the actual project/product.
> Um, there actually is a fair amount of evidence that violent video games influence people's thinking.

Then feel free to post the research. This was the core topic of my studies, and to my knowledge there simply is zero evidence of a causal relationship.

The US indeed has a big violence problem, but there are actual, established causes, e.g. the high wealth inequality, which is a big predictor for violent crimes in most countries.
And even the difference seems to be about the same for both groups, which I read as a sign that delta is just better adapted to the upper respiratory tract where immunity from intramuscular vaccines generally doesn't happen. It seems to be a completely separate immune system (this part is not crude layman's speculation but crude layman's rewording of established knowledge I think) which is also consistent with the recorded observation that patients who struggled for their lives typically lost much of their infectivity long before the struggle even started to get serious. In a fully vaccinated environment it might not be so bad to get the "other immune system" to know the virus before the one prepared by intramuscular lowers alert status.
I missed that, then it’s of course terrible. Under normal situations that is not the case.
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I need to do some renovation but contractors keep saying that aluminum's price went up by 70%, steel by 80%, etc. So it is not only lumber. I postponed everything until prices settle down.
Hue turns on my bathroom lights, HA then switches on the fan via a tasmota flashed Sonoff. Everybody loves that. How does this relate to your remark? I read between the lines that you are making poor automation decisions, you need to rethink those. Not HA.
> It's how they are going about it and what kinds of systems they want to build.

You don’t seem to be well informed on how they’re going about it and what kind of systems “they” want to build. Who are “they”? Which of the multiple levels of government, several states and territories and multiple political parties who all have different policies and priorities do you mean? What do you mean by “enslavement”? None of it makes sense, and you’re making giant extrapolations from exaggerated and inaccurate headlines and reports in a media that you probably wouldn’t trust or believe on most other topics.
Ask HN: What happened to blogging about programming?
10 years ago I could spend a weekend binge reading Joel on Software, Steve Yegge, Coding Horror, Peter Norvig's or ESR's articles. I learned a lot from their writing.

I look back at those days as the golden age of programmer writing. Super smart people who wrote very well.

Nowadays I feel like there is simply no new content that compares to the quality of these blogs/web sites. Why is this so? Or am I mistaken and there is a thriving blogging community I somehow overlooked?
I had this once with a co-worker, who was also a technical lead. I don't mind critical code reviews, I do want them. I can spare my own feelings if I didn't do something right. But, if that person comes off as someone who cannot relate to anyone, the code review goes into a different direction.

Many times, I felt like I had to write code to get through the co-worker's code review, not for the requirement. The requirements to get pass that code review felt inconsistent and vague, so it made work very stressful. Having a conversation with him was a chore as well, as he came off to be very critical even when prepared with questions.

When he left the company, I was not the only one who felt a weight lifted off all of us. No one wanted to put up with that.

Code reviews and other analyses should be topics of open conversation, if anything. They should work both ways and help each other about not only needs but skill development. When it is used as a tool to boost someone's ego instead, it becomes counter-productive and many years later, I sometimes have that in the back of the head, even with those who I know can be attentive towards criticism in code reviews but are otherwise good people.
I have no math background but find category theory very interesting for thinking about math foundations, it really makes more sense than set theory for that ....
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One of the problems I have found is that we don't talk the same language when communicating with the business, we use terms like "Technical Debt", "Test Coverage", even "Minimal Viable Product".

In my opinion the universal variable across all these is risk, and it's easy for all to grasp what we mean when we say the word "Risk".

There is delivery risk, will be get this out in a timely fashion for the market.

There is operational risk, will this fall over if we get 10x users or if someone looks at it funny.

There is market fit risk, are we building the right thing for the customer.

Framing these conversation with the business as functions of risk analysis and management is a fundamental part of leadership in my opinion.
yes, the shiny new green field projects keeps many contractors in jobs as perminant people seem to hate working on older tech

migrations and decommisioning (large complex systems) also get lumped into the same pot that most perminant people seriously hate.
>It usually is the US, China or Russia though

Interesting that you're leaving out Israel from your listing while the very subject of this article is Israeli offensive cyberwar and espionage capabilities and a profound lack of ethics.

What I was trying to convey originally is that attribution is politically expedient. If you want to saber-rattle towards China you task Mandiant to find proof of Chinese hacking, if you want to blame Russia Crowdstrike gets the job. It's like employing McKinsey consulting to give a veneer of credibility to a predetermined outcome.
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Well, sure. So "fake news" is like a fake Rollex. But then, what the "regular" news are is a genuine Rollex, except the company secretly swapped out internal parts for low-quality, less-precise but much cheaper ones, and are selling the watch for the same price, with the same SKU[0].

Sure, buying the genuine watch supports the IP holders and gives you bragging rights, but both the genuine and the fake are bad choices when you're looking for a high-quality, durable and precise watch.

> There never was a journalist trying to get it right to begin with.

By this standard, regular news would be fake news too. You don't get manipulative language in the article when someone is trying to "get it right" - it only shows up when someone is trying to get it wrong, on purpose.

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[0] - I.e. what computing hardware and home appliance vendors do all the time.
They belong in jail.

Suddenly they realize things are wrong…
Not just that they went for that - but that they ended up in that situation to begin with. IIUC, the outer rim was two (or more) metal pieces, whereof one acted as antenna. The signal degradation occurs when the user holds the phone and bridges the antenna-piece with a non-antenna piece. This affects the antenna tuning and attenuates the signal.

Just missing out on such a basic thing is a bit boggling to me. My iphone 4 was working pretty good though, but I was also mostly in the inner city where connectivity is good to begin with.
I wonder if tech is unique in having an implicit mistrust for everything on the resume. I've worked at several large companies where people don't even bother looking at them before interviews.

I blame the FizzBuzz blogpost (https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/) for making everyone deathly afraid of imposters. It's a masterpiece in ego-stroking - of course you can write FizzBuzz, look at all these sorry suckers who can't. Resumes are lies, only a 45 minute brainteaser on CoderPad can reveal the truth (ignore existence of Leetcode).

In reality if I'm considering a senior candidate from FAANG (like, actually senior, not 4 years out of school), simply talking about past experience is perfectly fine. The work is the fucking same, everyone is migrating from legacy system X to a distributed system with zookeeper and kafka, they'll fit right in. It would take a truly psychopathic liar to fake their way through all the mundane details you could ask about a project like this. And if one slips through the cracks, they'd probably make a great PM anyway. (As long as they're on your side.)
The channel "Essential Craftsman" is finishing building a spec house. It's an American-style house, with timber framing. The host, Scott Wadsworth, knows a lot about contracting, and gives a lot of details and advice.

The playlist currently has 126 videos. It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGCC-_Cuhhw&list=PLRZePj70B4...

My impression after watching most of it: It might be "easy" to build your own house once you are an experienced contractor. If that's not you, then it's going to be a second job, or even a third job (building and learning). You will need to hire and manage subcontractors - the kind of job the contractor does. If you like that sort of thing and that's how you want to spend your time, go for it. I personally think that my time would be better spent finding a better job in tech and getting a promotion, so I can hire a professional to do all that.
Thanks for the pointer to VSM, I've not come across that before! I will probably update the essay at some point when I've had more feedback and started playing around with the ideas more.

As for the other mentioned models, I mainly just wanted to define their factors so I could show how WOPRS relates to these models, rather than providing a thorough treatment of those models in my essay: there is plenty already written about them and I've included some authoritative sources in the references. :)
I take it you are not a fan of Scheme and Racket?
It’s a few hours a month here and there over several years. I started with a few smart bulbs while renting and I have evolved the system as I moved to a new home and installed more things to solve a problem. I didn’t do all of this in a weekend!

What’s nice is the Home Assistant automations tend to stay working without major overhaul far longer than stuff I used in the past, such as SmartThings which I no longer use. Always better to use your own small server and code for things like this. IOT platforms and services change way too much and it’s a lot more work to maintain than local HA.
When you get infected (or vaccinated), your body produces antibodies as part of its primary response. The antibody tests that are commonly done for COVID look for these already circulating antibodies.

Upon infection or vaccination, your body will also produce antibody-producing memory cells to help respond more quickly if you are infected in the future. If you want to test for these memory cells, you can't use antibody tests. You have to use specialized tests that look specifically for the memory cell responses.

There are some commercially available tests, such as https://www.t-detect.com/, which looks at the T cell response.

A lot of the commercially available antibody tests will fail to detect a prior infection after just a few months. T-Detect now says that its test can pick up infections that occurred 10 months ago. 10 months is probably not the limit of detection; it's just based on the amount of time T-Detect has been available to the public.

Researchers have found memory T cells that respond to the original SARS-CoV virus 17 years post-infection:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z
What do you think of the connection between video games and unemployment? https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/03/30/...
Young whippersnappers are going to downvote me for sharing, but I'm on the other side of the divide and have had to interview and be interviewed a lot over the years.

The normal tech interview questions about sorting or recursion or whatever are not supposed to be business-relevant questions, they are to filter out people who simply can't program.

The industry is awash with candidates with ok-seeming resumes, that get through HR screening, but then fail miserably at the tech interview to solve something like fizzbuzz.

My anecdotal experience is that you never want people who can't write a for-loop or whatever in your team, whatever you are doing!

The tech interview with the ludicrously simple questions are all about finding people who 'get it', and are actually effective at it. Which is why it persists.

The good news is there are interviewers like me who have been lucky enough to be in the position to hire people on the strength of them being able to work through things in pseudo code even though they are not familiar with any programming languages. I keep interviewing and hiring physics grads on the strength of their excellent problem solving skills, and they all learn to express that in programming languages in short order once they are hired and they have found employment as a programmer...
Attempts to prohibit repairing things is stupid and it is stupid on regulators part to not seeing it progresses.

But allowing live-testing auto-drive technology on public roads is beyound that. Police should just pull over anyone who turn this on and is on the move and revoke driver driving license. Simple as that.

"Oh, but it works for me..." is not how public security standards are created.
I recently switched jobs and got interviews in 5 big companies for mid/senior Software Engineering positions. All their processes were fairly similar: Two coding interviews, one system design interview and a conversation with the hiring manager. I might be biased because this process was beneficial for me, but here are my 2 cents on it:

It's easier to get a position in a stack you don't have professional experience with. You're tested for your ability to learn CS concepts, not stack specific knowledge. All 5 positions I interviewed to had different technologies. If I had to learn the specifics of each before applying, I would likely not get offered any positions.
> This was predictable and extremely profitable trade. I made a lot of money this year from this alone.

If you're up for it could you teach me a bit about this? I'm new to commodities (lumber, gold, etc.). My email is in my profile.
> A lot of bcel/aspect code had to be rewritten.

But why? What changed in the spec that forced a rewrite?
At some point the best thing is to just pass on working with them. If the hiring requirement is so draconian that it selects out people with options you end up with a company full of second tier people.
Do you have a license for that sort of dangerous thinking?
This feels like going back to 1FA to me. I use a Password Manager and an Authenticator app, which I feel does the job well enough.
I'm also an evangelical weirdo. He is speaking the language of his people, with biblical references. I'm not sure I would do the same in this context but it is a step up from the spin and lies we often hear.

I have experienced some choice phrasing myself in business down through the years which I am too shy to repeat :-)
Yeh, could well be it. I'd like the be a consultant of course but I don't think Im the kind of person to be able to sell other people on my abilities before I sell myself on them. Credit where credits due to those who can though
Do mobs do this?

No, I meant a legitimate intermediary. If builders get to overcommit and then cancel on their customers, why shouldn't a customer be able to do it too? The intermediary would just offer a service of doing that for you - booking multiple companies for your construction project, waiting until the last second, and cancelling all but one.
Apple shouldn’t be allowed to lock out alternative app stores.
It wouldn't be the first time research lives in its own little bubble, (dis)proving something different from what the world wanted to know. Here, they looked into X (antibody presence) and people make it into Y (corona protection), so then yeah commenters have remarks.

Edit: I read the paper and it just speaks of humoral immunity. Wikipedia:

> Humoral immunity is the aspect of immunity that is mediated by macromolecules found in extracellular fluids such as secreted antibodies, complement proteins, and certain antimicrobial peptides.

Antibodies I'll get to below. Complement proteins and antimicrobial peptides links go to articles saying they're part of the innate immune system (covid protection is done by the adaptive immune system if I understand it correctly). So antibodies is the relevant part:

> Together with B and T cells, antibodies comprise the most important part of the adaptive immune system. They occur in two forms: one that is attached to a B cell, and the other, a soluble form, that is unattached and found in extracellular fluids such as blood plasma. Initially, all antibodies are of the first form, attached to the surface of a B cell – these are then referred to as B-cell receptors (BCR). After an antigen binds to a BCR, the B cell activates to proliferate and differentiate into either plasma cells, which secrete soluble antibodies with the same paratope, or memory B cells, which survive in the body to enable long-lasting immunity to the antigen.

So B cells (well, some but not all) are responsible for long-term immunity, distinct from antibody levels. An antibody (further up the article) is a Y-shaped cell with receptors on the tips which it uses to bind to and thereby tag pathogens for other parts of the immune system to deal with or to neutralize it directly.

So it doesn't sound to me like the paper talks about how long vaccination has an effect, just how long the Y-shaped receptors are in the blood for. This is the so-manyth research I've seen looking at antibodies rather than memory cells. I'd be curious why, but either way it's an incomplete way of looking at protection.
Yeah, I started out orchestrating Home Assistant via Ansible throughout many devices in my home.

Now I feel that it would take me days to recreate the configurations that I needed to make with the UI.

Deprecating yaml is bad for configuration versioning.
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That "[1]" was for the registry, the extensions are listed for particular media types, such as application/xml [1]. Also mentioned in RFC 6838 section 4.12 [2].

And indeed, what IANA registers there is media types, so I've only mentioned associations. I think it still works for a-dub's argument, that it's obvious (though I'd word it differently, such as it being a reasonable guess) that if "MIME type format" is mentioned and "mov" is shown as an example, what's actually meant is filename extensions associated with registered and/or otherwise known media types (which turned out to be the case).

[1] https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/xml

[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6838.html#section-4.12
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there a reason for not having z-wave support on Amber? It wasn't mentioned in the picture and no ctrl+f "wave" hits on the page.

I'm very excited about this device. I've been using Smartthings and then IKEAs gateway, but haven't been happy with their performance and features.
I just want to say: Thank you.

Whenever I buy smart-home stuff I first check if it is supported by HA. (So no more Kasa, and Nest was a huge compromise, I'm thinking there is a place for HA to make a [OpenTherm] Thermostat, like you made the P1 smartreader ["SlimmeLezer", reads energy and gas usage in the Netherlands]). The new Energy dashboard is extremely cool and useful and it's making a difference.

I love what you are doing and it's making Home Automation/IoT a better place. It is how Home Automation should be, with privacy and local control as founding principles. Keep it up.

Edit: Amber looks great! M.2 nice! I thought you were all about Odroid internally, so I'm a bit surprised it has a Pi compute module, I like that though. What drove that decision? Maybe you can go on the Self-Hosted podcast [0] again and talk about Amber, I enjoyed the previous interview [1] :)

[0]: https://selfhosted.show/

[1]: https://selfhosted.show/45
Thanks for archive link! I would have not expected Nathan Myhrvold popping up here. This well illustrates how hard this photgraphy is.
This True Story sounds suspiciously specific.. as if you know this person (who went through with the self-sacrifice) up close and personal.. unless you are implying that this person is none other than...

In either case, please let 'him' know that there is atleast another human I know - who empathizes with your 'friend's' situation - someone who's been through somewhat similar stuff when her father was on the death bed - her self-sacrifice was also in vain and caused resentment against her siblings-with-excuses. However, she wisened up and acted practically when it came to her mother's demise. She wishes to recommend 'your friend' a movie[0] that captured some of the petty sibling problems that you may find relatable (won't solve it but then - Some problems are unsolvable). Also, it translated well from a local theatrical play into an AV medium with sharp & insightful dialogues.

[0]Family Katta: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0R9TTKN7U0DGT1L141HP48N76N
It's almost as if this wasn't a one-sided issue that could be solved by a few anonymous comments on a discussion forum aimed at a crowd that are relatively privileged compared to most of the World's population.

Jests aside, these are all valid points, and it's sad that the current political climate has become so polarized that it's difficult to have a reasonable discussion about this. Going from one extreme to the other won't necessarily result in a net improvement.
For what this comment is worth: I'm watching too much YouTube and it's screwing with my life. Underneath it is a desire to have more social relationships I think. My previous "addiction" was Facebook, years ago. Since then it has been YouTube.