skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A dedicated ticket-churner might be the most efficient way to churn tickets. But why are you so sure that the ticket stream amounts to the best long-term future for the software and its customers?

Because a ticket churner worried about ownership of the entire product has his mind divided between the tickets and the product. A human spending all his effort on one task does a better job on that task than if he divided his effort on multiple tasks.

>An owner can see around corners. Identify patterns in customer requests and make platform-level changes to get ahead of the customer needs not yet fully articulated. If he does it right, they never will be. He has his thumb on the pulse of production. Knows, cares, and investigates when something merely seems a little weird, before it becomes a bug report or an outage. Sees the real need behind the “requirement” and negotiates a different way to satisfy the business that doesn’t tie the architecture up in knots.

Then there should be a dedicated person for this type of role. This dedicated person is called, the product manager. The product manager working closely with the software engineer is from a processing standpoint better than the software engineer owning the entire product. The software engineer no longer needs to context switch and you have two parallel brains working together.

However their is an inefficiency that exists in the communication between the product manager and the software developer. The software developer knows more about the code than the product manager and the product manager knows more about the interface between the product and the customer. Cross communication and lack of understanding between the engineer and the product manager is the source of many complaints.

If the software developer was the owner of the entire product than this communication efficiency is eliminated at the cost of the software developer having to have to divide his effort between multiple domains.

At a certain scale autonomy and complete ownership becomes impossible due to the complexity of the product. At this stage the company must embrace scalability at the cost of flexibility and ownership.
Ask HN: What's a tool that has made your life 10x easier?
Ask HN: Are McFlurries suddenly back now that lawsuit is pending?
I've noticed all of a sudden all our local McDonald's are now selling mcflurries and whatnot after years of not being available.

IMHO this is super damaging to their case. I'm wondering if they actually sent techs out (doubtful) or they gave the stores bypasses they used to only use internally.

Either way just proves this years long ordeal could have been solved any time had they wanted it done.
Not even comments that ignore who the OP is!
Overall, I agree with what you've written, though on the disparity in shooting incidents regarding race Roland Fryer's paper[1] came to different conclusions (it's different data but a more extensive data set and approach):

> In stark contrast to non-lethal uses of force, we find that, conditional on a police interaction, there are no racial differences in officer-involved shootings on either the extensive or intensive
margins. Using data from Houston, Texas – where we have both officer-involved shootings and a randomly chosen set of potential interactions with police where lethal force may have been justified – we find, after controlling for suspect demographics, officer demographics, encounter characteristics, suspect weapon and year fixed effects, that blacks are 27.4 percent less likely to be shot at by police relative to non-black, non-Hispanics. This coefficient is measured with considerable error and not statistically significant. This result is remarkably robust across alternative empirical specifications and subsets of the data. Partitioning the data in myriad ways, we find no evidence of racial discrimination in officer-involved shootings. Investigating the intensive margin – the timing of shootings or how many bullets were discharged in the endeavor – there are no detectable racial differences.

If looking at any kind of force though:

> Blacks are almost eighteen percent more likely to incur any use of force in an interaction, accounting for all variables we can in the data. Hispanics are roughly twelve percent more likely. Both are statistically significant. Asians are slightly less likely, though not distinguishable from whites.

He does give caveats and goes into an extensive discussion on the limitations of the data available (one being the lack of data, which I would say should be the first order of the day for anyone looking for solutions to this) and possible interpretations. As an aside, I'm now unsurprised when I encounter progressives (an irony that might be amusing if they weren't so insidious and invidious) who've not heard of Fryer, nor how quickly they move to dismiss his work or even smear him without ever bothering to check his work in the slightest.

I didn't find anything about lightning, sadly (that would've been a welcome funny moment in amongst these awful stats), although earlier in the pandemic I checked the chances of being hit by lightning (for use as a comparison to some other stats) and was surprised to find out how high they are. Just last month I read this article[2] on the BBC site and decided never to go out in a thunderstorm ever again. If you read to the end it gets worse:

> In 2016, Bangladesh declared lightning strikes a natural disaster when more than 200 people died in the month of May alone, including 82 people on a single day.

Shocking, literally and figuratively.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399

[2]
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58094680
I hope the folks at nextcloud are paying attention!
"show business" is not necessarily derogatory in USA's use. "That's show business" is definitely often used to say "it sucks but that's how things are", but "show business" as a whole is also used to say "this is how the top tier does things, pay attention".

Maybe another way to describe it is: Hollywood ("show business" as a whole, but it leaks into popular media in many ways, thus popular [anything]) has a huge presence in both positive and negative ways.

As usual in idioms, context is extremely important / often more important than the words themselves. "Show business" is a reference to a highly visible and influential segment of [a population], though often devoid of analysis beyond that point.
Isn't it mostly the vector that's different? It's still modified to produce the spike protein, so it's not actually a deactivated coronavirus?
Archived at https://archive.is/iCLF7
I'm in the US and in a very vaccine hesitant and anti-vaccination area (they maybe semantically different but are effectively identical in outcome).
Nothing to do with forth...why do this? Java/javascript was a mistake
Bought my OnePlus 2 in 2016 and after the official software support ended in 2017/2018, I unlocked the bootloader and I'm since running a custom ROM and using it till now. Runs like a charm.
The README mentions Antirez's coding philosophy as being an inspiration:

> This codebase aims to follow in Antirez's tradition of writing beautiful programs, that solve extremely difficult difficult technical problems in the simplest most elegant way possible.

Is something Antirez has talked about himself anywhere? I'm interested to know more, but am not fluent enough in C to understand what makes this code elegant.
Online REST and Soap API Testing Tool
Pfizer’s is officially approved.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
That's what I currently do already but I did notice that I failed to uninstall gcc when looking at the Dockerfile again today so I'm now down to 150MB (after rebuilding). Still not great but better.

Currently my build uses Ubuntu, I'm going to try switching over to Alpine when I get a chance to see how much savings I can claw back.
Do search engines count? If so, that is the one for me.
If the product quality doesn't match its price or it's used, just write an honest bad review. The seller will chase you by e-mail and give you back 50% or even 100% to edit the review. At that point you just temporarily edit it, get the gift card, and then edit the review back to the honest review.

And then you have yourself a good deal on a used product.

All we need is some AI to automate the above process and make a one-click interface to get discounted used stuff for 0%-50% of the price.
ObjC is more dynamic than people think. See things like swizzling and non-fragile instance variables. ObjC object orientation is closer to what folks on Java and C# consider the job of reflection.
77% still quite a bit better than flu vaccines (40-60) but not nearly as good as some like measles (~97). They basically eradicated polio but that was 99-100% after three doses.
The Pharmacist wording his question if I had previously received a Moderna shot instead of any covid vaccination at all makes me wonder if it was a nod to people looking for a vaccination most effective at the time.
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My 70 year old father in-law would disagree, but he took quite good care of himself and even with a touch of polio and two metal hips, he's still outpacing some half his age.

Being "old" isn't an excuse for looking shabby. Downvote me to hell.
Samsung have improved by committing to security updates for at least 4 years.

This is confirmed as my 2017 galaxy s8 is still getting security updates this year.
>I'd like to know the average lifespan of an iPhone

Not Lifespan, but average upgrade cycle of iPhone is roughly 3.5 years. If you consider a not small percentage of user upgrade their mobile per their contract cycle, the median of iPhone usage is roughly 4+ years.

>But I don't see any Android devices over 2 years old in the wild, ever.

I dont know if that is true. Most data suggest Android keep their phone 3 - 4 years as well.
If someone steals your AirTagged device, after it's away from whatever you paired it with for a while, it'll start beeping, which will quickly alert the thief that they need to find the AirTag and throw it out. So I don't think AirTags were meant to deter theft; I think they're just there to help people find stuff they've misplaced.
The old expression was "If You Build a Better Mousetrap the World Will Beat a Path to Your Door"

Now if you build anything that stores data online, the spies and grifters will beat a path to it.

Thanks for letting me know I'm not paranoid enough. I hate learning it, but do appreciate it, just the same.
If context is important then how many people go out in thunderstorms and how many of those shootings were justified?
You could coat the backside of a pane of glass with this. In fact, why not just cover your roof with mirrors, as that is effectivly what is created.
A better solution would be to tap into an input like HDMI using RPi or Nvidia SBCs & existing software like OpenELEC or OSMC. You can lockdown telemetry with Pi-hole/firewalls or just not allow the TV to hop onto WiFi since your input source would be the one needing network access.
77% is the effectiveness against hospitalization. Effectiveness against infection and transmission tends to be lower. To stop the spread, what matters is effectiveness against transmission. And since there are animal reservoirs for COVID, it will not be eradicated.
> In more detail: if your private keys ever leave your computer via the network, it's a good idea to consider your private keys compromised and to burn them and create new ones.

Why such a rigid rule? What if I backup the private keys online, after encrypting them, using software that’s known to be secure? I guess my question is also about how to manage things when the private key stored locally is lost.
> do you cut off whole university campuses because someone's "smart" coffee machine is participating in a ddos

How about: use IPv6, and cut off just the coffee machine.
I half-joked on Reddit that folks in Atherton or Palo Alto might do it just to troll their neighbors. Not every rich person likes every other rich person; if you've had a rocky relationship, what better way to get even than to make your uptight neighbors live next to a bunch of ordinary people?

You'd have way better liquidity too. It's hard to sell a $15M estate. It's significantly easier to sell a pair of nice duplexes, each on 1/2-acre lots with double ADUs on each. You could probably get more than $15M in total for them too, since 8 units with an Atherton zip would rent for a pretty penny.
Won't the AirTag start beeping if your bike is stolen (that is, if the tag is away from your iPhone for too long)? I think that will alert them much better than this app will.
The 4.6 is telling you it's great for being less than 100 dollars not that it's a great overall. Few options in the 100 dollar space are going to give you OS updates for years but every single one will have crap hardware.

As for other places it has a 4.5 or higher at every place I see on Google shopping including target and best buy.

You wouldn't rate a McDonald's a 1 star because it was shit compared to the steakhouse down the street you'd rate it based on how it performed against similar competition.
I've had this exact dream and it's one of my favorites as well! It feels like bunny hopping in source engine games.
Isn't it already illegal in most places to put tracking devices on people without their knowledge?
I have several Aukey products that I quite like (mostly GaN stuff), and they came shipped in nicely designed packaging to boot (similar to Anker). It’s a bummer for them to get removed as they were one of the few brands I trusted (ravpower too) not to burn down my house amid the mountain of other crap in the Amazon listings similar products. So it feels like consumers get punished because brands are forced into the prisoners dilemma of review fraud when the underlying problem is just crap products clogging up the listings? Neat.
I'm pretty comfortable declaring that creating a mutable-by-default date, string, or number library is a mistake. I'm not on the make-all-the-things-immutable train but making dates mutable is a painful mistake that Java painfully worked through with JSR-310, the new date and time library.

Part of the problem is that moment would both mutate the underlying object and return the object.

const a = moment()
const b = a.add(1, 'second')

Both b and a are now the same object. I've lost a few hours to the design choice.
Temporal isn't fully stabilized yet. There's a polyfill, but it may still get breaking changes down the line. We're waiting on the polyfill to stabilize before switching.
I remember here apple employees truly believed in apples environmental mission, but could not resolve their cognitive dissonance in how apple actually operates. Big lithium batteries, significant incentives for whole device replacements when inexpensive design defects or damage require repair. And apples incredible, evil efforts to thwart the consumers ability to get the most life out of their products. Apple pays senators and city councilors to vote against right to repair, btw. They hire PR companies that will make false testimony and meet with your leaders behind closed doors. Commonly called "corruption".

Apple is the wealthiest company in the world, and if truly innovators could make their environmental goals a reality. Sadly, it's marketing, like everything else. It's about the fastest and coolest car, and always has been.
Why haven't consumers stopped buying?
I work for a DDoS prevention provider, and business is booming at the moment.

I'm not a salesman nor do I care that much about the company, but seriously, let someone handle this stuff for you. There are at least a handful of us left, and we are good at what we do, generally.
I didn’t dive deep into this code but what I would assume makes this elegant is that it is mostly declarative/lookup style with only a little imperative code where necessary. This style doesn’t use fancy tricks/hacks and instead uses lookup tables where necessary to encapsulate logic.
How come the js-joda library is never mentioned in discussions about javascript date/time libraries? its API is perfect and it has been around forever. but instead the community seems to keep inventing more and more new datetime libraries. i don't understand why js-joda seems to be ignored

https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/
Can’t realistically inspect dozen random products from Amazon each day and never let an AirTag slip. They stream from home with an iPhone for face tracking so accuracy will be nothing short of ideal.
Somebody could probably build a tiny, more ergonomic library on top of the Temporal foundation. The original Date implementation made the mistake of trying to be too high-level as a language primitive, and we can see where that got us. I can definitely understand the authors not wanting to make the same mistake again; I think it's well and good for the platform primitives to favor being comprehensive and unopinionated over being ergonomic or easy to use.
2015 was when phones became "good enough" - the galaxy S6 of that era had 3gb ram, 1440x2560 display, decent camera, 301 Mbps LTE, etc.

Sure newer phones are better, in particular low light cameras, but most apps outside of latest games still run fine on the S6.
A “Participatory Public Space” Revolution Transforming a Russian City
They have an aarch64 cache iirc. Not an 32 bit arm cache. There are several variants.
PayPal Content Moderation
What has that got to do with me saying I can afford to spend that much on rent?
I'd be very surprised if the long term cognitive effects of HSV were greater than HIV even with modern drugs.
After hearing about the investigation I ordered one as a joke and it was actually available. The location has not had a working McFlurry at any time I've been there since 2018. It would seem that McDonald's has started allowing local franchises to fix the machines themselves instead if waiting for a repair tech from corporate
Author is missing one key point. Metal (as well as other underground music-centered subcultures) is counter-culture first, not a specific ideology. What it goes against depends on surrounding mainstream.

Another good example is hippies in West and USSR at the time. While West hippies were left-leaning, USSR hippies were anti-USSR. Many of them, especially in non-Russian parts of USSR, had quite a bit of nationalistic sentiment too.
For those wondering what drives real estate prices, there's a look at the most expensive ZIP code in the US, 95027, a/k/a Atherton, CA:

The town’s ascendance stems largely from its single-family zoning, 1-acre-minimum lot sizes, flat land, streamlined permits and changing buyer demographics — which have translated into soaring house sizes and skyrocketing prices.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Here-s...

If you want abundant, affordable housing, invert at least those first two conditions:

- Multi-family zoning

- Small lot sizes

Flat land and streamlined permits for denser housing will also help.

Mostly, though, you've got to build. And tax land values to keep that from appreciating with no end.
It's also optional though, Costco membership isn't.
So is the 77% comparable to the effectiveness of polio vaccine? Or has the meaning changed. If a lot of these vaccines leave people walking around with no symptoms but still infectious it's a miracle they ever eradicate anything. It's starting to make sense why most diseases are still around actually.
Adding two binary numbers of any size
Predictor of learning to code is language aptitude – not math/cognitive ability
I like to say that mutable state is to software as moving parts are to hardware (https://kristiandupont.medium.com/mutable-state-is-to-softwa...).

It's not always the best (or even an) option, but it does spare you some concerns.
To my knowledge there's also ways to integrate network observability tools (like kentik) to automate this to a degree, for those that are big enough or DDOS events are common enough that is useful to do so.

I imagine getting paged because of a DDOS is slightly easier when it's telling you it already null routed a few IPs so the rest of your network isn't screwed and you just have to identify how problematic those specific IPs being out of service is and whether you need to take action or wait for them to get bored.
Unlike my eyeballs that can see an expensive bike in the range of the airtag transmission.
Why would you shop at Amazon as a non-prime member? If you're going to be sold knock-offs and returns sold as new products, you might as well get some videos and movies to watch for the hastle.

Edit: you can also find a friend with a Costco membership and go with them. It's not like it's that exclusive.
Some people are disabling the speaker by opening the airtag and and removing its connection.
The paychecks can of course be prolonged indefinitely, if you agree to play their game with their rules. And depending on your situation of course it is useful to prolong the paychecks. I'm not saying quit, but consider that there is a cost also associated with staying which is that you can not do your best but have to spend time and energy to learn to "play the game by their rules".
Well, you're one for three. Beijing and Peking are different romanizations of 北京. It is not true that beijing is pinyin and peking is Wade-Giles, nor is it true that they are pronounced the same way.

Wade-Giles would be pei-ching. (Pinyin is indeed beijing.)
Same. Rarely do I ever get anything bad. But then mostly what I'm ordering are brands like the Bialeti 9 cup Moka pot gaskets I just ordered or the GE brand cast iron griddle top for our gas stove. Stuff I can't get locally.
Good design is Heaven

Great design is Hell
I can run in dreams, but more agile motions fail me: jumping over a small fence, fighting someone. Then it's like either there are lead weights attached to my feet, or my arms and legs are like those of rag dolls. Don't respond to my commands well. Ironically, flying is much easier.
Another solid argument for serious copyright reform.

It's not only 19th Century Germany that's demonstrated that ready access to information by many is one of the best ways to develop a country but it's been paralleled by China who has only paid lip service to copyright for decades. That's been demonstrated over and over in recent years.

I'd go as far as to say that if the US doesn't seriously reform copyright and patent law it'll not only fall behind China but will fall so far behind that in decades to come it'll become just an also-ran.

Look at it this way, when quality textbooks can cost anything upwards of $200 - $300 due to controlled monopolistic markets then many are deprived of access to the information they contain. I'd even put myself in that class, I can't afford books at that price and I know many others can't either.

I'm not against reasonable copyright and patent law but what we have now is not reasonable by a long shot. As I see it, these laws are only benefiting a few and they're having a disproportionate negative effect on the economics and wellbeing of the country.

Incidentally, one of the worst aspects of these laws is how easily they allow opportunistic people/organizations to lockup information that was once in the public domain by artifice and subterfuge.
Immutability may enable compiler optimizations, but it also requires copying things around or applying clever tricks so performance isn't too bad.

There are times for immutability, and times for mutability. You have to be careful for different things.
How many of those companies actually put atmospheric carbon back in the ground, sequestered in a form that it stable for at least a couple of generations? As far as I'm aware you either pay for some trees not being cut down (for how long?) or you pay for measures that prevent carbon emissions by e.g. subsidizing more efficient cooking stoves. Both methods are not completely useless (which I why I said "mostly"), but they're not really unburning the fossil fuels I used. They also don't scale very well.

I'm actually looking for ways to offset my emissions, so I'd really appreciate some pointers if you're familiar with the space.