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I'll tell you straight up, right now, that the parent poster is correct. I, like you, tend to roll my eyes at the "everyone should work in <xyz>" proclamations, but the parent is correct.

Nothing goes right in a busy kitchen. Every assumption you might have about your upcoming shift is thrown out the window. A busy kitchen is absolutely a meritocracy. There's no racism, no views on drugs and alcohol. You are 2 secs away from lighting your hair on fire, or stepping in a boiling vat of water or grease and headed to the urgent care.

You'll learn fast about being on the bottom, on the top, leadership, procrastination, laziness, scheduling, stock, product, financials, you name it.
Did you already have some sales experience before joining the startup?
Ask HN: Open-source with great code setup and contribution documentation?
In theory yes. Ultimately they need to be in the hands of someone who cares (which in theory the auction accomplishes). Hundred year old books and manuscripts need to be stored in the proper conditions or they deteriorate quickly. My animation cels are in cabinets that control temperature and humidity.
People use far more water than they should and water is much cheaper than it should be. $25 in water could very well be this much, you'd have to check your bill to see what volume you use.
You might be right, though I'd still say that seems like a lot of water...
Moreover, daily standups, billed as lightweight, low key check-ins,
have become, for some workers, exercises in surveillance.
Particularly when work is decomposed into small parts, workers feel
an obligation to enumerate every task they’ve accomplished. There’s
also pressure for every worker to justify their worth; they are,
after all, employees, who need to be perceived as earning their
salaries.

This is a great summary about how I feel about "agile": it's patronising and anxiety inducing. The degree to which is a function of the technical and social abilities of whoever's calling the shots -- the PM, SCRUM master, whatever -- but, of course, their steering is necessary, regardless. Leaders with strong technical chops and high emotional intelligence exist, but are rare, I think.

Similarly, this is why I don't believe that a fully egalitarian group of engineers would work, either: All skill and no direction doth not a project make. Besides, true egalitarianism doesn't really exist. Some will be stronger than others; some will have weaknesses that are complemented by colleagues (hence the value of diversity); some will be brazen, while others shy. Inevitably, a de facto leader will emerge. In my experience, often the loudest, rather than the most effective.

Building complex software is a social problem more than a technical one.
Location: Seattle, WA, US

Remote: Exclusively (open to jobs involving quarterly travel/on-site)

Willing to relocate: Possible if outside of US

Technologies: Typescript, React, Redux, GraphQL, Node.js

Résumé/CV: https://wrenhawth.github.io/resume/

Email: wrenhawth@gmail.com

I'm generally looking for front-end or full-stack opportunities, but I'm a big fan of expanding my capabilities for the right company and problem space.
Finnish Support for NATO Membership Jumps to 76% in Latest Poll
Sugarcane
Remember small claims court. Having just won $600 from a local company that damaged my property, I can say it works!
According to the article, Adobe helped Apple? But threatened to sue Microsoft? I wonder what the details are.

>However, Adobe has freely offered the specifications on PDF to other companies. Apple’s Mac OS X operating system has built in support for reading and saving of PDF files.
The average American uses about 29,930 gallons of water per year[1]. The figure of 326,000 gallons is enough for 3 families of four people. However, water usage varies wildly in the US by region and housing type.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/watersense/statistics-and-facts.
Lol I love the following line from that sketch

> He just highlighted Avatar, he clicked the drop down menu and then he randomly selected Papyrus. Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden yanking leaves along the way.
The Markowitz framework updated: how quants think about investing risk
"I don't even think this is Papyrus. They clearly modified it."

"Whatever they did, it wasn't enough!"
> We all know Java is slow to start up…

More specifically, Clojure —

https://stuartsierra.com/2019/12/21/clojure-start-time-in-20...
Money transmitters are still subject to Reg E and oversight.

The truth is these same things happen with regular bank accounts. If you bounce some checks, or you have a "risky" business even without any chargebacks, the bank will ask for more info and then close your account and keep the money until you prove that you aren't someone else that previously defrauded them, a nearly impossible task. The recourse is mostly the same.
Homes are but a drop in the bucket for water consumption when compared with agricultural use.. Many states still use flood irrigation to water crops.
This definitely isn't enough to make the contract invalid, however you could prove every BNBL business wrong and put them out of business if you find a court that agrees with you.
I haven't heard of or seen a place where that's true. Where are you thinking of? It would be draconian and unrealistic - laws are not written nearly well enough to not require lots of discretion.
>A single person who is taking advantage of the benefits (slacking off) will quickly bring down productivity of the whole team

People are already doing this on-site. Whatever metrics you're using to prevent this kind of behavior should be largely independent from sync/async. There are also individual reasons why one would slack either sync or async. You give an async example. Plenty of school kids know the example of the projects where half the group doesn't do anything, even when they are together.
> Waterfall seems like a strawman to me.

Waterfall definitely existed. I've been at places that worked that way. I think Agile (and corruptions of) have replaced waterfall well enough that people no longer think it used to exist.
>But when you have 30 teams of N devs, then the monolith maybe is not the best idea.

Can you give an example or two of a software product where 30 teams of N devs are working on the same single codebase? Seems hypothetical. Bank/IRS type systems on a mainframe/AS400 maybe.
That's ~900 Gal/Day which sounds pretty high for 1 or 2 households but I suppose if they are large and have large lawns or something it could be reasonable. I would naively think it is closer to 5 to 10 households.
A local firefighter and I were volunteers for our kids' soccer club. He said that he specifically worked on the other side of town because he didn't want to respond to fires or health emergencies that involved his neighbors.

There are definitely some tradeoffs with having police officers or firefighters live and work in the same neighborhood. Does being familiar with the local troublemaker help or hurt the police response? Does going to the grocery store and seeing the family of someone you couldn't save make you feel like staying home? Or maybe you do see the people you did help.
Not really, there are cyclical droughts there, but the flow rate of the Colorado river is currently at about the historical norm.
> I guess it depends what kinds of transactions you are making on the internet

We're long past the time when that kind of excuse can be used by internet companies. They have taken enough market share now from "traditional" companies to be held to the similar standards. We see the billions they make in profits. Let's now see them use some of those profits to provide the service they boast of in their marketing.
U.S. Code § 1507 – Picketing or parading
Torrents were a blessing. it said completed you at least knew it was OK.

Now a days with everything SSL it’s not really an issue. But I do remember getting bad HTTP/FTP downloads before encryption was a “thing”
>The advantages depend on your goals.

Too true. For example if NeRF has any advantage to this application I will be pleasantly surprised [1] [Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020664
If you can tell me the „good“ days+hours I‘ll do ;)
https://github.com/Digital-Markethingz/IsNowAGoodTimeTo-Serv...
There is a board game, in the form of a roll-out playmat and some decks of cards. I don't know if you need to email John Sterman to get it, but it does exist. You also need poker chips or a lot of pennies to represent inventories, and a pen and paper to log how you do.

This is a co-op game made for business school classes, and you won't be able to get the full experience of it unless you enforce the "no talking" rule between each player, and have some other people to compare against.
They are just lazy to type their question, in case you don't happen to be there right now. So if you don't respond quickly, then they save the work of having to formulate the question.
Preview is an underground juggernaut. The app is incredibly versatile, and I've used it as a lightweight replacement for almost everything Adobe
Not if 53’ trailers are banned or restricted inside the city, like the case of NYC as discussed in TFA.
>if that's true it would be nice to stop blaming climate change.

Events can have multiple causes. Whether there are millennia long natural cycles happening doesn't disprove human caused climate change.
> I strongly suspect that some of the new development patterns (I won't name them, because holy wars) were developed specifically to break up projects that are really best done by one or two skilled engineers, into ones done by a fairly large team of relatively unskilled engineers.

I've always thought of microservices (or services) as a way to make your organization rather than your code scale. Past a certain size, you won't have an uniform group of developers. According to Conway's law, this will impact your codebase. Better embrace it in your organization.
Twitter UX in 2022
The Margin Call from Hell
J.G. Bennett: It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.
I prefer Duotrigordle
>Alternate theory: A large-scale, ongoing A/B test

Except "ongoing A/B test" isn't really a thing. The whole point of A/B is to identify and discard the worse of the two. Especially on google scale and this being applied to everyone you'd expect the data to point one way or the other really fast.

This is just straight up dark pattern.
If you take the US average of 138 gallons per day and take that out to a year 1 acre-foot is about 6.5 households but out west you probably get more water usage for lawns and things like cooling which is more likely to use swamp coolers than the rest of the US so it's possible.

[0] 138 gallons per day is a little over 190k L/yr https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=138+gallons+per+day+to+...

edit: 138 figure from here. Just took the google knowledge box answer: https://www.watercalculator.org/footprint/indoor-water-use-a...
As an explanation: Several Firefox projects used to be newbie friendly and had excellent documentation to set up the development environment, and to contribute. (They still probably are.) Are there any projects out there that do this?
The metaphor that comes to mind is "Pacific Rim": we're being attacked by invisible kaiju but we're not building giant robots to fight them because they're invisible. They're saying "let's use radar to locate the monsters and build robots to be ready to fight them".

But the "monsters" are things like floods, wildfires, tsunamis, etc.

> the Hazard Definition and Classification
Review, ... outlined over 300 hazard types that
can contribute to disasters (UNDRR, 2020a). They
include common events such as storms and floods
and also less-frequent events such as pandemics
and chemical accidents.

https://www.undrr.org/publication/global-assessment-report-d...

And the giant robots are things like better communication, insurance, and paying a little attention.
Gasoline has an energy density of about 34.6 MJ/liter... the lithium-ion battery pack in a Chevy Volt has an energy density of about 0.4 MJ/liter.

One of those technologies is easier to develop than the other. Science doesn't need to be deterministic for some fruit to hang lower than others.
The cyclists will adjust, like everyone else. In a dense city, you can't avoid other people; you have to work with and around them all the time. There's no possibility of writing rules for it all. It's a beautiful, dynamic thing.
from a quick google search: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z
So you don’t want to see ads and you don’t want to pay not to see ads? What business model should Google use for YouTube?

But you can always use a prepaid debit card.
I need to join you in this. Unfortunately I like to buy certain things used--vehicles, appliances, outdoor equipment--that is larger and heavier than I care to ship.

So I have a Facebook account, unfollowed everyone, and just use marketplace sometimes.

I wish Craigslist was better here. It gets maybe .1% of the volume marketplace gets, just not even close. I used it extensively in previous areas.
I tell people this is one of those features which is why people are fans of macOS.

Stuff is just part of the system for years and years and we take it for granted when other systems don’t have these kinds of features.
I think maybe the most famous is Brasilia

https://archive.curbed.com/2019/6/7/18657121/brasilia-brazil...
Interestingly, sending crash data to open source projects often results in timely fixes.

Sending them to large software companies does not have the same outcome. But then, that's certainly not a flaw with the format.
That seems like a telephone-d version of the actual factoid? When the Army Corp of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation built dams and resevoirs on the Colorado, they set baseline numbers for those facilities that were overly optimistic because they were doing the work during an unusually wet decade.

I'm not sure how we could even know, with any level of certainty, that there are thousand year drought cycles or how they work. It's true that the Colorado is oversubscribed and the whole Southwest is fairly unsustainable as-is.
NiceHash defeats Nvidia’s GPU crypto-mining limits, does not appear to be a scam
While it was commonly used, it really isn't that good of a book.

Would you believe it doesn't discuss looping structures at all? No repeat, while, for loops.

Last time I looked, for the latest edition of the book, you had to create a timed online account to access the chapters they didn't include in the book anymore. Ridiculous. Use any other book, I'd say.
How to wash chicken in the kitchen more safely, according to physics
No it's not, it's the same type of red tape the UK has selling goods and services to the US, or Japan, or Australia, and that the UK imposes on goods and services bought from the US, Japan and Australia.
If ICs spend only 20% of their time in coding then there must be in an unproductive team and company.
Product owners and managers could easily move tickets and fill excels and notion pages asynchronously.
I really don’t see any important reason for synchronous work other than something has caught fire live.
That does seem like an astonishingly high number, but I guess there is quite a range of water requirements across the country.

To put this in context, it's 10x the water we use in our house in the UK, and I don't think we're particularly low in our water usage (we work out to be around 300 litres a day).
I never had a fast or consistent enough dial-up connection to stream audio. I tried multiple times, but it never worked for me. I'd get maybe 15-30 seconds of contiguous sound, and the whole thing would fail.

I did download MP3s though. A 3mb MP3 file would usually take me approximately an hour. And I downloaded ~3,000 this way.
Reminded me for some reason of mikerowesoft.com - believe the story is that Microsoft sued the guy for infringement and ended up winning. Let's hope a tech company with the name Danblos or something doesn't blow up
What's so complex about this situation? I see no problem with mandating a maximum train length.
No it's not, 10.99 for some reason works for me
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.05.07-020450/https://www.nytimes.com...
Almere broke my child imagination of what a city was. I was very young when Almere got build and I was so confused on how people could build a city in one go. I always thought it would take hundreds of years to develop a city. I always thought cities were the product of generations and generations.. and there I was standing in NL's newest city.

It's not something worth to visit. It's still too sterile. Nobody visits Almere for the city.
One more thing: if you select an area of a pdf, you can copy/paste, retaining vector graphics info. Never seen that in any other app. Works in several other macos apps, too.
PSA, uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock (blocks in-video ads by automatically skipping them via crowdsourced timestamps) exist, as do Vanced for Android (until it dies, could also use NewPipe, a fork with SponsorBlock is available) and SmartTubeNext for Android-based TVs.
Would you rather Google police content and not allow native ads that the content producer includes?
If you're willing please drop me an email (jgc@cloudflare.com) so this can become an internal thread and I can connect with internal folks.
There's also a reason why it's allowed, because it generally is. Rarely have any of those things affected my day, and I appreciate that people allow me, when I need it, to double park.
I've waffled on this a bit. I joined a new company about a year ago, and swore to myself I'd keep work email, slack, etc. off my phone. I eventually caved because my boss expected a certain amount of "presence", and being able to check in and respond from my phone meant I could enjoy my coffee in the morning, run errands, take a walk, or do whatever else without being chained to my laptop.

A better middle-ground might be to have a separate phone, so it's only with me if it has to be. Starting a new job with this setup soon, we'll see how it goes.
You can turn off the part where it logs into the cloud and insert your own logging backend fairly easily.

Also if your research/biz needs are satisfied by sklearn, then why not just use sklearn? But for a lot of NLP systems, BERT is actually really really useful. And if you don't want to use a pretrained BERT, you can easily initialize their BERT implementation randomly and train it on your own data.
Indeed, 5 derailments per day sounds like a lot
I'm thinking a lot about security aspects of this.

If I turn off my iPhone, MacBook, or Google Pixel phone, are they really off?

What are the security implications of "modern standby" on laptops where the CPU and WiFi are always on even after I fold the lid down?
Which poster was claiming that?
Apple has a massive customer experience program, that pervades the company. The trick is to get them to ask you "how likely would you recommend apple" in some form of survey.

A low score, will trigger an alert in their system, and somebody is likely to contact you to try to resolve the issue.

Go to a genius bar if you have to, just to get the follow-up survey.
No, there really aren't. You can mitigate the regressive nature of consumption taxes, but you can't eliminate them.

Fundamentally, poor and middle-class people spend a higher percentage of their annual income on goods and services than rich people do. There just isn't enough stuff that one could ever want to buy (or services to partake in) for rich people to spend the same proportion annually.

The best you'd be able to manage is limiting your consumption taxes to things that only very wealthy people can afford in the first place, like superyachts. But at that point, a) you're not managing to bring in a huge amount of revenue with it, and b) you might as well just raise the higher income tax brackets, or add taxes on wealth over $X amount.
> Professors command high salaries

I guess it depends on what you mean by "high". At most institutions, faculty will make $50K-$60K starting, max out at $100K, and often do not have access to a pension. In many states, you're really better off, financially, as a high school teacher or police officer.

Which, I mean, high school teachers are highly paid by some standards. But saying professors command high salaries on a tech forum where even new grads are probably making more than the average full professor is probably misleading.

> but with proper resources and support students can also be very effective instructors... better than professor-taught classes

1. It really depends on the course; undergrad-lead core courses tend to be a disaster.

2. On that note, there's an important confounding factor: undergraduate-lead courses are often "topics" courses outside of the core curriculum, which naturally attract better feedback than "broccoli and spinach" courses regardless of the instructor. E.g., in CS, a course on game design or crypto will always attract higher ratings than "core" courses like Data Structures or especially Intro Programing.

3. Good faculty do a lot more than teach. And I don't even mean research. Industry relations and job placement are huge value adds of a good faculty member.

There's an important split between courses that need careful pedagogy and courses that really just need engagement. For an intro programming course serving all students, you really need a professional educator who is practiced at going through the slog of helping people understand for loops. Sometimes an undergrad will pass through who could totally teach the course, but that tends to be an exceptional student.

Once you have a bunch of juniors/seniors who know how to program, and assuming you're teaching a course that's primarily about applied programming (eg, not a proof-based CS Theory or Algo course), engagement becomes more important than pedagogy.

Student-lead courses can be great, and ARE often way better than prof-lead courses especially for "applied programming" type courses, but it's probably not feasible to run core major requirements with undergraduate instructors as a steady-state.
And all reports are that YouTube is still barely break even…
I've read both editions, they're not really that different.
Yes, California has had droughts lasting ~220 and ~140 years before.

The findings suggest, in fact, that relatively wet periods like the 20th century have been the exception rather than the rule in California for at least the last 3,500 years, and that mega-droughts are likely to recur.

The South American drought was of "horrendous proportions," said Dr. Kolata, and it destroyed Tiwanaku's agricultural base. The empire's cities were abandoned by about 1000. Dr. Kolata believes that the raised fields could no longer support the cities, and archeological evidence shows that the fields were abandoned between 1000 and 1100. The political state collapsed, the population dispersed and, with agriculture no longer possible, the people relied on raising alpacas and llamas.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/19/science/severe-ancient-dr...
While I don't disagree the battery in them lasts forever. Charge them while you sleep.
I've always used the built-in Image Capture app to do tjr scanning, mainly because the app seems to open automatically when I plug in my USB flatbed scanner.
Snmalloc 0.6 released, major redesign with security hardening