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I don't disagree with anything you've said. My core point was that process, of whatever form, is right and necessary.

I've seen things go wrong due to no process and I've seen things go wrong due to inappropriate process, and any process applied poorly.

The process isn't the evil, it is poor leadership, regardless of the process that kills projects.

Different projects in different industries, with different software IC contributor types calls for different leadership ... and I've used Scrum and others successfully as tools in that leadership.

Blaming tools (like scrum) or any tool blaming I feel is immature and scapegoating.

Granted my original post was a touch inflammatory, partly out of frustration.

I made my living repairing under performing teams and good processes top to bottom are the number one thing I've found that stabilises things and turns it around.
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And I'd bet a hefty sum that even after they ban you, they continue collecting and selling any data they can still collect from the app installed on your device.
Baby steps... Baby steps...

Seriously, though. My mother, well in her 60's and far from being a tech-savvy person, managed to install Element and login to her account simply by following the instructions on the email I sent her when I signed her up. The whole thing with saving recovery key is a bit confusing, but not a showstopper.

I don't get why people need to act like they can't even try a different service.There was life before WhatsApp, there can be life without it. Worst case scenario, you tried something new.
Zillow. And yes, that happened. But also it ended, and if that was a significant factor I would have expected to see an impact in housing prices when they exited the market. Instead it made absolutely no difference.
Tesla doesn't have it. Many other automakers do offer that functionality on their luxury lines.
Before office work was the norm, what was this "second place?"

Churches, probably? Taverns?
> Surgery for appearance or comfort

I'm kind of a sweaty guy so I got miradry in my arm pits. They lasered out something like 80% of my sweat glands under my arms and it makes a big difference. I don't sit somewhere feeling absolutely disgusting worried that I stink. You can do it for your hands too if you have sweaty palms. Cost me like $2000.

I'm going to start some hair treatments here soon because it's getting thinner than I like up top
Wait till you meet someone who is creative. These people are even rarer, and their solutions to problems tend to be like holy shit how can someone even think in that direction??

The one I knew actually had hugely novel solutions but was forgetful and absent minded.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31650398
The point of the 1997 article was to show that even before Smart TVs and advertising revenue existed monitors were still more expensive than TVs, so nothing changed.

Your parent post implied that if advertising revenue wouldn't exist, TVs would not be much cheaper than monitors.

There are cheap no-name TV producers in China which sell ultra cheap TVs without them making any advertising revenue.

I don't deny that ad revshare is very lucrative, but it's not the reason TVs are cheap. You can have them both, sell TVs at tiny margin above production cost and get extra ad revshare.
TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if Japan just locked a lot more people up in institutions.
why not ? it is a very good way to test your backup. Aaa, you don't have any ? Bad luck / s
This is really fascinating. If the fed was going to swoop in and buy mbs then I'd shrug this off. But the fed is 4 days a way from its first mbs roll off in many many years, ie the opposite direction.

The fed is closer to capitulating then people think. Almost certainly this year, maybe next quarter.

When they do, the musical chairs stop and the chairs are hard assets.
I will no longer engage in philosophical discussions about conscious AI
https://pointerclicker.com/best-dumb-tv/ Search “dumb tv” at hn, there’s a post with 600+ comments and tons of option
There another issue I've seen with all the forced estimation that gives questionable values to the business.

When devs overestimate they then tend to take the extra time to overengineer the solution, and when they underestimate they tend to take on technical debt to make the very arbitrary deadline.
This strikes me as unnecessarily defeatist
With the amount of memory these days, the whole SQLite db would be cached in memory. Read heavy application is not a problem at all.
Is there a proper term or category for a monitor meant for high end installations that has no branding on it (e.g., as one would put into a display at a museum)?

I refuse to buy something with a logo on the front of it.
"Prior art" for this is DNS block lists (DNSBLs).

Typically these are used like this: your mail server gets an SMTP connection from some address (let's use the familiar IPv4 example): 10.20.30.40.

You reverse these octets and do an "A" record dns query to some 40.30.10.10.dnsbl.example.com to look up that IP in example.com's list. If a match is returned, the address is listed. If you do a "TXT" record query, you can find out why it's listed.

Block lists are typically blacklists, but they can be whitelists as well.

DNSBL's are hammered with queries from vast numbers of mail servers; DNS keeps things efficient.
They've been accused of silently pushing updates to fix specific scenarios in order to gaslight the regulators.

Imagine an airbag incorrectly deployed sometimes, and the fix was to use a GPS geofence disable the airbag entirely on the test track, but only on days when the regulator was trying to reproduce spurious airbag deployments, not on crash test days.
Churches, pubs, town squares
Just don’t connect it to your WiFi, and instead use an Apple TV. It’s far better than any built-in UI and I like the airplay integration as well.
Didn't stop Google from turning the top third of all Android-based TVs' UI into ads a while back.

People weren't pleased that their $4000 Sony TVs were turned into a spam conduit, but Google was quite pleased to say FU.
It seems like the test suites for these deep learning based models are themselves almost comprehensive knowledge bases from which you could build a more traditional control software.
Everyone else is guessing how may "fork" commands to throw out the OS. The OS itself has much more information at its disposal about what resources are being used, where the bottle necks are etc.

An elegant design on doing this in userspace probably boils down to going well on the awy to making a micro kernel.
To counter your counter and to refocus the point on the potential improvements for the NHS. I think the parent is correct with regard to the NHS there are a lot of issues with it. And with meaningful consequences for people's health and well-being, but having followed discussions about it there seems to be an overt focus on comparisons to America and American healthcare costs.
The UK and by extension the discussions on issues with the NHS would be better served by comparing and looking at healthcare costs and outcomes of other neighbouring peer countries. Such as the Netherlands or France. Or even further afield in the likes of Singapore.

Note, I'm neither from the UK nor America, and looking in from the outside this aspect of the UK discussion comparing and contrasting with America seems to be the wrong idea.
It is their private property, and they have an inherent and fundamental right to decide who they want to allow on it.
> This strikes me as unnecessarily defeatist

How so? I think it's just a realist view. What alternative would you suggest?
The NHS has been unable to send an ambulance to me in two separate cases in which the operator confirmed I was high priority.

5 years apart. Once in York, once in Bedfordshire.

But it doesn’t matter —- it’s anecdata.

The NHS has a lot of data available. Some is public, some available only to those that have a commercial relationship with them.

There are areas in which the NHS is exceptional — generally those areas which require no personalisation of care and a mass-production style of work (e.g. cervical smear tests and their associated health outcomes) - and then there are the many areas in which it really is appalling.

Lionising the NHS doesn’t help it. Opening discussing its faults does.
One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring it up as a talking piece.

https://people.rit.edu/meseec/
This is the Karpathy that gave a big talk about how vision was superior to radar when Tesla dropped all radar units at the height of the chip crisis. Now they are bringing radar back.

Give it a few years and they will probably introduce LIDAR.
Blow is not any less confrontational and opinionated himself so I’m fine with it.
https://c82.net/
https://fabiensanglard.net/
https://paulstamatiou.com/
https://www.arun.is/
https://ciechanow.ski/
https://simone.computer/
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
>I know Sheldon; he believes it's a crime to teach people determinants.

Any way to explain to a lay person why?
Build your own airplane. This is a fine tradition that is more common than most people realize. Also possible in many other countries besides the US. Your local EAA chapter should have many resources to help you along the way.
Strang has a newer book aimed at being more approachable and tying in a preview of deep learning and other modern topics. I like it a lot.

“Linear Algebra for Everyone”

https://math.mit.edu/~gs/everyone/
Prefer "learning" rather than "remembering." I prefer learning by doing and teaching others which coincide with the best ways to learn something and be held accountable. I don't remember where I first learned about learning but this pyramid gives a quick breakdown of which methods work best for retention [1].

[1] The Learning Pyramid: https://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/02/26/the-learning-pyram...
>Been trying to merge the concepts of business and punk somehow since. I'm sure something will pop out soon haha

I feel like the concept of punk would want to beat the concept of business with a tire iron, set it on fire and toss it out of a window, but good luck.
I am worried that guardian was a newspaper.
simple, unassuming and straight to the point, no question

http://y9k.xyz/
Yes, in the same way that taking down an active gunman with a loaded weapon is future crime prevention.
That is because there was a _huge_ outcry against it back in the day. As I recall it, several states outright outlawed it.
Ironic that comments are false-positive banned in a discussion about false-positive banning.
> Run for office

Many counties and cities also have boards that normal citizens can join. It's usually not too hard to get on it if you can make a good case like "I live in the community, this is important to me, I have experience in this area." Good thing to do if you don't want to get as involved as running for office. You also might meet some important people in local government
It depends on if that aligns with your management's views. In aws, ive seen teams spend some effort on keeping their backlog low (but no zero) since if it balloons out of control you know you're gonna get called out on it.

i recall a team that had all its feature releases struck down for the coming year so they would work through their backlog.

Opinions are my own, bla bla bla
I got a projector. No "smart" bullshit, branding issues, or other obnoxiousness.
> I wonder, what about this makes a native code compiler difficult, is it because most programs protect against this sort of behaviors? or that programs are stored in read-only memory?

Say you're trying to "translate" a Uxn program into x86 code. The easiest way to do this is by going through each of the instructions in the program one by one, then converting it to an equivalent sequence of x86 instructions. (There is a little complexity around handling jumps/branches, but it's not too bad.)

But if the Uxn program is allowed to change its own code at runtime, that kind of conversion won't work. The Uxn program can't change the x86 code because it doesn't know what x86 code looks like--it only knows about Uxn code. There are some ways around this, but either they're really slow (eg by switching back to an interpreter when the Uxn code has been modified) or much more complex (eg a JIT compiler) or don't work all the time (due to the halting problem).
A colleague of mine discovered his air monitoring device companion app was uploading to their website along with a map pin on his precise address. He wasn't too happy about that
Clearly _both_ the PRC and ROC are successors of pre wwii China. The Civil War ended (regardless of lack of formal treaty) and the result was that China split in two pieces.
In most english translations the tower of babel was struck down by god because it represented the ability of humans to challenge the power of god. If we are indeed building a tower of babel that's cool, it means that "nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them."¹

The comment you're replying to is not defending the explosion of complexity but pointing out that we resent it precisely because we find ourselves dependent on it. The article is pointing out that we tend to take bad or counterproductive paths when we try to free ourselves from that complexity though.

¹https://www.bible.com/bible/2016/GEN.11.NRSV
But they're very happy to talk to people. Loneliness is one of their main struggle most of the time.
Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems
This sounds right up my street. My crappy smart TV is the worse. I went searching and this warning stood out:

> Legal Disclaimer To California Residents
>WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Styrene and Formaldehyde (gas), which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, and Lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.p65warnings.ca.gov
The article says they're using a 1 second threshold, not 5, and that a substantial number of accidents fall between the two numbers.
> I miss offices in reasonable locations. Instead they're all in the same 6-8 cities...

The majority of the US population lives in the same 6-8 metro areas; so it's "reasonable" to put offices in those metro areas. I've worked at places with offices in downtown areas (short public transit ride or walk), in close suburbs (the extent to where public transit goes), and in remote suburbs (that require driving to get there), and the further away from city centers they are, the more brutal going to them is unless you already live in or relocate to the sleepy suburb the office is in (and then you still need to spend a not-insignificant amount of time driving, even for going places that are not your office, because suburbs are not, almost by definition, navigable without a car).

> Please create small satellite offices in reasonable cities instead of mega campuses

Do a lot of large companies have "mega campuses" in city centers? That doesn't make much sense, a campus requires a significant amount of land, land which is not available in city centers. Google's "mega campus" in the Bay Area is in the suburban part of the Bay Area (in as much as the Bay Area is mostly suburban sprawl anyway), and has "satellite offices" in downtown areas because that's where a lot of the employees live. I suppose Salesforce Tower could count as a "campus" if it's heavily populated with Salesforce employees, although I don't think one thinks of Salesforce Tower when the term "campus" comes up. Maybe the handful of buildings around Salesforce Tower that contained Salesforce employees could be considered a campus in aggregate (generally, a single building does not make a "campus").

Going into a small satellite office and interacting with most coworkers remotely is not really much different than working from home and interacting with coworkers remotely. You get the burden of going into an office without any advantages of in-person interaction. However, one of the reasons I miss having a dedicated office is that I have found that having a different place to work than my house does wonders for my general heads-down productivity and work-life balance, but that's independent of the many other advantages and disadvantages of having a communal, shared space where people working on the same thing can congregate.
I think the better metaphor might be patching a known day-zero exploit quickly instead of waiting for a full year test cycle (during which the full install-base is vulnerable).
Notes.app is absolutely invaluable to me now, and has well over a thousands entries. It has photos, links and many are shared. I wish I could remember it all.

I’ve been planning to migrate to bear.app for a long time, but have never made the leap.
> who see paid street parking as unethical per se.

why?
I could try to dig out my college reading list (it was actually Plymouth Polytechnic - that's Plymouth, Devon, UK) but it was 30 odd years ago. Things have moved on a bit but not too much.

Do you have a general interest in Civil Engineering or a particular project in mind?
I've worked for 15 different companies, and 13 of those had a standup. And of those 13/13 were a status report.
> AirPods would randomly "cut out" for a couple of seconds for seemingly no reason

It is for this sort of reason that I prefer dumb analog devices such as headphones to "smart" devices with as lot of complexity built in. Also, they're cheaper.
Context: I see a bunch of people here recommending SQLite. I have a suggestion, try out LMDB. It's kind of like noSQL SQLite. It's a simple in-process K/V store with a few features like compound keys that allow you to model relational data well enough.

I recently used lmdb for webhighlighter.com (specifically the wrapper: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-lmdb), and it was a fantastic decision.

A lot of people here say "use SQLite for small projects". But even using SQLite can be significant over-engineering. Running migrations? Writing SQL? That's too much effort for me.

For example: In my application, people can leave comments on a (what is effectively) a post. A SQL-native solution might have a table for comments, with foreign keys to post IDs. That's 10x more engineering then I want to do for an MVP. I just store all the comments as an array on a post. This means reads read all the comments and writes require reading all the comments, appending, and then re-writing. That's totally fine, and will probably scale me to 100x my current traffic.

LMDB-JS is great. It allows you to serialize arbitrary JS objects to LMDB using the message pack encoding system. This makes for some super concise code.

Here's my entire data layer:
- Interface: https://github.com/vedantroy/grape-juice/blob/main/site/app/...
- Implementation: https://github.com/vedantroy/grape-juice/blob/main/site/app/...

TL;DR -- I won't use SQLite, for, I don't know, my first 10K users?
Yes! Targeted DoS is one way to force traffic to your evil exit node, and also to attack onion service anonymity (by forcing the service to choose a new guard).

The 10/90 attack you're describing is probably not feasible due to monitoring by the network team. Those remaining unaffected nodes would be easy to spot as malicious relays and get removed from the netwotk.
>> They're flying by the seat of their pants, introducing potentially lethal regressions in every update.

>> What is this evidence?

Without a documented development and testing program, every development is essentially this.
At the risk of sounding like an utter moron, is anybody else struggling to pay (option to add name and address to the payment card are greyed out?)
You might want to search for "Public Display" monitors. Although these usually have some smart-ish software used to run digital signage and stuff, they probably don't spy on you.
This exact thing happened when I created a Facebook account so I could see our company's Facebook ads. It was a brand new account, no activity at all, and now I can't see or manage our ads even though they're running.

It's awful. This is why I would never, ever buy a product that requires a Facebook account to use it (coughOculuscough).
So, the rest of the industry has at most one fatality? How does that change the conclusion?
I just don't want more government regulation, we have enough
PlainTextSports.com is just amazing!!
Is there a mistake in Figure 2? It looks like myResults is captured, but the capture is never used?
I relate to this completely. Having lived in three countries now, I find it difficult to pin down one as my _identity_. Also, the fact that these borders have been drawn arbitrarily doesn't help my predicament much.
This mechanical watch explanation: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
You're always in someone's walled garden. Didn't someone get their domain seized by Cloudflare the other day?

There is no technology in the world that isn't vulnerable to this sort of thing. The only way out is legislating against companies cutting you off without reason or recourse.
Make notes, in private and in public.

I have a private "notes" repo on GitHub where I keep notes in the issues (the repo itself is empty). Any time I'm trying out a new piece of software I open an issue there, then add notes on the issue comments as I figure things out.

I use GitHub issues because they have excellent backups and they show up on GitHub search - plus there's a really good API which I use to periodically export and backup my notes elsewhere.

If something fits the TIL format, I'll turn my notes into a TIL and publish them on https://til.simonwillison.net - that site uses the markdown format as GitHub issues, so publishing a TIL that started out as an issue comment only takes me a few minutes.
I’ve been meaning to try bear.app for this reason. Have never got past notes.app though.
Arngren is amazing. When I was UX lead at a big e-commerce retailer I spent a lot of time looking at that site.

You might also enjoy Yvette’s Bridal Formal. It’s the good, old, weird, outsider art web that you just don’t get now. Didn’t really get it then either but this is something special.

https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/links.html
Assuming you're talking about the "collapse of civilization" talk, I think the primary appeal is that he's confirming the feeling many of us have that software, particularly user-facing software on personal computers, is going downhill. And I use that metaphor deliberately, because it reminds us that things get worse by default, unless we put in the work to counteract the relevant natural forces and make things better.

Whether he has any real solutions to the decay of modern software is, of course, another question. It makes intuitive sense that, since previous generations were able to develop efficient and pleasant-to-use software for much more constrained computers than the ones we now have, we can gain something by looking back to the past. But those previous generations of software also lacked things that we're no longer willing to give up -- security, accessibility, internationalization, etc. That doesn't mean we have to settle for the excesses of Electron, React, etc. But it does mean that, at least for software that needs qualities like the ones I listed above, we can't just go back to the ways software used to be developed for older computers. So, I think you're right about the danger of nostalgia.