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> Corporate mythmaking extols the cheap desks Bezos et al would construct out of sawhorses and reclaimed doors

I did a 'virtual internship' at Amazon during COVID, and the mythmaking is just as strong of a koolaid at any Muskcorp... these billionaires are the height of hypocrisy (Elon Jet, and Bezo's Yacht contradict thier talking points) but make it a priority that thier underlings must accept as gospel and makie it a talking point in the ethos of what makes these companies what they are.
The only answer to that is: of course I would
Good news. Let us all ban discrimination by any form (e.g intra religious such as sunni/shia) which are not covered by a simple blacklist (which may not be backed by data).
My 14 Pro is at 94%. It was purchased on day 1 availability last year. I charge it daily (overnight). I haven’t noticed those 6% degradation in real life.
Actually, since 13Pro, I noticed my phone could last almost two full days.
Python's static typing still feels very very clunky and bolted on, and tooling around it was rather bad, like mypy. In general I definitely wouldn't say python tooling was good. It's improving rapidly with ruff tho, just as JavaScript when esbuild appeared.
Not just perl, but C/C++/Java as well. Ruby was a competitor to Java JSP development back in the day. And I remember when a lot of Java people jumped ship to Ruby. I moved from C++ to python over a decade ago and never looked back.

Back then, the python jobs were scarce -- but based upon how I picked up the language, many of the typical C++ issues just disappeared -- and I knew it was going to become popular.

One comp sci professor talking at a PyCon years ago made a point that maybe the best college level introductory course probably should not have been SICP based but Python. His example was that for the first time in 5 years of teaching intro courses he had people coming up to him looking to change majors.
First thing I noticed as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle
> How would Python get an active community and ecosystem in the first place, if it languished for a quarter of a century?

Development on Python started in 1989 and it was evidently released in 1991. The popularity didn't take off until well past Y2K. During all those intervening years, it had a small number of users, characteristic of an unpopular language.
As I read the article, it occurred to me that one of the fundamental flaws of modern psychology (and its offshoots such as psychiatry and psychotherapy) is that they all tend toward a solipsistic, individualist treatment of the self. Other than specialized fields like group psychology, psychologists really try to ignore the collectivist aspect to societies; they try to treat one person at a time while ignoring our families, our communities. When they do make efforts at integrating these larger groups in treatment, it's an afterthought, and it's never quite consensual, because, after all, in this world, to treat someone (especially to drug someone) you require their direct consent, and even in couples therapy, there is usually one less-than-willing partner who just accedes to keep things together.
Furthermore, it's always through an attitude of "here is one person who is ill and needs to heal, let's rally around him for his treatment." That is not how it works. People develop mental illnesses oftentimes from traumas and abuse and decades of shame. Therefore, the entire family, the whole community, needs to make efforts at healing if they are to stop this vicious circle. It is not merely one man's problem, it is not one man's responsibility, and it is not one man's shame.

Speaking personally, the genesis of my mental issues is clearly not "chemical imbalance" but rather my relationship to the world. What I heard and saw on TV, my experiences with Mom, Dad, and Sister, my formative years in school and church--with, you guessed it, other people.

I see a lot of pop-psychology YouTube clickbait that goes "Heal your relationships! Here's how!" and I don't doubt that people can take certain action with willing parties and heal certain relationships, but geez, guys, it took me 50 years to get to this point of isolation and alienation, and I alone will never heal relationships that have taken such a beating. It would take collective, cooperative will and action to do so.

Treating one person at a time with these methods is like trying to catch the ocean and dye it green, one drop at a time. It just doesn't make sense. That's only one of many reasons why there are poor outcomes, especially for psychiatry, where they just toss you in a looney bin with lots of other messed-up people, and now that's your community and that's your reality, deal with it.
Macintosh User Group Victoria Journals (1985-1999)
> True, but the main game is similarly plagued by some of the worst cheats I've ever encountered in an online game

Why is it even possible for a player to change the entire map for all players on the server to winter? Why is it even possible to "attach" a helicopter to someone's head? Why is it even possible for players to spontaneously burst into flames, even after dying and respawning?

These are dumbfounding "cheats" that only exist to troll players. I have no idea why the client/server even accepts these environment changes. It seems really easy to prevent...
This is pretty neat.

I bought protobase.org (intending to mean a database of prototypes - in hindsight maybe archebase.org is better lol) to build a site like this that the community could curate and contribute to (wiki style). The goal being that you can look up any piece of the stack (Rails, DynamoDB, Istio, jquery, coffeescript, Laravel, Cassandra, you name it) and get a quick idea of what it is, how it fits into its' own space, how it compares to other tools or competitors, pros cons etc.

Ideally more than just tools - but architecture patterns too. Like, "Event Sourcing" has a page with recipes and cookbooks on various ways to tackle the problem, stacks that could be used, pro's and con's (eventual consistency vs immediate blah blah)

Wondering if something like that would even be possible (the community curated aspect) or if it would just degrade into a never ending turf war.
The US banking world seems to be firmly stuck in the 80s and banks need to be dragged kicking and screaming to implement anything recent, so this doesn't surprise me at all.
The thing is, nothing was done with Meigs for years. Even today there's only a half-assed performance venue of some sort at one end.

And now Chicago has illegally given public parkland on the lakefront to the Obama Foundation to build the "Obama Center," cutting down trees and taking land away from the lakefront park. While the lawsuit over that was in process, I wrote to the Obamas and suggested making a deal with the city to acquire all of Northerly Island to build the Obama Center there, on the condition that the runway be restored and reopened. It would have been perfect. The building planned for the center is even a tower; it could have had been the control tower at the top.

The Obama center is supposed to inspire wonder and hope and ambition, according to their PR, which heavily features children. What's more inspirational than the magic of aviation? Kids love to watch planes. The Obama Airport.

This suggestion was, of course, ignored. Obama lost a huge amount of respect in my book for stealing from the people of Chicago and failing to act on this idea (if anyone even forwarded it). What a lost opportunity for all.

Oh yeah, when Rahm Emmanuel was asked about re-opening Meigs, Mr. Hard-Ass folded and simpered that he didn't want to offend the Daley (crime) family.

Next up on the list of crimes against aviation and The People will be the seizure and destruction of Santa Monica Airport. This one is an even bigger betrayal, since it was federal land deeded to SM after WWII with the condition that it always be an airport. Coincidentally, Obama's lame-duck outgoing FAA administrator, Michael Huerta, struck a secret, illegal, back-room deal with someone in the Santa Monica city council to turn this public airport over to local hack politicians to sell off to developers. The circumstances of this deal have never been revealed, and airport supporters have run out of legal options on contesting it.

This disgusting betrayal of the FAA's duty represents just one more way the USA is going backward and giving up on the ambitions and dreams that made it great. Everything, it seems, is up for a one-time sale for permanent destruction and loss.
>> My question to those who support big brother any lawful but awful speech is - do you really think it won’t be used to silence any dissent of the ruling powers?

My question to those that use this line of reasoning is do you really think a ruling power willing to silence dissent would do so whether or not it is supported?
My company (oil and gas) was originally 90 days but has changed it this year to 1-year. Was happy when this changed over.

When issues would arise I would never have a trail to prove I was asked to do something out of the ordinary.
Oh, another fun fact... Historically, the UK was 240V and Europe was 220V. This was later standardised across Europe as nominal 230V +- 10%, and AFAIK both UK and mainland Europe carried on as they were without actually changing anything!
Not the OP, but I think the mistake many people make is that they assume that the goal is to get the machine pumping out ice cream, without considering that the ice cream might make people sick because the machine wasn’t properly sanitized as well. Hence the regulations and paperwork.
Ahh that explains a lot, I was wondering why there was a lack of reviews but their site has it for sale.
Python is a victim of its own success and versatility.

It has become a better "glue code to solve your problem" than many other solutions and so people want to use it everywhere for everything.

It gets packaged in many different ways because it gets used in many different ways for many different purposes.
I worked at a big international company. We had 30 days, and everybody just saved them on their hard drive as .msg.
Probably Change List https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25716920/what-does-cl-me...
So what if instead of not turning it off because of the radius, we made a giant frickin cantenna and made a more focused beam!
It's good to see common sense upheld by jurists applying case law to hold the line against arbitrary arrest by LEAs over-stepping their authorities.

Now, if police-involved firearms incident data reporting were mandatory because we only know some details of most cases, but there's no national standard. 1055 people were shot by police in 2021 that we know of. How can the public health crisis of violent deaths be addressed if we're unable to scrutinize the data of each incident? Overall, there were 48k firearm deaths in 2021, or 13 / 100k. (variance by state from Massachusetts 3.4 / 100k to Mississippi 33 / 100k)
I tore a rotator cuff when convinced that riding a long board down the street while not in a sober state would be easy. Going downhill of not an impressive hill, and the speed wobble on a board I had been on for 3 minutes suggested time to bail. I didn't roll nearly as well as a younger me would have. Nearly a year sounds about right.
https://archive.is/ja7FV
A New Way to Gather Data: Conversational Surveys
When I was building my last startup, we spent hours per day talking to our customers to gather valuable product feedback, but we found it really time-consuming, and it takes a lot of time from customers' end too. We could send out surveys, but traditional surveys like Google forms are not smart enough to interact with users & ask the right questions to surface the most relevant insights.

That's why we built a conversational survey product. It transforms surveys into engaging conversations - we received higher replies rates with our own product (compared to Google forms), and also gathered much more informational feedback.

We headed down refining the product for a couple months, recently started to send out invites to people for early access. It can be used for customer surveys, internal employee feedback, event feedback, etc. If it sounds interesting, check out here: http://www.gettrove.co/
How are you going to label that their ice cream machine is using generic parts? The whole point of a franchise is that I know what I'm getting. What's the point of a "mcdonalds" brand, when any franchisee can swap out arbitrary components/ingredients as they wish, and I have to carefully assess whether the replacements are up to snuff?
There is also TypedDict, Pydantic, Attrs and dataclasses
This is an accurate explanation.

I started to teach myself Python just before 2000.

The general consensus before then was that for a first language Perl or Python would be a good choice. Python was typically preferred because it was more approachable than Perl i.e more succinct.

With no prior programming experience (besides manually typing out programs into my C64 as a kid) I managed to build a program that connected to my webpage hosted by my ISP and changed a link in a page to point to a web-server I was running on my PC by just referring to the standard documentation.

That’s one point that doesn’t get mentioned I think. The standard documentation was clear and accessible in a variety of formats. Also Python on Windows was very easy to set up.
Now there's https://column.com as discussed here last year:

Column – a chartered bank for developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31109170
then why so concerned about children? you seem to be optimistic about everything else.
If you liked this, do yourself a favor and dig through the author's archive.

Insightful, funny writer who takes a really pragmatic view of his own field in a time of great upheaval. Can't recommend him enough.
When people ask for security holes as features: Privileged execution
I put 100k EUR of Bitcoin into a wallet, but then I lose the private key. There has to be a way for me to recover access to my funds. The only way to do that is to delegate trust to a central authority. Crypto will never, can never, be an alternative to traditional banking for the general population.
Wow, that's a lot of places where human error was able to make things worse.

Particularly the fact that it's possible to use a "subsidiary signal" to just override the problem. The equivalent British scenario calls for the signaller to vocally inform the driver (e.g. today over GSM-R) something akin to "Pass the danger signal at caution, obeying all other signals". This may mean if there are a multiple related failures, you need to "caution" drivers the same way repeatedly - but without that final sentence the driver may ignore signals that are not related to the failure you understood, and passing those really will kill somebody.

The requirement to move "at caution" meaning with the ability to stop on sight means trains under these conditions don't go very fast - they can't, even on straight lines in broad daylight you can't see far enough to go full speed on a passenger train under those rules, but it also means if you screwed up and there is a serious problem the driver under caution can see the problem with enough time to stop. It further ensures there's an incentive not to allow such situations to persist as they presumably must have for Poland to deliberately fit the "subsidiary" lamps.
I was initially skeptical but the superior simplicity and rigor won me over.

protip: nixos lets you use doas instead of (or in addition to) sudo. Since i run obsd serverside and nixos on the edge, this works great for me

programs.doas.enable = true;
Yeah, I guess you’re right. It would be more fair to the defendant to let him specify the damages. After all, he is the only one who knows what harm he intended to inflict. Without that knowledge, how could we establish causation?
You're not free to not associate with people in the U.S. Businesses are not allowed to discriminate against protected classes. This is because businesses are foundational to modern life, so being excluded from them greatly hurts a person. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that we should look to expand such protections to all people for certain services, especially those which are more like infrastructure for modern life. Not saying sites can't have a TOS, but an ISP should have a really good business reason for blocking you(illegal activity, spam).
I wish I could favorite comments. Thanks for sharing this one.
https://archive.is/Ex95m
> How many residential appliances benefit from three phase

You can add: Heat pump, electrical water heater, well pump, ovens.

I lived in both Europe (400V) and Japan (100V).

In Europe I do have an EV charging station 3-phase power with 22KW capacity at home. It does not requires anything special in term of cabling.

And it is enough to reload a Tesla in 4-5 hours, it makes EV ownership a lot easier.

Doing that with the 100V power-grid Japan is simply impossible. Most grid operator will refuse to connect 3 phases power to individuals.
We're off on a tangent, but... I think you're thinking about people who don't really have an addiction (to the internet, or to drugs), but merely indulge more than they ought to and a little bit of moral rectitude they're alright again. If you had met hopelessly, chronically addicted people, the people for whom their addiction has utterly destroyed their life and they're pleading with you for help and they just keep getting worse and worse, I don't think you'd be so quick to say that all you need is individual self-control.

It is not merely the case that, faced with something potentially addictive, you just recall "Just Say No" and bada-bing, no addiction happens. Humans aren't robots. Humans get addicted to drugs and other activities, not just in social situations but also as a coping mechanism for life failures they can't fix, or see no way to fix. It can take years of psychological work to break the cycle of dependence, and in some cases it might not even be possible.

If you have time for a moving speech, listen to Craig Ferguson's monologue on his own alcohol addiction, his path to sobriety, and the constant vigilance needed to maintain it, which he gave rather than joke about Britney Spears' public freakout in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46P7loICXY
The only executive(the CEO) that is pushing RTO(hybrid) moved to New York. Our office is on the West Coast. Ohhh wait, he's in Australia for 6 months... Whoops, back in New York now everybody! Meanwhile, he's remotely "managing" all of us in the office. Apparently.

I see the rest of the executives in the office on and off, some more than others, some very much less.
Signals and Threads: A Poet's Guide to Product Management
Please play it.
https://9revolution9.com/games/gameoflife/
we have 3 years which I still feel is too short and I lose some info I never thought I should save.

90 days seems like just long enough to go oops.. i meant to save that.

should be like 5 days so you are forced to write it down in an alternate location immediately.
https://archive.is/QmnRJ
I don't understand why this would be a serious impediment.

Suppose you go to an online exchange or Bitcoin ATM or local man with a crypto wallet, you hand over five $10 bills or transfer some money from your bank account, you get $50 in cryptocurrency.

Now you go to the adult bookstore's website and don't have to give them your name, you send $20 to your friend in a foreign country so she can get a cab to the airport without having to lose another $15+ to a wire transfer fee, or you just use it to pay for parking.

Even if you screw up entirely, the most you're out is $50. But then nobody is tying your literature preferences to your name, you can do your friend a favor more efficiently, and the credit card company doesn't have a database of where and when you park your car.

The trust issues come when you want to be a speculator holding a large amount of wealth in a form someone could steal by breaking into your computer, but what does that have to do with using ordinary amounts day to day as a currency?
Of course it's an opinion. Anytime somebody says something, it's his/her opinion.

My opinion, for example, is that I agree with his opinion :-) My solo-founder business would not have been possible without Clojure and ClojureScript, which is a testament to the "power" of this language. I consider it "powerful", because it lets a single developer write and maintain a complex app over the years. It gives me power.
> Very simply, every "a fetus is a person and the state should force it to be carried to term" is no different from "if a person needs a kidney or they will die, and you are a match for that person, then you are required to give them your kidney".

Not sure if you're intentionally referencing Judith Jarvis Thompson's most famous (and in my opinion, greatest) essay with this comparison, but yeah, this is a common metaphor. The sick violinist and all.

But I think you may be discounting the role of viability too quickly, both in theory and in practice: in theory, because some bioethicists (I can't remember if JJT specifically falls into this camp, it's been a while) draw a distinction between terminating a pregnancy and actively destroying a fetus. They'd argue that it's fine to remove a gestating fetus from your body, but not so fine to tell the doctor performing the d&c "and make sure it's good and dead afterwards!" Under current medical practice, there's no practical difference between removal and "killing," simply because it's impossible for an underdeveloped fetus to survive outside the human womb... for now... dot dot dot...

And in practice, because fetal viability is often used to draw abortion boundaries in more permissable jurisdictions who don't restrict it outright. "Late term abortion" is a complicated issue, probably ill-suited for this forum, but viability is generally why you can't abort a healthy fetus three weeks before its natural due date.
Well, unless you can afford to fly private, you’re just going to have to deal with the annoying babies. Because families need to get to places and the human race isn’t going to go extinct, at least not anytime soon.

In the meantime, I’d recommend investing in a good pair of earbuds and/or headphones.
You're right, I mixed the two sites up.
> Conspiracy theorists have entire ecosystems of boards and forums where they themselves discuss what they believe, and they often spread their beliefs openly.

Some of them do.

> The premise that "the conspiracy theory world" is a black box is ridiculous.

It is indeed - did you notice that it wasn't me who said that?

You are bot criticizing conspiracy theorists, you are criticizing your internal representation of them, that's why you make unforced errors: what you see is not the thing itself.

It is painful having to explain this to people over and over, and having them laugh as if it's some sort of a pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory - it is literally a scientific fact.
Click the time on a comment ("1 hour ago", "60 days ago", etc), that will focus you on the single comment and give you the option to mark it a favorite. You can access your favorites through your HN profile.
Surely we should also factor in amortized costs of injuries and/or property damage due to fires with both systems.
>My country has a censor's office, for example. Some 'speech' is literally illegal to possess.

And it's embarrassing. The KiwiFarms exchange with New Zealand after the Brenton Tarrant shooting (are you even allowed to mention his name? Hope I'm not getting you in trouble here) was one of its prouder moments.
Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics
Ask HN: Resources Around Growth Engineering?
I’m looking to deepen my knowledge in growth engineering and am looking for resources that can teach frameworks, ways of thinking or even case studies one can read and extract insights from.

I was wondering if any of you who have been in the industry for a while had any good recommendations to become a better growth engineer.

Thank you