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> Boeing should move the its HQ back to Washington state...Microsoft had the same problem when Balmer was in charge, focus around sales and not engineering.

While Balmer was CEO the HQ was in Washington state :-)

More seriously, Balmer is an excellent example, because I believe the Boeing case is more mendacious, yet more banal.

Balmer seemed to have the right idea, yet utterly the wrong intuition. It's especially strange in that he was there pretty much from the very beginning, and influenced the growth of the business, yet fatally he never learned what the business actually was.

When Balmer took over MS, the business rested on several pillars:

1 - A captive client base based on CIOs and IT departments
2 - A dedicated and committed employee base
3 - A huge army of outside developers who benefited when MS succeeded, so helped the latter happen.
4 - A consumer business ultimately driven by the size of #1

He was over focused on #1 (in the classic "The Innovator's Dilemma" style) which is why the iphone not only nuked their phone business but opened up a BYOD movement which eroded IT's power (ironically Apple had done the same with the Apple II+Visicalc, which Microsoft shrewedly took advantage of and rode to domination...while Balmer was there).

2 - Picayune things like replacing free snacks with vending machines told the staff that he didn't give a shit about them, rather thought of them simply like a resource.

You can see from the "developers developers developers" video that he really did value #3, and much as I dislike him as a businessman I loved him for that. But eventually it became clear he understood its importance to the business but didn't understand why.

4 - this pillar flailed due to neglect under him, including Xbox, Skype etc.

He grew up with the car business, but grew up when the industry was in the shitter, surviving on momentum, and got his MBA in the intellectually (in regards to business) terrible 1970s. He appears to have learned nothing from his long time at MS before becoming CEO and ran the business like a shitty 1970s car company.

Note that the US car industry only got its act together after 1 - getting their clock cleaned and 2 - going back having gearheads as CEOs.

The Boeing case is similar, but worse. I never believed that Ballmer was subject to lazy or misaligned incentives; he was simply wrongheaded. I do thing the MCDD guys who took over Boeing were incentivised by their comp plans to optimize for the wrong things, all in the short term. The same thing destroyed HP.
Url changed from http://archive.today/2024.01.23-103715/https://medium.com/th..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but not at the top level, unless of course the article really doesn't exist on the web anymore.
> The scientific process only involves falsifiable theories.

What is your source? Wikipedia disagrees with you.
> Shortly after, the court was told two Spanish F-18 fighter jets were sent to flank the aircraft.

Genuine question: what's the point of scrambling fighter jets to escort a passenger one? Is the intent to shoot the plane down, if it comes to that? But if the bomb were to go off, what are the fighter jets supposed to do? Won't they, too, get damaged in the blast?
Isn’t the deal with rogue waves that they’re rogue? They’re not just big waves that slowly and predictably approach you from the horizon, then continue on their way past you in the opposite direction - they arise suddenly, unpredictably, without warning. One minute everything is smooth sailing, peaks and troughs of a few feet, and then suddenly the sea drops out from under you and now you’re in a 30 foot trough, or the sea just bunches up and you’re facing a 30 foot wave - maybe it grows out of nowhere, with you on top of it.
This one had 1m of diameter, so didn't manage to reach the ground. And by very far most of the ones that get close to Earth have less than 30m of diameter.

But the problem of late discovery are the ones that are (far?) bigger than this ones, the ones that manage to reach the ground in sizes much bigger than a pebble. Are we detecting all the dangerous ones (and little less dangerous but big enough), and with enough anticipation? Had been in recent times surprises of big enough asteroids passing close enough?

I suppose that in the end, we are playing with odds. It didn't happened for long enough, most that get close is harmless, and I suppose that if there are some harder to be detected (i.e. darker/low reflective ones?) they should not be the majority. But from time to time we have events that reminds us the bet we are playing.
Think of it more as "we compile with -O3". If you installed with the .tar.bz2, you'd get that already. If you use a 3rd party produced .deb, they might build with -O2.

That's just an example; the blog is probably referring to PGO and/or LTO: profile-guided optimization and link time optimization, which require some fiddly setup that I believe third parties have traditionally not bothered with.

And yes, it's all open source. You can see all of the bits that go into producing that .tar.bz2. You can even see the full build log if you like, eg by going to https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release&sea... . Pick your platform, click on Bpgo, click on B, select the "log" link down in the lower left.

There are plenty of Mozilla-related things to complain about, openness of the browser development process is not one of them.
Until we stop implicitly trusting third parties with unencrypted data this will continue to feel like not even news.
L.A. Times to lay off at least 20% in the newsroom
Takes 7 steps to install Firefox this way as opposed to apt-get install.
What if SpaceX built a medium-haul narrow body to compete with 737 and A320?
Sure. If we surveyed a bunch of Americans who perceived the world was flat, I expect that we'd augment that perceptual survey with additional data and context.
I would argue that relocating their HQ away from their engineering hub was done to "maximize" profits by colocating close to lawmakers & lobbyists. This goes hand in hand with corruption in what is a semi-nationalized industry worldwide. Just like American air carriers being uncompetitive on international routes, Boeing risked becoming uncompetitive against Airbus, which is still ~25% owned by France, Germany & Spain.
Until we stop implicitly trusting third parties with unencrypted data this sort of thing will continue to feel like not even news.
I got the FW when I was between jobs so I had a bunch of time to tinker with it and mess around with Linux configs. Now I have a baby and a job so unfortunately my desire to tinker with config is pretty much 0 at this point
In the United States, tandem bikes have a strong Norman Rockwell vibe.
Has something gone awry with Gmail's spam filters?
The last week or two I've been absolutely inundated with obvious spam emails to gmail. These emails have blocks of similar email addresses in the "To" and "CC" lines and are blatant phishing attempts and/or attempts to get you to "unsubscribe" to verify the email address is in use.

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this with google mail recently, and if something has gone wrong with their spam filters.
It has a "cut here" mechanic to it - you can't decide on the order of slices.

> The Slicer starts by choosing a stack of 11 slices and its corresponding Special. Then the Slicer first flips the Special face up in the center of the table, reading it to the players, and then flips each slice face up in the center of the table. As each slice is flipped, it is placed directly next to the previous slice; the Slicer must continue to place slices in the same direction (clockwise or counterclockwise), with each slice being next to the last. The 11 slices will form a circle, with the last slice being next to the first slice.

> The Slicer then divides the pizza into as many portions as there are players. For instance, if there are four players, the pizza would be divided into four portions. Each portion can have any number of slices, as long as it has at least one slice or the Special (the Special may be either combined with slices or placed by itself as its own portion). When dividing the pizza, the Slicer may not rearrange or change the order of the slices in any way.

Note the 1/11th of a circle makes it so that it is never an easy even cut.
> Chinese COMAC seems to be on the verge of selling meaningful numbers to chinese airlines.

That's easy when the PRC is mandating it, but given the hard earned safety record of say... Airbus, people are not in a rush to stake their lives and businesses on Chinese built aircraft. They're not exactly known for the transparency and integrity. In 20 years COMAC is likely to suffer multiple deadly crashes.
> You aren’t prohibited under the license, but you are prohibited under the contract you agreed to, to get that code.

This doesn't make sense to me. MIT is a license to share and modify code. If another license can supersede that and remove rights granted by the actual license, then what prevents any company from releasing their code under MIT and then adding a shrinkwrap EULA that prevents looking at the code or modifying it? The license wouldn't mean anything.

> imagine a company hired you to write a library they want to later release as GPL. They still might have rules that you can’t release that library except under certain conditions.

Before it's released as GPL, sure. But once it's actually released as GPL, that company can't prevent you from looking at the code or modifying it or redistributing it. At best, they can sever their relationship with you over doing so, but they can't legally challenge you doing so.

If that wasn't the case, nothing would prevent a company from taking 3rd-party GPL code, building on top of it, releasing the product as GPL, but then adding additional contractual requirements to get access to their product that prevented anyone from looking at or sharing that code. The GPL wouldn't have any power or enforceability.

Companies do circumvent the GPL a lot and they get called out on it when they don't allow customers to get copies of the source code or to share it online. I've never heard anyone seriously suggest that a valid defense would be for them to say, "okay, yes we're using GPL code but to buy the product you have to sign a contract and that contract legally prevents you from sharing the code." Those restrictions would themselves be a GPL violation.
> the issue appears to show up on other 7040 Ryzen laptops, so I hope this finally gets us proper "modern sleep" support instead of instructions to disable it in firmware setup.

My ThinkPad has modern sleep support for the 7840U; sleep and wake are nearly instant with very little battery use while sleeping.
What is that option? I would love to disable firefox auto-updates.
So wants have increasingly overtaken needs. I agree with one 750K house will be more profitable but it won't be that simple because once demand is aggregated selling 50 3x priced homes would quite a bit more difficult then selling 150 1x priced homes. Just an example in my area I see townhomes selling much faster than single family homes. So much that there is premium on town homes.
Oh yeah, they take it seriously most of the time. But you do get seemingly odd outputs from those procedures. Case in point...

Many years ago, I worked part-time for a small construction cost management contractor. They did some TS work for DoD/State (usually combo projects, where NSA/CIA/Army had a wing of a consulate that State managed).

I did not have a TS (or any other clearance) at the time. One day, I'm tasked with counting the windows and doors in an old hospital in Munich. All the room numbers are Sharpied out in one half of the building.

So, it's pretty obvious "men in black pajamas" are using that wing. I just don't know the room numbers.

Seemed super weird to me that only the numbers were considered secured info. I'm sure there was an explanation.

Years later, a friend-of-a-friend was moving to Munich to do "State Department" work (he was an HVAC contractor with a TS). Off hand, I said "oh, I bet you'll be in wing X, floor Y or Z in the old hospital". He about fell over that somebody in no way associated with his agency would know that. Got a chuckle from me.
I dream of a day there's a physical component of my job, not just the staring at a screen bit.
I mean... Nix satisfies every single one of what you mentioned and people say its too complicated. It's literally just the JSON data structure with lambdas, which really is basic knowledge for any computer scientist, and yet people complain about it.

It's fairly straightforward to 'embed' and as a bonus it generates json anyway (you can use the Nix command line to generate JSON). Me personally, I use it as my templating system (independent of nixpkgs) and it works great. It's a real language, but also restrictive enough that you don't do anything stupid (no IO really, and the IO it does have is declarative, functional and pure -- via hashing).

In Nix's favor:

1. Can be described in a one page flier. An in-depth exhaustive explanation of the language's features is a few pages (https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/)

2. dynamically typed

3. Turing complete and based on the lambda calculus so has access to the full suite of functional control structures. Also has basic if/then/else statements for the most common cases and for intuition.

4. no threading, no concurrency, no real IO

5. definitely not object-oriented and no inheritance

6. It is functional in design and has an extremely thin set of builtins

7. FFI model is either embed libnix directly (this does not require embedding the nix store stuff, which is a completely separate modular system), or use the command line to generate json (nix-instantiate --eval --json).

Note: do not confuse nixpkgs and NixOS with the nix language. The former is a system to build linux packages and entire linux distributions that use the latter as a configuration language. The nix language is completely independent and can be used for whatever.
Sorry, but on HN we don't allow top-level archive links unless it's the only way to read the article. Otherwise it's important for the original domain to show at the top. Archive links are welcome in the comments of course.
My technique is to use an Aeropress. :-) Faster, easier to clean, more variables available to control.

Our Bialetti stainless Moka pot hasn't been used in years.

BTW, Serious Eats thinks there's no one perfect recipe:

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-moka-pots-7570691#toc-what-...
Efficiency - if you really need it. Unreal, gives you source, so you technically have everything you need to customize and optimize for the console you're targeting.
Maybe you can tell me what I'm missing here. What does his comment have to do with anything else in the thread?
Let's just say that people working there don't have many options.
Show HN: Nomad Hypertext, a local first writing app built around semantic search
Nomad Hypertext is a writing app built around semantic search. It lets you see connections between your ideas in real time as your write - click on the # symbol next to a paragraph, and similar ideas you've written about in the past will show in the sidebar. This helps you spot both recurring themes and unexpected links between seemingly different ideas.

It does this by generating embeddings using a local model (supabase's gte-small model) and finds similar posts with @OramaSearch, a local vector DB.
Godot WebGL is not production ready. It-kinda-works is as good as it gets.

Godot webgl will not run on MacOS, defeating the whole point of WebGL/HTML5

“Godot 4's HTML5 exports currently cannot run on macOS and iOS due to upstream bugs with SharedArrayBuffer and WebGL 2.0”

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
Tragedy of the commons. By making the barrier to entry high, it means that only significantly capitalized businesses with significant assets to wager and lose can actually publish anything. It means that there's (less) app spam, because not every couch publisher can type "ChatGPT, make me a game with the default Unity assets."
What makes the two fears fundamentally different?
If privacy is important to you, prepaid debit cards are not a bad option.

I've also seen the extreme - in the part of the country I live it's not uncommon for people to pay for things like cars and houses with cash that they keep buried in their yards.
> It wakes from sleep and reconnects wifi before I'm done opening the lid

My experience was this is only true for "s2idle" suspend but that mode causes battery drain of 30% every 8 hours which was way more than I was willing to tolerate. It's okay I guess if you're just commuting and unplugging-plugging or something. But it didn't work for me for leisure travel when I would often go 24 hours without opening my laptop.

In "deep" sleep mode (which only works with some SSDs) power drain is minimal but it takes upwards of 15 seconds to resume and reconnect to wifi. This is what I use now. I just tolerate the 15 seconds, but I wish it were as fast as a Macbook.
That report leaves out the unofficial step 1.5: "Pronouncement by the opposition in Congress that the President's budget is Dead On Arrival".

It's not quite true. They don't want to do all of that work, so they do generally follow the executive branch's requests. But Congress has the ability to cut anything they want -- and to add in items that the department doesn't want. (e.g. https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/congress-funds...)

Thus, the annual ritual of the dead-on-arrival pronouncement. It's especially mandatory when the President and Speaker are of opposing parties.
I'd say it's an inevitable state of affairs. With networked general computers the amount of leaked information tends to 100% of available information over time. Unless you can design, build and run absolutely safe systems.

Cybersecurity is a sham, a bolt on industry extracting rent out of the mobile internet junkies we've become.

We want to have an endless stream of entertainment and trivia so bad we've actually built homes with locks that connect to the internet. You'd think a networked lock defeats its purpose.
I tend to agree with Linus Torvalds' statement about signing tags rather than commits.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111174438/http://git.661346...
Ask HN: What are the important problems in your field?
What are you working on?
Inspired by "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming
Cross-state commuters and 'working from anywhere' face DOUBLE taxation risk
You're right, in one situation you have people rejecting a product with years of research vetted by regulators around the world because they don't like the business practices and politics of the organizations behind it. On the other, you have... the same exact thing.

Whoops. They are the same.
Cook Well
YouTuber Ethan Chlebowski [1] launched a really cool cooking website recently. The best place for information currently is an hour long live stream [2] featuring some discussion about its design and goals. A breakdown begins around 34 minutes in.

Would love to hear about other cooking websites people recommend.

1: https://www.ethanchlebowski.com/
2: https://youtu.be/pnDblfMHHhs?t=2049
The Megahertz Myth [video]
People have perceptions that may or may not correspond to mathematical reality. The perceptions also matter, though (politically, if nothing else).
Red looks pretty cool. Will try it out once they reach 1.0!
Yeah, that's a tough one. If I make a joke about your behavior or appearance, even if it feels neutral or innocuous to me, you might not see it that way. And if you push back, then I defend myself by saying: "Whaaat? It was a jooooke!"

Especially when it's done frequently / regularly, the line between "consistent neutral-ish jokes" and "mild harassment" can become a bit blurred.

Not saying that such things should be outlawed or policed or whatever -- I just shrugged it off and didn't let it bug me. But if I'm trying to quantify it as positive or negative, it usually felt like a joking comment made at my expense.
How the hell are they gonna cool a cpu like that?
Technically I have a business connection going into my home with a public fixed ipv4 and probably a fixed ipv6, if only i could be bothered to configure pppd and whatever 5 other daemons i need to install.

Problem is, that's not my only fiber. I have two from different ISPs (Romania, so they're cheap). With ipv4 i only need to change the default route to the other router to choose which ISP i use. With ipv6 where my internal machines get an address from the ISP, i don't know where to start.

And I definitely don't want to spend a couple thousand on an "enterprise" multi home router that will do it for me...
"China" is "planning" to do this...?

A better title might be: "Researchers in China studying 1600-core chip".
> Why get a 30 year mortgage at 40, to only pay it off at 70 and then die in two decades?

1) Inflation hedge.
2) At some point in the next 30 years, you will be able to sell your home at / above what you paid for it, just due to the cyclical nature of things.

I'm not saying real estate always goes up... but for example, I bought at age 41. $515k. Current estimated value, $900k. When the kids are all graduated and out of the house (when I'm 53-54ish) I can sell this, buy something outright in cash, and increase my saving rate from ~35% to about 60% without any change in my current standard of living.
Making all educational content available to speakers of any language. Open-source voice cloning and multilingual tts models
I see linux/aarch64 builds at https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release&sea... so it seems like they exist. Maybe they aren't packaged for apt?
China doesn't have the money nor economy to support such low yield effort for long term

China has ordered its local governments to halt public-private partnership projects identified as "problematic" and replaced a 10% budget spending allowance for these ventures with a vetting mechanism by Beijing as it tries to curb municipal debt risks.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-orders-local-gove...

China’s Economy Has Picked Up Traits Reminiscent Of The Great Depression.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2024/01/22/chinas-...

Also from unconfirmed resource: Central government orders high debt load places like Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Chungking, Guizhou, and a few others to stop any new constructions in 2024, and only allow constructions to provide water, electric, or heat.
Medicine isn't science, it's a discipline. Flying is science. There is no "this will fly in my opinion". As ridiculous as saying I trust one organization so all are fine.
Tcl on the brain/worms
Inflation + Demand?
But software developers do builds on that machine. I’ve quit workplaces because they wouldn’t upgrade my computer, in one case I just bought my own. It”s a chronic problem that software developers get a hand me down craptop from a salesman who couldn’t sell.
not a breach or an alleged breach - this was simply testing to mass amounts of email addresses to see if they were valid users.
There's a good chance somewhere deep in the T&Cs a clause exists regarding changing the product as their business evolves to provide the "best experience" for the majority. Their argument for deprecating features might be legacy development and support costs.