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> He has been at Amazon for years, has been promoted a couple of times

I guess this is the Dilbert principle? Hire a few incompetent people, promote them to middle management so they don't screw up the actual work. It probably does work when you have a constant supply of skilled programmers at the lowest tier with 6-month turnover. (NB: that is just Amazon rumors, no idea what actual turnover is like)
Like the current one? It is definitely the most authoritarian (Canadian) government I've witnessed in my lifetime and this article is completely in line with what they've been working towards (the CBC is known to be in bed with the government) but apparently accusing conservatives of what they're doing fools a good amount of people.
> This is due to a bug.

I am fascinated by the quirk that our red cones also slightly perceive light beyond blue. Thanks to this quirk we can have the model HSV which wraps around the red hue to magenta and then blue. This is only possible because of this quirk.
I disagree. There are some people who are pretty knee deep in Apple ecosystems and sometimes they will complain about one piece of the system or even a specific component like the failing keyboard or a specific product decision like the notch.

But, they're "dug in" and they can't "un-Apple" all their stuff. They spend extra to buy a product that has components they think has serious problems that is operated and ran by a company that they routinely participate in discussions about them doing things at bad faith like killing webapps.

Also as someone who has done a few different product launches on HN you can tell instantly when you start getting metrics about page visits that HN skews extremely Apple. Your UA logs will be dominated by Safari and iOS agents as the hits come in from HN.
tldr; delete your bookmarks.

I don’t bookmark anymore unless I have a present and pressing need. Instead, I copy the information to my personal note taking application and try to provide enough context to make it searchable. I gave up long ago trying to push my learning into the long tomorrow and instead address what is ahead of me that is in my control.
Motive as a Filter
That was not how we treated the 9's at Google. Those had been tested through natural experiments (disasters).

I was not at Google for the Clichy fire, but it wasn't the first datacenter fire Google experienced. I think your information about Google's data placement may be incorrect, or you may be mapping AWS concepts onto Google internal infrastructure in the wrong way.
Ham is a processed pork product that is cured using salt or smoking.

I find it strange that you say people should prepare home meals, but are against historically common ways of having food TO eat.

Kimchi, Sauerkraut, Blood Sausages, Hakarl. Pickles, Smoked Fish, Canned Veggies, Yogurt, Cheese, Ham are all processed products, made with lots of chemicals and designed to store for months or years without cold. Are all of these historically important foods objectionable to you?

Would SPAM be OK if it removed the ham? Its literally pork, salt and potato starch. I could make SPAM at home with a 5 minute grocery store run to buy salt, pork and starch, and sodium nitrate (or celery)

So once, again, what is your objection to this processing? Do you consider boiled pork mince, salt, celery juice, and starch excessive processing?
Which book should I try?
I wouldn't do it, but. I think it's not crazy to buy Boeing stock in the belief that they will figure their shit out and start building safer planes.
Ask HN: Resources for Comedic Book Writing
Hi all. I’m hoping to write a book in the next few months and would love humour to be a large part of the tone. I’ve taken improv classes before and have a great sense of humour, but I don’t know how to _write_ comedy.

Does anybody have any resources they’d recommend? Books, online courses, etc.

Thanks!
The op-ed pages were pretty conservative even pre-Murdoch. The FT is a lot like the WSJ but, as someone else commented, more global in perspective and with a more centrist editorial angle. (Probably more in line with The Economist but maybe even more so.)
I am in aerospace, and working at that door plug the way it was done, is simply unexcuseable. No documentation, doing non-standard work, sloppy work on the safety critical bolts... Overall culture is to blame, no doubt about that. And still, it does not absolve the rank and file.
getting rejected from a master’s program is like dodging a bullet
In my culture we like to say all Americans are named John. I many John’s coming from the USA.

Mohammed is extremely popular in some countries but even in those territories there’s still a ton of other names.
Germans.

OK, seriously though, when it comes to outsourcing, it's because Airbus/CASA rigorously defined systems interfaces and all sorts of other stuff before outsourcing design. I've been a part of the supplier chain there, and it's intense, but it means your part's got a good shot of slotting in the first time.

787 - and a whole truckload of BDS work - it's less "strict systems interface" and more "what is systems interface". You can get decades pass where the part still doesn't fit.
The probability of an HIV+ person on antivirals, with undetectable levels of the virus, transmitting it to you, is lower than the probability of someone who thinks they're HIV- transmitting it to you. It is correct for the law to reflect this reality. We all know that the way the world works is that unintentional actions from stigmatized minorities are treated as intentional.

I'd recommend this article from Lambda Legal, which outlines exactly what was wrong with the old law in practice while making the extremely reasonable point that treating HIV differently from every other communicable disease is terrible public policy. https://legacy.lambdalegal.org/sites/default/files/publicati...
> One of those folks already tried to take out the PM

No he didn't. According to your article, he had a death wish of sorts and wanted to be shot dead so as to turn into a martyr. That's the complete opposite of trying to take out the PM.
> home in the suburbs and do their 9-5 but that isn't enough anymore.

Enough should be what we want. A happy middle-class life avoiding the extremes of poverty or excess.

> You will never get ahead doing that.

Join the escalation against yourself (the joneses): a zero-sum ladder climbing game where everyone is a loser.

One oddity of modern society is that even the "winners" are often losers - become a sociopathic CEO or entrepreneur - win toys with more bling but lose other critical things. Being a country leader doesn't look like fun to me.

Weirdly enough modern society is pretty good at sharing: winners have there same phones as I have and commonly the same entertainment media.

And one important resource (time) has a hard upper limit for us all.
If you need your workers to eat shit then it is a problem if you hire people who will leave when you tell them to eat shit, so you hire people with the right "attitude" to get good results.
Ceph's BlueStore has talked direct to block devices, no filesystem in between, since 2017.

https://ceph.com/community/new-luminous-bluestore/

[Disclaimer: ex-Ceph employee, from before BlueStore]
I disagree with the premise. Sure, you don't need to cross-off each and everything in your bookmarks, but they are an excellent way when you want to read something mildly interesting.

> Knowledge is an expiring asset, you might remember a few things now, but, slowly gradually, you’ll be at a point where you remember nothing of it and it’s just like you never read it. In which case, when you need that information you will go and read it and you will then, read more documents around the subject, you will be in the context that’s why you’ll remember it(for a long time).

This is a really bad assumption. Sure, you won't remember most of it, but a few ideas here and there are enough to store a hook in your memory which will be useful when you need the knowledge. Like, I have only a very superficial idea about color theory, but I do recall a long, well-written article on the subject that I read here on HN. If I do regain an interest in the subject, I will search and read it again, and the knowledge will come back to me more efficiently vs if I had not read it at all.
The address is scrambled (similar to a random-number generator) to produce the rank. So consecutive locations do not hurt performance.
"The church" is a metonym for Christianity.
Annoyingly, I can't really do 2.5G because when I was looking to upgrade my network, I ordered a bunch of 15 year old old 10GbE switch, because I mistakenly assumed that that would work with 2.5G as well. It turns out that the 2.5GbE came after 10GbE and so compatibility is not guaranteed, so I ended up having to upgrade everything in my house to 10GbE to make the switches work. Fortunately, used 10GbE cards from data centers go for around $40 on eBay. Thunderbolt cards cost a lot more so I only have one for my MacBook, and it's a big chunky boy that weights half a pound.

I was looking into some of those single-purpose computers, some of which will sometimes have a PCIe slot.
I found this a little disappointing after so much build up. It's good writing but there was no payoff as to why those words had the impact they did and the reason was effectively just a random choice by a judge
I think it's more likely hunter-gatherers that live in seasonal climates would be skinnier in the spring and fatter in the fall. Lots of fat would mean it was a really good summer and winter probably won't be as difficult.
Do note that the summary pdf page is not the whole submission. 510(k)’s are hundreds of pages. I cannot speak fully for the CPAP foam, but with a predicate you still list every “material” in your device with cut sheets, etc, as well as documented biocompatibility for “airway contact” portions which include the foam. For Philips, it seems the foam degraded into a different, toxic compound which was an oversight.
That's a flawed way of looking at it. A perfect tech skill candidate would have 60% in the bag before you looked at soft skills getting them close to a pass.

You have to either have hard minimums on both or multiply them instead of adding.
Keep this in mind when you're writing a landing page for your project.

Way too often I click on an interesting link only to get confused or repulsed by marketing bs.

Also if you want people to engage with your software project, provide clear build instructions. I've aborted many bugfix PRs because while I like your project I'm not willing to waste hours on trying to get it to build.
Svoboda Satellite Package Provides Independent Journalism to Russian Speakers
Also see my article "The Mechanics of Moore's Law" for an analysis in terms of economic feedback loops with usual adaptive characteristics.

https://till.com/articles/MooresLaw
Why would they participate in system that they don't believe? Also, you need to be populist to win in democracy, which brings another pathological behavior into game by definition of system.
What do Norway and Namibia have in common?
i aggressively mute many of the people who reply to my tweets with "@memdotai mem it" and all the other similar read later spam growth hack apps. peak NPC behavior but I'm also pretty sure they never actually read it later

that said i'm also not without sin. i sit on a mountain of tabs every month. only way i've gotten thru them is to promise my readers that i will recap the news of every month and so every 4 weekends i sit down and blast thru as many as i can and write a halfway decent summary.

i've also mulled a quote: "Be the person your bookmarks show you aspire to be, not the person your feed wants you to be"
They are so pro immigration that they are extremists. The American equivalent would be your population growing by 14 million in the last year. Would you support this? Our unemployment rate is rising and we have a severe housing crisis but they will not reduce the rate.
I’m a US citizen who lived in Canada for a while. I am nothing but glad I got out.

1. Economic growth is anemic, and despite Canada’s vaunted environmentalism liberalism and environmentalism, is still highly dependent on resource extraction and de-facto government-sponsored monopolies like Rogers and Bombardier. https://twitter.com/mikalskuterud/status/1763207065135464872

2. Health care is an absolute mess, and I know this from personal experience, living with a paramedic. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/primary-care-canada-10-000-...

3. Housing is beyond an absolute mess—it’s broken beyond all repair. Which is, in part, because there are basically 5–6 real metro areas in Canada, and the government is utterly reliant on immigration to keep the population and workforce growing, so everyone wants to move to the GTA. https://financialpost.com/news/canada-housing-gap-bigger-tha...

4. Canadian are…I’ll be blunt, I don’t have a citation for this…complacent. They don’t have the hustle of Americans. They had a good 50 or so years there we they’ve basically been a protectorate of the US, and could coast on our military spending and corporate R&D development, with trickle-down benefits because their dollar has generally been 70% of the US dollar, and we could plonk some key assets north of the border as a tax dodge. But if Trump comes back into power, and the overall increasing skepticism of globalism, that is coming to an end.
California's maximum unemployment payout is below its minimum wage.
When I ask the same question I actually got a much better answer! https://shot.3e.org/ss-20240310_145736.png
Occasionally, but usually it's simpler protocols like Modbus running over serial.
there are facts,events,narratives and there is knowledge.

knowledge consists of models of the world we have constructed and learnt, which abstract patterns of facts.

facts,narratives make for banter with friends (bonding) but knowledge helps with action (decision).

when reading, demarcate narratives from models, and/or layout the facts against known mental models. this may point to deficits in mental models, or missing models altogether.

most of my reading unfortunately is mindless soaking up of pointless narratives.
I'm not sure if I agree, but this model would predict an interesting pattern where a disproportionate number of successful startups that grew went through an early phase of ideological/personality purging at the "small" phase
There are some very vocal anti-immigration people in Canada - like the grandparent post.
Hn isn’t the best place to get answers for this
This issue is the biggest one I believe:

"For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live. The fallout from this decline in living standards will be exacerbated by the fact that the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations."

It applies to Canada and the UK. This changes things massively. Inheritance matters more than hard work. Of course there will be some who excel more than others, become millionaires etc and will be fine, but it's still a fundamental shift when the average/median person cannot.
The new vaccines are always outdated by the time they get to market, it just mutates too fast. For example Omicron emerged in November 2022, and booster shots for Omicron weren’t available until far later. And now the disease is much more diverse.

No vaccine technology will be able to solve that on its own. There would need to be a significant change in risk tolerance of approving and manufacturing vaccines and deploying them on a rapid timescale.
> seeking to interview Federal Aviation Administration Officials in the Seattle area who oversee Boeing's manufacturing

That could mean anything at the moment, though hopefully its a good sign.

It wouldn't be suprising for the NTSB or Justice Department to want testimony from the FAA related to a case against Boeing. It will be very surprising in my opinion if the interviews lead to any question of the FAA itself. Importantly, if the FAA was in any way a subject of the investigation they likely wouldn't be seeking interviews as that generally isn't a term used for potential defendants.
I haven't messed with much of those alternative ways yet. I run Tensorflow directly with Python, but on my host system I don't care to setup all the packages and stuff needed because it will continue to get updated all the time even when I'm potentially going weeks between using it. All of these packages have large firmware blobs in them and anytime a single card or something changes it wants to pull in a lot of updates.
I think we don't have them because gravity.
Well now I'm completely confused as to what point you were/are making
I had a Snap recruiter say I wasn’t excited enough about a C++ job writing cat filters for me to interview with the team - when she had promised to send me a link to their Lens Studio stuff to evaluate but never did. What was I supposed to do, don cat ears over the phone? Mind you this was the day after they laid off 10% of the company.
Unfortunately, I've heard similar stories from a Ph.D. in distributed databases applying to Google. At first, it seemed like a match. They were looking for someone with that exact knowledge. Then, a few emails later, the recruiter sent them "study material" for their interview. He just declined at that point.
While I think it's natural to compare the FT and the WSJ, as someone who reads both regularly, they are not comparable. The FT is much more straight-facts in its reporting whereas the WSJ brings in a lot of bias/opinion from the political side.
This is pretty neat. I wonder if the idea could be extended more generally to "un-nixify" packages - i.e. replace references to the nix store with relative paths.

I can envision some applications for distributing packages for non-nix systems while still relying on nix to build them.
> working at that door plug the way it was done, is simply unexcuseable. No documentation, doing non-standard work, sloppy work on the safety critical bolts

You're assuming all that is true. Do we have more than Boeing's possible CYA claims to go on? (An honest question.) Also, have we heard their side of the story?
Being Australian, I accidentally rode my bicycle down the entry lane to a German autobahn after seeing a sign with a bike and a circle around it (not through it).
Phind gives me ChatGPT answers with relatively authoritative references to works on the web that (usually!) support the answer. Could it have a post-filter to fact check against the references?

I guess that is a slight variation of the sibling (@habitue's) answer; both are checks against external material.

I wonder if best resources could be catalogued as the corpus is processed, giving a document vector space to select resources for such 'sense' checking.
It’s a pretty good bet that quaternary ammonium compounds are used to wipe many surfaces wherever you are. They are probably the most widely used non-chlorine disinfectants.
I seriously doubt this is correct. It is common for database engines to install directly on raw block devices, bypassing the Linux kernel and effectively becoming the filesystem for those storage devices. Why would S3 work any differently? There are no advantages to building on top of a filesystem and many disadvantages for this kind of thing.

It would be a poor engineering choice to build something like S3 on top of some other filesystem. There are often ways to do it by using an overlay that converts a filesystem into a pseudo block device, but that is usually considered a compatibility shim used for environments that lacking dedicated storage, at the cost of robustness and performance.
That Backblaze page (not surprisingly) compares their prices to a fairly expensive S3 pricing tier and makes other assumptions in Blackblaze's favour. For some use cases B2 is more expensive e.g. one copy of my backups goes to AWS Deep Glacier which is really cheap.
I can’t think of very many products or companies that the dread hand of the VC firms actually improved, unless it was founder/exec payouts.
> Since authoritarianism can only do one thing at once, generally they have a weak military at the expense of stability.

I wouldn't say Nazi Germany had a weak military. They had problems with too many tank models (to appease Hitler?) but they only begain losing the war when everyone else that was against them got their act together. And of course, invading Russia. That one was stupid.
Wow.. that is so crazy. Thank you for the good read
You are putting up all these hypotheticals as if all the info isn't easily available on Bruno's site, and then declare "I don't have time to watch a 15 minute video". Hint, youtube 2x and transcripts are your friend.

I didn't know about Bruno until I saw this post on HN.
They're not actually worse at housing costs. But they have their own way-too-powerful coalitions that cause other troubles.
You linked a 4 hour video without even giving specific times. You wouldn't accept that as evidence if someone told you it contradicted everything you said, so why would you expect people to accept that as evidence of things like "rewriting people's genome" or "causing turbo cancer" ?
Did you link the correct article? The author really says nothing about the legal system and is only reflecting that their 100% ACAB attitude maybe requires more nuance. This same author has written other pieces that plainly call the legal system an unfair joke (Eleven Words article specifically).

Regardless of any public defender's opinion, I am inclined to not fully respect opinions of people who are deeply embedded in the thing they have an opinion about, especially if it's in defense of the thing they're deeply embedded in. Humans lose perspective very easily, and especially when their identity is wrapped up in it.
It is not anti-immigration to not want to be the fastest growing country in the world.
That would be the "suicide" part in the phrase "murder-suicide." I think it's accurate to say that someone trying to get themselves killed for performing a political assassination is, in fact, perform attempting said assassination.
One thing that I believe democracies have to beware of is Muslim immigrants forming isolated, self-contained communities that avoid connection with outsiders.

If that makes me an Islamaphobe, then so be it.
Wasn't understanding the graphics in the README until I used light mode.
Boeing's stock was cut in half by the MAX crashes, and has not recovered.
I, for one, welcome our digital overlords.
Random hypotheses: ice-queen lesbian dildo cult, she-shamanic fertility tool with potential for ritual insertion, leadership or speaking token in pre-historic matrilineal societies (we learned in the 20th century that many early and mobile societies were in fact matrilineal and patrilineal societies only came to dominate after "civilization" ~= settled expansionist warmongering).
Seeing the Scablands gives me these feelings too.
> If not, what specifically are you talking about?

The right to have an abortion for one.
It's entirely different when you decide solely yourself when to switch.
I like this way of looking at interviews, but it's a perspective that requires a lot more self-confidence than most people have.

You have to be confident that you have something of value to offer. You have to be confident that if this isn't a good fit there will be another one out there that is.

If you don't have this confidence then you'll have a hard time not treating every job interview as a sales pitch that you desperately hope they'll buy.
It is? Boeing stock is half the value it was before the MAX crashes.
When talking about analytical databases for "big data", yeah. They generally just want a "atomically replace the list of Parquet files that make up this table", with one writer succeeding at a time.

That would not be a great base to build a transactional database on.