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> Early on in my engineering career, there are a handful of times I was assigned to a project where I was set up to fail. I didn't understand the situation until far too late. There are a few tell-tale symptoms: I didn't quite understand what I was supposed to do; I didn't really know how to do it; and I didn't understand how the assigned work actually solved a higher-level problem. No one else did, either (these situations usually represent a failure of management.)

Yes! I have been in such a situation once (I didn't quite understand what I was supposed to do and no one else did, either) and, to this day, I remember it as a cautionary tale when I think of moving to a new position.

The people who think that they can shine in this situation by being proactive underestimate the lack of understanding: it is not a blurry task, it is a task where you are told to do X and no one knows what X actually means. You can do great things, but they will not be able to deliver on the requirements.
It was made into a movie. Well, at least one movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095738/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5_tt_8...

It was really bad.

I paid money for it.

Did I mention it was really bad?
Arguably, most of that is probably dead code included from <iostream>. Most of it is likely never called for a simple Hello World.

Similarly, in C, you can just give the definition of printf and omit the include of stdio.h, which also saves a ton of preprocessed lines.
I read the article but couldn't find any mention of how a radar detects drones? A drone is much smaller than an aircraft, can be confused with birds and can have 0 communication with a command & control station due to AI. So how can anything detect it?

Plus, even if you detect it, it's coming towards you at a speed of 100+ kmph with the intent to crash into you and detonate the payload. Any missile you use is way too expensive relative to the price of the drone. So what to do?

I say this bec the drone footage coming out of Ukraine is shocking. I saw a video of a drone just following a soldier for 30 seconds while the soldier was trying to run away from it. The drone crashed into the soldier and exploded. That is absolutely black-mirror dystopian stuff.
Don't work on open source if you're just trying to pump up your resume. Contribute only to projects you use and can make actually valuable contributions to. It does look good on a resume but telling people to do it because it looks good on a resume hurts the open source community imo.
Why the hell is ndkxmwnrbto's comment about the dignity of the
Japanese poeple flagged and dead?

I'll repost the wikipedia link here [0]

It perfectly echos what I am saying about Viktor Frankl and
the remarkable human capacity for finding strength under extreme adversity.

Whoever flagged that should be ashamed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai
Actually, articles like this can kneecap the service using regulatory pressure if enough people don’t want to even wait for “factual analysis” since that’s actual human lives on the line.

HN talks a lot about “we need FDA to preemptively block chemicals that seem like they’d be dangerous”. This is the logical extension of that.
Don't include the standard headers and just put it the definition for the symbols you're using. With std::cout you might end up pulling your hair out to find everything but I can't imagine it'd be more than a few dozen lines... Not gonna try ;)

With C you just need a definition for printf instead of including stdio. In the old days you'd get by without even defining it at all.
Even re production. It's only a massive piece of concrete. France is still good at pouring massive amonts of concrete, that's what all of its suburbs are made of. The line was not exactly a marvel of engineering even for the time (and neither forward looking).
consider that a lot of the culture in tech is also there for the first four years of undergrad, and so 23% often represents the people who basically made it through four years. are people who have experienced it for four years likelier to put up with more of the same?
Ironic, considering the last circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno is actually a frozen wasteland with Satan encased in ice in the middle up to his waist.
But eventually your human mentor diminishes with age.

And then you can crush them.
I should have read to the end of your post:

'I will describe a very popular nonparametric method, Kernel Density Estimation, that also follows strategy 1 and is much more scalable to higher dimensions than histograms.'
> I think on one extreme you have the failures of neutrality that contributed to WW2, and on the other you have trumped up "moral crises" that characterized much of the Cold War.

I don't know that I would characterize giving pieces of another country to the Germans as "neutrality".
FWIW, the tool itself could almost always handle a convenient flow, and exceptions.

At least, that's true of Workday, and most other SaaS I've helped enterprises install.

People don't want that. They need a new tool because the old one generates nothing but complaints, then they want the new tool to do exactly what they used to do. So it too generates nothing but complaints, after the pain of transition.

But what's a SaaS to do, refuse the revenue and share multiple? Right.
What if you cover the drone with non-reflective material? Or does it care about the reflective nature of the core of the object rather than just the surface?
The name confuses me profoundly.
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Except that UUIDs by themselves don't do this at all:

> They provide a reliable way to ensure that each item, user, or piece of data has a unique identity.

It is the registration of a UUID in a database which prohibits reuse that does that. If you aren't do doing that, ensuring that each use of a UUID is not a reuse of an already assigned UUID, they are not UNIQUE.
Is this a surprise? The best people at any craft learn from the people that beat them.
> Before he acquired Twitter he could do no wrong. He was Tony Stark, and the Internet loved him.

I used to think the same actually. But the more I looked into it, the more it turned out that it was not just thanks to his achievement. He very actively supressed every negative article or mention of him or Tesla. He apparently figured out way before the other that you can manipulate public opinion at scale through social medias. There is an army of Tesla influencers and there are numerous cases where Tesla / Elon went after critics.

Look at the story of the guy called 'Montana Skeptic' for example - a vocal and appreciated Tesla critic - in 2018 Elon reached out directly to his employer and threatened a lawsuit (without any basis for it of course).
How does this compare to PropTexx ?
Everyone has their limits. Elon is great at space, software and car engineering. I doubt he knows everything about batteries, ai or fusion - it wasn't much of a thing when he did his studies.

He's effective because he's used to the pain from his terrible childhood. He is almost bathing in it. Some of that pain he eventually unlashes into public. Thats when the hate towards him start.
My main issue with HN comments is that the threading display tends to cause focus on a very small number of high ranking comments along with their threads. This leads to potentially insightful comments on the original article being largely unread.

It's a problem where the solution is not obvious. There is perhaps an an opportunity to cycle through a series of candidate solutions.

I imagine something like placing a single comment at the top of comments selected from some formula of view-count and score, so that comments at least get some views to get the chance of being upvoted to the point of being seen by the wider community.
Those same Americans travel to Switzerland and are amazed at the level of good public transit.

Americans who have never left this country (the vast majority) have no idea how competently ran government services can look like.

We also have a party in the US that actively adds more regulatory pressure IFF the government is the main stakeholder in a project. For example, environmental protections are significantly stricter (arguably, to a fault) if the project is being led by the government.

Also, for example, the government is not really allowed to negotiate Medicaid medication prices. Something private insurance does not need to deal with.
Sorry I totally missed that. Thank you!
Came here to say exactly this
> The suggested solution for loosing a Yubikey is to already have n>=2 set up for your account

>> I find these issues difficult when also considering security keys like Yubikey. Like you can't clone a yubikey and that's considered a feature not a bug.

Yes, I am quite aware of this. My complaint is that I cannot expect my grandma to be able to perform this action. It would even be difficult if there was a cloning program, but without it, this is certainly an insurmountable task.

Sure, you can make the argument that my grandma is dumb and tech-illiterate, but the truth of the matter is that this is the bar for the average person. You, me, and other Hacker News users would have no issues with these tasks, but this is not representative of the general FIRST WORLD population. Not to mention those in developing countries.

The technical aspects are great! But they also need be made available for the average person. Be that by bringing the average person up to sufficient level or through careful design to bridge this gap. But what is clear is that the current state of things is insufficient. Especially consider that this is Apple's main value: design.
You might be interested in how Expensify use(s/d) SQLite for their product. https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...
He beclowned himself long before the Twitter layoffs and subsequent destruction of shareholder value there.

I think it started with his slandering of the cave diver in Thailand, and got into full swing with his repeated false claims about Covid.

This isn’t to say there aren’t still some rubes left, but the smart money isn’t impressed with the sideshow anymore.
> I think on one extreme you have the failures of neutrality that contributed to WW2, and on the other you have trumped up "moral crises" that characterized much of the Cold War.

I would guess for every moral WWII, there are 10 (if not 100) other wars that use the language of WWII and result in a complete waste of lives and money and cause far more problems than they solve.
This is, functionally, already true.

The gains from a lot of the abuse vectors they've mention are either ad-fraud related (your suggestions don't help), or are ways you steal from other creators by taking a larger than intended share. That is true whether the pool is $N,000,000 dollars statically, or a larger fraction than intended of 10000 $2 pools per user.

The other alternative is a pay-per-listen business model, but this kills the company.
Does anyone have a comparison of Airtag vs "Bluetooth tracker tags from Chipolo and Pebblebee"? I imagine Airtag is superior due to non-reliance on Bluetooth? Can Chipolo/Pebblebee tap into the Android network without Bluetooth? And is their tech comparable to Apple's work?
Why could zipper not update the stuff on disk, then prompt you to logout/login to load the new binaries? Windows and MacOS afaik don't require you to change to a tty to update the GUI.
Right, your proposal is dumb. Most chemicals (including the ones we’re discussing) aren’t medicine. You wouldn’t give them to people to see how much it hurts them, that would be unethical. We do that with medicine because it might help them, so there’s a potential benefit both to the individual who is the test subject and to society. We’ve no reason to believe ingesting PFAs is of any benefit so what you’re proposing would be cruel. It would be akin to running tests on prisoners or dissenters like they do in totalitarian regimes.

And if you did give people the level of these chemicals that 99.99% of the population is exposed to, you’d see no real effects, because no real effects is what we see in people who aren’t exposed to really high levels of it. We see some very weak correlations that almost certainly have other underlying causes and literally nothing else. Which, again, is not to say the effects aren’t there. It’s just that they’re very small if they exist, and it’s really hard with no control group to be sure of anything with very weak correlations.

“Associated with” doesn’t mean anything at all. I can find a correlation between any two things if I look for it. That’s all this is. (And again, I’m not talking about the people who worked in factories with it or lived where large amounts were dumped into the environment, etc., that is what they got fined for and they deserve it.)

If what you’re proposing is we make every chemical go through clinical trials, that’s going to kill a lot of people both directly (lots of chemicals have little to no harmful effects if not ingested but are deadly if you do so) and indirectly (lots of people are only alive because of chemicals that would be yanked.)

This has nothing to do with shareholders, it’s a simple societal cost benefit analysis and you’re just dismissing any benefits and underestimating the cost.

You completely misunderstood my point based on your paraphrasing. Which is fine, that’s the internet for you.
The entire value add of Best Buy was the fact that it was a physical store.

They did not have the expertise to compete with Amazon. They never paid the Amazon wages, or made the Amazon offices. They never had the presence in schools like Amazon did, or the prestige. I guess MBAs missed that when suddenly every single physical store _had_ to have an online presence that was given priority compared to their physical counterpart.
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> When you read Go strategy resources, you see a lot of things divided into what best practices were before AlphaGo and what they are now. It's a whole big thing.

Yes and no. The biggest takeaway from AI is that learning all the joseki doesn't actually matter that much, which has freed up players (except for the pros) to spend more of their time focusing on the more fun and interesting parts of the game.

There are a lot of videos showing what josekis and strategies the AI recommends, but as a human you're likely not going to be any better off following them. This is for the same reason why AI analysis of fights is largely useless. That is, the reason why you lost the big fight (and the game) isn't that you didn't find that one obscure 9P move that could have saved you, but rather than you let yourself get cut 50 moves earlier. But the AI will never show you the move where you got cut as being the reason why you lost the game, it will only show you the one random move that you'd never in a million years actually be able to find.

This video from Shygost sums up the most important strategy stuff that you actually need to know in order to get strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8cWuDSHTg
The ability to ship SQL views that join multiple tables as part of the schema is pretty cool, and something you can't come close to replicating with CSVs.

https://lite.datasette.io/?sql=https://gist.github.com/simon...
I've been looking for a cross-platform dotfile management tool and I had some hope for this but it seems a little too complex, and I don't like that I would end up with lots of yaml/toml/json files. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux and I want to have a single configuration for all. I've been using https://github.com/rhysd/dotfiles and it is the only thing that really works well for me.
That assuming that the 'real' inflation figures are used.

To maintain his buying power since 1963, a blue-collar production worker should be earning about $5000 a week 60 years later. That just does not occur.

It's the main reason that the US is no longer as rich and powerful as it was in the 1960s. If the 'working man' is not able to spend as much as he once could, the economy is a lot weaker than it should have been.
> People's attitude to Elon especially cracks me up. Before he acquired Twitter he could do no wrong. He was Tony Stark, and the Internet loved him.

In my circle of engineer friends, he was viewed as a bullshit artist long before Twitter. His fans seemed annoying, but were easy to ignore.

I feel like the perception changed when he started marketing FSD in a way that would kill people. The cave diver incident and his attitude toward Covid were big “what?” moments, and it’s accelerated downhill from there.

I think that after his bumbling of Twitter people started looking closely at his past and realized he put a ton of energy into sculpting an image detached from reality. This four part podcast does a great job looking behind the curtain: https://techwontsave.us/episode/189_elon_musk_unmasked_origi...
Both Biden and Trump ignore that cheap imports raise Americans' standards of living. Ultimately the purpose of trade is get stuff from other countries. Trade would be foolish if you forever ran trade surpluses and thereby got less stuff from other countries than you produced for them.
See, that's much too complicated.

Russia, sometime in or before 2008: “by infiltration or by force, we are going to force Georgia and then Ukraine to submit. But there is talk of NATO admitting them, starting with MAPs potentially as early as the 2008 summit, so step one is get NATO not do that.”

Russia (to NATO, in advance of 2008 summit): “Don't offer Georgia and Ukraine MAPs, it would, um, destabilize the region and, uh, make it more likely that we'd feel it necessary to invade.”

NATO: “Seems a little paranoid, but, sure, we like stability. Georgia and Ukraine, we really like the idea of you guys joining some day, but no membership action plan or security commitments for now.”

Russia: (invades Georgia almost immediately).

Russia: (Gets friendly leadership in Ukraine in 2010)

Russia: (loses friendly leadership in Ukraine 2014)

Russia: (invades Ukraine immediately)

> Then came the 2014 invasion of Russia in Crimea - IMHO a direct "test bed" to see if the Western nations were willing to step up this time, and they didn't despite Russia literally shooting a passenger plane out of the sky.

I mean, they actually did, which is a big reasons why Ukrainr's forces were in a better condition when Russia launched the wider invasion in 2022 than they had been in 2014 (Ukraine made a lot of its own investment, but they also got a lot of Western aid, both material and training, throughout the war starting not long after the 2014 invasion, though not much lethal aid was sent before 2021.)
> "Former satellite antennas are ideal as solar energy systems,"

Trackers almost never make economic sense; panels are now so cheap that it is usually cheaper to just take up more area.

But when the hardware has already been deployed and then abandoned, this can work. Hence the word "former" in that quote in the article!
You're making a lot of wrong assumptions, drones can be any size, nobody's talking about missiles to shoot them down, not all drones are kamikaze, &c.

If they're already being produced they do work for their intended purpose, Thales doesn't fuck around
And so your development environment artifacts can be linked in to the environment root just like any other package (really awesome).
He uses the "planet with a giant satellite" description of Earth as a plot point in Foundation (I think the final novel).
Ask HN: Is PWABuilder ready for production mobile apps?
I came across https://www.pwabuilder.com while investigating turning a website into a mobile app.

PWABuilder TLDR: you have a PWA, and PWABuilder generates an iOS/Android app: a WebView wrapper around your website. Essentially allowing you to publish a website to the iOS/Android app stores.

It seems like an obvious solution since I don't currently need any native app features except for OAuth sign-in and push notifications, which PWABuilder supports.

I am worried that one day we'll need other native app features that aren't supported by PWAs yet, so I'm wondering if anyone's already used PWABuilder in production and if they've run into any pitfalls.
There's been plenty of discussion about how the problem is, in many cases, also the office. Right in the discussion on this very article, in fact. [0]

There are many reasons to dislike forced work-in-the-office policies. Not all of these reasons apply to all people, but they all apply to at least some.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968652
That's how the iPhone does it as well, btw!

As far as I remember there's a separate microcontroller that controls "Find my phone" beacons without having to boot up iOS on the main application processor.
> I used to say this about seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time after seen pictures/video of it, but the eclipse was at least 10x that experience.

I said the same thing about seeing Tunnel View in Yosemite for the first time. It's the closest thing that I can say that describes the experience and the eclipse eclipses (heh) that.
Why not a 20 mm cannon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
I think that ultimately (and despite what they might claim) Flutter just isn't a web technology (it's not suitable for rendering to web). But that shouldn't necessarily take away from it as a technology for native app development. React Native is a little better at this (and actively on rendering better to the DOM), but it isn't great either.
I am very curious about this too. Wouldn't this allow you to remotely inject malware into an app? For my own, non-malicious, project, I'd love for this to work, but I don't want the app store gods to wreak vengeance on me.

UPDATE: I found this.

Examples of SDK-caused violations

Your app includes an SDK that downloads executable code, such as dex files or native code, from a source other than Google Play.
Plenty of people have grown up yet aren't really functional adults, or at least not independent. Wishing is still great, especially when you can try a lot of them without committing your entire life or career path.
Nevermind that it's possible to detect server-side if the content is being simply downloaded, or piped into a shell for processing so that you can change the content based on the way it's accessed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240406132938/https://www.idontp... (archive because HSTS and the cert is expired).
Tesla settles with family who said Autopilot caused his fatal crash
Yeah, that's the narrative I'm seeing in many news outlets, but it doesn't make sense to me. Did Apple wait for Google to release an anti-stalking feature detecting AirTags before releasing them?
I've been in a situation where I was set to fail despite the fact that I was actually performing a vital task for the company.

Every damned time I set out to implement changes necessary to ensure the maintainability of the project, the boss would bring in an architect (who otherwise never even looked at the project) and he would pull the rug out from under my feet.

Every damned time. By the time they realised I was actually useful and regretted the situation I was checked out and ready to walk out the door.
Every day is hate-elon day around here.