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Finnish software company https://www.reaktor.com/ has offices in NY and they offer basically the same benefits as people in Finland have. Especially vacations (four weeks guaranteed), parental leave and no too much overtime.

(Reaktor has been selected as the best place to work in Finland four times a row)
You don’t see a problem?

That’s indicitave if the issue here. There are many people who don’t see anything wrong with this kind of imagery.
> Google has lost its cute startup image long time ago and people have realized companies are never out there for the social / greater good, just for profits.

It's more than that. Their behavior has changed.

Some years ago everyone was on their side because they were fighting for network neutrality and building Google Fiber and supporting Linux and providing Chilling Effects links to notify users of DMCA censorship and generally sticking it to the MPAA/Comcast/Microsoft.

These days they're not only not really doing that anymore, now they're misidentifying videos with YouTube Content ID and infecting web standards with EME and tracking everyone much more comprehensively than they used to.

People only think you're on their side as long as you continue to do things that show you're on their side.
One example of a mitigation for this kind of behavior might be to allow users to ignore messages for accounts younger than X, where X is a length of time chosen by the recipient.

This is only a mitigation, and there are plenty of ways one could get around this kind of limit. However, some action would be appreciated.
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Hi all - grpcc is a simple cli tool for running interactive or non-interactive rpc calls against gRPC services.

I posted a big update today with some nifty features and thought it could be useful for others too.

In interactive mode, I mostly use it for debugging & exploring services. It has a full nodejs repl so you can get as complex as you like.

In non-interactive mode, it's useful to run scripts against gRPC services and have the output printed to stdout - great for scripting/testing.

Cheers!
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I did it in practice, during the MFC's glory days, several years ago.

Making use of ASSERT_VALID(), VERIFY(), AfxCheckMemory(), AfxIsValidAddress(), AfxIsMemoryBlock() and many other helper functions.

A style enforced at the company's code reviews, which helped a lot our code quality.
Trump probably has Google’s number because it was a big Clinton supporter. Thiel even referred to Google as a utility. I would say Facebook would join them but Thiel is on its board.
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Not being political but I honestly feel Donald Trump saved Twitter from oblivion. They were in dire straits last year and seem to have coasted through. I still sort of wish they would fail and vanish, but I think it's significant they are still here today when they couldn't find a buyer to save their lives not long ago.
I don't think Twitter is actually interested in defending free speech? Free speech is defending the toxic speech. Acceptable speech needs no defense.
The use of $ is far larger than the US.

US: 325,365,189

Canada: 35,151,728

Taiwan: 23,550,077

Australia: 24,688,400

Ecuador: 16,385,068

Hong Kong: 7,374,900

El salvador: 6,344,722

Singapore: 5,607,300

New Zealand: 4,826,660

Liberia: 4,503,000

Jamaica: 2,881,355

Namibia: 2,113,077

East Timor: 1,167,242

Belize: 387,879

Micronesia: 104,937

Marshal Islands: 53,066

Palau: 21,503

Caribbean Netherlands: 25,019

460,551,122 in total. Which is still less than 50% of China's 1.4B
Does anyone have a decent translation of this?
The pictures are clearly sexualized. You'd never see pictures like that with men doing those poses.

It's the same as the issue with booth babes.
That's accurate, yes. It's easy to import and export things like users you follow and blocks, but not timelines or your own followers (they'd have to refollow). There are efforts under way to change this[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15518277
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Congrats on the release! Why did you decide to develop it, what was the use case for you?
> It's time to break up Google.

Just like Apple, Facebook and Amazon?
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Right. That's the sense (solitude) of "desert" in Tacitus's famous quip about the Romans: "they make a desert and call it peace".
Hmm, it is reasonable to speculate that once our sensor levels get much more accurate we might be able to sense fuzzy, indirect evidence of earth-level societies on other star systems though aggregates like city-light and pollutants. But that is a long way away from present day detection - we're detecting planets through planet going in front of them and other indirect approaches that don't yield detailed information.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanet...
If you turn your back on a mayor asking for police accountability, and you side with those who wantonly murder innocent people, then you are a bad person. They are people, but they're also given quite a lot of power. I don't think it is a bad thing that they be held to a higher standard of accountability for it. That, and I also don't think that "don't take the side of those who murder innocent people" is a high standard.
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Nice! It's all there in the source, they are generated at runtime. Training has some problems with memory consumption but we will fix that.
-Fraudster gets hired and starts committing code. There is some disagreement as to whether the fraudster is a fraudster or not, but the non-technical boss sure loves him and they often go to lunch together. More code committed. Then he starts making major design decisions.
The court did not rule if it was private consumption or not saying it was irrelevant.

For a modern example, if 1 million people in Florida install solar panels on their roofs it's going to defacto alter the wholesale electricity market.

Now, if that impact is enough to justify regulation is another issue, but the impact is clearly there.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes... click the link from google.
Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're a magician?
I don't have one, but on the FAQ page it states it's rated for 8 million keypresses, and Cherry MX switches are rated for far more - typically 20-50 million. 8 million is a typical number for conventional rubber dome keypads, and would be low for mechanicals.

That doesn't exclude the possibility that the stems are compatible with Cherry keycaps, but I would be surprised and impressed if they were.
Could you please start posting substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A hippie burning his draft card? That's a hippie?

Wow, how standards have slipped over the years...
I don't care about taxis that much. But I do have a degree in economics and actually wrote a thesis, in part, on technological lock-in and naturally occurring monopolies.

Most things don't become monopolies, so the burden of proof goes the other way. And there's nothing about self-driving taxis that makes them a monopoly. For the most part a natural technological lock-in has an insurmountable network effect, the canonical example is the design of the typewriter keyboard.

In all contexts what happens is an environment where your decision to use a product makes it more valuable for all other users. Like a fax machine. Or Facebook.

Taxis are literally the opposite of this. The more people using a taxi service the longer I have to wait for a cab. Yes, you will quickly point out that the bigger the service the more that service be available wherever I tend to go.

But those two forces are in direct contradiction to each other and as such the network effects of taxi services are weak at best.

Sure you can create a hypothetical world monopoly autonomous taxi company. I can always create another company, buy a dozen self-driving taxis, and post them outside giant sporting events or clubs at closing time with graphics on the side saying download this app to rent me, and someone will do it. There goes your monopoly.

The whole freaking point of monopolies is that they happen when the switching costs are extremely high or when the supply is constrained and someone corners it. Switching costs will always be zero, and there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that one single company will permanently be the only one that creates a working autonomous vehicle.

So as neither of those conditions apply, there's no obvious force towards a permanent monopoly. In fact the reason for the government created monopolies we do see is the fact that the market tends toward commoditization and a downward spiral in prices.

The market for taxi services is unusually competitive. That's why we got to where we are in the first place.
My point is why are they subject to a corporate income tax on income earned and already taxed abroad? The US government hasn't supported that income.
Never let it be said that technologists lack a sense of humor! ;-)
And you no longer have to store the paper / electronic signatures.
Trying to take up? Google Ventures is almost a decade old.

Also, there's no actual facts about Google in that article.
Thanks for this. I don't own a house and I live in a poorly insulated apartment building that gets full sun all day most of the year. It's a great candidate for solar panels but mostly out of my control. I already drive a civic and work from home, eating as sustainably as budget allows.

I'm wondering if there are some ideas out there on tackling the deeper cause. People are living longer, population is still growing and even if we were all 100% on renewable energy we would still be destroying the planet; the bugs are disappearing, the oceans are overfished, the bees are dying and we're even extracting an unsustainable amount of _gravel_ for goodness sake.

Something along the lines of changing the economic incentives to consume and expand, because short of terrible war or calamity, people in developing countries are still going to want refrigerators, cars, and beef and people in developed coutries aren't going to want to get rid of those.
Anyone that runs a social website either already knows this or learns the hard way. The real issue is few people who use social website understand how difficult a problem this is.
I mean, it's not really that useful in the first place, by the time I've typed in `set interface vlan unit 50 inet6 address` needing to move all the way to another keyboard to input the address isn't really saving me much time. It's a cute novelty, but not really that practical.
My own "distro": https://github.com/ainriver/tonic

Its a messy pile of rules tho, but easy to hack some more stuff in or just generate a quick rootfs.

Beside from that, i remember the syslinux bootloader being that way. The linux kernel, busybox and the buildroot distribution also use kconfig, which is Makefile with some config engine in C. If you maintain packages for a distributions, you see what other stuff is used instead of autotools.
Apple and Amazon actually sell you a product, they are not in the business of selling yourself to others.
This crosses into religious flamewar, which is not allowed on HN, including in threads about religion. Please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Your bank is the only one who would be verifying your signature.

When you call to dispute a charge, your credit card company contacts the original merchant. They can either request information from them about the purchase, or just immediately side with you (a chargeback). If they perform a chargeback, the money gets removed from their merchant account and deducted from your bill, and they get hit with a chargeback fee.

One of the reasons merchants collect the signature is to have more data to give to the credit card company during an inquiry, or so they can try to dispute the chargeback. If you claim you never made the purchase, having your signature on a slip helps the merchant with the dispute, as would having you on video signing for it. Credit card companies side with the customer a vast majority of the time, but if the merchant has reasonable proof that you knowingly made the charge (which might include that signed slip), the merchant can win those disputes.

Previously not having a signed credit card slip usually meant the credit card company automatically sided with the customer over the merchant. I doubt dropping this requirement will make it easier for merchants to win chargeback disputes, though.
I think a big step forward would be a "right to be forgotten." Currently, the Twitter hoard is free to dox, "parody" and generally permanently harass any private citizen.

Anyone who has attempted to use Twitter's reporting mechanism knows it's a vapid black hole to /dev/null.

I've been told, "oh, people who hire a lawyer can usually get traction" -- and that's ridiculous.
Are they using the generated IR, or using the AST of the interpreter code? The latter would probably be more amenable to JITification.
Nice, I didn't see their posting. Interesting idea.
And it is not like an officer is enforcing ordinances at all hours. Nor do we expect them to be. Outreach is a thing. An officer goes in to give a fun speech to a school. Suddenly, kids in the class are being broadcast.

I get it. Most of us are programmers, so we think we can setup a pretty solid set of rules for when something applies. Maybe some of us can. And when that perfect ruleset is found, it will be awesome. However, it is a lot more fluid and discretion is not necessarily a bad thing.
Simplify? "Obvious proof is the increase?" One Bitcoin is still worth 1BTC in my books, inflationary dollars' drop in value notwithstanding.
They want to spin it this way so the American market doesn't feel like isolated backwards North Koreans.
Automation probably eleminated most of the jobs. Globalization just removed the few remaining jobs.

In the US you don't need universal income. Universal healthcare and free education would be massive wealth redistribution programs.

In fact, the ACA (ObamaCare) for all it's flaws still is a wealth redistribution program.

So if you fix your political system, it could happen...
That's a great idea, actually. I keep ID at the ready and my cards are all unsigned. If they want signature verification, the back of the card is a silly place to look for it - as it can be signed by anyone. It could be a fake ID, but that's more difficult and less likely.

Sadly, very seldom does anyone even look to confirm it is even signed.

Methinks I'll try your solution. Thanks!
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In fact there were some famous studies that disproved that assertion when the "decent people" are part of a larger organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Any error that would be found in a HN-comment amount of time, effort, and care, would simply be rebutted by a dozen replies putting in a similar amount of time, effort, and care, viz, nearly none. Even putting aside the grotesquely asymmetrical effort you're calling for here, that wouldn't advance the conversation at all.

Citation: Nearly all the other subconversations going on already in this story's discussion.
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In a few more years. Go after the biggest fish first.

Don't forget salesforce, microsoft and oracle.
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Which is logical, because traffic here is so bad that regardless of how powerful your car is you can't drive any faster than the jerk hogging the road in front of you. So why pay more for a Chevy SS?
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It's not off topic; it's intellectually interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your 'causes drama' point is closer to the mark. For whatever reason, the community here is less able to discuss religion substantively than almost anything else. This shows up not only as toxic flamewar-style comments but also as an upsurge in bad jokes and shallow quips.
Prefix all these headers with swj_ or sjw- :)
I think it would be interesting to display the derivative of votes with respect to time, or a Wilson score or something. I assume there are good reasons why you don't, but nonetheless it interests me.
"The state of the art in jit compilation has advanced quite a bit since then"

Since when?
Since the 70's?
Sure.

But since the 90's, not really in terms of techniques, only in terms of engineering and feasibility of advanced techniques. It's not that there is no research, mind you, but it's definitely more engineering than research. That also doesn't make it any less cool, exciting, etc.

"another difference between the days of old and new is that this is being targeted at runtime code generation, which naturally trades off throughput of generated code for speed-of-generation."

This actually was true then too, FWIW.

"These issues, as well as developer velocity in translating VM features into optimized VM features, figure more prominently in our problem set than I would expect it historically did."

While i'm not sure how much it matters, i guess i'd just point out these are not different concerns than history had

:)

I certainly hope you succeed, FWIW.
Great. The most concerning issue - the question of trusting all your data with a for-profit entity which doesn't get directly paid for the services it provides - gets a token mention as the very last point ("just in case, let me throw in a casual mention about this somewhere at the bottom"). I am fairly sure that announcing projects and then cancelling them, on a scale of 1-10 for burning user trust, will get a score of 0. In comparison, here are some higher scores for issues which are actually 'burning concerns':

8 - the kind of tracking data which was presented in the Waymo case

9 - the kind of data mining which happens when you combine the most popular email service + highly popular browser + most popular website analytics tool + most popular mobile OS

10 - the efforts to get into providing 'free' internet just in case a few bits and bytes escape into the ether, and attempts to acquire companies which may be collecting/assembling harder to reach datasets

And then the rest of the folks here wonder, "Do people inside Google actually spend any time thinking about whether they might be burning their user's trust?" Based on your response, I would say that it gets about the same level of token acknowledgment inside.
Apple has < 15% marketshare in EU, so that's low priority for now.

Facebook? Yes.

Amazon? Even more yes.
This is amazing! Write a regular old interpreter in a fully featured language, then just wrap it in a macro and poof you magically have a jit that will compile and execute your interpreted code on the fly.

Seriously. Look at the example for brainfuck [0], it's less than 70 lines of completely normal interpreter loop, including a one-line macro on the top. What the heck.

[0]: https://github.com/nbp/holyjit/blob/master/examples/brainfuc...
Interesting perspective that denies the whole field of cognitive psychology (despite the author being a renowned psychologist himself, albeit in the field of behavioral psychology). But I wonder, if information is going in and information going out, what is it in between if not information processing, aka computing?
Indeed outrageous, it is address-sexist and ipv4-normative.
great piece, thanks
This is not cynical, it's realistic. After all, tracking users is closely tied to their main source of income. It is not a coincidence that most pages use Google Analytics.
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There's an important difference in both cases compared to what Uber is doing and that is that Uber is in complete control of whether you will get work.

Moreover, they have much more opportunity to do it since a strip club and barber salon have a lot fewer rented spots (ones/tens vs hundreds/thousands) and there is more ways Uber can be sneaky about it. (Oops sorry it took us 10 minutes to find you a passenger)

OH there's also the fact that Uber has the ability to arbitrage. Since the drivers who payed in are more costly to Uber to send passengers to than the drivers who didn't. Unlike the other industries you mentioned where presumably everyone has to pay in.
>I think the problem might be that plain words are still really spongy?

Many people make the argument that that's not a bug, its an intentional feature. As in, the Constitution was left open to interpretation on purpose.

You can also make the argument that even if it was an intentional feature, we've taken it too far.
Rust has several layers of IR: AST -> HIR -> MIR -> LLVM IR

This operates at the MIR layer. You can sort of think of MIR as "core Rust", in that it's the final, desugared form of everything.

This is why the non-lexical lifetime stuff has taken a while; the precursor to that is "port the borrow checker to MIR". MIR/HIR are also fairly new; using MIR is only a year old.
We should also mention Penrose's "The Road To Reality" in this subthread. While it is essentially insane as a commercial/popular publishing project, I suspect it is also one of the best attempts to survey all of maths and mathematical physics in one location. Unless you have a PhD in mathematical physics, you will not be able to read all of it profitably. However, I suspect it might be a useful set of signposts for someone attempting to learn mathematical physics, to come back to again and again (over the course of, say, a lifetime). I'm sure it has some idiosyncracies (his graphical tensor notation I don't think has caught on that much in the field, and is likely to cause some surprise to anyone who hasn't seen it before) and controversial treatments of some areas, but in general I think (as someone firmly in early undergrad math territory) it is a fantastic book. The illustrations. Those have to be the best collection of informal attempts to illustrate physics-oriented maths that exist.
I actually fully intend to buy one of these for everyone in my company someday. As a Christmas present. Beats the heck out of just getting the company shirt and coffee mug.
Firstly, you're critiquing a study based on a journalist's write-up about it. Secondly, you're essentially making an epistemological argument. You could apply your core argument to almost anything and come up with the assertion that the research is invalid.

"Researchers tracked use-of-force incidents" -> "Researchers tracked reports of use-of-force incidents, which is factually rather different.

"Researchers observed bosons at 125GeV" -> "Researchers observed detections of bosons at 125GeV, which is factually rather different."

This is merely a pedantic argument that things are not truly knowable. But whether the Higgs boson exists and whether body cameras reduce police violence are not unknowable questions. Even if we cannot directly measure, the indirect measures are meaningful to the questions.

Now, if there's something else that the researchers should measure, then that would be useful criticism.
I've always wanted a Holden Ute. Shame they couldn't find a way to keep it in Australia.
It'd be trivial to find evidence of that in the data. They said that the number of use of force incidents was the same in the camera and non-camera groups. If the cops were disabling their cameras in anticipation of these events, these events would not show up in their camera recordings.
No words on actions against bots. I guess technically they are already forbidden, so not applicable in a "rules" post, but still a bit disappointing.
15 dollars an hour? Those jobs would go to a place where the wage was 1.50 an hour or worse .15 an hour.