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It's entirely possible that this spending is within their budgets.

The article talks about unauthorized spending not that they had extra money or did over budget spending. So a lot of it could depend on how one defines unauthorized spending.
I agree that some of the things Uber gets blamed for are commonplace and Uber is just being held to a different standard. But, it is also true that Uber pushed a lot further into the dark side than other companies.

For example, do Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook set up surveillance of hotel and conference rooms of executives from other companies?
If anybody is interested I wrote a go-only library to interact and create ebpf programs. It even parses the compiled elf binary for you and maps it to your variable names:

https://github.com/nathanjsweet/ebpf
How are these hidden expenses paid for without being noticed? Is the money just printed? Wouldn't that cause huge inflation?
> Canadians end up paying the same in taxes if you add healthcare coverage costs in the US

The majority of Americans either get variations of 'free' healthcare (half the population) or get most or all their healthcare paid for by their job (3/4 of the other half).

To make an accurate comparison, you need to increase the median full-time pay in the US from $47,000 per year to about $58,000 per year, to build in the massive benefit of employer provided healthcare, which is excluded from US salary numbers.
As usual, putting cameras everywhere seems to be rather invasive of what little privacy there's left:

"(...) sensors for measuring air and surface temperature, (...). Two cameras will collect data on vehicle and foot traffic, (...)."

They do say "(...) no personally identifiable information will be stored or released by sensor nodes", and opening up the data allows the public to verify that; but I remain skeptical. (Of course, with sensors becoming cheaper and cheaper, the death of privacy seems almost inevitable...)

(Quotes from their linked blog, https://ci.uchicago.edu/press-releases/chicago-becomes-first...)
On the contrary, it is quite interesting. It does not seem "snarky" in the slightest. I like to read comments about voting on comments.
Mozilla people have been working on SpiderMonkey performance already: https://jandemooij.nl/blog/2017/12/06/some-spidermonkey-opti..., it's just not some wholesale replacement, so it probably never makes the top of the list for what they shout about. It also sounds like it has been a steady progression rather than a big jump, so maybe not quite as noticeable.
How hard would it be to sell this amount of electricity? What kind of a transmission line would it take?
I would love to see an extended example. When I tried this in typescript 2.6 it still made PaymentAmount and AccountNumber equivalent types.
Thanks! I'd be curious also to hear what sort of applications you plan on building with WebRTC. My own interest lies in HTML5 web gaming and peer networks.

Another useful resource for starting with WebRTC is Sam Dutton's Simple Info site:

https://simpl.info/
Those companies have competive intelligence, but they aren’t run like a college fraternity on probation, so I doubt you’ll find those kind of abuses.
Your assumption is that group 1. is (or at least has been until 2017) aware of the huge problem of their behavior. I think this is wrong, and this a prerequisite for my comment.

Imagine this: You are John Smith and since you were young, you have been taught that as a man, you have to get laid as much as possible, that women are sex objects, that your self-worth depends on your success as a sexual predator. Your friends happened to think the same (you maybe picked your friends even based on these value, subconsciously), and so, while you grew up, this is how you lived and acted. And it worked. You had sex with a lot of women, you received praise and acknowledgement from your peers, you felt like a real man and so on. And you gt comparatively little push back. Sure, there was something in you which might have told you that you over and over again hitting on the same girl must have been annoying for her - but as every human, you saw things from your perspective, and from that one - which you have learned and internalized over decades - this is what women wanted, and how it was supposed to be.

Couldn't this be how the men from group 1 became those who there are? And wouldn't this mean that what they in fact would have needed was to learn a different way of behavior, through feedback when they stepped over the lines?

Following your logic, decades of social conditioning would automatically disappear. You are using the word "need" multiple times. Of course. But what if they actually really didn't get the memo? Because this is more likely than these men sharing your value set (or mine, for that matter) but violating it constantly and deliberately.

Some would call this behavior "toxic masculinity". And it is. But exactly like the social conditioning that other groups were exposed to doesn't just fall off of people in a second, toxic masculinity does neither.
> The way to recognise this is to ask yourself if you can actually name any particular example of the "them" you're arguing against.

Unfortunately, I think what can often compound this line of thinking is a willingness to speculatively ascribe qualities to people we've just met in an attempt to put them into a box we can relate to (either positively relate or negatively relate).

Asking someone to think of a particular example of "them" might simply lead to an example of someone they've judged on first impressions.
But it’s not a crime as established by a criminal conviction, hence the quotes where I use that word. It’s treatment as a criminal by (fairly, or unfairly) passing moral judgement with a desire that others do the same — no better than a lynch mob. Or, as the article puts it, a witch hunt. That it relates to physical appearance makes it all the more ridiculous a proposition. The accused was guilty in part because they were not deemed attractive enough by the accuser. If not the case, why even bring up the accused’s appearance given the supposed gravity of the alleged ‘crime’?
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The entire annual budget right now is ~$4T.. I don't see how $6.5T in a single year is possible.
For those who learned point set topology from Munkres's book, you may be interested to know that this is also sometimes called the Munkres algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm .
If that shifts the mining away from large datacenters run by coal, would that be a net benefit for society/environment?
This looks interesting. How do I know if someone else has left comments at a website / page I'm visiting? I probably wouldn't want to open the comments sidebar on each page, to find out. And I wouldn't notice if there's some small notification icon. The only things I'd react to, is blinkng light, and sound playing "There are comments". But is that too intrusive? To me, a voice saying "There are comments" would be fine.

Who is going to moderate comments? I'm afraid people who say evil angry things to other will dominate a discussion system like this, as is usually the case, when there is no strict moderation, right. Well maybe as long as you use Facebook Comments, it has moderation features already?
I’m certainly not advocating spaghetti code, balls of mud, or a thoughtless lack of architecture. What I’m specifically referring to is wilful anti-pragmatism that betrays a sort of insecurity...it’s hard to define but easier to recognize.

Finding the balance between pointless over-engineering and rigidity on one hand, and good software design on the other, consistently, is what seems to distinguish great programmers I’ve worked with, from those who are “just” very good.

But, like I said, it often isn’t worth the trouble fighting about these things, even when we see them, and getting on with the job is more important than ensnaring oneself in religious debates on projects.
How is it any different in any way than any other async function? You just end up providing an unusually large number of parameters via headers and body, then at some point in the future the request completes with values and/or errors. What separates them?
A chronology like this might replace one year of reading a generalist newspaper and eliminate most of the noise.

The link is relevant but the title misjudges it. Please change it to "2017" only.
I think some reasons for still using HTTPS as a starting point are the ease of proxying (load balancing), the support for virtual server names, the fact it's easy to use from a web browser, the built-in encryption with TLS.
If you see something like this taking place but do not say anything, you are a victim?
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> "OK, so what other domains of knowledge about the external world are there?"

How do you think we acquired knowledge before the scientific method was devised?
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I've just found this site which brought to me my youth.
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"ClassicReload was setup for preservation of 5,000+ old retro abandonware games and abandoned OS/interfaces that you can play online right in your web browser for education and research purposes. There is just something magical about the old DOS games that just brings back memories and takes many of us back to our childhood or a time when things were simpler and just as much fun without all the animation that is the standard these days. These games were from a time when there were so many different types of PC's on the market that all had different hardware. You will notice that many of the games will let you change sounds cards, graphics cards etc. There was so much change in the 80’s and 90’s with DOS games and many seem to be all but forgotten, but we have them here! (If there is a game missing shoot us a message and we’ll put it up.)
This website was not only setup to try to preserve these games, but also to make them playable for free on modern desktop computers, tablets and phones. Before you get started make sure that you are using the latest Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox."
The best technologies can be understood and used in a simple case by a beginner but still "unfurl" to handle the general case.

The worst force you to embrace the entire complexity before you can even hello world.

Progress is being made.
Sure, users want to have their cake and eat it too: a free browser, open, produced by invisible elves.

But so does Mozilla. They're a big enterprise when it suits them, and a scrappy upstart otherwise.

The Mozilla brand is looking mighty shabby. Privacy is the one thing they've consistently pushed, and yet I can't recall any serious innovation or stance they've taken on recent years that actually puts their money where their mouth is.

Private browsing was invented by Chrome. Brave shields you from script bloat. Safari's adding machine learning to that end.

Which leaves Mozilla... pushing adware onto its users. Qué?

It's disingenuous to say that users should be able to intuit how it's all organized and how they can contribute, when something like this clearly only happens because of privileged first party involvement with real revenue attached.

Unless you're suggesting that anyone who wishes to spam a campaign to Firefox users can just get that done by opening up an issue and submitting a patch...?
The radio when driving by myself, preferably news to stay up to date or bring in new information rather than having my private listening material isolate me from the outside world.

When I commute, there are a number of venues along the way which offer live music 7 nights a week, I have my favorite and a couple preferred backups, with no to low cover charge except for weekends, when I'm not commuting anyway.

A mixture of familiar and new musicians usually more than one night a week.

I tip the bands who I appreciate and if no one is dancing then I get out there and boogie which brings more people out front and the musicians love it.

Also only drink alcohol in this environment, never at home or anywhere else, and always in very limited amounts just to socialize and support the venue, since I want it to wear off before driving afterward. Tip the bartenders too at least 30 percent.

I don't make time for this, more like happy hours after working late so I can keep up a 50 to 60 hour week (to accomplish twice as many scientific breakthroughs compared to 40 hours).

The alternative would be fewer breakthroughs and almost as many hours in traffic when leaving the lab at 5.

I am now acquainted with hundreds of musicians and other music lovers, many of them engineers or amazingly brilliant in many different ways. A while back one of the visiting bass players turned out to be the chairman of the math department for a major university a few hours from here.

Turns out I could start a new company as easily as my own band with like-minded exceptional individuals whom I have much deeper insight into than most founders.

Yes it is costly, about as much as a few CD's a week, more if I eat at the venues having excellent kitchens.

Musicians still often just give me a CD even though I tell them I only listen to it once before passing it on to some one else.
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yes agree about ngx_pagespeed but personally never liked the idea of keeping care of nginx compilation (and all the modules). My advice: https://github.com/cryptofuture/nginx-hda-bundle so that you can use nginx, brotli and pagespeed all in one package :)
By that standard Saudi Arabia has freedom of speech. There's just consequences - sometimes beheading.

Getting fired is only marginally better.

But glad you support repression when it supports you.
Look at your graph. It is is the same as engineering. And in that graph, Math and Physics don't separate out education degrees.
I am sorry, but to be honest your comment suggests that you do not have tiniest idea of how insulting the first sentence of your comment is. Instead of simply conveying the idea that things are expensive, the first sentence of your comment is styled as a personal attack, which does not add to the discussion and should not have been included. For example, an alternative first sentence, which conveys the point being made without being a personal attack would be "Medical research is hard."

Regarding the substance of your remarks, if 10,000 people have a rare disease then the 100 million dollars it takes to develop that therapy can only be amortized over that small pool, which translates to $10,000 per person, assuming that every person pays for the therapy.

If 3 billion people (a rough estimate of everyone connected to the internet) is the market size for hair/eye color treatment and the 10 billion dollars of R&D gets amortized over that full-size, then the cost is $3.33 per person. If only 10% of people want to change colors, and only 10% of those people are willing to partake in the therapy, then the cost becomes $333.33 per person to amortize the R&D expense, which is in the same order of magnitude as contacts or a salon hair treatment.
There's no way around it: US healthcare realistically costs about twice as much as what comparable developed nations pay per capita.

That's a combination of a few things:

1) US wages are far higher than most developed nations (50% higher than Japan for example). People often want to blame eg big pharma for costs, or big insurance; in reality, those are only about 1/4 of the $1 trillion over-cost problem, the rest is over-consumption of services and very high wages in the health system (eg radiologists will make three to five times in the US what they do in France; nurses in the US make ~60% more than nurses in Germany).

2) US healthcare consumers consume far more healthcare services than in other developed nations. Americans are used to heavily abusing their healthcare. One of the biggest ways socialized systems bring down costs is by aggressively rationing care.

3) US health is quite poor at the median, thanks to diet and lifestyle in general. Some other nations like Britain have partially caught up to the US in obesity, but the US still leads. Combine mediocre health with a system in which the consumers over-consume healthcare services, and you get an explosion of cost. That cost spike happens to coincide almost perfectly with the ramp up in obesity in the US during the 1990s (the aging boomers also accelerated it).

4) US healthcare consumers have a big layer of separation between them and their healthcare costs. The majority never actually touch the real cost of their healthcare. They're getting their health coverage either through government programs, or through their employer. That has been a big cause of the healthcare cost inflation. The US has a badly structured government-market healthcare system today, that has few mechanisms to restrain costs well (either on the market side or the government side).
Can we really apply the anthropic principle so narrowly? Are we to conclude that my risk of death when crossing the street could be really high, and I can’t tell anything from the fact that it hasn’t happened because I wouldn’t be around to think about it if it had?
you are right I asked them about adding the option to compile WASM or WAST (instead of c), but the answer was that 'there are no use cases'. of cause 'learning' would be just one.
The way to 'show' a blog post to HN is as a regular submission. "Show HN" is for things the user has made that the community can "play with or try out". It's an interesting read, but the title is misleading because of how articles get classified.
The military is a black hole for money. Check out the GAO reports on things like expense management.
Are Canadian vpn services subject to NN regulations?
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> I felt that this was evidence that, like S, all of the other more senior men who had showed interest in my research must actually have only been trying to sleep with me.

This is one of the intangible yet insidious impacts of harrassment that men really need to stop and take notice of. As a man, I've been fortunate enough never to have been put in a situation where I've had to doubt that interest in my work was merely a ploy to get me in bed. Think of the massive impact such a doubt can have on a young scholar, struggling to prove onesself, fighting self doubt and imposter syndrome. Then when senior colleagues pay attention to your work, and you find out that their interest was more salacious than professional, it must be hugely demoralizing. I'm sure this accounts for at least some of the gender disparity in technical fields, how many women simply vacated the field after people would only use their work as a pick-up line?

> We need to start holding prominent individuals accountable for how their inappropriate behavior negatively impacts the careers of their junior colleagues.

Holding them accountable is not enough, we need to ruin them. Everyone in S's group at Google should submit their resignation, conferences should blacklist him, editors should reject his manuscripts, grant money should be withdrawn, and the entire field should shun him and his kind until the message is clear that science will not tolerate this behavior.

I don't care how good of a researcher he is, how much of a "Bayesian expert" he claims to be, I could never read a paper of his or hear him talk without feeling disgust that here's yet another ego-consumed hyper-nerd who exploits his talents to gain power that he can use as leverage to satisfy his lust. Screw you, S, and the Bayesian prior you rode in on.
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It exist mathematical model of time?
I think that allmost all of us didn't asks what is time. I am looking after mathematical formalization of time. I found the following link but doesn't exist to much documentation related to this topic.

https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/physics-logic-and-mathematics-time
So what's going on with those Hungarian words on the disassembler pic? :)
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Great point. Someone needed to bring the long winded medium post to reality. I cringe at medium links.
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In my reading of the document, the use of 'adjustment' does not mean that the underlying spending occurred in a single year only that the correction did. So the error could have accumulated over many years.

It might also be write-downs on assets that should have been taken over decades and weren't.

I'd love an actual accountants' (or anyone else's) take on things, but that explains at least how both the total budget number and the adjustment number can both be correct.
Underground freeways? Wow. I didn't realize that was the target of The Boring Company. I thought it was a start at making Hyperloop a thing. That would have (to me) made more sense than underground freeways.

This is a scathing review, but I can't really find anything inaccurate in it. Perhaps I didn't try hard enough, but the thought of riding hundreds of miles underground doesn't make me enthusiastic about looking for ways to make it more real. I've seen what happens when Lithium batteries catch on fire, and I wouldn't want to be stuck in a tunnel when that happened.
Elon Musk seems like a rich guy from the California suburbs interested in decarbonizing his lifestyle— a reasonably noble goal, but the California suburbs have a ton of issues totally unrelated to their ecological footprint— not least of which is that their car-dependent transportation system can't scale beyond a certain level of density without massive congestion. And preventing them from scaling beyond that density instead results in a profoundly broken housing market because everyone who wants to live in California is required to bid up a profoundly expensive patch of land.

A modest improvement in road throughput from automation is nothing but a short-term solution, and might well make congestion worse because of the reduced time/attention cost of driving— potentially much worse, since people many more people could move into RVs occupying the only free land in coastal California, its roads.

Elon Musk does not look like a smart guy when he rejects what clever outsiders who have been paying attention to these issues for years have to say and by calling them idiots— after all, he supposedly got into rocketry by devouring textbooks, not by getting angry during his commute.

This graphic makes the point about why cars can never be a solution for mass urban mobility better than pretty much anything else:
https://i.imgur.com/sCvRIEd.gif
I think you said "abusing" when you meant "using".
>What if you’re stuck in an hour-long SCRUM meeting and need to reverse engineer your watch’s firmware with pen and paper to retain your own sanity?”

The worst of the worst meetings.
I question the sanity of anyone working at uber who isn't at least making preparations to abandon ship at this point.
You can purchase a three-phase 230V / 80A wall charging station from Tesla.

If you are running a fleet and need a lot of capacity, then you can throw money at Tesla and get a private supercharging deployment (they've done it before).
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Cultures are complex things; encompassing, amongst others, habits of thought, a common vocabulary, shared values, a sense of group history, and so on. The hacker culture is indeed quite heavily defined by its ways of thinking and shared values, which don't need to be learned from "some damn book". However, all the other aspects that together constitute a culture do need to be picked up from other members of said culture - and with a culture as distributed as hackerdom, that would indeed be best done by reading books.