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Yes, I’m seeing a lot of assumptions that unions are purely (or at least mostly) forces of good, but that’s not necessarily true. Auto workers’ unions in particular have a reputation of being bullies, extortionists, and sometimes obstructionists. Unionization of Tesla may improve conditions for the workers (though it’s worth noting that many auto union member companies still have serious unaddressed issues) but it’d also likely slow the company to a crawl and rob it of much of its agility.

I think that Tesla’s worker treatment problems should absolutely be addressed but I wouldn’t be so sure that unions are the answer.
The journalists refute what Tesla is saying in their ongoing AMA:

Hi there, we did this reporting completely independently of the union.

This is another instance of deceptive Tesla wording, when Tesla says:

working directly with union supporters

what they mean is that some of the workers Reveal interviewed were in the union. Of course some of the interviewees weren't tied to the union but those go unmentioned.
Would a mind greater than I please weigh in on a potential path to using BrainFuck to do some type of meaningful task (simple server, cli tool, etc)?

From what I can tell, the best bet is using it to to write the source code for another language and run that code since most examples seem to just print strings or increment values.

Is there a meaningful set of primitives one can incrementally build on the core language to make usable code?
Not of this scale, at least at the moment. Starlink will have over 4,400 satellites, in its initially approved form.
Listen up, kids! Always do what everyone else is doing, never make anyone mad, always choose the popular path.

/s

It seems like everything worth doing nowadays results in someone hating you.
In a "real" war, it's not a question of which airplane would win in a duel, but which airplaine + crew is more cost effective at destroying the other.

Could F-35s take on 10x their number of F-16s? The answer is not obviously yes to me, particularly in light of the Yugoslavian kill against an F-117a.
Aren't their engines terrible?
Because I can see nothing on that sites that resembles marketing, at all.. (Specific the front page and its news.)

I guess the war machine needs to function so that we only focus on the left hand, and ignores what the right hand does.
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You've shown that it is possible to shorten or lengthen sentences by picking less or more applicable or "conceptually dense" words. Example: "the wall is black" vs "the wall absorbs a significant fraction of the visible light spectrum."

God in some form is indeed a simpler and more straightforward concept than evolution, especially when you consider the whole of evolutionary theory beyond Darwin. It's a very deep and complex subject.

Ockham's razor is not "the simplest idea is true." It's "In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is probably the correct one." Ockham's razor is probably related to thermodynamics since more complex explanations imply more complex structures. Extremely complex structures and thus explanations do exist, but they're less likely.

In the case of Tesla there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that they're currently the target of a massive negative PR campaign. I am not necessarily defending them if they have in fact treated employees badly, and both things could be true as I said elsewhere.
Other tech companies have PACs that also make questionable alliances: https://donationsfrom.tech/
Needs access to: Device & app history, Location, Identity, Photos/media/files, Camera, Microphone, Other.

So, everything.
Not this century, maybe.
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Only if you assume the concept of "nation" will outlast the concept of "war".

There are a number of reasons to believe that the future of warfare will look much more like Syria, i.e. states implode from within and then break apart into a number of warring factions, each fighting over territory & resources within the carcass of the state. Actually, most of the bloodiest 20th century conflicts were of this type (eg. Russian & Chinese civil wars, Rwandan genocide & Congo Wars, civil wars in Nigeria/Sudan/Ethiopia), and historically the highest death tolls have usually occurred in civil wars where an empire breaks up or in conquests when a much more developed power invades a less-developed power (eg. Mongol conquests or European conquest of America).

WW2 was a historical anomaly in that it was fought between developed nations. It's an anomaly we pay a lot of attention to, though, because it led to the current international system of American hegemony and history tends to get written by the victors.
Yeah, there was a guy who was nicknamed the baby whisperer, recently died. Said while being able to help other parents, he was at a loss with his own children, well, to a degree.
I realize that the F-35 is a stealth fighter, but I can't help but think of this quote whenever the F-35 is mentioned.

The results were crushing. In not a single dogfight was the F-35 able to either defend itself against an attack from the F-16 or to convert its attack into a kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8xzLxFIjno
How do you categorize the series of multi-state "police actions" and the current goat rodeo in Syria, if not nation-states squabbling over resources?
With Larry, there's going to be a self interest angle driving it completely. Literally 0 chance of him "doing good".

Feel free to dig into the details though if you want. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out where the rot is. :)
What about termbox, it's a good enough abstraction for coding application for the terminal.
So much this! I have a friend who teaches special needs children. She is amazing at her job. She can handle all the worst behaving kids like you wouldn't believe. Her experience is always that the biggest problem for many (most?) of her students with behavioral problems is, when she meets their parents, it's clear they have no boundaries, and the children get away with murder at home.

So much of being a parent is saying no, and having clear consequences when behavior is inappropriate. I can feel my pre frontal cortex getting exhausted when I watch my children, it's just so clear that theirs has yet to develop, and I need to be their behavior regulator.
> But I see most people switching to white lists. Anyone not in your address book will get sent to voicemail right away.

Imagine the future of mobile adware...where they get access to your contact list, generate generic names of similar ethnicity to your real contacts, and add fake contacts. Or they add additional numbers to contacts you already have.

"Oh, my friend Stan is calling. DANGIT NO I DON'T WANT A MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT PLAN!"
Mostly the founders and existing whales buying their own coins. A number of the ICOs are raising millions with only a couple hundred different investors (it’s a little club). Then when the coin is traded on the market the “investors” sell a portion for a massive profit.
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You're falling prey to the very common "p-value fallacy." P-values talk about the likelihood of the data, not the likelihood of the hypothesis. The two are unfortunately not linked.
I wonder if you can run VDO on top of ZFS.

Or is there a better way to handle snapshots and data integrity (block level checksums)?

Without block level checksums, a single corrupted data block could corrupt half of your virtual machine images...
The F-111 Aardvark:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardv...
Actually the links are useful. The author has a a huge misunderstanding about how exchanges work. I know enough about exchanges that I know he is not only wrong but doesn't understand them at all. Therefore I have to treat his other work with a similar degree of scepticism.

The Murray-Gellman Effect

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...
Why do people think that? A lot of cars are poor quality by design and choice of material. I drive German cars and there are certain choices in design and material don't stand up to time. I understand why those choices were made (70% of luxury cars are leased and aren't expected to be owned past 5 years). From an engineering point of view, the cars were optimized for a certain "fitness function". I imagine American cars were designed to optimize for certain constraints too. I also know that a large number of Japanese brand cars are in fact built in the US by American auto workers. And their quality and reliability are as high as those built in Japan.

The view you espoused is fairly common but I don't understand why UAW would lead to poor quality cars when cars are designed and built using standardized procedures with machines that perform the same each time (not a rhetorical question, I really don't understand where this view comes from)
With respect to you and your friend, I'm automatically skeptical of stories like this. We're on the internet, after all.

Has your friend spoken to news agencies about this? Why not, if he/she hasn't? Surely any of the major news agencies would be watering at the mouth for a story like this.
Could you please not use allcaps for emphasis in HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
SEO is sometimes seen as a dark art to get your stuff to the top. I'ts not.

Really, SEO means labelling your content so google understands what it is.

After that, it's all about links.
I thought Delphi was mostly dead. I saw a job listing recently and thought it would be kind of cool to go back to it. But when I checked the Tiobe index it's still quite popular at number 11, notably it's above Swift and Objective-C, so apparently it's far from dead.
If you manipulate the two code bases to be in the same module https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst.... Otherwise, export and import which is also covered on that page
Not to mention that ghostery used to sell your data to advertisers. I think they stopped, but how ironic can it get!?
Using longer sentences and adding arbitrary words does not make an explanation more complex.

I was simply pointing out that simplest explanation may not always be the most accurate.
It's a massive document so I'm not going to go through and find it, but here's an interpretation of what I'm talking about [1]:

"The reach of GDPR is broad but is not unlimited. The mere fact that a U.S.-based website can be accessed in the EEA isn’t enough. If the company does not have a physical presence in the EEA, it must be determined whether that company engages in more than incidental contact with EEA residents."

So if someone is going out of their way to mask the fact that they are from the EU, and you aren't otherwise seeking out EU users, you're not going to get in trouble for that. One issue I have with it though is that translation may trigger GDPR exposure, and since Spain is part of the EU, many sites aimed at Spanish speakers (but not aimed at the EU) may have this beast of a law apply to them. I operate a few sites that have Spanish content, so that is deeply troubling.

[1] https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2018/2/the-gdpr-deadline-l...
I am wondering why I do not know of an app that can take over a call and keep the person occupied with an AI. It wouldn't have to be particularly smart, just a plausible synthetic voice (randomized) that holds up the call for a bit.

The robocallers are already using NLP to call me, so why doesn't someone use it to waste their time?
We actually just migrated off yesterday... we went with an independent vendor like Aiven instead of the clouds because they move too slowly and don't have enough features.
It depends how much you are expecting, for instance this WebGL demo does about 15k draw calls per frame on my 2014 MBP with integrated Intel GPU before it drops below 60Hz, that's about 1.8 million WebGL calls per second. On this machine, performance of a native executable is quite similar, so the WASM-to-JS overhead isn't big enough to be noticeable for those 1.8m calls/sec. I know, it's not a really useful benchmark, I guess what I want to say is that for most real-world problems the calling overhead shouldn't matter much, since other things will break down first.

PS: link to demo: http://floooh.github.io/oryol/asmjs/DrawCallPerf.html
False equivalence. The Spanish Armada was massive in scale but there was not an exponential difference in capability against the British Armada as there is with US aviation technology and the rest of the world.
And YouTube is trying out those other business models, however the extreme vast majority of users don't want to pay, and the content creators already have the option to self-host, self-fund, or even use YouTube un-monetized and setup and run their own in-video ads.

YouTube is mainly an ad supported product, and just because other business models exist doesn't mean that you can call curation of the content "censorship".

This would be the exact same situation if say a website used a "subscription" model where you paid per month, then the credit-card processor decided that the content was "unethical" and dropped the video service as a customer. And that's not theoretical, it's happened to many porn hosting websites out there.

"Not playing the game" isn't an option, no matter what at the end of the day you need to "censor" some stuff (even if just to avoid getting in legal trouble), and that "censorship" will always be more strict than absolutely necessary, as the risk for a "not removed but bad video" far outweighs the downsides of a "removed but ultimately not bad video".

We are in the golden age of information in my opinion. It has never been easier to self-host and self-fund your own content in a way that is basically uncensorable. Use it! But don't go trying to change or destroy other platforms that explicitly don't want that content, or want to pursue another business model. This isn't a zero-sum game.
>> That said, none of this means “replacing” JavaScript, no matter what the parent says. It’s a non-goal.

I believe a better term would be "skipping" javascript than "replacing" javascript. There won't be many rewrites but I'm sure that many people would skip JS on new projects if they would have that option.
Why would a Python, Go, Ruby developer choose JavaScript over Python given that their language of choice would compile to WASM(along with DOM/webAPI access)? The ecosystem may be a reason but that's only a matter of time(i.e. 1 -2 years).
People who got it wrong will still hate you because you got it right and they got it wrong. So they will try to convince other people that you got it wrong not them. Its not always black and white.
It's called an analogy. I analogized the Bitcoin markets to a fractional reserve system, as the dollar value of Bitcoins in the Bitcoin market far exceeds the amount of dollars that have been spent chasing after them. The system is accordingly very vulnerable to liquidity shocks.

Re: liquidity facilities, I know for a fact certain exchanges have liquidity facilities from banks that they draw down in times of increased withdrawal demand. If market conditions deteriorate quickly enough those facilities will be withdrawn, which could result in the exchange getting caught with its pants down with a large, dollar-denominated obligation to its banks and no means to get the dollars to repay it. That is the stuff of which insolvency is made.
Thanks for this insight! Now i see the difference and where bias could play a role when recommending a product in case we're affiliated with. In fact, I see this widely used only in the HN community.
Are they going to shoot down thousands of Starlink satellites? That's a massive disaster in space that would destroy their own satellites.
"11. An independent panel that both you and I agree upon will define what it means to be “toxic”."

I mean, that's about as fair as you can get when it comes to negotiating an agreement on something as subjective as "toxicity".
Its horrifying how Musk treats his workers, its very reminiscent of what Amazon does to most of its employees here in Seattle.

Unpaid overtime for warehouse workers? Definitely, as long as the worker doesn't squawk to L&I! Work your developers 10 hours a day, then guilt trip them to coming in on Sunday? Amazon does this constantly. Tesla, SpaceX and Blue Origin seem to have the same work culture as Amazon, even Microsoft or Adobe have better work cultures.

Oh, and Musk is all too happy to intimidate employees: https://www.thedailybeast.com/workers-say-tesla-is-trying-to...
And it's not crazy for the user to grant it permission.
Ask HN: Why marketplace health insurance is much more expensive now than COBRA?
I left my previous employer 1.5 year ago, and had to pay myself for the COBRA provided health insurance. It was pretty expensive as it seemed to me at that time - around $1550 per month for a family of 6 (my wife and I around 40 y.o. and 4 young kids). I remember looking up marketplace insurances at that time at coveredca.com and there were similar deals for cheaper or similar monthly premium.

Now, 1.5 years later, I'm still self-employed and like everything about it, but COBRA period is over and I'm quite surprised to see that marketplace insurances are much worse than they were when checked last. Any insurance with comparable conditions starts anywhere at 2.1-2.5K a month, and that with much larger deductible and out-of-pocket limits (f.e. - on COBRA I had 4.2K out-of-pocket for the whole family, while those deals are all at 14K out-of-pocket limit).

Can someone please explain to me what has happened in 1.5 years? Is this the effect of the "Obamacare" repeal?

And does anybody know of any software devs/engineers professional unions that may provide group plans for self-employed devs?

Any other suggestions what to do?

I'm mentally preparing myself to cash out 2.1k a month for the silver level PPO otherwise (I'm not eligible for the tax credit).

Thank you!
It's questionable if manned high performance fighter aircraft have a vital aka non symbolic role in a modern army. That's not to say the F-35 will not be used or even preform well, but consider unmanned satellites made manned high altitude surveillance obsolete even if they where not as directly useful.
"anything by Sandra Boynton"

The Sandra Boynton children's music CDs are also quite tolerable as such things go.
> Which says to me that it is not a particularly useful definition?

Perhaps you shouldn't call out people who use a valid definition you find "not useful" for lying (mendacity)?

> A crucial nuance that the definition you quoted lacks is that vigilantism is the enforcement of the law by parties not so empowered.

Vigilantism is definitely not "enforcement of the law" since it is often illegal.

I don't think either of us were claiming that this type of vigilante behavior should be illegal. As the legal dictionary you reference points out some types of vigilantism are illegal, others are legal.

What we are pointing out is that vigilantism as a solution to this problem has significant downsides that should not be ignored.

Ideally we are able to reform the justice system so that vigilante action is not required to achieve a just result again criminal offenders.

EDIT: Off topic, I want to also say they I like your vocabulary, you use some good words and looking them up was educational =]
Good one. It reminds me of Hitler's infamous Tiger II tank. Amazing, nearly unstoppable technology; when it didn't break down driving off the factory floor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II
I wouldn't disagree that there is correlation, after all by doing good stuff you get more of a say in what people will pay to have you do it for them. On the player question, if your a Giant's fan you might remember them paying $126M to Barry Zito, a Cy Young award winning pitcher. Somehow I don't think Barry is headed to the Hall of Fame.
It wouldn't. The are designed to withstand hurricanes. It takes extensive preweakening to bring one (or three) down.
> American jets need a shiny aircraft carrier and a coin can mess them up.

Marine variants are VTOL, USAF operates no carriers. As for the coin story, I'm sure you're confusing A) carrier FOD sweeps, which are because small debris traveling at high-speed will cause serious damage or B) one of those stories about some old Chinese woman throwing coins into a jet engine and causing a major delay and extrapolating from there.
Yeah, it seems strange to force people to use type hints when it has had such a mixed reception. I really tried to use type hints with a new project a few months ago, but ended up stripping it all out again because it's just so damn ugly. I wish it were possible to fully define type hints in a separate file for linters, and not mix it in with production code. It's kind of possible to do it, but not fully [1], and mixing type hints inline and in separate files is in my opinion even worse than one or the other.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47350570/is-it-possible-...
> ... I have no idea how anything could be built in the next 10-15 years that will significantly outclass it.

Outclass it at what though? Dogfighting? Bombing? Ground support?

The problem is that it will be outclassed in any single role by a much cheaper aircraft dedicated to that role.
Is there some magic scale threshold?
Alabama produces a million cars a year, in factories that are actually high-tech unlike Tesla’s. You think they are clamoring to bring in an automaker struggling to produce a handful of cars with double the industry injury rate?
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Harriet the Hamster Princess, or really, anything by Ursula Vernon.
This is a self-contradictory statement and the end of which you're blaming unions for something you don't provide evidence.

Citation please.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Per GDPR, it's the controller's (in this case FB is def a controller) responsibility to ensure that their use of data has a legal basis. In this case, since this isn't necessary for fb, the only available basis is consent.

As for your havoc example, that shows nothing. If FB allows people to post image buttons on their site, it's FB's responsibility to ensure consent or delete the data on ingress.
It lost to the F-16 in a dogfight. Dogfights are not relevant in modern warfare and were not the consideration in the F-35s design (as is readily obvious).

When you have missiles traveling at speeds exceeding Mach 2 whether you can win in a dogfight is irrelevant, what is relevant is who sees who first.
Thanks. I will have to look into that.
Confusing example, since both statements are saying the same thing. "Exalting" the "higher" animals over the others is roughly equivalent to thinking there's a God. More precisely they both evidence the same fond desire, and intellectual bias, to impose a dreamed-up hierarchical structure on nature, rather than to describe nature itself. Presumably the first speaker wishes Man to be the God, whereas the second wants God to be the God. Occam's Razor is that they're both wrong and there's no hierarchy or God necessary.
Not me. I always put my fiends phone number into the “win a car” boxes at street fairs. I never get calls.
Top speed is not very useful in modern air combat.

F-35 does something like Mach 1.6 where the F-15 Eagle hit ~Mach 2.5 and F-14 Tomcat hit ~Mach 2.4.

That's not because we can't make a much faster jet, just other compromises are vastly more useful.
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I didn't say that they deserve to be victimized.
> these types of businesses and the industry surrounding them have existed for a long time

And they've failed, via common mechanisms, for as long. Hence why issuers of marketable collateral are tightly regulated. This "innovation" updates an administrative aspect that always worked fine while leaving the dicier back-end not only untouched, but less regulated than before. It's analogous to rolling back to an un-patched OS, changing the color scheme and calling it progress.
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