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If Facebook is making a better product, one that people want to use more, with the intention of keeping users on the platform, how can we fault them?

Do we blame TV makers for wanting to sell additional techniques?

Facebook seems to conduct its business in a relatively ethical way, it certainly doesn't seem to go out of its way to make it addictive, they're preocupied with making it more functional - they're adding features constantly.
> And that same mentality is very often the way we bring up children. Play it safe. Get a good job. Prioritize work over your own desires. Sacrifice yourself for others. And whatever you do, make sure it goes well.

It's always been that way. Self-sacrifice is a common theme in religions and cultures. The idea that life should be a pursuit of pleasure is very modern.
replying to sibling - i recall reading that ICBMs use celestial navigation.
You've gotten quiet, but are posting on other threads (apologies, but you're someone whose comments I follow here on HN). I'm genuinely curious to hear out the logic you brought to this comment about Google backdooring U2F tokens, and also about what security hardware you do trust.
"Epyc data-center graphics processing unit (GPU), which has been out for a year"

Uh, do they mean vega GPUs or EPYC CPUs?

That aside, the experience I've have had with the EPYC cpus has been awesome. They are truly amazing for the price tag.
Taxis in Australia have cameras.
GLONASS is supported in every major GPS-receiving chipset these days (including those in smartphones, etc), because Russia put a huge import tariff on any satellite navigation equipment that isn't GLONASS capable. So the manufacturers of such, who were already doing it, made GPS Rx chips that also listen to GLONASS.

https://books.google.com/books?id=DuoKFiZKbwEC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA...

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/21/the-iphone-4s-glonas...

this is pretty old news.
> b)Economists Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber notes “A 1 percentage point increase in the foreign STEM share of a city’s total employment increased the wage growth of native college-educated labor by about 7–8 percentage points and the wage growth of non-college-educated natives by 3–4 percentage points.”

I don't doubt this correlation, but I do doubt that the relationship is causal in the direction suggested. More likely higher less supply of naive work to meet the needs of local industry -> both higher native wages and greater effort toward and eligibility for visa sponsorship for foreign workers.
My understanding was that all (or most) applications are processed in 4th quarter of a fiscal year. That's because lottery is done in April (with results in May/June). So, comparing quarters of the same year make zero sense to me. Am I missing or misunderstanding something?
the same old story: the US ruins everything. Why was I born here again? fml
While it's true that Elixir certainly wasn't built from the ground up, and it has benefited heavily from the work of Ericsson on Erlang, Elixir is more than Erlang with different syntax. A lot of stuff in Elixir was rewritten so that people can read the source in Elixir, and not have to know too much about Erlang.
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And it's a job that has existed way before Facebook too-- Disneyland is designed to be lovable and make you spend money. TV shows are designed to keep you hooked and on the edge for the next episode. Movie theatres are designed to make you crave soda and popcorn. Candy and soft drinks are designed to be sugary so people keep wanting more.

I think all this is terrible-- the world ends up becoming landmine after landmine of companies trying to pull you in and get your money-- but lets keep in mind it's nothing new or unique. Just standard business in an free market economy.
The real answer is star navigation at night and interial + sun guided during the day. Phone hardware is perfectly capable but ITAR says otherwise. There's a reason why every legal GPS receiver shuts down after altitude or speed limits are exceeded. Too easy to make weapons that fly in your window from hundreds of miles away, basically
don't make an ass out of u and me :P
I absolutely agree in the first bit. I'm a strong believer in "trust but verify" where you develop relationships based on trust by default with a healthy layer of auditing to inspire confidence long term. My concern is that the ROI of trust by default in the past has opened up our contemporary systems to an unprecedented attack vector.

The surprising part is that this phenomena has extended to geopolitics: having control over the GPS constellation is the kind of thing that would have single handedly decided both world wars, yet is now taken for granted by intelligence operatives of hostile nations using our GPS system. It's hard to believe it's worked for so long.

As for the Christian value of honesty stuff, I strongly disagree. Communities of chimpanzees and prairie dogs!! commonly exhibit social behaviors that would be indistinguishable from humans despite the fact that they have no formalized moral framework. Chimpanzees or prairie dogs who yell wolf too many times will be ignored. Those that are dishonest or manipulative are shunned. Those that are too aggressive are put down by the tribe.

Christianity has nothing to do with it. Honesty is a necessary trait for survival of any complex species dependent on communication for survival
There’s a big difference between “I’ve been practicing a bunch of different parts of a thing and now I can actually do the thing pretty decently” and “I have never done this thing before and suddenly I am doing the thing at a semi-pro level”.

To use your example, this article is about people who had never played piano in their life, but suddenly sat in front of one and started flawlessly improvising the blues without all that time practicing the different parts of the blues...
They still need GPS for periodic correction.
The part of GDPR that I find unreasonable is the requirement to appoint an EU representative. It makes small companies with no presence in the EU Hire someone in the EU if they want to comply, which could be necessary if they sell to companies that do have an EU presence. Granted, a single person can act as a representative for a few companies, but the estimate is still around 20,000 Europeans that need to be hired for this strictly unnecessary position. It's wasteful and stupid.
Autocorrect fail. Tiered.

Yes, moved every two years. Not ideal, but couldn't have afforded the places I moved into two years earlier and moving produces high quality of life gain.
- Prevent tech companies from asserting bullshit
- If you're lucky, they move out
- Other businesses can thrive
- Even though these rules don't apply to already established companies like twitter and google, can somebody kick them out of SF too? kthx.
Yeah. If you don't include the header from the source file you will inevitably end up with differing function signatures in the header and source files because the compiler won't be able to compare the declaration and definition to each other. Such a program may even link.
> Because that should be table-stakes for the profession.

By your definition, most of the 736 players who played in FIFA 2018 world cup few weeks ago do not posses any special athletic skills - they merely posses skills that are table-stakes for their profession. Yet, most reasonable people would not hesitate to call those players elite athletes.

What I am trying to point out is that H-1B is not about finding that outstanding developer. These are people who have a high level of skill in a specialized occupation.

Edit: you expanded on you original one-liner with anecdote. I am quoting the one-liner I was reponding to here.
Very true. I just started playing basketball for the first time in over 20 years. I'm 31 and pretty overweight (300+ at 5"11') and I've been playing for three weeks. After the first week I got my ass kicked by my in-shape friend who plays recreationally in 1v1 over and over again. After two weeks of 3+ hours /day I beat him handily a few times.

Granted, he hadn't touched the ball since our last set of matches but I'm not letting that take the wind put of my sails.

Obsession is the name of the game. Balance is for chumps. Nobody ever got great at anything by spending a reasonable and well adjusted amount of time working on it.
Wait, if the company was acquired by a Huawei proxy, how is that same as whatever GP is insinuating?

Full disclosure: I work for Huawei; I am not paid to shill; I am not Chinese.
You get downvoted because you are 100% correct, and it's kind of shameful for adults to even need this pointed out to them. Without knowing, you're uncovering years, sometimes decades of self-deception.

"why Mars? because it's next", "exploration if a survival trait" and all such stuff is what kids tell to each under under the bed cover -- you just turned on the light, and only the best of them don't resent that.
Is running TensorFlow on GPUs still relevant now that google has their TPUs? Other dedicated hardware is also coming.
Sometimes the defensiveness arises because of our offensive media atmosphere... the feeling is some of the journalist's quotes/"facts" may be mis-attributed, taken out of context, or straight up lies hoping to get a response that can be quoted out of context.

Even supportive facts/quotes can cause concern. Subject matter experts have a reputation on the line, while the journalist is often just looking for a story.
How much of the success of apple is the combination of Tim Cook and Jony Ive then? Where can we draw the line from them and what made Steve a critical piece of the puzzle.
> You're expecting us to believe nobody on your team would take a payout from or be coerced by US LEO's or spooks. That's crazy.

No, we're saying that we don't store the data partly so that such a scenario isn't available because historical data simply doesn't exist.

> It's better to not put you in that position of us having to trust you like that.

Look, we freely admit that you can't verify that we do this. If we are part of your threat model, you probably shouldn't rely on us doing it. If we aren't, then it's an additional layer of security relative to other providers who explicitly don't. If you receive unencrypted email, which is virtually everyone, those are your two options. Regardless of whether you believe us, we're still going to do it, because it's better for us and its better for users. There is no 'third way' that allows us or anyone else to receive unencrypted mail on your behalf and verifiably not save a copy. The only solution is to not have unencrypted mail, which is part of the reason we spent a year developing easy-to-use PGP interoperability.
The little kid inside me is jumping up and down, like I have seen Santa. My belief in Mars hosting simple life forms is stronger than ever now. May be NASA already has data for it, but hasn't finished yet sifting through it. Amazing news!
You can do the exact same thing in C++: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/pimpl
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> Except Twitter has much higher quality content from original sources, experts, celebrities, etc.

My comment is subjective, but yours is too, so what gives here it goes: I doubt this is the case. I think I just see people post "more" on Twitter.

If I'm looking for quality content from experts I'd go to StackExchange, indpenendet websites/blogs or just go buy Nature magazine.
Have you ever engaged in any sport and seen young people develop? You would immediately see that some people just "get it" and are better than others. They are faster, stronger and move better. The superstars are the ones who combine talent with hard work.
Black Scholes is a terrible model though. Just ask LTCM what they think of Bob and Myron's toy.

Put another way, "don't get high on your own supply."
there will be some shifting around as the industry begins the Matlab exodus

Stats I’ve seen on applicants/job broken down by language suggest that that is already well underway - tho’ Python/R seem to be where the demand has shifted to
And they're about to drop their new 24 & 32-core threadripper CPUs in a few weeks, for which Intel has no economically viable response. AMD is going is going to crush their earning reports for the next few quarters.
I can't think of anything from Rails that I can't do in Phoenix (i've been a Rails dev for 6 years, and working with Elixir/Phoenix for 2). Of course when it comes to the more exotic or rare libraries, they might be easier to find gems for in Rails, than in Phoenix, but in my experience Phoenix has most of it these days. I would say as far as simplicity and dev speed goes, Phoenix and Rails are pretty similar, and Ruby and Elixir are pretty similar. Elixir has a slightly steeper learning curve than Ruby, and Rails has more tuts/docs/etc. than Phoenix, but that's about it.

What exactly makes you say that Rails is a clear win over Phoenix for CRUD stuff?
This might be crazy, but... I think it would be kinda cool if tabs were a Thing at the window-manager level. It’s sort of a reverse approach to solving the Electron “problem”- instead of making web applications more like desktop applications, make desktop applications (including browsers) work more seamlessly together.
> The ACA helped a bit but it did not affect the root cause

Given the enormous cost of helping even a bit, I would expect affecting the root cause would have netted the entire party a damnatio memoriae.
Global variables are bad (2013)
Do you have any arguments against the content of her talk?
Civilization has proven very resilient in the face of one of its hidden SPOFs being destroyed/attacked. The same is true for two and three of those SPOFs being damaged at the same time.

I'm not convinced there wouldn't be a system degradation cliff after that point of 3+ SPOFs being attacked, e.g. a GPS issue, a massive BGP hack, Tier 3 Comm. or equivalent outage, and a DNS issue--all around the same time.

That "cliff" could cause a biblical amount of damage.

I'm sure those could all be mitigated, but the idea of them failing all at once, even coincidentally, is terrifying.
Facebook can't be doing well: they're running ads on the New York Times app, trying to convince me to join.

And these aren't flattering ads either: they emphasize that I'd be joining "2 billion users" and that "it's free to sign up." They're bargain basement and have a desperate vibe.
> Just five days after the introduction of the law, the US state department invoked the 1935 amendments to the Law of Importation and Exportation of Narcotic Drugs. The amendments allowed the US to establish an export embargo on narcotics like morphine and cocaine when it deemed the objectives of a country to be neither medical nor scientific.

A state has no right to manage its narcotics exports?

> Early 1930s Japan is the world’s leading cocaine producer (23.3%) followed by the United States (21.3%), Germany (15%), U.K. (9.9%), France (8.3%). [1]

[1] https://www.narconon.org/drug-information/cocaine-timeline.h...
Could you give any example of such catastrophes? While I understand there are lots of such points of failure, relatively speaking, I personally feel the consequence of them failing is often exaggerated, and more importantly, human civilization are really good at make quick fix when it matters.
Not everyone agreees on this "basic necessity"

There is hardly anything more capitalistic than the Mises institute. Yet they share these ideas!

https://mises.org/library/patents-and-copyrights-should-be-r...

https://mises.org/library/there-room-intellectual-property-r...

extracts: "Like many libertarians, I initially assumed intellectual property (IP) was a legitimate type of property right. But I had misgivings from the start: there was just something too utilitarian..."
Can that statistic be interpreted as 65% of people who use Facebook at all use it every day? That’s some pretty impressive stickiness
The computer lab manager at the Uni I went to was obsessed with Apple, and he had one of the 601 based PowerMac's as well. And yes, I can confirm how underwhelming it was. Granted much of the OS was 68000 based, which certainly didn't help things in the slightest, but even Wolfenstein 3D on the thing really didn't run all that much better than our existing 486DX/2 66's.

Running on Intel certainly saved NeXT in that by version 3.3 with the ability to support IDE CD-ROM's the cost of a machine that could run NeXTSTEP 3.3 had dropped dramatically. It's just a shame that the OS cost nearly as much as the machine.

Being more open like the later Darwin sure may have helped, although I don't think NeXT much like later on Apple really wanted to either take in code from outsiders, or made the open software rediably usable.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that educated, competent workers in useful fields are exactly the kind of people you would want to have immigrate and become permanent citizens. So the whole H1-B charade is rather stupid from that perspective- if they are really effective workers that cannot be found domestically, why put them into a shitty indentured servitude?

You deal with too many sub-par people that tick a certain box, and your estimation of people that tick that box naturally goes down. There are very good people that are chained at companies with H1-B visas, but it is hard to battle what Bayes' Theorem tells you.
Dependent is a strong word. If the USA disappeared tomorrow, the rest of the world would reorganise quickly enough; the global economy would settle into a new normal within a few years.

I'd go out on a limb and assert that if China disappeared tomorrow, the consequences to the world economy would be far more devastating. So much of the global economy is tied—directly or indirectly—to Chinese manufacturing. It would take multiple decades for the world to replace the supply chains and highly skilled labour.
Galileo is catching up too. There is a supported device list here: https://www.usegalileo.eu/EN/. In addition, Galileo was just added in a recent software update to some Garmin watches. (Interestingly, they have supported GLONASS for a while.)
The closing auction signifies the end of regular trading hours (where more rules are in effect) but not the end of all trading. US stocks now trade 24/5 on at least one market, and well beyond 4pm ET on many more.
At the quantum level gravity is not explained properly yet. My favorite rant is from Heisenberg in his autobiography.

But even on the astronomic level GR leaves the dark matter hole, which is a non-satisfactory explanation to many.
Elegant yes, but certainly not proper.
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Be sure to investigate the journalist's background, and the article's audience. Articles written for laymen by a general-purpose news source often just pawn off IT stories on their most tech-literate writer. Don't put your trust in filler.

News is still good. The HN front page surfaces good tech news, while reputable newspapers are still reputable in their area of expertise. Don't confuse the Gell-Mann [1] effect with Dunning-Kruger [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I've seen a lot of debate over this, but I find greenthreads so much simpler to work with and reason about, on top of keeping my code clean and completely interoperable with my synchronous code.

This is off-topic from the current JavaScript discussion, but even though Python introduced "first-class" async support a while ago, I still exclusively use gevent [1] for all of my concurrency needs. It provides full greenthread support for Python. It's extremely performant on top of being simple and clean to integrate. In contrast, Python's asyncio and async/await feels needlessly verbose and tortuous, often with full rewrites or replacements of libraries required to actually take advantage of the features (e.g. https://github.com/requests/requests vs. https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp). With gevent, I can just put whatever code I want into a greenthread and get instant asynchronicity (excluding hiccups with a few 3rd party libraries that have network I/O in native extensions, which is rare).

The one downside is it achieves its magic with standard library monkeypatching, which is pretty hideous, but it's done very seamlessly. Developers are able to write the exact same code with or without monkeypatching and not worry about what it's doing. I've never encountered an issue with the monkeypatching when using any standard or 3rd party library.

[1] http://www.gevent.org/
Onedrive on ios has a “shake to send feedback” but it can be disabled on the onedrive’s setings menu. I cant see the same on vlc and i couldnt reproduce the effect. maybe its the version you have? it may share some framework or library with this feature enabled by default (pure speculation i admit).
Why does this strike you as a revelation? Of course they'll get defensive when you challenge their beliefs.
Also, incidentally, there's a small group of mainstream RPG fans who get absolutely furious about anything resembling GNS or story games, for no reason I've ever been able to determine.

(But then Ron Edwards infamously said that traditional/D&D-style RPGs literally cause brain damage, so I suppose there's a lot of defensiveness to go around...)
I don't think it'd matter for the future of Apple though. Since Steve had purchased Pixar, he had that 'in' for the entertainment industry and he was able to squeeze both music and film to get content for his iPod. Once they put the iPod on Windows Apple became a far more profitable media company.

The iPhone just further cemented Apple's position as the device people want to carry to consume media. I don't see how going with Gasse or Be would have made the Apple of today possible.
1. Mobile apps are native, not web views
2. That's not what the TLS key was subpoenaed for--it was a very different system with a set of vulnerabilities we don't have, including a server-side encrypt mode and non-PFS TLS ciphers.
3. Again, if we are part of your threat model, you can run the web client locally and audit it yourself if this is a concern.
Your description of writing an app for your platform sounds fine...but in that same era they were throwing Instant Personalization out there. Which was profoundly fucked up; I was involved with the deployment of it at a large site, hated it the entire time, and the creepy behavior of it was a fairly big reason why I left that company.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-instant-personalizati...
whose appeal is not specialization but simply being cheap

If there was genuinely a shortage of tech workers there would be no ageism (or any other sort of -ism) nor would there be these elaborate multi-day hoop-jumping interviews.
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