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If the overall effect is cost-negative, what is the incentive for a company to spend more resources to hire "the disenfranchised" (felons)?
Wellll, except about a mile south of us someone is snapping up the 1200 sq. ft. houses and dropping 3500 sq. ft. warehouses on them. It was kind of sad when I saw the kids playing on the sidewalk, because you could cut the front yard with scissors in about ten minutes, and I imagine the backyard isn't much bigger.

But I take your point. Our little rambler is a hidden gem that will be worth millions when the trend swings the other way. :-)
Accidents will happen, that is inevitable. Autonomous cars don't have to be perfect - they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high.

There are very little examples of autonomous cars causing trouble on the road and plenty of them preventing accidents - an example would be videos on youtube showing Teslas predicting accidents in advance and taking action.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or snarky comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Presumably there's some way to take out bolivar-denominated loans?
> Sadly, it's not even that - we don't have a popular vote, so not all votes have the same weight

The vast majority of elective public offices in the US are directly elected by popular vote.
Talk about mvp :)
> If anyone knows a text reader that isn't a pain in the a (able to read a paragraph or article, and not follow my cursor as I change applications). I'm all ears! ;)

Do you mean a text to speech reader, or a reading tool that helps with dyslexia more generally?
The thing I don't like about prediction markets is the capped liquidity. I want to put my money where my mouth is but then find out there is only 1 share to buy in the market.

What I like about financial/forecasting crypto projects like Pareto Network is that there is no capped upside, and you can still determine the conviction some people have about an outcome

A close runner up is Numerai, given that you can tell the 'confidence' someone has, but the capped upside is arbitrarily capped, and the purpose of the project has nothing to do with censorship resistance and is beholden to the whims of the Numerai hedge fund.
Sure, but while high, that's still not "I'll buy myself a Learjet and a tropical island" level income.

Anyway, the topic was career satisfaction.

Without any good life strategies the happiness money brings peaks at 70k or such (basically you don't have to worry about regular life expenses). So, I would not use the total comp as a metric in this discussion.
The MBA types often come in and milk a company's good reputation for short-term profits. After the reputation is milked dry, they take their wad of cash and bail out. Similar happened to IBM's consulting division when they strongly enforced short-term profit goals. Customers got nickled and dimed, and stopped renewing contracts. Good reputations are hard to come by, don't blow them for a quick high.
Or even the option of inputting the data manually on a local system, so they could use the big displays rather than some whiteboards!
> OK, then what is your objection to the police taking a sample of the meat to the lab for testing?!
>It seems no different than taking any other piece of crime scene or crime-related evidence to me.

It has the same vibe as checking the skirt length of a rape victim, or checking into the sexual history of someone beaten up for being gay, just to be sure they really were gay.
At least in the US you can buy non-US iTunes prepaid cards online to get around this. Maybe that's also a loophole within China?
I would like to believe this article but:

a) Having eaten supposed Thai food in the USA I can tell you it's not Thai! Most of it's Chinese based.

b) You're talking about a government that couldn't organise its way out of a coupe let alone have a foreign policy. There's no way they are organised enough to do this.

It would be a great idea if it was in fact real.
That's a good distinction to make, but I'm definitely talking about actually developed palates. I think that there are many delicious "American Chinese" dishes that can be prepared in a very flavorful and delicate way- but I think most of the time, they aren't. How well do flavors blend, how subtly are the spices added, what's the freshness and texture of the meats, sauces, and carbs- this is the quality that I say 9/10 Asian restaurants are lacking. Really, it's more like 9/10 American restaurants are lacking it, and the numbers might be worse than that.
This should be the top comment in this subthread.

The 95% devaluation doesn't really change anything - unless you were specially connected, you couldn't change bolivars for USD at the official exchange rate. At most this devaluation just brings the official rate back in line with the black market rate, which is the real exchange rate because that's the only rate at which you can actually exchange currency.

Folks holding bolivars (and creditors, and pensioners) were already screwed. This just makes it official.
I'd argue the best way to root out doctored results is with replication of experiments. It's not just because there might be different segments of populations that might react differently and different approaches to doing the study, but also to protect against something more malicious.
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"Keeping the prices low and the content broadly palatable" is a pretty good summary of modern American culture.
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The FOSS of today is as much driven by buzzword bingo as the big corporations (perhaps so much of it is made by people working for big corporations now a days). And the really big buzzword in FOSS these days is containers. In large part thanks to the massive presence of cloud derived thinking (i have been told that basically all that mattered was cloud, as that was were the usage was).
It doesn't. At all. The concepts don't even make sense strung together like that.

Basically, the Venezuelan bolívar isn't worth very much, due to a number of reasons, including rampant printing. They tried passing laws to say it was worth more, but nobody listened, because nobody outside Venezuela cares what the Venezuelan government says (and even inside the country, you can ignore the laws of reality, but it doesn't mean they'll ignore you...). So they made a cryptocurrency of sorts, backed by nothing other than people's faith in the Venezuelan government, which is basically nil, so it was also basically worthless. So they said it was backed by oil, but the only way you can "back" a cryptocurrency with a commodity like that is to just sort of promise you'll totally back it, and (see above) nobody trusts the Vezezuelan government to honour their promises, so it was still basically worthless. They they announced petro gold which was ...I don't even know, maybe a second type of petro coin backed by gold instead, but I don't think that went anywhere because (see above) nobody cares. So now they're passing a law to back the bolívar with the cryptocurrency. So...

...in other words, they're realised that a currency backed by their promises is worthless, so they're trying one backed by a promise to back it with something which is backed by their promises. Because obviously if you don't trust the government to manage the existing bolívar correctly, you'll totally trust them to manage the new one, which is pegged by fiat to a different currency, which you're also trusting them to manage, and which is pegged by fiat to an actual commodity, which you're trusting them to actually have.

Fundamentally, the whole thing is fiat all the way down. An fiat currencies can work very well when well managed by an entity which is trusted by market participants, it doesn't work here, because it's not well managed and nobody trusts anyone. Waving a hash algorithm over your fiat currency doesn't magically make it non-fiat.

(Also! A 95% devaluation is an enormous "fuck you" to anyone who actually still trusted the current Venezuelan government, and will have ensured that any trust that did somehow still remain is now gone. All existing currency, savings, pensions, many contracts, etc., have just been ripped up. And now they're saying "right, now that we've totally screwed anyone who trusted us before, now just trust us when we say that this time, this paper is actually backed by some magic crypto which is actually backed by some oil, totes legit." This couldn't have worked before today, but it double extra can't work now.)
Something on the back of your car, that using a combination of your speed, the distance between you and the car behind you, an understanding of the weight of both cars (using a lookup on the Reg), and the stopping distance, taking into account weather.. is able to calculate the likelihood that the car will crash into you if you slammed on your breaks

And then display that figure in a big lcd panel in your back window.

Haven’t done it, because every time I remember it, I’m driving my car and forget by time I’m home.
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the default for developing new software during the dot com boom. I was told this was due partly because Sun sold a lot of hardware on credit (and then this crashed when the dot com boom crashed.

I think this might be something HP people were telling each other at the time while getting smacked around by Sun. The Sun machines were still ridiculously expensive and while common, I don't think they were the default. SGI Indies were also quite popular and the Pentium Pro quickly started eating the overpriced Unix workstation market. By 2000, I doubt there were that many SV startup developers sitting in front of a Sun box. There were piles of them in server rooms, of course.
Pen and paper - dot grid notebook with a systematic approach. Addition details in the hn thread below.

For professional life: Pen + dot grid notepad - developed independently, but similar to the bullet journal technique. Dot grid plus pens make the whole thing ultra customizable. I can sketch engineering designs, make a calendar, track action items, take detailed notes, all in the same format. The key is to be strict with page numbers, dates, and index as much as possible.

Things I occasionally miss - keyword search (I can still look things up by date or subject in the index), multimedia inserts (think dragging video/photos/sound clips into one note), never ending space (notebooks run out of pages), easy backups (thinking about digitizing with photos or scans), team collaboration (if this is necessary I use Trello).

Things I like - no OS/tech stack compatibility issues, "it just works", lighter then a laptop) tablet, don't need to charge, easy to read, can bring into a secure area (where outside electronics are not permitted), travels well, hard to damage.

http://bulletjournal.com/get-started/

For personal life: add Google keep for simple lists, and then a mix of Trello and dot grid for larger projects (less strict formatting than professional life project management).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17537675
> How are they going to detect the content which is oppressive.

That is not a requirement, but if they get a call from Europol they are required to take the offending content offline.
Well at simplest, if enforced, it will force a company to figure a way to comply. Either get rid of people who share such content or otherwise mute them. If not, you pay fines, preferrably way more than what you profit from letting such voices have a safe haven.

How else do you solve the problem of unwanted ideas spreading around? Serious question, as this is a constant challenge for every social group anywhere.
but are they accurate in a predictive sense, or only in their reaction to events? If the latter, which I think is more likely, it seems kind of a useless way to try and answer questions...
Who is TheZvi and why should we care about what he's talking about? Especially when the about page is still the default WP about page...
Yah. Some people like their celebrities, however those celebrities are also now facing competition by other stars which have far greater community outreach, and influence.

Who do the kids of today look up to? Those are your next celebrities.
Except a lot of people prefer single-family homes?

It doesn't matter what's efficient if it's what is in demand.
The title seems... ambitious.

I read in the bug that other vendors don't have a problem with the license, and I see nothing in detail why Debian might feel otherwise.
>if we assume every single person makes a good engineer.

Not every person makes a good engineer. The US Army, with very good reason to train anyone who is willing, has decided that anyone with an IQ under 83 is not able to be trained to any position.
Thanks, I'm not quite that up to date on my 3.x Python. Cheers.
In the city that I live in, the library downtown (which is unfortunately a bit out of my way) has a free coworking location for remote workers. I hope they extend this out further to the other library branches.

I would love to walk a couple of blocks to a free coworking location, and more cities are going to be trying to accomplish this, I think, in order to attract remote workers, reduce traffic congestion, among other benefits I'm certain.

It doesn't solve the 'everyone in the same room' problem but it does get you out of the house.
Smells like hindsight bias.
I do concurrency in Java all the time with CompletableFuture and threadsafe data structures provided by various libraries, e.g. the Guava caches, and I rarely need to use locks or semaphores. It's a good set of abstractions that make concurrency pretty close to idiot-proof.

Futures in particular make it easy to write concurrent code close to the way you would write single-threaded code, because all of the threading is handled behind the scenes.
Exactly. Apple's like "The App Store is for your protection" but it cuts both ways: It's enabling government control of which software you can install on your device. Unexpected unintended consequences...
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Doesn’t the French government have some leverage via pharmaceutical intellectual property rights? I’m no expert, but I don’t think it’s as simple as “everyone should just buy in bulk like we do.”
Actually, I don't think you can, or rather I can't.

I live in Austria, but I want a US iCloud account. I can't, use non-US iTunes gift cards with my US iCloud account. I have to buy US iTunes gift cards, which I have to get on eBay, or buy them when I visit the US.

It's a total PITA, as vendors selling these items are super-paranoid and often won't sell to you without some kind of "verification" that takes days/weeks to clear.

Btw, if anyone has any other workaround, I would be very grateful. Something like a US pre-paid debit card that permits non-US customers and that is also accepted by Apple. I haven't found one that satisfies both criteria.
It's not always that it's hard, rather it can be demoralizing to have the same experience that @S-E-P did [a sibling comment to yours] where you _do_ expend the energy and then patches sit unactioned for months or years
> I like fonts from old things :/

You are not alone my friend. I also have now taken a local copy of that font test jpg :)
I don’t think being afraid of the process is the problem. It’s more about how unnecessarily manual the process is paired with the possibility of your patch’s email thread getting buried never to be seen again or worse, its reviewer abandoning it halfway through the review process with no easy way for someone else to pick it up.

That’s not to say that Github pull requests and the like are perfect (far from it) but it’s undeniable that they smooth the process quite considerably and make contribution far more accessible.
> What you need is for people to be able to choose based on published price information

What they're saying is that a large amount of healthcare spending is driven by patients and providers, but paid for by insurance companies. Neither patients nor doctors have an immediate, short-term incentive to make sure they utilize insurance company resources judiciously. On the contrary, the both have an incentive to consume as many insurance company resources as possible (the patient wants to make sure they get every possible treatment, even if that means consuming 10x resources to prevent a 1/10th as likely outcome, and the provider wants to bill as much as possible to increase revenue).

I can tell you, as somebody whose family has catastrophic coverage only, that we think long and hard before we blow $200 so that a doctor can tell us to take some ibuprofen and drink plenty of fluids. And we also ask lots of questions about how much various recommended treatments will cost vs. what they will do for us.
It is a workstation, not a desktop or laptop or smartphone.
Probably not at a low enough interest rate.
Who told you that? ;)
Now let’s fix the parts in NC and SC where it goes down to two lanes and gets backed up every day.
or Apple complies with local laws.

Of course it is bad for censorship in autoritarian countries, but I'm glad for the extra customer protections in the EU vs the US.

edit: And I'm also glad that foreign companies need to comply with local laws in my country. Since about everything comes from China directly or indirectly, I would be living in a de-facto Chinese province right now.
Interestingly, the best meat I've ever eaten was also cooked by a Texan who caters house parties as a hobby and has his marinade process down to a science. (It was 18-hour marinaded pulled pork with a spicy mustard coating, and upon taking a a bite it was chewy for about two seconds and then melted away like butter.)

If your guy was also a short silver-haired ex-Soviet guy who tells a lot of questionable jokes and works for NASA, that's a heck of a coincidence.
This article talks about increased mobility as the end goal. Clearly the highway transportation act did not actually increase mobility. Mobility is design in a sense to require less commutes with multi use land use.

This instead forces users to have to commute large lengths regardless in a system that was designed, specifically, to reduce mobility all through the United states.
Considering almost every big website makes me do that, and they presumably have a team of lawyers on payroll, I'd rather take their opinion on the matter (no offense). If million checkboxes thing violated GDPR, you'd think someone would be suing them already by now.
I'll up your anecdata with the fact that I worked at Microsoft at the time, and was trying to track this one down across a wide variety of print drivers for the product I worked on. Though HP was the most egregious (IIRC, they all repro'ed), others exhibited the bug.

But, doesn't matter, it's long since been fixed regardless of who did or did not have the bug. :-)
Sites with Google maps starting to fail
With the massive price spike in Google maps, some sites have started having map failures. Any interesting ones you've seen? What changes have you made due to it?

A coworker this morning reported that he couldn't order pizza last night on his mobile because the Google map was "in developer mode", and he couldn't get past it to order. Via his desktop he could. Also a health provider had broken maps.

We ended up setting up our own OSM-based tile servers, and are going to be deploying them possibly today. My vacation and a service credit from Google delayed the deployment until now. Can't wait to get over to the OSM-based tiles, and in the grand scheme of things it was fairly easy (maybe 2-3 weeks of effort, all in).

What are your Google mapocalypse stories?
And election meddling doesn't? It's not as direct, but it happens.

Also, as I alluded above, sabre-rattling hasn't resulted in armed conflict between superpowers since nuclearization.
Ironically this describes most of Silicon Valley.
Does anyone have any information on what is wrong with the newly added intel microcode license from debian's perspective??
Sarah Cooper’s “10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings,” which includes…

I took the bait and read the 10 tricks. These are all natural tendencies for me. This must explain why clients think I'm smart because I'm really not as smart as everyone treats me.
Here's an unexplored possibility: What if the places with room to build single-family homes are too far away from where people work? If the commute is too long, people might prefer to stay where they are.
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There's a typo in the page title:

> Jobs for juniors, entry level, interns and fresh garduates

garduates -> graduates.
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> We translate the english: “let us go for it” to “la oss gå for det” but that literally means “let us walk for it”

"la oss gå for det" seems like a direct translation but "vi går for den" seems more natural, don't you think? Like metaphorically marching towards some goal?

/Lived in Norway 15+ years, Norwegian wife and kids, English is not my native language
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Well... technology is constantly changing, so there is always a lot of potential at every phase of its evolution. I watched Silicon Cowboys last night and it was inspiring.
Eddie's jokes may no longer be PC but his old routines (Raw and Delirious) are still funny as hell. My wife and I regularly quote from them. "He didn't tell you you could take half? Well, he didn't tell you half the story....Oh hi Eddie." If you're not too uptight, watch it again and tell me it's not still funny.
To save you the time, it's talking about how Amazon negotiates cheaper rates with electric companies, effectively passing off utility costs to the general userbase.

It starts with a story about how Amazon wanted to get power lines through a data center, and the community forced it to expensively route around a historic site, and the user base ended up getting a rate hike to pay for it (despite most of them not needing that part of the grid).
> What's a brand of printer that doesn't sell the printer at a loss and then has you pay through the nose for tiny cartridges of ink?

You can't tell by brand (at least company) because all the manufacturers do it at the low end, because the dynamics at the low end of the market make it a losing strategy to do otherwise.
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I run Pi-Hole in Docker and connect to it via WireGuard. I then use a forwarding DNS server which catches all DNS requests and uses DNS over TLS. Hardware used: EdgeRouter-Lite. Results: slightly higher latency, obviously, but no ads and secure DNS traffic and secure traffic regardless of where my client resides or over which network. I also use LineageOS with microG which doesn't implement Google ads in the first place, and Firefox + uBlock Origin just in case. uMatrix is good, but too much of a hassle to configure IMO.
If you'd never really know it to meet them, what about their usage is distressing?

Most people are "basically permanently 'kind of high'" on caffeine, or nicotine, or both. Is that distressing?
> why they have no fallback strategies

They do. It's the whiteboards. Whiteboards are cheap, resilient and robust. Exactly what one wants for a backup.
HN comment section shouldn't be a gun fight.
> For me on personal level such unabsolvable deed is killing. By extension I think that army won't be moral untill each soldier comming back from the war is ready to be tried and sentenced for each life he took. We are probably closer to singuarity than to morality defined like that.

We've already been there, and still are — there were & are Christian churches which prescribe confession & penance (to include temporary excommunication) for those who return from war.