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>Soon the default will shift from us interacting directly with our devices to interacting with devices we have no control over and no knowledge that we are generating data.

That's already the case. The big problem is that no one cares about it, because it seems like everything just work fine.
I don't know and I can't tell if bad things will happen to us with our data everywhere, but it's possible. But how could we possibly convince "normal" people that giving your data out for free is bad?
This is harsh but true. I am an average 32 years old software engineer in the Bay Area, and in my average 8 years career I amassed roughly $1.2M by diligently saving, investing in index funds and living frugally.

My real hope is that by the time I’m in my mid 40s this amount, including the new savings, will have at least doubled (if not 3X), and I’ll be able to retire or take some very light job in a cheaper area, not worrying about this nonsense software engineering bias against age.
And if those expectations are predictably and accurately poor?
You were pursuing a passion project. You were getting to a point in your life where it might not be feasible to pursue it, and you'd regret it if you didn't, so you know what? You went for it. Anybody who doesn't respect that, you probably don't want to work for anyway.
> The only real difference is that options markets would be less liquid, wider and less efficient

Which raises costs for new share issuances (by making underwriting riskier), convertible debt (by making it more expensive to hedge the stock component), certain other flavours of debt, acquisitions, et cetera.
"finna" is a hypercontraction of "fitting to" (via fit'n'ta) which comes from "fixing to" or "about (going) to". So "aint finna" is really "I'm not about to", which makes the connection to "I'm not about that life" more clear.

[edited to add the connection between fitting and fixing]

[edit2, fun asides aside, I don't see what relevance this has to the original comment about hotting up.]
I've been listening to the Harmontown podcast a lot recently and I've noticed that the "comptroller" (host) regularly forgets people's names when they call them up from the audience. He just asks them again and it seems to be fine. "What was your name again?"

I've done it a few times and nobody seems to really care.
Long membrane communication.
That's a very bad argument. Sure, people may not care enough now, but that's just because the threat is new and poorly understood. There was a time where people didn't care about getting lung cancer from smoking, but then it changed.
I remember reading that something like 40% [0] of Azure servers now run Linux. It's in Microsoft's best interest to embrace Linux, and they've been doing a damn good job the last few years. It simply takes time for the momentum of a ship as large as MS to change course.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-says-40-percent-of-a...
"$200/hr gigs."

do these really exist in sufficiently large numbers? When I was freelancer there seemed to be hard limit at $100.
It's not intended to be an ultimate truth of the universe. But the world would be a better place if more people did spend more time thinking about themselves instead of drowning it out with games, music or social media (like plenty of people that I know).
I was an investment professional from 2001 to 2009 and I never heard anyone say "short and distort".

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pump+and+du...

"Ngram not found: short and distort"
One reason I prefer trading indexes rather than individual stocks kind of for this reason. The market for the Dow is much healthier because there is more diversified participation. Individual stocks always seem to make me more nervous.
98% sounds good but that remaining 2% is crucial. I do OCR on a lot of my scanned documents to make them searchable and easy to copy text. I've tried a number of OCR programs but even after a lot of training something like Omnipage will still think a lower case l is a 1 in the middle of a word. It seems like it should be easy to put in a rule that says it is unlikely that a document will have a number surrounded by letters (without spaces) but that doesn't seem possible.
This article doesn't contain a single negative word about Microsoft's recent actions (the negative bit goes along with an Internet Archive link from 2013), and indeed it calls one of those recent actions a step forward.

Sure it requests another step to more fully achieve the outcome people may think is implied by MS joining OIN, but there's nothing wrong with making that request.
I can see the issue with the slogan. I feel like the trouble is around what you actually intend to measure.

If you actually want to increase genuine employee engagement then by all means do whatever it takes to make that happen even if it can't be measured.

What I've seen is that a lot of companies say they want in increase Employee Engagement when really what they're looking for is "We want our employees to be more productive and not quit".

Some jobs just won't be engaging or rewarding though. That's why we're paying them after-all though, right? :)
I think I'm the only person in the planet that enjoys doing tech support. I just _love_ it. You get to talk to real customers and fix real problems. Most of the time the fixes are easy so you get quick wins. Callers are be delighted to speak with someone technically competent who doesn't put them on hold forever and all the other crap you usually expect from tech support.

If only I could make a decent living doing tech support I would totally make that my career.
Can you please provide a single case of high profile security breach that was caused solely by regulation? That must be easy if what you say about regulation opening holes is true.
If you are not doing anything with metrics and kpis and random other pointless terms it is a waste of time. Employees and managers need ongoing coaching. Not just some assessment which wastes people's time. Engagement is only one of many factors to take into account.
What do you expect it to do other than wiping your entire filesystem?
> Most people in the world can't afford 600$ Nvidia GPUs.

Ok? I'm not what your point is here - most people can't afford a $600 amd gpu either. If you can't get a $600 gpu, buy a cheaper gpu - gtx 1060 is $250 or gtx 960 is $50.

Performance costs a premium, and that is just how is is. It would be great if we lived in a world where you could buy a Titan v for $1, but in the real world valuable things cost more money, and that unfortunately means not everyone can buy them.
You might want to check out a very interesting non-linear spinor theory[1] which contains a chapter on dark matter and dark energy analytically explaining the formation and inner structure, as well as the ratio of dark matter and dark energy throughout the development phase of the universe. Page 29 lists all components of DM/DE and normal matter.

[1] http://norbert-winter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018_02...

Full theory can be found here: http://norbert-winter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2017-03...
I disabled the telemetry feature before, but the latest vsc version reverts it to enabled automatically, holy creepy.

And the latest version introduces many other data collection ways. Search them in settings with the keyword "online", you will find them all. Don't know whether or not there are other hidden ways which are not shown in the setting page.
That's basically what the post is asking for. (i.e. as the pledge currently stands, probably not)
Fortnite isn't a stand alone software product. Its a game with an online service that is required for it to function.
One idea you may wish to consider is making the honeypot fake sites more detailed. An black hat who can access an electronic device/account might be savvy enough to recognize the site as fake. Certainly is is probably less of a concern for physical access snooping.
Thats not what I meant - the OP stated "I dont have kids and I want to be able to work overtime and focus on a project" -- so, my comment was "well if you dont have kids, you should be better able to work overtime and focus on a project"
Huh. I can't understand where you would be to have that happen - my job pool is about ten countries in Europe, a few in Africa and Asia, plus Australia. (Countries where you can expect programming jobs to allow for English-only speakers.)
Your comment makes no sense, also the "don't trust the client" works to some extent, in video games it's pretty much impossible to apply.
How much you can exploit your employees before they abandon you is not a measure of engagement, it's a mesure of gullibility.
Edit: or dependence.
1 node != 1 core.
It took me a LONG time to figure this out (stopping at the first job that's mostly ok is not a great idea). Once I left it (VERY well paid by local standards) I discovered that things can get much better.
The difference between Republicans and conservatives used to be minimal. I'd say that conservatism swung so far right that most long term Republicans didn't even realize it. The vast majority of people who vote Republican or Democrat do so nearly without any understanding of a particular candidate's positions apart from the general party platforms and only votes on one or two issues that are personally important to themselves. With how gerrymandered the country is, especially in many Republican controlled states, the middle ground for centrists Republican and Democratic candidates is gone.

This was started by a concerted effort in the 1980s to turn the country more conservative, which was very successful and backlash to the liberal culture expansion of the 1960s through the 1970s. I don't however believe that the architects of that plan foresaw the damage that would come from polarization.

America has a large reckoning coming as we must learn and define what we want our national image to be. It's certainly no longer the shining city on the rock. We're far closer to the loud, obnoxious uncle at the dinner table talking about what we did in the past. Unless we can find common ground as a country, we're destined to fade in global power far quicker than we should have.

Edit: Typo
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I think traditional spam (the "Nigerian price" type stuff) is on the outs these days, but phishing/spear-phishing is definitely more popular than ever.
Because the prices are already super high for both? The primary utility there is close proximity to extremely high paying jobs.
Correct me if Im wrong but FaceID will not work when Im dead right? The underlining software detects temperature similar to thermal detector and thats the way it builds an image of your face no?
It’s fake luxury though :-/
I thought it was great when I read it in high school. Presumably if I reread it now issues of logic and style might stand out a bit more? I've found that for other books I loved a long time ago.
"Scaling Out on Any GPU"

Love the implication that "any GPU" means it works on expensive Nvidia chips and also slightly less expensive Nvidia chips.
I think relative pitch is much more useful (e.g. identifying harmonies and notes relative to a tonic center).
My sentence did not end at the point. You cannot change the ratio without specifically looking at the gender, that is, specifically hire more of one group (because of their gender) and less of the other group (because of their gender).
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> I would argue that clearly How a baby is delivered is other people's business since other people are involved.

This is one major reason to oppose publicly funded health care. _Every_ decision becomes a public one.
Again, this doesn't match my experience. True, I am a contractor instead of an employee, but I generally tell everyone beforehand that I'm mainly interested in 3-to-6 months contracts, not long-term. I've never had any problems finding contracts.

I'm not unique: I have a friend (also a contractor) who managed a single 6-month job in the last ten years. Everything else was shorter.
This reminds me of an incredible episode of the podcast Invisibilia: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be...
That was with Xmx set to 64 MB and a stack of 256k
... 3 months. Unless she had corrective surgery then she's almost certainly got some level of incontinence.

There will(or should) have been physiotherapy to get some semblance control back.

Look, there is nothing wrong with a c-section or a vaginal delivery. To make women feel that they are somehow inferior for having one is totally unacceptable. Something like 10-20% of births endup in caesarian, otherwise there is a massive chance of a bad outcome for both child and mother.

Source: wife who is a paediatrician and attends lots of births where the child is in distress.
This article reminds me of how it felt to be on the internet as a child. It seemed like this magical place where around every corner there was hidden an alchemic recipe to achieve something magical, if only you knew how to search in the right places.
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That's not strictly necessary, is it? All matter should be able to effect gravity. It's a matter of having sensitive enough detectors for whatever is causing the disturbance, not necessarily having something which can produce enough of a disturbance to detect.
For me? Because it’s not available in the areas I want to live.

Also, my wife is very sensitive to mold & mildew, so brand new construction is easiest on her.
So a minor can’t consent, but they can sign away their rights? What kind of world is this?
The prospect of being a senior dev and 40 is terrifying to me. The only ones who are treated with any respect are the "real" wizards - i.e. the guys who spent every spare second if their life breathing tech.

The guy who decompiles third party code at 4 am to see why their update caused an error in our system (real recent story).

The other (very competent) older people get actively harassed. Some little *es from my company tried to get an older guy fired for being "too slow", when he is anything but. And I think the company I work for now is one of the friendlier environments for older devs.

Dunno, it's a genuinely scary prospect. Not trying to put anyone down, just what I see around me.

I hear its even worse on the coasts. I am in a flyover and have never worked in San Fran.
I use API Gateway to provide an API endpoint powered by Lambda (and deployed via Serverless). It took a few hours to understand the relationships between Gateway and Lambda, the wire a custom domain names with HTTPS, but ones you understand its operating model it runs very well.

'Cold starts' is a complicated topic. AWS will keep your Lambda 'hot' for ~5 minutes since the last invocation - you are not paying for the 5 minutes, but it still sits in their RAM waiting for requests. This means that any request within 5 minutes of the last request does not pay the cold-start price. So I used Pingdom to monitor/ping the endpoint every 5 minutes, thus keeping one instance of the function perpetually 'hot'. Note that this hack will not work if you need high concurrency: you can only keep 1 instance alive. In practice, it's enough for us as one instance can serve most of the traffic in our case.
As I understand it, you'd need to:

- open the deceased's eyes

- position the eyes so that Face ID thinks the eyes are "looking into" the iPhone

- pump warm blood/liquid into the deceased's face in order to fool the infrared temperate monitoring

Seems possible, but sounds like an awful lot of work unless you did something that law enforcement really wants to look into.
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I would go and look for a good quality 14/18U rack for small office use, like the CSE-RACK14U from Supermicro.
Summarizing on the fly, so necessarily wrong in details:

Regular matter interacts via the four forces: strong interaction, weak interaction, electromagnetism and gravity.

Strong interaction: binds fundamental particles together to make atoms. In every day terms, it’s what makes mass, mass.

Weak interaction and electromagnetism: causes radioactive decay and EM radiation (photons). In every day terms, it’s how we get light, radio, cell phones, etc. Also nuclear power.

Gravity: attraction of mass across great distances. It’s how we stick to the earth and why the earth circles the sun.

There are particles that don’t act through forces but are affected by them:

Photons don’t have mass so don’t cause gravity but are affected by it.

Neutrinos don’t have an electromagnetism effect so they can’t be seen at all only measured in very rare weak interactions.

Dark matter: No strong interaction so not a part of atoms. No EM interaction so we can’t see it blocking light. No weak interaction that we have observed. However they do cause gravity, so we can see that. All of the proofs of existence are via gravity and relate only to mass — we can’t observe any other properties.
exactly. for example, if i download a movie and edit it, then show it to friends, I'm providing a service in the sense you're arguing, but it's covered by first sale doctrine.

same with fortnite. just because he's using (sharing) the mod doesn't make him any less protected under law
Ask HN: Telegram messenger down in multiple countries?
Any body knows what's the reason? Is it down for you?
Not if it’s a mid century modern. Also in LA you can basically build whatever you want. There are few deed restrictions etc...
fixing* to
The organs and tissues surrounding the "hole" (not to mention their psychological significance to their owner) are of considerable relevance to the evaluation of vaginal delivery. To reduce the entire process to passing an object through a hole is, well, reductive.
Hunting/gathering/swiddening tribes may have wars but they're just tribal wars, which are more like random murders. Lots of regret but those left alive can move on. In order to get awful generation-destroying authoritarian war wars, you have to have a sovereign. A sovereign requires what James C. Scott has called "legible" surplus. This is a surplus the sovereign can expect at regular intervals in the same locations. That is, fixed agriculture, preferably of grains or similar crops that don't spoil easily but require lots of related industry in order to support life.
Look at the comment I was responding to: I wasn’t claiming there weren’t other ways to do this. I was responding to the question as to why you might use wasm over JS. I understand it was based on previous efforts like asm.js.

Also, for several languages, specifically those based on LLVM, the path to wasm is much clearer than compiling to JS.
My organization does yearly engagement survey as well as monthly. As a manager, I found them both useful. The former is useful because the vendor that conducts it does it across entire organization, and you're able to analyze data by different departments and teams. You also get comparison metrics against industry benchmarks.

Also, if you're a manager worth his/her salt, you would probably agree with the survey result at a high level already. Where the survey comes in handy is, helping you prioritize which problems to tackle to first.

Sure it's a 'lagging indicator', but that's why the survey doesn't focus on questions that would fluctuate highly. Examples: "Does your manager give you clear directions" or "does your organization communicate overall company strategy" etc.

We also supplement it with informal, brief monthly anonymous feedback that focuses more on short-term issues and qualitative data.

Do I want weekly survey? No. That's what weekly 1:1 is for. You should have enough rapport with your employees that they feel comfortable sharing their concerns or joy through 1:1 channel. If not, they can always use the monthly anonymous feedback.
Depends on an unstated assumption if you agree that software patents should exist at all, or at least in their current form.
Depends on your use case. If you need a definitive answer of how often in 2017 you bought “Coca Cola Zero 1.5L” based on scanned receipts then 98% accuracy will be not enough. If you need that receipt from the one time you bought a garden hose, searching for “garden” and “hose” will probably get you there, even if the OCR tool read “garden h0se” or “g4rden hose”.
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I’ve tried and failed more often than not. Most of the time the very subject matter is so “boring” that I never get very far. I’m not sure what to do either, most people don’t see the problem and find the topic too obscure to inform themselves.
Nore also that Borges is Argentinian, not French.
" I refuse to consider that mid-level business professionals should be resigned to wearing 'headphones' to have to keep the noise out, it's undignified. "

Agreed. It feels very disrespectful.
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I'm not aware of any more serious consequence having ever happened for a legit emergency, and I am aware of fatal accidents where private pilots were e.g. out of fuel and didn't realize the AFB was an option even though they could've made it.
Great to hear that!

I had a similar experience when I worked for a customer with people that really used my software. The fact that I talked with them without any managers in between was a complete game changer. When I've seen them happy when I implemented something small or fixed a bug that had a tremendous impact on my morale. Nowadays I'm earning a lot more but the abstract nature of my work, where you don't see any tactile effects of your efforts is discouraging.
> The solution is the market. These units will have to be rented out, either by the developer or by the creditors that will end up with the project if it fails. The way to fill these units is to cut rents until sufficient demand materializes. And this puts pressure on rents in lesser buildings that have to compete with these high-end units. In other words, it creates downward pressure on rents, from the top down.

Well said. Developers build high end because margins are high and vacancies are low and regulation won't allow enough competition to actually threaten their position in the market. In any scenario where you're limited by how much you can build, you're going to build your highest margin prospects first.

Developers can build high end all they want, but they have to lease them up or they can't pay off their loans or sell their property. Let them build more and when the luxury market saturates, more affordable buildings will start to look like the best prospect for development.

Unfortunately the fact that developers build luxury buildings is reason enough for some people to not let them build at all.
Yeah, most bothering to me are flights were there are some weird seat poles on the seat in front that prevent regular backpacks from fitting in the seat in front - I have had this a few times, it's very annoying having to put the backpack with computer and stuff in the overhead bin.
Even if that were true, which I don't think it is, it still seems very much preferable to not getting necessary treatment because it's too expensive.
Not sure about other cities, but in Los Angeles a "luxury housing unit" can be exempted from rent control (there's an application process) if it would otherwise be subject to it.

I imagine that a lot of the dilution has come from (re)developers labeling units as luxury and doing the bare minimum to qualify, specifically to avoid rent control.
Short selling is vital. Everyone can say that the emperor is naked, so such allegations can be made without anyone noticing. When someone however dares to bet a large sum of money that emperor is naked people will pay more close attention and reflect.

Fair, efficient markets require investors with a rational mindset. Short sellers can give people a wake up call.