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> Something like Visual Studio and it's child processes, core Windows processes and the kernel may fully use branch prediction.

Even that does not work.

If the kernel can do speculative execution and user code can cause the kernel to do work (that's kind of the kernel's job), then user code can cause the kernel to leak secret data. This was one of the first set of attacks.
There are SBCs with recent SoCs but when they cost 200€ you are better off by getting a x86 CPU that has sata, pcie, usb3 and is widely supported by Linux distributions.

They also aren't very attractive from a software freedom standpoint. Why give up decades of work on open source GPU drivers and then be forced to use a vendor provided Linux distribution?

Intel ME and AMD PSP are not a valid threat if you're forced to run proprietary code that may be backdoored on your SBC anyway.
How do I remind my bosses of the company mission statement?

If someone asked that question at an interview I would honestly be stunned. Like, either you're the biggest suck-up in the world, or the biggest fool. Either way, no hire.

Anyway, Facebook's actual mission seems to be to reimplement MySpace and they are honestly getting pretty close. Not all the features--but almost. So, at some point the need for Caltech engineers will drop off, and if more of them want to work on jet engines or whatever, maybe that's for their best.
> Like we recently ordered a system for abused children journals. A nationwide bidding landing in a 120 million danish or deal, for a piece of software that 30 municipalities build an equivalent of on their own for 2 million danish kr a few years back.

Can you give the name of this company / case? I can't find anything in English news of Denmark.
I'd rather expect it to be first sold to high frequency traders. HFT firms have paid astronomical amounts to shave milliseconds off of their connection times.
AudioBookReviews raises $2.7M with valuation of $15M in first round
This is called "working for venture". I have seen it (once) explicitly stated as the terms of employment.
What made them the most valuable company in the world was selling billions of <very expensive> phones, not their stance on privacy.

I didn't say anything about maps.
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> The free market is not fair, and it is not a meritocracy. It is subject to all the same tribal impulses and inequalities that have persisted in humans throughout history.

Based on context, I suspect you mean merit as in moral merit. Economic merit is defined as the economic value add in a free market, so free markets are tautologically a meritocracy, because success in a free market is basically a definition of economic merit.

It certainly isn't fair, but nearly nothing is. Life is profoundly unfair.

> In western societies, no job should pay less than a living wage, no matter how enjoyable it is. That’s just an excuse for exploitation.

A debatable point - it is easy to justify making it as easy as possible for a worker to leave a job that isn't paying a living wage and find something else. However there are a lot of people out there and not all of them are working to live. Eg, maybe someone has a stead source of income (spouse, parents or investment money) and wants to get involved in something worthwhile but low value add. It isn't at all obvious why we should prevent that as a society because nobody thinks it is worth a living wage worth of money per hour.

A minimum wage is basically a declaration that work with less value add than some number is not worth doing. From an incentives point of view, it is really weird and there are probably better ways of helping people with nothing to offer their community.
NYT claims they spoke to over 50 sources. It's not just milking "a couple". "over 50 sources" sure sounds like a very concerted effort to find dirt.

> The New York Times didn't make Facebook a monster, Facebook did.

Did the parent assert anything like that?
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They aren't worse. They are different. People want to work on products they relate to, especially when they are young and without dependents. Young people don't relate to facebook anymore, but they relate to google and amazon because they use those services in their home life and career life.
Why is "height from the solid matter base" more correct than "height from the non-gaseous matter base" though. From the perspective of humans, who generally live at the border of gaseous matter not the border of solid matter, I think the latter might make more sense.
On a related note, I discovered yesterday that AutoCAD won't let you draw a closed "polyline" object with two sides.

One of the features of the polyline object is that you can turn edges into arcs when you need a curve, and I was trying to make a "D" shape. Had to add a third vertex in the middle of the flat side before it would let me.
Why. China can just force SpaceX to turn off over China. Unless this is part of a political 'Radio Free Europe' style operation China will control this as much as everything else.
As a former continental philosophy person who pivoted into front-end, this is kinda surprising to see come up on HN. I'm guessing this is hear owing to current issues with our President's possible abuses, election interference by Russian nationals, etc, but reading this again, Fukuyama's trouble starts with his extremely troubling history of idealism/materialism in Continental European philosophy, which is already fairly ambiguous.

Another way to posit the history of idealism and materialism, and one which I, as a Nietzschean, find much more useful, is to recognize that Hegel had finished his major works before 1820. It is in 1824 that a book titled "Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire" is published. This book is regarded by some as the inaugural text of Thermodynamics as a scientific discipline. This is important because this field, only in its nascent stages at the time of Hegel's death in 1831, is _extremely well-understood_ by the time Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud were students. All three men were also were extremely fascinated by the stuff they were reading in Darwin's books. Thermodynamics and Darwinian evolution both strongly refute the idea that something can come from nothing, and when that maxim gets transliterated to the field of philosophy of the time, it allows us to pose the question: so where did consciousness come from? (and, more pointedly, and potently, how can God exist?) In both Hegel and Kant, his predecessor, "consciousness" gets explained in seemingly circular and sophisticated fashions, but with materialism, we get to pose consciousness as an "emergent property" for lack of a better term (in Freud, consciousness is a side effect of the forces of speech and visual memetics [for the sake of brevity]; in Marx, the side of effect of forces in the sphere of production; in Nietzsche, partially as a side effect of early man's 'political' machinations and forces exerted by Abrahamic faiths with their notions of original sin) But for a certainty, all three agree that "consciousness" is the cause of absolutely nothing; all three represent different takes on "materialism" as well, where Fukuyama is primarily arguing with students/criticis of political economy on the left and right.

Fukuyama's weird reading of Weber also leads to line like this describing the failure of Soviet governance: "The answer must be found in the consciousness of the elites and leaders ruling them, who decided to opt for the 'Protestant' life of wealth and risk over the "Catholic" path of poverty and security."
You are exceedingly suspicious for no reasons, people just like to translate articles that they enjoyed reading, the vast majority of times that's the only motive.
Have you ever called a hotline when you've had a life crisis? I'm just wondering how often people that suggest this have tried it themselves.
And yet, even Netflix has a famous history of having a firing culture. Which from the outside looking in, seems toxic and incredibly unethical.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-26/netfli...
Ah, right, that makes a lot of sense.
He said "top 50" and by most measures Netflix would be "top 50". That's why I chose it (plus familiarity with it personally). All those other ones you mentioned could be "top 50" as well. In which case, I think the general feeling of external perception is negative for all of them except Dropbox.

Op asked "I have to wonder how many of the top 50 or so tech companies have really sterling reputations for warm-hearted goodness." and I threw Netflix out there as a "top 50" that has a warm-hearted (external) reputation.
Right. And those are also more powerful (and don't need any knowledge of the distribution of measurement errors).

I mentioned the "three old and three new" test because it's simple, not because it's powerful.
I get the impression that the asker knows that but that their question is more like, is there any official way to define where the mountain starts? Could we keep tracking the side of Everest right down into a far-off ocean trench and say it's now the tallest again, it's just also really wide?

I guess you're looking for obvious local minima. If the land slopes back up a lot or stays mostly flat for a long time it's probably not part of the mountain anymore. Would a smaller mountain in the middle of Uluru be measured starting from ground level at the top of Uluru?

Edit: Asker has now confirmed in a separate comment that this is what they meant.
You're right. I actually edited before you replied. Should have deleted it or preferably think more before typing. But now it's forever.
> I'm looking at this more from the birth rate speculation, but not having a family to go home to at night and stressful work environments may have a connection.

There is. Having high stress competitive work prevents you to go to familly (because you are working overtime) and makes you loose it (whether formally or you just looses relationship). Conversely, having familly often prevents ones career and limits job opportunities.

But, I don't think western rules are convoluted. It is more that economy sux and tends to be winner takes all.
Onboard internet provided by ground-based cellular or satellite already requires aftermarket hardware -- external antennas, routers inside the plane, and more.

It does require extensive testing and permission by the FAA (and the aircraft manufacturer, and the airline, and others) and extensive support teams in terminals but it's done semi-routinely.
> I'm kind of surprised they listed a $140k starting pay. That's pretty low for new grads in the industry and very low for Facebook.

You are living in a Valley bubble if you think $140k is "pretty low" for a new grad in general, and that's as total comp (not just salary).
From my experience, most of this negativity just appears on HN or on channels who have some strong bias (usually business related) against Facebook.

All my acquaintances working in tech, which includes people from very wide sociodemographics ranges, consider Facebook an absolutely prestigious employer, with top talent, top challenges, top compensation and top name for building a personal brand.

Hell, I interviewed at FB about a year ago and was _thrilled_ to get an offer (which I ultimately didn't accept for other reasons) and I loved the technical challenges that they are working and how they are advancing the state of the art on some really cool scalability problems.

I'll be downvoted, but when it comes to Facebook, HN is a broken record.
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Funny coincidence, there was a new grad hire event yesterday at "The Patio" in Palo Alto. FB don't seem to be having a problem hiring new grads despite what this article says.
I predict this is going to start a trend. For a whole lot less than the $48,000 a job municipalities paid to attract Amazon why not spend a fifth of that and draw in thousands of remote workers?
There are multiple factors correlated with sucicide, but notable is that the US rate has increased 30% during a time of decrease in suicide rate of other nations:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-07-...

This one lists Belgium, Finland, France as higher rates than the US. But other research also notes differences in rates of various races, I guess whites commit suicide at a observerably higher rate too.
> The companies in my network (anecdotal evidence) are full with international people. In our office we have nationals from 13 countries. This is the most diverse environment that I have ever seen (including San Francisco)

I'll probably get downvoted for saying this, but it's important enough that I need to: country of origin is a completely meaningless way to measure diversity. Especially in Europe, where most countries are comparable to the size of individual states in the US and are relatively racially homogeneous, national origin doesn't measure anything meaningful.

The problem with Munich is that, like Bavaria as a whole[0], it is incredibly racist. Specifically, if you look Muslim, Arab, or Middle Eastern, you're in for a really rough time. This shouldn't be too surprising if you look at recent trends in German politics, and specifically in Bavarian politics.

I wouldn't hold Berlin up as a gold standard here by any means, but it's far better than either Frankfurt or Munich in this regard.

[0] less so than the rest of Bavaria, but more so than any other comparable city in Germany
Well, I mean if you have network orbiting up there anyway so you can probably make a business case that the frequency is worth it in most cases. But its probably complicated regulatory process in each country.
> they would write about FaceBook because it gets clicks

Well I don't disagree with that.

> The Times being mad at Facebook

You're trying very hard to separate the corporation from the people. There's plenty of evidence that the journalists themselves are mad at Facebook. As another commenter notes, it's not hard to find podcasts with them complaining about the rise of FB.

There's another reason for journalists to be mad at FB: it's goal is to give everyone a voice. If everyone gets to publish their opinion, and not just people who work for big companies, that makes journalists a lot less important in society.
yeah, i think you're right, particularly with this example. the position i gave of analytics software was a bit contrived and off the mark for the point i was trying to make. a better example would be, "engineer whose job it is to reduce the deleterious effects of burning oil on the environment" or something like that, which is more analogous to the position of trying to remove harmful content at fb
These kids are computer science students from Berkeley. They're not going to be hurting for job offers. If it helps filter out dumbass employers who are going to hold their opinions about Facebook against them, so much the better.
That's the internal reputation, not external. And as I said, many of us liked that culture. I liked that fact that I didn't have to deal with people who were clearly there just to collect a paycheck. Those folks didn't last long. Like I said, you had to take control of your own destiny with little guidance. If you like that kind of thing, Netflix is a great place.
They are not classical computers. We've had actual quantum logic gates since 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing And as linked above, IBM is renting out time on real quantum computers up to 17 qubits now. Intel, Google, and IBM had all announced plans for 49 or 50 qubit computers, which would have achieved quantum supremacy at the time, but IBM improved their simulator to 56 qubits last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy So we're only one or two hardware generations away now.
Thing is, a competing product does not (at launch) have to match the entrenched one feature-for-feature. It just has to tick the MOST IMPORTANT boxes while being advantageous in other ways (such as being built on FAR newer tech, more reliable etc.)
Sales person here. I use it as my own lightweight crm and it works well.

I should send them an email. I'm sure a good chunk of that investment will go towards building out their sales team.
Measuring What Makes Readers Subscribe to the Times
Same reason you'd work for any startup - because startups are fun and interesting? You get a level of autonomy you can never have at an established company, with freedom to experiment and work creatively.
No, I really don't know the answer to why someone is bringing up a point of Constitutional law in a case governed by an entirely different set of laws. Commonwealth countries like India have very different definitions of free speech rights than the US, and India has some of the most restrictive free speech laws of the former British colonies.

To be more blunt: in India, people can and have been imprisoned for saying negative things about other religions, and those punishments were upheld by the courts.

In America, people might get jailed at the local level in certain parts of the country by an overzealous sheriff if they badmouth Christianity. And then they get released within a few hours, or a few days tops. And then they sue and receive a settlement in the millions of dollars to compensate them for the violation of their civil rights.

So really, not at all similar.
It's wet :) (under water surface)

The claim of the article that mount Everest is the tallest point from the earth's center happens because earth's surface, relative to its size, is as smooth as a billiard ball. Even the tallest mountains are nothing. So high mountains located at the equator can easily "outperform" higher mountains elsewhere.
The best way to learn how to start your own company is to join an early stage where they give you lots of responsibility and ownership. The closer you are to the founders the easier it is to learn from their mistakes.
That is amazing. Seeing the complexity of the grid is mind blowing - and the realization the blocks representing the satellites are the size of cities makes you realize how big space is. That said, future launches are going to have to run a gauntlet...
Probably, and I can make an educated guess how: modern society eschews the value of human relationships in favor of status and wealth seeking.

People find they are not happy, so they search for a path to happiness and our culture tells them that it is through being wealthy, famous, and successful. They search for a path to those things and find that it often involves long hours, greed, and psychopathic behavior. Human relationships are a risk, and risks are to be minimized. They put this knowledge into practice and find that it doesn't work.

My own theory of how depression works is that it involves an inescapable realization that your model of reality is broken and can't be used to make predictions that allow you to effect the change you want to see in your life. You wanted to be happy, society gave you a bad model to work from, and the mind's reaction to discovering that this model doesn't work is depression.
I like your clarification better though!
I’m not so much disagreeing with you or him as I am with the dumb “FAANG” acronym.

Though I think AirBnB has a reputation for being a good work environment and a consumer product, whatever externalities they inflict upon society.
Anybody who sees a ceo who plans to spend a large chunk of company profits on colonizing mars for the sake of humanity might think to themselves, "I wonder if I can start a similar company, avoid the mars colonization expenses and undercut them on price."
Prospective employer Googles your name, sees that you recently trashed their company (or strategic partner, or largest client), and decides to take a pass.
> Facebook an absolutely prestigious employer

Anecdotally, I’m helping several friends, who are each exceptionally capable, employed at Facebook with new jobs. They reached out before this revelation, to their credit, though this threw fuel on the fire. I suspect Facebook will be known for having hired mediocre sell-outs a few years from now.
India, like most other Commonwealth countries, does not have the American First Amendment tradition, and their free speech laws are more restrictive.

Defamation, for example, and discussions of religion, are especially dangerous grounds since what would be protected speech in the US (and generally non-controversial) is not protected in India and could even lead to riots, lynching, etc.
There is a secondary solution to CPAP machines that may apply to some people who find their breathing/sleep improves with sleeping position. About a year ago I got a Mandibular Advancement Device from a TMJ specialist that pushes the jaw forward, preventing the tongue from pushing the against the palate and obstructing airflow.

I had tried a CPAP machine previously and still felt that it wasn't working (although the data said otherwise, I just felt like I wasn't breathing properly).

If, while laying on your back, moving your jaw forward improves breathing significantly, this type of treatment might be a good alternative to a CPAP (costs are similar though).
This is profound because I would be surprised if the early employees at Facebook didn’t feel a bit betrayed at the direction they later went.
Didnt downvote you, but Christianity has constant themes of slaves and masters, being a slave to christ, and historically the cultures which adopted christianity have continued to have slaves (pre and post adoption.)

Sooo, maybe? But I dont know if that point is well made.
I'm assuming this is a California thing? That's like beyond senior level pay over here in the mid west, lol.
Highly flammable polymer faux-tile or somewhat-fire-resistant fiberglass faux-tile?
It looks great and the minimalistic UI is a welcome breath :)

Could you share any details on how you implemented the build system? Are you running of different public cloud providers or are you using something different? Your announcement speaks about KVM so it looks like you implemented something yourself but I guess the cost and performance could easily become difficult to manage, so I'm curious how do you back this system :)
I've personally worked for less pay to work on fun projects. I've also taken on unenjoyable projects for more money.

If it weren't for the money you'd have a heck of a time recruiting VPs
The article is likely referring to the estimated dry prominence of Mauna Kea. Topographic prominence [1] measures the height of a peak relative to its lowest surrounding contour line (that doesn't also contain another, taller peak). Usually the ocean's surface is considered "flat ground" when computing this measure (called a "wet prominence"), but one can alternatively imagine the Earth to have no water, and compute a "dry prominence" that permits the lowest surrounding contour line to be below sea level.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence

The above Wikipedia article specifically mentions the dry prominence of Mauna Kea, estimating it to be 9330m which is taller than Everest's conventional height of 8848m. However, an apples-to-apples comparison would use the dry prominence of Everest too, which is the distance from the bottom of the Challenger Deep (-10,911m) to the summit. This would make Mauna Kea the second tallest mountain by topographic prominence if the Earth had no oceans.
I dunno. Getting a company of hundreds of thousands of people out of a death spiral and into an additional quarter century of prosperity seems like a pretty amazing achievement?