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Managers often have limits to what they can approve without going higher up the chain. That can be hourly limits like $100p/h or bulk limits like $50k for a project. And they’d rather spend time trying to argue you down than argue with their CFO.

Like they say, never bother arguing with someone who can’t say ‘yes’. If you need a yes, you need to start talking to someone higher up.
I think for this to work, non-electric vehicles would need to be banned from the Autobahn completely.

That's not something I'd necessarily be opposed to in the future, but we need to get WAY more electric cars into use first.
What is the alternative to currency as we know it?

1. What if we have a universal currency? How would that change world economy?

2. What if there were multiple universal currencies? Example: housing currency..food currency..healthcare currency. Which means that you can’t use food currency for healthcare currency etc?

3. What if we had currency with an expiration date? It becomes investment currency once food currency expires.

Thoughts?
Data is not more valuable than oil, unless you intend to start running a blackmail operation.

Most of the data collected by silicon valley companies is completely irrelevant to their or anyone else's business needs. It's just creepy. Kind of like the people who build such systems.
Interesting going to add this to my diet
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One very striking thing I noticed is how this nutrient density decrease correlates with the observed obesity epidemic in mammals. There is a meta-analysis that came out of David Allison's¹ lab that examined studies of increasing rodent obesity: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/11...

There is roughly a 1% decrease in nutrient density for every 6.25ppm increase of CO₂ in the atmosphere. From 1945 to 1985 atmospheric CO₂ increased by about 35ppm, so there should be about a 5% decrease in nutrient density. According to the meta-study, rats increased their calorie intake by roughly 6%.

¹ Caveat: Allison is a notorious "PR scientist" whose career has been made out of helping the fast- and processed- food industries deflect any blame or accountability for the health and safety of their "products." The hypothesis of the paper is that the obesity epidemic is being caused by viruses and pollutants (without offering any evidence), and has nothing to do with McDonald's. This "viruses and pollutants" fairy tale can then be used as a deflection in fast-food PR and expert testimony in class-action lawsuits and government investigations.
A pity they withdrew from nuclear instead.
I always think a spreadsheet that understands units would be nice: A1=10A, A2=2Ω, A3=A1*A2=20V, something like that
NYT manipulate our opinions.

They try to. Especially here on HN. HN is a specific target of NYT groupthink, and you can see that they began to campaign HN specifically about two years ago, targetting HN as an aggregator of choice, for users with pockets of the right depth to pay for digital subscriptions.
If only 2% of autos sold are electric, that’s a lot of cars in the slow lane.
Here in Texas, http://www.whatismavn.com/ has made a pretty good business out of this. Although, I believe they had to also integrate with existing PointOFSale systems or implement some hardware in order to offer online ordering. Nice niche market though, and I have nothing but praise as a buyer of food through their customers.
You're right, but well, it's not a federation (yet)... ;-)
It is rich men lane. A car matter now.
Eccentric Orbits was one of my favorite reads from last year.

This article also gives a pretty decent tl;dr:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d34bmk/iridium-ne...
I understand the difference. I was just using GDP to demonstrate that the amount of money we’re talking about could run a country’s entire economy for a year.

The competition for HQ2 was fierce across the US. States and cities were bending over backwards to meet Amazon’s demands. Any whiff of activity or rumor was covered by both national and regional news. Real estate investors were buying up land in virtually every state. All of this for a potential economic benefit much lower than this $26 billion we’ve been talking about. It was a nationwide frenzy.

Again, the point is that investing $26 billion can have an effect depending on how it is invested, not that it will definitely have an effect.
likely a void warranty on a $2k glorified synth. just return it and buy one that publishes specs.
It up to faster car to not hit slower one.
I don't know man? That's a little high level.

In my neck of the woods, if I tell people, "Amazon treats their employees like crap." They get it.

If I say, "Google can track your location with android phones so don't bring your phone to see your weed man." They get it.

I can even say, "Facebook is full of Ruskies trying to influence the election." They'll get it. They'll know what I mean and everything that entails.

But if I come at the people in my small town with, "Big Tech is what drives wealth inequity by disrupting traditional labor markets and causing data privacy issues. Which, of course, concert to cause knock on effects in the larger economy." Yeah, that's the kind of post-graduate parrot-speak that makes them look at my mother disapprovingly for raising such a pretentious ass-hat.

I gotta agree with the guy using the throwaway account on this one.
Ah yes I should have said it had a shitty fucking broken air conditioner that they refused to fix. Their lies and refusal to fix it were even worse than the shitty fucking broken air conditioner and even worse than not having any air conditioning whatsoever. So you're right, it's not fair. I let them off too easy. The actual situation was much worse. Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm specifically talking about the mindset of equating "it's happening in all America" to "it's happening to the whole world", and that's not only in tech.
What does gender have to do with wealth? And if we're talking cars going 200, aren't we already talking wealthy people even today?
unfortunately the FPGA ecosystem is even more closed and open source unfriendly than the wifi hardware one, you aren't allowed to know anything about the chips, how code runs, or how to upload your own code, and you even have to use vendor specific IDEs and language extensions you are lucky if work anywhere outside of windows.

Current market FPGAs definitely aren't some shining beacon alternative to shitty hardware vendors, they are amongst the worst of the lot.
To improve the digital services for citizens you'd first have to be in a position to initiate or convince your superiors to convince their superiors (and so on) to initiate an investment in an improvement. Then wait for about a decade to actually see anything happen.

You don't just show up there all like "if we rewrote this portal in react with all these patterns here (which are really cool, I promise) things would be better for the citizens" and then do just that.

tl;dr if you want to improve the state of public sector software, you're better off entering the domain as a politician rather than software developer.
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I imagine that's the nickname he had in English (?) the gang, yeah? They're probably can't be arsed to keep track of the used and infamous nicknames from gangs in the states.
>The first 2 points are really bad arguments in my opinion, it's easy to see by imagining people saying this at the peak year of Fortran: "there's a ton of existing Fortran programs, other have tried to replace Fortran and failed"

And they'd be right: At work, even our Android app written this year contains a huge amount of Fortran via scientific libraries.
AFAIK all the information they sell is already available on the public web.
Got To Symbol is basically non-working in non-trivial sized Python projects and doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether or not ctags is installed.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/editingevolved#_go...
Maybe that will create different classes of vehicles traveling at vastly different speeds sharing the same road. The benefit to the electric car driver may not outweigh the additional cognitive load and risk of collision from the presence of slower vehicles.
Germans have a tendency to become hysterical from time to time. Nuclear power, diesel engines, they just need a new arch enemy from time to time.
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> They're not competitive with animal B12 sources,

Interestingly, the B12 people get from animals is probably from supplements they were given.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/7ujsaf/the_b12_in_me...
Yep. I interviewed at a place with 3 tech leads were all in the same room. One had given notice and I figured I'd be his replacement. When I showed up on day one I found that they had hired an additional person who started the week before. So the three of them were in one office and I was next door. After awhile when I mentioned being left out of important decisions they offered to have all of us move into the hallway...which would have sucked for everybody.
I'm guessing based on context that "development work" means assistance work in developing countries, not software development :)

It's actually web development, deployed on fogs (my name for localized temporary clouds) in very poor, very rural communities in the United States.

It's the sorts of places where roads are primitive, electricity and clean water are scarce, and internet is a luxury. These settlements are often cut off from the outside world for weeks or months each year due to seasonal (deep snow), or temporary (flash floods) events.

"Landline" telephone service, when it exists, is usually via HF radio. If you buy land there, the county makes you sign a document acknowledging that no water, sewer, or medical services are available, and police may take days to get to you. The kinds of places where even FedEx and UPS won't guarantee overnight delivery at any price.

The place where I was last week was seven miles from the fringes of the nearest cell service. But it had pretty fast wifi, thanks to a fixed-microwave link on a single pole stuck 40 feet into the air. Every time a breeze came along, the pole would sway, the dish at the top would go out of alignment, and the connection would drop.

This is why every time I see someone on HN spout about how "You always get an internet connection by hacking your neighbor's wifi connection" I shake my head.

But it's nice to get out of the office every once in a while.
And yet my post that doesn't violate any guidelines got downvoted and flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947886

Stop defending HN's bigotry and start confronting it.
I interviewed with 18F/USDS and they seem like they fit what you are looking for (assuming you are in the USA, which may not be the case). They work on modernizing the US government programs. Lots of opportunities for you if you are willing to move to DC, some if you are senior and are willing to work remote.

More here: https://18f.gsa.gov/
>> you can see that they began to campaign HN specifically about two years ago

No, I can't see that. If your going to accuse people of things, please explain what you mean and furnish some evidence.

EDIT: It looks like your account is new. How do you know what was happening here two years ago? Did you change accounts or just lurk?
In an ideal world, I'd be in favor of increased carbon taxes instead of blanket bans. The tax would need to be both high and broadly enforced, and should preferably offer some sort of subsidy to lower-income individuals to ensure they aren't decimated by the changes.

In practice, I'm so desperate for countries to do anything about climate change that I'm disinclined to complain about implementation. Climate change is an existential threat to humanity, and we need to actually treat it as such.
Treating anxiety with cannabis is like throwing gas on a fire.
Thanks, that's really helpful. I'll check out the links you sent!
Some music to go with that page: http://datassette.net/businessfunk/

upd: and some more: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zZt64_XOflk
Historically, maybe. But they do their work in the colon where it's too late for most nutrients to be absorbed without a "reconsumption" step humans generally no longer practice.
If only ResolverOne had taken off or been open sourced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolver_One
The quality and speed is incredible
It would likely be very similar to our existing service. We send a swab kit, you send back, we group it with other consumers, sequence, then send data back through some encrypted way.

We'd likely offer 3 kits out of the gate that are specific to certain areas of interest (cancer, inherited disease, etc.). Over time, we could expand this but I'd do this as just sort of a proof point.

In theory, we could create a custom targeted kit for any gene(s) but it's usually cost prohibitive since you generally order in batches of 24 samples.

The hardest part would be getting enough samples from different consumers to make the runs cost effective. We'd likely need at least 20-30 samples before we could run, so need to think through the logistics there.
Maybe the time is over for web design, but there's always something new around the corner that the kids have figured out, and the more conservative businesses haven't.
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Isn’t he busy at Facebook or is he though with that?
> Game developers are not wedded to languages, if something is 25% more productive they WILL use it. If game developers flip, Rust is going to displace C++.

Actually game developers tend to only switch when forced to do so via the SDKs of the platforms they have to target for their business.

It was so during all the transitions that already took place.

Assembly -> C/Pascal/AMOS, C/Pascal/AMOS -> C/C++, C/C++ -> C++/C#/Blueprints/Swift/Objective-C/Java

So there is already an ongoing slow movement regarding D, C#, Rust and eventually Jai, but there needs to be a catalyst from a few well known names in the industry for it to take place, like all those before.
No worries, this isn‘t the first and also not the last time for such a proposal by a minority oppositional party. Politically this is not going to happen with most Germans relationship to their cars.
Ya, I was curious about that too. Finally started messing with bcc, found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43003805/can-ebpf-modify... and a tangentally related https://dev.framing.life/tracing/uprobes-and-int3-insn/
No human-based system is going to be 100% right 100% of the time, or even close.

I've only been here a few months, but I feel like we do a pretty good job all things considered.
Absolutely, and although the end user was the primary focus of this article and perhaps of the effort as a whole, this initiative can't help but have a positive impact on the libraries used by those heretofore nameless "third parties" such as myself who use code to transfer data to/from Excel.
You're lucky, in my software development career I've been automatizing other people work so they could be fired. It isn't so directly, but is really what happens after some years. Selling art tickets is a noble work.
sim2real research for robotics is super exciting.

For all the work Boston Dynamics has done making carefully hand-tuned locomotion controllers, recent work has made that basically learnable in simulation, and then transferable to the real world: https://youtu.be/aTDkYFZFWug
Ash HN: Should I use Udemy or Teachable to launch my first programming course?
I am (as a matter of principle) only working on projects which need to run for 10+ years or cannot be upgraded (firmware for very constrained devices) so yes, software is often far more complicated than it needs to be, but writing it in VBA or JS is not helping imho. Carefully designing, typing and formally proving (parts) is what makes me have applications running on cheap servers with basically 10+ years uptime (besides OS security updates) that give me income without work. I run software (SAAS) more complicated and with more clients on one 15 euro per month server than many run on complex aws setups with node/js/mongo. Also with higher uptime; although aws etc can give you 100% uptime, the quality of most software is so bad that it goes down. Ofcourse maybe you are different and take care to make things robust; that is not the common vba/nodejs hacker though in my experience.
That's a good point and appreciate the critical feedback. This is the debate we've been having is that we don't want to get close to the "diagnostic" or "insights" world due to regulations.

Part of us believes that there are enough people who just want the data with some suggestions on tools to explore the data for their own curiosity. Almost like a hobby (similar to what genealogy use to be). Perhaps this is false but need more proof points.

There is the option of a sort of marketplace/forum/app place that we explored. Effectively, you'd get your data and then have a handful of options that we'd offer up as next steps. Instead of keeping that all in house, we'd act more as a platform to bring together the right services and software so that people can explore at their own will.
[Posted my question as a gist as there's a 2000 character limit on HN]. Here's the summary:

- I started publishing video tutorials and articles about Flutter around April last year.

- To date, I have ~3700 subscribers on YouTube, ~2200 followers on Medium and ~1500 on my mailing list. All growing steadily.

- I researched all major platforms and shortlisted Udemy and Teachable. I want my course to be paid upfront (don't like the subscription model used by Pluralsight and Skillshare).

- My audience would like to see my course on Udemy (presumably as they already have an account there)

- Top courses on Flutter are all on Udemy and have a lot of enrolled students (15K for #1 course). These are made by established teachers that already have a big audience and many courses on Udemy.

- I'm confident my Flutter course can make it in the top 5 on Udemy

- I'm familiar with Udemy's revenue split (97% with coupon codes, or 50% without)

- I'm familiar with Teachable's pricing model (5% commission on basic plan, 0% on professional plan)
- I'm aware of Udemy's lack of policing around privacy (Google: "Why Udemy is Bad")

Benefits of Udemy:

- Visibility & direct search traffic (people looking for Flutter will find my course)

- Many people already have an account with linked credit card (less friction)

Drawbacks of Udemy:

- No control over pricing model. Very often courses sell for $10 to $15, and I wouldn't be surprised to see even lower prices in the future. Given the 50% commission, actual profit per sale is quite low.

Benefits of Teachable:

- Self hosted. Can use a subdomain and more easily drive traffic from my website/blog. This may be a smart move as I also move my Medium publication to Ghost in the coming months.

- Pricing control. I can charge more for my course and pay 5% commission or less.

- Advanced features (drip content etc.)

Drawbacks of Teachable:

- No direct search traffic from the platform. I have to drive traffic organically myself to my website and the course.

- People will have to register an account and add a credit card (more friction)

Closing thoughts

- As a new player in the market, I feel that Udemy is the safer choice. That's where everyone is, and it will most likely drive more traffic in the short term due to direct search.

- Teachable seems riskier. Short term I will lose on a good chunk of traffic. It may be a better option once I'm more established and have more followers. A few wise folks would say "publish on your own platform", but is it worth the risk in my situation?

I spent a lot of time creating a high quality course. Currently have prepared 10 hours of content, with another ~10 planned. I want to open the course for invitation only in the coming weeks and start receiving feedback and reviews. And launch in the coming months.

What should I do - launch on Udemy or Teachable?

I would really appreciate some advice, I'm a bit torn on this one.

Many Thanks!
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You can if you’re on macOS. You can make it to where handbrake can read the Blu-ray.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/directly-rip-and-conv...
If you'd read it, he was using the term as a metaphor, not literally.
Towards the end of the article they mention the possibility of increasing petrol taxes, but that the government is wary of the political impact (hardly surprising, seeing all those riotous Frenchmen).

Unsurprising, the unions favour speed limits over taxes (I doubt many trucks are travelling at 80mph).
You can do that but the pizza guy may not know how to manage it. So the game has changed from making a static site to making a site and then figuring out how to make the pizza guy more money , get him more customers. Google business page optimization just basic stuff and then yelp listing. Just make sure the address is correct and no spelling errors. You put him on a subscription and meet him once a month to go over value , you become his digital media expert. You then ask him to promote you to his customers. I get free pizza , pasta from the pizza guy. Just for talking about this stuff with him. You can charge for it.
I've probably made accounts with 100+ or so different websites or services. Eventually this turns into a game of statistics: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ lists no less than 6 mass breaches my account details have ended up in through no fault of my own, all of them including at least email addresses and password hashes (if not plaintext passwords)

(edit: Actually, I've recalled at least a 7th service that has been compromised that HIBP doesn't list)

That's either 6 times my bank account password gets leaked... or 0 times if I use unique passwords. I strongly suspect there are more breaches that HIBP simply isn't aware of with my information in them. Additionally, I need to rotate either 600 (!) or merely 6 different passwords to re-secure my accounts. So, obviously, unique passwords are a big win here.

> If your passwords are hosted encrypted on a website, then if that website is breached, the master password you send it will be visible to the attacker, and thus all passwords are breached.

I use an offline password manager specifically because of this reason. Still, needing to pwn any of 5 targets to get my bank account (me, my bank, my password service, my email provider, or my phone provider) isn't much worse than needing to pwn any of 4 targets (me, my bank, my email provider, or my phone provider), and both are much better than needing to pwn any of 100+ targets, some of which have terrible security and are probably already pwned without even knowing it.

So, options for unique passwords:

Memorize 100+ strong unique passwords: I "can't" do this.

Memorize 100+ weak unique passwords: Too weak to brute force attacks for my tastes.

Use a memorizable unique password generation scheme: Not unique enough for my tastes.

Memorize a few very strong unique passwords and use a password manager. This does have the weakness that capturing my master passwords via keylogger will get you all my accounts, instead of just all the important ones that I regularly use - but since "all the important ones that I regularly use" includes my email, that's just as good as pwning all of my accounts in my book.
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The iceman nickname wasn't used for Kuklinsky in the mob. It was during media attention for his claimed body count of 200+ as a serial killer and mob hitman.

Jack the Ripper has nothing on Kuklinski, but people can remember both.