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Well they aren't really famous for innovation for large products (but they do innovate quite well in the small e.g. languages/research).

The question here was about copying: when you are after in an area, do you aquire something or lauch a large project to catch up. That doesn't even make sense for non-copycat products.
They were all over the L in Chicago, but I haven't seen them for quite some time. Though I think Facebook and Zuckerberg in particular might have an even worse image over there than they do here.
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All the human originated technology seems fairly plausible in the Expanse.

All the proto-molecule derived stuff isn’t particularly plausible, but it’s not really worse than most sufficiently-advanced-technology tropes, and it tries pretty hard to express a universe with rules, just different rules.

I would give Star Wars an F for science-y-ness, Star Trek a varying score depending on the episode (ranging from A to F) but overall a C, and The Expanse a B+.

It is galling when people define sci-fi by its cinematic imitators, for sure.
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OpenJDK is a pretty significant rewrite of the Sun/Oracle JDK to stay open and completely GPL.

CentOS is more of a repackaging of Redhat -- the binary files are almost exactly the same there so the comparison isn't quite valid.
I totally see where you’re coming from and I have no problem with such a decision. It’s not the decision I make, but I wouldn’t try to argue that you’re wrong.

My main point isn’t that everyone should go to China worry-free, but rather that a years-old drug conviction being bumped up from a long prison sentence to a death sentence isn’t going to make much difference to the decision. People like you probably wouldn’t go either way, and people like me aren’t going to change their minds because of it.
I'm just using a python script and a local copy of some mustache(?) template-library (even using a .tpml extension). Considering flexibility: I guess the configurability of this is offset by having to know Go to extend this (compared to whichever scripting language you are familiar with), Python/Perl probably are available everywhere as well (at least if you don't care for containers). Still it's nice to see some useful approach shown off, instead of all-the-same useless fuss about different branches (which is basically every blog post about dotfile management I found on Google).
"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" and refuse to listen"

Same here. Instead of working through the issues management just panics and comes up with some weird approach that delivers less at higher cost and effort.
> If I'm the one doing the hiring, then not being on LinkedIn certainly makes a positive impression upon me :-)

Isn't it kind of the same sort of thing as "wearing pants to a job interview" now? Just part of the expected decorum for functioning as a professional? I understand it can be a bit of a crazy town, but there's a difference between "being on there" and "putting up inspirational quotes at 15 minute intervals".
> Do you now? Have real data to back this up or is it just a feel good guess?

Well, the program I work for is fully recognized by the CDC.

This thread is about finding your work meaningful, which I do. I'm not sure why you're being so condescending and hostile.
They were created with draw.io (https://about.draw.io/).
Note that, as far as China is concerned, Taiwan is a part of China. So from their perspective that is even less of a useful distiction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy
Bless you, sir!

Anecdotal sample of one: my last 5 positions came from real life networking (meetups, local dev communities & reputation) rather than via a LinkedIn account, which as you've no doubt surmised, I no longer have.
Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?
I've been working on a small issue tracker for a few months, and it's been ready to release for a while, but I have one more hurdle that I just can't convince myself to overcome: billing. I hate working with the payment provider I've chosen (but they really do seem to be the easiest thing, others I've looked at are no better). I end up with horribly messy code from their terrible Go SDK, everyone says their documentation is great, but as far as I can tell there's a lot of it that all leaves out important information at every step, so I have to tease out how to deal with their million edge cases, etc.
I've been putting off a billing rewrite for weeks now and not working towards an actual release; it's to the point where I'm questioning if I even want to be in this industry (although to be fair, I've been questioning that since before I got into software).

What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when you hit something you hate to work on but is necessary.
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I would think, and I'm speculating here, that the idea is that the kind of ads they have, justify a high CPC, precisely because you only go there when you're looking to hop jobs. Fewer people clicking that ad out of curiousity, with no possibility of applying for the position posted. $5 CPC makes sense if it gets you a new employee, since (even if it's only 1% of those clicking who you hire) that is a small part of total cost of employee acquisition.

I have no idea if this is actually the strategy, or if this is actually working, I'm just floating it as a possibility. You only go there if you're a recruiter, or thinking about getting new work, or you have been asked by somebody else to endorse, and that would be a good thing, in this scenario, since it improves the signal-to-noise ratio.
For high quality content, usefulness, and trust, you need curation. Full stop.

Unless they plan on doing that, they can't pretend like they either have it or will have it.
> A 100% within-firm increase in R&D leads to an 8.4% increase in the employee departure rate to entrepreneurship

And how much does the company gains, more or less the increase in funding for R&D? If more, it's OK. People come, contribute new ideas and leave.
You are right, the real test of a "proper government" will be after the economy crashes for extended periods of time. For USA it will be after our bull run slows down over the next century.

Germany failed the test last century.

Side note: Germany's "proper government" in the 20th century, was building concentration camps like "Shark Island" in West Africa for human experimentation pre-WWI and WWII while the economy was booming. So IMO it would fail many tests in the foreign policy department.
Hey, I saw that links to the Embedded Working Group[0], TockOS[1], and others have been posted already, and those are great places to start!

My company, Ferrous Systems[2], is also focused on embedded systems development in Rust, and we are already helping companies both with embedded linux and bare-metal/RTOS projects in Rust.

We're also running a conference in Berlin on April 26th-29th called OxidizeConf[3] if you are interested in learning more about what is already going on in the Embedded Rust world :)

[0]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg

[1]: https://www.tockos.org/

[2]: https://ferrous-systems.com

[3]: https://oxidizeconf.com
Why should you have to avoid political talk? Why shouldn’t you be allowed to talk about whatever you want?

Also, your grammar errors arn’t those typically made by a Francophone. This is a tell.
"instant 360 degree panos"

Or get the timing right and you could get Matrix style "bullet time" effects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time
Double posted because I saw this identical post and thought my other comment didn't work. Same response as my other comment though.
I thought this might be about the opposite: in some cultures animals could be tried and convicted of crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
Strictly speaking the US never had a war with Canada, it had a second war with Britain (Canada wasn't a thing yet).
The vast majority of emergency departments in the US is not allowed to turn someone away if they need emergency care. Somehow, that works even there. (even though due to lack of universal healthcare payment is not secured)

Many jurisdictions, including some US states, legally require everyone to provide emergency aid if possible, not just doctors.

The entire talking point about the individual doctor is a tired straw man, societies manage people having rights guaranteed by the system of society all the time, they do not break down if an individual person steps out of line.
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No. For anyone non-technical I always recommend an iPhone. I can simply say, "Press this button if you need to open another app." The difference in UI/UX you see on different android phones and auto-hide enabled soft navigation buttons confuse non technical people a lot.
Ironically, while I always react to new Safehold books like children to candies, I find them to be overly long and spending too much time on introducing (and then killing off) characters whose names I won't remember by the end of the chapter - and it's something I don't remember feeling about 3BP. Then again, Uplift saga felt sluggish to me too at times. However, in all of those cases, the plot is good enough for me to like it. I guess I can bear overly long stories if they're still interesting stories.

EDIT:

> I can look down my nose at David Weber’s wooden and cringeworthy characters and dialog

"Truer words have never been spoken." ;).
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I don't. I've found (survivorship bias incoming) that I get better results if I don't work hard. More money, more recognition, better conditions, etc
> Once Microsoft is able to push a real CRM competitor to Salesforce

Given how Salesforce is squeezing every last cent out of users (new or long-time) that day can't come soon enough.

I like Salesforce (the product) and enjoy working with it more than I ever enjoyed Dynamics CRM, but their price hikes are getting too much for customers to stomach.
>If we start banning Chinese phones we'll buy American ones come in instead.

Huh? America doesn't make any phones, and worse, simply does not even have the technology to make phones if they wanted to. America does not have the technology needed to make the screens for them, most notably: the screen technology is all in Asia.
Comparing SF, or event metro USA, to all of Japan is quite a stretch.

Further, the structure of their real estate markets are completely different.

Increasing supply will put downward pressure on price. Econ 101. That other factors apply upward pressure does not negate this.
Most of the IP/software and profit in an iPhone comes from and goes to a US company. Most of the components in an iPhone aren’t from China (nor the USA). Yes, it is assembled in China, but it isn’t accurate to say it is a Chinese product.
> P.S. The "safe" job might not be as safe as it seems.

It's been my experience that if you can get one 9–5 job, you can get another as long as you have a nontrivial amount of experience.

For example, I last got laid off in March of 2016. In May of that year, I applied for a job that I ended up starting in June (and I'm still here two and a half years later).
There's an extension for MIDI to control things like lighting and pyrotechnics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Show_Control
Ask HN: Best actions for someone with idea and plan but no money?
I have several practical ideas for things that will be compelling and sales worthy, but I have no money to fund them, nor can they really be MVP'd without being stolen, so I feel like I am in a Catch-22. I suppose a seed funder would be best?
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I love this idea. I've wanted to do something similar for a long time, but I was thinking about building a home assistant where the always-on mic was a complete separate board that only listened for wake words and had no internet access. The main mic would only be powered on when the smaller board woke it up. Alias achieves the same thing in a much simpler way to where I might actually consider buying a home assistant now.
Seems to me based on the description that it only says "Hey Google" to the device and then lets your voice through by cutting off the white noise. That would mean the only delay would be between when you say the wake word and when Google starts listening.
Yes, "going down by 1/3" would mean what you say - but they wrote "going down TO 1/3 of": "asking me to go down to 1/3rd of my price because of where I lived".

I read "going down to 1/3" differently than "going down by 1/3". "going down to" leaves you with 1/3; "going down by" leaves you with 2/3.
I had a RSS reader. I am bothered by unread emails or notifications. It was a big waste of time for me to clean up all the "new stuff". And just marking as read felt like missing out.

Now I just browse a blog when I feel like it. If there's nothing new, I might reread some old post. That's it!
That's a good a three prong test as I've ever heard for sci-fi!

I've never been able to explain as succinctly how I can enjoy both Asimov and Bacigalupi.
I want the notification functionality, I just don't need it to be instant.
That’s where I got the data. That article mentions higher costs, but the Harvard study they referenced links review stars to closures. Clearly costs are one of the main pressures on restaurants, but there are plenty of things that restaurants can do to improve diners’ experiences which don’t necessarily cost more.

Hypothetically, restaurant A and B are the same except A is better organized and your food gets to the customers table faster and at the right temperature. Or restaurant B’s staff doesn’t notice when your wine glass is almost empty and doesn’t sell that second or third glass. Little things can make a huge difference in revenue and ratings, and yet you can see restaurants making stupid mistakes all the time.
Ya, my echo devices can hear me across the kitchen, with people talking near it, while the water is running, and the TV is on (in the distance). That's a core feature for me. If this device dropped that capability, I'd rip it off in a day.
RSS declined because nobody wanted to put up content on 3rd party systems that didn't pay them.

Large media companies had to actively do work to shut down their RSS feeds, when they could've just done both. They took them down because they weren't making money on keeping them up.
That's fair I suppose; I still use a lot of newsletters for things that don't have RSS feeds. My inbox tends to be more cluttered and harder to organize though (filters vs. just dragging a feed into a folder or adding a label) so I avoid it wherever possible. Still, having things come to me that way isn't the end of the world either.
> Given what happened with the iPod / iTunes being behind isn't always a bad thing.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. When the iPod and then iTunes entered the scene, the MP3 player market was very small and immature. The product they put forth was untouchable because it didn't address one or two gripes with MP3 players of the time, it addressed almost all of them. The failed Microsoft products all entered mature markets with very strong incumbents.

When the iPod arrived on the scene it was half the size of the Creative HDD based MP3 players that here hot shit at the time and wasn't trying to look like futuristic discman. It featured a high speed interface (Firewire) so it didn't take weeks to load your music. The interface actually helped you quickly browse your gigabytes of sound files unlike everyone else whose UIs were d-pad based nightmares that made browsing more than a few hundred MP3s a hassle. It had a rechargeable battery that lasted longer than any other player of which most were still using AA as power. The most compelling alternative to the iPod was probably the iRiver H1xx series and it didn't arrive until 2 years later and still had a horribly crippled UI but equally high price.

All the incumbent tech giants including Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and Google entered the markets they dominate when those markets were very immature and relatively new. Their products had multiple advantages over the competition, if any, and quickly captured the market before anyone realized what happened.
This is a fantastic idea! Although it is pretty sad that it is needed in the first place.
MongoDB's new license does not in any way prevent you from using MongoDB in whatever way you want. It simply requires you to, in some cases, release the changes you make to it publicly. You know, like the GPL did before companies found that a SaaS model let's you side step the release changes requirement.
Yeah, the point I'm making is not that all mutations are special and natural, which isn't particularly useful: it's that we almost certainly have mutations similar to those that cause Down syndrome in our genetic history, and ancestors who suffered comparable (although presumably different) disadvantages relative to baseline mammals/apes/humans of the day.
The prison industrial complex is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...
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(not big in American ethnicity but)

I think his point is that "looking like a US citizen" is basically either being European, native American or African American. Which I guess is kind of like everyone except for people who look like Asian, South American or from the Middle East.
Thank you, very much Pezz.
Pretty interesting.
I haven't worked in Google, but from my experience in a startup, I totally agree at least with some of your points (my experience wasn't that great, so perhaps the other points were what was missing)
I don't see how a microchip (that a thief would have removed/replaced) helps prove ownership, and tattooing has been available for a long time.

A friend of a friend lost their cat once: it suddenly disappeared. Several years later they found it dead in a public place, but apparently well fed. It appears that someone else had adopted it, but they never even found out who, let alone how or why. I don't know how they identified the animal. Some people can identify animals from their appearance as easily as most people identify humans; some people cannot even identify humans very reliably.

Put lots of pictures of you and your pet on social media, perhaps, and summon an animal super-recogniser as an expert witness?
I agree whole-heartedly that the strange “worship” of science that is sometimes promoted is a contradiction of the spirit of the scientific method.
Think it is a problem but every other resource in game development is summarized, organized and bookish.

Handmade Hero is unique in that it is:
- Real time, watching a dude program a game
- He speaks his though process, stumbles, gets up and resolves issues
- Community interaction as they progress through the game

All, at the expense of content bloat. I think its popularity has spoken for itself in that Handmade Hero is a totally unique form of education.
I use it to re-lace my new shoes. I typically use one of these:

- https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/overunderlacing.htm

- https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/straighteuropeanlacing.htm

- https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/quicktightlacing.htm
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Hm, I don't quite understand how this works. So, if you say "Alias", then Alias has a built-in speaker that whispers "Hey Google" (or the equivalent) into the microphone. What if I start the question before Alias has finished analyzing my speech and playing the "Hey Google"?
Somewhere I still have a digital camera so rubbish it was never available for purchase in the West at all. I can't imagine it cost more than a dollar including shipping, it was given away by not-quite-scams where they say you get a digital camera free when you sign up. I signed to get the camera because I was interested to see how many corners they could cut - a LOT it turns out.

Obvious things first, it's QVGA. Yes that's 320x240 and remember this is a stills camera, not video.

The sensor is just raw exposed through a pinhole, no actual lense.

There's no compensation layer to remove noise or compensate for defects in the sensor, so you get dead pixels and other noise in your shots. There's no JPEG, just raw data and the driver makes it into an image.

Ok bad but you've seen worse right? I'm just getting started. Flash is expensive so they didn't use it. The camera has DRAM in it. If the batteries die (which they will after maybe two hours of inactivity) every lousy picture is lost. It's not good DRAM either, no need. They used seconds so some extra pixels are dead or bright in particular shots every time, some fade before the batteries die.

There's a single button control, and the "LCD display" is literally a counter that tells you rough battery remaining and shots taken, no images.

It is amazing. They tell you the best camera is the one you have with you. But if you have this, the best camera is probably to describe the scene in a tweet. Higher fidelity.

AFAIR it's so cheap it has no model number, describing itself only as "Camera" or something.
The article says that after your keyword it deactivates the white noise wall for a while, and whispers the original keyword. So alexa / google / siri will hear you directly.
Off topic: can we please get support for storing arbitrary data structures inside mmapped files (with nonfixed base address)?
I want all the notifications. This was a question about timing. I don't want them to do the constant polling required for the notifications to appear instantly.
This literally comes with every website using Firebase with the configuration in the Javascript, what's you point?
You may well be right. That's a good point about not having to engage heavily with it. Most other people in this thread seem to be indicating that this is how it is (wearing pants is required), and that I'm a no-pants outlier.

If I ever get within a sniff of being near the breadline, then of course I shouldn't rule out re-joining LinkedIn, in order to protect myself from destitution, but things are okay for me right now.

I originally left because LinkedIn triggered my "3 strikes and you're out" policy on spam and sneaky dark pattern preferences UI. Have they improved their behaviour in that area?

Oh, they exposed my password to the internet and they also stole all my Google contacts in the early days (2009?) without my permission. Nasty stuff.

I'm also worried about exposing too much personal history in terms of identity theft. The less data out there, the better (?).