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Time tracking just makes developers better liars. It gives clients the room to be angry, fight contractual obligations, and essentially not pay for the development time.
>free with a $12 maintenance cost

So $12?
DARPA already looked at that through ISIS. The problem is the massive volume of gas within the airship. Even the lightest winds require a substantial amount of power to travel or station-keep. Google is using weather balloons, but they don't have any active controls, so they drift aimlessly away from the equator, and then need to be manually picked up after about a month.
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Er, use the Magnus effect. (Cf. "Magenn Power, Inc." company, now apparently defunct.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

I've been playing with geodesic cellular kites, and "eternal" flight is certainly possible. If the ratio of surface area to mass is great enough it's actually hard to stay on the ground. Cellular kites scale. I would like to eventually make flying buildings, etc...
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Some companies just want a panopticon. Many of them want to micro-manage, and have weird ideas that software development is a direct correlation between time and effort.

My current company it makes sense to try my best to the hour/half-hour, because we're consultants and that's how we bill our clients.

A past employer for me was the worst of both worlds because they had a consultant's mindset towards billable hours having been born of a law firm, but not the consultant's approach to billing software development work. We were classified purely as "overhead" and not allowed to "bill" our (internal) clients. Meanwhile, despite starting life as a law firm it was by that point mostly a call center, and call staff to lofty law firm partners look like babies that need a strict panopticon.
I got burned by Android being out of date (insecure) because my phone had to be updated by the carrier. I was royally pissed that neither the manufacturer of the phone nor my phone provider was taking ownership-- of the thing they took ownership of by not supporting vanilla Android to begin with-- and leaving me with an insecure device on their network.

Total BS.

I switched to iPhone now.
I think you are missing the point here.

The question isn't whether we should do something but what we should do.

The catastrophist claims basically opens up for a lot of really really expensive and ultimately useless solutions.

As an example wind and solar which isn't even providing 1% of the worlds energy consumption yet touted as the great savior.

When "the sky is falling" claims are going mainstream that opens up for almost any extreme solution no matter the cost.

Of course we should do something about fossil fuels if nothing else for the pollution, but we already are and that's good enough compared to what the demonstrated consequences of Climate change is.
I think this push i to robotic farming is a very good thing. Working on farms is very dangerous[1] work, and it forces people to contend with these dangers for not very much pay. Of course that begs the question: Should we push for the removal of humans from the equation, or force farms to be safer?

[1]. https://publicintegrity.org/workers-rights/worker-health-and...
The buyer purchased a book that claims to be, and is marketed as, a No Starch Press book. No Starch Press books are known for their physical quality and their lay-flat binding. These books were lower quality and did not have a lay-flat binding.

How is that not defrauding the buyer?
You could probably also give BookFusion a try. You will be able to read on iOS, Android and Web(Linux,Windows,OSX). All your eBooks will be synced across all devices, comments, highlights and reading progress.

More at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library . We also plan to release a native app later this year for desktops.

PS: I am the founder of BookFusion
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I've implemented IAP on Android and it is absolutely disgusting garbage looking API, worse than win32 api. Now it sits at 400 lines of ugly boilerplate spaghetti code. It turned me into firm believer that Google (at least Android branch) don't know how to do good API.
I suspect (but cannot prove) that some peoples' brains are wired such that static types fit them better, and other peoples' brains are wired such that dynamic types fit them better.

I suspect the same about procedural vs. functional programming.

And I suspect that's why discussions about them wind up the way they do. It's just obvious which one is better - to you. It's so obvious that it doesn't even seem to need proof. And therefore it seems that everyone who sees it differently must be ignorant, an idiot, or a troll.

Or so I suspect.
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Yeah, I've always wondered why Newegg hasn't changed those unfriendly policies in nearly 15 years. I recall buying exactly 3-4 items from them: a digital camera in 2007, a couple of refurbished monitors in 2016, and a tablet in 2018.

The lack of free shipping seems insane given how much the products already cost, and the "Return minus 15% restocking fee" really doesn't make me want to come back.
I wrote a rant in another comment, but I want to echo this here. The endless research, the costs, the looks you get from doctors, it's all very true.

Thanks for the google terms. Maybe it'll help out!
As a Calibre user you might be interested in BookFusion. We have a Calibre plugin that allows you to easily sync your eBooks acros, iOS, Android and Web

More at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre

PS: I am the founder of BookFusion
They do each other's laundry??
I stand corrected on the name. The operational overhead might be reasonable excuse, but I don't think a second-price auction would necessitate that much effort. You could get by with just a form and running a query on it.
This reads like some branding / self promotional thing rather than someone sharing something of value about hiring.
I'd posit that by definition an unintended consequence is one that wasn't intended. An unforeseen consequence would be on that was not foreseen. That's why we have those words.

You could play catch indoors and accidentally knock over a lamp. You absolutely foresaw that as a potential outcome, but you didn't intend for it to happen.
Several of these ideas could be combined into a remote controlled robot that can go in front of soldiers and around corners while keeping an eye in every direction. If it encounters an enemy combatant the operator could deploy some of the blinding light/sound nonlethals directly on the robot before the soldiers move in.
I wonder if this should really be called a holographic network:

"we are projecting all training example into a single bounded dimension. As with VAEs, we also combine the input information with an optimized prior. However, we treat
the prior as a separate input to the network. Because the network has very little information from the
training examples, it must complement it with an accurate general representation of the training set.
Because these representations are continuous, multi-dimensional, and represent the whole training
set, we call them ‘Holographic Representations’ and the architectures capable of generating them
‘Holographic Neural Architectures’ (HNAs)."

This seems to me to be very similar to what has always been done in regressions on complex data.
As others have mentioned, having a company minimum is a good idea. But you can also just give it to yourself: pick a number and make sure you take that many days off.

Current place I work has unlimited PTO, and I really like it. You do need to be careful not to fall into the trap of not using it, though.
Perhaps because a desire to spend more time working is, in the grand scheme of things, a colossal mistake.

You get top answers advising the OP to work less because some of us lived through the same problem and in the end realized what a colossal mistake it is to waste your life living to work instead of working to live.

How many people have laid in their deathbed complaining how they didn't spent more time at the office pushing some paperwork? Hoe many complained they didn't spent enough time with their loved ones?

Yes, the top answer is always "work less" because that's alwayd the right answer.
Does it really matter? Surely $11k is still a tiny amount for GitHub.
The point is that you don't know. A legitimate branded charger will have been tested in a certified test lab, while an off-brand or counterfeit charge is likely to have a counterfeit UL mark. It might be perfectly safe or it might be a complete deathtrap, because nobody has actually tested it for compliance.
> Of course they do. Just they call it "abusing the policy" or "not getting your work done" and don't tell you what the lines you shouldn't cross are.

I don't know how many times I need to repeat this, but if your company doesn't communicate expectation it's a problem with the company, not with unlimited PTO policies in general.
That's just "Exist as physical objects exist"

Ie., you're asking someone to find you an object with spatio-temporal properties which, as an object, does not have spatio-temporal properties.

Likewise you could ask, "find me a smile?!!" and then deny every example was a smile because "it was only a face smiling!".

"Existence" is defined relative to a context in which it can be evaluated, and it -- in general -- does not imply any particular properties.

"To Exit" in general is "to be found in some domain"

2 can be found in the domain of numbers
Would be great to see global network performance comparisons with smaller providers like Digital Ocean and OVH. Everyone always knocks AWS on their bandwidth pricing, yet the pricing is in line with other major cloud providers and CDNs (GCP, Azure, Fastly). I would love to see what the actual trade-off looks like. Is there really that much of a difference in performance or reliability between them, or is it just a case of oligopoly pricing.

Would also be nice to see some stats for traffic within the same AZ as well. I generally see ping times between 0.1 and 0.2 ms within the same AZ on AWS, would be nice to know what that looks like on Azure and GCP.
I'm not sure the comic was in good taste, but I don't like what amounts to pressure to self-censor. It seems like a slippery slope to the kind of extremist view that resulted in the shooting at Charlie Hebdo, and threats of violence to others.
One is supposed to at least entertain the idea that there is no consensus about "the sky is falling" claims we see in the media and pushed by politicians.

So no I am not holding anything to impossible standards I am simply saying that currently none of the consequences of climate change are things we can't deal with.

And yes predictions or forecast about almost anything can equally be called not scientific which would be a welcome change compared to the discussion we have today where bogus claims like "i believe in science" or "97% of scientists" agree are being used as ways to shut down any dissent from the catastrophist interpretation of the actual data.
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LOL what mission? Making fancy phones? Seriously what mission does Apple do? The mission to make money? Like every other company? LOL who would ever fall for this????????

I think this explains why Apple products-- software and hardware-- have fallen in quality: they hire people dumb enough to think working for Apple matters somehow.
If so, that’s a local problem and you fix it with regulation, not technology.
Will people ever stop making this comment on HN?

It's just not adding anything to the conversation anymore. I've seen it 50 times across the past 50 announcements of even the smallest thing Google launches.

Reader was discontinued five and a half years ago. Code search six years ago. Wave seven years ago. Plus wasn't discontinued, it just pivoted to paid G Suite-only. Sometimes well-intentioned products just don't make money. Let's move on.
Moxie has been very anti-federation when it comes to Signal for a few years[0] (while I disagree with his reasons, he is right that having a centralised system does make it easier to make protocol changes without splintering your user-base).

There is a Signal bridge[1], but it's incredibly hacky (it does some ungodly things with JavaScript to re-use the Signal Chrome App) and requires you to register Signal for a device and then use the linked device configuration to get messages. Personally that's far from ideal, and I think a better solution would be to actually set up a full-on fake device with signal-cli[2] (an unofficial wrapper around the Signal Java library) and then forward things.

Unfortunately, Signal bridges would necessarily have to man-in-the-middle your messages (breaking a lot of the benefits of the Signal crypto). You could forward the messages to an encrypted chat, but you still have a fairly big issue -- especially for shared homeservers. So you'd probably need to run your own homeserver and then you get into a lot more fun.

[0]: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37
[1]: https://github.com/matrix-hacks/matrix-puppet-signal
[2]: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
Guitar wire should be perfectly fine to cut with $10 snips. The $5 Stanley brand snips that I got to replace my terrible ones work like a charm.

I recognize I don't have the heaviest duty cut-through-anything shears that I could have with more money, but where I'm mainly doing light jobs like speaker wire and guitar strings it's not a problem... unless the snips themselves are terrible.

I don't expect to have to replace the Stanley set unless they become rusty from disuse.
That story looks bogus. Snopes [1] says:

> Neither Sinar Harian nor its English-language peer the New Strait Times asserted that the youngster was electrocuted by the earphones he was wearing, but that was the conclusion reached by a number of international publications, including widely-read U.S.-based Vice and Teen Vogue, both of whom aggregated the story.

...

> As an emergency room doctor, Uren& stopped short of calling the notion impossible because “I have seen some strange things in my career thus far,” but he added the story that the teen died from being electrocuted by earbuds “strains credibility.”

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/electrocuted-by-earphones/
> Which big pocket tech companies could do :)

Yeah, unfortunately I don't think big tech is that interested. Unless it is a strategic move, even at $1b/year in profit, it is not worth Tim Cook's time to do this ($1b/year is less than 2% of AAPL profit). I am not sure there is $1b/year in profit to be made across all the ILC manufacturers at this point.

> but we have gyroscopes, accelerometers

These are helpful and I wish cameras would record these and stuff them into the EXIF data somehow, so that I can do better post. I think we just have some disagreements about where post-processing should happen :p
I run an sshd on 443 for this reason. Helped me bypass some corporate firewalls in the past, very useful when you go onsite.
You really don't need that with Apples native stuff.

I get crashes from my costumers and I can see where in code it crashed, it just integrates with Xcode and it's like a local crash.
Exactly! I didn't know the author, but couldn't help but check on his background after reading the blogpost.

It's almost a dead giveaway for excerpts like 'The notion of a counter is not that of a single concrete class of object, it is an abstract description of the behaviour of a system providing certain operations satisfying certain rules.' , and 'A number is not any one thing, it is any one of any number of things that implement some operations (and there are different types of number depending on what operations you want to implement).'
> What realistic alternative would you have suggested to Thatcher at the time?

Oh that's easy. Give every HKer a full British passport instead of creating an entirely new category of nationality, where they were still British Nationals, but not British Citizens. Then let in a token few thousand. Unforgivable.

Would have given HKers a free choice, and done wonders for the UK economy.
The problem with OMDb is that it's not updated very frequently as the ratings don't come from IMDb directly but from various other sources. Especially for new movies that means that it often has ratings that are way higher than on IMDb. It also happens that less popular movies are on IMDb but not OMDb.
I hate to use the "you should be looking harder" trope, but every company I've worked at has had developers at or over 53, and not one of them had such onerous time tracking requirements.

One tracked time to attempt to get r&d tax credits on certain work. The other was an agency that tracked time in case of disputes with unruly clients (such as the time we had gone through 3 project managers and 2 CFOs while we worked with them, and they were desperate to recover money from their own bad mistakes). The rest didn't track time at all.

Not to mention that LOC as a metric has been an industry joke at least since the early 80's: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... I've heard of funnier versions of that story, but haven't tracked them down yet.
The difference is Lenovo markets it as an "Ubuntu-ready" machine.
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I thought about this for a little bit, I might actually code up a demo. If you take a random number between the square of min and the square of max, then you make your polar r equal to square root of your random number.
Quite possible. It seems likely that the people assembling the counterfeits don’t even read English, let alone have enough interest in the material to notice.
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Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This time

https://longreads.com/2019/02/11/atlantic-city-is-really-goi...

It has quite a few things I am currently really interested in. I've never been to Atlantic City but it always seemed like an extremely fascinating place with a lot of history. The pressure of the fading desire to gamble and climate change has serious impacts and this article was a great overview of the problems they are facing.
Serruya has been replying on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/CrisSerruya/status/1097903134108774403

Seems to place the blame on a ghostwriter hired from Fiverr:

> I'm deeply sorry. I'm taking down works I did with Fiverr ghostwriter that contains plagiarism. B assured I'll fix this w/ damaged authors. I'll not eschew my responsibility + I'll prove my innocence since my entire career is in peril @courtneymilan @romancewriters @TessaDare
One of the axioms of set theory is the axiom of the empty set, which states that there exists at least one set which has no elements. Another axiom of set theory is the axiom of extensionality, which states that two sets are equal if they have the exact same elements: from which it follows that all sets without elements are identical, i.e., there is only one set without elements. We call that the emptyset.

Other axioms of set theory are used to formalize other steps in my post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t... For example, the Axiom of Infinity is used to formalize the handwavy part where I said "In general, the natural n+1 is {0,...,n}".
Mostly. There are some APIs that are supported by one platform and not the other, but the majority is shared. So there's a large chance this extension should just work mostly out of the box in Firefox. However, it still needs to be repackaged and released for each platform separately.
> Comparing GPUs and CPUs are tricky

I agree it is tricky, but my point in the above post is not to compare processing girth, but instead to compare memory-allocation. If you are aiming for occupancy 10 on Vega64, every 32-bit DWORD you allocate will allocate a total of 655,360 bytes.

Yes, this code, a simple 4-byte allocation in OpenCL:

__private uint32_t foobar;

This code just allocated 655,360 bytes on Vega64 (assuming worst-case Occupancy 10 per queue). While this following OpenCL code:

__private uint64_t wow;

Just allocated 1.25 MB. By itself. The single line of code. The total amount of memory used adds up surprisingly quickly on GPUs. This is IMO the biggest issue with GPU programming, the absurdly small amount of memory you're expected to work with per shader.
I don't understand why someone would believe they'd get away with such blatant plagiarism.

I've heard of programs that look for plagiarism in academic papers, but is there such a beast for works of fiction? If not, perhaps there should be...
Not for cracking a password perhaps, but imagine you have a system that looks at a MAC'd ciphertext. You want the system to attempt to decrypt a malicious ciphertext you've generated, but it won't until you have passed its MAC check.

With a timing attack, you can iterate the bytes of the MAC, itself probably based on a cryptographic hash like HMAC(sha256), until you get something that gets to the second stage.

You reduce MAC-forging complexity from 2 to the power of the number of MAC bits, to 256 times the number of bytes in the MAC.
You can do everything right, work very hard, and still fail. You can do everything wrong, be a complete idiot, and still succeed.

There's ways you can increase your luck, or be more observant as to opportunities, but it's self-deluding if you don't think luck plays a huge factor in success.
> Why hasn't the US Consumer Protection Bureau stepped in at this point?

Because no such bureau exists?

You may be thinking of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (which deals with financial products) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (which deals with physical safety issues), but (while physical safety issues are among the problems produced) neither one is really focussed on these issues.

The kind of fraud at issue is probably more in the bailiwick of the Federal Trade Commission and the International Trade Commission (when the original source is foreign), but probably most people affected by counterfeits are just returning products or eating the cost and not complaining to the FTC or the falsely-purported manufacturer (who, IIRC, would be the party in position to complain to the ITC).
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There is no technical fix that will make managerial time-tracking less of an exercise in control and relentless optimization at the expense of the developer. If you want to preserve some autonomy and dignity, you need to fundamentally restructure the relationship between yourself and management (like with, for instance, a ~union~).
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I'm not sure how Google achieved it, but Parsec said they got usable browser game streaming working using WebRTC.

https://blog.parsecgaming.com/game-streaming-tech-in-the-bro...
You could argue there's a lot of content on "NYT doesn't like" but it's still there....

I think your narrative is pretty far off the ball here.

It still doesn't answer the question posed.
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