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I am very much aware, because I am indeed that reporter, but I just didn't want to change the title from the email subject
A copy of Uber? They let Uber do all the dirt work and try to stay in the shadows.
Brexit says hi! Fortunately I can invest in overseas stocks and bonds to defray some of the problems, but don't count on "having a few hundred thousand" in the bank as being worth much if your country decides to leap off a cliff.
Redesigns tend to happen because someone in management decides they want to remake the UI in a way that appeals to them, whether or not it makes sense to anyone else.

The MS ribbon was a classic redesign. It broke the standard menu metaphor and crashed productivity for no good reason.

Flat design was in a similar league, but not quite as bad. Is that a button or a text element? How can anyone tell?

Refinement is a much harder challenge. Improving the aesthetics of something while making it subtly easier to use is a really difficult thing to do.
Their slogan:
"Something is wrong on the internet. Disinformation and false trending saturate social media."

Indeed. Not so ironically (how many times have we seen this) they have already been found guilty of the very thing which they claim to be against.

In short, New Knowledge ran its own disinformation campaign to discredit a politician as a "Russia-preferred candidate." Their tactics included the creation of a mini-army of fake Russian bots and fake Facebook groups. They were, in fact, kicked off of Facebook once the New York Times broke the scandal, on the claims that they had been "engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior". [1]

I posted this because I respect the HN community, and would hate for one of us to join New Knowledge only to discover their true nature when it was too late.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-30/firm-warned-americ...
Your comment was very helpful to me. I've been rethinking my career lately. I'm a postman who codes for fun in his spare time, but I don't make a lot of money. I calculated that with my job as a postman, it would take 10-30 years to save 1-3 years living expenses. I suppose it's time for a new job.
You had me until Thomas Friedman.
So that comes out to be about 8x multiplier. If that's something given 8 years ago then you would just break even if you had gotten a 25% raise in your first year. Of course you might have gotten more raises through out those 8 years s you may have come out ahead.
Then you'll be in a safer position than the vast majority of people, and it pushes back your date.

If this happens, that worldwide there's no growth for the next 15 years, think about the two paths

* FIRE path, I have significant savings, but can't retire young.

* Non-FIRE, my plan to retire at 70 is behind now and I'm worried about being able to retire then.
I work for AMD too! Can you PM me your name?
"The German industry was hit by slump in sales in the third and fourth quarters of last year"

Oh really? I asked the shipping time for a Polo (2017 model) and I've been told 160-180 days. I'm not surprised if they don't sell many cars.
Real economic freedom varies by the area you live in, but if you live in major metro areas, where you want to take advantage of all the cultural and entertainment offerings they have and also raise children, real economic freedom starts kicking in at around $700,000/year +/- $200k.

To make that much without a job, you need roughly $10M in the bank (yielding ~7% growth). That's a lot. A $500k/yr job w/o taxes or spending anything would take 20 years. The only way to get there is to have family money or hit the startup lotto (or actual lotto).

These articles are not about true economic freedom at 40, they're about limiting your consumption and being happy about it.
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The major problem from the federated model is that this assumes a blind trust of the labels for the learning you're trying to do. I find this approach frankly lazy and trying to make up for not having good data (and importantly good informational content) by throwing a bigger N at the problem.

I'm not saying there aren't cleaver ways to to semi-supervised approaches, but if you never look at your data (and the places where your model fails) how can you ever try to debug your way out?
Ha. Came here to say exactly this. In fact, I used to be an "idea guy" until I started running an arts organization and was suddenly inundated with people telling me what I "ought to do." Most of their ideas are terrible or out of keeping with our mission, but even the brilliant ones, I don't have the time and resources to execute them. My standard response now (to good ideas), is "Sounds great. Can I put you in charge of that?"
Great job to the Octave team!

Octave is a great tool, and it addresses a very real need - breaking MATLAB's stranglehold on academic computing.

Every programming course I took as an EE undergrad (other than Intro to Programming) was in MATLAB. 14 years later, and it's still the standard tool in my alma mater's EE department. Having a FOSS equivalent is huge.

So raise a glass to the Octave dev team. They work hard to provide a FOSS tool that can run MATLAB code, which gives you the software you need for self-guided learning from university materials. Or for your all your computational needs.

And Octave is a great tool even if you don't need MATLAB compatibility. Try it out the next time you've got some numerical computing to do.

Not an Octave dev, just a fan of the project.
Here's an intuitive explanation for L1:

Imagine you have two planetary bodies fixed in space. A free mass is attracted to both, but it's possible to find an unstable equilibrium somewhere between them. Put the mass here, and it'll stay still-- but it's like balancing a ball on the top of a sphere; it'll roll off towards one of the two planets unless you stabilize it.

Now imagine displacing the mass from the equilibrium, but in a direction perpendicular to the line between the planets-- it'll swing back and forth like one of those slingshot rides. There are two dimensions perpendicular to the line between the planets, so two dimensions with stable oscillations, therefore you can get circular orbits.
Diversified investments mean you will see much less of a drop (or even a rise in local currency).

But let's think through the case that stuff in the UK drops by 50% and you're entirely invested within the UK. Instead of having "a few hundred thousand" you'd have somewhere north of £100000 (depending on what you mean by 'a few').

That sounds to me like it'd give you some security, or help a move to another country.
Although having a Linux kernel is an implementation detail on Android, and they might as well replace it by something else tomorrow, it is probably the only use case where the Linux kernel gets deployed in the wild with most security knobs turned on.

SELinux, seccomp, CFI, libc with FORTIFY, forced initialization of kernel data structures, ASAN as required testing, ...

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/fuzz-sanitize

https://source.android.com/security

And it might very well be the only OS stack following up Solaris and iOS footsteps, regarding using hardware memory tagging to tame C.
Maybe a western maker space should have a co-maker space in the east, constantly connected by a always on vidchat wall. Stop stalking the past.
I tend to agree. Google supposedly has an army of good designers, with their constant redesigns, my first thoughts are always that I wish the redesign never happens, but later because I stick to it, I get used to it so that I dislike it a little less until next redesign happens.

Let’s face it. People aren’t really that welcoming towards redesign, if given a choice, they probably would choose to have the business as usual. And aesthetics matters only to certain degree, and if it stands out it becomes distracting. I wish people consider that familiarity should be an important factor in considering whether to change UI or not, UI can be good if they choose to look unimpressive, for utilities it might be better that way.

And real world appliance really changes the design so dracstically as software, a micro-oven looks like a micro-oven, a Coca-Cola can looks like the same like forever. A car always has 4 wheels. Why on earth software just changes the information flow randomly just because they can? This doesn’t make sense.
Disagree strongly.

While the build chain, documentation, marketing etc is nicer - it definitely has an uncanny valley situation going on in iOS at least. It NEARLY feels native.. but something's not quite right.

Also rendering performance really sucks on the XS Max. Even the most basic of list view examples will drop frames.
Out of curiosity, do you know of a Simulink equivalent that works with Octave? Or anything close?
No because instead of retiring at 60-70 and having a 40+ year career, you have a <20 year career, so twice as many people can get a bite at your career cherry, rather than subjecting half the population to under employment, low pay etc.

Plus large percentages of the population living in debt, and paycheque to paycheque isn't particularly sustainable. So everyone having lots of savings would add stability.
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And no company can ever improve or redeem their security credentials and behaviours ever.

they shouldn't even bother trying.

I hear you.
A company can not invent away from theire main field - in this case combustion engines. Every time the weather changes some of those in Old power will backstab the internal upstarts.
Just because money isn't spent on BS doesn't mean it's not active in the economy. Savers end up lending money to others who deploy it usefully as capital.
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Today, I can find a supplier for any widget I can think of on Alibaba. This wasn't possible in the 80s and 90s. I personally know someone who got rich buying toys in china and selling them in Europe. His business failed around 10 years ago, because his customers started buying direct.

That's the sort of "information" the article has in mind. Google's or Facebook's vast tracking of online behaviour is, well, really big. But it has very little relevance to the supply chain.
Anyone know why they choose a launch time and trajectory such that the arrival at ISS is more than a day later? It seems like you could choose to arrive at the ISS almost immediately after reaching orbital velocity if you wanted.
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That's not necessarily a problem. Its the next paragraph where they complain they're bored despite the subscriptions that's the problem.
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Exactly. This is what makes Tesla so unique. It is not only about the cars it is also about the power supply - and don't forget Tesla's solar roof so that you can charge your car at home almost for free.
I think it's more coming from the perspective that taxation is the cost of doing business in an area. It pays for the training, infrastructure, security, etc that businesses rely on. Schools, roads, and police aren't free. Its coming from the perspective that governments pay the bill for companies operational expenses, and a company which is not pitching enough in to pay for these costs is getting subsidized by those that are.

I don't think "subsidy" is precise language but talking about "tax breaks" doesn't really communicate what a truly cushy deal Amazon is getting at the expense of others.
Honestly I found none of that unethical.

If you're able to live with a lower consumption you should not increase it just to "not harm the economy". On the contrary I would find it unethical to increase your consumption beyond your need.

To your second point, I don't find it compelling either. First off, the FIRE way requires some amount of restraint and discipline - in many ways it's like dieting. It's good for you, but that doesn't mean people will do it - it will continue to be only a subset of people. Secondly, how would the system would adjust? What would be the driver for lower wages? The method is basically to save and invest half your income - that doesn't depend on your income. The people are still equally skilled, working equally hard during their working years. The output at their work while they work remains unchanged.

If anything it might drive wages _up_, as people would require increasingly higher compensation to stay at work, if the alternative is to live happily and safely without working.
During the past year I’ve worked with 2 large Fortune 500 companies (they are everywhere globally and everyone knows them) whose main business is in consumer products and services.

Amount of paying mobile users for both companies is clearly dominated by the iOS. About 1:5-1:10 ratio.
"hacked iPhone 7" how about that Apple fanboys?
UI - or any other design is not primarily about aesthetics. Where the author says, "You don't use Google maps because it looks nice, you use it because it tells you where to go", he's right, but it took good design to make you be able to use maps and to get value from the increasing amount and level of complexity of info therein.

That all said, I agree with him that many UI redesigns are pointless and expensive. Those tend to be the ones that don't bring new value to the user - just try to do the same old thing in a "modern" or (yikes - I hate this word) "fresh" way.

Good design of anything is hard, UI's are no exception. When you go beyond UI to uX, you enter the world of motivation, intent, expectations, and other emotional fuzziness. The design job gets harder by 10 or 100x. But it's there that you find the good reasons to consider a UI redesign.
When you want your UI to stand out you would anyway move from native look. Flutter is very good for that.
Great marketing. Saves them tons of money and makes customers feel good for opting in.
So they have time to validate the systems are working correctly. A direct launch would leave little margin for error, especially on a test flight.

Edit: now I think more it also allows for variations in launch performance. Soyuz does a three day rendezvous as back when the system was designed the accuracy required wasn’t possible, though now they’ve planned a same-day docking.
What do you mean by educated?

This is a person who is only able to entertain themselves by spending money. That doesn't sound educated to me.

"Entertainment", in the sense that it's commonly used, should really be called "paid entertainment". There's plenty of free entertainment. Read a book, good for a walk, or my favourite: learn something new that is complementary to your current skills and that might make you more econmically valuable. But he doesn't like these things, he just likes being with friends in the pub and playing FIFA. I promise you that I know a lot of educated people and their lives look nothing like that.
I have, and it was absolutely my experience. I "retired" at 28. Before that, I loathed my job and couldn't wait to quit. After? I realized that satisfying work is one of the main ingredients of happiness. If I had figured that out sooner, I could have found a job I enjoyed more, rather than quitting, bumbling around for years trying to figure out what to do with my life.

I do think a significant hazard of a real job is not nearly enough time off (precluding extended travel and so on), but again, if that's the sticking point, negotiate that.
I generally agree with your sentiment, but I can think of at least one counter-example: Tile, which is definitely a new, U.S. based hardware company. I know the founders and used to work with them at a previous company. We had access to tons of embedded equipment and everyone who worked there had a little maker studio at home (one made robotic espresso machines, another did something similar to Google earth but with hourly weather government imagery, another made specialized text-to-speech software for playwrights).

Maker spaces may not have become a thing, but that's okay as long as the makers are still out there. In the U.S. at least, the true maker space is still in your basement or garage.
If you live in a place with net metering, once you've committed to buying a solar roof (Tesla or otherwise), using it to charge an electric car (Tesla or otherwise) has almost the exact same marginal cost as it would without having the roof. (The only difference is the imperceptible increase in electricity supply, and thus similarly miniscule decrease in cost, from your roof being connected to the grid.)
Does anyone know of a website like this but for economics?
Where in the world do you need $700k/y to live relatively freely?... I can't fathom what kind of life you are aspiring to.
Most of Europe is really tame in comparison. As are huge regions of North America, too.
> If good software is produced in Germany

It is not. I worked in 3 people startups, 15 people web shops, 50 people IoT shops, and very very big enterprise software corps in Germany and I can tell you what you say can be copy&pasted into any of them. The only advantage of smaller companies is that they can't afford to have as much middle management. Therefore the "visionaries" are forced to live closer to reality and work with small teams. But they certainly don't like it and move to your model as soon as possible.
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But surely Brexit is an argument for building a nest egg.

The Boris Johnsons and Jacob Reece-Moggs of the world aren't worried about the financial aspects of Brexit, because they have a 'nest egg'.
You're describing something, but it isn't "wealth". Or, if it is, it's useless.

And if wealth is zero-sum, how can we "all end up a good deal 'poorer' than we were before."? NB: that whole sentence seems to be missing an odd number of negations.

But here's an indicator you'll like: "Energy Intensity" is, basically, production / energy usage. This was surprisingly stable over most of the 20th century, lending some support to the gist of your objection. But, two good news: (1) it's now on a definitive downward trend, proving that thinking does produce value (yeah!). And (2) renewable energy is rising, meaning that energy usage is now decoupling from the harms you allude to (CO_2 et al).
I'd like to point out that the search and how the results are displayed are part of the design - and can be the major bit. UI design isn't only, often not even primarily, about aesthetics.
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Worst thing is coupling UI redesign with changing the set of features.

First, you lose a familiar interface and you don't know where to find even the existing features. Then you realise that the feature you're looking for is no longer there. Maybe it will be brought back online later or will be replaced by another, "better", feature later.

UI redesigns are sometimes just plain unavoidable but they should be done separately from other changes. Much like you want to commit the code reformatting change separate from functional changes so you know you're just changing whitespace basically and there's nothing that should break your codebase.

As a user I can only absorb a certain amount of change at a time: I can learn a new UI if I know I'll find the familiar pieces somewhere in there. And I can accept new features or old ones being changed to different ones if I know the UI will still be the same.