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Engineers, like almost all employees, have to work for a living and will build whatever they have to build. Jobs are not easily replaceable for them to be able to take a stand. This means that even highly skilled and highly specialized engineers can't afford to have a problem working on censorship and surveillance tech, they probably find it exciting given all that cutting edge high performance packet processing or massive neural networks for face recognition. On top of that a bit of propaganda always helps to justify all this inhumane stuff, just like it helps to push lots of people to join the military. So, my point is, it can't come from individual employees taking responsibility, it doesn't work like that at all. Organized efforts won't stop any of it either, even if it succeed in one country, there are too many countries, some much more oppressive and brain washy than the others and make it practically impossible to have an influence.
They need to make money still. So the pitch now seems to be: hire us to clarify the confusion for you. The pitch was previously: hire us to ensure you don’t get disintermediated. I see this article as capitulation. And about time.
Not releasing to production on Friday afternoons? :)
I think he’s making an argument that you can make games with much less code than we do now, not a serious argument that we should only make games that fit on a business card.
I've found myself doing this lately too! Great approach.
Entrepreneurs need to rediscover collective action. Not everything can be solved by the so-called free market.
Why do they put GNU/ prefixes on everywhere? It literally seems like a plague.
How fast is it? Prior to the first Gulf War, airport security didn’t impose long waits and significantly tilting the balance away from trains. On the freight side, companies have to keep product on the books if it’s on some rail car vs. having been delivered by truck the day before.
I would just like to point out that this commenter's resume has nothing to do with whether or not Google is evil.
And now, having a car is seen as impending your freedom, funnily enough.
Employees are normally forbidden from trading any derivatives, short selling, or even buying shares in a margin account.

I’m not sure about the case of an employee that has left the company, but I expect that it would still qualify as insider trading through some window.
Exactly. The people directly designing and coding these surveillance systems are: other software developers! Our peers in the profession. Many of whom probably read (and even post to) HN. If you know someone working on such a system and you disagree ethically, it’s kind of your business to get in their face and challenge them on it. And if you are such a person: The tech hiring market is still pretty strong and robust. There are thousands of other projects out there for you that don’t involve mass-surveilling innocent people. You have options!

I’ve quit jobs in the past over ethical concerns with the project. It is a valid reason, and it just takes courage.
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He wrote the hardware column in Byte magazine for years. He wrote articles about making just about anything hardware related, from video cards, to printer spoolers (dedicated computer to accept a print job from a general purpose computer and dole it out to the printer), to modems, to simple computers running BASIC (think the forerunner of the Raspberry Pi).
I work in big data/cloud stuff so I do estimates all the time to figure out what size resources I need/how long something will take. Less than 5 minutes ago I did mental math to see how long a job would take (I knew how long it would take for one read, and I had 2 days of reads over 3 data sources each with 8 data partitions => 48 reads each taking about 90 seconds => about 1.25 hours).

Tip is another thing. And I like to "min/max" grocery shopping so I typically do mental math when shopping to maximize things like grams of protein/$.
Besides the extensive trade and travel done with what we now call Mexico, there was also a lot of trade, or at least travel, to CA at the time; beads formed from seashells gathered from the CA coast were a common feature of clothing and daily use items.

The writer of the article is ignorant, and the comparison to Rome is offensive.
I think it's fairly unlikely that someone is going to come up with a revolutionary new algorithm that would make the actual tracing of rays dramatically faster. People have been researching better acceleration structures and optimization tricks for decades at this point. There is probably a decent amount of scope for incremental improvements via hardware acceleration though.

There is also quite a bit of scope for figuring out clever ways to get the maximum value out of a given number of rays cast. This includes high level engine architecture and lower level improvements to things like denoising algorithms and smarter importance sampling. I think there's still a lot of room to better exploit temporal coherence for realtime ray tracing.
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>Just a reminder that you should use metrics. Maybe avoid using them as reward mechanisms and use them as leverage instead.

And unfortunately, I know of at least one software shop where GitPrime metrics are used as reward mechanisms. They influence performance reviews.
Cycling to/from the train station and transporting your bike in the train is great (with train cars designed for it, which is not uncommon in Europe).
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Lockup agreements are actually between Lyft and the IPO underwriters.

Basically, Lyft would have agreed with the underwriters not to exchange RSUs for the underlying shares of stock, so the employees couldn't sell any shares on the market. The RSUs, by their terms, generally have restrictions on who they can be sold to--usually just back to the company or purchasers approved by the company. If those restrictions are not adhered to, then the issuer of the RSU (i.e., Lyft) can void the sale transaction.
I sort of both agree and disagree with you.

Being able to do mental arithmetic for small numbers is actually a very useful life skill. Sure, everyone has a calculator in their pocket these days (despite what my maths teacher told me), but that overhead of having to pull your phone out does slow you down.

But I don't believe that rote learning your times tables up to 12 is the way to do it. Mental arithmetic should be incorporated into the curriculum in a more integrated way. The problem is that school systems love testing and grading people. And it's quick and easy to grade people on their times tables by giving them a speed test to see how many equations they can complete in 5 minutes. You can say that little Jimbo is doing his times tables at a third grade level because he knows his 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables. It's a terrible method of testing student progress though, I managed to get all the way to high school and was in the top stream class and never learned my times tables.

The actual concept of multiplication tables is an important concept for children to learn though, as it does help solidify fundamental mathematical concepts.
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I've been on Klonopin for seven years. But I started out on the very lowest clinical dose, and for two months I tapered to 75% and for the last month I've been on 50%. In another month I hope to drop to 25%. So it will be at least six months, and as I said I started at a low dose. I feel great so far.
Roads are obviously worse but I’m not sure about airplanes.

They’re measuring energy per passenger/km but I think ignoring the cost of building the infrastructure (the “get data” link is down). For roads and railways infrastructure investments are huge, both initial construction and then maintenance. Not only in dollars, in CO2 as well.
That just sounds like it’ll encourage criminals to operate in the burbs because there’s less surveillance.

What’s so bad about cameras in public spaces anyway?

Speaking as someone who had his phone stolen in a public space, I regret that there weren’t cameras around so they could’ve caught the guy.
Everyone's already walking around with a device that can hear everything they hear, and see much of what they see, track location, etc. They even bring these devices into their private spaces.

This info may be owned by Google or Apple, but fascism is about control, not ownership. No warrant required for LEO to see that data.

The government putting devices on lights that are owned by the government, in public places - that's small potatoes in comparison.
Most of my friends don't (and I love this!), they send me messages in Telegram and WhatsApp and we either discuss the matter this way or meet in person. If I felt like I am to call a friend I wouldn't mind to spend twice the rate and I would certainly love a half to go to the friend's account instead of just the phone company account.
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> Engineers, like almost all employees, have to work for a living and will build whatever they have to build.

Right now software engineering is one of the most fertile job markets out there. In the right city you can walk out on the street and stub your toe on a new job, offering good pay and office perks. Maybe it won't always be that way, but being a programmer right now feels like being the prettiest girl at the ball. That's a good climate in which to quit your job out of principle.

> Organized efforts won't stop any of it either, even if it succeed in one country, there are too many countries, some much more oppressive and brain washy than the others and make it practically impossible to have an influence.

It sounds like you've just succumbed to general defeatism, which to me seems like a waste of time and energy.
The air pollution in our homes
But you do realize that the environmental cost of animal farming is guaranteed to be >10x the cost of plant farming, correct? Each step up the food chain wastes roughly 90% of the energy, meaning that you need to grow more than 10 kcal of plants to raise 1 kcal of animal. So feeding animals is 10x as expensive as growing plants, in addition to the costs incurred by actually raising the livestock.
In all likelihood, many of the funds preallocated shares have already sold. People don’t subscribe to IPOs for a buy and hold strategy, they subscribe for easy risk-free profit.
And it's a question as to whether any of these FAANG companies actually need to hire any H1Bs considering how much money they have. How many well paying jobs are they exporting for no good reason other than they want to keep more money.
Given the amount of mojibake I've had to clean out of databases I'd have thought that data scientists would be the first to latch on to sane Unicode handling instead of the willy-nilly string handling inherent with py2.
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> Wouldn't it make more sense to short lyft than invest in them?

Lyft beat Uber to IPO and raised a bunch of money. If Lyft's stock tanks, Uber will get an extremely depressed IPO and raise far less money while having a far higher burn rate. This could possibly cause Uber to collapse before Lyft and leave Lyft as the remaining big player in the space.

In short, the market is likely to remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
I find Big O to be useful when designing solutions just to be able to quickly decide what data structures are appropriate for a task, though, admittedly, this doesn't come up that often.
Eeeeh... except, if a journalist was enrolled in this program then Apple would (almost certainly) know which journalists were getting new phones and various three-letters could pressure Apple into loading targeted software into phones for specific journalists.

Also, this comment isn't intended to touch the question of Apple's trustworthiness so please don't wave downvote over that, I am merely stating that such a system would _really_ motivate three-letters to put an immense amount of pressure into compromising such a system (whether they did so with or without Apple's co-operation can remain untouched).
I'm confused. My problem is not getting enough sunlight, and I was under the impression that blue light was what I needed. Why would blocking it help?
If you're using Postgraphile for the API layer and a frontend framework for the view layer, what do you need Django for? Just migrations?
A huge portion of ray-tracing is fulfilled by generic GPU hardware. Its the bits that NVidia RTX accelerates that makes the difference.

The coarse bounding-box check, as well as the ray/triangle intersection check, has DEDICATED hardware on NVidia RTX series (2060, 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti).

This means that NVidia's RTX cards can determine if a ray is intersecting a triangle, or a rectangle, with less power and at higher speeds than other GPUs.

That's a very important operation in the overall Raytracing problem. Future GPUs will need to implement this hardware-accelerated intersection check if they wish to be as fast (or faster) than RTX cards.

Alternatively, maybe there's an algorithm to do it as fast in software, but that seems unlikely to me.
I would like to know the answer to this too :)

Maybe they are using one tunnel interface per single customer then always assign the same address to everybody and use policy routing to handle this (EDIT: just realized there might not be using the network stack at all for this and do something alike in their userspace implementation). This would not solve key exchange though. But maybe it is possible to accept any key (if the public key is transmitted this should be easy). Otherwise connecting probably requires requesting an IP address for your key prior to connecting via WireGuard to allow the endpoint to setup required configuration.

This is really something WireGuard did not quite expect to be needed apparently. It is also hard to do dynamic routing with WireGuard which could also possibly allow fully meshed networks directly on top of WireGuard but i have not tried really hard yet. It would also be very useful to me to be able to have a CA so i do not have to update configuration everywhere. Last but not least its not possible to bridge the WireGuard interface at all. I have an experimental setup where i would like to use WireGuard as a sole network interface for a virtual machine, somewhat like advertised for containers where it works beautifully. However, its not possible because its not an Ethernet interface in Linux. Instead i have setup a VLAN on my switch and route traffic through WireGuard using my gateway. I would like to terminate the tunnels at the hypervisor a lot more, but don't want to route traffic there.

I think all of this boils down to the usage of their cryptographic routing and trickery around it to make it work as intended. I would probably abandon WireGuard if a fork would allow my use cases as i am otherwise a really happy user.
The US has the best rail system in the world...and uses it to transport cargo. The US also has the biggest single-country economy in the world.
I don't think the poster ever actually said that fish isn't meat, and I guess a lot of people are interpreting your question as a hostile challenge of the idea of pescatarianism (along the lines of "Why don't you think that cheeseburgers are murder?").

If you are struggling to understand pescatarianism as an idea, my perspective is that flexitarianism, pescatarianism, vegetarianism, and flexiveganism are all compromise diets that get some but not all environmental and ethical benefits of veganism. Different people have different levels of commitment and make different tradeoffs in their life choices. Whether that's "the only meat I eat is fish" or "I eat fish but not meat" is just a matter of definitions.

In terms of the English word "meat", there is certainly some ambiguity. At least as I know the term, it feels like a stretch (but maybe technically correct) to count fish as meat. I've had people suggest sushi when I say that I'm vegetarian, unaware that vegetarians don't eat fish. If you google for the Food Pyramid, most diagrams call out meat and fish as different things. "Vegetarian" almost always doesn't allow fish, but "meat" just isn't a very precise word.
Algorithm here sounds like it could be an SQL query.
Thanks. That's for EADs. USCIS is even delaying interviews on purpose without any written policy. That's what I mean.
That looks like rails. What made you settle on this given that Django promotes a different structure? I am curious as I like this approach as well, but would be nervous about making life harder by not following the framework and community path.
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I'm grateful for this article. It's been clearly reading on Twitter #npmlayoffs something bad has been going down but hard to piece the story together. The Reg puts it together in a relatively straightforward way.
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If you make a responsive keyboard, which would give a different tactile sensation for CAPS and for lowercase, then it would be easier. Piano gives this kind of distinction, historically it was due to a mechanism behind "FortePiano", in a modern electrical piano it reproduced for a convenience.

It can be made in a mechanical way, like a tristate button -- off, slighly-on, on.
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As someone allergic to legumes, increasingly so each year, It really sucks when I get whammied, more from protein sources than the oils, but all the same. I don't have a problem with things like this as long as it's clearly labelled as such. I sometimes think that fast food is the devil (Jack in the box and Taco Bell in particular).
I wonder how that is actionable. I did not say anything about the candidate. Just the opposite, I was clear that I cannot say anything about him. What I said was very generic and sound advice for any hiring manager. Any negative information concerning the candidate came from somewhere else after the hiring manager did more digging. So any legal action would have to target my intent, not what I said. And my intent was for the hiring manager do a complete assessment before making a decision, which is of course sound advice, and the same advice I would give for any candidate. Good luck suing me. If the candidate wanted to sue someone they would go after whoever provided negative information, which was not me.
The problem? I've got an address under Google's gmail domain that's extremely broadly attached to my identity. Rest assured, I now regret having my identity attached to some corporation, but myself and probably millions of others are sitting in the same boat...
Why have not you applied for EB-5 regional centers, since you have that kind of money? You would have green card by now, had you taken that route. Regional center eb-5 requires $500k. Otherwise, $1M with the proof that 10 Americans are employed.
Sorry, should have been more specific. As I understand it, no trades were made--they just spoofed whatever activity their competitor was looking at, so it wasn't illegal (but then again, I was hearing the story second-hand).
> So let me get this straight, other immigrant's jobs can be easily done by locals with minimal training, hence it is a scam. BUT your 'front-end skills' are so unique that no other American can do it?

His _position_ may require more than _minimal_ training. We don't know as we haven't seen the application.
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