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icedchai summed it above but the reason for this isn't to maximize return - it's psychological. If the market drops, you now can buy more at a cheaper price. If you spent it all, you probably would be tempted to cash it all out to cut your losses. of course, you shouldn't, but we're talking about our lizard brains here.
There's a plugin to support the large monorepo at the FAANG i work for, i would expect there is one at the other too. A lot more people use the jetbrains products than you think at these companies.
A lot of journalist types seem to have switched to Twitter in the aftermath of Google Reader. But yeah, RSS never died in the real world.
With ncurses it runs out of the box on my POWER6 AIX machine, so A for portability. I'd give you an A+ if I had xlc installed locally, but I cheated a little and used gcc. (For ncurses, I used the perzl pre-built library.)
The 2014 numbers read to me that 25% of all CPU cycles are spent on GC. If you re-read my previous post I was talking about that old version. The point was that Go started improvements from a fairly bad place, were gains are still relatively easy to obtain.

> Of course gains are to be expected when switching from Java's default GC to something specialized.

So? That's irrelevant for what's state of the art.
Yes, but you don't know your stalker exists until you are attacked and perhaps they just don't care if their routine is known. Consider that your stalker/attacker may enjoy the power of forcing you to monitor them back. So now we have a new avenue for trolling.

The system as described empowers the obsessive aggressor far more than improving the lives of people who don't care to focus on the minutiae of the lives of others.
Depending on the reactor tech I can see two problems. First, can it be produce plutonium? Second, it can certainly be used to make some tremendously dirty bombs. Given the issues with rich Saudis funding and aiding terrorists, I’d be concerned. There is also the issue of just how stable the Saudi government is long-term, and what happens (or needs to be done) if it falls.
> What profit are they making by doing that?

They're shedding expensive employee entitlements and liabilities.

> They have the power to not work for Uber.

A person's ability to exercise their power is proportional to the their financial security. A hungry person will have to make decisions in desperation to secure their next meal. A person behind on their rent will take whatever opportunity they can to secure a roof over their head.
That is the thing - there is pretty much always a 'bad' state that is an improvement over a worse one. Losing a hand isn't good but it beats a death by sepsis.
Most people aren't consciously agreeing and Facebook seems happy to keep it that way, so maybe not as different as you're implying.
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I remember talking to a driver back in the early days of Uber X (probably 2012-ish) who told me he was on track to make $80k driving for Uber that year. Wow have things changed.
All airplanes (or almost all? I'm sure someone will know of an exception) have compasses. But without data on wind direction and speed, a compass isn't much good over any appreciable distance. Once off the ground, an airplane is like a boat crossing a swift river. The boat won't land where it's pointed; it'll move with the current as it crosses and end up landing downstream of where it's pointed. So it is with airplanes. They don't fly where they're pointed; they move with the wind as they fly.
Isn't there a distinction between a DNS server and a DNS resolver?
I have been serving myself a custom root.zone for almost 20 years now.

I use tinydns for this which I think has always been the ideal choice for personal use. The author from the beginning recommended users not to use third party DNS and that advice has proven to be more and more prudent over the years. tinydns stores records on disk and has never been limited by RAM as would be something like nsd, for example. Today, I manage to fit all the data I need on tmpfs anyway.

I am certainly not the only person to serve their own root.

There used to be a project called ORSC that started around 1998 when there were people actively protesting ICANN management of domain names. ORSC ran their own root servers, as a service for others, as an alternative to ICANN. I remember seeing a page -- it may have been associated with ORSC -- showing how to run an alternative root. The software used was tinydns.

I also remember a former head of ICANN who said he ran his own local root.zone. Not sure what software he used. This was years before any "expert", e.g. Cricket Liu, even admitted running a local cache (nevermind a local root) could be a good idea.

Managing DNS for myself I noticed a few things over the years.

The amount of DNS data I will need for all internet use in the course of a lifetime -- subtracting all data for ad servers -- is relatively small. With today's computer equipment it can easily be stored locally.

Within that subset of DNS data the amount that is changing constantly is also relatively small. The Mockapetris DNS is premised on handling dynamic data but I manage to meet own needs with almost all static data. Further, the sampling I have done kept showing that most data stored in the DNS as a whole was not very dynamic.

Serving the data I need via authoritative servers like tinydns or nsd reduces the need for a cache, let alone one shared with others (who could possibly poison it... thereby reducing need for more complexity to protect against such poisoning).

As mentioned in the article, Vixie's problem was with Google hardware. Something like not being able to edit /etc/resolv.conf. Several solutions exist.

What happens when the ISP is redirecting all queries to port 53 to their own DNS servers? Imagine where the ISP has made its resolvers authoritative for everything, where it modifies the answers and you cannot access any other remote DNS server on port 53.

What is the solution? Multiple possibilities. If the needs are only for a relatively small amount of mainly static DNS data, then one option is to prefetch the data in bulk via FTP/HTTP. If the user wants a DNS cache, then another option is to set up own remote cache listening on a port other than 53 then forward queries there. VPN seems like overkill when the only issue is DNS traffic.

As such, "running their own DNS servers" could involve more than just using a RPi on the local network.
This is where you have to dig a little deeper. Your receiver outputs the date in the NMEA messages, but the satellite doesn't actually transmit year/month/day. The satellite transmits the week number and the number of seconds that have passed since the start of the week. In your case, the receiver could potentially output incorrect dates in the NMEA output when the week number wraps around.
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What’s your unfair advantage? What do you know that most people don’t? Rhetorical questions of course!
At least there are some limits to the use of the data when it is restricted to a few elites. When any loony or malcontent can use it then it just makes things much worse for those at the bottom of the heap.
There is nothing stopping us from legislating minimum rates just like we legislate minimum wages.
> Performance? Due to DNS caching at the resolver level, it is probably faster to use Google's 8.8.8.8 or CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1, than anything local (where all dns requests are a MISS).

It's perfectly possible to recursive resolve your misses to Google's DNS server if you want.
Sorry, I'm going to change the video format later. Maybe a GIF or something. But I don't want to touch it now while so many people are looking at it just in case I mess things up.

I've uploaded the two of them to Gyfcat for now. Let me know if that works for you

https://gfycat.com/BigGraveCricket

https://gfycat.com/EqualGreatDarklingbeetle
The noatime mount option is not the default, so no.
The XZ2 Compact suggests Sony doesn't have any idea what people liked about previous compact models. It's larger in every dimension than the models leading up to it, and significantly thicker. Despite that, it loses the headphone jack and barely gains any battery capacity.

What does it gain for all that? Screen resolution, mainly, going from 319 PPI to 483. I'd be hard pressed to care less about that change, as I'd need a VR headset or other magnification to notice.
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That case surprised me. I just built an Intel based Linux system using that exact case; it's a "be quiet!" Pure Base 600 Black [1]. They "debranded" the case in the photo with a low-effort edit.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA68V57M4...
It's not a "red scare" (irrational/emotional overreaction) when the chinese government has an explicit policy to encourage this kind of behavior
I wouldn't know what's too much or not, but here's a link with the numbers https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=safety-xray
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb...
I re-read our conversation thread to understand our communication mismatch and indeed you were taking about Go's GC not being novel, which it isn't. I apologize for the unproductive conversation, it's all on me.
It's worth noting that the Saudi's are well known to have an informal agreement to get access to the Pakistani nuclear devices if Iran develops the bomb.[1][2][3][4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Saudi_Arabi...: Since 1998, Western diplomats and intelligence agencies have long believed that an agreement exists in which Pakistan would sell Saudi Arabia nuclear warheads and its own nuclear technology should security in the Persian Gulf deteriorate.

[2] https://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/031022-pakistan...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...

[4] https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/75723 Saudi Arabia probably already has a nuclear weapons capability, courtesy of Pakistan.
Meditation and yoga are also ‘quick fixes’ of a different kind. Suffering is part of being human and nothing is going to erase it.
More profit for Uber? They don't give a f..k about the drivers.
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Ironic, because you claim without any supporting references that you "thought" that the statement ("claim with high confidence") is intelligence speak for no evidence, and then use this assumption to conclude that it's no better than citing anonymous sources.
Oh, if it wasn't clear, I was addicted to it :)
So many parallels to the music industry here.

You have a vc-funded company, operating at a loss, commoditizing the "talent" (drivers/musicians), thereby conditioning the audience (passengers/listeners) to expect an unsustainable cost for the service, using that loss leader mentality to drive other solutions out of business, until they argue or take action that the talent should expect even lower rates than they've historically gotten so the company can have a shot at being profitable. When the larger effect is that the company has captured value that used to go to the talent and then instead goes to the investors.
> "because I assume the application is written to correctly handle datetimes."

> "it is 100% more likely they have made mistakes in doing so because it is much more confusing to have to fight against PostgreSQL's assumptions and implicit conversions"

If you're assuming the application is correctly written to handle datetimes, you can safely assume it's also correctly using time zone aware date time data types, and using their database driver correctly, so there's no worry about PostgreSQL's assumptions or implicit conversions.

Datetime handling is hard. However, most of the issues you're talking about here are independent of whether you're storing instants as timestamp or timestamptz in PostgreSQL. Persistence is only one layer in an application stack.

As an aside, I haven't looked, but if someone hasn't already created a "Zoned Datetime" datatype extension for Postgres, it'd certainly be interesting to try.
> You know him as Jeff Bezos; I know him as my client of 22 years. ... To understand where this story goes, some background is needed.

Eyeroll. Why is Gavin writing this? In the Daily Beast? The narrative voice sets off immediate alarm bells, reading like a Tom Clancy novel;

> What was unusual, very unusual, was how hard AMI people worked to publicly reveal their source’s identity.

It really isn't all that unusual, when you feed a salacious story to a conspiracy-theory-mad media which is frothing at the mouth to bring down Trump by any means possible, and then claim the President cooked it up as political revenge. When the FBI has a non-prosecution agreement with you that any misdeed could throw you under a microscope... It would have surprised me more if AMI insisted on absolute secrecy of their source. This is classic "makes you look guilty either way" rubbish.

The world's richest man got caught doing something that could literally cost him half his fortune in the ensuing divorce. I certainly wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of that particular counter-strike.
Where is the money to come from? Whether you print more and inflate it (without the consent of existing holders) or take it by force via taxation (by definition without the consent of existing holders) you undermine the basic premise of the tool that money serves as in our society.
You're assuming that the people taking the job are fully informed, rational actors, not acting under financial duress. This is not a reasonable assumption for a near-permanent economic underclass.

Your rationale could be extended outward to every adverse outcome for poor: "Well, poor people have higher rates of obesity and cancer because of their poor life choices in eating fast food and smoking."

It's a convenient out for the exploiters to blame their victims.
Unlike the music industry, there aren’t a whole lot of people who would just be a cab driver for free in their spare time even if there was no money in it.
I frequently wish that datetime libraries and APIs frozen in time and awkward design were given a second pass and redone in the style of Java 8 [1], which is a triumph of clarity after many years of lessons learned. Even putting out a new RFC would help move things along, because I've long felt that RFC 3339 is underspecified [2].

If datetime libraries were more thoroughly patterned after that of Java 8, there would be less need for the 'misconceptions programmers believe about datetimes' posts, and less need for the 'just use UTC' or 'maybe always-UTC isn't the right advice' posts, because the data-types are thoroughly reflective of their intended use, and their misuse is harder than in other APIs.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364805
Yeah I have chased work quite literally across this country, from packing my life up and driving from east coast to west to work in the mines to living in the city working in the film industry because I go where the work is, I chased I.T work too the whole time I was doing this, just nobody till IBM was willing to give me a chance let alone hear me out in an interview.

I'm back where I consider home now because my old man has bone marrow cancer, he gets real tired doing general jobs so I've picked up the slack around the family property (no income earned but nobody else in the family will do it). So moving back to the city isn't much of an option for the next while. Not that i'd want to tho...the place broke me last time I lived there.
as a wise man once said, a fool believes and acts as what other fools told him too, but a wise man who does not understand that becomes a fool!
How are people getting their neckline? I've done it almost myself for 12 years, but I've always needed someone else to drive the clipper blades directly into the base of my neck with no comb to get a clean edge. Looks unfinished if I don't do it, seems impossible to get a nice straight line myself from that angle. Any ideas?
Uber has never made a profit.
For an end user, a resolver only DNS server is probably one of the easiest services to run as there's really nothing to configure. I run my own resolver only DNS server at home. The configuration is minimal and I haven't had to touch it in years (about every five years I update the root zone to pick up new root servers if any).

I also happen to run DNS for my domain (as well as email, web, gopher and qotd) and that is a bit more involved than just resolving only, but it's by far easier to manage than an email server.
You could probably go even smaller by using higher resolution characters, like Braille, but without the per-block colors.
I think it's like a lottery. The rational move is not to play: it prevents you from nearly guaranteed losses. It also prevents you from hitting the jackpot.

Obviously, when you interview those who hit a jackpot, they will tell: buy more tickets! Believe blindly in your luck! This is what worked for them.

The trick is that you don't interview much those who kept failing, either by following the scenario, or by deviating from it. They are more numerous but less interesting.

Definitely, running a startup is not pure lottery, execution matters a lot. It's more like poker: a good player will win more often, but you always can do everything right and still lose.
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> As independent contractors who can’t unionize, drivers are isolated from one another.
Saudi's refer specifically to the House of Saud, which is the ruling family of Saudi Arabia, if another family was ruling it would be {insert family name here} Arabia
That has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a good idea, just that I believe very little can go wrong I’m the context of Mossad oversight

This is the most eye-opening naive piece of rhetoric I've ever read on HN.

Mossad couldn't stop Iran from developing nuclear technology, only delay it. And that was with every country in the world agreeing to sanctions.

There is no chance they can stop the Saudis, especially since the Saudi's probably already have a technology transfer agreement with Pakistan.
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I've had terrible, great, and mediocre bosses too. The phenomenon that gets me most is why so many of the terrible ones clearly have destructive personality disorders. If you have your own page in the DSM, the damage you can do to the organization as an individual contributor is limited, but you can do 100x more damage as a manager. And many of these people are very good at convincing people above them in the organization that they are wonderful.

I wish it were standard procedure in organizations to give full psychiatric evaluations to all manager candidates prior to promotion so that at least the psychopaths, narcissists, and sexual predators could be weeded out ahead of time.
I've often thought this as well as we basically are just making marginal advancements at this point in things like computing power (hey, let's shrink this some more or add more cores). The nuclear power industry is a sinking ship (wind, solar, and storage won't be enough), and we lose more freedoms every year.

However...where else would you go? A Nordic country? Switzerland? I think you would want some place high on the freedom list that has a good economy and also a strong enough military to not have to worry about getting steamrolled. I don't think there are too many that meet that list.
> Do you agree that those very different times were measurements of the same TypeScript fannkuch-redux program?

Yes.

> How should we now assess your "suspiciously like entirely different algorithms were used in each implementation" comment?

The suspicion was incorrect. That's why it was presented as a suspicion, not as fact. I have no reason to defend it if it's incorrect, but I still defend that it was valid to raise questions, given the facts on the ground. We've now shown there was something that changed very drastically at that time, and while it's less likely it's the benchmarks themselves (unless one or both of those are fairly out of date Node versions)[1], it still points towards something to be aware of in the results presented. Namely, they rely on a lot of underlying assumptions which should be looked at if you care about the numbers.

1: Also, I imagine the V8 devs probably considered the performance of TypeScript in that case to be a bug, given how horrible the performance regression from JavaScript is and that it's still javaScript running. It's possible that TypeScript was doing something really odd, but given the exposure and Microsoft's backing and developer time, I think that's a less likely scenario than some optimization that should have been triggered was missing, which happens quite often.
Yes, agreed. It is overall frustrating to be someone without a lot of capital, trying to get ahead.
I think it’s obscene how much I make for what I do, having grown up in a blue collar family, working jobs that are far harder than what I do now, making minimum wage. If I didn’t have a family, I’d probably still rather be a software developer at $10 an hour instead of working at a KFC kitchen making what I make as a software developer now.
> Of the top five languages in both categories, four of them were compiled. (The exception? Java.)

Java is also compiled.
De Becker claims to have evidence and lawnchair_harry claims there is none (we haven't seen any at least). De Becker has all the reasons to bluff while lawnchair_harry has all the reasons to be skeptical. I am not sure why is he downvoted.
Incredibly low wages? This is only a handful of people you’re hearing from. Every uber driver I talk to is happy driving.

You’re hearing from
Some drivers that think they deserve to be paid 6 figures because they drive people around. It’s by definition a low-skill job. If they want more money they need to make themselves more valuable and find better jobs.

I use the jobspotter app to make extra money on the side so I know first hand how many “hiring” signs are shown in various areas in the Bay Area. You can find a job if you want. Almost every place is hiring. To say that Uber is your only choice is bullshit.

If you can’t find a better job in this economy and market then it’s you, not the market. And if you don’t like what you’re being paid then find a new job. It’s really as simple as that.
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All I want to do is write some stuff and post it online with my name on it. In principle I can host it on my own site, but what if I forget about this site for a while and it goes down? Are there no other "free" (not necessarily free, I would gladly be okay with a one time payment) ways to publish a basic static site that has the highest guarantees of staying online forever? My current guess is blogspot might be the closest to this option.
I imagine that would only be orders of magnitude harder to manager in this circumstances than in previous generations.

Especially for Uber who can incentivize payouts in an elastic fashion as the available labor pool shrinks. Service quality might decline a bit as available drivers decrease...but Uber won't even have to explicitly go out and find "scabs" - they can simply temporarily surge pricing to entice some of the drivers who either aren't striking or who aren't as committed.

Difficult indeed to really cut at the heart of Uber in this case and really swing some leverage as organized labor.

Especially with the setback face in U.S. court.
Airplane compasses are indeed affected by the electrical system, but not so much as to make them unusable. A maintenance process known colloquially as "swinging the compass" involves turning on the electronics, positioning the aircraft over a compass rose painted on the ground, and noting the error at various bearings.

As for the metal, most metal airframes are aluminum.