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> Once you've hit the billion-dollar mark, you effectively have infinite money for most tangible purposes, and yet the drive to get more money continues.

There is an amount of wealth (and I think it's substantially less than a billion dollars), past which gaining more wealth won't improve your standard of living at all.

However, most people who hit that continue to strive to increase their wealth. I think that this is because the sort of person you have to be in order to accumulate a large amount of wealth is the sort of person who isn't interested in the wealth in the way ordinary people are.

They are interested in increasing their power, and in our society, wealth is power. I also think that past a certain point, many wealthy people are effectively engaging in a competitive game with other wealthy people, and the amount of money you are worth is nothing more or less than your current score in that game.
Intentionally testing one one browser when you know you've run into issues on other browsers is absolutely malicious.
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Canadian taxpayers give a billion dollars to the CBC every year. In return we get American-centric stories on the front page that seem to reflect our governing party’s ideology.
Ghosted me after setting up an interview. Fair warning.
It is planned to be phased out. Just like nuclear. That means that within 15 years Germany will have to replace roughly 70 % of its constant energy sources (nuclear and coals) by the only scalable constant energy source left: gas. Thereby becoming completely reliant on gas from Russia. Creating a massive geopolicital risk that didn't exist previously.

http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

I'll believe it when I see it. Also.
What problem exactly is that supposed to solve?

I thought the whole energiewende stunt was about decreasing CO2 emissions. I'm not seeing this.
I earn more than enough money for my needs. But when an opportunity comes along to make some more? Sure, why the hell not.

OK, I'm not quite a billionaire (ha!) but I don't see why this mindset doesn't persist as net worth increases.
You mean running production frontend-only apps?

You can just open "index.html" in your browser and it will run fine, as longs as the paths inside your files are relative.

You might have to reconfigure your bundler. If you're using Parcel, just pass `--public-url .` as a command line option when building. For Webpack use the publicPath configuration, etc.

But remember that pages accessed via file:/// have limited permissions: you can't use localStorage, access some sites using CORS, can't capture audio/video, etc. But if you're not using these things then it's fine.
They are investing in EVs mostly because governments are moving towards mandating them to combat global warming and pollution eg. "Norway to 'completely ban petrol powered cars by 2025'" etc. Not mostly because of Tesla.
Windows always been a pain to develop for. And every Windows version redundantly includes "a new api for everything" alongside all the horrible legacy stuff.

But Microsoft's recent efforts on Linux & macOS, i.e. VSCode, has been surprisingly good. They do a lot of things, I think Typescript is run by MS as well.

So that's something that positively changed under Nadella.
Re: Windows (likely) always could offer better privacy for a fee.

This could fuel class complaints that the poor will be snooped on more than the rich.
Cal Newport has also been a very good resource on this 'ethos' so-to-speak, and has good suggesstions and brass-tacks advice.

http://www.calnewport.com/blog/
Apparently, everyone has the "same" title - levels are only reflected in your pay band.
> Though, maybe that was part of his point.

As the article states, that was not his point. The point of the experiment was for him to stop saying and to start listening to what others are saying, even if its not a perspective or argument he himself supports.
I'm currently batling with this and components inside components, not sure how to do it nor where to find info for it. if anyone as any guide would be very much appreciated.
I work remotely for a U.S. based company from South Africa. I don't think they do anything special for each different territory. The IRS stuff just has two categories - U.S. and outside U.S.

I'd love to apply for an engineering job at Stripe.
Its human nature, the desire to have more and that what we have isn't enough. A motivation could be as simple as Gates and Bezos have more and rank higher - and maybe Zuckerberg doesnt like that.
From the article: "DHS has repeatedly warned that children are being exploited by traffickers to skirt the nation's immigration laws."

So it seems to me that it has to do with people skirting the law and exploiting children, not to "punish brown people".

> Because none of this is being done on the northern border, despite Canadians living illegally in the US generally taking higher paying jobs than migrant workers from Mexico and Central America.

Have stats on the number of Candadian's crossing the border illegally each year? I'd bet its an order of magnitude less than our southern border.

> And then we get to the real crux: as numerous people have said, this incorrectly classifies normal families as not being families.

Which is a problem, but this should be used as a tool in conjunction with other records and interviews of the family crossing.

Think of it this way, if a family crosses with children, takes the DNA test and everything is confirmed then the process may go much faster as additional investigation would not be needed.
Can we please stop using this talking point about Russia?

WikiLeaks publishes what they get (after verifying credibility). They cannot publish what is not leaked to them.

Also: they did publish things on Russia.
It's true. It's always hard to figure out exactly how much credit the CEO should get for successes or failures of the company, but since Nadella became CEO Microsoft made a lot of good decisions that really set them up for the future. Office365 is terrific. Azure is cementing itself as the default cloud for enterprises and a solid 2nd or 3rd option outside of the enterprise. Windows 10 is great.
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Is this on desktop or mobile? It could match the theory in the grandparent post that they preferred sticking to one backend. That also allows handling conflicts in one place, with one protocol. E.g. what would the behaviour be if you edited the home address with a ZIP code on your phone, while offline? What if you try to make the same change from your laptop and e.g. you set a ZIP+4 code? And then what happens when your phone is online again?
Facebook demonstrated a version of this recently https://ai.facebook.com/blog/aroma-ml-for-code-recommendatio....
To me the pinnacle of games on Android is Clash Royale: how it essentially shrunk the frenetic real-time action of many pc and console multi-player games into a very watcheable 1vs1 quickfire game, with an engaging meta based on card updates and new cards, and even the fads in tactics. It has micro transactions but no nagging and no ads.

Also I think the best phone games utilize a "portrait layout" than landscape, but many many game developers does seem to think that way, and are creating games with landscape orientation, that often requires awkward hand positions to play.
As remote guy I see potential for disruption in this area. So far umbrella subsidiaries or agencies and invoice-based contracting does the job, but stuff like IP rights and liability is quite complex.
We would need some Stripe-like service for employment matters.
I have been working remotely for the last 3 years. I'm a pretty social creature and after doing it for about 2 weeks I was already feeling pretty lonely!... For me, joining a co working space was excellent, can't recommend highly enough
Fuzzy logic, hamming scoring, and markov chains suddenly became "AI" now...

They don't need your telemetry for that
Oh yes! They're taking the desktop by storm!
Why though? If you're an advanced race that built a thought-extracting brain scanner specifically for a random race they encountered on a random planet (which it would have to be), is reading waypoints off a random pilot's brain really the best use of that technology?
TBH I dont mind Google knowing all this stuff about me. I like targeted ads. What I dont like is the idea that someone could steal that information from them and use it against me. Soak up as much info as you want from me Google, idc but if you're going to do that than you better damn well be able to keep it protected.
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Maybe they're the same service behind the scenes. Would you store the same music twice, if you had to run both?
HN remote workers, does your company pay for your use of a coworking space? Or even fully manage it?

I've noticed that companies I admire greatly like Basecamp, and also in yesterday's Who's Hiring thread, that they list a $200-$300 monthly stipend towards coworking space fees as an employee perk. That doesn't seem quite enough to fully cover a coworking space in NY or SF. I'm tasked with building a remote engineering workforce myself in our business, and was initially thinking that we as the company will be the ones setting up the contracts with WeWorks etc. But perhaps you as an employee would actually prefer to be in control of that?

Are there companies that are fully remote but don't contribute anything towards coworking? If you're in that situation, what do you think of it?
> Nadellaissance doesn't work at all and its breaking my soul, fuck off pithy headlines.

Care to explain? Do you work there? "doesn't work at all" meaning he's lazy?
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There should never have been a Clippy.
I'm actually sort of interested in what it's like to be a human in entirely different circumstances and culture, such that one's mindset is dictated every minute by considerations completely foreign to me.

But realistically, once the novelty wears off, it's probably back to ‘how do get through this day.’ History and old art tend to illustrate that people's everyday nature wasn't much strange to ours.
You're not being a team player here, Tom. Repeat after me: Legitimate. Asylum. Seekers.
I believe this is because MS wants to move away from being an OS provider to being a service provider. If a service runs on Linux they won't care as long as its generating revenue for them. Whether this is Nadella's push or obvious from MS's accountants is hard to say.
There are certain jobs that I think could really benefit from pairing, akin to pair programming. I used to do compliance work for a bank, and I think as a whole our reporting defect rate would have plummeted had we worked in pairs. Obviously for some jobs this is cost prohibitive and otherwise impractical, but an ideal working environment for me would be remote and part-time pairing. You get consistent human interaction, information flow across the team, and the benefits of remote work.
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Fine among our crowd but how many non technical people are using Linux?
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I would never click on an ad, even if it's for something I actually want. Clicking on an ad sends a strong signal (and exposes too much data) to the ad-slingers, and the less data that I give the ad-slingers, the better off I am.
Because he fired, and continues to fire employees who do it on their own time, outside of work.

Because you generally can't contract for the federal government while breaking federal laws.

But, of course, the rules are not the same for him as they are for you and me.
The subscription model is great/easy, but from the tax side I am leaning more towards the purchase model over AWS. I recently saw the Delta Airlines paid no Federal Taxes last year because of accelerated depreciation costs. With AWS, there is no accelerated depreciated, just current expenses. Anywho, I'm off to a new data center ground-breaking ceremony.
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First let me say that I can't speak to whether anything "significantly impacts Google's revenue" - either I don't have any material information in that regard, or if I did the SEC probably wouldn't want me making statements about it. :)

So with that caveat in mind, let me see what I can help answer.

I'm not entirely sure what nuance you're implying when you say "different deletion policies" - while for instance Cloud might have a different timeline or set of triggers for when and what data is deleted, when it happens "deleted" still generally means "deleted". Some products like GSuite have the ability for administrators to say, disable accounts, which removes them from use but doesn't delete the account, but that's transparent to the domain administrator.

It's definitely nontrivial to track data propagation within large systems, but standardizing infrastructure, having central documentation of data handling plans, and having comprehensive privacy reviews for any new functionality that launches helps keep people on the same page.

Edit: oh, and regarding "retraining every model a data point touched" - the easiest way to do this is to just always be regenerating your models on a frequent basis. If you retrain your models once a day or once a week on a fresh snapshot of your data, they'll only ever be that stale.
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Does there not exist a community non-free repo at this point?
Tesla admits that large portions of their cars--even the Model 3--are essentially built or assembled by hand.

Meanwhile, Ford and Toyota have videos of almost an entire car being constructed by robots on their production factory lines (their are parts where humans assist the robots but otherwise most of the work is actually done by the robots). There'a a famous Ford video from a decade or two ago showing one of their (now-older/discontinued) model sedans from being built and finished--entirely by robots-from frame to final painting touchups. And if you don't believe the videos, you can tour their factories and actually see their factory lines in action, live.
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It is hard to characterize anti-environmental behaviors as anything other than spiteful; there's never a conversation about how to appropriately account for externalities, never talk about trade-offs.

This is what you get instead:

https://youtu.be/rYPMbLO4pAY

The comments on that video are all mean-spirited, too, and that's just one of many...
He is a journalist.
I’ve worked remotely for most of the last 10 years. Don’t buy into the idea that work is your community or social life. That isolation can drive you to go places where people hang out after work (I met most of my friends at the climbing gym), get involved in clubs, etc. work sociality is a weak proxy for real community anyway.

Also, I always work from coffee shops, because I like having humans around.
In my mind, there's more to it than a metrics-driven optimization in isolation from the rest of the company.

In your example, the Y% of people you might lose if your trial is too short may very well turn out to be higher paying and/or lower churn customers. What you suggest in your post is the marketing equivalent of sales and support ignoring the colloquial small fry, without realizing that the latter might be sitting on company boards and referring large clients.

Also, if they bookmark the service until they can set aside a time to sign up and evaluate (which as an occasional buyer of SaaS products, I can anecdotally report that some do), you'd have no way to reach out to them and build a relationship unless they contacted you.

By contrast, if you have a free tier, and/or make it clear from the outset that when your trial expires you'll be able to do new ones when the product hits major milestones, then you have the end-user's email, you're building a relationship, you can interview the end-user to understand why they didn't convert, you can try to rescue trials that didn't move forward with a sale for a reason or another, etc.
> there's a rush by law enforcement to create a DNA database.
True,
But this has nothing to do with that (at least at this point). TFA specifically stated that no data would be retained, they are just looking for results in 90 minutes, evidently to verify if someone claims parenthood of a child, they really are the parent.

If it is actually used to make human trafficing more difficult, it is a good thing.

(Don't ask me whether I trust this administration to do anything good, for the right reasons, within reasonable bounds, with proper controls, or merely act with sanity and respect -- that is a whole other conversation likely unsuitable for this forum)
That's just the single box though. What about the storage and managed services?
Can someone help me understand current use of the word, vulnerable? At least in the context of leadership/self-help writings like this I'm seeing the word used a lot, and it's not being used the way that I would expect.

For example, in these writings "be vulnerable" is a suggestion for a way to help yourself, to improve yourself. In my understanding of the word, being vulnerable is never a good thing. It's always been used as a negative thing to avoid. "Your code is vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks unless..." Right? Also, I'm not used to it being used in a general sense like, "be vulnerable," it's usually, "watch out, you are vulnerable to X, Y, or Z."

From context I think I'm starting to understand what it means, but it's a struggle for me every time I read this kind of stuff. Is there a better (at least for me?) word I can substitute in my head?
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I recently bought a minitel for something like 3€, and would like to convert this dumb terminal into a workstation for when I have to write long reports, distraction-free.

1200 bauds, plain-text ought to be enough for writing something in vim+latex, while setting this up could give me a meaningful project to spend some time on... I must say it has been collecting dust for now, while I procrastinate on HN (not entirely true, but I found that I tend to junk-fill my free time with consuming content and writing "internet conmments" like a fastfood addict).
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In a lot of cases you really don't want a server at that layer of the stack anyways, when you could be serving your site from a CDN/"edge" that's built for low-latency to end users, cost-optimized for transfer and not having to play all of the games that scaling yet another layer brings. I'm willing to believe that some people really need server side rendering but it'd a hard sell to convince me that the majority of people chasing SSR really need it, or that they're better off for it.
Renewables and storage are already beating natural gas in that gap capacity. As both continue to decrease costs, that niche use will grow. Natural gas and coal tech are cost mature, while both renewables and storage are following natural tech development S-curves down and still have a long way to run.
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Remember MS was first to jump on the NSA PRISM slide.

While they’ve made some better decisions recently, this one has shown no signs of change. It’s why I still relegate anything MS to VMs.
This is interesting. I assume there's a balance to be had between being introduced to new ideas through something like a podcast/audiobook and having enough downtime to ruminate on those ideas for more meaningful insight.
Just to back up your point a bit:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Running existing coal and nuclear generation appears to be cheap (2nd chart), but new generation appears to be much more expensive (1st chart). The cost of Solar + Storage is low and dropping, and already beats the cost of new nuclear plants (4th chart).

BTW, I grew up on the east side of Madison, Cheers.
The fires aren't just in the paint shop. They are all around the factory property. Inside and outside. Garbage fires on the lot happen about once a year.

Regardless, you are trying to say that paint shop fires mean they just need a new paint shop. What I'm saying is that their entire manufacturing operation is amateurish compared to the rest of the auto industry.
This is actually worst for your privacy because it gives you an impression that your data is not being used. However, by the time that you remove it Google is already done with your data. I feel this will spread to other type of data that they are collecting too. I cannot convince myself that it’s a good thing and Google has good intentions with it.
I can only assume you’re trolling.
I saw The China Syndrome as a kid and let’s just say I still think about it sometimes, living six miles from a Westinghouse PWR.
It wasn't just those few weeks in June. Their first time pass rate, on weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis is really bad compared to other OEMs. A large part of the reason they have a repair parts shortage is because spare parts that would go to existing customers are instead being used to repair newly-built cars before they leave the factory.

Tesla's gotten better at managing their first-time pass rates, but they're still close to the bottom compared to their peers.
It is absolutely a strong one and one that startup's function as a result of.

If an employee couldn't get stock options in a startup, then there would be significantly fewer cases where they would choose to join a startup over a more stable, mature company. Sharing in the upside potential is critical. Sure, that isn't a public company but it still demonstrates the mechanism is sound.
Those parts aren't meant to be fun, it's meant to immerse you, which makes the exciting parts of the game more fun.
> he was accused of rape in Sweden

Tell me how being accused of rape makes you a despicable person.

I could accuse you of rape in this moment. Would you instantly become a despicable person?
> For a lot of people who take religion seriously, I feel like this could be a major upset.

I don't think it would change anything for them. We're living in a golden age of science, and that did not change anything for them. The existence of aliens would just be one more thing to either reject or literally bedevil.
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I have no data, but I'd wager it's way more common to see any of the following: adoption, people raised by non-blood relatives, paternity not being what was thought -- all while being innocent, law abiding people.
Me too. It's really sad, to be honest. HN used to be a place to come and learn really cool stuff, and I enjoyed the comments section much more than the articles themselves.

Now, the comments are hardly worth a glance.
That’s why I think whatever trust solution we come up with will have a heavy audit component to it. I know everyone here hates SOX compliance, but the entire goal of SOX was to increase investors’ trust in financial reporting in the wake of the Enron accounting scandal. And it worked.

SaaS companies already make ridiculous margins. Applying a sensible regulatory framework around privacy and data usage auditing would add overhead to be sure, but I’m also sure software margins will cover it.