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>What, exactly, are you doing with your infotainment system that requires so much use? I mean, I agree, CarPlay and Android Auto are nice, but I'm only playing music and using the navigation, both of which can be done easily without the fancy software.

Wow, that's an impressive knee-jerk.

First, you cast aspersions on the speaker by suggesting they're somehow using the feature too much if they care about interface efficacy.

Then you insist that key functions are done just as easily the old way, by which I presume you mean "by looking at the phone."

I'm not sure what your point is, but you're doing an admirable job at hollering at that cloud.
1Password, no contest.
~From playing Dwarf Fortress, I learned that ramps are better at reducing pathing collisions than stairs. If these buildings take out their escalators and put in stairs or elevators instead, they might not see visible congestion, but their framerate will drop into the basement.~

But seriously, this is mainly about shopping mall conversions. I have only ever worked in a partially-converted shopping mall for a few months, but I thought it was great office space compared to floors in purpose-built office buildings, mainly because it still partially functioned as a mall. There was a sandwich restaurant, a movie theater, and a motor vehicles branch, and it had a public transit bus stop. The biggest problem was a lack of windows and natural light. I would argue that keeping the gross features of the interior space intact--such as the escalators--would make a better office space, as the mall was already designed to be attractive to visitors and move them around efficiently.

Besides that, the conference rooms have to be named after some of the former mall tenants. That's an unbreakable rule.
As a counter-example, British Columbia recycles its post-consumer waste. There are state of the art sorting facilities near Vancouver that receive this material, sort it, grind it, clean it, and pelletize it. It's then bought and used to produce various industrial and consumer goods.

The recycler receives a subsidy (set through open bid) because the cost of sortation, grinding and cleaning is somewhat less than the recovery price of commodity resins. (Post-industrial plastics, or highly sorted plastics, are much cheaper to recycle and are processed without subsidy.)

The idea that all plastic recycling is "pretend" recycling is false, damaging, and encourages adoption of environmentally damaging alternatives or use of virgin plastics. We should either use more bins and pre-sort everything (which will result in lower recycle rates, but much more economic streams) or subsidize processors to sort streams out and turn them into useful material to be re-used.
The outcome here seems reasonable, but I'm a bit concerned about the jab at "value-based care" and "pay-for-performance" buried in the middle of it (in the "were there financial incentives in avoiding care" section).

Americans are generally over-treated (ironically, one narrative for why this happens is a concern about malpractice suits). There's very good reason to shift compensation away from services rendered to outcomes achieved; there's also a long track record in the US of treatments, particular inpatient and outpatient "procedures", of dubious efficacy. The controversy over "useless" coronary stents is a good example, but a better one might be the difference in hernia treatment between the US (where the procedures tend to be outpatient laparoscopy) and the UK (inpatient, and performed with less frequency).

The US pays substantially more than everyone else for medical care, and the reasons why probably don't have that much to do with prescription costs or administration, which make up a relatively small portion of total health spending; rather, we have inefficiently deployed hospitals, often with high vacancy rates, and prescribe a lot of procedures that might not need to occur.

Obviously that's not what happened here!
Ah, thanks, that makes perfect sense.
If you do end up deciding to charge money, depending on how niche it ends up being, Aseprite could provide a good model of an (extremely) reasonably priced tool that fills a specific need:
https://www.aseprite.org/

But I also have a ton of respect for the desire to offer it free!
Robocalls were in the news a couple of days ago here in Finland as well.

The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority has started receiving reports of marketing robocalls being made, and they issued a notice noting that such robocalls made without the customer's consent are illegal and that they and the Data Protection Ombudsman are currently investigating a case where a company has been using marketing robocalls: https://www.kkv.fi/en/current-issues/press-releases/2019/14....
The New York stuff goes to a place near Rochester, IIRC, and is back on the shelf as a bottle in a few weeks. Less for cans.
Google now allows the removal of SMS and Voicemail based 2FA if you have a hardware token configured. Good news is you can now use your Android phone as a hardware token.
You're talking about 111 8th?
* Phone number-as-identity is so stupid, even apple admitted it

iMessage automatically working with phone numbers was the main reason it catapulted to such high usage so quickly. People didn't have to change their workflow, they just got brought into it automatically.
Worked for me. :(

What error did you see?
I don't think I understand pointers. Maybe we can help each other. My mental model of pointers is a map: lat/long identify the object of interest (the local coffee shop), but not what is interesting about it (their menu and hours).
If you live somewhere that has always been pretty bad, then chances are, things are getting better, even if slightly. If you live somewhere, where things have always been generally good, it's likely that things are curtailing. Its brownian motion of societies.

Given that on average the people who most often discuss the state of being on social media and otherwise, are more likely to be in the second camp, it doesnt seem that surprising that the overarching sentiment is pessimism
Well, inevitably you die ?
FedEx partners with Dollar General for rural delivery
The point remains true, that’s just a shitty place for a landfill. The issue isn’t space, it’s our use of resources.
That's not a space issue. That's an improper handling issue.
At this point, it's a feature to have things denominated in $. I'm likely going to buy a Purism laptop with bitcoin, but of course denominated in $. I spent a couple hundred on BTC years ago, which has generated a nice return. This will be my first purchase, and I'll have plenty of BTC left over. Holding a deflationary currency while the world operates on an inflationary one is fine by me.
Primarily because of interoperability. There is still no messaging format as ubiquitous as SMS, and it's a constant annoyance to me that my friends on Android don't receive my (photo/video/group) messages as easily as my friends with iPhones do. Sure, everyone could switch to one of the third party services out there, but it's been years and they still haven't. So I'm all for establishing a new baseline that doesn't try to do everything and just builds on the foundation already existing in SMS.
This seems as close to a smoking gun as we're ever likely to get.

One interesting counterargument is brought up in a rebuttal at https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-atlantics-william-langewie... .

The rebuttal piece mostly just flames Langewiesche, and it doesn't offer any support for any competing theories. But it does pose one question I haven't seen addressed. Why, if Zaharie wanted to commit suicide by flying into the middle of nowhere, didn't he turn right instead of left?

His route took him through populated airspace for no apparent reason. If numerous authorities in multiple countries hadn't been asleep at the switch, there would have been no mystery at all about what happened.
Democracy selects for people who are the best at playing the election game is it any surprise they are good at other types of games as well?
Facebook and Google are only setting the pay standard among other well paying public companies.

The rest of the valley isn't keeping up. Startups in particular feel like slowly ramped up in pay but capped out. They're not offering enough stock to make up for it either. Usually only enough to make it such that your TC at startup would be equal to that of a big company IF the company IPO's/sells. (A big IF!) I don't see many salaries past $200k for IC software engineer (outside of 1 year to IPO startups) and most people still balk at the idea of it. Yet, 1-2 years out of school at Big CompanyTM and you'll be past $200k TC.

I feel bad for the people who aren't in tech or things that tech pays for (real estate) and have to deal with even more frozen pay. However, it still sucks for engineers not at Big Co who believed they could make the american dream possible here.

I'm on the verge of leaving this area. My current compensation makes me feel poor even though I could afford to buy a brand new Porsche. Even if I joined Big Co now and made $400k/yr... housing has grown too fast in price in the peninsula. By the time I've saved $300-400k for a down payment, I'm going to be priced out even more. If my SO had only become a software engineer or born into a rich family instead then maybe I would have been able to afford this region.

Such is life in the bay area - you can buy a brand new Porsche but you can't afford a garage to put it in.
I think, like many fitness things, it's actually as much of a discipline thing as anything else.

When we're confronted with an escalator next to stairs, we take the escalator out of laziness, even though we wish we didn't.

But we'd actually prefer there not to be an escalator at all, so we'd have to walk.

Same thing as when you choose not to keep snacks at your desk because you know you'll eat them.

We prefer an environment that nudges us in the right direction, precisely because we don't always have the discipline we wish we had.
> Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients

This is just piss poor clickbait.

It's the last of problems with hospitals and patients.

But if you did want to stop it you just have a code that allows a call straight through (Known caller Id for instance) and a captcha (Press 5 to continue) if not, that enters you into a database as safe. If there is 'actually' a pressing issue.

OR you could spend your money on improving the communication system in general which would be actually killing patients.
I really don't think the average person cares if their texts are end-to-end encrypted, though. I'm not sure most people even know what that would mean.
"The second implication is that there is no hope for a universal human society. “The notion of cosmopolitanism, the idea that the people of the world will come to feel a primary connection to the human race, is a pipe dream,” Moffett says."

One of the questions I ask to new-found friends to get to know them better is: "How do you feel about the Borg? If there was such a central system would you agree to be hooked up?"

I don't think primary connection to the human race is a pipe dream, nor is it a bad thing. But we have to invent technologies for people to experience/understand other people's thoughts.
Only if you don’t price in environmental impact. Trains are much more efficient than ships in this regard and can be powered purely by green energy.
that happens for you? panhandling happens here on the on-/off-ramps, but i don't see panhandlers on the actual freeway.

in any case, i'd guess current algorithms can detect that fairly reliably in the noted conditions, since self-driving cars also trained on urban streets.
Ha! That was an amusing mix of phrases. You got what I meant though, and provided some color. Agreed on it sucking.
Hit the Ground Running with WebAssembly
I don't think any of your description about how the JVM GC works is accurate. The default GC is generational so it generally does lots of garbage collection before it takes up the reaches the heap limit. I assume what you really want is for the Java heap to return memory to the OS. The default JVM GC isn't configured to do that but you can easily configure the JVM to do that.

> JVM is such a failure

I'm genuinely confused why you would consider that to be the case. Especially since your preferred alternative (WebASM) is just about as bad or worse by your stated measures (start up time, GC).
It’s also a good PR hit after the discovery that oceanic plastic pollution comes from a few rivers in Asia.
It's a tradeoff between latency and throughput... Also, there are some small advantages for people who are claustrophobic, and in cases when the power goes down.
I kind of agree with your point, but you really think an average licensed plumber in SF makes $200/day???
Yes, but to be fair to RSUs, this is no worse than having some additional ordinary income.

The 50% on receipt number comes from your marginal federal tax bracket plus state -- same as if the dollar value were additional gross (pre-tax) income.

The 20% on growth number (potentially 25-30% including state) is what you'd pay on capital gains -- same as if you'd taken this extra income as cash and invested it in anything.
I believe that pessimism is the greatest crisis facing humanity today. Yes, that includes climate change.

It's just not possible for a civilization to make progress if everyone believes that the future will be worse and it's not possible to avoid it.
So, when are we going to actually take away the ability to spoof your phone number?

Whatever utility that feature may have is clearly outweighed by all the harm it's causing. It's past time we get rid of it.
A company in Utah has a process for turning plastics of various grades into diesel fuel. Salt Lake City, Boise, and it looks like Phoenix now as well are working with them to recycle plastics. [Edit: The company is called Renewlogy]

https://kjzz.org/content/859146/phoenix-convert-plastic-wast...

"The City of Phoenix announced Wednesday it will soon begin converting certain plastic waste into liquid fuel.

The fifth most populous city in the country has partnered with a waste management company and Renewlogy, a technology firm, to convert plastics 3-7 into fuel.

Plastic items with a number between 3 and 7 in the recycling symbol are considered “low-value” and are expensive to recycle. The city expects the project to divert 10 tons of plastic waste from landfills every day, producing 60 barrels of liquid fuel."

Other articles:

https://inhabitat.com/renewlogy-turns-low-grade-plastic-into...

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900014582/utah-based-ren...
People with technical knowledge at this point shouldn't doubt this perspective anymore. No evidence of wrong doing was published, and the claim of the possibility of the Chinese government making Huawei do their bidding at some point, is no different from what other governments have been doing, including the U.S. (and getting caught in the wrong doing).

There's no shame in the hypocresy. It's a blatant attempt to damage Huawei.

I have no sympathy for what the Chinese government does to subdue everyone under their power, but the Americans seem to have been historically better at playing the victim and getting away with it while still managing to curtail on others.
The list to get started with programming
If you get rid of DRAM, the cache is no longer cache, it's main memory.

I'm suggesting it not as a practical matter, but as a very simple thought experiment disprove the idea of a "wall". There's no point where cores outpace the ability to feed them, with no way to fix it, because you can put the memory that feeds the core on the same die and it will grow faster 1:1 with the core.

If you then say "well what about feeding the memory?" then I'll point to how SSDs have been increasing in speed at a blistering pace, far outperforming Moore's Law.

But that's just the quick dismissal. The more detailed dismissal is based on adding more memory channels.
Careful. The author is not using "data structure" with the standard Computer Science meaning, but as C language struct. Standard data structures were actually the equivalent to current classes and were associated with a set of functions.

If you bother to take a look to C APIs, you'll find the familiar "handle" parameter, equivalent to the "this" or "self" of OO languages. Setting aside all the philosophical mumbo jumbo, OO is syntactic sugar over those interfaces.
Research paper - What happens when software developers are (un)happy
Much worse
This doesn't seem to do as much as API Platform though?

In API Platform you can just define an entity and it will automatically expose CRUD endpoints for that entity [1].

While in NestJS it seems you still need to define each action manually [2].

It's too bad cause I'm really looking for something like API Platform in Typescript.

[1] https://api-platform.com/docs/distribution/#bringing-your-ow...

[2] https://docs.nestjs.com/controllers
I wonder when people will see this as a serious threat to democracy & journalism due to the size and amount of content posted on Facebook.

These companies need to be classified differently with how much of the world's free information processes through them. Competitors stand no chance in the social media monopoly.

We're going to lose everything.
Sorry about your friend. Is that the source of your contention that the risks between alcohol and cannabis are roughly equal?
We do have a sample size of one. We’ve tried global capitalism once, and combined with a global industrial revolution we’ve so far increased the global average temperature by a whole degree celsius[1].

1: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
It's really difficult to read. I was actually interested in the author's opinion, but the writing style is far too tedious.
We're so wasteful in the US. I'd guess that when glass is reused to the point of needing recycling it's a different balance - e.g. when beer bottles in areas of Europe are cleaned and refilled.
There's already work underway to authenticate the actual source phone number of a caller: https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/stir-and-shaken-overview/

And to make sure the source is set to a value that the caller is allowed to possess. The problem isn't spoofing of numbers--because the utility is quite high for legitimate uses, like PBXes and after-hours doctor return calls for two examples--but the ability to spoof any number, not just numbers a caller is permitted to use.
To use that analogy: The coordinates tell you where the restaurant is (pointer), but you still have to go to the actual restaurant to get some food (data).
LIDAR is a dead end
This is a link with more information. I imagine any of the paid tiers of Google Suite are covered by these standards, but I am not a representative of Google.

https://gsuite.google.com/security/?secure-by-design_activeE...
"Google does not collect, scan, or use your data in G Suite services for advertising purposes and we do not display ads in G Suite. We use your data to provide G Suite services, and for system support, such as spam filtering, virus detection, spell-checking, capacity planning, traffic routing, and the ability to search for emails and files within an individual account."
FIA announces multiple electric racing divisions
ORLY? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qbq5x/the-cia-spied-on-p...
This has way more to do with India than what the person said.
You're arguing for a demurrage currency, not a fiat, debt- leveraged fractional reserve one.
Yeah, I get recruiting emails from startups all the time but I don't even want to talk to them because somehow it feels rude to bring up the elephant in the room - I'd have to win the lottery at your startup to make up for the loss in joining it. I'm not sure if this is saying big techs have too much money or VC investors are not willing to compete for talent.
You are severely over estimating the integrity of cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Some of the most highly valued "cryptocurrencies" today are centralized tokens handled by companies with worst reputations than Facebook (XRP, EOS, Tron, ...), yet people do buy and use them.
If anything the communities from these tokens might flock en masse to Facebook coin.

And if Facebook actually manages to pull off a system where they can't be compelled to freeze accounts, it might also steal the user base from those traditional payment apps.
I actually think society as a whole is rather optimistic on climate change: currently we aren’t even trying to solve it policy wise.

If we were more pessimistic, we would take preventative measures seriously.

“Everyone believes the future will be worse and it’s not possible to avoid it” is a strawman, I think.
I’ve heard that the Echo’s mute button is a hardware off switch for the mic, though for obvious reasons you probably wouldn’t leave it on most of the time.
Zerocoin’s Suit Sheds Light on the Issue of Unpaid Stock Options in Startups
>They're not offering enough stock to make up for it either

It's even worse than that, since the NPV of options is zero.
If lack of end-to-end encryption is the price to pay to get carriers to implement the features I want - better group messages, read receipts, better quality photo sharing, typing indicators, etc - then sign me up.

And Google taking the lead by implementing this for free seems like it should put a stop to any worry that carriers will charge for it.
> So you can use your preferred maps app in your car, so you can choose music using your favorite music app,

Get a dock for your phone and use bluetooth for the audio. (Or line-in, except headphone jacks keep disappearing...)

> so you can send and receive text messages without taking your eyes off the road.

Holy fuck no. Don't encourage this. Taking your eyes off the road is only one symptom of the problem. The problem is splitting your attention.

There's a TV show where they demonstrate this most years, Canada's Worst Driver. The challenge is to drive in a circle on a track. Talking on the phone - not ever looking away from the road - is enough to start veering off the track.
I imagine the fan could still work?
Years ago I switched to a dumb short throw projector. Now I get a huge clear picture connected to an Apple TV and a decent set of speakers. I do not regret my decision. No crappy smart software. Just on and off.
I've hired a decent number of engineers for a few different companies, so I'll take a stab at this based on what I've seen.

- Fixed costs for hiring for PT and FT are the same, but the company gets more output for FT, so they focus on that

- Similarly, external recruiters who take a % of salary get paid much less for the same amount of work, so you're not worth it to them

- Fragile processes require lots of interaction. Having someone unavailable slows down the team

- PT employees are perceived as less committed. Enough ink has been spilled about companies wanting dedicated people, so I'll leave that one alone
Ask HN: Need help finding some programmable AR glasses with low specs
I recently started spending some time working with hardware-related stuff, components, protocols, etc., and one thing I'd like to play around would be an embedded display on "me".

Nowadays, we can find a lot of 700+$ AR glasses featuring stuff like 720p full-color displays, audio, etc, but I don't give a damn about most features, and most glasses are based on restricted closed-source systems.

I'm searching for some kind of AR glass, or AR kit to be mounted on a pair of glasses, with, as starting specs, a monochromatic display, 400x200 for screen size should be enough, and something that can be tinkered with, if possible without any android/whatever app (as I'd like to link it to some form of computer).

Anyone knows something affordable with such low-quality?

> originally published on https://dev.to/artemix/programmable-ar-glasses-with-low-specs-2c89
I think you mean telescreen
Intrinsically reversible superglues–shape adaptation inspired by snail epiphragm