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> they operate with absolutely zero oversight

There is extensive oversight of the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...

> there[sic] only rule being that they're not supposed to be involved in domestic matters

There are extensive rules, law, regulations, and executive orders governing the CIA. Many are listed or referenced in this document.

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/privacy-and-civil-liberties/CI...
yup, more info on that: https://urbanize.la/post/google-lease-entirety-westside-pavi...

and amazon is moving into culver city: https://urbanize.la/post/fresh-renderings-amazons-future-cul...
That's not optimism. That's willful ignorance.
I fail to see a causal relationship between employment and carbon emissions?
Yes, corruption is a problem, but I disagree that it is the heart or bulk of the problem.

A 2018 Gallup poll found that only 25% of Americans thought there was too little government regulation. Another 33% thought we had the right amount, and 39% thought there was too much.

A more recent poll about the tech companies specifically, while much closer, still found that a minority thought the tech giants should be subject to more regulation (https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/433482-pol...).

So I would say that for the most part, while the representatives are not representing your views, their views are consistent with the majority of America.

I say this as someone that believes the US desperately needs more environmental regulation. I would also love if congress could create some common sense regulations to standardize website/app TOS and privacy policies. But that's just me.

I think there is a trend to blame "politicians" for all of our problems as if they were some exogenous force. Unfortunately, for the most part I think they represent us just fine. If democracy is a government by the people, we can't reasonably expect that it will be much different from the people in it.

I dislike when politicians are reflexively held responsible for our societal ills, because I feel it is a kind of mental laziness to avoid having to engage with the large portion of the nation that disagrees.
Primary cost of labor is your health. Those kind of jobs aren't done by people over 45. The human body degrades during that sort of work.
If you've always lived in a society where things are generally bad then it's likely that at present times things are getting better even if only slightly.

On the other hand if you're living in places that have generally always been good, it's likely that things are starting to regress.

Given that most of the people who comment about such things on social media and otherwise or likely from the latter camp, it's not surprising that the general tenor is pessimism.

In America for instance many indicators are going south. Life expectancy, suicides, debt, freedoms, etc.

While America has always had problems, it seems we are close to a tipping point where we may lose what semblance we had of a democracy.
y, I'm a big fan of Transistor. They are doing a great job.I definitely get a better/more pro feel for podcasts hosted there vs their competitors.
I'm in management at a FAANG company.

Total comp for my college hires averages around $150k.

Total comp for my career level ICs averages a smidge over $200k.

My top 10% have total comp in the $350k neighborhood.

The very few folks who are at the staff/principal range (depending on which companies titles you're using) are taking home $500-800k (mostly in stock). If we consider attrition, it's probably only 1 in 150 of the engineers we hire who ever hit this tier or above.

The levels.fyi info seems pretty accurate to me. Their estimate for my personal role is within 2% of my actuals.
> I also asked about metadata, which is often a loophole that gets ignored in privacy discussions. Those should be temporary, too: “We temporarily log metadata about the device such as IMSI, phone number, RCS client vendor and version, and timestamps for a limited period of time to provide the service.”

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NOT, they /will be/ temporary. They /should be/ temporary.

That's a garbage answer. Also, not defining temporary is a loophole. Temporary could mean from 1 second to infinity, depending on how Google wants to sling it.
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You keep describing these people as Foxconn employees, but way before that they were a decision by Apple to not complete iPhone assembly in a modern work environment where the staff are their own employees and have modern workplace safety and rights and benefits.

Instead they pursued a solution that would cost them a few $/person/day, for a phone with $100s profit per handset, and required Foxconn to create assembly lines within their budget. They're like proxy employees whose situation Apple first created and then slightly improved by demanding more stringent age checks and rest.

The tech industry's hazy relationship with employees vs contractors is something else they should accept more responsibility for that Cook neglected to mention - Uber, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, they probably have half a million contractors between them as one big circumvention of modern worker benefits and rights.
I suppose it depends on whether a partial restriction is actually effective.

As useful as those examples may be, I am very much okay with cutting them off if it means we can greatly cut down on spam calls. People will adapt.
Humans have to assess all incoming information (gossip
round the campfire, stirring in the long grass or twitter feeds)
and aa strong bias to pay more attention to potential negatives in the environment will in general allow us to avoid disasters (like getting eaten)

In our evolutionary environments that would be balanced out by "good fortune" - a old tree has just produced fruit perhaps, so we would get our optimism reinforced as much as our pessimism.

But good fortune today is basically baked into life for most of the western world - starvation is rare.

In short what used to be good news (hey I got to eat today) is just normality and so that leaves just downsides (perhaps an analogy of a roller coaster with half of it underwater - being above water is taken for granted and so there is only dips down and long slow climbs back to normal.)

In short, we need to get a sense of perspective back. Social media is not making people worse - we just happen to have sight of every moron and pub conversation that has always been there but not aggregated and delivered in front of us.

Democracy is under no more threat than before - we have always had to fight for it - from Tammany Hall to Jarrow Marches and we shall have to fight again.

This time however we have human instinct on our side - this is our democracy and you can't take it.
Nah! While I see where you're coming from, this is totally different.
Count me in, too. I'm an embedded systems developer/electrical engineer with considerable automotive experience. Contorting myself under dashboards isn't as much fun as it used to be, but I'll do it if I can make a difference.
I agree with their technical choices, and I both understand and agree with their BSD position.
This is a bit like saying "People buying luxury cars is just a problem with people not having high-paying jobs".

It seems more fruitful to focus on what product is being sold through state-subsidized loans and if they provide the necessary value. Bloated administrations is largely to blame for the increased cost, and a middle class student getting a student loan they can't default on for a degree without earning potential is not a good choice.
Hmmm. Interesting. I'm going to have to roll that around in my brain for a day-or-so to see if I can make that compute for me. (Which means I may be back here in a day to check back in!)

Maybe it's because I started in assembly language, but to me, data exists at an address in memory. Or starting at an address in memory. That data might be on integer, a float, a character, the beginning of a string, the head of an object/data-struct, OR an address of data somewhere else (which may be any of the above again). Pointers, to me, are simply an address of an address of a data thingie.

Why would you want to use these? One reason is that pushing large data-objects back-and-forth across function calls is expensive (pointers are usually just 32-bit or 64-bit numbers). Another is that one can have a pool of resources (think polygons in a large 3d scene), that are marked "used" or "unused". This gets a large performance boost from not having to do the whole malloc/free thing on lots and lots of small objects. Another (this is related to the first), the function can receive a data-structure, and modify it (side effects!) without having to copy it and pass the modified copy back.

I'm intrigued by your mental model. Having not thought it through - it seems as if lat/long is appropriate, but maybe even the idea that it is a coffee shop that you will find there is undetermined. (That is: the fact that it is a coffee shop is one of the things that is interesting about it, like the menu and hours. Again, I need to think this through).

Thanks!
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Perl and Ruby are at least as old but I never had to backslash everything when writing regexen in Perl or Ruby.
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I am in South Florida (somewhere in between Miami + Fort Lauderdale cost of living)

levels.fyi shows people making $300k in Austin, TX (which as far as I know, is not a high cost of living area)

What are some areas that are comparable to South Florida that are listed on levels.fyi?
Maybe he was hoping to get intercepted, not be completely ignored. That would make his last flight even more epic.
No, the measure is average age, which is more indicative of used cars than any largess caused by various boom times. Cars don't get salvaged for spare parts and metal until they're no longer useful as vehicles. They otherwise get resold and traded in and put back out on the road.
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Well, I did a cursory search for data, and it seems to indicate that this is the case.

So yes... I think the average plumber in SF is making about $70k/yr. (so ~$300 per day worked, or $200 per day).
Alpha Romeo is an Italian luxury brand in the U.S. Ford in the same sentence is shocking.
Ironically, this comment in turn reeks of arrogance itself. Why so aggressive, we get it doesn't work for you you but maybe it suits other people?
> We really just shouldn’t be using plastic for disposable products

Huh... I would've expected to read we very much should be using plastics for disposables. (Do you want a metal or cloth trash bag?) Rather the problem I see is disposing so much in the first place.
Carriers charging for messaging? I feel like I'm in a time machine. Guys, the internet was invented!

Is there no one in charge of strategy at Google? This is an embarrassment.
Came here to say this. At the time I saw this in the early 90s, it really disturbed me-an awful way to go for such a mundane act.
Hmm, your mental model possibly could use a tweak. Yes, a pointer is like a map. It tells you how to get to the thing but it isn't the thing. It is a reference point, a pointer to the thing. The thing that it points to might be a library, a museum or a place to pick up more maps. Irrespective, the thing to remember is it something to takes you there it is not the place.

You may also pass around the map to your friend in effect showing them how to get to the place, without possibly even having seen the place yourself.

And if you are a bad person, you could share maps that lead to dead end dumps
I don't think it will be possible to escape even for the very top.
I still feel the same inspiration with restaurant sites, so many bad ones out there. Part of the problem is even if the restaurant doesn't have a website there are usually menu sites that at least show what they offer in the Google SERP. So they probably feel like they don't need to pay for one. Even though they could control their message, photos, update their menus, etc.

If you enjoy working on the project keep it going.

I feel like the one area restaurants might pay for or give you a revenue share is online ordering. Maybe you could become the go to online ordering app for restaurants in your area. Not trivial to build though but an area they might be willing to pay you for.

Good luck with the site.
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The city where I live has 14 sorts of garbage. You have to sort, clean, put it in clear special bags and write your name on it. If you don't do it right, it doesn't get removed (and your neighbours gang up to figure out who screwed it up if you don't write your name). Of course, it's Japan and people are used to following rules, but the system works quite well.

One of the things I don't like about these kinds of issues is the lack of understanding that garbage is as much a social problem as it is a technical problem. We assume that people can't/won't do things and evolve a culture where it is true.
have you heard about age discrimination in tech?
Each site doesn't need to be all sites if you're not trying to capture an audience for moat-building and data collection. A lot of stuff that's not popular now, like federation or identity services not tied to advertisers (that one Mozilla had, for instance) providing unified multi-site login would be more popular, necessarily, without ads subsidizing free-but-spying options.

Just speculating, but reddit would probably be replaced by several sites (hundreds of popular ones, perhaps, thousands of less popular ones), many of which might permit login or shared feeds or something via the aforementioned means. RSS is still a thing, for that matter. You can also get by with much leaner sites even without going as far into old-school territory as HN and Craigslist, when you're not chasing marketing fads and adding tons of tracking JS and all kinds of other junk, so payload sizes don't need to be as large as they are.

And again, protocols could evolve. Something new similar to IPFS (though probably not actually IPFS) might reach production-ready status fast if there were a real need to distribute load. There are half-formed solutions to a lot of this waiting in the wings, just without much interest outside people who are into them for their own sake, because there's no audience for a somewhat-worse, much-less-addictive, spyware-free Facebook or Twitter, for instance. Community-driven alternatives have a nigh-hopeless battle while they're up against a money-spigot of ad dollars. Lots of developers who might help out with them don't, for that reason.

I mean hell chat was pretty decent and kinda mostly open for a while, but now it's fragmented into private services again, driven largely by the data-hoarders. Less open than even the AIM/ICQ days. Google's trying to do the same thing to email and the Web itself, largely in the name of "saving" them. Take away the ad dollars, the demand will shift away as those services shutter or start charging money, and open standards and enthusiast sites will take back over. Governments, in some cases, maybe (maps/navigation seems like a good one). No apocalypse, just a hiccup. Except for the dragnet spying companies.
I'll try to explain why I'm excited: I think you hit it with the "anyone in the world" desire. If I truly want to communicate with anyone I know, I have three options: call, text, or email. No other messaging platform has anywhere near 100% coverage for the people I talk to. RCS won't initially have that coverage, but I do see a path to reaching that coverage since it doesn't require every single user installing and configuring an app. I'm already pretty happy with SMS, I just want some more features.
I would love to contribute to this project if you ever release a crowdfunding campaign!
I got a few lines down and couldn't keep going. It's such an irritating way of making an argument.
Without rooting, you can use the VPN blocking provided by AdGuard. It has some paid features (like ad blocking in apps), which it sometimes reminds about, but otherwise I am happy to use both Chrome and Firefox for Android without advertisements.
And the fence is machined out of a single piece of aluminium!
I dunno how independently NPs can practise in MN. Sometimes they’re always under an MD and anything that happens is that MD’s responsibility. This can be relatively more true if they’re an employee vs. a contractor (at least where I live, dunno about MN).

The NP settled their case out-of-court. So they were held liable, and we don’t know how much.

The consulted MD felt like fighting it in court, and lost.

That’s what makes this case a bit unusual because something bad happened and one person involved thought they weren’t accountable.
>Is there no one in charge of strategy at Google? This is an embarrassment.

No. If there were, we'd have Hangouts with SMS fallback. Simple as that.
"I actually think society as a whole is rather optimistic on climate change: currently we aren’t even trying to solve it policy wise.
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I think a lot of people have given up.
Oh, thanks. I can no longer edit/delete this, but I reposted to their comment.
What I see is two types of people, people that understand basic computer architecture and those that don't.

The C memory model and pointers come easily to those that understand what a memory address is and how long one is on their favorite architecture.

In my experience, people without this knowledge might understand how to use pointers, but not really why they are. And the answer to the "why pointers" question is _not_ "Imagine you want a function that swaps two parameters" nor "because they you would have to copy structs all of the time"
Actually, commercial displays are not that expensive.

As you see in retail and airport settings, these displays are bought by the thousand and are often configured in 6/9/18 screen "display walls" ... and therefore the purchasers are price-sensitive.

Yes, they are more expensive than a TV from Best Buy, but only about 2x - not 5x.
There's really no such thing as pessimism. People can only be:

- realistic

- optimistic (a.k.a. delusional)
No idea. I think it is somewhat suicidal to want to commodify your own profession.
I had that once or twice (that it never fully loads), but for example now it loads perfectly fine. Android with latest Chrome.

PS. bro you're great for making this happen. levels.fyi is like "software eating the world" for labor unions. Clean, elegant solution avoiding all the nasty labor unions politics. Now if we could also bring awareness around work/life balance!
That assumes the soil is fertile. Huawei may be denied access to critical tooling.
Who filled a French art gallery with fakes?
Hoped for a scientific study, got philosophical bla bla.

Yes, there are people, probably the author as well, who are resilient to actually seeing facts. Just as the joke about fat people and zombie apocalypses go: Be nice to them, they will save your life one day (by being crushed before you, thereby giving you a little more time to react).

Still I'm a little sad about the lost opportunity. It's also true that people who interact with reality usually are more pessimistic, but there should be ways to improve one's own outlook if one is smart enough to see reality and strong enough to not go crazy from it. This would be a worthy topic to study.
The reference here is to the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, in present day Dare County, North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony#Lost_Colony
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I like the idea or shortening the work day, unfortunately the commonman jobs are the ones being automated out of existence. There will only be a smaller percentage of people who can actually do the majority of the jobs. Education may help some with this but only to a certain degree. The days of assembly line work are nearing an end.
I don't know what will happen to the population who are unable to work, perhaps more specialization is the answer
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In this case, though, the "product that [was] being sold" that made these students originally go to school, is employment—or rather, a proxy signal for employability that the consumers of the product hope will get them employment. People consume education when they can't find a job, in the hopes that they'll become more employable, even though this makes the problem of their unemployment more dire rather than less (because it adds debt.)

It's sort of like taking stimulants when you're hungry.
I have 50 decades of life and work in tech. You tell me ?
> Baldwin testified that a hospitalist disagreeing with a request for admission “doesn’t happen very often,” but when it does, a medical professional will select another path to hospitalization. The one time it happened to her, Baldwin “had the patient go to the emergency room at Fairview Range.”

So at least she has a 100% success rate in bypassing the gatekeeper.
It's really become rather saturated at the entry level.
It's a market for lemons situations, where there may be a lot of opening, but there's tons of unqualified candidates.
I agree. In the States, we largely adopted "blue bin" recycling that encourages people to dump everything they think might be recyclable into the same blue bin. The idea was that this would encourage high recycling rates, and eventually technology would catch up and figure out how to efficiently sort everything.

So far, that hasn't happened, so we just got high recycle rates but terrible streams of material that are not economic to recycle.

I agree that the Japanese approach would be a better one, even though it would take large social change, and would result in lower recycle rates for quite a while.
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This is closer to reality. Even the UN, which has been criticized in the media as too alarmist, has likely been too optimistic: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastatin...
Pretty sure saying "learn to code" will get you in trouble on Twitter. Not sure about here. Watch out, though.
For a b2c app usually it is neither server cost nor Dev time being the main cost drivers but cpi campaigns. So you should have a way lower profit margin here than someone just looking at tech expenses might intuitively expect.
Did you link the right patent? That claim is only for locating a user in a room based on multi-room voice input.
Tax payers sort of do have a union where the collective bargaining takes place in the form of electing official to work on their behalf. Often enough though, those elected end up working against the intersts of voters, sometimes explicitly advocating for policies that voters don't realize are not in their interests.

Not unlike unions that hire a negotiator to work on their behalf, if the negotiator ignored the contractual priorities given to them by the unions.