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Facebook’s New Libra Digital Currency, Trust Issues (Many), and Sovereignty
I did. I dont think it would work because UBI requires getting rid of those other social safety net programs. $1k/mo will barely cover rent/food a month for things like single mother households and would lead to the reintroduction of other social programs to help those cases. Leading us right back to where we are now with more entitlement / debt.
That’s a very toxic attitude to have, especially as a manager. You don’t know that “nobody gets offended”. All you know is that “no one chose to express their discomfort”, a very different thing.
The last Android tablet Google made was the Nexus 9, released in 2014. It was also the last tablet I bought.

The ChromeOS hybrid laptop-tablets are absolutely terrible - both the software and the hardware are miserable to use. I wish Google would just release a refreshed version of the Nexus 9. It's really all I want in a tablet.
I have (successfully) interviewed with Amazon. One of the reasons I turned the job down was my experience in the interview.

My "loop" was done by people who spend an hour with me asking my questions designed to see if I fit into these "principles". After the third interview, I was exhausted by parroting the same damn story multiple times - I mean, how many stories can you come up with?

The bar-raiser was changed at the last minute and I got some random dude on the phone who clearly had no idea what the job was about. He spent his hour interrupting me and peppering me with random questions. I've been a lawyer and am used to this so it was not an issue, but it was an all around weird, cult-like experience.

I did well enough to get an offer, but when I walked out of the interview I'd called up my wife and told her I would never join a company that seems to be more cult and less company.

The whole vibe was just super weird. I mean, I'm used to big tech companies thinking that they are doing world changing work (Msft, Goog. Never interviewed with FB), but this was entirely on a different scale.
iPad sales aren’t going anywhere. Apple sells twice as many tablets as they do laptops.
You have to get pretty deep into the article to get to these two lines:

>Any product or service that uses the public GPS broadcast system can be affected by GPS spoofing... this research doesn’t demonstrate any Tesla-specific vulnerabilities

>The effect of GPS spoofing on Tesla cars is minimal and does not pose a safety risk

It would of course be better if Tesla vehicles weren't vulnerable to this type of attack, but the headline and much of the article has potential to be very misleading to someone who doesn't completely understand what is going on here.

EDIT: I stand by the general point of this comment. However I did miss the context of the quotes I included here. See nirvdrum's comment and my reply.
While the WSJ does mostly excellent reporting on Google, I can't help but feel that their seemingly obsessive focus on Google over other stories is part of Rupert Murdoch's years-long vendetta against Google.
How is it better than using, say, iframes and postMessage? Is shadow DOM more efficient? Can Web Components work across domains?

I want to have Shadow DOM that encapsulates trust, so the enclosing parent javascript cannot access its contents!!

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20144
A bit odd that they didn't include Japan in their set of countries. My expectation is that it would have probably topped the list.
Specifically this class of incident? Yes. They seem to be reasonably good at operational runbooks for known flaws, so I can imagine this class of incident being handed faster in future.

What worries me is the next unknown unknown, which is why we are insourcing. One thing I think Monzo can be particularly proud of is our incident response, and debugging of our own systems at speed.

That's why this article focuses more on what actions we are taking, and not what actions they are taking.
Shrug I would take these more seriously if I felt amazon was executing at an impressive level. Honestly though, I feel like AWS (what I consider their flagship, most-profitable product) runs on a windows-95-level interface and is missing the most rudimentary features for over a decade.

If your results aren't successful, then your methodology must not be successful.
Whelp, that’s what you get when anyone can claim a business and or edit maps without verification.

Since it’s a conflict of interest, likely Google will do little about it.
The rental market isn't based on what it costs to own a home plus a profit. It's a separate market and can often result in rents that are lower than the monthly cost of ownership.
In the future there'll be giant pipes of blood routed around the world that are transparent and glow bright red or dark crimson, the arteries and veins of the planet's Humanity Support System

farms of blob babies that we extract blood from in order to ensure our eternal life

feeder bodies and then brains hooked up to the system, nobody will have a body, bodies will be like cars, or absent entirely

there'll be a transition phase where people still live in their bodies and are just doing blood changes like oil-changes, nightly while sleeping.
> Mr. Abuhazim tried reaching Google to explain his dilemma, but he was repeatedly routed to an offshore call center. Operators, he said, “treated me like I’m stupid.” With his businesses pushed off the first page of Google Maps results, incoming calls halved. He said he was on the verge of closing.

Google Ads customer support has been like this for many people ever since it was outsourced offshore. It is basically useless at this point.

On a different note, I do find it amazing that this business owner thought it would be a good idea to do the following:

"Last year, he was approached by a marketing firm that offered to lift his business listings on Google Maps for a fee in the tens of thousands of dollars. Mr. Abuhazim agreed to the deal."

If you wonder where that money went, see the screenshot in the article where he clearly shows an average CPC of almost $9.
So rare that perhaps the meaning of the word has changed irrevocably?

Disclosure masquerading as a plug: I’m writing this at the moment- https://riskfirst.org
The men certainly are. Not sure if a marriage really provides any security for a typical guy, just more risk.
Can’t wait for the, “Elvis operator” to land. Going to remove so much code!
Great feedback. Had similar thoughts.
I would hazard a guess that to provide some protection is that the system would would not permit real time update to existing road structure and using inertial guidance would rule out any change to its location that would be impossible to achieve within a set time.

So say you tell the car an exit it has been confirming for sometime is three miles, any change in that distance based on what the car knows it is doing should be enough to flag it and require intervention.

Granted a lot of the article is one sided but the cars need to be smart enough to know where they should be relative to where satellite places them especially when that information changes to quickly to be valid.

the problem of self driving is fascinating and it just goes to show there is always someone or something that will throw a wrench into the process
Very cool stuff!
I've definitely seen the phone number on my dad's business listing get changed before. I'm not even sure how they did it, because we had control of the business listing, but I am not sure if Google still lets ordinary users suggest changes.
My iPad Pro is my favourite portable device that I wouldn't want to give up. Definitely not a feeling I have about my Macbook nor my iPhone.
Car made a sudden decision based on spoofed data from a single sensor despite abundant alternative sources. Article also mentions being able to manipulate victims suspension. Again you have tons of sensors reading road is glass smooth and straight but you listen to one unauthenticated source telling you its a bumpy dirt back alley - who are you going to believe?
Authorship Forensics with Chaos Game Representation on Historical Documents
Thanks -- I got in my head a bit today after being passed over for two jobs. I appreciate the positive words, even in this anonymous internet form.
I remember trying to remove BB from a PC we had and having a hell of a time doing it. It wasn't just asking it to stop in Programs & Features, I was rooting it out of the registry for hours and if you rebooted without getting all of it, the talons spread.

You got lucky.
Boeing to Relocate Space and Launch Division HQ from Arlington to Titusville FL
>We visited 355 cities in 40 countries

That must have been a fun study to work on! I wonder how much funding they received for it.
The government should not be enforcing John Deere's attempt to increase sales by crippling half of the products that roll off the line artificially. This is bad for society.
* $108,000 base salary, $120,000 in NYC/SF

* $24,000 signing bonus, $28,000 in NYC/SF (even more if returning intern)

* $7,000 tax-assisted relocation bonus

* $3,000 stock yr 1, $10,500 yr 2, $28,000 yr 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0

These are not "shit" numbers for a new graduate with only a bachelors degree.
I was impacted by this and was notified via internal message (on the Desjardins AccesD online banking portal).
I bet moving costs at least $400 out of pocket plus you have to value you time. 2 people packing and moving is 20+ hours each. 40 hours * $20/hr = $800 so you are breaking even at best.
Nearly 200 industry exhibitors converge on CVPR2019
Google also released the Pixel C tablet in late 2015, which was a massive improvement over the Nexus 9.
Could be. And admittedly, the issue of whether or not free will is a real thing or not would affect a great many things. My position, at the moment, is that we can't be sure, and we seem to have at least the illusion of free will, so I chose to make the simplifying assumption that we do, indeed, have free will.

That said, is is hard to explain exactly how "free will" would work in a universe that seems to be mostly - if not wholly - deterministic.
I worked at AWS for 8 years. Overall it’s a good place to work, and I’d highly recommend it to junior developers just starting out. I left 4 months ago, but it wasn’t Amazon’s fault. I was treated well, was paid very well, and I liked the work. But I was always going to be working on someone else’s terms there, and I realized that wasn’t the ideal career path for me. I like working for myself better, but I don’t regret my time at Amazon.

——

Edit: Here’s my comp progression at Amazon for those curious:

2010: €50K - Joined Amazon in Dublin, Ireland as an SDE-1 (entry level) in the AWS CloudWatch team.

2011: €75K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2012: $120K - Moved to Seattle with the same team. Promoted to SDE-2.

2013: $150K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2014: $185K - Promoted to SDE-3 (senior level), same team.

2015: $230K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2016: $390K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2017: $470K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2018: $511K - Still at Amazon, same team.

2019: Left Amazon last February. You can read more about why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135399

All figures are gross income as shown in my W2. My last 3 year-end (Dec) paystubs: http://imgur.com/a/EgIVQln
The terms all overlap a bit, but I would interpret "directive" or "pragma" to indicate that it's conveying meaning to the Ruby interpreter. This is exactly the opposite -- it's a comment as far as the Ruby language is concerned while conveying meaning to an external tool.
"ChromeOS/Android hybrids must have confused people"

It's not confusing at all. "It's a laptop and it can run android apps". It doesn't get any simpler. It's harder to explain to people why you can't run android apps on, say, a windows laptop.
Are they still doing that? I hope not. This happened to me (ballooning battery, recall repair, asked me for my password) for a 2006 MBP (the 1st Intel version), so something like 10 years ago.

If they still need your password to repair your computer, they really need to update their procedures.

Back then I just winced, gave them my password, and crossed my fingers (seems to have worked out), but these days I just couldn't do that. There's all kinds of financial and identity stuff in there.
I remember watching 'lost wallet test' videos on youtube while back. Vloggers test leaving expensive stuff and/or wallet in cafe/subway and see if it gets taken by strangers.

In some nations, stuff just wasn't touched at all for hours.

I didn't think a scientific study would be done on this and published.
>The crypto-sphere is interesting because it has grabbed everyone’s attention despite being so poorly understood.

Could agree more. A distributed ledger of anonymous transactions does not meet the needs of a well regulated financial system (anti-money laundering, fraud repayments, etc..). I'm sure some of these things can be layered on top of the Blockchain (i.e. Libra) but why tear down everything we have and build upon a system that designed to vague and untraceable and horribly inefficient
Have you seen Julia?

https://julialang.org/

The first three selling points on their home page are Fast, Dynamic, Optionally Typed.
Thats not even all that high level, as per Etak patent:

"Based on the previous position of the object, the GPS derived position, the velocity, the DOP(dilution of precision) and the continuity of satellites for which data is received, the system determines whether the GPS data is reliable."
here's one more (not so popular) one: https://inko-lang.org
I'm also a fan of clojure.spec, though not a substitute for a proper type system, is extremely helpful in achieving the same goal.
Um, that's like literally gate keeping, irregardless of what you think. Language is malleable.
User-fed databases like this are all full of absolute garbage data, and have been gamed.

I think we're going to see the pendulum swing back in favor of yellow pages like curation. And higher paid listings.

I already don't trust sites like Yelp and Angie's List, and instead go to places like Consumers' Checkbook to look for local vendors.

There's something to be said for the quality of data curation and not user-generated data.
If only they made the battery replaceable...
This should be an important and costly lesson for Apple.
Source that second hand vaping kills? I mean, I can legally drink all the bleach I want so long as I don't go around splashing it on others.
Date and Time Manipulation Golang with Examples
My wife is a perfusionist (specialist who runs these pumps and similar ones while the heart is being operated on).

ECMO’s really an incredible feat of medicine that can bring people back from the edge where they would otherwise die.
I agree. The intended use as a shared vocabulary of precise terms of art never caught on, even though the names are good evocative names that people continue to use when talking about code. I haven't noticed any drop-off in programmers' ability to solve the underlying problems despite design patterns fading from near-compulsory for "any good programmer" to being a historical relic. Likewise, I haven't noticed that programmers communicate any less efficiently today even though it is no longer standard to review the design patterns terminology before every interview.

Applying design patterns to code seemed like a brilliant idea, but for some reason it wasn't a good fit for how people actually work and communicate.
The irony here is that no one in this comment chain is using their real name, which proves the point that there are indeed chilling effects on speech when you could be punished for a simple difference of opinion. Real names is what made me drop g+. If I want to publish something as me, I don't want another platform controlling that for me. I absolutely concur with your comment that for the people this was big for, it was huge. For the rest of the population there was no compelling reason to switch.
Odd that this doesn't mention the long-running locksmith scam wherein a Google search invariably indicates that there are dozens of locksmiths within a few miles of the searcher's location, most or all of which go to call centers for scammy locksmith services.

Honestly, the problem the article describes is the exact same scam, just extended to other business types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locksmith_scam
Yes, but most earthquake insurance policies have huge deductibles and the house is often worth ~1/3 of the entire property, so your number could still align with what others said.
I always like to say that Japan is basically a feudal militaristic society that just shifted their focus of effort from warfare to business. Japanese introductions and pleasantries are in some ways eerily similar with Marine Corps "customs & courtesies". There was a Youtube documentary I watched where they pointed out that most of the central bankers and other high-ranking economic staff, post-war, were still hardcore fascists. So Japan keeping the structure that had been imposed by centuries of rule under a warrior caste should be less surprising.
A Proxy Server for the Go Modules Download API
I also think they have issues with developers because they abandon technologies that they push for a while and constantly break backward compatibility. A lot of times they are doing this with a good technical intent. But its like they are telling you that you need to invest in retooling your apps for their platforms. If it isn't worth it to you-- too bad so sad.
halal is a loanword.
Because iPads are the new SmartBoards.

Basically every upscale school district runs a fleet of them. That's ton of iPads.

Edit: And I say this as someone who's developed software for the education space in a way that necessitates knowing what tech stack schools have.
I wonder if one could start a business where you buy used John Deere tractors, entirely reflash the software, and re-sell at the unlocked price. Presumably once the your own firmware works, the marginal profit would be great, and first-sale doctrine would prevent them from having legal cause. Can't be circumventing a system that you've already removed wholesale.
This is super useful. I've summarized this in my head as: minimize cognitive load for stakeholders (e.g. customers, employees, investors, etc.)
Thanks for your comments (I'm one of the authors on this paper). For a subset of the countries, we went back to retrieve the wallets (logistically, collecting the wallets turned out to be extremely difficult, which is why we didn't collect them everywhere). We find that over 98% of the money was returned, so doesn't seem to be the case that people are contacting the owner but pocketing the cash.
HN doesn't prioritize posts based on user karma.
I wonder if the fact that physical wallets as a construct are undeniably western affect the study in any way. For example, do people even use wallets in China? They've long since focused on electronic payments as opposed to cash. There's a reason the authors stopped short of making any social commentary in their study.
Because hotels were originally zoned for short-term rentals and operate as short-term rentals.

AirBnB properties were originally zoned for long-term housing and operate as not-long-term housing.
For the record, I found 67% of the words, and said yes to 0% of the nonwords. I proceeded conservatively, only saying yes when I have seen the word before, not when I guessed it should be a word.

They say this is fairly high for a native speaker.

I gave my mother tongue as German, so is this "fairly high" for a native German speaker?

It felt too easy.
the upvoted youtube comments are gold
> I think it's time to question the rationality of people who are against UBI.

It's people who are invested into the system. Anecdotal: the arguments I get into on this one are with people who don't want to argue any of the human side of the policy. It's not even a thought to them - and they won't even meet you on that battlefield.

Also, people who fight UBI are always people who have some sort of investments, are rent collectors, etc. The first thing they will ALWAYS point to is that there's no proof it will help the economy/markets. They also like to point out how it's not fair for someone to take my money through taxes because "I earned" being a high earner (aside: I did get to being a high earner because of hard work, but also because an incredible network of external support via school + family + _community_ + _country_).

The fear of UBI is the fear of admitting that you had help. It's admitting the status-quo needs challenged. Like - by ALL MEANS tax the hell out of me if it means that we lessen human suffering and raise the bar for my fellow citizens. Selfishly, I think I'll be better off that way.

The point that someone gets the majority of the hotels in Monopoly the game is no longer fun, and it's a race to the bottom... but at this point I think they're just playing a different game than we are.
Having a Chrome web app for something and an Android app on the same device can get confusing for some users.
Especially if the web app and Android app have different levels of functionality.
> IMHO, the only reasons to work long hours are - real emergencies (like the kind doctors and cops deal with, not the kind when some photo sharing app goes down for 15 mins)

Even that doesn't make tech look great. Hours are bad for most doctors, but it seems like emergency medicine handles it a lot better. Doing some brief reading it looks like doctors can work 40 hours a week or under in the ER if they want to, and this is shift work.

The poll here tops out at 45hrs/week https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/how-many-hours-are-...
Not only is it a bed in one of the most expensive units in a hospital, typically at a level 1 trauma center, but it’s also incredibly labor intensive. Round the clock personal care by at least one nurse.
Thank you for all the work you do btw -- Reason is awesome and I am having a lot of fun learning. Interop seemed daunting at first but after I tried it, it was a great experience.
> The upshot of this is basically an ass-backwards obligation (not an unfamiliar situation when working in this area): atexit is only valid for use if you know exactly how code containing it will be linked, which is impossible for a lot of code.

True. The logical conclusion is that in most cases you just shouldn't use atexit from libraries, which... seems fine to me. In my opinion, a well-behaved library should endeavor to be cleanly unloadable without leaking any memory. (That includes using __attribute__((destructor)) if necessary; it's non-portable but without the blow-up-the-universe potential. Or just link in a C++ source file if you want portability.) That way, you can repeatedly load and unload different versions of the same library into the same process, without accumulating wasted memory over time. At least, that's useful in some cases for runtime-loadable plugins, and as you noted, other libraries may end up being loaded and unloaded as dependencies of those plugins. In fact, I'd argue that this rule of etiquette is least applicable when your library is a runtime-loadable plugin itself, but for a host that is known to never unload plugins.

Admittedly, unloading libraries is fairly rare in practice, so I can forgive a library for not bothering with global destructors. But I don't think it's good practice to go out of your way to make a library not unloadable, at least without a good reason.

Indeed, I'm curious what exactly the author's use case is. They say they "need to have a dependable form of post-process destruction for my tests"... what tests? Why unload libraries in a test program?
A few years ago, I was driving home late at night on a wide interstate highway with a nearly-pristine blanket of snow that fully obscured all the lane lines. The plows had not reached that section of road yet and no one was ahead of me. So I made my own path. It was weird, but obviously safe to any human. I wonder what fully autonomous cars would do in those conditions.