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IMO if you're hitting the escape key you're doing it wrong. Remap to caps lock!

I'm a fan of remapping F keys to the numrow as well. But my desktop keyboard is a 60% without F keys anyways. Less for the fingers to move when you use an fn row :)
It takes a while to convince oneself that a bicycle actually works, i.e. is stable and does not fall over. Perhaps that is the reason.
Truetone doesn’t work with external displays, unfortunately.
>There is literally zero precedent for what you’re talking about.

That's not exactly true. While China doesn't detain US citizens (yet!) it detains several Canadian citizens presumable because the Huawei's CFO has been arrested in Canada by a US request. See https://time.com/5626289/china-canada-arrest-yantai/

Which makes things even worse - you may become a hostage due to US/China conflicts even if you happened to be a citizen of a US ally.
>1hp is at best one measure of the average consistent power output of an average horse doing a full day of work every day for months. Or about the equivalent of a person doing 0.05 to 0.1 hp.

Which is exactly the point. It makes a good unit for figuring out about how much animal an engine replaces.
"70% gun deaths are suicides" => THIS is propaganda, give me drill-down numbers. Do you consider mass-shooting as ONE incident? how do you count the victims?

So if hundreds died due to repeated mass-shootings and only 30% of the incidents that makes gun to be a non-issue in the States? because the other 70% gun-deaths are suicides? So just because the largest piece of the Pie-chart is for "non-violent" gun-death then there is no gun-issue?

What about domestic conflicts that leads to shooting? (glad they missed ... )

Damn...

I saw Dana Loesch went on CNN one time and I saw her speaking in some sort of Townhall. She's really good at her job and the NRA should pay her TONS of money. That lady can sell you anything including MySpace.com today.

You should talk to the victims of mass-shootings and learn the truth.
Job demand isn't zero sum, but a function of supply. Idle worker time ends up unlocking new types of jobs that weren't previously possible (usually service related) and people fill them.
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Reducing demand for labor to increase wages? What could go wrong?
> Ancient technology was astoundingly precise

Highly skilled artisans could make one-off pieces fit together exactly. Doing so at scale was prohibitively expensive, because machine tools hadn't been invented that let you precisely machine things identically. So, if you had a broken bicycle, you'd need a skilled artisan just to repair it- off-the-shelf parts were impossible. Every single bike would have been a unique object. This is how guns, ships, clocks, and basically everything was made before reliable methods of achieving precision were invented at the dawn of the industrial revolution.

The antikythera mechanism had inherent looseness in its hand-wrought gears which greatly limited how accurate it could have been. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#Accuracy

(source: this book, which I gather is pretty accurate, if pop-history https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B072BFJB3Z )
The CEO making 100k+ could likely be making 400k+ in the private sector.

They've already taken a 75% paycut, at a certain point you're not going to attract the talent necessary to do great work. The difference between an A-player and a C-player is vast, and sometimes you need to compensate higher to attract the A-players that will have a transformative impact on the charity.
I think the post downplays the value of a horse. Horses are incredible. Not only do they provide transport that is even better than bicycle (you don't have to pedal, and they can go over almost any terrain) but they also provide labor. Indeed, horses actually generate a net surplus of labor above the labor required to grow food to feed them. That is, a farmer with a horse can grow far more food than a farmer without a horse, even after all the food the horse eats.

If I could safely and legally keep a horse in front of my house and office I would totally get rid of my bike.
It is reductionist. Bicycles are complex machines, simple to us now because we can view examples and understand them readily. But to create one from nothing requires imagination. He hints at it with the cotton gin and flying shuttle. He also discounts the whole balance thing stating that you balance on a horse. Not true you sit on a horse you don't balance on one. Further the horse is firmly planted on the ground on four legs. It is not obvious that someone could balance on two wheels. It seems that the foot powered “walking” bike was the development that taught us to balance.

What bothers me with such speculative and unsupported history is now it will likely be thought true. Everyone believes that there were two sleeps per night in the past or that doctors brought women to orgasm to relieve stress. These ideas have little substantiated documentation and are hard to believe yet they are repeated by know-it-alls frequently.
But they all challenge why he would make these points, which to me is valid criticism. Is it not?

Are you arguing that it isn’t relevant that he owns or sits on the board of direct competitors to Google, one of which works in the very space he is commenting on? Or just that I should not question the context of his arguments? Or something else entirely?

I’m not sure why you lobbed this attack. One can seemingly question the context and motives of calling a company “treasonous” without being dismissed out of hand
> As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

The odiousness of the use of the word "should" has been pointed out elsewhere, and I reiterate it, but there is another point to be made about this analysis: It neglects that Amazon is a monopsony or near-monopsony. As Amazon replaces other supply chains, the demand for supply-chain labor is increasingly concentrated in one buyer of labor, Amazon. We should reasonably expect a distortion in the market to occur wherein Amazon leverages their power to either reduce wages or demand more labor for the equivalent wage.

In effect, the market conditions to which the OP appeals are eroded away by Amazon's cornering of this sector of the labor market. $15/hr may be good PR, but it's not a "fair" or "market" wage if Amazon can just burn through employees with adverse working conditions (ostensibly valued at a higher rate in a real market) because of their position as the sole buyer of labor.

If we're going to apply market theory to this, we have to go all the way, and not just stop when it suits our purposes.
This is a complete and utter failure of standard setting bodies.

From a consumer perspective there is no discernible standard to speak of.

On the plus side the reddit spreadsheet (!!!) about these cables ffritz posted suggests most charge at either 60 or 100W which is fast enough so I'll just avoid USB C for data transfers entirely
Yes I read about the secret key, before I became a customer of 1Password. Your response concerns me. I understand you're encrypting the data, and have put in great effort to do so. This doesn't prevent your servers being a target for all sorts of other exploits, hacking of your webservers injecting back doors etc. The fact you halve a lot of clients with secret data makes you a target.
HTME on Youtube also goes into the process of making seemingly simple things and the time and effort it takes:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIqCzQJXvYj9ssCoHq327g

One of the more famous videos is where it takes them ~$1500 and 6 months to make a chicken sandwich and they still used a lot of equipment that they didn't make themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
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Ask HN: How to Deal with a Coworker Practicing Resume Driven Development?
I'm working on a project with pretty significant potential impact where I work, but which is currently staffed pretty lightly. Myself and one coworker are the primary devs, with a few more working on things that are related. Overall the project has been going pretty well, if a bit slower than we'd all like, but recently I've been having some trouble. The other main dev's habit of practicing Resume Driven Development is starting to get in the way of progress.

At first it was fine, the tech choices we both wanted lined up with existing tech in the company, we pushed a bit further with some choices, but it was all generally stuff that was in use by our team already. Then slowly but surely they have been pushing the tech choices further to places that don't really make sense, but are rather just shiny things from the tech giants with use-cases that don't match what we're trying to accomplish.

Unfortunately the two levels of people up the chain of command from us are very hands-off managers, so despite the fact that my direct manager (different from his) has told him it's not a good idea, he's still gung-ho about his current foundational change of what we've been working on for months.

This is the first non-trivial project that I've "lead", so I'd like to see it completed.

Before this devolves into me ranting, I'll just ask, how have you dealt with co-workers that are more interested in playing with new shiny things they think will look good on their resume than working to complete something?
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I just noticed a user, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vipbababd, that seems to be taking a random comment in a submission and reposting that comment in the same submission.

The user profile contains a link to a stream to an upcoming boxing match. Is this an SEO play? Would this even work for SEO? Or hoping to farm some karma and then sell the account?
> specifically takes and distributed safely edible but past best-by or sell-by date food

It'd be interesting to know how they make that determination. The food bank around here tells people not to donate expired items (and has once or twice shared photos of the truly ancient stuff people sometimes donate) but it just occurred to me that I don't know whether they automatically throw that stuff away, evaluate everything individually, or what.
Yeah I don't think you can control how people write blog posts. The Flutter community on Medium (https://medium.com/flutter-community) seems to be a collection of articles mostly written by non-Googlers.
Isn't that still single factor? It's touch OR password/info, not AND.
It would be less efficient, but still workable. Even just wood on wood is sufficient. Proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvFpbh2fjE [1]

I think people vastly underestimate what you can do with very simple "naive" technology.

[1] Yeah it uses aluminium spacers on the chain, but you can do a bicycle without a chain.
> "Efficient enough" ? All of the land-speed records for human-powered vehicles are held by recumbents. http://www.ihpva.org/home/

I am not trying to break the land speed record on the way to work. I just want to get there in one piece.

The point I was making is just because something is on paper technically better there are other considerations, for someone that commutes regularly being able to go to the local bicycle shop and pick up a spare whatever is more important to me than any perceived efficiencies.

I own a fixed gear with some rather fancy kit on it. Despite the simplicity of the bike, getting replacement parts requires me having to order things online. The cheap 1990s Marin Hawk Hill mountain bike I cycle to work on, I can literally get parts for it anywhere and an be fixed with a set of allen keys and a spanner.
Well of course they're leaving, I'm seeing firsthand how hard it is for them to stay here. Employment authorization takes so long that I've seen students lose the internships and job offers they have lined up. That's on top of all the culture/language differences and whatnot. I don't blame them one bit for going back home.
The difference is that the discontinued data center was run independently by a German company (T-Systems IIRC). MS engineered the contracts in such a way that they had no ability to access anything in this data center. That made it exclusive subject to German law. As I see it, the new data centers are run by MS directly and thus an entity that is subject to US laws and their far reaching clauses.
"makes everyone worse off"

Sounds like this axiom then, is some kind of utilitarian functions; the idea is to do whatever makes the most people better off, in aggregate? That it's ok to screw over someone if a greater amount of benefit then goes to someone else.

I'm not convinced, however, that an efficient market is the same as this utilitarianism. Do you have any evidence that efficient markets produce the best outcome for the most people overall?

Seems to me that an efficient market could easily consist of a large underclass barely staying alive; why would the most efficient market not have everyone in that situation? Surely that would be perfect efficiency; the entire population being paid just enough to keep going? No surplus, no excess; surely that's far more efficient - but that's in direct conflict with the idea of making everyone better off and giving everyone a nicer life.
I'd agree with the exception of the utterly awful keyboard & trackpad design that appeared in 2016 that seemed to skip any meaningful QA process inside Apple.

The popular dust complaints aside, a brand new machine has immediate problems for someone whose palms tend to touch the newly enlarged Force Touch trackpad during typing, a hand position I got used to with my Macbook Air 2013. Typing on the new design will cause repeated keystrokes, delayed or missing keystrokes, and instant cursor shifts during typing that make it so I need to approach the keyboard in the same way one would properly play a piano in order to get any meaningful work done. Great if you're a trained pianist, terrible if you want to get actual work done from a coffee shop where you don't have a stand or external keyboard on hand.

Apple knows they messed up with the butterfly mechanism and seem to be fixing that in the next design. In the meantime, there are a few things they could do now through software to alleviate these issues:

1. The ability to remap the Force Touch trackpad tracking area in Settings. Being able to remove 10mm from each side would fix my cursor shift issue. People currently use tape to solve this... on a $4000+ machine.

2. Ability to set a numeric value for Force Touch sensitivity as opposed to 3 constant values with a much higher threshold than is currently being used as "high".

I know Apple is all about limiting options for a customer's own good, however, these software changes would go a long way in helping people debrick an expensive laptop who don't happen to fit whatever hand size their QA team of classically trained pianists have.
It's missing the chain stays (a section of the frame linking the frame near the rear wheel to the pedal area). There would be a large cantilever arm trying to support a large part of the rider's weight, and it would likely break under the stress.
As I have pointed out elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444182) Microsoft and Facebook has been under fire as well.

And yes, it was deserved for them as well.
Another good question in similar Spirit, why did we wait so long for wheels on suitcases?
IMHO it's not that Steam is that great, but rather than many of the major competitors have been quite bad.

Also, for a consumer there's a big convenience advantage to having a single store - from UX perspective (but probably not from the wider market leverage perspective, tragedy of commons yadda yadda) I'd very, very much prefer using a single service that's good enough to having to use three or more separate places that each individually are somehow better but each doesn't carry all the content that I want. The same applies to most other media - movies/shows, music, books.

IMHO the only way to get competitiveness would be to ensure that exclusivity deals are impossible/illegal, so that you might have multiple services each providing all content but competing on other qualities.
As a Googler who has a lot of technical content on Medium, I have to agree that screenshots are much more flexible than Medium's gist support, but I always add a link to the actual code right under.

For example: https://medium.com/google-cloud/kubernetes-configmaps-and-se...

In this example, I have a single gist with multiple files, but Medium can't display just a single file from that gist at a time (maybe things have changed, but I don't think so).

Medium's gist and code support in general is sub-par compared to other platforms IMO, but as a platform it does make it easy to create and share content that is also easily discoverable.

I'm probably going to start hosting the canonical post on my own domain and just use Medium to syndicate it.
I'm sure there are modest situations where something that can lift 650 times it's weight is more valuable than the thermal limitations. Or maybe super-cold environments?
That wasn't a joke it was a statement of the reality of the situation which is that the labor performed by the people striking will likely be moved to automation, eliminating the job entirely.
If you take six weeks to hire someone (let alone six MONTHS!) then you’re probably missing out on candidates who have other good, quicker options. I remember doing a phone screen with a major telco whose name starts with A, ends with T and has a T in the middle. It seemed to go well, then silence (as often happens with tech interviews). Well I did a few interviews at other companies, picked one, signed everything, moved my family across the country, and started work there. About 9 weeks after that phone screen, they finally got back to me with: “We thought the initial interview went great! How about coming onsite for the next step?” LOL
Never work for free. If a startup is asking you to do that, don't waste your time with them.

/thread.
could there be any simpler explanations like a modern renovation of the temple where this was added?

are there other recorded appearances of this modern-looking but very-early bicycle in the region? why was there a gap in its existence until it was re-introduced in the 20th century?
Kubernetes, which is basically supplanting how companies deploy, run, and manage software both on-prem and the cloud.
I've tried, but I can't see what you believe you have falsified here, can you elaborate?

There are certainly issues with inefficiency in charities stemming from the fact they don't have the same market pressures on them as private sector companies do (or at least, not as much). However, this doesn't have anything to do with the difficultly of managing complexity in large organizations.

Or were you objecting to the hand-waving about efficiency? I agree measuring impact of charities are difficult but what else would you look at? Executive pay rate is obviously a silly one without extra context. Year-over-year changes are good, but I at least alluded to that.

I guess I don't know quite what you are objecting to.

While it is true for the reasons you mention that a badly managed charity may last much longer than a badly managed company, that has no impact at all on my statement. It is not somehow easier to manage the charity, it is just less immediate that the negative consequences impact you.

But note, I'm not suggesting we support badly managed charities. I'm saying that to manage it well requires similar skill to that of a similarly scaled private sector company, and you will have to pay for those skills.

This is entirely separable from the issue of evaluating whether or not it is being effectively managed.
Stockton, CA is not subject to San Francisco minimum wage laws.
Yes! Name and shame.
What’s the rationale behind using JS instead of Python/Jinja? Any insights on that?
Charities are usually focused around the bottom of mazlow’s hierarchy of needs, that is, food-shelter-water.

You don’t need skilled and educated people to dig wells, build houses, stock shelves, fold clothing, serve food, etc. These jobs can be done for the minimum wage or by people outside of the workforce (youth and elderly).

I kind of disagree with charities that get so big that they need skilled workers. If your charity gets that big, it should just become a social program as part of the government. Like why is Red Cross a charity? That should be an arm of the UN, not a private entity.
A hammer will break first a glass ball than a gel ball or a rubber tire.

We know how to build solid airplanes made 100% with rigid materials except in a single point (We know that rubber tires are the right way to cope with repeated landing impacts). Maybe we should explore a different way and include more deformable materials in strategic points to absorb the damage made by a possible impact. Maybe the concept of an "boxer's eyelid airbag" for windows in airplanes, would deserve some exploratory research.
forEach is a loop, so this doesn't answer the basic question OP presented.
Is that an axiom that leads to the principle that their wages should reflect supply and demand? A moral judgement is being made here when someone says this is how things should be, this is what's right.
>In order to get these protections, they have to behave a certain way. I'm not sure about this, but it's an argument I've heard.

This is commonly repeated but not true. In fact, the opposite is true.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Scroll down to section C.

1. No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

2. No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
2.a any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
2.b any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
The name of the game in on-demand is to tell regulators that your workers are independent contractors and "have the flexibility to accept or reject any job". At the same time, you put in place an incentive structure that gets the "contractors" to do exactly what you want them to.

The legal terms were defined before the era of on-demand apps. A new classification is needed to protect these workers - it's ridiculous to legally treat an Instacart shopper the same way as someone who paints your house.
It's not a paradox as stated, since "or" has ambiguous meaning, but it does look suspicious, since 3600sec/8sec is 450, and 3600sec/332 is about 10.8sec.
I thought that could be true as well, but this line from the article makes me think otherwise:

> One of the data brokers accessing Florida DMV information is Arkansas-based marketing firm Acxiom, which has an agreement with the state to buy driver and ID cardholder data for a penny a record.

Maybe that's just some sort of agreement to automate the FOIA process, but it does imply at least a qualitative difference from the kinds of access you and I get vs. the kind of access that Acxiom gets.
Yes. I've been working on a github repo that contains all the tools. It's not online yet.
I'm pretty sure some 'on back order' emails are a deliberate attempt to get you to call so that you can be upsold.
It's missing the chainstays, which are the tubes from the bottom bracket (where the pedals attach) to the rear axle.

The seatstays (the tubes from under the seat to the rear axle) are only connected to the seat tube with a small weld. When you pedal, you're using the top part of the chain to pull the rear axle toward the pedals. This force is going to break the weld connecting the seatstays to the seat tube.

Note that a chain can't push, only pull, so the bottom part of the chain cannot counterbalance this force.