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> And then what? Amazon will continue to do the bare minimum to appease these signals periodically.

Which is the point of a strike.

> It is not the duty of consumers to provide a social safety net for workers. This is precisely where government should step in. If you really give a shit about the people working at Amazon, write to your congressman/congresswoman and voice your support for social programs that would positively impact them.

The reason people are striking is because again and again, the american government has not done this, and many people (on this site, even) believe that the government should not do it. That's kind of the whole point of the 'small government' schtick.
> I don't want Google results! I want different web crawlers ordering the results according to my taste

Okay, great, we'll see how you browse and use that to determine...

> without tracking each and every page impression of me. Give me that and I'll switch in a heartbeat.

Uh? How exactly do you want them to do that?
You're totally right. Just wanted a quick easy way to estimate the minimum hit he'd take in an admittedly fictitious world where net wealth isn't tied to the company's stock price.
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> Compare this to the days of console exclusives, and it's almost a non-issue.

That's the thing though, console exclusives at least saved developers the resources needed to port to another console. Especially in ye olden days, that was a non-trivial cost. The storefront exclusivity on PCs is completely artificial.

But also, yeah, my computer is full of enough bloated useless-ware. At least GoG and Itch don't make me use a client.
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Just looked at the new specs. The obvious differences to my maxed out mba 2013 is double the ram (16gb) and double the ssd (1tb).
Losing those few ports I have is a bit of a blow though (but that's long standing gripe with newer mba), and is the one thing holding me back from an upgrade, but the above upgrades are a definite sweetener in the deal.
> without creating anything of value

That's not the right way of phrasing it. They're producing a substantial amount of value, in the real sense that the world is a better place because of the work they've done.
I have multiple books of the same subjects Python, Go, FreeBSD etc.. due to different writing styles and explanations, so for me to grok BPF tracing techniques and performance evaluation at a higher level I would need to read both.
spaghetti-os are still good!
Perhaps the state should be responsible for the roughness of economic transition, especially for work-affecting phenomena which is global? Such as through polishing the unemployment program.
But would it? When the war started, IBM was already established in Germany, and upon the US placing trade ban, the German branch essentially split out and worked independently, to be reintegrated into the mothership after the hostilities have ceased.
I don't think he meant soul-consuming as in difficulty, but soul-consuming as in existentially unfulfilling or disturbing to your ability to sleep at night.

There is, in my experience, plenty of appetite for hard, risky, complex, grinding, ambitious problems, and very little tolerance for boring, unimpactful or evil projects, since everyone at Google can already feed themselves and is more towards the self actualization end of the hierarchy of needs, and has no strong incentive to not roll off onto something more interesting or fulfilling.
I have found their list to be out-dated. I have to use bgp lookup sites to fill in the blanks. There are many ranges and small blocks they leave out that are not hosted in their datacenter directly.
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I work at a university in Canada and it is the same unless they have cloud servers in Canada. I think we were on office 2010 till more recently. The patriot act allows US government access to any non americans data pretty easily, and it contradicts a lot of Canadian privacy law.
I am aware of the ease of use aspect when it comes to using BigQuery, however, I do believe that it is paid to use service.
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At the risk of sounding like I'm making a parody of an XKCD comic -- https://xkcd.com/927/ -- there does need to be a new standard physical connection that's compliant with TB3 and at least 100W PD. Then USB-C can be for backward compatibility and the new connection (USB-D? TD3PD?) can be future-looking only: no legacy support.
Exactly.

Most network forwarding happens on ASICs, its the only reasonable way to get performance.
If a company cannot pay it's workers properly then, to be honest, it really shouldn't exist.
> People do what they want to do, and they tend to be extremely motivated as a result.

To what extends does this work? Let's say I want to work on Chrome's WebGL implementation, but I've no prior professional experience with neither C++ nor 3D graphics - would they still take me as a noob that will take a couple years to ramp up? I suspect not. So, you're probably most likely just stuck with your current niche and can only move within it - which, to be fair, is still much better than in most other companies where you're just stuck with your current project.
the entire reason the devices get public a public IP is because the firewall effectively isn't there. from the time u-boot inits the topaz chip, until linux controls the chip, it behaves like a dumb ethernet switch.
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You are, of course, completely correct. I was simplifying for the sake of the post.

> I don't think his tragic death has made him more famous; if anything, it delayed his fame -

I agree! I was very tempted to answer the parent by saying that Turing isn't very famous. I don't think most people have heard of him, or at least, hadn't 10 years ago. The movie coming out helped, I imagine.
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Correct. Or if I find a coupon getting canned item X for a nickel a piece I buy 50 of them for the foodbank.
Why did we wait so long after the modern bicycle to see it as transportation rather than recreation? Awareness of climate change maybe? It seems that a) bicycles were not primary transportation even before cars, and b) the push to replace cars with bikes could have happened at any point, even before cars took off. So why now?
You get 1TB/month free. The query above only takes 6GB.
As an experiment, you could always put their ranges into your IDP / IDP / firewalls and just get summary data for how many packets / flows / bytes are transferred to/from AWS. (Rather than outright blocking)
And in typical Apple fashion the price to get the SSD doubled from the laughingly small base of 128 to 256 ($188) is more than it would cost to but a drive 4 times that size.
>In light of this, I think the deepest explanation is in general economic and cultural factors. Regarding economic factors, it seems that there needs to be a certain level of surplus to support the culture-wide research and development effort that creates inventions.

A related concept is the "adjacent possible" coined by Steven Johnson:

https://www.google.com/search?q="adjacent+possible"+steven+j...

(Linked a google search query because many "adjacent possible" articles are behind a paywall and can't tell which will be visible to you.)
Talent will follow opportunity, so this shift in sentiment may reflect the relative outlook on the level of opportunity that US provides relative to China, at least for those who are able to work in China.

As an aside, the American immigration system leaves a lot to be desired in terms of its efficiency, and may be a contributing factor.
So it looks like there were attempts but they had fatal design flaws and technology (metallurgy) was immature.

One question raised is why didn’t we see a trike come about before the bike?

It’s more stable and propulsion via direct front pedal isn’t as awkward as the front pedal bike.
Rumseld famously classified the difference between known unknowns and unknown unknowns; Zizek typically uses Rumsfeld as a jumping-off point to elucidate the concept of unknown knowns. (Though I think Zizek means it more in the sense of belief systems, norms, and ideology, in the vein of "can't tell a fish about water"; whereas Polyani seems to refer primarily to genetic instincts, subconscious cognitive processes, motor skills learned prior to language, etc.)
> I never understood when bigshots force deals with companies they used to work at

It's the devil they know. It's not likely malicious or anything conniving, and just something they feel comfortable talking about when making the pitch for their integration.
At this point, carbon taxes are really pretty much ephemeral, something that is basically too little, too late. You're adding more tax to a pile that the company already doesn't pay.
Yes, exactly. They use the signal as received at a nearby marker previously surveyed with high accuracy to calculate a local 'correction' to the GPS/GNSS signal, and give that correction to the roving units.
That platform table doesn't represent what will build, only which binary packages are on Sourceforge.

I'm running 1.5.4 on NetBSD/amd64 and can build it on i386, sparc, ppc, arm and arm64.
He doesn't it at all! He, acknowledges that this is a problem, but doesn't resolve the point -that there would be less donation- against his argument.

To do that he would either have to prove that money donations would increase in lieu of canned goods and/or that the administrative costs are higher than the value of the canned goods (which maybe true for very specialized and/or very corrupt charities, but not for your local volunteer run pantry)
It's a huge topic and I'm not a professional, but tldr Google's implementation of h264 compression is not suitable for high motion video and the changes they would need to make in order to make it suitable are not worth it in view of the trade offs of size and other factors.

Why can't a $1K general purpose computer efficiently decode a royalty-free codec (hint - it may have something to do with the fact that apple has a major stake in a competing for-pay closed codec). I really do like apple, but I see apple as microsoft 2.0 in this.
The keyboard... I miss the chiclets. But it's lighter & smaller, TouchID is amazing, despite being a "downgrade" in model it's substantially faster for the things I do (raw photo editing, photoshop, web coding). Truetone is great, I don't feel a need for flux anymore. Also fewer bugs with iCloud - I could never get my airpods to show up in the sound menu on my mbp 13 but they work perfectly on the mba.
Not disregard, but what can you do?

Just like Americans can’t stop Middle Eastern civilians from being drone striked, Chinese can’t stop their government either.
Why did we wait so long for the elevator? Circular dependency and incentive. Combining a ratchet with a pulley is incredibly simple and both have been around since the ancient Greeks. But with a few exceptions, it didn't make sense to build buildings big enough to need elevators. I mean, how would you get up and down the buildings? Answer: an elevator... but it didn't exist yet... hence, nobody could imagine how to get up and down tall buildings efficiently. That, and steel-framed buildings that could support themselves over 10 or so floors didn't come into vogue until after the renaissance.
> In the US, Trump says mean things about certain types of immigrants.

In the US, Trump says mean things about certain types of citizens.
Could you not find it again via the HN site search? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hot%20sauce%22%20recipe&sor...
At least they didn't drop them from a helicopter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
Strikes can serve multiple purposes. Generally, the first purpose is showing the employer that the workers have leverage and are willing to use it, but if the strike becomes publicly known and discussed by people who aren’t Amazon or its employees, it can provoke discussion in the wider society about workers’ rights.

That may not happen as the result of one strike, but if there are lots of strikes over a period of time they can incrementally make the public more aware and tilt the odds of electing people who will pass such legislation.
That's funny, literally the only person I've ever had to explain a stack data structure to in my career was a Google alumni. He calls himself a "Chief Architect" now.
> The compensation should reflect the mental and physical stress they put people through.

As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market. The fact that Amazon can easily hire as many workers as it wants at $15/hr says that they are paying their employees plenty already. It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work.
Autonomous universal tool carrying platform to support minimal tillage protocols(7-10 functions..mechanical as well as monitoring and data collection) for sub 100 acre fields including perennials, orchards and annuals. A diverse farm has more than a few rotations per year. The platform cannot primarily be for data collection although that would be good too. The emphasis on data collection means huge data sets and clustering is mandatory and that would mean average field size should be several 100s or even 1000s of contiguous acres.

We are dependent on rain and the whims is climate every year..this year ..there was a 4-6 week late start and most nightshades are running late. And that means we had to quickly figure out and prepare for a diff pest and weed schedule than last year. So in built predictive systems is also useful. There are so many things we can do..but for now, I will take anything that will take reduce of mechanical and manual labour costs by automating field prep, transplant, cultivation and some of the harvest. Automation for large fields will fail. Too risky and costly. Small autonomous units swarming reduces risk and create multiple small data sets. This would also help small acreage farmers grow unique crops by giving them the attention they deserve. Mechanization is tyranny by conformity. Automation will help us experiment and create new germ lines and hybrids..I hope.

I speak for small acreage farms above.(that’s me)

California Ag needs harvest automation in the field. Field cultivation automation is already being developed. For larger farms, automation for harvesting soft fruits is tricky.

Orchard crops are a whole different matter. Personally..while there are many things to innovate, I think the issue of fire blight and replant pathogens are an issue. With perennials, data plays a far more important role because predictive systems will benefit permanent crops because they last longer and we get only one chance every year and being able to see what happened 6-7 years ago and what might happen 10 years from now is helpful for trees that have 30-40 lifespan.

And then there are things to disrupt with the supply chain and block chain etc. preventing wastage, traceability etc..and that’s being done but they are doing single crop as sectors at a time. But it doesn’t give farmers an edge as they are at the bottom most rung of the supply chain and value goes up at the top most rung of the supply chain ladder. For every penny we pay for traceability, the retailer profits rather than the grower. I don’t know how farmers can capture the cumulative value up the supply chain. They are just paying more for technology as they have new mandatory hoops to jump through now(traceability, block chain, certifications etc)

But I think I have digressed from what tech farmers need to what we’d like to rant about...
I recently listened to this https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0128pyh

I found it quite enlightening to see some of the thought that goes into an opening sentence.
Making financial mistakes on a small scale will also help to make kids financially better educated adults and prevent them to make those mistakes on a bigger scale.
> I'm not convinced that every "10x developer" is solving software engineering problems on the same level at which Rembrandt painted or Bach composed

I think "10x developer" is a very ambiguous definition, and comparisons in other fields are confused because of this.

I'd rather use the adjective "elite". It's more intuitive and unambiguous.

Carmack is without doubt an elite engineer; his work, in my opinion, is on the same level as Bach's in his field.
Perhaps the state should ensure Bezos pays taxes at the level a CEO paid taxes in the 1960's: America's best decade so far...
Silicon Valley has changed a lot in the last 20-30 years.

The ability to physically design and create things has basically disappeared. I'm not only talking about chips, but mechanical, electrical engineering and all the miscellaneous disciplines associated with creating something in one place.

That used to be the strength of the valley.

If you want to do software, ok, but that's arguably less location dependent.
Quoting myself from elsewhere in this thread:

> It is less plausible to me that a caution towards "healthy" skepticism is advocating some kind of utter credulity, than that it is doing exactly what it calls for: cautioning towards skepticism.
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In the same line as Ford's 'you can have your car in any color you want as long as it's black', Apple isn't restrictive at all! ...as long as you want to do things the Apple Way™, and only such things as Apple has deigned to allow you to do. Start wandering from the common path much at all and you just straight run in to walls.
I've, in some past article linked on (I think) HN read the answer to this very question as advanced, efficient bearings (so, the ability to produce finely accurate small metal objects).
There's also plenty of anecdotal evidence you can see for yourself as a user. In addition to that I know

> anecdotal evidence
> I know

So much hard data here...real hacker news material...
> Why is there so much attention on Google?

Because they’ve been behaving badly for years and a number of people like me will upvote anything that gives them a pounding (of course only if I think it makes sense.)

A better question should probably (again IMO) be why they’ve gotten away so easily for so long.

> Amazon and Microsoft are roughly $1T. Facebook is $600B.

Facebook has taken a lot more beating. All very deserved IMO, in fact I think they deserve a fair bit more, but at least they got more than Google AFAIK, which is reasonable.

Microsoft has been beaten so much by sysadmins like me, governments etc, both for fun and for profit that I don’t think anything Google or Facebook has experienced yet really compares.

Amazons time hasn’t come yet I guess.
One philosophical question. This action is one that's going to be controversial. You are planning on dropping 1.5 tons of rat poison on a group of islands that has extensive native wildlife and is not especially far from human inhabited lands. Before the public has their say, should the default decision be 'we do this' or 'we don't do this'? In other words, if the response from the public is mixed - what ought be the default decision?

I don't think there's a right answer here, but differences in opinion on this topic might explain why people see this very differently. One group might see the failure of people to create compelling technical arguments that the experts did not consider to be sufficient reason to carry forward. Another group might see the government's failure to convince the public of the plan's validity to be sufficient reason to scrap it.

I also wouldn't extrapolate this to things that are inappropriate. For instance when major loss of life or other such issues are in play, there's little time or relevance to see what the public has to say. So I'm speaking only of cases such as this where the consequences for inaction are relatively low.
This article is BS, and the NP does have an editorial stance I sometimes find annoying (their anti-Trudeau stance, while understandable, is becoming pathological).

But it is not ""newspaper" filled with misleading articles and half-truths." any more than any other leading Canadian newspaper.
For domain specific roles I ought to think that the members of the current team would be more than happy to provide insight/advice/coaching to someone looking to skill up and get involved. This is typically how I've seen lateral moves done at other companies that encourage mobility. For example, moving from a primarily DBA job to devops/operations/wahetever.
Reminds me of John Salvatier's point about the "surprising level of detail" in reality, i.e. yes, the idea that "steam can drive a wheel" is simple enough, but you have to get a lot of small details right that don't make it into textbooks like reliable manufacturing tolerances.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255
No, it really didn't - it put the servers in china, much like in the US data is held in the US, and increasingly the EU data is held in the EU. The decryption keys are held on user devices. Apple never has access to those keys. By design.

It's a very google-centric mindset that insists a company needs to have access to your data to be profitable. Apple's security white paper goes into great detail to explain how it ensures proper encryption of data, they have spent years working to remove all data that they have access to.
And at least two more recent books followed that up with "It was bright blue", as that's what many modern digital TVs show rather than the grey analog static Gibson was referring to. I love Gibson's line, but it's the sort of thing that will need to be explained by a footnote the way Dickens' description of a ghost in "A Christmas Carol" as glowing "like a bad lobster in a dark cellar" is today.
Are you implying that the unions asked Americans to boycott cars that weren't foreign-assembled crossovers?

Your comment seems to not really make much sense since UAW and other unions are currently involved in calling for boycotts of Mexico-assembled GM vehicles.
To me that reads like: ransomware has hit our control center. Windows (tm)
VSCode Intellisense also uses a deep learning approach for autocompletion.

How does this compare?
We don't have mass shootings every week.

70% of gun deaths are suicides. The majority of the rest are inner city unlawful gang-on-gang violence.

Most people never even see a gun in the US in their lifetime. Stop spreading misinformation and fear-mongering propaganda.
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Maybe the problem is that people don't do that? What do you think of this meta-analysis?

"Pooled data currently demonstrates no significant reduction in prostate cancer-specific and overall mortality. Harms associated with PSA-based screening and subsequent diagnostic evaluations are frequent, and moderate in severity. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are common and are associated with treatment-related harms."

[...]

"Screening resulted in a range of harms that can be considered minor to major in severity and duration. Common minor harms from screening include bleeding, bruising and short-term anxiety. Common major harms include overdiagnosis and overtreatment, including infection, blood loss requiring transfusion, pneumonia, erectile dysfunction, and incontinence. Harms of screening included false-positive results for the PSA test and overdiagnosis (up to 50% in the ERSPC study). Adverse events associated with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsies included infection, bleeding and pain."

https://www.cochrane.org/CD004720/PROSTATE_screening-for-pro...