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This is one of the few articles on HN that I read the whole way through. Good job whoever wrote it.

The interesting thing here is that the case is made that China can (and does) manipulate its currency and that devaluing one's currency is what has led to the shift of manufacturing jobs from the developed world to China (and other places) but it also notes that this suppression of currency value is becoming increasingly difficult.

Doesn't this support the argument that currency manipulation is ultimately time limited?

On a side note, I always like to point people to this [1] on the subject of free trade, specifically the conflation between free trade and free movement of capital.

[1] http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
I'm learning to do things I've never done in a game before and the GIF I linked to shows a test I ran. If you're curious about what I'm actually going for, there are videos of Teeworlds gameplay on youtube! Check it out.
Twitter ran paid ads from China's state news criticizing Hong Kong protests
You were the only person in America that could do that exact task? What were you doing?
>Peoples complaining that China is just copycat-ing stuff do not know how China is influencing peoples in developing countries.

The problem is that altruism does not exist in geopolitics. Why is China influencing these people? Because it wants their support when it comes time to ask for favors. China is using Western inventions to grow its sphere of influence and defeat Western influence (and thus Western values, culture, etc)

Not that the West is entirely innocent in its quest for power either, but considering the dystopian state of Chinese government (compared to Western governments, at least), it is perhaps better to keep the devil you know in charge than the one that wants to know you much better.
>The “many eyes” hypothesis is routinely debunked when severe security bugs are found in things like the Linux kernel that have been there for years. //

Surely to debunk the theory you have to show that fewer bugs are in proprietary software of the same vintage?

AFAIK the many eyes hypothesis is that: as time progresses fewer exploitable bugs will exist in software that has the source open for inspection than in comparable closed source software(?).

When an ages old exploit/bug gets patched that is the many eyes principle working; a piece of software can't get more secure (or otherwise improve) without patching old code, surely.
No, because getting your phone and wallet stolen (they are likely to both be on your person so both would likely be stolen at the same time) means you couldn't then log on to online banking and deactivate your credit cards (which you would want to do as soon as possible)

Edit: Just to clarify a bit more, most cards here have a tap and go function requiring no PIN up to a certain amount. Although the amount is small I'd still rather have it that no one spends my money.
Good point: it's far, far better to be proactive, than wait for management to "recognize you".

Being a part of the early decision making processes has been a challenge for me as a remote employee. In larger companies, there are lots of meetings, discussions, and decisions that happen before anyone talks to the engineering staff is brought in. But, by basically being nice, asking questions, and really getting involved, I've been able to "weasel" my way into some of these discussions.

Once you get involved early on, there's so much more clarity around the one liner "requests" that often get farmed out.
oops! Sorry about that. I meant centralized power indeed, not federalism.
Depends. Short-term homeless are economic tragedies (lost work, divorce, etc).

Long-term homeless usually have significant health and other issues. Stuff like serious mental health issues, chronic alcoholism, drug issues, etc.
Google the article header, and you can click through from Google to see the article. Seems the paywall kicks in for HN referrals.
I travel about an hour, but I can read or work in the train. It's not that bad.

I need the ~10 minutes it takes me to talk home from the train station to switch between work mode and be-nice-to-excited-kids mode.
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Welcome to the world of soft realtime applications. Sounds like this one is just so bad that a) the designers didn't realize that was what they were designing and b) consequently it failed to meet any of its deadlines in the UI domain.

One detail I've noticed is that even if you do a shitty job of hitting the deadlines, users will often find workarounds. As long as a critical mass of features respond consistently within the deadlines, users will fiddle around to make the rest work-- even if you tell them directly that it isn't possible.

Say the dropdown menus here performed fast enough, but going to the "next page" required a bunch of DOM mutation or something that grinds to a halt for two seconds. I'd bet EMTs would have trained themselves to do branch prediction-- hit the button to change pages before setting it down, hit it again based on what the patient is communicating to the other EMT, and so forth. I've seen users do weirder stuff.

The fact that they discarded it altogether tells you how bad the UI was.
I don’t think this would be easy. For training, the reward needs to come as quickly after/during the action as possible. Most dogs don’t have a great mental capacity for figuring out that they’re being rewarded for something that isn’t happening right now. If the dog has to wait even 10 seconds for the trainer to figure out whether to reward or not, a lot of dogs are going to get confused.
The aptly misnamed serverless architecture means you're using hosted services, where most "serverless" technologies can be placed somewhere between server hosting and static web hosting.

E.g. server hosting, container hosting, database hosting, app hosting, function hosting, web hosting.
would be funny if it used XP
I'm glad I always read the comments before reading the articles on HN.

I've had dogs all 30 years of my life. I'm not reading this. Nope.
Spreadsheets work with BigTable out of the box in the G-Suite. I love dumping stuff in BigTable for analytics so other non engineering people can easily interact with that data and run all sorts of complex and non complex queries against it with tooling which they are already know, Out-Of-The-Box! This is as cheap as it gets when it comes to building a "web interface and reporting" and the cost is zero.
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I agree that when you look at the total number of H-1Bs being awarded vs the size of the total labor market in sofware engineering, it seems unlikely it is having a massive effect.

And if you look at the massive absusers of the system(Toptal, Wipro etc), that use it to lower pay, I feel as though many of those jobs would have instead been outsourced oversees anyway. So at the very least, for a US perspective, the taxes and consumer spending are still partly captured in the US as opposed to another country.
The lump of labor fallacy is equivalent to believing in inelastic demand. However the supply and demand model doesn't depend on inflexibility: its basic highschool formulation involves supply that increases with price and demand that decreases with price. So, no, I don't think the suppply and demand model requires a fixed demand.
Now, please explain why, in the case of contention, the user using video should get less than their fair share of the available capacity?
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But children here are generally expected to behave well when in company or public. At least they are where I live in Norway. Children here are generally self reliant but also quiet and well behaved so one rarely sees animosity to children, partly I suspect because the trigger rarely happens.
Over 17.5k miles (mostly highway driving, AC pretty much always running) I'm within 2% of the EPA rated range/efficiency on my Model X.
That explains a lot. I'm 45, and while all of this is very recognizable, it's also very incompatible with my life.

But the reasons for procrastinating, those are spot on.
99% of Medium aren't dedicated writers, journalists.
Stanislaw Lem 1921-2006

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/stanislaw...

> Lem's IQ, as he mentioned in passing in an autobiographical essay (it was measured when he was in high school), was above 180, but no one who read many of his books needed that datum to conclude that here was an unusually powerful and wide-ranging intelligence. The son of a physician, Lem was trained in the sciences. Biology was his field, but in his mid-twenties he became a research assistant at what he described as a "kind of clearinghouse for scientific literature" in many disciplines coming into Poland from around the world.

Examples, I think especially are

- "Eden" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_%28Lem_novel%29

Not as extreme as the other two in highlighting the impossibility of meaningful contact. Lem becomes much more skeptical later in his career. Because they actually do make contact to one individual alien and communicate with it. In Fiasco there is some communication but it turn out to be all completely different than expected base don human assumptions (and it all ends in the humans destroying everything, of course all from good intentions). In "Solaris" there is no meaningful communication at all, one can't even say there are misunderstandings.

- "The Invincible" -- "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible"

This is about non-biological self-replicating swarming alien micro-robotic life forms.

- "Solaris" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28novel%29

> Solaris chronicles the ultimate futility of attempted communications with the extraterrestrial life inhabiting a distant alien planet named Solaris. The planet is almost completely covered with an ocean of gel that is revealed to be a single, planet-encompassing organism. Terran scientists conclude it is a sentient being and attempt to communicate with it.

- "His Master's Voice" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_%28novel%...

> The novel is written as a first-person narrative, the memoir of a mathematician named Peter Hogarth, who becomes involved in a Pentagon-directed project (code-named "His Master's Voice", or HMV for short[2]) in the Nevada desert, where scientists are working to decode what seems to be a message from outer space (specifically, a neutrino signal from the Canis Minor constellation)

- "Fiasco" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_%28novel%29

> The book is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. The failure to communicate with an alien civilization is the main theme of the book.
There is a bit details here: https://www.alertchimp.com/2019/08/frequently-asked-question...
Right click on the link and 'save to pocket'.. although now I have said that the free ride is definitely coming to an end..
This is something that the later books in the enders game series starts to look at, with the natives of a planet, their origins and even the Formica. They're not quite like the first two books in the series which is why I've seen a number of people not like them (if you want more of that, the bean side series is better) but they're really good still.
I am going to say the obvious here but sometimes the obvious needs to be said. This is why we need net neutrality!
If you know one that procrastinates ask them if they still have passion for it?
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Worth adding that exFAT has aspects that Microsoft hold patents for. Yes they do license for a flat fee, though not aware Apple holds such a license. Also it wasn't until circa 2009 that the SDCARD collective adopted it as a standard. That and wasn't until 2013 that a GPL Linux driver was available.

So yes, very unfair to bash Apple about over this, you raise valid concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
Amazon is passing along costs of new digital tax to French sellers
Have you taken a look at magic-wormhole[1]? I've started using it recently and it's insanely easy to use.

It does have a centralised signalling server for key exchange between peers, but it does attempt to do peer-to-peer data transfer (only falling back to a TURN-style relay if both clients are behind NATs and aren't on the same local network). An explanation of the cryptography and design was given at PyCon 2016[2]. It also has built-in optional Tor support (though I'm not sure if it attempts to use an onion service for data transfer).

[1]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
[2]: https://youtu.be/oFrTqQw0_3c
No. Loopholes.

The system we have now is nothing short of slavery in some instances.
I'm fiercly in favor of 2FA, and with DSP2[0] coming soon(TM), I have been pushing for sane 2FA at my place, in some select projects where it can be done with as little friction as possible.

I'm very interested in your bank and how they do it, I'll see if voice 2FA is something feasible at my place. Could you share the bank's name though? Management likes to have solid evidence that someone else is already doing it when the security team proposes "weird solutions".

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/payment-services-psd-2-directi... , https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=CELEX:32...
Same, but it's good as a stop gap until I clear up enough stuff to be comfortable to take at least 3 weeks off.
Except supply and demand for employment is not elastic at all, so it’s not really a fair comparaison.
What's a good lisp to get started with? I'm a bioinformatician who's semi-competent with python & R.
Glad to finally see an app that solves the problems with email stress
I did the same thing until I graduated college. My pediatrician was an excellent doctor, and the regular primary care physicians in the area weren't all that great.
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In France, and I believe it is the case in many countries, in case the customer wants to roll back a transaction, the bank has to give the money back, unless it can prove that the transaction was legitimate.

So basically, they can't put liability on the customer unless 2FA is used. The second factor is usually the credit card PIN.

Banks have to maintain a balance between convenience and risk of fraud.
I don't think the word performance is key, but rather /user experience/.
Both Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren want the dollar to be weaker because, as we will see, a weaker currency will boost exports.

So, is this one way to summarize it: The lowlier a country's populace is on the world stage, the better the balance of trade, and the more the country's elites benefit? Of course, this isn't true 100% across the board. Make a country's economy backwards enough, and its businesses will lose the ability to compete in high margin value add goods.
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We know a lot about the language of large ocean mammals but it's just not as one to one with how we would translate it. The ocean is basically a noisy internet with their calls like alien packets that are mixed with a complex natural langue. Elephants have a similar thing. They make long sub-bass vocalizations that they can feel for miles with their feet.

As far as I know, prarie dog [0] is the closest we've come to a rosetta stone for another species. We can translate things like "brown fox north" and such.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new-language-discov...
> every "immigrant" that is imported to pillage wealth and opportunities from the native population.

You realize the « native population » of the US was victim of a genocide right ?
Conversely, "Not Wealth work" is one of America's slowest-growing industries.

I'm being very tongue-in-cheek, but as it turns out, the more you make, the more you spend. I view this as a great opportunity to supply a demand (or even better, create a demand! $$$).
Yeah I can see the fingering being useful, although beginner sheet music should have it. I meant the scrolling notes.
Two sides of a coin:

Heads: If leaving is an inherently good thing to do, then the EU had already failed.

Tails: If the EU has not failed, leaving is inherently a bad thing to do.

There is no need for the EU to do more than look after its own interests. One of those interests would, I suspect, be a treaty modification to make permanent and standard the balance-of-payment mechanism which has enraged many Leave supporters.
Maybe, but what happens to the US federal budget once trade balances become more neutral and the demand for federal debt drops through the floor? If this is time limited, the US federal budget, and by proxy the US economy, is time limited.
I always look forward to my 50 minutes long commute. It's my podcast/audiobook time that I would never have otherwise.
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If "quality time" means having actual conversations, some of the best quality time I have with my son is driving to/from school or lessons and playing co-op video games.
An interesting idea, but it would be prohibitively expensive; in terms of Delta-V and cost.

You are already launching a satellite into an orbit where it will try avoid existing space debris. So, anything added to the payload to de-orbit space debris would have to spend delta-v adjusting it's orbit to match that of the space junk. Then it would need enough fuel left over to de-orbit the target.

I think it would be better if a certain amount of the launch cost would go towards a fund meant to de-orbit space junk.
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Presumably a lot of domestic Chinese goods require materials from abroad to produce. Remember that until a few years ago China had to import the tips for ballpoint pens.
Why would that be a terrible idea? If someone has unauthorized access to my PC and knows my password from the account, he can log in and pay my bills and only the usual amounts, as paying too much would trigger 2FA.
When it's only part of the ticket? Some teams call everything a "user story" when it might actually be it starts with the story format then adds a whole bunch of detailed acceptance criteria, the background for the story, etc.
The only reason large “consulting” companies do it is to undercut wages. So there is no risk of that happening in an auction system.
Thats true if you have no choice.

But If you can hire great devs that already comes with the experience, required skill and you can pay for it, then why not?

If I'm a dev who is willing to put the time outside work to improve myself, wouldn't that put me in advantage when applying for job, compared to people who are not willing to put the time?
Thank you so much - I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

If you’re interested in this topic I highly recommend “The Great Rebalancing” by Micheal Pettis. A really good book that looks at how currency manipulation and other factors have created imbalance in the global economy.

I’ve also written a book which touches on this - but focuses more on the massive sovereign debt burdens that have been created in large part though these trade imbalances - particularly in an aging world.

https://www.cassandracapital.net/books
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It's already happening.
I expressed myself incorrectly, I meant it is a multiple/resonance value, I cannot correct my previous post, unfortunately.
Average salary? Yawn. Now go and break it down by Indian IT oursourcing companies vs everyone else, with and without visa, and then get back to me.

The inability or unwillingness to see H1B visa abuse by these companies in particular is mind-boggling at this point.
A household has a fixed amount of yuan. More expensive foreign goods take up a larger portion of that amount, leaving less for domestic consumption. Imagine every household does it, leading to less demand for domestic goods.
Edit: ohh, but the tip of going to a place where I've never procrastinated before and sitting down to think what I actually want to do next, that doesn't involve a Web browser. Nice.

That is a great idea, but what do you call it when I do not want to do it because I start thinking about all the awesome things I could have done in my life if I started doing that earlier?
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> On the one hand, I can see needing the ability to throttle for network traffic handling because you'll always have that one person who goes into an all you can eat, grabs 10 plates and all the chocolate pudding because they have to feel like they got one over on ... well, everyone.

So, you want to allow companies to not fulfill contracts because the company has failed to fulfill contracts?

Mind you, if customers in this scenario of yours don't get to eat as much as they can eat, that has absolutely nothing to do with the other customer that happened to eat as much as they can eat, and everything with the company not being able to fulfill the contract that they entered into. It is the company's fault, and only the company's fault, if they enter into contracts with multiple people that say "N bucks for as much as you can eat", if they then don't have enough food to feed all those people.
In practice if they can't or decided not to apply for a green card they leave after 6 years.
> In its 16 year history, it has never turned an annual profit.

I don’t think that’s something that could be said about Amazon.
This type of reaction doesn't reflect on you very well and doesn't generally fit with the HN guidelines to provide substantive discussion while assuming good faith. I'm sorry you were paid poorly. The unfortunate reality is that we are often paid commensurate with our ability to negotiate and not necessarily based on our skill.

With that said, you made an awful lot of assumptions based on a single comment. I am honestly curious about what (if any) regulations you feel are necessary and which you do not.

I'll help make the discussion easier. Trimming the snark out of your comment, it sounds like you'd rather favor a merit-based immigration policy. What do you think is the best way to implement that?
Because in case of congestion the user watching video is abusing the system. It's like going to a congested public road with a convoy of lorries just because you can. Really, don't be a dick.
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Not enough is being said publicly. This is one of the main issues.
> Globally we are going through a period of deflation.

What? Pretty much every country has inflation [0].

> BOJ can print money ( yen ) and flood the world and the value of the yen would still go up !

That is definitely not true. If they were to print 518,755,944,000,000 Yen (2017 estimate for their gdp) and flood the market with it (say by giving every citizen an equal share as a lump sum a la helicopter money [1]) the value would certainly drop.

> From Softbank's perspective it's a win-win, they get to be owners of really important tech companies and at the same time Japanese companies see a demand surge for their products.

So you're saying Softbank doesn't actually care about their return on investments and is really in it to boost Japanese exports? Softbank is big but there's no way any secondary effects from their vision funds investments will return more money to them than the initial investments. Not only that, but your also effectively saying that they were able to swindle 40 billion dollars from the Saudis and I say swindle because the Saudis don't care 1 bit about Japanese exports and are 100% in it for the initial return on investment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money
> Dude, work has been by the rich, for the rich, for about as far back as I know of. Probably forever.

There have definitely been jobs and businesses for hundreds of years that pay a living wage providing services almost exclusively to the wealthy: gold and silver smiths, upholsterers, watchmakers, falconers, tile-workers, high-quality tailors, courtiers, handmaids and butlers, etc.