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Wait, what? Pointing out that CS grads make more money than teacher is political?

This reminds me of a HN post a few weeks ago about how SFers have the tendency to take a discussion about anything and see it as political.

>But I just want to notice that you seem very willing to command other people's money

At no point other than the comment that was written in response to your question asking how I would allocate money have I suggested "commanding" anyone else's money. It's very disingenuous of you to ask me a question, and then use the fact that I responded to that question as means to bash me.
Yeah, their initial explanation is that its the "safety features", but I was under the impression that literally everything related to rust's safety happens at compile time. Their big selling point is the "zero cost abstractions".
> Fun fact: we've a system where Rust is faster than C despite still using more instructions

I think Bryan Cantrill did a pretty good explanation on differences you might see when rewriting something in Rust[1], and one of the things he looked at to see what was going on was Cycles Per Instruction. Instruction count itself means little if the instructions themselves have very different performance profiles and require different amounts of cycles to complete.

Edit: You are tracking and reporting that, so it's not like I'm telling you anything you don't know. I still think the included article is well worth reading though.

1: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...
Boulder CO minimum is ~1500 a month for 1 kid, and most places have stopped giving discounts for two kids. Where I grew up in Fayetteville Arkansas isn't too much diff. So for 2 kids that is ~2500 to $3000 a month for FT child care while both people work.

I do agree with you this is a crazy article to make this seem middle class. But I do agree on the point that our econ is broken...
Is Mongo really SaaS? I know Atlas their service for Mongo is but I think of Mongo Community (the Open source project) as a database you need to host. And IIRC the new license prevents anyone from hosting it as a service.

Not trying to be argumentative and would be interested to hear reasons why Mongo Community (the open source part) might be considered SaaS. Maybe my definition is too narrow.
AB5 didn't appear out of nowhere, and its passage didn't come as a surprise. The potential impact of AB5 on Uber's business would have been priced into the stock as the bill progressed through the legislature.
The post truth era is people claiming this bill adds protections for gig workers when it's actual effect is to limit those protections from applying to the lawmakers buddies and donors.
> until proven otherwise

Well that's impossible (see also the halting problem) so that's pretty clearly not good security practice.

Nothing in that says anything about what your threat model is. What risk are you mitigating by doing this? This sounds like the type of "ignore the words and listen to the sound of my voice" security espoused by management and vendor sales people.

It sounds like you have a diverting past time, and I wish you the best with that, but this isn't what security is about. Security is about identifying and mitigating specific risks. This goes doubly for operational security. All else is security theater.
Regardless of how fast (or not) you read:

Understanding > Knowledge

Effective =/= Efficient

Etc.
A password is a factor of authentication, so by definition is 1FA. Any service which allows access to the account through social engineering could be labeled as having less than 1FA.

If an attacker could access your account without knowing any of your secrets, then it's really 0FA.
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This was supposed to be a secret but i already vowed to myself that i will expose it to the world if they were able to complete my work.
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Not exactly...consider the following problem:

Fast food chain is busy from 12 AM - 2 AM, 5 PM - 7 PM. These shifts may be desirable or undesirable because of the time they occur. To be able to get the "easy" shifts (slow ones) at 10 PM or something, they can make it so that you HAVE to take a part of the other shifts... If you can't, you don't meet their eligibility and you lose your job.

If you are an employee in a shift based business, you definitely give up some rights to having completely flexible work hours.
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> but the fact that the Valieria Plame reveal was such a big deal is basically the exception that proves the rule that it is highly unusual for a journalist to reveal this information.

It was a big deal because people wanted to score political points, not because of a breach in standards. The more relevant point is the standing the journalist still had in society - he did not lose his job for it, let alone be prosecuted for it.

The quote you provide is taken out of context - at least from the Wiki page it is not clear if he is referring to the names that were leaked, as opposed to the ones that they ultimately decided to redact. I suspect the latter because it says "initially refused".

> but I really can't imagine a well respected journalist showing such a complete lack of concern for human life.

When you add the "well respected journalist", we really are in No True Scotsman territory. If all you mean to say is "He is a lousy journalist," then we have no disagreements. Without that qualifier, have you thought about extreme views held by existing, famous journalists? How much of an outlier is Assange compared to other "extreme" but established journalists?
From that thread:

> Finally, I've seen various reports that the practical size limit of a BEAM cluster is in the range of 50-100 nodes. The reason for this is that BEAM cluster establishes a fully connected mesh (each node maintains a TCP connection to all other nodes), so at some size this starts to cause problems. As far as I know, the OTP team is working to improve this, but as of OTP 22 it is still not done.

I've run clusters of 1-2k machines at my last job (maybe it was bigger, but I can't remember for sure). Holding a TCP connection to each other node is not a problem --- we certainly had a lot more connected clients than connected servers, tuning memory for buffers can be an issue on low ram systems. Global can get to be a problem, I'm not sure of the state in open source OTP, but if you have multiple nodes contending on the pg2 global lock for a group, it can get really slow; there's ways to make that better, but you do need to be careful not to introduce new deadlocks. If it's still using the simple method of try to lock everyone, if unsuccessful unlock and wait a bit and try again doesn't work well under significant contention or if one (or more) nodes is unhealthy and running slowly, but staying online.

The quality of network needed really depends on your tick timeouts, and the amount of data you're transmitting. Dist will work with slow and lossy networks as long as it can get a ping transmitted often enough. I think the default tick time is 30 seconds, and four failed ticks disconnects, so you really just need pings coming through once every two minutes, and for your OS not to give up on the TCP connection.

It wouldn't work well for mobile, but between two reasonably connected datacenters, it should be fine. Anyway, dist should only be used between nodes at the same trust level --- anything you can do on one node can be done from the other node; consider it a bidirectional shell. I've debugged plenty of cases where an intermediate link was congested resulting in very low throughput, and tens of minute message delays on dist; it was still working ok --- just anything synchronous would take forever.
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That's an interesting point, actually. Uber and Lyft do both support shared rides (which they call Uber Pool and Lyft Line, respectively), but my understanding is that the vast majority of their rides are not actually "shared".
You could run something like PiHole locally, it has the ability to forward to DNSCrypt or similar.
Ming-chi Kuo single-handedly reveals most of the Apple hardware surprises in advance. I fail to understand why Apple can't limit the leaks to him.
Absolutely not. I don't download Windows updates from "enthusiasts" or "the community", and I don't consider community security patches to be "solid software support".

There's nothing wrong with LineageOS and I'm not criticizing their work. They do a great job keeping phones supported past the time when manufacturers have dropped support. But the Android community is far too willing to trust ROMs downloaded from forums that include who-knows-what and calling it "solid software support".

Solid software support is updates from the manufacturer, the company I originally trusted to provide updates when I bought the phone. If I have to rely on the work of people who once called themselves "Team Douche" [1] because the company who released the original software has stopped support, I'm not considering that "solid software support".

[1] https://www.talkandroid.com/16074-modders-round-table-with-t...
Think this will be successful?
I have to assume nobody read the article, it is nosenseical. Wtf hn.
The childcare figures are actually pretty in-line.

In our area (bay area suburbs), daycare for a 2-year-old is around $2000 a month excluding any extra babysitting. Preschool for a 4-year-old is around ~$1800. I can see how within SF proper they might be higher.
You may have missed this part:

> Importantly, our ballot measure will not ask voters to exempt us from AB5, even though nearly every other industry in California that works with independent contractors received an exemption from the ABC test through special amendments I mentioned earlier. Instead, we will ask voters to support the pro-driver policies we have advocated for: giving drivers access to benefits and an earnings floor and retaining the flexible access to on-demand work they enjoy today.

It doesn't sound like the proposal is intended avoid compliance with AB5 but to create conditions where new bills that make the ABC test harder pass will have less support.
There is nothing intuitive about relativity unless you understand the physics and math behind it. Intuition can only be as good as your knowledge and experience.
> Number porting should require an SMS to the existing SIM with the ability to respond NO to cancel the process and flag the request as fraud

This is an excellent idea. And I wish all the cell phone carriers would adopt this, if not already.
While this does not apply to LinkedIn, GDPR does not protect you at all, even if you are a full-fledged EU citizen, on sites that do not intend to serve the EU market. Mere accessibility from the EU is not enough to prove this intent.

One could also argue that by having a fine structure that disproportionately affects small businesses (thus consolidating power, money, and personal data in the hands of a few large businesses), GDPR doesn't protect you even on those sites that are subject to it. Some might say that it is actually a privacy killer. But I'll leave that discussion for another day.
> The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work, not what will be done and how it will be done

Using this IRS logic then I wonder if most employees are really contractors.

If you're hired as an employee to work on project X, a manager would likely not even know how it will be done. They aren't going to write out the programming code logic for you (that's your job as the employee). They might give you business rules such as "it needs to do XYZ", but that's much different than "how it will be done".
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Sure, in theory. Another theoretical but entirely possible situation is you get a black market of colluding citations. Consider this analogy: a company has workers and it wants to ensure they are working efficiently instead of chasing promotions. So they add managers. And managers for the managers. And manager for managers for managers. But in the end, everything is drowning in inefficiencies because everyone is still chasing promotions. Without addressing the root problem, it won't help to add more of the type of individuals who are prone to succumb to perverse incentives.
Sorry, what is it we cannot observe in the latter? We see the pattern on the screen. Do you mean we cannot observe the interference that leads to that pattern? That is quite right since the only way to see a photon is to bounce it off of something.
Setting aside the rider... in my world Uber and lyft would have open apis so third party apps could somehow aggregate the two services.

These apps would be pretty basic and just let the driver accept rides from either service from within the same app.

Dunno if this is actually a problem though...
It is more depressing that our lifetime is not even 100 years long. Hopefully Aubrey de Gray's predictions about longevity escape velocity would turn out to be true and we or our children would be able to wait for communications spanning multiple centuries.
I don't see how this follows. A marketplace Uber would basically have drivers setting price per mile or price per distance rates within their acceptable geography and probably a rider score variable. Riders would enter a destination and either be presented with driver options (including ratings) or be paired with the lowest bidding driver. Payments, ratings, dispatch, etc. would all still be handled by Uber, as would disputes.

You'd end up pretty close to today's Uber experience, just with more expensive rides (not subsidized, so likely pretty close to current taxi rates in most places) and probably an extra step in the hailing process for riders.
Think about a car travelling 60mph, and you want to climb aboard. You can either jump on the hood (and likely get made into paste) or jump onto the side and immediately have a 60mph 'jerk' forward.

In either case, you are going from 0 to 60 more or less instantly and the results on your fleshy meat body will be the same.

You could try to run real fast in front of the car, away from it, but you are limited by your meat body's technology to ~10mph. You still hit the car at a difference of 50mph. Meat paste once again.

To avoid a painful collision, you'd need to get up to speeds of about 57mph, which is pretty hard for your body to do. And if you could get up to 57mph, why do you need tha car? There's no friction in space, so you'd just keep going until something bumped you.
The quote makes sense. He's comparing the ranging accuracy of UWB to other wireless protocols while also pointing out it's relatively high throughput and low power requirements. He's also comparing the latency of acquiring ranging information to that of GPS.
There is a singular you, the one that is your time-line. There are also different versions of that in other timelines. But as you don't expect to feel the consciousness of the guy spatially next to you, the other parallel universe has also no influence on your conscious feeling of self.
So I assume they can superimpose a blue dot on an AR camera view to show me where in the room the kids left the Apple TV remote (again).

I was telling my kids about this at the dinner table tonight and we were cracking up imagining our dog eating one of these trackers, and you open up the app and the blue dot is following the dog around. Why Milo, why?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saluda_Grade

Until it was closed in 2001, this was the steepest standard-gauge section of railway, reaching a maximum grade of 4.9%.

By comparison, when traveling north on Interstate 5 out of Los Angeles, the Tejon Pass (also known as the Grapevine) hits a maximum grade of 6% (as per https://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/4366-tejon-...).
Or require YES text for immediate port. Then if you can't do that because you've lost your phone, then it should delay for 24 hours, then do the port.
The two biggest factors involved are

(1) Runtime. Even though C has "no" runtime, there is some runtime overhead: Variable allocation / de-allocation and alignment. Function invocation / call stack setup. Et cetera. I don't know enough about Rust to understand what its exact "runtime" is like, but I'd bet it's not exactly like C. (Rust is strongly-typed, is it not? Does it do run-time type-checking?) Exception handling in particular requires a non-negligible amount of run-time overhead and may account for a significant proportion of the difference between the performance of Rust and C.

(2) Optimization. Rust and C are going to be compiled with either GCC or LLVM. The way both work is they compile the program to an internal representation of opcodes, which then get optimized and platform-specific, optimized machine code is then emitted. In some cases the specific set of opcodes or optimizations used with various conventions / data structures may be more efficient or less efficient. Over time this will improve.
While you are spot on with zero cost abstractions a bounds check in Rust is not without penalty (if enabled, should be off in release mode)
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I've had multiple take home tests result in changes to the products that company offers. I've never received a job offer from those companies. Maybe your experience differs, but I've had a sour taste left by such practice.
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> I can't overstate the loss of community that occurred as a result. On reddit, the fact that usernames aren't prominent and there are no avatars makes it impossible to build "characters" in your mind. People are friendly, but they are perpetual strangers.

It's funny, I've had the exact same thought more than once.

If you asked me "Should comments be judged by their content and not the person making them", I would say absolutely. But then you get Reddit. I do miss the characters from various online forums in the 90s-00s.

It's a little ironic posting this reply on HN though :)
Sadly, terrible citations aren't new. More than once I have read an academic book with a good quote only to hunt down the original source and find it doesn't contain that quote at all. Sometimes it it source A taking source B's paraphrase of source C as if it was an actual quote. Clearly A never bothered to read the original source.
Also adverse selection. Healthy people are tempted to only pay for catastrophic or no coverage, so a lot of individual policy buyers are sicker than the average employee in a group policy (because large companies cover everyone).
Where do you live?

Because in most jurisdictions, at least in North America, it is legal to list your house "For Sale By Owner" without a real estate license. [0][1]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/for-sale-by-owner.asp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale_by_owner
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Uber and lyft and DoorDash etc aren’t paid as wall clock hours though. You can be “clocked in” to as many as you want at once. One drive you might be working for Uber and the very next might be some Postmates order. Maybe even both on the same trip.

Focusing on wall clock hours doesn’t make sense for these kinds of jobs.
Um, do you know what AB5 IS?

AB5 is a law codifying the Dynamax decision--the precise opposite of legislating from the bench.
I don't like being limited to 2FA using SMS. As soon as your phone isn't available, you're out of luck :P
> But hey, it happened in Canada, so no harm no foul right? There really should be Nuremberg trials for the sins of the spooks. There won't be though; they run the show. The last time a spook employee got in trouble it was for whistleblowing.

This seems to be true and that's frightening.
That mostly makes sense to me, it's a chip that allows for both spatially locating other chips and communicating with them, supposedly with more bandwidth and further range than WiFi or Bluetooth, while requiring lower power: https://www.decawave.com/dw1000/productbrief/
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not surprising really. it is more likely than not that what we have here on earth exists elsewhere in the universe.
I highly doubt this is accurate. There's no reason why drivers can't maintain the same hours but still be considered an employee.

I would love to be the health insurance provider getting Uber as a client. I'd be freaking rich on premiums.
No, it's like saying I want to get Windows Updates from Microsoft and not some random person on a forum. It would be great if Google published a full Android release that worked on all phones and had the manufacturer's best experience in mind, but they don't. So the next closest thing, the company I choose to put my trust in, is the maker of the phone. The company who originally installed the OS in the first place.

I want updates from a company who can be held accountable. Not some random ROM from XDA.
That's probably because most people don't care one way or the other and skip the whole thing.

Anyone who cares enough to frequent a sub about their home town probably has fairly intense feelings for better or worse. That will naturally lead to strong emotions and clashes.

Pretty much Web 2.0 in a nutshell.
Whether they need to do it for their business to work isn't that relevant, they are still doing those things.

In the UK we have two classifications that are different from self employed (contractors). We have worker and employee. They're similar but differ in the level of control the employer has and the responsibilities of the employer.

The case in the UK decided that the drivers were workers but not employees.

More info: https://www.gov.uk/employment-status
And Cal AG Xavier Becerra is a test case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944284
Heck, I managed that without interstellar travel.
Consul Connect does that too...has for a while
Years ago as a second year computer science student, I mentioned to a grad student I knew how disappointed I was about a certain algorithm. "It's O(n), but the constant is enormous! There's no point unless you have billions of elements"!

She said to me "Yeah sure, but who cares? What it really tells us it's that it's possible to do this in linear time at all. That might not have been true, and now we know we might find a faster linear algorithm."

(All of this is paraphrased because it's been over a decade).

The point is: we have found another planet with water. We now know this is possible! We know that it's probably not super uncommon (or else we wouldn't have found one so soon). That's what's amazing about this.

So what if it's not perfect, it's a great discovery!
This would be solved by universal healthcare.
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You believe the party is power has enough sway to move the needle on a $20T economy?