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> Note that such niceties as workplace safety; medical coverage and 5 day workweeks were in large part due to union involvement.

Those things always get brought up but that's history from 50-75+ years ago. Got any more recent examples?
I recommend the World of Warcraft diary. It's 300 pages, has some awesome stories and pictures, and just as a good job of telling how blizzard made WoW have in 2001-2004.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whenitsready/the-world-...

The author did an actual diary and interviewed people back while the game was being produced and immediately after it shipped. He wrote most of his book back in 2006 but didn't publish it until this year.
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A laser however... probably works for this scenario. But even then, there’s a required dwell time, and more sophisticated terrorists would adapt to using ablative skins, or maybe even materials transparent to the laser wavelength... anything to increase the required dwell time and overwhelm through sheer numbers.
In modern cities, and for the large majority of car uses, horses are not a viable form of transportation.
Yes. And even what I'm doing right now -- sitting in front of a display, and typing on a keyboard. The display, keyboard and touchpad are great.

But sometimes it'd be pleasant to sit outside. Or useful to work while in transit. I can do all those, but they involve smaller screens, more cramped keyboards, and the hassle of dealing with gear.

Having it all in AR would be very cool.
Even around here, there are some overrides on the statutory line - allowed by judge or accepted by both families. They're not often used and cases that need them are carefully scrutinized, but they work.

Some additional ones are drawn, allowing a minor (with unsuitable family or orphaned) to have extended civil powers. And employment is allowed, though highly scrutinized, allowing an out from certain terrible situations. (Typical rare example is parental alcoholism or abuse.)
> it is very hard to increase cell sizes without not worrying about swelling

thank you. i've always wondered why they aren't just the size of like a soda can, or a thermos.
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Regarding Moore,

> The company told staff that Moore had been on a performance improvement plan

He'd apparently been at Kickstarter for six years. Being on a PIP after that long seems unusual.

And Redwine,

> But current and former employees with knowledge of the firing told me that management didn’t establish a “performance improvement plan” for Redwine, despite her being told she would have one.

Not quite sure how to read the second. Was it being used as a formality so the firing looks genuine, or was she actually under-performing, and they just ripped the bandaid off?
Not sure either, it's a legitimate question. A lot of people seem to find it obvious, but to me it seems like there is a lot of subtleties in why something is or isn't a threat. Bitcoin, Paypal, Ethereum, gift cards, and other online payment systems didn't get this reaction, it's just the Facebook-issued credits (which, for the record, isn't really a cryptocurrency, that's just the marketing department).
Stallman's email reacted to the use of "accused of sexual assault" in an event announcement. This phrase matches the legal definition of the current facts, so this is not about someone choosing inflammatory language beyond the norms.

Stallman would prefer that language distinguish between physical coercion and the kind of coercion that can take place because of a difference in knowledge or power (in this case, age). That's a fine point to discuss, but there are very considered reasons people use the same term - it's not just sloppy language.

Also, he'd prefer to assume a scenario where Epstein hid any coercion from his guests - which would make this a "an alleged but possibly unknowing sexual assault". I'm not sure what that's supposed to do to our discourse. Is everyone supposed to imagine the same scenario he does? Or the most expultory possible scenario? I think the uncertainty of the situation and presumption of innocence were already covered pretty well by "alleged".

The facts of the actual case are for the courts to sort out.
Stallman's focus on avoiding the factual label for the accusations is a weird priority, and there is nothing immature or irrational about calling it out.
We spend ~900$ a month on fargate to run our of our dev, stage, qa, and prod environments as well as some other services and sqs consumers. After the recent price decrease we looked at how much reserve instance would save us and the few hundred in savings would not make sense vs the over provisioning and need to dedicate resources to scaling and new tools to monitor individual containers.

Note: do have some stuff in lambda but its package size restrictions limit us.
Lead isn't particularly known as a carcinogen, but a neurotoxin. I guess it might be, but is it "known to the state of California"?

The things I noticed that almost all had California warnings were shovels, rakes, etc. I don't really know why these would need to have lead in them, if that's what it was.

I did buy a shower head, and I did buy one without the warning. But, I also thought - maybe this one has as much or more carcinogens as the cheap ones, but it doesn't have a label simply because it's not sold in California?
Thank you. This inarticulate author goes on a long rant about the critical importance of word choice and non-sequiturs...

...and then jumps to a ridiculous, unfounded relationship that somehow a piece about slavery = neo-Marxism. I had to read that sentence three times: "Surely he meant to elaborate. Surely..."

People with double-agendas always fell on themselves.
OK I guess you were just following orders, Jeff.
“ They are fighting a proxy war for Iran. ”

People always think that people who are fighting on their home soil are fighting a proxy war for someone else but have no goals themselves . From what I have read they want to get rid of Saudi Arabia and Iran is helping them. But their main motivation is not Iran. It was the same in the Vietnam war. North Vietnam was supported by China and Russia but their main motivation was to get colonial powers out of the country.
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I wish my company could use it, we run a bunch of standard up ECS clusters, and it'd be nice to not have to provision and maintain servers. Fargate wasn't worth it due to the price difference, and just how rigidly they enforce cpu and memory quantization.
How nostalgic! Mind you, I say that in a good way!

This brings me back to the heydays of Sun Microsystems where they controlled both the hardware (SPARC) and the operating system (Solaris). Sun didn't hesitate to use this to their advantage. With Clear Linux, I see Intel doing some very similar things. Yes, this was just a story about boot time, but it led me to take a look at Clear Linux and it looks like it could be a star. I'm interested in how much more performance their distribtuion is able to squeeze out. I'm also wondering how they're dividing their focus here and what high notes they're trying to achieve.

At a strategic level, I'm assuming that they're wanting to distinguish themselves from ARM? Are they looking to create a well-tuned reference for other Linux distributions on Intel to adopt? At a tactical level, I see they're focusing on performance, availability (which boot time would be a function of)... but are they tweaking for other things such as reliability? Fault tolerance?

Until now, Clear Linux wasn't even on my radar. Today, it is. Anyone have some experiences with this distro (for better or worse) that they'd like to share?
That's such a pity people mean spectacular 3D graphics under "appreciable gaming performance". IMHO that's very far from the most important part of a game.
They have tried to swing elections and broke electoral law in UK.

How could anyone besides them prove effectiveness or ineffectiveness of this campaign? I don't think it's possible.
At the very least, the side they supported won (Brexit) and they should not be trusted.
Critics of unions would point out that under-performing employees are more likely to benefit from unions, so they're more likely to try to organize them.

I have no idea if this is actually the case. It certainly makes it hard to sort out what's actually going on, here.
Exactly. And they took "men" literally, too.

I think these authors prey upon (and hope for) readers who've not come in contact or aren't familiar with modern-day slavery, which uses similar gaslighting to rapidly dehumanize its victims.

Modern-day slavery exists. The same tactics are used. "Don't expose the stories of the slaves. Making them human means you hate capitalism and you're a Neo-Marxist!"

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It does plenty of good. I have software that spans AWS, Azure, and GCP (don't ask me why). I can easily manage it as a cohesive whole, e.g. using an ip address provisioned in GCP as the target of a DNS record provisioned in AWS. I can spin it all up in a single call to a single tool.

Under the hood, terraform is just using the AWS APIs. If an error occurs with them, getting support isn't an issue.
that 's one of the coolest names ever
> "Ignoring for the moment the non-salary benefits of a union: Look at it this way - aren't corporate profits quite high already? Yet they still merge and consolidate and cut costs and try to increase them further."

Imagine your waiter at a restaurant found out that you are a well paid programmer and tried to charge you extra on the bill for your meal because "aren't programmer salaries quite high already". Does that sound reasonable to you?
If only a few people go, then it isn't a major disaster whatever happens.

If a lot of people go, they will run into difficulty long before they get to the fence with threatening signs. There isn't remotely the infrastructure to support people on a large scale. The roads don't exist, the hotels don't exist, the food and water and gasoline sources don't exist... If a million people decided to go, that doesn't mean they will get there because they can't teleport. And they won't all fail at once in the same spot.

I'm from NY, but I've been to Rachel. No gasoline and total hotel capacity of maybe 15 rooms? I remember seeing a defunct gas station that looked like it had closed in the 1960s.
Yeah this is being compared to Fyre Festival. The difference is Fyre Festival was on an island ill-equipped to handle that many stranded people.

This is going to end up more like your typical Internet meetup, just bigger. Lots of people will roadtrip out there, it'll fizzle out or at least be mildly entertaining, then drive home. Only problem I foresee really is traffic, but that's just boredom, not a humanitarian disaster.
This is so true. Every comment I see on HN regarding welding paints it as the counterpoint example to a college education/getting a white-collar job. I have a brother who gets worked to the bone welding for about $15 an hour. He can get pretty good incentive for producing more than the hourly "expected" rate, but it's hard work! He welds I-beams and lifts between 20-60 pounds per beam, depending on the specs of the specific beams, all day every day that he works. He does somewhere on the order of 40-60 beams per hour. Between his job as a welder and my cushy job as a software developer (making twice as much) I would choose the cushy software developer job every time. Not sure I would be saying the same thing if I had gotten a liberal art degree, but I certainly wouldn't use welding as the prime example of a trade-school "easy way out" from going to college.
Thanks. It would have been really awesome if the page mentioned that, too.
> The "asymmetry" that is mentioned is a great soundbite but isn't really accurate.

It is in fact accurate. Saudi Arabia is spending the third most money of any nation on earth on military. Three times that of Canada. More than France or Britain. More than Russia.

The Houthis have at best between 1/60th and 1/100th the military funding of Saudi Arabia. The point made by the quoted person is spot on in regards to the Houthis using cheap drones to hit Saudi Arabia's oil heart, de facto bypassing their massive military spending's ability to stop it. The definition of asymmetry fits perfectly given the radical imbalance between the two on military technology and spending, which is what was being directly stated in the quote (it also fits more broadly with the radical economic & funding potential imbalance between Saudi Arabia and the whole of Yemen, much less the Houthis).
> in a hail of military billets

At least they'll have somewhere to sleep. ;-)
And because the Nazis explicitly went after trade unions. Postwar, people understood that preserving democracy in the workplace was an equally important bulwark against the return of fascism. Nazism wouldn’t have been nearly as powerful and horrendous without its business allies (in both Germany and the US), which is why it was important to check their authoritarianism.
They may have their own reasons for fighting, but all their money and equipment is provided by Iran. If not for Iran's support, the civil war in Yemen and further conflict with Saudi Arabia could not have happened. Iran provided their support because the Houthis are accomplishing Iran's goals. So this is Iran's war fought using someone else's sons.
> Bluetooth isn't, because it can be relayed.

Angle of Arrival/Angle of Departure mitigates this. Attempting to relay will screw up the phase relationships.

UWB is basically Time of Flight.
David Murray (aka the 8-bit guy) has a plan to build the "Commander X16", a new 6502 based computer that is philosophically similar to a VIC-20 but has more RAM (2MB), a higher clock (probably 8 MHz) and an FPGA to do VGA video. It might not be on the radar of people here because of some odd choices, like using a Facebook group as the primary discussion forum.
New series [1][2] which will be awesome to watch even without buying the kit.

[1] "This series is in progress and more videos are on the way soon!"

[2] "I expect all of the videos will be released by the end of 2019 or sooner."
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This is exactly one of the things that makes ML, AI, or whatever so interesting. Sometimes it does find correlations which a human might miss because the human thinks there is no way those two things are linked - but in fact they are.

"For example, a correlation may exist between changes in temperature in an obscure Australian town and price changes in the U.S. stock market. A person would know that the two events have no connection."
Sure. You dedicate the space to the equipment for safety reasons.
I think his overall point stands: going after facebook is more sensible than chasing individual bitcoiners.
But they don’t want to become a bank. They want to build a cryptocurrency. There are already hundreds of cryptocurrencies that operate in France and Germany, and the developers do not have to have banking licenses.
You can spoof that too, with a relay. In fact, just putting the relay transmit antenna in the expected place should give the right ratio of RSSI.
Apologize if I didn't make my idea clear enough. Seems there are two topics here: 1. being able to use a camera & 2. being able to conceal a camera.

My originally argument is focusing on point 1: people can already _use_ smartphones to take pictures and to record videos as easily/convenient as using a wearable camera.

On the point 2. I totally agree with you, wearables will make it easier to conceal the camera and that is a bad thing. I guess the takeaway here is that the camera isn't the problem, the problem is being able to conceal the camera.
This is terrific. Thanks, I leaned a lot.
It’s all about communication and setting expectations. If client is expecting quick delivery with low chance of disruption and you have a full time job maybe this consultant shouldn’t take the job. Or at minimum tell client they are juggling multiple priorities at the moment and say that they’ve built in a buffer into the ETA but it could still be a risk. And that you’ll communicate frequently with any deviation to your ETA.

Not every client needs delivery at breakneck speed.
Libra is not cryptocurrency. It is digital currency.
I expect indoor navigation to be a very powerful, especially the U1 chip is combined with the existing Indoor Maps functionality in Apple Maps: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
The original comment is about German attitudes towards the accumulation of power, which are a direct product of their experiences with Nazism. Germans don't want uncontrolled groups accumulating power precisely because it could lead to a situation like Nazi Germany.

Once Godwin's law became a meme it outlived its usefulness. Yes, people tend to hyperbolically compare things to the Nazis. But the Nazis were a real thing that happened in the real world, not some platonic ideal of evil to which nothing compares. Shutting down any comparison to Nazism is absurd, doubly so when discussing German policy.
This is taking from one paragraph of the WHY section of my YC App :

"In Public Safety, the most important skills are the most difficult to train. It took me a day to master the hardest rope knot. A critical thinking skill, like patient assessment, where you are interviewing a patient, simultaneously checking vital signs, managing treatment, calculating drug doses, and a dozen other skills, is much more challenging to train on. Why can’t we train on it with the same effectiveness and frequency as tying a simple rope knot? "

I like what you mentioned there for critical thinking and maybe that's a word I should use because most people understand that critical thinking is hard to do and even harder to teach.

VR That puts First Responders in the most challenging call of their lives, before it happens. (that is more tagline than simple description)

As a simple description, building on your example -

VR that teaches critical thinking skills by for Public Safety by overwhelming users in simulated chaos.

It doesn't exactly SNAP. I think the content is there but needs to be reorganized and maybe culled a little -

Trains first responders' critical thinking skills in virtual reality.

I'll keep playing with it. If I had more time, I'd write a shorter story.
And it occasionally makes me snort out loud. Bonus!
you’re thinking too consumer. the killer apps are commercial.

vehicle maintenance

medical procedures

circuit diagnoses (schematic overlay on pcb)

but UWB is irrelevant. those apps can easily work with wired connection.
Fyre Festival also involved a significant amount of fraud. I don't think anybody is fraudulently claiming that Area 51 will offer luxury accommodations to visitors.
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You know my business card actually reads, "Virtual Training, Real Experiences." It's a tagline and not a description but I like Virtual Experience training.

Thank you!
> you can't risk to have anything even remotely approaching a monopoly in any part of the systems involved in making transactions.

AFAIK US is a monopoly for international money transfer. You just cannot bypass a US intermediary bank and US Dollar conversion.
Don't know from a Fargate perspective but Elastic Container Service (ECS) deploys EC2 servers that do not pass the CIS Benchmark. I don't believe you gain much from a security perspective.
> Anyone have some experiences with this distro (for better or worse) that they'd like to share?

Not much of one, but for a while I was playing with multiple distros trying to find the best possible power management for my laptop. (XPS 13 9380.)

Clear did better than the Ubuntu installation that came with it -- but a dead octopus would have done better than that. It was sitting at 6W for non-CPU-intensive work, and was also noticeably snapppier. Windows on the same hardware sits at 8W when idling; same as Ubuntu.

More recently I've tried Arch, though. Which somehow got that same workload down to 3.3W, albeit with a lot of adjustments... that didn't seem to affect performance, but did affect power use, clearly.

It's just too bad that all of this optimization goes out the window if I fire up a browser, but I've had a fun time finding ways to avoid that.

Apart from that, obviously Clear's software repository is far more limited than Arch's, and it also seems harder to contribute to. I don't think that problem will be going away soon.
I appreciate your sensible take on this. From what I've heard from a KS employee, it's been anything but sensible, from both sides.

To add to that. Said employee described the lack of product leadership (constant changing vision, wasted efforts, etc.). At this point I would not bet or invest in KS.
> To be useful, T should be, say, 20ns or less, which requires a bit of clever crypto to make the actual exchange fast enough

I don't think you even need crypto on the actual exchange.

The car and the key fob could negotiate a pair of random values, R1 and R2, using an encrypted protocol so that eavesdroppers cannot figure out R1 and R2. This negotiation does not have to be particularly fast, so no need for anything clever. This is also where you would do authentication to prove to the car that it is talking to an authorized key fob.

For the actual distance measurement, the car sends a message containing R1 and the key fob responds with a message containing R2. Each R1/R2 pair would only be good for one try, so it doesn't matter if an eavesdropper sees the distance measurement attempt.
If you work at a place like Facebook or Google it would probably be more expensive. You would be looking at liabilities in the hundreds of millions for a single bug.
My experience with Clear Linux maybe a year ago was that it was one of the more unusual linux distro's I've tinkered with. They seem to be reinventing the wheel in many places, for example, it has its own package manager, and its own unique implementation of containers. Stuff that would seem to not have much to do with performance.

Also, NVIDIA CUDA drivers didn't work. Not sure who's fault that is. Probably both NVIDIA and Intel's.

All in all, it did boot quickly on AWS, but it was not a fun time at all.
Tile does it, but it's essentially an active beacon, which isn't really privacy friendly as it allows your movements to be tracked. Apple's innovation here seems to be doing it in a privacy friendly way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20129942
Seconding this ^^ only had awesome experiences here. Feel free to reach out if you've got any questions.
Consider, for contrast, a crowded bus or subway instead.
Nobody wants batteries of lower capacity though. This LiFeF (or whatever it's called) chemistry promises higher capacity.
I think many are a little too ad-averse. For a little bit of $ you can get traffic that would take months to build organically. Nowadays I'd first validate with ads and THEN go for organic channels.
I was thinking the same thing. You can see how they must have felt a black circle on a screen doesn't look too impressive, but this is a rather backwards way of dealing with that. (I would have added shine to the background and watch body but not the face...)
Apple made iPhone when everyone else was copying Blackberry. They get some optimism from me based on that alone.
What you describe is what I've heard summarizes the state of KS. Both sides are entrenched and talking past each other while the actual product and company continue to slide into the gutter.

Seems to me both sides would rather plant their flags and signal allegiance to the outside world than come up with a real solution.

Kickstarter is on its way out.
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