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Yeah; it requires some rigor to do. My point was simply that it _can_ be done, and while the effort is high, it does allow you to move from pure dynamic language, to highly defined type checking.
What's Uber's cut of that fee?
Even with how Uber has treated riders is horrific at times, no need to just focus on the employees/contractors. See my comment above for evidence.
Just out of curiosity, why not use distcc?

I have a recent i7 and still compile essentially all packages on my homelab, I feel that the benefit would be even more marked for you.
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Out of curiosity, do you wear sunscreen to keep yourself cool?
I would probably assume he's just really into Romance of the Three Kingdoms or other historical dramas where the 司馬 surname is common. Or that his real name is Zimmerman.
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Bad formatting in that paper makes it very hard to read.

Overall it seemed to have pretty strong cherry picking feel. Are you sure this paper is objective?
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I don’t know why I’m being downvoted - Amazon FBA does not commingle seller inventory. The products sold by a seller are only the ones they shipped to FBA. If you request your inventory back, you will only get the ones back you sell. So if a seller sends in a bunch of counterfeit items for a listing, those are physically separated and don’t get mixed with the good inventory that is there.

There are multiple sellers for the same product and they could definitely have bad/old inventory - and they will win the buy box with the lowest price - but it’s still not commingled.
> The solution is actually pretty easy: require a pairing procedure that can't be done remotely. For example, the Nest app on a phone could display a QR code with is public key fingerprint, which you show to a camera, and the camera will only send video to phones it's been paired with. That would pretty much completely eliminate this failure mode.

This is how Tesla pairs a new phone to work as a key -- you need to have one of the two RFID key cards that come with the car present, and be inside the car with the new phone. You pair _that particular device_ and then authorize it with the RFID card. Simply having the login to the app/account is not enough, and from the car itself you can always remove a paired phone.

A key for a car frames the problem in much clearer terms and Tesla engineered a secure solution. It is unfortunate this isn't done for other things where security is equally important.
Pretty sure paying 3 cloud providers is more expensive than 1 cloud provider
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FWIW, my son is in 3rd grade and most of his peer group (8-9yo) has seen at least some of the MCU movies.
It is. Even the title refers to politics.
I suppose we should talk about our favourite algorithms/data structures books here. I like Drozdek for data structures: very clear yet concise with both theoretical rigour and application
These are good things to read to understand a consensus that yes, electromagnetic radiation has biological effects.

For people reading this stuff, always search for something called the Odds Ratio (OR), which is a gold standard way of comparing how clinically significant a thing is. For example, smoking has an OR of 60 for lung cancer. A well covered paper on birth control suggested its OR for developing depression is 1.26, and the massive aspirin on heart health study had 0.95 OR of cardiovascular disease in one of the surveyed counties (ie aspirin improved clinical outcome).

If error bars on measured OR contain 1.0 you can’t say if it is helpful or harmful. OR accounts for baseline incidence in a way that RR (relative risk) does not. So it lets you actually choose among behaviors instead of within diseases or outcomes. It informs why it’s possible to tell everyone they shouldn’t smoke (OR is very high), keep taking birth control (because depression outcome is better than unwanted or complicated pregnancy outcomes), and aspirin for cardiovascular disease prophylaxis (very limited side effects, very cheap so even 0.95 is worth it).

I don’t know if there’s a consensus that electromagnetic radiation from electronics has clinical significance. If there is clinical significance it will be a small OR for most outcomes. It won’t be comparable at all to e.g. smoking.

However this is still an imperfect measure. In Japan OR for lung disease from smoking is 15, 4 times better than the US. The researchers speculated this has to do with a specific filter on common Japanese cigarettes but it could be genetics or other things that they didn’t control for (ie BMI and gender matching but not Japanese ancestry). So technology can have huge effects on clinical outcomes but 4x 15 is a much bigger deal than 4x 1.015. My point is that it has its limitations but OR definitely measures something real.

This is a robust framework for evaluating how this research matters to you in a way that does not require conspiracies or investigating the researcher’s backgrounds. Additionally it is widely accepted by legitimate medical practitioners across the world.

Under this framework, the reviews posted here do not document clinical significance, although individual papers cited in them might.

A big limitation is that mice are tested with orders of magnitude higher incidence rate of the disease to quickly find RR (high RR in mice vs placebo is strong research evidence just not strong clinical evidence). So mouse OR isn’t often predicative of human OR. But this applies to chart reviews too. Still a pretty durable framework.
The tipping rate for me as a lyft driver (male, east asian, mid 30s) was around 20%, 4-5 years ago.
I agree, but I think the discussion is not about luck vs skill.

Imagine a poker tournament. The winner is determined by a combination of luck and skill. But somebody who didn't play had no chance to win.
Agreed - past a certain (probably fairly massive) threshold of predictable long term load, it seems clear renting resources is going to be more expensive than the all-in cost of owning and operating your own.

Were the opposite true, you'd wonder about the economics of the cloud business model.

I think a more interesting way to look at this is, are the other advantages of cloud services (e.g. lots more flexibility and bundled proprietary technologies that you can't economically build yourself) actually worth the extra money?

Yes, by not using a cloud service you might save $2B a year, but does that cost you the opportunity to make even more than that, given you're probably moving slower or at least less efficiently than you otherwise could?
I can respect Mailchimp wanting to protect the whole of their service, and I am glad TorrentFreak saw that and pointed it out as well -- basic good candor from TF.

What I cannot understand and what makes Mailchimp look bad in this case is their lack of answers on legitimate questions & concerns. Mailchimp probably feels they are protecting the system's logic to prevent people from gaming it. In reality all they are doing is upsetting the exact group of people whom are the ones which select which service to integrate generally. But they have kinda moved towards tailoring their service for the ready made sites and not so much for enterprise or developer level anymore.

The questions asked were fair, legitimate and Mailchimp should have discussed ways to work with TF or at least been more forth right with why it doesn't feel they can work together. Mailchimp has hosed a ton of people over the past few years. Seems like they are on the path to turn into the Paypal of email with their hidden reasons and lack of candor with clients.
Sorry, but this is just depressing. I would never use that.
I get loads of recruiter's messages via SO.

In general they are of much higher quality (as in, the person actually read about me and offered an interview because of what they saw) than other sources.

Perhaps ironically, even LinkedIn is a place where I receive a lot of spam recruitment messages.
The concerns of management are not identical to the concerns of employees, even in white-collar jobs. This isn't a moral judgement, it's just business reality.

For instance, labor is always a cost center. The argument "I cost X but bring in 10X" is great for you (assuming it's true), but from your accounting department's standpoint, replacing you with two less productive workers is better if it turns out that together they cost 1.6X but bring in 18X. This calculation doesn't change a whit even if all your company's top-level executives started in the mail room.
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People are taxed for getting a certain amount of tips - they pay those taxes whether they actually get tips or not. And employers have a lower minimum wage for those employees.
They've added markdown support in the new editor. Auto-converts as you type.
Thanks. This would have been a good detail for the article author to include. Do you have a link to a better description of the dispute?
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Well, you usually quickly learned to be careful to avoid most crashes. You'd also have a very optimized disk for fast booting. Loading full WorkBench was pointless, when a CLI window would do.
This happens to me on iPhone (Safari) as well, and looking for it, it turns out it's been a well-known problem for months (if not years). Astonishing.
An ancient torture method was small water dripping on the forehead.

Persistent small events over time can be abuse.
Blizzard is apparently giving out 24 hour band for talking about hk in hearthstone streams too. I don’t think anyone really doubts it’s to appease China
It's not so sure, in some cases, passwords can be compromised by other ways directly from the source, or accesses can be derived from misimplemented APIs.

No matter how big the company is, this is really realistic.

Facebook, Google and others all used to leave some passwords in clear-text during very long time for anyone to check in the logs.

Google even got their central password system compromised and source-code stolen (Gaia).

It can also be a password recovery process that can have glitches (Steam), or just not checking password properly due to deployment errors (Dropbox) or just compromised servers (my unique EA Origin password was compromised like this, my LinkedIn password as well, my Twitter password...)
etc

many possibilities
So you plan to force me into accepting your position if I don't take it when you ask nicely? I'd say you're already not polite.
I hate suits. Where's the equivalent for my pants/shirt/sweater combo?
I've never used uber or lyft, so I'm not sure how their apps work, but I keep my location turned off on my phone always, so I'm assuming the apps would have no way of knowing where I am without either turning it on or manually entering my location. Typically, I usually know where I am enough to give a cross street. I can't imagine getting an uber to a place where I couldn't describe my location. Every taxi place I've called, gives a wait estimate and generally tells me how far away the closest taxis are. The taxi companies here at least have actually released apps that let you call a taxi, track where they are generally many of the features uber and lyft's apps offer.

To be honest, I don't trust taxi drivers much either, but they're regulated, they have cameras and they're accountable to somebody. The same can't really be said for uber/lift.
Because I was so appalled, I asked one of the students to explain it. They said that I was disabled because I can't work in a noisy factory comfortably while they could.
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Sure, that's not the best wording and was borderline trolling to make a caricature to keep it short. Didn't mean any offense to anyone as I'm not thinking of any particular people, but rather whatever behavior that is going on in mainland China that allows the government to do anything they want.

So it seems this behavior is condoned by the people somehow. If this is completely voluntary, then those people are as bad as the government, and if it isn't then I can only conclude they turn a blind eye to avoid punishment. It's just hard not to also blame the people here, and somehow just blame the government... after all they are the ones to make this equivalence of how the government of China IS the people. If they blur this line, then why would we re-draw it?
I don't see any hot grits, or anything about Natalie Portman, so there's no way it's a Beowulf cluster.
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Those bars are everywhere in Korea, and if you read the story they didn't realize it was an "escort bar" until they were already there. I would blame the Uber Korea employees for bad judgement in bringing them there, not the CEO.
I suppose one risk would be if you collect who is in the restaurant with whom and then this data "leaks" out from some S3 bucket. It would be similar to the dating/cheating sites that were breached some time ago. Do all of these systems link up with the payment system or tie into any systems that can do facial recognition? /shrug Maybe not yet.
A good place to start might be companies that supply service uniforms. In the US, per the Berry Amendment, they are required to source nearly all components and perform all labor in the US; the articles they make are consequently expensive and meant to be repaired. Other countries have similar legislation and the same result: more expensive clothing that is long lasting and versatile.

One token of this emphasis on repair is, oddly enough, the button fly. Buttons are much easier to repair than zippers.
I feel like the only good reasons to use a VPN are if you're torrenting or if you want access to sites from different countries (foreign Netflix libraries, streams from state-run media channels, etc). Most VPNs worth a damn aren't going to sell you out just for torrenting movies/music/games while your ISP will.
The closed ecosystem brings more leverage to Apple and a different value proposition for the users - not better or worse, different.

If you're happy with the freedom the OS vendor gives you, then the sandbox is a win because it eliminates a possible vector of harm. If you're not happy with the set of solutions, and want to put together your own, then you need a way out of the playpen. Different, not better or worse.
Purism to the rescue! Https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ ..at least it's a start. Hopefully linux (FOSS) on mobile will eventually break through, it's sucks bigtime being dependent on a device from apple/google
> This reads to me that you were pretty much harassed to tip.

I was, but he did save my ass and it was very late and I was tired, so I was honest with myself and realized I would pay for his service. And I understand, he needs to eat too. Just a crappy situation all around. I'm gonna take taxis from now, if no public transport is avail. My fav would be something like ZipCar if possible, like renting the car equivalent of a Bird.
Ahhh - now I see what you mean. Yes, that's a better analogy.
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If you mean “the mid 90s”, I was there for that.

Need Magazine articles and TV shows at the time were hyping the internet and the web. I think they were about right. Mainstream media didn’t really catch on until the 00s.

I was anticipating a complete revolution that would change everything. I remember repeatedly telling my parents how it was going to change the world. They weren’t dismissive but also didn’t think it was really going to be something for them. Eventually they relented and I got a modem - so I could surf the small number of websites available.

In retrospect I was incorrect in that it has changed everything more than I imagined it would. I didn’t see mobile phones as the main access point, for example.

As for the comparison with crypto and quantum, only quantum has the potential to make a comparable impact on our lives and it would likely be totally different in that quantum will be indirectly impactful, at least for the foreseeable future, whereas the internet was and is most impactful when actually used by the individual. It feels a bit silly to compare crypto (a clever but relatively simple idea for electronic currency that is currently producing a lot of CO2 and suffers from other huge problems) vs quantum computing (a revolutionary technology that has and will require major breakthroughs in theoretical physical and engineering, vast sums of investment and some of the smartest minds working for generations to enable previously unrealisable control of the physical word and paradigm-shifting computation). Real quantum is also a long way off.

If you want a more near-term tech that I am as excited about now as I was about the internet in the 90s, it is without a doubt VR. It’s going to change everything.
Currently I use Dynalist.io, which is like Workflowy but adds the concept of documents and has a ctrl-P like fuzzy finder. My notes are a complete mess and I have not found a way to organize them into anything useful. Right now my brain dumps are basically write only. Solving this is an active interest of mine, since I want to publish my thoughts at some point.

My coach Malcolm Ocean has been speaking highly of https://roamresearch.com, which looks like a promising way to keep track of research-style notes.
I have to wonder if the view of the West they are now getting from "YouTube personalities", Facebook and Instagram is much more accurate than they get from Putin. Different, certainly.
Isn't Brave the browser that steals peoples branding and sets up fake accounts on their behalf without consent?

Edit: Yeah, I found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
I like the Cloudflare/Backblaze duo. Presumably data stays on Cloudflare's network for as long as possible and goes to Backblaze via direct links, so Backblaze can provide free egress to Cloudflare customers (and customers of other serivces like Packet, etc.), while charging others.

This seems more sustainable than Wasabi's model, but there's no way of knowing for sure.
Being capable of changing one's mind is a great thing. Thanks for the honest conversation – that's what's great about HN these days!

We competed head-on every single day with companies that lied like it was a national pastime, and we beat them handily. I think it is because good people tend to make the best products. There's an efficiency increase from passion, and all it takes is one good leader to unlock a team of hundreds or thousands of good people. I believe it is enough to take to the bank against shady practices.

That said, I do support better antitrust laws, we need to update them for the 21st century tech oligopolies + IP-stealing/currency-manipulating nation-states.

But all it takes is one good motivated person like you or me to Make The World A Better Place (™ HBO Silicon Valley). So let's get to it...!
oh do come on. as a society we have come to the conclusion that the value of an hour of labor is worth something. now greedy corps are skirting around the rules (restaurants and now ride sharing) and somehow a few greedy individuals are the problem.

stop demonizing the individual here - it's the companies that are skirting around the well established law. individuals are not capable of raking these businesses over the coals; that's what the government is, honestly, explicitly supposed to do.
More likely is that they decided it was too much an effort for too little gain.

Samsung always appeared to do little to discourage "opening up" their devices, unlike for example HTC and other Qualcomm based ones.
The type of water use we're talking here - saturating it with detergents, dyes, etc. -- makes it unpotable, at which point it is, best-case, going through a very expensive treatment process before it can be returned to the water cycle, which you can be certain the manufacturers are not footing the full cost of; or more likely in the places where garment manufacturers set up, is just being dumped into the environment, destroying ecosystems and the health of those unlucky enough to be stuck with its fallout. So you're right, water can't be "used up", but the amount of it being used in industrial processes is a very good proxy for environmental harm.
By comparison, a pound of beef is around 1,800 pounds. Average American eats like 200 pounds of meat per year.

How many pairs of jeans do you think a person buys each year?

I buy 1 pair of Levis and just wear them about once or twice a week (never washing them) and throw them out after 2 or 3 years.

https://foodtank.com/news/2013/12/why-meat-eats-resources/
https://www.globalagriculture.org/whats-new/news/en/32921.ht...
The fact that NordVPN advertise so heavily, and get so many youtubers to sell it, is exactly why I will never use the service. It is way too on the nose. They heavily sponsor PayMoneyWubby who also does a great job at de-anonymising a group of youtubers.

The last VPN you ever want to use is the one that is heavily on the market.
If you're hung up on the word "toy," another way of phrasing this is the next big thing will look like just a hobby to most people.

Looking forward, smart homes and 3D printing are 2 industries that fall in this bucket. Both feel like toys to the majority of the market right now, but have the potential to completely change how we live.

3D printing - low-cost manufacturing has completely revolutionized what's possible for startups, and developed a large hobbyist following, but we haven't scratched the surface of how they can change day-to-day life for everybody. Imagine what's possible once they support more material types (metal, electrical circuits, food, etc) and every home has one, like an oven.

Smart homes - we just have fancy remote controls so far, but eventually we'll be living like Tony Stark with homes that constantly adapt to us without input. This is where we'll see the benefit of ambient computing present itself clearest. Imagine a home that helps you raise your child, keep your chores in order, or handle the repetitive tasks without requiring a primary care-taker to be responsible for keeping the home in order.

disclaimer: I'm building Hiome (https://hiome.com) to turn smart homes into more than just toys, so maybe I'm a little biased.
worldwide? really??

Where I live (big urban metropolis) it's completely normal and commonplace for at least 1 or 2 cars (and sometimes up to 3 or 4 cars) to pass through after the signal turned red. It seems drivers consider the yellow light to be pretty much the same as the green light.

the worse the intersection, the more it happens.
Yes, free meals are taxed. The worker's employer receives the 1099. For FTE's Google pays the tax, for TVC's their employer receives a 1099-MISC each year.

This is why you'll notice all US based offices require you to badge in every meal every time while an office in Canada does not.