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Free trade is being scapegoated for the failure of laws violating contract liberty to empower unions, and social democracy. Giving unions a stranglehold over industries, and redistributing 30 percent of national output for formulaic social welfare programs administered by central authorities, is not conducive to economic development, and guarantees that the country becomes uncompetitive on the global stage in most industries.

Since the 1960s, social welfare spending has increased on average by over 4 percent per year. The last 50 years have seen a dramatic shift to a more centrally managed economy that favors social safety nets provided by governments over market forces based on private property and individual responsibility.

The labor laws passed in the 1930s and 50s meanwhile guarantee that any industry that does start to become a significant contributor to national output, whether it's the Big Three Auto Makers and the big steel manufacturers in the 1950s, or Tesla, Amazon and Google today, becomes the target of rent-seeking unions who are impossible to effectively resist thanks to the free-market undermining labor laws in place.

The decline in productivity growth, particularly in globally competitive markets like manufacturing, is a predictable consequence of that.
that is possible too, even though they don't encourage it.

what I meant was when you click on the last link, sometimes it redirects to https://imgur.com/vjdfNOe making the direct link pointless.
The pentagon is table stakes - everyone has something there. If you’re trying to demonstrate commitment, you invest in the hinterlands... and if you’re trying to justify a decision that otherwise is a deadlock that’s maybe where you find the tie-breakers.
Could this be an potential avenue for some sort of exploit? I had no idea that you could "execute" logic via fonts.
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I used to wonder about this often, and many years ago wrote simulations to model traffic. The introduction of connected on/off ramps were the main cause of congestion due to acceleration, merging, etc.

Exit before/ merge after we much better than exit after/merge before. SV has many of these congestion building ramp strategies.
I meant for things like audit logs based on your account for every single thing you do.
Well a direct currency conversion might not work, but in purchasing parity terms Canada seems to be less well off.

Consider the conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21107264

200k CAD is roughly comparable to 3 million INR in PPP terms, and that salary is for senior folks. Most senior engineers at Google Bangalore/Hyderabad or well established software companies are likely to make more than that.

Both might be considered to be salaries for remote offices of American companies or internationally funded startups. But if I look at the market in general, I’d rather be a software engineer in India than in Canada. The market is too big and the possibilities are too varied to ignore, even considering all the known problems (Canada might also have some of its own, I’m sure).
Lying to get away with $10 is a lot different from lying to get away with murder.
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Also:

https://www.syssec.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/research/publications/...

And:

Stackoverflow Question: Why does Intel hide internal RISC core in their processors?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-h...
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Tbh I was against the move way before I started working here.

Although I should say, I am pretty pissed off about them blocking Iran. Would've rather seen Microsoft apply for a sanctions waiver for github.
Solving it perfectly is very hard, you are right on that.

But solving it better than Google has? Not hard at all. A high school programming class could do it better.

Unlike other parts of Google, which are doing amazing things like beating human masters at Go, something is seriously fishy in the spam filter tool department.
I'm not saying that it won't work - but I'd be very surprised if it was well optimised for any vendor other than Intel.

This in and of itself is not proof that they are operating in bad faith; if they provide clean interfaces and reasonable default implementations that's all that can be justifiably expected of them.

The question of good faith actually only comes into play when another vendor provides their own optimised implementations and creates a pull request.

How will the project maintainers respond? Even getting to that point requires a trust based buy in to the project from the other vendor.

Given Intel's history of toxic behaviour in competition I think they need to do far more than they have done (and are likely to ever do) to earn that minimal baseline of trust.
In the roughly 10 times I've stayed in an Airbnb I've never had an issue with the condition I've left the place. Often times my family (and dog) have made a mess, but always do some clean-up before leaving. Cleaning fees are typically $20-60 for the stay which seems reasonable for cleaning an entire home. Normally the airbnb service fees are larger than the cleaning fee. There are certainly some hosts who are charging high cleaning fees to lower their nightly amount, however.
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Have a look at blancolirio and MentourPilot (a 737 instructor pilot) channels.
I genuinely enjoy using mine. It has a great screen, and the kickstand + pen makes for a solid photoshop experience.

I wish the battery life was better, and I think Microsoft is missing out by not having the detachable keyboard have a small battery onboard so that you could use the keyboard on the side while you're drawing. But it's my favorite mobile device, and I'm not joking, astroturfing, or anything like that.
So which letter in FAANG stands for Uber? From what I understand FAANG manages to give a lot of compensation through RSU because their stock is ridiculously expensive. Is the same true for Uber? Any links to support your point? Also, from what I understand, the ongoing layoffs are to cut costs, why would they offer additional compensation to the new hires?

I am sure that if you filter for salaries >200K then, indeed, all the results will be >200K. However, they have positions like this one https://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=UBER+TECHNOLOGIES+INC&...
which does not look anywhere close to 200K and is an engineer in SF. Is not 125K what a fresh grad is getting there? Or a whole bunch of 109K SW engineers (https://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=UBER+TECHNOLOGIES+INC&... ) in Palo Alto, is not it in the so-called Silicon Valley where it's below an entry-level SW engineer job salary? If they are looking for fresh grads then why do they need an H1B for that?

Do look at the data, do not try to re-interpret it to match your imaginary reality.
Quite frankly there are also a lot more boring answers as well, like they need email, they need a cloud office suite, they need servers to run their interanets, more than half a dozen stupid servers and applications that don't quite work right but have to be kept around because it is someone's pet project or X dollars was blown on it, etc. Think of the biggest organization you've worked in think of all the bureaucracy involved and all the stupid decisions and politics and now multiply that by having the CEO change every 4-8 years, people in the millions and just to make things even more fun the executives that make all the decisions are congress.

If anything I don't know if $10 billion is going to be enough for the level of crazy that can go on in the government.
Any content writer/journalist here ? How do they come to these numbers ? I am just curious. What resources do they use ?
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This event is the perfect example of "heavy-handed" centralized government doing things right. In fact, I'm really scratching my head how you think it could be improved. edit: oh wait, this was sarcasm, right? Since obviously a tax incentive is a terrible tool for this. Sorry if I missed something.
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What the fuck are you on about? You don't take antibiotics willy nilly. We should absolutely use antibiotics in cases where it's needed. Which is how every medical guideline goes about it.

Please go to a doctor and ask them to stop giving patients antibiotics after surgeries and tell me how that goes.
Is this the same nutty libertarian who lives in a sheltered, utopian mirage of a privileged, isolated rich person?
I think you're making a fair but unrelated point.

Time isn't liquid. If instead of giving a startup time, you gave them literal cash, then it would make sense that you get preferred (instead of common) stock, to protect against the founder just selling the company immediately for the value of your cash (as was mlyle's point). If you give them your time instead, there's no risk of them immediately selling off "your time", and so it makes sense that you get common stock instead of preferred stock (at least for this one consideration).

The other general point I think you're making though, is that if we look at the value of the time being invested by a startup employee, their ROI is much worse than a literal investor in the company.

This is true, and somewhat unfortunate I think, but I think happens because VCs control larger amounts of capital and thus have more leverage. Both in terms of absolute amounts, but also how quickly they pay it out.

You taking a $400k paycut for 4 years and a VC investing $1.6M are numerically the same, but the VC gives up the $1.6M immediately, whereas you give it up over time, and can at any time decide to stop investing. When you first start, maybe your ROI is worse than a VC's, but three years in, maybe the ROI of the time your investing _then_ will have improved relative to a VC that tried to invest three years in.
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So I was one of the developers of RethinkDB's Horizon, and I'm really glad to see someone take the database change stream to RxJS concept to its logical conclusion.

This project looks really awesome, and very much has the shape we wished Horizon could have turned into
> Future money is similar to saying well "if I won the lottery tomorrow".

Eh, expected value is a thing. If you lay 3:1 odds on a coin flip and then win, you get real money and are free to feel all happy about it, but you still made a poor decision.

If an employee has an FAANG offer for 300k but goes with a startup for 100k+options they are absolutely taking a risk. The expected value of those options is very real and relevant.
No you have it all wrong. Lyft, Uber, WeWork etc are burning money and failing spectacularly because they aren't software companies. They're too tied to traditional markets and their economics don't magically work out because they've tried to throw software into the mix.

We are at the inflection point where they are all about to crash and burn. Good riddance.
10s of millions of people in US think that Wash Post is colluding with coup orchestrators, trying to overthrow constitutionally elected US president.

With the above sentiment, giving Wash Post owner a 10 bln dollar Gov contract for work with military -- would have be borderline absurd.
It is difficult to separate these types of discussion from political bias of commenters, but you would have to create your own views (if you do not have them already)

For pro-president, anti-Coup views on the topic, search for:

To find some examples of Wash Post collusion with the coup crowd, just use:

- "Washington Post forced to correct"

- "Washington Post fabricated" in non-Google non-Yahoo search engines.

- "Washington post Covington no apology"

- "Washington post sandbagged"
It’s called unsubscribing from those subreddits. Reddit is exactly what you want to make out of it.
Surface Pro is currently in it's 7th generation. There is an enormous difference between the Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro 7, let alone the other products that have come out since then like the Book and Laptop.
I have this problem but I don't think it's so related to looks. Maybe it's where I live. I haven't had a real relationship in 16years (yes, no sex, no hugs, no kisses, no handholds, nothing. Was married short term a long time ago > 25yrs.

I've fallen for women who haven't fallen for me and vice versa . I don't feel like I'm looking for too attractive. In fact too attractive, as in model looking, is generally a turn off as I'm prejudice to believe they'll be high maintenance.

Rather I keep looking for a "soul mate" type and as an atheist science oriented geek, at least in my circles, it's hard to find my female counterpart. It's a selfish reason I wish there were more women in tech. Every job I've had has been 90-98% men. In general the women I meet are either spiritual/superstitious (believe in things I can't support as a partner) or they just have zero common interests. I'm not looking for a clone but I'd love to meet someone who can share a few passions more than just generic "travel" and "food" but they are few and far between.

I'm sure I am "self sabotaging" but "I found myself attracted quite often to people’s personalities such that I am totally blinded to what they look like" matches me to some extent. I can't say I'm totally blinded but it's definitely a huge attractive attribute, more than looks.
could be regression testing, or testing after each flight to make sure everything is ready to go at a moment’s scramble, like maintenance stuff maybe
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It existed for Surface Pro 2 (https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-5VX-00001-Surface-Power-Key...) but was thick and didn't sell as well as the regular so it was discontinued.
Because doing what would be honest and convenient for voters wouldn't benefit those who can sell big, porkbarrel pet projects or enact repressive/discriminatory measures like voter ID laws or Interstate Crosscheck (IVRC)... a system which encourages arbitrarily throwing away votes of anyone with similar names, but different middle names, without any due process.
“The majority of dreams,” he writes, “consists of scraps of ideas, unconnected or weirdly assembled, somewhat like an absurd monster without proportions, harmony or reason.” He theorized that dreaming happens in unused areas of the cerebral cortex: “The fallow lands of the brain, that is, the cells in which unconscious images are recorded, stay awake and become excited, rejuvenating themselves with the exercise they did behind the back of the conscious mind.”

I find a lot of truth behind this declaration. My dreams tend to be unconnected to daily routine but evinced from age old memories. My dreams to me appear to be located in the deep time of myself, whether from childhood or puberty or decades ago. Speaking as a person in their 40s, my dreams plot a sense of emotional exploration and sublimated desire. It is uncanny how my dreams engender an aspect of selfhood that is unrealized in daily experience.
China has five times the output. Unless they implode this won't happen on that timescale. 2:1 odds on GDP PPP.
Looks like it's still the same in 2019, based on documentation:

* http://bxr.su/f/s?q=lcd_brightness

* http://mdoc.su/f/acpi_fujitsu.4

Fun fact: PHK posted the above "architecture" rant only a couple of months prior to vetoing the import of OpenBSD's hw.sensors framework into FreeBSD (October 2007). Isn't that ironic?

FreeBSD still doesn't have a sensors framework to this day. Meanwhile, NetBSD will be celebrating 20 years of envsys(4) in a few months. And the count of sensor drivers in OpenBSD is currently at about 111 individual device drivers (yes, over a hundred different drivers — everyone gets a sensor in OpenBSD).
“Many” is not a stretch. Nationwide polls consistently find upwards of a quarter of the population supporting secession of their state. (That’s about the same percentage os households that own a cat.) In the Southwest, it’s a third. Hispanic people in particular are relatively strong supporters of secession: https://mises.org/power-market/reuters-poll-shows-hispanics-.... (In the Southwest, opposition to secession among hispanics only slightly outweighs supports.)
That's easier said than done when you talking about the biggest economic state and most populous are in the country going dark.

The costs could wayyy higher than any forest fire.
I am/was "informed", not "blase"!

When I was on H1B and faced that situation, I talked to an immigration attorney who told me how things really work.

Caveat: This was 10+ years ago. I doubt it's changed, but talk to a lawyer if you're concerned. A one hour consultation won't break anyone's finances.
Compelling. I wonder what else this could be applied to in addition to psychedelics? Anti-anxiety and other sensory affecting drugs?

If you wanna get Black Mirror-esque, perhaps a Soma-like medication from Brave New World (essentially pacifies/zombifies you by creating endless bliss) could be made. Or the "bliss" drug episode of Doctor Who.
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> They like to hand wave about how much these 50,000 shares are going to cost or how rich I'm surely going to be even after dilution of these 2-3%, but when I tell them point blank that with my current compensation, over the course of 4 years I'm going to lose at least $1M, and ask them what I would get for a $1M investment,

There's a thing you're missing here, and it's option value. You don't commit to the lost money over 4 years all at once, while a cash investor does immediately give up present-valued money. Instead, you commit to spending a year or so there (~$250k-valued), and only if your options look like they're going to be worth a whole lot do you stay beyond that point.
A billion dollars for a 2yr old company in a highly competitive mobile space is a pretty good deal...

They probably saw the risk in FB or Snapchats or w/e competing with them. It was just photos with filters at that point. Not a massive social network like it's become.
> Refuse to invest in education and R&D

The best and brightest of the world are educated in the United States. 85000 get to stay and the rest can GTFO according to a lottery, the number haven’t increased for 20 years.

Einstein wasn’t born in America, Von Braun wasn’t either. But they all managed to work here somehow, all that the United States need to do to ensure a dominant technological position is to retain the people that it trained. But no, H1Bs are stealing jobs, as if they don’t contribute to the US economy.
Never mind AWS vs. Azure: I'm thinking that this is very bad news for IBM. If there was one customer they could get, this would be it..
Yes. You have two main options, among others.

1) choose to focus on the sensory input you’re receiving. The view of the scenery around you, the noise around you, the wind on your skin. Cars and their passengers can be interesting in their own right- people watching still exists.

2) meditate or think about something.

Those are substantially better than refreshing HN, Instagram, etc for the hundredth time that day.

Being bored is a choice. It takes work to not reflexively pull open Reddit. I still struggle with this from time to time.
The difference is that wind isn't zero sum, so it would require way more energy use than we currently require. I'm more excited about the concept of being able to use energy "inefficiently" (because it's clean, so, no downside).
I should write a medium article on the questions we asked during interviewing and what the success rate was for each question (spoiler: it was depressing).
PG&E may be under mismanagement and that may be exasperating the situation, but what California is experiencing is only going to get worse and more widespread. It may improve for a few years, but it will become more and more the norm, no matter what PG&E do (or don't, apparently, do).

Fire due to power lines falling? California is not Nevada, that is certainly carbon consequences.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-vans/sh...

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And indeed, the article tells that they had to replace their trams by buses with the right doors (pun intended) in some major cities, presumably until they could fix the trams.
You can decompile the app. Dalvik bytecode is easy to read. FDroid wouldn't make validating the security any easier.
Why would I hand over my contact info to some app?
Scale is Google’s go-to excuse for some things but in this case it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Having in my sent mail and inbox a traceable record of me, authenticated with a Google login, subscribing to a mailing list and then getting a subscription request acknowledgment back and then sending a further confirmation email, should be enough to tell the spam system that yes dammit I am interested in mail from this list and it is not to be considered spam, assuming it is on topic (a determination that is like ML 101 first quarter stuff and has been for some time, even across languages, like going back to, say, Damashek). That heuristic is so simply basic that I would be embarrassed for Google if I had to explain it to them. And yet there it is. Just one of many possible examples of how lame their spam filtering system is.
An incremental approximation is unacceptable for payroll. It legally has to be 100% accurate.
At least we made the straws illegal. Win some, lose some I guess.
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You think it should be cheap to hold someone in the ER for multiple hours just to sober them up and test for a rare condition?

Breathalyzers don't cost much at all, ER visits costs thousands of dollars. You can tell someone to go drink sugar water at home. Why would a doctor need to hold someone and give the sugar water?
I had some code that tried to stay 16x8bit, but would occasionally _mm_unpacklo_epi8, _mm_unpackhi_epi8 to 2 8x16bit vectors to keep precise intermediate results during some fixed-point math.

Writing it out like that, it sounds like it should have been easy. Don't remember what I ran into. Maybe didn't bang on it long enough.
I've had the (mis? Fortune) of living in that one state in every country - Texas, Quebec and "Tamil Nadu" in India
Where do you get that?

And 10% of what? If someone books a day, yes, the cleaning fee is more than 10% of that. Don’t like it? Go get a hotel where it’s baked into every night.
>Seems like HN has seriously gone downhill.

There has certainly been a reddit-like quality infecting the discussions these past couple of years.
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Then you have a lousy business model, and you aren't going to make lots of money, and you aren't going to create lots of value, and, as a result, probably won't get a massive payout.
Even though this is the view of the CEO of Generac (an AC generator manufacturer), there's some truth here. The operation of electrical distribution in California has changed radically in the last few years, as the risks at the wildland-urban interface have grown, and climate warming starts to drive more heat events. (And Paradise, CA, RIP).

Fire season, and it's annual 1-2 month California reign, has again come home to roost.
Basically every small and medium business in your city has Windows Server running in a closet or on a shelf somewhere doing Exchange, AD, files, and maybe SQL Server for a shrink wrapped line of business app. Every one of them is a candidate for Azure and you can bet their VAR / MSP is pushing it.
Good comments from personal perspectives.

From a professional one, an absolute uncontrollable addiction to unprecedented amounts of data.

I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so forgive me if my analogy is a little off, but here it goes... It's like the Force. Everyone wants it but few can handle it. Of the few who can, the ones who use it for good are constantly fighting a battle against those who wield it recklessly or with malice.

And with modern infrastructure, that data can captured and leveraged in astonishingly quick ways that make it very hard to stop.