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> with all the money hoarded so Jeff Bezos can have over 20 different extravagant homes?

Not many. A significant portion of the value of AMZN comes from having Bezos owning and operating the company.
Enlighten me. How is the analogy broken?
Yeah, It's mentioned in the article

>Khosrowshahi’s call for forgiveness of the Saudis, Uber’s fifth largest investor, included a callous comparison to the company’s missteps in the self-driving technology space where, in March 2018, one of its vehicles accidentally struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
> Shouldn't need to say it here, but never, ever, look at the sun through binoculars or a telescope (even with filters or reducers). You won't get a second chance.

i was considering this one:

https://www.celestron.com/products/eclipsmart-solar-filter-6...

bad idea?
This is a well made, fun little game. I accidentally sunk 20 minutes or so into it before I realized where the time had gone (just like real scrum meetings!)
The headline should reflect that he has since acknowledged that this was a stupid thing to say and that he claims he does not believe it. It is telling to see the lengths to which one will go to please the Saudis. First you say something in public to show fealty to the authoritarian then you categorically retract the statement and apologize. Most people will never hear the retraction because most people won’t read the article but those who do business with him will do so, allowing him to save face while losing some little-valued public dignity. The news media plays into this perfectly because they will twist the story to be as clickable as possible; he is not referred to by name but rather by position and his retraction is not in the headline because maximum outrage begets maximum clicks.
> but we're told by the Crown Prince that it was a rogue operation, and we trust that's the case

We also believe in:

- the tooth fairy

- SantaClaus

And many other such examples besides. All that wriggling in order not to find a reason to resign and show some conscience. Either that or be blunt about it, what he really should have said was:

"Yes, Khashoggi was murdered. My investors unfortunately are lying murderous scum but I still have a company to run."
I do worry about people's phones.
If performance was the criteria by which they made decisions then they would probably bake ad-blocking directly into chrome, since ads/tracking is one of the leading reasons for poor performance
Unfortunately due to the way the HL7 web site is structured there's no way to give a direct link. Go to the Normative Edition, Foundation, Data Types, Basic Types.

http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?pro...

The FHIR data model is a little simpler to allow for easier implementation. In the vast majority of real world healthcare use cases it works well. But from a modeling standpoint if you need to cover odd edge cases it sometimes helps to look back at the old RIM.
Next one: 2032
I found Brave more trustworthy than Chrome and better usability than Firefox. Just made a switch to it.
It’s important that systems have some design margin (buffers of one kind or another) so that a disruption / transient event in one part of the system is absorbed locally and not passed on to the rest of the system.
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Do you know how Google search came about? The Google boys delivered a more user-friendly search engine at a time when search engines were starting to get heavy use. They saw the need, and filled it really well.
I was looking forward to this: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2019/11/07/0/
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Every yes has an opportunity cost. I have had plenty of evenings where more than anything I wished I had just said no and chilled at home with housemates.

I am a big proponent of infinite universes branched at every decision point, and I've no doubt that saying yes every time doesn't result in the happiest outcome possible.
It depends on whether the issue is that iOS is terminating background apps before they’re able to flush to disk or whether the issue is that the app isn’t flushing to disk when sent to the background.

If the former that is Apple’s problem to fix. If the later they are absolutely right to point the blame where it belongs, on the developers who didn’t code to the platform standards. If it is the later, those same apps would have lost data under iOS 12, and they were just lucky that the termination algorithms were less aggressive.
By that reasoning Microsoft didn't prevent others from writing .doc-compatible word processors either - they just defined the format as basically a memory dump of Word :)

This is how a company implements measures that could be a legal problem: By formally making a technical decision and having the actual goal as a by-product of that decision.
> Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans, nature and climate

Owners care about none of these things. Slowing down has to help their bottom line, or they won't do it.
A lot of the ways programmers write slow code ends up with multiplicative factors you can't practically recover with simply throwing more hardware at it, because it's really easy for us to write something 100x or 1000x slower (even in the same big-O class) by using a slow language with poor cache locality, that makes it easy to do more work than was necessary, by poorly using threading resources, etc. There's a lot of multiplicative factors that can stack together fairly quickly.

On the plus side, it turns out recovering most of that isn't that hard with a bit of careful language selection and just a bit of care in writing code. I think this is one of the somewhat subtle reasons for Go's success is that it trims away most of the slow things that a lot of "scripting" languages do without throwing away too much of the power, and I anticipate the continued entry and success of other languages like Nim into this space on the language chart in the next few years. To get to screaming fast may take a lot of effort, but "pretty fast, let's parallelize what we have instead of hyperoptimizing it" isn't too hard.

Because of all of these multiplicative slowdowns, even at very small scales it's still generally a better idea to start by optimizing and removing some of your multiplicative slowdowns before you just throw more hardware at it. Compute is merely cheap, not free. It's the rare bit of code that nobody's spent any time optimizing, but is also free of these multiplicative slowdown problems.
because it's a bank, not a real estate agent. they want to issue loans, not sell houses. the bank typically doesn't want to foreclose a mortgage if there's any chance you could continue making payments. if they do, the best they can hope for is just getting their money back. putting the house on the market for an extended period of time (and possibly paying an agent) just increases the chance that they don't get their money back.

if you go with a smaller lender you might be able to negotiate better terms for foreclosure, but anything you require of the lender that increases their risk will be reflected in your interest rate.
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The big question is, how many of those less technical people switched to Chrome because of technical friends or family and how many switched because of Google abusing its monopoly by displaying deceptive ads for their browser on all web real estate they own?
There is a guy on youtube designing his own container-house in the california desert. Turns out with all the regulations etc it cost more than a 'normal' house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5fh29rhLs
But if you need Chrome for certain sites that only support Chrome, then giving Chrome the middle finger by using a non-Chrome Chrome seems like the best of two evils. I realize that sites only supporting Chrome is terrible and shouldn't be a thing, but sometimes it really can't be avoided.

I say this as someone who uses 99% Firefox, 1% Chrome... I had never thought about this point I'm making before.
I think you're right, I was only thinking about raw audio being uploaded to the cloud. In the future, there might be more and more local machine learning happening on the devices and the extracted metadata being uploaded unnoticed.

On the other hand, I still think people can analyze the hardware and software running on the devices. If there are "black boxes" doing something unknown, we should be worried, particularly if they are always powered on and have the processing capability to analyze audio content.

Still, the original claim in the article was that there is a lot of this metadata being uploaded right now. I don't think anybody has verified that claim, even if it could be true.
>Khosrowshahi’s call for forgiveness of the Saudis

The Saudis planned and carried out the brutal murder of minor dissident on foreign soil. Forgiveness? This is embarrassing. Where are the SV overlords, calling this out?
Sounds like Clark Griswold's sled from Christmas Vacation.
Can't you easily calculate that? Bezo's wealth is openly estimated. The government collects statistics on population and income across all class groups. Seems like you could easily calculate a good ballpark figure for how many people could be elevated into the middle class with a few minutes on Google.
Nearly all ships are registered to a country. By registering with a country you agree that the laws of that country apply. Those laws can include anything they country wants - including speed limits enforced by whatever means. In return the Navy of that country (and applied Navies of other countries) will help defend you from pirates and other military action.

There is such as thing as unregistered ships. They are called almost always pirates up to no good: most navys will sink them on sight. Most ports will not allow an unregistered ship.
I'm pretty excited to see what Apple releases. Generally, it seems like they're later to market rather than on the cutting edge of things but bring a high design quality and make tech approachable for a broader audience but this seems like one of those ones where the market hasn't been really made yet. Although, I've been pretty disappointed over the last few years with the quality of their products, especially software. I usually upgrade every ~2 years but for my last device that was 2 years old I was trying to hold out until a new release but it would constantly freeze up and crash after downloading the new software release they usually do when they announce a new phone (not trying to go into conspiracy theories but it seemed a little too convenient that just then is when my phone would start going on the fritz).
Stream Stow is the best of the group you have there.

Leave the monkeys and hackers out of a serious startup :)
This is fundamentally incorrect. GAE has many users and is actively being developed.
It's too real, the 'help' button doesn't work.
I appreciate the relevance of your username; keep loving Big Brother, brother.

Regarding cut products, it's an immature ecosystem, but thanks to efforts from folks like The LSD Avengers[0] drugs on the old Silk Road were becoming safer than normal street drugs when the government shut it down:

> Silk Road seemed to be a safe place to buy really good drugs, if you knew what you were doing. The prices might be higher than what you’d pay on the street, but dealers on Silk Road were held somewhat accountable by the community. The seller-rating system built into the site, along with efforts by unofficial groups like the Avengers, created a meritocracy that rewarded dealers who sold good stuff (with the exception of the infamous tony76 fraud, in which a well-reputed seller took a bulk of orders and disappeared). And when law enforcement tested the wares on Silk Road, police found they typically had a high purity level of the drug advertised.

If you authoritarians would just stop hunting down and arresting drug users then the ones who cared about purity and health would actually have options they were well informed about. The problem isn't a lack of regulation, it's that you've regulated the product so hard that it's legally dangerous to even review it, and you keep attacking/dispersing communities of buyers and sellers which means that it's difficult to keep organized/informed. That you would blame this on the free market is ridiculous. Let people sell and review products, they'll figure it out if you just stop pointing guns at them and locking them in boxes. This problem is absolutely a result of regulation; if you did not regulate LSD at all, finding a source of actual unadulterated LSD would be trivial. Same with cannabis oil.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/14/4828448/silk-road-lsd-av...
This isn't the traditional learning on the job. He won't be given any second chances. I expect he'll resign or be fired by tomorrow.
I think we forget because those stories aren't written down. To collect those stories as a reminder would be perhaps one of the strongest innoculations against blindly accepting the nice new shiny, short of having to repeat those mistakes every couple of generations to learn them anew.
I struggle to see the relation to the Trump administration here

The OP is calling out the double standard. Accusing Trump of sexism while taking money from those who literally practice an entire lifestyle based on oppression of women, death to gays, etc.

Uber, WeWork, others are all perfectly happy to accept money from these highly dubious source. Adam Neumann talks about saving the environment while living large on oil money...
I call that the Fishertechnik aesthetic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik

In a way I think that held them back for a while from being considered a serious audio app. I thought it looked too simple, gray and plastic. They needed more of a feeling of precision and control. On the other hand it had more of a fun lightweight feel and that helped for their main market.
"for no other reason than their plumbing" is exactly what you just excluded in the prior sentence.
career suicide for this guy. Good look with that IPO now dude.
self-starter only worked once for me. seems like observation training has the same effect but much cheaper?
Meh. I've owned an Alexa for a few years and I've been pretty underwhelmed.

Most of its functionality was pretty useless once the novelty factor wore off. I don't have a smarthome or anything crazy like that, so the extent of useful functionality remaining is setting timers by speaking while i'm cooking, and asking about weather when I'm in a rush in the morning.

Even that it performs poorly. Sometimes it just starts talking when I didn't address it, which is annoying. Often it cant hear me from the next room over, which is annoying. It has difficulty understanding accents which is annoying.

I've certainly never found it would be more convenient to use for making amazon purchases as opposed to using my computer or phone, and I don't subscribe to any music service, which alexa bugs me about every time I tried using it for playing music, so I just don't do that anymore.

Even the most simple novelty commands ("alexa bark") have managed to find ads attached to them in recent months (really. She advertises some advanced bark skill to me).

If Alexa started summoning me it would be unplugged that day.
>I struggle to see the relation to the Trump administration here

SV CEOs and "personalities" refuse to sit on panels or visit the White House because they hate Trump and his administration. But they'll take money from Saudi Arabia. It's very hard to understand.
So we're all screaming and calling Lauren Laughlin names and this article is saying the problem (college admissions scandal) pretty much spans the 1%. Are they all kinda secretly cheering her on saying thanks for taking the fall for us oh rich Jesus.
How did the topic of Khashoggi even come up?

Pretty sure the reason he was killed was some internal Saudi stuff.
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I think 2014 was the big change into "AI first" for Google. I remember Translate working fine in 2014 in China with the offline pack, and the offline pack was ~220MB. In 2016, the offline pack was ~30MB and nobody understood the translations over there.
> If your video is demonetised because of copyright infringement, then youtube is asserting that it's not your video anyway; because you included 30 seconds of incidental music or whatever, the video actually belongs to Sony or Universal.

No, I think the idea is that Sony/Universal aren't the creators. The musicians are. So Sony/Universal would have no right to file the complaint in the first place. I think the article didn't explain this very well.

It's a little simpler for music, but this gets more complicated with something like a movie, because so many people are involved in the creation. The director is a pretty clear creator, but is the lead actor one of the creators? What about producers? Script writers?

Ultimately, the original idea of intellectual property laws was to protect the rights of creators/inventors, so I think the idea of this is to go back to that root. There are lots of details that would need to be worked out, but I think a return to the base principle is a good idea. Allowing transferability of intellectual property rights has enabled patent trolling, excessive renewing of copyrights, and often, exploitation of the very people intellectual property laws were intended to protect: creators.
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> it’s the obvious truth.

Only to those who are woefully ignorant of how any large company work and are unable or unwilling to see passed their own desires. But let me ask you this, even if we stipulate it's 100% true, how does that help? What does that accomplish? You've simply stated an opinion that those who agree with you will cheer for (changing nothing) and those who disagree with you won't change (also changing nothing).

People have this overly simplistic view of how large companies work and ascribe malice to Google in particular for what's essentially just chaos. And I say this as a Xoogler.

There are conflicting forces in Google that include, but are not limited to:

1. Protecting the ad revenue business Google is utterly dependent on; and

2. Promoting user privacy and benefits because that's what gets users to keep using your products.

Even (1) comes from a wide variety of motivations such as:

- Making more money;

- The belief that ad-supported models are the only model that works so advertising is an absolute necessity to providing services on the Web.

> I don’t need Google “protecting” me

And again, you seem to be deliberately missing the point here because you say "I" a lot. What about your parents? Or grandparents? Do they need "complete control" over their machines? And consider for a second the scenario where you're not giving them tech support.

This "complete control" is exactly what enables botnets (many of them anyway), fraud, theft, DDoS attacks and so on.
These ratings are comparative. If youve mostly interacted with your two brands, and not the other ones at the top of the list, how can you compare them and say yours isnt worse?

Infotainment includes maps, air conditioning, heat, radio. Those are important things to do easily in a car.
It reeks of "no real person involved." Just an inconvenient abstraction to them.
Once you compute your log2, computing log10 is just a single multiplication though, so, it is in fact as most as easy.
>This money is being used to buy assets to float up the stock and real estate markets.

This can't go on for to long, here in South America a big % of the people I know (20/40 years old) lives with their parents and have no plans to buy real state because the prices are absurd.
All of the examples seem like relatively straight-forward transformations.

I'm quite surprised that the PG query optimizer doesn't to those. How do other engines compare here?
it's = it is. You were looking for "its"

gratuitous correction because of the topic. hth hand.
How did they fuck over those who joined after 2014?
You can just block any connection from the access points to the internet. They can connect to the controller and that's all the access they get. Access points have no need to connect to or be accessible from the outside world.
Is Inequality Inevitable?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...

>Wealth inequality is escalating in many countries at an alarming rate, with the U.S. arguably having the highest inequality in the developed world.

>A remarkably simple model of wealth distribution developed by physicists and mathematicians can reproduce inequality in a range of countries with unprecedented accuracy.

>Surprisingly, several mathematical models of free-market economies display features of complex macroscopic physical systems such as ferromagnets, including phase transitions, symmetry breaking and duality.

An interesting article that argues that wealth inequality is inevitable in a free market system which does not have non-market measures that counteract the tendency to oligarchy.
It's the constant problem for libraries: developers relying on implementation details that were not guaranteed. Microsoft has traditionally bent over backwards to support such misbehaving applications (eg simcity getting application-specific code in windows 95 release [0]), whereas Apple has traditionally allowed things to break.

It shouldn't be very surprising they continued that behavior today, unless it's the case that it was guaranteed in ios12 and broken in ios13.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
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or how about an email? I've been trying to solve a non-existent problem for a few hours before seeing this on HN.
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Of most tech privacy concerns, this one seems like the least of my worries.

Because after 5 years, Alexa still doesn't work well enough for most people except to set a kitchen timer, play music, or check the outdoor temperature.

So a more "proactive" Alexa will realistically mean... what? Probably nothing more than the kind of notifications you might get on your phone already, only spoken. At best, "Leave early for your commute because traffic is bad." or "You might be running out of toilet paper, should I order more?"

If even that. Google knows a lot about me -- it can infer events from my e-mail, commutes from my Maps usage, etc. All Amazon knows is what I shop for and maybe occasionally watch on TV. Not a whole lot to be proactive about there.
This link as posted tries to do a tracking redirect via a domain that is blocked on my network, so I had to use Outline to read it:

https://outline.com/hPWSHk
I hope that they keep pushing for self contained independent devices. My wife and I love our Apple Watches and not needing an iPhone (assuming your watch has a data plan) is a game changer,

The Oculus Quest is self contained, a great product, but a bit heavy. I expect an AR headset would also work in VR mode and I hope Apple makes it light and comfortable. It is amazing what functionality is packed into the Apple Watch and AirPods and I have confidence Apple will get it right with a headset. Then the question is, will people want them.
I think you are right. My individual situation is different, but it may just be an exception that tests the rule.

And even though we have a selection 2 to 3 stores in 20 minutes drive ( one we could walk to if we chose to forego convenience of one trip a week ), I remember living in locations where access was not as simple.
Very interested to see what a full AR product from Apple looks like. I am always impressed whenever I toy with their ARKit stuff on iOS devices, but I am curious how that translates beyond toy applications.
I feel like I should stop working in tech and pursue a more profitable career as a common sense advisor to CEOs and Professional Athletes.