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> genuine bad guys exist out there. And we need to protect ourselves from them.

I doubt this is about protecting people or preventing crime. Justice comes after the fact and is all about retribution. Depending on the crime, the damage done by perpetrators can never be undone.

> This is giving up a modicum of privacy in order to make the world safer for everybody.

How far will you go? Would you give up all privacy for safety? What if society's idea of safety doesn't align with yours?
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> It's like expecting a foreign company to involve their federal government in purchasing a software license.

I love this analogy.

Also please let me pick a nit: It gets even worse when said foreign country isn't a federation!
As someone who moved from vbox to QEMU (and is happy about it)...

Virtualbox is one product, one package. That’s easy to sell, install, understand and google when you need help.

Virt-manager, libvirt, QEMU and kvm... Takes more time to understand, and googling it when you need help requires you to partially understand it. Kinda chicken and the egg.

Also with Vbox I get the VMs desktop scaling to my Vbox-window, as opposed to the other way around, which I get with QEMU. That still annoys me slightly.
You can ask the new company to match your unvested equity at current market value.
Too bad the backlash will only be among the modern archmages than hang around HN. The average people whom I know still get a warm fuzzy feeling from The Google. They're largely shielded from the obvious problems the pricing models. As long as the peasants don't have to pay with their pocketbooks, not much will change.
I'm not sure this is really questioning anything more than "I wonder if there is something they could have done better in terms of business operations" to which I can't imagine the answer ever being anything other than "yes", especially in retrospect.
Always interesting to see Gell-Mann at work. My knowledge of public health is indirect, but my dad spent his entire career in that sector. The article's portrayal of the public sector versus the private sector is slanted.

Here is a fact that many people don't want to admit but is widely acknowledged within the public health sector: UN organizations like the WHO are indispensable, but also among the most bureaucratic, ineffective, and inefficient entities on the planet. There is a reason that the impetus for hiring McKinsey came from inside the WHO itself. Private-sector organizations like Gates Foundation have been welcomed into the field not only because of their resources, but because of their effectiveness and organizational capabilities.

The second point is that governments in developing countries are corrupt and direct aid money is quickly siphoned off and dissipated.

The third point, following from the first two, is that the United States' foreign aid efforts have always relied heavily on consultants and public-private partnerships, and have been extremely effective. Say, for example, USAID wants to address infant mortality in Bangladesh. It doesn't give money directly to Bangladesh. It gives money to a consulting firm, which hires "boots on the ground" (doctors, etc.) and secures supplies. USAID and the consulting firm then work closely with the health ministry in Bangladesh to execute the vaccine program. This structure works quite well: in Bangladesh, for example, it has been instrumental in reducing infant mortality and improving family planning.

The issue with McKinsey, etc., is not that they're "secretive" or "for-profit entities." It's that they have little experience in the sector compared to specialized consulting companies who have been doing that sort of work for decades.
The hostility of existing large sites towards pseudonymity is also interesting in conjunction with the general insistence that sides really shouldn't implement their own account system, and with the ever-increasing legal overhead required to spin up a new site.
Reminder that no data is safe, online or physical unless strongly guarded with best practices (which seems to hard to be/not enforced in this case) and tools like encryption etc.
I don't think that many Google employees would be heartbroken over facilitating the disruption of the fundamentally broken US healthcare system by making it easier for people to buy lifesaving medications without hideous markup by the middlemen. Especially when they are just letting people buy same drugs from right across the border at a reasonable price thanks to a functional socialized healthcare system.
Strategy is choices we make to achieve a goal. Those choices represent implied utility through the reduction in optionality.

Executing a strategy means making the trade offs between utility and opportunity cost, to arrive at a prioritization of choices, and then realizing those opportunity costs.
I think Discord is great for chats. They've been adding a lot of improvements and features recently. The only thing I wish they had was an IP ban.

However, this is by no means a replacement for reddit.
I've simply set my phone to stop updating the Google Maps app and stick with the ancient version the phone originally shipped with, because my phone's screen hasn't grown in resolution to counteract all the screen space Google Maps now wastes.
Wouldn’t doing the same thing be feasible to anyone with access to Google Trends?
Apple Maps is way more than 60% there in terms of quality but I still don’t find it very compelling for the same reason I won’t switch to DuckDuckGo - a palpable difference in quality gets me paranoid and makes me double check a lot of stuff.

That instinct to double check makes me go “Oh well let’s just use Google.”
No, because I either used what was provided by the OS vendor, or library providers that were selling libraries for the deployment we wanted to do.
> there are no shortage of folks who would love to come work for Google

I think this is largely because of brand cachet and good pay. How many people would take a serious paycut to work for Google? I'm sure there are some, but I doubt there are many. And amongst those I bet a non-trivial amount would just be in it for the perks (free food, busses to work, childcare, etcetera).

I obviously have no way of verifying this, but amongst my circle of friends (not representative of the general population at all) most people no longer want to work for Google. It's more than just talk - I just turned down a job offer from Google recently.
Develop high-quality software and release it under AGPL3+ so that companies cannot make any profit off of it.
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Those pages are managed by the "PyPA" group, not technically python.org itself, although they were given a subdomain there. Start here and follow the links for more info: https://hynek.me/articles/python-app-deps-2018/
What part of my post is false? If you are going to label my comment as false information, the burden is on you to point out explicit falsehoods (not just mere differences of opinion).

Your reference to unrelated issues such as the software patch can apply to numerous complex systems in many industries (not just aircraft), and I bet it applies to planes from other manufacturers as well. Your comment seems more like FUD, since it casts doubt in one instance (one aircraft) without a comprehensive understanding and comparison across other comparable aircraft or manufacturers. You can't just take one complex system, scrutinize it, come up with a wish list of things you would want (without knowing the tradeoffs/implications), and then say there is something systematically broken here.
> I already aggregate the cost of maintenance across all my personal driving: there is no cost savings.

No, aggregated across all drivers, not just aggregated across your driving. As in, 1 million drivers insuring, licensing and maintaining 1 million cars costs far more than 1 million riders sharing 200,000 cars whose insurance, licensing and maintenance is aggregated by a riding sharing service like Uber, and those savings will show up in your final bill, ie. total cost of ownership of your own car will exceed using ride sharing services with self-driving cars for virtually all people.

> A bus wait can be as little as 3 minutes max

It can be as little as 0 minutes if you get there at the perfect time. That's irrelevant though. Worst case and average case wait times are what's important.

> If it isn't the is the fault of lack of ridership.

No, it's the lack of sufficient incentive and benefits to use transit. America is not Europe.
Run for office and swell the (paltry) ranks of technically literate legislators.
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I imagine a good place to start would be to directly contact some organizations whose missions you feel strongly about. Likely they have a good idea of what would be useful to them. From there you could branch into applying your skills to things they didn't realize were shortcomings.
No. The real problem is that no business model other than ads actually works for small to medium sized web sites at scale.
>As soon as one open source player steps up that's 60% as good, it's over.

Does this imply that Linux is <60% as good as Windows because it's not over?
I started 11 years ago and left 5.5 years ago and new Docs were public by default the whole time I was there. When I left there were murmurs about making Docs private by default but it hadn't happened yet.
I’m sure Reddit has nice parts but for me it was completely terrible and anything they can do to keep me away is good.
In many countries, public broadcasters have explicit government funding and a government charter to educate and inform (including an injunction to refrain from promoting vested interests). Thus, they are fundamentally different from commercial broadcasters and Google.

Now, if we had a publicly funded search engine, that might not be a bad idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting
We are paying for it in:

* personal data & attention

* opportunity cost (b/c their market domination deters investment interest in alternatives)

* advertising costs (each $ that businesses have to spend on advertising is a $ taken from R&D, profits which get reinvested in the economy, and/or consumers' pockets)

Just because you don't pay directly with money doesn't mean there isn't a cost.
I very much dislike this idea. I don't want interactivity on a site. Clearly present your pitch and let me look don't distract or aggravate me with fancy css tricks.
coincidentally I just saw this tweet by Katie Moussouris. It fits your requirement of someone working in tech:

> This organization @OSPASafeEscape helps victims of domestic abuse & they are looking for volunteers like @hexplates to help this important mission.

https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1205519304046739456
Yeah plus Bing basically pays people to search on them, so if you don't feel like Google is giving you enough value for the amount of ads on it, you can go over to Microsoft Rewards and get some gift cards while you search.
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So if it isn't supposed to be officially endorsed, should someone file an issue at https://github.com/pypa/packaging.python.org/issues?
In my opinion no to both question (at least for US universities). It is not too uncommon however to have some alternative arrangement once you are well into your PhD, however. For example, some students will consult part time while doing a PhD, or spend the time writing the thesis in a different country.
I feel like this has to do with supervenience. Higher order fields have more noise, which means that more hypotheses seem valid to different people and that it's easier to make incorrect arguments against valid hypotheses.
There are a bunch of "standards" for representing knowledge. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

[Edit] Here's a wider overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_r...
After WordSkill's comment, I feel sheepish about linking to the Washington Post, but here goes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/classic-s... . I think the writer got it mostly correct.
I have spent a month trying to understand various tools around qemu. Using virsh is easy. Using qemu directly is a nightmare.
Thumbnail images in electronic health records provide insights into patients
To save $300,000 they first needed to waste $300,000 by reinventing a problem that was solved in 1967.
I've bought plenty of video games I haven't played or books I haven't read so I'm not least bit of surprised that someone does the same with domain names. In this case, however, the supply of the product is not infinite. So if you happen to own a great domain name and you don't have time and energy to develope it, consider letting that little bird fly away. Maybe it'll have a great life with someone else.
See https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/almost-all-collatz... for a more detailed explanation.

His actual result is this.

Suppose that f(N) is a function from the natural numbers to the reals that has infinity as a limit. Let X be the set of natural numbers who eventually go below f(N). Then the logarithmic density of X is 1.

Here logarithmic density is the limit of the following ratio:

sum(1/n for n in X and < N)
/ sum(1/n for n < N)

Now you just have to pick f that grows very, very slowly. For example f(N) = log(log(log(x)))).
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One thing I have been thinking about is that remote companies will have difficulty with leadership that doesn’t understand the tech they are working with. When I look at my current company even one or two levels up there are people who have no understanding of a lot of technology and aren’t able to make quick judgement calls. So they need a lot of meetings and salesmanship within the company to make decisions. When I look at successful remote companies like Automatic, 37 Signals or StackOverflow they all have very strong leaders who can’t be bullshitted in technology but have a pretty good idea what they want to do. They also can judge the output of their people. It’s hard to be the boss of a remote worker whose work you don’t understand. How can you tell if somebody is good or not?
I don't think the comment you replied to was suggesting that privacy respecting ads would be "perfectly tailored". Targeting ads based on page content alone would be less profitable for adtech companies and possibly less effective but it's entirely possible to do and would raise fewer moral objections.
$300k is $300k, but they just raised $250M last year, is this a really good use of time for their engineering team? That's a little above ~0.1% of capital.
People in Canada can't goto the pharmacy and pick up as much oxycontin as they would like whenever they feel like it. The majority of the drugs being marketed by those pharmacies were narcotics, not insulin. I agree that the US Healthcare system is insanely broken and kills people, but pretending like those pill mills were just a bunch of honest dudes helping down trodden Americans is a fucking joke.
I agree completely.

Going to work without a union is like going to court without a lawyer. Are there incompetent lawyers? Does it cost money to hire a lawyer? Of course, but that doesn't mean it isn't a stupid idea to try to represent yourself pro se.

Unfortunately, workers in the US have been the subject to the equivalent of a fifty year propaganda campaign bankrolled by prosecutors (business owners) to convince people they're really better off if they represent themselves pro se (without a union).
I don't think Musk is particularly safety-minded.
Well, not really saying it's bad in a moral sense or making a value judgement (though it does tend to be "bad" from a usability perspective), just noting what I've observed. And it applies even to things that aren't free, but which you pay for via some fixed initial cost.

For example, I bought Words with Friends a long long time ago, and for a while it was great. But now they've added tons of gamification features like powerups that bypass game rules, social, awards, etc... to try to get you to engage more and pay more money. Now, various awards screens pop up and waste seconds of my life after every move.

I just want to play standard Words with Friends with my wife like I have for the last 10 years. But one can see that folks like me aren't making Zynga any (new) money, hence the other inducements.
This has been a many-years long simmering issue.
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I would use the same approach for setting up a business in the US. Additionally I would require some huge insurance to protect myself from frivolous lawsuits.

As an outside business you want no servers in the US or use US dollars in any form as you may end up being sanctioned or worse extradited for things that are not illegal in your country.
Was this at a 100% remote company, or were you a remote worker at an in-office company?

I've worked remote 15+ years and that much flying is abnormal in my experience. Some places do quarterly, but I found that rare too. A lot of them do an annual retreat, but it's often optional. Or sometimes we would do a mini-meetup at a developer conference.

It also depends on the position. Most of the flying was for brainstorming sessions in the leadership / project team, but most of the team didn't need to be involved in those.

I will also say I've always interviewed over either phone or google hangouts and I've never had to meet in-person before the offer. I've sometimes gone years without meeting the people I work with in-person.
This is Vox after all, not a news source.
Seriously though: Is this something the ~2 billion people holding Google accounts need to think about?

Previously we sort of all trusted Google employees to be competent, smart and professional.

Should we still do that with these internal divisions becoming public?

Over the past few years I've taken to a habit to do the more personal searches about things about personal medical issues etc from a separate browser installation (with no Google cookies) using duckduckgo.com or bing.com. I just don't trust Google with new personal secrets any more.
I think it implies that Windows is not a business based on data-hoarding.
Holy crap. I had never heard of anything like that regarding him
> The thing about leaving is that I don't know where I would go

Outside, a friend's house, visit family, etc
Hi all! This is a project I have decided to build after a long frustrating week of trying to find the next perfect phone I was going to buy. I had to manually search and find reviews on each model and create a comprehensive mental image of the each phone. My girlfriend always makes fun of me getting obsessive about which one to buy, but it makes perfect sense to me as I spend 1-2 years intensively with my phone, both for work and in everyday life.

I made this project as "lean" as I could: The project runs on Gatsbyjs and sources the data from Airtable (which is easy to manage). Each deployment fetches the rows in the Airtable base and builds the static sites.

I welcome any feedback on what to improve or change (or what you love)! (I am planning on expanding it to Tablets, Smartwatches, Laptops and Headphones)
5mg of amphetamine, while a light dose, is much stronger than a strong cup of coffee.
> Try typing "car insurance in San Francisco"

It refused to show me any ads at all. Perhaps because I live in a different locale. I did "Car insurance in <my city>". There were two ads below the fold. Everything above the fold was organic -- local insurance agencies and web links to the usual suspects (Esurance, etc.). I live in a large East Coast city for what it's worth.
Or .... the banks are not seeing it.

i for one have as little to do with banks as possible, banks are not needed, only the security of a currency is needed.

that currency can be anything really it just has to be mutually agreeable that a bag of barley equates to X hours of physical work, and a 10pound sack of barley equates to one chicken , or a bottle of scotch wiskey
> Didn't see it mentioned: SSL tickets

They do talk about it, SSL tickets and TLS session resumption are referring to the same thing.
For the use case of running whatever win32 executable is promoted on zdnet.com (or pcworld.com or whatever is out there that appeals to computer users that aren't developers) any given day? Yes.
Yes, it turns out that installation of software has the assumption that you're putting it on the right OS. This is the case for Windows, for Mac, and so forth.

I've never had an issue with a deb package, but I'll tell you it's one of the reasons I stick with Ubuntu for home.
I can believe it. Most "journalism" today is glorified blogging, the venting of emotion laden opinion, griping, etc. And all the "mainstream" pseudo-journalists seem to be of one mind.
The last time I looked into this, it was for running Linux VMs on my 2017 MacBookPro. I went with VMWare Fusion, and I've been pretty happy with it.

I'm not sure if there's a better option today, and/or for different host/guest combos.
Not nonsense at all. Nobody claims that you can get "perfectly tailored ads along with perfect anonymity"; the claim is that one can get sufficiently tailored ads with almost perfect anonymity - by tailoring the ad to the content, not the user.
$9.50 an hour! I work as an interpreter from Colombia and I get paid $2.50
While it works.

And:

1. If you don't mind being constantly redirected to www by arbitrary links.

2. Having old blocked by robots.txt from search-engine indexing.

3. The likelihood of old disappearing at some point in the future.

I saw that future a couple of years ago and noped the heck out.
It's difficult to tell since so many street users of amphetamine are taking 200-500+mg of "street speed" per dose, which could be anywhere from 10-50%+ in purity.
The model being "don't do that".
I've noticed that TD has recently stood up a reddit clone of sorts on a separate web site. If that works, it seems like a win all around, both for friends and foes.

Perhaps we will see a diaspora of such clones?
I could be wrong but I think a good initial phase would be to have some kind of station at the edge of cities where human drivers can jump in and take over for navigating within cities for pickup and dropoff, and then getting out and letting the AI drive the long-haul.
Thanks for the link. It seems to talk about a knowledge graph type links between entities. It is however in a human language (here, english). I am interested in knowing if there's something analogous to "math" to represent knowledge.
If they combined them turn right next stop sign about a thousand feet. Otherwise it's like this stop sign here or do they mean that one..
I like this idea. Especially as a dev who does a lot of front end work but has little sense of design.

I've seen a lot of color generators but I start to apply them and quickly realized having a grab bag of colors that look good together does not mean I have any clue where to use each one... and the result looks just as bad as one with the wrong colors.
>It's like reducing broadcast TV/radio as "advertising companies". They make their money selling ad time and develop/buy programming to attract viewers and justify the cost of that ad time.

Yes. I would call broadcast TV advertisers. Have you given mass media a critical analysis lately? It’s chalk full of subtle product placement and other brainwash, on top of in-your-face advertisements every few minutes. The Simpsons made fun of this a decade ago, and it seems to have only gotten worse. I limit television exposure just the same as Google exposure.

I speak for myself only of course, but jumping to defend Google with broadcast tv made me laugh.
It is a little odd.

Some organization hires a consulting firm, no coercion or anything. Organization gets output and either acts on it or not.

Some consulting firms produce great work, some produce terrible work.

How is this news?
I wonder if this type of thing is A/B testable. I feel like the real effects of a change like this will take a very long time to see.