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It's not clear to me why "actual freedom of speech" should be equal to what is guaranteed by the US constitution. That would be like me saying "The US doesn't have the 'Right to Life'" because I'm exclusively applying the European definition of that term.

Freedom of expression/freedom of speech is guaranteed in some way in all Western nations, the difference – as you correctly point out – is the degree to which other rights are also taken into account when applying the Right to freedom of speech. But that's an extremely important distinction and it cannot be said that France doesn't have Freedom of speech.
Muzzle energy is defined as the bullet's kinetic energy upon exit, which is proportional to the square of velocity, which means barrel length necessarily affects muzzle energy more than muzzle velocity.

From quick Google searches, 9mm pistol barrels are around 4-5 inches long, 9mm rifles around 16". This has a major impact on muzzle velocity, and an even greater impact on muzzle energy.
I understand that the internet still sucks in rural US. I have a friend in a similar situation as you. But having someone proclaim that tech can't be done outside of SF because of lack of internet is dismissing so much of the country.
I cannot agree with this more.

Come to the Midwest! Make half as much and live in a house that you can sell for half as much profit when you retire! Come for the flat outdoors with nothing to do, stay for the lack of ethnic and cultural diversity!

Half of the people in Seattle are Midwest refugees who came here despite not having a job lined up. It's laughable to think they'd move back for a salary cut despite cheaper housing. The financial incentive would have to be overwhelmingly positive so they could work in the Midwest for a few years then move somewhere better.
I think it's interesting how the perception of Amazon is changing. Even my parents who are in their late 60s are avoiding Amazon because of counterfeiting and poor production quality.
There are many underused cites in the rust belt. They are prime candidates for job relocation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities
I only speak for myself, obviously, but from my perspective if Amazon wants to stay successful they need to focus on reliability over price. I don't buy stuff on Amazon because I want to save a buck, I do it because I can just open up the app, pick what I want, and know that it will be here in a day or two. It's 100% about the convenience. I can tolerate spending a bit more, but I have an extremely low tolerance for counterfeit, low-quality, damaged goods, etc.

If Amazon doesn't address this fairly soon, I'm probably going to look for other options, and once I switch, the odds of coming back are pretty low. It could be as simple as allowing me to opt out of seeing anything that is not "ships from and sold by Amazon" (and guaranteed no commingling).
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> I've been coding for half my life

If you already know programming and you're confident in your ability to continue self-teaching, I'd suggest you actually do a different route. MBA, Finance, Accounting, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, etc. e.g. A good programmer who has a strong understanding of finance will do significantly better in FinTech than the programmer who has spent 4 years practicing CS theory.

If you want to make a real difference, learn a specific field and then use your technical skills to help them solve problems in ways they never imagined possible.
I think you underestimate how political Google has become internally.
By "actively facilitated" you mean they have tools for targeting ads by demographic factors such as race and someone used those tools?

Or are you alleging that there were Facebook employees saying "We don't want black people to vote" and those employees manually took steps to make that happen? Because the article does not support the latter.
As if a celebrity sex tape is so much worse then attacking the core of democracy by deliberately spreading disinformation.
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Hi guys, I am thinking to start a fintech company which will allow customers to get the loan so that they can pay the merchant, similar like what affirm does. For affirm, they partner with Cross River Bank, Cross River Bank is the creditor to provide the capital. I am wondering for small startup like us, if we cannot get backed by licensed banks, how can we issue loans to our customers? Can we use our own fund to do so, or we need to team up with bank? Thanks!
Well, it's not surprising for someone who's been vocally "skeptic" about democracy to not care about one of it's deterrents; misinformation.
I highly doubt that your chess acumen is tied to IQ. AlphaZero can probably beat every chess player, past or present, yet you would trounce it in a whole range of intelligence tests.

Perhaps just try counting the moves, and look for counters at each step? Most pro chess players think in patterns anyways, subset of moves that obtain a predefined position on the board. Then the game is more about rock, paper, scissors, where you try to guess the opponent’s pattern and employ a counter-pattern.
Yeah, that makes sense, though I might have kept the self-hosting feature hidden behind a wall of "you're REALLY not going to get ANY support for this" text. Then again, the maintenance might not even be worth it.
If Google just doesn't want unionized engineers, it could just fire all engineers. Obviously they need to balance their various objectives and firing productive people is costly to the business. I think they are hoping more to send a strong message to the whole company with as small a disturbance to the business as possible.
I mean, I agree about envelope budgeting and smart saving. Avoid debt is essential to financial health.

> Anybody with a middle class income can do it.

This seems obviously false to me. Let me construct a reasonable case for someone who is middle class income but who I do not believe will be able to meet your savings goals.

Let's assume a single parent, at the median income level of $31,000/year living in Seattle. That gives them $2,500/month to cover food, housing, clothing, childcare, medical care, etc. Rent and health insurance probably eats 1,500 of that alone. To say nothing about saving for a kid's education, buying them school supplies, etc.

Even if you scrimp on food, clothes, etc. you are going to have a real hard time consistently setting aside $500/month.
Given that it's potentially profitable and works, who cares if it's done in a widespread way? That fact that it easily could is the problem IMO.
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curl https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-accidental-book-review-that-made-jack-kerouac-famous/2019/12/13/23e94230-04b3-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html\?outputType\=amp |tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' |sed 's/</\n</g' | sed -n '/./{/<p class=.font--body/,/<\/p>/p;}' | lynx --force-html -stdin
Surprisingly sensible. I wonder if compiler magic could, in theory, reduce enums that have only two options down to a single bit, but still provide all the type safety guarantees. Or maybe provide another primitive just for that purpose.

Particularly with a new primitive, you could literally have a language that just doesn't allow you to define generic booleans.
You make great points and I agree with your take on agile — I actually mentioned "cost" to indicate that reality was deviating from the 'ideal' agile approach, when it stops being "the right thing to do" — buggy, etc. — because you're trying to meet some arbitrary deadline or favor marketing, please mgmt, etc.

Likewise, I think it's fair to assume the economic competition between news outlets may push some to be too aggressive in shipping fast, too fast.

And you know what, deep down I think it's OK, as long as you don't falsely advertise what you're doing. "We want this <content> (whether code, news) in the hands of our customers asap, so we're releasing it now; but be aware it's not 100% guaranteed until scrutinized by the crowd and corrected accordingly."

I'd love to have a choice between some "fast news shippers" and some "slow, vetted pieces". I think there's room for both and everything in between. Just don't be disingenuous about it, and if it takes regulation to enforce that, then so be it — every legitimately regulated activity pretty much brings it on themselves, give or take some political latency.
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> The frustrating thing is that it seems like a trivial problem to solve. Changing too many attributes of a product should either be disallowed, or automatically wipe old reviews.

If it hasn’t been solved yet, it’s probably not that trivial. How many is “too many”? What happens if I change one attribute every week or so until I’ve completely changed the product?
Being "stuck" with Comcast is better than most rural areas in America. Even services like Comcast in many rural areas is many times worse then Comcast in suburbs. ISPs are happy to let the lines rot then to spend a few thousand dollars to repair a cable serving <25 customers.
When a thousand hedge funds hire mathematicians and economists to create models of the global economy so that they can predict whether individual stocks will move up or down over different timescales, their task is similar to predicting the weather. Some will beat the market, many won't. Are they guessing?

Maybe that's a bad analogy, but my point is that climate is a chaotic system, and detailed models might be right and might be wrong. It's not that the scientists are guessing, of course the science is methodical - but the performance of the model might not be better than guessing, hence the speculation of survivorship bias. There were lots of climate models over the last century, was there consensus around a paper that is now proven correct? Or were there a hundred models that were off and one that, yes, happened to be correct. I don't know the answer.
Why do you think browser extensions are the non-technical user's preferred option? I'm getting a headache just thinking about how to get a consistent mobile/desktop experience.

> If anyone with any sizable audience were using AP, they would not tolerate a hosting admin deciding who is allowed to follow them.

Well, at that point they can make a single-user instance (toss some euros at masto.host if not technical) and then they can get exactly the moderation experience they want.
To be clear I don't think Gawker has the moral high ground either. There is no monopoly here on bad morals. It's possible for Gawker to be an asshole here as well as for Peter Thiel to be an asshole.

I bring it up merely to show that Peter Theil doesn't have any problem censoring stuff he doesn't like. Therefore it is pretty suspicious and two faced when he says he thinks that Facebook shouldn't censor ads.
A CTO betting the farm on Google’s cloud is displaying reckless naivety. Google’s arrogance towards its customers is legendary.
Windows has a built-in remote assistance mode that uses RDP: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026516/windows-use...

It's more of a pain than TeamViewer though.
The crazy part about this is that in the meeting of setting targets one option that came up was folding the cloud unit entirely. And this was already after billions invested.

I don't really believe that they will leave the cloud wars, but still goes to show you the scale and profitability of their ad business and how central it is that even after billions of invested they can still decide to shutter something.

Doesn't exactly instill confidence in your customers to trust you for the service you provide.
Just like the conservation of energy has little effect on day to day practice of physics, besides blocking off an entire unbounded fruitless field of research into free energy.

In other words, impossibility results make it possible to have a practical discipline where people are focused on feasible approaches instead of spending all their time and money researching pie in the sky technologies that can never work. It's like when alchemy turned into chemistry and astrology turned into astronomy, because the fields became restricted to what is realistic.

Arguably the same still has to occur in other disciplines cough AI cough.
You can use a comb or a stencil to make a line and carefully follow it. If you have good dexterity and flexible mirrors, you can do it by eye. Or if you fade to 0 length you may not need to cut a sharp line depending on your style.
I'm not sure what the point is, actually. The variety of things that can go wrong with them is astonishing. For one thing, among many others, BMC cards will power-cap the max clock speed of CPUs when a machine is running on only one PSU, which can cause a degradation that's worse than if the machine had just halted. There are a zillion other edge cases like that.
This a self fulfilling prophecy. They set a deadline to be a top player, but now that the strategy has leaked, lots of customers will abandon or not take up the service since they who wants to invest in a cloud service that could be abandoned in a few years? The writing is on the wall now.
Ha! A year ago I steered away from GCP for a long-term personal project because I had a small but persistent worry that they'd shut it down, and switching clouds has a cost. I considered myself near-crazy for making the decision on that basis -- they wouldn't do that, would they?! that's silly! that's ridiculous! -- and was a little embarrassed to reveal my rationale to others. Saying it out loud sounded so alarmist, so far-fetched.

And yet here we are. Glad I kept clutching those pearls.

#2 by 2023? Good luck. I wouldn't bet a dollar on them knocking Amazon or Microsoft off their perches by then, and I won't spend another dollar on GCP.
It is by no means clear that what is termed "AI" today is indeed the artificial intelligence that we all seek, love and fear and that will prove useful. Perhaps most current "AI" researchers are wasting their time. Perhaps not. Some useful metrics would help judge this, but in the absence of even a clear definition of intelligence I see little hope of that.

In the absence of further information I hesitate to dedicate funding preferably to "AI" based on faith alone. I might as well spend the money on cheaper and more reliable power turbines for remote wooded areas in California or finding a clean way to mine and convert coal to energy. Maybe the money would be better spent upgrading the health-care system or replacing our Navy with something more likely to survive a flurry of cheap cruise missiles.

There are an infinite number of ways to spend money and "keeping top AI talent" is far down my list.
It seems you misunderstand what scientists are saying and forming an incorrect opinion from that.

> I will confess, referring to climate models that are literally estimated projections of future temperatures as "facts", very much rubs me the wrong way.

The projections are statistical models. They have a range of values and probabilities associated with them. Without major change, the probabilities of catastrophic climate change are very, very high.

Are they certain? Not mathematically, no.

Would I take that bet? Any day of the week and you should too.
Dumb DC supplies using just a bridge rectifier and filter cap(s) isn't really ideal if you need a stable voltage. If the mains voltage sags, so does output. Then factor in ripple from the cap bank under higher loads and the associated nonlinear harmonics and power factor issues from the rectification. You could add a linear regulator and increase the transformer output and burn the excess off as heat but efficiency goes down the toilet.

Switchers, for all their complexity, are pretty damn clean in terms of output and input PF correction. Even in audio and sensitive analog applications where dumb supplies were preferred have been replaced by switchers. A good design goes a long way and it's unfortunately easy to design junk switchers because of the complexity involved.
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A little bit of reading between the lines combined with Google's history of sunsetting services that aren't creating enough profit.
Thats very beautifully put. I am definitely going to be using this analogy the next time this topic comes up. Thanks.
Different articles and sources give different numbers, so don't take this as gospel, but:

IBM's *-as-a-service ARR is larger than Google Cloud's.

Oracle claims theirs is too, but my understanding is that they roll a lot of their licensing costs into the same reporting, so it's hard to tell for sure.
They probably aren't. The reason distribution companies like Fedex and Amazon contract their ground delivery out is the margins are too slim and they don't want to deal with vehicle maintenance. So corners are cut by contractors to actually make money in the deal. If there was a reasonable amount of money to be made Amazon would be using regular employees.
>They explictly tell you that they'd like to use your data for research

Is there not a difference between using your data for research...and selling it to a pharmaceutical company attempting to develop a commercial drug?

Seems there was a misrepresentation in giving up their DNA, and those people should have rights to any drugs developed as a result.
The Information is a very reputable source. Is this your first time hearing about them?
"The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Microsoft or Amazon—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding. "
You can read her own words to see it wasn't in good faith:

https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for...

> Recently Google was forced to post a list of rights that we have in the workplace. So when I heard that Google had hired a union busting firm and started illegally retaliating against my coworkers, I decided to make sure that my coworkers knew about the posting.

She was mad at her employer and used her role to retaliate.

> I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy.

It only mentions the union busters' website in the OP but she also says it popped up a notification when people visited the community guidelines policy. That's pretty invasive, this is a notification everyone will see.
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It's not obvious what can be done. Efforts to distribute the wealth (post WW2 style) will most likely lead to capital flight, and you guys have a gargantuan mass media machine devoted to making sure this kind of thing does not happen to begin with. America is experiencing advanced regulatory capture and the solutions were needed decades ago.

My personal conjecture is that you're in for a long period of degradation followed by something violent. Fascism most likely.
Even if that's the case (it is not in countries that do not have a stupid insurance system like the US) it is better than no treatment at all
I signed up to the information for the same reason. Plus they actually have their paywall well designed. I get most of my news from them via email and I can read it right in my phone's gmail, versus everything else that has me sign up somewhere and then re-login every time. I wouldn't mind paying if the experience was at least seamless post payment.
> you're putting a key piece of smarts into the queue: Tracking whether a message has been processed.

yes, AWS SQS does that. e.g. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...

Are you saying that this is bad? It doesn't seem so.

> you're losing the ability to add a second listener without either affecting what messages are being seen by (and therefore the behavior of) the existing listener(s).But, if you're doing microservices, you're probably trying to keep things more flexible than that, and want to allow them to evolve more independently.

I'm not following. Both AWS SNS/SQS and Azure Event hubs were able to handle that scenario just fine, by design.

In AWS you attach multiple queues to the same SNS endpoint and have a pool of subscribers on each queue, in Azure you declare a "consumer group" and a pool of subscribers in it. Or declare a new consumer group if need be.

We regularly scaled up AWS from 3 listeners to 30 depending on load, and back down again, or replaced instances one by one, and still it guaranteed at-least once delivery (in practice, exactly once in the vast majority of cases) across the subscribers. We _never_ "lost the ability to add another listener" either scaling up in the same pool, or creating a new pool.
A CS degree gives you a strong ability to automate work using software. If applied correctly it will be be a very lucrative career for a very long time.
I believe it. Maybe not for that exact story with the lack of proof, but considering how such an attack is within the realm of possibility it seems foolish to not assume the handful of the most powerful and well-funded groups on Earth are doing such a thing. I’m not going to leave my door unlocked at night, for example, until my neighbor gets robbed and proves to me that is possible.
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I will need to track these down - thanks!
I can see this being a catastrophic outcome for hospitals. If the health and privacy of your patients is at stake, wouldn’t you pay up?
Russia spent money on democrat positions too. Their intent was to sow discord in the US populace and increase polarization.
> Your $5 instance with cPanel management isn't really quite the same as someone manually managing 100 servers hosting these services on disparate configurations and environments.

Actually, it is. Some reverse proxies such as Traefik handle TLS certs automatically. You practically need to explicitly not want to do it.
From two sources.

1) The article.

> The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Microsoft or Amazon—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding.

2) How Google treats all of its other "underperforming" products.
> Not disclosing breaches is now a punishable offense, and this becomes a weapon in the hands of malicious hackers.

Maybe that wasn't meant as such, but it comes across, at least to me, as an argument that making non-disclosure punishable was a bad idea. If that was the argument, then I'd point out that the same thing can be said of criminalising any offence at all.
> Why would anyone want a password manager with this privacy policy?

Why would anyone want a cloud based, proprietary, non-free, non-oss password manager is what I really want to know.
I was going to type out a rebuttal to this, because I think you're mischaracterizing a straightforward and somewhat technical proposal. But I realize that's besides the point. You don't like this proposal, which is fine. But you had no footing to make the argument that it didn't exist at all, or that it didn't back up my argument. Concede that, and I'm happy to keep discussing.
ha, no i think HN did that automatically? I wrote http without s
It just seems really odd to me to use a phrase in a way that combines people who are very literally resource constrained with few options of climbing out of that hole with people who have the resources available to climb out and above their situation. Both are dependent on their paycheck but one has the ability to break away from that over time with wise choices vs the other likely never being able to break that cycle.

Almost all of the world is living paycheck to paycheck by your definition. The majority of US households would be ‘financially fucked’ if their wage income was taken away for a significant period of time.