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Could mean there are few startups out there seeking SB types of money that are actually good startups
What wide and varied legitimate use cases did we honestly expect to see? What wide and varied legitimate uses to we see for JS now?
a decades long career as one of the more respected actors in the world and eventually an oscar.
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> Sony for example was unable to parlay its Walkman dominance into similar positions with new devices.

Actually the Walkman (which was arguably Sony's second breakout product, the first being a transistor radio) Sony was definitely the cool kid. And don't forget the Playstation or the Trinitron.

In fact Steve Jobs explicitly emulated and admired Sony for their (then) sense of style, customer appeal and quality.

The Sony of today is a different company. Despite the PS2 success I date the decay to when they bought United Artists.
I'm including series D companies under the term startup. I agree with you about early stage companies. Jobs at non FANG that don't IPO are not that sustainable imo.
Had Boeing done this six months ago the MAX might be in the air right now.
All else aside, that would be cool to see. “What’s your craft’s identifier?” “Let me spin up the blades here quick.”
And now we discover why Apple removed the traditional headphone jack - and why it's never coming back.
Right now, the only market participant I see doing some inferencing at the edge is Apple with its photo analysis stuff that runs on the phone itself.

Anyone else is busy building little dumb cubes with microphones and speakers that send sound bites into clouds and receive sound bites to play back (heck, even Apple does it this way with Siri). Or other dumb cubes that get plugged into a wall socket and that can switch lights that you plug into them by receiving commands from a cloud (even if the origin of the command is in the same room). Or dumb bulbs that get RGB values from a cloud server which inferred somehow that the owner must have come home recently and which then set the brightness of their RGB LEDs accordingly. Or software that lets you record sounds bites, send them into the cloud and receive transcripts back. Or software that sends all your photos to a cloud library where it is scanned and tagged so you can search for "bikes" or whatever in your photos.

No matter what you look at in all that stuff that makes up what consumers currently consider to be "AI", it does inference (if it even does anything like that at all) on some cloud server. I don't like that development myself, but unfortunately that's how it is.
L4 is an intermediary level between new-to-industry junior (new grads generally start at L3) and mid-level (L5). In many companies, it's expected that people will reach L5 within some time period.

Failing to have grown skills and project scope to L5 level after extensive time in the industry could be interpreted by some as poor motivation or career growth planning - their thinking is that if you've been doing the same thing for years elsewhere without growing, you'll tend to be trying to do the same things for years there without growing.
Either your HR/People team sucks or you're just meeting expectations. If you are exceeding to greatly exceeding expectations and they don't drive your comp either via equity or salary increase faster than that then something is off.
Support is different than utilization. GPG no longer uses SHA1 for message digests and has not done so for a fair time now. This what the preferences in a public key generated with gpg2 recently look like:

Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, 3DES
Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify

So SHA1 is the last choice. Note that 3DES is there at the end of the symmetrical algorithm list. It ain't broken either so they still include it for backward compatibility. This is a good thing. It is essential in a privacy system for a store and forward communications medium.
I find the "high throughput" comment a bit weird, but i've seen it a lot of times. Do you mind drilling into it a bit more?

I see posts like this https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b where they are talking millions of events per second.

I also work in the distributed messaging space and so far my experiments have shown elixir to be able to keep up with our scala stack with the advantages of no thread tuning and much easier debugging. So I'm curious why this keeps popping up.
A house cat has no qualms drinking cows milk when given the opportunity. I think the answer to your question reveals more about capabilities than it does about specific tastes.
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If someone is dumb enough to be using an Arduino in a life-critical application then what language they're programming it in is almost a moot point.

To the larger point of coding for these kinds of applications, keep in mind that there are entire classes of bugs that are common in traditional microcontroller languages like C which literally do not exist in Python or Javascript.

As far as I've seen as an outsider to the embedded world the main barriers to adoption of higher level languages have not been based upon concerns of reliability, but instead memory usage and timing constraints, the former of which is less and less of a real problem outside of extremely cost constrained applications.
Not to mention that with at-will employment this is essentially a moot point. If you qualify for FMLA and take paternal leave, they can still just fire you "just because we felt like it".
> wouldn't it be enough to convert the string into a set of chars, then into an array of chars, sort it, and return as a string?

No. Please re-read the problem statement. It's way more complicated than that. If you figure out how to do it, try to figure out how to do it in O(N).
> CompatBlocks is just one of the developments that BCH has completed and released

wtf. man, stop taking credit for other people's work. Compact blocks were completed and released by Matt Corallo, myself, and the other Bitcoin developers at the time long before BCH existed. It had absolutely no involvement from any BCH developer.

> many doubt that his company is supporting Bitcoin vs handicapping it

When your link in the earlier post is an article ranting about how much money blockstream employees are making because it pays its employees partially denominated in Bitcoin and Bitcoin has increased a lot in value.

> Gavin did not endorse CSW as Satoshi himself

In fact Gavin stated that he was convinced Wright was Satoshi long before he ever met him or witnessed any signing.

> folks like Adam [...] to gain control of the core client.

Adam doesn't have any control over Bitcoin Core and never has. I don't think anything he's ever proposed has ended up in in it, in fact.

> Cash handles this by making sure to have multiple implementations

Actually, BCH's constant hardforks have killed many of those multiple implementations. "Bitcoin XT", "Bitcoin Classic", "Bcoin" to name some of those. Ironically the old BitcoinXT from back when it was Bitcoin software ... happily still works on Bitcoin. So you have it backwards: it's bitcoin that preserves people's freedom to use different implementations.
>But some self-proclaimed feminists are extraordinarily unwilling to recognize that women are at the very least coequal perpetrators of this. >Hell, they (and apparently you) are unwilling to concede that women play any role at all in this.

The point of my original comment was literally that women bear some responsibility for reinforcing the harmful stereotypes of male culture. I merely suggested that women weren't entirely to blame, rather that both men and women were complicit in perpetuating toxic masculinity.

That attempted nuance has apparently gotten lost because I made the mistake of trying to engage with one of HN's trigger phrases and now this thread is locked into a fetal position of incel rage and defensiveness.

Serves me right, I guess.
You did not make any argument for breaking the previous status quo. My question stands - what was wrong with it?
You're free to quit a union job whenever you want.

Be part of the group or don't work here. My justification is that it drastically increases the strength of the union.
How is the ease of use?
I've used Yahoo since the early 2000s and never hopped on the Google bandwagon.

The times Ive tried to find things in Google because "people say it has better search", I've not had much luck. Possibly because they don't have extensive data on me and my search preferences?

I think Yahoo is backed by Bing these days? I always find its search results perfectly adequate.
As a happy user of DDG, I've never used Startpage - and after reading this article, will be recommending those around me to never use it either.
I think I just saw Greg wet himself
> it's not like you don't have options in this industry...

have you ever worked in video games?
I’m guessing you’re not an Uyghur?
Definitely! My credit union (BECU) actually refunds ATM fees which is an amazing perk. Before I was with them I would try to look up ATMs without fees ahead of time but that can be pretty tricky and inconsistent (especially outside of cities).
They don't need to replace Steam, they have 80 million active users from Fortnite alone. Steam has 90 million active users.

Were they to compete with Steam properly they would crush Steam's store feature set. The Epic store is still under-developed compared to Steam by a lot. Regardless of their perceived intent the entire point is that the little guy is being rewarded and the system works even if it appears 'evil'.
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That most consumers will come to Apple with their laptop for a service and Genius will replace the battery.
Will genius replace the battery for their AirPods?
> And make no mistake about it - a huge portion of these sales are people buying Apple's marketing - not buying the tech itself.

By definition all of the businesses that survive are good at marketing - Apple has managed to drive extraordinary value through positioning and differentiation and left everyone else to compete over the collapsing middle market.

Sony’s precise problem was underinvesting on positioning and brand and relying on their technical advantage ... which proved a problem when everyone else caught up with the tech and they couldn’t repeat the trick with other devices.

People say marketing like it’s something to be ashamed of, and that Apple should deliberately hobble itself by being bad at it. It’s really critical.
Yes, I do mean violence.

Employers have also heavily utilized violence. Then they turned to the law and misinformation.

Violence is a last resort.
I'd bet they just give you a new one.
The paywall is not hard, since the paper is at https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/zidar/file... , found by Googling "pdf Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives".
Loving the process so far. Can't wait to see the next stage of progress for this fun platform!
The lady who owns the rights is Vicci Tucci. Here is a link to her company's website: https://tuccionline.com/company/

Here is also a video on how her flashcard tech works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOm9oM_-A4&feature=share

If you look under "Products", you can see that she has a flashcard app called Fluency. However, I can't seem to find the app on iOS or Android app stores.

Also, I still can't seem to find the novel aspect of this patent? The first claim literally denotes the functionality of every current flashcard application.
Except all the people that have to replace them when the battery lifetime expires. You can take as much care as you want with airpods, they will need replacing and you'll need to fork out again.
I found it surprising that 6.6% is "slow" or "strained." Those are numbers akin to a massive boom in the US.
>"public Venmo"

Europe figured this out years ago; it's called a SEPA transfer.
It's strange how people see everyone else's culture as brainwashing but don't stop to think about how much of their own is too.
Intelligence doesn't have a lot of scientific ground either. It's pretty hard to define what intelligence is, or at least have a scientific definition that is precise enough. The Turing Test is only a measure, it doesn't help to reach a definition.

Practical research will always hit a ceiling if scientists cannot try to define what they're looking for.

Even machine learning is not a good definition. There are other attemps, like "sophisticated statistics" or "statistical prediction".

Kudos for this tweet.
> You take them out and it pauses the audio.

Even better, if you put that earbud back in it then continues playing in both ears - which makes it a perfect intuitive enhancement of the physical actions you'd already take to talk to somebody while you have earbuds in.
Agreed. I'd be more specific and say Apple invented the first fashionable wireless earbuds. I owned a pair of the first Jabra earbuds (of which the latest edition I still use and love) and plenty of those horrid looking, wrap-around, sports ones before Apple came along; I never had anyone say "I want a set of those" until I wore my AirPods for the first time though. They just seem to nail the aesthetics every time.
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Because if they don't then the union has the capability to severely harm the company.

This is why we need unions.
Ha, far from it, I went to Waterloo. Not that I bought into rivalries, but if we had one it was Queen's

The comparison in this context was that Queen's has a reputation for attracting status-seeking people banking on a management consulting career path.
That’s false. I’ve had the battery in my Apple laptops and phones replaced many times. They even monitor its health and tell you when to replace it.
The paper is mostly about measuring the magnitude of the EMI. They observe that dry air and metal legs are required, but not much more than that - I don’t think they mention gas lifts at all. The last few paragraphs have some guesses but they basically said that finding the cause is for future work.
> I trust the government-backed insurance of my funds for when the bank fails, but I don't trust the banks themselves one single bit.

If the bank fails because they just mismanaged handling the money, that I'm sure the insurance will save the day for the customers. The Feds will come in, check the books and figure out how much each depositor should have and cover them.

But what happens if the bank fails for more malevolent reasons? Say state-sponsored hackers from somewhere that is pissed off at the US hacked in to a bank's back end systems and installed malware that corrupted the backups for a few months and then finally deleted the online records.

Does the insurance apply there? How do the Feds figure out how much everyone gets?
Which I guess would explain why there are Android phones that crush the iPhone on tech specs but make a minuscule (and sometimes negative) proportion of the industry’s profit?
In 1997, the 767 had 682 cumulative deliveries, and 120 unfilled orders. The 777 had 104 cumulative deliveries, and 221 unfilled orders. The MD-11 only sold 200 units total in its entire history.

The MD-90 was also non-competitive with the A321 and the 757. You can take a look at the sales numbers. By the mid nineties, Douglas was producing something like 20 a year, Boeing was doing about 50 a year, and Airbus was producing about 25 a year.

Douglas badly needed a cash infusion to get a competitive product flying. Their whole product line was derivatives of 1960s aircraft that weren't even winners in the 60s. Meanwhile, Boeing had introduced the 757, 767, and 777, which were all great aircraft.
Can you please elaborate on “the system has enabled the people to change the government in the way the people want”
>this is no longer possible because we can't bring compute any closer to the user than the mobile devices.

this is based on a very dubious assumption that bringing compute closer is the only path for innovation.

and even that is not true, you could imagine compute being even closer with a direct brain interface (actually you could consider google glasses to be an attempt at bringing compute closer)
I don't think that the amount of current customers is any indication of network effects or any other kind of moat.

See: Walmart -> Amazon, Nokia->Apple, MSFT -> Andriod.

I mean, what more of network effect did MSFT had in the 90's. It was dominating both the OS layer AND the app layer (office). And yet, it does not have ANY share in mobile.

Kubernetes is not minor optimization if you think about what it is. Yes, if you see it as mere container orchestration. But it is the first time that a widely deployed, permissionless, open API platform exists.
> Put yourself in extreme situations with other people (like joining the military or something).

I don't disagree with your point generally, but for someone with no interest in being in the military, reading Hemingway is a perfectly acceptable way to understand the ugliness of war. He absolutely captures the human condition in his books.
Not sure if I’m typical in this or not but I’m a heavy apple user but have been mostly “forced” into it but ended up loving them.

Got my first MacBook because of work. Was previously a windows / Linux user and didn’t get macs but ended up loving the MacBook Pro. Got an iPhone from work too, ended up loving that too. Got a pair of AirPods as present, use it pretty frequently now.

Seems like both a good thing (like it after using it) and a bad thing (wouldn’t have gotten into it if not for the unplanned opportunity) for Apple.
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Annual is unappealing to most subscribers - but some percentage will go for it if it's available. Like 10%ish (may vary but definitely a minority). This minority will smooth your cash flow quite a bit.
Hardened sha1 does detect this new attack. Easy to test: Check their pair of files into a git repo and see that they have different checksums, while sha1sum(1) generates the same for both.
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Yes, but he declared it peacefully.
My company had just started doing performance reviews, as they had been growing a lot (generic small startup with unlimited vacation and all that) and it was That Time. So this was a quarterly performance review, but was my first after having worked there 1-2 years.

The system had six levels resembling standard deviations in a normal distribution, so ~2% at the extreme high and extreme low. In parallel, you pick one for yourself and describe why in text, and your manager picks one for you and describes why in text. Then some software simultaneously shares them between you, and you have a 1:1 to discuss things you didn't agree on, or that one of you brought up but not the other.

I rated myself as the highest level, because I thought I was the second-highest level and had learned that my opinions about myself are generally lower than others' opinions of me, so I decided to purposefully account for imposter syndrome. My manager rated me as the second-highest level and said that the only thing keeping me from the highest level was the amount of vacation I'd taken that quarter.

I'd taken 5 weeks off that quarter. It's a lot for a quarter, but it was also the only time I'd taken off the whole year, and 5 weeks was the "recommended" yearly amount. So I wasn't sure how to feel, and second-highest level didn't seem like something to complain about.

Still not sure how I feel five years later because I do see both sides and it's a hard problem to fairly solve. But I live a happy life and don't have any complaints, so I don't let it get to me. It's just a performance review, and you will look back in 10 years from a different job, city, and/or life situation wondering why you cared so much.
Calculate our speed against CMB. Calculate their speed agains CMB. Compare. It's easy.
> everywhere, I have ever heard of a union it generally made it harder for new people to come in

I'd imagine unions are most prevalent in industries with a surplus of workers.

If you have a rapid growth industry with competitive hiring practices, you're probably getting treated great and courted to switch jobs for higher pay pretty frequently.

If your industry is stagnant and management is constantly trying to replace you with less expensive workers that can be quickly trained to do the same job I can see why there would be a strong desire to unionize.

In that sense, I can see how the union would be protecting it's workforce by stemming the inflow of new employees. The fewer the supply of workers, the higher demand for the one's you have.
Pretty easy to get the “consent of the governed” when you kill anyone who comes close to expressing dissent.
Can Android today handle voice dialing non-English names in the address book? If not, their hands-free story leaves a lot to be desired as well.
Which he obtained from his talent, something he advertised as something he can do and others can't. Unionizing credit for his performances is as the same claiming credit for another man's work that nationalists do.

https://youtu.be/CIaWo-BlBjs?t=74
> The argument against you getting a full credit is that it would list your contribution to the game as the same as a colleague who worked through the ship process.

There should be universally-agreed rules around how crediting works: how about a case where a noob who joined a month before shipping gets credit, but someone who slogged for 2 years but quit gets relegated to "Special Thanks" despite putting more effort. Does that seem fair to you?
It’s not just the marketing - it’s that if you buy all of your tech from Apple you have 1) top-quartile product quality and 2) remarkable little upkeep to do compared to compiling a collection of multiple brands.
i mean, i know airpds are the new platform on top of which things will be built.

"what the tech can do"? you mean the airpods?

what else is there?
Apple products have really long life span compared to the alternatives, actually. That's why their products have very good re-sell value. Nothing degrades, you pass your iProduct down the line in the family to the less tech-savvy members. My father is using my iPhone 5 now and works great after the battery replacement. People still user their iPods, iPad 2's and so on.

Airpods are an exception to the rule here.

I wonder where this narrative comes from, can you please explain why do you think that Apple products degrade rapidly and are thrown away?
AFAIK, this was a separate law that existed already before GDPR came along.
I can't wear any earphones for more than 5 minutes without them falling off, this is due to the morphology of my ears. I wonder: how large is the percentage of people with the same problem? Anecdotal, but I know personally at least a couple other people that can't wear earphones for the same reason.

Note: I'm talking about earphones/earbuds exclusively, headphones are fine for obvious reasons. Also some types of earphones (designed for sports) that have "ear-hooks" behind the ear are fine since the hooks will keep them in place.

Note 2: my ears don't have the "bump" (not sure what the scientific term is) that is circled in red in this picture https://imgur.com/a/CJv20Zu

Edit: that bump that I don't have is called "Antitragus" https://elementsofmorphology.nih.gov/anatomy-ear.shtml
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One would have thought that with the most recent experiments of regime change people would be more careful or humble but here we are.