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"What if Unix had less compositionality but I could use it with less memorized trivia? Would that be an improvement? I don't know."

The answer is "no" here, because the alternative doesn't exist. Could it be created? Maybe in theory, but I suspect that the amount of stuff that you'd need to memorize (or learn to look up) to use it effectively would be about the same for any system that allowed a similar variety of work to be accomplished. If you are willing to trade off functionality for simplicity, then sure, it can be done. You can get it today by just not using all these tools at all, I suppose.
It does leave Google's servers in several ways.

1. The ad tag Google delivers to publishers captures personal data like IP addresses and cookies, non-personal but potentially privacy-leaking data such as the URL the user is visiting, and somewhere in-between marketing segments that the user may belong to, and delivers that information (usually in JSON) to hundreds or even thousands of different advertisers using a protocol called OpenRTB.

2. The ad tag being served can also include an impression tracker. This is usually a pixel (literally an <img tag!) that refers to the advertisers' server where they record counts, sometimes media spend, and because it's a third-party server, that advertiser will receive (automatically) the IP addresses and cookies, the URL the user is visiting, and so on.

3. One of Google's products includes custom segments which contain IP addresses and cookies for one or more ad exchange. This is actually delivered in a flat file to buyers, and while Google themselves do not offer this service publicly (so conceivably the contracts could be updated to be CCPA-compliant), other exchanges that are like Google in other ways certainly do not.

It is entirely possible your point is accurate for someone who doesn't provide ad exchange services or impression trackers or custom segments (such as Facebook), but it is also likely that some party selling a product that is derived from the use of this data will be considered in-scope. I would steer clear of companies that favor an alternate interpretation until the Attorney General has had a say.
IT Executive Steals $6M, Busted by Word Doc Metadata
Actually, the website does cover this in the '''Q&A''' section:

> What is a chosen-prefix collision?

> A classical collision (or identical-prefix collision) for a hash function H is simply two messages M and M’ that lead to the same hash output: H(M) = H(M’). Even though this security notion is fundamental in cryptography, exploiting a classical collision for attacks in practice is difficult.

> A chosen-prefix collision is a more constrained (and much more difficult to obtain) type of collision, where two message prefixes P and P’ are first given as challenge to the adversary, and his goal is then to compute two messages M and M’ such that H(P || M) = H(P’ || M’), where || denotes concatenation.

> With such an ability, the attacker can obtain a collision even though prefixes can be chosen arbitrarily (and thus potentially contain some meaningful information). This is particularly impactful when the hash function is used in a digital signature scheme, one of the most common usage of a hash function.
Urban housing scarcity is mainly caused by speculation and corrupt zoning laws.
Speaking for my 5in drone (Most racing/freestyle drones), there's not really anywhere to put such a label and have it be easily visible from... well anywhere unless you're physically holding the drone.

We're currently required by the FAA to have the license number visible on the drone, but due to the nature of non-winged drones, there's not really any useful large flat surface. If you managed to place a large enough label on the drone to be readable from ~20 feet away then you're going to be running into a lot of issues with aerodynamics and durability in a crash.

Tl;DR - Good luck reading any reasonable label on a 5in drone @30mph 50 feet in the air.
> What do you actually have to lose?

health care. It's a big problem. This is why many unions are pro-M4A. You start taking away the big things the company can hold over your head in a negotiation.

In tech we have those things you mention, mostly. We also have a labour market with massive demand. If that demand falls/supply increases then companies will start cutting costs.

When a lot of the people on HN actually experience some uncertainty, their attitudes will probably change.
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> With your un-named payment system, can I do a "charge back" if I order some totally legit good or service from an unknown actor in an unknown location in the event of the non-delivery or fraud?

This is a form of insurance and someone could sell this service on the un-named payment system. This business would be profitable as long as most transactions are legit, and part of the profit would be used to reimburse bad transactions.
IIRC, many Europeans were throwing Axes in the Dark Ages, just ~1500 years ago.

Even if the bow was invented, creating good fetching and requiring the mass production of fragile arrows makes it a poor weapon in the Dark ages.

You pretty much have to invent mass production + commodities, standardizing the arrowhead before Bows become superior to spear and/or axe throwing. Once "any" arrow can work on "any" bow, you are golden. But this commodity idea is very difficult to come up with.

Shoot an arrow into a deer, and the arrow is ruined. You need to build a new arrow. Throw a javelin or Axe into a deer, and you can use the same Javelin / Axe on the next deer as well.
Isn’t that kind of his conclusion too though? It matters in as much as we’re less likely to see new general purpose public clouds come into play, but he didn’t seem to predict there was no more room for change in the industry, just that were unlikely to see those incumbents toppled from certain foundational positions in the ecosystem.
I think his hypothesis deserves more credit than that — many of his predictions have come to pass, and many of those that have, at the time they were predicted, seemed somewhat far fetched since they were firmly in the realm of science fiction.
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I don't really understand this obsession with credits in the game dev industry. There's no credit list in GMail for example, and yet everyone is fine with it?
Why JavaScript? Unless it's a training constraint, I just don't see anything about the language that directs people to write good code.

It just seems insane to me to use a language with such bizarre semantics.
Love the community! Super nice people and promotes interactive conversations.YKYZ has given me the motivation to do what I love and go out of my comfort zone.
Those with the capital have ways controlled the narrative (newspapers, and before that hiring people to just go out and talk to the people, e.g. to be elected tribune).

The cost of these propaganda efforts has plummeted, and increased automation will simply lower the cost further. Trump pays nothing to use Twitter and it netted him a presidency (though, per your comment, he already had a TV show).

I expectthat within the next four or five years there will be middle schoolers using this tech to run for student council.
> why did whatever selective process that resulted in our capacity for thought stop improving on it 100,000 years ago?

Some people have posited that it's because some fundamental biological limits were run into. (Our biology has already made many compromises to support the large brain, such as extended childhood, compromises in women's skeletal structure, the large energy consumption of the brain, etc.)
In class G airspace, you aren't required to have a radio beacon ID. Class G airspace corresponds to where most drones fly.
> you simply call out all Americans as being anti-union

Obviously not all, but there are millions of rabidly anti-union people like you.
> "If it can't afford to provide for its employees, why should a small company exist?"

If I rephrase that as "If a startup can't afford to provide for its employees, why should a startup exist?", it should be clear to HN readers why that is problematic. Without a way for new players to enter the market cheaply, you wind up with a stagnant industry fully of deeply entrenched players who are afraid to take creative risks. (Not unlike Hollywood, come to think of it.)
A recession that costs 2% of GDP can drop the stock market 40%. That doesn't make mathematical sense, but it's been happening all through the history of equity markets because there isn't a strong mechanism to fight an irrational change in sentiment.

If you think Intel is overvalued compared to AMD, you can short Intel, buy AMD, and make a bundle of money if you are right, so there is a mechanism to keep relative prices in line. If you think the 2020 market is overvalued compared to the 2012 stock market though, you can't move money back in time. Valuation doesn't tell you if/when a crash is gonna happen, it just gives a vague sense that returns will be lower over the next 10-20 years. A small positive return beats nothing, so a rational actor that knows the market is overvalued will stay invested. Hence, there isn't really any reason to believe market valuations are so rational.

I tend to think the market is overvalued right now, but I'm buying stocks anyway, because I'm saving money and don't want to stuff it under my mattress.
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There are a finite # of RSUs which management can distribute to high performers or valuable team members vested over a period of employment time. Here’s why I feel like job security is oddly related, why would the organization want you tied to them for that vesting period if they did not value you or your efforts or want you there for that period?
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The N52 engine will refuse to start if the iDrive system is not working (if the car has this feature), the iDrive system is an expensive replacement, on top of the work required to code it to the car. All of the in-car systems signals go through the computer that controls the iDrive system since it is a fiber ring network through the car, terminating at the amp in the trunk and the iDrive system in the front.
Welcome to the bottom where those who speak the truth live XD
Do these rules make it illegal for hobbyists to fly drones in areas without internet access?
I think the argument is simple, really. Everyone knows that when you exhale, that's CO2. What is not known is what strength of the feedback cycle is, but the general belief about organic systems is that on the whole, they have pretty good negative feedback systems. So, it's hard to quantify to what extent that negative feedback system is failing. It's also very hard to quantify how much additional heat is purely due to solar activity. The earth is also a very large mass of material - whose terrain we've studied primarily only the surface of. We often do not know precisely what ecological/biological systems lay 50m - 6,356 km below the surface. There is so much we don't know, and what we've recently discovered seems to to agree with that. So to claim that we are definitively the source of climate change seems a little arrogant and pompous to me. I would be just as pompous to claim something counter to that, of course. Lastly, people don't seem to recall all the hype about global cooling, a mere 50 years ago. However, if we can control climate change to any extent, then it would make sense that companies and climatologists earlier decided that greenhouse pollutants were actually a good thing. Considering the inefficiencies of cars in the 70's, this would not surprise me. Now, at this point, I don't believe in screaming or scolding. Conservation of all things, like what we tried to accomplish in the 50's, is largely a good thing. Let's work on optimizing that and stop accusing each other like babies.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/10/tread-softly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
i found the 1st chapter to be a bit of a slog as you say, but after that it picked up for me. and there were hints of what was to come in the 1st chapter.

but 100%, it was a little challenging to get into initially.

i also took breaks reading it as i read other books. it can definitely be digested piecemeal as it's a collection of thoughts.
I wrote this article-- I'd appreciate any feedback. I'd love to hear other YC founder's mistakes they made have made in their early days.
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>I believe because the unions have an interest in increasing their membership, not letting it atrophy and decrease due to time and deaths.

It really depends. The smaller the organizing unit, the more short-sighted they're going to be because they have less leverage and they benefit less from long-term big picture thinking. For example, if I'm a union that organizes machinists specializing in a specific type of tool then my focus is going to be on keeping this tool in place and these machinists employed, even if it's at the expense of new entrants or generational changes in technology. If the union is organized for an entire industrial sector, though, then their focus is on organizing and developing labor rights and practices for the sector as a whole rather than any specific shop.
If you're into jq, here's an interface so you can have live feedback (in Emacs): https://github.com/200ok-ch/counsel-jq
This is because in the first example you are invoking two programs. The first one sort the content of the file, the second count how many lines are equal.

While in the awk example it is creating a hash table with all words and incrementing by the key and then printing.

There is no sorting plus printing may be buffered.
I suspect civilization as we know it is a post-traumatic response to the Younger Dryas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
I was coming from the other end. I've repeated seen claims that livestock contributes a significant fraction of global greenhouse emissions. eg. most recently, a claim of 17% in this article https://a16z.com/2019/12/30/life-in-2030/ from HN yesterday.

I assumed that eg. 17% of the global total meant the individual allocation would be large, and thus very expensive to offset.

Note that there's a CH4 vs. CO2 conflation in the mix here, which probably doesn't help.

But it still doesn't seem to add up: if I can eat a "meat lovers" diet and that's only $10/year to offset, and it's roughly 15% of global emissions, that'd suggest that around $70/year could offset 100% of global emissions.
Legitimate players lose out as well. But you're correct that this hurts the squatters more, as they're the ones subject to linear multiple cost increases.
For a more in-depth analysis of the same problem, consider reading https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/america-needs-an-... although be warned that it's a bit longer.
If you take the time to read the entire article the bibles are only part of the argument.

> Bibles and prom dresses don’t matter so much, but a few months ago, the head of acquisitions for the Air Force, William Roper, noted that the U.S. had to depend on only two prime contractor makers of fighter jets, down from 13 in the 1950s

Additionally the ending letter was very interesting as well.
2.5 years, a Phoenix webapp. It's the backend of a marketplace for invoices. The frontend is a React SPA. It interfaces a number of third party JSON and SOAP APIs. It's still well within the limits of a medium low server on GCP. No need for fancier environments.

Coming from Rails I like that I don't have to go through separate job handlers, everything we need is in the language. I don't like much ecto (too complicated for our need.) I dislike the configuration, build and deployment process (it's definitely not snappy). By the way, it's great that Phoenix autodetects changes and recompiles them without the need of an IDE.

Compared to another Django project I've been working on in parallel, the Elixir one feels more robust and easier to expand upon. Compared to Rails ones, it's about the same but with less third party libraries.
Migrating the French Ministry of Culture from Samba3 to Samba4 [pdf]
A lot of us can't negotiate a salary period, people outside of tech don't seem to realize this Major corporations have very concrete pay scales, you start at the bottom of that scale and you climb your way up it year after year with very rigid and defined maximum pay increases based on arbitrary factors in an annual merit increase and not by going "gee boss, I think I deserve a raise!".
Truncating a hash function to 224 bits put it at the 112-bit security level, which is roughly equivalent to 2048-bit RSA under today's understanding of the costs of distributed cracking attacks.

There are a lot of standards organizations all over the world with various recommendations. https://www.keylength.com collates quite a few of them. Pick the one most closely relevant for your jurisdiction.

Most of them recommend 2048-bit RSA as their minimum for asymmetric security, and AES-128 / SHA-256 as their minimum for symmetric security. This is a [112, 128]-bit security lower bound.

Truncating a hash to 160 bits yields 80-bit security, which is insufficient. 128 bits (64-bit security) is out of the question.
Here's an interactive implementation (in Emacs): https://github.com/200ok-ch/counsel-jq
> that can be done at the legal level. You do not need unions to exist to do that!

Unions allow workers to wield political power collectively as well. Union endorsements are valuable, union money, union member donations. Instead of having billionaires like Bezos or the Koch brothers buying up media and giving millions to candidates to push their agenda, ordinary people can be heard.

Why do you think so many old school union people were outright socialists?
How many of those processors are used to compile code?

The complaint above is about that. Running compiled Rust code on a tiny embedded microcontroller is not a problem.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/coding-the-stm32-blue-pill-with...
But symbolic reasoning mostly worked, did it not? However, its Achilles heel was that for it to be useful, it's necessary to distill a lot of domain knowledge into a format that can be processed by an expert system. That means, writing 10s upon thousands of rows of "if then then that".

Machine learning is different in that it is more amenable to distilling those rules from the data automatically. It is successful where symbolic reasoning failed because it can go from the raw data. A good portion of machine learning research is in new ways to preprocess and format data into a structure that can be further consumed by linear algebra, which turns out to be a lot easier and practical than figure out a huge database of sensible first order predicate logic statements.

If ML techniques can be used to feed symbolic systems, the latter would show promise again, which is already happening in recent trends in causal inference and graph networks. The marriage of these two fields is inevitable, and has already started.
Looks like you're right. I found this stackoverflow answer:

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/38121/why-did-e...

...which says Ethereum actually uses a version of the "Inclusive Protocol," which according to its paper has similar advantages:

https://www.cse.huji.ac.il/~yoni_sompo/pubs/15/inclusive_ful...
Commodore and TI home computers were self-contained development platforms. Very different from an Arduino, which is basically dependent on getting binary code from some sort of host platform. Since you have to do that uploading step anyway, you might as well program the platform in a modern, compiled language.
Drones aren't carrying hundreds of passengers in machines that weigh hundreds of tons.

The risk here is far removed from the severity of the regulations and the associated cost to hobby flight. There is also an argument to be made that the government may have interests in maintaining surveillance asymmetry - prying citizenry can see much farther through the eyes of a drone, and this can act as a minor check on government power.
As an environment for people who care about books, perhaps.

But they completely own any Google search for an author or books, well beyond any dedicated fan forum, publisher, Wikipedia, or the author's own site. They're a cancer on the Internet and search engines.
Yes you can. Java works fine for even kinda high end 3d graphics, not many people do it though.

The biggest thing in java gamedev is avoiding GC pauses.
What’s your take on something like the ITU? My first reaction would be that because there’s a lot more riding on it, it’d be susceptible to intractable politics... but maybe I’m overthinking it.
ah thanks, had missed that.
How does that jibe with the reality that manufacturing in the US continues to grow? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
I didn't know about readline macros, thanks for mentioning them.

I'll think about it.
More wrongthink.

How unfortunate.
I've interviewed and failed often enough (with google) to know it is never going to happen.
Not when you've modified your center of thrust and center of mass and made an airplane that is no longer aerodynamic.
>I picked NLP in the financial space

This sounds like something that requires a masters degree. How did you manage to prove that you were knowledgeable/skilled in NLP when you got your first job in that space?
FWIW, most racing drones have an axis that they primarily fly in (you don't crab racing drones often), providing a plane in which an identifier could exist. If you make it out of a mesh, it wouldn't even impact flight performance or crash resistance much.
I'd also add that there's LLVM bugs that prevent Rust from getting faster.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57259126/why-does-the-ru...

Theoretically I would argue that Rust could get faster than C, because it can make stronger guarantees about the code that would allow further and much more complex optimizations of the code. You could argue that the set of possible outputs of a piece of C code is much wider than a piece of Rust code and you could compile the code down to some sort of state machine that equivalently represents the original code in a more compact form. The more well defined the outputs are, the more minimal the output representation could be.
Ask HN: How was your first performance review?
How was it? Did you get what you were expecting? Did you regret anything? What would you advise to first timers?
I don't think a consumer can successfully opt out the way you claim. Maybe for an individual company, but how would one opt out of high-fructose corn syrup being in the market? You can drive yourself nuts trying to find only products without it, but the second you eat out or go to a friends' house you will be consuming it. On the other hand, as a citizen, I can vote in politicians who will heavily tax or ban HFCS.

In this (and many other) cases, government is a far more effective lever for change.
I think that you're not acknowledging businesses that don't compete solely on price, like house-cleaning, cigarettes, alcohol, massage, SEO, etc.

Many many businesses would want to keep the extra money that tax breaks afford them. I don't understand how pointing this out is not adding to the conversation.
Inline assembly is possibly one of the most unsafe features available in any HLL. What happens when your inline assembly isn't valid on the target system? Undefined behavior. What happens when your inline assembly does operations that are outside the model of the language? Undefined behavior.
In terms of political power, it will benefit few but the leaders.