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There's little reason to commit a whole Arduino board to a project when you can easily flash the Arduino bootloader onto an ATMega and embed one in your gadget. I think I own exactly two Arduinos: an UNO SMD edition that I use for flashing bootloaders on ATMegas and programming ATTinys, and a regular UNO that I stuck a ZIF socket on that I use to program ATMegas.
> Get rid of right to work statutes.

Meaning that you're fine with me being required to join a union in order to work? No. I'd rather have the freedom to choose for myself, even if it means I have to give the same freedom to others.
Bloomreach | Backend Engineer, Solutions Architect, Solutions Consultant | Full-time, onsite | Dallas, TX

The platform team I am part of at Bloomreach is looking for two backend engineers to join our current team of 7.

We are responsible for getting reliable and high quality digital experience data from the largest commerce brands on the internet into Bloomreach with low latency. This is the core data depended upon to power our search, recommendations, analytics, and insights systems.

Bloomreach is unique in Dallas in that we are one of only a handful of successful Silicon Valley startups with a local presence building core software products. We aren’t a legacy large enterprise, we aren’t a consulting shop, and we aren’t a fly-by night startup.

Responsibilities

- Own and operate BloomReach’s Hadoop-based search indexing pipelines

- Build infrastructure and tools to increase automation, improve efficiency of the engineering team, and maintain technical excellence in the code base

- Write and review code, develop documentation, and debug production issues

Who you are

- You have a strong background in developer operations and reliability engineering

- You are comfortable working with and contributing to complex distributed systems, in a cloud native environment, such as AWS

- You are at home with unix, tcp/ip, the JVM, and observability systems

- You can code in at least one scripting language and one non-scripting language

- You can configure and support common applications such as Postgres, DNS, HAProxy, NFS, SFTP

The Dallas engineering office was started four years ago. The office soon expanded to nearly all other functions, including sales, marketing, professional services, customer success, and information security. Today there are total of 40 of us.

We are located at 2211 N. Lamar in the historic coffee roaster building in Victory Park, just north of Downtown, with convenient access to all transit lines and major highways. We cater lunch on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, with a fully stocked snacks and drinks.

I’d highly encourage you to reach out directly and say hi and we can strike up a conversation: stormy@bloomreach.com.

We also have opportunities on our professional services team as a Solutions Architect and Solutions Consultant and I’d gladly refer you to those opportunities.
Disabling JS should disable WebAssembly. Otherwise there is also `javascript.options.wasm` in Firefox.
I beg your pardon, ITYM "Road Runner".
That sounds pretty great, have never heard of another company doing something like that.
As does BECTU in the UK to encourage diversity - that's the equivalent of IATSE
> Microsoft, IBM, Oracle... What is the other one?

Cisco, of course.
ITU is under the United Nations, so it's more like the WTO.

I feel like that's the way ICANN should have gone, and it is probably worth it to just buy out the organization and put it under the UN. Either that or some version of decentralized DNS is going to start looking really attractive and ICANN will become the equivalent of a failed state.
Layman here. I agree, viewing it as a "turing tape" highly misleading - however, I believe the general idea of viewing a cell as a sort of microprocessor with the DNA being the "firmware" is still useful - at least it gave me a better understanding of what kind of information is stored in the DNA at all.

Of course, if we stay with that analogy, DNA would not be a "series of instructions" but would more resemble a huge, unordered set of "if/then" rules or "trigger/action" pairs - the "actions" being protein-coding sequences and the "triggers" being their regulatory sequences.

The actual behavior of the cell is then determined by the interation of those rules and the effects of the coded proteins.
That's because they're overpriced heavily marketed Bluetooth earbuds pushed by the biggest brand.

I bet almost any of apples products could be similarly compared.
Are airpods really worth it or is it just marketing
I'm still surprised that it took so long to get wireless earbuds that didn't suck. I guess battery/power technology was just never in a place to make them feasible, but it still feels like it took a really long time. I remember when the Jawbones first hit the market thinking like, really? Is this the best we can do? Those things were huge.

Then we get airpods and I'm sort of stunned how small they actually are. I just wish the battery was more easily replaceable.
Creating a successful hardware product, especially one that becomes a fashion symbol, is sooo much harder than creating software. Orders of magnitude harder. They are now taking the profits from their success.
Apple Ecosystem, Apple's way - create a problem and a solution at the same.

I wonder what's the ratio among the owners, who bought vs. who received them as a gift.
I really liked the individualism of the audio spotlight [0] but I have never seen one in use yet.

[0] https://www.holosonics.com/
Now do people 25-35 that are buying in todays market. That might take you longer than 30 seconds though.
What intrigues me more than the features of the AirPods -- especially the new AirPods Pro -- is that these little things have the potential to be a platform to themselves: https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2019/11/19/airpods-are-bec...
Wish there was a way for public investors to invest in certain parts of a publicly traded company. If I believe in a certain project at Apple or Google, I want to fund it and get returns on my investment.
> financial services company, is probably obligated to retain records. GDPR defers to these obligations.

Gee - how long until the GDPR-o-crats demand a fine from a company (possibly the "right to be forgotten" thing), and the company then uses the defense that "we would have destroyed the information, except for some other EU regulation.. You figure your own way out of that logical puzzle!"
English is not my first language but even I can spot some rough edges in the copy. Probably translated by a non-native, and they read like AliExpress’ product pages: trying to be inspiring but in reality just confusing.
I'd say networking was not incredibly difficult to predict, but the businesses and products it allowed for (and how we use them) was very difficult.
Impressive figures no doubt, but in my opinion flawed to consider Airpods as a standalone business and compare to other businesses. It's so successful specifically because Apple built bespoke chips, software, and integration across their ecosystem for the Airpods. This is something a brand new company building just the Airpods product would never be able to accomplish.
No I was thinking about an AMD system from https://system76.com/desktops
> "A third way in in a more nebulous “leadership” role that doesn’t have “manager” in the title, e.g. “Architect,” or “Principal Engineer.”

As a technical lead (getting into my 40s soon) I try to think of myself as an chief enabler / support net: Let the team figure out implementation, support them as they go where they get out of their depth - and protect them from DIRECT trickle down BS/interruptions from management or clients.

This has worked pretty well for me thus far, but I've really got no idea if this is a solid approach or way of thinking.

I'm curious to know anyones thoughts?
What portion of the implementations have to fall victim to the exact same misbehavior before, in your opinion, it’s plausible to suggest that the issue is a foot-gun on the part of the overall standard/ecosystem?
It’s a step on the same path that led to being able to spoof a CA for MD5 signed certs.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2008/12/30/md5-c...
> [...] but they're just scripts he has on his system. Personally I'd prefer to use the ubiquitous commands that work everywhere than rely on having custom scripts on my system [...]

Is okay for one to have their own tools.

$ f() { printf "\$%s" "$1"; }
$ echo a b c | awk '{ print $(f 2) }'

His system is not very different from mine or yours. He just chose to combine the tools in a specific way.
It was both actually.

It would have failed CFR 25.175 or some such, on the wind-up turn when the control stick force curve inverted at high AoA due to extra nacelle lift. Happens in high speed wind-ups, and low speed regimes as well, which is a no-no for civilian transport aircraft. They had to take care of that to even get it certified for people carrying, and do it in a way that wouldn't cause the FAA to come back and require simulator training. That caused the single-sensor input decision, which ended up representing a single point of failure with catastrophic consequences in it's original form. Another no-no.

The other facet you mentioned, was the reasoning behind the system (to get it grandfathered), and to make it possible to avoid simulator training, and only have to provide pilot's with a 1 hour glorified PowerPoint course to bring them up to speed with handling the aircraft, which had no mention of the MCAS system to boot.

It isn't exactly the easiest thing to keep track of.
I can't wait for micro LED displays to become mainstream.

IMHO OLED displays are analogous to Plasma displays back in the day: A new tech that enabled many new form factors (Thinner TVs) but had many key drawbacks like power consumption and burn-in. The same is the case with OLED, which enables new form factors like foldable displays, but brings its own issues.

I've been actively avoiding OLED displays for all my purchases due to its major current drawback: Burn-in. As beautiful as OLED displays may be with color and contrast, I have seen plenty of TV displays and phones with a permanently burned-in image of something that remained static for too long such as network logos, and status bars. My previous employer used beautiful 80" Samsung displays for their conference rooms, all of which were ruined in little over a year.

This matters a lot to me because I use my TV for gaming, which involves static menus that will burn OLED displays if you're not careful.

This is not something current LED displays are prone to, and I'm hoping micro LED displays work the same way.
Infections were a major cause of death, including in infants. Also starvation, violence and the elements.

You can argue that those who survived infections, the elements, violence and starvation were in much better shape to survive everything else.

Also contrary to popular belief, cardiovascular disease happened before modern times, and even if we might be talking of Neolithic only, this happened even in hunter gatherer populations. Found these pretty interesting:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

In modern times what we have is much less violence, vaccines, antibiotics, a healthcare system capable of healing injuries or restore you after heart attacks, etc and in spite of prevailing beliefs we’ve got proper nutrition and at least in the industrialized countries we aren’t dying of starvation or nutritional deficiencies anymore.

Our problem is “energy poisoning”. Once we figure out how to not eat so damn much, we’ll eliminate most chronic disease we have today.
Yep, seeing the effect of $.50 instead of $1 for trials when there are are lot more users & trials was really enlightening. I'll most likely do that. I could even not provide bank syncing for trials, or require a credit card. Will do something like that.

Definitely going annual as well - tempted to go only annual, but we'll see.
Because is the entrainment BiZ, there are super arcane rules about tv and film credits for example.
Your alternative puts workers in a straitjacket of having to belong to a union to work certain places. You say it's for their good. But all I see is the straitjacket.
People like Bill Gates are just lucky they were born liking programming and accruing power as much as some other people are born liking video games.
That isn't a house at all.

It's an apartment condo. Worse yet, the land itself is leased from a different owner.

Start with the idea that you own the land and the building, and that you can walk around the building while staying on land that you own. Ideally you would also have mineral rights, the right to drill a well, and similar. You should have the right to bulldoze the building, paint it any color, add brick facing, add gargoyles, or install a triangular front door.
Any competent dev will be functional in Dart in days. Flutter really is fantastic, I like being in Dart 90% of the time, no XML, no Storyboard. Currently employed on a Flutter project, hopefully jobs aspects improve.
Sony displayed something similar at CES a couple of years ago. Didn't notice it until I stood very close. https://pro.sony/en_MK/products/led-video-walls
It has evolved in the standard as well as the implementations. It is a bit silly to claim that the current thing is bad because there was a program once with a similar name.
They are worth it for me, but it depends on what you want in a headphone, and your mileage may vary.
What wealth did he gain from being restrained by union rules? What benefit did he get from being collared?

You can't claim unions lift workers and then rope them in from opportunity with the other hand.
I think there is a more fundamental question here with DC models: human nature.

If you tell people to shut up and pay and we'll assure the outcome, they can do that. Thats DB.

If you give people an "account" (even with good default investments), people have to manage that. They have to fill it up when they have a bad year, with actual cash from their current accounts. They have to ignore their brother in laws who put all the money in enron and made a bomb and tells you you're an idiot for sticking low fees. They have to pay attention and watch out for changes to fees or laws. And they have to start moving the money to lower risk items and plan 5+ years ahead to retire. And even then, that's just getting the index fund strategy right. The strategy may fail. They have to put money in when a market goes down and take it out when a market goes up.

I doubt very much that people will succeed at that. That's the core flaw in the DC model.

Personally I think that sort of work is better done centrally.
> Except that people in a corporation are there to pay rent and NOT exercise political speech.

If I may use a colloquialism: wat.

You seem to have a very narrow view of what qualifies as a corporation.

I wish you would address the principled arguments I made regarding liberty instead of simply reasserting, "Corporations aren't people!"
"You're not wrong, but I suggest you go out and measure the latency of pro audio wireless systems that have proprietary and specialized low-latency audio codecs."

I have a Shure wireless guitar/microphone transmitter - latency purely determined by device distance as it's totally analog and doesn't need/use a codec. That's pro-level audio equipment from the early 90s ($250 back then.) Literal atmosphere-limited light speed.

Today's stuff is literal garbage. Even the latest Shure wireless stuff can't keep up with the higher frequencies on my guitar and attenuates/dampens them.
Isn't that cart before the horse? The concept of investing is taking a risk. If you want to invest in only successful products after they're developed, there's no wealth delta to be a part of.
I have really enjoyed using my pairs (had a 1st gen, bought the 2nd gen later on for the much quicker connections). They work absolutely amazingly with my iPhone, iPad, Macbook Pro. The switchover is mostly glitch free, and I can pair them to "standard bluetooth devices" pretty easily (like my complex's gym equipment). I think the investment has been pretty great, but you have to own products that make sense with them (at least an iPhone, iPad, or Macbook).
Another option which looks interesting: https://github.com/jmespath/jp

I haven't used it yet, but the syntax seems simpler than some.
U.S. Launches Fresh Assault on Apple’s ‘Warrant-Proof Encryption’
Facebook’s Bosworth – “Thoughts on 2020”
"hardcore jerk" is someone that isn't interested in the bottom line of some capitalist while seeking one's happiness.
Samsung leave TVs alone
Oh totally, I just wanted to clarify for anyone reading that my incorrect interpretation was what I first came up with. I also have a lot of problems talking with others who think that only the scale changing isn't that big of a deal, when that's the biggest deal, and makes it all something entirety new fundamentally.
The Sea Peoples were real, and so was the Bronze Age collapse. There's no need to speculate about Atlantis when we know that there was a very real epidemic of Mediterranean civilizations collapsing due to pressure from invaders.
I wasn't entirely sure if the previous commenter was confused or merely saying things in a confusing way. The fact is that with a small entropy pool and a leaky mechanism like RC4, you absolutely can run out of entropy.
These utopian goals turn into dystopias.
Dear god. That's impressive.
What about Venmo for beggars. Cities in the UK have foreign beggars camped outside every grocery store near the city centres. Locals do not know what to make of this. Are they desperately poor, or part of a scam to exploit people’s generosity? Do they make £10 per day or £200? What can the authorities do if there’s no law against it?

If there was a sort of begging venmo app where you could donate money, but it only worked up to a certain limit each day, then at least you’d know the public was not being exploited by professional beggars, and genuine beggars would see a bigger share of the public’s generosity.

It could even go further and show what the money gets spent on (in aggregate), so we could definitively answer debates like whether beggars spend all their money on drugs/alcohol.
> create a problem and a solution at the same

"Wires are annoying" and "other Bluetooth headphones suck" were not problems created by Apple.
Why only mention fake news and trolls that supposedly helped Trump and his supporters? It's as if there's none of this on the other side.
> Engineers in industry use Real Dev to stay updated to the latest trends and technical stack.

(list of lever robinhood adobe wish reddit husto box dropbox color coursera flexport with their logos)

Impressive, how did you manage to grab so many users (I guess?) from there? What incentives them to use Real Dev?

Also, not sure I understand how they use Real Dev to stay updated. It seems Real Dev gives you assignments to complete, how does that help?
No, but they do have an interest in getting their software and protocol into these devices with Spotify Connect.

I'm personally really happy with this because the implementation is really slick. They're using their leverage on smart speaker makers to support them rather than the reverse because they can -- and the result from a user perspective is really nice since there's no weird compatibility issues. You either speak the connect protocol or you don't.

https://spotify-everywhere.com/
If. And if they can do so without other adverse effects.
Suppose your system uses SHA-1 hashes for codesigning verification (e.g. to load a system driver). I create an innocent-looking device driver and convince a signing authority to sign it. However, secretly I've created a malicious driver (e.g. a rootkit) which collides with my innocent one. Now, I can load the malicious one on your machine - which the signing authority has never seen - using the signing certificate of the legitimate one.

This might sound far-fetched; after all, you'd need to convince a signing authority to sign the code. But this is pretty much exactly how Apple's Gatekeeper verification works: your software is submitted to them, and they do some security checks and notarize your bundle (https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/), and I'm sure there's many more such examples out there.
The Principia Mathematica was surely one of the most useful wrong-turns in history.
Still no pinch to zoom. No chance on macOS.
In LCD or OLED displays, most of the display area emits light. There are black lines between the pixels, but they are thin, so it's hard to hide a seam in one. In contrast, the micro LEDs on this display are very small relative to the distance between them, "micrometer scale" vs. almost a millimeter. Most of the display area is actually a blank black surface, where a seam can be hidden.

Making smaller displays this way will be a challenge as the pixels will have to get closer together.
Please don't feed the cancer which is AMP.

https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/30/md5-collision-creates-rogu...
Yes. This is an extremely contrived angle on a terrible regulation.

Zoos: will they create a thriving new economy for animal cages? We report, you decide!

Outline any hypothetical new regulation and of course there will be someone who specializes in helping you comply with it. Straight-up broken window fallacy.
The metadata was merely additional evidence that will be used to convict him (EDIT: extract a plea). It's not as if they investigated and the MS Word metadata led them to the culprit.
How do you know these services do better than the market given that they are monopolistic (as in: the government doesn't allow for competition)?
Spoken language evolved, it wasn't invented.
The core of it is that it means a malicious document will pass the check of authenticity when you are using the genuine signature. Someone could tamper with a mirror infect you that way. Absolutely no tampering with the signature would be required, which is what makes this dangerous. Basically, it can be used to send to entirely fake data that you can't tell is fake.

Or someone could say that you have your legally binding signature attached to a contract with hash ABC, but then present a different contract with hash ABC but very different terms.

Those are the end state. This is a major step closer to that end state. Neither of those scenarios are the case today, but they're now close enough that it's a matter of time. And likely not a lot of time.

Time to abandon SHA1.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21545374 (3 months ago)
Most people are too nice in reviews. You probably won’t get better as a result.

Respect people who give it to you straight, even if it costs you the ego stroke of a promotion. Your career is a marathon, so your first performance review is like the first half mile - focus on your process, and getting better, rather than being ahead of the competition.

The only good performance reviews I’ve gotten are when I evaluated myself. But of course, those are laden with bias.
And yet the alternative is not being allowed to work unless you donate money to extraordinarily political organizations who lobby for policies you may actively oppose.

Sorry, but I’m going to call the compelled speech option far more dystopian than right to work.
If that's your critique of the private sector, what about governments? I agree that those things are problems, but we're not comparing to an ideal state -- we're comparing to another deeply flawed thing. At least individual choice gets me something in the private sector.
The government should work like that with taxes. Instead of just giving 100% to whatever the government decides it wants to fund, 20% could be reserved to go to what people want it to go to. Have some participation in the tax paying.

More interesting and better for the world if we apply that to governments rather than companies :)
I have a pair of Airpods. What bugs me most is that le lithium battery is not replaceable, and will degrade after a couple years. which makes these a high-end throwaway device...