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I disagree.

Running for Congress is consistent with his stated goal at the end of the article: "No longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight. As soon as Google executives were asked by Congress about Project Dragonfly and Google’s commitment to free expression and human rights, they assured Congress that the project was exploratory and it was subsequently shut down."

If he ended the article with, "Vote for me! Maine 2020!" It would sound highly self-serving. I believe he simply doesn't see his campaign as relevant to what he's writing here.

This is his retrospective on his time at Google.

He may post other things that combine the two, but this one is clearly focused on the things he experienced while working for one of the largest corporations in the world.
> I'm curious, which Mozilla entity holds the trademark: is it the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation, or is it their for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation?

I never thought about this, but TESS says it's Moco, which is what I'd expect.
Uber isn't even that cheap. My 3 mile, 10 minute Uber-X trips in the South Bay typically cost around $10. That should produce a pretty good wage if the driver utilization was high enough -- as a comparison, that's about triple the cost of say a Didi in Shanghai.
$2000 is enough for me to get a brand new Index, an RX 5700xt, and a ryzen 3600. For reference, my previous VR capable machine was an i5 4440 and an RX 580 8gb with an original Vive. You are misrepresenting what is required to play VR. All you need is a mid range processor newer than 6 years, and a $180 RX 580 or nividia comparable GPU. Vives are selling used for around $300 as people upgrade
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Firefox is creepy AF. I was just listening to "Diamond Ned Flanders" by MadeinTYO on Apple Music, and when I open Firefox the "suggested article" on the front page is about Ned Flanders. That's some Facebook type shit right there. Uninstalled.
> Methane emissions have a much shorter residency time in the atmosphere than carbon. It's literally an order of magnitude difference: methane is significantly worse for a short period, but over the course of a century carbon dioxide is far worse. That lopsidedness gets even worse when you go out to a millenium. Thinking out to a century from now, it's appropriate to more or less ignore methane and focus on carbon dioxide.

1. Methane emissions capture heat energy in the atmosphere, and that heat energy doesn't just disappear after the methane is gone. Methane is also a long-term problem.

2. Methane's residency time ends when it decomposes into carbon dioxide.

Both of these are sort of irrelevant, because we can calculate the long-term effects of methane and see that it does make a significant difference.

> > Actually, we're pretty much screwed no matter what we do, which is why the marginal improvement you're trying to say is acceptable, isn't acceptable.

> "It's unacceptable for ten million people to die, so we shouldn't have a preference between ten and twenty million people dying!"

That's a straw man argument.

If we're parodying each others arguments, how's this for a parody of yours? "It's unacceptable for ten million people to die. Saving ten million people sounds hard though. There's something easy we can do, not sure if it will save any lives, but at least I'm doing something!"

> > Is "fighting for even better solutions" what you think you're doing here?

> As someone who has actually worked full-time on climate solutions and whose carbon emissions are in the bottom 1% of Americans, it's presumptuous of you to assume that you're doing more for the climate because you're regurgitating an article you saw on the Facebook newsfeed.

Good on you for what you're doing on here, but I'm not assuming anything or disagreeing with what you do in your personal life. I'm disagreeing with what you're doing here, on Hacker News, where you're promoting a half-assed non-solution to a catastrophic problem.
I have not. How does it compare, particularly for applications that need X11 to usefully function?
The conservative viewpoint is that the government can never do things as well as companies can, so they like to not provide services.

The reason companies provide healthcare at all is an artifact from WWII when the tax rate was high enough that offering more salary was not enough to attract the limited workers left, so companies started offering other perks that were untaxed. Since the US Constitution being set up in a way as to encourage deadlock if there is not a large majority of agreement, were stuck in a deadlock on moving this forward to a government operated endeavor, and wont do anything to remove it from an employer offered benefit.
Don’t do it like me and overthink it. Just write down all your thoughts informally. Make diagrams by hand. Only once you have most content then think about formatting and structure. A lot of people produce nicely looking docs without much content. I much prefer a bunch of simple notes that describe the thought process
If you only have a few weeks then there might not be any good results: you have to spend time learning the framework and also provide the relevant/ required info.

It is an opportunity to learn and apply it forward to your new job.
It's viewed as a betrayal of whatever ethical/moral core Google claimed to have originally, at least by employees and customers who bought into the hype early on and didn't realize that Google is ultimately just another big tech company with shareholders.

As a former employee it never really surprised me that the company would want to move back into China, but it did surprise me a bit that they were doing so under heavy secrecy. I suppose in practice they were right to want to keep it secret (employees were unhappy) but on the other hand it's impossible to keep secrets in that company so they should have known it would leak eventually.

Microsoft, Apple, etc. doing business in China is unsurprising in comparison since we all know what big tech companies with 10k+ employees are about: Making money.
> It's much less feasible to self-teach computer science and math and so on. A university program will force you to do it even when it's not pleasurable.

I'd wager that computing science autodidacts find study pleasurable for it's own sake. Advanced graduate and post-graduate work notwithstanding, the most advanced math you need to master CS fundamentals (and then some) is the predicate calculus and some analysis. These are nontrivial, but certainly much easier than what one would deal with in a typical pure math undergrad program. They are well within the abilities of an enthusiastic hacker with a solid high school education (up to calc 1) to master from textbooks without coercion.

> As an employer, you see that the applicant has work ethic, knows the cultural norms, can obey orders, can interact with people in the field etc. And also that they have a fundamental knowledge of the field.

As an employer, an autodidact who has mastered the subject has demonstrated to me the ability to be passionate and act on his own initiative. I personally value that higher than a proven track record of conformity and trained obedience. That said, organizations differ, and for many large companies where 90% of the work is busywork, the autodidacts will get bored and leave in short order. So don't hire them if the work is fundamentally pointless salary justification.
>They were able to cash in on this image of moral superiority and principle first for years and it gave them a leg up

okay but honestly how silly is it to take a company's branding to heart? like are we all children that believe in santa claus too?

>do good for the world, and get stinking rich at the same time

i'm old enough now to understand that these two things are mutually exclusive because the latter necessarily involves exploitation (thereby doing net evil rather than net good).
What did these people do before Uber?
Yeah - I remember the claims about upfront pricing being bad / illegal etc.

I think they did upfront pricing because users preferred it - I certainly did.

But you can't do upfront pricing under CA law - the driver has to be able to earn whatever they earn from driving - if they take you on a long route now - they get the extra I think and you are charged the extra.
It's easier to distract people than to give them traction. I think budgeting software would be the best way for a developer to write software which gives traction.
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This is a duplicate post.

The article amounts to an attempt to scare older male tech workers into desiring things like Botox treatments. It is not very convincing especially if you know how-to-code.
The resolution is good enough to read all of the gauges easily. It won't look as nice as a good monitor, but the immersion more than makes up for it. I do notice a screen door with the Reverb. Not bad, but it's there.
...but it's not enough.

With some effort javascript from known sites could be fingerprinted and vetted.

An unexpected change could trigger a warning and blocking.

But with WASM we are really in trouble.
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Is this any different from the bug that was patched in 72.0.1 already?
> “ it's not faster than Windows , nor stabler”

Couldn’t disagree more; ctrl-alt-del gets a LOT of use on every Windows OS and client software combination I’ve ever used - I can’t even remember the equivalent hotkey on MacOS although it’s now been my daily driver for ~2 years of heavy use.
In an employers’ market with no unions and no regulation ensuring a livable wage, many corporations write business plans relying on precisely this kinds of jobs.
Dividends are not a great metric for valuation. There are companies that are operating at a loss but still pay a dividend. Dividends aren't the only way that companies can reward shareholders. Share buy backs tend to be more tax-efficient than dividends.

Outside of oil MPs or Real Estate REITs I'm having a hard time finding any company with a dividend >6%

I will say I agree with your overall thesis that investments should be some function of expected future cash flows
It would be manslaughter via negligence, or something similar to it
This also reminds me of Inferno, which was marketed as an OS for next-gen game consoles and set-top boxes by Lucent back in the 90s. Unfortunately it didn't get very far.
You know Uber started out as this and then switched to upfront pricing right?
If it makes you feel any better, I've the same article on mine with no previous Flanders activity.
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No, the only problem is that the government has access to the records, not that I gave my data to some private company.

It's like saying we shouldn't use cell phones and GPS because if our phones somehow interact with each other, your location data is given to my phone, and then my phone is less secure than yours and leaks both of our info to the government.

The only fault occurring here is the government's decision to gain access to and use this data
Indeed, I don't know why there is such a fuss about it. It's not like the pricing is super shady, it just shows a small range like £12 - £15, to take into account irregularities in traffic.
A tip of the hat and congratulations to this gentleman on his retirement, but this is the part of his (and the American) story that is no more:

> ... he took the job at 19 because his mother knew the hotel’s general manager and they needed a doorman for the summer.

> He’s up for spending more time with his wife, Cindy, a hospitality executive whom he chatted up at a cable car stop about a quarter-century ago, and their four grandchildren.

... by which I mean: a comfortable retirement at 62, grandchildren either nearby or he can afford to visit them, all for an unskilled laborer.

Even if we can't or shouldn't go back to that time (which had plenty of other problems), it's notable to mark the passing of that era of opportunity that was available - albeit only to a subset of people - and think about where we place the bar today for the opportunity to establish a comfortable but modest life.
They weren't the serf class though. Most of the people I know that drive uber, and on the comments on these many of the people that said they were driving uber weren't doing it to make a living they were doing as a little extra spending cash or to meet new people.

Quite frankly anyone that thinks they can suddenly make a decent living off of just driving people around and had that vision of making it rich doing Uber was stupid in the first place. If it is easy enough for anyone to do it then rest assured it won't be lucrative. The corollary is true if something takes great skill and is difficult and people need it then you are probably going to be able quite a bit more. Supply and demand economics 101, if we keep trying to approach economic issues from social perspectives we are going to end up with lots of stupid decisions that cause more problems than the solve. Classic example rent control.
I'd like to agree, but I don't think the exceptions are all that esoteric. Like most people I'd consider XFS to be the default choice on Linux. It's a solid choice all around, and also has some features like project quota and realtime that others don't. OTOH, even in this thread there's plenty of sentiment around btrfs and bcachefs because of their own unique features (e.g. snapshots). Log-structured filesystems still have a lot of promise to do better on NVM, though that promise has been achingly slow to materialize. Most importantly, having generic functionality implemented in a generic subsystem instead of in a specific filesystem allows multiple approaches to be developed and compared on a level playing field, which is better for innovation overall. Glomming everything together stifles innovation on any specific piece, as network/peripheral-bus vendors discovered to their chagrin long ago.
It could also be solved by just ending employer provided insurance. Individual / ACA markets are dysfunctional and expensive in large part due to the fact that most averaged age, healthy adults are in employer only plans.

We have medicare and medicaid. They aren't perfect, but the people who are hurt most by our current setup are the working lower middle class, in particular those who contract or work for small companies that can't afford to setup healthcare benefits.
One common criticism I've heard of benefit corporations is that a hostile takeover or series of leadership changes can result in a situation where the values/goals are just stripped out intentionally, rendering it a normal corporation. Alternately, strip the assets and rights to leave the benefit corporation a husk and transfer everything to a non-benefit corp. It definitely makes me wonder how robust a setup like a B corporation can actually be once unrestrained capitalism gets to act on it for 5-10 years.
And this one doesn't even link to the Medium article, it's some other site that "sources" from it and doesn't even show the author's name. What's the point of write.as?
> Readability is defined by the fact that anyone who understands the language shouldn't need to "know how to read it".

Perhaps then this isn't C, but a language compatible with (at least a few) C compilers.

This language is something you can learn to read as effortlessly as you read other languages (perhaps more so), you simply haven't learned how to read this yet.

If you want to suggest readability is defined in that way and no other, how can someone who does not know this language make a statement about its readability?

I'm not sure I'm convinced with this line of thinking, because it's incredibly exclusionary, just watch:

> I do wonder what advantages you attribute to this style which you think justifies any potential trade-off in [me being unable to read it]? What is gained for such a potential expense?

Why would anyone want your input on something you do not understand?

Why would anyone write in Chinese if you cannot understand Chinese?

What is the point in this kind of definition of "readability"?

Does that make sense? Surely it's much more useful to talk instead about what the capability of the programmer is that can read and write and maintain code written this way, instead of the possible missed opportunities of the programmer that cannot?
suffered. underemployed. Uber is really a 10x+ life improvement if you live in suburbia and cannot drive.
> So it feels like not caring about backward compat is just a self serving easy way out for Apple.

I think there is more to it. I think is because they actually don't want obsolete software to be seen on their computers. Imagine people posting a picture with a Macbook on Instagram, and you see some ugly 1990 piece of software running on it. Not cool. So from time to time they remove whole frameworks, to force developers to re-implement the app in a new one, which is prettier. If no one is still around to maintain the app, that's ok too.

This is why you don't see any ugly software on Macs, they make sure to purge it every 5 years or so.
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Speaking of literature, have you read Edward A. Abbott's 1884 book "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions"? Some of the comments here make me think of Flatlanders!

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201
Not kleenex, no, but open source as a term exists in the same way that escalator does. If the OSI was to change their definition, they would be wrong. The definition has transcended them. I honestly have a hard time understanding how people don't agree with that.
The rolling stone article? I also had it
Let's not fall into the populist trap of painting everything corporations do with the worst intentions while offering no skepticism to someone trying to get our vote.

Both need to be evaluated critically.
Income, not profit.
I think a lot of this has to do with how much self-congratulating google has engaged in over the years around ethics. They set very high expectations, boasted about it, then fell very short.

What you're seeing in people's reactions is disappointment. No one's ever seen Microsoft as an ethical company, so no one bats an eye when they enter the Chinese market and embrace the questionable ethics of the Chinese government.

That doesn't make it right, but it certainly gets less attention.
Maybe eventually uber needs to allow drivers to set prices for themselves, with a large enough market it should proxy surge pricing?
Aiohttp + sqlalchemy
It’s panicking thought to assume that similar culture and malice doesn’t exist at Airbus, just because they haven’t had their public 737 MAX event yet.
> You can override these at the "system" level.

I am not at all interested in a host system level change because a system package can just as easily overwrite my changes there. That occurs frequently enough with other packages (eg, GNOME).

However, I think this is useful information to put into the Dockerfile and make that the system level changes. Thanks!
Do this and the market will speak. I view ridesharing mostly as a luxury/convenience thing. My usage has already began to decline as prices have risen locally. If they start operating like taxis then I'll use them as often as taxis, which is to say rarely.
5 years after my app made Hacker News front page
This is how cabs work in many countries.
> good degrees teach independence, critical thinking (analysis, synthesis), research skills, writing, teamworking, presentation skills, and much more.

Sadly there aren't a lot of those. Most degrees teach regurgitating what a textbook says in a fancy way that means you pass the "I understood it" test.
"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."

The monkeys will ruthlessly suppress any evidence that they are monkeys or that they supervise clowns.
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The problem is almost everyone in the US uses credit cards etc -> so having the driver handle the money is not easy - it almost always will need to go through someone else (usually a merchant gateway, merchant processor etc.).

Taxi's do it by saying the credit card machine is "broken" to avoid the merchant / middleman charge - is that what you are proposing?

If the drivers process all the amounts gross will they properly deduct the commissions paid to uber / lyft?

I actually like the idea - just you are putting a fair bit on the drivers -> merchant accounts, chargeback handling and dispute resolution, etc. And you generally need good credit to manage all this.
Dug into Java grinder a bit, pretty crazy to see Java code pushing pixels at a decent (20 fps?) framerate on C64 and earlier hardware.
Tests should be deterministic, with a goofy Gusto counter-example
Absolutely, and I don’t participate in that. It’s going to ruin it for all of us and all I can say is I’m glad I’ve already been able to get several years out of my lifetime PlexPass.

I’m speculating that the rise of Jellyfin is/will be because of the coming crackdown on Plex and Emby. Github and other repository services will eventually begin shunning Jellyfin much the way Popcorntime was pushed to shadier corners of the web.

In the end this is all driven by the media companies refusing to deliver an easy and reasonably priced way to have access to most video content.
There's a question to be asked, though: Is it not PR nonsense just because employees believe it enough to act on it?

Or put another way: If it's really something the company believed in, why didn't the early moves out of China come from the top down ('do no evil' is a company philosophy so obviously the company heads like larry and sergey would be on board, right?) and why didn't the modern moves back in get rejected by the company heads?

In practice it seems like it was aspirational ('let's be nice!') instead of a true mantra or rule or even a guideline. If it was really core from the beginning would they really have dropped it wholesale?
Disagree: the team owns the retrospective, not the Scrum master. If team members aren't happy with what the Scrum master is doing, that should be addressed in the retrospective.
Most people aren’t going to/from the airport.
The only way I've thought of so far is to create a not-for-profit. Your not-for-profit can still make money. But since no one owns equity, no one has incentive to optimize for profit over values.
Cmd-Opt-Esc on a Mac is analogous to Ctrl-Shift-Esc on a Windows machine (Cmd-Alt-Del brings you back to the login page with a button to open task manager on post-Vista Windows PCs).
Presumably the rate chart of the cab is known. It's not a random number that springs on you months after the ride with no real logic other than 'this is how it be'.
> 0] By the way, the .ORG version for my domain name was available years ago, but I wasn't a non-profit, so felt i didn't want to grab it; happily allowing any true, legitimate non-profit to scoop it up. My mental jury is still out on whether that was a wise decision that i made or not. Because of recent news of the .ORG registry, maybe I'll make a separate post on this topic.

Not that it matters, but in my mind, .COM stood for commercial businesses, .NET stood for networks/isps, and .ORG stood for the rest. Do you have any real relation to the Cocos islands? That's less acceptable to me than putting yourself in .ORG.
Oculus Quest is $400, which is cheaper than original NES.
I guess my question is how did he win the competition if he doesn't have enough knowledge to pass the interview? Maybe the interviews really aren't great at actually discerning who can create great DL models? I mean it's possible there are other reasons as well - but the guy objectively beat a bunch of credentialed people in an open competition.
This is interesting... not heard of this. Any pointers/links to more info on this?
Well that’s good for the customer
/s
This is precisely how business is practiced in the US. It's damning, yes.

But it should surprise no one.
However you try to spin it, your point is that it is their own fault.