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Artistic expression, human rights and freedom are concepts with huge overlap.
I've always rented from Hertz because they've historically been the least hassle, if more expensive than Enterprise.

I live in downtown Toronto and don't own a car. I use car sharing for local needs, but the traditional car rental companies for when I need to leave the city. Enterprise has been consistently terrible. On multiple occasions I've had to wait hours past my scheduled pick-up time due to either understaffing, overbooking, and/or due to other events. Enterprise apparently has a deal with insurance companies where they loan cars after accidents. I once had to wait 12 hours for a car as they were over-booked due to accidents after a snow storm. One time I was rear-ended in an enterprise-rented car. The other person's insurance dealt with the damages, but 18 months later they called me up, demanding payment for the time the car was in the shop.

I used to rent from national/alamo as they would rent to me w/o mandatory extra insurance when I was under 25. They were bought out by enterprise and almost immediately went downhill.

Hertz has always had a car available when promised. I can also take the rentals across the border to the US w/o extra fees. Twice they had to upsize my car for whatever reasons and they gave me a discount to deal with the greater fuel consumption.

As somebody who is a loyal Hertz customer, I worry what the company will look like after the bankruptcy.
I don't have family but I do have a lot of friends over there in the US. Several of them used to have your nonchalant view of "all this won't affect me". None of them have it today anymore. One is leaving the US.

> Media is supposed to be divisive.

Oof. This is on the same level as hearing "my SO is supposed to hit me when I'm wrong". Media is supposed to be neutral and bring you the facts. Your media clearly doesn't do that, but it's certainly not supposed to be that way.

You're trying to "keep things in perspective" because you think you're arguing with people who believe you're North Korea. If I believed that, I wouldn't be wasting my time arguing, because by that point it would be too late. Things are really bad for the US right now, and they're headed for worse. You can keep arguing about exactly how bad it is, or you can start to think about how you can help prevent them from getting worse.
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Regardless of location, Facebook is hiring from demographics that typically don't support Trump. Young, STEM-educated people skew left.

If you want Trump supporters to even things out you're probably going to either: A) hire older devs from less traditional software dev backgrounds. B) Still pull from Young+STEM but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish.
Illegal is nebulous, there are two aspects to it, criminal and civil. Civil liability is the one that's most in play here, since criminal content like CP or threats of violence are more easily recognizable. Defamation and libel lawsuits can be problematic, and you can be sued by celebrities and politicians for defamation. Even if you win it, the lawyer fees, and the inconvenience of dealing with the courts etc. isn't worth it at all.
To go to STEM a person shouldn't be very social to begin with, so social conditioning traditionally doesn't register with them as a problem.
I think it's more dangerous to allow them to stick around because of a misguided sense of charity.

> What would this person have to do to remove a negative label you've associated with them?

First, let's stop right here. You're using weasely language to try to make it sound like noticing someone has said bigoted things, and kicking them from the community for it, is some kind of mistake, as if the bigotry was the fault of the moderator, rather than the bigot.

Place blame where it belongs: if someone says something sexist, someone noticing that they appear to be sexist is fully the responsibility of the person who said the sexist things.

Let's reword what you said in a way that makes sense:

> What would the bigoted poster have to do to convince you they're no longer a bigot? (at least as far as internet posting goes)

There, much better.

Depends on what they said, of course. If they said something racist, I would expect an earnest acknowledgement of that, that racism is bad, etc. As well as evidence from posting elsewhere on Reddit that they've reformed.
And what fascism is there to oppose in the first place? Not including the non-fascist kind of fascism the unhinged blue checkmarks have invented to fit their narratives.
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On haveIbeenpwned (at least last time I used it), you can either check the hash of your password, or the first N characters and it will return a list of leaked passwords that match
I feel like half of what's here points to using rust or a rust like language as a good thing. Even I suppose C++ if you can use the pointer types to help yourself.
Been happening forever. When OS/2 was invented we met with them, talked about licensing some of their tech. Showed them our stuff including our 'Context Manager', an app that let a microcomputer manage several apps at once.

Fast forward 6 months - OS/2 had a Context Manager, looked and worked identically to ours. Sigh. What can you do? Good ideas are not patentable.
Look into the connections between {FB, Google, Twitter, ...} and CIA, NSA.

People here harp on Palantir like they’re the only bad actor. You are either clueless or playing stupid when it comes to acknowledging who is running the show.

So his employees being concerned, and taking their nonsense to Twitter is an amusing farce at most.
I'm one of the founders, the first unit used a prototype EPD from E Ink Holdings, a custom display with around $500k in NRE was developed for a Macbook size keyboard module.
This single large display with a magnetic mechanism operating around the footprint meant the total unit cost in COGS was significantly lower than $100USD at scale.
The entire mechanism was only a few mm in height including the display. The travel and tactile profile was designed to a butterfly switch mechanism spec.
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Looks pretty useful.
I get asked what university I attended, and when I tell them they always follow by asking where it is, as it's a foreign no-name university with no particular international standing. I'm always asked more as a curiosity than because they're judging me.

As far as undergraduate degrees go, most universities teach you the same thing, the only difference is that some universities are more selective in who can attend than others. I learned the same material at the University of Canterbury down at the bottom of the world in New Zealand as what undergrads learn at Stanford.

I guess it's a bit different if you live in a country where there's competitive university entry, in New Zealand most universities simply require that finished high school to enter, you pick you university for lifestyle reasons (usually either because it's close to home or because you want to escape home). I've discovered that here in Australia there's much more of a hierarchy of which university you attended, as admissions are much more competitive. I guess that's what happens when you have 6 universities in the same city.
i would ask you the same thing

you have never met me, but seem to know a whole lot about what i do and do not know

how did you get this information about me, and how do you know it is true? or are you just making a bunch of baseless assumptions?
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> It’s similar if you compare Seattle with Vancouver, BC - it’s only a 2-hour drive away, but salaries for the same work are around 50-66% of Seattle’s.

USA-ian in Canada here, still technically a WA resident too -- compensation isn't normally that bad, the ~40% currency difference is what really hurts. Normally the Vancouver-Seattle difference isn't as pronounced, though it's still skewed heavily towards Seattle.

The biggest difference, IMO, is that housing in the Vancouver area is crazy expensive, way more than Seattle, and completely out of sync for local salaries.
> People should also adopt the "five" [sic] vs [sic] "niner" idiom

I assume you mean 'fife' and? Also not just from aviation, general (military) radio, and other uses of the NATO phonetic alphabet.

It used to be fi-ive (rhyming 'I seive') but changed, I believe/as I recall, due to sounding too close to 'fire'.
> but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish.

Hiring based on political beliefs, or in this case, presumed political beliefs, sounds like a dangerous road to go down.
And I am saying this as a young, STEM-educated person who skews left.
[This is a rough summary of the video, which explains things much more clearly and thoroughly (using animated plots). I have no affiliation with the creators of the video.]

The goal is to be able to quickly solve a particular mini-game (Sploosh Kaboom) in the game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (WW). Sploosh Kaboom is like a 1 player version of battleships.

WW uses the Wichmann-Hill random number generator, and always seeds it with (100, 100, 100). A single generator is used globally for all kinds of things, and each call causes the generator state to update.

One of the things the generator is used for is to determine the (hidden) position of the 'squids' in Sploosh Kaboom.

However, on average, each frame of WW calls Wichmann-Hill dozens of times. It isn't possible to know exactly where in the sequence of generated numbers we are.

However, given the time that the game has been running for, and the first state of the game Sploosh Kaboom, it is possible to massively narrow down the estimate of where in the random number generator the game is (although there may be multiple gaussian curves on the line of possible positions in the sequence).

By then trying out different squares on the Sploosh Kaboom board it is possible to determine where in the sequence of random numbers we are, and determine the state of the board before it is fully revealed (allowing the mini-game to be beaten).
Watch one of his videos explaining how his flight computers work. If you still think he's just "making rocket housings" afterwards, thats fine. But watch a video first: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg
That sounds unfair. Of course you very accustomed to working with tools you work with every day, especially if they're good. You'll also never find a 1:1 match between companies though and not-bad people can switch between systems as needed. Unless you need an intermediate level boilerplate writer ready to go with tech X and Y from day 1, it should be fine.

Why not say: These are people experienced with systems that work well. Maybe they can bring those workflows over and improve the company when they come here.
My personal favorite from my time in the Marines didn't seem to make the list. Interrogative. Nothing more frustrating than to ask a time-sensitive question and be met with silence.
Thanks! I just looked that up and was going to post. Beat me to it!

So it is very different - a li-ion battery anode is a tiny part of the battery. A lead-acid battery, its a much larger component.
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I was looking through this magazine for inspiration for a fun project. I've been a hobbyist for 40-something years, and still like to daydream about 'cool things to build'.
Then one of the projects caught my eye, and I saw a real-world/real-use for it related to Amateur Radio. And then I saw more, and more!

At the end, I see that a fellow Amateur Radio was a previous owner.
So it has me more interested now.

Thanks for sharing.
I'm one of the founders, E Ink displays have their display drivers on their glass substrate, meaning you would have a border that on a single key display would be too significant. We went with one large display with only one driving board for the entirety of the keys. This greatly reduced the unit cost to have one large EPD than 80+ small ones.
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They need to stop filtering period. Their so called "fact checkers" are wrong more than they are right and there is no way to report it easily.
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High school was a total disaster. I talked my way into the co-op program, and got an internship at a security company. I was only taking 4 classes my senior year. I did go to college for almost 12 weeks, but it wasn't working out.

I am honestly jealous of the people who say they valued their university experience. I really wish I could have enjoyed formal education that much.

My life was funded by the ability to walk into software development jobs. If I were born 5 years later, I would be a different (probably non-functioning) person.
>Yes, America presumes innocence.

Does the USA do trials for the dead people?
Even if it wasn't ... If the energy density and mass density of a sodium battery are between lead-acid and lithium-ion, then an equally capable battery would weigh somewhere in-between.
What if you donate on behalf of a charity and which ever charity has most donations gets the entire pot?
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Just to be explicit, I don't take sides, I'm not interested in advancing any argument and I am skeptical of most claims. This goes doubly so for the extreme partisan takes, which are generally unreasonable. I'm sorry this disclaimer is seemingly necessary.

My personal views are secondary to the point of my comment, which was: Perhaps we should consider both sides?
> I don't have family but I do have a lot of friends over there in the US. Several of them used to have your nonchalant view of "all this won't affect me". None of them have it today anymore. One is leaving the US.

I don't know what to tell you then. Consider getting more friends in the US if you want a realistic view of the country.

> Oof. This is on the same level as hearing "my SO is supposed to hit me when I'm wrong". Media is supposed to be neutral and bring you the facts. Your media clearly doesn't do that, but it's certainly not supposed to be that way.

No, news is supposed to be neutral. And again: if you're only getting one perspective, you're not getting others. It sounds like you've already heard all you want to.

> You're trying to "keep things in perspective" because you think you're arguing with people who believe you're North Korea. If I believed that, I wouldn't be wasting my time arguing, because by that point it would be too late. Things are really bad for the US right now, and they're headed for worse. You can keep arguing about exactly how bad it is, or you can start to think about how you can help prevent them from getting worse.

I think a key sign of a successful society is when people are free to (and do) protest issues that are not nearly as serious as they think they are. It's not a sign of failure, it's a sign of success.

If you step out of the media bubble, you might realize COVID-19, police brutality, and racism aren't nearly as bad as portrayed--at least in the vast majority of areas. But don't let that compromise your view.
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Agreed, the violence now will likely do much more harm than good.
Yes, the "them" refers to the users. If you have users of a binary server, you must allow those users to download the source code. You do not need to allow anyone who is not a user to do so, though.

Edit (programmer needs sleep badly): Clearly it doesn't have to be a binary. It's any executable over a network. But you don't have to give the source cod to everyone, that's really my only point :-)
Interestingly, the initial article [0] is still alive and updated. The most recent addition was about Go. I'm always impressed by how many people do things with this language. It seems to really hit a sweet spot for small to big tools.

[0]: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Single-board computer, like a Raspberry Pi.
Maybe, the government should get involved in monopolistic Big Tech. Isn't that what HN users are always wanting?

I'm sure the Trump administration will get right on that.

Just like now that the President is pressuring Twitter, HN users are up in arms. Be careful what you ask for.....
Rest in peace. He was by far my favorite wrapper.
You seem to be reading an implied meaning I wasn't intending into my comment. My point, which you seem to be agreeing with while somehow also disagreeing at the same time is that it's not the ease of access to firearms that's driving violence, it's other societal factors. Nowhere did I say anything about overall population being a driver of violence.

I really hate how I find myself having to go to greater and greater lengths to disclaim my words around here to not have them twisted or stretched to imply something.

US murder and incarceration rates are more or less solely caused by the war on drugs. Once you remove people who are involved in the manufacture, transportation and sale of illicit substances from the crime stats the place looks a lot like the better parts of western Europe.

Yes, wealth equality, social mobility and healthcare have a hell of a lot of room for improvement but they are not the driver of violence in the US. Forcing a multi-billion dollar industry to exist outside the law is what is driving violence.
Not a chemist, but apparently even in its stable isotopes the nucleus is barely holding together.
You missed my point entirely. It doesn't matter whether you think you care. Pride, chest-puffing and posturing don't matter either.

The outside world has a habit of affecting things whether you pay attention to them or not.
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I wonder, has anything changed at Amazon since Tim Bray left?
Ask HN: Simple Two Sided Marketplace Model
Hi – I am trying to solve a problem I am experiencing at work. Essentially I need a simple solution that 1. allows for stakeholders (in our case managers, or others it could be a customer) to place a request for a niche service 2. I would then like that niche service request to get pushed out to a pool of vendors that we've vetted to be able to perform x niche service. There are obviously other logistics such as paying the vendor after etc and on-going booking management but I can't seem to understand why such a product doesn't exist. I've seen things like ShareTribe and Launch27 but nothing that is as simple as this. I almost envision an intake form sheet --> pumped into Trello --> alert pool of people if a card hits within a certain list --> allow the person interested to claim and complete the job --> payment issued.

Does anyone know of such a simple service marketplace? Many of the options out there overcomplicate this.
Wholly incorrect, Sec 230 was in direct response to 2 lawsuits and mainly in respond to Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co

It was not about "quoting someonelse"

As far as recent efforts to "manufacture outrage" one would have to be completely bias or willfully ignorant to not see the clear political bias that is shown by silicon valley in the modern area of politics

Many of these companies have executives in power that have publicly stated their desire to manipulate the election in favor of their political ideology

Aside from that normal everyday moderation has a clear political bias to it.

So I do not believe the outrage is "manufactured" at all
Yeah. As someone who is frequently the only female in a group at work, it’s more distressing for someone to say “hey guys... and women!!!” or something unnaturally gender-neutral (hey TEAM!), as if my presence is stopping them behaving/speaking naturally. Guys is fine.
Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.
>The squirrels Drew studies, for example, curl up into little balls and plummet from 99 degrees to 27. This drops their basal metabolic rate by about 99 percent.

Not sure if this is meant to be C or F, but either the squirrels are boiling hot normally, or frozen solid while hibernating.
Nonsense. Even basic human checkers for high profile demonstrably false statements or calls to violence would be sufficient at this point.
Why would your hiring process factor in whether someone is a Trump supporter to even things out? Hiring someone based on political affiliation seems pretty awful.
Where did you provide clear examples? If you mean Hillary Clinton then you do realize there have been six separate investigations and no charges.

Did you know that what happened in the Clinton case is not an uncommon occurrence? Did you know that Bush did the same thing[1]? And Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did the same?[2]

In all these cases it's not the right thing to do, but nor is it criminal.

And what is this "people like you" attack? The Marc Rich case is something I'll condemn Bill Clinton for any day of the week - it's a complete miscarriage of justice and I wish there was a way it could be reversed. I'm not aware of anything like that from the Obama era but it's possible I've missed it.

Justice matters much more than politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cummings-jared-kushner...
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> Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government.

This is kind of true, but also points to just how insane this historical moment is. Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way? Can you imagine Bill Clinton raging out about AOL, or GW Bush trying to sic the FCC on Yahoo because it sent his email to spam?
The stellar processes that result in stable lithium are rare, like supernovas.[1] Another factor in its rarity as a material is that while it's present in a lot of things, it's not present in quantities for economical recovery.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/14/this...
I just retired at 78 after 55 years as a programmer, database and GIS specialist. Now I'm using those skills pro bono to help farmers adopt wireless sensors and take advantage of the latest IOT developments with Arduino/Raspberry Pi type technology. Started on punch cards, TTY 33 paper tape and mag tapes on a CDC 6400.
Just to clarify: Steele has been documenting, not perpetrating, the abuse. See for example

https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=94065:40150:0::::P40150...
Come on. He’s doing that because he can pay people less. That’s what he really cares about.
Twitter does not work on Tor unless you also give them your phone number, making the exercise pointless.
> I feel like half of what's here points to using rust or a rust like language as a good thing.

Which points exactly?

Also, neither the Rust standard library, nor the C++ std::shared_ptr were designed with embedded in mind. Also, Rust is kind of experimental, not really a good choice for a system that is difficult to update. Not to mention only Intel and AMD64 platforms have Rust Tier 1 support.
Art as a big polluter and waste of resources seem like a stretch. Biggest polluters are military and agriculture. I don't think art would make it on that list.
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Excellent practical introduction to the FPGA universe.
Hacker news comments are not adequately representative of the Facebook employee population...
Nicely done. Clean and fast.