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My wife is Canadian and I'm American, and we've spent time in both countries. She summed it up very well: the US is a great place to live if you make above a certain amount of money. I.e., it's better for the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes.
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There's a clear downside that this can't be used against the next kid-molestor.

But then, this also can't be used against every other human being who needs privacy either. E.g.: Journalists, activists, anyone who disagrees with a large government, etc,
It's funny to call it naive approach when it works perfectly well in many European countries. The so called "modern" approach doesn't even favour disadvantaged students, it simply favours children of well-off favoured minorities parents. And in addition it creates animosity because of favouritism and makes other students think that the students from group with lower entrance requirements are less capable even if those particular students would be able to enter on their own merits.

If there is any discrimination in primary/secondary education, it should be fixed instead of trying to engineer society by introducing "good" racism (which actually hurts Asian minorities).
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/who-are-the-major-revenue-...
Yup, this is especially bad in BC where at least half the CS/ECE grad moved to Seattle or SF the year they graduated. All the best talent leave unless tied down by family.

It seems there just wasn't enough graft or cheap political points to be had nurturing anything complex. The payoffs if any aren't quick enough. It's much easier to go after logging, mining, casinos (money laundering for Chinese donors), film or some quick jobs program to appease unions and claim impact for the next election.
I have uuidgen in my Mac, but also have a tiny alias:

alias uuid='python -c "import uuid;print(str(uuid.uuid4()))"'
Firefox does. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
Do you know how many contact tracing apps I can install? Do they conflict with each other? I'm thinking about travellers who often cross borders.
My image of the US has changed substantially over the last few years. I never saw it as a issues free country but nowadays it just looks worse than ever.From aside it looks like a family where it's members reached middle age crisis,told all their neighbours to sod off, kicked children in the teeth and trying to tear each other apart.
The money isn’t spent on the app; it’s spent on the backend, and there, scaling efficiency gains are limited because of diversity in computer systems.

Also, the app would have to be translated in many more languages. If you don’t want that to increase time to market, it will cost a lot of money.
Appreciate the response on this, I think the wording definitely came across wrong and, particularly in an article related to the economics of this side project, it feels disingenuous as a market rate developer would have eaten up the revenue.
63.2% of Parisians don't have a car.

I'm one of them: I ride my bike (or a velib) and only use public transport when traveling to the suburbs and in the countryside (with children, too). I rarely drive, a handful of days every year at most (for some holidays, and to move out around once in a decade).

You say "It's very comfortable, safe and useful" but that just your POV. Your car is definitely not comfortable to the vast majority of Parisians, nor safe or useful (you do realize you contribute to all the traffic, noise and fumes?).

>childless egoists who want more space for themselves

How much space does your car take? Do you realize they are countless families who simply walk, bike and take public transport and who don't really count because no one care about them since they're silent, take no space at all, and don't need car subsidies to support big auto?

Things are getting better nowadays, precisely because we're starting to focus on the comfort and safety of the many (not the few).
I think they wouldn't be able to agree wrt even the most basic data privacy questions.

It would actually be quite interesting to compare the different apps and their philosophies (privacy, security, centralization vs. decentralization, open vs. closed source, source code..).
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Yeah, it's useful if you want a static website for your weatherstation. But I would quite like the current readings, to actually be current, rather than up to 5 mins old.
it will no doubt damage a lot of equipment, it's still cheaper to replace everything than to have incompatible spare pneumatic gear laying around.
It's an interesting approach to a problem that most of us don't have, and so is not applicable to the majority of people writing software.

The key is to understand the risk/reward trade-off in their software stack. For the vast majority of software that is written, no one dies if it goes wrong. In fact, for the vast majority of software, it's a minor inconvenience when a bug bites. Because of this, time to market trumps correctness. It's a totally valid trade-off, but just not very satisfying from an engineering perspective.
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One of the best things I've ever learned was to recognize that voice when it says "I can do that later" and instead decide to do it right now. The payoff is huge!
Ask HN: How do you distribute your software releases?
My team is looking for solutions to make new releases of our desktop application available to end-users.

We need to make them available to the auto-updater, update the website with the latest version and, in some way, keep track of downloads.

I'm curious to know how other companies and developers distribute their software. Can you please share your experience?
This is a good step, but 400 miles is hardly long range. Any gas powered car can get 500 miles of range with a 5 minute fill up.
Yeah, sure, you can ignore the fuses, but only if you assist the boot process using a jig and an injected payload. The stock Horizon kernel from FW 10.3 won't boot if your fuseset is for 3.1.0, unless you inject a chainloader which fakes the fuseset or removes the check.

Edit: I see what you were referring to, I was unspecific in my comment, updated it!
I have no desire to perform any manual labor task that can easily be automated, it seems such a pointless waste of time. Time better spent procrastinating.
Because it's not all about you. It's about your parents, your friends, your family who are not :gasp: software engineers, and it's nice not having to worry about them going bankrupt or homeless if they need x life-saving medical procedure or they loose their job.
Based on the number (220) I thought this was some ancient Airbus model. Well.
I personally wouldn't want to contribute to such system, simple as that. But also - in (almost all of) EU you're always covered no matter what. You don't have to worry about what happens if you lose your job, or move jobs, or need extra time off work, or accidentally go to the wrong hospital or call the wrong ambulance - it's just not a concern for your average citizen at all. These concerns are obviously worse for immigrants coming to work since their insurance will be very much tied to their employment.
It's an interesting idea, as investors they can set whatever requirements attached to their money and I believe board diversity it good.

Thing is, I said I believe and from the article it doesn't seem like they have much hard data. It can be done simply on principle for sure, but if it's true why not include a nice chart showing that those 10% companies in the US that don't have a woman director are underperforming?
India also released source code of Aarogya Setu app

https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android
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It can also open up a can of worms as companies as big as Amazon can get into trouble with regulators.

When I worked at BT we could not crosssubsidize say our online services and had to give up the short dial for access 618 used to connect you to PRESTEL on any exchange.

Also at one point they where considering not allowing people working for a joint venture to use the same restaurants
What fraction of the German mobile phone user base is running Android without Google services? My guess would be <1%
Right, that's fair enough - I'm just saying what I know from my family and friends who live around Stuttgart, in both CS industries and out of them. They own houses without being millionaires, maybe it's something about Stuttgart specifically.
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Canada has even been pitched as a cheap labour hotspot for tech.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/city-of-vancouver-criti...
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This is a great comment. If you're comfortable sharing any more information, I'd love to know just a bit more detail. What were the technologies or strategies that seemed useless at the time, but eventually succeeded?
Oh, maybe Flash Lite wasn't so bad then! It worked well on the Wii; I would have loved to have it on my iPod Touch in 2009.
Isn't there any room for respect for traditional Japanese culture? They do have a different understanding of things over there and perhaps it's up to them how to change their ways. They have changed completely as a society at least twice before on their own. They may decide to do so again.
No idea, but as those are closed source one can have the same doubts, so you need an OpenSource alternative to the API, which is in the works in order to be used in that app: https://github.com/theScrabi/CoraLibre-android-sdk/ and
https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/issues/75

That combined with an Android based on AOSP and trust issues should be reduced (while the bad government can still track you using cell towers and for that app one could still place Bluetooth beacons everywhere and the server's could still store more information (while the only keys transmitted are those of infected, which is quite little) ... so yeah, pick your level of conspiracy
I mean sell me a product that doesn't ship with Android on it. I don't have the money to burn on expensive hardware that I then have to figure out how to flash with a probably unsupported OS to get to work.
Disclaimer: I'm a South African living in the UK and yes, I know I'm generalising - excessively.

Jolly Sarf Africans! Light-fingered larcenists - can't leave them alone with anything these days! ;-)
Average prices for a house in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Between 250k and 500k, depending on housing type. Position is king, even here in Germany.
> No disrespect to Sweden or the Gripen but the UK makes 30% of its parts(mostly electronic warfare) which is a leverage it used to ban its sale to Argentina.[1]

> American microchips, Union microchips, all made in Taiwan

It is kind of ridiculous how big of it the part of defence electronics using off the shelf civilian parts these days.

Even Russia who spends god knows how much money to keep its 10μm fab running just to make military electronics, is only said to make them for their strategic level ICBMs to assure absolute secrecy, and nothing else.
This decision is probably for the best. Boards being somewhat independent from management is desirable and this might be helpful breaking up the Old Boys Club style effects. Can't complain about foreign influence either, if the company has been sold to foreigners. And it is just implausible that all the best candidates are men.

But the social situation is relevant here and an overarching risk needs to be mentioned. The best candidate will be male ~50% of the time (possibly more often after accounting for differing work patterns between the sexes) and if the difference between "best" and "good" is detectable then that should be the priority. Pushing social changes is fine, but corporations are the engines that drive all the prosperity of the modern era. Good governance and systematically excellent competence at the highest levels are both critical properties. Of course the difference at this level probably isn't detectable so good on them for keeping people on their toes.

Asset management firms aren't supposed to be Social Engineering priority 1, Running Assets priority 2. I don't think that is happening here, but it bears repeating that if they do over-prioritise social goals that would be a corruption of what their role in the market actually is. We need them to be pushing the limits of economic efficiency, because a 0.5% difference at that level is significant to a large number of people's lives.
That turns out to be a really interesting question. In physics the gravitational energy of a massive body is considered to be negative.

That takes a bit of getting used to. If you consider the universe after the Big Bang, it consisted of extremely thinly dispersed clouds of hydrogen and helium atoms. Over billions of years these collapsed into galaxies and stars. During the process of that collapse these atoms accelerated towards each other, impacted and heated up considerably due to the release of kinetic energy. This kinetic energy has to come from somewhere, so we consider that the energy of the gravitational field of a star or planet is negative energy. It's an energy deficit.

As an side, it is estimated that if you add up the energy in star, including the matter it's composed of, and deduct the negative energy of it's gravitational field they cancel out. It seems likely that the net energy of the universe may well be very close to zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
No one would need to make guesses like this if anyone knew how our software worked.
Seems like a thing you acctually would want to share? Instead of copy pasting the url which is almost impossible on smart phones nowadays...
Couple months ago was shared a good initiative about layout primitives, I keep using it on prototyping it's perfect

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20155098
Open-Flash author here. Open-Flash was originally intended to be a fork of Shumway, but it ultimately became a fully separate project intended to provided modular libraries to handle SWF files. I had less time to push the project forward in the last few months.

It currently provides one of the strongest models for parsed SWF files and AVM1 bytecode, and the corresponding parsers and emitters. These libraries are in use to process SWF files automatically (remap identifiers, edit tags, compress files).
The end goal was to provide a player, but Ruffle already has relatively good support, so the goal is shifting to automatically convert SWF files to other languages and help with migrations. The current focus is on AVM1 (Actionscript 2) decompilation.
Great research! I'm a user of evernote web clipper and seeing that they're adding 3mb to every page that I'm using is extremely discouraging. My browse to clip ratio is around 1000:1 and I'm probably removing the extension after this.

Just wondering, can browser extensions codesplit their bundles? If it's possible, then it is really disappointing to see these large companies loading huge bundles on initial load.
When you fall, that is potential energy stored via gravity turning into kinetic energy.
When you land, that kinetic energy is then turned into thermal energy.

If you're interested, this would be physics. Physics 1 (usually kinematics) isn't bad if you like math, though I think physics 2 and beyond start to be demanding
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When you send a rocket into space, you burn chemicals (releasing energy located in electrons in the chemical bonds holding the atoms together) gaining thermal energy (the energy of moving atoms in hot rocket exhaust) which is then redirected into kinetic energy (still moving atoms, but they're all moving in the same direction, and more orderly about it).

When the spaceship moves upwards relative to a large mass (Earth), this kinetic energy is traded for gravitational potential energy. It's still associated with the atoms and other particles, just like the kinetic energy was.

This does mean that objects in distant space have more of this energy than objects at the bottom of a gravity well, and are therefore more massive (because of mass-energy equivalence). Falling into an intense gravity well is actually one of the more efficient ways to convert mass into energy, which is why the area around black holes is often particularly energetic, with the matter falling in emitting energetic X-rays. This is why you can see quasars even though they are billions of light-years away (the radiation heats the surrounding material and it is very bright.)

Besides general physics reading, I can recommend the book "Einstein's Universe" to help build a general understanding of both special and general relativity, with particular regard to matters such as mass-energy equivalence.
Is this any different from Apple with the iPhone?

The iPhone bothers me much more because it's a general-purpose computer.
> Your car is definitely not comfortable to the vast majority of Parisians, nor safe or useful (you do realize you contribute to all the traffic, noise and fumes?).

Alright, other people might have issues with it, but why is it "dumb"? And my car makes almost no noise and emits absolutely no fumes.

I have issues with noisy people, that doesn't mean it's dumb to be noisy.

> How much space does your car take? Do you realize they are countless families who simply walk, bike and take public transport and who don't really count because no one care about them since they're silent, take no space at all, and don't need car subsidies to support big auto?

I have no idea what you are trying to argue here. Yes, my car is big. Other people have big apartments, big gardens or are simply obese. The question here was: why is it "dumb"?
That sounds like the conventional VC model of pumping money into obviously bad companies. The only difference is that this is government funded.
The hotline will cost additional 2-3 million each month!
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South Africa was in the same boat in needing a weapon of absolute last resort ... instead of Arab armies we had to contend with soviet supplied cuban troops on our border.

We had 4 devices by then and developed with help of Israel an intermediate range ballistic missile based on their Jericho-2.

Fortunately sanity prevailed in the end and the bombs and missile program got scrapped when a political settlement was achieved.
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> Version control systems? Seldom.

SCCS ftw!
Wow this is unbelievable. Thanks for the link.

"The case arose in the context of condemnation by the city of New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property, so that it could be used as part of a "comprehensive redevelopment plan." However, the private developer was unable to obtain financing and abandoned the redevelopment project, leaving the land as an _undeveloped empty lot._"
Well, the difficult emotion is often some form of fear. Fear of failing, of making a mistake, in some cases, of making the problem worse. All of these fears are in a fundamental sense legitimate, but the direct solution is, insofar as it is possible, to prepare and practice.

The alternative is to tackle something even harder that includes the thing you want to make as a special case. This is a recent discovery of mine. The pressure of accomplishing the bigger, harder thing can often drive you to simply knock out the smaller thing to get it out of the way, and that's often good enough.

There's an apocryphal story in rabbinical lore about a farmer who's frustrated that his home is so noisy that he can't sleep. The Rabbi sympathizes and tells the farmer to invite another animal into his home night after night. The farmer gets more frantic, angry even that this "solution" isn't working. Then the rabbi tells the farmer to remove all the animals, and the farmer, now in peace and quiet, could fall soundly asleep. The solution above is the same: you don't eliminate the fear, you replace it with a greater fear such that the original fear doesn't seem to matter!
Why do you want to fight over a word if you're able to understand everything and good people are trying to reduce bias in human life?

Every word that is commonly or uncommonly used has a physiological impact on perception that is not directly measurable and causes biases. In this case, whitelist = white = allow = positive. Blacklist = black = block = negative. Do you want peoples brain to subconsciously associate words like that?

Instead if we use words like 'allowlist' and 'blocklist', it reduces the association with people's skin color/ethnicity and hence the hidden biases that we do not know are present. This stuff takes generations to fix.
Legitimate? Since when were idioms a question of legitimacy?

The only languages which do not change are dead ones. - David Crystal
20m€ are peanuts for this. These government contracts normally takes ages, explode in cost and never really work in the end. I'm glad to see that we have experts in germany that can in just 6 weeks develop such an app for just 20m€. I don't get why people think it's too much. It sounds large but we're not talking about your everyday startup here, that is half-assing their product for 2 years and have tons of bugs in it. This app seems solid and usable for 80m people
The heavier an object is, the deeper its ‘gravity well’ is. You’ve seen the space-time is a rubber sheet metaphor I hope?

Imagine it like dropping a stone in a literal well. The potential energy is higher on the ground than two meters down the well.

Since we are in the gravity well of a planet (earth) the energy needed to reach escape velocity is a certain value, because we have to climb the walls of the gravity well. A denser planet has a deeper gradient so requires more energy to escape.

Falling down the gravity well requires no energy, but the difference of potential energy in “outer space” and “on the planet” is what you’d experience.

There’s no energy stored per se, when you pump water up into a dam or when you enter orbit, as you expend the energy into work, resulting in a difference of potential energy in two rest states.
Because at least in the US, it’s very hard to get a visa for a blue-collar or working-class job, so there isn’t even a possibility of moving countries to work one.
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Basically, it is possible to write largely bug free code ... this is what it costs.
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For me there is still a big question how much process and people matter for the quality.

This article suggests process should be the primary focus.

Books like Peopleware suggest that people matter most.
The colloquial meaning is "pouring something onto a fire that is even more flammable than what was already burning".
It's entertaining that there is yet another area where "running large numbers of regular expressions, known in advance and not changing all that often" over lots of input is performance critical.

This was a key driver behind writing Hyperscan (https://github.com/intel/hyperscan) which I used to work on when it was primarily used for network security (thousands or tens of thousands of regular expression rules for firewalls), but doing this for ad blocking seems pretty sensible too.
>'Just get started'? If I could just get started then I wouldn't have a procrastination problem." I thought: fair enough.

This never worked for me. I write one sentence or do the small task and then I go off and do something else. Perhaps it's due to my (bad) habit of context-switching but either way I've never benefited much from this approach despite often trying it.
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