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In my (limited) experience, that fear is unfounded. I work with about a dozen local government entities and every last one of them reaches out to consultants when making architecture decisions. I've never once run across one that pulls the "it has to be this way because we say so" in the tech realm. They'll absolutely provide requirements, but they won't dictate how those requirements are met.

I guess I would be shocked to find out there is any significant number of local governments out there that demand to dictate architecture of something they have no expertise in. If ANYTHING, the times I see them get out over their ski's is when they trust a vendor consultant TOO much. See: every Oracle implementation ever.
Seems reasonable to me. Cause and effect.
It's a compromise that gets mixed feedback from all sides... rather ideal, and a sign this industry is maturing. I still happily ride my bike but am thankful these services exist for my aging parents, and for the economy that could use any help it can get.
And yet you gave it a response. You just gave a totally pointless and worthless one.
Yeah LPKF's stuff is very high end. I'm 99% sure the only reason we have any of their machines is that someone had a massive budget to blow with a tight deadline. Or they had no idea what they were buying and got sweet talked by a rep. Or they absolutely knew what they were buying and someone high up just signed off on it. We also have stuff like Metal 3D printers which are six-figures, so why not? The problem with using is that it's so expensive, so nobody is allowed to use it without training. Everyone else just submits jobs to the mech workshop and they'll etch it for you.

But.. when you think that a one-day turnaround on a small run of PCBs can cost easily $500+ if you need weird requirements, these sorts of machine can start to save money. They can do tolerances below most of the cheap fab houses (like BGA fanout, RF parts, etc). PCBTrain will charge you £400 for a 2-day turnaround on a 50x50mm 2 layer board!

At home I don't know why you'd want to 3D print a circuit versus milling or laser exposing it. You can get cheap mills with decent tolerances these days [1]. Of course LPKF also sell these sorts of machines with absurd tolerances and high prices!

In theory you can use conductive filament and a multi-material printer. One use case for that is actually making custom RF shields. Otherwise the only 3D printed circuits I've seen are kind of cheating - either using the printer to make the etch mask, or by printing channels which you can fill with conductive paint or epoxy (those are nice though).

[1] https://wegstr.com/CNC-Wegstr-(English)
when suggesting a complementary or competing tool... it is best to add a link to it.

https://www.chromatic.com/
Well, there's freedom and there's liberty. We often use the former to include the latter, but they're completely different. We only have the freedom to do the right thing. We are not free to do evil things. We may have the liberty to do them, of course. Now in a liberal society like the US, we are at liberty to do many things we ought not which is partly motivated by either skepticism on the one hand and a wish to maintain the peace on the other because enforcing certain behaviors would actually result in an even worse status quo (there's a hint: make it uneconomical to suppress certain freedoms). So no perfect liberality exists nor could it. The question of which liberties ought to be tolerated is answered by our constitutions, but even those are bounded in practice. You have blasphemy laws and you have hate speech laws, both of which constrain speech. Now, I don't think which are in force is arbitrary or that it's all the same or relative--tyranny has an objective standard and not suppression of what I happen to want to do--but the fact that we always have had them is proof that freedom (liberty) of speech is always limited.

To your point, the proper way to characterize the current status quo is that a certain kind of leftist orthodoxy or ethos has come to dominate institutions, organizations, and corporations that otherwise pretend to some kind of "neutrality" in ways that don't actually obtain. So what you have is a religious war of sorts and this leftist religion currently has the upper hand. As a result, laws that constrain liberties along traditional lines have been eliminated over the course of the last century, replaced with new ones reflecting leftist norms. What irks me most is the mendacity. At least confessional states give you the courtesy of telling you they're confessional. You can work with that even if the confession is wrong and at least everyone's clear about the circumstances you're in instead of living in a fog of lies. But lying about ideological orientation, also while knowing fully well others disagree with it, is dishonest. But people are noticing. (As people are booted off YouTube and Twitter by an increasingly severe leftist standard, a new market opens up for alternative services. Of course, that doesn't quite extend as nicely to laws. We might have to begin to have to resort to samizdats.)
Comcast in Seattle came out to fix a signal issue at my apartment and ended up possibly needing to redo a rats nest of cables chained together just to find the line running to my place. Maybe the connection to the building was good, but the infrastructure inside (all Comcast built) was 12-15 years old and flaky at best.

At least with federal ownership we can mandate maintenance and repair requirements or timetables along with budgeting to do so in a timely manner. Or at least stop passing free money to ISP CEOs by giving millions of taxpayer dollars to them for upgrades and expansions that never come. I'd rather give a billion dollars to the Army CoE or a similar group to get things installed and maintained instead of profit to an ISP and at best slow expansion and data caps.
I'm curious, what are the "plenty of alternatives" exactly?

We have tried a lot of different advertising networks and sadly we have found none that's even in the same ballpark as AdSense (revenue wise). Advertising on the web is a shit show.
Why is your 100-150k salary not ridiculous? You could be earning fraction of that in Poland. You of all people should understand this.

A salary of 2M is not even 1% when it comes to the labor costs of the people they fired.

Maybe they dont need the CEO in the first place but that's an entirely different discussion.
What is this no-strike clause? I am not familiar with the story.

Was it something that each students individually decided whether to sign or not and if they signed, they received a benefit for it? Or was it a non-negotiable part of every contact that was forced on everyone if they wanted to go to or stay in UCSC? If it is the latter, I don't see anything morally or ethically wrong with violating it. Legal matters are of course another issue.
Thanks for the pointer! Somehow I hadn't heard of Chromatic. I'll have to check it out.
But what if the plumber is a sole proprietor?
Early in the epidemic, someone posted pictures of a schoolbus parked near an area with poor internet service.

You see, in this school district, the buses have wifi. So they were using this to tether some of the kids with no internet access to the school. I guess they have some way of leaving the wifi on with the bus turned off, and since they weren't using the buses anyway...

It is still one of the classiest things I've seen come out of the quarantine. Unfortunately.
That really is brilliant. I didn't remember.
Absent StarLink, the higher price on rural areas sends inherent. The only way around this seems to be to subsidize it in some way. Should we really make everyone else pay so that some people can save money by living in a rural area? Why not then just straight up give them the cash and leave the rural area to nature?
One can question whether the law should exist without claiming that uber should violate the current law. Indeed, the content of the law seems bad.
Zepto, prior to covid, it was faster to take LA Metro between Santa Monica and LA, or Hollywood and LA, or Pasadena and LA, or Long Beach and LA, than it was to drive those same distances. During rush hour, it was approximately 1 hour faster to take Metrolink between LA and OC destinations than it was to drive the same distance. In the Bay Area, it was at least 1 hour faster to take BART cross-bay than to drive, especially if you were headed to places like Dublin or Pleasanton.
Traffic is just that bad in CA.

CA isn't like NY or London. Our cities weren't built to the same level of density as NY or London, and systems that dense would be overkill. Moreover, given that CA's public transportation systems are geographically larger than any other public transportation systems outside of China (in the sense of geographic territory serviced), it would also be prohibitively expensive to build systems that dense in CA. A system as dense as NYC's metro in LA would cost more than a trillion dollars.
The Unseen History of Audio and Acoustics Research at Microsoft
Where the missing middle of housing isn't missing
Given how different their missions are, I'm surprised to see Facebook on this list.
I'll preface this with noting it's a little odd to act as though adding 80 MB of unnecessary JS is a popular idea on HN.

They couldn't if they needed to work asynchronously. Or if they couldn't speak or hear well over the phone, the likelihood of which approaches 1 if you have so much as a different accent. Or if you don't want the other person to hear your accent.

It's a bit cliche maybe, but I know people who've benefited from all of those features of IP-based communication, and they're reasons to be happy about the Internet. And since just about any telecommunications system that transmits voice can be bullied into transmitting IP packets, there's really little cost.
I wonder if governments should not just find experts to design interfaces / protocols and cheap testing organs, then let competition run wild in these constraints.
You're right, but the .com still has something superior to me, maybe is it why the guy wants to pay 2k for a .com instead of $5 for the .co.
The game is called financial engineering and it's how most SV startups actually generate an eventual exit/profit for the investors.
but the title is important, it claims that the article will give sufficient reasons for QEMU to stop using C in some natural sense and move to Rust.

if this is not the reflective of the content or it is a tongue in check exaggeration following a c common template (similarly to the "considered harmful" titles) it is reasonable to criticize the title

(it is less reasonable to criticize the article under the assumed content)
Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, has died
First it is ridiculous to point at studies that say we don't have fraud when we can't know if we have fraud because most votes have no way to audit them.

And none of those speak to my point, and the point of many others who study this in detail, is there were over a thousand recorded criminals cases of voter fraud over in recent elections. When you couple that with many elections having no way to audit a vote, then we have a huge problem, because without auditing tools, only the most stupid and egregious incidents of fraud will be caught.

If you agree that a fraudulent election would be catastrophic for our democracy, and that we currently have no tools to audit the integrity of our votes (which we can't without voter ID), then voter ID, free or whatever, is an obvious solution.

I'm betting Belarus wishes they had a way to audit their elections about now.
Ladies and gentlemen you are looking at the pinnacle of mankind's technological achievements. The proof?

We can now make tiny virtual cars do stunts off object in the real world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOPcOGV6nU&feature=youtu.be
It physically hurts me to think about how dead accurate this is.

You tell someone exactly why something won't work? Get rewarded with a door to the face. You save precious time because you care about actually building something of value. But you get no money.

Yes Man comes along. Takes the money. Fails spectacularly. Yes Man doesn't give two shits about improving anything and walks away rich(which is all they even wanted).

So hilariously ridiculous, but this kind of thing happens. All. The. Time.
> C/C++ software [...] has an order of magnitude more security issues than (similarly well written) software in other languages.

I think that's very debatable. Certainly there are classes of bugs with C code that don't exist in other environments. And addressing that is worthwhile.

But "security issues" is a VERY big bucket, and most of them (and frankly most of the most dangerous) aren't about memory protection or heap management at all. Java doesn't prevent you from exposing a database with a default password. Node apps can have XSS vulnerabilities. Access to a Rust app can always be phished.

I know those all seem like specious examples, but the point is that you're using a very narrow definition of "security" (to mean The Stuff Rust Addresses) in one sense, while using a very different definition (Stuff That Is Really Important For Software To Do) in the premise to your argument.

The space between "well-written C++ code" and "well-written Rust code" is a very different number in those two spaces.

And in the one that actually matters... I just don't think it's nearly as big as people like to imagine.
No, that's not true. They were doing something wrong, because children are generally recognized as not being fit to give consent for all sorts of things. The laws against child labor merely recognized this.

The case for AB5, a law against consensual adult labour is murkier.
And what happens if you decide you won't show up today to work at McDonalds? And tomorrow, and the next day? Without telling anyone? Yeah... that's right.
All of this is beside the point.

Uber has been breaking the law and refusing to comply. It doesn’t matter if the law is good or bad. That debate already happened.

California’s elected representatives debated and passed the law. Californians by proxy want this law. If they don’t want it anymore or want it to change based on feedback they’ll make their voice heard and that may happen.

Uber and Lyft didn’t exist not that long ago and they don’t just have the right to exist if their business model can’t work within labor laws. And personally, I think it can work just fine - they’re just crying and complaining that they won’t get to hit their growth targets because they’ll have to charge the real price instead of the subsidized one.
Even as someone avid about automotive safety, there is no way I could trust an automated system that’s in charge of doing something like inhibiting a trigger discharge, actuating the car brakes, controlling steering, etc. It’s extremely damaging in the case where there is a bug, for instance consider what happens if you’re on the highway in front of a 16 wheeler and the brakes slam themselves on.

This is all about reduction of complexity. Humans like having things simple and understandable; things like cars have already grown to stretch the limits of what we can represent with a mental model. There are still times when my car does something that makes me think, “man, how many lines of code are running in this thing?” or, to formulate it another way, “oh, this car really is magic after all.” And it’s a 2012 Focus, not even a newer or particularly featureful car. That’s not a healthy situation for an item that is life vs. death.
I live with my wife and son in Ecuador and 150 is actually pretty competitive here. Our main competition charges 200 I think. But I agree with you that it is very low for the US/EU market.
This is a nice gesture and it's good to see people reaching out to those who lost their jobs at Mozilla.
Do you have an actual point?
There are plenty of alternatives to Adsense but none of them are comparable.

They all take a huge dive in RPM, are iffy with UX and security and tend to not last long.

My personal account was locked out of Adsense in the same way years back. A violation every 5 months or so, which I always "corrected." Then one day it's just off. I respond and eventually Adsense is restored. Then a few weeks later, closed and banned.

And it's been that way since. No recourse. Just ... shut out.

This was a site with 100% user-generated content. If Google can't handle something like that, well ...
What boggles my mind is why Microsoft just did not acquire Mozilla.
They could be funding the project while owning the brand. Hell they could have made FF into the default browser and people would actually not associate it with Explorer or whatever.
Might I ask what your use-case is?
Agreed on hyperbole and I could have used a more realistic example. My point was to bring up faulty logic, which is still equally valid.

As others have mentioned, layoffs should not be templatized, it is an indication that the company doesn't care much about the employees, the heart and soul of the company. I hope to God it was more than 5 minutes to draft a message to put 250 people out of a job in the middle of a Pandemic.

Putting it up to "well this is the standard of the industry" is bullshit, if you want more realistic examples, sexism in the work place is _not_ a hyperbole and is still very normal and very wrong.
I imagine it would be relatively easy to detect that kind of activity.

Maybe some kind of ad hoc mobile/mesh network stands a better chance, though that too is detectable and jammable.
Very cool! Congrats on the launch (site is super clean!).
ChatWoot is another open source alternative, unless I am fundamentally misunderstanding what Intercom is.
Even when the judiciary system works as it's supposed to, that doesn't necessarily mean that justice is being fairly delivered, which would mean there is a problem with the law itself. I think detractors here are misunderstanding what is currently the law and what they think should be the law, in this case.
Uber, lyft, and related services have single handedly saved lives by reducing the drunk driving rate in California. Moreover, they have kept many cars off the road. Previously, it was impossible to have a night out responsibly, or for people without cars to get around. Now, with uber and lyft, California finally became somewhat more liveable.

Good to see the state deciding to make things worse.
People depend on Uber for transport because Uber has made their service available, but I strongly doubt that anyone would be stranded at home were they to shutter - and remember, former commuters are flocking to remote work anyway. Uber would be fools to position themselves as too big to fail. They're clearly a marginal business, but even if they were indispensable I think that would just stir CA legislators to further action against them.
If you were to offer an adjacent product that did event logging and integrated with your messaging product it would be interesting to me.

I’ve tried using amplitude and building my own messaging and it is too much work.

Right now I use mixpanel and am prepared to pay for the product mix.

If you do this, and they are separate instances, I would want to see it have a simple docker container-based Setup. For example, configure this app with just some env variables and use our images.

I’d also recommend you focus on django at first and make setup on that framework easy and well documented.

Good luck!
As far as I know you can ignore those. Typically it's like "elements too close" or "font size too small to read."

Then the next day it's fine.
It is really very difficult to have a rational discussion about world affairs without pointing out the hypocrisy of the West - but you have definitely struck a chord here.

People forget that sanctions are, literally, an act of war. The haste by which sanctions are called for, by the pseudo-intellectually decadent - wealthy, privileged, distant - is truly something to behold.

It has long been thought that, when World War 3 finally comes to the West (which it started in 2003), it will be through civil unrest over what we have done to the world. We can't hide our burning piles of rubble for much longer.

But do you think Belarussians have what it takes to defend their country from external influence, such as was the case with Ukraine? Belarussia seems to have a very weak media structure... isn't this kind of necessary, to prevent external actors having undue, often times very violent, influence over society?
Don't like the laws? Campaign to get them changed.
Until that - follow the laws. It's pretty simple.

The "startups should bend laws because the laws suck" mantra is equally simplistic and immature (not pointing at you, but it's been thrown around A LOT in this sector)
It does now. No one is going back to paper books and paper schedules.
I just feel like people keep talking about the "price" of privacy in abstract, and we've had decades for someone to make a case for material damages. It's so intellectually dishonest.

We've had the Equifax hack, it isn't even a problem with ads, just data gathering generally, and we're all looking around for real damages there, just people who hypothesize that something something a meaningless form of speculative identity theft may have led to some abstract damage. I hate Equifax, and I hate the data gathering they do, but I'm not going to be a blowhard and say, "there were unobservable damages here and they must pay random suckers."

The BP Horizon oil spill put oil on the shores of Lousiana, there's real mispricing of environmental damage. But that shit is real, oil and pollution are real, they inhabit the literal real world. Your website browsing history is imaginary.

Time and time again people have been given the opportunity to pay for an e-mail client or a search engine. Dozens of software services. Ads are so obviously the superior way for the average end user to pay for networked services, trading your imaginary data that is basically only valuable in aggregate and has been very successfully sold anonymously-in-aggregate in exchange for not paying $10/mo for every single little software service you need. And then, because everyone has free e-mail and search, the surplus is enjoyed by society as a whole, instead of some kleptocratic corporation. If anything Google should be making so much more money!

You're paying the price. You choose to pay the price literally every day, it's ridiculous. Every one of these activists pays the price, they are walking-talking hypocrites. It's so intellectually dishonest to say you're not willing to pay it. You use the Internet, you're paying the price, don't use the Internet if you don't want to pay the price. You do, and you will, and there's nothing you can do about it.

The Sidewalk Labs people are the best positioned to provide below-market housing to meet the demand for it. Generally, the people doing innovative stuff with housing will actually succeed to meet demands for things the status quo will not provide. This is not saying much! We should be arguing for more innovative uses of land and architecture. Nobody would force you to live in the Sidewalk Labs complex!
When Feature Flags Do and Don’t Make Sense
Wasn't there an original Twilight Zone episode about this? Also the more recent short story Unauthorized Bread
This makes perfect MBA sense, why bother developing anything when you can transition to shipping Chrome skin with paid Google search bar?
I used to work at Uber.

I'll focus on one particular point: allowing drivers to see where riders are going before they accept the trip. Uber, at least when I worked there, was heavily against this functionality as it allows drivers to discriminate against riders who are going to poor neighborhoods or from cities to suburbs where they may have difficulty in getting another rider. That feature is bad for the overall ecosystem. Because of it, you may not be able to get a ride to the airport during rush hour, or home from the bar when you live 30 minutes away from downtown. The overall service becomes less useful if there's doubt as to your ability to be able to use it when you need it.