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Are there any good resources for AWS best practices? Esp for medium sized companies. Esp stuff like best way to separate between production and dev.
I didn't mean to say anything about force, but remember that people have a right to not associate with those who refuse to be tested and, for their own safety, should be given the right to know who has and hasn't been tested or at least the ability to demand someone be tested before they do business with them.
Apple is now using the notarization system on desktop to ban apps from companies that broke iOS App Store rules, so you could for instance get your drone strike death toll app that was making a political statement taken down and lose your desktop notarization (which was supposed to be about security only) on a totally unrelated app in retaliation.
It's still connected to the graph if you have another account accessed from the same IP. They know there's a connection from that account to yours.

Don't create a burner account. Facebook's TOS is to lock burners and require an ID to unlock, so you'd be locking all your games out of access.
> The other aspect here is that the people with wealth have seen it increase at a fairly linear rate.

Do you think this guy understands compounding growth?

It would actually help his argument if replaced the word linear with exponential, which is more accurate. Compounding growth is exponential, not linear.
I understand allowing the option to login with your Facebook account, but how is forcing it make anything easier?
Liability? What liability? It was the person acting separate from Apple. Minimizing liability is not some blanked argument you can throw out there in an attempt to justify whatever nonsensical actions you happen to see before you.
As a CEO of a company that is being sold you can not make any binding statements about the future of the company you will no longer own. This is really management 101 and Palmer Luckey does not strike me as an absolute beginner here, he knew how to get funded, how to execute and had a ton of people telling him this would happen. Of course he and FB had a pretty strong incentive to ensure that there wouldn't be an immediate break-off risk to the acquisition, and of course there was plenty of evidence from other acquisitions that this is how the world works.

I'd like to believe him, but it is pretty hard to do so given the historic record of acquisitions to date.

For me the heuristic is simple: I won't believe a word a CEO that is selling his company says about what will happen post deal. They are no longer in control and should know better.
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> Wuhan went into a then unprecedented lockdown on 23 January - at a time where the virus had killed 17 people and affected more than 400.

It hasn't been that long ago but I almost feel like I forgot how to count this low now.
> I decided to help an elderly _friend_

> I had just been fired for helping _someone_

> they wouldn’t have fired me for helping a _customer_

This shifting language is suspicious to me; is this a friend or a customer you met at the Apple store and then helped off the clock? It sounds like this person was employed at an Apple retail store, and I can't imagine Apple having a policy that retail store employees are not allowed to help their grandparents set up a new Mac. There is 100% something else going on here.

WAG: this guy told a customer at the store that he could get the data transfer done faster, and was effectively running a Genius Bar out of his garage.

EDIT: I get that he's using different nouns in order to make his case in a few different ways. Ultimately, I think the writer did something shady and got fired for it.
btw it's "type inference", not "type interference"
That's true, the US unfortunately isn't one of the best places for entrepreneurs since a long time ago...
I'm pretty sure they would fear an extreme form of government as much as the rest of us.
No shit. I can't configure the lights on my former razer mouse without logging in.

Must be why I'm using a Steelseries now.

Edit: Apparently they gave up on that idiotic requirement. Sorry Razer, too late. Not touching your products ever again.

Edit 2: And since we're actually talking about Oculus, for me it died when they sold to Facebook. You needed to be pretty naive to think it won't come down to this in the long run.
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I am an independent producer. The intent of your proposal is to send me all the money so I should like that. But let’s talk about the realities. To make a show or movie I need financing and that comes from a studio. To recover my own expenses and hopefully earn a profit I need to sell distribution rights across different geographies to different copyright holders. These entities exist for a reason. Look everyone would like to pay zero for infinite content but the reality is that without payments there is no content.
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Subscribe to Humble Choice for a month and download all the drm-free games from their "Trove"!
I bought a desktop for gaming and have my macbook laptop as well.

What I am doing is only work from the desktop (since I ended up not gaming haha), when work is done I turn it off.

I don't have any work things in macbook. Not even work email logged in. Work is literally turned it off when my desktop powers off.
If you want iPhone level performance - even that of a $399 SE, you can’t find it an Android at any cost....
Facebook deals in contracts, not promises and even if it was contractually agreed upon, what would you do about it? Sue? At a guess you'd count the money one more time, shrug and maybe send a short apologetic note about how terrible you feel about it. And then count the money again.
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The SteamVR ecosystem is just so much nicer. I trust them far more than any of the alternatives. OpenVR for example has lead to many fantastic tools.
There's just no point. Encrypt the data. Ask the people with access to delete their keys. This way you don't have to make Filecoin more complicated.
>35% of the Forbes 400 list was born into a middle class or lower household.

Just to provide a little more clarity. Those numbers are from 2012. In 1997, 31% were in born "in the batters box"

However, there is a wide range of circumstances in the batter box. Defined as: "individuals and families whose parents did not have great wealth or own a business with more than a few employees."

Perhaps we differentiate on self-made, but some of those 35% I would not consider self-made either.
The solution for these types of unearned wealth is not a wealth tax but a high inheritance tax and strong anti-avoidance measures.
A "rotating" ruling class is a lot more contestable than a hereditary one. That makes it at least potentially more meritocratic. (It could also theoretically be less meritocratic, depending on how power is contended in any given case. But typically, the "hereditary" case involves battle-axes, dark intrigues and treacheries, which is the polar opposite of actual merit.)
An employer that permits such behavior is exactly that evil.
It’s a ordinary claim, completely supported by the often quoted point that people are much more willing to spend money on iOS than Android or the web.
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There are lots of different approaches being taken to offshore farming, but few have been tried at scale yet.

One of the concepts is closed-containment farming, where the fish are kept in a sealed enclosure. The fish can be kept below the sea lice level, and all waste can be collected. The downsides are cost, failure modes, and welfare (the fish have less area than open-pen near-shore farms, and will never see sunlight, for example).
HN is social media.
Assuming Android doesn't support Valhalla at all, I suspect they'll just introduce an Android specific backend in which inline classes with >1 member are compile errors. The language is already slightly different between platform targets anyway so it's no big leap.
Haven't thought from that perspective. Indeed, I would no doubt invest the money much better than the local government, which is pretty much incompetent in almost all areas of social improvement... Thanks for commenting!
The example of the Trump Foundation's dissolution in fact illustrates that the difference between non-profits is meaningful. Many of the activities of the Trump Foundation would have been fine for a (c)(6). A major rationale for dissolution was inappropriate use of tax-deductible donations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#Div...
I tried, in vain, to create a FB account using my work email address sometime after 2010 and FB demanded verification by SMS.

I ended up using my personal email address because that's how they want it.
Yeah seen that Apple is doing that for Epic's Fortnight. Won't be able to sign for Mac, but people could still install it if they turn off gatekeeper which I doubt many people would mess with, been a while since I've done that myself since I use dev tools. I think now on Catalina and newer Mac versions even more steps. Used to be a checkbox, but I think you have to use the terminal now?

Never really worked with Unreal but wonder if this will affect other games using their engine, not sure if there's like signed dylibs and stuff.

All this security stuff is cool but in a way more control. It's like you paid all this money for something but in a way you don't really own it. Like some graphic card company sells graphic cards including server graphic cards, but their driver's EULA doesn't allow you to use your desktop cards for server use. I guess the hardware being used 24/7 wasn't designed for that, but sounds like they should deny your warranty then instead of turning it into a copyright issue. Some game streaming company ran into this problem.
this was already solved ten years ago when Microsoft was fined half a billion bucks by the EU for promoting their own browser this way and disadvantaging competition

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21684329#:~:text=Microso....

very simple solution: offer a browser choice window on first start.
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And for context, the 13 journalist ban that was in direct response to the US initiated banning of 60 Chinese journalists one month earlier.
Has anybody got requests and/or full HTTPS protection working?
Joke answer: Get a dog!

My little dog is the worst/best boss. He yells at me when it's time to start the work day (he sits on the bed behind me like the lazy freeloader he is). He yells again at lunch (he needs to pee) and at 5pm (he needs to pee again). The only problem is he doesn't understand Saturday, so like clockwork, 8am Sat morning, yap yap yap, go to work.

Real answer: Get up and walk away.

If the apartment is small, walk down the hall or around the block. You need an actual mental break from work. Once the walk is done DO NOT START WORK AGAIN.

I find I actually have a better balance WFH, as now I don't work past 5, I just get up and walk away (unless there's something that's actually critical).
I'm also in a 1BR apartment with my partner. I have a desk in the corner (having previously done some WFH when needed) and my partner works on the dining table.

I personally don't follow any of the "back to the routine" habits or any special apps or anything.

I sometimes need to work a little later to finish a specific task, but otherwise when 5 o'clock rolls around that's it.

5PM, I get up and start dinner. I break for lunch around noon or 1PM—I don't stress about that. I am the regular reminder for my partner that she needs to take a break.

It's something I learned a long time ago: if you just keep working nobody will really stop you (save for a kind boss or coworker).

What may help as much as any "hacks" or whatever else is being sold is to give yourself things to look forward to after work. I often give myself something small—even if it's just playing a game or working on some music or something. My time is mine and I'm excited to get back to it.

Do you have a fixed work station or do you migrate around a lot?
Got it. Thanks for the explaination.
The tooling is ahead in some ways and behind in others. As a statically typed language, Kotlin's autocompletion and static analysis is already miles ahead. More broadly, the JVM has a rich ecosystem of libraries for data processing, from natural language processing (CoreNLP) to big data analytics (Spark). If you're looking for something similar to Pandas/Numpy/Matplotlib, maybe check out Krangl [1], EJML-Kotlin [3] or lets-plot [4]. There are also efforts to port TensorFlow [5] and PyTorch [6] to the JVM. While not all libraries as mature as their Python cousins, there are a growing number of native libraries and JVM wrappers for scientific computing, which provide most of the functionality and are very ergonomic to use in Kotlin.

[1]: https://github.com/holgerbrandl/krangl

[2]: https://github.com/mipt-npm/kmath

[3]: https://github.com/lessthanoptimal/ejml/tree/SNAPSHOT/main/e...

[4]: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-kotlin/

[5]: https://github.com/tensorflow/java

[6]: https://github.com/pytorch/java-demo
Same plan here. The Quest I got earlier this year is my first and will be my last Oculus device. Hopefully someone else makes a comparable headset soon (comparable = full wireless PCVR capability, like what the Quest + Virtual Desktop offers), ideally at a comparable price point as well... how hard can it be, the Quest is 1.5 years old by now, there's gotta be something at least similar in the works somewhere.
Is that why he's trying to eradicate the mosquitoes? Come on...
Client side analytics won because setting them up involves copying and pasting some code into your HTML code.
It doesn't really matter though, does it? No matter what the history of Facebook he wasn't in a position to make those promises, period.

You can only make promises about what you control.
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Raptor engine production is significantly ahead of the RS-25 production line restart. That core stage is using old Space Shuttle engines.

Starship could certainly beat the first SLS launch sceduled for late 2021 if they gave up on reuse & in-flight refueling.
This is not true. Managers are considered to be agents of a corporation and are held to different standards than other employees. (This is also true for SWEs, where SWE manager is fundamentally different from IC.)
If you ask my current company, apparently the answer is to split the company up into 4 goddamn environments, which apparently just slows things down and makes everything more complicated rather than secure.
Yeah this was really difficult to wrap my head around and get right the first time (and with an old version of Okta's integration)...and I'm saying that having previously written my own SAML Identity Provider from scratch.

It's a lot easier now though and especially now that I understand how it all works.
That was always my default assumption but the argument in this article also seems logical.
I thought he was working on AI now?
I think there is a lot of benefit from unifying various identities and identity stacks. You can put all the investment in improving one identity platform instead of trying to maintain a user identity for every acquisition you make.
The general public doesn't give two shits about privacy and the amount of data that Facebook collects. They'll gladly go along with this to continue playing their games.

What this really means is that there is no untethered VR device for privacy-minded folks which make up a tiny portion of the overall VR users.
Facebook tracks you even when you're logged out btw.
If that promise wasn't in the actual contract then it wasn't "Facebook" who made it, it was someone at Facebook. Individual employees aren't typically in a position to be making those types of promises anymore than the company being acquired is.
> So your statement is true because you say that it's common knowledge that it's true?

Not, my statement is true BECAUSE is has been proven extensively and is common knowledge that it's true. There is a difference. There are extensive databases, plots and tables about how many food you can expect to produce from each organism by unit of time and area. Is the basis of a main branch of ecology: Trophic chains and energy.

To say than growing Soy is more efficient than to breed Polar bears is a repeated lie, trying to make simple things that aren't simple. Not. It depends on the ecosystem, context, temperature range, soil, and climate. And is the same with breeding cattle.
>TBH it is hard to make a recurring revenue of $ 400M even from scratch

True but they also didn't need to had they made decisions geared around long term sustainability. They could have kept Firefox running with a budget of under $150 million a year (~500 employees) and invested the rest. That'd be a nest egg of probably $4 billion by now including growth. That's enough for them to keep going for decades with no external revenue.

Instead they kept spending money on moonshot projects to become an independent megacorp. Failing every time. Now they don't have many options remaining.
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I've worked at FAANG for 4 years as product designer. I was getting a bit burned out, but COVID wfh took all the remaining fun out of my work. I feel like I can't spend another day on Zoom calls in my role.

Should I quit my FAANG job to try and start a startup? Part of me thinks that it'll be fun and motivating. The other part thinks the grass is just greener, especially since I have no idea what I want to start.

Feeling a bit lost. Anyone else in this position?
As an accredited investor you can potentially get in on private fundraising rounds.

But most private equity would rather work with a few high value investors instead of many small value investors. It's just so much simpler.

Opening the flood gates to any old Joe Schmoe would run afoul of many SEC rules -- and for good reason. Private equity is enormously more risky and more opaque than public market investing, and could so very easily be abused and fraudulent.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092815/how-b...
Would this also help with solar panels?
In Germany unions have board seats by law. Doesn't seem to be stopping the executives at Siemens and Krupp from their corporate aspirations.
Interesting that this other article on his blog says he left Apple voluntarily: https://lowendmac.com/2020/52259/

"After all this time, I cannot wait to see the back of Apple. I ditched iOS a few years back and it was the best decision I ever made, now leaving Apple is going to be the second best decision. I no longer want anything to do with them.

My Mac is up for sale and I will be closing my Apple ID.

After hundreds of articles and over 10 years of writing for LowEndMac, this is my final article. This is me signing off."
If you can borrow against shares to buy a big house, mega-yacht, etc you can do so to pay your taxes.
From what I read the root cause at Fukushima was improper risk assessment resulting in too low of a sea wall and not putting the gensets on piers. At least one engineer understood the mistake but was unable to overcome the bureaucracy to do anything about it.

So while I agree with you about how "new nuclear" could be dramatically safer, I still have concerns about how this stuff is regulated and operated. It's also why I'm in particular gung ho about small reactors, as there even if the risk estimates are messed up, the scale itself alievates many concerns.

Your final point/speculation is an interesting one. I've not heard this perspective before but it does seem plausible to me.
Very one sided discourse that paints landlords as some kind of evil monsters. In reality a landlord is like nay other businessman who has taken substantial risk to provide roof over your head, obviously for a profit. No landlord is interested in screwing you, they are interested in having some profit margin. One bad tenant can wipe out years of profits.
I think "customer" in this context just means an Apple customer, which they obviously are if they have old and new Macs.
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I have thought pretty hard about the need to include a fuzzy word like equivalence in my definition of monopoly, what would it take for me to persuade you to adopt my definition?
The average cost per GB is about $0.02/GB or $20/TB for the drive. Electricity varies based on the data center and the negotiated or local rates, so harder to calc. I like the idea of the chart, but may be tough to get the right data.
I don't think 'cherry-picked' is the right descriptor. My point is that in order for those percentages to change, we need to seek out ethical farming and pay for it.

If you believe that it is unethical to raise livestock with fulfilling lives and then kill them for meat, by all means do not eat meat. I disagree, but I accept that as a valid, reasonable position to hold. I think most people are more concerned with animal cruelty specifically, and also have a lot of difficulty switching to vegetarianism.
Yes it will and it has done so since around 2013. I rediscovered an old iPad 1 a couple of years ago. I reset it and downloaded Netflix, Hulu, and Crackle. A big pop up shows up giving you the option of downloading “the last compatible version”.

The catch is that if you have never downloaded the app before, you don’t get that option.

You either have to initiate the download first on a newer device or use a version of iTunes that supports app downloads. You don’t have to sync from iTunes. Just download the app.
> Think about it, it will be cheaper/better for $1M of US capital to be invested in UK vs the US.

That is a vast oversimplification of the problem that ignores all of the reasons to start and do business and business operations in the US, because there are already tons of places that you could start your company at that would result in lower taxes, yet very few if any choose to do so. You are making a huge logical leap that businesses will be as successful running out of the UK with its laws, regulations, and taxes as the US.

The world is not as simple and clean as whatever economic model you can cook up in your head. If it was, companies wouldn't pay developers in the US $300k/yr.
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I think for some service which for some reason had just FB signup I made a burner FB account and locked in all the privacy settings, I was thrown out of the account in under an hour. It kept asking for phone number which I didn't want to give.
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> "You never have just once chance and they 'investigate' and then you're let go."

That is absolutely untrue. I know of very many such events.

In order to hold them to account, you need to be able to give up the severence allowance. They can easily tell from your credit report whether you can, and choose accordingly.

It is very easy to believe this was the first run-in. Furthermore, the HN CoC requires that you presume so.
I suspect your question was somewhat rhetorical, but still: a test Starship is literally flying (albeit short hops currently) and the Raptor is looking pretty good.
I wonder if anyone has tried to do something like this for meeting invite responses, which are sent at least in Evolution without any user intervention. Could you craft a meeting invite URL or mail such that the response would include a file or email?
It's a bit of reductionist false dichotomy. I think it's fair to say that China is putting a decent amount of weight on vaccine development as well.
Exactly! And that is probably the reason why the majority of us should cut down hard on animal based food consumption, just to be on the safe side.
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