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Some of the people here can’t understand that some people have different opinions.

I don’t care that I can’t easily change the SSD. If that were important to me, I would buy a different laptop.

I don’t consider my MacBook Pro to be working against me, at all.
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Seems to be a way to avoid possible future litigation.
The early fission reactors were to make bombs not electricity. Large subsidies available there.
Sea rise is only 1/2 point of all the ones the parent listed. Why do you ignore all the others?
Agreed. My point was more that there seems to be broad and increasing disagreement on what professionalism entails—both in terms of an obligation to speak up, as you say, and in terms of politely avoiding certain topics in the workplace.
> a 100% chance of exposure.
I know so so many people who are leaving California, mostly because of the high cost of living, and the fires being something of a final straw. Somewhat ironically people seem to be coming to the Northeast in droves, after years of making fun of the weather, folks suddenly like the culture, infrastructure, and relative safety from natural disasters.
The problem with some monitors is that it gets tricky to get audio from hdmi that gets delivered to the screen

Sort of makes sense because a lot of people don't care about or plain don't want speakers on their monitor.
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Well, at least you managed not to use the word “fanboys”. That’s probably a first.
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I think it's quite common for drivers to have both the Lyft and Uber app open, and to take the first/best available ride that pops up from either app.

The question is whether you'll be paid by Uber while completing a ride from Lyft, and if the answer is "no" how that'll happen technically. Or perhaps you don't get paid for idle time - I'm not quite clear on that point.
Is being apolitical really being a conformist? 20 years ago yes, but in the age of social media where every brand from banks to ice cream posted their stance on the BLM protests it would appear being political in the workplace is conformity.

If what Brian Armstrong is saying here was considered the norm, this article wouldn't even be on the front page.
>I'm talking about drivers who are signed into both and take the first that comes up

FTA:

"Seattle's law will require drivers be paid at least 56 cents per minute and $1.33 per mile driven while transporting passengers."

Whoever's app they are on for the ride pays that wage.
I see your point but as OP mentioned:

1) Where is the data that shows each street is equally/proportionally scanned by parking attendant vehicles? There is potential discriminatory policy there.

2) Where is the data that shows that scan-success rate (i.e., percentage of detected cars, for which a plate number could be made out) is distributed normally, rather than e.g. influenced by parking infrastructure which is correlated with socioeconomic factors? Again, potential discriminatory practice.

Other possibilities exist, too.

These may sound far fetched, and you may be right to say that, but the data would show it. It'd be nice to see the data. It cannot be said a priori that 'algorithm just checks the image, so there's no discrimination possible', if there's no word about ensuring that regardless of various factors (e.g. socioeconomic, racial etc), your non-compliance with parking rules has an equal chance of your plate being scanned and fed into the algorithm.

It's the same issue why racial profiling is controversial. You can say 'this computer/algorithm is perfect at assessing non-compliance with a rule or regulation by individual X regardless of e.g. ethnicity', and you could still have discrimination because ethnic group A is fed into this system by way of racial profiling 10x more than ethnic group B. By the same token, we'd want to see where/how-often the scanning vehicles operate, and how their scans may have lower or higher success rates in various situations.

In short, the OCR might be alright, but the entire process/model/architecture (from scanning to issuing a fine, in which OCR is just one of the middle-steps) may not be. That entire model including scanning (photographing) by a computer is described on the page, so saying its non-discriminatory implies they've assessed more than just the OCR step. And if that is the case, they cannot say it's a priori non-discriminatory quite yet without providing more info/data.
I often wonder about the other side: Why do people who work in SV seem so militant on political issues? After all they live in a very privileged space (or "bubble") which is severely disconnected from the reality of most of the Earth, and even nearby american cities. I don't know enough about the demographics of the region and what can drive this behaviour but it is full of contradictions. For example, while they all seem invested in political causes, and seem to be using donations as a way to show virtual support to causes, I notice that they rarely venture into actual politics themselves.
IRC exists in the space outside the circles.
Please take a moment and open the demo on a smartphone.
It might not be the actual device for the end user but people will read this on HN and just click the link...and then get a very little disappointed
I think the number of votes and comments is evidence that this type of articles should have no place on HN.
This is not an opinion, politics is the exercise of power. If you are making decisions, you are exercising political power. Apolitical means “We’re going to make political decisions but we are not going to engage with any debate or discussion about them and you are not allowed to either.”
Can you please provide a source from where you got your numbers as I have a feeling some are quite wrong.

Maybe in Switzerland , but in Austria the MANW is definitely not 3000+ Euros a month.
As a developer I don't earn nowhere near close that NET every month and salaries here are lower overall than in Germany.
Thanks, I appreciate the long reply!

Good luck with the project, I hope it will work.
This might be a confusion started from the answer of "amelius", the logic of which I don't fully support. I believe consumer freedom is hampered first and foremost by monopolies (or, in the mobile OS case, oligopolies) and my political choice is to maximize market forces and restrict anti-competitive behavior. This is the grounds on which I oppose Apple practices, not some idea that if people buy Apple products it somehow prevents development for other platforms.
He writes "97% profit margins". How is that possible if AppStore takes 30%?

EDIT: This seems to be outside AppStore.
In the "carrier era" you could still buy unlocked phones directly from the manufacturer. Your analogy doesn't hold.

The truth is that there is a threshold, a level of user complaints that turns a legitimate practice into an anti-competitive one. People disagree on where this threshold lies - is it at 0, is it at 1000, is it at millions? Until recently, most of Apple's shenanigans have kept the complaints under thresholds small enough to be socially acceptable, that's all. If more people complain, that threshold could be reached.
Does the job they were interviewing for require a deep knowledge of Flask internals day-to-day?
When I fly I definitely pay more to avoid certain airlines. For instance, when flying to the US, I avoid any US-based airline, as they all always have noticeably worse service and seats, and will pay maybe 10-20% more to fly a EU or asian airline.
For some historical context, contemporaneously, the Civil Rights movement was highly controversial and, among white Americans, fairly unpopular; it's exactly the kind of thing that would have been described as politics best left out of the workplace.

"In 1964, in a poll taken nine months after the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, 74 percent of Americans said such mass demonstrations were more likely to harm than to help the movement for racial equality. In 1965, after marchers in Selma, Alabama, were beaten by state troopers, less than half of Americans said they supported the marchers."

(Taken from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/the-nex...)
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>How are other Scandinavian countries less Viking? They were also 100% settled by Vikings at the same time because that is where the Vikings came from.

>‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/viking-was-job-descr...
it's not his fault that corporations reward this. what should he do instead? purposely not work towards a promotion?
I don't agree. Selling a gun to a hunter is not the same as selling a gun to a known child murderer. Both is "just" selling a gun but they are very different in practice.
Technically you're right. You can run a website that gives users a service at no cost without violating privacy.

Pragmatically, however, it's very rare and 'free' correlates very closely with privacy violating business models. Talking about how free services violate privacy is fine when 99% of those services do exactly that. Those businesses shouldn't get a free ride on harvesting and selling personal information just because a handful of other businesses manage to be better.
While you're right that I am the main maintainer of this project, you might underestimate its traction.

apollo is being developed and professionally supported by my company and runs in production for many of our customers (ranging from single-node spaces to 5+ node Webhosting clusters, mostly Docker Swarm, a few on k3s).

While I put a lot of my personal wishes for "good IT systems" into apollo, it has originally been built as an open platform (open as in "no vendor lock-in, no custom tooling we can't leave behind later, industry-standard, best-practice, easy to grasp, don't stand in the way, integrate with everything") for a customer that decided to let my company open-source the product afterwards and build a team around ongoing development. Which we have done and it's a self-sustaining business since day 1.

What I try to say here is: we are a serious company, building this for other serious people with a similar understanding of "open" to use. It's also explicitly built to be customized to anyone's needs. We're betting on the software. Our clients can bet on us.

I understand that it might not be a popular choice on the market, it might not even become one. But it's free for everyone to build something with it, no questions asked. I guess that's at least something!
Why would a pound of carbon from air travel be worse than a pound of carbon from something else? If it were taxed differently, wouldn't that provide an incentive to produce more CO2, against market forces?
What was the expectation?
Yes, this is certainly true. I work with a "modern" ERP that just had it's newest release. Lots of low level pieces are stíll in COBOL.
I'm not sure it can. I've worked with VBA professionally and it always needs to run within an Office application like Access of Excel. A transpiler is probably doable, but I don't think it would be easy or even possible to port things using VBA to webasm.
Perhaps there is an opportunity to create a way to self-host static websites via people's own smartphones. Bandwidth costs for most sites must be tiny.

The business models of website/page-builder platforms are based on gathering a long tail of small businesses, and then selling the audience attention via ad networks and data mining.

Looking at the ecosystem from a distance, it's creating financial value, but there are technical means to provide the same actual business value in cheaper and more privacy-preserving ways.

(By "actual business value" I mean that a person can view the menu at a local cafe in their area -- a valuable interaction for both parties -- without that lookup being intermediated by a platform and N different third parties where a kind of "shadow market value" is extracted)
Suggestion: make a theme park from grounded / unused planes. A Disney World, but flight-themed, and with REAL planes (and real ex-pilots). I can tell you that a ton of boys would be excited as hell to learn how to take off and land from a real pilot. In stormy weather! I'd definitely give it a visit :-)
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Just throwing in that genetic make-up of icelanders is surprisingly diverse, it's not as "Norse" as one could believe from just the language and culture.

Not trying to make any particular point with that tidbit.
Some years ago i worked on a part of a specialized steering system for a car. This was done with certified everything (Certified Compiler, Processor, a lot of paper work etc.)

This was a 16-Bit processor and the C-compiler had a "funny" bug. If you had a struct with 3 8Bit Values in a row and a 16Bit Value afterwards it would overlap the 8Bit Value with the 16Bit value:

struct {
int8 a;
int8 b;
int8 c;
int16 d;
}

In this case the variable c and d would have the same address. This was on a cpu where we didn't had a debuger (not enough memory left for it), we only had a serial port for debuging.
Yeah sorry for naming. Did 0 research upfront. My dog is named "Apollo, I'm a not-so-creative guy, things just evolved and now here we are!
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It used to be, but Samba relicensed to GPLv3, so Apple switched to a custom SMB implementation
Plus, it would make full body cavity searches easier to mandate! A win for all!

(coming soon to your local district)
I'd love to be able to draw on the Fourier side. What's not neat is the rock-hard cliff cutoff, which leads to a ton of ringing on the image side.
Just because you are paying doesn't mean you aren't also giving up your privacy as well.
At my end, that's what I have to start testing on my 2019 MBP as I plan a transition to bare metal Linux fully on it, using the tools at https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux. (Will take several months.) I'll be sure to document it in that community and share tips when extensive testing is done.

It's only MBP NVIDIA GPU in Linux (older model) that I have extensive experience on so far, and it's been terrible with nouveau.
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On the other hand (just as anecdotal), I've flown a couple dozen times in my life (~50) and have never had any problems myself (luck plays a big role in this I reckon). Would I have used a travel agency, I'd probably be a few thousand euros lighter.
https://archive.vn/JSrZ4
I love two things here.

If the maker of goods is not in good standing for offsetting their impact then the importing state introduces taxes for that deficiency and has it handled in the importing country.

The second is the idea of showing the actual cost of offsetting. Having honest conversations about that will promote local and incentivize R&D to reduce that cost. Fantastic stuff.
Of note to me: certified compiler was actually non performing :)
Lauterbach, the savior of embedded wizardry. Still in use today with chips one would not consider "embedded".
Ah! Sorry for that; I have no idea.

It seems that at least some ARMs have [timers that can be used](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/450971), which is a different strategy, but still more appropriate (I suppose).
I will anecdotally agree; I've been a Linux laptop user for... well, 2 decades maybe? and explicitly choose Dell Mobile Precision and/or IBM/Lenovo T-series laptops with ATI/AMD, dealing with NVIDIA graphics is just a pain in the ass once we passed the GeForce era (ish).

I'd rather just have/use Intel GPU over them as well, I am not a laptop gamer to need anything NVIDIA offers in exchange for the pain in maintenance using out of tree modules to me.
They also took Irish women as slaves to Iceland:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/dna-study-reveals-fa...
i can only speak from memory, but when xcode merged interface builder into the ide (before it was xcode + interface builder) eveyrthing became so slow it was almost intolerable

i wonder if glomming two apps together must have caused some aweful redundancies that slowed up everything?
I wonder what % of SV employees actually did move there for "making a better place blabla". It always souded as a pure marketing signal , like those old Benneton ads. I can understand that people who work for wikipedia do it, but not the big tech sector. It's particularly hard to believe it considering the cynicism of the current "total compensation"-oriented generation of tech crowd.
The issue with services like Disqus is that even without the advertising (which adds their trackers), Disqus itself is a tracker, the same way Google Analytics is.

You can see more details here: https://data.disqus.com/

One alternative to Disqus, Commento, suggests that Disqus isn't even GDPR compliant.
> 75%-80% open rate for many of my campaigns

You don’t actually ever have anything close to that. The big marketing automation platforms apply “correction factors” because most mail clients block images by default.

Create a seed list of 100 emails you control, make sure you open exactly one of your test emails, and watch your “marketing automation” tool lie to you when it comes to open rates.
Or buy a $5 headset from your local gas station, so the microphone is close to the mouth and doesn't pick up the speaker...
Switzerland was neutral during WWII but still sold stuff to Deutschland.

Just weigh it up like that. I might have to delete the app
Most common XML parsers in PHP uses libxml which is written in C, so it should be relatively fast, however I haven't used it for super large XML-files and not for every request. It would be interesting to test.
I've been in a home improvement store, looking for garden tools, and every option says it causes cancer, but doesn't say specifically what. So there is no non-cancer option, and no information on what the issue is and if it is important. And this is in NY, not CA.
The problem is the you will
damage public perception and lose support for a program when you hand out cash to addicts and alcoholics.
Legitimately, have you ever been on a commercial flight?

It’s not full of rich people cramped into tiny seats, I’ll tell you that much.
Thanks for the pointer! Emphasis mine:
"Because linear functions only strengthen the contract of unrestricted functions, a number of functions of base can get a more precise type. However,
for pedagogical reasons, to prevent linear types from interfering with newcomers' understanding of the Prelude, this proposal does not modify base. Instead, we expect that users will publish new libraries on Hackage including more precisely typed base functions. One such library has already started here."
> After all, nobody would complain if the KKK had brought Microsoft Office licenses, any more than they'd complain if the KKK had brought food at wal-mart.

Oh yes they would. Selling to the KKK would make Microsoft and Walmart KKK supporters.
The West Coast and its inhabitants live in a bit of a unique bubble and assume that the rest of the world see things in the very progressive manner they do, and expect that companies will march in lockstep with this sort of unique bubble. It's a very internalized unrecognized sort of expectation, but that's because so many companies have accepted these expectations completely. The rest of the country doesn't really care about this stuff, but media and tech related companies are disproportionately west coast so it gives an inaccurate picture as to what is going on.
Supporting the status quo would mean that you actively oppose those who try to change it. Being neutral means that you help neither those who try to change it nor those who try to keep it the same as before. They are not the same.

Example: A person is being murdered near you. You flee. Did you support the persons murder by not engaging, and therefore letting it play out? No, you did not.
It isn't an App Store app, he's taking payment on his own site and delivering PNGs to an email address.

Not sure how I feel about the article. Kind of reads like those "I got stupid lucky this one time, so can you!" fluff pieces at best, and at worst is just further advertisement/marketing for the icon pack.
There's lots of things the ride share companies could do to make it look less like a job, but they don't, because it would reduce their revenue. What's the problem with applying regulation that makes it more likely to be worthwhile for the drivers?

Or is your argument that this will destroy profitability for drivers by denying them the right to chase fares across services?
not a film script, and no advertising, but you may enjoy "if on a winter's night a traveler"[0].

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I have to say I think you're right. I think the advantage of a blog format is that it forces you to capture your thoughts in writing. So you have to challenge yourself.

But, having taught some in-person and synchronous online classes, the different points of view from students definitely force me to understand the topic at many levels.

One issue teaching might have that blogging doesn't is that it may be hard to find your audience, if it is a niche topic. For instance, I doubt that anyone would have signed up for a Cordova automation course (the topic of my ebook). But perhaps in a world of Udacity I'm incorrect.
Nice try, I like the gesture.

Count me extremely skeptical though. You can get decent to really good tabular learning right off the shelf and it‘s so good and ubiquitous by now that interestingly enough, a few things start to happen that imho might make this effort close to impossible:

- The differences between different algorithms get ever smaller, leaving more and more weight of any machine driven decision to the actual input data itself, including proper labeling, preparation, feature engineering, QA and debiasing. You can‘t properly separate the data from the algorithm itself anymore these days.

- Even IF you added all this data together with the algorithm in a register (which brings its own privacy and practicality concerns), with the massive breadth and width of modern data sources, most data scientists don‘t even understand model decisions by themselves anymore. You‘ll need to dig deep into the explainability toolbox to be able to at least partially explain them.

- There are dozens of documented cases where algorithms just mirror and regurgitate human biases through data. Algorithms by themselves are (mostly) innocuous, but can get to make racist, sexist and populist decisions anyway, purely based on what they have trained on.

So if you can‘t even trust the people who build the algorithms to understand their reasoning, what benefit could a publication possibly bring to any outsider?
They paid money to Epic, which is the responsible for them not having the game in first place.
Freedom of expression includes the freedom to be irrationally embarrassed about anything, or indeed irrational about anything at all. As long as you're not hurting anyone I guess.
> their bosses are using their employees' productivity to empower those political views.

that's because the bosses (an owner of the company) is paying for it. Presumably, doing so reduces the amount of money the company can make (since employee time is diverted away to an unproductive, but political action).

The employee, however, do not have this right, because if they are doing so not under the instruction of the owner of company, they are taking away their productivity that they've sold to the company (for their wage/salary).