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My wife is mostly liberal from a US political perspective, but happens to be opposed to abortion. I happen to disagree in nuanced ways with her on this topic. My business.

According to my coworkers, who discovered this because they saw her bumper sticker when she picked me up one day, this is because she is "ignorant and doesn't know the facts" and "if she knew the facts she wouldn't think that way" and that I "need to talk to her and explain them."

They think that, due to their profession, they are intelligent, and therefore anyone who disagrees with them about a complex topic is either less intelligent or uninformed. It's the epitome of youthful arrogance. Naturally, none of them have kids and really don't see the nuance of the issue. It's insufferable, and at one point I was getting ready to clobber a guy who I am 100% positive has never been hit in his life.

Politics should be left out of work. And yes, by convincing a broad spectrum of the American public that Trump won the election because of a few facebook ads bought by Russian assets, instead of simply saying that they had a shitty candidate, the Democratic party has essentially pressured tech companies to have political filtering on their staff. If Facebook had Republicans working at senior levels in their company, they would have been subjected to even more harassment from Dem leaders who scapegoated them for their loss in 2016. Facebook has former Democratic party operatives at high levels in their company. They don't and can't have anyone from the Republican party. They get unending amounts of shit for Thiel being on their board.
I'm still confused whether it's appropriate to refer to actresses as "actor". The guidance appears to be skewed. (I'm being completely earnest here - I don't want to offend anyone.)
Maybe after the dust settles. But you can bet lots of people will reenact the SCO saga, and now they won't have to lie on every claim.
>which alone can easily be in the hundreds of milliseconds

This actual paint time is surely not any different than if you rendered the exact same application from pre-hydrated HTML though.

Plus, if your application is so complex that paints are on the order of magnitude of network latency, it's probably very important to have a framework to handle interactivity, else everything will end up as some kind of a mess if you try to re-load the whole HTML page to change some small DOM subtree.

Overall, I don't really see the situation where an SPA is performing worse than a server-rendered application, given that some in-browser interactivity is required.
It wasn’t well explained, but there are two buffers. Even with the sampling loop as tight as I could get it I think there is just a few ms of inherent delay between when it finishes reading and when it is ready to read again.
These are "simple" solutions--i.e., not good ones.
2 ~ 3 years would be my duration. That's what I consider short term. I expect it'd be a little bit brutal, and that's ok.
> Sounds great in theory. Now try to ascertain if someone made a hiring/promotion decision based on merit or on melanin without some kind of Star Trek era brain scan.

I'm of the opinion that business owners should be the sole arbiters of who is hired and promoted anyway. The State should mind its own business. A good business owner will promote the best talent which will make their company grow. If they start filtering talent based on skin color, they're hurting their own pocket.

You can't ascertain whether individual hiring decisions are based on merit or not, but you can make a statistical guess at what percentage of each ethnicity would be promoted based on the demographics where the hiring is taking place. If the population is 10% black and 90% white, you'd expect an organization to be 10% black and 90% white on average, if no racial screening is occurring.

However, the common "diversity quotas" which are commonly employed now want a different outcome. They want to see at least 50% of hires from BAME, even if BAME are only 20% of the demographics. There's a term for this. It's called racism.
In the real world, you know by watching the show. Monte Hall always offers to switch, so that you know that you're in world A.

If it was the first time the show ever aired, you could be in a situation where you didn't know whether it was A or B. But in the problem as normally posed, you have time to watch the show for months to years, and you know how Monty behaves.
Ok, but how does that help them? Unless they're buying digital goods, all of their spending will be concentrated domestically. Without international trade (as nobody will do business with them for the aforementioned reasons) -- it's not like DHL is going to airdrop in their Amazon Prime purchases. Their welfare does not improve through "irreversibility" (in quotes, because a hose is all it takes to reverse any crypto transaction). In general, irreversibility hurts their welfare through breakage. Their transactions aren't guaranteed if the internet is censored, which in Iran, it is.

The government already has total control over the domestic economy, and can coerce you through violence. What have you gained other than a dramatically less energy efficient economy?
I mean, when it comes to the potential of a given technology, I think I know who I'll generally trust between HN consensus and the United States Department of Justice.
I think the real gist here is

> with only onboard sensing and computation
Only a very foolish hiring manager would hold it against someone who left Coinbase. Or someone who stayed on.

> I personally am afraid to associate myself too publicly with a political stance, lest I be wrong and/or the environment changes.

This suggests you speak from a position of privilege. It is easy to implicitly endorse the status quo when it is beneficial to you.
To me the best explanation of an Application Programming Interface (spelling it out on purpose) is really the comparison with industrial machinery. It's really the switches, knobs and levers of a machine that you use to make it do something. I get it that an API being textual throws non-technical people off. But for a programmer functionally there's not much difference between a physical object, like a steering wheel, and some API call to invoke. They are both just something you use to interact with the underlying system. Hence the term.

It's sort of perplexing that Google would send someone who can't explain this point of view well.
S3 storage is exactly what modern databases like Snowflake work on. It’s ridiculously easy to turn compressed unstructured (say, json) data into a SQL queryable table.
In the case of Brexit, the sudden swing to 'leave' happened very shortly after leave ran a massive campaign of deceptive dark ads on Facebook. This advertising campaign pushed factually untrue narratives (such as that the EU was on the verge of forcing the UK to be overrun by Syrian migrants)[1] to vulnerable people and, from all indications was able to turn the referendum in leave's favor.

The sudden swing towards leave does not seem to represent a failure in polling (or media) but rather a demonstration that Facebook's dark ads platform alone can subvert the ability of a high-functioning democracy to make an informed, fact-based, decision on a question that will impact generations of people.

That should terrify a lot more people than it does.

[1] https://www.joe.co.uk/news/brexit-facebook-adverts-192164 ;
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-vote-leave...
If you're playing at high framerates (120Hz+) you'll find that your CPU is inadequate for many recent games.

(playing games on a 1070 and a 6 year old Xeon and feeling the lack of single-threaded performance)
> afterwards on a meta level there is anxiety with everything you click on and how it might influence your filters

Yes I have so much hesitation where I am curious about someone’s fringe viewpoint but DO NOT want to be swamped with more of the same
No, they are effectively saying "Those issues are outside the scope of the purpose of our organization". That's not the same thing.
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Indifference to politics is a political view.
Dangerous times, the fact that this is being normalized by certain political parties is very scary indeed.

"LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" Tweet on Donald Trump August 17th

[0] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12511692175310561...
Because in tech its easy to just move jobs or negotiate on your own. Unions would just have government in you businesses, and make it harder for workers. Not to mention programmers are cheap and wont pay the union fees. I know I wouldn't I'd just avoid unionized companies.
Not necessarily. Everybody knows the best way to move up in tech is to switch. Depending upon your options taking this offer and moving to another company where you make more is the best possible path you could take. Throw in the desire right now for people to leave SF and it gets even better.
> "Apolitical" is ... another way of saying, "The way things are is fine".

I disagree strongly & think you're dead wrong here. Apolitical in the workplace is saying "we come to work to align on & collaborate in working towards shared goals and those goals are what we should be focused on at work. People who share this goal (coinbase, make money, promote crypto whatever) may vote R, D, or not vote at all. We can all still work together on our shared goal."

It means people with different views can work together on stuff they do agree on rather than "I can't work with anyone who doesn't vote the same as me" which is what social-justice-in-the-workplace seems to lead to, for better or worse.

It is NOT an endorsement of the status quo, it's a recognition that you and I might both oppose the status quo for completely different reasons that have nothing to do with work.
Fair enough. Survive was a poor choice. What I had in mind was surviving as a contender at the high-end, so we can continue to benefit from competition for server-class chips. Alpha, SPARC, and POWER all lost the high-end market (their only market) to Intel at a time when Intel was inferior. AMD previously failed because Intel surpassed them, but that's because AMD couldn't leverage their initial advantage to secure their markets and thus their ability to keep investing. Without volume and mindshare failure is inevitable. Providing the best high-end chips is insufficient to remain competitive long-term. The reasons for previous failures were complex (ISA, operating system, sales channels, etc), but ultimately it comes down to something like diversity--customer and product diversity provide buffers in terms of sales as well as changes in market direction. AMD's chips are indisputably better than Intel's right now, but even with Intel's mindboggingly massive fumbles they're barely sweating in terms of current and prospective revenue.
Zappos will pay new employees (reportedly 4k USD) to quit.

Coinbase's offer was 4-6 months severance with benefits over that timeframe.
I'd be happy to use an app store that tracks active screen-time per app and disburses a monthly "subscription" proportionally to the developers of all the apps I use.

I don't have any concern about the type of currency used to pay.

A quick check of my screentime over the past few days shows only two apps which wouldn't benefit from this: DAVx and Syncthing. Both of these are essentially daemons I configured once, and ideally never see the app interface of ever again until I get a new phone. Otherwise, apps I benefit from are represented in the screentime of the past couple days.
Darwin copies Unix APIs from AT&T. They have engaged in this kind of copying. They just haven't been sued about it.
I haven't read the full report yet, but do they point out any examples?

I think the main contention of many of us on HN is that blockchain as a technology (as opposed to Bitcoin as a store of value) is proposed for a lot of things, but examples that wouldn't be better served by a database are basically non-existent.
Yes, it uses the Ethernet interface to send the data back. The serial connection was just to access the console before telnet access was enabled
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I'm waiting for a Dell XPS 15/17 with a 4800u/h but not sure if that ever happens. Maybe I go with the Lenovo T14 as soon as 4800u is avaiable on it.
> but switching jobs let's you ask for $10k or more

Right... but aren't the options you're throwing away worth 10x that? How can it possibly be worth it?
Is unlabeled video data in limited supply? My impression was that the limiting factor was labeled data, especially labeled video + lidar data.
I'm still programming. I run a company selling graphics software, for Windows and now macOS.

There is no job more interesting than programming.
That would be a more useful comment if you pointed out the flaws in the definitions that vl is using.
Which may or may not be worth anything. The rule of thumb is to value stock options at 0 for a reason. As opposed to RSUs, which are liquid upon vesting.
AWS licenses it's client library as under the Apache License. (https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) Doesn't that mean anyone can build an interoperable service? I can then benefit from other cloud providers implementing the same API. I don't need access to AWS' source code, I wasn't going to deploy a private cloud anyway. All I want is robust competition.
Sure, but there's no reason for something like API documentation to require emailing support@.

Let me cite a specific recent example: I was tasked with building an application that integrated document e-signatures. The spec called for Docusign specifically, so I looked at their documentation. What I could find of it was written unclearly and much of it was hidden behind a developer account login. Getting a developer account was "free", as long as my time was worth $0. (You had to fill out a form of some kind, I don't remember the specifics anymore.)

So then I looked at HelloSign, a competitor. Their documentation was public, freely available, and beautiful (https://app.hellosign.com/api/documentation). It included specific examples and walkthrus. This says things to me like, "we care about the developer experience".

I practically begged the customer to use HelloSign instead. I expected, from experience, that Docusign integration was going to suck, and HelloSign integration would suck a lot less. The customer said, "the spec already says Docusign, so we can't switch".

And the Docusign integration did suck. It was terrible. Lots of it was incomplete. Their vendor library was a godawful mess, built from some automated tool that converts an API into a bad class library. Their support was basically useless even after a contract had been negotiated and signed. The client ended up spending an extra ten grand or so and at least a couple weeks worth of delays just on Docusign-related issues.

This is a pattern that reoccurs often enough that experienced developers use documentation as a proxy for the quality of the service.
Yes, because this announcement is a lot like their previous announcements -- fudging the language to make it sound like it's more available than it is.

It's not even generally available in Phoenix yet. I'm sure someone on HN lives in Phoenix, and has never used Waymo before. Tell us if you can get a driverless ride.

It's got a long way to go before it's something like Uber in Phoenix. It's got even longer to go before it's something like Uber in NYC (10-20 years still sounds right).

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The funny thing is that the pandemic should have been HUGE for self-driving cars... Most people I know haven't taken rideshare in 6+ months because they don't want to ride with somebody, and I only did so in the last few weeeks.

But it was a non-event. I didn't hear anyone talking about self-driving in the last 6 months. If it really worked, and was really available, then there would be certainly some people who would pay 2-5x the price of Lyft/Uber for no driver. (Not most people, but some people.)
There's nothing apolitical about forbidding employees from talking about certain sensitive topics at work, especially where what's "sensitive" is a subjective decision by management.
> I for one don't want government to be able to regulate / control / trace transactions.

This is why I don’t understand “darkweb” crypto marketplaces.

When “doing crime”, I’m really not interested in committing the transaction to a permanent public ledger.
It is only politically correct to recognize blockchain / DLT potential when you need to bash cryptocurrencies.

Meanwhile, the reverse is true: decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Monero have potential to change the World. While "enterprise blockchain technology" is just pure BS - the needlessly over-distributed and over-complicated database that is inherently centrally controlled.
Is banning discussion of religion in the workplace a political/religious stance?

Or is it just an attempt to be decent and get people to do the thing they were hired to do, which is to make their investors more fucking money? As a shareholder in several tech companies, I don't like the idea of people having discussions like these on my dime. How many bugs that were never fixed with Youtube Music, for example, could have been fixed if there weren't shit heads sitting around having flame wars on my fucking dime?
Unlike FBI's history - where agents handcraft a terror plot while carefully leading around bozos who can barely sound out their own name - this appears to be the real deal.

Militia members are alleged to have concocted the scheme on their own, including planning to "target Whitmer’s home" and "detonating explosive devices to divert police from the area of the home and Fox [militia member] even inspected the underside of a Michigan highway bridge for places to seat an explosive"
Uh, no. These kids are being taught that their needs are basically unimportant compared to the teacher's needs, that their feelings are unimportant compared to the teacher's feelings, that they are a burden on their teacher's time and energy, and that they shouldn't even ask questions when they don't understand something.

There are several educators in my immediate family, and several friends as well. I guarantee you every single one of them would be HORRIFIED by this amount of selfishness and lack of self-control this teacher is demonstrating.

This teacher needs to be, if not fired, put on leave and recommended a mental health evaluation. In their current state they are unable to satisfactorily educate and/or care for small children.

I suspect you don't have kids.
I googled "how to make chlorine gas" after a friend mixed ammonia and bleach products thinking it would keep their dog from peeing in the same spot, and wondering why their eyes and skin were on fire.
If 95% of the people at the company don't care, but you're the person who won't stop bringing up the need to change orange juice vendors, to the point that it's disruptive and annoying to the 95%, maybe they don't want to work with you any more. And maybe it's not the right company for you, either. Why would you want to work with a bunch of people who are indifferent to environmental destruction when there are literally thousands of companies out there who actively embrace your orange juice opinions?
I disagree, as the marginal benefit to existing holders asymptotically approaches zero after a few blocks are processed, and can be safely disregarded.
Being apolitical in the workplace is a way of making it possible to work together for a common goal with people who are very different than you and have very different opinions.

You can still be very politically active on your own time.
Like other comments, I am skeptical 5% are actually quitting due to this overblown twitter melodrama, instead of just taking a sweet deal.

Furthermore, what political mission did these people falsely believe they were joining when they got hired?

Coinbase is literally an app designed for the sole purpose of helping 22 year old kids lose money by speculating on the now deflated crypto bubble.

For a while, coinbase was allowing kids to “invest” using credit cards. I’m not kidding.

How could there be such a disconnect with that many people about what the company actually does—-especially from the inside where you can literally see how they actually make their money?
> a SSL connection is transient and you can't replay it to show that Google's certificate digitally signed that email in GMail.

Actually, there the TLSNotary[1] protocol that allows you to use the https connection as a means to sign the web content your browser received.
There is the PageSigner browser extension that uses TLSNotary to sign webpages.

However, it seems like this project wasn't given a lot of love this last few years.
Good news is version 2.0 has been released just a week ago[2], with support for TLS 1.2, but with a major drawback for me: it now trusts a server generating the TLS keys for the notarized page. Sure, it's an "oracle" server not controlled by PageSigner but still operated by Amazon.

[1] https://tlsnotary.org/
[2] https://tlsnotary.org/wp/?p=45
The US is a two party system[0] because it uses first past the post elections. First past the post electoral systems can't support more than two viable parties.

[0] Nominally. In practice, the commonality of ideas between elected Democrats and Republicans, combined with structural advantages that give the GOP a disproportionate hold on power, mean that the US is more of a 1.5 party system.
This is not feasible for most parents.
My thinking is that it takes a certain personality type to whistle-blow, or push back against SOP for moralistic (or customer-focused) reasons. I don't want to overplay my hand here — I don't know for certain — but Coinbase's current messaging strikes me as off-putting to that sort of personality type.
The biggest lever in the toolbox for a typical user to optimize network is good old ethernet. Wired vs wireless will typically reduce latency a little bit and massively improves on jitter, which is arguably more important for competitive gaming (within a reasonable range of latency).

Outside of that, I agree.
There are literally thousands upon thousands of companies hiring software engineers today.
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Not to mention that blaming anything on antifa makes about as much sense as blaming gremlins or poltergeists or Santa. At this point someone even using the word "antifa" with a straight face while they make scary-sounding pronouncements about unrest deserves to be written off and forgotten by the entire freaking human race for all time. It is freaking embarrassing to be an American right now and there's exactly one political party to blame.
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There was a recent study of dialysis patients: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

TLDR: "During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer than 10% of the US adult population formed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, and fewer than 10% of those with antibodies were diagnosed."
6 months of pay as severance. I could find another job in a couple weeks and I am not that skilled or experienced a software engineer. It would be quite tempting.
I think this is also true from the other side - probably more people would leave if we weren't in a recession.
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