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> With the exception of lockdowns, political outcomes rarely interfere with daily routines.

I used to agree with your first sentence but Government never gives attained powers back. The lockdowns represent a crossing of the Rubicon.
> Not really, it's mostly frequency illusion hanging out on HN, but considering Google has multi-billion users, those dozen or so incidents are nothing in comparison.

It's not at all uncommon.

I've done business with Google multiple times in my career, and I could name a dozen such incidents. They're just not public.

For the most part, there wasn't anything the user did; just Google algorithm bugs. In one case, a startup lost all of its data because one Google system expected another Google system to implement a fraud detection measure, and the other Google system didn't. Completely internal to Google, but poof, all of a sudden, account gone, all data gone, and no way to fix it.

In another case, GCE lost a contract worth millions of dollars to AWS because Youtube had algorithm bugs. Poof. Youtube system broke. This was early GCE days, and they were looking for successes, and we were sufficiently high-profile that we had a dedicated engineering team. They pushed on Youtube. Youtube said we weren't important enough to help.

Most of this stuff is either under NDA, or otherwise just private, but it is why my current employer, as a policy, doesn't do business with Google. That's a big contract too; I'm not at a startup right now, but at a big company.

> And name me one other company that provides unlimited free storage

I think you're unintentionally arguing I shouldn't rely on Google-unique features, since I might lose them. I already knew that. I've learned that lesson painfully over, and over, and over, and over, and over.

That hurts Google in B2B. If all customers take that philosophy, Google fundamentally can't have unique, differentiating advantages beyond price. It doesn't matter what unique AI algorithm Googlers come up with for the Google Cloud. I won't use it if I can't count on it still being around when I ship my product. And I can't. The only time I will use Google is if it provides unique customer access (e.g. Android apps or Youtube eyeballs), which hopefully the antitrust thing will help with.
The prong (from the link above) is $150k average trailing yearly income. And the prong only determines if you are elligible.

From there, if you are close to retirement and have your wealth in illiquid assets where a penalty for converting them to cash is steep, you are kinda fucked.

From Above link: “ IRC 877A imposes a mark-to-market regime, which generally means that all property of a covered expatriate is deemed sold for its fair market value on the day before the expatriation date. Any gain arising from the deemed sale is taken into account for the tax year of the deemed sale notwithstanding any other provisions of the Code. Any loss from the deemed sale is taken into account for the tax year of the deemed sale to the extent otherwise provided in the Code, except that the wash sale rules of IRC 1091 do not apply.

The amount that would otherwise be includible in gross income by reason of the deemed sale rule is reduced (but not to below zero) by $600,000, which amount is to be adjusted for inflation for calendar years after 2008 (the “exclusion amount”). For calendar year 2014, the exclusion amount is $680,000. For other years, refer to the Instructions for Form 8854.”
I always try to give the recruiter no indication of race or gender. Frankly, if we all did that it would remove the bias.

The challenge is, I suspect they ask for race & gender is intentionally requested to add bias. I’ve worked with recruiters and part of the job is indeed targeting “under represented” groups to improve the figures.
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I also went down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out what "VM" was referring to. I really like Melinda Varian's paper "VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future"[1]. The history of time sharing systems laid out there is really interesting.

From that paper:

Creasy and Comeau spent the last week of 1964 joyfully brainstorming the design of CP-40, a new kind of operating system, a system that would provide not only virtual memory, but also virtual machines. [Footnote 25]

[Footnote 25] - Creasy had decided to build CP-40 while riding on the MTA. "I launched the effort between Xmas 1964 and year’s end, after making the decision while on an MTA bus from Arlington to Cambridge. It was a Tuesday, I believe."

I love seeing an anecdote like that about such an influential technology!

[1] http://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/25paper.pdf
I find little meat in life that is offered as standard.

I mean: work, produce, consume, agree and enjoy the show (only if you keep dancing and only as long as it lasts).

Where is the joy? How much joy am I neglecting to follow standards I have not chosen?

I am looking for alternatives such as more dedication to my people, hobbies and joyful knowledge, finding that this has little overlap with the expected way of life.
In a number of places in Europe (I can't say how many, I've only researched the one I moved to, and know that some others are similar), you need to reside there lawfully for a number of years, in my case five, pass some basic tests of language and culture, and then you can apply for citizenship. That's really about all that's required. It's actually an almost identical process to becoming a permanent resident, which is what I'm aiming for due to no-dual-citizenship requirements.
Interesting. I haven't seen these sorts of problems in my company. At least nothing that couldn't be fixed quickly for data sharing. We even deal with passing data externally. Usually the setup is something like a dedicated FTP server that is configured to allow SFTP for whitelisted IPs, credentials for the file creators/consumers which only give them limited access to a single folder. I think there's a couple other steps in there. Also, this is B2B, and wouldn't be a good B2C model.
I think Crichton was only half right. The value is not in the edited content, it's in having a single narrative going through society. Even if that narrative is partially wrong.

I feel like society is in the midst of restructuring itself to the reality that there will never be a single narrative again.

And I think that's ok because we're reverting back, societally, to a time before mass media. So we know it's possible for societies to function without a single overarching narrative.

(Not to go too far off, but the same thing seems to be coming as a result of deep fakes -- reverting to a time where 1st person accounts from a reputable person were the only reliable evidence. [Where reputation was something of an organic page rank algorithm.])
>Then declare a monopoly, jack up prices, and make back what you've lost.

I often see people posting some variation of this theory. Can anyone point to real-life example of this happening? Where competitors were driven out of business only to have the perpetrator "jack up prices"? I'm not a believer that the market is perfect, but I have more faith in it than that. From my view, it looks like most companies who attempt this strategy end up going out of business themselves.
Ok I'll bite

> This isn’t just a case of comfortable white people itching to do Colonialism 2.0. While there are no official statistics on the breakdown of American emigres by ethnicity, the country’s ingrained racism has made it more appealing for Black Americans to move abroad, while many Asian Americans find the job opportunities overseas better than the ones at home. Hispanic Americans are also opting out in increasing numbers for a variety of reasons.

Can someone explain to me why white people moving to another country is considered colonialism?
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You can become a citizen of Estonia (and thus part of the EU system) after about 8 years of living there and passing an Estonian fluency exam.

That's hardly "zero."
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>AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black

Ironically, pretending all blacks come from the same ethnic or cultural background is a very ignorant (and racist) thing to do.
Well, you do give them their name, that's a strong indication of race and gender for most people, isn't it?
Isn't HEVC, and by extension HEIC, a patent minefield, like everything that comes out of MPEG? And also webp came out before HEVC was finalized iirc.
That is asinine.
Your page doesn't show any of the backend code being deployed. I don't even know what language it's in.

So it's a little hard for me to compare it to Netlify, which does have backend support in the form of lambdas, and a database in the form of FaunaDB. That's fairly limited, but it's also very easy.

Clicking through to the github page, it looks like the examples are in Go... though I also see a Dockerfile. For me, I'd be more interested in having your blurb page focus more on how one writes the back end, since that's what you're really selling.
I once tried to download my Google photos, and it became super messy. I got tons of different folders all with duplicates and other stuff and it was pretty unusable.

Has this improved?
Surprising study results regarding women being more likely to receive a callback than men. From personal experience and the teams I've been on, women have always been in the minority, along the lines of 8-10 men for every two women. However, I am not in Silicon Valley.

We need more studies in this area. I'd also like to see studies that include other possible sources of discrimination (gender identity, age) that are known to exist in some areas. Without those other sources included in the data it's possible those sources could be skewing the data.

One scenario might be that most of the women were young (20s-early 30s), while many of the men were older (late 30s to early 50s). Just one possible scenario, I'm not saying that was the case. But in that scenario the bias could be against older candidates rather than for female ones.
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Would be interesting to separate Asian applicants into their own group.
OK so the latter. This is racist against both white people that somehow don't deserve capitalisation based on their skin color and black people in the US who don't share the limited concept of black the AP uses.
I started a thread a week back
https://www.reddit.com/r/gameideas/comments/jp060i/neural_fl...
> One concern is your pricing seems too reasonable (free)!

Is that reasonable? Building anything on top of obvious loss leaders is risky. And the costs here for a year of service are either $0 on the free plan or $420 for the cheapest paid plan. There's a chasm of difference there.

I can't understand people offering platforms and services with a pitch that tries to describe what sets $THING apart from others, but when it comes to pricing, they settle for looking around at what everyone else is doing and copying that—which usually results in offering a free tier and paid plans usually starting at $5–9+ per month. Chances are, what you're selling probably isn't as unique as you think it is (this post mentions Netlify several times, for example, but Netlify doesn't only do static hosting―you can run microservices with Netlify, too, and Netlify's paid plan is cheaper).

More businesses could and should differentiate themselves in their pricing model, because the door is wide open and pretty much nobody else is showing interest in taking advantage of the opportunity.
I'm reminded of a quip I came across in the conversation around the George Floyd killing - "Being a black man in America is like being a man only more so".

I guess in the case of SV hiring outcomes, this is literally true!
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Is it not the case that x86 Chromebooks emulate the ARM ISA in order to run Android apps? There's certainly a slowdown but it's not horrible. How do they do it?

Then again maybe they just have a good JVM and that solves most of the problem for Android apps?
I recommend Cory Doctorow's recently-published novel "Attack Surface" (3rd installment in the "Little Brother" series). It's entertaining and possibly illuminating, and gets fairly detailed about surveillance tech's application and countermeasures, and ramifications.
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The word 'meritocracy' was coined as a derogatory term about the education system in England in the 50s in a satirical text. It mocked the idea that such a thing could exist because the system obviously wasn't designed for it. If you value "intelligence", but only give rich people access to good education, then you've just created a two-step process that selects for rich people.
Somehow doesn't surprise me I've upset the neck beards
Not everyone who reads this site is a "reds under the bed" paranoid American.
>in this case ali baba

And the fundamentals of that company and its accounting are in question...
It depends on your worth, to become an ex-pat can be very expensive.
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I was in the camp of refilling cartridges back around the time of that article. It was terrible. I spent untold hours futzing with 3rd party ink, using alarming looking syringes and squirt bottles, getting it all over my hands, desks and equipment, and then spent more time debugging the poor print quality and clogged nozzles. One day in a fit of rage I swept the contents of my desk into the garbage and never looked back. :) I feel that in retrospect, it was a useful exercise at least to help me realize what exactly it is I am paying for when I pay for OEM refills. Also, to be fair having nozzles included in the cartridges was a technological leap that really solves a lot of the issues with or without using 3rd party materials.
I try to avoid all that stuff too. I just wanted to bring it up since there's a portion of the coding population that use them.
Core 2.2 was significantly faster than Framework 4.7+. Core 3.1 was noticeably faster than that, and how .NET 5 is the fastest yet.
I started out with an older bike last year and this site was invaluable for me in getting it fixed and running. All the info is still so good!

A more comprehensive site, but specifically for airheads, which I subsequently got, is bmwmotorcycletech.info
As a citizen of your country your are of course not free! but registered/recorded and soon the chip in skin :Ð
There's a fascinating study on orchestra auditions, where it was found that performing blind auditions (where the interviewee's identity is hidden to the interviewer) led to more equitable gender representation: https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impac...

IMHO, if the tech industry wants to live up to its narrative of meritocracy, this is one obvious improvement over existing processes. No, it won't take care of pipeline problems; no, it won't solve the "tipping point" problem (i.e. where candidates of underrepresented groups are dissuaded by a lack of pre-existing representation, making it very hard to go from zero to one, so to speak). That said, we're uniquely positioned as an industry to do this - technical interviews are similar to auditions in that they hinge on skill-based performance - so why not? It can't be any less arbitrary than asking random questions about manhole covers and light bulbs.

I'd posit that even the "show your thinking process" parts could be done in this way - e.g. via text chat, or inline comments, or maybe even using voice obfuscation and/or neutral avatars.
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Zero? Source for that?

I'm living in Germany, with zero previous connection to the country. Been here a couple of years on a work permit, and in another couple of years I'll be able to apply for citizenship.

That seems very very far from zero.
What settings is that?
... And apple can't find cats correctly at all. Which would you want? Google can put a name to your cat and index by typing the name, and in that case it only finds you specific cat.
Keeping my weight under control.

I've gained 20 pounds over the last year. It doesn't help that I bought a stand mixer and love baking. Cycling alone doesn't seem to keep things under control. I either need to do bigger riders or supplement it.

The one good thing is my eating out has been drastically cut. But there is still work to be done there.
>Could somoene explain to me how a company can trade so far below the value of it's assets

At least part of that is accomplished by never marking your assets to market. In other words, the assets simply aren't worth what the balance sheet states. One of the oldest tricks in the book.
Yeah, I hate being that kind of guy but seriously... oneliners displayed over 5 lines because the columns are very small, commands in dark red on black...
So if they don't capitalize "white", because that's what white supremacists do, what does that say about capitalizing "black"?

A good number of the people pushing the "Black" spelling are openly Afrocentric, or profess to be.
> Nothing is really at no cost. It is paid for with tax money or directly.
> The author is not specifying "for those who could not otherwise afford it", but describing it as at no cost for everyone.

The author never specified whether or how things are paid for, but for me personally I am assuming tax money. He also leaves open whether luxury goods/foods are still paid for.

> Show me that country or even that city please. Show me the social experiment, that tries to get people to work without pay, as long as they have access to "all the things we need in our daily lives". As far as I know, it has never been done.

Why are you asking me to show you something I never claimed existed?

I claimed there's places with social security (housing, food) and free public transport (Luxembourg for instance).

> So that's why I call it pure fiction.

Anything that doesn't exist yet is fiction.

It seems that you both misunderstood the article and my comment, then tried to maneuver me into a position where I would defend something nobody ever claimed.

To be fair, the author leaves a lot of things unexplained, so one's imagination is going to fill in the gaps.

Personally I imagined a city where basic necessities are provided for free, but where you have to pay for anything that is a cut above. Greatly expanded social security essentially.
A lot of people’s opinions about dotnet are not informed by anything, they see Microsoft in the name and decide to drop snide remarks about how bad it must be, as you can see already from this thread.
Well, they are not ATM. Thats the reality.
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Here comes the hilarious twisted language to justify 'sharing'.
I just want to point out, for an HN thread with so few comments it is unusual to see the same person posting two distinct comments that completely contradict reality [1]

Perhaps consider checking the facts before stating falsehoods?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069948
Sure, my name is unisex though. Race might be obtained, but honestly even that is questionable
Unfortunately, the study finds that the bias persists even past the initial stages:

> These outcome gaps do not cancel-out in the later stages, as female and White applicants are more likely to receive an interview and offer.

Though it does at least help candidates avoid bias in getting a callback:

> To further address endogeneity concerns, we perform quasi-experimental analysis involving applicants whose race and gender are ambiguous to the recruiter in the initial application review stage, but are later revealed in the phone screen stage. We find that ambiguity in applicants’ race and gender attenuates the main effects of race and gender on receiving a callback – that is, the outcome gap in callback disappears for applicants whose race and gender are ambiguous to the recruiter
Click bait. Ridiculous. How many light years would it take to use the tip to create a 1cm x 1cm piece of graphene ?
Depends on your model. Mine score users daily, so I don't need to worry about building an API.

Logging is pretty available in both (though better in Python to be fair).

I don't really see how building my model in Python would make it easier to add this API functionality either, so it's a bit irrelevant. Like my docker container (which appears to be almost essential in Python but nice in R) can call predict in any language, and then pass through to the API using the tools noted above.
But it also says:

> "WFH offers direct financial savings on expenses such as travel, lunch, clothes and cleaning," he said.

> The 5% tax rate "will leave them no worse off than if they had chosen to go into the office".

That seems a pretty clear implication that the money will ultimately come out of their salaries.
Yes, the "new normal" is reminiscent of the expansion of state powers following 9/11.
This doesn't mirror my experience at all, and I think blaming it on fanboys isn't fair. I used Google Takeout recently, had it set to split into 50GB tar.gz chunks, and it worked perfectly fine. I wasn't logged out once, and downloaded the archive with around 90 MB/s (720 mbps). It was a very smooth data export experience. I'm very much not a Google/Android fanboy and avoid Google's services wherever possible. The OP is being downvoted because their experience isn't representative.

EDIT: It does seem that there are more people than I expected for whom the experience isn't as good as the one I had, so maybe Google should test this with (and make it work better on) internet connections that aren't as good as their office lines.
"Fashionable"? Being so dismissive of the push for racial equality is deeply arrogant and small minded.
This is bad math but there’s 220 million “elligible” Americans (not too young, not too old); if we assume 85% cellphone/ tech penetration that represents 0.1% of all Americans a year on napkin bar math.
If your choices are "disable all logins" or "anybody can log into my bank account and make whatever transfers they want", the correct choice is the former. (Obviously I would prefer a third option, where the company actually fixed the login bug sometime during the 104-day lead-up, but that's not the point.)
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What's the point of writing this simple tool in js? I'd like to use it but I don't have npm everywhere (and I don't want to grab a huge tree of dependencies just for editing a couple of lines on a text file...)
I have a Huawei without Google, and I can do geolocation, maybe you could try that too ? If you use google for search and huawei for map, they can't cross reference to each other since they're forbidden to talk to each others.

I actually feel so much better without all the google stuff, weird no?
#1 is a bit of a gotcha; in the case of the USA it holds tax treaties with some countries (maybe blocs like the EU?) and not with others.

If you’re earning in a country with a treaty, say the UK, you pay the local tax and any difference is paid to the US if your local tax is less than what you’d pay the fed+state if applicable.
You applied this question:

When I modify this code, what tests will tell me that it still does what it's supposed to?

To this situation:

When I modify this code, will tests that enforce coupling between different components tell me that the code still does what it's supposed to?

You observed that no, such tests would need to be changed even though the overall logic was the same. I assume that next you would apply the same question to a test that is for the overall logic, and conclude that yes, it's a good test.