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Here's my question for everyone on this thread: what are you going to do about it?

My rough guesses of what you could do:

- unionize your shop / commit to working at unionized shops (addresses the power imbalance between individual employees and the employer by treating employees as a group)

- use the power you have as an employee to drive change at your workplace, if you're one of those employees who is well-treated by your employer and doesn't need to unionize

- advocate for stronger labor protections in law / vote for lawmakers who will create them

- advocate for existing labor/contract protections to be interpreted the way you want (e.g. advocate or vote for judges who share that interpretation, donate to or create non-profits who can file amicus briefs or write law review articles advocating for this interpretation)

If this is what's at the top of the HN discussions on a barely-related article, it's pretty clear to me that tech workers, a relatively powerful group, feel pretty strongly about this issue. So why don't we do something about it?
or the team

here is the series A announcement from 2017, with some interesting VCs participating

https://blog.smash.gg/growing-our-team-at-smash-gg-912f1caaa...
I read 30+ pages of MM's writing just to realize he's literally scared of riding the bus with black people.

Cool, what a intellectual powerhouse
Excess? Storage is the way to go. Even skimming some edge off the top could allow arbitrage opportunities that could create a market by itself.
> For instance, were α to change by 4%, stellar fusion would not produce carbon, so that carbon-based life would be impossible.

If it were to change by 4% in which direction?

> If α were greater than 0.1

Considering it's .007 that's a ridiculously huge change.

And I can't access the source article.

So thanks for trying but that's not very helpful.
...someone whom Google is about to make a millionaire?
You are probably right, but using powerpoint correctly in pakistan or even the need for internet is really not relevant for the "ordinary" pakistani, food, medicine and a safe place is.
Don't use the b word. Only white supremacists care about that.

Why have babies even you can import millions of people from Africa, China, and India?
Pumped storage is great, but it's simply not viable at a large scale. There are very few places where natural landscape allows it, and making more artificial ones would require flooding vast areas. Considering how difficult it often is to build solar plants on deserts (e.g. consider Ivanpah solar plant, which almost did not get build due to its impact on habitat of desert tortoises, which ended up getting relocated at a cost of $300k each), I don't expect the green interest groups to accept such wholesale destruction of environments.
> We want to align some kind of a productive output and reasonable incentives for a person to justify amassing so much wealth.

Or maybe it's just fun to play, and people can make their own choices?

Frankly, I think governments should not be in the business of attempting to engineer "desirable" outcomes through coercion. Invest the money that would have been spent on coercion/crackdowns on education and then let people live with the consequences of their actions.
Is international remote okay for Software Engineer role?
> Edit: but if the numbers don't have to be drawn in order (e.g. 8-5-9-6-7 is OK), then the odds are much higher still:

Most lotteries are order-insensitive, and typically present the results in ascending numeric order. The actual draw often happens in some order (e.g. numbered balls being drawn from a hopper), and it'd be even more unusual if the numbers were actually drawn in consecutive order, but drawing 5-2-3-1-4 would typically be presented as 1-2-3-4-5 and would still be remarked upon as unusual.
If there was a systemic risk that all dams in the world magically collapse at the same time then it should be included in the comparison.

Not accounting for all types of risks makes for a very skewed comparison.
> Exceptions aren't ideal for the first situation but are great for the second. Error codes are adequate for the first situation - monadic error types (Result<T>, Either) are a bit better - but suck horribly for the second, because you need to manually unwind, writing boilerplate that should be automatic.

At least in Rust, Result<t> can be unwrapped and bubbled up (in the error case) with a single `?`.
Off topic but this is the first time I've seen a website tilt their tables 90 degrees on the edge for the mobile version. Lovely attention to detail and not something I would have thought of!
> The OP suggested that risk shouldn't be communicated in absolute terms because people can't be trusted to make sound decisions. Presumably it's therefore better to only share relative risk numbers, which are almost always more frightening.

That's not actually what I said, but I love your reasoning, so I'll adopt it.

Why:

> The goal shouldn't be to get people to do what you want. It should be to give them sufficient information so they can make an informed decision on their own, even if you might disagree with it.

How much information do you figure that'll require? Because our perception of how much is probably the difference between your perspective and mine.
Seconded a second time. Very hard, and very worthwhile.
This may be the most important speech I’ve ever made
Why? It’s just gambling!

Last year the HN consensus was that daily fantasy sports betting was some sort of civil liberty.
The rise and fall of the Oxford School of fantasy literature Essays
You have to root the phone to login to your corporate Google account. If you don't want to login to your corporate account you don't have to root the phone. If your manager wants you to have a phone with corp access then he will get you a corporate phone to do it. However many would rather root their phone than have a separate phone for their private life so Google provides that option. If that starts being a legal problem for Google I'm pretty sure they will stop rooting phones and just require people to get corp phones instead.
<Slapping forehead>. Yes, that's it!
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer: the times where simply being IT made you a rockstar are over.

These days you have to be employed by FAANG, or in a company in their direct vicinity with sufficient funds to keep up. Many companies, and many places, are not that, but they still need IT.
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I find it sad skins for modern widget toolkits and desktop environments are much less numerous and seemingly much harder to make. It was so simple and cool with WinAmp. Why can't we do it this way today?
This isn't really new. It's existed in human inventions for a long time, and the natural world forever.
dbt is fantastic. It depends on your usecase, but for ours having an hourly sync of data is fine for reporting.
In theory, it seems plausible that the additional cost of more medical care was more than offset by the economic value of letting people switch jobs more easily, thus spending more time doing things they are better suited to.

As well as the economic value of saving the lives/careers of people who go on to contribute to society in excess of the cost of their treatment.

I'm not saying I've seen a study proving that helping sick people is a net positive for society, in dollars and cents, but it should at least be considered...?
I'm guessing your problem is that you work 8+ hours per day and have little to no flexibility. The only way to fix this is to change the way you make a living where your direct hours != the money you earn, like running some sort of business.
Yes, this is a nice addition that will definitely cause a significant (thought very small magnitude) shift towards higher profits. Thanks!
Fair enough, not too surprising Microsoft can offer a limited version for free. The Microsoft free version is much more limited than you imply though. The "meetings of up to 100 attendees" are for 60 minutes maximum versus the Slack ones which have no cap. Not to mention many people use Slack + an external video chat app so they wouldn't care.
It's sad to see people downvote correct information.

For context, the US consumes ~12TWh of electricity daily, so 500 GWh per hour. Global lithium ion battery production is around 300 GWh per year. While it's true this is projected to rise exponentially, the amount dedicated to storage is minuscule compared to the scale required to fulfill even one hour of energy storage [1]. This has prompted people to propose more exotic forms of storage like hydrogen, methane produced through the Sabatier process, or thermal storage. But none of those have been deployed at any significant scale, and their feasibility remains unproven.

Nobody generates more than 20% of their electricity from solar. Denmark is the only country that generates over 30% of its power from wind, and Germany is the 3rd highest at 24.7% [2]. By comparison plenty of countries generate more than 30% of their electricity from nuclear power: Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia, and France. And the last 3 all produce the majority of their electricity from nuclear. [3]

Fossil fuels didn't kick off the industrial revolution, it was the heat engine. The ability to translate thermal energy into mechanical energy. Heating a fluid, turning a turbine, which turns a dynamo is something we cannot easily replace. Replacing the source of heat with a carbon-free source represents a much more modest refactor as compared to trying to migrate modern societies off the the heat engine. Renewables make sense as mitigation: just slap down some solar or wind, don't bother with storage, and shave off daytime carbon emissions when it is producing. But not as the backbone of a carbon-free energy sector.

1. https://energycentral.com/c/ec/world-battery-production

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
I was just thinking this same thing except for Amazon Music. :)
"Renewables, natural gas and a couple of nuclear plants" is the UK situation, with normal electricity prices. Almost all the coal is closed permanently.

People will keep saying it won't work long after it's already been done.
Why take on a person who reads things closely, thinks about them carefully, values privacy, and has a sense of integrity?

There are a bunch of reasons. But the business one is that modern companies can't concentrate power at the top if they want to be successful in the long term. Innovation and adaptation don't happen because the SEVP of whatever has a brainstorm. They happen because people doing the work are intelligent, well informed, and care about the customers, their colleagues, and the company. If the most important characteristic in hiring is "agree instantly with all authority figures" that's a recipe for organizational rigidity and stagnation.

Some of the best hires I've made have been "difficult". Because some kinds of "difficult" are just taking values seriously.
I guess the person didn't really want the job. If they wanted it, they could have just gotten a company phone and laptop, used them only for work, and kept them in the office.

Company devices are occasionally stolen for their internal data: emails, docs, code, and config. This data can be useful to investors and competitors. Companies hire expensive people to limit the amount of data exposed in theft incidents. Understandably, they don't let individual employees opt-out of their expensive data security processes.
While the 2x claim should have several caveats and clarifications, this is seriously impressive, and the actual lag on screen says a lot more to me than benchmarks. A demo of performance roughly half as frustrating as my experience with the first Surface, behind two layers of unoptimized virtualization/emulation on a brand new platform with MVP software just to get it running and in a video? Hot dang.
From the standpoint of a European, this would have been totally fine some 200 years ago
>a pile of stones in a box with some ductwork added

man, the beauty in our lives disappears. Imagine that heated by electricity (especially if during cheap period) instead of coal/wood, and how great it is to sleep on or right next to such a stove (my grandmother house had one :):

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html
Is this based on the article or is it speculation?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm#F1_down is of interest.
Problem is that if two anti Google activists joins the same team they could leak a huge amount of user data before stopped. Pretty sure a lot of people would find that "fun", and pretty sure their punishment would be very mild compared to for example Snowden even though their crime would be bigger.
I have Teams installed on my iPhone. How does that give my company access to anything of mine?
People also seem to think that RSU grants somehow appreciate in value before they vest. They do not. If you sign for 400k of RSUs over 4 years with a 1 year cliff and the stock rockets up 2x just before your first vest and then plateaus, you’re still getting only 400k.

There’s literally no difference to a regular salary except you get paid out twice and it makes taxes more annoying because you have to pay estimated taxes quarterly instead of doing it once like normal people.

Netflix has also proven this obsession with RSUs is unnecessary. You can have strong growth without it and in large public companies, the theory that this somehow incentivizes employees in any meaningful way has a severe lack of any evidence.
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1/137 is just 42 in a different base.
Indeed.

On reddit, everything needs to be a joke. That's what gets upvoted.

On HN, everything needs to show some depth and insight. That's what gets upvoted.

If HN readers want to read an endless stream of jokes, they will go to reddit. I'm sure most of us have reddit accounts.

We go to different websites for different purposes.

Not rocket surgery.
That's interesting. The Amazon devices can be configured with a wake word of "Alexa", "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". I see Google offers no way to not say "Google".
Well, if you have to chew through TBs of data every hour, don't use PHP i think? Unless you're not in a competitive business and you can pretty much throw money at the data?

I think to OC is not well formulated: If you're selling a web app or web SAAS, any language the founders know best is the best. Any other stuff, it is not always the case (but it might be!)
Beside, not besides.
I don't know how it's actually done, but we use Kount and have a lot of different rules set up within it. I know protonmail accounts get crazy high danger ratings based on our settings.

They've got all kinds of levers within the platform based on your risk tolerance.
Is that really an insidious assumption to you, or are you trying too hard to be gender-blind?

I've been around for a while now, and it's an indisputable fact in my mind that men cope far better with loneliness than women. From seeing friends and strangers in my personal life, to less tangible understandings of evolutionary pressures and general rates of extroversion/introversion between women and men, it's frankly odd to me that such an uncontroversial statement could give anyone pause.
> I would hazard to say it is only in relative recent history (and in capitalism) that new and adventurous = prosperity. For much of history, leaving behind what you know was no guarantee of success (and maybe great risk of material poverty).

That hasn't really changed. Taking risk is no guarantee of success. Sure, some risk takers win big, but some people win the lottery, too.
Well, in some respect, that is the strength of culture. Culture is a software that controls what people do, and what their country becomes (to some significant extent).

For some purposes, such a culture is very restrictive and discontent-inducing. But for other purposes, this culture might help you survive through long problems and dangerous situations that might kill off a people who believed in doing whatever you want and bailing when things get hard. It really depends on the environment that it operates within -- this is not a statement that a particular culture is "better" in every case.

Side note, this is why, as a visitor to Japan, you get to enjoy all the benefits of seeing the examples of what discipline (and inflexibility) can bring -- but you would go crazy and not be happy if you had to live there.
You may be interested in reading Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson. In it, she explores the scope and implications of employer power in the US and compares them with the power of governments.
Especially for Japan this is the correct answer.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/japanese-adoption-r...
It's more or less impossible for there to be no wind over a large area at the same time - low wind areas are surrounded by circulating air in a cyclonic structure.
"OK Computer, play some cheery music please"

"#Karma.. Police.. Arrest this man, he talks in maths...#"
Water has really good thermal mass already. I think that adding huge water tanks in basements would be pretty beneficial: if the water in those tanks is operated in closed cycle, minerals from water wouldn't accumulate, and if we used rust proof materials, they tanks could last for the lifetime of the house. Then, we could use them to store heat in winter and cold in summer, when electricity is cheap.
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That’s rather inaccurate.

German electricity prices are so high because renewables need backup power plants and German law mandates that these plants (mostly coal and gas) are not allowed to operate unless wind and solar are unable to provide sufficient electricity.

Also, Germany‘s energy sector still accounts to 350 million tons CO2 emissions annually while France only accounts for 50 million tons CO2 p.a.

That’s the result of phasing out nuclear in Germany and over 70% nuclear in France in the electricity sector.

Unless you‘re Norway or Austria or any country with lots of hydropower, renewables are neither cheap nor do they significantly help to decarbonize the electricity sector.
The Hinckley C price is about that, and it's late.
37% chance you won't get it, 37% chance you'll get it exactly once.
I think you're thinking positive vs negative rights (which are like what you're describing).
Lots of high-profile actors are on twitter (tech influencers and politicans for 2 more examples) because it's such a direct, relatively clutter free way to get out information and have it seen.
There's a very similar game(text-based) called MHRD
Are there tools to store the all history webpage contents to be viewed later?
It's experiences like this that make me question why anyone would spend this much effort and money setting up a system that isn't as good as what it replaces.

I have a convenient, quiet, perfectly reliable single-bit computer on the wall in every room in my house. It costs $1, can be operated by a 2 year old, is perfectly intuitive, and the only downside I can think of is that occasionally it necessitates I be very slightly less lazy than I might otherwise be able to aspire to, i.e. when I need to go downstairs and turn off a forgotten light.

Considering my house is all using LED lights on hydro power, it's probably better for me to just leave a 5w light on all night than it is to install a Google Home setup here, in terms of my carbon footprint.
Rank and file Googlers used to be interesting people.

Now they are mostly mediocre engineers who excel at jumping through hoops -- and much less interesting as people.

Luckily for Google, they just need to keep the juggernaut moving rather than functioning optimally.
Check out Ben Eater on YT. He has a series where he builds an 8 bit CPU from components. And another where he builds a 6502 based computer from scratch. He sells kits to follow along, and explains everything along the way
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It's a common practice in Japan.
> Ideally fossil fuel plants would only spin up when they could sell power at a profit

Another effect is it makes these plants sit idle for periods of time.

It costs a lot of money to build a power plant. Every hour it sits idle is an hour you're not getting any benefit out of the investment you made. So it takes longer to break even on your investment. (Possibly, as a consolation, the plant lasts longer or has lower yearly maintenance costs.)
No, its not, but it is a fun language. I'd take a lisp job over anything if i found one. Not because it is the best language (it is not the best at anything, except maybe prototyping), but because it is fun, and interesting to work with it.
> How hard are these attacks to actually execute?

Fake roaming request, and that's it.

> Can someone with an SDR and no credentials start an attack?

No, but any telco employee in the world with keys to the server room can.

The matter is SS7 vulnerabilities are not Man-in-the-Middle in nature, but Man-on-the-Other-Side-of-the-World in nature.
You can, but buildah exists.
> I don't expect the green interest groups to accept such wholesale destruction of environments.

In the grand scheme of things, this is like refusing chemotherapy for cancer because it makes your hair fall out.

Climate change is a huge issue. You have to be willing to sacrifice what would normally be valid environmental concerns to address it. You either believe it is an emergency or not.
Heh, yeah, but a proper reformulation would have to make it an essay. It's a big topic! When I said it as "every time the threshold is crossed," I was thinking about this threshold being crossed for different aspects of our lives. The world is too large of a scope to look at singularly, but you're absolutely right that we've never been able to understand all of the relevant bits.
It would be interesting to see how many and how it influenced the remaining users' satisfaction.
Here's something I keep wondering: isn't CRISPR part of the bacteria immune system against viruses? What prevents us from directly weaponising it agaist HIV or similar viruses?

I guess the external membrane does, and CRISPR thus needs to be present inside of the cells before they become infected? Is the delivery mechanism once again the limiting factor?
You mean all this time I should have been picking the winning numbers? Why didn't I think of that?
To make wind and solar power more reliable, you need to stop earth rotation or manipulate the climate to produce continuous sunlight and/or wind.

That’s simply impossible.

The only reliable renewable enery is hydropower and maybe geothermal power.
Yes, "inadvertent terrorist" would normally be a contradiction in terms, as 'terrorism is the act of killing innocent people to spread terror and extort a body politic to make a political change'. So this can't be inadvertent.

Yet, PG&E 1) kills innocent people 2) demands more money from the population it kills 3) is unable to stop killing people 4) covers up their malfeasance in court 5) repeatedly sets my state on fire.

Agreed that PG&E is "responsible for multiple lethal felonies."

But, in your comment, I'll note you only identified the problem instead of proposed a solution! So what English language phrase do you suggest to describe the above behavior?

Does 'Functionally equivalent to a violent Mafioso organization that doesn't actually want to kill but does wants all your money and can't stop killing you?' satisfy your standards for the use of the English language? I reserve the right to be hyperbolic in my frustration as long as PG&E keeps this up.

Politely, I ask you to resolve the problem you identified.
As by the use of the word 'inadvertent', I demonstrated that I know the definition in my initial comment :)

Finally, does "Substantially more evil than Comcast" work here?