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That's a good point. It's easy to 'never run out of books'. It's quite easy to 'run out of books in the particular category I like'.

If anybody has recommendations for books like Zombie (fiction) or Children of Time (a novel told in part from the perspective of an advanced, non-human society), I'd be very happy to hear them.
> Apple thinks it’s a good idea to strip out security code from the source...

Because it makes it easier for attackers to find vulns. That's why they do it. The high payouts on these platforms are evidence that it isn't as simplistic as "only defenders would look at this why won't they release it!?"
Context for those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

Years ago, I was a computer science major at Tulane University. At the time, Tulane put CS in the school of engineering, so every first year had to take a mandatory engineering safety class. The first day of class, they turned off the lights and played a home movie that was recorded during the dance at the Hyatt-Regecy. The video cuts out right before the disaster, but there is audio from one of the musicians, and they played that.

Sitting in a dark room listening to a huge crash followed by screams of pain and terror fully instilled the importance of engineering safety in me. This was 20 years ago and I still remember it clearly.

Often I wish everyone had some mandatory class like that to teach them the seriousness of the consequences of our actions.
I recall a funny incident where I was having a slack call with a colleague and I said something on the lines of
"Ok Google it". Their Google assistant was enabled and it repeated the last command which was very NSFW. I couldn't control my laughter and we had a nice little laughing break over it
Unrelated to this, but did they test this vaccine on people that already had COVID? I'm kind of interested to know if antibodies accumulated from having it negate the vaccine or if they interact in any way.
So the UK is an archipelago?
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Mattermost has their cloud offering now!

It's basically Mattermost in Cloud with everything else remaining same. You don't get raw access to the database, but you can get an effective dump of your data any time.
The series looks to have a lot of interesting information, but a lack of understanding of important economic principles leads the author to believe that the result is much worse than reality.

It is absolutely true that our globally connected infrastructure allows supply chains to explicitly take advantage of the fact that there are places where people are willing to work in sweatshops. And this results in creating more sweatshops.

BUT, as is documented in Pinker's _Enlightenment Now_ and elsewhere, this is officially a Good Thing.

The reason why people are willing to work in those sweatshops is that it beats spending your day bent over in a rice paddy and praying that you'll grow enough not to starve. And once there is a sufficient supply of people with the skills to work in a factory, a better class of sweatshops move in, and pay higher wages. This eventually forces the bad sweatshops to find a new place where people are still desperate to move in to.

The result is that the Industrial Revolution is not done. Its leading edge is textile sweatshops. They move in, and improve life. And when they do, it is a signal that life is about to get better for everyone. And when it gets good enough, they move out.

To give a sense of scale, in recent decades, we've averaged that 250,000 people PER DAY come out of extreme poverty. Historically extreme poverty was the norm for over 90% of the human race. And today we are looking at ending it entirely within our lives. Then we'll have to face a change in dynamic. Once there is no place where a sweatshop is an improvement over existing life, the textile industry will have to reform. But for now, they are the first rung on the ladder to prosperity. And a system that makes it more efficient to offer that rung to those who are still desperate is helping create a future with prosperity for all.
just another product that will be killed by a vscode plugin
SpaceX is super heavily vertically integrated which probably helps a lot with the financials. Also note that their financials aren't public, so there's all kinds of funny possibilities (what if SpaceX launches are sold below cost as a loss leader?)

I'd also imagine that they need a TON of subscribers to make it profitable. However by commoditizing their satellites the marginal cost of improving coverage is low (compared to GEO where every satellite is a billion dollar bespoke system).

Phased array antennas have been around for a while but I wouldn't be surprised if the starlink terminal is the first consumer device to actually use them (other than maybe boat radars?). They're still pretty expensive.
IIRC, the website the notice was added to was specifically a the site of law firm that Google had contracted with regards to the ongoing concerns of unionization. It seems like there's a fair argument to be made that it was related to the site, although there are arguments against that as well.
> automobile that will help you go from point A to point B, faster

There is also the thrill factor of high acceleration - something not at all addressed by the article.
Do you work for Amazon, by any chance?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/11/15/amazon-...
It's because of the altitude of the satellites. Normal geostationary satellites are required to be at 35,786 kilometers in altitude above Earth's equator. Any signal has to travel that distance 4 times for a round trip ping, which equates to a minimum ping time to any service of 477 ms simply defined by laws of physics. 477 ms means any online games are unplayable and loading an ssl connection is going to push you into over a second delay.

Now the obvious idea is to put the satellites much closer to Earth, in that case they're rapidly moving across the surface and you need thousands/hundreds of them for full coverage, depending on the altitude the satellites are at. This wasn't really feasible until you had a rocket and satellite manufacturing designed for dumping large quantities of satellites into orbit at a time.
That is a great story. Honestly, I do intend to treat smart assistants that way. I can accept that they're imperfect and that they're tools that only work in certain ways. I can figure out a way to either make them be useful to me or abandon them if the way is too hard. I'm not asking for perfection.

The thing is predictability, though, and maybe handling the common use cases. It gets frustrating when they get worse. Kids, on the other hand, only get better at understanding you (though perhaps also better at frustrating you on purpose).

To put it simply, I'm happy to make myself perform incantations. I'll say "Ok Google, grooblepuff the bonkman" to get the thing to do the thing. This whole thing has made me understand why wizards and sorcerers chant Accio! and Sectumsempra! and shit like that because if they just said "Bring me my firebolt" no one knows how the AI that runs magic in the world would interpret that.

And you know someone who feels this strongly about the product is pretty bought into it. Like, if I didn't use it so much, I wouldn't be complaining this much.
Why? I'm not trying to be facile, but I imagine most of the documents will never be read, and the most popular ones will either be self-serving or foolish.

FDR made a point of leaving as little documentation as he possibly could, during a pivotal time in history, and it doesn't seem to have done any damage.
Imo it’s the same thing. It all goes back to the individual, the parent in this case. The parent needs to teach and model to the kids that a focus on wealth and material “stuff” is meaningless and leads to unhappiness. Not saying that’s easy—-it’s hard to teach yourself and live these values alone—- but it’s an extension of the same idea. It’s spreading the values out to your own personal community starting with your family. It’s a really noble goal because it has a ripple effect.
Personal attacks aren't allowed here, so please don't post them. Also, the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to feed egregious comments by replying, but to flag them instead. That's our polite rewording of "please don't feed the trolls".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep. Google has been getting progressively worse at recognizing my words over the past two years. It's also started randomly capitalizing words that aren't proper nouns and seemingly has a blacklist of words that it clearly recognizes as speech but refuses to type such as "o'clock".
But less expensive than the fines they'd eventually accumulate leaving it there.
That's basically exactly what I did with this app for the demo mode, except it imports/exports JSON.
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Read about this over on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dixie3Flatline/status/133418891372485017...

The only "official" notice about it so far seems to be in the linked changelog.
Suicide rate hasn't meaningfully risen in Japan. If anything, they had a slight fall during the early days of the pandemic.

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352.full?ijkey=NDYZgh6...

> Nevertheless, a reasonably consistent picture is beginning to emerge from high income countries. Reports suggest either no rise in suicide rates (Massachusetts, USA11; Victoria, Australia13; England14) or a fall (Japan,9 Norway15) in the early months of the pandemic.
I agree, but there's not much time we can spend to observe side effects over a long duration of time to have that level of confidence.

The FDA at this point certainly doesn't have the ability to analyze that either, so the best we have is a theoretical understanding.
I prefer the pencil.

It is a piece of innocuous technology that looks so simple that everyone thinks they could figure out how to make one. The fact that even something so apparently simple is so complex, makes things that look complex even more astonishing.
Why waste your time commenting here when you could be out identifying which judges rigged the election or putting together evidence that proves a giant pedophile ring in the highest tiers of society. There's so much work to do!
The abdication to of power to the Executive has been going on longer than that. Personal IT device use has been too, things have only gotten worse since the Clinton email server debacle - which I did think was a big deal at the time, but in today's political landscape seems almost innocuous.
I think it's quite a stretch to consider this a "great" response. MS got caught treating user privacy in a particularly abysmal way, but it's 100% in line with their general approach to user data. The main difference here is the revelation that they're sharing your personal data with your employer rather than keeping it to themselves. Sure they rolled back their intrusive practice when they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, but this gives me zero confidence that they are treating my privacy with respect in any other case.
The flip side of this argument is that there exists someone that can make sense of these complex systems. What is true is that no one single person can understand every aspect of the complex world we live in. I am not too sure that is a problem, as long as you are willing to accept that your agency and understanding are rather limited.
> Do these guys even use their product?

This is a question that I too ask myself daily with a lot of the software that I deal with and depend on.
Fwiw I'm on FF/android and my screen is 360px wide.
I like the article overall, but the status signaling he bemoans that everyone is doing is in fact limited to a percentage of people, most strikingly the Instagram influencer types.

Yes it’s true in any circle you want to be well regarded - such as astrophysicist PhDs trying to write the next great paper - but broadly I don’t see the posturing he’s talking about being a universal or even majority thing.

I do like the article overall and I’ve saved it, but to me it doesn’t seem to be the epidemic it’s laid out to be. Lots of people are different.
It does have Chromecast support, I've used it at least on Android and on music.youtube.com. I can't vouch for iOS though!
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This is really neat. Well done.
The entire exercise is an attempt to compare apples to apples.

In your example, both the C bin and Rust bin are using X, GPU, etcetc - so they warrant no distinction. So what is different? What is included in the Rust binary that isn't in the C? Because that's what is being tested in these types of comparisons.

This difference may be because some language included inefficient instructions - has bloated includes, etc. Or it could be because you're comparing Apples to Oranges, eg one ships with libc in the binary, and one dynamically links to it.
I was wondering about The File System Access API (https://web.dev/file-system-access/), might be interesting to look into.
They don't know it's coming. They wouldn't live at all if we weren't raising them for food.

If they could be raised in humane, unlike mass production conditions, then one could argue convincingly that it's better than not doing it all from a purely compassionate viewpoint.

It's still tremendously wasteful of land and resources, but that's a separate concern to address.
So what word should they use instead?
Would advertising be so effective if we weren't bored?

A deficit of things we "have" to do have made boredom a common thing in modern life instead of a rarity reserved for monks or nobility. And so so many of these things we do are seeking stimulation and novelty, not reproductive success.

You have to find other answers to the "what do you want to do" and "how will you mentally satisfy yourself" problems if you opt out. They won't solve themselves.
On Android, the work profile is supposed to solve that problem: you only add your corp account and install corp apps in work profile, and it's (at least supposed to be) isolated from your personal, default profile on your phone. This is even explicitly stated in work profile enabling flow.

The spy activities described in the article is not about actual personal activities on the phone. One is looking at other's corp calendar, which can only be done inside corp profile (you need your corp account to be able to look at other's calendar); The other is making changes on the corp proxy type of thing, which obviously also can only be done with corp account.
And a good incentive now that Intel loses ground slowly.
My Google Mini gets triggered several times a night when I'm watching video. Maybe 1/3 of the time it's somebody saying "ok", but most of the time it seems to be random.
@mods, would appreciate if someone could change the title to "Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support" (I accidentally missed the word "runtime" when submitting).
Definitely the future, although mainstream mass adoption of VR headsets like Zuckerberg wants (1B+ users) is a ways out.

Personally, I think 3D concerts built and running on game engine technology are what is going to take off soon.
> If that were the case, I would think this would have been invented by one of the myriad existing players in the space.

A hundred-dollar bill is lying on the ground. An economist and an engineer walk past it. The economist nods at it and opines: "I thought I saw something over there, but I must've imagined it. If there had been $100 on the ground, someone would've taken it by now."

The engineer picks it up.
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Security is a broad topic and can include avoiding legal liabilities.
As someone without formal CS background, I definitely feel like understanding computer systems is the missing level in my knowledge: Computer architecture, how it's interacted with by the kernel & OS, compilers, and computer networking.

It makes me want to go back and get a Master's in CS, focusing on those topics. But I am unsure if I would just be paying for a credential for something I could learn myself. On the other hand, it would be hard to beat the structure of good program.
> I was thinking this might be a way to give the application a way to decide how to deal with the concept of latency WRT cross-site replication.

What if your application crashes in the middle of waiting?

Ultimately if you want full consistency you need it everywhere. Your workflow writing to consistent storage needs to be an atomic output of its own inputs with a scheduler that will re-run the processing if it hasn't committed its output durably.
Google is a startup incubator where all of their different micro-companies happen to be named "Google _________"
That sucks and I hope your situation improves greatly very soon.

Separately, could you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? I know that many people are under pressure but we have to try to keep this place from destroying itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think many certs are used just to pass the resume screen or provide the company with a contractual/publicity statistic. The knowledge from the cert is valuable, but you don't necessarily need a cert to gain that knowledge. So these recommendations are based on the value of the cert itself (in my very limited opinion). You also have domain specific certs such as CFA foundations when working for s financial company.

Security: CISSP, GSEC, CEH

Cloud: AWS, and I assume Google and Azure have certs for theirs too

Hardware/Networking: A+, Network+
> he could only afford to pay us $60,000 to do everything.

For a logo, marketing site, mobile and web apps—the works.

He offered equity, but I pushed for cash.
Great title, makes me want to be biased when I read the article.
There's even a documentary titled '28 Days Later'.
When you say boat radar and phased array, what is your experience there? The only radar I've seen on a boat has one of those spinning antennas.
It shouldn't be an issue because he's using his personal account and not tweeting from @potus.
No difference on that front, yep.
I don't agree with this... Just because you know how the CPU and GPU work, doesn't mean you can write say a search engine.

Information retrieval is its own domain with its own body of knowledge that you don't understand if you haven't done it.

Ditto for dozens of other subfields. (And subfields of subfields like AI.)

Distributed programming is its own thing now. That's why there are so many HN articles on say Raft, eventual consistency, or CRDTs -- those weren't topics of interest when I went to school, etc. People are learning them on the job.

In other words, there's really no such thing as a "programming" expert.
Both campaigns this election relied heavily on both of those apps.
In the end, it's all of that and more. Geosynchronous is just too far away for good latency, plus the signal is weak and the bandwidth is saturated quickly.

So low earth orbit it is, but that meant doing several technology breakthroughs never seen before and at massive consumer scale.

First, you need to have massive launch capacity, otherwise satellites wouldn't be in view for most of the world, most of the time.

At this ground relative speed, they also stay in view pretty short at that speed, so you need to continuously roam from one satellite to the next every few minutes, hence the need for the cutting edge antenna array.

Lastly you need a truckload of satellites. Even the largest fleets are small series productions with specialized, expensive equipment such as radiation hardened processors, flywheels and propulsion to keep in orbit. Mass producing these from commercially available hardware was the third large challenge here.

Most companies would go bankrupt just tackling one of these and Starlink pulled them off in parallel. Pretty wicked.
It seems like the NLRB is alleging that it is or should be illegal to have a policy against employees spying on each other for non-business reasons at work and using company tools?
Dude just stop giving Google the benefit of the doubt and switch to Spotify. Google has proven time and time again that their priorities lie within their advertising and their search engine - Everything else is a monetized side project.
Ah, that looks neat. Among my huge backlog project list, learning Rust is on there.

Yeah looks more RAII, and looks like it would not have the problem Go has.

Thanks.
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Yeah it's not like living this sort of life without kids is good and pure but with kids it's neglect. If you raise your kid with the same mindset as you, you now have a kid who also doesn't want for much and is able to live a happy life unencumbered by needless material wants.
Agreed. And I have a small child. I _really_ don't want them to be forming "relationships" with brands by asking robot assistants named after corporations to do stuff.
When I saw the title I honestly was thinking that someone managed to convert millions of viewers into a million Euro AWS bill...
"Ok Google" gets triggered by stuff like "OK cool", that I often say. It's maddening.