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I buy only prime items and only after i do a fair amount of research about them. I stay away from products that are prime but have chinese names and also i tend to look at the bad reviews rather than the good ones.

I recently decided to buy a tensiometer and i avoided about 2 bad ones (even if they were overall at 4.8 or so) because of the latest bad reviews indicating that the quality has been worse in the last few years.

Imo most of these things could be avoided with a little bit of care. I am not expecting amazon to be able to do that for me. On the other hand, the amount of chinese crappy products is staggering. Just looked for a subwoofer and i had to apply quite a lot of filtering to only get the decent brands up.
Yes. With interest rates being as low as they are, and if you’re a citizen, the federal make a ministration cosign your loan, there’s really no reason not to buy a house. Just look at the way the market has changed over the past 10 to 15 years, and how people are moving to where they want to live instead of where they have to live. Prices are only going to go up in the situation, and I think for stability, and security, it’s never too soon to buy a house. If all else fails, you can always rent it out and move somewhere else.
> docker doesn't work

Doesn't work on macos or windows either; macos "docker" uses a linux VM.

Personally I prefer jails anyway.
It is really good to diversify your purchasing. Walmart is often a great alternative to Amazon: Newegg or Bestbuy for consumer electronics; Jensen for bikes; Adafruit or Robotshop for hobby electronics; Apogee for rockets.
> It doesn't really change the point, though, because this isn't a bypass or flaw in the encryption system

But it does. If what you stated earlier was actually the truth, then FileVault would be enabled on far more devices and your point about the post not really being as big of a deal as we are trumping it up to be would have some merit.

If we had written a blog post saying "Data on Encrypted iPhones can be trivially accessed unless a passcode is enabled", I would agree with your point because...

1) There is no historic context that Passcodes and encryption were considered the same thing.

2) There are no tools that confuse the differences between a passcode being set and encryption being on.

3) It is extremely difficult to set up an iPhone today without a passcode.

But none of those things are true on the Mac. Back in reality, a significant number of devices set up by organizations do not have FileVault enabled by default. Once you take that new fact into consideration and add the facts conveyed in the linked blog post and multiply it by tens of millions of Macs, you now have a high probability outcome that an organization will lose a device, act as if the contents are inaccessible to the thief, and learn later that the were acting on bad information.

It's a big deal to folks who could be caught up in the above scenario. We wrote the post for them.

> I know that there's a long history of attention-seeking blog posts from companies selling products

When you have something important to say, seeking attention is warranted. Just because we sell something doesn't mean it is correct to dismiss everything we say. HN is primarily a community of startups and hackers. Both are folks that may have found this content relevant.

We wrote this post because we have unique visibility into a substantive issue that requires educating MacAdmins about these differences so they don't get tripped up during an incident.

Tools like MunkiReport and Osquery are incredibly popular among these communities for collecting attestations about devices. This is especially true for shops who do not feel comfortable paying for a full MDM solution. The fact that these systems may cause admins to believe their devices have FileVault enabled, when in fact they do not, is a serious problem.

> but you're trying to make a reputation as an honest security company and I think that marketing is a key component of that

It's ok if we don't agree that this post is important or that the level of urgency is warranted (I think it's a super big deal, but I don't think I can convince you of that fact). That said, there is nothing dishonest happening here. We could have easily patched this issue for our customers, explained it only to them and moved on. We wrote the post because it's information we thought needed to be out there.

The error I made was assuming people knew that FileVault is not on by default in very common scenarios. We've amended the post which I think adds valuable context about that.

That said, I appreciate your thoughts.
This is getting meta because the media being owned by a few folks is a monopoly/antitrust problem created in large part by lobbying. Our legislators should not have let all of the media companies in the country be owned by like 15 organizations.
9/9 is common in defense and everyone either likes it or isn't complaining about it.

In my experience most white collar businesses do a "wink and nod" sort of arrangement for the sorts of things where you need to be in late or out early so that you don't burn sick time on them. IMO the real benefit of PTO is that you can do things like take the mondays/fridays surrounding holiday weekends off without worrying about whether or not you will have the requisite hours to take a week of vacation in summer and around the holidays.
A friend of mine got a no-name brand spotting telescope as a Christmas present, and it had one of those cards in the box. Not the shipping box, the actual package. Someone had to have unsealed the box, put the card in, and closed it back up.

It's an OK scope, nothing special, and I have no idea how much the giver paid.
None taken. Under 50 units across several buildings. We generally buy what we can afford and what is decent. Decent is the operative word there. For some, that's granite counters, for others it's a roof that doesn't leak over the bed.

We're not sophisticated enough to min/max the business out. So I'm not sure how to even operate a slum property 'efficiently.' Between the number of folks skipping out on rent and patching a derelict property, I would think you'd have negative cash flow. In addition to not generating income, it makes leveraging the property or selling it harder.
Why, though? Even in the case that it's the same safety self driving cars would yield huge productivity gains as people can work or sleep while commuting and truckers can have 1 or 2 self driving trucks following them cross country. And transportation for the elderly or disabled who cannot drive themselves.
Yes! Publish them somewhere. Perhaps github or gitlab if you'd like others to also contribute.
That depends on the bank and the structure/finances of your LLC(s). If your LLC already has a good business relationship with the lender and enough assets, you can get them to skip this.

Also you don't have to put down 20% if you're willing to pay PMI and a bank is willing to lend to you, but to be competitive some banks are foregoing PMI (likely self-insuring the mortgage? Not sure how they can but I've seen it done)...which is craaaaazy to me.
I understand the sentiment, but for me, I actually prefer writing the documentation myself on my projects. It forces me to make sure that I understand the PR that's coming in, since I'm going to have to maintain it into the future anyway. I also want to maintain a consistent organization and style in my documentation that is difficult to explain to other people. So it's far easier to write it myself, than to ask the contributor to go through review cycles on the documentation.
For me, 20% less pay = 100% less saving at the end of the month.
Here are some reasons. I'm not familiar enough with aircraft to argue either way though

"Is China’s ARJ21 Just A MD-80 Copy Or Is It The Beginning Of China’s Rise In Commercial Aviation?"

"The ARJ21 is partially built on specs from the old MD80, thanks to the presence of U.S. manufacturers in China. McDonnell Douglas was operating an MD80 manufacturing facility in Shaghai prior to its merger with Boeing, thanks to a lucrative deal inked in the early 90s. During this time period, presses and other parts were shipped from the United States to the Douglas facility. This gave the Chinese access to Western technology.

Once Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas, production of the MD80 ceased, marking the end of an era. After abandoning the final MD80 and MD90 assembly lines in China after about 30 frames, Aviation Industrial Company inherited McDonnell Douglas tooling."

"It did not take long before China was announcing it’s “new” regional airliner project, unveiling a design that was eerily similar to the MD80 design. COMAC officials in Shanghai vehemently defend the ARJ21 as an original design. However, despite COMAC’s protests to the contrary, it is commonly accepted that the ARJ21 is fundamentally a redesign of the DC9. "

https://www.avgeekery.com/is-chinas-arj21-just-a-md-80-copy-...
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> it's like a religion

The parallels run pretty deep. Smith's "invisible hand" most likely referred to the hand of God, but I guess these days blind faith in that concept somehow qualifies as secular and scientific.
CFAA is draconian, the courts are behind the times, and even if you win, it'd be in court where you don't want to be in the first place.
I haven't been able to find much of him teaching directly outside of this series from the Lincoln Jazz Institute [0].

However, this person has compiled a thorough overview of the underpinnings [1], provided you can ignore the diminished quality of the first few videos.

This foray into jazz actually chewed up a ton of my quarantine free time, for better or worse :)

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JJncSUdUU
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdtOj-qz8AM&list=PLjtr-OF8R4...
> This is just a totalitarian mob justice that is also prevalent in alt-right circles

Agreed. However, people in alt-right circles have no power in tech peer groups. The totalitarian mob-justice wing of liberal circles has all the power. Be that Robyn-De-Angelo and Ibrahim Kendi being paraded around these firms despite having incredibly extreme ideas or people like Anima leading committees at the top of CS hierarchy.

If I was in rural kentucky working in a coal mine, I would be shouting about how the reactionary wing of the right has completely taken over discourse. But, I'm in tech/grad-student/urban/academic circles, so I speak about the bad actors there.

> There is nothing left-wing in American politics, much less “hyper-liberal”.

I was careful to never mention the word 'left' in my comment. Hyper-Liberalism and Left ideology are tangential to each other. This wing of ultra-prescriptive / thought-policing 'hyper-liberal' left is very "North American college campus phenomenon". It doesn't map onto left movements around the world at all.

Note that this is very much a social movement. So, the economic aspects of left-ideology are only important insofar as to facilitate the social aspects of the movement. So, I reserve my criticisms of it to the social goals of the movement and their 'ends justify the means' approach.
i'm glad it uses a gif. it's straight to the point, it plays in a loop, you can't control the playback, cant pause it, cant seek forward, cant tell how long it lasts.

if it used a video, its likely the developer of the site would be encouraged to add: a beginning countdown timer before the clip played (video will start in 3, 2, 1, .. you arent sure if the clip has audio or not so you hit Pause and never see the clip), a distracting progress bar showing how long the clip lasts, messing up the anticipation for not knowing when the clip ends, killing all suspense.. and finally, about 1 second before the video is over, a little popup that shows Whats Playing Next, and a countdown timer starts playing for the next clip. This is best case scenario.. worst would be a 2 minute ad before the video starts.

video on the web isn't a 'solved problem'. What if I want to play a video that uses indexed color? No video codec I know of supports that. Can I trust that the video I just encoded in h264 with ffmpeg will play on the web, or, or do I need to test first to see if it will play? Will it work on all browsers? Is my codec listed on https://cconcolato.github.io/media-mime-support/ ? and on and on. the simplicity of a gif makes perfect sense here.
I know trying to measure productivity is controversial and prone to issues but I wish there was an accepted way to measure it. At least then we'd be able to ask for a 4-day week and promise the same productivity.

I know I've spent half a day messing around before and then smashed out a piece of work in a few hours and still had the impression of being productive. Simply because the majority of employees aren't as productive as me. Being a very productive and capable developer will open lots of opportunities but some of us don't want to climb the ladder. I just want a comfortable job and be good at it.

I'd never take a pay cut though. If you kept the same productivity at a lower pay then you're effectively saying they overpaid you before. 20% less pay is 20% less work in my eyes.
Asking questions that elicit new answers is the #1 thing I focus on in an interview, so I'm glad to have accomplished it here. I think that if you're doing an interview and don't cover new ground, it just wastes everyone's time.

Asking new questions, just like transcribing, just requires focused effort! I think interviewing is a really cool skill because anyone can get good at it just with practice!
How can you be persuaded by one side of a debate, particularly when you’re someone uneducated in the field?

That’s a startling outcome to me. Is it because she claims to hold the consensus view? Because it was well written?

How do you conclude with being curious to understand “what is driving Levitt” rather than “what is Levitt’s reasoning?”
COMAC was one of the targets of Trump's latest China sanctions:

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3111666/d...
Plus you're not limited by your personal deductions which are now capped at the state and local level.
dude, Three Letter Acronyms simply raped whole article....
Has any retail company ever gotten better after being bought out (thinking NewEgg, Toys R Us, Guitar Center...)? Some incentive is fucked up if decent businesses are being run into the ground.
That’s door number 2. I’m not opposed to going through door number 2.
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I essentially used to do this years ago because I liked trading butterflies on weekly options that expired on Friday.

Fun game, I can't believe commissions are free now!
And, Manhattan Project was the codename of DirectX.
Relevant comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25431199
I'm apparently not a very attentive movie watcher. I've seen Contact several times, and nothing struck me as odd about this mirror scene until this article pointed out the obvious. Or maybe I become to engrossed in the story to notice these types of artifacts? Anyone have another favorite instance of subtle(?) movie making magic that a casual observer might have overlooked? And I wonder if the filmmakers would consider that good or bad that I missed this ingenious tidbit.
A random episode on IMDB has ‘35 mm’ as film format, which to my knowledge is 4:3: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697703/technical

So I would ask if maybe the image was cropped for the 16:9 conversion.

Update—here's what Wikipedia says: “Unlike the version used for the DVD, Sony Pictures cropped the top and bottom parts of the frame, while restoring previously cropped images on the sides, from the 35mm film source, to use the entire 16:9 frame.”
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I mean we can worry about the erosion of purchasing power by voting and lobbying our reps while also living well beneath our means and being happy. It's not an either-or situation.
Why is statistics so difficult?
Last year I ordered a high-priced item from Newegg, received a different model from a reseller, and returned it – then ordered it from Walmart and got the same different model from the same reseller! Finally CDW sent me the correct product.
So I’m curious if you’ve built clear criteria for walking this back if it doesn’t work out?

At my last employer, productivity was suffering and schedules were slipping on a 9/80 schedule. When management tried going back to 5 day work weeks, there was a near mutiny. Leadership eventually caved.

I suspect the leadership is a core part of making this work. E.g., communicating clear expectations, holding people accountable etc.
I 100% agree with this article. And yet, I still do most of my shopping on Amazon. Unfortunately, when it comes to general merchandise, they're still the best at inventory, discovery, quality, fulfillment, and price. Which is a scathing indictment of the state of the rest of the e-commerce world.
I don't want to moralize :)

I just read the first sentence and immediately got the impression I described in my top level comment. No more, no less.
The question is housing as a investment mechanism, rather then housing as .. housing - or - housing as a revenue generation mechanism. I would point out that that.

1) One, if it's as housing, then you are actually living there. The alternative is not dumping money into the S&P 500. It's paying rent. Where I live, rent prices match pretty closely to mortgage prices, So what you are really saving by renting is the down payment. For owner-occupied, that number can be remarkably small (and should be for your first house). The current interest rates mean that outside of expensive areas (see SF, London, Tokyo) - if the rent and the mortgage are near equal, you are going to hold it for some period of time and the down payment cost is reasonable, you should try and build equity.

1a) If there is a way to swing it, it almost always makes more sense to hold on to a property once you have purchased it. Selling a house in the USA is crazy expensive. 6% commission is not that short of 10% down on property. The real investment (versus housing scenario) comes if you can find a way to rent out old properties for amounts that cover your mortgage on that property. Buying a house opens up the opportunity to take a house you might have previously lived in, and treat that as a investment.

2) In the stock crazy world we live in, people forget that stocks used to be about buying dividends, as much as speculation. This article focuses on investment as speculation, but I think the revenue generation side is much more important here.

As mentioned above, at least in my state rent and mortgage run pretty close together. So it's not that hard to get to the point that the rent covers the price of the mortgage + taxes. The difference is the down payment that you put up versus a renting (renters don't have to put the money away for that). The upside is that I am basically purchasing the rent by putting the money down for the house.. Paid back when renters rent the house.

Any appreciation is just gravy, and while deprecation over time is a concern, a severe enough running decline is likely smaller then the same decline that has hit stocks. Also, as a secured asset, there is a floor to the value of the investment, unlike stocks.
Given how overheated the market is right now - this seems much saner to me.

So would I theoretically make more money taking every cent I own, and plow it into Tesla? Maybe, but the risk that this gets completely wiped out is much higher.

Combine this with something like a 401k or a IRA, and I think it's a pretty reasonable investment strategy.
What it sounds like is that you have Penrose participate in game he wasn't party to ( not according to the interview anyway ) and then accuse him of violating the rules of that game.
Yes, this is all well and good, but it is technology driven and not problem driven. If you want to make sales you need to address a need.
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In the Netherlands (where I'm from) I know loads of people on 4 day workweeks. It's often an option, and there's very few drawbacks for employee and employer.

The 20% paycut is pre-tax, so the real cut is a lot lower. It also lets employers hire a 5th person for every 4 80%s, so total productivity is likely higher due to people being happier, and there's more jobs total.

It's hard for me to imagine why tech companies wouldn't want to offer this to all their employees.
> "just go with the flow and at least pretend you believe what the masses are supposed to believe" is not socialism?

No, it is not? And - while it certainly doesn't help this discussion to point this out - the irony of you being led to believe so is incredible.
> but it limits the usefulness of templates past mere containers.

Your post (specifically, your conclusion) makes me think that you are fundamentally mistaken about how to use templates.

Template metaprogramming is an old-trick at this point, with a huge variety of applications in C++. But even if you ignore Template metaprogramming (which many argue is too difficult to understand...), bog-standard C++ techniques like CRTP (Curiously Recurring Template Pattern) shows how useful templates can be outside of containers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p...

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C++ templates are extremely different beasts than generics. Templates are closer to a meta-language than a language feature. They hold important roles in optimization... specifically allowing you to convert "runtime code" into "compile time code" in a huge class of problems.

CRTP is a great example of retaining OOP-style polymorphism while compiling down into highly efficient non-virtual calls... with practical applications into GUI frameworks, video games and more. And its only made possible due to templates.
I don't think it's so much about "the government" having an ego, so much as them not wanting foreign powers to know how much or how little they know about foreign test flight programs or about not wanting to reveal our own test flight programs to foreign powers.

That's why you never confirm nor deny anything. You don't want you enemies to know what you know or what you don't know.
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There's plenty of papers by others past this one, showing a more accurate model yields black holes, for example [1].

Here's [2] about 25 others.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05775.pdf

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1202693519145031586...
Your blog says starting Friday, 1st January, 2020. I assume you mean 2021?
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Mallory Harris is critiquing Dr. Levit because he is not agreeing with the scientific consensus. She is also holding him accountable for re-interpretations of his twitter stream. If this is true, then anyone with any authority or rank should stop using twitter or say anything at all; there is always a chance that someone else can twist your words and use your authority to back their case.