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Gelsinger earned a master's degree from Stanford University in 1985, his bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University in 1983 (magna cum laude), and an associate degree from Lincoln Technical Institute in 1979, all in electrical engineering.

I'd call it an engineering background.

[0]: https://www.vmware.com/company/leadership/pat-gelsinger.html
It's the lesser of three evils: losing coverage altogether, having to buy it as part of an open risk pool, or continuing coverage as part of the company's risk pool and rates the company has negotiated for its employees. It would be nice to have better options, but they will all be very expensive for the taxpayer. Either way, the money has to come out of someone's pocket.

By getting more people insured, Obamacare was expected to have bent down the rising curve of healthcare costs. I am not sure if that has actually happened...
I think it depends on which taxes we're talking about. Capital gains taxes should increase back to the levels they were at during the Reagan administration, that is, capital gains as normal income.

Right now tax structures in the U.S. incentivize all of the bad patterns of the extreme side of the stock market (leveraged gambling, essentially) instead of manufacturing and employment. The incentive for corporations, then, is to outsource everything and play the margins.

The people who have the most to gain from such a structure are the people who already have money to throw around. Most people can't play in that playground.
Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 [pdf]
I donated mine to my father. He still uses it for his somewhat basic wifi needs (he has wired ethernet for his "real" desktop computer).
Are we expected to believe that there are workaholics in France? Now 'strikaholics' I can believe.
Daily (YC W16) Is Hiring a Head of Startup Experience
A uniform set of rules for culture would be awful for culture. That would be a dystopian anti-culture.
The biggest source of residue is fiber. I'm doing this: https://www.amazon.com/Carnivore-Code-Unlocking-Returning-An...
This doesn't work well in practice at any kind of scale -- these types of databases have existed for many years. The key management overhead is considerable, causing integer factor loss of performance for database-y systems. Additionally, it very significantly increases the storage footprint since most techniques for minimizing storage utilization no longer work given this requirement.

It isn't just "technically complex", the limiting factor is your system may be 10x slower and use 10x more storage. The economics of operating these systems is so poor that they are only used in extremely niche environments where the requirements justify the extreme cost and performance limitations.
Time limited tokens don't lend a lot of security. Someone malicious can simply scrape your entire account in the 15 minutes or whatever the validity period is.

Scope limited is far better, and something android is bad at. I suspect they are highly constrained by the need to maintain compatibility all the way back to Android 1.0.

In my opinion, they should drop support for old android versions by default, and if you want the ability to sign into an old non-updated device, force you to go to a real browser and enable some option like "allow insecure devices".
In the past decade I’ve anecdotally noted that some places with famously liberal return policies have tightened up. Outdoor equipment retailer REI is my favorite example.

They have switched from unlimited returns forever for any reason to 1 year.

My theory is it’s a combo of two things. 1. People abusing return policies. 2. More and more items that used to be durable becoming consumable. In a lot of industries the drive for lightweight and high tech has led to things that simply can’t last. I have a backpack that weighs less than a pair of jeans, but it certainly won’t last the way my dads old backpack lasted. Same thing with my battery powered drill, I really doubt that I’ll be able to find a battery for it in 30 years.

The backpack and the battery powered drill are two things that have shifted from buy it for life, to consumable good.
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The information situation now is more like leaded gasoline than it is "freedom vs censorship", as much as a treatment of that is beyond the pale.

To discover this for yourself you should look at two things:

1. The ads on the local evening newscast on your network affiliate

2. The ads from Taboola that appear on the bottom of every page

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(1) is hate speech that causes TV viewers to hate their fellow viewers, politicians, institutions, etc.

A long time ago there was the story that the media invites people to fantasize that they are in a higher class than themselves and you still see that in magazines like Vouge and the Economist (e.g. all those ads for $15,000 first-class seats)

TV is not like that today. You'd imagine that the viewer doesn't have any money of their own, as all of the ads are about how to spend either a government benefit or health insurance, or how you can get a big payday if you get hit by a car and call William Matar. (You do see ads for car dealers, but if nobody bought a car than nobody would git hit by a car and the ambulance chasers would be out of business.)

In the lead-up to November the air is full of political ads that are entirely hate speech.

I remember seeing an ad in 2010 that I thought was a scam and it turned out in 2018 it really was a scam. But for 8 years everyone was asleep at the switch and let it happen -- a conspicuous display of incompetence that undermines people's trust in the media, government, themselves, human nature, etc.

As for (2) I still see articles to the effect that "Isrealis working for Taboola learned to kill Palestinians with NVIDIA GPUs and now they have a supercomputer cluster that serves personalized ads."

Look at Taboola ads, those crap ads on the bottom of most news web sites and you see the old people with bad skin, scam supplements, car insurance in some town you're not from (a running gag for years), and lately ads for burial vs cremation.

If you are harassed with this for years you are going to think that 80% of your fellow Americans are stupid old people who have no ability to think critically, vote for Trump, etc.

Thus it promotes hate and is "hate speech".

So long as people are in pervasive environment of this kind of communication they're going to naturally hate, fear and mistrust anybody different from them.
Signal has reproducible builds for Android. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

Does that help in any way to verify that they do not store data on their servers?
I thought it was a well known fact that Google censored search results. Since the beginning.
Seconded. I actually used it a few months ago to stage 20 old laptops for covid induced homescooling. The 10 laptops staging before that managed to cook my more modern router, and I had promised to deliver the next day. The WRT didn't budge and was actually speedy enough.
I'm not really surprised that governments (or similar, such as the EU) are starting to become suspicious of the issue that private companies—who primarily profit off their users' data—have somehow anointed themselves as arbiters of speech.

It should have happened sooner, really. Hopefully this leads into ways to foster innovation (such as with decentralized networks) and competition, to break these giants' monopolies on the flow of information.
> Dropbox has been hammered by Wall Street ever since it went public.

"Hammered" ha SV lives in a dream world. Its barely making a profit and no great product in the future. It still has market cap more than say Wendy's and H&R Block put together.
>"Workaholics are people who usually work seven and more hours more than others per week."

>"Workaholism is also known as a behavioural disorder, which means the excessive involvement of the individual in work when an employer doesn’t require or expect it."

>"The results show that high job demands at work are strongly associated with work addiction risk but the job control level does not play the same role."

In a first glance, the definition of Workaholism seems like something very culture/country dependent. In places such as Japan with pressure to stay longer than your boss, working longer to "show you're working hard", a lot of people might be categorized as workaholic without actually being one.

What the model seems to not include is, and I think contributes way more to work related mental health issue is emotional investment in work. Too much emotional investment seems to lead to unreasonable stress when things are not going accordingly, while not helping much when things are going well. (Which is natural ofc, emotionally we remember negative events/failure more. It being tied to our self-worth or something deeply emotional, is problematic though.)

I left my previous company because of this reason; the project wasn't going anywhere, horribly mismanaged including unrealistic goal settings. But I've had this condition before on other jobs, but only on this one did I get so emotionally invested that I spent ridiculous over-time until burnout trying to make things (out of my control) work.

In retrospective, what made it all worse was that I liked my coworker a lot at my previous work, and seeing them work hard on other project while my project were going nowhere, made me more invested. The company-culture that made reaching out to others for feedback/brain storm/help hard, was also strong contributing factor.
At the risk of starting a language flame-war: if I were starting a new company or effort, my default choice would be .NET Core.

Performance is generally great and if you need to, there are lots of features in the language to allow you to further squeeze performance. C# is easy to pick up and has best-of-breed IDE support- you will get productive quickly. Also, you have an extremely large standard library at your disposal that is supported and dogfooded by Microsoft. Which is great because generally you do not need to install third party packages, but if you do NuGet is really easy to use.

Edit: Forgot to mention the stellar documentation provided by Microsoft.
you know what doesn’t get talked about: severence. why do we need it? why do employers give it? should one negotiate it? what is fair/unfair?
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But on the other hand they didn't have many other viable options did they? Their expertise is ARM and they need a BigCo to back their R&D and subsequently manufacturing. So that leaves them with Nvidia and Samsung as options.
To be fair, it’s not likely their platform will vanish overnight as long as Google and Facebook are making money in Europe unless the EU really does drive them out. Market shifts can be fast but there’s at least usually some leading indicators when a small business might no longer be viable.
Maybe your distro patches it, but last I checked typeahead wasn't available in GTK-file-picker. It uses recursive search instead.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/839

Also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748672

The GTK devs were saying that they wanted a flag shared between nautilus and the file picker that would enable/disable typeahead. Unfortunately nautilus refuses to implement that flag, which I think means we're all still relying on forks for that feature.

So you're not really allowed to solve one without solving the other, last I checked.

So yeah, the issues is very much in both, and you can't solve the issue with GTK without solving it in Gnome.
Note that the bullet point was not just “overcompensating”, but rather “overcompensating... because she gets another job offer”. I suspect the author would agree that appropriately compensating the employee in the first place would have avoided this problem.
It's generally bad for questions that have a right answer.
Keep on thinking of Steve Jobs saying companies like these are features not products
Apple Car expected to shake up auto industry in Asia and world
Oh I agree 100% we should not be calling him a hero. I'm just saying that ex ante claims about heroism in general (for or against) make little sense if you think heros are determined to be as such only based on the consequences of their actions.
ANY more work in this space would be great. The SG1100 seems similar already though. Most configs of the Pine64 I'm looking at are single Ethernet port though, I'm not a fan of the router on stick config, even the one in the SG1100 is confusing internally.
In what way does Apple giving 10MM to Harlem Capital restrict people who are not Black or Brown people from the opportunity to pitch their fund.

https://harlem.capital/pitch/

The first of their five pillars:

"We invest in founders from all backgrounds, genders and walks of life"
> I think hybrid classes are probably better.

Back in 2000/2001, my high school was experimenting with Cisco classes. We did modules online, but the teacher was in the room to answer any questions and to oversee projects as we networked servers together, etc.

It was great! I remember thinking this was the way all education should be done, and that it was inevitable that it would become the standard.

I don't know that I still consider it inevitable, but it worked well.

Contrast that to my experience in university... the endless lecture halls, overpriced text books, and emphasis on memorization over understanding. Absurd.

Equally absurd: Online courses. I'm big on self-directed learning, but the problem with online courses is that you're on your own. This is a problem when you run into subjects where you don't even know what it is that you don't know. (You can only Google for solutions if you know what to Google in the first place.)

So I like the idea of the hybrid model: Let the student take the lead, provide all the online tools needed, but do so in a supportive environment where problems can be troubleshot immediately with a teacher.
Is it true that this will uniquely position them to compete with Apple's processors while everyone keeps having to use the bog standard (and apparently not that amazing) Cortex cores?

Are there other companies able to produce promising cores/any that could develop a serious M1 competitor?

Was this acquisition mostly fueled by M1 hype (i.e. "Cortext chips are just fine")?
Thank you for the link. This definitely mirrors what I had seen last year and if that didn't come across it was a failure on my part.

That said, I believe a lot of those furloughed employees have since returned: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/9-hospitals-...

It's really hard to find any hard data about rehirings, hence my wondering and wild speculations based on personal experience ;)
Yea, the fact it's in the same message as the layoffs show it was part of the layoffs but she was important enough to mention by name.
The Nimitz or Tic-Tac incident the Navy has communicated about. One of these involved multiple pilots in several waves during several minutes/hours and was recorded by a system that integrates various data sources from multiple ships and aircrafts.
They do now have a family plan: https://www.dropbox.com/family
Lower cost premiums maybe, but I doubt any low-premium marketplace plans will be lower deductible than the corporate/COBRA plans offered by a company like Dropbox.
Similar experience here. I switched OSes a few times but I never let go C# even when the multiplatform story was subpar. Now with dotnet core (.net 5) it’s really a joy to work with everywhere (even of VS Code is no match to the real thing).
This, more than anything, is why I trust them and recommend them to others.
According to the CPI's Inflation Calculator, $200 in December 2002 (release of the 54G) was $287.98 as of December 2020.

So yeah.

Even at MSRP (280), the 3200 is cheaper than the 54G was at release.
MAGIX heavily mentions Intel in their marketing.

"4K Ultra HD video editing with Intel and MAGIX"

"Enjoy HD Video editing with Magix Movie Editor Pro and Intel Iris Graphics"

"Edit in 4K Ultra HD" + Intel Logo

"Finish and Share videos quickly with Intel Iris Graphics"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT9KOtN7KFM

Plus, as a user of the software, I can tell you that if you tick the "Hardware Acceleration" checkbox on AMD, a popup will tell you to buy a supported Intel CPU and then turn the checkbox off again.

BTW I'm picking Magix here because in the local electronics store, that's the video software that you can buy as a box and that is featured in bundles with Intel laptops. So if someone clueless walks in there and says they need video editing, this is most likely what they will end up with.
After reading the title I was expecting a phone duct taped to the lid.
I don't think these are related to Phaser but indicate too much stress on the server. 503 is service unavailable and probably caused by being on HN frontpage.
Then don't make it a web app. Make a native app. Or a native app that sends the data to a web app via localhost websocket.
> Was the COO fired? It sounds like she was, reading this article.

Knowing nothing about the internals at Dropbox, it does sound like it (on the surface at least). Having worked at a couple major tech companies now, executives never get fired. They "step down", or go on sabbatical ... and never come back. The usual hallmark of the action is that the email about it isn't sent by the leaving executive themselves, it's sent by their boss.

Normal employees don't tend to have these options, but executives are so high profile that it seems to be an informalized practice for both company and executive to save face. It's hard to worry about them too much though because their exit package is likely more than than most of us could make given ten years.
Having been on a variety of forums for about three decades now, I think a lot about how this and other features can so heavily influence a site. Flat chronological versus threaded versus a "one-level nest" model. Upvoting, downvoting, flagging. Being able to directly reply to someone. Anonymous by default versus usernames versus sockpuppets versus anon-by-request-to-moderators versus "tripcodes" and so on. Does sorting exist, and if so, what is the default? And then the impact of upvotes and downvotes on that. Up/down versus favorites and bookmarks, favorites versus karma. Everything2 and the long-vanished "XP Pack Rape." The ease of account creation versus the ease of duplicate account creation.

My suspicion is that, even more than moderators, nice FAQs, and such, these can influence the forum experience the most.
How Uber algorithm calculates the cost
If Wireguard would be certified and you can have a contract with a company to carry the risk of this VPN solution then it will gain traction.
I know that technically it is probably superior and safer, but for regulatory things people might still chose Ipsec
I'm referring to monopoly power - which doesn't mean a singular entity. A good thought exercise to gauge this in this situation specifically is if it's only incidental that they were on AWS. If they were on Azure or GCP I think we can assume the same result would have occured.
Hmm can you share more about this? It makes sense on the surface but it would be great to know what the context was.
And the fact many people say a UFO just "dematerialized" or "fade out"?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/your-call-and-text-r...

Metadata can be as damning as the actual message data, and in a lot of places you don't want the authorities to know that you are even communicating at all.
I think the weirder part, was the article self hijack.

”here’s is the cheap meant we made, but really, let’s talk about telewindow!” Which is fine and I found both interesting, but unusual imo.
This is called the Resource Trap.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/resource-curse.asp
6 Predictions for How Privacy Will Impact DevOps in 2021
Just my personal observation, I think Dropbox is the perfect example of a company whose time has passed. Between Google drive, and OneDrive being pushed by Microsoft, Dropbox just can't do things all that much better to justify most people using a separate service.

Slack mainly because Google can't figure out which chat service they want to sell, somehow continues to buck the trend and sell itself as a standalone service.
"6 months of COBRA" presumably means Dropbox will pay 6 months of COBRA premiums for departed team members? COBRA has a statutory duration much longer than 6 months.
My health insurance isn't taxed, or at least effectively not anywhere near what my top salary bracket is. Our tax law means there would be no short-term advantage for either me or my employer to shift that compensation into cash.

If my employer offered additional desirable insurance to replace an equal amount of pre-tax salary, I would gladly except that extra compensation too.
The reason I was asking is because I legitimately haven't seen anyone doing that, which suggested to me that this opinion certainly wasn't anywhere near as popular as the opinion that tech companies should take down basically everything that was ever associated with Trump. Most people generally accept that strictly legally speaking tech companies have a right to shut down anyone they want, as long as it doesn't violate the contract (I personally disagree that it should work like this), but I just don't think that is the point.
Yellow mealworm safe for humans to eat, says EU food safety agency
Very impressive and inspirational.

Here's my thinking:

Bosons have full spin. Fermions have half spin. What's spin? The "want for electrons". What's that? Nature always does the easiest thing. If nature can slow down it's internal clock, or smudge the margins of the present environment, nature will find those heat transfer mediums all on its own. Electromagnetism is that heat transfer, finding a medium for an easier path besides conductive surfaces or convective fluids. Half spin means you need something else, like current needs ground. Full spin, like a shiny bright or flat dark topology relating internal clock speed, doesn't. They transfer heat regardless.

Nature will transfer heat by dumping mass without changing the chemical bonds of the material. That's nuclear decay. When it does, everything around it finds an easier path by adding mass to the released heat. That's the Higg's field. What if there was not just one of those, like Planck showed things must heat up a little before they become brighter?

This is what made me understand anyons:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/milestone-evidence-for-anyons...

As dimensions increase, the more constrained you get. As dimensions decrease, like in the singularity derived from background radiation and red shift, the more freedom you get.

Why this matters: I want to use the sun to microwave an asteroid, cure cancer, and far more important reasons, special effects in movies and video games.
Central planning has failed all over the world, across culture, climate and geography. It has already failed under a wide variety of parameters.