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>If manufacturing an unlocked device becomes unprofitable and stops happening everywhere, then we can talk about what to do, but I don't think the existence of secure boot on Linux is going to make much of a difference either way.

You mean... The last decade or so? Pretty much Mobile period sans the Librem 5 and I think maybe one other? Anything with an ARM chip that'll run windows must be secure booted and signed by Microsoft.

Or how about Nvidia(mostly)/AMD(to a lesser degree) video cards, where the entertainment industry increasingly relies on cryptographic attestation to constrain what people can do with hardware they bought? There is no "fully unlocked" buying option, and trying to divest yourself of Nvidia is impossible while being able to use your card to the fullest.

Or John Deere with their crippled hardware as a service model?

I'm all with charging for convenience. That's a value add. I'm not cool with intentional crippling, and extortionate practices whereby the manufacturer maintains ultimate control after first sale either legally or practically through privileged access to signing keys.
Simple operating system of Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, rewritten in Python
Upbound Open Sources Universal Crossplane
A companion app for a friend's board game
Nice, I graduated highschool in 2004 and wish I had teachers that were clued into that. Bought Zeldman's book on web standards in 02-03 ish. And basically was allowed an independent study to work on my "websites" as the teachers had no idea. I recall a strange argument where they insisted on HTML tags being uppercase.
What are some esoteric things that you think are stupid right now?
Asking for a friend.
This makes sense. If I knew my team was going to lose 6% of it's members, I'd hire 6% more people to compensate for the loss. Even if the goal isn't to fire them that's what ends up happening.
It does do something. It proves you can lockdown without the lockdown itself causing significant excess mortality and gives more credence (as if it’s needed) to the excess mortality that is being seen in other countries being caused purely by COVID.

COVID skeptics are full of assertions such as: It’s just the flu, PCR tests are worthless, the lockdown is killing more people than it’s saving, suicides are way up, we won’t have a second wave etc. When these are proven false they come up with a new assertion, ignoring that they have been wrong about every assertion so far. The scary thing is they seem to sing from the same hymn sheet, so they are being fed this information from somewhere.

It doesn’t matter so much now that people are getting vaccinated, but the vocal minority was a real risk to the integrity of the measures such as lockdowns. If you get a critical mass of people believing this BS then you’ve got a real problem. We’ve seen how the Q-Anon misinformation movement has had real consequences but people seem oblivious when they are being fed FUD about COVID.
The NYT has a great track record of protecting their sources.
It reminds me a little bit of QBE (Query by example), but instead of saying what data you want, you say what schema you want.
What of his work have you read that was so unclear?
This is amazing concept. It literally transforms remote api into local resource with the aid of graphql.
The intro is about how some things change slowly. His transition paragraph is how things don't seem to get better. He then does his real topic launch by then identifying something that did change quickly, and did get better.

I've been reading Spolsky essays for 20 years, he really is incredibly talented. So much so that even today, you can reference some of his early essays on "commoditizing your complement" in the tech industry - and there is a better than average chance that the person you are speaking to will be familiar with Joel's essay on this topic.
Step off your soap box and RTFA. The linked BI reporting mentions interviews they did with managers (btw you seem to be confusing op-eds and reporting, Mr. Fix-Journalism Startup Idea Guy). Or do your own verification- this practice is discussed frequently on Amazon’s teamblind lounge, for example. Get someone in your network to let you take a peek. Unlike HN (which you just trust intrinsically for some reason), that site requires you verify your employer before posting.
I work for Amazon as an SDE, in alot of cases working here is fine, but there are teams with absolutely barbaric management practices.
It's a bit surprising that this was invented so recently, when the basic idea of the dial ought to work mechanically. (When I had that idea I searched for "vernier clock" and that was how I first heard of this one.)
Yeah, the reputation model is nowhere near representative of the significance of your contribution. Just try not to take it overly seriously...

I got my reputation asking > 1,000 questions and answering > 1,200 , and I can't say whether I should be higher up than people with 10x less reputation than me or 2x more than me.
I am not sure how this comment contributes to the thread. It is a bias because I write my real-world experiences? What you are saying is true for so many things. Car that does not break does not need a mechanic. Of course, and nobody is disputing that. This comment just made me laugh so hard I had to reply.
> (a) having stuff in google results from other sites

Yeah. Programmers now give really nice answers to basic questions about the up and coming tech on their personal/company blogs.

Also, SO benefited from having a decent code formatting in a time where code blocks looked horrible pretty much everywhere else. They lost that edge.
Uh, this is exactly why unions exist. Because you sure as hell can’t trust the company to give a shit about worker safety. It’s a cost center to them.
How Will Amazon “Reimagine” MGM’s Film Studio?
What if you're freddie mercury? I'm pretty sure he could converse with the crowd, he could speak to their "souls" and move them to do things like sing along, or stomp their feet.
> I think the answers “yes”, if the demand is there.

It's not a question of demand. A negligible number of customers care where their product is manufactured. They care only about price, which is why manufacturing moved overseas in the first place.

What is needed to manufacture phones in the West is protectionism and mercantilism. Our governments would have to subsidize domestically manufactured products, require the use of domestic products for various industries, and tariff those manufactured in countries with lower labor standards and incompatible civil rights.

Unfortunately such policies lead to higher costs for consumers and lower economic growth. It's politically unpopular for the same reason action on climate change is unpopular: it makes everything more expensive. It's no wonder that virtually all western politicians support neoliberal globalism. Goods are cheap, even if it means some of us lost our jobs in the process.

Worse, these policies also tend to lead to war. One of the big reasons we've had relative peace between world powers for the last 75 years is that our economies have become closely intertwined, so no politician or corporation can stomach the economic costs of war. If global trade starts to break down we'll head directly into World War 3.

Personally I think we should embrace protectionism anyway despite the cost and risk. I'd go so far as ripping up NAFTA. American labor standards are so shit that Canadian companies can barely compete, and it's holding us back from progressive policies like a 4-day work week. Ontario can't even mandate paid sick days! I'd rather we have a well-paid labor force than cheap groceries and electronics. Unfortunately no politician agrees with me.
> Quantum Thinking, which is holding multiple contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. By oscillating between radical extremes, you put ideas at war with each other in the name of truth. By doing so, you stretch each idea to its logical conclusion.

Isn't this the 19th century Hegelian dialectic, not a quantum-whatchamacallit?
But if that last person is good enough to get past the bar raiser, they wouldn’t necessarily be the one getting fired later. It would make more sense to just hire more people than you need in the first place, intending to fire the worst performer later on without necessarily knowing ahead of time who that worst performer is going to be. Which is brutal but has a certain logic to it.
You might like American Pragmatism: CS Peirce, FP Ramsey, CI Lewis, William James, John Dewey, etc.

Peirce's "How to Make Our Ideas Clear": https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...
Let's say you're perfectly happy with your team of 9, but you have to fire 10% of people every year.

It doesn't matter who you hire for that 10th spot. It doesn't matter who makes the decision. You're getting a 10th person, of any caliber, to get rid of them. You'll make open recs and add more people to the team when you don't need more people, just so you can keep your staff.

As a hiring engineer, this is exactly the sort of optimization I would make if I were compelled to terminate a portion of my team regularly (really, as a principal, I'd just tell whoever was making the rule to go to hell). We'd constantly be overstaffed so I can let someone go without it hurting my team.
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Same here, I plunge a thermometer in the kettle and stop it as soon as it reaches 94-95°C
I think of hard work as being more of a necessary but not sufficient condition for most of these outcomes, so to some extent: "The harder I work, the luckier I get..."

You can't control your luck, but you can control how hard you work. Some will read that sentence and conclude that working hard is a fool's errand. Others will read it and conclude the opposite. Neither is entirely wrong.
One big early hit can keep paying off. And some funds have long lock-ins.

In this case, they sold part of their tencent to buy this. Selling a little bit each year of a superstar early investment shows good earnings each year.

I don’t know this fund at all, so they could be awesome for all I know. But saying “they are super smart for buying tencent” is not useful without lots of other info.

Usually people who say that without extra evidence or mentioning survivor bias aren’t properly aware of what’s what.
> Frankly, I've noticed a LOT of poorly written anti-Amazon articles around, and I'm not clear if there's some effort to undermine the company. Is Amazon a political organization?

They’re one of the largest corporations in the world; of course they’re a political organization.
Do you feel like a digital sharecropper[0] now that the company has sold, or are you happy what you got out of contributing?

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper...
Not that they give a shit, they retroactively relicensed all submitted content and all previous data dumps, without rights to do that, and all they suffered was downvotes on their announcement.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
This statement is really kind of funny, because its so stylized, so absolutely stereotypical that there was no way for you to possibly come to it creatively and originally.

Is some one buying momjeans on depop brainwashed, or is it you? If you aren't the one who is brainwashed why is your reply so ritualistic?
A bit ironic that the “nationalists” made their money from a Chinese company though…
I am in your same boat, I have always liked drinking very much, but I never dipped into any sort of serious "drinking problem" territory. For me the best way to reduce alcohol -- and stay healthy in general -- is to count calories. It's impossible to overdrink if you only have 200 calories at the end of your day and can only drink 1 beer. Nothing else has helped me cut back like that.
That's actually a pretty reasonable argument, the 'length - N' form is actually quite prone to off-by-one errors so .at might help there.
The article looks like a paid ad in disguise.
the vast majority of the history of classical music was devoid of non-white people.

But it's a disingenuous (and sadly all-too-common) leap to conclude they're racist. People like different things. Get over it.
>What I've found, from famous books by famous philosophers all the way to pop philosophy books to vague philosophical discussions... is some of the muddiest and most convoluted self-indulgent thinking i've ever seen.

I find philosophy to be highly irrational. It studies topics that are uniquely different yet it categorizes these topics as the same thing.

Aesthetics aka beauty is a philosophy, and so is logic. How do these things exist on the same level? Aesthetics is a human attribute and a human opinion and made up concept, logic is an observable phenomenon fundamental to the universe.

The infinite regressions are also pointless paths to explore. By induction we know it's infinite already so why continue to explore?
It resonated for me because 10 years ago I worked on a COM project (browser extension that had to support IE) and the total lack of information for that "pre-internet" technology meant I had to rely on very hard to find books. There was one book in particular that without it, the project would have failed. And that's what everything used to be like (well, more like before Internet, not necessarily before Stack Overflow).
And as a note to any big companies thinking of doing this, it has to be personal. I've gotten tons of cards and brochures in packages from big companies that I instantly throw away because it's usually just corporate jargon about how much thought was put into making this product "just for me".
I take this article as "random guy on the internet says random things" to get people riled up. Who cares what this guy says? Next week Apple will spell out what's supported. Sheesh.
Yes, a supply crunch does make it difficult to execute on these types of strategies. And you're certainly right that having a relationship with your suppliers is often advantageous -- very often, including upstream parties in one's system boundaries increases one's surface area for cost optimization.

Also, just thinking aloud, during normal times, if you happen to know other hobbyist BBQ folks, I'm wondering if there might be opportunities to enter into an informal group-buying situation where you pool your collective brisket demand and bulk buy at a discount. That wouldn't work right now but perhaps it might during normal times. There are websites based around this idea. Best of luck.
Corporate branding efforts to be more "woke" are cheap. It doesn't cost Raytheon much to paint their logo as a rainbow and do an "employee story" about how they have also have LGBTQ employees (building missiles). But don't get under the impression that Raytheon still isn't focused on building missiles. It's just an easy corporate branding win for most of them, so they just do it.

I don't think social justice messages on a website or social media are necessarily a sign of losing focus. It's just some branding stuff. If the company is "losing focus" is likely due to many more factors.
> Every time I've looked at philosophy in my life, I kept searching for this promise - where intellectual giants grapple the truth and discover their secrets.

This expresses an approach to philosophy that I think is, at its roots, ineffective. It treats "philosophy" as "Philosophy", as some thing, some well-defined corpus that deals with truth and can be explored top-down systematically, something that you can "look at" or "come to" or whatever. But that's not really what "philosophy" is or, rather, there is no "philosophy" in that sense. There's just people in the world trying to understand it and to communicate their understanding. There's just questions and people all the way down, nothing else. We use the name "philosophy" because it's convenient but I'd say it's maybe the least useful name for anything we've ever come up with.

Philosophy is ultimately personal, it's the most personal, and most of the most famous philosophers can only be appreciated if you go out of your way to read them from a deeply psychological and empathetic perspective. At least this is my experience. It's not easy and takes a lot of work to get into the headspace of whoever you're reading, but once you get there you'll feel the lightbulb go off. This is especially important when you read older philosophers or philosophers who have a fundamentally different metaphysics from yourself. Of course, sometimes you just can't get there with certain thinkers. For example, I have a really really really hard time taking Hegel seriously.
I'm responding to the allegation that white people are disproportionately prevalent and influential. We're not.
Same here, also 7%. But I benefited from a recalc of the question vs answer points. You might have as well?
Come on now, mens fashion is also a multi-billion industry
How many vc/hedge/pe funds were there? How many funds around today were here 20 years ago.

Failures don’t typically advertise and it’s quite likely there ARE/WERE thousands or millions of small firms managing a few million each.
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Or the password for that Postgres user...
With so many different cryptocurrencies available, why choose the one (Bitcoin) that's least useful as a form of payment? It takes a very long time to get confirmations, and the fees are too high to be useful for small transactions.

The proposal should be inclusive of all cryptocurrencies.
The most mind-blowing part of the article was the Teams vs Slack screenshot.

https://res.infoq.com/articles/cloud-vendors-low-code/en/res...
I admit I quickly lost interest in the article after the author said they wanted to reimplement an OOP exam in it.

IMO that's not the most representative benchmark.
> Nuclear power is introducing lots of long-lived fission products into environment by slowly poisoning our biosphere.

Nuclear waste from power generation is solid. A typical plant products 3 cubic meters of solid waste per year, which is stored on-site in cooling pools. Compare that to hundreds of thousands of tons per plant of radioactive fly ash just spewed into the atmosphere and millions of tons of CO2. You're going to need a citation for the "108 contaminated sites that are unusable." Also a thousand acres is a little over a square mile; again, which I doubt. That is absolutely not how waste is managed in the US, and leaks like that do not happen.

And if you want to talk about slowly poisoning the biosphere, stop with the anti-nuclear hype and start talking about microplastics and pesticides.
The Puritans also drank a ton.
More anecdata but I have a friend at Amazon who confirmed the hire-to-fire mentality.

There’s a mandate to PIP and the manager wants to protect their productive employees so they hire someone and set them up to fail.

I don’t think you’re going to get any clean documentation on this process - it’s simply a result of a system that stack ranks and mandates firing.
I wouldn't trust a study like this unless it comes out of a university, or a government agency like OSHA.

The unions just lost a major fight to try and get into Amazon's warehouses, they have every interest in disparaging Amazon.
I think you are seeing racism where sometimes there isn't any. I like music when I hear it and I like it. It happens than most of what I like is made by white people? Is it racism? No, since I don't judge music on the skin color or race or ethnicity of the creator. I also don't think that the music I listen to is "better" than the music other people listen to, we just happen to have different tastes.
I agree. I think that's also true of all the cloud players these days honestly.
Classical music doesn't need a big C or M. Simply the lack of additional qualification in "classical music" informs us that it's the historic western practice. Other classical musics are identified as such, e.g. "Indian classical music". Or else a context is established where that qualifier is understood, and then "classical music" refers to "Indian classical music".
Honestly - trying to finely curate the art that we consume is pretty far in the direction of Brave New World to begin with. Art comes in many forms and the classification of it will vary wildly from person to person.
Am I missing something or does that not say where the SoC/processor is made? TFA does not seem to say where the NXP CPU is made either. Or is that categorized under the "Electronics" category?
I'm probably in the minority here, but companies: please just call it the Nautilus. It's a product, not a person, and I don't care how much time or effort or personality was put into your product. I paid money for it, I own it now. It will be called "The iPad", not "iPad". It outright annoys me when companies try feigning familiarity like that.
I read this more as “make sure to account for survivor bias and don’t say stupid stuff.”

Survivor bias doesn’t mean that everything is a fluke. It just means that some things are flukes and it’s important to include that in our models so we don’t think something random is non-random.

This is very different than everything being 100% random.
Reminds of Omega--you wrote scripts to operate autonomous tanks, and pitted your tanks against others' in an obstacle-filled arena. Omega didn't have the realtime scripting component though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(video_game)
To borrow your words: your core thesis[0] is fundamentally flawed.

There is no requisite for the person hiring to be the one firing for the person hiring to hire a sacrificial lamb.

A rational actor could easily decide 'Hey, I like my team, if I hire this guy/gal who the firing manager definitely won't like[1] He/she'll be fired before anyone on my team.' Morality aside its the same as serving up a secondary 'bad' idea to your boss to give him/her the illusion of choice, and get him/her to go with the plan you want.

[0]>So the core thesis of the article is fundamentally flawed, since the decision maker for hiring is not the same person who decides on firing

[1]For personal or professional reasons.
Risk (well, "variance") increases the value of optionality.

Assume that there is a job market with lots of jobs. Each will hire you for your market-rate total compensation, no stock cliffs, no job-seeking costs. Spherical cow. Say also that you can tell the variance on stock compensation, but you can't guess at future performance.

One strategy might be to go to an all-cash job and make your market rate forever. That's a lower-bound on the best expected future earnings. But a better strategy is,

- Join a high-variance company,

- If/when your pay drops below the market, find another high-variance company.

With this strategy your expected earnings are higher than your market rate, even if the expected earnings at every job is the same. And the outperformance scales up with the variance.