skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as stated -- either they take ownership and responsibility for the hardware, or it becomes your property if they fail to claim it. This sounds like a slippery slope to accidental situations involving damaged equipment returned months out of employment.

edit - To be frank, most Remote companies just write off the accessories. You return the big hardware, the laptop. The rest is yours, usually as it's budgeted and paid out differently than wage / bonus would be, so to claw it back is to get into hazy tax territory too.
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The obvious? More control over a perceived liberal-biased company from a republican controlled state.
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Foundation, not charity. I'd say that it is a good thing that they a) do not have to put profit maximisation above all else, and b) can then decide where to allocate the profits in accordance with their statutes.

I like this part of the results:

> For example, in 2004, the net profit was US$2.1 billion, but only US$78 million was distributed as dividends to shareholders. Of that figure, US$72 million was distributed to the charitable foundation, and the other US$6 million to Bosch family stockholders. The remaining 96% of the profits were invested back into the company. In its core automotive technology business, Bosch invests 9% of its revenue on research and development, nearly double the industry average of 4.7%.
Appears to be compiled using Gridsome, from looking briefly at source (CTRL+U).
I'm curious about this too. Exactly the same thing happened to me, and it took three months with multiple follow-ups for me to finally get the laptop (it was just a laptop for me) returned. I was about to move and like you was wondering what obligation I had to keep carrying this thing around with me. Luckily I got it resolved.

Personally, I would encourage remote companies to partner with groups that take laptops as donations for people that need them, and let you "return" it that way. My company paid for the laptop to be couriered across the country, plus I had to liase with 3 different people to organize the return. They'll still have to wipe it and whatnot when it gets back, and then they'll have a used laptop. Would be much more useful in the hands of a local kid or something.
Often, cities will not allow you to use your own well, insisting you move on to city water.
A missile blows up in all directions, whereas a small drone can focus fire and concentrate energy on individuals. A swarm of tiny drones in a concentrated population area can potentially end up with a similar kill to mass ratio as early nuclear bombs. It is similar to the difference between a large conventional bomb and a cluster bomb but taken to another level.
Doesn't handle Smarch very well though.
My water, trash, sewer, gas, and electric utilities have always met my expectations.
That stopped being true sometime in the early '70s unfortunately: https://archive.is/Ouf6d
That's not my claim, just correcting a common misconception that apparently caused the OP emotional distress.
Or the rockets are becoming more effective via larger payloads or better targeting towards more populated buildings. Or perhaps they got lucky, or more people were at home due to COVID.

The US regularly kills 12+ people via single missile strikes. No reason Hamas can’t kill 12 with a hundred missile strikes.
Living in Japan, I can verify that there are two major types of English students here.

Group one learns to speak casually, and often.

Group two can be handed a Shakespeare text and answer any question about it.

Group one will have a completely natural and fluent conversation with any English speaker. They can write casually and be completely understood.

Group two will be able to identify grammatical mistakes on a test. Many are incapable of even rudimentary conversation. These people did well on college exams and are responsible for the horrible, worse-than-machine translations you see on signs and government reports in this country.
Wickr is almost certainly compromised anyway.

Never trust an app that neither charges for its use (like Threema), nor takes donations (like Signal Foundation).

Wickr's funding is a huge mystery. Approach with caution.
As a developer?

Nobody ever asked me anything about my education.

Maybe you need to find the right workplace. And this is still if you're doing the employee way. You can find other ways to create value in society and make money out of it.
Exactly. The drive by gang shooting may become a fly by soon.
We can talk about France if you want, where a family member was told to "suck it up" after an injury when he was able to go to a private hospital (he's got the money to consult specialists) and get his shoulder fixed there.
I am the author of articles [2], [3], and [4] if you have any questions.
But that must be contasted from the value the unpaid taxes would have created.
This is something I was concerned about too, but then I learned about the IPP over USB protocol. Implementation here: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ipp-usb
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There's a big difference between checking Twitter and sitting in silence.
No stake in this, just a suggestion and also a little curious. Could a shortcut pinned to the tab or nav bar work? I keep my email in a pinned Safari tab.
I think chrome developers probably do care a lot about security (and performance and privacy). There is a big conflict of interest because chrome is developed by an enormous on-line advertising company and online ads, ad-blockers, and malware pretending to be ad-blockers may cause security, performance, or privacy problems.

It is an interesting thought experiment to wonder what chrome would be like if it were more independent, but I think it is wrong to assume that the developers are deliberately malicious or uncaring about users’ interests.
Also one of: France, Israel, and or South Africa [0], of whom the latter two were signatories to the 1963 agreement.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
They probably don’t have the manpower. The Asian countries produce hardware engineers at 10x that of the west, and with a much larger population, have a vast talent pool.
I don't think anything is, but it's a low level endeavor for $77b company, no?

I mean, the arts are something I support, because it is something I can afford. If I had more money, Id probably want to try harder to make a difference.
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what i have in mind is a hybrid that may transition between aquatic or aerial, in a seamless fashion
Okay, but this is obviously not wikipedia. Either the facts here are true or they aren't, and it should be pretty easy to verify either way. I get needing to weed out generally bad sources in an encyclopedic setting where the sheer volume of citations can make verifying everything a very painful chore, but invoking wiki policy anywhere else than on Wikipedia is not very useful Imo. (and that's without getting into the very very... Intense lobbying when it comes to a lot of WP:RS decisions anyways. Though it doesn't seem like the proposal you linked has been subject to that)
I have no idea how the law stands here, but it is definitely a good idea to have everything in writing (certified mail, etc., as another poster said).

When I was in grad school, a professor I was working with left to take a job at another school. The university demanded that he account for a computer he'd been issued in 1985, which they had no record of him ever returning. They threatened to charge him several thousand bucks if it weren't returned. He noted that 1) 1985 was 15 or 20 computers ago and 2) even if he did still have the computer, it wouldn't be worth anything like the 1985 price (if it were worth anything at all). I believe he finally had to get his lawyer to bark at them to get them to back down.

So... yeah, make sure it gets taken care of some way. I wish I had some advice, but definitely don't let it slide.
I try to practice the 90m on, 30m off regimen that Huberman advocates, and it's worked well. I can do that all day without burnout.
> Just take away the profits of big pharma and health insurance companies in the US and let me know how much cheaper the entire thing would be.

It would certainly be infinitely cheaper, yet, all that money would be diverted to funeral directors.
Tesla is using Navi 23 RDNA in their new S and X models. That's 7nm chip. NN accelerators will likely move to 16nm or better soon. However, you're right that most automotive chips and power electronics use 180 or 65nm process.

EDIT: Mobile Eye, EyeQ5 ADAS SoC is already 7nm FinFET.
Here: as a badge of honor, I'd like to garner a few more downvotes from fans of criminal malfeasance.

I'm deeply sorry that the great tradition of German engineering has been besmirched by swindlers, and those swindlers have not been roundly denounced by Germans themselves.
Have you tried to shoot them an email? (hn@ycombinator.com)
This is the sentiment I've been seeing online, especially here.

1/3 of the posts here are "<old tool that already exists in a stable, mature codebase> in {rust|go|whatevernewlanguagecomesnextweek} released v0.0.1"

Perl is a great language, that does it's job for many, many things, especially with CPAN, and it has been doing so for years. You can buy a 20yo book on perl, and 99.99% of the example code from that book still works, and same goes for projects from that era (which cannot be said for python, where developers and distro mainanters seem to enjoy removing usable, mature projects, just because they're written for python2.7 and incompatible with 3+).

If I have to write a script once, that I can forget about, and just expect it to run for years, perl will always be my first choice.
Honestly, that describes a lot of the tech hype cycle.

The classic example would be MongoDB and other NoSQL solutions etc. in the early days. We can be lightning fast compared to these RDBs! Clearly they're idiots, as is anyone that uses them!

Oh wait, what? You mean it's hard to actually work with data durably, and that not doing so is the main reason we're faster... crap.
> How hard do you think drones are by comparison?

Very. The calculation made for each round could be irrelevant before they travel 500m. Drones also have no obligation to approach at the same convenient high angle mortars do. 2-3 drones weaving between buildings faster than a human can aim? Sounds terrifying.
I'm pretty sure those same apartment buildings wouldn't let you set up the large scale server farm required for you to set up your own search engine alternative to Google either.
Not the furry kind, but it's a real animal. :)
FYI this has been supported in CDK for a few months now. See the CrossAccountZoneDelegation at the end of this section: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-route53-...
> Your competitors are advertising on facebook and google. If you want to compete you have no choice but to do both.

My intuition is this is not a meaningful factor for a locally-focused business.
Sure, but he poster is arguing that having alternatives is no reason to not declare a large company’s product a utility.

My municipality is great for wells, most houses use them, but the water company that was recently introduced is still classified a utility.
Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin has claimed[0] when this was introduced that this update would make uBlock Origin ineffective. Does anyone know if that's still the case?

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897...

EDIT: I'm referring the the 'Manifest v3' update as a whole, not to the specific API change discussed in the article
I feel like if this possibility existed, though, the market would adjust to the risk. Stocks for "innovative" companies wouldn't spike as high because the risk we find out how the sausage is made is higher. Individual and outside stock owners would understand that risk going in.

The Walmart problem I definitely understand, I've seen small towns essentially replaced by Walmarts. It's possible in that case we could employ another form of corporate execution: Nationalization. Perhaps in a short-term form where the government oversaw the process of spinning down the business gradually.
Possibly dumb question, but I'm confused by the apparent overlap:

What's the difference between chrome.scripting and a content script that you pass messages to?
I get the feeling that quantum computing is hard to explain largely because it isn't really here yet, so it's not widely available and only rarely used for certain niche applications.
Ive always been told I need oil changes every 3-5,000 miles, if that’s not true it’s news to me. Also, my state mandates annual inspections so I assume a professional is checking for those things during the inspection.
Russia is a dictatorship that gives the appearance of a functional democracy.

All internet traffic is routed through the FSB spy agency in Russia, and has been since at least 2002, this was all publicly announced, where as in USA it was done secretly, for example:

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/04/6585-2/
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
> It is an interesting thought experiment to wonder what chrome would be like if it were more independent

Firefox? Brave?
How about a super soaker instead of a pistol? Especially one of the CPS soakers that got banned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=resgaF7MeR4
That is not at all obvious to me, that's why I asked, it wasn't a trick question, there wasn't an answer that was obvious to me!

OK. I dunno if that makes much sense to me, I don't think it does. (I am not a conservative fwiw). But thanks for clarifying!
Hmm. Admittedly it was a long time ago buy I moved from a (then) EU country to the US and from my perspective taxes are about the same. And in the US we have to pay for a bunch of stuff that is government funded in EU.
The reader already knows? Well, what is courage then? Can you explain it?
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My guess is that defences against those size and larger drones will improve to the point where they're null without total air supremacy.

You can't safely fly a Jet these days without enormous support, interference and then at great risk until the skies are very well cleared.

I think possibly the same thing will apply to drones in that 'just as cheap' technology will render them null.

Maybe not for the 'very smallest' type drones but certainly anything approaching the size of a car that sticks out on radar - a slow, lumbering, easy target for a range of weapons.

It's one thing for Azerbeijan or Libyans to face these things, much like American air power over Iraq, it's not a 'balanced situation'.

The moment someone tries to use these against a capable adversary we'll see what toys are hidden away and/or things will change very quickly.
For anyone capable of using React, there's no barrier to 'learning' sass (you can be productive with it in about 30 seconds). Admittedly there might be some additional work around configuring compilation to work with the rest of your build and dev processes, etc. But sass in it's most basic usage (nested selectors) is really what CSS should have been.
I think that the comment that you relied to meant that it is easier for scientists to collaborate using a single language rather than many. For some domains, Python has emerged as that single language. That doesn't mean that Python is the best language.
There's another reason this product doesn't fit the category you've described: they haven't spent countless millions on marketing. They just put up a website, and it's not their fault if the gaming press then turned it into the next big thing.

To me, their website comes off as sincere, earnest, and a work-in-progress-- it's kind of like a kickstarter, except with a really great team. They're not setting unreasonable expectations, and readers should be careful not to conflate what they say with what the gaming press says about them.
“Instead, they ask to "defund" the police, and then redefine "defund" to mean that many of their daily services should be given to others more qualified for peaceful resolutions, without carrying weapons, and police should be available for backup of those situations.”

I’m so tired of these rhetorical games. It’s dishonest and we need to stop accepting it as a legitimate form of discourse. No respect for people and politicians who do this.
My university has been working with the army to engineer drone vs human engagements. They originally set out to increase the drones' efficacy against humans wielding small arms (shotguns/etc), but apparently found out that was trivial. The drones very, very quickly overwhelmingly surpass the ability of humans to engage and defeat the drones.

The research pivoted very early to "training humans to more successfully defend against small drone attacks". I'm not sure how much success they've had or what success is defined as for something like this.
V3 is a cancer. As a full time extension developer I am dreading the notion of chrome successfully deprecating V2. Hopefully developers can rise up against V3 before it's too late.
The developer of Tampermonkey has already raised this concern when Manifest v3 was first introduced.[0]

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...
We use Metabase right now and tried Superset. Took me an hour to figure out how to create a simple set of filters on a dashboard. They renamed things at some point so most online documentation no longer makes sense. Also, having to creating a dummy widget just to filter with is overly complicated I feel. Seems a tool clearly made by engineers for engineers.
It can, but it wont
The range of trajectories you can intercept and detect is dependent on the location of deployment.

In order to catch mortars (very high angle of fire with very short range) you need be very close "to the enemy"
when you are that close its much harder to detect rockets since they quickly pass by the radar in that range
Better than letting the super rich keep it all while a few of them launder all their images by being charitable.
> I love coding, but I've gotten to the point where I just can't enjoy it if I'm not involved also choosing what we build.

Would it be sufficient if what is chosen to be built is something you see as a high-value thing to build? Working at a company that is good at setting product directions could be a possible solution.
This is nowhere near universally true
They'll probably making chips for Bosch parts. IIUC they don't do much advanced computational stuff.
>Comprehension requires active engagement.

I agree, but active engagement does not require speaking or writing. Listening and reading are not necessarily passive. You don't need to know how to write fluently to be able to read fluently and comprehend something, and I don't need to say something to be able to understand it. Can mute people not understand spoken word as well as people who can speak?

>As an example that people here might better grasp, learning a language without speaking is like learning a programming language without writing your own code.

>You might generally recognize the syntax and usage of various functions, but you won't truly grasp it and understand its nuances until you sit down, write, and accept that you'll make mistakes and identify them.

You'd need someone to correct your mistakes for this to work. And that can help, sure, but you can definitely internalize the correct usage of phrases, etc, from reading and listening to it being done correctly as well. Doing something incorrectly (which you will most likely do without a highly developed model of how the language works in practice) will not help on it's own.
Yes, reading through so many responses it's clear that even on HN in 2021 we need to remind people that you are NOT Google's customer. You are the product!
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Drones are distinguishable by the fact they are lumbering, slow targets.

Most of these Turkish style drones will be null in any real fight because there is (or will be soon) tech to instantly neutralize them.

The 'smaller' drones in civilian areas - yes - that's a different story, but thankfully they have more limited range.
My neighbor gets city water and has a well for grey water. I live in Washington. Today you learned.
How many of those users have 8.8.8.8 as DNS and have no clue they pipe all their usage to google?
Both things are under the "manifest v3" umbrella. He was complaining about the deprecation of the blocking version of chrome.webRequest

The change described here is something else under the same umbrella. Not the change he was talking about. But generally, the whole of "manifest v3" will render lots of useful extensions dead in the water. Any heuristic ad blockers, things like tampermonkey, etc. If you want things like that, you'll have to move to Firefox.
A little known feature of Active Directory, added to the standard pretty early I remember
Never saw that one coming.

Weren't we expecting that executives would generously decide to take take a pay cut and shareholder dividends would be reduced so that line workers could be paid more?
> I also fear efforts to extract more tax money from them will ultimately just raise the bill for the middle class.

This is bonkers logic. You stick the middle class with the tax bill because otherwise the middle class might be stuck with the tax bill.
Deterioration of US-China (and US - Europe too) relations might have contributed to to the decision.

Also, at that time it was obvious that power electronics was going to be in high demand, especially of SiC type.
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The rise of paid search engines is inevitable. Google is clearly having issues indexing everything for free, while also dedicating huge amounts of resources to ads.
Then you can also play a tragedy-of-the-commons aquifer game with all the commercial users of water in your area. Can you afford to keep making your well deeper than theirs? There are a few towns in California engaged in the resulting endgame.
There are already developers working on making games for it:

https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1293636186045480960
Article is light on details (and the link to the study is broken) but the easy assumption is that California’s economy has more high paying jobs that can be done remotely than Michigan or New York.
Yes, but that is not necessarily a good thing in terms of carbon capture. Eg research indicates that in the tropical rainforests, lianas get the largest boost, allowing them to basically smother the tall trees. However, these store the most carbon, so the total carbon stored in the forest goes down.
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Guys, education design IS social design. It's the number one biggest feature of social design. Homeschooling is expensive. The cheapest is no school, kids stay home and hang out in the neighborhood unsupervised while parents are busy. Integrating them into workplaces is expensive, I'd argue the most expensive of all. It's a neat concept, but let's acknowledge that it is a luxury not everyone can afford.
I am not saying the suit has merit or will or won't get dismissed. I am saying Google's dominance in search and its willingness to use that to suppress/influence should make everyone want that to be a more competitive market.

It is not good that you need to pay "protection" money to Google so that your business shows up when your exact business name is searched (if your competitors buys your keywords). That is of course ok because its Google's business decision. What is less ok is that there are no new search companies making any headway in regards to market share. It is a stagnant sector of what should be a dynamic industry.

I want an endless corporate bar fight of companies trying to be better at search that works incredibly/game-changingly with any tool I have (not just Google apps).