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before pandemic started:
- I asked more money (so that I can afford live alone in high COL) they said no.
- I asked to work remotely - they sad no
- I asked for more money (but less now) they still said no.

I left. found a remote job with 25% raise. in 3 months pandemic hit and everybody started working remotely.
Yes it has everything to do with that.
I posted it to HN 6 days ago but no uptake, just reposted it if anyone wants to discuss https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27503168
Most people fail to realize this. The culture that had Ashoka as an Emperor, hosted Buddha in its soil, made breakthroughs in Mathematics and astronomy is long gone and disrupted. The condition of ower caste people were always horrible, and women were always oppressed.

But that society was also open to sex, gender identities, open, free-flowing debate, LGBTQ, alcohol, etc. that are now carnal sins in modern Hindu narrative.

What is gone is gone.
Just like you can't compare a gigabyte of cloud storage with 90% uptime to one with 99.9% uptime you can't really compare a kw/h of raw solar/wind to nuclear.

And once you install enough storage to make the 9's comparable, the solar/wind is quite a bit more expensive than the nuclear.
Lots of the push against nuclear is non-scientific. Worth pointing out that all humans reject science, not just conservatives - liberals do exactly the same thing.

This is salient to the nuclear discussion because, regardless of the science, liberals STILL push against nuclear science - even though it's the best hope for getting away from using fossil fuels that we have today.

https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1322308774351138816
No manufacturing process is perfect, so you just sort, label and price the output accordingly. This is fairly normal practice. LEDs, vegetables, even eggs...
> In contrast, all the nuclear waste generated by the world since the invention of nuclear energy can fit into a single Highschool auditorium.

Even a cursory glance at the amount of storage in a singe UK site, Sellafield would tell you that you are wrong. Unless, this is a rether exceptional high school https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-sellafield-nuclear-wa...
And that’s current battery prices, which are declining rapidly with manufacturing capacity rapidly increasing to support EV production.

Batteries will get cheaper faster than nuclear, and can be built faster with very little regulatory requirements.
You can certainly charge batteries from solar during the day, to charge your electric car at night.

The challenge for countries like the UK is saving solar generation from summer to use for heating in the winter: The capital costs are much higher, because instead of storing one day's solar output, you need to store a few hundred days' output.

Of course, nuclear is super-expensive (or at least, it is the way my country tries to build it). I don't know what the answer is.
The recycling argument against renewables is usually a strawman. Very few things can be recycled economically, so its an easy argument to trot out against something you don't like.

OTOH, if we decided that it was a priority to recycle more stuff and minimally subsidized it, suddenly a lot of stuff would become viable to recycle, including wind turbine blades and solar panels.

Solar panels are mostly silicon in two different forms: glass and substrate. Both can be recycled if it is a priority.
The Stripe Identity product is fantastic. Some of the most impressive things:

1. If you are at a desktop, there is an easy transition to using your phone to take a picture of your ID (or a selfie if that's the use case - it will match selfies with ID photos), and then complete verification on the desktop.

2. It does all the image analysis (i.e. is the ID in focus, etc.) in browser without the need for a native app.
The scale of the waste created matters. Nuclear energy is about 20% of the US load, and in the entirety of the last 50 years has generated about 100,000 tons of waste. By 2050, the US is estimated to have about 10% of its electricity come from solar panels, and for 78 million tons of waste to have been created by this. We’re essentially talking two orders of magnitude more waste being created, so even if the waste involved is less of a problem it’s far from trivial. And solar panels have plenty of toxic materials in them, so it’s not like just dumping them in a landfill is safe for the surroundings either.

If we figure out a good way to recycle solar panels, then it won’t be an issue. If we do just throw them into landfills, the waste issue with solar is only marginally better than nuclear.
Part of the problem I believe is a great many people (even the telcos) view voice calls as a dead technology on it’s last legs. Almost no one wants to invest in it, and even fewer technical people want to build a career on figuring these issues out.

If regulators and the industry saw a future in figuring this out (as compared to dealing with another hassle from a unsexy legacy technology mostly used by old folks), it would have been solved a long time ago.
The regulations are a consequence of the technology being risky if not properly regulated. This does not apply to most renewables (with the exception of dams for electricity generation)
For those downvoting, this is accurate according to his current lawsuit(s) against him. Certainly not exaggerated.
Also, the hypermodern chess style actually involves letting the opponent occupy the centre and then applying pressure from long range with pieces, looking for weaknesses in the opponent's defence.

https://www.chess.com/terms/hypermodern-chess
The reason I like working from home is that I control the environment 100%. Temperature, chair, desk, monitor, computer, etc.

At the office, they play music on a Sonos system all day long and this alone prevent me from going there because it saps my focus. I prefer working in silence. Also, there's always someone passing in front of my office looking at what I'm going and this annoys me.

So for me to return to the office would mean accepting an inferior environment that saps my productivity. What's the benefit?
1. There's no alternativeto in french.

2. With those tools, we think you'll make your choice faster even with a very long results list. I think you deserve these tools as a counterpart for your work on Alternative. We build it thinking to corporate needs.

If you are ok with Alternativeto that's fine. :)
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1) Within the next decade millions of people will own Google and Apple glasses.

2) If you have a face, strangers will be able to instantly identify you with their glasses.

3) Private information leaks more and more frequently to the public.

4) How much information do you want millions of strangers who encounter you to know about you?
I mean the gemini servers.
To the person claiming to have 10 remote jobs from someone who has multiple jobs
What regulations, specifically, do you mean?
You just get the care anyway and get a bill later. It’s all pretty weird.

My wife got a medical bill for $100k after being hospitalized with a life threatening illness years ago called and told them she’d send them $6,000. They said fine and considered it paid in full. The whole system is really bizarre.

My uncle has cancer and no insurance and is on Medicare so all his costs are covered.

My daughter is disabled and is also on Medicare, which is a weird mix of private and public where Medicare pays her primary insurance deductible so if she gets a surgery any surgery or doctors visits we might need after that in the year are going to be free.

I was unemployed when my disabled daughter was born so it didn’t cost us a dime, if I’d been employed it would have cost at least several thousand dollars. I started a job a week later but that didn’t retroactively change the cost owed.

When my disabled daughter was in the NICU for six months while a recruiting firm was technically my employer, she ruined their health insurance plan by racking up a million dollars in fees because they only had 60 or so employees, so the cost was extreme and their health insurance renewal rates were more expensive for a worse plan. I left the plan and used a Health Insurance marketplace plan instead which was cheaper and better than what their organization was offering for the following year.
I just want to change your mind. Personal experiences are the best way to do that.

This is a very safe way to try to change your mind. Actually interact with the police. If you are right, then 99.9% of your interactions with the police should be positive. That means if you go into one thousand police stations and ask about the procedure to file a complaint, you should only get a negative interaction at one of them. You are confident that this is the case.

So it should be really really easy for you to go to a police station, ask about how to file a complaint against the cops, and reassure yourself and everyone else that cops are for the most part good and helpful.
Thanks for the info. Where does your code/Gooey/Fire live? If I wanted to take a Python script to use, where do I put it with this setup?
> in almost every department.

Source? Any statistics? You're telling me that every one of the 800,000 police officers in the United States is a gang member that beats citizens on a regular basis?
You can write your backend logic in whatever language you wish with Qt or Electron too.

You also neglected to mention that Sciter is closed source which is a pretty big turn off.

> antivirus products have a nice GUI

They do??

> deal with Qt's API.

Qt's API is one of the best designed that I've ever used.
Will we be needing Snowcrash Namshrubs soon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Even if the algae comes from sea water containing mercury the resulting oil should have a lower concentration of mercury than similar fish oil would have. Heavy metals accumulate up the food chain as larger predators eat smaller ones. Algae is about as low on the food chain as you can get for sealife that humans consume.
Phones already do this though, don't they? I think Android at least allows redirecting links to apps, and I'm pretty sure Mac does as well.

Is there a bigger threat model people are worried about with extending the app schema to include normal URLs as well? Or do you just think the problem would be worse if the scope was broader?

Trying to figure out where people are drawing the line on this.
> The thing is, most people will just stay

In this case, no.
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> flexible work policy

To me at least, the vagueness of this phrase has made it untrustworthy. It can mean way too many different things.

> with only your manager's approval

I'd hope we're beyond tying your (and your family's) physical location to your boss's whim.
It's actually pretty cool (IMO; I'm biased). Drop-in browser-based user authentication that:

* Uses various sophisticated heuristics to detect real vs fake IDs.

* Matches the ID to the human face.

* Detects whether the human face is live or not.

* Dynamically requests more or less information depending on the confidence level.

It also gets better over time based on the attacks and fraud attempts that Stripe itself sees.
> Why are schools adjudicating this?

Because they are held accountable through civil liability if they commit harassment, and one manner an institution can commit harassment is by maintaining an environment in which harassment thrives even if harassment isn’t a deliberate choice by institutional officers.

> Shouldn’t the court system and police investigations?

Harassment is a civil offense, so courts are involved but not police, but courts are involved only at the point where the immediately-responsible institutions have allegedly failed; their involvement compels the institutional action, it doesn’t substitute for it.

(Some acts of harassment are also crimes, but that is a separate issue.)
The pricing link on the top doesn't refer to any pricing section on the page. Is it missing?

Edit: This seems to be an internationalization problem. I am from India. The pricing section for Indian page https://stripe.com/en-in/identity#pricing is missing so the link doesn't work.
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My first development gig in high school was at the NHMFL working with the photo microscopy guys on various projects. It was a great experience that got my development career rolling. This was the mid/late 90's. We went from developing hyper card stacks to OSHA training educational tools and testing in HTML/perl. Good times.
You're right that a kW of nuclear can't be compared to a kW of solar, because the load factors will be very different.

But power stations are contracted/paid on the basis of the energy (ie MWh) they generate. And solar and wind can produce each MWh significantly cheaper than new-build nuclear can.
In two decades we’ll be sending nuclear waste into deep space.
> server down or no internet connection, no application

Service Workers
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/servi...
Interesting. Looks like a rising trend since the last financial crises. The effect of corona seems to be limited to a dip around the beginning of the pandemic, presumably due to uncertainty. No great resignation wave though, judging by the graph.
If cost were the only thing you cared about, then no nuclear power stations would ever be built, they're simply much more expensive than gas, wind or solar. From an environmental point of view you wouldn't have nuclear either, the reason is that you can't turn it up and down as you can with gas, and so you always need to the gas to make up the difference between supply and demand. So really, nuclear is in competition with wind and solar, and nuclear will always lose out because it's so expensive.
on a tangential note: there is a bunch of tools re-written in rust, a handy non exhaustive list [1].

[1]: https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/
In general, it is not.

The people who made Gmail are either still working on Gmail, working somewhere else, or working on a pet project because they bought the proof-of-competence to choose their project. Google's management structure basically doesn't have anything that says "Hey, you were successful at X, can you work on (thing adjacent to X)?" and incentivize the employee to do that if the employee wants to do something else.

There's no reason to assume the people working on Slides, Spreadsheets, Drive, Docs, &c started particularly overlapped (though I'm sure there's consolidation these days). Similarly with GCloud; all the pieces of GCloud started as independent initiatives (App Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Compute Engine, &c). All of these started separate and only began using consolidated resources / providing consolidated UX frontends and APIs as they were forced to by a management chain ad-hoc'd together after Google decided "Cloud" was a space they wanted to do business in as an organized front.
https://stripe.com/docs/identity/verification-checks

> Document checks verify the authenticity of government-issued identity documents. Stripe uses a combination of machine learning models, automated heuristic analysis and manual reviewers to verify the authenticity of hundreds of different document types.

> Selfie checks look for distinguishing biological traits, such as face geometry, from a photo ID and a picture of your user’s face. Stripe then uses advanced machine learning algorithms to ensure the face pictures belong to the same person.

> ID Number checks provide a way to verify a user’s name, date of birth, and national ID number. Stripe uses a combination of third-party data sources such as credit agencies or bureaus, utility or government-issued databases and others to verify the provided ID number.
So you just need to print physical (fake) id and claim to be in Europe to get around all three.
That's because most managers don't do due diligence and proper checks on the remote teams. I've worked with teams from Poland & Romania that have been far more productive & professional than some of my colleagues here in Finland.
I somewhat suspect that it is not despite the transition plan, but rather because of it, given Lee's demonstrated vindictiveness to any community or project that dares to state their intentions to leave "his" network.
Nuclear energy, in the current actual available and usable forms, means that you have a system which never ever can fail, or it will create issues for a big part of the world for the next thousands or even ten thousand years.
That means neither in the plants itself nor in the waste storage systems. Under ideal circumstances and change in society so that all live together peaceful happy, and we're incredible lucky with natural disasters of any form in the vicinity of plants and storage systems, then yes, we may even get away with it. But history tells us this is very unlikely to be the case once politics, real world behaviour of climate, tectonic plate movement, ... is involved.
IMO it's really egoistic to risk screwing over that many future generations.

E.g., during the Cold War both, West and East Germany choose an unfit place (some leaky old salt mine) for their long term storage of nuclear waste, overriding geological expert opinions, just as it was deemed to screw over the other side more in case of leakage, really nice result when then merging again into one country, basically screwed them self double time.

It may be that modern systems are much safer than those decades ago, but 1. those built decades ago are still running and 2. the risk factor cannot just be the probability of an incident, it needs to factor in possible impact and duration of said impact, and when doing so (current) nuclear just stinks.

Don't get me wrong, fusion reactors would be great to have and nuclear power itself can avoid high-carbon emitting power plants (albeit the mining of fissile material isn't exactly done in a green-way either), but the real risk+impact is just brushed over by the lobbyist.

Note, that there's actual astroturfing and greenwashing effort going on with nuclear[0][1], the amount of such posts on HN or reddit + the commenters jumping in to defend this stuff is always astounding.

[0]: https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://ro....

[1]: https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.900854928...
I think you misunderstand my argument, and actually are reinforcing it with this comment.

If I take effort to go and visit a park then I get some kind of value from it. I get to relax in nature, see some pretty trees, have a space to play on a playground, etc. Those uses are evident even if I personally prefer concrete and steel, have pollen allergies or don't have kids.

This project sounds more like a single tree on a tiny island. You can go and sit under it, but you need to swim out to the island. It has no low branches, so you can't do anything except sit under it. It's scraggly, so it doesn't provide any shade, so sitting under it isn't very pleasant in the hot sun. Oh, and no boats are allowed on the lake, so you have to swim the half-mile each way.

It's the opposite of your story, the only possible reason someone could have in visiting the island is to log the tree, or just to say they've been there.

And my argument is more about the practicality. Why am I going to go from writing my blog about how fluffy alpacas are on the HT(TP|ML) web to writing it on Gemini? What do I get for my effort and for the restrictions that are now placed on my writing?

I could appreciate a text file on my local disk about as much as a gemtext page because nobody will see it. Network effects are really real.

Using Gemini is building an enormous mountain, and the only reason to climb it is "because it's there".
Made it halfway through, but it keeps on rambling how this senator said this and that member of the Sierra club that. Is there a TL;DR?
It’s not clear to me how you can detect a fake ID with machine learning. A persons appearance can change drastically - seems intractable
> The professor told me that if he put the magnet down with the axis in the vertical direction and pulsed it with an iron nail standing under the magnet that the nail would reach escape velocity and never come back down to earth

Hmm that sounds suspiciously like the descriptions of the systems that are rumored to operate and power UFO’s. Research “electrogravitics”.
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I did. I took a year and sailed. Sold my house and used some savings. I couldn't have done it if I had kept my house though. I was mid 30's at the time (40 now). I don't work in the valley though, I just do data and analytic design for corporations so finding a new job only took a week when I moved back to Columbus, OH after sailing.

While I did figure out I didn't love single handing a sailboat long term I don't regret any part of that year. I came back significantly happier than I was.
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I’ve read a lot about Solana and have considered trying to get a Validator up on their testnet.

I think the concern about centralization of the Solana chain is a real one. I don’t know what to say about the coin distribution in general and frankly that is my biggest concern with Sol. But in regards to validator centralization, I wonder how many validators would be required to assuage these concerns. Thousands? Tens of thousands? Currently there are 632 validators on mainnet Solana with the largest stake holding I see close to 5% (1). Compare that to the ETH mining pools where the top two pools almost have a majority of mining hashrate (2). I’m not trying to make a “whatabout” argument, just pointing out the relative decentralization in comparison to current Eth network.

With regards to the eth2 network, the comparison is a bit more straightforward. If we do a calc of the market cap / #ofvalidators, Sol has about 16M$ market cap per validator. I see 172,920 Eth2 validator deposits (3) so if the Merge happened right now, each validator would represent about 1.7M$ (=300B / 172920). So in this highly oversimplified model, Eth2 has about 10x as many validators as Sol.

This of course means nothing about real world outcomes as you could imagine large staking pools forming and the situation looking more like the BTC or ETH PoW chains with a few large groups dominating either Sol or Eth2

Anyway, for me, that’s actually kind of reassuring. Solana wants to push out more validators but block times are so fast that growing the network has some real technical challenges. If they can overcome those challenges, they’ll be reasonably decentralized with regards to the number of validators, at least compared to ETH.

1. https://solanabeach.io/validators
2. https://etherscan.io/stat/miner?range=7&blocktype=blocks
3. https://etherscan.io/txsBeaconDeposit?ps=50&sort=depositvalu...
Supply and demand as well as the local market factors. Poland is poorer than France so a €40K car in France is relatively cheaper than in Poland even if the PLN price is nothing more than a direct conversion.

So fewer people buy new cars and they keep the longer hence the higher prices in the 2nd hand market. Also I don’t know if it’s still the case but Poland used to import 2nd hand cars from Western Europe so if that practice is still going on there is likely still a reseller premium on 2nd hand cars.
For Gmail, the only thing that works for me is the regular Google Takeout. POP3 takes months to download all messages, IMAP is... well, IMAP and not e-mail archiving protocol. Fortunately Takeout exists so that you can just download everything to a safe place and free some space.
The nice thing about "remote work" is you can choose who you want to spend that 40+ hours a week with.
Why not $66?