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Backwards compatibility in the javascript world isn't great. If you stop updating for a couple of years, half your libraries have incompatible API changes. Then something like a node or UI framework update comes along and makes you update them all at once to work on the new version, and you're rewriting half your application just to move to a non-vulnerable version of your core dependency.
Ha, I always wondered what HFT tax returns looked like.

Of course, the IRS cannot and will not check every transaction. But I do wonder if they actually verify some subset of the reported transactions, or would this only happen in an audit?
The solution was, and always been, to have someone review every commit to the libraries that your app uses, and raise red flags for security vulnerabilities and breaking changes to your application.

Oh, boy, I would love to work for a company that has someone like that. Know of any? At the least, I would love for a company to just give me time to review library changes with any sort of detail.
It seems they're just planting a flagpole, since no one else had done it yet, and calling for people who are interested to regroup under that label.

Why not. Sometimes it really just takes a name and a place for people who have common goals to work together.
Just because everyone thinks rice/corn/potato is the problem-solver...hint it's not.
"The approach you describe : open / close / open a little / close back a bit more according to the situation is exactly how we need to handle things. "

The actions seem to follow this pattern not because of some well balanced and thought through strategy, but more the governments constant shifting attempt to move past the current mistake/scandal. It's actually quite amazing how effective this is in terms of public perception.

Just because it's possible to have a reasonable plan that looks something like "open / close / open a little / close back a bit more" doesn't mean that is what is going on. As previously touched on, a chaotic constantly moving "get out of the latest mess" can also.

I could give examples such as the initial 'herd immunity' plan. There is also the recent revelations from internal government documents that show the a pandemic was identified as the biggest risk to the uk from 2016 (ie the governments 'who could hanve known' ploy is empty). Or that it was recommended early on that elderly patients who had covid be returned to old peoples homes.

Leaving all that aside - look at the results: the UK has one of the highest death per 100k people in the world.
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Interesting that his most common feedback is to use simpler language and write shorter pieces; personally I've felt he does very well at using accessible language but is handcuffed by the intrinsic inaccessibility of the topic to people without knowledge in the cybersecurity/privacy domain. This article, I think, is a good illustration of his abilities there.
> Can't disagree. Spreadsheets are incredibly powerful tools and the barrier to entry is very low.

Agree!

> know for sure in advance that the application is going to outgrow the spreadsheet very soon and/or immediately

Hard to agree, what does "outgrow" mean here? Spreadsheets can handle very big use cases, with lots of data and still be useful, if you take care when building it (similarly to programming)

> If you are building a new microservice that will serve a million customers per day, don't make the mockup in a spreadsheet.

Hard disagree. Mockups are for prototyping/experimentation, so it hardly matters how you do them, as long as you throw them away before starting the main implementation (this throwing away tends to be the hardest part).

Spreadsheets are amazing prototyping tools!
> You would be really surprised at how much of one's knowledge sits on assumptions and believes that are not well founded

I would not, I am perfectly aware of it, just like I'm aware I'm not able to go through walls.

And now what ? Knowing it doesn't change the fact I have to go through the door anyway.

The best we can do is all we can do, there is nothing else, your point is kinda moot.
It's not necessarily "ridiculous".

AFAIK in US is typical to change SWE job every few years (those 2-3 years indeed). Those who succeed in doing this consistently (I'm not implying one should, or not) ganerally end up with a high salary, a higher position, and more satisfaction (assuming that change give them satisfaction).

Parent's observation may be a reasonable explanation when looked into context - the time to move on arrives after 2-3 years, and if there's no strong incentive, devs will start to feal uneasy, and move on.
There's some research on low testosterone caused by plastic materials. I heard of doctors being able to detect plastic in a baby's blood stream.

I think the reason this is not as public as it should be, is that males are sensitive when it comes to the "mannliness hormone", Testosterone. Thus, there's probably a high number of unreported cases.

Some symptoms are lower sex drive and libido.
If instead of 40k options vesting over 4 years they plan to give you 10k options vesting over 1 year for the next 4 years, it's not great for you because the strike price in subsequent years may be higher (if it's significantly lower in future years, your company would hopefully cancel and regrant your earlier options at the lower price).

Same thing can happen with RSUs, those are usually granted based on price. 4 year vesting of $100k worth of RSUs could be worth significantly more than $25k worth of RSUs granted with a one year vest each year for 4 years.
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Whatever you may think about Snowden, the stuff he does and writes is pretty thought provoking.
What's not stable about your population safely and comfortably declining over decades? Low crime and low unrest seems like metrics worth optimizing for. If increased immigration were to increase those metrics, what is the value? Economic growth that has proven unnecessary?
Good site.

I recommend also for general stats:

https://tradingeconomics.com/

The 10 year German bond is here:

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/government-bond-yield
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I changed it to say "Launch YC" instead of "Launch HN" this time round, for reasons related to what you're saying. Doesn't seem to have landed though :)

Another thought I had was "Meet S21". Better? It would free up a char! "Meet YC S21" is too long.

"YC S21" would be the shortest. That is, something like "YC S21: Foo, Bar, Baz" with a word or phrase for each startup. But I'm not sure if that would convey that it's a launch thread.

Another possibility: "YC Launch" instead of "Launch YC".

Our original idea was "Meet the Batch" but that's way too long.
>That does not provide one with a happy person.

The situation sucks, but I fail to see why he should be compensated by uber. Should your employer compensate you if your car got stolen on your way to work?

>A contractor who can't run a good risk analysis on his job because the company that hired him has a habit of handing out NDAs to anyone who ever ran into trouble while working for them.

Are crime statistics not publicly available in his city? Suppose uber puts a disclaimer during the application that there are 0.1 car jackings per million miles driven (this is an overestimate. the national average seems to be 0.011, based on https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M12MTVUSM227NFWA and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carjacking#Prevalence_and_stat...). Are significant amounts of uber drivers going to be dissuaded by that statistic?

> Now I am not a lawyer, but could that be spun into dropping at least some of the blame at Uber?

Not a lawyer either, but "you're responsible because you didn't tell them about the risks" isn't a concept I know of in tort law.
> Since when is Texas a pejorative?

The Norwegians use the word texas to mean crazy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34622478
Yes, this is correct. The technical term for this is an "in-kind" transfer, and while it might occasionally allow for things to slip through the cracks, it certainly hasn't stopped capital gain reporting requirements from being both feasible and largely effective.
I agree with this, but if you merely throw money at the economy without resolving supply chain issues, (which is the case we have now) - we get inflation. Because it's more money chasing after fewer (available) goods.

The previous US administration basically created supply chain problems with it's Hooverian trade policies. (ie. doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Nope. We got the same results we got in the late 1920's + COVID).

It's going to be hard to unwind that. I think the central bank has done a pretty good job making arguments that sustained low interest rates are a necessary evil. Unfortunately, the government (ie. aggregate of congress, senate, SCOTUS, and POTUS) are having a hard time swallowing that we need a looser fiscal policy. All because of political idiocy.

I feel like Keynes should be taught to all children in primary school.
I was looking for a solid argument, since I am not able to provide one. So far there are none presented here either.

Are we really going to justify this just by "it is against the law"? So many things are against the law, so many ancient laws demonstrate the inability of humans to create the absolute corpus of ethical behaviours™.
I try to walk phoneless more and more just to zone out entirely. Free mind holidays, no login required
when I visit a church, they ask everyone for a little money so they can keep the lights on and do interesting things once in a while. nobody expects the church to KYC everyone who puts a dollar in the collection plate. why should that be any different if the meeting takes place on a website about something other than religion? I donate cryptocurrency to forums and microblogging services to help them keep the lights on. we should be treated the same even if we don't believe in god. the owner does not need to ask for permission from anybody or depend on an intermediary to accept the money and they do not need my information. if you don't see why this is of benefit to someone then I suggest you try to operate a forum and go through the trouble to make ends meet.
And for what it's worth, AOE2 is still going strong. With the remaster and continuing flow of useful DLC, I still spend quite a bit of time playing.
> One former employee told Vice that “the whole idea behind Protect is that you could convince people to pay for the product once you’ve gotten them to the highest point of anxiety you can possibly get them to.”

This should have been in the lede.
Yeah. Too much noise to listen to. Too much signal to ignore.

Over a few weeks, it might be possible to figure out which channels are just noise (for your purposes) and mute only those. But that's only a partial solution...
>But the Democrats' solution is to defund local PDs

I think you should distinguish "democrats" the vast vast vast majority of which are conservative (in the sense of conserve), from far-left radicals.

Even among the far-left, the idea of actually defunding police is essentially offered only by a fraction of pseudo-revolutionaries.
Thanks for the article.

I use this extension (and the app) regularly, which activates as soon as I visit Amazon in a container tab. In addition to providing in-depth statistics, features like alerts via Telegram have helped me hunt down bargains. I have noticed the increase in network requests and bandwidth when the tab is active, using basic tracking via Resource Monitor (W10). However, I can easily block it via uMatrix/uBO, if required. In this case, it is a trade-off, which can be justified.

Also, Tracker Control (Android) for Keepa app reports blocking just two trackers Google Crashlytics and Google Firebase Analytics -- so it is not as bad other apps.

I have used CamelCamelCamel in the past, which was more egregious and aggressive in tracking users, but don't know how it fares today.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/
Depreciation and thus CAPEX over time is definitely a real charge, and so is stock based compensation from the point of view of the shareholder (think of the largest in history stock grants to a single person, that is the legendary Elon's stock grants; to quote a famous show - "this guy fucks"). It's not easy to beat the accuracy of GAAP income unless you know the company / sector in great detail and can introduce custom modifications. Going "yolo adjusted-EBIDTA stonks" and simply removing charges to increase "income" is rather optimistic/stupid.

But yeah, it is starting to look okay if not good. I was (well technically still am, but the position is tiny now) one of the shorts in TSLA, but I am done with that, didn't quite work :)
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Now that it's (clearly) catching on, I can see Google and/or Samsung re-branding their Pay apps to something else (maybe Google goes back to Wallet?) and including ID capabilities.

Personally while I like the idea of digital ID, never losing your cards, almost-impossible to get stolen, I don't like the idea that if someone (i.e. a LEO) needs to see my information, I might need to hand them my device, and in a some jurisdictions could be considered granting consent to a search. I also don't like the idea of what happens if your phone is damaged or the battery dies and it contains your only identification.
Kinda answered my own question with some searching - looks like p type has lots of electrons, n type has lots of holes, and graphene oxide (GO) makes an excellent and simple to use n type material.

Graphene can be modified by changing its topology to be p or n, but GO is n by default. Do electron and hole features have to match in these constructions?
Weird how their dedication to HR practices are highlighted but nothing about making high quality games that people enjoy. Is that just supposed to be a given?

When these big companies start to get older they always seem to prioritize the organization itself instead of the value they provide to customers.
Michael will be in charge of big picture stuff, and Jim^H^H^H Jen will deal with more of the day to day.
Yes plenty of YC companies hire internationally. Usually we dont start doing it until we're a reasonable size and it may be from only certain regions or timezones.

My company hires internationally, plenty of others do too, and as someone else commented above, many YC companies are completely outside the US.
I like the idea that you can make a clipboard key that displays what's inside :)
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So strange to me that when UBI is discussed, pervasive automation is right around the corner to pay for it, but when birth rate decline is discussed, the only solution on the table is open borders. I wonder why that could be?
For all the high class jargon, interest rates are nothing but a game of hot potato, with the potato being bad credit to low growth corps. If people stopped pretending this is 4d chess, and call it like it is, maybe someday it could be fixed.
I just wish the US never got involved in this mess. It was a massive mistake that led to numerous downstream negative consequences for the US and its people.

The "hard left" sees Israel for what it always has been: A settler/colonial state. Israel will continue to push propaganda to bury this but the truth can never be erased.
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How does pay go up?

You assume there's an infinite profit margin available for decreasing.

Many industries operate at a few percent profit.
> So this is awesome on the part of Apple, but what about Android?

But what if I have neither iOS, nor Android? Why must the government/universities support the duopoly?
There are many examples of a "hello world" for event-driven architecture, but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of the "sinatra/express" of event-driven architecture, a minimalistic foundation to build a customized platform using the approach. Things like schema migration layer would nicely onto something like this.

Most event-driven systems are big company projects with a lot of legacy requirements and integration complexity, or they are narrowly tailored and hard to generalize.

I think that a simple template event-driven system that includes a small number of libraries and does something simple but interesting would be a big help.

I've been wanting to create an open source event-driven e-commerce system but haven't had the time.
My parents does in fact talk about BW printing, hence as do I.

And I own a Brother inkjet. It was the same deal as usual.

I don't know about your experience, so can't really argue.
Upvoted for the opposing observations.

I have taken KTX but I have not taken (non-subway) rail in Japan. The KTX train I took was similar in quality to German inter-city rail or American regional rail lines. That is to say, it wasn't that special.

The air quality issues are a huge pain for sure.
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I joined one of the FAANG companies 2 years ago. I noticed that amoongsr my team I’m dairy a high performer (quoted directly by my manger and peers). I also know there is at least one person who causes more confusion than clarity (our cross functional partner manager have said this).
I feel like I was under-leveled when I joined the company.

I know I can interview elsewhere and get paid more.

But I really love the work, roadmaps/vision, this team, business unit, and really do believe in the company’s future.

What’s the best way for me to help my manager get me the best possible compensation increase in upcoming review? I have asked for feedback and whether I’m on-track to be promoted. They’ve said yes and I’m reasonably confident I’m at the next level. What do I do to make sure I communicate my value as being at the upper end or median point of that level.
Studying algebraic geometry back in 1980, I nearly dropped out of grad school: Attempting to solve century-old problems with century-old methods stopped making sense to me. Then a friend and I had this vision that algebraic geometry should be computerized. Our computer algebra system "Macaulay" inspired "Cocoa" and "Singular".

"SageMath" is an amazing project. It is best understood as an operating system, that aspires to gradually replace each program it hosts.

Would you credit work you did in Photoshop to your MacOS or Windows operating system? Computational algebraic geometry in SageMath is handled by Singular. The Singular team has dedicated their lives to this project; I cringe whenever I go to a talk and their work is credited to SageMath. This article makes no mention of Singular.
/self-plug/

If you are looking for something that works, today: There is rust-musl-builder: https://hub.docker.com/r/ekidd/rust-musl-builder/

While I didn't make rust-musl-builder, I make and (though a bit busy lately) maintain rust-starter (https://github.com/rust-starter/rust-starter)

Look inside the docker directory, and in the Just file. You can generate an alpine linux docker image/container that has only your program and any dependencies statically linked.

This should, in theory, run your application in any cloud or linux server that has Docker support. Your image should also be very small (a few dozen megabytes at most).
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The point was that the Carnot efficiency of using a thermal buffer to store mechanical energy cancels out between storing and releasing.

Yes, you don't have a Carnot-cycle in practice, and the thermal buffer likely won't offer isotherm storage, either.
But you still can't use Carnot-cycle efficiency to determine some sort of round-trip efficiency of this thermal-based storage device with mechanical input/output ports.
> My only question is China apparently doesn’t think it need foreign investment any more?

China hasn't really needed more foreign investment for quite a while. They get plenty of foreign capital from international trade.

What they needed was foreign IP, which they acquired by forcing foreign companies into joint ventures if they wanted access to the Chinese market. Not to mention state-sponsored industrial espionage.

At this point it's safe for any foreign investor to assume that any investment proposal in China that doesn't involve the transfer of IP to China is a scam.