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That's exactly what unions do. They consider what a reasonable salary for their members are, usually in long and meticulous negotiations with the employers. They are not idiots. They know that if you drive labor prices too high then there are fewer jobs to go around. It's about striking a balance where businesses get to be profitable and expansive, while some of that gets redistributed to workers.

The reason that we don't want the government to set minimum wages and benefits is because that's too crude a tool. The best trade-offs, sacrifices and share of spoils varies, and having the unions of different sectors negotiate with the employers (themselves usually organized in unions) is that you can optimize a lot more so that everyone wins.
He was assassinated for his role in leading the Iranian nuclear weapons program, not for his scientific achievements.
I love ebikes, but I agree further regulation is needed to limit the amount of power these bikes can have rather than just limiting speed like laws do right now. I have asthma and climbing big hills next to a bunch of cars (which happens a lot where I live due to lots of hills) is very difficult for me to do. It's because of this that I would use an ebike even if it were only able to carry me up said hills at 10mph (slow but still fast enough to be stable) while avoiding giving me an asthma attack.
I doubt this body has more than about sixty years in it at best, but I would certainly like to be able to continue to make money off of it while I'm still alive. Especially if my body starts to fall apart to the point where I can no longer make new work.
What makes the Russian videos credible?
It took me a couple decades to come around on the things my parents forced me to participate in when I was a kid.

So to that end I'd say chess. It would be terrible to grow up hating programming.
Ideals are nice, but realpolitik sneaks up on you and you do have to do what they would do, else you are going to suffer more then the moral guilt.

War is war. There is nothing nice about it. All these these morals are only carried out 'because you can afford them' not because you have to.

At one time, in war, one spared enemy commanders, that was nice for when the upper ranks were from the elite and you ransomed them off or traded. Today, this is not the case. I don't see a lot of daylight between these two things.
Makes sense. If you insist on living in NYC for any reason, then going into the office is probably more comfortable than living (and working) in a cramped NYC apartment.

Though it's pretty ironic that virtually all of the software Google uses and creates facilitates virtual work, yet they insist on an in-person setting.
We don't have a sufficiently robust explanation, backed up by evidence for it's accuracy.
Most of us can't fathom how many employees companies like Google and Apple have.

Even if 70% (made up number) of Apple or Google or Microsoft employees work from home 100% of the time, they'd still all need multiple $2.1 Billion office spaces.

If you consider a typical Manhattan condo to cost $500,000 (in reality, probably higher), multiply that price by 2,000 employees and you've got a $1 billion space. I know it's flawed napkin math, but if that's anywhere near the ballpark, 2,000 is not a lot of employees in a single office for a company like Google.

Don't forget that real estate is also an investment vehicle. Even with upkeep and expenses (which are tax-advantaged for any business), large companies like Google have no problem becoming a landlord, and a company with a long-term strategy is going to consider NYC real estate to be a safe investment.
I'll have to try it out over a cool weekend. Thanks!

Needless to say it'd be me making them, and not a bagel making GF, so... the jealousy still stands ;)
Iran is a special case for Israel. Israel isn't directly threatened by Pakistan having nuclear weapons.
I disagree with their politics and think it's unprofessional to conduct business through a personal twitter account made up of partisan political retweets regardless of the politics, however I don't think it's necessary for you to repost this person's twitter account after they removed it from this thread, it will only lead to unnecessary harassment. I hope that you or the moderators remove it.
It happens, only the probability of hitting someone-something human is almost nothing.

Years ago,while I was teaching the starts to kids on the mountain at night one of them asked for a bright star on the sky. We looked at the star and it became bigger until it was a big ball of fire so bright that we had to look away.

For two or three seconds, it became as bright as in daylight, but shadow moving ultrafast.

Then nothing,it became dark again. No sound, no nothing.

Nobody talked about that in the news. Most people were sleep. It must be normal.
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Yeah it really has been a tank for me as well. The waterproofing would be really nice.
Just bought Thinking in Systems thanks to this. Appreciate the effort, nice tool.
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Yet it’s ok for the US and Israel to have nuclear weapons, but others can’t have them?
Much easier to be human if you don’t run the risk of being turned into a smoking crater at a moments notice.
Sorry, that stuff was already set up when I got here
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Yeah, schools and weddings are the true enemy of democracy.
Google's advanced security is a good example of an actual implementation of fido2 where they've had to deal with real world threats and device usage. They require multiple fido2 devices (for dealing with the lost/damaged problems).

Compromise of FIDO2 devices is particularly interesting though. Specialized hardware like a yubikey rather than software based fido2 might help here, but that still leaves theft as a wide open vector. If theft is a risk for your use case, https://www.yubico.com/blog/getting-a-biometric-security-key... could be an interesting solution or using secure hardware on your phone behind a lockscreen. Also having a password (in addition to webauthn) might be good enough for you to slow down an attacker enough for you to disable your compromised device (using another fido2 device to authenticate).
> headcount at Google NYC has always been tight,

I think you mean desk space at NYC has always been tight? Assuming so, yes can confirm.
It seems that this upload gets the pages wrong, but there's a rescan that is right.

Compare: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n303/... and https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08-rescan/pag...

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n349/... and https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08-rescan/pag...

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n363/... and https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08-rescan/pag...

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n231/... and https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08-rescan/pag...
I suppose I still think you're an entitled asshole, then, unless you are also working hard to make a world where everyone doesn't have to come up with money for rent and groceries on a constant basis. Fair enough.
Is it a pure bet, or part of a strategy? With their control of the YouTube algorithm, search result suggestions, Google News curation, and dominance of ads, Google doesn't lack for ability to manipulate public opinion.

Edit: if I were Google, and I existed in the present absence of serious regulation, I would wield the ability to manipulate opinion in the favour of my business strategy. I'm not sure if that's an offensive notion, and that's why this comment is controversial?
It's large and designed to the point that no, it isn't, but interestingly, it usually replaces a lot of glue systems.
This is a huge point. They aren’t increasing space or headcount, mainly changing the cost structure
Sorry to be the “actually…” guy here, but actually… what the article describes is ISOMORPHIC server side rendering, which is very different from traditional SSR + client side dynamic behaviors.

The fact that the same code can render the initial static page AND the dynamic client interactive UI is the point here.
What is your reasoning for that? He’s a clear military target who commanded attacks on American and Israeli forces and their allies. What lends him immunity?
Yes, there are actually quite a few. In general this is called "carrier aggregation" although this is a generic term and there are many ways in which this is done. I find it more simple to think of this as an analogy, two (or many) internet links are represented by two lines of people trying to enter a doorway. The router software acts as a coordinator for the lines. One method says, take one person from the Verizon line, one from the ATT line (round robin). Another method says, check how fast people move in the lines and prioritize the line that moves faster. There are other ways, some even take into account the type of traffic that you are performing and prioritize differently, some use the secondary links as backups when the primary actually fail (I suppose this is more failover than carrier aggregation).

I believe for Cradlepoint routers, you need a router that has two modems like the one I mention above. There are other brands though, I believe Peplink makes a mobile router that supports carrier aggregation as well. I worked for a company called VeloCloud that designed an SDWAN router that did a complex version of this for businesses but they don't make a mobile router. They did some cool stuff like Dynamic Multi Path Optimization where at the packet level, they could do some proprietary routing and achieve some pretty amazing improvements with packet loss, jitter, and ISP rate limiting.
Here I propose that the construction industry is about to enter into an unprecedented period of productivity growth spurred by four forces: computer vision, ubiquitous sensors, venture capital and the growth of platforms. Would love to hear opinions, dissents, and anything you all think would be relevant.
Trying to imagine how this would feel different from a video game if you didn't know better and coming up pretty short.
Amazon has shrunken down the bezels on the new Paperwhite. Given that the bezels are the primary place that you generally hold a Kindle, we’ll have to see the new device in person to gauge how that change works, although generally smaller bezels are a good thing in the tech world.

In my experience thin bezels are a liability in an e-reader. The thin bezel means I often accidentally touch the screen and it advances (or goes back) to another page.
Companies like Google, MS, Apple, etc., make huge amounts of money, and they need to put some of that money in tax advantaged investments. Real estate for offices is one of the easiest ways to do this. They can also use this to say that they're investing billions in the US, when in fact the investment is just on existing buildings.
I think a lot would depend on whether the target was approaching you in a near linear straight line, or traveling sideways across your field of view in azimuth.

As described in the NY times article it sounds like the gun was set up to shoot straight down the road into the windshield of the approaching car.
The main way to do pointer indirection (without self-modifying code) is to use the zeropage-specific indirect addressing modes, which use a 2-byte address stored in zero page as a pointer to a byte in memory. (And on the original 6502, the only available addressing modes for this forced you to use the X or Y register as an index, so you had to set it to 0 first!)
I remember visiting tumblr.com once a long time ago and they were actually serving the index.php file as a download rather than rendering the homepage. It was indeed a several thousand long file of spaghetti code.
Buy low. Sell high.
We don't know for sure, but the article seems to have some clues.

> Green: But are there shared characteristics along lines of education? Do people share a certain progressive political outlook?

> Kallman: They tend to be at least college-educated. And they tend to be, certainly, pro-choice. For the most part, they’re on the left of the political spectrum. They’re certainly, on the whole, younger. Our house parties have been not exclusively white, but they’re pretty white.

Maybe a pro-choice political propaganda. Wild guess: Planned Parenthood? With marketing, everything is on sale.
I have high hopes for PineNote by PINE64.
A lot more than a reader. They're promising a lot, hope they deliver. Some might not like the large size, or lack of robustness you find with dedicated ereaders like Kobos.
Unheard of no, but it’s somewhat like suggesting every actor should aim for Hollywood A lister compensation because the jobs are out there. The top 1% compensation in any field tends to be wildly outside the norm and it keeps going up from there.
Help me understand:

- water with hexavalent chromium in it is toxic

- these bacteria eat it

- ???

- now the water is non-toxic (or, at least, less toxic)

Why aren't you now drinking water with microbes that have hexavalent chromium in them? Did they bacteria break it down or convert it into different forms that are less toxic? Are the bacteria removed from the water before you drink it (and if so, what becomes of the toxins at that point)?
It just seems so dumb and a waste to kill people like that without pretty much any shock or scrutiny.

I value intelligence, and people who aren't demonstrating intelligence get to live through the most absurd circumstances. So it is really disturbing for me to see these meticulous targeted assassinations that at best only serves to delay the nuclear program, and at worst accelerates the irradiated glass theme park they're trying to avoid.
I rinsed and left an old kindle to dry for a couple of weeks and it was fine.
I don't understand your comment. Initially you suggest that this was not so bad considering the other things they have done... suggesting that their standards were different to some. Then you go on to say they have the same moral standards as _person_on_street_. This seems contradictory?
I don't think this argument holds much substance. FOSS developers are absolutely not lost without the source - they just share the fruit of their labor under FOSS licenses. In fact there's a good chunk of work being done black-box style: WINE, many of the drivers, game modding, hell here's a random FOSS binary patcher[0]. So FOSS developers don't seem to be lost without the source.

[0] https://github.com/secretsquirrel/the-backdoor-factory
This is space they already lease, so it's not just a speculative real estate play.

If they plan on continuing to use the space long term, then the total cost of renting it might be higher than owning it.

To the extent that investors use EBITDA to evaluate stocks, getting rent off the books is probably good, too.
I still don't understand the purpose of Product Hunt - and I don't mean this in a sarcastic way. I'm hoping someone can tell me where it fits into the ecosystem vs. what I think my role is.

I buy software, as a customer, both in my personal life as a consumer and also in my role at a tech company where I'd buy more B2B software. I don't use PH as a resource, but I hear about it a lot. What's it's role in the startup ecosystem / what am I missing out on?
I believe civilian drone casualties are due largely to mistaken target identification. E.g. the recent incident in Afghanistan was exactly of this type. There are also stories of A-10 pilots shooting civilians by mistake

Guns only help if you've got the right person to start with.
Hi HN! I'm Matt, author of Framer Motion and Popmotion. Today I'm launching my side-project, Motion One.

It's a new animation library built on the Web Animations API (WAAPI). I actually started this project as a book, but repeatedly found myself explaining some odd concepts (like fill mode) that I felt quite strongly that users shouldn't have to care about. I also discovered the state of WAAPI's implementation is very inconsistent across browsers despite green lights across caniuse [1].

Motion One makes WAAPI easier to use by presenting it with a simple API that also smoothes over browser inconsistencies [2].

It also adds all the features you'd expect from a modern JS animation library, like timelines, independent transform animations, and soon, springs.

Being built on WAAPI, it can create hardware accelerated animations. And it does all this in a bundlesize that is half that of Anime.js and less than a fifth of Greensock [3].

Feedback, questions and suggestions are welcome!

[1] [https://caniuse.com/web-animation](https://caniuse.com/web-a...
[2] [https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements](https://motion...
[3] [https://motion.dev/guides/feature-comparison](https://motion...

Edit: Just seen I was jumped the gun on my own Show HN by bpierre :)
The Chinese government was the one who triggered this crisis (by their decision to not extend a financial accommodation), so it'll work out, but whom it works out best for is likely not going to be foreign investors. This is an orchestrated deleveraging of bad debt campaign.

"That is why Chinese regulators have decided to have a showdown with creditors over Evergrande. By convincing lenders that they will no longer stand behind large Chinese borrowers, they are trying to transform the country’s financial system by making Chinese lenders more reluctant to fund nonproductive investment projects. These projects generate what Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in an important recent essay for Qiushi (the leading official theoretical journal of the Chinese Communist Party) disparaged as “fictional growth,” in contrast to the “genuine growth” he called for. [1]"

[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/85391

Further reading on China's "Three Red Lines" policy:

https://www.ubs.com/global/en/asset-management/insights/chin...
All my questions are about tech infrastructure. Does the location of this property have anything to do with proximity to NYC's internet exchange points? Will this building need that kind of access? If so, why? Is there infrastructure is already in place to build out high-volume connections? Are there maps and diagrams of that infrastructure; can we see them?
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Just look to Kmart? Somehow the entire company sold for less than their real estate was worth and the entire deal was paid for by the acquiring company taking out loans against their real estate.

Another example would be Sun, I think Oracle sold off their Boulder campus for nearly what they paid for the entire company.
I don't see that at all. A hybrid culture sure, but all remote work? I think it's way too early to tell if companies like this will end up with a few marquee offices in places like NYC, SF, Berlin that employees who want to can go to while everyone else can work remote. I'm more ambivalent now but in my early 20's I definitely wanted to be in an office in a big city where I was with lots of colleagues in an energizing environment.
We're surpassing the fatalities by number, but the U.S. population is greater than it was in 1918. Percentages would be a better comparison, but I guess that doesn't create the desired (sensationalist) effect.
100%. Not dissimilar to when US carry out drone strikes randomly in Iran or send in marines to catch Bin Laden, in complete violation of sovereignty.
If you truncate a UTF-8 string mid-character, then can’t that sequence swallow the next byte, such as <, which would break XML parsing completely?
My understanding from the text was that McDonald's had to abide by sectoral pay regulations, so the they're paying the minimum wage but Denmark has a much finer grained approach to that minimum?

I didn't read that they'd strike until a specific pay number was reached from that page, just that McDonald's had to operate under the same conditions as their same industry peers
I googled "Katamari Dama-C++" to see what it was all about and found your post from 2014 [1]. That is impressive commitment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7315163
Also, we've got to stop assuming a conspiracy and bad intent all the time. Whenever underlying information changes, and the experts must therefore change their guidance, people come out of the woodwork to declare "See! Mr. Expert changed his mind! He was obviously lying before. Is he lying now? What can we believe with all these liars lying?"
USB C and colour temperature? I gave up waiting for this and ordered the Paperwhite with a leather cover a couple of months ago on special. I had the strongest feeling I'd regret not waiting longer, and it has thus been proven correct.

Have been using Kindles since the DXG, which I still have.
I think 25 km/h is not all that fast in the US for a bike path. It is extremely easy to maintain that speed on even a cheap mountain bike much less a road bike. 25mph is very fast for a bicycle which some ebikes can reach and even exceed. People should definitely only be riding at that speed on roads.
A similar thing happened when Toys R Us came to Sweden: https://apnews.com/article/6d245065b3faaadc70e6eb77e3e5c20f
> NYC real estate is arguably one of the safest bets in the modern era

Uh huh. That's what they all said about commercial property in Western city-centres before the pandemic ... "a sure bet" they said .... "rents only going up" they said....

Now you walk through all these CBDs and they are shadow of what they were before because people discovered working from home either full-time or near enough (3-4 days a week) and the need for large chunks of commercial property is now being brought into question.
Indeed, it's orthogonal to their information collection strategy to encourage non-digital communication.
Trying to kill Castro should have been taboo as well.

Iran was also working with the west to defeat Daesh.
> The cost of fuel in Europe is more the true cost.

the true cost, plus whatever taxes the local government have decided to levy
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Some basic background on DDoS and ransom DDoS - https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-attack-trends-for-2021-q2/
I mean, might makes right and all that, I agree.

The point is that the reason given is to protect the free world, when it is doing anything but. It’s just keeping the same people comfortably in power, capable of stepping on their enemies at will.
What's not to understand? Presumably, Google's bean counters think the cost of capital necessary to purchase the building plus any real estate value appreciation will be lower than the cost to lease the building. That part seems pretty strait-forward.

Or are you not understanding why they don't "just" have everyone work remotely? If that's the case, then try to understand that despite what you may see online, it may be that many people don't want to work remote all the time. Moreover, working remotely will have deleterious effects on managerial promotion as that is heavily influenced by interpersonal relationships. And higher level managers are the ones that make such decisions. Even if remote work is better for the bottom line, remember that people make decisions to benefit themselves (across a variety of dimensions and timeframes), not their organization.
Not if the people who ride bikes switch to driving because it’s more dangerous or slow to bike.