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There needs to be a balance as there’s an existing country that enabled these companies to exist and grow as large as they have on the backs of its treasure and blood.

Personally I think we should be trying to get most of the worlds brightest to want to become citizens here. The issue is when companies have low skilled jobs that they want H1Bs using because they can pay them less and know they’ll stay around as they need to for their visa. That’s an abuse of the system.
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What about former ceo of Wells Fargo? He’s now an advisor though he was barred from the industry.
It's called "indentured servants"
Surely it's not glasses, I just go to the website and punch in my measurements, pick frames and they arrive shortly after.
anecdotally from a few folks I know who work there it does get completely deleted after a month or two I believe. Like you said between GDPR, the FTC settlement and just general bad press they actually take deleting data pretty seriously
Facebook does sometimes ask for a scan of government ID in the account recovery flow. Unfortunately the cost of operating the ~100,000 storefronts required to be nearby a significant fraction of its users would be absurd compared to the benefits.
think of the UI as a funnel - to expect the same number of readers for each comment as for the subject is stupidity
* I had an optometrist only give me a prescription for glasses, even though I indicated I wear contact lenses on my intake form and was wearing them at the appointment! When I realised a few days later after being denied trying to buy contacts with a glasses prescription, the optometrist said I would have to come in again and pay for a full consultation (out of pocket as my insurance only covers one per year).

* I've tried to buy contacts online in the US with an expired prescription, the retailers say their hands are tied, they need a current dated one.

I now just buy contacts online from Europe or New Zealand. No BS, same price, the EU company I buy from includes a mini bag of haribo gummies :)
Usually these devices become available for pre-order on the day of the announcement, but take a bit longer to ship out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211019181426/https://davidepst...
Not sure which planet you're on, but it's been 16 Earth years.
Or Qottab. It's not that there are no desserts with Q, but there are none that are as well-known and widely-used in the anglosphere as pies and marshmallows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qottab
Growing up in the 80s, probably around a third of the adults in my neighborhood were truck drivers, and I can confidently say that truck driving is not the same profession as it was back then. The unions were strong back then, and when they threatened to strike, companies had to pay attention.
Switched to iPhone last year and can't believe how bad iOS is generally. Feels years behind. Missing Android!
The bigger problem is this postmodern view creates a bit of a circular problem. Someone needs to decide what the moral values are. Oppressor's are evil (both consciously and unconsciously) and do not have an accurate view of the world. The lived experience of the oppressed situates them to better make this judgement. Once they can make that judgement they gain power. Power corrupts. The oppressed becomes the oppressor. What do you do next? How do you stop the cycle? I suppose Foucault believed that Heterotopia (utopia) is just around the corner, you just need to shift the power around and it will bloom but this doesn't seem logically consistent to me.
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Yes, they have been doing it on a platform (Windows, originally) that didn't come preinstalled with it, by being better than any other storefront, even when taking 30% and you have other options.

Appstore is doing it by being the only allowed storefront on a general computing device.

So yeah, your comparison is great if you mean to say that Appstore and Steam should compete under the same conditions.

Get Steam onto iOS and we'll see if the store cuts stay the same, for either party.
High-end hearing aids already do this on-device. I don't think it would be a great development to require hearing aid owners to own a smart phone and load an app onto it to be able to get full functionality out of their hearing aids. If the functionality needs to be externally configurable for some reason, provide an external controller that comes with the hearing aids.
Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?
I've read through the MacBook threads and seen one question repeated again and again: which specs to go for in the new MacBooks. I figured it might be worth it to make a dedicated post to discuss this.

To start this off, consider the following scenario:

- 50% of my work is web or mobile app development

- another 50% is training ML and deep learning models
(currently on a cluster, but I'd prefer do it on my notebook of course)

- I also do raw photo editing work, as a hobby

In this case, what specs would you choose for your Mac? Specifically:

- M1 Pro with [14, 16] GPU cores, [8, 10] CPU cores, and [16, 32] GB of unified memory

- M1 Max with [24, 32] GPU cores, 10 CPU cores, and [32, 64] GB of unified memory
yes it is, captain obvious. now what is the entitlement you allude to?
same, now it won't connect with verizon. super frustrating.
A similar culture (i.e. late PIE), with similar mythology, created the Trundholm sun chariot -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_sun_chariot.
If you raise the speed limit 15% to where it should be, sure.
Historically, they have. Older pixels all had 2 year feature 3 year security, but ended up getting 3 year feature+security.

Although, after 1-2 year, the features get a bit thinner because a lot of the newer features rely on new hardware that the older phones don't fully have. Sometimes they try to make it work, like how Astrophotography was available on older pixels but didn't work quite as well as on Pixel 4. But in general, they probably put the "at least" because it's hard to guarantee that a feature in 5 years will be backportable to Pixel 6.
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Who on earth would pay 0.25$/GB for encryption, that is offered freely by countless programs?

It’s like orders of magnitude more expensive than S3 and b2.
It also feels like with statins, that the standard of when to take the drug is some kind of Overton window. If the FDA rules that that it's worthwhile for people with diabetes, then it gets prescribed for people at risk of diabetes, then for people at risk of pre-diabetes, then it gets prescribed for people who may be at risk of pre-diabetes, then it gets prescribed for people wanting to be precautious of potentially being at risk for pre-diabetes, and so forth.
From the video's description:

"Microsoft Edge DevTools comes with the 3D view panel that makes it possible to see your site 3 dimensions to debug DOM nesting or positioning issues, z-index problems, and painting performance problems."
> It’s not even a remotely plausible figure given our lived experience of this pandemic.

Just a nitpick, but I'd be really careful to generalize like this. The lived experiences of the pandemic are radically different between people. For some, it is very personal and immediate - if they have close friend or relatives who are affected or if they work in a profession, where they frequently whitness infections.

Others may be lucky and may not have experienced the actual pandemic at all, only the effects of the countermeasures.

All that makes it hard for a random person to instantly dismiss most figures like the one in the article as implausible, if you're not specifically keeping track of the development or are working in the field. I think this is one of the reasons why covid misinformation can grab a hold so easily.
It stops being a library when you structure your entire codebase around it.
In the name of health, government must mandate all fast food establishments to establish a maximum BMI for customers they serve. If businesses continue to serve customers over a certain BMI, say 22, in the name of public health it must be shut down. Obesity is an epidemic that takes hospital beds away from others, when one could simply choose to exercise more, or eat something else.

Really though, these vax mandates are something else. Are kids under 12 (All unvaxxed) allowed in?
ok. what did you disagree with if not my point? I do not care in the least bit about HN's karma
What about former Wells Fargo ceo? He was a crook and is still allowed to be advisor to some financial firm.
I stopped wearing my Oticon Opn S hearing aid when running because they don’t seem happy with sweat on a long run. That and wind noise can still be an issue. Also only having hearing loss in one ear means that they’re not really good for streaming audio but I do love being able to take phone calls with my hearing aid.

I’m ok with the cost since it’s effectively half for me and really $3K six or seven years would be fine considering the quality of life improvement. Being in large group meetings with multiple teams discussing project planning could be painful for me. And it helps with your relationship. When there’s a background noise source like road noise or AC or a running faucet your brain will fill in based on the frequencies it can hear and you will hear completely different words.
why would i want HN to hold my hand?
> The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange.

B-Camera angles are common in interviews. It's to help create a less formal and less stuffy 'presentation' like feel. It's intended to be more of a "you're standing there, somewhat behind the scenes" feel.
Check out nuraphones; I don't know enough about hearing and audio to know what voodoo they are doing, but as a person with significant hearing loss, the hearing customization they perform during set up allows the device to emit the right frequencies at the right volume that I can hear a significant portion of the left audio channel (which is impressive, given that I am "profoundly deaf" in that ear).
Pixel hyphen offers? What a scammy looking domain. This isn't the first time I've seen a large company do this. Perfect way to help phishers confuse customers.
Isn't most recycling just breaking down batteries to their elemental state? That would imply there couldn't possible be a difference between new and recycled.
> Going with a new naming scheme for the 10th version of Android makes a bit of sense; it’s a landmark release. Still, given how difficult it is to put a common dessert to the letter Q, I noted to Google’s Sameer Samat, VP of product management for Android, that it was awfully convenient that Google picked this release to switch up the naming scheme. “We’re going to deal with that skepticism,” he says. Google’s actual reason for switching the naming, he says, isn’t that Q is hard, but rather that desserts aren’t very inclusive. “We have some good names, but in each and every case they leave a part of the world out,” he argues. Android is a global brand, used by more people in India and Brazil than in the US, so going with an English word for the dessert leaves some regions out. Pie isn’t always a dessert, “lollipop” can be hard to pronounce in some regions, and “marshmallows aren’t really a thing in a lot of places,” Samat says. Numbers, at least, are universal.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/22/20827231/android-10-q-goo...
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To contrast, I think maybe you're being a bit overly cynical. What evidence is there of that happening? Even if they did, is that such a bad thing? Can the guy not want to both save the dogs and make a cool video? They're not mutually exclusive.
A simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system com
Yeah, it's unfortunate that the bar is so low
I think normally I'd look for the Pixel or the iPhone but my next purchase will be supporting FairPhone.

When I think about how powerful I need my phone to be I don't need the best. I want something I can fix and update myself; something that's supported for more than a couple of years; something that is a little "better" for the planet.

Does anybody use all of the new power of these incredible devices?
You're the only person I've heard of using HDMI out of their cell phone USB port. So, I can definitely see a vendor deciding not to provide it and not pay a license for that technology on every handset they sell.
> So if companies are hoarding profits that would go to workers, then this would be reflected in rising shareholder equity, so if employees invest their wages in stocks, the productivity-compensation gap is lessened

Unless the company is paying dividends (and the distribution is proportional to earnings), we can't assume that a company "hoarding profits" would have a correlated stock price.
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Since 6.0 there were no real changes in android. It will be better if they just concentrate on fixing bugs instead of claiming something was done.
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Kinda. It's close to that, except in order to make it do that we had to actually make the functions return special types so it's more equivalent to something like

SELECT device_id, apply(sum, apply(abs, apply(delta, apply(sort, timevector(ts, val))))))

Where each of the items in there is an instance of our special "PipelineElement" type, which defines the function it's applying.

Does that make any sense at all? Not sure if I'm explaining this well...
Miss me with a Google monitoring device.
He's referring to the "iCloud Lock"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201441
This. Even this recommendation change referenced blood thinners and statins of which researchers beg doctors to weigh use against accelerated muscle degeneration.
> exact matches

Not exact matches. Hashes. Hashes that were quickly show to have collisions that the company brushed off.
Sorry I missed before was out grabbing lunch, answered above!
> It’s no secret that the Ethereum login will soon become a user standard and passwords will no longer be needed.

That's some serious kool-aid that the author has been drinking.

Nothing worthwhile in the article, users will be asked in a popup to sign a message they don't understand and will click-through anyway, and this hyperbole is applicable anyway only to dApps on Ethereum.

The best alternative to JWTs looked like it was going to be https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-paragon-paseto-rfc-00.html but the reference implementation and RFC have gone quiet, and these days JWTs are basically OK, the security problems are largely solved by more sensible defaults in most of the common language implementations.
I once read an article which was about how we are willing to spend thousands to save one particular dog, or one particular injured bird, instead of donating that money to "animal habitat preservation" or something similar which will save thousands of diverse animals.

And then there's the whole industrial farm-animal raising thing, where billions of animals are systematically tortured. But nobody cares, because it's not a particular animal in a particular situation that we can stand behind and do cool saving off to show our "humanity".
Add a reward for whistleblowing on people accepting bribes?

Then it’s optimal to offer bribes indiscriminately, just to turn around and report them for accepting.
> which usually takes 1.5 year

In my experience it takes WAY longer than that, just on processing times. As in, I've never even heard of anyone getting permanent residency that quickly, at least for employment-based. If you are talking about marriage or family-based, sure.

Any audits or RFEs during the process and you are looking easily at twice the time you quoted. Probably even more - given the recent delays in the H4 extension process, which causes your own application to have to wait until your dependents can join you.
Google fails at even building an ecommerce website for the special launch event. In 2021. For a launch of a major "premium product".

Why on earth would one ever believe the rest of the product which is orders of magnitude more complicated would actually function and not suck in 4 months?
In many regions you can't even see this page
This should work:

https://store.google.com/us
Other than the Touch ID bit it’s hilariously accurate, even down to the trackpad size.
if you have an address for any length of time you could use a service like coastal.com as when I bought mine I am pretty sure they didn't ask for a formal prescription. I only have experience with them but maybe others like warby parker or the like are similar?
Or any part of your codebase for that matter
It's better if you don't know.
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> images automatically pulled in from from various sources such as messages

As far as I am aware, this is false and there is no mechanism on iOS by which images are "automatically pulled into" the photo library from anywhere, Messages or otherwise. Do you have a source or an example of how that could happen?

(edit: people are mentioning Whatsapp, which I guess has an option to auto-save received photos. Fair enough, but that's a third-party app and requires you to enable photos access anyway, so it's pretty clearly not what the parent meant).

> their intent is to scan all photos in your photo library, on your device ... if you have iCloud photos enabled

Yes, that's what I said. Enabling iCloud photos uploads your photo library to the cloud, so it's scanning your cloud photos.
But there are batteries (pun intended) of lawyers from the hearing aid manufacturers who would act against DIY kit vendors if asked. I wonder who/what is the best entity to help shield DIYers from patents...
"The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange."

The camera director is probably living in a different decade, these side shots were used a lot 20 years ago, and it was still annoying then.
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Do you tell the interviewer that when they ask you if you can work in a team? They can't know the quality of your education or the merits of your experience, and you can't demand that they go out and look at exactly how the courses you took are structured or how those groups are evaluated or run.

It doesn't matter if the program you personally took was good preparation, if most programs sucks then people will assume that your program also sucked since you have no other way to separate yourself from those who went to those sucky programs.
How on earth is that postmodern? Unless you define Hume himself as postmodern. It's a classic is/ought problem.

Just because two sets of people have different values doesn't mean one value isn't clearly better than the other. You and I can disagree on something like whether human life has value, but the one who holds it to have value is likely to have a lot more support.

Did postmodernism get redefined to mean anyone who doesn't believe in moral facts?
Reminds me of Ken Nordine’s word jazz performance What Time Is It?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYpCdY4Y_0
I used to work for a company that actively sought out and hired the adult children of high level executives.

Even those that weren't very competent were hired since if they were part of the same Ivy League alumni network.

I have no knowledge of the business dealings but the company definitely appeared to benefit from having those connections.
>> Apple’s stated intents to actively incriminate you by scanning your photos on a personal device

You do realize that Google also scans your images for CP, and furthermore that Google's current business model is literally surveillance advertisement, right?
> Or you can do high level stuff thanks to well though generics and meta programming.

Metaprogramming is also surprisingly useful for low-level, embedded programming. Eg, using compile-time logic (branching, looping) to decide which bit in which register you want to twiddle, instead of doing it at runtime, which saves computation and (sometimes) code size.
Implementing DisplayPort is free. The royalty fee for HDMI is five cents per device.
I'm profoundly deaf, and I can answer these questions for myself:

> Do you charge on ear at a time so you are never without some level of hearing?

I'm completely deaf in one ear, so I only wear one hearing aid. If I take it out, I have zero hearing, so... nope.

Most hearing aids do not have rechargeable batteries, either, so we have to change out the batteries on a regular basis. My battery lasts about 7-10 days before I need to replace them.

> Can you comment on the Live Listen feature of AirPods?

It's not powerful enough to act as a hearing aid for my level of hearing loss, nor is it calibrated correctly.

To that last point, hearing loss is not simply a lowering of volume. It impacts different frequencies at different levels, so the normal amplification that comes from an AirPod or similar headphone is not sufficient to compensate for anything other than very very mild hearing loss.
Thanks! I have been thinking about this route.
AspNet style dependency injection has dug it's claws in to an insane degree, and it's almost always completely unnecessary. If you're never going to change the implementation of a logger or a database connection, there is almost zero value in standing up the whole DI machinery rather than a simple singleton.
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i'm pretty sure us based online don't require a formal verification... i only have experience with coastal though and only for glasses.
Over my lifetime I've been increasingly feeling more against the finance industry as it is. After working in fintech I got staunchly against it.

I don't think that finance as an industry shouldn't exist. It does provide a lot of benefits for cashflow, investments, etc., I do understand its role and benefits. My gripe is exactly with the over-financialisation of everything, the increased risks that over-leveraging in multiple sectors create, finance introduced itself as the weakest chain in the link, we got to the point where banks are definitely more powerful than the most poweful economy in the world, simply because a failure in the system can become systemic with a few levers being pulled.

We created a system which every other system in the world is a dependent of, we have a single point of failure on something that by itself generates no value in real terms. It does generate value by increasing our leverage, that is it. We've became hostages of the financing industry and of the risks they take, not us.
Thus the manual review. No one's going to be going to prison over a hash collision here.
This appears to be the drone they're using:

https://www.dji.com/mobile/t20/specs

I'm not sure how to calculate the max payload, it looks like maybe 20kg.