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She's going to jail. The biggest reason why, besides everything else, is that deliberations begin on the 22nd. No one is going to miss Christmas for her ass.
Wow jesus. Opened HN with my accessibility checker. No recognisable structure. 33 spacers on the main page alone. 200+ contrast errors.
If you’re levered 10-1, you only have to lose 10% to get wiped out completely, and the firm that lent you that money will force you to liquidate to try to pay them back - a “margin call”. Even if it’s not a total wipeout, it’s likely you need to liquidate some assets to meet your margin as lenders reevaluate your risk to be higher than they thought. Enough people do that fast enough, and prices of other assets fall, others who are levered need to cover, and on and on until you have a widespread problem. Leverage is great on the way up and horrifyingly terrible on the way down.
How about option to move menu to button instead of top, its hard to reach using today's phones
“Replacements for people” is a terrible definition of AI, in theory and in practice.

Alexa, Tesla autopilot, Google search, speech to text, recommendations— any practical example of AI— these are tools. Not human replacers.
Sounds eerily similar to what happened during the Enron saga. So many employees tricked into keeping all their pension savings into the stock. Quite a sad story.
Tangent: Bartholome de las Casas' 1552 work is especially enlightening.
Apple is not progressive. Apple does not care about user privacy outside of a marketing strategy in US.
Apple is not eco friendly.

Apple is a mega corporation that in many ways is ruthless and efficient. They make solid hardware and are excellent at marketing.

Apple will do whatever is needed to keep the money flowing. It has no problem adjusting its “core” values to meet different government needs.

My two cents
Administration and taxes sucks, expenses are high. As self employed on East Europe I pay 15% with all compulsory insurances. Salaries are about same.
"I'm at a stage where I wonder if it's raining only on me."

This describes me exactly. I'm basically a cartoon character with a rain cloud following me. I'm in the US, 10 years experience, a Masters degree, and I don't even make $100k. I've spent years working with obscure tech on the initial promise that the company doesn't outsource or lay off. Now the company is doing both and I basically have to start over. The company has repeatedly violated it's own policies to my detriment, and changed the promotion/pay structure to be less attractive.
Try: Paperswithcode.com

If its not there I won't use it! If you dont provide code with your paper it better have a really useful concept in it otherwise not citation. Which beckons to the problem in the article where most important information in basic research papers is: "Hey, this concept works" as opposed to a rigorous test of exactly what makes the concept work and how to use it in other situations.
Did the press overhype the danger posed by the Omicron variant?
You can say one is 1st generation immigrant, and other is 2nd gen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations
It is not stealing when the license allows for it.
Well I know Rust and I can get by in C. Perhaps that makes a difference.

> C is a simple language, the complexity comes from large systems, while Rust is just not.

I mean I agree that C is simple if you're making a 50 line program that writes to stdout or something. But more often than not with C or Rust you are working with a large complex system. And I'd argue that when working with such a large system, Rust programs are less complex than C programs.
That’s what Daedalus says, he’s trying to shift the blame on the operator. But he’s the one who made a wing with wax whilst pretending it could be flown under the previous “bird” certification
Wow. And that's in the world where you can get storage for 1.50$/TB/Month if you rent baremetal servers.
Just to be clear, I’m not blaming them. I should have clarified that I was thinking along the lines of “how could the tool/documentation have made it easier to recognize that gap?” — and I especially agree with your suggestion that there could be a solid library improvement with a purpose-built function which is clearly identified as the right way to address this relatively common need.
Well, that's only true when you consider matchmaking for short interactions, which surely prevents community bonding. Longer interactions do not prevent bonding.

As for Tinder... I'm pretty sure you can find the equivalent of "dedicated servers" where to form a community, but I don't think that's what most people would want.
That is hard to prove contrafactual. The Germany still lost WWI which was massive sticking points for them. The "stab in the back" myth would existed either way, because Germany being having super militarized culture could not admit loss.

The revolution in Bavaria would still happened. And still irk right wing. The democracy would still be rejected and Weimar Republic would still be one massive mess.

Hitler did not gained power just because of social issues.

(And also, less importantly, had Germany won the WWI, they had plans to ask other countries for large reparations. It is not like those were something unheard of at that time.)
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Everyone is having these issues with tech recruiting and hiring.

When you want to get serious about this game, you learn how to interview. It is an unrelated skillset where you learn what to say and how to do the technical problems. You lie on the behavioral interview, there are books on it. Everyone is lying you could probably pass a polygraph test and guard the nations secrets with this skillset, fortunately you are only interested in making 5-10x (Scandinavia low end, US high end) what a public servant with a top secret clearance makes.
Autonomous drones will be either useless, or equally dangerous to everyone. FoF is gonna be a crapshoot
> being stuck with a boring stack makes them less employable in the long run
> "boring" people typically cost more

This is where I know I have a big ask to think outside of the box, but companies don't need to pay extra and that boring environments shouldn't reflect negatively on employees.

Employers can pay the same salary and say 1 day a week, 2 days a week, you can do whatever, you still get paid. And you can get a certification, or you can try out exciting tech on a side project or for a company project even. There are still many ways to keep people happy, competitive etc without "extra" pay. Just thought it's important to highlight that money isn't the only thing.
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It will be a large part [0] of the portfolios of "wealth management products" [1], which will take large hits, which will then see redemptions from retail because these products are sold as being functionally riskless, which will then need to liquidate their other assets, which will per force fall in price, which will...

[0] Evergrande is the largest real estate developer and largest user of this type of financing in China, and is reasonably mid tens of percent or higher of some wealth management portfolios.

[1] These are investment products which aren't generally sold as such; they're effectively shadow banking. Most users do not understand that they actually are running material capital risk in return for their e.g. 8% annually.

There are first-party WMPs and non-first-party WMPs which bundle and resell either bonds or first-party WMPs, etc etc. For more generally, see https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-are-chinas-wealth-m...
From what I understood, there will be two updates, one to Android and one to Teams. Either of these updates will be enough to fix this issue. So even if Android is no longer being updated for your phone, updating Teams will be enough to fix it.
Successful, pleasant dungeon run? Added to friends.
That thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178102
> Google also has the power to immediately disable Microsoft Teams on most Android devices, until the fix is rolled out.

This seems heavy handed and unreasonable. Disrupting millions of people's lives to fix an unusual use-case (even if it might be life or death) is not proportionate.
You don't think Google could demand driver sources for the harware they use or use hardware with driver sources available? It is their choice.
Other than the original vacuum cleaners and the airblade every other product they released are gimmicky. The brand got praise inside UK because its the success story of a local inventor and the company for a long time kept every aspect of their work in-house promoting local prosperity, not sure if it's still the case. Other than that nowadays they are mostly an expensive brand due to prior recognition and they try to be apple like without really delivering something special.
Not OP but there's one point of yours I take issue with:

> Supposedly seniors relying on recruiters and job offers instead of using their network, if they've worked with people in the past, and can't draw on that, I wonder how that is, is it that everybody they worked with are not nice people and don't like them ?

I'm good at my job, senior and even led teams (tech lead) a couple of times at large public companies by now and when changing jobs I couldn't use my network. I don't live in a tech hub (also sounds like OP's situation) and most of my former coworkers/managers lack ambition/drive to get to companies/teams I aim to get hired at. The reason being that most of the companies I worked for were not tech and this is a severe handicap - to put it in perspective I make almost twice what my manager made 5 years ago
I wish they would fix the advanced search feature. Searches that have multiple filters don't show any of the matches (has been broken for over a year - they acknowledged it as a known issue). Example search "camera -filename:camera.css -filename:depend.make" will say there is 100 million matches, but won't show any of them. Super useful feature when it's working
For users: Jam works in the browser without having to install anything (Discord does too though) and without having to create an account. You just need the URL of a room and you can join.

Jam is open source so you can look at the code but also make changes if you want to (e.g. if you prefer different reaction emoji). While not trivial it definitely is a great option to have imho.

Last but not least we designed Jam in a way that works well stand-alone but also makes it easy to integrate in existing web and mobile apps. For example there are people who run forums/communities or saas b2b apps (e.g. productivity tools) who want to add audio rooms as a feature and with Jam they can just grab the code and add rooms using an iframe (or use the JavaScript library for more advanced integrations). Not sure if that's possible with teamspeak, ventrilo or discord?

Jam is p2p WebRTC w/ low-latency and high-quality audio (opus) so it _should_ work well for competitive gaming. If you are looking for an audio chat tool designed for gaming the existing solutions you mentioned might be a better fit but happy to learn more about how we could make Jam better there as well.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29445715
Shooting down just a few dozen satellites will produce kessler syndrome, there will be no satellites or spacecraft for anyone for decades.

Also, you don't even have to shoot them, there is jamming

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
I love this theme and its community. I use dracula color schemes pretty much only at night though. I wrote some tooling to hook into gammastep for seamless transition between dracula and a lighter theme across my tools depending on time of day. I work a lot in the sun and dracula can be very hard to see in direct sunlight.
Because hiring is a selling and hazing process, not a technical one. Get used to handling BS deftly or get used to under/unemployment.

What exactly would an IQ or personality test accomplish?

> Everyone wants to be different, by doing the exact same thing as everyone else

They're called "hipsters."
You're making the flawed assumption that these other investors and players in the market have performed sensibly and are not in a similarly difficult position. This is probably not the case. The question is not only what the financial risk this poses to Evergrande's investors/creditors, but what other companies are suffering similar negative pressures that have pushed Evergrande this far into the red to begin with. If this were an issue isolated purely to Evergrande, then yes, systemically, the loss would be relatively isolated and generally well absorbed. The issue however is more widespread and systemic though, and as a result, Evergrande isn't the only one in this situation.

I'm not a financial advisor, I can't detail with any educated accuracy what specifically has transpired, but generally, the CCP has changed it's position and policies on lending to real estate companies and speculation in the real estate market. This is a policy shift in response to negative patterns in the market, namely but not limited to: supposedly large chunks of the real estate properties in china are sitting empty as people are buying them as part of their investment portfolios, artificially inflating pricing and perpetuating development far beyond practical demand, leading to a potential speculative bubble. As a result real estate developers were taking on debt to build new projects to expand their portfolios of real estate that were largely sitting empty and being used to borrow against to build more projects, artificially inflating price in response to their own demand to borrow against it... You can see how that can become an issue when the entire industry starts perpetuating that trend. It's an issue not isolated to Evergrande, they're just the biggest, and thus highest profile.

As a result, the "contagion" depends how bad things get with Evergrande, because they're not the only one in this difficult position. The issue is more-or-less systemic, and Evergrande is just the bellweather of sorts by virtue of them being the biggest. Of course there's lots of nuance here, as each individual corporations exact situation differs from each other, as does how the party might choose to deal with them, a number of other factors in play as well. But this should give a glimpse into why this isn't just Evergrande sinking or swimming.
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Autopilot is clearly AI. If I didn’t mention 1914, you wouldn’t doubt it.

A feedback loop — namely between a system and its measure of its own performance— is central to the idea of AI. At least according to Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, who defines intelligence as ‘the ability to select an action that is expected to maximize a performance measure’ (Russell & Norvig, 2016, p. 37).
I remember seeing studies showing how unhealthy it is because germs are spread in the air when using it. I assume this is the case with competition too and not Dyson specific.
Your right about Assange, and the really frustrating thing is that if he was a US citizen and did the exact same thing but published in a traditional media outlet then we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. US journalists have received all kinds of awful leaked information and not been subjected to this.

Although discussion on assassination? Wow, wasn't aware of that.

I'll grant that his organization might have stepped into a gray area (apparently the US witness has credibility issues) if they provided Manning with a bit of guidance on how to get more information (unsuccessfully I think) but I don't think that materially changes things all that much.
The absence of assange et al is notable but it's not a bad thing to be campaigning for the release of journalists in other countries.
I have definitely done so with both of them, but it was quite a while ago, not sure if that has changed.
And without the need of any domain knowledge or any other skills!
You're probably right, but you're too late. "Decentralized" already made its way into the minds of the players. And decentralized is associated with "something good" and "something to throw money at because maybe it will make me rich". And those players will all lose while those at the top of the pyramids will all win and then you can say "I told you so" to all those greater fools, but they'll still say you were wrong, that you're not even a player, and so you know nothing. I wish I could convince them otherwise too, but it's too late for that.

A fool and his money.... At this point, I'd rather just make them my fools - better mine than someone else's. Take their money first, then say "I told you so". Then they might start listening to you.
Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images
> I'm not saying smart-contracts are immune to these issues but the transparency of the bytecode being public is huge IMO.

I think this is a tad overrated, honestly. The DAO was open-source and that didn’t prevent it from being hacked and ETH hard-forked. I’m not against this kind of transparency, but DAO proved that it’s no silver bullet because the rate at which they shipped code made the whole transparency point moot.
That’s why the first tweak you should install on a jailbroken iPhone is a jailbreak cloak.
>If history is a guide, President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion investment may not fund nearly as much transportation as it would in much of the rest of the world.

The article and comments seem to align in that it's portrayed as 'inefficient' but missing that the bill doesn't have much infrastructure in it.

It does have $10 billion for a civilian climate corp: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/11/993976948/reaching-back-to-th...

$20 Billion to Advance Racial Equity and Environmental Justice, for which i don't know what that means but that's not infrastructure.

$175 Billion in Subsidies for Electric Vehicles but only if they are built by unionized workers. Tesla/Musk pretty upset.

$213 Billion to Build/Retrofit 2 Million buildings. Not exactly infrastructure and guess who is earmarked for that...

$25 Billion for Government Childcare Programs again not infrastructure. These might be good ideas but it's not infrastructure.

Infrastructure costs so much because it's not being bought. The money is going to lots of other things.
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> Why purchase access to a 3rd party AI reading engine or a knowledge graph when you can just hire hundreds of postdocs in Hyderabad to parse papers into JSON? (at a $6,000 yearly salary)

I really like jobs people think AI can do in theory but can't really do them effectively irl. Where do I get a part-time gig like that if I think I am capable of reviewing and creating summary of non-STEM papers? Except for homeworks and assignments of course.
I"m the one that wants to try experimental social tools, in my circles.
Context can be provided without all the filler expressions that play down the issue as the sentences progress. By the time they arrive to the workaround, this is how they continue:

> Out of an abundance of caution, in the meantime, we suggest

Does that suggest urgency to you?

> Because this issue impacts emergency calling, both Google and Microsoft are heavily prioritizing the issue, and we expect a Microsoft Teams app update to be rolled out soon – as always we suggest users keep an eye out for app updates to ensure they are running the latest version. We will also be providing an Android platform update to the Android ecosystem on January 4.

I believe heavy prioritization shouldn't involve planning to wait an entire month to issue an Android update.
I think it's pretty clear that China isn't going to bail them out like how the US bailed out our failed companies back in 2008.

China cares more about protecting the homebuyers and contractors who are building the homes more than protecting the investors [0][1]:

> Evergrande has almost 800 projects across China, many of them funded by advance payments from homebuyers.

> Local governments have ringfenced homebuyer deposits and other funds to ensure that Evergrande projects in their jurisdiction are completed and contractors paid on time.

So this is a much different reaction than the US government who protected the investors and banks.

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/6d6b1f79-52b3-49e5-aa8a-7068adec7...

[1]: archive.is link of [0] https://archive.ph/GKWmv
I built a simple application that can be used to plot the number of stars of a public GitHub repository over time. This might be helpful if you are planning to use an open source tool and you want to know if the project is being adopted well by the OSS community.
I think this is going to end up having some very broad ramifications. The last time a real estate started defaulting on it's debts it create a cascade that ultimately ended in the 2008 financial collapse.
The speed of thought is distinctly not the speed of voice - you speak 2-8x slower than you read, and you think 2-5x faster than you read
Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain this to me. When they defaulted, that means that they failed to pay back one of their debts, it does not mean that they are completely out of money, right? What stops them from selectively defaulting? Stop paying back some of the politically less important debts, and continue chugging on, servicing only certain debtors. I'd assume with unlimited political backing this should not be a problem.

OTOH I read somewhere that the political leadership is not amused and wants to make an example. Also, I would say China has benefited a lot from the international financial system and from the rules of international commerce, so they probably have to honor international debts.
In terms of immediate impacts to global financial markets, it depends on the extent to which institutions were exposed to structured credit products that depend on Evergrande's solvency.

I'm not terribly familiar with US oversight into structured finance, but I'm all ears.
Don't worry we've got the liquor license in NZ too. Only someone on duty has to hold the license though, it's usually a manager. "license" is a very strong word in this case, it's basically a course that takes about 2 hours that you can't really fail.
Russian and Belarus government don't protect their people in any way.
You take more losses and run out of manpower - its a finite resource
If a company defaults and doesn't pay outstanding obligations to smaller vendors without much cash to keep it afloat, these smaller vendors also have to stop paying their vendors and fire workers to try to stay afloat, recursively

I saw this play out at several businesses at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, until their business was deemed essential and they (along with their customers) were allowed to resume operations
Slashdot has that. Ability to collapse would be enough for me
I think I figured out why they called themselves that at this point :P
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Point taken, I'll look into whether we can tone down the feature comparison table to make it easier to read.