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> What's needed is a ban on usage of location and health data unless very specific conditions are met

We need a ban on collection of that data, not just the sale or use of it. The conditions under which it is legal to collect that data should be subject to very strict regulation and involve explicit informed consent of every person tracked, ideally refreshing that consent on a regular basis so that it's not something you could consent to once years ago and forget about.
> Linus himself was the person who first discovered the techniques of open-source development that had eluded the GNU project, and that would be imitated by open-source projects for decades to come, right up to the present day

A bold claim, but what exactly are these techniques?
CEO is on point about the counter productive SJW culture. It fascinating to see it also have a foothold on HN
https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1536978821345292288?s=21&t...
How much nuclear waste does Sweden and Finland produce? For scale purposes their population isn't larger than the metropolitan area of Los Angeles.

I think the scale of the issue is significantly larger in the US.

Yucca isn't viable politically and there isn't anyone who lives close by.
They exist in prototypes, I am not aware of any grid scale energy storage facilities using thermal batteries.

Are there any >1GWh thermal battery facilities? Remember the US uses 8GWh of electricity per minute.
I have this one (https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean) installed in Firefox for Android. You do have to jump through a few hoops because it's not on the recommended list.
Steps to Prepare Now for the Cookieless Future
Decreased, if any. I think it’s probably because I know nothing has ever worked. FWIW I am old and get a major operation every two or three years: hernia, cancer, hydrocele, etc. I have no problem dealing with that kind of pain, even when it is considerable, which is often true post-op.
And yet its market cap, >10T USD, is not at all commensurate to the uses you cited. Governments hold gold in their reserves because they see it as a hard asset.
Most work today requires some level of exposure to sensitive data of some kind, be it related to business strategy, company financials, or customer data. You're not getting access to that as some anonymous internet rando.
Or the ability to make your own snap store.
Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S.
If your into BSD* OSes then you might like: http://daemonforums.org
The Delta Airport Lounge Puts Passengers on the Clock
And he does not even talk about the software required to browse the "Big Tech Web": only google = blink (~wekbit) and geeko (just a google financed kult to avoid anti-trust), and apple = webkit, with their respective c++ compilers (gcc and clang).

There is only one way out: noscript/basic (x)html browsers which does not require the army of devs from google or apple. Regulate aggressively (or it won't happen) to make at least critical web sites work with them (administration online services, utility online services, shopping, banks). You can do wonders with basic HTML forms.

video streaming services would just need to support the <video> element with a URL where seeking is standardized (I think apple HLS did just that).
CEO thinks workers performing essential function are overpaid, and worry that their business can't work as well if they have to pay so much.

News at 11.
Leaked Benchmarks Confirm M2 Chip Is Up to 20% Faster Than M1
Insight Browser (a YC company!) has an iOS browser that supports extensions. I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult for someone to take this extension and port it to their platform.
Tech at the moment sure, but there's nothing that stops the geographical location from shifting. There are skilled IT people around the world, there just aren't that many tech hubs like Silicon Valley.

Finance? Remind me again how much debt the US has and how close it was to defaulting last year (saved by being forced to raise the debt ceiling yet again)? Things aren't looking much better right now.
Neither of those exist without energy, which is a fine distinction from "gas and oil".
>"So what great functionality could I miss out on if this became law?"

We are just at the beginning of analyzing and using health and location data; if there are groundbreaking use cases for them, it's very likely that we haven't seen (or even thought) of them yet.
https://archive.ph/e97EI
We as a society have one class where we accept “separate but equal” which is gender.

White identifying as black should have no impact on day to day life, as we strive as a society to not discriminate on race.

Male identifying as female does have an impact on day to day life, since we do allow for some amount of gender based discrimination.

So the solution is “either make all bathrooms, etc unisex or take trans peoples issues seriously.” But most conservatives obviously want neither.
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Musk to address Twitter employees for first time this week
Consider:

Upward pressure on our salaries is in large part driven by the compensation packages given at Google and Facebook, etc.

Those compensation packages can be that high because they've tapped into (and in large part monopolized) absolute firehoses of revenue in the form of online advertising. Those companies do "other" things than advertising, but advertising makes up the vast majority of their revenue.

Without it, they could not compensate so highly.

The problem comes from the fact that these companies eagerly hoover up all the engineers they can get. And rarely to actually work on the core advertising and ad-tech portions of their business, but literally almost anything. There's very little that Google doesn't do. And they're always starting to do new things.

So upward pressure is applied on compensation across the whole job market. And Google at least seems to always be hiring.

Also, Google will happily pay $400k for a SWE if it means that SWE is not creating new revenue sources for potential / future competitors. The cost to them is minimal compared to the revenue they make.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader what this does to the health of the industry as a whole.
When big tech companies were caught illegally colluding to suppress wages, it taught me a lot about the value of my work.
Same, I don't feel like communicating with people who pretend to not understand their participation in the reification of social objects.
If the oversight on your project is so weak that an engineer can add code that steals money without being noticed, all you do is change who profits from the inevitable theft. In fact, if you allow the code to be delivered anonymously, you practically guarantee that smart people will add the vulnerability and steal the money.
No I’d just force them to increase their production now. This is why critical infrastructure being private property is fucking insane.
Your cost to provide the service (i.e. your minimal cost to exist) is probably somewhere around $30k.

The value you deliver depends strongly on the company but can easily be orders of magnitude above $400k.

Everything in between is a matter of negotiation, supply and demand. If there are enough companies that can make their business model work at $400k to hire all the capable engineers at $400k, then the business models that can only pay less won't work, just like many other unprofitable business ideas don't. That is not a sign of a problem.

Quite the opposite, actually. If that is the limiting factor, it means that the demand is very elastic, i.e. if there is an increase in supply, prices (salaries) will not drop too much.
Not just collection. You want to know how health data is sold? Because the SaaS platforms that small doctor's offices and clinics use to run their practice, they turn around and sell "anonymized" visit and prescription data.

But those platforms clearly have legitimate need to collect/house that data. They need to be restricted from selling/licensing it to third parties, regardless of any amount of anonymization or differential privacy applied.
Econ 101 states that all prices are set by supply and demand.

Money doesn’t even get introduced until later.
> We need a ban on collection of that data.

So, how am I supposed to use Google Maps?

Maybe you mean long-term storage?

Still - I like to be able to see all the restaurants and places I went to. What if I like that?
How is this not logical or financially wise ?

It is common advice to have an emergency fund equal to several months of expenses in cash.

What is the alternative ? Having no emergency fund?
Did they interview the tourists and ask if tourists came because of the Bitcoin adoption?

Quoting an article where someone's confounding causation and correlation does not absolve you from the sin of committing the same.
Typically, biometrics are used as an unlock locally.
DNA analysis reveals source of Black Death
In macOS terms ssh is a "StandardIO" session, not an Aqua (UI) session so it shouldn't even attempt the biometric prompt in that case.
Inflation is by definition the delta of price over time.
Ugh. I fully understand that the "shorts" obsession and promotion is encouraged by user activity and preferences, and thus is a cultural feedback loop, but... I hate it. Pushing out longer-form media in favor of 1-2 minute clips (at best) leads to a culture of people who know a little about a lot of things, but a lot about nothing. I'm fine with these short clips having their own space in TikTok, as long as there's still a space for long-form media and discussion. YouTube is that space, but their competition with TikTok is slowly changing that such that both sites are becoming shorts-saturated.

But maybe, at 32, I'm reaching "old man yells at clouds and complains about walking uphill both ways back in his day" age.
Thanks, this spurred me to ask my spouse what she'd do if I got in an accident. Her first response was "I have no idea" then unlock my phone and try looking for familiar names.
You're getting downvoted, but the electricity shortfall would need to be made up for somehow. I'm in no way happy about nuclear because it's pretty clear humans don't know how to behave in large enough groups over long enough periods. But Californians as a whole can't even cut back on watering their lawns, certainly won't cut back on AC or ice cubes for their drinks, or industrial uses, and the climate change aspects are more immediately drastic.
I met a 15 year old through an at-risk mentoring program years ago. He told me he got a $20 Visa gift card for his birthday, but he spent it all on a "cam girl." That shook me. Kids should not be viewing, making, paying for, or even really hear about pornography.

Finding a playboy in the treehouse was one thing, but the internet has made it so easy for literally anyone, of any age, to view pornography. I think that has seriously harmed the younger generation's courtship and sexual relationships.

Perhaps I'm getting old but ... porn was a lot harder to get when I was a kid and today I'm glad for that.
If I could use this with Google Cloud Run, that would be a fantastic stack for so many side projects.
Seen one for the first time in flight in RL when being to Hamburg last month. Was amazed!
Seven Years Later, Travis CI Is Still Insecure
> drops to below its previous high

Doesn't check out. Bitcoin's last cycle (bubble) started in 2016 when the price was around $400, went to $20,000 in December 2017, and then down to $3,000. The high previous to that was in December 2013, when the price was $1,000. Obviously, $3,000 > $1,000, even adjusting for inflation. So the low point of the previous bubble was higher than the high point of the one before that.

Adjusting for inflation, BTC today went below its December 2017 price. So the low point of the current bubble is lower than the high point of the previous bubble, which appears to be a new occurrence. Today's low point was $20.1K, which in 2017 dollars would be $17.3K, which is less than 2017's peak value of $20K. The theory that you will profit by holding BTC for at least 4 years is busted.

For a BTC price chart on a log scale, look here: https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/bitcoin-logarithmic-g...

For adjusting for inflation, look here: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2018?amount=17600...
Snoop Dogg did his PhD on computing primes in Crip time.
Coinbase then had to lay off 18% of the workforce, so it doesn’t sound like the higher salaries were sustainable.
Let’s see how many people they actually hire. To me this smells of PR: push a load of employees out the door under the guise of their views not being “diverse” enough and cover it up by insisting you’re bringing on 500 people. Just after your competitor announced huge layoffs, during a huge downturn in your industry.
No, we are just reading a very charged statement and revealing our biases.

One only needs to look at the history of biblical textualism to see that this is nothing new.

Edit: my interpretation of “they” btw is that “woke” people are upset someone made that argument, which ceo is arguing is a way to shut down good faith argument.
Hiring when others are firing seems like a smart move if you can afford it
I'm not sure how I guarantee that I'm not getting exploited if I'm working without my employer knowing who I am. How do I have a reasonable expectation of legal protection in this scenario?
Right, even scrolling by keyboard feels more snappy to me on IE.
It says 36.89% here. Weird.
"War on drugs" and alcohol prohibition are frequently used by libertarians to suggest that all forms of prohibition are doomed to cause more damage than that which they prohibit. But this is a sleight of hand, drawing attention to two specific prohibitions which generally failed, away from the myraid of prohibitions that work just fine. Such as the prohibition against selling cars without airbags, or the regulation of CFCs, or asbestos in new construction, or selling live frag grenades to the unlicensed public, or a thousand other things governments around the world successfully regulate and prohibit every day.
Twins raised apart in Korea and US have similar personality but different IQs
What does the tweet say? I am blocked by @typesfast. Can’t find the tweet on the browser page before the login prompt appears.
The issue there philosophically is that prior to it's recognition in the DSM-5 transgender people would then not have existed. That is more of an appeal to authority than an explanation why one accident of birth is a social construct and one is not.
Ah, so the basic physics problems are twofold:

1) You don't know how little lithium is contained in a li-ion battery cell; and

2) You don't know that li-ion is less than half the global battery market.
Hmm, I revisited to check and Tweet #1 is:

> We recently attempted to summarize what the @krakenfx culture has been over the past 11 years, and what we hope it continues to be.

> We had a few heated debates and it turns out we have about 20 people out of 3200 who are totally not on board.

Ok so 20/3200 are "totally not on board" - i.e. they're the group of people supposedly causing trouble that we are going to be discussing in this thread. While tweet #5 lists what this group are annoyed about:

> 5/ What are they upset about?

> * DEI (Silicon Valley's version)

> * pronouns, whether someone can identify as a different race and be allowed to use the N-word

> * whether differences in human sex exist at all

> * being respected and unoffended

> * being "harmed" by "violent" words

So my overall read is that he's taking aim at "woke" culture, and my initial interpretation of the second item was "that non-black people are using the n-word" which tracks with the overall point. I guess it could be interpreted differently ("if you identify as black [these unhappy people] think you should be able to use the n-word") but that isn't really in line with the rest of the tweet.

But my interpretation was, someone's clearly dropping n-bombs and either:

1. only a small minority are vocally upset about it, the rest are ok

2. only a small minority have no qualms with it, the rest are upset

And the scare-quotes in 'being "harmed" by "violent" words' kinda look like he's ridiculing this point. Honestly it reads like a tech-bro version of the usual "these liberal snowflakes need a safe space..." rant to me.
Wrong that some business models are impossible/shouldn't exist with cost of talent at X? Then you're arguing that every business model is possible/valid/should exist regardless of cost of talent?

I'm not sure where you're trying to go with that.
It's a legendary (or mythical) news headline, rather after the manner of "Small earthquake in Chile; few killed".

[Edit] So you must be either near Dover, or in the Channel Islands. And there's not much to see from Dover.

[Edit2] I think the "continent cut off" line perfectly epitomises and mocks English exceptionalism, which is why I find it funny. I was brought up before the UK joined the EU; in those days, we referred to the whole deal as "the continent". If we'd been there, we'd ironically refer to it as "Le cong-tee-nong".
What is there to franchise? As others pointed out software is easy to sell to anyone. Maybe you can franchise onsight support, but the big customers for onsight support mostly want a national company to take care of them, so no franchises as it is all the national number. The little companies maybe, but the little companies don't need the big brand, they learn which local company provides support.
…on Windows 10. It’s still a thing on server.
the era of the giant URLs is coming...
Interesting idea. I kinda would go with both. I'd rather see the sales banned to some extent as well even if it was underground anyway.
Yep, they are just taking advantage of people's ignorance.

The startup of the week is always hiring a marketing manager to promote their site and they are always baffled why get blocked posting an endless stream of articles from their own blog.

If you participate in HN like a real HN user (posting articles from a variety of sources that sometimes get voted up) that's the best you can do. If you do that you can slip an occasional link to your own site and people might vote for it... IF they find it interesting.

That's a big IF for a lot of people.
I love it when games have a creative mode. It's a nice balance between challenge and fun. Subnautica for example has a normal mode, a hardcore permadeath mode and a creative mode with no death and infinite resources. Building bases everywhere and watching the beautiful underwater landscapes and marine life is just so soothing.
> CEO is on point about the counter productive SJW culture.

Let’s see what happens when, per the CEO, the other shoe drops “in the next few days”.

> Someone's likely been sharing internal chat (in breach of their NDA) devoid of context, with a journalist who we expect to publish a hit piece in the next few days. I just want to say we welcome all, and don't believe the news.
> Maybe your company/service can be the middle-man. Offer varying levels of checks that are optional for the employer to require or the Contractor to fill out.

> Identity as a service.

This is a great idea. I know people who would pay good money for a pseudoidentity that presents them as authorized to work in US, with expertise in some key technical areas (cryptography, robotics, real-time monitoring and response, etc.). There is a huge opportunity here.
A corporation (or LLC) is not equivalent to a singular person or a small informal group, but rather a bureaucracy that operates according to openly promulgated rules and goals. Operating outside of those rules exposes one to individual liability, regardless of specific individuals often being judgement proof or otherwise impractical to assign blame to.

One of the practical problems with the "war on drugs" was its bumping up against individual privacy. Corporations have no such privacy nor right to privacy - being chartered under government authority means they need to continually file compliance reports and are essentially closer to being organs of the state rather than individual humans. So no, if a company does decide to illicitly process personal information for nonconsensual purposes, that most certainly can be enforced upon.
Study presumes belief in the prescription and defection would only occur for selfish purpose. I don't really see how this would work at all when you are talking to someone who rejects the premise that the solution is a good one. If you are a central planner I guess you will consider anyone who disagrees a defector. The game theory premise regarding vaccination assumes herd immunity is achievable, is that even true? The game theory premise for global warming is whether or not someone "will take climate action". Seemingly its presumed that the climate action is well defined and will work and we are beyond that question and its just a matter of action. Is that even true?
Anyone else find it odd that the two jobs that list salaries are in the junior dev/first job range?
It's interesting that you can replace "documentation" with "tests" in your argument and it's still an argument people make. It's double work you have to write tests and code! Yup, it is, kind of.

I'm not necessarily assuming which side of the argument is right -- for docs or tests.

Certainly "starting something new spontaneously just by starting to hack" can be useful and fun. And may not involve tests or docs. That's sometimes called a "spike" (although that's not exactly what the term "spike" was meant for, I think).

I find that generally after an initial period of spontaneous experimentation, getting a sense of what might work or not and what direction I might want to go--it's generally best to move to a less spontaneous development process. That will likely involve test coverage (whether strictly TDD or not). I think thats probably also the point to consider "test-first development" too.
More importantly, what's a "Crypto-First Culture"?
I wonder why companies and their CEOs take more political stands than they used to. The conventional wisdom was to stay out of politics to avoid alienating half your customer base. Was that wrong?
It is a tricky situation. On the one hand, subscription models are great as they don't incentivize flashy click-bait as much and reward steady, high-quality content. On the other hand, you don't know whether a publication is worth subscribing to until you've sampled some of their content.

The "free-articles-then-paywall" model seems to be working for a lot of publications to tackle this and get people to pay, but when your limit is 1 article a month, you can't be too shocked if people go around it. I like the idea of TechCrunch free + paid content, but I wonder how it's working for them.
Please upvote so this can be seen. There are still hundreds if not thousands of people with their funds being held hostage with Coinbase!
Well, VSCode is a bad example. It's open source so if Microsoft decides to ditch it, it can be community maintained until people move to something else. Or another foundation can take over or another company can fork it. Come on, VSCode is a "lightweight" IDE ("lightweight" in terms of features, not in terms of resource demands) and it's one of the better ones.

I remember its first version and my first impression was "WTF". Nowadays it's pretty usable. IE of its era really wasn't. You can switch to anything else if you don't want to use VSCode. IE ... you either couldn't (on a company-issued computer) or you didn't know how (at home). Nadella's Microsoft is a far cry from Ballmer's.
How do you prevent someone from buying a new identity? In the future you describe, there will surely be a market for an internet profile corresponding to a mid-level programmer. If everything is based on task work, a competent developer could farm multiple identities simultaneously, then use each to pull off a different crime or scam.