skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fines are up to 10% of global revenue for the first offense, and 20% for repeat offenses.

For Alphabet (Google) the revenue distribution from 2015 to 2021 was approximately 33% for all of Europe, Middle-east, and Africa. It's unclear to me the actual European numbers since they are combined EMEA.

For Apple in 2021 the revenue was approximately 23% for Europe (no middle-east or Africa).

For Facebook in 2021 the revenue was also approximately 23% for Europe (no middle-east or Africa).

So it's safe to say that a first offense would potential halve the revenue for the region, and a second offense would remove the financial rationale of doing business in the region.
I get that being passionate about a job, bringing all your skills and all you have to a cause you believe in can create a fire. And isn't that a goal of life? To have a fire, a purpose? So kudos to her for finding that. That being said, a culture that demands that kind of hours is a culture that limits who will work there. Forget having young children. Forget having a time-consuming hobby outside of work. Forget even having a good social life. For some people, that is a worthwhile trade-off. For others, it isn't. Those others might be the very kind of people who could contribute a lot to your company, but they won't work there for long.

I think companies who encourage that kind of work environment are, to some degree, missing the forest for the trees. They get a lot of hours out of their employees, but they can only hire from a small section of the population. Potentially valuable employees are not available to such companies, and I think often this hurts the companies in the long run.
Between candidates (the tournament) and the event (the championship between current champ and challenger) there is a large gap so the top two can have time to study each other. Other tourneys you aren’t putting in so much prep about all your possible opponents because there are too many of them.
That sucks. For what it's worth, "old-school" Toyota headunits with Bluetooth seem to work quite well (for Bluetooth). The ones that came with graphics/more complex CPUs seem to have gone downhill.

You can try to install an older model OEM headunit in your car to see if that fixes your Bluetooth. Certain models had really decent sound, are cheap when found used online, and should have the same connectors in the back (depending on speaker options). Here's an example of replacing your headunit: https://thetrackahead.com/projects/2003-toyota-4runner/the-u...

Also, I think Auto-play is a setting in the headunit, in mine anyway. If not, your phone may have a setting for it.
There's no particular reason preventing us from having interoperable E2E; we could already have interoperable E2E e-mail today if we wanted. Securely bootstrapping key exchange could be done through having one phone take a picture of a QR code on the other phone. Though, to be fair, I have no idea if any existing E2E services actually let you do this. "In-band"/electronic key introduction does require the message server operator to act as a trusted bootstrapper, but nobody seems to be worrying about that as-is.

The real concern with interoperable messaging is antispam. E-mail was an absolute disaster because there was no barrier to entry for someone who just wants to send unsolicited garbage to everyone. Google killed federated messaging for Google Chat back in the day because for every one person running their own XMPP server there were hundreds who realized Google was just giving away valuable real estate on everyone's Gmail inbox to this chat service. The EU appears to be trying to mandate federation to fix the competition problems involved with iMessage[0] and I genuinely hope there's a user opt-out for this when it inevitably gets abused for spam.

[0] Which, ironically, is more of an American problem than a European one
That’s why this attempt to stay anonymous — or even more ambitiously, prevent metadata from being aggregated to reveal mass patterns among many users - is useless.

Eventually, everything will be collected using an actual use case — contacts, photos etc. — and the AI will process it and make deepfakes of anything.

We won’t be able to trust any video evidence. The future is about watermarking and signing stuff using your own private keys. And even then, someone can just announce their private keys somewhere and have plausible deniability after that. Too many such renunciations though would be suspicious.

The world is going to be as unfamiliar to us, breaking enough of our assumptions, as when people didn’t know about gramophones and televisions and instant communication, assuming that it would take time for a messenger to get a message out. Today we expect a ton of info to flow over always-on connections. Similarly our assumptions about identity and privacy and democracy are going to be totally smashed by AI and bots soon.

Swarms of bots using GPT-4 and deepfakes will be able to drown out the vanishingly tiny amount of information that all the humans writing online produce, and adversarial networks will make them far more effective at convincing a crowd of humans thay X event happened or to support Y policy, or even rewrite history and science. The sams way that AlphaZero defeated AlphaGo which defeated human players, because it had far more combinations than all humanity combined did, and then downloaded the learnings to each node (Leela and others do the same).

All that is missing is decentralized swarms of bots, that have no single point of failure, and can update their weights autonomously.

I will go even further and say that CAPTCHAs will become irrelevant. Humans won’t be the primary economic actor for online services, because botnets will control far more capital and everyone will do some work for a botnet, such as being a caretaker etc. No one will even know or care who is giving the assignment or writing to them anymore.

The sad part about this is that botnets based on GPT3 and deepfakes are simply bullshittes that don’t understand things like Cyc — they literally throw bullshit at a wall and see what sticks. It’s sad but this will collectively outperform collective human reasoning at convincing humans because ALL our systems are vulnerable to be subverted that way.
Anything that Netflix serves higher resolution pictures to has a closed encrypted renderer and protected memory right down to the HDMI controller with driver and hardware certificate signing to make sure you can't do this.

That is literally what Widevine Level 1 is.
Google has "data centers" internally. People argue about the various definitions but a DC is usually one or a few buildings containing several clusters, each of which is fairly "close" to all its components.
For all this talk about climate change & global warming, green-washing companies sure do seem to be making a lot of dollar.
I was talking about 3000 nautical miles, which is a bit more than 5000 km. The section above the one you're referencing.

> For example, for a 5,000 km range small neo-Panamax ship, we estimate that a 5 GWh battery with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry, with a specific energy of 260 Wh kg−1 (ref. 34), will weigh 20,000 t [...].

Even then, a ship with 5000 km range is only useful in very limited circumstances. 3000 km range is almost useless.
https://www.mpg.de/8426203/escitalopram-brain
Not many I'd wager. France seemed pretty elitist to me.

The company I used to work for had the HQ in France, and there, all the devs doing the stressful mediocre pay grunt work, were all Mohamed and Ahmed immigrants from North Africa, while all the suit & tie managers with expensive haircuts doing nothing but have coffee and joke around for 4 hours/day, were native white French dudes.

I wish this was a meme though, but this is my anecdote from my time there.
Let's say you are analyzing a crashdump or a memory image after a compromise or developing malware or exploit primitives. Api functions are one thing but making sense if the data in memory or abusing api (and non-api) functions is easier when you see all the hidden structures available.
> they can just figure it out

Yes, but that is computationally expensive at the ISP level. Turning on deep packet inspection for one user is way overkill. Doing it for everyone? Congrats, you've just completely trashed out your core. Performance tanks. You lose customers.

It is opportunistically expensive, as well. Tracking down users on a case-by-case basis costs a lot in real time, as well as human work hours.

It is almost never worth it to an ISP do to this type of inspection -- ie, 'just figure it out' -- unless they are being compelled to.
It’s not a popular opinion around here, but the reason I like my iPhone is _because_ it’s a walled garden. It just works, reliably, without surprises, for years on end.
We all need such tactics rn!
Billing is still quite a pain, especially usage-based, when you're growing fast and iterating on your pricing.

Another significant pain is cash collection: it takes too much time for poor results and antagonizes customers. + there's a compounding effect of your uncollected invoices every month to the point where you end up writing off invoices...
At Upflow (YC W20), we consider that MRR should be what you collect, not what you invoice.
That's why we help companies collect their cash faster with our 2 click integrations to your invoicing tool and customer payment portals.

YC companies can actually benefit from a great discount right now => look for it in Bookface.
>The object of a public transportation system is to transport the public, not individual people

"Individual people" comprise "the public".

>That means mass design considerations

In a town of 49,000 people, and where there are only 5 buses that run once per hour, I think such considerations isn't really worth considering, at least compared to the convenience factor of not having to wait 1 hour.
almost like life is an MVP that could pivot at any time
70 here, and working on an automated order taker for restaurant drive-thrus.

My role is part Developer Experience Engineer (making sure our developers are happy and productive), part Roving Troubleshooter, and part whatever else needs to get done.

One of our most important metrics is obviously how many orders we complete on our own without crew intervention. So I spend a lot of time looking at our chat logs from the stores to figure out why we had to escalate to the crew - or why they decided to take over the order.

"Welcome to McDonald's. What can I get for you?"

The running joke on our team as that most of us don't eat at McDonald's that often. But there is one sandwich I really like, you just have to customize it a bit.

"I'd like a fish filet, no cheese, with lettuce and pickles"

They use real fish in this, wild caught Alaskan pollock.

"Got it. Anything else?"

"A guava pie and that's it."

The guava cream cheese pie is really nice. A friend suggested we try it, and I was skeptical. But I would order it again any time. Not overly sweetened like I feared, and good flavor.

Disclosure: I work for IBM on this and currently our exclusive customer is McDonald's. (And it should be obvious that I don't get paid extra when you order one of my recommendations.)
It is disappointing to see that so many (otherwise smart people) think that the first generation covid 'vaccines' (yes, the ones cdc had to change the definition of vaccine for) stop transmission. They don't - hence the argument that one should have to take them to 'protect' ones coworkers falls apart.

Be honest and reflect for a minute on how many people you know who have gotten covid recently. Do you think they all got it from unvaccinated people? Why are the majority of the mutations in spike protein then? Could it be selective pressure applied by a vaccine that was leaky from the start?

I'm sorry but mandating an experimental new drug is unethical, so yes I chose to adhere to my principles and I accept the consequences. My point was some people are out of the work force due to these unethical mandates.

ETA I have taken all other vaccines courses, participated in a different experimental vaccine clinical trial (where I felt comfortable making informed consent) and sat on the safety committees of at least 4 different biotech companies for some perspective.
Lack of citation does not make it a "pet theory".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6767816/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01744-z

Go search it before being rude
The fundamental conflict between a founder and employees is the difference that founders/investors are only rewarded when things get done and there is external success (customers, acquisitions). That's company success.

There are many reasons that mindset is hard to spread among employees. Starting with: employees are more risk averse and don't want to be paid only when the company closes sales; they want a monthly paycheck. And ending with: as a company grows, the level of "information" of the company grows; it becomes too much for specialist employees to understand the full context of the organization, industry, business model, financials, customers, product, design etc.

It's very hard to spread the 'founder' mentality to employees. Many people in this thread seem to suggest that it's morally wrong for employees to have a 'founder' mentality because they don't have the same level of equity stake.

The reality is, it's much harder for any company to succeed without people putting care into the results. And if a company doesn't succeed, they have to layoff employees.
As a small time hobby / small business server administrator (enthusiast) , what's the best practice here?
The user has to explicitly request the erasure.
Oh! That's clever.
Sometimes people ask me why I'm so skeptical about software delivery techniques involving bundling and static compilation. This is a thing that people sometimes ask.
I used to be on call too and it sucked. At some point I even bought a personnal pocket laptop specifically so I can still go on bicycle rides when on-call, I also did paddle surfing with phone connected to a bluetooth speaker so I can go back home in case of alert.

Now that I am working for a company who has team members in all timezones this on-call thing doesn't make sense anymore. I understand some companies are not in a global market in term of customers but I don't see why their IT/dev teams couldn't employ people from all over the world. You are much more efficient responding to alerts during your own local office hours than when you were just woken up 30s before in the middle of the night and can barely open your eyes with the laptop backlight on.

Obviously doesn't apply to the one taking care of datacenter duties.
I don’t think that counts as a “depends” if it involves the use of another tool.
Most people only have single phase power here in the US with +120 and -120 legs separated by 180 degrees angle. The power company steps the voltage down from a single phase on the distribution wires. Circuit breaker panels are set up with alternating legs so that the neutral current is approximately balanced whether you fill up the panel on one side first or from top down.
What intent constitutes 'breaking'?
What?

The EU has enacted GDPR, 178/2002/EC (food safety), 44/1999/EC (consumer protection), any number of consumer protection Regulations and Directives.
Making guns harder to access probably reduces suicide rates as well because there are few faster, easier methods of suicide than a gun[1]. I think it's valid to lump gun suicides with other gun violence for this reason.

> The consensus among public health experts is that there is strong evidence that reducing firearm suicides in contexts where more-lethal means of attempting suicide are unavailable will result in reductions in the total suicide rate (see, for example, Office of the Surgeon General and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, 2012; World Health Organization, 2014; for review, see Azrael and Miller, 2016).

[1] https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/suicide.ht...
The actual problem is that government is going to lose 35 billion per year in tax revenue, and they are trying to prevent that. What they actually spend that money on is secondary, they just need a good story to tell to their voters :)
Logitech bluetooth wireless and apple airpods specifically. Logitech over their own wireless protocol, or any other set of wireless headphones is fine.

I have three sets of bluetooth headphones that I use on a rotating basis daily with my logitech bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and they are all dead reliable... well dead reliable for bluetooth devices
Because when great players realize they have a position that they connect win are still able to figure out how to force a draw so they don't lose.

> I could imagine that a perfect play completely contradicts common chess theory.

So can anyone. Nobody knows what perfect chess play is. Our best guess though is that whatever your opponent plays you can always force a draw before they can win.
You should have marked this comment with a warning.
"One micro service per day" is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time and I also threw up a little.

Good for you that you left though :-)
I am not sure that's a good idea. Now phones are rarely stolen. I would not like to come back to time when you get mugged for your phone. (1st hand experience)
Use react UI to create attractive applications
The blue star tattoo legend made it's way around my primary school twice while I was there.
Pretty much everything directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski is worth watching.
Interesting article. Hope that disk doesn’t suffer from the 40,000hr bug.
Regex is much simpler than Git, but also the different regex implementations in use have a lot of subtle and less subtle differences, whereas there is roughly only one Git.
Most don't even know that they can leetcode themselves to a way higher salary. And if you got a PhD in something, it's very hard on your ego to leave it behind. Plus the corporate propaganda on taking a paycut to do "cool things" works very well. Look at how many smart people work at SpaceX
If the will (and financial muscle) was there, this might have actually been the spark needed for a tenacious 3rd player in the mobile OS space.
I’m not an economist by profession but I suspect (and at some point want to try and model) that one’s carbon footprint is just a linear function of three variables: the amount of money spent, the fraction of all money that’s in active circulation in the economy, and the fraction of clean energy in the total economy.

If you pay google 100 bucks, and See how google spends that money: it saves some, pays off its employees, it spends on infra and then finally on actual energy. Saved money is never accessed if parked. What it gives to other companies and people will spawn the same split we created when we paid google ad infinitum. Money spent on infra can have an outsized environmental impact (plastic, concrete) but I’m hoping we can ignore it, and the Final expenditure is pure energy.

I feel like if you keep breaking down every Avenue parts of your 100 bucks goes into, it’ll eventually go to creating energy more or less. Even if you choose google because they use green energy, the employees who are paid by google will use amazon powered Netflix so it might not matter any more than what’s the fraction of green energy in the total economy.

Thus the only solution to reduce your carbon footprint is to pretty much just spend less money! But no one wants that do they? They just want to have their cake and also eat it so we are just doomed.

Been outlining this for an article for a while, comments , prior research and criticism appreciated! https://www.ramrajv.com/blog/how-to-truly-reduce-your-carbon...
All true. At the same time it will undeniably increase opportunities for criminal actors.
For a technical user, usually not a problem (like it is currently the case on Android). For an ordinary user caught in the hype of the day, not so much.
Key difference: homes and small businesses buy electricity at a fixed rate, large datacenters are big enough for dynamic prices. In a market that doesn't completely abandon fixed rate prices this isn't really possible for smaller customers, because offering dynamic rates requires some trust that the consumer doesn't abuse the fixed rate by dynamically selecting whatever is cheaper at the time. This trust can only be established for consumers large enough for people checking the numbers and perhaps even the occasional audit.
Why is the EU able to pass pro-consumer laws, but America unable to? Are big tech companies just unable to properly bribe the European Union like they do the American Government?
I wholeheartedly disagree and I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. I was pointing out that using the gun 'as a gun', so to speak, would make no sense whatsoever in space.
> many cyclists [...] aren't going the speed limit.

It's a speed upper limit, not a minimum.
Are you upset when an agricole machine is using the public roads?

This "annoyance" against people not travelling at the speed limit on public roads is based on a lack of time management and the expectation that the road is empty. This is a selfish point of view.

When I want to control my travelling time, I walk or cycle. When I want comfort, I use public transportation or my car.
The practice of letter writing has decreased in volume to the extent that it is not unlikely that, if the trend continues, postal services will be discontinued at some point in the future. Perhaps business letters, official letters and ads will keep the services afloat, but even if many people can barely hand-write a letter anymore.

I lament this development as I enjoyed writing letters to friends up to the late
1990s.

It is true that a lot of media are very volatile; the Web is rapidly changing and the only protection from loss is archive.org (make sure to submit your blog there if you care about its content's online preservation). As has been pointed out by others before, future historians will not have an easy time researching our days due to the lack of physical information artifacts (letters, diaries).
We saw this play out with the money from tobacco settlements a few decades ago; states see sin taxes as a windfall that can substitute for sustainable budgeting.
The most important criteria for me is that I only be on call for the things I built. Night and day difference in terms of tolerability.

If it wakes me, I should have built it better. So I work really hard to build things that don’t page. So I actually want to be on call for the quiet and reliable things I built, in order to experience the reward for all that effort.
Does this mean that you can install a stock version of Android and Google can't prevent apps from running because they fail "safetynet" or what ever it is called.
Make sure you have the time to patch/update your applications when security issues are raised.
Dunno how it works in UK, but in US, there are local roads, state roads, and federal roads. There are also local, state, and federal gas taxes that vary by jurisdiction. The funds from these gas taxes are used to finance new highway and roadway construction and maintenance of existing roads. Sometimes, a special tax is levied at the local level for specific local roadway projects. But the big infrastructure projects are almost entirely paid for by gas taxes.

Either way, the point of the tax has never been to "punish pollution".
What HackerNews thinks will happen: "zomg, I will finally be able to run Arch on my iPhone!"

What will actually happen: "honey, something is wrong with my phone, whenever I unlock it, a popup jumps up that says 'Please update the Adobe™ Updater™ to get up to date Adobe™ Software Updates', could you take a look at it?"
According to thoese of use who care about the future stability of our societies. Waste of talent is not correct it's more like talent actively being used for harm.
One micro service a day keeps real work away !
Except in Switzerland.