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You are talking over the parent poster, not trying to understand the situation. Your rosy picture is not in line with my life experience.

I lived in Tokyo where I took the train and walked everywhere. I also lived in Quebec, which is cold and inhospitable during parts of winter.

If you have a car, it's possible to do far more in Quebec than Tokyo. I had a car rental service in tokyo that I used (Times Rentalcar) and often when I needed a car, it was not available — even reserving a week in advance.

Moreover how, exactly, do you intend on restructuring the life of people in cold areas? Are you going to show them Strongtown and Notjustbikes videos and shame them into moving into high density areas?

Speaking of authoritarianism, I even had police in Tokyo ask me for my papers in my house in front of my young children. You may not like it, but "safe" high density living also has a strong police aspect to it with less privacy. I hope you aren't part of an unappreciated minority group in your high density walkable community.
Without strong supporting facts for viability of that "some other substitute" it sounds like "Full self-driving is just around the corner".
That's because SSDs had way lower latency. Upping the pcie gen will speed up sequential reads which were already really fast, but won't speed up random reads (or reduce latency) at all.
> Rules are made to cause trouble for the average law-abiding citizen, but have almost no effect on actual criminals.

I'll bite, how do you think the justice system should work?

Laws and their corresponding punishments are deterrents. And judges have flexibility in applying them to handle issues of accidental vs. intentional rule violation.
> Making Improvements As We Go

> As we port screens to RN, we also look out for opportunities to improve the UX of the app.

I would be curious to hear more about how this went - in my experience trying to do two things at the same time can lead to trouble, tempting as it may be (was it the migration or the upgrade we did along the way that caused this new bug?).
I don't know if this is what you're asking specifically, but I use justwatch.com to see where I can watch stuff. Sometimes (it happened to me last night) one of those weird internet channels has what you're looking for...
> Personally, I'm so sick of the cynicism in general.

Personally, I'm so sick of there not being nearly enough cynicism in general.

I've met cops that aren't total pieces of shit (who all ended up quitting in less than 5 years), but that doesn't mean cops aren't total pieces of shit. If the nature of the job is unethical, you should rightly call it out as such. HR's job is to pretend to be your friend while doing whatever the CEO and the lawyers tell them to do. They're the kind of people who are your friends until suddenly they aren't, and then you realize it was all bullshit to begin with.

You're welcome to disagree. But from my perspective you're naive, and from your perspective I'm cynical.
yeah it's not that technically difficult to build a home, all things considered. there are a lot of other things involved for sure
> You're absolutely right that state sovereignty has been steadily eroding, and I posit that this is to everyone's disadvantage.

The evidence suggests otherwise. When states wield their power on rights, it's usually against the interests of their people until the federal government forces them to stop by removing their power to do so. That doesn't mean the federal government is without issue, but it is the entity designed to protect liberties.

I don't think this is a simple case of tort that could or should vary between states. It's about the freedom of individuals to choose who employs them and protecting them from those with power. The existence of this as a state law would only serve to exist in opposition to states that don't, to the detriment of their citizens.
I'm not sure what you mean by ideally there. Do you mean that the platonic company is a money making machine? If so, that's certainly the case.

In practice, though, isn't it better if companies have non-monetary goals? Think Newman's Own, B-corps, etc.
I guess its using an FPGA as a foreign foundry won't fab something a custom one-way UAV signal processing chip for a sanctioned country & they don't have the technology to fab it themselves ?

And a discrete component version might not be realistically doable or too heavy/expensive.
If the peak current draw were 350kW then I'd agree the specs were fine.

I'd thought they were advertising a 10% to 80% charge because that's the period over which they can charge at max speed? Looking now, it seems like they start tapering at 50%, and it's peak draw is 235kW? https://www.arenaev.com/kia_ev6_crowned_the_best_charging_ev...

(I agree this is very good, but it's still wrong to quote 350kW if they never draw this much.)
HR represents the company. Where your goals and the company's aligns, they can be helpful. Where they diverge, perhaps less so.

I think a lot of these sorts of articles discount the idea that your goals and the company's will frequently align. For example, if you're being harassed, it's very often in the company's interest to stop that happening. It will cause you and perhaps more people to quit if they don't, and there might be legal risk. If you're productive and impactful, it's often in their interest to help you with career goals.

Things get muddy when you e.g. have a problem with your manager, or folks above you. Then HR has to determine which side to back based on what they feel is most helpful to the company's goals, or what is less risky. But even then, consider that they might want to avoid bad press, lawsuits, etc. If the situation is bad for you, it could be bad for the company too, but it's worth thinking about deeply before going to HR.
anything in a large enough company is a cog and should be treated as such

legal, accounting, finance, the lower people in those orgs are best helpful drones, at worst agents of petty chaos
This is my favourite ukulele ceiling

https://youtu.be/D5V4mtZ-0qg
This wouldn't be a widespread practice outside of fields with proprietary data, relationships, or trade secrets, which tend to have better compensation. The costs of having a non-working employee on the payroll, even at the $40k-level need to be worth it. It isn't going to be the case for a random grocery store manager or whatever that they are worth the costs.
According to the International Energy Agency, Europe (includes UK) has 49 thousand fast chargers vs. the USA's 22 thousand. (Also 307 thousand slow chargers vs 92 thousand.)

That's a much bigger difference than I would have expected. Probably the slow charger need is less in the USA with more houses and fewer apartments, but the fast charger requirement should be higher, with longer average journeys and more interstate travel.

I don't often travel by car, so I'm rarely in the kinds of places a fast charger would be located, but on a recent trip to Britain I was surprised to see so many chargers. I think they were in almost all the car parks we used. The UK has 7 thousand fast chargers, 29 thousand slow.

(China's numbers are incredible, 470 thousand fast chargers!)

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2022/trends-in...

https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/
It is an industry. It must therefore be optimized to maximize shareholder value, roi, revenue, etc…

Gambling can be fun, and nothing wrong with casinos, but in the long run they are optimized for one thing. A casino that is not optimized for profit will disappear.

Same is true for the healthcare industry. If a corporation is not optimized to make money they disappear.

I think it’s valuable from a financial perspective to avoid casinos. I think it’s valuable from a health perspective to avoid drugs, to the extent possible. But, yes, casinos can be fun, and you can even profit from them if you play your cards right.
> actually think it is the quickest and easiest way to get started learning Clojure, to a point.

That's great, I was just checking out Clojure a few hours ago and now have it installed. Any other cool blogs and resources the fine folks on here could recommend.
What does tesla batteries have anything to do with this? And california has banned them for years but its tech sector seems to be thriving and much, much stronger than anywhere in Europe that actually enforces them. So what are you basing your prediction on?
1Password’s top four predictions for security in 2023
Is the creator of this repo asking someone else to host the repo on their infrastructure?

No one is forcing him to use GitHub.
You are missing my point. I'm talking about an inside theater use case. In order to recreate an accurate image of what an outside scene looks like 2000 nits is not enough.

This is not about being able to see the image with good enough contrast, it is about creating an image that is life like.
We dont have HR we have HCM - Human Capital Management, which makes you feel even less important.
The Navy was present during every incident listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz#Events, including seizures of oil tankers and cargo ships. Minefields are also a handy option. Iran can and has disrupted traffic through the strait; it's an effective threat even if they can't keep the US Navy out.
In normal countries these are only valid when the previous employer pays for the time you are not allowed to work.

If I work at a bank as a developer then I can go straight to the next one, if the previous employer doesn't keep paying me a compensation for not working at the next bank.

Not being able to 'in sales' as sibling commenter says here is just insane, and should not hold in court anywhere.
Why the law suits. I would say: offer it with a big warning that this is automated and might be bad quality. Those books that have narrated versions can come with a buy extra button to have a professionally narrated version. For which I’m probably more then happy to pay. As an avid reader with 3 kids it’s nice to be able to switch between audio and text book, depending on my availability and context. As such of no professionaly narrated version is available am automated one is way better then nothing.

Also, having the progress sync between digital text book and audio version is a great UX improvement!
Yea 20 years of work and this holds very true. Some are obviously better than others about how the manage employee interests vs theirs, best align both tightly as possible, owning equity for me is key to this.
> America needs carpenters and plumbers. Try telling that to Gen Z

Look, as long as we have a market economy, here's how you tell it to Gen Z: raise the wages for carpenters and plumbers (and if necessary shift some of that forward into subsidies and incentives for people to train as carpenters and plumbers) until you get as many as you say you “need”.

If America isn’t willing to pay enough to get X carpenters and Y plumbers, it doesn’t “need” them.

Most “we need more blue collar labor” arguments trace back to elites who want to retain more profit by paying less per unit blue collar labor.
A brand new with markup replacement of the head unit/smart stuff guts of an ICE car I had was ~$1,500 including labor. That core essentially ran Android with a lot of custom skinning and applications, so essentially a cheap Android tablet slightly hardened to handle the heat of a car parked in the sun. What does a set of 19" wheels cost? A set of tires to put on those wheels? The full brake assemblies? The ABS system? We're easily now past a multiple of that cost of the smart stuff guts/head unit and we' don't actually even have a way to spin those wheels or change their direction much less seats or seatbelts or airbags or, you know, a frame.

The screen and radios are usually pretty darn cheap BOM-wise. You really think a computer with less compute capacity as a cheap modern cell phone makes up a significant portion of the cost of a new car?
> Utrecht

is not representative of common reality.

It is also not much representative of "market forces", cars have to respect very strict "Urban Access Regulations" (similarly across Europe, but in Holland in particular)

Not that it is bad in general, but Utrecht is not a good example of what will happen around the World and actually make a difference.

China + India will soon be inhabited by 3 billion people combined, Utrecht has only 500 thousand residents. It's basically a glitch in the matrix.
The problem there is people often leave one job for a job which might pay 2x, 5x, or even more.

How about if you get another job offer, your original employer has to either "buy you out" of the new job offer, or you allowed to take it?
If you talk to HR employees and ask them whether they feel like an employee or rather as "the employer"... based on my own findings most will tell you that they feel like the employer; even though they're just employees too.
I think this is actually one of those predictions that might not turn out the way you think. Economies are all about supply and demand, not how long or complicated the job title is.

The government is increasingly ignoring the problem, the higher-education-industrial-complex is grabbing workers that would otherwise go into the trades, mass-importation of unskilled labor is slowing down as it becomes more of a political minefield (In the EU and the US).

The confluence of all those factors will squeeze a limited labor pool, and prices will continue to increase. I think it's not unlikely that in 5-10 years we enter a crisis where critical infrastructure starts failing and the government has to start up a "Learn to Weld" program instead of "Learn to Code" program because things have gone so far out of balance.
Indeed, and my push Jevon's paradox.

Really, its one arrow in a portfolio of changes needed.
Thanks for the GoM rec*.

I count Brexit as having already established Oceania (it having marked Airstrip One's independence from Eurasia).

* cool, this totally ties into my other hobby (online radicalisation): http://www.williamengdahl.com
There are antique cast iron boxes that were filled with hot charcoal to keep carriages warm.
Yep. This article says HR works for the company's interests, not yours. I think instead maybe HR works for HR's interests.
Debunking Outliers
derived great joy from this.
Sounds like the name of an illegal warez / software / movie release group.
If you’re in any big city, you’re not going to get more than a “consultation” of half an hour for $100. Most of the answers you’ll get in that meeting are the ones you can find by a quick Google search, anything more and it will cost you a lot more.

The only cheap option, if you’re lucky, is the local bar association usually does pro bono office hours that you could possibly sign up for and get in. Those don’t work for time sensitive issues like when you have to sign a contract by X date.
And broad sanctions amount to economic blockades which leads to massive civilian suffering. You can't let that farmer repair his tractor because the parts could be used in a drone.

War is hell. Sanctions/blockades are evil and ineffective outside of destroying entire countries.
The whole concept of a "human resources" department was developed as a response to workers organizing unions to bargain over terms and conditions of employment. Whatever the flaws of some unions, they are ultimately economically dependent on their members, and the officers are elected. HR is accountable only to executives.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/human-resources-me-too-sexu...
But that is kinda my point, with how society is right now of course people want to keep their cars. I'm not talking about banning them. I want society to move in a direction where it's easier to not own a car, so people voluntarily prefer not to have their own.
I believe the reason is much simpler - 2017-2019 was a peak of hopes for Tesla. New models, scaling up, Roadster, Semi, Cybertruck announced, the competition was weak and sky was the limit. FSD / Robotaxi was promised to be ready in matter of weeks/months.

The shares were around $20-25 (today's worth, taking in account the splits). I do not see any reason why it would be worth more than that.

- Roadster and Cybertruck are not only late, they were even removed from their landing page. DOA. Ford, Rivian and even GM brought solid product (pickups) to the market and the fat cake is being eaten.
- Semi was very late and doesn't look too promising.
- FSD turned from an advantage to a huge liability. I believe it has now a negative value (current and potential future lawsuits).
- competitors started producing comparable or better cars at better prices (VW ID3, Mercedes EQE, any EVs from Hyundai/Kia)
- there's a strong perception of Elon being bored with Tesla. We've got a billion dollar ship with no captain.

I do not believe in Elon's political involvement having such a great impact, other than taking his attention away.
You aren’t poor. Poor people need cars.
Georgia man is falsely arrested after facial recognition tech gets it wrong
But you are moving the goal posts here. The person I responded to didn't say compared to similar places without the same walkability. They said "the fact that America's most walkable and transit-accessible neighborhoods are also the most expensive and highest demand". Granite bay shows this to not be a fact.
too bad people's brains can't process stuff like that. they can only do a single level of "do i agree with the outcome" and not whether or not its actually legal or sets a bad precedent. or god forbid, think what powers that would give their political opponent when they take power.

student debt was another one. whether or not you agree with forgiving it, it's deeply disturbing for the president to knowingly do something unconstitutional and do an endrun around congress' power of the purse. With the hope that no one has standing to challenge it
I've noticed this as well. Especially going through layoffs. It's not "people" getting "fired," it's "resources impacted." Oh, it's also not a "layoff," it's a "reduction in force."

Maybe I'm old-school, but give it to me straight.
plus, you have to trust you judgement that said expert is a good expert and at that point might as well just risk it and go without

all experts are mostly useful after 10k-100k and even then they suck.
Where does that 90% figure come from? The state of the art appears to be 99%.
Actually make a production car that people could buy.

He bought into a car company that made no cars. The people trying to imply he bought his way into the auto industry are trolling just as much as Elon does all while complaining about Elon trolling. Sure he wasn't a Founder of Tesla in the technical sense, but everything important that happened, happened after he bought it.
If you hold a de-facto monopoly on certain taw materials, you are legally obliged to share it with competitors.
We still have DARPA. We also have ARPA-E, ARPA-H, and HSARPA.

A variety of DOE national labs and core facilities (including NCSA where Mosaic was developed) still exist and are funded.

We may need more to take up the slack of the corporate research facilities.
> even the resolution of their images are classified

Yeah, but physics isn't. Good resolution requires large mirrors. Large mirrors require large satellites. These aren't cubesats we're talking about; optical American spy satellites have 2.4 meter wide mirrors and are more than 10 meters long. The only non-US/Chinese/Russian rocket that can launch such a satellite in principle is the Ariane 5, but AFAIK they don't fly that to polar orbits.

In any case, not many people have the equipment laying around to make such large mirrors, or the expertise, or a stockpile of such mirrors. Russia likely has all three, or certainly once did.
Competition helps consumers with pricing. We don't have that now.

Apple can and does charge whatever they want. From a capitalistic point of view that's fine IMHO.

But not allowing alternative app-stores and controlling what apps there can do (i.e. forced to use their dated webview and their payment options, can't have copy/links to point to alternative payments etc) or simple stalling apps in the inconsistent 'review' process for weeks/months, hurts the consumer and developer. i.e. lack of market forces.

If your city/country had just one supermarket with unlimited shelf space (i.e. the Apple app store), they could and will charge whatever checkout-fee they wanted (which ultimately gets passed onto the consumer). They disallow alternative stores from springing up that could cater for alternatives. They can prevent your cereal from appearing on the shelf because it's not unique enough or goes against their politics/principals.

I'm an adult I don't need to be coddled.

With this in mind, one can understand why people are starting to use the word 'monopoly' more and more.

I believe in the free market and that's why I write for the web, where there's free competition. Feel free to compete with me and charge whatever you can.
Application defined functions are exposed to SQL. At the beginning of each tick an entry point query is executed. Everything flows from there.

Makes integrating computation and data very easy for domain experts.
I dont understand those bad experiences with HR here

All hr stuff that ive been involved in was getting hired, questions about taxes, days off calculations and health provider related stuff

Like... what happened to you?
One is regarding your bullshit post, the other is a statement of fact.
Ah, my way of dealing with memory allocation failure is to write a xmalloc/xcalloc/xrealloc that exit on error. So the idea would be that the library users can just:

#unded malloc
#define malloc xmalloc
...

I suppose I could make this the default behavior, and make it overwritable.
Qualcomm, Lenovo flag multiple high impact firmware vulnerabilities
Dev blog / dev milestones / product roadmap?
Dupe. Already submitted 8 times within the past 2 days. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It's disappointing when submitters fail to search first.
Came to the comments and found my blog mentioned. Aw schucks.
Sure. We want the grain the sparrows are eating! We need to kill the sparrows so there is more grain to eat!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
If someone's going to drive company culture, why shouldn't it be HR? They seem well qualified to do so. For example, someone in HR would be in a good position to do the research to figure out if work-from-home improves productivity or employee happiness, and they would also understand the tax and legal implications of a possible work-from-home policy.
> and may carry individual consequences.

Ah! Love the chilling effects you give off, dear shadowgovt!

In seriousness, more instances of opaque censorship/cancellation will lead to more attrition of centralized platforms already collapsing under their own weight.
I tend to work for smaller companies so I've been laid off a few times. I've hired employment lawyers each time. I've paid them approx $2K-$3K each time and have receive much more back.
How did Shopify choose between React Native and Flutter?
"HR aren’t evil, they’re just doing a job".
HR people aren't evil, they are just people who have freely decided to apply evil and cynical policies 8h a day 5 days a week on a group of other people.