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Not the person who said it, and I’m in favor of rails, bike paths, etc being the basis of any multifaceted transit system.

That being said, augmenting a public transit system with something like self-driving cars would be good for older people, or anyone with limited mobility, who may not be able to handle the amount of walking required with most public transit options.

I don’t think I’d include the poor in the list of people who would benefit, as I would expect a dedicated car driving for doorstep to doorstep would be more expensive than a train or bus which has scheduled stops.

I live in an area with poor public transit, and my parents both live in areas with no public transit options at all. They are 70 now and eventually they will get to the point where they can no longer drive safely. Having a way to get around would allow them to maintain their freedom and independence. Without that, giving up their license will mean depending on family or friends to do anything that requires leaving the house. Uber would be an option for my dad, but unlikely for my mom as she lives in a more rural area, and I’d imagine it would get expensive. I did just look up options for my mom if she has to give up her car. There is a service available from the county that runs from 7am - 3:30pm, Mon - Sat. If she wants/needs to go anywhere in the evening or on Sunday, she’d be out of luck. They also require 3 days notice to pick someone up for a doctor’s appointment, and an hour+ for anything else.

While writing this I also remembered a guy I used to work with who had seizures, so he couldn’t drive. He took the bus to work and it would take him about 2 hours. Since it was a night shift job and the buses didn’t run late, he also ended up getting to work extremely early and then just had to wait for his shift to start. Co-workers often gave him a ride home after learning about all this, as it was less than 20 minutes by car. Having some faster and more direct options would be nice for areas with horribly slow bus services, or with limited hours.

Maybe the transit providers could use the car data to inform them on future transit routes that should be built. That way we can reduce the number of cars that need to be on the road over time, and do it in a way that makes the biggest impact.
I don't know of any technology that can respond to the injury of its passengers by sending them to the hospital. That doesn't mean it can't happen, it just isn't a reality yet. I hope it gets there and most importantly I believe it can get there.

If it fails 10% or the time that sounds like a great start and I hope they can improve it! 10% failure rate seems like a great process that could be improved.

Again, I'm interested in why capitalism makes you pessimistic about technological advancement. Capitalism seems pretty good at advancing technology. Let me ask you a question, why do you think "capitalism" can get such a system to 10% failure and then stop improving forever? That seems pretty random to me. I'm interested in why you think that!

Also, why do you think it's a zero sum game? E.g. we can cure cancer and make self driving cars better at the same time! It's pretty sweet actually.
> Who's to say that other "loud" aliens haven't already expanded and begun spacefaring, but simply are not expanding out to where we are?

By definition if they're loud and we can't see them, they're not within the volume of our visible universe.

> I might be missing something here, but why would alien (or any) civilizations continually expand at a constant rate?

This assumes they keep multiplying and colonizing outward. There is no real upper limit - except, eventually, the accelerating expansion rate of the universe that keeps them from reaching further. Because the colonized volume is so large, we don't really assume these colonized volumes form a coordinated empire. It would be more like a loose tangle of city states spread across a vast landscape. They might share common heritage, technology and some amount of culture, but be otherwise independent.
I was actually wondering, "how could they have shot themselves in the foot standards-wise by ignoring an XML version, if a JSON version would be first-class?
I'm not exactly sure what a community college is, but in view of the discussion about "Fachhochschulen" above, I want to note that Fachhochschulen do indeed have professors.
Minimal Linux Bootloader debugging story
https://elliott.computer/palm/intro.html
> improving my posture through small and gradual optimizations

Would appreciate it if you could share more.

(I am suffering from back pain from several years)
Assuming you actually can hire the best people, and somehow do so in an affordable manner when half the planet applies, that's a great strategy.

But I'd expect a very low number of firms to succeed at that.
I am afraid you're right. On the other hand, in my experience, writing an academic text is rarely straightforward, with a lot of forth-and-back involved. Ultimately, a human must decide whether the diffs look more like such a pattern or a script-generated one.

Edit. Btw, you can use Git with Word's docx-format out of the box. Docx is a zip folder with XML inside; git-diff will show text changes. Further, there's git-merge-driver for merging various file formats (https://github.com/Praqma/git-merge-driver).
Buying a burner phone would certainly make the $40 swatting service a lot less profitable.

Having to be geographically present in the same city, might increase the risk and cost a LOT.
I see your point but I am not sure where you are going with this?

Even if only 50% of the pedestrians killed were sober - isn't that enough of a crisis to act?

1500 children younger than 14 years died in traffic in the US in 2021.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/age-group....
I thought the same think. And it is super common in manga and anime, so a lot of people know wordslike aho, baka, kuso to have a bad meaning in japanese.
Like....Futurama style? Where new York is still there in its entirety just buried under New New York?
I've seen some recent data on the salaries they're offering in my area. I like Gitlab but wouldn't be prepared to make those kinds of sacrifices to apply there.
At one point the article quotes the force, saying that they must take all calls as credible, and investigate.

I can just imagine.. guy gets swatted, then the cops stop coming, then he gets attacked for real ..

And at the same time, the officers responding have a right to protect themselves, which means treating it as credible.

Of course the middle ground is they respond as if real, except they just talk to the guy.

The problem 100% is the swatters. They should get decades in jail for repeated calls like this. And yes the swatters are harassing the guy, regardless of the police issue, any other stance is absurd.

And yes, the police should be working with the victim.
The server can deliberately send packets down those QUIC streams faster than the protocol would normally.

Typically that results in the client getting their download faster, but harming other users on the network (whose downloads slow down)
But the money stay in the country and increase the chance that the employee eventually starts their own business, possibly using the cheaper workforce as an advantage.
I've used Javalin as well and now I understand why it all looked pretty familiar, but I kept thinking "Javalin did x better".
I can recommend Javalin as well!
Having used the Spring Framework, this is a delight in comparison.
Especially the setup is infinitely easier.
(I know Spring Boot exists, but that's just a preselected pile of software that I have to understand)
Since when people chose where to be born?
Another point is taxes, sometimes even though gross is lower, the net is higher (i.e. Belgium and Estonia)
this seems extremely inefficient.

attaching a role-based policy to data fields (or storing it alongside data) should be enough.
I installed the app using the same dmg and didn't get any popup asking for "system events.app" control. Could you share which version of MacOS you are running? is it an intel Mac or Apple Silicon Mac?

Let me borrow my friend's macbook tmrw to try installing on a fresh device and see if I can repro your issue! This is a simple electron app and shouldn't require any special permissions.
Except that it won't be that way forever. 30% of that generation goes away in 4 years. The rate of solar and wind generators coming onto the grid is massive, putting pressure on the brown coal generators.

We are also not talking about ripping out the existing install base of appliances.

It will take at least a decade or two for that switch to reach a critical mass. That's the point when it becomes uneconomic to continue operating the domestic piped LNG network in Victoria.
Apple’s approach to back compatibility was always give a stopgap to bridge generations. The irony is they would undergo heroics to support that back compat across generations (Mac 68k emulator, Classic environment, Rosetta, Rosetta 2) only to unceremoniously dump that work as soon as they could.

Microsoft can be almost religious about back compat to where long standing bugs won’t get fixed lest they break something (or special compatibility shims have to be built in to maintain those bugs for certain apps). You can’t run any Mac OS software from the 1990s on a modern Mac without emulation, but you can still run plenty of Windows software from the same time period as-is on a modern PC.

Of course one can argue which approach makes the most sense and there’s certainly merits to both.
> It is however a very unpopular government so I don't know if those policies will hold long term.

Doesn't matter as the investor trust is destroyed.
Hotjar used to do this, with a heavy bias for EMEA timezone overlap.
He’s absolutely being harassed by the swatters.

I agree that he’s being terrorised by the police. The police should face consequences for allowing themselves to be used like this.

I don’t understand why you want to let the swatters off the hook. They should absolutely be going to jail.
> This then lead to the discovery that we didn't have any backups as a result of the system not working for a long time, as well as the system meant to notify us of any backup errors not working either.

This seems to be entirely normal for startups. I've asked about it during interviews.
contracts that have contradictory clauses, might generally find those clauses to be nulled out by the courts.

in this case using the term "buy" and in their ToS use the terms license / termination, might find the front and center "buy" term causes the license / termination terms to be nulled out, as the concept of "buy" doesn't fit with the concept of "license" and "termination".
European Union Blocking Statute
You might be right, if we assume that everyone who takes these high paying remote jobs also makes sure to never ever spend the money they earn locally, either.

However, if I was earning an order of magnitude more money than I currently am, I might want to pay a little extra to go to the really good barber, or to eat at the really nice restaurant at the riverbank. Or, hell, I might just employ a cleaning service every week, to save myself a few hours' time vacuuming my apartment. These necessarily local services will also see their revenues rise. To me that seems to be a more important effect on the local economy at large.
FizzBuzz as an example of 2/3: people used to occasionally talk about how interviewees were just memorizing the answer, and when they tweaked it slightly (like adding a 3rd number), a bunch of them could no longer solve it.
It depends on the country:

"In most [UK] universities, professorships are reserved for only the most senior academic staff, and other academics are generally known as 'lecturers', 'senior lecturers' and 'readers'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_K...
The sandbox and review processes are completely separate from each other. Technically if the review process was flawless Apple wouldn't need a sandbox in iOS.

Yeah sure, things that attempt to break out of the sandbox will not be caught before ending up running on a users phone, but this also gives Apple somewhere to learn about novel sandbox escaping techniques from, so they can eventually patch them.
are you suggesting a better way?
Yeah those companies don't exist because they would be wasting money. Salary isn't "location based", it's "competitive salary based". It just happens that competitive salaries strongly depend on location.

If you were to forget about location and just say "we'll negotiate all salaries" then you would end with exactly the same result because people in NL are willing to work for much lower salaries than people in SF.

I don't get why so many smart programmers don't understand this basic fact of economics. Eh maybe they do understand it and are just jealous of insane SF salaries (I certainly am!).

I would be wary of demanding equal pay by location anyway because you'll end up with all jobs moving to India.
Para social relationships are pretty much by definition detrimental to both parties and society at large already.
The Early Development of Project Gutenberg C.1970–2000
Rarely was my burnout caused by actual work. It’s usually caused by management being asshats.
An Army Officer Faced Jail Time for Spying on Girls Then The Pentagon Stepped In
TL;DR: It is illegal for European citizens and companies to boycott Iran (and Cuba).

Important to post this because many European citizens and companies are unknowingly admitting to breaking the law when they post about boycotting Iran for supplying drones/missiles to Russia.
We all do love the golang web toolkit.

https://gorilla.github.io/
Almost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
Haven't GitHub been moving out of rails into go based micro services? Even their frontend I think is now just react
Indeed. I don't understand why a remote company would want to pay top dollar for a mediocre developer living in the US, while refusing to pay the same for an exceptional developer living somewhere else.
Terrible managers are the bane of our industry. OTOH, many startups owe their existence to their founders having had to deal with terrible managers in their previous jobs. The story of the traitorous eight and Fairchild semiconductors comes to mind. In my own life, if it weren't for getting a non-technical but political and vindictive manager in my last job, I probably wouldn't have had the motivation to start my own startup. In hindsight, I wish I'd been assigned a manager as bad as the last one I had, earlier in my career. :)
Simply being expensive isn’t anti competitive. I wasn’t suggesting tbat.
It’s tangential at best but there is a better way than all of this nonsense.

Your employer can declare and direct tax owed from your paycheck directly each month. Come end of year you can click like 3 links in a tax portal to ensure you’ve not overpaid and that’s the extent of your tax worries.

We obviously don’t have a perfect system here in Ireland (far from it) but Jesus Christ America, your tax system is absolutely insane to Europeans.
The big clouds already do this by continent.
> stronger consumer protections

Consumers must be protected from anything that might make them consider not using TurboTax!
Now see that's an interesting problem space to be in. Keen eye.

To me it seems like a really exciting place to apply recent innovations in LLMs. If LLMs can chew through thousand page legal binders like toilet paper, there's no reason they can't chew through a thousand 1-page resumes and spit out "These are the ten most promising ones based off of our statistical analysis." Firms can specialize in the production, hosting and fine tuning of these LLMs, and even play both sides of the market by allowing candidates to see how good their resume looks for a given job description.

I think this is much likely to become a lot more common in the latter half of the 2020s.
Do the other computers detect the lack of a display when they're switched on the monitor?
This may work if you are only hiring senior people, but imagine hiring some mid level or junior employee. if US junior salary is Poland senior salary, would you willing to hire the senior dev from Poland to junior position ?
detection of what exactly?
Apple's .Ai Domain Purchase Signals Relaunch of iWork
This robot can figure out how to open almost any door on its own
I'm pretty sure someone making 2-4x their local salary for a remote company and paying taxes is healthier for the economy than working your ass off (or not) for a local startup that wants to end up getting acquired OR doing the same remote work with 2-3 layers of management extracting the difference in pay. At least in Poland I can't think of any single company I'd want to work for.
As someone working at a dev shop/full-service-agency mostly using cloud(Azure) and having also managed server on my own in the past it's an easy breakdown.

1: We have a dozen or so regular clients and being in a relatively high salary cost country, while our cloud bill isn't insignificant it's still far less than one full time employee, even less so than having 24/7 on-call handled (we have large enough 24/7 critical clients).

2: The cloud provides broken down billing, it's easy to pass it to the customer and just point to it, having our own employee we would need to structure up the billing process somehow. Our customers are outside of the IT field and doesn't care as long as it works and doesn't cost too much (it's a mostly fixed expenditure and easily separable from our development hours).

3: We have one client that does on-prem (partly out of habit) that's actually looking at parts to the cloud, partly because they've expanded internationally but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit of testing the waters since they have to spend a fair bit of their time on security and stability (security doesn't go away entirely of course but I'd be more sure of my backup processes on a large cloud compared to just locally).

4: I'm a tad on the fence of cloud-api's:

On the positive side: No need to implement a bunch of systems(badly?) and no need to build/install monitoring tools for those (and the extra administration burden that comes with updating those tools for X number of clients).

On the negative: There's a tad of churn on some cloud-api's, luckily Azure is mostly stable with plenty of migration time until you come around to a customer again (reading about Goog's churn feels like horror stories), and yes there is a bit of vendor lock-in if you go all-out (luckily we've not seen any reasons to change over).
Nobody asks them and I've seen attempts to prevent assistants of members of Parliament running as candidates. They have the know-how and the moat is pretty narrow so the acting politicians felt the need to widen it somewhat.
Sorting recycling is hard. AI could help
Google donates $1M to Rust Foundation for C++/Rust interoperability efforts
No, they would be considered institutions with too low of a standing.
Overemployment probably
I loved OpenTTD (and Transport Tycoon before that), but since I experienced bot building and copy-paste in Factorio and Mindustry, I can't go back to manually place each rail. The auto-rail feature is nice, as is the one where it lets you to semaphore up a straight line with a single mouse drag, but building each rail junction by hand... I just can't find it in me anymore. It feels like typing out boilerplate code by hand.
SmartTube: An advanced player for Android TVs and TV boxes, free and open source
After subprime interest rates went to or near zero, prompting a huge influx of cash available for VCs with heightened FOMO due to increasing complexity of software. Marginal quality of talent decreased while remuneration went through the roof, drowning out valid signals in cvs and interview processes with so much noise that any complicated enough system was seen as valid. Extremely high rate of failure, which was made acceptable due to the potential rewards of funding a unicorn early further degraded the ability of anyone involved to conduct clear assessments.
Ask HN: What have you made with Raspberry Pi?
Thinly-veiled payola as the threat of free filing looms large over their extortionate business model. I don’t doubt there are some good use cases for TurboTax, but for the vast majority of tax filers, it’s excessive. Perhaps if the tax code wasn’t Byzantine and broken there’d be less
of a case to make. Of course, TurboTax and filing firms have much reason to deter tax code simplification in addition to thwarting free filing[1].

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-sp...
Management is mostly needed for two things [*]:

- Organising the work and steering it in the right direction

- Ensuring that people work well together, help them grow, deal with "people problems"

If and when both of the above is achieved without a person holding the title "Manager", you don't need them.

This can be achieved by hiring 51%ers for example [1] and by actively monitoring the health of your organisation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333921

[1-1] https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Table-Transforming-Hospitalit...

[*] YMMV: the hardest problem in any organisation is the "people" aspect, there's no silver bullet.

EDIT: Added the link to my other comment about 51%ers
Johnny Harris did a fairly short piece on TurboTax that is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhV4Z76mXrI

I watched it expecting to hear it talk about an army of lobbyists. I watched it expecting to hear about Intuit promoting more complex tax code to ensure to ensure their relevancy. I watched it expecting to hear about how easy it would be for the government to pre-fill forms.

I was not only not expecting what I heard, but I was shocked that it's even worse than I thought. I was not expecting the fraud Intuit did for their "free" offering, nor their extremely bad faith marketing campaign that followed. I didn't know that multiple previous presidencies promised simple free online filing.

Very worth a watch.
It was not an AWS product before or after. It was a SaaS VPN before and a vendor product running on EC2 after. The TCO for a year was $50k before (licenses mostly) and it was replaced with a total cost per month of $25k (licenses, EC2 instances and egress bandwidth) because of misunderstanding of how it worked. As the concentrator and egress gateway were separate components they deployed them in the home region for the org. The end was an egress damage multiplier because local traffic was routed globally to a different AWS region over public internet and then went egress.

There was also a global policy rolled out which pushed the VPN client to various infra machines in branch offices. Some of them were running GitHub runners and data processing software which had terabytes of egress per month.

The whole thing was a disaster and they rolled it back within a week.
Or also doing their own personal activities.
> seems to be mostly based on "feelings" during hiring

Silicon Valley has a local bubble economy. If overpaid engineers spend their money for overpriced health insurance, rent, mortgage or juiceros the boat stays afloat.

But if the SV companies start sending money abroad the bubble would deflate...
How do they do that? Is it the case that their boss walks by them and can see what's on their screen so they're switching away from minesweeper?
It's unlikely to be a constant amount. There have been, somewhat ironically, surveys about lying on surveys. One result is that people will indicate being more or less likely to lie, depending on the sort of question: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29206289
"'Love', 'sex', 'secret', and...'God'..."
If you're a home owner in the US, the information about your real estate transaction is public information. And even if it isn't, the Zillow's of the world have that information online anyway.

All you need is a name, and if you want a bit more targeted search the municipality of the home.

I just recently searched for my home purchase information online, because it would've taken me longer to dig up the closing documents. It took me 2 minutes.