ridaj

17 ms·

151.
by ridaj 5y ago
I believe AT&T long subsidized its local operations with revenue from long distance operations. This took advantage of businesses' higher willingness to pay for long-distance in order to subsidize local access networks (as opposed
152.
by ridaj 5y ago
On the basis of what data do you think that this information is valuable? I don't think my purchases from 5 years ago are meant as useful as the recent ones I made...
153.
by ridaj 5y ago
Oh and it changes every 6 months "for security reasons" thus guaranteeing it's either very simple or you write it down!
154.
by ridaj 5y ago
IMO the 10x engineer is not someone who is 10x more productive than their peers. It's the person who will identify and solve critical engineering design questions far in advance, such that if you took them out of the team, the team wou
155.
by ridaj 5y ago
Yes and it makes sense because great software eventually becomes worth internationalizing. If you start with a non-English code base and documentation, good luck translating that.
156.
by ridaj 5y ago
Yes for python and others whose syntax matches the language more closely. Now as for languages that talk about "virtual" "methods" of a "class"...
157.
by ridaj 5y ago
To non-native English speakers, who often write variables and function names in their language, the language difference between keywords and the rest of their program acts as a kind of pseudo syntax highlighter: it's very easy to spot
158.
by ridaj 5y ago
Do we say "death from car accidents" or "death with car accident"? Do we discount terminal cancer patients, diabetics and asthmatics from car accident stats because they had a preexisting condition? In the case of covid
159.
by ridaj 5y ago
There have been clear excess deaths (mortality rate increases) from all causes combined during waves. Most evaluations of excess deaths that I've seen conclude that Covid deaths are undercounted not over counted.
160.
by ridaj 5y ago
Except many, many more deaths in the case of Covid, and we don't have, thankfully, a federal Covid Corps to enforce any of the related policies...
161.
by ridaj 5y ago
Source? This is at best an indirect consequence EDIT post downvotes: what I mean is that even without a lock on the cockpit to prevent their copilot from entering, it seems difficult to prevent a determined pilot from crashing a plane.
162.
by ridaj 5y ago
> You stop playing God and pretending that the concept of global "community standards" means anything at all in a world with 7 billion people and hundreds of thousands of disparate interests-based communities, each with their o
163.
by ridaj 5y ago
It's not a great metric by itself. There are two ways that "average watch time" can increase: users becoming more engaged, and less-engaged users dropping out of the app. It's a concern if it means that TikTok is becomi
164.
by ridaj 5y ago
It's interesting that your place of work was loose enough about security to let you install stuff off of the internet as it came out, yet paranoid and skillful enough to actually notice and get you in trouble the next day!
165.
by ridaj 5y ago
What are your plans for when your app is found to host content such as terrorist executions, child porn, etc.? (This isn't trolling, it's something that eventually happens with every product, and I've been wanting a non-Googl
166.
by ridaj 5y ago
It's not big tech. It's working for a jerk of a manager who doesn't respect you as a person. I've been in that situation out of tech as well as in tech, and that got solved by getting a new boss or changing jobs.
167.
by ridaj 5y ago
+1 just get another job if the job makes you unhappy
168.
Chinese regulators to exercise more control over algorithms(abcnews.go.com)
7 points by ridaj 5y ago|0 comments
169.
by ridaj 5y ago
> What happened in 1993 to suddenly make hyperlinks blue? No one knows, but I have some theories. I doubt that no one knows. They found the smoking gun in the Mosaic release notes - the people who worked there are probably still alive an
170.
by ridaj 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210642
171.
by ridaj 5y ago
The issue isn't with the use of a different font, the issue is that there are two series of data points differentiated by font that, according to the study design, should be relatively independent, but in fact have improbably similar c
172.
by ridaj 5y ago
And, if those problems were solved and it became more of an everyday form of payment, there's the problem that government would start regulating it like other money anyway...
173.
by ridaj 5y ago
I love how the era of Zoom lawmaking has killed decorum for so many of these state public functions. The pompous elected officials now have to connect from what often look like very pedestrian suburban homes, with either bare walls or run-o
174.
by ridaj 5y ago
It's amazing to find some music there that I composed about 30 years ago. I'd shared it via diskette with a friend who slapped it into a demo, then he mailed the demo on another diskette to someone else who would duplicate and sen
175.
by ridaj 5y ago
Once a company reaches a certain size and deals with sensitive enough data, it's poor risk management practice to leave device security entirely up to the individual. Mistakes are made, malware-laden software is downloaded, laptops are
176.
by ridaj 5y ago
Some pointers here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xaq8g/meditating-can-lead-y...
177.
by ridaj 5y ago
> The person who you got to stare may not have wanted to see what you showed them in the first place. Correct, but there is little ability long-term for a service like Instagram to repeatedly show things to people that they don't wa
178.
by ridaj 5y ago
> How do you know what people want? Because someone in charge told you so? No, I say this as an interpretation of people behaviors and assuming some degree of free agency. Users aren't coerced to use Instagram, so it likely means th
179.
by ridaj 5y ago
The research is interesting in its data. The conclusions are very speculative and don't sound very well informed. The problem with nudity or clickbait in general is simply that it appeals to most people, statistically, and thus tends t
180.
by ridaj 5y ago
I bet it's harder to staff a janitor job in Switzerland than in France, with unemployment rate being so much higher in the latter country... Might that explain the difference as well? I guess what I'm saying is that businesses as

More ›