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A singularity popping out of the math is almost always an indication that something else is going on.

According to general relativity, at the center of a black hole there might be some kind of "singularity" - but in reality what that means is GR is probably inadequate, when used alone, to describe the center of a BH.

"Singularity" really means "your math broke and you need to fix it" by bringing in another theory that can fill in the gaps - or, rather, extending the current theory in a way that eliminates the division by zero.
> Check headers in outgoing emails for an origin IP (this one gets way too many sites)

Are there any workarounds for this, other than running mail servers on a separate network and IP range?
Opinions like yours always baffle me. Since a black person may or may not have had it worse? Should I be grateful? Contrite? Apologetic?
I predict people will claim "our culture isn't that toxic. Some of those things happen, but they don't bother me much."

If any non-zero subset of reasonable people are so offended by a behavior that they'd leave the industry because of it, we have to cut it out.

So don't ask "would this bother me?" Ask "would it bother someone?" And since you can't predict this from inside your head, you have to rely on firsthand accounts of people being bothered. This seems like a good overview of such accounts.
I have no data here, just posing a question. I think it would be an interesting hypothesis on which to run a survey.

Personally, I've found that self-limiting beliefs have held me back in a number of areas — especially around confidence. Breaking past those has been very important in my life.
Woah! Seattle and LA are majorly investing in transit. I'm excited to visit as they come online throughout my life!
We didn't have the semiconductor science needed to make effective ICs until we started building them.

The logic is relatively easy, but the materials science needed to decide what to lithograph, using which materials, and in what order, is post-WWII, and probably couldn't have been invented much earlier.

It takes a lot of work to work out ideal doping factors and diffusion rates, estimate charge distributions across junctions, calculate propagation speeds, and eliminate leakage.

But more - the chemistry of semiconductor doping and deposition is often rather nasty, and it would have been a huge challenge to industrialise it before WWII.
Difference is that tech poses itself as "new" (i.e. different from old, traditional things/companies) and its leaders (actual business magnates or your average CEO) either indirectly or directly talk about making the world/people better. Therefore, when they do stuff any other company does (because they're just like any other company, surprise), it feels or sounds a lot worse.

Also, stories on tech (maybe because of the above?) are trendier. No one cares if a factory or finance firm have toxic cultures (because we all expect them to?).
From personal experience, this is the problem rather than age. God forbid you aren't purely a machine that takes money and produces vastly more money for the company.
Please Amazon, stay away from Boston. We don’t need or want you here.
HCA, community health and the rest have gotten insanely wealthy off of sick people
When I think of abstractions I think abstraction == API and good API design is very hard.
Alas, I suspect there is very little correlation between "smart" and "wise."
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I was chided at work recently for using a big word on a comment against a bug report that described a dialog admonishing the user to take some external action.
I was thinking the other day about a service called Verifier that could be implemented with something like this.

Verifier would allow a person to take a token of some sort from a website, and send some eth to the Verifier. Now the service knows that the person has put in some stake, and can grant them an account (this is as a sort of abuse protection).

If the person wants they can take their money back, but the website can find this out and cancel the person's account.
I use webpack every day. But the config for it scares the crap out of me.
If I'm reading the Kapor Center report right (and please correct me if I'm not!), it's about the experiences of people who leave, i.e., it's already selected for people leaving. It's somewhat unsurprising that reasons are broadly similar among these people, and it doesn't really speak to whether (proportionally) more people from one group or another actually leave.

For instance, if 5% of people in category A leave each year, and 30% of people in category B leave each year, and 10% of each of them cite sexual harassment as the reason to leave, I would say that we have a much bigger problem with sexual harassment against category B. (And, at the same time, I would also say that anyone saying that category A doesn't face this problem at all / it's not worth addressing / whatever is wrong!)
Having read most of it, I think it could use a better title. The actual title sounds like it is smearing all of tech culture as toxic. This is not true. Maybe something a little more qualified, like "If your tech company has a toxic culture, this is how to escape it."

I got more out of this than I expected to. It helps explain my reluctance to join groups marketed as for women in tech.

I have a Certificate in GIS. I'm a blogger and have been for years, which makes me tech savvy compared to a lot of people I know. I am pretty comfortable on HN. But I am not a programmer and I never managed to get a job in GIS and I do not self identify as a woman in tech. I self identify as a writer, though I still hope to learn to code and would like to write an app or game or similar.

The working for free thing. I wonder how much this is experienced differently by different demographics. I did a lot of volunteer work as a military wife. I have personally struggled with the fact that, yes, people tell me they value what I do, but, no, they don't want to pay me. Pats on the head doesn't keep food on the table.

I am increasingly reluctant to do volunteer work. I am willing to contribute to not for profits, but in recent months I have been very up front about limiting the scope of it.

I looked over a bunch of websites for a non profit and wrote up a list of changes that need to happen. If they ever give me login credentials, I am willing to do the initial overhaul. I am not willing to commit to ongoing maintenance.

I would like to see these websites improved. I am willing to role up my sleeves and do something to make that happen. I am not willing to become slave labor.

I think this is sort of an unrecognized dark underbelly of things like open source. Someone needs to do the work and there is no mechanism for paying them.

The older I get, the more reluctant I am to accept the idea that someone needs to do work that no one will pay for. If you don't value it enough to actually pay me, then maybe it isn't really something you need or deserve.

Yet there are things I am still willing to do that I have no idea how to monetize. I am working on launching a project currently to help people, including homeless people, figure out how to develop a flexible income. I have no plans currently to monetize it, nor even set up a non profit. It's just me and a website and an email list and tentative plans to hold in person meetings.

It isn't that I won't do stuff for free. But I am much more picky about it being something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do. I increasingly look narrowly upon the latter form of volunteer work as a polite request for slave labor.
Easy to say, but in the real world there is a conflict between values and results. Values don’t need protection, they are intangible. In the end what you are protecting is people.
This is one of the many kinetic theories of gravity. It's very old. No scientist nowadays believes that kinetic theories could really work in this realm. This is mostly of historic interest only.
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Ideal scenario are inventions that _require_ billion dollar investments to be discovered (aka big pharma). Anything that can be reinvented by chance independently without much effort if there is demand for it shouldn't be patentable. Probably everything concerning representation of floating point numbers should fall in this category.
Not opinion. Facts
Apart from the security differences, which are quite stark, the main advantage that I see is that, with Snap, the distributions take on a bit (or even a lot) of the responsibility for making a product work consistently.

With a bash script, you're always on your own. That's very powerful, of course, but it's usually more of a burden. It's a bit like using a package manager vs manually installing tarballs.
> it doesn't work in >1 machine distributed cases

More generally, it doesn’t work when you have multiple schedulers, which nowadays is true for nearly all Erlang systems.
> [1] Why virtual goods? You can't stop shipping or track down the person once the card is reported stolen.

In the meantime, virtual good are also zero-cost : when you sell a ebook and the transaction is cancelled by the bank, you didn't lose anything, it's not like the buyer was willing to pay anyway.
Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker (Book Summary)
Will this be self-hosted? Also, why FDA first instead of CE?
No, not really. A singularity in a quantized theory would simply be a place where gravity is strong enough that you can't move more than a Plank distance away from it.
Nevada isn't exactly $33/year.

When I lived there, even a small economy car, it was well over $400.

It's how many counties pay for schools instead of property tax. It's also why so many Nevadans get mad at the thousands of people from California who move to Nevada and don't register their vehicles, then complain about the schools that they send their kids to but don't pay for.

This web site shows that a two-year-old $25,000 car will cost $406: https://dmvapp.nv.gov/dmv/vr/vr_estimate/vrestimationinput.a...
yeah, s--ting on your engineering team because your business plan and product are garbage is sure going to boost morale and get things back on track. What a joke.

* edit *

not to imply that he isn't right. his engineering team probably is s--t because no one good would work for him.
The bigger issue is that societies organized around a state tend to conquer societies not so organized, because states are much better at forming armies
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Since this sounds very familiar I would venture that he's being serious.
I would suggest places with nice weather have it the other way, cars underneath, pedestrians walking around on top.

Frankly living in a place that doesn't always get the best weather id rather get what little sun I could.
That one group has it worse does not invalidate the lived experience of another group.
If only there was a system in place where the money paid to the 50K employees could be taxed by the state and city..... We could call it an income tax.
Perhaps these people could even spend their money in their new home with local businesses too? Then this income tax could further apply to the people that paid.

Just imagine the possibilities.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but I'm routinely shocked by the lack of basic economic knowledge on HN.
Hee, THe last line makes me think you are finally catching on also.
You can thank the American Medical Association for their work on artificially limiting the number of doctors. I've read some accounts that they're now trying to fix this, but it's not something you can just fix in a year or two.
Torture doesn't provide any valuable intelligence results for those doing the torturing, we're not living in "24", the TV series. I know for sure that if I were to be tortured I'd be ready to recognize even the killing of the biblical character Abel if those doing the torturing would ask that from me, and I guess I'm not the only person so predisposed.
I moved to Chicago last year from a small non-walkable Southern city and I was thrilled by the public transit. I'm thankful I don't have to drive when ice gets everywhere.

My gripe is that public transit is largely optimized for getting to and from downtown. I think the city could benefit from a half ring train line from, say, Rogers Park through Garfield Park (it'd have to be bulletproof), past Midway with a terminus in Hyde Park. It'd be nicer and faster than negotiating all the complicated bus lines. Just an idea if the city ever has $20 billion dollars just lying around.
Sure my pleasure.

> I like you enforce the commit/ticket relationship. Is this purely an agreed process or do you use other measures to keep things consistent? E.g. we typically add the ticket ref to each commit but at times that gets omitted.

We're not enforcing it but we might in the future if the team grows and this gets out of hands. At the moment we're just reminding people that they should and it works great so far.

> Would you mind expanding a bit on the things you enforce for each of your releases?

It's still early but so far we check:

- it's not friday afternoon, we want to avoid as much as possible to have issues on the weekend

- it's not out of office hour - we're still all on the same time zone

- there's no lock (we can lock the release in case something goes wrong)

- there's no schema migration. If there is we remind you how to safely migrate schema and who to ping if you have a doubt (usually it should have been caught at the PR review)

- there's someone from the ops/core team around (connected on slack)

- that there's no translations missing for our main languages (french/english)

- + we do a few sanity checks like that our master staging is healthy (release means promoting our master staging)

edit: also I forgot but this is the shipit I'm talking about https://github.com/Shopify/shipit-engine
Ahh nice! Hidden feature but that’s pretty nicely done.
I think you meant to reply to another comment?
Commuter punched after asking fellow passenger not to look at his laptop
Paris is a Northern European town I think and it’s a disaster in terms of noise. Those damned 2 cycle scooters for instance. And dog poop and trash and people pissing wherever they feel like. And it’s expensive. Paris is an overrated nightmare.

And Copenhagen isn’t really that dense. It’s ranked 117th in the world — just under New Orleans and above Montreal: http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-...
You have a bunch of nice images. Are those taken with "standard" microscopes?

Also you mentioned a background in metrology. How do you inspect something a few atoms thick?
“Bite” can also be about acidic flavor too (or both in the case of vinegar siluable spices!)
I suspect "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" is the general way to get good people to go along with the government's schemes.

One of my passengers got 'ordinarily-renditioned' [0] to the county jail. They let her go after a few hours, when the city cops found someone else who actually matched the description of the petty beer thief they were looking for.

[0] http://www.taxiwars.org/2017/10/ordinary-rendition-public-se...

Last month I learned (via facebook) that another of my passengers got arrested (outstanding warrant - he'd missed a court date 2.5 years ago), and is suffering in jail. He's a diabetic, and has to submit to the time-release insulin injection they think he needs or they send him to solitary... I think time-release insulin is probably quite harmful when combined with the jail's starvation diet.

It seems to only take a handful of people to start a government-racket. Thereafter they seem to basically keep themselves going, and it takes acts of heroism to shut them down.
Fortunately, SF does have quite a few boulevards and other urban areas that are like this, so the enjoyable experience you mentioned can be had here. A few are mentioned in the article.

They tend to be commercial "Main Street" type streets, though. Residential streets are much more likely to have curb cuts, and that's still an important part of the streetscape.
If I'm visiting somewhere, I usually ask for recommendations from someone I trust (family, or whoever I'm staying with). Yelp reviews and such are good if I don't have any other source of information about the place, though.
Well, compare to the UK. Here we have low taxes on cars and are often incentivised to purchase new ones. This supports car manufacturing, which is a very significant industry for the UK, employing more than 800,000 people. New cars (dieselgate aside) are generally better for the environment too.

But aside from occasional temporary scrapage schemes, there isn't really much incentive to get rid of old ones. This not only results in congested roads but also towns and city streets that are cluttered with parked and often rarely-used vehicles occupying every available space and greatly reducing the "public realm" that could be used for other, healthier and more productive purposes.

So while Denmark's high taxes on new vehicles may not produce the best outcomes for the quality of the vehicle fleet, it does seem to have been effective at reducing the total number of vehicles.

Perhaps, like in Japan, annual registration fees/taxes should start increasing after the vehicle is a certain number of years old, making it expensive to retain ownership of old vehicles.
It Does Not Get Better
> Of course, marketing sometimes goes a bit over the board, and each release of version 8.4 is the best thing that happened to humanity since v8.3 was released and before it's time to release v8.5. But that's kind of expected, nobody I know takes it as a literal truth.

> And of course (almost) each startup CEO thinks his (or her) startup is going to change the world, or at least some part of it. That's how you should think if you're getting into a startup, otherwise it's not worth the trouble, the stress and the extremely high chance of failure.

I don't think this should be an "of course". This article highlights toxic tech culture, namely a culture found in tech that is toxic. Marketing is not specific to tech, nor are small businesses. Why does Uber tell me they're going to "make transportation as freely available as running water" but not Loreal's new shampoo? Why does the small chain of bike repair shops in my area, also taking the stress and high risk of starting their own business, not exhort about how their bike repair shop will change the world of bikes forever?

This overboard marketing and out-of-touch mission statements are much more commonly found in tech than in elsewhere. This article discusses a culture formed by overboard marketing and out-of-touch mission statements and labels it as toxic. Moreover, there's an argument to be made about a field that oft labels itself as "meritocratic" relies on these hyperbolic forms of marketing and mission statements to do business, rather than a more traditional, "stodgy" business.
Yes, very much so with some individuals. I have friends and family across the political spectrum and we regularly talk about the issues of the day (always in person, social media is a horrible platform for this). I've had success educating individuals about issues like net neutrality, gun rights, gay marriage, climate change, and environmental regulation to the point that they completely changed their views to at least neutral. They've changed my views on issues as well.

I've also talked people out of supporting outrageous statements or made them question their own beliefs (rural relatives in South Dakota who loved talking about their lack of income tax now openly question why SD gets so much more government tax money than neighbouring MN etc).

That said, the point isn't to be "win", it's to have a dialogue, share ideas, and break out of the "us vs them" mentality.
Curious to know how you conveyed this as a venture scale company?

There is a YC incorporation company that didn’t scale (not meant to be a dig), so curious about what’s different.
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> none of them are as evil as most drug companies

not yet...
... hoping sarcasm. But you never know on here...
> Have you ever actually gotten that to work? Have you personally ever changed a single persons mind?

It is extremely hard and works only with people not entirely webbed into "alternative media". I managed to get only one attendant of a Nazi march to rethink his views. In three years. Conspiracy theories are hard to break out of, especially for those without a job and doing nothing but watch "freemen of the land", "europe will be islamized" or "the hooton plan is real" (hooton plan = nazi nutjob theory that "the elite" wants to extinguish the Germans by having them breed with "weaker races") videos all day.

The rest, well... beating them like Spencer isn't exactly the most moral way either, but forcing them back into their caves at least keeps them off the streets. I don't want Nazis openly marching with torches on the streets.
Filters and Bitmoji nonsense fun!
Most of our early customers have 510(k) products, which are typically less burdensome to commercialize in the US vs obtaining CE marking.
Let's say they succeed in launching a new generics company. Ten years down the line they will divest in order to build each hospital a shiny new geriatrics wing. Within six months the spun-off drug company will jack up prices and the cycle will continue.
Are you building only a QMS or also an automated system to handle registration and listing, CAPA, labeling, submissions, etc? Class 1 all the way to class 3? Alternative submission pathways?

If you are dealing with digital health products, what are your thoughts on the pre-cert pilot that is occurring right now? How significantly do you believe the changes will impact your process and infrastructure given minimal data about FDA timelines?
I'll take Atlanta and you can have the other 19 also-rans.
I think this point (the military age thing) is often overlooked in discussions about [age|race|gender|socioeconomic] diversity in tech. Rather than a single problem, I think it's actually two separate, intersecting problems.

The first is a recruitment/sourcing problem. There are many demonstrable factors, such as educational availability or social norms/pressure, that serve primarily to influence entrance rates into tech among different groups.

The second problem is a retention problem. Other social and cultural traits, like the aforementioned willingness to "sacrifice for the cause", place work above family, and so on, are also not evenly distributed among different [age|race|gender|socioeconomic] demographics; I think these traits (or lack thereof) are more strongly correlated with leaving (or being forced out) of tech. To some extent, these might also serve as cooling effects for entrance as well, but I'd hesitate to make any claims about the strength of that effect.

Perhaps by explicitly addressing these two issues independently, rather than by evaluating a "where are we at this current moment statistically" snapshot, this issue can be tackled more effectively?

I think many current approaches fall into the trap of evaluating the snapshot, effectively saying "How has it come to this?!", and then trying to treat the symptom, rather than the cause.
Same experience here. I stopped it almost completely a couple of months ago when the authorities from my country (EU and NATO member, mind you) have started fining people for their anti-Government FB posts. The stated reasons were that those posts were inciting people to violence, but the police never revealed the posts' contents so there's no way to actually know when one can become liable for posting an anti-Government message, I mean "lets get the Government down!" can be seen as inciting people (and a new proposed law even mentions potential prison time for the same kind of FB posts). No way I risk going through that hassle for no real benefits, as people have very rarely changed their mind based on others' FB messages.