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> my immediate thought was how on freaking earth, Google nor MS with their billions haven't been doing this long ago.

My biggest takeaways so far, running an early stage startup and working around and with Enterprise cos and "late stage startups" (i.e. $10B+).

- Large cos can move surprisingly slowly, especially around significant product updates and improvements.

- Large cos, to varying degrees, have a tendency to stifle innovation inadvertently via internal politics: those with the ambition to make change often don't have the lateral freedom to execute.

These are mostly a function of being a victim of success: you move slowly because you don't want to alienate an existing, paying userbase and you have politics because of policy and process that have helped you reach massive scale.

Startups (i.e. Airtable) have a massive advantage early on if they stay lean for as long as possible before nailing product-market fit and scaling, because it's easier to make "alienating changes" to your product and innovate when you have fewer customers and little revenue. Politics also haven't yet set in as a defining characteristic. To my knowledge, Airtable did a fantastic job early on at executing carefully, clearly defining their product / market and understanding their customer before scaling.
> So the reason that California cut back on controlled burns? Because due to the factors described above, controlled burns very quickly become massive, uncontrolled conflagrations.

Yeah what a disaster a massive, uncontrolled burn would be.

> But you know what's really unbelievable? Someone who doesn't know diddly squat about what they're talking about who thinks they know better than the people who actually have to deal with this on a regular basis.

Your righteous indignation falls pretty flat when there is plain evidence that they are doing a bad job. Here is a list of the 20 largest CA fires
https://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets...
19 are from the last 50 years, 16 in the last 20. How many more hundreds of thousands of acres have to burn before the approach is changed?
Unfortunately when minimum wage and mandatory benefit policies are implemented along the lines of this kind of thinking the reality is that sure, high visibility efficient and scaled businesses like McDonalds and Starbucks can afford to pay more, but family restaurants who can't either have to take on unsustainable debt gambling at becoming the next one-of-a-kind Katz's Deli or go out of business. Then people look at their city streets and wonder where all the mom & pop stores and restaurants went.
So you were homeless this whole time? It sounds like you are saying you can live on minimum wage if you are willing to be homeless? Do I have that right?
By 'seasoning' it. You slather it with some type of cooking oil and that protects it from turning bright orange with rust.

Cast iron is the material of choice as it is cheaper than surgery grade stainless steel, it retains the heat and it is a traditional material that people expect.

As for where you can buy yourself a grill made from cast iron, the options are many. In towns there are shops that sell such things. You can walk into such a shop, exchange money and get your own BBQ grill in genuine cast iron.
Personally I don't view the problem as being about healthcare being a market or not, I view the problem as what a free market optimizes for. Finding the price at which the market clears is very different then optimizing for cost effectively improving the health and wellness of everyone in a society. Sometimes the free market purpose matches with the broader societal goal well, other times it does not.
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Presumably, if space is that expensive, there's not vegetation next to your house, but another house.
Just to add, when you say "right wing" you really mean "half-insane Neonazi alt-righters." There are plenty of people who consider themselves "right wing" that don't buy into this nonsense.
The flu shot cost is really terrible, up here in Canada my doctor asked if I wanted a flu shot last time I went in and there was no cost passed onto me directly. There are pharmacies that dispense flu shots for money but it's also pretty easy to qualify for a discounted shot if you need one and people not having the flu makes all of society run better.

Charging 200$ for you to be healthy and able to work the full season while also avoiding being a carrier of a disease is absolutely terrible.
The article mentions that as a problem.

Dense urban areas have a compensating advantage, though: it's much more economically efficient to set up a firebreak and prevent the fire from reaching 100,000 residents in a densely-packed neighborhood, than it is to set up a perimeter around the one wealthy person's home built in the middle of the forest.

The article seems to be suggest
(but doesn't explicitly state) a policy like this: "Use
public resources to provide a fire protection around the urban growth boundary of major cities, but if you're a homeowner outside that boundary, you're on your own. Design your structure to survive a fire in the surrounding wilderness. We won't suppress fires within the wilderness anymore." In other words, instead of shooting for containment, where the firefighters attempt to control the size of the fire and eventually put it out, they just let the wilderness burn periodically and protect habitation. The added benefit of this is that once the brush is cleared out, future wildfires will be less strong, since there's less fuel.

Also makes sense in economic free-market terms, where public resources are used only when they can defend many properties at much lower cost than the property owners defending them themselves, and property owners who are not situated to benefit from these efficiencies of scale are responsible for defending their own property.
Similar story here - started with DraftJS but it was kind of cumbersome. Slate in comparison is much more flexible and we've been using it in production for almost a year now. In fact we just launched a sticky notes project management tool which features a smooth rich text editing based on slate https://whimsical.co/sticky-notes/
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On the other hand, maybe he's a hypocrite when it comes to making money. Or maybe he's a libertarian who values making money more than enforcing the NAP. Or maybe he's just really gung ho about arming the night-watchman state.
I agree with this, boring & monotonous code tasks are basically excruciating because you've got to concentrate on them hard and yet you'd rather be doing just about anything else.
the left also chastises Sheldon Adelson, who is also jewish.

I'm trying to connect this with the words preceding it. Do you think the left chastises Adelson for anti-Semitic reasons?
Folks have associated corrupt SD cards to overclocking, all the way to stating outright that overclocking will corrupt your SD card 100% of the time, if used long enough.

So, if you're overclocking, don't do that if you're using SD cards.

With Pi firmware newer than late 2016 (if I recall) you can write a file to an SD card that sets a bit in NVRAM somewhere telling it to boot to USB from that point onwards, and then you can operate without that SD card or any other going forward. Thumb drives are usually faster and more durable than SD cards.
We are still vetting and improving the consensus algorithm, but we're planning on publishing a full TLA+ spec once the algorithm stabilizes.
As requested:

This call typically has decent audio quality, and as it's a stand-up / status call people tend to speak one at a time. No-one today had much in the way of background noise, so I'm not sure there was a lot of opportunity for the app to show off.

That said, I switched the Krisp speaker mode on and off repeatedly while each person who was talking.

1. When just one person was talking Krisp didn't seem to ever make the sound worse, which I guess is a start.

2. When there was a conversation going back and forth, or when one person started talking right after someone else finished, the voices got mangled or muted and I couldn't understand them. I had to turn Krisp off.

3. When there was some background echo (like in a large room) or some minor distortion I thought it maybe sounded a bit clearer with Krisp running, but it didn't really make much difference. I could understand the speaker either way.

With the audio problems I mentioned at (2) and no real gain from using Krisp I doubt I would use it regularly, though if I run into a call with bad background noise I might try it again.

I also tried the Krisp microphone, and at one point I had to repeat myself, which doesn't usually happen. But I have no way of knowing whether that was due to me speaking unclearly, or audio issues at the listeners end, or something else. So I don't really have an opinion about the microphone, but as I am in a quiet place anyway I wouldn't probably use it.

It would be nice if there was a single channel evaluation mode for the speaker. If I could hear in my right ear the normal audio was, and in the left what the Krisp-processed sound, then I would have a better chance of evaluating the performance. I guess if you have a lot of continuous background noise that mode would be redundant, and it should be an obvious improvement switching back and forth.
lost my aws 2fa on a free tier account, after 12 months it started charging around $5/month, they wouldn't let me shut down my account without a signed document from a lawyer identifying me (this would have cost me £60 and a load of time/hassle), this went on for months until my credit card expired and they stopped billing me.
Around 15ms to the end to end call.
Truly troubling. I feel like the only person on Earth right now that knows what free speech even is and is actively trying to engage in its protection is Jordan Peterson. And sadly, he is no activist, but just a psychologist that doesn't really want to be involved in the controversy. But nobody else seems to be joining him.

I find it hard to believe there were days where you could be killed if you did not acknowledge supreme authority of a Catholic pope or some other monarch figure. People refused to do that on the bounds that God only is supreme. They could have "lied" and kept their life. But they choose to be jailed and beheaded for their belief. And right now in America, we have half of the population that sits somewhere on the "right wing" spectrum that refuses to speak on the grounds that what they say might go against an ideology on the left. I wonder how this will turn out. When will men become men again? I feel like I should lead the way, but I'd rather sit here in front of a computer...
fwiw - as an addendum to that comment - I like using S3 to get my data off the zero w ASAP. ..then corrupt os etc doesn't cause too much down time and data loss.
That's the part about "Definers" at the end of the article. They make sure not to say his name.

Their claim is -- and this is ridiculous -- their PR team thought people needed to know that a campaign criticizing Facebook was funded in part by "a well-known critic of Facebook" and it's entirely coincidental that this well-known critic is the bogeyman of the right. (Who would have guessed that Facebook critics criticize Facebook?)

Of course, as a response to their PR organization supposedly doing nothing wrong, just presenting people with vitally important tautologies, they have fired them.

It's remarkable how much of this response just mildly confirms the New York Times article. (We reject the claim that Facebook execs all use Android just because Zuck hates Tim Cook! They use Android because they need an operating system on their mobile phones, and because Zuck hates Tim Cook.)
They pay well indeed but not the devs or engineers. The managers and all the old boy's are riding the gravy train in those companies but your average Dev there is being taken for a ride. If you have no interest of going twards Management, there are better place to work.
An alliance of the business elite right and the religious right against the left. Money wins.
What kind of offline support are you looking for in a cloud application? Most cloud services don't work offline at all.
I think the Head First O'Reilly books are a great foundation.

This is my general recommendation to friends and family wanting to learn web development.

Head First HTML & CSS is what he should focus on first.

As he is working through the book have him purchase a domain, setup a website on something like hostgator. That's a great learning experience.

After that book I'd recommend Head First PHP & MySQL.

At this point he could probably setup websites for small local businesses. There are usually lots of local businesses who need a website. Use html/css templates for the design of sites.

Then he can move on to the Head First Javascript then jQuery.

I would create some type of web application using PHP and MySQL so he can see how they work. Maybe a project useful to him to play around with. I would recommend using the bootstrap css framework for the app.

Up till this point deploying with FTP is fine. But this would be a good time to learn about using and deploying with GIT (Github, Bitbucket and GitLab).

After that he could start looking at frameworks, I like Rails (Ruby) and Laravel (PHP).

There is RailsCast.com and LaraCasts.com that are great sites for learning those two frameworks.

After you have the framework basics down and has built a few traditional applications then is a good time to learn Vue or React.

I would also have him pickup a last gen macbook air on sale if he's not a mac user. Rails and Laravel development is just easier on mac. When I was trying to learn Rails on windows I would literally spend more time working around issues with windows than the actual tutorial.
Last year we used Airtable with 60 volunteers working concurrently on the site updating a Base to collect and organize information to help the Sonoma County fire victims. The Rails code is a very light wrapper on Airtable and if I were to do it again I would just write a Sinatra / NodeJS interface. (I didn't know JS at the time) We had about 130000 page views all backed by Airtable as the DB.

Specifically: https://github.com/chimera/sonomafireinfo.org/blob/gh-pages/...

Also working on a MTurk interface for Airtable (A Big WIP): https://github.com/workmachine/workmachine
Officially there are regulations about maximum working times of 10 hours/day. That however doesn't prevent expectations from being higher. It however prevents tracking on the employer side for a higher amount of hours.
> There is no such thing as "shortage" of anything. Just pay more, and you'll get it.

Businesses are also limited by how much their customers are willing to pay for the item/service their workforce produces.

If a company's labour costs are higher than the price their customers are willing to pay for the product they are selling, then that product won't be produced.

e.g. if the labour that goes into making raspberries means the customer has to pay $6.99 for a tiny little package of raspberries at the grocery store, and no one in the world is willing to pay that, then raspberries will no longer be sold.

I'm not saying that there currently isn't room to pay higher wages, I'm just saying there is a practical limit to "just pay more".
This sounds like a terrible idea. Similarly to implementing your own encryption, having a custom consensus algorithm can create additional vulnerabilities -- a custom consensus algorithm isn't as tested and vetted as an existing, widely-used one.

In security, you generally don't want "unique and innovative", you want tested, verified, robust algorithms that have been gone over with a fine-toothed comb.
Maybe I’m just weird but I’ve never really defended my code because I never found defensiveness to be helpful for moving projects forward. In fact, most of the code I’ve put out in my career has been rushed under pressure to deliver something fast so most of the time I’m distancing myself from the work usually saying “that wasn’t written by me, it was my evil twin that comes out at 2 am.” Trying to fix the problems of the past that keeps your codebase from improving at a better pace isn’t something shameful to me as much as a matter of pride - that you have learned from your mistakes and are not above reproach. The best stuff for me is what I do after iterating many times without fear of breaking anything though and that’s exactly what you would hope from a codebase matured through TDD.
They had the same problem in WW1, the name tank was a code word for a mobile steel bunker, and it broke the trench stalemate. After WW1, the old boys ruled. Hitler broke this mold and pioneered new mobile armored warfare. We are lucky that most of the German army was the old style
Seems Apple as a company is not totally hijacked by Javascript people. I am happy that Apple took some stand against Java/Flash/Javascript when it interfered with quality of user experience.
There's a big difference in that Soros spends his money on causes, as an actual food for hungry people and actual teachers to teach actual students. Whereas the Kochs are far more focussed on US domestic politics.

Soros has become somewhat more active since 2016, but he's quite upset that it has come so far that his values need defending in the US, and that there are billions wasted in zero-sum political campaigns.
Could you perhaps explain a bit? I honestly have no idea what you are talking about...
Implicitly, that requires luck. Some houses will burn down, just not everyone.

Nothing will save a house that's close to a forest fire while not being fire-resistant, however.
Often, they act as jumping points to look at things differently and get the ball rolling. If you see enough of the same theme, you might start changing your behavior or at least looking into it. This article reminded me of some of my weaknesses that I need to work on.

It's like advertising. A single ad probably isn't going to get you to go and take action, but lots of ads over time sway your opinion.
For those who don't read the article, here is the amusing part:

"Ironically, earlier this year, Mr Iyer-Mitra tweeted that a criminal case should be filed against American historian Audrey Truschke for allegedly abusing a Hindu god and "hurting sentiments".

"Bog her down in the legal system - can't leave on bail," he wrote. He has also tweeted about putting human rights activists and Communists in prison. One of his friends told me that most of his tweets were written in jest and "he now possibly regrets posting some of them".

When you call for jailing people based on opinions, well you never know when your opinion is the one out of favor with those with power.
Consensus is not crypto, it's ridiculously trivial in comparison and usually so useless, that nobody even bothers doing it correctly all the way to the end user.
It's not 50%, it's more like 30%. German salaries are totally anti-engineering and pro-management.
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No worries.

I deleted FB long ago and most recently fully weaned myself off Google.

The reality is Gmail, Facebook, et al are ploys to get people to store their data on an ad companies servers. No thanks!
Anyway for this to work within the browser, maybe via wasm?
Instead of just leaving Facebook (or Google or whatever), they should put pressure on the company they work for and try to make some influence.

If all the `ethically conscious' engineers leave FB (which will not happen), what FB will do is that it just recruit engineers who are less aware of the wrongdoing of FB, who are less likely to challenge a company policy that people consider unethical.

Think of Google and DoD. If those Google employees who opposed the deal all walk away, then Google will just carry on working with DoD and let engineers who don't care if their work will be used to kill people to work on it.

(Using a green account because I don't want the above rant to appear in my main account's posting history.)
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A: Because we don't have a lot of experience in distributed systems.
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I wish Instagram would let users disable 'Likes' on their posts. I want to post cool things that I see or do. I don't want the pressure of competing for approval but the little heart sits there empty...
The bigger impact would be to convince everyone you can to stop spending money on their ads, but I have to say it's not easy to do because marketing managers are usually convinced that fb is the web 3.0
Do they include other file systems which can provide data checksums? The linked stratis doesn't seem to have that feature, did they patch the underlying XFS? There don't seem to be that many filesystems with that capability yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Fil...
It seems very open to interpretations but my take on it is a combination of the addages

"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"

"Perfection is the enemy of good"

which in the context here relates to smart people wanting to overdo or over-complicate things restated as

"premature optimization is the root of all evil"

recognizing simply that it is possible, easy, and more frequent for smart people to do worse solving problems by trying too hard to do better.
imagine adding this to your resume: 2018: I protest quit my job at facebook because of a comment on hacker news about a news story about a new story. The advice to think important personal decisions through is good.
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I guess that's my problem, I think it's a pretty big stretch to refer to the maker community as "the industry".
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Genuine question based on personal experience, is nicotine itself addictive or is it nicotine + method of delivery?

Cause as someone who smokes cigars (don't inhale, do absorb nicotine via the mouth lining) I really don't find them addictive at all, that seems broadly the case with most cigar/pipe smokers we generally aren't addicted to them.

And yet cigarettes are obviously super addictive, so is it something else in cigarettes that's adding to the addictive nature? Or inhaling into the lungs, where presumably you'd get a much faster hit or higher dose?
>my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do

Watch the videos coming out of the area. These people have trees touching their homes.
Lots of that is civil war, it's a "hidden civil war" because it's basically turf fights between middle management of the cocaine industry.
Fair point, but even dwarfed by what they pay back home, they still pay more than what the local companies do even though the bar is so low.
Here's a link to the study for those who do not want to go to Gizmodo. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173
Supply and Demand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
The other weird part about this assertion is that forests in which the Camp Fire started are federal land (Plumas National Forest), under the responsibility of the Forest Service. So while it's entirely possible that forest management in California has been incompetent, that responsibility lies on the federal government.
parent comment could be interpreted many ways but heres my take.

there are many types of humour one can appreciate:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/07/19/there-are-nine-...

If someone can't lighten up and find humour in life, i'd say they are mature enough to graduate life and go on to the next realm lol.
I read it in a Dutch magazine, but it could very well have been based on the article you're referring to. It was a lot shorter, but 1998 seems the right time.
Sure there are some outliers and there's obviously survivorship bias but if you check the results from any large endurance race you'll find many older age group athletes with finishing times not far off the overall winners. You really can't compare endurance sports with high impact, full contact sports like kickboxing.