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> and when it comes to accessibility questions, the chief concern isn't necessarily whether everyone uses it.

I wish more developers had your perspective.

My Dad uses Windows' high contrast mode. It's less that "literal dozens" use this feature and more that this feature transforms all that desktop-shaped-material into a computer for the vision impaired.

Isn't the biggest performance enhancement the transition from not-working to working? I view accessibility as the ultimate performance enhancement for a given slice of users.
I like to play sports (participate). I dont care to watch them - unless its my kids. For me, I think of great sports people like other top tier predators on the planet. Sure, they can be exciting to watch, but its just entertainment no? Do I (or we as humans) stand to learn something important from them?
What happens when you access a website?
The Aaronson book is mostly available on his academic website as lecture notes.
Facebook said it had found and removed roughly 1.5B fake accounts
Per the Outer Space Treaty, no. Under it, space is free for the use and exploration of all countries. The US is liable for SpaceX in-space fuckups, though - if they crash a satellite into something, the US is responsible.
Anecdotally most of my friends didn't even apply to internships/FT at Uber after their reputation got tarnished. Uber used to be my dream company, but after Fowler and their new grad pay started to go down I never even applied.
Is a startup the right type of workplace for you?
Self rolled. Built in Python.
Jonestown is very apt. It's dialed back a little from what it used to be (especially outside of the Sun HQ complex), but yeah it feels like a farm of human batteries.
Are you actually suggesting dropping SSL? Sure, Iridium is somewhat encrypted and indeed provide its own Facebook and Twitter apps.
I agree 100%. Working at Facebook (or making that much money) is my dream, one that seems to be slipping away.
"Editor's note: KVUE is not identifying Precopia's accuser because she hasn't been charged with a crime."

Seriously? Seriously!?!?

I think the public needs to know who this CRAZY PERSON is so they can keep a far, far distance away from her.

And she most certainly should be prosecuted, to the fullest extent of the law.
Companies are also made of non-people systems, indeed the system is what distinguishes a company from just another collection of people. People don't need management so much as systems do. Management's job has to be to improve the system. You can optimize your people as much as you please, dealing with incentives, bonuses, punishments, team placements, making sure everyone is "doing their job", "getting along", etc., but none of that matters in the end for quality and efficient production if the system itself isn't stable.

Deming understood this, his management ideas that transformed countries have yet to break into software. https://maaw.info/DemingsRedbeads.htm is a starting point into the primacy of the system.
Almost nothing about the American healthcare system has anything to do with a free markets. From medical schools, to opening a new hospital, to pricing, to forced insurance, healthcare tied to employment, companies or government pay for almost all of it, FDA drug approval process, etc. Not saying free market and medical are a good mix (who knows?), but what there is in America not is not even a market at all.
If (big if) you can choose the next Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase etc. and become one of the first 20 employees, your payoff is going to be far greater than if you're the founder of an average YC startup. There's also the closer-knit network than at a huge company like Google & the opportunity to learn several times more than you would at a big company.

Definitely not for everyone and you will be paid less off the bat. But if you think about the course of your career, working at a startup(s) for a few years is probably a good way to lengthen the upper tail of your future potential wealth distribution with relatively limited downside risk.
It totally could! If any of these kids want to work as, like, the software engineer-in-residence at a social impact VC, having this come up in a Google name search might very well be a positive.
Aging research
Hey,(side note) Jaron Lanier has some interesting things to say about “value-added” to society!

I can’t disagree with what you’re saying, but that would also mean other roles are also overcompensated, if not even more (heh, executives)
Would love to hear what you are doing now and how you've moved away from those expectations. Going through a similar phase (worked in IB, now work in corp fin and do not like it).
It's not about being enthusiastic, it's about being able to express enthusiasm as a hiring candidate. If you can't even feign enthusiasm to get hired ... move on.
Assuming that a meteor impact is totally random (which might not be true because objects that impact the earth could conceivably influence each other through gravity, etc), it is probably best to model these impacts as a poisson process.

A poisson process with an average arrival time of one million years means that we would find that if these size impacts happen on average once per million years that on any given day, like the day before this Greenland discovery, we should expect the next impact to happen a million years in the future and the previous impact to have occurred one million years in the past.

If buses arrive randomly and independently on average every 10 minute, then we can expect a ten minute wait at the bus stop if we get there at a random time.

Think of random points on the number line averaging a point every million years. Now throw a stochastic dart at the line. It’s much more likely to land in a large interval not the small ones—-they take up more space on the line. For this reason, the distance between the dart and the next random point is on average one million, not 500,000. So it is very unlikely that the meteor impact was only a few thousand years ago.
Why doesn’t Saudi Arabia see treasury bonds as dead capital as described in the article? It is money that isn’t being used for anything.
You won't find an answer to your question because you don't seem willing to drop your alarmist attitude.

There is just far too much space for 100k objects, let alone 10k to ever run the risk of collission. These satellites are all meant to be in line-of-sight. They will communicate with optics as opposed or in conjunction to radio.

You fear unforseen space particles destroying one and causing a chain reaction. Why don't you hold that same fear for existing satelittes which typically operate at an orbit with far lower decay rate? The orbit for StarLink is very low, small particles would not sustain their energy long enough to be a risk factor. The StarLink sats maintain orbit with fuel, everything else without fuel in that orbit will fall. The chance that a particle will end up in the same orbit, on the same plane, at the same time is astronomically low.

Your comments just echo the same type of delusions of people who think in their brillance they've found problems others have not foreseen. SpaceX is really just full of amateurs you ought to submit your findings.
Ok, so it's SmartSheet with API integrations.

Could be good solution to simplify managing multiple sites through API calls.

Basically creating a spreadsheet with external calls. And a sexy ass website.
It sounds like the court did think his claim was accurate, I'm pretty sure the judge has the ability to make decisions on what damages should be.
Touch typing. Took a course at Sawyer Business College during my psychiatry rotation in my 3rd year of med school.
Your current job at facebook? Or some other company. It's not uncommon for candidates to not understand a product. Many products are complex and if you weren't a shopper for that product or a deep user, you won't get it from the scant research you might do before a job interview.
A big shout out to Julian Field et. al at MailScanner - I don't manage any mail servers thesedays, but going back around 15 years, it was at the heart of several setups.

https://www.mailscanner.info/

And, yes, it uses Spamassassin.
I'd say Netflix has a pretty good external reputation. They do good by their customers and don't sell them out. They take your money and show your videos and don't share your data. They have hits and misses on their original content, but they don't actually make that stuff, they just compete with all the other big entertainment outlets to distribute what production companies make.

There is of course strong opinions about their internal culture, but as I described it to someone recently, it's an environment where you have to choose what to work on and then make it successful without a lot of help and guidance. If that's the kind of place that you thrive, then you'll love working at Netflix.
People fresh out of school are making six figures, its common. Software produces massive value, we arent overpaid, we are underpaid.
> It can work out well and it can fail.

No, it will fail, as every German project of this kind failed. Someone will get rich, the project will close after some years. The overrated Germany is socialism 2.0.
I mean, you've got a whole life to do it in, right? Or you could be like my college professors and say the deadline is tomorrow ;)
I'm twice their age and I don't either. What consequences do you refer to?
Sorry, but yes, they probably are smart enough to get in. Or capable enough, which is the real thing that the wise amongst us actually measure rather than how smart one is.

Of the dozen or so folks I know at Facebook, I'd be excited to work with about two of them again. The others are...fine. Much like the folks Google hires now. They're fine.

Once you hit a certain point, you start hiring ditch-diggers just like everybody else. Because you've got ditches to dig.
On the flip side I'm still roughly in that age group (first half of my 20s) and I absolutely did engage in performative wokeness at that age and continue to do so today. Not to the degree of interviewing with the NYT, but I definitely voice support in view if my peers and co-workers for social issues I don't really care about. Maybe people do believe in the trending issues, plenty are just playing along because failure to do so results in loss of status and respect.

With respect to the original comment, though, I agree that 20 year olds are mature enough make their views public. Sure their views may change, but that's life. It doesn't mean they should refrain from sharing their views.
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A Tale of Many Divisions – Prime Factorization Across a Handful of Architectures
Yes? Or just get hired by one? Or change field? Or move?

It's no fable. Some of us don't have what it takes to start their own company, that's true.

Probably there is no hope for some. I don't know how you'd show that there is a system that doesn't suffer from this problem. I mean, you'd have to show that even with less incentive to produce and more demand for products (since everyone is owed "decent living" or whatever it's called nowadays), there is no possibility for demand to exceed production.
>Why not add it directly into the compiler?

afaict, most, if not everything, that the LSP is expected to put out is information that is already known to the compiler, as its required for compilation and error'ing. The LSP is just a standardized way to extract that information from the compiler, instead of re-implementing the work in the IDE.
I disagree that "closer" is a distinct class. It's a necessary aspect in any class. In most companies if you don't "close", you get fired or put on a PIP (and you don't get coffee). There is another class that at some companies where closing isn't necessarily expected: "tinkerer". They just mess around with various projects to learn and make suggestions, but they don't have to close to keep their job.
In that same vein, social media, especially facebook, has largely been used by malactors and state-sponsored trolls as a weapon itself.

Hello, “Internet Research Agency”!
That's a weird thing to say about oneself. Do you really consider yourself to be "less ethical" or have you internalized "mainstream" ethics as "good", and found that that's not what _you_ think is ethical/good behavior?
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I would piggyback on your answer to say that learning those adjacent skills will also help you work on your process of learning in general.

You're less likely to get stuck and give up because they're adjacent, and then when it comes to learning something not adjacent you're already a more experienced at learning and organising your thoughts when it comes to tackling a new problem.
That's not how real journalism works. The journalists are separated from the business side. Good publications go as far as prohibiting their editors from talking to anyone who deals with revenue.
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Or you're more likely to be in an area with a pleasant climate
Then clarify your context, what crime is appropriate for homeless people and the poor to be arrested for?

I say it's the laws that currently exist, what do you say?
>In general, it doesn’t make sense to price a business tool

SAAS isn't exclusively a business service and many, many, many services have multiple pricing tiers. In fact, Zapier has multiple tiers... for businesses 'starting at 20$' and for teams 'starting at 250$' a month. They scale price based on how much you use the service.

With the free tier you are limited to two 'zaps', they run less frequently, you don't have access to multi-step, you have a rather finite limit on how many times they can run each month etc.

It's just bizarre there isn't a lower tier. I mean, it's even more than my squarespace hosting and squarespace has a 12$ and 18$ tier. Or evernote. Or any number of other services.

I'd happily pay 5$ a month for considerably more functionality but I'm not trying to automate an entire business and 20-25$ or more is nowhere near justifiable. Sure, if you make 6 figures maybe you're like "hey 20$ to handle some weird email situations for me and make some docs automatically, sure!" but for the majority of people it's a "well, guess I won't be giving them anything".
Does it make you wonder how there are so few jews yet so many of the billionaires are jewish?

Bobby Fisher was right all along!
So what? I'm sure Microsoft is happy they could win over a critic like that.
If you actually look at the court case, the guy won because the contract was unclear on its terms, not because such terms are inadmissable in general. That's why the lower court didn't decide in his favor. The decision doesn't generalize across all contracts.

> You can include clauses that allow limited unpaid overtime, for example "36 hours per week and up to 16 hours of unpaid overtime per month", but then, as an employee, you should treat that as a 40 hours contract.

That's besides the point. The question is, is that paid overtime? If you ask me, it isn't because any extra hour worked doesn't translate into extra money.

> Unpaid overtime cannot be agreed upon retroactively, it must be in the initial contract.

It didn't claim otherwise, I explicitly said it has to be in the contract and from what I read in other places, it seems commonplace.
This reminds me of a different "rule of 3": If you want to compare two things (e.g., "is my new code faster than my old code"), a very simple approach is to measure each three times. If the all three measurements of X are smaller than all three measurements of Y, you have X < Y with 95% confidence.

This works because the probability of the ordering XXXYYY happening by random chance is 1/(6 choose 3) = 1/20 = 5%. It's quite a weak approach -- you can get more sensitivity if you know something about the measurements (e.g., that errors are normally distributed) -- but for a quick-and-dirty verification of "this should be a big win" I find that it's very convenient.
What China calls 'social credit' the US calls 'risk assessment'
His network probably allows Wi-Fi calling and text messaging. So it would be switching.
Facebook also has a comparatively small number of employees compared to the other big players and as a result significantly more net income / per employee.

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/4/16090758/facebook-google-pro...

Income per employee (as of 2017 according to the article) is about three times as high as it is for Microsoft.
Yes, they're both driven by economic inequality and a nation built for profits over people.
> We used to be able to just make a solid web site with simple HTML and a text editor. I shouldn't need to be an extremely hardcore JS programmer or use a crazy static site generator or overengineered LAMP backend to do basic things like reusing HTML and other things that could be largely accomplished with just HTML itself.

None of that functionality has gone away, has it? A lot of what a static site generator is doing is saving you copy-pasting a bunch of HTML across files, by giving you templates for common functionality. But you still end up with plain HTML files, and you can certainly get there by editing them all by hand in a text editor.
If that's your goal, start your own company.
"is run by people that are "better than anybody else" -> This is the same experience I made. A lot of founders in Berlin are narcissistic life artists with zero execution skills. They're good at producing pitch decks while having fancy Coffee Chai Latte at a hipster cafe in Berlin Mitte. In between making unmistakable phone calls so everyone would know after a minute that he/she calls him/herself CTO, CEO, CSO, COO or whatever and him/her is working on the next big thing of course. And it's all about global domination.

To cut a long story short: we agree. ;-)
You can build GPS (well, a GNSS would be more accurate) system without atomic clocks.

One way to do so requires user equipment that can transmit back to the satellites, but that will already be the case for SpaceX's customers.

You can also use Doppler measurements to get your location, although this tends to be less accurate, especially if you're moving quickly
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Basically you don’t want to be employee 1-10. Either be a co-founder, or join at a point you can paid a good salary. Those guys work as hard as the founders and take as much financial risk as the founders, but walk away with nothing. There are exceptions but this is 99% of cases.
This is the information I found
https://www.businessinsider.com/airtable-review-guide-app-wa...

> Tesla uses airtable to track inventory of vehicles as they leave the factory; $20 billion office-space startup WeWork is a customer, too.

I've tried airtable and used the tool to plan my trip to Japan. It's great. I heard a few iOS developers use airtable as a lightweight backend instead of firebase.

I like its idea and design. I was trying to use it as replacement of my evernote (It's probably too weird to you). Then one day, I found https://notion.so. I decided to switch to it. It's faster and have offline support. But the only missing part is notion.so doesn't have API yet.
Ah the vagaries of the human memory.
Apparently Elon is gonna try use consumer hardware or build their own, thats kinda part of it's cost advantage.
With Shor's algorithm, the quantum part of the algorithm comes down to finding the period of 'a mod N' where N is the prime number you have, and a is a number less than N that is not a factor of N. Here, the period is the smallest value of x where 'a^x mod N = 1'.

This is done applying the Quantum Fourier Tranform on each 'a^x mod N' using x+1 complex roots of unity for that value of x. You can visualise this as x+1 arrows from the centre of a unit circle with an angle 2pi/(x+1). So, for x=3 you have 4 arrows pointing up, down, left, and right.

When you stack the arrows end to end, they will loop back to their starting point (3 will form a triangle, 4 a square, etc.). The key is that when multiplting this quantum fourier transform with the value of 'a^x mod N', the 1s (at the period) will occur at the same point around the unit circle only for the cases where the number of complex roots is a multiple of the period.

This has the effect that for the correct answer, the arrows are lined up together in a single direction, amplifying the number and thus the probability of selecting that number. For the others, the arrows cycle and loop back on each other, so stay fairly small, decreasing the probability they will be selected.
Could be a good solution to ___________.

I think there are a TON of answers that you could fill in the blank with.
This kind of post-facto justification for poor working conditions or wages needs a name, so it can be dismissed out of hand. It seems to assume that the market is “fair” and getting poor pay must be justified by some other factor about the job.

In reality, there are plenty of jobs that have garbage pay and suck. As well as jobs that are both lucrative and “easy”. Consider the average CEO: not the exceptional visionaries but the type that loses the shareholders money for years and then exits on a golden parachute. These jobs are hard only in the sense that you have to know the right people, (being born to the right people helps) to even be considered.

On the other side of the ledger, you have immigrants with medical degrees, who are driving cabs for minimum wage (or now, Uber, for below minimum wage).

The free market is not fair, and it is not a meritocracy. It is subject to all the same tribal impulses and inequalities that have persisted in humans throughout history. In western societies, no job should pay less than a living wage, no matter how enjoyable it is. That’s just an excuse for exploitation.
Nowadays one can buy 128GB SSDs for 20€ + 10€ external case with USB 3.0. Having 8 or 16GB of internal storage shouldn't add more than 10€ to the overall price.
out of touch with reality by not responding to normal social cues or morals, and then getting used to getting away with things.

I like to call this Michael Jackson Syndrome.

People get rich and/or famous enough and surround themselves with enough sycophants who keep telling them how great they are and they start doing things that normal people wouldn't do. Then it turns into a destructive feedback loop.
It's not unethical to accurately quote 19 year olds. This is an eccentric position you've staked out.
Adrian Thomson’s work
Compose is just a declarative syntax for your stack. Ironically it's not composable. In other words, it's not a package definition--you can't ship a compose file that will "just run" anywhere. For example, most web apps require a database, but you don't want to run one database per web app. How do you write a compose file that says, "use the system postgres if available, otherwise spin up a new one". It also totally punts on secret and config management.

Helm is the closest thing to a package manager for Docker, but it targets Kubernetes, not vanilla Docker (and k8s is overkill for a single server, at least considering the time/expertise required to stand up a productionized k8s installation).
Krisp removes screaming child noise quite well.

This was a sensitive use case for the team since I (CEO/krisp) had a baby 3 days ago and really needed Krisp to do my calls :)