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segregation is bad, segregation is exclusion of another group or creed. the desire to have a place where something can be accomplished without being shamed or ostracized automatically for no other reason than being xenogenous is a big concern.
It should come as a big wakeup call that women are so uncomfortable that they feel a need for a place of respite.
I hope they excell far above YC, and i also wonder why there was a need for the startup to separate itself from YC so early in the game. Is it because they were encouraged every step of the way? or perhaps they were made to feel equal and given congruency of accreditation for thier efforts, maybe its the habit thier peers have of providing a hand shake and a conversation that involves a look in the eye that doesnt go south, maybe its about the absence of obscene whispering when they walk by certain offices and lounges? I dont know maybe its me, maybe im not seeing the reality around me, only a bunch of me too clenching feminists. There is a lot of change that has to happen. monumental change. The existence of this thread is proof and pudding all at once.
I don't know that any tech companies are good at this?

I would, a few times per year, spend $10 or $20 to promote some tweets on Twitter. At one point, I stopped being able to do that, due to some nebulous "violation" of their TOS. I've gone back and forth with them a handful of times, and they always basically say "Yep, we looked into this, and you definitely did something bad, but we won't tell you what it was or which tweet it was in." They still send me emails and other ads trying to get me to buy advertising, though. I don't really care, it is just kind of funny.

I don't know why they all are so bad at customer support.
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There are plenty of employers who hire part time and often people need to work more than one job as a result.

Partial basic income would fit right into that if it helps people afford to work one job instead of two, or move to part time.
While completely thoughtless, a lot of the ones I got from a brief test were better than design submissions you would get on 99designs.
I don't mind the autoplay of next episode, or the autoplay if the preview in the preview pane, but I absolutely hate that after the preview plays long enough it will auto start the epiaode/movie.
That's what the entire article was about.
I wish there was a way on HN to follow and subscribe to individual users' comment feed.
> And despite the dreams of techies more than likely after awhile, you aren’t going to change your underlying infrastructure.

Yeah, nowadays it's done by dissolving the company or being bought out, then shut down.

Still, it's the same thing. Use of inadequate infrastructure being, let's say, terminated.
Don't let the negativity get to you. Obviously no kind of automated logo service is going to displace high quality custom design work, but this service is great for small projects that just want a presentable logo today so they can focus on other things. Most of YouTube runs on affordable royalty-free music in the background too.
I think a three day weekend with a "day of service" is a much better solution.

Working 8 hours a day already leaves enough downtime in my schedule to get bored, but not enough to turn that boredom into something productive. 6 hours would be outright hell.

The problem is, the extra two hours don't really provide me with any compelling new opportunities to contribute! That's barely enough time to get at a school and volunteer and get back to work. Barely enough time to get into the flow of things if I'm volunteer programming. Etc.

But an entire additional day off of work would be great. I could commit to do real things. I could bake so much bread for the church's food shelter. I could build an entire web app using the city's open data to help people avoid tickets. I could spend an entire day in a classroom. Etc.

If you distribute service days evenly and treat them like "just another business function" for businesses, then you could pretty much replace the teaching aspect of higher ed with volunteers. 2-3 people prep+lecture+office hours one day a week, 2-3 people are spending all their service hours helping design curriculum, 2-3 people do a day of grading each week. A <10 person team can teach an entire university course @ 1 day per person per week. Multiply across the whole city, every company. Universal 4 year higher education for "free". And there's still tens of millions of volunteer days per week left over for all the other stuff.
Cities tend to have more air pollution, but the difference in CO2 and O2 are neglible.

I once ran the numbers for O2, which is proportional, and it came out to roughly 10m of high in the atthmosphere. I. e. climb a tree in the countryside and you’re at O2 pressure similar to a city.
The promise of ISTIO is great, but the complexity it adds are not worth it IMHO. If you want to run the BookInfo demo app, ISTIO will work great for you. If you want to run anything else, buckle up. I'm sure there are people running ISTIO successfully, but there is little information out there about how they do it, at least not with gRPC.

We fell for the hype and tried running ISTIO for a production workload and spent months trying to get it working with little success. Our use case was to load balance gRPC traffic amongst a small number of services on K8S. Regardless of which load balancing algorithm we used or the amount of traffic that was pushed at it we could not get ISTIO to actually spread the traffic in any sort of reasonable pattern. For example, if we had 8 containers running 4 would get a ton of traffic, 2 would get a small amount, and 2 would just have heartbeats.

We tried to get help, but the RocketChat channel was a ghost town and got little response on the Google group. Lots of people asking questions but no one answering. Some friends at Google told us there's an invite-only Slack channel, but we could never figure out what secret incantation we would need to do to get access there. Evidently only people at Google, IBM and Lyft are allowed into that one.

I'll contrast this to the LinkerD2 (linkerd.io) project. We ripped out ISTIO and installed LinkerD2 and it just worked. We didn't have to spend days hand writing YAML files to configure our VirtualServices, DestinationRules, Gateways, and ServiceEntries. One command and the whole thing was installed and running. We injected the sidecar with their cool CLI utility and boom we had a service mesh that actually load balanced gRPC properly. The LinkerD2 dashboard is a very powerful tool to visualize how your traffic is being routed, response times, success rates, etc. When we had questions, we could pop into the LinkerD2 Slack and someone from the team got right back to us with suggestions and sincere offers to help. The CEO of Buoyant even reached out personally to us, a fledgling Miami startup.

We also had issues where ISTIO would route requests to the wrong micro-service at random. We would run the same request multiple times and get different results every time. After moving to LinkerD2, those issues completely disappeared.

LinkerD2 is still a very new project, but as far as we have experienced, it is far more production ready than ISTIO. I can only imagine how far along LinkerD2 would be if it was given a tenth of the resources that are pushing ISTIO.

Our experience was back in the Fall of last year, but we tried ISTIO again last week and had the exact same results on a new installation. Once again, we had to pull ISTIO out and put LinkerD in and were able to get the system functioning immediately.

ISTIO did do a great job of load balancing HTTP/HTTPS traffic, it's just gRPC that is a long way off from being ready for prime time. Maybe if you have an army of consultants at your disposal it will work for you, but as a startup I'd stay away.
> I don't believe in Universal Basic Income though, we live in a society and it is our duty to contribute to that society.

There are plenty of things people do that are valuable to society yet are not captured in the GDP, and are thus not highly valued by contemporary society. They range from visiting and looking after elder parents, playing with your children, writing poetry etc. Then there are undervalued activities which, due to being undervalued, are often rejected by people who would be good at them but can't afford a sacrifice (e.g. teaching, various kinds of social work, etc).

As the marginal cost of production asymptotes towards nil, peoples' sense of self worth from work (which is largely a modern belief anyway dating from the middle of the industrial revolution) can be sloughed off.

> I think the answer is that we need to move towards a shorter workday. Raise wages and shorten work hours.

I agree that we should do this urgently, but beware a belief in the "lump of labor fallacy".

Also, because people currently do develop a sense of self worth from their work, we should be investing heavily in helping people readjust to the loss of economic value in their work. For example governments offer retraining programs, but while a 20 year old coal miner may be able to find a job repairing trucks or writing reactive web apps, a 60 year old coal miner, who after two years of training becomes a 62 year old auto mechanic or web developer, will struggle to find employment. These people (both at 20 and 60) need assistance that also preserves their dignity.
Exactly, the UBI would enable people to be paid for often non paying contributions like open source contributions, keeping park lands clean, creating educational content online and lots of other things. If I was paid a UBI I would still spend most of my time contributing but I would just do the things I see value in without having to worry about how will I make someone pay for this.
It's really a confluence of factors. There are even elements rooted from the specification itself that contribute, for example requiring many round trips in network interactions with a lot of different servers; requiring large amounts of random disk access to implement core features... These things tend to shape the experience born out of client and server implementations even after a fair amount of performance work. I hope that Matrix-org makes an effort to consolidate the specification into something more streamlined for any upcoming versions.
Two things:

1) if you exclude everybody less than 1 standard deviation above the mean in a normally distributed population, you're left with approximately 16% of the population. The tech sector currently employs approximately 4% of the US population, so at most it's employing 1 in 4 people whose IQ is >1 std deviation above mean. Plenty of room to grow.

2) The idea that STEM education is simply beyond the capabilities of people who aren't in that lucky 16% needs support. The correlation of success in STEM to IQ does not mean causation runs from 'having a high IQ' leads to 'capable of being educated in STEM'. It seems equally possible that 'pursuing education in STEM' leads to 'having a high IQ', and that if we push more people through STEM-oriented education, more people will develop high IQs (of course, that would move the average, which isn't how IQ works, but... you get the idea).
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I had a similar experience where I contested two $2 charges (so $4) a month at the beginning of every month.

It happened for 2 months and the only contact I could get was an automated reply saying that me or someone in my family had done this purchase. That wasn't the case at all.

After 2 months, this 1st of the month expense disappeared on its own.

I no longer have any paid services with them because trying to get a human to respond was impossible.
What’s the alternative? Make every decision by committee? Have shareholders vote on every decision? Randomly selected leader of the day? Have an AI run everything?
@mods idealogical war here, lets shut it down.
We're heading toward a future where more and more is automated and there is less and less room for non-creative work. Let's face it, not everybody can be creative in a way that is lucrative. Do we really want to doom more and more of the population to a subsistence income, while more and more of the gains due to automation go to a shrinking segment of the population? I tend to think that a generous UBI is really the only sensible thing to do.

In case anybody has not read it, Mana, is a short story based on an extrapolation of this kind of rise of automation. I highly recommend it: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
What is your evidence? IQ tests undoubtedly measure something, and that something correlates with things like academic performance and certain types of job performance. What’s flawed about that?
> Aren't we all talking about how we would like it to be

“Must”, in the post I was responding to, seems to clearly indicate otherwise.

It is possible that word was poorly chosen.
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> Well, with a sufficiently progressive tax, you might choose to stop volunteering your time for what will be diminishing returns in income.

A solution that incentivizes successful people to hold themselves back from fulfilling their potential is going to make society poorer overall. If you want to redistribute wealth, you should incentivize the creation of wealth so you have enough to move around.
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According to an owner I had a chat with a while ago, the catch with the Twizy is the monthly battery pack "insurance" which isn't that cheap. IIRC there are two options for a buyer: either pay this insurance that covers everything, including getting a new pack once the old one is depleted, or buying the new pack as a spare part which will cost about half of the car price. All things considered, it's a nice vehicle that is getting some success (I've saw a few during last years) yet still not economically convenient compared to traditional cars.
Ya, all east asian countries, you're right. China is interesting especially to me though because, just anecdotally, there seem to be an unusually high number of Chinese female STEM graduates. Not sure what's going on there, but they seem to have solved the gender gap in STEM somehow. Could just be i've encountered an unusual sample too, though.
I think you said the answer right there. They die.
FWIW every female coder ive met is top notch.
The top earners are the heirs who collect dividends, interest and rent - the rentiers in documentaries like Born Rich. They are unwilling to work, as the real hourly wage has sank in the US since the early 1970s, they have reaped all the benefit.

Far below them is a work force which is split in different skill levels. Only a handful of top school STEM majors graduate every year, then there are the rest.

Since in your universe larger social analysis is excluded, the answer comes down to each individual - their motivation and such.
I agree, but unless it's some protected classification, what prevents Philip Morris from slapping some cigar branding on the packaging for cigarettes in Hawaii?
Something tells me that it's possible these devices will need to be replaced or upgraded at some point
When you said you couldn't figure out why homelessness was a problem in other countries, do you mean you actually didn't know that most countries don't have forced labor camps?
So like Aixam?
I've never used Slack in a business context which leads to: what polish is missing that actually affects your use case? You mentioned mobile for instance but how are people using the mobile app while also being in an actionable position?
> Everything will be fine when everybody is above average...

That's not at all what I said. What I said is that education opens the opportunity for those who have the innate ability.
I'd prefer the shorter days. A 6 hour day would leave more time for daily exercise and cooking healthy food for dinner and lunch the next day. I would probably also feel more relaxed on the weekend to work on personal programming projects.
Another repeating and predictable cycle throughout history is that improvements in technology do not take away jobs. If the revolting mob is suddenly incapable of doing productive work due to some sort of AI revolution, it's fallacious to assume that they would be capable of putting anyone against the wall, either.
Gettysburg wins if you use this metric.
Possibly! I don't know enough about economics to say one way or another.
This is quite simplistic: it does not scale on projects with a combination many "PR" in flights (many developers) and hours of CI resources to validate.
they probably have to much fear of torpedoing thier career by association.
Self hosting doesn't scale. There is very little reason for a good sysadmin to work for International Widgets Conglomerated when they can work for a cloud provider instead, building larger scale solutions more efficiently for higher pay. I'd rather buy an off the shelf service used by the rest of the F500 than roll my own. Successful companies outsource their non core competencies
This would seem to lead to a Harrison Bergeron sort of outcome, no? I mean, basic variation in genetic factors, geographic and political circumstances of your birthplace, these things directly lead to variation of productivity, which in turn leads to variation of wealth.
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> Because IQ is not scientifically proven

“IQ is not scientifically proven” is, at best, an incomplete thought. What claim about IQ necessary for the upstream comment’s argument is unproven?

> and is inherently flawed.

It what manner relevant to the reference in the present discussion is IQ “inherently flawed”?
It is splitting our entire society in two.

There are people who work in the old economy, actually doing things in the world. These people are still "tied to the land" in a sense. Their income isn't high enough to live alone, so they still maintain strong familial and neighborly bonds. Their work is physical (that doesn't mean unskilled or low paid, just that it requires physical manipulation), and requires them to physically be in a specific location at a specific time. For the most part this refers to the interior US, so housing is cheap and they generally don't have too much of a commute; they live and work in the same community. They have pride in a sense of place, and feel that they definitely "belong" somewhere because of this. They pinch pennies, compare prices, and generally are not overly wasteful. They might take a vacation once in a lifetime. These people are not poor, they just know the true meaning of a dollar because they are forced to physically work for it.

Compare this to the newly emerged technologically enabled upper middle class whose lives have become entirely abstracted from their physical existence. Our jobs are remote. Our "worksites" are mental abstractions. Our communities are digital. Our clothes are cheap and meaningless. Our connection to neighbors is nonexistent. Our physical location is arbitrary and changes based on a whim. Weekend vacations to Paris are a thing. We don't acknowledge strangers on the street, and if you do you're the insane weirdo. The result is two completely separate world views. A member of the former class simply cannot comprehend things like $14 sandwiches and $50,000 cars because it offends their sensibilities, not because they don't have the money.
Thanks. I think you're doing the right thing.
I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.

Or heroin, cocaine, morphine, OxyContin, radioactive drinking water, bleeding the sick, DDT, Lead drinking vessels and pipes, doctors not washing their hands between an autopsy and a birth, taking antimony pills as a purgative, and... you get the idea.
That doesn't happen to me. There is audio during autoplay.
> The first step towards saner attitude towards tech is stopping with this glorification of tech.

I'm all for it. But how can we achieve this? I think the main problem here is the mysticism over tech. There are probably two major fronts: complexity and secrecy. We should bring them down. How can we do it? Well, for one thing, we can demand more openness and thorough understanding of everyday tech we use, while educating the public that these things will bite us eventually. I don't know how we can achieve this at a legislative level, but the law is mere reflection of our attitude toward things. First we have to say that these things (both over complexity and secrecy) are not cool because they hinder reasoning. It's an idea that I think worth spreading.
It's to improve Google Car
I think it probably isn't purely the use of lambda/serverless but the creep of other things that make it more difficult to leave. Stuff like cognito or SNS or other services. Once you start using AWS, each individual choice in isolation looks cheaper and easier to just use something AWS provides. Once you start utilizing 7+ different AWS services it becomes very expensive to transition to another platform.

Also, this conversation is very different if you are an early stage company racing to market as opposed to an established organization where P&L often takes precedence over R&D.
This is about rebasing "user branches" and/or "pull-requests", if your project is referencing un-merged pull-request as a submodule, there is something fishy.
And Oracle, and IBM, and every company that doesn't pour every dollar of profit into growth marketing to continue redoubling down with investor money.
Or use GPS?
This DoD CyberSecurity Policy Chart in the sidebar is epic: https://dodiac.dtic.mil/dod-cybersecurity-policy-chart/

Clearly, they don't want new ideas.
AWS won't go out of business.

You'll start seeing slowly increasing rates... and as people leave, the rates will increase further. Eventually, you'll start seeing Snowball no longer supported for getting your data off S3.
eshell (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...) is a bit like that, but with Lisp.
No. “Automatic release” is a contradiction in terms.

It could happen, but it would take something like the Secretary of Defense ordering it. Or a White House directive. The folks at my level, or at any level I can actually talk to, don't have the authority. The thing is, they aren't making these policies and procedures up just to be dense. There are real, hard and fast laws and department-wide policies that require the system to look the way it does.
While I'm very excited about the prospects for Matrix in 2019, the reality of client choice for end-to-end encrypted Matrix chat is currently disappointing compared to the potential it has.

Someone on reddit gathered some data [1] about E2EE support a few months ago, and Debian maintain a wiki page [2] about their progress packaging Matrix-implementing applications.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9avyen/sad_state_o...

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Matrix
Thank you for the answer!
I don't see how this tracks. Particularly in relation to many of the jobs going away, productivity isn't inversely related to hours worked. People working 6 hours instead of 8 will get three quarters as much done. How would their wages go up?

If you are proposing the government cover the difference, then you're effectively proposing a bastardized version of UBI with an employment requirement, and payout that is proportional to current economic advantage. I'm not even sure it wouldn't cost more than current UBI proposals given that proportionality.

I don't understand why you would be in favor of this, but think UBI was bad. Or how it could possibly work, if it wasn't the government paying for it.
This is called 'Flynn' and it just works.

Abstracts your database, load balancing and most functions that AWS provides. You can even add minio as an S3 compatible data storage.