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We're a pre-seed stage startup building a platform that facilitates greater human connection in the workplace. Jam is currently validating our product with several paying companies and now turning my attention to finding an engineer that can step in and help automate a lot of what is currently happening manually. The ideal engineer has experience, and is comfortable, with iterative development.

Looking for a part-time engineer (~10 hours/week) with opportunity for more commitment. Work can range from a python rules-based connection engine to work with rest api (Google calendar + Outlook api integrations).

Budget between $30-$50hr depending on experience.

Company landing: joinjam.io
Contact: hello@joinjam.io
Brain existed prior to deep mind, and is a leader in it's own right.
"To bring it back to housing" ellides the important point GP made. They even acknowledged the excitement and advantages of growth, but pointed out some of the cost as well. If you want to advocate, don't blind yourself to those of us sensitive to the literal trash, noise, and other side-effects of growth.

With wealth comes illth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illth

Your personal utility function may make you less sensitive to this particular illth, but it's a consideration nonetheless.

EDIT - I see you edited in a first sentence to acknowledge. Thanks - I'll let this comment stand because I think it's an important point, but appreciate your attempt to balance. Growth is good, but sustainable clean humane growth should be the real ideal - I'm not convinced modern urban design is really up to that.
> Also never seen an Indian comics.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3...
I think this is a fair question. I think it was predominantly white men. Never heard of a black man named Richard being called Dick. I think they usually use Rick instead.

Richard ~= Rick == Dick
Why we shout that all sexualities have to be accepted but then same time these big companies dictate and sensure everything ?

Why shouting in streets about our gay or lesbian rights is ok but not write or day that in video is forbidden ?

Why Facebook have so many sexuality options but no one can talk about it ?

Time to leave Facebook Google and Twitter alone is now. There have to be alternative services for open minded people..
Is it me or are there suddenly a lot of anti-DNA testing articles being published lately? Is there a particular lobby that I'm not aware of?
And even if the keyboard breaks at some point on a Thinkpad it's easy to replace it. A new replacement keyboard for the T480s currently costs $50 on eBay and it doesn't take longer than a few minutes to install it.
Yes, very good point I do think that the older programs/projects have to plan a migration which really can be challenging. I think there are some that might care for example selenium might have the mozilla directory as a default and some might hard code it. The orchestration of such a change is difficult because I don't think too many people read changelog or really keep up with upstream modifications.

Good thoughts
Wait, if inequality is bad, then isn't it a good thing that the rest of the world is being lifted out of poverty? When in all of human history has this ever happened before? Seems like we're actually at a high point in time for most of the world's population.

Also, 2008 is a ridiculiously short time period to be looking back on and saying things are going down hill. For all intents and purposes we're still in the same time window we were in 2008. World history happens over decades and centuries, not 11 years.
node_modules and yarn.lock etc. in the location where the tool was run is a feature, not a bug. Ask any python user digging to find where pip decided to drop it this time.
How about right here in the USA, I've watched plenty of movies with sex scenes with family members and it was no big deal. Besides that what kind of pansy culture is worth censoring a valid natural healthy part of human life because we are too "uncomfortable" with a real and healthy positive aspect of adult life. I'm not anti-violence in media but I'm certainly against the filtering of expression just so someone else doesn't need to deal with a little uncomfortable feelings.

I'm not personally directing that at you as a poster, more the general idea of the censoring based on uncomfortable feelings overriding someone else's right to expression. Sorry if it comes off aggressive I don't mean it in that way towards you.
The British used mercenaries in the revolutionary war. Though these men came from Hesse, half stayed behind and ultimately became 'American'. Later America allowed its pilots to 'become' mercenaries to fight for China against Japan (The Flying Tigers https://www.history.com/news/6-legendary-mercenary-armies-fr...)

Were the Hessians turned American considered British spies later?
Were the American pilots less trustworthy later?

It is impossible to generalize about mercenaries except to say they are a fact of life where people will take up the baton to hurt others for pay. The only way to prevent the atrocities that continue to plague our 'civilized' world is to treat people like the 'children' they are. Put them in a playpen and take away their toys. The equivalent is to build walls around every center of conflict and deprive them of any currency that would work outside these walls.

The concept of 'prison states' needs to be explored.
You would be surprised. Most companies I work with are operating on only 1-3 machines, and using the CloudFront infrastructure to distribute content to edge locations around the world. They a handful of Lambda functions to trigger various random tasks like backups, notifications, git pulls, deploys, etc. Oh and S3... tons of S3 storage.

I have a client that does $50M a year on a SAAS product using only two EC2 isntances, but 1 of those instances is a developer/beta/test server. Only 1 is used to manage sales across the entire world. They rely heavily on Lambda and SNS & SQS as well.

Another client operates eCommerce at around $80M a year revenue using 3 EC2 instances. One of those is a test/dev server and the other 2 are used to distribute load and for redundancy with a load balancer sitting on top.

I have 2 other companies that are smaller that generates about $2M and $5M a year respectively that both run a static site hosted on S3, using Lambda for deploys and cloudfront for distribution like mentioned above.

Point being, you would be surprised how low key many company's AWS deployments are.

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If I could pin one skill that will stand you head and shoulders above the rest among cloud architects, it is to learn Serverless functions. In this AWS world this is "Lambda". Microsoft calls it "Azure Functions" and Google Cloud Platform calls it "Cloud Functions". If you can write serverless functions AND are AWS certified, that seems to be the hottest thing that I have seen.
Or not likely at all, since the whole point of TFA is that many popular programs do not follow specifications and user configuration.
What happens to all of my packages I have installed with options? When I upgrade them next they will suddenly be stripped down? ffmpeg is a huge one, as the default set of options excludes many things that most people using ffmpeg need by default, but homebrew can't ship as a binary for legal reasons.
I think this experience is very different for gay men (speaking as one living in SF). Because gay men are more likely to not want kids (and probably still less likely to be married at a certain age), there is less a need to be able to afford a 3 bedroom home and in my experience there is no late 20/early 30 exodus from SF that I see with some of my straight friends. Then there’s the extra benefit of SF and other major urban centers like NYC and LA in just having a large LGBT population, which many “second tier” cities that are cheaper do not have and would be a major downside to moving out.
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The very premise of this article is flawed. I don't buy it. Censorship of sex didn't kill the internet it killed the popularity of sex on the internet. I am sorry the internet is not only for sex exploration or arousal. It serves many other useful ends besides healthy or unhealthy sexual proclivities.

Decisions made by Google & Co to me are purely business decisions. Think about it, if you wanted to be the most popular search engine how do you reconcile that with getting blocked in schools, libraries, and homes. Call it cultural influence if you like but I personally won't be at all surprised tomorrow if Google made a switch to serve up search results with live hot steamy sex from two strangers on the side because that's the kind of user they are after. I, on the other hand, will block their services.

If the author's argument is that censorship of any form is a threat to the vision of the internet, we can have a meaningful discussion about that.

The problem described in the article is easily solved: The author should start an adult search engine, adult blog (insert your favorite adult content here) and serve up whatever explicit content tickles her fancies but these types of arguments are frankly trite and lacking much depth.
There’s a lot of discussion in this thread of restrictions on building, but an equally big problem in San Francisco is constructions costs. Even if all limits on building were liberalized tomorrow, housing would still be extremely expensive because of the high cost of construction. There are many causes, including the accumulation of well-meaning environmental regulations over the last 10 years. The Terner center at Berkeley put together a great focus group with developers and contractors where they discuss these causes:

https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/San_Francisco_Cons...
Good link, I didn't know that's what nicknames were called.
Some programs (I can think of Termite and Kitty) use the USR1 signal to this end.
> property taxes are about equal to CA property taxes at about 6.5% per year.

Property tax in CA is capped at 1% of assessed value per year.
I never got used to Richie Allen requesting that he be called Dick Allen https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/allendi01.shtml. I had no preference, but as a Phillies fan I had heard him referred to as Richie Allen a zillion times his first few years on the team so Dick Allen always clanged off my ears.
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I do not think Taleb shares your opinion on world economy. He thinks the world economy is more fragile today than in 2008.
Relevant fine print from FDA decision:

i A prominent and conspicuous limiting statement that the test provides only a preliminary test result that needs to be confirmed using an independent pharmacogenetic test without such a limitation prior to making any medical decisions. Alternatively, appropriate design verification and validation activities, including the generation of robust analytical data demonstrating appropriate analytical accuracy and reliability of test results for each genetic variant included in the test report, must be performed that demonstrate that the test can be used to make well-informed clinical decisions.

In other words, any test results (at least related to drug metabolism) require... confirmation with another test?
You forget that almost everyone in America considers themselves middle class.
What does prove even mean in that context?
So this seems to suggest there may be plenty of false negatives, but I think the key factors in this article are at the end: Family history and genetic contributions to disease.

I personally decided to throw our 23andme tests out, for a variety of reasons (health privacy being one), but one of them is health anxiety. It feels unnecessarily anxiety inducing to provide this info, in either case. If i have a mutation, I may live with some elevated fear of something inescapable that never materializes. If I get negative results, I may wonder “what about the ones they didn’t check?” Either way, I end up with less actionable information.

Kind of a psychological phenomenon here - more data in this case doesn’t necessarily result in more information, because interpretation matters so much in this arena.
Yes some PR people made some statements, but have they produced any evidence that these attacks originated in Russia? Zurich will need actual evidence of facts, not newspaper articles quoting the spokesmen of political appointees in charge of these agencies.
I think it makes a lot of sense to have all apps run in a sandbox or container by default. Everything is segregated and easy to monitor and track what its doing.
Openwrt is so nice. Despite small teams and budgets, they power so many routers and are also good at research and new features. The sqm/fq_codel stuff alone makes it worth running openwrt. If you are not familiar with it, go to dslreports.com and run a speedtest. If you get a poor bufferbloat score, openwrt can help. A lot of vendors (even big enterprise ones) use openwrt builds for their products, but don't provide updates, documentation or sources to their customers. You'll see a lot of devices running old openwrt in the wild.
There's MIPS as well out there, which is being opened up: https://wavecomp.ai/mipsopen

Not sure it presents much of an advantage over any of the existing architectures, or RISC-V, though.
~/etc would have been so nice.
It's the hype backlash. There were a lot of over the top pro DNA testing articles in years past so now the hype cycle has moved on to the next stage.
MacOS stores this for files I download through a browser. "Get Info" has a "Where from" property:

http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/12/find-out-where-a-file-was-dow...
I think it’s easy for Americans to see things as a resumption of the Cold War, which we won, and think that’s good.

But this time there are three players in the mutually assured destruction game, and we’ve been poking our thumb in both of their faces. The article mentions how much relations between Moscow and Beijing have improved.

The entire reason we normalized relations with China was to further box in the USSR, stretching them further than they could sustain.

It seems obvious to me that the tables have turned.
> less opportunities for women

What is the mechanism of that? I don't understand how it's necessary to expose broader society (rather than just people interested in it) to unavoidable sexual imagery in order to... have women in the workplace?
Submarine in action. “by editorial board” being your red flag. Journalism is in a financial crisis so we see more and more paid content.
WA state has a $171M bill for Comcast as major consumer protection trial ends
Oh, yeah. I did not see it with early Linux, and like you, thought it was a fun toy. It was specifically the 64 bit x86 thing that caught my attention. The memory ceiling for 32 bit x86 made it easy to ignore Linux. If I remember right, Linux was also still crashing pretty regularly under load just before that time frame too.
Terrorism is an interaction whose purpose is collateral damage. An interaction whose participants aim to damage those who are not involved.
"It’s also possible that there is such a pent-up demand for housing in San Francisco that no amount of building could realistically do enough to make things truly affordable."

I am an SFBA (Marin) resident with a fairly large financial and personal interest in the health and welfare of the city of San Francisco - so this is something I think a lot about.

I think your point is interesting and should be considered.

Obviously it isn't literally true - clearly there would be a point at which enough housing could be built in San Francisco to hit any arbitrary affordability number.

However, it's worth considering that any politically and physically feasible[1] amount of development might not satisfy the latent demand, nationwide, for a house in San Francisco. It is not inconceivable that there are literally 2 million people in the US that would like to immediately move to SF if housing prices were in line with, say, Minneapolis or Denver.

I also think there might be a corollary to this with regard to homelessness in the state of California. I have read with great interest about the successful "house the homeless" projects that have been implemented in places like Salt Lake City which appear to suggest that you can solve a cities homelessness problem by building enough units to house that population. But what if there are (essentially, not literally) an unlimited number of people willing to be homeless in California ? What if the Salt Lake program really only works because it gets cold and snowy there and, really, there are only so many people willing to be homeless there and you can, in fact, house them all ?

If either of those are the case, I don't know what a good solution looks like.

[1] Including the time dimension ...
Do you mean `home-manager switch` or is there a feature in nixos to touch home folders?
I don't think that's true. Glass died because nobody could think of anything to do with it. Talk about "glassholes" dominated the conversation because there was no other subject to discuss. The explorer program was supposed to let people come up with cool ideas for applications and nobody ever did.

This is broadly true of wearables so far: nobody has come up with a use case for them more compelling than, "shave a few seconds off checking notifications on your phone."
Esoteric setups aside, I'd be interested to hear about problems that people actually have encountered with this convention.
With average stay 2 years as is statistic right now, the person will leave before or around the time they will become experienced.

Those people may stick with career, but not with company. Moreover average startup does not last two years either, so the company won't exist at that point.
> Yes, people who bought a house while ago in California, sell, and move to Texas would have a lot of money. But again, is this typical?

This was the business owner at my first job out of college. He sold his California home and used that money to bootstrap his business for two years and hire employees while also supporting himself and his family.

The answer though is middle class people according to IRS data - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/19/californians-fed-up-with-hou...
The Egg: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Also Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" from the answer below, not read that in years, or any of Clarke's/Asimov's.
> You can change gnupg's home dir, but it would break a lot of currently functional setups if it just moved.

You can just change the default: if .gnupg exists, write everything to it. If not, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnupg/ and $XDG_DATA_HOME/gnupg/ as appropriate (deciding how to carry out the split is not obvious, but can be done).

I agree, though, that calling it "shaming" is neither justified, nor useful.
> Example, why would every Restaurant wants to have an Apps of its own?

Why would any restaurant have an app?

> close to Native App in performance and usability

Javascript in the browser will never be close to a native app as far as CPU, battery, memory, and bandwidth utilization goes. I don't think they will ever work as well with assistive technologies either.
There seems to be considerable feelings I read online that "economics" as you cite are a bit of a house of cards right now. The disproportion of increased income for _most_ people in the world compared with wealth is at the heart of it.

More concretely, home buying is a cornerstone of the American economic system, but a combination of income stagnation, student loan debt, and absurd overpricing nationwide has priced out much of the "millennial" demographic. In my local area, shoddy houses are going for $700k, but nobody approaching 30 is buying anything. That sort of thing just isn't sustainable. And this is from the point of view of having a good tech income, which is a bubble.
Yep, until your program crashes because you weren't expecting a 10b file to run out of disk space.
What the article describes is indeed "dot file sanity".
I'm concerned that as density increases and TLC (and QLC) sd cards become the norm, the controllers will be forced to implement read-levelling as most SSDs already do. Once that happens, even your read-only filesystem is going to start doing writes and then we are back to square one.
Well I think of it more like carpentry. I can build a beautiful house and not get upset later that the owner sits on the couch watching game shows on tv all day. Similarly it doesn’t have to bother me that the result of all my optimizations at Google was they had more capacity to let a computer play Starcraft against itself for fifty million CPU-years. Just does not concern me at all as long as my paycheck didn’t bounce.
The XDG directories are by default under your home dir only, so you can keep the same backupability properties. Better ones, even, since the files of things supporting it are in one place.
Plus if you try to rename a dotfile through explorer, it won't let you

Then if you try to make a dotfile through powershell, it has a different text encoding than *nix, which some programs (git) rely on
Couple of weeks ago bought Netgear 4300 N750 (300Mb+450Mb) on ebay and installed latest Openwrt.

$11 - laughable price for device with 3 antennas and 5xGigE.
Easier to version your configs if they're all in one place. Easier to find a config file, less guess-work. Generally helps keep the home directory tidy of cruft. Not a huge deal, obviously, but programs should be well-behaved programs.
> Christy, who is a frequent critic of EPA regulations, said he will use his position on the 45-member board to question the results of climate models.

So do what scientists do? Question models and improve them.
It is useful to have hidden files shown by default (.gitignore, .config, etc). And not everyone uses GUI file managers all day.

Home directory is the default directory for terminal emulators, and having it polluted to me feels like sitting in a dirty room.
For context, the cheapest market price condo for sale in SF I could find today is a micro studio in SoMa (~260 sq ft) for $445k!
Racism is a political problem. It doesn't arise out of some universal flawed human psyche, it arises because certain political structures exist that stratify and marginalize groups of people. In the United States, for example, "whiteness" was an invention that changed over time to include different groups depending on political circumstances. Calling it merely a "human" problem ignores the strong relationship between racism and the legacy of European and American colonialism.
Was thinking about that when tinkering with docker: why are volumes created outside the user's home directory by default ?
Apple will collect any of their devices for recycling in most countries, https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

From what I understand they built special-purpose robots to disassemble the past several phone versions and recover most of the content. I imagine they can recover the glass and frame from laptops; not sure what happens to the microchips.

It would be interesting to see some data about how long a typical device from each manufacturer continues to see active use, and how often they get repaired. I am skeptical that e.g. the typical consumer-owned Dell/Asus/etc. laptop stays around any longer than typical Apple laptop. Anecdotally I know a bunch of people whose PC laptops were pieces of junk when they bought them, and didn’t last more than a couple years before they threw them out for a new model, and also some people who mostly buy used 3–4 year old Apple hardware.
The classic MacOS had exactly this concept: Creator Code[0], similar to the Type Code[1] but storing a file's creator rather than its "mimetype".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_code

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_code
A general tagging mechanism, reasonably supported across filesystems, would be great to have. Not only for media collections.

It's not easy to implement nicely, though.
They are just saying don't take medical action based on our results and hold us liable.