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Firstround shills for their founders like no other. No mention of the discipline as it relates to profitability, a healthy CAC:LTV, equity efficiency - but plenty of vanity metrics to go around, naturally amount of money raised and team size. These VC fluff pieces are increasingly insufferable PR.
It's just a date. Ship something by this date. I would suggest shipping more than once before this date. I would not call that a deadline in the normal sense that it's used. Of course, dates should be used as part of the planning process, when necessary. The problem is that most deadlines are overly restrictive and used unnecessarily only to reduce the anxiety of the manager at the expense of the team's motivation. So the net result is less, delivered later.
> their immigration status being tied to employment greatly lowers their ability to self-advocate

H1B holders are free to change employers, but the new employer has to apply for a new visa (not subject to the cap). I've changed my job 3 times on an H1B, always for a better role and more pay.
>because of the flavorless nature of most fast-food and grocery-store beef

this was my judgement of the beyond burger too. it's basically indistinguishable from a bad hamburger. it's certainly not a good hamburger, but it could pass as meat the same way most fast food burgers pass as meat.
Hard to hire, hard to shake the mental model, not mainstream enough so it's hard for it to become mainstream.

Some clojure teams are moving to elixir because elixir is functional, performant, but imperative-y enough to seduce imperative programmers.
Just switched our office to Front. The discipline in the article is highly visible in the product. Nowhere in the product do you get a whiff of the typical job-half-finished-ship-now attitude that pervades SV. Every feature works as intended. I can't imagine the amount of testing they do, but getting to this level of quality takes hard work and discipline.
My point was that it's difficult for an instrument designer to build a piano from scratch, even understanding the idea behind it, without opening one up and seeing how it works first. I understand the Alan Kay-esque hesitation to avoid having a community crystallize around what's perceived by its creators as just a prototype (referencing Kay's unhappiness with Smalltalk's relative lack of innovation over the decades).
> there is only one global (uniform) syntax.

Not quite. You have access to the reader in Forth, and it's quite typical to write a word that takes over for the reader for some time and then hands back to the usual reader. Julian Noble used this to implement a subset of FORTRAN for computational physics (more convenient than postfix for doing that) and to make state machine transition tables into code. Sadly, he is no longer with us.

Common Lisp also provides access to the reader, so you can do the same trick, but it's not a ubiquitous thing to do the way it is in Forth.
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Follow the money, it's the answer to most of these kind of questions.
It is a solution though.
I won't deny that. With the exception of long-distance running, all of those are cost-prohibitive luxury activities, just like gaming.
I opened a medium post the other day from my phone that did all this stuff. It was amazing - there was a bar up the top asking me to install the medium app. Then another bar below that asking me to subscribe to the author or something. Then a call-to-action pop-over on the bottom of the screen asking me to join a mailing list or something.

Only about 1/4 of my phone screen was left displaying the content - which wasn't even enough space to see the post's title on my plus sized phone.

I closed the tab, because who has time for that?

I can never tell if websites don't know how many people get turned away by how awful their websites are, or if they know but figure its a good deal. (Maybe medium figures an X% drop in blog engagement is worth it if a few readers join their mailing list).

In the meantime I'd like it if all browsers added an option to automatically block all website notification requests. Firefox does this, and its great.
I don't know for sure what the ratio is, but I think that you are mostly correct. There are some YouTube videos that show lawyers discussing how to rig the process.

I hesitate to rely on my anecdotal experience but my opinion is that unless they are really high level programmers or whatnot they are butts in seats.
NYC did solve this problem and then let its amazing system atrophy over the years (though I still give it credit for being 24/7). Its original sin is that the subway was built to get people in and out of Manhattan so parts of Brooklyn and Queens are in dead zones only serviceable by bus or car (to say nothing of Staten Island) and it's nearly impossible to create new track these days. NYC as a whole would benefit from more point to point connection in the outer boroughs instead of hub-and-spoke through Manhattan.

SF and the broader Bay Area transit policy make zero sense to me.
Do we even need the restriction.

We're talking about spammyness of a UI element because access requests are misaligned with user desire.

All you're saying is the site will pop up a request for access whenever I do anything, ok, how is that different to what we have no?

It's not going to be the norm, it's just going to be a few bad actors.

Doesn't mean we put up with spam everywhere else.
Yep, I stopped eating Taco Bell in my early 20s once I couldn't stomach it anymore, but I started getting it again when I went vegan and it's great. I think the traditional grossness of it must come from their weird sauces, or maybe from fillers in their meat. They're still $1 burritos so I won't pretend the ingredients are the freshest or highest-quality, but vegan Taco Bell just tastes like normal food and not like, well, Taco Bell.
They are. Scala, Rust, js.
The first tweet is about a law I haven't researched and don't understand. So I'm going to have to reserve judgement on it. The 2nd tweet however, seems to fall into the category of transphobia to me.

https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497

> If [The United Nations] can change the definition of women to include men, they can erase efforts to empower women economically, socially, and politically.
it's really not as bad as Germany though.
In some ways Facebook is less than a journalism company, because the content that circulates on there originates from the people. Facebook is Reddit, and here we're talking about WhatsApp the chat app, and a chat app is even more "content by the people".

The subtext to all of this is "people are weak" and need protection from their own powers of free association (your network is curated by you). It's one thing to say that people can't put marijuana into their bodies, but it's another to say I can't even handle the speech of my peers because it'll delude my sense of reality. Then how do you have faith in democracy?
Maybe true in the very early days but Google has 100K employees now. It's a mixed bag of skilled and mediocre.
The purpose of gas tax is not bound to infrastructure developement. Germany may spend gas tax money for arbitary purposes.

https://www.energie-lexikon.info/energiesteuer.html
Can you even transfer close to 3000 kW through any overhead wires or third rail systems? It seems like 25 kV is the max voltage overhead lines run at. That's 120 A that you need to transfer through a sliding conductor. That sounds problematic to me, but I don't really know for sure...?

And if you are proposing using batteries to reduce the amount of overhead wires you need, then the average power you need to transfer while connected to the wires increases, not decreases.
The linked document (in french) [0] says that there have been similar requests in the USA, Italy, Germany and UK.

[0]: https://torrentfreak.com/images/scihuborder.pdf
I took the train from Tucson to New Orleans last week. The train cars are 25 years old and in OK shape, the food was edible but overpriced (even with a vegan option), but all above the luggage racks there were streaks of dirt, where vacuuming had taken place but apparently not a complete job. The train arrived about 5 hours late and I felt compelled to apologize to the British couple seated next to me on behalf of the USA, after asking them if nationalized British Rail was this bad in the seventies.
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Probably none, people without much IT skills who need those sites will ask their co-workers on how to access them and they will get help.
Two things I've learned about deadlines
#1 - never get into a fight with a superior about a deadline - think of the princess bride quote about land wars in asia.

Which brings us to #2 : look at them relative to what's important to your business. Much of the time a deadline isn't really a deadline at all - its a point in time to show progress in the right direction. With that in mind, i might say to the team - "what's important to this business is _______ , so lets be sure to highlight our progress on items a/b/c because they're key to ______. ..all this other shit in the backlog is #2 .. n that Alice and Bob want. Alice and Bob will get their shit when we get the important shit done (which might be never) [0]

What direction is important to the business? Well, hopefully the direction of solving a problem or delivering a widget to someone who is waiting to actually use it and hand over $ in exchange. If its something else its often your deadline playing chicken with someone else's deadline on the gantt chart and then its the old joke about two guys running away from a bear.

[0] Alice and Bob will get their shit when they start contributing items to the backlog that are aligned with what is important with the business.

EDIT: deadlines aren't inherently "bad" - especially when one is competing against others for something. The problem is too many points in time are made to look like deadlines and often by the wrong people. Imagine running a marathon, and someone is yelling at you from the sidelines : "run as fast as you can to the 4 mile mark!"
first they came for the torrent listing sites, then they came for the open research databases, and then it was too late.
First Round is not an investor in Front.
Are you allowed to claim that the software you're selling is proprietary, owned and copyrighted by you and then go after people that obtained them from the source (or are the original creator of said software)? Because that appears to be what Getty is doing.
When I was a kid I did dream of being a cyber-mercenary. Given that the US recognise cyberspace as being a battlespace, would being a hacker for another country count as being a mercenary. Would that make you a combatant?
It has more to do with the left-wing ideology of the San Francisco school district, and its loathing for anything that might resemble elitism. There's a reason why private schools are so expensive in SF. Parents are abandoning public schools faster than new private schools can expand to meet demand.
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FAANGs all issue RSUs and cash bonuses but if you are a senior engineer doing good work you should expect your RSUs to match your salary in year 2-3 and exceed your base salary in years 3-4.

If you take their numbers that works out to $350-$400k.
No company is run by robots. There is no AI CEO.

The role of metrics is to grant visibility. Any policies governing outcomes, e.g. pay bonuses for high metrics, those policies are set and iteratively improved by people working off intuition.

Doesn't mean the metrics are bullshit, just means they're a tool.
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I’ve never heard of rust being used in the functional world, interesting.
How does your model of metaethics account for guilt then? I can appreciate your sentiment, I'm a pescatarian for ethical reasons, but I still believe your claim to be untrue.
> The consumer gets to assume that Walmart has acquired all the licenses for everything it sells, and incurs no liability when Walmart doesn't.

If you buy some Disney-branded stuff from Walmart and re-sell them, Disney will come after you if they aren't licensed. You can then go after Walmart to reimburse you for damages, but you can't say "sorry, Disney, I got these from Walmart, take it up with them", can you? It would be way to easy to set up a shell company that takes the fall if that was true.
I haven't had the chance to give this a really solid skim or do any background searches for the author or any related work, but given that, what do you like about this? Why do you post it, why do you think it is interesting, or what did you learn from it?

I intend to check it out, do you have any leads for me? Or suggested sections?

Thank you.
They don’t put these pieces together out of a collegial respect for random entrepreneurs.
With a lot of proxies (in the linked document (french) [0]) I didn't know about; perfect!

[0]: https://torrentfreak.com/images/scihuborder.pdf
the image thing is a shenanigans that will only ever be used for attacks.
FB and Google are well known for paying near or at top of market salaries for developers and PMs. Netflix is even more explicit about this - their compensation philosophy (available on their website) can be summarized as "We will not be outbid." (from personal experience I know they really mean it)

These companies sponsor H1B visas because some of the people they wish to hire happen to not able to work in the US without a visa. They'll hire anyone who passes the interview.
I sat for two hours outside New Orleans last week watching freight trains cross the bridge ahead of us when we were just 10 unobstructed minutes from arrival. Right now passenger service to Chicago is suspended for the near future because the trestle (which is single track wooden but being replaced by a double-track concrete one of similar height (!)) is at risk of being overtopped by the flood relief spillway - there’s a rail replacement bus to Jackson (which itself had a fire enroute last month). Oh, and good luck finding out about this from Amtrak’s website - all it tells you is the train is cancelled and they’ve laid on a bus.
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True enough. I think the point here is to reduce that marginal car. When the decision is to drive or not drive and there is a viable alternative (which in NY there is, unlike, say LA), then this takes that marginal car off the road when people say, ah screw it its not worth the extra couple bucks.
That’s not really true. Define “works” if I’m adding the ability to export a document. Is .txt enough or would my users actually want an image? Or a pdf? Or at least .csv? Maybe .txt would satisfy the power users but just upset the less computer savvy ones? Is it better than nothing?
EEVblog and CodysLab are scams?

Why haven't i heard about this? Do you have any source?
A single 40" 4K display is basically 2x2 20" 1080p displays with no bezel space between. That means you would be turning your head quite a bit more with 2x 27" than a single 40" (although with some additional vertical movements I guess). I sit at a distance of about 800mm (~2.5ft) from the display and find I hardly have to move my head at all - I focus most of my work in the top two thirds with lower priority 'peripheral vision' stuff (IM, terminal windows, etc) down in the lower section.
Ask HN: Privacy Wrappers for Messenger
I'm a student and have to use Messenger since everyone else is on it (really want to use Signal but can't). Are there any privacy wrappers for Messenger that possibly add more functionality to the webapp/mobile app?
No, it's not.

Currently on legitimate and decently built sites I get a custom JS modal popup that asks me to accept the location request before they even request location access. They do this because otherwise their location request gets dismissed by users out of habbit and then people don't know how to reenable it.

It's shit UX.

Notifications and always on location access should be a bell icon in the url bar. Think YouTube notifications.

On top of that, there should be a "use location" html element that sets it's value to the current location when clicked. It would also be nice if that threw up a warning when proxy settings are detected.
If you say "the State is electing itself a new people" then the demographic shift is more obviously anti-democratic, which it is. The people who voted are having their votes diluted...
Here's a step to fix your communication issue. Don't assume people know what OKR is, and explain it briefly at the start of your article about OKRs.
Yes, we do. We have roles open in Austin and SF right now: https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/departments/marketing/
I believe it was temazepam. I do not remember the dose.
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Isn't it required to accompany public domain images with their original license?
Do you have a portfolio site? I had a 5 year hiatus from dev work and got a high paying software job within a year of trying.

1. Read numerous hacker news comments for advice.

2. Did freelance work for cheap but targeted jobs that I could learn highly desired skills (React, webpack, etc..)

3. Built a portfolio site with freelance work examples.

4. Applied to tons of jobs and got one.

I also had to try extremely hard and live in Seattle which helps too. To be honest by the sound of your post your mind set is in a not so great place which is understandable.

Perseverance
so pride is killing their ability to access information.

In this case I have no pity for them, then. If they want to feel better about themselves by cutting off their own ears because other people are using English then let them.
Sounds like the process was not done well at your company. I have my OKRs set up so that I spend almost all my time working on them. I do usually have one or two "personal OKRs" like the one you described, but most of them represent the team's core work: "put major feature X into production", "address P1 customer issues with 3 days", whatever.

It gives you a nice defense when some seemingly urgent but less important work comes along. "We could do that, but it would cost us this OKR which we agreed at all levels was one of the most important things for our team to do."
Fyi, you might like, Firefox + ublock + annoyances list on mobile fix most of this garbage.
Actually, I believe the law of Etendue[1] covers that. Basically, any focusing of the area of light must be balanced by a widening of the angle of that light.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue
If you _really_ don't know what type of data you have, you type it as `mixed`. But if you _do_ know the shape of your data, you write your own types, and tell the library about those types (eg; with generics). Think like `my_df: DataFrame<MyDataShape> = pandas.DataFrame(my_data)` where you manually define the shape of `MyDataShape`.

Scala is a language that is often used for data processing, and is statically typed.

Depending on the situation, codegen can also be useful in these situations, eg; https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm

EDIT: in any case, this certainly answers my question :-) sounds like they're not there yet, and perhaps not even moving in that direction yet.
Approaching “kill us all” mirror life – can it be made safe?
There is a possibility of synthesizing mirror version of our life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life
) - with cells built of mirror versions of standard molecules (enantiomers), and we are currently approaching this point:

2002 - synthetic virus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_virology

2010 - synthetic cell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cell#Synthetic_cells

2013 - synthetic ribosome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_ribosome

2016 - synthesizing working large mirror protein (polymerase) in a lab in China: https://www.nature.com/news/mirror-image-enzyme-copies-looking-glass-dna-1.19918

2018 - "How biologists are creating life-like cells from scratch": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07289-x

However, it is also opening a Pandora box - completely new microbes, probably toxic for higher life through unwanted interactions, which might dominate the ecosystem due to nearly not having compatible natural enemies. Here is a WIRED article estimating that mirror cyanobacteria could eradicate our type of life on Earth in a few centuries through CO2 consumption alone: "Mirror-image cells could transform science - or kill us all" https://www.wired.com/2010/11/ff_mirrorlife/

How much time it will take to reach first mirror ribosome? Mirror cell?

They are talking about including safeguards in such synthetic microbes - can we be sure that they are sufficient?
I don't think you've run the numbers.

A tesla powerpack is 50kw, 210kwh, and weighs 3500lbs.

A freight train that would normally be pulled by four 3,000kw diesel electric locomotives would need 240 powerpacks, and could run for four hours before needing a full recharge. Those powerpacks would weigh 420 tons - the equivalent of say, four fully loaded freight cars, and cost around $25M (plus whatever the locomotives cost).

The diesel-electric locomotives are a couple million each, ready-to-run.

Ah hah you say, you only need the batteries between catenaries! How fast do you think you can charge those batteries? If you can charge the same as the full discharge rate, then you need 50% of your track to be electrified, and you need it every four hours (assuming you're willing to risk full discharge cycles). Trains don't move very fast, so that's pretty closely spaced. And even worse, you now need electrical infrastructure with twice the capacity - you need to charge the battery and move the train.

Sure there's no technical reason you couldn't do this, but the economics are not looking good. Batteries are too weak.
> I and everyone else would love skyscrapers, 9-5 jobs, money, IPhones, etc.

Of course you do. What you don't want is skyrocketing cancer rates, heart disease, spousal abuse, a severe lack of time, people who are so poor they can't feed themselves, high crime rates and all the other things that come along with the "shiny" stuff like 9-5 jobs, money & iPhones.

The thing is the developed world hasn't figured out how to get one without the other, and if I were you, I would think long and hard if you really, really want what you're asking for.

I lived that life of the developed first world city, and frankly, it's horrible. I recently spent time in one of the world's most livable cities, supposedly a great place to live. After three years in Africa I would rather die than live in that "great western city".