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Jimminy sufferin Crickets; Arthur Brooks is human refuse. His "peak" means "peak shilling for oligarchs and foreign moneybags trying to foment useless wars." Really, his time has passed because we (left and right) are done with your neocon bullshit.

Reading the actual article (not necessary, but I suffer for you): he mentions ... athletes, who of course mostly peak early, Darwin (who has no comparison class; gee, sorry he didn't think of his theory after he was 50), Dirac, Bach, poets... and how we should meditate on death.

What this is is typical Brooks oligarch shilling. Be happy with less, peasant; your value declines as you age. One of the other weasels at AEI will doubtless write something about how young employees are similarly worthless.
The Parisian one is the only one I’ve used and it was much better 5 years ago compared to 2 years ago.
Thank you, someone finally said it.

First of all, drop-out startups have a huge amount of surviorship bias, and second, these people are not dropping out of random schools. Many of these so called "drop-outs" drop out of top tier Institutions such as Harvard, MIT, etc. and have plenty of connections to start a successful business. In other words, they are super smart - smart enough that their top tier school is holding them back.
If plans for diversifying supply and finding alternative markets for goods impacted by retaliatory tariffs had happened first, much of the short term impact of what are basically import taxes passed to consumers could be assuaged or limited like if Apple had built alternative supply chains. However, we have lost long term markets for goods like soy beans that will take years to recover (see the farm bailouts pushed by the current administration to cover these costs) while not hedging against other short term losses or even building the increase in taxes into a credit so citizens see a net 0 from the tariffs.

Tariffs can be influential in trade negotiation but must be used like a scalpel, skillfully restricting trade in areas that don't cripple domestic industry while pressuring the other economy. this is incredibly difficult against such a large trading partner as China without building up alternative supply of goods or shoring up domestic capacity first. Blanket Tariffs, unless against a small country with small or specific exports, will hurt everyone involved much more than an existing deal. Meanwhile, promises of future gains from a new deal are just that, promises by politicians who already have the largest record of lying to the public and blocking any transparency like in the documented obstruction of the special counsel investigation. Usually, the costs are never made up by future gains and promises fall short if reveal themselves at all.

For steel, it may be that different countries have taken to what they can make the most profit from, diversifying production globally to meet demand. Domestic industry compensates for foreign competition by either doing it better/cheap/more profitable or specializing in ways that competitors can't like massive production of cheap steel foreign competition can't match touch due to high shipping costs or developing and producing a specialty steel that nobody else can match. If this specialization moves to an extreme so one type isn't made domestically at all, that's going to hit consumers and industry hard. It will take time to increase capacity or shift production, potentially away from more profitable and established goods, to meet demand. That lapse in supply could be huge, give US companies a cheap way into that market, but at the cost of further government intervention, higher taxes, and a step away from capitalism which allowed countries to specialize and decrease costs long term. In this example, that supply drop opened an opportunity to other countries like Russia who are conveniently dropping millions on a project in Kentucky. If US steel can't compensate and foreign groups are able to push into the domestic market anyway, what does the tariff do to help domestic industry at all?

We are in limbo then, with goods sitting around or being taxed higher to hopefully get a better deal than what exists. If that falls through, we are all much worse off from all this.
The pronunciation of niche has to do with french not pronouncing ch differently from sh. This is somewhat problematic for french people pronouncing Asian words transliterated in Latin alphabets; they will consistently pronounce ch exactly like sh (« konishiwa », …) (Pikachu is mostly pronounced correctly though.)
Soft, or Hard Like Mud
This is the thing that encourages so much adolescent angst. They've a sense that they know as much as most of the adults they interact with. And a realization everyone just makes it up as they go. And somehow we don't share with each other the value of experience and no one shares failure is the currency of experience and young people should be almost failing a lot.
I think you're overthinking it. It's a cute quote.
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I don't think they did, and I don't think you did (please read my tone with generosity; that's not meant to be an attack.)

I don't believe the feedback they got was that they should be charging, and they aren't yet, therefore "the best time to plant a tree..."

The question they got was "Why aren't you charging yet?", because by product and market, it seemed they ought to be. The correct answer is "This is our market, this is our business plan, this is why it makes sense for us to not be charging yet." The question is one of rationale, which could be judged as being good or bad, but still the question is "why?"

Their actions revealed that they didn't have a solid rationale. So without any more reasoning than "because it seems like YC is criticizing us for not charging," they quickly started charging. Did YC's criticism actually change their business strategy? Their knowledge of the market? Anything that should have plugged into the question of whether they should be charging? If the answer is "no," then they launched a significant change to their product without any good reason and, in my opinion, validated YC's opinion.
Slack is a very interesting thing to compete with – I do have some personal experience with that, our product having been squarely aimed at this exact underserved space between email and Slack.

The core issue is that Slack is useful as a social tool at work, for work, but its main stickiness comes from the fact that it can be a respite from work. This is what the 'fun' is a code word for that is mentioned in all Slack marketing materials.

So if you make a tool that is better at getting people be productive, it ends up being less sticky than Slack. If you make one that is more social, then it gets disqualified by 'serious' purchasing departments as a fun toy that some employees are playing with.

That's a tough one. Ultimately the solution, or at least the way I'm betting my chips, is that you can find a less anxiety-inducing medium of communication to underlie work comms, and make it modern (less JIRA and more Discord) that can be a winning bet.

[!Plug alert from this point on!] An attempt at formulating how that could look is the thing I'm working on. It's the private version of https://getaether.net for companies, in private beta.
Fair enough, but off all your communications how much of it falls into this category? 20%? What about for the average Joe/Jane? I'll go out on a limb and say even less.

Email is a walkie-talkie. It's a fax machine. Yes, it still works. But it's sweet spot is getting smaller and smaller.
We have slack advocates at my work that push this line.

The stated intent is to replace email with slack - but now I effectively have 50+ inboxes to check and track.

Multiple threads blow out the number of places I have to check (and consequently mouse-clicking) by at least an order of magnitude.
Technically, not "avoid" but "quiet enough that people don't notice it much."

Companies developing new supersonic planes:

Mach 2.2 airliner: https://boomsupersonic.com/

XB-1 prototype in construction, scheduled for supersonic flights in 2020.

Mach 1.4 business jet: https://www.aerionsupersonic.com/

Boeing is partnering, Feb. 2019 press release says "first test flight slated for 2023."
> “These marketing claims are simply a for-profit company’s attempt to use Tesla’s name to mislead the public into thinking there is a problem that would require the purchase of this company’s product,” a Tesla spokesperson said.

The for-profit spokesperson doth protest too much?
This is one of the best business stories I've ever read. It embodies the core principle of the American dream: that you can really make it if you are dedicated, work hard, and strike out on the right idea. It also highlights the importance of good leadership, to recognize good ideas no matter where they come from, and bottom-up management techniques that emphasize collective ownership of a company's products and success.
Ethereum marketcap is lower because institutional investors are being sold Bitcoin by the few who are providing the onramp to these large players. They conveniently changed the narrative around bitcoin from payment system to "digital gold".

Smaller investors are chasing the shitcoins (penny stocks).

You dont have much vested interests really 'marketing' ethereum. most people involved are headsdown building great products and protocols.
Slack is useful for solving problems, it is not useful for managing dynamics. It encourages a kind of public performance among non-technical people, and creates the situation for a kind of callout culture where you can apply pressure by creating a public paper trail.

It's great for small teams, but it does not scale. It rapidly becomes twitter with your bosses and co-workers, where almost nothing being said is worth saying, and anything worth saying shouldn't be said there.
What your looking for is not new or revolutionary. It's just an abstraction. Read about the strangler pattern and it will get you pretty far.
Hi, if your business is data driven based on a cloud datawarehouse you can check out repods.io - there you can start out with a full functioning pod for free without expiration
For true errors like that, I agree with you, but the parent is basically saying both "fuck monads" and "only handle errors in your top level modules".
So, no, Slack is not replacing email. Most of us have exactly no interest in an email "replacement" where you need the administrator's approval to talk to people outside your organization.

For in-organization email... they might. Outside, no way.
The Register article mentions this:

> With city space ever scarcer and more expensive, but latency requirements only increasing, companies have been looking at innovative ways of getting data centres closer to the action.

It doesn't specifically say this is the reason Scaleway did it, but it could make sense if there's a bunch of tech firms located nearby and the above-ground real estate is expensive.
> coup de grâce

"Funny" that they have a french word and a french statement as the second and third example. But maybe not and it is intentionally, 'whois' says Registrant Country is FR. In any case, very cool and works impressively AFAICS. Wonder how long it will stay up until our Google overlords sends a cease and desist
Also from the article:

> Six months later, with Montañez’s help, Frito-Lay began testing Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in small Latino markets in East Los Angeles.

> If it performed well, the company would move forward with the product; if it didn’t, they’d scratch it — and Montañez would likely return to janitorial duties.

> So Montañez assembled a small team of family members and friends, went to the test markets, and bought every bag of Hot Cheetos he could find.

> “I’d tell the owner, ‘Man, these are great,’” he recalled. “Next week, I’d come back and there’d be a whole rack.”

:-)
The submitter used the document title of the article instead of the h1, which is fine in general. We've just updated it since the header seems a bit clearer.
to the contrary, it's wild that you keep grasping at straws to make China seem worse than the USA.

China isn't waging war all over the world, so America is the worst case scenario right now.
Best thing i ever read on HN
Let's hope they weren't kept in UMGs 'vault' (really a shelf in the back of a hot warehouse) that went up in smoke 10 years ago.
Let me share a story about why we need to be questioning the the pro-vaccination movement.

My fiance has a daughter that had an extremely bad reaction to her age 3ish(she was young, maybe 5) set. Her immune system started filling itself full of heavy metals, she went into shock, wouldn't stop screaming and rocking. When my fiance took her to the hospital, not a single doctor would acknowledge that the only new thing introduced to her system was the mandatory vaccination.

What my fiance ended up doing was forcing the hospital to discharge her daughter and went straight to the alternative medicine. Dosed her up on herbal detox and needled her multiple sessions. Finally her body relaxed from the shock and she stopped feeling like she was dying.

Put yourself in my this mothers shoes? How would you feel about mandatory vaccinations if this had been your previous experience? We recently had to give this same little one a tetanus shot, the only shot is also bundled with diptheri and pertussis, called the TDAP shot. Thankfully the little ones immune system didnt go haywire over this one but it was a stressful moment of faith that we labored over.

In the end, none of the science was what lead us to say yes. We prayed to God, and we asked for peace within her body and we took a step of faith despite our fear. We asked שטן to shoulder our suffering and we let our ego die a little, we let go of our fear.

As a society... are we acting out of fear? We must ask ourselves this, we must face our ego down and let it die.
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I've done a few Periscope streams on my Twitter feed about this. You can check them out at @AndrewMayne.
At your company, the modern equivalent is the janitor, who cleans your office -- but doesn't work directly for Mixpanel.
One cannot simply try again. One has to take the byte count returned by read() and write() and deduct that from what was expected. One has to find out what time it is after returning prematurely from sleep() and nanosleep(). For a lot of the interruptible system calls, one has to write defensive code.
As someone who likes email and irc...

What’s the point of slack? What’s the appeal? Honest question!
Also you have to sign into all your Slack workspaces each time you go to a new machine, which is annoying. Discord only requires a single sign in.
Yeah, I suppose it's true that I'm more willing to keep these projects around when they aren't costing me each month. It also makes it easier to toss ideas out and see what's worth actually investing in.

On other hand, I think I'm much lazier when it comes to marketing them since there's no urgency to make a profit.
I found out about this tool just 3 days ago and now I see it on the front page of HN.

I was trying to embed an audio version of my name's pronunciation on my blog, since, most people find it hard to pronounce my name. I googled a bit to see if there is any tool that would do it and stumbled upon this lovely app. I was amazed by the idea and accuracy of this app. It works well for the use case it was designed for. Unfortunately, mine was different.
> The results for "niche" are consistently mixed up though, which means that word will continue to drive me insane. Neesh or nitch

Pretty sure it comes from French, so "neesh"
Domino's will start delivering pizzas via an autonomous robot this fall
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If you are claiming that our current computers are way too slow/small to replicate our brains, well, I don't think anybody disagrees.

But the GP is saying that it's possible to create some computer that replicates it (even if we can't do it now). I don't see anything disagreeing with it in your post.
>Latinx

There is no faster way to discredit your argument than using absurd language like latinx. I've yet to meet a latino person who referred to themselves as anything else.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think if you kill a process normally, it will invoke a signal handler which will exit the process (maybe writing a core file first) without ever returning to normal program flow.

Recognizing EINTR at the program level isn't required for this kind of shutdown. I think the system call will only return if the signal is ignored or if the signal handler returns, but you would only do this if you thought you had recovered from the error.
How come you conclude the issue was inexperience & bad management but made sure to frame it as women & poc vs. white men?

Not a super cool way to add to discourse.
How unethical would it be to take is idea and simply compensate him for it in some small way. A promotion, a bonus, some small percent of the proceeds.

My point here, and it was obviously lost on some, is that the CEO saw the possibilities for the person, instead of simply seeing an interesting idea. I'm sure there are plenty of stories where a similar scenario played out and the protagonist didn't end up in Montañez's position.
I don't understand your objections, nor do I see how you can infer that I don't know much about bikes.

Yes, the person I was replying to was advocating for department store quality bikes. I don't see how you can interpret it any other way. He literally said "shittiest heaviest bike you can find", not "$1-5k medium quality bike".
I've always expected that a system which could work, albeit with flaws, would be to ratchet up censorship for any individual user who flags content. The more they flag, the less they see. The only 'problem' is that this would leave users fearing that there are others who have not flagged the same content objectionable that they have, and are viewing that content without being actively prevented. They'd be protected themselves, but it would be easy to convince them (if any convincing is even necessary) that 'almost everyone else' is consuming the raw obscene feed and being turned into monsters by it.
8 pronunciations of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in English: https://youglish.com/search/supercalifragilisticexpialidocio...

Best result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2467&v=4axGm0g-1...
There is definitely an aspect to learn. I have had co-workers who routinely message on Slack, and if they don't get a response within 60 seconds, they get up, go to my desk and bother me -- in the middle of coding. Cumulatively lost likely several months of progress to this.
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A picture is worth a thousand words. No chance you'd be able to share that photo here, is there?
Honestly, I don't know. Since MS bought them they have made many improvements, and seem to take gitlab seriously. What they lack is a decent mobile/tablet experience so I don't always have to be at a laptop/desktop.

I'm not willing to provide is trusted access to a third party when they have the full backing of one of the most well funded companies in history.
Mountweazels and Paper Towns!

"Fictitious Entry" is a fun read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
> What's the point of going on if you can't contribute?

Because "peak" isn't required to contribute.

I strongly suspect I can't program like I can when I was 25 when I could hold a gazillion details in my head simultaneously--now I simply find a task that requires that to be distasteful.

I am, however, MUCH better at architecture and organization so that I don't have to hold a zillion details in my head. That also means that my programs are far easier for others to understand than the ones I wrote when I was 25.

Which one is the better "contribution"?
This doesn’t magically cure everything, but switching from REST to GraphQL can help make a lot of versioning-type issues disappear.
> I can link to any message on Slack, in context, going back to the beginning. I can't link to emails: I have to find and forward them to people.

This sounds disingenuous.

In order to 'link a message' in Slack, don't you have to find it first?

So the 'find and forward' email problem is half-shared there in either environment.

Forwarding an email is straightforward -- a single keypress in most email clients, then identify the recipient(s), who can be anyone with an email address.

I'm guessing that linking a message on Slack requires the recipients to have previously signed up and provided some personal information to Slack.com?
I made a site to aggregate the other "This ____ does not exist" sites that have popped up: thisxdoesnotexist.com
> Arthur Brooks is human refuse.

This is not an appropriate thing to say on this site. Could you please post more thoughtfully and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not anymore... :(
I kind of agree with you, but also with the parent - because it's no longer pretending to be a red top.

Very soon after El Reg was bought by the Daily Mail, there was a very noticeable change in the writing. It had always been snarky and sarcastic, but in amusing way - afterwards it was snarky and sarcastic, but in a kind of hateful, "fake outrage", unmistakable Daily Mail kind of way.

I'd read El Reg almost every day for a decade before the Dailly Mail bought them, but I just couldn't stand it afterwards. A real shame.
And I can see I'm getting downvotes even for posting this response. Why downvote someone for answering a question about their behavior on HN?

Seems like folks just view anyone who isn't fully and unquestioningly bought-in on vaccines as the enemy, and worthy of downvotes for that reason. Sad day for HN. Hopefully this won't spread to other topics.
If you have access to a computer, why not just use a spellchecker :)
Want might not be the question. It might be more of an actual __need__ at this point. Email is a fax machine, at best, at this point.

Frankly, I'm still upset that Google botched Wave so badly. I'm not sure if/how it would have translated to a small screen, but I'm pretty sure someone could have figured that out. As it is, almost daily, I'm forced to use email by reasonable and (for the most part) intelligent people. Yes at works, but in too many cases to me it feels like we're using a screwdriver to pound nails.
I Didn’t Know That I Was Depressed
No not at all. I'm saying the alarming message gets vague beyond "humanity has made a contribution to global warming".

I try to research the available science but have trouble finding clear answers. The most accurate data seems to comes from the ice samples. But that only dates back 800.000 years.

You mention the Triassic period. Co2 levels were 2000ppm during that time. That sounds like a dramatic increase (from 0.04% to 0.2%). But then I also read we already often experience such levels at home or at work. For office workspace 1000ppm is considered acceptable and official limits are set at 5000ppm (as 8-hour TWA). I also read plants will grow ~5 times as fast. More faster reforestation?

We know there will be a change. But how accurately are we able to predict what that change will look like? Is there a strong consensus about it?
I think the author more was suggesting that Slack is going to replace inter-company communication via email. Nowhere in the article does it suggest that Slack will be replacing intra-company communication/email.