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The Ultimate Guide to Growth Hacking
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Big systemic problems can't be solved with spot treatments. A personal example: the SCOTUS ruling in favor of marriage equality didn't end homophobia. People claimed it did out of ignorance, but it didn't. See: Pulse. I was afraid to leave the house for a week, and looked over my shoulder outside for months. That fear affects everything, and it didn't go away completely once the memory of the event faded. The fear is reinforced through negative stereotypes in media and the occasional gaybashing/murder.

Affirmative action and legal victories can help, but it doesn't mean much without a society-level movement. I do see how this could become a problem at the university level if the pipeline situation isn't fixed. You can see it in other fields where the gender balance flips. Programming became highly paid and women got pushed out. PHDs became overworked and underpaid, and now men don't want to do it because they can access better opportunities.

It becomes a matter of status and culture where people who don't look like everyone there feels it and goes on to other fields. Men may not care about the pay difference, but they do care about the bullying in the workplace and the negative stereotypes.

Spot treatments are usually a frustration thing. They come when people run out of energy trying to fix the system and start looking for Infinity Stones.
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What would he say other than what he has already said? The ReactOS devs are not addressing the substantive points. No point in him repeating himself.
Indeed, but as the world becomes less and less centered around the US, this effect will probably disappear soon: if a product is originally developed for China, not being able to sell it in the US isn't an issue.
> The Indian provider is very professional. We met him in person and had interview.

The Indian provider will be a new person every 6 months.

I'm basing this solely on my experience having a team from India. This being HN, actual residents of India might be in this thread, and may be able to offer a different perspective.

That being said, my experience showed that their working culture is to constantly seek promotions, and if you want a long-term team member, it causes conflict. When they talk about ability to scale, they mean that your original dev wants to take over as manager, and hire new devs. Who, in a year, will want to be managers and hire their own devs. And if you aren't growing fast enough to meet their career goals, they'll go somewhere else and you end up with new devs anyway.

All of this is manageable, but you have to be sure the project is documented and structured well enough that if you onboard a new dev team every 6 months, it doesn't kill the project.
Facebook’s recent moves highlight the grand challenge of digital ethics
> Scientists fear the collapse of Thwaites Glacier could one day destabilize surrounding glaciers and eventually trigger up to 11 feet of global sea level rise.

11 feet == 3.35 meters.

This would be the impact of an unmitigated 10 ft rise in the bay area (the tool maxes out at 10 ft): https://i.imgur.com/op80PZQ.jpg

Tool used: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr
I'm not so sure, maybe he was a contractor if that's what you mean (I don't see any real difference). He had a @microsoft.com e-mail address, which is a pretty clear indicator of being on the inside.
Low power 'buntu home servers are my jam. I've got a few open-source projects that you can plug right into a LAMP stack that you might be interested in...

[1] https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2
[2] https://github.com/zelon88/HRConvert2
[3] https://github.com/zelon88/HRScan2
This is like criticizing Gmail for keeping your email forever by default. It's your account and you can delete your data when you don't want it anymore.

A more substantive critique would be that these services don't let you set a retention policy. Google Vault lets an organization automatically delete old email, but other than Snapchat, you don't see this for consumer accounts, so you have to do it manually.
It's not clear that this is caused by the same effect. A commenter suggests that this behaviour is actually due to how mouse acceleration affects scrolling speed which I am more inclined to believe.
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Accusations of whataboutism are invalid when you are calling out related points or highlighting hypocrisy and double standards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Criticism

Some commentators have defended the usage of whataboutism and tu quoque in certain contexts. Whataboutism can provide necessary context into whether or not a particular line of critique is relevant or fair. For instance, in international relations, behavior that may be imperfect by international standards may be quite good for a given geopolitical neighborhood, and deserves to be recognized as such.

Christian Christensen, Professor of Journalism in Stockholm, argues that the accusation of whataboutism is itself a form of tu quoque fallacy, as it dismisses criticisms of one's own behavior to focus instead on the actions of another, thus creating a double standard. Those who use whataboutism are not necessarily engaging in an empty or cynical deflection of responsibility: whataboutism can be a useful tool to expose contradictions, double standards, and hypocrisy.

Others have criticized the usage of accusations of whataboutism by American news outlets, arguing that the accusation whataboutism has been used to simply "deflect" criticisms of human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States or its allies. They argue that the usage of the term almost exclusively by American outlets is a double standard, and that moral accusations made by powerful countries are merely a pretext to punish their geopolitical rivals in the face of their own wrongdoing.

The scholars Kristen Ghodsee and Scott Sehon posit that mentioning the possible existence of victims of capitalism in popular discourse is often dismissed as 'whataboutism', which they describe as "a term implying that only atrocities perpetrated by communists merit attention." They also argue that such accusations of 'whataboutism' are invalid as the same arguments used against communism can also be used against capitalism.
Eh, maybe all of those things CAN be done in MySQL, but they are done differently. I think it's totally legit that it takes a lot more development hours to support two DBs than one.

And they said this clearly, they're not hiding that this is the motivation.

Creating the abstraction architectures to support more than one "thing" tends to more than double development effort to support two "things". (Although then lets you add additional more-than-two "things" with less incremental cost. But there's a lot of cost to more than one thing in the first place).
Nah, you can always make unstable strategies viable by having a powerful party intervene on the system...
Just like Disney World - they scan your finger print upon entry to the park. When you ask to opt out, they're like "Well you're going to need to step out of line over here and give my manager some information.."
My girlfriend uses a wheelchair. She is physically incapable of turning on and off most of her lights, meaning if someone leaves a light on, she's stuck with that light left on until someone can turn it off. She can sort of use her thermostat, but not terribly effectively. Alexa has been an accessibility gamechanger for her, and I dislike kneejerk reactions like this one about as much as I dislike the fact that accessibility is so integrally tied into the Alexa ecosystem such that you've got this devil's bargain of increased accessibility and increased privacy loss. You can't have one without the other.

I'm blind and in a similar boat, but at least I can tie all my appliances into my Home Assistant instance, and never have to worry about being stuck out of reach of a keyboard or phone. Even so, as a blind person, finding accessible weather websites is an absolute pain in the ass. I can get daily forecasts, no problem, but sometimes I need an hourly forecast to plan bus commutes, and nothing beats "Alexa, what's the hourly forecast at 4 PM" for getting a quick answer without having to check half a dozen sites searching for actual textual information vs. a damned infographic or radar display.

I'd love to build her a Mycroft-based setup, but she doesn't need a cluster of RPis and USB microphones hanging around on her desk, and even so that ecosystem isn't ready yet. I say that as someone who literally spent days piecing together a HassOS Mycroft addon and hardware setup that barely hears his commands from a few feet away and triggers all sorts of false positives, and even so I don't think its weather skill does hourly forecasts. I own an Alexa as well, but it stays unplugged unless I need it.

TLDR: It sucks, but don't just classify all Alexa owners as dumb and deserving of victimhood.

Edit: Rereading your comment, I see that you don't really believe that. Apologies for the kneejerk reaction of my own, but I've seen this reaction enough from folks who do that I was finally tempted to speak out about it. I really wish there was an accessibility-oriented privacy-focused voice assistant, or at least, I wish I could pay more to Amazon to opt out of their more invasive practices.
Unrelated question. As an indy artist, why use Spotify? More than likely people wouldn’t discover your music and you lose the direct relationship with your listeners. Isn’t it better for small artists to get “1000 True Fans” who would be willing to pay $x than to get a few more fans that would pay you indirectly $x/10000?
One time I was installing Windows 95, I had to move the cursor the whole time because otherwise the installation got stuck. I discovered this after at least 30 tries.
> I mean, I'm not too upset that they're focusing on one DB engine, but their reasons are a bit facetious.

I believe from context you meant "factitious":

> factitious -- artificially created or developed.

Vs.

> facetious -- treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

In general a well argued post. This easy to make typo doesn't detract from that.
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It's only static if they aren't using AI to analyze the tons of images they have of you from security cameras etc. Google Photos can learn and search for faces of a person based on one confirmed face a person. I'm sure Facebook can as well. There's no reason to believe the Government or TSA is or isn't doing this.
Thanks for your detailed response. I'm afraid I'm still not sure how this simplifies much. The fact that people focus specifically on an optimistic scenario rather than having a random variance like a normal distribution seems very significant to me. If you can't predict this from first principles then you have to add in some extra explanatory factors, and then you still get your cursed epicycles.
They use illustrations to sell the point because perhaps photographs wouldn't be so convincing.
I once drove one of these old US cars on the German Autobahn. It was sort of OK going straight but as soon as the slightest turn came up it was just scary. The car was very heavy together with soft suspension so it rolled a lot.

But the sound was a lot of fun. You could almost hear the gas (and lots of money) gurgling through the carburetors.
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Its nowhere near ZFS/HAMMER/BTRFS ...

Check their FAQ here:
https://stratis-storage.github.io/faq/

In short:

In terms of its design, Stratis is very different from ZFS/BTRFS, since they are both in-kernel filesystems. Stratis is a userspace daemon that configures and monitors existing components from Linux’s device-mapper subsystem, as well as the XFS filesystem.

Red Hat move seems very strange here because it would be better just to hire several BTRFS developers and join the BTRFS Linux ecosystem instead of writing something new ... I still do not know what for ...
>however, i do worry about fights and bullying being taken to 'the dark corners of the school' such as the bathroom or some unused stairwell

1) They did that a lot back in the "old days" anyway, since it was away from other people

2) bullies usually have poor impulse control and don't think immediately about the consequences of their actions, so they frequently won't think about the cameras, so at least some of the time they'll do their bullying in view of the cameras.
Compilers/assembly/embedded systems/demo scene people have been coordinating on mailing lists since the 90's, sending patch files to each other on their slow clunky machines on their slow clunky 56k internet connections. This demographic imo is going to be way better at remote work than some brogrammer, which is what the OP is looking for perhaps inadvertently. And I say that as someone not at all of the noble compilers/assembly/embedded systems demographic. With these people, you don't need to worry about the ops and management impact of low face-to-face time, because they need zero of it. Could be a stereotype, but it definitely tracks with the people I know.
So in today's world... why do so many PCs emit a slight sound when moving the mouse. I know that there are high frequencies involved and periphery is one of the worst perpetrators of electromagnetic interference, but I still find that strange. And what exactly is emitting the sound here?
The implication wasn't clear because, frankly, it's a silly thought. This post is ripe for that "that's not how any of this works" meme.

I can understand the emotional intent, but it's important to ensure that routes we take actually get us to the outcomes we want.
Oh there is, but its not one the proletariat on social media want to accept.
Pretty flagrant violation of export laws. With all the good behavior reductions, he has a decent shot of getting his sentence halved to 105 years.
Grew up in WV and return all the time to visit family. This is 100% true. I have vivid childhood memories of being on my grandfather's tractor on a hillside & being terrified that the contraption would roll over.

(He also occasionally herded his cattle by sticking his head through the roof of an ancient VW Beetle. But that's another story.)
Reminds me of the runescape cheat of alt+f4
Yup, the US are absolutely awful. That's why everyone wants to move there.

Unless you're a college kid or just came out of college and you've just been brainwashed by your Marxist professors, I have no idea how you can have a vision that is so far from reality.
> Why not get that at the source?

Because building a power plant next to a power plant so the power plant can turn the waste of the power plant back into fuel for the power plant is lunacy. It's easier and cleaner to simply turn the coal power plant off.
While running emacs over a modem to arpanet or dialup, I got into the habit of regularly typing ^A ^E to pace my cursor back and forth across the current line, to keep the connection and emacs warm.

(Like a caged leopard or mad scientist pacing back and forth.)

I could feel how responsive the connection and emacs were over time by the delay between typing and seeing the cursor move. Both the network and emacs contributed to the feeling:

There was the overall "weather" of the network: sometimes sunny and fast, sometimes sprinkled with light delays, and sometimes stormy congestion. Then there were occasional incidents that came and went, like network hiccoughs and emacs paging and grinding. And then there was the overall load of the system, which gave you the baseline delay (which gave it a very tactile day -vs- night feeling, since you got more of the machine to yourself during the night when it felt snappy, but it felt sluggish during the day).

It really felt like either the network, emacs, or both would fall asleep if you didn't keep them warm and lavish them with attention.

A VAX 11/780 running Gosling Emacs over a dialup had a very different feel than a PDP-10 running ITS Emacs over the arpanet. The busy VAX was bursty and had a lot of bumpy paging -- you had to keep your buffers warm or they would all get paged out and it would take a long time to wake back up, but there was no network delay from the direct dialup. While the PDP-10 ran smoothly like a well lubricated steam locomotive, sometimes slowing down when busy, but hovering around same speed instead of bursting, and the delay was mostly the feel of arpanet congestion and imps dozing off.

(Or so I imagined. I had a lot of time to sit and think while waiting for the cursor to move again, and the mind wanders and wonders what's happening...)

TOPS-20 had a wonderful ^T keyboard interrupt that you could
type to instantly show the system load and time. (But of course you couldn't use that in emacs, which puts the tty into raw mode.)

Somebody at the university implemented ^T to 4.2 BSD on the cs department's busy VAX 11/780, by modifying the tty driver. But initially, there was no limit to how often you could type it, and calculating the current system load wasn't a trivial operation.

So on a fast terminal, if you held down and auto-repeated ^T, it would bring the entire system to its knees, and you could watch the load go up and up and up as you caused it to! Very satisfying indeed.

Eventually they put in a one-per-second limit on ^T.
Look for a local permaculturist. They will have plenty of locale specific advice. And may even be willing to help you do it!

Couldn't find an authoritative list, but googling for "permaculture [state or city name]" will probably get you what you need.
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I'd have to guess the CPU - it gets hammered with interrupts and its load changes. But it could be anything really...
This is a cool example of the intersection of two fields: computational geometry/GIS, and image filtering algorithms.

In this case, information from GIS land (e.g. the orientation of the satellite’s aperture relative to true north on the ground below) was fed into the image filter’s autocalibration, because “natural” grid-like structures that should be preserved (cities, farm plots) tend to be aligned to true north, unlike the camera’s distortion, which is aligned to the aperture. (In the article, this is the part where they draw a diagonal mask stripe across the FFT image.)

Anyone working on a cross-subdisciplinary problem like this? Have any interesting “systems of algorithms” to share?
Great, thank you. I will look into it.
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Maybe it's too good, and you wouldn't want those nations to become superpowers ;-)
Good luck with this in your typical HOA, where they forbid you to do any kind of natural landscaping, and insist on things like green grass in the middle of the desert.

(Of course, the answer here is to make sure you don't buy a house with an HOA.)
Massive resonance with this. I developed my friendships outside of IT and found a degree of (admittedly drug fuelled) distraction based happiness.
> This defendant schemed to export to China semiconductors with military and civilian uses, then he lied about it to federal authorities and failed to report income generated by the scheme on his tax returns

Funny how it always comes back to taxes, I wonder if that is how they were caught. I'm also curious how he was contacted by that Chinese company. Did he just get an email one day asking for chips in exchange for money?
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I recently used Vast.ai for ~3 weeks to run an anime BigGAN ( https://www.gwern.net/Faces#biggan ) and the stability/uptime was pretty much 100%: it never went down or caused problems. (I had problems, but they were all due to the BigGAN.) As long as a little downtime isn't too big a deal or you can script changing instances (they have a CLI tool), you probably could run as a server.
Why not examine it from another perspective? Risk and reward? Are more people served by it or harmed? For example look at how useful dashcams and bodycams are to situations! Oh and an anecdote! I was parking at work and the building security cameras witnessed the collision (driver was on their phone and tboned me) making the insurance claim open and shut. We have security camera inside as well with displays throughout the building making finding people in a building with multiple floors easy.
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I wish we had these as kids. The number one problem with education in the US is the lack of discipline in the class room. Teachers spend all their time babysitting problem children instead of helping everyone else learn. Parents of problem kids do everything they can to push their children’s behavioral issues back on the teachers. Cameras in the classroom could go a long way to helping schools build record evidence that can be used against such students.
> Is there another plausible reason for Spotify shutting down direct uploads that's unrelated to copyrights?

My immediate thought on reading the headline was that they didn't want to deal with a ton of individuals w.r.t. payouts and etc. Company to company transactions are always easier, so restrict it to labels.
>"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." - Ian Betteridge

The article's logic can be applied to many events and many systems. The entire thing is a "what-if" scenario, which generally follows the same formula: Identify something that is popular, think up some cascading failure scenario, end at apocalypse.

The ideas behind the article - our increasing dependence on interconnected software and infrastructure and the risks that entails - deserves to be explored and we should definitely work on mitigating risk of cascading failure. Framing it as an apocalypse scenario, however, takes away from the message (for me, at least).
Mark Mussinovich started working at Microsoft in 2006 according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich
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>But on my Linux machines, I'm arguably in control.

How so?

If you show up at the border and the agent demands you install the software or your machine will be confiscated and you will be denied entry, then they are just as much in control as they are with android. At current all systems seem vulnerable to this attack that shares something in spirit with rubber hose cryptography.

Even Apple could be, but I suspect it is a case of it not being worth the effort since androids are the majority of phones.
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Sometimes we just stumble onto a near ideal solution early.
A chain on a cog for a bike drive for instance. People keep trying other things but they are all less efficient.
Something something GDPR?
Reminds me of the recent Boeing 747 stuff too. Scary thoughts.
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