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How many companies are actually on the platform?

I'm currently in the market for a remote job, but have a hard time seeing how this would deliver me value over actively applying to remote job board positions.

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Quick EDIT: I just noticed Basecamp as the first company in your showcase. Basecamp has been on a hiring freeze for 18 months now with a public blog post about it.

Are you actually working with those showcase companies or simply mention them because they're well known remote-first/remote-friendly companies.

Post: https://m.signalvnoise.com/things-are-going-so-well-were-doi...
This is true of java and c as well.

You can cast things or subvert the type system and the code will still run.

At least where I work, my build process prevents me from running Python code with invalid type annotations, so it's exactly the same as for Java is cpp or any other statically typed language.
Ha! Joking aside, I needed 2 implants of to replace these these => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_radius
> UN investigators have suggested that the rebels’ new UAV-X drone may have a range of up to 930 miles (1,500km)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/14/major-saudi-ar...
Doesn't that have a pretty big hardware dependency? That seems like the biggest challenge of working remotely.
I thought it was irresponsible of FB to announce this thing. All over the world the question is not whether or not to regulate Facebook. It is how to do so. So, it strikes me as some kind of supreme arrogance or dishonesty to announce a currency without expecting it to be immediately shut down by governments. How does this pass internal review?
>>Not very realistic for people who need to put food on the table and where the evil vs non evil is not that clear.

Evil vs. non-evil being not that clear is not a problem. That's why we have the court system: to sort those types of things out.

As for "needing to put food on the table", how far are you willing to take that logic? It seems you could use it to justify virtually any behavior, as long as you get paid doing it.
They are claiming to pre-screen candidates which in case of remote job I think is not a bad idea.
The term “rebel” is usually used to designate someone who isn’t on our side. There’s lots of smart people who aren’t on our side.
How much of the plastic were they exposed to -- the kind of amount you'd find on a farm, or some kind of experimental super-plastic-dirt?
Type slowly and thoughtfully instead.
Draw diagrams using an appropriate tool.
Handwriting is tedious; pointless; painful to learn and bad for your hands.
From my life experience, what people in power really hate is to be made to look powerless.

And there is simple rationale to it. The power of people in power lays in hands of other powerful people serving them. And as a rule, the powerful people don't obey to ones they see as weak.

And this is more apparent in the regime states than anywhere else, when generals/ministers/big shot advisers and fixers risk far more than just their political entitlement if their patron is about to loose it out.
You can train them enough to not be helpless without a lawyer. Doctors don't need one for every medical decision they make. You do need larger support systems to make this work though and that doesn't get built overnight.

It certainly does limit new engineer throughput for society because of training times and increase salaries though.
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Nice, thank you for telling me about that. I am honestly weighing my options about what to do for housing in the future.

Deep down inside I want to purchase a single family home that I can fix and afford for myself, but Long Island is a competitive market for that. I don't want to deal with tenants.

My other option is to "rent a room" which is technically "illegal" but not "criminal". It is hard to find a good room to rent from a landlord that doesn't stuff the house full of random people who aren't the best to live with.

The search continues!
This is wrong - cpu request already constrains them using cgroups cpu shares. All it does is fucks up your latency and wastes resources for underutilized nodes.

Edit: also please advise how can i tune cfs period on gke
These are some kind of terrorists i can get behind
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Careful!

You've changed the incentive, but doubled the potential number of material transports needed to move packaging back to the source.

In the interim period, while businesses figure out how to deal with less packaging, you end up with all the current stuff going back and forth all over the country, or you end up with attempts to set up a shadow infrastructure designed to ensure the right amount of packaging is in the right place at the right time to optimize on minimization of cost of the end product which is now priced with material handling in the equation.

Instead of actually changing things the way you hoped, you may just reorganize the supply chain to a slightly more distributed model where packaging doesn't happen until the latest stage in the process.

You've also invoked change in regulatory framework. Do we end up having to get FDA approval on alternate forms of food packaging or plasticless food transportation systems?

Do the details of the implementation threaten some national security metric with regards to food availability?

I'm mot saying I disagree with the intent at all, mind, but broad strokes without focusing on the nagging details have a way of coming back to haunt one in the long run. There are a lot of metrics and analysis that would need to be done before just declaring one day "Thou shalt!"

Which is probably no less than what will be needed sadly.
"Houthi rebels have been using drones in combat since the start of the Saudi-led war. The first appeared to be off-the-shelf, hobby-kit-style drones, but later versions have been nearly identical to Iranian models. Tehran denies supplying the rebels with weapons, but the west and Gulf Arab nations say it does." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/14/major-saudi-ar...

Also if the drones were launched from Yemen then they've probably flown ≥700km, so I'd be surprised if they're commercial octocopters.
Of course not. But that’s true of any system. Instead, you’d have to rely on each piece of the chain feeling confident about what’s before them... if they are professional there should be non-technological ways to attack that.
An integration with a searchable library of slides and snippets that will allow simple reuse of previously created content. The key is how this library is organized by the type of content and version.
There is no such thing as confidentiality, as long as you let someone transfer your data, be it Google, your local network provider, or a mobile operator. The only solution is end-to-end encryption, which obviously Gmail won't allow, since they need our data for their AdWords to target ads better.
That doesn't solve the problem. More than half of bankruptcies caused by medical expenses in the US are people who have medical insurance.

Further, medical insurance makes it impossible to live cheaply in the US. I make do with very few possessions, humble housing, and little spending. Health insurance accounts for about half my expenses, more than the next three largest expenses (rent, food, car insurance) combined. I'm probably going to move into a van at some point in the next year, at which point health insurance will be around 2/3 of my expenses.

If health insurance is 2/3 of your expenses, that means that you can be retired for 1/3 as long. And that's health insurance if I never get sick--healthcare costs a lot more if you do get sick. Granted, I would eventually qualify for medicare at which point that expense would come down.
if you read it 4x and don't see his point, consider reading it another 4 times. you seem to be advocating that certain employees, "bottom of the food chain" in your parlance, aren't culpable for their actions whereas the parent was saying everyone is culpable for their actions
Not always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreeding_depression
It reminds me of the format for git commit messages; where the first line is short and sweet and to the point of what it is, and the content following it is supporting details and more verbose.

It's interesting to see known patterns applied in different environments and named differently but the essence is the same.
Libra is not all that bad. While there are problems with Facebook gaining yet another source for information that takes advantage of privacy terms, I think a stablecoin by GAFA is in the right direction. It speeds up the adoption of cryptocurrency by a lot.

Paypal and other "digital cash" solutions are fully centralized which makes it impossible for devs to build on top of their platform. This means that problems that arise cannot be solved by devs looking at the problem from the outside.

Libra gets around this by having an open platform that anyone can build on. Anyone can create a Libra wallet, and anyone can build Libra services. If we have a big privacy problem with Libra in the future, we might be able to find a way around it. Libra supports scripting on-chain which would make atomic swaps possible. If something like atomic swaps are possible, can we hide information from Facebook et al? Or what about mixing Libra on-chain?
Slide parametrization ie variables with product/customer names etc.
3) Two other species from different regions moved in during the population drop. Now they're I interbreeding which may lead to more robust variants.
It's mostly dead.

Granted, there's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead - mostly dead is slightly alive.

But until I see some Hack projects posted on Show HN, it's still dead enough to me. If there's no community development around it to speak of, there's no point in adopting it. I can't even get the repos I used to pull from to work anymore, Openshift never had proper support, no one seems eager to add support for hosting it, and no one is writing articles or updating docs for it as far as I can tell.

It hasn't reached the "rifle through Hack's pockets for loose change" state, but the prognosis doesn't seem good.
Not arguing with the statement, but note to you: he said "libertarianism", not "liberalism". The two are obviously very different.
> Germany is very, very keen on preventing powerful entities from acting outside of regulation and similarly, if not more, on preventing a single entity to get in control of everything. This is largely due to some foobar in the last century, which I'm sure everyone is aware of.

Ironic that aforementioned foobar in the last century was a governmental entity that existed entirely within the limits of regulation. Not to mention the completely reckless monetary policy of the Weimar Republic with respect to the Papiermark that arguably caused the rise of Nazi Germany.
Carmack is a genius engineer and businessman. This guy is a genius programmer. There is a difference.
Show up to PHP meetups in your area if you're near a largish metro. Go for beers afterward, meet the people, mention what you are doing. Keep doing this and wait and you'll likely start getting work coming your way that has a completely different category of client than you'd see on some sort of marketplace.
Anything and everything, unfortunately.
All the more reason to support a social media platform that creates extreme groupthink?
Thanks for sharing that, I didnt know about Co-founders!
How to Finance Your Business
Ask HN: What are the best sample databases for Postgres?
In the SQL Server world, Microsoft has always provided a mid-sized sample database (most recently WideWorldImporters, historically AdventureWorks and Northwind). This is really useful for getting hands-on experience with database administration, query tuning, and the like.

I'm new to Postgres and looking for something similar. Postgres people: what are your favourite sample databases for learning+testing?

I noticed that Microsoft has published a Postgres version of WideWorldImporters (https://github.com/Azure/azure-postgresql/tree/master/samples/databases/wide-world-importers) but it seems like a work in progress (to put it nicely).
>This page introduces the Parallel GCC -- a research project aiming to parallelize a real-world compiler. This can be useful in many-core machines where GNU Make itself can not provide enough parallelism

Huh? One wants a fast compiler even for a single compilation, not just for multiple ones that parallel make can handle as implied here...
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The recruiter fees start at 20%, and they are usually 30%+.

Also, with our service, the companies get instant access to lots of pre-screened developers, which they don't with recruiters.
We tried this for e-commerce products description. The model asked us to "dip the laundry nuts in chocolate and feed it to the kids"

They are grammatically correct but logically nonsense. The examples shown are also curated from thousands of generated text.

The only use for these is the seo landfill to get in top of Google
All four of them own publicly trusted CAs. However, they are certainly required to validate all the certificates they issue even to themselves.

Several (all?) of them are domain registrars and so they would be able to rely on that to shortcut issuance validation for names in domains for which they are both registrar and owner, but it still happens it's just easier.
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So you're basically agreeing with the parent comment? (Just have some disagreement about governments underlying motivations?)
I'm really struggling with connecting his conclusion to what we know of his workload. Can someone spell it out for me?

He has many idle pods with a bursty workload.

The author says they need to reserve a lot of cpu or containers fail to create. Why is this? Wouldn't memory be more likely a cause for the failure? How does lack of CPU cause a failure?

Later the author notes that a many core machine is good for his workload because "pods can be more tightly packed." How does that follow? A pod using above the reserved resources will bump up against the other pods on that physical machine whether you've virtualized it as a standard-1 or standard-16. Is there a cost savings because the unreserved ram over-provisioned? Wouldn't that overbooking be dangerous if you had uniform load across all the pods in a standard-16.

Said another way, why is resource contention with yourself in a standard-16 better or cheaper than with others in the standard-1 pool?

My understanding with going the vCPU options was simply the choice between pricing granularity and CPU overheard of k8s.
Monetary and fiscal policy is not the same as us balancing a checkbook at the end of the month. Money is created over time for many reasons, on a micro scale for stimulus, and on a macro scale because the economy grows over time and money represents a slice of economic activity. Keeping it from going up and giving disproportionate gains to money holders past is part of the job. There's nothing ironic about it, this is the job of central banks, and there's nothing shady about it.
Sweden have a thing called Swish which has instant transfer to anyone who you the mobile phone number of. End users have no fees when using the system to transfer to each others. Businesses that use it pay some though.

It has gotten very prevalent.
Finland's PM Antti Rinne warns no-deal Brexit seems likely
I think this action is a symptom of a much larger, and much more serious disease, namely the fall in trust for traditional fiat currencies like the euro and the dollar. Decades of irresponsible monetary policy and runaway inflation (CPI does not capture the whole picture, look at asset prices the past decade) since the abolishment of the gold standard has lead the general public to indirectly feel disenfranchised with the current monetary regime and I truly believe that we will see more of this kind of action in the future as fiat currencies continue to lose value and eventually collapse due to the extraordinary injection of money that most western central banks have been pursuing in the past couple of years.

Governments feel threatened as the power to levy the inflation tax is being eroded with the rise of cryptocurrency, and I think the next couple of years are going to be very interesting as more businesses adopt crypto as a means of payment. And I wholeheartedly support this development, because much of the inequality that we've seen in recent years and general social turmoil is a direct consequence of irresponsible monetary policy.
Thanks! Or I just have too much free time :)
At a macro level, one would expect that the 'baseline' mosquito population represents an equilibrium level due to competing factors within in the local environment.

While it seems very clear that releasing the GM mosquitos would never permanently alter this equilibrium, it's not obvious to me (not a biologist) that it would even work with continuing release of the GM mosquitos. It seems to assume that the limiting factor on population is the number of offspring. If the limiting factor were competition for food or some other resource it seems like other mosquitos would fill in to replace the GM ones who died early.
People might say the cost of durable goods will go up to the trade war, which makes sense and I agree with, but when you think about your budget, housing costs far more.

Foreign investment in our property drives up prices by increasing demand. If you forego the foreign investment so home prices are lower, but accept higher prices on durable goods, you'd come out ahead. Housing is the #1 expense for nearly all family budgets.
Germany privatized its postal service and now has one of the best postal services in the world. DHL is the German postal service.

Meanwhile, the US Postal service is a quasi-government agency that is predictably a mess. On one hand it is supposed to be self-sufficient but on the other hand it is burdened with federal agency restrictions or limitation. And, it distorts the mail market in general by having a government granted monopoly on regular mail.
> It's also odd in the context of Germany

It isn't. Only the Bundesbank / ECB is allowed to provide a currency in for Germany.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Währungsmonopol

The Chiemgauer is a regional voucher system - more comparable to regional loyalty programs or frequent-flyer programs.
So call it virtual experience training for first responders. That way you implicitly emphasize that this is more than just classroom training, it's much closer to, well, real experience.

Make VE the next buzzword.
Have to? What happens if a random business accepts them for payment, and uses them for purchases at other accepting businesses?
I don't. They couldn't even manage and maintain an internal currency, why is this suddenly a better idea 6 years down the road, done on an ambitious scale that threatens real currencies? It's a company, there will be other companies with ambitious efforts.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/12/goodbye-facebook-credit/
Much more like Patreon than kickstarter.
Interesting. I searched for some more information on that but don't see anything except the GitHub repostoryitself. I wonder how would one go about integrating that into .Net stack.
It is not illegal to discriminate against 26 year olds, the law explicitly states that you are only protected when you are 40 or older. (Assuming this is USA)
A standard part of the financial model is an emergency fund that exists for purposes like this. I believe the advice is at least 6 months worth of expenses in the emergency fund, which should be enough to cover deductibles in the vast majority of cases.

Generally, people who FIRE sensibly build quite a bit of slack into their financial models to make allowances for unexpected large costs.
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sreet protesters like them.

:)
> you deserve to be held responsible for your part in it.

... as long as you are aware of it or should have been aware of it.
Taxes are inherently in the domain of the state, and to do that you need to mandate how accounting and payment of taxes work.

That really needs a standardized currency.
It's been trying to both diversify and privatize, but progress is very very slow. Probably fear of instability, IMO.

"The petroleum sector accounts for roughly 87% of budget revenues, 42% of GDP, and 90% of export earnings."

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Anecdotally, I met far more Saudis when I lived in Seattle than I did when I lived in Houston. I wonder if that was part of the diversification effort.
No children. No travel.

Living frugally and then the risk of an early death?

Is this really that great?
Last time I consulted for a startup, they sent me something like 15k worth of hardware, and I just expensed stuff like cables.

You can get a big bad FPGA development board for a few grand, but finding people who are any good at all with FPGAs is really difficult.
that response doesn't mean anything. are you missing some words?
> Hey do you mind if we just skip the paperwork part and just control currency, while actually being a social media tech giant

This is a gross mischaracterization of what Libra is. Libra is a token that's backed 1 to 1 on some basket of currencies and mostly government bonds. The Libra foundation makes money by taking a portion of the investment return to fund themselves, much like a brokerage takes a bit of the return when they invest your cash account. Thats it.
Any github repos so I can have a play?
I have only heard about it in articles complaining about it.
As a FANG employee, I'd love to move to a smaller company with comparable salary and benefits. Can you please recommend a few in the SV?
Which, to be clear, is an idea that I detest.

But governments do hate competition.
> This conflict means that, no matter how well intentioned, policy makers will be feel compelled to devalue their own currencies. It's a race to the bottom, but without a bottom. Alternatives, especially private alternatives readily available to citizens, will increasingly be viewed as the enemy.

The ability to devalue their currency is an essential tool that central banks wield to battle financial crises.

Keynes pointed out that workers don't want to take a pay cut (and employers don't want to offer a pay cut, because they fear causing resentment), so nominal wages are "sticky." When they need to fall to reach price equilibrium, the economy tends to experience mass unemployment instead. It would be very difficult to convince all workers universally to accept a pay cut. The alternative is to devalue the currency so everyone is affected through the currency rather than by trying to propagate policy changes throughout the private sector.

Also, countries can have huge problems when they take on debts in a hard currency which they can't devalue. This is how you get runaway hyperinflation. Their revenues are in the local currency, but their debts are in (usually) USD. If they run low on foreign currency reserves, they can be forced to sell huge amounts of the local currency on the forex market in order to acquire sufficient USD to pay their debts. I can see why France and Germany wouldn't be eager to see yet another USD rise to prominence and leave them disadvantaged in debt financing.

Another talking point which comes up all of the time is the tension introduced when different regions (like Germany and Greece) are forced to use the same currency, even though normally economic forces would cause the weaker region's currency to move against the stronger one's. Devaluation would be fantastic for Greece but it's hobbled by crushingly expensive exports since it's in the Euro monetary union.
People on HN should know better. Your average person though won’t.