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Of course, we'd talk about it. If a mistake blows up we have to talk about it.

The point I'm trying to get across is that you have to be willing to let your partners make mistakes. Also, you have to trust that your partner is going to learn from their mistakes. I like adding a dollar amount to it because it gets you in the right mindset of focusing on important things. I think as a cofounder, it's your job to step in if you think someone's going to take the company over a cliff. Otherwise, give each other room to grow. Everyone in an early company is required to learn aka make mistakes until you stop making those mistakes.
My coworkers and I made great use of a stylus, 2 in 1 laptops, and Microsoft Whiteboard for this purpose. It makes whiteboarding while remote very simple. In fact, it’s better than in-person whiteboarding because it allows for multiple people to write at the same time, and instead of everyone taking pictures with their phone when we finished, we could simply send out the screen to as an image afterwards, or pick up a session again later. Once we had this workflow setup, we found that no one used the giant, expensive Surface Hubs anymore, even in person.
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In Python 3 if you have bytes and write them out using the "csv" module, you get something like this:

b'A',b'B'
b'1',b'2'

That's not seamless, and I wouldn't say it helps non-English speakers either.

This bug impacts Pandas to_csv as well.
Comparing SimCity (2013) to Cities: Skylines (2015)
"countries like Germany or Denmark have their own card systems or prefer cash"?

Denmark is an almost cashless society, and the cards I have from danish banks are mastercard - is there a different card system in Germany?
I agree. I use FF almost exclusively on every system I use, both at home and at work. Other browsers are only for testing whether my web stuff works acceptably in their twisted environs, more or less. Whenever I mention anything related to this to my boss, he replies with some sort of (knowledgeable to the point of dangerosity) glib comment like "Chrome! It's the Future!". If that's the future, I want none of it.
> The funny thing in all this is that passengers inherently trust the FAA

Not anymore.
Did you just predicate your argument on the absence of government?
> The obvious answer is the atmosphere. That's also the premise of carbon sequestration. The problem is that CO2 isn't actually particularly abundant. It's currently hovering around 400 parts per million - that's about 0.04% of air. To make a kg of hydrocarbon you need to process an awful lot of air to get enough CO2. That all takes energy. A lot of energy. Suddenly your round trip efficiency is practically zero. If these guys have cracked that problem, it would be fantastic. I hope they have, but I suspect they haven't.

Isn’t biofuel precisely this?
Surely someone must have explained that to them years ago, right? Would you happen to have a discussion in mind where the maintainers of the RNG generators commented on the issue? I would like to see their perspective but I am kind of lost.
It's not their job nor their responsibility to handle issues this way
Interesting point. At the same time, if a person legitimately has an account (meaning it's their personal account) and decides to let everyone know of their entire personality, it won't be "pursuing an agenda".

But realistically, this doesn't happen; unless that avatar is anonymous and can't be linked to you. I think this is why places like Reddit and HN to some extent are good: they allow people to freely speak, but at the same time you're technically still being manipulated by what others think (on r/popular for example)... which brings me to my last point:

You're a composition of years of manipulation. It just depends on who you trust, whether it's in real life or online.

In all, I agree with your point, but giving anonymity brings people to talk more about themselves, which hopefully is a bit better than the world that you described is.
Unfortunately not. We also wish we had the capacity to hire interns or even juniors, but that's still years down the road. ️

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> You can't really assess someone's capability of becoming a president/CEO/famous author based on their achievements before age 18. It's also really hard to determine whether people achieved those things because they went to Harvard.

These statements are almost completely incompatible. If there is no way to tell who is likely to be successful beforehand, and yet those who attend Harvard are more successful as a group than those who do not, then it is fair to say that attending Harvard led to their success. Personally I'd say it's some of each: the admissions process does in fact manage to select for applications who are more likely to be successful, as a group, and there are also some unique benefits available to Harvard students and alumni (as you yourself pointed out) which tend to boost their chances even further.

> For example, getting access to the Harvard network massively increases your chances of getting a business funded, being successful in politics, etc.

That would be one of the means by which people achieve things because they went to Harvard. It's not just about the academics. Of course, not everyone would be capable of taking full advantage of that network even if it were made available to them.
Some people in the democratic debates are bringing it up, at least
> ?

The El Paso shooter used a semi-automatic rifle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASR-series_rifles

> Naturally, smaller events have less coverage. But even totaling up the coverages for each Chicago event in less coverage than El Paso.

Huh? The El Paso shooting was a big deal. Hence, the wall-to-wall coverage.

> Most new outlets bias their reporting disproportionately. IDK what the relationship is. Cubic, probably. An event that is 2 as big gets 8 times the coverage. Three times as big gets 27 times the coverage.

You don't seem to understand how reporting works. Journalists reporting on breaking news situations do not inject their opinions into the situation. They report what happened in a digestible and comprehensive way. Go and read the first coverage of the El Paso shooting and let me know if you see any opinions injected into the pieces.

> In any case, media frequently shows an unrepresentative perspective on reality. It is very easy -- indeed expected -- to change report reality based on the opinion of what should and should not be reported.

Again. You don't seem to understand how reporting works. I'd love for you to message the Texas reporters who covered the El Paso shooting your statement above and see how they'd response to your accusation that they, as well as other people who on the ground when shit hits the fans, shape their coverage based on opinion.
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Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing without evidence. It poisons the well, and the overwhelming majority of such comments are based on imagination only.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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You do know that the rate we're replacing humans with machines far outstrips what we've previously seen, right? As in, this time around it's happening much quicker and is much more widespread compared to the first time around. That people and legislation are already struggling to adapt which will ultimately cause far greater chaos, market disruption and unrest than we've ever seen.

We as technologists know better than anyone how quickly new tech can sweep across the industry. Once the tech/product/process is figured out, scaling it is trivial in comparison. This is the same song and dance but 100x as loud and 100x as fast.
They tricked me with how close "cataclysmic" is to "catastrophic".
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Vulnerabilities have been branded for some time now.

https://github.com/hannob/vulns
Opposite position:

The money you pay supporting security and new/broken features of fast moving upstream targets could be mostly saved with a small portion paid to RH freeing you up to improve your product instead of supporting ever-changing/insecure upstreams.

I have experienced far too many emergencies and worried about relying on far too much insecure old code in environments without RH support.

With RH I could always trust that packages wouldn't disappear overnight, if I built something against RH it would actually still be there in 6m or 6y and that I could really trust that if a security hole was discovered I would be notified and it would be fixed in a way that wouldn't break my stack.

All of that is super valuable compared to moving fast and breaking things myself while dealing with upstreams that move fast and break things too.

In many many circumstances, it is really expensive to stay on the bleeding edge of everything and does not add business value, other than pleasing and attracting magpie programmers.
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Absolutely Stuff’d – web bloat in the age of climate change
Thank you, dang! This is certainly a more accurate title.
Almost every certification is a recurring income generator for the certificating parties. Some are annual, others bi-annual or even longer periods between certifications but none that I am aware of are 'forever'.
Where is online shopping very much a thing? Eurostat reports the following percentages for the question "Have you purchased something online in 2018":

Greece: 36%, Italy: 36%, Spain: 53%, Portugal: 37%. For comparison, the UK is at 83% and the EU average is 60%.

In any case, my experience with consumer or government IT isn't bad either. And I don't disagree there's talent and ability - unfortunately, half of it leaves, and the other half is squandered. My beef is with poor management, not lack of talented people. And unfortunately here I can't say there is lack of corruption and nepotism either, but I acknowledge different Southern countries are different.
There was one guy who shared his experience. He said he has high risk investments and was worried about the market. When things stabilized he put the money back.

Another shared that he used it for home repair. Another bought a car.

The downside seem to be 1) high fees 2) that money isn't making interest 3) you wind up paying tax on it when you pay the loan back with your regular pay.
If it was the government censoring you from saying those "harmful" things I would agree with you. Who gets to decide is society, and it's responding loud and clear to this issue.
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I see your question and raise you a counter-question:

Define climate denier, please

I can actually answer both:

A climate alarmist is someone who agrees with the hypothesis that the planet is on the verge of a catastrophic climate change, generally assumed to be related to an increase in the average global temperature which is generally linked to human industrial activity, most notably the type of activity which involves the combustion of fossil carbon sources. This person will see the hypothetical climate catastrophe as the most important issue facing mankind and generally is willing to take drastic steps to limit its impact.

A climate denier is someone who does not agree with the hypothesis of an upcoming climate catastrophe. This does not imply the climate denier claims there is no such thing as climate change nor that human activity can and does influence climate, just that this person does not believe in an upcoming catastrophic climate upheaval.

The fact that these two terms are bandied around so easily shows how infected and polarised this issue has become. This is unfortunate as there are good arguments on both sides of the divide. The 'alarmists' generally want to get rid of fossil fuel dependencies which I consider to be a good idea, just not for the reasons they state and not with the urgency they crave. Fossil fuels are large sources of pollution (which is mostly but not entirely unrelated to the climate discussion), they are the root cause of many international conflicts. The 'deniers' generally want to keep a balance between the environmental and economical impact of reneging on or using fossil carbon sources which I tend to agree with even though I do not subscribe to the school of 'eternally growing economies'. Many on the 'denier' side are willing to increase the use of nuclear energy while many on the 'alarmist' side are averse to this option even though it offers many benefits in their goal of reducing carbon emissions. This is most likely related to the fact that the people who are on the 'alarmist' side of the divide generally identify with environmental causes which have (often successfully) fought investments in nuclear energy.

This is why it would be beneficial for all involved to open a true discussion on this subject, without throwing epithets at any and all who do not agree to the fully to a stated position.
I really wish these big bulky enterprise and commercial solutions wouldn't prop up this technical debt. Things like ArcGIS an other $10k+ software packages have built in Python2 interpreters. If all of them decide to keep "supporting" py2, a ton of security updates are going to fall through the cracks or become non-uniform across tools.

They've literally had years and years to upgrade their tooling. But considering some of this enterprise crap still has support for VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) we'll probably see Python2 in the wild well into 2030. Makes you wonder how much COBOL is still out there.
It's also said that adding entropy to the pool can never make it worse, no? So why not just add it anyway. If you get to replace it, great! If not, well you tried.
Everything is constantly manipulated all the time, everywhere, by something/somebody. Welcome to da hoomnhood.
Protobufs were invented for Stubby, the RPC layer which is apparently used for absolutely everything inside Google. It's existed since at least 2001, and uses protobufs as the RPC serialization. gRPC is based on Stubby (though not the actual implementation).
It's not remotely close to true that negative comments about China are "the way to get downvoted on HN". On the contrary, HN's demographic, while quite international, is almost all Western, and for better or worse it follows geopolitical trends and the leads set by government and media.

When we have to ask commenters not to take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, it's usually because of generic nationalistic rhetoric against China. This happens often enough that we routinely get accused of being pro-Chinese. We're not, of course. We're against nationalistic flamewar, regardless of who is flaming or being flamed, because it's against HN's rules and destructive of the spirit of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Very few of them that I know did it to try to get very wealthy, mostly it was for all the other reasons: independence, not having a boss, charting your own course, pursuing a solid opportunity that becomes a good job, doing something they enjoy, etc."

That's exactly why I would never try to be an entrepreneur. So many people do it for the intangibles until they go bust, which means that no matter how good you are or how rational you are, you have to compete with a constant influx of people who will operate at a loss as long as they can.
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Consider "The Name of the Wind" in which magic is explained as "bindings" that still most follow the laws of thermodynamics, or at least conservation of energy.
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For me, I like the separation. I really appreciate being able to have a bad day at work but a good day at home. When you're starting a company, it will consume your life. It will also alternate from thinking you're on top of the world to feeling worthless.

When you're starting a company with someone, you're going to spend tons of time together and share personal things anyways. In some ways, I think it's hedging the emotions and keeping things about the business. I think you can work with someone and become friends. I've failed and seen others fail trying to turn a friendship into a business.
Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21048822
I use ansible heavily at work which doesn't really support python 3 very well yet. If it were an app I wrote from scratchthe choice would be esi but not all the code I work with and rely on (like ansible) was written recently or is easy to migrate.
The change to the print statement is an absolutely trivial for any project. Literally all you have to do is type in "2to3 foo.py". Boom, done.
So if we had Chad the legacy admission against Darnell with a single mother, I could see what you were talking about...

But that's not what's at stake here. Chad is doing great, legacy admissions are alive and well. Meanwhile Cletus and Liu are being discriminated against on race despite their real history that flies in the face of your framing.

Why must they be thrown under the bus? Why not Chad?
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I don't think your litmus test is particularly useful because any gun control regulation would serve this purpose, so it allows for throwing out the good for the sake of the bad.

It is certainly somewhat arbitrary, but I think it functions as an example of a group that is often physically disadvantaged vs attackers, institutionally disenfranchised, and has reasonable apprehension at the idea of relying on police protection.

Similarly, I like to think about economic legislation in terms of "how would this law affect the chances that a child born into the poorest neighborhood will one day become wealthy?". I think by framing it in a way that lets me imagine a hypothetical individual who is currently least-empowered, it allows me to consider things with a bit more empathy as I can imagine myself in their shoes rather than abstractly thinking about groups. Its hard to reason about fairly balancing many concerns of many groups with various levels of power simultaneously, so I think iteratively looking for laws that would empower the least-empowered can function as a sort of shorthand for moral reasoning.
Quit being pedantic. The DOJ is openly backing the lawsuit.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/harvard-race-affirm...
> Punk's original ethos was "I don't like my parents' music and culture and I don't know how to play an instrument but I still wanna express myself".

This isn't even close to the reality. You might enjoy reading a book entitled, "Please Kill Me: The Unauthorized Oral History of Punk Rock", by Legs McNeill (he coined the term Punk).

The Ramones were kids who had an intense love of post-war Americana. Inspired by late '60s/ early '70s glam-rock & proto-punk scenes, they wanted to bring back to the garage which had been lost to 10 minute soloing prog-rock bands and soulless disco music. I feel like "We Want The Airwaves" is the "Why?" section of /ramones/README.md.

The Clash? Mick Jones and Topper Hedon were very well-versed musicians. Joe Strummer was a passable rhythm guitarist, but was an amazing lyricist.

Sex Pistols? They were the boy band of the MacLaren empire.
This rubs me the wrong way. If people enjoy writing graphics engines, even if it's not economically rational to do so, then they should do that!

This is an especially pointless complaint when it comes to video games, because, from a purely economic standpoint, few programmers capable of writing production-quality global illumination should be working on games at all as opposed to getting a job doing something else. (This is a hard pill to swallow, but it is nevertheless true.) The market, especially the indie market, is oversaturated, and, as a result, most people who are highly skilled and involved in game development are, to varying degrees, in it for fun as opposed to money. Since game developers are doing it for fun, why not encourage them to do what they enjoy most?
She was friends with another cofounder. The other cofounder left the company, leaving us two. I got incredibly lucky to have a cofounder to turn out to be the person she is. Things could've easily gone very differently.

The advice I've heard is that you want someone you previously worked with.
I like the conclusion but I have to dispute it: there is a snowball effect for motivated (and resilient) people. Maybe this shows that most people are not motivated and need a kick in the pants, but if you are clever and you get ahead, you can use that to get more ahead (otherwise you were not really ahead at all)
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As an alternative viewpoint, it's bizarre that we can't support these things. Mathematics textbooks from 400 years ago are relatively intelligible, and those from 100 years ago are easily readable. But with computer science, a domain which consists entirely of problems we ourselves invented, we've wedged ourselves into a situation where we are apparently so bad at computer language design (let alone systems engineering/systems architecture) that something surviving for a decade is frankly notable.
That was 5 years ago.

I don’t do a lot of Python, and have been exclusively using v3, but I thought you could make your Python 2 somewhat compatible with v3 by using libraries, etc.

How close can you come to a Python code base that runs in v2 and v3?
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