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Hi y’all, this is Dylan, a Pipedream engineer and co-founder. We launched today to get early feedback from developers on what we’ve built and we’ve received a lot of thoughtful comments. Thank you to everyone who signed up!

I especially appreciate the discussion around how and why Pipedream is free, and the concerns around the lack of a visible, scalable paid tier. Those concerns are valid and I want to give you a little more insight into our thinking on this and what the future holds.

Workflows created by one developer can be forked, run, and modified by others. We all build a lot of the same integrations across companies and believe if this code is shared and executed on a common platform that’s purpose-built for running these workflows, it’ll save us all a lot of time.

We’ve worked with thousands of alpha users to understand how they’re using the product and considered what features enterprises ultimately will want and need to pay for. These include: higher workflow limits, private workflows and actions, SLAs, premium support, and more. We didn’t launch with that today because we’re focused on getting feedback from individual developers who will be the majority of users moving forward.

Of course, you can’t run a business solely on free workflows. We’ve set some limits on these workflows that help us control excessive use [1]. Our team has a wealth of collective experience scaling software companies on the business and tech side, and we have confidence that we’ll be able to retain a generous free tier while building a sustainable business.

I empathize with the skepticism of Pipedream and of hosted platforms in general, and welcome any more specific questions. We truly love feedback. We’ve implemented some ideas that we believe facilitate the developer experience for building workflows but are looking for y’all to test that, validate or invalidate it, and give us specific thoughts as you have time.

dylan [at] pipedream [dot] com

[1] https://docs.pipedream.com/limits/
I did the same sometimes ago. I had a very large number of messages so I had to break things down into separate mbox according to years and months. I then just loaded the file into the email client. I wanted to sync the mailbox with Gmail (that would be closest to getting it back online) but never had the time. However, I wish there was an exporter for Google Groups but there isn’t any as far as I could tell.
It's a good book (I've read it several times) but there are some gaping holes - for example, the Lancaster bomber Creaking Door that forms the core of the novel is equipped with H2S air-to-ground radar, used to identify targets, but the navigator and bomb-aimer never use it. If they (and other crews in the attack) had done so, then maybe Altgarten would have been spared.
Thankfully many types of fraud can be reversed in our modern financial system. With bitcoin, virtually any form of fraud leaves you completely fucked with absolutely no recourse.

Which makes bitcoin an even bigger joke because on a per transaction basis (one that includes miner subsidies) bitcoin costs several orders of magnitude more and cannot even deliver the same basic features that mainstream fiat offers.
> Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed

First: it absolutely is being outlawed, slowly but surely. The US is not yet fully there (although: try to buy a 1M USD house cash and see what happens), but most EU countries are fully there.

Second: Try and wire a large sum to your brother who happens to currently be stationed in disreputable country X or Y, and see what happens. Or mail him a box full of cash. See what happens.
I go to the digital world for abstract.

Why the fuck do I want real world interactions within the digital one? To slow me down?

If I want to move my hands I'll go play a game of sports in the fresh air.
Looks related to slime molds if you asked me.
Native American tribes in the USA are arguably not based on race, but on citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Indians_in_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_freedmen_controversy
This is really neat. I personally, as a bootstrapping founder fresh out of college, need to make income while still being able to focus on my own project. This idea really grabs my eye. Will be applying!
Please note: the "blob" is a protist, Physarum polycephalum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum.
what is more interesting to discuss is why the same fervour is not given to other jobs where an imbalance in gender exists (for example, registered nurses).

There's also more male electricians than female ones.

I feel that if females who would have made good engineers are turned away by discrimination or harassment, there's a good opportunity for a company to find hidden gems of an employee for lower cost than the equivalent male by making sure she is treated well. Then natural competition should balance out the cost difference over time.
You can marry more money in 5 minutes than you could earn in a lifetime... (I tried to find the original source/author for this and couldn't.)
As counter-intuitive as it may sound, this is honestly a non-issue in my eyes.

Nuclear C2 (Command and Control) has provisions for these types of scenarios through the usage of Permissive Action Links (PALs)[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
And no inflation.
> $320K at Amazon this year. I’m 32 and have been here 7 years.

If you don't mind, can you please share how much net you project to save this year after all taxes and expenses? Sorry if this is a little weird but as a poor person I'd imagine expenses to go up with higher income for ordinary people resulting in not that much (proportionately) savings.
It's not the norm, but it's also not especially rare. A doctor married to a lawyer (or a big tech engineer) will easily clear that for most of their careers.
I did HR at one of the FAANGs (the alphabet one). This is not true.
I wouldn't say "easily". The shit offer I got from Google past year was about 60% base salary. The non-shit offer I took from Twitter is about 55% base.
There was the whole oil pipeline thing right after the recent administration came to power.
I got this error when trying to archive a private group, see the README for how to archive private groups.
lol, turn off ur phone
When disagreement almost ensures punishment (further indoctrination sessions with some career damage taken, on the "least harsh" side of the spectrum, to the loss of one's job, income and a heavily tarnished reputation on the other), I would be less inclined to call it indoctrination and more inclined to call it forced re-education.
One org’s discrimination is another org’s curation, semantically-speaking. The subjectivity usually depends on which side of the dividing line the perceiver finds themselves.
Claiming that a right-leaning political worldview is racist is a nasty ploy, it’s slander to suppress a dissenting opinion. It’s a dodge from someone unwilling or unable to defend their position by engaging in meaningful debate.

However, repeated degrading attacks against someone are against Twitter policy.

> Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone. We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.

When these policies are applied with an uneven hand, they betray the political bias of those applying the policies.
On the list of ‘terrifying new powers’ this one is waaay down. If the customer is not doing anything illegal you have no reason not to serve them.
To do this without providing any tool for exporting data is proof of a lack of good engineering culture.
Yahoo Groups is a mailing list!
> fuzzy-numbered stock options

That's true for non-public companies, but stock options at a publicly traded company like Google or Apple are much easier to value.
I think it's also important to distinguish by age. For instance, I'm 27. I likely do not make as much nor have I amassed as much as a 45 year old.

This is a good comparison for this:

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-age-calculator/

People at age 25 year olds are likely to make half of 35 year olds. But 45 year olds in the top 1% are roughly equal to the 35 year olds (no real increase).
There are shades of grey. However, we have leaked footage of a Google co-founder saying (at an all-hands meeting no less) that the outcome of a democratic election conflicts with Google's values. There is a lot of room for interpretation there, but there are signals from Google in particular (eg, donation streams; leaked video; the occasional scandal bubbling out) that their management might be seeing the world through a partisan lens.

Abstract ideas of unavoidable bias are only of academic interest; the right wing of politics is justified in seeing Google as a direct political threat. That would not be justified if Google had a strict "no political talk, no political campaigning, we are the Switzerland of the internet" style policy for their workplace.
I used to see salary threads like this and be depressed too, but don't be. You not getting paid what you're worth does not mean you are not worth more. Next time you go out and interview be bold. Absolutely some companies will balk at a high salary requirement, but others will take it seriously. Even if you don't get $250k you'll get closer than you think and do much better than you are right now.

I was making a lot less not long ago. Then I went to an interview, knocked it out of the park, and when the ask TC reqs I just said $250 would work, and they made it happen. This is not in SF-area or NYC either.
Welp, I'm out.
Bitcoin is totally traceable. It is global and record forever. At some point the coin will become money. That is like the vpn or even onion, it could be track at exit or honeypot exit.
Your hyperbolical example notwithstanding, I disagree. Being apolitical isn't about promoting status quo, it's about being indifferent to the status quo and the whole space of adjacent options.

If I'm apolitical about issue X, it doesn't mean I'm a happy supporter of current state of X. It means I don't care whether it stays the way it is, or changes to any of the possible alternative states that are within the Overton window around X.

To use a clarifying analogy: if there's a C++ project in the company, and somebody asks me for the opinion about whether to rewrite it in Java, and I say "I don't care, I'm indifferent about this issue", it doesn't mean I support the project staying as is. It means literally what I said - go ahead and rewrite it in Java, or Python, or COBOL. Whatever, I just don't care. This is what being apolitical about an issue means.

And back to politics - I have a right to care or not care about whatever I please. You can try to convince me to care about some thing you care about, but you have no right to force me to care, and trying to do it makes me only want to oppose you out of spite. The "apolitical means just supporting status quo" meme is essentially a manipulative attempt at forcing people to care about something they don't, a rehash of the old "if you're not with us, you're against us".
There isn't a person on earth mining bitcoin with GPUs.
Situation A: You have 1 guy making $100K and 99 guys making $25K.

Situation B: You have 10 guys making $100K and 90 guys making $25K.

Situation B is better and it has more inequality. That's what we're seeing the past few decades, as people leave the middle class (in an upward direction).
I've been looking for something like this for a while. It's hard to break into FPGA design coming from a Software Engineering viewpoint, but I think it teaches how the machine REALLY works and can produce better Software developers.
Google probably will not, but can you say that about every Google employee?
Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of Google...

if (handwave.slows > 10%){
do: flag: arthritis
do: alert: advertisers }
Without regard to the actual topic there is a gem of wisdom that applies to a lot of hackers in "projects from hell": if you want to change something big way, do it in incremental steps, do what is within reach (in reach for the most stubborn/narrow minded opponent).

Just because you figured it all out don't expect others to listen to you lecture them.

A small step, easily digestible, that turns out to be useful, is much more useful than long rants: a) the actual goal is one step closer, b) people will start to really think about what you say once you delivered, c) you might learn you are wrong
Gambling or games that are close to gambling. Anything promoting far right or other hateful ideologies.
Related to this :

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_ga...
For me, what helped was doing a Master's Degree. And I'm sure a PhD would have continued to help. My advisors bikeshedded the hell out of every line I wrote in papers that had their names :). They also made me read specific material they had on how to write. But reading all those papers got me used to the model.

That said, it may not be the most effective method if all you want is the writing skill.
The 2nd Amendment is valuable because F35s, tanks, and helicopter gunships are useless for fighting an armed citizenry.

Say a President uses the military to fight US civilians on US soil. He and anyone else involved in the plot would preside over a country not worth ruling. Because all their friends and family would be kidnapped and murdered by lunchtime.
To summarize your excellent summary: bitcoin wastes energy by design. It cannot keep all the “features” it’s supporters value without wasting energy.
The contrarian take on Bitcoin and carbon is that Bitcoin chases the cheapest energy, and solar is quickly becoming the cheapest source. In some areas of the world it already is (various subsidized infra in China).

See Ramez Naam (co-chair for energy and the environment at Singularity University) for more on this friendliness to proof-of-work. This is a good intro: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/09/16/64-r...
Indeed.

I had high hopes that the advent of the Internet would allow me to go live in cheap places and still earn a comfortable income from top-tier companies.

But silly me, I work in embedded, where being close to the hardware you're developing is practically mandatory :p
Slashdot has been a walking dead version of its' former self once it sold to SourceForge.
tns98 is a private group.
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Such a long read about such a beautiful plant and not a single photo. Shame.

If you're ever in Singapore, I highly recommend the National Orchid Garden situated in the Botanic Gardens.
Oh yea the cultural influence of the oil companies, it's so annoying how BP culture just makes it's way to the rest of civil society /s

If you can't see how the tech/media industry have a larger influence over the general culture then I don't know what to say.
Tons are mining alt coins with them. These stories never include the rather sizable market for alt-coins, almost all of which use the same energy-sucking design that bitcoin does.

I’ve never seen an article like this for the entire crypto space as a whole but I imagine it is much, much worse.
>"I said that their goal should be to eliminate bias in the hiring process (such as by blinding resumes, replacing phone screens with text-only mediums, etc). I was taken aside and chastised for my statements."

While it does sound like a good idea to eliminate bias, appearance is a contributory factor in the hiring process. If someone turns up with matted hair, hasn't showered in months, and is wearing a pizza stained t-shirt then most companies won't want to hire them and most employees won't want to work near them. Good idea in theory, not really in practice. You're going to have to have a face-to-face interview at _some_ point and that's when (mostly subconscious) racism/sexism/\*ism will

Also, that first slide from the workshop presentation reminded me how much I hate the push for people to declare pronouns. Contrapoints tweeted about this from a trans perspective[1] and got labeled "problematic" by a lot of leftists.

[1] https://arcdigital.media/contrapoints-and-the-scandal-that-s... (referencing the first set of tweets)
To put this somewhat in perspective, we can look at Wh/$

From the article, Bitcoin used 73.12 * 10^12 Wh and generated $5,749,979,074 in mining revenue

Googling shows that the US economy used 3.82 * 10^15 Wh and generated $ 19.39 * 10^12 in GDP

So bitcoin uses 12,716 Wh of electricity for every $ of revenue, and the US economy uses 197 Wh of electricity for every $ of GDP.
Show HN: Analysing Trump's Erdogan Letter to Bush's Sharon Letter (2004)
A friend worked in the national statistics org in France (INSEE). There were internal fights about separating statistics about Paris (stupid expensive, lots of growth) vs the rest of France (not expensive, slow growth). The unifiers won, unfortunately.
Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard
Aside from harassed or stalked, the others apply just as much to men. Hate to break it to you. We have been trained by society to put up with it.
Isn't wealth the red herring, and income the proper measure? After all, the median (50%tile) wealth is nearly zero. Amongst those with zero wealth, the top income earners clearly have better lives than the low income earners, since the top income earners can consume more.

The ultimate measure of resources is how much a person can consume a year. Income is equivalent to what you can steady-state consume. Wealth is just what you happened to save up to that point in time.

Since the wealth gap is larger than the income gap (since wealth is saved past income), the wealth gap tends to be pointed out by people who want to overemphasize inequality.
"Please reinstate my youtube video, I created my own original music and you owe ME money."
government involvement
Am I the only one that reads that and thinks “Cool, that’s a good goal to shoot for!” ?
Have a squeeze controlled trigger for input mode in your non-dominant hand?
Zuckerberg delivering free speech manifesto tomorrow
Picked up the book this is based off at Half-Priced book. They give a really good example I’ll leave for the reader, but it’s a seemingly simple task but hard to solve. The book asks you to walk away and do something different for a while. When you return, you are able to finish. Demonstrates the idea very well and highly recommend the book.
I spent a lot of my youth there, yet didn't know Siniestro! Thanks for that!

Galicia is a great region, you feel like you're living both in the past and in the present at once, without discordance.
> So, create some large enough tax incentives for companies to move there, and people will follow.

Except companies don't just go to places because of tax incentives. Indeed, many companies (and people) stick around CA despite the super high tax burden because it has so many other things going for it. Conversely, places with very generous tax incentives can sometimes still have trouble attracting companies because the reason their tax incentives are so high is because they are lacking in other respects.
The reward can still be low because you can choose many watchtowers. If you have a high value channel, you could choose for example hundreds of watchtowers. Only the first one to broadcast the revocation would get the reward.

The reward only has to be high enough for it to be worthwhile for other nodes to spend a small amount of memory storing your txn.
Police in the US do not have a duty to protect: many US citizens who live in rural or poor areas essentially only have self-defense means to protect themselves as police response times can be hours if they show up at all.

I'd love for our society to reach a place where all citizens can feel safe without owning guns, but we are such a large country with a lot of racial and economic imbalances remaining - I fear this is quite a long ways off.
They're more like broadcasters than carriers. The phone companies don't broadcast. If you broadcast, then you're going to run into this issue one way or another.
I see plenty of SFRs inside the beltway for $500-800K (and loads in the just over a million range). I'm not sure what other debt service you have that might be limiting your back-end ratios, but on a front-end ratio (house only), you should qualify for a mortgage of $2MM or more. (Whether that's a good idea or not is perhaps a different question.)

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2614-22nd-St-NE-Washingto...
Yes, it's a slime mould.
So, what is the income of a household sitting on $10MM+?
And if they're making a 7% rate of return for 27 years, how's the person who already had $10 million in wealth and earning 7% per year ($700k per year in wealth appreciation alone from year 1) changing during those 27 years?
Ok. But does that really carry weight?

I mean, the way we treat our territories makes me think it doesn't. But I could be wrong.
30, if not 3 years ago, this wouldn't even be a question. If somebody argues that the refusal is based on religious grounds, it seems like it would be a relevant test case in US politics.
nobody is forcing you to do anything - You're free to find a new job at any time, unless you're indentured and you didn't tell anyone.

If you want to decide what to build go into business for yourself. If you're working for someone else you have the choice to either work for them and do what they want or quit.
> To me, that's a ringing endorsement.

And to me, who works in IT, it's a bloody annoying.

We've already implemented the use-application-dns.net NXDOMAIN canary at work because after some testing Firefox breaks a bunch of apps because of split-horizon DNS.

There's already (at least) two malware that's using DoH to get around network monitoring:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/first-ever-malware-strain-spot...

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/psixbot-malware-upgraded-with-...

If the host is compromised we can no longer trust end-point monitoring, and with DoH/ESNI we lose network monitoring. Awesome. Great work.
> The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up on a successful product.

The size of every group's voice in society isn't a magical balance. I don't want rich people or corporations to have an outsized voice either. It's a zero sum game, so the only way to reduce that is to give more voice to other groups. Employees should try to leverage their numbers more, not less, because that's the only tool they have. Gitlab is based in San Francisco, so their votes probably don't matter either.
Sounds like an Apple perhiperal adaptor hell for reproduction.
Political emails tend to get tagged as spam in general. I have someone close to me who is involved in local Democratic Party and progressive organizations. When you go to an event or donate money (say an award banquet), they share your name and spam the crap out of you. A lot of that mail gets tagged as spam as a result.

Conservative outlets work similarly, but they seem to have bigger online operations and are hard to get out of. My in laws get barraged with this stuff, and a mail provider like GMail or Microsoft gets a lot of spam signals from it I’m sure.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Let us know if you have any feedback or questions.
> the median incomes are between 60-65K

The median income, for a college graduate, nationally is >$90K. A lot of the median income stats are meaningless once you consider only the educated slices of the workforce.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
Anyone know what 720 sexes means?
that was it, cheers. didnt realize it was private.
On the flip side, though, there are some rust belt cities that have been hollowed out that could easily support 2 or 3x their current population.
Which universe?