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I believe in your mission. The world needs a better way to fund open source development.

At first glance, your product feels unrelated to this. It seems like a Stack Overflow replacement that's worse for posterity (read: googlers) because chats are private. It also feels like a side-gig for open source developers, asking them to basically freelance to fund their open source projects, which I don't think is how that should work.

I think you'd have more luck as a platform for paid support licenses for open source software. Bootstrapping a support license program is a Big Deal for independent open source developers who don't want more administrative work. But this feels like a miss on that front. Happy to confer more.

> Minus server costs and wages, all of the money processed through Immutable Coffee will go directly back to the developers and experts answering questions for the community.

You might want to look into forming a nonprofit, as this is almost exactly what it is (minus ownership stakes). If you're a nonprofit people don't have to trust sentences like this, as it's baked into your existence.
https://i.imgur.com/11EVBte.jpg

Basically, there's going to be a dip in the worldwide demand for oil, and with the permian basin coming online, we can satisfy much of the world's demand for plastics and lubricants. Makes sense that they would try to get a last hurrah out there.
If I’m going to spend $200k on college for my kids, it had better be for a professional degree. They can learn to be well rounded human beings from primary, secondary school and MOOCs.
>He was called crazy for stating that it was a ruse to get him into the hands of the US.

And he was crazy. Fleeing to the UK, America's staunches ally with a long history of cooperation with US law enforcement, especially in cases of extradition, in order to avoid possible extradition in Sweden is simply not sane.

Even taking the assumptions you're working with, that the Sweden charges were a ruse to allow Assange to be extradited, the argument fails because Assange fled this supposed conspiracy to a jurisdiction that is 100% guaranteed to cooperate in extraditing him to the US.

>he had access to better legal advice than is generally dispensed by random strangers on the internet

Considering the predicament his apparently genius legal counsel's advice put him in over the last decade, I'd say that's not a given at all. It seems much more like he's acting out of panic and desperation rather than some carefully-crafted legal strategy.
Apps have those functions
the difference is CapEx is dropped all at once and OpEx is over time. so the accounting is not the same
If something is in a thrift store with tags, it's because someone shoplifted it and then sold it.
Group iMessage = CC list, cc list becomes messaging group. I suppose one way this could play out would be simply to add an email submission API for text messaging app(s), but it's an incomplete idea so far. :)
But The Simpsons!
The cost isn't the hardware. The cost would be doing all testing to prove and certify that this is safe in all situations.
I see a lot of comments referencing 9/11 as a big cause of the downturn and am curious... why? Given the size and power of the US, the 9/11 attack was just a pinprick. Was it the social and government reaction to 9/11 that actually caused the damage? If so, was any of it deliberately engineered?
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Using an iPhone "prevents" device fingerprinting because the configuration is so common.
Grateful for that hide feature, so useful. Thanks for adding that Hn team.
I need tech that can swallow the pills themselves and send them to me through wifi
Currently? PaleMoon. It doesn't have a Pulse dependency and it works with every site I throw at it. We'll see if that holds up.
Doesn't Apple's HomeKit do this the best? It was designed to be secure (so much that they had to backtrack on requiring hardware encryption chips) and it works locally.
Spot on. Cogent writing will probably be the last thing that automation can touch, and the most important for navigating the complexities it creates.
With a “half-life of 4.5 billion years” does that mean these areas are going to be permanent toxic waste lands?

Regardless why isn’t there a growing movement to call the perpetrators of this war criminals?
Isn't this essentially what search engines do? Ie. Google's Page Rank.

It doesn't really seem very AI-ish except maybe for some NLP. Otherwise it's very straightforward indexes and catelogues.

I used to work at a company that used Elasticsearch to catelog and group articles and small snippets. I'm currently working at a company that's using Algolia to do something similar.
How much of these are available??
Frustrated with PG&E San Jose considers forming its own utility
Currently use this across cloud providers.
Checking both of these universities' websites, I see that they have social networks listed on their footers. Tsinghua's Facebook and Instagram accounts have been inactive for 2 years, but Peking's are active, both with posts from today.

I find this interesting given the Chinese censorship of these sites. Sure, a VPN would work, but I would be pretty amused if Chinese educational institutions are actually bypassing the censors.
I hear ya. “Should be” and “is” are quite different though ;-)

Have you worked for companies where teams choose their preferred project management styles? If so, which companies?
Depleted Uranium is not designed to vaporize. It has a boiling point (3818°C) more than twice that of lead (1740°C). It's atomic mass of 238 is considerably higher than Lead's 207.5. It packs quite the punch when put into a slug, but does not reach temperatures where it could vaporize. Certainly particulate matter would be ejected from the impact, though as with most slugs.

That said, what was done here is despicable and it is clear evidence of a war crime.
Occasionally there is a thread for this (about every 6 months) and it also happens in the comments spontaneously (such as on this post.) Here's another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362319

I try to compile the sites that people list here: https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ I will obviously be mining this thread. ;D
I got hired as employee #12 in a dotcom in March 2000; by December I was out of a job. In between, the company raised and mostly spent about $35 million. The biggest single expenditure was a huge deal to own a topic channel on AltaVista, which was one of the big portal sites of the day. Everyone was building portals because search engines were dead ends that were hard to monetize (seriously, this is what people thought). Yahoo was the 800 lb gorilla of websites that everyone tried to emulate.

I knew a bit of coding and was scheduled for the Arsdigita boot camp [1] that would learn me up to be a real programmer. Instead I got laid off with 3 months severance. They had the decency to do it on December 2 so I had health care through Christmas.

I got a job with a local tech consultant about 3 months later, which paid the same as the dotcom job. I kept my dotcom stock option paperwork for a little while for nostalgia's sake... {sigh} I thought I was on my way to being rich the day I got those papers...

[1] https://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/boot-camp

(This will give you an idea of what a web programmer was expected to be able to do back then. Today what would you call someone who can install Unix on hardware, install and configure Oracle, install and configure a CMS, and code up an entire web site?)
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what instance types were you using? do the dedis have the same specs as the ec2 instances? what about contracts (do you have one on the dedis?) are you only using servers or other aws services?
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Myst was probably my favourite puzzle game. :)
How does that stop people from still buying the now corrected-for-those-taxes garments? All you've done is added a revenue stream in the middle, and now there's even less incentive for regulators to do anything about the _actual_ problem, because now they're making (more) money off of the problem, and solving the underlying problem would damage those revenue streams.
How much is a public college? 10k to 15k a year?
China Surpasses US as home to world’s most unicorns
I'm just... confused. Is the author using the same OS I am? I upgraded the day it came out, and I haven't even noticed in any meaningful way. ZSH is the biggest change, but I've already gotten used to it.

Nothing I use is breaking, none of my workflows or habits needed changing, it was fine.

The author ought to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask if maybe they've got some problems with change.
Nintendo's games are intentionally meant to address as large as audience as possible though. While I'm sure Jonathan wants to sell a lot of games, I think he cares more about making it great for a smaller subset than making it palatable to a larger subset. To put it another way, Nintendo's games are incredibly bland compared to something like The Witness. I think Nintendo makes great games, but they're not nearly as unique an experience as you'll find from some indie developers.
Sure, but it still means somehow Masayoshi Son (and the investors whose money he manages) has paid $16bn for a thing now worth $8bn.
>Hayek was perfectly well aware that such market participants existed (after all, such participants existed in his day--for example, Standard Oil).

And Hayek did mention monopolies or "coordinated industries" as a "halfway house" between centrally planned economies and free markets. Sure.

>But Amazon's information is still limited to information that a market participant can have: namely, as I said, the prices at which the various goods it sells are sold. It does not have any more information than that.

Actually, Amazon does collect and process information that a market participant wouldn't normally have: consumer preferences.

Hayek argued that a central planner wouldn't be able to suck up the decentralised information embodied in every market participant. However, what Amazon is doing is mining the data it has about a consumer's purchase history, as well as the responses the consumer gave to recommendations made by its recommender engine. That is a lot more information than what most market participants would normally have access to.

Now, Hayek has outlined what he thinks is needed to construct a "rational economic order" in the beginning of "The Use of Knowledge in Society":

1) "If we possess all the relevant information",

2) "if we can start out from a given system of preferences",

3) "if we command complete knowledge of available means".

Unlike the monopolies of old, which may have 1) to some extent, Amazon also has 2), and is trying to acquire 3) with its Amazon Business offering. So its capabilities are arguably an improvement over the capabilities of the old monopolies.
cloud will always be more expensive than bare metal. period.
cloud is great to start out when you have no clue about how much power you will need to satisfy your customers and to be flexible enough to cover some unexpected spikes. but once you're out there earning, the only reason to stay on cloud is comfort. business-wise it is a black hole for money. many will argue that cost of personnel to manage your own infra does not favour it over cloud. but if you do the math you will see that savings when renting only three bare metal servers each month will pay a full-time salary for a sysadmin. you don't even need to own your own hardware. the bare metal rentals these days are insanely low and if you truly want to save each penny, you buy your own because in a matter of months you get yor investment back on saved fees alone. the thing is that these big tech companies convinced so many people these days that cloud is the only way that they cannot even fathom how anybody can run on their own hardware. the new sysadmins are already "brainwashed" and inexperienced this way and the old school guys that have experienced managing their own hardware are slowly "dying" out. soon, just a mention of managing your own hardware will become a joke to these newcommers when in reality the cloud was never-ever a cheaper option to go with in the first place. not to mention that these days we have so much technology to make things easy(kubernetes, rancher, proxmox, docker, lxc..) that it is quite laugable to fear bare metal and religiously praise the cloud like some kind of savior.
Thanks for this. Just got it up and running in about 15 minutes (most of that was waiting on DO setup and scripts to run).
how will you attract the talent?
"We are working to get it to many countries" Please make that fast
doesn't that shift the vulnerability/risk to the configuration of the firewall, security policy, and machine configuration?
AWS Launched 13 years ago...

Yet when I went to University they were teaching Java/Pascal. What got me a job was learning more relevant subjects things on my own. Virtualization, Cloud, Containers, Python, Shell scripting.

Yeah I'll add my voice to the "University is overpriced and ancient" vote.
From Wikipedia

> Since 2015, Tsinghua University has overtaken the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to top the list of Best Global Universities for Engineering published by the U.S. News & World Report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University#Rankings
It's still difficult to get this stuff right.

As a related example: a candidate for an onsite interview at Google gets a chaperone for lunch. The lunch companion has no input into the hiring decision. (And the Google hiring process is formalised enough that they really have no input.)

Of course, candidates usually don't 100% believe that and treat lunch as a secret test of character and stay on their toes, just to be safe. That can be very stressful for some people.

(I behaved like that when I was a candidate.)

Similar for the topic at hand: you can't just declare to the candidate that you are going to treat the different forms of assessment you offer as equivalent. You actually have to think of mechanisms to convince them. Lest someone pick a more stressful one than they want for fear of discrimination.

(And there are benefits to the candidates for the interview. For example it's strictly time bounded, so you are not going to obsess and pull an all nighter, because you are afraid that the competition is pulling all nighters.)
I helped cofound a marketing vertical in this space, and they are extremely profitable if managed and marketed well.
The title is pretty inflammatory, insinuating Quantum Leap is useless. Further down in the same article:

The paper used the results to estimate that a top supercomputer would need approximately 10,000 years to match what Sycamore did in 200 seconds.

IBM, which developed Summit, says the supercomputer could have done that work in 2 ½ days, not millennia—and potentially even faster, given more time to finesse its implementation.

By that measurement it is still is 1000x faster.
Oh wow!! I played this game when I was little but never knew what it was called and never found it when I searched (from vague memories). Thanks!!
Actually do interviews. After 20 you'll see what you should actually focus on, as opposed to cookie cutter problems that test memory vs. in-moment applications.
> It is the most experienced product designers who can just look at something and tell you if it is good or bad, before trying it, that big corp product undermines the most.

that's because for every product designer that can tell good from bad, there are 10's of pretenders who dont know what they're talking about.

The stakeholders don't have the time or expertise to vet (otherwise, they'd be product designers themselves!). Thus, they need objective verification. This is what turns into the 'matter of testing the idea'.
Now turn that thousands to millions and you’ll see where the problem lies.
I assure you there is nothing sinister about the price asymmetry. Fiber and routers have as much bandwidth coming as going. The inbound traffic is mostly composed of little http(s) requests. The outbound is full of images and mountains of JavaScript. Cloud providers don't charge for ingress because they got it for free when they grew their egress capability to meet demand.
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I'm excited to check it out. I wish there was an easy login with GitHub or Google instead of creating yet another password.
not necessarily. for each of these “we build our own cloud” stories there’s quite a few more stories of large enterprises saving tons switching away from their own cloud. BOA themselves know their savings won’t last and they’ll be switching back. They’re already in negotiations
i've been told that 'Outer Wilds' is also a good game. (not to be confused with 'Outer Worlds', which is not a great one).
That's even more concerning that there are libraries that hide such a thing. There is gonna be instances that bites someone hard where said replay is not idempotent.
One of the things I noticed in the anime Madoka Magica was that the traffic lights had a diffrent shape.

Red was an octagon.
Yellow was a triangle.
Green was a circle.
Completely agree and I think it will happen. At the very least we need an alternative path to get a university level education.

My idea of how it will be replaced:

All learning will be done online and by independent organizations which could range from small time publishers to even people on youtube creating courses. Students will self-study or use other methods to learn.

Each discipline will have its own certification. If you want to display your knowledge of xyz subject then you get that certification and employers will hire people based on their collection of certifications. Employees could build up their certifications as they progress in their career, life-long learning.

The entire system will be more or less free-market based but overtime I could see dominant organizations taking most of the market. The strongest will rise to the top.

You can already see this happening in high-demand fields like tech where you have these "code camps" springing up and then all the little certifications being offered by google, amazon and so on. My vision is this type of system will become the dominant way to obtain specialized skills. Traditional education will have to compete within this system.
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>This is a new OS completely

I don't disagree with your point as a whole, but Catalina is is not a new OS, it's an incremental upgrade.
This is what community colleges are for. You can get a decent education at a fraction of the cost. Your degree won't stroke your ego, but you'll come out with an employable skill set, and you can always transfer credits to a state school to finish your bachelor's degree.
Unlike the normal situation where you pay taxes when you sell an asset, with options when you acquire them any difference between the strike price and their value at acquisition is a taxable amount. If your acquisition occurs when you cannot sell because the shares are not publicly tradeable or because you are subject to a rule not allowing sales then in the time between when you acquire and when you could sell the stock can become worthless. This worthlessness has no effect on your tax bill which is finalized at the point of acquisition.
I have a very similar problem as this, but often it's in another language, German or Spanish usually, to boot.

The access I have to mess with other peoples' lives, if I so chose, is amazing.
Despite the article's weaknesses, I think its spot on to assert that political nation-states may not survive technology. I think we are living in nationalism's dying breath.
Is the list supposed to degenerate to noise?

edit: also add my blog! https://blog.chewxy.com
But then traveling over their dedicated lines when using cross AZ might bring additional considerations than leaving their network and being exposed to internet routing.
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The underlying concept had never clicked in my mind before, but now, looking at the common themes among some of these deformities I'm starting to realize why depleted uranium produces such pronounced disfigurement.

When you think about how a fertilized ovum subdivides from a singular entity, into a cohesive target comprised of trillions of entities, and that all features, structures and organs have only one chance to cascade the rapid coordinated proliferation as emergent functional shapes, with no undo stack, and no regenerative salamander retries or polyfills, penetrating, disruptive ionizing radiation seems to introduce the destruction of keystone stem cells that only appear once, with one chance to create the specialized arrangement of tissue architecture that creates our bodies in well known phases of development.

The introduction of the ionizing alpha particles is like rolling a billiard ball across carefully prepared chain of dominos, such that later phases of the chain reaction are unreachable due to cell death at whichever stage of the development gets ruined.

This is why some children seem to demonstrate malformation from the hips, shoulders and neck outward (completely unviable, profoundly distorted stillbirths), but others only show misshapen hands and feet (severe disability, with survivable deformities due to late-term exposure).

Use of DU should be abolished as a war crime.
Is Algo really 1 ip = 1 user? I always assumed multiple things could be running on one IP since IPv4 is getting scarce, but bare metal networking is not my expertise.

I use Algo for the exact reason you mention ("this lan is sketchy") and have been pleased, but I always assumed even if my traffic was mingling, one (possibly secret) court order would out me since I paid with a CC tied to my real name.
Jandi: https://www.jandi.com/

Covers most of the use cases of Slack, though a bit less automated commands.

It's cheaper and designed for a lot of enterprise things like factories, hospital, food industry. They don't advertise so much to the tech industry as it's hard to peel people from Slack.

disclosure: was paid to help them expand to SE Asia
After McDonald's (China) was acquired, McDonald's (Global) banned them from using McDonald's and its phonetic name 麥當勞 in China. It then changed its name to 金拱門, which literally means Golden Arches. Chinese people found it so hilarious that it went so viral. News got over nine billion views. It was such a success for marketing, but it doesn't hold the same profile as before.
There was no “grinding leetcode” in the late 90s...
I assume (s)he edited it, but I saw that too. Delectable irony.
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I was affected by the bubble in a positive way.

I'm mid 30s, I got my first job in a junior role in 2001 doing web graphics (before I became a proper programmer).

I was hired because our CEO knew he couldn't hire people who had it good in the boom because they expected too much money.

So they specifically looked for people who had skills but limited or no job history, and paid them close to minimum wage.

It worked out well for me in the end as it was a foot in the door when loads of people were looking for work.
At least, plus books, supplies, fees, mandatory on-campus housing, etc.
Start a new company. Lots of talent available and investors look for heads-down new things. Classic Namazu stuff.
To my understanding, derived serialization is in conflict with type inference. You can have one or the other but it is very complex and difficult to have both. Maybe one day Elm will get it but it is not a trivial implementation and there are other, more important issues that take precedence.