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In that situation, I think I would go insane, or resign to preserve my sanity!

Our slack channels have at most a dozen active members and my channel list has approximately a dozen channels with permutations of the same dozen people organized topically. I have turned off almost all notifications as they are so ridiculous and look at the sidebar once in a while to see which channels are active.

I consider slack content ephemeral, even if slack disagrees. If I want to track issues, I use an issue tracker. If I want a threaded conversation, I'd probably write an email still. If I want to find content, I search a wiki or an email archive.

My preference for threads is as appears in my old school mail client or my fading memories of the "trn" threaded news reader for usenet. Threads do not hide messages, they only reorder them into a hierarchical index. It is easy to move back up the index to skim prior content in the tree, but it is also trivial to press a key and jump to the next unread message sorted first by thread and next by message time (to break ties or decide which thread to visit next after exhausting one).

Recently I had the absurd situation of someone using threaded replies in a direct message channel. It was astounding to me that this person thought this was a good idea, and also that the slack UX could so completely obfuscate an attempt at communication...
at this point I assume they're collecting more hotspot information from smartphones running G maps vs from cars
Check out APL. For a more modern take, try Perl 6.
This is classic open-loop queuing theory with Poisson arrivals. Nothing really works like that. There's always a "rejection rate", where people leave the line before being serviced. Or, in networking, the connection times out. Or, for a shopping site or a real store, you get an "abandoned cart". In real life, this has a lot to do with how many sales you lose.

In the early days of the Internet, people were trying to analyze datagram networks as open-loop systems with Poisson arrivals. That's because everybody read Kleinrock back then. His thesis was on Western Union Plan 55-A, which was Sendmail made out of telephone relays and paper tape punches feeding paper tape readers as buffers. A mail system behaves much more like an open loop system - people don't mail less as the mail propagation time goes up. That was the wrong model for IP messages, because TCP connections add a closed loop system on top of IP.
I'm surprised Parse Server doesn't make anyone's list. It takes about 30 mins to set up. It's easy to scale, free to start with. It fills the complexity hole left by Node/Express. It's a lot faster to code than using APIs. It's been used by enough people for long enough that all the stability bugs have been ironed out.
Yeah, I still remember the first time a had a Bells Two-Hearted. It was bliss. I think some people just like bitter and some don’t.

That said, I can’t eat a straight grapefruit, even covered in sugar. Love a grapefruit soda though.
Same argument as letting Mark run Facebook instead of Wall Street quarterly reports. Decisive focus with longer term planning. Autocrats are often more efficient at achieving specific goals. Plus neither really need to campaign and gather votes to stay in power.
Google Co-Founders Page, Brin Give Up Management Roles
Imagine buying a server and colocating.
Great question, raising both our concerns AND giving him a specific concern with which to answer.

THANKS A LOT. You scared him off.

Like a level 1 support intern, he's only allowed to answer off a script. And you broke that flow.
I want to suggest that Cliqz has actually spent a lot of time being open and it really looks like at least one person at the company is putting a sincere effort into user privacy.

We should be extremely wary, but at this point I think their write ups at least deserve a read. I suspect it’s more a matter of the tech and/or trust being too difficult than one of bad intentions by anyone.

(I am unaffiliated and generally very pro-privacy, but read about this last year and the news coverage seemed unfair after exploring their site at the time)
Are you specifically looking for something free? Or are you just trying to avoid waking up to a massive credit card charge?

If you don't get a lot of traffic, I'd go for an Amazon LightSail instance. $5/month includes 1 TB of data transfer. If you really don't like AWS, Digital Ocean has similar offerings.

Does AWS allow you to pay with pre-paid Visa/MC cards? Could use one of those to pay for the account to avoid a surprise bill from draining your bank account.
Google and it's story were inspirational! The prospect of working there .. free food.. working with fellow like minded people who were supposedly the best of the best(kids from Harvard, Stanford, etc), the 20 percent hacking time they advertised and the fact all was wrapped up in their "Do No Evil," bow made it further an inspirational place to dream to work for or with.

It's "Do No Evil," ethos/mission was important and having one & sticking to it is equally important vs. swiping it under the carpet for the sake of profits. Further it's mission was important to all the women and men they inspired to start up and to get into tech. Yet once they brushed their mission under the rug & focused on money many who they inspired became shocked to learn that many times they do 'Evil," prompting disenchantment. You can see that disenchantment with Google everyday here on Hacker News with the various negative stories and comments about Google. Something I bet if you go back more then five or six years you'd never see here.
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How I Rendered a Massive List in React without Memory and CPU Issues
I enjoyed that book so much, but man was it depressing, too.
I bow to your eliteness.
Aint nobody got time to answer specifics
Or it could be that people who don't get IPAs are rather like the people who don't get authentic Indian food. Yes, at first, you may only taste hops or chilis, but as your palette matures, you begin to realize that that there's more to these drinks or foods and that they are in the end more interesting than the bland steaks or weissbiers one once liked.
AWS is great about dogfooding, most all their services run on top of native AWS (ec2, lambda, dynamo)... but they don't do that for billing. It's all just fake money being thrown around internally.
Adding on to this, Harvey Mudd puts forth significant effort at outreach and recruitment for their student body. Meaning they're pulling from the existing pool of STEM students to a large degree compared to creating new ones. It's very likely that Harvey Mudd's success cannot be reproduced at scale.
SurfingKeys is my top 5 most useful pieces of software. I’ve heavily customized it to make my web browsing as efficient as possible for my workflow.

Check out my configuration to get some ideas of what you can do: https://github.com/b0o/surfingkeys-conf

Note that while I currently use Firefox, I haven’t yet added instructions on how to install my config there, which is different to Chrome due to lack of file system access permissions. Long story short, use the `gulp serve` task to start a server on `localhost:9919`, then point the SurfingKeys configurator there.
In a different corner of information: pulmonary talcosis is a known danger for intravenous drug users who shoot up pills. We’ve known about that for decades, too
Interesting. Wouldn't existing intrusion detection systems fire alerts on seeing random DNS queries from a host to `domain.tld`?
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Feels like a personal “there’s bound to be a better way” project that’s a bit polished. Fun!
I am a Googler, opinions on my own.

The problem with the phrase is that it is very relative depending on your meaning of evil. It's a shifting over time and varies by person.

At the same time it provides a good guiding principle for Google as a whole. You need to think about users in different parts of the world with different ideas of what is good and evil, and try to cater to all of them. It's a really hard problem.

That code have conduct I linked tries to explain how evil is defined and give more concrete principles to follow.

From my experience, no one tries to be evil within Google, and we try to do right by our users. But when you're dealing with products like YouTube and Search with massive amounts of user-generated data, suggesting good answers that satisfy everyone and doesn't generate news headlines is impossible. We do what we can, but when you have billion user products, some people are always going to be pissed at you.
I like and have successfully used the Business Model Canvas approach. You fill in all assumptions. Test the riskiest one in the simplest manner, then move on. E.g. if you're not sure you can find the right partnerships, look for that first. If you're not sure the value proposition would work, interview some people, make some mockup PowerPoint slides, and so on.
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Sadly I don't have a single good high-granularity source on-hand, but here's a few. Plurality goes to religious groups (which I find particularly uninformative, since many religious groups provide significant social services):

- Charity Navigator donation stats ($400b annual in US; farm animals are bucketed into "Environment / Animals" which itself is 3%): https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...

- Animal Charity Evaluators for farm animal vs non-farm-animal stats (~1% of those are farm animals, which IIRC is itself the smaller half of "Environment / Animals" by a good margin): https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/why-farm...

- 80,000 Hours farm animal cause profile (~$20m estimate for farm animal charities): https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/factory-farming/
The best code is no code, and the best solution is sometimes just not trying to solve the problem.
Plus ChromeOS, chrome browser, Android, Android TV, Google TV, fuscia. They just can't seem to figure out how to own the set top box (which is obviously hard, it took Microsoft forever too and it's still too expensive, where is the $30 Xbox).

Chrome OS and Android are a worse version of ios and macos.
Don’t understand the need for a WYSIWYG editor in the first place. It’s not a word processor. The need to add formatting to a Slack message should be rare enough that the WYSIWYG overhead just isn’t worth it.
OpenAI Made One Machine That Could Produce Language
Surely it's at least a different power bill on modern hardware depending on what the hardware is computing, right?
The list of untested yet still "approved" chemicals / additives is endless. The ability to pin point the guilt of causing a disease on any one of them is nearly impossible.
Dude it's time for you to find a new job. I understand the meeting. Every place I worked either had them or started soon after I started. Programmers tend to get in later and later and eventually production starts to suffer. But losing 50% pay is not acceptable. Also they are monopolizing too much of your time. You can do better and should move on.
FWIW, I’m in the same boat. Something got mixed up on the backend and they gave me two downvote buttons by mistake.
Doubling their market share is big.

I have also been appreciating their products lately: Play Books and Movies, the Google iOS app that does a good job of showing my article that interests me, and until I retired (just writing now) I really always preferred Google Cloud over AWS. Even with potential privacy issues, YouTube, GMail, and Calendar are also good.

In the past have been I have been a vocal supporter of FSF (still am, but...) but I look at the world situation now with people in China quickly losing freedoms but excelling in AI and other tech, here in the USA corporate fascism is unstoppable. With the political problems around the globe getting crazier and with chaotic climate change, I think now that people in different countries should do two things: embrace their own culture and values, and to do what they can to make their countries competitive in AI and other tech, especially tech that will help with climate change and generally increase productivity. Those on top will get bigger and bigger pieces of the pie, so we better grow the pie rapidly so regular peoples’ share is sufficient for a good life.
Or Signal, or Skype.
YouTube and Gmail are massive social networks.
But they didn't actually get the $700 they refunded it, along with spending who knows how many support hours along the way.

Maybe there enough people out there who don't notice a $700 overage to offset that, but it seems like there would at least be a visible decrease in support costs if they had a better system.
Never going to happen. The humanities would have to be capable of returning to having a neutral viewpoint on topics instead of producing rhetorical frameworks for social politics.
I'm not the person you responded to, but as far as tagging strategy goes, here's a starting point.
https://www.finops.org/blog/finops-tagging-automation-strate...

The entire FinOps foundation is good for cloud finance management - I believe the author of that post has an O'Reilly book coming out this month on the subject also.
The cost of freezing eggs is pretty small compared to tech salaries though, so if women's instincts are telling them not to go into tech because they need to hurry up and have kids, those instincts are out of date wrt what modern medicine can do.
Furman was a poorly decided disaster that, because courts can't backtrack, led to the weird Gregg regime.

This is simply not a matter for the judiciary to decide; by trying in Furman, SCOTUS bequeathed to us a legal disaster zone that jurisprudence has been working around ever since. In any event, Furman jurisprudence makes no reference to guilt or innocence.

Abolishing the death penalty is the domain of the people through the legislature. Get a bill passed.
> Don’t buy the WiFi package

I've been on two cruises, and in both cases, the WiFi was ridiculously expensive. Like...$1.00/minute expensive.

Which makes no sense that they'd charge per minute and not per megabyte.

Even the WiFi package didn't mean you got unlimited WiFi, it just got you a bulk discount on minutes.
Yeah from my limited view when I was there as an L4, Google felt very much run by a weird network of politics and some bureaucracy. Mid-high level VPs seemed like they controlled things a lot more than real higher-ups.

I think this can be... interesting? Trying to give more power and autonomy to individual teams is nice (there were some efforts that tried explicitly to map things to some kind of free market model). Sometimes higher-ups would be like "hey we're all gonna migrate to technology X" but individual teams were like "lol nah the new thing sucks" and keep using it and nothing really ever happened. But I think that attitude also kinda opened the door for a large political/influence market. And there's not _real_ market pressures on individual teams that I think tend to keep the actual free market a little closer to ground truth.

This all reminds me of a critique I'd heard of flat organizations, which is that all groups of people are going to have power structures, and by not formalizing them, all you're doing is allowing them to opaquely evolve in strange ways on their own.

I really wish that someone could study internal Google politics and actually understand it and map it all out.
Also it's a lot easier to justify side projects that improves tooling and infrastructure when you have billions in funding and not just millions. For smaller shops, the usual answer is to try RL on existing procedural gen games e.g. Minecraft.
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https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...

We still have very little understanding of the human brain- but we understand enough to know that women and men are different.

The theory of evolution also provides strong support for this idea. Women and men have had different selection criteria, and therefore have evolved differences.
In the article they talk about more women in tech in India than in US. India is a highly sexist society having a male child is preferred over having a female child. Still more females are in CS than in a more egalitarian society like US. I think it is because there are less economic choices in India.

So if you are going to college in India you will choose a subject that makes more economic sense. Even if that means studying a subject that you don't like that much. When there is freedom to choose profession without economic constraints people will choose subject that interests them the most.

Edit: I might be downvoted for last sentence.
I feel like this is the crux of the matter. You could easily get 32 people on this site to volunteer 1 TB each, if it were just cold storage. However, making those resources accessible and searchable (with all the pitfalls of compliance, uptime, legality, etc) is a totally different ballgame.

Encrypted shards partially solves this, but then you hit the quandry of "But what if I have a shard of something illegal or undesired enough to upset the wrong people?" which has not been thoroughly tested in our legal system.
Wondering if this would be a good Lambda application. Assuming boto3 allows it, you could have a Lambda function poll for this up to every minute. It actually might be a trivial function to write.
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There's also a cultural issue driving this that starts with programming gender and biases into kids at or before birth. It is driven, in part, by common confusions between gender, biological sex, and genitals. My partner and I didn't know what our child's genitalia was until 20+ minutes after birth. We witnessed so much unconscious (and conscious!) gendering from people throughout pregnancy and labor we decided to not share what's between our kid's legs with people. They only just turned one, so we're not sure about how this will affect them. We're doing a considerable amount of work to counter cultural programming in the hopes of raising an empowered person in such a traumatizing and disempowering world. We're planning on homeschooling them in order to focus on learning how to learn what they choose in an environment without bonds to capitalism to limit the impact of that hot mess of programming, too.

This is a collective issue and will generate pipeline issues until we collectively get our cultural programming shit together.

I think we need to collectively focus on modeling culture through the lenses of category theory and computer science, ie. maths of relationships and programming.
Yes, but the issue is how likely is an arbitrary person interested in being a programmer but lacking a degree going to be able to self-teach the vast amounts of information needed to be productive as a modern developer? I wager it is very unlikely. Those who do follow the self-taught route are 1) unusually smart and/or self-motivated or 2) got into the field when there were fewer moving parts and so self-teaching had a much smaller learning curve, then they simply matured with the field. After all the field circa 2000 looks vastly different than it does circa 2019.

The value of a degree is less the information it teaches, and more as a filter for people who are unusually smart and/or self-motivated. Those people coming with the requisite CS theory is merely a bonus.
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I get your drift on mines, and tobacco after 1960 is pretty clear even if users were mostly aware, but lead was the best additive for oil base paints out there, and few issues exist if you don't actively eat it. It is still used in much paint worldwide, and in mast art paints. Even abspestos is still being produced, and to a small extent, sold in the usa. Both are still only illegal to use in certain circumstances, although nearly defacto banned thanks to very successful civil mesotheiloma and lead exposure litigation.
100% agreed on the suffering caused. Separating the rising cost and the restrictions can be done.

Socialized, single payer, gov mandated caps, etc etc. There are lots of options. Each come with their own poisons, but far more effective in terms of overall coverage than what we have available in America without material change to the restrictions.
re: 3. We have an optimized S3 client as part of this release - https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/data#data-in-s-3-metaflow...
> then wouldn't back down from it for a week

The rollout happened over multiple weeks, no? I know it was multiple weeks between I first saw it on any slack and it was on all of my slacks anyway.

The outcry was “ignored” (or rather, “we know what’s best” attitude) for about a week though.
> Why do we place the blame and assign malice of intent to those who have little control over the constraints?

Because 1) there is a feedback loop that does show that having role models at the end of the pipeline does help the entire pipeline. 2) It is easier than restructuring the entire pipeline than admitting that it is a societal problem rather than big bad Google being sexist (I'm not saying Google isn't sexist).

This is kind of a pattern in problems that don't have smoking guns. We like to pretend that things are first order problems (problem causes an effect, directly) when most problems are pretty high order and complex. First order problems are usually easier to solve because they have a clear smoking gun. You take care of the bad person that fired the gun and the problem is solved. I actually suspect that this is an evolutionary problem, being that most of our early problems could be approximated by first or second order and thus increase our survival rate. I'm also pretty convinced that we've solved most of those now, and thus that line of thinking doesn't work for modern problems.

But for part 1), if you have the flu, tissues help. They don't cure the flu, but they help you from preventing the spread and alleviate the symptoms. So if you take my preposition about first order problems, I don't think it is hard to see why people would get stuck at that stage. Essentially "we did something and it had a positive effect. So let's keep doing that thing!" That's not bad logic. You admit that they do have __a little__ control over the constraints, so it isn't surprising that they have __a little__ impact. The failure is not continuing to look for more potential solutions and stagnating. Just need to do some PCA, find the other factors, and push on those (as well as what we've already found to have positive effects). But this is much easier said than done, and I think that is part of the problem. Difficult problems are tautologically difficult, but we as a society like to pretend there are simple solutions (come on, admit it, you do this too).

So why do we do this? Well, how many people do you know break down complex problems into multiple components? I know very few, and even then they don't consistently do it.

> If we put actual performance metrics and pay on the line for achieving these physically unattainable goals, everyone would be fired.

I'd argue that they would just start cheating. Which I think that there is evidence that this is happening (some being given in this article).
OSHA says....

Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for asbestos is 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter of air as an eight-hour time-weighted average (TWA), with an excursion limit (EL) of 1.0 asbestos fibers per cubic centimeter over a 30-minute period. The employer must ensure that no one is exposed above these limits.
Obviously with proper marketing you can target the niche.

There are more than enough women interested in computing to make up 50% of a tiny school's program. There aren't nearly enough women interested in computing to make up 50% of the market.
By that account isn't Rust then a modern dialect of C++ and Go of C?
I love my safety razor. It is a vastly cheaper system. Buy one nice mercur razor and all the other consumables are laughably cheap.
Shadowrun (videogames) is also trademarked by Microsoft. Does adding one of their fictional companies make it some twisted form of recursion? :)