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WHAT IS INTERCOM?
Intercom is the world’s #1 business messenger and more.

Whether our customers want to do more with less by leaning on our 100+ apps, we help out customers’ customers self serve with articles and chat bots, or target chat to specific segments Intercom is customer messaging that fits their business. Intercom is also the best team inbox for sales and support AND the leading choice for targeted outbound messages that deliver. Valued at over $1bn, Intercom has been ranked among the best on the Crunchbase unicorn leaderboard since 2018. In our 8 year history, we’ve built world class sales, marketing and R&D functions, and published a number of books along the way (https://www.intercom.com/books).

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK FOR INTERCOM?
Our culture is open and friendly and inclusive - and this is something we are proud of. We are optimistic, passionate and positive. We like people who can stay focused and work hard and who are confident, yet kind and humble. We like to experiment, sometimes inventing things for the first time, but we stay pragmatic, starting small and simple in everything we do. We love people who genuinely want to learn and grow and take bets on high potential engineers on rapid trajectories.

We’re opinionated by default, for example we run LESS software (https://www.intercom.com/blog/run-less-software/) and ship continuously (https://www.intercom.com/blog/shipping-is-your-companys-hear...). We’re technically conservative and like to keep it simple (https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos /build-boring-software/), but where it means building better products we’ll double down on new technology like machine learning (https://www.intercom.com/ blog/podcasts/intercom-fergal-reid-ai-machine-learning/) in a pragmatic way.

TECH: Ruby on Rails application with an Ember.js frontend. We use MySQL, MongoDB and Amazon’s DynamoDB for most of our storage. Our web messenger is built on React.

Questions? Want a chat? Get in touch at https://intercom.engineering/ or check out our blog: https://www.intercom.com/blog/engineering/
At some point, and there are arguments to be made that this point was 'After World War II', industry is capable of producing far more products than the public actually needs. You take out children, the elderly, stay at home parents, and the average person is productive for maybe a third of a lifetime, so being able to produce enough for 3 people is actually necessary.

What happens when you can produce enough for ten? What do the other 70% of people do? Make products nobody actually needs, using up raw materials. That's what we've done since the War and we decry all the waste. You can't have it both ways.

What happens when you can produce enough for 15? 20? 100? In theory that means leisure time in heaps for everyone. In practice we don't have societal structures that actually allow that to happen. You will not receive a week's pay for 6 hours of work. You will not be accepted by your neighbors and peers for working 6 hours a week. Or zero.

You're meant to be doing something. We enforce this with microaggressions on people we've literally just met.
They know how to make the old equipment. Buyers with enough cash to buy new equipment don't want it. They get warranty and they want all the fancy electronic features on the modern stuff. Deere know what they are doing.
I don't think investing in shares is zero-sum. Day trading might be, but so far most people win in long term investment.
> My thought after reading the article was that the author seemed to consider writing good code, maintainable code, and having a strategy prioritizing long term over short term needs as moral imperatives. Or at least the words and terms used were ones I often hear and use when discussing ethics and morals.

I don't think the article's author said this. In my eyes he meant it more like "at least give us SOME breathing room to do our best engineering work!" -- meaning give some time for refactors, for changing tooling, for stepping back for 1-2 months and just looking at the whole thing in general.

Creativity needs time for pondering and reflection. Chasing ruthless and practically impossible deadlines while having to systemically ignore everything that made you a good engineer in the first place makes for a toxic employee<->employer relationship. And one that rarely ends well.
Yeah. For example, I don't find Veggietales to be family friendly. Its a minority opinion, but I can't get it removed from my kids profiles. So now I have to talk to my children, ugh.
No, it's California's rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine

> The public trust doctrine is the principle that the sovereign holds in trust for public use some resources such as shoreline between the high and low tide lines, regardless of private property ownership

California - the sovereign - holds the property rights. It must use the property rights for the benefit of the public, but like any other trustee it is the legal owner of the property and what is to the public "benefit" is substantially within its discretion.
It's talking about consumer spending, which would affect business profits potentially but not business valuations directly.
How do you reckon the impact of climate change is marginal?
I'm not sure that would help with organized brigading campaigns like this. In the Internet age, one person with the book could supply answers to these questions for hundreds of people posting fake reviews with only a nominal investment of time.
HOORAY ! SEND THAT F____k__R to the bottom of the ocean for crabs to dine on . . . .
The company I work for has unlimited PTO and I really enjoy it. Even if I don't use significantly more than if I had a set number of days, I really appreciate having the peace of mind that comes with it. I don't have to worry about running out of days by the end of the year or rationing my days to accommodate a long future vacation.

I've had a week-long vacation planned for almost a year now that is coming up later this month. I also recently found out that my entire immediate family, who are all spread across the country, have a week period in February where we would all be able to get together for the first time in years. So I am taking another 8 day vacation three weeks after my first one. I don't think that would be possible without unlimited PTO.

I think it really depends on the company. I am sure the stories are true that companies use unlimited as a way to guilt people into not taking vacation, but it sounds like you found a place where that's not the case. As long as the company culture is there, unlimited PTO is definitely a nice perk to have.
Trimble GPS receivers go for around $10k (USD) [0], so I'm not surprised farmers try to build their own devices. Here's one who built an RTK GPS system out of a Raspberry Pi (and various other parts) for £250: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwxpo04AC5Q

0 - https://trimble-exchange.com/store/item/used-trimble-r10-gns...
AMD’s 64-core Threadripper CPU will cost nearly $4k for high-end performance
Google search suggests the title of that page began with "Quitting alcohol may improve mental well-being, health ...", which leads to pages like [1] with the same title from around the same date.

[1]: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/ji-qam070319...
My exact thought was "Yaye for science!" I love that science has self-correction built into its core.
Unknown, but unlikely in relevant time scales. The fires have been much larger and hotter than typical. The vegetation that does regrow probably wont be the same as we lost, ie pyrophillic scrubland replacing forrest. The fires are also destructive enough to destroy pyrophytic plants that would resist previous bushfires. Both of these are going to disrupt the regrowth of the ecosystem in unexpected/abnormal ways. Concern is that it leads to a long term cycle of more, hotter, larger fires and permanent habitat loss.

Edit: as a comparison I was just out on the tasman penninsula which burned in 2013. It was doing well enough, with medium sized trees and full ground cover.
If you are interested in the FCC law/regs that brought about this change then check out Legal Eagle's video covering the subject. Very detailed and well presented, makes it clear that YT's hands are pretty tied on this matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Q48dwopVU
Do you guys seriously put your kids on an account with credit card access? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
> Wouldn't the much better gift be to take them out for a meal at their favorite restaurant?

You're thinking of gifts for local friends/relatives. Think of your grandmother who lives 5000 miles away and has never been on a plane. Can she take you out to eat on a whim? No. But she can connive to get you to take yourself out to eat, and think of her as you do so, making you perhaps a little more likely to take a 5000-mile flight to visit her one day. This is the use-case that gift-cards serve.
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I would imagine Google's legal team would answer that with a resounding "yes."
Initially yes, but through consolidation they will form 2 or 3 huge megacorps that control our food supply. It won't be pretty.
Yes, but it will be 100% of a very short tenure.
I guess we're not going to get an answer...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737742
He's offered at greatly inflated cost. $30M for a small strip of land when the entire property was purchased for $32M.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0424-lopez-kh...
Harvard Psychiatrist talks to streamer about video game addiction
I think it's more HN related than something else.
Spot on. The immune system is a classifier. So it makes sense autoimmunity, in general, is a classification problem (triggered by infections or commensal dysbiosis).

Occam's razor favors this simpler hypothesis, and there's some convincing evidence out there in top journals. See introduction in this recent preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.18.881433v1 and other references in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21917884.

To elaborate a bit further on the first paper, our own commensal bacteria mimic important proteins to avoid being recognized as invaders by the immune system. The immune system has probably evolved to use this commensal mimicry to update its beliefs after an infection sort of how an online classifier does and re-establish equilibrium.

Dybiosis, disrupting your commensals, can throw this system out of balance and trigger autoimmunity. This can also happen because of an infection.
If I WERE going to assume motivations, I would put it more like "They have SoftBank and the Vision Fund on a death watch ever since WeWork."
The reporting on this topic (especially headlines) has been generally quite poor. You really have to dig in to understand what is going on. See this cousin comment for details on how he has won on most of the merits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21974524
> Russia, for example, has half the GDP of France.

Only in nominal terms. Russia's economy is 50% larger in PPP terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

We can argue about nominal vs PPP forever, but I think people should be aware of both.

> Denying a technology to Russia is effective because the relative price to Russia to work around technology restrictions is much higher.

Sanctions for countries like Russia and China are more of a nuisance than anything. It just means they have to pay a little bit more to buy/steal/access the technology.

For example, China had to pay extra to get israel to give them military tech denied to them by the US.

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israe...

Countries like Russia and China have money, technology or political favors ( both are permanent security council members with veto power ) that they can trade with our enemies or our allies to gain access to tech.

Of course the US is unsanctionable. The US is the only country in the world where if another country placed sanctions on the US, it would hurt them and not the US.
Precisely. I am wondering if there are some behind-the-scene deals with Intel to put premium stuff only into their laptops or motherboard. Another thing is the latest TRX40 boards have all at most 4 PCIe slots, which is a joke for a workstation. Imagine a 64 core CPU with only 4 PCIe slots... I don't believe in coincidences across all manufacturers, it doesn't make sense to be less competitive.
I mean, if you are logged in, the service already knows who you are.

I guess your public key could get associated with your identity. But the pub key is only sent when you register, I believe. So I can't see how this would be used for tracking.
I think identification of what constitutes kid's content, or content predominantly viewed by people under the legal drinking age if 21, is really borked.

To provide one example of many, my son (under 12) likes a channel Dope or Nope. It's sort of a quick drive-by review of a bunch of products that share a theme, but they are almost always toys, games, or gadgets that skew to a younger audience. And yet it's not uncommon for alcohol-based ads to appear. Which, just, no, not at all okay.

Do YouTubers have any control over this? Or is it purely in the domain of The Algorithm?
Thank you for your perspective. I don't know much about that region of the world and used to view Ukrainian and Russian as basically the same people until I had a Ukranian professor in graduate school.
What are good resources for learning the basics of relational databases, and then learning the more intricate parts of it?
I think you mean Linus Tech Tips (not affiliated with Linux or Linus Torvalds).
The state can simply modify the rules to require access, which seems like one possible outcome of this case.
> Is this a genie that can be bottled back up? Lets say you enact these magical regulations. Will the corporations stick around or will they focus on other countries where they have more clout? Similarly, will they use international levers of pressure to "fix" the issues any one country poses?

If you try to bottle the genie back up, you'll have to work all those levers simultaneously or you'll have the problems you describe. The new set of regulations would also need to curtail the ability of corporations to move to avoid regulations and limit the kinds of political pressure they can apply, for instance. Otherwise it'll be like closing one barn door while leaving the other wide open.

We've gone so far down the road in one direction that we may have to turn around with a shock. It it's probably too late for some kinds of small, incrementalist course corrections to be effective.
As far as I know there were far larger fires in the 1974–1975 fire season but in those days there was no talk of climate change being a driving factor. In that season 45,000,000 hectares burned in Northern Territory, 29,000,000 in Western Australia, 17,000,000 in Southern Australia and 7,500,000 in Queensland. Going even further back to the 'Black Thursday bushfires' in 1851 saw 5,000,000 ha. burn which caused the death of 1 million sheep - there are no numbers on the death toll among wild animals. The source for these data is a report titled 'National Inquiry on Bushfire Mitigation and Management', Appendix D 'Fire history in Australia' on page 339-344 [1].

The current fire season has seen about 6,300,000 ha. burn. A difference between the current season and previous seasons is that these latest fires have affected densely populated areas, including holiday destinations. Another important difference - at least in the amount of attention these fires get - is that there were no celebrities driving the cause in 1974-1975, let alone in 1851.

Your statement that The coal industry is a driving force behind climate change which was the primary cause of the bush fires is not supported by the previously mentioned report which abstract goes as follows: Bushfires are an inherent part of the Australian environment. We cannot prevent them, but we can minimise the risks they pose to life, property and infrastructure, production systems, and the environment. Australia has a large and very capable force of volunteer and career firefighters, advanced firefighting technologies, and significant firefighting resources. But the geographical scale of our country, the large and expanding rural–urban interface, and the potential for rapid bushfire development and spread under adverse weather conditions mean that individual Australians cannot rely solely on fire agencies to protect their lives and property from bushfires. Bushfires have a fundamental and irreplaceable role in sustaining many of Australia’s natural ecosystems and ecological processes and are a valuable tool for achieving land management objectives.However, if they are too frequent or too infrequent, too severe or too mild, or mistimed, they can erode ecosystem health and biodiversity and compromise other land management goals. We have been learning to live with fire since the first Australians arrived on our continent. We need to continue, and enrich, that learning process in contemporary circumstances and be able to adapt our planning and responses to change.This report seeks to help all Australians meet these challenges.

[1] https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&conte...
> in the long term things have reliably gone up

Growth can't last forever in a finite world, so things will start to decline eventually. The question is when...

It's a bit simplistic to argue that because things have gone up until now, they'll keep going up.

The world now is in a very different shape than it was 50 years ago. There are many global indicators that give us better insight than simply stating "tomorrow will be the same as today". Things like global warming, resource depletion...
I'm sure it is in Malibu, too. Unless you're a billionaire...
You are not just "informing that website", but also up to "70 destinations like Google Analytics, Amplitude, Hubspot, Fullstory, Intercom" - including Freshpaint itself. Which can follow you around just as well as any ad service.
I'm building two social networks and you are gonna L-O-V-E them.

> Taaalk (originally launched in 2016)

A place for online publicly available conversations. For example:

i) How to play chess https://web.archive.org/web/20160427044603/http://taaalk.co/...

ii) Value Investing
https://web.archive.org/web/20160427023909/http://taaalk.co/...

> Nerdverse.xyz

A url only social network (a bit like HN, but with more content and discussions with people you know - you're only allowed to talk after you have been introduced to, and accepted by, the owner of the group). All chats are publicly available to read, but you can only participate after an introduction.

Please signup to my beta list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnuDIskbCAabMtGHQd...

Thanks for reading
I wonder if fire damage is linear though.

For example, 1% higher temperatures or 1% less moisture or 1% higher wind might produce more than 1% additional fire damage when one occurs.

There might be a reinforcement effect where a slight change in fire conditions produces much more damage when compounded over the range of the fire.

I'm not sure we know the variables well enough to know the exact amount though.
Hi Jack, just wondering why not use Dlang since it's more stable than Zig and you can use the subset of D as better C if you wish to stay simple?
FWIW I think the counterfactual is not asking what the impact is if Australia stopped emitting greenhouse gases directly, but what the impact would be if it stopped producing coal (for both domestic use and export).

Given Australia is a substantial producer and exporter of coal (responsible for around 7% of global production [1]), and that coal (+ natgas + oil) power generation are responsible for around 30% of global greenhouse gas production [2], and assuming that coal is responsible for between half and all of GHG emissions from power plants [3], you could ballpark that Australian-produced coal is responsible for an incremental 1-2% or so of global greehouse gas emissions (0.3 * 0.07 * [0.5~1]).

[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_Australia
[2]: https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/
[3]: https://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-coal/coal-electricity
Disney Earth
My immediate reaction was “was the caterpillar drive in The Hunt for the Red October a pumpjet?”

Answer, no, that was a Magnetohydrodynamic drive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive

Pretty cool though
As far as I can tell, most "children's content" on YouTube is thinly disguised ads. My nieces watch it, then play pretend "making a video" showing off products and "unboxing", and want to buy the things they see.
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There are very few ways to modify Einstein's Equations and still have them make sense. An easy one is to add a constant term. Such a term is known as the Cosmological Constant, and a positive value for it would result in a constant repulsive force between masses regardless of distance. This results in an accelerating expansion of the entire universe, but, with a supremely small value it only becomes noticeable at large scales, where it starts to dominate attractive gravity. This appears to model what we're observed happening with galaxy clusters.

Dark Energy is a hypothesis for explaining why such a very small cosmological constant might exist, suggesting that the universe is permeated with a constant negative energy field. However, the article refers to observational evidence measuring the expansion of the universe, not dark energy. There is no evidence for dark energy as such, and if you listen to colloquia on cosmology, you will hear about the cosmological constant, not dark energy. It is not necessary to hypothesize the existence of negative energy particles to model what we've observed, and you'll only really hear the term used in the popular press because it sounds sexy.
This is mostly nonsense.

eg : "If you talk to most surgeons, they would think of it as ‘what you cut through'"

Surgeons actively use fascia to ease peeling off one structure of the other. They actively use fascia as conduit from an incision to deeper parts of the body; literally, to stick a hand in.

Eg: most of the article uses the term "fascia" in away akin to an "organ", i.e.: "fascia is everywhere".

That means the author did not fully grasp the concept (if at all).

Think of "fascia" (plural) as "sheets". You have many such "sheets" in your body.
(I know that term and this concept were mentioned in the article; but not in away that conveyed a useful or fully correct understanding).

The existence of fascia has long since been known. Testut and Latarjet extensively described fascial anatomy... in the end of the 18th century!

Fascia are known pathways for spread of disease.
Fascia cause compartment-syndrome in limbs.

etc.

It's fascianating :-) how this is now described as something new and almost magical...
Another excellent aspect of why YouTube needs humans to curate kids content. This never happens on network TV because there is always a human gatekeeper.

YouTube needs to learn that you can't run your entire business on machine learning when it comes to kids.

Machine learning is a tool, but they need to use it appropriately to enhance the humans, not replace them.