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On measuring things - I prefer going in the opposite direction and weighing even where it's unconventional.

I have a Melitta funnel for making single servings of coffee, but when I'm using it I can't see how full my mug is without lifting up, and they are mostly opaque, and the funnel doesn't hold a full mug's worth of water. So I started putting my mug, funnel, filter, and coffee on a digital scale with tare, and remembering how much each size holds in dry ounces. It avoids the situation in which I'm waiting for the water to run out to make sure it won't overflow; I just pour until I hit the right weight and then go do something else until it's done.
Ask HN: Faamng-type IC vs. generic BigCo Director
I've got a good dilemma going. Background: I was first employee turned CTO at a startup that exited. We did ok. Not great, but not bad either. I left the acquirer after a year or so, making sure my team and our tech was taken care of and since then I've done some contract work while I looked for something permanent. COVID extended the contract work a bit but happily I'm now looking at two competing offers.

One is from a FAAMNG type company for a high level IC developer position. The total comp is good, and I can probably negotiate it up a little higher.

Two is from a Fortune 50 company that is trying to get part of their tech in order. Its for a 2nd level engineering manager supporting several teams and few dozen people. The total comp is in the same ballpark as the FAAMNG-type, but its less, and the RSU component is unlikely to have as much upside since its not directly tech.

I still have the chops to be an IC, and have cranked out a lot of good code while doing contract work, but I'm wary of taking on a full-time IC role and having to break the management barrier again (which feels like it could be especially difficult in our new remote-everything world).

"leadership" roles are definitely where I want to be going forward, and it is something I think I'm fairly good at. But I've found in my current search that FAAMNG-types don't seem to care much for startup experience in management roles. Maybe heading up larger teams at Fortune 50's look a little better and can demand better comp'd positions in the future because of it? It seems like promoted from IC to a 2nd level manager anywhere is a big challenge.

Have any of you been in a similar situation and care to share your thought process?
If they really needed a user ID, just have account holders create a username after the Apple sign-in flow. Most people have a go-to username, and those are easy enough to remember and give to a support associate.
Fair enough, but just as I don't buy the narrow technicalities from my own country..
it depends on the problem domain. when working on say a desktop app with graphical ui features it can be very useful to be able to change/experiment quickly.

with an n tier web application you wont often be able to do that anyway.
While there are probably examples of that, I find it unlikely that the general use of the "far right" would capture 40% of people very unlikely.
Someone else mentioned what I'm defining more succinctly as "prejudice+power".
Lol I can't even tell if you're being satirical or not
That's something that bugged me about the article because it sounds like they do fallback to an "invite link" pattern when they don't know an email address, but it sounds like they've spent most of their UX optimization work on flowing people most directly from invite links into "Create Account" that they don't trust users not to create new accounts on receiving an invite link. (Maybe just stop assuming that people receiving invite links don't already have accounts and instead better your UX flows for existing users?)

(ETA: They make an okay follow up point that someone accepting an invite link sent to a different email sends a signal that they could just go ahead and link that email address directly to the account, and don't see why you wouldn't just give them that email in the first place. But in addition to being a squicky privacy faux pas to automatically link any email to an account without direct user consent, there are plenty of reasons to send emails to an address only indirectly linked to a person and/or that a user would not feel comfortable directly linking to an account. It's a somewhat flimsy argument below the surface, I think.)
All the leet roadies are running 25mm tires now. You get jibed for running 23's on an older bike with brakes that don't open enough.
Flat earthers don't have the effect that their viewers go around shooting people.

Far-right content creators on the other hand enable terrorists like the Christchurch perpetrator.
Coca-Cola is widely admired for its marketing prowess. If they make a marketing decision, like pulling ads from Facebook, that’s something that a lot of other marketers will be noticing.
Marx amended the manifesto shortly after the Paris Commune and said that seizing the state is not a good idea, and that instead one should try to build a society with as small government as possible using principles of direct democracy.

He said this because for him the Paris Commune was proof that initiating socialism is possible without State power. Since he profoundly disliked the State, he thought that it was better to abolish the state and instead implement a government of direct democracy and freedom.

Lenin, although he had read this and agreed with this anti-statist assessment, judged that it was not possible to implement such a strategy in Russia, because Russia was too big to rule coordinately in such a way, not in size of population, but in physical size and disparity. This was not necessarily an issue, but given the war that was raging at the time he decided that it was too risky to fragment the country at that point. He was also expecting that the rest of the world would see socialist revolutions, which was not unexpected at the time, but this was very optimistic. Since that did not happen, the state of the Russian Empire was maintained. This was, obviously, a huge mistake. He realized as much later, but did not see a way to fix that issue immediately. As he was making plans to prevent Stalin from taking power however, he unexpectedly died of a stroke at a very young age. All in all, Lenin, in the founding of the USSR made a series of mistakes that were so obvious that he eventually realized them. If he would have attempted to rectify them is an open and unanswerable question.

The conclusion from all of this, that most socialists realize nowadays, is that attempting to install an autocratic Leninist state is a huge mistake. This is why most modern socialist experiments have been centered around libertarian socialism, that attempts to implement the ideas that Marx was persuaded by after the Paris Commune.

In conclusion, you should read Marx's preface to the communist manifesto, in which he makes the points I have made above and warns against following the manifesto, claiming that history has proven him wrong and that it should not be considered as anything more than a vestigial document of nothing but historical interest.

He also warns that his ideas on how to implement a socialist society are, unlike his analysis of capitalism, nothing more than suggestions and that one should let them be empirically proven or disproven.
A lot of the premise of the big city trips is that you have money but no time, so you plan an expensive "weekend getaway" that crams in more experiences, which necessarily means going to a city like Tokyo or Paris or a luxury resort hotel in Hawaii or Dubai. In the coming years it's far more likely to be the opposite: Time but no money means you go on a backpacking or camping trip, or if you want more man-made thrills, the nearby amusement park or zoo, local concerts and theaters. But there's a broader shift in store, and I think that's the real point being made.

Overtourism of big destinations is not likely to end altogether, but the validity of their worth is premised on broader cultural narratives about what to venerate, what to be seen upholding, and that's bound to change as society does. In the past tourism served a purpose of exporting ideas about how to live: ideas about food, fashion, lifestyle could only truly be experienced by being there. Unusual merchandise could only be found where there was a center of trade. But as we live online more, exchange more of our goods by mail, a global city is, in effect, always with us, independent of the built infrastructure. And we hit a forcing function for moving in that direction by shutting down so much of the physical economy.
A large portion of Forbes reporting on Apple can be classified as such.
This is a war between apps and platforms on who gets direct access to customers.
There's a long career ahead of you, and if you ever work at a large company, or even if your startup grows so that its backend needs to really scale, chances are you will be using Java. Its combination of performance, productivity and observability is hard to beat. Many companies start off with some other platform and then adopt it as they grow.
https://aapsonline.org/preliminary-injunction-sought-to-rele...

more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23405435

and: https://defyccc.com/another-junk-anti-hydroxychloroquine-stu...
hmm google or the ccp. Take your pick!
How does this compare with the behavior of other social media apps?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01824-5

"The [steroid] drugs suppress the immune system, which could provide some relief for patients whose lungs are ravaged by an overactive immune response that sometimes manifests in severe cases of COVID-19. But such patients may still need a fully functioning immune system to fend off the virus itself."

"no effect on mild infections"

Basically if taken too early it does the wrong action, but it helps some of those already on oxygen. And it's cheap.
I assume you are talking about Israel? There are quite a few countries that fit this description however.
Oh, I was not complaining:) I do not have a nanny neither want one. I clean my own shit. I was just observing. Nanny's salary is based on supply/demand. Until government interferes with Covid payments. When payments stop, nannies will go back to work. And, you are right, I believe that idling on Covid handouts is a waste of time. Any sort of idling is a waste of time.
Thoughts as open tabs
> lodash should just be incorporated into vanilla javascript, as part of its standard library

That's already happening. More and more of lodash/underscore/etc's functions are being introduced to Array/Object/String APIs.

https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Unders...
With three ball, you may have a collision with a ball as it is coming out of your hand. This is an exchange. It really isn't a problem that you have one up in the air and you're hitting it. If that's happening, it's a matter of throwing too soon, not pattern accuracy.

Three ball has a simple exchange on both sides that can be extremely slow. Five ball demands accuracy with respect to the pattern in the air. There is no "pattern" in the air with three ball outside the exchange -- it is a single ball while the hand each hold one as well. Five ball has a minimum of 3 in the air and each ball will have to pass between two others from the other side, requiring accuracy and timing not needed in three ball.
There’s something about the physical manifestation of a catalogue that’s very enticing.

I would say browsing a magazine rack, a book store, a VHS store, a clothes rack are all much more engaging than online. Could VR help here?
Not an entire viewpoint. I am purely talking about the organization that is the KKK. I know that white nationalism cannot be declared illegal.
If UBI is comparable with salary, many people will quit and live on handouts. If UBI is a fraction of salary, what is the point?
Gumroad has been pretty solid for all things I've tried. They have subscriptions, which is not exactly Patreon, but essentially the same kind of thing (recurrent payments).
Indeed, let's imagine. I'm guessing that the increase in seller revenue and decrease in consumer price would sum to... somewhere between two and five percent.

No one cares about numbers like that. That's way, way below the convenience threshold for a typical consumer. Most of us, me included, would rather pay an extra 3.5% than fiddle with deciding on which card to use.

Which is to say: the market has spoken. We've settled on the duopoly not because it's a trap but because it actually maximizes utility. The uniform convenience of "credit cards just work" has quantifiable economic value. And it turns out to be somewhere around 2-5% of the transaction.
This argument can be used to ban all foreign press. It's nonsense, but unfortunately common in 2020.
Wow, I just road ride for leisure on my own, don't know any racers/university types, and my tires are 5 years old 19mm on an old carbon frame. I'm way out of current trends.
That assumes plenty of time to think about what happened and formulate the best response. That's rarely possible in the roughly 1200 milliseconds available for a timely reply to a perceived insult.

I think I'd only be able to do that if I'd had the same conversation previously. Come to think of it, sounds like just about every tech interview I've ever had.
> Is it righteous for those in well paying and value generating jobs to stop working just because they'd be more interested in going after more leisurely activities?

Is it right to say that developing a video game is "leisurely"? Isn't the game development industry notorius for long hours, stress and endless crunch time? Is it righteous for those in well paying and value generating jobs to avoid going for even more well paying jobs?

> An indie game developer who makes no money is likely simply producing nothing of value to anyone but themselves.

You take the same view with all FOSS software volunteer work, and all non-profit/volunteer/charity work generally?

What about a subsistence farmer who lives to grow food and eat it, are they "simply producing nothing of value to anyone but themselves"? Yes. Is that necessarily a problem?
> Eventually I would like to add integrations back in

I might be missing the big picture, but wouldn't log-in with oauth[0] solve integration problem and removed impediment from new users coming in? Also, if you do not mind, which algo do you use to find matches?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OAuth_providers

Edit: formatting
CC rewards seem like a indirect regressive tax. Wealthier consumers who can afford to pay on time and have better credit ratings are subsidized by poor consumers who actually use the "credit" part of "credit card".
Five Word Jargon
You're right. I was more pointing out that "people knew" before hand that a ban was coming, which means other platforms/groups knew about it and so could have prepared for it. If anything that's less of an argument that it's coordinated and more an argument that they're piling on after seeing one platform do it.
Congratulations, now all of your email goes to a single different email address; your tracking profile is now associated with randomstring@email instead of john.doe@email.

If you wanted something truly private you could create an account at a provider like Fastmail or ProtonMail and create an alias for each account (or just wildcard a custom domain until you need to send from an address). I doubt any tracking system is based on the domain in your email address... not yet, at least.
That is common. My grocery store, my bodega, my doctor's office, my dentist -- they all offer a 5% discount for paying in cash.

Obviously not everyone does it, but it's certainly not uncommon.

On the other hand, there are also a lot of costs associated with handling cash. The expense of tracking bills and coins and going to the bank every day is not insignificant. So it's pretty easy to argue that there's no reason for cash discounts either, because handling cash can actually be more expensive than handling cards, particularly when you're doing it for only 5 or 10 percent of customers.
You've Nailed Incident detection, what about Incident Resolution?
>B) If the "western world" is the bar, the bar is low.

And yet China manages to fail this low bar stunningly. To the point that they are running actual concentration camps for Muslims. Something no Western government has done, and the last one to do finished paying reparations to the victims 4 years ago, 70 years after it happened.
I use my Amex regularly. Can you explain how it’s worse?
Is any of these studies using Zinc? We know that a lot of people have both Vitamin D and Zinc deficiency. How HCQ works is to transport the Zinc into the cell so that Zinc can stop the RNA replication. (I’m a layman here, but it’s what I’ve managed to understand after deliberate research)

Thus, HCQ without Zinc is like using a bucket but forgetting the water to stop the fire. Just throwing buckets at the fire isn’t gonna work much when there’s no water in the bucket.

Have a look at this [1] studies that shows around a 9% less mortality when treated with Zinc and a even more when treated EARLY with HCQ PLUS Zinc. (Please take a look at the numbers in the last table, it’s very clear that HCQ + Zinc reduces mortality)

[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v...
From that link:

"AAPS files with the court a chart showing how countries that encourage HCQ use, such as South Korea, India, Turkey, Russia, and Israel, have been far more successful in combatting COVID-19 than countries that have banned or discouraged early HCQ use, as the FDA has."

However: that chart is totally misleading, it's a typical "non sequitur". "Case fatality rate" is just a ratio "death" through "cases". Where those with weaker symptoms are recognized as "cases" the rate is lower. How they are recognized is not the same across different countries.
My team is in the middle of implementing keycloak. Some of the more advanced use cases have been difficult, strictly due to the patchy documentation.
> It shouldn’t have been Mike’s job to teach me. However grateful I am to him and other patient friends and colleagues over the years who have educated me where I previously felt I needed no education, people of color should not be responsible for teaching ignorant white people how ignorant we are. And, trust me, we are all ignorant.

No, you're ignorant for being naive to reality and not straying outside of your bubble. I think it's a bit unfair to pretend to be a spokesperson for an entire race of people and act like you're the only "enlightened" person out there. When people say "I don't see color" it is meant to say they don't discriminate against others based on color of skin, which is the right thing to do. It has nothing to do with not being able to see the plight of others in this society. If you needed a class to teach you that, then your priorities are completely out of whack.
I was not trying to suggest defeatism, just sick of hearing voting in the current system as a reasonable response to anything. Not saying don't vote, just saying stop suggesting it's the way to fix specific problems. Voting probably won't fix most problems.

Absolutely, one of the big systemic changes we need to effect is a switch to ranked choice voting. There are several other significant changes to the US's voting system that would also be needed. Things like a complete elimination of voting machines, and honestly a full switch to vote-by-mail would probably help.

Of course, the voting system in this country isn't even the biggest problem, some how. Things need to change before next election, not in a few election cycles.
I recently saw youtube video on that called the cardboard box reform. It caught my eye because I hadn't heard anyone talking about it, but it really makes sense. I don't know how you sell less transparency to the public though.
"but probably not bad for Americans"

That is scary.
It would be interesting to see Tiktok's usage chart today
I guess internet media companies are eager to sort out bugs prior to the 2020 election campaign chaos fueled by interference from foreign political allies
It is rather unusual, honestly. Even Venmo uses just an app-specific name. That's probably a lesson in product design: have your own usernames.
The loss of what.cd still saddens me every time I see it mentioned.
I was feeling quite calm.

I'm not talking about payment processors so much as the degree to which people feel "either" when they could feel "both."

Divisiveness is quite rampant, and I think the language we use (or don't use) has an effect.

ie "Forget Google" -> why not both?
Something like LyX for Markdown? I'd be surprised if it didn't exist yet.
I know this. The KKK, or at least a great many chapters, is an organization that helped coordinate crime. By this, I mean that hierarchical members of the KKK organized criminal acts to be perpetrated by other members of the organization in their hierarchical control. The KKK was 100% a criminal organization that could have been prosectured using RICO. It would not even have been the only overtly political group where this would have been done.
Good.

Free societies should be completely isolated from societies without remotely the same liberties, human rights or sense of ethics.

If you make money off a country because it permits its workers to be enslaved and paid a pittance, you both support the ongoing enslavement AND reward the leaders of that country. This is a devils' tradeoff.
I spend so much of my time doing an invisible facepalm over dogma that developers believe, but can't ever justify why. It's always stuff that sounds sensible, but the lack of nuance makes them so destructive in practise. Whether it's "I try not to make my classes go over 250 lines", "make a function do exactly one thing well" (nothing does only one thing! bonus points for mentioning the "unix philosophy"), "functions with a cyclomatic complexity over x should be split up" (thanks, you've just made my analysis of this code n^2 times harder).

Meanwhile I count the days go by as people fight with linters and otherwise muddy git history trying to achieve an "A" "code quality" score. It's amazing people are paid to do this.
>Trust in the government is at an all time high.
Just to clarify you mean trust in the government to handle the pandemic right?
Another way to possibly get better accuracy is to pump the tyres to several different pressures, and for each pressure, re-measure the tyre contact surface.

From there, you could then simply average out the results - or better still, the data would help you reason about the pressure<->area relationship. Just going by the P=F/A formula, pressure should be inversely proportional to area, but people have pointed out things like the tyre sidewall stiffness will affect this. Taking several pressure<->area measurements would help you reason about this - perhaps the sidewall means P = F/A + x, and with multiple datapoints, 'x' can be calculated.
It's a good read, just take it with a good dose of healthy skepticism.
> Racism? Where?

Fascists famously accused foreigners of promoting "degeneracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art. Parent poster used this term with the exact same meaning and intention.
Yes, obviously, long term intense military conflict between nuclear powers leads in incredible security.

While both countries engage in Sabre rattling, its inconceivable that there would be an arms race of the kind that would cause a significant change in the stock price of defense contractors.

A more likely scenario is the upcoming Biden administration steps in and bullies China and/or India into backing down. The hollowing out of the US State department has probably been one of the most underappreciated casualties of the Trump administration.