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> It seems that what happened is they didn't so much as glance at the pitch deck when "Nerissa Zhang" sent it to them. But then did when "James Zhang" sent them the same deck.

You're right, that's exactly what they did, because many of them knew him. They were from his contact list. I respond to basically every email from people I know, even if I think it's stupid. Emails from random people have to pass a much higher bar to get a response, and low-effort ideas with fraudulent reviews aren't going to clear that bar.

I used to be a freelancer. People would constantly ask me to build "the next Google" or "Facebook for X" that would assuredly make us both billionaires. I learned not to give them the time of day. If a friend or successful colleague did the same, I would respond out of courtesy if nothing else. If I really respected them I'd even entertain the possibility that I was wrong about their idea and hear them out.

There are some very obvious innocent explanations for this situation, but you seem to want it to be an instance of bigotry. In my experience this is a mindset that cannot be argued with, so I think I'm done here. Have a good night.
The parent comment is not about corruption. It is about morality.
TDM was always my favorite feature of post Classic Macs. When Apple started abusing the Mac line (eg: ports, extra cables, magsafe, the ability to buy an external display) I joked that one day they'd remove TDM. And seven years later, it's actually happening. Using SMB to deal with a corrupt drive sounds like a massive pain.

If I ever buy another Mac, I'll be booting off an external drive (though it's a matter of time till Apple walls that ability off, just wait!). The internal soldered, encrypted, TDM-via-SMB ssd doesn't sound like a place I want to store my work. Looks like I'll just be using it as a big cache folder.

This stinks.
Show me the torture chambers today in coffee and sugar. Just 1.

> Avocados [...] has better margins than drugs...

They don’t. If you steal/extort $anything though, the margins get really good. If you switch from drugs to extortion, it’s because you got cut out of the cartel or law enforcement got too distracted by drugs making other crime more attractive.

Criminalization of coffee or sugar would only worsen the poor treatment of labourers in their cultivation areas. The crop might change though.
Let's get rid of the Normans while we're at it, and return England to the Anglo-Saxons. Except they took it from the Romans, who took it from the Britons and Picts. The details might be off, but my point stands: land ownership is complicated; wars happened, and all the genocides and land disputes going unrecognized for political reasons are only recently considered issues that need restitution. I'm sure the Native Americans have their own history of wars (admittedly, likely on a smaller scale) that pushed tribes to live in different places (I wouldn't know, I'm a product of the California school system, and while we learned about the natives in the missions, we spent more time glorifying the missions with models than studying precolonial American history)
They’re called bounce or exit ads. Meant to catch people from leaving too quickly, but extremely annoying and filled with clickbait crap and articles from 8 years ago.
Any playlist do you like to share?
> With physical keys you can “home” your finger and press without drifting or looking down at the bar, and I find that much easier.

You can also develop muscle memory with the Touch Bar as I've mentioned in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23786774
It's outrageous how these companies have taken charge over individual businesses.

Some restaurants don't even know that they're listed on these delivery services and get their search results more or less hijacked by internet savvy delivery startups with infinite money.

In other cases they feel as though they have no choice due to the popularity of the online ordering services, and they get into contracts they don't really understand and have their already razor-thin margins eaten into.
- Given $2000+ laptop by company

- Complains

I get that a lot of folks here are engaging in what they view as "healthy design criticism," but, as a creative professional who does not have the budget for such a machine, it's hard to see most of the complaints here as anything more than privileged whining and failure to adapt to changing tools.

Laptops (and more broadly, personal computers) are designed as general purpose machines; no knowledge of the end-user is assumed. There may be a pool of activities a hardware designer may expect to take place on the machine, but designing for any one of them in particular is likely to come at a detriment to the others.

Special purpose tools exist for a reason, and perhaps such is needed in the "Programmer's Laptop" space, but criticizing a general purpose tool for not being purpose-built for a specific application is ridiculous.

Edit: because i English bad
No, it's split decisions from two separate circuit courts on the same issue with conflicting results. Basically one plaintiff from TX would be told 'yes, you have this right' while a plaintiff from NY would be told 'no, you dont have this right'.
Or they won’t?
You can tap and immediately slide without lifting your finger to do that! I feel the same way and this is the closest thing the touchbar has to a killer feature.
That would be great idea. $100 show to watch comedy, but free if found you don't laugh.
A while back I came up with the idea of an ultra-miniature quadro copter with asynchronous outrunner motors who's stators would most likely be sintered (with or without a ferromagnetic matrix) to handle the power density, and a simple tube-shaped rotor (though a squirrel cage style might be better).

I'm thinking 5-20 mm rotor diameter (3M-750k rpm transonic limit), or maybe even smaller.

The interesting part would be an analogue ASIC that decodes an external control signal modulated onto the microwave (via rectenna) or optical (solar cell/photodiode) "wireless power" beam.

Demodulation would first do naive rectenna-based AM demodulation, followed by a bandpass and FM demodulation, revealing 12 carriers corresponding to the 4 3-phase motors, which are just FM-demodulated to yield the H-bridge control signals.

These would primarily be one xx MHz PLL and 12 lower-frequency ones spaced 50-200 kHz (the FM subcarrier's bandwith (assuming narrow-band FM) is twice the maximum motor field frequency), starting as low as feasible while still being able to use AC-coupling liberally.

Also either some amplifiers for (potentially-overdriven) "linear" H-bridge operation or (NE555-like?) PWM chopper drivers to exploit the winding inductance for less-wasteful H-bridge operation.

Far too much to realize in discrete circuitry, but nothing really fancy beyond a parametric PLL design. And not really realistic for a μC, either, because of brown-out resilience and overall latency.

At least the polyphase induction motors are very easy to drive, compared to the typical 3-phase permanent magnet outrunner motors used in most multicopters.

Depending on how predictable the effects of some tuning parameters are, maskless litho could allow for chips to be tuned to measured electro-mechanical properties of these sintered motors, reaching optimal drive waveforms. And for digital circuits, hard-wired ROM (security/shelf life/radiation-hardness) for individual chips or even doping-controlled ROM for anti-readout private/secret key storage.

I expect a maskless double-patterning ArF+immersion process allowing NDA-free-usage to be "the" thing that would enable true state-of-the-art experimentation and true ASICs (where the prototype needs an ASIC to be more than a paperweight after some photoshoots and staged interactions).

Feel free to contact me/let me know if you'd like further discussion(s).
i think they mean comments by Scott Alexander on his own blog.
You can find ThinkPad E14 Gen2 or E495 (older but maybe stable for Linux)
because they're all competing with each other by burning through VC money to monopolize the market
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> but make it hard to make changes to the data structure later. What happens if that int should actually be a float? Now you have to write a migration that makes fundamental changes to the structure of the data and hope there are no negative side effects.

This is often stated, but it's not true. RDBMS make it easier to make changes to the data structure precisely because you only have to write migration and after that you are guaranteed to only ever get the data out of database in the new format. Which means your application code doesn't accumulate the cruft of dealing with two possible database data formats.
Americans are rapidly shrinking their credit card debt during the pandemic
the US Treasury controls the IRS, funds the US govenrment and is in charge of all money printing in the US. Every man (and woman) is equal before the law/govt. Hence it makes sense to analyze how the activity of the US Treasury benefits one group over another.
I'm not sure what the actual story is here. The important bit seems to be:

"“The one third is fictitious,” Andela CEO Jeremy Johnson told Big Technology in a candid interview last week. Some developers make less than a third of what clients pay, some make more, varying by country and seniority level. But the number never accurately described how Andela compensates its developers. “We absolutely bear responsibility for the miscommunication,” Johnson said. “Without question.”"

- CEO

So that's it? They miscommunicated what their developers get paid? The article doesn't allege any wrongdoing on the part of the company, beyond making this mistake, or suggest that anyone is being paid unfairly.

The title line

"....but life inside the company can be less than ideal."

might as well say "it's a perfectly normal company, nothing to see here".

Did I miss something?
Yes true. I think it's a lot like the old Android vs iOS stuff though: counting the number of packages doesn't mean all that much because so many have been abandoned that Python probably has a much higher percentage of junk out there. That said, Python's ecosystem is still larger, but that doesn't mean it covers all domains well. I can name a bunch of holes that it has off of the top of my head, and same with Julia too, so it's not like either supersets each other. So I just think the "but Python has a bunch of packages" is a lot more nuanced than that: in many areas of ML or webdev it is much more developed, but when you get out of that realm it can get sparse in some ways.
There's nothing special about a quadcopter.

An airfoil is an airfoil.
The right to assemble and air grievances against government are core fundamental rights. Police exist to enforce the law, police monitoring a protest means they believe a crime will result out of the protests and they need to prevent it,or it means they don't like the protests and they are interfering with the free excercise of rights.

As someone that has used Dataminr first hand, I can confidently tell you it is being used to monitor for threats. And as such and based on observed law enforcement response, I can confidently say anti-mask/lockdown protests where protrstors brandished weapons in public were not monitored this way. Plenty of care was taken to protect those people's rights.

The fact that the protests are against specifically police and the fact that police used cleat and absooutley unwarranted violence against both protestors and even journalists and also how white people had to form a human shield to protect black protestors should tell any observer clearly that the police see the blm protestors as a threat, simply for protesting and for airing their grievances against government in public.

Dataminr, palantir's excellent tools and many other products of the tech center were abused in racially motivated retribution against blm protestors.

In other words, while normally the police are a just arm of the executive branch that enforces laws(and they mostly are in few places in the US), most US police departments are technically a rogue insider threat against americans constitutional rights, they are enemies of the people taking sides in a culture war designed to tear apart the west.

If you ask me, this isn't a domestic law enforcement issue. I remmber in ecuador or somewhere in south america soldiers were protecting protestors against police violence (very similar to blm protests). The US military should show they take their oaths seriously and interfere, maybe this has been considered and they simply need judical or congressional authorization. Although given the nature of the protests and america's ironic disunity, soldiers may take cops' side. A very unpleasant situation.

You are not being paranoid if you are afraid if a civil war breaking out. Suddenly all the tech in the world becomes scary when used in a war against our neighbors.
Well, this was maybe a bit entry level description.

Q: "databases are often the worst-performing part of the tech stack" - compared to what? nginx throughput? I find this to be a bit of a strange view, surely business logic is always the slowest part of the tech stack

Q: "What happens if that int should actually be a float?" - how often do you actually need to run migrations versus just extending the data? From my end, I have a small idempotent database schema-maintaining tool, and if I need a new column or a new table there's no need for a migration, and you know your whole stack will interact with the new schema or old schema identically assuming you set sane defaults etc. I've built a lot of medium-quality low-traffic apps so I'm yet to encounter a real-world case where a migration wasn't just bad planning
“As intended “ isn’t “as it is written “. See the recent ruling that came down saying that LGBTQ people are protected under the civil rights act of 1967 because the words are very plainly written. Just because the people in congress probably didn’t intend to protect the LGBTQ community given the culture at the time the WORDS of the law are very clear.
You would think that the country, after recovering from both naziism, and also a chilling communist rule in the east, would worry more about the surveillance state growing. What is German public sentiment about that sort of thing? Does anybody know?
I'm sure there will still be some slow flights for the people who just like flying for the movies.
Yep, that.
It's also very indicative at this time, during pandemic about those companies chopping regular employees pay versus not doing anything to top line C suite.

Many companies reduced pay by 10%-20% or stopped 401k match or even pay raise when C suite still made profits from recent stock moves.
> Cameras record facts.

What I do in the bathroom is factual, but just because something is factual doesn't mean the police have a right to see it.

> What if body cam makers stopped providing police body cams?

Are you proposing that Ring owners should be subject to the same standard of transparency as people that the government issues guns to?

> if the police are racist, that's a police problem, not an evidence problem.

Uh, it's a societal problem, that society (which includes Amazon) needs to address.
Bulgaria is a disaster due to being on the crossroads of the East, West, Russia, and Turkey and the multitude of geopolitical and economic interests andalso on the way of the drug channels from the Middle East to Europe. The Balkan mentality, greatly twisted in the half millennium of Ottoman rule, does not help much either. Things are much worse than what the numbers show, unfortunately! The kleptocratic governments are covered up by the US and EU just so that we can limit the influence of Russia in Bulgaria. Anyway, the moral, mental, and health decline is much worse than the demographic one! From a great example in the Soviet Bloc, we turned into the worst example in the EU! Neither the West, nor Russia has interest in Bulgaria being a modern country, because poor slaves are pulled by the nose much better!

Edit: I'm Bulgarian, I live in California since 1999, but I spend 2-3 months every summer in Bulgaria and witness the constant decline every time.
I'm late to throw my 2c in, but it's worth noting all the nordic countries have police unions that enjoy strong support.

There isn't really a specific indicator that the unions are the problem with the police, and it's quite possible our focus on them is putting the cart before the horse.
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Is there a specific definition that makes something DRM?

Sounds like all software companies should add some trivial DRM only for the specific purpose of exposing people to legal risk if they attempt to reverse engineer their code.
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It was a good fear. He missed the possibility that congress could choose to not pass laws or enter a revolving industry door where they consult on laws they did.
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> The Supreme Court hears arguments with no recordings allowed

This could not be further from the truth. Complete audio recordings and transcripts dating back to 1955 are available on oyez.org, the more recent of which are likewise available on the Court's own website. During non-pandemic operation, the Court hearings are open to the public. For the cases argued during the pandemic shutdown, the hearings were, in fact, livestreamed.

You can hear the justices trying on different lines of reasoning for size during these arguments. So in a very real sense, we get to see a lot of their decision-making process.

Yes, they hold a private conference at which some discussion and the vote takes place. I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't want any of the justices to face social pressure in that moment.

> hundreds of pages in reasoning as to why they made the decision

This reads as an argument against the position that the Court is secretive.
Which is what I meant - it was designed and built by the state, not a private company, so the careful wording is probably correct.

Although come to think of it, Sud Aviation/Aerospatiale was also a state-owned company, and the BAC wasn't private either, so the nitpicking can go on forever.
OMG, thank you so much danso and all the developers of this app! This is the biggest inconvenience and overall PITA docking my MBP, it annoys me constantly on a daily basis. just tried it out, it's like my prayers were answered!
Text me and I'll help you stick to any routine or habit
I recruited a small group of medical students to act as accountability coaches. We're offering 2 weeks of free coaching via text. So if you're trying to cutdown on snacking during Corona, practice the piano more, go to bed on time or study for a big test, they can help you get to a point where it's second nature for you.

Just text 415-874-1545 (US/Canada only) with your name and the routine you want to build. The outcome is that you either pick up the routine or make a conscious decision that it's not for you at this time. No in-between.
Yeah heard that too years ago. I remembered back in maybe 5 years ago marriage information is not shared among the provinces so technically you can marry multiple times in different provinces and not got caught...
So the “canceller” got cancelled
There's an iPad version! This is a fun mini demo of the full-featured iPad app on the Touch Bar.
The places I give such tips at typically give them to the kitchen and staff.
> Divide your code into "stateless" functional code and "stateful" objects code.

IINM you are basically referring to the difference between static and instance methods in languages like C++ and Java.

Putting code that neither reads nor writes the object state and instance methods is a common mistake made in both those languages.

That said, both stateful and stateless code are good candidates for unit testing, especially when the code under test is a state machine, rather then just a data encapsulation mechanism.
As a recruiter, what shortcuts can I use to tell if a person can do the job?
We're a tiny development group providing analysis tools and reports to support a consulting group. There are just three full time developers. I've recently been made tech lead. Prior to starting here 3 years ago I'd been contracting/self-employed for 20+ years, so I've got very little experience of the recruiting process. I've been largely responsible for hiring developers (usually on contract) for a couple of years here, and to be honest my hit rate is not good. We've had a couple of outstanding people, some ok, and some ... less so.

I've read many articles here about how hiring is broken, long interview sequences don't test what matters, etc., and I don't have the time, skills, resources or experience to come up with a massive interview protocol anyway. We seem to do stuff that's out of the normal experience (Python to create thousands of individual reports on thousands of rows of postgres data per report) so the pool of candidates here is limited.

I think I know what I want: A maintainer who can find their way through an ugly codebase and quickly fix bugs that are identified by people who know the business domain thoroughly but are sometimes not good at translating the problems they see into words that make sense to a developer who doesn't have that underlying understanding of the business domain. And who understands about Chesterton's Fence

Are there effective techniques that can help me sort the good from the less good, and if so what are they?
Same here, I'd rather upgrade to a comfy class for 12 hours than spend multiples of the cost to shave off a few. If it's flying on a schedule the only real point is less seat time (okay, also whee fast airplane), much of the time slow airplanes will have left and landed before the fast airplane's next scheduled departure and landing. These will make for one hell of a business owned or leased aircraft, although that doesn't change my preference. If there's one nice thing about air time on a business trip, it's the chance of taking a break from coworkers, like them or not.
> why do you think it's possible that he'd delete his blog in order to dodge/mitigate bad press due to content that a journalist might uncover there

This is a reasonable question. I don't honestly know enough about the topic to make even a hypothetical argument that such a thing is likely. But it does seem possible any time a high profile blogger shuts down in the face of a news story, that this is one of the reasons for the shut down.

For example, Alexander gives one reason it's possible on his blog: "If there’s no blog, there’s no story." The NYT doesn't really have an incentive to run a story about an ex-blog. So by shutting down, he puts pressure to shut the story down altogether.

Regarding the Streisand effect, I'm not sure. But I think, based on his blog post, that he thinks the story is less likely to run now.

Plus, accessing the blog is now at least an order of magnitude harder. Can you access some of the pages? Sure. Will NYT readers? No, probably not. Search doesn't work, it's painfully slow, only some URLs are snapshotted. It may even be that most readers probably don't even know about the Archive.

So yeah at least to me it seems possible. For example, he's come out as saying he likes eugenics. It's reasonable to fear that if a NYT story ran giving his surname and saying he supported eugenics, then he may have a hard time practicing as a psychiatrist.