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wow you should work in the ER room.

Code Orange! Breathing mush with eyes !!!!!!!
Correlation is not causation, HN should know this. The problem is down to injustices from long ago, and a lack of ability to build generational wealth stemming from that historical racism. It doesn't mean that race is the defining factor.
The only thing that can really explain this is an elaborate form of price fixing between universities. If one university announced they were slashing "online-only" tuition costs, others would probably be forced to follow suit. It would be interesting to see a single reputable university drop tuition prices for "online-only", and offer automatic-transfer admittance to students already accepted into a similarly reputable school (e.g. if you go to Ohio State, you could quickly transfer to Penn State). That might trigger a race to the bottom, and reset tuition rates to what they rightfully should be.

The reduced revenue could be made up by cutting the unnecessary ivory-tower jobs, reducing the inflated exec compensation, and reducing the unnecessary $50M+ on-campus construction projects.
Are you suggesting to write a design doc every sprint, e.g. two weeks?
Question for influx solution architect:

How do you delete points from a specific measurement in a specific retention policy?
hey everyone. I work on React Spectrum. Happy to answer any questions. :)

I'd also point to our introductory post where we discuss the architecture. I think the most interesting thing is that you can reuse most of the behavior, accessibility, etc. without our design in your own component library using our hooks. https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/introducing-react-spec...
Yeah I mean in that specific example, it only works if you assume that Reddit would have had an extra few months to get more traction before raising the one round that they raised.
> For example, if two pre-made dungeon tiles didn't fit together, they'd just put some rocks over the seams, and they had a lot of dungeon rooms already created and they'd just paste together in a different order to make a new dungeon.

Interestingly, this is also common in typical U.S. house construction. Moulding, caulk, and paint cover a multitude of sins.
That's quite wrong. pg always said that YC should operate like a startup and his primary definition of startups is growth. The original spirit behind YC was let's-hack-the-economy with an experiment in the mass production of startups. That's encoded in the name itself.

In other words, much larger batch sizes were guaranteed as YC grew. How pg and the original founding team might have gone about it, compared to others, is a different question—but certainly not by "keeping the entire system small". Whoever wrote that is speaking from ignorance, which fits with the personal smear against Sam.
It seems as if you and bezmenov actually disagree. AOL was influential online but online was not an appreciable part of the media and national discourse.

So AOL was a big fish in a tiny lake. In comparison today, FB and Twitter both are megaliths that impact how the ocean currents circulate.
Stratolaunch has widest wingspan, Hercules has highest height and Mriya is the longest/heaviest. So... they are all demonstrations for how we learned to build extreme aircrafts.
Sure, but the value of TypeScript is that it warns you about bugs in your editor or at compile time. The value of browsers supporting TypeScript would be that you can serve it up to users without a build step.
"How's that working out for you?"

'Dominating' doesn't seem like the appropriate word to apply to Japan right now? From Wikipedia:

Japan's asset price bubble collapse in 1991 led to a period of economic stagnation known as the "lost decade", sometimes now extended as the "lost 20 years." From 1995 to 2007, GDP fell from $5.33 trillion to $4.36 trillion in nominal terms. Japan today has the highest ratio of public debt to GDP of any developed nation, with national debt at 236% relative to GDP as of 2017. This debt is predominantly owned by Japanese nationals. The Japanese economy faces considerable challenges posed by an ageing and declining population, which peaked at 128 million in 2010 and has fallen to 126.5 million as of 2018. Projections suggest the population will continue to fall to potentially lower than 100 million by the middle of the 21st century.

Economies are complex. It's not clear that punishingly long hours at work are an advantage.
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Nice to see more work in this direction. I used coccinelle a lot for automating changes/bug detection and I immediately missed it when working on anything that is not C.
I worked with a group that got 100 volunteers at each event who did the work while the regular members provided coordination and resources. I am trying to do something similar on my own now and learning in a very visceral way just how important spreading that load out is.

But... that group wouldn't be able to do nearly what it has if it weren't for funding from foundations and the department of neighborhoods, and resources on permanent loan from another public sector organization. You might argue it couldn't exist at all.

I think I would say that both are necessary but insufficient.
What you're saying is true, but I think people with card-game experience tend to over-skip the card rewards in the name of consistency. Low difficulty levels reward this, because the bosses are the only real challenge and holding out for cards good against bosses helps your win-rate.

At high difficulty levels you need to pick a card (and possibly buy cards at shops) through most of Acts 1 and 2 because you won't be able to reach the boss without a bunch of damage commons.
I assume this is based on some edge case, like a specific ethnicity in the area using a specific colored spice or cooking oil?
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There are parents with ample incomes and large comfortable homes that will welcome their child with open arms, proud of them for risking everything on a start up and encouraging them to try again.

There are parents with little extra cash and homes without space for permanent guests who are going to accept their children back with some disappointment and disapproval for taking large risks and failing.

Children of the first set of parents are just going to be more comfortable going out and taking chances.
I think they didn't view it as a violation, but outsiders did. Lego did the math and figured the production, shipping, marketing, recall, destruction of product, and loss of sales would cost less than potential bad publicity.

There is no such thing as a for-profit company that does things because it is "the right thing to do". They make decisions based on what will bring in the most profit (or result in the least amount of lost profit).
Might be a war-crime, but people at the enterprise level like twilio, don't do anything at the UI level, and if someone was to do something at the UI level, AWS blocks public access _by default_

AWS console was only complicated as a complete noob. Once you understand how services work you actually realize is decent.
Yes, you're quite right. I don't know how I missed that. Thanks!
Pretty interesting - I'd love to hear more about the "how to scale as individual piece below"?

I have highlighted a relevant excerpt below.

My experience is that a lot of this has to do with the cohesiveness of the founders. If there are 2 or 3 founders and they all acknowledge the necessity to scale, engage support, and seek out mentorship, there is potential to scale.

Alternatively (and more frequently), one founder (let's say the CEO) may be able to scale a bit more than others (story-telling, pitching vision can grow overtime) or could benefit from bringing on experienced leadership to replace founders/other leaders.

In this case, early employees/forward get hired over but they likely have an equity reward relative to the risk (joining early). Wouldn't it then be best for these early employees to hone in on roles and opportunities to scale as opposed to trying to scale into roles they probably aren't qualified to do overtime (but were owning early on -- i.e., engineering, operations, HR, product, etc.)?

"You’re heading a key function at your 25-person startup. Maybe you’re head of engineering; maybe you run marketing. Hell, maybe you’re the CEO. You kick ass and your startup grows fast – and with that growth, the needs of the company evolve. Things in the new world are now going okay, but perhaps not optimally. Eventually, the CEO and board of directors get in a room to discuss what to do.

I can tell you what will happen in this room. The board will discuss your performance, and compare it to the performance of other, hypothetical executives – just as if you were interviewing for your own job. In your favor: you are a known quantity, presumably viewed as talented, and perhaps even a close friend. Against you: you haven’t done this before, and we need results now."
Do developers have a reasonable choice other than to use Apple tools? You can't even compile an iOS app on a server-class operating system and instead have to overpay for low-spec Macs for CI.
That's definitely part of it, but you'll still get the occasional hand full of 3-costs, and all of them not being completely awful is important.
Already supporting the newly announced Apple ARM architecture! Definitely interesting to see that.
How is it YC's problem? The founder is choosing to start a company and asking YC for money. Clearly they're not short of startups on the supply side of their equation.
Why can't Twitter stop Elon Musk Bitcoin scams? It's complicated
As a non-American I was pretty amazed at some of the statistics in the article and how the current narrative in the media and social media is almost completely contrary to what he’s published.
Plotting directed acyclic graphs while displaying the edge weights and node sizes is a bit of an unsolved problem. I agree that in most cases chord diagrams are more confusing than illuminating, but so are the alternatives.
I don't know what degree courses are like elsewhere in the world, but in the UK they tend to be single-subject (eg "Applied Biology") studied over 3 years. Depth, in the UK, is more important than breadth - a view I strongly disagree with.

Luckily, I failed my A levels so was spared the trauma of studying Biochemistry for 3 years. I finally got my degree with the Open University - an 'Open' degree[1] which allowed me to pick and choose my education from a wide variety of subjects[2]. The OU have been practicing distance learning since they started in 1969[3] - I have fond memories of watching their broadcasts on BBC2 when all the other channels were closed down for the night.

[1] - What is an open degree - http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/combined-studies/degrees/open-...

[2] - In the end I settled for equal measures of computer science and creative writing - perfect for writing job specs.

[3] - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University
The issue is accreditation limits the number of disruptors that can come into the market and makes the bar very high for that. College is 100% right before disruption, but difficult to do.
I think the point is that, if I as an activist am aiming to maximize the number of content moderators treated well, the highest leverage way to push for that is getting people mad at Facebook. There may be a preexisting system of unpaid content moderators who are supported even less, but that's much harder for anyone to address.
But where does intrinsic motivation come from?

What are the objective differences between getting better at Rocket League and getting better at stats?

Agreed if we don't understand or create a basic framework, trying to put lipstick on a pig and making stats look like Rocket League is dumb.
A1 is generally easier than A0 for exactly that reason.

If you want a meme deck, A1 is the sweet-spot.
> Especially when Q controls the level of the aggressive hate in the nonsense.

I'm not so sure that the level of aggressive hate from the populace is attributable to Q. I believe he's just tapping into it.
In a democratic society, in the end might makes right. So if 70% of the population want to apply boycotts or cancel culture to 15%, the only protection the 15% will get is whatever is afforded them by constitutional norms that the courts choose to enforce.

If it's more like 40% trying to cancel a different 40% then it's more like a cold civil war than like democracy.

The Harpers' letter tells me it's not even 40% pushing cancel culture, but maybe more like 15% trying to cancel some 40%. Once the folks in the middle feel threatened enough to make cause with the targets, the 15% will have to back off.
Well, yes. They can't restructure a business that has high maintenance costs on illiquid assets such as land and buildings in such a small, temporary timeframe.
People on HN praise Tesla for the same thing: model S is model S, not the 2019 S and 2018 S
If it's like C# in that it's bloated, I can see why you might say that, but I'm quite sure that my TS code looks nothing like C# code. (Because it's almost exactly like my JS code, but with annotations and fewer redundant checks.)
I don't disagree with that as a side effect; in the end, the only thing that matters for a company is runway of the founders.
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Think of it, that entire electronic automation suite on board can be now replaced with a single 1$ smartphone chipset.
Nice work, thanks for sharing.
This is pure speculation on my part, but it may just be due to organizational inflexibility and poor communication. I remember reading somewhere that internally The Times said it was having a credibility problem when it came to "unnamed sources" and there was an effort to confront this.

So, the author of the article, knowing Scott's real and full name, would be obliged to use it in the article. I can imagine Scott's request to protect his identity going back and forth between layers of management. And each of those managers realized they had nothing to gain by granting Scott's request.
> Can we build better AI

Nope. That's what the people in charge of our social media companies keep trying, over and over, and it doesn't work at all. AI-moderation is like the Ring is to Golem for them. They can't accept that "cheap and fair" moderation isn't currently possible.

> Can you crowdsource the moderation task

This is the clear answer, imo, and it isn't obvious to me why these C-level execs avoid it. If I had to make a guess, maybe they think engaging with millions of their users about moderation would open a can of worms.
I've helped hire people and I might be in the minority but after you worked in the industry for a few years, your degree is meaningless.
Yeah you’re talking Office 365. Let’s bundle in all the companies using on premise Office (2012, 2016, 2019, etc) and I bet the numbers are flipped drastically.
I think we're probably talking about different audiences. If you're an undergrad studying a philosophy minor then sure, go to the source. But if you've read a couple of Virginia Woolf novels and are interested in the Bloomsbury set, it gives you enough of a flavour. I studied both early and late Wittengstein at university and I certainly wouldn't recommend the Tractatus to anyone except as a novelty, and although the Philsophical Investigations are more approachable, they quickly become tiring for someone not motivated to invest some time in reading them slowly and thoroughly. (I know this from the time when I was reading the Investigations and badgered other people to read them because I thought they were so fantastic!)
LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors
I wonder how much people are able to publish about the device. I'd expect not much, but it'd be nice to be able to compare a iPhone that was completely unlocked (at least, to whatever that means for Apple) with whatever security they put on the ARM Macs which are supposed to be "open for hobbyists". I'd expect that the ARM Macs have much of the same security stack (by default) that iOS devices have given what they said in the WWDC talks, but maybe that's not the case.

Also, if you found an exploit on a research iPhone because you made use of entitlements that were Apple-only, I wonder if that'd be worth anything bounty wise. Nobody can/should be able to write an that'll get through App Store checks if they asked for PLZ_NO_SANDBOX_ILL_BE_GOOD or something (at least, that's what I thought before the whole Snapchat system call thing happened). But hypothetically the App Store review process is vulnerable to a bad actor inside Apple pushing an update to a big app that included malware, so I'd think that private entitlements shouldn't be available at all to binaries that didn't ship with the device/in a system update (unless some kind of hobbyist flag was flipped by the consumer). So I'd say that would be worth something, even if smaller than a more interesting exploit.
But terraform is using the aws sdk behind the covers.

Most of the stuff available with terraform is available with CloudFormation minus a thing or two. (takes them a minute to catch-up to other teams new services/features)
I think the diploma is important for your first job. Or if you're not good at the job.

Once you're in and do good work, you should be fine for a good career.
@dang can we possibly merge this thread with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23919089 please?
But do you disagree with the statement that "now YC is an endless low effort 90s-era "groupware for groupware nerds" fund"" though?
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*were

They left when StS took off, and Netrunner has since been discontinued (although there's still an active fan-run Tournament scene with fan-published cards).
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I think the comment they're responding to and others are grasping at straws and trying to find excuses.

Like I said in another comment even in the poorer European countries it's possible to move back with one's parents. And in fact people do live with their parents into their twenties.
This is the principle behind Indieweb's POSSE:

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Ah, "Studies" whose language and inventories are already rooted in particular paradigmatic understandings of psychology. I would expect psychoanalysis to do worse, in the studies, than "regular" psychology! Damning that it doesn't!
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Fauci saying that masks are not effective protection from coronavirus:

https://streamable.com/oml2rf

Its not just me.
Why would Y comb need to compete with someone who is considering an offer to G? In that case, the founder would leave for the better deal anyways - so it's best to leave before it gets REALLY hard.
> Nobody wants to play a game that they don't even have a chance of winning even if they play optimally.

I play such games regularly. I'm just choosing place to die, then I try to stay alive as long as possible. Sometimes I even win, just because of pure luck. Then I win more often.
That’s a non-solution.

What you’re proposing is not just shutting down social networks, it’s shutting down any website that involves user content, anything that allows photo/video upload, comments, or any kind of user interaction. That’s impossible.

You point out that public safety jobs are view more “worth it,” and certainly they are, but that logic brings up the question of who judges what job is worth undergoing trauma.

In other words, is a subway or freight train driver’s job “worth it,” if they have to see someone commit suicide on the tracks? What about crime scene cleanup companies? Funeral services? Bus drivers? Truck drivers? Nobody’s going to agree on where to draw the line in the sand.

A more realistic solution might be to make comprehensive support systems, mental health resources, and treatment a legally mandated, completely free service provided to any employee that works in these kinds of fields.

Finally, I think there are most certainly people out there who are not as sensitive and affected by this content who would be candidates for these kinds of roles. Perhaps there’s a way to test for that sensitivity before the real job starts.
It's like with Al Capone and the taxman: at least Apple that way has an angle of legal attack against shady companies (Hacking Team, Finfisher, ...).
Facebook was a zoo in its early years. Basically a frat house. Google was also a complete boys club and full of misconduct. But you have to be a complete nerd to take your date to your office, even if it’s a nice office.
I just learned that a restaurant chain that I really liked has decided to permanently close all of their locations. That really bummed me out. The restaurant scene is going to look a lot different after this pandemic is over.
Unless becoming a rockstar is equivalent only to becoming an Ivy League professor, passing a PhD program really isn’t that hard for most PhD programs even in the best schools. To pass a PhD program, you just need to come in every day and do your work for <8 hours a day for a few years. As in, actually treat it like a job.

The students who did their PhD the quickest in my program did exactly that. The students who failed or took longer usually slacked off, skipped days, focus on other stuff, etc etc etc. I know one person who disappeared for weeks and then quit. Thing is, he could still have come back and resumed his PhD even after that disappearance.

You could argue that it’s difficult for students to plan and do work on a consistent basis while having full academic freedom and very little direction (my advisor when I joined with almost no research experience told me to “read papers” and then we’ll discuss what to do after you do; like what does read papers mean anyway; I had no idea at the time but I learned by asking fellow students). But it’s not something that you get lucky in. It’s something that you keep at it until you finish it.
Wow, this is one of the most helpful comments here. If I can ask for some details:

The CEO track sounds nice. I've done the middle management stuff before and was quite successful at it. In my last job I was heading up the software team for a software/hardware startup, as well as taking on partial management of the support team and the data entry team. I have been C-level at two companies but both were early stage when they went belly up so this is more a bullet point on a resume than something I can point to and say "look there it is". Currently I work for a small enough company that there isn't any more upwards mobility here. I am basically working as an individual contributor directly with clients. The projects are boring but the pay is good and the people I work with are excellent. How would you suggest making a leap from here to something bigger? I live in an area with lots of banks and insurance companies, but not much in the tech world.

On the finance side, again, how do you go about this? What kind of companies do you suggest and what jobs in them? Are hedge funds a good idea? Or do I need to commute to something like NYC and apply for something with a large investor? What qualifications should I focus on before jumping into this? Is mostly reliant on knowing the right people? Is it about technical knowledge of the subject? Or is it about impressing the right interviewer?
I had a mild stroke in 2001. CT did not find it, MRI did.
> I had a counter that increments the minute I vote then atleast I as an individual can know it is correct

Only if you assume nobody else is voting at the same time as you. So that isn't really any use.
You could say the same about us - the blue dot
The company drew this line in 2010 - their own words, but paraphrasing their internal policy:

> The basic aim is to avoid realistic weapons and military equipment that children may recognize from hot spots around the world

The Osprey unequivocally is captured by the above standard.