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I’m not sure how it is now, but in Australia a while ago, I’d you wanted to import workers because you couldn’t source talent locally, you also had to train your local staff to justify visas
This is some serious and good advice for doing business and also managing personal relationships.

Do not fear to say 'No!' and do not try to be everyone's darling.

I had to learn this the hard way because of exactly the same eagerness to do business and take up on all opportunities.

My advice is to regularly reflect on your (business) relationships and evaluate them (good, ok, bad) and sort out everyone who just gives you more pain than value.

Of course 'value' in business is not only profit but also a good relationship to your customer and wanting to do the job rather than wanting to do another one.
In personal life 'value' can be that someone accepts you as you are and/or tells you their honest opinion even if you do not like what you hear.

You will have to define your own meaning of 'value' to evaluate these relationships.
That's first time I heard that, not to mean that I didn't believe you, but what's the exact text you sent that is made them censor and banned you?
Here's my usual playbook for onboarding engineers:
Start by giving the person a high level overview of your systems and them let them go setup "company things" for the rest of the day. This gives the brain a rest from the technical stuff with menial work.

The next day, and throughout the first week, give them deeper dives into individual systems. Every time you do this start from the overview again, so they're reminded. Always keep it a conversation, go back to different parts when the engineer asks questions that show they haven't understood something you've gone over before. This is normal as you're unloading a lot of knowledge you've built over time. Make sure you keep focused on the mission of sharing knowledge and do not let yourself get lost into too many side chats about how your pet peeves are never prioritised to be fixed and how you hate technical debt - this is not the time.

Once they've setup their company emails and whatever your HR demands, start by giving them a simple task and leave them on their own with the expectation that they will reach out once blocked. Check if they're blocked yourself multiple times during the day. A new dev might be reluctant to reach out for fear of being perceived as too junior. Let them know this is not a concern, the concern is to ramp them up as soon as possible and questions are the best way to do it.

Remember to ask them about the pace, how they're feeling, what they're struggling with or if they're eager for more. Some people will prefer a few more days reading docs, others prefer to jump in to the work straight away. I've seen both approaches work and try to adjust myself to the way the person likes to work best.

Increasingly give them more complex tasks, have them pair with other engineers. Remember that not only you're onboarding them on the systems, you're onboarding them to the people. Make sure their work is throughly reviewed, take your time to explain why things are done in certain ways, take all oportunities to give further back context.

As time goes on, apply a similar playbook to give them extra duties, complex issues to solve, more permissions, etc.

PS: Grove's book is great, definitely recommend it
Unfortunately, this is not true of most new Galaxy phones sold in the United States.
No child was ever disowned for choosing Oracle!
The shot was created in 2004 using software to combine digitized negatives. IMO it is hard to say exactly how much of that impression is to be attributed to software capabilities, the colors in the Wikipedia version are definitely touched up. (Great shot though, hands down.)
The strategy talked about here is called “land and expand” - get some users hooked for personal or hobby use-cases with free trial, and they’ll want to bring your product in to work. Get a single small team in a business, and they’ll become your best salespeople to their peers and managers. If your user experience is good enough, your product will sell itself virally within an organization. Slack did a great job of this.
It's not Nvidia's drivers being any good per se (some features are lacking, off the top of my head async reprojection for VR), just the hardware is strong enough to still perform well. With AMD the open source drivers are better than the proprietary ones and generally has an easier time with compatibility, but comes with its own host of issues (e.g. no Freesync over HDMI, no Freesync with >1 monitor if using xorg).
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The first step you do when proving something all-quantified is making the quantified variables free.
Creating accessible websites is a pain. And doing it properly is expensive.

There's many screenreaders and they can get expensive. They also can have quirks of their own. UK government accessibility blog is a good resource on how to create accessible websites and forms[0].

I also tested accessibe.com's frontpage to see how accessible their own site is. For this test I used Google Chrome with Lighthouse[1] accessibility testing set to desktop. Lighthouse reported a score of 84/100 where bigger is better.

Some links don't have text, but an image with an alt text. Some text colors are not WCAG contrast compliant. The viewport maximum-scale is limited to 1, so the user cannot zoom on the website on a mobile device.

I also ran another accessibility checker called axe[2]. It reported 88 issues. Funnily enough, on the blog post they slammed icon fonts such as fontawesome or icomoon, and they themselves use icomoon without a screen readable text. Most of the issues were related to links not having discernible text, elements not having sufficient color contrast, and lack of landmarks on the page content.

[0]: https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe-web-accessibil...
The entire startup ecosystem is exploitative by design. It's a dream of exiting big that sells. Few very few do exit big. Others provide cheap labour and generate lots of intellectual property for virtually no compensation.
> Why doesn't MacOS have an intuitve way to maximize a window?

That's a Microsoft Windows paradigm, copied by Gnome and KDE. Systems 1-8 and OS 9 had no mechanism for making a window full screen, much like LisaOS and Xerox Star 8010 IS before it and NeXTSTEP/macOS continued this. It's just never been a part of the UI as it doesn't really fit with the desktop metaphor.
How can I tell if I'm self limiting or if I'm being environmentally limited?
Thank you for the detailed response. I've been working in PHP for the years from 2012 - 2018, and after a break of 2 years from programming just starting to get back in the game.

Man there's a lot of hate speech against PHP out there - I've been doing my research to find out what happens after the first MVP is built and successfully operational in PHP, and your answer pretty much nailed it.
I don't understand this comment.

x JOIN y ON x.id=y.id

How is this advanced?

The fact that there's an endless number of pitfalls[1] is a characteristic of the operation you're trying to achieve, not a deficiency of SQL. In fact if anything I would say that SQL does a great joke at letting you tweak how you want all those edge cases to be handled.

[1] E.g. What happens if some records are missing on one or the other sides of the join? What happens if ids are not unique?
Thank you! Clarifies what I was looking for.
Somewhat related, there have been some impressive ML-powered video remasterings recently (colorized and upscaled to 4K at 60 fps):

- Footage Of The First Flying Machines 1890-1910: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_G1YbItY9o

- A Trip Through New York City in 1911: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw

- Views of Tokyo, Japan, 1913-1915: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQAmZ_kR8S8
I'm ex-mormon. We were taught a narrative, that basically priesthood power was taken away, and brought back, so basically either the prophet was a real prophet or not. Either the book of mormon was true/false if it was true then Joseph was a prophet and blah blah (Spoiler: he's not, and the book of mormon is not a true book).

We're taught in seminary (a class before school in high school) lots of deep doctrine, and history of the church. I thought I knew it all, then found the CES Letter which was basically an eye opener about inconsistencies in the church details.

Around the same time, I kept going back to what my Seminary teacher told me, that it's important to consider the 'nature of God'. Well, okay. So, it seems the one common thread is God is pretty demanding that he be 'worshipped' and that no other 'God' be worshiped but him. Sounds like classic narcissism to me. Then it dawned on me how it mirrors the pharaoh/slave relationship and probably because the people in power used the threat of afterlife as a form of power over people and they modeled it over the relationship w/ the supreme authority of the land.

Fast forward, and I've left the church (removed my records), now I'm agnostic (I highly doubt God exists), but I don't fully rule out an after life, after all we still don't know what consciousness is. Where it is. What makes it work. etc...

I think it's possible a bit of us is left over, or the 'game' is rebooted and we play it all over again. If we're a simulation, then we'd get a 2nd act possibly as bits and bytes. However, afterlife existing does not require a deity or almighty being.

IF there was a god/creator, he probably blew himself up creating our universe in the big bang. My philosophy though is now to be more stoic and just live for now, and with the idea that this is the only life we get, if there's more later it's just a bonus.
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Anything really? Say you work as backend developer, would they pay a training on machine learning or computer vision?
I am not sure why you are claiming that credit cards a pin-less everywhere. This is true only in US and for my opinion doesn't make sense at all from security standpoint.
> I just rotate over a period of about a week in brown paper bags.

Why the brown paper bags? Do these ensure better evaporation?

Wouldn't simply keeping the mask somewhere kill the virus in 3-4 days? Or, what would be the best way to ensure this within 3-4 days without any damage to the mask?
Slack was a godsend for medium to large sized hobby communities and student organizations. At UC Berkeley, the groups I was part of switched from IRC (for the nerds) and consumer group text products to Slack. There was (and still might be?) a large hobby community using it, although I think Discord largely owns the space now in the consumer market.
It could quite easily be the only declarative language someone was familiar with (or the one most familiar, or the one thought to be most familiar to potential users).

Agree it's not common, don't think I've ever seen it in a non-Hashicorp project, but then declarative languages aren't (relatively!) common.

Alternate tongue-in-cheek answer: if you want a job at Hashicorp? (Or tongue-out-of-cheek: you already work at Hashicorp and are very familiat with it, or looking for a pet project to get very familiar with it.)

Would be interested to hear OP's actual reason though, I'm not criticising the question.
Very easily. Taking utilitarianism to be maximisation of happiness and well-being, how many people in Brave New World are happy? unhappy? Is there any lack of well-being, outside of the savage reservations?

As to "more terrifying", 1984 features actual repression (albeit mostly operative only for ~13% of the population). On the other hand, the Brave New World achieves stability voluntarily, via consumerism.

What are three dead ends in the Brave New World?
There are mammals like rabbits that eat their own feces to get a second pass at digestion. Evolution has created an unbelievable amount of diversity in the natural world - it's a mistake to judge it by our own immune systems.
Datadog shady billing ($13,000 for 1 month what?)
I was recommended

J.D. Murray "Asymptotic Analysis"

when I was having trouble understanding a particular technique (method of steepest descents), and it definitely had clearer explanations than other texts.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1122-8
It's unsurprising that people for whom the system is likely to work a bit better than average are, on average, a bit more sceptical about changing the system. But, it's good to have numbers to back up the intuition.
Aseprite came to mind for me, too. Then again, Aseprite is aimed at artists rather than programmers. I'd argue that most people who use it don't want to go through the hassle of compiling it themselves – compiling software can be a daunting task. I have the feeling that a similar business model ("free on github if you're willing to put a little work into it, paid in stores if you prefer comfort") wouldn't work as well as it does for Aseprite if the software would be aimed at programmers.
It seems that Apple has breached the agreement not to enter the music business.
If N26 is an important part of this I will not use it.

They have a track record of handling security in a way that would cause nightmares for me if I had an account there.

Edit:

We could solve the CSV import/export issues with templates for each bank until there is a usable standard maybe.
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Fundamentally the tech startup scene is structurally similar to Modelling, Movie Casting and Influencer Marketing - a giant sieve to find the few diamonds while taking advantage of youthful optimism bias and a lack of experience.

Not a thought the HN crowd will love but the power differential involved guarantees exploitation.
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>FWIW, I do like feature flags, but as a solution for a different problem: long-lived feature branches (forks) of the master

But isn't this case what staging originally tried to solve? "this big feature isn't ready for production but we need to regression test in a setup as similar to production as possible" ?
Ardour comes to mind. They don't even assist any building steps and just direct people to the paid download version.

Simple Mobile Tools in Android too. Paid in Play Store, free in F-Droid. Simple Mobile Gallery is the top notch gallery app on Android.
The KN95 specification is comparable to the N95 specification. But KN95 masks as a class of real things are often not comparable to N95 masks.
You sure showed them!
Not sure what you mean.

I semi-retired early, and I currently live in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I saw a (uploaded 5 years ago) Youtube video that mentioned the city as a place rife with corruption and poverty and people somehow scrape by. I showed the girlfriend, who grew up here, and we were both confused.

On the other hand, I don't know why people _choose_ to live in a country with high property taxes and healthcare costs and mandatory driving. As an American I love the US but feel relaxed where I am now.

A friend once asked me why I didn't move to London instead. Because I grew up near NYC and it's like the same thing, that's why.
A year and a half ago, IBM did a study and found that most companies are only 20 percent to cloud transformation. The reality is that there is a ridiculous amount of private datacenters and iron around.

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2019/03/05/20-perc...
There are some claims to this thrown recently:

* create-react-app serves as a very basic frontend template for a React project. It eliminates worrying about Babel, webpack, polyfills, etc

* next.js / nuxt.js solve both front-end and backend for React / Vue. Likewise they package webpack, Babel, typescript, etc, and also help with bundle splitting, routing, and server-side rendering that used to take 30 different packages and 6 think-piece blog posts. It’s good stuff (I can speak for Next, dunno about Nuxt)
Phone addiction is like food addiction. It is incredibly hard to moderate something that you have to consume every day. Both phones and food are also designed by industry to be as addictive as possible. I am struggling to read books because my attention span got so low.
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Perhaps, but not for Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
1. If you are triggered by humeruous exaggerations, don't read European literature.

2. They are forcing themselves upon the Internet, and I can assure you I don't read them.

3. Sending bills for something that a person does not want and enforcing that is protection money.

4. You are defending mafia tactics.

Literally people who earn something above social security level are squeezed dry by the ARD ZDF parasites with their bad program and high salaries stolen from the population.
Web app that automatically turns your podcast episodes into video snippets
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Vertical farms are more vulnerable than regular farms since they are entirely dependent on electricity.

When you consider that many countries import energy through natural gas from Russia vertical farms could be shut down during a war all at once and force the affected country to surrender immediately.
Back then, I was building a green field project on prem. It was more about limiting access and auditing. In the middle of the implementation a mandate came from on high to “move to the cloud”.

I didn’t know anything about AWS back then, they hired an MSP who was just a bunch of old school netops people who knew how to click around on the console and gave us a bunch of VMs.

Long story short, I studied for one AWS certification so I could talk the talk. I learned both all of the things that I could have taken advantage of and saw how much they were making and that changed my whole m.o. and decided to get some experience with AWS and go into consulting.

Next company I went to, the founders outsourced everything technically to an outsourcing company - software and infrastructure and they treated AWS as an overpriced colo. Everything was in one account and everyone had access to it. At first, they were just aggregating publicly available information about doctors for hospitals so it wasn’t a big deal.

They brought a new CTO in and started bringing development in house. I led the charge to first separate out the environment to different accounts, establish a sane CI/CD process and then lock down who had access to prod.

Of course they had secret access keys in config files everywhere. We had to audit the code to make sure that no code was using keys. Locally, every SDK can automatically retrieve the keys from your global config file (that’s nowhere near your git repo) and on AWS it gets permissions based on the attached roles.

Then of course we had to lock down roles. But we couldn’t have the granular permissions we needed because even though they had lots of microservices (we sold access to our APIs to businesses). They were all on two “pet” EC2 instances.

Next step was to move the .Net Core APIs to Docker/Fargate and further restrict the attached roles to those.

Finally, we had to audit all of our AWS dependencies and add encryption where necessary and then sign a BAA with AWS and bring in auditors.

By the time I left a month ago, we could pass the needed certifications and expand our offerings.

It took a lot of upskilling, hiring an internal ops person (I’m a developer who knows AWS) instead of depending heavily on the MSP.

I left for greener pastures - I’m a consultant with AWS.
During 2010 I was working for a payments company in India and we already had NFC based payment system based on Nokia 6131(2007) and J2ME app which was used for demonstration to Government; Obviously we were too early and it got nowhere(except in Singapore I think).

So, I completely understand when you mean NFC payments vs UPI. I made my statement not as a direct technical comparison, but to inform that there is a way for seamless payments in India now which wasn't available earlier. Btw, Apple has put its plans to integrate UPI with Apple Pay on hold due to disagreements with data storage, I wonder what its doing in China.

Interestingly, it's not my friends in US who raved about Apple Pay but those in England(Not sure what's that about).
Yes, as I read it the unfairness and falseness of the review was the core of the story.
In the future, what stops an American company from one day abandoning the USA to another country and leaving the USA without the infrastructure to do space travel anymore?
Off topic:
This is how this website looks when I open it:

https://i.imgur.com/M1m5LJX.png

yikes
It has nothing to do with performance in all honesty for my own use case.

It has to do with being short-handed when comparing the "same" product in the US to the one I would receive here in the UK. I rarely update my phone so if I spend £1,000+ on a flagship, I expect a flagship especially when it's available elsewhere.
Anyone that creates and that cares how their work will be received by others should volunteer as judges in competitions until they realize fully how subjective and biased the judging committees are.

Since Burrows already had some experience running against the establishment (his university administration) I expect that he was not particularly fazed by the negative review.
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> NPCI is a non-government entity

Fair correction. However, correct me if I'm wrong, it still plays the role of a singular national authority blessed by the central bank. I'm skeptical that its non-government status is an important distinction when it appears to be an exclusively Indian institution co-established by the RBI. I don't think Visa's status is quite the same: Visa has actual competitors and operates under many foreign jurisdictions. I'd say the NPCI is as trustworthy and protected as the government institutions that bless it.
Same, but the whole point is to switch you away from Webpack, Eslint, Prettier, Jest... I truly hate Webpack, but I do love Jest.

Basically, Rome will most likely need somewhat of a Typescript moment. Where it's just transitioning to the new normal for (many) JS projects.
They're paid something stupid like 100s of Millions of $USD to direct users to Google, and I understand the CEO was paid by Google (>$1M) though I've not seen good corroboration of that. Bias towards Google is not surprising.
I don’t know if they will release the models, but are you sure you can train a 170 billion parameter model? Last I heard it’s around 500GB, which would require serious infrastructure.
How can you return the land to the environment when you still consume the same amount of energy (or more because LEDs arent 100% efficient)? During farming most of the energy comes from the sun. Vertical farms consume more land the denser they are. All that freed up land has to be filled with solar panels or wind turbines. Considering that plants are basically collecting solar energy for free that's a huge step backwards.
Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for foreclosures backed by the FHA. That’s what private mortgage insurance is for. The problem was the banks weren’t following the guidelines.

The taxpayers definitely shouldn’t have had to bail out the banks for loans that the government didn’t back.