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I also enjoy reading conspiracy theories (as opposed to subscribing to them) and in general agree with your first point, but I think you overlook the degree to which they can be weaponized.

COVID-19 disinformation is absolutely weaponized and that's literally killing people on a daily basis. Likewise, while the objections to 5g in my local community are merely an annoying inconvenience from naive technophobes, in some places it's manifested as attacks on physical infrastructure which are quasi-organized; there are forums where techniques are seeded, shared and refined with an underlying purpose of spreading those attacks to other forms of infrastructure.

The basic problem is that while bad ideas may spread on their own because they satisfy some emotional or pseudo-rational need of the recipients who then go on to reproduce the idea, the 'marketplace of ideas' metaphor doesn't really take account of wilful subversion.
Ask HN: What Stops You from Switching Remote US Only to Remote Same Time Zone?
If your company is Remote US Only, what would it take for your company to start employing people at the same skill level, with the same culture, language, same time zone, same experience, just not residents of the U.S.

Is it distance to fly into your HQ?

Guadalajara is closer to Bay Area than New York.
Medellin is just as far as Bay Area from New York.

Is it payroll and compliance?
Deel, Pilot, etc., are like Zenefits/Trinet for Global Payroll.

Is it experience?
There are engineers residing outside of the U.S. in Canada and Latin America that work or have worked for Automattic, Auth0, Gitlab, AI Fund, NodeSource, Ooyala, WolframAlpha, Auth0, etc., They are all on linkedin.

I want to understand the variables that if changed would make it so your remote U.S. only company has employees that reside outside of the U.S.
This is advised against in modern dishwasher manuals. I personally never remove food for mine unless it's been caked on due to over-cooking in a pan or something (obviously I scrape large parts into the bin, but I don't pre-rinse). And in most cases I'll often run it through first anyway to soften it up then scrub the remainder off afterwards instead since that results in less work.

In rare cases, food will be stuck to some items but this is usually due to geometry (something was blocking something). It's sanitised from the heat anyway so I just wipe it off and put it away.

I think the hard water residue can be solved with an additive, but it's not a problem in my area.
When people use "antitrust" inaccurately in the way you're describing, I find it best to assume that they're actually arguing against "biased incentives", and just aren't being precise with their definitions, not that their points aren't valid.
This is excellent. An explanation from first principles about what Vitamin D does in our bodies that is accessible to lay people.
Let's get rid of the Potemkin village; the point is that the offered rationales are just meant to be a maze everybody wastes their time arguing in when what's going on is obvious. Kind of like a Gish gallop for the media, if you will (if you're not familiar with the term, Wikipedia explains it this way: "During a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate. In practice, each point raised by the 'Gish galloper' takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place").
Real cool! What tech did you use to build it?
You avoid building it (above ground at least) in the first place
While the rules make sense, it is often not realistic due to business constraints.

What tends to happen in real life is that the profiling and optimization of bottlenecks is forgotten once the software is "ready".

I would propose Rule 0: Developers are irrelevant, only end users of your software matter.
Funnily, the questioning of authority is a common trait of over turning common sense arguments in conspiracy circles, kinda showing how easy it is to make the argument, and how tough it can be to defend.

And even more ironically, since I Don't have any sources off the top of my head which can link you to good content with research, where people are verifiable sources, I am left with personal experience and memory :).
Arathorn, just curious who chose the name 'Element'? Do you think it's too late to change it?

Did you do user research studies on the name, if so what was the results from those studies?
I use Grafana and some custom ones, I have only one Prometheus box so clustering is not a problem I'm having (and likely won't, I can vertical scale a long way for my smallish operation)
This is highly going to be a personal decision. For me I wouldn't sell my domain for that amount but that doesn't mean others shouldn't.

If it helps, ask yourself how much you'd be willing to pay to own your own domain name if it was taken by someone else. Not a perfect way to think about it but if the dollar amount is less than the amount being offered, maybe that helps you make the decision.
In my opinion, MDN should be the first result of search engines when searching for web related stuff. No offense to w3schools, I'm sure they've improved their content a lot, but I hate that I have to add "mdn" on my search phrase.
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>The problems with building this have nothing to do with technology but with right-of-way, investment, and politics. If those factors were solved, we'd already have high-speed rail in places where Hyperloop has been proposed. The fact that we don't says that Hyperloop is unlikely to be feasible as well.

I disagree with your conclusion. Hyperloop technology is so lucrative that it might galvanize America to update its long distance transportation infrastructure in a way that bullet trains couldn't have.

Bullet trains:

- Popularized when a huge network of new highways and slow rail were already built in America

- Faced a suburban, car-loving culture

Hyperloop:

- 2-3x speed of bullet trains. Can change the way we perceive geographic distance.

- Popularized during an increasingly urban culture with crumbling highway and train infrastructure

- Cost isn't as much of a concern because a national hyperloop network would create a lot more value than a bullet train equivalent. If the government doesn't want to shoulder the full cost, companies gladly will (when the tech is ripe). I'm hoping for full government funding.
Where did you go? Because the average Mexican works more hours than every other OCDE country[1].

[1] https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
Element/Riot (a Matrix client)

or Jitsi.
I don't care whether the company lives or dies if they kill the products I care about.
What about when n is small but you do it m times and m is large.
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In my experience, plastics are not immune to damage from “detergent.” Parts of my dishwasher became quite brittle and ultimately failed—and the zip ties used to cobble it back together also become brittle over time.
Yeah! So I set this up locally for email and a self hosted calendar, but I generally dislike modern calendar interfaces and am looking to experiment in building my own out (probably using Rust or JS).

NextCloud's engine doesn't seem to be very friendly/lightweight in this regard as it's been built specifically for their frontend :/ I was hoping there was some library that accomplished the same thing while being more lightweight/having friendly bindings.
I would never have believed this was such a controversial topic.
Have noticed this as well. It’s important to step back and look at longer term figures (either monthly or quarterly revenue, for instance). If you check your numbers daily, you’ll drive yourself crazy. Similar I imagine, to how newbie day traders feel, obsessing over fluctuating numbers.
Related: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/14015/does-gibb...
Show HN: I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript
Ever wake up feeling groggy, even though you thought you had enough sleep? It turns out that by timing your wake up time based on REM cycles, you can wake up more refreshed and more productive.

This got me thinking, why don't I put my front-end web development skills to the test and build a tool that will help people optimize their sleep schedule?

So, I built a bedtime calculator with React JS, as well as some fancy CSS animations.

Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions :)
Reminds me a bit of https://plynx.com/ , and it's also open source. Is there a major differentiator I'm missing? Also, what is your idea regarding the use case. Why would I need to run it locally for example? Is it mostly about productionizing ML?
> You just don’t seem to get the obviousness in front of you, just like almost all of Mozilla while the rest of the world sees how absurd and sad things are.

I don't know, I feel like I have more context you do right now. But maybe that is just experience from working in organisations like this.

> Mozilla has zero chance of survival at its current size without the browser tech. Instead of working on creative ways to monetize that, back when Firefox still had enough market share for it to matter, precious time was wasted on a wide variety of valueless diversions.

That's not really true though, is it? FirefoxOS derivatives took off significantly and did very well, but, unfortunately, it turned out listening to the public saying to cut it was an awful idea.

> Pocket or a VPN service has zero chance of bringing in similar revenue.

It's not about bringing in similar revenue on a single project, it's about having many different income generators though.

> It was and is a giant waste of time

Did you actually check the development effort involved? They didn't have to spend much on resources to do so, to do these alternate revenue streams, the organisation spent relatively little rather than putting all their money behind a big project and then if it doesn't work out, collapsing -- which is likely to occur trying to pursue large projects like you're suggesting?
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Great read!

I'd love to read more posts in the future, but it's very unlikely that I'll come to devaboone.com every day to look for new posts.

Can you please set up an RSS feed?
Prefetching still may make it way faster.
They were warned about taking money and relying on Google for several years, now the money has dried up and the curtain has been pulled back from them, they only have a bookmark manager and a VPN as paid services to show for it.

Sad indeed.
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Ask HN: Chromium developers, how can you morally justify working on Chromium?
Considering Chromium is the dominant layout and rendering engine, squashing others, and forcing developers to work around its bugs, how can you justify working on it further?
Do you pin the file for a period of time? How do you cover that cost?
I agree - people are probably not always rational and people are indeed subject to manipulation. But it changes nothing. If anything it’s BECAUSE of this that we need to agree all ideas are fallible and subject to debate and that no one owns the truth. An appeal to a fundamental authority cant work precisely because we are not rational and are subject to manipulation. We just don’t know. We have a right to opinion, beliefs, and debate but not much more. No one is above this. No one is an oracle.

The thought that came from The Enlightenment to philosophers like Karl Popper to modern authors like Johnathan Rausch explain this better than I can here. I’d read “Kindly Inquisitors” if you have a bit of time (pretty short overall) to get a better understanding of these ideas.

We have a series of liberal democracies in the West for a reason and it isn’t a fluke. Countless wars, inquisitions, and pointless suffering led to it. We are still struggling to fulfill the potential today and have to constantly fight off regressive philosophy but that’s the price.
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Congrats Jeff! Pretty awesome to see a 2nd edition; just got one. Thank you for all the work you do (and hope you're feeling better).
It‘s even worse than elitist, it‘s ultimately totalitarian and fascist. Any notion of freedom that doesn‘t include the freedom to be wrong is absurd and meaningless.
Once it became successful the people at the top would organize together to raise their own salaries then maintain that even when economic times change, against the interests of the rest of the company.
Thanks! An upvote for the enlightenment. :)
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Grid Studio is indeed the project Rick worked on before starting to work on Orchest. Great to hear that you are familiar with it.

Currently, tasks can only be scheduled to run at a set time. Could you elaborate a little on why you would want tasks to run periodically? We have some ideas on why this might be helpful, but would love to hear your take on this. (Periodic task scheduling is absolutely something we can add.)

The front-end of the application actually makes calls to our API for multiple things, among which execution of tasks (our internal endpoints can be found here https://github.com/orchest/orchest/tree/master/orchest/orche...). Exposing a (REST) API to the user to interact with the pipeline and start executions is on our roadmap.

I hope this answers your questions.
Hey there! I just say this as an anecdote of someone who has been a consumer of two teams that use Storybook, so I have not used Storybook myself.

That said, the biggest problem I've had is the "living code samples". I'm not sure of the exact name, but the feature where you display a component on the page and click the Show Code button to do a flip and see the code that drives it. The libraries we use that use Storybook are fairly complex, so I'm not sure how much that has something to do with it, but not a single "living code sample" has been a self-contained example.

When I look at code samples for libraries, I expect I should be able to more or less copy/paste the code directly into my application and it should just work (once the dependencies are added). This includes things like import statements as well so I know where things are being imported from in the case of multiple import paths for a library. Unfortunately, instead it's been lots of wrappers and helper functions in the storybook examples and I've only gotten vague answers of "storybook limitations" as to why they're not totally self-contained copy-and-paste-able.

I'll see if I can speak with one of the engineers at work to ask more about the limitations he meant when I complained about the examples not being self-contained and get back to you on that.

I hope this makes sense and is actually helpful!
Yep, except that in order to match the capacity of the Montreal metro system you would need to have a car departing every 2 seconds, which is impossible.
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There's Linux Foundation isn't there? Seems to be growing strong.
Even building it below ground doesn't work, they just have to punch a hole in the station while it is pressurized.
Hyperloop is not a full vacuum, only partial vacuum if I'm not mistaken. I don't know what kind of difference that would make on pressure but I assume that means that the tubes are not air tight and actually breathe.
Oh, sorry. I had thought we were sharing tips about constructively working to protect ourselves and our families. Not trying to rationalize defeatism to cope with living in a disintegrating country that cannot even equip its citizens with basic medical supplies.
small nitpick : yikes! Jupyter's blog is on Medium :(
That is fascinating - can you elaborate on what you mean by the Apps market?
That's quite fascinating about SBB. I wish this were standard practice elswehere. I wonder what airlines would be like if C-level execs had to book their own flights and fly coach for instance.
Yes, in the same sense that browsing the web with lynx is safer because there's no javascript to exploit. Some people even consider the lack of javascript to be a feature. If you're just opening documents for viewing/basic editing, you probably won't mind macros being missing. The bigger problem might be the inconsistent layout (and other compatibility issues) that you get.
Interesting. What’s the best resource beyond the Wikipedia page?
Is it theft if the people and companies throwing it out don't care? I would assume it's not the cities or garbage company's property until it's actually picked up?
> good content with research

On which topic?
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I don't think anywhere in this post talks about whether or not Mattheij has looked at those events, read those books, thought those thoughts, and what his opinions are on them as related to Free Speech. Assuming the worst of your intellectual opponent is extremely uncharitable and doesn't reflect well.
Google password manager doesn't support sharing passwords. As soon as you need that, Google's solution isn't going to be enough for you.
Props to Gregory for building this.

Giving up on Firefox OS too early was a such a terrible mistake- look at the success of KaiOS in emerging markets. That should have been Mozilla's success.

Mozilla needs to find someone other than Mitchell to lead the organization. I realize how difficult that is, but she is clearly not the right CEO, even if she was the founder. The organization needs someone new at the helm.

(I was at Mozilla for 10 years- left on my own accord in 2016.)
The GoT analogy continues if we think that as the TV show continued, certain book plot points were missed out, overlooked, or perhaps even negated by decisions made for the show.

Book readers then had ready ammunition to share with the world "the TV series was WRONG, dishonest and false... the dialogue proves X but they changed it in the tv series!"

So they remain gleeful but they need to share their conspiracy(Book plotline) with the masses because otherwise the masses won't understand the same reality that they do.
Thank you. I have spent around a week coding it.

It took 1 month for 2x 1080 GTX to train it.
Well, the key is that you trade your time for something and — if it is indeed harder to find a fulfilling work — you wish to maximize that something in a time you do work in order to be able to allocate more time towards more satisfactory ends.
It's only a partial vacuum from what I understand. I'm not sure what kind of difference that makes but presumably it would be easier to depressurize in an emergency.
“ As many as one in five Americans would refuse to take a coronavirus vaccine, according to a new poll that follows a surge of anti-vaccine content online“

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/05/08/many-...

That’s a real life effect. Also from this article: “ Researchers at Johns Hopkins estimate that at least 70% of the population will have to be immune to provide herd protection against the novel coronavirus.“
> …Something I am still annoyed by is the way editions work with traditional publishers and with Amazon.

I created a pair of tools [1][2] to address exactly this issue, but I kinda left developing it midway.

One way to solve this issue is by publishing your manuscript like a website. I know that while it solves the issue of releasing the most updated edition/version of your book, it probably does not exactly solve the perception held by the readers of 'what is a book' vs. a website–and therefore, only a few would be willing to pay you for it.

The other solution, imo, is to bring a book-like experience on the web, but that is a whole another beast altogether.

[1] https://github.com/bookiza/bookiza.cli

[2] https://bubblin.io
It's also often (ab)used far too often to justify performing no optimisation at all.
Each city has completely different job markets. Even within the same country, salaries aren't even level (as is the case between different US cities).
sure, sometimes your approach is at fault, but as the rule says, sometimes it's just a surprising bottleneck. Having done a lot of embedded work, I've found that many of those can often be fixed in a straightforward manner. Sometimes, you have to change your approach though.
Will do, she set it up on Wix herself to learn a little about how to do all of this. I'm surprised they don't offer an RSS feed, I'll help her out with that.

edit:

The feed is apparently https://www.devaboone.com/blog-feed.xml and the Wix editor gives you no ability to add <head> tags, but there it is.
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You think you're making a point here, but there's a mistake in your reasoning. You're thinking that "fair" pay is whatever allows you to beat the market, and since if Mozilla only paid its c-suite $300k-$500k, it would not (you think) be able to compete with other companies with high paid execs, this proves that whatever they're paying the execs now must be fair.

But ... "fair" pay does not mean the same thing as "whatever is financially best for the company to pay its employees". Take the other end of that bargain: is it fair for Mozilla to pay their janitors a reproduction level wage? Most of us (except the hard core right-wing libertarians) say no, that's why we have a minimum wage (which many of us also think is too low).

The elision of the distinction between "fair" and "whatever the market rewards you for doing" isn't an argument, it's just crass market-worship.

Edit: this post is pretty clearly argued, and downvoting without even a comment is exactly the kind of ideological nonsense that this site simultaneously prides itself on not doing (contra Reddit), and yet hilariously symbolizes.
Half a phone? The screen repairs are like $100-200 depending on your model, while the new phone is over $1000. It's also not just the glass, when you get your iPhone screen replaced, they replace the entire front half of your phone, basically everything involved with the display, and put a new front on. So I think you are pretty wrong here, I think they charge less than half the phone, and you actually get half of a new phone.
When you have kids, bills, trying to save for retirement, etc. I can’t afford to be out of work for an extended period of time. Even making $120K a year (just trying to make the math easy), means every month I am out of work I am losing $10K.

But I was replying to this...

If you’re qualified to write that kind of code, basic needs are surely well taken care of and are the least of your concerns.

The Mozilla developers aren’t getting paid minimum wage by any means, nor am I doubting their skills, but they definitely aren’t making the salaries of great engineers if levels.fyi is accurate.

That was my entire point. I wouldn’t get past the first technical screen for an entry level software engineer at $BigTech without “grinding leetCode ((tm) r/cscareerquestions) as a CRUD developer, but I made about that much even before I got a consulting job at $BigTech and I am living on the opposite coast from Silicon Valley.
Thanks for this. I was wanting to look into this, and this page is way more than enough to get me started.
Public transit is almost always unprofitable without some way of capturing the increased land value near the stations.

Supposedly some subways (eg Hong Kong?) own the land near the stations and use the rents to fund the subway, rather than just using fares.

A land value tax that goes back into public transit would probably work too.
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