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i feel like we're one streaming service away from people becoming fed up with the whole idea and going back to torrents. having to pay for five subscriptions just to see the one show you want in each every quarter will be too much.
okay that's one more possbility. It's not 100% likely to be able to be vaccined out, from what I've seen. What are the odds of the vaccine working?
Thanks.

Nhost and Supabase both use Postgres.

The difference is that we use GraphQL (Hasura) for the API layer. We also offer authentication (email/password + OAuth) and storage (Minio S3) with permissions.

I think I've read something about Supabase adding authentication recently or they are working on it (https://supabase.io/docs/library/authentication/).
Of course everyone knows about JTAG. It's not a "backdoor".
"Grubhub was against place and pay at first, when UberEats and Doordash began doing it (not because Grubhub is selfless but because partnered restaurants are way more profitable), but resisting place and pay turned out to be a recipe for losing market share so that's no longer the case."

If Grubhub actually took a stand and showed they not only did not do this sort of behavior, I would actually use it, and I would pay the premium for delivery (to make sure the restaurant makes money and the driver makes money).

Instead, I never use your service, and I never plan to. I go out of my way to call a restaurant (and because of shady behavior like that, I take the extra time to make sure it is that restaurant and not some call center) and I will physically go to a restaurant because to pick up my order, so I know they are not losing money on orders.
Isn't terrorism trying to achieve a political goal through violence? Getting ransom money is just garden variety greed imo.
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This should be an easy enforcement action for the FTC under existing authority. Either these stores explain you are buying a license for an indefinite period of use, or they ensure you actually own a copy.

Considering how unpopular tech companies are in politics right now, an advocacy group pushing for this could possibly be successful.

It would required petitions, landing pages with catchy phrases, etc...
I believe the US government is actively undermining products that don't have such backdoors.

For example, the US DoD now classifies JetBrains products as prohibited, which trickles down from the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. I'm guessing this is because they are foreign-controlled, and refuse to comply with National Security Letters requesting backdoor insertions.
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Ask HN: Have you forgone a telephone number with a transition to remote?
I moved to a work from home situation, and in turn gave up having an office telephone number because I don't have or need a desk phone at home, and it is a cost savings for my company to eliminate unused VoIP services. A traditional phone is completely unnecessary for my work with Zoom, Google Voice [1], Signal, etc.

The only downside is so many contact forms even for tech companies insist on a phone number as a required field. I certainly won't supply a personal mobile number, because constant hounding by salespeople is still a thing.

Is anyone else's perspective on a commercial entities that require voice phone numbers being diminished?

[1] I do have a GV number I use for legitimate business contacts, but since it rings to my mobile, its kept close to avoid sales spam, which seems to be getting worse in 2020.
> A Like if I buy a book from a bookshop who buy it from the publisher.

No it is not the same, because there is no business agreement between Grubhub and the restaurant here unwilling and unaware restaurants aren't "kitchens" working for Grubhub.

Grubhub wouldn't dare pulling that stunt with McDonalds or BurgerKing and list their products, use their corporate identity and sandwich pictures without an agreement or striking a deal before hand.

They are preying on smaller restaurants because they know it's harder for the little guy to fight back, it's the very definition of predatory behaviour. You just don't see anything wrong with that.
Might I ask what company, and if they hire EU citizens? (email is in my profile)
> There are no real shortages of food or shelter at this time. We should be able to support a very large number of people working on human development: scientists and technologists, medical professionals and even wide-spread service jobs, especially if better paid.

But "just having food and shelter" is by no means the thing to be overcome. Or do you think that food and shelter just appears like magic in front of everyone?
We need people to grow the food, collect it, distribute it, arrange it on shelves or serve it in restaurants. We need people to build homes (and implicitly the materials that need to be dug up or obtained from somewhere), sell them, renovate them, maintain them. And what about the huge infrastructure that goes around doing all this, the roads, the water treatment plants, the garbage collection? Who's gonna do all that? Oh, right, we have food and shelter, that's enough, I forgot.

If the proportion of people who want to do science/progressive stuff is larger than what is sustainable to do all that I was listing above as well, wouldn't you say that becomes a problem?
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Then the at-risk should be in isolation, not the low-risk and healthy. It's insane to stop the world because of a tiny percentage of the population. Humans can't live like this, even if it means slightly more deaths over time.
Let them come. Asshole companies shouldn't discourage people from building cool things. Until the C&D arrives, the author ought to express themselves in defiance of Nintendo.
Base 10 doesn't fit particularly well with our reality, it was picked for historical reasons. Every other base works just as well.
Sorry, might be off topic.. but i'm a big fan of the CSS here
It’s a licensing issue- you could do that if HBO granted you a license to do that. They don’t when you “buy” GoT online. I’m sure if you offered them a few hundred million dollars they’d let you.
We're looking for ways to reduce the friction needed to get support, and this is a super interesting use case we haven't thought of!
I'm not necessarily advocating to remove the lock downs and instead simply throwing our hands up and going "oh well!", but I can't help but wonder whether there is something better than the current system. I hate this virus, I hate what it's done to the world, I hate that I'm completely powerless to do anything about it. Instead, I'm left with a chorus of desperate screams where my thoughts once were, with no one to listen and no prospect of change anytime soon.

There has to be a better solution than this, doesn't there?
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I am comfortable right now. I never stopped being uncomfortable with those things because for me personally the risk is miniscule. I can understand how others in high risk groups are concerned, but the reality is that the baseline danger level going forward is always going to be a little higher than in was in 2019. Not even a vaccine will change that reality so we're eventually going to have to get over our fears.
Hey!

I’m pretty young and not an engineer but I’ve found that by being interested in a lot of things and seeking out people / companies rather than specific roles I’m always in high enough demand.

When I see or meet someone interesting I make time to talk with them about it. When I see a role online I reach out to someone in that role. I often write “cover letters” that are actually focused on what’s cool / challenging about the situation a company could be facing.

I think knowing people and being known is the best option.
Since the losses in the analog conversion process cannot be determined exactly, the model is bound to add some noise to the converted audio. Video has more spatial data to guess the color and motion so it's easier in practice.

The unconverted sound may be crisper and has more details but, there's no guarantee that they're the original details so, it won't be the original recording itself.
CD's do break, and I'll tire of the music on it. Spotify is cheaper than a CD a month and provides a superior service than radio or music TV ever did.

I have absolutely no need to own a piece of music.

I'd start here about Spotify not paying artists enough. But honestly, the music industry - as a whole - has been screwing over artists for decades, at least, so it is pretty much same thing in a different dress. If I'm going to support musicians more directly, I'll head over to Bandcamp while still giving the artist listens on spotify if they have music there.
I think the parent comment was talking about Nest Hubs / Google Homes, which are arguably voice first via the Google Assistant. I can only imagine but if I had, much more significant, vision issues then I think I'd use it even more.
Try to look from another lens.

Climate change deniers want to avoid responsibility for the economic damage that their polluting policies are going to have on society. They want accountability from others, but not themselves. How many have done the calculations to work out the second and third order effects of their oil burning agenda? ...
I ran my own Pi0w site through the test to see how it compares. About 35% of the time is spent on SSL, similar to what this person saw.

I'm not going to remove SSL, but I'm surprised it is such a big part of the page load.
To me, the fact that you’re in an environment where knowing the digits of x/7 is appreciated is the most-impressive thing of all!
You too! I already see myself sticking with it. Not that I'd delete my .vimrc though. That is still the preferred choice to just 'quickly edit this file here'.
> AMD GPUs have near zero support in major ML frameworks.

That is incorrect - I have been running Tensorflow on RX5*0 cards for close to 2 years now. I even transitioned to TF2 with no problem. Granted, I have to be extra careful about kernel versions, and upgrading kernels is a delicate dance involving AMD driver modules and ROCm & rocm-tensorflow. My setup is certainly finicky, but to say AMD GPUs have near zero support is false.
Id call 10K a bit more than a few K
We're talking about cooked food here though, not sure if it applies
> because there is no business agreement between Grubhub and the restaurant

You don’t need an agreement to resell product that you have purchased.

Or is everyone on HN now suddenly in favour of scrapping the first sale doctrine and allowing manufacturers to control if you can resell your property?

Madness. If GrubHub are able to buy the product they should be able to resell it.
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The NumFOCUS COC committee had “made at least two thousand people feel uncomfortable”.
I actually don't think it's fair to "make the observation".

There are multiple issues at play here:

Who is paying this person and what do they have to gain from people panicking and selling shares?

How is this an observation given the title? It's a proclamation. I can write the exact same article and say that the current climate is here to say.

Putting your investments where your mouth is shows that you don't have a specific agenda and that you're being honest and truthful in your writing. I don't advise people to do things I wouldn't do, why should we give market "journalists" a pass?

If you literally write an article proclaiming "The Stock Market is on the Edge of a Historic Crash" then there's no honest reason why if you wrote that and believe it that you would have any problem whatsoever in showing the audience how you adjusted your trading strategy. Anything besides that to me is horseshoe, which is why I never read or pay attention to these articles.
These documents don't stop at describing the appropriate mechanism for reporting an incident, but rather they address topics of remediation and punishment: topics of justice.

defen points out that when these constitutions tread into topics of justice, they would do well to consider how to set up a fair system and what common mistakes to avoid.

This is a reasonable point and should not be at all controversial. Do you want fair treatment?
I had a subscription to Discover a number of years ago. I'm sad to see that they've started dumbing things down.
KeepassXC on desktop Linux + KeepassDX on Android, database synced using Syncthing.

Reasons: Just works, (almost) never has to rely on clipboard, no browser add-on needed, doesn't rely on Android's autofill system (which is buggy, at least on my old phone), is an established open-source standard that I can continue to use for years without fear of a "service" closing up shop and disappearing off the face of the earth.
I've recently played with an open source alternative called foam, which builds a similar experience to Obsidian but inside a VSCode workspace. It's a new project, but under active development, and is already pretty close to the base Obsidian experience of notes + backlinks + graphing https://github.com/foambubble/foam/
I highly support writing cover letters. Once you get into the groove of having a heavily iterated cover letter template it becomes rather quick to swap things around and customize details to the job posting. In my opinion it really sets you apart from those who don't bother writing one at all, even if their resume is shinier. A little bit of extra effort at the early stage gets a strong multiplier.

Having spoken to those on the other side, "easy apply" positions get absolutely flooded and sifting through so many applications makes the hiring manager gloss over people, skipping them entirely no matter how effective your short blurb is in the condensed list. Imagine how easy it is to scroll past an HN post you're only mildy interested in at a glance. So don't let that be your main method even if you apply to a bunch a day that way. You don't want to fight uphill against probability and human attention span.

I should also add - being early to apply to a position is HUGE. I can't overstate this enough. Once the position has a certain number of candidates each person gets less and less attention until the behavior I mentioned earlier is exhibited.
> improve the world in objective ways

Not to get all relativist, but "improve" and "objective" in the same sentence is quite the oxymoron. Ask any two randomly picked people in the world how to improve said world and you'll find they have very different, subjective, ideas of what that means.
pindab0ter's idea, as I read it, is that no, CoCs are not inherently weapons to exclude people for no reason. They typically language about what constitutes bigotry. In the OP, yes, the CoC was weaponized, but it doesn't reflect a necessary fault in CoCs in general.

Edit: I'm not sure what is even meant by "weaponize." Is the implication that somebody at the conference had vendetta against OP? It's clear that CoCs give people more power, which is a weapon, in a sense. Would reporting someone for CoC violation for sexual misconduct at a conference be an example of weaponization?
There are various types of assets people can invest on, stock is a type of asset. If people fear an economic collapse they'll move their money to commodities, gold, whatever. It's not a zero sum game, investors are trying to optimize returns not number of yacht they own.
No lawyer but demonstrating that "only an idiot blames the company cooking the food when the independently-contracted delivery guy is too slow" seems quite challenging, people leave reviews for all kinds of random, unrelated reasons.

I would never make a bet on peoples inability to be idiots.
> Genuinely “brainy” people can find new ways to contribute to society, there can never be too any of them.

"brainy" people can only contribute more than their non-brainy counterparts when they can leverage meaningful amounts of resources. a really clever person working a register in mcdonalds is not a whole lot more productive than a barely competent employee. even if they have some brilliant idea to streamline things in the store, no one will care.

it's entirely possible to have more "brainy" people than there are opportunities available for them to leverage their intelligence. if resources are diverted to develop "brainy" people, then this would be a case where there are too many of them.
Startups want generalists. Larger companies want specialists.

The more areas of expertise you have mid/Sr.-level skills in the smaller the company you should try to work at.

For example someone who can code frontend, backend and run DevOps is invaluable to an early stage company as it means hiring 1 person instead of 3 (which they probably don't have the workload or budget to hire anyway).

At larger companies, your other skills won't net you much because they have 40hrs/week of frontend work they want you to focus on and continue to get better at.
Show HN: HN-Inspired Book: Mind Management, Not Time Management
10 years ago, I got a book deal to write Design for Hackers – thanks to the Hacker News community.

Nothing I had learned about productivity prepared me to write a book.

I then dug into the science behind creativity. I wrote a blog post which led to collab. with Dan Ariely on Timeful, which Google bought.

After more experimentation, this week I self published, Mind Management, Not Time Management.

The gist:

- “There’s only 24 hours in a day”. What it really means is “time management” is squeezing blood from a stone.

- You have to be creative to stay relevant in the robot apocalypse.

- We know from the work of neuroscientists Konious and Beeman that insightful thinking is unique. Promoted by a relaxed mood. A fragile state: Hard to get into, easy to ruin.

- We have “peak” and “off-peak” times of day. It’s the off-peak times when you’re more creative.

- 4 stages to creativity: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Verification. Respect these stages.

- Work with natural cycles in the day, week, month, or year to go through the 4 stages. (Use night’s sleep as Incubation.)

- Organize tasks not by project but by mental state. Seven mental states I use: Prioritize, Explore, Research, Generate, Polish, Administrate, Recharge.

- Not all hours are equal. There aren’t 24 hours in the day – there’s an hour here or there for various mental states.

- Harness cycles, work by mental state, build systems that account for Incubation.

- You want creative systems to be antifragile. Leave slack for chaos, be ready to capture the opportunities chaos presents.

I put up a sample of the first chapter on my website. That’s over here: https://kdv.co/mmtint

There’s a little more in the free Kindle sample, which is available here: https://kdv.co/mind

Take a look. Does this sound like something that could help you with creative work? Any methods you've found that work for you?
Thanks for the mention - I’m a cofounder of Supabase.

Yes, we have released Auth, using Postgres Row Level Security and Netlify’s GoTrue.

Here are the links you’re looking for:

https://supabase.io/blog/2020/08/05/supabase-auth

https://supabase.io/docs/library/user-management
This is how you end up with places like Manhattan and SF. And people wonder why the rich also happen to be smart...
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No, but it is a tragedy of the commons situation - the individuals make out like bandits while the social capital is drawn down.
Yea it's a constant trade off between offering a good service with a good and easy pricing.

If you have custom needs I can help you out. Just send me an email: johan@nhost.io.
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Grubhub often partners with restaurants. The fact they do not disclose the cases when they do not is very deceptive.
> Writing is about reaching all of your audience.

Sorry to be nitpicking. It sounds like what you really mean is "writing is about reaching the widest audience possible". I would argue that it's not true. Writers can try to reach any limited slice of the public they dream of, and nothing more beyond that.

That means writing doesn't need to be as simple as possible. Merely as simple as needed.
For some pricing perspective, I'm on firebase/cloud functions. I pay ~$10/month for their smallest cloud sql postgres instance and the rest of the usage pretty much falls under their free tier.

For that $10, I get database backups, custom domains and no idea what team projects are, but I can add others to my project. On top of that, I also get everything else that firebase offers... task queue (PubSub), log analysis, hosting, realtime database, analytics, ability to hire someone who knows firebase/gcp, google's entire devops team.

In order to get a bit closer to that level of features, I'd have to bump up to the $39/mo plan. While I appreciate the competition, this doesn't compete for me yet.
This is the one I'm using: https://github.com/Qeole/colorediffs. I installed it several years ago, so I'm not entirely sure whether you can install it on a current version of Thunderbird, but it is still working with my installation.
> Don't read into things that aren't there.

I think I'm allowed to read words and gauge sentiment, and you're allowed to correct it as you have. No biggie.

One thing to note however is that the term NIMBY has a negative connotation, especially on this site.
> an ostentatious “committee” that listens only to one side and never gives the other side the chance to get details on how things were perceived or why it’s a violation?

If this upsets you, definitely do not research Title IX tribunals.
(This user was lying, and their link is, as 'dredmorbius notes, a thinktank funded by Exxon and the Koch brothers.)

https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira...

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-...
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Which is great, unless your entire country is swallowed up by social and educational problems that enable a corrupt, fascist government, or if deforestation and despeciation continues at its current pace. The technological gains from rockets, solar panels, and electric cars won't matter then. Figure those things out, and then a trip to Mars won't look like a sci-fi futurist's vanity project.
Why is this comment, and not the culture war nonsense, not at the top of the page?

Having watched Howard's talk, clearly he's right and the conference was wrong. This was respectful and appropriate, period. Someone clearly had an axe to grind about a separate topic.

That said, some of the comments here are just off the wall paranoia, and really distasteful. I mean, look: while it was enforced badly it's certainly not innapropriate for a conference to demand, y'know, that it's speakers not be assholes. There was a real and pretty awful culture in the open source world about this stuff for a long time, and it's a good thing that we're cleaning that up.
I never said all billionaires are geniuses. You are not engaging in a sincere conversation.
This is even more clear with larger expansions like `1/99989999 =1.00010002000300050008001300210034005500890144...×10−8`

See discussion on math overflow here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/656183/why-does-fra...
Grubhub uses "pickup restaurants" in its ordering UI to refer to restaurants where the final customer has to go pick up the food, so I don't think many consumers would understand this to refer to restaurants where Grubhub drivers do the pickup.
1. Make multiple versions of your resume tailored to different kinds of positions

2. Sharpen your skills in detail areas of specialization before interviews

3. Make a list of the coolest things you’ve done

4. Practice stories related to those things that you can bring up in response to various questions

5. Select different items from that list to highlight for different positions

6. Build an additional portfolio of work to support your capabilities to succeed in the positions you’re applying for
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