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Some decent points. 80% is good to see. The problem is I don't see anyway companies drop Microsoft. Everyone already has teams or chat for free, are they going to pay for slack now? Assuming slack moves to the same model, buy the salesforce suite and get slack, how much added value is slack really providing? Will companies be willing to pay more now that slack is included even though they already have chat apps? I'm not super knowledgeable on salesforce, but afaik only sales people have the subscription, so will companies have different chat apps for sales and everyone else? Seems like it would be easier to just put the sales people on teams with everyone else. Is slack a big enough perk that it would stop companies that are considering dropping salesforce? Is that worth 28 billion? That's really the only use I see. I agree this is a great move for slack, questioning how salesforce is able to leverage slack here when everyone else gives their chats away for free.
> They get slashed when anyone submits evidence of them doing this.

Who will record this "evidence" to the blockchain? Anyway there will be two versions of the blockchain. In one of them attacker's stake was not slashed and there is no any "evidence" of his malicious actions.
Can you explain the shortcomings of both Google suite and MSO on mobile/web you mention?
In the meantime, how about just placing the More link at the top of the comments section in addition to the bottom so it stands out better?
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They're better off becoming independent. There's nothing for them in the United States. The statehood cry is only coming from cynical democrats and corrupt business politicians in PR whose only interest is in trade with the US for their own benefit because they have financial connections to the US, not ordinary Puerto Ricans. The only reason statehood gets so high in these polls is that the commonwealth, free association and independence voters have been boycotting the plebiscites forever.
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Check out Levels.fyi and Blind. If you're in NYC, it's definitely possible to hit above $180k at a Series B-ish startup. It goes much higher as well with FAANG and some of the unicorn level startups as well.
I consider gift cards to be the worst gift. You’ve just obligated me to shop somewhere where I might not need to shop, or now I have to remember I have this gift card and use it. I like to travel light, and have less things on my mind.

You’ve just given the merchant an interest free loan that they can invest, instead of giving me cash which I could have invested if I wanted. Or spent if I wanted.
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I saw the news around running container images as artifacts which is welcome. Still the 15 min limit restricts a lot of use cases.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-containe...
We should aim to not use Snap, please! :/
Being a millionaire isn't enough for most people to retire these days unless you are older or relatively close to death.
Would this end up cheaper than fargate spot pricing?
Sci-hub appears to have only the first page. Is that fixable?
2nding mechanical watches, though my preferred value brand is Orient, but nothing wrong with Vostok. Seiko seems overpriced these days, Orient seems like the new Seiko (though Orient and Seiko are both owned by the same holding company, which happens to be Epson (yeah, as in Epson printers)).
I read their licence agreement recently, and you can only use San Francisco for mockups/screenshots demonstrating app/iOS functionality.
That's exactly how the story went, though…
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
Well, there are. Actually, misfolded proteins are implicated in some diseases.

I'm not sure if every possible sequence of amino acids has a unique dominant folding. But ones that don't, wouldn't be nearly as useful biologically, because you couldn't rely on them to do their jobs. So they would not be selected for. The ones that actually get coded for by genes fold up more consistently.
I can't see a way to frame it otherwise - it's certainly functionally identical in terms of effect, both on the end user's need and on Apple's interests to sell hardware.
This article says there are "over 10,000" engineers working at Google:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/07/31/is-working-at-...

This Wikipedia entry says there are 3.87 million professional software engineers in the U.S.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph....

So if we're generous and say FAANGs employ 100K engineers, that would be about roughly 2.6% of U.S. software engineers.
I did the [Computer Architecture and the Hardware/Software Interface](https://bradfieldcs.com/courses/architecture/) course and really enjoyed it.

I applied for the CSI program and really hope I get to do it this coming year. I got a ton of value out of the above course ($1800).

The CSI course is 10-20 hours a week for the year.

Lastly, up to this point I've been self-taught through Udemy. The problem with that is, sometimes, if you're stuck on something, it might take you 8 hours or more to figure it out. Where if you have someone knowledgeable, they can explain it in 15 minutes. Bradfield seems to do the best at that.

I've tried hiring a tutor outside of a MOOC and asking them for help, but it wasn't quite the same as a teacher who is actively engaged with the material.
I’m guessing more people do this, they just don’t post about it.

I made my own solution to this 6 years ago and use it to this day. my solution leverages google people api so it’s automatically synced as part of the notes field of my contacts, and I have an app in my iphone and on my desktop and a cloud interface to quickly manage and query the data.

10/10 recommend and wish it was more normalized
State creation has been partisan for much of this country's history for what it's worth. I find any excuse for not giving the district two senators and a representative (or more) to be unconscionable and based in partisan politics. You are welcome to argue otherwise.
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I gave up and went back to linux, I had crazy issues with simple things- like not being able to _rename files_ if the wsl for linux git had cloned the file (but it would work if windows git had cloned it). Death by hundreds of little cuts like this for me. Visual studio code worked just as well if not better on a mac or linux.
Experienced Rails developers at 42-60K?
Really need this in higher res!

My go-to mind-blowing visualization is this incredible video: https://vimeo.com/260291601/505c3bfec8
I think it feels MORE genuine as the user went out of their way to make sure they could recall information that is important to their contacts. Taking notes in class so you can say you remembered isn't disingenuous.
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I don't think many people in tech get a "decent salary". HN crowd is way above average, and a lot of people here are quite senior.
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BTW - the Change Log page for Missive is really neat. Features and bugfixes going all the way back to May 2016!

https://missiveapp.com/changelog
What has happened in 2014? Is that a time when brain-washing campaign in crypto-media has been started? "Slashing" is not a solution to this problem.
A professional certification, much like the A+ certification that gives you a piece of paper to qualify you for entry work into IT. They're exclusively on Coursera for now, so it's more like Online learning at a University--I took a few classes online for my undergrad and it was kind of the same: online lectures, Q/A, forum participation points with periodic exams and a final. I'm told those bootcamps varies between pretty generic and cookie-cutter to a pretty intense mentorship-driven place, so I can't really say one or the other as all my tech stuff is self-taught and then supplemented with online courses and on the job projects, but my sector of fintech is incredibly niche so there isn't really any other option.

Give it a shot, you can survey most courses on Coursera (where Google is offering said certification) for free and pay if you want to stay and earn a certificate. Udemy is another one I used when I wanted to hone my python skills when I was going from my developer role at IBM.
Get a domain and use that address with protonmail. If you are not paying to PM, you can forward e-mails from your domain to PM.
Let me know when Contacts adds the ability to add spouses and children, and previous gifts at Christmas time. ;)
Show HN: Made Android app to browse Reddit in form of quiz-“Guess the Subreddit”
Playstore link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supervoid.guessthesubreddit

Also on Product Hunt : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/guess-the-subreddit-reddit-quiz-game

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Developed using React Native

Saw that meme this morning, yeah? Or that cute puppy video, you liked it... but do you remember which subreddit it is from? And there's so many related subreddits that you don't know of which have better content! What if there was a not-so-boring way to get to all this...

Well, here's a gamified Reddit experience, just for you!

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> Likewise, selecting a column not present in a GROUP BY leads to random values being returned.

That hasn't been the default behavior for something like 5 years.

Beyond that the values aren't "random" as much as "one of the values from the set" which can be a useful feature in cares where you want any of the values and don't want the performance hit that comes with using an aggregate function particularly on very very large sets.
I just checked cloudwatch for my rust-based function, I'm now being billed 1ms :D
I wonder if Purism has any long term plans for a smart watch.
Ask HN: Do you write quick and dirty hacks using Lisp?
To those who know both Lisp and Python: Which one you prefer to use to write quick and dirty hacks? Which one you prefer for writing applications that will be used and maintained over a long period of time?

I know Python, Common Lisp and Scheme but I find myself reaching out for Python every time I have to write a quick and dirty hack. This is due to more familiarity with Python which makes me more comfortable with Python. What are your experiences? Maybe it will convince me to go all in and use Lisp all the time. :-)
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The mistake we made was thinking we had to compete with Apple. Unfortunately, we realized that a little too late -- had we kept to our own pace we'd still be around, and by now would have figured out how to reach a more mainstream market.
Save all the trouble. Gift money. They can buy whatever they want/need/like : groceries, fruits, ice-cream, DSLR, iPhone, Tesla, accesories for stuff they already have, etc. Absolutely full freedom on what to buy, where to buy, when to buy.

We need to de-stigmatise / un-shame gifting cash.
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I specialize in optimizing code to achieve better performance (especially in image processing).
With webgl the lines have pretty bad aliasing.
I understand Russia didn't intervened decisively because the current president is pro-western (Soros et al). This serious defeat made it clear to Armenia who can count on when shots are fired.
FWIW, a little experimented I just ran showed me that with simple layers the cold start time of my little 3MB Go app was <100ms, using the Docker image `amazon/aws-lambda-go:1` instead took ~1500ms.

- - - -

REPORT RequestId: f905d5fe-a64e-48c8-b1f2-6535640a6f82 Duration: 7.55 ms Billed Duration: 1309 ms Memory Size: 256 MB Max Memory Used: 49 MB Init Duration: 1301.10 ms

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REPORT RequestId: 89afb20d-bc49-4d89-91f0-f1ef62ac99aa Duration: 12.20 ms Billed Duration: 13 ms Memory Size: 256 MB Max Memory Used: 35 MB Init Duration: 85.37 ms
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I'm not saying farmers shouldn't get the subsidies. But no one should have a problem if the sector's inefficiencies are removed and that generates frictional unemployment.

Uh, if they have access to every facility to improve but instead of availing of it, they choose to squander it all, I'm not going to be exactly sympathetic with them. I've firsthand seen the mindset of these people who want to do nothing all day and expect government dole-outs all the time.
Sam Altman essays read like someone ran Paul Graham's essays through GPT-3 (or vice versa). I'm excited for the day they do the big reveal.
Is that a link to fairy tales from Vitalik?
The fact that "stateless client" is written in Ethereum 2.0 roadmap is an evidence that this project has no future.
I find it very interesting how the very fuzzy high-low scale has changed over time. I believe at this point this scale is meaningless.
Hm, not what I observed so far. Same Go application taking 1.5s instead of ~50ms to cold start.
Firsthand experience and many folks I know have seen it. Some of them actually turned to farming seeing the benefits and are actually generating humongous amounts of profits. Like my immediate neighbor is doing it right now. I'm not from Punjab, it might be different there.
Gift giving advice: Only give gifts to people who will initially refuse them.
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The subscription model is a true modernized return to the good old ways of creating a product that sells because it’s good quality. How? If a user is not satisfied, they will stop paying. Slack has all the incentives to improve their product, especially in the face of competition.
Hit $1M after about 6 years at FAANG
That message isn't as generic as it seems. It was introduced for political censorship, to suppress information detrimental to Biden. This is mainly the content of Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive, which wasn't even hacked. (he abandoned it, subject to state law and a computer repair contract) There was also a GMail account of a former business partner that was voluntarily turned over to reporters.

Stories about the laptop occasionally show up on HN, quickly flagged into oblivion. FYI, the video actually exists, but even the Biden-hating sites usually don't provide links because it is extremely NSFW. Those... scenes... are forever burned into my brain.
The article terms them self-assembling nanomachines. It might be more helpful to think of them as tools with a specific purpose.

So if you have, for example, cystic fibrosis, you have a defect in a cell channel called the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) and its job is to handle traffic of specific molecules into and out of the cell.

So your question is a little like asking "Why can't the cell just spit out random tools that randomly do different things?" And the answer is that it's not helpful to the cell if wrenches sometimes randomly morph into hammers or screw drivers when you ordered X number of wrenches because DNA is the blueprint instructions for creating this tiny little factory of life called a cell.

It's coded to create wrenches and it's coded to create a specific number of wrenches and it's not necessarily more useful for misfolds to turn into random other tools instead of the pile of junk that misfolds create.
I was playing the note chasing app game, too. I eventually settled on the native iOS/macOS notes. I like it because I don't get paralyzed by trying to perfect the organization of my notes, and it syncs across my devices as expected.
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ESP (extra sensory perception for predicting the future) has been peer reviewed.

Stripped of all the political connotations it's actually kind of an interesting debate for scientists to have.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html
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For me, nothing comes close to perl when manipulating plain text files.

No need to import anything, or thinking about modules, objects and stuff, just write the code to do the task at hand and you are done.
> and staying out of the obesity BMI band only decreases lifetime cancer risk

Three times as many people die from cancer now than in 1900!

Our percentage risk of dying from cancer decreases significantly after about 65 - but only because because heart disease and mental health issues become so deadly: https://flowingdata.com/2016/01/05/causes-of-death/

Nice infographic on actual versus perceived versus media: https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/986272007770615811?l...

A mite morbid topic, but interesting to me because the facts seem so contrary to my intuitions. PS: I am not a specialist in the topic, the above is just from a quick google.
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> Yeah, having taken a tour of their Hawthorne factory, it is awesome.

How long ago? Did you get to hang out and eat at the mezzanine?

As for how daunting, maybe it's just because I've been into Motorsports for most of my Life and Aerospace is the most often transitioned to Industry from Automotive I knew (as much as anyone not hands-on with the project could be I suppose) what an immense feat that was. Also I was at the Mars Desert Research Station and got to ask as many questions as I wanted about it, and I'm also a member of The Mars Society.

BUT I still get giddy and have goosebumps going back and watching highlights of the first successful landing as I saw it on the streamcast with a friend who is doing his now doing his Masters in Iceland and wants to be the first wave of Martian colonizers because of that event.

I also saw the first re-landing mission at Vandenburg in 2018, the one that lit up the sky and made people think it was 'aliens' all over SoCal. We saw it from the Eagle's Nest where a bunch of NASA and SpaceX guys watch it from and met one of the non-crew Dragon capsule pilots and you could still get an idea of the scale of it from up there as I've seen the F9, too.

But SN2 at Boca was breathtakingly massive when it stood in its full glory on the launchpad, and to think this too will be reusable but will take Humans to Mars makes feel think the World still makes some sense.
> How did this even pass the _smell_ test?

Because attackers only have to find one place that was unlucky in implementation, and hence defenders are burdened with eliminting every last one of them.

This is why implementing your network protocols in unsafe languages is bad. Testing can just find some bugs, not ensure absence of bugs.
It’s also possible that it’s for tax compliance. When doing online commerce, it is sometimes required for the merchant to charge different tax rates depending on the location of the buyer, and then remit that tax to the corresponding government tax authority. For some countries, a reverse charge mechanism is possible, where the merchant puts the relevant tax info on the invoices and the buyer is supposed to pay the tax to their own tax authority directly. In any case, the IP address is an important piece of due-diligence evidence, which supports the merchant’s claim that the buyer is from a particular location. So if a merchant detects a VPN address, it’s not a good piece of location evidence, and so they refuse to do business outright.
It's all a matter of time but most restaurants aren't physically configured to make a lot of robotics easy to implement. We'll see much faster adoption if a number of chains redo their infrastructure to be robot-first. It'll almost certainly happen within the next 10 years at some chains.
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I think this reads to me exactly like “if you really cared enough to get there you would just be able to run fast enough rather than use a car”.

It’s a weird equation of care and ability while at the same time taking someone seeking out a tool to better achieve X as evidence of not caring about X. One of those connections seems arbitrary to me, the other backwards.
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If someone uses your API wrong, that's their bug. If a huge number of people use your API wrong, that's your bug.
Nix[1] is a package manager for linux and macos that solves this problem beautifully. You can have any variation (version, build options, dependencies, etc) of a package installed natively without conflicting with eachother because the filesystem path includes a hash of the build instructions. It works really, really well for reproducibility and eliminating the "works on my machine" problem. I've been using it exckusively for dev machines and servers for years.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th edition (2020).
Quick question on Alphafold - is it a one time effort ? Like human genome sequencing.

Like if we 3d map all the 170 million sequences (using alphafold or whatever),we are done right ? We can just look up in the library.

New protein sequences don't continually get created ?
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