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Former Ambrosia employee checking in! TomWoozle was my handle back then.

I worked at the company from 2003-2005, having (like many here) grown up on their games and spent hours modding Escape Velocity.

I mainly worked on the website (I wrote a version of the online store ground up in PHP), but also ran testing for a while and worked managing the later Windows conversion of EV Nova.

It was an incredible place to work and I learnt so so much. Andrew was an amazing mentor and an extremely generous guy. My time there absolutely changed my life.

One thing that stands out, and it feels like something that won’t be regained from that era, is that everyone there was just having great great fun. I loved going to work. We were a business, but I never remember money being the deciding factor in any decision. It was all passion.

I miss those times!

If people are interested AMA (though late here so may be tomorrow when I answer).
You must have just awoken from a cryogenic sleep if you still think Charlottesville was a significant incident after all the violence that occurred over the summer.
Tesla and SpaceX make things. Calling them “hype machines” when there are countless tech companies that have literally ran on hype and have no product to show for it is doing a massive disservice to what Musk has done.
I live in Austin, Oracle has a huge campus here that looks as big as an airport building with terminals/gates and all the trimmings.

It's a beautiful building that gentrified the whole area, for better or worse. I ate there a couple of times, it's nice inside too!

I love biking/walking around the Oracle campus area because they made a bike path and the area is safer than it was before.
That being said, I know a couple of people who work there and they don't like their job - it's thankless - but I think that's the same with all big companies where you're just another number.

When the pandemic hit everyone started working from home and this mega-building was pretty much empty. I am not surprised they're gonna move their HQ here. That's because they got plenty of office space to fill amongst other reasons. Also with favorable taxes and lots of space to expand (if they ever need to) as they hire more and more people. Good thing for those who purchased homes near the campus! Their value will keep increasing as more "execs" move here after the pandemic settles.
based on the skyrocketing real estate prices in Phoenix, I suspect many Californians are moving to AZ.
> There is no summer which have had no winds, no winters that have had no insolation or vice versa.

The part of "no production" were not meant to be taken literally. If you want a more precise statement then let me put it this way:

For PV in central europe even an overcapacity factor of 5 would be insufficient to cover the difference between summer and winter. Germany's PV plants produced 7.3TWh during June 2019 and 0.58TWh during december 2018.

Wind does look a bit better as far as seasonal differences go (about 4-5x) but it suffers from more short-term variability, so you might need less seasonal storage for it but it would require more medium-term (multi-day or -week) storage compared to solar which is a bit less variable during its peak months compared to wind's peak months.
No, I specifically said "can" because you only get to offset input VAT if you satisfy the procedural requirements for doing so; it's not automatic.

In contrast, output VAT is automatic and will be imputed by the taxing authority whether or not you file VAT returns.
Average high/low temperatures in the summer for Austin are:

June. 92° / 72°

July. 96° / 74°

August 96° / 74°

Average high/low temperatures in the summer for Cupertino are:

June. 75° / 55°

July. 76° / 58°

August 76° / 58°

Austin will never, ever be like Silicon Valley because of this. The freedom you get from cooler weather is great from an energy utilization stand point and for allowing safer and more desirable conditions outdoors. Not to mention you have much more beautiful choices of nature in Northern California. Think about whenever you travel to Austin for conferences, it's oppressively hot and you basically travel from one air conditioned building to the next. Now imagine 10 years time of increased global warming. California will still be coastal to one of the coldest waters in the world at this latitude, which is a natural air conditioner. To me this spells the end of Oracle's supremacy in anything other than selling smaller and smaller volumes of mainframes.
“[I]n many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.” -- Curtis Yarvin
Not necessarily.

"Another method is when the federal government activates the Guard in what is called Title 10 status—that is what is meant by “federalizing” the Guard. The federal government pays, and activated Guard units are placed under the control of the secretary of defense and the president, with an active-duty military officer in the chain of command."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/right-way-...
Difficult to choose one this year (plenty of things happened + plenty of time to read things due to lock down).

"Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02413)

It explain the basic concept about fairness in ML. Very practical exemple in my domain knowledge that show the trade-off between fairness of an algo and overall performance (money). Really make you see what may go wrong with bias in ML. It shows, in my opinion, why we will have to regulate ML as corporation aren't really incentivized to deal with fairness. It also shows that there is different notions of fairness. So there will always be something that feel unfair and also doing something can always be interpreted as positive discrimination.
Should be even better? Now instead of finding another SV job you can find a job anywhere in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...
Voter suppression (widely studied, widely documented, not even up for debate at this point) and a candidate complaining about several factors I already noted, but no claim of actual vote rigging or attacking the legitimacy of the vote.

Weak sauce. No wonder no one has any respect for so-called conservatives. They are the most fragile of snowflakes and seem to need to live in their own little safe space.
It would be a negative for me, because I would need to train my parents to never use this other store. Then their friends will get them to use it, because a sketchy app will be in that store that offers free money, or some other scam. My parents will then breach the secure containment of their phone, without really understanding what they're doing.

It would harm Apple, because when users try the third party app store and have problems, they will expect Apple to support it. If Apple doesn't do the support, it tarnishes their brand to that user.
Examples of which bit?

Languages that are context-sensitive? C, C++, Java, JavaScript.

Examples of tools based on the starting expectation that languages are context-free? Yacc, Bison, Jay.

Examples of the problems this causes? Well we're using the wrong tool for the job, right from the start. Instead of using an appropriate tool the first thing we do is bend our tools out of shape. We use side-effect actions to subvert the tool's model in an uncontrolled way. We don't get the full benefits of the tool's original model and can't rely on its guarantees.
From this article and a one a month back(0). Simonis seems to have some major bias against law enforcement. As they participated on one side of the protest (not as am independent watcher) and even got arrested at the protest.

Regardless of that, what percentage of the gas canisters where HC?

To say that the protesters where completely peaceful and didn't deserve anything is really dishonest. I am not saying that the officers were completely peaceful either.

Straw man from the article made me question the intent of the study.

“The degree to which law enforcement believes Black lives do not matter is shown by their willingness to use known toxic hazardous waste chemicals indiscriminately,” Simonis says. “Now I don’t go around the feds without a gas mask.”

0:https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/485705-390928-highly-t...
You don't think people should be allowed to sell water unless they own the water source?

What would be the environmental cost of prohibiting sales of cpus/gpus by anyone who didn't own a cpu/gpu factory?
This is about a personality type, not a culture. Using it as a tool to bludgeon folks who have actually been victimized would be wrong.
Consider this as load balancing. It is freeing up space in the bay area.
As a heavy web radio listener, I set up a Jenkins server to switch between radio stations according to the time of day. Time is in UTC:

- BBC4 (UK) from 12.45am ~ 1am

- KZOO (US) from 1am~6am

- RDB (Madagascar) at 6~8am

- FM Miki (Japan) on weekdays or BBC2 (UK) on weekends from 8am~12pm

- RDB (Madagascar) from 12pm~2pm

- Radio Vaovao Mahasoa (Madagascar) from 2pm~4pm

- BBC4 from 4pm~7pm

- ABC Radio (Honduras) from 7pm~9pm

- FM Miki (Japan) on Mon,Wed,Fri or FM PiPi (Tue,Thu,Sat) from 9pm~12.45am

That, in addition to scraping the news of the day from various sources and versioning it in a git repository:

- Yomiuri Shinbun (Japan)

- La Gazette de la Grande Ile (Madagascar)

- Madagascar Tribune (Madagascar)

- The Guardian (UK)

With this, I can listen to my favorite English, Japanese, Malagasy and Hondurian radio without turning any button. The programs being easily recognizable, I effectively no longer need an alarm clock or even a clock to know the time of day provided that I am within the transmission range (yes I have built a very low-power FM radio to overcome bluetooth range limitations).
Why is it so hard to realize that people want low taxes and light regulation? And that woke culture with it's free speech curtailment are a kind of 1984 environment where someone is watching your words constantly.

California and NYC were great great states, and after decades of democrat governments, companies decide to move thousands of kilometers so they can leave these states in favor of Republican states.

There's so many of individual decisions along these lines.

YEt, I am not aware of anyone leaving a red state to live under the woke shackles.
I'm a bit spoiled since most of jobs use the Aeron chairs, but I definitely used and sat in Aeron chairs that were at least 6 years old with no issues. I had a coworker that had one he bought for like a $100 during the dotcom bust and he still used it 12 years later with no issues (he ran his own business/contractor and WFH for a long time).
Not if you read them.
I think we're all figuring out the modernized rules for pronouns as we go. Nothing about it is written in stone.

For my part, I think it's fine to say "they are" for a singular person, but "who" should stay singular.
Not sure. Maybe a policy like this stops crazy property inflation? And limits farm sizes? Meaning, local agriculture flourishes?

I think it's better for people to stop working when they get pretty rich, like $20mil. People should stop working when they get rich enough to pay for an awesome life, and give someone else the chance. And if they actually enjoy working, they can do it pro bono.

I do not trust the uber rich to mind their own business and stay out of other people's lives.
>Generally, big companies are only capable of delivering this type of value, and I don’t really see why that’s a problem

It's a chat app. (And Slack itself is a huge company) Teams, as a product on its own merits, is not necessarily better than Slack. I very strongly disagree with the notion that integration into a locked-in ecosystem is a legitimate reason and not an abuse of power.

When you switch from product A to product B only because product B integrates with proprietary protocols or services you rely on and not on the merit or price of the product itself then that's bad, and it's harming consumer welfare and competition. It also is a positive feedback loop in that those services just keep claiming more and more space and the claim of space alone diminishes the value of everyone else, because you're forever locked into a web of, in this case, Microsoft products. Which is of course one of the reasons the company is so powerful.

You can ask yourself this, if every software company waas forced to implement transparent protocols and APIs, so that clients can freely choose their end-user software, what would the market share look like? If it would look different than it does now I think you can make a strong case that consumers are being deprived of choice.
Oh come on. Critics have been around forever. Please show some examples of this new phenomenon.
Well presumably you'd have af least the same opportunities as before, they just won't require that you move to the bay.
I’m running https://www.p3r.one

I’m building Open Source tooling in the DevOps area and custom SaaS platforms for startups. Doing this from germany and making 100% of my income with it.
Awesome! Ha, yes, somehow it's one of those platforms that seemed to get worse over time. But cool that you're focusing on Africa specifically. Best of luck!
Just a minor note on the name, there are a ton of existing apps and products called "Rally" that are all mostly focused on video/voice chat stuff.

For example: rallychat.gg
OK, sure, "we got to the moon with 4Mhz" but try watching youtube, editng photos and google docs with that configuration.

What you probably mean by usable computer is either an embedded system or some ssh server but what most people actually do with computers is access the web and the modern web is so bloated that without fast hardware and proper software it becomes a pain to do anything remotely productive or fun.

That's why the PI is not yet a good mainstream PC. It's too slow sometimes and has too many gotchas that the users who are not tinkerers won't put up with.
They're not including them because this site, although portraying itself as an act of outreach and charity in a sense, is really just angling for even cheaper and misguided labor than is currently available in the US. (obviously, this does not apply to companies that have been founded in Africa. I'm pointing to the Amazon, Uber and MSFT listings)

We should by all means support companies in africa, Ghana is an incredible source of genuine groundbreaking businesses. I've visited and can attest to this first hand. However, the big tech co's posting here really just seems like the 21st century form of colonialism. Taking advantage of a market that unlike the US still doesn't see the less "happy" side of these huge tech companies in light of these tech companies having to put up with H1B legislation in the US that actually treats immigrant workers fairly. Which means big tech can't treat hoards of H1B's as modern day slave labor.

Go Africa! But this website left a bad - very suss taste in my mouth.
"Defund the police" was the slogan. Admittedly, still a brain-dead choice of a name for what the movement actually wanted.
> So my point is, what is the point of that comment?

I'm going to take a guess and say that, given the facts, there are reasonable doubts about Apple's offering, compared to other products. Mainly two: noise cancelling is not on par with Bose and Sony, as stated by early reviewers, and the lack of high quality codecs.

Functionality-wise then, they may be overpriced.

And I would be the first to admit that I like the overall design. I'm an Apple user myself. But I'm skeptical that Apple has achieved the technical proficiency to make some reasonably good sounding, wireless, ANC cans, that compete with either Bose or Sony.

I see this more as a luxury product or a status symbol, like Bang & Olufsen.

> Good sound is something some people care about and will pay for.

The people willing to pay +$500 for a pair of headphones would be even more skeptical than me, I presume.
I agree, but I also think the valuations of certain OTAs also look frothy compared with digital distribution platforms with comparable cost bases and scale and arguably better moats. Sabre's market cap is under $4bn.
Advertiser only pay for clicks when it comes to search ads, but there's a whole other world of display advertising. Marketers run campaigns with different strategies, direct response, sales, etc. 99% of ads are bought and sold on views anyway. I'll admit I was hyperbolic when I said this will have 0 impact. It w.ill be annoying, but it won't really make an impact in the grand scheme of things in my opinion. Source: I've worked in ad tech since 2005.
Cryptoartist Pak becomes first in field to earn $1M
In my experience narcissistic traits start with a normalish personality appearance with a bit overconfidence, then it reveals itself.

TIV is a more soft, hurt presentation with silent/passive strategies to damage someone. It's more silent, slower and harder to stop if your self esteem is also low. This makes it a double-whammy since the person looks weak, approachable and gentle. Other party is also weak and attached to this approachable person hence, is somewhat powerless.

When everything is over, the victim is damaged much more deeply. Same person's encounter with a narcissistic person is much more harmless since person with low-esteem will be driven away by the dominant, narcissistic person.
Yes windows is a bit of a stand out here, too.
Even if you do, does it actually change that much? You cant actually stop the os on mobile from using its default browser for most of it's tasks. Firefox on iOS is basically a reskin of safari if I am reading it correctly.
Historians ignored moral quandaries to help create British empire
Variables and nouns are easy to translate. Sentence meaning is significantly harder.
Narcissists play the victim when it's convenient to them, they also feel victim in circumstances where they don't get what they want; but make no mistake: they are not victims by any stretch of the imagination.
They are being downvoted because people who live in Austin think it's laughable that execs are moving to Austin because it's some cushy vacation spot. Execs are moving to Austin from CA for the exact same reason a huge chunk of the rest of the techies are moving to Austin:

1. No state income tax.

2. Comparatively cheaper home prices, though with news link this perhaps not for long, centrally located Austin single family homes are incredibly expensive now.

3. Vibrant tech and VC community - not at the same level as SV but a not-too-distant second-or-third.
Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden.

Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.
Does that issue go away if you use packrat vs some other means?
What's the obsession with YC? Plenty of decent VCs out there that are fully competitive with this one.
No mortgages, just pay rent to the landowning class forever?
> How long before all the Californians make Austin the exact same place they fled from?

That is a concern.

But part of SF's problems is structural: transportation and new construction are constrained by water. That is much less of a concern in Austin.
ROS isn't really one thing. Per the "about"[1] it's really made up of several pieces:

Plumbing:

ROS is centered around a publish/subscribe messaging framework, with a central broker that ROS processes (called nodes) register with to advertise their publications and request subscriptions. Message definitions that are passed on the pub/sub "topics" are specified in language agnostic Interface Definition Language (IDL) files. There's an RPC service layer built on top of the messaging infrastructure, and the central broker also hosts a 'parameter server' database that nodes can use to query or update named values. ROS client libraries that provide APIs for topics/services/parameters are provided for several languages, primarily C++ and Python. A set of commonly used message definitions and conventions, which form de-facto standard interfaces, are used to establish interoperability and substitutability between ROS nodes.

Tools:

ROS provides build tools for individual software packages based on CMake and custom metadata embedded in an xml file. Packages can be grouped into workspaces, built with ROS tools, and workspaces can be layered on top of one another. Other ROS tools exist for process management (the launch system), introspection of running ROS processes, interaction with topics/services, and visualization of message data published with well-known message types. This list is by no means comprehensive

Capabilities:

Building on the concepts of publication/subscription with shared interface descriptions, and the package abstraction, various packages are publicly available that use ROS interfaces to accomplish various functions. These could include reading data from a sensor and converting the data to a ROS message, implementing robotic navigation algorithms, providing a visualization or UI, or controlling the behavior of a simulation. It's possible to build on and modify a lot of existing capabilities to build a system, which arguably speeds up the

Ecosystem:

ROS is widely used across industry and academia, and there's lots of people familiar with its workings. These people work together to advance the state of the art of the ROS framework and the capabilities implemented with it, the standards/conventions for interoperating with various components, and

ROS 2 is an evolution of ROS. It keeps a lot of the same concepts, but replaces the bespoke pub/sub messaging protocol with an abstraction to plug in lower-level messaging libraries (DDS is used by default). The reasons and motivations for starting over with ROS 2 are outlined here[2], but may require some familiarity with ROS 1 to get all of the nuance.

[1] https://www.ros.org/about-ros/
[2] https://design.ros2.org/articles/why_ros2.html
It's a relevant worry, at the same time I think political inertia is a thing.

Just look at NIMBYISM in California, that's not the product of the newcomers, but of people that have been there for 40/50 years. So it takes time. Maybe in SF the turnover is faster, but not necessarily in the whole valley
Well, I was completely unaware that HN supported polls. This is a pleasant surprise.
Using expertise and scientific tests on an unknown object to determine what it is and uncover a contemporary conspiracy? That gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Indeed. I bought a secondhand Aeron - with the old armrest design, like yours - and it needed new wheels. I called Herman Miller attempting to buy replacement wheels, and they just sent them to me for free. Other than the wheels, it is in perfect mechanical condition.
Not making mistakes isn't productivity, that's the bare minimum of acceptable behavior.
Ah, you mean session restoration rather than reliable sleep.

You're probably right. Linux desktops environments (or at least some of them) used to have an attempt at something like that, but I think it only worked for applications that made an effort towards it, and I personally haven't even tried to see how or if that works nowadays.

Suspend to RAM and hibernation fill that hole for me, although it's admirable if someone has been able to properly solve the problem of restoring the session after a full reboot.
> it's being left to die because you can't afford treatment

What? Emergency rooms can't refuse people in the US.
TIL u can do surveys on HN
Isn't this mostly a pioneer, settler, town planner problem?

Pioneer teams don't need MBAs.
Republic of Rose Island
I said replaceable AAA batteries. I should've said rechargeable.

You can buy a pack of 12 rechargeable AAA for less than $10. A charger is $5.