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At what point did Bill become an expert on everything? It's cute that he takes his little bag of books and secluded himself in his she-shed and reads. But honestly, why do we now trust him to be an expert on so many subjects when he hasn't even gotten an undergraduate degree in anything, let alone spent decades studying a field. I can't tell you how many books I have read by experts that later turned out to completely off base or wrong to a certain degree. Just because he chats with experts and reads books on subjects doesn't make him an expert, it makes him well informed but not an expert. I am an expert in what I do and have spent over a decade on it, and I am wrong or have to look things up all the time, am I missing something? Did he go back and get a doctorate that I missed? He seems to be an expert on too many subjects.
$2k is only 4%, swings like that happen like every day. Would not recommend trading on that news.
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* self-reported, if I understand correctly. And if I do, it sounds like a post-hoc explanation.

"Flirting skills" seems like a superficial skill without real value, the lack of which might condemn you to be single but in no way diminishes your self-perceived value proposition. It's like saying "I surely could, if I only knew that easy trick".
Feel free to Twitter DM me @_aaronDR, would love to hear about what you're building + get you set up with Mito :)
Apple's reputation is for relatively poor work-life balance, plus living under a heavy shroud of secrecy even internally is tiring.

But like any huge company, "it depends".
> Existing Google Pay users are about to go through a transition reminiscent of the recent move from Google Music to YouTube Music: Google is killing one perfectly fine service and replacing it with a worse, less functional service.

Yeah but I'm sure that dev team used the latest technology, like Flutter or Kotlin or something, and had an excellent well paid team.

Now the repo isn't some old dirty Java codebase either (made by another team of half-genuises 5yrs ago, gross!). Don't want our users having to deal with old codebases, with all of those fully battle-tested features and quirks figured out (yawn), written in some boring language and using old frameworks! It's bad for business.
Can you give me advise on how to do it?
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I got kicked off of Blind, but my favorite meme there was all the variations of FAANG that were more inclusive, I liked FAANGMULA and TARANTULA

What are people saying there now?
Hitting these 'soft targets' is and has been a war crime, but hey ...
Ask HN: Would you fly on a Boeing 737 Max?
All emotions and anger at Boeing aside, logically would you feel safe flying on a 737 MAX? I'm not asking who's at fault, long-term vision on the company, or anything like that.

Often after such serious public issues it could be said that now is the best time to fly on them since everyone is so aware (pilots, customers, government regulators, etc). Such as flying immediately post 9/11.

I have some upcoming flights and noticed a few are on the 737 MAX and just wanted to get you opinions on flying on one.
Hello everyone co-founder and CTO at Loom. There are lots of conversations around owning the end-to-end communication loop with Loom (and other async video products). Our team went over a ton of use cases we use Loom for that are pretty relevant to this thread in a webinar I'm linking to below.

https://www.loom.com/share/fe062f809754416b9d583266b47b9303

We will continue building out our platform, but we are instead focusing on features that generate a ton of value and are very hard to do (transcription for every paid user, instant trimming/editing, etc.). If there are other suggestions/gripes/comments about Loom, I'd love to hear about them! If you don't have a Hacker News account but do have a Twitter account, my DMs are open(https://twitter.com/vhmth).

Other than that, I want to say hats off to the PingPong team and other teams getting into this space!
Enforcing ID checks is essentially voter suppression if some groups of voters have them and some groups don't. In countries with universal (or even mandatory) IDs, doing the same isn't really voter suppression.
I've been using FairEmail for some time (premium version, F-Droid) and it is great. I have my main IMAP account there

But I also use K-9 Mail (beta, from F-Droid). It is easier for me to handle multiple (secondary) accounts with K9, than FE
Just checked on mine and no FairEmail email account is listed in the accounts list in Android - it's all handled in-app.
The underlying question is: what is the firm's utility from the lawyers? If the firm is not doing anything themselves but outsourcing the team, person-hours is the correct answer.

If the team is doing work for the firm, but you don't want to complicate the model, you can stick a labor-enhancing constant (to allow for heterogeneity between workers) and use "work" as a unit. Sure this model is wrong, but all models are wrong. We're just trying to create some useful ones.
I think a great example of that is GUI toolkits. If your program is supposed to be cross platform, using something like Qt, GTK, wxWidgets, etc. is generally preferred to writing your own GUI code.
Is what you meant that it is suspect to have passive voice being used as a heuristic?
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When WFH began, I put a bit of time into getting OBS set up, fixing lighting, using better camera, fixing audio. Very much worth it, though my laptop processor was ill suited for the task when added atop its normal “day job”. Built a desktop for the first time in years and reminded myself why laptops kinda suck. But yeah, the OBS picture-in-picture is good, plus overlaying your name, company and contact info elsewhere in the shot may be appropriate depending on audience (e.g. Q&A after presentation).

Knowing how to use OBS has also been useful in helping some non-profit organizations get their remote interactions dialed in.
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Something has to be produced before it can be consumed.
It was wall street

on Blind people take the meme to another level, to be more inclusive
I don't know if this will be particularly useful. The problem with job applications is that they're flooded with crap so there's a noise issue. The way to cut through that noise is to understand that you need to extend your candidacy via someone inside the organization who has a vested interest in moving you forward.

That person is a referrer and/or a recruiter. Without either of those two participating in some way shape or form in this kind of an idea, I'm afraid it isn't going to be terribly useful for candidates.
Probably that OP was creatively punished for it by superiors or hazed by fellow soldiers. Usually it's only for the fact that you show some noticable non-"standard" behaviour and get bullied for it. Some dense people might deem animated talking "gay".

In my case it was the fact that I was smiling a lot, for which I was hazed constantly.
If users are buying products through Instagram, then IG takes a cut, does it not? So you should have a business account of some kind that gives you access to customer support.
There's no one correct way to respectfully flirt, but if you consistently make an effort to be (1) genuine, (2) interested, and (3) confident, you'll often find it's not hard to be respectful. Overall, just get out and meet people with the goal of meeting people and making friends and it'll come naturally.

Just like anything else, get out and try, and keep track of what works and what doesn't.
> Loom is not trying to be a collaboration tool at all

ngould I'd love to understand this point of view. What are the pain points of the experience being disjointed between Loom and Slack for your team right now?
I assume they're referring to TLS client certificate authentication support. As you say, most email clients can handle TLS.

Few can handle authenticating to the server with a client certificate, but FairEmail seems to support it fine, although I've yet to configure it on my own server as it's likely to break other clients that don't support it.
In normal times, I fly over a 100-thousand miles a year. At no time will I knowingly fly on a 737 Max.
I doubt they would just roll over yeah. If you consider the dollar as a weapon/tool for US hegemony, bitcoin functions as almost like a terrorist entity. Not clear what to do with this information
I play on gigabit hardwired and fiber and it was basically unusable for me. They need to do a lot better than that if they want mass adoption imo.
Like sock puppets??
Hezbollah does not exist to fight for Palestinians. It was created to resist Israeli presence in South Lebanon, which in itself was a response to PLO attacks on Israeli territory launched from within Lebanon (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_massacre).

Any rhetoric by Hezbollah leaders to the contrary is just that, plus an excuse to maintain relevance following Israel's withdrawal from South Lebanon. After all, why maintain an extra-legal paramilitary force after it has successfully achieved the goal it was created for?
A big problem with that is: what counts as a dependency? If I pull in Qt, am I supposed to add how many lines of code are in the parts I’m using? Many would say yes. But does using the Win32 API count? glibc? Where is the line drawn?
How did you get kicked off Blind? The standard for discourse there is uhh aggressive and inflammatory to put it lightly. Not to say there isn't value (there are tons of really intelligent and helpful people on the forum) but I wonder how far you have to go to get removed.
We have more than one channel, but this one was one of the most importants.

I posted the name of the service we used so that other people don't suffer the same fate we did.

We are in the fitness business, so no interest in getting in any kind of marketing tool war.
Well, that's sort of the case for genetic algorithms.

You might be aware of genetic programming? There may be papers already out there, but the idea is representing a programs source as a genome, and then performing the familiar processes (mutation, crossover, selection) on those.

Anyhow, that would produce something more general. A genetic algorithm is traditionally a single shot thing.
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Note Palestinian’s situation isn’t just due to Israel. Neither Egypt nor Jordan really “want” Palestinians either. Palestinians refugees in Jordan often face as bad or worse discrimination as those in Israel. Egypt could welcome the people of Gaza but don’t either. In contrast after Israel declared itself independent most Arab states in the Mediterranean ejected their historical Jewish inhabitants (roughly equal to the number of Palestinians at the time), and the state of Israel accepted them (it had incentives too to do so). But in short it’s a much more complicated issue than just having a stronger military and Palestinians are victims of more than just one state or political expediency.
Basecamp has made email more exciting than it's been in many years. If Hey didn't cost so much with a custom domain, is like switch in a heart beat.
Yeah, they tried adding a Ribbon once in 2007 and it blew up so much they left it in but barely changed it since.
It makes sense. There's more people than ever and less food produced after 2020 flooding in China.
Please stop saying that "this happens when you rely on big-tech".
This is one data-point, obviously incredibly unfortunate and I'm sorry to hear about yet another story amongst the many we probably never hear about in this community.
Using one anectodal story to say "I told you so" to a stranger, is not very constructive.

Obviously it makes sense to use the platforms that Youtube, et. al. provides to build a business. We can surely point to several examples where it has payed off. We can also point to real efforts to reduce the risk exposure of relying on them.

Instead of saying "Don't use Youtube", what would you suggest to use instead, that has real reach and is suitable for a new business?
> maybe we should have been much smarter about preventing or containing it.

That doesn't mean humans were responsible for the pandemic, though. That means humanity might bear responsibility for not as effectively containing the pandemic.

If an asteroid strikes the earth, and causes a mass casualty event that doesn't mean humans caused the asteroid strike (even if we maybe should have invested more in preventing the asteroid strike).

I think it's reasonable to expect more effective human preventative measures, without confusing the disaster for ones caused by human activity.
AIUI, photovoltaics also lose a lot of efficiency when they heat up, so the ideal place to use them is somewhere cool but with a lot of sun.

In contrast, solar thermal runs at extremely high temperatures to begin with, so even in a hot climate, there's a huge temperature difference from which to extract power.

It seems to me that mirrors would be cheaper than photovoltaics, and the power-plant itself is a fixed cost, so most of the cost must come from the motors and electronics needed to angle the mirrors, and the maintenance of that.

I wonder: could you have a system where the mirrors are all fixed in place, and you simply move the target as the sun moves. (Or at least move a smaller set of mirrors/lenses that refocus the light onto a fixed target)
Purchased, not rented. GP was also referring to house prices, not rentals.
In the 80s, tyvek (a plastic fabric that feels like paper) became popular for windbreakers for athletic events. As far as I know, they're still in use. Not exactly high fashion, but the trend didn't exactly perish.
Give "Debt the first 5000 years" a read. Not sure it will change your view but it definitely provides a lot of interesting context.
Can't a non-profit say something like:

"Of course we can restrict your donation to X. But we're also happy to listen to what's most important to you and work yith you to develop a plan based on our expertise, and how ot fits into a larger story."

The hidden mesaage in there is not just "we know best" but also, "we can help you with the PR story or legacy or whatever you want".
> Putting more than 1M rows of data into Excel is not possible, and once you get into the low 100K's, it becomes almost unbearable.

I dispute this. Yes, the normal spreadsheet view of excel will buckle under 1M rows, but excel has another feature called "Power Pivot" that is backed by an embedded database and scales into the high millions at least.

I've personally used excel on a dataset of 18M rows and PowerPivot handled it just fine.

[0] https://support.office.com/client/Data-Model-specification-a...

[1] https://support.office.com/client/power-pivot-powerful-data-...
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Different than what, the Korean war? Vietnam? The American secession war? Just brainwash the people with propaganda and they'll support it.
What was the sneaky premise?

A premise is a hypothesis. We don't explicitly tag all our premises; it's up to the reader to decide if they agree with the premises.
When it comes to newspapers isn't this the goal, though? Hemingway's writing is journalistic writing. "The [Kansas City] Star’s style guide formed the basis for his own style that ran against the elaborate tendencies of 19th century writers."[1] So if you're judging the style of a journalist's writing a preferable guide is how similar to Hemingway it is.

[1] https://mediahq.com/famous-authors-also-journalists/
This organization has been more reliably progressive and stable than most nation states over the past decade.
> it's felt very true as audience size exploded

I think this is the key point. As with most issues on the internet, it's mostly an issue of scale. I assume these problematic users are actually only a very small fraction overall, but as the overall size grows, so does the number of people who belong at the very edge of the bell curve in terms of "normal" behavior.

With scale, any rare issue becomes common enough to be annoying.
The virus either originated in a human lab (unlikely) or jumped cross-species in an environment created by humans (exotic animal markets with poor hygiene controls). So...yeah this one is kinda on us.
Does air have economic value? Yes it does. Does that fact help your point in any way? No.

If I make a law to allow people to own air, then people start renting out the air and living off of the income of renting air. That's where your archaic Adam Smith model of the economy completely fails.

Under your idealistic model there's no concept of an unfair transaction because all parties benefited from the transaction. One person can breath so he's happy, another person got money from renting air so he's happy. Everyone is happy, so the concept of getting ripped off doesn't exist.
> Would you accept your OS to collect anonymous usage data without your explicit consent?

Isn't that exactly what Windows 10 is doing?
I read the whole thing and I feel for her, especially around all the gendered language she has had to deal with, but had some thoughts.

I want to make constructive criticisms (which is extremely difficult in the context of someone perceiving harm), but I'd prefer not to get downvoted, so I will try to be as empathetic as possible when stating the following.

> I have a strong opinion about diversity hires: Although I don’t think they are a perfect solution, I consider them an effective measure to break the ceiling glass that excludes minorities from certain roles.

> Was I only selected because I was the only female applicant? Would I have passed the technical assessment? Would I keep moving up the company hierarchy only because I had a minority pass? Did they think that I wouldn’t mind knowing my own recruitment criteria?

These things are exactly why some people are against this way of increasing diversity. Critics of forced diversity hiring see this as a direct and obvious (at least to them) consequence of this practice; her experiencing the result is rather unsurprising (her surprise, however, is). She also does not suggest a better solution, so this just seems like whining (the definition of which is "complaining about a situation without a known solution"). I'd suggest that she probably wasn't informed that she was a diversity hire because intuitively, people know this is a shameful practice without great consequences...

> I have never considered that “having chemistry with the team” could be a reason for being let go. Guess what? After a quick Google search about “cultural fitting in tech,” I discovered that is an argument often used by tech companies to disguise a discriminatory preference.

She links to an example of this, but the example is just another person pulling the racism card when the only example that person gave was not drinking after work with coworkers. You can't expect people to not see you as a diversity hire, but only when it is convenient for you... if you want them to not see you as one when hiring you, but if when letting go of you for some given reason, you want to jump to conclusions based on diversity... you're gonna need much better evidence than that. "Cultural fit" is unfortunately a very valid condition for hire, at least if the goal is productivity and happiness: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-relationships-wor... The fact that "lack of cultural fit" SEEMS TO sometimes fall along diversity lines, is not so much a problem with diversity hiring as it is a problem of people just hanging out too much with other people who seem more like them, something that is (unfortunately) a natural inclination and something that literally every one of us should be consciously fighting. But it's a subpar situation, for sure.
> Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates (alleged)

According to Wikiquote there is no primary source to show he really said that. Nevertheless, Steve Ballmer did,

> "In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count K-LOCs, and a K-LOC is a thousand line of code. How big a project is it? Oh, it's sort of a 10K-LOC project. This is a 20K-LOCer. And this is 5OK-LOCs. And IBM wanted to sort of make it the religion about how we got paid. How much money we made off OS 2, how much they did. How many K-LOCs did you do? And we kept trying to convince them - hey, if we have - a developer's got a good idea and he can get something done in 4K-LOCs instead of 20K-LOCs, should we make less money? Because he's made something smaller and faster, less KLOC. K-LOCs, K-LOCs, that's the methodology. Ugh anyway, that always makes my back just crinkle up at the thought of the whole thing."

Not really a fan of either of them, but we can all agree on the quote.
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I have a friend who's a commercial pilot, not on 737s. He would. And I trust his judgment on such things.
> happy outgoing/extroverts

Are going to find it easier because they are more attractive (or, attractive to more people).
The point though, is that it is weird to bring up a situation where arabs are being discriminated in favor of, as some sort of killer argument as for why israel is discriminating against Arabs.

It undermines the argument.

Use a different one if you want to make that argument, because that one is bad.
Is it important to include every company’s initial? The purpose is to convey the idea of companies that have extremely good cash flow, and can compensate extremely well with equity due to consistent long term growth.

It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG”, but throwing an M or other letter in there is going to make it harder to roll off the tongue.
Hey thanks for this response - i didn't read the that as an explicitly example of how you'd handled it. More the blog acknowledged that it might not scale to this. Good luck!
Hydro and wind have the opposite seasonal variability to solar. And since some hydro allows shifting energy during the day even in summer it may be enough for a mix that solves both seasonal and daily/weekly variability. Build enough wind and solar to cover the total energy needs evenly during the year and use those 6+ days of hydro to shift energy during the day/week to solve the unreliability. Maybe 6 days of hydro is not enough for that but it's probably not 60 days either.
I really wish NeXT took off back in the day. The hardware and software were ridiculously elegant. Though I guess NeXT got a new lease on life via Apple later on.
> As far as homes, there HAS been real estate inflation, but homes are now better insulated, have much more efficient heating and cooling (and now have actual cooling whereas in the past were often uncooled), have more bathrooms, and have much more efficient and cheaper lighting (which doesn’t need to be replaced as often and has lower fire risk).

None of that really makes a dent price-wise in the more expensive real estate markets.
This is the user interface to the AccountManager API, which is one of the standard mechanisms to manage auth tokens and background sync. IIRC it's been around since Android 1.0 and it's probably not a useful vector for third-party tracking.
It could also mean just spreading out. So less dense civilizations, but the same amount of people.
that's not how it works though...

you can't argue against numbers, you can absolutely argue against arbitrary numbers (like in this example the premise is that the app produces reliable results, which it does not and anyway it should be proved with good, hard to dispute, numbers)
> And at a fraction of the cost!

...big fraction these days. I "cut the cord" a couple of years back and am now paying close to what I was paying before.
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