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Are you conflating Coinbase with Basecamp? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192

edit wish I could delete. I'm sorry for being one step behind on the HN treadmill. I had only read about Basecamp's announcement.
I don't really see how having "customer service" is inextricably tied in any way to a physical, permanent company location.
Comments were removed a few years ago iirc. Atleast made totally unusable.
Strikes me that a lot of this is what people used to get from religion. I'm not religious myself, so definitely not trying to push it, but it does seem that there's a correlation between the rise in incidence of depression, feelings of disconnectedness, and lack of a sense if purpose that goes along with the decline in participation in organized religion.
I'm not sure these are good examples, but depressive realism is a pretty legit hypothesis about a potential evolutionary benefit. There's also some hypotheses about energy expenditure - doing nothing is sometimes the right move, although that would have been more important a long time ago than now.

These sort of ideas are hard to evaluate definitively, but I do think it is plausible that mild depression had/to some extent may still have benefits. Of course certain traits can be taken too far though, and when viewed through that lens it is hard to understand how they could be beneficial at all. One could say a similar thing about Autism-like traits.
I take it you missed when Coinbase did it first.
Actually, it was not, and is not now.

You are conflating outcomes with cases in progress.

To understand severity, work with outcomes and that is dead people divided by recovered people.

Infected people will eventually arrive at their outcome, but until they have actually ran their infection course, adding them into the risk assessment artificially marginalizes risk.

Early on, before we understood treatment, the outcome numbers, chance of someone dying was quite high, 7 percent or so depending.

It is currently a little over 1 percent and will likely improve as the science does, and our ability to treat cases is managed better. And that assumes we can get people vaccinated in high enough numbers to manage mutation rates.

So far, vaccinated people do not die. Vast improvement over the 1'ish percentage currently in play for unvaccinated people.

Without that, we run the very real risk of a mutation sending us back to the beginning.

I have had this exact conversation with people who died thinking their low risk assessment, dividing dead people by infected people, made sense.

It does not, and it does not because outcomes are being mixed in with cases in progress. It is like combining the wrong units and wondering why nature does not match the math.
Coinbase did it first: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
> that something is quite dangerous and it should be removed

You really took a left turn at the end there and I’m not sure if you were serious. Poe’s law in full effect, I’d argue the opposite. If something true challenges your narrative the only intellectually honest thing to do is embrace it.
It’s equally a thing that countries get zero long-term tourism boost because of the Olympics and end up with a huge economic hangover and giant venues that have no practical use.
Can you please elaborate on the reading-and-writing-first culture?
> it's easy to get PTSD from it. Browse responsibly

"Yeah, he's real cool when he's showing you those videos on LiveLeak, man. The bus full of children being blown up is really funny; that's a funny video." https://youtu.be/OQdHeNNWrj8?t=82
Yeah maybe, quitting and job searching can really be a horrible experience itself. I started considering a career switch and giving up on tech during my last one until I finally found a place that would hire me. Then that job burned me out and I turned pretty cynical about work and tech.
Your mileage may vary, but I always get quick answers and had all my problems solved fairly efficiently. Though I'm not surprised that with 56 million users, there will definitely be people who will receive bad customer service I guess.
Games like Tarkov, ARMA mods (DayZ, breaking point, etc), and EVE are just not fun for casual players though.

It just isn't fun if I have an hour to play and I immediately die to someone who has played 18 hours/day for the entire lockdown and I permanently lose the item I worked several days to get.
Trumpism isn’t an opposing view. It is vile and anti American
Which services do you use? It'll help me prioritize which platforms to support first.
> At this point, there are only two groups of people who are clearly incentivized for the Olympics to happen: the IOC, which would lose all the revenue; and the athletes who would "age out" for the 2024 games.

You are forgetting the most important constituency driving this: "Senior Japanese politicians also in on the take."
Cool, I might consider working with them now! To be clear, I don't really believe in "partially remote." Either it's a remote company, or it isn't.
No matter how "wonderful" it is when things go right, it is disastrous when things go wrong -- e.g. AB 5. That is why most governmental systems prioritize harm reduction over the provision-of-the-wonderful.
Serious problem in Japan is that all top 5 nationwide newspaper (they're also parent company of top 5 nationwide TV) is Olympic sponsor. They can't publish neutral articles/programs. Journalism is dead.
You can check out DataDog or NewRelic - they do a decent job if you are looking for SaaS. If you are looking for open source products - checkout SigNoz (https://github.com/signoz/signoz)

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of SigNoz
Of reported cases*, which is very different than actual cases.

CDC actually has a page where they estimate the true number of cases of COVID in the US, and they put it at ~115 million. So that would be 578k deaths / 115M cases, or a fatality rate of ~0.5%, which is roughly in line with what you could have expected based on the early studies from the cruise ships where there was free spread of covid in a contained space.

If medical facilities had been overloaded, we certainly could have seen more fatalities, but beyond protecting the hospitals from running out of beds (which was worthwhile), the other interventions didn't seem to do much.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Coinbase was first, then Basecamp followed.
I'm too lazy to check for the link but there was a not so distant link here on HN about Facebook content moderators and the horror show that is.
Do you mean software or product ? At the time of this writing, all answers are about writing software, but a product implies a market, and most of the process is about what problem you are trying to solve for a customer, and evaluating the value provided. The software development usually starts when there is enough knowledge to sketch an MVP.
Compare Twitter open approach to Instagram. Instagram does not have public API and 3rd party clients. That prevent any outside innovation (but allows to keep ad revenue in-house).
More importantly, canceling saves lives. There are not much medical resources.
That sucks. No way around it.

And the incentives to push back on all this are super high!

People absolutely do not want to have to be bothered. Not all people, but the numbers are much higher than I expected.
Could you please explain how you got this number? If I look at the statistics for the most countries in Europe I'll see a ratio of around 2/100 between detected cases and deaths (Germany, Belgium). That would mean that we would have around 5x more cases than we detect ,if we see "mild" as doesn't die. If you define "mild" as "not in hospital" this number would be even higher (meaning in some case that more than 100% of the population of a country would have had covid). So please explain your numbers and reasoning.
Despite all these technology challenges we love to discuss on HN, the truth is that last quarter every single metric except US/Canada daily FB users was up. Daily US/Canada users fell by ~0.5% but this was more than offset by a 1% growth in EU.

Their average revenue per user increased by the largest amount ever (in both absolute and percentage terms) last quarter.

In terms of technology challenges, the iOS changes will reduce FB's ability to target ads. However, it is quite possible this will lead to more revenue for FB because the market structure (ie, domination by FB and Google) means FB maybe able to pass on the loss inefficiency to advertisers.
Look up Amazon's "working backwards", 6 pagers etc. It's the opposite of committee driven decision making and endless meetings you see at lesser operationally sophisticated companies.
You could just say, I'm doing the same job, I get the same pay. Do they charge less to customers living in Miami vs SF?
I stopped visiting the site after viewing a video of cartel torture that was worse than anything I'd ever seen. I still see it in my head all the time. Although LL certainly helped meet the morbid curiosity a lot of us have, I am ultimately glad it's now harder to find this kind of content.
Yeah Google is so much better at that...
The 10x Programmer and the End of the Myth of Research
‘Vaccine Passport’ Apps Gaining Traction in Airports, Live Events
Its likely they are referring to [0] where Coinbase announced that they were going to be discouraging internal focus on "broader societal issues" and "political causes".

[0] https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
“Citizens of a particular country who make money are required to pay taxes. News at 11”

Really though are you implying that these employees are all unscrupulously avoiding taxes and trying to use remote work and cryptocurrency to relive their tax burden?

Maybe some people enjoy the space as it’s bleeding edge, fully remote supported and well funded.
Did your company actually gives any details for those supposed security issues?
I use tor for some of my normal clearnet browsing and static hosting .mp4's works decently over tor. Basically anything not bloated/modern works great.
Have you tried Firefox Focus on iOS? It’s not feature rich, but it’s my preference for privacy.
Precisely - quite fascinating their multi-faceted approach
Some Shinto and Buddhist shrines/temples are, but I know at least the Kiyomuzi-dera (a Buddhist temple) was undergoing restoration construction while I was there in 2017 in preparation for 2020.
Pyston claims 30% performance improvement over cpython while maintaining compatibility, pypy claims it's 4.2x faster but has some compatibility issues irrc.
Why do you oppose the Olympics in general?
There was definitely a point where it was fun and accessible. I played with it a few years ago, back when you could mine with a single GTX 660 and earn a dollar or two worth of coins a day. Then someone made a scheme where you could buy Doge via Reddit PM, or give it as tips on posts. This is much less intimidating than the contemporary Bitcoin story of "the cost of admission is hundreds of dollars and you have to go find someone sketchy local or a weirdly explained ATM thing to get coins".

Yeah, there was some discussion of "when it gets to USD1", but it was mostly memes and "how do I get (favoured merchant) to take Doge?"

I recall there was a fair degree of talk that it was a good 'instructional' platform-- learn the tools and concepts of cryptocurrency, but you're playing with trivial amounts of money.
> either they're speaking from a position of privilege or they are lying

I am not bothered that this is a false dichotomy as much as the fact that, intentional or not, it forbids taking a positive view of the world to anyone who also happens to be materially underprivileged.

> Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus, Greek-born slave
After seeing countless videos of car/trucks/lorries with unstable load, my dad has been very annoyed with me whenever I need to help him drive a trailer around with stuff.
He just throw shit onto it, an leave it. I lock that shut down, hard. I'm not gonna be that one person who accidently killed someone one the road, because I had something come loose.
From the article:

> Preliminary data points to substantially lower rates of transmission among vaccinated people. [the article then cites a study in Israel, which I was also referring to]

That is some hard evidence. It may not be absolutely conclusive, but yes its evidence. We don't yet have a randomized controlled trial, which is the gold standard, yes. But we do have hard evidence.
> if inflation is indeed rampant but wages track inflation (I assume)

There's no direct mechanism that ratchets wages as a result of inflation.

Average wages increase when the labour market is tight and there is demand for workers. However that generally applies to new applicants, not people in existing posts. For them, static wages lead to purchasing-power reduction.
> not fully compatible

It's really quite close, and https://github.com/hpyproject/hpy is intended to make them even closer.
Yep, this is what always gets me about the original quote - the peninsula _does_ exist, and while the damage will be very significant, a lot of us will be just fine, and most assuredly not toast.

The aftermath will suck, however.
The sufflator is interesting. I'd never heard of it before.
> It is a deeply weird thing and we do not have a theory yet to explain this satisfactorily, but the one thing we do know is that no information can actually be transmitted this way, so it does not break the speed of causality.

I've read that as well, and I concur that popular opinion states that quantumly linked particles do not appear to violate causality, because we don't believe they are actually communicating at all, let alone communicating faster than light.

The way I interpreted this claim is that those particals are more akin to a deterministic algorithm, which is to say, once you set it free it will always result in the same answer based on the seed. I'm still very confused though about how those particles could remain in sync in vastly different spacetimes. That to me, is a flaw in the conjecture, and one that cannot be tested. We've based our understanding of quantum entanglement only upon that which we can observe, and so we truly don't know if a quantumly entangled particle will be "behind" if it is in a denser gravitational field. It's unprovable, because even if we were to travel into that spacetime, we could not escape to share the results with other observers.

Thank you again for your input. Your argument forced me to mentally reconcile "observable reality" from "actual reality", and that was a fun and intriguing thought experiment, albiet probably pointless since none of it can be proven. Our observations do not define reality, they only measure it to the best of our ability. And most of the time when we measure reality, apparently we fuck it up (i.e. breaking quantum links, or just having incorrect assumptions).
Thanks - fixed! I extensively proofread the book and hired proofreading help, but not the for the website. It shows!
Klim makes good gear. I have only heard positive things about the company prior to seeing this article.
App Store: Speed Reading
Uummm. Is this accelerated due to the inherent fuzziness of neural style calc or because they have to models working on NN/TF/GPU style hardware? I skimmed and couldn't find an answer.
As for the "is it accurate?" question. No, no it isn't but then neither is any other model - it just has to be good enough over the time frames concerned. This is more like weather forecasting than chess.
I was near the epicenter of the Chilean earthquake of 2010 (8.8),and my grandfather was in the 1960 one. The main mayority of the casualties in both earthquakes were caused by tsunamis (its really a bummer that Chile is basically a long strip of coast) we were lucky (in 2010)because the nearest big coastal population center was inside a bay, so the wave didn't hit directly.
the 1960 earthquake has a very interesting history, one day before (Saturday) , there was one big earthquake(8
1-8.3, X in mercalli m) 400 km North (city of Concepción) , that cut the communications and roadways from the capital to the south of the country. On Sunday, a second earthquake of similar magnitude struck, that finished destroying the remaining buildings in the location,but nobody died on that second earthquake because everyone was outside,for obvious reasons. Finally, the big one started not on Valdivia (300 km South) but the fault line extended 1000 km reaching Valdivia and beyond, 135 people died on Japan, Valdivia itself sunk permanently 2.7 meters (8 feet) ,one chain of lakes got their exit rivers blocked, so the water level was rising rapidly and if overflowed, it would flood again the same areas affected by the earthquake, so a joint operation between military and private parties were set up to try to unblock the whole system (they succeeded), there was a case of human sacrifice, trying to calm the fury of the gods that caused such destruction, it was wild
The post is not about what you're sending, it is about making sure what you're receiving is what you're getting. The motivation begins with:
"Many of our programs accept input from the user. Often we need to validate this input before continuing processing and, in the case of errors, inform the user of any problems."
I understand you said you don’t want to tell us, but the way you wrote that comment you have to imagine it would generate interest. Can you share it or provide a clue (though since this is HN, I would appreciate it if you shared the knowledge with us). Knowing about these sites is more than the gore. People with kids, journalists, public safety people and more source stuff from these places, and often to do good or inform.
Something that is really cool about Sysinternals tools are that they have a pretty usable GUI (granted, once you need to understand what does each UI icon do). Mimicking this experience in the TUI/terminal would certainly be a challenge. I would love to have a Procmon and ProcessExplorer equivalent with the GUI on Linux and macOS.
The other option too would be just to clone the repo locally and use grep, find, etc. That seems the simpler option if you just want to perform a search.
I agree 100% with the idea that not everyone enjoys remote work, and I think actually the majority of people won't.

But I'd like to point out that working from home this last year (with forced kids at home, no chance to travel, services closed etc) was not the common experience people had in non-pandemic times.
I miss the vehicle game modes in 1.6.

They were so wonky and fun!
Ah yes but we "can't have that" without a good reason, and without a fixed deadline right?
> Generations upon generations of farming was less repetitive?

It was. Medieval serfs worked less than us.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
I completely disagree with you, I've gotten absolutely zero enjoyment from the few that I've watched. They make me feel completely sick and scared for myself and my family. I am much more careful with my daughter and prone to take precautions though, after having watch them. I think they provide value, I absolutely do not get the same effect from reading or learning about bad things that can happen to me, my brain just never really considered it a real option until I saw it happen.
The high hiring bar weeds out the obvious candidates who would get ranked at the bottom and moved out.

It also weeds out the people without solid interviewing skills who are excellent for the role but not so great in a high stakes interview.

Lastly, plenty of “dweebs and pretenders” get hired all the time. I’m in a role that might be referred to as a staff engineer or principal engineer at a big tech company, and I’ve done hundreds of interviews. The number of incompetent managers is astoundingly high. I think my company fails at this really hard. My current org doesn’t push these people out of the company but encourages them to find a position in a different organization. It’s shitty. I’ve tried to do something about it but haven’t been very successful so far.

I honestly believe if my company had this kind of talent in its earlier days, we would have collapsed spectacularly. We’ve gotten large enough now that these people are able to ride it out. And they often get brought on by managers at my level, who’re too proud to admit they made a shitty hiring decision and pretend like the problem doesn’t exist until shit is literally on fire and they have VP level escalations.

And I’ll be honest. The reason I’m bitter about this is because I’ve seen these incompetent people throw solid, hard working engineers under the bus for no reason other than to cover their ass.

People think big tech has the best and brightest minds. No, we are literally the embodiment of Office Space. “What would ya say... ya do here???”

Okay I’ll stop ranting. Bye.
Kudos for open-sourcing it. Here’s to hoping some of the changes make their way into upstream CPython.

What’s the compatibility story like? Is there a list somewhere of unsupported features?
This is a problem in a bunch of larger retail stores here in Australia.

JB Hifi, Harvey Norman, Myer, David Jones, Bing Lee, Anaconda and more - I've walked in knowing what I want, finding a sales person to let me buy it is near impossible. When you do find someone who works there "Oh, sorry, I don't work in that department" is the response half the time, and "Sorry, I'm with another customer at the moment, I'll be with you shortly" is most of the remaining times.

Purchasing online for 'click and collect' isn't necessarily any better - I've stood waiting at the collection desk for the better part of an hour while someone goes to find thing that I've already paid for and been told is ready for pickup just an hour prior.

Retailers have gone to try and compete with online by trying to match prices rather than just better service.

If I'm walking into a store it's because I either want it now, damn the premium, or need to see/feel it to know if it's right.
That is quite true. Unfortunately, most of the communities here still have a large number of brick buildings since they were founded at least 100 years ago, if not much longer.
I think the point was that human history predates the recent increase in depression. Having unmet needs you need to work to fill is the baseline state of all animals, and the unending grind to fill them is what we are evolved to do.
We Have Become Products
Doing a paperback version for Growing as a Mobile Engineer would have been additional work I wasn't ready to take on.

And the paperback distribution is done through print-on-demand, so I can't bundle a digital book with it.

I say go for whatever is more useful to you: two ebooks, or a print book.

For transparency, the $20 bundle bought online nets me $19 (Gumroad fees are 3.5% + 30¢), while the $22.50 print book will be around $9.50 (Amazon shares 60% of the revenue, plus I pay for the printing of about $4/book). The $22.50 Kindle book on Amazon nets $7.70 (Amazon pays a 35% royalty on Kindle books above $10).
Well strictly speaking, nothing in evolution happens for a reason - this isn't intellegent design, there is no agency or intentionality in evolution.

So if you didn't mean the usual metaphorical notion of, "was selected for by natural selection because it increased evolutionary fitness", what did you mean?
It won’t use the raptors to land on the moon.