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When dozens of celebrities offer to work for free, they won't pick a nobody. So what are you trying to prove? Do you honestly think it wouldn't skyrocket a new performer's career?
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> would you do that work for free?

No, because it is not fulfilling.

I do use my career skills to teach under privileged students how to program for free.
The board of directors replaced a founder CEO with an external CEO, new CEO hired a new exec team. Edit: To clarify, things were going well, but the company was scaling and the founder did not want to be CEO of a large company because he wanted to mostly focus on product stuff. So he worked with the board to bring in a "professional" CEO.
I agree, but herein lay the rub.

For every exception, you need someone on top of it. You have a limited pool of people to distribute this knowledge to, and the responsibility for maintaining this knowledge to even if that just invoves knowing where to look to figure something out.

Overrides are tricky to accomodate, standardize, and organize if you don't nail dpwn the appropriate data model for the process.
A carbon border price was in Biden's campaign platform and it would be one of the best political moves he could make. US industry has a big advantage in carbon intensity over China, so a price would advantage domestic industry and at the same time put pressure on China to clean up faster. Both of these are big political problems for Biden.
Dictionaries are ordered since, I think, 3.6. I believe this is an implementation detail of CPython, rather than it being “standard” (e.g., I don’t know if you can rely on, say, PyPy respecting that, although I suspect it does.)
I've had very positive experience with interns. We'd recruit from U Waterloo, gradually get them up to speed on real meaningful work, and a few months later when they graduated, we'd instantly have fully trained connections who were more than happy to accept a full time position from us.

We had good success with incremental training (getting people pursuing CS, who had at least passing knowledge of what programming is), spending a few initial hours on the bare minimum mechanical tasks that one would need to start working on tasks (e.g. how to enter and style static content, how to google, copy-paste from stackoverflow, the works), then gradually supplementing with actual meaty training via lunch-and-learn format, with the intent to bring everyone (including other full time employees) up to speed with the latest and greatest techniques and best practices.
I am feeling weird about this one because I'd totally pay for this app, but not $9. On one hand, I understand that the author spent a lot of work on it, and $9 is not that big a price, but somehow my intuition vehemently protests it. If it costed under $5 I'd probably not even think about it. Maybe my intuition is messed up by years of free stuff.
It was communicated internally with more detail, including that this would be released to the public.
If you have no idea about the veracity of this claim, it's irresponsible to flat-out write "you get plenty of excitotoxins from eating MSG".
At the # of deaths produced by nuclear in normal operation, or by wind or solar, the "deaths" are dominated by the statistical lives due to the cost of energy itself.

The NRC uses a value of $9M for the value of a statistical life. That is, it is worth spending $9M if that will save one expected life.

Nuclear, solar and wind have deaths/energy somewhere in the ballpark of 1 life per 10^10 kWh. So, at $9M/life this cost is roughly $0.001/kWh. This is very small, which says that even minor differences in the cost of energy from various sources will be more important than the direct number of lives lost.

(This would not be true of fossil fuels, though.)

TLDR: it's more important to reduce the cost of energy from these non-fossil sources, and to choose the sources with lowest cost, than it is to make them safer. For nuclear, inherent safety could be useful if it would enable cost to be reduced, but not because nuclear needs to be safer.
This one was both surprising to me, but having worked on an app with >100 engineers, also less so.

The challenge is how with 100 engineers you typically still want to ship 50-100x as much as with 1 engineer. And all those small features that the 1-3 mobile eng-sized teams work start to have unwanted/unexpected impact on each other, bringing down collective app stability.

Also, the >100 Engineer apps are typically used globally, with often millions of users. Many of the crashes will come on Android, on exotic hardware / old OSes, in my experience.

It is fascinating, regardless.
> IBM has very strict rules about anyone (below a certain but unspecified level!) offering or accepting anything at all. IBM employees you might meet are not allowed to so much as buy or accept lunch at a conference.

...in the US. In Poland IBM was caught bribing a government official a couple years ago.
That's a bad metaphor, though, it's more like if Netflix hired Apple to make a special type of Laptop that only Netflix will sell, and the laptop will be marketed as "The Netflix Laptop".
Then the producers will get a bottom result - which has it’s own implications.

It’s five days. No one is being compelled to do the gig. This guy is just mad that someone else may have a different perspective on value than he does. So what? Not every job is appropriate for every person. For someone else this could be what they need to get the door open to future work down the road. It’s wonderful this photographer has a body of work and reputation that can sustain him. How privileged of him to cast judgment on others who may not have his same level of privilege.
Congrats to Timescale! The founders and team are building something really solid and it’s great to see them get the funding to grow even more.
The company is pre-IPO... this would conflict with any board. I'm assuming the co-Founder that replaced him as CEO had no such qualms.
I can't even imagine how he thought this was a good idea. Maybe microdosing in your private office during a 3 hour block of solo time when you just want to think by yourself... but microdosing (for the first time) before a board meeting where you're expected to give a presentation?! Horrible idea.
As I commented below, I have only drawn loose correlations with no direct evidence as well... so to hear the mechanics of prion misfiling other same proteins is much appreciated.
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Reminds me of perl's autovivification, where you can even mix and match dicts, arrays, and scalars:

$M{hello}[4]{world}[0]++

gives you:

{
'hello' => [
undef,
undef,
undef,
undef,
{
'world' => [
1
]
}
]
}
No, I'm addressing this point where OP says nginx is only good at serving static content. See "really just good" here:

> Considering nginx is really just good at serving static content...

That's not correct at all. Regardless of how the request handled, serving dynamic content on nginx is trivial.
Why would over 1000$ not be acceptable for a niche product which is manufactured in small quantities?
From what I've seen personally, the value of the experience and relationships you get from working in your desired field often far outweigh the dollar amount you get paid.

It seems like someone would be much more likely to get hired for a good paying job if they had previously worked for a popular tv show. Much more so than if they made $20/hr working for a company that no one has heard of. I would be willing to endure short term personal hardship (ie, living with parents for an extra year) for a chance to put something eye catching on my resume. It will simply pay off more over the long term.

No one should be counting on an entry level job to pay all of their bills. When I was young, internships were considered a source of extra money and not a means of supporting yourself as a full time career.
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> Will this case succeed? Most likely not. Will it get settled? Probably a fair chance.

If it is settled with a payout, then it has succeeded.
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Here's a talk by Arrow's lead maintainer Wes Mckinney: https://youtu.be/OtIU7HsHCE8?t=2731 which I think gave a good overview on the high-level motivations behind Apache Arrow.
This is the plot to the 1991 film "Class Action."
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Have you noticed that change with COVID? Some places now seem to want you to be further away (sometimes with plexiglass) so some places do more bagging (actually putting the bags in your cart and pushing you a completed cart.) There are some places that seem to have gone the other way and gotten rid of the bagger so you can do your own bagging and placing 6 ft away from the cashier. But pre-COVID it seemed like most places had bags that you pick up at and put in the cart yourself.
When I worked with interns they were all paid... but every one was more time and expense to work with than any value they provided. In weeks they accomplished what I could do in an afternoon, and we spent WAY more than an afternoon of work with them.

I managed interns for years in my role as a UI development manager. The main reason to hire interns was as part of our hiring pipeline. It basically served as an extended interview. Any actual work they produced was a bonus.

We were also able to keep interns on through the academic year (part-time), which made the time commitment even more worthwhile. The lack of productivity wasn't because they were interns - it was because they were new to the job. This did require flexibility around their school schedule, so instilling good communication habits early was necessary.
gwern has written on the topic[0].

[0] https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing
They weren't asking for final approval at an earlier stage. They were just asking for feedback along the way. That way they wouldn't have to guess whether their basic idea had a chance, and they could make changes to address concerns before spending hundreds of millions nailing down the details on something the NRC could have told them it considered fundamentally flawed. It would also help them with investors, when they could show favorable early feedback.
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Except he wasn't bragging about that. He was bragging that groupies exist and that they would "let him do it" because he's a star, in a crass manner.
I think there are nuances beyond just the type of clothing. I would guess that the CEO of Western Digital was wearing clothes that were well-fitting, of a modern cut and style that showed he was aware of trends, and of a quality that indicated expensive clothing. This was probably paired with a nice leather belt and dress shoes, matching socks, and perhaps a nice analog watch. Also, he was probably clean-shaven and had styled his hair. Now, if you told me he looked like RMS on a bad day and still looked more professional than you in a Brooks Brothers suit, I would be really surprised.
His mistake was not

- taking LSD

- arguing with board members

- wearing cargo shorts

Rather, his mistake was not retaining control of the company he founded, either by bootstrapping it entirely or not taking venture capital. Contrast this to the recent Basecamp debacle, both cofounders owned 100% of the company and could do as they pleased, no one could fire them.
Definitely.

Some great musicians busk for spare change or the odd youtube subscription for years, while others (arguably less talented or creative) have been arbitrarily 'discovered' and delivered into financial success.

Exposure from the club downtown is one thing. But, telling a busker they shouldn't take a free opportunity for genuine national exposure because it 'devalues gigs' feels a bit like a cruel joke-- game theory notwithstanding.
Interesting. The symptoms they list are entirely typical of FND, which accounts more than 1 in 7 referrals to a neurology department and is at least as common as MS [1]. They list 48 active cases, but there would presumably be a lot more FND cases than that in NB. Also, it seems they only uncovered this new syndrome when they actively started looking for them via the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System. Could it just be that many doctors and neurologists are unaware of FND, even though it is by far the most common neurological disorder they see?

[1] http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/journal/issue/journal_41_1/stone.pdf
So no one would value the experience and prestige of being involved in a successful program that has an audience of 30 million.

No one? That’s a pretty bold assumption.

As for the money this month vs later - this is the gig for them. Again, just because it’s not a an appropriate gig for all photographers doesn’t mean that it’s a gig that might not be exactly what a different photographer could benefit from.
>In many peoples' minds, Facebook is social media, in the way that Google is websearch.

This is a popular meme, but I'm not certain it's true. Given how many people use Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Twitch, Instagram, Discord, etc, it doesn't seem as if they're somehow also unaware that the rest of the web or alternative means of communication exist.

I mean, Donald Trump literally just started his own "social media platform," and his followers have been bouncing around right-wing "alternative" platforms for years. Not even the people primarily responsible for pushing the fear narrative around social media and it's "Orwellian" control of free speech really seem to be suffering under its hypothetical jackboot.
Also discussed at the time:

HN comments are underrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772925 - Oct 2016 (359 comments)
> So with sufficient hardware support, performance and latency in the language used to program the core might not matter.

E.g. a 8b, 125MS/s (!) arbitrary wave generator (AWG) in MicroPython: https://www.instructables.com/Arbitrary-Wave-Generator-With-...
The cost of a single preorder is $99 so the preorders alone have raised ~$50M. The cost of the entire Starlink constellation is supposed to be $10B so the preorders alone have covered 0.5%. Given that 57.23 million people live in rural areas in the United States [1] and Starlink wants their business, I'm a bit surprised that there aren't more preorders. Perhaps the preorders won't pay for the cost of the constellation alone, but certainly, if the operating costs of Starlink are low, then this thing is going to be one heck of a money-printing machine.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-...
I think remembering something like that in Hannah Arendt's biography, but I couldn't tell more... Maybe something about leaving Germany by leaving an house through such a door in the opposite side.
What's omitted is that Japan has had a similar system in place since the 1990's and will stop bullet trains in order to prevent more serious accidents. It's only with the advent of smartphone and the corporation-funded infrastructure improvements that this is available on the Western Seaboard of the United States. Ignoring the commentary to be made with comparing the two countries, theres still a question of the availability and uptime guarantees of the consumer-grade cellphone network, compared to a purpose built network. 90 seconds advanced warning isn't a lot, and from experience with Amber and Presidential alerts, they can often be delayed by a few minutes, given all of the variables involved. I hope the earthquake warning system is useful. 90 seconds warning isn't much (but is the best we have available given the science), but telling me 15 seconds after an earthquake to expect one is even less useful.
I did a deep dive on this a few weeks ago. If you're interested, the following is what I what I think were the most interesting studies. Sorry for my personal citation style. My conclusion is that there are differences, some of them not as big as claimed in popular media and for the majority we don't know their origin.

Buss. 1989. Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures

Feingold. 1994. Gender Differences in Personality: A Meta-Analysis

Grijalva et al. 2014. Gender Differences in Narcissism: A Meta-Analytic Review

Hall, Canterberry. 2011. Sexism and Assertive Courtship Strategies

Joseph, Newman. 2010. Emotional Intelligence: An Integrative Meta-Analysis and Cascading Model

Lukaszewski, Roney. 2010. Kind toward whom? Mate preferences for personality traits are target specific

Oliver, Hyde. 1993. Gender Differences in Sexuality: A Meta-analysis

Snyder et al. 2008. The dominance dilemma: Do women really prefer dominant mates?

Su, Rounds, Armstrong. 2009. Men and Things, Women and People

Wood, Eagly. 2002. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Behavior of Women and Men: Implications for the Origins of Sex Differences
The Case of the 50ms request
Underestimates the force of a true natural disaster. Sure this looks good rolling around on your lawn. But the only sure way to survive a natural disaster, is to get out of the way.
Even very senior developers are usually a negative value on a company for at least three weeks. There's usually a week for environment setup with any local tools being configured for the user and it's only after that that the best devs can hit the ground running and actually start comprehending the system, but that comprehension should come at consulting peers (if the new guy isn't asking any questions it's because they aren't doing any work) and by 1.5 weeks I expect someone to actually start adding value - with the net loss being paid out by week three.

But that's for a Senior or Principle dev - for intermediary devs I wouldn't expect positive gain for the company for a good two months and junior devs tend to be more expensive with that training phase lasting for something like six weeks.

Interns are a loss for companies - but please don't stop hiring them, you'll get some great employees out of the process and you're also investing in developing better communication and mentorship skills for your long term employees. As someone working at a company that was teensy tiny when I started this latter point is quite important - I actively invest in my skills to keep up with the curve and make sure I'm still providing as much value as is reasonable for my position. If I had been locked away to dev code in isolation when I was hired I'd be super rusty at a lot of skills that provide my employer real value.
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Yes! `ffsend upload --basic-auth USER:PASS FILE`
Well for one, you can swap out the port configuration, though I don't see myself using that.

I much prefer connecting one Type C hub than plugging in like six cables to my laptop directly, so I don't really mind laptops with a small amount of I/Os.
There are unpaid government/government-type internships. The UN is the most notable example. Most on Capitol Hill are also unpaid. Many local governments do it as well as they are cash strapped.
> As opposed to men who all happily choose someone overweight from another race.

They do. You think those women are single? They are not. I know one with 99+ likes on Tinder.
Sad to say it but these days loading a few MB to a client is par for the course. I don't think it's a reason not to try and get this working - the range header trick does sound particularly relevant to this format.

UPDATE: Just read https://kylebarron.dev/blog/cog-mosaic/overview which is excellent and clearly you're already very on top of the range request mechanism!
> You can pry my shutter sound from my cold, dead hands, though.

Luckily sounds are easy to synthesize.
I think the whole idea of this being work for $0 is incorrect. The "pay" comes in the exposure and authority the photographer will build after doing this.

If you're going to hire a wedding photographer, all things being equal, if one says they did the photos for a show that you are familiar with, or appeared in magazines you're familiar with - that is worth a great deal in marketing value.

A smart photographer can build enough authority after doing this whereas they will never have to market themselves afterwards.
It seems that I'm in the minority opinion but I think exposure on a prime Netflix series tuned in by "30 million households" is quite an impressive offer and the compensation (or lack there of) is not important. Declining such an offer, unless you are a very successful professional, seems like the wrong thing to do and is perhaps an example of one's ego getting in the way of one's success.

Just make sure they spell your name right, as the saying goes.
> or where tsunamis occur in Japan

This one is particularly interesting considering Fukushima wasn't the first time something like that happened. On the other side of Japan is the Kahiwazaki-Kariwa plant [0], the largest of its kind on the planet.

In 2007 that plant was already hit by an earthquake, shaking the plant beyond design basis, it was shut down for 21 months after that.

And even tho it wasn't affected by the 2011 earthquake that blew Fukushima up, it still was shut down to implement safety improvements, it remains shut down to this day with no date for resuming operations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwazaki-Kariwa_Nuclear_Pow...
These knee-jerk responses are lame.

- IDs stop the spam problem and give people control over something that keeps its reputation (and they're cheap).

- Federated systems normally suck because administering the servers and keeping decentralized versions in sync is hard. Urbit's design fixes this.

- Encrypted by default, ability to be as easy to run as FB (eventually, not right now). Peer to peer with the address space and key issues solved from first principles.

- Stability over long time horizons due to design (goal being indefinite), the urbit abstraction layer doesn't change and state can always be recomputed - changing pieces are implemented via jets to communicate with whatever underlying OS is doing the normal stuff.

It's a clever design and solves a lot of problems with modern computing, people often dismiss it out of hand because Yarvin's politics are stupid (he's no longer involved in the project and hasn't been for some time). Peter Thiel's Trump support was stupid too, but that doesn't mean he doesn't get a lot of other stuff right.

https://urbit.org/blog/the-understanding-urbit-podcast/
I think it sounds like an example that doesn't prove what you aim to convince me of.
Anything can go wrong until September, then you can say goodbye to the $.
> “Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States ..

Nah. Notice that he just put up a blog.

If you walk into a business and start "speeching" to the customers and staff, and management doesn't like that, they can demand that you leave and don't come back.

And you can just walk off-property and speak. No loss of free speech at all.

Facebook isn't the government, they're a business, with zero obligations relative to free speech.
They also have OSS projects like ES that accept free labor
HN discussion from Framework's initial announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263508