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Economies of scale.

Think about the Portuguese caravels that were first to circumnavigate the World, and how tiny they were (roughly 100 tons). We don't bother with such small ocean-going ships today because they are too uneconomical to use. We use ships today that are a thousand or more times larger - around 200,000 tons.
Is this the Twitter thread where we learn that stock photography is a thing? I’m sure it’s not intended that way but it could be seen as bullying or otherwise tech-bro douchebaggery.
Ask HN: Why is my Kickstarter failing ?
Or course most of us think our innovation will be right understood right away.
Here, my crowdfunding has only 400$ after 3 weeks.
I feel disappointed.

A clue ? Please do say anything : it can't be worth than silence anyway...
What a negative response. Someone is trying to come up with a new idea and you say you should only work to improve ideas that already exist. Say that to anyone who has ever come up with a paradigm shifting idea. It’s opinions like this that prevent people from trying to break the mould. Their enthusiasm should be encouraged irregardless of its effectiveness.
If they can turn someone into a backend engineer in nine months they can hire forever even with a lot of turnover.

> Lambda School to Launch New Backend Engineering Program, Jointly Developed with Amazon

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/lambda-school-launches-...

> Inspiration for the new backend program came from Amazon Technical Academy, which trains current, non-technical Amazon employees for software development engineering roles within the company. Amazon Technical Academy’s curriculum is based on the critical knowledge, skills, and attributes required to succeed as a software development engineer at Amazon, which Lambda’s program will cover in their entirety. Amazon Technical Academy is part of Amazon’s commitment to upskill 100,000 of its own employees by 2025.
Isn't that one of Clojure's selling points?
All that stuff can be ameliorated somewhat imo with a cultural change. At my job (admittedly a much smaller group of a few dozen, nothing on amazons scale), we initially had a ton of zoom meetings but have cut out most of them since people want to have uninterrupted days of productivity, with room to schedule their own submeetings with peers when it comes time to collaborate with specific people. We all still live in the area so we've gotten together in a park and do potlucks and stuff like that after we got our vaccines. For the lack of commute thing, I find it helpful to build in a morning routine rather than wake up > work. I tend to my garden in the mornings, workout, and usually do a walk around my neighborhood to serve as a faux commute before I make my cup of coffee and begin the workday. Sometimes I head out to the golf course early in the morning and get back home before 9. Other coworkers surf at dawn. If I had to commute it would be tough to fit in gardening and working out or golf without waking up indescribably early to make it all work.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/free-visit/free-visit-o...
Tell HN: Happy Columbus Day!
I am hopeful some got the day off, enjoy with family, friends!
This really isn't true, or at least not of many CEOs. The classic being Andy Grove, but many others have also sat in cubes with the rest of the workers:

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Back in 1995, a BusinessWeek profile of Grove said he sat in a cube "precisely to eliminate barriers between chief executive and staff. When he is around, anybody can stop by and bend his ear, even to tell him he screwed up on a decision. There's no fear of getting fired -- Grove encourages what he calls 'constructive confrontation.' "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/03...
C'mon, you didn't break into the Archive and open the box? Typical Internet nonsense.

Seriously: very nice work; thank you. Above and beyond!

> "The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds," said Davis, "is to let it go in through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized."

Now a nearly irrelevant second place to social media.
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Vaccines now are mRNA coded and it is relevant to discuss the ramifications of our institution of that technology.
I suspect Peter should have left Google long ago.

Google's approach to ML/AI probably is not what Peter really liked, judging from his past writings and books. There is certainly a strong sense of symbolic and rule-based intelligence, based on my limited reading and even more limited understanding.

But I guess Google paid very well...
In reality, Google probably should sponsor Peter and let him work at Stanford...
How does the filesystem/storage part of that work?

I use VSCodium daily and was considering self-hosting one of the web options.
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I think the worry about overloaded resources is, maybe you need density first, then you can have funding for services created from the tax base.

It's like the housing version of the field of dreams.
Fascinating articles. I think Bee analyzes the situation at Perimeter correctly. With Turok gone, maybe the pendulum will swing back a ways. One can hope.

Markopoulou, 38, hooked up with Doyne Farmer, 57, and got pregnant while taking a road trip from Santa Fe to San Francisco in a 42 year old Datsun convertible. And they are still together. I've been following Farmer's progress since the '70s, but I hadn't heard that one.

Great stuff, thanks very much!! Got me to break out my old copy of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control.
That grim socialist future is still better than a lot of Americans who already live hand to mouth have.

Heck, throw in free wifi and I might sign up.
Every human has needs and desires that translate into demand for work. Immigration not only supplies more work it also results in more demand for work. You earn $15 per hour and you spend it all. People trade their time because they want other people's time. Nobody is really worse off here. If employers abuse their power to pay the immigrants less then the surplus ends up with the employer. It's the employers turn to spent all his money. If he doesn't there won't be any opportunities for regular citizens.
The clincher is whether it can be solved.

Infrastructure is so crucial to every society, every process, and every organization and yet it is also so often not given the attention that it needs.
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This is my experience on a nursing floor with co-staff that I saw more than family during some stretches, minus the tips of course. This was particularly evident when a patient was acutely unwell and needed extra attention until they could go up to the ICU.

Wine tasting/gratuitous consumption did occur, but only in off hours.
Wasn't there a Venezuelan oil company that had its American operation "secede"? I imagine a similar thing will happen then, what's HQ going to do about a rogue office that has the support of the host country?
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Funny enough, I start with Shopify tomorrow. They went remote-only last year.
This is exactly how my hobby project works: https://linklonk.com

The interest graph is built in response to your content upvotes/downvotes. The connections are float values instead of booleans. Here is how these float values are updated:

1. You start off weakly connected to all users and you see generally popular content.

2. When you upvote something - you get stronger connected to other users that upvoted that content before you (you don't connect to those who upvoted after you - this is a proof of work that Eugene wrote in https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service). The stronger your are connected to someone => the more weight their other upvoted items have for you => the higher their other upvoted items show up in your feed.

3. When you downvote - your connection to those who upvoted that content goes weaker. And your connection to those who also downvoted it goes higher.

4. Every time someone you are connected to upvotes something, your connection becomes slightly weaker to them. They sort of place a bet that this item is worth your attention and that bet is lost if you ignore that item. So if you ignore those who no longer post useful content or simply post too frequently for you - they will gradually disappear from your list. This prevents the old money problem from the same "Status as a Service" post above.

5. You can put the items you upvote into user-defined collections, so your tech content could go into your "tech" collection and users that are connected to your tech collection will not be bothered by the stuff you put into your "film" collection. This is similar to different boards on Pinterest.

This system is somewhere between popularity based systems (Reddit), subscription based systems (RSS, Twitter) and algorithmic systems (TikTok, Pinterest).

Your connections to other people capture how useful their previous recommendations have been to you (ie, their signal-to-noise ratio) and so can be thought of: how much you can trust them that their future recommendations will be worth your time.
If those autogenerated apps don't get downloads, reviews, or in-app purchases then they wouldn't perform well in the search results. What the user is asking for are good tools to find good apps. That can include curation and metric based solutions. Having a million apps doesn't change anything because most people stop looking after a handful, if that.
I really enjoyed working with grandpa's Ford 8N. Thanks for your input!
I personaly prefer to go to the office a few day per week, which is helped by the current arrangement at my workplace where everyone can come the day they want or not at all. Of course living within walking distance of the office sure help, I don't know if I'd say the same thing if it took me 90 minutes to go there. But even then, I think I collaborate better in person, as there's not the friction that seems inherent (to me) to remote collaboration.

The office also brings perks that I don't have access to at home, like better internet speed, air conditionning and the coffee machine; on the subject of coffee (and lunch) breaks, going to the office allows to talk with people that I would never talk if I worked remotely full-time; most of those discussions aren't usually work related, but those who are interesting and I learned thing I wouldn't have otherwise.

On the other hand, being able to do housework during the day is really good
Perhaps I miscommunicated? I'm saying it's often emotional. But yes, you make a choice - not a carefully examined, systematic one, but you make a choice to hit snooze, commit adultery, etc.
Everyone who is able to live in a dense downtown apartment is another acre of forest outside the city not razed to build McMansions and 6-lane highways. These buildings will house thousands of people and keep thousands of gas-guzzlers off the road since these buildings have such excellent public transportation options.

I'm all for letting nature be nature, but how about we let cities be cities?
Are there any books that teach differentiable programming ?
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The DNT spec offers these three states. It also doesn't say anything about it being global, so a browser UI could have a default + overrides.

The general sentiment seems to be that "if you want it, you want it, and who would want it explictly off?"
Also one of the two authors of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, which is probably the most commonly used intro AI textbook.
in the office, even if the person I want to ask a question is next to me, I'd usually ping them beforehand and wait for their answer, it feels more polite this way.
I don't think offices make great datacenters without a lot of investment in HVAC at least, beyond the handful of racks they might already have in a few rooms. Plus most businesses don't own their offices, they lease them from a property owner that would probably prefer to keep it as office space should the business fail.
> The whole "move to the mountains" thing that so many people talk about assumes you don't care about good schools, airports, hospitals, etc.

That certainly is a trade off some people have to make.

We're finalizing a move to a new home that fits that description. 20k pop, basically on the beach, backed by mountains and trails, 4 hour drive to anything with greater than 200k population, small hospital that is not well equipped, local schools are pretty meh to terrible.

Here is the thing though, I'm the sole breadwinner. That opens up tons of options and flexibility.

My wife and I are deeply involved in our son's education, in which we substantially add on to his online classes. We have gigabit fiber internet, I can drive to an international airport in under 15 minutes(granted, only 3-4 days a week for flights), and our son is now getting a chance to make friends again, outside of school.

My wife wanted to move to the area, my sole objection was having fast and reliable internet to do my job. I grew up on a farm, so getting out of dense metro areas suits me just fine.

Now that we have secured internet, and my starlink reservation should be delivered in a few months as a backup, there is nothing stopping us.

Remote work has allowed me to get away from California and their income taxes, raise my pay in the process by finding a new and fully remote job, and live in a much cheaper COL area.

Renting for now, but we build our house in 2022/2023. My pay versus the cost of the area means that we will pay cash for everything, no mortgage needed.
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I wonder what this will do the home prices of adjacent properties in the Kits, one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in the area.
Ah, the old "tree covered building" render. Putting trees on buildings might make them green as in color, but doesn't make them "green" as in environmentally sound. Supporting all those trees requires a lot of concrete, and the maintenance of the trees is another issue. On balance, it's a gimmick [1].

There are few real world examples of buildings like this (one in Italy I believe) but it ended up being a far cry from the original renders.

1. https://persquaremile.com/2013/03/07/trees-dont-like-it-up-t...
We're probably closer to the beginning than the end. Look at the numbers and you'll see things are worse than they were a year ago, in terms of cases and deaths. Imagine if we didn't have the vaccines.
You can see societies that lack the knowledge even today. You can see that even in 'scientific' societies, many people lack that knowledge ...
As someone also on the inside: a generous take might be that this could allow them to accommodate more people.

If you hate commuting into the office and your current team is going to make you do so, you can transfer teams if there's not a hidden directive to just say no across the board.

If you dislike working from home, as I do, and your current team isn't going to encourage attendance 3+ days a week, you again have the chance to transfer.

Amazon keeps employees this way, and employees get their ideal balance. It seems better than the top-down one-size-fits-all approach if there aren't hidden instructions being passed down management chains. There's not as large a problem of a "preferred class" of workers if your director and everyone below them is on the same WFH/in-office balance.
I mean, gender is a spectrum no? Anybody who claims that the blue isle in my store is marketed towards boys is just applying outdated and antiquated stereotypes to my store's protest about gender-normative systems of oppression. In other words, they're committing a direct act of violence
Strange reference. Is that just meant to be an arbitrary celebrity or does xqcow have some particular relevance here I'm missing?
Be sure you don’t mix work from home and COVID.

I see many people try and combine these, saying that the current state sucks, therefore WFH sucks.

I’m not saying WFH wouldn’t otherwise suck for you/others, but it’s really hard to separate these two to figure out how different WFH would be without COVID, unless in your particular area, they’ve gone back to business as usual (which I don’t think anywhere truly has, yet).

But in a world where more companies are WFH, and COVID has much less of an impact on everyday life, I think WFH will look a lot different.

Again, my point isn’t that WFH is the greatest thing for everyone and every company, just saying that people that are just now WFH due to COVID should wait until COVID is mostly uneventful before declaring WFH a failure.
I would have mentioned that, but it's mentioned in the Stanford post and is also less interesting from a "You Should Know" standpoint on a website built on a Common Lisp-inspired Lisp. Not to mention that the book isn't as good as PAIP.
Very insightful hypothesis, thank you.
That sounds somewhat like a toxic culture leaving you with a sense of insecurity more than their position on remote work.
What is this "remote stun gun-style device" they reference?
At least according to Levels, the Vancouver office pay sucks.

Lots of equivalent paying companies in Canada now, yet alone USA.
So your argument is that Apple's review process is useless?

Ultimately, Apple (and Google) have incentivized developers to make terrible games full of ads. Perhaps that is a larger problem that requires a broader, more systemic solution.
It's my fault. I mentioned timezones but the even bigger problem is client side formatting, so when I described that it was confusing two things.

Imagine your screenshot instead of '12 - 06 - 2018' had displayed '06 - 12 - 2018'. For the same date (12th June 2018). Because locale detection failed it fellback to the US locale**. And it set up the input so that '06-13-2018' is legal but '13-06-2018' is not. Does my example make sense now?

In a JS datepicker, I could force DD/MM/YYYY (or whatever according to the user record) and that's it. Timezones are also a problem, but that's indeed easier to work around. The issue is that the specification by design does not allow forcing a format, despite me knowing exactly what the user wants.

It may sound fantastical that locale detection can fail that badly, but it did, and nothing simple I did could fix that - I don't exactly have access to set up the client machines, but I could reproduce on one of mine. Note that matheusmoreira here in this thread also has this problem, so it's apparently not impossibly rare.

Old Edge for example, seemed to prefer autodetection via the keyboard locale*** over the region date settings, and that was a product by the OS maker! (Also, their date picker was trash by modern standards).

** I guess all browser makers are American companies so US is default? Or perhaps it went to the US locale by keyboard like old Edge, since just about everyone here uses the English (US) locale for English.

*** Setting up English (UK) fixed the date display. Except that comes with other downsides.
The Excel spreadsheets is where it all clicked for me. It's not done with some magical library but with simple math being performed on some weights.
Node's tiny stdlib invites the question - which compile-to-JS language has the best standard library? Dart? Clojurescript? Strange how Typescript missed the opportunity to fix this.
It's not just the data (that's an easy enough problem to solve).

It's the infrastructure.

Even if you've only got a reasonable simple platform, say some redundant EC2 app servers behind a load balancer and a multi AZ RDS database, with some S3 storage and a Cloudfront distribution serving static assets - you've probably also got Route53 DNS hosting, AKS ssl certs, deployment AMIs, CloudWatch monitoring/alerting, and a bunch of other "incidental" but effectively proprietary AWS stuff - because it's there.

How do you get all that stood up "right now" in Azure or GCP or DigitalOcean or wherever, unless you've already put the time/effort into making that happen?

How many "single points of failure" are locked inside your AWS account? (For my stuff, Route53 is the thing that keeps me up at night occasionally. If we lost access to our domains registered/hosted in AWS, we'd need to pick new domain names and update all out apps...)
Could you point to some examples of anti-natalist propaganda? I have absolutely no idea what it looks like. Maybe I've been living under an algorithmic rock since I do have children and my phone knows it?
Yeah, for a first timer the experience sucks. Public lobbies are cesspools because of toxic people and anyone can join in with large polygon models which causes everyone to lag. Moderation is almost non-existent. VRChat is also very nsfw and not a place for kids.

I was lucky to have a friend connect me to moderated lobbies where everyone is verified to be 21+ and etiquette is enforced by moderators.
Can you point me to some docs on how to accomplish this? I'm currently using Slack Nebula to achieve similar goals but every time I looked up WireGuard tutorials, it was to tunnel traffic through a VPS, which I didn't want to do.
The renderings are awesome because it's the phase when architects let their true artistic vision shine without much thought to cost. Then reality hits, and the buildings (usually) never look even 25% as nice. But in this case if they can get 25% of that vision in reality they'll still be better looker buildings than 98% of what you see in Vancouver today.
I treat Google like a communist, get as much as I can from them while giving as little as possible in return. It’s a good engine for finding something you already know exists, but it’s terrible for searching for news or ideas unless you want results that are first put through the filter of how they want you to think about things and even what they want you to believe in some cases.

This is the internet, and computers, we have plenty of room for competing ideas to exist simultaneously, why should there only be a single uniform opinion shown? Like Wikipedia edits, instead of locking something because of a disagreement, just fork it and allow multiple disagreeing views to exist!
This headline might lead you to believe this is a developer taking advantage/stealing from a First Nations Tribe - not the case, this is actually being done by the group themselves! Really cool style and density right here makes sense - it's not like they are developing a section of Pacific Spirit Park for this.
Not to mention PGE's planned shutoffs. I'm guessing a lot of exceptions will be made here for specific use-cases/industries.

Which is why legislation is often hundreds+ pages long.
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Yeah masks are still technically required, but if they’re anything like indoor dining, people are lax about wearing them once inside (I haven’t been to any since the pandemic, so I could be wrong).
What I love about this project is that it's a huge win-win for both the Squamish nation, and Canadian vancouverites. They're building affordable housing for members of the Squamish nation, bringing their people back together onto their native land and funding it by renting out market-rate housing and offices to non-native Vancouverites.

I'm very excited about this project. I wish it all the success in the world, and I hope other housing-starved localities are taking notes