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I get it. But that’s really dumb and why people hate lawyers. The intent is entirely clear in this case, and the rest is just legal jujitsu.
Still don't have a place for them, since they're all out on the streets
IEFBR14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
Types of Kubernetes Auth
As someone that is stuck out here already with dwindling resources ... what obligation have I to help provide more houses to encourage growth in a resource poor environment?
I can fully understand why they take the pro-life point of view, and it's wrong. The end result of a pro-life view is what you see happening in this thread: People arguing that birth control should be made illegal. They want to erode freedom of individuals to decide for themselves in favor of their own religious zeal.

As toomuchtodo has said, the gap has become impossible to bridge, mainly because any concessions to pro-life individuals simply results in demands for further concessions until the above becomes true.
Something that comes to mind is that Github, as part of a "papercuts" initiative to fix small things, added an arrow that points from the "theirs" branch to the "our" branch in pull requests. That was such a huge improvement for me.
Isn’t this just straight victim blaming?
Definitely not the case that the full lifecycle of disruption is complete since that entails the full replacement of the incumbent. But with M1 Apple silicon surpassed Intel in performance after many years of inferior performance improving at a greater rate, which I think is one of the key milestones in a disruption story.

I’m not sure if there are any case studies of one behemoth fully disrupting another? So who knows what the end state will look like.

One confounder for predicting the endgame is that due to their vertical integration with their OS, Apple won’t replace Intel where Windows is a hard requirement, and so they probably won’t completely decimate Intel. I suppose in this aspect it’s not a full disruption.

I’m not really clear how much inertia there is behind Windows these days, now that MS is committed to Office on Mac. Definitely substantial, but if the price-per-performance was 2x or better for macs in a couple generations, what % of corporate buyers would switch over?
As Douglas Adams once said:

“ I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Only when applied to Linux, this amounts to:

Anything that was copied from UNIX is normal and ordinary and just part of the way the world works.

Anything that is included in a standard Ubuntu distribution is exciting and revolutionary.

Anything else is a ‘dependency’.
There are more out there than Zig. There's Vlang and Odin as well.

D is something to look at, but I'm wondering if the opportunity passed it by and it has become almost as wide/complex as C++. I never quite understood why D didn't go more heavily into application development, like Object Pascal, as a lane it could make more of a name for itself. Hard to be kind of similar to C++, going for same usage, and then to displace it. C++ is just so established and people so invested in it.

In the case of Zig, Vlang, or Odin, these are clearly more about being a step higher than C, but ease of use as well.
I worked for a company who did this many years ago.

Create new formula for performance. Hire respected thought leaders. Convert users to your way of measuring new performance.

Use the fact that the big guys don't use this measurement as your ad copy. If they add support for it that will generate a certain status for you which can make your brand.
There are tons of other cities that are much cheaper than cali cities, a lot of people are moving to places like phoenix and Dallas, which have everything cali cities have except maybe nice weather and nature
"I'm in my late 30s btw, so already at the point in my life where I need to do whatever I can to keep a competitive edge against 20-somethings in the industry"

I am interested to explore this recurring theme, in that how does 10 years difference at that age make such a big difference?

When you think a world class sprinter is not regarded to coming into their own until their 30's at best, it can't be physical condition.

Then you think, is it mental condition, the ability to absorb and adapt to new things, and sharpness of memory? But I wonder if not, when I think back to my 20's and of my friends and collegues, any sharpness was well overwhelmed in a wholistic sense by inexperience and often excessive hubris.

I would have said 30's is about when an individual may have accumulated enough balance and skills to really start considering to eb able to deliver, unless being managed exceptionally well earlier in life.

So that leaves possible other factors

1) Many manegers are quite young these days and don't like to manage people older than them, for a wide variety of reasons.

2) Tech is cashing in on a bunch of unpaid work when they acquire fresh young talent who have worked hard in their own time for many years previous, to be up to date with the latest languagse/stacks etc. After ten years unless they have really kept up, they are stale.

3) Once you hit 30, you might be a little sick of living to work and want to spend more spare time with family and friends, so therefore maybe not doing the extra (unpaid) work to do more and/or keep up.

4) Once you hit 30, tried your guts out, been unlucky with hitting the fuck off money and still really need to work, maybe the hunger is gone. (or that is the perception)

5) It's a cult and there is no reason, but once the club has formed that's how it runs.

By now I am getting more and more out there, but all of the above have some premise of plausability, but I am interested to know what everyone's experiences/thoughts are from SV/tech.

Note of Context:

I work in another country, in a tech based field being industrial engineering of electrical and control systems, but any ageisim doesn't seem to really kick in until after 50, if at all.

But it is a bit more conservative, and uptake of new tech is much slower compared to SV because the risks are far more tangible (long lead very big money projects, possible harm to human life) and the conservative position is to do what is known to work. Breaking things is not in the normal acceptable range of outcomes.

The slower rate of new tech adoption is especially because Final Investment Decision (FID) may not occur until 10-20% of potential budget has been expended doing front end studies and tightly defining the path forward to completion.
> People will flee to states that don't oppress them and those states will continue to decline.

People with resources will be able to evade the bans relatively easily or flee if they can't

Those with fewer resources will be less able to leave.

> those states that push fundamentalist religious law on the people will see more suffering and death, higher rates of poverty and violence, etc.

And they'll continue to be overrepresented in Congress and maintain federal funding formulas that extract money from successful states to subsidize themselves on account of their failure.
fantasy is the right word. It aint all milk and honey out here
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The solution to more criminals than cells is to build more cells. Not to let the criminals out.
* Estopple -- a quick search shows this USA law student

https://www.whitcomblawpc.com/additional-blogs-of-interest/e...

* Severability I thought we were talking about COPYRIGHT and Software License! apparently not?

"it was merely an example" , yes agree, it was merely an example "I want my license to say that I can murder someone" .. that was your example, right?
Gaseous hydrogen. The initial idea was for ensuring feed in case of negative G's, as some high-efficiency subsonic airfoils are unstable in the high-lift orientation, so recovery from malfunction/turbulence would start with flipping to negative G's followed by rolling over into inverted cruise.
That would of course only be possible if the tank can be made to reliably feed independent of gravity, and the otherwise-typical bladder (AFAIK pressurized by gas/air between the bladder and the structural tank) doesn't work for LH2, due to cryogenic temperatures making all remotely normal materials very brittle.

But a low-speed piston seal that only has notable pressure across it during active roll maneuvers (centripetal force from the roll-rotation) and uncoordinated turns, between LH2 and gaseous H2 with the latter slightly warmer than the former... it's not like you'd want the empty part of the cryogenic tank to be at non-cryogenic temperatures or filled with something that'd contaminate your LH2.
Now we’re doing engineering? I thought we were just putting some HTML files on the internet.

The two approaches I described have exactly the same number of moving parts; they require you to understand exactly the same number of technologies. There is no difference in ‘complexity’.
There are several more of these of approximately the same order of magnitude but those firms are able to keep it successfully out of the media.
How I hunt down and fix errors in production
FAGMAN is still my favorite.
Most of the those hurdles have been being shot down as unconstitutional until now.
The loss of roe v wade could cause us to lose a lot of other rights too. Gay marriage may be next on the chopping block.
That's not just a "monkey jpg", and your comment would be a lot more valid if you dropped the sarcasm.

Anyway: 380k validators at 10W and assuming the cost of the kwH to be $0.25 (which is more than the world's average cost) amounts to ~8 million USD /year. That seems to me more than acceptable if it means that we are securing a blockchain that is already holding more than ~500B in assets.
I have recently discovered Greg Judy on YT and have become fascinated with the possibilities of regenerative agriculture with grazing. He is producing organically with almost no inputs, no heavy equipment and it is growing better soil. Pretty impressive when you compare how many inputs are required with other methods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmYlRMuXo8
the unbanked stuff is a lie, the working as intended part is the truth
American Catholicism is very, very strongly influenced by Protestantism.

And, oddly, Catholic theology has a very outsized role in public policy - even more so in the 1930s to 1980:

Natural law played a big role American attitudes and policies on human rights, Catholic Worker movement had a very large role in unionization and left wing through, opposition to Communism, etc.

Even now phrases like “social justice” and “just war” are phrases taken from Catholic theology.

I’ve even heard the phrase “Jewish x using Catholic theology for Protests y” in a number of different situations: “Jewish professors teaching Catholic theology to Protestant students” or “Jewish judges interpreting Catholic theology for Protestant claimants.”
That a bullshit does not make.
You're the one confused here. You're making a standard programmer bug of reading IRS pages like computer code.

If you'd like an example of a sale, look at the sale of edX to 2U. A for-profit got:

- Courses from partner universities, developed believing they were contributing to a non-profit

- Data from millions of students, who believed they were entrusting it to MIT and Harvard

Foundations, individuals, etc. who had supported edX financially found their donations commercialized too.

MIT/Harvard got $800M. MIT decision-makers got cushy jobs at 2U.
Agave API (YC W22) | Full-Stack Dev, 3+ Yrs Exp. | Full-Time | On-Site (SF/Bay Area)

tl;dr: full-stack dev. (second hire) at YC Seed-stage API startup in construction/real estate.

What we’re looking for:

- Full-stack dev. with experience building complex systems quickly.

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, multi-tenant systems, and building dev. tools (e.g. APIs).

- Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team.

- Excited to be our second Eng. hire; passion for building a world-class Eng. culture, on par with Stripe.

More about us:

- We’re a data-integration API and analytics platform for the $12T construction/real estate industry.

- We’re a team of 5 who worked together for 6 years, first at Graphiq (acq. by Amazon) then at Alexa.

- We just raised $3M from YC, Accel (Facebook, Slack, Cloudera, Segment, etc.), founders of Plaid and Mailbox, and founders/execs at Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, Fieldwire, and others.

Details:

- Job: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/agave/jobs/jryB4nr-sen...

- Us: https://www.agaveapi.com/
There are more problems with fertilizer than CO2 emissions.
Salsa Verde Doritos was the best, but apparently discontinued.
Which will never happen, just the other day I read an article about record low housing development is happening right now in the Bay Area
No, Cali needs to realize unlimited resources first. My local reservoir is below summer level before summer is even here. Why we need to encourage more people to to turn this into a desert?
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And, to editorialize: news orgs, your favorite political blogs, and even Twitter will have better commentary than HN.

Edit: for example, the joking sibling comment.
Satellites for Hire in the Spotlight
I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
Do you follow a certain programming paradigm, or do you adjust accordingly?
I’m sure the homeless people smashing windows are staying put
FYI: This just takes abortion out of the purview of the federal government and makes it a states issue, as the constitution intended.
The Economist is such a strange magazine sometimes. It seems to think California is falling from some Golden Age without much but hand-wavy references and oddball stats.

> "the state’s demography is now at odds with Californians’ sense of their home state as “a place where we can play in the sun” (to quote the Beach Boys)."

> As a result, California has lost a component of its former diversity: the sense that it is a place where people from all over America come to make good.

> Yet if the state is ethnically more diverse, it is less of a melting pot in a different way: it used to be a place where everyone came from somewhere else.

What is up with these statements? They list demographic changes as though they are a crushing blow to California's sense of self.

> Another sign is that half the states’ foreign-born immigrants are citizens, the highest share for 40 years.

This is a problem? What a strange metrics to pull out.

> Perhaps you have to be rich and educated to move to California.

"California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;"

"But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot"

"If you ain't got the do re mi."

-- Woody Guthrie, 1937

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/woody-guthrie/do-re-mi
Strava Premium user for almost a decade now. Thought I was in the know, but absolutely shocked at how many competitors their appear to be based on comments! I've already signed up for a couple. Though I will happily continue to pay for Strava as long as they don't get purchased by Google or fizzle out or something for the reasons others have outlined and would be redundant if I repeated.
Thanks for leaving, we need the water ... and, im not whom youre replying to, but people leave because they want something else and its worth it to them. More power to 'em, and yourself.
edit cuz i got downvoted for speaking truth. thanks for leaving
Because the people those transactions were with didn’t want them reversed, and there was no rule or law that required it.
I'm aware that many pro-life proponents anchor their beliefs in the idea life begins at conception, and therefore abortion is murder, but many (more?) people believe differently. I'm sympathetic to the concept that "abortion is murder" and anyone with that viewpoint should be 100% on board for doing everything we can to reduce the need for abortion, such as robust sex-education starting at an appropriate age (12 or 13), availability of contraception and counseling to discuss concerns, ... (these measures reduced abortions in Colorado). Unfortunately, many pro-lifers are also against contraception and sex education, and other measures which would reduce the need for abortions, which muddies their underlying intentions, and leads many to believe that their primary concern has more to do with controlling women and inflicting their religious beliefs on others.
Hmm good point, it is basically a long hydrocarbon.
I don't have strong opinions about roe or gay marriage. I do have strong opinions against kritarchy. Right or wrong, I don't like the idea of the Yale law school sharia council overriding the will of the electorate. It may have worked for you in recent history, but as they say, "past performance is not indicative of future results."
Did you live under communist rule to know they were far more equal?
thanks Reagan
Prowood | Remote (New Zealand only) | Python | Full time

We are a small timber manufacturer using tech to help get our products into customer's buildings. Prowood pioneered web based specification of timber products in NZ for quick and easy consenting and substitution by architects and designers. Now we've moved upstream to digitise every aspect of production, from the humble raw timber log right through to installed structural members in buildings.

We are looking for developers to join our small in house team to help fill in the missing links. If you have experience developing application software, enjoy wrangling and reporting on real-world data that is directly correlated to physical work, implementing processes that drive (product) production, or would like to learn, we'd love to hear from you.

Positions:

- Senior Python Developer. Someone who likes to take charge of a code base, keep quality high, tech debt minimised, and make sure solutions are suitable for the problems at hand. Full advert at https://www.seek.co.nz/job/56542157.

- Intermediate Python Developer / Tester. If you have some experience with application development and like making sure the small details are correct, drop me an email too. There is plenty to do and learn across a very wide range of real business problems that tech can help.

Tech stack: Postgres, Django, React

Interested? Reach out to me personally at jobs@prowoodnz.com.
Alas, the rural place I'm from has all those problems, but is also far away from anything.
I'm pretty sure the RF seal of a microwave oven door is a resonance seal that doesn't depend on conductive contacts for the shielding effect.

If the door mechanically seals properly like it's supposed to, all should be fine.
If the mechanics make it not be as flush as it used to, get rid of it or measure the RF power at it's operating frequency near it while it's running, to check whether it still properly seals the RF.
"culture" or torture chamber?
haven't seen anything yet, my email is not the same as username :)
It depends what the strategy is.

Frankly, a lot of what people refer to as "prop trading firms" and "quant hedge funds" on here are just market-makers...they are taking very little to no risk, a lot are just riding the wave of ETF growth. Even the ones that are running alpha, I have heard of a few strategies, and they are largely what you would expect: low-edge, crowded trades (frankly, a lot of it is LTCM-style stuff).

That is why the business has become more tech-like, because actually taking risk is...quite risky. If you are going for alpha, you are trying to hire one guy out of thousands, that person knows what they are worth, etc. It is far easier to hire lots of devs on low wages and do the grunt work jobs that are less lucrative, but don't require being able to actually work out if someone is a decent earner.

Man Group has their own department at Oxford Uni, I think Winton hires people out of their department at Cambridge...Man Group's shaky record is legendary (they are doing everything now that blew them up in 2008), Winton was top tier...not anymore. AQR is another one, although a more traditionally finance quant approach...it all turned out to be pure beta. The hybrid approach of hiring devs or ML PHds to generate alpha has only ever worked accidently.

The firms that have been printing money from quant investing over the past five years have all been traditional hedge funds that incorporated quant methods into a fundamental process. And I expect that will continue because, bluntly, these firms know what the price of a security should be better than some busted factor model.
> Outside of certain special areas, it's a dump

There are several comments in this thread already with this general vibe. As a CA resident, I definitely don't disagree, but I travel a lot in the US and outside it, and have done so for most of my life (immigrated here fairly young), and I'm really confident when I say that, in terms of infrastructure and general urban/suburban aesthetics, the US has gone from "fairly bad for a developed country" to "complete shithole" pretty quickly in the last ~20 years. (My experience is mostly with larger urban areas, for context, so maybe rural USA doesn't feel as much like Mad Max.)

Every time I come back to the US, as soon as I deplane into the (inevitable) 65 year-old airport with low popcorn ceilings and stained carpeting, I sense it more and more. If I'm coming back from another 1st-world country, it's like "this feels like Guatemala", and if I'm coming back from Guatemala, it's like "this feels like Guatemala". (No hate on Guatemala btw it's an incredible place with incredible people, but it's very poor (thanks in large part to US but that's another hot take for another thread).) This is an anonymous internet comment on an emotional issue so maybe I'm like 10% exaggerating here, but mostly not.
The surplus is an illusion, California has over $1T in unfunded pension liabilities. $74k per taxpayer.
> There's one called sneerclub but there might be more.

Sounds right. Seems like a waste of time, though I'd rather people read Gwern or Meaningness than SSC for their internet philosophers.

> You're claiming it's impossible for non-humans to be smarter than humans?

I'm claiming the only reason the AGI in their imagination is taking over the world is that they've imagined it's doing that.

Also, that me saying "no that won't happen" is a superior method of thinking about it to rationalist decision theory, because it's immune to Russell's teapots like this. Presumably, this can be disproven if I'm killed in a robot war.

I'm okay with an AGI existing insofar as it acts like humans already do, but think the unknown unknowns are going to prevent it from being real insofar as it acts less like any currently existing thing with a brain. i.e. I don't think they've defined "smarter" and are using it to mean "omnipotent".