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But in set theory, zero is the empty set! So Ruby creates the correct universe =D

nil = nil
nil.to_i = nil.to_h
0 = {}
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring senior/staff back end and lead engineers
About us:
We're a digital caregiver that helps older & disabled adults avoid retirement communities and age well in their own homes. We tailor on demand APIs from companies like Uber and Instacart to the needs of people living with cognitive, visual, mobility and dexterity impairments. We're operating profitably with millions in revenue and growing quickly. Our company is remote first. Total engineering headcount, including this position, is eight.

The positions:
FULLY REMOTE | Full-time | US, UK, or able to work 4+ hours overlap with mainland US (UK time working hours also OK) | $100k to $160k (partially location-dependent)

Build high-quality, robust engineering at the rarest of things - a Silicon Valley startup that is both wholesome AND profitable. We have 8-figure revenue, are YC-backed, and growing fast.

Tech stack (required): Back-end heavy (Node, Typescript, MySQL, REST*+GraphQL), front-end (Vue), deploy (AWS, Docker/K8s)

Minimum 6 years experience (mostly Node). If full-stack, you must be strongest on the backend. If applying for lead engineer, must have leadership experience.

2-stage interview process.

If you want to help older adults and people with disabilities, send your LinkedIn/CV to william@gogograndparent.com (keep it brief) or apply at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs
> (at least not ferrous ones)
How does one make the leap from being mediocre to being great at things?
I am sure others have this problem, but how does one make the leap from being mediocre or average at many things to being at least great at once of them. It's not like it's not practicing enough. What does it take to make that final leap. It would be nice to be great at something.
Means & motive are still largely governed by whether you own things for a living or work for a living. The pay to exist vs get paid to exist dynamic is alive and well over there and the debates are all quite familiar. After all they invented the rules and we just copy-pasted them with a few small modifications. The ownership class just isn't as dominant as it is in the US at the moment, for better and for worse.
"Recycling aluminium consumes only 5% of the energy required for primary aluminium production, resulting in a 95% reduction in carbon emissions."

https://international-aluminium.org/new-iai-study-reveals-en...
Does the second group also end up skewing remuneration in their favour? For example, a tech company where managers are paid over the odds, while the passionate engineers who do a lot of the technical heavy lifting are paid less.
> How many people years existed between the time people discovered multiplication and then exponentiation?

We don't know, because these concepts were discovered before writing. We do know that far larger jumps have been made by individual mathematicians who never made it past 33 years of age.
Resistance is useless! Lets just accept our fate and toe the line. Why feel bad about paying essentially double, or getting half the compute for our money when we can just choose the easy route and accept our fate and feed the monopoly a little more money so they can charge us even more money. Who needs competition!
Bottles are one thing..

I just ate a package of crackers. Plastic. I ordered a product from amazon, retail packed in plastic and cardboard. I got an amp, the box liner, plastic. The amazon box, had plastic bubbles in it.

I'm willing to bet most oof that ends up in a land fill and not recycled here in the states.
Glass is sand. Even for all the separating and such, most of it is "recycled" by using it for fill, because sand is plentiful.

The best thing for glass is reuse.
There were also basically no applications for it when fedora decided to ship it
Another common refrain from Potholer54 is: don't listen to the media -- what are the climate scientists (the primary sources) saying?

But overall the picture is bad. There are regions where things will benefit, and climate research has said so for decades. But overall this rate of change is going to have bad long term consequences for the biosphere (including humans).
T-Mobile Proves That Mergers Can Benefit Consumers
ElectroVoice re20. The "variable-D" design helps you sound decent if you're not keeping exact distance from the mic. The builtin pop blocker is also quite effective.

It was designed so that if your interview target didn't have good mic discipline (most people don't have any), you'd still get a usable recording. As long as you're in a roughly 12" cube in front of the mic, you'll basically be fine.

If you're spending that much money and really want a headset mic, get a countryman and wireless set. You only need to reach a few feet, so a cheap analog system should work perfectly and provide way better sound quality.
I think you're right, and that phenomenon extended well beyond desktop environments, too.

The same thing happened to many existing web sites, with "responsive web design" and "mobile-first design" starting to be heavily hyped at the time.

The usability of such web sites in desktop browsers was typically severely degraded, and the mobile and tablet experiences were also often still pretty bad, as well.

I see the Slashdot redesign of that era as being a good example of that happening. That web site became unusable with every device I had at the time.

Even today, I find web sites like that to be awkward and unpleasant to use. It was a much better user experience when separate desktop and mobile versions of a given web site were more common.
Really?

I am a gay man and I see increasing homophobic speech that stems from transphobia which most definitely isn't a "solved issue". This worries me.

Yes there was a battle in culture and politics that lasted decades for gay men, but as soon as you let go. You will see conservative groups pushing back. Because they're not gone, there is a long way for them to go as a lot of these ideas come from religious and conservative groups that will probably never go away.

Sorry, but the fight is not over. You don't see it because you're not a part of it it's as simple as that.

If you haven't taken the time to understand why people are still struggling then you can't come and say "well this is a done deal".

Societies move forward but they so with a constant push back. That's just how it is. Even today there is so much homophobia, transphobia, misoginy and racism being touted by people in our most powerful sitting positions that it's silly to think this is "made up" struggle for these groups to "stay relevant". I mean, homosexuals, transpeople, women and racial minorities are never going to go away so they're always going to be relevant.
https://archive.is/Bta7m
> once we remember that a slice is a view into an array and that "some" of these methods return slices, it's actually fine.

Only in the meme sense, it does not actually solve or help solve the problem in any way.
Eddy Current Separators

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/magnetic-equipment-gu...
I can think of no better example of than the US Postal Service.

They’re literally is zero reason in 2024 why are we cutting down trees using diesel fuel to ship paper to a mill using coal to make it into paper using more diesel fuel to ship it to my home to be trashed picked up by a dump truck, using more diesel fuel to be thrown in a giant pile on what it would’ve been otherwise pristine piece of land.
>COs were becoming very antiquated.

I mean COs are integral in AT&T's architecture, it's where every fiber connection lands on an OLT
I've heard (but am not sure) that the (energy) cost of transporting the empties + washing/sanitizing them may be more than making new ones. At least the dollar cost is higher, or they'd still do it (some local milk farms wash and reuse their jugs, so at some low level it's still efficient).
Just because a fraction of people can answer something to your satisfaction, it doesn’t mean it’s a good signal. Eg I don’t think baseball trivia would be a great way to narrow down candidates.

That said, if you need to narrow down the pool and you like the question then go for it. I think it’s important to keep your ultimate goal in mind, which is probably:

- find the desired number of acceptably competent candidates

- who are likely to accept your offers

- without needing to make very large offers

- or spending a lot on finding and interviewing unsuitable candidates

- while complying with any local laws

These can lead to a bunch of different things you see in hiring processes (eg you prefer referrals because of 2 and 4, and candidates may be rejected for being overqualified for reasons 2, 3, and 4)

As a candidate, this often feels very frustrating: you would rather companies follow processes that are maximally fair where so long as you demonstrate sufficient merit, you get an offer. Or even better, processes that do a good job of uncovering the value you bring. I guess one can try to look at the hiring process through this lens to not take rejections so personally, and one can hope that different companies will have different processes (to hopefully reduce how much they compete with each other for the same subset of candidates) though I don’t think they end up being very different in practice.
Would it be cheaper just to hire someone to be a full time, live in caretaker for them?
"I tried to be professional and impersonal about this, and such scorn is hurtful."

You've asserted that "everyone seems to forget" why something happened when a whole bunch of people who were there while it happened, and made it happen do not agree with your version of events. People tend to react badly to that sort of thing - especially when things land on HN and threaten to become accepted fact by a lot of folks who weren't there.

Microsoft rattled its patent sabers in the direction of Linux, true enough. But those patent allegations were believed to cover [1] the kernel, OpenOffice.org, the "Linux GUI", and an assortment of "other" things.

I won't claim to have been "there" myself - but I was "there"-adjacent: either working for one of the vendors (Novell), or writing about GNOME, doing an (admittedly small) amount of volunteering for GNOME around marketing/PR, attending GUADECs, and so forth.

My memories are, at this point, admittedly hazy -- but I cannot recall a single conversation or suggestion that the direction of GNOME 3 or Unity were prompted by, inspired by, caused by, or otherwise motivated in any way by Microsoft patents. Not officially in public, not behind closed doors while working at Novell, not in the hallways of SUSE's office in Germany, not during my tenure at Red Hat, not over a beer with any of the GNOME developers, nor any people I talked with between the early whispers of GNOME 3 planning to today.

It seems deeply odd that, had GNOME 3 been a "oh shit, Redmond's gonna sue us" action, nobody in all that time would've let spill. Odder still that those vendors wouldn't have simply pivoted to KDE, CDE, Xfce, or any of the other available environments. Nor did Red Hat jettison FVWM-95 IIRC from any and all repos they'd have been liable for -- given that Red Hat has no love for allowing risky things into RHEL or Fedora, I find it odd that they'd have puttered along with GNOME 2 under threat of patent suits until GNOME 3 was ready.

If you can cite anyone who was involved in GNOME development who says differently, who says "yes, we had to change desktop design due to patents," I'd be curious to hear that story. But when folks like Jeff chime in to say "nope," I'd put the burden on you for proof.

What I recall was that desktop folks were trying to make the desktop enticing enough to move people from Windows. They'd heard time and again how Linux was too difficult to use and went in a direction they thought was more user-friendly.

You also assert that Red Hat wrote GNOME in reaction to Qt not being GPL. Some Red Hatters were involved in the early creation of GNOME but that's not really correct either. Red Hat provided sponsorship early on, but claiming "Red Hat wrote GNOME" is over-simplification to the point of falsification. The real history is much more complicated and more interesting.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/05/microsoft-235-pa...
We use Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare KV Store for https://appflags.io/

It gives us around 100ms load time for our SDKs anywhere in the world even on cold boot.
You have already done it for me, and I cant edit the comment. Thanks.
I thought this looked like a cryptocurrency miner. Seems the crypto to AI pivot is legit happening. And good. Would rather we boiled the oceans for something marginally more valuable than in-game tokens we traded for fiat funds in this video game we call life.
I see steady, slow attempts punctuated by some rapid attempts.

But I'm still amused with their wasted efforts by not checking error messages; my servers only accept keys
Floating point addition, for example, is not associative, so the order of taking a sum affects the result. If the summation were sequential and single threaded, it would be deterministic. But it happens in parallel, so timing variations affect the result.

But there is probabilistic sampling that happens (see "temperature").
Mixed Reality vs. Spatial Computing (what's the difference)?
seems to be related to continuous engagement versus living independently, somehow.. "crowded world" corollary?
> remaining waste is used for energy

This really is the key - if people weren't so scared of incinerators, the "landfill" problem would be basically solved.
What about just distributing existing mass better? I used to have a little oblong toy that was unbalanced like this. No matter where or how you threw it, it would tumble over and eventually reorient straight up due to the weight all on the bottom.
Buffett's letter, released today, February 24, 2024: https://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf
It’s theft. Saved you a click.
I basically realized there was no god/religion was just wishful thinking at a very young age, but I sort of held onto the idea that we could all agree that keeping the Earth habitable for humans was a worthwhile endeavor (I mean, most people seem to want to have kids, right?). But in the last decade or so I’ve even lost that belief.
Friend, I am right there with you. Its a long political battle ahead of us...
Maybe you were downvoted because the benefits of remote work to everybody and the society are obvious:

- Avoid MASSIVE loss of time, and as a result, productivity and happiness to entire society by having people commute. That is time that can never be taken back. The time lost commuting is lost to the individual who's commuting, the company he or she works in, the economy and the society in general. No need to even talk about the cognitive cost that commuting carries.

- Avoid ripping people off from their families, relatives, friends and their entire social support network which exist in the places they were born and grew up in. The cost of this is immeasurable as the loss of this support network involves a lot of costs ranging from detrimental psychological impact to the person to financial costs as the person must replace this support network by paying strangers to fill in those positions ranging from babysitting to care taking. The result is an entire society dumbed-down by xanax to cope. Which directly affects the companies that they work for as lost productivity. But of course, like real estate, there is an industry that profits from this misery - the pharma - and their profit is society's loss.

- Avoid cramming millions into already overcrowded urban centers and creating innumerable problems ranging from social ones to infrastructure. There isnt any megapolis on the planet that solved these problems yet. And there wont be any until we invent something like 'space/time compression' and succeed in cramming more people into a place than what's physically possible.

These should be enough by themselves as benefits as they are massive benefits to everybody involved and the society itself, while many more arguments can be made for remote work.
You should post this on the subreddit/s too: /r/Nix, /r/NixOS
Ok, one example (granted it's a bit niche):

"Since the demand for recycled aluminum continues to increase, the discarded aircraft provide a large source of valuable metal. However cost-effective recycling of aircraft alloys is complex because aircraft alloys are:
(a) typically relatively high in alloying elements and
(b) contain very low levels of impurities to optimize toughness and other performance characteristics."

https://www.totalmateria.com/page.aspx?ID=CheckArticle&site=...

Also

"The separation of scrap into specific aluminum alloy groups can be checked by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) or color sorting, but economic and technological challenges limit the use of these processes (Capuzzi and Timelli 2018; Gaustad et al., 2012). All sorting methods offer less than 100 % efficiency. This leads to significant contamination of the aluminum, in particular with iron and copper"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092134492...
The timing is serendipitous - only yesterday I was having another go at building an image for one board (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/10/2000) and I am having trouble with uBoot, so I'm definitely going to dig in.
Can we have our cake and eat it? Welcome to the world of sugar elimination
You made your claims without any "evidence and citations". Even when you provide links they mostly don't back up the assertions in the article.[1]

At any rate, demanding extensive "evidence and citations" to "prove you wrong" when you haven't done the same yourself is profoundly hypocritical.

Surely as a self-professed "atheist skeptic" – according to your profile here – you must know how this works? You can't just claim all sorts of controversial things with no evidence and shout "prove me wrong!" when people object.

Also, there ARE "evidence and citations" right here in this thread. Several people who were directly involved with the projects at the time are saying "that was not a consideration, you are wrong". Are they all misremembering something so large? Unlikely. Are they all lying? Even less likely – why would they? So why do you disbelieve them?

[1]: e.g. "Microsoft was threatening to sue all the Linux vendors shipping Windows 95-like desktops" isn't at all substantiated with the provided link, which just talks about generic threats to sue. It's been a long time, but IIRC one of the criticisms was that Microsoft would claim "Linux is illegal; we'll sue you!" without ever specifically claiming what exactly was illegal. Classic Balmer-era Micrsoft FUD. AFAIK there was never any specific threat to sue "start menu like" environments, and I don't recall it ever being brought up as a concern. A good citation to prove this claim would be a discussion on the Gnome or KDE developer list discussing these concerns, or something along those lines.
Well if you think about it from a more… zoomed out perspective. Why should they take YOUR opinion as the truth to execute? Not saying you’re wrong, but it’s very easy to find someone that disagrees with you on whatever topic you want. So which person are they representing more?
Where do you draw the line?
You have no problem with $$$$ experienced lawyer billing clients for $$$$ services carried out by $$ inexperienced flunkies who cheat by using a $ “AI” to do their job?
I mean from like an energy perspective.

Glass and paper are not significantly more efficient to recycle than to manufacturer new stuff. Paper is like 2x more efficient to recycle. Glass is... somewhere around there I forget. In both cases you can recycle all of the stuff, but it costs comparable-ish energy. For paper it's sometimes a clear win because trees.

Aluminum is like 20x more efficient for energy use.
It was at the time i posted ;), and obviously, we all know it's an alternate universe, an universe where the apocalypse is happening

It's no wonder civilizations never last forever ;)
This is also not true. You can transfer from main memory to cards plenty fast enough that it is not a bottleneck. Consumer GPU's don't even use pcie5 yet, which doubles the bandwidth of 4. Professional datacenter cards don't use pcie AT ALL, but they do put a huge amount of RAM on the package with the GPUs.
Where did they say they did not use fail2ban?
> Complex Systems Tend To Oppose Their Own Proper Function. My favorite axiom. Your city has a problem with trash building up on the streets so it sets up a waste management company. The company starts out by collecting trash daily, but then they shift to a Tuesday-only schedule. Next, you get a notice saying that the company will no longer service your building unless you buy their standardized garbage cans (to ensure that the robotic arms on their trucks can pick them up). Eventually, the waste management union goes on strike and the trash starts piling up on the street again anyways.

That analogy is bit weak because strikes don't go on forever and trash pickings always resume. The city is not in the same state of perpetual trash everywhere it was in before setting up/contracting the waste management company.
It basically comes down to long term pain vs short term pain. I don’t think many people would have a problem with improving our civilization’s quality of life in the long run if it didn’t cause any lifestyle changes in the present. That’s a reason why Tesla’s marketing has worked; you can not only be “green” but also drive one of the fastest cars on the planet.
Yes, but entirely unenforced. The bar acts like an old-time guild designed to protect insiders. On paper, it's intended to be self-policing (file a complaint with the Board of Bar Overseers and see it go into the circular file).
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It removes the ugly. Formats it nicely.

I don't see this as a solution, and especially if a site offers RSS.
"The default DE on SUSE was KDE. If you wanted GNOME you had to request it explicitly at install time."

Depends on the time frame and which SUSE you refer to, to be clear. When Novell bought Ximian it made GNOME the default for SLED and KDE continued to be the default for openSUSE.
> leading to a more efficient society

Efficient at what? Producing more highly-resourced sociopaths who share Peter Theil's values?
> So the unintended consequence I expect will be that censoring people for their political views will be the only strongly protected moderation actions.

That's entirely intended. Look at what happened during COVID, the race riots post George Floyd, the election in 2020 and 2024, etc. Social media platforms are defacto content curation websites and not "free speech zones" in the sense of a soapbox in a public park. It was especially egregious during COVID and the race riots because the platforms made certain that you could not so much as criticize the political zeitgeist even when it was deserved.

The law really should make it clear that, illegal activity excluded, if you engage in any form of censorship you are not given section 230 protections. Places like twitter are left-wing content curation websites. It's no problem to have these - except for the fact they are still given section 230 protections. Under no circumstance should social media, engaging in one-sided censorship, be given any protection under the law for their content they curate. This would go for a similarly censored right-wing content curation website. It just so happens those are extremely small in reach by comparison, and thus significantly less important.

As always, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The chronically offended, terminally online losers tend to get what they want.
But I mean, isn't that different than something actually being illegal, and subject to prosecution?