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I said it was unreadable to me. I meant what I wrote. I did not imply it was her fault. it was presumably readable to others in the team, just not to me. the only way I could figure out what was going on was by adding a lot of printf and running small parts of the code to work it out. the documentation really didn't tell me anything that I needed to know for that purpose.

the quotes represent words that she actually said. in the end I did re-write my code in a way that she would finally approve the review and now I can't read the code either.

she's diagnosed with autism. I'm diagnosed with autism. not only are we not neurotypical, but we're also so different that our code was mutually unintelligible.
As you live in Germany, you know that many members of boards and C-Levels serve so in multiple companies. There is a difference in being a regular employee and C-Level/Board level.
You might not freak out that you don't have to track your kids all the time.

Your kids, however, freak out that you could be tracking them at any time. They are effectively barred from going anywhere that might not elicit parental approval, ALL THE TIME - not just when you are actually tracking them. It's the panopticon principle.

Depending on their age, this could have major effects on their development. If they are 6, it is probably fine - especially if they don't know you can track them. If they are 16, not so much.
What does that even mean?

If Waymo hits a cyclist which leads to death, and Waymo is found to be at fault, that's definitely going to make headlines and potentially lead to a pause of the entire operation.
> First of all, ALL kids must survive, not most.

I don't think anyone would really want to live in a world where we've done what's necessary such that literally all kids survive the various accidents and perils they might face out in the world. Such a world would be sanitized into oblivion.

This is just a variation on the "security vs. freedom" stuff. You can have perfect security if you don't allow for any freedom. But hopefully we can agree that a world with no freedom isn't one we want to live in.

But sure, let's step back from the extreme that you introduced. Are the downsides of pervasive 24/7 tracking and surveillance worth the (possible and as-yet unproven) increase in good outcomes? I can see that many people here seem to think it is, but I don't agree.
- (PG/YC) Assuming that someone who is (or is about to be) the CEO of a different company won't have time to 100% commit to your own company and planning accordingly seems like a reasonable position.

- (SA) The new CEO of a company wanting to commit as much of their time as possible to that company also seems like a reasonable position.
So you’re saying that PG fired Sam.
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> It‘s not true that immigration numbers are worth nothing.

Conveniently replying to something I never said. Clever.
No, because parquet is quite stable.
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Given how many of us have made CRUD app after CRUD app for 25 years, I can't believe that there's no simple consumer-level database application with the same penetration as, say, Microsoft Word.

In the old Mac days, the product to beat was FileMaker Pro. Apparently it's still developed, but I've never seen it used in a Windows environment. MS Access is awful. Everyone "normal" just uses Excel for things that really need a relational database!
Name resolution problems are the most bizarre.

And they happen at every level and can combine beautifully. I had a DNS server flooded with Format Error messages, because NTP Pool DNS sent an invalid response for a specific query and two (yet to be identified) clients sent (and still send) that query every second or so, because the response never reaches them. And as the upstream query failed, the DNS server would send the same query every second again to a bunch of other DNS servers, every single response generating another Format Error. Dozens of log lines per second.

Those two generate about 1GB of waste traffic per month. And that's the two buggy machines talking to a small DNS server I manage. I wonder how many junk traffic public DNS servers generate.
Well in Germany specifically it's a legal issue (and some other EU countries), because there are labour market laws stipulating the maximum amount of time someone can work per week (48hrs).

Sure, you can fly under the radar if you're working on your own business/start-up by simply lying about the hours worked, but if you're doing paid work for another employer it will be obvious, and they would not be legally able to employ you if total working time goes above 48hrs/week.
> If you start working on a side gig, that will take up a chunk of your time and invariably occupy your brain; thus, your employer doesn’t get their full value out of you anymore.

It's the same if you have a family, an interest, or any semblance of a life really.
If Amazon was exfiltrating retail competitors' sales data from their AWS-hosted online stores, that would be a scandal of a scale comparable to Boeing's 737 MAX or VW's dieselgate.

Don't conflate AWS with the Amazon Sellers program.
I would have thought all of those were fairly obvious. It is more complex and gives the client a lot more power and control, so the trade-off is inevitable.
> In a closed system, you could grow the commons until there's no scarcity anymore

I don't know what your definition of "closed system" is, but I can assure you the only way the dining hall gets more forks is if they enter the system from outside. Unless it's a dining hall at a fork factory :)
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I thought this was going to be an essay about hacker news comment section. Disappointed.
Same thing happens on Android. Even for recognised apps/brands, the top search result is an ad for a competitor.

Just this morning I searched for "Strava" and the top result was some random hiking app.
Serverless is like AWS lambda, when you don’t have an explicitly running VM that you pay per time; instead your code is run in “a cloud” and you pay per invocation.

This is nothing new! “Serverless” is well defined and understood for years and years!
You could just call or text to ask the kid, rather than require that they submit to 24/7 real-time surveillance. "Really handy" doesn't seem to justify that.
I mean literally yes? It's a weird analogy but if you decide to leave your wife for another woman then that's you leaving your wife, not your wife leaving you?

If you decide to leave one company to focus on working for another company then that's not the first company firing you, that's you leaving the first company?
Curious, I hadn't heard that take on Mongo. Do you have a link to some more info on this.
From the article you linked:

> our monolith was built on old versions of Python 2 and Django, which were rapidly entering end-of-life for security support

That doesn't seem to be an issue with Python scalability per se. There are massive creaking monolithic Java apps out there, stuck on old versions of the JDK and various Java libraries, which are just as brittle.

Also, if the discussion is about defending the design choices of the Java language, this blog post doesn't really support that defence, given that while they did choose the JVM as a platform, they also selected Kotlin over Java
> The US doesn't have a history of oppressive governments; Europe, on the other hand...

The genocide that happened when the settlers, well, settled flew over your head?
All the intelligence agencies' interference in other countries probably flew over as well.
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Did they have any solution for you? I'm aware of autistic burnout and I do think it's a contributor. However, I'm not aware of anything I can do to fix it other than to look for a different job. It doesn't seem like there's anything I can change at my current one.
There was a very short window of time when you could make very advanced queries over your Facebook friends graph. It was awesome.
Reminder: Musk runs Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX and whatever the fuck else.
Might they just be reverse proxying it? Make a request for an unusual URL and see if it appears in your logs.
I would be more worried about liability issues before anything else.

Also, I doubt there is a point in you "renting" your Tesla. Tesla the company has enough money to flood the road with their vehicles, and your vehicle is irrelevant. Have you heard any individual renting their personal Camry to a taxi company or a Uber driver?
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Can confirm: My parents made me go through the grades one at a time, despite the principal's recommendation that I start in 1st grade, move to 2nd mid-semester, do 3rd grade in the spring, and do two a year after that. It was intensely boring. I can see why they thought a bunch of teens and young adults wouldn't want to be friends with a much younger child, but I've always wondered if they would have been more willing to overlook the age difference than the other young children were willing to overlook the fact that the only thing we had in common was our age.

Ironically, I found it decent preparation for life, though, which seems to be occasional bursts of furious activity punctuated by long stretches of repetition, which could easily become boring. I ended up becoming very good at taking responsibility for making my own life interesting.
FB have a lot of resources to manage the complexity of this.

For most people "security is baked in to every field" is going to be very expensive.
This helps a ton, I appreciate it, thanks! Planning to stick with LEMP stack unless I find a reason not to. Gonna work with Vue as I already know it.
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Now, I don’t regret my daughter adores Moana. As I can enjoy the joke thoroughly!
And the reason this is the case is because pervasive tracking and privacy invasion has become normalized during the formative years of these people's lives. It's not just sad, but actively scary.
In a common area, drunk people and children sloppily doing a chore they don't want to, I should think. And depending on how grotty users of the space are, people leaving cutlery in dirty piles of crap for others to clear up, and the others don't see the hiding cutlery. The cleaners in my old university accommodation would remove dirty dishes to a box outside called the Stank Tank as it wasn't their job to do student washing up. After a month, it was binned or scavenged and a lot fancier stuff than a teaspoon was in there!

I can't say I've thrown away a spoon knowingly myself, but I have dropped cutlery in the bin once or twice. I haven't ever abandoned it but you can imagine people might if they don't value it. And based on the university, some people would happily lose a £30 pan rather than reach into the Stank Tank, so I can believe it.
This looks really promising, hope all goes great! My only concern is reading that you do collect crash reports despite being privacy-focused. How much information is there to identify the picture/video taken or the device/person?
They were well funded, but it’s not highly unusual to encounter culture like this.
> With the social pressure going on, I expect she'll get a smartphone earlier that I'd honestly prefer (not that we are there any time soon), and quite a bit before she's a teenager.

Our kids (8 & 10) keep telling us nearly every kid in their class has a smartphone, but we're still not letting them have one. Fuck social pressure; that's an important lesson to be learned in itself.
I also have problems continuing with the right verse after the chorus of pop songs.
I was looking for specific numbers, not “major improvements”.
I’ve done it once in my two decades of being paid to code and only because it was small enough to not impact any timelines… nobody cared anyway. Otherwise REST now means ‘RPC over HTTP with JSON marshaling’ for better or worse.
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Because these people didn't want another relict that only does text manipulation. If you love awk and sed, you can use Bash.

If you like to work with real objects, use PowerShell...
Are you thinking of ddg? Afaik kagi runs their own independent engine from scratch.
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Can we change the microphone source with Kino, to a specific iPhone mic or if we are using any bluetooth device, like airpods?
For the service I primarily work on, we've stuck firmly with REST for our internal APIs despite some mild pressure from elsewhere in the company to move to GraphQL. I personally believe it's been the right choice. Not only would it be probably an order of magnitude more complicated to setup and maintain, our REST APIs already are very performant.

We've got little to gain, and the lack of flexibility from our POV is a relatively good thing. It gives us direct insight into desired use cases, and since the APIs are internal it lets us provide guidance on potentially better ways of implementing things as well as in some cases being able to provide direct optimizations for specific tasks.
If true, that's sad, because it just further exposes the irrationality of these sorts of parents. This sort of tracking is not going to save the kid from being kidnapped or getting hit by a car. A little pulsing blue dot on a map does not tell the parent that the kid is safe.
Interesting - as a singer I always memorize words by ... well, just by memorization. When I've been in (amateur) theatre stuff I've always been struck by how much more difficult it is to learn words that don't rhyme, but it never occurred to me that there might be other techniques apart from plain old repetition
The market penetration of Excel for tasks where it isn’t suited is a big problem. It is hard to sell an alternative that does 20% of what people do with Excel and it does it better when Excel is bundled with Word, Powerpoint, etc.

Another product to look to for inspiration is Lotus Notes whose object database with synchronization was way ahead of its time (with all patents expired!)
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This. For graphql-ruby: https://graphql-ruby.org/operation_store/overview
To be fair, it's probably a good thing that people are hydrating.

But spot on with the rest of the stuff. And the stereotypical image of an adult sitting, buried in their phone, absently sipping from a water bottle is just too funny.
> but if sama is really a master manipulator like some people are saying

I like what you did here. You steelmanned their argument.

That being said, I think in that case, if it is something you believe so fervently in that you are willing to conspire, then the correct course of action is to not conspire, but resign or stand up to him, and, as you say risk being "ruined".

I never see a reason to conspire.

Better to have everything taken from you but keep your integrity, rather than the other way around.

(Disclosures: I know SamA personally from interactions years ago and have high opinions of his character, even though I disagree with him strongly on open source and secrecy [I'm on the extreme end of that one]. I also have the distinction of maybe being the only person person accepted into YCombinator twice and kicked out for standing up for something I believe in).
I don't think that's necessary.

A regex could catch a huge number of bots on twitter, but if they banned them they would have to admit that usage has gone down.
Yes. You can also freely use the return stack, IIRC, so long as you don't mess up a return itself.
I assume, it's less about the complexity and more about most people not understanding REST.
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Well they just launched today so I'd assume that is the main reason behind low rankings. It will get up there soon.
Indeed, it is after all more of a mechanical extraction than a chemical one. I remember seeing tiny bits of grass floating in the tincture after extracting the scent of fresh grass - the cavitation bubbles practically shattered the cell structure of the plant, and a dusty green soup was floating around the blades of grass.
>But unlike an espresso, it’s not bitter or harsh.

Speak for yourselves, the espresso I make is neither inherently bitter or harsh. It depends entirely on the recipe.
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You call it old, but this sounds like quality secondary education far above almost everything available today, at least here across Western Europe, which is 99.9% read book, then do test. The fact that you teached ecology using actual plants and the outside amazes me, even though it shouldn't and should just be the norm.
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I go through phases of regularly posting and just lurking, depending on whether I'm working on something that I want to promote. I wouldn't say I've had significant success, but it's helped me on some occasions. For example, I posted that I wanted to work on a startup idea and my former boss gave some really good feedback in the comments that made me realise it's not worth going ahead.

I'd say it's worth being active when you have a specific goal in mind. It requires much lower effort than Twitter because you don't have to build up your list of followers - your connections are your followers by default.

And, like everyone else says, you need to keep in mind that it's just a social media platform like Facebook and Instagram. Outrage/feel-good posts will tend to dominate the feed, so don't get discouraged when your post only gets a dozen likes. The post was still probably viewed by hundreds of people.
> what HN readers do for a living.

Work for one of the FANGS, a social media platform, in ad tech, in big data (anything with humans) or any company that monetises through a) advertising or b) selling user data.

I am sure there are some people who work in financial services as well but they are probably considered to have lower moral standards.
Anecdotal: for the specific case of "freshly written standup comedy routine", mental palaces [1] have proven effective, at least for me.

Once you remember that "your next joke is about x,y,z", it's pretty easy to remember the joke itself.

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So... how is a GPS-tracker watch going to save you from drowning? It's not like your parents are going to be able to cover that distance quickly enough to save you.
Yes thank you for reminding us of the very public takeover a couple of years ago.
Candidly, I think a lot of the "security" is baked into the data model of what FB is... Are we linked on the graph, are we linked directly, what do your permissions allow me to do based on that relationship. It isn't a difficult query to wrap most requests in. I dont think FB needs that many people keeping an eye on this.

That having been said, outside that data model, your absolutely correct that its going to be costly to maintain those extra layers of relationships.
That’s pretty much how you fire someone. What would YC have done if Sam refused to choose?
Not sure where you take this "standard" from - AFAIR, it was mod_php since ~ 2004-2005 and all that lovely mpm_prefork stuff. FastCGI and FPM came a bit later.

> should be using proxy_fcgi with Apache

I'd in general use Nginx instead of Apache, until .htaccess handling is needed - which is still a thing in shared hosting and around area mostly from my perspective - if you really care about "squeeze out a bit of extra memory" of course.
As someone with kids... What if there is? The presence of dried Semen on a seat on which my kids sit will have zero negative impact on them. At all.

Is it Yuck? Yes of course. But it also seems extremely unlikely. And it's a lot less Yuck than thinking about what's in the sand in public playgrounds that all kids visit constantly. And while I have a reasonable chance of preventing them from licking the seats, I have no chance of preventing them from eating some sand.

This is just a bizarre irrational worry...
Somewhat related: http://www.rosenfels.org/Feynman

After the war, Feynman got a "D" from an army psychological evaluation because he, among other things, told the psychiatrist that he occasionally talks to his late wife.

"Thinks people talk about him. Thinks people stare at him. Auditory hypnogogic hallucinations. Talks to self. Talks to deceased wife."
You left out the part where PG wrote that Altman had already been doing two jobs for several years ("For several years he was running both YC and OpenAI").
And, of course, the first response twitter shows me is from some absolute dingbat claiming that PG’s statement still means Sam was fired from YC.

It’s frustrating but at least some people are going to believe whatever conspiracy theory they want to believe regardless of any other evidence or argument presented to them.

I’m not sure how we solve this, but it’s becoming ever more important that we do. Make reading comprehension and critical thinking a core part of our education systems? Aren’t they already though? And still… idiots gonna idiot, and the internet will give them as many platforms as they want.
I actually laughed out loud when I read that conclusion. Not only does it sound infeasible and unsustainable, it also sounds not a little arrogant and likely annoying for everyone else working with them.
Building things deployed to land in real life, basically sucks. Building out a tower requires buying the land (or even possibly getting involved in extremely dirty eminent domain lawsuits), getting countless building permits/inspectors, architecting your building in accordance with local regulations and any sort of geographic peculiarities, organizing a construction team, [finally] building it, and then maintaining the building itself as well as the various regulatory regulatory, tax, and other requirements that come with such. And that's for exactly 1 tower! And you really cannot overstate how big of an ordeal this is. If you think NIMBYism is bad for housing, think about how people feel about building phallicy energy generating towers reaching hundreds of feet in the air around them.

By contrast SpaceX: build satellites, launch satellites, done. They can launch tens (and soon hundreds if not thousands) from their base in Texas with a single launch. There's still some bureaucrazy they have to deal with, but this is overall just a many orders of magnitude greater difference in terms of scalability and overall ease. And when satellites start hitting end-of-life - no problem, just deorbit them and continue expanding the swarm.
I didn't say anything like that, don't delude yourself.
Abuse of power is very convenient to the abuser, yes.
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