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Theodor Kaczynski the Unabomber? That would be an odd place to find life advice, if so.

Q2 revenue was $1.18B on 237.8M mDAU. If they want $590M (50%) in subscription revenue, that's 24.5M subscriptons @ $24 per quarter. So they'd need to convert about 10% of the reported mDAU to subscribers?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-s...

It's hearsay said by an antagonist during a negotiation. This quote isn't by itself trustworthy enough to be news.

One of the richest people in the world overpays capital holders and slashes labor by 50% in order to own "the world's town square". Remarkable demonstration of labor weakness.

Fwiw (maybe not much :-)), for me the the killer feature of obsidian is the combination of markdown + inline image rendering + local storage. My notes are typically screenshots + text. Being able to drag and drop a screenshot into a note is primarily why I use obsidian.

You might enjoy this paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Other vendors evaluated skip lists ahead of memsql’s use and chose other implementations for their purposes. Which is not to detract from singlestore’s achievements or selected tradeoffs.

Norway: population of 5M people. Incredible oil wealth. Massachusetts is larger in population that Norway. It's not a reasonable comparison.

Sweden: population of 10M people. Roughly the population of Michigan, for example. Just elected a rightward moving parliament on a law and order and immigration-restriction agenda.

Denmark: population of 5M people - again - compared to Massachusetts (which is larger by population), not a particularly exceptional place.

I admire all of these EU countries but you just can't compare them to the size, geographic distribution, and non-uniformity of the entire US.

Why is it no one ever compares Hungary, Latvia, Cyprus .. or other less prosperous EU nations to the US? And never compares highly successful states to the EU as a whole?

I used to feel the same. But in reality, we prove our identity daily - every credit card transaction, banking, electronic tolling, bill payment, health care visit, tax payment, legal proceeding, employment opportunity, voter registration …

What protects us from invasive search is not lack of a uniformly accessible system for identification - its due process. And if the government chooses to compel you against your will and without due process - whether or not you have a laminated ID in your pocket will be irrelevant.

Retaliation for union organizing is not legal, actually. It is not lawful to terminate someone for exercising their rights to collective bargaining - even in at-will employment.

For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/us-labor-board-say....

And: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...

A monorepo assumes all your IP is either open or closed or you need a very reliable way to extract the OSS bits and publish them to a mirror without putting exposure of closed source IP at risk.

I was curious about this case and googled a bit - seems to be this person?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10037721/Terror-sus...

Comparison to historical death rates contradict this speculation. See for example the Economist link provided in an earlier comment.

We're too busy working generating our own electricity and designing our own CPUs.

Or maybe isn't a native English speaker and did a wonderful job in a second language?

Is NY hydro largely generated at Niagara Falls?

As managers, we've had many individuals tell us "everything's fine; I like it here..." and then leave because "I'm ready for something new." So we often hear "I'm fine" and translate that to "I'm bored/unhappy/disengaged but I'm not telling you that because I don't think it's in my interest to reveal dissatisfaction to my manager."

The first step is creating enough trust and openness in the relationship to get past this communication impasse.

Promotion ladders are one (of many) tools for expressing what the company desires of its employees. For employees seeking advancement, they also work as a tool for discovering an employee's motivation. If promotion isn't the motivation - express what is the motivation. Figuring out that someone loves the puzzle of debugging, or takes pride in being the expert, or is a 9-5 journeyman who wants a stable, competitive salary for their contribution can be the key to having a fruitful conversation.

Once both sides are honest about motivation and satisfaction (the manager obviously also needs/wants something from the employee...) then there's space for adult-to-adult conversations about how and if those motivations line up.

In my experience, managers rarely turn away skilled, drama-free, reliable contributors. But we know our employees aren't totally truthful/open with us about these sensitive topics - so we don't take "I'm fine... leave me alone" at face value.

In my experience, teachers are strong communicators, highly self-organized, aware of organizations, able to work with others, and able to create and follow a plan. They have a demonstrated history of continued learning - and know a lot about how to learn. Teachers, when I've been lucky enough to hire them, have been excellent additions.

I wonder if other industrial-revolution monopolies in history also led to corporate-disobedience - akin to civil disobedience - where employees intentionally break rules considered unethical.

Unsafe content.

But at some point, an engineering manager identified and hired those leads and helped to facilitate a path for growth for those sr. engineers?

I was born in 1974. Netscape's browser (what became Mozilla) was released my junior year of college. It was a cute alternative to gopher and ftp.

Then, newspapers were published once or twice a day. Magazines weekly or monthly. Publishers worked as editors, fact-checkers, and curators (with their various agendas, of course).

The original miracle of internet free speech was the promise that anyone could become a publisher - no more gate keeping by major media companies - no more financial barrier to entry to buy presses, paper, delivery trucks.

Then various platforms emerged to centralize online publishing -- Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal, Yelp, ... and thousands more. They took the profit model of traditional publishers (paid advertising), exploited the structural advantages of digital publishing, and gave up the overhead and responsibility of curating and creating content.

Now we are trying to figure out how to manage real time publishing platforms that can't (or won't?) validate identity, won't take responsibility for fact-checking, are open to targeted manipulation by adversaries, and are capable of distributing damaging lies and propaganda with little oversight or financial consequences.

Speech is still "freer" now than when I was a teenager. The reach of an individual voice is massive in today's world compared to the 1980's. When I was young, my community was the people who lived within biking distance. Now it includes all of reddit, twitch, hackernews...

Can we sustain these advances while managing the mob-mentality inherent in human nature? Can we protect our forums from adversarial misuse? Are open platforms that shrug off responsibility for content while collecting advertising profits compatible with democracy?

Looks like we'll find out in the next few years.

That kinda hurts.

There are 100k's of happy InfluxDB users -- untold millions of completely open source Telegraf deployments doing meaningful work for people -- integrated into our products and our competitors' products. We make the vast majority of our codebase public under liberal OSS licenses.

And we'll keep listening and learning how to do more.

... off to see if I can change my internal slack handle to @corporatetool. Unless there's a policy against that ;-)

(I'm the VPE at Influxdata).

I appreciate this sentiment. We've been focused on a building a SaaS version of Influxdata and are committed to a paired open source version of that. The open source version has been lagging as we work on the SaaS side.

However, we are committed to shipping a GA version of the OSS 2.0 stack around the end of Q3 that offers an in-place data migration capability from 1.x OSS.

We've spoken about this publicly in other forums. You can google "influxdays London talks" to hear Paul Dix (CTO/Founder) talk more about our OSS plans.

This is also confusing what you search for vs. what the vendor thinks you will buy. Product catalog searches often intentionally return items outside your search parameters.

I hope readers follow that link and read the full text.

> The MCAS system didn't fail. It operated exactly as it was designed, it received faulty sensor data which in turn flew the plane into the ground.

"It worked on my airplane"

Or try to type nested bulleted lists.

Any good examples of small companies that pull this off and the bots/CI/tool whatever they use to do it?

Unless you are pure OSS or pure closed source - you end up with a poly-repo strategy regardless as you split open and closed code, suffering the annoyances of both systems.

> A number of unknowns make this tech a questionable solution for its stated purpose. We have no idea how many hot list criminals were scanned and not matched

I don't think the article's author had sufficient information to make any claims about success rates. Counting "not identified" as an error is wrong if the system only expects to identify hot-list faces - which is also more protective of privacy for those not on a list.