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>Also the "Palestine" side of the warrants are against Hamas which also feels weird (Hamas is also not a signatory nation and many suggest that Hamas != Palestine). The ICC prosecu…

I'd answer this from two perspectives. As a forecaster: It's fun! It's an interesting way to learn about the world -- rather than gathering inert facts, you're forced to integrate …

I think the article focused on base rates because they're a relatively unusual and legible "trick" to coming up with a forecast, but really they're only one element of a forecast; …

Yes, serious forecasters predict on hundreds of questions & the relevant websites prominently feature "binary calibration" plots. This is mine on Metaculus (mentioned in the articl…

I don't have any knowledge of IFTTT's budget, but the truth value depends on the exact framing of cost. Your framing is "the marginal cost of any given request rounds to zero" whic…

$26 billion (Q4 2022 through Q3 2023)

The primary goal of most large organisations' dev blog is to attract potential candidates to the top of the recruitment funnel. This picture appears to be (presumably) the actual t…

See also the venerable "why most unit testing is waste" https://gist.github.com/ktzar/596ee5aae7c41f2e585331e4b71d1e... and previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com…

I've just learned, the term of art for energy cost factoring in labor, infrastructure, replacement, etc is "levelized cost" or LCOE and by that metric utility solar is indeed alrea…

how: ice cores (I don't know the answer re: 1600s)

As long as you believe you can acquire customers for some margin less than (you project) they will pay you across their lifetime as a customer, the rational choice to to maximise y…

The decision likely got made before performance was a major constraint. As I understand it, Instagram is a python codebase and (guessing) may be the primary motivator here. Probabl…

It's not that bizarre. It's path dependence. They have an existing codebase with hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of person-years of effort contributed in python already, s…

someone takes what you said to an employment tribunal and makes the case they were fired without the proper dismissal process ('unfair dismissal')

I'm no financier and I don't know anything about a 999 limit, but apparently SpaceX has been doing something to make it possible: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/151840895902…

I've seen two options floated: - replace RSUs with cash payments on same vesting schedule @ equivalent of final sale price - keep RSUs despite being private (apparently SpaceX issu…

I'm not sure if this is the _main_ reason, but one thing that makes node_modules size more than an aesthetic concern is serverless. Booting a serverless function with 100s of mbs o…

this is excellent and I will definitely be using it in the future - thankyou!

The relevant terms of art are SAML, SCIM, SSO. There are several providers - Okta, AWS, and more. Fair warning: expect to pay enterprise tax on all your SaaS plans for the pleasure…

>It seems to mostly be a me problem, on reviews of other coworkers PRs her comment seem reasonable. That could just be not fully understanding scope or task at hand. What do you th…

I don't have answers but some questions that might help: * Are their code reviews _of you_ poor in particular, or are they poor in general when reviewing anyone's code? * Are they …

I can't speak for others, but as a hiring manager I prefer the latter because: * It suggests the person understands the bigger picture behind what they're doing (rather than just "…

The headline figure of "3.8% of global carbon emissions" is currently un-sourced - so I'm very curious to see what it includes. IEA claims datacenters account for 1% of electricity…

See also the google results for: "when was running invented" "how many terashits does the ps5 have"

Top line: work out how much value it's giving your clients and then aim to price to capture a fraction of that. Without your app, it'd cost your clients $X in hours worked doing th…