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Why I'm Bearish on the New York Startup Ecosystem : because I moved there when I was also Bullish!!

To be more precise:

1. Something feels off if you contact the local startups

I approached a few to see if they needed help. I do full stack, I love learning new technologies, and I love challenges. From R to networking, there are not many things I haven't played with. I know a few different ways to get things done, each with they pros and cons.

Because interviews go both ways, I tried to discuss with them the problem they are facing and their choice of technology, mostly to see what I might be getting in. I noticed a lot of cargo-cult and a lack of deep understanding. It is hard to explain briefly. My spider sense just told me something was off.

Also, my lack of diploma was apparently a black mark - even if I have tens of years of experience. Maybe it is elitism? I don't know. It feels weird.

And god forbid you say something that they later realize was right. They seem to really resent that. A month ago, when quizzed on the crypto market, I explained that person I was seriously bullish on Dogecoin for technical reasons, because I just had had the same discussion on HN. It was not a heated conversion - just a regular technical arguments. Since then, DOGE doubled. We were supposed to grab a coffee this week. I haven't heard from them. I suppose I won't. That feels even weirder.

2. When you try to deliver services, you notice the local ecosystem is too grounded

Most startups there seem to have little ambition, and are not willing to move fast or break things - or to even take that risk. Instead, they take the buzzword technology of the day, apply it to a simple problem, see if that can somehow be profitable.

I run my own consulting business. I have delivered crazy things to my clients crazy requests- and to their satisfaction. In NYC, I see huge opportunities to do things differently. I would even be willing to take the fully risk, and to be paid on the percentage of improvement - or zero if I can't improve things. But they always seem to err on the ultra safe side, and they seem to be very stuck in their ways.

3. Because I know consider NYC mostly as a base to offshore my services

Maybe the NYC ecosystem will get its act together at some point in the future. Maybe I will find some company that values getting things done?

I have clients in Europe and the East coast. NYC is perfectly as a home: there are many good restaurants, EWR has good direct flights to many places, and the subway system mostly does it job.

Maybe I am bad cultural fit for the North East? But I'm no longer bullish on the NYC scene.
Is that the basis on which drug companies currently pursue and fund development of drugs?
To be clear, the article was not so much responding to the troll's accusation, as it was really too ridiculous to respond to, but rather use it as a humorous opportunity to discuss my actual motivations behind the switch.
So, capistrano? https://capistranorb.com/

But you don't need Ruby installed?
>Among China’s biggest companies, Alibaba is viewed as one of the firms with the deepest ranks of management talent.

Claim going perpendicular to experience of every Alibaba employee I met.

A person who was singlehandedly running both business development and operations for all of Aliexpress has left the company after 5 years without a promotion.

The co has a reputation for squeezing work enthusiasm out from even most spirited people around.
Everything you wish or need to know?
Public health outcomes. The model would be something like the UK's NICE. It has many fewer perverse incentives than the current model (which focusses on diseases of wealth).

It's not at all clear that it wouldn't be markedly more efficient in terms of public health outcomes.
Are you sure about "most"? Google has an extensive backbone network, but they didn't have fiber to every house in every neighborhood they offer service in.
browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled = false

These instructions disable phishing lookups, rather than pointing users to a list of alternatives. This is unsafe and harmful to bury in this list.

network.cookie.alwaysAcceptSessionCookies = false

They will immediately lose the ability to login to their password manager, which requires session cookies.

browser.cache.disk.enable = false
browser.cache.memory.enable = false

They will start loading every resource on a page on every visit to every page, as no resources will be cached. One hour of browsing will use a month's data quota and the glorious no-caching detail of every pageview will be closely observed by the server-side logging metrics that are so desperate these days to extract targetable marketing data.

webgl.force-enabled = true

Browsers disable WebGL in some scenarios to protect users from hardware, software, and/or driver bugs that cause crashes when WebGL is enabled. This setting overrides that which increases their risk of GPU, browser, and system crashes. Additionally all crashes are either "exploitable" or "not exploitable", so bypassing crash mitigation processes increases your risk of one such vector being used against your browser.

network.dns.disableIPv6 = true

Over the next ten years, the user will see that more and more of the web breaks down and mysteriously fails in their browser. Sites only load partially, videoconferencing never works properly, video streaming is jerky and slow. Providers shipped IPv6 to their customer endpoints years ago. Disabling it has potential downsides and no upsides either for "privacy settings" or anything else.
Article: Spacetime is an illusion! Time isn't real!
Reality: The details of time diverge a bit from common understanding. The author has an emotional reaction to this.

Who else dislikes this sort of pop-science writing? It seems to care more about evoking some mystical and philosophical idea of the universe than effectively communicating the science.
Slight aside, but how do people make the distinction between a Director and a VP? What's the clear (if any) delineation of job descriptions?
In addition to the benefits of getting working more working chips per wafer, don't chiplets also provide the benefit of being able to independently bin each chiplet, significantly increasing the effective production yield of high-clocking high core count chips relative to monolithic fabrication?
Groups of artist-friends have been going in together on industrial space rentals to use as studios since time immemorial.

Heck, a relatively wealthy family in my neighborhood simply purchased a vacant warehouse in a distressed part of town to build out a woodworking shop, painting studio, darkroom, etc. as their interests could no longer fit in their residential garage/basement.

Of course, that just gets you the raw square feet. Outfitting the space for the work you want to do is half the fun. Otherwise, you're paying WeWork or similar to take it off your plate.
Safari on iOS barely has enough room to show the domain, let alone the full URL. Tapping on the URL bar will present the full URL in an editable/scrollable text field.
I can't be sure, but it seems like a lot of the negative press about Elon recently is... engineered. I mean, he smoked pot with Joe Rogan while recording a shitty podcast - so what? This is not 1950 anymore.

There's a lot of people who want to see Elon fail, and they surely can afford to manufacture some articles broadcasting their own point of view.
I mean, it's almost like arguing with someone whether or not the sky is blue. The idea the NYC has no meaningful counterculture is not only wrong, but ridiculously wrong at that. The Stonewall riots happened there for Christ's sake. It'd be sort of petulant to dismiss the cultural movements that have come out of NYC. Actually, you'd have to be really,I mean, unimaginably out-of-touch with reality to dismiss NYC counterculture.
Looking at the outcome after the fact, it's very easy to attribute an action to some master plan to achieve that outcome indirectly. I prefer to believe that 99% of the time, when someone says they're launching an ISP, they're doing it to become an ISP. Here's the initial Google Fiber blog post so you can judge for yourself:

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-o...
They said "the option", not the obligation.
>How people determine which arguments fall under those criteria is the sticking point.

Yes, and whoever is making that determination gains great power. It is very easy to use this power of censorship to push an agenda. Arguments have many nuances and are rarely completely true or completely false.

Until we have a benevolent oracle that can determine whether an argument represents objective truth, free and open speech is our best option.
Hmmm, my reading of Scarface's comment was that it's more just trying to be constructive "He'll need to work out the mental health issues too..." kind of thing, rather than negging your comment.

But, maybe I just need more coffee. :)
He’s a man in desperate need of someone in his professional life who can tell him to shut up, and make it stick. He’s inflicted so many pointless wounds on himself and Co lately it’s really crazy, and it was all totally avoidable by just not talking so damned much, leaving the press to someone capable, and getting the jolly fuck off Twitter.

I’ve come to the conclusion) however that if he were capable of such a rational decision he would have already made it, and instead he’s doubling down. It was a “whaaaaat?!” moment when he called that guy a pedo, but truly shocking when it turned out he’s still besting that drum. It was a firing offense for anyone with an independent board to bring an SEC investigation down on their heads with that “funding secured” Tweet. Talking to the NYT, talking to Joe Rogan, just... stop talking Elon. Get some sleep, focus on the business, and stop talking.
Faster or lower latency?
Right now traditional SSDs are extremely high bandwidth when transferring sequential files (approaching 3.5gbyte/s read and 3gbyte/s write) but they lack the random 4k IOPS to lower the perceived latency on disk.

Intel's Optane is the first consumer SSD I've seen that has high performance 4k read write IOPs not unlike memory, but even if you use that as your boot drive we are starting to put pressure on other part of the system. Soon the SSDs will start to have higher performance than their PCIe 3.0 x4 slot and some already need a x8 slot when striping nvme SSDs.

Take a look at
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12951/plextor-demonstrates-4w...
> where is my opt-out

Don’t tailgate.
Are you referring to Elon's schedule as overworked? If so, I think having a few more direct reports would allow him to delegate some of his efforts.
I'm not from the US but can't the state help you with money and a shelter? If you have problem in the US the streets is your only option?
"Some electronic circuitry is insufficient to reduce the variation in the supply voltage and this process can generate flicker."

Way oversimplified, yet accurate enough to tell where the problem is: shitty power supplies, not just LEDs [1]. I've repaired where possible or changed defective ones on many LED lights and even best ones are less reliable than traditional linear power supplies. Yes, they can be made rock solid but that will cost, good luck telling the public that their $10 Ebay/Amazon/Ali*/whatever 20W LED light will blow up in days because it contains a 10W LED overloaded by a shitty and badly filtered PSU to emit the equivalent lumens of a 15W one. The PSU also is very likely using abysmal quality capacitors to smooth both the output and the feedback voltage, so it mostly goes like that: one or more capacitors start losing capacitance or developing leaks due to bad dielectric, the output from a clean DC voltage becomes spiky; part of those spikes end up via the feedback line to the regulator which takes the event as an overvoltage and shuts down the circuit. This happens form many times per second to once every few seconds; if you see a LED becoming prone to flashing go look at the PSU and recap or change it.

[1] The blue light interfering with our circadian rhythm is a different story. In short: don't use blue leds, especially in dark hours.
Yes, in my experience.
Isn't that just a FPGA?
Not really, there is endless fuss and noise about the Model 3 not being very high quality, as well as demand for it drying up. Then there is the whole looming debt payments issue.

The tech media has completely wiffed on paying attention to these, so you could be forgiven for thinking it's all about Elon.
Kevin was just promoted to arguably the most important leadership position for a growing company. It's likely Elon wants a little oversight.
There was an old story that I can't seem to find by Googling, but the gist of the plot that I recall was that Mars was stealing Earth's atmosphere through a kind of vortex, like a huge double ended tornado, and some guy in an old plane flew through it, getting to Mars without a spaceship.
Embarrassing would be ordering just the espresso shots, then adding the free milk yourself. I think some baristas call this the 'ghetto latte'. Learned from /r/starbucks
What about changing your model to take a cut of the jobs people end up with? Then you'd end up being self sustainable. Recruiters take about a 20%, so with your one guy getting 100k you could help 10 more.
The 9th comment is explicitly described as "bad results"; it's about somebody who doesn't have a redirect. So that for me is in the "unreasonable" category.

The 3rd is about pool.ntp.org, which is a random ntp server, and which shouldn't be serving up web content. They did happen to pick www.pool.ntp.org as the URL for the docs on the NTP Pool Project, but if "www" never was a thing, the would have happily picked something else. E.g. poolproject.ntp.org or ntp.org/pool/ would have been fine.
My framework on this matter is much more... negative. I perceive these emotions more as a means of control, a form of slavery, and only a helpful guidance towards the original end. Kind of like you could give a slave some ways of foraging for food and some tools to fend off wild animals, but ultimately only so that the slave would build the pyramid better or faster, and not for the benefit of the slave.

This means that the suffering is not always aligned. This is very not obvious since our association of "feels bad == bad" and "feels good == good" is very strong since it's so obviously hardcoded. But it's not hardcoded for your benefit, it's there for building the pyramid, remember that.

A lot of it is quite obvious in the issue of short term vs long term gratification, but there are more complex interactions. People can drown in guilt when something bad was done to them, and a person may be very happy from a sexual encounter, unable to see the causal link between it and the alimony payments they'll soon be making. Reason is necessary, emotions are a blunt instrument. Intuition is better than raw emotions, but requires calibration. Emotion and intuition can be overwritten, to some extent, which is what most of this thread is about.

But quite often, the incentives do align, as we're one of the more advanced and successful species out there, which means we're less likely to be afflicted with the kinds of sufferings and pleasures that lead to a loss of power (i.e., musth in elephants).
"pork bellies..."

This is famously the Eddie Murphy rule - it was a crime to steal the briefcase, but not to trade on the knowledge gained from the contents of said briefcase.

iirc 'Trading Places' is on netflix, and Planet Money[0] did an entertaining episode about this.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/09/200401407/epis...
When I visited the UK (as a tourist), I walked into some phone company's store and walked out 10 mins later with a pay-as-you-go sim card and a UK number, no address or proof of anything other than "I have enough cash for this" needed.
“we're f--ked”: there is only one antidote to silicon valley's ills - engineers
These are cars that Tesla is collecting $50k+ at the time of delivery for each one.

Yeah there are about 400,000 people lined up to buy them, and they will keep on selling them just as fast as they can make them for many many more months.

We don’t know how many new reservation holders are being added at the end of the list, just that the total dollar value of all deposits on hand is increasing.

You’re right though it’s not a comparison. No car company in history has been able to get 400,000 people to put down $1,000 on a vehicle, sight unseen, never mind an electric one at that.

The BMW i3, by comparison, sold a grand total of 418 cars last month. No one is lining up around the block to buy that one.
I was there for a bit and I got carded in almost every bar I went. They are very anal with it.
It’s not at all unusual for senior execs to rarely get promoted, since there are so few roles to promote them into. Look how long Sheryl Sandberg has and will be COO of Facebook.
I despise it, and it seems to have become all that Aeon is capable of. If I wanted to hear what a stoned Physics 101 student thought, I’d ask them. Good science isn’t necessarily sexy, it may not make for profitable clickbait, but it’s very rewarding.

@Westoncb: Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
>I’ve also wondered about reduced scale in open world games

This used to be a popular strategy, my favorite being lego island 2. You don’t need anything as grand an excuse as a neet pc or detective to allow for it: just take away the fucking car.

>It should allow the game designer to treat a procedural world like he were a location scout. They can then build sets within that world where story elements can take place, locations modified as required and the remaining 99% left as a living world that swallows up the player

This is how I believe open world games are usually done now, if not actually generated, then done mentally (imagine a town by a river, add a simple crisis and let things play themselves out. Not necessarily likely events, and certainly not realistic, but sufficient).

Most open world games do have a decent number of setpieces to find. The problem, I think, is thats all they are. Oblivion, skyrim, witcher, etc all make the same mistake: “you can climb any mountain” and thats where it stops. They are open only in the sense that you can travel in a non-linear path, in an non-linear order of the story. But they forget that the main interesting facet of games as a medium is interaction. That the player has autonomy.

They’re merely open in story, but mechanically they’re extremely linear. They don’t provide open interactions. It doesn’t matter what backdrop you give it, or how well designed and populated things are, if I can’t interact with them.

Roguelikes (note the k), simulation-games and dwarf fortress (and from tabletops: adnd and its kin) are my favorite in this regard: you can interact with everything, in a somewhat limited and controlled fashion, with the potential for interesting, unexpected results. They essentially forgo any real plot or story in favor of letting player autonomy act as its own source of interest. The games and its internal interactions are mechanically complex, while the world around it is significantly less so.

But thus, my opinion is the opposite of yours: the advancements in technology surrounding games, outside of perhaps AR/VR, currently and in the near-future, offers nothing new. The same style of games have already existed, and will continue on independent of these advancements. The only difference will be their graphical complexity, and more likely than not, each advance in graphics will come at the cost of the game’s design, in general. We’re in for nothing new.
"The shadow braking thing really reveals how primitive "AI" actually is-- this is something a bumblebee would not do, and its brain consumes milliwatts of power."

I'm not impressed with self-driving AI so far, but I think you should be fair if you're comparing it to bugs. Insects are notoriously not good at avoiding collisions on the highways.
I can’t stay awake through it. Which is okay. I often don’t sleep well so I’m chronically deprived.
I feel like every language should have at least one "wat" style talk or article. Even for languages you adore, it's important to understand the quirks, shortcomings, and issues in a context that might seem absurd to an outside developer.
That's generally Lambda School's model - we train people to be software engineers for no upfront tuition in exchange for a share of future income for two years. We also have experiments running with housing and living stipends in exchange for a share of future income for three years.

However, I consider recommending that to someone who is homeless and/or destitute exploitative. I can't put my finger on why, but knowing how desperate you can feel in that scenario I don't feel OK turning that into a money-making (or even transactional) scenario.

We've found that the folks who are hired and now-housed tend to donate enough to keep the fund alive once they're on their feet, but I don't feel right requiring it.
Crappy VPN services do all sorts of crappy stuff.

But there's more needed with IPv6 than routing properly. The VPN provider needs to assign IPv6 addresses to customers, and that's harder than just NATing stuff. It's almost like being an IPv6 ISP.

But I've done a toy implementation. To get "anonymous" IPv6 addresses, so I could test VPN service clients for IPv6 leaks, without pwning myself. I needed a little help from an IVPN engineer, but it wasn't that hard.
David A. Hyman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute

Yes, if you are paid to argue against price caps you argue against price caps.
As a man/person I still wholeheartedly agree here. Ultimately it comes down to recognizing exactly what your end goal is in choosing one route over another. At best someone will ignore public criticizing and start thinking of the criticizer as a jerk, a perfectionist, a "nagger", or just annoying. At worst they take it personally, start avoiding work that might lead to public shaming, and start fearing parts of their work day.

Engineering is stressful enough. No need to drive people away faster than necessary. Private criticizing can be delivered directly to offending person, especially if you're a team lead or manager, or it can be delivered to your manager. If it's significant enough to result in actionable items then the situation will be handled one way or another. Meanwhile if the person is capable of resolving the issue after your private criticizing they'll often respect your decision to keep things professional. Heck, sometimes there's an entire bag of worms under the surface like serious family problems they're going through outside of work at that same time that explains their behavior, something you almost certainly wouldn't find out with public criticizing.

I've seen some significant turn arounds from previous team members after some pointed private talks. Alternatively, I've seen people dig in their heals and become a problem team member after improperly timed public shamings.
It's kind of broken that slices are immutable but maps aren't, and that reading a slice can panic but reading a map can't.
Maternity leave policies are a transfer of wealth from people who have fewer children to people who have more children.
Well, but this subthread was originally about Article 11. I'm not sure how you are getting from that to Article 13?
> Also, the prospect of ending up homeless in Russia without speaking the language was much more terrifying than being homeless in London;

Isn't that the kind of situation that you can turn up to the Aust consulate and say "Need ticket home!", which they'll generally make happen (for Aust citizens, in actual need).
Are you arguing that these companies have their monopolies because of regulation?