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You’ve yet to tell me when it’s not fine. Can you please provide some citations or technical reasonings besides just putting forward unsubstantiated claims? Below you've told jgahramc you refuse to read how it works, then you probably shouldn't make claims on this.
I'm not sure if there's an equivalent in GCP but one of the issues we have with AWS lambda is that cold start performance is also greatly affected by whether or not the function is running in a VPC. In addition to warming up the function, a virtual network interface has to be attached to the worker. This can take 10+ seconds in the worst cases.

Hopefully this is an issue AWS fixes soon. The VPC cold start latency could end up forcing you to make some less than optimal infrastructure choices like running infrastructure on the public internet
> but… people didn't like it and it didn't catch on.

Mozilla didn't like, developers liked it. Mozilla's excuse was "which SQL spec?" which could have been solved with a bit of work. Same as the File System API proposals by google. I'm sorry but indexed-db is not a replacement for these 2. indexed-db is slow and inefficient when it comes to data storage and is horrible to query.
The trees will die eventually. The problem is that we've released a lot of CO2 from trees that died millions of years ago.[0]

If you want to get that out of the atmosphere, it's not good enough to grow trees today because in 50-100 years (or whenever a tree dies) you're right back where we are today.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...
It's not. What it does do is make your average user feel safer because they're told this is fore their safety and not equipped to evaluate the claim.
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I think the parent was hinting at a culture that leads to depression, e.g. due to high pressure to show economic success.
I'm not an expert at Realm, so I might get some details wrong, but briefly:

- You can't run Realm on the web (not as a database, offline), but you can with Watermelon

- Realm is _a_ database, Watermelon is a more universal database framework that can be backed by any underlying database via an adapter

- Realm is more than just a database, it's also a whole app development platform. And it's designed to sync with a proprietary Realm cloud service. Watermelon is just a local database, but it tracks changes in the database so you can plug it in and synchronize with an arbitrary backend

- I heard that Realm (on React Native at least) doesn't perform super well when you get to many thousands/tens of thousands of records, but i haven't tested it yet myself, so take it with a grain of salt. Watermelon always does lazy loading so it doesn't really affect performance how many records total there are.
You're both right. The big difference so is wether there is a dedicated logistics network for a given market in place or not, kind of physical backbone if you like.
> 1. Surprise, there's a separate $10 application which can access all the Aadhar database entries. Exposed by one of the journalists of this story. [a]

Can the said journalist just release the application in public domain? If not, why not?

> 2. Aadhar has no way to verify double entries, one whistleblower to Supreme Court said the database has 40% bogus entries, i.e. 450 Million fake IDs. Yes, no verification backup documents, no signup forms exist for 40% entries in the database, and authority has no way to audit them. [b]

If authority has no way to audit them then how did the whistleblower arrive at this magical "40%" figure.

What's worse than the 40% figure is the way the entire letter is written. No way a professional would write a letter with all caps, typographical errors, paragraphs upon paragraphs of sensationalism with little to show for "proof". Even the table which shows the details of "AadhaarCount v/s Aadhaar Records" is not something available in public domain so it cannot be validated as authentic.

> Bonus: Aadhar database was at one time hosted in US with FTP password being Admin$12. This is the state of this sham project. https://imgur.com/a/2sppFrm

I have seen this crop up in every discussion but no where in the screenshot does it say that the data hosted in US was the "Aadhaar database". All this screenshot details is some files were hosted by the UIDAI team on a US based server to share among themselves. The files could be anything. In fact, the email itself says the files are flat files with names:

1. Bill_Desk

2. Total_EXP

How did you arrive at the fact that this is the Aadhaar database itself? I can easily assume that "Total_EXP" can mean total expenses and "Bill_Desk" to do something with bill desk. No where does it say "Aadhaar_DB" or something along those lines. This is laughable!

Also, this same screenshot exists in the so called "whistleblower's letter" to Supreme Court judges as well. There is no confirmation of any such correspondence by the Supreme Court judges about being in receipt of any such letter.

Sorry to say but the way the entire letter is written screams of fake news you typically forward through WhatsApp only to realise later that the entire story was fraudulent to begin with.
Portable scanners FTW! Once you get competent with them it's ridiculous how much time you save. Add to that bringing your own bags and you are scanned and out in little more time than it took to do the actual shopping.

Every now and then you get audited, but I'll happily pay that price in order to have the scanner.
I'm Swedish and I don't quite recognise parts of the narrative, here. It's true that we seem to have more diversity in our online retail market and many of the big players are Swedish sites (cdon and Webhallen, for instance). There's no single big player which dominates the way Amazon seems to do. So, I'm definitely following that part of the narrative. I also agree that Prisjakt (and, to a lesser extent, Pricerunner) are an integral part of the way we interact with online retailers.

But when they talk about lack of same-day delivery and make it sound like the lack of Amazon means we're missing out on a superior selection of wares, then I'm not following.

I mean, I wouldn't mind same-day delivery (is this, or next-day, available for every single product, or just a selection of products?), but having to wait a day or two on average is nothing I've personally felt any existential dread about.

Also, it's been years since I noticed that there were products available via Amazon which I couldn't get at a reasonable price from a local online retailer. This used to be the case, but it definitely seems things have improved.
Well, we have an overall tax rate of about 26%, which is much less than most comparable countries, so I think we have some room to maneuver: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxe...
> a non-Fed based monetary system

Could you elaborate on that please?

> Economics, for all its show of being empirical is really just politics, and politics is really just philosophy.

That's very-very incorrect. Economics is about models, and understanding the past, and maybe trying to peek at the future. But at its core, it's about modeling.

And it helps us understand what works and what doesn't. Politics should be about giving the parameters to those models. And philosophy (logic) is about finding the inconsistencies in our politics.

And as you say, nowadays people don't care about logic, they care about their beliefs. Even if they are inconsistent. They are too busy to notice that they are wrong.
Is Fidesz really a comparison point though, for anti-establishment parties? They held power in 1998 and they saw their biggest increase in votes in from 1998 to 2002.

I mean, you definitely have a point, with them going from from 42.03% in 2006 to 52.73% in 2010, but they weren't born out of the crisis like their American counterparts, and while they started out anti-establishment, they kind of became the establishment in 2002.

I'm not saying the financial crisis didn't have an impact on Europe, it absolutely did, I just think it's much more nuanced and complicated than the article outlines. On one hand you have countries like Italy, that fit the bill perfectly, on the other hand you have the Scandinavian countries like my own, where we didn't really see a rise of populism because it was already here, in fact we kind of saw a decline. For a while anyway, because right-wing populism is certainly on the rise now, but is that really the delayed effect of the financial crisis or is it something much more complicated?
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Your disclaimer notwithstanding you are giving medical advice to someone you have not even seen IRL.
Agreed! IDB is simpler in some ways, but having a real relational database is a lot better for many advanced applications — and also can be more easily used for porting to different platforms, since you can run SQLite on any native platform
How can you do online shopping if you can't interact with the web page? Everyone forced to send an email when they want to buy?
If only they were on the other side of Denmark. I wanted to bring some fiber to a small German island called Insel Fohr.
I'm wondering, is there a hacker news for biohacking related stuff?

I have the feeling that there is a lot of progress being made in gene therapy technology these days. Having a friend who's life would be enhanced by gene therapy, I'm highly interested!
Super sad to read how your story turned out. I would like to point out as others have that you still are in a good spot experience-wise with multiple successful exits and prior jobs.

To me it sounds like your main issue is understanding your diagnosis of bipolar and keeping its symptoms under control. You are not crazy! Bipolar is an eminently treatable disease I asked my friend who is a physician with 25 years in the field and she recommended going back to see a doctor to look at some alternative medications. At this point lamotrigine, valproate and lithium have validated efficacy and can help with the symptoms you describe. I'd suggest a second medical opinion!

Regarding your coding interviews, I would suggest leaving them until after you start feeling in control. Practice, targeting your resume (500 applications is a lot!) and staying calm will get you a comfortable position with your experience IMO.
> entrepreneur classes are rare

It's not optimal, but it's pretty common in management courses. I wish I had more of that in Engineering (even though we hated it at the time).

> Open a company in Brazil is crazy

Crazy? Try shutting one down to see what's crazy.

> Labour protection here is insane too

I have to disagree with you on that one. As an entrepreneur, you have responsibilities towards your employees. Far too frequently you see entrepreneurs who think they are doing employees a favor by giving them jobs when very few realize that they hired people because they couldn't do it themselves. It's a privilege to have a smart team working to make your dreams true.
I agree. I would argue that Microsoft have the worst of all worlds because on the one hand they share their code with intelligence agencies (including the FSB!) who seem to me to be inclined towards hoarding vulnerabilities for attack rather than getting them fixed upstream. On the other hand, much of their code has been leaked illegally; which makes it available to any and all black hat hackers but many law-abiding white hats will be constrained in their possible use of it. So everyone has the code except for the people who might report bugs/ fixes.
Troy's stance makes me uneasy. I'm sure publicly shaming these companies is effective, but where does the line get drawn? In my experience the infosec community strongly believes security is the most important thing, full stop. So they feel no qualms about using every trick in the book to get their way.

But two things about this trouble me. The first is, have we decided that the ends always justify the means? It seems in other domains public shaming is unacceptable. Troy himself despises Donald Trump, but one of the things most heinous about 45 is his use of Twitter to publicly ridicule and shame companies and individuals. And now Troy is engaging in exactly the same behavior. But it's "OK" this time? What is different?

The second thing that troubles me is security "best practices" today may not be best practices tomorrow. Some of his example companies are using practices that were "best" 10 years ago. What happens in another 10 years when Troy's current advice is outdated? More pitchforks?

The security treadmill is hard for even the most modern tech companies to stay on. I think the infosec community could go a long way to helping itself by making easier to use tools, and writing canonical guides for common scenarios. Setting up HTTPS to get an "A" from SSLLabs is non-trivial. Securing SSH with perfect forward secrecy is near impossible for a mortal. There's no reason it has to be this complicated.

Edit: To the people who couldn't get past the first sentence of my last paragraph. I'm not saying that because the security treadmill is hard the companies get a pass. I'm saying the infosec community has a responsibility to make it easier to stay on it. If the barrier to securing something appropriately was so low you could trip over it, we wouldn't have this many problems.
The cost for micro trenching can be upwards of $200k a building in Manhattan. I would assume dealing with sunken homes, collapsed PoE's and NIMBY folks would make it prohibitively expensive.

But I have no idea why they stopped.
I'm a little embarrassed that in all of the discussions I've heard about ways to store solar energy for dark periods, I never noticed that this kind of solution was omitted.

I wonder how it stacks up against the more commonly discussed approaches.
Thanks. I find they give a character and complexity that adds to the visual interest.

Could I get a very high-res picture of one or two chips? I'd like a better idea of what I am admiring.
Indeed. Also, don't store JavaScript files within your CMS.
So CL macros often follow the pattern of several forms of processing before returning a quasiquoted expression using the results of those earlier forms. That is, some regular code lisp code, followed up by, I guess I'll call it, a DSL.

Is that really all that different from where much of mainstream javascript-land has ended up?

It might take a moment to familiarize oneself with macros or a DSL, but does that not almost precisely define react component definitions?

Component definitions execute some javascript then spit back JSX and these JSX components can be used in a DSL that doesn't follow javascript syntax?
From Schiphol on Schengen flights frequently (~50% of the time) no one checks anything in my experience outside of scanning the QR to get into security, and into the plance.
How come they did allow 4G and earlier cellular network technology before that, then?
Wow I don’t remember this kneeling down on camera. Can you link?
Professor means nothing. I know a lot of professors who have plagiarised to obtain PhDs. So I would never accept a professor's word to technical details.

> Putting the patch out is going to see reporters being jailed and the story being buried

That's a ridiculous assertion. Wasn't a reporter from Tribune already booked for spreading the same nonsense a while back? Why so? Because she was unable to provide any evidence for the said software that could gain access to UIDAI database.

If you are going to be worried about being arrested then don't get into journalism. Journalism is all about taking risks. By putting out the patch in public domain the reporters are actually going to get immunity from arrests as everyone will know the facts and any arrest by the government would be seen in a negative light. Right now, the reporters have a higher probability of being arrested for indulging in spreading false information, to their own detriment.

> Especially when with the patch we will see 4chan like flaming and the database being filled up with bogus entries from all around the world.

What better proof of breach than having the entire database filled with bogus entries? That should make it amply clear to everyone involved including the public that the system is not secure. What is surprising is that reporters use the garb of national security when it pleases them. You can't have it both ways. If you truly believe in national security and that the entire database is compromised and that there is no way to fix the problem without fundamental change to the system then release the patch. Withholding the patch is detrimental to national security as you are deliberately allowing nefarious activities to take place unchecked and unhindered.
With costs of $100/ton and up Direct Air Capture should be researched but not deployed today. We should first concentrate on more cost effective solutions. We'll likely need DAC eventually but there's lower hanging fruit.
Despite personally enjoying JavaScript, I can see why someone might heavily dislike it. Like the fact that it is/has long been the only choice, and that so many of the problems with the modern web have come about through JS.
Much of the economy is not brick and mortar anymore. And wasn't in 2008 either.

Sure, Congress could have created an Uncle Sam bank, but that wouldn't have solved anything.

Stocks, investors, bondholders are important, because they underlie much of US pension plans, social security account, and so on.

And even if the day to day operations could have been somehow continued, someone would had to arbitrate what is okay to save, and what is okay to let it perish. And that would have been a much harder and basically impossible task.
Closest I know of is Fierce Biotech https://www.fiercebiotech.com/
I think the author makes fair points. My conclusion: Do the bit twiddling and strongly constrained parts in a low level language and the rest in a language that supports strong static typing and good interfaces.
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We also have a very serious issue with electing the wrong people. São Paulo, the richest state in the country, has been electing the same centre-right (dressed as centre-left) kleptocrats for about 30 years now, with disastrous results.

And don't get me started on that "impeachment" shitshow.
Needs more buzzwords!
Wood is not dense enough for this to be cost effective.
OP is looking for a tool to live-share their programming environment with a friend for demonstration (and recording) purposes.
The no-ops part is compelling, but we've already had that for years in the form of PaaS for small teams and K8s for large ones.

I think the billing part sounds a bit like a trap to me. At least while FaaS retains so many quirks, it's like trading billing for the engineering time of contorting a business process to a given FaaS model (e.g. trying to eek out the lowest average and worst case latency; also working within language runtime limitations).

I'm pretty sure ops will never be automated away; it can only be transmuted to a different form :). But, at best, you can achieve elegant separation of ops and process concerns. That's where I worry FaaS could be a bit of a hazard, if not carefully utilized.
That's a pretty old/ crappy Android phone though, either Froyo (or older) or a Gingerbread without patches.

There are other examples, the Nintendo Wii U, Internet Explorer on old enough XP (but really old XP can't grok modern TLS anyway and so you're screwed) but we're quickly talking about the minority of a minority.

I'm sure the perception was there though.
Because then you don’t get to reinvent the wheel.
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> Unpriced traffic

https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/gas/gasidx.htm

https://dmv.ny.gov/motor-carriers/new-york-state-highway-use...

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/business-commercial-...
Do you still want to be in tech and start coding? What made you take interest in that?

If money didn't matter, what would you want to do most days for the next few months, or what about years?
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Iron fertilization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
When SQLite is not available in the browser, can it fallback to using use an Adapter which just implements a (low performance) DB in memory or storage?

edit: link to Adapter docs https://github.com/Nozbe/WatermelonDB/blob/master/docs/Imple...
1) That's far from true. I had a company in an incubator associated with one of the largest federal universities. Professors were supportive, overall. A few helped with contacts in the industry and ideas.

2) The overall tax rate isn't that bad (I live in England now, you'd be surprised). The tax system is complicated but for small companies, falling under Simples rules, it's fairly easy.

Re. labour laws, the fact that labour debts aren't protected by limited liability is fairly bad.

Re. regulated, yeah, it's also pretty complicated to get good legal counsel, despite the amount of law school graduates.
Eh. (imho) Hydro pumping is way more simple, and is just limited by the fact that you can't have it wherever you want.

Also concrete is not exactly environmentally friendly to make.
The wired.com article says:

> assuming energy transfers are 100 percent efficient—which they aren't.

A startup doing a large scale version of this idea using commercial tower cranes claims 85% efficiency, but take that with a grain of salt:

> The round-trip efficiency of the system, which is the amount of energy recovered for every unit of energy used to lift the blocks, is about 85%—comparable to lithium-ion batteries which offer up to 90%.

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

Of course, the gold standard way of doing this is with pumped hydro, hovers around 80% efficient.

> The round-trip energy efficiency of PSH varies between 70%–80%, with some sources claiming up to 87%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
I'm Brazilian and I tried building a company there after two successful products both in the EU and US.

Brazil simply doesn't have the culture that's necessary to foster a startup ecosystem.

Chile is in a much better position to be that sort of local leader, but still only relatively.

And it's not something you can change by prosecuting corrupt politicians - it goes all the way back to our colonial heritage, and the crookedness and "classicism" will always hinder the progress of companies and, more sadly, great engineers and entrepneurs.

This stereotype that "we're the most creative" is just another self entitlement like soccer or beautiful women that may build a brand, but certainly doesn't represent reality or live it up to its expectations.

I've come to realize that a Brazilian in power is often a synonym of extreme arrogance, shallowness, selfishness and an unbearable classicism that leads to an unfathomable mistreatment of both customers and employees.

It's unlike any other elites from the western world. It might compare to some countries in Africa.

If you're an investor thinking about Brazil , either understand and live by that culture or lose your money. They won't change the habits they gathered for a lifetime just because you have money or moral authority.

If you're Brazilian and talented, either as an engineer or entrepreneur, get out. Look for jobs remotely, incorporate a company in another country, find a market fit in a healthy economy that selects based on the productivity, efficiency and quality of your work.

Don't gamble your potential, talent and safety for the sake of FOMO on companies that rich, talentless, spoiled kids built with family money, and even our own (as taxpayers).