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JS doesn't make a good general benchmark and speedometer is a bad benchmark in particular for that kind of test.

The test itself is basically just writing a tiny todoMVC in a dozen different frameworks. Any one of those sub-tests would fit in only a couple MB of cache (for example, the React todo source is around 550 lines in total).

An i7-8650U has a max clockspeed of 4.2GHz, so for short bursts of single-core processing where everything fits in cache, performance can definitely come close to that Xeon (there's a reason why people buy the Xeon instead of the U-series chip though)

JS uses only 32-bit integers and 64-bit floats and executes on a single core (JS has typed arrays, but they certainly aren't going to be used in those kinds of frameworks).

The power of modern x86 architectures is completely bypassed in that kind of test. A huge amount of the size and TDP an x86 core (I'd guess the majority given the width) is tied up in vector units, but those go entirely unused in JS code (and the JS SIMD proposal was completely killed making that unlikely). What are the other 7 to 17 Xeon cores doing during that benchmark? 30-50% of the TDP in these chips goes entirely to the interconnects because the hardest part of scaling chip design stopped being the actual core a long time ago.

https://ark.intel.com/products/124968/Intel-Core-i7-8650U-Pr...

https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/
Your three superpowers as a solo founder need to be:

1) Deep expertise and network with potential customers

2) Ability to empathize and connect with your customers and sell the thing

3) Ability to build some sort of MVP

The deep expertise and empathy will allow you to hone in on the problem you know your customers will face, and so you can narrow down the "paradox of choice" of different features/products you can build. It'll give you a much better starting point for experimentation and iteration. Start small. Talk to these folks. Get people to validate your idea. If you don't have an existing network where you can talk to 30-50 customers (100 is better!), this will be a problem.

The empathy and salespersonship will allow you to get folks to give you feedback and/or pre-sell the thing. Maybe do consulting for them to earn revenue and testimonials. If you can't sell this, you're going to have a hard time.

Finally, you need to be able to build something that delivers value to your customers. You don't have to be the world's greatest programmer (actually, if you were that might hurt you more than it helps!) but you do need some programming chops. Maybe it's automation around an existing process (a chatbot that does something small). Or even a spreadsheet. Maybe it's a full-blown MVP. Either way, you don't have the revenue to pay a developer, and sharing context with someone that you can afford is likely very very difficult.

If you don't have these things, this will be really, really tough. If you do, it will still be very tough, but you have a much better chance of being successful.

Find a network of solopreneurs - either something local to you (where you can meet up periodically) or an online group. This will be invaluable as you run into challenges they solved, and then you can pay it forward for the people that will walk your path later. And, having a place to vent with empathetic folk will help keep you sane.

If you need any help, I'm happy to share my experiences solo-bootstrapping my company to 20+ people. Just email me matt [dot] rogish [at] gmail

Good luck!
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Reading through this thread is proof enough that the system is relentlessly complex. Medicine itself is incredibly complex, payment is complex, the system is nearly 20% of the economy, and not even 100 world-class experts could provide us with a fool-proof plan to solve this mess. Whatever the solution is to our healthcare systems' problems, it is not going to be simple, easy, quick, or cheap.
4Runners/Tacomas are basically the same vehicle for most of the past 2 decades with some cosmetic upgrades, and as far as I know, don't come with all the unnecessary electronics.
start with the smallest workable version of your idea. if your technical build the coolest prototype of your product you can.
That's really cool. Although I wish there were more vegan food that didn't try to replicate non-vegan textures and flavors. Imitation can only be playing catch-up. The best vegan and vegetarian food does its own thing.
Those two comments come up frequently, but it's worth noting that in the whole preceding thread 'cperciva was being a pretty massively arrogant jerk.

That thread is a classic example of why the most capable people aren't necessarily the ones you should want to work with.
I seriously doubt that given the horrendous state of their software as proven in the unintended acceleration cases.
and no drivers on macOS.
Second link on their frontpage is "Build new service" which then shows a link for prices. Most other links ask for login or registration.
Seems kinda natural to end there if you don't wanna sell your email.
Of course what you're describing is the ideal, but I think the odds of finding a good co-founder (particularly via "networking") is vanishingly small. In fact I bet that the odds of finding a good co-founder is smaller than the odds of successfully starting a business as a solo founder.

So I'd say yes, do it, but simultaneously be on the lookout for a potential co-founder. If one arises, great. If not, don't let it be an excuse not to follow you dream.
I don't know, I just tried installing the latest Ubuntu. I could go and track the version Dell ships for my laptop, and make sure I never upgrade it, but surely that proves the point that Linux is a pain to run?
Had one of these recently. I was shocked. The texture isn't 100% but very, very close and the taste was amazing. It was much flatter than photo; looked and tasted like Shake Shack.
Right, the rich will retain private care no matter what. The challenge is what happens to the middle class, the majority of whom have employer-provided care that they actually like (this is a major challenge with any health reform in the US: the status quo has powerful support). There's a near-consensus that the impact to the market for these insurance products will, within a few years, be eliminated by M4A.
Per the article:

>It has as much bioavailable iron and protein as the same size serving of ground beef, with 14 grams of fat and 240 calories per quarter-pound patty.

Also, per Impossible's site, changes to nutrition for the new recipe are:

>The new Impossible Burger features 30% less sodium and 40% less saturated fat than the current recipe and just as much protein as 80/20 ground beef from cows

The original recipe only has 5g of carbohydrates per serving, so assuming that remains constant, this doesn't seem terribly problematic for those on a low-to-moderate carbohydrate diet.
>I’ve never understood the debate between mono and multi repos. With the right tooling, the line seems to vanish and you just have folders anyway.

First, that's assuming the "right tooling" exists. Microsoft, Google, and FB have all wrote custom tooling or custom extensions to tooling (e.g. to version control tools) to fit their monorepos and get acceptable performance. And all three have more resources to throw at their problems compared to a 10, 100 or 400 person company.

Second, this is a little like "C and Haskell are both turing complete, so what's the big deal with adopting either?".
Solo founder here. Same advice with the caveat that 98% of people should never be solo founders - you must be able to code and sell - but even if you can you should still get a partner if they double your speed.
Until the people currently destroying forests to grow cattle, start destroying forests to grow ingredients for these burgers. Soil depletion is also a thing. I still remember the argument for biofuel and where it ended up.

More options in the mix is always good, but trying to replace everything with vegetable stuff is not going to work in the long run.
I might agree on the reality, but the market rate of pay for React programmers is considerably higher than that for Magento, whether this is fair or well advised or not.
Does it have to be nucleic acids? You can probably get a dataflow-like language using concentrations of various enzymes and substrates. And there are pre-existing models for molecular pathways that may help figure out the "key" for such a code. (In fact, IIRC analysis of metabolite concentration variation tends to be modeled using systems of differential equations, so you could use neural nets to find optimal input states for simple or well characterized networks.)

There are some problems with using nucleic acids, chief among which is that the central dogma of molecular biology isn't nearly as true (or as central) as we used to think. Don't know as much about RNA -- there certainly are RNA "machines" where the nucleic acid itself has a function and maybe those could be coded for specific functionality. RNA isn't as stable though (because it's single stranded and RNAses are everywhere) so it sounds hard to deal with experimentally, but I'm no expert.
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Just a little feedback: as someone not deep in the blockchain world, I have no idea what Blockstack is, or why nothing happens when I click "sign in" or "start writing now". The page does a good job of describing the product benefits, but it doesn't cover square 1 and describe what I need in order to actually start using the product.

Otherwise I know this was a fun project, but it always helps to hone in on your audience on the landing page. Answer, Who's going to appreciate this the most?
I'd love to use this as a meat-replacement but can ordinary consumers buy it yet?

I just want to make chili. Please let me give you money!
We're pretty small scale (< 20 services, < 10 devs), and happily use a monorepo (recently moved from multiple repos when that became unwieldy as services grew). If you have a lot of services/projects with some shared dependencies they can make tracking that easier. I agree with the article that in general they make life easier.

It depends on what tooling you're using, and whether it is tied to the version control system. Clearly if the tooling makes assumptions about one deployable per repo and works on git hooks that's going to cause pain, but the answer is don't use monorepos if your tooling doesn't support it, or change the tooling so it does.

Most companies won't scale past a few hundred employees, so they're never going to hit any sort of scale issues with monorepos, and if they do, they'll have the resources to deal with it.

Does this have to be a religious war? Does one size fits all really apply here?
I'm really curious about the "fake meat" products that exist in other countries. In the Netherlands, there's been enormous growth both in the number of vegetarians and in the number of "fake meat" products that have become widely available, and the quality of the latter has improved dramatically. Before, these products were mostly useful for the non-vegetarians wanting to prepare a meal for vegetarians without having to relearn how to do it (with actual vegetarians preferably preparing vegetarian-first meals, e.g. with nuts and beans rather than fake meat). However, nowadays these products have become so good that they're actually of added value to a meal in terms of taste.

Interestingly, they do not appear to place as much focus on matching actual meat as much as the foreign products that are usually the subject of articles like these. Instead, they merely have to taste good and have good texture - it doesn't matter if it's still somewhat different from actual meat (sometimes they even taste better).

At the forefront of this has been the Vegetarian Butcher (that's a brand name). They've recently been acquired by Unilever and will likely expand internationally more aggressively. I have the feeling that the Netherlands is friendlier to vegetarians, on average, than other Western countries, and if that will give them an advantage. Time will tell!
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That's easy to say. I can deliver the product, but I'm worried about sales taxes, VAT, compliance with laws, administration, support, etc.
Do vegan/vegetarians really want something that reminds them of meat products? Why not just make a good meat-free sandwich that doesn't imitate another product?
I often see the argument that you might need to floor the throttle and swerve pulled out in these threads but I'm dubious that this is a real problem. My gut feel (and no, I don't have data to back this) is that far more accidents are made worse by people deciding to use that response than would be made better by the car overriding that decision and putting the brakes on to come to a somewhat controlled stop.
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zsh.
Protectionism is how every country on earth developed. There are no exceptions.
It's not that it's imperfect, it's that it's insignificant.

If the proposal had no costs, it would obviously be worth pursuing.

But it's a historically disruptive proposal. For changes on that scale, we should be targeting significant fixes. 10% is just nibbling at the edge of the problem --- to put it another way, if the cost savings is 10%, then a few years after the change was enacted, we'd be right back where we are now.

You can't iterate on restructuring the economy; it's not a PHP program. You can iterate on incremental fixes, but that's not what M4A is.
"but trying to replace everything with vegetable stuff is not going to work in the long run."

But we have to eat... what do you recommend we replace our protein intake with?
That perspective does change things a bit :) All their eggs are literally in one basket!
> employees are attracted to salaries, offer it (get funding if needed).

Who would have thought... :-)
There's plenty of industries that do. Tech makes much more. In fact, pharma on average spends a greater proportion of revenue on R&D than just about any other industry.
The distinction you describe between view and controller should be relevant nowadays in the exact same way as it was on the 1970s.

For example, the logic of inserting text when insertion mode is active, removing the selected text when the delete key is pressed etc is all part of the controller, not the view.

By splitting the view and the controller, a different view, for example a console one, or a remote one, can be done with the exact same editing capabilities, since they are to use the same controller.
Hopefully they will announce what its pricing and limitations will be soon.

Until then, I'm sticking with Gitlab for private repos because I don't want to wake up one day with Github actions to find out that I need to start paying to regain access to CI.

I don't mind if it's premium only when it's released, but they should be clear about this up front. It kind of worries me that they didn't mention it'll be a free feature in the docs. That seems like something you would want to say up front if it were true. It would be really lame if they open it to everyone to beta test it and then switch it to paid for the general release without mentioning that.
Lets say you were just hired as the President of a furniture company. The owner says he knows it's good furniture but even despite huge investments they can't seem to sell any furniture. Your job is to turn things around...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022154
Sort of interesting seeing this at the Consumer Electronics Show. Most food startups I've seen would never think of trying to exhibit at that kind of venue, but clearly it's an effective way for them to reach their target demographic with coverage like this. They're probably also exhibiting at food industry conferences, to get the restaurant & supermarket distribution deals, but CES gets them TechCrunch & HN readers.
The cattle need to be fed too, and they don't turn their food into meat very efficiently. That's why replacing meat with plant based alternatives is (almost) always a huge gain in efficiency, in terms of resource use.
The benefits of monorepos (in my experience) are all people/organisation based e.g. it can be easier to enforce standards/processes among 100s-1000s of engineers with a monorepo, or it can be easier to manage/release a very large interdependent codebase/eco-system being worked on/coordinated between dozens of teams.

However, this linked post makes a great point, those benefits are all 'scale' problems which 99.99% of orgs don't have. The corollary is I've seen how hard it is to go from from multi-repo -> monorepo when you reach the scale where you would see some benefit.

I also think that the tooling/UX doesn't publicly exist to solve the multi-repo problem with 100s-1000s of engineers working on 100s of repos. It becomes so hard to navigate, understand and grok and so much is buried in dark corners. My experience is that that tooling is less hard to build around monorepos (Google for example).
It's still too early to declare my new project a success but compared to several failures, it seems like I've finally cracked the code.

There are a number of things I am doing differently this time, but the most significant seems to be that I am now using a coach. This would have made me laugh earlier but it's been great value to me. As a single founder, it can be very hard to stick to commitments and keep a clear vision. So I take calls with my coach every two or three weeks to discuss priorities and goals for next time. She will then ping me regularly and keep me committed -- and call me on my bullshit if I try to weasel out of something.

It feels like some sort of life-cheat-code. I say something that I want to happen on the phone, and then it happens! It doesn't just apply to my business, for instance I've finally managed to meditate consistently because of her. I wish I had discovered this years ago! :-)
I wanted to PM you but don't know how, hence throwaway. I apologize for not using my real hacker handle.

I've just graduated (did 3 IT study programs in total -- 6 years of studying, overkill yes, I didn't have any good career advise via my friends, family or uni).

Do you help people from the EU to work in the US? If so, then I'd really consider applying to your school since I am noticing that I can't get there myself and US companies aren't noticing me.

I am also pretty open to learn basics again since right now algorithms and data structures has been years away. And for advanced topics I only needed that knowledge on a surface level.
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A friend of mine recently tried out Wayland and swaywm and blogged about it here: https://a3nm.net/blog/wayland.html. It might interest you :).
Wait, what? Softbank was going to put $20 billion into WeWork at a valuation of $50 billion but now they're putting in $2 billion... at a value of $47 billion?

Something screwy or entirely misreported here.
I know, it's less clear, but there are colors, I have tested that with a random color generator. The colors are imprecise in the far periphery, but the basic colors can still be seen.

I guess my vision may indeed be abnormal as somebody else above suggested, since I don't get the blid spot in the central vision in the dark, either.

As for the sound, I think you just learn to hear the sine waves as speech - I tried to convert a part of audiobook (that I haven't listened to before) and I can understand it a little bit.
I used praat with this script (it doesn't seem to like long sounds): http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/sine-wave-spe...
Generally, most of that forest destruction is to grow soy beans for animal feed. Feeding the soy beans directly to humans is far more efficient, so, if more people adopt TVP instead of meat, you'd expect a drop in land requirements.
I don't understand this logic "people are leaving our service so lets charge more for it" what? Doesn't that make MORE people want to leave?
how about a good way to pass around associative arrays and arrays
Their website states that they are going to start shipping to grocery store chains in March of this year.
Perhaps in future, they'll bring the wall to the car instead.
If the images in the article are at scale, the height of the rectangle is 1/8 of the width of the image, so if we assume that it is as width as posible with a screen of ~1200 pixels, then the height of the rectangle is ~200 pixels.

Also, 1 degree = pi/180 ~=1/60 radians. The difference they are measuring is approximately 1/2 degree. So with a height of 200 the change of 1/2 degree is approximately 2 pixels. [In case it is not obvious, I'm making a lot of assumptions and approximation.]

The text explain the size of the groups: 175 (online), 25, 15, 15. [I'm not sure if this numbers are counted before or after eliminating the subjects that didn't understand the task.]

Looking at the graph my objection is that the three results where the "face" was looking at the rectangle are too consistent. They are .64±.23, .67±.30 and .63±.26. The difference in the three averages is only .04, but the standard deviation is like .25 in each case. And with 15 subjects you don't reduce the deviation of the average too much, so these values look fishy.

The other five results look more natural. The standard deviation is something like .20 or .30, and they are scattered randomly in a range of a similar width.

Are they reporting all the experiments they made, or they made a lot of experiments and cherrypicked four of them?

Also, in the graphic "The asterisk indicates D significantly greater than 0, P < 0.05." not that the two measurements have a difference that is statistically significantly. In particular in the third graph the error bars are too close to each other.
Musicians have a history of taking long periods off. Sonny Rollins took a few multi-year stints off, during which time he worked on technique and ideas he didn't have time to work on as a touring musician. The Who have been in and out of retirement like 10 times.

We'll see how long it lasts. He'll probably dedicate himself to writing for a few years and get himself back in shape with long-distance bicycling. But, he'll probably be back. I could easily see him not want to do arena tours anymore though, maybe some jazz gigs or small-venue acoustic sets with Rush.

It's kind of interesting that two iconic drummers from the same generation - Bill Bruford and Neil Peart - decided to get out of the industry.
With Xorg on his way out, are there similar options for Wayland? I quite like being able to use xbindkeys with xautomation or xdotool in basically every Xorg WM.
I might try Wayland once there is a tiling WM that supports the Master layout (like dwm).
Hey, wait a minute, that's true. The McKinsey study predates the ACA and establishes the overconsumption narrative. The 80/20 ACA thing can't be the problem.
I suggest other plant protein sources, like soy or pea. Wheat, in particular, has a terrible amino acid profile for humans [0].

Aside from making it so that anyone with coeliac can't consume their burgers, it's just not as effective for humans as animal protein. Pea and soy, however, are nearly as effective and much better for the earth/environment.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3887888
Apple likes to push DRM, which GPLv3 forbids. Apple also is afraid to give patent grants, which GPLv3 requires. Thus, Apple refuses to get anywhere near GPLv3 code, and won't even make it easy to give you GPLv3 source that you can build yourself.
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I agree with this except switch the order. First, start selling. Then start building.

It is so easy to waste so much time building something nobody wants, and you won't know until it's too late if you try to sell it afterward.

Selling first will inform your decisions on what to build.