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If your motivation is making multi-millions one day, you're better off buying a lottery ticket or staying at your FAANG-equivalent job.

I left my large company job 7 years ago to found my own company with a friend. We initially tried our hand at a saas product then figured out we were too green at the business side of things to make it work (read we had no idea how to sell) so moved on to web-dev consulting.

Consulting has been a huge slog, we made every mistake in the book we could (and learnt from them) so we were making meagre salaries for a number of years. However we (lucked out and) met some great people who wanted to start new Saas products with us and could take care of selling and marketing while we build and product manage.

Now we've made our way back to boostrapped-saas-product-land much wiser than before. Been at it for a year now so not quite ramen profitable yet. I am poor AF, my cofounder is poor AF, we are late 30s/early 40s now.

The only reason why we come to work each day is because we have products we believe in, customers who we want to help and employees who we love (and wish we could pay more).

This has been made possible by understanding wives and families too who are happy to scrimp now for a shot at a future they believe in too.
My view is that these things should be disallowed from all urban areas. Municipal inaction on them is increasingly frustrating and they are an unmitigated menace to pedestrians. Of course some urban areas are better suited than others, but most, especially in Europe, are not
I dislike the forced login to read the tutorials. I get that it's a Zeit project, but this smacks of user farming.
Internet Shutdowns Don't Work
Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Lands on Ryugu Asteroid
> Because Matrix is inherently decentralized, no single server "owns" the conversations; all traffic is replicated across all of the involved servers. [...] Matrix is more like Git than XMPP, SIP, IRC, or many other traditional communication protocols.

The Matrix protocol is well worth the read. JSON-LD is a bit of a nightmare to work with, but the gist of it is a solid concept; it has drastically changed my approach to software design.
That's probably less of an issue for water straight from the tap than a pool / a bucket of water that was peed into. Unless there's more urea in tap water than I expect.
Not the parent commenter, but I've tried this, my anecdatum is that I became less sharp and thus had a much harder time staying deeply attentive, which, for me, is critical for social interaction.
I see him walking while working as a way to keep his physical self exercising alongside his mind, not because he can’t handle being alone with his thoughts. He even mentions that if there’s a stressful meeting, he can walk off some of the stress.

He also works remotely, and it’s important to take the opportunities to move around while remote. It’s easy to stay in the house all day, especially in a snowy winter, but getting some movement in is important for many people to have a happy and healthy life.
These also apply to test-last developers.

Eg, suppose I write all the code and don't write the tests until the end. Then I spend 5 weeks writing tests.

I can easily write dozens of tests in an 8 hour day, and refactor code to make it more testable. I'm still writing tests, so bristle at the suggestion that I should. I'm using coverage to help figure out which tests to write, so I'm easily going to get 80% or better.

My own style is much closer to "Spike and Stabilize", and not TDD, yet all the things you wrote also apply to me.

FWIW, I almost never use the debugger, even without doing TDD, as I use print statements. Even with TDD, for some people the debugger is used as a way to understand/explore the interface to other libraries.

BTW, I see no mention of "mantra" of "red/green/refactor".
Our species has weathered all kinds of terrible waterborne communicable diseases since time began. It’s fair to say we wouldn’t cover the earth as we do without our sophisticated biome being adapted to all manner of disease from shared bathing.
Hi, sorry - I'm looking for more along the lines of "how much X I get for Y" - e.g. to do a few ARM kernel builds a month, what would it cost me?
Survival on Streets: Plight of Children in India
Thanks for sharing your opinion, but I don't really see how that contributes to this conversation. This comments section has a whole lot of pretty hostile replies calling out parents. I don't really see how that addresses anything.

In my case, my child's doctor recommended taking him to a pool as therapy for his motor skills because of developmental problems. He was still over a year away from being potty trained. I researched and ordered 2 or 3 different swim diapers and tried to find the one that fit the best.

During this time I noticed that most brick-and-mortar stores only carry 1 or 2 kinds and I'm sure parents going to the pool on summer vacation won't have the patience I did. Which is why I was curious about this study. It reminded me that condom use is 98% effective, but under typical use is 88-90%. I can easily see the same thing happening with swim diaper effectiveness.

If you're actually concerned about public health and not just the ick factor, I would think young children would be completely banned in most pools or policies for dealing with feces would be more clear when it comes to licensing and regulation. This wasn't my experience working around pools years ago.
This sounds great but also may suffer from frauds: consider a company paying something like 500k in the first year then only paying minimum wage for the next N years together with early-leave penalty. Moreover even the first 500k might be fake and actually paid by employees
I've had quite a few friends go though Indeed Prime (https://www.indeed.com/prime) with success. I think it's a start in trying to make hiring better
I wonder how Wolfram received this letter. It's an amazing historical letter.
Most inexpensive shredders have a very low duty cycle, so they'll cut out or overheat if you shred continuously for more than a couple of minutes. That's fine if you shred a couple of documents at a time, but it's infuriating if you have a big box of documents that need to be shredded. Heavy-duty shredders capable of continuous use are bulky and heavy, which is a significant issue if you live in a small apartment.
The gendarmes have also switched to linux. IIRC, the main reason was that is is cheaper.
I think what you mean by dark night is the last chapter in The Mind Illuminated.

Being red pilled with the literature doesn't make you immune to the "dark night"
Understanding the difference between nihilism and oneness is what is required to detach from ego in a productive way. To paraphrase Alan Watts, enlightenment is like space travel, it requires enormous, longstanding discipline to go all the way out and come back intact.
I think they're completely miserable because they don't know how good they actually have it. If they can unwrap their ego from the rat race then they would be much happier.
Now is hit-and-miss for me. Works great for the most part but they seem more focused on moving fast than stability.

At one point they (without any warning that I could see) turned on a CDN for all my deployments that didn't take the host header into account... so suddenly all the various URLs leading to my landing page generator all returned a single customer's page. Annoying.
I tend to agree. Unless there are genuine reasons to work permanently remote, an face to face interaction is always better. I also worry about the loneliness aspect of remote work. For all its downsides, the Office provides a real life socially active environment. It's pleasant to have people around, and to have water cooler conversations, or share a coffee with an employee from a totally different department. It's feels pretty good. I may be wrong, but I also feel that work is more than producing code. It's also about interactions with people.
Just get IEMs with properly fitting tips.
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I realize this is a somewhat dismissive answer, but the entire point of Matrix is that it's an open specification. The Matrix team is putting a ton of work into guides that show you how to build support into your own apps. The protocol is being designed, from the ground up, to be easy to implement.

I'm not saying you personally have to build a mobile app. I am saying, in the grand scheme of things, if this is genuinely something that matters to a bunch of people, any one of them can build a mobile app and solve your problem.

There are tons of people on HN that hate Electron. If this is actually a real problem, then someone will eventually solve it, and it'll be fine. On the other hand, if a large, sizable community of native developers with tons of experience on the platforms they want 1st-class solutions for don't ever get around to solving it... then it's probably not a real problem.
They supposedly shutdown Onavo on the iPhone.... only to just resubmit it under another name.

Accordingly I'm a bit skeptical about how much of a shutdown happens here.
Haven't heard that name in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
Isn't this all pop science bestsellers? Freakonomics etc.? I mean it's not for everyone, but if (big if) it's reasonably accurate what is the harm?
The cavalier attitude says to me that this company is still a start up at heart. Early-stage companies often break a lot of rules that’s how you get big. Facebook is just still doing it.
This "wait list" is created by the law. Congress has set the number of immigrant visas ("green cards") to be issued each year. Since there are more people than visas available - some people are not getting them and, thus, do not become immigrants. It's not some kind of bureaucratic snafu with the paperwork stuck in some desk somewhere - this is by law. So they would be immigrants only if the law was different somehow.
Kubernetes is an overkill for 90% of systems. The hype will die off eventually, but not before ruining fair number of projects. Death by overengineering. I wonder how things even worked before containers :)
The docs for Auth() will be right next to the docs for AuthWithDefaultProvider(). Like, right above one another.
I'll reiterate a desire for someone to actually make an OkCupid for Hiring. Both sides answer questions and get matched. (If this exists please let me know)
Just curious: In your opinion, what are proper tools / setup in hard- and software terms that makes remote collaboration as efficient as on-site interaction?
Also true. I think I did Q(phi) originally because Binet’s formula is less obvious under that basis.
I'm disappointed that Google was fine with Onavo being in the Play Store and it took Facebook (!) itself to actually remove the app.
The actual reason is far more boring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19137302
I see a lot of people suggesting that you both take the job and start the business at the same time. You really need to talk to a lawyer before you do that. Because of California law you would own your side project. However, depending on your visa you might run into problems with USCIS.
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> Cost does not really map to wall-time in any way

This is a claim that is extremely difficult for me to believe. Because this statement says that you really can't say that a query in one system with cost of 10 is any more likely to be run faster than a query with a cost of 10^300 (these are made up numbers) in another environment. If there were way to get a mapping with even accuracy within two orders of magnitude (e.g. a query with cost x is likely to run something between 10 and 1000 minutes) on my current system, I would be perfectly happy. Even three orders of magnitude accuracy would likely be helpful.
This is what web hosting companies have been doing for many years. It's not new to AWS or cloud computing. There's an entire industry built up around running and maintaining open source software for customers. Redis Labs itself is part of that industry, selling a service called "Redis Enterprise Cloud". I imagine that somewhere in that stack they're using open source software that they don't contribute to, don't you?
> The (pedagogical) advantages of ℚ(φ) are that it seems like less of a trick to the student and Binet's formula is more apparent.

That seems very counter-intuitive to me, as the matrix form is a direct expression of the Fibonacci function's definition, and Binet's formula follows from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix. I guess this ties in to the students you're teaching not liking math?

> A lot of students believe that mathematical know-how and practical problem-solving are at odds (especially since recursion is inherently "mathematical" to most beginners).

This is also counter-intuitive to me. I was under the impression that beginners tend to overestimate the importance of mathematical skill to programming. Do you have a more concrete example, or an explanation of what you mean by recursion not being seen as practical for problem solving?
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That's unreasonable. What about software security updates?
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As an observer, with no prior thoughts on the book, I appreciate reading both your thoughts quite a bit.

I think there's great value in considering a thing based off of well-articulated contradictory arguments.
I think it's not just competing with other people. In many cases, spending more money really does get you stuff that's better quality. And then you discover that you can spend more and get things that are even nicer. Not just show-off nicer, but better design, from better materials, that last longer and age better. Real quality of life improvements. I suspect that a lot of people would find that hard to give up.
> but that statistic pretty good evidence that return on capital vs the growth of income is not the major cause of wealth inequality

I see 27.5% as too damn high to be among the richest in the world just based on birth lottery.

> I don't see how I am unfairly disadvantaged by someone else's obscene wealth through winning the birth lottery.

Wealthy people get disproportionate benefits in: legal system [1], healthcare [2], political influence [3]. I can go on, but there few examples are sufficient to see why someone should get these privileges just because of birth.

> What exactly is Jim Walton consuming that should be given to the poor?

Don't know about Waltons, but Koch brother are consuming their wealth to purchase political influence [4]. I would rather have it spent on poor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Gawker_lawsuit

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_money

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Ko...
I'm a huge fan of the approach KeyValues.com is taking to help engineers find companies they'd actually like to work at. A lot of sites are focused on helping companies cut through the noise to find qualified developers, which means forcing developers to "prove" themselves through various tests etc. That's useful and makes sense.

But I like the idea of the opposite approach — forcing companies to qualify themselves to shed some light on what it'd be like to work there without having to go through the whole interview process first.
Yes, I am a big fan of the “golden integers” and “golden rationals”. They are very useful when trying to work out any kind of metrical geometry questions w/r/t the symmetry system of the pentagon, icosahedron, 120-cell, etc.

I think a lot more students should spend significant time with Zometool construction toys while in school, and should work out a lot of the arithmetic of golden integers for themselves. (If you are a math teacher, I recommend getting some of these.)

If you use Wildberger’s “rational trigonometry”, then it is possible to answer essentially every metrical geometry question about configurations of Zometool using golden rational arithmetic without ever resorting to approximations. The squared length between every pair of Zome-constructible points is a golden integer and the squared sine of every Zome-constructible angle is a golden rational number.

I’m just pointing out that “It's possible to use Binet's formula, too [using golden integers]” is not actually any different in practice than the matrix computation.
YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments'
I preordered mine a few months ago :)
N.C. Elections Board Orders New Race in Disputed House District
Is the headline benefit really paying only for use? Trading increased complexity & dev effort for this seems like a backwards development when vm/container/heroku-style hosting is so cheap & getting cheaper.
We replaced an old grails service with Django - for some reason the home button in the grails app would take you to the grails.org website, so naturally it went into the Django app.
/interactives/is-email-making-professors-stupid

Interactive?

All it was was a GIF in the header yeah?
I thought that fell under "unpaid market research programs" which is also shutting down.
Multiplication in decimal systems is inefficient. FFT multiplication works by converting the numbers to and from a more efficient representation where multiplication is O(n) and embarrassingly parallel (convolution vs pointwise multiplication).

If I'm not mistaken addition is also trivial in this representation, and since no other operations are required, the entire computation can be done in the FFT space.

This definitely works in a residue number system, where a chinese remainder transform is used instead of an FFT. (CRT and FFT are algebraically related)

In short, you can create a massive parallel cluster of computers computing parts of the result without interaction, and then in the end combine the results using a single huge pass of FFT.
>>Lack of sleep, sudden change of routine, total immersion in a new mindset, and withholding food is the classic playbook of cult indoctrination.

None of these:

>>awake and breakfast at ~6AM, dinner at 4pm, lights out at 9PM (and no meal until breakfast the next day.)

..fit your criteria.

Lights out at 9PM and waking up at 6AM gives up to 9 hours of sleep. That's plenty.

Similarly, going from 4:30-5PM until 6AM without food is not a huge deal, especially since you spend most of that time sleeping (in fact, not eating immediately before sleep can be very beneficial for sleep quality).
Toothbrush, even
What sort of incidents?
Old growth wood is not suitable
Outside of costs, an army / police using a foreign-develop proprietary operating system for their everyday internal need is insane.
What does it mean that you had to take 25 days off? What would they do to you if you didn’t?
What about them leads to a toxic work place?
Different strokes for different folks - and he is certainly different. I have fantasised for years about doing my dev work away from a desk. So maybe it’s just me but I find his ‘walking desk’ fascinating and thought provoking.
I wrote a comment and deleted it. There are ways Apple could make this work. But I highly suspect ARM macOS is going to be significantly more restricted and locked down. I doubt we'll be able to disable SIP, for instance.

The overall direction macOS is moving is not positive. The article mentions Apple wanting developers to be able to publish one app for both macOS and iOS. I'm all for developer's lives being easier, but Apple's initial marzipan apps are really, really bad. I don't want to use touch-first interfaces on a desktop...

Also, I run Windows VM’s, dual boot, do video encoding tasks that see huge benefits from a proper desktop x86 chip, etc.
They thought it was free.
They killed their Docker offering right about after they launched it, mostly because it's too difficult/expensive to scale containers, so they forced their entire user base onto the serverless paradigm, because it was convenient for them. Their PR story is it's "better for everyone", except there remain use cases (aka websocket support) that remain unsolved for months on their new platform. To give them credit, they didn't fully deprecate Docker-- old customers can use it, for an indeterminate amount of time.
That's why basically all Lisp systems in that area (Macsyma, Maxima, Axiom, REDUCE, ...) provide non-lisp syntax programming.
what about privacy?
Well that's one way to ensure people disable commenting on their uploaded videos.
You have to ask for it, it won't just be given to you, but I think you're making assumptions about the answer if you asked for it.
So, which small recruiting company is it please?
Lets see some tariffs now.
> It's one of the reasons desktop linux lags so far behind

Umm, what? Linux desktop is considered by far to be the most efficient and responsive desktop user interfaces there are. We have DEs that run on 10 year old hardware with no delay and even tilling window managers that are as efficient as you could ever get with todays hardware.

Sure they are not average Joe friendly but to attack it's efficiency and responsiveness is preposterous.
I find r/AskReddit more interesting.
...I'm not sure I care. I'll have to be careful.

I fell in love with macOS a decade ago. It is a legitimate emotional attachment; I love it more than I've ever loved any piece of software. Unfortunately, Apple is taking away more and more of what made the platform appealing.

I’m not going to outright give up macOS until it’s ripped from my cold dead hands, but I’m also not moving to ARM for all my computing.
I agree he is a great influence and visionary. Every time I think of him I get depressed that he died and cobyemlate my impermanence
If corp purchasing is interfering with your ability to do your work, that's the corp's problem, not yours. If you choose to make it your problem and choose to solve that problem by using your own hardware, well, you made that choice.
Or a fireplace...
So buddhism knows nothing of these effects? And what kind of buddhism might that be?
The only car manufacturer that even offers full priced refunds, and this narrative is that sometimes the refunds don't go smoothly. Weird angle.
This depends a lot on what order you learn things.

If you start with, say, empirically discovered relationships in the regular pentagon and pentagram, then you can figure out φ (ratio of the diagonal to the side of a pentagon) must satisfy φ^2 = φ + 1. Proving that this relationship must hold for the regular pentagon is not too hard.

Then start taking powers of φ based on that definition, and you can if you like define the Fibonacci numbers as the coefficient F[i] in φ^i = F[i]φ + F[i-1]. Or define the Fibonacci numbers in the conventional way and simply demonstrate that they show up in the above expression.
How to efficiently organise your thoughts to be more productive?
What specific information do employees not have? I'm co-founder of https://www.Levels.fyi / https://www.Comp.fyi which we built specifically to tackle information asymmetry in the job-seeking process. Would love to get feedback on how we can expand information we collect: hello <at> levels <dot> fyi
Huge amounts of uninterrupted time of course gives us the ability to deep-dive into certain subjects, but there's obviously the necessity of asynchronous communication that doesn't move at postal speeds. Having said that though, frequent context switches really make a huge difference on how productive I am in a day. I remember reading somewhere that checking your email at a rate of even once or twice an hour is enough to effectively kill your productivity for cognitively heavy tasks.

The fact that he has his secretary print out emails for him to write responses onto is a little hardcore, but I imagine that it tremendously helps with keeping his life distraction-free.