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I don't trust Evans at all, but I'm going to partially defend that here. There's a long history of technology being absolutely amazing the first time you use it and then not mattering at all. E.g., the Segway was going to revolutionize transport.

The 3D space is particularly prone to this. I count at least 5 waves of 3D innovation going back to the Great Exhibition in 1851. 3D movies were going to revolutionize things twice, in the 1950s and a decade ago. Over and over, this stuff is absolutely amazing for a hot minute and then nobody cares.

Of course, Evans is sold as a brilliant pundit and now VC genius, so if anybody should understand that novelty doesn't equal a business model, it's him. But as you suggest, Upton Sinclair's quote applies here: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it."
Side dish in this case does not necessarily mean side project. Its more of a product that is built on top of another product. Take for example an independent WordPress plugin. In that scenario the plugin would be the side dish and Wordpress would be the main dish.
AI is the future of warfare (just not in the way you think)
This post resonated with me a lot.

It's similar to the distinction between VC compatible business ideas (main dishes) and more niche, Micro SaaS products that are focused on profitability instead of growth.

My main dish is Saasify.sh, a platform whose goal is to help other developers launch and experiment with side dishes. In the context of this excellent article, I'm focused on trying to make the process of creating your own side dishes as easy and repeatable as possible.
The abuse of antibiotics leads to drug resistant bacteria not viruses. These superbugs pose a different sort of public health hazard than a flu like virus such as sarscov2. More like minor surgery leads to MRSA and death. Not to mention bacteria (even super resistant ones) don't have the airborne infectiousness to cause a pandemic in this day and age. Something like the bubonic plague can easily be controlled by basic hygienic practices.
options for us as humans are growing,
today you can travel by plane, travel to space, buy something around the world, learn whatever you want online...

hyperproductivity is here, but both market and options are increasing too so not sure what math could be used realistically but for sure we can't foresee in near future death of ideas
How do you test sending and delivery of emails?
The idea itself is cool! However, the features are not clear to me: how is it better than a simple outline created in Google Docs?
It could also bet you can't stunt your growth with a calculator.

I've seen current students grasping at a calculator the first opportunity they were given.
Respect for that
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>throttling

This is silly, the internet at night is slow simply because there are too many people are using it at the same time.
Bandwidth is not limitless, and they are shared for the same neighborhood.

Also, having a 100Mbps internet plan doesn't mean you will be guaranteed to have 100Mbps download/upload all the time. There are reason why in VN companies like netnam and cms are selling 50Mbps leased line for 1000+ dollars.
I don't want to doxx myself so I'm intentionally leaving out details, and you can take this comment as rumor and baseless.

But based on the people I know (personally) who work there - there wasn't a lot of talent being thrown at the product. I think their organization is incapable of bringing a product to market, even if that market existed.
They're after you.
They weren't selling a fantasy, they were selling real tech. Their block has been "consumerizing" it.

My understanding (from sources who have experienced the demo) is that their first demo was BONKERS. They projected light right onto the users eyes, so instead of having a AR heads up display, you had a light beam projecting images into your eye so they could add elements into your field of vision and make it look like they were naturally there. The issue is that they couldn't get that demo into any sort of a state where it could be commercialized. The rig was the size of a large room, the person hooked in was basically required to be stable for the duration of the experience. The eye-tracking for projecting was difficult and worked alright but not 100%. The funding they received was based on the demo of tech. After they realized they wouldn't be able to commercialize it, they transitioned to a more classic AR setup. The magic leap tech will work, but it will be 10-20 years until we are able to use it.
Generally, I agree. But in many RDBMSs, auto-increment features explicitly do not guarantee gap-less sequential ordering. If anything throws, it's easy to end up with discarded numbers, in which case you need to catch all errors, inspect the state of the sequence and/or the entity you're populating, and re-seed the sequence. At this point, I'd argue you've already left the pristine gardens of set theory and wandered into the thorny brambles of app dev.
It is, but it is increasing the branching factor by much more than finding all the "good" melodies in 400 years.

Here's a good example of music that stands on it own right despite using the melody of despacito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk - I'm pretty sure that most people at HN will appreciate this one whether they like despacito or not :)
Ditto. A nice short future-story. Fact or Fiction though?
While downvoted at the time of my response, this answer is correct. The optimizing compiler makes no timing guarantees, so it's not required to use any of the constructs in your second answer at all. If you need guaranteed timing, you cannot use standard C (instead use assembly or compiler extensions).
Thank you for the video. I was last year in Productronica exhibition in Munich last year. There were many many robots for loading/unloading tasks.
> Supposedly the magic leap demo was actually cool and used different technology than the eventually crappy hardware they ended up sort of shipping.

i think that technology was CGI:

https://hothardware.com/news/magic-leap-admits-outrageous-au...
Nah, I was answering the whole "C vs C++" issue.

But then since you saw it was a lousing battle going down that path, you pulled the hardware rabbit trick out of the magician hat.

So we moved from C++ is not faster than C assertion, to memory layouts, hardware design and data representation.

Now you are even asserting that it's not about C vs C++ vs PTX, and going down quantum transport lane?

Yeah, whatever.
> locally encrypted before upload, uploads to tons of different services

https://www.duplicati.com does that for free being open-source thing, all platforms supported.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015661
Those are absolutely not easy to bolt on.
> most I experimented with would lose data in a catastrophic event and cause inconsistencies

Fair enough. Those are probably message buses or message queues that are ephemeral transports. Since event sourcing is predicated upon permanent storage of events, there's no way to lose events that have already been committed (unless someone actually physically deletes the events).
How many cores does this machine have?
Unexplored by whom though? The Americas are a great example of places that might have made the list in greater numbers if history had gone a little differently, but those settlements were wiped out except for a handful of prominent ones. Then suddenly in the 1500s you get a lot of new Spanish settlements making the list.

It doesn't qualify as continuously inhabited, but that doesn't make it unexplored. In many cases I'm sure one can consider it more or less a coincidence that one town happened to be conquered while inhabited and another might've had the whole town die of smallpox or whatever.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4964496
> I sure would love to take a couple months off to catch up on the last 10 years worth of music.

Gnoosic is a band recommender - a quick & dirty way to get a few new bands to check out (Google & DDG point right to it).
This happened to me with Clojure. You really get to appreciate languages with big ecosystems when working on niche languages. It's sad because these languages are more enjoyable to work with IMO. Thy are better cause they had the advantage of being created much later than the mainstream ones but that also means they had hard competition.
> "Slow carbs instead fast carbs. Consume way less sugar. Eat way more veggies."

Decent baseline advice, but it doesn't really have anything to do with "processed" vs "unprocessed" foods.

It seems to me that a lot of people equate "processed" with "contains one or more things/processes which I consider unhealthy/undesirable", which makes it a subjective and biased term.

What is your exact definition of "processed food"? If you're a raw fruitarian, you would consider anything not plucked directly from a tree to be processed. If you follow a paleo diet, you wouldn't consider butchered and dry-aged meat to be fine, but also consider bread to be processed.

Perhaps you would find more people who would agree that ready-to-heat frozen meals are processed, based on their nutritional profile and heavy sugar/salt content, but they aren't really too different from something you could cook at home in your own kitchen. The best definition I've seen is "food that is already cooked ready to eat or requires minimal preparation", but that also covers a lot of things that would be considered healthy or at least not unhealthy, such as a pre-packaged salad.

There is a lot of dietary misinformation out there, and the marketing rush to "all natural" and "avoid all processed" foods stems is also part of it.

What's your definition of "processed"?
A proper implementation uses the correct compiler intrinsics and hints to cause such operations to be constant-time. Timing problems are a fairly well-known problem in cryptography and constant-time implementations are often required for safe cryptography.
Sounds like Theranos of Tech.
The segway at least found a niche with cops and tourists.
Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S.
As someone who is not familiar with Buildpacks, I find that page particularly hard to understand. I see promising headlines like "What are Paketo Buildpacks?" just to be greeted by more unknown terms (e.g. 'Buildpacks').

You might want to explain what you are doing to an outsider and let him write the intro ;-)
I agree with your first statement, but could you explain how b-trees logically lead to sharding (at some growth point)? What storage structure doesn't lead to sharding eventually?
Are you familiar with Ruby on Rails? Phoenix was built as a simpler equivalent, to leverage websockets, and to leverage the BEAM to be performant with high concurrency (i.e., what you generally want in a web server).

Is it encompassing a lot of magic? Yes. But the quick growth in mindshare that Ruby on Rails attained back in 2005-2010 (part of which it still retains) was due to how easy it was for a novice developer to pick it up and build something useful. Pick it up and understand all the pieces, no. Phoenix is less Express/Martini in nature, more Spring/Rails (but more pleasant than either of those to work with, I would contend, but again, that's opinion).
It's not a "logical error," it's an "ideological error," at least from your perspective. Banks are not parents, and small businesses are not "dependent children," so I'd say you're making a bigger logical fallacy called a false equivalence.

> Do you qualify for a larger helping hand than the 25 year old who lives alone?

No, because the "helping hand" you're getting is not helping the "children" eat in this situation. None of this $10B is going to small businesses, is it? It's literally just a payday for the bank. If you give a parent $400 extra a month, that is going towards daycare, food, etc. for their child. Your metaphor misses the mark completely.
> I’m not going in a second time just to do an ultrasound. I just take it in with me, and do everything I need to do in that one episode of care.

This is huge, as treating C19 patients requires full change of PPE each time you go into the room in many settings.
Maybe someone can get a class action lawsuit together on this.
I think the bigger issue in regards to networking is ordering, not the (lack of) packing. I don't think the ordering is guaranteed and probably depends on CPU architecture (e.g. big vs little endian), not necessarily compiler.
They operate in 191 countries.

Have you ever built a business that operates in that many countries?
Parents observe their child learn the most in-depth actions and knowledge from a dizzying array of input...and then too often decide that children can't handle nuance or depth.

I know _I_ can't, but children seem to be quite good at it.
Does anyone know if this has a published paper?
This and the parent comment seem like pretty strong arguments. If the main differentiator is supposed to be whom banks decide to lend to, this doesn't seem to be working. They are extremely risk-averse about innovating lending or using criteria beyond credit score (to preempt accusations of discrimination, I was told, which is ironic since credit score is a hugely discriminatory system).

Anyway, I think I like the idea of a government-centralized deposit and monetary transfer system. This is the direct electronic equivalent of cash. A single national interest rate seems reasonable since current saving account rates are essentially set by the reserve rate today anyway. But I feel there must be a better privatized lending system than the current one though.
Then use a qualifying statement such as "It seems to me ___" or "I believe ___" Don't make an opinionated statement saying "is" as though it's statement of fact without being able to prove it.
Research is a privilege
The pessimist in me says that they're only doing this in case a carbon tax passes, they'll be able to keep their pricing competitive.
I've heard that VCs are doubling down on their portfolios and avoiding new company investing. Maybe Magic Leap was just not looking all that great to its VCs and they'd rather focus their resources on companies that are more likely to come out of this pandemic as big winners.
Every Quest was sold out during the holiday season and was being sold for double the price on eBay/Amazon during Christmas. It’s an incredible hit.
I tried out a HoloLens at a rich friend's house and had a similar experience, despite it also having a small FOV. It blew my mind and instantly registered as a really big deal. But as another commenter here pointed out, the hardware isn't there yet, and when it arrives it will require a vibrant software ecosystem. The difference is that Microsoft seems to understand that.
It's the segway solution. Cool tech that solves a problem which doesn't really exist.
FWIW, the banks didn’t feel like it was 0 risk, many of them were doing a lot of due diligence, document checking, etc. because they were worried about it.

I’ve seen stories of small business owners talking about how difficult it was to get the loan through due to having to go back and forth with documents etc. although I’m sure it varied per bank.

2.8% doesn’t seem like that much for me, especially considering the goal was to get the money out the door as fast as possible due to the emergency, and setting up and hiring a government bureaucracy to administer and give the loans would have cost far more in time than the solution of giving it through the banks.
This future sounds like a post-scarcity socialist society. I like it.
Ask HN: How will Apple change their Face Recognition to accommodate for masks?
Considering masks are here for the foreseeable future, I find myself typing in the passcode when outside.
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Stellar Lumens XLM Javascript - I gave the Stellar-JDK a quick run the other day, and to be frank - utterly easy! I feel like I am a bitcoin (ish), coder. Seriously, the learning curve to other Javascript libraries is about Zero. You will spend more time learning what and why. IMHO - earth-changing technology, I am in$

BTW - nucking stuff is fast.
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This is a libertarian talking point. The idea is that government control of money leads to less private innovation. We had the industrial revolution in the late 19th century while on the gold standard and now with government-controlled money, most of the long term innovation like renewable energy, nukes, the internet are all funded by the government.

It has almost nothing to do with this article.
> Stimulus cheques handed out at an actual time of crisis is not the same thing as an unending flow of such cheques during times of low unemployment and economic stability.

A regular flow of such cheques compared to crisis stimulus cheques has a couple of advantages though:

- you don't have any ramp-up time, not even if you decide to up the amount in crisis time, as the system already exists

- you don't need to coordinate with multiple levels of governments, insurances, ... to hand out the checks

- regular UBI could offset/replace many struggling programs, from food assistance over child support to other financial aid, thus leading to less overhead costs
Clash[1] is one HLS language which generates HDL from
a large subset of Haskell. The language is Haskell, actually, but not every construct can be synthesized; e.g. recursive data types and FFI calls have no HDL equivalent. Clash hooks into the compiler (GHC) and generates HDL from the intermediate representation. You can also run the Haskell code directly to see the simulated output.

[1] https://clash-lang.org/
90% of the employees are not engineers. There's probably tons of customer service people, marketing, legal.
it's not quite that simple. if an employee makes 100k a year in salary, they cost much more than that to the company - the company has to pay for payroll taxes, health insurance, any benefits like PTO or free food, not to mention all the infrastructure the employee uses like the office building, electricity, air conditioning, etc. according to a comment above, airbnb has 14,000 employees. that's a lot of office space and benefits to be paying for. and that's just the employee costs, not counting anything else
We have all our staging systems report to DD and Sentry, tagged with an `env:stage/prod/whatever` tag to slice the metrics by. This helps maintain parity for alerting too (although pagerduty is not enabled for stage. Sometimes it's tough to get right because the lower volume of traffic on stage makes the alert metric queries very noisy. For example, alerts that fire for error rates may not resolve if no new successful requests come in for a few hours on stage.
Agreed. Where do you want to be, in a hotel around a bunch of strangers? Or in a house where you can keep distance from other families? We tried to rent a house down south (SC, GA, FL) where we could have a pool and our kids could swim, but most states have no short term rental orders in effect. As soon as those lift I think you will see certain properties bounce back. No hotels for us until this thing clears up.
Have you ever checked with an attorney if the IP document you signed was an overreached?
> Time to stop visiting Medium.com I think.

Click the X and move on. It's helpful to be able to sign up for a site so quickly with such integration.
> On the heels of the official LiveDashboard release, Phoenix 1.5 projects now ship with LiveDashboard by default, for real-time performance monitoring and debugging tools.

and it uses uPlot [1][2] in the metrics panel :D

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207132

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22567922
Postbank got privatized, because in the 90s everything got privatized. It is used today by Deutsche Bank to target its private customers. It is not one of the fintechs but generally able to compete in that market.
Maybe that was part of the issue. They had a large volume of guys like me, unremarkable folks... trying to do remarkable things.

Not a good recipie talent wise.
Every single time there's a thread about a company like Airbnb, there is a comment like yours. I am genuinely curious why you are so surprised that a company of their size would be that big? Particularly with a high touch business that works with so many businesses - between sales and support alone this number seems reasonable.
Wireguard is merged into the mainline and would possibly appear in Fedora 32 on 5.6. Fedora 32 will be released several weeks later.

The underlying problem is that many distro just use a throwaway pubkey which makes users impossible to sign their modules. Maybe a better security model is needed.
No language is perfect. But surely you'd agree that there is a spectrum here. In C++ you have to think "should this be a pointer or a reference" all the time. In most modern languages, you never do. And although there are clear methods to write C++ well, it is rightly criticized for being overly complex and unintuitive. For example, std::set is ordered. That's a basic mismatch with expectations. Sure, you can just check the docs. But how much code would be more efficient if they had just spent a bit of time making things easier to work with?
These cities are beautiful open air museums
It's the Jack Welch algorithm
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It's somewhat misleading to base the spread of humans on the age of cities. There were homo sapiens in Canberra, for example, for at least 20,000 years before Europeans came and built a city on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#The_first_inhabitants
That's an interesting point. Yes, for economic growth to be measurable, the nominal gains (i.e. dollar-value gains) have to be exponential--but there are a few reasons to think that as the economy grows, innovations that lead to productivity improvements should become cheaper.

First, the productivity gain should scale with economic growth. A technology that leads to a 5% improvement in productivity of a farmer leads to 5% improvement in productivity of 1000 farmers.

Second, the fixed costs of innovation--capital costs and research costs--should in many cases increase sublinearly relative to the above (linearly increasing) returns on investment. Thus relative to available capital (which increases as the economy grows) these innovations should become cheaper.

Finally, some per-unit production costs may also decline as scale increases.

As a simple example, if a farmer makes $100/year using a donkey and $200/year using a tractor, a tractor costs $10, and a tractor factory costs $10000...well, you get the idea.

So I don't think this is explicable by economic growth, unless there's a facet of growth that hinders innovation (or its application).
I work in health care make okay money but definitely not a lot. Ideas are often easy to come up with, identify a problem and an idea of how to solve it. Over my career I have had several ideas I truly believe would greatly improve the health of the clients I see. However to try and make my idea come to life would cost a great deal of time and money so have never really chased after the ideas. I truly believe there are many many ideas left to discover it’s truly is just an economic factor holding them back. So I would say ideas are not getting harder to find just harder to make happen. If I made any sort of medical device I would have to have it certified in so many ways I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
Hey, I'm one of the engineers working on this project, and this is exactly why. Golang is not 'special' just the tool we use to set up your application configuration & dependencies. We left the Golang reference on the homepage to try and avoid the 'surprise' factor of realizing the Paketo Buildpacks are not written using the language support they provide.
Oh in small towns there is definitely some of that too, as in former classmates doing favors to each other, doing business together, as a miniature cartel running towns -- what I noticed to change in the past ~20years is that a good part of the elite left the country, so these local groups fell apart.