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This an opinion piece that doesn’t seem based in reality.
It's no myth unless you are gleefully that ignorant.
Haha no problem, thanks for your input!
Is software startup by solo founders still viable anymore? Today the age of apps/SaaS seems ending. It is oversaturated, and the low hanging (low technical complexity) fruits are already taken left and right.
Thank you for this positive response and good questions.

1. I think what constitues the West is constantly changing. The historical base is Western Europe. If W. Europe and the US diverge in ideology over the next few decades (not necessarily a bad thing) then as a category the West will shrink back to the base. Possibly a bit larger if the EU stays intact or integrates further, as I hope it does.

2. I would define failure as a near complete and permanent loss of control by a society over itself and its internal territory. So the Bronze Age Collapse would definitely qualify, as some of those societies never rose again. But under this definition the French Revolution and the Long March would not qualify. The conquest of Greece by Rome could count, but the re-emergence of Greece in the Byzantine Empire complicates things. Some see the latter as a different culture -- I would need to read more myself before coming to a view on this.

It's true that some thought of themselves Roman well into the 600s -- such as Gregory the Great, for instance. But they weren't in control anymore, so that would be a partial collapse under my definition (as the Eastern Roman Empire persisted)
> As for the negative connotation, it's certainly there, but it sure seems to me that it's meant to be taken facetiously

I agree. I don’t think the author (or most people who use the sentence) wrote that to be intentionally disparaging. But I also think it’s healthy to reevaluate the idioms we use on auto-pilot.

My commentary is on the phrase, not the author.
I don't think you even need a large graph! People have observed this happening with just two nodes, where one of the nodes is Wikipedia [1] — some website states information they learned on (or copied from) Wikipedia, and then Wikipedia cites that website as a primary source.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/wikipedia-citogenesis-c...
But the example the poster you are replying to gave shows that GPT-3 can take the square root of a user-defined function composed with itself. It clearly can perform arithmetic, and we don't need to trust OpenAI now that users can interact with the model.
URIs can lack the information. Not necessarily.
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There's a very good sibling answer. Something that I'd like to add to it is that temperature is another crucial factor.

Low-end machines have very fluctuating temperatures. Therefore, when one buys a machine in this range, they have to perform tricks, or accept inconsistency.

With my machine for example, I have to run two empty cups before reaching the acceptable temperature, for _every espresso_ (as it drops quickly); I'm fine with it. Machines like the Gaggia Classic require the so-called "surfing", which I've never tried.

I suspect that Nespressos have a very small group, which makes temperature more predictable and quick, for the intended use, which I guess is less frequent shots. This is speculation on my part.

Again, one can be perfectly happy with low-end machinery. There's nothing wrong; just let's be clear that consistency is not what you get with it.
Without better information, I have no way to look into the details of your anecdote, but if it really is a generic drug then the US price probably is that of a brand for which no FDA-licensed competitor exists, likely due to regulatory cost.

If it's over-the-counter in the UK, it might also be the same brand but two different drugs.

It might also be two different drugs entirely, and you just mixed things up.
> people have been able to buy say a single share per paycheck instead of having to hold on for months to get a cost effective amount of cash to make it worth the trade

This is the problem solved by ETFs. Small amounts of money buying lots of diversification.
Doing problems. Going to office hours. Lecture was worthless.
To add to this: the article was published in the "metropolitan" section this weekend. It's very much intended to be local.
Perhaps the most dishonest article I've ever seen
> Just do a cross country road trip for 3 weeks.

Apparently your definition of "travel" means "leave the country where I live".

The USA is almost 3000 miles across and on the order of 1000 miles from top to bottom. It isn't surprising that there would be a lot of stuff to visit and see within its borders, but a "cross country road trip" is hardly not travelling.

If you were in Europe and took the equivalent journey, you'd be more than 1/3rd of the way across Russia.

"I live in a big country, and I'm happy to explore it rather than fly overseas" might be a more accurate thing to say than "I [... ] dislike travelling".
Agreed. 100%. These visualizations are pretty, but worthless. XKCD did a much, much better job when he created https://xkcd.com/980/ in 2011
GPT-3 won't matter until all of the work put into it can be replicated by someone else, and as it stands right now it's just a toy for people with far too many resources to spare.
A massive and obvious flaw in the "capitalism is slavery" argument is the fact that American agriculture became MORE profitable after slavery was abolished.

After the Civil War ended, as soon as the labor costs had to be factored in, it became increasingly clear that cotton is a dumb crop to plant at the scale it was being planted. Planters moved to other crops that could be profitable. Slavery essentially held capitalism (the efficient allocation of capital) back. This is why the Great Plains are the most productive agricultural land today, not the South. Syria or Libya, with actual, present day slaves are noticeably unable to produce much agriculture

The abolition of slavery exposed the essential government subsidization of a misallocation of capital, which is inherently un-capitalistic.
I started programming in Java when it was in beta and thought it was revolutionary at the time, I was right. Personally I like Java. I think you can improve your quality of life dramatically in most cases by swapping out Eclipse for IntelliJ. You have to make peace with POM files, and find your own answers to boilerplate.

I have always followed the market when it comes to programming languages. I have often started a job without any experience in Language X (like that Java job above) and usually gotten up to speed in 6 months or so.

I had some bad experiences with Python circa 1999 but around 2015 I saw a lot of demand for Python work with some involvement in "data science" -- Python got a lot better. However, Javascript in all it's forms is rolling like a freight train in my environment: I got took off a Python project to move onto a React project then wound up at a small unit of a large company on another react project.

I have spent little time personally w/ Ruby and Go but I think they are competitive. They all have a lot going for them but they are all full of footguns which become increasingly obvious as a system becomes bigger and complex.
I see both sides here. On the one hand, let's do what we can to reduce waste, even if it seems small. On the other hand, let's not overly focus on small things while ignoring the big ticket items: heating, A/C, transportation, diet, food waste, and a number of other things are more environmentally damaging than small pieces of plastic.

Plastic isn't ideal, especially when it gets out of our waste system and loose in the environment. However, plastic is cheap to make, convenient, clean, customizable; it's here to stay for many applications, so we'll have to do our part to use plastic wisely.
I don't see a big difference between the two, but I'm not an economist. Why do you think that a tax is strictly better?
It's a Veblen Good / conspicuous consumption thing, similar to how blindfolded wine experts can't tell the differences between $40 and $100 bottles of wine.

"Wine snobbery" for STEM nerds is craft beer and coffee snobbery.
man, i often hear people complain about aliexpress, i just don't understand it. i've been buying and using headscratchingly cheap products from china through aliexpress, and seriously as long as you're not a complete newbie to online shopping, it's not that difficult to find a legitimate store selling perfectly usable generic or unbranded products at a fraction of the cost of the branded version and they all work just fine. i've easily saved thousands of dollars over the years this way. i don't understand why people are so against this - a lot of what they buy from amazon or supermarkets in fact come from china as well.
He seems to be using them as a CDN, not to host the video files. There's no reason for this not to work without a CDN (I do it on one of my sites, where a CDN isn't really needed).

Regarding Bunny, it may be a paid ad, but they do have very cheap prices. CDNs starting at 0.005/GB with pops in NA, Europe, and Asia are hard to find.
If more companies are willing to provide the same level of service and price as Cloudflare, then they can get in on the game, too.
If only DDOS attacks were taken seriously and their perpetrators punished accordingly (and maybe if the network had better ways of self-defense) instead of companies and websites having to fend for themselves (or having to resort to solutions like Cloudflare).
Well technically dmix says worth not price which to me is more akin to market cap than price.
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This is akin to saying you can't have a coherent identity across instances for email. It's a nonsensical statement because the whole point of having a federation is that you have identity on one instance and you can interact with people from other instances.
Maybe you're anchored by long articles?
Yes, stealing money is bad, even if a corporation does it.
No single CDN will give you 100% uptime but, for video serving, you can use multiple mirrors across multiple CDNs. In html5 you can provide multiple source urls for the same content.
I'll add to this thread that I was largely against OKRs, having seen them implemented in the style of "we need a quantitative measurement for success so let's make something up hastily", only to fall prey to Goodhart's Law[1].

But John Doerr's book introduced me to the bridge of concepts that I was not seeing: in a healthy setup, we are first and foremost focused on a qualitative objectives and THEN we attempt to model that fuzzy feeling with a quantitative measure (the "key result") that should reflect success. It takes several iterations in order to come up with a matching measurement, and even then we need to constantly re-evaluate whether the measurement is appropriate or if is devolving into a numbers game devoid of true objective.

In other words the full acronym is OAMBKY, or "Objectives, AS MEASURED BY Key Results". But that doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well.

So in that light, OKRs are a useful tool IF AND ONLY IF leadership—as well as the whole team—are focused on the philosophical, qualitative goal and are all aware that the measurement is only an imperfect proxy that is contantly re-evaluated to help us better assess the goal; not a goal unto itself. But that takes real leadership to drive that message (as well as avoiding setting up misguided incentives).

[1] When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Looks like they're keeping a stake though. We don't know how much of it they actually bought.
Human readable IDs make sense in a lot of places. Like if a customer wants information about their order or looking up a user in a system. It's easier to say and understand words than a long string of letters and numbers.
A Chinese room can still be an interesting conversation participant
If I see that the link is coming from substack, I'm actually discouraged to click (in fear of imminent "pay for more")
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> What’s the purpose of starting a blog post like that? The phrase is a cliché, and not a polite one.

Different writers have different esthetics, Some have developed a more refined taste and a more exact language; while others have a less cultivated taste and are more given to cliches, mixed metaphors, tired jokes, and so on. It's a matter of style.
I don't know of any good note-taking software. The best (i.e., least bad) I've found is Apple Notes, but it isn't cross-platform and uses proprietary syncing.

Something like an Evernote/Apple Notes interface on top of a 1Password-style back end would be ideal. Let me store my note vault wherever the heck I want, and if I keep it in Dropbox, I can use it wherever I want.
Wouldn't delivery be cheaper? Why are they shipping locally?
The difference is that you can't compromise the whole federation by compromising a single server the way you can with Twitter.
The author of xkcd's low key bias is always so apparent. More in what he chooses to include and what not to for these sorts of things. It's really so sad when one grows up and realizes how so much of what passes for "intellectual culture" is little more than academic cum guzzling. Oh, you wanted specifics about what I'm referring to and less uncouth language? Nah, this is Hacker News, where I'm already show banned and so are any people with independent thought, so I'll just plaster my faded into obscurity dead comment for only those who recognize the echo chamber for what it is to see, you know because reaching anyone new is the real danger.
> And clean mugs will take a trip via the sink/dishwasher anyway....

I’m that monster that uses the same mug every day and just give it a quick rinse. Since I finish off the mug each day, it ends up dry (inhibiting growth), and I put nearly boiling weak acid in it daily.

I only clean it good when there’s a long weekend or I’m back from holiday.
Is it true that ClojureScript is dead?
You can probably implement a dumb version of this where transcode a few different versions with ffmpeg (which is amazing, but takes some tinkering), use browser API's to guess the right one as a default, and give the user control if they'd like to switch.

I'd still try HLS but this may be good enough for v1, depending on what you're building.
> Yes, GPT-3 produces grammatically correct sentences but it still can't form a coherent idea or meaning and express it in sentences afterwards - that's what humans would do.

There's considerable debate over whether humans can have a coherent idea before it is reduced into symbolic language, and it's not clear how you would distinguish this sequence of events, anyway.

It's pretty clear what GPT-3 does doesn't match the common rationalization of human subjective experience of cognition, but it's not at all clear, AFAICT, that what the human brain does matches that rationalization, either.

Which is not to say I think GPT-3 has anything like the kind, much less the level, of understanding humans have, I just think some of the common arguments arrayed in casually dismissing it are based on suppositions about human cognition that aren't sufficiently examined.
How does this compare to recent YC alum Preflight?
Germany is an interesting case for TOR. I did some statistical analysis on TOR data (they publish a lot of data) from around when Snowden made his revelations, and many countries saw increased TOR activity while German activity went down versus the trend. I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head (have them in a PDF somewhere) but my theory is that Germany doubted the security of TOR at that time. Maybe the intermittent crackdowns on TOR in Germany are based on a mistrust of the project's security/integrity, rather than simply an effort to keep internet traffic out in the open.
Hail team member here. I'd be curious to hear what the things you don't like about hail are. Hopefully they're things that are already on our road map
Hey, never let a competitors misfortune (misstep?) go to waste!
I wasn't aware of that :( Which country would be best in your opinion? It seems it's becoming quite hard to find one that doesn't do this now.
You don't need fusion. PV works too; you just need a lot of it. Making liquid fuel from air is currently the only viable solution for carbon-neutral aircraft, which is why the military likes the idea.
As other commenter mentioned there's no source, though under Versions it states "Source code released under MIT/X11 License". Do you have a link?
I believe with heat pumps (at least ground sourced heat pumps) you can get something like 3-5 units of heat per unit of electricity. (Compared to 11-15 EERs for cooling.)
Italian here: I'm a proud owner of a Kamira (https://en.espressokamira.net/).

Great taste, effortless, no waste, cheap. What else?
There are a lot of wrong theories you can give, then surely it doesnt matter if its A, B or C. There is only evidence based treatment we can rely on.
it's not like riding a motorcycle, but buying close-to-expiry options can be sort of like trading bitcoin back in the day. the addition of time pressure makes it a little more interesting. pretty fun when you see your contract jump from a total loss to a 600% gain on the day of expiry.
Page 58 of "The Art of Conversing With Men" (an 1805 translation of a 1788 work by Knigge) shows that trolls were a thing in the eighteenth century:

> "There are people who pretend to know every thing better than others, contradict every one, frequently against their own conviction, merely for the sake of disputing. There are others who are fond of speaking in parodoxes, and accustomed to maintain assertions which no sensible man can take seriously in the sense in which they utter them, from no other motive than to provoke contradiction; there are finally others whom the French call querelleurs (wranglers,) that studiously seek opportunities to engage in personal disputes..."

After saying "Don't Feed The Trolls", a phrase on page 59 shows that eighteenth century mores did differ from twenty-first: "...it is extremely wrong to use against a wrangler any other weapon than contempt, or at most a cane, if he carry his impudence too far..."

https://books.google.ch/books?id=PtQGAAAAcAAJ&printsec=front...

original available at https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/knigge/umgang/chap005.html
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> "Es gibt Menschen, die alles besser wissen wollen, allem widersprechen, was man vorbringt, oft gegen eigne Überzeugung widersprechen, um nur das Vergnügen zu haben, disputieren zu können; andre setzen eine Ehre darin, Paradoxa zu sprechen, Dinge zu behaupten, die kein Vernünftiger irgend ernstlich also meinen kann, bloß damit man mit ihnen streiten solle; endlich noch andre, die man Querelleurs, Stänker nennt, suchen vorsätzlich Gelegenheit zu persönlichem Zanke"

> "...und der hat doppelt unrecht, der gegen einen sogenannten Stänker mit andern Waffen als mit Verachtung, oder, wenn es ihm gar zu nahe gelegt wird, anders als mit einem geschmeidigen spanischen Rohre kämpft..."
Indoor classes without air conditioning are uncomfortable, but bearable for most people. When I was in HS in a school that still today doesn't have AC kids passing out from overheating happened once every other week or so. I fault that more to our administration trying to force assemblies and not listening to kids who were obviously overheating and needed to step out of class than the building. There was a stupid sort of comradery between the us and the teachers during those months, not unlike the scene in Matilda, because having to wear thick wool jumpers or long sleeved shirts and slacks was absolutely moronic. Like the whole point was too look "presentable" but let me tell you boys who soaked through their dress shirts was not a good look for the school.

Outdoor classes where you don't have the benefit of good ventilation, shade, and your only area large enough to hold outdoor classes might be a blacktop is going to be a little rougher. Without having the building to act as a wind tunnel constantly moving the hot air out you have no chance when the wind dies down.
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It's not self-censorship, it's just choosing the appropriate level of security for the note.

Sometimes I send a postcard where anybody that handles the card can read the message. If I want a little more privacy, I'll send the note in an envelope.
I'm a dev, and I only watch videos for entertainment. Any programming video tutorial could be a webpage, and I get professional information in text form exclusively.
Interesting. I installed it, and I have no problem getting 4K videos. Playback seems fine.

I can't figure out how to make it do a 10s skip forward / backward that you do on phone/tablet by tapping on the left or right side of the screen. I tried all the buttons on the shield's game controller after not being able to skip on my remote. I can change the focus to the timeline, and skip that way, but its not as nice as a 10s skip.
because its shit coffee.
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I am curious about your perspective. I work in a large-ish company (few 1000s people), I am managing ~25 people and this is the first organization where I used OKRs. I found them pretty worthless myself, and for similar reasons as the OT.

Fundamentally, OKRs only make sense if your organization is focused on outcomes, not on output. And underlying that, that's really about the culture in your org. It requires a good executive and sr management team to actually cascade the OKR into non direct financial terms. E.g. if your product objective is to increase retention by X, how do you translate this into a strategy ?

Also, OKRs don't make much sense if product/engineering are run separately. This is still extremely common outside of tech companies. The cascading, which I considered as one of the most fundamental difference compared to traditional management by objective, is often a productivity killer, because 2. If you do OKRs every quarter, and you have 3-4 levels to cascade to, you're gonna get your OKRs end of first month, which means you realistically only really have 6 weeks left in your quarter.

Finally, Measure what matters, I don't understand that book. I found it completely worthless as an Eng. Manager, with absolutely 0 actionable insight. It could have been 5 pages. The famous example of a football team is the only example that actually has enough details to explain things. On similar topics, high output management, or even hard things about hard things, were much more useful for a middle manager like me.
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Can keep it in a sealed container for the first issue (glass is great).

I don’t understand the 2nd issue: isn’t coffee already solid/frozen?
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If you're looking for someone to say "Fuck Keurig too" I'm happy to oblige. We're saying there's no need to create these pods at all when regular coffee brewing doesn't produce this kind of waste. 95% of pods don't get recycled, that deserves some criticism.
That's only double standards if one considers states and companies as being in the same position.

A state and a company have vastly different goals. A state should care for its citizens, this includes protections against threats to public safety (terror, organized crime) and surveillance is a tool in the box for that.
A company on the other hand, would have no issues fleecing people and abusing their power for profit if they only could. States are the entities actually powerful enough to keep companies in check and I'm pretty happy when they do that.

I admit that this is a, I guess, pretty european view of things (i.e. govs are good, since they keep greedy companies in check), while the american view might rather be that govs are bad because they get into the way of companies (which are considered good).