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I think the point is that the amount of support does impact the amount of success after. If you offered $1 dollar of support, you'd have fewer % of startups succeed. If you offered a million dollars, you'd have more succeed.

I think it is worth pointing out that the lower levels of support mean there will be fewer successful startups, and those startups will be founded and started by people that have a safety net of some kind. If the goal is efficiency of investment, this is fine, if there are other goals, it's worth noting how this policy impacts the other goals.
AWS has Quantum Ledger DB, which is a lot like what nubank architected on top of datomic.

Anyone know what language qldb is built on ?
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I would move away to another vendor, as an outdated TLS version is just the tip of the iceberg. If you don't move away you are knowingly putting your customer's data at risk.
The core animation tools are still in place from the Flash era, but simple distribution via SWF files is no longer supported in browsers. The animation tools in Adobe Animate are still excellent and are still in the creative industry to produce cartoon series on broadcast TV.
> Hospital are frequently overwhelmed even before this particular virus

Not on the level of local, or even less statewide, hospital systems. It's true that the US is particularly vulnerable to things like this because the structure of the healthcare system leaves very little slack capacity, but healthcare systems at, say, the county level are not routinely exceeding all available ICU, ventilator, etc., capacity (because of the insurance-network based way that hospital preferences are often driven, rather than intelligent capacity-and-location-based distribution, it's probably more common that individual hospitals hit capacity when the local system as a whole is in fine shape, though.)

> its not new and yet we didn't require shutdown back then

Even if the premise was true, which as noted it's not, this argument overlooks that if capacity exhaustion wasn't driven by a particular easily communicable disease, a shutdown wouldn't do anything to manage it.

The shutdown is not due to the healthcare system situation alone, but the combination of situation and the contribution of COVID-19 to the situation.
The fact that the link says “Try Now” instead of “next image” or something like that is implying that you are using the AI generation when you click the button.
What's even worse than adult porn results for "black girls"? Non-adult porn results for "white girls".
> it's worth pointing out that undefined behavior in the C/C++ sense is absolutely not precisely defined.

I think OP means "it is precisely defined by the spec which actions result in undefined behaviour"
I’m no expert here, but I think the model of always adding new syntax doesn’t help people realize that CSS has gotten so much better.
I don't have numbers, but I don't think there is much home burglary as a crime of opportunity in Switzerland. The places worth entering, usually have good enough security measures, that you need to come prepared and it is going to take you some time. What you usually hear is certain neighboorhoods being scouted for lights being off for longer time, indicating the people are on vaccation. But I don't know in what regards crime predictions systems are useful for that, what value they add.
Specifying all those complex ad hoc data types in a statically typed language is so tedious I think it pushes you to start looking for unifying abstractions.
Did I just teleport into /r/relationship_advice?
Fantastic project. Amazing how you overcame each obstacle, and very well written to boot. Kudos.

Quite funny how you brought 1000 ms latency down to 200 ms. I wonder how this compares to iDRAC and that Raritan device.
When I was younger, I believed all we needed was to give people information to get a better grasp on reality. That was my optimism about the potential good of the internet: the ability to access a wealth of information.

Now that I'm older and have spent a lot of years reading discussion boards, my stance is people will predominantly gravitate towards sources that justify their position regardless of whether their source(s) have been wrong before.
Based on my experience using a Vivosmart 4 for sleep tracking, often in remote areas w/o mobile signal, it does store that data to be synced later. Obviously it has a finite memory but I don't recall having ever lost data from the device.
ugh I'm sorry. that's awful.
Ye. I do alot of sailing and did it in the 90s and early 00s with only map and compass, so I know how hard it is. Without gps you need to sail in such a way that you are in line with landmarks etc. With gps you can roam freely.

If you are out on the sea and the gps dies and you have not been tracking the paper map you are lost, so GPS are in practice realy critical devices. Especially since many sailors nowadays might be rusty on map navigation.

I mean garmin have high quality and I agree people need to not trust electronoc tools too much and be too dependent on them
This is awesome - Could you please explain how you're holding state of each box individually without checkbox:checked? It's not immediately obvious to me how that's possible or where it's happening in your code!
Truth is, most people never look at the night sky, period. But this isn't about most people; this is specifically about people who look at the sky a lot -- and those people typically seek out darker skies anyway.
> If they can coat them in a way to not be reflective

Less reflective. I don't think there's a way to make them not reflective, and many, many astronomical objects are very dim.
> Then I'm dealing with the interaction of specific elements and document flow and everything is liable to fall apart the second some mismatch between my mental model of layouts and CSS's actual model occurs

Here lies the problem. If you fix your mental model, then your layout won't fall apart.

It's the same as in any other language. Haskell doesn't match my mental model, but it's not the programming language's fault.
$(LANG) => IR can be done by LLVM itself...

And that conversion misses out important details like comments. Perhaps the ideal solution takes as input both the original code and the IR to generate output.
I don't that is "clear" at all.

In a growth-growth-growth economy, you miss out on a bunch of consumption by having kids young. So people wait, travel the world, eat at fancy restaurants, climb the ladder, and then have one or two right at 30 so that they can get back to climbing the ladder ASAP, afford their nice house, etc.

What happens when the economy isn't growing, you're in the same job for 40 years, air travel is prohibitively expensive, big houses with yards are illegal, etc
Amazing how HN frequently complains about Private Equity buying up tech companies and killing the golden goose for the sake of short term gains, yet the top comment suggests museums do exactly that. (Shrugs)
You might be confusing petty theft (pickpocketing etc.) with the legal of definition of burglary. Burglary involves breaking into property and then stealing something.

I don't know how you could possibly commit burglary as a crime of opportunity.
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Congratulations to Cognitect. Hopefully the acquisition will help Rich's retirement funding. (see 'History of Clojure' for the not-so-insider joke here)

I have had the pleasure of "using Clojure in anger" and for a few years was very dedicated to learning how to use it effectively. This was a significant step up for my general programming skills and the simplicity of the language often saved me from myself with respect to bad design or choices in code. Whatever programmer "maturity" I can claim is probably due to Clojure and teaching introductory programming and databases (not with Clojure and Datomic to be clear).

This acquisition is more abstractly interesting to me in that a VERY dedicated Clojure/Datomic company made it. We didn't see here, for lack of a better example, a FAANG company grabbing Cognitect. That may have been a choice! Maybe Cognitect went with an acquisition where they retain a high degree of autonomy with the benefits of being acquired.

I never made the leap into a larger organization with Clojure at its core. I was able to use Clojure only in my small shop where I have a small degree of autonomy on development language choice. For a few years, I was somewhat actively seeking an opportunity to join a larger Clojure-oriented team but struggled to gain much traction when applying to openings. It seems possible to build a Clojure career, but I've not been very good at that.
Yeah, exactly.

I like to think that Mark Zuckerberg read Joel's post and took it to heart.

But the pattern is super noticeable for FB, once you start paying attention.
> roughly what the price should be

Why do you feel they are declaring what the price should be? Aren't they basically saying "if you buy this note we'll give you X dollars in Y years"? Is it the way the interest is handled that defines the "rough price"? Or are there "reserve prices" and the like that I don't know about?

> The price I pay for my laptops isn't at all controlled by what Apple thinks the price of a laptop should be.

That feels really backwards to me, unless you mean that you never buy from Apple? I feel like the price of a MacBook is entirely determined Apple: they set the price, the market determines how many to buy, and they try manufacture and sell this number. If they feel they can make more money at a different price, they set a different price in the future.

Contrast this with an auction, where the number of items is fixed and the market determines the price. I can see arguing that whether the market is "free" is independent of which pricing mechanism is used, but I can't see how one can argue that Apple doesn't determine the price that their laptops sell for.

(I'm ignorant of many economic theories. I assume your views fit into some theory that I'm unfamiliar with. Please take my response as a request for more information about this theory rather than any sort of accusation.)
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Hah - don't mess with Nate.
It also means, if a critical mass hate developing on Macs, then iOS software will suffer. App store fees are already a business pain point for app developers. And web browsers are getting capable enough now that it's probably feasible for a lot of apps to go back to being browser only.

It's going to be hard to reverse a trend away from Apple if it starts. Imagine what would happen if Microsoft Visual Studio becomes the IDE of choice for iOS development after devs ditch macOS in droves. Microsoft won't play nice.

Apple isn't watching their flanks by letting macOS atrophy and a competitor will step in if they don't cover it.
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We all know the history of acquihires. Key tech and products inevitably are swallowed, never seen outside again.

Besides that, datomic really is a great solution for banks and fintech....are other firms like that going to buy from another bank, maybe a competitor?
Yet the ruling class continues to willfully induce a migration out of dense urban cores by permitting and accelerating their decay. Reduction in law enforcement is just one more move in that direction, following a decades-long regime of permissive attitudes towards homelessness. They want us out of cities, so we're out.
So which system would you have recommended?
Our UI at work is using typescript so these assertions aren't as important as they were in plain JS days.

However runtime types like io-ts are important in network calls since the HTTP client's return type is `unknown`.
You use 30-150GB a day on your cell phone? I had unlimited data for a long time and realized I used little.more than half a gigabyte per day unless I was away from home & office (in a different city etc.)
This is the correct URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/30/132142/dna-datab...
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What? The Earth has plenty of humans. We're decades away from a falling population globally, and even then we probably have centuries to bring birth rates back up before disaster strikes (well, disaster with underpopulation as its cause). Also, bringing the rates back up should be easy enough when needed.
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Its not signals. They should already be here if interstellar colonization is at all possible.
I'll never not hate purely procedurally generated art and art projects.
Great to see you here and thank you for offering free guidance and services. Looking forward to reading your site. I agree we need real data privacy laws with enforcement. Unfortunately most people don't understand how their data is being abused and don't understand that the regulation tech companies are asking for isn’t the answer - they'll just water it down with well-funded lobbyists. A few questions:

1) Why can’t DeleteMe remove info from more services and why is OneRep able to remove from many more? For example, DeleteMe will tell you there are a number of services they can’t remove from, and that any data left on those sites will just be scraped again by the other sites DeleteMe already removed from.

2) Given your expertise, which data privacy practices do you recommend? When using another email to sign up for all services and ecommerce, do you recommend that email not be a Gmail?

3) How does DeleteMe’s Blur product help guard your identity and privacy beyond using a separate email?
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My watch updates via bluetooth every time a new firmware ships. It can also update via USB.
Does any of this matter?

Maybe I'm crazy but I assume that most startups fail because their product or idea wasn't great enough to take off...

There's this whole world of advice surrounding the minutia of startups and I'm pretty sure generally we've found that even a half built great idea will likely take off ... and the best managed bad idea won't.

Now good management advice is still good advice, although the advice here is pretty close to truisms as it gets. Yeah fire fire fast, that doesn't tell who who and why and etc. That feels very much like the "Be Radiohead" type advice.
> I normally work about one day trickle out my changes during the the week. The other days I only open my computer for standup and if I get an IM.

There is a term for this called "sandbagging."

> I don't feel what I'm doing is ethnically wrong, because the company is evidently pleased with my current productivity, but I find it unsatisfying and like a waste of my time on earth.

Sounds like you have a motivation and procrastination problem. Pleasing someone or some organization != ethics.

> The dev tools, docs and tech debt impart such a slow iteration speed

Help streamline how the dev tools are used. Tools alone don't solve for much, they need a solid and frictionless process to follow. Document that process to help yourself and your team. Find some common threads or repetitive issues in the tech debt and fix it without waiting for someone to ask you to fix it. Those kids of work may even help get you promoted and open up more interesting projects.
Ye sorry was not clear it was a hypotetichal dystopic scenario about modern ad-driven development.

You can receive GMS on the sea and on mountains though, so it is not impossible to have over the air updates like a Tesla.
Cultural change where people no longer see people with different political beliefs as part of their "outgroup".
Apart from all the comments about this being a bad faith post, I wonder about the utilitarian argument, if you take it at face value. If you could provide decent internet at low cost to large parts of the world that are underserved, at the cost of ruining ground-based telescopes, is that a good trade-off? What if it's just certain kind of telescopes, or certain classes of astronomers (as this seems to be)?
Starlink Satellites are only visible for short periods just after sunset and before sunrise, because most of the night they are in the earths shadow.
> Visit Wikipedia, in the search field type "virtual machine" but do not hit enter or search.

Wikipedia is useful tool, but it's wrong to rely on it for preciseness or the as absolute source of truth, especially on highly technical topics.

> This says nothing about whether the virtualization is entirely software, assisted by hardware, or entirely hardware.

Again, what does this even mean? What's your specific example for an "entirely software" virtualization or "entirely hardware" virtualization?

> A "software virtual machine" is a disambiguation that I chose indicating that the "machine" is implemented entirely in software with no help from special silicon (contrast with [2]). I can't fathom why that would be so controversial.

You can't just invent a new term without any explanation and wonder why people wouldn't just "get it."

> The entire thread comes down to this: the demo of x86 Linux running on Apple Silicon could very easily have been running in a virtual machine made entirely of software

Are you sure of this? I was assuming it was ARM Linux.

> No one claimed, as I recall, that Silicon implemented any hardware assistance for executing x86 code.

No one claimed that you claimed such a thing either.
Datomic is 8+ years old and by all accounts has a healthy customer base, it's not like they are in the takeoff stage. But of course they have to keep up like everyone else, especially now that there is competition from the OSS side (Crux).
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> In that declaration is where some comments would be.

Admittedly, I haven't read a lot of Fortran code, but I have yet to see anybody who includes such comments. It wouldn't be so bad except also:

a) the only code I see in Fortran is numerics code, therefore written by mathematicians or other people who seem to believe that using more than one letter to describe a term is an admission of weakness

b) people write function names as if it costs $1000 per extra character

c) there often doesn't seem to be any introductory resources to the concepts that are being implemented that might let me discover what cryptic one-letter variable names might actually refer to
The crucial difference is that Portland police haven't been ordered to prevent unlawful activity by feds.
>If the market value of such incompetence if FAANG salary, how can I do good work and get paid preportionally?

You're going to have to learn that, as a laborer at a firm, the quality of work you do is, at best, loosely correlated to your monetary compensation. Sometimes you can do good work, sometimes you can do bad work, but how much you're paid is going to depend greatly on a number of surrounding factors.

So, accepting that there is perhaps not a strong link between doing work that you're proud of at work and being paid well, which would you rather have first?

If you finish work at the well-paid FAANG job feeling like you still have energy to do good work, you can contribute to open source, build some side project, or, even better, none of those things. You can use your extra time an energy learning new things or engaging in a hobby. You don't need to define yourself by your profession.

If, on the other hand, you'd rather not feel like you're just collecting a check from your job, there are certainly positions and fields that will actually ask employees to move mountains. I'd imagine that firms like SpaceX don't have room for desk fillers. There are lots of scrappy upstarts trying to solve big problems, but you will almost certainly make more if you stay parked in FAANG.

I personally am a game developer; the challenges are unique and satisfying and i don't have to worry about whether I'm contributing to something worthwhile. I also make probably less than 50% of what my friends at Amazon and Microsoft are making. C'est la vie.
Not sure if it's related, but asteroid 2020 ND is supposed to be passing by the Earth on July 24th.
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That is so cool. I like the way it combines words. Does it also check domain availability at the same time?
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Undefined represents the absence of information altogether. In JavaScript any key can be called on any object and if it doesn't exist it will return undefined. If you put a typo in the key name, you get undefined. If you've never set it, you get undefined.

Null, on the other hand, is not a lack of information. It's an absolute value just as much so as any number or string or array.

They're both falsey values, but so is the number zero. An item with a price of zero dollars is not the same as an item with an undefined price, nor is it the same as an item that explicitly has no price, i.e. null. You may not choose to model your data that way, but the terms are still meaningful, and your UI might have to change to reflect the different falsey values.

Most common case I could think of, would be in making a request from a server, using something like Apollo. `const [ data ] = useQuery(SomeQuery)` The data that comes from the server is undefined until you make the request, but null could be a valid response.
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That was me ;) I deleted it because I read your second post and realized I'd completely misread you and actually agree almost in entirety.

> understand your trade-offs, don't buy into proprietary tech. Cloud is a fantastic way to prototype and bootstrap but it's /usually/ better to have a migration plan to optimise costs in the future.

Preach.
In that case, you will get a reply by dang like

fake dang> Please don't call other users moronic fools here. We ban accounts for doing that.

And after a few warnings, your account will get banned.
In France the acronym that stuck was GAFA, or GAFAM if you want to includes Microsoft. I always prefered GAFA / GAFAM to FAANG.

However GAFA probably sounds better to the ear when pronounced the French way than the English way. This may explains that.
Indeed, the notorious Max Martin's been doing his thing since about 1997, and seems to show no signs of decline.
For a different type of analogy, look at how long we had to sail around in wooden ships before that evolved.

Without actually venturing out there, we might never develop viable star travel.
Amazing work! Years ago Mozilla was working on a javascript implementation to help support legacy flash content on a Flashless web, but that got quickly abandoned before it mature significantly. Glad that someone else is working on it with a more modern approach.
Unverified guess: it's to distinguish the rapid climate change happening since the 1850s from the slow, natural climate change that has been known to happen over millennia.
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