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> The Prague-based startup, whose programming language last year became Google’s preferred development tool for Android, is worth about $7 billion,

Am I the only one bothered by articles describing companies like Jetbrains as a startup?

The definition that Google gives from Oxford Languages is: "a newly established business." Investopedia says "The term startup refers to a company in the first stages of operations."

This is a well-established company (founded 20 years ago, according to Wikipedia!) that has grown organically for years by offering products their users love (I'm a GoLand user myself!). Why use the "startup" term where it really doesn't belong?
Probably not what he intended, but what I gained from his advice is that it's better to deeply understand a project than to just focus on building out features. I often fixate on the latter to the detriment of gaining understanding of the bigger picture. So whereas you could focus on one feature and get it done quicker, if you dive deep and understand more of the bigger system it's part of, you can not only go into features with better conceptual understanding, but you can even understand how changes will relate to other parts of the system and foresee potential consequences.

For any fan of Carmack, Doom (the game), or just video games in general, I recommend reading "Masters of Doom". Carmack's story honestly reads like a programming/general nerd rockstar in the book, and it's a lot of fun. Also helps me understand what kind of personality it takes to be considered one of the best ever at something: for much of his early life, Carmack was essentially awake just to program. His home was basically a mattress and a computer at one point, IIRC.
They listed the original delay as due to current gen consoles, it's likely one of the two _did_ veto their previous launch plans on one of the consoles and they decided to delay the whole launch. The question is if it was even worse on consoles 6 weeks ago, or if they just cajoled the platform holder in question into letting them launch anyway.
You complained about people using apps instead of web. Then you said "I'm not sure what the New York Times app would give me that AMP wouldn't"

And when people answered with tangible good reasons to use app instead of web ... you move goalposts.
I definitely get the sense that stock markets are plagued by this exact same behavior: a demographic that’s not representative of the general public basing their bets on what they want to happen, and then this impression becoming self reinforcing because if the stocks are going up, there must be a reason for it, right?
To be fair, from the article:

> But we’re past the point of codebase size where a rewrite is even feasible.

So realistically, what else can they do?
For me, finding focus is a function of how much of your needs are already taken care of.

When you don’t have enough money to take care of all your needs for a long time, for example, you wind up doing things others ask you to do. And you have very little control over how much of your time and attention that will take up. You are forced to multitask and your mind is distracted.

Not only that, but your switching costs are very high. Like a person with a small poker stack, you can’t afford to take regular-size risks, only tiny risks. Any bad risk can set you back.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/making-sense/analys...

This is why a UBI can raise the national IQ level, reduce stress, improve public health AND make us more productive and make better choices.

That is also why limited liability for entrepreners in USA is a great thing.

A person working overtime at McDonalds to make ends meet is not benefitting society as much as a person using some of that time on things not valued immediately by the market, such as spending time raising their kids, learning science, contributing to open source software or wikipedia etc. Their job will be gradually automated anyway, and we as a society will try to slow that process down because many consider wages to be the only “moral” way to get money to the people.

At the other extreme, having “f u money” you can say no to lots of things.

The “costly signal” that identifies a successful person with many options in a given area, is that — unlike the one still starting out or scrambling — they pass up perfectly good opportunities and are instead focused on actively avoid potentially inconvenient opportunities. While a person who is just trying to “make it” will have the opposite approach. They will pursue a lot of false negatives.
In the case of Zen/Zen2, some of the dies didn't have direct access to main memory but went through an adjacent die's memory controller and channel. This had a performance and latency effect, and required some extra work on the part of OS schedulers to make sure that tasks weren't being scheduled on related cores.

It's (relatively) easy to have lots of cores on one die, it's not so easy to keep them fed.
In my experience some games are just very laggy, where others appear "optimized" for Stadia network. I can't put my finger on it, but my comparisons come from playing the same title on PC/Steam. Cyberpunk seems to have none to very little lag. And that's playing with the chrome cast device on my wireless, Chromium on Linux via ethernet and Chrome on macOS. All platforms work great with Cyberpunk, but Destiny 2 is another story.
>Does it feel more native?

No, it feels like a good app. Doesn't have to feel native, same way Photoshop or Vim doesn't have too, they just have to be good pro tools.

Of course native is better, but only if all other things are equal.
The technology was years in the making. DARPA was also involved.

“In October 2013, DARPA awarded Moderna up to approximately $25 million to research and develop potential mRNA medicines as a part of DARPA’s Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics, or ADEPT, program”
Here’s the whole lecture (he had a fair bit to say before he got to the shape of stories) if you have ample time and enjoy Vonnegut’s speaking style: https://youtu.be/4_RUgnC1lm8
Well, the Witcher 3 on Switch drops to 540p at the low-end.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 can actually go down to 368p. I remember some people were upset about that, but it didn't seem to cause an uproar, and certainly kept the framerate steady.
Windows on arm64 systems aren't locked down.

Meanwhile for arm64 Macs, they aren't either. Yesterday, https://twitter.com/xenokovah/status/1339914714055368704?s=2... was released to run unsigned kernels.
context: Using term teleportation makes sense in the quantum realm.

No-cloning theorem in quantum physics says that it's impossible to do exact copy of unknown quantum state. But it turns out that you can teleport it when the original state is destroyed.

You can't have exact `cp` command for the quantum state, only `mv`. If this makes you think linear logic, you are right.
I'm not sure what you mean by recent, but I think the most interesting concept in UI/UX that I can think of off the top of my head is the OS-level back-button on Android. I love Apple laptops, but the OS-level back-button on Android is at least 1/4 of the reason I prefer Android to iOS.

It's just such a specific and weird feature that I never would have had the audacity to think "hey, every single application will benefit from this being a constant fixture in the operating system." I know that applications can add a back button when they feel it's necessary, and I know you can swipe to go back in iOS in various applications, but it's just not the same.
Sony Removes Cyberpunk 2077 from Playstation Store After Complaints
The new stuff for me has always been boring things that we are required to do. Usually they are a small volume compared to the regular work, so they aren't seen as valuable.

For example, I learnt the basics of Blue Prism, as I was asked to. It's really just an automation stop-gap until the underlying system can be updated or replaced to handle the target scenario. Then I was told we wouldn't even be using it, so I learnt it for nothing.
What are you looking for, a confession? This is information shared by people involved in investigating and remediating this attack, if the investigators share the smoking guns they show their hand to the attacker.

There are what, three countries capable of an attack of this magnitude? China, Russia, and Israel? I wouldn't rule out a clandestine non-governmental operation, but that is unprecedented at this scale.
Then I scrape the page using JS from the browser side and render it dynamically. It’s all client side.

Where would this sit on that line? It’s just an example but for the 1000 ppl trying to create laws there are 10000x trying to bypass them.

I don’t think restrictions are the way forward but as of now I haven’t come up with a viable alternative.
Looped Square
Seems jet brains managed so there is an alternative that doesn’t suck?
Have we seen Facebook stop an ongoing situation yet? Admitting guilt in retrospect is good, but not good enough.
I have no proof but I always assumed they do this to push phone users towards downloading the app.
> General purpose GPU hardware is way more wasteful for matrix math, like maybe >10x waste on power and equally worse performance, than tensor cores.

I didn't realize there was that distinction; I thought GPU's were just optimized for vector arithmetic across the board. What is the difference between general purpose GPU hardware and tensor cores? What does general purpose GPU hardware do that tensor cores do not?
Have you entertained the idea that both could suck?
Does anybody know how old Terence Eden is? He doesn't look all that young. I'm surprised that he has chosen to do his MSc now, assuming it will be a MSc related to computer science. Somehow, I've always been under the impression that, when it comes to comp sci, because it's so close to mathematics in nature, you either get all the way to PhD blazingly fast, or you never get past Bachelor's degree. Although, of course, I don't have any data to back that up.

EDIT: I just looked at the blog post again. It's linked to another one where he says it will be a MSc Digital and Technology Specialist, so maybe it won't be very mathematics heavy.
Dolphin Smalltalk from Object Arts allows alt-tabbing between native windows. The formerly commercial professional version has been released as open source. It is Windows only, but it apparently runs well via Wine on Linux and Mac. Though the executable is 32-bit only, and lightly maintained, it provides an aesthetically pleasing and responsive development environment.

Precompiled binary here:

https://github.com/dolphinsmalltalk/Dolphin/releases/tag/v7....
Gradle isn't their product though. They just have to interop with it.
> and adds useful documentation for callers and IDEs.

THIS. This is why I started using them, along with standardizing my docstrings. Enormously helpful when you're trying to remember what the function is expecting to just hover it and find out.
This comment gets emotional and attacks the previous comment unnecessarily.
dendrite.matrix.org is being slightly hugged to death by being on the front page of HN, but we're about to redeploy it with a fix. (All these guest accounts shouldn't be generating bcrypt passwords ;P)

Meanwhile, happy to answer any questions about the Cerulean mad science experiment :)
Because SQLite, as a general purpose database system, can be used for loads of things.

A two-piece component (DB + sandbox) that you use for 100 different things is going to end up much more secure (overall) and require less human effort than maintaining 100 different systems for each use case.

It's like "don't roll your own crypto". That is the advice not because it's impossible to roll your own secure crypto, but because it is just much more likely that you will repeat bugs that other people have already figured out, so it is better if everyone is using one library so that when an issue is found and resolved, it applies to everyone. It is still good advice even though that 3rd party crypto lib is probably going to have a lot of unneeded functionality that actually increases the overall attack surface area than if you made your own for whatever your specific purpose is. I think the same logic applies here.
I've played a little on my TV with the CCU over Wifi but not enough to determine lag, my Mac is hooked to gigabit straight to my router.

They do recommend 5Ghz for Wifi and being as close to the AP as possible. I can image if your AP is behind a wall or in a closet or different floor you get noticable delays as signals come in via reflections rather than directly.
It sounds like you're dealing with narcissists, one of the most toxic kinds of people possible. You run into them eventually and they're good at influencing people and masking themselves. Pointing them out to others does no good unless you have a lot of reputation. But if you educate yourself, you can see through most of their schemes, detach emotionally, and keep your sanity.

Is Your Boss Narcissistic? [Signs of Narcissism at Work]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-5q0C31m4

(the video also talks a bit about coworkers)

Dr Ramani is a PHD psychologist specializing in narcissism, she has great yt videos. I also recommend educating yourself about gaslighting, manipulation, invalidation etc. Don't take everything you hear at face value.

Signs of gaslighting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISZshe9L3s

(My hypothesis is that large companies turn to crap largely because they eventually end up recruiting toxic but charismatic people, not really because of their size.)
I suspect having "Sat on Google Committee" is a pretty nice résumé item.

There's lots of extremely qualified people fighting over working with/for Google, even for free.

Also, there are many idealists, who believe that they, alone, can "bring light to darkness."

I can't really blame them, but I'm old and cynical, with a singed tuchus, from playing that game, so you probably won't find me sitting on these committees.
But his "highly unusual" success is lighting that strikes 5 times in a row. Maybe he's onto something. His lighting strikes consistently in completely different domains too.
This is by design. You are supposed to pay those county property taxes and stay put [renters: are a tax payment proxy for landlords].
OK, I can see what it might give you. Nevertheless I do not want to install apps for any but my most frequently visited Web sites.
There's no good way to certify people on this knowledge from the organization's perspective. Just get your phone out if you're feeling confident in it.
Well this is pretentious as hell
Author here. I'd be happy to answer your questions.
Very interesting thoughts. I'm also at a similar point in my career, and my experiences have been really different. I still enjoy my work more than ever. I've never worked in "big tech" that long. However, I do agree that companies become more corporate over time so it's up to you to fight back against these tendencies and make the job you really like. Of course that is harder in large companies but it is still doable to make an enjoyable niche.
You can use Prebid Server to provide ad competition on AMP. So I would imagine that it’s less about competition and more about removing the very negative web performance impact of JS header bidding.
> Because VC funded startups are forced to grow fast or die a lot of good, profitable, user focused ideas are trashed because they won't lead to rapid enough expansion.

I have noticed that, to some people, "VC startup" is almost considered redundant. That is, if your company is not seeking outside investors, not seeking rapid growth, not seeking an "exit", then it isn't a real "startup". So, in addition to what you mention about user focus (or lack thereof), I feel that this hurts ambitious entrepreneurs by making them think the VC/outside investment/grow-or-die treadmill is the only way to get big and escape the "lifestyle business" stigma. Many of them likely could succeed, albeit more slowly, without the treadmill.
Blog Opera – Google Arts and Culture
Google is quite vicious in displaying primarily AMP pages on mobile search results. There are times my inquiry only returns AMP pages, essentially requiring me to use another search engine or use the web as Google demands.
I quit my job in web development for the same reasons a few years ago and have been much happier for it. Good luck!
Company in a Box – Startup idea to leads in one click with GPT-3
Stealing phrase (paraphrasing) from a recent HN comment...

TLDR: Two kinds of work are doing and justifying. Those of us used to doing are really bad at, and demotivated by, the justifying.

Sorry, I should have book marked it.

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Finally listening to Graeber's Utopia of Rules. It's kinda blowing my mind. Like a firestorm in my head.

Graeber's The Democracy Project has even more radical, useful explanations. His distinction between "rational" (following the rules) and "reasonable" (doing what's right, fair) gives voice to something that's been plaguing me for decades.

Graeber supplies more of the puzzle pieces for how capitalism (in the USA) came to mean corporatism, and how these paradigms necessitate the Kafka/Brazil (movie) style bureaucracies we all hate.

It's really an amazing time to be alive. I came of age reading Peter Drucker, Buckminister Fuller, Donald Norman, and many other humanists. (The conclusions of the proto-libertarian stuff never made sense to me. I always thought of myself as whatever the leftist version of libertarianism would be. Same complaints, different conclusions. I had no idea that makes me an anarchist. It took me reading Graeber to finally start understanding what Chomsky's been talking about.)

Looking back, I truly didn't understand how far out of the mainstream their notions were. The humanists made sense to me and I guess I assumed everyone was on the same page. Alas, I've always been an outsider in my own land.

With the rise of post-capitalism and renewed interest in direct democracy, empathy, participation and so forth, my world is finally starting to make some sense.
The parent comment is flagged but I think the answer is yes, that those offenses did serve the near term national interest of the US at those times.
So? Keanu Reeves is in the game. That's not hype, that's a fact.
I've been wondering what ever happened to those telescopes. Were they used as parts? Are they going to launch them?
> I accept but don't save any cookies except certain whitelisted ones.

That's basically what happens in private mode (incognito), I guess. Would be nice if browsers used private mode by default, and you could "whitelist" certain sites you trust / want to remember your login.
I like how much <center> is frowned upon by the experts, but when you actually inspect how sites are centering things, it's surprisingly common.

Don't worry, I'm not gonna scold HN, I actually don't think it's that bad of a practice as no browser will ever stop supporting it. The experts can look down upon it all they want.
> I don’t think you’re making any point here about confusion you’re just ranting.

How uncharitable.

> If I were to try and extract some coherent positive thought out of this, I’d say a website that tracks and allows discussion of ingredients and products that are good/bad would be interesting so we could stop bikeshedding on naming when obviously there exist many levels of better/worse foods and ingredients.

That's basically it. I'd hazard a guess that at least some "ultra-processed" ingredients don't have any effect on you at all. Some might even be positive.

People take medication for health conditions after all, and they help them live longer, higher quality lives. What could be more ultra-processed than that?

Scientists and engineers don't generally tolerate painting with such a broad brush, and it's at least obvious to me that there are several confounding variables here other than the artificial ingredients themselves (super high calorie density, for example).
You'd probably still call it a state machine if that is what it's doing. Maybe not well implemented but it also depends. State machines are tricky to get right.
I suppose you played on Stadia from a friend's account right? Otherwise you would had to have to buy the game twice, once in GOG/Steam/Epic and another in Stadia. For that reason if I were to consider cloud gaming I would prefer something like Geforce Now or Shadow rather than Stadia or Luna.
When the thought leaders have a “hole in their life” because a cron job and sendmail SAAS shutdown, you know it’s bullshit all the way down:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1216714155731890176?s=20
I played a bit of Witcher 3 on switch. It had a lot of very obvious graphical weaknesses. As someone who does some game dev, it was pretty poor. But also, that's fine. Most people don't notice and don't care. Most people look at witcher 3 on the switch and say its beautiful amazing graphics. Its all relative.

I generally tend to think graphics quality doesn't matter so long as your lighting is ok and your frame rate isn't slow to the point of feeling a loss of control.
> Incidentally, the price per kilo for air transport has doubled worldwide and Europe is increasingly resorting to the new Silk Road, which China has pushed very hard: conventional road and rail transport, the prices of which have even tripled in the meantime! Especially bulky peripherals, such as PC screens, are also suffering greatly: according to a well-known brand, prices rose by 15 or 25% in France, for example.

So we are told by the FED and that there is no inflation and one of the justifications to keep rates low. If this is not inflation then what is?
I think they aren't technically billionaires. Rather, JetBrains is valued at over a billion dollars. So if they sold their entire stake, then they'd be billionaires.

I'm sure they pay themselves well but I don't think they will be sitting on a billion dollars in either cash or shares.
Yep, I think there is still time before they become popular black market weapons, but not that much time.
My jaw has been frequently misplaced recently by the amount of lies that people seem to believe. But I think it became permanently detached when finding out at the very end that people _actually_ believed them.
>with the biggest game breaking bug I've ever seen

I wonder how such things can slip unnoticed. Long ago GTA 3 on PC also had such mishap, loading saves just didn't work before they released patch.
Interesting; my strategy has been almost the polar opposite of his ('learn widely', not 'deeply'), and it served me well so far. It's the whole discussion of being a specialist vs. a generalist, to some extent. Do you want to know stuff about a lot of things, or know a lot of things about some stuff?

TBH I also believe in knowing fairly deeply a few areas (you have to have _some_ depth too, not just breadth); but I suspect Carmack is not exactly a narrow-field specialist, with him founding Armadillo Aerospace and all... his knowledge might very well be both wider & deeper than mine :)
TDS.
Both were 30cm from the wifi access point, it's on the desk next to them :)
We have that too. A second computer works wonders here. Worse is the training I'm doing now which lets you run it in the background but makes you push a button every 30s to continue the training.
Why not just declare this attack an act of war and refuse coverage? Do cyber insurance policies cover losses due to war?
I tried to use their CLion IDE for C++ development but had numerous problem preventing me from working. The company was responsive and tried to help me, no complaints in this department, but I lost my patience pretty fast as I was not willing to invest significant time into making things work that should've worked right out of the box.