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What he means is that if you're completely ignorant about business, then reading a financial magazine will help you level up over time.

(Related: I've worked with new managers in SV who couldn't define what the words "leadership", "responsibility", "planning" or "accountability" meant, since all they knew was PHP programming.)

It's a good post mortem read.

I gave the same advice about "use case" as in the post mortem to a YC database company a few years ago. The "founders" also thought they were building a better (technical) mousetrap, but I told them nobody was going to pay anything if it did the same as an existing database - it had to do something unique and be cloud-based, like Snowflake, or RDS. They were crestfallen, but still didn't listen to me. I even got hate mail from them before they went under - talk about being clueless to the bitter end.

What RethinkDB did wrong was what was in their post mortem, but also not having experienced DBAs to review the use cases. As a DBA, my default is to say no to new databases, and being the audience, that would have been valuable for them to know.

An example of how DBAs and devs think differently is the Jepsen database reports - devs fetishize those, but DBAs are like, "We already know corner cases aren't going to work most of the time. What's your point exactly?"

Source: experienced DBA.
I'm always kind of amazed at the low services number on MongoDB earnings reports. It's 4-5%. This seems unusually low for enterprise database companies.
They won't, for quite a while because it's good strategy. Don't let your opponent know they're trapped until the very end.

Had the government gone all-in trying to stop piracy, or drugs, back in the day they'd have kicked off this privacy awareness years ago, when they were much less ready. Now they've had a chance to gear up and get behind the terrorist attacks as they happen with stories about the chat clients they use, or how their iphones kept police from reading their texts, etc. With a little more of this by the time they do crack down not only will the tech be much more refined but there'll be a properly trained group of people who defend the censorship on safety, or moral, or whatever grounds, to keep the heat away from those who made the decisions.
> Basically, it's easier to manipulate individuals into working for less if the number they're getting remains the same or even goes up, but slower than real inflation.

But that's that's not what happens. Wages don't keep up with inflation. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Opponents of Oliver Cromwell published his family recipes
C’s removal of gets could have been done better
“... "reliable enough" might change with electric cars though, because it's looking like they will have a fraction of the moving parts and may last 5x or more what an ICE car will last.”

Just no.

Electric cars have rotors, brake pads, compressors, heat pumps, fans, water pumps all of the nice stuff that typically drive you to your ICE mechanic.

On top of that they have a battery that degrades from day 1 of the purchase and data from the Teslas don’t support your opinion that they can hold 5*12=60 years. I did not even mention their reliance on electronics, that fail as bad as they fail on ICE cars (sensors, microcontrollers, screens, capacitors, cable looms etc).

Pitch EVs for something else, but not for their reliability.
Does this happen in other open source software projects? My understanding is that Linus Torvalds was pretty opinionated as well. Linux is better off for it.
The world is full of highly parallel programs getting useful work done. Most graphics, AI and compression libraries (picking 3 easy examples I've worked on) parallelize well, and can usually make use of all the cores you can throw at them.

Jonathan Blow makes good games, but chooses not to make particularly CPU intensive ones. That's fine, but that's also his choice.
I figured that “sharks” and “dolphins” were metaphors for personality types in the tech scene but that still doesn’t explain much.
In my book, the problems begin as soon as the healthcare system is required to be lucrative. And don't tell me not-for-profit hospitals are not lucrative. It would be even worse without regulations. Care providers would illegally organize into cartels (which is of course already happening) and going to see the doc would then really just be like bringing your car to the garage, with all the 'niceties' that go with that. I don't expect to convince any free market proponent, since to really grasp what I mean by all that those people would have to experience the private system from the inside (as I do). Private interests are very much the problem. Healthcare should be a public service.
No Us Without You: elifdef and elifndef
Toucan => to investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs.

Thumbs up for honest marketing, but I think I'll pass.
True, a lot depends on the company's approach. I've worked at both kinds of places and actually prefer the 'go find and produce value' approach although that can be stressful without the right kind of leadership and access to users.
Your point is well taken :)
Eh, I think it was wrong for a large company based on content creation to exploit a mistake from a small startup.
A comparison between Rust and modern C++ would be more interesting in my opinion. It seems that those languages are closer in the design goal space than either is to C.
I missed a statement about the transition between internal and external scaling. In the beginning of the article it is all about internal computer architecture, later more about deployment.

What is the state of internal architecture?
The one that got me was when I left a bad review for a product, and then a few days later I got a letter from them offering me a coupon, but only if I would remove the negative review.

Amazon gave them my name and address.

I don’t do reviews for any products anymore.
Cake is great, but eating it is better.
Because this tech is not just about tech, but also game theory, consensus and economic incentives to align completely disconnected parties with completely different motives in a trustless manner.
What's utopian about it?

What do children pay their parents, or parents pay their kids? That's the relationship people start out with and one that is most natural.

People seem to think that there is money, and before money, there was barter. That's fake news made up by economists (the barter before money bit).

People have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Money has been around for a few thousand in select places and never used for most transactions by most people until extremely recently.

I'd argue it's still not used for the most important transactions and the existence of food stamps, universal health care in every sane developed country, free education and subsidies for parents with children is simply some of the numerous examples of most people preferring free for things they deeply value and care about.

Money is great for veblen goods and exchange among adversaries, everything else wants to be free. Free as in decided based on factors other than money, not free as in oxygen.

I'm not articulating this too well, please have a look here for a take I'm trying to express, done by a proper journalist.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
I've done this across 10,000 cores, and helped people do similar tasks as well, I guess my experience is not normal. But IIRC even for things that, say use MPI to coordinate cores in the small you want to repeat across many cores, limit the spread across cores, limit your blocking coordination, lest you wind up with the old joke that "HPC is the art of turning a CPU-bound job into an I/O bound job".
Correct - storage can be done on a PC or a server system - https://support.diode.io/article/vr156n18cf-is-diodedrive-un.... I personally run some of my personal Zones with a raspberry pi connected to a USB drive as an always-on backup. Enterprise implementations would use whatever server (or private or even public cloud) based storage is appropriate for them.

Great feedback and thoughts.
You are observing the video of the crab playing over an SSH connection inside PuTTY, a terminal emulator.
GitHub Wants to Get Rid of the DMCA’s Anti-Circumvention Fud
So democracy doesn't really mean much to you, people making the "wrong" choice need their betters to step in and correct that choice.
Crypto for Art: Latest News on NFT Art, Crypto Art and More
Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Network (2015)
Good idea, congrats! Can the people who post a message also ask for a refund, or is this only limited to the account owner?
Nobody is under the impression that there aren't costs to care, so your response feels like you're addressing a strawman argument and isn't really insightful.
I don't think cryptocurrencies will replace fiat completely. They're still crypto. They have fixed rules. We still need currency "bridge" between crypto and the real world. Cryptocurrencies offer decentralized options which can address problems with money distribution.
Electron?

So, you’re going to build a complete copy of Chrome into my menu bar?

Uh, no thanks.
I "think" it's a program that plays video (incl hi-res) on the terminal using pure text without using GPU decoding at all.
Ask HN: What happens when someone copies an NFT onto another blockhain?
Let's say I'm the owner of the nyan cat NFT (I'm not). Is there anything that prevents someone from duplicating the nyan cat and putting it on another blockchain? If not, does the uniqueness of my nyan cat (which is on Ethereum, I believe), rest on the assumption that one blockchain will be the defacto NFT implementation, and the rest won't be taken seriously?
My take is you have to understand finance, central banking, its abuse by banks and governments, and so on in order to see the utility of the crypto industry.

If you never got lost, you might not see the value of GPS.

Others don't need to get lost, but they are better at seeing the economic implications like increased efficiency when navigating roads, waterways, airspace, ...

Instead, the disbeliefers consider it expensive, unecological, and related company stocks as in a bubble.
What I meant is that if someone doesn't have a moral problem with breaking the law, US tech wages are more likely to sway them towards the right path (just because of the risk aversity) than EU wages where IT isn't well-compensated.

I know as well because when starting my career I had to make a choice - if it wasn't for a stroke of luck I may have had to pick the wrong path out of desperation (whether I would've made it anywhere is another question - sounds like you looked into it farther than I did).

Thankfully everything worked out and I haven't needed to be on the wrong side of the law, but this was down to luck - you can very well have the skills that would pay well in the criminal world while being stuck in a situation where you can't get much out of those skills in the legal world, so I disagree with the idea that having those skills automatically gives you the option to make a good living legally.
It is interesting to compare hockey goalie strategy to lacrosse. The key difference is that the goal is significantly bigger—6x6 feet. Goalies in lacrosse general wear less pads then the other players on the field—often foregoing elbow and shoulder pads—for optimal mobility and because goalies are crazy (most do not wear shin pads because they will be made fun of by other goalies).

So I think another solution, that would surely be controversial, would be to make the goal slightly bigger. The minute goalie pads do not cover the whole area goalies will be forced to prioritize mobility over pad size.
Doesn't Vitalik/the dev team own the "Ethereum" name, which means they decide what get called "Ethereum" ?

If there are two versions of the chain, because of a 51% attack or a fork, there always will be only one dev-approved chain called "Ethereum" on the exchanges, and that's what the users will buy.
> I kept tilting my head because it was hard to see the clue and interpret it at the same time.

Agreed, I definitely found myself doing that.

> The final clue I had to complete was that tricky .(.)(.)(.)(.)\4\3\2\1.

Interesting...I think I had the main guts of that one worked out when I was about 1/3 of the way through, but admittedly I did take a screenshot and mark it up in order to keep track of the various possibilities. It was (...?)\1* that tripped me up because I had an overly broad interpretation of its mechanics.

I wonder if it would be possible to record a bunch of 0-100% runs and then to make some sort of visualization to demonstrate different approaches...
Docs have power over their own turf (losing ground to admin every day that passes). They incidentally absolutely do not have power over the billing scheme in it's entirety, especially since healthcare juggernauts like Kaiser have appeared. Today, docs are really a small part of the problem but people stay fixated on them both because of envy and because docs are used as strawmen by big healthcare, whose stakeholders have every reason to reduce docs into slavery. Docs use the AMA to avoid being converted into Amazon warehouse workers? Big surprise.
And how many doctors and nurses would there be to help you if they didn't get paid?
Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst
RethinkDB was great. They had better tech than mongodb. It was fast and consistent, rql was expressive and easy to lean. Sharding and replicas was easy.

I wish they didn’t run out of money and give up. In many ways startups feel like you gotta be a cockroach. The goal is to not die and live long enough to be profitable where you control your own destiny.

Like mongo atlas, rethinkdb’s hosted solution (horizon I think) could have easily taken off.

Like Firebase’s Firestore, it could have been quite successful.
On the one hand I usually love to drop in a bit of spolsky wisdom myself, and that quote stands well on its own, but the article itself is unfortunately marred by the fact the Microsoft products mentioned were just unsuccessful early attempts at iCloud and Google Accounts, both of which have since seen considerable "killer app" level success. I guess easy with hindsight to say "ah yes, but smartphones".
Blueberry Medical (YC W18) Is Hiring
In no way detracting from your awesome toy project, intrigued people might also want to check out vitetris. Very similar tetris in the terminal with ncruses, but also supports network play! https://github.com/vicgeralds/vitetris
Any one interested, see Clickspring[1], he actually attempts to use ancient tools and methods to build Antikythera Mechanism.

[1] https://youtu.be/ML4tw_UzqZE
Yes, I am aware of other "L" batteries that are safer. I was just commenting about how lead-acid is still relatively inert compared to the "fiery" kind of L batteries.
Thanks for pointing this out. I had thought the Lear jet was just made out of magic, until I saw your comment.
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Tbh, I don't get your analogy, why should the miners be looked at as bodyguards? While I agree the miners are responsible for protecting the network, I don't think you can draw a distinction that easily between an eth holder vs a miner, because anyone can become a miner and anyone can become a holder and an entity can be both a miner and a holder. Everyone who participates in the eth network should have the power to vote in this blockchain, if its actually decentralized.

The problem here is with the design of eth, eth was a rushed blockchain from the start, now vitalik is trying to rush the release all of a sudden because the people managing his network are not happy with the up coming changes?

What the hell kind of decentralization is this if vitalik can escalate major decisions about network? Eth is not a decentralized project if one individual(or a few) can decide to go against 51% of the stakeholders of the network.
Kudos! I'm looking forward to following your progress. For clarity, in the title you might want to change 'Cocoa' to 'macOS'. Cocoa is a marketing term that was used back in the day but I suspect many people have never heard of it.
The solution is when pharmaceutical company discovers a cure we dump truck loads of money on their lawn.
'hate speech' That's speech you don't like?
Hey
I totally agree with you and thanks for the advise I really appreciate as I’m currently early in my career and have been thinking about alot of ideas just need to put those ideas into execution and try to see what works and what doesn’t
How are you affiliated with them?
Yes, roughly single-threaded async, with each core running a disjoint subset of the workload on data private to that core. You can’t beat the operation throughput. The software architecture challenge is shedding load between cores, since this will hotspot under real workloads with a naive design. Fortunately, smoothly and dynamically shedding load across cores with minimal overhead and latency is a solved design problem.

It works pretty well for ordinary heavy crunch code too. I originally designed code like this on supercomputers. You do need a practical mechanism for efficiently decomposing loads at a fine granularity but you rarely see applications that don’t have this property that are also compute bound.
I guess it's feasible, but as of last year I've never seen a charger at a hotel.

My office had maybe a dozen, which is already not enough—EV drivers were required to go outside and move their cars after a few hours. I don't know how often someone who needs one is screwed.
Good question. Although looking forward EVs are the more obvious choice and I’d imagine would naturally be easier to service and need fewer services.
Hey man thanks for replying getting over charged without knowing is my biggest fear this is why I’m hesitant when it comes to deploying services on hosting platforms but you cleared my thoughts and I’ll definitely try flashdrive for my future projects
>Other entities outside of the US have no moral obligation to run these checks on behalf of the US government

Those other entities are businesses. If they want to conduct business in the US, they have to abide by the local laws. Just like any US business has to abide by EU laws if they want to operate in EU.

>If a US regulatory agency doesn't want its residents to interact with foreign websites, it should block their internet access to websites outside of the country.

US is literally acting in the interests of the business here trying to help them. US could block Binance, sure. But I think it is more merciful of them to give Binance a chance to fix their shit up and still let them operate in the US. Blocking those website is the last resort, as it should be.

Also, again, no one forced Binance US to register as a legal business entity in the US and conduct business here. Binance US is supposed to operate within US laws. It is their dedicated US branch for US customers that is supposed to provide services legal in the US (no derivatives, as opposed to their non-US Binance platform). Except they, allegedly, let some stuff from the non-US branch that is illegal in the US to slip through to the US customers. Binance cannot have their cake and eat it too. They either don't operate in the US or they do so while abiding the law.
>> Some of those hardcore punks were driven around to the sound of Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Lennon’s “Imagine”.

I was one of those hardcore punks and I think you greatly overestimate both the level of parental involvement we had in our lives as well as our parents' musical tastes.

Hardcore as a youth movement didn't get swallowed by the mainstream, it just ceased to exist.
I agree with your initial sentiment completely. I joined my current cofounders (from medical/business backgrounds) for a health tech startup, sold on the dream of saving lives with technology. If my CEO didn't play the game by the absurd rules that are in place, I wouldn't have enough financial incentive to swallow my idealism and stick around.

My point being, there are plenty of smart people in this system building cool features and chalking it up as progress, but we don't have any power to institute any kind of fundamental change. No healthcare leader will ever acknowledge the flaws in the system, because the people who get promoted up the bureaucracy are the ones who know how to play the game. The people at the top are the champions of collecting the maximum amount of money for the minimum amount of care.
Mouse without Borders for Windows [0]

Gives your main PC extra screens from spare laptops. Plus you can farm out secondary tasks (like run Chrome) on the ancillary screen devices.

[0]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/mouse-wi...
I distinctly remember their creative hiring tactics:
They anonymously floated mysterious puzzles across the web. The solution was a domain name which had a static website yielding an email address.
If you sent a email to that address they immediately asked you if you were interested in working for them. I know, because I solved one (The lure to solve the mystery was just too tempting to resist)
An answer to the question would be an example of a policy and an example of when said policy "really hurt and isolated a significant population"

It's pretty straightforward, everything else is frantic hand waving.
If by the document you mean the original Ethereum yellow paper that first formalized it, the main author was actually Gavin Wood, not Vitalik :)

Both were crucial in laying down the technical and theoretical foundation of Ethereum.

Gavin is working on other things now. Vitalik is not the thought-leader he was in the early days (which is a good thing as he’s not a SPoF and decision making is more decentralized)
Not sure why you think that. There are definitely people who think universal healthcare will cost nothing.
Real hackers do PDP-10 assembly language.
lol i didnt realise those tweets were deleted. that guy usually doubles down.
Silly question: to what extent can you extend the range of a car by adding solar panels on the roof in cloudy conditions? If that adds range of 10% extra, then why not do it?

I figured they thought about this a long time ago, so I'm just wondering.
I wrote a parallel iteration (map-reduce) last week in some CPU-heavy code, took 5 minutes with Rayon. Sped my code up by around 10x on a 12-core machine, example benchmark going from 7 seconds to 700 milliseconds. It's serious business.
Now you know why they failed.
Or, the reason nothing has happened as a result is because nothing serious happened in the "insurrection". I'm suggesting this as a foreigner in a democratic country (a well regarded example country even), a fact I mention to dispel the concept that I'm crypto-republican or even socially (as opposed to fiscally) conservative. I watched 2020 in America through independent videos and through your news, the two of which are very-tenuously connected.

Very few of the capitol-riot criminals (because I totally agree that they committed a bunch of crimes, and are absolutely criminals) were armed, even with the makeshift weapons seen in the previous year's street riots. And they weren't going to hurt anyone because the capitol police and the secret service were preparing the evacuation while Trump was still talking blocks away. Not because they legitimately feared a coup, but because it's just general safety protocol to not sit around and wait for a demonstration or a riot to walk up to you.

Following that you saw the Democrats care as hard as they could. Some are still caring now. But the message didn't resonate with anyone other than their base - it cost them moderate democrat support and hardened moderate republicans again them. They largely stopped because the voters said "It's a non-issue, we don't believe it as told". (I present this as a self-evident fact, despite having seen poles supporting it, because we all know nobody stops beating on an effective drum.)