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Talk is cheap, especially when you're no longer in charge. He's had 27 years to do better.
"If you can hear it, the microphone can hear it."

Not great advice if there is a chance they want you to hear it.
Ask HN: Anyone else pass on investing in Coinbase?
I passed on investing in Coinbase in 2012. Anyone else?

I joined FundersClub in 2012. Invested in Instacart, SendBird and several others. I passed on Coinbase at what looks to be $0.19 per share.

A $1,000 investment would be worth $3,300,000 at today's price of $330 per share.

#oops
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>Does this have the built-in price correction of PoW crypto where economic viability determines how much compute is being dedicated to the network?

The answer is essentially "yes", but I think this question is showing a misunderstanding. Golem isn't the one creating the workloads that people are running, it's just connecting people selling compute power and people paying to run workloads. (The compute workloads aren't used as a consensus mechanism like PoW. Golem just relies on Ethereum to manage consensus.) The question is like "Does ebay implement a price correction system where economic viability determines how many resources people sell to it?".
Redine yourself as a problem solver vs. just a tool box.

“I’m a master generlized problem solving machine, how can I be of service?”
What about Litecoin as peer-to-peer electronic cash? I don't see what benefits Bitcoin Cash has over Litecoin. It seems like the original idea for Litecoin was that it could be used more for day to day transactions, by reducing the block time. I question the need for Bitcoin Cash to begin with, when Litecoin was already available. I am curious of your thoughts on that.

I also saw you mentioned Dash. Is there a reason you didn't also include Z-Cash in your short list (I am genuinely curious).

I am aware of the r/bitcoin vs r/btc controversy and understand the r/bitcoin censorship concern. On the other hand, r/btc is not censored but they seem so anti Bitcoin Core / Lightning Network, it looks to me like they don't consider the other side at all.

From what I can tell, the Lightning Network could be a scaling solution. It is awesome to know that many BCH devs aren't opposed to a lightning implementation on BCH. I'd love to see these communities converge.
i'm not in the US for that reason. and very many people are not following laws.
I don’t know how to fix it, but there are countries where the problems don’t exist and we would be better off as part of them. The average Canadian home owner now makes significantly more money on the house they live in than they do from their job. It’s a completely broken country and I expect it to stop existing within my lifetime.
We also don't have democracy in the US, FYI.
I’m not persuaded that purportedly originalist judges who sit on the bench now are really doing what they say, rather than finding post hoc rationalizations for their preferred outcomes.
For most places, this looks to be incredibly low-resolution at present. It's still kind of interesting to watch chunks of forest that my dad clearcut twenty years ago regenerate though.
I don't think you would use SQL directly. You do want something like GraphQL or FirebaseDB where the language is designed around untrusted users.
Power over Fiber System (PoF)
The stock market is just a big unknown for a lot of people, and anyway it's something you evaluate on a long-term basis.

I'm more baffled by my/our inability to correctly assess our bad habits. A $100 item costs the same as, say, two $50 dinners - and unlike those, the item will stay with me for months or years. Still, I'd find it pretty easy to pay for two dinners in a week, but I'd agonize on pulling the trigger for a single purchase of goods.
This FloC initiative just needs to be shot down hard. It's only meant to allow Google to continue business as usual in the face of privacy regulations. Everything else including privacy is secondary.
And execute means killing the helpless. Does that mean those who execute plans are either cold blooded killers or it is a slanderous comparison of them to such?

Trying to be offended by taking the worst possible meaning as presumed most relevant is unproductive at best even when both parties are trying to polish the same communications. More likely counterproductive to the goal of seeming better.
Tesla Solar Roof shady business practices
Wondering if anyone else has had an experience like this with Tesla related to SolarRoof? And if this is standard operating procedure for Tesla? It feels disingenuous at best, and possibly even illegal…?

What happened:
After months of providing documents to them, getting a finalized design (e.g., where the actual solar vs. dummy tiles go throughout the roof), we signed an agreement to get SolarRoof and two powerwalls installed. We agreed to financing terms. And then submitted for permits. A few weeks later, while waiting for permits to come through and schedule the actual install, they sent a brief, automated email that said “Update-Your Solar Roof Price Has Increased.” I received a separate email that said “Review and Accept your Design,” which took me to a page with a new price, nearly 50% higher (~$24K price increase), and an “Accept” button.

When I called, they said this was after a review of the house and due to “roof complexity.” Mind you, they had already reviewed the blue prints of the house in detail and put together a detailed install plan. The guy on the phone eventually acknowledged that this was in fact due to just increasing their prices, and nothing to do with roof complexity.

I was given the option to either agree or cancel.

I am stunned, to be honest. This can’t be normal… right?
Seems like SQL language needs a better security model.
Intel seems to be multiple years behind at this point. They might make a bit of a comeback, but it would have to be a huge process size shrink to be competitive. Based on their previous years, I doubt that an extra year will help that much.
Business Idea in 1min
I had 8-ish channel FM synthesis (using a bunch of lookup tables) on a stock 8-bit ATMega-based Arduino back in the day.

Any modern Cortex-based microcontroller has more than enough oomph to handle 4x as many voices plus filters, etc.
Everybody is focused on literally replicating the data model and using SQL which obviously won't work.

But the idea is directionally correct. Replicate the subset of data the user has access to and wants locally and work on it disconnected, then sync changes asynchronously to server. This is difficult, but necessary for fully responsive and collaborative applications.

Check out https://replicache.dev for a productization of this idea (disclosure: this is my product). We will eventually add a SQL frontend for the cached data.
I vaguely recall that there was a way for each user to set a bias for each moderation tag, so you could put -5 on the "Funny" tag and effectively hide them (or at least move them to the bottom of the comments).
I mean it's basically just a zero trust fog compute platform. I apologise for the buzzwords but it's probably the most concise way to describe it.

On the Consumer/Requester side it let's you farm out a parallel and reproducible compute problem at whatever the going rate is based on market forces. If you can break out the heavy lifting in your code into parallel and deterministic/reproducible components then you can run compute fairly cheaply and quickly. For most people the zero-trust security isn't as important but the redundancy aspect of it is nice.

On the Producer/Compute side it lets you sell your unused processing power to do something actually useful. Think of it like BOINC but with a financial reward attached to it. While some people may eventually try to set up data centres as producers, for the most part the intent is to allow people to get some small profits back from lending out their compute power to scientific computations, 3d renders, simulations, etc.

Golem has been through a number of iterations over the past few years and is starting to come together in a fairly cohesive manner now. There are a lot of limitations at the moment but each time I've checked in on the project it's been a lot more versatile and a lot less restricted. I don't think it's ready for a lot of use cases yet however it is getting closer.

So I'd say it's worth playing around with if you like the tech however if you are expecting a well polished product I'd recommend keeping an eye on it for the next year or two.
The S&P 500 P/E ratio is up over 40, a number it has seen only twice before and both immediately before crashes.

Yes. The historical market P/E is around 15.

Overall market P/E [1], and median house price / median income[2] are classic ratios to watch as indicators of how close things are to a crash. Look at those graphs. When they shoot way up, a crash follows shortly thereafter.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea...

[2] https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
You can compete and still be sociable? You can challenge your friends and etc. It works for some people certainly but not for me.
I guess I don't see where the "good" is there?

Being a representative isn't supposed to be a "get rich quick" scheme. They already make a lot of money and IMO if they're going to invest in stocks they should play by the same rules as everybody else.

Edit: On second thought, considering how much they can influence stock prices, maybe they should have stricter insider information regulations. It's a huge conflict of interest.
Bell has been pushing for the banning of VPNs for years.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2019/01/bell-urged-canadian-gove...
Brain Basis of Psychopathy in Criminal Offenders and General Population
Yeah, everything available on the market is democratized by their definition.
We only need to find 0.00013% of the US population

Maybe we should use sortition then instead of elections? What could be more democratic than random average people (meeting some criteria) taking a turn at the wheel?
One thing I've always wondered: Does the stock market basically consist of insider traders making a profit off of people without that knowledge? I feel like even with immense restrictions on insiders in place, information is so easy to pass on to sb. else, that it should be impossible to prevent this.

Heck, I could cough once for buy, twice for sell. Who's going to surveil me and notice that?
Make your own zoom call and record it...
> Historically in this country, we've tried hard to prevent that.

It's astounding to me that anyone believes this. American puritanism has always had an incredibly censorious streak.

Go tell this to any gay/bisexual person not living in a large city, even today. Cancel Culture isn't even close to new. Millions and millions of Americans still live entire lives pretending to have roommates instead of partners. Teachers are still fired for being gay; in the 90s, every gay teacher I knew lived in TREMENDOUS fear. Even in cities. One male elementary teacher I know lived celibate for over two decades because he feared that being outed would definitely leave him destitute and could even eventually land him in jail. He worked in a very liberal big city. Teenagers are still routinely kicked out of home for not being straight. There are still many communities where the key to that raise or promotion is being in the right small group at the right church.

Cancel Culture is not new, and historical examples of it have been far more damaging that losing access to a streaming site. What is new is conservatives finding themselves as a permanent numerical and therefore economic minority. And it's infuriating to them because suddenly the "free market" mechanisms that used to protect them as a numerical and especially economic majority are instead turning against them, even as they hold onto political power, because the market doesn't care about gerrymandering.

I'm not going to hire homophobes because I don't want to work with people who hate me. Is that cancel culture? I don't care. Fucking sue me.

The characterization of Cancel Culture as a "new thing" is beyond infuriating. If you want to roll back Cancel Culture, maybe start by realizing that it's not even close to a new thing.
That seems unlikely, for the same reason that TSMC isn't able to put Intel down permanently. We're reaching the end of silicon scaling. Transistor densities might continue to rise with 3D techniques, etc... but the actual logic is reaching physical limits. So transistors per price and per power are hitting walls.

TSMC pulled ahead, but they don't have a lot of runway to pull far ahead. Likewise Intel can catch up, but they can't retake the kind of lead they had a decade ago.

Semiconductors are turning into commodities, basically.
If you tell me to deprive myself of some conveniences because some people in another part of the world in another decade/century will suffer as a consequence of my actions... I agree with the selfless option in theory, but in practice I will usually choose the selfish option.
Speak for yourself that would be the worst thing to happen to this country, and I don’t know anyone who would rather live in America. I like my healthcare.

Do tell, why is it an evil country and why is it embarrassing?
Nvidia GANcraft
Only mono, limited sync options etc.

I had a bunch of pocket operators so don't get me wrong they're neat devices and an interesting start into music and sequencing but overall I don't think it provides the same abilities

I do like my op-z although I wish it was built a little better and that the iPad app (or another function key) let you zoom in on The sequencer so you could do longer sequences in something other than live record.

Still an amazing device. I can sit down and have a sketch down in a few minutes which is something I could never say about my desktop daw
Clearly not.

Looks like we'd need https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/userguide/channe...

Which isn't bad, but is much more limited than what Twilio provides.
Unless I can export a standalone binary I don't really see the point.

Unity is easy enough if your starting from a template.
Watch the aforementioned Mother of all Demos and compare it to what you're watching it on.
Exactly. That's Costco's right, and it's an example of the system working as intended.

Let me ask you this. Do you agree with illegal copyright infringement being classified as "piracy"? My issue here is the terminology. It's deceptive to classify this behavior as "abuse," as if someone was kicking a puppy.

It's an asshole thing to do, but it's not abuse. No one is doing anything illegal, and everyone is free to feel however they wish about their morals.
Love it, that’s the other side of the coin I like
Do people end up finding concepts useful? They seem nice in theory but I have yet to find a practical case where I want to reach for them. The errors aren't (at least currently) noticeably better than normal template errors, and they can end up being redundant in practice.
I think it's working as intended and that it's insane that people are surprised it's set up this way.

The state and large corporate interests in the USA are very tightly integrated and have been for at least an entire generation.
In the financial industry we have restrictions not only on our own trading accounts, but on any account that we might have reasonable influence over. In my particular case, this means both my brokerage accounts and any of those belonging to a spouse. This is a requirement by our compliance departments to follow SEC regulations regarding insider trading. I don't see why similar rules would not be applied in this setting.
So this seems to be about increased demand for high end components driven by increased IT equipment purchases during the lockdown as people depend on this stuff more. That's the implication from the article.

Meanwhile I'm also reading about chip shortages affecting car manufacturers, and possibly some other industries. The dynamic there seems to be that car makers (and possibly others) cut orders drastically early in the lockdown, which means component makers shut down manufacturing capacity and it's taking a long time to ramp it up and also clear the backlog of orders as demand came back earlier than expected.

So this seems to be two completely different effects going on. I know very little about these industries, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a meeting of these effects in the middle. High end devices often have some lower end components (peripheral and glue logic on desktop motherboards for example) in addition to the potentially pricier main CPU.

Is that the story?
Its well known outside. One of the most famous riders of it has created problems with network security.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/biden-peloton...

Its certainly a certain set of people who are most familiar with them - but that's not a "valley" vs "outside the valley" thing.

> Peloton was popular before the pandemic with a wealthy subset of home exercisers, but with the quarantine, it has become something of a phenomenon in a certain socioeconomic bracket. There are Peloton message boards (“Joe Biden has a Peloton,” Peloton Forum reported this week), and the company’s celebrity instructors have huge followings on Facebook and Instagram.
If you're claiming that all markets are detached from reality for a prolonged period of time, consider that the "fundamentals" you grew up with may no longer apply -- the game has changed, and now you may be detached from reality.

If every other car is driving on the wrong side of the road...
Very likely much less "work" would need to be done. There are a lot of bullshit jobs that are not productive and are just making people feel bad.
It's an absolutely amazing experience especially for first timers (once they figure out the controls). But like most things with VR, you use it a few times and forget it about (besides giving demos here and there).
@Dang /mods feel free to update headline to match linked post
"We, as in not me, should do something that I didn't do. Good luck with that."

These kinds of letters always fall flat with me. This is not something that just happend in the last couple of weeks while the existing CEO was already out the door. This is something that has been festering for a long time under the watch of the exiting CEO. This always feels be bit like Pontius Pilate washing his hands type of move.
"it's clear to me that we need a better vision for how we create value for employees"

It's statements like this that drive me deep into despair. That bland, banal platitude of "value". That non-statement of inaction phrased as "we need a better vision".

And, increasingly off-topic and misanthropic: Why has "ask" replaced "request" as a noun? "The ask is that we improve database response times by 25%". Why is that any clearer?

My apologies for the grumpiness. A security team has decided to throttle all AWS modification requests and it's breaking all our pipelines through timeouts.
Massachusetts Coronavirus daily death rate drops to 380 day low: ‘Vaccines work’
Google Earth may be one of the most wondrous things ever created. When else in human history can you zoom in on the entire geography of the Earth, and now the timelapsed geography of the Earth? Can you imagine what someone like Socrates, Newton, Galileo, or Darwin would say using this tool?
That is eons ago, in Java 8 there were indeed differences between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK, this in no longer true since Java 10, even less so in Java 16.

Now, Java like C or C++, enjoys multiple implementations, so even across OpenJDK, J9, Azul, PTC, Aicas,..., there will be differences.
> Bitcoin CAN be used anonymously if you never use an online exchange to convert fiat to Bitcoin or vice versa.

How do you get a Bitcoin wallet registered and get funds into it?
In addition to possibly using inside information, they also make the news, ie. potentially profit from policy news that they themselves are making.
If we used SQL we also would inherit it's well known shortcomings:

- no proper way to extract and reuse expressions
- parameterizations are basically string concatenations
- a lot that I forgot

There are of course also good things about it:

- it's declarative
- it's easy to reason about (in its base form, no recursion, etc.)
- it's widely used and known

So while GraphQL is something similar, and having solved some of SQL's shortcomings, it's new and has less mindshare. Also, last time I checked, the implementations in various languages (Python even) lagged behind the specification.

I'd say it's a step in the right direction, but tooling has to be improved I guess.
Neither depends on the other.
Quantum computer based on shuttling ions is built by Honeywell
> They realize they lost the other war long ago

No, I vote ignorance. Most people don't even realize the current global political landscape is a battle of systems (E.g. Rules Based and China's Belt and Road Initiative).

The idea that we're pawns doesn't cross most people's minds. Though I'd agree it may be willful ignorance as the truth not only hurts but is scary.
This article is the a sign of a speculative mania peaking.

There is a lot of liquidity. But liquidity has a bad habit of disappearing when margin calls are made.

Don't get me wrong, I'm gambling too. The choice is to join the speculation party or sit out because there is no value to buy. And I'm joining in, but my eye is on the exit.
The simple/safe/reliable 10% was a fluke that should never exist. Profit and risk must be in balance. If it isn't it should attracts more and more people until the balance is reached.
Making it hard for people to join to keep it unbalanced is what happened and its slowly going away now.
What's the best programming language for rapidly getting out a prototype?
Some languages like Clojure seem really interesting, but for the purposes of rapidly coming up with an idea and shipping something hacky really fast, as an outsider, it seems like it has a lot of setup/config compared to js.

With webdev, you can write an html file, some css and slap a js file and you're ready to start iterating within seconds. However, you lose the expressivity of a lisp like CLJS.

So considering tradeoffs between expressivity, developer productivity, "time to first char on screen" etc, what's the best language for rapidly prototyping something hacky that people can use?
That brings to mind questions about how non-good their appearence would have to be to look worse with rising image quality. I say non-good because one could look hyperboring as opposed to ugly.
You can see the live file storage deals here. https://filfox.info/en/deal
I'm still on 1366x768, haha. I guess it's a matter of being exposed to better and better displays that makes it difficult to go back.
I had the same question a year ago and create a side project on that topic. The solution was is very close to the firebase approach, writing security rules. Those rules whitelist sql statements and give some some flexibility by defining query parameters and having a context object that contains userIds and so on. For example:

frontend sql statement as a json object:

{
select: {
name: field(Project, 'name')
},
from: table(Project),
where: equal(field(Project, 'ownerUsername'), '<my-user-id>'),
}

and here a rule configured on the backend:

const rules = [
allow(authorized(), {
select: {
name: field(Project, 'name'),
},
from: table(Project),
where: equal(field(Project, 'ownerUsername'), requestContext().userId),
})
],

Sadly documentation is quite poor for now, but you can check it out here https://github.com/no0dles/daita

Edit: code formatting
> Just snapshot the whole VM if you need a backup.

How do you deal with things like updates? Upgrades to your service?

Do you just accept that you have scheduled downtime when your service won't be available?