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I only ever worked at startups, always one of the first employees. Different projects, from consumer stuff to enterprise computer vision tech. Most of those companies failed. One was a moderate success (~100M valuation), and when a liquidity event came I made a decent chunk of money.

I love small companies, I love the chaos, I love having that bond around some crazy idea that might never work. I love being in the know about how things work and why people buy our product and all of that.

I used to want to work at Google. I have a few friends that do and the common thing I hear is that it is fun at the beginning but then it gets boring. Things move slowly, people are less excited about work and there's a lot of red tape. Not saying that it's inherently bad, it's just a tradeoff. I could see myself being into that kind of work at some point in life.

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One thing that people often miss in these conversations is that if a company is failing it doesn't take a long time to figure it out. If you join a startup and it's tanking or you think the founders are incompetent, you can quit and go try another one. That's more or less what happened to me. I stayed for 2 months at one company, 8 months at another, one company I almost started with some people but quickly realized we'd fail because none of us knew the problem space. Then I worked at a successful startup for 5 years and we all made money.

Another reason to work at a startup is if you ever want to start your own company. Starting a company consists of doing a lot of different things, so it helps if you have some prior experience with them. I learned a ton of random things working at startups, from interacting with lawyers to doing content marketing. I recently started a company and I talk to other founders a lot and I think people who worked at startups before are better prepared compared to people who come out of large companies.
The mutual benefit corporation is https://lahcommunityfiber.org and I'm now on the board. It's basically the same corporate structure as our water company and so far is treating us well.

Costs are all over the map. My neighborhood ended up being about $12.7k to build out and $155/mo, but we're on a steep hillside and with large parcels in an expensive metro area. Another neighborhood in a flatter area and with slightly smaller (but still quite large) parcels and higher uptake was around $4k.

We were at ~50% uptake. Those that didn't either were outliers with Comcast, or weren't really serious internet users. Our alternative is AT&T DSL at 18/0.75 for $50/mo. We're expecting rebates on the initial build as uptake rises and additional nearby infra gets built, as well as a reduction in monthly cost as our backhaul gets better utilized. Getting enough commitment to be able to nail down costs and avoid the dilemma of a cost death spiral as people pull out of the project mostly boils down to peer pressure. We did OK on this in our neighborhood because the DSL alternative was so miserable that there was strong will to continue.

Construction is hard and the contractors were incompetent and constantly screwed things up. Folks suffering that incompetence got pissed. Getting power from PG&E is a miserable sufferfest and won't be resolved for another year. In the mean time we're mooching power from one of the subscribers and paying him back. Luckily we didn't need a lot in the way of permits because it's all private property, including the road.

If we were constructing in the public right of way we'd either need special permission from the town to do so, or we'd need to register as a CLEC with the public utilities commission. In practice we're working on both, but becoming a CLEC is so far away in our future that it won't be viable for any currently-planned expansions. Usually getting special permission from the town is easier for getting started.
I'm curious to see how this goes for you because in my experience this site is HARDCORE prescriptivist almost like it's a religion it's a bit scary sometimes.
> I wouldn’t be shocked if this was all some conspiracy by Google and Microsoft to make a personal computing unusable so that everyone has to use their cloud offerings.

So you would rather believe in a ridiculous conspiracy than admit that large companies might just be choosing Rust for some valid reasons. Got it.
Progressive taxes on carbon emissions will discourage economies of scale. This means for the same amount of co2 produced you have less production (good things for society) which is pretty bad. Ideally the co2 should be taxed at exactly the cost to reduce it to an easily stored or safe molecule.
> MySQL and mariadb have first class temporal tables. Pg has compile requirement and so cannot use in AWS RDS.

There’s a pl/pgsql reimplementation of temporal tables specifically for that use case.
> They tell it's easy to relearn your native language

It's absolutely the opposite of "relearning" in relative complexity/difficulty.

> remember a set of pronouns for each and every person you interact with, from a basically infinite set of combinations.

I've literally never met a person of alternative pronouns in real life (both the "unintuitive" variety and the "made up" variety), surely you are exaggerating with unreasonable hyperbole.

> Phrases like "if you don't know what X means, you must live under a rock" are common.

I've gotten this constantly my entire life, no matter how obscure or unimportant the information, more often sports and non political things than politics.
Cool stuff. I Love the tiny OS paradigm since i first tried puppy Linux back in 06 (?). It is super fun what you can achieve with a trimmed to the basics desktop OS. I will give it a shot sometime soon.
Virgin Galactic reaches space for first time in two years
I disagree that wealth is limited (we can mine an exhaustless supply of minerals for instance). But he nails everything else.
As hard as it is to believe, the gov. is on our side. They are the last resort against greed. Maybe consider working for them to change the rules from the inside.
Stripe manages this extremely well
It's not the same as McCarthy because they aren't nuking someone's access to anything other than Republican party leadership. McCarthy could take away random citizen's livelihood; Greene is just playing politics in a gross way with other politicians.
If you were put in that position and stripped of all of your privileges, you would also be likely to make similar decisions (not exactly, but we can observe given medians).

That's why we need a UBI - to give the poor people leverage. We saw it a bit with the unemployment bonuses - companies are having to raise their wages finally and are complaining about it, and we might finally see inflation. Every keeps treating it like a bad thing, but in reality, the late 70s with high inflation were the most "equal" times historically, since inflation with wage indexation is actually more akin to a wealth tax on the rich, which I totally support.
I have a MacBook Pro with the same specs. $4000 machine that runs hot with loud fans when I connect an external 4K monitor. It’s annoying af.
It’s not just semantics. Yes, wealth tends to remain with the wealthy. That is a consequence of economic processes, and to the extent that it limits what is possible, it would be good to alter those processes.

Analyzing society into ‘classes’ of people has nothing to do with it. They aren’t real things. That analysis is a political tool whose value is to divide society and leverage ignorance for political gain.

The animals you can see in cloud formations are not responsible for the drought.
A nurse came to his apartment to take the test (I payed for it)
>> I think our generation is forgetting some fundamentals: money at the expense of anything else.

This is a very broad statement and does not apply equally to everyone. It fits well for someone belonging from a well off family/society vs someone struggling to survive.
You're misinterpreting the problem.

Auto-removal of trailing space is only possible if the trailing space is meaningless. Many programming languages have meaningful trailing spaces which cannot be removed. The most common example is inside multi-line strings.
I feel like you are refuting a point I didn’t make. I was just talking about how we re-discover patterns. My feelings on Java have nothing to do with it.
I mean projects get their own names (iPhone was “purple”) but I assume “iPhone 12” doesn’t get a yearly name besides that one. The OSes do get a name, the current one is Azul.
> The main thing is these are not "hot tubs" they are indoors, in a normal room, an apartment, in a kiddies play pool, with kiddies inflatable equipment.

Some are, some not. There are Hot Tub-Streams in Gardes, Pools, beachs. And the whole thing did not even start with Hot Tubs. In the beginning it was just people on their bed.
His RSS feed is https://www.romanzolotarev.com/rss.xml
There’s all kinds of BS you work on at a startup. Dumb projects to impress some VC to get that next round of funding... or chase something because the charismatic founder or influential investor is dead set on a crazy direction... or the CTO decides this company is their personal tech playground... or tech being overbuilt for scale that doesn’t exist yet... VCs that hold the company to impress their friends instead of actually being invested in the company’s outcomes... politics between competing groups of investors...

Its just a different set of trade offs.
A Letter to My Younger Asian American Self
Might need more than one NIC!
If you tax all CO2 emissions you will not “incentivize clean energy” because “clean energy” produces more CO2 emissions.

You will incentivize nuclear, though, which is the cleanest energy.

A much more efficient way to do that, though, would be to simply cut the science denying red tape.
I'm with you on those other aspects being very important, but I'm not sure they are more important in general. After all, relatively few APIs are truly essential, offering access to some exclusive facility that users of that API couldn't also find somewhere else and/or implement themselves. For everything else, unless you can hold enough of a potential user's initial interest for them to carry on trying things out, the other stuff doesn't matter.
A bit too harsh, I admit. Look at something in-between (project length / status-wise) like D. Similar story. Critical traction or a passion uphill road.
> I want Apple to control their ecosystem

Users are free to choose the Apple app store, if the decide to do so.

The problem is Apple's illegal, anti-competitive behavior, that needs to be stopped.

> I don’t get what I want.

If the courts rules that Apple's behavior is illegally anti-competitive, then what will likely happens is that Apple will be ordered to make it easier for people to install other app stores, if the users choose to do so.

> It significantly altered the iPhone experience

You can continue to have that experience. Just don't install other app stores. But, if the courts rule that apple's behavior is illegal, then other users will be able to choose differently.

> declare myself a country now laws no longer apply to me.

What are you talking about? I am talking about the law. You know, the court case that is happening right now? The legal system?

The judge, in this case, in America, could rule Apple' behavior illegal, and force them to make it easier to install other app stores.

> And you already had what you want.

No, actually. What other users and developers want, is for Apple's behavior to be ruled illegally anti-competitive, and for them to be required to stop intentionally making it more difficult for people to install other app stores, using their illegal anti-competitive behavior.

> Why should you force Apple to offer a product they don’t want to?

It is not about forcing them to offer a product. Instead, it is about stopping them from spending so much effort, illegally, to stop competitor app stores. With their illegal behavior.
You meant PHP built-in server (php -S)? It doesn't even support concurrent connection.

Neither mod_php nor php-fpm is related to the built-in server though. Both are designed for production.
1. It was a single player, the rest were other staff

2. Vaccines don't prevent infection, they reduce severity by training the body's immune system. Natural exposure works the same way. This it is not surprising that 8/9 Yankees which tested positive were asymptomatic
Logan Paul turns himself into an NFT Pokemon card
> The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome. Unfortunately the extension is only available as a direct download for Chrome because I didn't bother paying Google money to publish this extension. The Firefox extension is available in the official Add-On store.

This is so sad... I knew they required a paid account to submit to google play, didn't realise that applied to the browser extension repo as well. Oh well, just another reason to stay on Firefox :p
Postgresql does not have real, maintained with each change, clustered index. That itself makes it worse for many workloads than MySQL
A wonderfully constructive comment that keep people using this site, or not.
AFAIK Canada does this by giving everyone a fixed amount of tax credit to offset the tax. That way poor people aren't taxed more but everyone are still incentivized to reduce their emissions
This. You want to capture timestamps as users downgrade, upgrade, change quantity, churn, etc. If you have a status field, timestamp the changes to it. This way it’s easy to get the state of the world on any given day, which is a common analysis that’s done to study behavior of cohorts of subscriptions over time.
Something tells me there's a lot of duplication behind that tally (for example, a single opening spammed out to 50 different recruiters, etc).
The end of this article is particularly weird. Is it really suggesting that a good general rule is to optimise for business metric queries (which sounds like something that would generally run daily during off peak hours or ad hoc when someone needs the data) over the most commonly run reads/updates (which sounds like something that will happen multiple times per minute for every active user)?

I feel like I'm missing something because that seems insane to me.
Guy Goma
And Legalize drugs so crypto market dies off.
Thanks for the recommendation! I purchased a yearly subscription as well.
I can't believe I see a link to my work on HN! :)
What's more likely though: military experts who can't possibly know everything going in all aspects of not just the entire US military but also all of the world's militaries AND the private sector
- OR -
things are extraterrestrial in origin

I'm sure the are aliens out there, but I think jumping to the conclusion that all of these reports are alien technology leaps right over a ton of possible reasonable explanations.
To be fair, it’s not like the GCP APIs are much easier to use. It’s probably the right thing for infra and payment services to have a higher bar for API security, plus they’re hugely complex and usually used as an SDK. That said, I haven’t been very impressed with the Google API dev experience. Example: I was just trying to post some timing data to Google Analytics via Go, and the documented example didn’t work in addition to being very hard to find. I eventually got lost in Firebase docs, which appeared to be wholly unrelated to what I was trying to do, had many additional separate APIs, required that I set up a new project in Firebase in addition to my GA “property”…
On top of all of this, the GitHub auto-generated API examples were outdated (used a previous version that referenced deprecated docs) with no hints as to where to go from there.

In the end, I gave up, because I wasn’t willing to invest hours into learning all the idiosyncrasies. Ended up using Influxdata’s SaaS and got what I wanted going in about 15 minutes. To be fair, most of that time was also because their API docs didn’t actually work as posted and didn’t go through properly installing the client lib, which someone more experienced with Go probably would have gotten past more quickly.
The irony of this joke is very intense, but you won’t get it.

The thing that is most clever about bitcoin is that hating it only affects your well-being, it doesn’t affect bitcoin.

Bitcoin will continue, it is inevitable.
Awk is really such an interesting tool that I don't see people using enough. I could see how awk would be perfect for this
"Bitcoin fixes this, it gives regular people an escape"

Really? It seems to have made a small group of early adopters very rich, a small group of insiders very rich, and a large group of people suckered into buying at 60k+ very poor.

I'm not really bullish or bearish on cryptocurrency, but it has a long way to go until it's something for "regular people".
> Debugging is painful. You forget one value in your dependency list and the weirdest things happen

This should never happen. The only downside to hooks is that the eslint plugin is _required_, not optional. It is not worth the pain without it, but you'll be in a Whole New World once you do it. Since you can auto-fix every time, it'll become second nature and you'll never forget a dependency again. You can focus on getting your application to work.
Only as long as those workloads are bottlenecked on instruction dispatch, and not memory access. I'm guessing systems based on this chip won't have four to sixteen times as much memory bandwidth.
With GraphQL, which is ignoring HTTP status codes, it's always 200 OK. -_-
is it progressive or regressive
and here was I thinking it was the Poughkeepsie branch. Thanks for the tip.
Does anyone take Herodotus as factual? He’s widely known as the father of lying in historical circles and is expected to play up a Romantic view of Greece.
Is it progressive or regressive
> “Software is eating the world, and cars are next on the menu,” says Jim Adler, managing director of Toyota AI Ventures, a venture-capital fund owned by the car maker.

I feel like I've heard that first part before...and it wasn't in a Jim Adler quote.
I mentioned higher up in the thread, but this is exactly why we need UBI. UBI gives the poor some leverage to avoid being exploited due to circumstance(s). Yes, we will get some inflation - but I don't see that as bad. A lot of the reason we have very low inflation right now is because the balance is skewed too far in favor of capital over labor (and that is due to being able to offshore - which should be penalized appropriately, imho).
Have you considered that your lecture on the taxonomy makes you “one of the letter people” and “the letter people” have nothing to do with the people they purport to describe?
It seems like the major cost here is that you need to train a high quality StyleGAN for your dataset -- which is very data hungry - at least thousands of images for high quality results. (The famous face generator used millions of faces)
The best way is to take all the carbon tax collected, divide it by the number of people in the country, and distribute it evenly to everyone.

That way, if you use less than the average amount of carbon, you actually make money.
As far as I know our company does not have such surveillance software. But we all use Microsoft Teams, which changes the color of your icon from green to yellow if you leave your computer for a minute (or stop using keyboard and mouse). So I guess the only difference is whether someone looks at the icons.
Cheap starchy food is satisfying whereas making something from scratch that tastes really good takes time and skill.
This is a ridiculous post.

My full time job is writing Rust for large-scale production systems. The language is great - and as an organization we're doubling down on our investment in Rust this year.
Drugs are not the primary use case any more (if ever), time to move beyond that talking point to something credible.

There are other good reasons to legalize drugs
This blow my mind back then.It is still super impressive.
Personally, if you're not going to release the source for your software I'd rather just run it in wine.

Linux OSes are not designed to run binaries downloaded from the web like this and that's intentional.
Wake Up (Pope Francis Album)
>Sounds like the judge had some very sharp questions, big props to her.

In following some court cases in Tech ( mostly Apple ) this is the first time I have seen a US judge actually doing their job properly. May be this is also because it is the first case Apple is a defendant. All the other case Apple brought forward, the judge was unapologetically Pro Apple. It was uncanny.
I am awestruck that the direction of the blur/motion further reveals the crystalline structure:

https://i.imgur.com/g7A24w6.png

This is the coolest image I've seen in a long while.
If I am correct, in the national accounts, the house households live in is considered an investment.
Does a color exist if we don’t have a name for it?
That is _exactly_ what I've been looking for the past 5 years!
Unfortunately I am still on Mojave, so of course I get an error:

dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_VNRecognizeTextRequest

Any chance to get it to work on poor macOS 10.14?
I’m vaguely reminded of when I was charged with adding sounds to a Java applet game. As a joke I added a five minute sequence of “dying” sounds I found online somewhere. Each death scream was separated with about a second of silence. It was a beautifully comic effect as it just kept going on and on and on. We were tempted to shift it as an Easter egg but it dramatically increased the size of the applet and this was the days of most people accessing the internet via dialup.
>There’s already an OS completely written in Rust called Redox. Nobody uses it.

I find it would be very difficult to convince anyone to use any other OS than the currently mainstream ones. You should instead see this as an accomplishment of what Rust can achieve.

I also think you are undermining Redox OS developers efforts, which is kinda sad.

>Rust code is guaranteed to be fast and guaranteed to be bug free

Nobody claimed this, what people claim is that it can be as fast as C, and it has some safety guarantees. You can still have bugs.

>Rust is for writing blog posts...

What's so wrong about people being excited about something? Personally I find it awesome that a programming language can bring so much enthusiasm to people. In my opinion, what you are seeing here is people being excited about progress being made.

>the compiler authors so wonderful and smart

I sense some envy here, people achieved a great thing through effort and collaboration, we should celebrate this.
Yes, but you have to convince your readers that you did a more careful and meticulous job than 'Top Institution's Best Paper Award' did. After all, a failure to replicate only means that one of you is wrong, but it doesn't give any hint as to who.
That antibody research doesn’t seem to support your initial assertion of vaccinated individuals being at a huge disadvantage compared to those with natural immunity.
Your point about T cell response seems reasonable. A natural T cell response may be able to target internal viral proteins. But backing up a bit, I’m struggling to find the overall “so what”. If a person is worried about getting covid and doesn’t want to be at a “disadvantage” they should...get covid?
Hmm, perhaps i will be able to run outlandishly fast Electron apps.
I have a steak in the freezer right now that is 0.58 lb and cost $2.90. Don't believe me? PM me your email and I'll send you a photo.

And a dozen eggs for $1.99.

The store also sells bulk peanuts for far far less than peanut candy bars cost. Like $2.99 per pound. You pour it in a bag, weigh the bag, put the label on it, and voila! And it's good for you, too, unlike the sugar-ladened candy. No prep required.
Probably because the thought police on HN is becoming to fascist
The BPF JIT is still optional. When it is enabled, there is a separate option to disable the interpreter and always use the JIT (CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON).
Its named after the last names of the creators:
Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.

We're lucky C isn't named K&R