skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in my early 50's, and I think 5 failed startups now. I kinda lost count. Just closing off the latest failure this month.

I'm taking July off completely, finishing some creative coding projects that I haven't been able to work on while coding for the startup. Then I'm going to work out what's next.

I sleep a lot. There's no motivation to work. But I've been through this before, and it changes. I went through a serious clinical depression a few years ago, and have learned that the trick is to keep breathing and trust that everything will change over time.

The whole "work hard" mantra is interesting, and not nearly so simple as PG makes out.

Yes, to do great things we need to work hard. I love those times, when I'm inspired, the work is flowing, and all I want to do every day is work.

But working too hard for too long is not healthy. It causes this kind of burnout. Sitting staring at the keyboard, the last thing I ever want to do is switch to the code window. Emotionally drained. It's not a matter of discipline, or willpower. It's deeper than that. I'm literally unable to focus for any length of time even if I force myself to work.

I love my work. I genuinely enjoy building things. But I can't do it all the time. I have to take time away from it because it's a marathon not a sprint, and I need rest periods.
People have been saying AI would end everything and anything since I was a wee baby. It still hasn't happened. How about instead of making the same old tired boring predictions about the impending apocalypse of things we love we start making and listening to predictions that actually talk about how life has been observed to progress. It's not impossible, science-fiction authors get it right occasionally.
There was also a television adaptation, "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" produced by PBS Nova in like 1992, starring Clifford Stoll as Cliff Stoll!

Here is a bootlegged youtube link--it's the best I've got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164

A legend!
Evolutionary speaking, monocultures are risky. Usually resisting the mainstream is a mistake. Sometimes it really pays off in a big way.

It wouldn't be surprising if 'privacy conscious' people had substantial overlap with the 'I want to be different' crowd. I'm still a bit confused about how someone could actually be privacy conscious, it is too hard to understand the tech stack and too easy for data to get picked up by the ad companies of the internet. Let alone government actors.
Thanks Goodness for Semiconductors
The Population Bomb Doomsday Scam
They may not "waterboard creativity out of people", but they provide incentives for affected companies to properly fund R&D into alternatives (both on the technical level, like alternate propulsion systems, and on the business level, like moving from a selling-vehicles business model to a mobility-as-a-service business model).
The main reason that Amateur Radio has survived world wide is that it is largely self policing, which means that it has almost zero regulatory overhead.

But for Self Regulation to work, all ham communications must be in the clear.

Once encryption was allowed it would take only a short time for commercial users to completely swamp the ham bands.
While I still purchase some things from Amazon, anything that's to be ingested or involves supplying electrical current is a no. It's a sad day when GNC is a more reputable place to shop than Amazon.
Veristablium?
Hey Cliff, just wanted to say that the Klein bottle I bought in 2014 or so is the best buying experience I’ve ever had. It’s still the only piece of home decoration I own. Thanks!
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to be looking at HTML cache add-ons for my WordPress site.
Maybe one could say that ioring's asynchronous completion model is a better split because there's no control dependency (blocking syscalls, context switches)?
I agree on your first and second point. As for third, reformatting and updating some old notes is huge waste of effort for me. I don't want to treat everything as a 'live document' because it creates an implicit responsibility to keep all the ancient notes up to date. This is not realistic. I'm also more creative when starting note from scratch.

Would prefer a workflow where a note can be corrected and refined over couple of days, and then enters read-only mode. The only way to correct and append to it would be to create a new note with better text, and optionally redirect any links to the new note.
Looks great for movie sets.
> you and most likely the majority of programmers

You might be right (I haven't met the majority, I have no idea) about "the majority of programmers", but it seems a little rude to assume the person you are responding to is some talentless hack that can only import things off the internet they don't understand.
For the average non-technical user going through the trouble of installing an extension to put files on the desktop is a non-starter. If I switched my parents to Linux with GNOME they would be completely lost being unable to put files on the desktop. If people want Linux to be the next great desktop OS then things like this are a huge barrier to usability.
Completely agree. I have run a company in Malta since 2014 and the banking difficulties are non-stop. I would never open a new company there today.

Expect bank accounts in other countries (like Revolut, Transferwise etc) to be closed suddenly because "Malta".
And signalling the immanentizing of Tony the Pony.
+1 can you share a way to follow along?
4 was an option for me. Perhaps you had to scroll to see it.
Everything you hear and see about the wider world is because somebody else with much more power than you decided you should.

By letting them decide what you care about, you've delegated your decision-making.

I think that's fucked up.

Also everything the other commenter said is right.
This is very interesting to me. Do you have a blog or some other way of keeping track of this?
I thought everyone knew this why was China seems to randomly invest in other countries infrastructure? It's not random, they hope countries can't pay for it so they get to slowly take over a country bit by bit.
I'm giving away $1500 of my own money as a marketing experiment
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Where were you living and when was that? My starting salary about $15k higher than that, but I still couldn't max out. Rent, insurances, car payment (eventually), food, taxes, etc really eat a big chunk. I always tried to save a lot, but it was probably only $14k per year (IRA + 401k). I'd say I'm still only around that because I now have a family to support and medical bills.
I didn't respond to that particular point because you are erroneously conflating saving with investing. Inflationary currencies gear economies towards 'growth' which is understood to be good but, without guidance / direction, this leads to frivolous spending, bubbles, and massive waste. How is this good for the environment?

With a somewhat deflationary currency, an 'investment' worth putting money into has to be worth more than the money is appreciating in value. This cuts the fat as you have to be more picky as an investor, and banks have to be more picky as a lender. However, right now there is virtually no reason to save in this sense, you must throw your money at assets like equities or real estate to keep your purchasing power. You must feed the machine, so to speak.

I think you'll find your argument on the wrong side of history when it comes to saving the planet from climate change. We need a drastic reduction in general consumption and waste while we work to reverse the damage we have done and find much more efficient means of production. We aren't going to get that without a total reversal of monetary policy, alongside strong fiscal incentives for climate conservation. It is far-fetched, but possible for a cryptocurrency to achieve this.
Yep:

https://bit.ly/3w3XyeR
https://bit.ly/3hmGBak
Land is different from consumer goods.

How would you feel if companies started to divide the available drinking water or breathable air? That rich people controlled who can drink or breathe? And that inheritance determined your odds of survival, not based on genes but on access to basic resources?

It is OK if hard work is rewarded with money.

However, it is not OK if people use that money against the rest of us, who made different life choices.

Since land is a limited resource, there is a problem there.
A small dog has just materialised and widdled on my foot. Please be careful when summoning the Old Ones.
> That’s the cool thing about software businesses. You only need to get it all right once. People like to call this “survivorship bias” and other silly things in order to convince themselves that it’s pointless to try. But all it really means is that you get to keep trying until it works.

I cannot upvote this enough. Optionality. And if you refine your approach each time, you will converge at something that works.
Clearly not healthy.
This sentence wasn't clear:

> I thoroughly reviewed all books [tagged with software-architecture] on Goodreads and picked the best objectively

I thought that reviewing a book meant that you read it, but no? Is this a review of reviews?
Not necessarily. Making a technology of this magnitude "feasible" requires substantial investments on a scale that requires buy-in from politics and the populous.

Just look at how cars got where they are now. If cities had not invested in converting cobbled streets into asphalt streets [1], if nations had not invested in building highway networks, cars would not have been "feasible", as you say.

[1] In hindsight, asphalt may look like the only plausible solution for city streets, but it actually causes a bunch of problems with drainage and microclimate because it completely seals the surface. In cities where traffic relies more heavily on walking, bicycles and trams, you will see more cobbled streets because they work better in these aspects.
Genuine curiosity, is data privacy an actual topic in China (considering the purported ubiquitous state surveillance)?
The data indicate that it is quite rare to have $1MM at (roughly) the retirement age (fewer than 20% of those aged 65 have that amount[1]). It may seem like 20% is "common" or even "infrequent," but it's not: it's rare.

Moreover, the median SE salary is just below $100k/year[2]. It's uncommon (certainly not rare but uncommon) for a SE to be able to have a sustained savings rate necessary to achieve $1MM by retirement.

So maybe "peddling a fantasy" is a bit strong, but it's not exactly wrong. For most software engineers (over 50%) it simply is not a realistic scenario.

[1] https://personalfinancedata.com/networth-percentile-calculat...

[2] https://personalfinancedata.com/income-percentiles-by-occupa...
a retracted article is not deleted? how do people keep acquiring and citing it if it's retracted?
A reason others may refer to conspiracy theory supporters as "crackpots" could be attributed to the fact that there's now so many wild theories out there (UFOs, aliens, 9/11 inside job, etc). So if you support a few, then you'd be more likely to be considered a crackpot.

In other words, while those two examples were true, many are likely not.
"Don't you think that if the alternative was feasible it would have already been implemented without coercion?"

No, probably not.

It would be very easy for industry to just chug along cars with combustion engines.

Nobody owns the market, and certainly nobody controls the vast value chains and incidental markets.

The more obvious issues are batteries and electricity production and distribution.

Tesla would not be possible without constant 'Climate Change Marketing' from government and other sources - and - subsidies, which are a non-market force.

There are too many variables to switch, and it works better if there is some kind of 'plan' - regulatory apparatus help shape that.

The 'lighter the better' I think in this case the timing of the announcement and phase out is just about right.
Yeah I would be very willing to try a System76 laptop if they just offered a 1440p display option.
Batteries. Economic viability is the next argument when you externalise the true cost (carbon).
Aviation is responsible for some 3% and whole agriculture for some 10%. Not only you will have very little impact, but it will decrease your life standard. Additionally, you will not convince the whole society to stop flying and to stop eating meat directly. We barely can agree on climate change in the first place.

It is beauty of the free market and capitalism that as the price of CO2 will increase everyone will start looking for ways to reduce emissions without even thinking about emissions. Including innovators and investors.

There is also nice political side of Emissions Trading Schemes. It had no effect when it was introduced and it's impact increases little by little each year. Not everyone who would be opposed realized effects of that system when it was introduced. They are slowly gaining awareness, but the positions have reversed. Now, they have to fight against the status quo.

I see that quite clearly in Poland. Polish coal miners have a lot of political swing, but they did not realize the consequences of Emissions Trading Scheme. Now as the effects are increasing Polish government is not capable of changing it. But they have money from selling emission rights so they can use that money to appease coal miners and other politically important groups.

> But why would systemic solutions get suggested or implemented if individuals didn't show they wanted a solution? Where would these initiatives come from if they're not influenced by the voices, voting power and buying power of individuals?

It's easier to convince people that climate change needs to be addressed than to educate them on how --all-- industries work. E.g. how much do you know about concrete curing, steel and related emissions? Would you be able to make informed decisions with regard to building materials and CO2 emissions? Do you even know if viable alternatives exist? Do you expect companies to spend more to emit less?
I found TFA difficult to understand.

Can anyone translate this into something simpler or more accessible to non-authors?

I don't watch TV or go to the theatre or the movies very often.

I do read a lot of books - mostly non-fiction.

> A reasonable paraphrase here is that we use survival surplus to reinforce adaptive worldviews that help us survive better. By this theory, if you (like me) tend to consume or produce nihilistic satire in the evenings with your surplus dramaturgical energy, presumably that reinforces a posture that helps you, personally, survive better at other times.
YC recently invested in another European-based AI/data science online school, Strive School [0]. What are your main differentiators compared to them?

edit: Also, can you elaborate on this: "We're cheaper than Lambda school because we have optimized-focused learning platform & education processes. With that we can have 70% less staff to deliver the same and even higher education quality"?

Just want to understand your value propositon better as I am seriously considering to attend a bootcamp like yours.

[0]: https://strive.school
The book's design approach suites TDD perfectly. Narrow deep modules allow to freely refactor internals and keep tests green.
Starlink is a global ISP built at zero cost to SpaceX
PG never misses
Oramfs: Resizable ORAM, Remote Storage Agnostic, Written in Rust
I strongly agree with your first two points. Good naming supplants the need for commenting.
I find diagrams a far terser communication tool of architecture than comments.
I’ve heard an aphorism to wit: length is cheap, corners are expensive.
The iframe that the form is in is too small. 4 is there, you just need to scroll
> If every building inspection of nearly every apartment block gives a warning like this, either more apartments are at risk of collapse or the delay was justified.

No, this is precisely the logic that lead to the O-ring failure on the space shuttle.

It even has a name now: The Normalisaton of Deviance
But even that isn't necessarily true. I know of several managers who didn't work hard to get there. Theh were just in the right place at the right time, or in some cases the right gender.

We can abstract this a little. You don't have to work hard. You just have to appear useful to the people in power.

I worked hard in the past. I'm not working hard now - I'm really slacking now that I know I'm screwed. I'm still getting paid the same.
I was replying to the parent comment.
… Hong Kong was a different territory…

CCP has wide spread popular support… the democratic wet dream of china isn’t at all what most foreigner wish it would be… it’d be closer to Singapore than Taiwan.
This story is often told in France:

"Sarah Bernhardt, one of the most famous French actresses in the late XIXth Century, used to suffer from stage fright. Once, a young actress told her she didn’t experience it. Bernhardt answered: “don’t worry, it will come with talent”.
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I didn't say that the book's approach contradicted TDD, I'm merely quoting from the book and refuting one its claims (that TDD doesn't lead to good design). I agree that narrow and deep modules support refactoring internals if their unit tests are written to treat them as black boxes.
It does not die because there's still truth in it. Bureaucracy is still Kafkaesque for a start. I have been dealing with both British and French administrations extensively and I can tell you it's night and day.
GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
Posting this due to the recent unveiling of GitHub Co-pilot and the intersection on the ethics of ml training set data.
The many faces of button in SwiftUI
"The increments of development should be abstractions, not features."

Care to elaborate what this means in practice?
Anything with an unfamiliar and suspicious sounding brand, such as AMVOOM, is a non starter for me. I actually started researching brands.
Love this book. Yep, it has some strange thoughts. But the main idea about deep/shallow modules and their interfaces is a good one.
it's a small company.
We have 15 engineers working on few products
Agree. Market is overloaded with Data Scientists with a 6-12 months courses.
Then they should not have used the SI milli- prefix.
In my limited experience trying to make the Actor Model work, with the AM there is the danger of running into OOP type problems (overemphasis on encapsulation and isolated implementations) which quickly results in an unmaintainable mess. I've watched some presentations of success stories employing the AM, however my hunch is that the use there was a lot more limited and controlled, basically with a close to 1:1 mapping of physical devices to actors. Which I'm not sure is what most people think the Actor Model is.

The Actor Model, in my mind, is the idea of writing "synchronous"/"blocking" code for a number of agent implementations, and then getting that code to scale by scheduling as many of these agents as possible with some fiber or green threads magic.

IO completion queues is the actual mechanism that allows distributed computation (where "distributed" here includes normal syscall interactions with the OS) without deadlocks or bad performance due to high latencies.
If I have to travel, depending on the rules of the country I am travelling to, yes. Otherwise, no.

Why? I am not anti-vax. Here are my three reasons:

Emotional reason: The politics and media frenzy and the strident, aggressive nature of the "get vaccinated" crowd, which is largely the same people who advocated lockdowns have pissed me off.

Personal reason: I have confidence I will weather an infection just fine. I am 55, reasonably fit, no comorbidities and not obese. In the last 8 years, I've had 4 days off work "sick" (they were all hangovers / still drunk after a late party). I'm a teacher so I get exposed to every cold and flu the kids get every year, but I don't get sick.

"Political" reason: As a protest, I won't get vaccinated with a Western vaccine because Russian/Chinese vaccines aren't recognised in Europe, where I live(yet). What bullshit is that ?
Except for the fact that the cognitive load on an engineer reading/debugging foreign code is an order of magnitude higher than that of an engineer who wrote the code doing the debugging.
One of them is mirrored and the way Canon is unreadable on the camera is vaguely annoying me.
This study of Alipay users suggests that regardless of what you thought you were, initial user privacy-concerned activity was largely the same across groups that indicated low, medium, or high concern for privacy.

So in this case you wouldn't be talking about people who actually make different bets, just people who say they make different bets.

Regardless of how users rank themselves in terms of privacy concerns, intensity and duration of engagement with a plethora of Alipay services may be a better predictor of whether a user will engage in privacy-concerned behaviors. This suggests that actual privacy concern may be better described as a learned preference.