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Sadly, not that easy.

> you don't really need to worry much about supporting legacy products years after selling them to customers

You really, really do. Missiles are expensive, and stay in inventories for a very long time, and they need to be made compatible with every update to every platform that can make use of them. That wouldn't be so bad, but then you also need to prove that they work with all those platforms. This is hard.

> they are not expected to be functioning after just one use.

Missiles are only fired once, but that doesn't mean they are used once. The typical "use" of an aircraft carried missile is that it is attached to a plane, powered up, and then the plane does a sortie and lands, and then the missile is removed and maintained. There is a lot of maintenance that is done to the missile daily.
Years ago a major company acquired another major company and there was a major reorgnization that resulted in a consumer software service that is now a household name, turning out a few billion in revenue. The acquiring company also has an accelerator, and I worked at a startup that went through it.

We were trying to get a piece of that pie - we had the relationships, and even had successfully gotten the product into the hands of the users who were begging for licenses to incorporate it into the new service. But we ran out of runway before a check was signed, everyone got laid off, and the product will never see the light of day.

Fundamentally the reason it failed was that we put all our eggs in one basket, and we were trying to sell shit to people who couldn't pay for it even if they wanted to.

This big business had a particular culture that could be called, "decide by committee" (I forget the actual name of the process). Essentially, no one in the business was really empowered to do anything by themselves - every decision had to be approved of by a group of stakeholders, in a meeting. If the decision is a good one everyone shares in success, if it is a bad one everyone shares in failure (although one could argue everyone takes credit for success, and no one takes blame for failure).

This is bad in theory and worse in practice.

What killed the deal was that the people we needed to sign off on the purchase were almost never in the same state, let alone the same office. And this was pre-covid when remote meetings were not considered viable at that business. It took eight months to negotiate the sale and another 6 months to schedule the meeting to sign off on them.

I was laid off about six weeks before the meeting happened, when we ran out of money. By the time it did, the other company was offering to acquire the startup for less than what they would pay for the software.

There are a lot of morals to this story that seem obvious in hindsight, but it's easy to get lost when you're burying your head trying to reach some milestone that is unachievable.
tease out if someone is a creative thinker

While I get your point and have been in a similar position myself as the interviewer, the longer I've been working the more I think "creative" is just as much of an overloaded and under-defined term as "smart". These days I just look for the ability to think through complex things methodically, and the creative spark will show itself later, and in place of innate creativity, the ability to churn through lots of ideas when it's needed is a serviceable substitute.

And if by "creative" the interviewers (not necessarily you) mean the ability to come up with novel but compelling ideas, that's something that happens on timescales longer than an interview and certainly not under interview pressure. The people I know who are best at generating novel, compelling ideas do it on the timescales of weeks to months.
Some market participants are. Certainly the wildcat banks and Paolo Ardoino are having an argument with reality.
That may vary by registrar. My .com domain is about 2 years out from renewal and the most it will let me add is 8.
That is the plot of at least 3 Avengers movies.
This is true until you get to a certain scale and then you start looking at your margins and realize a ton of it is your wasteful use of AWS.

I spent a big chunk of my last 2 jobs dealing with that issue.
Apologists unironically describe Apple as being the Apple users' union[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27280527
I remember a scientific book that said: "we will never know if exoplanets exist because they are simply too far away to see them". So be careful what you write.
What a great project and so incredibly nice of them to open source at least something.

There was another airborne wind turbine project that was based on a blimp filled with hydrogen/helium, the name escapes me right now.
I think the author ends up missing something about the social aspect that has shifted in video games. Other comments rightly point out that social interaction in video games is not at all a new phenomenon. But I do think the rise of Twitch streaming has legitimately changed the way we interact with video games (and with each other in the context of video games).

Streaming and watching streams is incredibly popular among Gen Z (and earlier generations to a lesser extent), and that creates different dynamics. There are more interactions in the vein of a streamer interacting with fans, rather than a bunch of people collectively playing a game together -- though there is still that too. These streaming channels also have communities that build up around them, so people watching are interacting with each other as well.

In some sense, gaming has moved from being solely an "entertainment-by-playing" industry, and added a level of "entertainment-by-watching" as well. I have fond memories of watching my friends play a game (as we passed the controller back and forth between levels/deaths), sitting on the floor in front of the TV with each other. But streaming communities focused around watching others play games feels like a new social phenomenon to me.
Both methods are fine.

Let's say you press the Random button first. If it is actually the Coke button, you get a Coke, and you can stop. Otherwise it's actually the Pepsi button, then you press the Pepsi button since that is actually the Coke button. So you get a Coke in one or two button presses.

Basically there are only two permutations of buttons possible, because all other permutations are disqualified by the "not the same as before" rule. Since the goal is specifically to get a Coke in the fewest button presses, you just have to not start with the Coke button since that is the least likely to produce a Coke.
... we're talking about community mesh networks in NYC, right? That doesn't seem like it could work if every participant needs to rent commercial space to the tune of five figures per month just to place an antenna there?
If you go to the DIY section you can choose to not get an OS.
Why Poor People Drive Expensive Cars
Population fertility is one of Subsaharan Africa's global advantages. The promotion of alternative lifestyles is a population control strategy. Why is it surprising when an African nation exercised its right to self-determination?
Given the nature of branch prediction, I’d expect it would still help dramatically in the case where the list was almost entirely sequential, which seems a bit more plausible.
I'll have to add this to my list. It sounds deliciously dystopic
if they "violently and successfully interrupted a core democratic process", why do you think the charges being levied against these terrorists are so light?

Why no charges of insurrection?
That is the trick.

In the happy path you are not assigning(`node=next`).

It is taken care of by `node++`, which removes the loop dependency and the processor can use the full instruction level parallelism.
Flaml – Cost-effective hyperparameter optimization AutoML
As Louis C.K. said: "because some things are, and some things aren't"
I'm not sure the negative comments are due to some tribal rationalization. The social network-ization of society hasn't had great effects in a lot of cases like increased depression and affecting the course of democracy. I think facebook has proven that the only thing that they care about is the all mighty dollar and their leadership seems to have machiavellian like reasoning of the ends (connecting the world) justifying the means (monopolistic like market dominance by assimilation, duplication and/or crushing of competition). The guy at the helm literally models himself after caesar and has absolute control over the company.

They are proposing to further mold and control society. To me, that sounds a lot like some kind of dystopian future and not something I would enjoy being part of. It may sound nice and all butterflies and flowers, but I don't think it would be prudent to just ignore their track record and say "o, it will probably be fine".
There are other ways to do that besides pulling the data off the host machine. For example, they could prompt users to choose their OS prior to downloading and track downloads. Give different (or even identical) copies of the installer version numbers depending on the OS that was selected so updates only have to see what version you have installed to know which OS is in use. Maybe add a prompt letting users whose OS doesn't match the version they're running know that if they have issues to download the version for their OS...

Seems over-complicated (and it is because they could just decide to stop supporting an old OS on their own using any number of criteria), but still probably less work than collecting and securely storing IP addresses and computer details, trying to anonymize that data, controlling access to that data, making sure it's all deleted appropriately, having lawyers review court orders for the data they've collected, etc.
Peak-to-trough, the Pound Sterling lost about 25% of its value against the Deutsche Mark during Black Wednesday. It lost about 30% over Brexit. The Aussie dollar fell about 35% against USD during the 2008 financial crisis. The Euro fell approximately 40% against the Swiss franc over the 2011 sovereign debt crisis.

So yes, "real currencies" can and do fluctuate significantly in terms of exchange rates. It simply makes no sense to contextualize exchange rate fluctuations as "annualized inflation".
If only he knew it would be used for growing digital tulips.
This sucks. I have an old program called Jazz Guitarist I bought from PG Music, the makers of BIAB back in the 90’s, and its a treat to see it run on my iPad/iPhone. Even the QBASIC example programs for different sort algorithms is so cool.
In our school district they have multiple tiers: normal classes, honor classes, AP classes, college classes. It amuses me that AP classes are weighted higher than college classes. That is, it would just amuse me if it didn't affect my children.

So students can take a college class, get an A, and receive college credit. Or they can take an AP class, get an A, then take an exam that might determine whether they get college credit. Why take an AP English class when you could just take College Freshman English? Because the AP class will be better for your GPA.

I get to see first hand when advisers are sticking a kid in an AP Government class that is completely pointless instead of the Honors Biology class for GPA reasons. Never mind that the kid wants to be a botonist or marine biologist or anesthesiologist. We don't have room for that. We have to maximize their GPA. Stick them in AP English instead of normal Stats even if they could be in Stats and normal English and are more interested in Stats.

If your kid didn't take the Honors Ag class as a freshman, they're already mathematically eliminated. They will never recover the additional 0.025 point GPA advantage. There are only 64 academic slots available in a four year schedule. There are are 32 highest weighted classes, 16 mid-weights, and 24 low-weights. Only four of those can be taken as a freshman. If you miss just one opportunity, you're out.

So you have a 4.0/4.0 GPA, 4.625/4.75 weighted GPA, and a class ranking of 53.

And hopefully a support group that helped you understand and choose what is most important in life.
I thought it was a perfectly reasonable question to ask someone trying out for Microsoft's new manhole design division
Usefulness of the question aside, dismissing it as stupid is at the very least, shortsighted[1].

[1] - https://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/
If you're a tinkerer it's pretty easy to bypass - the main method of rooting currently is Magisk, which also includes a very powerful self-hiding mechanism, able to bypass SafetyNet and most other root detection methods.
I'd pay good money for a Palm/HP Pre or Nokia N900 reboot.
You can do something like: Keyword - Quora
Something like this for bottom-up dynamic programming would be great.
Definitely Greg Bear.

When I started reading grown-up SF decades ago it was with Bear, Bova, Niven, Pournelle, and the like. Back then Eon, Blood Music, and Ringworld (for example) were mind-blowingly vast concepts.

As an aside (and purely because it's probably my turn for some hefty downvotes) I'd definitely agree with the comment elsewhere in this thread about the Foundation books being overrated. Almost unreadably dull and feeling more like any concept of 'plot' is just a carrier for a couple of mediocre ideas.
Incredible video, thank you! I thought it really was a Planet Earth segment but it slowly became more and more hilarious.
Its just dismissive and rude sounding.

Why is it sad? Surely the people who built it and use it think its cool. As others said "late stage capitalism" is a very opinionated and loaded phrase.

Your comment is very negative, without inviting room for critique or feedback. It does not open a discussion, just judgement and derision.
I've also seen plenty of projects which did not use proper authentication and authorization because devs were too lazy to implement it or to learn the platform they were developing on (e.g. AWS). It's an indirect effect on privacy, but when it hits it hits hard.
To be clear, inflation isn't exchange rates. That's a change in how much you can buy in a foreign country with your currency - and how much of your goods they can buy with a unit of their currency, not how much you can buy at home.

Bitcoin's purchasing power fell equivalently the world over and so inflation is a more useful benchmark to compare the loss in purchasing power than foreign exchange is.
I think your example is a good illustration of my point...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali

"McKinley" occurs 60 times on that page and is in the first sentence of the article.
> This discipline doesn't exist in C++.

And this is where the argument breaks down for me. The C++ vector class can be just as safe if people are disciplined. And as you even described, people in rust can write "unsafe" and do whatever they want anyway to introduce bugs.

The language doesn't really seem to matter at the end of the day from what you are telling me (and that's my main argument).

With the right template libraries (including many parts of the modern C++ STL) you can get the same warnings you can from Rust. One just makes you chant "unsafe" to get around it. But a code review should tell off any developer doing something unsafe in either language. C++ with only "safe" templates is just as "actually safe" as rust is (except for with a better recovery solution than panics!).
Webhooks – The Definitive Guide (2019)
Douglas Ranch, a planned community under development in Arizona
Hi, Kevin. :) As of the time I left, the bulk storage system I worked on - images, video, machine-learning datasets, backups of other things, etc. - held most of the bytes at Facebook. The MySQL/TAO complex had orders of magnitude more addressable objects, undoubtedly handled many times more requests and bytes in flight per second, but when it comes to bytes at rest they're not even number one.
So after coming back, I had the opportunity to speak with some old yoga teachers who had been around for a while and studied how modern organizations like the "Vipassana" one by Goenka was created. Vipassana used to be only administered to people who were already very 'fit' to meditate 6-8 hours and who were ready to 'go deep'. Think years of training at an ashram, doing all the marshal arts/yoga things. (think shaolin/ashtanga yoga, not that easy lululemon fluff). I also spoke to a chinese massage person who dealt with lots of martial arts students (these guys were tough) and some had come back from the center _fuucked up_ in their nervous system.

I think its a symptom of our western culture where we can try things out without the necessary 'pre-conditions' or prerequisites taken care of.

If your comfortable sitting cross-legged for around 2-3 hours upright, no back support, and dont have knee pain after a session like that, also have no stress and no psychological issues... then perhaps its for you. Some people seem to benefit from it... others, it makes them 500% _more_ crazy than before.

I also hear its great for criminals whose minds are so 'set' in their ways its hard to mentally break through to them. some videos have been made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHib5VaCeE

I think for lots of the HN crowd, we are type 'A' learning personalities who can endure a lot of pain pushing through to achieve knowledge etc... however, pushing through against your own inner psyche is usually a bad idea, you want to gradually go up against it, and use bodily medidations like yoga to work with the Trauma. Sitting in a static position for 6-8 hours and doing intense absorption technics like the OP Article, can be a recipe to set off a bomb in your nervous system. I think a better solution for a lot of people is to see a therapist to talk about mental health (finding a good one is hard in itself), and then add in sustainable exercise routines to stay healthy.
This isn’t really a filtering issue though; this decision was arbitrary. It is an App Store New Rule of the Week issue.

Stores and platforms can and should keep all their sophisticated fraud-detection tools, hardened runtime environment, etc. and continue to guard against untold numbers of awful apps.

The human review is supposed to take over where the mechanics fail. Yet we know (from Epic trial, etc.) that Apple has a comically small number of people assigned to this, relative to the millions of apps in existence. We can extrapolate how little time must be spent on each human review.

We also know that people outside of Apple were able to dig up scams pretty easily, without even having access to all the tools/data that Apple must have. Apple clearly could have invested more in this, and did not.

So we know (1) the Apple review team is limited, (2) serious problems can still be found with relatively little effort, and (3) they nonetheless choose to spend their limited resources chasing minor violations of App Store Rule of the Week.

We also know from the Epic trial that, despite what they say, Apple certainly will give some developers special treatment. This means leniency or rule-bending was an option for them here, and who better to work with than a developer like this, who has spent years writing software for Apple platforms, clearly increasing the value of Apple devices in the process? Apple looked at that years-long relationship and said: “get out of our store”.
Always great to see more YC startups from LatAm and Chile!
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Two different things. Cryptocurrency is lacking regulation. Insider trading is a broad and ambiguous term up to the SEC to decide and as I would imagine is a difficult task to prove.
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In most countries students apply to just 1 or 2 colleges. Because college admissions are predictable in other countries. In the US students apply to a dozen or more colleges, and each college requires custom essays. Then these applications go through "holistic reviews". In reality, because of the huge volume of applications, colleges spend 6 to 8 minutes reviewing each application, and the reviewer is often an inexperienced 22-year-old graduate student.

The system of "holistic reviews" and unpredictability was introduced to control the number of Jewish people being admitted to top universities. More here: https://circles.page/5680a56b5c28af0998656e09/College-Admiss...
Hi Daniel. I'm probably just overlooking it, but I can't find a link on your site to submit my land for assessment. Should I just send an email to info at sitenna?
Something is very off. The post claims an 8000% markup but others have pointed out that AWS is in line with other cloud providers and the same math shows cloudflare with a ~3800% markup. From u/andrewguenther:

AWS Egress - $0.09/GB

Azure Egress - $0.0875/GB

GCP Egress - $0.11/GB

Alibaba Egress - $0.123

Cloudflare - $0.09/GB pre-April 2021 $0.045 now

1. If AWS is charging me $6 per Mbps for something that costs them 8¢, why is Cloudflare charging me $3 for the same 8¢ good?

2. What is going on with the price of the underlying technologies that make up network capacity. Is it just fiber and switches? Are these costs going down?
> The Windows 11 Taskbar sounds pretty bad from your description.

Alas, it is.

There's a short thread on Twitter about it here: https://twitter.com/dixonary_/status/1409852434609020933?s=2...
Romania also don't work like that, in principle. They are simply much poorer country than Norway. 30k EUR salary in Romania is upper middle class income, so it is heavily taxed. People making average wage pay much lower taxes.

Also, if I get the linked calculator right, then it expects you to put MONTHLY salary, in RONs, not EUR. So, just putting 30000 there you get a monthly salary of over 6000 EUR, or 72k per year. And that's taxed at 41%.
I don't get the derision for these kinds of problems. And I think it's unlikely Feynman would have found this unhelpful. These are commonly referred to as Fermi problems. Fermi was a physicist of Feynman's generation - they were probably standing together at Trinity when Fermi did the famous yield approximation. The other physicists held this ability in such esteem they gave it a name and remembered him for it.

The question is meant to gauge whether you can create a simple model of a system that is completely foreign to you, but for which you are familiar with the fundamental rules governing it. The absurdity of it serves to remove bias. You don't have to worry about whether or not the candidate happens to have experience filling airplanes with ping pong balls. So much of effective programming is creating a model for the processes we are trying to automate. Coming up with effective abstractions uses many of the same skills.
I think Lyn Alden does a good job separating velocity from inflation in this article: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/

There is a common idea that high monetary velocity (GDP divided by broad money supply) is needed for inflation. However, the data show that this is not the case.
Women and investors of color prefer cryptocurrency over stocks
Good points. I would guess that for something to be implemented, it would have to be easy for browsers and API tools to check once per domain and cache the response and should probably be something that already exists and has been adopted. Maybe a page could have a meta tag or header that contains a hash of the destination sites DANE signature? Something like "targetref:somedomain.tld expectsig:39726a2fe2bb052cf00e6b95a8385f7" based on tools like danecheck [1] or maybe DNSSEC but that is very poorly adopted.

[1] - https://github.com/vdukhovni/danecheck
Town Government in the Middle Ages (2017)
Billion dollar question: do you get more bang for the buck (return on investment, ROI) out of improving robot control schemes, or out of designing the product with automated assembly in mind?

Bonus: the ROI changes as you invest in either bucket.
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Everyone could craft their own bombs at home for a century, and have them detonated remotely for decades. Very few actually did it.
Perhaps ironically the original Apple Watch wasn’t much more than an external display for the iPhone.