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> The main barrier to entry was to not be a "twit", and get along reasonably with everyone.

Pretty much like the internet so :)
This! If I don’t get exercise in the morning I feel really sluggish in the afternoon. It’s counterintuitive but really helps.
In ecommerce, products are often presented to the shopper by search facets, so kind of all of the above applies.
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Yes, we won't know because she didn't try it. And we know she didn't try it because the problem she described is table scans, not "indexed strings are somehow slow in MySQL circa 2002".
FYI, macOS can't deal with SYN floods, unless they added things recently. The tcp they forked from FreeBSD in the early 2000s didn't get sensible syn flooding protections until a few months after they forked. So, I wouldn't recommend exposing it directly as a public service.
Startup mentality right? Lose money on each unit and make it up on traction.....
> Yes, dynamic imports exist but they are sort of an exotic feature that you would only use in special situations.

They're also decidedly inconvenient to use in most situations, because they return a Promise (unlike require()), which means anything that depends on them has to itself be deferred. This further discourages using them unless you really need to.
I did all my BBSing with my Amiga 500. I don't think I ever dared do too much multitasking while I was downloading. First, had to download to RAM:, because if you did something that involved disk, you could get a timeout. If you messed up the transfer, and you got disconnected, then you'd have to try and redial to get back on, which could take hours.
A lot of weak arguments, but the author manages to even contradict himself:

> This is strictly inferior than assets like stocks which either pay dividends from their revenue, buy back their own stock, or have mergers and acquisition events

> grow the pool of greater fools to buy the token so that early token holders can be paid out by later token holders

According to him, it's ok for a company to buy back it's own stock, thus giving it value, but not ok if a later token holder buys crypto from you, which is exactly the same thing.

> Zinc is a commodity because it’s a stable element at room temperature with 30 electrons and it’s shell configuration makes it useful in tools and conducting electricity, as a commodity it does not depend on a narrative or shared collective delusion to give rise to this utility.

Author should open a Zinc price chart, and zoom in on 2005-2009, when Zinc prices quadrupled, and then crashed back to earth, together with other commodities in that commodity bubble. Totally not a collective delusion and financial speculation back then.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/zinc

Also, tulips and beanie babies, really? Are we still beating this dead horse?
It is simple, but not easy. Just replicate DARPA+NIH+NSF, and increase the total research budget by 100x, and ensure there are stable career paths to be a researcher until retirement.
I really don't think it's that far out in the tails, especially given we're discussing top universities. If you're at MIT/Harvard/Stanford you're definitely aiming for 200k TC fresh out of undergrad.
VR goggles make me wanna barf. I get crazy vertigo. So at least some %age of people will actively avoid anything requiring them.
See my reply[1] to another comment, but basically not yet, but it's a planned feature[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141090
[2] https://github.com/excalideck/excalideck/issues/29
I ended up revising the post to add some actual answer as well. It's not a bad thing to ask about and document this era.

If it's homework or article research, I think it's inconsiderate not to say so.

If I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes writing about something, it matters if I'm doing it for you personally, you and a community of people with related interests we're all members of like a mail list, or for your job.

If it's for work or school, you should disclose that, and if you think that will produce fewer responses, that does not justify collecting more and better responses through false pretense.
MySQL, at least as far back as 2000, had indexes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020610031610/http://www.mysql.c...
Evidence that natural immunity is long lasting and on par with the vaccine's initial levels of protection:

Oct 28, 2021

> Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were identified in 97% of COVID-19 convalescent donors at initial presentation. In follow-up analyses, of 116 donors presenting at repeat time points, 91.4% had detectable IgG levels up to 11 months after symptom recovery

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34089610/

Aug 25, 2021

> Model 1 ... found that cases in the vaccinated group (n=238, 1.5%) were 13 fold more likely to experience a breakthrough infection than the natural immunity group

> Model 2 ... found that cases in the vaccinated group (n=640, 1.4%) were 6-fold more likely to experience a breakthrough infection than the natural immunity group

> Model 3 ... found that cases in the infection-vaccine group (n=20, 0.14%) had about half the risk of experiencing a breakthrough infection than the natural immunity group

https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/comparing-sars-cov-2-natural...

June, 2021

> The presence of IgG antibodies to nucleocapsid protein was associated with substantially reduced risk of reinfection in staff and residents for up to 10 months after primary infection.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-75...

Jan 26, 2021

> As with antibodies, the numbers of different immune cell types varied substantially between individuals. Neither gender nor differences in disease severity could account for this variability. However, 95% of the people had at least 3 out of 5 immune-system components that could recognize SARS-CoV-2 up to 8 months after infection.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...
If that was the case then FAANG wouldn't be filled with Asians and engineers from ex-Soviet countries. The makeup of high paying tech companies does not represent in any way the makeup of the American population. I posit the reason this is the case is American culture and anti-intellectualism.

If you look at top public school undergrad programs that don't practice affirmative action (UC's, UW) the programs are almost 50% Asian.

To be clear, when I say American I mean someone whose ancestors have lived in America for multiple generations, since at least the 1950's. I'm the child of immigrants and I don't consider myself an American. My culture places a distinctly different emphasis on educational achievement compared to what you might consider an American.
I work for a company that re-sells GPT-3 to small business owners. We help them generate product descriptions in bulk, Google ads, Facebook ads, Instagram captions, etc.
> medical practice regulation like this has been done by the federal

Yes, by law, but not executive order. OSHA was established to limit workplace injury. There is a long history of trying to use OSHA to regulate workplaces in ways that exceed the authorizing legislation, and each of them have been ruled unconstitutional.

> medical practice regulation like this has been done by the federal government for centuries

You know who doesn't do medical regulation? OSHA. Because they are not authorized to do it. You want to use "The Federal Government" to mandate a vaccine -- then pass a law.

> Note that this is exactly the same panel of the same circuit court that found two months ago that the Texas abortion law

You know the difference between the Texas abortion law and this executive order? One was a law, the other a decree.

Don't try to excuse rule by decree on the grounds that vaccines are good. Pass a law requiring them, but don't try to impose them via executive order. Respect the law.

> This is just lawless.

The executive order was lawless. If you want to mandate a vaccine, then pass legislation. If you think you can ban increases in rent, then do that via legislation. If you think CO2 should be regulated as a pollutant under the EPA, then pass legislation.

Stop trying to rule via executive order, and you can start moaning about lawlessness when actual laws, rather than decrees, are dismissed in the courts.
Scroll up [1]. The thread was him defending the banking system as being obviously superior, by this collegiality, to the crypto world.

If you're right, that his point was just, "between powerful agents within this platform, there exists a state of mutually assured destruction that makes them play nice", then ... well, that's not much of a defense.

The test of a platform is whether it defends the rights of everyone, not whether the few big-time power-brokers can defend themselves by such long-term game-theoretic threats.

[1] https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1443738002065268736
I was the technology implementation manager for the El Camino hospital new tower, built a few years ago, which was touted as the 'hospital of the future'

The top floor was dedicated to LPCH (Lucele Packard's Childrens Hospital)

Upon turn over of the top floor to LPCH, I took their then-director on a tour of her new facilities.

As I walked her about, I asked exactly what LPCH was dedicated to helping, specifically in children...

She told me something that amazed and shocked me at the same time.

---

LPCH at ECH is a floor dedicated to (typically) female children of super wealthy power couples; the children often develop eating disorders - usually anorexia and their are literally starving themselves in order to gain attention from their high-net-parents...

So... they have an entire hospital in Silicon Valley to treat the children for eating disorders that come from the lack of attention their high-power-couple-parent's give them.

So take that in for a second: SIlicon Valley has an entire hospital dedicated to treating the eating disorders of super wealthy tech people in the bay area at the most technologically advanced hospital at the time that it was built...

I was also on the design team of SFGH (San Francisco General Hospital) new tower....

Which Zuck paid to have named after himself...

Lets find out if Zucks kids wind up in LPCH El Camino...
The previous 2018 discussion had comments from the author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763235
In 2002, you started seeing major increases in query run time with as little as 5 joins. Once you hit six you had to start thinking about rearchitecting your data or living with slow response times.

There was a lot of pressure to relax 3NF as being too academic and not practical.

Around then, I had a friend who was using a pattern of varchar primary keys so that queries that just needed the (unique) name and not the metadata could skip the join. We all acted like he was engaging in the Dark Arts.
I'm Russian and I don't remember anything like that, so even if it is Russian it's fairly obscure
My understanding is that proof-of-work is intentionally wasteful; the objective is to make 51% attacks (where a single entity controls at least 51% of the global hashrate) infeasible by attaching a cost to the mining process.

Making the mining process produce useful output that can be resold nullifies the purpose as it means an attacker can now mine "for free" as a byproduct of doing general-purpose computations (as opposed to tying up dedicated hardware), lowering the barrier for a 51% attack dramatically.
A market making model would actually be interesting. Setup a potential seller with a buyer beforehand. Then when the seller buys the new home both transactions occur together and you get 2 sales instead of one
I think the idea was to prevent the attacker from being able to replace the screen without the owner noticing. Replacing the screen may allow the attacker to place own custom hw in the device without the owner noticing (screen is large, has good exposure to audio and video, etc.).

For the FaceID to be secure - which I believe it is, within reason - the chip needs to be able to establish trust with the other components of the chain. It's not achieved with thin solder and glue, but with cryptography. I don't think what gluing it to the screen achieves in terms of security, it's not like you can replace the faceid sensor with a different one anyway.
Money represents immediate value, and basic science is long term value, and it's very difficult to get money to jump that temporal gap.
I used MySql a lot back then, had many multi-column indexes, and never had an issue.

More importantly, given the degree of uniqueness likely to be present in many of those columns (like the email addresses), she could have gotten away with not indexing on every column.
You don’t explain why I should trust this over a regular boring SQL database. Let alone exactly what the actual problem is that is addressed here.

“Supply chain transparency”, sounds fancy though.

The problem is that the data must come from somewhere and blockchain can’t guarantee that the data is valid, only that it hasn’t been tampered with. We can assure that with less energy intensive solutions, no blockchain stuff needed.

And we know how well smart contracts (code is law) are doing.

Trust can never be replaced with technology. Trustless is bullshit.
> Normalization does not mean "the same string can only appear once".

It can, if you want to easily update an email address, or easily remove all references to an email address because it is PII.
Maybe I am opening a local file? Using a local network resource? On a limited/expensive connection and don't want it auto-updating some BS? Running the browser in kiosk mode as a glorified HTML/CSS/JS GUI for a local app (apparently a thing now)?

It's really apparent when I socks proxy into a remote site (via limited 2G) to view a few kB worth of HTML admin page and firefox starts autoupdating a bunch of remote resources.
Hey, I work there! To be honest it's still very much a prototype. We have big plans for the next few months.
Quit and find a new job. No tech company worth its salt should be counting hours worked for its developers.
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> Very often you won't get that upfront research because juniors don't have the knowledge necessary to even start looking for themselves.

Advice for junior devs: Asking "how do I even go about searching for this?" is also a perfect acceptable question. Another format: "how do YOU generally research things?"
From the USPTO docs and screenshot included within them, they seemed to describe themselves as a provider of services. Their LLC's address is a residential home, which is fine, but a little shady for a company that vaguely states the services it provides, while also having a supposed "product launch" delayed, despite no evidence whatsoever of anyone associated with the company, no SEC filings or white papers, or really anything to prove any of what theyre saying. It's kinda weird.
For some people Kagi Search already outdones Google: https://kagi.com/faq#Why-use-Kagi-instead-of-Google

if you want to know if it does it objectively, then you need to set an objective criteria - how do you measure it?
I see these articles all the time and I don’t really get it. Are people walking around just terrified of looking stupid? When did that become a cultural value? Where is that being taught and reinforced?

I just don’t get the need for this article. Asking questions is foundational. It would be like seeing a flurry of “Don’t be afraid that drinking water at work will make you look dehydrated” articles. Or “Just drink coffee from time to time.” Or “Use the restroom when needed.” It’s just weird to me that people need to be told this, and it makes me suspect there is an underlying failure of culture or education at play.

Would anyone who has had this experience be willing to share insight?
The article is right but its ambitions are too low. Everyone needs to ask helpful questions in the right way and at the right time. This is simple but not easy.

I'm a staff-level engineer at a well-known tech company. One of the most important things I do is ask simple/"dumb" questions of other very smart but more junior engineers.

I try to ask questions they haven't considered or explained well. I ask questions that poke at the assumptions and basic tenets of the problem. I ask honest, non-leading questions to which I genuinely want to know the answer. Other kinds of feedback are not appropriate questions.

My Kubernetes and other SRE-style knowledge is limited, so I ask dumb questions there. Sometimes the response is "uhm this is a basic concept" but every time I've done that other engs in the room tell me they were afraid of asking the very same questions. (And tbh many times the answers point to a lack of understanding of fundamentals.)

So the key is to be genuinely curious and optimistic, try to guide others to ask and answer similar questions on their own and present them at the right level of detail in their presentation/documentation. And to encourage all engineers regardless of seniority to do the same.

A key point is doing this at the right times. During a 10-person meeting with directors is not the right time to ask questions that could send things back to the drawing-board. Such meetings are ceremony.

If there are big questions about feasibility etc at a 10-person director-level meeting, you need to go into backroom fire-fighting mode to figure out how to save the project and let everyone save face. In the moment is almost never the right time.

If there are tech problems or questions, ask the small group of people who did the thinking, and ask them in a low-stakes setting. All questions must be asked in good-faith to gain any level of respect and overall progress for everyone involved.

Questions are NOT an opportunity to show off, to politick, or to start lots of little fires that everyone must put out before proceeding.

This is half the art of questions at senior and staff levels: when to ask them, to whom to ask them, and how to help guide the action based on the answer even if you disagree with the conclusions.
i'm not suggesting people don't get the vaccine, but coming in contact with the virus prior to the extensive availability of the vaccine was unavoidable for many.
It's about time for a wealth tax, a securities tax and a transaction tax. Social mobility has been going into the gutters for about eighty years and the US is seriously lagging behind in any social security infrastructure.

They - the top 10% - have had a good run for forty years, now it's time to share the spoils.
> I've been hearing this for years, but I've never had the mental model for it. Maybe I just have to try it out.

Gmail uses tags rather than folders, nice easy way to have a play if you've already got a google account.

Conceptually, I think of it as basically being able to have lots of different hierarchical folder structures applied to a set of objects at the same time. Or to flip it round, a normal folder structure is like using tags but where you are limited to one tag (the folder that holds the object) per object.
I've ended up with kind of a middle ground: A good number of my friends are ex-coworkers. We wouldn't consider each other as friends when we were there, for various good reasons, but as ex-employees, you share the bond that you all "survived that mess."

I believe it is good to build up a strong socialization fabric, woven out of people who you don't spend all working-day with. We have a "neighborhood dads" group that cuts across professions but tend to have age in common. You can have a hobby group that cuts across all kinds of demographic and political views, but is focused on a single activity. If I lose or quit my job, I don't also suddenly lose daily contact with my friends. If your only friends are workmates, that's more of a single string that can snap rather than a strong woven fabric.
Not just a MacBook problem but Apple M1. So far nothing “bad” has happened when my Mac runs out of Ram.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211104193124/https://www.lrb.co...

https://archive.md/WrFgF
did the person/persons who designed the juciero design anything else that would maybe support your contention?

i get the point that you’re trying to make, and I appreciate that the juciero is a great example of a bs product, but I don’t take your point because I don’t think our arguments are comparable.
Odd stance given how much google has historically encouraged the blending of personal and professional lives. Are they reversing this position in earnest or simply desperately trying to get back to the “campus” mode they pioneered?
I did this (bad schema, too much scanning) too.

I also ran newfs on a running Oracle database. (That did vastly less damage than you would have thought, actually.)
But isn't the question also "will your team/manager/obligations allow you to change your approach?" Or, if you want to have more integration with your team, how does that work if they live in another country/state, or simply have very different interests?
Most of the frontiers our society explored and expanded in the last 80 years were borne from world war 1 and 2 technological advancements I'd argue, more so than true elites emerging (or those elites emerged due to WW2, e.g. Turing and Von Braun). If you agree with the author that we need these frontiers, then that's a scary thing for the future of civilization.
> As we know from the history every of every other speculative mania, popular delusions based on the madness of crowds cannot sustain themselves indefinitely.

Madness such as governments printing trillions of dollars of fiat to artificially prop up the stock market and in the process dilute the salaries of the world's entire productive workforce while rewarding incompetent executives by pumping up their stock prices? I agree, such popular delusions based on the madness of crowds cannot be sustained. Not to mention the ridiculous, over-sized, multi-billion dollar government contracts which are repeatedly handed out to big corporations and which add no value at all to society (how many trillions did the government waste on Afghanistan again? How many billions did they then award to Microsoft to build military VR gizmos?)... And what about the huge superannuation/401K funds which invest other people's retirement savings, without their explicit approval, into inefficient, frothy, zombie corporations (run by their friends) which are going to collapse once people actually start retiring and start cashing out their pensions in mass... And the government will then print more money to (yet again) bail them out and keep screwing over the average salary earner and taxpayer. That's why we need cryptocurrency.

If you think cryptocurrency is mad, if you think Dogecoin and SHIBA INU coins are mad, you don't understand the fiat monetary system.
It does pretty well at transforming text into a person's style of talking. So you could have it re-write any sentence to sound like a Trump tweet.
Not specifically BBSes as those predate me by a few years, but parents on the phone getting deafened when I unknowingly connect to the internet via dial-up is along the same lines.

Lots of screaming from other rooms "HEY I'M ON THE PHONE".
America produce huge amount of smart educated people. They choose to not do PhD, because financially it is often sucky decision.

It has nothing to do with elementary or high schools performance. Those produce capable kids enough. It has to do with decisions and priorities those people have as young adults. And they are not even making bad decisions, for them not doing PhD is rational choice.
Its far more likely that you make 200k out of college than win the lottery, in fact at top schools i think most students would disappointed if they didn't get close to that number
Fuse tagging: TMSU. At tmsu.org.
Many. You also expect me to remember how to spell INET_NTOA and on what fields to use it on. What if I wanted do a quick "SELECT * FROM"? I barely know how to spell English words what makes you think I'm going to remember how to spell INET_NTOA.
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