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Ask HN: What do you do if it turns out that your product idea already exists?
There are some improvements I see, but it is very close to what I'd build, and it happened too many times already. I can't execute faster and I don't have enough resources. I got anxiety and depression because of this, but YC says that competitors don't kill startups and there are many startups basically doing the same thing, but they co-exist somehow. So what do I do?
> I would say that the trick is not to do the rewrite. You refactor each part until the entire system is rewritten.

This is exactly the right way to approach this. The best way I’ve seen to rewrite a complex system is to literally work off a branch and deploy it in QA beside the old version. The hardest part is figuring out the right way you want to direct traffic to the “new version”.

My team inherited a massive system that was the key revenue generator for a multi billion dollar company. It was an operational nightmare from deployments to stability. It had at least 1 24 hour outage that was nearly impossible to root cause.

We slowly chipped away at it for 8 months running in parallel in QA until we were satisfied that it was functionally equivalent. Started running traffic in prod while we tuned it to start taking real traffic and had the whole thing replaced in 18 months.

The system was replaced, is handling 2X the load in prod of the old system and hasn’t had an outage years
Yeah, that's fair... Thanks for the feedback (and for all you do for the HN community)
Maybe on a Friday evening?

Anyway, still seems inferior to nano.
> I have some sorry news for Americans thinking this way on this one: you just outsourced yourselves.

> There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1/2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.

> In some aspects, relationships do matter, so those have face-to-face types of interactions will be obviously harder to displace.

I have some sorry news for non-Americans who think most of the high-paying American jobs (especially at banks) have anything to do with being smart or working hard or getting paid half as much.

Those personal, face-to-face relationships referred to matter a lot. As humans, they will always matter.

The main way that remote will impact workers is by allowing people (mostly Americans or folks who could live/work here via a visa) who would already be naturally good fits for the job to live and work in a different place, but probably close enough to travel to meetings and clients as necessary (with a lot of necessary).

Back office work may be sent abroad or (more likely) contracted out, but the core of the businesses that involve trust and/or personal relationships will be collocated for many many decades to come.
> In the case of photography in public there is no authority so no consent is needed.

In the US.
Aviation is the industry of procedures and checklists because it is more and more complex, never simpler. The complexity at some point is so big, people just start taking shortcuts, especially when they believe their experience will help them cutting corners.

Also aviation is not special in any way when it comes to human error. I know details never published about aircraft accidents in my country (pilots talk on the airfield, it helps us knowing what happened and what to avoid) and most were incredibly stupid human errors. I know people who crashed more than once with planes and kept doing stupid things, I personally know 4 people that crashed planes, one of them 3 times, and keep doing it. Pilots are not special, not even above average, and they keep doing things that are not expected. Being tired, bored or distracted makes it worse.
Wear OS Is Growing Again, and Google Has Samsung to Thank
This is why engineers invented the screwdriver and soldering iron :)

It's not hard to just wire shit directly and use an external plug to control the light.
In the Austin area for Samsung, there is an order of magnitude more staff dedicated to verification and validation as part of the manufacturing process than chip design. My perception was that the chip design folks (SARC) are like the golden children of the ecosystem. Their salaries reflect that it's obviously a more competitive, demanding environment. I don't know how hard it would be for a fab engineer to transfer positions from SAS to SARC, but I do remember that it was not a common occurrence.
Thanks for All the Code
In the Boston metro area, a portion of the ‘sludge’ from the MWRA Deer Island water treatment plant gets piped underneath the Boston Harbor to Quincy, MA where it is turned into fertilizer pellets and sold to the public. Very popular for golf courses.

https://www.mwra.com/03sewer/html/sewssc.htm
yes, it was basically the one thing most people would agree that Netanyahu got right (at least if you're not an anti-vaxxer). He basically didn't wait for the vaccine, he went to Pfizer with a plan and worked closely with them to get it to fit their needs.
As a junior employee (1 year experience, entirely remote), you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I've been having a miserable time working remote for all the reasons you've mentioned. It doesn't help that my team seems to really lean into independent work. The biggest thing that I wish I had was more opportunities to learn from senior devs.

Now that I feel like I have enough experience to find a new job, I will be looking for a workplace with a strong emphasis on in-person work & collaboration.
Well, maybe, but think of the flip side of this. I've worked very hard to earn X amount of dollars, however the monetary policies of banks around the world have pushed inflation up, essentially eating up my savings, all the while pushing the interest rate on deposits to zero and below. I would like to not lose the purchasing power that I've earned, so my only choice is to invest in something. I also want to invest in something as low risk as possible; if my hand wasn't forced, I'd be happy to keep my money at the bank at 2%.

Right now, investing in public companies and tech is very risky, as valuations are at record highs. Many experts estimate near-zero returns for decades from public markets. And, as a small-time investor, I don't have access to private deals or markets.

So, that leaves real estate. I don't put my money there because I want to drive up the cost of shelter for anyone, I do it because I don't have any other reasonable way to protect my savings.
I did try exactly that, but the GC overhead was still prohibitively high for my use case, made because big arrays in practice are composed from shorter non-contiguous arrays to make garbage collection even remotely possible.
It was. The key words are "trusted" and "permissioned".

Cryptocurrency validators are untrusted and the networks are unpermissioned.

Money on a blockchain isn’t necessarily cryptocurrency.
Not just land, but land in desirable places with amenities like roads, sewer, water, power, schools, food stores near by.
They are not morons. These things happen all the time.

The issue is the fact that whereas in 1945 fighters cost about as much as a few 'fancy cars', fighters are now 200 homes. Of course, they should be thought of as 'flying weapons platforms' ... but still.

$16M F16 would be one thing, but a $120M piece of kit ... that hurts.

I'm wondering how well the 'downgraded' variations of F18++ or 'some new fighter' will fill the gap or if Boeing can make a 'cheap F35'.
>However, in this case, South Korea is also a close US ally

So is Taiwan.
As a hobbyist photographer I once went on a street photography course in London.
They did cover the ethics and morals of street photography, along with various techniques about what to do if challenged.

UK law is a bit different than US law. From my understanding the US law allows any photography in a public space. While UK law does not allow street photography on private property (although if you're on public property photographing into private property that's OK), plus any photos of places where they'd expect a degree of privacy. So you can't stick your camera over walls etc.

I also checked the laws around photography in the UK and there are general rules around nuisance photography (that wouldn't cover conventional street photography). Additionally I looked at rules around photographing children in the UK, and generally it's not permitted to take photos of other people's children without their parent's / guardians permission.

The photo on the subway in the article wouldn't _technically_ be allowed in the UK, as the tube in London is private property (although everyone takes photos there) and photographing other people's children without permission isn't really allowed.

At the other end of the spectrum, I've also been to events on private property in the UK like Comic Cons. They have a very comprehensive photo policy for both the photographers and the attendees. While photographing at these events I often switch to a kind of "pantomime" mode, where it's very clear that I'm taking a photo and the subject has clearly agreed to be photographed. Other times I point my camera lens downwards when checking the shots and show them to the subject or have the lens cap on. At these events I've spoken to cosplayers who have thanked me for working like this, as they have had trouble with photographers behaving inappropriately.

I've only been challenged twice while doing street photography. Once while on the street photography course where I was taking a photo of a sandwich shop and a guy walked out while I was taking the photo. He politely challenged me and explained he was uncomfortable with me taking his photo. I showed him the photo and explained he wasn't in the shot. The second time I was challenged more aggressively, I was taking a photo of a long street with trams on near a tram station. Someone came up to me almost shouting asking if I took their photo. I explained I was taking a photo of the tram lines, and showed them a few shots. They seemed happier after that and left me to it. In truth when I got home and looked at my photos they were in the shot, but they were just one of many faces in the crowd. This shot was all about the lines of the tram station and how busy it was.
The same recategorization could be applied to any death that ostensibly “communism did.”

Why don’t we call American slavery “capitalist slavery?” It was far more capitalist than any of the deaths people try to attribute to communism are communist.
Texas has better politicians than most. Watch Dan Crenshaw's podcast.
Not sure -- could be button order like captn3m0 suggested.

Something like mobile users outnumbering desktop users and most people being right handed resulting in people clicking on what's easiest to reach with their thumb.
That sensibility is captured well by Jenny Holzer's statement, "Protect me from what I want", which neglects responsibility and puts it on other people whether they want it or not. It's a human personality anti-pattern we generally just tolerate.

Cryptocurrencies represent a respite from the logic of that idea and allow for mutual tolerance, presumably as an alternative to organizing and fighting.

It's not so much a nanny state as a mad aunt in the attic state. (e.g. MMT) Nanny state is an oddly gendered trope, but it's meant to represent not just oversight, but Animus. My argument is essentially that most anti-crypto articles I've read are an expression of ideas that originate from a neurotic animus and an affected condescention that the rest of us just don't buy.
The reduction in risk of infection is nowhere near 100×.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/delta-variant-vacc...
wish they'd take a look at marketing for sports betting (and arguably f2p games) as well.
Erm ... running a copy of yourself with other-person-specific modifications IS a mental model
From just before the dot-com bubble burst to when it had fully deflated, the tech stocks had lost some $5T of stock market valuation - in 2002 dollars. So no, it's completely feasible that there is $2.6T of hot air speculative investment in cryptos. In fact, considering how divorced from practical and technical reality all of the proposed crypto schemes so far have been, that sounds like a low estimate.

There is some value in providing shadow banking to the global criminal underworld, but I don't think it will be the next technological revolution.
It's the same code but doge has inflation?
Do you mean banning books containing well-researched facts, which is commonly practiced in silence, or promoting fantastical fiction books about your political agenda by convincing kids that the evil censorship boogeyman is after them?
When the leadership of an organized religion take steps to protect their interests over the interests of those they’ve harmed, it’s the organization to blame, not the parishioners.

My point was that by behaving the way they did, they undermine the beliefs and goals of the religion to the point that they obviously do not believe the religion they represent.

While Catholics may be “good” or “bad”, the church is a scam. That is obvious by the actions of the church. Catholics could change that or pretend it’s not true and carry on.

It’s almost like people who are trapped in an abusive relationship. It’s actually much worse.
It depends. There is less latency in the IDE due primarily to better GC (just as the article describes). I think the speed is better too on things like indexing the code base, but that could depend on your computer. I'm running on a 32core high end AMD system with lots of RAM, and I increase the heap setting in Intellij to 4G, etc. I think the IDE is subjectively better.

We run all our production applications on JDK17 too, which is why I push to run everything on 17.
Perhaps it's related to express interest in Germany to adopt replacements for Microsoft Office: https://news.itsfoss.com/german-state-foss/
New Variants of Android Spyware Are Targeting Middle East Users
"I've also seen several examples of incredibly racist CRT books in classrooms."

Can you list some examples?
> It's surprising that this is allowed in the US at all.

I’m curious - why do you find this surprising?

> For a country that values personal freedoms, the legalization of being photographed against one's will is unexpected.

And what of the personal freedoms of the person holding the camera?

To make this more complex, what if that person is holding an iPhone, and the subject of their photo is their kid? And what if you happen to be in that shot?

While I completely understand the spirit of your concern, it shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with US freedoms.
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That requires a somewhat radical shift in the societal perceptions of property rights. When the U.S. Constitution specifically mentions intellectual property rights, I don't think it could ever be construed as a "simple solution" to change that definition.
Germany to simplify naturalization process for immigrants
> Yeah the fire drill

I agree. But I've never been allowed to run a fire drill. Rebuilding a network from bare tin is obviously expensive, but not as expensive as losing the business.

And then there's the sheer stress of being responsible for the backups, but not being able to test bare-metal recovery.

I'm interested in backup ("what kind of weirdo is this!"), but that wasn't a fun responsibility.
In most modern economies fiat is backed by the 'full faith and credit' of the issuing government, which requires more young people paying into the pension system than retirees drawing from it. That's as clear an example of a Ponzi scheme as can be imagined, albeit moving on a slower timeframe than we usually think of such things working.
rent-seeking is the economic concept of income being captured from simply owning an asset rather than from productivity. its literally anti-capitalistic, as it's always a market distortion that creates the coercive force necessary to inefficiently funnel income this way. fair markets would compete away rent-seeking in short order.

that's different from providing rental housing, whereby owners earn rent by constantly working to provide safe and desirable housing. capitalism is premised on the idea of using markets to drive down prices to the marginal cost of production plus a small industry-/market-specific risk premium. rent-seeking is entirely counter to that.
So please tell me when that chain is going to break. Next year? Next decade? In 50 years? Is it still going to break within our lifetimes?
Very good point RE people. Running AWS is expensive, I'm sure, but to be clear, I'm not advocating for bandwidth to be free. Just that $0.08 per GB is not competitive.

Also, since CloudFormation is a feature that facilitates creating more resources that you do pay for I'm not sure that is a great example. That is more like saying that the other services subsidize the Web Console. CloudFormation is not a product in-and-of itself, it is more a shared feature that spans product lines.

Code Pipeline is an interesting one in that if it is true it's not widely used and costs more money than it makes, that's a no brainer: shut it down. But there has got to be more to that story why they haven't.

But in any case, with code pipeline there is a clear value chain that ends at ECR/EC2/Lambda/etc. My guess -- and it is just a guess -- would be that someone feels pipeline produces more revenue for EC2 (or similar) and that covers the cost. Or, simply, they have a path for it to be profitable.
It’s not the house that’s worth more. It’s the land. If cities and towns develops, land prices should go up. Buildable land near an office, supermarket and bar should be worth more than the same piece in the middle of nowhere.
What do you mean?

I feel like VS' GUI is somewhat decent
> Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime.

The opening quote in the article captures it all for me, except the last part. The implied definition of crime is so narrow.

From what I know of the financial markets in the US, mortgages and other loans as well as more esoteric financial instruments -- it's all moving in the direction of Ponzi schemes and get-rich-quick scams. I'd go as far as saying that it is all in fact a big organized crime circuit, if you're just a little flexible in the definition of crime (mostly in the part where crime usually has consequences, but the really big crooks have found a reliable way to "socialize" the consequences of them getting theirs).

In that light, having a public, transparent ledger of all the "important" transactions at the top levels could help reduce the amount of routine white-collar crime that goes on. Perhaps it is not explicitly criminal in nature - or it is, but the offenders have far too many resources to be held accountable -- but all the same it's harmful to society at large. An idealist can dream of a system where these actors can be scrutinized, and named-and-shamed into some kind of socially responsible behaviour.
Correct. Which is the reason why having TSMC in Arizona would also help. https://tsmccareers.com/tsmc-arizona/
x = extract, z = compress/decompress, v = verbose (list files added or extracted), f = filename follows.

You can leave off the 'z' if it's a tar without compression. If it's compressed, the extension is usually tgz, tar.Z, bz2, or something else other than tar.

You can leave off the 'v' if you don't want to see a list of which files are being added or extracted.
According to wikipedia/some google-fu Silicon Valley has a population of ~ 3 million people while Austin has a population of just under a million. Your numbers support my comment that you say I "Just made up"
> If you're willing to pay more for identical work because your employee chose to live somewhere more expensive, you're encouraging your employees to live in the most expensive places.

I think the salary adjustments aren't so extreme that you're actually indifferent from living in an expensive place. Also, most employees aren't unattached 20 year olds. I choose to live in a high cost area because my family is here and this is where I grew up.

> On the other hand, if you offer a fair wage for the work done regardless of location, your employees get better value by living somewhere inexpensive, which lowers the required compensation for the same employee.

Would you be okay if the 'fair wage' was based on a global developer workforce? For instance, median programmer salary for the UK is ~$41k while the US is $74k, not to mention salaries in developing countries. Everyone assumes that fair consistent salaries will just take inflated San Fransisco levels and apply them globally when in reality, its more likely that we readjust all salaries based on lowest cost of living.
Minnesota, actually.

For what it’s worth I don’t shop there. The one time I did I was unimpressed - that was the first time I’ve ever seen fruit flies in a grocery store. I also needed to go to my regular grocery store after and it was a huge timesuck.
You are asked to accept new ones when changing store location
Moving staff from China or Poland to the US is a non-trivial exercise with all sorts of limitations, and FYI, that definitely lowers the local market rate.

The 'True Shift To Remote' is a big game changer because institutionally, people at the office had a kind of existential value proposition: "We are Here!" - but that prop is distinctly diminished if they don't think they have to be.

BigCorps are making the shift.

It will be interesting to see it play out.
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The problem of gambling is ruin maybe