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Canada had Mulroney and Britain had Thatcher with Reagan.

Reagan declared that he had come to Washington to “drain the swamp” of bureaucracy, and set up the Grace Commission to investigate the operation of the U.S. government. Thatcher and Mulroney were equally committed to reform and initiated wide-ranging changes. By the end of the 1990s, the changes were dramatic. Many governments operations had been privatized in all three countries, and new management techniques had been introduced. In Great Britain, one observer judged that the changes were historically as important as the collapse of Keynesian economics. Is government now better in these countries, and was political leadership right in focusing on management of the bureaucracy as the villain? Savoie suggests that the reforms overlooked problems now urgently requiring attention and, at the same time, attempted to address non-existent problems. He combines theory and research based on sixty-two interviews, nearly all with members of the executive branch of the governments of Britain, Canada and the United States.
--Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney, In Search of a New Bureaucracy By Donald J. Savoie
You made me click through, and I could not recreate. Is this the new viral marketing? I truly just was reverse psychology'd
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Hm, sometimes when I’m interviewing someone who I know is a “no” it feels like I’m leading them on if I go through the full interview. I thought it would be more respectful of their time to let them know that early, but maybe I am wrong about that?

I’ve also heard (via HR) about candidates being surprised to not get the offer in cases where I kept the interview going and pretended things were going well.
I couldn't agree more - I wrote a presentation on the basics of startup branding too - https://www.jacobjacquet.com/blog/on-startup-branding
The fact that it takes 1.5 hours on essentially an early 2000s supercomputer cluster full steam ahead to compile a fancy HTML viewer with integrated lightweight Java-like mini script language is bonkers.
> That isn't a criticism of GPT-3 by any stretch, as comments like this seem to often get interpreted that way, but the "taking all possible jobs AGI" hype seems a bit out of control given it is just a language model.

Note the "taking all possible jobs" scenario is not all that… possible. Strict supply and demand analysis doesn't really work for jobs, for instance because labor creates its own demand, and you usually run into fallacies like Luddism and "lump of labor". At worst, comparative advantage means you'd have a job being human, something AGI can't do.
What happens when you need to update some dependency within that image? Now you have to do an image rebuild. If you're lucky only the top-most layers will be rebuilt and the base layers stay the same, if you're unlucky nearly the whole image is rebuilt. Usually we just want to update some subset of dependencies, but during the rebuild some other dependencies may get updated unintentionally (eg if they aren't pinned to a particular version). For most, this may not be an issue but at Replit, everyone's projects use this base Docker image. Unintended updates can cause breakage for our users.
Sorry, yes, I did mix up CR and LF in my example output that I would expect. So then I would actually expect:

: No such file or directory

(And the rest still applies.)
I’m interested in something like this if you would like to connect.
Our rate of carbon emissions is changing slower than we hoped. Would that count?
I'm also a founder of an $xB fintech (Coinbase!) and I have to say, this does not ring true to me at all.

I've known Patrick since 2013 or so, and I have found him to be nothing but the highest integrity. Same for John. We are semi-competitors (not a ton of overlap) so you might find it strange for me to stick up for him like this, but I just think this description is wildly inaccurate. As one small example, Patrick has proactively told me when wanting to build competitive products, even when he didn't have to (very positive sum thinking).

He has direct control over reporters and YC? I'm sorry but this sounds like conspiracy theory.

People are living all over due to covid - so what. Remote is the future of work.

There are plenty of more reasonable Occam's razor explanations for some of what is being reported in this thread (and from the OP). You always have to assume ignorance over malice first. For example:

- companies often look at startups they may want to acquire, and decide to pass for various reasons (saying no more than yes is a good process), they then launch their own products (this is why they were looking at acquisitions in the first place), pretty normal

- any time you have thousand of interviews going on, you are bound to get some bad candidate experiences, I know for instance these happen in Coinbase periodically, and we try to minimize it for sure, but you will not get it to zero (especially when growing quickly)

- most rational explanation for OPs issue is that references were checked and came back luke warm/negative, so more were done which delayed it etc (they may not tell you this was the reason to protect sources btw), this is one of many potential reasons, i'm guessing, but benign explanations are more likely

- also, "discussing details of an offer" is not the same as receiving an offer

Anyway - if people had negative experiences, then feedback is great. I just hate to see HN jumping into tear downs and wild conjecture like this. Patrick and John are great founders we can all learn from, and yes human like all of us (not perfect). Let's all help each other improve here, and assume positive intent.
Basic economics assumes a functional and competitive market. The majority of markets in America no longer fit this criteria - today's corporate environment is closer to neo-feudal than capitalist; if we want to return to "true" capitalism, we need a lot stronger anti-merger and monopoly busting efforts.

I highly recommend listening to "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber on the observed inverse relationship between pay and [actual] value (if we're talking about societal value, for example). There are exceptions to the rule, but the correlation is quite strong.
I mean that Seems like typical big company behavior. Maybe you are so special that you usally get treated better but a typical non tech engineer gets that treatment in big companies
It also encourages you to be more concise, clear and mindful of what you want to say. The problem you outlined stems from the posters and not the platform.
I'm not defending Stripe here but this is a rediculous take. Perfection is unachievable.
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Citation? :)
Wills need to be “dated," but not “correctly dated” (1904)
My college boyfriend worked at a radio station and I ripped so many box sets during that time. Seeing the stax one reminded me of being a bit younger than I am these days
Our whole society is based on the assumption that there are very few determined threat actors. Literally nothing would function if not almost everybody would agree that it's a bad idea to try and break it. I don't think you can change that without making society an unlivable hell.
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Also, consider adding tooltips -- I don't read hieroglyphics and have no idea what all those icons do.
We host our own Maven and PyPi. External artifacts get pulled into the cache and devs get all their artifacts form our cache. If an artifact already exists in the cache then we never update it.

Super easily honestly, one of those things that we never even think about until someone upstream does something that would have screwed us anyway, like republishing a version number
hate to say it but I've been trained to assume it's a no unless I get a yes within a week.
Funny you mention that. Guix which is a fork (of sorts) of Nix is written in Guile Scheme which uses ice-9 as it's namespace in a lot of places. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2010-07/msg00...
The challenge I see with some phrases like "mined them" and "ghosted" is that they can be very subjective statements. The person on the receiving end may perceive the actions as such, whereas the person on the giving end may seem them differently.

I don't know what happened, just trying to point out that it is possible that a person felt slighted by certain actions and the person doing them may have no idea the other felt slighted and the person hasn't told them directly. But maybe they did, I don't know in this specific case.
> The performance that SolidJS eeks out of the DOM is really next level.

Kind of a weird way of putting it. Intuitively any framework abstracting concepts on top of DOM manipulation has to be slower than direct DOM manipulation.

But yes in comparison to other frameworks, the benchmarks they make do look impressive.

Now I'm curious to do some benchmarking of my own.
thanks for sharing the details! were you worried about entering a crowded space? is the frozen treat unique?
Yeah. The economist paralleling the two is carrying massive massive water for weak kneed authoritarianism. Oh no, their haircut wasnt manly enough for us leaders taste, gonna stop that is far far removed from a principled, with cause outcry against predators & abuse.

There's some serious fucked up 1984 oceania was always at war with Eastasia shit going on in this econist pueces & these threads. the production, that there are similar forces, is horseshit. society expressing it's democratic view of whats ok versus leaders forcing cancellation, mandating what culture can be without any will of the people- one leads clearly to heaven & i like jefferson swear i will forever stand against tyranny. i refuse that hell. serious propoganda mind bending shit, bending way over to accomodate low petty stupid blunt authoriarianism.

to be clear, there are hella problems with inverted totalitarianism. there are dangers of mob rule, of dumber populist senses. but holy shit, the amount of efforts i see in these threads to horseshoe the issues around, to say that the two problems are the same, regardless of whether it's a few projecting narrow minded stupidity or a masser body- it's ignorant & stupid in the extreme to say these are at all the same. sure there may be some symptoms. but fuck this apologia, fuck saying they are the same, fuck this so much. one could not work harder to sabotage democracia.
If turnover is high, can someone chime in with data as to why?

Are they burning people out with intensity? Firing? Quitting?

Is it 'growth chaos' around a solid product, or is the underlying tech a janky mess?

Is it just an aggressive cull of 'non working experiments' in which people get let go?

Or just a poorly operationalized HR process?
Just add "foreign" (or more precisely "non-NATO based") in front of corporation. There are some differences in the system.
I think complexity + necessarily large organizations are a huge contributing factor.

MCAS would have not been an issue is any one of the layers above engineering had questioned the decision to avoid training requirements (e.g. Boeing management, FAA management).

Unfortunately, systems are so complex now that it was possible to summarize the details in a way that hid the necessary information. And when it went up further, even more summarization.

It feels like this wouldn't have been as easy with simpler, older systems. I mean, presumably a manager could look at a biplane and say "Hey, that doesn't have enough thrust to weight."
Those sound like issues with your Docker usage - there are options to keep base image quite streamlined (e.g. alpine or distroless images).
A GPGPU in an FPGA. Interesting, but 100x slower than a commodity AMD or NVidia card.
> I sent a message to a slack channel on the 20th of October, talked to a bunch of people

the fact that you have a bunch of people you can message (in slack, or email or otherwise) is already a leg up, and that would've taken work to setup previously - may be even years for such a network.

When people ask about networking, or how to line up clients for contracts, they are actually asking the methods to which you (or anyone) setup such a list of contacts.
I was more focused on the threat of nuclear war than I was about who gets to tweet but you do you.

You all enjoy your daily dose of the two minute hate on China while they prep you to accept the next war over something that isn't in your interest. I don't want to be the China defender here (I think they have pluses and minuses), but the war propaganda has been relentless for about two years now and increasing in frequency. It (proximally) traces back to Obama's pivot to Asia, Trump's desire to pin responsibility for the COVID disaster on anyone but the US and populist nationalism, and Biden's continuation of both deflecting attention from COVID and satisfying the warlords and profiteers that hover around DC with their hand out. However, at its root is a pervasive cold-war anti-communism in the US elite (even if reasonable people can debate if China is really communist) combined with military Keynesianism that constructed the military industrial complex in the post-war era and diverts money intentionally from anything that would ever help any normal person.

It also is a hang over from the western imperialists being driven out during the Chinese revolution, beat at their game by poor peasants. Now they fear those peasants will set up a compelling and competing world trade system that will knock the decaying American Empire out of its bloody time in the sun.

The solution is really easy. Just laugh at the TV when they tell you to hate the people making your iPhone and go into the streets when they start firing shots in "defense" half-way around the world far outside their territorial waters like they always do.
Disagreed. It’s clear it’s a throwaway and they’re saying unsubstantiated things, but the readers can make their own minds up about what to believe in and what not to. I like HN to get the insider scoop, precisely this type of comment. I’m not gonna hate on stripe or PC, but now I’ll know to look a little more carefully at someone asking questions about my future company (lol) to see what their intentions maybe. What’s wrong with that?
But that just means you have to manage both the text (what React/SolidJS are already doing) and a canvas, which means your twice the work for no good reason.
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+1 - their design is not at all impressive
One excellent crossover between Nix and Docker is https://nixery.dev/

If you ever need a container with a handful of well-known utils installed, just specify them in the image URL. Positively magical!
This is a research project from Georgia Tech. There's a homepage at [0] and a paper at [1]. It is specialized to run OpenCL, but with a bit of support for the graphics pipeline, mostly a texture fetch instruction. It appears to be fairly vanilla RISC-V overall, with a small number of additional instructions to support GPU. I'm very happy to see this kind of thing, as I think there's a lot of design space to explore, and it's great that some of that is happening in academic spaces.

[0]: https://vortex.cc.gatech.edu/

[1]: https://vortex.cc.gatech.edu/publications/vortex_micro21_fin...
Does Nix understand network namespacing? Or would 2 postgres instances clash over tcp listen ports?

I get you could configure different ports, or virtual interfaces, but it sounds like either of those would be outside of the nix tooling.
This can be somewhat mitigated by running these OSes as VM guests, under Linux (or Windows) supervisor. That way, you only need to implement the virt devices. This makes some things not achievable (e.g. 0.7s startup time), but can make bootstrap phase of growth much easier.
What is the deal with banks being actively hostile to password managers?

One bank specifically I have to deal with will:

- Not allow you to paste a username/password (ctr+c/ctrl+v, right click disabled)

- Lastpass autofill doesn't work

- If the page loses focus, both user/password inputs are cleared, you get to start all over.

There is also a very small subset of special characters that are allowed.
If you do not reset your password as often as they'd like, you have to agree to waive any responsibility for any issues with your account before logging in.

SMS 2FA required, there's no other 2FA option.

After entering your 2FA code, the "proceed" and "cancel" buttons are the exact same shape and color and I've hit the wrong one multiple times, in which case there is also SMS 2FA cool down and you have to wait 15 mins to start all over again.

It's absolute insanity and every time I have to login its an adventure.
Oracle is a horrible company to work for. Nice resume fluff though.
Yeah it is sort of buried and probably not very clear: https://www.solidjs.com/guide#react.

And good point thank you about updating my profile.
Fair enough, I don't retract the ethos of this statement, but really it should: as far as abstractions go, SolidJS is a very performant framework, arguably more so than any other framework out there right now
So low margin high volume versus lower volume high margin? Anyone have ideas where to look for data on that? Or what a decent proxy could be?
Specs for the 1LT8 chip used in the HP48SX. This is a text file without drawings. An excellent PDF scan of the original (including drawings) is at https://literature.hpcalc.org/items/2117
But surely part of the reason the most self-published books do so badly in the first place, is because they're poorly edited.

By analogy: all that $5 plastic junk on Wish/AliExpress/etc. The no-name manufacturing companies responsible for this dross, charge so little because they have no idea how to make quality products. Nobody will pay more than they're charging for the low standard of quality they're capable of putting out, so that's what they have to charge.

But when one of these companies figures out how to make higher-quality stuff, they do start selling it for more, and begin creating a trustworthy brand, and begin marketing that brand on more trustworthy marketplaces, and so they end up with higher profit margins, despite the increased CapEx.
Always interesting to see what someone else came up with for their static site generator. If I had known about yours, I might have used it instead of writing mine: https://github.com/dgoffredo/dgoffredo.github.io
Self-employment isn’t a good proxy for entrepreneurship. Many (most?) entrepreneurs are not technically self-employed in the US. In Europe, there is a strong bias toward being an “independent contractor” because that is almost the only way to earn a top wage, whereas in the US that is entirely unnecessary since normal companies readily pay regular employees top dollar if they perform.

Being self-employed in Europe is a product of the reality that companies are willing to pay contractors much more than the equivalent employees. If you are highly skilled, being self-employed is the only way to earn what you are worth.
Thanks for sharing the company names, I respect that!
To me this story is about how garbage most illustrative imagery on the internet is.
Downvote this if you disagree ^ it’s the HN way
Hide your strength, bide your time
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Something I'm curious about - there seems to be some sort of maintenance of reinforced concrete, where people periodically jackhammer a small patch and expose some rebar, and then cover it up again.

Anybody know what they are doing? I used to park in a garage where it seemed like they were always doing it.
I'm sorry but no. Patrick, we met with you once, Gaybrick and Claire multiple times and opened up a data room to you all. I then emailed you (and the others) three followups over a couple weeks only to see them opened but never replied. Your team then sent targeted cold emails to multiple people on our team. I've validated this experience with multiple founders.

You also had Moritz and Sequoia renege on Finix's term sheet after they already had it signed and wired (I guess props to Sequoia for branding it as "giving it away")[1]. You've also had your team get diligence materials from Sequoia and nuke deals.

You've clearly crushed it in the business and developer brand space, hats off to you. You want feedback - I (and the broader founder community) just wish you stop the dance of pretending and just admit you all are sharks, and it works for you! Just own it.

But I will admit, the HN comment was a bit trolly and written in frustration. But you have to admit - you are documented as proofreading every one of PGs posts, are a huge LP in YC and are friends with a lot of people there. You can't believe that the conspiracy theories are purely in "bad faith"....

And yes - this is out of place in HN comments, I'm sorry. But sadly there aren't very many other options.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/sequoia-is-giving-away-21-...
That’s a privileged stance that is not always practical. When you’re subjected to injustice (or just not-cool move) by a party with significant power imbalance, and known history of retaliation, what do you do? Just sit silently and take it?

Be it professional or social, many people are disadvantaged in their ability to express their opinions freely without retaliation, and any “you have nothing to hide or you’re just a coward” attitude only comes off as insensitive to others.
When you’re in top position on a Stripe-related post, that has nothing to do with your karma score. It’s because dang has a pin button that he usually uses for himself, but very often is used for exactly the situation you describe when it comes to YC portfolio or celebrities showing up or something (without visual feedback of such a pin, as every single other website with the capability provides). It’s pretty obvious if you keep an eye out for it

This can undoubtedly be spun as “HN just trying to bring the right voice to the top of the discussion” but the alternative take is just as valid. It’s not bad faith feedback, it’s HN UX and practices confusing readers as usual
No, I don't think it will. A Dockerfile can be read in seconds and explained to a junior in a few minutes. Nix is way too complicated to see mainstream use.
> who hailed from selective universities like Sharif

Selective for the country I'm sure. Not the world.

> they ended up in Canada because of how onerous it was to obtain US student visas (even though they had applied and gotten into good schools).

I'm sure they were admitted to great US schools. Or at least claimed to. The visa process is long because of potential technological transfers. Also, the fact that countries like Canada aren't as strict is one of the reasons businesses like SpaceX that are subject to ITAR can't hire international applicants, even from countries like Canada.
Well while not the fanciest, the 11nm node in the 2020 and 2021 Moto G Power were still plenty modern enough 8-core SoC's to get the job done. Their main problem lies in being stuck with 4GB of RAM. You end up with apps reloading from time to time as other applications pushed it out of memory. Even with that taken into consideration they still make for fine phones and the person I handed mine down to is still using it as their main phone without much issue.

Current phone has 12GB of RAM which is a bit extreme given I rarely seem to use more than 6GB. More Sub $250 phones are creeping up to 6GB which makes for a nicer experience for those on tight budgets.

Now if only we could solve the lack of updates most Android phones experience.