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I really don't think you can blame Facebook for the idiotic decisions of others who're cargo culting its strategies.

It's not like Facebook held a gun to Reddit and forced them to have videos.

The answer to the "why" question should be obvious: it's the same in every case. "We" shouldn't do what FAANG is doing because we are not FAANG".

On that point, just because Floyd Mayweather makes a ton of money in the ring, you probably should not, even though you also have fists and can throw a punch.

Same with the framework/platform hype. You don't have Google scale, means you don't have Google's problems that they have deviced solutions for. A megatanker perhaps isn't the best boat for a weekend fishing getaway.

But I digress.
Show HN: I built a Amazon bot to help purchase hard to get items
> It's a pretty obvious conclusion to anyone who has worked in both environments, or have had to migrate from one to the other, so it's not particularly insightful.

It should be obvious, but apparently it's not. So many architecture astronauts drinking the kool-aid and making a mess. Premature microservices can easily kill a product.
My favorite example of an expansion chip is a 32-bit ARM V7 at 21.47 MHz on a cartridge for SNES, which itself had a 16-bit CPU that is an enhancement of 6502, at nominal 3.58 MHz. All for a game of shogi, a Japanese variant of chess: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1177652135841779713
Yes. Exactly this. Not signing up to have a look.
Sometimes bloggers gotta blog, even when they just know a little bit and are just regurgitating an iteration of their preconceived notions.

Edit: Of course you get voted down because you make a substantive comment. Welcome to Hacker News' Crytpo Hater Crowd.
This article misses the point, it sees web3 decentralization as purely technical and makes performance comparisons with existing systems. The power of web3 decentralization is about control, not more powerful computing. Yes your raspberry pi runs faster than the EVM, but can you give me any guarantee about what code it runs?
I will mint NFTs of your comment, $300 pop so anybody who wants to prove you wrong can do so by buying the NFT of your comment that will surely age well. :) /s
Replying to my own comment: after reading through my collection of code snippets, I signed up a third time for a subscription, this tim for a year (not monthly).
Go is nothing but Java repeated, as farce.
It's easy-ish (far harder than using a credit card), but it's also:

- possible the transaction won't happen immediately or happen at all

- extremely expensive

- stupid (if you expect your particular cryptocurrency to increase in value over time)

- missing all the protections and benefits of a credit card
Even if this was properly written C++ this wouldn't have worked, i.e. if the authors had used a std::vector instead of a hodgepodge of new and malloc. Even if you had overflowed the integer and used it to reserve some capacity in a vector, calling `push_back` would have reallocated the vector instead.

Containers and move/by-value semantics in C++ inherently avoid a lot of stuff, it's sad seeing so many C++ developers do not actually know the language and instead stick with a "C with classes" that doesn't provide any extra security compared with C.
"I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using pre-made skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all."
> "The Germans couldn’t operate below the regimental level without written orders."

That is so ridiculously wrong. I'm thinking it must be journalist's mistake/misquote/out of context (e.g. referring to specific unit/time/area and not the blanket statement it sounds like). No actual WWII historian would say that.
Aren’t you selling it short? Spinny disks, especially in the days before NCQ/TCQ have a vast imbalance between reading sectors sequentially and positioning the head to a new track. NCQ/TCQ later helped a bit by optimizing the path the head takes (With Physics!) when multiple operations are in the queue, but a completely fragmented disk drive seems like it will underperform noticeable against one where everything is laid out neatly in a linear fashion, at least in some access patterns (reading large files in one go).

But I’d be interested in any real data anyway.
Unions aren't democracy, though. They're seniority.

If you start at a company, it'll be harder to rise through the ranks.

And if you start a company, you'll be forced to go through union processes to remove bad fits.

Our industry and compensation as they exist today don't need the baggage. If Europe and emerging markets put price pressure on our jobs, then maybe we can reevaluate. As it stands, we don't even need pensions when we can FIRE in under a decade on existing comp arrangements.
Score voting I think is one of the hardest kinds of voting to advocate (and quadratic voting is clearly score voting) because it flies in the face of the old maxim "one voter, one vote". While IRV/AV/Condorcet take pains to make sure that everything is counted "once" (be it ballots or yeas or pairwise preferences), score simply adds weights, drops the mic and leaves the stage. One must necessarily do a little extra work to move between the perspectives sometimes described as "majoritarian" and "utilitarian".

My experience with the poll was that I quickly read all of the questions to determine which ones I didn't care about very much, dropped a couple of points in those first, and then ended up putting eight votes on a carbon tax. I'm a little confused about applying this to a primary, because here we're looking at a set of independent binary questions, not a list of different responses to the same question.
Correct link: https://www.economist.com/interactives/2021/12/18/quadratic-...
Many unions do exactly that. Every movie star in the US is represented by SAG-AFTRA, which is the same union that represents B-list infomercial actors. The union helps the stars negotiate multi-million dollar contracts, and the same union ensures actors you've never heard of are compensated and treated fairly. Same thing with professional athletes and their unions.

White collar unions usually negotiate a floor that individuals can up-negotiate from. Not only can you negotiate for better compensation, unions will happily represent you and help you get what you're asking for.
> What kind of entrees are you thinking of?

I'm not all that creative with food, grilled cheeses would be on the menu, as well as cucumber sandwiches, various fresh raw fruits (apples, pears, citruses, berries, melons, tropicals and exotics), all major forms of how a potato can be prepared, corn on the cob, actually any corn preparation, lot of breads and bakery items (ideally made fresh on site if practical), beans and rice dishes, and just rice and veggie dishes, and pasta dishes with various primavera sauces maybe served in a cup at the drive thru so could be eaten with one hand without utensils, probably would have to have a fryer, so any vegetable would be available fried (I know it's not good, but tastes ok, and can be vegetarian), salads salads salads, all the lettuces and cabbages and spinaches, vegetarian chili (did you know Chili's doesn't serve any vegetarian chili? I mean, come on), veggie tamales, fajitas, tacos, burritos, veggie Chinese dishes (apparently, not yet invented), veggie Japanese dishes, all the cheeses available on anything, maybe a few types of butter, also available on anything, and likely all the various ways to prepare eggs, definitely including fried egg sandwiches with tomato & mayo, but also sim egg preparations if preferred. Meatless breakfasts all day and all night. I can't stand tofu, but some people like it and it can be prepared to taste like anything, though I've had these great veggie burgers before that do not taste or look at all like burgers or meat, just a veggie formulation in a patty on a bun with tomato, lettuce, ketchup & mayo that tasted like what it was, and veggies taste really good, so I'd ban any and all meat flavoring and meat simulations. You can get meat taste anywhere else. Also, chick pea formulations, various ranges of humus (I made a humus once without tahini, and mixed in banana and used strawberry rather than pimento, and no one who tasted it could believe how amazing it was... gave away about 20 sandwiches that day). The thing that would be great about this restaurant is that I wouldn't have to make the food, pros would do it. Also, pretty sure there'd be a juicer somewhere... ever had real juice? It is a crime what passes for juice in a grocery store (I guess the orange juice is ok, little else). Also would have to serve all the gourmet coffees. And shakes, ice creams, frozen yogurts, sorbets and ices. And fresh nuts, all the nuts there are... would probably have a dedicated nut menu, but also available garnished on anything.

I honestly know nothing of the business, but I expect it would have to have reliable and just in time suppliers, and over time inventory would stabilize, reducing waste.
Really? And people here are okay with this?
> Short of opening and checking every single piece of mail, I doubt there’s much they can do.

They can't do something like x-raying them? I'd imagine that would be relatively easy (e.g. bubble pack with X pills, of a certain size, a certain distance apart), to the point where it could probably be automated.
> Priced for sustainability, not for future salvation

> We've seen too many productivity products fail because they fail to make money even though they grew their free user base fast. We think building a business that grows quickly, in hopes of future salvation from venture capitalist or an acquisition creates bad incentives for us and a sub-par product for our customers.

Ironic because they're funded by YC so at some point they'll have to IPO or get acquired. Or, well, they don't have to but investors will expect an exit.
They’re charging ~ 100% the price of generation for distribution (and time shifting/storage) of the excess power, and they’re doing it regardless of whether you have your own energy storage.

On top of that, there’s a separate part of the proposal that forces houses on the solar rate to pay more for peak hour energy than non-solar customers.

Assuming that’s actually what it costs to maintain the grid, it’s getting to the point where we may as well just abandon the power grid.
It is believed that the solutions neural networks learn may be rather elegant, to a degree. It is perhaps unscientific to say that the neural network is always decomposing and re-composing tokens in a _generic_ and intelligent way; but it's becoming increasingly obvious that it probably is; particularly in the case of the "self-attention" architectures.

https://openai.com/blog/multimodal-neurons/

> The concepts, therefore, form a simple algebra that behaves similarly to a linear probe.

Because the loss encourages words to be mapped as linearly independent vectors; you can literally do addition/subtraction with concepts and it sort of works.
It depends on what I'm looking for. People I know, local news, objective data, just trying different places until I find one I like. There are no great answers.

Yelp does serve as a sort of index of shops.
Many criticisms of blockchain apps, comparing their use cases to conventional technologies (databases, conventional separation of services such as that described in the article, etc) all seem to miss a major point: Dapps running on the blockchain are immutable and highly resistant to being shutdown.

Immutability is important because it's guaranteed that no matter how many times you interact with a contract address, you can be assured that at no point has the code in that contract ever changed. This is not an assurance you can typically get, as backend code for traditional endpoints can change at any time.

Even more important IMO is the difficulty in shutting down a contract that's deployed to the blockchain. In the case of this article, the reliance on external services such as AWS opens up possibilities for your app to be shut down, whether it's through non-payment to your AWS account, AWS decides you've violated their terms of service, or legal action compels AWS to shut down your app.

In the case of dapps deployed to the blockchain (combined optionally with frontends deployed to a service like IPFS, but this isn't a requirement, as one can always interact directly with contracts), the ability to shutdown these apps would rely on somehow breaking the blockchain itself.

Whether or not you see these aspects as bugs or features is a matter of opinion. Yes, blockchains are slower and more expensive. This is the current cost of enabling the two facets above. If we're not comparing blockchain dapps to other systems that offer the same assurances, then we're comparing apples and oranges.
Hot take: The proponents of decentralized systems feel disenfranchised by those who own and govern centralized systems, therefore decentralized systems are their way around what they consider injustice. It is a grasp for control and power where they feel they have none. They don’t feel they have a seat at the table, so they argue for building their own table, which is, naturally, “superior” to the existing table (why would you use it if it wasn’t superior?).

It’s not about “open finance” versus “centralized finance”, it’s about “our finance” vs “their finance”, our ledgers versus their databases. This is no different than Silicon Valley starting as David and turning into West Coast Goliath, wrestling with the East Coast Hegemony for status and power.

I get the sentiment, but code doesn’t fix people problems. I am not without curiosity, but web3 still has much work to do to show both novel and meaningful use cases.
> However, certain employers at the margins try it first, then more prestigious ones...

A slippery slope argument. The fact that there exists a gradient of willingness to monitor remotely isn't a sufficient (or even necessary) condition to guarantee that most workers will be monitored: equilibriums can be established at 0% or 100% or anything in between. If remote monitoring isn't tolerated by individuals, I don't think it would become a prevalent practice, even without coordinated collective action.

Apply your logic to pay. Some employers pay very low wages. Others pay high wages. If you just quit your job, will the system reach an equilibrium with low wages? No, in fact, we know that wages in tech are quite high.
Wow, I'm no Facebook fan but a little surprised to see so much vitriol. I guess that's what I get for turning on 'showdead'.

I have concerns about how FB would leverage this work with respect to children, sure. But I also think that the research itself leads to an application that seems like it would be very entertaining.
Early detection and early treatment is preferred, before a Covid infection progresses to serious injury.

Fortunately, multiple early treatments are available, depending on country.
> Background: Worked on multiple FAANGs, including Google and Amazon, also fintech, now retired.

To the poster: this is why you don't want to work at FAANGs. There's no world where you can be excellent and simultaneously be this much of an entitled dick. That world is one of pioneers who have paved the way for the pretenders who live in it now.

If you want to be actually good at your job, you'll need to choose whether you want to know something or know someone. Money may or may not show up, but don't go chasing money if you want to build something worthwhile.
Excellent advice! I recently worked at a company where the "architect" insisted on using Broadway and Kafka for what should have been basic CRUD operations.

He got fired.
I disagree. This sort of thing costs the company money, opens them up to possible legal issues, and doesn't actually do anything to improve performance.

The companies that understand that "butts in seats" does not equate to performance will not use this, as such. If those aren't currently the most prestigious, they likely will become so, because they care about doing things that bring results, not merely make bad managers happy. Because of that, while there's an uptick right now, I don't see it lasting; I certainly don't see it taking over.
> So what does the supposed “web3” add to this vision? The cryptocurrency web3 starts with all our existing infrastructure.

To some degree, the author is not wrong. Some of these so-called 'defi' apps were still sitting on AWS, GCP, and Azure and were affected by the outage underlying the decentralization illusion they created. The same thing with NFTs stored on OpenSea and not even being tied to the blockchain itself.

Right now, the only reason that Ethereum is hyped for this is because the defi hype squad has their investments in the cryptocurrency; even when it is not the best cryptocurrency to use for this. Not even I can use it to pay for my groceries without over paying for the fees just for it to go faster.

This all proves that web3 is not ready. (yet)
My original reply to you was actually me agreeing with you and slightly modifying your use case for me. How is that self selecting or self defining?

> I'm not sure what scale of current, existing plurality we need to start ignoring & telling those other people that their points of view & engagements are relevant.

I am just confused about what you mean here..
Such subterfuge may work in the short run but in the long run creates demand for school choice, which the teachers' unions oppose.
the value proposition of all the crypto nonsense is that some people don't like trusted entities.

I tend to think its not worth the trade off (and the "decentralization" is questionable in practise), but this line of criticism is basically begging the question.
This is mostly my sentiment. They can monitor the laptop they provide. I am mildly concerned about 'company' attempting to monitor wifi traffic, which I use for other things, but not enough to setup its own vlan ( although I will admit that I am debating it ).

In my case it helps that my current boss is not into simple metrics and goes out of his way to be fair and transparent, but not everyone is so lucky. I still remember one of previous bosses, who wanted me to track average processed cases and wanted to make sure they did not know what is being measured. What I quickly learned is that people are not idiots and figure out what is being rewarded even if they are not explicitly told.
As a 13 year old programmer learning to code in 2005, transferring money online seemed impossible, this was pre-stripe after all. A 13 year old getting a bank partnership or a payment processor deal seemed a bit out of reach as well. These days though, sending money online via stable coins like $USDC over a fast and cheap block chain like Solana, Polygon, avalanche, etc is not only possible but flat out inevitable.
> So I still need a DNS name,

Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
https://forkast.news/what-is-ens-ethereum-name-service-how-d...

> After all, a programmer doing the most basic test of a web3 prototype is going to need to get the cryptocurrency, spend the cryptocurrency, and any application will require all users to get the cryptocurrency as well. If this gets abandoned quickly due to the inevitable technical failure “web3” still accomplished its goal of getting more suckers in and extracting their money.

Hard to take serious the rest of the blog when he doesn't seem to be aware of development testnets that exist for exactly the above reason. Or familiar with scaling efforts, or some of the long term ethos of the crypto developer community.

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/networks/#testnets
what did they got by spying on faccbook account?
Ah yes. The solution to “normal people can’t easily get cryptocurrency to pay with” is “well if they already had cryptocurrency…”.

I just noticed I read that wrong. I missed the same provider as your vendor part.

So I guess the solution for using cryptocurrency to buy things at Amazon is “if you already bought cryptocurrency at Amazon…”.

But I’m trying to buy something. So how does the intermediatory step help at all?

This post may sound somewhat hostile. I TRUELY don’t understand how cryptocurrency helps any of this. It only seems to help cryptocurrency people.

The author nailed my feelings 100%.
And it’ll encourage the high performers to look elsewhere as soon as they learn their boss is doing creepy stuff like installing spyware on their machines.

I think a lot of these “solutions” are rooted in the fact that managers—like the spyware-considering person above—are genuinely not good at interacting with other people. This person already knows who’s not getting work done, but for some reason isn’t comfortable having a direct conversation about it. “You’re not meeting your goals, and you don’t seem to be improving, so I think you should find another job” is a more mature, professional way of addressing the problem than surreptitiously collecting statistics on how much time your employees spend in the toilet.

Keeping in mind who I’m talking to here, I think a far better approach would be to step away from the tools and data-mining for a moment and deal with people like people, not machines.
Are you good looking?
I mean, this is kind of how microservices should be done. Start with a MVP monolith then carve off microservices if needed (performance or large team size).

The problem is when the lead dev has been huffing the architecture paint too hard and starts prematurely spinning up microservices because it feels good.
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I can confirm 100% that I am being monitored, without having any remote monitoring tools installed. I periodically send my boss status reports on items that are still outstanding. If there is something blocking me I will mention that too. If there are more tasks then I can fit in a given time frame, I send that along along with what I see the priorities as well as results of me negotiating priorities with various stake holders. And there are various team meetings where questions are ask and relevant answers are delivered. And when it comes to annual review time and raises, I fill out a self evaluation (to point out various high impact accomplishments and how I measured up to the annual goals), and my manager either agrees, disagrees, or adds to this list to justify a given pay raise and/or promotion.

Is this what you meant by monitoring?
I dunno, it still looks like a big ponzi scheme in many angles.
Yes, sorry, I should have written: you’d’ve.

Assuming you had already bought the mining rig, it would continue to function as a heater regardless of legislative changes, and act as a redundant system to your existing heaters to boot.
From the legendary David Kelley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Kelley
There are a few mathematical reasons. I forget the details, but I remember that a key point is to consider marginal cost: the derivative of a quadratic is linear. I think the Central Limit Theorem is also relevant, as someone else here pointed out. Anyway, if you really want to know, you can read the papers!
Disney+ has not just children's movies. Here in Germany it streams quite a bit of horror movies like The Hills Have Eyes and the Alien franchise.
Thank you, drive through