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So you assert that moving Tim to another company would see that company grow as the same rate?

Steve Jobs setup Apple with so much success that I would have given half of Tim's salary to Steve's estate and still felt that we are ripping off of Steve.

Tim Cook is a caretaker CEO who didn't add that value himself. He was smart enough not to do anything to take Apple off of the path it was on but lacks vision. Apple sits on boatloads of money that could have been used to secure a key vertical in the future.
You’d rather .. touch the same gas pump as hundreds of people before you? That’s better than someone touching your credit card?
What do you think the word factual means?
It can help to think in terms of rest and duty cycles. If you can monitor and measure those periods, they'll more easily become part of your system in an integrative way. That is, they enhance the overall outcome.
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

I just wrote an article about this — what's really new about web3 is the incentives not the tech.

> People don’t want to run servers. It’s okay for markets to specialize and service providers to receive economies of scale.

> Email is a decentralized protocol, and customer behavior shows people just want to click and have things work, like Gmail.

> What’s important is ensuring protocols stay competitive.

> Federated servers following a decentralized blockchain with layers of competitive protocols for storing data, with semi-interoperable apps built on top, seem like a pretty workable solution.

> Forcing everything P2P will be painful; there’s a reason the Cloud exists. Offline apps are great, and P2P app architecture is great, but expecting users to run P2P nodes is a losing battle. Some power users and volunteers will run nodes, but most will use a 3rd party. It’s better to accept this reality, minimize trust and make it competitive as possible.

It's the best thing I've ever written, if you're into this kind of thing I hope you check it out.

Disintermediating Network Effects for Fun and Profit, How to prevent Web3 from ending up like Web2

https://medium.com/@0xluminous/disintermediating-network-eff...
> We should tax resources and land because they are part of nature and we should use them as little as possible for efficiency's sake.

I own land, and do not believe property should be subject to any tax. Are we citizens with property? Or surfs where the state, grants us the ability to use land?
> That said its a good HN opportunity too for entrepreneurs.

No, it isn't an opportunity for anybody, the only opportunity we get is to get off our asses and address the root cause instead of the symptoms to see if we can make money off the symptoms. That's what got us in this situation in the first place.
FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273132

FDA asks federal judge to wait until 2076 to fully release Covid vaccine data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261058

CDC Wants to Hide the Post-Licensure Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29744140 (Full headline is The FDA Wants to Hide Pre-Licensure Data Until You’re Dead and Now the CDC Wants to Hide the Post-Licensure Safety Data)
Exactly! I moved out of CA at the end of 2020. I've recently retired, and have structured most of my spendable income in retirement to be tax sheltered, so if this passes (and depending on the taxation specifics of this plan, if it passes, vs my retirement income stream), it could easily make sense to move back: no more COBRA or other unsubsidized OOP health insurance payments for us!

Of course, even if the proposal becomes law, it might take a decade or two to come into full force (someone else mentioned CA's High Speed Rail project, but healthcare as it exists today is a far larger Gordian Knot), so I think I'll watch from the sidelines to see how such a grand plan works out in reality.
> Has capitalism made iPhones cheap enough for the folks working in iPhone factories to afford them?

Yes, they're called Android phones.
Funnily enough, I might have been thinking of the exact opposite of the Gambler's fallacy. My mistake, sorry. But it still seems related to me and I'll explain what I was thinking anyway:

For reference: https://www.omnicalculator.com/statistics/coin-flip-probabil...

There is a 20% chance that in 7 coin flips there will be >5 heads. By symmetry, 40% chance that there are >=5 heads or >=5 tails.

If you look at a series of events (say, annual results) and one has exceeded the other in 5/7 years, that doesn't tell us that one is consistently better than the other. But people aren't good at accepting that.
> Untraceable (eg Monero) digital cash that settles instantly? That has the potential to disrupt societies

With where the world is with Debit/Credit cards and all other trackable digital payments, the world going back to untraceable physical cash could have the potential to disrupt societies (people should make sure to put their phone/watch/entire car in a faraday cage so their cell phone providers don't have real time access to where they spent their untraceable physical cash)
Interesting.

Also FTA: Crypto-related crime may be at an all-time high, but researchers note that the growth of legitimate cryptocurrency usage far outstrips the growth of criminal usage.

I wonder how much scams generate globally (non crypto and total)?
Disclaimer: I've never used one of these, nor needed to, AFAIK :)

I've heard though, that they sometimes try to flood the search results or review pages or whatever with enough chaff (harmless or actually flattering material) to push the bad stuff to page 2 or much lower.

Creating their own demand, though, seems like criminal conduct that should land them in jail. "Nice reputation you got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it."
It seems that with Signal he actually prefers that people trust specifically the organization that he founded, and not compatible implementations of the protocol, or even self-built copies of the same binary.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/q1jnbb/why_isnt_sig...
Thanks, that is indeed a good description. It does sound like this is basically the content hashing Moxie was hoping for.
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By buddy and I were teens doing BBS stuff at the time and walked out of Hackers when they were talking about their FOUR TEEN POINT FOR BEE PEE ESS modems. Snuck in to Braveheart. Don't regret that decision.
You can do this locally though, it just takes like 200 GB. I've run an Ethereum full node + eth2 beacon chain node on my Macbook Pro for local development, took like 10 hours to sync IIRC and just worked afterwards. I still use Infura for projects though bc I don't really see the value in running my own hosted client for pet projects. If I was doing a production app I'd likely use my own w/ a 3rd party service for backup/HA.
You're right that it's mainly a power time shifting scheme. But there's no fundamental reason that I can see that it should be much less efficient than on-demand cooling - you can always insulate the ice storage well, and air tends to be cooler at night, so your heat pumps should be somewhat more efficient at radiating heat into the air than during the day.
I always had trouble understanding what web3 was all about because I just couldn't figure out why anyone would be excited for it. I found this article to be excellent at explaining what the platform is but I still can't figure out why people keep bringing up this topic when it's clearly a classic example of a "Solution in Search of a Problem".
How to prevent Web3 from ending up like Web2
I view the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln brigade as having fought and sacrificed on the side of good. When the survivors later tried to join the US Army for the fight against Germans and WWII (which they viewed as a continuation of the same war they had already been fighting) many of the were labelled "premature antifascists" and rejected.
Problem is who cares if you run your own servers when everyone you know is viewing NFTs through servers which are manipulating the data like Opensea is.
Perhaps before 7.1 Mongoid had a problem that the logical operators acted differently to ActiveRecord. But come on, this adjustment could have been implemented in another namespace or something...
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will

They would if it's an app on their phone. Currently that's not possible due to the constraints of battery life and, to a lesser degree, mobile coverage and data plan limits.
Ask HN: How do you transition to solo programming from pair programming
I have been working as a software engineer for over 5 years. My first few dev jobs involved 100% pair programming. At my current job pairing rarely happens. I've come to realize that my first few years as a developer (spent always pairing) has done very little to prepare me to be successful as a solo developer.

To put it simply: I'm highly incompetent as a solo developer, but people expect me to be somewhat senior because I've been at it for a while. My preference would be not to return to constant pair programming, but it seems like I'm fated to do so. Has anyone else encountered this? Are there any tricks or resources for learning to stand alone as a developer?
I can't explain for the other user but I'll tack on my own little horror story. I once got the task of porting something written for early nodejs that used MongoDB as a backend to Django. The app had been developed by a contractor and had many iterations of the data layer. I had to somehow make sense of how to make that all fit in a relational database. The changes made were not documented at all and I didn't have time to go digging through the git repo for some history. It was not a particularly fun task.

Maybe it's a culture thing. I have this oldschool thing about data meeting invariant criteria and I dislike not using a RDBMS.
Also I don't understand the instinct to make these kinds of comparisons. Apple also offers food to its employees. Can Tim Cook cook? It's such a stupid question. We don't expect that any employee can jump into any role anywhere.
yes. this is actually a very common topic to result in proxy battles around.
Regarding your last sentence, I think that's fine.

I know Moxie criticizes people for saying “It’s early days still" but I really do think it's early days and NFTs have driven crypto into the mainstream too quickly.

Crypto researchers are still chipping away at the math and computer science required to bring the web3 vision to life. What's unfortunate is I've yet to see an article on hacker news about this research and, instead, articles about the hacked together shit that is unfortunately the face of web3 at the current moment.

If you're interested, I'd recommend people check out some of the following topics:

- Smart Wallets for better UX for your average user.

- Zero-Knowledge Proofs (and zk-snarks, zk-starks).

- Rollups (specifically zkRollups) for scalability.

- Single-slot finality for fast transaction confirmation.

- Ethereum Sharding and Data-Availability Sampling. Again for scalability.

- Sign-In With Ethereum.

- And of course, Proof-Of-Stake (specifically Ethereum's Casper algorithm which is being tested right now).
This is unfair, for those waiting for ipv8.
The issue is most sites can no longer tell if they are converting you
nit: Mongoid is not the MongoDB ruby driver. Mongoid is an Object::Document mapper for Ruby (which makes use of that driver). Nevertheless this should have warranted a mongoid major version bump because it's backward breaking.
> Even organizations building software full time do not want to run their own servers at this point.

This is almost entirely an educational/labor force issue, combined with a slight preference for the nominal hardware flexibility of cloud setups. The tech community focus from the dawn of the web until today has been overwhelmingly on getting people and tools to be better at creating and managing website content, whereas the traditional sysadmin stuff required to run "your own servers" with contemporary server technology has been viewed with both a level of disdain and also utter intimidation. Finding someone who can do React or Angular for your project might not be trivial, but finding someone who could actually run your servers for you ... much harder.
I am very on the fence for this. Please hear me out, I am not dismissing the extremely humane message -- I condone it fully!

But one thing that is not said enough is that your values are not the same for every period of your life. Good luck telling a 22-year old that they must prioritize spending time with their parents because life's too short. They'll just dismiss you in seconds.

My father died when I was almost 22. I regret to this day, 20 years later, that I haven't spent more time with him during his last years but at the same time I realize it was impossible: he was too proud to admit the mistakes he made which hurt our family a lot, I was too awkward and shy back then to even initiate a conversation, and we lived in an awful and small rented apartment that me and my brother were paying for at the time. Dad couldn't look us in the eyes, he was so extremely ashamed that he couldn't pay the bills for the first time in his life that he even avoided us physically.

But, hear me out: what good would it do if any of us FORCED ourselves to interact? I am not sure if any good would come out of it; maybe it would have even brought harm. It's awful to not be able to ever get an answer but at the same time I gradually made my peace with the fact that we all grow (and hopefully get wiser) with our own pace. This pace cannot be artificially accelerated. Only a tragedy can be a strong enough force to derail us from our convenient life and force us to rebuild our values.

And that's IMO the point of the article (partially) as well: as you grow old, you experience tragedies and they realign you. Then you start appreciating the human part of life (family and close friends) more. But you can't do that before.

And I don't think we should get anxiety over the fact that we can't have the values of a 60-year old when we're 40.
Art Blocks is completely on-chain :)
They should do this.. as a reality show...

Csuite replaces frontline workers, and vice versa...the workers can use a shark-tank like group of business people as advisers (because anybody in this sort of position would be a fool NOT to reach out to people who know what they're doing --at least for the start of things) ...then see how much things change.... keep the experiment going until it's deemed the company is losing too much value, etc.. profits from the reality show could make up some of that loss perhaps.
This just gave me a flashback to a game I played once long ago, where you flew a spaceship around an environment that took things like file names and icons from your computer to populate it. I think it might have been this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%3A_Inner_Space

Regardless, shooting a file did not actually delete it on your system ;)
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Isn't that the point? It doesn't really matter how he gained his education/skills, but he did. And it took 20 years or so.

I'd wager that 80% of the English speaking adult US population could be trained to work in an Apple store and do fine within a few weeks.
I considered that, but upon deeper thought, it is not true.

Consider the examples elsewhere in this thread.

The Chinese propaganda is the Chinese soldier essentially doing an unrealistic magic trick.

American propaganda is often in the form of omission or social stature.

Consider the last time you saw an Asian male in a Hollywood production (which are few and far between to begin with) that wasn't:

a) a kung-fu caricature

b) the joke
Uninitialised memory in development tools can have very interesting results! There's a Game Boy Color game that contained HTML from a porn site in an uninitialised region: https://tcrf.net/DynaMike
Great read, but worth noting from the end of the article that "late feature" here means it was added in the early '90s. The late addition to Unix that surprises me is ssh. It was only invented in the late '90s. Before that everyone used unencrypted remote shells like telnet.

Encryption in general was in a pretty bad state in the '90s: original http was unencrypted and early mobile phone standards that are still in use have very weak encryption.
NIMBYs are not against new housing, they're just against new housing that doesn't meet 100 different conflicting requirements that are impossible to satisfy at the same time.

Meanwhile the most famous picturesque neighborhoods (in SF, Paris, NYC, etc) were built in a disorganized way to make a quick buck for property developers and landlords in an era before zoning codes even existed.

"Neighborhood character" is a historically unprecedented concept which exists only as an excuse to block new housing.
I am certain that your "insurance payment" is missing out on the portion that your employer is paying. The big tax increase that the headline is talking about includes that. If you look at your paystub you can find the total cost, and I am sure you will be shocked at the number, it is very likely over the costs we are talking about here.

The headline hints that families would be paying those additional taxes, but if you read the details most of the additional taxes are on companies (and the best points that the article makes are about how those are structured in ways that may not make sense). They are trying to mislead you to be outraged in the headline, and it worked.

So the taxes that you and your employer pay would increase (that is what the headline is saying), but much if not all of that would be offset by the costs that you and your employer are currently paying.
Sorry. My "specific" take: Edited and self-censored due to lack of "substance" on the topic.
No, the issue is that he is against a decentralization generally.

He opposes it for Signal.
while all true; its also true no one wants to run their own servers.

the problems are practical. power and heat. noise. theft or disaster => backups; 3-2-1. updates, botnets, firewalls, static/external ips. ssh, vpn, or port forwarding. vlans? scaling? trust?

each of these things is a rabbit hole of problems and issues to solve.
In fact, I've already considered that my perspective could be due to my own environment and social norms.

But consider the examples elsewhere in this thread.

The Chinese propaganda is the Chinese soldier essentially doing an unrealistic magic trick with very obviously over the top body language.

Body language and non-verbal cues are universal, doesn't matter what country you're from.

American propaganda is often in the form of omission or social stature.

Consider the last time you saw an Asian male in a Hollywood production (which are few and far between to begin with) that wasn't:

a) a kung-fu caricature

b) the joke

It is indeed more subtle. It's hard to notice something when it's simply not there.
Looks neat, but I recall when I had an old beefy Dell with a full size keyboard having the keys offset by the numpad was really awkward, as the screen isn't directly front of you. As a lefty, I would at least want to see a swapped version.
Honestly anybody in this position would be a fool not to take on advisers and consultants and they'd have access to the money for that. A business advisor/tutor could basically give them an MBA equivalency in like 3-4 years and they'd be just as good as Tim Cook.
I think the suggestion was 50-100 people in the _company_, not that each team should be that large. Right now they only have 15 people total.
What I like most is that, whilr unapologetically conservative, they are fair and will acknowledge faults in the right and good in the left.

Take their editor Dreher. Dreher is a very social conservative, and economically populist. So is he a Trumpist? He despises Trump specifically for his character shortcomings and has no patience for someone who cant see Trump do any bad. Dreher also has complete intolerance for incivility towards his opponents.

Also, I havent found any other publication explain the damage that cars have caused America than their segment “The new Urbs”. Only Ivan Illich’s quip that cars average 5mph come close to the poignancy.

For TAC the car’s sins aren't CO2 emissions. The sin of the car is that it ripped our cities apart. For TAC, the electric car isn't the solution but a mere bandaid.

They are unabashedly anti-war and anti-interventionist in a manner that Mark Twain, or Smedley Butler would be were they alive (ie many of them, like Twain and Butler, made the mistake of believing the establishment narrative on foreign intervention and are furiously making amends).

Finally, TAC is a gateway to sober conservative intelligentsia, which exists, is very broad and very rich. How many have heard of Roger Scruton compare to Hannity?

EDIT:

Some criticism is in order.

They appear to be a talent incubator, a lot of their columnists are recent grads. They’re great, but they don't last long and I miss some of the old guys (especially their urbanism guy)

They are increasingly a christian focused magazine, which is fine by me, but does limit their palpability for HN readers. That being said, i suspect believers of any faith would be more comfortable reading TAC than NYT (in my experience religious people are more comfortable with people of other faith than with secularism - but its a long and off topic point)

Finally, about the ME coverage. Its simple, its not in the US interest or our problem. Agreed. However their stance on Israel is softer than it was but harsher than mainstream media. Everyone has a problem with men in the middle.
> Yes it is unfair to take away things that one obtained consensually, like to take away someone's inheritance.

If it's never obtained by the heir in the first place because it's taxed before the property comes into the heir's possession, is that still unfair?

Does that same logic also apply to income taxes that must be paid post-earnings? How about sales taxes? And if taxes are unfair, how do we ensure all the public things we want as a society get funded, if we assume everyone is equally selfish, while avoiding the free-rider problem?

The more you pull on this thread, the more you begin to realize that we can't live in a functioning society without us all sacrificing.
It's clearly a breaking change how a core feature of the library behaves. This is extremely unprofessional on the part of the maintainers. I'd completely lose trust in the gem.

They knew they were making a breaking change, documented it, and didn't increment a major version number. That breaks the entire point of semver.

Also, this is generating SQL ffs. Like how more nasty of a breaking change could you make in terms of potential impact to live apps that upgrade? The experience in the post is a perfect example of how badly this can go wrong.
You take three samples and two of three get shown the same thing. What happens here is both A groups will show different results until your sample grows enough that the CI window becomes small.

This helps to show the effect of a low sample from a non-uniform distribution.

A lot of people (me included) think they know statistics, but they don't.

The blogpost in OP also tries to explain the same thing - you shouldn't do statistics without understanding what it is your doing.
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yes, now I use "C-Suite manager" instead.

"So simple, a C-Suite manager could do it"
Footnotes are excluded from his analysis and are important.

1 Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection. Vaccine effectiveness has been formally
estimated from a number of different sources and is summarised on pages 5 to 17 in this report.

So the report warns to not do exactly what he is doing.