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America's New Landlord: Private Equity – ProPublica
Simply saying "scale" is not an automatic pass for these kinds of failures.

If anything, their scale should permit them to easily do better.
An FPV drone!

It's kinda like racing a motorcycle and flying. Not talking about a DJI drone, but something that's amenable to hacking and fixing because you'll crash a lot when you start. It's a wide ranging hobby, and sounds like your brother could leverage some of the skills he already has.

Depending on the budget, could start with something like a tiny whoop [0] that fits in the palm of your hand or a 4" quad that has a 20km range [1].

There are a lot of sub-genres within the FPV community, from racing [2], to bandos [3] (acrobatic flying around/in abandoned structure) to long range cinematic flying [4].

You have to have quick reflexes (so it's kind of like racing) but ultimately you're flying and getting such a different perspective. Could expand into HAM radio to get truly long range flying.

The FPV industry is going through such rapid progress and it's really fun to follow.

To start, you'd need:

- goggles (to see what the camera on the drone sees)

- Transmitter (control your drone)

- The drone itself

- Batteries and charger

I recently destroyed a motor on my tiny whoop so I had to learn how to solder. Considering the motor is the size of a penny that was by far the most precise work I've done.

It's a bit daunting to figure out all the pieces, but something like a tiny hawk bundle [5] is a great way to start.

0 https://www.getfpv.com/happymodel-mobula7-1s-75mm-analog-who...

1 https://flywoo.net/products/explorer-lr-4-v2-analog?_pos=12&...

2 https://youtu.be/bZvNLuC12R0?t=659

3 https://youtu.be/wzwW5vuuK5w?t=374

4 https://youtu.be/dIP7wWY4Znw?t=89

5 https://www.getfpv.com/fpv-quad-kits/emax-tinyhawk-iii-fpv-r...
…because if it’s only a 100 years old then there’s hardly any time involved, so not lost to time, just lost.

If you bought an ice cream and drop it it’s not ‘lost to time’ because you can grab another any time. If you drop a Ming vase then you can’t replace that.
Surprised you haven't heard of or used lerna (with yarn workspaces), which is the defacto monorepo setup in JS world. I use it to maintain a bunch of monorepos and works pretty flawlessly.
Its not only complicated, its bordering on the impossible. They are simply hand-waving the "analyze your past decisions" part. Its extremely difficult to be introspective like that. You don't know why someone said "yes" to your deal, and not to someone else. You can guess, but there are so many micro things that fall in your favor when you're successful. Context matters, environment matters, and while we can capture our thoughts, we can't always capture the environment in which those events occurred, etc, etc. This is Harvard business review type stuff, excepting each person to accurately weigh and analyze all that is unrealistic. You're going to find examples of people who "read the book" or "attended the lecture" or "sought advice from X" and struck gold, and these examples provide buoyancy for such ideas.

>If financial institutions (and crypto players) are using these kind of approaches to make their bets, then isn't the individual investor hopelessly outgunned in the vast majority of cases?

When its your job, you're better at it compared to someone for whom its a hobby. And also, larger firms are able to manipulate the market which tilts the balance in their favor.
Sure: its already done many places. Look up "purple pipe" systems.

As far as money, here is a recent addition where 2.5 miles cost $17.5M: https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/05/05/apple-campus-and-area...

Its expensive, but maybe less expensive than you'd think. The goal is to connect large commercial users, not individual households.
Been to a number of after season gathers and announcements. They make a point to call out the ones graduating high school. Every one I’ve seen had been really well adjusted. All going to great schools. Many with scholarships.

Figure skating has kept them out of trouble, focused and with many great life lessons. Lots of good quality friends that are driven to succeed.

As a dad, can’t really ask for more.
> majority of world supports the Ukrainian side

And one way you can support it is to support the Ukrainian economy by doing business with companies there.
"Every operating system then, and every threat model, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be deployed longer, it is legacy tech, and should be deprecated." - Thomas Jefferson
Been actually thinking about joining Flexport.
https://archive.ph/nX06E
Lots of discussion around this if you look around, this is the first I found that wasn't a news publication: https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels...

Logically, it makes sense: while you need to get a lot of things into the city, you can do that at scale in ways that are efficient (like trains, boats, etc..).

Also, if you live in a city, you're probably taking up much less of a footprint. Individual houses are really inefficient. Nevermind driving everywhere! :)
The problem was that this feature existed for many years without issue. There was plenty of disclosure in the app (it was even written in bold red text, I believe).

The developer was guessing as to what was going on, since the feature wasn't new, and the message doesn't appear to match the actual issue (domain names from sent/receives messages, after expressly opting into a feature with a privacy warning on it)

There is an interesting question around whether a domain name really is a privacy disclosure though (and I write this as someone who wants to see more private apps) - if we force apps to disclose mundane trivia, it will distract from the meaningful disclosures. Do we expect Google to disclose in every one of their apps and services that it makes DNS queries, which may reveal information to third parties? Or do we accept that's how the internet works? In this context, it seems like FairEmail was doing the equivalent of making a DNS lookup. If the user doesn't trust their DNS, is this a developer's responsibility to address?

I don't know where the line ought to lie, but I think a major reason it wasn't clear what was wrong and how to resolve it was the time between the feature being added, and the review highlighting this - slow feedback loops kill products.
Are there any numbers to back that up? I'm sure there are some bad apples out there that make up excuses because they think someone looks suspicious tho. But it also seems like there are a huge number of bad drivers out there that do dangerous things and having traffic laws that are sometimes enforced seems like it has to curtail some of that behavior.
If I committed a crime

The difference is that citeable infractions like plain speeding are not crimes.
Enjoying all the benefits of an otherwise-great Internet service, but where a random false positive from automation may destroy you any minute, is the modern-day version of the Sword of Damocles[1] parable. You can't really depend on any of these services, because you never know when the strand of hair will break and the sword will come down.

Self-hosting and/or moving to smaller, less full-featured hosted services, is a lot more work, but I rest easy at night knowing that my self-hosted services are always going to work.

1: https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles
Yeah but is it good for competition?
You should consider using a cloud provider with no surprise billing or even prepay it.
Yes. Everyone should. Even the author has become more conscious about PIIs after this incident.
Could you highlight what of Pater's work you're specifically calling out?

Other than, say, that the term "Mona Lisa" doesn't appear at all in it, which would support my previous claim.

Gutenberg doesn't show the publication date. It appears to be 1873:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609042.The_Renaissance
“Root password” would be ambiguous.
The “large number of people” could be a full on religious dogma, but it could also be a smallish cult out in the hinterlands.
A Leatherman.
Absolutely true - but at the end of the day some one has to be vested with making the final decision. That's what Product Managers are for, they're vested with making the final call. As you point out, good Product Managers won't be overbearing overlords just like good engineers aren't simple order takers.
The better policy is simple: the dupe system should only be used for identical articles. There is no harm in allowing two threads about the "same story" to ride out the front page nor is there any reason to combine their comments.

Though unforeseen consequences of this suggested policy are possible I think they're unlikely and I don't believe anyone can reliably predict them without trying it.

As dang likes to point out, internet discourse is mostly stateless. Combining duplicates that aren't really duplicates does nothing to improve this situation.
It doesn't help that companies have been gouging customers in order to get ahead of the curve.
They should probably give you premium support automatically for free once you reach some threshold of sales. It makes sense for them to retain their share at that point.
>Some trends are hard to predict short term but easy to predict long term. The day weather forecasts

Just because weather is a series with such prediction characteristics has no bearing on asset prices having such prediction characteristics. By this reasoning, I could claim since some series are completely predictable, thus stocks are too. Since this level of hand waviness is clearly wrong in the latter case, it is also wrong in the former.

The fact is that asset prices represent value of underlying items, and if those items gain in value, then asset prices likely do too. Since not all asset prices grow or fall in lockstep, then there is always growth in investments possible, if you have enough insight to pick more growing and less shrinking assets.

And the entire set of assets is also likely to grow in value, since people are still working at creating more value.

>being proven right in 80 years time is meaningless to any investor being proven right in 80 years time is meaningless to any investor

True, since they very rarely care about 80 year investments. If they can obtain growth in the near term, then that is pretty much all they need.

So are you now saying there is growth possible, just not in 80 years? Or that you really just don't know?
I agree with the author, but it's also possible to take the other extreme where engineers think they don't need any input from product.
But a bad outcome for the economy overall. In the medical industry this is extreme. The startup scene is basically a feeder pipeline for the big guys. Nobody even tries to start a self sustaining business.
> Correct. State events are key/value data associated with a room - eg who’s in it, what it’s called, whether it’s encrypted. obviously you can’t expire them after N days otherwise the structure of the room would disintegrate. It has nothing to do with E2EE messages.

E2EE-encrypted message are persisted by Synapse as state events.

Or, maybe more precisely, if I set a message retention policy of X days, rows in event tables associated with E2EE-encrypted rooms, which are created when messages are sent to that room, and which are older than X days, are not removed.
Which only demonstrates the unconscionability of their behavior.

If I have an issue with Amazon, I get a person. If I have an issue with stripe, I get a person. If I have an issue with literally any other vendor I have a relationship with, I get a person.

With Google, I have a lovely time chatting with auto responders.

They choose to enter the market and fail to serve their customers - that's on them, failure at scale is still failure.
Current subscribers are only authorized to use their dish in one specific area. However, this has more to do with capacity planning than anything else. Starlink recently announced a slightly more expensive plan that allows the user to roam from area to area without contacting customer support to reauthorize them for each new location. And as someone else pointed out already, the are definitely working on providing service to customers on boats and planes and other moving vehicles. I doubt they will ever make a dish designed to be mounted on the roof of a car, but larger multi–passenger vehicles are an obvious move.

Incidentally, Starlink dishes showed up on the landing barges used by SpaceX some time ago; they use them to stream live video of the landings now.
Who are you complaining about though, the World Health Organization, or just people on social media? If the latter, it's not clear how the comment is even relevant to the linked article.

I would repeat what I said about this being overdramatic. If people called you names online, well, sticks and stones. People have been nasty to each other on the internet for almost as long as the internet has existed. There are nasty, bitter debates now online about... Star Wars. The level of victimhood being claimed doesn't seem warranted by empirical reality. Criticism is not ostracism.

The other day someone said my comment on student loan debt was "one of the most vile and disgusting comments I have ever seen on HN". Seriously. Student loan debt. (I'd like to know where the HN moderators are, by the way.) The person was clearly a jerk, but I'm not going to claim that I've been ostracized by society for my opinion.
If you were really speaking from a place of actually knowing the arrest population, you wouldn't say that.

If you spent some time in jail or prison, you would know there is a huge difference between the normal population and the arrest population. Violence, drugs, theft, robbery, rape, (things people get arrested for) ... they're scumbags if anyone is.
Something to consider.

I once decided to see if a type of document existed—this being the internet, it was once amazing to me the things I thought might exist actually existing, maybe I should still be amazed—and the document I wanted to find was a “list of crimes” in my State. California does not (or did not) have such a list. I basically just wanted a number, and to see if there were any interesting ones I never thought of.

Massachusetts actually does have such a document, and while it isn’t my State and at this point I forgot the number, there were some interesting ones at the top that basically had to do with archaeology.

The US Department of Justice also doesn’t have such a list, just an FBI estimate at the time of >4,000 which means they don’t know either.

I wouldn’t call it a political position because that would require further research and more time than I’m willing to commit, but I would say I have a disposition towards reducing the total number of crimes on the books, which would mean compiling a list of what they are and consolidating and repealing many of them. If we can’t be bothered to know what they are in their totality, then we probably don’t need most of them.
First Direct is great; I've been an account holder for a bit over ten years, after getting an offset mortgage with them. I've once needed physical contact, for which they have an arrangement to use your local HSBC branch. Otherwise it's just as you say: ring up at 2am, answer within 5 rings, incredibly helpful staff.

Frankly, I'm astonished it's survived. It was always an 'internal startup' in a big bank (Midland, before they were taken over) and I would have thought the bean counters would have successfully lowered service standards by now - or at least stuck a heavy fee on and marketed it as 'premium'. But no, it just keeps rolling on, delivering excellent customer service, decade after decade.

I don't even like HSBC, but it's so good I don't want to leave.
Hollow Knight is likely around 10-12 million copies sold by now (one typical rule of thumb: Steam reviews * 30-40 = Steam sales, 201k reviews, and the game also did gangbusters on consoles). This is half my point. The perceived decline in relevance discussed in the article is not real. It may be real if you measure sales as a percentage of the highest selling game in the extant universe, but that's a foolish measure.

I don't really understand most of the other stuff; yes, some games have slightly more punishing implementations of mechanics than others (Dead Rising uses the real-time forward-only approach). I named some high profile examples which are in the approximate orbit of what was discussed. It can't possibly be the article's thesis that minor variation between two games implementing a quasi real-time progression gate constitutes a major arc in the history of narrative gaming.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On?
Wanted to see why you are working on it + why you think it is cool.
It might be helpful to note that the moves form a group, but the puzzle itself is the group action of this group on the cubes/squares/pieces.

In this context it reveals the usefulness of commutators, which are moves of the form ABA'B', where A and B are some sequence of moves and ' denotes inverse.

In general A and B aren't commutative, but with respect to a subset of the pieces, the actions of A and B are effectively commutative, so ABA'B' will do nothing to those pieces. Which means you can get some simple permutation control over the remaining (usually much smaller) pieces of the puzzle.
Of course it's underserved. But the person of the sovereign in the British system can be a unifying figure impossible with an elected Head of State.

Don't agree? Just look at how the red half of the US talk about Obama and the Blue half talk about Trump.
That already exists and is called bitcoin cash
> They are politically irrelevant, a few completely peripheral procedural and technical issues aside that make no real difference in the grand scheme of things.

At the very least they own huge parts of the country, and the Queen has (and exercises as per recent Guardian stories) vetos and opt-outs of the laws the rest of us must follow.

Regardless of that, even as a basic principle our country reeks of deference and class.
Some people are quite happy to have lower testosterone. If you aren't that's fine too. Higher testosterone is associated with shorter lifespan and greater vulnerability to some illnesses. It just is what it is. What I find interesting is how personally some people might take the idea that testosterone has negative health impacts. It has positives: it helps build and maintain muscle and increases energy levels, but that's not the whole story.
> This is a regular pattern I see, which is "developers pretending to be experts at everything because they're good at picking up knowledge and skills". There is a time component you can't skip when acquiring domain knowledge.

Maybe that's true, but almost all the Product managers I've worked with in multiple companies were not experienced in the the domain we were working in either. They were mostly generic "product people" from random other domains. So it wasn't a stretch to say the engineers who had worked there knew more about the domain than the product folks did.
Humans using template responses seems to be one of the biggest complaints the FairEmail dev had - repeated copy-pasting of the same response, despite asking for clarification and even citing European legislation (which Google needs to comply with), asking for them to actually explain in plain language what the problem was.

The description of the problem they gave was inaccurate in any case, which didn't help the developer in working out the problem.

You therefore make a good point - while people often talk about the need for humans, these humans ALSO need to be free-thinking, not bound by a script, and have meaningful escalation paths to use for cases that the process isn't working for.
An Elon Musk takeover could end Twitter’s permanent work-from-home policy
I had the same thought. "Coffee is the Fountain of Youth" is not what they meant, eh? :) (Although I often joke that you can actually see me turn from a zombie into a live human being with that first sip in the morning.)
> My advice for the struggle is to reset via Ketamine.

I used to do MDMA and psilocybin after hitting certain benchmarks/projects, and while it was useful to get the 'bigger picture' to come into focus, I'm not sure I want to do that again as all it did was justify why I acted with such imperatives to take those kind of risks/damage and never correct my behaviour.

Ketamine is interesting, I went to a lot of DnB nights and that was often the drug of choice depending on the kind of night and I didn't like what it looked like when people on the dance floor gave into the 'k hole' so I steered away from it entirely. It's gaining usage in the US as a way to help with depression and such, which I don't think i have as I'm usually the most optimistic person in most rooms.

Also, Ive never done anything 'by the book' either, I was always defying conventional wisdom as I simply didn't think my efforts contributed to much by doing the same thing that everyone else was. My startup in particular used Bitcoin to bypass financial censorship, and at the time no one cared about building a payment processor or offering financial services for Ag related businesses that were suffering from illogical censorship laws because alts and then ICOs (and then NFTs) were where the money was made from VCs.

No, what I struggle with is with the enormity of the problems I see and not wanting to get involved even though I achieved my goals' I can't help but expend a large significant part of time and mental bandwidth hyper-focused on these issues, and seeing very little financial backing outside of minuscule angel investment.

I did the MIT Clim-CoLab and their were a lot of promising technologies that didn't require much funding but most would never be able to go beyond a proof of concept phase.