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20 years' experience, primarily data engineering, database optimization, and eng management at early/growth-stage startups (several exits). Previous experience in big finance, insurtech, fitness, search, healthcare.

I enjoy

- hands-on development

- tuning & replicating databases

- training & mentoring

- supporting or leading strategic recruiting / hiring initiatives

- providing technical and strategic advice

- coordinating large initiatives across teams / orgs

Primarily interested in consulting or contract work; open to full-time.
Q: Where is the Silicon Valley of Europe?
A: It doesn't exist and it's very unlikely (in my opinion) that there is going to be one.
When media and people talk about Silicon Valley as a whole and try to find its equialents around the world, they tend to forget why Silicon Valley is a thing to begin with. The need to have an area where businesses that operate in the same industry could perform their research, collaboration and product manufacturing stems not from some company's CEO trying to make some property investments for the sake of investing, but the need for having your partners (and competitors) in your physical proximity. Nowadays both the research and collaboration don't need to be performed at some particular spot (unless we're talking physical prototyping that has to be performed at a particular facility for whatever reason there is, but your questions seems to address the lack of European SaaS "hubs" so whatever), meaning that being somewhere akin to Silicon Valley is redundant for the most part. An argument could be made for networking, but i think that platforms like GitHub are far better for modern day tech networking than talking to randos at a bar.

Q:Why is there so many missing eu based equivalents of American based saas companies?
A:Because Europe. This isn't meant to be some sort of a snarky answer, but that's how it is. Mind that Europe is not monolithic in the ways European countries treat businesses (albeit there is certain movement in that direction (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-eyes-another-go-more...)), but there are certain differences between how German businesses have to operate versus their American counterparts and in my opinion that influences the costs of developing, maintaining and promoting the product, not to mention the differences in legal areas like IP laws. It's an incredibly complex topic to study and i wish i could give you a better answer, but the more i think about, the more i realize that the actual "final answer" would require you to take into account years and years of EU policies and how they affected European businesses, differences between European and North American specialists and their mindsets, how the talent moved around throught the years and so on.

It would be the absolute easiest thing in the world for me to just write "something, something, taxpayer funds, German manufacturing powerhouses, something, something, government overreach." but that wouldn't really explain anything.
> It never happens.

Many intentionally run without mitigations.
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Bringing up a five year old is a really good point. If some group wanted more resources than allotted, they'd just lie and say the resources never arrived, or other malicious behavior. Both an AI and a five year old would have trouble doing anything other than accepting that claim at face value and just giving them more resources.

Between that and your main point, an AI would have to be deeply aware of human behavior, and be able to put force behind its allocations. That's starting to sound like a good sci fi story where humans are mistreated "for their own good".
> "you mention that in your resume so I asked about it. I thought it would be a good question"

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. I ask people about relevant experience they've listed on their resumes all the time.
In my experience living in the most important city in the world the Berlin and Munich airports are a marvel of efficiency and comfort that I would kill to have back home.
No worries man. The only reason I said anything is because sometimes we don't realize it. I'm glad when someone calls me out.
Ask HN: Games which will help increase my appetite for risk?
I'm very risk averse IRL and am prone to "turtle" or "hoard" what I have. This mindset does NOT help me with my investments where a certain tolerance for risk is necessary to get reward.

Are there any games (video, not board) that can help me flex my risk tolerance muscle so I'm able to be less "scared" in reality and less risk averse?

Some thoughts on requirements:

- Immediate feedback through a failure state: don't want to spend 90% of the game building and 10% of the time risking what I've built
- Less about game proficiency/mechanics and more about provoking an emotional response which I can then confront and work through
- Would prefer a controlled, PvE environment so I can remove the variables of exploiters and better players from the equation (though this would be something useful to jolt a plateaued learning curve)
- Something that can be done without a sophisticated setup

Here are some games I've thought of and why they won't work (although I may be approaching them wrong):

- Humankind, Civ 6, etc.
- Risk occurs late in the game
- Feedback isn't immediate and would require analysis
- Large amount of build-up
- FPS
- Requires technical and game proficiency
- MMO FPS (Valorant, Overwatch)
- Too many uncontrolled variables
- Builders, i.e. Rimworld, Factorio, Anno 1800, etc.
- More micro-manage-y than risky
- Excessive setup before actual risk is faced
- Feedback would only occur after analysis

I don't know what I don't know so any ideas/comments are greatly appreciated!

This is an article I found but it's board games: [https://www.creativelive.com/blog/take-more-risks-board-games/](https://www.creativelive.com/blog/take-more-risks-board-games/)
Yes.

In my own experience, either the product needed very little map features, and it didn't warrant paying in full just for that (I remember even live Google Maps integration being dismissed as "too costly" and moving to pre-rendered optimized maps).

Either we needed a lot more maps, and having full access to the underlying data made more sense to limit computational overhead and better adapt to our use case.

Basically map/location related features are hard and often costly, I expect companies to either avoid them completely or bite the bullet and go full in.
> intention of your comment is to paint coinbase debt as worthless

That was not my intention. Coinbase's debt is viewed as risky. That has implications for the risk junior creditors (e.g. users) are taking.

Furthermore, the bonds' 10% yield is comparable to the 13% Vauld was offering [1]. Except the Coinbase debt is senior to its users claims. Assuming Vauld and Coinbase are comparable, which I think is generous to Vauld, that gives you a sense for how misplaced the risk/reward was for Vauld users.

> 10 year russian bond yields are at 9.15%

Russian debt is trading weirdly. There are various domestic and offshore quotes, since the reason it's trading down is because of sanctions, not Russia's creditworthiness. Still: risky.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/04/crypto-lending-platform-va...
Indeed, it reads like a textbook definition of a Ponzi scheme.
It reminds me what compilerworks doing also, I didnt test it tough can not judge similarities

https://www.compilerworks.com/technology/
PSA that the (severely underreported) inflation is ~8%, so both these yields are meaningless in real terms.
b2c maps is probably one of the worst niches out there, so much tiling so little $
Why is a vegan diet better for diabetics? Sugar is vegan after all...
I don't have any tattoos. My nipples are pierced. I have a magnet in my left ring finger, and an NFC chip in my left hand. I haven't mutilated my body. The nipples are for aesthetics. The implants are functional. Besides, piercing can be removed and tattoos not really. So if you consider any of it mutilation I'd say the tattoos are more mutilation than the piercings.
> There's a bunch of nostalgia about what small meant to mean, so I'll leave some links to the QNX 1.44MB demo floppy:

My first "real OS" experience was OS-9, which IIRC booted from a 400KB floppy. I believe Radio Shack sold it on a cartridge as well.

https://microware.com/
Perhaps in the very long term. But drastically increasing taxes on property would certainly not improve things for home owners who'd still have to keep paying their mortgage as well. And even renters would likely find their landlord passing on much of the taxes...
Right. That's the definition the international Olympic committee tried to enforce. The presence of a Y chromosome meant athletes weren't allowed to compete.

The problem is that many women (who are not trans) have a Y chromosome. They are either XXY (Klinefelter), or XY (Swyer), XY mosaicism, or any of the other intersex conditions.

Are those people not women? They may have fallopian tubes, a vagina, and a uterus, but also a Y chromosome.
The taste is a pretty important part.
Yeah I can imagine a candidate where I laugh and agree to do it, but I'd have to be in a good mood, like the candidate already, and not be super busy that week.
Solar Energy Monitoring with Raspberry Pi and Node-Red
... and then we have dentists. With the treatment variability of x10 in price and procedures 'needed'.
Like the parent comment I also have been doing garbage collection from the plate and slimming my own servings in anticipation. It seems to have worked, but now that my toddler is almost 4 I've noticed that my rate of stomach bugs has increased to levels I've never experienced. I wonder if this is the reason... I hate throwing away food so, so much.
Type theory and Set theory. For example.
> What Amazon hires for is insecure people desperate...

They prey on that subset, but they hire for disposable warm bodies in general.

I worked for them for not quite a year, and quit, because it was so absurd how incompetent the many layers of management above were, who took home massive pay for emailing and deriding talented engineers they knew little about.

Disclaimer : I'd already saved more than enough to retire young, so didn't need to work there, just thought it interesting, am pretty sure was assigned to backfill a hire-to-fire departed warm body, and was quickly keenly aware of the scam almost ponzi scheme they run, having spent several years at Apple which was run excellently (where I was).
This is super impressive. Using arbitrary code execution, the speedrunner injected a whole new set of models, sound, dialog and code satisfying many urban legends and beta content from the game 23 years after it was released.

I love that we can now reimagine old games and make them do anything, include fulfill childhood playground rumors of secret levels, powerups, endings…
We all know that a real accident would be all over YouTube, and front page of HN for about a week straight.

That we have so many “almost” videos, and a couple “it hit a cone”, but no real collisions seems telling.
One would also need to independently discover much of math and physics in order to say they did it themselves according to that definition.

I think you mean silicon though.
Ricoh GR3! Its compact nature meant for me that I actually took it with me to photograph things :)
> any particular location may be more desirable relative to others, e.g. a gorgeous view, away from factories or highways

It's politics, usually, keeping the factories and highways away. More fundamentally, the notion that a piece of paper (the deed) gives you certain rights (but not others) over some land is totally made up.
I’m sure an AI that can do that is not all that far away. The problem is how do you wrench power away from the rich and powerful. Some people just want to feel superior to others so we’re going to have to provide another way of making that happen. That’s a whole paradigm shift and only then will people accept what the AI is telling them.
More people in the world say “zee” than “zed”. I’m surprised to hear a British person wants to sound like they’re French. (I’m just kidding as I hope you are about beating children)
I would start with the gear you already have, in monochrome mode. With that out of the way, get a range of filters to put in front of it to give you options that can't be done in post processing like pushing the sky dark, etc.

There may be some very narrow band filters that prove quite empowering.

Also consider that if you have a narrowband filter in front of an existing Bayer filter, you've essentially got an HDR sensor, as the sensitivity of the RGB pixels will have a fixed ratio at that wavelength. You could thus trade a bit of spatial resolution for dynamic range.
If only it were that simple!!

Because of digital record keeping and insurance laws, even if I go to a independent, fee-based doctor, the results of his test can mean that in 10 years, insurance can refuse to cover certain treatments.

It's really an inescapable web, that even my doctor is aware of and seems paralyzed to authorize a test for me because of not only the implications for my finances, but also her practice.
Which regulations are those?
Volume on aircraft is cheap. Weight is very, very expensive.

In particular, increasing volume by a factor x means growing the skin by only x^1.5. Tankage is only a small fraction of aircraft volume. So, even though space in the wings, where fuel is put today, would go unused, the amount of extra weight for new tankage would be minimal.

If, as I expect, tankage is slung under the wing alongside the engines, airframe design would not need to change, and existing aircraft could even be retrofitted. Lifting bodies are supposed to be more efficient and have lots more room inboard, but efficiency might get less important as fuel cost plummets.

Ultimately we expect aircraft to move to electric-driven turbines, attached to fuel cells. Tankage and fuel cells could be anywhere convenient on board. It seems like there would be safety reasons to keep the tanks outboard, as the kerosene is, mostly, today.
Well, I'm obviously discounting results that you could classify as "unhealthy" right off the bat, and I was relating it to screening lipids on healthy patients. I'm not going to flex vs a 12% a1c from a diabetic, and the point is that I have not seen better numbers in any patient. Of course these are just numbers and my health could turn bad any day, but as far as numbers go, mine are great.

My mother is on statins based on her lipids. I suppose my situation could be the result of some favorable de novo mutations, but if you look at an extended family photo I am definitely the odd one out, something that only emerged with hard work starting late in my teens. Nothing with my fitness has been a gift. I could barely run 500m in my early 20s. It was far harder for me to gain muscle than most other people at the gym. That can be discouraging, but I stuck with it all became a form of meditation and a constant in my life when other things were changing.
> Yes, but that doesn't prevent them from licensing things to organizations with a lot of money regardless of intent

Why in God's name would a corporation with a lot of money pay for a patent they don't want to develop? Wallpaper is a lot cheaper at Home Depot.

Seriously. This doesn't pass the most basic "is this remotely plausible" test.

Anyway, universities tend to give licenses that make them money as the patent is used. There is no world under which they want them to be wasted.
How CUDA Programming Works
May I ask how you know your new, medicated behavior is representative of how normal human beings think?

I don't consider myself to have ADD, but I have taken Adderall. It increased my ability to focus, focusing on tasks is rewarded in society, and I felt like the positive effects of it made me a better version of myself. I stopped because I didn't appreciate some of the negative side-effects.

It seems common for people who take stimulants to feel like they're a better version of themselves while experiencing the positive side-effects of the medication irrespective of an ADD diagnosis. If you agree, I wonder how you came to the conclusion you were at a competitive disadvantage compared to the norm rather than simply having a leg-up against the norm once medicated.

And sorry if probing is disrespectful. No ill intent here. Just idle curiosity.
What do you mean ‘a civil law issue and not a common law issue’? The UK’s civil laws[0] are very largely composed of common law; the two concepts are orthogonal, not opposites, and both or one or neither can easily be true at once.

A common law issue could be either civil or criminal and says nothing about whether it’s the police’s domain (which obviously would entail its being criminal law).

[0] In the only one of two ways that you could possibly be using the word ‘civil’ in this context, given we don’t have a civil law legal tradition.
I hope I don't have to change it. I quite like that it sounds like train, since it's what it does. Someone mentioned a company by that name but I think I am in the clear because they are in a completely different industry.

I'd be more worried about someone in John Coltrane's estate having an issue with it.
I used to bring this question with me to interviews in my back pocket, so to speak:

Two people, Alice and Bob, are each flipping a coin repeatedly. Alice will stop when she flips two heads in a row (HH). Bob will stop when he flips a head followed immediately by a tail (HT).

Who will flip the coin more times on average: Alice, Bob, or is there no difference?

I had come across it on Metafilter a few years ago:

https://www.metafilter.com/147228/You-blew-it-and-you-blew-i...

I figured if I ever got a whiteboard or coding problem where I was completely lost, I might try saying something like, "I have no idea how to solve this. But here's a fun problem I came across recently that we could work on together."

There were a couple times where I got a question I couldn't solve. But I never had the courage to pull out my backup problem.
That is awesome, congratulations on a remarkable turnaround!

Funnily, I'm kind of the opposite story -- mid-40s and fairly athletic. I run around 14 miles every other day at sub 7 pace, play other sports, and am generally in good shape and have been my whole life. My diet is mostly vegetarian without much alcohol. Trying to do everything right to live a healthy lifestyle, but my cholesterol was terrible... LDL around 240.

My doctor chalked it up to bad luck with genes. After a few months on a statin it was at 90. Since I didn't have much room to change lifestyle, I'm very thankful for drugs!
Here's 2016 murder data for Illinois cities.

Really bad crime is fairly concentrated.

Outside of those ugly spots, it's something resembling normalcy.

America has a wicked gang/urban violence problem in 'hot spots'. And then a more 'common problem' everywhere else, of a different nature.

And of course political/active shooter type killings are actually quite rare. Though they are way more frequent in the USA then elsewhere, and are a serious kind of 'civic problem' - they don't actually represent an risk to individuals. There's about 1 'mass shooter' per day in the US, the average deaths per mass shooter is quite small (or 0), and so it doesn't really move the needle. It's something we want to be 'concerned about' not 'afraid of'.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Like with any other skill, I'd imagine most people could probably become "good at" being creative with practice. The very best creatives would be those who practiced and who had natural talent, but surely the ceiling is rather high even for those without much natural creativity.
What about whole nuts and seeds from which they're derived? Do they cause the same effect? I find this all a little hard to believe given that obese people tend to consume animal fats at a higher rate than non-obese people, nationwide changes notwithstanding.
Surprisingly, white sugar is not.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost
You kind of have to consider the whole system. Who has access, including hypothetical attackers that get in through network facing vulnerabilities, and what privilege escalations they could do with the mitigations on or off.

I've ran production systems with mitigations off. All of the intended (login) users had authorized privilege escalation, so I wasn't worried about them. There was a single primary service daemon per machine, and if you broke into that, you wouldn't get anything really useful by breaking into root from there. And the systems where I made a particularly intentional decision were more or less syscall limited; enabling mitigations significantly reduced capacity, so mitigations were disabled. (This was inline with guidance from the dedicated security team where I was working).