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I don’t think you understand the market forces at play if you really believe this. If product A sells at MSRP direct from the company that produces it for $x and people are willing to pay $y for it where y is sufficiently bigger than x then there will be a reseller market for the product. If y is close enough to x then there won’t be much of a reseller market. Of course if the company has the ability to otherwise diminish the value of the product post sale then that too can distort the reseller market should the company use its power to do so.

Increasing prices has much to do with whether or not there is a reseller market. You are very much wrong.
No official blog post yet, but the official Twitter account announced it: https://twitter.com/golang/status/1554515292390408192 and https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/m3V8y4D02ao
I loved his work. It's a slog to get through. Both those things can be true.

It's not the explanatory segments. It's his entire writing style.
HN implicitly gets this clout - it became the real status page of most of the internet.
Yeah, maybe. I know that correct code is what matters (correct in the sense that it gets the job done, without errors).

But still, there's maintanability questions... And there's code rot. Letting stuff get older, badly documented, etc.
It's a good start, but it's more of an illustration than a logo to be honest. It should work as a single color (white, black), at small scale and in combination with your product name.
This seems like nonsense on a conservation of energy basis. Putting vents on trains would cost a similar amount of energy as using fans to blow large volumes of air (at ~400 ppm CO2) into carbon-capture systems, and the result would be to slow down the trains and cause them to use more fuel or electricity.

Secondly, who is going to pay for this? If CO2 is going to be a valuable commodity itself, then that's because it's going to be used in an industrial process as a feedstock for fuel or material production. In that case, train operators might find this to be an interesting proposition, if the value of the captured CO2 is a good deal higher than the resulting increase in fuel/electricity costs needed to operate these trains.

As far as industrial production, this doesn't look good either. It's far easier to just put large atmospheric CO2 capture systems right next to the chemical production system without having to haul trainloads of CO2 all over the place.
You don't have to abide by everything the guy says, but I like a lot of the ideas over at https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ in terms of living frugally.

The ultimate form of freedom is being able to decide what you want to do with your time. One way of accomplishing that is making a ridiculous amount of money via a successful exit. Another way is to structure your life so that you're ok with less. Sure, I think most would prefer the 'have lots of money' option, but 1) even there it's easy to get sucked into spending more, as this article mentions, and 2) we have a lot more control over living frugally while earning well (most software engineers earn pretty good money) than we do over a wildly successful exit from a startup.
> hundreds of millions of dollars that are not easily traced

If they keep it in blockchains only, it's hard to connect to a real identity. But if they cross the line (which is everybody's goal eventually) to the real world, they can get caught as easy or even easier than in traditional financial system.
so what is your argument? or do you even have one?

The schools seem to want to be able to use race, IN ADDITION to other factors. What is the problem?
With DALLE 2, I’ll pretty much never hire a graphic designer again to make any kind of logo. Good riddance, I’m sick and tired of their pretentious justifications for charging upwards of $500-$1k or more for simple logo designs.
Contrast it with my experience where my wife was 100% supportive of me taking multiple months of not working at all and not really looking to recover from my time at my previous employer.

I think you're presupposing that your experience is universal. I felt refreshed and reinvigorated when I started my new job, not panicked and depressed, because I had created for myself a solid support structure for such eventualities (financially and socially).

I would argue that the real key here is preparation; if you can set yourself up not to be harmed by something like a lay off, you will be much more likely to go through it in a positive way than if you leave it up to fate to decide how and when you experience such a potentially negative event.
Will check out Freeze Frame Revolution. Thanks.
Maybe 'They're so busy, they can't do it any faster / can't take on any more work.' ?
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You could try using Midjourney: https://discord.com/invite/midjourney
>> AWS going down is treated like an act of god rendering everyone blameless.

Someone decided to use AWS, so there is blame to go around. I'm not saying if that blame is warranted or not, just that it sounds like a valid thing to say for people who want to blame someone.
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I might have not been too clear about it in the article, so if I haven't, I agree!

All of this was just me finding a practical purpose to go for while having fun with Dalle. If I was really serious about a logo, I would definitely go and pay an artist. Both for monetary, as well as esthetic, reasons.

Though as far as an app icon goes, I think it's actually sharp enough. It starts looking bad when you zoom in a bit.
It really varies a lot. I have seen very large lazy sites suddenly pick up a client that wanted RCA for each bad transaction, and suddenly get religion quickly (well quickly as a large org can). Those are precious clients because they force investment into useful directions of availability instead of just new features.
> I don't like the architecture because it looks like a set of ugly hacks.

It's not a set of hacks. You simply isolate your workflows using a hardware virtualization, transparently to the user.

> You don't need virtual machines to isolate applications because CPU already has a sandbox provided by protected mode.

What exactly do you mean? Qubes uses VT-d hardware virtualization. AFAIK it's the most secure compartmentalization method, and you can't use it without VMs.

> But why do you need it if you can simply run USB stack in protected mode?

On how many lines of code do you rely in "protected mode"? On Qubes, you assign the devices to VMs, hide them from the dom0, so they can't attack it. It relies on Xen, one of the most tested piece of software with a small Trusted Computing Base. See this: https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#why-does-qubes-use-xen-instead....

> Also, I assume that running so many VMs requires a lot of drive space and hurts performance.

You need a lot of RAM, if you want to run a lot of VMs simultaneously. But you don't have to. CPU performance should not be affected much. Drive space is saved by using TemplateVMs (which provide root partition to other VMs): https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/.
The reason you don't need a credit rating is because you need collateral.

Want a $5000 loan from crypto? Better have at least $20000 in crypto assets.

How anyone is expected to get credit funding from this strange system is unclear.

Also the no custodian part is especially strange considering that most people who have crypto keep it on some exchangebank
> Two sets of parents deciding their kids are going to be married as adults and forcing/coercing it is arranged/forced marriage.

This is forced marriage.

> Two sets of parents introducing their kids to each other and the kids deciding they want to be married to each other is just marriage.

This is arranged marriage. In a non-arranged marriage the kids find each other, or they get introduced in a non-formal way. In an arranged one parents or a matchmaker do it for them, but the kids make the final decision. An arranged marriage is simply that there is someone actively looking for a match for the kid.

In a forced marriage the kids have no say, or their only say is to try to convince the parents, but if the parents disagree the kids have no choice.

That's simply what the words mean. You asked for a definition, this is the definition.

Keep the distinction and you'll communicate better on this subject without confusing people. (Notice that the only replies you got were people explaining that you are wrong about the topic - that's because you used the wrong term.)
This.

I don't how anyone would commit anything more than pocket change to a scheme where an insider could deliberately introduce a weakness and then exploit that weakness to walk off with all the funds committed.
Presumably an HR department or executive would also be smart enough not to put such a statement in writing.
> Many years from now, we will be holding these black people accountable for the generational harm and un-earned benefits they've stolen from our current generation's youth.

This is a pretty extreme assertion.
That's true, unless you need

(1) Different programming languages e.g. you're written your app in Java but now you need to do something for which the perfect Python library is available.

(2) Different parts of your software need different types of hardware. Maybe one part needs a huge amount of RAM for a cache, but other parts are just a web server. It'd be a shame to have to buy huge amounts of RAM for every server. Splitting the software up and deploying the different parts on different machines can be a win here.

I reckon the average startup doesn't need any of that, not suggesting that monoliths aren't the way to go 90% of the time. But if you do need these things, you can still go the microservices route, but it still makes sense to stick to a single database if at all possible, for consistency and easier JOINs for ad-hoc queries, etc.
Because their loved ones, or peers or Facebook advertisement told them it's safe and a good way to stick it to the man.

Usually just depositing money in a bank doesn't get it stolen so the assumption isn't unreasonable.

Even if it's only 0.25*life saving that's still devastating for most people.
Say you want to move $ from service A to C, before Bitcoin it was not possible without a bank intermediary (B). There is processing time, high fees, business hours, etc.. So you’re handholding the process A to B then B to C.

With crypto I can move money directly A to C at 4am on a weekend, any amount, without talking to anyone for a tiny fee.

Or if I want to move it into my wallet and hold it personally I can do that do. Before Bitcoin that was literally impossible without physically walking into a bank.
I work at Google so my perspective is to be biased, but that's not what I see.

I work on infrastructure, and so a few years back, when I proposed a major project, I had to demonstrate how it would save *many* times the fully loaded cost of the engineers on the team, by reducing the Storage TCO for all of Google (for example). It was not enough for the project to "break even" --- the benefits had to do more than just exceed the "nominal" SWE cost. It had to be multiple times the cost of the SWE's, to account for the opportunity cost of those SWE's --- SWE's are a constrained resource, which is why a project needs to save $$$ (or increase profits) by many multiples the fully loaded SWE cost. (That project has since been completed, successfully, and I got a promotion to Sr Staff Engineer out of it.)

The reason why SWE's are a constrained resource is becaused finding good SWE's is non-trivial. As a TL, I don't want to waste my precious approved headcount on people who just want to rest and vest, or people who believe in the crazy talk of only needing to work 30 minutes each day. I'm trying to find highly motivated, smart, and talented SWE's who can also be team players. And if they need to have domain expertise (say, be proficient kernel engineers), it's super-duper difficult.

So I don't see any indication of people getting hired just to starve statups of talented engineers. We need every single talented engineer we can get for the projects that we want to accomplish. And in the time when we may need to slow down our growth, it may mean that we will need to slow, or shut down some projects. That may suck, especially if it's a project that we had invested a lot of passion into. But it's certainly no reason to panic. Slowing down growth is not the same as layoffs, and there is no shortage of work for us to do.
The video mentions synchronizers and shows helical cut gears at https://youtu.be/JOLtS4VUcvQ?t=409 .
This is just a planned city and it's something that the U.S. has done quite a bit of, contrary to the post's indication that the U.S. is incapable of such. Read up on Irvine, CA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California See also the history of Sandy Springs Georgia (similar size to Jiaolong https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sandy-springs-georgia-privati... )

I'm glad to see these experiments, but it would have only taken 2 minutes of research to see there is nothing "sovereign" about Jiaolong, it's a city in China governed by China.
> the stock market has gone down, the rich own more stocks, and so rich made less money

My link shows that real factor income for all but the top 10% of earners is up which includes wages and capital income.

Your FRED link will have to contend with the fact that those most likely to be unemployed at the start of the pandemic are lower earners which is going to shift up the wages for 2020.
Allow Rules, if not implemented properly, could open a vector for fraud. That's why, for now, it's not enabled for newer businesses on Stripe—and we ask businesses to contact support to turn it on manually (https://support.stripe.com/). Would you be able to get in touch with us? (Please CC me, edwin@stripe.com.) We'd also like to look into why these payments were blocked in the first place (distance between IP address and card address is not the sole factor for risk scores; there are many factors) and make sure future legitimate payments are accepted.
The energy requirements of bitcoin might go some way to explaining why people get a bit worried about if it’s got a real purpose or not ?
Wow, so much great stuff. Multi-level/cascaded/meshed switches, shared memory with coherency, peer to peer transfers, pcie 6.0.

Personally I kind of want a non-coherent shared memory? Probably no spec work required, but I havent seen cxl used as a fabric interconnect between hosts, and that seems like another obvious missing.
You're actually allowed to have skepticism about someone else's personal claims, offered decades after the fact, without any corroborating external facts.
Hopefully it means US won’t start it?
What a flex you pulled off!
This is the only right answer. Pack it up.

For real, every time I try to answer my I do crypto, often people just don't understand. They just don't. They just don't understand why I don't trust entities.

If you don't understand this, then you don't understand crypto. Period. There is no other debate necessary. Period. Full stop. We go on our own way.

Full stop.
I've used crypto for regular monetary transactions (selling art) and it's a huge pain in the ass compared to using actual currency. The idea that people are going to do day-to-day purchases with bitcoin is pure fantasy, it would be a huge step back from what most people are used to.

You pay fees for every single transaction: chain storage, gas, if you want to deposit or withdraw or exchange to another currency, etc; it's slow to go through and at peak times you get gassed out and it doesn't go through at all.

The value fluctuates wildly at all times of day, so your transaction might lose a significant percent of value before you've had a chance to even access it let alone trade it for a more stable currency or asset. Oh, and you have zero safety net for if something is entered wrong, a key is lost, if you end up not receiving the item you purchased, you're outta luck and there's no bank or credit card agency you can petition for a chargeback. Plus you lose ALL your money with no recourse if you can't keep track of a non human memorizable secret key, or if it gets in any way intercepted or stolen from your computer, or if you accept the wrong transaction...
My significant other who had entered the queue several months ago as nothing more than "developer" got in last week. Don't give up! There's always Craiyon to scratch the itch in the meanwhile. You can start to play around with ways to write prompts, etc.
Yes. Exactly. Telling people what they've done wrong enables them to behave better in future. Isn't that what we want... rehabilitation?
At my current job we have four different databases so I concur with this assessment. I think it's okay to have some data in different DBs if they're significantly different like say the user login data could be in its own database. But anything that we do which is a combination of e-commerce and testing/certification I think they should be in one big database so I can do reasonable queries for information that we need. This doesn't include two other databases we have on-prem which one is a Salesforce setup and another is an internal application system that essentially marries Salesforce to that. It's a weird wild environment to navigate when adding features.
I would expect there are BGP issues that could do that, at least for large swaths of the internet.
I’m not holistically recommending the currencies they were designed alongside, but I fully believe that there is a right way to build smart contract languages, and that they look a lot more like Pact or Plutus than an EVM compilable dialect.

Both are functional, which means easier to read, and Pact is non-Turing complete and strictly typed, making it even easier, so much so that formal verification tools can assess what a contract is capable of automatically - a much smaller search space than EVM bytecode.

When code is not permanent and backing millions of dollars or more of value, the trade offs may favor more powerful or flexible languages, but the ability to read and understand code and what it can do it so wildly important for smart contracts that I don’t see a world where Pact isn’t moving the right direction contrary to the EVM.
Median household income in the US is about $67k, and of course median cost of living the US is much lower than in the SF Bay area. It is thoroughly possible to put away enough money to pay for car troubles or many kinds of medical problems without superhuman financial discipline for most households in the US.

Now:

1. Is there a substantial minority who genuinely can only really live hand-to-mouth in the US? Yes.

2. Is it obviously much easier for those of us who have tech-job incomes to put away substantial savings than it is for the median family? Also yes.

3. Am I personally some kind of paragon of financial discipline? No.

4. Is it understandable why many people live closer to paycheck-to-paycheck than they could? Yes.

But I don't think that hyperbole serves anyone here.
We have a different take on running "one big database." At ScyllaDB we prefer vertical scaling because you get better utilization of all your vCPUs, but we still will keep a replication factor of 3 to ensure that you can maintain [at least] quorum reads and writes.

So we would likely recommend running 3x big servers. For those who want to plan for failure, though, they might prefer to have 6x medium servers, because then the loss of any one means you don't take as much of a "torpedo hit" when any one server goes offline.

So it's a balance. You want to be big, but you don't want to be monolithic. You want an HA architecture so that no one node kills your entire business.

I also suggest that people planning systems create their own "torpedo test." We often benchmark to tell maximal optimum performance, presuming that everything is going to go right.

But people who are concerned about real-world outage planning may want to "torpedo" a node to see how a 2-out-of-3-nodes-up cluster operates, versus a 5-out-of-6-nodes-up cluster.

This is like planning for major jets, to see if you can work with 2 of 3 engines, or 1 of 2.

Obviously, if you have 1 engine, there is nothing you can do if you lose that single point of failure. At that point, you are updating your resume, and checking on the quality of your parachute.
The specifier "more than 0" strikes me as odd. Both sentences would have been the same without it.

> we've hired people through a global outsourcing company

> we have staff who have been displaced by a war
No support for Ubuntu?
I'm not looking forward to people saying the same of coders in 10 years time...
For the majority of people on earth, it has not changed their lives in any meaningful way. Their lives may in fact be indistinguishable from an alternate reality where crypto was never invented.
It uses an erlang binding for wxWidgets[1].

[1]https://www.wxwidgets.org/
I'm sorry, but they were selling shitty sub-prime mortgages as AAA investments, my friend.

They claimed high-risk mortgages would turn AAA by the magic of financial and statistical shenanigans. That's not far from "zero initialized vector" shenanigans.

Investing in AAA securities is not speculation, by financial standards, by the way.
I would say that anyone who have enough time and money to investing in crypto is by definition wealthy.
What's Web3?
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Airflow is super clunky, but it gets the job done (mostly).

I'm kind of a fan of Prefect as an alternative:
https://docs-v1.prefect.io/core/about_prefect/why-not-airflo...
I beg to disagree.

I think it makes much more sense for simple illustrations for articles, presentations and books ("pencil sketch" style). For logos, especially since you'd usually want simpler shapes, less detail, with a lot of readability, I'd go pay an artist if it was for a company I was building.
We do. It's called people accepting cryptocurrencies in exchange for goods and services. Here is the roadmap: https://intercoin.org/communities.pdf
> My point is the electorate isn't going to vote for proper fiscal conservatives

My point is that fiscal conservatives don't exist. You have one side just cutting taxes, and the other side ballooning the budget. But at least the other side raises taxes and kinda sorta gets closer to balance.
We all hate this... but if you put more details into your HN posting it would be a more effective complaint.

Right now, none of us know what your code was doing. Portscanning the entire internet? Botnet C&C? Got hacked because something that was forseeably your fault?

Put some details in so that your complaint and theirs don't have the same amount of evidence.
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It's sad that the only way to legalize is to force people to see a qualified therapist and take patented psychedelics in order to benefit from the experience, but that's what the normies want.

I've taken them with a therapist and it was meh because the doctor/patient relationship became weird under the influence. On the other hand I've had peak experiences by myself alone in a redwood forest on a fresh clear morning.
"This story is just for Pop Mech members."

I really want to flag headlines that require registration in order to access, but I'm not sure if that's within the guidelines.
Don't forget that a lot of people are using Arduino framework code on ESP32, it works pretty well.

So this development is also relevant for those other boards, maybe even more so.
This is kind of a weird take to me given that photoshop exists. (Tons of proto-computer vision algorithms in there, like basic convolutional filters.) I suspect you'd still get copyright if you modify it a bit somehow.
Thanks for giving it a try!

> Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner!

Couldn’t agree more. I think having a way to import recipes without the fluff is a table stakes feature for any recipe app (and was the very first part of it I built).