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Ask HN: What Is a COO?
Throughout my career I've held exclusively engineering positions. However, I've noticed the parts of my work I enjoy the most aren't necessarily the technical challenges, but instead improvements to process and productivity.

My favourite books are 'Getting Things Done' [0], and 'Deep Work' [1]. I also consistently try to find improvements to communication, requirement clarification, and decision making.

Is this mindset aligned with what would be expected from a COO? I know virtually nothing about the position apart from a line that stuck with me (paraphrased): 'A COO is similar to a CEO, where they have to do the same amount of work but don't get to make any of the decisions'.

Do you have any insights or books/article recommendations for what the role of COO looks like? It would be greatly appreciated

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work
It's killing me that if I run out of time, I never get to find out what the word was. could you tell me what word three was for https://www.twentle.com/p/2358 ?
I hesitate to since what you care about in the news is highly personal, as is your preferred tone.

What works for me though is WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, and The Economist.
It is only a loophole to the guy who did not think of it first.
Have you read Kraken's own page about that? Here is a quote:

"The results of our most recent audit were once again verified by top-25 global accounting firm, Armanino LLP. " (1)

So from this I read that Kraken has done audit themselves and then some other firm has verified it. This (if true) is called attestation, and not audit. Attestations are an empty claim with no proof in the tokenbro industry.

And second issue I see (directly related to the first) - they list some tokens they are auditing. Auditing on chain. But what if the Kraken company has a completely off the chain liabilities? Like a contract where they loan money/btc to some shady person and get some worthless tokens as a collateral in return. You can't see this on chain, only a real independent audit can uncover such things.

(1) https://blog.kraken.com/post/15002/kraken-proof-of-reserves-...
I guess you have to be paying attention then, to see the splits. The Republican party right now is certainly not holding any sort of coalition. Liz Cheney, Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and several others pretty much declared war on Trump based Republicans since 2020. They'd been opposing them long before, but they're finally out in the open about it. The democrat party also has it's own set of establishment Neocons that work to keep the populists in check. Which is why Bernie will never win a primary.
Not on cash, not your fiat.
Ask HN: Can I make a financial bet on Twitter?
Unlike many people I think that Elon Musk's shakeup of Twitter will make it significantly profitable in the next few years. But I cannot buy shares in the company because he has taken it private.

Is there any way that I can make a large bet with the naysayers about the future of Twitter? Maybe taking a position in some kind of credit default swap or some other derivative?
I'd rather have to do a little estate planning in my 50s than not make it there because I was uninsured in my 30s. The nursing home thing is very, very well known, you can plan ahead to avoid it, and most of the folks poor enough to benefit from Medicaid expansion weren't going to pass down much anyways.

Medicaid expansion is also just one portion of the ACA.
They know what to do, it just requires work and coordination with the upstream linux kernel (extending the PSCI api); still it's not done.

But don't get mistaken, I like this machine very much. When it works, it works fast and very well.
It reminds me of the freenode/libera story.

Although I wonder if Twitter could sue a Twitter alternative because of patents.

Anyway it's highly probable that a competitor could appear.
So what are they then if that's a really long bow to draw?
You can't think of any real number. You can think of some of them, but you need to have a way of thinking of them with some specification that can be written down, and those form a countable set. We also have finite life spans, so we actually can only think of finitely many numbers. When you think of the natural numbers, you think of them as a set and concept, which is different than being able to visualize and conceive of every natural number.

What about potentially think of? Even that does not make sense because every possible description you can think of must be written with finitely many symbols in some language, and all such descriptions form a countable set.

Therefore, there are real numbers that could never be written down in English, even potentially. Of course, that partially also depends on the kind of axiom system that you are using. In effect, the standard axioms of mathematics state the existence of things that cannot be effectively specified, which some people actually are against, although such people form a minority.

The surprising thing is that we can effectively reason with large infinities and such objects make intuitive sense (the set of all functions from the natural numbers to the natural numbers is uncountable but a very natural sounding set), and yet it is impossible even in principle to write every one down, even with an unlimited amount of time.
The Central Bank is about hooking up a few valves and then predicting how every other valve's flow will react as a result. The Soviet system was closer to hooking up every single valve.
I'm a certified member of the Peripatetic school [1]. The ancients knew it and I know it -- I walk therefore I am. It's by the walking alone I set my mind to motion.

Needless to say that my downstair neighbours hate me for it. I guess philosophers were always ostracised ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school
> According to a random source, they moved volume on the order of 500 billion.

According to FTX, the entire market moved 250 billion including derivatives of which they were 13 billion

https://ftx.com/volume-monitor
Almost like image training from DBZ

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Image_Training
Not even "white people" but specifically white anglo-saxon puritans. In many ways, it's just the latest twist on religious fundamentalism - the basic impulse is the same. You're all going to burn in hell if you don't check your privilege and accept Herbert Marcuse as your lord and savior.
SoftBank’s ignored the results of some due diligence before (WeWork)
You got it - a COO is focused on process and productivity (among many other things)

A good COO will be almost invisible. The company is firing on all cylinders, departments interact with one another smoothly, everyone is getting what they need…. and the COO is behind the scenes making it all work.
Absolutely not, it’s dangerous to my mental health in a way few other things are. People will call me selfish for not being engaged, but the cost of engagement is too high for me.

If I hear news it’s a five minute hourly update on Radio 1. Tech news is another beast, I quite enjoy things like HN.
Global warming is what does the digging work. Archeologists would never dig through gigatons of ice on their own, just to perhaps find some old stuff.
Britain as the result of "woke left", rather than far more systemic problems around our inability to plan or innovate in the long term.

Have you actually read The Spectator? I don't want to defend them too much, since I'm not a huge fan, but they publish all kinds of stuff about Britains "inability to plan or innovate" and criticising the government on that.

edit: That's not to say that they haven't also published a lot of articles blaming everything on the "woke left"
The problem is inaccurate data. Depending on how the census data is used, it may well be important to distinguish between, for example, a man who thinks he's a woman, and an actual woman.
They are quite open about their investments: https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/

Here are the other bets in their venture category: https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-investments/teach...
See my other comment; wifi works well, power management doesn't work at all.
A firm fixed price is a key aspect of the free market delivering maximum benefits to the consumer. If you have an Econ 101 "perfect market" in a commodity with a large number of buyers and and a large number of sellers, then you end with a single price being the marginal cost of production. Every buyer willing to pay at least the marginal cost gets to do so at the marginal cost. The difference between marginal cost and the price a buyer is the consumer surplus. The difference between actual cost and marginal cost is the producer surplus. With few exceptions the consumer surplus is massively larger than the producer surplus.

Excuse the bad summary of micro-econ 100.

Cars aren't a commodity which is why there is the potential for a consumer win in negotiation, but it's slight.

It's like gambling against the house. The best ones make it feel like you've won at the same time they suck you dry. You think you got a good price at the dealership when you negotiated the price down, but any good salesman will leave you feeling that way.
"The results of our most recent audit were once again verified by top-25 global accounting firm, Armanino LLP. " (1)

So from this I read that Kraken has done audit themselves and then some other firm has verified it. This (if true) is called attestation, and not audit. Attestations are an empty claim with no proof in the tokenbro industry.

And second issue I see (directly related to the first) - they list some tokens they are auditing. Auditing on chain. But what if the Kraken company has a completely off the chain liabilities? Like a contract where they loan money/btc to some shady person and get some worthless tokens as a collateral in return. You can't see this on chain, only a real independent audit can uncover such things.

(1) https://blog.kraken.com/post/15002/kraken-proof-of-reserves-...
The : allows users to discover it by coincidence when trying to type a smily :)

If triggering it by accident wasn't intended, they could have used a regular keyboard shortcut like Alt+Shift+E or even instruct users to press Win+. to use the system-wide emoji menu.
And yet, all popular projects move to PyPI over time which is in line with the point I was making.
Until the day aliens nuke California.
I kinda disagree. I've scaled plenty of code by just adding another monolithic app server. It rarely matters where the load is coming from, another pile of resources evens it out.

But if you have a problematic part of your codebase that regularly shits the bed, keeping it in your monolith will take it all down. Splitting it out is the smart thing.
My problem is the source selection algorithm.

Take a big list of possibilities, perhaps a Google search, whatever.

Cross off the corporate "video news release" basically its a TV commercial sources.

Cross off the government controlled / funded propaganda outlets. If I wanted the carefully censored and filtered opinion of the party in power, I'd read their website. "We're going to kiss up to everything our .gov says" is not "reporting" that's mere propaganda not worthy of viewing.

Cross off the attempts to violate election spending rules by producing an "independent" channels that coincidentally precisely mirrors and revolving door employs a political party. I don't want or need someone elses echo chamber, or even worse, my own echo chamber.

Cross off the gasping exclamation point clickbait sites.

Cross off anything participating in "celebrity news" (someone famous-ish in area A said something edgy about area B now post it for the rageclicks). Especially cross off sources focused on people who are famous for being famous but never did anything other than hire a PR firm, or people who have not been relevant in 10, 20, 30 years but are still in the news.

Cross off anything pandering to generational topics. I'm too young to be interested in major league baseball where the average fan is now over 70, and I don't want to be pandered to about video games or whatever "they" tell us "our" generation is supposed to be interested in.

What's left in 2022 after all that crossing out unacceptable sources? Nothing, I'm sad to say. Literally nothing left.

WRT better understanding the world you're probably better off reading history books.
On the surface this seems like a great thing for Tesla, consumers, and those living on tribal land, but the skeptic i me wonders what is Tesla’s real benefit and/or how how are one or both of the other two getting used or screwed over?
Used car dealers are an important part of the political donor base.
My experience was you can unlink them after the account is up and running, but then you can't get any money out of there. (except by paying people with paypal of course)
I'm not familiar enough with the topic to be able to contribute meaningfully. It feels like most people here aren't, it's mostly anecdata with a tinge of libertarianism.

At most I can say I'm vaguely aware that early in US history there were a lot of issues around monopolies/oligopolies (see company towns) that lead to antitrust laws and by extension laws regarding dealerships. But I'd have to do more research to be able to say anything more concrete.
> I've literally burned myself /

That can't be good for the longevity of the device.... or of you for that matter
Yeah I can only speak to the US but I would be surprised if credit history and such is not relevant in other places...
Isn't this how the markets work? You extract the maximum amount of profit. It is not like the Russians were forcing the EU to buy gas from them.

The EU were the ones trying to force Russia to sell gas to everyone, and not only that, but to also deliver it to specific transit routes. Like "you can't cut off Ukraine" because they're gonna freeze or something.

There's a lot of nonsense that is happening just because bureaucrats are stubborn and think the world should work how they dream it at night.
IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud
The Meeting of Minds
What is the max qps and latency this supports? What city is it hosted in?

Some moderation platforms I've worked with are too slow for messaging, especially if users are in different countries.

Do you have plans for image moderation?
YouTube to Notion
It's a 'puff piece' because they essentially take his words almost at face value, almost as if they are supporting his argument and don't dig more cynically into the underbelly of the issue.

There are a lot of really crazy things happening with this story they don't touch upon.

It's worse than a 'puff piece' to the point I suggest there is background manipulation going on. This is 'reputation laundering'.

There is a huge amount of money here, and a ton of very, very powerful people involved.

I suggest that within a few weeks this will be known to be truly a criminal enterprise and this NYT article will not age well.
The article had a whole section about that -- they shared the on-call duties across both teams (but required a high-quality playbook for each team's systems).
Damn autocorrect. An *oedipal complex.
Cheaper services are here now: https://synapticpaint.com/ I charge $2-$4 per model training.

I don't think that the profile pic/avatar space is going to be very profitable. As you can see from this post, there is quite a bit of competition already. Because this is not that hard to set up, there is nothing stopping someone from charging the cost of production for this, which is essentially what I'm doing (I added in a small amount of overhead as a buffer for non-GPU compute and in case I messed up my math, math is hard). That's why I'm focused on building for other use cases instead (making content creation more accessible).
You are selfish. Democracies can't function if citizens act like ostriches with their heads in the sand.

Do you vote? I sure hope not.
>Does anyone else have this experience?

Oh absolutely. I'll be listening to podcasts while I do chores, walk to work, or work out, and if I rewind to a clip I've already heard, I'll instinctively visualise the place I was walking past or the set of weights I was lifting, lol.

That's indeed how memory palaces work, but funnily enough, when I try to apply that technique intentionally it never did work for me... x)
One step forward, three steps back seems popular with the obsolete crowds :p

Just more decoherence in the marketplace
Uppercase convention for constants debated on Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide
Link with anchor to recent discussion:

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/pull/255#issuecomment-1...
This is a person who scammed millions of people and boasted about it as it was happening.

Their “ideas” on social justice and everything else they have to say should be questionable at best, and intentionally misleading at worst.

I would encourage you to find role models who are more than just good at distracting people from their criminal activities.
https://live-counter.com/how-big-is-the-internet/ puts the size about it at 23 million PBytes. 1000PB = 1EB, so 23,000 Exabytes

At 200 exabits per second, or 25 Exabytes per second, it would take you a thousand light seconds to send the entire contents of the internet. With the speed of light in the cable about 2/3rds of C, that would require about 600 light seconds of cable, which is about the distance from the sun to the earth.
The Path to Success
That doesn't seem to support the claim that "crypto money has flowed to mostly Republican politicians". Rather the opposite, as the amounts from those donors are $35M to Democrats vs $18M to Republicans.

Are there some other donors who gave crypto money to Republicans?
Org Roam calls to thee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyhPmypHDEw
My best results ever were from non technical questions I asked them. Show you want to understand them and what they do.
I've edited code on mobile plenty of times just using the mobile GitHub webpage. Usually just small tweaks and typo fixes though.

I don't see why you would need an app though.
Just to add: silicon valley started the tres of overhiring to drain the talent pool as a competitive advantage and others have followed along.
Another bad news for astronomy and this is just the beginning:

BlueWalker 3 is a prototype for a constellation of 168 even larger satellites called BlueBirds.
Standard non-negotiable contracts (where you can only accept or reject) are required by consumer protection laws in those countries to have an effectivity period of at least 60 or 90 days (depending on the specific country) from the publication and notification date.
? Stealing $10B is fraud. So when $10B goes missing, due to what we know is 'bad behaviour' at minimum, and all the other 'smoke' around this story - we should use that word in proper context.

This is literally one of the biggest fraud cases in history.

By their own 'standards' they are compelled to use the word in proper context.
This may have been true in the past but new subsea cables are not this limited. As an example the Dunant transatlantic long haul Google put in place in 2018 (went live in 2020) has 12 pairs (24 fibers). Grace Hopper, due online this year has 32 fibers. But your point stands - I should have said "up to" instead of "frequently".
> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively

Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous.

Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?
The National Rifle Association pretty much does this. One could also count professional organizations that lobby and are funded by dues.
No, if something is important enough it finds its way to me anyways, either through word of mouth or by skimming HN/Twitter/Reddit. I subscribe to a daily news thing that drops in my email and by just reading what the title of the email is I get a sense if anything Really important is going on, and then I just delete it.
He also said:

"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth."
- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889
This is what back to office looks like, less profits for everyone. We could be good little wfh consumers instead of fossil fuel guzzlers.
One person "teams" but reviewing and approving each others' work and then switching every six months or so, works well.

From what I have seen single person can deliver more and quicker than 2-5 people and having to seek approval from their peers keeps quality in check too.
Stargate vibes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(film)#Plot
I follow Ukraine war and local politics, some national ones.

I tend to stay away from US news as far as possible, unless they leak into common discussions like twitter recently.
Indeed, I'll change that so you can see the word after you run out of time/questions. The word was belt.
Why is everything about Elon musk?

Is this the new Trump Derangement Syndrome?
I do read news daily but certainly substantially less than a few years ago. I try to consume a "balanced" diet from both left and right news sources and listen in and try to listen in an impartial way. I have a few key observations from all this:

News is, on balance, very negative. Its designed to stoke your fears and worries. There is no benefit or money in feel-good news, which is why its typically relegated to the end of a news program on TV and almost never on the front page above the fold.

A lot of news masquerades as entertainment. Its fine to watch, just be aware its the junk food of content.

Omission of supporting facts and context in news is almost as bad as selectively picking facts that spin the story your way. This is probably the most insidious journalistic tactic as it typically helps reinforce outrage without providing the full picture.

The Economist used to be one of my favorite news sources to counter the trends mentioned above. But I soon realized that they took too many editorial stances on issues were they were quickly proven wrong in days or weeks later.

The right balance to strike with the news is longer-form articles that deep dive into world topics and foster debate within the pages. I think Foreign Affairs serves some of that purpose. But also reading a variety of blogs helps: Astral Codex Ten, Marginal Revolution, etc... Granted, many of the popular ones tend to be left-leaning with progressive agendas. Just be aware.
At least in Sweden such clauses are unenforceable. Would assume it’s the same in most of Europe.
What Is GitHub?
Ask HN: What’s the advantage of higher memory bandwidth in Apple Silicon chips?
I checked the unified memory bandwidth rating of the Apple Silicon chips:

- M1: 66.67GB/s
- M2: 100GB/s
- M1 Pro: 200GB/s
- M1 Max: 400GB/s
- M1 Ultra: 800GB/s

The question is, which app or task will take advantage of higher unified memory bandwidth?
If you have iPhone, get News+. After I got it set up, (subscribe to what I want, then turn OFF notifications) I spend about 5-10 minutes in the morning reading the headlines and then picking out an article to read. That's it.

It doesn't need to take much time. If it keeps you awake at night, then you must have had a very posh life where you made no mistakes. Make a family, and they will keep you up at night instead!
If it weren't for the boom, it'd still be fine for the kind of people in tech that would go for the less glamorous engineering disciplines.

When I talk to people struggling to get in for the first time, it's always people wanting cushy pay and social status - not in it because engineering is fun.

I'm the kind of person that has FUN taking a day off to screw around with pytorch and try to at least understand a little of that field, or doing something goofy with GPIO pins on my rasppi. If it was a decade ago and I didn't know better, I'd be worried, but now I realize there's always room somewhere for the true nerds, even if you have to dig around for it.

My boss has told me that he specifically aims to find the nerds and put them on his team - I imagine he's not the only one that does that.