How about a theme park? With velociraptors and other jurassic era animals?
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My theory is that in US compared to Europe, you are going to need the path of least resistance more often. If you are working two part-time jobs with variable hours and schedules to make ends meet, then you are going to reach for the easy & fast food options. Whereas if you have the stability of 40 hour work weeks, regular schedule and social safety nets - regardless of the total income - then you have the time and mental energy to eat healthier.
You can update your code to point to a new address when you move:
> Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addresses change. Their new addresses will be linked to the codes if they submit notices of address changes.
> a small startup that never found product-market fit. The economy was bad, and they were running out of money, and they took - as I understood it - a dubious Series B led by a dubious investor
The unfortunate reality is that if a startup cannot survive for long on its own, the economy is bad, and investment interest is low - then past invested effort from founders and employees and money from early investors is a sunk cost. They have together created something with almost no independent economic value.
The later investors can buy the assets created so far at near zero cost (the alternative is a bankruptcy auction). They can reasonably argue that the future value of the business is all from their investment, together with a deal to hire the founders and current employees to invest future effort into it.
Spotify pays out 70% of revenue they receive to owners of the music, BandCamp 75%, SoundCloud 80%. Could be slightly better, but it's not outrageous.
The real problems for artists are:
a) they are not the owners of the music, their record label takes most of it, and the rest is split between the artists, songwriters, producers, etc.
b) bad deals with (but good for) the customers - ~10/month for unlimited music too good value
That "some kind of image processing unit" in humans has an awful lot of compute power and software.
If you remove $100k of sensors but have to add $200k of compute to run more advanced computer vision software, then it's a bad tradeoff to use only cameras, even if in theory that software is possible.
Do all possible topological sorts of the event graph result in the same final consensus document? If yes how do we know that, and if no, how do they resolve the order in which each branch is applied?
If you have taken eight weeks of vacation per year, and have not even seen push-back on it, you are definitely on "unlimited" compared to most of the world.
Belgium has exactly that (use of a car is tax-free) and as a result company cars are wildly popular. Getting rid of this tax loophole has been unpopular, but as a compromise they will only apply it to electric cars in the future.
And developer machines. The backdoor was live for ~1 month on testing releases of Debian and Fedora, which are likely to be used by developers. Their computers can be scraped for passwords, access keys and API credentials for the next attack.
If you are looking for a real-world, whole-system benchmark (like a database or app server), then taking the average makes sense.
If you are benchmarking an individual algorithm or program and its optimisations, then taking the fastest run makes sense - that was the run with least external interference. The only exception might be if you want to benchmark with cold caches, but then you need to reset these carefully between runs as well.
I would distinguish a mid-life crisis (or in the positive case, mid-life inspiration) by the realisation that you don't have infinite time left to do everything you dream to do.
In your 20s, it's easy to think that your entire life is still ahead of you, and you will have time for everything. It doesn't matter if you spend a few years in a mediocre relationship, a career that won't work out in the long run, on a terrible startup idea, and so on.
Somewhere in your 30s you realise that you do need to get started on what you really dream to do, or you might never have the chance to. Whether it's a crisis or inspiration depends on how far off your previous life was from it.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
It's unfortunate, but probably better than the corruption that anything else will enable in the long run. Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. For government spending, lowest bidder is the worst form of contracts, except for all the others.
Feedback loops are an important part.
But let's say you take two current chatbots, make them converse with each other without human participants. Add full internet access. Add a directive to read HN, Twitter and latest news often.
Interesting emergent behaviour could emerge very soon.
Both could be satisfied with a single-threaded make keeps the standard order to ensure backwards compatibility, but `make -j` that also turns on --shuffle. Which is also backwards compatible, because timing of each target might rearrange them.
I remember https://i.imgur.com/vKbfzEs.jpg from my childhood. Small metal clips to attach real candles to the Christmas tree. 20-50 open flame candles on a dried out Spruce, one of the best fire starters possible.
Rewriting history and amending commits forces the recalculation of all commit hashes that follow it, and you end up with a completely different final hash.
AWS QLDB does the same thing with Amazon holding the final hash.
During my career I did freelance mobile app and web development for about 10 years.
In that time I came across many people who wanted to found a tech startup because "that's where the money is" and being a tech startup founder being a status symbol. Some enthusiastic youngsters, but mostly people who had a successful non-tech small business. And they were not the right sort of person and did not have the right hunches, they didn't use what they learned from their non-tech business, but instead sat down over a beer with friends to brainstorm "social-local-viral" app ideas.
The advice instead should be that if you are struggling to come up with startup ideas, you probably aren't the right sort of person at this time. You should do something entirely different for a while until you find a product that just has to exist.
Unfortunately, they had never read HN or PG, nor could I do more than politely refuse their business.
My bed is the best investment in the sense that I spend 1/3 of my life there. That doesn't mean it would be a good idea to pay 1/3 of my income towards a bed and mattress subscription.
Healthy competition from many suppliers means that I can buy a bed for a one-time, materials cost + profit margin price instead of purely value-based pricing, and spend the surplus elsewhere.
To me it was that personal finance and budgeting is being marketed to low-income people as a way of getting out of poverty and becoming rich (doctor, lawyer or software engineer rich, not billionaire rich). And it is both misleading in ways that could actually happen and labels them "irresponsible" if they fail to budget their life from $15/hr to European cars and vacations.
I don't know how widespread this marketing is, but the article is clearly written in response to something. Maybe we on HN just don't notice it, because sensible budgeting and investing on a software engineer's salary actually does make you "software engineer rich".
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The comparison to dieting is probably more familiar and insightful for us.
Eat smaller portions, avoid sugary drinks and beer, maybe even eat healthy and exercise. Make that your lifestyle not a temporary hack and you will be fit. That works and realistic advice follows it.
But there is clearly a lot of fad diet, gadget and pill advertising out there. Just yesterday I saw an ad for an electric mattress that promised to give you a beach body in 3 months on the highway home. Marketing is selling fat people that they just have to suffer for a few months, after which they will have made it, and can go back to enjoying life (pizzas) of their dreams.
It seems that this article was written because there is a lot of personal finance content just like that out there.
For example, 7 litres / 100km = 0.07 mm^2
It's the cross-section of a noodle of fuel laid out along the road that the car needs without a gas tank.
In some European locales Excel switches from importing/exporting Comma Separated Values to Semicolon Separated Values with comma acting as the decimal point.
Which is no big deal compared to the alternatives of a) missing out on a $500m contract for the local shipbuilding industry or b) moving the entire shipyard downriver.
If that happens, Tesla should set a price for other EVs which makes it profitable for them, and then just build as many charging locations as there is demand for. Everyone wins.
They do.
In 2012, their advertising revenue was $5B. In 2020, it was $86B. They are "doing" 17x more now.
I don't mean that from your perspective of revenue leading to wasteful spending, but from an advertising product perspective. If you're making $86B in advertising revenue, then every junior data scientist whose entire job might be to optimise ad click-throughs for cat food in Mongolia by 3% is a net win for the company. If they are getting better at cat food ads, they are doing more.
Sure they do, as long as they just get an app built by a contractor and don't employ 5000 engineers building cool open-source infrastructure projects and unnecessary "growth" features.
Multiple taxi companies with ~200 cars in my city each have their own smartphone apps with all the features you actually need: ordering or scheduling a ride, GPS tracking, payment with credit card or business invoice.
Looks like these apps were last updated in mid & late 2020, but if it works you don't need a permanent tech team to keep the taxi business going.
But at the same time, this is Hacker News, not Mature Consumer Product News. Here is the best place to discuss what tech in 2030 might look like, not what we can buy today.