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_9vpl··on Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code
Real estate agents say now is a good time to buy!
_9vpl··on Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
You'd want to get something like a RTX Pro 6000 (~ $8,500 - $10,000) or at least a RTX 5090 (~$3,000). That's the easiest thing to do or cluster of some lower-end GPUs. Or a DGX Spark (there are some better options by other manufacturers than just Nvidia) (~$3000).
_9vpl··on We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)
I'm sure there is plenty of data/benchmarks out there and I'll let that speak for itself, but I'll just point out that there are 2 built-in core modules in Node.js, worker_threads (threads) and cluster (processes) which are very easy to bolt on to an existing plain http app.
_9vpl··on We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)
Node.js uses libuv, which implements strategy 2. mentioned on the linked webpage.

"libuv is a multi-platform C library that provides support for asynchronous I/O based on event loops. It supports epoll(4), kqueue(2)"

_9vpl··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
it literally just squeezed juice out of a plastic packet, that's it.
_9vpl··on Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
Very nice! Just a note (as the site says on bottom left side), this can vary depending on the CPU you use, would be nice to be able to select all different variations of supported CPUs as a future feature.
_9vpl··on One of the world’s largest investment banks: ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far
Housing shortage, at least in the US, isn’t really a problem of capital availability. It’s mostly due to local zoning regulations that make it very difficult to actually create housing, regardless of capital availability.
_9vpl··on One of the world’s largest investment banks: ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far
Taxes don’t decrease the availability of capital, it simply re-distributes it to the politically-connected.
_9vpl··on Why Has Israel Succeeded at Covid Vaccination?
Every time I see a post like this - it’s like duh Israel has less people than just one state, Michigan, and there are 49 others.
_9vpl··on Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
Most of those devices only have a private IP address and use NAT to be able to communicate via the Internet.

Only servers that need to be publicly accessed directly like a web server actually need a public IP.

_9vpl··on Coinbase: Seamless MongoDB to PostgreSQL Migration
9+ yrs in FinTech and crypto here. Yes, MongoDB was super popular back around 2011. Please just use PostgreSQL if you’re a FinTech founder.
_9vpl··on People loved Nikola but not its warrants
I call this speculation. In most real estate markets, a normal house is a depreciating asset that requires upkeep, maintenance, property taxes, and other liabilities.
_9vpl··on People loved Nikola but not its warrants
Curious what you mean when you say strictly as an investment? In my worldview, if you are purchasing real estate as an investment, it means it generates income, meaning you plan to rent it out.
_9vpl··on Ask HN: FB suggests friends after visiting same city, don't use FB phone. How?
It’s really impossible to know without more info, as people have mentioned you can download your fb info for some clues. One possibility I haven’t seen mentioned is they are using your credit card data that they’ve purchased.
_9vpl··on Blind people ‘read’ letters that are traced on their brains with electricity
Hook up some cameras to Neuralink[1] via the developer API (tongue in cheek) and boom, sight!

[1] https://www.neuralink.com/

_9vpl··on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
I’m not banned, just refuse to be treated like garbage.

My guess is not.

_9vpl··on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
Similar - I use DoorDash all the time and refuse to use UberEats ever again, absent they change their refund policy. UberEats treats customers like garbage.

Just read the App Store reviews for UberEats. If a driver isn’t able to deliver successfully they just cancel the order and blame the customer by default. Contacting customer support is met with robotic replies and they refuse refund.

Last time I just did a chargeback and won’t use them again.

_9vpl··on San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate
I've heard great things about Columbus, OH. Never been there but sounds like a great midwest city with an affordable cost of living and nice college town (The Ohio State University).
_9vpl··on Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
Try AngelList, lots of small companies and startups.
_9vpl··on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
isn’t popcorn time nothing more than a BitTorrent client with a video player?

https://superuser.com/questions/617264/difference-between-bi...

_9vpl··on Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events
A lot of people seem to believe “the economy” is about profits, conspicuous consumption, and something like what you might see in a rap video.

In reality, it is how we house, clothe, feed, and provide the most basic humans needs.

_9vpl··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
I think the more likely explanation is that NY simply is a lot more dense and less reliant on cars vs the less dense and more reliant on cars California.
_9vpl··on Hours
lot of tools these days to create bots without a lot of effort. slackbot was mentioned, check out google's dialogflow
_9vpl··on AngelList lays off a number of staff and cuts executive salaries
Sounds like it’s not that important for this job.
_9vpl··on AngelList lays off a number of staff and cuts executive salaries
> turned up late 3 days a week for 2 years and never got written up for it attests to that too

I'm grateful I don't work at a company where you get written up for being late. Sounds like high school.

_9vpl··on Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer
It's more generally about mass media and the manipulation of information to create a certain narrative. The same tactics of mass media can be applied to different agendas.
_9vpl··on Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. Must be people that've never read about mass media in Manufacturing Consent.
_9vpl··on Ask HN: Problem of social unrest and shutting down Internet
EDIT: Notice I find OP's line of thinking "dangerous". My reaction is not to appeal to any authority and have anyone censor, ban, or de-platform them. I combat it with speech.

I see this line of thinking extremely dangerous and misguided.

> is very important... but it is also causing harm to the society

Let me stop you right there. You can literally make this case about every noun ever. History is littered with a long list of do-gooders that tried to ban books, alcohol, some sort of human sexuality, gambling, and on and on. I believe this is roughly where the saying "The path to hell is paved with good intentions" comes from.

In the United States, we believe in freedom. Freedom has the same properties that can lead to good or bad outcomes. People can choose good or bad. They can choose the right political candidate or the wrong candidate. They can believe what they want to believe. They can choose different paths that may lead to prosperity or to poverty.

Censorship or banning things mostly don't work and banning it just because it can cause harm is not defensible. Censorship, especially, creates a large amount of harm itself by reducing trust in the government. Reminds me when I was a teenager and I asked for a hacking book for Christmas. My relative refused to get it for me because of the harm it could do. My response was that knowledge was neither good nor bad. It's what you decide to do with it. My argument was that that same knowledge of computer hacking, while can be used for bad or evil, can also be used for good or defense against those wishing to do harmful things.

In the United States we have experience with alcohol and other drug prohibition, and it's been an absolute disaster. And the thinking about that is the same alarming attitude that is displayed here regarding free speech.

The reason the United States has a 1st Amendment that prevents the government from restricting speech is because it's incredibly dangerous to allow anyone or any group to decide what speech is allowed. It may start out with good intentions, but is far too dangerous to even allow the beginnings of it to exist.

_9vpl··on The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
Non-competes are unenforceable in California
_9vpl··on Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
It really depends on what it is you're shipping.

Once a startup hits some level of maturity, it's unacceptable to be shipping something significant on the weekend (or whenever people aren't around to respond to an issue). Probably post product-market fit, maybe Series B.

I guess it also matters how much your company values work-life balance.

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