brian-armstrong

The thing is though, you're just as likely to be not improving things.

I think we can realize another reason to just ship it. Startups need to be always moving. You need to keep turning the wheel to help keep everyone busy and keep them from fretting about your slow growth or high churn metrics. Startups need lots of fighting spirit. So it's still probably better to ship it rather than admit defeat and suffer bad vibes.

100% yes. Python mostly encourages simple, stupid code. Code that you can still read while 2 beers in. Rails, on the other hand, encourages being as clever as possible at all times. Forget about local side effects when any part of the codebase can just reach in and patch another part of the codebase.

Seems kind of excessive to send them to jail when the prisons are already pretty full. Might be more productive to do summary executions?

With the current admin I don't think they really have any legal exposure here. If they ever do get caught, it's easy enough to just issue some flimsy excuse about ACLs being "accidentally" omitted and then maybe they stop doing it for a little while.

This is going to be the same disruption as Airbnb or Uber. Move fast and break things. Why would you expect otherwise?

Sure, though that list of Windows-exclusive software keeps getting shorter. You have my condolences though.

It's really easy to just try different distros and desktop environments out. For me, KDE Plasma has been an excellent vaguely Windows shaped Windows replacement.

With MacOS dropping subpixel support for text and with the cleartype patents expiring, Linux font rendering just keeps getting better while the others stay the same or get worse. I can't really conceive any reason to stay on Windows now unless you're a hardcore gamer.

From the outside, it seems especially baffling. You and I know these companies likely won't make it, and the toil will have been for nought. Something in the water is making people glorify working this hard for its own sake. To each his own, I guess.

Amusingly, the chart shows Rust's popularity starting from before its release. The rust hype crowd is so exuberant, they began before the language even existed!

It's too expensive for that unless you had a pretty generous subscription fee. I think local models are probably best suited for gaming where a decent GPU is already likely present.

Did they also force RMS to move out?

I shudder to think anyone still has OSX connected to the internet. How many unpatchable critical vulnerabilities are there already?

Wouldn't this require the API provider to know that tbe citizen is connecting to the app? Grindr users might be squeamish about letting the current US admin know about that.

Any significant amount of fasting is a quick way to get some very unpleasant headaches for me. No thank you.

It's crab mentality. The goal is to ransack the country and make life as bad for the rest of us as it has been for the die hard Trump voters. Our suffering is the point.

Convincing the entire world to use its currency and sell it things cheaply is apparently somehow bad for America? I think you're about to get a very expensive lesson in economics.

The distinction isn't super important, but 23andMe doesn't have your whole genome, just some specific locations from it. Roughly 750k base pairs or so.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-the-genome-does-23andMe-se...

From the pictures it looks like it could be NoPa

Eager to abandon your observation duties already? But you just got here.

Conversely, software engineers are generating considerably more profit for their employers than they receive in compensation on average. I know it's not the only metric of exploitation, but it's a hard one to ignore.

> Would you rather have layoffs at your company or have your company go out of business due to excessive labor costs?

I invite you to read earnings reports from any of the FAANG companies in the last 5 years. Go ahead, I'll wait.

I agree entirely with this post. Considering that it is posted on HN which has very much promoted the startup hustle lifestyle for so long, this feels a bit like the buyer beware that comes 15 years after the fact. Something to consider for anyone who wants to give everything in exchange for 0.001% equity in a B2B blockchain fart app.

Diabetes causes dehydration

This feels like email all over again. In the early days of email, everyone had their own IMAP server, and it was good. Then spam happened. Slowly it got harder and harder to jump through all the hoops needed to ensure your email was delivered to users of gmail and other large email hosts. Even if you were willing to filter all the spam out from your own inbox, it became practically impossible to get delivered to most other users.

I wonder if we will see something similar happen with browsers now. Cloudflare and other proxies will rely on increasing levels of fingerprinting to sift out scrapers and bots. Already it's not uncommon to get false positives on Linux+Firefox. Maybe if our overlords are feeling particularly benevolent, Firefox might make the cut for browsers allowed to access the vast majority of sites behind CF, but anything smaller will be blocked. Effectively this will kill rolling your own browser.

left-pad is symbolic of dependency and supply chain issues generally. If all you took away from that incident is that there's risk only from someone unpublishing the module then you probably need to go back and think about it some more.

> " There are between 200 and 300 dependencies in the uutils project. He said that he understood there is always a supply-chain-attack risk, "but that's a risk we are willing to take". There is more and more tooling around to help mitigate the risk, he said.

left-pad II, coming soon to a Linux distro near you

Am I misunderstanding what is meant by semantic code search? I thought the idea was that you run something like a parser on the repo to extract function/class/variable names and then allow searching on a more rich set of data, rather than tokenizing it like English.

I know github kind of added this but their version falls apart still even in common languages like C++. It's not unusual for it to just completely miss cross references, even in smaller repos. A proper compiler's eye view of symbolic data would be super useful, and Github's halfway attempt can be frustratingly daft about it.

$2500 isn't too far off of the BOM for epaper this large, plus some markup for the assembler. Even if you bought this as a bare panel and a battery on Alibaba, you're not going to do better than $1500 or so. At current date that's just what it costs

There's Visionect if you want to go large enough to see on the wall at a glance (32")

https://www.visionect.com/shop/place-play-32/

Possibly, but that's orthogonal to my comment. Point is that there will still be cities that have to shoulder PG&E costs not because they have fires but because they can't afford to purchase and maintain their own grid, or don't have the political strength to get it done.