nateberkopec

The fully loaded cost of even three or four software engineers in the USA outstrips 99% of companies cloud computing budgets.

If I get stoned, I’m just carrying on an old family tradition.

Why does HTTP3 still support server push? When Chrome dropped it from their HTTP/2 implementation, I thought it was dead.

Cloudflare has also said they’re not implementing server push in their HTTP/3 support and will instead encourage Early Hints.

Yeah, I gave up on Dendron due to performance issues.

At some point, it feels like every company is basically re implementing a kind of internal Heroku. I feel like there’s a billion dollar business in putting that on rails for medium to large enterprises.

Airbnb ruined Couchsurfing because it changed social expectations around hosting strangers at your house. Before Airbnb, no one really even thought people would pay for the privilege to sleep on your couch or your spare bedroom. But once Airbnb started getting popular, I think a lot of hosts on CS were thinking well, this is neat, but I could get paid doing this. And a lot of CS guests became refugees from Airbnb thinking "well, if Airbnb wants me to pay for this, why do I go to CS and get it for free?"

I CS'd only once, in Ghana in 2011. It was great, but I was too late for the trend, it died pretty shortly after.

With the frequency of these breaches, it feels like we are moving to a post-security world where SSNs and DOBs are simply public information.

Would that really be such a bad thing? Both seem completely replaceable as authentication steps.

How much of a chunk of the 1-year treasury market is $61.9B? Can't figure out how to look that up.

Seems like it could be a decent business if it was legit.

A $2 billion sports franchise is so obviously not a 90% amortizable asset. The Clippers don’t even own their stadium.

> They dont talk about or even cover the same things, which makes it hard to compare liberal vs conservative perspectives

I remember seeing Twitter chatter from the right re: the Fauci email dump, and so I went on various liberal outlets to try to get the left-wing perspective, and it was complete crickets.

Especially when it's something I can't just read and form an opinion on myself (Fauci's email dump was absolutely massive), I depend on journalists to accurately summarize and contextualize primary sources. And it's really hard to get a straight take when one side won't even bother to write a "this is a nothingburger, here's why" article.

For anyone interested in OODA, the Robert Coram biography of John Boyd, and "Certain to Win" by the Boyd disciple Chet Richards are good entry points.

The value of OODA isn't really in providing a model for individual-level decisionmaking. The value is as a model for intra-organizational conflict: that one obtains strategic advantage (i.e. tempo) by running through one's OODA loop faster than competitors or opponents. You can draw a very straight line from OODA to the Lean Startup.

Are there any other active government investigations of Tether/iFinex that we know about?

Most people owe at least 400% of their yearly earnings on their house, at least initially.

"multihreaded programs" seems like a pretty big use case, and it seems to occur in just about every major multithreaded C program using glibc malloc.

I would agree with you if it didn't seem like other allocators are solving this without any tradeoffs.

This problem hit the Ruby community hard about 5 years ago.

Basically everyone uses jemalloc or tcmalloc in production in the Ruby community nowadays. What frustrates me is the malloc community's sort of blase reaction along the lines of "there's no bug, this is expected behavior".

Seeing a bunch of people walking around with traffic cones on their heads at FOSDEM a while back really made me appreciate what a strong and vibrant contributor community VLC has. Thank you to everyone who contributes!

I did a good amount of gaming via Parsec and AWS this summer.

When it works, it's great. I can absolutely see this being the future of gaming as home bandwidth continues to improve, and more datacenters get built near major population centers.

It is _very_ sensitive to the connection, though. This summer, I was about 11 milliseconds away from an AWS datacenter with a 500 megabit connection. Buttery smooth perfection. No video compression artifacts. Now, I am about 60 milliseconds away with a 50 megabit connection and it is unplayable. 50 megabits/60 milliseconds is a good connection by US broadband standards these days!

Loved that video. The avalanche theory still has some explanatory power as the proximate cause of the first point, although Lemmino points out how crappy the design of the stove was in the first place IIRC.

What's the reason for all the shorting on Fubo? You would think that a streaming business would be attracting far more long interest right now.

From gnu.org:

> Linking a GPL covered work statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on the GPL covered work. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination

If you produce physical goods of any kind, Shigeo Shingo should absolutely be required reading. His ideas around quality control and setup times still sound revolutionary even now.

Both of those changes increase parallelism and concurrency, they do not decrease latency by themselves.

I live in New Mexico. I found 3 or 4 dead songbirds outside my house this fall. This was happening in ~October. The die-off has halted since then, I'd estimate it lasted about 3 weeks.

FWIW, both times I camped in Yellowstone, I just showed up early and got a spot. One was even over 4th of July.

I recently created a Matrix channel for my open-source project. It's really quite good. They need to work on the threading (I prefer Slack's model), but really it's 90% as good as Slack for my use case of an OSS community.

Explanation of the keyboard behavior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839101

Holy cow, you just explained a load of weird keyboard behavior I was seeing after waking from sleep.

Section 97.113(a)(4) of the Amateur Service rules prohibits the transmission of “effectively encrypted or encoded messages, including messages that cannot be readily decoded over-the-air for true meaning.”

What _exactly_ that means is, of course, up for debate. Some say you can use encryption as long as the key is publicly available and obvious (i.e. my key is "password"). There's been a bunch of stuff happening in the last year around Winlink. Devil's in the details.

People have said this for years, and yet there still isn't a viable competitor to Cloudflare.

They still have the best performing and most feature-ful CDN available. The competition is not even that close. Fastly is the only other CDN I could really consider, but their featureset just doesn't compare.

It's not spelled out very well on the Giving What We Can website, but generally, effective altruism focuses on increasing disability-adjusted life-years for human beings.

There is some traction in the effective altruism movement though around animal welfare, generally following the philosophical lines of Peter Singer. https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/animal-welfa...