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People still use Java?
In Fortune 500 ? YES , pretty much everywhere.
In Startups ? It's Kotlin or Scala mostly.
JVM is far from being unpopular , but fore sure it's not as sexy as ['React','Deno'].push(...)
In my opinion you are mistaken , affordability does not mean home appliance.
Hydro is pretty cheap , does not mean it’s fit for home.
Here the best scenario is similar to Singapore - Australia or UK - Morocco remote solar grid.
This innovation is very interesting compared to Water- Hydrogene electrolysis that is a bit expensive and needs metals that are going to become difficult to source in the coming decades.
Gallium is quiet abundant from my understanding.
Appreciate the graph in the article , this time the numbers actually are calculated by engineers from DoE , not by Journalists...
Even if the plan is there , without an “economy of war” and the implication of basically every single American it’s nearly impossible to reach those types of deployment.
Money is not the answer to everything , as pointed we are also going to reach “civilization” types of limits with land and ressource exhaust...
My humble opinion is we should simply consume far less energy and accept a much simpler lifestyle, that would be much easier ...
That’s correct.
The startup Ynsect at the moment is targeting Fish Farming not human.
What would be the impact over many generations of that type of food ?
I’m scared of the “SuperBug” type of disease that would be resistant to antibiotics because it’s been dormant in us for too long...
The probability of Covid type pandemic become closer to 1 the more bugs farm they’re.
The lethality of of that type of outbreak become stronger the longer the we ignore that threat.
It’s just pure Maths to be honest.
No surprise, just like Uber , Airbnb etc..coinbase has been overstaffed ever since they raised a major amount of capital many years ago...
Hence , I don’t see what 5K people can be doing at coinbase since some startups in Europe are doing the same with like 100 people...
It’s been known for years : startups overhire and lay-off when recession comes up.
With the “nazi revolution” in the 50’ , most startups rely exclusively on “Social Darwinism” , to solve problems or improve products , by having them fight internally and let the best ideas come to executives. Of course only employees who know how to navigate corporate politics are able to reach them and win those fights..
Those 1000 were not part of it, but they will have no problem finding another position somewhere else.
2 MB of logs per minute of user streaming time.
2MB/minute is 33KB/second.
How is that impressive?
I think FB, Goog, etc. could lay off thousands with no adverse effects and in fact an increase in velocity, quality, and quantity of new features/products.
You can add Airbnb,Netflix,Uber they often attend conference to describe their architectures.It’s obvious most of these people have no idea what they are doing have no clear direction. They are just havin’ fun will trying to navigate corporates politics. Even the stuff that is published online it’s scary to see their is no technical leadership what so ever.
To be fair I’ve worked in fortunes 500 as well, 60% of the workforce can be replaced with automation.
Since it’s cheaper and less risky they just keep hiring people for repetitive tasks , it compensate the technical debt.
I would assume any modern processor would make a context switch a one instruction affair.
Has been the historic assumption, has been proven to be wrong by every possible benchmark.
Consider tech empower[0] for raw stack performance , runtime level threads outperform IO threads since OS thread were designed to be mapped on physicals cores.
This is very expensive and inefficient.
Creating one thread for every request you have ( Apache + PHP ) will exhaust the hardware after a few thousands/qps target.
Runtime can indeed have millions of those “lightweight threads” without killing your machine since they create a pool from physical threads and tap into IO events to efficiently switch or resume contexts. This is by far much faster.
[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
France tried years ago.
Incredibly expensive and inefficient.
I love the concept but it just cant compete with Solar , Nuclear or Fossil Fuel...
Cobol remains the language of choice
Sigh , those single liner that both illustrate the ignorance and the status of the author.
I’m an enterprise architect in banking , 6 month ago I was hired for IT Transformation.
My mission was very simple « move the bank the out of mainframe »
In 2 weeks or so I presented a Kafka based runtime based with JVM contracts that would enable the bank to perform in a near real-time manner as opposed to « batch » processing while covering and simplifying 90% of banks related scenario ( SEPA , MasterCard , AML etc...)
The project was accepted by directors but devs refused to go into that because much like the authors they are 30 years in the banks and don’t want to learn something else than what they know « cobol ».
90% of our contractors work is spent dealing with mainframe constraint and writing interfaces and top of that piece of crap that can only process data at night or during the weekend.
Mainframe is not there because « it’s superior » , distributed system have largely proven their capability and maturity.
Mainframe are still there because of Corporates Politics and lack of Leadership from top management.
When you are reminded that Citibank lost 0.5 Billions because they spent 0$ on their UI, you may start to understand how much corporates world is rotten to its core and why mainframe is still there.
Has nothing to do with it’s capability , period.
No surprise to be honest.
What rather surprises me are the comments claiming MSFT is suddenly going to go bankrupt because there is a pre-install spyware.
Have you ever worked in a Fortune 500 ?
Do you know how hard it is in those company to get anything done that has not been budgeted and planned years in advance ?
Do you seriously believe Fortune 500 using MSFT are going to suddenly migrate ALL their Azure workload somewhere else like some kind of startups run by 3 devs ?
Yes Azure VMs have spywares builtin , but last time I checked all Europeans companies that are using American Cloud fall under the « Cloud Act » legislation which « legally » requires cloud vendor to hand over ALL the data the company is currently hosting.
I’ve worked in some of the largest insurances in Europe they LOVE Microsoft and Azure , even if there is this spyware issue , they will pretend it doesn’t exist and do business as usual.
Im pretty sure everyone will forget about this news in 1 month or so.
To be very clear , this articles won’t help you much if you don’t fit the criteria’s the OP does.
Having discussed with VC a long time ago , it was very HARD to raise money without a very strong traction.
Very often VC were convinced with my pitch , and my product but would not invest either because they had stuff somewhat similar in their portfolio and often because I didn’t have a “track records” to proof my capability.
If I can recommend one thing to technical founder : don’t listen to this and build slowly while creating your own community ( users , customers etc...) and VC will come , don’t worry.
VCs are like dogs when they smell money they have the urge to come at you, you won’t need to call them.
For non-tech founder it’s the opposite : don’t make anything that is complicated or sophisticated, focus 100% on marketing and prototyping , I had friends raising 10M+€ for products that didn’t exist or couldn’t do a tenth of what was promised , but because they graduated from the most prestigious schools in Paris or London and had invested hundred of thousands in marketing ( 50K€ Website , Dozens of Articles in the Press claiming their idea was worth billions , Attending Conferences to reach out to executives in order to get corporates sponsors etc..)
VCs will prefer a strong team with a stupid idea that a Fortune 500 will be naive enough to acquire , rather than a good idea with an unproven team that would make money quickly after initial build phase.
Apple private relay leak your IP from what i remember[0]
What could have they done ?
Im not trying to say that what happened isn’t so bad , I just don’t see how with today international justice cooperation someone could truly expect « privacy ».
Wether this is a from a service provider or directly from your ISP, it’s not possible to get privacy unless your rely on private peer to peer network.
Reminds me of anti-free speech laws that was almost passed in France.
It was designed to help fight « hate speech ».
It enable police to remove literally ANY content from the interne t as long as it was « hateful » of course there is no legal definition of hateful.
I think similar laws have been passed in Belgium and Germany.
I find it funny that has economic growth from the post war era is slowing down and climate change is accelerating our fundamentals rights and freedom are slowly being taken away from us ,bits by bits with more or less the same laws everywhere.
Very strange.
The materials are indeed worth recycling but the process is just too expensive and complicated.
Best examples would be devices like phones/microwave/tv they contain lots of those rare materials.
Industrial simply prefer to sell junks for cheap in bulk to the African continent where very poor people burn those junks to extract the rare minerals.
It’s not as simple as « 100% recyclable = Always Recycled »
Wind turbine have a recommended life time of 20 to 25 years , earlier turbines go even lower to just 15 years.
The problem is today no industrial bother recycling them , it’s just cheaper to buy new material.
Those 85% are actually 15% in effective.
What I’m more worry about those Renewables stuff is their ressource footprint , when you look at how much « rare earth » « composite » material is needed to build just one its seems like a nonsense to use wind their are many documentaries on this topic. Today the vast majority of those turbines are not recycled.
On top of that wind being intermittent you need gas power plant to provide.
France power provider RTE estimated that if the country moved to 100% renewable it would need 12 times its gas capacity or 10% of ALL lithium available on earth for battery.
1st gen renewable are far from a panacea.
I find funny because it’s accurate !
99% of entrepreneur fail , that’s literally why it’s hard and why it’s highly respected !
Remember when Tesla almost went Bankrupt ? It’s very like because it happens almost three times... and only now after 25+ years Tesla is making a profit by selling its cars without sorcery finances...
Being an entrepreneur is hard , I love the Tesla example because even if Elon Musk had the vision and a superior engineering delivery , the company was technically a commercial failure for more than a decade.
Being a better than average engineer ( probably a LOT of HN uses ) is unfortunately not enough to become a sucessfull entrepreneur !
Or the the history of how oracle created a world wide conspiracy to impose Java has a standard , and if they hadn’t done so Haskell/ Clojure / ( Anything that’s not OOP) would be running everything from Operating System to Back End.
That damn Oracle Conspiracy, and OOP !
Inflation is everywhere i guess, or should I say « stagflation ».
Just for comparison, France has 25 GW of hydro electricity , it’s the second largest hydro producer in Europe behind Sweden.
Hydro only cover 15% of France total electricity demand.
It’s indeed all about scale.
They’re for your manager’s manager to get abstract stats reports
KPI , the backbone or corporates politics.
which incentivises the C-suite to fix them.
It doesn’t. It provide C-Exec material to increase significantly Cyber Defense budget not overhaul Information System.
For those executives these are two different topics with different budget.
Of course for regular engineers it’s not, legacy infrastructure is probably much simpler to hack than modern one.
I wouldn’t call it a « scam » technically.
But remember GWT ? I work in one Europe largest bank , the majority of internal apps are written in GWT.
In the 2010 era this trend was at its peak.[0]
Some members of the teams decided that they should « invest » in GWT because this would be the future.
Here we are 10 years laters , GWT is a deprecated legacy framework and developers have been burned out by this strategy.
For Jamstack the same will happen , the hype is reaching its peak and is going to come down as developers and businesses realize it doesn’t actually solve anything from their actual problems.
But in the process, people who are selling « Jamstack » books probably made a fortune. Same thing for GWT...
Which got eaten by other orchestration technologies there?
Exactly , Kubernetes wants to remove Docker , and the Docker orchestration layer « Docker Compose » is completely dead.
Again the founder has left the company with millions , there is no leadership whatsoever it’s a just a zombie company losing millions every year until it’ll declare bankruptcy.
Google / Redhat are very well aware of that that’s why they are trying to decouple their product ( Kubernetes/ Openshift ) from docker before it officially become deprecated .
[0]https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/kubernetes-is-deprec...
Not surprising honestly , docker has had more 300M of investment and still has no decent stream of revenue to pay their 300+ employees of SV.
The entire industry knows it , the Docker devtools brought containers to the mass but anything beyond that is being taken by Cloud Vendors / Redhat etc...
The Open Container Initiative contributed massively to make Docker the standard for container but also for other initiatives to replace it....
I personally believe it will also be its death sentence, seeing how many competitions are coming to get a better / simpler container tool chains add to that a lack of leadership after the founder left with a big check from the fundraising it’s just a matter of time before Docker goes bankrupt.
If you’re very employable it’s just a free 50% annual bonus
I’ve seen comments on HN going the opposite way , but let’s be honest for a minute : most of them will find work within less then a month.
We are looking at top talents from SV with years of experience as iOS engineers / executive those talents are hard to find and quiet rare regardless of the pandemic or not.
Honestly it’s just free money , I won’t deny the emotional aspect that may take time to recover but outside of that they’ll have no problem finding new jobs in the comings weeks.