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Looking at only what you presented, it seems like Endothermic/Homeothermic share a lot of overlap (hot blooded) and Ectothermic/Poikilothermic share a lot of overlap (cold blooded)?

I’m part of the team at Sapling AI (YC W19).

We offer a no data retention option for all teams. If a business wants to try us out for free I’m happy to set something up.

We also offer our application self-hosted/on-premise/cloud-premise. We have single-tenant (separate data) options as well. These options have a higher deployment cost so they may not make sense for teams under 10.

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I look back at the leopard to snow leopard upgrade with incredible fondness. 2 years worth of work. "Zero new features": improved performance, better cpu + memory usage.

Probably the only stuff people Hacker News care for.

Migrated from Auth0 to Firebase because it was 2 orders of magnitude cheaper.

After explaining that we didn't need any fancy features, just OIDC+SAML sign-in they proposed a number that was a little over $1/user/month ($30,000 a year for 2500 seats). This was after multiple rounds of back-and-forth, sitting through custom decks and sales pitches around "you aren't paying for SSO, you are paying for an increase in conversion and revenue".

Firebase is self serve for ... $0.015/user/month (or $450/year for the same 2500 seats)

https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/pricing

https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth

I think at this point we can all roughly agree on what makes code well-written?

1. Stylistically consistent for things like format, naming, control and logic flow

2. QA: linted, unit tested, code reviewed

3. Design: Modular, scalable, future proof, secure, stable, reliable, performant etc.

4. High adoption implies testing/verification of above design attributes

5. Follows (or establishes) best established practices for interfacing with platform APIs etc.

6. Keeping complexity low enough that a junior engineers can contribute

7. Descriptive commit messages

etc. etc.

Node: https://github.com/nodejs/node

React: https://github.com/facebook/react

Vimium: https://github.com/philc/vimium

If you want more, here is probably a good place to start: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...

I've been considering a Garmin InReach Mini, its roughly $350 for the device and roughly $300 for a satellite subscription for 2 years. This iPhone ... is quite compelling in the face of that.

My read of the marketing materials is that it supports the "Find My" feature which you can use to share locations with friends/family?

This is really a killer feature for me as an outdoor enthusiast who hangs out in places with no reception every other weekend. I'm also a weight weenie and really care about how heavy the stuff I carry is. I'm going to keep an eye on how well this works in the field for sure.

I've been considering a Garmin InReach Mini, its roughly $350 for the device and $300 for a satellite subscription for 2 years.

If the satellite messing works well, this phone just added $650 worth of value for me on top of a regular iPhone. Basically, it doesn't matter how much a continued subscription will cost after year two. I'd be completely happy to buy a new phone in two years just for this one feature.

I don't view it that way.

I think the fact that Coinbase does not deny that their employee acted wrongly is a good thing.

Their stance is that cryptocurrencies aren't securities to avoid ("unfair") SEC regulatory capture.

I'm on the team at Sapling Intelligence, a deep-learning AI Writing Assistant. A lot of privacy and security conscious folks don't like the idea of a keylogger, so we have self-hosted/on-premise/cloud-premise options for businesses. We have a list of available offerings here: https://sapling.ai/comparison/onprem. Sapling deployments can also be configured for no data retention, sacrificing some model customization.

Cost-wise, it doesn't make sense for individuals to host a neural-network based grammar checker, though some of the rule-based options may work. There's a future where if we can maintain some sort of Moore's law scaling we will be able to run these language models on individual computers as opposed to the cloud.

+1 for github pages. I've hosted a free static site on github for many years, and have been happy with it.

There's something about this sentence that I find hilarious:

The download was posted to 4chan today, described by its unidentified source as “part one” of “an extremely poggers leak,”

This kinda sucks for all parties involved.

1. Funds from an individual Coinbase account are transferred off of Coinbase onto another Bitcoin wallet.

2. The owner of the Coinbase account claims they were hacked.

Obviously I like the idea of Coinbase making account holders whole, but that creates a moral hazard and also incentivizes account holders to commit fraud themselves. What if I give my friend my credentials and he drains my account? On the other hand if I lost money on Coinbase I would be complaining all the way until I got my money back.

There are controls that can minimize damages but sacrifice usability (make withdrawals whitelist only etc). I think they have a "Vault" product that has multi-sig and time-delay options for users.

Reminder to use hardware multi-factor (like yubikey) if you own a lot of cryptocurrency on an exchange. An authenticator app is the next best option.

I don't think (in my lifetime) I've heard anyone discuss buying or selling a stock in the context of a Dividend Discount Model.

This observation isn't really in support of Bitcoin, it's more of a depressing thought that our stock markets are closer to a Keynesian beauty contest. (GME, AMC, etc).

I don't personally own stocks or real estate for cash flow purposes. I own them with the expectation that I can sell them for more money down the line.

I've seen good results with Linkerd + Kubernetes + GRPC.

https://linkerd.io/2018/11/14/grpc-load-balancing-on-kuberne...

Very cool. Is there a way to persist disks at a cost and attach/unattach Voltas for training?

EDIT: found in the FAQ:

Compute: $0.99/hr / 1x Tesla V100 (running instance only) Storage: $0.02/GB/month (running and stopped instances)

I think I would agree that cryptocurrency is probably a less worthy allocation of energy than keeping homeless people warm or something. However, money/energy are finite resources allocated based on free market mechanics. People use energy/money how they want.

It's not a very constructive use of time to criticize how the free market allocates resources. People are going to buy and run basketball teams, Ferraris, bitcoin mining rigs whether you yell at them or not.

Interesting. I found out about Bitcoin in 2012, took a distributed systems seminar in 2013 covering byzantine fault tolerance, paxos etc and at that point Bitcoin metaphorically blew my mind. I feel like anyone who understood how seminal Paxos was could easily draw parallels to Bitcoin.

Despite all of Bitcoin's shortcomings, I'm a strong believer in the technology and the protocol. If we compare it to the internet and TCP/IP it is pretty designed. In real life its not necessarily the perfect protocol that wins. Sometimes a "crappy" one gets a head start, but it's good enough, and people will patch it along the way. The network participants will also end up using the network in novel ways that were not designed for originally.

Well I definitely have some mild environmental allergies (some cats & rabbits) but nothing life threatening. This somewhat reminds me of 23&me, except with some obvious potential quality of life improvements.

Ordered an Allergy Test kit.

Will update everyone in 5 years if it was worth it or not! :)

So the consensus here seems to be that Tether the company is doing some sort of fractional reserve banking? I'm assuming no one on hacker news is holding Tether ...

To the point of actions speaking louder than words, why are there people who trust Tether enough to hold it? If there is no trust there wouldn't everyone redeem and create a bank run?

This is the confusing part to me. Everything I read online talks about Tether being fraudulent. Shouldn't the price of Tether reflect a discount based on that? If it doesn't, does that mean the market is okay with a Tether being 1 USD even if it is not backed by anything?

I'm trying to interpret this statement. Are patients paying for therapy for 5 years before seeing effects, or is a course of treatment valid for 5 years?

You can definitely try to barter it.

The top reputable exchanges have daily liquidity in the billions https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/.

From a cynical perspective, I agree with Bitcoin being something that rewards first movers and it could be something that limits social mobility if it's still around for 100s of years.

One potential outcome is for cryptocurrency to behave asset wise similar to land and real estate. It is something that rewards first movers and limits social mobility. The ever increasing costs of land and home ownership (in the United States) are part of a cultural preference as well as expectation of the asset appreciation. Home/Land pricing is almost always based on location and market clearing rates as opposed to fundamentals. Bitcoin is not just Money 2.0 or Gold 2.0, its also Land 2.0.

As Bitcoin becomes more legitimized through institutional and retail investors, ecosystem + industry participants I don't see it going away. Regular people will buy into cryptocurrency with leverage. Some people will make millions of dollars, others will not or will lose money.

In the free market people will mine bitcoin if it's profitable. That is, if bitcoin is valuable enough and if energy is cheap enough and if the overall network hash rate is low enough.

Any changes to network hash power, bitcoin prices and energy cost may cause miners to scale down operations and lower overall network hash. Then at a certain network hash rate it will become profitable again.

This is the part that confuses me too.

If the market believes Tether is not backed by real currency, shouldn't it be trading at a discount to USD?

The idea is very cool. The criticism against existing cryptocurrencies being too volatile is very valid. I can't help but wonder if this just contributes a "15th" stablecoin to the "14" competing stablecoin standards.

https://xkcd.com/927/

My personal expectation is that the existing frontrunners, Bitcoin and Ethereum, will stabilize in price as the percentage of retail speculators decreases and the percentage of institutional investors + users increase.

My knee jerk reaction to this is also to be upset, but if I try to view his sentence from a perspective of rehabilitation vs punitive action ...

His original sentence (6 months ago) was 18 months. I don't know if the extra 12 months here changes anything.

The Facebook server does 0=)