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Previously: - Engineering Manager at Camber Health (YC W21) - Engineering Manager at Stripe (YC S09) - Engineering Manager at Curative, COVID-19 testing and vaccinations https://curativeinc.com - Forward Deployed Engineer, Elizabeth Warren for President working with https://reach.vote - Founder-in-Residence at Wefunder (YC W13), leading immigrant cohort of https://xx.team - Co-founder of Seneca Systems (YC S16, acqh Coinbase) - Principal engineer at ZenPayroll/Gusto (YC S12) - Engineer, Core Team at LivingSocial (acq Groupon)

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Stripe called at $159B in tender offer

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en.wikipedia.org 9mo ago

Phage Therapy

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news.lettersofnote.com 11mo ago

I hope you will never get this letter

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samwho.dev 1y ago

Load Balancing

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longnow.org 3y ago

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com 3y ago

Which Is in Front of Chinese People, Past or Future? (2019)

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What's the best device for reading technical books?

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www.nationalgeographic.com 4y ago

The Daring Mission That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb

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www.wired.com 5y ago

Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble

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markets.businessinsider.com 6y ago

Curative Inc. Receives FDA Authorization for Oral Fluid Covid-19 Test

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Saudi Aramco to Raise $25.6B in Biggest IPO Ever

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culdesac.com 6y ago

Culdesac: Car-free neighborhood built from scratch in Tempe

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www.gotruffle.com 7y ago

Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history

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xx.team 7y ago

XX: Startup program for immigrant founders

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schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com 7y ago

Narrative but Not Philosophical Argument Motivates Giving to Charity

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

The 52 startups that launched at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 1

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meditations.seneca.systems 9y ago

Planting the Seed: Raising Our First Round Out of YC

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www.slideshare.net 9y ago

Netflix Culture Deck (2001)

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medium.com 10y ago

Gusto uses secret bylaw to render employee options worthless

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medium.com 10y ago

Reasonable Option Policies Are Not Scary

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medium.com 10y ago

Dear Gusto, Mission Is More Than Marketing

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meditations.seneca.systems 11y ago

Correlating Commissions with Happiness

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chris-maddox.com 12y ago

How the West was Lost: Innovation and the Search for Self

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chris-maddox.com 12y ago

The Bankruptcy of the American Dream

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zenpayroll.com 12y ago

ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers

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julieannhorvath.com 12y ago

Is it Sexist to Recruit Women in Tech?

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chris-maddox.com 13y ago

Fear, Loathing, and Feature Creep

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www.ruby.or.jp 13y ago

Ruby Prize 2013 award

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gist.io 13y ago

Stop developing for the 90% use case

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Yes. I bought a Samsung TV and there isn’t a way to set up Art Mode without the internet. So first you have to get a raspberry pi, install pi hole, then switch your router’s DNS.

What a wild experience 2026 is. But I do feel like a wizard.

One would presume that the founder is investing their money into something, probably equities, that is an investment in industry. They could be either selling those equities for a loan here or taking a loan against those equities to loan to GoPro (if the cost of capital is lower for them than GoPro, which seems plausible.)

I generally agree with your point about value extraction vs. re-investment.

Because LLMs degrade with context length. And even if they didn't, having to constantly ingest the same stuff is wasteful for execution and cost. Why stuff the context when you don't have to?

So they're constantly hemorrhaging their most valuable clients?

Tech history is littered with the corpses of "open source but we sell hosting" services. Models are so expensive to train, you can't be losing the big clients once they get super profitable.

I'm not an investor in SpaceX but I don't think shorting stocks at IPO should be allowed. The market should be given time to settle on a price, and it's unlikely that anyone needs to short it on day 1 for hedging. It's purely price speculation.

Yeah, I know why people _want to_ (betting), but it doesn't serve a broader economic purpose.

I gave feedback on how someone comes across and recommended how to fix it. What the OP said was obviously passive/directly aggressive. They can take or leave the advice.

Your imagined scenario seems mostly fine, though I did give more direct advice than “go read some books.” If someone in my personal or professional gave me that feedback I might feel self-conscious, but I’d also appreciate it!

You seem pretty worked up over this. Maybe a good time to step back from the computer and consider whether it’s worth the emotional energy.

These are similar to arguments that people made about MongoDB. You can store anything! And then most people who used it realized that this is actually terrible, in most cases.

It looks like this is an artifact of when SQLite was written and the strong opinion of its author, less so a rigorous engineering principle. Reading this, it sounds like the author has been criticized a lot on this, is digging in their heels no matter what, and will find any supposed justification.

On the other hand, datatypes like JSON or HSTORE (in postgres) can handle what they are advocating for. But opt-in to YOLO typing is nearly always better than opt-out.

Grok 4.5 13 days ago

Right. All of which are what people on the far-right deem evidence of Liberal Bias.

But it's only "liberal" if you associate liberal (politically) with truth. These are established facts.

So my question to the liberal bias crown is: what are examples of non-factual biases? Where does show an agenda that has another reasonable side?

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

It would be easier to understand where you're coming from if you could give some examples containing:

- prompt

- response

- why it is wrong / misleading / biased

Because there are many people online complaining about left-wing bias, then you ask what about and they're like "Trump won in 2020, vaccines cause autism, global warming is a globalist conspiracy", etc. Which is to say, it's not left-wing bias but reality bias.

Not saying you are one of those people or that there isn't bias! It's just been hard, in my personal experience, to get at it.

The topic comment at the time I’m writing this is asking fair questions, in my opinion.

- Many people feel the death penalty is wrong in every case.

- Some have a general familiarity with high-level politics of elites and wonder about selective enforcement.

These don’t feel like they’re in bad faith. The merits are difficult to know from the outside, so there will always be speculation based on someone’s lived experience and perceptions. Better to have those aired with a chance to respond, in my opinion.

Especially for China, since it is a global power that operates differently from others. In my own country (United States), for example, we have brazenly open corruption with no consequences.

Xi has shown repeatedly that he’s serious about corruption. As others have noted, some of the highest civilian and military officials have been removed for it. Some sentenced to death.

He sees it as a challenge to his legitimacy and China’s power, which, as you’d expect are the most important things to him; even if you take the most cynical view.

Another timely example, because it is the World Cup, is the Chinese football programs. They’ve been decimated because of corruption prosecutions, both executives and players. It’s a major reason why China isn’t competitive on the global stage, which much smaller countries with significantly smaller budgets can compete. And, yes, Xi does care about competing in the World Cup. Prestige is very important to his concept of China’s honor and global standing.

I mean, Apple Intelligence has been a boondoggle. Siri has been consistently 3+ years behind in capabilities compared to even open source equivalents.

Feels less like the pace of foundation model development and more so a specific failure of one organization to do something important.

I'm not even sure what the "bug" in the title refers to, other than serving as clickbait.

How is this different from Postgres + PGBouncer? They decouple the connections from the the work of the database server itself, which can interleave transactions between connections to one connection to Postgres.

The article also mentions comparing against Redis "before 6.0"; 3 major versions behind.

It's fine to do marketing posts about your product, but I don't come away from this with strong signal for rigor.