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You guys changed many lives including my own.

Anyone have any idea of what their caching strategy may be? I think that may be the most interesting and impactful thing here.

ChatGPT is definitely the snappiest web UI of any LLM.

Ah yes, thousands of people benefiting from cheap and effective drugs that can’t be patented because they naturally occur. Of course it doesn’t work. /sarcasm

The medical field has a terrible problem in terms of literature reproducibility and ethics. The beta blocker scandal is a great example.

This may be a naive question: why ARM and not RISC-V?

This may be a naive question but why ARM and not RISC-V?

Agreed. I've run into so many issues with documentation and sane defaults, and the Vercel team response is to always gaslight you into thinking you've done something wrong.

The truth is, its just poorly designed software.

Where it shines is batteries included for getting started. They realized if you have low activation energy requirements, you will win a critical mass of people who put up with your crap. A good metaphor for devtools overall.

This outcome couldn't have been more obvious.

Ironically I think these types of exercises are part of the problem at major software companies; terrible efficiency and over hiring.

Because you need to “brag” to get rewarded, everyone ambitious has a list. And each list is nearly impossible for middle managers to evaluate. Someone may solve a hardcore engineering problem that has no business impact. Another person might redo some docs. Someone may create a design system version. Lots of token achievements, but not real work.

Real work should stand on its own and competent managers should be able to identify it. Mediocre managers rely on lists, so then people start showing up to work and making lists.

This doesn't make sense.

1. The top 3% seed-stage investors are killing it. 2. This seems to be engineered for the bottom 90% of investors. To squeeze out some yield. But venture capital is ruled by the power law. 3. Forcing seed stage tech founders to think about this complexity makes no sense.

I really appreciate that this was released to work cross-platform.

I've worked at 3 startups, founded 2, and worked at 1 bigco.

2/3 startups had excellent returns in the form of equity. Life changing over time. Startups: 66% hit rate.

Bigco was mentally draining and sucked. Bigco: 0% hit rate.

Starting the first company was a failure, but the second one seems to be doing pretty well. 50% hit rate.

Love the age + free filters. First I'd heard of Swift Playgrounds! I wonder how they decided which ones to include. Also, first time I've seen learning resources broken down by apps, games, videos, etc. To be honest, it makes a lot of sense.

As PG said, take on as much technical debt as possible: it’s literally leverage.

Now sometimes “clean” code is the worst of both worlds. It wastes time and isn’t really clean.

Clarifications (this comment perpetuates some common misconceptions):

- A single bitcoin "transaction" can actually have thousands of inputs and thousands of outputs. So energy "per transaction" or "transactions per second" is not analogous to a typical monetary transaction.

- Bitcoin does not compete with literal credit card transactions (although some use it like that today). I'd compare Bitcoin on-chain transactions with how nation-states settle their central-bank ledgers with gold. Gold is the best comparison to Bitcoin because trading in hard gold is "final". Credit card transactions happen on a higher level in the financial stack. As does cash. As do bank transfers. All of these bubble down into interbank transfers that eventually settle on the base layer of central banks. So compared to shipping and securing gold, Bitcoin is quite cheap!

* Pasted and modified from an earlier comment I made on HN.

So these cookies may die but it’s a perpetual arms race. Browser fingerprinting will (or has) replace(d) cookies for tracking purposes.

Interesting because to me, “Grey Thinking” is the norm in governments. That’s how they get away with being so wasteful.

Federation is actually quite centralized and explicitly so. DNS resolution is “federated”.

Proof of work is the opposite end of the spectrum; maximally decentralized yet slow.

The worst of all worlds is proof of stake / stake-based consensus. It’s expensive yet super fragile.

The compound effect of lost progress might become more significant over time.

This article is among the best argument for using a typed language I’ve yet seen.

I am comparing it to settling gold in that a settlement is "final". You can reverse a credit card transaction, a bank wire, etc. You cannot reverse a Bitcoin transaction or Gold shipment without significant risk and cost.

Example that leads me to believe central banks still settle gold: https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/bank-of-englan...

Clarifications (this website perpetuates some common misconceptions):

- A single bitcoin "transaction" can actually have thousands of inputs and thousands of outputs. So energy "per transaction" or "transactions per second" is not analogous to a typical monetary transaction.

- Bitcoin does not compete with literal credit card transactions (although some use it like that today). I'd compare Bitcoin on-chain transactions with how nation-states settle their central-bank ledgers with gold. Gold is the best comparison to Bitcoin because trading in hard gold is "final". Credit card transactions happen on a higher level in the financial stack. As does cash. As do bank transfers. All of these bubble down into interbank transfers that eventually settle on the base layer of central banks. So compared to shipping and securing gold, Bitcoin is quite cheap!

- Adding to the above point; if Bitcoin succeeds in beind "adopted", it would not mean we no longer use credit cards. Credit cards would just port their underlying mechanism on top of Bitcoin instead of fiat moneys.

What has Stallman done that is so bad? I can't seem to find anything specific. Not asking to be controversial, but seeking to understand.

Wow, this was seamless. It auto-detected my lightning wallet, and the purchase was instant.

As far as I know, this is literally the only way to get Bitcoin on lightning directly with USD.

Interesting that Ripple affiliates are sponsoring this.

Some of the smartest people I've ever known from college became professional stock market investors and traders. Not a single one of them has significantly outperformed the market.

I think of stock market investing as a white collar gig economy job. Both depend on some central entity, which makes a killing (brokerages in this case), and have extremely low barriers to entry.

If you have super high throughput, it would be worth temporarily (and very securely) caching transaction parameters to handle downtime.

How do you handle password rotations? I am intrigued regardless.

Through what context did you help out hundreds of creatives? Just curious. Do you do tax advisory for a living?

good time to plug a great paid option: https://actualbudget.com/

My guess is that Google prioritizes new content over old with the argument that it is more relevant.