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Show HN: Tech startup NYC eco-system summer time party
1 points by lkrubner 2y ago|0 comments
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by lkrubner 2y ago
I appreciate this emphasis on simplicity and I recommend it to others. I've seen trends in the other direction which I think are dangerous. I notice that as some companies adopted a microservices approach there was a tendency to allow
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Your Versus example is how I write my Clojure code, with post and pre conditions on most of the functions. And the JVM has a flag that makes it easy to strip that out for production builds.
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by lkrubner 2y ago
Thank you, this is great.
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Ask HN: Where can I find the latest info for essay ranking, spam filtering?
2 points by lkrubner 2y ago|2 comments
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by lkrubner 2y ago
I've seen a similar idea implemented with a lot of tech teams. In particular, I've seen companies try to be "flat," meaning that the software developers don't have managers, but instead, the software developers are
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Somewhere between 500 million to 2 billion is probably comfortable. Anywhere in that range offers a reasonable trade-off between wealth versus strain on the environment. More people means more wealth but also more strain on the environment,
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Within my lifetime the population of the planet has doubled, from 4 billion to 8 billion. That was a dangerous, sudden surge. If we take a break, and maybe lower the population a little, that seems like a positive thing. "Population do
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by lkrubner 3y ago
I think most people continue to have a primitive association between prosperity and "the Mandate of Heaven." If something is good, it leads to economic growth, and this reflects that the gods are happy about that thing. Of course,
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by lkrubner 3y ago
This article, in part, overlaps with what we know about the Flynn Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect I'm not saying that the larger brain definitely explains the increase in IQ, but that is certain
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by lkrubner 3y ago
It's been many decades since the USA government attempted to go after a vertical trust. During my lifetime, almost all anti-monopoly action has been against horizontal trusts: companies that gain too much market share for some particul
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by lkrubner 3y ago
"Neanderthals left Africa 500,000 years later into Europe while Denisovans left at the same time" For most of the past 25 years there was a theory that Neanderthals and Denisovans were descended from Homo Heidelbergensis, in which
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by lkrubner 3y ago
"Pushing on a string." Generally speaking, investors won't invest if you promise to lose their money. Or if you promise to destroy their money. Or if you promise to steal some of their money. Most of the time, investors hope
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by lkrubner 3y ago
"IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate." We tried that and it was completely untenable. During the 1700s and 1800s more and more of society switched from the non-monetary economy to the monetary econom
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Agreed. I remember in 2012 we joked that if you used enough Javascript you could get the Web in 2012 up to the level that VisualBasic 1.0 offered back in 1991. But we were certain that in 10 years, by 2022, we'd up to the level offered
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Thank you again.
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Are you aware how difficult this is? Python has a complicated and messy history regarding concurrency, and even as recently as 2012 the most common advice was "avoid threads and use processes." Python was late to come up with any
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Thank you for this. It's a good start. But also, there is so much on Hugging Face, how does anyone evaluate it all? It's not possible to personally test everything, and develop good intuitions about what might be useful in particu
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Possibly off-topic, but does anyone know where I can read up on LLMs? I've posted an "Ask HN" here, in the hopes some people can inform me about how I can keep up on what's new: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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Ask HN: Where can I find practical comparative data regarding different LLMs?
8 points by lkrubner 3y ago|5 comments
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by lkrubner 3y ago
The main thing is the "work from home" movement. At first employers hated the idea of employees working from home. But then employers got used to it, and then they realized that they could outsource most work to a Third World coun
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by lkrubner 3y ago
"It happens during a collapse of the imperial order.....with the French Revolution" That is also ahistorical. In 1789 the court of King Louis XVI of France was struggling to find the money to pay for a bureaucracy of 500 people, b
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How to deal with passive-aggressive text communication from your subordinates(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
18 points by lkrubner 3y ago|12 comments
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Also, this is astonishingly ahistorical: " Bureaucrats are also almost universally reviled for their lack of accountability and the lack of pride in their work. While there certainly have been great men; leaders who were great bureaucr
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by lkrubner 3y ago
First they suggest that most computer programmers are bureaucrats: > Most “software engineers” dealing in protocols, technical debt, the JVM, operations …. are also bureaucrats. Then they complain that Google is probably hiring bureaucra
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Is Anger Ever Strategic?(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
1 points by lkrubner 3y ago|0 comments
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by lkrubner 3y ago
"in which case, what's the point?" I cannot imagine what system of ethics you are operating from that you would have to ask this question. The point, always, is to provide the best possible life to the greatest number of peop
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Up till now there has been substantial pushback against the idea that homo heidelbergensis built small villages in France 400,000 years ago: small huts surrounding a giant long, thin building, 15 meters long but less than 3 meters wide. Up
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by lkrubner 3y ago
I think you mean STRs not AirBnB? STRs are still growing, but AirBnB is facing much more competition from VRBO and Booking.com and Google Travel then it has previously faced. When I consulted at https://futurestay.com I could se
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Careful, my child, for those who speak of these things are forced to leave their tribes and wander forever in the deserts and the wastelands.

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