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by necubi 6y ago
This is actually about Nikola Motors which (despite their clear efforts to associate themselves) has nothing to do with Tesla. Nikola is hard to short right now primarily for two reasons: 1. It's a brand new company (IPO'd last mo
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by necubi 6y ago
The glassdoor reviews are fun: > Advice to potential investors and partners - check all numbers from CEO - it’s easy and you will be surprised. > Facts about Youplus: > - 4+years old - has no users and never had traction in both US
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by necubi 6y ago
That's more or less how a direct listing works. Historically direct listings have been rare, but recently Spotify and Slack have successfully done it. The main downsides (aside from it just being unusual and therefore a bit risky) is t
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by necubi 6y ago
Matt Levine has been writing about this trend lately: * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-06-23/money-... * https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-14/e
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by necubi 6y ago
Of course, that is the status quo for rustc (as it is for all production compilers I know of). The issues are that (1) debug builds are still slow enough to be annoying, and (2) they are sometimes _so much slower_ to execute that a debug bu
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by necubi 6y ago
A common reason for IntelliJ to freeze is not giving it enough memory, which causes frequent GC stalls. You can try increasing the max heap by following the instructions here: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/in
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by necubi 6y ago
> Twilio resells commodity product (SIP/SMS) at Saas margins by offering good developer experience and - by this point - major brand recognition. It’s not a defensible business long term, they just had a huge head start, and they st
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by necubi 6y ago
What really sets cryptography apart is that for a non-expert, there is no way to tell whether it's correct or not. Most bad software has bugs that can be found by users. A bad ML model will do poorly in validation. But a bad crypto imp
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by necubi 6y ago
Go is strongly typed (you can't pass an int to a function expecting a string), but its type system is not very powerful, and it cannot express many of the types people need in practice. Back to the discussion at hand (generics), Go pro
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by necubi 6y ago
The specifics of what languages my company writes are mostly historical, and I would say that Rust was not ideal for writing high-throughput network services until this year with the release of async/await. But in general, companies ad
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by necubi 6y ago
I think that's totally backwards. A good type system _improves_ iteration speed, it doesn't slow you down. When I refactor a Rust program, I have very high confidence that if it compiles, I haven't accidentally introduced a b
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The Search for the World’s Simplest Animal(theatlantic.com)
2 points by necubi 6y ago|1 comments
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by necubi 6y ago
This is echoed in a fascinating r/AskHistorians comment I read recently [0]. The question was about how the Romans forgot how to make concrete in the late empire. I highly recommend reading the whole thing, but the gist is: as the empi
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by necubi 6y ago
Amazon is now a major shipping and delivery company, in addition to everything else (as of last year, they were apparently delivering half of their packages themselves [0]). My guess is they would like to automate that. [0] https:/&#x
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by necubi 6y ago
If you try to strictly enforce memory safety in C++, you end up with code that looks a lot like Rust. But the Rust compiler will fail to compile code that has memory-safety issues (outside of unsafe blocks), while your C++ compiler will ha
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by necubi 6y ago
That's not what your article says? > The overall population of San Francisco County increased by 78,121 people between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2018. Besides the annual thousands of deaths and births that occurred within that eight
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by necubi 6y ago
They already did, a few years ago. It's much, much better than it used to be—you can now have a conversation in the transbay tube. And the new cars ("Fleet of the Future") are actually quite pleasant, although they've be
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by necubi 6y ago
This is a weak rant that has little business being on HN. Just a bunch of random complaints that poorly reflects the totality of SF. Some hits are totally misplaced, like this one: > But the culmination of local incompetence and misplace
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by necubi 6y ago
I guess it depends on where you are (California is a big state!), but at least here in SF people are still taking this very seriously. Almost everyone on the street is wearing a mask.
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by necubi 6y ago
I've recently spoken at two conferences that were converted from on-site to virtual, and my conclusion is that it's not worth it. Certainly as a speaker, it's pretty unpleasant talking for an hour into my webcam without any a
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by necubi 6y ago
New York has >50x deaths per capita as SF, which sheltered-in-place a week earlier (and which had been steadily moving in that direction for two weeks prior).
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by necubi 6y ago
I use CLion (same rust plugin as IntelliJ + debugging support) for rust development, and overall I would say the experience is pretty good. Certainly basic things like code completion from crates works; something is wrong with your setup if
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by necubi 7y ago
* AR / ubiquitous computing will be available, but still niche and primarily used for commercial purposes. Most people will still use a mobile-phone style device. * Autonomous tax fleets will be common in cities, but most personal vehi
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by necubi 7y ago
My primary shoe for bouldering is the Scarpa Drago, which has 2.5mm rubber. The toe rubber wears out after ~3 months. That's pretty fast for a $200 shoe, but it can be resoled several times (~$40 for a pair) for a total cost of ~$320&#
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by necubi 7y ago
Spawning a new thread for an operation is not async in the sense people typically mean. For an async IO library, you would expect it to be using async IO primitives like epoll, not just wrapping blocking operations in a thread.
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Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack: Breaking Bluetooth Security(knobattack.com)
18 points by necubi 7y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 7y ago
This apparently includes ads (at least for Hulu--unclear for the rest) so not really comparable to Netflix.
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by necubi 7y ago
Using ASGs with zookeeper is kind of a pain, but also not very necessary. Production zookeeper clusters are almost always either 3, 5, or 7 nodes and it's very rare to change that once a cluster is in production. Given that this is all
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by necubi 7y ago
I'd read through some of Aphyr's jepsen tests [0] if you think implementing consensus algorithms correctly is easy. Nearly every distributed database he's looked at has consistency bugs (with the notable exception of zookeepe
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by necubi 7y ago
Chargeback insurance/protection is not new in the industry. And despite how nice it sounds to not have to worry about chargebacks, I think it's a bad deal for almost everybody. The basic problem is that your incentives are not ali

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