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by necubi 11mo ago
It was the same for me growing up in the shadow of Silicon Valley in the early aughts, post dot com crash. Even when I went to college in 2008 the conventional wisdom was that there weren’t going to be any jobs in software, it was all being
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled(ft.com)
3 points by necubi 11mo ago|0 comments
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by necubi 11mo ago
Cloudflare | Rust/DB engineers | SF/AUS/SEA/NYC/LON/LIS (Hybrid) | Full-time Hey HN, I'm hiring engineers for the new Cloudflare Data Platform ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-data-p
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Cloudflare R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine(blog.cloudflare.com)
9 points by necubi 1y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 1y ago
Rust still supports Intel Macs just fine. The x86_64-apple-darwin target was recently downgraded to tier 2, which just means that some automated tests will no longer run as part of the standard dev cycle.
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by necubi 1y ago
It's not particularly rare in analytical databases/query engines, nearly all of which support AsOf joins these days, including * Clickhouse * DuckDB * BigQuery * Snowflake * QuestDB
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by necubi 1y ago
On macOS it’s easy—opt+shift+-. The em-dash used to be a slightly snooty way for Mac users to announce themselves. Sad that the polarity of perception has reversed. I’ve been typing em-dashes since I got my first MacBook in 2006 and I’m not
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by necubi 1y ago
And, fundamentally it can't be opensource. Bot detection (like anti-fraud more generally) is an adversarial game that relies on hidden techniques. Open-sourcing it means you lose that advantage and make life much easier for anyone tryi
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by necubi 1y ago
Buybacks are just a more tax-efficient way to issue dividends to shareholders (dividend issuance is a taxable event and at short-term rates, buybacks raise the stock price and those gains aren't taxable until you sell, at which point i
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by necubi 1y ago
Cloudflare is almost entirely run on Cap'n Proto, including the entire workers platform
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by necubi 1y ago
The Pentium 4 HT 670, released in 2005, came factory-clocked at 3.8 ( https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/pentium-4-ht-670.c20 ) Netburst lasted a long time as intel was floundering, before Core Duo was released in 2
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by necubi 1y ago
It's actually the opposite. They're buying the assets (the software), not the company. > To ensure continuity for users and fans, as well as to continue building what we regard as an important technology, Dark Inc has sold the
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by necubi 1y ago
Rosetta is also very useful for running x86 Linux containers for dev workflows. Hopefully that will continue to be supported.
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by necubi 1y ago
Fascinating article! I have many fond childhood memories of the IMAX (I guess Omnimax? Although I’ve never heard it called that) dome theater at the Tech Museum in San Jose. I probably saw “Everest” half a dozen times. I’m also slightly emb
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by necubi 1y ago
Please do not post LLM comments to HN
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by necubi 1y ago
24.04 is the most recent LTS (long term support) release; it's what users are meant to be running for anything important
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by necubi 1y ago
As an angel, you do not get to set weird terms for your 10k check. The startup is raising on standard paper (these days almost always a SAFE) and you take them. But no terms are going to save you from the reality that a failing startup that
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by necubi 1y ago
Uh… who is buying tricams and hexes these days? 100 carabiners??
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by necubi 1y ago
The soloist had their concerto memorized (and they’ve probably performed it dozens of times before). But the members of the orchestra are responsible for playing hundreds of pages of music a week. They’ve practiced any particularly exposed
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by necubi 1y ago
Oxide is actually in Emeryville ;)
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by necubi 1y ago
Aphyr didn’t test foundation himself, but the foundation team did their own Jepsen testing which they reported passing. All of this was a long time ago, before Foundation was bought by Apple and open sourced. Now members of the original Fou
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by necubi 1y ago
Vector is often used for observability data (in part because it's now owned by Datadog) but it's not limited to that. It's a general purpose stateless stream processing engine, and can be used for any kind of events.
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by necubi 1y ago
(I'm the creator of Arroyo) I haven't dug deep into this project, so take this with a grain of salt. ArkFlow is a "stateless" stream processor, like vector or benthos (now Redpanda Connect). These are great for routing d
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The group chats that changed America(semafor.com)
154 points by necubi 1y ago|146 comments
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by necubi 1y ago
Standard 4-year vesting doesn't work well for this situation. A founder leaving a worthless startup with 20% of the equity is a huge problem. The remaining founder will need that equity to offer outsize offers to senior (and eventually
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by necubi 1y ago
It's really not a huge red flag. Co-founder breakups are incredibly common. In this case the company is also flailing and has been likely written off by their investors, so they're not going to care. Something I've learned do
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by necubi 1y ago
(Arroyo founder here) Cloudflare has a strong tradition of open source, even for core parts of their product, like workerd ( https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd ), and also maintains a bunch of key infrastructural libr
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Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare(arroyo.dev)
113 points by necubi 1y ago|38 comments
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by necubi 2y ago
Also that it's in the Java parquet library, which somehow is nowhere in the article
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by necubi 2y ago
Oh hey, Wesleyan on HN! I’m an alumnus (matriculated a year or two after Roth became president). Wesleyan has a rich history of activism and protest, and not always entirely peaceful (Roth’s predecessor, Doug Bennet, had his office firebomb

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