setgree

19 ms·

211.
by setgree 3y ago
I was an early hire at a computational reproducibility startup for scientists [0]; the platform was basically an online frontend wrapped around a Docker container hosted on AWS, and the idea was that you'd put your code and data on th
212.
by setgree 3y ago
what they were doing before: nothing.
213.
by setgree 3y ago
The fact that the US did it first doesn’t make it reasonable. Both policies can be bad on their own terms, and either way, the costs will almost entirely be borne by people who had nothing to do with drafting the US policy in the first plac
214.
by setgree 3y ago
I think rather than looking to theoretically arguments about this, we can just note how many putatively sophisticated actors have messed this up at some point and how costly it’s been for them. Mark Cuban, Prime Trust (we think) , and a who
215.
by setgree 3y ago
this post opened my eyes to important context about 80s and 90s action movies. Watching them 10-20 years later, I often thought, how are there so many darn banks getting robbed? Turns out, ‘Heat’ is more realistic than I understood (at leas
216.
by setgree 3y ago
> To me it feels like going to a 5k charity run, taking a motorcycle to the finish line, and parading your gold medal around. Like, who are you impressing? And are you even proud of yourself? Weirdly enough, basically this happens all th
217.
by setgree 3y ago
Super cool! I have purely cosmetic feedback about the website, which is that the tagline "from the stratosphere" doesn't match up with the images being played behind, which are pretty clearly low altitude. I am assuming that&
218.
by setgree 3y ago
I generally don't reply to comments like this, but > I can't believe the Tether FUD is still widespread after all these years, all completely unproven and wrong time and time again. is false. Tether knowingly falsified document
219.
by setgree 3y ago
I might get a graphics card if the crypto market collapses, but I wasn't planning to buy any BTC. Also, I think that if BTC falls below, say, 10K, a lot of loans are going to get called in suddenly, and we're going to see that a l
220.
by setgree 3y ago
Good, I hope they dump it suddenly and without warning. The bitcoin trading market is much thinner than it looks -- wash trading is ubiquitous [0] and BTC's price is systematically propped up by a likely fraudulent stablecoin [1]. High
221.
by setgree 3y ago
best in class is not a low bar
222.
by setgree 3y ago
heh, that's a much more exhaustive list than mine
223.
by setgree 3y ago
Propping dumbphones up as cool is a whole genre * https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/style/flipping-out.html * https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/magazine/is-a-dumber-
224.
by setgree 3y ago
I bought a used carbon frame racing bike 10 years ago for $400 and have had zero issues with theft. If it were stolen tomorrow I’d still have gotten very good value from it ($40 a year). I live in NYC. Take care to leave it in high-traffic
225.
by setgree 3y ago
adding "horses for courses" to my lexicon, TY :)
226.
by setgree 3y ago
Not in the sense you're thinking, and there was some controversy about this earlier this year https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/linkedin-social-... > “The findings suggest that some use
227.
by setgree 3y ago
Yep, this very much resonates with my experiences. At the end of the day, startups are run by people, who generally prefer to work with their friends, avoid conflict, etc. There's no great mystery. The mystery is when things work well.
228.
by setgree 3y ago
Yes, in retrospect I obviously should have waited as a matter of norms (that I didn’t know). I’m saying that I would like for that norm to be relaxed.
229.
by setgree 3y ago
In my dream world we would normalize things like eating on a zoom call. People gotta eat, it’s no big deal. Maybe if they’re audibly slurping soup that’s a problem in terms of noise, but that would also be a problem during a boardroom meet
230.
by setgree 3y ago
You are describing a prisoner's dilemma where one person's decision to buy a bigger, more dangerous vehicle pushes you to do the same. This can all be priced in. If bigger vehicles are more dangerous, we could make auto insurance
231.
by setgree 3y ago
Related: "Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked?" https://www.jstor.org/stable/23562447 Which argues that because larger cars are more likely to injure/kill someone in the event of a c
232.
by setgree 3y ago
RIP to one of the greats. Lady Gaga made a good and good-hearted call to preserve and promote his music by working on two albums together. We could all, perhaps, do a bit more to preserve the legacy of people who are important to us. https
233.
by setgree 3y ago
The original: “I give a confidential press briefing, you leak, he's being charged under Section 2(a) of the Official Secrets Act.”
234.
by setgree 3y ago
So I immediately googled because it rang an alarm bell that some octopuses would develop specialized air-breathing apparatuses — that conflicts with my basic understanding of evolution. But I wasn’t googling it to falsify, but rather to s
235.
by setgree 3y ago
Thanks for posting this article, it's a real "the more the world turns" reminder for me. We're having the exact same conversation now about Bitcoin ETFs, based on the exact same concerns: https://www.reuters.c
236.
by setgree 3y ago
setharielgreen.com Mostly write niche things for myself/people who know me directly, but occasionally write about tech-relevant stuff and and post it here, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911306
237.
by setgree 3y ago
I feel for you man. I live in Brooklyn where I can meet all the weirdos I want (though the fact that we're so spread out makes having a 'community' hard sometimes). So I get why Reddit and its ilk would seem like the best ava
238.
by setgree 3y ago
by "this" i meant all the kerfuffle around Reddit's API rates
239.
by setgree 3y ago
My ideal reddit alternative is spending less time on my computer and more time on in-person interactions. We can look for and/or build Reddit substitutes, but just my 2c, this is a fine prompt to question not just the instantiation but
240.
by setgree 3y ago
To quote Roger Ailes in 'Bombshells,' "It's a visual medium!" [0] Meaning, whether a scene succeeds or fails on screen is first and foremost about whether it looks good, and this scene looked great. Obviously visual

More ›