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nthngtshr commented on Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL   grafana.com/blog/2024/04/... · Posted by u/matryer
Spiwux · a year ago
After having used Datadog for several years, going back to Grafana / Loki / Prometheus felt like regressing by two decades. As much as I appreciate free solutions, I feel like Grafana has really fallen behind when it comes to developer experience
nthngtshr · a year ago
Could you provide more details? Although I've never had the opportunity to use Datadog at any of my previous positions, I am quite familiar with Grafana and I'm generally pretty happy with it.

What's the TL;DR for why Datadog is better?

nthngtshr commented on Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous   butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway... · Posted by u/stanrivers
ihumanable · 2 years ago
Somewhat the height of survivorship bias. There are a many number of people that don't adopt a victim mentality, work hard, and try to get ahead and just don't. For every Charlie Munger there are tons of working poor that get up everyday, work hard for minimum wage, then go off to their second job.

My entire childhood I watched both my parents, who both had 2 jobs, work themselves non-stop to try to provide for us. They didn't drink or do drugs or consider themselves victims, and it didn't help one bit.

Asking the man who wins the lottery how to live a good life and be successful often ends up with them telling you to do whatever it is that they did. It might even be good advice, but it's a ridiculous appeal to authority. Charlie Munger got all this success and he did X, ok, did other people do X and not achieve this level of success? How many people did not-X and were perfectly successful?

It's subjective finger wagging dressed up in more appealing clothing for those that already agree with the opinions to point at and be happy about. Because at the end of the day, it allows us to blame people's misfortune on them, they've adopted a victim mentality and that's why their lives aren't working out. It allows the class that has the vast majority of wealth to deflect any critical examination of the power structure that perpetuates this state. You aren't underpaid, you just have adopted a victim mindset. You aren't exploited, you just haven't found a way to turn the challenge of paying your rent into riches yet.

nthngtshr · 2 years ago
I think you're missing the point. The idea is more that avoiding a victim mentality typically leads to better outcomes. This isn't a surefire guarantee, but statistically, it tends to yield more favorable results.

E.g if we plot the range of outcomes for two groups of people, one group embracing a victim mentality and the other not, we'd likely see two power-law curves. However, the curve representing those without a victim mentality would generally trend higher, indicating more positive outcomes.

Applying this to your specific case, if your parents had embraced a victim mentality, there's a likelihood that they would have experienced less success, happiness, etc.

nthngtshr commented on Splunk to cut workforce by 7% after cisco deal   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
nthngtshr · 2 years ago
Anyone has any info on any specific teams that got cut?
nthngtshr commented on Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)   vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873... · Posted by u/freedomben
aidenn0 · 2 years ago
I was interpreting GP as talking about "who is supposed to go first" not "Can I run them over intentionally."

The latter is not allowed anywhere in the US. However, I have seen cops giving a pedestrian a ticket for crossing right next to a giant "No Crossing" sign as they were being loaded into an ambulance. At that particular section of the street the assumption was that the driver did not intentionally hit the pedestrian as there was a blind corner.

Also, I don't know if you saw the footage from a few years back of the self-driving-car hitting the pedestrian in Arizona while the safety driver was on their phone? Without the dash-cam, the driver likely would not have been found at fault, as the cops are likely to believe a driver that says they didn't see a pedestrian crossing in the dark at night until too late.

nthngtshr · 2 years ago
ah, fair point
nthngtshr commented on Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)   vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873... · Posted by u/freedomben
aidenn0 · 2 years ago
This is also true in many parts of the US, including California.
nthngtshr · 2 years ago
Genuinely curious — is there some jurisdiction where the law is "if the pedestrian is in the wrong it's fine to go over them"?
nthngtshr commented on Live near your friends   headlineshq.substack.com/... · Posted by u/thenobsta
zw123456 · 2 years ago
I can definitely attest to this, when I was in my late 20's, my best friend that I met in grad school bought a house, I was still living in an apartment when she called and said the place next door went up for sale, I put in a full price offer immediately. It was the best investment I ever made. For the next 5 or 6 years we had so much fun, her boyfriend knew me and my girlfriend from school and we all just hung out and did everything together. We had the key to each other's front door and would watch out for each other. We had dual house parties and all kinds of things. It was one of the best times of my life. But they got married we got married, jobs, moving to new houses, life happened. You focus shifts over time to work and family. It gets harder. I wish I could live next door to my BFF again. Maybe someday.
nthngtshr · 2 years ago
Similar story here. Me and my partner befriended another couple through grad school in our early 20s and the next few years were just the best — we would go to bars, movies, horse races, parties, shows — everything together. And we had so much fun. When I look back on that time it almost feels like I'm remembering a movie.

Then covid happened, they had to move. Most of my other friends moved away as well. I switched jobs and the new job is 100% remote. My life is hell right now in terms of human interactions and I don't really know how to fix it. I feel like in order to establish new relationships I'd have to spend a lot of time with other people doing something together. But between my job and my family I feel like I just don't have time for that.

nthngtshr commented on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC   home.treasury.gov/news/pr... · Posted by u/FormerBandmate
ah765 · 2 years ago
Sure, it's possible to justify that, and if I were in the Fed I might make the same decision. But how hard would you fight for this cause if it didn't benefit you personally?

I want to hear those reasons from others, not from a bunch of rich people who would be personally profiting at the ordinary person's expense.

nthngtshr · 2 years ago
I don't understand why so many people have such a hard time justifying this.

* If the bank collapses then many startups shut down. This is bad, but okay, maybe you think startups are net negative. In addition to that thousands of people will lose jobs — please explain how this is a good thing. Plus there's a potential for ripple effects from people not trusting banks anymore.

* You say it's a bunch of rich people profiting. Who are these rich people you're talking about? Bank management? They went to zero overnight. Shareholders? zero. Who's left? Garry Tan? He has the same incentives as millions of Americans whose retirement savings are parked in VC funds.

I want to say I'm one of those people who's not personally profiting from this, but I acknowledge that's not true — the economy is connected and stable economy is good for everyone and we should celebrate people who push for it.

nthngtshr commented on First Republic, other regional bank stocks sink after failure of SVB   cnbc.com/2023/03/10/first... · Posted by u/rbanffy
JumpCrisscross · 2 years ago
> Who, realistically until now has had “bank goes bust” on their risk list?

Every corporate treasurer. This is a core function of a CFO. I didn’t realise the degree to which this was missing in Silicon Valley so soon after a global financial crisis.

nthngtshr · 2 years ago
Startups don’t hire CFOs until the revenue is in 10s of millions of ARR. And most companies don’t ever get there.
nthngtshr commented on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout   ft.com/content/6a77d81b-7... · Posted by u/guiambros
wpietri · 2 years ago
As a long-time tech person and someone who has started multiple companies, including one venture-backed one, I'm happy to explain why I think uninsured depositholders should not have their losses subsidized by taxpayers.

One, anybody with a bank account has heard about the FDIC and the FDIC insurance limits. Presumably anybody smart enough to raise millions of dollars know that if part of something is insured, the rest is uninsured. There are in fact good systemic reasons both for the FDIC to exist and for the limit to be high for individuals but low for companies.

Two, the tech industry, especially the VC-funded end, is forever crowing about the power of the marketplace. How regulation stifles valuable innovation. How government intervention is a problem, not a solution.

Three, among startups, market-driven disruption is practically a religion. Startups destroy existing companies all the time. Quite often it's an explicit goal, where startup X lists existing players A and B as companies whose lunches will get eaten because they are making bad choices.

Four, there has been endless puffery and chest-thumping among VCs and tech startups how their genius justifies pocketing billions and billions of dollars when times are good. Best and brightest, incredibly hard workers, blah blah blah. Including a special tax exemption for VCs, because they're just such amazing financial wizards.

Five, startup go under all the time. Which, having experienced it, definitely sucks. But when a startup goes under due to bad choices or bad luck, that's the game.

So when I put this together, I firmly believe that startups with bad treasury management should not be subsidized by taxpayers. If we're so smart and amazing that we get to reshape segments of the economy, we're smart enough to follow basic financial advice like "don't put all your eggs in one basket". If we choose to play the game that might make us rich, we should not suddenly complain about the rules when we lose.

In practice, the likely outcome here is that depositors either take no haircut or a modest one. Anybody going out of business because of that was already on the edge. And that will be partly because their investors will not see them as worthy of a bridge loan or an accelerated next round.

Which, again, sucks for the people involved. But it's not a problem for taxpayers to solve. If we're going to spend billions of dollars on improving the safety net, I think startups are way, way down the list of priorities.

nthngtshr · 2 years ago
So how did you manage your treasury when you were running your businesses? Did you split it 10 ways? Did you buy t bills?
nthngtshr commented on Founders: Would you agree that team should own a part of a company?    · Posted by u/withoutshape
nthngtshr · 2 years ago
Stock Options?

u/nthngtshr

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