skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have drawn a graph to explain what I think has been happening since 2006 when I started freelancing. https://www.dropbox.com/s/i79fv0brlkvc79c/the-graph.png?dl=0

The x axis is "complexity of website" and the y axis varies. For the red line that slopes from top left down to bottom the y axis is "demand for website". The blue line is "Cost of website produced by web developer". Everything to the left of the vertical green line has a tool (wix, squarespace, wordpress etc) that makes it easy to produce that type of website. And over time that green line moves along the x-axis complexity scale. But the green line will only go so far, because you can't justify handling increasing complexity with a decreasing demand indefinitely.

Also, at some point it becomes easier to hire a web dev to make you a custom ecommerce solution, than to search through the 500 ecommerce solutions to find the one you want, when what you want is weird.

My strategy since 2006 has been to stay to the right of the green line, but not too far. My experience is that clients I've had on the right side of that line are still clients, and those who were not, have moved on.

I think there's a lot of legs left in that strategy. Finding a client who is on the right hand side of the line often means starting with some kind of integration work they are struggling with, or updating a legacy web app, which is always a pain. Or doing something weird. But once you've got through that successfully you're established as a meaningful cog in their corporate machine.

Interestingly, I drew the graph in 2006, and wix was founded that year, and was one of the examples I used at that time, so it's funny to see it still being mentioned now.

The strategy has given me a varied set of problems, I've worked on custom ecommerce solutions, funding application and claim management systems, CPD management, eLearning tools, and other more mundane things.

I've earned more each year I've been doing this, and it jumped up a couple of years ago, so it's still working well for me.
A false rumor on WhatsApp started a run on a London bank
That is not the reason. It makes sense to compile to Erlang AST representation and leverage all the power (codegen/optimisations/…) of Erlang compiler for free.
Does the new DRM driver currently work with Wayland compositors? I know Alyssa has demonstrated Weston on Panfrost, but that might've been with ARM's kernel driver or something
I know what you mean. Not every town can be like the one with maybe 3k inhabitants and 5 Rewe stores I know in Germany.

But still, 60 minutes means same day delivery without too much hazzle. An advantage Amazon doesn't have. Disadvantage is the considerably higher fix costs of Walmart and the like.

Dropshopping could, theoretically at least in my opinion, provide that geographic reach without adding additional fix costs for a player like Amazon.

EDIT: Typo
Plus:

If I in the U.S. am buying something at Walmart that was made in China. And a ton of plastic waste was produced in China to make that thing.

In such cases, most would point the finger at China and say that they did all that pollution.

Whereas some would contend that we should be pointing the finger at the U.S. because it was someone there who was the end beneficiary of all that plastic waste.
> [...] but are the current Google phones any less usable than other Androids for people who are keen to avoid going all in on Google services?

Paradoxically, they are way more usable. They are the only phones (on some Sony too, but with several caveats) where it's easy to compile and install your own AOSP.

Lots of security focused efforts aim at Pixels for this reason. See CopperheadOS and its successor [1].

With the advent of device independent ROMs (thanks to Treble) it will be a bit easier to run generic ROMs on any phone. But there are still many glitches [2].

[1] https://grapheneos.org/

[2] https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki
> Those employees from 30 years ago accepted lower wages in exchange for future pension payments, and the company received something of value (employee labor) on partial credit

That may be true, but that doesn't mean that another competitor without those legacy costs can come in and better compete, unless the benefit from being able to pay less for the workers from long ago is big enough to create a sustainable competitive advantage. I would also note that the term is likely much longer than many debt agreements (most debt is 5-10 years) and is not subject to the proper credit risk considerations as normal corporate debt.

> There's nothing untoward about them expecting payment, and if the company has mismanaged funds, they're not the ones to bear that risk

Employees are the ones that bear the risk as a company can always renegotiate or go out of business. I'm not sure where pension liabilities fall in bankruptcy, but I certainly wouldn't want to bet my retirement savings on my current employer's health 30 years from now.
At least in Python, string objects are widely used as keys to dictionaries or as options in functions. For speed and efficiency these small strings are "interned" so that there is only ever one instance of the same string.

Also for mutable strings you either have to allocate enough memory to fit the final result or have some kind of rope data structure. Or else you end up copying it anyway.
Your right, I was mistaken, it seems to $1T/10 years
That would be the apotheosis of hacking the system.
It's hard to understand Amezmo because the docs are not directly available on the website. The first step in your sales funnel is high friction for potential customers. Good luck.
Only if you use new BEAM features [EDIT: or new compiler optimizations... this could be hard to avoid, so using HiPE may indeed become hard/impossible for awhile... :(] in the module you want to HiPE-compile:

> In OTP 22, HiPE (the native code compiler) is not fully functional. The reasons for this are:

> There are new BEAM instructions for binary matching that the HiPE native code compiler does not support.

> The new optimizations in the Erlang compiler create new combination of instructions that HiPE currently does not handle correctly.

> If erlc is invoked with the +native option, and if any of the new binary matching instructions are used, the compiler will issue a warning and produce a BEAM file without native code.

Source: http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_22.0.readme (search for OTP-15596)
I'm fascinated by NixOS and am following it, just haven't had a lot of time to dive in yet.

It does sound like the right idea. This is hypocritical as someone who doesn't use it but I hope more people use it.
> Not sure if you are being serious or not.

/s indicates sarcasm.
They should levy punitive measures in the hundreds of billions of dollars and go back to old pricing.
Modern homes are very expensive to build, so it isn't surprising that they fetch a premium on the market.
Yeah, but toothbrushes are a necessity, phones...they 'feel' that way, but are not!
I second the recommendation of Intuition Pumps.

To that, I would add Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstader & Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. (Wilson gets a little hippieish, but he does a better job of knocking down unjustified tunnel-vision than Hofstader or Dennett do.)
Death rates from energy production per TWh
A major hurdle to that is finding the space to pick and pack then organize the packages for pickup by whatever delivery company they create or partner with.
In his own words:

JC: Any regrets you were never selected by NASA as an astronaut?

CY: In order to get into the space program, you had to have a degree. I only had a high school education. In the early Mercury program, everything was done from the Cape [Kennedy] anyway. The guys didn’t have a hell of a lot of control, and that to me isn’t flying. I wasn’t interested.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2017/01/23/chuck-yeage...
I don’t think people feel locked into proprietary bug tracking, they just choose it out of convenience. You can export data from Github or Gitlab.

I mean hell, trac and redmine have been around forever now. Is an open source wiki+bugtracker that revolutionary?

My best guess is that there’s some benefit of merging the source control in, but I’m not sure; it’s not like other environments can’t provide integrated bug tracking.
Sorry to disagree.

Berlin is the shithole of Germany and everybody, except people from Berlin, agrees on this. This opinion is more uniting than the fall of the Berlin wall or anything else in this country.

It's a town where nothing really works (airports, anyone?) but people from Berlin think that's the way it's supposed to be and that it's somehow "cool" to be this way. It isn't.

Any other European capital is really nice or at least tries its best to be nice, Berlin is just "meh, don't care".

Financial power is not concentrated there, nor is industrial power. Companies (and what you might call "startup") have some outposts in Berlin because it's chic to have something in Berlin. It sprays the scent of being wealthy (enough), while the real major cities are in the Ruhrgebiet, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart (in loose order) and those are the places big companies have their headquarters and never really thought about moving to Berlin.

Tourists like Berlin because it's so shabby, but that's about everything that city got. It's some strange kind of fascination for disgust and decay that attracts the people.

Germans don't like Berlin. It's hyped for nothing and you can find better jobs and better places to live all over the country.

Right now I'm kind of living in the middle of nowhere in south-west Germany near the French border and I got 100 MBit/s internet connection, so not even that is better in Berlin.
Is this a big deal? How often do major automakers adjust their prices?
Does anyone know if Walmart has consigned, third party merchandise like Amazon does (e.g. sold by X, but shipped prime)? And if so, does it get commingled with the Walmart supply chain inventory?

My issue with Amazon is that I'm afraid of knockoffs, counterfeits and plain old cheap crap with fake reviews (really, 2000 people decided to review your plastic drinking cups?).

These days, I'm shopping more and more at Target, who offers free two day delivery on orders above a certain threshold, good prices, a curated selection of items, good website experience and most importantly, no third party sellers intermingling their fake wares.
You are making the assumption that criminals pay taxes. I'm sure some of them do, but I would be interested to see some real numbers on it.
Are you in general violently opposed to Intellectual Property, or only in this case?
>My partner and I had a ready response when employees hinted that we must be raking in big bucks: here's the keys to the front door, payday is on Friday. That shut them up in short order because they could see we meant it: it's all yours, including meeting payroll in a bad month out of your own pocket.

Gee with a management style like this I can't imagine why the author is struggling to turn a profit
Yup, it supports Weston. Possibly more as it does say it supports some Wayland compositors, but only mentions Weston in the example:
https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/building-panfrost-mesa.html
1. $200 is what it costs if you do it yourself, $1000 with the help of an attorney and accountant.

2. What's a lot? Losing even a $100K house is devastating. Having a failed business's creditors take away everything because a customer fails to pay a bill in a timely manner and causes a cascade of failed bill payments from the business is crazy... which is the main reason you incorporate - routine business risks are... riskier than most people's personal life.

Limited liability is a tool for everyone and I would argue matters more the less wealthy you are. I say that having started four businesses, with about a month worth of operating cash... Started three part time on the side, and without the corporation self-employment tax alone would have crushed the business, let alone a lawsuit against my family because of a routine business issue. It also helps in reverse - a financial problem a partner in a small business has generally is not able to reach through the business to take assets from the company. It might change who the owners are, but it doesn not allow people to reach through to the business.

These are not issues of the rich.
San Francisco Limits Office Space. That’s a Problem for Tech Firms
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>organs failing at 104 is a pretty much total lie

Actually it is a very well recorded phenomenon. Just because you and the people you work with may have adapted well does not mean that it is universal by any means. People die in heat waves regularly; normally diabetics with peripheral neuropathy who can't sweat enough to drop their internal temperature or people with heart problems who can't take the additional stress of lowering their temperature. [1] [2] [4]

"Heat related mortality is similar in hot and cold parts of western Europe and in hot and cold parts of the United States. This implies that the populations of hot regions have adjusted by physiological or other means to their hotter summers."[3]

Also, the metric for organs failing at 104 is entirely correct, just not with regards to external body temperature. Your organs will undoubtedly fail if your internal temperature is 104F/40C. I've had sepsis with a temperature of 40.9C and I would have died if it wasn't for quick treatment from the doctors.

Quick anecdote; if you're ever in the situation where your body temperature starts to get that high, scream and shout until you get an actual doctor on hand - I had nurses who had no idea of the severity of my condition and would have left me to die through shear negligence. I was lucky enough that the surgeon for my leg injury decided to check how it was healing, and rushed to call in a team of 4 or 5 doctors to stabilise me as I went into shock from hyperthermia. Spent the next 24 hours covered with cold towels and ice swapped out regularly by some very apologetic nurses.

[1] https://emj.bmj.com/content/22/3/185

[2] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130716-heat...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC192832/

[4] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320226.php
The Turris Omnia and soon-to-be Turris Mox are the only ones that I'm aware of. I know Linksys has a special line of WRT "open source ready" routers that are supposedly OpenWRT compatible, but the Amazon reviews are completely trash. They're a little more pricey, but my next router will be a Turris.

https://www.turris.cz/en/turris-omnia/
FreeBSD does not import GPU drivers into base, they're now packaged and under the GPL (they depend on some GPL code imported from Linux).

The "fun" part with these drivers is FDT attachment, but work is ongoing in FreeBSD on this.
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Terminal: Gnome Terminal in DE or Alacritty in WM

IDE: Emacs

File manager: Emacs dired

Basic Text Editor: Emacs

IRC/Messaging Client: Weechat

PDF Reader: Zathura

Office Suite: LibreOffice or Google Docs

Calendar: Emacs org-agenda (mostly iPhone calendar though).

Video Player: mpv

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> This might work for ECL which is build as a shared library. But what if e.g. an SBCL user wants to use a LGPL Lisp library?

If you had read the post you'd have my answer to that question.

There is no need to spread fear and uncertainty about LGPL and other copyleft licenses, I've seen too much of that over last few years (and I have a strong intuition that it is not an accident).

P.S. "are you a lawyer?" argument is very cheap (and often happening on threads about copyleft licenses) given it is HackerNews not LawyerNews -- I know of lawyers working for corporations who say that they wouldn't touch anything with GPL in the license name with a five-meter pole (not knowing a difference between LGPL, GPL and AGPL) -- there goes your "in-depth legal analysis". Same lawyers doesn't bat an eye when they give a green light for eula-crippled code from their "technical partners". Cargo cult is present everywhere, not only in software development.
Note that most flagship Samsung phones have US variants based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC (Adreno GPU) instead of an Exynos. This seems to be for US-specific reasons related to a legal battle between Samsung and Qualcomm rather than being driven by technology requirements.
If everyone had a free pass for all public transport then you can make the free pass only free at certain times, with a standard ticket price for other times.

Old retired folk don't need to get anywhere for 9 a.m. or be in a mad dash to get home at 5.30 p.m. They get a free pass that only works between 10 and 4.

Essential public sector workers, e.g. school teachers get a free pass for the commuting hours or whatever is needed for their shift patterns. They could also have free evening and weekend travel not given to the senior citizens.

School kids get a different pass again.

The incentives can be many, if it is always kept as a perk that is seen as such even if 99% of the population can get it, then you can do the rationing.

Until recently UK police had free passes to use transport networks when off duty. The cost cutting government got rid of this perk. This hacks people off, people in the police are no longer thinking the government is looking out for them. They no longer are made to feel part of a bigger family of public sector useful people because they don't get the guest treatment on the rails. Whether they used the pass or not is irrelevant, it is the treatment that matters.

There were no incidents of off duty police officers travelling for free en masse and causing paying passengers to no be able to get a seat. So rationing is one of those problems that falls into the category of 'nice to have'.
They tend to lower the prices instead of increasing them to not go bankrupt.
Target started by adapting their supply chain to leverage underperforming brick & mortar stores as distribution centers, which is great. But they really need to up their e-commerce game. The website itself makes product discovery much harder than it should be, and their selection is still far inferior to Amazon & Walmart.
Walmart seems poised to steal a lot of cost conscious shoppers from Amazon because Amazon simply doesn't offer a lot of the "value priced" product lines that Walmart does and they've basically been competitive with Amazon for shipping times for quite awhile now.
Generally speaking, inventories go up with the number of warehouses. Plus the uncertainty of quantities and the state of goods in a store. On the other hand, Walmart used to be the model case for cross docking, so their Supply Chain isn't too bad. And stores still have some local inventory in the background. Not much, but it is there and can be used and much closer controlled.

That this isn't easy was proven by Amazon's issues integrating Whole Foods. And Amazon is good at these things.
"There's a cultural difference here. In a culture of collaboration that experience is simulated for the group to grow mutually."

So, to 'grow mutually', we need to use ideas that never work or will take the project down a path of failure? This does not foster growth or success.

I want the best ideas to win, if it's mine or from an inexperienced colleague.

"The difference is motivation of growth vs money."

You can try bad ideas on your own time If you are working on a project and being paid for it, I don't really know how it doesn't have some motivation for money.

"I never said I won't listen. I value people who focus on collaboration because I can trust they have a stake in our mutual growth. This is not a feeling rather a thought."

Teaching you the proper way is focusing on mutual growth, so you will be successful in future projects that might involve the same problem.

"No, I credit the people who create the bias around them in everyday interactions. Bottom line is that present day moments are not made up of stereotypes. People are responsible for their behaviors and attitudes."

So you don't want to be told what to do and you have no problem with a company ushering out more experienced developers and replacing them with ones that are cheaper and younger.

While people are responsible for their behaviors and attitudes, I can't imagine if you were in the same situation you wouldn't be resentful. This is because you are young. In 15-20 years, I think your attitude and outlook on life will be much different.
They have this already for groceries in some markets. The problem is $13+ of delivery fees and tips. This has got to be worked down to $0.
This is reflective of my experience with the ORM zealots as well... SQL is already an abstraction, and it happens to be one of the most well thought out, battle tested abstractions we have in the software world... it drives me nuts when junior devs and devs with poor SQL abilities want to pollute a codebase with EF, Hibernate, etc. without understanding if it’s necessary or even helpful beyond simply allowing the developer to continue onward without spending time becoming proficient in SQL. That said, there are scenarios where an ORM is helpful, but I personally find those occasions to be the exception.
I agree. Except he's the one running the campaign to discredit himself. Wikileaks has done the damage to his own reputation, all sponsored by Russia.

He's actively hurt the goal of radical transparency with his antics. Actual people with principles abandoned Wikileaks a decade ago.
the best kind of followup for this after the infamous iA web trend ones would be the layout of the introduction to the TV series Silicon Valley, with it's small conglomeration of brand firms and animation of change as companies buy/sell/open/close in short period.
Hmmm ... see the other comment to my post. It sounds like this isn't entirely true. Certain apps like Amazon.com don't have to pay Apple 30% -- I buy plenty of physical goods with the Amazon app, but 30% of those sales don't go to Apple.
As has been noted by several other posters, western countries have exported their recyclable trash to China for years. That has pretty much come to a halt, and I don't think it will be long before countries like the US realize just what a mess they have on their hands. Getting rid of single-use plastic now is the best thing we can do.
> What we absolutely need to avoid is having justices have to care about reelection

It's an appointment, so they would only have to convince the president. Or you can prevent reappointment at all.
Middle Class is not what it used to be. Living paycheck to paycheck is not middle class.
It's not math, per se. But music is certainly about patterns. And some of the ratios in musical patterns certainly have a foundation in math. I think you cannot arrive at beautiful music starting from math. But you probably can arrive at some interesting mathematical patterns starting from music.
It's a big deal because the $35,000 price point was Tesla's big promise.
We must internalize the costs.

1) People must be held responsible for their actions no matter if it's in their free time or at work. You do it, you are responsible for it.

2) Those that give unlawful tasks to others as their boss must personally be held responsible no matter whether the task actually got implemented, or not.

3) The investors of avtivities must personally be held responsible for the activities they fund. It's their responsibility to know what they are funding.
You bought a router to use as a NAS? I think that's your problem right there.

How is this even voted to the top?

Edit: Looks like I hit a nerve. God forbid anyone buy hardware for a purpose it was actually designed for.
Taxi rank? What is this, 1992?
You'd have lived in a world where the current Supreme Court was appointed almost entirely by Obama. Also, Citizen's United wouldn't have been ruled the way it was. Would be a damn better world.
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