skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the real innovation from on-demand services is their ability to transfer more money from labor to capital

DoorDash hasn't transferred any money to capital! They are still private. In fact, it is the opposite. Transfers have been from the capital of their investors to labor and to consumers.

There is plenty of innovation here - Uber is a lot nicer than phoning up the taxi company, and DoorDash is a lot nicer than phoning up some small restaurants to get food delivered. The lack of innovation is not the problem.

The problem is that there is no moat. DoorDash, Uber Eats, Postmates, and GrubHub are all providing the same service. There are millions of people capable of being a driver for these services. So competition is currently squeezing profits to zero or negative, and squeezing worker pay. Competition isn't helping the VCs, it's helping the consumers.

Eventually, if some of these companies go out of business, the remaining ones will be able to raise prices, which will be worse for consumers but better for the investors and perhaps better for drivers.
I think the problems from Boeing mark a new era when you cannot rely anymore on a previous good record. The new structure how FAA approves airliners proven to be insufficient, for both the Dreamliner & MCAS with 737. If Boeing continues going down this path than it won't matter how long and how many passengers they shuttled.
Their say is their ability to move away. Neighborhoods change. The irony is that when they moved in, their neighbors were complaining about all the change happening.

Here in Cupertino, everyone says, "this should all be single family homes!". If you look at the old newspapers from the 30s and 40s, everyone was saying, "We should remain farmland!".

Why is it that the people who built the single family homes happen to be right? Maybe it should have been farmland. Or maybe it will be even better as a mixed community of single family and multi-unit dwellings.

It's called progress. For some reason people think that when they bought the house everything was perfect. The progress until then was good, and any progress afterwards is bad.
> For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository.

The last time this happened to me, I took it as a hint that I had split the repositories along the wrong lines. The repos should probably be either merged or divided further to prevent this.
I don't know why you think that I need to look up the definition of militia. But the link that I provided provides a rather lengthy explanation of what militias are and the different forms of militias that existed in the USA from colonial times until the passing of the 2nd amendment. It certainly is much more informative than "a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency".

Incidentally I failed to look up the actual law of the time. But the 1792 militia law included every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45. Which, in a world that only paid attention to white men, basically was "the people".
Digital Ocean is a great company in a brutal, low-margin industry. Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan.

And they are competing with AWS Lightsail that have similar prices and offers Windows instances for people who want it.

But even though I am very steeped in the AWS ecosystem and the price of Lightsail is competitive, if I just needed a VPS I would still go with Linode. I can’t imagine AWS’s support being good for anyone who doesn’t have a business support plan.
"A say" covers an enormous spectrum.

What much of California gives neighbors is "a veto".

There are many other jurisdictions that have solved this tradeoff in a functioning way.
Tongue-in-cheek comment that I've read somewhere is that folks flee Democrat-run cities due to high taxes and mismanagement and move elsewhere, but then continue voting Democrat to bring back the same policies they wanted to escape from.
Imagine all the alternative ways this valuable human time could be used. Do you really think the majority of people feel empowered and freely do this, or is it rather that they are stuck in a negative loop and can't get out.

Also to highlight that currently the government is subsidising these companies by paying food stamps and Medicaid (in the case of the US), and the workers are subsidising them by taking any and all economic and personal risk (injury, accident, car breakdown, long term health issues, etc.)
Source?

It sounds like one of those "how to summer" bastardizations.
Everyone knows DO for their VPS but their object storage prices are some of the lowest.

$0.02 per GB stored

$0.01 per GB transferred.

That includes CDN too.

I haven't found a better deal anywhere. Even Blackblaze doesn't offer CDN (AFAIK).
Space shuttle? :)
Yeah, I've noticed that as well, which is why I mentioned "upstate" specifically. We do get people from both parts, but tbh I don't think most of us NC people can tell the difference other than by food preferences and that the people from upstate tend to be more 2nd amendment. Otherwise, both seem more similar to each to other than to southerners.

But is it wrong to call people from upstate NY "New Yorkers" - or is that term only reserved for city people? If so, what are they called?
Here's a link with some more data https://streeteasy.com/blog/nycs-unsold-condos/.

The rezoning and redevelopment of the queens and brooklyn waterfronts brought a ton of new high rise condos with it. I live in northern brooklyn and there's a new condo building being built on almost every block. At the same time there's more vacant storefronts than I've ever seen and the only businesses getting by are coffee shops, hair salons and trendy modern american restaurants that charge $18 for burgers and fries.
Love in Plague Time
> On one hand, I don't necessarily mind that established brands get sent down a peg. Especially when they sell an entirely commodified product and expect a retailer to help pad their "brand".

For any product that's basically extruded plastic, Amazon is literally Robin Hood taking brand equity and distributing it to the people.
I think you are confused. The maintainer made an active and conscious decision to protect himself. That's clearly not "nothing", and a perfectly legitimate reason.
>You’re not buying headphones.

Yeah, I actually expect my headphones to last more than two years.
It won’t work because there’s no real labor regulation enforcement in a Japan and Abe and his cronies have no interest in fixing that either. Unpaid overtime and off-the-clock work is already a widespread problem in Japan. All you’d end up with is vacations on paper.
>(and multiple suppliers stocks may have mixed together.)

this applies to sold by amazon items as well.
> Where do you see them "ramping up the R&D"?

Elon Musk has, on a few occasions, blamed "ramping up", be it R&D or production lines, as a reason for not meeting goals.
Your example is deplorable and should not happen.

The other points are not baseless: Skirball fire in LA is currently attributed to a cooking fire as the source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirball_Fire

My view is that this is not the homeless fault either - people have to eat and shelter. What we need is a right to shelter or similar approach to actually address the root problem. Medical care and development (lack of it) are also contributing issues.
Washingtonians (and moreso Idahoans) are particularly irate about Californians moving in, and have been for as long as I can remember. There are a lot of "salt of the earth" types who, regardless of political persuasion, see Californians representing big houses, loose morals, and heavy traffic. The Northwest ethos has been one of eclectic flavors of stoicism, serenity, and a nordic work ethic. Californians, in their eyes, bring a more chaotic, cutthroat energy.

I've lived in and love both states. Every native Californian I've met on their home turf assumes that the entire state of Washington shares the same microclimate as Seattle. Most Washintonians rarely wash their cars relative to California's sparkly standards.

All of this is of course changing as more generations co-mingle, but the lore remains.
Hey Congress, maybe focus more on the price of insulin rather than pop sockets.
Agree, inversion helps me a lot too.

I also find simply hanging from a bar (or anything) gets that helpful decompression for my spine, especially if my feet drag behind me a bit. A lumbar disk will often shift back into place after hanging for a minute and maybe doing a few press ups (i.e. cobra pose with core relaxed).
Author here.

I think you might be referring to this:

https://dev.to/digitalocean/from-15-000-database-connections...

Same post, just on a different platform.

For context, I was responding to someone who said the article read like an advertisement for DO. To clarify, this post has nothing to do with the layoffs and was not coordinated for it. I had no prior knowledge of the org restructuring.

I’ve been working on that article on-and-off for over a year. The timing of its publishing and the layoffs are coincidental and unfortunate.
Tesla have shown a rather large appetite for vertical integration. For example, they make their own seats. Why? I guess they think they can eek out some advantage. They could certainly get commodity seats from a traditional auto supplier, but they must have some line-of-sight to making them cheaper, or better or maybe just more customized than what a supplier would produce.

I think the same will be true for batteries. They won't be making a copy of the Panasonic cell design. They will only become a manufacturer if there is some advantage to be gained. They will probably seek to integrate IP from their Maxwell acquisition and improvements from their research group in Canada.
>It is high time to recognize that 2 children is still a lot of effort and make room for Mothers to take care of their own children.

It's high time that fathers start putting in some more work in that department too.
Sweden has 480 days of paid parental leave, and each parent has exclusive right to 90 of those days. Have fathers spend some time raising their kids instead of just letting their wives do it and you'll see that things should get better.
There seems to be something going on related to firmware updates on noise cancelling headphones.

I can think of:

* October 2017 - Bose QC35. I don't know much about this one. [1]

* June 2019 - Bose QC35II: Reported loss of NC effect after updating to version 4.5.2 [2](211 pages so far). Some review sites confirm it [3][4].

* January 2019 - Sony WH-1000XM3: Reported decreased performance in NC after updating to 4.1.1. [4]

There are many theories around, such as planned obsolescence, patent infringements, changes to accommodate voice assistants or people getting used to NC over time.

Any opinions?

[1] https://community.bose.com/t5/Headphones-Archive/QC35-noise-...

[2] https://community.bose.com/t5/Around-On-Ear-Headphones/Bose-...

[3] https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/bose/quietcomfort-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyC9QStmzcA

[5] https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/portable-audio/sony-wh-1000x...
> The Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda is open daily as far as I know.

It is sometimes closed for private parties (highly recommended), so you should double check the website before you go.
> Lack of polymorphism also means you don't have to guess about concrete types when reading code. When troubleshooting, you can see what's going on without going through whole inheritance tree.

Parametric polymorphism would mean you never have to even consider the type of the code. It's a freeing abstraction with plenty of very simple reference implementations. And it lends itself to composition over inheritance.

And sadly I doubt Go will ever manage to get it.
Any noise-cancelling headphones or these specific noise-cancelling headphones? Because I own a pair of noise-cancelling headphones that have a 30-ish hour battery life.
The Silverball Museum in Asbury Park NJ has 111 machines, many of which are old.
Please Stop Big Tech, Small Rivals Tell Lawmakers
I have a hard time grasping this..
Work is not for socializing.. work is for work.

I don't go to work to find my SO or my best friend, I get to do that in my own time.

In addition, bonding a close, personal relationship with your co-workers lead into problems, office drama is not pleasant and can have severe consequences.

I think it would be healthy to simply maintain a professional relationship which ends at 5pm.

Different personalities I suppose..
The difference between captions, subtitles and how they work in streaming video
Reflecting on My Experience with Go, One Year After
>Throw it in the trash? No thanks.

Why not? I'd understand the problem if you were talking about some large appliance, but you're talking about a watch strap.
Putting legalities aside since IANAL, how would a PopSockets -> third party -> Amazon -> customer supply chain ever be cheaper than PopSockets -> Amazon -> customer? Besides abstract "fairness", what's the benefit of allowing third party resellers here?
> OpenSSL's license (Apache v2), also has the "AS IS" clause. I guess we should just wholesale dump any concept of security since the very basic technique of protecting oneself from litigation on the possibility of something going wrong should instead now be interpreted to mean "this is a toy project with zero guarantees".

Essentially: yes. If you want any guarantees beyond that, you have to pay for them, or trust that others have paid for them.

Absent that, you have to make your own judgment as to whether or not the maintainers will run the project in a way you feel comfortable with. If they do; great. If not, move on (or contribute, or fork it), because you have no right to tell them how to maintain their project.
I think this ties into the importance of living knowledge. Even the most meticulous notes must be interpreted and executed by someone, and there is no substitute for an experienced person. This has already happened with technologies like vacuum tubes. It isnt a simple matter of economics to restart production because much of the know-how must be rediscovered. In the absence of the original volume of demand that led to the first generation of tube engineers, it may be lost forever. There are some niche high power RF devices still using tubes from decades ago.
Idealism, altruism. I was in computational biology, which is slightly less penurious, but FWIW, I wanted to make a contribution to medicine.
To be clear, the article isn't advocating for investing in companies competing against established/profitable SaaS businesses. It is advocating investing in the existing companies that have already achieved profitability.
Garmin Fenix 5 vs. 5 Plus vs. 6 Pro Specs, Prices and Features Compared
I’d say my point still applies, perhaps with a smaller degree. If rents drop 3x (an economic disaster pretty much) are tent encampment inhabitants rushing to rent, coming up with deposits and getting pre-approved?
Hello Californians, welcome to Texas! Please don't vote for the same policies that caused you to flee your state.
proc0 has a point: the more people you filter out for irrelevant reasons, the more is left for the mediocre who can pass the filters.
Isn't Shenzhou a Soyuz derivative?

You could say it makes the original statement unintentionally true.
It's not clear to me from that article: Did the plan that they were opposing provide any assurances that the houses built would be good quality? The people quoted state that their concern is that overcrowded or low quality public housing[1] would be built. If the law addresses their stated concerns and they still oppose it then I think that it's fair to criticize them. However, I don't think it's fair to just assume that they are lying about the reason for their opposition.

[1] I could see criticizing public housing being code for "we don't want anyone who isn't upper middle class"; which of course is unreasonable. However, on the other hand I've lived in places where the public housing took the form of a massive tower block that was like something out of Judge Dredd; so I think its understandable that people would be concerned about it if they aren't given any assurances.
Stuff gets lost during shipping all the time, why is the automatic refund process weird?
AMD EPYC 3151 Benchmarks
It seems obvious that states with the largest populations would see the most people leave. This graphic would be more interesting if the scale were per 1,000 capita.
Boeing discovers issue with 737 Max flight computers, source says
That is associated with less diverse milk microbiota.

https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(1...
If that’s not making enough of a dent, it’s not evidence that it’s not helping at all.

Compared to CA, NYC is building like crazy from my anecdotal observation.
The GP comment is worth a thought though
> If shipped and sold by amazon is an option around the same price, you can choose not to involve the reselling middle man.

They commingle all inventory, whether or not it is shipped and sold by Amazon.
This was my prime reason to cancel my Amazon Prime. For 20$ of revenue, people are willing to destroy other people's work and memories.

In my case, it was a fake Kingston SD Card and luckily used it only for a Rasberry pi. It cost me only a day of figuring out what I am doing wrong but easily it could have cost me my photos from a trip to a remote place.

Of course, Amazon would deal with that as if it was 20$(or whatever) issue and everything is supposed to be O.K. when you get a refund.
It's not mutually exclusive, Congress (whether they exercise it or not is another question, but) has the capacity to do both.
I wish somebody'd write a book on monorepos. I've run into only a handful of their problems when trying to manage production pipelines using just a dozen services, so I'm sure there's tons more (like the purpose behind this command). Nobody mentions the massive investment in time, technical expertise, compute resource, and money required to run large monorepos in production.

Also, would emulating this command with a repo of submodules not work?
Actually one of the things I miss the most in the Bay Area is conservatives. I don't know a single one that's out of the closet!

To me, that's really really broken.

I'd love to live somewhere "purple", where people of all opinions coexist peacefully. Do places like that still exist?
You don't need to suspect, fathers were polled as well. 72% preferred work full time, 12% part time, and 16% not working.
I wouldn't happen if instead of git, they used fossil.
Istanbul-based Getir, grocery delivery startup focused on speed, raises $38M
There are only 2 outcomes for Rust not having unsafe blocks:

1. Everything would be unsafe. Same as C/ C++

2. You could not use it to write real software, because not all constructs are expressible in safe code. The std lib requires unsafe to a bigger extend. Talking to the OS does the same.

Unsafe blocks are required to write software. And they are good, because they minimize the amount of code which can not be automatically audited by the compiler.

Unfortunately unsafe blocks seem to get more and more misused as a metric around the quality of software. Which is certainly not their intention.
SpaceX Will Blow Up a Falcon 9 Rocket to Prove It's Safe for People
As a developer who's micro-optimized some genetic software, I can confirm that I'd considered AVX-512 but decided against it after learning that the hardware being purchased by the company would not have the full AVX-512 feature set desired and it was simpler/easier to just write it in AVX2. Getting the software to also work on older/cheaper hardware made the business owner happy too.
It's still wasteful.
In't it too hot on Summers....? How do you deal with the heat...
"Just send it back" is not the solution here.
And not just for - as one real example - safety carabiners (for mountain climbing).

Deceiving people is not okay. Ever. And especially not on the scale of Amazon. They're not tricking people to survive or feed their family, but as a multi billion dollar business modal.

Being happy to be able to send back is either ignorance or sticking your head the sand.
(that's being blunt, but still meant as friendly debate)
Texas is a really big and diverse state. There are very large remote areas, for example, with poor access to medical care and the schools in some areas may not be up to national averages.

However, I presume that you will not be choosing to move to a rural county. Houston has the worlds largest medical center and the neighborhood where I live has some of the best public schools in the country.

The web sites and newspapers that rank cities do so by using some sort of strange linear combination of factors, like so many points for having four distinct seasons and so many points for having professional sports teams and so many negative points for having more police per capita, etc.

I think that the best way to judge location attractiveness is to look at how people vote with their feet. The states that have a net gain in population have been judged to be better places to live.
There should be an option to only reject some cookies. No to tracking, yes to chocolate chip.
when I access https://nocodeapi.com/dashboard/marketplace, on my browser I get a hover indication on all the tiles but when I click nothing happens. :(

I can click on docs button but all the tile and the activate button are disabled?
A Boltzman half-brain with random fluctuations filling in the missing hemisphere's activations is much more thermodynamically likely than a full Boltzman brain. And a quarter of one even more so, etc.
The seller also has a "Digital Scale" that appears to be a re-purposed product listing page for a USB drive (based on reviews)

https://www.amazon.com/Metal-256GB-USB-Flash-Drive/dp/B076BD...

Very strange.
Top 20 sorted by number of machines. https://gist.github.com/RyanTG/11b4f4442c6efc4cc58ca8eaaa8c5...

Big places like this can be extra-tough to keep up to date, because it's takes more work to crosscheck between the map and what's actually there. Some of these locations are actively kept up to date by the owners/operators. That's the way to go, because they know what's coming in and out.

Also, the Krakow Pinball Museum was just submitted today. Haven't added it yet, but it has a lot of machines.
lol what?

They won't contribute or work on something unless it touches their commit calendar?

I'm kind of…

I guess that's not really a use case I'm concerned with, contribution-wise.

But who knows! Maybe most of open source work is done for personal vanity.
Spending time worrying about the wastefulness of tossing a fake watch strap worth a couple of cents would be far more wasteful.
Lobbies will, no way they're gonna let those billions of investment die
I was discussing this not long ago and hypothesized that we have swung the pendulum so far in encouraging women into STEM that they feel pressured into the decision, ultimately leading many of them to go down a path in which they have no interest.
>Are you seriously claiming that food contamination is a binary thing? That it's impossible for food to be only a little contaminated, at a level that won't make you "get sick and die?"

>I'm sorry, but I think you're being disingenuous. Every little kid knows there's some small amount of nasty stuff that's allowed in things like bread (grasshoppers in the wheat fields caught in the combines) and peanut butter because it's such a small amount of contamination and doesn't pose a health risk.

>Please don't be disingenuous in your arguments. It only serves to exacerbate the polarization over contentious issues.

At least he tried to answer in a good faith. Your answer is a lot worse.
With such a large percent of this generation destined to be childless you don't think that conversation is coming? I'd bet on it once more start to realize the reality of their decision. Men or women, really.
Amazon bought PillPack. You won't believe what happens next!