skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xerox PARC had a ton of innovation and world-class R&D, but consumers didn’t benefit from any of it until smaller disruptive startups made good use of it.
People want cheaper engineering services, in all fields. some work and some companies are working on that. See "generative design" in Mechanical Engineering and Architecture.

As for the demand for software tools ? Old startups in that field are starting to show good results, there's money available, so it looks like a good opportunity for a VC.
Monorepo + sparse-checkout looks a bit like a distributed subversion!
Technically you could say that about the entire field of machine-learning. That doesn't mean it isn't hugely useful.
Yep, heard this with Philip Morris and Mickey-D's as well when there were moralistic lawsuits and shorts against them: a couple of great trades.

Thank you for your service.

Maybe at some point y'awl will realize how nitrogen fixing works in current year (aka "Haber-Bosch process"), and where food comes from. Also good luck convincing the developing world to forgo a hydrocarbon economy.
Maybe I don't understand how the Fed works, but I would imagine Iraq can't simply withdraw it at this point. If so, I think that money has already gone.
The Parallel Computing Bubble
Overworking East Asians end up spending a lot of time completely zonked out at their desks, scooting the mouse cursor back and forth over the same spreadsheet or Word doc until it's time to go home
> That sounds as ex post facto justification.

The initial reason was indeed backwards compatibility. As it turns out, compatibility with Java 1 unintentionally yielded compatibility with future languages too.

Because of this flexibility (ex post facto notwithstanding), the JVM became the most popular VM target ever.

Note that GraalVM -- which from day 1 intended to be a multilingual VM -- also uses type erasure.

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Know that there is more than conceptualization of a type system, and in particular a parameterized type system. C vs C++ vs Java vs Haskell. The more of this is baked into the runtime, the more reflection can be done at runtime, but the less interop can be done with other type systems.

(There is a reason why C not C++ is the de facto FFI standard and its not just age.)
Yeah good point, if you're starting one of these today you might already be a bit late.
Replaying the Tape of Life
Here’s another: being sick makes it harder to create wealth
> People would have children for emotional reasons even if society does not intervene.

Yes, but the success of those children is still a societal concern. You want some of those children to be a new generation of doctors, teachers, etc. etc... without supporting them at a young age (i.e. providing education, a welfare safety net) there's no guarantee that would ever happen, and they might end up being more of a drain on society than a productive member.
Cloudflare already controls a significant portion of the Internet. I really hope they do not swollow DO.
> that "women's work" such as childcare is not "work"--that it's economically unproductive and should be "free".

Obviously contractual childcare is work.

Seems to me more similar to voluneer open-source development. It may be productive and useful for others, but that does not entitle anyone for compensation.
I worked for a company that had daycare as a benefit, but were much more reluctant to flex in their more ingrained ideas of work schedule. I guess you could say they were more conservative overall, despite how much money they wasted in make-work. Seemed to more or less be a consequence of having employees with kods before they moved to a big new office.
I don’t understand. If you can run

usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/journalctl

, what stops you from running

usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/bash

instead?
Joe Biden is so mad at Facebook he wants to “revoke” SEC. 230 for everyone
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-2TEwdRnX0
> and make room for Mothers to take care of their own children.

Whoa, 50's regression much? Why not make room for fathers to take care of their own children?

> in the care of poorly paid strangers

Or you could leave your children in the care of educated professionals in child development, who will ensure your children gets age- and stage-appropriate stimulation, as well as socialization with other children in a safe environment, something that very neatly complements caring for children at home.

> And have the gall to call this arrangement "female empowerment".

Actual studies from countries that have a longer and better history of this than the US show that it does increase gender equality by quite a lot.
The point is future use cases might not be covered by USB C today and it's not the role of government to dictate which components I select for my design. This was just an example.

fwiw the latch on those things is pretty terrible. What if I needed something like a Speak-On connector which twists? Can't do that with USB-C.
What is reasonably-quick time wise?
How is AWS so profitable then?
I think is better to say "software usable in 10 minutes" for people that is not a full time developer.

Things like excel, access fit there. The big mistake is not provide a way out the "click and get a full app!" step. This in when things go to fail with this kind of ideas.

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I learn foxpro as my first language and is surprising how many "non developers" use it in the day.

I think it get loved precisely because was a bit "harder" than access: You hit a wall with access/excel much faster than foxpro/jupyter, making them for some people HARDER tools than the "harder" tool.

Not fun when things are easy, and suddenly, impossible. I say that we can give people credit and them could learn some complex stuff, as long fit well their use case.
I agree that it might help avoid conflict/confusion. I do not, however, agree if you say that they "owe" this to anyone. Their (free software developers') work is already a gift to the world. Take it or leave it. No one is compelled to like it or to take it and use it - doubly so for mission critical stuff.
>Actix project has had a consistent history of introducing unsoundness through the use of unsafe for dubious reasons like nebulous performance increases or bypassing Rust's safety guarantees

sounds like the author had specific strategic vision - "push the boundaries" - which he clearly explained, and there are other people who don't agree with such an approach, both are valid positions in their own right, and instead of being jerks and trying to shove their approach down the project owner's throat these other people should have just started their own project reflecting their more conservative approach.

It is like those people who try to push Linus to use C++ and do other funny stuff in the kernel - one should go and read Linus' responses to the people like these.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

"Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

[...] I've come
to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be
in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really would prefer to piss
off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with."
I feel very fortunate and grateful that I was able to send this Slack message to my team on December 19:

“ @here I want to thank everyone for a great year. We’ve accomplished a ton, and I think we need to stop and recognize it. My ask for everyone is to take the week off next week. We have a few things we need to be on-call for, and heaven knows we could use the time to write more tests, but I think it is important to pause, rest, and reflect.”

Im so glad that this is totally cool in our company and our culture. I wish this was the rule and not the exception.
Life might be easier if emotions were that simple. :-) I've worked with several people to help them overcome emotional baggage. It is quite challenging. It's true that many emotional differences can be eventually distilled down to a difference in priorities, but helping someone discover the essence of an emotional issue can take years.

Even mature people often can't reason their way out of a conflict on their own. When people feel personally threatened, sometimes no amount of simple reasoning will bring them back to rational thinking. Most of the time, the solution is to be a genuine friend--for the long haul.
I love that identity crisis metaphor
No... that's madness. A child has no place in the workplace. The child would just disrupt the day of the workers and slow them down.
> There's no need to flame people for running their open-source project the way they want to run it. You can just not use the code.

It works both ways. You put something out there, you need to be ready for the response. I'm not a Rust user, but presumably there was a reason other than charity that he put it out there (show off his brilliance, use it to get jobs, I don't know - but it was something he did for his own benefit). If you don't like that, don't make your code available to others, and don't complain if others act in a way you don't like. There's so much posted on HN about "open source entitlement". Well, the entitlement seems to run in both directions. That's the simple the reality of the situation.
If they hold gold in custody for Iraq, that can't just withdraw it.
What's that rule that states that the media never knows what its talking about, but you only notice when they're reporting on a field you're very familiar with?
The only guarantee OSS gives is

- full access to the source code

- full rights to modify it and use it as it was your own

There's no other guarantee.

So if someone writes some code that becomes highly popular, they have no obligation whatsoever to maintain it the way people want.

They don't even have to maintain it at all, if they don't want to!

It's out in the public, it's free, that's the end of the agreement on the creato's side.

If a writer gave away their writings for free, could people pretend that they write what people want them to write, the way they want?

Is it fair to judge the writer because the answer was "WONTFIX"?

But the reality is worse than that.

A lot of companies are literally making billions using OSS, but they are not paying for it, a lot of programmers are making a lot of money by assembling OSS for their clients, but they are not paying for it, hell most of them are not even contributing in _any_ way, what does entitle them to pretend the attention of the OSS maintainer or that the maintainer should act in a way or another, according to the "community" desires?
What we program in now is a thin veneer over machine code. And as you point out, it's been 50 years. We're supposed to go totally code-free in the next 10?
I disagree that most news sources are biased. This is a lazy claim that is used to explain away a lot of biases by fox news, because "they are all biased". You have to explain what bias means, and what you mean by 90% of reporters are left of center. In my experience most reporters try hard for a middle balance.
I wonder if shorter PhD programs, like they have at Oxford might give women more time in the workforce before they start becoming concerned with starting a family. Maybe starting earlier puts them in a more senior position at a younger age.
They'll sell the most lucrative products first while ramping up the R&D to tap into more markets when those eventually saturate. So, 30kwh battery car doesn't make any sense for tesla because they'd eat into the sales of cars that make much more profit per unit. The model 3 has shown that they are really good at upselling software features and extra kwh (read even higher profit margins).

Their strategy seems pretty clear to me as they have plenty of products in a late stage of R&D that they could sell many off if only they had the production capacity to meet demand. They are basically tackling this in order of profitability. Model Y is next. They have the Tesla semi ready to go as well in limited volumes and they've been talking about a new roadster and model s as well. That should keep them absorbing whatever amount of kwh they can squeeze out of their factories for years to come.

So, I don't see what value a low capacity cheap car would add. They'd need to sell many more of those than of their other products to make the same amount of profit and they are basically bottle necked on production capacity already. It doesn't make sense for them to even consider sacrificing factory space for this until after they build a lot more production capacity and the market for higher end options is saturated (which will take quite a few years).
Car buyers shun electric vehicles not named Tesla
Laptop batteries are powering Intel/AMD x86 processors which are much more power hungry than an ARM proc I imagine. Also, Macbooks and other premium laptops have 2k or 4k screens, while this one should be more energy efficient at 1080p.
I did not mean to imply that there isn't a ton of other unwarranted bullshit they have to deal with. Reading it back to myself, that wasn't clear at all.
The graybeards called that "creeping featuritis."
> Who said they're actively asking you?

>> Just because you made a software doesn't mean I have to use it or like it, and if you are actively trying to recruit me to use it then I am indeed entitled to complain about it.

That is what I wrote. That is entirely the context of what I said.
This is a misunderstanding of how CA tax law works.

If you move to say, Nevada, before moving to China or wherever, but you always intended to return to CA afterwards, then for state tax purposes you never stopped being a CA resident. So, for example, if you keep a storage locker with your furniture in Cupertino for when you return, you clearly never intended to permanently leave and so you're still a CA resident for tax purposes.

If you don't plan on coming back to CA after moving to China or wherever, you stop being a CA resident immediately and only owe state taxes for the part of the year you still lived in CA. And it's easy to show that you are no longer a CA resident, for example, by selling all of your CA-based property.
How common is it for one country to hold significant portions of their money in a foreign bank account?
This is ridiculous. U.S troops (along with other coalition nations) are in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government. If the Iraqi government formally requests us to leave, we should do so. Threatening to freeze their account otherwise is mob mentality.
Death by design: If you could choose, what would make for a good death?
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It's absolutely correct that people don't have obligations simply by putting some code online. But they do have obligations when they start telling people to use their code. We understand this as humans even in realms far from open source: if I see you approaching a door, I am under no obligation to open it just because I'm physically able to, but if I open a door for you, I'd better hold it until you're finished walking through, or I'm a jerk. By holding the door open, I've made an implicit promise that I'm not going to close it on you.

Exactly.

Like it or not, there are implicit social contracts if you maintain OSS software.

Yes I've read the birdseed of the various licenses.

I know this will whip up the oft-suffering maintainers and developers in here. But this is the exact kind of trope that stymies wider FOSS adoption.

The artifacts of these little meltdowns are exactly the kinds of things your upper management will cite the next time you suggest using FOSS vs. whatever vendor they're about to push down your throat.

Ignoring security conventions, and then adopting a "take my ball and go home attitude" isn't a ringing endorsement for adopting FOSS, unless it's run by a large entity.

I'm not saying the author should have to endure abuse or harassment, but consistently pushing unsafe code into a web-framework, being cavalier about trivial and widely accepted coding conventions, and dismissing patches as "boring" is exactly how you end up with NPM Ecosystem v2
“Hemorrhaging” is a pretty common way to describe an exodus of people or money. It’s a common metaphor that’s also used in “stop the bleeding” or the similar “stem the tide”.

Business is full of otherwise wildly inappropriate phrases, like “drink the kool-aid” in reference to the mass suicide of nearly 1000 people in the Jonestown cult. I have no idea how that’s considered an appropriate phrase for any situation but I hear it constantly in office settings.
The effect in terms of bytes sent over the network would be negligible due to compression.
Nice! my 6502 kit arrived today! And there is snow in the forecast this weekend- Really looking forward to building this.
Author here.

> Teller employment peaked in 2007 at over 600,000. It's down to 472,000 as of 2018 and projected to decline another 12% by 2028.

By that point we're not talking about the effect of ATMs anymore, which were introduced in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

This effect is more likely due to online banking and banking apps. We don't know yet how this change reallocated

> "the prediction of technological unemployment was premature" from "the idea of technological unemployment is mistaken."

Not really.

If you look at the other example (spreadsheet apps and bookkeepers) you see that even if a job stops existing, the remaining tasks get allocated elsewhere over time.

This overall dynamic is supported by the researchers in labor economics (see papers linked in the post)

This doesn't mean the transition is smooth, or even benefitial, for the job holder, but it doesn't translate to long run unemployability.
It's not ridiculous, it's corruption.
> When you ask women why they left, the number one reason they cite is balancing work/life responsibilities — which as far as I can tell is a euphemism for family concerns.

At least in america women are, in this way, almost always asked to choose between their career and having children. This is asymmetrical with men's experience because whether or not they are comfortable with it, its considered normal for them to spend most of their time at work even if they have a newborn.

I'm not sure what else you'd call this status quo aside from "sexist." It's a systemic sexism that has deep roots in how we organize the aesthetics of our society.
I didn't know that. What kind of power bank would you need for a Macbook or PC laptop?
Comparing Traction Channels
You still haven't touched on what the post you're replying to is pointing out, which is that people behave differently when the rules change. A Californian Republican may as well not vote at all. If it went off national popular vote, then those Californian minority voters would still have a reason to make sure their vote was counted.

Regardless, it's a moot point, because according to the Constitution as written, those electors are supposed to only be accountable to themselves. The idea being the community electing the most level-headed and educated amongst them to make the decision everyone else would be okay with.

Most states don't respect that intent since the formation of the Party system, so really what we have now is little more than an abomination completely unintended by the Founders.
Happens often. What's the etiquette ? Answer to each replies ? One single reply that address everyone's point(s) ?
I've mixed jive/jibe up too. I wonder if it's related to betacism. We could be starting a new English dialect!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacism
Figure he’d ever pivot and become a net cell producer to others?
Also https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/pro/sbm/sbm.htm seems to give a link where you can play with it via AWS as far as I can tell.
I absolutely read your post fully.

I disagree that there is an obligation to "resign gracefully". If people choose to depend on your code without some sort of contract then that is on then and you absolutely can continue to play the "I don't get paid" card if you so choose. The fact that the Debian maintainers don't play this card does not mean that everybody should behave the same as they do.
Some indigenous North Americans used the strap their babies into cradle boards that could be propped up somewhere safe while parents did whatever. That handles pre-walking children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradleboard

I wish we knew more about how children spent their days in pre-industrial societies. Maybe they played out of site of their parents, only coming home to eat. I had a pretty autonomous childhood.
Arguably, a lot of the recent advances in banking automation aren't ATMs, they're online banking and banking apps.
In 2012, They simply sent out an email that said:

"Legacy Service End of Life" here are the details:
"We've been analyzing customer usage of Joyent’s systems and noticed that you are one of the few customers that are still on our early products and have not migrated to our new platform, the Joyent Cloud.

For many business reasons, including infrastructure performance, service quality and manageability, these early products are nearing their End of Life. We plan to sunset these services on October 31, 2012 and we'd like to walk you through a few options."

So, I had to migrate everything to a new host which was a huge pain at the time because i was running a live Strategy game which are very time consuming to move with a minimal amount of down time, disruption and risk. not to mention everything that goes to changing over the DNS servers to point to the new address. Facebook login also added another layer of complication. It's all doable, but it takes a lot of planning and risk mitigation to get it 100% right with an absolute minimum of downtime.

Other than that, joyent uptime and performance was fine. But, having to move hosts is a big deal breaker.
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener Questions Silicon Valley Startup Culture
SWE's are a tiny slice of 'STEM' and by far the most profitable.

How much do you think the average phd in biology makes? maybe 30k/y till 27, then 45k/y till 30, then followed by 75-90?
> $600k avg home price.

> homeless encampments on our bike trails

These seem linked somehow...
Having left NYC for Texas 5 years ago, I can confirm the grass is greener on the other side.
“I will occupy your country and I will take your money if you ask me to leave” - Trump
Taking a few delivery jobs while being relatively well off isn't the same as people picking this up as a 2nd or 3rd job and depending on it.

I can't believe I have to point out that most of the people being affected negatively by this aren't by-and-large "wealthy" or "secure" people to begin with.
Hey folks,

Cofounder of DigitalOcean here.

Letting people go is always a complicated matter at any scale. Whether you are a ten person company and firing one employee or you are 500 people and firing a larger number.

Wanted to address a few statements from the hackernews community here.

We are not prepping the company for sale.

As unfortunate as the layoffs are they were really due to two CEO changes in the past 18 months and leadership changes that created competing directions in the business, which Yancey our new CEO, is now addressing.

We are not running out of money, nor do we have an immediate need to raise capital, and the lay-offs aren't related to any sort of "cost-cutting".

We last raised an equity round in the summer of 2015 and haven't had a need to raise capital since. This is because we are very capital efficient and have been since our founding.

There are no profitability issues with $5/mo customers as the unit economics are the same as larger accounts. As we have grown we have added more products and features so that scaling teams and companies can also be successful on DigitalOcean, but we are not changing our commitment to the individual developer and those who are just getting started.

Lastly, it pains me to see people let go, having been on both sides of the table, it honestly just really sucks.
Is it really that much of a dealbreaker at $200? I use a MBP as my main device which I'm told has the best trackpad. I still prefer to use an external wireless mouse.
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