skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this sarcasm? Steam has been the only consistent video game Cloud SAAS in the past 10 years.Can you name one time that the service was down without warning/proper recourse, had a data breach, exceeded SLAs, etc?

Also, valve's ther ventures are....massively successful. The microtransaction model in gaming originated with Valve, and now the entire mobile and freemium gaming markets use that business model.

So in this case...I would say yes, everything valve has done as a company trying to make money in the last 10 years is par for other successful SAAS platforms.
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Or is there a hope for new clients on web and mobile .
Interference: Open-source distibuted SQL database with complex event processing
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I would consider that social etiquette though.
Related: Did you know that MySQL has a null safe operator? Absolutely life changing: https://www.knowledgewalls.com/johnpeter/books/mysql/nullsaf...
Which is valuable, if your company builds those tools... otherwise you just trained your employee to work at that SaaS vendor.
"the scenario that they feared most", yet the scenario everyone was sure would happen.
I worked at a startup where the CTO was the impressionable junior and it caused all of those issues you described and more. I ended up leaving when I decided I shouldn't be having panic attacks in the middle of the night due to ridiculously tight deadlines that I couldn't meet because of the overhead introduced by k8s and microservices.
The reset command should clear the scrollback buffer. On older terminals where you'd get a garbled screen if you accidentally cat a binary file, it will give you your ASCII back.
I'd like to add that, in the above example, you get bitten by NULL semantics even though you don't have any NULLs in your data at all.

So if you don't start out with any NULLs, and you have complete and unambiguous knowledge of your entire data set, how does "unknown" get injected into such an innocent-looking example?
Thanks. "= NULL" is not benign, either. It causes its own set of issues.
im reminded of this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/workflow.png
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A vulnerability has been found in the ROM of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME).

A reference to the specific vulnerability would be nice. CVE? Conference presentation? El Reg? Sketchy blogspam? Maybe I've been living under a rock, but it would still help the reader out.
SUVs and pickup trucks are now too big for already gigantic garages
It looks like you're getting downvoted without explanation: Ctrl+L doesn't clear the scrollback, it just scrolls the terminal down.
Yeah this explains why and predicts that Kotlin and Swift are popular, because Android and iOS now use them.

It also explains PHP, because PHP was tightly integrated with Apache via shared library, and in the 90's, lots of hosting providers were spinning up LAMP.

So basically if you wanted to buy hosting in the 90's, you could pay $20/month for shared PHP, or $200/month for a dedicated box running Perl.

PHP creator Rasmus had a good talk about that recently. So shared hosting was essentially "remote OS" that was cheap.

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Exceptions to the rule: Python and Ruby. People installed them because they were nicer languages, and mainly used them on the server side. But Python even made it to the client side in many instances because people like the language! (Dropbox, IPython/Jupyter, etc.)

bash was the default on Linux, which was huge. Other Unixes like Solaris and BSDs used other shells, but yeah it does seem true that bash was helped along by Linux.

I think Linus said that bash was literally the first program that ever ran on Linux, which made sense. Before that I guess bash was run on Solaris and commercial Unixes, and wasn't that popular.
Yet the government spends more on software than most private enterprise, so what’s really wrong here?
That's good to know, I didn't challenge the argument when it was presented.
Many of the songs can't even be ID'd by Shazam and are not on Apple Music.

I have this same experience almost every time my wife comes back from a record store, the library gift shop, or a thrift store.

Digital services like to talk about the tens of millions of songs and videos they have. They don't like to talk about the hundreds of millions of songs and videos they don't have. And probably never will.
Does anyone else feel that it was just a matter of time before such corruption would take place simply because there are people in power?

As they say, "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely," and ICANN has absolute power over internet names.

It makes a good case for a non-human-involved way of managing the DNS root zone.
Precisely what were you doing in the video? Depends on the content, young me did a lot of stupid stuff which would have got me into a lot of hot water now. Benign stuff can be misconstrued and abused as well. So, sorry, I don't trust your argument for a transparent society.
What would the behavior of the option type be? I don't see how it would behave differently than what SQL does today.
Tom here (Elizabeth's cofounder.) Completely valid worries in today's world! But rest assured we have no intention of doing that.

We want to use technology to make this service accessible and affordable to as many people as possible - for example being able to video chat rather than go to a physical location. But that's as far as we want to go.
In my family members case, an orthopaedic surgeon diagnosed the issue, but a neuro surgeon was required to confirm the diagnosis and eventually perform the surgery.

The issue they had is known as a Chiari Malformation.

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Educat...
I was about to ask the same question.

The default answer is a ThinkPad. X1C and T495s (AMD Ryzen!) are very interesting options. Sadly delivery times are really long now due to Intel supply problems or COVID disruptions.

Dell XPS 2020 is cool, but I have had many QC problems with Dell expensive hardware. So I try to skip Dell except for UltraSharp screens.

T2 chip will block access to disk in most recent Macs, so that's not an option. Which is unfortunate, as some MacBook Airs were perfect Linux machines. Linus himself used one a few years ago as his main machine before switching to a Pixel.

IMHO, surprisingly, Microsoft Surface devices are worth considering. The most recent batch is mostly Intel/AMD hardware top-down.

Surface Go works perfectly with a mainline kernel. Surface Book 2, Pro 7 and Laptop 3 work quite well, except minor glitches and touch support (which is still being worked out in some models). A caveat is that camera support is non-existent in non-Book devices. Some Windows Hello cameras are weird I guess. Else, hardware is fantastic, keyboard is a delight and those 3:2 screens are really good.
How do you transfer it though? If some businessman has all his wealth tied up in stock in his business, how do you convert that to money? Some other person has to buy the stock. All this does is move the wealth around.
So, a spreadsheet?
I don't think there's a way to map these cute animations to Ctrl+L is there?
Employment cannot solve poverty problems for the disabled

Of course it can. Why, in the US, almost a million of disabled people stopped being disabled and entered employment in recent few years, because of good economy:

https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1230489362883678210

The truth is that millions of people on disability in the US aren't actually so disabled that they cannot work: as the above shows, they will work if they consider the employment conditions good enough. Yes, there are plenty of disabled people who really cannot work, but majority of disability in the US is created, not alleviated by Social Security. One needs to remember that by creating programs to help poor and disabled, along with helping poor and disabled, one also creates more poor and disabled.
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The role is multi user graphical computing. I made comments elsewhere in thread about that.

We may find or choose for that to not be a thing.

Ok, fine.

The X window people did make that a thing and the end result is powerful and flexible.

None of that makes efforts like Wayland bad. They aren't.

But they, by your own definition, are a subset of what X is too. They aren't thinking it through, by design. That is OK.
So the problem is in a highly unequal society, "what the market will bare" can leave these things out of reach of most people. With basic income, yes some things can cost more, but also yes the spread of what people can pay is less.

Basically, income goes up, and prices go up, but income goes up more, and eventually one reaches a fixed point. For basic goods, this should happen sooner; e.g. the rich aren't going to just buy more flour.

Housing is interesting in that currently being in a decent job market makes the housing luxurious. This is absurd. Basic income doesn't address the cost disease of luxury good, but by breaking "employed <==> surviving", it will make the other housing more attractive. Combine that with carbon tax so we don't just get endless sprawl, and then we should be set.
It’s amazing how companies make such stupid decisions on their branding. The new logo looks terrible.

The old logo was timeless and iconic. It stood for something and that’s what people wanted from BMW. They don’t need to be hip and modern they need to be BMW. Many companies clearly never learned the lessons of “New Coke.” If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
If your SaaS services more than 10x their prices (which happened to many SaaS like Segment), suddenly $10K/yr -> $100K/yr and the calculus changes
Should just be able to do that in your head.
This is 80% advice. 80% of the time it is good advice. Like "you don't have to wear a raincoat today". YMMV.
They should just make "Is Pepsi OK?" their new slogan and be done with it.
Well, for engineers sometimes it's just interesting to learn new tech, you know.

And managers are ok with keeping the team motivated, especially if they can deliver new features while playing with the new tech.

UPDATE:
I mean, it's not about resume in most cases I've seen. Usually, people who don't love programming do not care about what tech to use, so resume-oriented people are usually not very vocal about using new cool and shiny tech. It's nerds who are, that keeps them motivated.
Well, yeah, not sure why you even wrote this except to get some snark in. The point is the trade off of having the basic if imperfect operation of vi/vim, along with what vscode offers. That includes connecting with the large community of vscode users.
What if you spend $50K per employee?
This is reductive. If "10% more productive" translated into >= 10% more revenue as a percentage of their wage, it would make sense but it varies so wildly, that it's not a useful statement.

Some will translate to increased revenue, a few times over, (which incentivizes the vendor to increase the price accordingly) and some will be net negative.
If you could have worked twice as many hours and made twice as much money - would you? That was the position I found myself in, and that's how I got where I am. I never claimed to have a secret skill.
Lambda is natively http based, no? Like all aws apis. It's just that it only speaks it's own json protocol, not generic web.

Also request/response is not inherently synchronous or asynchronous. It's just a protocol design pattern.

Buffering, overcommit, etc are also kust normal facts of life in both sync and async messaging.
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Hey all. Is there any point in applying for YC without a technical co-founder and without having any technical know-how currently (I am about to begin an online course on website development)?
Coronavirus response strains an already depleted public health system
Fantastic question, which I suspect would have ramifications on the whole "uberman" sleep schedule
Do you have any resources you'd recommend to learn Docker?
Does this announcement mean it's finally possible to run FOSS firmware like Coreboot on modern Intel hardware? If so, this is a huge finding
SaaS also comes with

- Process mismatch / impedance : The software is unlikely to be able to do exactly what you want how you want. The human likely is able

- Vendor lock in: If the SaaS decides to change how it works, or the prices you now have a leaving cost

- Expenditure on someone else's competitive advantage: If you use tool X likely there is no reason your competitor cannot. You both use it, no net advantage gained over competitor. If you develop the expertise in house (likely the harder thing) then you have an advantage over your competitor. Of course this has to be balanced with what will be your competitive advantage and what will not

- Harder to manipulate: You cannot fire 1 of your SaaS and tell the other 2 to do the work
It is a 'detail' not to us but from the perspective of the government.

You are still pretty likely to get pursued by the tax services for 'freelancing'. At least where I live. I hope you manage to slip through the net though :)
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There's evidence based works out there, but it's crazy hard to find them. Too much bloviation. As a resource bundle for members, you could offer book packages of known good texts. Possibly also a blacklist of "ideas/works demonstrated to generally be harmful".

I dig the elephant motif, I just like elephants, and it's cute.

Let's see. Working through signup flow.

Picking the Coach - I don't know these people. I'd suggest that the initial assignment be done on Trustle-side. It seems that the essential differentiator of the three options I am initially presented with are the times they are available. Which is _unfair_ to these highly educated professionals IMO. I would like to understand the key differences between one coach and another beyond the statements - despite reading a certain amount of child development works, I don't per se understand clearly the specialist jargon.

The other thing that gives me pause is the cost - I don't have a way to do an evaluation besides dropping $70. Which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but it's more than, e.g., a typical dinner for two. I can imagine that there are a wide variety of effective general philosophies and, like talk therapists, some therapists are more effective for some people than others. This feeds back to the prior paragraph - it's easier to be confident in payment if you understand the approach of the coach, that it will work for your family.
Lol, I do this. My customers would often try to run my software on dusty old servers and then complain that it's slow, so now I just send them the hardware for free.
You're getting downvoted but you're absolutely right.

I use FOSS when it makes sense but 90% of the time the answer has been, 'just use what AWS has.'
I think it is an amazing news personnally. Apple make really good hardware, with raisonnable sized phone. they are overpriced yes, but you can find those older generations at descent prices, refurbished or second hand.
I really like to tinker with my phones though (all my androids are degoogled with custom roms and microG), that's why i'll never buy an iphone with IOs. To the point that I bought a second hand Google Pixel 2 (good hardware, raisonnable price) that I won't use because its bootloader is locked which means that I can't install custom roms on it... (good work Google...)

To each his own I guess !
What about proprietary PMIC? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=238779#p1... MxL7704-R3/MxL7704-R4 are custom single client versions of the common chip, Apple does the same thing with Charger ICs.
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Oh thanks, I actually did the math right the first time, kept only the result and then when I was about to hit send I thought it was too good to be true, thus I did it again and got 3.15$, which was even crazier, but couldn't find why my math was wrong.
I think there are two challenges with content on the web. First, there's all the marketing stuff you mentioned that could be low quality.

Second, even for the high-quality stuff (and there is some really great stuff out there), it isn't necessarily right for a specific family. There's no way for a blog to understand a families specific goals or philosophy, or to take into account the unique situation of the child or parents. Families are complex, and we hope our coaches can help a family sort through that complexity and get the info that's right for them.
I'm indifferent on the supplier lock-in. Mainly because our biggest supplier is AWS and they're >%50 of the market.
I feel like this is a solution for something that a very specific demographic would actually use. How many parents are involved enough to download an app/pay to solve problems with their kids? Is the advise that much better than what can be found on google?

I believe this limits your use case and the products viability.

- Also, this product would only be needed/used for a specific amount of time in a kids life ( think a 1 year term limit for actually getting paid from your customer during the terrible 2's)
Highlighting is an obvious answer. Children do it at school. I wish the guy well, but it's as I said, underwhelming.
Very true and agree. Parser is in good shape.
For those companies i recommend rancher... It's kubernetes under the hood but a lot is stuff is abstracted away..
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clicked on the link you posted and Chrome gave me a warning.
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Playing with new tech is fun. Using a nuclear weapon when a hammer would do is bad engineering.
Personally I like:

WHERE EXTRACT(YEAR FROM o.ts) = 2019

...though I imagine some people dislike the way EXTRACT treats words like YEAR as keywords. Always interesting to see which solution people choose when there are several options. :)
It's not for you, it's for execs on the fence. Visually seeing potential savings would probably drive higher conversions, just a guess.
I've actually had good encounters with Fi support. Funny enough, I think it's the only Google service that I've been able to get a human to talk to for an issue.
Fellow runner here. For God's sake man, carry an emergency blanket with you at least.

https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Blanket/s?k=Emergency+Blank...
My opinion is no. Share buybacks should be taxed as dividends. Tax credits implemented for capital expenditures. Pharma patents should be subject to export control. Nationalizing anything exposes it to the risk of flippant regulation and pressure from the executive branch. Imagine if Trump had the power to dictate which drugs were produced and researched.
1. You can, and it makes sense for FOSS projects with real support ecosystems, like RedHat, or for freemium FOSS projects, that explicitly sell support.

2. You can still be locked into a single-supplier when you pay for third-party FOSS support. In fact, most third-party FOSS support comes from a single supplier.

3. FOSS that doesn't have a sustainable business model attached to it rarely serves the needs of enterprises. There's FOSS alternatives to Sharepoint, but what's your FOSS alternative to Tableau? Salesforce? Slack? Will you actually save money by using it, compared to just paying a vendor?
Can an administrator solve the Corona crisis?
Jira's awful except for all the other options :3

It's a lowest common denominator product. Which is fine. I use it for anything I need to share on and Trello for organizing, "in my own head."

I won't even look at sharepoint.
There is also the option of buying self-hosted products and installing them on your own server. The setup time is usually the same, but you only pay $5/mo for the server and maybe $100 one time for the product, instead of paying $100/mo for the service. This is also multiplied by X, where X is the number of subscriptions you have.
Ok, I live in the midwest and run a startup. How do I get an audience with Steve Blank? Believe me, I know I'm not important to anyone in Silicon Valley (welcome to flyover country!)
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I'm not saying that, but I'm sure there are people in the Government who are taking that point when making these decisions.
I take it that you have not had the...lovely...experience of being an older person in the tech industry, then?
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Wealth taxes have been discussed in the modern political stage - but I'm a bit :shrug: about them - I think it'd be fine to continue to only tax capital gains when they're realized - so as long as that businessman can't effectively use any of his wealth he doesn't pay taxes on it - as soon as he benefits from his wealth he pays taxes on the accrued gains.
In most SPAs, however, URLs aren't used like conventional URLs; they're treated as routes. I think that's more the point here.

They aren't conventionally "shareable", first off, which violates more or less the spirit of what a URL is supposed to represent on the Web.
Ah, but what if they add rather than cancel?
> During last year’s election campaign the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, highlighted patients being “held to ransom” by one manufacturer, Vertex, which was locked in a battle with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) over Vertex’s £100 000-plus price tag for the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi.15 It wasn’t pretty, but it was resolved by negotiation, and the drug is now available on the NHS.

The interesting thing about this is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation had to fund the research themselves in the small hopes they found anything. And then the drug was sold to a company for a good amount which will be used for ongoing research on Cystic Fibrosis. Now the CFF has a pile of money to persue better treatment. Perhaps what Corbyn should have said is these treatments are important so lets fund even more into CF research.
That stuff actually works... basically if, like me, you're overweight... you've got a ruddy big log to burn strapped to your middle.

The trick is to get enough air in and bump your metabolism to start burning it.