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If there ever is a promising project from europe

(a.1) it bootstraps / gets venture capital

(a.2) Leaves after 2 years for the US / gets acquired and the fiscal headquarter moves to Delaware (Stripe)

(b) Gets absorbed by an old blue chip, like Siemens, Telefonica, and dies a slow death.

(c) Becomes highly stymied by bureaucracy, and the initial momentum wanes without winning much market share (Zalando, Deliveroo, Idealista).

It's called the market of lemons problem. Only the least productive projects want to have their hands tied and financed by the government.
You might be interested in Tidelift https://www.tidelift.com/
Yes but I don't know that they have much success convincing already huge companies to switch to their cloud

B2 large business is different than b2c or b2 small business

It's all about who is making the decisions
I'm pretty sure an organization willing to play with that sort of dark pattern has any number of other dark patterns in the wings.
This isn't just a business thing, either. Artistic critiques, either in the visual arts or elsewhere, also tend to follow a "shit sandwich" plan.

The way I heard it explained once (which totally makes sense to me) is not that you're idly flattering the person to make them feel better, because god knows that feels gross; rather, if you can deliver a thoughtful positive comment (that the person knows or can see is true of their own work), it shows that you're making a good faith effort to really evaluate their work. That way, a criticism comes off less like an insult and more like a place to build from.
The Texas case is an insane attack on democracy that isn't going anywhere

But just because it isn't doesn't excuse the Republicans that are attacking our democracy just to soothe an old narcissists ego
For me (Eastern US) “is not definitely a failure”, “won’t necessarily fail”, and “isn’t guaranteed to be a failure” all indicate that something would be expected to usually fail, but might not.

To me, they can be optimistic or pessimistic based on what the baseline is. I read the GP’s post as optimistic, as they come from a perspective of these kinds of government programs always failing. However, from a baseline of these kinds of government programs often succeeding, any of the three versions would be pessimistic.
Master and Dynamics are not "pro gear", and while Beyerdynamic traditionally is, they have dipped their toes in the consumer space for a good awhile. This is right up there in that space IMO.
Surely the natural privacy right to your own body is stronger than a privacy right conferred by ownership of property?
To me, this is the kind of thinking that justifies today's blinders about it: it basically can never go down for extended periods because people always buy the dip, but also the government will also always support struggling companies if a crisis happens and companies traded on the stock market have no risk to be dissolved.

Essentially that means there's not any real risk to investing now apart from options or penny stocks. I mean, congrats, we might've eliminated risk, but surely something else has to give to support that.
Those are research plants, not regulatory approval for commercial designs. We're still at least 20+ years away.
Not at all, those are simply the biggest ones that would be recognised by Americans. Another recognisable project would be the Erasmus program or interrail, or ESA(remember the cute spacecraft philae, yep that was not NASA but ESA https://twitter.com/philae2014?lang=en).

EU has tons of projects with smaller or even larger scale, usually in areas that are not supposed to yield profit but has large impact to trade and life quality of the citizens, preserve peace and food security. Mostly boring stuff, EU is not a for profit company that will design the next iPhone, it's this organisation that does the stiff that individual countries or companies are not willing to do or simply cannot do but it needs to be done.
if only there was a way to make cloud providers charge a per second usage charge for software used...
And an open source licence that could support that...
They eventually changed it but they defended their behavior repeatedly as if it was fine and not exploitative to their delivery drivers.
I think this too. Debian packages I'm sure are powerful but I never sat down and RTFM yet, which I think is a solid requirement. Docker is easier to understand and I picked it up pretty easily just running through a quick tutorial.

Definitely pros/cons to both depending on your situation. I can imagine debian packages being more useful in large scale multi-developer environments.
I'm just asking. I didn't know Tesla was getting subsidies from CA on top of the federal stuff.
This is how it works (or at least used to work) in The Netherlands.

If you receive Stock options, you pay taxes over the gains, i.e. the money you would have made if you exercised on that date.
Even if you have not exercised. So the options were free, but suddenly you have to find a lot of money to keep them. Or you exercise a part of them.
Can you elaborate?

Even the basic ability to just spin a container with all your stuff and start developing is an important advance. (especially for cases like python2/3, java5/8 etc)

Coupled with the remote containers feature of visual studio, working with containers is now a game changer.
It's a tax dodge.
If I don't understand what I'm doing, it doesn't matter what tools I'm using to fail to accomplish it.
This also happens with invasions. For example, The Roman and Norman invasions of Britain replaced the ruling class while leaving the bulk of the population intact. As opposed to the Viking and Saxon invasion/migrations, which displaced the population.
> very left-wing sources like NY Times and Politico.

Those are not very left-wing sources.

Edit: to the downvoters, this is objectively true. In actual leftist media NYT is considered conservative. The reality is that they are mostly mainstream.
[Edit] Adding link to reciprocal agreements and filing in multiple states in thread below.

His businesses in California would have to move to Texas to realize the benefits.
They don't need to; they can be Gab.ai if they want. But almost nobody in the world wants to be that.
Is it already usable?

The repo says it is unfinished, and commits seem to have stopped a year ago. It looks like it has been abandoned.

Has it been used in production somewhere?
> empathy doesn't cure being overweight or addiction

No, but it would prevent a lot of insensitive, boneheaded forum posts.

EDIT: Wasn't trying to suggest your post was insensitive or boneheaded.
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As more people become vaccinated the transmission rate will drop rapidly and people will stop complying with masks and distancing, etc. Same thing that happened in the Northeast and West when the transmission rare was suppressed, people started acting more and more normal and things reopened. Except this time, they'll have good reason to.
My personal experience was that it was entirely incorrect. I was gradually gaining weight due to being sedentary and not paying attention to my calorie intake. Once I started exercising regularly I started having to pay attention to my calorie intake because otherwise I didn't eat enough. I significantly outrode my mouth without that even being an explicit goal.

I dislike it as an expression because while fixing your diet is probably the easier thing for most people, it completely disregards the possibility of finding a form of exercise that you enjoy enough to want to do it.
Except when the update brings some kind of massive change. RHEL 6->7, for example, was when systemd became the norm, and so right around the time our customers started upgrading, I suddenly had the hot potato dropped into my lap of needing to convert 20 years' worth of our software's init.d scripts into systemd services.
Even here on HackerNews the Cum-Ex trades were documented back in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18246379
California still has every viewpoint that is imaginable though there does seem to be less space for far right. What's making everyone salty about Elon leaving is there was considerable amount of people who helped him build up in the state (i.e. state benefits, staff who worked incredibly hard for many years, consumers who bought his cars [drive in the bay area]) and he's peacing out, with a slap in the face to everyone seemilng all to avoid paying taxes on his unbelievable gains.

No one is knocking Texas per se.
Isn't this what happened to Facebook's iOS and Android Apps? IIRC their Android app had thousands, upon thousands of overlapping class files.
Almost by definition the projects that are immune to this are the projects that are not yet popular enough. It’s not a coincidence that it’s Kubernetes and Envoy that are the most popular CNCF projects.
>It's an O365 thing

It's now a "Microsoft 365" thing.
So we should be thankful to the 1 percent of the 1 percent for sharing bread crumbs from the proverbial money pie in this society? Genuinely dislike this sort of mindset. I’m a Kenyan who grew up and lives in the US as my parents immigrated here almost 25 years ago. Normal people work just as hard as Mr Musk if not harder — my immigrants parents worked near to death to provide for me and taught me the value of education and hard work. Normal people aren’t asking for handouts. Kenya has its good and bad but the US is an incredibly wealthy country. We can do a lot better.
Austin is unbearably hot from June to September. OK if you are an indoors person.

Bluebonnet season from March to April is my favorite. SXSW.

Musk will love Austin and Austin will love him.
If Google wanted to be responsible they would remove videos covering the election in any way.

If there had actually been widespread fraud is this something we would want Google doing? They have said themselves that they intend to manipulate elections in the US and this is exactly how they would do it.
Yup. There has to be an underperformer, and managers need to decide who it is. This becomes a negative feedback loop. If you find yourself in this situation, you are best off switching teams within your company.
Sorry, I meant probes as in the Chrome errors.
so same bit patterns, different meaning?
Don't forget Werner von Braun
”Public restrooms are not at all restful when it comes to the battleground of modern manners.”

I agree and would add that even private bathrooms are non restful if you live with someone.

That’s why I’m launching Loodio - A music player for bathrooms that plays music during your bathroom visit automatically thanks to a motion detector. (Kickstarter February)

Demo video: https://youtu.be/Z3DgxwjSTfg

Ever since I started dating I’ve always hated the embarrassment of the sounds, so I made a prototype with a Raspberry Pi a few years ago.
Lots of people thought it was a good idea so hopefully I’ll get it funded.
The 2 parties govern the US, for better or worse.
The good faith interpretation allows for more than the official press releases (eg Trump talking points), which are presented to be in dispute.
> ARM is ostensibly British

Which is still European, sure there is Brexit on the horizon, but even then it would still be European just not European Union.
> very left-wing sources like NY Times and Politico

These are center-right sources by any reasonable standard
A local pizza place recently decided to start using them for deliveries, whether you order on their platform or not doordash will drive it.

I stopped using doordash years ago over extremely poor quality and was extremely disappointed. I realized.. when you order local they put your pizza in those oven mit things and delivery you a fresh warm pizza.

Doordash makes zero investment in their drivers. That short 10 minute drive to my house, no oven thingy, cold pizza, slid to one side of the box ruining half of it. Thnx doordash
I’m deeply interrogated by Atlassian forcefully moving users to the cloud.

It’s as if, in 5 years, we developers wouldn’t have a safe Linux to deploy on, and then we’d be required to use Amazon Linux or GCP Linux, the other ones being not officially supported and therefore not insured in case of leak, or not approved for PCI or PII or GDPR or...
Text-based formats like XML and JSON are good if most of your data is strings, but storing numeric data in decimal strings is both inefficient and inaccurate. That's why I think that HTML is an appropriate use of XML-like markup but perhaps vector images would need a true binary version.

However I agree with saagarjha that it is very easy to write code to emit SVG, which is nice.
As Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote in his masterpiece “il Gattopardo”: everything has to change so that nothing will change.

But let’s be fair to Pareto: he was actually a great intellectual of his age, a Renaissance man. You can’t really complain that he didn’t have a magic wand to fix all the problems he identified- if anything because nobody else ever did either.
I do it similarly. I run multiple versions of a service at once with systemd service files. It gives me the same stuff as containers - cgroups, isolation, logging, service definitions and automation with ansible, but its easier on my feeble psyche.
Yes? I've been using Robinhood since I was 20ish. You really think 20 year olds are that immature? They are just as capable of making smart financial decisions as someone older.

Additionally, when you are young, your financial decisions should be riskier. It's actually the smart thing to do.
>90% of the NYT's readers are Democrats: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/01/americans-m...
Self-hosting of software is what is changing. The open-core model is really built around maintaining installations of software on your own hardware (or virtual hardware). "Paying for pro" made sense in that world. With many things you would have installed and maintained on your own hardware moving to a SaaS model and PaaS model, there's really not much of an opportunity to "sell the pro version" outside large enterprises who are 10 years behind the curve. My latest startup owns zero servers. Costs scale on user count (for office stuff) or utilization. Licenses? I get calls from software vendors, and it's hard to even understand what they are selling because I don't buy licenses anymore.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003
Yes, thanks for the link.

Digression-- I'm sure the FSF doesn't appreciate it, but there is something very disarming about Linus ending his rant calling the entire FSF "bigoted people," and then immediately following it with, "I may have overstated that a bit."

It's a very unprofessional and risky way to joke around, especially after making the accusations he made minutes before. But the fact that you can hear how the room laughs and carries on after he essentially calls himself a "drama queen" tells you that pretty much everyone understood the upshot (whether or not they appreciated the joke).

That makes me think that of how rotten online communication is. In person, a maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects can call an entire organization one of the worst insults, and probably none of the members of that organization in attendance even considered interrupting him. Yet HN needs a "cool down" period to keep participants arguing about semicolons from throwing their device at the wall.

Edit: typo
I guess he just doesn't want to pay state income tax. Tim Ferriss moved from California to Texas before Uber went public. Joe Rogan moved from California to Texas before he started working with Spotify. Any other relatively well known people that have done the same?
I wrote it last night; I didn't have time to research every "open core" company I could think of to figure out a chronology of their licensing strategy. I decided to publish it based on a limited number of case studies to gin up discussion and hopefully learn from other people about counter-examples. Do you know of any?
All rsync.net infrastructure is, and has been, built solely on FreeBSD.

Since 2001 ... :)
Promote the underperformer to become your boss. This will give you a lot of freedom and raise the performance of your team.
Meanwhile, I'm holding my breath that enough richer-than-most folks will move to make house prices go down a bit instead of up 10% since last year like https://ktla.com/news/local-news/socal-homes-prices-again-se...

Seems like they're still moving in instead of moving out, for now, though.
Actually it's because the structure of the US Constitution makes it so rural types with an decidedly authoritarian bent have veto power over any amendments.
I have. I went from 235 pounds to 150 pounds in a one year time period. It was consistently between 1-2 pounds lost a week.

Of course human bodies are complex and there is no one size fits all. My anecdotal weight loss won’t match with yours. We can provide our experience so others can draw their own ideas and conclusions from our stories.

It wasn’t really an either or situation for me. Both diet and exercise are needed. The way I looked at it is with the simple model of calories in - calories out = weight change. I think there should be some factor that accounts for sedentary or active, but I don’t know where to fit it in. Like any model, it’s not perfect.

You and you’re used below do not reflect the poster I’m responding to.

If calories in exceeds calories out and your level is sedentary, you’re going to gain weight in the form of fat.

If calories in exceeds calories out and you’re lifting weights, you gain muscle probably with some fat. Think of this as bulking.

If calories in are less than calories out, you’re going to lose weight. If you’re active, then it’s going to have an interaction effect where you lose more weight.

Calories in would be quantity times frequency and would come from the sum of solid and liquid calories (calories in = quantity liquid * frequency liquid + quantity solid * frequency solid). We can manipulate quantity by reducing portion size or reducing calorie content through substituting different, healthier choices. This applies to both liquid and solid calories. We can manipulate frequency by fasting, or eliminating things altogether.

Calories out = calories burned * frequency + base metabolic burn rate. Calories burned should be a rate over time. We manipulate the rate by using more strenuous forms of exercise. We manipulate the time by changing the duration of our sessions. We increase the frequency by having more sessions. We increase the base metabolic burn rate by lifting weights and gaining muscle.

You start by figuring out what your baseline is for both calorie intake and exercise expenditure and then make small adjustments to either increase or decrease. You weigh yourself at the same time on the same day once a week. You look to see progress on a weekly basis. If you’re hitting 1-2 pounds loss, you’re on the right track. When you plateau for a couple of weeks, you need to adjust the parameters. The process needs to be followed.

We probably need some sums and indexes in the above model, and we could probably differentiate between something like steady-state (e.g., walking and meals in the normal course of a day) and perturbations (e.g., cheat meals, fasted days, long hikes, running, gym). Again, it’s a model, and weight loss stories are anecdotal, but I think the point is illustrated. Change your diet and change your exercise regimen to lose weight and have body composition changes.
Yeah its weird that Texas is "different" in this regard? The process is the same even in other states; I've never seen a Tesla store with a stock of cars just there on-site ready to buy that day, you always order online (or, I suppose, the salesperson orders online for you, and maybe that's illegal in Texas? I dont know).

And, frankly, this is how most new car purchases work. Every one I've purchased or been a part of; they don't end with you driving off the lot in a new car, they end with you waiting a week or two for the car to be delivered. I imagine some dealers have a limited stock of new cars in common configurations, and you could drive off in one of those, but that's the minority of purchases in my experience.
Raise money, buy competition, raise fees?
Sounds like what happens in Canada, too. One wonders if this is a global phenomenon.
The gravy train was 10-15 years ago, I want to know about the stuff then. What is happening right now being pitched at family office events in Dubai that I wont hear about until 2035?

I want to know about it now
The California Franchise Tax Board actually spends a lot resources catching people who spend too much time in state and don't claim to live there. It's actually surprisingly hard for would-be tax dodgers to pull off, and the penalties are severe.
Very much agreed; while I try to avoid food delivery services as much as I can (knowing drivers are generally making sub-minimum wage after vehicle depreciation) this brazenness of DoorDash's tip garnishing is a bit of a black mark on YC. I won't even take DD up on the "free meal" promos they're running in my city.
Moving out of CA was the best decision I ever made. Now I can drive on the roads without traffic, pay 0 state income tax and live my life peacefully without being surrounded by bums and social justice warriors. Downvote away SJWs!
> And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...

Interesting point.

It reminded me that in his past he has also left South Africa, and yet South Africa could also be described pretty accurately as "its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here."

Now I'm fairly certain based on his interviews that the reason he "left South Africa" was more to do with him wanting to move to the US since it increased the odds of success of his entrepreneurial dreams.

So I suspect his move to Texas might be along similar lines?

> I suspect something must be going on for several high profile folks moving out.

Interesting question you raise there.

If that were indeed true, what would you guess might be the cause?

I'd guess it might have to do with freedom of some kind.
As a customer, DoorDash is just consistently a terrible experience. I have the DashPass, which was advertised as free delivery for many restaurants. Turns out it only works if you spend $12, and even then sometimes it doesn’t apply. If you check prices between the app and the actual restaurants’ websites, there’s often an extra $2-3 added on for each item on DoorDash (I don’t blame the restaurants). When it’s all said and done, a basic $10 meal ends up being $20+ through DoorDash after the upcharged food items, delivery fee, service fee, and tip.

Edit: I do still order through DoorDash when they offer me the occasional coupon, but I rarely order without a substantial discount. I don’t know how this business model is sustainable. I’ve also noticed that many local restaurants offer their own free delivery with no service fee or up charging if you live nearby. Also, some of the best restaurants in the area seem to not be on DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.
Regardless of what you believe to be 'The Truth', has suppression or censorship ever worked to quench dissonance or convince skeptical people, again, whether right or wrong, that there really is 'nothing to see here'.
At last count I've had 14 friends move out of California in the last 3 years. All of them middle class. The biggest reasons given are cost of living and quality of life and education for their kids.
Rivian is building its own EV charging network, but with an adventurous twist
It’s interesting to see a return to national “strategic” industrial development. This type of activity used to be common throughout the west until the 70s and 80s and served in part to ensure that there was always competition in “core” industries.