skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely understand the decisions Tesla has made, and they have done an admirable job. They needed to make the car feel premium enough to justify the price, while still cutting costs at every opportunity. So they made their own seats, branded vinyl as vegan leather, spun a huge center infotainment screen as a feature instead of the cheapest way to get a dashboard in the car, etc. But competition is heating up, so they will have to stay on their toes.

I'm really pleased to see that Ford actually put forth a good faith effort with the Mach-E. And one-upped Tesla with the interior at the same time. The Mach-E isn't a compliance car, and we need to see more of this in the market. The Bolt, despite some protests to the contrary, is absolutely still a compliance car, though I think they executed pretty well all considered. I agree that at this point CarPlay/Android Auto is table stakes. It's more noteworthy not to have it, than to have it.
AFAICT, the Greek pantheon (Hercules etc) is commonly assumed to belong to a religious belief system that in large part aligns with the spread of the Indo-European language, probably (maybe) originating with the Yamnaya culture on the Pontic steppe north of the Black sea according to what is called the Kurgan hypothesis [0][1].

The culture and language seems to have spread across large parts of the Indo-European landmass starting maybe 6000 years ago, eventually displacing many older European and Indian cultures respectively among others. It is assumed to be the reason that such disparate pantheons as the Roman, Greek, Norse and Hindu have many common characteristics. One reason for the relative swift and wide spread of the culture is currently speculated to be that the Yamnaya were the first to domesticate the horse and use them to pull wagons (chariots).[2]

While it could be possible that the original pantheon referred to Neanderthals a more rational interpretation seems to me to be that the pantheon is a deified memory of some prominent people in a small group that roamed the plains of present Ukraine many thousands of years ago, a group that came to conquer other groups because of their advanced horsemanship, establishing traditions that in turn achieved a life of their own as traditions and beliefs commonly do. But hey, it is little more than speculation at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180509185446.h...
VSCode extensions are driven through "commands" that are exposed through the package.json of the plugin (which can be parsed by other plugins if you wanted) and issuable through another plugin, or using a task (this is kind of annoying though and not a first class use of tasks).
How long do you reckon before google shuts down GCP?

I suppose that’s part of the gamble when you bet on them.
>It’s an old and lazy/annoying complaint.

Granted, you offered a nuanced reply for someone building something on these clouds. However, when you're dealing with enterprise that are directly competing with the main cloud providers on other verticals, they are not being lazy or annoying, they are being careful, and not without a reason, and avoid using their competitor's cloud infrastructure.

Some of our clients have no problems using these cloud providers. Others wouldn't go through them because that would leak information.

If I'm not mistaken, Google used to buy datacenters in stealth mode, under different companies created for that purpose, to avoid getting on Microsoft's radar and keeping how successful search was from them.

We use GCP, for context.
Legendary VC Ribbit Partners with Walmart on Fintech – Why?
Yeah I think part of it is the attitude/illusion that the stakes used to be were lower earlier in life. Like, "oh how cute, they are sweating so much about petty things like teenage love and fitting in cliques, if only they knew how much it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things"

But it does matter a lot in those years. Teens are correct in their assessment that fitting in is important. At least in some group. Doesn't have to be the "popular kids". As you grow up, achievements and status become more manifest, it's not so much about pretenses. Things are now more cemented and move slower. You have this or that profession with a certain status. You live in a good or a bad neighborhood, move in fancy or non fancy circles, can afford traveling or not, and so on. By contrast in your teens and early adulthood, all you have is how you perform in social interaction. Later you're like "maybe I'm awkward but I'm a surgeon and you're a fast food worker".

And when you're 60, the status fights are mostly over, you're living off of what you achieved earlier. So you think it was useless because now you have little to lose in future potential. You mostly have your familial and friendship situation cemented for the rest of your life, usually no more worry about who will marry you, whether you can be promoted high, whether your kids turn out good etc. Typically 60+ year olds don't have to prove themselves in the moment any more, they just ride on the past.
I'm not saying it's untrue. but that op is saying that something bad is happening at signal without saying what exactly they mean (hence my !!1!-ing) is what I find annoying and I would qualify that as FUD.
Agree completely. Competition is the real solution. Apple surely won't do it by choice, but maybe the recent antitrust action will force their hand and this will all be moot.
And at higher levels equity becomes a bigger portion of comp. So you can get 100k+ in equity a year as a senior IC.
Foam and Dendron Extensions for Vscode offer this functionality So you can publish your notes to github pages or any other static site hosting platform.
Oracle Cloud has live migration (still not available on EC2, afaik) and had cloud console before AWS.
> I manage several projects with it and switch contexts with one key-combination: Vagrant box is started, project folder is changed, necessary files opened, ready to hack, build, deploy, do server restarts with a single key stroke.

When I single-click to open a project in a JetBrains IDE, the same sequence of events happens (albeit using Docker Compose instead of Vagrant).
They are constantly experimenting with prices/payouts, and different areas have different rate so it's going to be hard to have a concrete number. But I believe Uber takes around 25% + a small fixed fee per ride.
To get around that go to the artist and start a song from their top playlist or an album and it will just play their songs.
The role you describe is a technical account manager and Google has hired many. I’m a Google cloud partner and every project I’ve worked on has had multiple TAMS doing exactly what you describe, working hand in hand with customers, connecting the customer to product engineers, to support, navigating Black Friday and Christmas, etc...
Smolder, I don't mean it as black and white as it sounds. Here's an analogy:

If you see $5 laying on the ground, it's better for you to pick it up. That's different than saying we must structure society in a way that people are relying on finding money on the ground (which is where you are taking it.)

It's OBVIOUSLY possible to have teams and employees that operate fine without these experiences. My point is that these experiences are just opportunities to make it better (like picking up the $5) so why wouldn't one try to be the kind of person who is happy to pick up the $5 rather than someone who grumbles about it?
Nothing is ever good enough, is it?

No matter what is built you'll have people complaining about any aspect of it they can find. Most of them won't so anything more than that. They won't contribute a single thing, pat themselves on the back and call it a day.

There's not even a hint of constructive feedback in that post. Not even an attempt at resolving any of the identified problems or thinking further about implications of possible changes.

I need a downvote button on HN...
Have you tried running Mastodon and Matrix on a Pi? I'm not so confident it'd work, these aren't lean servers.

I would love a tiny server I can run on my home server (for my tiny message volume), but Mastodon and Synapse are optimized for large servers.
There's a fatal issue with Microsoft Store apps: it allows both sandboxed and unsandboxed apps, and the developer can just upload a new version for their sandboxed app, that is not sandboxed. Updates are automatic, so the app, that looked like restricted to access only say calls will after update be able to access anything it wants.
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> How can you pass judgement without knowing all the facts?

From the article, and quite shocking:

> The Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed there is a warrant for Jones’ arrest but said it cannot disclose what charges she faces until she is in custody.
When I buy a computer, I want something that makes my life better. I do not want something that deliberately makes my life worse to achieve a strategic goal for Apple Computer.

We saw the same thing with Flash. Apple didn't like Flash and wanted it dead. They couldn't manage to kill it off through negotiation or outreach or by offering a better alternative, so they instead decided to weaponize the iPhone by refusing to support Flash at all. Their angry customers then killed Flash for them.
HN won't even get dark mode, so the only way we'd ever get Matrix on HN is through a random macroscopic quantum event.
> I don’t mind failure and I understand there are going to be setbacks. I just wish they would fail faster.

I do agree with this. I just took issue with the lede being “rocket test fails” as if that’s a bad thing.

The underlying points are all valid, speed, cost etc but a failed test is not the thing to be focussing the argument on in my view.
one of the challenges with that from the perspective of an ISP, is that residential broadband connections are very often highly asymmetric in bandwidth.

for example on two of north america's largest DOCSIS3/DOCSIS3.1 based cable modem operators, you can get 200-600 Mbps downstream speeds, but uploads may max out at 16-18 Mbps. Depending on your exact location. This is because of how RF channels are bonded together by the CMTS operator.

lots of other access technologies will face significant challenges and capacity constraints if a sizeable percentage of residential broadband end users start trying to actually use their upstream bandwidth at a greater rate than they do now, when averaged over the traffic for hundreds or thousands of individual end point users.
The abstract of the preprint [1] starts:

> There are two puzzles surrounding the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. First, why are the mythological stories surrounding them, typically involving seven young girls being chased by a man associated with the constellation Orion, so similar in vastly separated cultures, such as the Australian Aboriginal cultures and Greek mythology? Second, why do most cultures call them “Seven Sisters" even though most people with good eyesight see only six stars?

Most people see six bright stars, like those depicted in the Subaru logo. Yet, you are quite correct to point out that the overlapping stars in question, Atlas and Pleione, are named after the parents of the seven sisters in Greek mythology. Six-vs-Seven or Eight-vs-Nine are valid criticisms and raise the question of when the names of the stars were first used.

The narrative-based approach is imprecise but, like Historical Linguistics [2], it might be useful in identifying origins and connectedness. Regardless, knowing that the bright stars Atlas and Pleione were separated in the past is a useful fact for generating and testing hypotheses.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/np0n4v72bdl37gr/sevensisters.pdf?d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_linguistics
It depends based on the type of business you're in.

I help run a physical goods business.
Margins on these types of businesses (for the most part) 10-15%.

If we find a way to reduce expenses by 0.5% (of revenue) by spending 10 hours, it's worth it. On the face of it, it seem trivial and not worth it. But at the end of the year, these cost saving tactics add up and contribute to profitability. Sometimes it's the difference between giving our team a bonus or not.

Whereas in a SaaS business, the margins are far higher and your time is better spent (probably) on increasing revenue, rather than shaving expenses.

As someone already said, there's only so many expenses you can cut.
Tech Policy: Legislation over Litigation
While I do generally agree with what you are saying, you never mention what your newer car actually is. The strength of your argument changes if you're comparing against another Mitsubishi versus a British roadster or anything made by GM.
It's not as big a deal, but not without impact. You only need a local privilege escalation to go from a user with no rights to a fully open system. And systems are much harder to secure against code running on them with access to all those juicy kernel facing unprivileged APIs...
Why is that the conclusion? Seems an absurd reduction. Would also lead to abolishing family, which would have no real benefits.

I agree with it as a reaction to the idea that strong fences make good neighbors. Good neighbors aren't a static thing. But as an end goal reduction? Seems lacking. A strong set of nations seems to be more benefitted from all nations in the set being strong. Not in any domination.
See my other reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25812853
I'd argue that if you're currently the target of a government you should take the time to verify the cryptographic signatures at least every so often. Any platform you use they could have gotten to the servers or the owners of the servers. Hell, they could patch the servers in memory so there's never any trace in source code.
Most theories show that galaxies all started pretty quickly after the big bang. The number of mergers they have had are what is significantly different. When the universe was younger and things were closer mergers appear to have occurred at a higher rate leading to higher rates of star formation. This in turns floods a galaxy with powerful UV light, which in large amounts doesn't seem conductive to life.
That's an oversimplification of what democracy is. At the simplest level, democracy is a system of government where the people have the authority to choose their governing legislators. I would agree that in its current form in America, the government incentivizes the use of propaganda to get specific policies passed.

Instead of coming at an entire form of government, perhaps you could suggest a solution that actually solves some of these issues. Is there a way to require full understanding of a proposition before voting? Is there a way the government can restrict advertising on these topics? And, more importantly, can you suggest a form of government that solves these issues without creating any larger problems of its own?
What’s social about a party? It’s a closed system only available to friends of one person.
Every time this sort of thing comes up (the Fermi Paradox, the Great Silence) I like to point out that it says more about the person than the real world. To wit: there is no time or culture in the history of the world where humans have not been in contact with some kind of "otherworldly" intelligence.

Personally, (not that anyone asked) I think we're in quarantine. I think that most intelligent species rapidly reach a peaceful "win-win" equilibrium, that we humans are rare or even unique in our violence, that this is because of some specific but forgotten event (maybe the Younger Dryas, I don't know) that traumatized us and triggered the development of agriculture and cities, that those are degenerate forms of civilization that perpetrate the trauma that leads to our current malfunctions, and that we are essentially in a hospice-type situation vis-à-vis the little green men.

So, um, there? Have a nice day y'all.
cover your ass
Unless you happen to have a cheap 3rd party dongle, use 2.4GHz wifi, and have to have internet access while doing your presentation or whatever. (3rd party dongles often have bad shielding and it interferes with 2.4GHz signal, it's a pretty widespread issue. You cannot really "fight it," though, you need to get another dongle.)
I was on an accelerator last year and am frugal. I don't think being frugal helps in the startup space. It may signify you are risk adverse.

I think people should be frugal. I don't think a company should be frugal A frugal company is like a boxer in a fight saying don't punch me.
I'm a little suprised they didn't mention DOOM or Spacemacs.
> I suppose that’s part of the gamble when you bet on them.

That or they just shut down your GCP.

Lack of a real, responsive support channel is what keeps me from spending money for Google services.
Not sure if UBI is the solution, but most of the gripes around part-time and gig workers (except for inconsistent schedules) do tie back to housing and health care. It's odd that people frame it as companies taking advantage of people when it's actually inadequate government policy.
> Pedantically pointing out that, literally, this is a false statement.

My statement is so generic as to be true in the context of fields involving scientific research. And that's in essence the point: that's what data science is in the end.

This isn't an attempt to incense those with Data Scientist in their job title or job description, but it's why so many STEM folks can easily find homes in Data Science without formal education on the topic.
You might accept it, but I wouldn’t. Telling product owners that their timelines have been pushed because our cloud provider is removing something we depend on again is not a conversation I want to have.

Large enterprises are complicated beasts, and they value stability a lot. Even removing a single feature might cause dozens of teams to drop everything in order to go and fix the mess that someone else made. Why risk it? Especially if the alternative is someone who will wait to release a feature until it’s more than half baked and support it for a decade or more?
There's nothing wrong with opposing and discussing the downsides of popular policies. What's counterproductive is saying that the policies aren't actually popular and people were just, in the author's words, "bamboozled into supporting the measure". I've seen many people (including a friend) with that attitude, and it makes engaging with anyone who does support Prop 22 impossible, because you're forced to assume they either don't know what they're talking about or don't mean what they say.
> Nevertheless, if you can put a security coprocessor into the CPU itself

M1 powered Macs do this too. Does Intel or AMD make any chips with a TPM built in?
> True, but they are failing very, very, slowly.

I can’t argue with that!
synapse is actually quite tiny, but its use of an sqlite db on disk and other disk-write related activities, over a long term of months or years, seems quite likely to destroy a raspberry pi microsd card in much the same way that ordinary logging will destroy a microsd card. yes the rpi4 can boot from a USB-connected 'real' sata device now, which is an improvement.
It'd be nice if the graphics made it clear what "sentiment: yellow" meant. A good graphic is its own summary. Especially since apparently the sentiment values are in an incredibly narrow range:

- what do the colors represent?

- are marginally higher numbers marginally better/worse sentiment, statistically significantly better/worse sentiment, etc?

- what does "sentiment" actually measure? ("sentiment related" adjectives in posts, vs. "objective" adjectives?)

This is basically just detached data that's getting upvoted because... it's... pretty? The page as posted has literally no information, it just shows uninterpretable data that no one can draw any conclusions from.
This is amazing! Thank you for the link.
this exactly. Microsoft has known it for years: to be successful with enterprise accounts, people matter. Account managers, sales/support engineers, direct access to product teams (sometimes). I've never worked with Amazon/AWS but from what I've heard anecdotally, they are of the same mindset. (It would be consistent with Bezos' customer service mantra so perhaps unsurprising).

I know of only 2 colleagues who've looked at GCP. Both are medium-large financial institutions. Both said they had very little human-to-human contact with Google representatives. In one case they chose AWS instead; the other is still evaluating GCP.

It's interesting that other posts in the thread are complimentary about the quality of the GCP products. I can believe that; Google has built its fair share of impressive technology. But I see no evidence of an enterprise supplier I could trust: one that would be there to help out when the world went belly up. Given that, it doesn't matter how good their products are.

I'd actually like to see GCP being successful. As well as bringing some competition and diversity to the market, it would give Google a more honest and above-board revenue stream than ads. I don't see that happening though, at least not without a change in leadership.
Wow, well, that's the biggest move any big org has taken on an employee matter in recent years.
When you see link to paper with interesting title posted to HN from nature.com domain, it's almost certainly from "Scientific Reports". It's not as bad as described here, but nobody publishes there if they have paper that is scientifically interesting. It's place to report what you did when nothing interesting came out of it.

Nature publishes many journals and "Nature" is the highest quality general science publication. "Scientific Reports" does just quick review for methodology.
This is always the problem with training from historical data only: you’ll become very good at being just as good as the sample group.

Ideally you just use the sample as the basis, and then let an AI engine play against itself for training, and/or participate in real world games, such as they did with AlphaGo and/or AlphaStar.
I suppose you're being cynical or are joking. Literally millions of US citizens would have to be arrested if that was crime. AFAIK, she's being arrested for having accessed government databases after she had been fired, or something similar to that for which she was not fully authorized.
The character after the Y in YInMn is an I (uppercase i), not an l.
Sure, I assume you can, but since Emacs/Vim is a sort of environment that encourages terse keybindings, fast call outs to the shell, etc, that's where I've seen more people that can seem to do stuff almost subconsciously.
I don't think its as easy imo. vscode auto recommends extensions if you open a new file type and from what I remember (been a number of years since I installed a package in emacs), the extension "browser"/"market" was not as user friendly (in terms of raw info about the extension and in discoverability).
This is what should happen when an employee is unfairly targeted and fired. Accountability for the decisionmaker, an apology, and a re-hire.
Government should open more hospitals and provide free medical care. Why have insurance at all.
I'm wondering whether Bitcoin has a chance of being anything other than a store of value, or a means to settle accounts (if even that). Given the long list of problems with Lightning (e.g. [1]), and the many years it's been in development for, I'm growing increasingly skeptical. I'm wondering how that fits into people's economic analysis of Bitcoin.

P.S. I'm long Bitcoin, so I hope I'm wrong!

[1] - https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-lightning-network-vulnerabi...