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Note I didn't say whether it was good or bad. These are real things that are occurring.

The government has a long history of subsidizing businesses. Think seasonal businesses that 'lay off' their workforce to collect unemployment until the season opens again.

Sometimes we believe these subsidies are good other times we don't. Do I believe companies as large as Amazon and Walmart should be subsidized? Hardly.

Do I think small businesses of all sort could use a break here and there when faced with the subsidized giants? Absolutely.

Try to go to your local hardware store, it doesn't exist any more. How about the corner grocery, gone. These guys needed a break but we put the screws to them and let the Giant more 'efficient' businesses off the hook.
I finally managed to buy one of the prints of his Great Wave last year and it's a very beautiful thing.
Cool project! I designed a similar system many years ago with SES and the AppEngine data store instead of S3.
The expected use time of a dishwasher is 10 years. Which is a machine with mechanical parts and a lot of wear and tear, corrosive chemicals, decaying seals, etc. A computer with fewer movable parts and a higher price should last longer. That software manufacturers don't support that notion is a problem that needs to be dealt with.
But they already get a living wage, since for almost all working teenagers, their biggest expenses are usually taken care of by their parents (rent & health insurance).
I mean, every year the government milks me, and it certainly is in cash.
Fortnite was kicked out of the Google Play store for the very same violation of rules and consumer trust that they pulled with Apple. Epic are also suing Google under the same concocted story.
Believe it or not but there are people who think that "Bitcoin is a battery" because it can turn energy into money (and "money is easily converted to energy again", Umm... STEM education, we need to have a word because it looks like you are not doing your job properly...).

Here is an example: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1351214402167578626
It’s from Japan
You say that yet his statements directly line up with what a friend working in a grocery store said. I don’t know if you’ve ever actually talked with anyone working in Amazon’s warehouse, but I can tell you it’s a very hard job that’s better paying than most people working there can get elsewhere. Some felt it was important, many of others actually quit over COVID.

On the other hand pointlessly attacking people just makes you seem foolish.
Exactly my point as I read down this thread:

For this type of legislation push it is very important to keep the narrative focused on what’s morally and technologically reasonable.

Very few people agree that a manufacturer should be forced to spend time and money on supportting a product for life, many (I hope) agree that we should force manufacturers to give us the ability to repair all functions ourselves (or at least not stand in our way), but almost everyone can agree that you should be able to replace something as trivial as a button, a cable, or a screen.
> I would say it is artificially shortened by design choices.

The design choices have to be made to artificially shorten the life, not for any other purpose. For example, I can make a device cheaper and use cheaper materials that wear out faster - that's not planned obsolescence. However if I include a little plastic tab that I know will break before everything else for no good reason other than making it break faster - that is.

I suspect you'll have a hard time arguing compellingly that the purpose of apples closed update system was to shorten the useful life, rather than as a side effect of other product and design goals.

Phones are sort of a bad example, because for a long time the replacement cycle was driven by actual technical obsolescence, arguably only relatively recently has this ceased to be the case.
But man pages are man pages, not HOWTOs and thus don’t tell you ... how to :)
Hedge with options. You can even out the highs and lows, make your returns predictable with in a tight window and act accordingly.
I'm speaking for me and those I know. My response was to GP saying everyone is happy. I am not.

Also, I'm not talking about the people who need support, I'm talking about the people taking advantage and staying on unemployment because they don't want to work.
This is by design. It's a good way to inhibit employees asking for wage hikes.
I can't stand mechanical keyboards and I'm a programmer.

I've had a great experience with my Logitech MX Keys. It costs about $100 USD and is one of the best keyboards I've ever used. Great mechanical keyboard.

At home I use the Logitech K360 which I paid less than $30 USD for. My desk is really small so I needed a smaller keyboard but wanted one that still had a num pad on it. This one fits the space I have and it types/codes just fine.
You will not get promoted otherwise, and possibly even get laid off.

I'm a super dry person, and don't get "excited" about anything really, but it doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. However every single organization I've been in, they just want you to show enthusiasm, they just want people to really be fans of the company and what the product is. Majority of people go along with it, and you have cringe meetings with people cheering on a stupid button that does nothing, but people don't even dare question this.

I really wish I could just code as part of a full time job, and at the same time not worry about getting excited about the feature or product I'm working on. I already get extremely excited with code, and solving problems, I don't understand the need to want everyone to give presentations, and show off their work like sales people.
I'm evaluating video platforms for a new project right now, and Mux is one of the options.

It looks like a crowded field with a big range of offerings, but also some very direct competitors. I'm curious what sets Mux apart from the others!

The "Show HN" thread from 2018 is a good read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16431022
Excellent. best "wtf is a blockchain" I've seen yet.
I can easily install the latest version of windows 10 on even a 10 year old computer. But more importantly, I can still install Windows 7 on a 10-year-old computer if I want to. And it will still work, and most programs will still run on it. Or I can install an alternate operating system like Linux.

Whereas with my iPhone, I literally can’t install an old version of the operating system or an alternate os, no matter how old or new the device. And if I do happen to have a device that still has an old operating system, most apps refuse to run because the API surface area changes constantly. And if you have old versions of apps, they mostly all phone home to check versions now and won’t run until you update them. It’s a never ending cycle and you have no control over it.
it's pretty common for the second shift to start right around the time highschool gets out. or if it doesn't, the manager might be flexible. dinner rush doesn't usually start until 6:00 or so. there's also the weekend.

obviously highschoolers are not filling 100% of entry-level food service jobs, but they make up a pretty good chunk of these workers along with some college kids. it's a good option for someone who has literally no work experience.
With apologies to William Gibson "The post-scarcity future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed."
It's absurd to make up formulae about energy consumption for something so complicated. Let's see the electricity bill for the data center. Yes, this will require some effort to kick out other tasks and make sure the machines are fully saturated.

edit: the paper does not actually try to compute footprint as a function of "choice of algorithm" like the article implies - it's closer to "the electricity bill for the data center". See my comment below.
Unless your dialog box is quite different from the one in the article, it says that the app "can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software."

Which means the same thing, and if there weren't quotes around the words, a paraphrase is fine. But if you put quotes around a word or phrase, then it should be accurate, or I will start to wonder if your attention to detail is adequate to things like, um, notarizing software.
For anyone reading, my vasectomy was fully covered by insurance. No kids.
> the total cost of operating the App Store would be equally distributed amongst all apps

No it would not, it would be distributed by usage. If you wonder "would that possibly work ?", welcome to the internet, it works that way.

And it doesn't stop apple from offering special terms you can opt in for a flat 30% fee or entirely free if your app is entirely free (or ad supported) too.
Perhaps the author kept moving the goalpost since we have lost so much over the years.

Take that legacy software. For many technologies the software is not distinguishable from the hardware to the end user, yet faulty software could present a security risk or even pose physical danger. At the same time, vendors are dropping support for software at an accelerated rate while making it impossible to use third party fixes or replacements. This is not about having the latest features or being able to run the latest apps. It is about having the device being an asset rather than a liability.
We've seen an exodus from London, people buying houses in remoter parts of the country on the basis that they will be able to continue to WFH after the pandemic is over. Personally I think that is quite a rash decision to make right now.
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And that is totally fine. You and anyone who wants to go back to the office should be absolutely allowed to do so! The issue is more with the modest number of folks who prefer to work remotely and prefer not live near a Google campus.

If you are a high performer who has manager/VP level approval to stay remote, why would Google HR force you to move back to a Google office? They should just allow some folks to work full remote if they have support and approval from their managers, but instead Google corporate is saying everyone needs to be close to their office on Sept 1.
Buy a theme. They're inexpensive and contain plenty of pre-styled widgets and layouts. Here's one I've recently used for a side project: https://www.spruko.com/demo/spruha/spruha/HTML-LTR/verticalm...
to be fair, nowhere that's likely to happen without government regulation where there is profit to be had otherwise.
I enjoy it as a standalone. I hated it at first, but it's actually quite fun as a standalone activity.

I don't enjoy the fact that being a Professional Leetcoder (not a Professional Software Engineer) seems to be the requirement to successfully and reliably (as opposed to eeking through with luck) pass the interview gate at most of the better companies to work at (I'm not just referring to FAANG).

I don't enjoy the fact that I need to put on a circus show act that pretends I can serendipitously come up with the optimal solution to a problem handling all obscure edge cases within 20 minutes.

I don't enjoy the fact that almost everything I do at work is close to meaningless for career progression because very little of it is relevent to passing the interview (usually only touched upon in a "system design" round).
> does anyone have any insight what's with all these companies coming out of yc that are just open source implementations of currently successful projects? there's been at least 5 now

I can't speak for other companies, but we didn't look at Heroku and think to just create an open-source competitor. We thought of the idea after interacting with companies that migrated to Kubernetes that wanted their Heroku experience back, and later decided to be open-source. So I don't think our core value proposition stems from the open-source aspect, but it made sense for a lot of reasons -- unique to our product/team we felt that open-source was appropriate for a tool in the cloud-native ecosystem and since all three of us are developers, it was our natural inclination.

On the technical side, being open source has come with a bunch of benefits thus far -- we get detailed bug reports since our users are developers, we get a channel where devs can keep tabs on our progress, it gives us a public log where we explain our decision-making in the specs for various features, and it forces us to be better technically. We had to create a development process rather than just push code (when we worked on projects in the past, we didn't follow best practices with regards to PRs, documenting issues, reviewing code and testing changes, because we were solely focused on immediate velocity, which we would have regretted if those projects ever got off the ground).
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Yeah, grandparents and computer labs kept their old Apple computers around through the '90s when Apple wasn't cool. Before getting a Mac became at first ironically cool in the early '00s (because they looked funny but couldn't run any good games). Apple is clearly just a default and not a preference with kids nowadays in my experience, like they were for kids in schools in the '90s. They have good games now though.

Brands don't seem particularly defensible, and Apple doesn't seem to have any network effects outside iMessages/FaceTime and their accessory ecosystem.

James Currier on brands: "I don't think brand is a worthy defense at all. I've seen companies with phenomenal brands get crushed in a matter of years. If you go back to the early age of PC software, the best brands in the industry were Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. Microsoft crushed them in a matter of years, and they had the brands. I don't think brand buys you very much. The best brand in search was AltaVista or maybe Yahoo! and now they're roadkill."

https://www.nfx.com/post/the-four-types-of-defensibility/
the Roku that is constantly chattering with ad services

This is indeed annoying. But it's easy enough to fix with pihole. That just leaves 1/3 of the home screen being wasted space.
> The rest of us are being crushed by inflation.

The top 1% are making more money than ever before. If you're holding assets impacted by inflation, you're doing quite well now.

If we take it as a given that in a modern, humane society no one should starve to death on the street and everyone should have access to the basics of survival, then the answer to the labor "shortage" is simply to shift some of the historically record breaking wealth inequality back down the org chart from the executives to the roles that need filling.
Why "true"? I don't have to worry about servers and infrastructure with Lambdas either.
> If you use Xcode it’s often automatic.

You can't have read the same article I just read!
you can have vertical integration. But having an advantage at one layer should no be leveraged as advantage to another layer.

Apple is free to make a music player. But its music player should abide by the same rules as other players in the market.

Either Apple Music has its income cut by 30%, or no one does.
I'm guessing you're on a phone? The desktop experience is better because you get links on the left but I haven't yet worked out how to replicate that on mobile yet.

Apologies for the frustration there. The project about page is https://murex.rocks and the content there mirrors the README on the git repo which can be found at https://github.com/lmorg/murex
I second the MX Keys. It's what I use at work (software dev) and I love it.
But if we (users) choose to only browse lean sites with our first-gen iPads, why should we (society) say “stop doing that”?
It is planned obsolescence, because at some point I am artificially prevented from installing and running software and/or security updates. This is done by Apple only providing updates up to a certain point, and then keeping the platform locked down, while no longer providing updates.

Any closed platform that becomes unsupported and stays locked down is made artificially obsolete.

I can buy an original IBM PC, write my own software and run it with no limitations, despite it being an unsupported platform for several decades. See the famous 8088 MPH demo for an example of how much can still be done on an ancient platform, way beyond what was considered possible in its heyday. I can even write my own OS and run that. Remember that Linux was originally written by Linus Torvalds because there was no freely available Unix-like on x86, so he decided to write his own.

I can't do that with an original iPhone. You can jailbreak it, but that's not a risk-free process and it still doesn't let you install your own OS or give you direct access to the hardware.

Once a device no longer receives updates or official support, it should be opened for hobbyists to experiment with.
The job market is a lemon market for employers.
That is a fair point. I just have visions of becoming cumbersome and limiting.
This is pretty much it. Why do we use a BGA or WLCSP rather than a DIP package? Because we can’t fit a DIP package into the form factor, and manufacturing costs are higher. Why did we glue/epoxy a few components to the board? Because the device needed to pass a drop test such that components aren’t flying off. Why did we ultrasonically weld the enclosure shut? Because we needed IP68 or above rating and the price point we were trying to hit made that the most viable.

I don’t necessarily have a problem with right to repair, but a lot of people don’t understand what goes into designing these things and attribute a lack of repairability with malfeasance rather than just the reality of manufacturing, economics, and consumer demands.
I had not considered this possibility! Thanks for the call-out. The author's English is excellent, and I hadn't realized until I saw your comment that NeoFinder is indeed from a German site.

https://www.cdfinder.de/en/downloads.html
Sure, but that's a whole bunch more boilerplate than just .assign(), which was my point (it's easy, but not quite as easy as just calling assign). Especially since f needs to be written a certain way to be overridable, while in the previous example o1 was just an ordinary object.

Edit: Not to mention that storing function pointers with each object is a huge waste of memory, versus storing one class pointer in each object, and having that class object store function pointers and parent class pointers. That way, you guarantee that each function pointer is stored exactly once, and each object has a single sizeof(pointer) of overhead (and even this can be improved with more complex implementations).
Perhaps... but I was talking about cows.
The large tech companies routinely say that hiring qualified engineers is their biggest challenge.
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The point is you could all get that with YAML without plonking dhall on top if you had a properly designed schema.

Hence it's a hack to circumvent badly designed / no schema.
Even if it's a Tesla.
They are talking about welfare benefits. Many of these are structured so that the marginal dollar you earn results in $0.75 to $1000+ being taken away from you in benefits.
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From the way Roku has worded their statement, it sounds like this was the case -- all the streaming channels on Roku got the same access to user data, but Google wanted better terms, and the relationship broke down for YTTV.
Essentially they create them as they go.

Total shares outstanding plus outstanding stock awards:

Dec 2011 : 468 million
Dec 2012 : 470 million
Dec 2013 : 476 million
Dec 2014 : 483 million
Dec 2015 : 490 million
Dec 2016 : 497 million
Dec 2017 : 504 million
Dec 2018 : 507 million
Dec 2019 : 512 million
Dec 2020 : 518 million

Existing shareholders lose 1% per year.
Can't you rule a lot of those candidate (other than CV liars) out algorithmically?

>In addition, basic statistics suggests you need all new hires to be better than 50% of the existing company,

This seems especially difficult when hiring graduates/junior roles due to the lack of unknowns.

Thanks for taking the time to respond!
What do you do with people who don't have any skills that are worth more money? Do you just let the government take care of them perpetually?
Co-founder of Infracost here, happy to help with integrations if needed. Regarding smaller cloud providers, someone from our community is adding Scaleway, such providers usually have pricing that is an order of magnitude simpler than AWS/GCP/Azure.
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Details are sparse in this article. Looks like 7% capital gains tax, first $250K excluded, real estate excluded. Proceeds to primarily fund childhood education (for now).

> For example, stock sales higher than $250,000 would be taxed at 7%. Real estate would not be.

7% (on top of federal cap gains, which are also increasing) is a significant tax rate to start with. If it was 1-2%, I could see people rolling with it. At a whopping 7%, I expect a lot of startup founders and small business owners looking for an exit will be moving across the border to Portland right before they sell their companies.
If we are going to allow software patents on the basis that software is a device, then laws affecting physical devices should apply to software as well.
I never suggested there was. I understand this is an emotional topic but each reply in this thread seems to be assuming something about the person they're replying to and arguing against something that person never said.
Cheap considering what? Considering the 30% margins they take on any further sale? Considering the 25$ one-time fee the Play Store takes?
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I have a small SaaS app running on a VPS at Linode. It's costing 8USD/Month:

* $5/Month for a 1GB Ram Micro (Postgresql single instance, Rails)
* $2/Month for Backups
* $1/Month for block storage (10GB)

That being said, I am planning a move to fly.io to get a replicated HA Postgress and my rails app. I expect it to run mostly on their free tier plus a bit for more than the things not covered on the free tier for a total of about $8.70/Month:

* $3/Month for 2x10GB block storage (1 each for the postgres nodes)
* $5.70/Month Shared CPU, 1 GB Ram VM (For the Rails app)

So a wash price wise. But fly.io will get me a better CI/CD/Deployment story, replicated HA Db, easy scale the db and app across geographic regions and a easy way to scale period.

Right now I'd need to build another box and get it hooked up, figure out a LB for it (or pay for Linodes), etc. I CAN automate some of that (Terraform, et al), but there's a learning curve and implementation effort cost. All stuff I am perfectly capable of doing but as a solo founder, I would rather spend time building value (features) and work on marketing & sales.

Hosted K8s at Linode or DO were options too, but still learning curve and the cost (to get started) would have been 5-10 times higher for the same thing (and I'm cheap :). Time will tell the cost curve as I scale, but it's a small app with a limited audience so it doesn't need much.
Except it’s not really a good option. Maybe a high schooler should be focusing on school.
Looks like the Mayor and the Buddhist Monk are already messing things up, judging by the chart at the bottom.
>> What possible upside could there be that justifies forcing the issue.. ?

You can think of it as a filter for identifying easy to control employees.
> most users ignore backlighting because it limits the cute keycap sets they can use

What's the advantage of backlighting? I don't need to look at my keyboard to type.
> the purpopse of apples closed update system was to shorten the useful life, rather than as a side effect of other product and design goals

So what is the reason to prevent updates of software after the support is over? This is a classical software anti-feature.
around $50 a month,
app is made with nextjs, hosted on Google App engine with a postgres db.
Fresh baked bread honestly is one of the most delicious things you can eat. Most bread makers have guides for 12 grain recipes.