skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is why you schedule flights in the morning: there's so damn little slack in the system that if things go wrong at 10:00 AM at O'Hare, flights for the whole rest of the day are screwed up owing to the cascading delays.

At least in the morning the airlines have had the overnight to unsnarl the previous day's mess because of the reduced revenue traffic overnight and the corresponding slack that accrues as a happy side effect.

This is also why things like the healthcare system, transportation network, and postal system shouldn't be run for maximum utilization/efficiency under normal load: if there isn't any slack in the system it gets real ugly when things get squirrelly. In cases of localized disturbance, we get by on mutual aid: linemen and bucket trucks from far away respond in the aftermath of e.g. a hurricane or tornado. Likewise, fire departments from all over The greater Boston area responded to the gas explosions in the Merrimack Valley[0] and companies from even further away repositioned trucks to cover the departments that responded directly.

When it's national or global scale event, you're left leaning on whatever slack was in the system. As we're all painfully aware, there hasn't been enough. The public health and healthcare systems have been doing heroic work, but if they weren't stretched so tight in the name of efficiency beforehand, there'd be less need for the heroic efforts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrimack_Valley_gas_explosion...
I'm less worried about moats (although we should be wary of anticompetitive moats) and more worried about an ecosystem where the already successful companies monopolize access to innovations.

Forget competitors, you can't buy the touch ID tech to create things like door locks. Big companies locking up access to markets means big companies are the sole arbiters of what even gets sold.
possibly sensitive question - i recall Sebastian and Kyle had their differences during the ICE issue of 2018 https://www.vice.com/en/article/pawnwv/open-source-devs-reve...

what are Rome's intended policies on OSS licensing and usage by ICE?
Disclaimer: I know the foundation of Rome was largely written by Sebastian. This question still applies to Rome though, but more so to “open source companies” in general.

https://rome.tools/credits/

How many of these people are going to receive an employment opportunity from this company? How many will receive equity?

I suppose the same questions can be asked if any big project, like React, though that had FB’s backing from the get-go.

I understand that OSS needs funding from somewhere, and I am incredibly optimistic about Rome, but I’d think it a bit disheartening to be surprised by this announcement as a contributor.
They absolutely didn't miss bitcoin. Thiel gave Vitalik a scholorship to drop out of university and work on ethereum. a16z have been massive supporters of cryptocurrency startups, as have YC (isnt coinbase their best investment?). Naval, Balajis, Alexis Ohanian. The common thread is crypto.

It seems like it is just the HN commenters that don't seem to understand why and still talk about Tulips. Meanwhile reddit is working on community tokens, ebay working on nft listings...
Iff you consider your work a net-negative or just a means to an end. There's certainly a case to be made for optimizing for work that is an end in itself where more work may increases positive utility in some areas (joy, fulfillment, whatever) and possibly decreasing it in others (money, status, whatever).
"One does not simply use GPS to mark a spot..."

I tried this at home and it turns out that easily available GPS devices have huge amounts of error, especially without unobstructed line of sight like in woods. I left a phone on a stump recording a walking trail, and it wandered around multiple tens of meters. There is value in what the surveyors do :) Although I guess they would use markers like this as references, so unless they crosscheck with multiple markers and fancy GPS they could make mistakes too.

Edit: and the whole while the GPS receiver is reporting a misleading "5ft" or similar accuracy.
> but as a library without compiler support

I'm not sure what you mean by this;As part of CL, CLOS always had compiler (and run time compiler) support.

Many early OO systems were implemented in lisps, partially because they are flexible enough to add language features reasonably well, by default.
See, e.g. Flavors, Loops. These predate CL and influenced the design of CLOS.
I saw an "unboxing" video for Nintendo amiibo's recently, by a collector who had amassed a large collection (all of them?) was unboxing them on video. The unboxing process obviously de-values each of the items, but the amazing thing about it was how shocked he was at the detail & manufacturing quality of the figures after removing the packaging: details he couldn't make out at all when they were packaged.

It's so strange. Buying boxed items with no intention to (ever?) unbox essentially amounts to just paying for the box itself, rather than the contents.
It's stretched flaccid penile length.
Hypothetically, say Microsoft and Apple both announced that they planned to move from x86 to ARM on the same day, knowing nothing else, who would you have bet would be more successful?
Robots are everywhere. We just don't call them robots. We call them dishwashers, CNC machines, STM machines, automatic welders, fabric cutting machines, etc, etc.

Sort of like we already have flying cars. They're called "helicopters".
Yeah. I geuinely hope they work it out. And hopefully more open source projects can follow their playbook.
There's no data backing large spread of covid due to schools being open, in the data says it's the opposite. k-12 students are also less likely to get it and less likely to develop any complications from it.

Additionally, there are several issues with leaving kids at home and in many cases it causes more problems than sending them back.

Lastly, they are not "forced" to send their kids back, they have alternatives. Admittedly, the alternatives may require a difficult life change (homeschool, private, moving etc.) but if they're already making the decision that it's better their kids stay home then they should be making some sacrifices to ensure they're receiving appropriate education. I can tell you they are not receiving a good education through online classes, or at least drastically worse than in person. Average kids k-12 age lack the ability to motivate themselves when left alone at home and there's data backing this up. It's also bad for their mental health.
Compiler As A Service obviously. I'm half joking.
This is pretty exciting! I'm glad to see more investment going into the JavaScript developer tooling ecosystem.

Some of the open source companies have had an easier time monetizing than others. Databases, for example, have a somewhat obvious path nowadays of offering a hosted version. NPM and Docker, on the other hand, developed incredibly popular tools but struggled to monetize. So I'm curious to see what Rome will do.

The other interesting question to me is what Rome will focus on. There's a really wide array of things in the JS toolchain and it's tempting to boil the ocean. How much of it can you really boil? Running a nice JS browser stack of course. Supporting TypeScript I presume. How about Node on the backend? An Electron app? All of those in the same codebase?

Some tough decisions here but I'm glad the team working on them is set to grow and attack this problem. Good luck Romans ;-)
I think that anecdote evens out with the fact that both the 360 and Wii sold as well or better than the PS3. The successor of the PS2 can’t fumble like that. In the grand scheme of things, the console wars have left all the companies involved within striking distance of each other.
Beats the Boring Google Calendar
> Why not simply donate the money?

Tax deductible email receipts are nice, but an exclusive digital asset that says "I donated to this cause" gets people's emotional and social gears working in ways a "share with Twitter" button does not.
Your job is to make their wishful thinking the thundering success they deserve.

To counter the original point, I find removing obstacles and latency-inducing loops helpful, to start seeing what the work really should be. Gaining efficiency through simplifying is a good thing, and can be creative too. The goal is not efficiency though.
I don't doubt that there is some kind of market for it, but I think that the people that hail something like Stadia as "the future of gaming" (as opposed to serving that specific market) really live in a bubble and do not realize that a large majority of people around the globe (or even the US) do not even have access to really good or cap free internet.

I do have access to decent internet (fiber), I tried Stadia and while it was better than I expected it still felt really bad.
Yep. Bootstrapping a startup is hard.

FAANG interviews are not even close.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

CBP's warrantless searches are plainly unconstitutional.
I'm willing to spend 10k for a robot who can do my kitchen and clothes.

Let's see how long it will take
They actually have fewer regulations and can usually cross the boarder very easily.

It's one of the reasons that the area is extremely popular for smuggling.
Fortunately, COVID-19 is happy to respect beurocratic boundaries imposed on it.
I think there’s a difference between “objectionable organizations” using what is available as OSS, and them being allowed on the platform that the company intends to develop.
Sounds a lot like https://xkcd.com/882/.
Is renting out data centre GPUs for cloud gaming currently financially feasible? Considering how much GCP charges for GPUs, I would be surprised if they would be able to offer it at an atractive price (~$10/month). Other providers' services look quite experimental and not ready for mass adoption as well.
It's not strange. Many religions contain an absolute prohibition against denying your faith. It prevents any true believers in those religions from having government documents.

It's fully intentional.
Why would you want to cash out out of something you love?
These kind of businesses struggle.
But when you have a rich parents, they you come up with some start up idea, hire a team of people to make it - then yes cashing out is a win. But those people don't look at it as business, as a real thing that adds value for other people, but pure selfishly as showing themselves they can pull this off.
These people also often steal ideas from people who care and love what they do. Often those people become wage slaves in those rich daddy companies.
I tend to think of Free Will as something close to Buddhist enlightenment/liberation. Something we are capable of, but not something that everyone practices. The ability to look past the reactions of your monkey brain 0.2 and observe your own thoughts then make mindful decisions while practicing loving kindness for yourself and others.

However, free will in the sense of a soul commanding a body separate from that body that is tallying up sins to be punished based on those decisions is hard to believe.

But to falsify a concept like "Free Will" it needs to first be defined. It's one of those things where you can get 1000 different definitions.
Tucker Carlson went on an insane tirade two days ago telling his viewers to start harassing masked people--including calling CPS and the police for 'child abuse' of masked children.. It'll happen soon enough if it already isn't.
It still went on to a significant degree.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China
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I am okay with the compromise that one must pay for copyrighted works. But if you're not given the option to pay (a reasonable amount), copyright should not prevent you from enjoy that work.
Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here.

Sharing our thoughts on why we are open sourcing Pixie: https://blog.px.dev/open-source-release/.

Too much of open source today is just vendors using it to promote paid services, without a community approach. Open-source should be vendor neutral and accessible to all.

We used Apache 2.0 as our license and are committed to keep it that way. As part of this we are working on contributing the project to CNCF (Cloud native compute foundation, a part of the linux foundation) to guarantee its vendor neutrality.
A lot of people in the north of france spoke Dutch/were Belgian.

Some old people in french speaking still speak dialect dutch. Not the "new" generation.

French Flanders: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Flanders

Additionally, Wallonië is also french speaking and not dutch.

So my guess is that it's pretty common ;)
> "Religion" where one must choose one of six possible religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. If one is without religion or follows another religion he must still pick one of those 6.

It always felt, to me, like the Dutch colonizers culturally transferred their concept of pillarisation[1] to Indonesian society.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation
I do not think that steps have that good of a precision (2.29%) over 100 steps for measuring distance. Can a human achieve that?
Either way - an open border is rotten for pandemic containment.
> Would them doing that be more efficient vs what they do now?

In the end, probably yes.

They did do this for a while but this wasn’t competitive with having the work done in China.

Apple exerts a lot of control over how that work is done.

They don’t just send out a design and get boards back - they embed engineers and management in places like Foxconn and in fact control the process.

> How do you draw the line? Where does your theoretical "stack" start and stop?

See above. Basically whenever something is not literally a commodity, Apple steadily builds expertise and control.

Look at how they have done this with screen technology for example. Their partner companies build parts dedicated to Apple.

Even if there is another corporate partner involved for geopolitical reasons, there is still vertical integration.
If you have access to the whole codebase, and the ability to ask the system for code after macro expansion, you can do any kind of analysis you want.
It means, there is no Xbox. There is only a box that logs you into Microsoft’s platform, and you will pay them for everything.
> What percentage of the average American's net worth is tied up in the footprint of their home?

I think a better question is what percent of the average person's net worth is tied up in the unimproved value of their land? I posit that unless they are pretty wealthy, it is nearly nothing.

This is a good representation of how housing (and therefore land) is valued:
https://twitter.com/bufordsharkley/status/138799739507868467...

The tax incidence from a land value tax on someone living in a 300k home in rural California is nearly nothing, while it will be massive on a wealthy person living on a $5m home in Palo Alto. Their actual physical homes are fairly similar - the 4.7m difference is land value. I don't see why it isn't progressive. You give an unrepresentative example of literally the wealthiest person in the world - what about for 99.9% of people? Sure, it isn't literally the most progressive tax possible, but you can apply your argument to the progressive income tax we have today. Jeff pays literally 0 income tax, but that doesn't mean in general the income tax is not progressive.

If you are that concerned about it being progressive - and not the efficiency benefits of the tax - you can literally just make it progressive. 0% on the first $X/ft value of the land, 10% on the next $Y/ft, etc. This would solve your problem with farms as well (if you are not convinced by the graphic that 1000sqft in SF is worth more than 100 acres in Idaho anyway).
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Looks like I'm switching back to AUX. I had no idea cars were scooping up this much data. I wish the article went into more detail about what the attack vector is, what permissions, if any can mitigate this, etc but I understand that's not the point of this piece.
thats not how OSS contributions work. you contribute of your own free will, they don't owe you any equity or employment. of course you'd have a leg up on hiring but they don't owe you a thing.
I'm sympathetic to the argument but the just-so-story at the start actually made me question it. The 60s and 70s had a baby boom entering the workforce which likely led to the productivity growth rate[1]. We have less slack because it's relatively more expensive. Focusing on the cult of efficiency can distract you from the real causes

[1] "Fully Grown" goes into exhaustive research of every possibly cause of the productivity slow down. https://amzn.to/3nN1ZrR
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It's no different than choosing a B2C startup for your company, and then having them go out of business.

There are certain core services that I would expect Google to maintain, and others are gambles. It's important to know which is which.
Ask HN: Success anxiety – Would you scale your SaaS if you could?
Dear SaaS founders,

I've been running a successful SaaS company for the last 15 years.

It is successful in the sense that it generates semi-passive annuity income, which is growing steadily ahead of inflation, and whose profits allow me to enjoy a comfortable living with my family, with little risk and no need for added staff.

That being said, I have also repeatedly turned down opportunities to grow my operation, because despite the potential to scale significantly, I struggle with fear of success.

Can any of you relate to this success anxiety?

It's not that I'm scared of growing my team. On the contrary, I enjoy working with others, and I don't shy away from leadership and responsibility in my volunteer work.

It's more that I don't know whether what I have now is as good as it gets in terms of work/life balance and job satisfaction, and I worry that if I go for it and scale, and then later regret it, I won't be able to go back to the way things were – especially if I’ve hired a sizeable staff complement in the process.

I should add that scaling to a big exit sale isn't something on my radar either. As ridiculous as this might sound, I'm not in this for the money. I derive great pleasure from building long-term relationships, and enjoy the day-to-day lifestyle I've built around the running of my business. I hope to do this into my old age.

Simply put, I'm finding the decision of whether to scale or not is a tough and somewhat lonely one.

So if you are a SaaS founder who once faced this same decision - whether to take the risk and scale, or whether to quietly maintain the status quo - could you please share your experience with us?

And if you chose to scale, do you perhaps have any advice on which mental model(s) I can adopt to help me navigate this decision?

And if you could go back, would you do it again?

Thanks :-)
Disney Releases Footage of “Real” Retractable Lightsaber
I gave it an honest try but it lacks a lot of important features. I also get the distinct feeling it will be going the way of Inbox and get folded into some other service or just not updated anymore.
You literally just said "no one is stopping someone else from building a vertical monopoly".

The problem with vertical consolidation is _not_ that they prevent other large companies from competing. There's always a scale where you can replicate work and release a competitive product.

ARM is inaccessible to most companies, including companies that don't compete with Apple. In a world where we prevent vertical monopolization, those very nice ARM CPUs Apple and Amazon have on lockdown become commodities and spur all kinds of innovation in other areas.

Who do you think pushes Qualcomm to deliver better quality when the two primary consumers of those CPUs aren't buying from third parties?
> I'm gladly going to remove all my ads on my page if you promise to give me money through GitHub Sponsors or something lol

OP's product doesn't rely on goodwill of individuals though. You get the app for $9. Full stop. Not "please donate $9 but you don't have to if you don't feel like it".
Union ALL, pt. II: polymorphic data
When looking for a mate, animals often engage in so called "irrational" behavior to signal to the other party of their readiness and seriousness for mating. This is how, for example, peacocks get their ridiculous plumage.

And thus, when somebody "irrationally" buys a "worthless" ring for a hefty amount, it signals to some extent that one is serious, committed and financially capable of the proposed marriage.

It's often not that the partner wants the expensive thing, but more that they want a proof that the marriage is worth more than that expensive and useless thing, which they want precisely because it's useless objectively and the purchase is "irrational".

It's basically a trolley problem of "do I value my partner more, or my hard earned $XXXX more?" The forced irrational choice makes the game rational on a meta level. I don't disagree that the game kind of sucks, and there are other ways to build trust and understanding regarding the level of commitment between partners, but I consider the ring thing to be the "easy" way to do it. (which is why it's de-facto standard in many cultures)

I think the hatred against capitalism and marketing is slightly off the mark here, since capitalism is merely supplying these expensive things to satisfy the somewhat "biological" demand in our mating rituals. Capitalists might be unscrupulous, but somebody had to do it.

(Disclaimer in case it matters - I'm male, happily married to my wife, and bought a non-diamond ring as an engagement ring. I don't think this necessarily applies to any gender in any specific case, but generally speaking so far as humans are animals, the biological aspect dominates)
So this was trial-and-error on the hardware directly, without simulating it first in software?

I can't imagine how tedious this must have been. It's fascinating what can be archived with determination and this little piece of hardware.
yeah... this sounds more like a Fark.com headline than a HN post
It's easier to prove that one "saved" the company money by removing a support position than to evaluate the amount of money wasted yearly by engineers having to buy paperclips and figuring out how to expense them in the horrible expensing software.
This looks pretty great! Do you have any sense of its performance? Very roughly, what kind of latency can one expect over, say, 1M, 10M, or 100M vectors? Ballpark: milliseconds, seconds, days?