skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you believe glib sarcasm should require a license?
Apple 3Q 2021 Results: $21.7 Profit on $81.4B Revenue, New June Quarter Records
That's some accounting magic you have here. Next time they need the stock to go the other direction maybe they will say something else.
I will also say, a number of times I've thought something like "why would they do that?", and some months later (I'm kinda slow) I would realize that it now makes sense.
An apparently true story: a Brit interviews for a job with an Australian employer. The employer asks "have you got a criminal record?", to which the Brit responds "I didn't know you still needed one."
> I’m a climate change denier

> I don't deny it

So, you're not a climate change denier
I don't think its "first witnessed", I think its 80% of blossoms are open.

https://twitter.com/sayakasofiamori/status/13739565776071311...
>I prefer the grittier SV myth stories a-la Ben Horowitz which mention all the times you’re vomiting in your bathroom...

"There were so many depressing nights alone that often I would watch my favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption, over and over, mindlessly."
That's a great question, failure rate and MTTR are the two metrics teams have the most trouble getting a real handle on. We've found that different teams define change failure and MTTR in widely differing ways. Some customers just want to track incidents where others are using team KPIs as their definition of failure.

Today, you can manually update the status of a deploy as an incident, rollback, unhealthy or ailing. This allows you to "correct" data that Sleuth may have gotten wrong via integrations to Datadog or your incident management system. Right now the correction is at the deploy level. However, we do have more control coming soon so you can override any period of time as having been in a specific state.
Culture fit doesn't have to stretch that far - it does not need to be pervasive and it does not need to be toxic.

We had a guy from Gaza in our office - he complained about informal emails sent to invite people for drinks because it was sinful, he complained about a manikin that got dressed up at special occasions because it was immodest.

I don't know what lines to draw here - but be careful when playing with double-edged swords.
"Lack of advertisement" should be "Lack of conventional advertisement"

Musk is strongly associated with Tesla in many people's minds and he's very capable of keeping himself in the public's focus. Then there's SpaceX which literally launched a Tesla into space. Umm, that launch was advertising. Even if it didn't come out of an "Advertising" budget line. Every manned SpaceX launch uses a Tesla vehicle to get the astronauts to the craft and, in the US at least, SpaceX is hot the past few years.

If Toyota or Ford had a space launch company you could be confident they'd tie their trucks into it, drag the Ford Shuttle S150 out with a fleet of F150s. Who needs conventional advertisement when that's your public image?

Then there's the fact that Tesla's vehicles are still unique in the market place with few direct competitors (though that's changing). There's no need to spend money advertising when you're the only company making status symbol electric vehicles that are (somewhat) affordable. A Honda Fit, not a status symbol even if it is more practical financially. Honda and Toyota's midsize sedans aren't differentiable, not really. They rely on branding and conventional advertising to make people prefer one to the other. All the other auto makers are in that same situation with most of their vehicles.
What are my existing ideas?
If you look at these benchmark a bit more deeply, you'll see that there isn't anything that's as featured and robust as Django and that's more than 2/3 times as fast, which isn't much to justify a full rewrite. Django is at 4.4%, and Spring for example is at 9%. The exception would be ASP.NET Core, but I don't know enough about the ecosystem to judge it.
To be fair, the only reason he got pinched was because he ripped off some very wealthy and powerful investors/partners in a ponzi scheme.

The execrable stunt where he jacked-up the price of a rarely used but life-saving drug from $13/tablet to $750/tablet-- that was perfectly legal.
Toyota doesn't advertise?
From a UX perspective I find GCP much better than Azure but I fear that Alphabet will get bored of GCP given how far behind AWS and Azure they are.
Maybe, but it is entirely plausible that the equipment is lasting longer than they were expecting. No one really knows how long a generation of hardware is going to last until it starts failing.
> The username and the obsessive refs by the person you're responding to make me want to totally dismiss him

How rational of you.
There is a chance that selling those divisions might yield better return in a sale. I think you're right on GTS.
Credit to Bubble for raising such a large amount after years of hard work and dedication. I admire their tenacity, community and product but I don't agree with the sentiment 'make tech cofounders obsolete'. Why do you want to make a highly skilled individual obsolete?

I feel, in many ways, this sentimentalism is what negatively affects the no-code / low-code industry. We need developers and non-developers to work together, not make the other redundant.
I worship climate change too but palms
In Alaska actually sounds nice.
Well, in most cases buying out a lease is an unwise financial decision. Encouraging people to lease with subsidies and then driving down the cost of second-hand EVs doesn't seem like a bad way to go if your goal is to spur adoption.
>a public, broad, and well funded astroturf campaign?

Abroad where 50c doesn't operate? Reality is there aren't any substantial large scale astroturf campaigns from PRC according to recent foreign influence reports from western social media companies (see Twitter, Facebook). There's hand full of practice bit increasingly competent script kiddie tier campaigns with limited exposure on subject matters most westerners don't care about but CCP does (i.e. GuoWenGui). Even less so per studies before 2020 that only found anti-China social media manipulation that targeted PRC netizens who jumped the firewall. The real brainwashing is thinking Chinese opinion can't be "genuine opinion or free thought" because ruthless western manufactured consent created a misinformation enviroment that insinuates PRC opinions are totally controlled even abroad. There's plenty of genuine PRC supporters in the diasphora, and plenty of opponents as well. The former are usually the educated folks who immigrated in the last 10-30 years with duo perspective on Chinese/western models, largely normal people. The latter are dissidents, groups marginalized by CCP, who only has snapshot / out of date / time bubble memory of PRC. Incidentally they're the ones creating epochetimes, hanging with insurrectionist, and trying to convince western audiences that being pro PRC can't be a genuine opinion.

Here's the 2021 RAND report on PRC disinformation from a week ago:

* China has not carried out substantial disinformation attacks on other U.S. allies or partners (such as Singapore, the Philippines, or Japan).

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4373z3.html

PRC information campaigns are being tested, they may target west one day. But the idea that PRC is astroturfing the west is the product of western astroturfing itself.
Woof that landing page is crude.

The about page is a lot better I think you should merge the two in one page.

Signing in w/ facebook or google only is a bit rude too...
Skeptics = deniers in your mind?
We want graphs? How about atmospheric co2 yearly trends as measured at the peak of Mauna Loa, exposed to cross-pacific high altitude winds.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
What would using Java accomplish exactly?
It's a big jump but the comparison is with Q2 2020, which was the most unusual quarter in the history of mankind I think, at least outside of wartime. I believe it was their first ever negative quarter yoy.
As someone who has practiced (or tried to) sustainable agriculture in the tropics, I have to say that I've long ago become dubious about the whole idea of storing carbon in the soil. I think in cold climates, under dense forest growth, maybe more carbon accumulates than the microbial life can consume, up to a point, but in the tropics that sure doesn't seem to be the case. Most of the soils I've seen have essentially no carbon content below the first few centimeters... all the nutrients are in the litter layer above the soil, and most of the native plants will grow their feeder roots right into that litter (mulch). With a lot of effort and a lot of mulch, you can start to accumulate a bit more carbon in the soil, and a lot of crop plants sure appreciate that, but by far most of your mulch is going to disappear amazingly fast if you don't keep applying more, and then that bit of soil carbon quickly disappears, too. You can't build those deep, black, "healthy" soils you see in temperate climates in the tropics. At a guess I would say 99% of the carbon in tropical rain forests is in the living matter.

And the problem is that with global heating, the tropics are on march toward the poles.
No, the values are the "full-flowering date" not the "first"
Can you elaborate your calculation more? Are you using $1 from the $2 profit to reinvest in advertising? Also are you getting an 80% return on that $1 meaning getting back $1.8? ($1 investment in advertising + $0.8 profit)
Man. I went to high school in the late 90s, and we didn't even have a CS course. We did have a "programming" class, and it was taught using Pascal. It wasn't a required class, and only the "nerds" (such as myself) took it. And my high school was a brand-new school that was branded as a "tech magnet" school, in a relatively well-off area.
An interesting choice in name for a company raising $100M on a dream.

What happens when the no-code tool breaks? What happens when it doesn't do what I want it to do?
Japan's population has declined since 2010, so somehow this explanation would have to account for why fewer people see blossoms earlier.
Does calling her a "cyborg women" automatically mean it isn't period-appropriate? My 2 minutes of research seems to indicate that there is nothing anachronistic about the tech[1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOII2izC7XU
I hate to do this but... cherry trees only live about 15-40 years. They're cultivated and bred for their blossoms, among other things. How can we be sure that we haven't selected trees for earlier blooms?
> cook something up on this guy.

It was PONZI scheme. The only one who did the "cooking" was Shkreli himself.
Tried. Good. Being used to Sumatra feels like missing the organising of documents, and features like "Sign" are really distracting.
No worries, I do that all the time myself.

As far as the bluetooth side it, I don't have personal experience with them other knowing that they were added to systems I've worked on after the fact.

So your statement sounds logically, I just can't confirm it.
To be honest if you cut the graph in half, there's a noticeable dip there too.
The only thing Shkreli is guilty of is risk laundering. Nobody was defrauded. Everyone got paid. He made a huge (relatively stupid) bet that could have hurt a lot of people, but he lucked out and was able to make everyone whole. Actually, a lot of his "victims" made a lot of money.

> 4. How much did investors lose?

> Nothing. Shkreli partly repaid them with Retrophin stock and several witnesses told the jury they ended up with multimillion-dollar profits. One invested $1.25 million in Shkreli’s hedge fund, got $1.6 million back and 150,000 Retrophin shares, currently worth about $2.9 million. Another said she ended up with a $2.7 million profit from a $300,000 initial investment.

https://fortune.com/2017/08/05/why-martin-shkreli-is-guilty-...
A Year of Technical Writing on Medium – 150k+ Views
I haven’t dug into the data set, but the title of the graph says “peak bloom”, not first bloom, implying that outliers don’t significantly affect the results.
Thanks this looks promising.
Sure, liberal democracies have had many recent failures, but they're still the most prosperous societies on a per-capita basis by a gigantic margin. If an authoritarian or non-democratic country can achieve over $40,000 GDP per capita, then we can revisit.
I changed the wording to more closely respond to the parent comment.
Based off the comments I guess this is tesla. Isn't this just based off of their inflated stock price. If someone was seriously considering buying the company they wouldn't make an offer based off the stock price?
Quarterly Startup Fundraising Trends from DocSend’s Fundraising Network
That doesn't align with most accounts of how computing was performed in the 50's and 60's.

For instance, Knuth was seen as an anomaly because he would operate the keypunch as fast as the secretaries and would keypunch his own programs.
This gets removed from EBITDA though, to avoid that accounting magic
He’s going to get out. Do an excel course on Udemy and be back on the road to being a millionaire in no time.
>"Ergo everyone commits crimes!. We're all criminals, they just selectively choose what to enforce!"

I highly recommend watching "Don't Talk to the Police", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE for a different perspective of where the GP is coming from. While it is true the vast majority of the US Code is something that simply won't apply to you (like the obsidian example), there are plenty of laws on the books that are vague and subject to abuse by a motivated prosecutor. One such example is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is a massive topic in-and-of-itself.
I only have anecdotal evidence for this, but before I started using YouTube Premium, I noticed I always got 1-3 minute ads before playing videos. But when I had videos playing in the background without using the TV remote/mouse (e.g. falling asleep on the iPad), I would see 30-60 minute ads. It seems YT is maximizing ad revenue by showing full length ads to empty viewers.
Flowers aren’t good enough for you?
Thanks, but he did not claim all of what you claimed though. I remember more reasons than that for why experts recommended masks to go to qualified personell. Which still was the best usage for those masks at that particular time.

Besides, this is from a bad-faith hearing after the fact, not concretely what was said and done at the time by who. You'd have to include the entire context for that to be fair.
Meh. The denier response is “yeah CO2 is increasing, but the evidence that it’s leading to other stuff is suspect”.
I miss What and Oink. I didn't even bother finding out what the next incarnation was and trying to get an invite, I just gave up and got Spotify. There's still tons of good music that I only ever found on those trackers. The quality of recommendations was also peerless.

Have any of the successors rebuilt that?
Sadly not, although it’s doing as well as could be expected given the reduced interest in torrents that streaming has brought. There will always be certain things like rare scene rips that are unlikely to ever be resurrected.
I don't see why number of search queries would correlate that strongly with revenue. For a start, Alphabet does a lot of things that aren't search. Secondly an improvement in the search algorithm might mean people make fewer searches (since they get the desired results immediately) without having any real impact on revenue.
How is it compared to flagger or ther A/B release or canary deployment platforms?

I miss a comparison because, you guys are entering into already existing market. As a consumer, I would love to know why your solution is better.
Sea level rise doesn't look that concerning:
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1506
Aside from time, you also need a stricly anaerobic environment under pressure for that to happen.
Okay, I'll phrase it more strongly:

Emotions as such are good, from sorrow to rage to joy.

Each one is a good response to some situations, as far as I can tell.

Your emotional response can be misplaced, so that you experience an inappropriate emotional in some situations.

As noted elsewhere in the thread, you can also be inspired by your emotions to inappropriate (and just terrible) behavior.

The emotions themselves, though, are not shitty. Recognizing them and understanding where they're coming from can be tremendously helpful in aligning your actions with reality and your own values, and even in discovering what your own values are.

I share this perspective not out of a sense of superiority but in the hope that it helps someone else avoid my mistakes.
About a year ago was in many places just after the start of the pandemic, which brought a large influx of users to the default public server. It got overloaded, and slowed down. I experienced it, too.

They have made several rounds of significant scaling improvements since then. It's almost never slow for me any more. (And even if it was, I could always just choose a server other than matrix.org, or run my own.)
From the article: "Computer science is a difficult world".

No, actually it is very easy. It turns out the real world is actually insanely complex, sometimes needlessly so.

I suspect entrepreneurs are being held back by very complex and burdensome regulations, rather than how to write a hashmap of Strings and Integers.
Not really. Writing test for them. being trivial and all, would take many times more time than fixing them.

Those bugs had limited impact so the QA could manually test all the reasonable places of impact after my fix, while I was fixing the next one. It was really great feeling of interaction and collaboration. I felt like a proper wizard and I knew that after this sessions all the things we fixed are good.

This is completely incomparable to TDD, where you just sit in your own muck and shovel it back and forth with very little interaction with outside reality ending up with ton of code that does nothing because it just makes tests that will never fail or they fail all at once because they will fail only if something very major breaks.
> There is without any bloodshed and without any bloodshed. The Soviet Union fell down with very little bloodshed, but around 7 million people died from the economic disruption, and the democracy that came from it was rapidly compromised both by local oligarchs and foreign powers in most of it.

But you're comparing apples and oranges.

Russia was still a command economy when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and went straight to democracy and capitalism at the same time with very little transition (IIRC, mainly because of the bad advice of Westerners who were too ideological and infatuated with markets).

China has already made the transition to capitalism, so I don't think a political transition to liberal democracy there would entail the kind of economic disruption Russia experienced.
It is.

It's more than frustrating to have crash logs that don't refer to your code and contain access tokens or similar data because the author of the 'rebranded' software doesn't care about user privacy.
I think you saw the "brand value" list rather then the valuation of the company list:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-top-car-manufacturer...
In the act of transparency, I am the cofounder of Budibase [1], an open source low code platform, and have felt the unease this type of sentiment brings to young developers.

At the same time, a tool like Bubble is incredibly empowering, and I want to to make it clear, I don't have any issues with the product, just the sentiment in the title of this article.

[1] https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
I think more than lasting longer, it might be because of the improvements per dollar spent. We haven't seen dramatic improvements in power consumption or silicon performance, so it might be just profitable to keep the hardware longer.
I don't see what the big deal is that you keep bringing.

Why does it matter so much to you whether or not 60%, or 59% of the people engaging in the harassment were sexist?

It is still bad, regardless if we get the literal exact percentage correctly of precisely how sexist each individual was.
Why don't you like them _and_ which of those reasons will affect their job performance?

Do they dismiss any approaches besides their own? Do they think mentoring is a waste of time? Do they think that their code is so obvious that there's no point in documenting? Do they think their code is so perfect that unit tests are unnecessary? These are good reasons to dislike someone and not hire them.

Do you dislike them because they seem kind of boring? Get over yourself.
The useful life of hardware depends heavily on how sophisticated the break/fix procedures are. Lots of corps with on-prem datacenters will cycle out 3-year-old servers en masse just b/c a high failure rate causes issues for internal systems and their IT staff don't have efficient processes for replacing hard drives etc.

But if Google has a sophisticated virtualization layer and an efficient way of replacing bad hardware (and they do) they can ride those old machines straight into the ground, getting every scrap of life from them.

Edit: Guys, this is literally true. I worked with these teams. They did it. Downvoting doesn't make it not true. Idk what you want exactly.
SpaceX and Tesla do viral marketing, and they are really good at it.

In a narrow sense, Tesla doesn't advertise: they don't buy ad spots on TV, but they certainly do it in other ways. I mean, SpaceX started because Elon Musk wanted to buy a Russian ICBM to put a small greenhouse on Mars as a publicity stunt, Russians said "WTF lol no", Elon Musk said "Ok, I will make my own rockets". I don't know if it is true but it certainly shows the lengths Elon Musk is ready to go when it comes to marketing.

And you say you'd buy Sennheiser over Beats, but you certainly know about Beats. Everyone knows about Beats. To give an idea of the power of Beats relentless advertising, audiophiles (Beats supposed enemies) make articles like "list of bass heavy headphones that are better and cheaper than Beats" (that are not that much cheaper). It may seem like they are attacking Beats, but instead, they have just set them as a reference. Bass heavy headphones = Beats. They talk smugly about how Beats prioritize form over function (Headphones that look cool = Beats). Guess what someone who wants bass heavy headphones that look cool will buy, even though they Beats is far from the only one offering such products?

You won't buy Beats, they don't care, you are not their target. If they want to capture your market, they will create or buy another brand, and use a different marketing strategy.
Yes probably many analogies to dieting. I doubt it would help everyone stick to a diet but I bet many would benefit from a timelock on their fridge door from 8 pm to 6 am :) Putting up roadblocks to slow yourself and remind you of what you committed to before is sometimes an effective strategy, in my experience.
> Point is, condescending remarks only push people away from your cause.

Thanks for the honesty. Here's some more.

Some of us don't care about your feelings at this point. It is past time for talking. There are always people with perverse incentives, or deeply held beliefs or grudges, who are unreachable. Screw 'em, it is time for action. If they want to argue, they can argue with each other.