skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that we in Latin America saw these upsides of switching to FOSS and are therefore friendlier to its philosophy.
Very true. “Nobody got fired for buying IBM” is a subtle form of economy of scale. And perhaps allowed them to extend their relevance well beyond what their internal disfunctions should have allowed.
What companies don't seem to get is that they are stack ranked constantly according to a very brutal standard.

In this ranking system there is no place for every employer from position 2 down, even if they're a good prospect.

This is not at the instigation of the employee, but the employers themselves, who all have contracts saying "while you work for us you can't work for anyone else".

Covid has exacerbated this, as these days the work you need to put in for an annual performance review (more forms) often approaches what it takes to land a new job (zoom) ... so if you have to sell yourself to your current company, why not repackage the assessment and send it to a handful of other companies and select the top bidder.
I can't imagine anyone would want the car you described, for market-sized values of "anyone"
Have you ever tried https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ ?
Hmm, they say a small number of users. Seems to be my whole team in the US and Oslo cant reach slack, so maybe more than a few.

"A small number of users may be experiencing trouble connecting to Slack"
No, it is irresponsible and selfish. An infected person can also give rabies to other people -- no doubt his caregivers are getting preventative shots.
> But while the nature, significance and causes of the gender pay gap are often debated, that it exists is well-attested

Whites are killed by police more than blacks--we could talk breathlessly about the "racial police killing gap", but it's utterly meaningless without accounting for other things (differences in number of people, crime rates, etc between the black and white populations). We could say the gap is "well-attested" but that confers an air of credibility that's undeserved.

Similarly, saying that the "wage gap is well-attested" is silly because the gap itself is meaningless. It's far more clear and less controversial to say "men and women are drawn toward different fields which pay differently" (especially considering men work longer, less-flexible hours). When you account for this and a couple of other obvious factors, the gender pay gap disappears into the error margins.

Maybe this is tangential ideological pedantry, but it seems worth clarifying to me.
I love this! Very very well done.
point being? this Go brigading is annoying
Microsoft and Citus are "a little" over a billion?
Software engineering best practices are stuff like version control and automated tests. Many teams still don't have those and they ought to have them. "Squashing commits" isn't an example of best practice even if some people try to say that.
Here in the US, a shorter trip of NYC to Boston (~364km/226mi) is about 4.5 hours to drive or a little faster by train (faster train "acela" is 3h45m, regular is 4h20m). I'm assuming a "walk-up fare" is just day of, when you arrive at the station. That's generally not something we can do here as trains sell out, but for tomorrow tickets are $170 for the longer train, and between $140-$220 for the faster train (depending on departure time). Prices are one-way. Flying is often cheaper even at these distances, which is infuriating to me.

I'd love to have that $85 full walk-up fare you're getting. I really wish we cared about rail travel here, it's far preferable for me to flying or driving on trips at this distance.
Oh I get that, but that's my point.

Saying "this isn't a conspiracy theory because that phrase has negative connotations I don't want associated with MY conspiracy theory" isn't going to make it not a conspiracy theory.

I firmly believe Epstein didn't kill himself. I'm aware it's a conspiracy theory. Let's call a spade a spade.
I would draw the line at €200. A lot of people can justify €200 for nostalgia. If you can run the old software and the hardware has the right look and feel, people won't mind the details too much. Far fewer people can justify nearly €800.
AFAIK, backup cams and TPMS are required. As for privacy, how do any of those features affect anything?

But they're not changing their lineups, product design and marketing are expensive and take a long time. I don't think shrine expects the shortage to last that long.
> freebsd on a new server

It always makes me happy to see how short the list returned from `ps aux` is with FreeBSD. Whereas if you go onto a typical Linux box (even just a raspberry pi!) and run that, you get at least a screenful of processes doing who knows what. (Just my small experience.)
Very good example. They did everything wrong, got looted along the way, and still took more than two decades to finally die.
thanks for the polite and engaging discussion

BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, People of Color

Anyways, one final thought. What I presented above isn't a fringe and extremist thought on college campuses anymore. It's what has to be openly accepted as full truth. It's hard to communicate to people who aren't in the thick of it how crazy it has become. Admittedly, I'm in a more "progressive" city, but this is almost unbelievably pervasive at this point. The "good" liberals are often not aware the extent of how crazy this is and how much capture there is to this mindset in colleges.

If you have 1.5 minutes at 2x speed and are interested in some shock and awe around this discussion at harvard discussing the moral choses of whites, check out https://youtu.be/Ei-d83i5PNg?t=3433
That's a beautiful use of the language, it reminds me of some of the awk CGI efforts out there.

For example: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/...
That was sarcasm. But yeah, you can search for MongoDB and you'll come across many many posts criticizing it.

It can be said Mongodb is hated ad much as Postgres is loved.

Personally I have no opinion about mongodb.
> Would be perfect if they have a filter to replace the real email in past commits also. Should be pretty easy.

Replacing email addresses in past commits means rewriting history, which will break everyone else's copy of the repo.

> I don't know if any of the other ones do that.

None of them do what you want.
Will do (and thanks so much as you and the entire Cloudflare team does in listening to customer feedback).
> either of these fields you claim provides reinforcement for that amount being a reasonable spend

My statement was based on these two statements of yours:

> Art - $2k/yr buys a lot of solid software

> Software - $2k a year buys a significant amount of commercial tooling

I read that and thought, "Okay, well, I want a lot of solid software, so $2k/yr ... check!" I guess that's not what you intended. :)

> Care to detail an annual software spend approaching $2k for either of these fields

In any field, the approach I would take is to think about the SaaS products that a professional uses, because that's where the bulk of the software spend is these days. In software dev we have things like GitHub, Bitbucket, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Logrocket, AWS, GCP, Vercel, Figma, Canva, Slack, Discord.

I spot-checked GitHub, and their enterprise tier is $21/user/month or $252/user/yr:

https://github.com/pricing

Slack is $150/user/yr for business, so enterprise is probably 2x that ~= $300/user/yr:

https://slack.com/pricing

Seems like at Salesforce $300/yr is the low end, and they go up to $3600/user/yr(!):

https://tech.co/crm-software/salesforce-pricing-how-much-doe...

Let's say the average enterprise SaaS login is $250 or $300/yr. Six or eight of those gets us to $2k/user/yr, and six or eight SaaS logins seems pretty reasonable to me.

Note that in the OP blog post the 2k/user/yr number is arrived at from the top down, not from the bottom up as we're doing here. What I'm interested in in this thread is cross-checking the order of magnitude ... so far this thread confirms for me that 2k/user/yr is probably in the right ballpark for large companies to spend on their open source dependencies.

It doesn't sound like you or I have the expertise to go much further down this line of questioning. I'm sure people who control IT budgets at large companies have visibility into their average annual per-user software spend. It would be interesting to hear their view. :^)

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I find medium sized companies more frustrating. IMO, they are trying to become large companies and do things that are status quo expectations of large orgs. Yet, without realizing the ways in which those things have constrained you from moving as quickly as they are or did when smaller. It’s like adding a bunch of rigidity to the process and then asking why the flexibility has been reduced.

Feedback loops of communication is what I view as the biggest inefficiency. If you CC 10 people on an email, you’ll still be chasing 3 of them for a response next week.
I absolutely love this. Super smooth, can it be applied to other feeds also ?
Should they have said nothing? They qualify their argument pretty well. If Neo4j wants to respond they can do so.
There are two practical issues with your suggestion.

One is that neither one of us have any idea of the electronics BOM breakdown between the various parts of the car, and whether the effect of shortage would be mitigated in a meaningful way if the entertainment stuff was simplified. And you can't legally sell a new car in the US without back-up cameras and tire pressure monitoring.

The second issue is that re-designing that part of the car takes more than a year (probably years, given that you need to collaborate with business and marketing to fit it in the existing lineup and e.g. not have it be associated with down-market products)
It is extremely worth pointing out that you have been complaining about potentially inaccurate communication on covid risks statistics while promoting a theory that you haven't put the most basic research into and that has a large amount of contradictory data.

If you truely are trying to engage in good faith communication regarding covid, pointing this out should cause you to re-evaluate your approach.
VPSes were usually not cost effective either if what you wanted was a big pool of storage space. The big growth opportunity for S3 was the companies that would otherwise run their own SANs, not the startup that was going to run on a couple of VPSes or shared hosting otherwise.

Even the startups that grew, they might start on a VPS provider, but outgrow them. S3 managed to scale with them and retain them as customers.
McDonalds had a gross profit of ~10B and net income of ~6B in 2018.

Maybe we have different ideas of thin margins.
I was wondering when we were going to see something like this as this is an obvious next step in the pandemic era. Out of curiosity, who is the competition in this space? Also what is done to ensure that tutors are qualified and are there any plans to have them go through background checks?
st starts in ~0.01s
There's actually two, from the specs sheet:

* dual SDHC™ card slots
> What's fundamental is freedom for people. Computing freedom matters only as a means to that end.

I agree, and I'm going to guess the person you're replying to also agrees. In fact, RMS would also agree. It's just that we are narrowly focusing on a single aspect of freedom in this conversation, but yes: freedom to live, to work, to education, to health, are all more important :)
Lots of people in other engineering disciplines don't use math beyond the very basics either. A large amount of parts are designed in CAE software which handles most/all of the mathematics. And in some larger companies, the person designing the part and the person testing the part are on different teams.
There is an answer to CSV mode a bit further down the page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28708145

...but if your files are CSV, there is a CSV extension for gawk

@include "csv"
BEGIN { CSVMODE = 1 }
How? I mean, in what way, and in response to which metrics?
By the time you finish the product design and manufacturing pipeline the chip shortage will be long over, and the market for a car without any modern amenities is not actually that big.
Any proof that there's a significant inflation ongoing?
Auto makers should just buy back leased cars from dealerships and harvest the chips. These are cars after all, so the chipsets have probably been the same underpowered crapware for the last ten years.
A big turn off for me is wanting to use Python on Cloudflare Workers and then reading that it needs to compile to JavaScript.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/languages
That's an amazing compliment from Christensen. Give AWS hell Cloudflare, looking forward to using R2.
It might make zero sense as a buyer but as a manufacturer it makes a lot of sense. I would guesstimate that most of the margin is made on luxury and add-on features. A good example of this is rims: larger rims don't change anything for a daily driver, but you can add them as an option for a considerable premium. Same for many other add-ons and they're still bought very often. In addition to this, while there definitely is a certain subset of the market that would appreciate a product with considerably fewer features, my gut feeling is that it's the same in automobiles as in tech — it's a very small part of the market.
One thing that's going to come out of this crisis is cars being repriced as not just engine + wheels + seats but rather a consumer tech gadget. I expect prices to keep climbing well after supply chain issues have been solved. Piling on subscription pricing is next (and is already happening in a lot of cases).
The people not producing goods weren’t doing so out of laziness or some bureaucratic snafu. They weren’t producing goods because there was a pandemic and getting physically near others was dangerous.

If you think those furloughed workers shouldn’t have gotten any money sue it would be “good” for the long term system, then might I suggest as a modest proposal that you simply toss them into a meat grinder? Very simple and removes the people spending too much money from the economy
Because even that car would have chips in it, unless if you’re selling it illegally. You cannot make a gasoline engine that meets emissions regulations without sophisticated engine control unit (ECU) systems in it. That and there are a bunch of safety features that require it, like ABS and automatic braking. In the United States it is also illegal to sell a new car without a backup camera, which obviously requires a screen of some sorts near the driver.

Beyond that, the reality is that these features you decry are very, very popular. Nobody will make a car exactly the way you want, because that’s not where consumers are.
I assume the connection is: Neo4j is not written in any of those, but in Java
B in particular. Products like the Yaris compete on price alone.
The egress costs are finally coming to light for CIOs and CFOs. (And pissing them off)

Cloudflare has a lot to gain by fixing this.

Fascinating company.
Commercially deceptive content. Ron Paul has been flogging his useless quasi-currency for decades.
Sometimes I like to use the following example when it comes to semantics and discourse: If you start a sentence with the phrase "This isn't a sex thing, but..." no matter what you say afterwards will be interpreted as having possible sexual meanings.

If you want to frame something by saying it's not something else, people will make the connection. Why? Because you made it for them.
We had the same experience. Ended up converting the entire database in Neo4j to relational tables in postgres.
From what I've seen, every company has a different idea of what _best practices_ are.

And that's fine. "Best practices" don't necessarily need to be universal in scope. Read the Knowledge Management literature and you'll see plenty of discussion of the idea of scoping "best practices" to in terms of "site best practice", "company best practice", "industry best practice" and so on.

There's also a lot of discussion about using different language other than "best practice" exactly to acknowledge that "best practices" aren't always BEST practices, if you get what I mean. Calling them something like "recommended practices" or "proven practices" or similar lingo gives a way to denote things that are recommended at least locally, without having to claim that they are either universal in scope, or absolutely "best" in any sense.
And what's worse, is when raccoons get distemper, they act massively aggressive, and really, really weird. SO there's nothing like the pants shitting terror of an aggressive raccoon, and then worrying that you might need rabies shots as well just to find out that it was just distemper.
> What I'm seeing coming out of DL is super cool but it feels like a marginal improvement on what we have now and no more

"Marginal" here seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting and IMO isn't fair. The ultimate point of technology isn't to inspire a Jetsons-like sense of wonder (though it is nice when it happens), it's to make life better for people generally. The best technology winds up disappearing into the background and is unremarked-upon.

Like better voice recognition or text-to-speech. We've become accustomed to computers being able to read things without sounding like complete robots - and the technology has become so successful that it's simply become the baseline expectation - nobody says "wow Google Assistant sounds so natural" - but if you trotted out a pre-DL voice synthesis model it would be immediately rejected.

I also wouldn't characterize "ability to automatically detect cardiac episodes and summon help" as some kind of marginal improvement!

I think there's a bit of confusion here re: a desire for DL to be the revolutionary discovery that enables a sci-fi expectation of AI (self driving cars! a virtual butler!), vs. the reality of DL being a powerful tool that enables vast improvements in various narrow domains - domains that can be highly consequential to everyday life, but ultimately isn't very sci-fi.

Does that make DL a dead-end? For those who practice it we aren't close to the limits of what we can do - and there are vast, vast use cases that remain to be tackled, so no? But for those whose expectations are predicated on a sci-fi-inspired expectation, then maybe? It's likely DL in and of itself won't lead us to a fully-conversant virtual butler, for example.

[edit] And to be fair - the sci-fi-level expectations were planted by lots of people in the industry! Lots of it was mindless hype by self-described thought leaders and various other folks wanting to suck up investment money, so it's not fair to blame folks generally for having overinflated expectations about ML. There's been a vast amount of confusion about the technology in large part because companies themselves have vastly overstated what it is.
>A simple, basic car, with the ONLY electronic control being for:

- Valve timing - Fuel injection - Oxygen and throttle - Emissions

You still need electronics for

- ABS
- ESP
- Airbags
(- Diagnostics)

Because these are mandated.

Buy a cheap Dacia and there won't be much else except electric windows.
Stripped of the class jargon, this could be more simply expressed as “planned obsolescence is the inspiration for the subscription model”
Yes, and that's like saying that you don't understand why people eat at restaurants when there's field full of cauliflower. If you're comparing it to S3, using virtual servers means you're now taking on responsibility for configuring, operating, and securing replicated file storage in at least 3 geographically separated regions, scaling it when you start to fill up those local disks, building an API on top of that, and providing web-based access. Don't forget things like bitrot detection and prevention, storage encryption, centralized logging, event-based triggers, lifecycle management policies, tiering onto cheaper storage either by policy or automatically.

For many organizations, the 24x7 staffing needed to provide an equivalent service alone would pay for their entire storage cost multiple times over. Even if your scale is sufficient to allow beating that, you are likely to have more compelling problems for that time to be spent on.

(This is not saying that the egress charges are great, only that I completely understand why many, many people decided it was an acceptable tradeoff)
More specifically:

Settings > general > keyboards > text replacement. Then add all your profanity words as phrases
I'm not sure if he invested hundreds of millions, or whether his early investment is now worth hundreds of millions...

The quote:
Palihapitiya has been a bitcoin enthusiast for about a decade now. He began investing in it in 2012, only a few years after its inception. Early this year, he predicted the coin could hit $200,000 in five years. But on Wednesday, he said it's hard to predict where the price could go.

Anyways, if Bitcoin continues to exist and rise in value, and only then, will he be called a genius.

On the one hand I am extremely happy that the super rich are putting some $ in Bitcoin, because they are not likely to sell. So basically, they are setting a stable price floor.

On the other hand: the dream was always to have a more fair and equally distributed kind of money... That dream falls on it's face if to many ultra rich get on board to quickly...
Good point, but is "supply chain optimization to ensure that computers get to their datacenters fast" a task that is not required at 2012 FB-scale, or is it an optimisation that FB just didn't have the scale for in 2012.

The former implies inefficiencies of scale. The latter implies efficiencies. I think both exist.
Sometimes it's a negotiation stance. Sometimes it just means "getting acquired sucks and we would rather do our own thing in the way that we think is best". Like this time!
IMO, sunsetting a law means automatic repeal after its expiry date. If you want to put that law back on the books, you've got to submit a brand new bill.

Furthermore, all bills should be subject to judicial review before they reach the President's desk, and the standard should be whether a literal reading of the Constitution and all its amendments (including the 9th and 10th) in contemporary English grant Congress the authority to have passed it in the first place. None of this "what did the Framers mean?" bullshit. They had their time to govern; it's our turn now.

If a bill fails review, the authors should be booted out of Congress for having exceeded their authority.
In the United States backup cameras, tire pressure monitors, and electronic stability control are required by law.

So out of your list that leaves..

GPS (already optional on most cars)
Ass warmers (already optional on most cars)
Telemetry (this could be removed from models that have it, not all cars sold today have telemetry)
USB chargers (really don't think USB chargers are causing a production shortage at this moment)
Proximity Sensors (already optional on budget cars)
Keyless entry (could be removed, I doubt many people would buy a new car without keyless entry tho)
Remote climate control (already optional on budget cars)
Kudos! This feels like something I have been sorely missing without knowing the words to express it. THANK YOU!
Anyone driving a car thats older than 15 years old is already driving the car that OP is describing.
It requires a whole new category. Alcohol and tobacco are not free.
Used car prices are so high, that would probably be pretty expensive.