skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^^ This. One of the biggest ways to boost billings is to be consistently -- even relentlessly -- easy to do business with. That applies to billing and time tracking as well.

Tightly scope, fix a fee against that scope and set your rate high enough that you can accommodate dumb meetings, the occasional on-site, etc.

When I was consulting full-time, I never even charged for travel because that removed a potential objection from out-of-market clients. But my rate? It was at the upper end of the range.
THIS

Work that has low ambiguity and needs execution - awesome for remote work.

Work that requires trust and deep collaboration - very difficult remotely. It doesn't it mean it can't be done but the communication fidelity is MUCH lower over Zoom and this cost has to be paid somewhere.

And, yes, employee churn makes all of this worse.

I've been of the opinion that the rush to remote work is unavoidable but the industry will regret letting it get out of hand.

Which I still think is the case. I think we are reaching the point where we see the big limits in WFH show, we see generally lower engagement, more difficulty doing big difficult projects, etc.
> they inflict heavy taxes and content moderation.

It's fun to see people demanding more moderation and berating excessive moderation in FB, regularly, on this very forum.
Crossover probably can run it :)

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
That's not how capitalism works.

Besides TomTom is a Dutch company so the conditions there are already pretty awesome.
I use my CarPlay for NAV all the time.
Do you by any chance have a link to a paper or article that explains this in detail? I'd love to understand it better.
Even if I didn't already have well-formed opinions on this topic, reading the comments here would be enough to convince me that "tech" does not speak with any sort of unified voice on this topic.

I wonder if we will start identifying factions of tech by the political orientations expressed by the technology in question.
I have a single address, donotspamme@mydomain.com that I use as a throwaway and then route it to a folder to review about once a week. It draws a chuckle from salespeople when they ask for it or see it pop up in their system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586885
Because the money is funny money that's not real or robust. The US dollar has lost 85-96% of it's value since the early 70's. Just my view atleast
> Kubernetes is a Google scale solution. Lots of teams said “hey if Google does it then it must be good!”…but forgot that they didn’t have the scale.

It's also a Google engineer caliber solution. Lots of teams said “hey if Google engineers do it then it must be good!”…but forgot that they didn’t have the same in-house talent as Google.
A course might be counterproductive. In the 90s and 2000s, guidance counselors would show tapes concerning problems of the day: stranger danger, bullying, "negative" emotions, etc. Of course, none of those tapes solved the problems they addressed. If anything, many of them focused on the wrong problems or on symptoms rather than causes.

If the source of one's anxieties isn't going to change (like one's neighborhood or family), no amount of coursework or medication is going to help. Exceptional circumstances notwithstanding, there is no way to psychologize, meditate, or drug a kid's problems away. There is no one-size-fits-all solution

I might not have the solution to the problems themselves are, but the chances of proactive intervention damaging a child's life are much higher than if you left them alone. The last thing I would like to see coming back is mass institutionalization, and unfortunately these kinds best-intention suggestions become springboards for later abuses
It's not the ground based operations that get me, it's those on the ground looking up seeing nothing but Starlink
Ontario contains almost half of Canada's population so that seems very plausible
I completely lost interest in the part of the software industry I worked in. I looked around to find what I thought needed doing (work with poverty and data at large scale [1]; and more recently radically more efficient circular food production systems with automation and data [2]). I ended up cofounding the organisations to do the work. I normally joke that nobody would let me run these organisations if they where hiring a CEO, but if I start them they won’t stop me.

[1] https://Akvo.org

[2] https://Johannas.org
Mind explaining then? To me printing money is always bad.
I learn and I get more confident. People from my previous job looked down on me due to many reasons. I get excited that I have more capability to prove them wrong or be better than them day by day.
Ontario makes up ~40% of Canada's population, so that isn't too far off. It probably goes up to >50% when you filter on young urban professionals, who are the target demographic of Tim Hortons.
I use Zotero every day, but (1) self-hosting the server is not actually supported and (2) your notes are in a sqlite db.

It is a great tool. I do wish I could self host, though, and I wish the db were just an index of md files (and maybe json for bibliographic details).
hard to imagine tbh, they own three of the world's five largest communication platforms.
I think the basic problem was in their abuse of the standards process. Having patents on your own inventions for a limited time, for hardware at least [0], has strong arguments. But it doesn't typically exempt one from general antitrust law as far as colluding with others to corner a market. On the other hand, there is an unavoidable natural physical limitation when it comes to the viable electromagnetic spectrum, and huge win/wins all around in everyone being standardized across carriers and devices for how they communicate.

The spirit of the SEP process was supposed to be essentially a quid pro quo: everyone can volunteer to join and then have their IP used in a way that would normally be illegal (all players leveraging various government granted or built monopolies to essentially force the entire world to use and pay for certain IP), and thus get a massively larger market for their products, but in exchange have to give up the normal full levels of control a patent would afford by offering RAND terms to all on the value of those specific contributions. It's a bet that more money can be made from a guaranteed smaller cut on billions of devices vs a large cut on ones own vertical stuff (and possibly being frozen out of usage in certain markets entirely).

Qualcomm though leveraged that to extract a % of everything else in the device too using this multi-level monopoly. That wasn't OK. If from the very beginning they'd wanted to just demand everyone else not use any of their patents except by specific licensing with them, no inclusion in any standards, that'd be honest enough. Or if they'd gone the other way and full RAND that too. But they wanted to have their cake and eat it and that should have been stomped on by regulators right off frankly.

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0: I don't think software patents should exist at all because the core investment of software is more than adequately protected by copyright.
Thank you! I think that our game is way more "constraining" your growth than Factorio. Let me explain.

First, you need people to man your machines and vehicles. You need to first get your workers somewhere (takes time) and also take care of them (food, water, trash, etc). If you scale too fast, you might run out of food and people will starve.

Another aspect is maintenance. Unlike in Factorio, you cannot just spam buildings to scale, because you need to spend materials to maintain your buildings. If you scale too fast, your things will start breaking down (later you can recycle spend products in maintenance to recoup the costs).

Finally, there are a many potential dependency "traps". Scaling too fast and ran out of coal => no steam => steam turbines shut down => no electricity => you built backup diesel generators, fine => now they drained all diesel reserves, oops => trucks cannot deliver food => starvation.

There are many ways how to prevent such death spirals, but my point is that in Factorio (or similar sim games), you cannot loose by scaling too fast. But in COI will. :)

PS: There is air/water pollution too! People will get sick and may die.
We've been wanting to do this for 27 years

https://youtu.be/UzRjtvMQds4?t=75
People at her level don't work for 14 years with someone they don't have a good relationship with.
Seems to be the shit!!! Awesome, congrats!!

And bought it already!
> Conventional banking combines a moderate level of privacy

Rather fake than moderate, I would say.

https://moguldom.com/351338/fact-check-do-jp-morgan-chase-we...

As long as banks can just pretend to protect my privacy, while they sell my data, I feel more comfortable about the type of privacy that cryptos like monero provide.

> Why shouldn't we ask that crypto be judged against this baseline?

Why shouldn't we ask for a reasonable baseline that really protects people's privacy and not just some corporate version of "privacy™"?

> effective measures against money laundering

Just yesterday, Deutsche Bank's HQ was searched over possible money laundering.
Not looking well in what sense?
Google Duo has the best video quality in video chats in Android.

This has been my first-hand experience.
Do you have any recent examples of this? I'm extremely interested in this time period!
So a TUI?
I found it often the opposite with ytalk. Yes, some people would just plow through it and make the best of things. And one could already be thinking about a response in real time.

But other people would find the need to correct every typo. And it was painful as crap watching someone with a 5 WPM typing speed and an affinity for typos to get through what they were trying to say. And eventually you move past thinking about a response in real time to screaming "JUST STOP TYPING ALREADY!!!!"
> I mean every language has some benefits its users can point to? What are BrainFuck's benefits?)

I understand, because I also had initially thought that BrainFuck has no practical benefits, just from seeing the syntax. However, when I started a particular sales concern a few years back, I hired one rockstar 1% coder who sold me on the benefits of using BrainFuck to quickly take our product to market.

Since that time, I've been sold on the utility, brevity, and consistency that is BrainFuck. The language is Turing Complete. Literally any program that can be written in a different language can be expressed in what is one of the most modern languages around. Plus, it's far more legible than Perl, even with PerlDoc.

By our use of BrainFuck we were able to take our first iteration to market within a week. The sad part is that we had wasted the prior four months working out frameworks, build systems, diagrams, user reports, charts, iterations, tests, scaffolding, etc. All we needed was this little beauty of a language that for some amazing reason is called BrainFuck. It should be called PolishedJewel.

So, the benefits. PJ (PolishedJewel) is Turing Complete. With a little bit of practice it is EASY to write full applications - not toy programs but solutions. PJ is a common language that all of us now speak on our teams. Even our marketing department speaks BrainFuck. They have even contributed to the core open source implementation of the language. PJ has gone from a measly compiler of a few hundred bytes to the proud 22 Gigs that it is today. The feature set is incredible. For virtually no work, I can write a functioning, functional function that monolithically is a mountain of MVP, sold to the customer-base in a matter of days.

We fired all the architects, and every one of us now uses PJ in the proven market-oriented style of cowboy-coding.

It just works.
I don't know anyone who uses Facebook creatively or as a primary vehicle for widely-shared creative or entertaining content. Certainly nothing like Instagram or TikTok.
It was a non-traditional compiler written in C++.

> The system allocator is heavily tuned

Perhaps but it probably has more constraints than a custom allocator too, e.g. backwards compatibility with software that unwittingly depends on its exact behaviour.

I found a discussion of this where people reported various speedups (10%, 100%, 300%) on Mac by switching to a custom allocator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068828

I'm sure there are better benchmarks if you Google it.
>Lack of mundane grinding

Auto/afk [anything] is a staple in lot of mobile MMOs. Like auto-battle, auto-questing etc. Yeah I don't know why would you even "play" at that point but then again those games are insanely popular. Kinda like "gamifying a game" if that make sense.
TomTom is actually developing their own distribution of Android Auto. Licenced and customized to manufacturers. The design concept looked very slick.
Thank you. This is why I have not quit but why I responded to this thread of being "fired". I feel like it would make the decision for me and be a relief and work out in the long term. Just no time in the short term has it appealed enough to me to pull the trigger.

I do the occasional job searching - but not a ton. And my network feels smaller than it was when I started the job.
I don't actually want to exclude new content, I just don't want to give it priority over older content if the older content is at least equally specific in matching my query.
I'd also point out that a huge number of disruptive technologies that succeeded where other had failed did so because of... content.

It's effectively impossible to buy sufficient content to meet AAA platform expectations these days. Because you're competing against incredibly competent, experienced, and well-stocked legacy alternatives.

Consequently, either (a) "upgrading" an existing deep pool of legacy content (Google search, iPhone/web) or (b) turning every user into a content producer (Facebook, TikTok) have very good chances of success.

And finally, to call out a fundamental blind spot: if Facebook doesn't lose, they win.

Everyone pretends Facebook needs to win the VR market. They don't. They just need to keep enough of an eye on it that they aren't blindsided by a competitor, and then scale up their engineering once a seed appears successful. Their size, revenue, and ubiquity will win by default.

If FB has 100 engineers working on VR for 20 years with nothing to show for it, but that allows them to ramp up when something magic finally happens (right hardware breakthrough, etc), then that's FB money well spent.
While the hardware is as the survey says... what is the likelihood that a MacOS customer will buy a MacOS game? Likewise for linux.

As a Mac gamer, I find I buy a good number of the "new release" games that show up for my platform if for no other reason that there aren't other games out.
My guess is she wants to succeed where Hillary failed and needs to distance herself from Zuck in preparation for 2028/2032, particularly after the effect the 2020 election and Jan 6 had on Zuck's and FB's public image
This is exactly right.

At the start of the pandemic, my company (a large well known Bay-Area tech company) saw improvements in our developer productivity metrics.

Over 2020, they faded.

I'm at a new company now, we have done a lot of hiring, seen a lot of churn, and it is really hard to get "think big" projects running.
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Many thanks!

> if you telemetry isn't already packetized, you'll need to do that yourself. Converting your drone's telemetry into something that ffmpeg likes is generally non-trivial.

Yes, this is exactly the non-trivial step I'm struggling with. Let's say I have every time step a msgpack-encoded binary blob with a timestamp. I want to packetize it and pack it into a data stream of some timestamped/sequenced packet/page/atom structures. I might be able to build those packets myself manually if I can find a viable format (mkv and ogg seem the easiest to reason about).

And ultimately I do want to do this with real-time streams, but I'll definitely look at this Video Multiplexer to start with! That at least scratches the itch of archiving this data.
If this is the 90's internet phase, what was VRML?
>If you're saving for something near term (ex: new car, new house) that's within 5 years

A more conservative suggestion that I read once and have mostly adhered to says that any money you expect to need in the next five years should not be in the stock market at all.

>BND (Vanguard Total Bond Market)

Individual bonds and bond funds are two quite different types of investment and should not be considered equivalent.[0]

[0]https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/investment-products...
> But trading on things like inside financial information, an M&A, major partnership, etc. before they're made public

Yeah none of that stuff is in Jim Cramer's show lol
That Nokia guy when they "sold" to Microsoft. He was the captain put in place to run the ship aground.
This article ommits the most important details: what are the (average) temperature, and relative humidity in those grottos?

You need around 15-17°C (59-62.6°F) and 75-90%, respectively to age cheese.

Incidentally, I think it's the same for wine, at least for the temperature. I think relative humidity of ~60% is only needed in bottled wine and that only to avoid the corks drying out.
How far along with the game were you when you decided to quit your jobs?

The video's had no sound, correct?
> for something like this, jail time plus asset seizures is surely too extreme

If you'd go to jail for acting that way, why is that suddenly too extreme for CEOs? The fact is that very very personal details including things like sexual preferences, the medical history, the political views, the sexual partners, and the religious practices of millions of people were exposed by this data collection and that can't be taken back. All that data will exist forever and will likely be used against these people for the rest of their lives.

I don't want Canada to become the dystopian prison-nation that the US is. The "Land of the Free" has more of its population behind bars than any other country on Earth, but some jail time (not life behind bars) is completely appropriate for the scale and scope of what was done here and it is necessary to prevent it from happening again.
I do feel like my skills have atrophied. I've def taught myself some skillsets over the years - I love to learn - but mostly things that seem fun/interesting/challenging and not things that would transfer into a similar paying job.
This article definitely does not hit the nail on the head. Patent holders regularly supply patented technology through a patent license agreement. What exactly was discriminatory and not in good faith about the way Qualcomm did it? INHO, a legal ruling this monumental should be way easier to understand for those of us who routinely supply and license proprietary technology. The article does not summarize or explain the actual court's findings:

The Court orders the following injunctive relief:

(1) Qualcomm must not condition the supply of modem chips on a customer’s patent license status and Qualcomm must negotiate or renegotiate license terms with customers in good faith under conditions free from the threat of lack of access to or discriminatory provision of modem chip supply or associated technical support or access to software.

(2) Qualcomm must make exhaustive SEP licenses available to modem-chip suppliers on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms and to submit, as necessary, to arbitral or judicial dispute resolution to determine such terms.

(3) Qualcomm may not enter express or de facto exclusive dealing agreements for the supply of modem chips.

(4) Qualcomm may not interfere with the ability of any customer to communicate with a government agency about a potential law enforcement or regulatory matter.

(5) In order to ensure Qualcomm’s compliance with the above remedies, the Court orders Qualcomm to submit to compliance and monitoring procedures for a period of seven (7) years. Specifically, Qualcomm shall report to the FTC on an annual basis Qualcomm’s compliance with the above remedies ordered by the Court.
I spent a bunch of time searching, and all I can find is parts on ebay today. Everything of the era is just people saying that everyone knows they cost more than intel parts. Nothing I found actually backs up the claim with real numbers, so?
That's exciting. I've been seeing a number of people streaming the game on twitch.
It’s not a matter of just having a build, it’s also about being able to support the users who use that build.
On the flip side I greatly prefer the indicator. It lets me know if I should wait for a response or move on to other things. When I message someone I wait a few seconds to see if they start typing and if they do I just wait and if not I can start focusing on something different.
You're right, this post focuses on filter queries with the WHERE clause. Aggregates are also pretty fast, a live demo is currently available with three datasets, one of them being more than 1.6 billion rows: https://demo.questdb.io/
On this you can also perform a join, in particular ASOF joins (where timestamps do not exactly match).

NB: The launch of this demo was done some time ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616878
in my experience the ordinary android or ios end user will automatically click "yes/accept/allow permission" on almost anything that pops up on their screen.
uLisp was too large for a small flight computer I made for a hobbyist rocket - I wanted to use it but had such little RAM I had to go down to C. I think I could have ran lisp-to-c to generate from uLisp which I’ll try on my next project.
I think that desktop browser users expect that their tabs generally won't get reloaded. On mobile, users have generally accepted that their tabs will get reloaded. Maybe browsers should just reload tabs if anything fishy happens or you're not using them.

Hibernating tabs to disk is hard because the JS heap (and the DOM heap) will contain lots of stuff that is tied to handles you got from the OS. It's not impossible. But it would require a lot of work to build specialized serialization functions for stuff that has native state attached to it that the browser doesn't control or have good visibility into.

I think that some websites use a lot of graphics memory while other websites use a lot of JS memory. And there are other categories of memory usage, too.

Maybe if they put the cloud browsers on the blockchain using machine learning, and then write them in Rust and compile them to wasm, then it will be even better.
Our experience is different folks want to get involved with different things and they're much more likely to do so with another coworker or two than they would be to do so alone.

We understand this isn't what all folks want and don't mandate involvement.
I would agree with you in most cases, but somehow can never convince myself to stay at Trump hotel ever!
Very nice!
Which language the game is written in?
Not really sure those were that disruptive. They are more prefecting an existing thing, which is not really what people mean by disruptive.