skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then stick to buying Hondas and BMWs...

> Tesla has no respect for such concepts.

Agreed. But it doesn't help that consumers have accepted faux-trust (i.e., marketing) for real Trust.

The key to real Trust is simple: It's earn. It can't be ordered. Demanded. Come from nothing. Be bought. Etc.

The irony here is, trust for Tesla is based on trust for other like (read: premium) auto brands. But in the end, it hasn't been earned. And it shows.
>They don't care that they weren't "supposed" to have that feature, they see that it was taken away.

Bingo.

One of the issues with conventional large corporations (mostly outside of tech) is that middle management incentives often align poorly with this type of philosophy.

A few companies have gotten this right, at least at times.

Costco comes to mind in the present. They go out of their way to save their customers money, and to fix issues customers have as easily as they can. Their returns policy is pretty legendary.

Amazon, somewhat ironically given recent issues, had a philosophy early on that, if a customer was talking to them, they probably didn't want to be! ...And it's probably because something in Amazon's process went wrong. So while I think their reputation has fallen greatly, they did spend a lot of engineering effort into "harmonizing" their purchasing and returns process. Mostly because Bezos saw the value in that. And despite all the bad press, I think they still have that not 'right' but 'decent'. Becuase, while I've had a few issues with amazon, they resolved them really quickly and easily for me as a customer. (I think you get screwed as a vendor though...)

Another example I can think of is Vortex optics. Most optics companies had a pretty good guarantee, often lifetime. Vortex just heavily marketed it and took away the edge cases. So while leupold wouldn't replace your scope if you sent it in along with a video of you driving over it with a truck, vortex would. That allowed them to really rapidly acquire a ton of market share.

At the end of the day, customers are human and despite tech's best efforts, they still try to interact with companies as humans would each other. Fucking over your neighbor while being technically correct still leaves you with a pissed off neighbor who will not respond well to anything you bring to them in the future.
Good idea. That way you know there is no GPS, either.
AR will absolutely become mainstream
> Can your mom get started with Paypal in 5 minutes

Absolutely. I can't talk about the merchant experience, but setting up a new Paypal account and paying for something via credit card takes like 2 minutes.
I would guess it falls into the "what assumptions does the runner make?" followed closely by "there is no standard for what env-var contains: the current branch, the commit sha, the commit message, the current pipeline identifier, ..." and a bazillion other bits of contextual information

Made worse by: ok, fine, you magically have `eval $(git set-env-from-commit HEAD)`, now how do you report those run results back to the upstream UI, since there is for sure no standard for that
One of the reasons city builders don’t use realistic housing:population ratios, ie an average of 2 people in SFH and instead coding it as like 12, is that it makes the gameplay non-fun having to provision so many roads (also, performance - kinda sucks if your max city size can only support like 100,000 people). Just let that sink in
It's a flagrant attempt at reputation laundering. As far as I'm concerned, "Meta" is Facebook, "Alphabet" is Google, and "Xfinity" is Comcast.
Market conditions explain the higher price, but why does the extra money go to the dealership rather than the manufacturer? I think something other than the market is at work here.
> stock is down about 24%

I thought you meant it had massively crashed on this earnings

It's down ~24% YTD (along with basically every other stock).

Up ~2% after hours on this earnings report
For me it’s the opposite. When I was younger I had no problems reading in a moving vehicle. I can no longer do that without getting motion sick. Not sure what changed.

Anecdotally it feels potentially related to caffeine intake or something else during the day. Because I noticed it tends to be fine in the morning and a problem in the afternoon. Or maybe it’s related to spending 8 hours a day staring at a screen for work.
I’m not pushy with this topic but as a species we could farm and consume much less animal meat. Not sure if that’s inline with what youre looking for but it would have an impact.
This reminds me of when I briefly worked at a major luxury fashion retailer.

We were not allowed to send emails with “pussy bow” blouses as they were getting caught by corporate spam filters
> In authoritarian countries where people have to worry about security services, this is a big threat which can get people killed.

Pure paranoia. Find me one instance ever where anything like this has happened.
It wouldn't matter even if they did. In the US we title large pieces of property so that people don't pull this kind of BS.
What consumer software actually sells with that kind of long-term support commitment? I doubt Microsoft will ever lose a lawsuit from someone seeking security updates for a copy of Windows 95 they inherited from their grandfather.
I won't make the claim that trolleys are cheaper, in terms of initial capital. I will make the claim that they're more sustainable, in the following senses:

* They make their neighborhoods more valuable to both residents and businesses, which in turn prevents neighborhood flight

* Streetcars cost less over time, after their initial cost. Portland found that streetcars cost the city roughly half as much per ride as buses do, and streetcar bodies themselves last much longer than buses do[1].

Ultimately, however, we're talking about public infrastructure. It shouldn't be beholden to the lowest cost; we should be balancing cost with benefit.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/13/17570156/us-streetcar-trend-pu...
The article implies that the card issuer (Brex) triggered the fraud suspension and the comments above agree. It was the same issue I had with AWS (but with a different issuer) and they never told me that was the problem. The paperwork I had to submit was in addition to fixing the payment method.
There's been some rumbling that economists are like some regulatory agencies: captured by their industries.

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/pegroup/files/preventi...

https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/9867.html

Uber seems to have run with that.
Yep, it was 20TB from what I recall.
If it's selling for so much does that mean Toyota (the company) is missing out on a ton of margin that the dealerships are making?
Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024
Marginally better numbers than expected. Stock is up ~3% after hours.
There are plenty of legit reasons to be mailing some of those addresses.
Why is cloud a loss for Google but a cash cow for Amazon?
We were evaluating CircleCI at work (wanting to move on from Jenkins) and ended up going with GitHub Actions near launch as it was a similar enough project but without needing another vendor involved. We have had some kinks but GHA works well for us now with a substantial spend.
They haven't taken a single major city in Ukraine except Kherson and Mariupol, two major Ukrainian cities.

JFC.
> The Wang VP team felt the 2200 was going to

I meant to say, "The Wang VS team ..."
I have a 3 character plus tld domain for this purpose. I used to run my own server with Postfix and Dovecot, I was able to deliver mail and it all worked but Microsoft can do the same thing for less money and effort.

The best part of running Postfix was I could add domains and addresses to a denylist and it would bounce the email and the senders server would often put a REJECTED message in their inbox. The email equivalent of slamming the door.
Right?! HFSTP, 100 ETH bid guy!
Mobile gaming has been extremely commoditized though it's still possible to get a billion dollar company out of the sea of copycats
Do usage limitations actually affect the bottom line vs throttling?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I imagine it doesn't cost much more to run a network that is 80% saturated vs a network that is 5% saturated?

Basically, why can't they just fairly throttle high usage users when utilization ramps up, and then unthrottle them when usage lowers?

Edit: I'm not talking about them reneging on their guarantees, which they've already done by asking the user to cut their usage.
Better that excess demand is captured by the manufacturer, which can be reinvested into manufacturing, than the dealer.

I far prefer the transparent pricing of Tesla, and its now the only manufacturer I'd consider buying from in the USA.
Point of use storage costs a lot more.
> why does the extra money go to the dealership rather than the manufacturer?

Because my understanding is they own the cars, once they're delivered from the manufacturer. They own the asset.
I am guessing that this is less of a concern for Google. Per Google's C++ style guide : "We do not use C++ exceptions."

So they are already not using that feature in their C++ code today.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions
> Tech Stack

The mobile apps are Flutter and the rest is a mix of Ruby, Go, node.js, postgres, redis and various AWS offerings.

> Monetization

Probably membership fees

> Website

Thanks I'll check it out
Well there are destination charges/dealer prep/paperwork etc. I recently had to buy a car. And by all indications low-mileage used are hot tickets right now. Had to pay something like $500 in dealership charges which is more than I've paid in the past I'm pretty sure but not highway robbery.

Didn't even try to negotiate the sticker price but, to my surprise, was about to get the price for some "factory installed options" (which included a first aid kit!) added to my trade-in. So the used car situation cuts both ways.

I was probably pretty lucky to get the car in "only" six weeks.

But didn't even try to get a hybrid or electric.
I think the way to handle this (based on how many companies handle GDPR compliance) is to not keep backups older than X months (usually 3 months) and have a clause that all data past that time is deleted.
Because any card they banned would probably go out of business as such a policy spreads.
You can reuse the connection with a connection pool and use SET ROLE when you check it out.
> They should probably just say 50TB with overages at $0.005/GB or something like that.

I fully agree. People use more and more bandwidth. It was just a question of time before someone started to use a petabyte a month. "Unlimited" makes no sense unless they are really ready to allow 100% usage of 1Gbps uplink all the time.
250TB/month is still way, way below "unlimited" though.
Thanks for admitting that! I'll just pine for the days of yore before SEO goofed up Google, and when hand crafted blogs ruled the internet.
You should take a look at Elden Ring. It's a massive open world that you pay $60 for once and then you have the whole game. It's also an amazing game that builds on top of the foundations of Dark Souls to give you a role playing game that has a unique sense of victory when you overcome what feels insurmountable. Highly recommend. I've been planning on writing something up about it once I beat it.

It's also notable that Elden Ring has been one of the most successful games of 2022, it managed to trend on gaming twitter for over a month and a half and still comes up on trending every once in a while.
Referring to the title I think this is exceedingly the exception, not the norm (excluding bad hiring policies). Learning what not to do is more valuable than starting with a clean slate

Referring to the twitter post, I agree. No point wasting time if a better opportunity already presents itself
I think TTL feature provided by some DB vendors are actually orthogonal to multi tendency, where the former deals with life cycles policy of data but the original problem to delete the data of certain user is more related to privacy policy of data, though overlap may exists.
It's for correct pronunciation. If there's no two dots on the u letter, french people may pronouce it 'emmo' because an 'a' followed by 'u' is pronounced 'o'.
But there's no need because Emmaüs is so well known in France that everybody knows how to say it.
You can find other examples in words like 'aigü' (acute) where you have to say the u like german ü.
re: pay someone. I forget the name but in the early 2000s there was a site where you could submit a question and someone would search it for you. They were paid a small amount for each answer. Does anyone remember this?
We're using gitlab with (on-premise) jenkins. It seems just much more capable (and if we choose to switch away from gitlab it won't matter)
I saw first hand a situation where a local municipality did a public procurement for printer ink, and since there are no software patents in law, the best offer that won was for a compatible (non-oem) ink. This ink worked fine at the time of purchase, but after a software update to the printers (a few weeks later) stopped working.
They claim the bandwidth is guaranteed on servers costing less than 50 euros a month. They appear to have simply got caught out by people actually using what they paid for.
I don't think Waymo will contribute meaningfully to the bottom line for at least another 3/4 years, however people had the same mentality of "put up or get shut down" regarding YouTube a few years ago, and we all know how that turned out. That said, I'm still very bullish on both the stock and Waymo specifically.
Main numbers are these:

--- start quote ---

- Q2 Rev. of $70B vs est of $70B

- Ad Rev. $56.3B

--- end quote ---

80% of revenue is advertising. That's all you need to know about the company's direction and incentives.
No. It's not. It's basic supply and demand. You see this every time there's supply side constraints on labor. Usually they're geographic and short lived but big ones sometimes happen too.
>Do your scare quotes mean you think it's unreasonable? It's supply and demand, isn't it?

No, it's not reasonable when you're forced to go through a middleman who adds little to no value to the transaction and wants to take a massive cut. Ford is legitimately worried about dealership greed jeopardizing the success of the F-150 Lightning[1] and EV's in general, so they're moving towards direct to customer online sales for their EV's[2]. They've arguably been burned by greedy dealerships in the past with the Focus RS[3].

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/cars/ford-warns-dealers-...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/06/ford-wants-to-sell-evs-...

[3] https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/07/barks-bites-focus-...
Lots of capex
In theory, yes. But Toyota is positioned as a mainstream value brand. They don't want to damage their brand image in the marketplace by raising MSRP just because they temporarily can't manufacture enough to meet demand.
Bun: A Complete Overhaul of the JavaScript Ecosystem
My colleague was super excited about Bun and wrote this post based on his gripes with the JavaScript ecosystem + why he's excited for Bun to disrupt the current web tool chain. I figure maybe there are a few Node.js haters on HN (just a hunch) that share that enthusiasm. :P

There was another thread about Bun on HN a few weeks ago when it launched and that's where we first became aware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429
> at some point waymo has to put up or get shut down

obviously noone is expecting significant revenue there last quarter or any near future ones so it's pretty irrelevant how they do on quarterly reports. It's been over a decade and they seem to now be making serious progress. That "some point" isn't going to be this quarter or next quarter or sneak up by surprise on anybody
I spent hours on bash.org when I found it a few years ago. Thank you for reminding me of it!
Although I opted to graduate with a CS degree, I still really enjoy reading novel research like this since it piques the interest I had initially starting college as an EE/CE major.

Can't wait to go to Defcon this year as well for work exactly like this!
Well, I'd be satisfied with only being able to be on vacation about 75% of the time.
Sure, I just mean regardless of their guarantees, why network operators don't seem to operate like this, instead they look at total transfer over a period of time, and cut you off or charge more, even if the bytes you're sending were essentially free and didn't affect other users.
Thanks your feedback is really helpful! This is a landing page platform, we will be moving to a larger platform with more pages and information soon.
I moved out of California many years ago and their fast pass system get calling me daily to inform me my balance was low.

I couldn’t get them to stop calling me or cancel the account.

So I changed my phone number to their support line number. Never got another call.

15 years later I wonder if they still call themselves.
Because Google is playing catch up and needs to pay higher salaries to poach from MSFT and AMZN and also pay much more for infra than what Amazon paid for theirs initially.
The market conditions are set by the number of people trying to buy the cars and how much they're willing to pay.

The dealership meets the market price, not sets it. If their fee was unreasonable people would buy other cars until the dealer dropped their prices to something reasonable.
That's a very strange opinion. This sure sounds like "I'm smart enough to do it without any assistance!" ego wanking.

I see it all the time on here about IDE features like autocompletion. "Why would I need that? I'm smart. I just memorise the entire codebase, don't you? Your intellect is laughable."
The terms ceo@ / sales@ / marketing@ / info@ <domain> can be fun.

Or state-level intelligence addresses / TLAs of various stripes.
Large language models can’t plan, even if they write fancy essays – TechTalks
I have given customers discounts because they wrote great docs, prepared for meetings, didn't mess around with paying, etc. And I tell them, I am giving you a discount of xyz because of zzz. Half the time they denied the discount but were thankful that I recognized their professionalism.

Problem customers just aren't worth it unless that is all you have.
This is why I've slowly moved off of Google products altogether (Gmail, Drive, etc).

I still use YT Premium / YT Music but am now thinking I will get rid of these too. I will just block ads (no longer have any "smart devices" that need Youtube's streaming app since I have an HTPC) and find another streaming service. I always enjoyed Tidal and may go back to them. I might even see about using those third-party YT sites so I can curate my subscriptions/etc there instead of in my Google account directly.

The one thing that's been super annoying has been the amount of online accounts that don't let you change your email address. Most of them are shopping carts or mostly pointless crap, at least. But right now I still have to log into Gmail because some things have to go there (until I decide to contact 30 different companies directly to see if they'll change my email address, or just leave those accounts/histories behind completely)

I really want to get to a point where I am never logged into a Google product at all, though I imagine there could be content I have to be logged in to view- not sure

It's been like trying to draw a long-taken poison out of my system and constantly finding more to remove
Yeah, the lack of a revenue dashboard at a startup would be a red flag in and of itself.
But gmail accomplished that by refusing to deliver legitimate mail too. It's worse than the spam floods we used to have.
Malware protection now a feature of Amazon GuardDuty
Oh thanks! I hadn't checked in a while. I'm not getting a new car anytime soon anyway so hopefully they solve it before I am ready!
Waymo won't contribute meaningfully for at least 2 decades. Bottom line = profit. Top line = revenue.
I bought a used car that had satellite radio. I never paid for the subscription, but it worked for 10 years! Then, suddenly one day it was cancelled. I didn't really feel like I could call them and complain.... I wonder if a previous owner was getting billed the whole time, and just didn't notice it.

Of course, this is different as a subscription service. But what if I'd sold it to someone before it got cancelled, and told them that it had free satellite radio? I don't think Sirius/XM should then have to just give the service for free. Yet somehow I don't think Tesla should have limited the battery either. I'm not really sure what the difference is.
... and their systems are designed to make controlling it difficult to impossible while locking people in to their ecosystem.
Have you taken a photo while someone else used a flash? The flash is also only on for a fraction of the camera exposure but you sure as hell notice when it happened and it went off close to what you wanted to depict you will just have to take a new photo.

The length of the occlusion isn't very relevant when the thing going in front is orders of magnitudes brighter than what you are trying to observe.

Example: https://imgb.srgcdn.com/5i9W2KZAXha7p27YHHR2.png?width=1024 good luck extracting any data from behind that flash.
And this would be fair to your customers how? Where you draw the line who is who? How would you feel if your services started to be less responsive for no apparent reason, even though you paid for them and did nothing wrong?
We avoid "unlimited" if we possibly can. The moment it comes up that provider generally flips from being "a good deal" to "the most expensive in the region". Then you're stuck looking for alternatives while you're in a bad situation. You don't always get an email, sometimes you're just suspended and they'll let you know if you email them.

(We work with >200 different hosting providers around the world)
Well now on your mac you also have to try randomly hovering over stuff to see if it changes so you can then click on it.
You left out the beginning of the quote, “solving nothing”. If you want to use my own comment as rebuttal, I ask you argue in good faith.

Even if as a thought exercise we equate the two, responding to criticism with “but other systems also have problems” doesn’t absolve you:

— Chief, we caught the murderer!

— What about the thief that escaped last month?

— You’re right chief, I’ll let the murderer go.