skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are actually a bit closer to the truth than most. The goal of a CEO is to generate as much hype early on as possible in order to spur growth. They spend early capital on growing employee count to generate even more hype. This raises their own net worth significantly. When the company goes public, they will dump what they are allowed to, navigate the much more "public" waters for a bit, then walk away with a small fortune. It becomes a game of investor bag holding at some point. The C-Suite is almost never left holding the bags. It is always the investor. I'm not sympathizing with investors, mind you.
It's trauma. See Gabor Mate for more about the trauma-addiction connection. https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/
Corporate profits are up way more than 31% in that time. So the impact to shareholders is larger.
US gamers are spending a lot less on video games now than they did in 2021
> Why would I spend 100x the cost to buy an internally developed solution that is barely an MVP product when I could buy a market leading, polished, SaaS product from a vendor who takes me out to dinner and ballgames?

Sooo... not Google products?
It’s $500k now.
I didn't see the COST paper linked anywhere in this thread [0].

Excerpt from abstract:

We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread. The COST of a given platform for a given problem is the hardware configuration required before the platform outperforms a competent single-threaded implementation.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/p...
Do you know what the author means by 'left' here? Probably not moving bits around in a way that equivalent to multiplying by powers of 2?
Yep, site claims 107% over list price. It tracks for Nashville. Love this site.
it's like our version of the "Turbo Encabulator" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
Except you see people drinking through straws while sitting down, too. So weird. I’ve always thought of straws as things only small children and maybe the disabled need. Like if you don’t even have the motor control to merely bring a glass up to your lips. I mean, even while walking and moving I somehow seem to be coordinated enough to sip liquid from a glass. I don’t know, maybe I’m an acrobat or something.

This might be a USA thing but a lot of times in restaurants they’ll bring me my drink with a straw in it and I can’t help but think “WTF do I look like a six year old?”
So I just went to Ford.com and like almost all manufacturer’s sites, I can’t build & price without entering a zip code and immediately after doing so base prices jump for fees including delivery without any options selected. No pricing for me to go to the car is available and prices seem to increase no matter what zip code I enter. The base price seems off no matter how you want to buy. So then if I inquire about a vehicle on lot at local dealers prices are all over the place.

But if I look at a 1 year old used vehicle, prices seem to normalize and become much more consistent. Using Carvana & CarMax, the price of a Bronco Sport seems to be free and clear of arbitrary markup.

So what is the allure of new? And of buying used from a dealership? They both seem like really bad choices. But maybe there’s some real benefit to new I’m missing? I’m seriously in the market & see a video like this and feel that it reinforces my opinion that I’m better off with a used vehicle for the sake of depreciation I’m avoiding and the nightmare of doing business with price gougers.
You're advocating an arbitrary system over a rules system. Who decides whether the sob story the janitor's son tells is sufficient? Is having two drug-addled parents better than one?

In a rules based system, you get in or don't based on your qualifications and prerequisites. You can predict how the system will act in restricting you. It is fairer.

In a system where everyone must be judged, it leads to exercises in capriciousness, which is what we're seeing now. "We have too many that look like you, we need a different assortment of appearances." That's arbitrary. "Your story made me sadder than his story, you get in." That's an awful way to run a system.

That's how you get aristocracy with arbitrary power. It's what every monarch of the old systems lorded over the peasants. We're just recreating it in technicolor in all of our non-governmental systems, and it just seems so utterly foolish. The claims for why we're doing it seem noble, but they always seem that way. What this arbitrary mechanism always achieves is the opposite of its stated intent.
Again, you're just arguing at strawmen of your own creation.

A hijab is a religious garment. The confederate flag is a symbol of treason and slavery. Liberals leave it up to the individual to practice their own faith as they wish, so it's not frowned upon any more than a rosary is.
Haha fair play, but to nitpick in return: when I worked on FB Ads, revenue was not even remotely uniformly distributed across days of the year, and Thanksgiving? Lots of family photos going up and being looked at relative to your typical Thursday.

Morbidly funny anecdote: when I first moved to the NYC office I obviously didn't have many friends, let alone a significant other. Myself and a few of the other sad saps who failed to notice the office clearing out a bit early around us were borderline freaking out over what looked like very anomalous behavior in the IG ranking system.

It wasn't until we raised it in a slack group that included some coupled folks that we realized it was Valentines day. Womp Womp. ;)
> You can get a small rack-mount sheet metal pedestal with an AC power meter and an HVAC unit for under $2k.

Things have changed a lot and the dominant carriers are no longer willing to interconnect with small guys.

The anti-small bias now extends to the Department of Transportation in most states (which "owns" the right of way). In Washington, WSDOT has an entire set of rules for "financially small" (their term) telecoms, basically designed to prevent them from existing. They claim this is to prevent "financially small" providers from defaulting on damage they cause to the roadway ("not able to abate or correct their environmental damage").

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wsdot%20%22financially...
You can make your point (even a bad one, like this) without being snide.

Do you have a source supporting your comment that SWE comp in 2005 was the same as it is today?
> You're still executing two distinct actions, first being the waiting for x amount of time?

It's not a fixed amount of time. What if you rewind in the song a bit to catch something you missed in the lyrics?
I didn't want to write a top-level comment and I'm sure few people will see this, but I scrolled down very far in this thread and didn't see this point made anywhere:

The article focuses almost entirely on technical questions, but the technical considerations are secondary; the reason so many organizations prefer cloud services, VMs, and containers is to manage the challenges of scaling organizationally, not technically.

Giving every team the tools necessary to spin up small or experimental services greases the skids of a large or quickly growing organization. It's possible to set this up on rented servers, but it's an up front cost in time.

The article makes perfect sense for a mature public facing service with a lot of predictable usage, but the sweet spot for cloud services is sprawling organizations with lots of different teams doing lots of different mostly-internally facing things.
It's a way for them to protest about having to place a banner at all.
My understanding is that the natural CO2 cycle would gradually remove the excess concentration currently in the atmosphere. I don't know how long it might take, several centuries at least I suppose.
Unless the IRC bot is a service like ChanServ it's just another IRC client. It's only receiving messages from channels it has joined or private messages sent directly to it. A bot is receiving what you would receive if you joined the same channels.
I don't believe so. why? because those shortcuts are the standard across practically every program that is not a terminal
SOL is... maybe an apt abbreviation?
where to? no cloud is perfect, but if you have any suggestions
I left a thumbs-up reaction on the GitHub post. The cookie outrage is completely absurd.
It seems the only filter is by square footage to narrow results.

Are there plans to filter by more params?
My Steam Library disagrees. I definitely don't have the largest, but I bet I am in the top 10%.
Ah I remember the experience of just dropping files on a server from a long time ago.

I had one web host where magic_quotes_gpc was enabled. Good luck figuring out what the hell is going on with all these extra quotes in your variables.

And I kept looking up how to do prepared SQL statements in PHP, finding the mysqli functions, and then eventually figuring out that mysqli wasn’t available on your average web host with PHP back then.

(Yes it was that long ago. I also think a lot of the hate comes from that era)

I remember the documentation as well, with usually all the gotchas in the comments. Which is great, but there were a lot of gotchas. like, A LOT.
Certainly a point worth making, and I might even be inclined to agree, but I think my point stands. Comparing against similarly noteworthy companies, Intel's CEO doesn't make all that much.
No, by definition those means are not illegal...

And the state could alternatively pass laws regulating private behavior. But sometimes having a state agency instead of a law is the less burdensome option.
I mean marginally, you know in case it ends up in a river or something.
I just received a metal print of this image from DALL-E 2:

https://imgur.com/a/Y0abtIP

I spent a lot of time alone on airplanes when I was a young father and there’s something bittersweet about the solitude and beauty in this image for me. My favorite parts about this image are the gradient in the sky, the waning sunlight in the top corner and the very faintly illuminated frame around the entire window.

Very happy with the print. Next time I might get the satin finish though, it’s like a mirror.

https://imgur.com/a/8GBQXw6
10 thousand years is a little longer than I was thinking, but OK - it's a lot less than the millions mentioned by the GP.
Alternatively, I just have weechat in a tmux on a super cheap digitalocean instance. Easy to SSH and attach to the tmux session as needed, although I've been meaning for years to use Mosh instead of SSH for easier connectivity.
Fair, although given their global reach and the relatively low value of most transactions there, it’s understandable why that isn’t an easy solution.

Meaningful KYC as fraud prevention on eBay would probably practically result in them limiting service to a handful of countries. Global banks don’t find it financially worthwhile to serve the entire world with KYC for customers with millions of dollars of deposits.
Honestly, this is the biggest reason to not use PHP. PHP Developers are significantly underpaid compared to pretty much all other devs.
What looks good is a more widely distributed skill. A lot of people can tell you what looks good quite well, very few people can make it.
No, they aren't. They're comparing a regular F-150 driving unladen with to a F-150L towing in their comparison.

An unladen F-150 gets ~25mpg (highway) for the Ecoboost 3.5L.

So, 4 gallons would get you ~100 miles. Take a look at any forum and you'll see that towing a trailer like they're talking about in this post and you'll be closer to ~10-12mpg. So, you'd be able to go maybe 40-50 miles on 4 gallons of gas.

That said, those trucks come with a 20+ gallon tank (26 on the crew cab, apparently), so even at 12mpg, you're still over 300mi of 'range' when towing. Much better than an F150L. Which... supports their conclusion that you need double or triple the density of battery capacity, which would equate to roughly parity in driving range of a regular F150 when towing.
I passed the interview (for the second time) last year and eventually turned Google down in no uncertain terms. But the last thing I was told is that the offer is good for a year — presumably not for the team I was looking at (I was being hired to a specific team which was a bit strange, perhaps?), but to go in the team match system.

Of course I'm sure it's no longer good with the hiring freeze, but the point is that Google is so heavy on the "no role needed" train that even when you're recruited for a role, you're apparently still able to turn it down and still join Google later on a whim.
developers are typically unreachable to marketers. This will be MSFT unlocking a rare audience that will fetch top dollars from enterprise advertisers, right before cookies go out of standard.

This move, like the exclusive Netflix ads inventory, makes it clear that MSFT sees ads as a big driver to business growth.
I've been working in climate tech for about 7 years now, at https://sense.com. Very fulfilling. We're hiring in lots of roles. Feel free to get in touch. (Email in profile.)
No, I actually don't. Thanks.
If I remember right, Google also had a mechanism for pushing something through outside of normal review. But it was something more disciplined than just faking a review by putting your co-workers name in a reviewed-by field.

Because it was more disciplined, those commits could be automatically marked for later review.
Would you like to rethink some of the weird and unmerited 'attack' rhetoric from your first post, btw? Seems - really weird, idk. There was no attack, just information.
> It is bad practice to have your authentication database be the same as your app database.

No, this is resume-driven-development, Google-scale-wannabe FUD. Understand your requirements. Multiple databases is non-trivial overhead. The only reason to add multiple databases is if you need scale that can't be handled via simple caching.

Of course it's hard to anticipate what level of scale you'll have later, but I can tell you this: for every tiny startup that successfully anticipated their scaling requirements and built a brilliant microservices architecture that proactively paved the way to their success, there's a 100 burnt out husks of companies that never found product market fit because the engineering team was too busy fantasizing about "web-scale" and padding their resume by overengineering every tiny and unused feature they built.

If you want to get a job at FAANG and suckle at the teat of megacorporations who's trajectory was all based on work done in the early 2000s, by all means study up on "best practices" to recite at your system design interview. On the other hand, if you want to build the next great startup, you need to lose the big co mentality and start thinking critically from first principles about power to weight ratio and YAGNI.
Comment here if you're interested in learning more, but: I made an app that periodically checks the US embassy website for visa appointments and got my family a trip to my graduation just because of it!
Audio editors for Linux that are not Audacity
All the languages are changing: eg JS, Go stuff we did a few years ago don't work now. It's a not a situation unique to PHP.
I see. I didn’t know that they previously committed to explicitly not doing this. Sounds like they kind of shot them selves in the foot.
> the competitive right to place your own facilities on telephone/power poles or underground in public right-of-way under the Telecommunications Act of 1996

This is not true. The FCC doesn't regulate the first pole attachment by a given attacher to poles owned by a given owner. The pole owners are basically free to use all sorts of lame reasons for refusing your first pole attachment request.

The FCC only gets involved when a company already has some (even just one) attachments and is getting rejected or stonewalled on making more attachments.

If you think about it, this is typical captured regulator behavior. The phone companies already have attachments to the electric utility's poles wherever they operate. So this lets the phone companies call in the FCC on any pole dispute. But it provides zero assistance to any new market entrants who want to compete with the existing phone company.

It also makes the decision to allow the first attachment a much harder decision for the pole owner, with the result being that the electrical utilities are incentivized to exclude new telecoms from competing with the phone company. But of course these new telecoms aren't trying to provide electrical services, so it doesn't look anticompetitive to a superficial analysis.
Buses in the city have to be one of the best uses for an EV... relatively low speeds, tons of stop and go for each stop. How do you get better than that?
Often (usually?) it's not about money though.

Say you work at FB on unannounced project X. You want to integrate with open source component Y, from a FB open source project but you have questions about the right way to do it, and how to get needed features into the open source project.

You can't discuss this in public channels, and all the maintainers are right there available to you internally. So what do you do?
Hey, it's time for Conversational BASIC
> Not to detract from the overall point, but increased healthcare spending during a pandemic seems completely reasonable

Public health spending yes, healthcare spending maybe not. (For instance, if everyone's staying home they can't get injured in workplace or car accidents.)

I've seen this argument used for universal healthcare in the US too, but it doesn't really make sense. Formal healthcare couldn't do much for you if you got covid since there weren't treatments for it, and now there is an antiviral and vaccine you don't need to go visit a doctor to get them.
Because AT&T never allowed Google their first attachment. Ma Bell is not stupid.
It is true in every right skewed distribution. Furthermore almost every distribution is skewed.
Payment gateway integrations might be one of the few legitimate non-advertising use cases I can think of for 3rd party cookies.

What makes you say they don't need them?
> There's a browser extension that

The problem with browser extensions is... you have to trust them.
In my experience the reading list thing (seen at other companies) is either DEI lipservice or a trap for the tryhards, or possibly both depending on how cynical you're feeling.

There's a ton of people on the internet who claim that they just haven't done enough leetcode to get into FAANG but they're sure it's The Way, and anyone who is in FAANG cannot possibly dissuade them from this belief. I imagine they're reading the interview prep books too and still not getting in.
I can do a lot more. But this whole thing is a house of cards because I’m relying on Zillow who can shut me down anytime. I need one of Zillow/ RedFin / MLS companies to agree to allow me to formally use their data. Then, I can start building the good filters and fancy dashboard. Getting their attention has been futile so far. Just cold email responses at best or no response at all.
If the brain is a filter, the trip is all about increasing the bandwidth
These are real problems, but there can also be mitigations, particularly when it comes to people scaling. In many orgs, engineering teams are divided by feature mandate, and management calls it good-enough. In the beginning, the teams are empowered and feel productive by their focused mandates - it feels good to focus on your own work and largely ignore other teams. Before long, the Tragedy of the Commons effect develops.

I've had better success when feature-focused teams have tech-domain-focused "guilds" overlaid. Guilds aren't teams per-se, but they provide a level of coordination, and more importantly, permanency to communication among technical stakeholders. Teams don't make important decisions within their own bubble, and everything notable is written down. It's important for management to be bought in and value participation in these non-team activities when it comes to career advancement (not just pushing features).

In the end, you pick your poison, but I have certainly felt more empowered and productive in an org where there was effective collaboration on a smaller set of shared applications than the typical application soup that develops with full team ownership.
> Software engineers: let's completely undo all that engineering by moving everything apart as far as possible. Hmmm, still too fast. Let's next add virtualization and software stacks with shitty abstractions.

That's because the concept which is even more impactful than agriculture and the computer, and makes them and everything else in our lives, is abstraction. It makes it possible to reason about large and difficult problems, to specialize, to have multiple people working on them.

Computer hardware is as full of abstraction and separation and specialization as software is. The person designing the logic for a multiplier unit has no more need to know how transistors are etched into silicon than a javascript programmer does.
neat, but not a meaningful response to someone asking for hard data.
The ad/pop-up blockers need to start also blocking the dumb modal windows for this. It might be easier too, there's financial insentive in breaking the blocker
The median is the midpoint where 50% of people are above/below the threshold. If there are outliers, and perhaps we can agree there are outliers on the smart/dumb scale, it can skew the average above or below the median.
This is basically what iOS shortcuts is hoping to be. You can do some simple coding with widgets like that and then you can invoke your shortcut like `hey siri, <shortcut>`.

Avoids reciting the steps you want and gives you reliability, but I suppose requires any 'variables' to be hardcoded (or for you to create multiple instances)
If the provider of the "green SMS bubble" stops selling data for a living, sure. I left Android a while ago for a reason. I loved Android; however, the privacy practices became too much for me to be comfortable with.
Someone was describing it "lacks natural depth", "cause grinding feeling in the brain". It also seems unable to generate good manga-styled images. I think what those means is DALL-E 2 lacks syntaxes and contexts of arts.

I agree that People think of technology as black boxes that do inexplicable things, but I think that only matters if boxes interferes with their contexts and scopes. It seems it is understood a threat to digital artists, but at the same time, it is possibly less relevant than Google Search as it is.
Do you mean that if you reject the cookie then the transaction will fail?
I tend think the opposite. Developing for Android I found the Java build process and maintaining a solid development environment a headache. If that follows on to Clojure I can see why it wouldn’t be as popular even if the language itself is overall better.
A closed series C might be late stage.

Here there’s nothing but hard work ahead.

To me, your compensation should reflect the future value you bring.

Not the sunk costs of the existing founders.

I mean 70k ARR is not indicative of a viable operation.

Angels knock on more doors than they pay to enter, if it takes your hiring to make the company viable, then 8% seems…

…well it seems like resentment of the idea of making you rich.

70k ARR is probably less than 0.5% of what an undiluted 8% would take to give you FU money at exit…and that 8% won’t be undiluted at 1400k ARR.

And all that’s if the major shareholders are trustworthy, the company is successful in a meaningful way, and you’re exceptionally lucky.

Sure Gates and Allen brought in Balmer for only 6%, but Microsoft’s problem was counting all the money and Balmer solved that nice to have problem…basically they made him a millionaire when they hired him.

Good luck.
Apple sued by French media over App Store power
The rise of the keyword search warrant
Making a lot of money doesn't "accelerate income inequality" necessarily; there isn't a fixed amount of money in the world and it's not possible to hoard it.