skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competition has decreased throughout the economy. There are several ways to measure this. New firm creation in the USA has been in steady decline since the 1970s, and the explosion of software startups has not been enough to offset the rapid disappearance of industrial startups. Or, to take another measure, in 1999 there were 8,000 companies listed on USA stock markets, but now there are only 3,400 companies. Consolidation has moved at a rapid pace.

Here is another take on the subject:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/paul-krugman-mon...
lots of men do the opposite of crying by reacting with some sort of anger/rage in whatever public outbursts (verbal or physical). I present my younger self as exhibit A to verbal stupidity and admit guilt to all charges in this manner. It wasn't until maybe 10ish years ago that I got tired of just being angry at everything. Maybe I could have gotten there sooner with professional counseling, but that wasn't the manly thing to do.

The stigma of men seeking therapy is something that can only improve. Just don't know how to do it other than speaking positively about it at appropriate times
Agreed. The second and third order effects of not having enough people to support the elderly population will be extreme.

Still, it’s unavoidable, so we’d better come to grips with what is happening.
What's the best online space to catch up with/follow progress?
This is an extremely bleak perspective. Individuals care, but most are powerless to make a difference if they don't work in the area of concern. It's often a knowledge sharing game of making sure the right people hear about it which can be hard. They are intentionally shielded from direct feedback to keep them focused, but that is a double edged sword. I honestly believe the reason viral stories get resolved is because the information gets to the right people, not because of a desire to avoid bad PR. Google is a collection of largely independent tiny organizations.
This was my thought as well. There have been several comments in this thread (and others like it recently) where the content of the comment was:

- A thoughtful, non-flippant response and sometimes included citations

- In disagreement with the article/other comments

- Downvoted almost instantly

I personally enjoy reading many of this community's comments, thoughts, and ideas, especially when someone has taken the time to write out a thoughtful response, and even if I may not agree with the conclusion. I really hope others do, as well.
Well their contributions and 'desktop support' only go towards... ChromeOS.

The fact that this effort is going towards this OS tells us they don't care about open-source and especially the Linux Desktop either. It is only to the Kernel which is fine, but it clear that the wider Linux Desktop ecosystem has had the same 20 year old issues still present today.
Why would self control require pretending you don't have emotions? If you are being aggressive, then yes, you are lacking self control.

But that is act, not emotion.
I really like the mandatory programming socks my company prescribes. Waaaay better than business casual
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As numerous other commenters have mentioned here, even a total ban on residential water use would not make a difference to the water issue in the American West. There simply is not enough residential usage to matter.
From an American POV: who cares? The country's citizens have terrible health care, no real safety net, rising inflation forcing people to eat more and more processed junk, half the population has collapsed (negative growth, drugged up with painkillers etc.) and a cause of this is spending a notable chunk of the national budget on the military which defends places like Taiwan instead of solutions that improve the problems above.

If America says "JUMP" TSMC says how high.
Roe v. Wade was judicial fiat from the time it was laid. The Judiciary carved it out as precedent, for the duration of that particular set of Justices in the Court. It's as ephemeral in a sense as an executive order.

The way the system is intended to work is that such things should be enacted through the legislature or a Constitutional convention. If it is universally desired to elevate something above reproach (and shoddy prevention that is given the treatment of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments in general), it'd make it into the Federal Constitution to clarify it. Interestingly however, the 10th Amendment explicitly makes implicit that any freedom not explicitly carved out in either a State or Federal Constitution is granted to the People. So somewhere along the way we've seriously lost sight of how things were intended to work.

The American Constitution was intended to primarily enumerate limits on Government, not on those of the People. Therefore, positive assertions or explicit "People have X right" is actually in a sense a form of regression from what the document was intended to embody. Which again, is primarily "no government, no matter how much easier it'd make your existence, thou shalt not go there", and "no States, we all talked about this, you shan't go there either".
More like parity with other countries that strategically invested in semiconductor manufacturing using government money and policy.

We have to pay to play. Unless we're cool with not manufacturing chips domestically.

Not to mention most bailouts don't have clawbacks like the CHIPS act.
Can you not have a queue of whatever type of containers the users are likely to be using already ready to go, like the GP suggests?
From my experience, making downgrade of a single component will not be easier with K8 unless you design for it.

Also from my experience, people will start complaining as soon as the new deployment with k8 start failing and they have to fix it.

But its a good opportunity to make the transition to more stable architecture.

My suggestion is to take it slow and do changes one system at a time. Start with stateless application with less risky deployment and as you learn move others.
Why do people make these kinds of objections?

Taper down the subsidies over time rather than implementing them over night.

"If we intentionally implement this policy change in the dumbest, bluntest way possible, it will be disruptive" is an argument for never making any policy change.
The space economy grew at fastest rate in years to $469B in 2021
I went from Kubernetes to Ansible to Nix for my personal installation. Kubernetes was too complicated, and Ansible too brittle.
even with your router's domain blacklist, it may not be so easy to block all social media (specifically, apps[0]). I don't imagine cigarette manufacturers are keen on making it easier for people to quit smoking either.

[0] https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/tech/facebook-app-and-un...
A totally tangentially interesting thing about that blog is that ... OMG, someone is still using "pingback"s.
Being a symptom and a cause are not mutually exclusive, but blaming the videos alone results in a chicken and egg scenario.
There are larger legal differences across countries that mostly dont apply between SF and kentucky.

& timezone and language/cultural differences too that are not immaterial.
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Thanks, but that wasn't quite what I meant. What I was thinking about was processing existing gzipped or zstd compressed JSON rather than having a new compression format.

I could see how customising the compressor could be helpful - a bit like how there's an `--rsyncable` option to `gzip`, but I'd like to keep compatibility with existing formats. I like to avoid coming up with new formats whenever possible because you might want to mine the data in 20 years time - and if it's a custom format it'll be much harder to deal with.

I don't have a current use-case for this, but I like thinking about it. In particular I like data stores to be as simple as possible. Managing persistent state is the hard bit of most systems as unlike with runtime state or code you have to manage forwards and backwards compatibility, migrations, etc. and you can't just "turn it off and on again" to fix issues.
Oh so it’s not just the google ads grpc Python library that is brutal to live with
Definitely. The GPL triggers on distributions, so as long as you don‘t distribute you‘re in the clear. Company-internal use doesn’t usually count as distribution.
I recently visited Denver for work - I have never felt so entirely trapped in my life. That's not better off to me - not having the freedom to walk, to take the bus, because you're surrounded by what I would call a "motorway" and they call a "street" is something I don't understand.

Imagine trying to raise your kids to be independent human beings when they can't walk to the shops, can't visit their friends without mummy or daddy driving them, and can't take the bus to the local swimming pool/cinema/library/whatever.

Anyway, try not looking around London, it's not the only city in the UK, believe it or not. And I mentioned rent rather than purchase price. Nobody in my social circle can buy in either the US or the UK.
A pet peeve of mine is that differentiable programming is co-opted almost entirely by deep learning + neural networks. The idea of differentiable programming is much bigger than SGD, and in fact neural networks are typically a simple program to differentiate. Full differentiable programming requires solving much more involved problems around control flow than just implementing numerical forward/reverse mode for math operations with well defined and understood gradients.
I really love this book. Beautiful data and beautiful visualizations are also nice reads, but beautiful code has a special place in my heart.
Show HN: Top MariaDB GUI Tools
Yep, my MIL had accidentally subscribed to several, and when I next saw her laptop, the notifications came in all the way up the right side and were pretty disruptive.
The secret is using hardware that's known to work with Linux. Inside Google, I'm sure IT does this (or writes/fixes drivers when it must). Outside google, you have to do this yourself. Find someone with a working setup and duplicate exactly.

> Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a dumpster fire and Linux bluetooth is a radioactive biohazardous dumpster fire. Stay away. My workaround: Linux -> SPIDF -> 1Mii B03Pro bluetooth transmitter. The chipset drivers that output 3.5mm and SPIDF are ancient, stable, and dumb as rocks, so they actually work. SPIDF beats 3.5mm because 3.5mm can detect connectedness and punish you by scrambling your sound settings every time you bump a cable. SPIDF can't do this so software can't screw it up.

Also, even if you get linux bluetooth working it will tend to scramble if you reboot into a different OS. Just say no. Use an external bluetooth transmitter.
Is that under "realistic" economical assumptions? I.e. phasing out fossil fuel while keeping our political system and economy reasonably intact? Or is it even impossible if we stop emitting all CO2 tomorrow, because the warming is lagging behind?

Last I heard, we could still physically achive 1.5 degrees, but we would have to switch completely to command economy immediately and take a big reduction in economic activity (a couple times larger than during the peak of COVID). Which I believe is still better than the alternative.
The math is fiddly to get right, but (as the author) I'd suggest that the disadvantage is very tight coupling to the CPU implementation: the interleaving is based on the relative speeds of the two methodologies, so if the relative speeds of the two methodologies drastically changes on a future CPU implementation, this _particular_ interleaving could end up _slower_ than either methodology on its own.
when i looked through the JS, it was not written in a way that took size or performance seriously. perhaps it was transpiled from Dart or something. additionally, i think tag manager includes an entire [likely complex] visual DOM tagging UI that gets downloaded even when not used, etc. (correct me if i'm wrong!)

embedding the youtube player downloads 576KB of compressed JS (2MB decompressed) [1], instead of 0 bytes for a cdn-hosted mp4 video; i'm quite certain there is not 2MB of value delivered to embedded youtube watchers.

i think there were/are a lot of low hanging fruit to give technical users / devs the ability to opt out of the whole kitchen sink.

[1] https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube_player_demo
Even if you're strongly in favor of the more sever restrictions of early 2020 in the US and Europe you have to acknowledge that a lot of normal rights were suspended with the aim of combatting the pandemic. New Zealand even suspended the right of its citizens to return home for a long period of time, which is a pretty harsh violation of rights, and runs contrary to international law. New Zealand's own high court found that to be the case.
Definitely. Works for FaaS too up to some extent (especially if you need hot-standby/zero-latency startup). Problem is mostly that once you scale beyond the "look it says hello world" levels the price goes up so fast you can essentially pay someone to "make it cheaper by running it elsewhere" and still be better off.

Most questions seem to revolve around a tiny part of the puzzle, or a small "just starting out" phase and completely forgets about the lifecycle of the business process that it is built for, and the existing systems it needs to interact with. Even a startup will have that problem considering most are trying to get bought which essentially means being absorbed into a legacy company. So even starting out with no legacy to worry about is just a stay of execution.
Random but does anyone know where to buy a official Crye precision multicam texture for game dev? Their website gives the impression they just sell fabrics to the US market
This is unlikely because as globalization shuts down, trade in fertilizer will slow and countries will be forced to downshift population growth in order to feed themselves according to what their own lands can produce without imported fertilizer.

So, no, there won’t be large increases in population from the rest of the world.
This post is about the imagined mindset of people who downvoted a post, that isn't even downvoted.
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The problem we're discussing, and the biggest problem for renewable, is that we need massive amounts of storage to handle the cases where production is unexpectedly low for long periods of time - months of low wind and cloud coverage. Car batteries don't help in any way with this problem, which is the biggest risk for a renewable-only grid.

Now, let's assume this problem were solved, and now we start replacing all fossil fuel power plants with renewables + storage. Unfortunately, we are also replacing ICE vehicles with BEVs at the same time, which require massive amounts of extra electrical power to replace the power they were getting from oil. Suddenly, we can no longer close all of our fossil fuel plants, because all of the growth in renewables is consumed by BEV charging.

The problem you're discussing - handling variable load - is somewhat secondary. It's a significant practical problem if you're adding new solar and wind to the grid without closing down old fossil fuel generators, which is what everyone is mostly doing currently, so it is a very discussed problem. The problem of ensuring reliability from a renewable-only grid is so complicated, no one is really tackling it yet, especially since they can barely construct enough new renewables to handle all the extra new load from growing industry + BEVs.
You're missing the point. When a poor tech illiterate person signs up for an email account, they probably don't consider if they will someday need phone support to recover an account. They will choose a free account over an account that costs $5/month that they don't have. And that assumes that they even know about the paid email services. For a lot of tech illiterate people email and gmail are synonymous.
> The price halving that killed the mine/town in the mid-1980s is barely visible at the very beginning

where? It starts at 1996.
Action-Specific Perception
We optimize for features, easy of customization and easy of upgrades in priority

Now we have large docs sites with thousands of pages, and it's painful if their static site takes forever to build, so we should also optimize for speed. Build-time speed reduces the feedback loop and it also saves developer time. It's like having a better computer somehow.
This should give you a good idea: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...
The mental health world is measuring different things from the business world. I mean, Hitler was Chancellor of an advanced European nation, that must make him fine, right?
> ... encourages some people to conclude "well, then we can pollute as much as we want, it doesn't matter anyway"

I hold "contrary" opinions on the climate debate, but I don't take these kinds of articles the way that you noted at all. I see it simply as an opportunity to change tactics.
I can see some value in it for scammers, hackers, and businesses that pray on the poor. (For example the 'buy now, pay later' Aaron's Rent-A-Center type businesses).

Or for identity theft.
People don't like being told to cooperate for the greater good. Wish more people knew about the tragedy of the commons, and how the survival of our species depends on selfless cooperation.
Amazing, thanks for your response. I'll explore Docusaurus 2.0 :)

Congrats on the release.
Hi! I'm building this website, but I did not submit this show HN here. I don't think the site is ready for such a submission, it's currently in alpha - very clearly marked. It's not even beta-ready yet!

The data set so far is small - limited to a few countries - and we're working behind the scenes. There are also lots of known issues, and a few data issues.

I'm hoping this site will help people in tech get a better sense on tech compensation outside regions where there's better compensation transparency like the US. I started this site after I saw the impact of my article on the trimodal compensation model had [1], but got many questions on what companies pay "Tier 3" or "Tier 2" packages in various countries.

So, to reiterate: this is heavily WIP, we've got lots of work to do, and we're planning to add more countries, one at a time. Eventually covering all of Europe, and then beyond! One day I hope it will be ready for a proper "Show HN" submission. That day is not today :)

Also, I reached out to dang to remove it from Show HN as it’s not submitted by someone who did the project (and not ready for such a submission)

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
The television advertising hype machine was running full force in the 80s, and most people watched hours of television every day. Do not imagine that information was more reliable back then. Despite the internet's imperfections, it is much easier to find good product information now.
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Alphabet is a conglomerate. The best ideas would not come from the top.
It's called paraphrasing (and yes, dramatization to make a point).

From the comment I replied to:

>reality of unavoidable climate catastrophe

>how dire the situation is

I read this as "doomed". And if we are already doomed and nothing can be done about it, shouldn't we eat as much meat and take as many flights as we want? This is how a lot of people think when they read stuff like this, and honestly, they have a point. Either it's unavoidable and dire OR we can do something about it (by limiting emissions). So why ask people to make sacrifices and then also tell them we are doomed anyway?
>Another a16z investment that's a textbook case of a Ponzi scheme, with no chance of actually making money beyond the redistribution of funds from recent investors to earlier ones.

That's not really the "textbook case" of a ponzi scheme. The key feature that you missed is fraud, ie. the company/fund saying that the money is being invested but in reality it's being used to pay out earlier investors. If you subtract that, there's no difference between a ponzi scheme and a promising startup that failed to pan out (in both cases they involve "the redistribution of funds from recent investors to earlier ones").
Seems to me that any concern here is more around case discovery. Whether judges learn about cases from Wikipedia, Lexis Nexus, university publications, etc there is always a bias in which cases get surfaced. Wikipedia being more open than most other venues can be good (more contributors/diversity of viewpoints, easier to critique) or bad (more potentially unsophisticated/ignorant contributions). I tend to bias toward more open platforms given the choice.