skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they do that knowing very well that there is a certain kind of lock-in

This is the core of the issue. A user will genuinely come to the platform for those features and then is locked in. The lock in will sometimes even cost the user more than the value of the free stuff over the duration of the collaboration by virtue of not being easy to leave.

On the other hand the companies put in the freebies with the explicit intention of attracting a critical mass of users, and most of the times with the expectation that they will be removed once that target is reached. Then some creative "moral" accounting disregards that for those freebies the users also provided something of great value - they supported the platform in rising to wherever it rose. The platform may have extracted more value from the user than the user extracted from the platform. Each one of those free users probably brought a few more with them.

So while to a point I understand the "you didn't pay so you didn't lose anything" mantra, I'm also completely aware that this was part of the long term strategy of the company and it's like hooking a fish and thinking "why's the fish complaining, it got the bait for free". A more honest and transparent strategy would be to set the expectations from the start, people can choose to take the freebie for a time knowing that at a predefined point they will cost.

And the statement that "you don't like it build another one yourself" is very biased. From the ones being at the top of a mountain supported by users who have to pay to get out, to the ones who'd have to compete with the mountain when they can only start with a hill. It's what FB will tell you when you object to their questionable practices.
“44 years later he died of emphysema”…sounds like he had a long and fruitful life.
I feel like I read a completely different article than some other commenters here. This article is a clear and persuasive statement on how unoriginal "critiques" of wokeness are, as well as on the irony of a white man complaining about how hard it is to get published... even though he just got his book published!

There's no question that today space is being made in publishing for "other voices." But this article in no way says that is a bad thing, or agrees with the book author's implication of the same. To the contrary, it explains in a useful way (imo as a white man who might want at some point to publish a book) what white men can do to stay competitive as modern reading audiences change. Books are a business. If you can't get with the times, whose fault is that, really?
Of course this will vary radically from one place to another.

Perhaps most important may turn out to be how much lead paint has flaked off buildings in the area.
> (Finland gets gas from Norway, and neither has big pipelines to Germany).

Not really. Finland used to get gas from Russia but now it is mostly from a pipeline through Estonia to Latvia where it arrives in ships from wherever happens to be the cheapest (we are in process of building the first LNG terminal in Finland). Could be Norway but can also be USA, middle east, etc

Finland just doesn't use much gas for electricity. What we use mostly goes into industrial processes. We do have a couple gas peaker plants but those are only used in the winter if needed. Actual load balancing happens through hydro (and imports from Norway/Sweden but that is also mostly hydro)
I believe in EU household electricity is largely subsidized and the industry always paid more.
It didn't take a genius even 10 years ago. That decision to get out of nuclear power, based only on emotions, was a grave mistake.
Buuut... Just because you made a good business move and hedged one of your raw materials, doesn't mean your competitors did. If your competitors didn't, then you might as well rise prices and just take the extra as profit.

Or... look at it another way, you bought some nice energy futures contracts when they were cheap. You might earn more selling those energy futures contracts now they're very valuable than you make putting that energy into servers and selling the compute.
Classic narcissistic move.
No, because like in a tower defense game, there are stages, and every stage has its own base to build and a different level of technology available to the builder.
People with strong defence mechanisms often likely have underlying trauma/anxiety that has created the defenses.
Okay, then Swedish apartment buildings. It's clearly not the case "families do not want to live in apartments" here.

I've lived in apartments in the US (Tallahassee, Urbana IL, Mt. View, Santa Fe) plus visited others, and can say that the Swedish apartments I've lived (Gothenburg, Trollhättan) in have all been a step or two above their US equivalents.

We have basement space, with an exercise room, which is great for the kids to play in on a rainy day, or to have a party without disturbing the neighbors. Other apartment complexes often have a space which people can book for parties or other larger gatherings. Some even have a guest apartment, which you can book when you have visitors. (Essentially shares the cost of having a rarely used guest bedroom.)

There's solid walls, so we barely hear the neighbors under normal circumstances.

The rare times the elevator breaks, it's quickly fixed.

The shared laundry area is a bit of a nuisance because it needs to be booked. On the other hand, there's plenty of space for washing, drying (both tumble dryer and in a drying room), and a folding/ironing room.

Heat (via district heating) and insulation is excellent.

We don't have a green space as part of the apartment, but the nearest park is a block away, and several more parks are within easy walking distance. Many apartment buildings/complexes have their own small playground (default is a play platform with slide, sandbox, and swing), and again, with larger parks and greenspace nearby.

Since I'm centrally located, I don't need a car - walking, biking, and mass transit work well. Yes, I've had one bike stolen from me. Then again, given how much I've saved by not having a car (depreciation, insurance, gas, etc.) that's not the only factor. Plus, in the US I had one window shot out by a bored teenager with a BB gun, and two tires punctured by someone going around vandalizing cars.

Dog shit has not been a problem.

To be sure, there are many people who live in less dense regions of town, in row houses or detached houses, and have a car. My point isn't that everyone prefers apartments, but rather that apartments, and the areas around them, can be designed better than I'm used to in the US, and can absolutely work well.

FWIW, I live in a smaller city, with about 60K people. The apartment buildings are generally about 5 stories high - definitely not high-rises. Perhaps that's not what you mean by "big buildings", in which case my backup point is that this sort higher density housing is, for the most part, illegal or impossible to build in the US.

And yes, there's much bad to say about, say, the concentrated tower blocks from the Million Programme. I don't mean to say that all Swedish apartments are great, but rather that there's plenty of evidence that shared big buildings do work, in that people raise families there even when they have the option and means to move to single-family homes.
I have the logs from my deployed apps. I know exactly how many times my users are getting those exceptions. We use those logs to fix the bugs and improve our apps.

You seem to have a lot of opinions about my apps from your own unfortunate experiences. Hubris is a word that brings to mind.
Undoubtedly that can work and I played that game myself to an extent earlier in my career.

Nowadays though I dont think I could force myself to post the vague platitudes and false positivity.

If people need or want to do it, my advice is to minimise time investment, ignore the feed and at least post with some authenticity.
Chickens scratch, seeking tiny rocks for their crop. If they don't find any in your overlayer, they go deeper.
dockerfiles (or even better but less popular, {default,shell,flake}.nix) are code that can be tracked in a repository and reasoned about, "stuff installed locally" isn't.
It's odd for this article not to mention the company's size and the number of people laid off. From what I can tell, this is a local marketing agency with 12 (now 10?) people. We're not talking about a CEO of a XXX-person company with $XX million in funding.

I wonder how people's reactions and intensities would differ if they knew we're talking about a small business basically the size of your local bakery.

(Don't get me wrong, I think this is pretty cringe, but I feel like many people are venting their feelings about big-tech CEOs onto this guy.)
MOND still need dark matter, it seems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics#Re...
Yes, this is the prevailing view! However, I think the magnitude of the reward an investor should get, as well as the actual amount of risk they are exposed to, is overstated. Also, there is nothing stopping us from having a system where the employees become "members" of the company and shoulder some of the (diluted) financial risk, thus doing away with shareholders. This comment has a couple more thoughts on this, as well as a link to my essay on this topic. Let me know what you think! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32424519
Short 1-2 hour games with a focus on wave defense, with somewhat factorio-like resource gathering and defense.
> Germany shut down all their nuclear plants about 10 years ago...

"Nuclear power in Germany accounted for 13.3% of German electricity supply in 2021, generated by six power plants, of which three were switched off at the end of 2021, the other three due to cease operation at the end of 2022 according to the complete nuclear phase-out plan of 2011." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany
Show HN: Overhauled my blog – please give feedback
I use a wordpress GRAPH API to pull the blog posts in because I like to use the Wordpress editor to write, however none of the website runs on wordpress. I use PHP to filter the graphQL queries and strip out formatting etc that wordpress adds and convert it to native boostrap.

The end goal being a fast blog with WordPress editor, and none of the wordpress speed issues.
On Nitter:

https://nitter.it/IntelArrow/status/1557449807345733635

Saky on Google Maps, it's easy to find the area that the satellite images show:

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=45.133611,33.577222&q=45.1336...
This - the very same people that push far left collectivist ideas like the ones linked intentionally sidestep the fact that every single socialist set up had compulsory labor participation. The only difference is that with the latter set up, they get to fully control what you do.

The reason why I saw no homeless people growing up is because the commies locked them all up.
Why SaaS Businesses Are Choosing Product-Led Growth in 2022?
In the past, SaaS companies have relied on a traditional sales model, which put the focus on acquiring new customers and growing revenue. But now, many SaaS businesses are turning to a more modern one that focuses on product-led growth.

This approach means that instead of trying to sell your product as much as possible, you’re using your existing customers to spread the word about your offering and bring in new ones. You’re also using data from these customers to determine which features they want most so that you can make improvements based on their feedback and create better products in general—which makes them even more likely to recommend your company to others!

What are your opinions on Product-Led Growth? Would love to hear the opinions of founders using this approach.
What happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College?
Many FOSS projects are also or largely used by businesses, which sometimes turn a big profit as a result, and which don't contribute even a pittance back to the software they use. It's hard to be motivated to donate to such projects as an individual.
The damage to Tokio was as big as what the nukes did, tye Japanese didn't surrender. Around the time the nukes dropped the USSR finally declared war on Japan, surrendering to the Western Allies, foremost the US, was much more preferable than ending up split in different occupation zones.
China tops U.S. in quantity and quality of scientific papers
What I really dislike is how they dropped the Managed Direct X and XNA efforts, and nowadays kind of outsource that work up to Unity, until the day comes they aren't around, I guess.

There are other efforts going around, but eventually all of them drop out of steam trying to keep up with DirectX API surface.
The gao report is good and here is discussion of the equation.

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
How to live in an economy with 200% interest rate?
Hi, just read this article where official interest rate in 200% in Zimbabwe. How is this even feasible? Why this won’t happen in the western world? I wonder if anyone can help me understand.
Starlink may just be a run of the mill Musk fraud like FSD - entirely about raising investment or stock values. Yes, they ship something, but they may not ever get to the promised end state.

The math doesn’t work out for starlink and people have noted this for years at this point.
Our first version of Guul is on PH today. We believe games can help boost your team's motivation! How about you? Come, play games with your teammates on Slack and give us some feedback. Thank you!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/guul-board-games-for-slack
This is diving into a conversation that may be best not had on HNN. @Dang - delete this if you like man, no offense taken.

I don't think the goal is equity but equality. At least, that is my goal. I want the lowliest shoeshine boy to have the opportunity to do amazing things.

I make no apologies for the country I was born or the circumstances. I grew up on a poor farm in a broken trailer surrounded by my backwoods relatives. I chose to do something different.

My view does not make sense only in an 'equitable world' - consider the inverse. If everyone decides not to work because they are 'owed food so as to not starve' then who will harvest the grain, who will sow the fields, who will till the earth. A policy that would require people to work and then give away all of their product is not equity its slavery.
What are my options for big data that won’t fit completely into memory? Is it easy to hook up to a spark cluster?

Do I have the option to access the underlying infra through a Unix shell, when the UI isn’t enough?
Regardless of whether a majority or plurality of leaders/managers are bad (because there are definitely tons of them, I may be one myself), I think a lot of people use personal outcomes to blame leaders/managers for structural issues.

Perhaps a team delivered a mediocre or poor outcome, but was that outcome potentially the best result due to organizational constraints? I suppose that I’m just pointing out that since leadership can be “hard and opaque” judging it’s effectiveness can be just as hard
> Think about a logistics chain where everybody needs to know that a record wasn't modified in retrospect.

Why not just have event payloads signed by a neutral fiduciary?
I disagree. Understanding and fairness is worth striving for. Justice implies retribution, of being wronged and having to 'right' things. It is, as they say, in the eye of the beholder and justice is not equal to all beholders.

Tell me how you have a just world for everyone?
In direct analogy to this article, given an evening, a ladder and some coffee to stimulate the bowels, I could prove that some fraction of Subway restaurants have human feces on the roof.
They are both relevant to me in assessing the true value of Disney's subscriber count.

Your slice of what is relevant might not be someone elses.
The possibility of these very rare events does not change my mind about best practice for many kinds of deployed applications. I have production apps running right now using this pattern. The users would not be served better by stopping the whole app. We do capture the logs and fix the bugs encountered.
Max redirs in curl defaults to 50. Most browsers default to around 20. 30X (in the article) is a range of status response codes. You would probably benefit by rereading the article.
Interesting, I did not know that, thanks.

I didn't make up the numbers above, I just quickly looked at geizhals.de for a comparison - maybe Kobo-branded Kobos are exceptionally expensive here then.

I don't have a tolino myself, but gave support to a family member in the recent past, that's why I've held one and used the software. That one was sold by a physical book store chain.

But overall that doesn't change my main point - or maybe Kindles have gone up in price, I'm pretty sure I paid closer to 70€ than 100€, which is still 1/3. Could be that it was a sale, and they don't even have that base model anymore, but as I said I was 100% happy with it.
> Meanwhile, there is no shortage of outrage on social media on issues that state legislatures vote for like gerrymandering

As there should be - it’s one of the most abhorrent things that legislatures of all stripes have attempted, and those responsible should be held accountable. They have removed any ability to do so via electoral means, and should probably be reasonably happy that people complain on social media instead of something more physical.
Having been fighting at a war zone on a voluntary basis with no official role is exactly the sort of thing they should be asking questions about, but these forced anal cavity searches are essentially rape and used as torture device which is despicable.
Why not do what we can rather than shake our fists at greater problems we cannot address?

We fine people for littering even though there are also murders.
Or in this case perhaps not even paying (or at a steep discount)
In colos, the cost of electricity typically also pays for air conditioning since it's a perfect linear relationship - more power goes in, more AC needed to get the heat out.

Plus some overhead costs (but with Hetzner, I'd assume they're minimal - they have razor thin margins).
Continental Europe has a synchronous power grid, so Amazon can also use electricity produced outside of Germany for its German data centers.
Can I ever get a Kobo for $45?
Libraries are very important, and Kindle supports borrowing from them (for free): https://help.overdrive.com/en-us/0431.html
A new version of IPFS would be both transport system and storage.

I don't think it's possible to reasonably to maintain layering while adding privacy and censorship resistance.
That’s nonsense. It’s extremely hard to fire people in many corps. I’ve personally seen it take years even when everyone agreed (including management) someone needed to go. And often the paperwork threshold is so high that even people producing negative work aren’t fired; you just hope they eventually move on since you’re not giving them raises etc.
Part of the issue (in countries where you're not liable to be shot or accused by the police of running a cult or what-have-you) is that worker co-ops do not generally have access to significant capital or loans from VCs and banks which are scared of them, so cannot usually spend outside their means to grow - while companies that mesh well with current financialised society can.

As a result, co-ops need to grow differently and often compete differently; you can't afford to pay 50 people right out the gate to build Starcraft 3 to sell in 2 years' time. You need to be making money from day 1, and you can't compete directly with companies that have access to capital or you lose immediately.

There do exist co-ops in the video game industry - Motion Twin, behind Dead Cells, is one.
Most "tech" shows or hacker scenes are akin to the police procedurals, courtroom dramas, and medical shows that generally don't bear much relationship with what it's like day-to-day for cops, lawyers, or hospital workers. (Hence shows/films like The Wire and Reno 911, My Cousin Vinny and Suits, St. Elsewhere and Scrubs stand out.)

As a founder of a venture-backed startup with first-to-market tech that went through an accelerator in Palo Alto in the 2010s, Silicon Valley is basically entirely accurate. Actually tamer and more restrained than reality in many regards, at least anecdotally.
Coming up with algorithms on the spot isn't a viable strategy for technical interviews any more, even if you're a super-genius. Here's a question that the page author claims took Donald Knuth 24 hours to solve [1], which is classified on Leetcode as a Medium(!) difficulty question [2]. Leetcode Medium questions are typically the cut-off point for most FAANG-tier interview questions--and while this is a hard medium, I know someone who got a variation of it at a Meta interview, and was expected to solve it in 30 minutes. So unless you're 48 times faster at inferring algorithms than one of the best algorists in the world, memorizing tricks is the game you have to play if you want a FAANG-adjacent job!

Of course, then the natural reaction is "if your hiring process would pass on Donald Knuth, your hiring process is broken," which is absolutely true, already known, and (apparently) deemed acceptable.

[1] https://keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=find-duplicat...

[2] https://leetcode.com/problems/find-the-duplicate-number/
Missing from this (possibly it’s in the author’s book which I’ve not yet read but it’s on my list):

For a certain level of discussion, the outcome might have already been set, and the meeting is a formality to make it so. So as long as the presentation isn’t a total disaster what’s said during the formal discussion is only refinement or finishing details on an already closed decision.

If you’ve ever wondered why in a certain discussion someone “came around” or magically the entire room was in support, either that person or their boss worked it out prior to the meeting. It’s not because the PowerPoint was awesome or the policy proposal is clever.

I do this - when I’m working on something (if there’s time) I “run it by” the people who need to buy in. That helps refine the proposal or pitch, but it also helps do a couple of key things:

1. I can say “I ran this by Stan,” privately to some other folks, and truthfully say he liked it or didn’t and I took his feedback into consideration

2. I can hear what people don’t like and either change it or account for constraints they have

3. It prewires the audience. They’ve seen the material or heard it in brief. Some people are readers. Some are listeners. With this approach I can catch both and address them on their communication style

4. At the discussion I can say “I spoke with most of you here to get feedback from product / design / dev / support / ops etc and I heard... and the toll tax is paid to cross various bridges

Importantly - the execs themselves can just have a conversation the week or day before and say “hey we have this problem. I need you to listen to ____ and get someone from your team to help.” That works because two months later the other party will say “Hey, remember when I helped you with the thing? I need you to help me with ____ because…”

This sort of politics is normal. I’m literally doing it between and across companies on a regular basis. It’s a way to get stuff done, as long as its ethical and doesn’t violate various conduct guidelines and (edit) *its in the org’s best interests.* Most of the time for me at least it’s “can we just get X above the cut line and done by October? I know it’s in November but if it’s in October _____.”
Had me a bit freaked out until I saw that this was due to tainted soil in urban settings.

While that's true, what they determined to be dangerous levels are still low enough to be in the "zero to low" category for most other classifiers like universities. I wouldn't assume your soil is safe unless you have an actual measurement done.