skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did a cost analysis and found databricks and BQ to be cheaper than a similar snowflake build out.

I think people are falling into a trap of not considering costs because “it takes care of everything”.
The idea of Merkel and the useful greenies in Germany is simply one of the most perplexing geopolitical decisions of the 21st century.

I'll never understand. If anybody knows the train of thought, please tell.

If Germany was more energy independent, Russia would be crushed this winter.
Trajectory to what exactly? I can't find anything about the sustainable carrying capacity, only the max which seems to be unsustainable based on current scenarios.
This doesn't really address the part where they then said the issue doesn't exist.
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>Ops. Unless your core competency is running reports and spark nodes, it's probably cheaper to outsource the management of Spark and friends than to hire people to make sure it's always up and running.

I think as an end user I would absolutely agree on this point. But many companies use Databricks as part of their automated backend systems that they resell to customers. The cost per "DBU" unit is astronomical for the amount of raw compute in use. It feels a bit like running a restaurant where you serve takeout.
How much customer service is too much?
A personal note by a friend and co-founder Joydeep.
It feels like these companies haven't found the right value metric to price along. Ideally it should align with the value the customer receives.
As long as you want really. Say you have 100M shares outstanding. You do stock buy backs over the years now there is only 50M shares outstanding. You do a two way stock split, now there are 100M shares outstanding again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552137
> And ultimately, being an entrepreneur is not really about where you live, it’s what you choose to do. People who think that if they move somewhere it’ll suddenly make them into the person they want to be are usually in for a disappointment.

Where you live dictates the laws, culture, and tax policies that you're expected to follow and will be punished for breaking. There are many entrepreneurs in Africa but one rarely hears of any successful ones internationally that don't come from South Africa. Obvious reasons for this would be ethnopolitical turmoil, lack of personal liberties, and kleptocratic dictatorships.

While Belgium is a far cry from a failed state, policies that interfere with one's personal goals will require a change in geography, at least for the foreseeable future. It would be great if entrepreneurs could be residents of the moon for tax purposes while stating put, but no such e-citizenship program exist.

The example of a place to find standard contracts is also frankly trivial. Anyone who wants to start a company quickly figures out what they need to do in the environment in which they live, and ideally they will involve locals who understand the system very well. Just hiring a good local accountant who understands the laws is going to be of benefit regardless of any websites that make your research easy.
Far more important is living in a place that inspires you to do your best work, that’s ultimately the most important ingredient.
I think the main metric that this is built on may be too coarse to derive the meaning that the article is. There’s conjecture that what’s driving this is more querying over the same dataset (more streamlit dashboards) but it could just as easily be expanding usage inside of companies. That’s what’s going on at my company right now, more teams using snowflake, more data being pushed in to replace existing workflows, etc.

I’m also not sure I understand the dig at streamlit dashboards. If you’re running hardware and introduce new read workflows, eventually you’ll need more read replicas and you’ll pay more for it. Maybe you can argue that snowflake is doing this at a higher cost but the metric data is not available in the sources to make that claim.
I think it's more that they think if people don't see it every April they won't appreciate or know to push back on how much money they're paying[0]. It's nonsense promulgated by folks targeting the low-information voter, of course.

0: https://slate.com/business/2012/04/grover-norquist-and-h-r-b...
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It's mostly exaggerated. Some of my friends are already complaining because they won't be able to keep their flat at 25c in winter...

I haven't used heating in 5 years in Berlin, at the coldest it was 17c in my flat, having grown in the mountain that's my comfy zone

People want to live like kings for 50 euros a month, reality is catching up
Significant part of it is also deepened de-industrialization.
The entire western world but Germany experienced it. Doesn't have much with a culture or just south culture.

Even in Germany, parts that lost industries decades ago are still borer that the rest of country. France and Belgium have similar problems and Italy north-south split is even older.

Nobody know how to reverse it or at least succeeded. This is not easy.
the context of this quote is that the UK economy shot itself in the foot by getting rid of cheap European labour, then someone responded actually no because they got even cheaper labour from outside Europe, I was pointing out that they are not cheap as they seem due to training cost and decline in quality of service.
>>Curve Reaches Apogee

Just because it is on an upward trajectory and higher than ever before does not mean that it is at apogee — it could just as well continue climbing to greater heights, which in this case seems rather likely.

The repeated theme of measuring things like continuous keystrokes that are actually counterproductive to accomplishing key tasks is the essence of bad management. Extended through an organization to far, it could literally kill it. Getting the key info might be tricky, but it seems worthwhile to create a stock fund of companies NOT using worker spyware and shorting companies who use it extensively.
It's hardly only the republicans blowing government funds on useless programs, Obama's team did the same with bogus 'clean coal' funding funnelled into public-private partnerships with coal outfits (to the tune of ~$8 billion via the DOE), gave loans to the renewable energy companies with the worst products on the market via insider connections (Solyndra), etc. It's an across-the-board problem.

If we really wanted to do large-scale infrastructure projects that were successful, like nationwide high-speed-rail, maybe we should study how China does it.
Without even jumping into the detail of the study, for most toddlers under 3 year old with an average height, a three point seatbelt would have the chest strap crossing at neck height.

Irrespective of statistics, common sense would dictate that using your neck region to restrain any human at multiple G's impact, is most definitely not a good idea.
Then either buy media without ads or limit the amount of time and content your children spend watching ads?
According to the owner's twitter, he's been repeatedly getting robbed.

https://twitter.com/pontifier
This a bit orthogonal so I put it in a separate comment, but let me be even more aggressive and do a bit of offense:

I've read a lot of the "pro privacy/anti tracking" arguments over the years, and (outside of a few exceptions) they almost always hinge upon some aesthetic dislike for companies having this information, rather than having any material justification for why it's harmful.

But attacking ads and ad tracking, the revenue model of the free web, is materially harmful. Imagine how much worse the world would be if Google search weren't free -- even a nominal fee of a few dollars a month would preclude most of the third world from accessing the best index of humanity's collective knowledge (not to mention how much worse the user experience would be to quickly Google something). Humanity collectively would be very non trivially worse off.

Seriously, what other business model besides tracked ads can generate enough revenue to keep the lights on, let alone power growth, at companies providing free services like Google Search, Maps, etc, that don't have such grossly negative externalities like severely curtailing human development and don't offend the aesthetic sensibilities of people who are prima facie annoyed by a company using the interactions with their free service to make money?
Your wife would prefer to live in blissful ignorance? That's extraordinary.
Nah, I'll just do my own thing, the entire reason I live in London is because I like going outside lol
Yes, and so is the fact that we don't all ride rear facing, or that we have cars at all.

The point is to draw a line somewhere that makes sense. The Overton window has been shifting an a rapidly increasing pace for child "safety" laws in the past two decades or so. If we make it an absolute about "Even one child", then we ignore promoting net benefit and can end up with detrimental effects, which is essentially the point of the article.
The UK wasn't in the Euro, and isn't the answer to Europe's issues with gas prices or interest rates. Sterling has fallen similarly against the dollar for the same reasons (and had a larger trend fall from a higher peak in the longer term). Brexit doesn't help anybody with the current situation, but it doesn't have much to do with it.
> One day after the offending article went live, the AHA tweeted out a “public apology” from Sweet. It reads like a forced confession statement, acknowledging the “harm” and “damage” allegedly caused by simply raising questions about the politicization of scholarship toward overtly ideological activist ends.

While you didn’t have the twitter hive mind then, did public institutions capitulate to the activists from the right this way in the past? 50s, 60s, 70s?
I can spin up and down 100+ node clusters on the 4 largest cloud providers at will.

What ops am I missing?
making a blanket dismissal and providing no actual argument or data doesn't exactly help
I pay for 4 annual substacks, but I don't use patreon.

I generally have a rule where I won't pay for something if it doesn't remove the ads. The podcasts I pay for have private links that have ad-free versions (except for Honestly which I'm on the fence about paying for because of it).

YouTube premium removes ads, but patreon often doesn't.

I think I'd seen some YouTuber with around that many subscribers say they make ~20k/yr? So it's not nothing, but definitely not enough to be full time. The bigger ones with millions of subscribers like MKBHD and such I think do really well (7 figures?), but I'd guess a lot of that is extra stuff like the sponsored deals and merch stores etc.
Surely not the case in a Hollywood studio
What were your first impressions of Rust?
I am taking a look at the comments on this thread and im astonished. HN is full of intelligent, self-reliant people and yet, all throughout this thread I see so many users trashing people for complaints about price and service quality from Apple.

So many users here have had obviously bad experiences with Apple Care and Apple Repair Services, why is it so hard to believe them? Also, why is it so hard to imagine that Apple is making some mistakes in their repair model?

Commenters defending Apple here - they dont care about you at all, they dont need the assistance from you in defending them, and you dont get a discount for doing so, so what is your motivation for doing it? It is clear this 'Self Service Repair' model is designed to prevent independent repair shops from making money, therefore eliminating them. In what way is this good for the consumer?
Thanks.

It would be great if this could be stated on the page.

I kept hackernews open in order that someone would explain to me what this actually does. Your comment thankfully fullfilled this.
@marcan42 said that on the M1 MacBook Pro models, the DCP also implements hardware-level antialiasing for the notch and rounded display corners.
note that this often counts as a claim against your home insurance as well, which can result in higher rates. Generally speaking equipment riders are generally not worth it except for during a larger event (home burns down, etc) because of this - they get you on premiums if you don't make a claim (generally it ends up zeroing out after a couple years) and they get you on premium increases if you do make a claim.

It's insurance, on average the underwriter is still coming out ahead, that's the premise of the industry.
Sure it’s fraud. There are probably tens of thousands of people that will spend the entire time they own the vehicle not using a non-beta product they paid for. If it’s not fraud, it’s at least misleading advertising. When was the last time Elon Musk faced any consequences for his actions? Why wouldn’t he keep selling bullshit?
Wow their statement about not participating in benchmarking wars is alarming. In this day and age, when benchmarking tools are so inexpensive and almost everything is very transparent, why not participate.

Or even better engage with a neutral third party such as Jepsen to get on an even playing field and duke it out.
Sure, nothing to do with megacorps absolutely milking the market.... https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/teaser/27887.jpeg
I disagree. If you ignore the actual value your product provides to the final consumer "this banana is delicious", you'll come up with solutions that diminish that value. The only reason why blending whole bananas (peel and all), and sending that slop in an unrefrigerated shipping container isn't even considered as an option is an understanding of what the banana-buyers want.
Wow this is pretty amazing. For those that haven't tried, it's really difficult to piece this sort of thing together. So the fact that this is all provided as a Docker Compose configuration is really awesome.
codegeek wrote:

> No one is looking at this problem objectively...

I know it appears that way. But there are 100s of orgs working every single issue from all sides.

It's very, very challenging for these elites (experts) to get any attention. Death of journalism. Everyone's already overwhelmed. There's a zillion issues to care about.

Consequently, most issue central orgs now focus on direct lobbying.

FWIW, I was a serious activist (2004-2012). Media was a huge time sink. In retrospect, I wish we'd just focused on lobbying.

Paul Houle wrote:

> Democrats refuse to see the [housing] problem...

I have friends working on housing issues. Policy people absolutely understand the shape and scope. And the developers I've spoken with (casually, not policy work) do too and have been clear eyed about the situation.

My local party org does dozens of endorsement interviews every year. Housing has long been a hot issue.

The sad truth is that NIMBY has been the norm.

It's a mistake to think "Democrats" are left-wing, or are as "progressive" as we'd hope. Being "progressive" is usually on just 1 or 2 issues. Like a candidate who has been awesome on LBGTQ issues being utterly opposed to upzoning.

(Further, my town now only elects "Democrats". So all the competitive candidates label themselves "Democrat", which has very low predictive power what their actual positions are.)
I disagree with the assertion that Snowflake has no incentive to improve performance. While I don’t work for Snowflake, I work for a competitor and we’re constantly looking to improve performance to make customers happy.

For the exact reason that the article claims Snowflake wouldn’t innovate, I’d assert that they would. If they are expensive and slow, and a competitor is faster and cheaper, eventually they will see business move to the competitor. We see it all the time.
The YouTube channel "Soft White Underbelly" contains a number of interviews of addicts, prostitutes, etc in that area. LA and other places as well.
Star American Professor Masterminded a Surveillance Machine for Chinese Big Tech
Academia is such a weird beast...sadly, seeing more and more of this.
^ This is textbook Great Resignation. Wild to imagine the consequences to society if 20-30% embrace this for a prolonged period. Curious what is it about the pandemic that triggered this?
Not GP, but I did similar. It was a non-issue because I could buy multiple Chromebooks for the price of the one macbook, and because they're fully cloud synced there was no backup/transfer of anything required.

Once while traveling a kid stomped on the chromebook while it was on the ground. I was able to drive to the nearest walmart and buy a new one for $150*. Within 10 minutes of signing in it had restored everything and was ready to go.

* I normally spend a little more to get a chromebook with higher specs, and I recommend everyone do that. The point here was that I was in a pinch but was able to get out of it quickly and cheaply. I suggest absolute minimum of 4GB of RAM (8GB preferred).
I really hope they revert back to physical buttons on the F150 lightning. That truck would be a perfect fit for my use-case, but I worry that the touchscreen makes it a non-starter.
Exactly this. It's easy to call out Apple but I'm yet to have an experience with other brands where I don't have to ship my product somewhere and wait for weeks on end to see if anything can even be done. Samsung is the biggest offender from my perspective. Everything they make has broken on me. Phones, entertainment devices, and most recently appliances that don't even last 6 months. The good news is when the appliances broke, they sent dish network to my house who also had no clue why it was broken and left.

Thankfully New Jersey (I'm in California) consumer fraud laws kicked in and I was able to get a full refund for my refrigerator.

https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases09/20090804-Samsung-Ameri...
Apple does stuff like this so much and gets so little flak for it.

It would be one thing if the private APIs were limited to system frameworks and features while Apple’s own apps weren’t allowed to use them, but they do. E.g. The Swift Playgrounds app for iPad is allowed to share and compile code, run separate processes, etc. which isn’t normally allowed in the AppStore. They also use blur and other graphical effects (outside of the background blur material and the SwiftUI blur modifier) that are unavailable outside of private APIs.

It stinks because of the perceived hypocrisy and the inability to compete on a level playing field or leave the AppStore (and I say this as someone who normally doesn’t mind the walled garden!)
I believe there was a (logically/ethically questionable, yet amusing) film that outlined this exact scenario.
Ironically enough, the last time I was "Courted" by google cloud to move some of our infra there (after it went public that we had raised a round), they were up front about how their "account management sucks" and that we'd have a better "customer experience" if we went through a reseller.

That...always sticks out to me, but, when dealing with the Google Education folks, there were some things that even resellers couldn't do, and I had to email people directly (via LinkedIn stalking) only to have my issue disappear a few days later with no reply.
I’m in a Hilton hotel right now. You don’t get a standard Wifi password. You go to a web page where you enter your room number and last name and then your MAC address is allowed for a certain amount of time.
Estonia is in NATO, an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies. Maybe I'm trivialising the issue, but that fact alone seems a large enough deterrent to any potential Russian offensive.
Sorry, perhaps "verified" was a misnomer. Verified to the extent that I am in possession of a factor (ID card with chip or phone with registered Smart-ID certs) and a memorized PIN (one for authentication and one for signing).
That's why one should never use ISP-provided routers. Since ISPs can update/control devices connected to their network, buy a modem without WiFi: anything downstream of that is your network.
The first time I saw a TV advertised with Google as the OS I laughed out loud thinking "who in their right mind would buy that?!", but then again, quite a lot of people buy a phone with it so I guess there's enough people out there who simply don't understand why it's problematic.
Well, repairs are usually warrantied themselves.

There's probably a better case to be made for laptops and phones you use outside the house than there is with other things. Sure, a TV can die young. However, as the parent said, if you can afford to self-insure you'll probably come out ahead on average.
Maybe you could log the same things that trackers do and creep them out by it somehow. Kids especially have a harder time truly comprehending things that don’t come with some emotional weight.
> the screen is a major part of that initial 1000 EUR cost

No, LCD screens are pretty affordable these days. You can buy yourself a portable external display with a 4k samsung panel for about $200-250 depending on where are you. Such portable displays have extra batteries included, so extra $ costs included.
Clip space is the bane of my existence. I've been building a software rasterizer from scratch and implementing vertex/triangle clipping has turned into one of the hardest aspects. It took me about 50 hours of reading various references before I learned you cannot get away with doing this in screen space or any time after perspective divide.

It still staggers me that there is not 1 coherent reference for how to do all of this. Virtually every reference about clipping winds up with something like "and then the GPU waves its magic wand and everything is properly clipped & interpolated :D". Every paper I read has some "your real answer is in another paper" meme going on. I've got printouts of Blinn & Newell, Sutherland & Hodgman, et. al. littered all over my house right now. About 4 decades worth of materials.

Anyone who works on the internals of OGL or the GPU stack itself has the utmost respect from me. I cannot imagine working in that space full-time. About 3 hours of this per weekend is about all my brain can handle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/wuboxb/best_kub...

This is recent topic and you can see that so many people prefer GKE. That's not my opinion.

Sure, any cloud works good enough.
I think the point of the article is that an optimizer doesn't affect the barrier to entry at all, but adding it would save end users quite a bit of money. So they don't do it because end users' money is revenue for Snowflake/Alphabet
The display assembly itself is $450, so 680 EUR sounds about right to have it professionally repaired.

Also, it makes sense that it would cost that much. Most of the product is that luxury display, with an M1 hanging off it. You could probably open up the case, rip out the logic board, and pay less in repairs.

AppleCare+ is pretty fairly priced and generous with their services, and would have made your display repair substantially cheaper, most likely free unless you tell them straight up that you dropped your MacBook or punched the screen.
Exactly. Suddenly your imaginary worry about someone's 10 minutes of lost productivity is a class action lawsuit under accessibility legislation that will probably burn you for 1000x that cost or more and leave your reputation, ironically, in the toilet.
The search box in the top left should bring up a bunch of autocomplete suggestions when you type stuff into it. Clicking on one brings up a place card view [1]. If my demo server falls over that will fail to populate. Once you have a place card you can hit "bike there" or something and then populate the "From" field that appears again in the top left to get a directions view [2]. Not ideal, the frontend was built in a few weeks by someone with very little frontend experience (me) so I did my best.

[1] https://maps.earth/place/openstreetmap%3Avenue%3Away%2F12903...

[2] https://maps.earth/directions/bicycle/openstreetmap%3Avenue%...