skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest explanation is a mis-alignment in incentives.

Executives want to have successful projects to show to their value to an organization. But usually the board members are unable to comprehend the details of a project. So the herd mentality kicks in. The CTO will seek approval for SAP and provide Gartner magic quadrant BS to give the board a level of comfort.

Now whether SAP is the right tool, or if it inconveniences users doesn't matter a whit to the CTO. All that matters is budget and timeline. The CTO wants to be able to speak to the board and say that the project timeline was met and under budget. All else is a complete non-factor.
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I think there's a bigger issue at play that at some point I want to write on.

Small problems benefit from small tools. Large problems benefit from large tools. However, small problems grow and your bet as a small problem is that your tools will grow with you.

In practice, they usually do. If they don't, you end up extending the tool or rewriting it in a larger tool.

So, our tools start small, and small companies use small tools, and the ecosystems grow together. Then, the successful ecosystems end up the next large problem toolkit.

As you're a small ERP SaaS, you're banking on growing with your customers, I presume. And you can make an argument to start on the large tools at the cost of initial velocity, but that's your tradeoff.

I really think the innovation that needs to happen is a system that has a prescribed growth path. Retool/Excel/similar that can compile to a simple app that can adapt to more complex patterns as the need comes.
Nuclear energy.
I love this, I simply love this. Most we ever did was 4.
Ask for double what you want, to start.
> I am wondering if i made the right decision

Passing on a career building line on your resume and a significant increase of your salary on the possibility (far from guaranteed) that you may end up in a team so unbearable you would have to leave the company before reaping the aforementioned benefits is of course not the right decision.

Some teams do truly suck at Amazon, either because of the manager or the work (or both), but in those situations you can always easily change team after a year if not less. And you will find such teams in any other company.
The result of misguidance from health professionals, big food & big pharma marketing.

Not acknowledging that health is largely a result of lifestyle choices, and that pharmaceuticals are mostly ineffective and often harmful.

And now for the specifics:

- lies/bad science about meat (particularly red meat) being unhealthy

- lies/bad science about cholesterol & saturated fat being unhealthy

- not attacking sugar and processed foods at the highest level; should be treated like smoking if not even more harshly

I say this for experience, until I fell ill I had no idea about either of those things. Like many of my peers, grew up with tons of sugar, and many misconceptions about what is healthy (although thankfully to a lesser extent than what's common nowadays)

I'd also add that these things compound over the generations. We are more sensitive than our parents. It checks out for me, every generation has worsening autoimmune symptoms.
I'm not talking about the state, this isn't one of my fear right now. I'm saying that our current belief system is mostly liberal, where we attribute success and failure more to ourselves rather than luck, to the system we live in, or to the outgroup.

This is sort of a 'leftward' evolution of the old monarchist belief system where your success is based on your bloodline, whereas the 'rightward' evolution is fascism, where your failure are because the outgroup is cheating, empowered by traitors in your ingroup (thus all methods to reinforce your ingroup are good).

I'm afraid than right now, our belief system (i call it belief system, but the author i stole it from talked about the foundational myth of our ideologies) is shifting from one to the other.

And btw, i just realized that this can be misinterpreted (it's also the first time I've presented the thought like this), but I'm sure I've done this political commentary way before 2021, as I've found this definition in 2018.
The marketing message for the Ultra is to a specific group of folk who do those things like hiking, extremes sports, etc. This watch isn't really targeted at grandma so hardly selling "fear".
You can sell customers/contracts, but not really code.

If you're feeling generous, just open-source it. Otherwise it's a nice souvenir of the past.
My guess: Environmental toxins, antibiotic use and poor diet leading to loss of microbiome diversity/dysbiosis and consequential disruption to the body’s homeostatic processes.
I'm not talking about byte-sized data though. It's bit-sized, that's tough, especially when it crosses byte boundaries.
Looking at the top 5 they used zig,zig,rust,odin,asmscript

Rust is the highest level represented. I'm guessing the level of control needed to hit the tight constraints of wasm-4 preclude anything that you wouldn't use for a microcontroller. C and c++ would work too, but what fun is that?
We can scale it to planets. We pollute this planet and then move to another, then another. Come back to Earth in 10 million years.

The only small problem with that is that we are not that advanced to do it.
The llama ass whipping continues.
You forgot the HTTP header... Which is variable size, but unfortunately usually quite large.

They can easily be in the 500 to 1000 byte range, taking up most of the first TCP packet. e.g this HN page has a 741 byte header. I suppose if you control the web server you could feasibly skim this down to the bare minimum for a simple static page - not sure what that would be.
This goes against everything I’ve read on climate change and its long term effects. The world’s oceans are extremely slow reacting components of the climate. Wikipedia ”climate intertia”. If you have more recent data then please post.
Example of the previous editorial style: https://web.archive.org/web/20190410065314/https://www.there...
WebGPU is to WebGL as Vulkan is to OpenGL, a lower level, low overhead graphics API.
I may be misreading but tipping point as defined as "self sustaining effects" just mean that we can't fix them by stopping the bad stuff, we also would need to start proactively gardening our own planet, which is something we've done on accident over the last century, it's possible to interrupt them.
I would agree on the tone of the latest keynote, but I wouldn't say it's entirely a departure from their 1984 Macintosh commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
If you don't believe in protest, keep in mind that it isn't the only form of activism which is possible. You might look around your local community and ask, "if the worst comes to pass, what will we need to survive?" Can you help tend a community garden so that there's local food production if food becomes scarce? Can you learn about your local environment and ways you might find water if there are shortages? Can you learn to maintain the machinery necessary to sustain human life?
It turns out that when you tell people to give up "progress," a lot of them die. That progress was what was keeping them alive.
I’ve only had Heinz until the Covid shortages, and I was forced to try Sir Kensington’s ketchup, and I will never buy Heinz again. Sir Kensington’s was thicker and tasted more like tomatoes.
My most recent episode of "divine inspiration" was in the last months of my PhD. I felt like both a sponge where everything I was experiencing could be spun into a relevant idea and a faucet on full blast where I couldn't stop the flow of ideas if I tried. I had several sleepless nights and work binges that left me more energized than tired. Graduating and getting my work published were somewhat validating that the ideas weren't totally manic and made sense to at least some audiences.

The flip side is a hypersensitivity I've experienced from other periods of artistic zen (photography, music). Everything, good and bad, gets cranked up to 11 and the pendulum breaks off its carrier eventually. And so it did.
I would guess cities on average have better schools than rural areas.
I don't know why but I swear by Hellmans Ketchup now.
AWS and Amazon is not for everyone, and that's not quite about us being 'elite' or the 'we only hire the top X%' (though statements like that are probably true too). It's more that the first part of "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History" is true at Amazon and long-time Amazon employees tend to be unusually driven and missionary and very much about shipping things.

For those this suits, it's great, we tend to weed out bullshitters and we're vastly less political than other operations I've seen. But it's not for everyone and others move on, and that does contribute to some churn. If you're considering Amazon, it's important to think hard about whether this is for you or not.

Our 'median tenure' numbers are constantly skewed by how much we've been growing. At times our doubling rate has been as little as 18-months, and so you get a lot of employees who haven't been here very long just from that too. Our actual attrition numbers are pretty middle of the range for tech. This year we has a spike in attrition at the beginning of the year - as did other tech companies - but we think we've been out-performing industry over the year as a whole. We were also ranked the #1 company where Americans want to work by LinkedIn, which is not nothing.

Amazon is full of very long-tenured folks and tends to have very stable leadership teams too.
It's the other way around. WebGPU is to Vulkan what WebGL is to OpenGL. It's less low level than vulkan though.
> Your choice to take a vacation was not a vote for more fossil fuel drilling

I don't know how you can say that. I know exactly where jet fuel comes from and knew my flight to Britain was going to melt something like 2 m^2 of arctic ice.
Purring is an adaptive trait.

Unnatural selection.
Every computer science problem eventually ends with The Unicode Problem and its various agendas. Personally I avoid Unicode in my editor and use ASCII at all times. If I have to deal with Unicode, I escape it into the relevant ASCII equivalent and normalize things like emojis to ASCII. This avoids various headaches down the line, since Unicode is not cross-compatible across devices and having everything in ASCII is a saner way to approach that.
It's mostly used ironically now by Jews and allies but yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
I have an iPhone X (2017). My partner has an iPhone 12 (2020). The difference is very noticeable across those three years.

I think often a single year's improvements are negligible but real, so any given two year's improvements are much more noticeable.
"Business went well: SAP ended their first year with DM620,000 in revenue, a little over $1M in today’s dollars."

This doesn't seem realistic if they mean inflation adjusted; do they mean using today's exchange rate? Or are both numbers inflation adjusted?
It takes my manager 2 hours and $50 of transportation cost to reach the office (one way!), and his manager is in another country where he is the only team member. My team's never going back to the office.

Amazon has already made it clear it will leave the decision to individual teams, and it has been the case so far.
I'm happy that you haven't made the opposite experience.

> if I'm trying to land a change, having a synchronous conversation (ideally in person) will resolve any misunderstandings between us on the order of minutes.

That does not match with my experience.

Imagine I wrote a comment on Steve's PR in foo.py line 31 that said "I see what you are doing here. Do you think this would be more readable if you used the itertools from the standard library instead of implementing this yourself?".

Now Steve asks me if he can have a call with me about my comments. I join the call and he opens the PR. He reads my comment aloud, then he says "OK" and opens up the documentation for itertools and reads it silently. I'm still in the call.

This goes on for every comment.

I see what you mean and wish that that was how it worked - and I've made good experiences doing this after 90% of comments in the "written comments" stage are worked on by the author. But just skipping it sounds like insanity to me.
The first practical usage of WebGL in the wild I can think of would be Google Maps, although it's easy to forget about the switch from the old server-side tiles to the vector WebGL thingy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3EO_zehMkM ).

The still strikes me as one of the very few useful usages of WebGL that exists even today. There's other usages of course, like figma, sketchup, etc... But those rarely (if ever) benefit from the web's primary advantages of ephemeral & linkability, and would work perfectly fine as just classic desktop apps. Kinda like an awful lot of tools in those spaces still are.

Majority usage of webgl still seems to otherwise be ads & shopping. It seems likely that webgpu is going to be much of the same, although it has a chance of graduating out of the web platform as a potentially useful middleware abstraction for native apps that want to use the GPU.
WebGL2 also supports them! And now that Apple finally added support (like half a year ago(?)) to it, it can be fairly safely used
I had the issue where sometimes only one was charged. I noticed that sometimes the LED didn't blink when inserting one of them... and fidgeting with it, helped, but sometimes switching the position of the case from vertical to horizontal would make it disconnect (as reported by the charge widget on my iPhone).

(I tried resetting them, re-pairing, etc. and it didn't help)

I took it to the Apple store, showed the guy the issue, and he claimed it was most likely a firmware issue and not the case. He said the Airpod disappearing from the charge widget was the firmware misreporting, and not a bad/loosy connection. I had my doubts and was sure that it was a physical issue with the case... but he replaced the single airpod (he updated the new one's firmware first) and the issues went away.
Cap and trade is largely a failure. The problem is that a proper carbon market should have sequestration plants on the supply side and carbon emitters on the demand side. The emitters need to buy carbon offsets at the price that the sequestration plants need to pull it back out of the atmosphere. The problem is that right now sequestration is so expensive that it would be ruinous to burn fossil fuels, much of the economy would suffer. But if we aren't funding sequestration it doesn't happen and everybody dies. Our brave politicians see this challenge and immediately bury their heads in the sand and hope that they won't be the one holding the bag as the problem grows steadily worse.
There are very few safe online spaces for kids that kids actually want to utilize. If MS wants to make Minecraft into one, good for them.

If that impairs angry 13 year olds’ ability to cuss around kids - nobody cares.
I was a parts department manager in the early 00's when Mercedes USA decided to switch all their systems over to SAP. It was an absolute nightmare for 6 months. The entire UX (at that time) was unfathomable. Even our regional representative couldn't figure out how to use the software when he was trying to train us.

At the end of that year, Mercedes hosted a "we're sorry" conference in San Diego and paid for all parts and service managers across the nation to travel and drink at the open bars for a week. I guess that part was okay.
They won't be building a car, and they probably won't build satellites. A deal with Starlink is more likely.
> I my attitudes went from Denial to Activism to Acceptance.

I think the next step is adaptation. Try to build some sort of resilient life for yourself and your family, try to help out the local community as much as possible etc. Try to not be too terrible to the people who will really suffer the most (Africa, parts of Asia etc.). This is kind of where I am right now.
plus: high-PUFA oils (seed / vegetable oils) being labelled as "heart-healthy"
Ask HN: What is a system that everyone has to build for themselves?
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With podcast support! This really DOES whip the llama's ass!
Maybe in your social circles it is. If you move outside of the social circle of furries you'll find that they're just a small fraction of the queer population, just as they are only a small fraction of the non-queer population.

We might be more accepting of furries than our non-queer counterparts, but that doesn't make us furries ourselves. Claiming furry and queer is anywhere close to a a perfect circle venn diagram is way off base.
I'm on the side of "vocal tic"; the non-purring cats are intentionally trying not to purr, while purring itself is just relaxed or tired breathing. Sort of like vocal fry in humans.
Not for sale. It's a private company where one person owns more than two thirds of the vote share. Can't be bought for love or money.
And if it gets stolen, the villain knows where you live and can rob your house too…
You strongly believe that I am wrong that there is no one single way?

So, you are saying that yours is the only way? And that being flexible and working out what’s right for your team… is wrong?
One of the best date movies ever. My (now) wife and I must have watched this a dozen times. If you haven't seen it, grab your significant other, some popcorn, and a comfortable spot and enjoy!
More disrupting than a really slow compiler?
They are expecting a government bailout when sea levels raise. You could make a big difference just by getting a lot of people to demand the government make all houses within 10 feet (pick a number) of sea level not eligible for government flood insurance. This will make all private insurance change their risk models.

Some conservatives (those with a libertarian bent at least) have long noted that government bailouts as flood insurance has been a moral hazard allowing people to live cheaply in places they couldn't afford to live in otherwise.
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Money is a social construct. Public goods are traditionally funded by taxes. Dual to taxing someone would be to print new money for everyone except that person. We need to pay ourselves and take ourselves seriously.
What a mindblowing attitude for a book whos contents are already freely available as blogposts. Shame.
I have the distinct feeling that the current generation of AirPod Pros suffer from a lot of reliability issues. I had to replace them 3 times in a year. I don’t use them for sports, I’m careful not to wet them, keep them clean, and they developed noise cancellation issues on one side, or noise.

My guess is that there is a non negligible portion that gets returned.

I sincerely hope the new version is more robust, the return experience was not great, I have doubts about the capacity of their automated tests to detect some of the actual issues that users experience.
Didn’t know that. This means patching the game is trickier than I assumed. Newfound respect for mod developers.
Maybe in a metaphorical sense? I've never seen this advocated in real life either.
I agree with your first statement.

I disagree with your second.

I agree with your third statement.

None of this changes anything I said.
Sure, but your goal was not for that to happen, was it? I assume you weren't trying to cause harm, even if you were aware of it; you were trying to get your needs met.

Don't get me wrong, I try to avoid travelling and reduce my footprint where I can, but like they say, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Consuming less is great, but the problem is that this economy is structured in a way that will kill us, not that we need to consume things to live.
The opinion for this case appears to be accessible here: https://cite.case.law/f/209/589/ (it's 209 F. 589, for anyone who knows how to turn that cite into a usable opinion).

From scanning the opinion, it looks like the book cite is referring to testimony before a special master, probably convened to look into the factual matter of whether or not benzoate is a harmful chemical.
Bingo, I've had a hard time reconciling the HN's perception of AWS SDE work and my job. I have people telling me that it's horrible, attrition rate, constant grind and endless oncalls. Yet I've never experienced any of those things. Of all the places I've worked at in Canada, AWS was the nicest and I highly recommend it.
> Information as of 2021-10-01

Needs a (2021) in the title.
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Downvote away, but the fearmongering is so tiresome (and has been for 30 years). The carbon emitters they want to eliminate are people.

On geologic time scales the CO2 level has been way way higher than it is today and the planet was still teeming with life.

Hey, speaking of tipping points, wasn’t climate change supposed to mean a constant stream of cat 5 hurricanes crashing into the eastern seaboard? And yet we just had a very quiet start of our hurricane season. Ah, but that’s weather, not climate. And yet whenever a bad weather event occurs, that’s evidence of climate change. Absence of bad weather is also evidence I guess. Almost like the whole thing is unfalsifiable. The climate changed before we ever got here and it will continue changing well after we’re gone.

Just as the petrochemical lobby has an interest in downplaying effects, there are plenty of other people with a profitable interest in the fearmongering as well. Their salaries depend on you being terrified and they’re doing a great job of it. They use your tax money to fly to climate conferences in Bali, Singapore, Paris, Rome. I’d take them more seriously if the conferences were held via Zoom or in places like Cleveland or Houston.

The politicians who keep telling me that this is a huge problem still fly their private jets everywhere and still own plenty of beachfront property. I’m more worried about a True Believer funding some kind of bioweapon to “heal the planet” and kill us all.
Are you using it a lot in calls? I think it could depend on which microphone is actively used.
You can say the Earth is shaped like a cube, or like a sphere. Both are hot takes because it is in fact shaped like something we circularily (no pun intended) called a geoid.

Yet wouldn't you be more interested in listening to the "sphere" guy?
I think a young Harvard math professor wrote about this in the 90's.
Without considering climate change externalities, the math on coal power is that it is clearly very beneficial for human flourishing. Even considering CO2-related externalities, burning coal as a bridge to nuclear and battery technology does seem to be a good option (China is basically doing this), but I'm not sure I've seen a rigorous analysis.
It did seem a bit gratuitous the way the author mentioned they were a furry; it had nothing to do with whether one should delete their Patreon account.
just realised it's a static list after checking if it would change... probably just example data for their animation. (which I assume is fake and doesn't represent voting.
This is nice but the aspect ratio is skewed on a lot of the photos that I looked. Again just a heads-up.
Exactly. People underestimate how much SAP is doing behind the scenes when properly configured. And beyond that, they overestimate the ergonomics of any enterprise alternative, especially ones that pre-dated SAP.

For every "We had a great internal platform that we custom built" story, there are multiple "We used a small vendor's product, and it was a nightmare."

Why is SAP successful? Because the general purpose tools (or worse, amalgamations of multiple single-purpose tools) that came before were absolute shit, and SAP is instead only difficult to use.

Progress!

(Also, a TAM that is literally every company, ever)
RTO issues aside it feels more like a regular recession rather than bubble popping. The biggest difference is wages were insane last year, even in 2000 devs weren't paid more than doctors.