skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: use a SaaS procurement vendor like TropicApp.io or Vendr.

Long version:
First, my heart goes out to you. I was in charge of a lot of SaaS procurement for a number of years, and even as our company grew and our ability to pay went up, the lack of pricing transparency only became more frustrating to me! It used to be: “if we have to ask, we can’t afford it,” but then it became, “we can likely afford it, but it would be nice to make sure we should even talk to this vendor or industry before sitting through long eye-rolling sales calls.” (Or even worse, the 15 minute sales call with an intern to get you as a lead before you can talk to someone who knows anything.) but my blood pressure is rising, and I digress…

To level the playing field, we recently signed up with one of the “SaaS procurement” companies that has made this MUCH more tolerable. We use TropicApp.io, and have been happy with them and how they do business. They help us find and negotiate purchases. Even before we buy something, we can ask them stuff like, “we need a tool to do X. What are people using these days, and what is ballpark pricing and pricing model for a tool like that?”
They (and their competitors) charge a percentage of the money they save you. They can’t help with smaller stuff (less than 5k per year), but are helpful with the rest. (Not affiliated with them or any competitors like Vendr.com - just happy that these companies exist now, and wish we’d found them sooner.)
that smudgy, painting look on phones is the phone trying to remove noise in the image
The Nikon photos will be under sharpened because it's so easy to apply sharpening in post, and the amount of sharpening is very dependent on the size and format of your desired output. Also, in ideal conditions (medium sized, evenly and brightly lit, static subject a moderate distance away) practically all cameras will give good results: try comparing in less ideal circumstances like a darkish area indoors.
This introduced me to Erlang, not much later I found myself watching all Joe Armstrong videos I could find and read his thesis [0]. It is so well written and unique in it's retrospective.

[0] https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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"Elon, what made you decide on $8?"

"I was going to charge $20, but then Stephen King told me it was too much."
Several large messenger service vendors have been at the table for several years, in the IETF MLS project, ratified in September 2022, as a precursor to this effort, https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
Sanctions didn’t stop China from carrying out one of the most successful research and technology exfiltration campaigns in history.
> Centralization is better than decentralization in 99% of cases

This is way overgeneralizing, and not remotely true for a large swathe of things. Centralized systems are actually less efficient unless the central agent is a party to every interaction due to the nature of the system. If the central agent is only a party by virtue of the imposed structure, you've created overhead, made the system difficult to change, and made it brittle to variance from design assumptions.

Decentralized systems can evolve much more rapidly, can survive catastrophic variance, and are more efficient in a large number of cases.

Centralizing mail delivery works well, centralizing economies or ecosystems does not.
Exactly. This is the reason some smaller self-driving companies exist, even though Tesla has pretty much dominated the space. Tesla might have superior tech, but it's not for sale.
Hi Dan, curious if you guys might be looking for a product person for the team in the future.
Arguably a crypto payment gateway could serve to facilitate verified anonymous accounts.
After programming in elixir/erlang for ~8 years (for fun and professionally), I have to agree. I've had to dig into the "why" of BEAM a number of times, and I can't remember ever being disappointed. The decisions that they make might be frustrating at the time ("why does passing a shared sub-binary through a process prevent it from being GC'd") but I always come away from the docs with the understanding of how the design decision was the right one in the context of the larger system, which is very pleasant. They just took a handful of requirements around concurrency and fault tolerance, and all decisions logically followed from those. BEAM is not good at everything, but it is good at the things it wants to be good at, which is refreshing.
half the ads, not no ads.
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You say you're using iOS Safari. I'm interested to know how you were able to configure it to delete navigator.geolocation, apparently without realizing what you were doing. I don't plan to support a broken configuration like that, but if you can figure out the cause then I could file a WebKit bug on your behalf.
In the US you might need to plan for health care expenses and higher-education.
Which is exactly why people on this plan will still be shown ads.
We centralize because we created/use a economical system where that such system behaviour is promoted.

We could also use a system which demotes or outright forbids too much centralization.

So it's not inevitable at all.

Or at least it isn't if you just look at how people are likely to interpret the title, reading "centralization" as in "central to the whole system".

Local increases in "centralization" are normal, e.g. people centralize in cities, but calling that centralization is misleading IMHO. They are local aggregates not central to the whole system.

More important if we e.g. look at (biological) nature centralization is nearly always the prelude of collapse and anything more then very localized centralization is often an indication for potential problems.

So we probably should change our system to demote too much centralization.
Well I use nix so its tracked in git and I can mostly rely on data-only backups then. It makes it so much easier to have multiple laptops (e.g. I have a "completely personal" and "contract work" laptop which have a lot of overlap but are not the same).
In that sense, I guess a 100cm2 apartment is "pretty spacious" compared to a 25cm2 one. My point was that a family of four living in a 100m2 apartment is going to feel cramped.
As someone who's engaged in vaccine discussions on Twitter, I've never seen a comment like that removed.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but at the same time, if you want to make $140,000 to $250,000/year working for someone else, then at times you will need to burn bright.
Wasn't there some subtle difference between using sizeof with vs without parens? Something like if you pass a type to sizeof -- e.g. sizeof(*int) -- you must use parents anyway? It's been years since I've used C, I'm probably not remembering it correctly.
FYI: renders on iPad with iPadOS 16.1 (iPad so no GPS). Either way, you are coming across to me as somewhat petulant - you could be right but politeness has its place too.
With your 10gbit+ connections serving static files from an old server would probably work just fine!
I wanted to add a note since I see my comment didn’t mention something.

I think Twitter is a dead man walking. Maybe 6 months. Maybe 3 years. I don’t think it will survive.

Wanted to add that clarification.
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Nope. I was almost on a jury involving a man that allegedly stole low value items. The case was tried 18 months after the crime.

I might agree that the arrest typically happens quickly (if it happens at all) in violent crimes, but it is extremely slow for white collar crimes.
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It's a PWA at the moment so it works quite well on mobile. But proper mobile versions will come in the future.
> It's also the case that if something goes wrong the first question is often "do we have a contact at X?" and if you've gone through the "contact us" pricing dance, the answer is probably "yes"

If you pay for a product or service and when something goes wrong your only contact is some jerk in sales that means you fucked up bad. Support options and contacts should have been determined and documented long before you spend a single cent.
I'm not the author, but the author has an article on this, previously discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32384016
No, you can’t.

50sqm is a large apartment for a single person. Without checking, I’d guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 man per month.

A part time janitor would gross half that.
Musk has saddled Twitter with a lot of debt as part of this deal. The interest on that debt is about $1 billion / year. So they don't need to just find $200M, they need to find $1.2B. Does it still sound easy?
Totally agree, it's the kind of sentence which immediately imparts of knowledge and gives you a lot to chew on.
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What you are saying isn't wrong. But I'd like to point out is that the companies that buy "Chinese RISC-V MCUs" may not be the same ones who license Arm CPU IPs and put them next to logic from other suppliers on a custom built chip.

For one thing, it is seen as risky nowadays to use Chinese IP in chips, ever since Mr. Trump said that the US government wouldn't buy certain Chinese tech.

The bigger cost in chip development is verification, not design. If you use open-source IP, I assume you need to take on this burden yourself or pay someone else to do it. The cost for doing that may well be more than the cost to license an already verified core (Arm or RISC-V ISA).
> The scope of things you can build solo these days is many orders of magnitude larger than it was back then.

This is the most positive phrase on this whole page.

It's easy to get stuck in nostalgia but harder to realise how good we have it now. Thanks.
Imagine thinking he made the decision based on that.
Hey, shoot the breeze, idleness deserves praise! (https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/)

> we now have a clown running the show

Nah not a clown, not even a Watchmen-esque Comedian.

If anything, he's a very conscious agent of (Capital-C!) Chaos, like the Joker.

Or, again, just another CIA puppet, who knows - dot dot dot :)
> It would be nice if we could agree that each command has --json flag (for example) which will make the output trivial to parse programmatically in any other advanced shell.

That's part of the solution, but I think a signaling layer of sorts is needed too so that the reading side knows that the data is structured instead of just bytes. So basically instead of needing explicit

> foo --json | from json | ...

You could have

> foo --json | ...

From there it would then be easy to have env var or something instead of explicit cmdline flag to eventually end up with (almost) seamless

> foo | ...
I understand (and agree with) all of the "fuck Boeing!" sentiment here, but look at this situation from a purely logical perspective:

Every 737 flying today, including the two already-certified MAX variants, does not have EICAS. If it's such a massive safety concern, then why are they still allowed to fly? Of course, it's not a massive safety concern. EICAS is great, and requiring it in future aircraft is a good thing, but aircraft without it are still safe.

The additional two years given from the law passing until the requirement would go into effect were basically to allow the MAX 7 and 10 to be certified without EICAS. And in all practical likelihood, Congress will give Boeing an extension to allow them to be certified without EICAS in 2023. There's really no reason not to, aside from "fuck Boeing."
It would have been great if, after taking Twitter private, Musk just immediately shut it down.

Would it have made any financial sense? Of course not. Would it have been the ultimate post-modern, trollish, liberating move imaginable? Absolutely.
But that’s feature. The problem is it’s Facebook. It’s not built/centered around the feature as the core of the platform the way Twitter is.

Something like Mastodon is closer, but I don’t think it will replace twitter for a number of reasons (including the scattering of the Twitter diaspora to the winds as it dies).
Enterprise SaaS customers are notorious for demanding one-off features, special packages, customizations, or hundreds of hours of meetings. For complicated enterprise products where these requests are inevitable, special pricing is inevitable.

There's a large and very lucrative industry around just implementing SaaS software.
Commentary on Autism and the double-empathy problem
Or he's just critiquing the rationality of those different choices given the game theory scenario, using standard (even lazy) tropes / stereotypes to make the plot go. I didn't read it as propaganda or commentary but maybe I don't know enough about the cultural context (call me a cave fish from up thread).

I completely disagree with your last statement - Dark Forest theory is just another sci-fi plot device invention... One that people have been too ready to embrace as a real theory (or even the real universe) because it sounds smart.

But these debates are why literature majors exist :-p
I don't see how this addresses non-competes at all. Also that is already how many sign-on bonuses work.

Retention is only tangentially related to non-competes. People leave for all sorts of reasons. If a company wants to restrict what they can do after they leave then they can pay them for that supposed value. We'd find out really quickly that most non-competes are bunk.

Not to mention that you'd need to add a couple zeroes to that sign-on bonus for it to mean squat to anyone actually working with valuable proprietary information.
Fun fact, Girkin is a monarchist - he believes the the state of Russia should be ruled by a Czar.
Smart. Now he can charge for something that was already shipped and get the credit lol
That's what people said about Tesla.
One of the apartments that I used to rent was owned by a large Japanese firm, specifically for the purpose of renting out at a substantial discount to its employees.
What if I already have the checkmark and cant afford to pay? Will they take it away?
Agree. What’s worse is these people either have government power or trying to gain government power.
Posting this for the umpteenth time :-)

Someone I knew was an engineer at a water treatment facility. His job consisted of sitting around waiting for alarms to go off. He coded an entire (if basic) SCADA application while he worked there and sold it to the company I worked for.

So, you do need to be an engineer first if you're going to do this :-)
It's funny how quickly the conversation has jumped from "Twitter will be a bastion of free speech" to "$8/mo is a fair price to pay for prioritizing your speech over others". Power to the people indeed.
Understood. Maybe this landed after your project - but both PicoRV32 and SERV now support compressed extensions, at some additional resource cost. FemtoRV32 Quark doesn't - which is not a knock, since it's a beautifully simple implementation and that's the point.

The retrocomputing scene looks like a ton of fun and I'd be delighted if any of my work is used there.
The topical subscription is pretty cool. I'm sure I could hack together some kludge (like Google News filters or something), but if this app's implementation is easy, I'd pay for that.
This would have so many beneficial knock-on effects, and would also advance science very quickly.

Old professors tend to cling to both prestigious chairs and disproven ideas until they die.

A lot of labs live for decades on dumb projects that are funded because the lab has "future potential." If there were a defined expiration date on professors, there would be a lot less of this grift.

Unfortunately the average age of the people who would decide to do this is probably around 75, and they would like to keep their jobs until they die.
You posted 28 flamewar comments in this thread and broke the site guidelines every which way. That's way beyond the pale. We ban accounts that do this. Please don't do it again.

Btw, users downvoted you, not moderators, and one of the site guidelines specifically asks you not to go on about downvotes.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
What's so special about the verification icon? Does it provide any merits?
Winged flight is not possible in LEO but yet Starlink satellites are definitely affected by the earth's atmo
Forced arbitration is bad for employees, based on empirical evidence

* It has a chilling effect: less disputes are filed

* employees prevail less often

* when employees do win the employee portion of the award is less than standard litigation

https://facesofforcedarbitration.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...
For anyone else with "mature" server configurations confused by the OpenSSL version number because you're on 1.1.x and wondering how to translate the patched 3.0.x version number to something that applies to you; it seems that you have nothing to worry about:

> This code was first introduced in OpenSSL 3.0.0. OpenSSL 1.0.2, 1.1.1 and other earlier versions are not affected.

> We did release an update to OpenSSL 1.1.1, namely 1.1.1s, also on 1st November 2022, but this is a bug fix release only and does not include any security fixes.
https://archive.ph/aGWEx
LibreSSL is not affected by this. It was forked before this vulnerability was introduced into OpenSSL, i.e. it's a new bug.
It doesn't say so here, but students who were not leaving by bus or car would not be dismissed until all the cars had left. In the morning, drop-off could only be done at the door, and the risk of students making their own way there was apparently too inconceivable to be explicitly ruled out.

It seems likely that the policy was a form of CYA-driven fearfulness that was not shared by all of the parents.
If you want to increase the thickness I mean.
Thanks! I love that stuff, currently slowly going through Stephen King's "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" (also a very good read).
Yes, I should write about v86's internals some day. Meanwhile, the code is right here: https://github.com/copy/v86/tree/master/src/rust

It's much faster with recompilation than without, but I agree that it's slower than expected (compared to, for example, qemu-tcg).

There is still room for improvements (e.g. eflags updates, 16-bit instructions, call/ret optimisations, main loop), but part of the problem is limitations of web assembly (no mmap, only structured control flow) and browser engines (memory blow up on large generated wasm modules, related to control flow).

The webvm folks explain the control flow problem quite well, and seem to be doing a better job than v86: https://medium.com/leaningtech/extreme-webassembly-1-pushing...
All laptops suck nowadays. Lenovo and Dell learned from Apple that laptops don't need to last to be expensive.. since Ultrabooks happened laptops have serious QC issues.
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> A popular open source protocol is actually the perfect playing field for a would-be monopolist.

Whereas when there's no popular open source protocol, the OSS ecosystem upgrades itself fast, like a cheetah? :P
Whatever mental model you're using here might just be going over my head and I'd appreciate you being more explicit about it
> consider the thought experiment of Apple funding a startup to sell an infinite amount of worthless $0 phones that are just advertising backed so that they have 1% of the smartphone market due to number of devices ‘sold’

Yes. lets procecute apple based on the fact that if we have a though experiment where they kill people who don't have phones they would be murderors.

Apple isn't a monopoly and it doesn' become one just because a lot of developers want to use antimonopoly policies to gain cheaper access to Apples market.

Apple has cultivated the most profitable mobile market, which is exactly why they have the higher profit even though they don't have the higher market share. There is good reason to want entry to the market for cheaper, but consider this, is the 30% you want to save really worth Apples market losing everything it is? If your answer is yes, then just don't go to market on Apple and stick to Android, because there you literally get what you would get from apple without their walled garden, and you can get on it for cheaper just like you wanted.

But if you're making up random arguments why you need to get into Apples market, then obviously it's worth the cost to you, since those 30% are coming out of profit you would not have without their market, which means you're going into a win-win situation but doing so while complaining that you don't want Apple to win as much and you want to win more...
Very cool, but fwiw Gaia does all of this beautifully. I've used it for years to pre-cache maps and track my progress.
The economic troubles of the 787 have nothing to do with the technology applied. It’s due to how Boeing managed the program.

The A350 employs the same technology and is an economic success.
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> thousands of years ahead of us

Just thousands? I would expect 100k years at a minimum and even that is only .0007% of the age of the universe. Millions or Billions of years more advanced is not out of the question.

It would be interesting to see how similar technology is among such advanced civilizations, even if they did not compare notes. Does technology eventually converge to the same optimal devices in each civilization?

Given our current extremely primitive state (only about a hundred years of useful electronics) I would be disappointed if we could even imagine what this technology looks like.
Tough to argue with that, all I can say is that your usage of the word "private" does not agree with either the dictionary definition or common usage.
Very impressive! I didn't even know they were working on this.
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