skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This will not be a single company market.

Exactly! Not only that, but "second movers" like Rivian have some advantages too. They don't have to build out their own charge network to support coast to coast travel. They don't have to invent their own charge standard because the industry one was limited to 50KW.

That also have lots of intangible benefits. In the early days of Tesla, reviews focused heavily on range and the lack of charging. Rivian reviews have been able to focus more on the vehicle, since people are more accustomed to EVs now. I see far fewer "oh noes, where will a customer charge" stories in the vehicle's reviews.

The challenges that are similar are all around scaling the business. Launching a car company is hard. Rivian is exceptionally well capitalized, though.
If there's one thing we should learn from gold rushes, its that you dont make it rich panning for gold, you make it rich selling gold panning gear.
CloudFlare's offerings are impressive. Do people worry about vendor lock-in though?
I'm really quite happy with Linux.

If it somehow became more like Windows I would use an alternative.
Not an exchange, but still a decentralized system which can be used as off- and on-ramp: https://bisq.network/
Amazon has something like 100k corporate employees, and their URA targets force managers to PIP approximately 6% of the corporate employees every year, so going from 6% to 10% isn’t exactly a massive change.
According to https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f... it's varied between $2 and $0.5 in the last 6 months. There have been times (mid-2021) where it was >$20 for a single payment.

Needless to say, this is much more affordable for a million-dollar transaction than for buying a cup of coffee :)
These things come in waves. Every cycle is the same: People come in for the gains and pump and dumps, then they get wrecked when the tide goes out. Some of them learn their lesson and move from a trading model to a savings model. They withdraw and hold for the long term in a wallet they control.

Then we start again with a new generation.
Maybe I'm the only one who liked it, but I found the essay nice as it gives a simple model to understand ourselves better.

Here's my take on it: there're many things out there (musical genre like classical music, cooking like Indian, French, Ethiopian) and your utility function has coefficients for most of them.

When you don't know the coefficient, you try, and you come with a quick conclusion (like or don't like) that can be further refined by experience (ex: like Indian food, vegetarian Indian food is ok-ish, vegan Indian food nope)

Sometimes you want to alter the coefficient because it can create conflict with your identity (what if you're vegan? what if your parents are Indian?) or other things.

Sometimes you succeed through different methods, sometimes you just can't.

And there're things you like you shouldn't, because of society (taboos, or banned substances) or the consequences on yourself (addictions, risks for your future health) but it's just the same thing: trying to alter the coefficient in your utility function.

It may be worth it (learning something new) or futile (something you just can't change) which leads us to Seneca prayer (the wisdom to separate the two, knowing the battles you can win to avoid wasting effort). And there's another dimension if it's possible: the amount of effort required, which might be measured in years (and what if you're old and bound to fail?)

Personally, I find it simpler to go epicurian and if I find something new I enjoy (right now, Russian rap lol) just enjoy it without asking myself too many questions.

And if I don't like something or have no want for something I should like (Drill rap, Trap rap), I don't force myself but don't exclude it out of my life either: I leave that to serendipity :)
My wager is that the devices are sold as a loss leader.

Then on top the software development is fairly novel - so they're probably spending quite a bit on development efforts related to the devices.

They're eating the costs for running the backend processing for all of these devices (they're sold as a one time fee, despite requiring services provided by Amazon servers).

Finally - they were promoting the ever loving shit out of the development tooling to app developers for a long time with a lot of seminars, development guides, free services on aws, etc.

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My strong guess is they wanted them work out the same way Kindles have - loss leaders that more than make up for it by securing digital goods purchases. But personally - I spend lots of money on amazon for books for my Kindle, and I spend basically nothing related to Alexa (there's literally just nothing I want to buy through it).

Lately my Alexa has started inserting promotional content into the standard voice responses (bs like "Alexa what time is it" returns the time, and then a "and it's a good time to watch the new Rings of Power tv show? should I tell you about it?").

They're going to go into the trash shortly at this rate. I'll switch to a self hosted replacement like mycroft or something.
“Banks take deposits and make loans” in the context of this thread seems to imply that the money loaned by a bank belongs to depositors.
It is insane that it's political. But that's what you get when pharmaceutical companies both test their products on behalf of the regulatory agencies and spend money on politicians. And there are incentives to either not study repurposing existing drugs or even spending money on proving they shouldn't compete with your patented drugs.

Let's talk about Andrew Hill and how a grant from Bill Gates resulted in him changing course on his Ivermectin findings.

I've been seeing articles here on hn for years disparaging corruption within academic journals, but suddenly with COVID, every journal maintained impeccable ethics right?
Because the money you exchange for at an airport currency exchange can be used for goods and services, which is the primary use case. With crypto, the primary use case is speculation and trading, so it makes more sense to leave it there.
The risks of under-hiring if things had continued and not being able to keep up with competitors was probably just too great. It's much easier to simply lay people off if the bubble pops than to play catch up if it doesn't.
I recently read Fritz Leiber's "The Creature From Cleveland Depths" (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23164) and it gives off a very similar vibe.
Consumer-grade SaaS won't cut it. You need enterprise level storage like S3, or you self-host it yourself.
Nope. I'm just a regular human being who does not profit from the use of a truck
Course, typing regularly in three languages had me turn of auto-correct. Sometimes, it backfires...
This generally smells like the work of deep pockets vested in proprietary software.
We're not sure what it is. There's also a resistor with leads that look like they have been attacked by fungus, but it's probably corrosion. It's unclear why just a couple of components would have this issue.
What's the copyright status of the dataset you're using?
This. They call it a “garden” [1], and they clearly love it. Like genuinely love it. Personally, as an EU citizen, I’m filled with disgust.

1. https://youtu.be/f8SKblpc7kY
Yes, I often find it a bit awkward to give such addresses in person because I know they won't understand and may think it's a joke or whatever. There was one time I had to give an email address to book a PCR Covid test. When I got to the testing centre they were very confused by the address and insisted on sending me a test email that I could show to them to prove that I has access to the address. Thankfully I've not had anything as extreme as your situation though! Makes me wish this was easier to do with phone numbers...
Have they really ever been known to have Internet etiquette?

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-government-withdr...

And the yestercentury-types in the US forgot that it was the 21st century with all the bickering about old news.
Putting him in prison, ostensibly, makes it less likely for someone to want to do what he did. You know, the whole "repercussions" thing? After all, if you stole a billion dollars and all they did was prohibit you from using a computer, why not try?
The problem with this is that I don't want to maintain an iOS app. I've considered RSS feeds, etc. But at the end of the day holding onto a song you love that you paid for shouldn't be this hard.

For subscription services, I get it. I don't love it, I think the contracts they've all negotiated are stupid, but fine. I get that a bunch of lawyers leads to me not being able to play almost any of my music while I fly over the Pacific.

But the combination of locked-down-OS (something I'm actually for) and legaleses / constant access negotiations means the effort I would have to go through to legally pay for music and actually hold onto it for good and then play it from my phone is too hard.
Sure, but they don't sell into the same market segments.
I felt like the grace period to recover your files was okay and if you logged into Youtube Music, there was a way to transfer them for free. They kept the original file, no transcoding. The feature parity is not perfect between the old Google Play Music and the new Youtube Music, but I have not lost any files. Some of the metadata was incorrect, but nothing else.
It baffles me that they didn't come up with a better plan for getting a second factory online. If anything kills them, it will be the time taken to get to their second generation, high volume products.

Independent car companies don't survive without getting to hundreds of thousands of units a year. Tesla couldn't be profitable with less than 350k/year.
I'm confident that's true, but there's a reason it enjoys 2.5% market share. [1] That's kind of my point. The things that make it attractive to you make it a non-starter to the normies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Said differently: The financial system has trended toward centralization over the past 5+ centuries, because there are obvious advantages to it.

One could argue that there are plenty of downsides to over-centralization (i.e. 'Too big to fail'), but the solution is not to start from scratch, it's to logically think about the kind of financial system we want (given the one we already have) and build that.

Conversely, the answer is not be techno-cowboys who know people with cryptography degrees who re-discover what bank runs are.
What is your proof that horrific crime was caused by abattoir work?
No, man, it's like insulated and stuff!
> Seems like this should have been a requirement before any emergency use authorization

Well... if you think that there's a case for an emergency use authorization, then you kind of can't wait to determine long-term risks. If there's a Covid epidemic threatening to kill millions of people in 2019, you can't wait for a study of long-term consequences that terminates in 2027. You have to decide with the information you have in 2019.

Was there a case for an emergency use authorization? Covid did in fact kill millions of people, so arguably yes.

> ... and certainly before any mandates.

Yeah, there I'm with you.
Your music is still there (I hope). Did you check here: https://music.youtube.com/library/songs
My iPhone doesn't have an SD card slot. It sounds like it would be a useful feature to have - perhaps they could add a headphone jack as well.
The user growth is high enough that at any given time roughly half of the people involved have been at it for less than 18 months. So the space is dominated by the least-savvy and has been for some time.

Many people will never be capable of self-custody because the lack the interest to do it. They see money to be made and ignore the warnings of those who try to explain what they have on an exchange is a promise of money, not money itself.

When you say "nobody does this anymore," that's kind of true, but also not true. Those who have learned the hard way do, the newbies (which vastly outnumber the first group) don't.

Self custody requires knowledge of some basic math, cryptography, and the ability to understand basic security principles.

User growth explodes with exchange rates. Those diving in understand very little about what they're doing and should stay out. They don't listen to people saying such things and the result is, well, predictable.
To be clear I'm saying that the claims starts from ideology and works backwards ignoring any other factors.
The tools are pretty generic, so you can use them in whatever way works best for you. In the future, we'll publish some tutorials/use cases so you can better set up your workflow.
Returning a pointer to a local variable is convenient, but can be a source of hidden allocations.

It's best to treat each struct as a "value" or "pointer" type, and use one or the other consistently for each type. This mostly avoids the need to use & in the first place
When I was first getting into Drupal back in 2006, the Pro Drupal Development book by Matt Westgate and John VanDyk for Drupal 5 was an eye opener. I ended up doing Drupal development professionally for 10 years after that.
Variations of this have been tried many times, for example hardware wallets.

But a lot of this is too troublesome or adds too many hoops to jump through than is practical for many people.
There is still the question of how to convert your crypto to actual spendable dollars again. Sure, uniswap will let you get another token but you still need an exchange to get dollars. This gets particularly important when, say, the giant scam that is Tether finally crashes and burns,
People have been saying "the tech bubble is going to burst" since like 2011.

The current round of job cuts and stock drops puts the industry back to ~mid 2020 levels.

So it is definitely a correction, but hardly world ending.
Amazon is surely aware of the aftermath of Google's accidental Wireless network war-driving.

While absence is hard to prove, an intentional or unintentional data collection beyond what is stated in their policies is highly unlikely.
The DOE loans helped seed the industry by getting first movers off the ground. That worked, so why would it make more loans?
Bozo was part of that pledge with Billionaire Bill, along with Warren Buffet.
Billionaires in general are just a sign of the apocalypse, a social defect.
I mean this part

> This is in particular the case for software, including its source code and modified versions, that is openly shared and freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable. However where software is supplied in exchange for a price...

This says that publicly available open-source software that is not supplied in exchange of a price (as in, say, customised versions of software that are not available to general public) is exempt. It doesn't cite any other commercial activity (technical support, donations etc.) from EU Blue guide.
I thought about that after writing my comment...
I hope he also turns off the one that takes half the screen on mobile and asks me to sign in with a Google account. So annoying.
>Decentralization in cryptocurrency always meant being able to make transactions without a central controlling authority.

Incorrect, that is a laymans view.

>It actually isn't crucial for someone to run their own node, someone just needs a way to query the current state of the chain.

"Dont trust, verify" means nothing to you, I can see.

>That VPS could download the entire chain from the last 13 years in about an hour.

Download and validate is the objective, not just download. Do that math for an avg dual core vps. It takes about 48 hours. Now calculate the same for full 10-100x sized blocks and realize how silly the idea of onchain scaling gets.

>As for drive space, the entire chain will fit on a 512 GB thumb drive. These can be bought for $40 USD.

Lol, I'm sure vps hosts will allow you to plug thumb drives in as storage or sell storage to you at the off-the-shelf price /s. Putting that absurdity aside for a second, 10-100x the chain size and do the same math.

I can tell youve never self-hosted or cloud-hosted a node by your approach to calculating the costs. Full nodes need to be easy to spin up, validate on limited hardware/bandwith in a reasonable period of time, and stay synced.

Also its good to remember that 99% of nodes sitting on big 3 cloud hosting providers is not real node decentralization.

Finally, I dont use reddit. You can stop referencing it.
It's an ads vector

Eventually people will say "Alexa buy my groceries"

Alexa will buy from the highest bidder
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> Where do investors see the growth?

Some of it might be a gold rush to "capture the next iphone" moment, but you have to understand, if govt are really seriously about banning ICE cars... then not having the weight of MASSIVE legacy systems hanging around your neck might have a value of its own.

It's not just about being a cassette manufacturer in the era of CDs, it's the possibility of govt banning cassettes all together.
Wow, you must've missed that little something about Glass Steagal.
Thanks for changing your argument, and validating my point.

Your first argument was that "...paid to be in advertisements. They are paid to make an appearance and say lines convincingly."; i.e., you justified it on the fact that they were paid professionals; the type of work doesn't matter and no judgement should be done.

Now, you admit that there is indeed a moral/amoral issue in making advertisements, but argue that in this case the FTX players must have been good liars and the actors must have been fooled.

Considering the actors to have reasonably vetted the thing as worthwhile & ethical, but having been fooled, is indeed a much better grounds to give someone a pass.

Especially so for the celebs who also invested their own money and have now lost it.

Of course the assassin example is extreme, I said so, and selected it because extremes can make the point more obvious. That makes it no less valid. I'm not questioning people's morals — I making obvious the foundational element that something being a "professional job" does not remove the actions from the sphere of moral judgement.

Certainly the celebs who invested along with promoting the thing were also fooled. That does not mean that they were absolved of moral judgement because it was a professional job, but that they can indeed be judged and given a pass because they were also fooled. Sure, the end result of both is that they pass, but the reasoning matters.

Your second argument is a good one in probably most cases; the first was not.
That’s every startup failing/divesting right? There’s a moment of chaos where priorities aren’t aligned and company assets disappear.
Build a local library, using DRM-free FLAC files.

Use your favorited encrypted (with a key you have and they don't) cloud backup solution as a safeguard in case you lose your local files.
Others find belief in the “goodness” of a supernatural creator impossible because of their knowledge of the natural world:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/494183-i-don-t-know-why-we-...
IMO, the powered tonneau was an unforced error. They could have shipped a manual one first, but instead went ahead with a finnicky design that has been problematic.

Beyond that, I don't have a problem with the decision making. From watching the forums, the issues look like normal growing pains for a startup to me.
Proposed legislation is mostly offtopic on HN to boot:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I followed this guide mostly on my PW4 and found the instructions to be a bit lacking / out-of-date.

Dropping this as a warning for people trying this out - your Kindle firmware should be < 5.13.X. You need to be very careful about auto-updates that'll undo a jailbreak so put it on aiplane mode until you jailbreak it.

After you do, I'd recommend you then install KUAL and then MobileRead Package Installer so that you can install the mod that prevents auto-updates and then you can install and control USBNetwork in a more user-friendly way.
As a companion to this, I grew up somewhat militantly Atheist (and consumed Dawkins like skittles), and had a very hard time accepting faith in a reasonably way until I read Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson. I know he's unfortunately become quite the provocateur, but that first book is worth a read, and crystallized to me what it could mean to have a world view with a supernatural force.
This falls under the banner of "breaking the law", which is the only use case people foresaw in the last decade.

Now you might consider that ethical (eg in totalitarian regimes). I make no judgement about that. But the fact remains the use case is avoiding the law and that has negative implications too (eg ransomware, funding various illegal activities).
>but how does it make any money?

"Alexa, put that on my shopping list" directs spending to Amazon in lieu of whatever the local alternative would have been.
What I find bizarre about that quote is that the EU itself has been a huge proponent of becoming a refugee centre for the aftermath of American wars.

Even now they still punish member countries for trying to enforce their borders.
super bottle?
Fantastic choice. I prefer my 2006 GX470 over almost any new car on the road today.
I used to trade with eth every once in awhile. It wasn't uncommon for a tx fee to be on the order of $5-20.
This is the second time in these comments I've seen this distinction held out as self-evidently meaningful. I sincerely do not understand, can someone please explain why laying off salaried workers matters but hourly ones does not?
Sales still exists.
Greybeard here. This just sounds like AWS to me. The cloud! The wondrous cloud!
They likely sell them at a loss.

Long-term, the hope is probably that the halo effect - "oh, I have Alexa, so I'll buy a Ring security system" and "Alexa, buy cat litter" sort of stuff - balances it out nicely.
Now, to balance between you and the OP: Great, Covid looks like it won't give me myocarditis. It can still kill me, though. So now we have to balance a "may give me myocarditis" vaccine against a "may kill me, but won't give me myocarditis" virus.

You can't make the trade-off solely on myocarditis.
What's the point of uploading the music somewhere, and even more so paying for that?
Seems to be a discontinued drug, other than that maybe a alt for 'pox' which has various meanings[0].
IHMO not that bad of a name.

[0]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pox
New System Floods Twitter with Fake Verified Tweets
Unless you add a layer of encryption S3 is unwise to, the files are still at a risk of eventually being identified as music and deleted without your consent.
Sled (YC S21) is hiring a founding UX/UI engineer to help teams on Snowflake
Is that the right takeaway? People didn't know cryptocurrencies could be kept on your computer? Or could it be that users just don't want to deal with the complexity enabled by cryptocurrencies, and the bank model is just the natural one that always appears when the public starts making use of money?
If a pure Deno package gets you covered, do not use npm. This is my strategy.

I prefer Deno packages.
I also have a background in C/C++, etc and I've only ever found myself missing value semantics when I use languages with implicit reference semantics. I guess I always figured the solution was "value semantics with better education / tooling". Education: people should understand value semantics. Tooling: imagine an IDE that highlights allocation points automatically (or perhaps the problem is implicit allocations rather than value semantics?).
This kind of experience is exactly why I bought a bunch of old iPods and loaded them up with music and favourite playlists. You can mod certain iPod classics to take micro SD cards and upgraded batteries too.

Yes it’s a hassle to sync them but I retain control, and there’s no tracking and no ads. One iPod for out and about, one for the car. They’re dirt cheap for certain models nowadays.