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I’m sure Microsoft is just as surprised as you are. Almost every European facility I ever worked with was constrained by either space or power so you had to be really on top of your capacity management. Facilities in the US seem to have unlimited power and floor space so you never have to deal with either issue.
In the case of housing, the tight timeframes for buyers and the low opportunity costs for sellers do not allow for a “fair” playing field.

If sellers collude, they can hold out for a few months or even a year without a problem. But buyers are rarely in that position.

Technically, it is a supply and demand issue, but the feedback loop takes so long that it needs some other force to keep it humming long term without sellers pushing society to the brink of disaster.
We used to run demos on a local hardware cluster, but we found that prospective customers were reacting negatively to demos that were not on the same platform they would be running in production (AWS).
The Golden Age of Online Retail Is Dead
There’s no chargeback for SEPA transfers that are initiated by the customer, but the OP is using SEPA direct debit which is initiated by the vendor and has chargeback.
> Multi-payment processing

I work for a company the does exactly this [0]

It’s amazing to see companies who not only optimize their business logic. But also their payments and how that generates direct revenue. Being able to switch payment providers at the push of a button has really opened up opportunities for growth and derisked a critical part of their business.

[0]: https://primer.io
What is the legal definition of an employee, outside of tax purposes, in Germany?
I definitely don't have a clear answer here either. It's just a interesting thing to think about. It's very common and can change you or your loved ones personality. However, reviving it of course would also changed your personality. I've noticed recently that I've gotten much more risk-averse than I used to be and think it might be bad. Maybe I should get toxoplasmosis on purpose? Really creates a lot of questions about "self".
I have at least a thousand hours into Factorio.

Factorio has provided a sandbox for me to visualize and acquire skills on managing bottlenecks in data flows; skills that I have and am applying as the point software engineer to resolve critical bottlenecks in multiple e-commerce systems. I won't speculate as to the commercial value of resolving those data bottlenecks here, but whatever dollar number you're imagining is, I suspect, probably missing multiple zeroes.
Yeah, there are definite downsides.

Most small landlords make less than appreciation when it’s all said and done - and if appreciation dries up many will sell out.
Brexit was supposed to be the end of the EU.
Loss of American favor? Since the cold war Eastern European immigrants have had an outsized influence on U.S. foreign policy.

Th U.S. has been playing off the Eastern European countries against the Western since the fall of the Soviet Union.

This is not exactly new. If Eastern European countries are so unhappy, perhaps France/Germany/Austria/Italy should form a new EU. We are tired of paying while being bashed for it.
Is there a secondary market for reselling Azure capacity? Can you bid against other Azure customers?
This is exactly my point, SEPA DD is by design high dispute because the customer can dispute a payment on a no-question-asked basis over a span of 8 weeks.

This can also happen due to insufficient funds, or as it happens if the mandate you (Stripe) send them is wrong. We previously have an issue with this exact same account where the reason for the disputes was an incorrect mandate and we were refunded for those.
If they were serious about improving Reddit, they’d fire all the mods who are usually weirdos who treat their subreddits as their own personal fiefdoms and seems like they are also selling their influence over posts to corporations. If you talk negatively about Marvel in /r/movies you can be banned. The capriciousness of the mods is what kills the experience.
I pay for a lifetime license on adguard, on Android. It is vanishing rare to see ads and the audit logs show how often and which apps are having their telemetry and other trackers blocked. It blocks a lot of Google stuff.

That's the reason I stay with android. The Apple version of the app (which has to come through the app store) is not allowed to block anything for Apple apps or services. This they exempt themselves from user control.
Stockouts have happened on both AWS and GCP too. Most of the time the problem is no longer a problem if you build your infrastructure not to rely on a single region or availability zone. On EC2 especially, even if you can't change to a different region, try changing to a new instance type and that might work.
It could be wrong, I have no idea from a statistical prospective. You would have to analyze the people who are arrested and figure out what are the mortality rates in those narrow demographics, which is not my field. We can assume maybe 20 people will die on Riker's this year[0] our of ~5865[1], so it's not a low rate. I am mostly motivated to counter the "people better off in jail" narrative, which is horrible and pernicious.

Another thing is that your hypothetical minimum security facility does not exist in NYC and is not going to be built, so we are dealing with Riker's for all pretrial confinement unless you are a child or very mentally ill.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/article/rikers-deaths-jail.html

[1] https://vera-institute.shinyapps.io/nyc_jail_population/
Ask HN: How do you deal with HN FOMO?
Like some of you, I am an avid reader of HN, and I spend definitely too much time on it. I am going on holidays and I don’t want to engage with it, but at the same time I don’t want to lose great content. Have you guys found a solution?
Developers aren't interested when Apple keeps dropping APIs.

Develop your game for x86_32, suddenly Apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for x86_64.

Develop your game for OpenCL/GL, suddenly Apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for Metal.

Develop your game for x86_64, suddenly apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for ARM64.

That's without counting the fact that most games developed nowadays developed using Vulcan or DX12 which has to be rewritten to Metal.

People are installing Windows on their Macs to play games that used to run natively on MacOS. Imagine how bad the backlash if this happened on Windows.
I've had good luck with Acer Aspire windows laptops. They're basically Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and are in the $100-$500 range.

Keyboards and trackpads are generally tolerable (so, 75th percentile or so).

I wish they'd make windows ARM laptops with less locked down (than Chromebook) BIOSes (that would also run Linux), but windows on arm is perpetually non-viable.

The pine book pro is also a decent choice for a cheap Linux laptop.
Game engines need to support multiple APIs anyway. DirectX for PC/Xbox, a different API for Playstation, and yet another API for Nintendo Switch. From what I've heard from people in the industry is that you really want to use the platform specific APIs because they're developed by the same company who built the hardware, and as such there are a lot of exposed hardware-specific APIs and tricks that can increase performance by a significant amount. And those features are guaranteed to be there for every system that it will be played on. PC, and by extension Vulkan, doesn't get that kind of hardware access since it's made to be generic and usable across a large range of generic hardware that may or may not have those same features. So while you may be able to target Vulkan on Playstation and Nintendo...performance is likely to be terrible compared to using the native APIs.

Adding a Metal renderer isn't the big deal. As others have said, the deal is that they won't get enough revenue from Apple sales to justify the development and support of Apple hardware.
Yep - they killed 32 bit compatibility and it’s annoying.

IIRC win64 finally killed win16 support but that was rarely used for games and those games you can dosbox (which amusingly enough works fine on Mac in many cases).
Recurring payments have massive lock-in - typically there is no way to switch payment providers without requiring the user re-enter their payment details.

You'll typically lose ~half the user's each time you do that...
Everything in life is literally a game. Game design exists at every level of life and the most amazing ones are the games that bring people together and develop “real world skills.”
You are correct that it's only if the poster feels better. You are wrong about the reasoning. Unfortunately, sentencing takes into account the harm done, but not causing so much harm that the person then takes their life.
You asked if we could solve if it overflows a computer efficiently (without overflowing it), so I am showing that is not possible generally due to limitations of math; both our current understanding but also because math also has limits. (Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.)

Attempting to overflow it is impractical using cpu cache memory sizes, no hard drive needed. No matter how fast you go through states, there are too many possible states in the cpu, and too many states even a small program can iterate through while still eventually terminating.
Who else has heard countless times something like "with company X's cloud platform you don't need to file a ticket and wait weeks for another team to provision a physical server, just spin some more up bro." The reality is you do, you've just outsourced the problem.
This is just false. There are "grey markets" for basically any major product.
Quality King Distributors is one company that dominates this space and has been sued many times (they win nearly every time on the basis of the first sale doctrine and are responsible for [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_King_Distributors_Inc.....) case) for undercutting manufacturers. Example: Dollar General sells some prepaid phones at prices substantially lower than on eBay/Amazon but in limited amounts per customer. Companies will hire a bunch of runners to go buy the max amount of these phones to resell (or unlock and export to other countries). Or: "Diversion"/products that are intended to be exported to another country actually being reimported, liquidations/bankruptcy auctions etc.

Lots of manufacturers and distributors who play by the rules don't like this because grey market distributors will undercut MSRP on places like Amazon so they will report the listings as fakes to get them removed.
No reason why Azure can't run multiple "regions" within Germany proper. Their current region is in Frankfurt; no reason why they couldn't launch regions in Munich or Hamburg as well. Then German companies could go multi-region while staying fully compliant with German data sovereignty laws.
>It's not avoidable. It's not "breaking the Internet" in any way more than "NAT's are breaking the Internet".

I agree. NATs, particularly the Carrier NAT that smartphone users are behind, has broken the internet. It's made it so most people do not have ports and cannot participate in the internet. So now software developers cannot write software that uses the internet (without depending on third parties). This is bad. So is what you've done.

Someday ipv6 will save us.
>Azure has been having capacity problem for over a year now

This is also a problem internally for Microsoft. GitHub and LinkedIn still operate in private datacenters due to Azure capacity issues
Yes, I have a team of contractors I pay but essentially a one man show.
I'm not so sure about learning. I think that you're mostly just learning how to administer an Arch Linux system.

After using and contributing to Gentoo for a few years, I don't think I could confidently explain how all of the pieces of the desktop graphics and audio stack fit together - I just installed it and it worked.
If you want the real-politick answer then “yeah, absolutely”. What’s your point?

But the U.S empire has been pretty amazing for a pretty amazing number of people across the globe, and it is shockingly easy to stay on the good side of U.S. foreign policy.

Be reasonably democratic, don’t genocide undesirable elements of your population, don’t pick on other reasonably democratic countries, don’t threaten world trade and resources, don’t steal all the Americans’ stuff by suddenly socializing industries in your country, don’t fund terrorist activity against them.

Yeah you can find exceptions to every one of those listed items - welcome to global politics.
You don’t realize how much text even simple video games have until you try to play them with your kids before they have learned to read!

That said, I have been impressed by mine’s abilities to memorize what each menu option does in menus that can go 4-5 levels deep.
The problem is that there is some kind evolutionary pressure to create increasingly more addictive game as every new game is in competition with every other game.

I'm not saying that games cannot be beneficial especially for learning english but if you speak with a boy you will understand how these games have taken his brain hostage as many of thoughts will be about the computer game he plays.
This is a B2B service. Do they really demand a "we can terminate at our discretion" clause? Can your lawyers negotiate better terms when you sign up, like 30 days notice and termination only if binding arbitration says the provider can do it?
Huh? Large landlords are unable to raise rents significantly above the local market rate, unless they have an effective local monopoly or collude with other landlords. Rent prices are not byproducts of a financial services scheme. When landlords ask for rent much higher than the market rate, tenants eventually just move out.
Peugeot also makes all kind of kitchenware: https://fr.peugeot-saveurs.com

And bicycles: https://cycles.peugeot.fr
I owned the previous generation of the Asus TUF, the A15, along with my wife, and can recommend it.

My experience with these low-end gaming laptops is that the screens are low quality. You might buy her an external monitor and a wireless keyboard + mouse so she can use it in clamshell mode.

But those are fantastic deals -- kind of jealous actually. Last year I paid ~$1,400 on Black Friday for an MSI GE76 Raider 11UE that has these specs:

> 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 17.3" FHD 144 Hz, i7-11800H (11th Gen), RTX 3060

Computing advances at insane paces.
That's a different matter - the offered severance might be better than a plain "you stop working immediately" layoff, where they pay would be the remaining vacation days and all days equivalent to the notice period.

But the severance offer must be laid out specifically for each worker, due to the above variation in days, plus whatever would be an extra bonus. The company can't legally say "I'll give everybody 30k" and let HR figure it out later. Or to be precise, a worker cannot accept that as official layoff notice and expect to have a legal claim on those 30k later.

I think the right thing would have been something like, "accept immediate layoff with normal legal payout, plus everybody gets 20k" for EU workers (that number being 30k - estimated payout). But of course Elon didn't wanna run this through HR nor acknowledge that Twitter EU must comply with EU laws.
>We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft

Had you never heard about (and this is unfortunately not a joke) Microsoft’s music service they once had, shut down after a few short years leaving customers without the ability to listen to the music they had paid to listen to?

The service was called, this was the trademarked name, Microsoft “Plays for Sure.” You cannot make this stuff up.
What does CID mean? I can't find it explained, Content ID? Is this a normal TLA I should already know?

Edit: It's in one of the images. Content ID.
From the Fyre Festival to FTX, the Bahamas just can’t catch a break.
Was this supposed to be a link to an article?
Yeah this was real. I remember this. For a while they selectively deprioritized customers, like you say. I'm not judging, just confirming the observation.
Unless all rent prices are made public in real time, buyers (and small sellers) do not have sufficient information to determine what market price is.
Who's stationing nuclear weapons anywhere? There is no need nor any will for that. It isn't 1962 anymore, modern missiles are intercontinental.
I hear you. I just don’t trust frameworks to actually sell you on an architecture that benefits you more than them. Thus you don’t get full benefits of said architecture because you’re using a sanitized version.
From a development perspective, Stripe is by far the fastest/easiest to integrate with, the most featureful, and has the best documentation. As I understand it, other payment providers will often require underwriting up front before you can even begin, which can take a while.
Both people are me. I think there is an answer in that article, but I can’t unpack it for you. It explains why what you are asking about is so impractical, and can point you to topics to gain a better understanding.

In the real world, a program will either halt, loop, or crash, but this doesn’t help us if a 6 instruction program can take longer than the age of the universe to run while still terminating. No matter how fast you go through its states. 64mb leaves a lot of room for unique states without a cycle.
Yes, this was a big selling point for us, we are a SaaS/Marketplace for martial arts academies and part of our business models also rely on transaction fees we get from the payment integration.

We are attempting to support mollie also to enter the dutch market but we are only 2 people writing the code here. :(
Why does anyone choose to work and live if not for recreation?
I'm not sure the intent of such studies is maliciously trying to stop autonomous driving. It's important to study the consequences / potential risks of any new thing. I'd almost say that's human nature. A better understanding of what can go wrong can lead to improvements down the line.

If anything, it could be supporting evidence against cars without manual controls for human intervention. Like the rumored-for-300-years Apple Car that claimed it would have no controls of any kind, or some kind of shuttle service.

Of course manual intervention still might not be all that effective if you're barreling toward a pedestrian and not paying any attention...
You said first that “The article is baseless because it echoes unnamed sources” and the parent responded to that.

Now that you’ve learned that top German and French politicians have complained about this very thing you’re moving goalposts.
I worked in a top 15 Azure customer. This is not unusual at all, especially in the newer regions. Talk to your TAM before you make attempt major capacity changes in a region. They may have advice on specific SKUs to use or which zones have capacity (e.g. when austrailaeast was being built 80%+ of the capacity was in one zone for many months).

If you aren't a big spender you may not have a TAM who can get this info for you. Welcome to Azure.
Ask HN: What do you use BetterTouchTool for?
Just bought the lifetime license. Other than keyboards shortcuts, what do you use it for?
This is a valid and level-headed analysis.

The good news is that this is not unfixable; there is a venue and a governance organization to standardize the protocols and compositor interoperability that is needed. And there has been notable progress.

Specifically when it comes to screen share / remote desktop, standardization of the API to invoke sharing is happening by way of the XDG portal API efforts. There is active collaboration there e.g. between the browser vendors and the compositor vendors to agree on an interface.

Here is a recent progress report: https://jgrulich.cz/2022/11/21/webrtc-chromium-year-end-repo...
I don't think this should be downvoted. I believe this is all 100% correct.

Maybe because of the "left's deficit spending" part, which is not wrong, but ignores the right's historical deficit spending (e.g. TCJA). Or perhaps the "political suicide" part is misinterpreted: It would be political suicide for a politician to interfere with Fed policy and undercut their blunt force effort to reduce domestic inflation.

But any way you slice it, right now the Triffin dilemma is indeed exactly what we're experiencing.
Specifically, those two titles don’t have Mac releases for any architecture. Apple Silicon support is somewhat orthogonal, since there weren’t any major API removals between x86_64 and arm64. (Unlike in the old days, when, say, Carbon was removed in the transition from x86 to x86_64.)
There are specific requirements in Germany that require user data to not leave the country. I believe that was what OP was referring to.
"Replace recruiters" seems to be overselling it:

"The AAE technology removes one key role that some recruiters serve at Amazon, which is evaluating job applicants and choosing which should move on to job interviews. The program uses the performance reviews of current employees, along with information about their resumes and any online job assessments they completed during their hiring process, to evaluate current job applicants for similar roles."
I've read he joins over the internet unless it has changed?
The first time I encountered a "shar"[0] I was amazed. It was very early in my career when I first encountered one and I had only seen shell scripts, archives, and packages, it was an interesting mash up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar
Yes, I think it’s newly suboptimal now. In the old days, remote work was rare to find so I think it was just difficult for folks to find situations where they could take advantage. We will now see managers/orgs figure out productivity issues in other ways and react to fix them. Maybe we will see a pull back on remote work. Maybe they will start to spy on our activity either through spyware or income reporting. They have already done some of this. I will say, workers will not get the last laugh
Linux test project exists
The reason he might not end up in handcuffs when he lands in the US is that the Bahamian government currently has control of him and wants to try him first. They'll only let him come to the US if the U.S. guarantees he'll go back to the Bahamas for their charges. Or, if he uses zoom.

And as of now, they can only be handing him more rope. The media can help convict, but they cannot exonerate anyone. A prosecutor can just go forward and find 12 people who never saw this fairly niche event.
I have DB connection issues at least a few times a week. Annoying.
> they're just overpriced server farms

That's exactly what a cloud is. It's someone else's datacenter with an API.
Good news is that today is Black Friday, so the e-commerce industry is running at peak capacity. In 30 days it will be Christmas, and by then (the very latest!) everybody will scale back, so you have a good chance to gain access to more compute before you reach the end of your runway.
In a world where people are supplementing with turkesterone... It's an arthropod moulting hormone-analogue. But it's an ecdysteroid. So surely its ergogenic.

Sure, why not.
Nasdaq is still up 60% percent over the past 5 years, so an alternative title could be, How the Industry gained $ X Trillion in Five Years.
Looks like that might be the case. I might have been confusing Gumroad with Braintree. I was only attempting to give an example, not advocating for one specific processor.
Ask your VCs/angels for help, this is the kind of thing they can definitely help with.

(Speaking from experience - one of our portfolio companies had a similar challenge and we used our network to get to one of the execs of the vendor involved)
Genuine question: is knowledge on how to do this well known? Without that accessibility, I'm picturing folks operating in EU being unwilling to take the risk of not being compliant and just hosting everything in a single region.