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Not your experience, but it's definitely the prevailing sentinment by users in the threads I've read about this. If I read a lot of people saying "I can't cancel because I need the route builder" then maybe you would have a point.

Overhauling one feature that only a few care about isn't a persuasive argument that they've kept up with their competitors.
good point for sure, but in terms of relative power it's probably the same, as it could then be captured along two ranks, files, diagonals, and a fair number of knight, and even some pawn positions.
Do yourself a favor and turn on reader mode for this article, there are _24_ ads weaved between the paragraphs.
That's their claim, but who knows. The article shows:

* Memgraph's benchmark only show SQL ~where clauses, not graph ones

* (nor streaming ones)

* The existing memgraph numbers are questionable, and if the competitor tuned, who knows

* The memgraph team refuses to use community-defined graph benchmarks for these articles.. so we won't know

* Memgraph uses weird patterns like doing bulk loads as a query stream of atomic singleton creations vs batching (csv, arrow, ...), so even if it was graph/streaming, a proper benchmark would show tools going way faster b/c the relevant task would instead be for csv/arrow/etc bulk loaders or some other form of micro/macro batching

It's not just this article but the others too. It's frustrating to watch the memgraph leaders take their VC money and dump it into a big negative campaign lying about basically anyone in the community. They even spend money punching down at academics doing OSS. I haven't been this annoyed at a seemingly real tech company in a long time.
I'd love to see your source for the 97% statistic, because it doesn't match with anything I know about it.

> So, most people want to believe their meat comes from somewhere nice

I have the ability to know mine is, because our grocery stores get their meat locally.
That's the new Pixel fingerprint reader experience.

They buried it under the screen (why? who gave a shit?) so they can make it (generously) 70% reliable instead of the 99.99% reliable reader they had on the back.
> We don’t have a system that effectively updates their knowledge or keeps them in the loop for cutting-edge research

That's not true... generally, in order to practice doctors must be licensed, and in order to keep their license they must have annual continuing education. Generally accomplished by attending conferences where the latest research results are presented.

The details vary but the system does exist.
Cancer rates for each age have exploded, not just total cancer rates. Cancer rates for cancers that were known and diagnosed well before 1970 have exploded.
Enough there is no counter-AMA organization anywhere close to the same size.
> I know it's against the guidelines to comment on quality of HN going downhill, so I won't. But if I could...

You did.
1. The reason someone has taken dozens to hundreds of hours to develop the crack is because your software is prohibitively expensive.

2. Downloaders of cracks are not 1:1 with buyers. Overwhelmingly people buy legitimate software if their business actually relies on it. If Photoshop cracks didn't exist there would be far less professional users.

3. You cannot remove it from the net. Any legal attempts are a waste of money, you will only ever catch the lowest quality users, and trying to go after them in court will not only cost more, but will put your company on the permanent shit list - meaning more clout, more notoriety for cracking future versions.

4. Congrats, you've made a product people want. Focus on making it better, and buyers will come. If you focus on drm and fall into the trap of "theft prevention", you will ultimately end up locking your legitimate customers out before the crackers. Crackers don't play by your rules.

5. If you do actually see a tangible and significant hit in profits, then tie your software to online services. Can't crack what isn't executed locally. This will again reduce quality for legitimate customers.
We’ve reached the point where trees are only falling in the forest because Google is around to hear them.
in marketing companies "projects" were lead by people after sociology, they were called account managers - why??
now i have a product owner who's above me and has no technical background, never used a cms, after 8 months i understood finally that the dashboard iam discussing is a poor man's google analytics page, we are making it because for the last 2 years people were taking stuff from the database and presented web stats by hand - each day i get to uncover more and more and more stuff like that .
those nontechnical people think that they are doing rocket science stuff. like genuinely.
"pledge" means nothing. It's the word you use when you want credit for something you haven't done. He hadn't even done anything as simple as put the money in a Donor Advised Fund or foundation.
It’s basic in the sense that it’s conceptually trivial from the user’s point of view and therefore should just work, and not break in non-intelligible ways, given that the functionality has been made available at all. Users shouldn’t have to carefully navigate their use cases based on what the majority use cases might be.

A more general point is that software should establish a clear conceptual model of the things it allows to manipulate (music files, tracks, playlists, …), and all basic operations on that (insert, move, remove, reorder, rename, syncing between two devices, …) should be straightforward, orthogonal, and just work. Only having specific workflows available/functioning requires the user to memorize those specific workflows, instead of being able to reason about what they can do based on the conceptual model.
This goes for their professional equipment as well. I worked with their cinema projectors a few years back. In theory they were better than most other solutions, but managing them were ... cumbersome. You could only access it using a special program that only ran on Windows. It was really picky with DCP's. And it was difficult to know what it was doing at all tiems. You had to say at least three hail mary's when attempting to upgrade them. At one point upgrade could only be done with a USB stick that you had to connect deep inside the projector.

But it was 4K before there were movies in 4K. They came with laser projectors early. They were ready for high frame rate from the beginning and almost never needed replacement parts fitted unlike certain other manufacturers.
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Take chickens, you can simply have them walk around in a yard and have a coop for them to go to sleep in at night, rather than keep them in caves their entire life and feeding them antibiotics. It's a bit more space, which there's plenty of in South Africa and the USA, but otherwise your capital expenditure shouldn't be more.
Ohh I was there on my first programming job, still a student :) I think we recompiled the RTL and then distributed new binaries with the working RTL.
> It's a classic story of a startup with a loyal userbase paying a reasonable fee for stagnating features for years, misjudges customer loyalty, doubles the price, then makes some PR mistakes, and comes out behind in the end.

Is private equity involved here?

Someone in my family was recently looking for a calorie tracker app. All the ones I was familiar with (and liked) from years ago had been acquired by private equity, which only crippled the free tier and make subscriptions ridiculously expensive.

Seems like the private equity playbook is to cut development to the bare bones, increase prices, and let the app rot while they burn the goodwill to turn it into short/medium term cashflow.
MP4 is definitely a video file extension, and I don't know what he's saying about adding songs to Music/iTunes, but yes in general syncing songs from Mac to iPhone has gotten pretty screwed up over the years.
My favorite example of this with Sony: the WH-1000XM series noise cancelling headphones are absolutely great and they would be the only headphones I ever use if only there was a way to mute the microphone from the headphones themselves. There's even a touch-sensitive panel on the earpiece and several control options you can pick to have available through it, but mute is not one of the options.
But they don’t lump them together, and they acknowledge your concern specifically.
> I don’t think Music is really intended for this use case.

What do you think are the intended use cases of the operating system's proprietary audio-file-playing application?
I also never said you did. I'm also not mad about anything. I also don't know what most scientists believe and don't make claims about that.

I'm not making any claims. I'm just stating opinions.
I think the idea is to put out a company-approved nagware "trial" version. It makes piracy less likely (because the benefit of a full cracked version is smaller) and gives you a sales channel to those who would have pirated it.

The downside is, people who would have paid might discover they're quite happy with the trial version.
I used to be able to buy a handle of Weller 12 for $30.
The [perceived] consequences of ending a marriage seem to provide more of a disincentive to men, so they are more likely to persist in a marriage that they feel they would be unable to leave (and then have to support multiple households, etc.). The fact that women (in the USA) are more than twice as likely to initiate a divorce seems to bear this out.
I'll add something to this here instead of editing:

It's performance review season (feels like it always is now - twice a year and check-ins) and I do find myself not able to do those as well anymore. Because it's constantly about growth and desire for growth.

I don't want to grow professionally anymore. It's not zero sum, but effort and focus spent on my career as a backend guy isn't going to benefit me compared to, say, playing guitar or drawing.

So I have to bullshit my way through that with fake statements. In reality, I'll continue being as good as I currently am. Which is pretty good and people seem to be happy with my services.

But the way companies use growth to effectively make you orient your mindset in their favor is definitely annoying. I see you plain, monster.
A $40 pie?!?!
> Crazy that low open rate from a mass mailing campaign was a signal that something was amiss

It was an extremely high bounce rate (i.e. invalid emails) that clued them in.
I did, in suggesting a google search which results in many papers, the question being "you said this doesn't exist, here are many examples, why don't they count according to you?" which is mostly rhetorical because it seems I'm replying to someone whose sources are politicized medical information but I left room for real information if it existed. (perhaps an actual expert has an opinion on the corpus of existing research being inadequate I'm not aware of, I don't think this is true but I'm ready to be wrong)
Its fucking amazing how backwards the US financial ecosystem is, and I don't really understand why.
Ugh Levaquin. One of the well-known side effects is a spontaneous Achilles tendon rupture. Horrifying, and I hated taking it.
Same as Jsonnet but it's only a small part of the picture. For someone who use JSON, I expect the adoption of CUE to be incremental but in reality I need to use CUE's own syntax to get the value out of it. Jsonnet was was closer to to the mindset that I have with that respect. Some context: https://github.com/google/jsonnet/issues/605#issuecomment-72...
I think this is a great post, but it also makes me so sad because it highlights a lot of the general pessimism I've felt about the direction of tech over the past decade or so (after so much optimism in the 90s and 00s). I mean, I feel like your description of "Really effective targeted advertising" is spot on, but it also makes me think "Why don't they just dump as all in the nutrient baths Matrix-style and just hook our eyeballs up to a continuous loop of ads?"

In seriousness, I feel like the only hope here is that the general population gets more and more aware about the negative impacts on all this hyper-targeted advertising. Certainly we've been making strides there with things like GDPR and documentaries like the Social Dilemma, but with so much money on the line it will be hard to fight back.
Could someone summarize the article please? At 8 screens of text it seems a bit long but I'm curious what's so bad about it.
Indeed. In all seriousness, in my reading so far the patents largely relate to vaguely inferred logistical and manufacturing process efficiencies which are difficult to fully grasp without a background in packaging design and manufacturing (I have a few years of experience but am no expert). Specific economic benefits are not discussed, probably a purposeful exclusion. Ballpark it seems the patents are talking about what will probably amount to roughly single digit percentage gains in material cost, manufacturing and shipping at most. Yet total box cost is such a small factor in each transaction that the gains are an invisible rounding error for all but the very largest operator (Dominos). From a design perspective, it seems that once you have flatpacked your boxes, if you require effectively untrained staff to perform assembly operations, the maximum complexity threshold for design (largely due to assembly process speed, training and error-potential) becomes the limiting factor.
The UK has stronger consumer protection for credit purchases over something like £100. So even without rewards it's worth it. But yeah, I guess that isn't an eu consumer directive but an actually unique British one?
Actually sounds like someone with bipolar disorder, manic grandiose phase followed by depressive one when they hate everyone.
I use Docker all over the place but I don’t pay Docker inc one cent.
Hopefully: UBI, retraining, something along those lines

Probably: Let them eat cake
i have interest in programming and i am in for the money, but the money is too small for the madness of the office
Do you have web font blocking setup in the browser?
I think it's fair to go based on actual launch date. They knew they weren't going to offer it right away. Inflation was normal from 2015-2019 so that should have been baked into the announcement.

Imagine if it had launched with inflation included. Here's your $35000 car, for only $38500. I don't think people would have been happy.
I bought my almost-new Subaru Forester for $17000. There is no amount of maintenance and fuel savings that would make up the ~$18k difference to buy a _used_ Tesla. I could have gone even cheaper but I wanted premium features like AWD and lots of space for my business.

People who talk about TCO for a car are already setting the bar crazy high to justify buying an expensive car that they don't really need.
According to the fine print, while the Atlantic has content marketing, it is marked by tags missing from this article. So almost certainly not.
There are plenty of good bourbons available off the shelf that aren't "bottom shelf swill." Talk about snobbery...
> with the right prompt

Supposedly you can summon Anubis with the right prompt as well.

But nobody does.
I am honestly confused by what you are saying here. It sounds like you're saying more people like the good stuff so it's gone quicker? But earlier you said Bourbon was an "everyman" item being ruined, which presumably means it was popular before. Is what was in the market now harder to find, because in my experience there are now more options available.

(EDIT): Oh I see Weller 12 is now incredibly expensive, and this article I'm about to read is about bourbon prices: https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/whiskey/bourbon-whiskey-...

Well, good for these smaller distilleries that people are now recognizing how good the product they make are. And there seem to be a like more smaller bourbon distilleries popping up to replace the price point that Weller 12 and similar drinks used to live in.
someone please enlighten me, why can xterm do this cool drawing while the modern gnome-terminal can not, I tested the GPU oriented kitty that can display images in terminal, but it could not run gnuplot as xterm. what're missing?
Turn it on its head, then. We can build bots which navigate bad customer service portals on your behalf.
Can't tell if this is serious or not.
> An illness like diabetes presents very specific symptoms and doctors have been aware of diabetes for a very long time. The same is true for many kinds of cancer

You can have diabetes and high blood pressure and cancer and not have symptoms. That's why we screen for them. If you have symptoms, it is no longer screening, it's diagnosing. A lot more screening is happening now than before the 70s so we are obviously finding a lot more disease.

I'm not arguing against the fact that lifestyle and environment play a significant role in increasing cancer, but that doesn't change the fact that dramatically increased screening rates have contributed to dramatically increased disease diagnoses.

> There are literally people out there who basically do not get cancer heart disease or diabetes and nobody seems to think it’s important to get to the bottom of this

I think there is probably more research these days into causes of cancer than ever before.

> people like you who leave snide comments and contribute nothing. A worthless parasite.

Really?
Very true. Around where I live the worst is Weller (all variations) and Blantons. Nice bottles, but nothing out of this world. You could easily find them on the shelf years ago. Nowadays it is unheard of to see them for sale.
Unrelated but still a coincidence, there is also a post on the front page about Alpine.js, and I ended up getting the 2 mixed up for a sec.
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I agree with many of the concerns outlined in the post. On the other hand the humans depicted in the example dialog behave so dumb they could come from a C level soup opera. If I was a bit more close minded I can see myself stopping listening at that point. Undermines the message.
Scrolling quickly through the .txt version of this paper on my phone feels like a visual expression of the internet dial up sound.
That is amazing. I'm going to try this.
Android in the past was surprisingly terrible at copying data to/from PCs. Anyone saying it works great is using some third-party tool that requires extra setup, or they aren't syncing a lot of stuff (media libraries, and iTunes used to also sync email accounts and some other settings). Aside from the lack of a proper syncing tool like iTunes, the basic Android File Transfer was super unreliable, often failing randomly mid-transfer. In some cases, you even had to enable it with a secret combo like "go to settings and tap the model name exactly 7 times," which was seriously how you did it on some Galaxy phones.

Android was always focused on cloud stuff, which makes sense given that their biggest markets are places where most people don't have PCs, plus Google wants that halo effect from Android. I appreciated that iPhones were designed for my PC too. But iPhones were generally bad at copying any other data ad-hoc. They added AirDrop specifically for this, and... Like 90% of the time I don't see my other device, or the transfer fails. I don't even bother anymore.
How is saying "accountability rests with me as the CEO" different from saying that they're the one who made the decision? Is that really dressing it up? Or just saying the same thing with different words? It really seems like you have a different definition of "accountability" than other people.
> It presents information really well that is completely false

I don't really see a problem here. Us, meatbags have been at it for a few millennia, bullshitting for fun and profit, and that train is moving ever faster with the improvement of communication technologies.

From what I've seen, this new rival isn't even exactly persuasive, it's merely super-confident (and we're giving it a lot of credit because we talk to it as a novelty machine). It has no malign (or benign) intent, no idea about where and how and where to put the pressure, and training for that (as opposed to training for a nice-looking texts that keep the topic and have a correct grammar) is something that must be very non-trivial. It doesn't even have any solid agenda besides a few silly filters and canned responses when it hits those. Though, of course, it can be trained for any certain bias.

And maybe I'm too optimistic or naive, but I'm also guessing that if a future AI actually manages to becomes persuasive, then trained and unleashed onto conspiracy communities it very well could lead to their demise, outcrazing the craze to the extent it collapses into its own weight. Just let's not forget a kill-switch, lol.
I don't really get why any of that matters though. Can't you just appreciate the sentiment regardless of how it is phrased? Seems like your trying to make it political when it just isn't.
Setting aside the usual Tesla/Elon discussions, I think it’s good for the auto market for prices to be able to change more dynamically. Especially when they are lowered. It’s better than the paradigm of having an inflexible sticker price and leaving it to dealers to de facto adjust then based on unpleasant negotiations and add-one.
I mean technically you're right.. but it's more useful to talk about it in the way that basically everyone is using React.. with JSX.
My biggest issue right now is that the iOS Music app has been almost completely hobbled by Apple Music (the service). I just want an app I can use to play my existing media files, but it’s always pushing you to subscribe to the service.

Especially annoying is that they have hidden the previously free access to streaming terrestrial radio stations (not the same thing as the Apple Radio subscription). You can only access them now if you know the URL, and they’re impossible to search for in the Radio tab of the app.

The business drive to push people the paid subscriptions is taking over everything else.
"Are you sure it can't learn?"

When my camera has poor white balance, and I switch from auto white balance- algorithm A to auto white balance, algorithm B is my camera "learning" when it gives subsequently correct white balance or is it just applying a different
algorithm as designed?
I find this very hard to believe if they are drunk at a sipping strength. A lot of bourbon comes at cask strength, which is good for mixers but is too strong to be drunk straight. The recommendation is to add a little water to get it to the proper alcohol percentage. I don't doubt that people will struggle to tell the difference if they are given cask-strength whisky, as the alcohol concentration can be overwhelming when consumed neat.

As for me, the highest I will go neat is 46%, and that's only for certain scotches.
For sure. You're not even absolved of deploying internal microservices in the correct order during certain classes of migrations, or even changing fields within a single service. Systems at scale are hard and require discipline.

Monorepos still bring tremendous benefit.
Pretty sure it was 1.2MB HD. There was something along the lines of 20-25 of them. Then lord help you if suddenly the system would panic because it was slightly out of spec of what OS2 wanted (usually halfway thru). Also if memory serves me I think you could tell the windows installer to make a set of disks from a CD. Then you got to feed the beast a bunch of floppies.