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I mean, in 2021 it would have made $500M without the one-off $800M lawsuit settlement. Getting it to "roughly breaking even" whilst stripping it down to bare bones and not paying your bills is truly excellent work.

Now - about that $1B per year interest payment you added on top...
Er, if you develop the infrastructure to host MongoDB, you should absolutely be able to open-source that infrastructure. I mean, before MongoDB, I wrote a cluster management system for virtualized software security and hypervisor research, and all of it was either open source or something I wrote…

Also, if you bought something closed-source to sell MongoDB as a service, why isn’t it realistic to buy a license?

Your suggestion of a monopoly in the DBaaS space seems to preclude the existence of other databases… Or am I misunderstanding?

I’m not sure what you mean by “IT is a business decision” — could you elaborate?

-edit-
P.S. I’m trying to be supportive here; not trying to take anything away from what you’ve built with FerretDB! Honestly, there’s room for so room for innovation in this domain, and it’s nice to see new projects…
>the only situation where the believability of a doctor suffers is when the patient doesn't heal at all

If you investigate the medicine they prescribe you and find out it's a placebo, you might stop believing the doctor about the other cures they sell you.

When a doctor gives me homeopathy I will not return.
Outlaw them, yes.

Kill everyones privacy by forcing them to giveup their identity to very bad actors? Good idea (TM)! Every single one of my friends can't wait to do that, myself included.
Windows 11: Print screen key will now open Snipping Tool
"I'd absolutely believe that car-dependence has played some measurable role in suppressing birthrates"

That seems pretty far fetched. I bet you could see an effect from the size of laundry machines too.
And Apple Music, and Apple Classical Music, and Apple News, and Apple Fitness, and ...
> Meta as a company seems unable to recognize the change, because doing so would have threatened their cash cow.

While I agree with the rest of what you say, I don't know if this is true.

They pushed their platform to this. They pushed the controversial and divisive content. They platformed questionable advertisers. The negative interaction was more profitable than a place to share pics of your kids with friends or plan a birthday party.

I think they absolutely know but you can't unring that bell which is why they were running so hard at something else to be their primary product.
ADT is garbage.

I canceled ADT service about 15 years ago. For the next few years they were mailing open-air ads to my address asking me to reconnect the alarm system.

I managed to reach someone in their C-suite, who told me directly that they were unconcerned about that type of privacy data being made available to anyone who happened to read a literal postcard.
In addition, the receiver doesn't necessarily need to obey CEC signals from the TV. If my TV's sending any, my receiver sure ain't noticing.
AI is able to craft the type of highly persuasive rhetoric that has literally changed the world in the past 20 years or so at scale for pennies on the dollar.
Maybe include one of the identify you by your public key widgets as well.
About ... 10 years ago I got a recruitment offer from a company working on remote collaboration tools for software developers. it was going to 'revolutionize' what was possible. but... i had to move to SF to work in their office. they didn't even see anything wrong or odd or off about the requirement.
Considering that Dropcam came out in 2012, (and the Pro version in 2013) I think this is actually good enough. We don't expect IoT devices from other brands to be working forever either. Not even Apple supports their devices for that long. Google just gets a lot of hate on HN but this isn't anything deserving that much hate.

The article kind of made the same point:

> Google previously committed to supporting Nest products for at least five years, and it did meet that standard. If you’ve been holding onto a Dropcam for more than a decade, it’s hard to argue that you didn’t get your money’s worth
I have no stakes in VR, as I don't want to spend money to be seasick, but I think VR is the future for a lot of content. Make it less heavy, fix the seasickness problems, render people realistically, and I could talk to my parents in VR. Or take a walk with an international friend. This sounds SciFi, but would really sell well.
You live in a place that has many iPhone users
fantastic! everyone left is hardcore
I'm thinking: cross town errands, 40 or 50 miles round-trip, traffic, maybe it's winter and the usual range is cut by a third... plus general headroom to reduce anxiety. ~100 miles seems like a good target for the 99th percentile of days.
> If you combine that with a Meta salary, you could retire in 5-10 years.

Could you elaborate on this? Do you think that other people SHOULD do this? Because I think we should be sympathetic to people who don’t live like ascetic monks, and it seems unkind to tell people that they could have retired if they lived like an ascetic monk.
I asked it variations on:

> How do I return every third row from a MySQL query, such as "select id, foo from someTable where bar=1 order by id" in an efficient manner, without pulling all the rows into a temporary table? The table has many millions of rows and will not fit in memory.

But all of the solutions that it would come up with would create a temporary table with all the rows. Maybe there is no good solution to the problem.
A truly developer-focused search engine would let me use regex.

It would also let me search for literal strings containing quotes, brackets, and other non-word characters and return only result that matched my search exactly.

Can phind do this?
national: (adjective)

relating to a nation; common to or characteristic of a whole nation: this policy may have been in the national interest | a national newspaper.
• owned, controlled, or financially supported by the federal government: plans for a national art library.
I wonder how many false alarms the fire department would get if they get dispatched every time a smoke alarm goes off.

And I'm one of the guilty ones. Well, the apartment I live at is. Its range hood is one of those things that even after putting in brand new filters and extensive cleaning barely performs better as one of those fake ones at Ikea.

Same with the bathroom fan. When you turn it on it's loud, but it just circulates air. So I open the door. But that sets of the smoke alarm in the hallway...
Yeah, there are several reasons why I don't recommend Ubuntu to people. That's one of them. Although, admittedly, it's toward the end of the list.
It's fairly interesting to me that a lot of People seem to be against the idea of showing ID to use social media, but companies like Meta have verification badges that require a Government Issued ID and a Payment Details to further verify your identity, Twitter (which does not seem to require gov ID) and Meta have both said that verified creators will be shown more, while this will obviously de-boosting non-paying, and subsequently non ID verified, users which essentially incentivizes giving these Platforms your personal information in order to actually use them properly.

An excerpt from a Meta Article on the matter reads: "At this time, Meta Verified will only support your real name on your profile. Once your profile is verified, you can’t change the profile name, username, date of birth, or photo on your profile without going through the Meta Verified subscription and verifications application process again."

If paid users are being boosted, more people are led to believe they need to pay the monthly fee to be seen, the user base of ID verified users increases, and Social Media basically becomes ID Verified, without the need for any laws to pass.
Interestingly, the Ubuntu feature was arguably worse. When you did a search in the application menu, they would send your request to Amazon servers and return shopping suggestions. I.e. it was advertising third-party goods and sharing your data with a third-party service (albeit anonymized). This is Microsoft trying to sell you subscription to one of their own service products.

I like neither one, but it's hard to overstate how much Canonical misunderstood its audience on that one.

Mark Shuttleworth on his blog at the time, before it was rolled back: "It makes perfect sense to integrate Amazon search results in the Dash, because the Home Lens of the Dash should let you find anything anywhere. Over time, we’ll make the Dash smarter and smarter, so you can just ask for whatever you want, and it will Just Work."

and

"Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already."
> is they unavoidably have mold and mildew problems due to the design.

Keep the door open. The water evaporates. Never had a problem avoiding mold.
I am shocked that so many people in this thread are okay with this. This is a terrifying bill. This will create the stage for it to be acceptable for companies to ask for ID to create an account.

This will end up with the death of anonymity on the internet.

Signal will require an ID.
Hacker News will require an ID.
Reddit will require an ID.
Stack Overflow will require an ID.
4chan will be illegal to operate.
Your google account may eventually require an ID

This is a really slippery slope. Maybe I am overly paranoid, but this seems like really dangerous legislation.

I agree that social media is pretty harmful in its current instantiation, but lets start with banning phones at school rather than removing anonymity for every site that "could harm kids".
covid misinformation is a conspiracy theory, suppressing idiocy is virtuous

"oh but if you allow a platform to suppress stupid shit then how do you know that they won't suppress other blah blah blah" judgment my bro, it is ok if things are subjective
There are 3 "competing" Open Source and Free Software definitions - from OSI, Free Software Foundation and Debian. MongoDB does not match any of them and most importantly does not match the spirit of Open Source Software Movement.
This turns up in Vernor Vinge's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War
> He famously was quoted as saying Microsoft has "no taste"

Eh, I really don't expect my hammer and screwdriver to be "tasty", I expect them to be reliable, stable, sturdy and customizable.
AOL also charged you $15 a month for an email subdomain, whereas on Mastodon that kind of lock-in wouldn't exist. Creating an AOL-like company for Mastodon doesn't work unless your ultimate goal is to be blocked by every major federated community.
Wow, even bankers getting 2 days WFH.
It says she was found not guilty though? the rest of the article is paygated.

Also, it still doesn't seem to reference any deaths. There are no dead to be rehabilitated.
Neural networks make great pattern-matchers -- and all of the current implementations match patterns very well. They will produce something that matches the query, but not necessarily any correct information.

What OpenAI and friends have done is very impressive, but it's not the singularity that many laypeople make it out to be.
Charlie Javice of Frank was indicted last week

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/5/23671000/jpmorgan-frank-fr...
But politically that's easier to justify than "San Francisco pays for every homeless person to have an apartment at $5800/month"

Of course it's also a supply issue - those apartments simply don't exist.
There is still a wide-spread belief that doing good things gets rewarded and that self-promotion is bad. That's the loophole a lot of business people exploit to enrich themselves at the expense of their workers.
New York City Council passes bill to bar hidden ticket fees
Depends on when you define "original" I guess but this wouldn't be out of place in their playbook during my entire life, at least. They're at least as much for consolidating and wielding state power against individuals as the democrats are they just have much better branding around it.
Typo on row 7!
I think the headline is accurate. An ad is an ad.
It doesn't matter -- LedgerX doesn't own those Bitcoin or the customer deposits and never did. Even if the business fails (from e.g. being in debt and the fees drying up), customer assets are held separately from their own assets and would be available for withdrawal.

Since you pretty clearly didn't research before posting, you may not realize that FTX bought LedgerX (in late 2021), and that owner did become insolvent, and regulators did look into the books, and even that didn't prevent options contracts from being settled and assets withdrawn. Guess we found Hercules!

If you're not willing to admit when you're wrong, you'd be doing the site a favor to stop posting out of ignorance -- it's not helping.
And is irrelevant to this article.
it is very frustrating to see this openly disingenuous argument made repeatedly here in these comments.

media corporations are different from other corporations in that their product is information, as opposed to other types of services or physical goods. information is something that can be biased, politically or otherwise. this does not apply to automobiles, spacecraft, or any other non-information-related product. the release of an electric automobile cannot influence anyone's view, opinion, or emotions, with regards to anything except the existence of said electric automobile.
It's 2023. The site has been around for 19 years. If they haven't gotten it right by this point, they never will. And its "probably" that way by design.
It should definitely work for literal strings. Regex I'm curious about. Let me know what happens!
This is actually about the gearbox version, they just mention the CVTs. CVTs have come and gone from the market for many years now and the NuVinci hub has been on the market for nearly 20 years and still fails to gain a foothold, they are expensive, difficult to repair (by comparison to the alternatives) and offer few benefits for 99% of riders.
> Not sure what the Chinese term was but the Soviets used the word "bourgeoisie" or sometimes "kulaks"

Yup, Chinese did use "bourgeoisie" too. It's called Xiaozi （小资）, though the connotation of the word today has drastically changed. Before and during the Culture Revolution, the word referred to those who didn't have complete conviction in the Revolution and were attracted to the "corrupted life style" of the western world. However, bourgeoisies were educable. If they refused the education, whatever that means, they would turn into the right.
The key point is concurrent calls. If you're calling out to multiple microservices or what have you (the case where you would actually hit 1M threads in the first place) you'll want to do that in a concurrent way with futures or fork/join and not in a synchronous style.

One could argue that automatic promise wrapping and an await keyword ends up giving you cleaner, more simple code (despite the coloring).
This isn't a comparison of whether adding #OpenToWork to your profile changes the likelihood of being hired. It's a comparison of whether people who chose to add OpenToWork to their profiles were more likely to be hired.

It's totally possible that one of the populations is more/less hireable than the other, and OpenToWork is a correlated, but not causal factor.
Well, there's an idea that recruiters and LinkedIn use OpenToWork as a signal that you might actually respond. But the utility of that is somewhat questionable at times, using logic related to what you say: if a candidate is hoping to speak with a recruiter in 2021, when every tech company is seeing record breaking demand, there's probably something wrong with the candidate.

In 2023, where every tech company is only seeing normal demand and normal growth but laying off thousands, that inference is less valid.
A search engine which requires me to have an account and give them my email address?

No thanks.
AI will just be like fake download buttons. Kids will instinctually learn while older people will believe anything
Promotions for other Microsoft services. Article is click-bait.
In my experience it's becoming more and more widespread specifically in startups. I hope you're right and I'm just seeing the bad outliers.
What ever it was called the day, this was the only Windows version to get since at least Windows NT. Everytime I see something other than a commercial Windows, I am at shock of what it looks like. And I'm already shocked by the difference between commercial Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

By now, so, I accepted the fact that I am a technological Luddite who is stuck in the early 2000s and doesn't want to move a secind forward. On software that is, I take new processors and graphic cards in a heart beat. And RAM, anf mainboards...
I was responding to the "As per Twitter’s criteria, it’s money." part. Fox and WP as state-affiliated seems weird to me: being close to a party line is not necessarily the same as state-affiliation. (Given we're talking a democracy and not a one-party state - I don't think you could make that distinction in e.g. China due to how interconnected it is there)
in san francisco "wellfare" dollars are being spent enabling drug use and likey spent on drugs. The wellfare im talking about is not TANF money/fedgov wellfare but the project homekey hotels and the CAAP benefits program. Project homekey hotels are a great idea IMO, except that they didn't screen homeless tenants for drug use, and lots of tenants turned their rooms into drug dens, completely destroyed the rooms or entire hotels, and now the city is on the hook for a low 10s of millions of dollar amount to various private hotel owners for property destruction. Homekey is a statewide program in CA, not SF specific, and these issues happen all over the state. CAAP (https://www.sfhsa.org/services/financial-assistance/county-a...) is a program where the city and county of san francisco give 687 dollars a month in cash to low income housed and/or homeless people. Lots of the money goes to elderly chinese folks in chinatown and helps them make rent and pay for food, lots of money from this program also goes to drug addicted homeless or SRO residents in the tenderloin and gets spent on meth and fent the day the cash is sent. The open air drug markets are significantly busier on days that the cash is disbursed and you can see empty evelopes for distribution all over the neighborhood.
Neighborhoods are good - Jane Jacobs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
Duh. How else are they going to fear monger you into reconnecting.

“Look everyone knows you no longer have an alarm, or alarm service”
Can I save my sessions to an account somehow or do I need to bookmark the links?
As it happens I just got my very basic printer working after breaking it a year ago (fixed it in an afternoon, spent a year reaching that afternoon), and I've been learning all about this.

Fast answer: yes, you can use a Pi, most often running OctoPi, but only a Pi3 at least is fast enough - with a 2 or some Zero models, it will be unable to keep up with faster prints and possibly wreck em.

There's a newer, better firmware which I'm about to install on my printer called Klipper, which replaces the more typical Marlin that you find on most entry-level printers, and it depends on a Pi running alongside the printer's microcontroller. For that, it apparently is a huge boost in both speed and quality, so I'm checking it out.
The reason for that is that 3D printing's strength is one-off designs. Any popular design would get mass-produced cheaper and better, and would then lose popularity on those sites.
I took the bullet and completely Microsoft-ied my Windows experience, once. It wasn't great to say the least.

1. Onedrive - File management i.e. deleting / renaming / moving a large number of files is awful. Things break all the time. Deleted files come back up.

2. Edge - What's up with the side panel? The browser gets in the way of web-browing.

3. Bing - shows tabloid news, ads and rewards.

4. Microsoft Store - UI feels like as if it was built for smartphones. Everything is expanded with lots of wasted space and the entire store seems like a scam. And laslty installing any app takes forever.

5. Settings App vs Control Panel - What takes precedence?

6. File Explorer - Windows XP's FE performed better than Windows 11's.

These promotions would've been acceptable if there was a straight forward way to disable it and if the promoted products actually lived up to the copywrite.

Now that I've bought a PlayStation & a Steam Deck, I no longer need a Windows machine. I hope Macbook Air M2 with 16GB wasn't so expensive.
He admits it was his.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/01/hunter-biden-admits-infamous-l...
If millions of people start getting fake kidnapping calls every day, then I'm sure we will stop falling for it quite soon. There's a limit to how many days in a row you will keep sending money to every random AI-empowered guy calling to convince you he has taken your daughter, only for her to return home from school like normal just a few minutes later.

I don't think it will be long before video and audio is no more convincing than text is now. We will stop falling for the AI scams, just like we (most of us) stopped falling for the Nigerian princes, scam ads/virus popups on the web, and those fake emails from family members claiming they need us to wire money so they can pay for a flight home or whatever. Basically, my thesis is that people will start to get wise to any scam that is sufficiently common and harmful.

Real kidnappers might have to learn to work to convince the families that the kidnapping is real and not just another scam.
> then what's considered far-left

4chan. The most notorious boards feel anarchist and were very anti-globalist long before it was fashionable.

But as you implied, 4chan as a whole is not homogenous.
ADT, Brinks, and Vivint are the three shitty horsemen of the home security industry.
Apple devices have had this same type of ad for years.
Why? China is building and delivering most of everything else to the world.
Thanks! It's great to have both links, but in cases like this where the material is highly specialized (and not on a topic like computing that the audience here is familiar with), it's usually better to submit the best available popular article and then link to the paper in the comments. I've switched to that from https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14154 now.
It's actually a great way to learn stuff, but go ahead and gatekeep.
That is an opt-in process at the level of the organization. If FB, TWTR, etc decide to push ID verification, we will see how users feel about it. It is a free-market.

However, if the govt decides to push ID verification, the user loses all choice because this will be applied to all social media platforms (like HN).
Thanks for letting us know you're not proud of your work, Microsoft. I wouldn't plaster anything I built and respected with tabloid ads.