skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please familiarize yourself with the definitions of market efficiency and market equilibrium.

Yes I did that once during my economics degree. It’s a bastard science and can be debated no end, but those debates are a lot more valuable when the participants actually explain any of their conjectures.

But I sense you are more in it for the argument than to help either of us learn.
>To me, this means we will still happily take work from our volunteers, but we will restrict other people from using this work so we can get more $.

That's just a willful misconstruction - they're absolutely contributing to upstream, as the post makes clear.
Congrats on the launch. How does this compare to Convox?
In my experience, this holds true.

A number of my competitors have been initiating relatively large layoffs the past few months after enforcing a hiring freeze in early-mid 2023 compared to back in 2022.

That said, it's been 70-30 Sales+Marketing-Engineering+Product layoffs wise, but Engineering+Product hiring has absolutely been tamped down.

I wouldn't be surprised if RTO is being used as a way to force some redundancies to leave so we could rehire at a better comp level.
The problem is that it is fairly difficult to do it cleanly without risking precipitating Kessler syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

It is basically automatic MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) out there in space.
> The rest I have never seen carrying anything other than groceries or the occasional new TV in the bed. They are entirely unnecessary.

I have an older pickup that my in-laws sold us years ago. It's not in the best shape, and most of the time we use it for typical second-car usage: picking up kids, getting groceries, etc. However, it's been useful _so many times_ in the past five years that the convenience of having it outweighs having some other smaller car and then renting a pickup when necessary.

- holiday travel, packages and luggage fill the back. (I'd prefer a minivan, but we don't have one.)
- Some local farmer donates a bunch of stumps for the school garden, we can use the pickup
- trash / e-waste delivery to the dump
- get / deliver furniture
- bring school projects to/from school
- buy a bunk bed at IKEA, it's in half a dozen six foot boxes of wood

Most of these are occasions where there's significant disruption if we were to go try to rent a vehicle from Uhaul or Home Depot, which makes it less likely that we actually do these things, or suffer through trying to shoehorn things into a tiny car. Being able to throw things in the back of the truck makes life occasionally a lot more convenient.

With the pickup being mostly useless, but occasionally Extremely Useful, it is not surprising to me that many keep them, and even consider buying higher trim levels to have a nicer+bigger cab, especially as their kids get older and larger. :)
Yeah that's an absolutely garbage idea. Databricks is basically the opposite of irrelevant at this point.
I shared my dad's love of like Jethro Tull and Talking Heads, but uh there was also plenty of music I wouldn't want to talk with my parents about. There are endless examples in any era of popular music.
That's not entirely correct. As the article describes, landline Morse with a sounder has two distinct sounds for every code element, a different sounding click at the beginning and the end. A quick dit ("dot") is likely to resolve as a single sound to the listener, but it's actually two sounds.

What I'm suggesting is to replace a dah ("dash") with two short dits when tapping out a message. But in order to do that, you need to increase the inter-element spacing so you can tell the difference between a dah and a pair of dits. That's what I meant by "slow down". For the same dit timing, the time required to send a message is longer, as you can see here:

original --- . --- . --- --- . ---
2 dots . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Note: The top line is based on the standard timing:

- Each dit is one unit

- Each dah is 3 units

- Inter-element space is one unit

- Inter-letter space is 3 units
I was surprised when they seemed to make a comeback.

They feel like a solution from the 1990s.
We are experiencing tacit collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion

Economic power, and therefore political power, is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands which allows them to exercise force over competition rather than to compete with competition.

Competition is the back pressure on "greedflation" which is a name that implies greed (which is good in capitalism) is the root cause of increasing prices rather than lack of competition (regulatory capture/citizens united).

It boils down to consumer/labor power.

Labor power represents the ability to make companies compete through regulation or to put the profit these companies reap into labors pockets instead of owners pockets, which is not just a shift of economic power, but of political power. Wages have nothing to do with your labor and everything to do with your market power. Companies collude behind the scene to suppress wages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 There are companies that sell "market data" which tells companies how much labor should cost.

Unions are the answer to oligopolies and oligarchy. Unions are what you can do, not what somebody else needs to do, or what the government needs to do. Unions are a vehicle of force. Unions are like the 2nd amendment. You can use both to fight tyranny, and in the process put yourself at risk. Trying to make the powerful less powerful requires risk because the powerful will use their power to keep their power.

These oligopolists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly) are exercising tacit "collective bargaining" but people who earn money in proportion to time seem unable to do their own collective bargaining.

Until there is back pressure on corruption, which requires exercises of power against the corrupt, we can expect things to get worse and worse and those with power to be able to leverage the rules of society to grant themselves more power.
Honestly, that excuse is why there was the compromise provision in this bill that mandates half of the pumps must remain full service.

The only reason this passed at all is because of COVID. Gas stations are complaining pretty uniformly and quite loudly that they can't get their labor levels back to pre-COVID levels
A lot of comments on this topic seem at odds with reality.

If you accept that it takes a lot of effort to produce what Red Hat produces and you accept that you cannot buy food with a list of your open source contributions, then the people who work for Red Hat need to be compensated in some way.

If your answer to this is that there is a big, distributed pool of people willing to do this work instead of Red Hat then you don’t believe that Red Hat adds value. But the question remains: who compensates those people?

And this big distributed pool of people ready to do free work definitely doesn’t exist already. Well, it does, but it’s just Redhat. And they are rightfully changing that.

It could be the companies they work for (like is done with the Linux Kernel), but that doesn’t exist and starting it is a pretty big undertaking.

At the end of the day the comment in the post about the anger coming from people who “do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit” rings pretty true.
> misaligned the market into an unspoken cartel.

We are assuming its unspoken.
What if its spoken? how would you know
Have you tried this on HTML?
I ended up getting a wallet style case with a cover for this exact reason.
Their true targets are Amazon and Oracle (you forgot the latter).

That said, I think this is still insufficient to thwart them.

I predict RedHat will wither away and get shut down in 10 years. Neither Amazon nor Oracle will pick up the slack. I would not bet on any projects that they sponsor.

This is a death spasm. First of many.
I can't see a problem here. It only happens because (slightly) more than half of voters are happy with their housing situation and prefer it stay the way it is (that is, perpetually increasing prices, so they can earn equity => retire). They consciously vote for people who ensures just that.

There is no failure of democracy here, but rather a good indication of it's strength.
Reddit is a little different as their intention was to populate the platform with content in the early days [1], not to mislead investors with fake metrics.

Mind you that Huffman and Ohanian did this manually, while founders today can use LLMs to fill their platforms with bots that can interact "naturally" with users. I wonder how many are already doing it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME
Good lord. That sounds like a living death, and I’m sorry to hear you’re experiencing that. I can think of ten different optimistic aphorisms to spout at you right now, but instead I’ll respect you enough to simply acknowledge what you’re going through and agree that life should be better than that.
What if it isn't reducing the human impact?

Jevons paradox
Rational numbers yes.

Irrational Number: I'm a non-integer, Greg. Can you square root me?
Call me a conspiracy nut, but there appears to be a coordinated effort to destroy faith in the system that gave us all the wealth we currently enjoy. I can only assume that this is being done in the service of replacing it with... something.
Why AI is a problem on Stack Overflow
Whats said in this blogpost may be 100% true, and of course red hat does do a lot for the community, but unfortunately the damage is done. Its always going to feel like:

* Red Hat was a bastion of open source

* Red Hat sold out to IBM

* Red Hat stopped being Red Hat, and started being IBM by focusing on $$ over open source

* Red Hat reputation degrades as $$ are put first, killing off centos, now this, just downhill from here. >
An actual 50 Mbps link is perfectly good for most use cases, you can stream anything and it is not really a bottleneck in determining how quickly pages load. Large file transfers may still take appreciable time, but it is rarely a big issue.

An advertised "50 Mbps" mobile connection is dog food if you are used to 50 Mbps fiber. You are lucky if you get 20 Mbps through, though it can be much less. Worst part is all the packet loss that cause inconsistent latency and speed.
Woah, I've been a hiring manager long enough that it's been a while since I've done a take-home code exam myself but I don't even think I would grade a LLM that way (because I moved to AI now). Unless your code exam is super trivial or the boxes themselves are table stakes ("code runs without errors", "code includes more than one function"), coding is creative enough that it's hard to come up with 20 checkboxes that cover whether a sample is any "good" let alone "shows better decision making".

I've had a few bad experiences when sharing feedback with candidates myself and I would understand doing the checkbox approach for feedback and/or just never sending detailed feedback, but actually grading submissions pass/fail based on a subset of criteria you jealously guard from candidates essentially selects for lucky people. If I wanted to do that, I'd just shuffle the submissions by number of bytes and discard everything that's a multiple of 5 or something.
I think delimited continuations can be implemented with call/cc if you let the continuation "leak" out of the call/cc body. I'm pretty sure you can implement most, if not all delimited continuation constructs using call/cc. Maybe not in the fastest/most optimal way, but at least theoretically it should be possible

It's been a while that I used Scheme though, so my memory may be a bit rusty and I might have missed some things
Ask HN: What's a not so famous software company that makes a lot of money
Hello,

We all have heard of big name software companies but what are some unusual software companies that makes millions every year which we might not have heard of?
I have to give credit for RedHat it's an honest post. You may not like the overall underlying message and implications for open source, but its simple and honest addressing the why.
Making My Magic Mirror Smarter – Motion Detection and Face Recognition
All of those things are independent from nominal price/wage increases. If higher pay was such an unalloyed good, why doesn't the government just pass a law saying "Whatever amount you were getting paid on 6/26/23, now you're getting paid double that, and you have twice as much money in your bank account."?

Because no one would actually be better off. Prices would instantly double. It's just a change of units, like going from getting paid in $ to getting paid the same amount in ¢.
Normally technology, wars, and revolutions are the only ways that these massive aristocracies are disrupted. And even then, many hold on.

I do not see a path toward technological upheaval. If anything, exactly the opposite. E-commerce proved to be winner-take-most, and for anything in the real economy it's yet another significant capital input required to compete.

I think the next 100 years will prove to be a real stress test of the "elections not revolutions" hypothesis regarding representative democracy. Both Europe and the USA failed the last several attempts at peaceful major social upheaval, so I'm unfortunately not holding my breath...
And it’s not like the upstream is scattered around and hard to find - he singles out Fedora and CentOS.
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How is that better than a simple monitor/alert for low disk space? That low disk space is likely caused by having an application store too much cumulative data in log files or temporary caches etc. and often easy enough to fix. And many applications out there simply don't need the level of scalability and extra-robustness you need that you can still expect decent levels of service in the immediate aftermath of having one node go down. Certainly from my experience it's less work (and cost) to put measures in place to minimise the chances of a fatal crash than it is to ensure the whole environment functions smoothly even if parts of it do crash regularly. I'd also note we can be grateful that the developers of OSes, web servers, VMs and database servers don't subscribe to "let it crash"!
I could see both being in use, but replacement seems unlikely to me.

If nothing else I could see governments insisting on both just for strategic reasons. Both techs are vulnerable to being fk'd with so doubling up makes sense
So is it not true that

> There is CentOS Stream the binary deliverable, and CentOS Stream the source repository. The CentOS Stream gitlab source is where we build RHEL releases, in the open for all to see. To call RHEL “closed source” is categorically untrue and inaccurate.

Where I could just go get their OS myself?
Pretty much agreed. A calm unworried soul is not particularly interested in the questions religion is positioned to answer. A contradiction pretty directly addressed by a strand of eastern christian mysticism (and others). Where many historical saints were illiterate and essentially ignorant of the fundamentals of their own religion, and this is considered good and correct: they naturally follow god's will and so have no need to learn about it any other way.

And then you get into theory vs practice I guess without a useful distinction either way. The pali canon might be chill, but devout buddhists have still done genocide. The archetypal tolstoyan pious serf might be chill but the russian orthodox church certainly never has been.
Just because you're a covid truther doesn't mean that you will refuse to wear protective gear in general. I'd be willing to bet that most of the people in the US at this very moment who are wearing protective gear for their jobs are covid truthers to some extent, because anti-maskers are pretty numerous among people who work with their hands and backs.
I think this is on topic.

Does there exist a tool that gives me a fully abstracted layer like Heroku, but on my own AWS account? When I say fully, I mean fully. Where the tool will do maintenance, alert me a few days before it does it, autoremediation if something goes wrong, etc.?

I essentially want the exact same functionality as Heroku, but with the cost savings of running it on my own infrastructure.
I'm not even a user of rhel but the difference is: security patches. Enterprise uses rhel because they fix or triage nearly every vuln, every time. If you work for a company with extremely stringent security requirements, or sell to government entities, rhel and its derivatives (CentOS/Amazon Linux 2, etc) are basically the only way you can clear their requirements.

Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu) chooses to not fix a significant amount of security issues. This makes sense given their business models, but is an unworkable position for a huge number of enterprises that depend on Linux. Example: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-45464
> What takeover?

The one people have been predicting for decades because they refuse to understand how Linux works and/or they want attention.

None of this is new. None of this is even hugely interesting. Red Hat is one distromaker out of many, and nothing makes anyone use them or their products. Trying to conflate one distro with Linux as a whole is common among people who are either ignorant or attempting to troll.
> Just a few brands own most of the stuff you buy [1] and then supermarkets have deals with those. Both protect each other.

I buy almost exclusively store brands. Probably less than 5% of my grocery spending goes to name brands.
I agree. My theory is the great filter is most definitely in front of us. I think intelligence will move through the next filter, however, I highly doubt human beings will make it through.
If you sympathize with the travails of people working on text rendering in applications, please consider supporting (among other projects):

1. The LibreOffice project (libreoffice.org), the free office application suite. This is where the rubber hits the road and developers deal with the extreme complexities of everything regarding text - shaping, styling, multi-object interaction, multi-language, you name it. And - they/we absolutely need donations to manage a project with > 200 million users: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate

2. harfbuzz (https://harfbuzz.github.io), and specifically Behdad Esfahood the main contributor. Although, TBH, I've not quite figured out whether you can donate to that or to him. At least star the project on GitHub I guess.
https://archive.ph/jCkYC
You are supposed to move your head around enough to see around the pillars
A company I used to work for was partly comprised of hackers, and one of the books they always raved about was called Cryptonomicon. I know that it involves the nazis and encoded secrets, though I never read it (still on my to-read list). I'd recommend checking it out if that kind of thing sounds interesting to you.
> If you pay them for it, you can't redistribute it.

Citation please? I've sat in enough conference rooms full of lawyers to know the GPL explicitly forbids this, so it would be bordering on insane if this is what they're proposing.
I don't get your point. If there's no demand for office space anymore, who will have offices in these buildings? If nobody has offices in them (or if rent is not enough to maintain the buildings), what will happen to them?
>> Good parenting is foremost about growing up before your kids do

This unfortunately is not a given and that's the crux of the discussion.

If every parent were able to achieve complete knowledge and wisdom about all things parenting before they had kids we wouldn't be talking of any of this.
I mod /r/Scala and created /r/CanadaUrbanism and to be honest I didn't care all that much about the API changes, but the reaction to the mod protest by Reddit Admins has motivated me to block Reddit and not visit the site anymore. Specifically, the actions they've taken to remove mods that take the subs private, restricted, or allow NSFW content. There had always been the notion that the subs are owned by the creators/mods. Obviously not in a legal sense, but that so long as mods aren't violating sitewide rules they own the board they create. With Reddit admins removing mods and replacing them with their own it for me has changed the whole dynamic where I feel like I'm just doing Reddit's work for them rather than creating something myself when I create, maintain, or contribute to a sub.

For me it's just a last straw on the camel's back. The site has obviously gone severely downhill since pivoting from the old.reddit.com desktop-based site that focused on links and discussion, akin to a forum, to what it is now, an infinite scroll of half pics and gifs, half rage-bait. There is not much interesting discussion going on on Reddit these days, the change of the UX to prioritize mobile use has changed the entire nature of the site to favour short quips and less thoughtful posts. People on this board will often say things like "oh well at least if you go to your specific niche subreddits there is still good discussion being had", but even this is much reduced. Go to any long lived historically discussion-heavy board like say /r/Coffee, /r/LetsTalkMusic, /r/TheoryOfReddit, etc. If I look in the internet archive and go back 10 years, I generally find much more interesting conversations being had back then.
That was in 1979, the 42%, it's nothing like that now. But yes they are / were greatly subsidised housing. This was after a period of massive home building and the introduction of the welfare state after WW2.

I don't think Britain was a shining economic example back then (it was known as the sick man of Europe), but council houses seemed rather a good thing.

My mother's parents were given one in the late 50's, where they raised four children and my grandparents resided until there deaths 50+ years later. Although council housing still exists it's much rarer now, and your chances of recreating what my grandparents had are slim to none.
I know why they use RHEL - support is apparently good and not every corpo wants to keep some linux experts on payroll to fix the rare issues that need a bit more expertise. And they keep old versiond of Red Hat updated for longer so you old crusty enterprise garbage can stay garbage few years longer and claim "but OS is updated" in audit.

I have no idea who in their right mind would use derivative, it has zero benefits and is just build worse than vanilla Debian.
It doesn't prevent you redistributing what you have already been given (binaries or source), it does however allow Red Hat to not give you future iterations.
So far it's an one person thing, I've been working on it on and off for 11 years. It has a this UI layer meaning that I so far has a text interface (that you can see a demo of here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kpD7om_aQ ) and a webb interface. Planning on adding android, ios, windows and os x as well.

Right now I've:
Accounting, CRM, Email, Products, Invoices, Quotes, Password manager, Tickets/Todos, Projects and basic IoT device monitoring and a static webpage generator. Most modules let the user add their own fields to a module so you can make if fit your needs.

Apart from this there's also lua support for reacting to events. Upcoming is webshop capabilities and cronjobs.

Feature sets are hard. But I'm prioritizing things my customers wants and what I need.
> Supply side issues will show up as profits purely as an accounting figment.

Supply side issues will show up as profit margins, by your explanation, not necessarily as greater total profits.
Into the rabbit hole ye shall go.

https://youtu.be/D_qFWoa_HR4?t=601
I know you are not critically engaging with it.

You know how you think the world should work and you reject evidence in front of you. You do not liok for counter-evidence, or find faults in the evidence presented - you just reject it outright, like how flat earther rejects physics
This is what happens when marketing gets too creative.