skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth keeping in mind, is that it seems like Tesla was threatening employees in case they participated in the strike, according to SVT:

> The strike at Tesla's Swedish operations continues. According to the union, several employees have been threatened by the company if they go on strike. There have also been reports of strikebreaking.

> "We have members who confirm this. Tesla managers have threatened layoffs. They have also threatened to withdraw the option program that Tesla has, where you get shares for a certain number of years," says IF Metall's contract secretary Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/orebro/facket-strejkande-p...

If the report is true, no wonder people still continue going to work like nothing is happening.

Also, there is a lot of conflicted reporting on the whole Tesla vs Unions in Sweden story, not sure what sources one could trust or not.
Wouldn't that mean that Facebook could charge a lower ad-subsidized price? Facebook earns 18/user*year - so 10/month is adding a 100$ surcharge to not see ads. If they offered an ad laden service for 8/mo and the ad-free experience for 10/mo that'd line up with your logic.
No, the benchling folks are just wrong. Homology in biology has a long, long history and ignoring that (and mistaking homology and identity). Folks misusing "homology" to mean identity (in the context of making PCR primers, etc) just confused the issue.
The first documented case of null pointer, the billion dollar mistake.
"Small" is a relative term, and not an ideal one, but what it generally means is "no larger than is needed" - that is, if you have one concrete solution within a bounded context, "small" is the code necessary to implement that solution. It's not a matter of LOC.

> IMO having everything self-contained to one repository

I highly recommend keeping all microservices in a single repository. It's even more important in a microservice world to ensure that you can update dependencies across your organization atomically.

> Horrible microservices that violate data boundaries, i.e. multiple services sharing a database which is a sadly common mistake, is a much harder problem to solve.

But that's not microservices. Maybe this is in and of itself an issue of microservice architecture, the fact that people think they're implementing microservices when they're actually just doing SoA, but microservice architecture would absolutely not include multiple services with a single database, that would not be microservices.

So I think the criticism would be "people find it hard to actually implement microservices" and not "microservice architecture leads to these problems", because microservice architecture is going to steer you away from multiple services using one database.
Isn't this intentionally priced so that people won't pay for it? Does Facebook really make €12.99 per month per user?

It seems designed to be priced as high as possible, so that users don't choose it and they can claim no one wants it, and that they have consent.

If it was €2.99/mo, which seems much more reasonable, how many people would choose it?
I've been apart of many a board room where clawing back bonuses has been brought up. Ever single instance, it's almost instantly shrugged off as a "PR nightmare". Seems like we got it right.
The people willing to pay for this have more expendable income, and are more likely to take out their CCs and pay for something online. Ad-driven services like fb/insta will make more money from this demographic, and so their revenue "per user willing to pay for no ads" will be significantly higher.
First 360/VR180 camera featuring replaceable lenses?
Does this seem like a good feature for a 360 or VR180 3D camera?
Starvation is how celiac disease was root caused.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-dise...
You've completely missed the point. Businesses can lose money for all sorts of reasons. Owners have to eat the losses while keeping on paying salaries.
I think nobody used MJPEG in last 15 years.
I don't think that's "adults today". Adults in the past also had parasocial shit going on. Do you think the people banging on Sherlock Holmes's author feeling personally betrayed by the ending were all young kiddos?

I think the issue with being an adult is that you often think you've outgrown childish inclinations. In actuality, I find adults will act childishly and then assume, because they are adults, their behavior must be mature and taken seriously.
There's more to access than carrying out the literal steps to access something. Potentially, this is one of the fundamental reasons partial access control is effective.
It's per Q so ~80/years. Difference between $80 (average ad revenue per year) vs $120 per year subscription is reasonable as subscriptions skew power users.
I'm one of these people.

The problem I have is trust. Ads or nit, I no longer trust Facebook to not continue violating my privacy WHILE I'm a paying customer.

The trust has been broken and without data transparency and regulations with teeth, I simply won't give them another chance.
You want to make it hard on yourself, that's your business.
I know lots of people who are quite poor and are also very invested in the human rights of Palestinians. I know lots of people who are quite poor and very interested in reining in police violence. Your opinions and experiences aren't universal.
At my previous $JOB I started calling this Promotion-Driven Development because it's everywhere. Take the easy problems that look good and you can finish quickly, get promoted, hand off the facade to team that has to actually solve the real problem, and repeat.
All this proves is the robust worker protections already in place in the Scandinavian countries. Unions aren't really necessary when the government protects labor from capital. Its why communism never really took off there or in the UK/France.
Is it possible that the corporate veil is essentially a cloak of invisibility for scam artists?
It's interesting how few users can ruin a FOSS project. I doubt Google would stoop this low, but sabatage seems surprisingly practical by pumping a lot of low effort comments through open communication systems.

The uBO had similar issues with Facebook's anti-adblock. IMO the anti-adblock worked. The maintainers probably all muted the thread, and now 99% of the time, ads show up in the feed.
Funny, I missed that phrase in the second paragraph instead. Yeah I think in that paragraph they just used the word training to encompass everything the job requires you to have done (after K-12).
That's false. First, it reduces the number of ads, second, it gives you many pro features like long tweets, edit button, and increased visibility in certain situations.
If the average revenue per user is then 72$ per year, then, it follows that the appropriate price is 6$ a month, not 12$?
As an example: there are genuine cases of masochists that are subjectively happier because pain is being inflicted on them. In many of these cases no serious harm is done to their body. Your claim "you can't trust their reported state" is either 1) a claim that the outside observer knows better than the individual what their subjective state is or 2) that the health of the subject is more important than their subjective happiness.

If you are arguing for #1, I disagree. If you are arguing for #2, you should be more clear about why/how you keep using the word "objectively".
Hmm... I guess I very rarely use shared mutable state in web services anyway. The last job I worked at, all state was either in the database (effectively another service anyway) or stored on the client (e.g. auth tokens). So anything that was mutating a function parameter would already be subject to extra scrutiny during code review (Why is it doing that? What scope / module boundary is the mutation limited to?).
Dow Jones has 8000 employees, if they each owned one thousandth of one percent of the company they could pool it all to represent 8%, which is pretty substantial. Maybe I misunderstood your question, but it's extremely common for a person to own equity in a company and earn a salary from that same company.
It's a pretty typical result from social science. 1500 respondents is a fairly large sample size--I've seen papers where you're talking closer to ~50.

Going from 22% to 32% is a 10 percentage point difference, but a 46% increase. I agree that the conclusion at the end is flimsy, and there are undoubtedly confounding factors--but the statistics are pretty well in line with what you'd expect in social sciences.
Archive link works for me in Edge but not in Firefox (endless captchas). Might be worth trying another browser if you have more than one installed.
Also, it's not quite clear how much of a material difference exists between the middle answer and the defund the police answer. The slogan has some optics issues, but diverting funds from overfunded surplus military gear filled police departments to social support networks is not likely to be controversial with the middle group either.
So does this mean DNN are in some ways deeper than human brains?
Fair proposition I guess. Privacy is important but leaves the question - how to fund the platform which isn't cheap to operate for sure.

Not a fan boy at all, far from it but have to hand it to the self driving batteries on the wheels guy - he did it with twitter and then others are moving in that direction it seems.
Exactly. Mostly nonsense, and anything true in it was already obvious.
I'm challenging my team to actually think about that process, why it's in place, how it's helping (or actively hurting!) us. Comparing ourselves to companies that have regulatory requirements (spoiler: we don't and likely won't for a long, long time) just furthers my point that no one really thinks about these things. They just cargo cult how everyone else does it.
This is a fantastic collection of links and makes me wish there were one modern site that summarized all this work, maybe with a working Javascript demo.
I've read it's much easier to build a large/standard truck with a big motor than a small truck with a more efficient motor because of the current EPA rules. The rules don't make a lot of sense but I'm no expert, only what I've read/heard from the industry.
I think people get the modularity wrong. Modularity is important, but I came to conclusion there is another important architectural principle, which I call "single vortex principle".

First, a vortex in a software system is any loop in a data flow. For example, if we send data somewhere, and then we get them back processed, or are in any way influenced by them, we have a vortex. A mutable variable is an example of a really small vortex.

Now, the single vortex principle states that there ideally should be only one vortex in the software system, or, restated, every component should know which way its vortex is going.

The rationale is when we have two vortices, and we want to compose the modules that form them into a single whole. If the vortices are correctly oriented, composition is easy. If they have opposite orientation, the composition is tricky and requires decision on how the new vortex is oriented. Therefore, it is best if all the vortices in all the modules have the same orientation, and thus form a single vortex.

This principle is a generalization of ideas such as Flux pattern, CQRS, event sourcing, and immutability.
My setup on Raspberry Pi 3 is

- Dietpi [1]

- Unbound

- Wireguad via PiVPN [2]

- AdGuard, as a replacement of PiHole, never went back

Every time I tried to move it to a container-based solution (Portainer is quite helpful), I went into problems here and there, adding more complexcity in terms of another network layer, container volumes, updating one piece of this (unbound, pihole, vpn) conflicting with the full stack, updating Dietpi itself.

Is it me getting old and lazy, neglecting container stuff?

Anyway, travelling around the globe being able to surf via homeland ip ranges, reverse DNS, adblocking and access to my NAS was never easier and so far - great uptime, no major f*ckups.

[1] https://dietpi.com/

[2] https://dietpi.com/docs/software/vpn/#pivpn
That's Samsung 10nm LP vs something something 7nm. Not the best comparison, but one that would still imply some amount of area advantage for stock 7nm nodes.

A78 on SD845 used 64kb L1 vs 32kb L1 on P670 (a 32kb variant is available, but would get significantly worse performance relative to P670). Likewise, other things like the uop cache and 32-bit frontend add a lot to the size/power of A78 as ARM themselves bragged that their frontend got 75% smaller when they dropped the uop cache and 32-bit support in newer mid-core designs. I'd guess this frontend difference alone accounts for most of the area difference between the two.
I recently demoed an old hot tub that came with out house which ended up having a bunch of mice nests in it. Took it all the transfer station then just hosed all the mouse poop out of the bed out afterwards, and was able to help a friend move a couch the next day.
AI is an asset to DevOps. Machine learning and others mentioned by Jennifer are the AI types in DevOps. Anomaly detection is a good use case for it. Predictability headroom for application infra and service related metrics. This would have great impact.
ARPU is an average so it includes every user, including users that never buy anything from an ad because they can't afford it. The average goes up a lot due to a minority of wealthy users. Those users will also be more likely to pay to remove ads. So Meta is afraid that the ad revenue will go down a lot and that's why they increase the monthly subscription by more than the current ARPU.

This is similar to collective insurance. If the rich people all self-insure and remove themselves from the pool, the viability of the collective insurance gets risked because you're only left off with the people that actually need help and nobody with a surplus to share.

For ads you get left off with a cohort of users that can't afford to pay to remove ads so can't also afford to pay for stuff advertised in said ads. Which means the ads will become more like TV ads for awareness rather than direct purchase, which will lower ad-based ARPU.
Nursing homes and care centers suffer tremendously in the shift to private equity holdings. Corners cut, costs cut, staff released, everything is a skeleton crew, and then they want you to bring Grandma in..
What still gets me is that even with YT Premium, there are still ads if the content creators decide to embed them as part of the content. Yes, they are skippable, but there are still ads…that I paying, to NOT see. This is also a moral issue. What does the exact definition of “no ads” actually mean to YT and is their definition misleading or purposefully vague?

Unless they qualify their definition with something like “you may still see in-video sponsored content”, ad-free should 100% ad-free, and it is irritating that that (perhaps) through some nuanced definition of “ads” that they allow this. IMO this needs to be investigated by the FCC.

If you look at the advertising literature for Premium, it simply says “Enjoy ad-free videos…” with no asterisk or fine print that has any exclusions. Perhaps there is something deeply buried in one of the “terms and conditions” documents that allows for this, but I haven’t taken the time to look. My point is, YT and the content creators benefit from these ads on a supposed no-ad plan. Imagine if other streaming services like Netflix started doing this.
Hmm I thought the article was going to be about finding actual services companies, like plumbers/contractors/salons/lawyers. Anyone with ideas on how to sites owned by these services companies?
I think at the end of the day we want both perspectives. We all benefit from having people from both inside and outside the system critique the system. Certainly, the person who walks the walk and talks the talk deserves more street cred, but from the my layperson’s perspective I’d much rather live in a world where I can read Linkola’s and Illich’s critiques and take the best parts from both of them.
Of course they will. Paying for this scam will only increase the value of your attention and the value of the personal information they sell. Demonstrating you have enough disposable income to pay extortion fees not to be bothered will only make them advertise to you even more.
Isn't that piece on the very specific topic of how the Times has covered Biden's health? If that's the case can you explain the relevance to the NYT tech workers going on strike as part of their negotiations?

I get the position companies like NYT hold in society but in this particular instance their role is that of a tech employer engaged in heavy-handed negotiations with a union forming among their workers. Can't we, for once, talk about that without yet another distraction into this week's political football?
Read the second part of what I wrote. If every existing user was forced to subscribe then $6 would be appropriate. If only people who earn them $50/mo in ads end up subscribing (which is a lot more likely) then Facebook will lose money on this option.
Sometimes I think of joining government org (3 letter agency) to find areas to improve $ efficiency on, or make decent direct contribution to US as a thank you for accepting me as an immigrant.

I'm an engineer in a FAANG, who worked directly in money flow, and have had experience in diverse areas where it could come handy.

Then I start thinking finding the right person to work with & right area to start at is probably 95% of the job, then give up.
Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed. I'm in the market for a small hybrid pickup and was hoping the Toyota Stout revival was going to be a solid competitor to the Maverick. I felt like certainly this would be built on the existing RAV4 platform.

There's no details about powertrain or battery. The company is trying to cover their butts. They've missed both the move towards EVs and the return of compact trucks.
Yeah... Instagram is sort of a lost cause at this point. I think you're better off just finding a different service.
> It's been tried many times before, and it never works out.

Seems to work just fine for Indian banks and the Income Tax Department.
I've been following the development and proliferation of SCION: https://www.scion.org/. Seems pretty cool.
Pen America Index of Educational Gag Orders
FrEeDoM of SpeEcH.
Those are not YouTube ads. YouTube doesn't receive any money from them.
A union is effectively a monopoly on labor supply. With all the same ramifications that a corporate monopoly has.

In some cases union labor can be circumvented (hiring non-union labor), but for some industries/businesses this is not possible on a short timeframe
With a cynical viewpoint like this, how would you know the difference between "luxury beliefs expressed just to keep others down and make me look fancy" vs "earnestly held beliefs based on learning, and perhaps I could learn something by considering these beliefs"? Perhaps evaluate the beliefs based on their merit, rather than whose beliefs they are?
Because is secured by the company and serviced by the cash flows from the company. Since the debt only exists if the transaction (acquisition of the target company) goes through it is really the company funding its purchase through the issuance of debt.

Btw you can get an SBA loan to purchase a small business. It works exactly the same way, and there are people who raise equity capital plus get an SBA loan to buy and run small companies, in effect they're running a very small PE deal and installing themselves as CEO.
In some way, I made Amazon get a lot of profit by choosing to purchase on their platform, and saw nothing from it, though I directly contributed to their profit and could deserve a %.
Retirement is 8-10 away. I was considering 'do I own my home outright' or do I 'buy a new home with a mortgage I never expect to fully pay off'

This kind of BS makes me think owning the property would be safe, so I don't wake up one morning with a mortgage I can't pay.
Your question embeds a logical fallacy.

You're challenging a statement of the form, "A causes B. I don't like B, so we shouldn't do A." You are challenging it by asking, "How does not doing A prevent B?" Converting that to logic, you are replacing "A implies B" with "not-A implies not-B". But those statements are far from equivalent!

To answer the real question, it is good to not guarantee a bad result, even though doing so doesn't guarantee a good result. So no, choosing not to regulate does not guarantee that we stop this particular problem. It just means that we won't CAUSE it.
At least at fang you can write a mostly plaintext document instead of PowerPoint. Downside is you would probably have to do it before making the changes, have it reviewed by the entire team and get “alignment”
Wild how the Real America always ends up being exurban jet-ski dealers.
The real world is not as nice as you imagine. These things do happen. Sure it's in a businesses best interest to avoid things like this, but that doesn't mean it will never happen.
> Six-Sigma Black Belt

I'm so triggered by this phrase. The worst (to work for and performing) company I was at hired SSBBs like crazy and none of them really did anything or made a damn bit of difference, but if you took the courses you were fast-tracked for success as far as promotions went.
An approach I like better than "only access my data via API" is this:

The team that maintains the service is also responsible for how that service is represented in the data warehouse.

The data warehouse tables - effectively denormalized copies of the data that the service stores - are treated as another API contract - they are clearly documented and tested as such.

If the team refactors, they also update the scripts that populate the data warehouse.

If that results in specific columns etc becoming invalid they document that in their release notes, and ideally notify other affected teams.
"so, translated beliefs could be just expensive status symbols coming from dishonesty and having too much of free time. So here are examples of leftist beliefs, see?"
Shared mutable state also goes beyond a mutable reference. If you call a function and that function throws an exception you are tying the caller/callee's states together. In a SoA the callee machine can literally blow up and your caller state is preserved.

If your web service is generally low-state and these problems are manageable for the complexity scale you're solving for, microservices aren't really something to even consider - I mean, you basically have a microservice already, it's solving a single problem within a bounded context, give or take. It's just... one service and one context.
Keep doing the right thing.
> Wanting to defund the police is likely correlated with not needing the police -- but that's likely simple ignorance, not signaling.

Or with police being a net-negative to your life. Like living in a disproportionately policed area.

Or having a disproportionately policed skin color.

The poll is pretty clear, defund the police doesn't mean anarchy, it means replacing it. The how's a bit up in the air, but it's more about how irredeemable the current system seems to someone.
If they they have a good confidence, there error could be around 3% up or down. So that's not bad.

And, yes, I think Defund the Police was primarily espoused and driven by people who would be little affected by the outcome of such performative stances.

The people who live in the places where the police got defunded suffer greater crime rates and disorder --which is why we see people at the grass roots asking for more police.

It's known that lawless places will suffer from lawlessness and then engender vigilantism --this is evident is most war-torn places where 'warlords'/gansters control neighborhoods.
This wasn't a CGI image release. They built a "near production" concept car.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdVHWLqhi98
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