skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do this for a living, first as a PM and now as a VC. These multiples are fairly common knowledge for anyone in Enterprise SaaS, and have have worked with accounts teams that have done this and have recommended similar strategies (at a smaller scale) to portfolio companies.

So the answer is no, you don't have any information not found in the link, and everything you wrote was speculation.

> You want to increase your (Revenue-COGS).

Exactly, and without knowing anything about the financials of this deal, there's no way to know if your claims are correct. It might have been an attempt to take advantage of someone that built on their product, expecting that they'll pay more.
Maybe prepared foods sold in America that comes in boxes.

Otherwise, there is fruit (not juice), yogurt, vegetables, cheeses, whole grain bread, avocados, milk, soy milk, lentils, nuts, oatmeal etc.

> Pancakes, French toast, waffles, donuts, crepes,

I couldn’t fathom giving any of these to my kids on a regular basis (nor did I get them). The food traditions my parents came from was
Isn't that always inherently true? With travel SIMs, what you're buying is convenience. Not to mention, some countries have annoying KYC processes for getting SIM cards/service. Presumably this bypasses that.
>Is that $8m worth it if in aggregate you spending an equal amount of time on that account as you are on a $20-30m account?

I think it depends? Let's assume that both accounts are profitable overall, but one is massively more profitable. The logic to cut off the $8m account makes sense if you can move those resources towards more $20m accounts. But that isn't something that is necessarily possible, is it? There's only so many of those $20m customers out there.

This obviously changes if the $8m customer is not profitable or is just _that_ unpleasant to work with.
This is beautiful. Can any shape be expressed as a mathematical function?
It's one of things that gave a little bit of Thinkpad identity and there from the beginning.
I never said it was simple. Just that it's a trait that can give great benefit.

Anecdotal of course, as is yours. But everyone handles their brain differently.
Check out B corporations.
I manage my own ASN, I've been thinking of branching out, experimenting by creating my own eSIM.

Given the huge number of virtual ISPs offering eSIMs at various prices, I mistakenly assumed it would be relatively easy to find documentation on how to do that (perhaps via some ISP selling traffic bundles to virtual ISPs); maybe someone can recommend any resources?
Good explanation of how (some) pretty printers work.

There is one snag, at least on my browser (Brave on MacOS).
The final example with line width 120 is marred by having some lines wrapped, no matter how I resize my browser window or resize the text:

"move_learn_method": {"name": "egg", "url": "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/move-learn-
method/2/"},
"version_group": {"name": "gold-silver", "url": "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/version-
group/3/"}

Which runs rather counter to all the pretty printer's efforts to make things fit on a line.

The page source shows it embedded in <pre><code><small><small> </small></small></code></pre>

How could they have prevented the browser from introducing line breaks? E.g. by making it use scrollbars?
The Great Right Brain Debate
The Macbook Pro is this, if you don't mind its relatively slow speed. It's costly, but a 92GB Macbook Pro is still by far the cheapest way to get that much VRAM.
Airalo is nowhere near competitive anymore. Check http://esimdb.com, which includes airalo, to do a true price comparison.
> If we have enough cheap energy, the other stuff doesn't matter.

Not so — the person you're responding to was demonstrating that important things had not in fact been invented, while your example only worked out because we did actually invent stuff.

Indeed, even today electricity is only about 10% of humanity's total power usage, and that's with batteries cheap enough to make electric cars viable. (Bit of a shame that the alternative to batteries, hydrogen, still isn't cheap enough to be a great contender today, even despite the strong incentive to replace gasoline during the height of pro-nuclear attitudes and the OPEC-induced fuel crisis).
You need carbon (coal) to make steel from iron.

Cement needs lots of heat to make it - from coal too. Also, cement is made from CaCO3 (limestone, the shell of ancient microorganisms). It releases the CO2 it contains when transformed into cement.
Having the Fn makes sense and it's OBJECTIVELY* better because on low-light environments it lets you control the screen brightness. In the past you could easily switch the ThinkLight or whatever it was called from a pitch-black room.

* I am joking.
This is dubious for numerous reasons including some obvious evidence he’s been had.

https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/hersh-fails-again-d541f...

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/41463/whatever-h...

… but you know what? if it is true… good.

Putin blackmailed Europe with energy, so this is kinda like shooting the hostage in a hostage standoff. Based.

I even wondered if Germany did it. Take capitulation entirely off the table. Very based.

Unlikely though. It was probably internal sabotage from Russia or Ukraine allied forces in Russia. There are devices call “pigs” used to inspect and clean pipelines. Wouldn’t be terribly hard to put an extra payload on one of those.
Having gone from C to C++, there's a stark difference between the communities in what is considered 'readable' i.e. what the future reader is expected to grok.

In C-world, ternary-ifs are too spicy and C99 is newfangled. In C++ world, the only reason you'd be pushed away from template metaprogramming is because the standard you're using lets you do it with constexpr.
>It's my operating system.

I think part of the problem is that it seems like an internal (corporate) push (shift?) to view it as only a "licensed" product that you're using, rather than as something you "own" on your machine.

We saw a bit of this with licensing and product validation. Now, we're seeing it with changes driven by internal (e.g.: corporate command chain) drives. They "need" this data but there's no open transparency about why they need it, where it's housed, who has access, what positive changes this data has driven (if at all), etc.

Back during the Watson or WER (Windows Error Reporting) days, that was the only "telemetry" that the company needed and they got by on quite a few versions of the OS without needing more.

I don't have an answer - but I do know that if my work didn't require Windows, I'd be happy to never see another Windows desktop again.
I feel like the best mobile plan insofar for traveling has been Google Fi: $10/GB anywhere in the world, allows you to pause service and pay nothing, works both as a physical and eSIM card.

The downside: only available for purchase in the US.
Under the hood, macOS changes things (and break them) so fast, that Linux distros blush with envy, while they figure out, how to change something in 5 years that macOS does in 1.
I've worked on these kinds of accounts at a VMWare sized company before.

If you don't trust me, go chat with CROs, Product Leadership, or Execs are similarly sized companies.

I agree this is tribal knowledge, but that's how most pricing and renewal negotiatons occur, with maybe a bit of RevOps black magic to justify a decision one way or the other.
Nukemap – Atomic Bomb Simulator
> Grocery store greedflation

Apologies for the imprecise statement, "Greedflation visible in grocery stores" would have been better. With the possible exception of grocery house brands, greedflated pricing was mostly set by grocery suppliers. As TFA noted, some grocery house brands have gained customers due to competitive pricing against branded suppliers.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflatio...

> food and commodities businesses Kraft Heinz, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Bunge all saw their profits far outpace inflation ... Four food companies – the listed suppliers Archer-Daniels-Midland and Bunge, plus the privately owned Cargill and Dreyfus – control an estimated 70%–90% of the world grain market.

Edit: thanks for the 3 data points. Will look for further analysis, beyond the 1350 companies in the study linked above. My only counterpoint is that grocery house brands and profit margins have been relatively stable, while some branded competitors have spiked prices. In theory, all should be subject to comparable labor and energy cost changes. I have also seen spiked prices inching back downwards on some groceries, in series with varying discounts, implying demand testing.
That’s absurd and you just made it up. Easily verified through public info.

Take Pfizer, R&D is $11B. You think executive comp is more than $11B?

The CEO total comp is $24M or 2%. The exec team is less than 10 people.

At least try to make believable claims.
Somehow, I have a bad (unfounded?) association with lease drivers and car-friendliness, and I can't help but wonder how they've mistreated or abused the car mechanically in those 2-4 years. Things like full acceleration with a cold engine/turbo, and violent gear shifting and clutch abuse..

On a side-note, do you have any company or website you would recommend for ex-lease vehicles buying in Germany? Or do you simply go to your local car dealers and ask for their second-hand offerings?
Sound arguments, but I have a feeling if this recommendation is followed the funding agencies will skew to underrepresented groups when making decisions on these small pilot studies
One does have to take into account that while once very respected, over the past decade Seymour Hersh has published a series of implausible and poorly sourced claims. That doesn’t mean this theory is necessarily false, but it doesn’t add a great deal of credence to it either.
Perfectly legit and wise use of time on a buyer's down time after dinner. I wouldn't mind spending the time on this over the course of a week if, at the end of the week, I wound up with the car of my choice at a fair price. I think it's time well spent.
Because it has nothing to do with CenturyLink and everything to do with fiber to the home infrastructure.
Very well written article!

If you are interested in interactive explorations of the fourier transform you might also like this visualization I built [1], featuring the not so well known fractional fourier transform.

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/frft-cube/
I ran DriveSpace on an 8088. For several years. Was too young to notice the slowness, I guess.
Thank @histories, I am the maintainer of the landscape. Welcome PRs to add your favorite products! Here is the repo: https://github.com/tensorchord/ai-infra-landscape
Wonder how this differs from something like Airalo or bnesim then, aside from the free tier.
Its OK to use fossil fuels as chemical feedstock in manufacturing. As long as we don't literally light it on fire for energy we can deal with the resulting reaction gasses.

In 500 years the idea that we ever burned our most valuable manufacturing chemical to keep warm is going to seem crazy. Petrochemicals are incredibly useful for making things.
People here seem to quickly react by recommending their favorite travel eSIM provider. I'd propose what I find to be a bit more useful, a website that compares a bunch of different travel eSIM providers: https://esimdb.com

No affiliation from my side. I find it nice to know I always have many options.
I wonder how this works, if your cellular gets deactivated, how do you inform the service that you've watched the ad? Particularly if all you have is an app with no access to low-level system APIs like USSD, texting etc.

Is it just disabling your access except to a particular IP range and then enabling it back on receiving a HTTP request? Can routing in Telcos even work like that? Or is it DNS perhaps? That would seem to be the easiest layer to implement this on.

I'd really like a technical explanation here.
The US is serious, they are just incompetent.
It is quite easy to be quite loyal if your family is going to be sent to the charming camps if you think of staying in Poland. Also in communist countries being member of the party doesn't mean much. I think around 30% of NK population are party members.
Just FYI my ADHD has recently disappeared after eating an elimination diet and supplementing with a few things that are known to be anti inflammatory.

This has caused me to doubt the belief that all modern mental disorders had an “evolutionary advantage” or that we should assume so.
If I'm buying a SIM, there's a physical cost to manufacture the thing. There's no such cost with eSIMs. Also, to sell me a physical SIM, the telecom has to employ somebody to stand there and sell me a SIM. With an eSIM there's a website and it doesn't matter if 1 or 1000 people are buying SIMs at the same time. I would think that eventually the ability to scale would push the costs of eSIM down to be cheaper/the same as regular SIMs, but we aren't there yet.

> With travel SIMs, what you're buying is convenience.

I guess I'm not the target market here. Spending 5 minutes to get a cheaper + better deal is worth it to me then overpaying for limited data to avoid having to talk to somebody.
electric arc furnaces are quite widespread and there is also this: https://www.mining-technology.com/news/green-steel-hydrogen/
> 1. "assuming a 100k annual salary" - the cost of salary is 1.75x stated wage, so in reality it's $175k

I know, this was ballpark thinking, it's not a fundamental flaw in my thinking. 100k with taxes is still a 60k salary and that's about what I was thinking. Not great everywhere, but still good in many locations. I also don't know how much support people are usually paid, and 200k is still 40 people.

Now, indeed, I wasn't imagining hundreds of people per customer required. I'm willing to believe it's realistic for some kinds of businesses, for very big customers.
Silly perhaps, but conventional, as humans like to think of themselves as capable of cooperation to solve challenges larger than any one person, and to think of themselves as wiser than (other) animals and thus able to see these challenges well in advance.
> the Western military junta

least deluded political commentator on HN
If only they’re were other hypervisors
Customers were all expecting to get milked, sure. But the milking process usually tries not to kill the cow.

Usually that means prices increasing by ~10% every year, so that it's never quite worth it to switch to an alternative system.
Interesting. I was wondering why my recent show HN posts were significantly less successful than a (imo not as good) post on a similar topic the day before.
It would be interesting to hear more feedback about it from people who experienced both sides. Hopefully there's going to be many more over time. I'm becoming a bit sceptical regarding the advantages, but there's a lot of confounding variables there.
You think that 460 EUR per 1 TB of flash is a fair price?
nonsensical to use a device that dictates what you can install on it

Xbox, PS, iPad are consoles. Not everyone wants to DIY the OS and app config and maintenance. Using (digital) cartridges gets all those non value added activities out of the way of just playing the game or using the app.
Yeah but
that’s type 2. A better comparison would be Proxmox or XCP-ng
An alternative explanation is that there is simply not enough evidence to tell one way or the other.
A good countdown timer is more than just a time reminder, it's an aid to concentration and relaxation.

5 minute timer allows you to customize the animation and background music of your choice, creating an optimal environment for you to focus on every moment, whether you are working, studying or resting.
> But that isn't something that is necessarily possible, is it

At VMware size it absolutely is.

I've worked on accounts at similarly sized vendors and even AV or Endpoint spend will be in the $1-5M range alone even if per unit price is in the $20-30 range.

With a backbone product like VMware, you can safely assume spend is 4-6x as you will be bundling network security along with IT infra.
Yes, I agree. Here is an example: https://github.com/tensorchord/ai-infra-landscape/pull/5

Huggingface provides model hub and also HF space for inference & deployment.

The landscape generator tool supports tag-based filter. I will open an issue to keep track of it.

disclaimer: maintainer of the landscape https://github.com/tensorchord/ai-infra-landscape
I don’t say that to be rude but an honest so what if the observation is true or not? Despite what the GP may think, that’s not the way to drive change for the environment.
how does private ownership not mean that someone is entitled to control the benefits of an asset? isn't that the entire idea of capitalism?

in the context of public (emphasis on PUBLIC) infrastructure, how does pristine air quality, well paid jobs for workers with ironclad security, not upsetting anyone, strong regulatory controls not be considered in a "high quality product"? How could it be high quality without those? The idea that public infrastructure has to be profitable/a product instead of a public good is misguided and ignores the realities of the costs and requirements associated with such things.

would you say that the strong regulatory nature of air travel makes is low quality? if the NTSB/FHWA took car transportation as seriously as flying, I would imagine the US would not have 40,000 deaths a year just from driving. I don't understand how that amount of death (ignoring pollution, minor/serious injuries, personal cost, lost time, resources both monetary and material, etc) makes the US transport choices a "high quality" product.
Note to anyone with HTTPS-only mode enabled in their browser: that second link won't work because it's only served over HTTP and not the HTTPS link it is replaced by.

Here's an archive link instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20240226112837/http://www.columb...
He seems to have a habit of doing this.

A few weeks ago I was also stuck in a situation where he appeared to play dumb and refused to acknowledge the contradictions in his positions and the level of indignation that followed afterwards was unbelievable.
> Maybe a cultural thing? Are you British

Yes British but love going to car dealerships and haggling. I miss the old days as buying cars is now straightforward over the internet.
Welcome contributions! https://github.com/tensorchord/ai-infra-landscape

Open-source contributions can make it better. :-)
to me it seem you have bad experience and I agree that this kind of simple may be the wrong kind of simple ;)

but: for me simple is to have a short and concise solution of a problem/ requirement that does exactly what is required and not more.
Total noob here. Is there a reference book about ADHD I could read?
What are the things "most people" agree ADHD "is"?
>It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

>Society is the problem, not them.

I wish it was that easy. It's not. ADHD is an extremely broad spectrum. There are some habits which CAN bring me into hyperfocus, but they don't work all the time.

What do you mean by people reach to fast for stimulants? Coffee and energy drinks basically have the same effect as methylphenidate on me, they just don't last as long.

Before my diagnosis I was always flabbergasted that people were so astonished as I told them that coffee and energy drinks bring me down. Now I know the reason why. But in the end reducing my coffee and energy consumption, but taking meds in a controled way works a lot better for me. But I also know people where meds don't work at all (in a beneficial way). There is really no way to sum up "ADHD people". It's just way to nuanced.

Edit: I am literally sitting in the office right now, hyperfocusing on the weird typing frequency of my neighbour and just can't put on my headphones and start coding. I would even try to hear that with my noise cancelling headphones on. Gotta get up now, take a short walk and hopefully when i come back i can start.
Don't piss on my leg (or more accurately, let your friend do it), and tell me it's raining. The poster was being verbally abused while he is suffering, and I'm trying to mitigate that suffering with understanding.

I'm not here to sing koombahya with theives and liars. Have a good day!

[Edit]

Less than one percent of the US population owns nearly 50 percent of the wealth. The reality is many rich people never took a half a second in their life to think about other people with empathy or compassion. Many even try to create further imbalance in their favor.

"Civility" is used here as an excuse by many to be sociopaths. One person I interacted with named themselves after a serial killer. I refuse to normalize it. That's going to upset people and get me down votes. C'est la vie. (That is life).
You can long press the image to get the alt text on the desktop website.
And $8m is LOW.

F1000s will spend the same amount on AV or endpoints alone.

For backbone infra, you can expect a price that is 4-6x higher, as network security, IT infra, etc is bundled.
Not that it makes installing crapware any better, let alone outright spyware, but that doesn't affect ThinkPads. Lenovo probably has too much to lose in terms of reputation in the business world to do that with ThinkPads.
I liked Scattered by Gabor Mate, though not really a reference work, more a primer or intro
I get that this is a deliberate strategy by Broadcom, but can someone explain how the strategy makes any sense? Broadcom apparently spent $69 billion to acquire VMware, so how does setting it on fire make sense financially?
As I see it, if you can make it an advantage and make your environment nice, keep it.

If not, take the stimulants and see if that lasts long-term.

No need to assume either way for anyone.
Google Apps Script is down
Works on latest Chrome (122.0.6261.69) on a M2 Max Mac.
> Violence and torture is the only ultimate way.

Boredom will break them easier, even if it takes slightly longer.
Wow. 1.95 euros a day for the non-ad version? In India (where I live) I pay less than 3 euros a month for a 1.5GB everyday 5G connection and unlimited nationwide calls. So it's definitely not a "fair local rate" as they claim.
Yeah, the landscape is using CNCF landscape generator https://github.com/cncf/landscape2. I also want to introduce the maturity similar to CNCF but not sure how to adopt it.

From the maintainer of the project.
You can choose when to take meds and when not to. I was actively encouraged by my doctor to be selective and I have a prescription for both the timed release and the normal forms.

I am fully capable of recognising situations where the meds help and where they hinder.
That's what you'd think when you hear people talk about hyperfocus. But trust me, you don't want to have ADHD. You only want to have the good sides of it.
It sank. (c)
If DOOM can run that way, you can really run anything there.
Please kindly stop repeating this discredited bs on HN.
Yeah Windows 7 was cool. After that I though I can't be bothered with further versions and switched to mac. Which is fine though I miss some stuff like that Windows lets you use what hardware you like. And what software - maybe my biggest annoyance with MacOS is when they decided 32 bit software was suddenly verboten because why not. I mean who'd want to use Photoshop PS6 when you could use the new subscription spyware version.
But when you need more data and you’re in the middle of nowhere, you can just pay to add a bit more.
Trust me, I do.

Bad side is I get a pizza and bed day.

Good side is I have fun coding for 18 hours and get a week of work done.
I appreciate the way the Texas electricity market works. What about it sucks for you as a consumer?