skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked at a place addicted to giving away software / credits to land deals.

It was incredibly damaging and would now be a red flag for me when looking at future workplaces.

It was a viscous cycle where the sales team promised all kinds of customisations to land deals. The software team would be lumped with the responsibility of delivering many of these while not getting time to refine the core products.

The software despite being critical for ultimately delivering also was still seen as a "cost centre" because on paper the credits were given away for pennies to land the "juicy" consultancy with it.

If any deal was tight, the sales team would just give away more software credits / promise more software customisation to land it.

The result was the consultant side of the business acted like they were responsible for all the revenue despite the software delivering a huge bulk.

On paper the software didn't bring in much because we had a sales team effectively giving away our software.

I've written previously about the dangers of courting a tiny fish from a big pond which is related. The one-sided nature of the emerging relationship where to the small supplier the contract means everything, but to the mega-corp it's actually just "that thing that Bob from Sub-division 3 uses" and doesn't actually have mind-share, because very little software is actually ever rolled out "org-wide". Mega-corps rarely behave in such a synchronised manner and chances are you're not really selling to "MegaCorp", you're just selling to Bob. And when he moves on, there's a good chance that no-one else has even heard of you. If you're lucky your invoices will still get paid for a while after despite no-one now even using your system, if unlucky you'll have to fight twice as hard now to get paid for the outstanding invoices, despite the undercut price you decided to charge Bob because you thought you were getting your foot in the door at MegaCorp.
Have you looked at what skilled care costs? It's either be their nurse or be bankrupt.
I think the main thing people forget with stuff like this is that yes, all these setups are possible (or even trivial) to bypass, but you're not really dealing with a dedicated adversary that's targeting you in particular.

Spammers probably aren't going to update their tools to take into account every possible way every site obfuscates their email addresses, so the main trick to dealing with them would be to do something other sites/services don't. If you or your company become successful enough that people are actually targeting you in particular, then congrats, you're probably in a good place anyway.
Pretty much any Indian you meet in the US is in this situation.
But can they "sell it for scrap" for more than they bought it in the first place?
I found it only marginally informative, the "interactive" map didn't work as well as I expected, and overall I found it disappointingly info-tainment-ish.

I would not have said anything, but seeing the prior two comment, I responded to add something; sorry you found it disappointing, but my intent was not to "jump on a hobby horse about infotainment".
I consider an ORM to be any SQL generating API, without which it would indeed be impossible to have a generic Admin class to make Admin views in Django.
I'm already self hosting an e-mail server with no problems in deliverability or receiving. No limitations on aliases. No more artificial limits.

Cyrus-imap + postfix. If I need to scale up, can migrate from sqlite to postgres.
The Amigas were open and easy to upgrade as well. The exception was graphical capabilities for the "home computer" models like the A500/600/1200 - they are quite compact and the available solutions consequently suffered limitations.
That was true when they had Intel CPU's and soldered the RAM chips on the board.

Now they have the memory chips "inside" the "CPU", aka: system in a package.

Big Tim is way ahead of the game when it comes to ruthless product targeting and segmentation.
So long as only 10% or less of your incremental successes are mirages, and so long as the downside of shipping a mirage is only a small incremental harm, then shipping 9 success and 1 harm should still get you an overall ~78% win vs just shipping the 9 successes (assuming the bad result is an equivalently negative result to the good ones).

How much are you willing to spend to reduce the downside risk, and how many “good” experiments are you willing to throw away in the process?
Just be sure you've talked to your kids beforehand, because they may not feel the same way and may feel betrayed.
I moved my .dev domains under Porkbun right after it was announced that Google Domains was being sold to squarespace, so you don't have to drop the domains. Porkbun is also quite friendly IME.
> That image is incredibly outdated and has become an increasingly tired cliche.

I agree, but I'm not that old and that's the image of New York City I grew up with because it was then true.

It takes more than a generation to overcome that kind of impression. I'm pretty confident that if you asked New Yorkers my parents' age what the South is like you'd get a lot of answers that were unpleasantly accurate in 1965. This is particularly true when a lot of political polarization is based on region and urbanization.
I do this, but my parents don’t expect it. I just make 10x their income and would never let them buy their own ticket to come see me, or not help them change the car when needed. But my parents never want it. Never implied I had to. I just do it because l am where I am because of their own sacrifices. Now I have to convince them to have some fun in life because all they know is work.
(For perspective, I’m low income in SF).
Yeah. It assumes that reading bandwidth is the limiting factor in how fast children learn. Not brain development, not actually getting the fundamental concepts; just reading.

I don't buy it at all.
Sales growth for 2023: 17%

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/SQSP?tab=financials
Yeah his mom is from Swat and his dad was from Hasanabdal so it makes sense they started at Havelian lol
So if I understand correctly the new format has performance benefits, partly due to shorter traces and a better connection to the motherboard. So would this format eventually come to desktop too?
I was 100% expecting to see a reimplementation of that game
I had an A1000 - even worked in high school at a Commodore/Amiga dealer.

What they really didn't understand is that software sells hardware: The OS was so far ahead, but in terms of basic productivity software? Even the Mac was ahead.

And [IMO] markets can maintain a leader and one strong competitor. But just one. So it became PC/Mac throughout the 90's on the desktop.
iFixit did a video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zB9EFntmA
You can find that if you scroll down the article far enough, or at https://ahsgardening.org/about-us/news-press/cool_timeline/h... - it's based on the number of days above 86 degrees F (30 degrees C).

I would like to see these two maps overlaid on each other somehow.
It is clickbait, by definition. The title baited with a promise of one type of content, the click yielded a different type of content.
An article with a deceptive title and lacking substance is textbook clickbait.
This is an awesome tool and something I've been trying to do for too long. I've been trying to find ways of "quasi-replicating" SPA's like this and then doing analysis on them.

Can you talk a little bit about your approach? Any recommend readings or other tools for inspiration?

Thanks!
Seems like you are describing suburbs, but they suck at almost everything. Maybe we should actually think about living in denser but smaller cities, which can provide all necessities, including nature, in walking or cycling distance. This is most likely the key to allow for healthy lifestyles.
Comparing crypto and AI is really tired and you make the best point - real people are using these GPUs to actually do things of value and improve their daily lives.

At the peak of the crypto boom/hype cycle I took on a little project to look at the top 10 blockchain networks/coins/whatever.

From what I could tell a very, very, very generous estimate is that crypto at best has MAUs in the low tens of millions.

ChatGPT alone got to 100 million MAUs within a year of release and has only grown since.

ChatGPT 10x'd actual real world usage of GPUs (and resulting power and other resources) in a year vs ~15 years for crypto.

> I really don't think that AI and crypto are comparable in terms of their current practical usage.

A massive understatement!
Incompatibility with hidden variables doesn't imply randomness. Hidden variables theory doesn't assert mere determinism, it's a stronger assertion that particles must be classical.
Settling down with a mediocre product that sustains your company should probably count as success. The vast majority of startups fail, after all. You might have failed to produce a unicorn, but at least you've got a decent workhorse.
15 spam mails do seem quite much to me. I blacklisted addresses for less.
I tend to always play the cynic in these games. And I think one little way to easily do that is to reverse the roles with an example you are giving. So for your example, imagine somebody from the future came and showed you a pinhead sized device with countless exabytes of computational power projected onto a holographic screen. While I'm sure you'd be impressed and have plenty of questions, I don't think there would be any particular shock. Evolutionary progress - even at absurd scales, is still just evolutionary progress, and easily 'graspable'.
I love the standalone kubelet/static manifests pattern. It's ideal for edge type stuff and really simple systems. Here's a talk on my CNC control software running in my shop with just the kubelet, no control plane: https://developers.redhat.com/devnation/tech-talks/kubelet-n...
Not every number has to be derivable through some kind of formula. Realtors tend to take 6% as their commission. Why not 6.5%? or 5%? The answer is that sometimes they do, but it's just traditionally by default 6% unless one or more parties chooses to negotiate it. There's no math.
Humans are a greedy tribalistic species, that will probably be our downfall. Our only hope is that something major changes our thinking about that. We can't continue on the idea that billionaires deserve so much more, destroy products to keep their value artificially high (crops, clothes, etc), use wood spoons for conservation while millionaires take private jets to go eat lunch in another country and fly back the same day.
At least from my standpoint, this is completely true. I was hardcore Amiga (AmigaOS and Amiga MINIX) up until 1992 and then Wolfenstein 3D came out and it got me to buy a PC. The OS experience was comparatively terrible, but that game was so good in its day.

I would agree with the other poster that, as far as being a living product, the Amiga was already dead, but as a usable platform, there was still a very helpful, very large community.
If forking is bad, how about buffering?
I guess you are new the PE game. It's okay, give it a few more years and you will understand.
that explains why there is no buidtool.
Makes me realize how different lives are. I’d rather cut off a couple of fingers than dump my excellent parents.
Try doing that on a trackpad--but if I wanted to use a mouse, the chording is too cumbersome.
Emphasis on 'standardized' -- the 2 in LPCAMM2 is indeed meant to refer to the second generation of LPCAMM, but it's the first generation that has been approved as a JEDEC standard (and therefore, the first one that most people will be able to buy).
I know a decent handful of people who definitely did NOT enjoy their childhood (or at least had major issues that they'd rather not have had; it's not like they never had any fun whatsoever) who have quite enjoyable families now; they've intentionally set out to avoid the pitfalls that happened to them and actively work to identify other ones.
Does SQL Server run on IBM Power?

I'd say one of the only options is a HPE Superdome Flex machine but as you said they might run into other bottlenecks at this scale.

I can't fathom what a database is doing on the CPU so much, usually I run out of I/O (both disk and network) on 128 core machines before maxing the CPUs. Also the post says they have 4 machines and 10 databases, very strange.
>>Some parents expect their kids to buy them a house and you can imagine how brutal it is in the current housing market.

Yes, but you left out that in most Asian-X cultures, first generation immigrant parents typically sacrificed almost everything they had, including in many cases the parental-filial relationship, to provide the children with enough education to claw their way out of their current situation and give them an extra leg up into a higher socioeconomic circumstance.

My parents had this expectation, and my wife and I gladly and willingly obliged on both sides as only children. This expectation/obligation became even more poignant when we had our own kids and realized belatedly just how much our parents had sacrificed for us. Whether driven by cultural norms (or not), we appreciate what our parents did for us so that we can "pass it on" now that we're on better footing than either side ever was.

While not always convenient or logistically possible, multi-generational housing (where one or both sets of parents live together or very close by) can go a long way to addressing astronomical housing costs at least until they need more intensive daily care due to aging.
Deepkit Framework: Revolutionizing Web App Development at Enterprise Scale
People on here have provided good reasons to why the Amiga failed, and I don't really dispute any of them, but it still makes me very sad.

I feel like there was a roughly three year period where Amiga really was better than all the competition. AmigaOS was really impressive, the hardware was cheaper and more capable than Apples, and categorically better than whatever Microsoft was doing. It feels like the management at Commodore didn't really realize the head start that they had; it appears that instead of continuing to grow the OS, they just were happy enough enough keep things business-as-usual and eventually Apple and Microsoft caught up.

That all makes enough sense, but I feel like there exists an alternate universe where Commodore was competently managed, and in 2024 we are all running Commodore machines instead of Apple.
I often wonder why these days, Doom looms so large over Wolf3D... at the time, Wolfenstein seemed nearly as big as Doom.
It's been somewhat done (there are a couple of forks out there, but nothing usable or maintained).
> I also know that the IRS classifies software development as R&D, but we all know those are not the same thing in reality.

I think you may have spent too much time writing software to notice how R&D it is.

You can pick whatever citation you want [1] but writing software is a very risky endeavor (in terms of ROI).

"Generic IT" or SRE is really not R&D. If your solution to a bug is to "reboot" the device; that's an operational fix. If your solution is instead to read a stacktrace and write some code; that's R&D.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=most+software+projects+fail
Also as in the case of my mother’s family (11 kids), the onus for taking care of the younger siblings progressively falls on the siblings older than them.
Since you seem a bit touchy about the feedback you specifically requested, I'll take a tangent:

How are you finding ChatGPT for functional stuff? I found it to be unusably bad, unable to transform trivial programs. Have you found it helpful for Haskell or F#?
That's a good idea, but never seems to happen; certainly it didn't in this case. Even when it does, the penalties are inevitably a fraction of the realized profits.
Oh yeah, "both sides". Sure... Wanna ask the two orphans living at my cousin's where their parents are and who killed them? How many thousands of such examples do you need? I'm sure as hell I can supply you with a sufficient amount, even worse than straight up shooting a child's parents in front of their eyes.
...likely while worsening the customer experience (less hands-on support, less engineering, less reliability).

For a company like SquareSpace unless they're massively overspending and they are rife with inefficiencies I don't see how this works out for the PE firm.
Big, Smoggy Bangkok Gets a Badly Needed Breath of Fresh Air
Maybe we need to use a different acronym than ORM, because to me the thing we can all agree we need is code that emits SQL. If you can't agree that projects need generated SQL because SQL is dog water for composition, then we can't really agree on anything.
I can check with HR but we have definitely hired people from outside the EU who moved to Germany
> A memory leak means you lost the pointer to the memory, so now you can’t free it.

that's an useless definition as otherwise it would be trivial to augment, say, malloc to prevent memory leaks.

I would define a leak as unused memory that it is not otherwise reusable by a program.
I know someone working in this direction; they've described the big challenges as:

* Finding ways to use extant chip fab technology to produce something that can do analog logic. I've heard CMOS flash presented a plausible option.
* Designing something that isn't an antenna.
* You would likely have to finetune your model for each physical chip you're running it on (the manufacturing tolerances aren't going to give exact results)

The big advantage is that instead of using 16 wires to represent a float16, you use the voltage on 1 wire to represent that number (which plausibly has far more precision than a float32). Additionally, you can e.g. wire two values directly together rather than loading numbers into an ALU, so the die space & power savings are potentially many, many orders of magnitude.
Obviously, you need to work in a different office!
Apple's ridiculously expensive fast & wide on-package memory is a big reason why the M series chips are so fast. Expect AMD & Intel to adopt a similar strategy in their high end chips soon.
There's still a difference between the stores having meat on their shelves and the stores having every kind of meat on their shelves. And every kind of vegetable, every kind of drink, every kind of cheese as well.
Your parents were wrong. Assuming you wanted to play games as well as run productivity software, the C128 was far superior to any PC in 1985. Yes the PC would eventually catch up in the 90s, but the C128 was discontinued by then.
I've gone from 6b to 7a.

Winters almost do not exist here in the mid-Atlantic. Sure, there are some cold snaps, but they do not last as long as 20 to 30 years ago. Snowfall? Getting less and less with an occasional nor'easter here and there.

Ancedotally, in late February, I had to mow the lawn.

We've started measuring TTFF. (Time-to-first-frost). Historically, it was in early to mid October for decades. Now it's pushing mid-November. The growing seasons are longer, for sure.
It wasn't entirely incompetence. Commodore marketing was incompetent but the bankruptcy was primarily driven by Irving Gould to enrich himself. Mehdi Ali was his henchman. They pulled funding from R&D, preventing the chipset from keeping up with the industry.
What does “meaning density” mean?
Of course you can do this. Loom does the conversion and compression for you automatically so you have an instantly sharable video. Saves me time. That’s the point.
https://archive.ph/fIp1l
I had a Commodore 64 that I had bought with my own money, but my friend (rather his dad) had a Commodore 128 with a floppy drive. I was so impressed but also extremely jealous. My brother though bought a PC.
Historically, every time the state doesn't get involved, people die from poverty, neglect, and abuse. The free market is bullshit here because it has a profit motive, not a care or a duty motive. People don't just stop living or are worthy of care and respect simply because they can no longer provide cash to the money gods.
As someone who followed the development of the Amiga and then bought the Amiga 1000 (plus everything else I could afford with my paper route earnings) the first day it was available -- I do NOT yearn to relive those days. I loved it then and as documented everywhere, it was a head of its time. However, the instability of software and how much Commodore didn't iterate on the technology -- that's what killed the Amiga. I still have PTSD from all the insane amount of crashing and rebooting my setup did.
No, not even close really. $250k TC -> $150k.
Even in large families I know of, the burden usually rests on one or two - but the larger the family the more support of the burden-bearers there are, which can make a huge difference.
Other companies have made the same mistake as Amiga, before and after.

They spent a ton of R&D getting ahead on things that would be commoditized in a few years. Later, their sound card had to be better than the best of a half-dozen PC variants, and so did the video card, CPU, monitor, keyboard, disk drive, etc, etc.

Sure, they could have bought commodity versions of some of those (and probably did), but then they’d have to be the best at choosing commodity components, and there were 100’s of strong competitors doing just that for PCs.

Now that moore’s law is slowing down, and everything has long-moved into system on chips, vertical integration seems to make sense again (look at Apple).

Android was trying to create an ecosystem of interchangeable hardware vendors (like Microsoft did with DOS, and, later, Windows), but it basically failed because driver compatibility is so poor in that space, and key components, like cell modems are locked behind anticompetitive OEM licensing agreements.

Android succeeded at other things, but it’s definitely not the case that you can assemble components into something with better specs than a flagship android for half the price, even if you had access to a pick + place / IC soldering machine. It was/is that way for desktop PCs.
If the last transaction was 30% the board as to explain why this one isn't 30% (either to the buyer if they are paying more; or to the shareholders if they are paying less).
Because it's a Japanese-specific phenomenon (isn't it ?), and I would expect that different language Wikipedias copy from each other all the time, so if your goal was to (as I assumed it to) to put that information on (at least) the English Wikipedia, then having it first featured on the Japanese one would give it much more weight ?
And cheese too! but you will hardly find good cheesemaker at a piggy wiggly (or even in SF more reputable supermarkets). The best i had was one from Hungtinton's Farmer market (WV), easily a top4-top3 goat cheese.
If the connector library solves this problem then the connector library is an ORM.