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They’ve been working on Fly for years now and seems like they haven’t been able to turn it into a reliable service or profitable business (making assumptions about the second part here), and the overall general sentiment seems to be to avoid it for anything but the most toy applications. I note that the team was also unable to get their recruiting business off the ground either and shuttered it.

My assumption based on the creator’s very online hacker news commentary is that they seem to be at least smart in tech. So what’s the lesson here for the rest of us who may want to start a business? Is this a “shots on goal” thing and we’re just seeing these failures more publicly than most so it biases the perception, or is there some je ne sais quoi missing that we could learn from? No offense intended by my post, but I would be very keen to learn whether there’s some X Factor missing from an otherwise ostensibly smart team’s repeated failure that we could learn from.

Your recommendation in the last paragraph of your comment is what the author is already doing here with this article.

It’s not really a dark pattern because they’re not tricking you into accepting or coercing more than is acceptable into doing so, they’re just not allowing you to decline. Which means if not accepting cookies is a dealbreaker for you, no problem, just: move along.

I’m trying to parse this too and am reaching the same conclusion. Basically they seem to be implying with the “100 endpoints” number a scenario where I have 10 endpoints and change endpoint 0v1 and now call it endpoint 0v2, I must duplicate endpoints in the range 1v1 to 9v1 to go alongside my endpoint 0v2 so I serve them all together. This doesn’t make sense to me as there’s no reason to upgrade or duplicate the other nine endpoints just because I updated the first as far as I can tell.

It really reaches absurdity when the first endpoint is on its tenth iteration (the others haven’t changed) and now you’re serving ten duplicate endpoints per version, or 100 total endpoints where 90 of them are duplicate of themselves.

I seriously considered the all electric Porsche Taycan as my next car before eventually relenting got a Tesla Model S Plaid. The Taycan was arguably higher quality and a funner drive though and I would have been very happy with it.

If this is someone’s “moral code” then it goes against basically all of human history’s actions with the elders helping out the children until they get on their feet, and then the children supporting their parents when the parents age. Not everyone has the privilege to align with this system, but certainly aligning instead with a contrived moral code comes across more as sour grapes than any principled stand against receiving some help from one’s elders.

This is an unfair comment. First, people do have to get started somewhere and early career is rarely as glamorous as late career. It’s highly possible that the only jobs in that industry for new entrants are in mini-rooms. So the choice becomes not working in one’s chosen industry at all or starting out in mini rooms — I say starting out because you’re talking about inexperienced folks. So that part of the comment isn’t really fair.

The other part of the comment that isn’t fair is the “sponging” part. Generally this implies loafing or laziness, someone taking their parents resources and being lazy with them. But we’re talking about working people who are new to their career and putting in the sweat and willing to work in mini-rooms. I don’t think using parental resources is sponging when someone is early career and trying to work hard to get ahead.

Very common. My work in the big city used to require us to use it when driving to take advantage of commuter parking benefit for the other reasons mentioned. Also use it at shopping malls where the valet price is the same or substantially similar to regular parking.

Surprisingly many of them use a text system so you text them to the number they confirmed with like 10 minutes before you need your car and they have it waiting — very convenient.

Also use it at big events like operas or plays or whatever where parking is awful but valet, despite being a little expensive, puts you right up at the front door when walking in and then they get it when you leave.

Valets HATE this one weird trick

How many lines of unnecessary code have been written to be “ready to scale” and that never happens? This is an anti pattern and I would caution anyone from falling into this mindset where they feel they need Kubernetes even for simple things. I urge people to start simple, focus on features, and deal with complexity when the need actually arises.

This Cult of Kubernetes has to go.

I checked and it turned out that “people” are a pretty heterogeneous group and regularly different groups want different things.

And with the deep pockets of the crypto puppet masters and all the evidence coming out about the Justice’s susceptibility to taking as many “gifts” as they can get their hands on, that just further solidifies the pre-determined outcome.

I hope I won’t be faulted for not “reading” the OP, but it’s a 17 minute video. I watched a little, but I don’t understand the thesis.

It does seem ironic though that on a video about the ad-based internet dying, there are several ads in the page, the video maker in the first segment has a lengthy ad where he praises whatever he is advertising, probably VPN stuff, there is a bunch of begging for paid subscribers in the summary, and comments in the comment section from third party ad spammers directing people to what appears to be MLMs.

I can tell a human what they’re doing and they can be aware of their bias and guard against it. This is part of the point of “unconscious bias” training. AI can’t do this.

If you’re saying humans are consciously hiring people named Jared, they shouldn’t be allowed to provide hiring feedback.

What about all the VC-funded companies that were never able to find a way to convert users into money? “Always” is a very big stretch here.

Hackathons in Ukraine are the reasons AR glasses are going to be ubiquitous? I don’t see the connection.

Madrigal Electromotive GmbH.

One of the major underlying restrictions is the (commonly known as) Statute of Frauds[1]. State law can supersede it as it is Common Law inherited from England (and therefore "default" law in USA where something doesn't supersede it), but most states either follow it or have state laws that copy it. From the link, the specifics it covers, that are required to be non-verbal are:

* Any promises made in connection with marriage, including such gifts as an engagement ring.

* Contracts that cannot be completed in less than one year.

* Contracts for the sale of land—leases need not be covered unless they are for a year or more.

* Promises to pay an estate’s debt from the personal funds of the executor. However, promises to pay such debt from the estate's funds are not subject to the statute of frauds.

* Contracts for the sale of goods above a specific dollar amount, typically $500.

* A contract in which one person promises to pay the debt of another person is considered a surety and is subject to the statute of frauds.

So when I tongue in cheek reference a really bad car, I'm talking about a car whose value is under $500. :)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/statute-of-frauds.asp

It saves it in the app. All previous questions and answers, conversations, are available later on. I can go back and see things I sent it six months ago, for example, just by scrolling.

Broadly correct with the caveat that there are some restrictions on verbal contracts. For example, I cannot sell my house verbally. Or my car (unless it’s a really bad car).

No prob, my phone has a terabyte of hard drive space and many gbs of memory.

I’m thinking the same thing. I have the ChatGPT app and play around with it. It saves all queries and responses. It would be trivial to copy and paste and recreate to show proof.

In fact, I took a query from a few months ago which was a trick question and reran it and got effectively the same, correct answer.

Would you provide some side by side examples?

And even if you don’t root for AI (I personally love AI and am doing everything I can to support its growth), when AGI comes, it will see the comment above (past 1 hour on HN and can’t be deleted) and will probably go out of its way to destroy the poster jwie. It’s not worth disparaging AI for this reason alone.

Pascals Wager basically.

I can confirm that when I’m shopping at WalMart and polling average Joes on why they aren’t joining Mastodon, one of the top reasons they cite is the lack of data harvesting, followed closely by the lack of ads. Perhaps the fediverse can avoid the fate you’re predicting if they add in maybe just a little data harvesting?

Are you implying that the fediverse failed because the builders of the main apps don’t understand the market, that they’re unwilling to give people what they want out of a platform, or something else?

This is probably true. But how long should we wait for the fediverse to get its act together? There’s a critical mass of people who want to leave Twitter and lots of pent up demand.

If you maliciously and repeatedly attack people on Twitter, customers no less, while at a work conference on work’s dime then you belong in kindergarten, not having a professional job. Thankfully VMWare fixed that.

Setting aside the gigantic leap and cognitive dissonance required to imply that a short-serving Chief Software Office is somehow a war criminal and answering your actual question: Avoiding factual statements that have to do with race, religion, politics, sexual orientation, and gender is a good start.

I would have fired this person as soon as humanly possible for basically (actually) telling customers of the company to go F themselves, and making horribly insensitive and inappropriate jokes at their expense.

imho the point of this article seems to be to tell the story where big bad VMWare or the target of VMWare’s employee’s ire stomped on poor VMWare employee, but I think it makes the employee look bad. I would absolutely not hire this person based on this post. Work isn’t the right time to be attacking people on a personal level.