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People here and in media seems to be only obsessed about the naming scheme.

But I have an important question I haven't seen anyone address - does the 80 Gbps performance means the eGPUs will be that much less constraint? Will this enable true gaming and AI work with a laptop connected to an eGPU?

I work on a gamification product. We have schools as customers, they made a game that engaged the students and in an a/b testing showed much better results over time.

They pay 0.1% of what other, non-education customers pay. Because that's all they could spare and allow.

Needless to say, the servers alone cost more than what they pay. Not to talk about the massive amount of support they consume.

So if you wonder why it's not widespread - that's why.

This probably have an amazing background story.

AppLovin and Unity has a similar market cap, making this merger almost equal in power - which typically leads to an uphill battle in management of who has the power.

This first and foremost blocks the IronSource merger, and it's probably something that Unity management don't want to do. But the board must consider it or otherwise it will suffer hell of litigation from shareholders.

It's super interesting to see where this all leads.

Cool product, nice features, too important to rely on such a young company.

Sorry to be that guy, but I would never rely the business core on a company like that. That's why I like Tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com (no affiliation) - they are open source. That mitigates the risk to a level that I'd personally accept.

Are you sure they will?

They seem to prefer dividend payouts rather than capex on new fabs[1]. Combined with them moving to FCF loss - I think that what you described here may be imaginary at best.

Given what they said in the last earnings call, a slow IBM-like death seems more likely.

1: https://semianalysis.com/intel-cuts-fab-buildout-by-4b-to-pa...

Applovin is bigger than both. I think even bigger than them both combined.

And there are many other competitors in this field.

I love Ansible.

I recently re-wrote the infrastructure setup of a startup. They had a Chef infra-as-code before, written for CentOS 7. Since CentOS is dead, and I took the opportunity to move to Debian, it wasn't worth it to keep working with Chef so I re-wrote in Ansible.

And it was fantastic. Maybe because Chef is so awful and convoluted my reference point is skewed. But I loved every moment.

It was simple, the documentation is great, the extended packaged are great (I set up an highly available redis sentinel infra with one ansible-galaxy import and ~20 lines playbook).

Yeah, Kubernetes and Docker are the cool kids. But Ansible is killing it if you still live in a world of VMs.

Congrats on the release.

For those looking for a FOSS alternative, I haven't seen mentioned here yet Toast UI Grid - TUI-grid: https://ui.toast.com/tui-grid

I've been using it for over a year and it works perfectly.

I think you're right.

I have 2 points worth considering in this case:

1. If something hits the front page, shouldn't it immediately be moderated? As it has more visibility?

2. About the community moderating itself - that's a risk of populism and echo-chamber. By definition, HN works by popular vote. Letting the community decide to overcome guidelines by popular vote is what can lead to community to a dark populism point.

My "complaint" is caring for the changing platform.

Answering someone who spreads fake news using a misuse of the platform does not invalidate what I say.

Your comment is an attempt to diverge discussion because you don't like what I said there - but has nothing to do with the question about the platform itself.

Plus: Why won't you fully disclose your personal interest - you have multiple comments on this topic in HN. You're simply willing to have your agenda pushed here. Nothing to do with the discussion about the platform.

You rather see the platform of HN go down, as long as you can see your agenda here.

Then what is the role of the guidelines?

Aren't the guidelines there to keep the community "HACKER news"? Focus on tech?

If anything goes, well, so anything goes. Nothing should be moderated. But that's not the case. Things are moderated - but with no consistency.

False.

Israeli government has Arab list in it, with Arab ministers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_List

Not the parliament - the government itself. This is by definition not an apartheid state.

This law denying citizenship is to block a loophole used by known terrorists to come into Israel and explode Jews on busses. Here are some examples for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_HaSharon_Mall_suicide_bom... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bomb...

Why should Israelis allow a terrorist loophole in? Would you allow a way for terrorists to kill you and your family in your home country? I didn't think so.

And she raised her pay while firing essential engineers: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/313658-mozilla-fires-2...

I'm a firefox user for over 10 years. I think I'm now convinced there is no future, I'll have to start to adapt to another browser now. I'll give Vivaldi a try.

That's because they are paid per delivery, incentivizing them to go as fast as possible with no regards to the law.

An the companies sending them will have no repercussions if the police will stop the delivery guys - making the companies care less and even encouraging this behavior.

If he is not being malinformed, what other reason does he have to spread lies about Israel?

This is a lie, and you have an agenda.

The "United Arab List" is part of the current government (!) not of the parliament, but the government itself that is formed. Representing many Arabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_List

Anyone who repeats the lie of "apartheid" is either malinformed, or has some antisemitic agenda to pro

Sure, I agree completely. There is a very important place for RSS.

But I think we will all be better off if we also had an RSS-like solution that does support monetization. It will be much better than having to rely on emails or big centralized companies.

That's naive. To expect all content to be free forever. You need to have a way to gate premium content or monetize it through ads.

The idealism of not doing so led us directly back to centralized weird web where the New York Times force you to call them to cancel a subscription.

This is weird. the link was fine when I sent it

Their more recent post titled "Six Reasons Why the Wolfram Language Is (Like) Open Source"[1] is even more cringey.

Is this directed to managers who need to link to a reasoning against other managers making the claim for open-source alternatives? If so, this assumes those managers aren't that competent, which is insultiong at best.

1: https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/30/six-reasons-why-the-wolf...

People learn in different ways and underlying truths are passed better with more relevant examples for specific audience.

Many might not create something completely new and original, but creating something new just for it to be new is bullsh*t too.

If the fundamental truths are already there, and one can mix it for a new platform, add some commentary and find new ways to make it accesible for new audiences - he is creating something valuable nonetheless.

My investing content site: https://www.the-investing-desk.com

Writing about the practice and publishing my analysis is improving me and making me a better investor. I don't really care if it will greatly succeed in driving audience - as the biggest benefit from it, for me, is the practice of putting my thoughts into text.

Absolutely agree.

The emphasis on writing skills is a repeating theme here, too.

A few months ago I wrote a similar thing that got >800 votes here on HN: https://snir.dev/blog/remote-async-communication

Awesome resource.

A quick plug and reminder that a learning roadmap for data engineering that is detailed with resources is available here: https://awesomedataengineering.com

For those who wish to focus on data engineering.

Fixed. Thank you!

Thank you for the kind feedback!

I absolutely agree. The hard problems are either organisational (how to communicate to analyst and have agreed work method with business?) as well as dealing with third party unreliable resources.

I feel like these things you can learn only through experience. No written resource can reliably transfer this knowledge.

I think data engineering especially is something that requires at least apprenticeship to get into. Both for juniors and for senior developers transferring to data engineering position.

Hi hn, when I learned data engineering there was no one place to concentrate both a recommended learning path of subjects and recommended resources for each subject.

So I decided to try and create one. The resources index is open source in github and open to any new offering - in order to create the best one stop shop for anyone who want to create a career in data engineering.

Let me know what you think (:

This article explains why Snowflake is a great company. And there's no doubt about that.

But it does not explain why it is valued at 60B$. Or if that value makes sense.

To put a price on a company, I need to know in projection for the next 5-10 years what income they will generate to shareholders.

The fact that they are a great company does not guarantee they will generate an income to shareholders that value them at 60B$.

This is how bubble starts. Overvalue a great company, then overvalue fair companies just not to miss out and "in comparison" with the great companies, and in the end, overvalue nothing (if Tesla is great, then Nikola was the nothing).

This is an over simplistic view. Simplify the terms so much and you get garbage in, so obviously garbage out.

The russell 1000 value index is quantitative only and tries hard to define "cheap" stocks by different measures.

Value investing in the real world, especially when talking about Buffet, is heavily reliant on qualitative analysis. How else would Apple, Buffet's biggest holding, will be considered a value investment?

The title therefore is completely wrong. A good title would be: "Russell 1000 value index performed worse then their growth index recently"

I'm all in for the small web. I have my own personal site for my content[0]. But the writer misses the huge point for the "big web": network. It is hard or even impossible to get traction for the small web. But posting on facebook? huge traction.

But it goes for anything really. Writing a technical blog? post on Medium or on dev.to or whatever is hyped right now to get traction.

This is the real problem here.

[0] https://snir.dev