skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a photo sharing app sells for billions everyone interviews the founders and praises them.

In most of these cases, they've sold something for billions to a single entity that has the money and doesn't strictly need it (for example, if Youtube had not sold to Google it would have been an existential crisis for Youtube, not for Google).

When you save 10 lives and charge billions you are a criminal.

In these ten sales, you've made billions by charging each of the individuals 1/10th of the billions, individuals who don't have the money and do strictly need it.

There's a difference between "sells for billions" and "charges billions": in the former in the case of photo sharing apps, it's a buyer's market, and in the later it's a seller's market.

The founders, the sellers, might get praised in the event of a billion dollar photo sharing app sale, but few have sympathy for the purchasing party in that transaction, no matter what they paid, because it's a buyer's market.

I'm not sure fair, to the drug makers or otherwise, enters into it. These are not really that comparable, and only appear to be due to the scale of the sales both being "billions".
That's definitely one of the possibilities. 100,000 years is an order of magnitude longer than all of human civilization thus far, and we're trying to spook people all the way that far in the future. Who knows if even the "humans dislike asymmetry" assumption will hold up that long?

One of the afterthoughts in that document even suggests that the most likely reason people would leave the place alone would be when people die of radiation sickness after breaking into it anyway. It just takes one group of really determined people with a decent amount of time on their hands to destroy the markers and everything else. If asked me how long I would guess until that happens, I'd say less than 100 years. If not then, how about if it's so scary that a religion arises that considers the area to be the home of an Adversary of some kind and destroys it in a holy war?
So these links are all about technology (shared libraries, APIs) from Chrome that has made it into Firefox?
If it is truly that simple then I think the risk of screwing it up is also considerably less.

I mean, you know, it's not the same size and doesn't serve the same purpose, but today people's cars have batteries in them and you can walk into Sears and buy one. I assume the battery for an EV is huge and not conveniently located though.
Again, your use case is not the only use case. Facebook doesn't provide value for you, and that's perfectly reasonable. But at this point you're basically a guy who doesn't care for falafel standing outside a packed falafel restaurant trying to figure out what character flaw drives people to eat there, since obviously they can't just like falafel.

I don't use Facebook much, in part because of how awful its policies are, but when I do use it, it remains a fantastic tool for keeping in touch with friends. At this point someone always declares that it's actually just narcissism, because email and IM exist and nobody actually needs Facebook, which is a lot like someone 20 years ago declaring that this email thing is just a fad because we already have phones and mail.
If it's any consolation I feel the same way. Company is doing 1.6MM/mo in revenue but I haven't been excited about it in over a year. I've put good people in place but I'm tired of getting up everyday and facing the exact same problems we faced 4 years ago. I'm at least 2 years out from acquisition so I'm spending my time trying to develop some satisfying hobbies. I restarted therapy a month ago and that's helping.
I had targeted ads ruin a surprise gift last year. Bunch of ads showing up made it very obvious that I was looking at (and bought) a thinkgeek gift for the girlfriend. That was one of the moments that made me sick of such laser targeted advertising.
Nature smells so bad.

I grew up in Alaska and oh God seals and whales smell so bad.
I don't think line workers should be asked to sacrifice their health to make the company successful. It is highly unlikely they are getting any meaningful stock options or bonuses associated with their level of sacrifice.

It isn't the equivalent of a startup employee working through the holidays to ship code. The benefits of workplace ergonomics, not only to employee health but also to production speed, have been known for decades. Tesla doesn't have to reinvent the wheel here.
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No, they were in 2015 - in 2017 they are better than the industry average.
My thoughts exactly; yet another clickbait story based on meaningless data.
Wow, this gave me the realization I needed about why I've been procrastinating on a project. Thanks.
I installed Chrome on my kid's laptop the other day because the web app they were using in class didn't work in Edge or Firefox.

Another time she had tried to open a link to a Word Doc and didn't realize it downloaded it. I showed her where it was in the downloads folder and she proceeded to upload it to Google Drive to open it instead of using Word.

Very few functions kids do these days require a specialist app, just a particular browser.

Her sister was complaining about having to log into Netflix and I suggested she install the App. Her response was "I don't like Apps, I prefer websites."
What I mean by solving "every" move is that the AI would be able to determine which trees are a "losing" state and not continue, removing well over 99% (or 99.999% I don't know) of the possible games. I guess maybe solve is not the correct answer but something like 99% presumption on the best or best 3 moves.
yep, sure was silly to presume sexist attitude in original comment..
One method I found works disturbingly well is to have a busy life or cultivate the appearance of a busy life. It's counter-intuitive for some and obvious for others, but people will value you more if you are less available whereas they will treat your time with increasing contempt if you can be reached and interrupted easily.

With this reputation in place, people are much less likely to try to trick you into doing what they want, and more likely to try to get you to do things with them.

You have to be a little careful though. If you don't have much social capital to begin with, it could backfire into being ignored altogether. If you overdo it, it may also be counterproductive.
I'd be very interested on that port. I really miss re-frame when I'm working with Js.
Focusing on market share will miss anything new, since it's not mainstream yet. Use your imagination.

There's a pretty popular sort-of-fork of Chromium called Electron. People claim it's bloated though. Could Servo do better?

Also, this looks interesting from a privacy standpoint: https://beakerbrowser.com/
japanese did not eat us automotive industry alive because of unions. japanese primarily eat the us automotive industry alive because of far superior manufacturing innovation.
Really? The fact that this article is based on 2015 stats, and the company has improved to be significantly better than the industry average since then is a pretty good defense...

Learning from mistakes is one of the key traits of successful people and companies.
Mozilla lost its way the day Firefox started chasing Chrome on look and feel rather than sticking to its guns and making the most standard compliant technical browser there is.
> Tesla did not dispute the numbers.

> we now have the lowest injury rate in the industry by far

This article seems to be misleading readers into thinking that Tesla has unsafe working conditions, despite being the best in the industry.
I need some time (maybe this weekend) to toy with this, but I'm curious if op or anyone who's stood it up with real folks is willing to compare it to the interactive fiction game/toy Storium (https://storium.com/). On first blush it looks very much like the early versions of it without the more gamey point/token/card mechanics.
I don't know Fernando Aguilar but is the reason he's 6D not that he's capped at it before becoming professional? IIRC when I played in SF bay area (probably all of USA in the AGA), you couldn't get higher than 6D(7D?) without becoming a pro. I think in tournament lineup you would see something like Mr. A 6D (7.2) where the 7.2 was his estimated rating but it was a long time ago.
In the United States this is up to the individual state, but typically you have to have a once-yearly inspection of your car. Some states will check that various parts of your car are in good working order, others basically want you to not have a check engine light on or be spewing too many fumes. There's no responsibility to even notify anybody that you or someone else has modified your car and there's no problem as long as the modification itself isn't illegal (even then people sometimes just pay the tickets and keep driving around with illegal modifications).

I spent a year in Japan and the contrast between Japan in the US as far as the average age/condition of cars you see on the road is quite striking.
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Start with a top-of-the-line CPU and the nicest available motherboard in a soundproof case. Max the RAM. Add a fancy graphics card, a big fast drive and a pair of giant spinning disks, a big ultra-high-res monitor, and the input devices that you really want. Buy new, brand name, and not on a special sale. Et voila, one $5000 desktop machine.

(If you put it together over the course of a year, buying reputable reliable parts on the best sales, it might be a $2500-$3000 machine, yes.)
It seems like it would be way less wasteful for these cars to take you to a hub and then you ride a bus then just having them operate a car the whole way through. I mean, hell, put privacy booths in the bus if you want.
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Holly shit a lot of weird things being said about the role of the wife. I agree with most of downvotes and wholeheartly agree with sharing with your wife.

Just commenting in a new thread to give a suggestion: have you considered promoting someone to your executive position? A founder stepping down to a "more suited" executive might not hurt the acquisition.

And I would give another thought about hiring someone for the role.

I think "sucking up" is the worst option and leaving without a plan the second worst.

Anyway, I wish you good luck. I am not a founder, but fortunately you can find advice from the right people.
The idea is that we can support both simultaneously:
- people who want/need full expressiveness can do that, and
- people who don't need that can happily use higher-level templates that someone else has put together.

Previous efforts at "simplifying" k8s make you choose between one or the other use-case. ksonnet is trying to provide something that can be more continuous along this spectrum. .. At least that's the hope.
The most common annoyance is the social ritual demand of being in a coffee shop and some fool asks others to watch their computer. Refuse by saying "No I may have to leave soon. Invest in a laptop lock."
I don't really think that either of us is going to convince the other on any subject of import; we just don't share enough priors - for example, I doubt you are very susceptible to conviction on the point of modern progressivism as an inherently corrupt Christian heresy, and while I did once share the same faith you expound here, it would take a book to explain how and why I ceased to do so. That book actually has been written - and in a pleasantly engaging and discursive style, yet - but it would be astonishingly presumptuous of me to require such a hefty prerequisite for mere conversation, and I will not do so.

I will, though, note that it's curious how you talk about public schools as though they were paid for with federal money - this being the usual meaning with which the phrase "public money", in this connection, is used. By the Department of Education's own accounting [1], the proportion of primary and secondary public school funding which originates in the federal purse is approximately eight percent.

Yet the federal regulatory apparatus insists on an approximately one hundred percent share of control over how all of these public schools, even the vast majority for which it does not pay, must operate. This is a remarkable disparity! In any other context, its mere existence, to say nothing of the desirability of its being suffered to continue, would require considerable justification. Perhaps I am a fool to wonder what makes this context so unique.
In my experience, if I am wondering if I am depressed it is because I am, it just happened slowly over time, like a frog boiling in water. I didn't realize it happened until the water was bubling all around me and I was doing things like crying in the bathroom, alone and scared. Please get professional support. Things are much better than they seem. You are on the brink of many founders dreams, but you are stuck in a nightmare. It will go away and you will find joy again. You've already taken your first step in finding it. Good luck. This too shall pass.
Isn't that just repackaged Stoicism?
Servo barely existed 5 years ago.
When your job involves pulling down a hanging drill, and the worse injury a person can expect is tennis elbow, that's not too bad.

Also, yes, poor people work 12-16 hours a day. It was certainly the case when I worked at a grocery store years ago, at least.
HN threads on anything related to Ethereum (not Bitcoin) seem to really stir up a lot of junk and hate comments. So weird.

I'm just a web dev that thinks Ethereum is really cool technology (and have made some great money from ETH), but there are a lot of naysayers here.
Our discrete classifications actually match DNA-based clustering results pretty accurately. If you do multi-dimensional clustering on allele frequency at multiple loci, the clusters pretty much exactly match the species/subspecies classifications that humans use intuitively. Our discrete classifications don't cover all cases, but they're surprisingly good in the vast majority of cases.
Car companies are some of the worst companies in the world, have done immeasurable damage to the world, and have cost us all so much.
Maybe because Peach became Japan's first airline to accept Bitcoin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-22/peach-bec...
It's a minor point, but there are plenty of beaches around the world that are pretty quiet people-wise.
How many years are really worth it, though? Is an extra 20 years of miserable old age worth 5 years of youth? I'm not wholly certain that's the case.
This may be apocryphal, but it's said that a friend warned Voltaire coffee was slow poison. Voltaire responded that it must be, because he had been drinking it for fifty years.
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It seems like humans could also cause them to be bigger. Food distribution became more concentrated over time. If humans impact the world in a way that magnifies this power law distribution of food, we could end up with even bigger whales, right?
It's an incomplete charade. Feel free to wear noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses and a hat and close the door, the needy jerks will still suckle attention for their time-sucking, futility from all directions... the Mormons, Amway distributors, recruiters, parties, the help me move a couch, help me do this and that, on and on.

It's better to be a "grayman:" blend-in by being as boring, generic and forgetable as possible. Disappear, not seek to social climb, because that will only attract different sorts of "stalkers" whom also will have demands.
But it did exist, no?
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Judged on it's own mission statement, Mozilla has failed as an organization, and that's been clear for at least the last 5 years.

The two biggest internet trends over the last decade have been app store distribution of mobile apps and the social graph.

Mozilla has did little, maybe nothing to make either of those open and accessible to all. This is due to an ongoing lack of vision and leadership for an organization that tries to do 1000 things and fails at doing the 1 or 2 important things.

It's pretty safe to say that the nextgen decentralized internet will be built, but it won't be built by Mozilla. Instead, they will do probably do something silly like buy Brave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Nobody is incentivized to actually deploy servers to IPv6 while there exist zero IPv6-only clients.

Facebook is a counterexample.

> Over the past few years, Facebook has been transitioning its data center infrastructure from IPv4 to IPv6. We began by dual-stacking our internal network — adding IPv6 to all IPv4 infrastructure — and decided that all new data center clusters would be brought online as IPv6-only. We then worked on moving all applications and services running in our data centers to use and support IPv6. Today, 99 percent of our internal traffic is IPv6 and half of our clusters are IPv6-only. We anticipate moving our entire fleet to IPv6 and retiring the remaining IPv4 clusters over the next few years.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/635645183305089/legacy-suppo...
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What, exactly, is "worth it", though? SpaceX, sure, that could be worth it. They're actually innovating.

But Tesla? A goddamn car company? What the hell is so important about fancy cars for rich people that they have to screw the workers for?

Sure, they call themselves an "energy company", and they have made "amazing advances in energy technology", but both Tesla's fancy solar panel AND battery "advances" are literally just licensed Panasonic tech.

I don't get it.
Way to change the subject!

Read what you wrote (in the context of the current discussion). Desktop software is alive and well. I don't like the size of the Apple Tax any more than you do, but to suggest this market doesn't exist is laughable.
Hi, I feel you. In my case, a project that was supposed to take 2 months, Took nearly a year to complete. By the time I completed it I almost couldn't stand it. It is not a case of not being a better me/you.

That is just the nature of the beast. Each software project/business is unique. So it is impossible to make accurate estimates. New features will keep cropping up. An integration that was supposed to be straight forward would fail because library A does not play well with library B. To hold yourself responsible for something beyond your control will obviously hurt you.

This is just an experience for you to learn that feature creep is real. Working alone is different from working in a team. In a team, gathering requirements, making estimates, development, marketing, sales, support are each shouldered by different teams. Each team would have multiple people. So any individual ends up with a small share of the responsibility pie. They have the luxury to draw a line on how much stress they would like to handle or move out.

In a single person company, one person gets to handle all the responsibilities and there is no way out short of giving up. The way you manage it is entirely different and that is what you really learn the first time you start a company. It took me nearly 3 projects to understand this. This is the rite of passage for Everyone who goes the solo route because there is nothing in the corporate/employee world to prep us for this.

Nowadays, I try to keep the features as minimal as possible. Everytime I ask, is this truly needed for the first release. I go to local meetups when ever possible to be among like minded techs.

Happy Producing.
The ideal labor innovation would allow for unions to be subject to competitive pressure the way that companies are (ideally, assuming a functioning marketplace rather than oligopoly, crony capitalism etc) so that unions could evolve in the same way that companies evolve.

A union that faces no competition becomes sclerotic just like a monopoly company.
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>"I don't like Apps, I prefer websites."

for netflix, the website has more features, so yeah.
I'm not talking about things like mucking with the brakes. I'm talking about things like what the parent comment said:

> I say this as someone currently writing firmware for cars and wondering why this does not happen.
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It was my nice way of saying that in my experience millenials tend to make it difficult for themselves to succeed financially, and then question why they don't have more money.

I tried gently broaching the topic with my friends once. One friend who is a low level customer service rep that never attended college responded "I have a job, you have a job. We work the same amount [we don't]. Why are you able to afford to buy a house, and I can't?"
In the dozen or so articles I've read on TSLA factory conditions and manufacturing culture, I think to describe it as a "mistake" is a gross mischaracterization.

Elon himself has said, to stay alive they have had to push harder than imaginable. He tries to put himself in the center of it -- work the longest hours, face the worst of the conditions. Which is admirable but still a glaring symptom.

Elon is the king at the head of the charge. But it's still a bloody charge all the same.
I'm not a scala dev but I'm curious, what makes scala a good scripting language? Bash has its faults but it's still great for adhoc stuff and when it stops being great you can just move to a more specialized build config tool. Scala seems a bit more verbose and it's unclear what you gain from it.

Is it similar to what's going on the JS world where people just want to use one language for client, server, and build tools? (and for this case, even the terminal shell?)
Was your link about desktop app store or mobile app store revenue? I was differentiating between:

- pre-app-store (side loaded / direct download) desktop revenue on Windows and Mac
- "app store" desktop revenue on Windows and Mac

The former is subject to software piracy. The latter enforces software licensing but has a huge tax and poor marketing support. Nevertheless, Windows (on desktop) is following Apple's lead (on mobile) with app store business models.

Where the 30% tax exists in a distribution model, there are few successful ISVs that use only that distribution model. Where sideloading remains on Mac/Windows desktop, there are successful ISVs even with software piracy. On iOS, there is no alternative to the software distribution tax. Developers have been given an artificial choice between software piracy and 30% tax.

Both mobile and desktop ISV software revenue could be improved by app stores that enforced software licensing and provided optional marketing services that added up to 30%. Over time, the relative uptake of those optional services would lead to developer-oriented capabilities in app stores, i.e. serving the needs of the people paying the 30% tax.
It's still the easiest universal way to reach people on their phones. You can replace it for people that you know, but not if you are ZZZ Pizza and you want to message a customer that their order's on the way.
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I liked this line - "climbing Everest should not be about ego"
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It's not at all "literally just licensed Panasonic". Panasonic is a key partner but Tesla is making very important contributions across the board.
man...not sure you can hate computers more than a programmer....who knows the true horror inside.
Of course I don't think they would do that. I'm just saying people that would choose that are likely on the moral high ground compared to those that choose to take jobs that don't even pay a living wage.
I feel like somebody is making money from crazy expensive OEM parts.
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I maybe a little late to the updated Keybase chat button but damn it's cool. Makes it so easy to find people that have a Keybase account. I just wish my friends would get on Keybase already.