skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A designed degradation, also common in software. For instance, the low battery mode in iOS is a designed degradation around the fact that is close to impossible to improve the capacity of a lithium battery (the soloution would be a completely new kind battery) so they allow people to disable non-critical features to get a slower battery drain.

“Unlike common designs, excellent designs can circumvent the existence of “unhappy” conditions as well as the influence of other low-performance designs. Many times this requires the new design to lower its own performance and although this is not ideal, this is usually a trade-off that can help to maximize the existing conditions.”:
https://uxdesign.cc/designed-degradations-ux-patterns-for-ho...
A common problem with low end devices is specs that make no sense. Why does this device have a quad core processor? I bet this phone would perform much better if they used a slower processor but doubled the memory. It's crazy that Android is so bloated that 1 gig of storage isn't enough.
Totally agree. I mostly type on Cherry MX blues, and a 2017 MBP. I just setup some stuff on my 2012 MBP (using it as a CI slave, the only reason it's not my daily driver anymore is because the battery is down to only 2-3 hours)... the keys feel very mushy and awful compared to the 2017 model.
For another viewpoint:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/how-bla...

And I see it myself.

My grandparents grew up and spent much of their working life in the segrateged south with limited opportunities.

My parents and their generation went to school in segregated schools, graduated from HBCUs (Historicalky Black Colleges and Universities) because that was what was available but worked in an integrated workplace.

They made a decent middle class living for themselves as a teacher and a factory worker and retired at 55.

My generation (myself and my cousins) went to state schools and got middle class jobs. But the next generation seems to be backsliding even though they have a strong support structure and at least the same opportunities we had.

The predominantly Black school I went to had well over 70% going to college or the military. Dozens of scholarship announcements, etc. . I went back for clsss night (where the seniors celebrate their graduation and put on a program) and few of them announced they were going to college at all.

I don’t understand it. My generation in my family never struggled but we knew from our parents what life could be like if we didn’t try to do something after college. This generation has been sheltered by their middle class upbringing and is too far removed from the struggle of past generations.

My older (step)son has grown to be a big guy. He is just starting to realize that society sees him as a threat even though he grew up in the burbs and his circle of friends look like the cast of a CW show.

I preach to him that he can make it, but the reality is that he will always walk in circles where he has to prove himself more than if he was White - even whether he belongs in the pool in our own neighborhood.
He is Musk. He is under the media radar. It's kind difficult for him to do thing quietly.
Also, he initially didn't want to help

>I suspect that the Thai govt has this under control, but I’m happy to help if there is a way to do so

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1014509856777293825
Never ask them anything about Linux networking. They get so excited to gatekeep the information and tell you that you don't know enough to be safe doing whatever you're doing.
> are you saying that it's not real research unless I go to space and see for myself?

I saw it for myself on a Concorde flight. The altitude was so high the horizon was bent. Not just a little but a lot.
I just stumbled across your submission and checked out your product. I'm surprised this submission hasn't received more comments/love. What you've built is really amazing, as well as really clear & detailed documentation, tutorials, and landing page. I'll definitely try this out
And batteries for any power equipment like pumps.
Have you ever felt like you were the martyr for your business?
> What’s more, directors viewed themselves not as shareholders’ servants, but as trustees for great institutions that should serve not only shareholders but other corporate stakeholders as well, including customers, creditors, employees, and the community.

Citation needed. This sounds like rose-colored glasses to me. I don't believe such a golden age ever existed.

> Nor was share price assumed to be the best proxy for corporate performance.

Since when have shareholders cared about anything except getting rich?

> Many corporations formed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries... They structured their companies to make sure the business would provide good service at a reasonable price – not to maximize investment returns.

Somebody tell the robber barrons this? They apparently didn't get the message.

> It was once believed (at least by academic economists) that the market price of a company’s stock perfectly captured the best estimate of its long-term value. Today this idea of a perfectly “efficient” stock market has been discredited...

Citation needed again. Because if anybody has a better idea of how to judge companies' long-term value, then they'll become extremely, extremely rich.

I'm sorry, but this article is absolute nonsense.

There are valid reasons why one might argue that the end goal of corporations shouldn't be to maximize shareholder value, and how governments should create policies towards that end, but this article doesn't even begin to touch on them...
Which a company can provide by continuing to meet its planned objectives. If investors don’t like a companies strategic planning, they can either change the management, or sell their shares. If enough of the shareholders don’t like the management, and if there aren’t any investors available who do to buy their stake, then either it’s management or their planning will change. There a multiple ways for shareholders to exert their control over a company. There’s a huge pool of investors in the world, and they all want different things. Some of them will exert pressure to maximise short term returns, ohters won’t. The system itself does not intrinsically put any downward pressure on investment horizons.
You sound like a guy who geeks out and cares about architectural issues and trade-offs. You sound like I do when I write about open source and decentralized systems, web based and the latest crypto alternatives.

Unfortunately that usually means you’ll get downvoted as people will claim you are violating this or that heuristic they just take for granted. Or have a distaste for your self-assured stances where you focus on substance and major factors instead of authorities and stuff that only sounds good on the surface.

Sound familiar?
Political parties are not companies though. The workers in your example will eventually be held responsible if their preferred solution fails even though they might not get the credit if it succeeds. In Corbyn’s case, as the Labour leader, he has to stand behind the messages disseminated under his leadership with his name. Any positive impact on votes by the wider campaign will likely result in voter deception, since Corbyn will believe his message is what worked.

The most worrisome issue here is that Corbyn’s goals don’t align with his subordinates, yes, but deceiving a political leader isn’t just about that leader but the voters as well.
> "Closer inspection thus reveals the idea of a single “shareholder value” to be a fiction. Different shareholders have different values"

This is great when arguing with someone in the office who emphatically states "we need to maximize shareholder value!"

response: which shareholder: short term? long term? diversified? non-diversified? customer shareholders?
In what way is the design of the room a degradation? As I understand it, the hooks work as well as (if not better than) the locks you'd otherwise have.
Shareholders don’t control a company? They do, they control who sits on the board, and the board controls the company.

Well, yes and no. The best or most powerful negotiator controls the company, and everybody who has an interest in the business (investors, creditors, employees, customers, suppliers, the public) can seek the power to manipulate the company on behalf of their own self interest. Shareholders can certainly partake in that process as well. But there's no law that guarantees that their interests have primacy over those other groups.
Will the Real Clarice Lispector Please Stand Up?
From what I understand the burden of proof in Lab. Code, § 2872. falls on the employee. If they work on some code in their "spare" time and that code contains a license with the word "Google" in it it would seem the license is a first attempt to establish the burden of proof as opposed to the freedoms one might enjoy writing under the Expat or GPL, for example.
Actually there was a very significant amount of money ploughed into researching that exact topic in the PRC.

With significant and predictable sadness when the results didn't go their (the CCP and Chinese nationalists) way.

A google search gives a good paper on the topic:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/28941533.pdf

TLDR: CCP, seeking to shore up ethno-nationalism (not an especially rare occurance in Chinese history) spent a LOT of time and research trying to prove that Han Chinese are in fact originally descended from Homo erectus Pekinensis rather than the African Homo Sapiens. (EDIT: Spelling)
I hear the bogeyman of "short-termism" brought up a lot here, but how accurate is this characterization of investor behavior actually?

The best performers in today's market are decidedly not short-term focused. Amazon and Netflix barely turn a profit, even though they could. Ditto for Tesla (well, maybe they couldn't atm even if they wanted to). The entire tech sector, which has been on a tear, is similarly long-term focused. Snap's stock, for example, isn't being hit because it's not profitable, but it's getting hot because its user base is plateauing (i.e. negative long-term signal).

Do a lot of (most?) companies focus on the short-term? Definitely! But that's rational behavior even from a societal resource allocation perspective. Imagine you're Walgreens, Target, P&G, Kroger, JCrew, or one out of another thousand "boring" (i.e. low upside) companies (like most others). If the upside at your company is limited, why throw money money at "long-term" thinking? It makes more sense to maximize profits now and return profits to shareholders who will in turn invest in the Amazons, Googles, Teslas, etc. who have the technological infrastructure and human capital to generate better returns per dollar of long-term spending.

The end result (which is happening) is that most companies by volume focus on the short-term because most companies in the US are working in a mature market with a well-explored product and have limited upside, while a small number of companies with large upside get a disproportionate share of investment.
"How to be found" sounds super passive to me. You have to make things happen, one way or another.
You should wait and see what the performance/reliability of these are. In almost every case, the GPU completley uses up the Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth, causing lag / reduced performance of the GPU and peripherals.
I've actually been super curious lately what happens if you route a PC's localhost to someone else's IP, but I have no clue how to ask on SO without baiting out the obvious "don't do this" and the generic "stuff won't work". Obviously, I could do it myself and explicitly see stuff not working, but I'd like to find out what actually happens under the hood and why things break; SO seems like an awful place for these kinds of "what if" questions and I don't know a better place to ask.
One might have expected Russia, at least, to have the sort of history of sophisticated socialism that would prepare a nation to wisely distribute the spoils of petroleum exploitation...
I work at a company that was acquired by Vista a few years ago and I haven't noticed much of that.

The main office is in a pretty expensive location and it is currently being expanded to close to double the size it was when the company was acquired.

There are a lot of young kids being hired, but also a lot of older people as well. Attrition has been pretty low and I think only a handful of people at the entire company have been layed off.

Cost cutting does not seem to have been particularly extreme if it has occurred. The benefits package and travel policies have gotten slightly more generous since the acquisition and annual raises have continued the trends from before the acquisition which made it possible to keep reasonably close to what you could get by changing companies.
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You have a very small number of values that can stay in L2 cache on a 2 MiB boundary, 12 on Skylake. The data TLB is only 4 way. Modern high performance software is about cache management, and spreading your data across swaths of page-aligned memory without strong control of when you get scheduled out underutilizes that most precious resource on the CPU.
There are situations, however, where you have to know specifically what you want in order to get it. Using my personal experience with automobiles in Pakistan as an example, maybe 1 in 50 places that's capable of changing a tire also has a good quality balancing machine. If you've just purchased new tires and you know you're going to need all four wheels rebalanced, you have to intentionally seek out that rare place which has a modern digital tire balancing machine and knows how to use it.
As an Android user, I perceive discrimination against my tribe in the provision of only an iOS test-prep. :-) (Search for JobFlare.)
> where you could open any web page, understand how it works and learn from it ?

Web browsers will/already show wasm disassembly when opened in the browser tools. A file can contain label metadata which makes it very readable.
I don't agree. Unless you literally don't want to learn it or don't enjoy it, there are lots of business/marketting resources for technical founders.

Lots of business people don't really know what they are doing, either, and more experienced people are often willing to help!
It’s also asymmetrical. The occupant of the locked-when-key-is-present room would have no incentive to return the key and to unlock the opposite room door.
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Ask HN: VC-backed startup founders, what did your day to day look like?
Especially interested in hearing about your role in the beginning of your company as it began to grow.
"Vista has yet to unload some of its biggest bets,"

Translation - the majority of the returns reported here are based on estimated valuations calculated by Vista rather than actual returns resulting from business sales. It goes without saying that 99.99% of the time this means the returns are inflated. It is possible that they've only calculated returns based on companies sold, but unlikely.

So not only can they manipulate the valuation on firms they haven't sold to make their funds look better. Even with that + the ability to fudge IRR numbers, their last few fund returns are not so mind blowing that we should believe these guys have a magic formula.
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The sensors have a lot more failure cases, though, and it can be hard to tell whether they're working properly.
A seller can opt out of comingling, but it costs the seller money. I assume amazon calculated the increase cost of the inventory control and pasts those cost on, so it won't drive down Amazon's profit.

Since Amazon doesnt label which seller opts out, it doesn't give much incentive to do it.
Neither has an easy markdown format that doesn't require fairly proprietary tools to convert to ascii. Plus I'm underwhelmed with the ux in general. But thanks anyway, glad to know more about the state of the art.
Binder on android shares some similarities.

It's a low level RPC mechanism, it does reschedule to the new process immediately without a trip through the scheduler when it's used, it has similar blocking semantics, etc.

It's also worth following the "bus1" work for linux which may end up being quite similar as well.
> Since when have shareholders cared about anything except getting rich?

How about staying rich? The idea of providing non-trading shareholders with a reliable stream of dividends for the rest of their lives is very different from that of looking good in fashionable metrics to maximize stock price now.
I always pick the sellers that ship within the USA. It costs a few dollars more, but easier refunds and faster arrival.
Who is against value??? What do you even mean??
Since you are going to a top 3 school, you obviously have the talent. Without meeting you, based solely on what you said above (nothing about meeting people, just sending resumes), I am going to make an assumption that you are avoiding meeting people in person, or even virtually (like a Slack).

You are going to need to flip the script and proactively meet with people who might work at companies that you'd like to work at, way before an interview. To do that, you're going to need to put yourself out there. Sending resumes to a black box or "black hole" is not the best strategy for finding a job. Ask people to help you (professor, friends, students who might be better at job searching at your school). By being vulnerable, people will want to help you. (Note: This Ask HN is a good first step).

If you are not already attending tech meetups, consider moving to a location (not necessarily SF) that has meetups. If you are already attending tech meetups, start presenting at those meetups. Start organizing talks, maybe even a mini conference at your school. People who bring people together always have more opportunities than those who just show up.

Learn to talk to people so that you can learn about them and find what they need so they ask you what you need (in your case, a job opportunity).

Your goal is to become a local maximum, by being a host, organizer, or leader. It is near impossible to become a global maximum (e.g. president of a country) but you can easily become the leader/organizer of a conference or even a happy hour/coffee get together.

Consider a hackathon or two. If you do well enough, it is almost like a first job interview for the sponsoring companies. Also, it is a good test of "shipping something" and working under pressure with a team.

If you don't want to do this, at the very least sign up for an improv comedy class. I think this may help you get over your fear of messing up in person.
Nice! I just loaded the test page up on my tablet and TV (using the Chromium WebView v59). It works great! It's actually a nice little WebGL demo!
checkvist.com

Unlimited hierarchical lists. Fully controllable via keyboard.
For what it's worth, on a fairly recent SBCL, here's what the compiler/interpreter prints when you enter the author's function:

~> sbcl
This is SBCL 1.4.7, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* (defun add-text-padding (str &key padding newline)
"Add padding to text STR. Every line except for the first one, will be
prefixed with PADDING spaces. If NEWLINE is non-NIL, newline character will
be prepended to the text making it start on the next line with padding
applied to every single line."
(let ((str (if newline
(concatenate 'string (string #\Newline) str)
str)))
(with-output-to-string (s)
(map 'string
(lambda (x)
(princ x s)
(when (char= x #\Newline)
(dotimes (i padding)
(princ #\Space s))))
str))))
; in: DEFUN ADD-TEXT-PADDING
; (MAP 'STRING
; (LAMBDA (X)
; (PRINC X S)
; (WHEN (CHAR= X #\Newline) (DOTIMES (I PADDING) (PRINC #\ S))))
; STR)
; --> TRULY-THE SB-KERNEL:%MAP
; ==>
; (MAP-INTO (MAKE-SEQUENCE SB-C::RESULT-TYPE (MIN (LENGTH #:G51))) SB-C::FUN
; #:G51)
;
; caught WARNING:
; The function (LAMBDA (X) :IN ADD-TEXT-PADDING) called by MAP-INTO returns NULL but CHARACTER is expected
; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Handling of Types"
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 1 WARNING condition

ADD-TEXT-PADDING
*

Thus, it identifies the exact problem the author describes at the end.
I wasn't aware we'd moved beyond:

a) Probably ritualistic site, of unknown purpose

b) Possible astronomical site

Which would still classify as mysterious to most. Has there been some breakthrough?
Shortwave Trading, Part III
In the first paragraph" "..its ease of programming and debugging."

APL is one of the most unapproachable languages I every learned.
WhatsApp data isn't encrypted
My friend in Indonesia couldn't open WA yesterday. A modal kept appearing when she opened the app telling her she had to back up her data with Google and store it unencrypted in their cloud. There was no way for her to dismiss this modal and no other backup options presented. If she chooses to backup with Google does Google now have the right to view her private conversations? What is the risk Google falls out of favor, security lapses and her data becomes available on the Darknet?
So? It's still way less interaction than sales.
Sorry, I didn't provide a parser for my syntax :P
Reminds me of light sensors in bathrooms. Often you have to wave your arms to let the sensor know you’re still inside.
In product management this is often described as problem space vs solution space.

One of my biggest lessons in “managing up”: agree on the problem, and take any suggestions for a solution seriously. Then work to make the solution you present as good or better.
You're curious what happens if you add a route for 127/8 to somewhere other than the loopback interface? Or do you mean making it so that the hostname "localhost" resolves to something other than 127.0.0.1? Give it a try.
Wouldn’t this make it easy to get into the adjacent guest room?
Ok... lengthy article... how do I validate the ideas here? Are they predictive? Are they prescriptive? Are they correct (aside from most of them being somewhat obvious). Are they helpful?

I can't say I'm illuminated. Maybe others are.

Definitely not as horrifying as those of Zeynep Tufekci, which I find very objectionable.

I guess tech philosophy is a thing now.
Things for Mac & iOS - https://culturedcode.com/things/
They could still have locks on the doors, but the locks would be to keep people out of the hotel rooms, not out of the bathroom.
I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.
When you write things down, you're investing in your future. It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment.

After trying Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.

It's... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there's a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn't going away anytime soon.

It's liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I'm surprised more people don't do the same.

Edit: here's what my system looks like https://imgur.com/a/nGplj

X-post from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057002 10 months ago. Still using & loving it.