skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has got to set some sort of record for dubious valuations; effectively means that the worth of this particular vaguely AI related video/news business is worth a 12th of the entire bailout package that saved the UK banking-industry in 2008*

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_Kingdom_bank_rescu...
The fact that you are dependent on FB for revenue does not make it "critical infrastructure". Few people are harmed if you go out of business.
Is it really that bad...? It looks about the same as the old with a material coat of paint.
Not quite people going door to door threatening people. but with Absentee Voting by mail, there have been plenty of cases of a Candidate's family member or a party operative making the rounds of the nursing homes and special needs homes and "assisting" residents in filling out absentee ballots. Alot of these people you could make a very good argument that the voter lacks sufficient mental capacity to cast a ballot. This happens in plenty of local elections around here. Most of the cases are not really covered by the media either.
"landing code at 12am, it was because I was excited about what I was doing"

I can't believe people put up with this. I really hope you got paid for that time.
Downvoting this makes it no less true. You are personally reponsible for every project you enable.
Those two are the exact same goal. Just wrapped in different ideologies and highlighting different aspects of the tradeoff.

But they're saying the same thing. The only thing that makes money laundering what it is is governments deciding what are good ways to make money.
P.S
I'll advise everyone to visit siebel's Molly page (https://molly.com/michael/q/eyJpZCI6IDEwMTR9/what-are-some-o... are answers to most of your questions on there.
It's a great guide for your application process and you would be able to deduce why you are accepted/rejected from the analytics of those answers.
With +-8000 applications you'll need all the help you can get to make your application stand out.
Yes, and it shouldn't be up to an employer to set that limit, but to regulatory bodies. Having people spend 12-14h a day working is not good in the long term, and expecting people to do that otherwise they will be fired is draconic.
It's a MacOS thing. "Wired" confused me also initially. All it means is pages marked as "Wired" can't be offloaded to swap.
I'm guessing they invalidated all access tokens for accounts that have been used as "View As" targets since the issue was introduced.

They also disabled "View As" which is the actual fix for the time being.
Agreed. It is extremely slow, esp. on older computers to the point of being unusable. Another app reinvents the wheel and becomes useless.
That article extrapolates growth.. purely a projection based on Tesla not just producing 50k cars a quarter, but ramping up production even higher along with additional manufacturers.

2nd, where did you get 10 quarters from? The earliest, most optimistic projection in that article is 2023 -- That's 17 quarters. Or 2025 - 25 quarters. Or perhaps it won't reach it until much later.
In the Netherlands you can vote for a large part of the day, about from 7:00 in the morning to 20:00 or 21:00 hours in the evening.

How is the timing in the U.S. then?
I tried to do that. It is faster, but the font choice and color choice is awful. If you have a lot of e-mail, it's so hard to discern threads and read subjects.

I feel like being forced to choose between two bad versions of GMail.
I would guess Median is also 2.
I'm enjoying it. All good from this end. I'm happy they keep reinvesting in it.
The pace of their growth is pretty amazing. The year I bought mine, 2015, they made just over 50,000 cars. Now they’ve made that many on one fourth the time, of just one model! Add in their other models and this quarter’s numbers are close to the number they made in 2016.

They have not met their goals, but that’s only because their goals are crazy ambitious.
Well, a lot of common functions like fetch* , write*, makeWrapper that are used in packages are undocumented. I usually dig into source files using nix repl to find the location.
I haven't seen this work around before. Brilliant in it's simplicity.
I assume they got indexed by using Google's webmaster tools to trigger a crawl.
So what you're saying is that you fabricated a horrific example that you can't back up with any information for to make your point?
What does "safe" mean in this context?
I just tested it in both Firefox and Chrome on an older Win7 system and my subjective judgement of the loading time was that it was essentially identical in each browser. Certainly the animation is shown in each.
Wild speculation. Any evidence?

I don't think there has been much stopping these companies selling the data up to this point. That's been the issue with Facebook and others, they have happily sold peoples data with little legal protection for the people whose data they sell. There is no crime in just selling the data within the US so your theory doesn't hold up.

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Maybe ten years ago, Gmail was good enough that the webmail view was the best email client, and for the first time in my life I stopped using IMAP.

Now, I don’t really care about Gmail’s UI because I use IMAP. Apple Mail improved their UI just enough that Gmail’s regressions took it below the line. But I don’t really care, because Gmail’s spam filtering is still much better than Fastmail, which I know from having tried switching for a couple years.
That's largely true for me as well (also Googler, albeit recent). Looking after a somewhat broader area in SRE as a manager, the one thing that makes that tricky at times is time zones of partner teams and stakeholders. I think Google does an overall good (but not perfect) job at trying to lessen the negative impact of that. There is a culture of respecting people's private time and working hours. There is certainly a culture of caring about each other's well being. (This may be biased by my org, SRE, or my office in Europe.)
I had to switch to using the basic HTML version, as the performance with the new UI is terrible, no matter how much power the machine has
The simplest example is liveblogging - someone is sitting at the next iPhone launch, and sending out photos and commentary that's being updated as they send on a large number of readers' screens worldwide. The Verge has a good system that they do with polling S3 for new data, but there's really much more effective ways to do it.

The more specific cases include opening ticket sales for movies in India - for some big movies tickets are sold out really quickly, so there'll be hundreds or thousands of people with browsers / phones open on a seat layout and they all need to see which seats are being sold in real-time.

Then there's broadcasting stock market movements and tips to thousands of traders in real-time.

The only existing solutions that seem really scalable are fanout.io - others like pusher.com and pubnub.com have pricing that's not conducive to serving a large number of simultaneous users / broadcasting. Fanout.io gets this right, but would be nice to have cheaper alternatives / make it a commodity.

Given that the CF nodes do support websockets, I assume they terminate and re-create new connections to origins as well - so the nodes are capable of holding a large number of websockets open, right? Can Workers intercept websockets / stream data into them? And given that the KV store is capable of propagating new values to all the nodes, there could be a way expose incoming change notifications on keys, which would handle this use case. Could also implement as continuous addition of new timestamps keys, prefixed with a topic.
I have one browser tab that hasn't been refreshed since before this travesty was dropped. I'm going to try to keep that one going as long as possible...

The unnecessary animations irk me. I'm clocking 5-10 seconds to load and render my inbox, on a quad-core i7 with oodles of RAM and a fat network pipe. Whereas the basic view loads in 700 ms...
What is in-place VPS?
Then you're not redditing right.
I would argue that founders generally figure out how to best spend investment during YC. At the beginning of the program there is enormous pressure to move fast and leverage the YC investment to show progress by demo day. This leads to wasteful spending and probably causes the majority of the financial stress you're trying to offset with an additional $30K.
I don't have particularly high hopes for this. "Start looking at HW" is their last step in the roadmap. GPU microarchitectures are all about being a reflection of the hardware, amortizing a lot of traditional CPU components across as many threads as you can, to such a degree that there are ISA implications.

EDIT: What would be cool would be a more traditional GPU architecture, married to RISC-V minion looking cores that today already exist, but aren't open at all. There's a lot of very closed (even more so than shader unit) RISC processors in GPUs. AMD has a RISC core reading and processing the command lists, among other things. https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/tree/master/f32 PowerVR has one doing thread scheduling and argument marshaling (Programmable Data Sequencer). Nvidia has their cores that they just switched to RISC-V.

Imagine having a custom command list tailored to your application sort of like the benefits custom N64 RSP microcode had.
There's a PR there to do just that. I don't follow the reasoning that it's not been accepted. It's also using Elixir script instead of precompiled Elixir.

https://github.com/drujensen/fib/pull/33
That feels like a weird pattern (for one because you can have async fat arrows), but also because in general I find

await request_some_data()

much clearer than

await (async () => {
// just make the async request inline
})()
I do consulting work and am regularly given an account on the company's email system. More recently they're using GMail underneath, so now I've apparently got a dozen accounts on GMail.

And GMail, bless it, when I login through the company's system clocks me through to a "Choose which account" system. My reaction is to open a new tab and login again, and it usually takes me straight through to the actual email without repeating the request for credentials.

The whole thing feels clunky, slow, and confused underneath. I don't much care about the look, that comes and goes, fashions change, but the experience as a whole has become painful.
Well thank goodness I left facebook a year ago. Never regret it! Now I can interact with people in person in peace vs. heated online debates about DJT that make me want to avoid them in person.
What 'devices' are you asking about?
The billion dollar question: are any of the affected users EU citizens?
Payments without permission. For example:

* Donations to wikileaks

* Payments to gray area businesses like porn and marijuana businesses who can't get credit cards

* Digital payments for unbanked. Yes many don't have bank accounts or credit cards but they have smart phones.

* Payments to/from unstable countries. For example escape Venezuela with your wealth intact or receive aid from outside.

* Cheaper than credit cards (who take 1-3% fees).

* Safer for merchants as it avoids credit charge back fraud.
As a mainly C# developer, it seems we have a lot of features in common!
Hit the "hamburger" icon way up in the left corner next to the main Gmail logo.
Get Thunderbird (or any other standalone email app). Extremely traditional UI, and better responsiveness due to no frill JS and no tracking.

Bonus, even read your emails offline!


Innovation!
Line coverage is not test coverage.

Having a test execute every line in your application doesn't mean your application is _covered_ or _tested_.
I talk about this specifically in my post... Having done YC in 2007, 2012, and helping to run it now. I think today YC founders are given many more tools and much more money to succeed.
Perhaps I was confusing "ruptured" with "exploding".
I don't have screenshots, but the new UI looks like it was designed for touch screens. The actual mail messages take up maybe 50% of the screen in the middle, with different sized margins full of mostly huge, but some very tiny, buttons to press on each side. Some of the buttons don't even have descriptions, it's just an icon for another Google product. There's also a smattering of giant buttons and icons scattered across the page, with no consistency as to their size or alignment. It makes me think of someone creating their first website, where it started out OK, but they feel the need to keep adding features and filling in empty space so they just add more and more buttons and icons all over the page that are only sort of related to the main purpose of the page.
> by negating the fungibility of money, undermines its usefulness.

I wonder how you could model that. And as a corollary, how to monitor the effect in the real world?
The article doesn't actually say 50k over 10 quarters. It projects a 60% annual increase each year until 2023 (or 17 quarters). So this is a much higher number that 500k.

There are 1 billion cars on the road. 80m are sold annually. So 500k is literally a drop in the bucket.. you can't get a 2% decrease in oil by selling 500k in 17 quarters, 10 quarters.. or even 4 quarters.

To get to 2% of cars, you would need to sell about 500k every quarter.
This is something I would suspect doesn't actually happen. FB wants to track all of the user's browsing habits, so maybe they just make the actual FB UI look logged out? Security-wise, it would seem to be more complicated by their desire to never let a user be logged out, and looks like it's complicated enough it is biting them in the backside. Oops?!
To reply to your edit-addon re: slot machine - You walk into a casino to hopefully know you're getting played (a specific context), however Ponzi and Pyramid schemes are subtle - and people you trust or don't trust will influence or manipulate you into "playing" the game [100% of the time so far people promoting it that I've talked to outright deny any function as Pyramid-Ponzi scheme], and you run into them the more the hype-shallow marketing-level "positive" information hits mainstream media, and you get more people (army of HODLers; Pyramid scheme) trying to sell you with shallow and/or purposeful misinformation/information. That's very different than going to a physical place, to a casino, and playing a slot machine. I'm surprised you don't see that difference yourself?
Istio and Knative (and so on) are the PaaS-on-k8s projects you should watch and try. k8s by itself is not targeting that workflow.
The same pdf says the model 3 gross margin turned positive in Q2 (which I take to mean the model 3 is profitable on a per-unit basis, but not if you're factoring in R&D costs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE In case anyone missed the reference

I love Palin's delivery of this:

"Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away" :D
What exactly would happen?

Edit: people take my comment to mean it won't be a big deal. It will be. However, not on the same scale of taking out the power grid, or the water system, which would lead to hundreds or thousands of deaths. Facebook is not critical infrastructure.
I think you should be commended for actually giving rejections. It's a very kind thing in a world of radio silence.
Not quite the same as garbage collection. When an object has a pointer null'ed, that object's reference count is reduced by 1. When the reference count reaches 0, that object is remove from memory. You could still cause memory leaks like so:

```

struct Node {

var next: Node?

var prev: Node?

}

var a = Node(next: nil, prev: nil)

let b = Node(next: nil, prev: a)

a.next = b

```

These two objects will persist in memory for the entire life of the app even when all reference to a and b are gone, except for their references to one another.
Yup, it's infuriating how long it takes to access my inbox with the new interface (just counted 6 seconds to a usable interface on my work machine), mostly due to the awful new splash screen. On top of that they added a bunch of padding, which reduces the information density (taking a page from Reddit's book).

Gmail has been my last reservation on dropping Google entirely, and I think this is the last straw for me.
I work at a company like this.

In fact, I need permission from my manager's manager's manager in order to stay past 7pm.

This company believes in a strong work-life balance, and this is one of the ways it achieves this.

Also, it "changes the world" in good ways, not by "connecting people" through bogus data siphoning addiction traps.
When people compare how many companies get into YC vs how many of them become successful companies should understand that beyond what YC brings to startups which is a lot, the success also depends on the founding team execution and the ability to find a market fit, sell and grow the product. I am a first-time applicant and what makes me take the decision was all the great resources YC can bring to my company (advisors, network, knowledge) more than looking at how many big companies or brands went through the accelerator program which is also a way of effectiveness measurement, but for me not the most important.
I hope they're not removing the revert option for Classic UI :(

Having an API unable to support two clients (Classic and New) would be embarassing from an engineering POV.

And from an UX POV, it really lacks empathy (or realism) to assume that the same exact UI will be useful/pleasant to literally 1 billion users. There are all kind of reasons why a given person might prefer UI a to b (a being older having nothing to do).

As you reach more humans, you have to embrace diversity. The views from a handful of hipster designers in SF shouldn't irreversibly impact how the rest of the world interacts with their computers.
the link doesn't say what this is, except in the form of an 8-minute video. Is there a tl;dr from those who have signed up?
I downloaded the app and used it for about an hour. Hated it. Uninstalled it. Must be only popular with the younger generation. I thought most of the videos on there were a complete waste of time to watch.
Why not just clear out 100% of sessions?
It seems they are missing other goals, because on August 1 they also said that

> Having achieved our 5,000 per week milestone, we will now continue to increase that further, with our aim being to produce 6,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by late August.

but according to Electrek

> For the first time in months, Tesla was able to produce about 5,000 Model 3 vehicles over seven days.
There is literally no way for a company in the US to guarantee privacy from the federal government with regards to any data on their server that they can access unencrypted.

If you have the keys or you wrote the software, you cannot guarantee privacy.
Building a Reusable Gutenberg Section Block
Those are Ultra-luxury/super luxury cars.

The (Honda / Acura) or (Volkswagen / Audi) splits covers normal vs luxury brands by the same company. So a new luxury car segment starts around 35k even if you can pay more than that for a Honda Accord you still go to the Honda dealerships etc.
Please PM or share with me some more info. I am interested in possibly using Zig for a UI Vulkan framework.
It's also not such an easy assertion to make, distribution of things that could happen matters, and there could be events with 0% probability.
Stupid nature.
Gold is not controlled by a government, but it's a poor currency given its physical characteristics, although it has been used as a common currency in the past.

Cryptocurrencies are similarly not government controlled, but have better characteristics to make them usable as common currencies.

The desire to use cryptocurrencies as currency is not by nature linked to crime, or tax avoidance, etc. just as owning gold does not make you a tax cheat.

I own cryptocurrencies and I paid taxes on my trades, just as I paid taxes on my other capital gains.
Another Linux Kernel Bug Surfaces, Allowing Root Access
Simple Agreement for Future Equity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_agreement_for_future_eq...)
Google web UX has gotten horrific.

I used to visit Google News multiple times per day. Then the UX went to hell there too. Each iteration became worse. After the latest changes, it became so unbearably hideous and clunky that I couldn't stand it anymore. I got mad every time I loaded the site. But years of keyboard memory still had me typing in the URL constantly, getting mad every time it loaded up. I finally black holed it in /etc/hosts to break the habit.

Gmail is in a similar state now. The new UI is hideous and clunky. And on the engineering side, it takes multiple seconds to load up. I thought Googlers were supposed to be known for their engineering competence?

Calendar? Bleh. It's still in a tolerable state, but visually the previous release was easier to work with.

Bring back contrast. Bring back visual dividers. Stop with the clown buttons like the mega "Compose"... these are tools we use for years and we had our first-run experiences over a decade ago.

Fire whoever is driving your god awful UX on web.
I am a huge fan of Musk, but I hate to say that I can see the SEC's side. In corporte finance, which is what the SEC is responsible for regulating, the phrase "funding secured" has a precise meaning, and the situation Musk described did not come close to meeting it.

Musk may not have been trying to manipulate the stock price when he said funding was secured, but if he was allowed to speak in such a sloppy, misleading manner, then other CEO's would start doing too too, which would have very bad consequences. So the SEC has to come down on Musk as hard as it can, and it has great powers for doing this.
got invite in under 5 minutes, requires google sign in though?

would prefer separate account...
As others have said, performance is painful. I've also had problems where emails would just not display after clicking on them. It would spin and say 'loading'. I like the look of it but speed is part of a design and needs to be addressed.
I am as confused as you are. The C version is much slower on my PC. I've added the link to the code above. Please tell me if you see something fishy.
If some are, then all of them that have the same structure at (even if they add layers of "purpose" and effort towards some promised value of technology) - unless perhaps they have a fixed price, preferably with no mechanism or way to game the system to profit on micro-adjustments to maintain price stability.
Google people -- It doesn't work!! I will click a label only to get an empty window with no emails
the same sadly could be said for much more mundane and socially acceptable things, like paying the tithe at a money-hungry religion that's trying to sell uneducated/oblivious people some instant peace of mind.
You're absolutely, completely, 100% correct. Facebook holds an immense trove of private information that in the wrong hands could be leveraged to inflict unimaginable pain and suffering.

With that said, is it perhaps possible that some people might view this as subtly distinct from power plants, hospitals, roads, and ISPs? Those are what are generally considered "critical infrastructure".
Fundamentally what I think we want to do is build the primitives you would need to create your own fanout. That means we need the ability to push events to Worker nodes, and for Workers to be able to terminate WebSockets for you.

If you can accept up to 10s of latency, I agree that KV could solve the 'pushing events' problem for you. (A tuple store is semantically equivalent to message passing, and it will get easier when we support range queries).