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Big companies typically don't go after small niches. There are so many of them available they can't possibly pursue them all, because ultimately you don't know which one will take off. The book The Innovator's Dilemma focuses on this.
I read a line from a book review by Krugman where he says “free trade is not as important as saving the planet.”

The context was the unlikely event of the WTO calling fouls if America and a few other regions levied carbon tariffs on imported goods.

Of course, The article was written in 2013, and it’s cyncisim would be considered wildly optimistic in today’s climate.

But perhaps his point is wrong.

Perhaps for humans, it is free trade that is more important than the planet.

Free trade is effectively our distributed human brain. Our ability to make choices and distributing those choices down information trees encompassed by entire industries.

Society is one big exercise in managing complexity - obfuscating or dispersing away decisions and information.

And maybe for human beings, that is just more important than saving the coral reefs or the elephants.

The insects may die, so we lose almonds and other flowering trees. That just means almonds and other precious species disappear.

But most human beings don’t even get almonds, Or meat, or fruit, as part of their diet anyways.

It would be nice to save other species, but if the whole planet was just covered in bio crop species 1-299, and a few aesthetics, humanity would be alive and ok.

Perhaps the awful truth is that for humanity as a species, free trade and economic growth is more important than saving the planet.
The only thing I'm missing is a C++ implementation of libp2p.

Ethereum is the only example I've found that comes close, but it's poorly commented and only implements a small set of details of libp2p.
Thought experiments are useful, but the post you were replying to was essentially saying "show me the data," and no real data were shown.
Ask HN: How to avoid TV addiction?
Everytime I am home and late in the evening, when I would like to start working (which seems to be the best time to really start working on side projects), I get the urge to switch on the TV and start watching. I do know that my brain is trying to get the easy apple here to avoid the hard work of the side project, by just watching the TV.

And I for sure know that if I can just overcome this urge for 5-10 minutes and open my laptop, I might start working on the side project.

At the end, I’m not able to do that. I end up spending 2 hours in front of the idiot box!!

How to overcome this?
Why do you need to beat Facebook at social at all? Just focus on what you’re good at, it’s not like Facebook is going to suddenly dominate search.
A common response is "Capitalism". It's an easy, glib response. Unfortunately, it's not a good one, because abject poverty predates capitalism and exists without it.

Another response is "deprivation". Unfortunately, this response is effectively an appeal to the definition of poverty.

Since you asked what I believe, I don't believe there is a well-defined single cause of poverty.
Honestly? Meat tastes good and it's way easier to maintain a complete diet by eating it. I'll often pick the vegan option when it's tasty and available.
I've been persuaded by In Defense of Food and my father's experiences on the Ornish diet that 97% veganism is a pretty good health/lifestyle choice if done right.

I'd like to do vegan, but the wife doesn't completely support it. She likes her cheese too much, and persuading her of the health benefits... well, I pick my battles :) I am happy that my routine work breakfast and lunch are plant based though! Between Thug Kitchen and other resources, I'm making progress in cooking food that's good enough that she won't miss cheese, meat, et al.

Obama's presidential cook, Sam Kass, wrote a good book (1) about simple things to help you eat healthier. The battle is won and lost in the grocery store!

(1) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538595/eat-a-little...
Indeed I was grateful that he passed fast and with a clear explanation. We asked him again when we raised our D-round but that came together to fast to make it work.

In the one conversation I had with him he coined 'the emergent benefits' of a single application https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/single-application... and he said we should call it a Development Operating System (OS). What do other people think of calling it that?
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lest the rank-and-file revolt

The rank-and-file are extremely well compensated, with cash, with stock, with on-the-job perks. Why would they bite the hand that feeds them? A lot of people will put up with incredible violations of their principles before they'll risk losing a comfortable position.
Arguably inlining (or not) should be deferred to the link / output phases and there would be enough information present to perform the operation or not when putting the puzzle of segments together.
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Canada does not have "a far less valuable citizenship compared to other western countries".

It's standard of living is (size of house, consumer spending power) is better than any large country except the USA.

And the weather is not that different to Boston, Chicago, New York (for Toronto) and Seattle (for Vancouver).

Canada won't develop a racism problem because 20% of the country are already immigrants and Canada doesn't have a bible belt south (canada politics are like that of american coasts and the europeans).
Let me guess, well, maybe the fact that we're born poor?

Poverty is the absence of a lot of things. If you're born in a small isolated tribe in the middle of the Amazon, you're poor. Nobody took anything from you, there is almost no inequality, but you're still poor.

But I think I know where you're trying to get: "They're only poor because X took whatever from them". Probably where X is capitalism, Western countries, or whoever is the fashionable enemy.

Nope.
Wow.
“We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks.”

The wording of this is really pushing the boundary of plausibility.

I fail to understand the logic of how this would protect privacy? Access logs with no profile data logged would not compromise privacy would it?

Can anyone confirm the timing of the google blog post? It seems the WSJ article was posted at a similar time.

This leads me to believe that the most likely reason we are hearing about this now is due to comment requests from the WSJ. WHEN Goog realised it was out they published.

Goog is trying to avoid using the words Data breach as they may get into hot water in EU.

Love how it is buried in the article.

My guess is a similar thing has been happening with android permissions. Data has been leaking through that they have just not admitted to it.
> other languages might cause overflowing UI elements because the translated text is longer than accounted for.

Ignoring the China context, it's good to take char count (possibly correcting for char width) for all strings in all translations and doing a edge-testing localization. QAs will know how to walk through the app without understandable text but they'll be able to spot overflows easily then.
This is not what the article says, "Because the company kept a limited set of activity logs, it was unable to determine which users were affected and what types of data may potentially have been improperly collected, the two people briefed on the matter said. The bug existed since 2015, and it is unclear whether a larger number of users may have been affected over that time. "

'We don't know who was affected and what data may have been collected' is way different than what you're saying. It also opens up lots of questions, such as why a company with the resources of Google would not persist security critical logs indefinitely.
Sometimes you can, if you have comprehensive logs that cover it.

edit: Within reason, anyway. Obviously if your vulnerability includes write access to logs or something then you're poked.
The article pretty much described what the big obstacle was: boxing. If WASM had boxing, then it wouldn't be any faster than JavaScript and there'd be no point. Since JavaScript requires boxing, there's no way to avoid the impedance mismatch at the boundary between them, and a JIT that wants to support both has to be aware of both boxed and unboxed numbers.

The WASM spec already tries to avoid pretty much every other big problem that would've confounded attempts to cross-language inline. For example, WASM requires structured control flow (IOW, WASM doesn't have `goto`), avoids type punning in favor of a reinterpret primitive, uses function addresses that are orthogonal to memory addresses, and allows non-deterministic floating point bit representations, all to match up closer with the way existing JavaScript JITs already work. But they can't do anything about boxing without either breaking the web or making WebAssembly essentially a binary encoding of the JavaScript language.
This meta joke doesn't make sense.
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Your example is that of a deductive entailment. There’s no similar deductive entailment for the claim you (possibly) attribute to rayiner from the contents of their post, so I don’t think it’s a valid comparison. You should seriously consider the possibility that your comment did more harm than good by muddling the discussion and deliberately promoting the impression that someone said something you know they didn’t say.
> was never intended as a path to a green card

Not true. Congress clearly intended this back in 2000 when it passed AC21, and the government has also recognized this through regulation.
Asking the wrong person there, probably a lot easier for them I guess.
There’s no “health care tax” in Ontario.
It's a common tactic. Ebaumsworld and Newgrounds both got popular 15 years ago through the same methods.
I'm not sure off hand about this, I dunno what Odersky's level of involvement was in the libraries and tooling like SBT that grew up around it. I think the language spec of Scala is actually pretty orthogonal to complexity ignoring a few pieces like XML and Java interop https://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaReference.pdf -- it builds up continuously upon itself. Scroll down and look at the appendix with the grammar. These concepts compose very well. Because of the composability people end up extending the language, which is a powerful feature, but seemingly in practice in ways that add to the complexity without reciprocal reduction in cognitive load. I really enjoyed reading Odersky's book just for this lesson in composition even though I don't think I'll ever use the language again.

Golang, a simple language in use, is basically a grab bag of concepts that implement a syntax people happen to be familiar with from ALGOL-like languages https://golang.org/ref/spec -- there's nothing particularly unifying or composable in that it just happens to work out ok.

I'd be interested in a crossover language that has the reinforcing composition of something like Scala but a standard library and common tooling like Golang that are kept simple. Spending time in Rust is on my todo list, it may not be even close to that but looks more useful than Scala long term and retains the type stricture.
This is going to be unpopular but Canadian Ex pat here,

If you're ok with making 1/3 the money you'd make in the US, have 1/10th the opportunity, put up with really expensive living conditions and really awful weather, Canada is the place for you....

I left and never looked back. It just doesn't make any sense to even consider returning. Many of my friends have fled to the US because of the incredibly high taxes, sub standard medical care, high cost of living, etc for NYC, DFW, CA, NC, etc.

For H1B types coming from a 3rd world country it would probably feel like heaven but for regular folks the statistics prove otherwise, Canadians are leaving or would like to leave to work in the USA.

Just saying...
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> Not my words.

You repeated them. Do you agree with them?

> Did I induce cognitive dissonance in you?

Nope.
99.99% is a wild assumption merely to illustrate a fallacy. If you want better probabilities, I have none, since so much is dependent on external factors. Applying a blanket probability to "how safe is it to fly a drone" is meaningless.

But almost 2000 drone incidents were reported in 2017 alone. For airplanes in that same time, unless I'm wildly misreading the FAA website, is...7. That's isn't quite apples to apples since the criteria for inclusion in each as an incident is different, but this is HN and not an FAA study. Point still being that even considering how unlikely something seems you need to compare it to the base rate.
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They might not be dying of starvation, but plenty of people in SFO certainly are hungry: https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Nearly-1-in-4-San-F...

I was just trying to point out that many people do not have access to the quality of food/water that literally goes to waste at tech companies.
It seems like it quantizes FP16 into INT8. That's a waste, because many models can work perfectly fine with binary/ternary weights, and some can even tolerate low precision activations.
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My 2 cents as an F-18 pilot turned software dev interested in the space:

They need to break apart rules for the true hobbyists, the model airplane flyers: dedicated areas below certain altitudes. They also need to embrace private property rights to a certain altitude. Who wants an Amazon Prime distribution center doing 10,000 flights a day over their kids playing in the backyard. [1]

Future BVR (and autonomous) drone operations between 200-400’ will eventually more closely resemble IFR class-A than VFR airspace. [2] Routes need to be defined. [3] Emergency landing areas need to be determined. [4] Comms (network) out procedure need to be planned. [5] And more.

It will require significant local involvement. The FAA is going to make sure accident information is shared so lessons can be learned. [6] Part-135 will play a role. [7]

For manned aviation these things were implemented over a century with lessons written in blood. [8] It’s going to happen quicker for drones and this is a step in the right direction. People like this are helping to force the issue. [9]

[1] https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uncategorized/ulc-proposes...

[2] https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway_(aviation)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_landing

[5] https://www.faasafety.gov/files/gslac/courses/content/38/483...

[6] https://uavcoach.com/daniel-elwell-interdrone-2018/

[7] https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/atos/135_certification...

[8] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13081/why-do-pe...

[9] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3931613-drone-crashe...
I found the circle pitch amazing, but in practice meh. That said G+ attracted a bunch of guys who gave me very nice streams of informations of all kinds. Some circles weren't as good in other network like twitter or reddit.
I am extremely sympathetic to this view. I think it's hard for some people to appreciate how others are policed, because they have not experienced it first hand. I have lived in all sorts of neighborhoods, and in some I was repeatedly searched, restrained, and detained. I had broken no law, and I have never been charged with a crime. Not everyone can simply avoid interacting with the police by virtue of their behavior, and interacting with the police is dangerous even when one is trying to be compliant.
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If you're willing to custom-design a new API by hand, you can do it however you like. But if you want to, say, autogenerate bindings from a typescript definition file (the defacto standard for describing Javascript API's), you're probably going to end up using or adapting their function names, type names, parameter names, and so on, or you'll confuse the developers.

It can be minified if both the web assembly and foreign code pass through the same minifier, but source code still has to be readable.
Michael Chricton published a book called Prey which focuses on emergent behaviour (and nanotechnology) with several mathematical equations I never understood.
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Because an application like that is both computationally expensive and expensive to ship as a runtime. WebAssembly can provide benefits in both cases (WASM binaries can be close an order of magnitude smaller than equivalent JS code, in select cases), and is quick to start.

As a simple example, it's not impossible that Adobe could literally take the flash VM code, compile to WASM with emscripten, and ship it along with an SWF file and a little setup code. This completely bypasses the need for a browser plugin for flash. Now, I suspect the flash VM might be large enough to make this noticeable, but it probably wouldn't be hard for Adobe to streamline it, and then re-purpose a lot of those tools used to build flash that everyone loves to rave about...

I believe there are financial incentives for this to happen, therefore I think it's only a matter of time until it does.
Would you count car's AI "driver" as a fatality then?
I follow around 500, have around 1500 followers.

As far as I can tell, Twitter doesn't hide anything from, instead showing me tweets from people I don't follow.
Can't disagree with this. Short of a one world government with dictatorship esque powers (which would be a very bad idea for other reasons), the chances of people magically changing their lifestyle/society completely changing overnight to fix climate change are pretty slim to none.

It's science and technology that'll solve these issues, make it possible to live even in 'extreme' conditions and at some eventual point in the future, either reverse or avoid the issue altogether.
Plus it's heavy as hell so having to move it far is big driver of this too.
but the in-person faker would be astoundingly obvious

Yet, based on your previous comment, you think the person will be able to BS their way through a conversation with you about code they didn't write and don't understand. I don't see how you can hold both of those positions simultaneously.
I strongly recommend changing your UI layout before Maciej finds out.
It's true. It's impossible to take seriously every warning. Every potentially catastrophic situation has to be evaluated on the risks and benefits.

And, well, sometimes the people making those choices are wrong. Or shortsighted. Or egotistical. Or afraid for their own comfort, power, and privilege.

At the same time, I still don't take the warnings of the flat-earthers particularly seriously, so perhaps not all warnings of potentially catastrophic situations are equally credible. As opposed to how seriously I take the warnings of climate scientists.
Livejournal had this long before G+ or Facebook existed, and people sure did regularly lock their posts to one group of friends or another.

The choice of how to restrict your audience was placed below the 'new post' entry box, and was something you'd usually think about after writing your post. Which was more likely to be a multi-paragraph thing than the short fragments we're so used to tossing off on all the commercial social networks now.
It's as well connected.

Also, the 'division' is not geographic, it's cultural. East Montreal is French, West is English and it's bizarre how little social crossing there is. I live among the French and they don't even know about major things happening in the West Side.
Thanks. What’s shaping up to be is that my technical co-founder could be remote while I’ll be dealing with the F2F interactions. While I feel somewhat comfortable having a remote co-founder, I worry if it will come back to bite me.

Also, for your remote employees outside of the US, how do you structure your payroll, determine compensation and pay them? Seems like it would be quite an extensive HR payroll setup, which might not sit well with investors or potential acquirers?
Um, no, that's not how Webster's defines it.

> government owns or controls

The definition is 'government (or the community) owns and controls'. Ownership by the masses is an absolute requirement for socialism, having a bit of control is not enough.
I only care about making the lives of livestock free from unnecessary suffering. I'd like to accomplish that through legislation. I care little beyond that.
Yikes. If that's the case then trainers and everyone up the chain needs to answer to the community (i.e. who they ultimately serve and protect) on this one, then.

Thank goodness for 1) body cams on police, and 2) shared footage so we can have this conversation.
My understanding is that the anti-fraud vacation thing is related to being able to correlate a decrease in fraud with a specific person going on vacation. If you have money that mysteriously goes missing on the regular and 10 employees who touch it along the way, it's hard to determine which of those employees is responsible. If one of them goes away on vacation for a week and no money goes missing that entire week, you suddenly have a much better idea who might have been involved.
I lost my original youtube account due to the merger. The idea of social mirror of society using a single point of identity is (in hindsight) totally ridiculous. We liked so much having pseudos and different personas depending on the context.
It’s not.

Profit is achieved primarily by selling people goods.

people want cheap meat, coffee and toys.

We found ways to give people that.

There are other effects where corporations cheat the laws, corrupt government, and pillage the environment - true.

But the system has always been about you and me getting more choice and more options at better prices.

Your toothpastes offer different flavors, and come in a magic immortal material called plastic which costs nearly nothing to make and is better for our environment than using tin tubes.

Profit has many ills, as single numbers often do - they reduce complex decisions down to a simple number.

That’s the magic of it all. We don’t have to examine the calculus of our morality when buying a pixel or an iPhone.

We just have to Examine the price.

I think we have to come to terms with the fact that humanity as a distributed entity, is not a moral organism.

Profit is just a way to reduce complexity. We have a society that reflects this because our reality is such.

Which is why many of the popular solutions today are prices which reflect carbon costs.
Meet in real life to RPG or online somehow? How about a private subreddit?