skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that if someone falls into that trap then they haven't really done the market research in the spirit of this strategy.

The purpose of speaking to customers first before building is to find out how much demand there is for the product and how much they're willing to pay for.

It's to find out that there is really only one company or a few that want this... before possibly wasting your time building it.

If someone knowingly goes into building a product for a single customer, then that had better been a conscious decision, knowing the ramifications of that. Be aware of it and don't let it be something that just happens.

In any case, for engineers, speaking to customers before building is not the default. So there's a strategy that they are going out of their way to adopt, for a specific purpose. So they need to do it right, not half-assed, and design the app for a large number of users with input from a good amount of people, otherwise their single main customer who will have them by the balls.

The market researcher should go into it knowing that the user cannot always list out exactly what they want. Everything the market researcher should do is purposeful, to try to discover what that thing that needs to exist really is, how big the addressable market is, and for how much money the market will bear. It's a whole strategy... And it's a better strategy than building without working with real actionable data from a sample of the actual future users.
It's interesting that he is pushing the decentralization concept while at the same time decrying hate speech on the web. Wouldn't a non-centralized version of the web make it harder to police said speech?

As a disclaimer, I am not advocating the policing of speech in any way and am against that concept.
FIY, IMAP actually allows "push messages" via the IDLE extension. If you use K9 on android, it's enabled by default. I never used gmail, but I'd be surprised if the gmail imap server didn't support it (and I would dismiss gmail entirely if it didn't).
Plus sheer manual dexterity, "/yell TRAIN TO ZONE" while running like the dickens yourself.
Comparing sexual assault to a store robbery in a tone of sarcasm is at best a poor judgement call.

I agree that assaulters need to take responsibility for their actions. However, when they don't, the law needs to be there to protect the victims.
In audio circles, NI has always been Native first. If I search for "NI Native" in google there is not a single mention of National Instruments in the first page.
Recursive CTEs don't get around the inherent limitations of JOINs in SQL and fall flat on their face outside of very shallow graph traversals

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52674380/improving-postg...
No, I want a non-commercial license for non-human entities.

I don't care if someone is using my software in their family bakery. If anything I'd be super happy about that.

What I do mind is someone using my software in their multinational baking conglomerate without me ever seeing a cent for the work, while at the same time keeping other developers from ever being paid for developing the software in house.
I can touch type, though my technique is definitely not standard. I learned it entirely from playing Starcraft online as a child. I couldn't type fast when I started playing, but I had to learn to type fast if I wanted to spend more time micromanaging my units and winning than typing messages to my allies.
This comment is completely unhelpful without detailing which half.
> This sounds like science fiction, but it is already approaching commercialisation.

Soviet union were feeding kindergarten kids with yeast porridge long before Soylent was hip...

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/10/archives/soviet-plant-to-...
Update: I made some perf optimizations unrelated to animations. Essentially preventing needless component updates. Feels smoother on my end.

Let me know if you see any improvement: https://jobs-done.now.sh
AT&T controls infrastructure and has a monopoly in certain geographic areas. Google does not.

Google has a monopoly on search, but that’s about it. There are alternatives though, some of which are as good or better in many ways.
This isn't a citation, but if you're interested in the topic and learning more about to what length Israel will go to assassinate perceived enemies, I recommend "Rise and Kill First" by Ronen Bergman

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Kill-First-Targeted-Assassinatio...
Files and folders make perfect sense to someone who worked in an office 20 years ago. The office would likely have been furnished with cabinets full of literal folders containing paper documents.

I haven't used a file cabinet at work in over a decade. I still have a file drawer at my desk but there are no folders in it. So in that regard, familiarity with the concept is probably a lot lower than it used to be.

What probably makes more sense to users today would be tagging or labeling documents into categories. Could still be implemented as files, folders, and links, but the presentation might make more sense using other analogues.
> In other words, the bot developers are still getting through

There's no perfect solution but any solution is still better than none. Why do you keep a lock on your door if I can break it in 30 seconds? Your computer is even there! I can easily add a key logger there, why do you have a password then if all I need is to do that? You aren't stopping me thus any protection you add is meaningless.

Let say that having a full web browser takes 50% more resources (if you block javascript, you probably already use the argument that it use 99% of your phone battery so you can agree that 50% is pretty conservative), than you just blocked 50% of the tentative JUST by requiring it. That's seems pretty effective already and you haven't done much yet.

Now add all the information that you can gather using Javascript. Aren't you also blocking Javascript because it's capacity to fingerprint you? Again another easy gain you can get.

> honest customers are the most inconvenienced

A tiny fraction of the honest customers are inconvenienced, a huge portion of them allow Javascript. They probably inconvenienced more by blocking older versions of TLS.
Did I though? Success is the differentiator post-mutation. If mutation itself ceases due to the prerequisite, evolution does too. But why do you feel the need to read and dissect an analogy so literally in the first place? It's not the point.
> "Before breaking them up, we should see whether they are not just disrupted by a small player beating them out of the market"

How long do you wait to see if this happens?

E.g. MySpace was the social network back in the day. When was the last time you even heard/thought about MySpace let alone even visited the site? Did we wait long enough for MySpce to die on its own, or should we have acted sooner? Does it matter either way? We've had a couple of recent examples too, like Snap that looked like the unasailable Neu-Facebook a year or two ago, but now is crumbling and losing users rapidly - should we have broken up Facebook before that happened to Snap? Does it matter either way? Facebook is now losing users in western countries too - should we act now to break it up, or wait to see if it is "doing a snap" and will die on its own?

The point I am trying to make is that competitors come and go on the incredibly open and incredibly egalitarian internet that Berners-Lee helped to popularise with WWW. Making arbitrary decisions about when to break up a company without relying on anything apart from hand-wringing "think of the children!"-ism seems unlikely. What would the metric be? Revenue? DAUs? I cant think of a meaningful way to measure when a company is too big and is not going to be disrupted apart from hand-waving and sensationalism-based approaches.

Facebook has no control of the internet as such. Sure they are pervasive but if people stop visiting Facebook, the money dries up. They can profile as much as they like but if there are no eye balls viewing those perfectly targetted ads then there is no money coming in - Facebook cant use their "control" of the intenet to force you to go view their ads no more than Google can use its "control" of the internet to force you to view their ads. You have choices on what to visit. Just like no one chooses to go to MySpace any more.

The solution - as always - has been an ad blocker, rejecting 3rd party cookies, signing out of facebook & google, switching from Google/Facebook services to alternatives (e.g. DuckDuckGo is a good and viable replacement to Google Search; Firefox is a good and viable replacement to Google Chrome, talking to people is a good and viable replacement to Facebook).
> with the oil prices so low and keep getting lower

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The points are good but I think the problem with engineers trying to sell is deeper: engineers are focused in the truth while salesmen use a grayscale. Sometimes they go to the darker side and even black. The point of selling is selling! The startup community escapes this talk because it is politically incorrect but you can see the behavior in many successful companies. For example, thinkabout Microsoft negotiating/selling to IBM
>Maybe this can be developed on a massive scale for CO2 capture.

You'd still have to do something with it, either 'bury' it in the anoxic depths of the ocean and large bodies of fresh water, or bury it underground in either large pits or in caves/oil wells.

And you'd have to strip mine insane amounts of the necessary minerals that the algae needs, with regularity, to even approach sequestering a single gigaton a year, let alone the 40+ necessary to make a difference.

I'm all for figuring out carbon sequestration but I think YC's proposed paths for handling this in their recent call for startups looking into this are a bit silly. The flooding a significant portion of the Sahara for example will have extremely unpredictable weather implications which could be absolutel disastrous never mind you'd have to be mining minerals for use in the 'ponds' that is necessary for the life to grow in them which means you'd effectively need to fertilize a quarter plus of a continent with regularity every year for decades or even centuries. Even if you could fund that, it's not sustainable.

The real solution to carbon is immediate reduction of fossil fuel usage with a very short-term goal of nearly absolute cessation of greenhouse gas generation.

You then need to reforest 300 million acres of North America, restore countless miles of coastal kelp and seaweed, etc etc.

Even trying to replicate something like the Azolla event is unrealistic. If you take the 10 largest bodies of freshwater in the world and cover them entirely in Azolla, you are going to capture less than 10% of the carbon we are currently releasing each year and you won't even sequester all of that as to sequester it you have to sink the Azolla to an anoxic depth with every single generation of growth.

So, I doubt this algae would result in sequestering even a tenth of a percent of current carbon generation.
I've thought about the satellite internet & China firewall interaction a bit and I feel that ultimately, musk owning starlink and tesla will probably mean that he will have to play ball with the Chinese government. Tesla sold 2 billion worth of cars in 2017 in China. A handful of tesla features were purportedly included just to woo the Chinese market, namely the overkill air-filter.

As for buying rural land, I couldn't agree more. Looking towards the future, I do think that we will need to greatly increase the quality of our septic systems. Currently in my county, if your soil does not drain quickly, you need a UV sterilizing bed, which puts the cost at a new system around 20-30k.
I think it's inevitable that Google EU will be split off from Alphabet and Google US, into a stand-alone entity that the Europeans will regulate and mold as they see fit. It's the only possible positive end to the way Europeans largely view Google today (an abusive, dominant, foreign invader they can't compete with). After this many years, it's obvious the EU can't mount a competitive threat to Google's search monopoly, leaving only the alternatives of trying to cripple/restrict it through increasing targeted taxation & regulation (bad for the EU in the end, cutting their own nose off) or forcing a split-off that retains all the core capability & technology and can better adjust to what the Europeans want it to be (their culture, preferences, etc). The Google US and Google EU would then compete globally. Google EU would be operated from the various offices Google has planted around Europe. It would also immediately become Europe's largest technology company, surpassing SAP. I suspect that it would quickly begin having a ripple effect across the EU's tech landscape, in terms of investment and spurring more development.

Short of search becoming a lot less important soon... we had the baby bells, we'll have the baby Googles. The same goes for Facebook.
Short Open Letter to Alphabet Inc
Thanks for this detailed info. (I type at similar speeds as you.) So when you use the butterfly keyboard at a cafe for example, is your initial feeling a bit of frustration (ah this again), since you did use the expression "forced to use it"...
By any reasonable definition of "state of war", a state of war exists between Israel and Iran and has for a long time. The only reason it's not official is that since 1979 Iran has not recognized the existence of Israel at all, and hence can't officially declare war on an entity which it claims does not exist.
The benefits mentioned in the parent could potentially be worth allocated time. Growing food does not require a quantity of time that would interfere with work - bulk labor is required for planting and harvesting, but monitoring growth throughout the season is a great pre/post work activity to share with others.
I too find Heinz to be the definition of what ketchup taste like, but walking out of a place because they had the wrong brand of ketchup is downright silly
Thanks, I'll have a watch when I get the time.
Individuals interpretations of this are unlikely to matter much until such a clause is tested in court. The interpretation that the license is as broad as Mr Kuhn claims may be true, but it may not be.

Personally I think that both Mongo and Redis doing this is great as it shows the danger posed when a company can just relicense a project at will, which IMHO is the greater issue here. If Mongo felt the need they could amend their license again if it was tested in court and the court ruled against them. Individuals and companies should be aware that with some of these license agreements they could change at any time.

Ultimately governance of a project matters. We have seen somewhat of a split in the Cassandra community between Apache Cassandra and DataStax. That may ultimately prove to be beneficial as a new set of organizations has started to contribute. Having an organization like Apache to provide oversight and help draw a firm distinction between an open source project and a vendors proprietary offering was crucial there.
>You don’t need Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or any of that other crap.

You didn't need Microsoft products in the 90s. Except you did if you wanted to do serious work. That's why they were targeted by antitrust regulation. Exactly the same situation here, except Facebook and co have much more control over their product and can directly influence public opinion, not just software.
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Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back
what about setting a secure cookie with a jwt, and expiring it when you log-out?
what is the utility in server-sessions?
(aside from the ability to revoke it at any time from the server.)
How can software be “more violent”? How can software that isn’t running directly on a weapons platform be “violent” at all?
Purely out of curiosity, what jobs is your employer trying to fill that an intuitive understanding of said theorem is required?

I took a lot of linear algebra and I can’t recall having covered it.
I didn't say I was eating as much as possible. I said I am going to continue to eat it at the same rate I currently do. Personally I am not going vegetarian.
Watch Soyuz Rocket Go Out of Control During Failed Launch
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The Tidyverse is more coherent and is generally bigger than what’s just in Pandas (R’s Tidyverse; I haven’t used the Python port).

If you already have a good grasp of Python, sure why not learn Pandas too? In my case, I’m reasonably ambidextrous in Python and R but find myself not reaching for Python unless there are colleague / deployment considerations that remove R as an option. The reason? R’s Tidyverse is pretty awesome, and reflects one of the better parts of the R language, namely the meta programming that is a holdover from Scheme’s influence on R.

Now, if you don’t already know Python and don’t have some other reason (such as specific deployment considerations or a team of Python collaborators) to learn? I don’t think so. Python is a fine language, just as R is a fine language. You’re already getting things done in R.

If you want a mental challenge, or to get in on the ground floor of something that might be the future, learn Julia, or F#, or (my favorite) Racket. Or heck, learn Spark, or a new modeling method.
Yeah, I thought of saying more on the code I used from SICP, but don't feel i could add much to their treatment.

I think you could write something in other languages, but it would likely be incumbent to you to lex/tokenize the data. And then to convert back to a string to send back to eval.

You can also do something similar with annotation processing in Java. Or the macro languages in newer languages. Much more difficult to me, though.

For highlighting the features, I don't know of much. I like lisp because i find it fun. In large from the parsimony of the language. Though, i think it is layered in ways we often gloss over in that phrase.
My problem with Brave is that the BAT incentivizes publishers to grab as much of my attention as possible. More attention, more money. If Brave becomes successful, expect the internet to become even more addictive and abusive of human psychology.
Yes. And a significant strain of public opinion believed that women shouldn't even be allowed to read their books because they were just too incompatible with womanhood. And even after the facts of authorship came out, some people still denied it. I almost suspect they weren't really accepted until they became the, sort of, categorical female writer per generation that that the history of British literature tends to display, along Austen and Eliot, etc.
Even if they did work, it would be awful.

Our society was built on large amounts of discretion being exercised by law enforcement and the ability to convincingly lie to law enforcement.

Society is going to get flipped on its head if we are able to detect total truth, and enforce all laws with 100% effectiveness. Even worse when these tools will be mostly in the hands of the government, and not the people.
LightSpeed, a race for an iOS/MacOS sandbox escape
Not only is the data missing variance, but the small print also say that it excludes overtime.

Could I please see the variance in the data which is a very simple, important and often missing aspect when presenting data? I would also like to see the average amount of work hours (and overtime) per industry and gender, the average amount of flex time and other non-income benefits, and common known sources for wage differences such as how often a person changes job. All this is missing, but again the lowest hanging fruit is the variance which make any dataset completely useless (and I stand by this statement) for any complex dataset.
This is unfortunate. On all my phones, I find the most annoying malware is spread via javascript. I'll get onto a page I read a few times a day, and suddenly, thanks to ads, I am served some javascript malware that attempts to tell me "my PC is infected" or other such garbage.

I grouse, turn off javascript, clean my caches, and then everything is copacetic for a bit.

If this means that, thanks to google's decision, that I must in no uncertain terms, have javascript on in order to interact with their product line, then I need to weigh risks and benefits. Not proclaim loudly that I will run away from the google ecosystem, as many are likely proclaiming in this forum.

But weigh the risks of using products which require me to be vulnerable to attacks, versus alternatives.

From the viewpoint of google, you don't want your customer to ever be in that position. As it is an arms race against bad actors, and forcing users to effectively lower their defensive posture means you really ... REALLY ... need to up your game on value for this to be even net neutral relative to previous state.

Given how completely horrendous google's customer support is, and how incredibly hard it is to administer basic stuff (it took me more than 1/2 hour! to search and find out how to close an unused business g-suite account, which I couldn't do, until I manually disconnected from a marketplace product ... where this disconnection was also hidden ... google doesn't do ux/ui worth a crap, and has no real support for smaller users), I am not sure this is in their best interests. I am sure there is a product manager trying to pull them back from this ... somewhere ...

Or at least I hope so.

Basically the risk calculation is when where you look at something holistically. Is using the google universe worth the risk that universe forces you to accept?

Part of the reason that facebook is in user count freefall, is this inherent risk. You are volunteering info that advertisers are dying to get, and they are the ones paying facebook. You are a packaged product, you can be microtargeted, and various bits of self-serving posturing over election non-interference and account termination aside, they haven't quite grasped that this intimate relationship brings substantial risk for participants.

I've dropped messenger from my phone, and am about a few months away from dropping facebook from the phone. I don't need it there, and the risk to me is far higher than the "value" it brings.

Back to google. You don't want customers thinking this. You want them happily and securely playing in your garden. You don't want to force them to go out without their armor. Turning off javascript strengthens that armor. Forcing it on strips users of their most important armor.

Put more simply, bad google, bad.
I've always found WinFS[1] to be a pretty interesting attempt at a relational filesystem. Although it was probably a bit too ambitious, which led to it being cancelled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
That’s how Microsoft reports its earnings, but these outside analyses of market share are hopefully not doing something nearly that dumb, it would make the whole thing pointless.
I have a plan. I'm not currently in a position to be able to implement it if necessary, but I'm working towards it.
The native modules has been my biggest pain point, that modules stop working after a major release. Glad they are working on it! I try to use "pure" JS modules as much as possible, but it's not always possible when working with low level code, hardware, or OS integration.
In the YouTube video at 43 to 44 seconds you can see the "left" booster pivots into the tank rather than away from the tank like the other two boosters in the frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=v-N602kxpg4
Thanks! I think it picked up the theme i had active at the time. Will pick a different one when back at that computer.
Even so, making the assertion that:

"javascript adoption in the browser will increase in future, therefore we will enforce javascript"

is like saying:

"more people will have passports in future, therefore we require passports to get a bus pass".

By doing that; you make it true.