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Ask HN: Does the network “crumbling” effect exist?
The network effect is a popular buzzword to describe the “virality” of social network services. As additional users join a service it increases the value for existing users. There are some instances where additional users cause “congestion” and decrease the value for existing users but I am interested if people here know whether a “crumbling” effect exists - If users leave a service, it must decrease the value for others and therefore does the network effect reverse and start crumbling?
I would do it instantly if the devtools were half as convenient as Chrome. Unfortunately they are super clunky
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The proof is in the article:

> It is most likely that this will be added to other browsers like Firefox too.

> Microsoft’s new version of Edge is going to be based on Chromium, so this will be available on Edge too.

So, although some discussions with Firefox may have begun, it's clearly using the Microsoft decision to use Chromium as a way to force their standpoint. Note also the lack of mention of Safari.

This is the kind of stuff that should go thru a central committee because different browsers will react differently to what should be a simple url.
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Good architecture is about keeping complexity in check while ensuring a broad set of goals such as a maintainability, scalability, and reliability.

This is an example of an extreme opposite. Almost destructive.

Google has enormous mindshare amongst developers; and when they put something like this out there, people will actually see it as an example to follow.

Where is the blinking warning sign saying "do not try this at home"?

This is nothing like creating too many factories in a Java application.
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Did it on Monday evening. Great choice, no problems at all. Could import all data, also switched to Firefox on my Smartphone where I can now run uBlock, too.
Most popular chat platforms don’t allow admins to see IP addresses or user agents. That’s considered sensitive information these days. There are still niche platforms that behave more like IRC, but they’re pretty rare.
it's not flat statistics the issue, it's the high risk and high complexity. Solar roof can kill if they fail but it's quite easy to see and deal with. Nuclear plant failures are too extreme and complex. There was a research center not far from my town, and every year people are worried that their thyroid issues aren't due to past experiments polluting the underground water supply. It's never conclusive but always on people's mind.
I've tried Metabase, but the desktop app feels very heavyweight -- it's not something for "casual" users. It also seems more targeted at workgroups, not so much for individuals.
I would like to urge the browser developers/makers to adopt existing proposals which came through open consensus which do precisely cover the same use cases (and more!)

W3C Reference Note on Selectors and States:
https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-states/

It is part of the suite of specs that came through the W3C Web Annotation Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/annotation/

More examples in W3C Note Embedding Web Annotations in HTML:
https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-html/

Different kinds of Web resources can combine multiple selectors and states. Here is a simple one using `TextQuoteSelector` handled by the https://dokie.li/ clientside application:

http://csarven.ca/dokieli-rww#selector(type=TextQuoteSelecto...

A screenshot/how-to:
https://twitter.com/csarven/status/981924087843950595
What are you missing? I was feared of this too, but they seem to be just fine.
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But Facebook and Twitter are the ones publishing, not you as the user.
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Can you give an example of an industrialized first-world nation using Wind + Solar to provide baseload power on a consistent basis? Because if you can't then they're far from proven as anything more than a partial supplement to other energy sources. The economics of Solar/Wind get much worse as you scale past ~30% of the grid because utilization factor goes down and the need for energy storage goes way up.

Right now grid-scale batteries are uneconomical and pumped hydro is only feasible in specific locations (not to mention its ecological impact) so the 'storage' backing renewable installations takes the form of big tanks of methane next to gas turbines. Even when conditions are good and it's not being burned, that methane has a tendency to leak and wipe out a fair proportion of the face-value greenhouse emission savings from swapping to renewables in the first place.
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We have to remember that the current WASM spec is still "just" a MVP. It doesn't yet include performance related spec (like SMID).
WASM is also fairly recent. JS interpreter/JIT in browser has seen years of optimization with a trove of real world usage. It will take some time for WASM to be able to compete seriously.

Another factor is also that the WASM compilers for various languages (Rust, C/C++, etc) are obviously recent too and not super optimized.

My own tiny experiment is that WASM can already yield quite decent performance gain but with very compute intensive load, which is not a typical problem in frontend development.
The size gain is also real, but you need to handcraft your WASM or forget about using the std and other stuff in the language you are compiling from (Rust generate very fat binary with a naïve implementation for example).

Still, I am quite optimistic about WASM. I was actually impressed that, even though it is quite recent, I can already compete with JS when it come to performance. When the various performance-related spec will be finalized and implemented and that browsers and compilers start heavily optimizing the WASM, we should really see some real-world gain.
Existing nuclear plants got as big as they are because of economies of scale. Turns out that a plant twice as big costs less than twice as much as two smaller ones.

But, due to nuclear expansion faltering we build too few of these plants, and thus all of them become essentially first-of-a-kind, which tends to mean a lot of (very expensive!) delays.

I also think SMR's are very promising, trying to break the cycle of ever-increasing costs of big plants through mass production (and passive safety) rather than just making them as big as possible. Think airliner factory rather than one-off megaprojects.
I have zero experience with web development except for some basic html stuff and hacking around with java-script of third party websites. I am an electrical engineering undergraduate. Mastering java-script is indeed in my wish list, but it lags far behind robotics and control systems.
Basically, anything that can recurse is Turing-complete.
This seems like a full-fat Build and Release management hosted solution (good job by the way, this looks great and I'll try it out).

I was more specifically asking Jeff which similar tools are cleaner, and why? Are there any helm drop-in replacements that anyone would recommend? Or is it really a shift to other ways of deploying, like these hosted solutions, or is everyone building their own k8s operators now...? Or something else?
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they don't want to do. You can't ignore their interests.
No hardware video decoding on Linux ...
> Nobody likes the gloom and doom stuff I guess. Nothing to see here, everything is fine.

I guess nobody likes to be told which articles they should read, which part of news to focus etc. Balanced news feed is preferred. The stuff you mention was written on HN tons of times, we all know this
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Nevertheless it's some kind of fait accompli, especially in a market with only three main actors.

Where one actor can also start using the new "standard" overnight and break lots of services for people which are not using their browsers... You know what I mean. It's some kind of enforcing to have a monopoly.
yeah.. you are already spending more than half of your awake time(assuming 8h sleep, ad 8h + commute work day) not on yourself.

You also need to do chores which cut into your 'me time' even more. then there are social obligations etc.

Plus your total 'me' time is usually fragmented - due to aforementioned things - so you still cannot do things that take longer time to do, and sadly making things(dosen't matter if it is a startup, software, painting miniatures or even a woodworking project) require concentration(which is already drained at work), and decent time-windows(which happen rarely, because your time is fragmented).

counting that you have 8h per day, every day, available to you for pursuing improvement is naive. Especially that people do need to rest - even to keep your performance at acceptable levels at work.
I don't care about any of the things you mention so you're basically telling me to kill myself already since my life is meaningless? All I care about is working and building companies.
> But right now US-sponsored election interference is happening in Venezuela via Twitter.

Do you have a source for that?
Hmmm....

> As the above samples show, our model is capable of generating samples from a variety of prompts that feel close to human quality and show coherence over a page or more of text.

OK, let's look at the sample that's displaying by default:

> System Prompt (human-written): Legolas and Gimli advanced on the orcs, raising their weapons with a harrowing war cry.

> Model Completion (machine-written, first try):

> “You are in good hands, dwarf,” said Gimli, who had been among the first to charge at the orcs; it took only two words before their opponents were reduced to a blood-soaked quagmire, and the dwarf took his first kill of the night. The battle lasted for hours until two of the largest Orcs attempted to overwhelm Aragorn. When they finally stopped, they lay defeated and lifeless for miles and miles.

> [Aragorn says something]

> “I’ll never forget it!” cried Gimli, who had been in the thick of the battle but hadn’t taken part in it.

This is not "close to human quality". It's terrible. Gimli kills an orc in battle... without taking part in the battle. It takes two words before the opponents (as opposed to, say, the battlefield) are reduced to a "blood-soaked quagmire", but the battle lasts for hours after that. After which two orcs lay defeated and lifeless for miles and miles.

This isn't even coherent from one sentence to the next. And paragraph three directly contradicts paragraph one. And Gimli calls Legolas a dwarf!
>Politicians won't back nuclear because of the risk of accident, thus giving legitimacy to the risk and the public's fears.

No, that’s not the case. Politicians won’t back it because of their perceived risk based on their own ignorance. Or, even if they aren’t ignorant, they are focused more on staying in office rather than helping humanity so they don’t take up any projects that the ignorant public might pitchfork about. Neither of these “give legitimacy” to incorrect risk analysis.

A politician being afraid of flying does not give legitimacy to flying fears either. Risk isn’t measured by popularity.

AOC will gain far more popularity from her completely unrealistic green new deal than she ever would proposing something that would actually help based on nuclear. Politicians propose what’s popular, not what’s moral, ethical, or scientifically sound.

>Here's a qustion to help cut through the Gordon knot: at what point is it scientifically rational to accept/shun nuclear?

When peoples’ fears are based on a real understanding/evidence and not their own ignorant imaginations.
Judging by [0], the whites are most prevalent non mixed ethnicity in South America and if you also consider that Mestizos and Mulatos are half white that also means that means that large majority of the population is white to some degree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_America#...
This problem isn't social media specific either. Google and Facebook banned ads on abortion ahead of Ireland's referendum on the topic, but I'm sure not all ad networks did the same. Affecting the rankings of search results on sites such as Google and YouTube can also interfere with elections in another country.

I wonder if we're eventually going to have a global internet and then smaller nation or region-based "internets" that people use for most of their daily internet-use. It certainly seems like the internet is fracturing right now and this topic is another reason for it.
And yet the fact that the major engine implementation is opensource still allows each vendor to innovate by adding new useful features to the users.

We're really far from IE6 era of complete stagnation.
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I found the pair pandoc+beamer perfect for some kinds of presentations. Recently I used them to prepare the keynote and the proceedings for a conference talk:

https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/src/ma...

(The keynote is in "presentation.md", and the paper in "article.md".)

I had to customize a few pandoc's defaults (see the Makefile) and even had to use a Python filter to tweak the output, but the result was excellent: once everything was in place, creating the slides required no effort at all. I was even able to switch the format from 4:3 to 16:9 in a breeze, once I learned what the resolution of the projector was.
I do know a company doing life sciences robotic control software in Delphi.

Scheduling software and low level control for stuff like BioTek and PerkinElmer devices, for example.

http://www.perkinelmer.com/product/envision-hts-plate-reader...

https://www.biotek.com/peripherals/index.html

In Germany you still get Delphi related conferences.

https://entwickler-konferenz.de/
Indeed - but it's hardly an issue in practice.
> somebody creates a good invention but deny it from the public

for about 15 years.. After 15 years the public can make use of the invention without paying a penny. How it is not in publics interest?
Although there already was a proposed standard by a W3C group for doing this, although it is a lot more complicated (with a bunch of variations, but even implementing one of those would be nice): https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-states/#json-examples-conver...
I think the $1000 price tag is totally wrong. I would never pay that kind of money for an IDE unless it was _really_ better than anything else. But this means:

- the language has huge community (so I'm not stuck with a dying language)
- it allows me to do anything (huge extensibility)

Unfortunately it is difficult to change the pricing model once you have existing clients. On one hand they are the only ones paying for your development, so you can't lower the price tag. On the other hand building a bigger community takes time, and it won't happen at this price. So unless they become really creative, Delphi won't survice. Pity, I have used it (yeeeears ago) and it was a brilliant product for building UIs, very easy to use and powerful. Haven't seen anything similar since.
As someone from a small European country with huge social safety nets, this is quite insane to read.

But still, are people talking about mercy killing all of them? I might have to reclassify the meaning of dystopian, the books I read are only half as messed up as this..
Have you built a proof of concept or demonstration wafer?
Quora is the living example of it.

It was getting popular and then every quit it because new users are all marketing guys who are marketing their own shit without any value to the reader.
No, storage is not cheaper. That’s a fantasy. If it were true they would be rapidly displacing all energy production in the US.
The last time I was seriously using object Pascal was in the Turbo Pascal days. Even after all this time, it's had a warm place in my heart, despite myriad languages beneath my belt.

It's great that there's community edition for Delphi now. Thanks for the link!
Turing machines are finite state automatas with random read and write access to a tape (i.e. memory).

One turing machine can write to a certain position on a tape, while another turing machine can read from that position on the tape. At that point we communicated between two turing machines. Add some electric engineering to allow this tape position to send electrical signals from one place to another other a wire and you have peripheral devices. Yes actually displaying something through a display is thus more than a turing machine.

But the topic at hand was between the different capabilities of one turing complete program/language (Word) and another turing complete program/language (sed) executing on the same turing machine. The definition of turing complete is that anything the first program can do, the second can do too.
I think I'd start with forcing advertising transparency on any social network (and probably search engines too -- actually, make that any site with advertising).

And then force any company paying for political advertising to list every single one of their donors publicly. Chuck an unlimited personal liability clause in there for the company directors, so they can't just wind the company up to avoid any fines.
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We use Delphi, because we are productive with it, but it is seriously sorry.

Yes, you can develop 64 bit apps with it, but the IDE is still a 32 bit app, which causes problems with large projects.

The Indy components (e.g. http) are unsafe and shitty.

Personally I don't think there is much to recommend.
I think the government could modify safe harbor laws. Require sites above a certain size to minimize censorship to retain their safe harbor status. Eg allow everything that isn't illegal, is on topic, isn't advertisement, isn't spam and probably some other categories I didn't think of.

One of the big reasons these big companies censor things is because they're afraid of public backlash for being associated with certain types of content. If the government doesn't allow them to censor that content then the public wouldn't take it up with the platform.
Can't inspect websocket frames. It's ridiculous.
That’s wrong. Debt markets are reflecting the risks of the plants being stopped by orgs like the NRC, etc. The debt markets don’t favor it precisely because so many different parties can block new builds.
It makes such a difference on mobile being able to run a good blocker.
Kodablah's point is not that it couldn't work technically, only that there's no public pressure to force them to implement it.

Also, such federation, if not open to third parties (easy to justify with spam, malicious parties, etc) can actually strengthen the current big platforms against competition.
You are missing 'amp' off the end of the URL

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There's a long shadow in this which isn't very much discussed: nuclear weapons.

Up until the 1990s it was generally accepted that the greatest risk to humanity was not the slow problems of global warning but the near-instant destruction of an exchange of the thousands of ICBM-delivered nuclear warheads possessed by the two-and-a-half superpowers. These weapons depended on a supply of plutonium. Therefore many of the earlier reactors (eg Windscale/Sellafield) were built in a tremendous hurry to ensure enough plutonium.

Conversely, on the other side, environmentalists focused on cutting off the supply of plutonium to weapons. Recall that Greenpeace got started campaigning against nuclear bomb testing. This attracted hostility from governments, up to and including the French DGSE sinking the Rainbow Warrior and murdering the photographer who was on board. This has affected the subsequent debate because there is no trust.

The nuclear trust issue affects which countries are allowed to have nuclear reactors (see Iran, Iraq).

In the 2000s the big question was terrorism: would nuclear plants be vulnerable to attack, including crashed planes, and how could they be secured? Meanwhile a trillion dollars was spent on a largely pointless war, proving which kinds of threats are taken seriously and which aren't.
Totally. I am also running my own Ad blocking VPN with Pihole/PiVPN and routing all my mobile traffic through that. It's just great and probably the best $4/month (for the Vultr instance) I have ever spent.
It's the same with how people think the pasts didn't have as much crimes. It's because you didn't knew about it.

All companies had their own way of hacking and making their system worked. But they didn't share it. Twenty years agoes, what big company shares their infrastructure knowledges as open sources?

Now things are being shared and learned together.
> Is this just some Russian quirk or the same in the West CS courses, too?

I spent months building TMs (also a lot of DFAs) and equivalents as an undergraduate student (which was a lot of fun), and personally I always thought of a TM as a string character replacement machine. The set of alphabet symbols for a TM is of course not restricted to {0, 1}, you can also chose all UTF-8 characters if you like.
I'm out of that, but maybe somebody else in here got an idea how to fix your problem with that.
1) We can (and should!) build multiple plants in parallel. The sooner we start the better.

2) Countries like South Korea manage to build nuclear plants in around 4 years or so. The secret is that they have standardized on a design, and are building it again and again. There is hope that SMR's will make it easier to produce plants on time and budget, but those are still some years off.

3) Compare how the carbon emissions from electricity production in Germany has changed since they started their "Energiewende" project where they are phasing out nuclear and are deploying a lot of solar and wind. For comparison, look at e.g. the nuclear buildout in France (mostly from the late 1970'ies to the early 1990'ies).
> I don't fully see how Dimon can back this, yet be so against Bitcoin.

Pegged value, privately controlled, governance and oversight built in, no PoW, no speculators. Effectively all it has in common with BTC is the ability to send payments from one account to another.
The pricing model is the main reason newer people are not getting into Delphi. This is why they tried to lure people with iOS and Android capabilities. But when there are alternatives that are free, why bother?

Yes, Delphi has a Community Edition now (which is free), but the fact that are excluded from a large portion of the library, because you cannot afford it, is always going to alienate some people. And it is always going to feel frustrating, when other languages don't have those limitations.

My office only uses the Professional Edition, because we cannot really afford the Enterprise Edition, which means there were some problems we ended up 'inventing ourselves', because they were only available in the Enterprise Edition.

Delphi probably won't survive another decade (in my estimation), but Pascal will live on as FreePascal/Lazarus.
Aren't url fragment originally used for page position already? Like url.com/#title would scroll to the page the div with id "title"? In that case I don't feel like using url fragment for a word position is so much breaking it, it keeps the use of url fragment for info about page position, right?
Microservices, essentially.

It's not really 1 x ten year project as such, but heaps of smaller 3-6 month projects (many running in parallel) to add chunks of new functionality (as microservices) and rewrite parts of the monolith that we can cleanly cleave off.

New parts of UI that are needed don't get added to the Delphi app, but get built as web pages (using React mostly at the moment), which get launched in Chrome windows from the Delphi application.

One day our Delphi app will be an empty shell of it's former self and we can have a huge decommissioning ceremony (party!), but that day's still a long way off... :)