skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This got me curious about how Job's ousting actually happened.

In 1985, Jobs apparently owned 15% of the total Apple stock. Wozniak presumably started out with the same share as Jobs, and the early 'garage' team was cut in from his holdings. Markkula became a 1/3 owner as the first investor and third employee, and was likely brought down to 15% as well during the 1980 IPO. The board apparently voted against Jobs unanimously - not to fire him, but to strip him of his management role.

So I definitely don't think it makes sense to claim Zuckerberg 'learned' from this. First, Jobs was never a majority shareholder, simply because there were three founders. Markkula voted against him and Wozniak had already sold many of his shares; this is like Page and Schmidt voting to oust Brin. And beyond that, you're exactly right; Apple went public fast as a consumer-electronics business looking to raise money, while the retained-control 'tech company' model was well-established before Zuckerberg could plausibly have IPOd.
I get where your comment is coming from, but I think they acknowledged that their situation is somewhat privileged. Quote: "All because I can afford to."

It's the old adage about it being expensive to be poor, only in reverse.
Plan for the worst of poverty. Not the best.
Can confirm, on a 7 Plus, phone's entirely fine, no problems at all. I don't expect to replace it for another two years or so, unless it breaks. Probably by the end of that it'll be feeling a little slow and the battery'll be down to 36hrs rather than lasting all weekend.

Also on a used first-gen iPad Pro 12.9". It's great. I may sell it and pick up a used 3rd-gen when the 4th gen comes out. Or may wait one past that, pick up a used 4th, and just give the 1st-gen to my kids rather than selling. Apple devices are worth the money in part because they don't go way downhill after 12-18mo, so 1) they actually hold some value, and 2) you can skip a couple upgrades and not feel like you're missing out on much.
But you seem to be morphing the definition in order to sculpt your narrative, which is why I'm asking you to nail it down.
Isn't DNA comparison between species supposed to get some idea of what came first? Shouldn't we be able to answer Which Came First, feathers or flight?
Sure, but a nibble of dark chocolate is very satisfying and satiating. I can easily eat a bar or two of milk chocolate but naturally stop with a square or two of the good dark stuff.
Excellent points, but since it is the truth no one wants to hear it.
Let me know when CVS beats Walmart in grocery sales.
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"It is society subsidizing Tesla, because the negative externalities of GM and Fiat customers are both borne by everyone"

Could you not then argue that Tesla owners are subsidising everyone else by bearing of lowering emissions which benefits everyone else?
Government lobbying in the medical field, not food sales.
The second wording reflects the indisputable reality of the proposal. But... please feel free to tell me why I’m mistaken.

You can start with why the Federal Firearm License requirements make sense to only 1/2 deploy to citizens while preventing their access from the NICS system directly, that a citizen’s rights should be directly tied to a 4473.

Then also please tell me why the compromise of the 1993/4 Brady Bill where private sales were EXPLICITLY protected in order to get the votes to pass - were only two years later called a “loophole”.

I look forward to being educated on this topic.
Replying to my own comment:

As many have pointed out, this was not actually the postmortem, just an "update". I still find it pretty weak. There has been plenty of time to assemble basic details, such as a rough timeline. Yes they are busy with the actual response and cleanup, but this is a big professional team. The update feels less like "we're on it, here's what we have so far, more to come", and more like a bland PR minimization exercise.

I'll note that they've found time to determine that "For most Google users there was little or no visible change to their services", "YouTube measured a 10% drop in global views during the incident", and "approximately 1% of active Gmail users had problems", and yet they don't mention the time at which the incident was fully resolved or even when it started! Did the impact last for a few minutes, an hour, or multiple hours? Reading this, I have no idea. But I do learn that "the Google teams were keenly aware that every minute which passed represented another minute of user impact", they "brought on additional help to parallelize restoration efforts", "networking systems correctly triaged the traffic overload", and "low-bandwidth services like Google Search recorded only a short-lived increase in latency". In other words, this update on what seems to have been a very major incident consists mostly of vague, positive statements. It does say "we take it very seriously", but it doesn't make me believe it.

(I would add that I worked at Google from 2006 to 2010, and based on that experience I'm sure they are taking this very seriously and that there will be an excellent internal postmortem. But man, reading this sure makes it hard to remember that.)
I think each client decides, or can make its own decision.

This problem comes up a lot if you have a client that wasn't set with English as the default language.
I think these can be extremely relative
>>He just has more than 50% voting rights, which should never have been allowed

And that what matters in this case. The knew what they're buying, it was a huge debate about it in the media too. All was legal and was disclosed. Personally I would not buy stock in a company structured this way, but if I did, I would not have a right to complain.
In all those cases you are barred from logging in, sure, but the service still has your email address so the account is still "yours".
I'm not aware; are there any examples of super apps in the US? If SnapChat added Dominos delivery, would that be a satisfactory hypothetical?
One person's incentives are another's abusive vendor lock-in.

Each time you use the sign in with Apple button, it becomes ever so harder to switch away from Apple products.

Each time your friends add you to an iMessage group chat (instead of, say, a WhatsApp one) it becomes ever so harder to switch away from Apple products.

Each time you buy an Apple home speaker or Apple TV or whatever else it becomes harder to switch away from Apple products.

Google's stuff works better if you're all in but works fine piecemeal. Apple's stuff works fine all in but doesn't work at all piecemeal.

Tech folks should be up in arms about all this, but all you see on this wretched forum are rationalizations involving "business models" and "paying customers".

You want to see a software maker actually care about people's privacy? See Mozilla. Oh but you can't set Firefox as your default browser on your $1200 iPhone, sorry.
It is unfortunate that it's not even surprising that the NYTimes no longer requires writers to actually know the real meaning of sayings they invoke. Nor that editors don't catch misuse anymore. "Folk wisdom holds the trade-off between breadth and depth to be a cruel one: “jack-of-all-trades, master of none” [...]".

Cool, cool... the saying continues, though: “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one”.
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Excellent question. I did not address this in the paper, but I probably should have. The upper-bound you mentioned technically does not happen directly because of the nodes, but because of the increased "rate of events" (which can either happen because of the increase of nodes, or because already existing nodes suddenly create more events). Depending on m and k, there will be a rate of events that will cause things to mess up. I'm still brainstorming about this, but I believe we could fix this issue if we'd use a scalable counting bloom filter (https://haslab.uminho.pt/cbm/files/dbloom.pdf), instead of a normal counting bloom filter.
True.

There's always the option of putting your money where your mouth is. If you're saying a dual class structure is bad, and not in the interest of shareholders or companies? I mean, well, you should be willing to put your money behind that assertion. It should be to your benefit because the implication is that not investing in companies with dual class structures should be more profitable over time.
> Which leads to a caveat. Miranda is a very talented fellow; so are most of the other “high fliers” who crop up in “Range.” What worries me is that this emphasis — what social scientists call “restriction of range” — might skew Epstein’s moral just a bit.

I'm surprised that Dunning-Kruger wasn't mentioned here. High-flier generalists are especially vulnerable to self-deception. Their charisma, and the adulation it generates, conceals the consequences of weak understanding of specific topics. This species of generalist is very vulnerable to being blindsided by nuances readily apparent to those who have taken the time and effort to master a topic.

The Dunning-Kruger generalist tends to end up in a position of power, often with disastrous consequences. The current US administration's cabinet is full of them, for example.
You don't have to be wealthy to do that, but you do have to have the storage space and to shift your mindset in a more long-term direction. It's also a lot of work. I grew up relatively poor, but in a rural area, so we had enough land to put in a garden, and we slaved away all summer and fall picking and processing food that got stacked up in the basement cold-cellar and in the freezer. We also bought meat in bulk, either a half or a whole beef from a local farmer, so you had to plan for that lump sum expense and, again, have the freezer space ready to take hundreds of pounds of meat when it went to the slaughter house. We'd also try to shoot a deer or two each year to supplement that, and catch a mess of trout that we'd can up. Then there were the trips to the pick-your-own berry fields, where you'd pick a hundred pounds of strawberries, and then have to freeze them or turn them into jam, and the trips to the orchards where you could pick grain sacks full of the dropped apples for a dollar apiece; then you had to go home and sort out the bad ones. My aunt had a Sam's Club membership, so a couple times a year we'd go with her and load up on staples - again, you've got to save up for it, and then you have to have the storage.

You can do that kind of thing when you are relatively settled and have roots and connections in a community, and the know-how to do all that home-making. We didn't have any money, but we were rich in a lot of other ways. If you are isolated and precarious, living reactively day-to-day, it makes something that is already hard nigh on impossible.
But is any of it essential? Those all seem like “nice to have” features instead of something major.
> If Zuckerberg had done something illegal with the voting power structure, SEC would have ousted him by now

Lots of securities laws, particularly those relating to corporate governance, rely on private enforcement. The lack of SEC action in no way clears Zuckerberg.
Sure, he can't violate the law. But (within the confines of the law) it is effectively his, and only his, company.
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It seems that way right now but I'll wait to see what the written contract says. I anticipate it'll have their max monthly limit. If not, I'll see if I can learn what it is.

Yes, I can seek another contract in parallel to compensate. However, my priority is a full-time job as I'm changing careers. I've been building my resume/portfolio through contracts/freelancing.
What is more useful, satellites or astronomers being able to view the stars clearly from the planets surface. Genuine question, but it seems to me that in the long run satellites would win out.
> Near the end of the interview, Stephen Colbert asked the actor what he thought happens after we die.

> [Reeves] paused for a moment, then answered, with some care, “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.”

That's a good line. Need to remember that one.
these days all the tooling you need is shipped with the python standard distribution.

pip: install a package system-wide

venv: create fake system paths locally in your current directory

so do everything within a venv and pin your dependency versions into requirements.txt. i've found it to be exactly as powerful as i need, works out of the box, and it's easy.
Why is that worth remembering when the end result, being privacy conscious is much more important than the reliability of Siri?
> If I recall correctly, mailinator lets you host your own DNS record that sends mail to them.

While I'm sure that works. The main reason I'd use mailinator is for privacy (i.e. not exposing anything associated to me). If I have to use my domain, rather than their free ones, I'm still identifying my domain, so I might as well use my own aliases with my own mail system.

Domains are cheap, and mailinator really ought to register and discard a bunch of $1 specials on a regular basis.
Tesco Express prices are higher than in the larger stores.
>Main use case is for using public WiFi when travelling

Your own VPN is the correct answer. If you have a fast enough symmetric link at home then just run a small machine there (or your router/sec appliance may support it) or else get a ~$5 VPS from OVH/DigitalOcean/Scaleway/Amazon/Google/MS or whomever you like and run WireGuard on it. Or if you want something more turnkey with IKEv2 support (if you have devices that can't use WG) then check out Algo [1].

But there is likely no need for or reason to use a "VPN provider" if all you're looking to do is shift your virtual entry point to the internet from the edge, and lots of good reasons not to. The only real exception would be if latency is a major concern, you travel very widely and don't want to deal with any extra hassle setting up a solution to move between regions. In that case might be worth keeping an eye on CloudFlare's "Warp" solution [2], which will probably be about as good as it gets in that regard since they've got infrastructure worldwide and will be able to route well.

But I'd definitely suggest checking out running WG (alone of via Algo) yourself. It really is straight forward.

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1: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
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Tiananmen Crushed Asia’s Wave of Rebellion
Indigenous village in Arctic declares state of emergency due to climate change
PBS's Eons is a great Youtube channel that covered the evolution of feathers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOeFRg_1_Yg
Why not paint the satellites black on the bottom?
I understand that this isn't a postmortem, but it's posted on the GCP blog, not on blog.google so it feels like it should be aimed at GCP customers rather than YouTube viewers. If I were a GCP customers and I read this I'd be pretty mad. It doesn't just minimize the impact, it completely ignores that they have external customers.
That's too simple. Slowing the decline for people who are in at least moderately good health who can enjoy life is of course a good thing. But in poor health, with no prospects of improvement... well, when's the last time you've visited a nursing home?

The experience of helping taking care someone in hospice care makes it very clear that at some point they can't do much of anything, or enjoy much of anything, and prolonging the suffering is not on the agenda of anyone with a heart.

More:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
> The hospital staff, physicist Fritz Hager, and his technician, who had worked the machine in both accidents, stayed at the console long after everybody else had gone home for the weekend, typing and retyping the prescription into the computer console, determined to re-create Malfunction 54.

Thank God for the curious minds of this world, the people who have he patience and dedication to reproduce bugs.
in the case of cartooning, the deep skill is in perseverance and making daily posts for years as you buil an audience.

i think “generalist” misses the point about deep non-technical skills.
> There is no obligation to give up power just because others demand it

Kalanick also had a voting supermajority. Granted, Uber was unprofitable while Facebook is anything but.

But if the fines and investigations and antitrust actions steam along, and shareholder lawsuits pile up, Zuckerberg’s position of strength could change.

TL; DR This was a showboat vote. Not only did it have zero chance of passing, it’s also not binding. But few leaders survive a consistently-antagonistic independent minority.
> NordVPN is by far the shittiest VPN service I have ever used.

NordVPN's poor trust pilot score agrees with you:

https://trustpilot.com/review/nordvpn.com
The login provider doesn't store the service account itself, so it's possible to "eject" your account and use some other sign in mechanism as long as you have control over the email address.
Yup. Thts how carbon credits work. None of the 'no' zelots care to explin themselves.
The ironic part is that the one of the reasons this article was written in the first place was because the author tried to build a product off of Chromium and couldn't -- because modern Chrome relies on proprietary DRM modules that can't be forked.

And the takeaway they took away from that was, "authors should have more control over what other people do with their code."?
Change Is a Constant in Most Neighborhoods
Curious if you've looked at nmh and mu (maildir utils)? The last time I looked, it wasn't obvious that notmuch was the better option.

And also if you've looked at jmap? It's my distinct impression that the jmap effort isn't a case of nih, but rather stems from a real need of avoiding imap limitations (in idle, various levels of extension support).

One of my project ideas, for a long time, has been to figure out if dbmail might be tricked into being a decent jmap server via a graphql(like) proxy on top of postgres...
Benefits of CSS custom properties over Sass variables
Have you actually used it, or are you judging purely based on speculation?
They can always sell.
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> There is no obligation to give up power just because others demand it

No, but it would be a very good idea. Facebook insiders repeatedly have stressed that Zuck isn't a very good CEO, and that he really is much more fit for a CPO type role. That he apparently refuses to listen only reinforces the validity of this feedback in my mind.
> I'm only too happy to pay a premium if that gives me some control over my own privacy.

Apple gives you less control over your privacy. Do you want to open map links in an offline maps app? Impossible on the iPhone. Do you want to develop apps for your own device without handing over card details? Also impossible. Do you want to install apps at all without telling Apple you installed them? Too bad. Would you rather not tell Apple your location every time you use GPS? There's no way to opt out (this is opt-in on even Google-flavored Android devices). The list goes on.
> Being poor doesn’t mean you can’t

it kinda does though.

The effects of financial stress on your mental wellbeing are pretty well documented and can manifest in ways such as inability to focus/concentrate, chronic fatigue, spotty memory from stress etc.
Previous discussion of the same article [1]

Discussion of another good article on the Therac-25 (with pictures of the machine) [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992548

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201147
Yet they fail to put their money
where their votes are by simply
selling Facebook shares.

Wouldn't that imply that no shareholder resolution should ever pass? And boards shouldn't be accountable to anyone?
The middle class can buy Model 3s and get the tax credit as well. And the top 25% paid 85.97% of total income tax in 2016. So I think you have it backwards.
Reading between the lines, the only real opportunity for a sustainable moat is the dark kitchens and order batching. This has been tried and failed a few times already, my guess is the secret ingredients are scale and marketing.

Delivery from traditional restaurants is just too low margin, historically it was done by only some types of restaurants at break-even or even a slight loss to increase demand, now that people are used to paying $6-10 premium, once the music stops and the VC money stops flowing, the restaurants that stay in business will easily adapt.
Gut check: The role of bacteria in drug response
I love the idea of making an approachable version of Ed Jaynes’s classic.
But there won't be any settlement agreement. That's the problem. Assuming there will is akin to just saying, "Well, someone will fix it" while executing the Jedi Hand Wave gesture.

We're not Jedi.

If we want things to change, we have to change the actual laws. Expecting lawyers to find some violation under current law is fanciful in the extreme.
They're giving them a delusion of freedom so that most won't realize they're censored or passively accept it. If the government goes all out then it might cause a revolt. Soft tactics are always scarier than hard tactics.
A more popularized website I saw this on said that it proves quantum states aren't nondeterministic after all; I'm assuming this is a misinterpretation, but I don't know enough to tell. Can someone provide more context?
Why would anyone say this?

No.. they buy GitHub so they own pretty much most of open source software. Embrace.

Then they release a new package registry, one to rule them all, it supports all the things. Extend.

Extinguish, I don't know, that's why I asked the question, I don't know what the play here is.

Is it simply they now fully control distribution?

This doesn't sound like an issue until we're 10 years down the line and nobody creates package managers anymore. Nobody mirrors Linux, and everything has to go through GitHub.

Like I would think this is my own bias, and it certainly sounds tinfoil hattish to even me, but then I haven't forgotten those memos. Have you?
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I miss my mum :(
Academia is not the real world, and they always seem to be struggling to be Useful.

A generalist who can program, market, and run a business is likely going to be better at making good decisions over someone with only 1 of those skills.

Forget about Academia for a moment.
You are actually on topic!

Well, the bikeshedding part of the topic.

For some reason, any time we discuss extending human life, it quickly degenerates into an ethical question.

First, I wouldn’t worry about it because we spend more effort discussing ethics than actually trying to solve the problem. Basically, because the problem is so hard we bikeshed on ethics.

Second, it’s a very hard problem. It’s unlikely with the actual amount of effort, that we’ll be able to do much to extend life in the foreseeable future. We need to cure all the cancers, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, etc.
I did one of these a few years ago when I first visited Rio. I'm a gringo with a Brazilian wife.

Looking back now, especially as I've been living in Brazil for the past year, I wonder wtf I was thinking. The AirBnb host suggested it and I went for it in a misguided attempt to 'see how the other side live'. In reality there are a million better ways to gain this perspective than going on a 1 hour trip through a favela.

Brazil could benefit a lot from more tourism than it currently does. Amazing food, people, beaches, dancing...employing the people living in these favelas with stable work. Instead of promoting the sorts of tours mentioned above that treats them like some kind of second class citizen.
The flipside is the BIGCORP will likely be around in 5 years, will offer a decent healthcare plan and any share-based compensation is likely to be worth more than $0 when you vest.