skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation- the kind that creates red tape- favors the biggest companies. One of my favorite clients had a software product that their contacts in the military said stood head and shoulders above what they were currently using. Unfortunately, they were not the people in charge of procurement, and didn't have the clout necessary to make inroads enough to land a contract that would keep the company afloat.

In the end, they pivoted to market their software to commercial enterprise clients (think data analytics) and they've been going ever since. It's a shame, really.

The flip side, of course, is that a lot of the same regulations I bemoan as red tape exist because someone, somewhere, bought something that either completely failed, or the supplier wasn't big enough to support the military's scale. I've seen businesses make similar reactions- every time there's a mistake, layer on another new process or documentation requirement.

There's got to be a middle ground somewhere between the needs of auditing, accountability and avoiding regulatory capture, but I don't really have a good answer for what it is.
Today, to keep people engaged in a game you need to have 50-100GB of graphics, 1GB of sound, some sort of AI, half naked cartoon ladies on the cover, 100 different weapons/races/etc.

But if you think of Centipede, Donkey Kong, PacMan, etc, their simplicity is that make them so great and timeless.

I remember I had BubbleBobble on the PC (back in the Amstrad PC 1512 days) and I would start and finish that game between 45-55 minutes no-matter-what.
Speaking of live coding, does anyone remember a certain longhaired Russian guy (I think he works/worked for Yandex?) who used to do live-coding streams?
>Which is expected for their own funded project that's still under active development which they've explicitly decided against publicizing what its strategic purpose or intentions are for it.

Sure, the OP's question was what's bad about it. That's bad.

>You can re-asses the merits of the project after they've released it

There would be no merits. It's an OS. Who would write the thousands of drivers and layers for various purposes. If there will be no community, there would be no decent OS.

And no, google doesn't invest enough in it. It's either you hire a dev team of thousands people, as Microsoft does, or draw the community. Google did neither so far, and so Fuchsia has fewer drivers than Haiku. Most they want it to be a system working on a few selected phones, or maybe google doesn't even consider it seriously, and it's an initiative of a small group of enthusiasts within google.
Comparing the left to ISIS seems pretty obnoxiously rude to me.
so does that mean that googles search monopoly, or amazons almost soon-to-be monopoly are cause by the govt?

what about classic monopolies like standard oil or northern securities company?

isn’t it more like monopolies that are allowed to survive do so by the ‘protection policies’ of the govt?

so while i do agree fcc, fda, faa are run by corporate shills, back in the days of near zero regulations huge monopolies continued to walk the earth until broken up... and breaking up monopolies is part of regulation
Recording yourself for YouTube has to help, but I’m really interested in what the author used to stay focused and productive for an entire nine hours. I can barely make it a half hour before getting distracted by something.
I don't think that is the general problem. More so inconstancy. It's almost harder to quit vi then to delete your boot record. I am not sure many tools are even that powerful. Which often means you have to use many different ones, making it even more confusing. Linux lacks abstraction and makes you do things manually as root, it isn't very robust.
You have to ask who exactly gets hurt if some guy sells a few grams of weed to some bored college kid.
Why the obsession with PPC? Don't you feel you could put your time + effort into something more modern that isn't dying?
Nobody?

Sentencing for drug related offenses is fucked, everyone knows this.
That rudeness is Berlin for you in a nutshell. A lot of people in this city have a tendency to be loud, direct and terse.
The Department of Commerce claims that the US produces half of the world's semiconductors and slightly less than half of the world's semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

https://www.trade.gov/topmarkets/pdf/Semiconductors_Executiv...
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Interns’ Job Prospects Constrained by Noncompete Agreements
I know, let's use the power from our own turbine as it spins down to power the emergency shutdown of our reactor! (see: Chernobyl)
Is that not nuget?
And yet not a single one of those covers the industries discussed in the article.

Regulatory capture can absolutely lead to monopolies, but to claim that "all American monopolies are due to protection policies" is incorrect. Monopolies arise naturally in quite a number of sectors where there are natural barriers to entry. Those barriers can be initial startup costs (ie, wired communications), limited customer bases for niche products such that only one company can be economically supported, or other purely economic reasons.
Compared to say.. a 1W ARM CPU. Those are faster and use less energy.
I'd rather not cook with chemically treated pans that always eventually become stick as the coating wears off. I'll stick with my stainless or cast iron that'll last me a lifetime.
I'm not shopping frameworks, I just found it peculiar that the marketing is all about what the framework doesn't do. It seems like you think that the word framework in itself describe the purpose.
It's like involving the product owner in deciding whether to use a linked-list or a bucket or a hashmap for object/DS traversal (say, a list of triangles in a 3D scene). Most of the time - you just wouldn't involve them. The coder decides and implements and may or may not even report off what was decided and why. That's the gap-filling that I think it would be hard for an AI to make (of course there are a lot of space-time-memory tradeoff costing matrices that could support an AI decision process).

What I find fascinating about humans is how idealistic we are (as a species). "Wouldn't it be nice if a business domain expert could just "specify" applications without the need for technical specs or coders?" (It's just like a compiler, but smarter, right?) Or (not to get too political), "Wouldn't it be nice if we could all share economic outcomes more equally without specific consideration as to contribution?" Well, yes, it would! But, as the old trope goes: Capitalism is for sinners, and socialism is for saints - and we ain't no saints.

So, I believe that most humans do their best every day to do the best, in their situation, with what they know. But individually, we can't know everything. So, heirarchal management structures are a hack to sorta/kinda solve a problem with a constraint. 1) No individual is a panopticon or even if a polymath, capable of industrial-scale output, and 2) We are apparently tribal hierarchal monkeys, and we operate better (as individuals of the human species) when there is a chain of command - where no individual can effectively directly manage more than 8~15 reports.

Thanks for your comment. Hopefully, I didn't drive too far off into the ditch in my response.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20242805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20244885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235376

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20235221
Because they didn't want you to plug in the lightning cable and just use it as a wired mouse ... because that defeats the purpose of it.

I mean, I plug mine in once in a blue moon ... and always when I leave the office for the night ... and it's fully charged for many weeks thereafter.

You might have more of a point if the battery only lasted a few hours ...
If one were to look at human biochemistry over time, modern tech has increased average life-spans, but we've done so at the expense of quality of life. Take the 'ultra-pasteuraization' process of milks as an example, it's massively reduced gut flora variety.

They are selling expensive pills with probiotic entities that should be "free" with food we consumed for centuries. We went overboard on the sterilization. I just bought into a cattle herd so I could buy raw milk (which Europeans never lost access to, so we can compare notes).

The microbiome manifests itself whether one is on Earth or not, and whether one wants it to or not. Its composition, however, will vary based on the food consumed. Microorganisms are quite prevalent in the atmosphere whether they are wanted or not; that's how me making my own sauer kraut is possible.
I don’t get what’s special about the YouTube app. I deleted it from my iPhone because it was irritating clicking on a video and it launching the app.
Yeah, those Mac Minis can go quite low. But still the CPU power from any PPC vs. an ARM or low-end x86 is a bit inverted. A low-end ARM or x86 that is faster than any of the PPCs while using less than half the power (in the 1W to 8W range) does make a dent.
A quick look into LxRun.exe Win 10’s new Linux downloader and installer[2016]
Reading through the is domain rules [0] (which are in addition to the ToS), it does seem like the only requirement most people will have to watch out for is that there website must comply with Icelandic law, which, considering their more complicated understanding and implementation of GDPR (some parts have been rejected), may be quite a task.

[0] https://www.isnic.is/en/domain/rules
Sydney vs Canberra, Zurich vs Bern, Amsterdam vs The Hague, Istanbul vs Ankara, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) vs Hanoi, São Paulo vs Brasilia, Ottawa vs Toronto, Beijing vs Shanghai, New Delhi vs Mumbai, Wellington vs Auckland, ...
...based on the available market information.
"If you really feel uncomfortable about it, include the weather outside the office day. It seems silly, but it can lead to some interesting lines of questioning in legal proceeding"

Will remember this!
You're not wrong that physicians are an artificially restricted job market. The consequence is that most people actually spend very little time with one; PAs and nurses do a lot of what a doctor used to do.

Rather than doctors salaries driving up health care, there are fewer doctors serving more patients. A substantial amount of the increase in health care is the fancy facilities, high tech equipment, and the under-charging by medicaid and medicare for services.

On the one hand, I know a doctor who was essentially paid by medicaid less than minimum wage for certain treatments. On the other hand, I paid cash for a pre-surgery physical to make sure I was healthy enough for the surgery (I showed up thinking they were in my insurance network, and they were not).

Basically, a couple hundred bucks down the drain for a nurse to take my temperature, blood pressure, height, weight, and for a doctor to look at me and say "yup, you're good to go".
I never experienced or observed bad bullying or even physical violence (except for some minor skirmishes, usually between friends) during my school years.

We surely had our share of social awkward people, but they were left alone unless they themselves acted out, and they usually still made some friends.

We didn't have true bullies. Maybe occasionally somebody from a higher grade would tease somebody younger, but never for long let alone repeatedly. Beating somebody up would have been a great crime worthy of grave penalties in our eyes, and we would have stopped it and then have ratted out whoever it was in a heartbeat. If somebody tried to bully somebody beyond what we considered acceptable teasing or be aggessive to somebody, the class mates would protect whoever it was, even the social awkward kid. This only happened once in my peer group with a dude who had freshly transferred from another school (moved cities IIRC) trying to be the "cool" guy picking on an awkward kid, starting to slap him. He quickly learned that if you want to bully or fight one of us, you will fight all of us. Forming a crowd around him telling him to leave his victim alone, fuck off and never try it again with anybody was enough. A few years later we were buddies with him.

There were some students who gave teachers a somewhat hard time, but mostly "class jokers" who probably suffered from ADHD. I only ever had one class mate who posed such a problem the teachers could not handle her within our school. She was then sent off to a special care place specializing in teens with her kinds of problems, not as a punishment or some bullshit "zero tolerance" policy but to help her.

This is of course just my personal experience in the two schools I personally visited, but it makes me genuinely wonder how the dynamics in a school can change and deteriorate to a point where constant bullying and even beat ups are tolerated and common (whether it be due to obliviousness or fear). But I know it happens, and happens a lot.
Thanks for finding time to write this reply, I really appreciate that. I'm glad to hear that process was useful for you and that you learned a lot.

Just to answer your questions, yes I did watched all videos (also every single one from previous years) and I also participated in every single group meeting. That is the part I liked from my first note where I said I met some smart people and had nice chats.

However, all that I could do (and will continue to do) with random startup groups in my city. and/or online I just don't see any value from Y in that entire process. I was hoping they will at least help in some way to jump start my dream but like I mentioned they focus only on top profit promising startups and especially ones that are US based or willing to move to US because of it.
Why do you say it's dying?
That's both incredibly tacky and also kinda useless since this doesn't seem like one of those paintings that depend on texture or fine detail a ton, meaning restoring it can be as simple as creating a template off of a photograph and playing paint by numbers
>Which you "proved" by carefully selecting a single anecdote?

I CAREFULLY SELECTED a single anecdote... did you miss the part where is detailed why toilets (as in more than one) and other government projects cost so much ant take such a long time to complete? What can I say, keep believing, comrade.
Not true. Chrome OS uses Wayland and has 40% of the Linux desktop market. (Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... 1.1% Chrome OS vs 1.6% Linux ). Given trends, Chrome OS alone could make Wayland the dominant Linux display server in a couple years.
As a software guy working on embedded systems, working with HW guys, more often than not the SW is always considered "free" while the cost of the BOM is always scrutinized to the cent.

I am pretty sure in this instance the initial design had a reset button, and someone had the great idea to remove it to gain a few cents.

Be sure that the people working are sure this is a really poor design, but often cost considerations trump common sense.
#Humblebrag
>Those barriers can be initial startup costs (ie, wired communications), limited customer bases for niche products such that only one company can be economically supported, or other purely economic reasons.

Yeah, that's why the number of "natural monopolies" is a tiny fraction of all monopolies exist. Could you list at least 10 american natural monopolies?
> Sorry to bring a personal question...

On an article about the selflessness of another, in four paragraphs of text, you mentioned yourself ~24 times.

One might suggest reading the article again.
Looks good!

Can you say something about the specifics? Like – can I use it like a locker service similar to Google Play Music? If so, how many tracks can I upload?
I really thought this was a parody.
The battle against gender segregation in French suburbs (2016)
How is that satire? There are only exact and provable facts there, edited by a major Berlin newspaper, meant to be educating/informing, not funny.

But it IS a pretty good summary of the (publicly known) status.
what is the point of linking to submissions with no discussion.
A few things I learned about the healthcare space from my last startup
if (condition) { do_x() } else { do_y() }

That's the JavaScript version of what you wrote, and it's nearly identical. JavaScript doesn't require line breaks.
Was it really to expensive to add a cheap button? It's not like it needs to be pressed more than once or twice per product lifetime.
Doesn't look like satire to me. I would have expected a page that just says

<h1>No.</h1>

but it appears surprisingly detailed and well-researched.
This got a lot of attention on the internet for its sheer complexity recently. The second pattern is the older one and a little more complicated than the first. The problem is there is no place to put a reset switch on the bulb while it is plugged in. However I've seen similar things with resetting stuff like key remote on cars.
Fuchsia doesn't implement dot dot to traverse to the parent directory. POSIX doesn't seem likely.
Bisqwit?
I have some GE smart lightbulbs and i've never needed to reset them. People seem eager to mock this, but i don't see the problem. it's a (hopefully) rarely used procedure that you wouldn't want to be accidentally triggered, on an item that's very price sensitive. A physical reset button would significantly add to the cost of a part that sells for <$15.

If anything, be happy that GE has not only engineered a reset procedure, but they also publish it. The most likely alternative to this is not a button but rather no published reset at all, and just call the part disposable.
Their current CISO makes 3.9 million in total comp: https://www1.salary.com/Jamil-Farshchi-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Op...
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I’ve made 17 total flights in and out of TXL and SXF in the last 12 months, and while I agree that SXF is terrible (it reminds me of Nairobi airport), I like TXL. I prefer both TXL and SXF to London Luton, and TXL alone to London Gatwick, London Heathrow, and London Stansted. I find TXL about equal to London City.
Many can be read via http://archive.is or https://archive.org. I usually look there, and if I find a readable version I come back here and post the link for others.
The article says this airport is $11B. It's more than twice the costs of the "failed" German airport.
Given the panic selling by people of their Huawei based phones and the sharp fall in resell value, then I guess this will upset some who sold their phone as the resell value picks up again once we get a Google announcement ala Android access.

https://www.sellcompare.co.uk/huawei/phone/huawei_p30_pro_12...
Not a fan of prolog then? As an excercise, find the guard in this snippet (https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Babbage_problem#Prolog) and imagine such code in a team codebase!
I'm glad to hear that you had different experience and that you learned a lot! Wish you lots of success with your startup.

However with this I don't agree:
> "There's not really a downside to joining startup school. You can leave at any time, if it's not beneficial to your company."

Downside is: It is a big time sink and I would recommend using that time instead to focus on one only thing that matters -> YOUR IDEA
Hand signs hunter gatherers use to communicate while hunting [pdf]
I don’t own any smart lightbulbs, but my flat’s ceiling is at about 3,90m and getting a ladder out for every reset would be tedious. This would work without.
Wow. Thanks for sharing, puts bill in a new light. Baller, to be expected.
PPC is far from dead. You can buy brand-new POWER9 workstations with up to 44 cores (with SMT4 for 176 threads) from Raptor Computer Systems. They are also about as open as a modern computer can be with board schematics included with every system and only one component with closed firmware (the BCM5719 network controller, which is currently being reverse-engineered so an open firmware can be developed).
>>> One of the most ardent opponents of consolidation in the 1990s is current presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who in 1996 passed an amendment to block Pentagon subsidies for defense mergers, or what he called “Payoffs for Layoffs.”
>What if these microbes produce proteins that are

This is actually something we are able to measure. I don't find fault with anything else you claimed, but what are your credentials with regard to this topic? I'm not trying to gate-keep, but my undergrad was biochem and there are many well-understood fundamentals that some folks are not willing to concede, or that their 'theories' disregard.
I appreciate the sentiment; the wider ecosystem is a shite show. Consider that recent RHEL releases still don't come with an rpm version that supports subkey signing, and that it took something like 10-15+ years to get that added in after it was first brought up. Then, you have gpg forcing the agent down peoples throats turning a task that should involve a static binary to sign packages into a potential life altering event... The v1 to v2 changes and differences(like the dang agent) and timeline.

It's so embedded in stuff though, even if it feels jammed in and is half sticking out, I can't imagine it going away super soon.
I'd rather throw a brick at the bulb than do this.
Nice! What tech stack are you using?
I have the same problem with two G5 Xserves. They’re just too cool to get rid of.
warning: video ad with audio auto-plays even with ublock origin turned on.
> I'm not actually clear on what's incorrect about this logic

It's this same logic that gave us The Cold War.
This is Dan Abadi we're talking about. More importantly, the points he makes are important, clear and true. If that causes heartburn for Vendor A and pride for Vendor B, that's secondary. The primary goal is to help users of distributed database systems understand the kind of trouble they can encounter with anything less than strict serializability.

NB: there are important applications where correctness in specific situations is not paramount. Double-click and ad-serving companies in general are more concerned about speed and throughput and are generally willing to have approximate correctness. Strict serializability isn't a universal value, but it's good to know about when you DO care about the kinds of anomalies Dan illustrates.
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He only worked there a couple of years, and before MS got big. Did he really deserve the same cut as the other two (who worked for 30+) did? Maybe/not, but the question is valid.
Read the article again, the profit was $117k, not $1m.
The same applies to literally everyone who gets indicted and goes to jail.

What exactly is your point?
I'm a fan of irradiating food, but has never quite taken off.

Read through it all the way to see what it would do to beef, it looks like the meat will lose its color.
This is brilliant. Let the criminals do the math and figure out what their time is worth. In this case 500k for 4 months is a joke.
Because when attacking your parent poster, you neglected to explain your argument, and the reasons why you believe most people dislike Electron, and why X11 doesn't get the same scorn, which caused you to be downvoted.

Care to elaborate, please?

Do you know if X11, like Electron, supports shared memory textures in the GPU like IOSurface and GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES are for?
Frankly, I don't think "not being able to be a CIO" is a very serious impact, especially as he's demonstrated his lack of ethical reasoning in such a position. There's plenty of upper-management IT positions that he could downgrade to and still make well into the six-figure range. I'm not saying he's escaping unscathed - I'm saying he's getting away RELATIVELY unscathed compared to what lower-income convicts go through.

He's going to be just fine, and there isn't any way you could frame his situation to be worse than what drug offenders are put through.
Unless something is deeply wrong with the design, the intended audience is "almost nobody".

How often have you had to reset a device to factory default? I've only done it as part of changing the OS on a router.
Bytedance spent –$1B advertising TikTok in 2018