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Do you really believe that google plans to diversify by moving into a complelety non software business like internet utilities?

People said it was crazy for Apple to move into the music business (Slashdot: “No Wireless, Less Space than a Nomad, Lame”)and try to open a digital music store (who will buy music when they can get it for free?). That seem to have worked out pretty well.

The CEO of Palm said on rumors of the iPhone in 2006 when people thought it was crazy for Apple to get into the phone business “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.”.

Google’s ad business is being disrupted - their profit was down on ad sales. Facebook knows a lot more about people because people tell Facebook a lot more about themselves and can do better targeting. Also, since most Facebook usage is done through apps, ads are almost impossible to block. Amazon is also getting more into the ad space and they know a lot more about consumer behavior than Google. Their first party ads are also harder to block.

iOS fairly recently added native content blockers - where the most valuable consumers are and more traffic is moving to mobile.

“Do you think that enterprise offerings like cloud aren't diversification?”

It’s a distance third to AWS and Azure. GCP doesn’t have the first mover advantage of Amazon or the advantage of having the advantage of Microsoft’s entrenched base in the enterprise or its sales team.
> call yourself a dummy

I always put masking tape over the “dummies” part and write “geniuses” on it before I display it on my desk so nobody will know.
Reminds me of the small “sample size misconception”

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/9/656465/-
Sure, that is sort of what I am saying. It is hard to build a community around custom cases when injection molding starts at $5k. It is like trying to start a band (before the Internet) with no venues, demo or posters. That would be infinite rehearsal.

But I guess as I said in my other comment it depends on what you mean with diy. If it is about doing something in the craft sense you can 3d print, laser cut and solder. And you can collect keycaps and choose colours. But if it is doing something where the design of the keyboard is what you are doing, rather the assembling of it, than you need some sort medium for your design. And since their aren't much of scene to present your work in (like you would have with custom cars) you have distribute it.

There a huge disconnect between this idea of drones, 3d printing or maker spaces as the future and the reality of what is possible on the ground. And that is about being able to make a hundred of something without waiting months, spending quite a bit of money and/or traveling to China.

But I guess it is a bit of a tangent. As you said people don't make more different keyboards because things like cases and flex pcbs are expensive.
> It is not clear how this has to be implemented but I feel that some more privacy oriented and data-ownership oriented platforms will emerge in the next five years.

Thanks. I look forward to opening another 18 tabs in five years. :)
If it's one household, sharing prime is an option, sharing account is mostly accountability for what happens if it is compromised. And obviously against tos, EULA and it's probably one of the fully legal clauses.
Ouch. Fixed now. Thanks!
This may sound crazy to some people but I still prefer a sturdy built in keyboard and hinge
Re 1st point: OP was referring specifically to usability learnings
Would this language be comparable to a package like JAGS?
There is a lot of talk about it and the conclusion is that there is no need to take action.

The estimated max is 11 billion because the birthrate is very low right now.

The 'problem' is that we live longer.
That's an interesting hypothesis, but man, that's a seriously garbage paper. It's borderline satire. It repeatedly comes back to an argument along the lines of: "Drug has side effect X. X is not inconsistent with disrupted metabolism." Well, shit, very few things are outright inconsistent with disrupted metabolism, unless you've 100% nailed down an alternative mechanism for the side effect.
Vaccines prevent disease and keep it from spreading. Preventing a problem from happening in the first place is and will always be the best solution.

Unfortunately they're a victim of their own success. They've done such a phenomenal job people scarcely remember why we use them at all.
Some of the Blockstack apps work on mobile as well (I haven't tested them all but a saw some good progressive web app designs).
Reducing fevers is a mixed bag. Yes, the higher temperature may help fight the disease (or might do nothing, totally dependent on the diseases suitability for reproduction at higher temperature). Yes, it can also damage your body if it gets out of control. And yes, sleep is also good for fighting off illness, and a fever can get in the way of that. Just because it is your bodies natural response doesn’t mean it’s going to help you. Allergies are a great example of the body taking totally inappropriate counter-measures.
Just know your limitations.
I worked with a guy, somewhere on the spectrum.

He was very good at some things, but understanding other people's perspectives wasn't one of them.

He was excellent from a broad architectural perspective, but failed to acknowledge his limitations in regard to API development and user facing content.

There will always be a difficulty in understanding why it is that certain concepts are beyond our grasp, but it might not stop us from understanding that they are.
Venezuela? Argentina? I think there are plenty of examples.
It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface.

It's such a awful design. I've explicitly opted out of the new design on my account, and I use old.reddit.com whenever I'm not signed in.
I winced at this comment too, because of that line, but have to point out that the "other side" of this argument could stand to be a lot more respectful as well. The "most doctors are dumb" sentiment on this thread fits the caricature lots of people have in their heads about how "HN people" think.
It can be helpful to reframe your envy as simply being happy for others.

Other than specific edge cases (for example, competing with a colleague for a promotion), success is not mutually exclusive.

You can be happy for your peers when they do well -- their performance doesn't mean that you can't succeed, too.
And the price difference. $2000 vs $500.

AMD is seriously dominating recently. Huge respect!
How could something like you describe be language independent? Any possible implementation I can think of would have to be integrated with the language, specifically the type system.

Edit: I should specify: within the constraints of today's language technology, it's hard for me to imagine a language-independent implementation. It's entirely possible things will be different 100 years from now, although for various reasons I'm skeptical.
Why though? Palantir isn't the one using the tools for ill. The government is collecting the information and using it, possibly, to violate civil liberties and constitutional rights.

What can Palantir do to you?
The times are always weird. You’ll be perpetually waiting if you’re waiting for stuff to get “normal”. Absorbing the essential truth of this is part of the zen of indexing.

Nobody knows what outcome you’ll get, but indexing is a solid process. That’s all you can do - maximise the quality of your process. Anything else is noise.
"No one?" That's a patently-false claim. It worked wonders in China, nothing like a little engineered horrendous sex ratio imbalance from SCP.
GCPs customer support is light years behind AWS’s business or enterprise support. I’ve yet to hear anyone say anything positive about any part of Google’s customer support.

Then everyone has their strengths. If you want to run a lot of containers or ML for example, GCP seems a save bet.

And that’s a minuscule part of the market.

But as far as I know, AWS has never outright abandoned a product. They may make it unavailable to new accounts.
Do ethical strategies to accomplish that exist?
It should be illegal to classify fluoroquinolones as antibiotics. The point of an antibiotic is that it specifically targets bacterial cells while doing no damage to multicellular organisms. Fluoroquinolones indiscriminately damage everything they touch, so they're just a really fancy and strange poison. They don't just rupture tendons, people will often experience waves of intense pain throughout their entire body for the rest of their life from the damage done to their nervous system. Many suspect that "gulf war illness" was in fact soldiers reacting to fluoroquinolone "antibiotics" which they were the guinea pigs for. Always check the acting component of an antibiotic that a doctor prescribes to you, and if it contains fluoroquinolones then you should frankly treat their act of prescribing it to you as barely any different than a murder attempt.
Warp 10, the most advanced Open Source Time Series Platform just got an upgrade
Hmm.. Let's do some back of the napkin math, and see.

1. In 2013 (most recent data point I could find) in the US, 107,141 were injured or killed by a gunshot wound. [1]

2. There are currently 327 Million people living in the U.S. (0.033% of Americans are killed or injured by guns every year).

3. The median age of the U.S. population is 38.1. 38.1 * 107,141 = 4,082,072.1, or ~ 1.25% of the population.

My statistic-fu is pretty weak these days, but given this, I think it's fair to say most Americans do know someone who's been shot.

Just for more anecdata: I'm hardly that popular, and I know at least 4 people who have been shot (that I know of).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
Exactly this! You can have column like "occurs_at" an then filter with "occurs_at < current_timestamp" together with ordering on that column or possibly some priority one too to have workers perform these tasks in importance order.

Retries are trivial too - you can have attempts countdown column etc.

Also check NOTIFY/LISTEN which can be used to avoid pooling and wake-up workers efficiently. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
From page 69 of your circular:

"At some point when this decentralization process is complete and there is a healthy ecosystem of applications and users on the network, Blockstack PBC expects to develop new business models"

This is the Field of Dreams approach to reinventing the internet economy.

Also from that circular: "core nodes are hosted on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services, or AWS, which provides us with computing and storage capacity. Some elements of this complex system are operated by third parties that Blockstack does not control and that could require significant time to replace. We expect this dependence on third parties to continue"

I'm struggling to understand what is decentralized about any of this. From my vantage point, you got VC to pay you to run a project on the cloud by saying "blockchain" a lot.
India lifted 271M people out of poverty in 10 years: UN
the problem with decentralization is that, for an average Joe, it's just a bunch of loonies wearing tin foil hats who have something to hide, and besides, what has Facebook done to me (average Joe) personally? People, ultimately, don't care about privacy that much, not until they see obvious consequences of corps having their data that affect them greatly in their lives. Privacy against employers/old school friends/fiancees is something they care about, that's why Snapchat, Instagram Stories and private groups are replacing the public newsfeed. Decentralization must offer some clear advantages over fb, that an average person might appreciate. Those advantages must offset the UX problems, of which there are plenty, most of them pretty hard to fix. In my opinion, the worst one is the ubiquitous use of smartphones over PCs, as any decentralized stuff on smartphones is a nightmare, mostly due to systems relying on servers for stuff like push and background app refresh. This is particularly important on iOs. Also true decentralization, NOT federation, with checks and balances, possibly with nodes that only connect to other nodes that have signed a sort of license / legal agreement, is the only way to ensure it won't turn into mail, AKA one big Gmail that doesn't care, and the rest which doesn't matter.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434037.
> Suppose you find a library that kinda does what you need, but not really. Do you adapt it to your needs or do you build a version from scratch that really suits your needs, but might take a bit of time to develop?

Which do you think will take more time to develop and maintain: the wrapper layer that adapts the existing library to your needs, or the ground-up homegrown implementation? Your estimate of the answer here (along with the risk calculus of the external dependency and the reliability of it's maintainer) are the key factors in answering the question
Ask HN: How to get started as contractor/consultant in niche area?
Next year I’m finishing my PhD in a pretty niche (though crucial) subfield of an area that’s grown tremendously in the last few years (perception for autonomous vehicles) and my colleagues have all got awesome offers from various companies in this space (we’ve all interned at a few of them) and I’m excited to join them in the Bay Area next year.

However, my ultimate dream is to buy a house in a pretty rural area in my parents’ home state and work remotely/be a contractor/consultant. Tentatively my plan is to put in 4-5 years working at startups and big cos until I have the experience necessary for this (I assume that autonomy won’t be solved by then!)

What can do I now to start preparing for this? What kind skills should I be building? I’ll definitely ask around to see if I can meet any contractors who are doing this in my field as it strikes me as not too common.
I try to not set goals that are about me personally, but more about what I want to create. How can I make myself as useful as possible, shape the future as much as possible, connect with as many people as possible, etc.

I still get just as envious as anyone else, especially when times are tough, but thinking outwardly helps get me re-aligned. I've already got everything I need, having more money would just mean living a more comfortable life which is something you get used to and stop appreciating pretty quick.
Thanks for the info and the great description ("...Donner party").

My partner at that time quite possibly was an over-seerer of the activities You described, she did superfund environmental impact stuff and I vaguely recall something about it.
There was a small house I really admired on Post & Lenora, it was there until the early 2000's (I lived <50 meters away).
Many Blockstack apps are about managing user data. If you want to make profit from this data then you stay where we are at the moment with data capitalism...
Why aren’t you using old.reddit when you are signed in?
> But modern digital cameras of "35mm frame" are way beyond this, that's why nobody uses them with lenses from last century.

I would be really interested in hearing more about this (noob in this area). Are you saying the old Nikon / Canon lenses from 90s are a bad choice for modern DSLRs from these companies, or did I completely misunderstand you? If so, why is that?
That's what I expected. And I that is probably due to an optimisation rather than uninitialised variables (can anyone confirm that?).

I am sceptical the author really knows much as some of their statements seem blatantly wrong or just nonsense:

"So, one time we 'look' at x it can be at least 150, and then when we look at it again it is less than 120, even though x did not change."

Is talking about "x < 150 || x > 120", but gets it the wrong way around, ouch!

"Memory remembers if you initialized it. The x that is passed to always_return_true is not the 8-bit representation of some number, it is an uninitialized byte."

Benefit of doubt could be extremely poor metaphors, or referencing the wrong code?

Also stating C is not low-level is a conceited attempt to redefine the word.
Maybe so, but can you please not post unsubstantive comments here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One classic helpful example that gets brought up is integer overflow and loops. Because overflow is undefined in C and C++, the loop doesn’t need to check for it on each iteration.
People tend to compete in hackathons not for the prizes/job. They do it because you can spend a small amount of time producing something tangible which you can understand and be proud of. They are rewarding, intellectually stimulating, and fun.

In game design circles the equivalent of a hackathon is called a game jam. They are almost universal and are seen as an excellent opportunity to both try out ideas and socialise with other people that you wouldn't normally get an opportunity to work with.

> Almost everyone that attends says they are exhausted by the end [...]

Same is true of the gym. That's not an argument against.

> [...] you tend to consume unhealthy food & beverages in the process.

That's a function of planning. When we run such events we provide healthy food (fruit, primarily) for free. But we also have pizza, as we do at all of our other social events. That is more of a function of group events than of hackathons per se.

I think your concern for the well-being of hackathon participants is admirable, and if you ran such an event I think you would do it very well. Have you considered organising something?
I don't know it understates the efficiency as much as it simply understates the max draws in general. 3900x Tom's Hardware review for reference: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ryzen-9-3900x-7-3700x-r...

Difference of about ~57 watts (142 vs 199) in the non AVX.
Hybrids are more complicated than non-hybrids, not so much mechanically as electrically and in the controls. It takes very sophisticated computer software and calibrations to properly manage the charge/discharge of the battery pack and the electric motors when doing regenerative braking or acceleration, in order to provide the same functionality as a simple throttle and mechanical brakes do in a non-hybrid.
Thanks, that was informative. Do you have a reference that you'd recommend about the details of how the big names that you've mentioned are doing multitenant Kubernetes? I'd love to read more about it.
See “Whitey on the Moon” for a great example of then-contemporary debate over the nation’s priorities.
Yes, but JAGS would only be able to solve a subset of the problems you can do inference on using a general probabilistic programming language like Gen.

That's because JAGS only supports models that can be expressed as graphical models.
It seems like compostable containers might be more practical, since the food and container go into the same bin?
Dry composting toilets are not remotely practical for high density areas like NYC.
> The idea that you can ignore the real hardware is particularly unhelpful in Rust, because it's a great fit to low-level problems where the real hardware is a big deal. For example, at work, we have a Rust program where we routinely need to think about NUMA placement and cache coherency protocols. Those don't exist in the Rust abstract machine at all!

If I understand Ralf's overall model here, I think they'd argue that this sort of reasoning must be done within the context of the abstract machine's behavior for std::ptr::{read,write}_volatile, no?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? and especially please not post in the flamewar style, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434596? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ahhh, you're commenting on your contempt for the military, I see that now. I didn't get that at first, from your apparent comment about economics. ("the fact is that technology development is not some generic facility; if you develop technology devoted to getting things up into orbit, it will basically give you the expertise to do that. It doesn't, say, develop your semiconductor design, biochemistry, medicine, agriculture, or whatever else your country might need.")

Both the space programs and the military have well documented positive direct and indirect effects on private business, and both have many spinoff technologies that do benefit society. That is in addition to some well documented negative impacts, not to mention wars and death. But you didn't really want to talk about the economics, right?

If you just don't want to build weapons and don't think we should as a society, that's a reasonable view to hold, I can certainly find some ground to agree with you. Personally, I'll just suggest choosing clarity and not ridicule might help get that point across and convince more people. The sarcasm and ridicule tend to alienate, especially if you're talking directly to people who might enjoy space topics and would otherwise agree with you that weapon building is ugly business. You're choosing to ridicule innocent bystanders, rather than the people making weapons.

> Space fetishism is a diversion that exists to bilk engineers into careers and positions that are in aid of the military.

That makes it sound like a conspiracy theory, as if nobody would be interested in space were it not for the sneaky military. Isaac Newton had a space fetish and died before NASA or the US military industrial complex began. You didn't get tricked into a NASA career, right? I know a few engineers that have worked in space & military applications, and all the ones I know participated knowingly.
You need money to build and run the apps. Source: I do this for a living.
> I think Mexico and central and South America would become dramatically less violent over night.

Short term I would expect more violence: cartels won't just quietly pack up shop, they will try to pivot. Too many people who have a career to salvage. Long term, it would be worth it nonetheless.
Ah, I did not know that!

The Purescript integration seems definitely interesting!

Do you use these tools for work?
Ah sorry I think I replied to the wrong comment
Depression follows easily from that.

Long story short; depression has set in when a previous source of joy no longer brings the expected feeling of well-being. Having encountered this fault, the individual seeks to correct it. Depending on environmental factors, they might choose to self-medicate with e.g. alcohol.
Day in the Life of an Average Japanese Salaryman in Tokyo
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how bad the comment you're replying to is. That only makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And they wanted to keep this plane in the air and the CEO was making calls assuring high level people of its safety instead of immediately recalling it and starting an independent investigation. With this many problems, it's frightening that they wanted to continue risking the lives of the crew and passengers.
My understanding is that they believe they are exception to the rule and that such schedule is more effective for them.