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> He means specifically that the product improves over time. For non-tech companies, the product you buy (a lamp, a car, a mattress) doesn't improve over time. Once you buy it, there's zero expectation that the company continues to improve it. You have to buy a new version of the product to get and improvements the company produces

Software installed locally that doesn't run "in the cloud" would qualify as not tech according to that definition.

For the most part Windows 98 just got bug fixes, in the same way a car might get part recalls, until Win 2000/ME came out with new features.
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I have developed another strategy. If the site doesnt work in firefox I will just leave. Most of the content is available elsewhere and it is internet way of "voting with my wallet".
My initial idea would be a fluorescent lamp that takes x-rays and glows EUV but you would need to find the right substance for that
Same. I’d like to analyze more time into the project, it seems is mainly for education proposes?

Either way, I hope Microsoft pushes AssemblyScript forward :)
Or perhaps fgBlox =)

https://fgblox.com/
I interview people quite often for data engineer positions where good knowledge of SQL is also required and I'll usually have the applicant give me a presentation of some system or data pipeline that they have worked on earlier (any possible business or client secrets can of course be obfuscated or omitted). I'll ask questions about that system or process "like I'm 12 years old" and then I'll make up on the fly some kind of problem statement that I would like to have this and this kind of results from the data - how would you do it? Very often I include problems that would be easily solvable with window functions and more often than not those who know them get hired :)

IMHO it is really helpful to know these.
(No significant experience with either SQLAlchemy or ActiveRecord, but work in Java at a shop that really strongly emphasizes the unit-of-work pattern.)

"give up connection after every query" is, IMO, not _less_ of a footgun, but a _more subtle_ footgun. That is to say, sure, for the most part, it will work ok.

_But when it doesn't_... like when your database goes down for a couple hours, or your rack loses network, or your proxy to whatever cloud provider is running your database, or maybe some other dependency had an outage between the queries... you end up not really knowing what executed and what didn't, with some fraction of your 10k req/sec leaving behind some dangling state -- a partially processed $whatsit -- and no clear/easy way to fix it or even necessarily identify how many $whatsits were affected. At least a few times, I've needed to either wait until records make their way into some OLAP system for offline analysis, or deploy some fixup code, or emulate either/both to fix stuff up after something weird happens.

At least that's what I am constantly afraid of. Do you also worry about this kind of stuff? If not, what prevents it from being a problem in your environment?

Signed,

The guy constantly badgering seemingly everyone about minding their transaction boundaries.
Yes because even the russians have to move further north.
> To add insult to injury if you try to go to the web app on your Android phone in a desktop tab it still opens the Android app instead.

If you long-press the "Desktop" link and "open in new tab", the webapp will be opened in the browser and not in the Android app.
Is the future of work remote? I don't buy it
Unfortunately this means you have the choice between accepting oppression, or face an escalation in force. That is how tyrants keep their populations subservient and living in fear.
Why does release date matter? Apple could re-release an old phone in a new package, as it did with SE, and qualify for your pricing comparison.
Hahahaha. Yea sure.
It seems like extreme ascetism, a step farther than eschewing the material world in Buddhism and a step up from the punishment for Roman vestal virgins who broke their vow.

I can see why they'd encourage it, though. A death sentence to solitary confinement would induce a radically altered state of consciousness, and provide visitors with the closest thing to an oracle who's experienced death.

I'd definitely have many questions. Wouldn't want to volunteer!
Water. You extinguish it with water. Pour water on it, drop it in a bucket, etc.
”In a backtracking system, you never know when you've definitely parsed a piece of content—later input might require you to backtrack again

[…]

A GLR parser can split its parse stack and run both sides alongside each other for a while until it becomes clear which one works out.”

So, depth-first vs breadth-first, where the former is a bad idea, performance-wise, because the ‘better’ parses may be found late in the game, so that, early on, very few branches can be cut soon?
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I think Google has all these things because they have access to vastly more money and top tier developers than Mozilla.

When you think about it, it's incredible that Firefox is as good as it is (same re Linux.)

But obviously if Google wants to stay better than Firefox, whether it takes a year or a decade, they'll always be able to because they have an absurd amount of resources.

So I wonder, what are Firefox's competitive advantages?

1. Privacy: They can do things like this, blocking trackers, things that benefit the user over the platforms. Because Google can pay lip service to this but at the end of the day their customers are advertisers.

2. What else?

Also, Google has advantages, in that they have synergetic (is that the right way to put it?) products. Like Android and Chrome OS that promote Chrome over the competition.

Can Mozilla compete by adopting a similar approach?

Linux kind of fulfills the role of the OS with Firefox by default, usually. It certainly should, at least.

Of course, Linux suffers from the same lack of resources compared to the competition.
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> Economics of Electric Vehicles Mean Oil's Days As A Transport Fuel Are Numbered

I know the article was about cars, but fossil fuel will always have a place as aviation fuel. The only thing I can currently see ending that trend is widespread use of vacuum tunnel trains.
I don’t see why that wouldnlt be feasible. I worked in flexible student jobs myself while beeing officially an employee.

If I were to work for the same company constantly as an freelancer the state would rightfully assume that it is to avoid the costs connected with employment. And as a freelancer I can choose my dates myself as well.

I don’t see why a more flexible scheduling system should allow you to avoid paying into a system that is there for a reason.
If your business requires a consistently high amount of labor hours worked and the survival of that business depends on none of those labor hours being filled by employees, I'm not sure you have a profitable (in any term: short- to long- inclusive) business model. You have a VC ponzi scheme that inevitably collapse.
For better or worse, ads are what finances the vast majority of online content out there. Even HN gets the occasional paid job posting, stripe (or other YC company) promo, etc., and I'm ok with it. For me, the problem isn't ads per se, but tracking and targetted ads which bring privacy invasion, monopolization, and security issues.
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It's solid. The problem is scaling: if you're betting fixed odds, a lot of bookmakers will limit the amount you can bet, or ban you outright if you're winning too much. If you're into horses and bet into the totes, you run the risk of wildly affecting the pool (and therefore the final payout) if you're throwing huge amounts into it. The only way to really scale it is to bet into pools that are already huge (like Hong Kong - hence why it's such a popular target for the big syndicates).
This is a classic scam using public databases (e.g. companies register).

It's legal to collect public data for marketing purposes as far as I know.

Issuing fake invoices is probably fraud.

Under the GDPR you may have a right to demand the scammers remove your details from their own database ;)
Even if not many developers use an email-based workflow for their own work, I think it’s pretty well-known that the Linux kernel does.
The Hong Kong police raise a banner warning of "tear smoke" when they're about to fire, and this is a much less confusing name for the stuff than tear gas.

A cartridge of something hot and smoking skitters at your feet. You can throw it back, or douse it with water, or immerse it in water, but you'll burn your hand if you don't have gloves on. The smoke is a powerful irritant that feels like someone blew pepper into your eyes and nose. If the residue gets on your skin and clothes, you can tear gas yourself later by accident. Goggles and a particulate filter mask protect against it.

That's really all you need to know about tear gas.
Same for Debian and its forks (dpkg --ignore-depends) and I'm pretty sure rpm/yum has a similar option.
Here in the UK the price of petrol has gone up more than 50% in the past 20 years. So long as electricity is increasing in price more slowly its still more attractive as a fuel source.
> Calling all Haskell enthusiast!!!

This typo is funny :)
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Please read Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy [1] to understand why sometimes it is not okay to ask people to move from where they are living.

[1] Original link not working https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1rpmFi...
> I'd rather pay for the content then

People like you are a minority. Most people expect Internet content to be free.
That's what I do too. I believe that the more the people who don't tolerate this nonsense (and tell others to do likewise when possible), the quicker we can achieve positive change for everyone. And by "positive change" I mean challengers to Chrome and Google's attitude of bulldozing things (including invading privacy).
This strict split is also one of the central theme of Poppers "The Open Society And Its Enemies".

"For we may distinguish two main types of government. The first type consists of governments of which we can get rid without bloodshed — for example, by way of general elections; that is to say, the social institutions
provide means by which the rulers may be dismissed by the ruled, and the social traditions- ensure that these i nstitutions will not easily be destroyed by those who are in power. The second type consists of governments which the ruled cannot get rid of except by way of a successful revolution — that is to say, in most cases, not at all"
...
"the criterion of a
democracy is this: In a democracy, the rulers — that is to say, the government — can be dismissed by the ruled without bloodshed Thus if the men in power do not safeguard those institutions which secure to the minority the possibility of working for a peaceful change, then their rule is a tyranny. We need only distinguish between two forms of government, viz. such as possess institutions of this kind, and all others"

https://archive.org/stream/TheOpenSocietyAndItsEnemiesPopper...
Consider this though, would those marketing schmucks invest that much money into dystopian tracking on the web if they didn't have the data to back it up?

The problem is in the user. They do this because we let them. Spread the adblock around your non-technical peers whenever you can.
For events from spam emails that got updated, it might be worth to investigate if you could ask the user; "You marked an email as spam but an event was imported from it that you updated, Keep/Update/Delete?"
If you're working with a group of people you should never git pull prior to a commit and always git push -f
I don't know that that's hyperbole. Many folks do feel that window functions were no less than a revolution.
I recall a case study about the telecom industry and how it was a race to the bottom laying undersea cables and then the bubble burst. But that assessment was in hindsight.
I guess a distinction needs to be made between a "bubble" which is a part of the market economy, and what can be called a "ponzi scheme" which is malicious from the very beginning.
From the original post, it's more like a language parsing issue - Chrome was original a desktop-only application and it had extensions. When it was ported to Android, they ditched extensions, as well as jettisoning numerous other features.

Thus, not "completely wrong."
How could ads benefit users? Obviously, if the revenue that content creators receive from ads came directly from the consumers, the middle (ad) man would be cut out and all others would benefit.
It's something a person would say with a salary depending on ads. Who likes tracking and popups? TV programming butchered? Endless garbage in the mail? Come on.
It's pretty easy to avoid Instagram and Facebook. Install an ad blocker and the rest of the web becomes reasonably friendly.

They'll just keep ratcheting up the obnoxiousness until they find your threshold for quitting. These are "free" products, so if you're still enjoying the rest of the site, then they're leaving money on the table.
Umm, cars ?
There are plenty of examples of other, arguably even more extreme forms of slow religious self-sacrifice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallekhana
I am not using the in-feed ads, but the responsive ads.

No matter which ads - I think it is not acceptable that they alter the surrounding page. They also don't state that on the page you linked. What they talk about there is about the size of the ad. But what the ad code does now is to analyze the rest of the page and alter it.
Indeed, I've just had exactly this case with a high speed USB3 camera. Tested it on 2 PC's and a Pi4 both direct and via a USB3.1 hub and it just wouldn't deliver the theoretical frame rate. Finally turned out the 'premium' USB C cables we were using are actualy only USB2.

From pictures on Amazon [0], a lot of cables being advertised as Type C USB3 are actually missing the 'SS' labelling, despite being advertised as 'Superspeed' (i.e. 5Gbps) in the description.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-PowerLine-Durability-Devices-... - in this case, it currently provides a link "There is a newer version of this item" which links to a USB2 version(!).
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Yes they can. Online advertising is on the rise. Businesses have been spending the same % in advertising for a century. If it is not possible to use trackers, businesses will keep spending the same, and advertisers should be paying out the same to publishers.

The bigger question for me is why publisher payouts keep dropping even while online advertising spend is skyrocketing.

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https://ark-invest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/internet-a...
If you have a well, or the infrastructure to ship in water, then you're not in the situation I was talking about, are you? I didn't say people shouldn't live in deserts. I said that people shouldn't live in deserts if they cannot acquire safe drinking water.

Either you figure out a way to get water, or you move to someplace where you can (perhaps another location in that same desert, but closer to a road that water trucks can navigate?) Such is the tyranny of our basic biological needs.
Have done stuff like this where the queries were quite complex and essentially BI style.. Wrote a system to store and manage the procs in VCS and manage them through the ORM migration system(ORMs are quite a la cart).

Your either generating and submitting the queries through prepared statements or just storing them in the database. It's not "leaking" IMHO to do the later and in fact can come with benefits; you can call the procs while connected to the database through various other clients be it command line or a BI system. So in effect you are encapsulating the logic in the place with the most potential for re-use.
There has been societal pressure, extreme societal pressure for the last couple of thousand years, to get married and have kids which will pass along any gay genes. This would also make those applying this social pressure responsible for it's prevalence.
Definition of tech company is flawed. Especially it does not fit tomorrow's companies.
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The public homicides with the greatest death toll are all arson fires, like the Happy Land Social Club massacre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire
Interesting. Whenever the topic is nutrition, the official guidelines are often criticized. Which always left me puzzled - I wouldn't even know if my country had some kind of official advice on that. Let alone follow them. But in the US that seems to actually have some kind of authority.

Besides that, and just carefully: After skipping over that document, I'm confident that it contains grossly outdated advice to the point where doing the exact opposite might not be worse. Especially on topics like saturated fats, salt intake or cholesterol.
I was about to post the same objection, the steam used in the turbine is in a closed cycle for all that I know.

But a large amount of water is evaporated to cool the condenser in big plants that produce more waste heat than can be used by local low intensity heat consumers (district heating, greenhouses).

In any case, water consumption is an incredibly weak metric if it's not somehow normalized by source and sink impact. It's irresponsible alarmism when e.g. irrigation use from a plentiful source is measured on the same scale as consumption of a non-replenishing mineral occurrence and/or water use that ends with dumping toxic liquid into a leaky artificial lake as seem with certain mining processes.
In other words, and as the IETF demonstrates, consensus.
I'm working on a project that is almost literally your example of reducing a relational database to a key value store, despite client applications having complex problem domains to model.

The consequence has been catastrophic data consistency problems and the whole programme rapidly grinding to a halt.

I think the problem is the overly broad definition of 'business logic' that encompasses everything from data integrity to presentation logic.
The same way that reading HN can benefit users. A lot of the posted blog articles are covert advertising anyway. Ads do not benefit the user directly, they benefit the business, which expands and improves its products, which itself benefits the user. Advertising is indispensable for business growth, and are never going to go away, they 'll just change format
There also seems to be an emerging pattern that the less processing the better. This also has the advantage that you can know what you eat better.

In general there is also no need for someone to routinely take any supplements, which are used to offset a specific, identified deficiency (which should be very rare with a good diet and lifestyle).
Joking aside, "git pull -r" is pure magic in the face of upstream rewrites. It always does the right thing:

https://mergebase.com/doing-git-wrong/2018/03/07/fun-with-gi...

After I wrote that blog post someone told me the reason for the magic is the use of "git merge-base --fork-point" under the hood.
It could know via USB descriptors, and match the device capabilities from the descriptors against what the cable allows.