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My little brain can't keep up with too many things (in short term memory) at once, so more concise and expressive languages are better for me. Also, more sane languages are better (where it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot because you're not (yet) very good at the language).

The homoiconicity of Lisps allow me to think less about syntax. (function <args...>). And reading code is easier, since I see the operations first. Adding more advanced features (via macros) can give you lovely function chaining - threading, piping, etc.

Immutability in Clojure is also good for me because it allows me to learn and forget about functions. Black boxes are great things when you can trust that they are pure functions; just compose bigger black boxes and so on.

I don't do a lot of Clojure these days, but when I was using it professionally I could basically forget about JVM; JDBC was about the only time I interop-ed with Java. If you need some of the good things that JVM offers, great; if not, it's just a hosting environment. Same with Elixir and BEAM (although JVM and BEAM are very different and tailored for different problem sets).

But on topic, given a choice between ReasonML and JavaScript, it seems to me that ReasonML is more thought out, cleaner, safer, and a step in the right direction.
You’re advocating for having three categories in corporate accounting instead of two: revenue,
costs, and penalties?

Ostensibly the courts would factor in tax benefits to their calculations for punitive damages, under the current system. I don’t believe there are any limits on what punitive damages can account for, beyond “make it hurt”.

Not sure if this is a fine written into law though, which would not be able to easily account for tax differences.
I have a rather specific condition that I’ve seen YouTube advertisements for the drugs for, despite not even searching for the details of it except through an anonymizer. I’ve always wondered what the cost per click for an advertisement for a $100,000/yr drugs is.
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Yeah - I can recognize a little bit of me in that (the bugged by bad arguments part). The answer is probably e) all of the above.
That's the best you're going to find, some journalist's reminiscence twenty-some years after the fact. So I would caution anyone to be wary of whipping that quote out to make a point.
I know this is late, but check this article that appeared couple of days after this was published

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Where do you live? lol
They are just arguing about the next-gen system that will achieve higher throughput. For consumers of US banks you can already do real-time payments with no fees with Zelle.
'Deceiving the Sky' reveals how China steals tech secrets to dominate world
Antitrust was neutered in the US by the Chicago School of Economics and the legal theories of Robert Bork (he of the Saturday Night Massacre and failed Supreme Court nomination).

Let's hope Lina Khan and the seeming bipartisan consensus that Big Tech needs taming are the beginning of an antitrust renaissance.
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> You are wrong, ads only waste people's time.

This, along with your focusing entirely on online ads, leads me to believe you failed to understand my comment, or at least what the purpose of it was.

> A better service would be one where consumers pay with money to ask a service for the best recommendation of a product by an independent company.

That's a different way. It may or may not be better, depending on the service and and category, and how much money you have. One possible downside is that you need to know what you're looking for. A simple example of this is movie trailers. I used to see a lot of them, and I enjoyed knowing what movies were coming out later. A few years back I dropped cable, and only use a few online streaming services now. I remember once every 6-12 months to look at movie trailers on Hulu, otherwise I really only hear about stuff from word of mouth or from some interest site that is excited about it. Entire movies come and go that I never hear of now. Is that better? I don't particularly think so. I liked the exposure of movie trailers. Could some trailers be played too much and be annoying? Yes. Do I think the entire lack of them is a better? For me, no.

> Furthermore there are multiple other ways to make revenue online that don't involve ads

I'm not defending the current online ad industry. I'm trying to lay down a framework that leads to a solution that works better, by trying to re-frame the conversation on the actual problem elements instead of what happens so often, which is attacking symptoms and letting the actual problem surface somewhere else, just as bad if not worse. Attacking ads will not stock tracking, it will stop ads that track you. If you care about tracking and privacy, fight against tracking and for privacy, and the problematic ads will be forced to change as well, but at least they won't just shift to real world ads that track you, or other uses of tracking people for monetization that are even worse than advertising.
I doubt the vast majority of employees would get offended that easily. I work for a tech company providing marketing tools (basically, I help send marketing emails (aka spam)), I like the pay, the overall environment and the technical challenges, but I'm under no illusion that I contribute to the betterment of our societies.

If you see these kind of behavior online, it's almost always people paid to explicitly monitor forums and "protect" a company image.
It seems like in your original post, you were saying that iPhone was not a good value. Yet the A series chips consistently outperform Snapdragon by years, and software support for iPhone probably means a years old model has more official life than a latest Android.

I don’t think the reply was suggesting you get a new phone specifically. They were responding to your claim that iPhone is on face not a good value.
A more recent homage to this is "The Diamond Club" by Patricia Harkins-Bradley which was created by listeners of a podcast as a parody of 50 Shades of Grey http://dctvpedia.com/The_Diamond_Club:_A_Novel
>But that's not the story that was spread by the shills...

I'm not sure that was the case at the time... specifically there being "paid shills" on the internet.

Concern / outrage over the legal system seems to be a bit of the human condition, I'm not convinced there was a conspiracy required to have folks retell an inaccurate story about that incident.

Sometimes it feels like anything that is perceived to be corporate friendly is called a "shill" as if individuals (mistaken or not) couldn't organically have X opinion.
> >I mean, maybe the guy was just for civil unions instead, who knows what his reasoning was.

> Does that sound likely to you?

So you're for running people out of their jobs when they take a political position you don't like, because you know what their likely motives for doing so are? You think that's the moral thing to do? You don't see any problems with, say, false positives?

And even if you think your judgement will be accurate, be careful. You're setting the precedent of someone else judging your likely motives, and therefore running you out of your job.

This is not a wise way to run a society. It's better not to go there.
On my browser at least there's a pair of arrows to rotate the grid so different equations will be "upright".
There's a great thread from a few years ago that really stuck with me on the topic of why we should avoid name calling -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11793127

Paraphrasing -

The sincerity of your feelings is not the point. The
point is that calling people names reduces the quality

And -

What ideas, as opposed to emotions, can't be
communicated without name calling?
Thank you grsecurity for the patch. They provided a valuable fix.

If they consider some chest bumping helps them to get more business to support their future freebie bug hunts, I'd call it fair.

Also, I think bragging rights motivate a lot of white hats doing valuable work for free. Would we be better off without them?

That said, I'm not saying being impolite is ok.
> And many used Hotjar, a company that provides software that allows everything users type or click on to be logged and played back.

Er, what?
Yes! Contextual Targeting (target based on what I am reading) could work, although the industry seems to be clinging to Behavioural Targeting (target based on who I am). This will become more important for Open Web due to the 3p cookie constraints, regulatory changes etc..., but Google/Amazon/FB are less likely to be impacted.

In fact Contextual Targeting predates the current approaches, but it became less important once advertises/adtech companies started preaching the thinly veiled idea of using behaviourism to trigger conversions/less products.

Changes like this are slow to introduce due to technical and (mainly) structural/cultural issues in the Advertising Industry, but that’s a topic for an entire essay/series of blog posts.

Source: I work in AdTech and deal with privacy/the ethical impact of programmatic, content monetisation models. Opinions obv. mine.
MVP was like a 2 when it started making real money but even 5 years into it, I would say we are at like a 7 in my opinion. Not sure if we ever will hit a 10 or even a 9 in terms of shine and polish:)
I mean offer a virtual ISP using VPN. Sell a preconfigured router.
One of the main issues of the DSLR market (that I follow closely) is that new models tend to be more expensive than previous models in the same category. Compared to about every other field in technology, it feels counter-intuitive: everything should be getting cheaper and better over time, as most components are electronic by nature. I suspect this is another reason why DSLR sales stalled.
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I usually shake my head at these rants, but

The real problem here is not the ads per se. It's that they are not marked well, so users are tricked into clicking them. I've seen the ads degrade over all these years from clearly obvious, to plausible-deniability obvious. This is actively harmful to users.

I find basecamp to be pretty mediocre but I'm glad they've raised this issue in a public enough way that Google was forced to respond. Too bad their response just cemented the notion that they don't care about users anymore. You do have to laugh when they say with a straight face, "it's for the users".

Basecamp:

> When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad.

Google:

> To provide users with the most relevant ads, ...

implying that ads are a service for the users. lol. It's official, Google sucks.
...is this supposed to prove or suggest that Google does the same?
A question I have is...why marriage at all?
Is there a reason I need the government to recognize the union between my and my SO?
When switching from onboard -> dedicated, the resources (textures, shaders, etc) to migrate will be quite small. There is no question of migrating resources from dedicated -> onboard as that is never going to happen, unless .. again the resources are tiny. The context switch performance hit will depend on the other components on the board, but for a high end CPU/RAM/SSD combo, it wont be much. It will be equal to re-loading the all the browser tabs (for e.g. after a browser crashes).
See also https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/

"Car crash test dummies are also generally male, based on an average man... and ignores anatomical differences, plus specific individual circumstances like a person being pregnant"

There's lot of places where technology is tilted in unintentional ways
This is one of those statements that it's truthfulness is dependent on circumstances. With income taxes you can file separately or jointly. How you want to file is determined by the amount of reductions you can use.
One of the team behind this research posted an interesting walk-through of the traffic from one of the worst offenders: https://twitter.com/Bendineliot/status/1169259912184115206
For actual, physical widgets the traditional advertising markets still work: trade magazines and trade shows. Contacting vendors who specialize in your market of interest and running promotions with them also works.

However, it's all a whole lot more expensive and effortful than running some Google ads.
BMW 3er is not a sedan either; it is a "compact executive", a bit smaller. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice car, and bigger than subcompact, but if you wanted something sedan-sized, pick something else. 5er is sedan-sized (and entirely elsewhere price-wise).
> The First Amendment is worthless without the Second Amendment.

The 2nd Amendment was never (and still isn't) meant to ensure the right of people to violently resist or overthrow the government. The way to influence the US government is to become involved in the process, not (threaten to) shoot people. If that's ever not the case, you don't have a country, you have a failed state.
then it won't be beautiful anymore :D
Why is marriage miserable? Maybe it wouldn't be if people hadn't been conditioned to seek the next dopamine hit instead of trying to make it work.
Any bank to any bank transfers in India are literally instant now, via UPI or Unified Payment Interface. A central office gets all incoming requests, & settles the txns. Users & Merchants get id like user@bank, merchants can send a collect request; users can send money, protected through 4-8 char long pin.
Is the ad tracking also blockad in Firefox mobile?
The main think is making sure that this communication is a priority, and that the people responsible for writing documentation understand the importance and write with empathy for the reader.

The other important part of information sharing is the form factor. If you have a bunch of micro-services and command line apps that drive your company, I like writing this info into the Readme, and manual pages for the programs. Then the access to information is tied to the places where they are relevant, and you can build a sense of where information 'belongs' within the team.

I've seen confluence and google docs used for these things as well, and aside from things like 'company policies and hr' and 'setting up your computer for new devs' external documentation often becomes out of date with the software faster.

Aside from long-term information sharing like this, I think that email and irc are a pretty optimal setup for 'faster' communication. Email is good for sharing something with groups in a quick time-frame, and irc is good for immediate communication. I personally do not like Slack because it straddles many different time frames for communication, and many of the fun features lead to productivity killing noise. Scrolling back to find a months old message on slack when it could have been a searchable email is not fun. I feel like IRC and the limitations keep people from both jumping on every notification, while also preventing messages from being sent/recieved if a party is offline creates a logical switch from a quick message to an email. I've found that people don't fail to respond to old emails in the same way that a direct message might get lost in the noise of slack.
I am not excusing Google for this behavior but in case you didn't know, you can let Google know which types of Ads you don't want to see based on your profile.

(Not Joking) This was vital to me at work, because I share my screen most of the day and I started getting ads for a Vacation Cruise that was sexual in nature that were unbelievably embarrassing.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2662856?co=GENIE....

I would suggest turning off ALL personalized ads on your Google profile, but in case you like getting ads about Pet products and just don't want your health information shared you can just deselect all the "health", "diet", and "medicine" categories.

It really sucks to target block ads this way and you might even need to stretch to blocking categories like "family and relationships", to get all the ads you don't like.
Ask HN: I feel like I wrote myself into a corner with my landing page and MVP
I'm building a todo list + calendar productivity tool called Artemis (https://getartemis.app). The animation on the landing page was made with animation software (Figma and Principle) and it's like an idealized version of what I want to make. The problem is that I'm not a web developer (I do more machine learning stuff) so I've been learning web dev, but I only started recently so I don't know much.

Now I want to create an MVP but I actually don't know how to implement the ideal version that I was advertising. I feel like if I release a smaller verison, then those who signed up might feel like they've been misled. In fact, I created a small MVP already, a to do list timer that doesn't have calendar capabilities (https://timer.getartemis.app) and when I talked to a few people, they said that this isn't what they were expecting and I should get back to them once I've made a more complete version with a calendar, basically at the level of the animation on my landing page.

Should I just continue to learn more web dev to make the more complete MVP, or redesign my landing page to be more faithful to what I can make currently (a simpler version of the same concept), or do something else? How can I get people to use my MVPs without only expecting the ideal version?
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Tiananmen Square. Rabaa (Egypt, 2013). Prague Spring. Some more are scattered around this Wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_named_massacres

The aftermath of a massacre comes down to the government’s willingness and ability to control the narrative and suppress further dissent. Some governments can be quite successful at this. There’s absolutely no guarantee that a massacre of protestors results in anything beyond dead protestors.
If you mean a pickup like an F-150, not to me. A pickup has a lot of utility for everyday use. I may personally hate the idea of ferrying my kids to school in a pickup, but plenty of my fellow parents do it.

To me, the extra utility of the Corolla is like the extra utility of email, text messages, phone calls, web browsing, exploring the limits of analogies on HN, and so forth.

I can do those on a phone, but not on a camera. (Actually, I'm sure that somebody has a camera that lets you send and receive mail, that's Lett's and Zawinski's Lwas...)

But if you were to talk about a cube van... We'd have something. A cube van won't fit in my garage, just as a camera won't fit in my pocket (Yes, I used to own a Casio that did, but still...)

A cube van is extraordinarily inconvenient for anything except moving my entire house. For all smaller jobs, my station wagon rules. But when I wanted to move house, I hired a proper cube van.

And if I ever need to take an amazing picture, I would probably use a proper camera.

--

But all that being said, Steve Jobs did compare pickup trucks to desktop computers at an earlier time. If he were here today, he might suggest a laptop is a pickup and an iPad is a sedan.

So you might have something.
Main reason for government recognition is taxes, healthcare situations, common property ownership, and kids. There's laws that take into account if two people are married or now.
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They're injecting treated sewage, which seems like a win-win.

> However, since October 16, 1997, the Geysers steam field has been recharged by injection of treated sewage effluent, producing approximately 77 megawatts of capacity in 2004... The injection of wastewater to the Geysers protects local waterways and Clear Lake by diverting effluent which used to be put into surface waters, and has produced electricity without releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Those are made up reasons. If you have a solid definition of what is needed and what not, this is no problem at all.
Penalties can be applied repeatedly if the violation continues. It's not a 4% lifetime cap, it's 4% per enforcement action. The DPA can just churn them once a week and then we're at 204% of annual turnover.
> You can't, WhatsApp will only let you send to numbers that also have WhatsApp installed.

That's my point. It's a very substandard experience for initial contact to SMS, which is ubiquitous.

> Ultimately WhatsApp has won in most of the world, so this clearly isn't that big of a problem.

Compared to SMS, WhatsApp is almost nothing. And given that maybe 2-3 people in my family group might have it installed, "won most of the world" is irrelevant for me, and probably most groups of any size or with people over 30, as there's likely to be a few people without it.
So that is the only source then? I've previously asked and never received an answer.

If so, I feel worth pointing out the quote was allegedly acquired some 20 years prior to publishing, 17 years past the quoted's death.
Many countries outside the US do so; the term for it is "income splitting":

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

> doesn't it seem discriminatory to those who don't want to institutionalise their relationship?

That is not a protected class of people anywhere that I am aware of, and there are plenty of justifications for a government only recognizing formalized relationships. If the government were to recognize informal relationships, then fraudulently claiming a deceased person's benefits or inheritance of estate (especially in absence of a will) would be as simple as claiming to have been a secret girl / boyfriend of the deceased.
The High Hopes of the Low-Tech Phone
I think those counterpoints to the example are being a bit literal. I too have a "fancy" DSLR and I definitely consider the sportscar analogy accurate. I think the heart of the analogy is different from what you're giving as examples though. To me it means that there are places where you do want to use the sportscar, and places you don't. I rarely use my DSLR - why? Because I'm usually "commuting" and it's just too bulky for a daily driver. My commuter car fits in my pocket, and is always with me.

Talking about how special places are designed for the sports cars and inferring that it can/should only be used there seems to me incorrect inference of the analogy. At that point we may as well talk about expensive tire repair and maintenance, but I don't think that was intended either haha.
Off course it's trial and error, what else can it be? I suspect that you may be underestimating the terror of constant life in the shadow of a famine. This may give an idea:

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

With that kind of reality all sorts of experimenting will be happening.
The whole intention of this clickbait article by Brave, without any technical details, is to sell it's browser.
I think that’s incorrect, relevant ads could be displayed based purely on the site content, without user info attached to ad calls. We’ve been there.