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> Randolph writes that he'd been closely watching Antioco during this conversation. Throughout, the Blockbuster CEO appeared as a polished professional, leaning in and nodding and giving every indication of someone who was listening attentively. Now Randolph observed as an odd expression crossed Antioco's face, turning up the corner of his mouth. It lasted only a moment, he writes. "But as soon as I saw it, I knew what was happening: John Antioco was struggling not to laugh."

Great article but it seems unnecessary to accuse Antioco of being arrogant just because he turned up the corner of his mouth for a moment. There are tons of investors who pass up on great investment opportunities every year. Most of them aren't arrogant, they are simply normal people who don't have the benefit of perfect hindsight.
If you ask this at HN most likely it will be PostgreSQL.

If you ask scripting language it got to be python or javascript here.

I use HN daily and noticed as a group, HN readers do in general have their preference on things like this.

By all means, MySQL's market share is much larger than PostgreSQL, and MySQL 8+ is very impressive. I compared both and eventually picked MySQL for my projects, even though I really _hate_ Oracle.
Red mercury is not a thing. Or rather, it's a very pervasive repeated hoax that plenty of people have fallen for.
To me this comes off the same way as someone saying, "I believe in DRM free media, but I also believe that if someone tries to send an MP3 to their friend, their computer should stop them."

What do you mean by Free Software if not, 'users can use it for anything'?
I think a very simple solution is to use categories. Tag articles under things like "beginner", "intermediate" etc. Don't be afraid to use multiple categories and group article sets together.

Simple change but it would make huge payoffs UX-wise.

Edit: I wasn't very clear. I realize you have those top level tags already, but I was referring to further group articles that "flow" into each other. That way you can have a "journey" without actually having one :)
I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't a couple people on this site who could afford to buy it outright.

Someone just make a gofundme and turn it into public land.
Didn’t they have the chance to buy Facebook for 1B too but they reduced their offer at the last minute and Zuckeberg said no? I’m convinced the people at Yahoo didn’t know what they were doing and both Google and Facebook would fail spectacularly within Yahoo.
It's always funny when people criticize the state of American rail based on their preferences and hand wave a solution into existence, as if it's all that simple.

Cars are much more practical for travel in the US largely because the cost of fuel is much lower than in Europe, Canada, etc. Perhaps in Europe cars would be used more if they were a more affordable option.
The difference between his recordings of 91,970 words, the books of those words bound, and the Dadbot are merely format differences.

Sure he added (and subtracted) some stuff programming the bot, but there is no AI here.
there are a bunch of video reviews that cover this. The consensus seemed to be "close enough" for your average person but "not even remotely" like paper for people who pay attention to different paper types, and care about the tools they use for drawing / writing and how they interact with paper.

That is to say, you'll be happy if you don't pay any attention to the paper or writing implements you use normally. If you _do_ it's nowhere close but much better than writing / drawing on glass.
At least some number of people will have the crucial parts of the plan in their minds, though. The parts that could thwart the whole plot if those parts were to be discovered by law enforcement. Of course, law enforcement may not know who those people are or even that an attack is imminent without pre-emptively monitoring every single person's thoughts so it can be detected with sufficient time to stop it, like how cop cars and (I think) speed cameras pre-emptively and automatically scan every license plate they can detect.
My pet peeve is great software with incomplete documentation.

All that hard work put into the code, just give us a quick example of how to actually use it! Especially where there is maybe a super superficial example, but missing examples of how to use the optional yet essential and non-straight forward arguments/features.
Ask HN: How Do you manage your attention?
When Your Life Seems Slow and Boring
In what world are nVidia drivers crap? I'm regularly doing some pretty funky stuff with OpenGL on top of X11 and nVidia and this setup fails me less often and less hard than any equivalent AMD setup has done so far. Unless I'm trying to allocating tons textures or ridiculously sized vertex buffers, I don't see any hickups at all.
Every time I've used sqlite for any kind of throwaway web app, I've regretted it due to the almost complete lack of support for concurrent operations. Sqlite is for file formats, not anything that might have concurrent writes.
In case anyone is curious about the name of the main UI, "xochitl", it is a fairly common female name (for people, not UIs) in Mexico. It means flower in Náhuatl, the language of spoken by the Aztecs and still spoken by between 1 and 2 million people in Mexico. The Spanish word for flower, "Flor", is also a fairly common female name in Mexico.

The name "Xóchitl" is pronounced with the "x" sounding like "s" and the "t" silent by Spanish-speaking Mexicans. I'm pretty sure that's not how it is pronounced in Náhuatl; there I think the "x" sounds more like English's "sh", and the "t" is not silent.
1. Thanks to the new data dictionary in 8.0 there is light at the end of that tunnel ...

2. Yeah, MySQL tried to be "simple" and it took a while to be confident for changing it's default to being strict (the option for opting exists for ages ...) But meanwhile defaults are proper.

3. Especially the 3 byte Unicode type was a historic mistake. It reduced required storage space but didn't forsee the need for Emojis and other 4 byte sequences ... utf8mb4 charset fixes that though

4. ...
Reed Hastings on the Streamer Wars: ‘It’s a Whole New World in November’
Took nearly 10 years after this for a decision to first modify, then later, decommision the W69, based on how unsafe it was in a fire. https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19900524-1990-05-24-9...
But is a ISA that wasn’t designed for embedded really that well suited for it?

And if the silicon design is new, we are not benefiting all the much from decades of battle testing, right?

I can’t imagine how a clean, embedded first 32bit ISA design wouldn’t be more appropriate.
I can only applaud an artist taking a new approach to monitisation. I hope this catches on generally, as a way for artists to build sustainable patronage.
There's essentially no multicast over the public internet
I remember, not so few server software devs like that of mongo were categorically against projects switching to AGPL few years ago because of fears of this preventing them selling their stuff in SaaS format.

Well, now their software is being turned into SaaS, except not by them, but by Amazon
Ask HN: Feedback on Privacy-Focused Products
Hey folks,

I'm trying to build a company that will offer an alternative to the ad-based social media giants. The joy of the web is dying as the Internet becomes unusable due of ads/tracking, and there's a tit-for-tat war between businesses and users (who are often the product).

I was hoping to gather some feedback from the community at large in order to make sure we're doing the right things. I won't name the company, but it's easy to figure out if you're curious.

There's a real benefit to online communities and the value they provide, but there's a harmful trend toward sacrificing individual rights for profits.

I'd love some feedback on:

1. What privacy features do you want to see in cloud-esque products (think Google's product suite, except with real privacy)?

2. Are you outright opposed to paying for products? (A stupid question, but I want to hear people's answers.)

3. What are the sort of things that make you say "absolutely not!". Ex: we currently ask for a phone number to verify accounts. We don't want a platform full of bots/spammers/etc like Twitter (it suck for everyone, but inflates the numbers). We're finding a lot of resistance to us collecting phone numbers, even though the alternatives (like using a 3rd party, or recaptcha) are arguably worse.

4. What's your biggest complaint about existing cloud services (like Gmail, docs, file sharing, messaging, etc)?

5. Are you more likely to sign up if all the information is laid out in a landing page? Or do you think you're more likely to sign up if we use "growth hacks" like getting you to enter your email and then spamming you forever? (We don't do this btw, but I have a feeling it works well because it's everywhere.)

6. Are you feeling spam/ad fatigue? on a 1 to 10 scale, how fatigued do you feel (1 being not at all, 10 being extremely depressed about spam/ads/marketing/BS).

PS: I posted this on /r/privacy too, if you want to see what people are saying over there.
The industry’s magic bullet for robocalls is currently useless on an iPhone
Some extra info/links that might be interesting to people:

6.S081/6.828, MIT's Operating Systems class, was revamped for this semester. The professors ported xv6, one of the teaching operating systems used for the course, to RISC-V, and created an all-new lab sequence: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/index.html (all course material, including labs, is publicly available).

The xv6 book, one of the main reading materials for the class, has also been updated for the new xv6 / RISC-V: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6/book-riscv-rev0.pd....
The Dunning Kruger Effect
Does anyone know if these trained AI agents will use the same strategies to immediately win in another map it has never seen before? And that it would get it right the first time on the new map (not blunder about aimlessly and win after millions of plays)?
Probably harder to learn. It requires approaching seekers which ends bad if you cant block them.
aside from this photo, a lot of similar pictures appear on reddit.com/r/militaryporn , not to mention similar subreddits like /r/combatfootage
I never would have expected to see a Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't videos posted here. He has a whole series of videos. The language can be a little rough, but the videos are filled with interesting and accurate botanical information.
MySQL's tabular explain is largely understandable once you also understand how simple its optimizer and execution mechanism is. All you mostly need to look at is the join order and indexes used, and whether there's a filesort in there, and then it's clear enough.

The linear list of steps doesn't work well for a smarter engine.
They already do...
Lycos could have bought Google for 700k. If you bought a share of Home Depot in 1982 you’d be a millionaire. Can’t think of a more banal form of what-if-ism than looking back at missed market opportunities.
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If you could configure how to render PDF links (mainly so tables of contents didn't look so aggresively yellow), Ebookdroid would be perfect for reading! (I added the "for reading", because I wish you could create and edit standard PDF annotations ---I believe instead of using native PDF annotations it uses a homegrown system that stores the annotations in a separate file.)
Theoretically it’s good but I wonder how much market there is for it at that price.

Tablets themselves are used a subset of population, compared to the phones. On top of that for people wanting to read ebooks only amazon already sells a reader for far less than this one. The iPad for example offers all these features on top of the 100s more. What is special about this and Where is the market for this?
Herbert Spencer – Energy and Social Evolution[pdf]
His love of botany (and edaphology) shines through. I've subscribed.
If it makes you feel any better there were a lot of alt-currencies around that time. Many were marketed as being untraceable to avoid government interference and taxation. And many were used for laundering, drugs, and childporn.

Around that time I was aware of bitcoin but I was paid for some dev work once in e-coins and had the hardest time converting that to cash, which is how I paid rent. And while it made up a small part of my compensation I thought it was ridiculous. Something tinfoil hat wearers cooked up.

It's easy to say it bitcoin was going to be big, in hindsight. I used one of their early ATMs to pay for pizza. At the time it was trading for ~$2. I didn't think much of it until years later when it got a meteoric rise.
Archiveis link before being memoryholed: http://archivecaslytosk.onion/mtow1
That has... so many obvious artificial flaws it’s not even funny.

I’m surprised I got a downvote. Compare the fake (e) to the real (d). The algorithm appears to have gotten the broad color scheme correct, but that’s about it as far as the similarities go. There are uncomfortable smudges all over the painting, the lighting makes no sense, and several details have blurred together around the hands, feet, everything.
I'm ashamed to admit I was put off at first by the heavy Chicago accent, but holy shit this was interesting and informative, and the fellow knows his botany.

I liked, subscribed, and "hit that bell" as the youtubers say these days.
Or you would have sold it the moment your holdings had any real value. 99% of all people would have done this. You need a very uncommon «speculator’s» or «investor’s» mindset to be this deep into _anything_ as an individual.

If you buy any single asset with the idea that it might increase 10x to 10000x in value, any degree of success will put you in a position where continuing to own it is in direct violation of a «sensible» investment policy.
Thank you.

I have about a dozen different "If only" moments in my tech life, from turning down job offers to not making tech experiments into real businesses (Twitter and Docker, parking payments by mobile and a really good enterprise marketing system)

I regret them all because I think they all definitely would have made me bajillions. including leaving running a bitcoin miner machine in the corner of my office instead of turning it into a build server.

But frankly I probably would not be a billionaire by now had I done any or even all of those great ideas in hindsight

It won't stop me trying for the next one, but it will mean if I duck out with even a small win it's a big triumph
Afghanistan was run by corrupt evil warlords who oversaw massive opium production empires. The Taliban eliminated the warlords and got rid of opium production, improving the country. The US plan to overthrow the Taliban and restore opium production predated 9/11. That's why it was ready to go after 9/11. First thing we did was restore the warload power, calling them now the legitimate government and paying them off, and making sure opium production resumed, under US protection. If 9/11 never happened the US would still have gone into Afghanistan on schedule. 9/11 had nothing to do with Afghanistan.
New Core ML feature in iOS 13 helped me finish “popcorn or not” app
And more to the point, success in business is determined just as much by blind luck as anything else. If Antioco had sprung on Netflix, who knows how many other things he might've sprung on too? And even assuming Netflix worked out, who's to say the other investments wouldn't have killed Blockbuster in the process anyway?

This whole genre of articles confuses me. Is the message be open to new things? Is it about other investors feeling regret for things they've passed on, or worry about the things they didn't? I don't understand this at all.
I just watched the YouTube link, and it's amazing! I've been toying with making some of my own video content, and this is inspiring. There's only so many hours in the day though.
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To be honest, I find the blank slate model just cruel, because it shifts blame for failure to achieve results onto either a personal failure to work hard enough, or some ill-defined societal boogieman of oppression or structural isms. Which tends to need massive amounts of money or power in the hands of someone to try to rectify.

In reality, you just can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit, no matter how hard you try.
If the requirements are still up in the air, but you know that you're going to be storing some data, definitely go with a database, even if just a single SQLite file. Using plain files means figuring out the file format, which turns into a huge mess when requirements get tacked on later. The other option would be to store a JSON file or a bunch of JSON files in a directory, at which point you're building a shitty version of either SQL or MongoDB instead of focusing on your business logic.
In my experience they nearly all require them. I've also encountered a couple cases where they said they didn't, and then someone gave me a coding challenge anyway.

I've always been bad at these, which is super frustrating for me, but it's the way it goes. I gave up trying to fight it and instead started making notes of which problems I did poorly at, and started practicing those. Going through the cracking the coding-type problems helps too.
Lightweight (~17KB) React/TypeScript Charting Lib with Storybook Playground
Micron 9300 Series Enterprise NVMe SSD Review: Finding Balance in Performance
I thought PRISM was an endpoint where companies upload data in response to NSLs. Whether that data is being pulled by a human or by a computer is irrelevant, that data is getting pulled either way.
>[...] and if you say no, they'll wait until a drug dog comes,

they can't do that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_v._United_States
Yeah... this doesn't appeal to me at all (speaking as someone who lost one parent a few years ago, and sees the other growing frailer), but if he wants to use this form to capture and share memories, I guess that's fine.

My main gripe is with the headline phrase "Artificial Immortality". It's so far removed from that as to be laughable.

(The subtitle about "re-create his dad as an AI" seems severely over-hyped, too, although I suppose that's true of most uses of the term "AI".)
Love the videos, I am now a subscriber.
"Pleasant" is subjective. In the last couple years I had to do Venice-Rome relatively often. It's a 3.5 hours trip, if everything goes well. Usually it's been 4, and in a couple of occasions 6.
Americans wonder why other countries don't always have a positive opinion of the USG. Many countries meddle with the internal affairs of others. Very few have the gumption to declare to the world that it is for the meddle-ees benefit. There's only one that has consistently taken that stance for over 75 years.
15 terabyte drives that do 3.5GB/sec throughput, 850K IOPs, and cost around $3K USD.

On one extreme, you have near-infinite capacity up in the cloud, but high latency and low bandwidth (per VM.) Then on the other extreme, if you're buying colo boxes or on-premises boxes, drives like this make one heck of a good case for fast, low-cost storage.
Blockbuster did put lots of money into developing streaming technology and absolutely saw it as the future. But they were too early and gained no traction. By the time the moment arrived they no longer had the money and energy. But overal I agree Netflix wouldn't have been Netflix if it had sold out early.
something tells me we wont get the best of the best.
Oracle Cloud offering two unlimited free compute instances and databases
Check out the video game "Soma". It's a horror-themed game but you can play in "Safe" mode if that's not your thing. I'd say more but that would spoil things for you.
This is the crux of it - if Google had asked me to be employee number one there is a very good chance Brin and Page would have gone back to academia.
Desperate much.
They were building a Yurt :)
The question is control; not just total latency, but when exactly it occurs.
Except in the US, in spite of the historically large majority white demographic makeup of the country, we have done more to be welcoming to other groups in recent history than virtually any other country on Earth. Look at a chart listing salary in America by country of origin. That chart tells the story of a country that gives people from all over the world opportunity to succeed.
> Separately weird is that these cloud giants make tons of contributions to open source

In some cases a cloud provider makes millions of dollars from a particular open source project and gives nothing back to it. This is the behavior that concerns many. It is also easy to see this as against the spirit of the GPL license, even if projects should switch to AGPL if that is really the case.
Speculating here, but perhaps the 8051 could mock a network with all possible failure cases.
It’s not clear to me why the seats on the “all reserved” Acela at least are not actually reserved as on most trains of this type. Penn is also just kind of a mess generally although it is slowly improving.
As I’ve explained, it’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t need solving.

Maybe it is a different situation in India, but here the people proposing voter identification laws are doing so in bad faith.

They’re trying to make it harder to vote so elections are less fair, as opposed to making elections more fair by guaranteeing the sanctity of the individuals vote which is the position they’re pretending to be standing on.
"If you constantly post videos of where you are and what you do, people can figure out where you are and what you do."
One difference is that std::variant is run-time dispatched and uses memory equal to the max of all the variants, while Rust's sum types could potentially be compile-time dispatched and memory optimized to the exact type being used through various code paths.
Thanks for the feedback! Are you able to share any examples of where a different tag would work better?
I think if you could upload your mind and interact, a la Speaker for the Dead, it would be more than just your doll she’ll getting interacted with.

I’m Buddhist, I work on my acceptance of death. Sometimes it feels deceptively easy, and sometimes I look at my son and pre ache for what won’t be. Uploading my thoughts for him to review isn’t tempting to me, just like cloning my dog won’t give me my dog. But I get the temptation to wish we were close to a time where it felt plausible. But I don’t expect it to be.
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Intel only taps out about three different dies per generation line I believe. For example the Skylake-SP line just has LCC, HCC and XCC dies, and the the whole multitude of their product line comes from those three.

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I found this interesting when trying to google if MS is contributing patches to ES. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/aws-contributes-to-elas...

It's about the drama around AWS and ES.
Yes, that is correct. Anything that allocates on the heap requires GC or it will leak memory. Go doesn’t have formal semantics about what allocates on the heap and what allocates on the stack, but it’s more or less intuitive and the toolchain can tell you where your allocations are so you can optimize them away. If you’re putting effort into minimizing allocations, you can probably even leave the GC on and the pause times will likely be well under 1ms.
I'll stick with a Torrens Title system over a digitised version of the old chain of title approach.
In Italy we have a business class which also has small (4 people) private rooms so you can have meetings while traveling. Not exactly what you had in mind, but still an extra over the "point a to point b" aspect.
Relevant:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Given the disgust the Liberals have for science and technology that isn't coal, I see them taking the journey by boat.