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Apologies, and you're right. I meant to have recent in there. No doubt he's written a lot of great software (even if I'm a vim user). But I think his ideas about free software (GPL, copyleft) are more important (and hopefully more long lasting) than his code contributions, and I think he has been focusing on that impact more as well with his work at the FSF, which is good. The thoughts and ideas that he has had about free software will live on.
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I’m curious to know how much room there is for optimization in their code
This is an underappreciated observation for new college students.

For talented graduates in computer science, electing to start a technology company is an extraordinarily dangerous financial decision. In many ways it's transferring technology risk from larger companies to graduates at their expense.

Graduates from top CS institutions command salaries and liquid stock in the $200K-$500K range within their first decade in the workforce, which is a guaranteed payout of $2M-$4M, compounding as their careers advance.

Starting a technology company necessarily involves lower salaries, but also substantial compensation in your own company's equity, which is inherently illiquid compared to larger companies. The vast majority of startups end up going to zero, even those started by top graduates, and you never make back that missing $1M-$2M in your career.
If so it will be time for a new company to build a new platform and Stack Overflow (verb) Stack Overflow (noun).
While I agree with you, I think the point is: how was this so close to going public, being seen as a Unicorn. How is there such a disparity between the reality and the hype?
> So if those 5000 people are doing work that is not valuable

Hold on there, let's pump the brakes. Who said their work wasn't valuable?

I think this highlights a bigger problem with the current economic system. Our economy is focused on growth when it should be focused on sustainability. Growth for the sake of growth is not valuable for the long term.
Thanks for the 'ish' recommendation, that is awesome!
If you by chance have a mac or an iPhone, you can use Safari's reader mode read all the text comfortably after the page loads. Most of these sites load the text and then load some js to hide it from you. I've found reader mode works reasonably well on NYT and Bloomberg.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't true. But sadly, it is true. There was a really good, and very serious video comparing Regus and WeWork. They went over what you just said, more or less.
See Seth Godin “Shotgun Clause” (#6)

https://seths.blog/2006/11/dont_make_a_bad/
No Free Lunch Theorem
Indeed. I reported this but it wasn't fixed. Very disappointed as I use this all the time.

If you pinch zoom slightly and then double touch, it works on some pages, including this page, but it's off center. On others not at all. On others it works as it should.
Saying "the software industry dictates using VR controllers" misses the mark.

When Oculus Rift first released, the VR controllers weren't ready. Most demos were "3D vision" only (i.e., no input), and games used an Xbox One controller. As a Rift pre-orderer, I gave many demos to people in those early days.

Almost every single person looked around, said, "oh my god, this is incredible", and then raised their arms and tried to look at their hands.

Being unable to see your hands breaks immersion, while having the agency to literally reach out and interact with the virtual environment tricks your brain into believing it's real.

VR controllers aren't dictated by the software industry. They're demanded by nearly everyone that has used VR.
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Unlikely, if it was a security update then iPhone5C should have received it as well. iPhone5C didn't receive 10.3.4 update because its GPS hardware supposedly was an updated one than the iPhone5.

Also, Google Project Zero article(link in parent comment) gives the clear timeline of the attacks and that the exploits were updated to mitigate patches with every new OS updates; so even if 10.3.4 had security patches older devices still might be vulnerable to later attacks.
How is that any different from someone thinking they have an inalienable right to any article/website they want?
I’ve read a week ago that it will start rolling out from September the 30th, though. And still no software update available on my iPad Pro.
>The only reason they are still alive is the hype around Elon Musk.
The same was true of Apple and Steve Jobs, once upon a time.
Just determining the shape of "git for data" has been a nontrivial exercise. We found that, if you do the naive translation, you get a "one size fits none," because data and code are fundamentally different.

What would be your main use cases with said "git for data"?
It's impossible. Lightspeed doesn't allow for that on websites if you're far enough from the servers.

If you add intermediate network gear, it's hard enough to get across half the globe in under 180ms (I'know, I live in Argentina and that's my ping time to almost anywhere non local).

You could fake it somehow in some scenarios or with an awful lot of money.
Funny how inflation is "low," but tech wages and housing in tech hubs has ~doubled since 2009.
Are there non-Apple apps that compile and _run_, rather than _interpret_ code users can enter?

Python, for example, typically gets compiled to bytecode, but the bytecode is interpreted.
And third and fourth sons too. (And later daughters joined convents). But smaller families mean there are no fourth, third and even second sons (or daughters).
If we take a look at the animal kingdom, females compete for social status over other females in order to get the best males, and males compete for social status over other males in order to get the best females. Both does this in order to get the best offspring as part of evolution and natural selection. You get differences when there is a difference in investment during the reproduction, like egg and sperm.

Looking at humans it obvious also that there is a strong cultural aspect to it. In one culture the apex male attribute to reach the top of the social status ladder would be to go into the jungle and kill a lion with nothing but a spear. In an other it is to have the title of CEO and have a high number listed in a bank account. Both is about a social status hierarchy, but with very different method for competition.

Going back to the article, a man gains social status if he display superiority over other males in a video game. Why? Video games represent physical games which represent competition of strength and skills. We can imagine a culture where that would not gain any social status and then any association with aggressiveness would go away. No brain surgery required.
It is colonial (British) English. I heard it again recently and it took me a few moments before I recalled it from my childhood. Apparently now "snack" is used the same way.

I would guess the classifiers went to school in India or Pakistan.
Looks really cool, something I've been waiting for at this price level for years since I saw the Microsoft Hololens. I'll never fund another Kickstarter, however, due to the time I funded a 3D printer that was almost as complete a product as this and it was still 1 year late and never worked right. If a product like this is seriously awesome, they should get proper funding to produce it as a sellable product rather than take this Kickstarter shortcut and, as is the usual case, fuck over the customers for some time before getting it right. I predict they will come up with a decent finished product in the next few years, but before that happens some other company will come out with a similar but better working alternative that I don't have to take the Kickstarter risk for. I'm not trying to be a dickhead, but a Kickstarter is nothing but a red flag for me and a ton of other people at this point.
This 20% queries could be 50% (or whatever) of your traffic. It depends what is being downloaded, would the queries be successful.
You could measure the website you‘re visiting with/without the pihole.
Apple IIe managed 30ms total[0]. There's no reason why modern computers, which are thousands of times faster, shouldn't manage 16ms. The slow response of modern systems is the result of a deliberate choice to prioritize ease of development over user experience. We can do better.

[0] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
ok my inbox asplode even more than usual. oof
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Not in there, that would have been a pretty big shift for Apple to concede that not every member of the family needs their own iPad and support multiple accounts. Only whatever the Apple educational software is called unlocks the ability for iPads to share accounts.
Anyone have a link for that?
Sounds like you might be well served by a fat tire gravel bike, 1x up front with a limited number of rear gears? The less gears, the less fiddly, and they are built for rougher road.
> I'm so glad I read hacker news. I almost took a job at WeWork just 2 months ago with a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO.

Did a 2-month old HN comment foretell WeWork imploding which informed your decision to decline their offer, or reading HN in general helped you determine that their offer would be close to worthless, compared to your options at that time?
It is a lot easier to parrot the talking points of someone pushing a sales narrative in an interview or through conferences than doing the footwork and ask hard questions e.g. why prescription numbers were skyrocketing in the US and not so much elsewhere on this globe.
Instagram cannot be taken out (due to backwards horizontal integration), WhatsApp, maybe. The correct solution for FB is revoking its business license with a very short notice period.
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Discussion about potentially laying off a third of the company's employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062231

It's not an outrageous or self-absorbed question to ask.
Thus, in its eyes, precluding it from being 'illegal'.

And thus, in my eyes, precluding it from being 'obviously' illegal!
I agree that many people chose to become monks "because they were true believers", but I know two facts that show that religious belief was not the only factor for living in a monastery.

First, monks were not the only men to live and work in monasteries. There were many "sub-ranks" (for instance "frère convers" in French, someone that shared most of their life without taking the religious vow) as well as external workers (for centuries, many monasteries had vast domains where monks ruled over peasants, at various degrees).

Then, becoming a monk was a social ascension for many. This was still true a few decades ago. My peasant grand-mother had ten children over twenty years, and the only ones who did not stop their studies early, were the three boys who wanted to become priests. The will to study and to change their way of life was a strong incentive. Times changed, and they all found other ways.
is there something wrong with not believing because you don't want to? and what if the reason you don't want to is because you define belief as something that requires evidence in order to practice? i really don't appreciate what you're doing here. I was trying to simply say that everyone has their own path in life, but instead of trying to meet me halfway and understand that, you're telling me that there is an over abundance of evidence for the existence of Jesus (which I will agree, there probably was a guy named Jesus, but hell there were probably a lot and the character of the Christ was most likely a syncretic mix of all of them) compared to that of other religions, but that being said i clearly mentioned that I am an atheist, so the supposed lack of evidence of other religions (which I personally believe doesn't really matter because since when was religion entirely evidence based anyway? faith is the art of believing that which you have no evidence for!) doesn't really change anything in my case. I was more trying to defend other people that you were isolating by making such a claim, and by extension, stress the fact that there is no absolute guarantee that if one submits to Jesus that one will absolutely have a better life. I've met plenty of people who have done so who may pretend to have a better life on the surface but really just have an invisible guy in the sky to point to and say "well this must be your plan so who am I to question it?"

anyway, i respect your right to believe what you want, but i think you're living in a really small bubble if you think that Christianity, and specifically the Catholic sect thereof, is the only way to find happiness and comfort in life. it's sorta poisoning the well by outright assuming some specific conclusion is already true and then arguing based on that conclusion without providing evidence to support it. if you have sufficient empirical evidence, maybe you should lead with that rather than suggesting that there is more of it than other religions. burden of proof, etc.
I dunno. Quora had a 1.7B valuation but Trello had an actual exit. If I were an investor or employee I might prefer the latter. $425M exit after a mere 3 years of operation as an independent company is nothing to sniff at. Trello is merely a shared todo list, when you boil it down. Was a unicorn exit necessarily expected of them?
Yes and no.

The result was a factor of 4 too high (edit: 3.3, to be more precise), which is conservative for certain applications. But for those applications I'd argue that you are typically confident that your device is in the atomization regime a priori and don't need to check.

But it's extremely inaccurate for my application, where you don't want your device to be in the atomization regime. In fact, I only started examining this in more detail because my own experiments clearly contradicted the textbooks, review articles, etc. If someone blindly applied this result then they'd potentially make a bad device.
The cars are not produced at a loss. Each car is profit.

Only under magical unicorn fantasy accounting. Under the same accounting standards every other car maker uses (GAAP), Tesla still loses money on each car.

From Tesla's own financial report:

"excluding regulatory credit revenue, automotive gross margin improved by ~200bp (compared to a decrease of 125bp on a GAAP basis). [emphasis added]
Every time WeWork recruiters email me, I wonder what they need this many software engineers for. At least Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Pinterest, etc. have a lot of traffic from users. But WeWork?
You speak as if ease-of-development doesn't enhance UX. Of course it does. If a team can ship features and fix bugs faster, the UX does improve. Most would say that's worth it over shaving 15ms off the input lag.
Aneesh's co-founder here. I just want to add a word of thanks to Jed Sundwall and the AWS Registry of Open Data. The support of AWS makes publishing data at this scale possible. I also want to thank Jackson Brown and everyone else who worked so hard to compile, document and annotate these large and extremely valuable datasets.
They stopped updating 5S because it only has 1Gb of RAM. They only do it when the device really falls short of technical requirements.
It is...to not be interested in something because, whether real or imagined, you don't think that thing is "possible" to achieve is a very nihilistic perspective on the world. You are saying you have no interest in something because you feel hopeless to even believe it is possible.
https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...
Please point me to where I can read more about the Juicero story, particularly the external consultants. It was just so comically bad on every level, it made me lose alot of respect for VCs.
Ok, that sounds good. The example was more just to be illustrative. But there is the (slight) possibility of harmonics on the power lines, etc. There are EDA suites that can do such signal analysis on your board but they are quite expensive. If you picked just the wrong values there could be a filter system which amplifies noise from a power supply.

The trick is to get your board manufacturer to eat the return cost. If you can buy testing, do so; usually it comes with some assurance that the boards work, and they either make new stock or remanufacture what you send back. If you can point to a comprehensive testing instructions that the customer would have performed it should not matter if you receive the board and it works for you, for some reason it did not work for the customer.
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Without growth, capitalism devolves to "rich get richer, poor get poorer." Growth is chaotic and stirs wealth around.
One way to think about this is the "barbell strategy" due to Nassim Taleb. Make emails incisive and direct; decks should be contextual and comprehensive.
I'm not sure that is a goal though. Plenty of businesses are run at a loss intentionally nowadays for tax reasons. And unlike a lot of its software competitors, Tesla is in a capital-intensive business where investing in increased manufacturing capacity puts a nonspeculative asset on its books.
Are some languages better than others?
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Important caveat: this is under Tesla's made-up accounting rubric. Under GAAP accounting (i.e., the standardized accounting methods everyone else uses) they lose money on each car, i.e., they have a negative gross margin.
IMO they need to come together and build the equivalent of Netflix for this content. I'm happy to pay $10 a month to eliminate all paywalls. I'm not happy with individual subscriptions to every newspaper and newsletter in existence. And yes I know disabling JavaScript gets around a lot of these paywalls. I'd like to just pay one fee though rather than a cheat.
I found it:

https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...

Also here is where the project started on Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
If I'm going to have a full screen of content after 64ms, why do I care about having something incomplete but 'actionable' after 32ms? And the policy of showing some feedback before then is useful in some circumstances but not very important in others.

The 64ms goal by itself is clearer and more useful than this combo of three goals.
Oh man I’d hate to be on the receiving end of this shit storm. There’s a film called swimming with sharks [1] that perfectly illustrates the wrath of producers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_with_Sharks
> I can't imagine how working for WeWork feels like, right now.

Focus on stealing office supplies.
> to be fair that wasn't the exact request. It was more along the lines of "using whatever (approved) language you'd like, implement x with that assumption that your base language can only loop and increment." x in this case was something like do division. Which I know is possible, but also something I would never need to do and as such the solution wasn't immediately available to my brain.

This sounds like a great interview question. It calls on the candidate to show they understand what a turning complete system is and then put that knowledge into practice to create the fundamental building blocks that are normally given to you.

You used hyperbole to make it out to be something it definitely wasn't.

> Which I know is possible, but also something I would never need to do and as such the solution wasn't immediately available to my brain.

In fact, you do need to do it, you needed to do it for an interview. The fact that you see it that way might underscore a personality trait that the interviewers might not have liked. Thus giving credence to the interview process immediately.

> A non-technical interview is far better and easier to evaluate a persons competency, problem solving, communication, and "personable people".

No it's not. It's far better at providing a "comfortable" place for someone to chat without actually proving anything. A good technical interview is problem solving _with_ time to chat and prove understanding of concepts.

> Point being an entry level person with competency and problem solving skills can be taught technical skills very quickly and/or learn as they go.

This is clearly false otherwise we wouldn't be starved for competent technical candidates. There're thousands of companies looking for qualified candidates and they can't find them.

> their resume should tell you they have the technical skills assuming their references check out. So I really think we should stop wasting time and talent on "technical interviews"

Resumes are worthless - doubly so now that politicians have made lying OK. The majority of people I've interviewed lied on their resumes, either as small white lies, or as large ones. And personal references are also garbage - there was a recent radio host that called random numbers and asked for a "reference" for a candidate they were interviewing. People went out of their way to talk up the fictional candidate.

> Leading back to the argument though, what makes someone good at being a software developer is not technical skills. It is general competency, critical thinking, and being a good communicator.

Yes to critical thinking and communication. You just aren't going to get a good read on a candidate without asking thought-invoking questions. You've either never had a good interview or you don't interview well and disparage the process to feel better.
I listen to music on Spotify, I watch shows and movies on Netflix and Amazon Video. I buy my video games on GOG and Steam. I buy my books and read them on my Kindle.

What does that leave? I don't pay for YouTube, for example. Not that I care that much, because the stuff I watch on YouTube is mostly not the stuff I would miss. The stuff I would miss would probably be available even if YouTube didn't exist (e.g. Zero Punctuation).

Since we're talking about paying, here's another question: do I resort to piracy? Yes, because there are often good reasons to do so.

Movies and shows? Netflix and Amazon mostly don't have subtitles in Spanish, so when I wanna watch something with my wife, sometimes the only way is to download it.

Music? I'd love to be able to come to some agreement with Spotify that lets me save a number of songs a month or a year and let them be mine, so they'll never disappear from my playlist just because Spotify pulled them.

Books? Usually the first book I read from an author I haven't read before is a book I'll pirate. If it's good, I'll buy it and buy that author's subsequent books. We used to use libraries for that kind of stuff.

As you can see, most of those problems aren't solvable by ads.

Here's a question for you, though: do you think Wikipedia would be better off with ads?
They're powers of 2, so clearly they are significant for deep technical reasons.
> So if those 5000 people are doing work that is not valuable, we should keep paying them to do worthless work?

And

> This is why we need a good social safety net...

If we raise corporate taxes to create that social net, companies will fire more employees.

If we raise taxes on wealthy individuals, people will complain that we're stifling innovation -- which creates jobs.

If we raise taxes on everyone else to make up the safety social net, the taxes will most likely hurt consumer spending power -- which drives the economy.

So is it really so terrible to keep those people employed?

5000 people at 100,000k a piece is what? 500 million a year at their once prospective evaluation at $47 billion?

It's not a drop in the bucket, but it would be better if the company shared some of the profits to make up for the personal shortfall. It seems to me they could give a years worth of salary and still be okay at a $47 billion dollar valuation.
Engineer? Harder to say. Data scientist--that's easy. Stackbucks is very good at looking at demographic data and recognizing where future demand will be new new locations. They basically mark gentrification.