skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprising, based on how large Apple is, its acquisitions aren't as large as other tech companies. Thoughts?
A bookmarkable private URL, ie some kind of unique token for each user, would have been easier than messing around with emails and annoying users.
He made the entire open source community better and will be incredibly missed.
> First of all it's a well documented phenomenon that NYC apartments are being bought by wealthy foreigners to invest and/or launder money without actually living there. As a result, these wealthy areas are eerily empty:

> "In a three-block stretch of Midtown, from East 56th Street to East 59th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, 57 percent, or 285 of 496 apartments, including co-ops and condos, are vacant at least 10 months a year. From East 59th Street to East 63rd Street, 628 of 1,261 homes, or almost 50 percent, are vacant the majority of the time, according to data from the Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey."

The Times quote does not demonstrate your statement. It demonstrates that a significant chunk of a portion of Midtown is owned by largely-absent owners. It does not demonstrate at all that these owners are "wealthy foreigners to invest and/or launder money without actually living there".
you're mostly arguing against a straw man, so i won't address those points, but there are still some interesting things you're wrong about.

so even if you take away the controllers completely, decades of marketing industry research teaches us that you can train certain behaviors among media consumers. for example, chomsky talks about how the marketing industry targeted children's nagging behavior so that they will pester their parents to buy them products. and we all know about how bernays coopted feminist symbolism to sell cigarettes to women.

video games are a lot more dynamic than traditional media, and it's harder to control and harder to analyze, so i would never say something so stupid as "video games cause gun violence," but a video game is not some kind of a magical medium that's exempt from the basic geometries of human psychology. part of the frustration is that we have no idea what the hell new media is doing to us.
I'm surprised Diaspora isn't on this list.

At the time, they were poised to step into the fray when FB was fumbling with users privacy. Their unabashed attitude of collecting and selling users data was just starting to leak out into the media and users were not happy.

Diaspora had the opportunity to seize on user dissatisfaction and take a huge chunk of their user base. They couldn't get their app to market soon enough and the window closed on them. A co-founder suicide and an ultra quiet release followed and put the final nails in their coffin.

Interestingly enough, I've gone back to Diaspora and I'm currently in the process of hosting my own pod. I was also an early adopter of Ello and after a few years of a dormant account, have started using it again. I now enjoy using both and have found stable, engaging communities with both.
I don't know if its the same in Germany, but in America very few people can afford to buy a home with cash.
Answer:

- Whoever gave cachet to certain characteristics that are present at specific points of the grass

- Whoever made it desirable or necessary that passersby reach a certain location at the periphery of the field

- Whoever set up restrictions to entry at certain locations around the periphery of the field

- Whoever made any changes to the field (including non-human intervention)

More generally, culture at large and historical precedent.

—

Imagine a green field of grass.

There are minor differences across the field, but some of these differences can be noticed: a slightly darker patch of grass, a slightly yellowed patch of grass, some stones of varying sizes, a section that is slightly raised from the rest of the field.

Around the field, other things can catch the eye: there's a road to one side, some trees of varying sizes, one currently in bloom.

Over the seasons, the profile of this grass changes. At some point there was a park bench to one side of the field; later, it was moved to another side. There was once a storefront near to one side of the field.
For what it's worth, I've had a lot of success with the Tron script[1] for getting rid of Windows Bloat. It disables a ton of garbage via Registry Keys which windows is much less likely to overwrite. It can be a little aggressive on some stuff like blocking your microphone from working in any app (easily fixable) but I'd rather have it that way than having to uninstall Candy Crush once a week.

[1]https://github.com/bmrf/tron
True... correctness is very important! I made mention of loom for correctness in the intro at least.

The goal for this article was primarily to focus on scheduler design.

I'm hoping to get posts dedicated to loom soon. It's been an indispensable tool.
Interesting! May I ask how many employees did it serve? Did you have to compile large C++ projects and noticed any performance issues? Were the cores shared among different users? (overbooking the number of cores)

Thanks!
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It's important to understand why the efficiency is going down, and it's not because the companies themselves suck more every year. It's because of two main drivers:

1.) The easy targets are mostly gone. All the biology we understand very well either has drugs already, or for some key reason can't be addressed with the drug discovery system we have today (see KRAS, though there are glimmers of home there). This means we have to go after harder diseases that aren't as well understood or have complex etiology. Necessarily that's less efficient.

2.) When you drug something, it eventually becomes incredibly cheap to use that drug, and it becomes the benchmark. (AKA the "better than the Beatles problem") As a pharma company you're competing against the former, better (because you were going after easier biology) versions of yourself all the time. This is also true in software, good software often becomes somewhat commoditized. However, in software we've had exponentially increasing compute capacity for some time, which means the next product can be exponentially better than the previous one simply because new things become actually possible to do when they weren't before. This by and large isn't and can't be true in pharma.
Don't make the same mistake as others and get caught up in fine print and small details with China. This type of thinking is exclusive to the West. Chinese "law" is just a formality so you really need to just understand what their desire is as they will go to any lengths to achieve it. The fact that they even published text here shows that they have doubled-down on ensuring that you know that you play by their rules.
> Don't overdramatize

Is toxic.
The problem was you could make unnatural "lottery-winnings" money selling OxyContin, and people respond to incentives. Ditch the incentives for selling novelties and the boring businesses focused on the actual health outcomes of the patient will thrive.
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Yes, my mistake. If I could edit the post I would.
Ask HN: How do big companies ensure the execs get the right info from below?
I am looking to find out more information on various ways large companies (>500 engineers) ensure the right information flows from junior members to executives.

For example, usually every junior person knows a lot about the project they are in charge of/involved in (and maybe how it aligns with the company’s strategy) and very little about other projects within the engineering organisation.

On the other hand, for an executive, it is important to be aware of what projects employees work on (with much less detail) in order to assess which areas are working and which areas need changes.

I am curious what methods larger companies employ to ensure the right level of information flows up the chain.
I've been here for over 7 years and I still can't downvote. I like it this way
> ("pay-per-clip" :)

You have a well-written and accurate comment, but I'm overwhelmingly distracted by the combination of the adorable "pay-per-clip" and the historied debate about how to handle an emoticon smiley at the end of a parenthetical. (conclusion: you're doing it wrong and are a terrible person!....but, "pay-per-clip"...tee-hee)
There's a really good biography of Diaspora and the team that I recommend: https://www.amazon.com/More-Awesome-Than-Money-Chronicle/dp/...
I was talking about OSX. I think operating systems should make it very clear to the users what critical updates need to be installed, but they shouldn't force users to update against their will and interrupt their workflow. Something like this:

> These critical security updates are essential for continuing safe and secure operation of your computer!

> Critical security update x: allows an attacker to take control of your PC

> Critical security update y: ....

> Critical security update z: ....

In the U.S at least we give people personal liberties over much more serious matters such as allowing people to refuse care in a medical context. The health of someone's personal PC is nothing next to that.
Agreed! The visual feedback was spot on in flash.

Also, it was really easy to reverse engineer a flash file. One could just import the .fla file into flash and see a lot of stuff that was going behind the scene - assets and action scripts were easily available to explore. This was my favourite way to get better at flash; I would go to templatemonster.com and browse through all the cool flash websites they had, then navigate to the temp folder of IE and then copy paste all the .fla files into my own personal folder for later dissection.
I've said it before that the pharmaceuticals, hospitals, and insurance companies are signing their own death warrants. They keep (in my opinion) colluding to charge outrageous prices for life-saving things and at some point we're all going to get fed up with it enough to elect someone that will shoe in legislation that turns them all into state-owned or, at the very least, highly regulated. I personally don't feel like that's what we really want but damn these companies are just being abusive now.
What do you mean by coherence? If it is the property that all updates to a single memory location are seen in a consistent order by all threads then Relaxed guarantees that.
I found some old Saran wrap when I moved in to a new place from like the 70s and that stuff was the bomb. Anyway, I ban brands that do this, and I never buy them again. Kingston and PNY, you've lost me forever.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kin...
Sure, but Google and Pfizer (to pick an example at random) aren't exactly equivalent. Few people will die if Google suddenly decides to jack up their pricing on one or more of their services.

The incentives and market pressures are likewise different. Despite the valid criticisms of Google's anticompetitve practices, they have a far less captive market than any large pharmaceutical company does. If Google behaves too badly, they'll become vulnerable; meanwhile, a pharmaceutical company can increase drug pricing for vulnerable people as much as they care to, as long as the company has a patent-protected monopoly on the drug, and people will either find a way to pay it, or they will die.

This business model deserves far more scrutiny than any Silicon Valley darling simply because people's lives and well-being are at stake.
At least some of the best parts of Solaris and IRIX now live on in other places.
whats most surprising to me is that no big companies has a workflow for putting everything public in regard of the account suspension.

i.e. something like replacing every logged in view with a consent form akin to "i hereby permit google to publish the reasons why the account was terminated"

every claim and bad publicity like this would end in "use the consent form", which i doubt basically anyone would use... but would still destroy the legitimacy of these claims.

its probably for liability reasons, which i still don't understand... how would they be held liable for terminating a service offered for free? i just cant comprehend it. but i guess thats just my insufficiency
The final nail in the coffin for myspace was when they changed the way bands were allowed to list shows, and at the same time deleted previous show history.

Myspace is the only time on the internet there was a standard place to list shows that everyone was onboard with. The reason was because it was so easy to do so. Except for the date, city and genre all the fields were just text and you could put whatever you wanted. This meant that even bass players could figure out how to list a show.

When facebook first got the clear lead, most people still signed onto myspace at least once a week, especially everyone I knew in a band. The minute they made the change, they all stopped.
Yes, I definitely agree.

If going the contractor route--and if the pay is six 000s+--I would highly recommend getting an LLC and all the great tax benefits that provides. Easily adds 5-10% (if not 20%+) to your bottom line.
There are no "squatters' rights" in the USA. And the majority of Americans find the very concept anathema.
Yes! Rayon is the perfect use case for the Chase-Lev queue!
Companies save cash by paying employees in stock instead of cash (and saving cash is just an indirect way or raising cash, a penny saved is a penny earned etc.) Companies cannot pay employees in stock unless the employees have a way of eventually selling that stock. Employees can only sell stock because a robust secondary market exists for buying and selling stock. Therefore, the continuous trading of stock helps companies raise cash and “create value” even after the IPO.
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It's high risk and requires a much longer timescale than most companies and VCs are comfortable with these days. It would take somebody with deep pockets and a burning desire for a better computer to make it happen. Like Elon Musk with Tesla.
> Plus the work a contractor puts into the project is "balance sheet neutral" when it's capitalized.
Can you please explain this in a more ELI5 manner?
We already investigate nearly every car crash, it's just that we usually find one of the drivers at fault instead of one of the car manufacturers. The resources are there, currently provided mostly through police and insurance agencies.
I understand why they did--but I also think keeping magsafe would have been fine, too. When I looked for non-Mac alternatives my criteria was; no proprietary connector, either magsafe-like (like the Surface) or USB-C.

I really really wish they didn't ditch all of the other nice stuff when they ditched magsafe. They got rid of the external battery charge level indicator, the light showing if it's charging, etc. A few times now I've woken up expecting a charged laptop but the cable was loose or not plugged in on the other side (and I missed the sound). It's really awkward to open the lid and wake it up to see how fully charged it is or if it has finished charging. Minor details like those were what I liked about using a Mac.

They do have third-party USB-C cables with LEDs, but since they're passive (just looking at current traveling through the cable) I've heard they're not always correct. I'm curious, but skeptical, of the USB-C cables with the magsafe-like breakoff.
Excellent find - summarizes a lot of points I have heard over the years too; I find it very credible.
I'd expect 4x+ and wouldn't care about paying. I live in Japan, local stuff is cheap, ingredients for local dishes are cheap. Ingredients for foreign dishes are expensive. That seems like it would be the same everywhere.

https://www.fermier.co.jp/products/list.php?&mode=search&sea...
Above, I should have added that in times past, when it comes to pharma, we did have government regulators who had decent, first-class ethics, and it's a damn shame that we do not have more of them now (as they need to be pressuring government to regulate this issue).

Perhaps it's a timely reminder to remember the marvelous woman, Frances Kelsey, who single-handed saved the US from the thalidomide scourge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey
A major part of the FSM generation is a language feature in Rust, (async/await), not a feature of Tokio. (I'm assuming we are speaking about the incoming version 0.2 here.) Tokio just leverages it. On the other hand, Tokio and the surrounding ecosystem have built all kinds of helpers around that, mentioned in the sister comment.
> Is there no desire to take the path that bankrupts them the least?

They would presumably take whichever option bankrupts them the slowest, but if all the roads lead to the same destination, eventually you end up there.

> They used to be pretty reliable, pretty safe, kind of expensive. After neglecting lines they got to pretty reliable, not very safe, kind of expensive. With the shutdowns they shift to not very reliable, pretty safe, kind of expensive. They need to go back to where they started.

I don't think that's even really what happened. It's not as if the occasional power line never caught fire thirty years ago.

The reason the Camp Fire was so destructive has more to do with climate change than PG&E maintenance. It could as easily have been a cigarette or a lightning strike and it would have been the same result.

But that's likely to continue to be the case. Fires in California are going to be more severe than they used to be.

Which may justify them being more conservative or spending more on maintenance than they ever did historically. But that isn't going to be free.
What do you think about PopOS, based on Ubuntu, from System76, seems like they’ve polished it, haven’t they?
Nah...

If you're being poisoned by a plant you're obviously eating the wrong part, eh?

And when they tear down our works they are but reminding us of our folly.

There are no "vicious, antagonistic" plants.

(Fair warning dude, you might not want to engage with me in re: plants, et. al. I'm a weirdo that believes in human-plant telepathy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants ...or don't, eh? To be sure some of what's in that book is BS, but not IMO the parts about communicating with plants. YMMV. Cheers.)
I agree this is the logic behind this situation - but sometimes, I want to use the Hole-Hawg to do the thing I want it to do. I am uncomfortable with losing that freedom.

Further, there have been some updates labelled "security" such as in Windows 7, which were actually telemetry. I think the ability to do mandatory updates skewed the perspective of the team behind them as to what constitutes security (eg: this telemtry will help us catch dangerous work flows which do need a fix of some kind!). IMHO, when you take away users autonomy, you make them into the dumb users you fear.
After all this time, I'm amazed at how many people still think that cooperative multitasking is always the best strategy.

Cooperative multitasking works great as long as everyone is cooperating. Guess what? Cooperation is a voluntary act. If people are ignorant of their impact or min-maxing between five different 'top priority issues', they aren't going to stay on top of it at all times and in all things.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance, and the quarterly roadmap doesn't list it. Which is why we use preemption most of the time. It reduces the blast radius at the cost of some efficiency.

All this is just the preemptive versus cooperative argument wearing new hats.
> The journal in 1992 had concluded that Ratcliffe's study was unfit for publication as the direction of research was something which was beyond their understanding.

I think that this is a fair reason for rejecting a paper...

> “Given the discrepancy mentioned by reviewer 1, we have sadly concluded, on balance, that your paper would be better placed in a more specialised journal, particularly given the competition for space,”

Yes, that's kind of good advice too...
How are you sure of #2? Quite a few of my University classmates and colleagues who came from China have had their mindsets reasonably affected by what they have seen and what conversations they had. I agree that my reasoning is anecdotal; can you provide references for your argument?
Liquidity has to exist before investment can happen, and liquidity only exists because of “speculators”.
Don't be silly. I was merely referring to well-known ECHR case law, such as Stern Taulats and Roura Capellera v. Spain, which was about two men convicted of burning a photograph of the Spanish royal couple, and stating some opinions of my own. How could I be lying?

And who are "they"? I'm no one particularly invested in this hassle.
In a competitive market, profit is naturally driven towards zero. Drugs are not a competitive market, every one is a little monopoly of its own.
There are no e-mails involved if you choose to create an account, just a choice of username and password.

Sure, there are lots of things they could have done better, but I admire outreach projects like this from research labs.
The argument is that democracy was not meant to work in this case; that the vote should not have been held at all and Madrid was right to prohibit it. From that perspective, there's a reasonable argument for boycotting the vote to strengthen the case that it's not valid.
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"Obviously this is a very small set?"

Nobel Prizes, by definition, are given for groundbreaking results. Almost by definition, most "groundbreaking" results are wrong. Even given everything else as equal, it is unsurprising that Nobel-winning results are rejected at least once.
>> That is happening with Facebook, will happen with Instagram

Even if FB loses 200 million users, they still have over 800 active million users. Same with Insta.

Most of the platforms listed had a few million users when they ran into issues and collapsed. When you think about all the blatant privacy issues FB has been caught red handed doing and they still they boast over a billion active users?

At this point, I can't imagine anything sans a government intervention via a breakup that would put a dent in the FB user base.
The answer, which is far more practical these days, given the proliferation of computers, is setup netconsole (to an RPi?), and get debug messages out of the kernel, assuming the crashed aren't MCE errors that are logged to bios and reported on bootup. The other bit to rail against, is closed source drivers and blobs. They'll crash the kernel, and debugging those are basically impossible.
Ingenious- I wonder if this would be a good avenue for an open-design ultralight aircraft. You could publish the vector files so that anyone could send them to a laser cutter.
I don't know why it would be a Weyland or X issue. Scroll speed should be controlled by the widgets, GTK in the case of GNOME. Trying to set it at the compositor level seems misguided.
The only decisions being made at the nanosecond level are whether to quote at 148.23 or 148.24. So yes, that’s enough time for trivial decisions like those to be made.
There is already an oversupply of engineering talent outside of very specialized work and senior talent. The constant hiring is simply because a better engineer is fairly easy to measure once they've been on the job for a while so it's smart to keep hiring better engineers and letting go of the ones that are not as good as the new ones.
> It's just a cultural artifact of the >> west's << love and expectation of violent solutions to conflict that we glorify this activity over others.

Hoo boy, should I be the one to tell him?
One difference is that there is often plenty of competition, sometimes from open source software. The big tech companies give lots of stuff away for free.

These markets don't seem much alike.