skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You CAN create mutable data structures. This can be very useful LOCALLY. But then turn it into an immutable data structure as soon as you return it.

Example: a sieve function for primes. Pass it a range of n1 to n2. It seives that range, say from (1 million) to (1 million plus 100,000). It could use an efficient mutable data structure locally. Then return an immutable result. Especially since the result has no reason to EVER be mutable again. You're not going to find more or less primes within that range.
The one thing I don't get about these companies is how all the employees, in particular higher ups and investors buy this stuff.

I mean if you read these articles about Neumann and his wife, elevating the world's conciousness, smoking weed everywhere, buying artificial wave companies for no reason, he doesn't even sound like a real person, he sounds like a Silicon Valley tv show character.

There's a lot of podcasts and articles about the famous people involved in this, but I just would like to hear what regular employees and managers think about this. How are you working at these companies for months and don't think you're in a cult?

The same thing about Theranos, I read the John Carreyrou book and it just sounds insane. How are people at a company for months that sounds like a Kafka novel, I truly don't get it.
Reduce and Re-use are not a great slogan for an economy that incentivizes increased consumption of new things unfortunately.

Maybe as more people become aware of recycling inefficiencies, we'll start diverting dollars go businesses that focus on longevity and reusability of their products?
I'm glad they are getting sued, but this makes me sad
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> They were slowing the phones to preserve battery life, giving the appearance of longer useful battery lifespan.

I don't like this explanation because the term "life" is loaded and could mean a few different things.

The issue wasn't with the battery's capacity, ability to hold a charge, and not really how long the phone could run before needing to be charged. The issue was that the battery's C-rate was too low for the load.

The C-rate is the rate at which a battery can safely be charged or discharged without damaging it. When you exceed the C-rate you damage the battery and increase it's internal resistance. As a battery's internal resistance increases, the amount of current it can supply decreases. When the amount of current a battery can supply drops below what the load draws, the voltage drops.

This voltage drop would cause what Apple described as "unexpected shutdown". Apple throttled the devices to reduce their maximum current draw, not because the batteries were discharging too quickly but because they were drawing too much current which was further damaging the battery AND causing low voltage drops AND unexpected shutdowns.

It's not clear if the batteries were out underspec, of spec from the supplier, or had an issue which caused them to prematurely degrade. In any cause, they were defective and Apple manipulated the defective devices to hide the issue and when called out offered people discounts rather than issue a recall.
Take a look at this:
https://twitter.com/davidalim/status/1233032552056807426

Fortunately I heard this is in the process of being lifted. We should see the tests coming soon.
What do you gain by shilling for alpha-tier for-profit software for free? Are they your friends? do they pay you for that?
One's person experience is not meaningful for a population.
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At least now we can actually see the problem, instead of passing our "recycling" to developing countries and calling it good.
"Denialist morons" -- what justifies this sort of name-calling?

You do nothing to help your argument by resorting to this type of language.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, it crossed our mind that some people familiar with 3D graphics term might get confused. I really hope that there are not too many people in our target audience familiar with it, though I might be wrong :)
The system has been in place for at least 50 years. In my mum's day it was a common past time for her and her brothers to go hunting for what they called "glass cheques". The idea is to avoid it ending up where it shouldn't by incentivising good behaviour. If people can return the glass for money then few of them end up on the beach.
What if your car tomorrow suddenly had only half power but no check engine light/service engine light?

Yes, that's better than the car unexpectedly shutting down but you'd still expect to have the core issue rectified instead of hiding it from the user.
> The thousands of people who got laid off while Adam got billions in golden parachute funds is the very definition of the word victim.

Not in my book. They got a few years of a cushy job and now move on to something else.

Otherwise this sounds like calling the people who were evicted for not paying their mortgages “victims”. Sure they lost their homes, but they also got to live in the house for a while for free.
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Are you trying to get me fired? I started playing solitaire and was like wait, you're at work dummy.
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This is a fair point, but an alternative venue from the one used in this instance can be fines by governments. Also, I think it's reasonable to debate capping fees by attorneys in these types of cases.

You want the payout to be big enough that there's incentive for attorneys to go after abuses, but not so big that consumers aren't fairly compensated for losses.
I'm still not getting it. What mechanism allows for knowledge of the effect before the cause objectively happens? For the third party to observe the effect, the cause had to have happened from Earth's perspective. The fact that the light hasn't reached the third party yet seems immaterial. I'm not trying to play gotcha, seriously don't get it.

"As you can see, the light from the phone call reception arrives well before the light from the placing of the phone call. Again: causality is violated."

It's still only speaking about the perspective of the ship, and it seeing effect before cause.
I don't know try to type "Wireguard NetworkManager Ubuntu" in your favorite search engine?

https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2019/03/15/wireguard-in-netw...
Should link to the blog post instead as that's more permanent: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/03/02/gtc-san-jose-online...
I feel like that is a pretty insignificant issue compared with 8-20 million tons of plastics ending up in the sea.
> Today, Rebekah and Adam Neumann are living in temporary social exile in Tel Aviv after starring in the most sensational corporate collapse probably ever.

ha. but not financial exile. ($1.7bn parachute according to TFA.) billion with a `b'. let that sink in.

interesting though that the financiers in this debacle haven't suffered the same fate.

strong article. i do wish they'd talked more about adam.
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I find Netflix's model works better: allocating resources by visibility of a team. Roughly speaking, a manager gets a chunk of budget from her manager, and she can decide how big a package she gives to each of her team members. The more important a team becomes, the more budget the team gets. The more visible a person becomes to her manager, the more likely this person will get larger package. This comes with the following nuances:
* A team member is responsible for her visibility only to her team and her manager. There is really no need for any popularity contest if the team is small enough. I deem it as fair as it can get.
* A manager can definitely abuse the system, but then the team would suffer churn and productivity loss, and the manager would be punished. If the team performed anyway with little churn despite the manager's misbehavior, well, did the manager really misbehaved?
* To make the system work, the management chain needs to be perceptive, and teams need to be small. Netflix delivered both, which showed that Reed Hastings is a truly great CEO.
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The problem here is optics. Let's say you believe the stuff they tell you while they recruit you, you're happy to get a new job, higher salary etc... and join WeWork. Then you walk into the place and it's a total shitshow. Crap. Now you have to decide if you want to take a hit on salary and position to get a job somewhere else and charitably leave WeWork out of your resume, or you try to make it to 1-2 years of tenure when you can actually leave and hope nobody will ever ask too many questions.

The funny thing about this is the incentives in the hiring market compound the problem tremendously, because most recruiters don't care to think about what situation you might be leaving, they only look at tenure and if too short they will immediately think you're a "problem employee".
This whole debacle is just sour grapes over the absolute humiliation of the left in the 2016 election, and a growing fear that the humiliation will be repeated this November.
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The concept of this looks pretty powerful - the timelapse video on Youtube did a good job of showing me what I wanted to see. Devil's always in the details, of course, but at the very least, it seems like this could speed up the creation of rough drafts. I'm excited to try it out this week.
Check out Algo [0] if you're interested in setting up a personal WireGuard VPN server. It's simple and hassle-free, especially if you are not familiar with server administration and don't want to be bogged down by details.

I have one deployed on Digital Ocean ($5/mo droplet). All you need to do is run the setup script, answer a few yes/no questions (optional features), paste in your API key, and update the firewall setting on Digital Ocean's dashboard.

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I want something like this, which is why I more or less have the skeleton and something that at least approaches this idea, built organically through time using various utilities. Rofi, some shell scripts, etc.

This is a great idea in theory but much harder to do properly in practice. The idea is only really worthwhile as long as you can really extend it to a lot of things(no one cares about adding an Nth tool that can do GitHub and jira and one more thing).. and that's where this is going to go wrong.

There are reasons the interfaces to many tools that we use are as complicated as they are - it's needed to use the tool to its full effect. In order to achieve the same effect in this tool, you are doomed to constantly reimplement literally the entire interfaces of all the interesting services, just as CLI interfaces.. and that's just not gonna scale.

I'm not into all this YC stuff, but does the YC20 in the title means that someone has funded this idea?
Giving ability to build custom commands with underlying scripts is something that we're going to tackle very soon! Do you have any examples for what kind of things you would want to use it for?
So does criticism of Trump and unfounded theories about him being controlled by Russians also libel?
>> because this topic wasn't sufficiently big and axiomatic for them. That was my point.

That was your SPECULATION.
I love this comment which just straight-up comes out and says that lying sociopaths and narcissists are an integral part of a “healthy capitalist system”.

Tankies couldn’t have written a better indictment.
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I'm glad to hear the last section of Part 2 works the way it does. In reverse, if a person deactivates their profile, all comments you made on their posts completely disappear from your controls. If they reactivate, your comments are back.

I used "Social Book Manager" in the chrome store to (painfully, repeatedly) flush out all content from my account down to the last Like. Walk away and your account appears 100% empty until a reactivated friend occurs, then all your stuff linked to their content magically reappears for you to try and delete again. So I sat on it for another year, periodically logging back in to flush out whatever hidden content had reappeared.

Having now (this Jan.) deleted my supposedly "empty" 10yr old account, it's good to know the hidden content is being removed properly, as my intent was to 100% scrub myself from their service and boy did I try.
I use reddit for reviews of products. There's usually some subreddit for that company or line of devices.

Hard to tell what's authenticate or not in Amazon and even blog reviews found on Google.
> They were essentially covering up a design flaw with software.

My understanding is that the flaw was in the batteries. The c-rating was out of spec so every time the device drew max power it would damage the battery causing it's internal resistance to increase.

Once the internal resistance of the battery was high enough, the max power current draw would result in a voltage drop and "unexpected shutdown".

Did a supplier deliver under spec batteries? Did Apple underspec them? Did they know they were underspec and anticipate power management or something would limit exceeding the c-rating? No one knows because Apple refused to acknowledge that it was a defect or take accountability. All we can do is speculate.
I agree that it's not as effective as it should be but things like this do exist: https://breezesta.com/
I think at this time, the only option you'd have is a captive portal for the 2FA, and then unfirewall the in-VPN IP. WG has no provision for "connection state", only "handshake happened X seconds ago". If there's no traffic, there's no handshake.
That's the whole point of recycling, feeling good about ourselves. In reality the vast majority of the shit we throw away end up in open sky dump in Africa or China, but hey, I paid 80ct of "eco tax" on my $1k fridge so it's not my problem anymore.
Just like using a paper straw at starbucks is doing absolutely nothing at all if you don't change the rest of your lifestyle.

https://www.africanexponent.com/post/8588-the-west-is-dumpin...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/06/s...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/24/r...
It's not just about immutability. it's about the fact that you can do mutations producing a cheap copy of the data structure.

If I have an array of ten million numbers. I can alter one of those array elements, getting back a new immutable array with the modification. And fast. Yet the original array still remains without the modification. How the implementation magic works is not a concern when thinking about the abstraction. But you can read how the magic works and like any magicians trick, you end up saying "oh, so that's how it's done".

So you can modify one array element and get the performance (extremely close) to how you expect a single array element modification to perform. You the original copy of the entire array also remains if some other code has a copy of it.

Imagine a recursive algorithm searching a game board with different move possibilities. Apply a move to a board and get a new game board. Yet the original game board remains unaltered. And you didn't have to implement any magic in your search algorithm. No copying of the entire game board. You just get your new game board with the new move applied so that your recursive function can proceed.
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> Firefox for windows is perfect. I actually think it's faster on Windows than on OSX for whatever reason.

I've found that most crossplatform software runs faster on Windows than on macOS, even when comparing to a better Mac hardware.
I'm wondering where this story/version of the story comes from. What you're describing I've not heard anywhere else and I can't see any reference. Looking as an outside observer there is no way to tell whether this is just some story apple launched to make it sound reasonable/escape the lawsuits, is fully made up by someone else, or is actually the truth. From what I've read this issue was affecting all smartphones of certain generations, not just specific ones.

In any case the way they went about it and just pretended all is fine certainly is worth investigating. And as shifty as Apple has been in the past with such things - see planned obsolence, lack of possibility to replace parts/batteries, the throw-away airpods that even apple itself can't fix - it just does not sound to me like apple would really make user friendly decisions. Their only concern has (from all the evidence I've seen) been to protect profits. Even when apple was forced to do battery replacements they still charged for it.

Therefore I honestly doubt this story unless some third party can corroborate it.
What frustrates me to no end is that instead of those billions going towards capital intensive startups that are actual moonshots, it was funneled into some bullshit real estate ponzi scheme.

There are so many big problems that need solving, and also require large up front capital to do so. Think vertically integrated healthcare/hospital systems that remove insurance from the equation, nuclear fusion, new models for higher education, cancer treatments, etc.

Think of how many SpaceX and Tesla-esque startups didn't get off the ground because that money went to a damn coworking space company. Come on.
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Cambridge Analytical would have been fine if they hadn't been spreading "fake news"?

I'm sorry, but I think this kind of practice should be banned no matter if it's true, false, political, commercial, non-profit, or whatever.
How is this different from workflows in Alfred?
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WireGuard is a networking primitive. It creates a secure tunnel between two points and only contains the things necessary to make that happen.

The rest of what you're asking for can be implementing on top of WireGuard in external tools and I fully expect will be over the next few years seeing the adoption so far.

And given you mentioned SSH... That's basically what it is, yes, layer 3 forwarding over SSH except done in a way that's actually usable. (For issues, see e.g., http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html)

This is a step back towards the unix philosophy of providing simple pieces that can be stacked together to build more complicated things, not a drop-in replacement for OpenVPN et al. Most of us are excited because (1) not everyone is an enterprise, and that "we need everything and the kitchen sink" philosophy makes OpenVPN annoying to work with for everyone else and (2) we'll probably see a lot more options cropping up in this space soon built around WireGuard now that developers have been given a secure primitive to build upon.
i wish i could say yes, but i cant.

in the short term, if a virus can replicate itself and pass on to another host , that will in turn transmit the virus,,, that means a success.

if debilitating symptoms occur after transmission occurs then those symptoms dont influence selection, this is what happens with asymptomatic incubation and infectious states.

this type of virus uses RNA to carry its code, and a property of RNA is that it is much more error prone than DNA
so accidental variations in the code occur quite frequently.
A lot of these variants fizzle out but some of them will chance across an advantageous change in the code.

so we see a virus that passes through populations and shifts its codeing by being error prone. this can result in dynamic swings between dominance of strains over time, and lead to innovations such as high communicability, or asymptomatic transmission.
>nothing in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride explains "why it feels to everyone like experiences are being exported out of it" either.

Yeah, exactly. There's no way to tell if neuroscience is just the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride through which something else is getting pulled through on boats. Is there any evidence one way or the other? What would evidence look like? I think it is beyond the reach of science because there is no experiment you could ever do that would illuminate it.

Something that can only be resolved by discussing the options and choosing which one feels the most reasonable is philosophy, and not science.
I'll defend it. Not the elitism, but using jargon/abbreviations/etc. When you're writing something for a larger audience, you should of course target that audience. But when you're on the "inside" writing for people who already have the background knowledge, it's unnecessary friction to stop and think "what terms would a newbie need defined in this?" It breaks the flow of writing/discourse and is probably mostly not needed, because someone coming in not knowing the terms in play can either go look them up, or just ask in their own post. (Granted, this also depends on that being easy; either a jargon dictionary being available, or the forum members being friendly to newbie questions.) I think it's also understandable to apply a small amount of gatekeeping, insofar as that continual beginner questions in the middle of an advanced discussion are just a distraction. The answer to that should be directing them to a more beginner-friendly subforum, but FWIW I do understand why people sometimes act poorly out of frustration.
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I’m not a psychopath, but it’s just part of human nature. And softbank just wanted to dump a shitty company on the public markets and rip off retail investors. Neither side is good here.
They have money so they are being sued.