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Was that really the case? Netflix delivered DVDs for a decade before it started online streaming.

If I remember correctly Netflix’s original business model was more like a gym membership than brand building for an online platform that was a decade in the future.
What does "trojans at ISPs" even mean? TLS works end-to-end and ISPs can do absolutely nothing to see the plaintext. It's unless the CAs at users-side are manually replaced with fake ones nothing can be done. I've never used Windows since I was a kid but I am sure this is pretty much impossible on Linux for example since adding CAs require root privilege.
The kind of cultural attitude you describe reflects the supply and demand logistics of the economic conditions that were responsible for modern China as it is today.

Modern China was built off the backs of Cheap Manual laborers
I am really glad to hear that! I can only hope that this practice spreads. I want there to be a viable business model in the restaurant delivery business, but it has to be actually viable, which most likely means that it will have to be local approaches.
Just gimme epoch time and we're good.
Mainly because the laptops I looked at (Dell XPS-es and Thinkpads) come with either intel or nvidia. It seems AMDs are more present in gaming laptops and I am looking for a daily driver. Or high-end macbooks but I am trying to get out of those.

That said, AMD on linux - while works - is still not "obvious" to me [0]. There are multiple graphics stacks with various level of proprietary-ness and you have to mix and match.

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/amdgpu-insta...
The article says its unrealistic; not that its impossible.

Its unrealistic to tell every star High School athlete that they'll become the next million-dollar NFL player. But, its not impossible; in fact, they bring on million-dollar players every year. The point isn't that its impossible; its that its improbable.
Is it materially better than putting a mirror beside your TV?
> but because of what that means - That the company doesn't value its employees.

reducing perks is also a danger sign that a company is in a death spiral. If the company is to the point where it's worrying about $200 a week in fruit across N thousands employees then that can be indicative of other internal problems
I keep a stock of various Totino's pizzas in my freezer at all times.
I feel like this is a better Ask HN prompt than an article. This article is shit. "What is UX?" is a good, important conversation for people like us to have periodically.
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Great summary.

And Intel's cost of business is incredibly high. Semiconductor fabs are some of the most expensive factories in the world.

Intel is in danger of becoming General Motors, a company that sat by idly while competitors made them obsolete.
They have improved, but they haven't improved consistently. The spec is just too enormous.
git commit murder

https://www.amazon.com/commit-murder-Michael-Warren-Lucas-eb...
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I think the point would be more in the statement it makes, not really blocking the police from getting vehicles.
And it's December 31st..
Still shocked by how many times I see a year rollover go bad.
The treaties, as legal instruments, partly explain why reservations still exist, yes, but a treaty only survives if it isn't an impediment. I think it's key to understand why they were created in the first place because that also explains why they still exist: IMHO they still serve their purpose.
I don't like the concept of an open board that much, not a lot of good information will be posted, and not a lot of options to monetize it.
I would usually agree.

It may be in common language, but it does make a difference in this specific situation because you are essentially suing the people who have been placed into power and those people could use their power to suppress your objections. Sometimes the judges can be a part of the complaint too, and they aren't even elected but rather appointed.
In this case, it's that the parent comment is just wrong. There are at least five different food delivery apps in Portland that I'm aware of.
"Badly-written" is of course subjective, but as for untyped/loosely typed I think it's a bit difficult to claim that people are avoiding using them when (for example) the typings for an obviously popular library like Express are chock-full of `any` types[0]. Including several (like request bodies) that should instead be `unknown`. I'm sorry but it's rather naïve to expect a beginner to TypeScript, especially one that's coming from JS, to not trip up at all using typings like that and a compiler/language spec that implicitly casts things declared as `any`.

0. https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/mast...
I dispute your characterization that people had no clue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt#Biological_...
Wow, Intel has dominated the market for something like 40 years now?
Repairing boards with quality at this scale is unrealistic and in the end, every repair is some kind of replacement.
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Yeah every year he throws a party for the interns. Not a weird sketchy one either, but HR is involved, drinks are limited and that whole thing.

He gives me creepy vibes. But every CEO does that, so I’m not sure it’s a bad thing. At least I actually liked him.
> Psychiatrists want perfect isolation

Publishing under your real first names, and letting people know where you work, is pretty far from "perfect isolation", isn't it?

He's not stupid. Why did he chose such a terrible pseudonym?
To me, seems like informant territory.
I don't think accidental genocide is a thing.
You don't even need Electron. The "modern" Windows 10 calculator takes a dozen seconds to start on my laptop.
I’d say the article’s coverage of Scott and rationalism is fairly neutral, while its attitude toward Silicon Valley is negative. Seems like the reactions of the two communities are what you’d expect based on that.
In 2017, Trump was President...They didn't get voted out in the House until 2018.
Weirdly, Mazars actually shrinks what I believed was the scope of Congressional power, where in the one instance the House actually attempted to exert equal balance, there now exists a four-part test for validity of presidential subpeonas. Congressional power is squeezed from all sides whenever exerted.
This country is dead, killed by progressive forces and political correctness.

It was good till it lasted but now we have to pay the price of our weakness.

Let be sure the next empire will have learned the lesson of what it costs to have a conscience, and won't repeat the same mistake.
Being part Sami I think it's fascinating to read about the system of reservations in the USA. I'm not sure about minority rule, but I'm clearly in favour of saving the unique cultures and ethnicities from dying out.

After many years of persecution in Northeren Europe—including forced assimilation often called "Norwegianization" or "Swedification," and near extinction in Russia—we've finally gotten some recognition as a nation of our own, at least in the Nordics. We have our own parliament (Sámediggi) and flag, for instance, and enjoy semi-autonomous leadership in "our" historical regions (called Sápmi) in close cooperation with the governments of Finland, Norway and Sweden. As such it acts more like a subset of the respective governments of the Nordics.

Now, both the finnic and germanic populations are also indigenous to the Nordics together with the finno-ugric Samis, so in that sense it's a bit different from the native population of the USA, where the other nations are almost all of immigrant descent. On the other hand, just like the Native Americans, Samis are in the clear minority in Northeren Europe, with only about 100.000 members, some of whom can't even speak their own language due to the assimilation policies (like me, although I do know a few words). Thus our culture and unique way of life is indeed in danger of extinction. For that reason alone I think it's important to at least recognize the ethnicity, and perhaps save it from the "tooth of time" as it were. Perhaps especially since most Samis today enjoy a modern lifestyle, and only very few live the traditional nomadic lifestyle of reindeer herding. If I'm not mistaken, the same is true for the Native Americans. In any case I'm happy we can finally enjoy peace and democracy with one another.

All the best, from Norway! <3
I'm using templates as well for the speedup in testing. We build a postgresql docker image with the migrations + seed data, then create a few databases for parallel testing.

When migration or seed files have changed, rules rebuild the image. That way the price of migration (about 2 minutes for our Django app) isn't paid on every test run.

Creating a DB from template is 2 seconds.
Listening to the piece at the end of the article is somehow incredibly exciting. Aside from the fact that I'm deeply interested in digital music synthesis, just the fact that this recording exists and you can literally hear the human element and reaction to it at the time is just such a wonderful feeling. A lot of modern technology gets a (somewhat justified) bad rap, but things like this where you can have that strong human connection nearly a hundred years after the fact will be such an interesting shift for future historians, assuming we find ways to keep this data around for the future.
Maybe shrink government?

You might not agree with the principle, but given they haven't done much shrinking you cannot call it their principle.
They're still making some pretty good stuff now. I'm just finishing up 4 weeks of 'The Prep', which has been great for a not too intense or time consuming weights + cardio workout. Considering moving on to the more intense follow-up program, '6 weeks of the work', which looks something like a modern p90x (but a bit less of an insane time commitment).
Yes, when you log in the "click to see more comments" largely goes away. It's unusable without being logged in -- perhaps by design.
I don't usually laugh at HN comments, but this is pretty good. And it's true. Joda-Time and its near relatives are just genuinely good. So much effort has gone into addressing so many edge and corner cases that it seems like a shame to not just tuck all that work under one's arm and steal it.
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Nuttier leaders than what we currently have, you mean? As far as I can tell, the US did pretty well with less federal power for several hundred years; I don't really see how rolling back 50 years of federal policy would lead to balkanization.
Something interesting to note is that Warren Buffet started out making his money in something called value investing [1].

The principle is that you use things like assets, employees, IP, sales, factory output, sales, etc. to calculate your expected share price and if you check the actual share price and find it to be greatly undervalued, you would buy up a somewhat significant part of the business. I assume this also allows you to have some kind of say in the future of the business and I assume that you would prefer it if the company were not that large yet.

It would be interesting to hear what a young Warren Buffet would have had to say (since the old one does actually tell us what he has to say).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_investing
Google Ads Bug Fill YouTube with Low Video Quality Ads
Youtube has a feature via Adwords that you can spend money to get views.

Along that youtube has a feature that you can block viewing of videos to only members (who pay to be member of your channel)

So people are running ads on Member only video and gaining millions of subscribers.

More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3HgTniHpDU (Not my channel)
Congress merely reflects the candidates that we elect and the underlying political sentiments of their constituents. Since they serve shorter terms than judges and are more localized than the President, it's hardly surprising that they are more impacted by the political divide.

If Americans cannot agree on anything, therefore, congress cannot either. People blame congress, but it's the American people who are ultimately responsible.
Are you asking him to name drop some of the most despicable, dishonest, sexually harassing, Solo Capitalists in the industry?
Basically we need Unicode But For Time.

These are similar problems: getting a computer-amenable model of something that's fundamentally a human phenomenon, and carries multiple centuries and multiple continents of accumulated context, ambiguity, and edge-cases. This is an extremely difficult class of problems, but in the case of text & characters, we managed to finally get a pretty well-functioning and broadly-supported solution after a few decades of gratuitously-incompatible half-solutions. There's hope.
Is this the same "drown it in a bathtub" corps that signed a trillion dollar emergency social welfare spending bill a few months ago?

I respectfully submit that you might want to reconsider your priors and update them if you want to accurately reason about the present state of the USA Republic.

The Trump administration has observably almost fully embraced an MMT style social welfare program. The sovereign currency denominated deficits don't matter position has won. The only thing that's missing is the employment backstop, but the $600 a week federal unemployment bonus arguably achieves the same fiscal effects as paying for busywork.
Sure, it’s called the bulletproof @font-face syntax. But that means you’ve got to get the fonts in all of the formats, for starters. I don’t think it’s worth it at all, for the stated reason. Three years ago maybe, but definitely not now.
If 2020 Silicon Valley had to invent the pencil, it would be shaped like a smartphone, include chat apps and "social," require special paper to write with, and send everything the user writes back to the company's server.
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I think it says a lot about human nature and concentration of power than about Chinese people in particular.
Huh - thanks for the link. The Moment folks also have Luxon, which I've been using, but there's quite a lot more momentum behind date-fns.
This is right. Here's an example of one of the best known SCOTUS clinics, for more specificity: https://law.stanford.edu/supreme-court-litigation-clinic/
Ford employees, unless in management, mostly belong to the UAW. That has power within the political system.
I would tend to think the key is the "soft" aspects of your business. The things that can't simply be copied or commoditized. Customer service, being in tune with your target market and their wants and needs, responsiveness to feedback, institutional knowledge.

Everyone still uses Slack even though it is not an especially hard product to build, and even though Microsoft and Google have both shipped clones that work fine and integrate with their other products. Why? Part of it is brand recognition and a network effect, but I think an important factor is that this is all that Slack does. Slack really really cares about making the best chat tool for people to use at work. They put all of their energy into constantly improving it; they give it their human attention. The same is partly true of Dropbox vs Google Drive and OneDrive.

Google Meet and Microsoft Teams don't really matter to those companies. They'd like it if you used them, they'll allocate some cash to keep them going. But it wouldn't be a huge deal if they lost the battle and those products died. A company's culture, institutional knowledge, and focus can't simply be copied.
The term I'm looking for is ad hominem.

"this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself."

tripletao chose to attack the character of a journalist instead of engaging with the arguments.
If you're looking to do this without OS X, or you want to do something like this in an existing Video conference app like Zoom or Jitsi (I have no idea if Mmhmm does or not, they give few details and I can't download it), this is pretty easy to do in OBS Studio. You can do video capture of your presentation, yourself, have background images, and arrange things however you'd like. Here's a Youtube tutorial [1] with some examples. You'd then need a virtual webcam plugin to use your OBS Studio stream in other software. On Windows you can use OBS Virtual Cam[2], on Linux you can use obs-v4l2sink[3]. On OS X I think there's still an open bounty for a OBS Studio webcam solution, so since Mmmhmm is only available on OS X anyway that might be a better solution for you.

It certainly seems like Mmmhmm makes this easier, and allows you to smoothly transition from one format to another, but OBS Studio is very workable as well, and works on more platforms.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk7W9ECtpZE
2. https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.949/
3. https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-v4l2sink
Currently the federal government has a wide range of powers over reservation land such as the ability to prosecute crime. For better or for worse, Congress can expand these powers at any time to include dissolving the reservation. The law in all these aforementioned areas is well settled.

The issue in this case was with a state government, specifically Oklahoma. This ruling will limit Oklahoma's ability to prosecute crime when (1) it occurs on the reservation and (2) involves members of the tribe. Congress would have to act to change this, or some agreement could be reached with the tribe.
>Because I'm not really interested in abandoning my fellow citizens who lack the means or the support structures to leave where they currently are to the tender mercies of people who plainly don't give a damn about them.

>Even every "red state" has plenty of people in need who can't afford to go elsewhere and shouldn't be asked to abandon their families and their lives to just not die.

>(EDIT: I normally don't respond to killed comments, because feeding the trolls sucks, but: I live in Massachusetts, dude. I'm used to a state that actually works. I wish you all had them too.)

You could write an analogous comment from a perspective of "people in the blue states need saving too".

Are you going to be singing that same pro-federal tune if issues don't go your way at the federal level?

I live in Massachusetts too. While the burning dollars of taxpayers does keep us warm there is no shortage of states in the nation that would revolt if it had government that "works" the way our government "works". People in other states are not so willfully subservient to government in the name of the common good as we are. We step in line for things that would provoke revolt in states with stronger traditions of individualism and distrust for government.

We have a limited federal government for a reason. Massholes like us have no business telling people thousands of miles away with different cultural values and different economic circumstances how to live their lives. The hell do you or I know about what's best Wyoming? Exactly.
Just speculating but perhaps the consumer ones return after the cache is populated and not after the data is durably on disk? That wouldn’t really be a no-op but would be much quicker for small writes at the expense of correctness in a power outage (although in the case of a DB the WAL entries are typically atomic so it would just be a rollback anyway).
They are yet to agree how to deal with strings, how do you expect them to agree with time and dates?
Literally nothing in the legal system is permanent for perpetuity. Even the constitution can be amended in any way. All laws, treaties, etc. can be undone with enough effort.
> focusing on unit tests is, in most cases, a complete waste of time.

Someone is pretty inexperienced by making that claim. Unit tests help to isolate the expectations and verification to very small levels.

> While these changes may seem as an improvement to some, it’s important to point out that the interfaces we’ve defined serve no practical purpose other than making unit testing possible.

No it simplified the responsibility of the class. It also simplified your tests as well. Now you don't have to have tests that test many different scenarios.

> Note that although ILocationProvider exposes two different methods, from the contract perspective we have no way of knowing which one actually gets called.

Tests don't verify how you use or call other classes/methods. You can do verification if you want via mocks.

> Unit tests have a limited purpose

Yes, as does integration tests, functional tests, system tests. Etc. You shouldn't be trying to do unit level testing via an integration test.

> For example, does it make sense to unit test a method that calculates solar times using a long and complicated mathematical algorithm? Most likely, yes.

It does if you want to verify that the functionality is setting up the request correctly.

> Does it make sense to unit test a method that sends a request to a REST API to get geographical coordinates? Most likely, not.

That's not a unit test. That's an integration test(if you use a mock) or a functional test if you want to end a live end point.

> Unit tests lead to more complicated design

It highlights that the original design was complicated or the methods had side effects (which you should avoid). In his own example he seperated the resources from the functionality.

> Unit tests are expensive

No they're not. Mocks do not belong in a unit test. That's for integration tests. If you have them there you have issues. They're cheap to write and quick to run.

> Unit tests rely on implementation details

It's all about how you write you code, if you're trying to lump everything together, that's what you get.

> Unit tests don’t exercise user behavior

Correct, unit tests don't. Functional/feature or above do.

I stopped reading after this. It feels like the guy is just trying to argue that he doesn't like testing.
> Suppose I have a big following. Suppose I know that some of those followers are prone to exaggerating some things that I "suggest". If you know those two facts, would you have written the same letter?

By your standards, any form of activism is a harassment campaign unless you can control the actions of every single individual in your group. I see this line of argument a lot recently, but frankly it’s nonsense.

> Even in this thread, any kind of actual discussion is almost impossible. The general opinion is very skewed by very specific interpretations of Scott's persona (which I don't think is actually valid because in my opinion he was not a benevolent person).

We’re talking about non-debatable facts here. You keep saying that the blog take down post “suggested” people to harass NYT. That post is there in plain view, and it clearly does not.
And I imagine they’re already doing that
I am highly skeptical of any claim that anything can be 10x-100x faster that JavaScript. Do you have any concrete example where a similar program coded in (decently written) JS is that slower?
I work on a compiler from C++ to JavaScript & WebAssembly (Cheerp), and I have basically never saw any such a difference.
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