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Anand Giridharadas has a degree in politics and history. Completely unqualified to comment about issues that are fundamentally about economics, public health, etc. I’ve watched over the last 30 years as the “age of capital” has lifted millions out of poverty, and organizations like the Gates foundation have helped drop the infant mortality rate by 3/4 since my family left the country.

Meanwhile, socialists like Giridharadas have done nothing but hold the country back, trying to keep us in poverty. Millions of children are dead because of the multi-decade detour socialists line Giridharadas took India and Bangladesh in during the 1960s-1990s.
And rav1e too.
Couldn't they grant new options to the employees whose options expire?

An IPO seems like a pretty big hammer for that particular nail.
Basically it came down to a refusal to raise the debt ceiling, which forces the Treasury to take "extraordinary" measures to meet debt obligations. In several cases the Treasury was warning that they were running out of such measures and that if the debt ceiling was not raised there would be a default.
* you don't have the right to drive

Is it a "right" if it can be taken away? You can definitely be prohibited from driving for things like DUIs.

>* you don't have the right to walk on interstates

This is already the case.
I can't answer for OP but I can say it makes me chuckle too.

If the solution was purely to force Google to sell access to their index then yes it seems possible on the surface.

But as mentioned index and ranking are inextricably tied together.

Even if they weren't, no other organization is going to be able to produce search results comparable to Google using their index. You're underestimating what goes on under the hood.

So then the answer (often in these conversations) becomes to open up the ranking algos too.

The problems with that are numerous so I'll just point out some of the bigger ones:

- Arms race: Search is a constant arms race between providers and 3rd parties trying to game the system. The minute you make the algos public, gamers win the race. Search result quality returns to the way it was in the 90's and stays that way until someone else comes up with proprietary algos that work (but is that even legal at this point in our thought experiment?)

- Motivation: If search is open and you therefore can't directly profit from your efforts to improve it (because you automatically give away anything you create to competitors) where is your motivation to keep innovating?

- It's harder than you think: Truly, there's so much more going on in modern search indexing and ranking than you likely realize. The chances that some new organization (especially a gov organization) given access to Google's black box as it exists right now would be able to maintain search result quality for any significant length of time is essentially zero.

But let's imagine that it's as easy as many people think... Wouldn't the solution then be to build a public alternative rather than effectively killing what we have now?
Possibly. But Google gets the bad PR and stays in the dominant position anyway, while Firefox more or less disappears. I don't say Google necessarily wants to be evil towards Firefox, but in their position it is enough to not care.

Also, even if the contract is renewed, the number could be smaller.
Yes? It supports different calling conventions. Easiest would be exporting things cdecl from Go. But usually the better way to do this is to write the UI in FreePascal (or something else) and use some form of IPC like pipes or network sockets to get the data to the UI.

I've actually done this, it works well, and the Lazarus GUI libraries manage to get a natural look and feel on all platforms.
> What in the heck are you talking about. Google doesn't directly make money from Chrome - it's free!

I appreciate the breath of fresh air Chrome brought in when it entered the market but: every percentage point Chrome takes in the market is a dollar Google doesn't have to pay for search traffic acquisition. Google absolutely profits from the chrome userbase. In the same manner, Android is valuable as a means of avoiding paying Apple for defaults on iOS.

Chrome has always represented a threat to Mozilla's business model, even though it was seemingly more and more profitable with less and less market share (shades of "The Producers"). It'll be interesting to see how 2021 shakes out; Yahoo! outbidding Google for default search engine momentarily put to rest the idea that Mozilla was an antimonopoly figleaf funded by Google. However, the minute Mozilla legally could, they flipped back to Google, and, frankly, that undercuts their bargaining position with Google. And with Yahoo.

> It was faster than all the competitors at the time - including firefox - and had much better word-of-mouth traction. Firefox always had a "techie expert" connotation back in the day, and it bit them in the butt when it came to the average joe deciding which browser to use.

Given how strongly Mozilla's fate is tied to market share, it seems like they should be leaning harder on advertising. I'm told Mozilla has a huge marketing department but IDK what they do TBH.
> while originally presented as the for-profit serving the non-profit, the reality appears to be the other way around.

Would you care to elaborate?
I stopped following the alt-coin thing years ago, so apologies for my ignorance... but what does Ethereum give me that BTC, Gold, or 7.62 NATO can't?
Also depends on where you look. As far as I recall, and understand, trolling and flame wars began in Usenet newsgroups

edit: at least the terms, more so than the behaviors they describe
In fact, the poached animal usually dies.

Given that these folks are instead going to become apologists for obvious abuses of power in the name of "making a difference in the world", perhaps radicalized would be a better word choice :-)
> Conductive ink + dielectric ink = the ability to print semiconductors and other electronic circuits...

Not semiconductors. This is basically a PCB printer.
YouTube flagged me so I built a Telegram bot to proxy their videos
I can recommend alternatively https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

Much nice I think, but had some bugs with sessions sometimes.
The crucial difference is "the right to swing your arms ends at my nose" essentially. The actual impact on other people is what makes the limitations acceptable.

That is an important distinction compared to random searches because you "might" have done something wrong.
That's auto generated and will shrink more and more in the future as WASM gets more abilities to directly call into DOM APIs and store JS objects.
The mentions of “racism”, “advocacy”, etc on this post make me want to puke. All while firing people from servo, rav1e, etc. Make a bloody good browser and stop meddling with politics, dunces!
Usually I do that, but in this case the title was almost meaningless ('How the Media Could Get the Election Story Wrong'). I wanted to highlight the bit I found interesting.
That is a very naive view of how things work. (Though I agree that that is how things should work)
Thanks for question! Slack is a good first thought for a way to communicate with friends and family.

So, I've got a nuclear family of 9. We're a big group and squarely in the market for anything related to family connection. Just speaking from my own experience, it's hard for me to imagine creating a Slack group for my family because Slack feels like a place for work.

So I think that energetically the feel of Slack is quite a bit off. I'm looking for a dedicated family experience, and wouldn't get what I want seeing my family's Slack group amongst the many other work ones I've joined.

There's also a usage problem. Despite Slack being obviously popular, a lot of my siblings (and definitely my parents) don't use it or don't have a clue what it is. When I initially floated the idea to friends, they had some concern specifically around their parents' ability to download and use an app. That concern was fairly well alleviated when I suggested everything could be done over email.

Hence I chose email as a better lowest common denominator form of communication across different ages.

But the biggest thing is probably that a Slack message doesn't offer the same experience as as a collaborative newsletter. Letterloop basically works like a survey. It lets you ask thoughtful questions that everyone answers asynchronously. Then, all the answer are compiled into a newsletter that gets sent to everyone. So, you see everyone's replies to all questions at once.

This would be really hard to achieve with a Slack. You'd have to ask the questions in a channel, then let people add answers in subsequent messages. That means you'll get an individual notification for each message, vs a single notification that the newsletter has arrived.

I think that makes a big difference for engagement. One of the goals of the newsletter is to make sure everyone is seen and heard. Presenting all replies at once is a great way to do this. I used to try asking thoughtful questions over chat, but they would get drowned out by other random messages interspersed between member replies. Plus, it led to more notification fatigue.

I also think there's something to be said for presentation. The newsletter delivers the replies in a really beautiful way that makes the group feel more cohesive — like they accomplished something together. You can upload images and there are dedicated sections that help organize replies. It's pretty cool to see your family members all come together and make something. Opening the newsletter definitely creates a very positive feeling about the group that made it. I think you wouldn't be able to get that feeling at all with a series of messages in a workplace messaging app, and it's actually one of the things I've enjoyed the most about my own Letterloop experience.
It seems, as with many things, that trick is to use it, but not too much, and if you hurt yourself take a break, but get back to it once you're done.

My favourite parts of that article are the comments - I believe someone is trying to log in by repeatedly typing their password into a comment box.
Wasn't the type of power I expected.

Me either. I thought it was going to be about power measurements for non-standard waveforms. Switching power supplies, inverters, and other devices generate loads and outputs that don't look like a nice sinusoidal AC waveform. There are power factor problems, where voltage and current are not in sync.

It's hard to measure average power for strange waveforms. Average voltage times average current can be way off from average power. You need the integral of the product of voltage and current. The simplest way to get that is measuring the heat emitted from a resistor in series with the load, and that's what a classic RF wattmeter does.

It's a practical headache for transformers, power distribution, and such. Transformers lose efficiency and heat up on such waveforms. Motors don't run well
This used to be a big problem with low-end inverters for solar systems.

The "free energy" people run into this trap. They build some weird oscillator, measure voltage and current, and think they got out more than they put in.

So that's "Average power, a cautionary note" for electronics.
From my observations bookings are healthy in recreational areas like Colorado, but still non-existent in urban city centers... not sure how that breaks down in terms of revenue for them.
Presumably that Google data center does a lot of compute intensive, non search related stuff - like GCP for one.
OP may have created some of the child replies, along with rings of upvotes. Classic astroturfing.
Chegg provided the kids (and rightfully took a cut for it).

What am I supposed to do? start cold calling college students asking if they need help? lol

Yeah, I could start my own tutoring business, but imagine the costs: I'd have to start a website, take payments, advertise, advertise, advertise.

It'd be great if someone did all that for me and I just could log in to tutor when I wanted.
> It was an outgrowth of failed experiments in FRP from the Haskell world

I'd like to hear more about this failed experiment. Reflex is alive and active and perhaps is the best tool out there for fullstack applications.
What's the tangible evidence that the world is a positive-sum game? The tangible evidence to me seems to suggest it's a zero-sum game. E.g., a product costs $X, owners get too large of a % of that compared to employees.
Too much effort to sign up and authenticate for a quick peek. Could you set up a “guest” account with one-click login for exploration? Not to put down your effort, but this will really help the audience (and I say this as someone very interested in RSS aggregators/readers)
What blows my mind about bucklescript is the compiled output is small and readable. Also because "it's just javascript" making it work with other javascript is much easier than with other examples. The compiler is also FAST

That experience is similar to typescript "it's just JS" except that the HM type system feels like MAGIC when you compare it to TS.

When you work with cljs and elm you need to bring in the runtime so the payloads are large. Additionally errors in prod can be opaque as the output is usually minified and barely resembles your original source. I believe there is tooling around this but it is still not the same as regular JS in that regard.

Interop between reasonml and cljs is comparable - typing reasonml can take a bit of getting used to but there are escape hatches and gradual typing to allow you to incrementally type things.

So ELI5:

type system of Elm.

Interop and "impurity" of cljs but immutability encouraged by language

"its just JS" like TypeScript

Haven't used f#, scalajs or gopher

Unfortunately, because there are many many layers of complexity which is not always easy to google or discover it can be hard to get started
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It’s been years since I used clojurescript so ymmv, but imo integrating so tightly with the closure compiler was a big mistake. It adds tons of futziness and build complexity for what, in practice, are usually pretty marginal reductions in bundle size that end users won’t notice.
Good point, I edited my post. Thanks.
So would I. The last time I used Firefox, they couldn't keep the entire browser from crashing because a single tab broke. They've got a long way to go to get Firefox up to its competition.
Brave decision indeed.
Imbalance is not a zero-sum issue.

"Imagine four people got all the food, and the rest got another 20%" is still imbalanced, even with 120% of the food. And there still would be violence. The problem is that the benefits of anything not zero-sum disproportionately accrue to the people who already have more than enough. And that simultaneously zero-sum resources also disproportionately accrue to the ones who already have so much.

It's not "playing a zero sum game" when you question why e.g. Bezos should accrue another $40 billion in net value, while hospitals struggle to provide PPE to their health care workers.

It's not "a zero sum game" if you ask why we have a world where somebody can hoard $150 billion while 800 million people need to go hungry every day.

Hugely disproportional resource allocation will break civilizations, zero-sum or not. (I'm fairly convinced that some inequality might contribute to a better society, but we've exceeded reasonable limits long ago)
Yeah, like that stopped Radio Free Europe delivering real news into the Eastern block.

They can imprison people with terminals but they can't radio shield their airspace.
I'm always amazed when talking to US friends how far behind the rest of the world the US is with respect to banking. For a long time friends were telling me they were getting their salary, paying their rent etc. by cheque, when I had been using automatic wire transfers or debits for a long time already.
With respect to your comment above, here in Scandinavia (where banks are also atrocious for other reasons) as well as much of Europe, with most of the internet payment processors (like Klarna) you can use wire transfer, debit from the account as well as direct internet banking for online shopping. We also have swish, which is a payment system were you essentially wire transfer money by using the mobile number.

That said many people (myself included) also use credit cards for their convenience.
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The world is vastly richer today than it was in the past due to the development of new technologies and improved social systems.
Due process resulted in the presidency having way too much power.

Now, due process has to start focusing on increasing the federal structure of state’s power and the power that comes with their senators / house / etc.
Oh, I very much agree to your general point, I just happen to be a free information believer, so I was triggered by your example ...
The syscall api is in ntdll.dll (and user32.dll for win32k.sys calls). kernel32 does not know the syscall numbers, it just calls functions in ntdll.
Either you think America used to have Soviet style communism, or you have serious reading comprehension problems, or you're a parodist.
Right... Only the rest of us on HN have the right to offer opinions! What could a knowledge of history/politics ever contribute to the discussion? :-)
Exactly. Capitalism adds more wealth to the mix. The creators are incentivized to increase the size of the pie. Sure, they may take a lot on a percentage basis, but most people still do quite well.

Places like Venezuela and Soviet Russia tried to distribute things equally and the richest people in those worlds had it worse than the 10th percentile in capitalist countries. This is why the Soviet Union had to build a wall to keep people in but the US is considering building a wall to keep people out.

Just
Bell Labs was a successful lab, not a successful company. It was eventually spun off as a company, Lucent, which failed.
For heavy elements this usually means a terminal at the 206, 207, or 208 isotopes of lead or thallium-205; radioactive isotopes smaller than that usually quickly hit a "nearby" stable isotope.
Those are political decisions.
Arguably your right to drive does not exist (it's a privilege to operate a motor vehicle.)

Your right to cross state lines and travel freely (by common carrier flight) is stronger than a purported right to drive.
Lobsters [0] is the first that comes to mind. Their content is much more directly focused on CS/EE-relevant subject matter. They're invite-only, however.

[0] https://lobste.rs/
This is a common misconception of section 230. Section 230 absolves platform companies from responsibility over speech on the platform.

It does not care about what is moderated out. No one is responsible for speech that isn’t said.
By Jan?

Says who?

If there is no vaccine, there is no chance any of such activities going to happen without consequences.
IDK about OP, but there are a ton of benefits to server side rendering:

1. Extremely good for cli power users and people who use console-based browsers occasionally (guilty of being both).

2. Less likely to stumble upon a really weird behavior in some browser, even the common ones.

3. Faster for anyone who doesn't have a server-grade workstation.

4. Server-side caching - play it smart and you can cache large chunks of the rendered pages, making it an extremely cheap operation to serve.

5. No 80mb javascript files you get on every "modern" website.

6. Easier to maintain.

Just a few off the top of my head.
Makes perfect sense when you consider that the author is a former McKinsey consultant.
Funny you mention Yoga studios, as we are actually seeing a big influx from this market for video hosting. Many are starting to productize their lessons which will likely be bigger wins, versus selling their time as instructors.

I think it's similar to what your partner is seeing. For many of these businesses, there is a viable online path. But that assumes that they have the skills and desire to operate an online business.

Some of these small businesses are operated by folks who may know how to operate in a local market, and have very little interest in e-marketing and shipping products.
That's awesome. Reminds me of Ken Shirriff computing sha256 with pencil and paper...

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
Yeah sure. Here's a quick brain dump

* Faster page loads is the number one reason. It is super fast to navigate, once you get the shortcuts down. (For now it might actually be a bit slower if you're not in EU)

* Simpler architecture

* You get a lot for free by the browser (loading state, back button actually works, etc)

* Accessible

* Works on every browser (even your mother's potato phone :P)

* Works without JS

Yeah, Miniflux is definitely coming from the same mentality as we are. Also, it's great. :)
You're leaving out an important distinction. You don't have a right to do those things _in harmful ways_. If you are an unsafe driver (whether it's excessive speeding, drunk driving, etc) you absolutely should be barred from the roads.

I am actually very much a live and let live type person. Where I start having issues is when your lifestyle puts others in danger. Drink all you want... at home. Or in a bar. But get a taxi home. If you are going to be a belligerent drunk that's harassing others, you absolutely should be kicked out of even public transportation.

I am totally against MANY of the policies of the TSA (mostly on grounds of what's effective, and also what's unnecessarily invasive from a privacy standpoint). But I am not against the existence of something like a TSA.
You mean "Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tubes"?

(No offence to British sausages intended, but I just had to sneak in that reference)
I believe a large part of the solution is still to minimize one's environmental footprint, to act by consuming much less, to live more simply

In developed countries, less than 1% of the population do that, if it's 50% of the population, it's a total game and climate changer
Well, we _are_ having a conversation that's all about how we think the system should work...
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"Distrust those who profess altruism."
"Don't be helpful: be useful, be available."
"Helpful people are a nuisance."
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Yes. To oversimplify the model, there are n<10(?) companies that have first dibs on developers who can pass their interview process and want the best comp (and/or want to work at one of those companies for other reasons).

But there is competition among those companies even if "everyone" else pretty much doesn't even try to compete with them based on comp. (Which makes talking market price a bit odd in this case. I imagine an economist has some term for it. I guess there's a market price for developers who can get a FAANG offer and then there's a market price for everyone else.)
The problem with either of those is that the chances of either of those things happening are incredibly low, so the urgency to act on it isn't there. If someone would tell you that you have to prepare to the one in a few million chance of winning in the lottery, you would likely also ignore it.

An employee getting hired by another company (doesn't need to be FAANG) is on the contrary a rather common occurrence, and a lot of people understand the importance of preparing for that.
That is complete bullshit. They not only don't need to board but if they pulled a gun the TSAs would be an unwitting accomplice in letting them reinact "No Russian" with their bullshit security theater gathering hundreds into a massive shooting gallery with no cover. Really that is why there was such outrage over the level - it illustrated vividly how the TSA failed on the most basic logical level.
40 million people are on track to being evicted in one of the biggest economic downturns in history. Except, the wealthy just got even more wealthy.

This system is a failure for everyone that isn't in the 1%