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> Activist investors don't take a majority stake, just one large enough to get a board seat or two (5% is considered the minimum in the US) and make some noise.

Per-investor, yes — but multiple institutional investors can get involved with little intervention unless the founder holds at least a plurality. This is exactly why we're starting to see companies like Facebook and Uber issue class A shares. Travis Kalanick was, in theory, untouchable — he just didn't have the energy in him to fight the board after a personal tragedy.

> For that matter, Elon Musk only owns 21% of Tesla right now[1], so if 51% of the board think he's a net-negative, he could go immediately. They clearly do not.

Yes, and if he is forced to liquidate any more of his holding, he ceases to be a plurality. That's the point.
I agree. In general the entire website feels very lackluster, the redesign is heinously slow and the problem has to be in the frontend since old.reddit is not nearly as laggy.

Having to watch a pulsating loading icon while it's fetching a few KiB of plain
text comments is frankly shameful, especially for a website that's mostly about
comments in the first place (I know there weren't comments on Reddit at the very
start, but I can't imagine that it would've reached that level of popularity
without them).

I think it's a case of poorly aligned incentives, they clearly only want to
funnel everybody to the mobile app. The website being an unusable lagfest might
be a feature, or at the very least there's probably not a lot of effort put into
improving it.
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I have seen there has been quite some debate about GitHub sponsorship and how useful it will be - has anyone made experiences with that by now? How does it do for you?
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yes yes, there are third party DMPs. Phone companies, offline stores etc. all share data with these DMPs. It is quite disgusting. Particularly shady practices done by FB.

But nothing can defeat first party tracking you get with the app.
For things that cannot happen, I use error code FFF.

For what it stands for, that comes from a story told by a friend in college whose best friend had done a summer working at a navy shipyard with several salty old mechanics.

Their speech was very liberally sprinkled with the word "fuck".

One day, they got an engine in for repair that was in particularly bad shape. After accessing it, one of the mechanics gave his verdict, and at the same time set a new record for the density of "fuck" in their speech.

His verdict: "This fucking fucker's fucked".
This tool is ridiculous and less than useless. Can't anyone else see how ridiculous of an idea it is to add types automatically? Isn't the whole point of static typing to allow the human developer to specify what the types should be? If a machine could resolve the type integrity issue automatically from dynamically typed code (which is what this tool claims to do), why do we need this tool to physically insert type annotations into the code to begin with? I can't believe I even have to explain myself. I thought static typing was meant to protect the code's integrity?

Clearly this tool is undeniable proof that static typing exists merely to satisfy human ego and neuroticism and has nothing to do with logical integrity... Since this tool itself supposedly proves that this integrity can be derived automatically from dynamically typed code. This tool is a paradox, a blatant logical contradiction.

If this tool does work as advertised, then it proves the uselessness of static typing and thus, by extension, this tools proves its own uselessness.

EDIT I removed a potentially offensive remark from my comment. This makes zero sense to me is my point.
>172,000 dead

Thats such a low number ~0.05% of the population. This should viewed as good news that the virus is not that deadly.
> It could certainly be done in a regressive way, but I don't see that as innevitable or any worse than the status quo, since income taxes can be raised just as easily.

I am not (here) worried about it being regressive: I am worried about it being yet another mechanism for the state to take a larger fraction of GDP (about 2½% in 1900; almost 20% at the height of the Second World War; about 17% now, according to Wikipedia).

> Either way - I think we fundamtally agree that there needs to be more tax on the rich, be it investments, wealth tax, inheritance, or that sort of thing.

I certainly don't! I agree that we need a government; I agree that we need taxes to fund the government (I disagree with those who think that we can fund the government on a voluntary basis); I agree that taxes need to be fair in some sense.

I suspect that fairer taxes would be higher for the middle classes, to be honest. Certainly the countries with effective welfare states seem to have more taxes on the middle than the U.S. does.
Another great choice for radio shows is BBC Sounds. Wide range of genres, good song/piece selections in each genre, and, in most cases, a reasonable amount patter about the music.

Most of the music I’ve come to like in recent years I heard first on the BBC. Radio 3 is a particular treasure.
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Lemmy is an interesting federated alternative to reddit.
It looks like they focused on 3D gimmick, instead of building a good general purpose smartphone
At the moment, I'm not planning to, just cause right now it's my own mess of code, and I feel like bringing on extra people would give me a bit more managerial work than I'd like.

That being said, it's all plain javascript, there's no backend, nothing is really stopping people from looking at all the source code
Just because division by zero produces a value doesn't mean the value means anything or should ever have been obtained. Division by a very small number and division by zero should NOT have the same effect. That is the error which you're supposed to catch by not dividing by zero in the first place.
Even with the Axidraw, it's really hard to produce notes at scale. There are a handful of companies that have built out proprietary machines to do this e.g. https://www.handwrite.io (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder) but as far as I know there aren't any readily available for purchase.
And how am I supposed to patch the OSS libraries I'm using otherwise?
- No work apps/tools on personal devices (Slack, Google, Jira, etc.)

- No matter what, close your work laptop at 5pm (or whatever time your hard stop is). Any pending work/emergency eating you will still be there the next day.

- Take a walk.
That's on you for having a scarcity mindset.
They give me Reddit coins because I donate every month. I don’t use their app and have no trouble giving out coins for posts that I like. Sort of fun, BTW.

Now, I really wish Twitter would let me pay a monthly fee for no advertisements.
I have this problem too, uninstalling apollo right now.

I also hate the mobile UI, I think this will work.
Improving Rust itself is already a humongous task with no shortage of issues to solve. Taking on something as big as Servo on top would be a horrible distraction.
Nice chip. It is so crazy what you get for the price of 2 cokes.

But I am not surprised it gets a lot of language support. 160Mhz for a µC... My first PC I got was ancient when I got it and it had 166Mhz. Single core of course. At least it had 4x the RAM. And all that now cost < 10$...
2nd that. I keep coming back to vimwiki after forays into other tools. It isn't perfect but its reliable and I can find my notes when I need them
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As I've tried to explain 3 or 4 times, this is not what I'm talking about. Do you understand the difference between data being "deleted" and data being "compressed"? I give up.
You could do worse than:

1) Tune into HD college radio stations so you get exposed to a lot of stuff and you can see the artist/track names.

2) Make and explore play lists on Spotify.

3) Google artists that interest you.
> When you already have another 145 billion? More than you could possibly spend in your lifetime?

Allstate's market cap is currently $30 billion. Maybe Mr. Bezos would want to buy it, and still have the rest of the money he currently has. Maybe he wants to do something else with that money.

Regardless, the fact that you or I might not be able to imagine spending that much money has no bearing on whether or not he could. To be honest, I bet you & I could figure out how to spend that much, too.
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Force can also be transmitted with belts, cables etc, like tendons. Then you don't need necessarily need a motor in each joint.
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I like to let people set their own limits wherever possible, it's not really my business if someone wants to make an incredibly round circle and crash their web browser :P You raise a good point though, some of those could have a more sensible restriction on them just to avoid really unnecessary cases, thanks!
> Reddit is like any popular entertainment (music, film, Nascar...), with a typical bell curve of un-intellectual stimulation.

There are a lot of good subs, but the big ones ain't it.
I see a potential future use case for this when human-computer interaction will be done through brain interface. Will prolly be easier to integrate with nervous signals from brain to one hand (mouse interaction) compared to two hands (keyboard interaction).
Have you managed those people you are talking about?
I guess so. Me no Stallman, but I want standard Emacs with graphical Lyx-mode.
There's a distinction between a music buff and an audio buff.

If you want to be a music buff, my suggestion is to learn how to play an instrument. This will give you the understanding to appreciate music; you can't truly understand a musician's talent until you try to play what they can and fail. You can't appreciate the complexity of a piece that has changing time signatures (for example) if you don't even know how to count time. You'll end up listening to the same chord progressions over and over (G-C-D come to mind...) if you don't know how to identify what you're listening to.

If you want to be an audio buff, buy some expensive speakers and then just follow you ears.
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This is a pretty good point - and thanks for the link to a great application. I guess I'll just try it out on my tablet, then give up and run a tablet. I just miss the instant and always on value of a calculator.

Today I use a drop down terminal (guake) and bc.
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They kinda try to patch it up in the movie "Serenity". Supposedly the whole show takes place in a gigantic star system full of giants with dozens of moons amounting to hundreds of worlds. They also have some form of terraforming tech to make inhospitable worlds habitable.

Frankly I find that whole set up only slightly more plausible than some kind of FTL, especially since they also have gravity manipulation tech already.
Not to mention hundreds of thousands more with heart damage and other long term effects of infection that are still not well understood. Death should not be the only metric of disease severity or burden.
It was probably very popular, but for me it has become like Quora, I don't understand how the information is structured and I find it not relevant most of the time.
If you register an account you can go to settings and turn off that prompting. Definitely not ideal and I don’t even understand why they have an app to begin with but this is what I did.
Could Amazon Prime integration be more relevant than AWS integration? More services for consumers against fixed monthly fee.
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Given the algorithmic focus of the libraries being targeted, I think the main benefit is if I could do X operations with library A and then use the result to do Y operations with library B. It does seem like that is the intent (if I am not mistaken), so this seems like a worthwhile effort.

One problem with generally using libraries is they work fine until they don't, and once you've been working in one library for a while, all of your support functions, and transformed data are all based around that library's api which makes integrating a new one difficult. This could help with that type of difficulty.
That’s the best way to get available time hours up for me. Deleted IG, FB, Reddit and I grab my phone, switch through the home screen pages, I don’t find the apps for those places, and turn the screen off. No more drifting through trash feeds of unnecessary content. It’s been great. Now I only drift through HN and my RSS feed, but at least I choose what I see.
Also Reddit can offer IAP more easily, since users won't need to input their CC info again inside Reddit.
I feel like this massively overstates the advantages of an AWS to satellite link. They aren’t going to put tiny regions in space, so it’s just about data transit. Nobody would suggest AWS should start a cell phone company or fiber ISP just for bundling that with AWS. IP, possibly with a VPN, is a very solved issue for AWS access. It’s how 100% of their customers use AWS now, after all.
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Wow, two years worth of living expenses saved up. Kudos.
> Interestingly parent’s plug is a dark pattern to avoid dark patterns!

Sorry I didn't find any dark patterns here. If you can elaborate more on this, that would be really helpful.

> It’s also surprising that even on HN, a place where many people write software for a living, people are avoidant of advertising paid features.

Exactly! A lot of users want privacy focused - no ads apps. But many of them are hesitant to pay for it. For them, all apps should be FOSS (that means relying on good will of the developer that he will have motivation to maintain the app regularly or relying on some bug foundations) and no dev should generate revenue from their apps.
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For Zarquon's sake, the least they could have done is listened to him about tea https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Tea.
All diseases could cause long term effect in some of the population.

Flu can cause long term damage too.

Do you know what else could cause long term damage ? Lockdown

>still not well understood

Especially when is still not well understood, we shouldn't do lockdown as it surely can cause damage.
I was having a similar problem, so I turned to blocking on the network level (pihole). The work arounds were annoying enough to finally deter me off the platform, circa 2016. It was such a relief to have those wasted hours of my life back, as well as abandon some of the echo chambers. It’s also shocking to see how hostile the design choices have gotten since then, so I’m glad I got out when I did.

One handy tip: Reddit I find, is still one of the best sources of user submitted content for niche hobbies, traveling, consumer advice, etc. So I use Google’s cached search results for those instances where I want to take advantage of Reddit’s information, but don’t want to actually go to the site.
This is genuinely a pretty big problem in the field. The reward for making a good antibiotic is getting a drug that nobody will use since they want to preserve it for when a bacteria becomes resistant to everything else. We've yet to see really great successes from other approaches like phage therapy, but I do think that long term, the only commercially feasible way to fight bacteria is to use some technology along those lines, where you can keep adapting the therapy to deal with resistance so people will be encouraged to use it and you will have revenues from the product. Still a lot of technical problems to overcome there, but there are interesting approaches (such as using the phage as a CRISPR vector) that go ahead and engineer the phages to get around some of the roadblocks that have stopped them from being useful in general. And we shouldn't underestimate non-antibiotic approaches as well - some good progress in C. diff has been made with stool transplants. Lots of ways to target bad bacteria, unfortunately the one that's worked the best so far is the least commercially sustainable.
That's to a certain degree fair; to a certain degree missing the point:

1. It's NOT binary; I generally try not to partake of "You're either with us or against us". We can hold multiple parties accountable, we can be objective about facts, and we can learn multiple lessons.

2. I'm not actually certain there's behaviour for Facebook to modify. They're a corporation with a wildly successful massive SSO program. They've acquired another smaller corporation. Integrating into the mothership SSO feels the right sensible choice from many perspectives. As an annoying privacy conscious geek, sure, I don't love Facebook integration. But this is a reasonable perspective from point of the corporation.

3. Which brings me back to - I still think the truest lesson learned is for all of us naive enough that for whatever unicorn reason, this wouldn't happen. At that includes shareholders, consumers, and the wild-eyed founders making promises :)

As I said, I don't know him, don't intend to bug him, doesn't bother me much, don't intend to "Harsh" on him. But he did have agency, and he did make some claims, and we should all learn some lessons on how to exercise agency and how to make/believe promises.
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One of the complaints I've had is that my mail had to be horizontally scrolled to be read.

One long line sounds likely to make the problem for that person worse not better!

That was a while ago though. Clients may have changed.

I'd love to know if someone has put the time into cross-platform tests for this sort of thing.

The only thing I'm completely confident of at the moment is that multipart/mixed text+HTML works for every client.
There's no excuse to get such a bad quality for even low-res videos. Imgur,
gfycat and Youtube manage to stream higher quality video faster on the same
device on the same connection.

I also think they shouldn't even attempt to stream video under a certain
bitrate, I'd sooner have a video buffer for 10s than end up with something
that's unwatchable because the resolution is like 10x10.

And I'm barely exaggerating, I don't have an amazing connection but I can stream
Netflix and Amazon Prime in 720p without any issue, yet I just got this on
Reddit:

https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20200819-142013_redditvideo.jpg

This is not upscaled or anything, that's literally what I saw on my screen as
the video was playing.

It's just half-assed, there's no other explanation really.
So there is a certain "pedigree" problem with stuff randomly plucked from the internet - it I just love the James Bond-iness of a submarine cave, but also I remember Ice Station Zebra, where US and Russian spies battled it out on frozen Arctic to find a satellite film canister that had pictures of US and Russian nukes or something.

I mean, going in fifty years from satellite imagery of military hardware is national security level one to "lets just put it some on a blog and see who clicks" tells me something about the next war - you won't be able to fool the opposition into thinking you will attack from over there.
Are there any other tech companies that have IPOed with the same amount of pornography content as reddit has?
Its interesting that one of the drugs mentioned isnt viable as a business model because it must be given intravenously. Its almost like the value stream / value chain in medicine expects the drugs to do the work as a replacement for people. If the cost of an in-person visit was free, it would still cost more but might it be viable?
As a British expat living in Asia, I was heavily amused to read this passage in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age:

There was lengthy discourse between the two men on which of them was more honored to be in the company
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Personal take: A subset of "Main Street" is unhealthy not the entire country. Most things are not closed anymore and the stock market is propped up by tech stocks that saw little slow down due to COVID.

It's weird situation because I'd be willing to bet that the people who own stocks are simply not the one that have been laid off.
Similar situation at my job - use it or lose it; no changes.
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Those time estimates look way too optimistic.

Or I am just the type that would mess up an equation and spend the next 3 hours trying to figure out why something is rendered upside down or worse, with just subtly incorrect lighting and colors.

Anything math-y that doesn't fail loudly requires a different type of debugging skill that the typical programmer doesn't have.
"If Kuiper succeeds [...]"

That's the biggest if clause you will ever see about this because in order for it to succeed at all BO needs to actually launch something to orbit at least once before we talk about success of a commercial product on top of their rockets.

I follow up SpaceX quite closely, I admit, but any news about products that absolutely depend on the launch capability of BO is vaporware at most and most probably a PR stunt so they look relevant. They need to deliver something, anything, it's that simple.
1. I feel that was addressed in my post as one of the potential reasons he made the claims

2. Read Ender's game or Dune or live through a civil war as a child or... whatever it takes to agree that a 22 year old can and should be regarded as a responsible, accountable human being. Otherwise really who can?
There are a handful of natively written apps on iOS that have maintained the discipline to avoid bloat. One that I always admire is Overcast for podcasts. It's 5.9 MB and takes < 5 seconds to download and install.

It always makes me slightly resentful or sad about apps that are collections of web views but somehow 100+ MB.
You might be going about this in the wrong order. Instead of trying to become an expert in an art form that does not currently appeal to me, wouldn't it make more sense to first find instances of this art form that DO appeal to you, and then branch out from that?

So the order I would suggest is:

1. Find music you like particularly

2. Seek out music related to #1

3. Start thinking about why you like what you like

So, start by establishing a visceral connection to the art before delving into the analytic side.
My ancient CPU is actually slower corewise than a Snapdragon 835. It's embarrassingly slow, about as fast as the first i5, if that. The snapdragon 835 is almost twice as fast as it corewise, actually.
SpaceX is a private military contractor that gets tax money from citizens.

Amazon is a public company that needs to disclose their revenue sources and comes from private/voluntary sources.

They aren't even comparable.
Like, just a post complaining that screens should be better
Emacs has thousands of shortcuts for every conceivable piece of functionality. Personally, I will remember shortcuts for commonly used things - and all the other functionality may as well not exist if it is not easily discoverable.

A gui is a nice way to make a lot of functionality discoverable.