skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really raises an eyebrow how many of these companies lack profits.

Palantir was founded in 2003. After 17 years of work, they are losing more money in a quarter than most people can earn in a lifetime.

I personally think the situation is stupid and it is foolish to "invest" in such a company. However, in the event that this works out, there are going to be some great counterexamples to the idea that only governments can think long term. If this path ever leads to profits it is a plan executed on a grand scale. This is a baffling form of might-be capitalism.
This seems like it’s based on WebKit, parts of which are LGPL. Did they not modify it at all? (If so, why should I use this?) If they did, where is the code?

Edit: I think it’s at https://github.com/ultralight-ux/WebCore.
A Youtuber made a Lego robot that moves a pen at a constant speed and took 480fps video of it. He says the 1 had a latency of 54ms and the 2 has its advertised 21ms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpwbVwfWIKE&t=17m53s

About precision, I'm not really sure. There's a bunch of writing footage in this video, which might have what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wudCMFWPQ&t=8m10s
Yes, that's what I meant when I said “because they must do”.
I thought about this quite often.

I do think one of the biggest possible changes could be a new religion based on 'working together', sustainability, education etc. but without any god figure.

Build up this religion in form of a hierarchical network. Bring in everyone and give them a chance to do things together.

Make basic rules which do not exclude too many people but make those basic rules clear and do not allow any racist crap, make it clear that its also not here to solve every problem.

I would like to do things and i sometimes clean our park but i'm not religion. I'm not going to a group every week and i will not take part in a social group which is based on religion. But i would love to meet up every week in something like a youth club for adults, etc.

With this network, he would be able to funnel money directly where it could make sense. Like the central club house which also hosts a school, basic internet etc. (more relevant of course in other countries); Add small hostel system to it, people travel around, share and care etc.

One problem Bill Gates has: When he is gone, who really will pursue it like him? I thought its not to relevant who is doing it as someone will do it but it took Bill Gates years to think more like he does now for one thing and on the other side, it needed him to take action when the polio vaccine stagnated.
Yes, it's called "showrooming" and retailers hate it, not that there's much they can do to stop it.

However, for bookshops, I personally believe there's value in having a well-curated collection of books available locally, so I tend to allocate a portion of my book-buying money to physical stores.

An added bonus: Browsing for me is an excellent alternative to recommendation algorithms, and lets me pick up books that I otherwise wouldn't.
The author is referring to the ePrivacy directive - its not the same as the GDPR.

Does he mean the ePrivacy regulation?

The ePrivacy regulation (not directive) is no binding law yet.
Large companies usually make or lose more money than most individuals deal with.
Imagine some malware infecting the fleet that decides to take them all out for a joy ride on the same day.
Hmmmm.. yes it is probably more reliable as a desktop with equivalent features. When running a simple tiled WM Linux is solid.

If you look at the wider eco system, Windows doesn't look so hot. I've just moved from a Linux based work place to a Windows based work place. The number of times the main file server has to be restarted because it's doing something weird is crazy. This never happened at my old job. The Linux servers were only turned off for hardware changes. They didn't require constant restarts. If something went wrong I was able to trace the problem down and prevent it from happening again. In windows everything is opaque. Some unexplained regedit is suggested for every problem and no one seems to know what those edits actually do.
The code is there, but not all of it, as I understood - except the "Proprietary GPU Renderer". And yes -
"Ultralight is free for non-commercial use and free for commercial use by companies with less than $100K gross annual revenue"
Indeed. I'm generally libertarian, but I see business as a privilege and in service to society. So this would be a great place for some measured and targeted government action. Hoping the EU acts, like some time ago they limited credit card fees, preventing an unproductive race to the bottom ("top"?)
> Memory safety isn't what makes Rust compile slowly, “zero-cost abstractions” is.

What one of Rust's designers told me when I asked him why they made the language so complicated is that nearly all of Rust's features exist to serve the borrow checker (except maybe macros). Once you have those features, and because Rust is a low-level language, you must have "zero-cost abstractions."

I don't know whether some other hypothetical low-language language could exist that gives you both sound compile-time memory safety guarantees as well as be a simple language that compiles quickly -- I would love to evaluate such a language, but we don't have one right now.
This lead me to think that there are huge amount of legacy HTML functionality that Electron could potentially drop if it was possible. Electron doesn't really need to care about breaking the web. So there's definitely room for alternatives.
I love this and posts like it, it makes me want to quit my job and become an archivist, just spend my time going through all of this material, digitizing it and publishing about it and becoming a typewriter nerd even though I've never used one outside of playing with old busted ones.

If I were a rich internet company, I'd gladly fund them gratuitously. For now, a monthly contribution will have to do.
I liked being surprised by it.
In this case, olive color and ribs.
I definitely support Apple's right to charge 30% on their own platform; but I definitely think preventing people from talking about it is unreasonable.
Speak for yourself. That's not the world I want to live in.
You absolutely can, nobody's stopping you (unfortunately), I'm just saying that its (a) not a good idea unless you know why you're investing in something and (b) you came out saying that you were investing in crypto not because you knew anything about it but because it was "technology" and FOMO. There are so many technologies out there, I don't see why you're not invested in all of them, except for FOMO. If I knew you personally we'd have a long talk about investing.
Sublime still remains my go to text editor. For development, I definitely have switched over to appropriate tools with larger feature support but nothing, I say nothing, provides a blank slate of immense power and performance such as Sublime Text does
> Hint: they won't let you do it because they know it is a highway robbery

This. If Apple thought their fees were reasonable they wouldn't be so insistent on hiding them from users.
me too brother.. me too :-/
But "designers" are surely understood to be engineers. This problem exists because the company creates positions for designers. If positions were created for usability engineers, we'd get a completely different outcome. (I wish repeating this over and over on social media would cause it to happen.)
Whilst I am sure Debt exists in classic software it is endemic in SaaS. If the truck is travelling at highway speed and you cannot afford to pull over; changing the break pads can indeed cost considerably more then building a new truck.
Try a different browser. On Mac, Safari is much more resource efficient than Chrome for example. On Windows I'm not sure, but it can't hurt t give FF a try.
I'm not sure if this is a valid comparison. It feels to me that the wind farm wins when both cost the same simply because it does not require manned operation and it consumes no fuel. You're unlikely to run out of skilled personnel by deploying too many wind turbines.
What I am seeing is the numbers 142857 in that order. Then for the 1/7, you grab the lowest number in that series and rotate the number until it is at front:
1 is the lowest, so it is 142857.

for 2/7, take the second lowest number (2), and rotate it to the front: 285714
for 3/7, third lowest (4): 428571
for 4/7 it then becomes 571428
and so on

This seems to hold up with my calculator. Pretty cool.

The 7x2, 14x2, 28x2 is jus a trick for remembering what these numbers are and their order. (142856, +1).
Just to clarify, that its' definitely not been a complete victory.

More like a nice display of "selective testing" so the numbers always look acceptable.
Have you tried Spacemacs? Vim + Emacs!!
Well, his software products do meltdown quite often. The "blue screen of death" is going to take on the whole new meaning once this reactor project comes to fruition.
How will these borrowed dollars be paid back short of real non-BS US economic expansion, which as I understand it is not presently occurring? If they are not actually paid back but just kicked down the road, are they still effectively borrowed, or are they effectively inflationary?

Not trying to troll, just trying to get a handle on the basics here.
95% probably isn’t good enough.

1blocker is fairly awful I find and rather expensive because you’re a captive audience that doesn’t have access to working uBlock.

This situation is one of several reasons I recently dumped macOS and went back to windows and am using edge and doing all my unixy stuff in VMs.
So there's no bad code, no poorly designed systems? Only "maintenance"?
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Because a complex language is harder to read, and so slower to read and understand, and so to maintain over time without introducing bugs; compilation speed also slows you down, which means you write fewer tests. In general, getting a correct program requires effort. If that effort goes elsewhere, there's less of it for correctness.
I wonder why this comment is dead; Prostasia is a great organization that does a lot of work for artistic freedom and a better understanding of how the law and child protection organizations can help people. It stands resolutely against child abuse, to a greater degree than other organizations who may only have good intentions but not the actions to show for it.
It does exist in the form of libraries and language versions that slowly get dropped from modern eco systems.

Each dependency adds a little more debt.
Cool! Did they have you sign a bunch of NDAs; did they end up working with you at all?
Or when international law enforcement decides they're not because 30% of the backing dollars are the proceeds of money laundering. Then you pretend it's fully backed anyways, raise an LEO just because, and move on because crypto. Ah, I do so love the future.
if we're not allowed to be emotional about genocide, then I'm not sure we are allowed to be human at all.
Sadly not at the moment :(
In some parts of the world Facebook is the internet for many. Facebook strategically made deals with ISPs to remove Facebook from datacaps and give priority access.

In India Facebook even sold Facebook-only internet access through a large mobile provider until the Indian government stopped them for data neutrality reasons and rightfully so. [1]

Look at the Facebook Zero project that is targeting many third-world countries, the disguised as charity to help those countries gain wide-spread internet access. [2]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/facebook-...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero
Man that's a really beautiful website
There is, but as far as I know, it doesn't cover this. Apple would probably argue that it's instead covered by the App Store Review Guidelines, but I'm not really inclined to agree. This is the kind of thing that probably should be explicit rather than a read-between-the-lines sort of thing. I wouldn't find such a rule (if it was explicit) to be an egregious overreach though.

I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24302003 informative on the topic.
Possibly, but let me put that another way. Something like this has never happened to a systemically import currency before in the history of reserve currencies of the world - the US dollar since Bretton Woods, Sterling roughly the hundred years before that.

The quality essentially required of a reserve currency being that it doesn't do this.

Definitely popcorn time - also don't own long date low interest rate bonds time. Which would be most of them. Oops.
If you have run the native programme (for me it keeps breaking up in the browser), run it from a dedicated unpriviledged user, without installing it on the system. (Run ./opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.) If you have to log in (I couldn't change the input device without logging in), when your browser tries to open the not installed programme, copy the link and give it as a command-line argument to ZoomLauncher.

Looking forward to a working alternative.
I think you are underestimating what the electronics on the car control. The speed, the breaks and how they behave. when you crash, the airbags, the cooling system, how the steering wheel moves, etc...

It might not be able to drive itself, but it can definitely control how fast and its direction, which would be super scary for some random dev to have any impact on.
Fossil fueled power capacity and consumption is still rising faster than any other type of energy source, and by a large margin. If we take consumption from 2010 to 2019, fossil fueled energy consumption increased by 15070 TWh, while solar and win combined increased by 1773 TWh. That is almost a 10x in difference in favor of fossil fuels.

There is nothing to even imply that we will reach 90% renewables by 2035. To be fighting over which non-fossil fueled energy source is more economical is just a distraction. There need to be a stop to building new fossil fueled power plants. Expand solar and wind production as if they were tanks and munitions during world war 2. Build as many nuclear reactors we can from the current pool of educated nuclear professionals. Throw in some battery technology from tesla, hydro pumps, compressed air, EV transition, dynamic grid, or what else is left that do not depend on burning fossil fuels. Set the date of 2035 as the day we ban burning fossil fuel in the power grid and let the market decide how to deal with it.

That is how we avert climate change.
I really don't like how Zoom forces the download of an executable, how doesn't this trip the antimalware? What a bad practice.
What's the best alternative to buy physical books for both customer and publisher?
So your argument is that because people really really really like their smartphones, FB should be able to tell everyone that Apple is charging them money?

Non-Sequitur if I've ever seen one.
Having done building work in various guises over the years, I've seen is interesting patterns analogous to software development.

Every builder comes in and says the previous guy didn't do it properly, used the wrong materials and overcharged.

Every software project I've been on, someone always comes in and says there's tons of technical debt, we're using the wrong language and the other developers are poor.

There's probably some truth in both statements but it takes experience and knowledge to take things with a pinch of salt.
FYI, push notifications don’t work on iOS:

> Push notifications are supported on all platforms except for iOS, due to Apple not supporting web push specification and all browsers being reskins of Safari.

From https://thelounge.chat/docs/usage
Their pricing model could be adjusted.

It doesn't make sense to charge $2000/yr for an app that makes $1 of revenue.
In this case facebook is keeping none of the money. The itemization on a $10 cooking class would by: Jasper $7, Apple $3, Facebook $0
Especially ridiculous considering they have a site, a very professional one, at that
GitHub says the project is 100% CMake, and I didn’t see anything to make it ignore the large amount of C++ that I would expect to underlie this project. Do you know where I could find the parts you’re talking about?

Edit: I found it, it’s in another repository at https://github.com/ultralight-ux/WebCore.
Shakespeare have a lot of references to biblical and classical mythology which was common shared knowledge at the time but less known today. I wonder what would be an appropriate translation to a modern context. WWII? Start Wars or Lord of the Rings references?

(I'm not being sarcastic, I think it is a genuinely interesting question.)

But in general the strength of Shakespeare is the language and poetry, so it will be difficult to modernize without losing what makes him great in the first place.
The principle force of the analogy is the compound interest equivalent cost of delayed update. Jumping over versions can acquire more bugs than you can handle and the cost of remediation en masse under time duress is not the same amortised time as the per increment bugfixing across the versions

I have experienced this and I also work with people who deny it. It's complicated.
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The most interesting thing here is, that this could bring support for WebExtensions to WebKitGtk! Therefore to Epiphany, which really need Extensions. Interestingly enough, I have the feeling leaving Gecko as foundation was a wise decision years go.

And other webbrowsers like Midoria, Otter, Qute.
I used U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE to get the line above the digits. I don’t use it at all often, so I had to look it up (I know its name but not its number) and typed it out with my Compose key (using WinCompose since I’m on Windows): `Compose u 3 0 5 Enter`. Since I do do this just occasionally, I’ve just set up `Compose ^ _` for it, by placing this line in my ~/.XCompose:

<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <underscore> : "̅" U0305 # COMBINING OVERLINE

The digits in multiples of sevenths are always the same six digits in order, recurring: 1, 4, 2, 8, 5, 7; it’s just a question of which digit you start from. For one seventh, start with the one (0.14285714285714…); for two, the two (0.285714285714…); three, the four (0.428571428…); four, the five; five, the seven; six, the eight.
>I absolutely hate it when a blog doesn't have a date or has incomplete dates. When was this posted?

Depending on the CMS authoring tool used, sometimes the raw HTML ("View Source") has meta info of the timestamp. In this particular case, the raw html has this:

<meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2020-08-25T18:00:00-0700"/>

Obviously, any meta timestamp is self-reported so you have to judge if it's a legitimate date (e.g. possibly cross-reference with archive on Wayback Machine, etc.).

The web landing page also shows "Aug 25" in light gray underneath this story's photo: https://back7.co/
The distinction between maintenance and Tech Debt comes down to whether the choice for an imperfect or expedient way of solving the problem was made consciously. You incur Tech Debt consciously to deliver value in the short term at the cost of not being able to sustainably deliver that value as parameters change.

Maintenance on the other hand is stewardship of a system as both the system(entropic decay) and it's environment constantly change.
Open Source and Open Standards have always been the solutions to these problems, and remain so. Necessary rather than sufficient requirements though, I suppose.
I think it may be more accurate to say that Tolkien intended Lord of the Rings to sound like Beowulf, but I'm not qualified to comment on how successful he was or what biases he may have introduced in his translation.
Isn't that called a browser and already exists? How is this one different?
I sympathize with the author's take that our industry is way too trigger-happy and willing to throw away perfectly working code, but none of this:

> Python 3 changed all the string handling, have to make adjustments. The build is too slow, should make it faster. Security vulnerability found in one library, time to update libraries.

is what (most?) people mean by technical debt.

If the build is just slow, but can be improved, that's not technical debt. Technical debt is when the build system is actually a bash script that was written ten years ago because none of the developers wanted to waste time on a proper makefile, and none of the interns knew make (or cmake, or ant, or whatever), and now just adding a new source file takes three hours.

(Edit: oh, or my favourite example, how could I forget this?

I've worked on a very large (MLoC) codebase that used autotools as a build system. Unfortunately, at some point, someone didn't want to learn m4 -- totally understandable -- and committed a manually-mangled configure script and a bunch of generated makefiles...

...and from that point, autotools were eschewed completely, and the configure script, and the generated makefiles, had mangled by hand each time something was required. Adding a new module to that program took 2-3 days of grepping and hunting through a bunch of files, just to make sure you didn't miss anything. That's more than enough time to learn the basics of how to use autotools. Multiply it by several hundred modules and weep.)

If a security vulnerability is found in a library, and that's solved with a library update, that's not technical debt. Technical debt is when message signing is done via MD5 hashes produced by a slightly buggy in-house implementation. You got to ship on time, but not by shipping a functional product -- that's a bug, and it still has to be fixed at some point.

If some stuff is single-threaded and slow, but easy enough to parallelize so that it's faster, that's not technical debt. Technical debt is when there's a single, global object containing absolutely all application state, and splitting an extra thread to do some computation in the background requires four weeks of extra manual testing just to be sure you didn't introduce another race condition.

(Edit: unfortunately, nope, none of the examples above were invented. I had the pleasure of working on a codebase where adding a new thread literally required written approval from the product manager because of the extra testing it required. Calling that "maintenance" is much like calling a bridge collapse a "vertical position readjustment" -- it gleefully ignores the fact that it was readjusted downwards, through gravity, possibly involving mass casualties, and had to be rebuilt).

Some maintenance work is legitimate and is just the result of normal software progress. But some maintenance work is entirely self-inflicted. Ignoring that is just an excuse for the kind of "first we do git push, then we think about it" crunch mentality that lots of companies encourage, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with either productivity or technical excellence.
Going to cite this article if I have a bad performance review.