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Most of this is nonsense.

Most of what you're describing is simply an extension of Eternal September. "We" haven't really lost any of these things. It's just that newcomers don't care about them so much.

And that's okay.

Why would I be upset that that some teen or 20-something, who primarily uses the internet to post and browse selfies on social media, does so from a phone rather than a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad? Their main use case is Instagram or TikTok. A ThinkPad makes no sense for them. But I can still buy one.

Social media platforms "took over" in the sense of having more eyeballs. But so what? Few if any of those eyeballs are really interested in the things that I'm interested in from websites, blogs, etc. Moreover, websites and blogs are still around, and just as populated as they ever were. It's just that there's a bigger population on social media sites.

There ARE multiple search engines. DuckDuckGo even has good policies. True, none of them may be as good as Google. But pretty much ALL of them are better than Lycos, Infoseek, AltaVista, and all of the old-school competitors who lost to Google.

The only thing on this list that's a halfway decent point is Firefox user share. Just to the extent that browser engine monoculture gives Google a lot of power. But as long as the engine is open source, and there's a possibility of more privacy-conscious players leveraging it (e.g. Brave, Vivaldi, etc), then I can live with that.

The "positive" bit about Rust being "the language of the future" gives me the impression that you're mostly mourning geek culture being delegated to a side subculture, instead of being the dominant culture of the Internet itself. To an extent, it is a bummer to no longer be at the forefront of the hype wave. But to be honest, now that I'm middle-aged I don't so much care about being at the forefront of the hype wave anyway. As long as I have my crufty greyboard corner in the Internet's basement, I'm happy. And that doesn't really seem to be going anywhere.
Yea, this would be a great resource if it exists. I constantly have to point out to project managers that neural NLP models by and large have very different goals than they do. If you’re not trying to do something that amounts to computing a feature of a language (produce similar output, sentiment of a sentence or passage, parse into SVO, etc.) they’re not all that helpful. Laymen pretty much all assume you can get them to reason about text, which we’re very far away from.
Absolutely. Cannot find the images that are not visible though yet. Should have taken screenshots :-(
In short, cash flow is everything. There's no reason a user should have to even login to Xero to see their cash positions.
I was surprised that this doesn't seem to be the case - For example, I can't find any pH sensor on Adafruit. There is a model that's easy to find on eBay or Amazon, sold under various brands - I was unable to get this working, likely due to documentation or software issues.
Unfortunately >"our crowd" doesn't make money for social networks as consumers, we sink the ads into the Pi Hole, we don't buy the virtual emoji currency, even Twitter struggled to make any money when it was just a platform for wordsmiths and that's issue with social networks targeting niche crowds. Pushing non-contextual ads on Reddit is extraordinarily hard as every subreddit is a platform of its own, so if the >"tiktok-esque" part of Reddit makes them money to sustain, I don't mind as long as they stop degrading the experience for those who are not into it.
Things also weren't that great for drivers before Uber became ubiquitous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/new-york-taxi-dr...
Once it's started up, it's a centrifugal pump all on its own. You don't need a positive pressure pump on the body, the fuel would be sucked out and along the blades like a siphon.

That doesn't make the seal problem much easier, but it at least does mean that if a seal were to fail, it would fail safe without spewing h2o2 everywhere.
But the snake in a QR code probably works offline
Marc Andreesen gave a talk where he frames it as one of the first hurdles in building a company. If you have a hard time finding some folks in the VC's network for initial contact, you'll probably have an even harder time reaching customers, advisors, engineers, etc.
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Unless you are a researcher (in academia or a corporate research lab), you should think twice before spending your time with these papers.

I have seen repeated examples of information technology industry professionals who go off on a wild goose chase of trying to parse the papers and reproduce them. If you are a machine learning practitioner or a data scientist in the industry, it is highly likely that you are going to waste your time with these papers. Here's a concrete example from the list: "John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando C.N. Pereira: Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data, ICML 2001." This used to be the defining paper in early 2000s. Today it is important only as a road marker in the NLP research history which turned out to lead down an unproductive route.

Those who have not spent meaningful time in academia working on publishing their own research papers tend to fetishize them. The reality is that even the best papers in the field are a mess of ideas designed to please fickle reviewers and academic superiors. Most papers explore nooks and crannies of ideas that are irrelevant to an industry practitioner and are filled with assumptions that turn out to be impractical.

Unfortunately reading research papers has become a self-reinforcing status symbol for practitioners to name-drop and generally show off their in-crowd status rather than to rely on the ideas in the papers for a source of useful and practical information.
There were a bunch of internal mailing lists including the "water cooler" lhsocial, and one day (I was 19, please forgive me) I wrote that I had no idea where to get a hairdresser and anyone with scissors is welcome to have a go.

So he called me out in the middle of a Friday all hands meeting and, well, kept his side of the deal :)
I suspect you may have overlooked who shows up between the kids and the older users: internet marketers. Marketers want clicks, eyeballs and engagement and they do that by sharing viral content, most often outrage porn.

As long as a given platform is also a vehicle for building an off-platform audience, marketers will inevitably show up and shit all over everything.
>The evolution of startle displays: a case study in praying mantises

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.101...
Yes that part is a bit harsh on Theme Park. As a 14yo at the time (that would went on to study marketing & business) I liked all aspect of the game and its business features were not hidden behind a fun design, it was an integral part of the game and the magazine reviews at the time made it clear.

edit: eMule, Bullfrog, Monkey Island, Winamp skins, is it nostalgia week on HN ? ;)
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No, what's harmful is "oh, just spend $50,000 on managed Kubernetes to run a Django web app". That costs real time and real money and makes young engineers think that a phpBB forum is impossible with a five-digit AWS bill.
....and? If you wanted highly dangerous materials to use for some evil purposes it's 1000x easier to just manufacture some poison rather than dig 5km deep. I'd argue that making radioactive isotopes in an accelerator is still easier than digging. Not sure what your concern is here.
I mean, every rust forum has a "no language zealotry" rule in place, partially to head off the RIIR meme. I don't know what you want the Rust team to say, "Don't use Rust to improve your C projects"?
Well regular apps are vetted.
I once couldn't start VSCode because my internet was offline. Turns out it was an electron bug. (This issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7570 ). I've been suspicious of electron ever since.
I'm working with the creator of [Mycodo](https://kizniche.github.io/Mycodo/) on a PR to get it added there. I don't have much experience with Mycodo, but it seems like a nice consolidated platform for measuring things and sending outputs from a Raspberry Pi server. It's an open-source project mainly run by one guy, who's very attentive to issues and PRs.
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Fantastic, thanks for the tip :)
Or 0 per minute and 25,000 per hour for two days a month. Traffic can be bursty; don't assume that X/month means they're getting exactly X/30 per day..
This is specific to Microsoft SQL Server, which has a rather fraught history in this department.

I believe the best option in PostgreSQL is still INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ...

In general, this is one of those spots where every single RDBMS behaves differently, so knowledge from one platform doesn't necessarily transfer well.

(Which, in turn, is one of the reasons why it's not necessarily a good idea to try to be database-agnostic.)
Thinking about your comment is bringing up a number of interesting threads of thought.

Bill Gates made a ton of money and wasn't necessarily following either law or moral guidelines to do so.

The success enjoyed by Bill Gates was hard earned. Success is a destination at the end of a journey that is too hard for a lot of people.

Bill Gates' software is some of the most pirated software ever.

Bill Gates is one of the richest people ever.

Can anyone become anywhere near that scale of rich without being morally or ethically bankrupt?

What crime 'piracy' in comparison to the business practices of the highly successful / profitable / rich?

I don't know the answer to those questions, and I don't pass judgement as it's subjective, but they're the places my mind went in relation to your comment.
> Most of this is nonsense.

> Most of what you're describing is simply an extension of Eternal September. "We" haven't really lost any of these things. It's just that newcomers don't care about them so much.

You're missing my point. I don't care that the tech stack changed. I care that everything is locked down and inherently inflexible.

Everything has become a rental and we don't have autonomy in the choices.
Sums up my thoughts in this perfectly. Thanks for writing.
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For applied NLP stuff, I would recommend you to check out this rather comprehensive applied ML resources repository: https://github.com/eugeneyan/applied-ml. You might also find helpful relevant survey papers listed here: https://github.com/eugeneyan/ml-surveys.
Not here. And if you try that on WSB you'll need more name-calling.
async was not "bashed into the language as an afterthought". The design of async took a lot of time, and was done very carefully to try and fit a niche that very few other languages manage to do: zero-overhead, ergonomic, and safe abstractions for futures.
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> In the East Coast experience and status are highly valued. Bill Gates created class scheduling software in high school, and I wanted to replicate that. I approached our school admin about doing the same when I was 16 and was promptly shut down because I was too young and "entire companies are required to create scheduling software." I wasn't even given the chance to fail.

I mean, when Bill Gates was in High School computers weren't really in general use, so they probably were still doing it on paper. Why say no? They wouldn't have to use it if he failed. Also, did he build it first, or ask for the business first?

Whereas it sounds like this person asked his school if they would convert to his scheduling tool before he had built it to try out? I can imagine a school administrator saying "we'll probably stick with our enterprise contract, thanks" in the 2010s, and it would be a reasonable answer.

I wouldn't personally recommend that one experience be the basis for your East Coast / West Coast judgments.
Reddit was fairly popular before Digg killed itself. I remember reading about the Digg exodus on Reddit.
> Maybe for Windows transplants. In general, not at all.

care to elaborate

In my experience, Powershell is so much nicer than bash that even on my work mac I tend to use it when doing stuff for me (not going to force it on my team)
At the moment I believe C excels at portability to uncommon CPU architectures. It also excels at ABI stability.

Are there other areas where you believe C excels vs. Rust?
The concept is applicable to relational databases in general, and it's a good idea. ETA: The point here is not the syntax, it's "don't leave race conditions sitting around in your upserts." Whatever RDBMS you're using, you need to make sure you're at the very least inside a transaction, and at best avoiding an unnecessary transaction.
Yep. The same attitude and everything.

What irks me is they're selling out their business to a userbase that is just as quick to ditch them when someone makes something that gives them a faster/strong hit of dopamine.
Yes, addition and all other arithmetic and logical operations can be implemented using only one building block: Peirce's arrow (Logical NOR). I can't understand why you are getting downvoted.
Nah, Reddit is such a classic and sensational HN topic that we don't even remember that it was a YC company when we moderate these threads. (At least I don't.) Reddit is a planet that used to be a YC company. In some ways HN is one of its moons.
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Hopefully, but I prefer a writer who means what he writes, not leaving me to guess what parts he means and what parts he doesn't.
> One of the things which always surprises me is the various permutations of the burger that exist.

Yep. And, one of the things which always surprised me is how all these American permutations remain popular and pretty expensive, yet are generally quite lower quality than the burgers throughout Europe, which are often half the price.
You’re right that’s an interesting contrast. Can you share why you ended up leaving? I’m curious about your perspective.

I started coding when I was 13 and started wanting to build companies around the same time so I think that focus of desire definitely benefited me. I strongly believe finding what you want to focus on is more valuable than how early you start. Greg Brockman (founder of OpenAI) didn’t start coding until he went to college, and there are numerous examples of people in tech, art, and other fields discovering their focus later in life and succeeding.
This question gets asked multiple times every week. It'd be more efficient for you to review those prior discussions:

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22best+laptop%22+%222020%22+site%3Ane...
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It seems to be related to a recent poll of US troops on their preferred presidential candidate.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08...

It seems Donny is trying to take out his frustration with lackluster polling on Star and Stripes, despite that not having been the publication that conducted the poll. It is a more widely read US armed forces publication, though.

To note on the poll, officers would rather have another Commander in Chief by about a 3-2 margin.
I mean, if we're going to nitpick... For podcasts, the RSS file itself is served via HTTP, and it contains HTTP links to audio files, but there is no actual requirement for any HTTP server involved in either to serve up any HTML files for humans.

It might be hard to find and subscribe to a podcast without an HTTP server for humans, but it should be _technically_ possible. For many people, the HTTP server for humans they use is https://podcasts.apple.com, or maybe their podcast client, which hides all of those details away and might as well be interacting with a JSON API via gopher behind the scenes. Except, of course, it almost certainly isn't.
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What he's saying is that there is only so much liquidity at a given price point.

Given low enough liquidity even tiny volume purchases relative to the liquidity can increase the price of a share.
I think a moderator was probably trying to rein in the sensationalism. Obviously "mostly by making the mobile web experience miserable" is highly baity in two ways: the use of the word miserable, and the insinuation that this is a deliberate strategy. Reducing the inflammation in such titles is standard HN moderation.

But I think there's a good point here that the shortened title ("Reddit gets its app to 50m Play Store downloads") was kind of lede-burying. Unfortunately I can't think of an accurate, neutral way to restore the main point, so I guess we'll just put back the sensational title. Maybe someone will suggest a better one.
Not at all! I expected disparaging comments and I’ve been pleasantly surprised with how encouraging many of the comments are. Thank you for your kind words as well :)
I feel like that's fishing for quarters in a sewage tank now.
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I'm torn on the whole gig economy topic. On one hand I sympathize with the drivers, in the precariousness of their work. And of course we all want to make more money. On the other hand, the businesses may not be sustainable both from an economic perspective and from a driver elasticity perspective if drivers are all employees (and especially if they're full time employees).

Both sides seems to want their cake and eat it too. Drivers want benefits and better pay, but also the flexibility to pick their own hours and have uber / lyft be in business long term. Uber and Lyft want to keep drivers as "contractors" but not have people complain.

If the tradeoff are between:

1) flexible schedule and being able to work for multiple gig companies at the same time vs benefits and stability.

2) Making more money vs leaving uber / lyft in a position where they can be a sustainable business (I assume most drivers don't want them to go out of business).

Then where is the balance point? And is there another setup that satisfies both parties?
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I unironically want America to expand its liberalism sphere of influence again, without the problematic methods that it has employed in the past. It is time for the self-flagellation and isolationism to end. America can be a major force of good.
I'm using "Aquarium Hydroponic PH Electrode Probe/Liquid PH Value Detection Sensor" on ebay for $36 with probe. It even came with example code.

I'm using it for a basic application and only roughly calibrated it with paper tests using tapwater and vinegar. I'm only measuring between ph 5-8 and my application doesn't really require precision.
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I've never played Theme Park - but from playing of Theme Hospital, I suspect this was actually a very conscious attempt at dark humor - and possibly commentary, as well.

(In Theme Hospital you send patients with unknown diseases to an 'auto-autopsy'. That is, you kill them, in order to learn a cure)
> in fact it is now very hard to make those stupid mistakes these days with modern c++ in a good IDE(even vim with the right configuration).

Google has, supposedly, some of the best engineers¹ in the world, and the best tooling in the world, and they keep pouring tons of resources on the best engineers and the best tools.

Yet, the same memory safety errors (which Rust, or any hypothetical memory-safe language, prevent entirely) keep popping again, and again. Have you heard of CVE-2020-0022? It's amazing.

In this perspective, pouring resources and effort on those languages is like trying to open a door by banging the head harder. It's fine if you like it, just don't pretend it's the optimal way to open doors.

¹=edited, to make it clearer what I wanted to convey.
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> He did not know the endless march of technological advance that would follow.

This is a bizarre claim. He absolutely predicted this, it was a huge focus of most of his work and is central the 'tendency for the rate of profit to fall'. It is also one of the essential parts of how surplus value is extracted. The common notion is simply that factory workers get paid less than the value of their labor but this is only a part of how surplus value is taken. Capitalist also do this by raising the quality of life but at a slightly slower rate the efficiencies that they benefit from in the production process, allowing them the extract surplus value through both consumption and production.

So much of Capital and Grundrisse is about the relationship between technology and capital its hard to imagine that you have even passing understanding of Marx and can make a comment like that.

> Marx also didn't really understand the role of finance in the economy.

Another very strange claim since a good amount of Capital vol. 3 deals with "Fictitious capital" and Marx is quite aware of the increasing role that finance will play in the resolution of periodic crises.

> So the central prediction of Marx has failed to come to pass.

With the increasing instability of our global financial system I think a few years time you'll revisit some of the claims of yours with a bit more skepticism
i think you're mixing innovation and invention.

>just what you'd naturally come up with if you work on the problem long and hard enough

yes, there are systematic approaches to generate inventions (especially if we use the truly low bar of "patentable" :). Even more, if you look at Einstein and the rest of 20th century science following his methodology, i think there is a systematic approach to making discoveries too. And i suspect that "epiphanies" happen mostly to somebody who worked on the problem long and hard enough. Even "epiphaneous" graphene discovery i think was really a result of the long chain of senselessly looking experiments like levitating a frog (an Ig Noble winner).
It was pretty bad, though I'd argue the bigger problem with Slashdot were the comment[er]s themselves. :)
That poll is an exercise in false-dichotomy. They didn't ask "What percentage of drivers would like to earn at least minimum wage after expenses?". I bet you 80%+ of respondents would have said yes to that too.

Given the choice between "Let us be ICs" and "Uber/Lyft leave CA" or "Half of drivers will lose their jobs", of course the data is going to show people want to be ICs. That choice ignores the third option, which is Uber/Lyft treat people with dignity.
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