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Unprofitable can be good or bad or unknown:

Bad: they dont have product market fit and cannot price at a level that is profitable

Unknown: they do have product market fit and can likely price at a level that is profitable, but choose to underprice to capture market share and grow

Good: They are actually profitable but are re-investing all their profits into internal investment to become even more profitable in the future. example: Amazon for the last 20yrs
People in security who say that categorically are betraying ignorance, because there are several "hardcore" settings in software security where the same dynamic --- attacker/defender cost competition occurring by degrees --- plays out. Anti-ATO, content protection, botnets, anti-DDOS, hardware platform security, just to rattle a few off my head.

The correct security objection is to obfuscation being deployed in settings where there are decisively effective controls that could be deployed instead: where it doesn't make sense to raise attacker costs by degrees, because those costs can be raised to intractable levels instead. I'd cite an example, but it would spawn a 500 comment thread about how Linux sysadmins manage their networks.
That's not prevention, though, that's punishment after the fact. Prevention requires doing something about it in the very early stages.

(yes, this is a pre-crime argument, but crimes against humanity committed by and on behalf of states or warring ethnic factions are qualitively different from ordinary crime.)
Right, but is that money coming back to employees in the form of pay bumps now that those things are gone?
My observation: Those who are extroverts, or those with high social skills, find video or voice conference calls lacking. The reason is because the thing they excel at is impaired. People who are introverts or less social, love it (like me). Often, CEO's, Marketing, Sales, Mangers etc. are generally more social and their skill set lies there.

I have noticed in the company that I work for that a lot of the managers are nervous because it turns out that the major part of their job (wandering around and socializing and sitting in meetings for hours) is not needed and we are all able to function more efficiently without those distractions.

Just my opinion based on my experiences and observations.
If existing reality seems to "work", is it so bad to exclude non-establishment innovations, while the larger world/markets continue to compete and innovate?
My son-in-law was flying a shark skin on a drone a month or two ago. (For the record, he's nowhere near LAX...)
Presumably: 1) the damage to statues can be dated - so we know roughly who did it, and 2) some of the damage is specifically targeted (like the article mentions, the left/right hand damage would have meaning to Egyptians, but has far less context to supposed Christian attacks)
The government has shown time and again that it's terrible at investing. Most people/entities are when they're spending other people's money. This would result in the same issues as all government spending does - the powerful Reps and Senators will funnel money to open source projects in their districts and to their donors. We'll see a lot of open source projects in Kentucky get funded because of McConnell. Liberal & Democrat based projects will see little funding as Republicans block their funding. It would be a mess.
Could you post this script to somewhere? Gist, codepen, etc?

I want to see if can improve it. There might be a way to have the terminal auto-copy the clippings file
Politicians don't suddenly change when they're elected president (it's not like the powers of the president would really permit that, either).

Nature, as a scientific publication, is probably one of the best at predicting that, given it's run by scientists, who have deep history in analyzing how policy decisions affect science.
Yes, and useful proteins are basically the equivalent of "oscillators" or "spaceships" in the game of life. But must runs of the game of life are not oscillators or spaceships, just like most proteins are useless.

That's why the "initial condition" is so important, and why DNA is so important: without a good "start state", you get useless results—just like in the game of life.

What we are trying to find is not Conway's rules for the game of life, but this: how do we produce useful starting states (DNA) with a physical system? And more importantly, how do we create those starting states preferentially (i.e. non-randomly)?

We still need a model for how useful DNA (which corresponds to the "initial state" in the game of life) gets created. And we have no model for that right now, other than assuming unique random initial states are continually occurring and letting the law of large numbers eventually "find" winners.
By evidence I mean something in some data somewhere that's more than just the opinion being posted, which we can look at and evaluate objectively. I know that's a bit of a lame answer, but I can't give you specific examples without giving the same examples to others who would want to circumvent leaving evidence in that way.

The main thing to understand is that we need something to look at other than just an opinion that one commenter was expressing which another commenter didn't like. That's evidence only of difference-of-opinion, not abuse.

Such data isn't always secret and isn't always just on HN. For example, if someone is asking for HN upvotes on Twitter, we sometimes get links from eagle-eyed HNers. Similarly when someone is sending out spam emails trying to organize a voting ring. And sometimes spammers copy comments from other forums and paste them into HN. Those are pretty basic examples but I hope you can see that in each case there is some objective data that supports a judgment of abuse.

Conversely, suppose you like $BigCo and someone else hates $BigCo, sees your comment praising them, and replies "how much are they paying you, shill?" That's the kind of thing we don't allow, because there's literally nothing supporting that judgment. The same type of commenter will see various comment arguing for $BigCo in HN threads and then post to other threads with high confidence that "HN is overrun with astroturfing". What they mean is that it's overrun with comments they don't like—and even then, "overrun" is an exaggeration.
This is called mass hysteria. Nice twist on drones though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
OK that makes sense. For the small stuff FB might still be a better bet.
Problem is it seems that the order of posts frequently changes within a discussion tree. I don't think HN was really built with these large discussions in mind.
For what it’s worth I agree 100% with you.
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You are misunderstanding what is being meant by political.

> When you go to MacDonald's to get a Happy Meal, what politics do you engage in?

You’re McDonalds experience is the direct result of political decisions, from the smoothness of your drive due to decisions on infrastructure maintenance, to the amount of traffic due to the political decisions decades earlier about city planning and public transit, to the cost of the meal due to trade agreements, labor laws, wage laws, corporate tax code, etc. to your risk of getting sick due to safety regulations, to the materials used in the happy meal box and toy due to environmental laws, recycled material subsidies (or lack of them), to child safety laws, to tort law and the likelihood and success rate of civil suits.

> When you contract a plumber, do you interrogate him on his political affiliation?

No, but the cost and availability of plumbers is a result of politics. From laws and regulations on trades jobs, to labor laws and the likelihood of the plumber being in a union, to government investment into tradecrafts jobs training programs, to the laws governing required certifications (if any) and the associated cost of obtaining those, what the laws are governing landlord/tenant responsibilities if you rent or are a landlord, and on and on.

The way your life plays out day to day, and in totality, is fundamentally shaped at every level by “politics”, the laws written, and the way in which they are enforced (or not).
"Almost one in five of these money-losing companies is up 100% or more this year. There are some huge gainers on this list including companies like Overstock.com (+1055%), Tesla (+429%), Peloton (+348%) and Moderna (+285%).

But there are also plenty of big losers of these money-losing firms. More than one-quarter of these stocks are down 10% or more this year while almost 50 names have fallen 30% or more in 2020."

So that explains it pretty well. You're basically making a VC shotgun portfolio out of the stocks with the exact same dynamics - the big winners pull the average way up and offset the large number of middling and poor performers. For a meaningful analysis, you would need to dig into the winning stocks specifically and ask why they're up so much.
This could also be an interesting way to liberate my Kindle books from the Amazon ecosystem.
I don’t know much about the stock market outside of throwing any savings I can muster into a vanguard fund, but articles like this remind me of the scene from Silicon Valley where the Pied Piper team is talking about finding a revenue stream.

Their investor, the Mark Cuban caricature, Russ Hanneman butts in and yells at them about the dangers of showing revenue and how it proves you might only be a 2x-er.

"It's not about how much you earn. It's about what you're worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!"

He goes on to argue that if you don’t show any revenue then the possibilities are left only to the imagination!

Pre-revenue = maybe a 100x-er at some point!

Obviously silly and over simplified, but I do think that there is truth in the humor. Once this company gets its act together, it could shoot to the moon!

Edit: Here's a link to the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
My point was that undoing multiple writes is not as easy as undoing one write. Your register file (really, reorder buffer) either needs to add more write ports to it, or you need a state machine to complete that clean-up over multiple cycles.

Without that instruction, your hardware design could have assumed that reverting state can always be done in one cycle. That makes the hardware implementation easier.
You do realize that firewire was an apple developed standard right? Very few computers had a firewire port aside from apple computers.
My colleagues and I conducted a small study and found that compared to a human therapist, people find chatbot therapy less useful, less enjoyable, and their conversations less smooth: http://library.usc.edu.ph/ACM/CHI2019/2exabs/LBW1712.pdf
Reminds me of https://frappe.io/datatable
Thanks for the explanation. I've checked out your HN profile and then SoundCloud: are many of the tracks you've posted generating as part of your research into "adversarial audio examples"?
>If that is "hard", I would hate to see what you think of things like cache coherency across cores...

Cache coherence across cores is easy. The number of corner cases is much smaller.

The number of corner cases of old architectures (MIPS, or SPARC) is staggering. I designed a MIPS core prototype and I was done in single week with all arithmetic and memory access commands and spent three weeks designing, implementing and debugging branch handling, due to branch delay slot "feature".

>You do a check for the full range before the access, because for best performance you would want to pull in as much as possible in one go anyway.

You cannot do that - pull as much as possible in one go, - for case page boundary is crossed. But the very fact that you have to check before issuing operation make things more complex than they can be.

>>"load multiple" from PC (which is exposed to programmer in quite peculiar way)

>What's hard about that?

State handling. Can this instruction be interrupted?

>>Or out-of-order execution.

>Everything gets turned into uops, this instruction can emit more than one.

There are more than "everything gets turned into uops" out-of-order execution engines - scoreboarding, for example, provides most of benefits for much less energy cost.
HN takes it a bit too far, but there is some wisdom in maintaining a boundary between work and personal stuff. like suppose you are struggling to recover from alcoholism. you might want to confide in your close friends. you might not want to share this with friends from work. you almost certainly should not share this with your boss, even if you consider them a friend.

I treat work friends as a sort of "probationary friend". I'm happy to meet up and do stuff outside of work, but I'm a bit more guarded than I would be with someone I don't work with. I might hesitate to introduce them to some of my more "out there" friends (for whatever reason I seem to attract a lot of very weird people). once we no longer work together, they can just be a normal friend.
I've had the same objections and was waiting for prints with resolution so high you can't see layers. But this year I had some time and money to spend so I bought a cheap FDM 3d printer and honestly it's good enough for most uses.

Depending on the material, color, lightning and size of the part - usually you don't even notice the layers, and in many cases even if you do it doesn't matter. For example I've printed big boxes for our bikes out of black PLA and they look fine - you wouldn't see it's 3d-printed unless you stare at it from 1 meter under good lightning.

And when you need a different finish you can always paint it. I've printed about a dozen plant pots of different sizes because my wife bought 10 ceramic pots and liked them very much and couldn't find similar ones anywhere. We painted them and they look identical and you don't see the layers under the paint.

I don't even print with the smallest layer size possible because it takes too much time and difference between 0.1 mm and 0.2 mm or even 0.3 mm is negligible in practice, but the printing time scales almost linearly.

Depending on what you use it for YMMV.
I don't know if conspiracies do that much harm to debate. They're quite the fringe topic. Misinformation, yes, but classifying misinformation (in its not-so-obvious forms) is a hard problem. So while I agree there needs to be a line, I also think that in enforcing a ban on misinformation we will necessarily end up limiting debate. The line should stay at something like inciting violence.
"disinformation" seems to be information that advances an unpopular narrative now. The latest newspeak for the feeble of mind.
The reason he's confused is that he's thinking of isolation in terms of its impact on community transmission rate. That should definitely be part of your personal calculations (evaluating your personal risk without concern for any risk you create for others is sociopathic, if common).

But the truth is that even the most basic measures of isolation would suffice to properly mitigate the community risk if the community would broadly take them, and the most severe personal isolation on my part will not protect the community in any meaningful way if they don't.

Wearing a mask when it's appropriate and avoiding crowded/unsafe spaces is really all we owe our community. Anything further you do should be based on your personal evaluation of risks - I'm more isolated because we have high-risk relatives that we see regularly.

Edit: It's worth noting that this position is specific to the pandemic in question - it's totally plausible that we will get another pandemic later that requires us all to take more stringent isolation measures. And the evidence suggests that we will probably all die.
This is so weird to me. Some noses are kinda triangular; some are broad and flat... I can't think of a nose shape that even remotely looks like a phallus. Freud had an obsession with phalluses, and saw them in everything. Are eyelashes phallic? Are necks phallic? Is the upper lip phallic? What about chins? I think chins are at least as phallic as noses. Freud was a dang weirdo.
I said this in another thread, and I think it's apt here.

If you have high growth, you can lose a lot of money and still have a good story.

If you make some money, but don't have high growth, then you can't tell nearly as compelling of a story.

Effectively, investors are assuming eventual profitability is inevitable, and measuring growth.

The 90s showed that's fair... sometimes. But definitely lets pathological corporate liars with juiced metrics slip through too.
People don't do a good job of solving problems until it happens to them. Give us until after WW3 and then we'll be onboard.
I assumed "everybody knows" that Lincoln was not a super abolitionist. And "of course" it's ok if people don't regard him as a super hero.

But despite being a lifelong Democrat there is a certain level of concern over purity that makes me uneasy. All my Jewish cousins who were in Europe mysteriously disappeared during WWII. Yet, I own and enjoy a German car whose corporate origins are very intertwined with the history of that period of time. I think the Apollo program was pretty cool, and that was fundamentally rooted in the exploitation of German expertise from rocket research involving Nazi slave labor during the war.

So, if someone is disgusted with these things and personally avoids them, that's cool. But if they are on a crusade to purify society from them, I probably don't want to be neighbors.
it does actually, when you reinvest profit you don't make any profit.

They reinvest the money before it could become profit, mostly by hiring more sales
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3D printing is awesome, but I fail to come up with any legitimate reason to buy one for myself.

And I really don't like the plastics used by them, it sounds like a new source of waste that is bad for the environment.

I don't want to shame anyone for buying a 3D printer, but I wish we stop inventing new products that just creates a new source of pollution (failed prints).
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> like saying you will die of thirst if you aren't allowed to drink coke.

I will die of thirst though if every source of water has a megacorp in the supply chain that can cut me off from it.

Imagine a world where your tap water is ultimately sourced from Dasani. And imagine Dasani can cut off my water if I say bad things they don't like. That is the world we live in: s/tap water/information/g, s/Dasani/tech megacorps/g

To reach a significant audience on the internet, you must go through a tech megacorp at some layer in the stack. And that tech megacorp can decide to cut you off from the internet at their layer in the stack if they don't like what you are saying or if Twitter mobs put pressure on them to do so.
Their conclusion is that "research shows the statues were defaced to deactivate the life form believed to be within them."

Which is to say it hinges on the idea that the statues were not destroyed by racist western colonialists at all, because they found ancient texts mentioning defacement of noses. They don't actually prove anything, the standards of this kind of research are incredibly low.

The problem is that western egyptologist are unlikely to go out of their way to put effort into researching what particular crimes colonialists committed. The victor writes the history books, and they probably didn't even think to write prominently anything about the countless artifacts they destroyed, to them it was all just the work of godless subhumans so why bother.

They have a very good motive to do it, and that today the decedents of the racists will go out of their way to deny it isn't surprising at all.

The whole ancient alien thing comes from a different direction, its whole foundation lies in the disbelief that african people could've ever possibly built the pyramids, even aliens is a more plausible theory to them.
We don't have flying cars because it's a silly concept.
There’s just too much money flowing around. Just the other day I read that Tim Cook managed to double both revenue and profits. Stock value increased more than five-fold.

The stock market is bloated. It will be interesting how we will get out of that again.
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They last about 20-30 minutes on average around here. Longer than on other places.
Here [1] is the ATC conversation. She sent IDAHO30 (military aircraft) to go looking for them. IDAHO30 did not find the jetpack.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jblAQXY8AKo
The story reeks from top to bottom. The owner of the repair shop that allegedly received the laptop from Biden is a super far right conspiracy theorist. To the point where he literally believes that the Clintons are out to kill him for the information he has [1].

The whole story is that this is Hunter Biden's laptop, but in reality some random dude dropped it off and the owner said that "he had a medical condition that prevented him from actually seeing who dropped off the laptop but that he believed it to be Hunter Biden’s because of a sticker related to the Beau Biden Foundation that was on it." [1].

Then, it gets passed off to Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani back at the start of the year when Guiliani is already trying to get Ukraine to stir up a story on Hunter Biden. They then sit on it for most of the year and release it 20 days before the election.

Something like this, even as absurd as it is, will take weeks to thoroughly debunk. Meanwhile, people are literally in lines voting and stuff like this has an effect. That's probably why it was released right now, because even though it's most likely false, by the time it has flown around the internet unimpeded the damage will have already been done.

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...
$3K per user?
Apple is basically saying: "Even if our rules are unethical, we still want you to take the blame for it. Don't even dare to explain to the consumer that you're merely following Apple's guidelines."
LDM is from a world where single cycle memory access without caches is a thing. Whether that's classic systems like the ARM1 when DRAM was actually faster than CPU clocks at the time (you could even run multiple CPUs out of phase with each other and just have them both hit the same DRAM), or embedded system like the gameboy advance or Cortex-M cores where main memory can (but doesn't have to be) be single cycle access SRAM or NOR flash.
> In practice I don't see too many companies going full on litigious towards small players or end users

We should introduce you to Oracle. This is exactly what they do. They audit their own customers in a very hostile way.

Never underestimate a company in decline, as they grasp for ways to increase revenues and profits for shareholders (or founders)
Progressives are virtue signallers while not actually practicing any of the virtues they espouse.
I have literally not seen an ad on Facebook desktop since they forced through the update. Maybe that's why.
to be honest...

i did that for almost 20 years where i previously worked. i thought of my co-workers as family and friends and it got me no where and caused lots of stress (its hard to say no to someone when they are friends). i don't know, maybe it had more todo with co-dependency than anything else.

now i've been working at a place for almost 3 years and i'm not friends with a single person here. i don't let these people know my business and have a complete separation of personal and work relationship. i honestly have less stress cause i can say no without giving a crap if my co-worker gets mad at me or doesn't want to talk to me (which i prefer). i do my job and go home to be with my friends and family.

also, if another opportunity comes my way, i have no problem giving my 2 weeks notice and packing my bags. life is a lot better now.