skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I treasure these reports, and yet every time I go to buy more hard disks, it is very difficult resist the low, low prices of those Seagates. I know they'll fail faster than the WD/HGSTs, but they're so much cheaper!

Clearly, given these numbers, Backblaze thinks the same way.
Its not that large companies can't innovate (re: IBM) its that they can't cannibalize their high margin businesses on risky strategies until its too late.

This happens over and over, intel wasn't willing to bet on low margin phone SoC's at the expensive of their laptop/server business. Now those low margin SoC providers are selling a billion chips a quarter and financing a manufacturing behemoth that intel can't keep up with. Same thing with IBM, porting zos/ztpf/aix/i5/etc to x86 and making servers wasn't something they could justify, so they spun the business off to lenovo which grew it 5x, and now IBM is stuck with hardware they can't get enough volume on in a shrinking (but high margin!) business.

If they were selling POWER10 blue pi's for $50 they might have a chance in the edge space or IoT, but that might cannibalize the business elsewhere.
Thank you for verbalizing a question I have always had haha.
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This reminds me of when the Bush administration gave the contract for building a cell network in Iraq to Worldcom. And Worldcom went bankrupt. Clearly, they were not in the right position to fullfill the contract, but they were in the right position to bribe their way into the contract.
>>DevTools now shows server side events in the Network panel. This allows a server to send new data to a web page at any time allowing developers to see events they previously couldn't and help with lower-level troubleshooting.

Would someone please shed more light on this?
I work on BMC’s Remedy ecosystem and server side logging something that needs to be turned on separately.

Does FF 82 help me capture it just like that or I need to do some configuration changes on the server?

Pardon my simplistic question.
Important context: this comes from BCG, a business strategy firm, not MIT. This paper speaks to executives, NOT people trying to build anything directly. Don't try and read from a tech perspective; it's way higher up in the clouds.

This helps answer the questions: is this worth investing in? What returns can I expect, and when? What types of operating model is needed to put this all together? How can this play alongside everything else I'm running/building/exploring?
This is very useful, thanks!

And to answer your question on background and aims: I'm a machine learning engineer focusing on probabilistic graphical models (i.e. not deep learning) and would like to better understand how dedicated compute could (or could not) improve computational efficiency.
But isn't iOS software a specific market? iOS might be an Apple product, but "iOS software" is made primarily by third parties. That software is exclusively sold by Apple, but that's exactly what I find anti-competitive!

Separately, it's worth noting that iOS has ~60% market share in the United States[1]. It's lower globally, as you pointed out, but I'd argue domestic market-share should be what matters in US-based suits.

1: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
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it doesnt need to last long enough for the first permanent moon colony, just long enough to get the investors excited and bump the stock.

frankly i think a moon colony thats anything but underground is a laughably myopic idea. the delta T for the moon is pretty insane.
I'd consider that if it wasn't slowly eating all the available RAM on macOS.
A deepfake bot is being used to “undress” underage girls
Kind of like this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083mv25
Thank you for the response!

> I would differentiate between "cancel culture", where folks gang up and react disproportionately to a misdeed - versus a smear campaign where people try to weaponise the moderation system by spreading malicious reputation (e.g. your ESB example).

Good distinction!

> The room for discussing this is #matrix-reputation:matrix.org (although public convo is a bit sporadic; this should change as we spin up more experiments in the coming weeks/months however).

Great, I've joined!
gaming unlikely to work in large companies for reasons described in this video. https://blog.culturex.com/why-you-cant-afford-to-dismiss-gla...
More of a risk for small companies with few reviews.
Those "money grabs", by definition, make more money than they consume.
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If takes twice time to write?

Of course, I too believe statically verifying is important for mission critical software. But it comes with a cognitive overhead.
I host my blog https://miguendes.me on hashnode.com and I'm very happy.

I used to lose tons of time setting up hugo/jekyll and not writing anything.

Once I move to hashnode I could focus on writing only as most of the things are out of the box.

Most importantly, the content is yours and you can back the data up on github automatically.

The only minor downside is that the images you upload is stored in their CDN. But you can host it yourself if you prefer.
I've noticed this in many companies, but at Google it does seem particularly worse. In private conversations with friends, I will at least be cognizant of the bad things that the company I work for is doing - it's just a job.

But many Googlers seem to perfectly fit that Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

That said, I don't think you can see how Alphabet's lawyers talk and think that they are somehow living in a bubble or are not having these sorts of high-level strategy discussions.
Because... maybe it worked?
Exactly. Chrome just feels faster overall.
You realize that's $24k/yr right
> Ham radio can't be used for commercial purposes nor can it carry encrypted content. Operators also have to be licensed which means all of their personal details are on file with the licensing government. If they're caught breaking the bounds of their license it will be revoked and they can personally face fines and even criminal charges.

I know that, it's what I was referring to when I was talking about the ability to use HAM radio. It's trivially easy to relay packets over HAM bands right now, given a transciever; the biggest thing preventing fairly wide-spread use is the legality.

> the ham bands aren't exactly brimming with available bandwidth

Even slow dialup speeds would be nice. I'm thinking of more-or-less direct internet connections between e.g. the US, Europe and Russia, or even just over a few hundred miles. Doesn't have to be fast; the ability to send anything at all over that distance in a direct connection would be an improvement. A wifi mesh can't do that.
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the short story is Oakley wasn't interested in being acquired, but since Luxottica owns most of the sunglasses stores you've heard of, was able to turn the screws on Oakley by refusing to stock their product, causing it's share price to tank and enabled Luxottica to buy Oakley cheap.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/agoodman/2014/07/16/theres-more...
Not a word about fairness/congestion control. What if throwing out decades of tuning congestion control is going to have consequences. Which, to put my tinfoil hat on, might lead to problems resolvable only by tiered traffic (and end of network neutrality).
What was is the point of 'hacking' it? The list should be public right? So every telemarketer can access it and not call you?

Or is it done via your telecom provider?
>the Alphabet company that acquired Google was just a front

I'm saying that it was an internal re-org, not an acquisition from an external organization (or cabal of 3-letter-agencies).
I'm probably tilting at windmills, but I develop in Firefox, then spend the extra effort to make it work in Chrome for the few areas where behaviour is different. I tend to build stuff for smaller audiences of enterprise-oriented users though; not sure if this would be appropriate for massive consumer plays.
Here's a Google Maps image of one of these "trees" from a distance. This one is in the UK.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8765015,-2.0253306,3a,75y,...
You should add Hiresweet to that list.
Chrome is so popular that developers optimize for it. So for example, even though Firefox has a much faster CSS engine than Chrome, most developers don't use the kind of heavy CSS shenanigans that would make Chrome seem any slower than Firefox because if they did the site would be slower to the majority of users.

It's a chicken-egg problem, basically.
>Who has more market power

The ones getting paid tens billions of dollars annually seems like the obvious answer to me.
I love Chrome's tabs and have yet to find a browser that compares.

> must perform with >50 tabs open

Testing Firefox now, it has the same behavior as Safari: when I open 16 tabs it starts a horizontal scrolling list. Absolutely unusable. Chrome shrinks every tab down to Favicon size or smaller and shows you 50+ tabs at once.

Chrome got tabs right a decade ago and has yet to mess them up, as they have with most of the rest of the browser. Very hard to switch until they do.
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> But a VPN is arguably an help for a better browsing, so it's in line with what the user wants already.

Lol and Coca-Cola is delicious and refreshing so it's arguably in line to put it on the side of a bus when it goes past people who are thirsty.

I don't want your product shoved in my face, no matter how awesome you think I should find it.
I'd counter with nearly everyone goes away if you say "no thank you, just looking" and there is a non trivial amount of time that I actually do need help, the person is fairly helpful, especially at my local hardware store and smaller stores.
Without filtering rules and sub-communities that are following them, it's just one big soup of encrypted stuff. Once you have people self-selecting into groups, the suspicious ones are going to stand out more and then those can be infiltrated directly. Cops do this already, anyways, joining leftist/rightist organizations, offering things "for sale" on Facebook that will attract certain groups, joining tech communities via consultancies, &c.
One reason why I believe TikTok took off so fast is that they made it ok for videos to not be very good. They're not supposed to be overly polished and perfect. On Instagram, what you post is a reflection of you and how you want the world to see and judge you. TikTok is the opposite: videos are ephemeral, fun little things that you don't have to take seriously.
I tried to run the pbrt scene locally for timing comparisons, and it kept running out of memory. Thanks for that quote- I realize now that I forgot to switch to the pbrt-next branch. In general, this project has a ton of room left for optimization, so I hope to catch up and maybe pass pbrt. But I'd imagine that a commercial cpu renderer would also perform much better than pbrt.
> being "honest" by slapping a "contains scary sounding chemicals" sticker

You don't even have to go to "scary chemicals" and conspiracy theories. Have you ever checked how many "0% fat" foods are heavy on refined carbs, and vice-versa?

> how can a manufacturer possibly know what people would hate, considering that people can hate literally any ingredient?

Have you ever heard about market research? The promoted cherry-picked facts are not there because people are unpredictable and the manufacturers are clueless, but because people are predictable and the manufacturers have researched their behaviour.
> Luxottica purchased Sunglass Hut in early 2001. It promptly told Oakley it wanted to pay significantly lower wholesale prices or it would reduce its orders and push its own brands instead.

> Within months, Oakley acknowledged to shareholders that the talks hadn't gone well and that Luxottica was slashing its orders.

> The company's stock immediately lost more than a third of its value.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/12/luxottica.html

The fact that this isn't mentioned on Wikipedia might mean that Luxxotica has been very good at scrubbing their online persona.
>problem is, Chrome's a better implementation, for speed and stability, in the average case and the corner case.

Corner case maybe, but average case? No way. This is a historic perspective, maybe, but it's no longer valid in 2020.
The Wikipedia policy on this is clear: "Do NOT use articles from Wikipedia (whether this English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources." from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipe...

However, this is an issue to be watchful of indeed, as Wikipedia grows ever larger and gets used more and more.

See also http://wikicite.org (storing citations in Wikidata) which could help bring in better citation (quality) tools. Scholia is an interesting project using that citation data: https://scholia.toolforge.org/
technically you could try putting RETURN TO SENDER on all your junk mail and put them back in a blue collection box.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...
They could use their own timing source, though? I recall back in the day being able to pull timing source off a circuit.
Usually, these services require even more data than they already have. EG: Govt id, phone number, etc.

It is usually not worth the effort.
> The easiest way to protect user privacy is to never implement any features.

I don't subscribe to this school of thought, personally. I suppose that's where our differences lay.
It isn’t their product at all. It’s just a white label service they’re reselling - at significant markup.
After getting burned on a consecutive $3800 worth of dead-on-arrival Seagate drives, well, never again.
What is expensive about "sign in with"? There are lots of libraries that will make it pretty simple, though the configuration can be hairy (google, looking at you).

It's more expensive than syndicating content, sure, but I think you want to compare the relative costs of each option, not between them.

Write on medium vs writing on your own blog

Using social sign on vs building your own auth system (hopefully using a library)
Yev from Backblaze here -> we do have SSDs in the fleet but they are primarily boot and data drives, so they're not really an apples:apples use-case. We're constantly looking for interesting news from our fleet though, so if there's something that pops out, our default approach would be to talk about it :D
I have also made the switch. I do notice a few irritations that I struggle to remember off the top of my head, but a big one recently with the Android app is the lack of support for password managers (at least LastPass)
Pulling out a tab into a new window is really snappier in chrome than in firefox. Every time I do this in firefox, I ask myself why this is such a burden.
> Maybe this is the 2020-itis talking, but I can't imagine watching the moon landing or MLK's speech online without mentally preparing myself for the rudeness and straight up lunacy in the comments section.

Don't ever scroll down to comments on YouTube or news articles. Possibly maybe peek if the video or article is very niche; the tail comments can be worthy, but the head will only make you feel bad.
We moved to AZ from TN last year. TN doesn't really bother with hiding the towers whereas AZ sometimes camouflages them; especially in the richer areas such as Scottsdale.

My wife told me about some weird tree she saw which turned out to be a cell tower. I take great joy in reminding her periodically about that.
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Rex has two main functionalities. The first is the ability to send out feedback requests in one click. For example, while looking at a pair of shoes, I can use the Rex extension to ask a friend for feedback. Moreover, Rex has store agnostic cart functionality which allows users to save any product from any website to their dashboard. Check us out and let us know how we can make Rex better!
I meant on the developer's side, rather than for the public to discuss it. I've edited the post to make it clearer.
Same. Firefox gets bogged down debugging one of our more complex websites. Was quite surprised when chrome didn't. Figured all the speghetti meant it was doomed either way.
In fairness to the Bush administration (not words I often use), WorldCom went bankrupt due to a massive accounting fraud that was probably largely unrelated to their technical capability to fulfill the contract.
>> Mozilla and Google are implementing to the same standards and specifications; problem is, Chrome's a better implementation, for speed and stability, in the average case and the corner case.

This is not the interpretation I make of the current landscape. Google is SETTING standards that directly benefit themselves, just like MS did; Chrome uses it's market share to push in directions that benefit Google before they benefit end users.
Linear regression has been around since before computers. It's a real stretch to put that under the umbrella of AI. Nor is AI required to continually update linear regression models; a "for" loop will suffice.
I appreciate you adding self check out here but I don’t understand why stores are so slow to adopt this. Scan your UPC and check out. What else does the retail industry need?
I haven't looked into it much but could it be another point in a browser fingerprint?
This comment is spot-on.

Discord hasn't been 10x better than competitors - before Discord, there were numerous competitors offering large group voice chat at better-than-Discord quality (not talking about Skype here, but Teamspeak and Ventrilo) and with better-than-Discord administrative control over groups (especially Teamspeak had this nailed, with very extensive rights management that's even suitable to the largest and best-organized gaming guilds). What Discord nailed is ease-of-setup, especially of the server part: by offering free hosting that imitated the "one server = one guild" structure well-known to gamers while actually implementing a much-cheaper hosting structure serving thousands of users from one physical server they eliminated one of the typical pain points with existing solutions, which all depended on either having one technically-savvy gamer hosting the server on his own hardware (mostly virtual private servers were used here), or someone paying for hosted versions. This structure provided an opening for Discord: since gamer clans and guilds come and go in quick succession, each time this happens, the continued use of "classic" voice chat solutions like Teamspeak etc. depended on whether "the guy with the server" would continue hosting the voice server for the new guild. Often enough, the new guild simply wasn't lucky enough to have that guy, so they look out for solutions, and Discord offered them one: a free "server" providing a good-enough group voice chat solution.

With regard to monetization one could even argue that Discord failed a lot in that department. The attempt to sell games was largely unsuccessful, and besides the Nitro program they didn't really find anything that works. And even the Nitro program had to be made into an actual "premium" program in order to lead to significant-enough adoption, offering better quality on core features of the service instead of purely cosmetic status-boosting, which is AFAIK not what they originally intended to do with the program.
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Feel free to explain. We'd love to know.
I loved buying the ultra cheap CDs of random sounds, videos, and etc back in the day.

It was like magic.
"The protocol has a good reputation, problem is that you can't tell that the app is identical to the source"
Don't they have reproducible builds?
Yev from Backblaze here -> price plays a large factor in our purchasing decisions, but you'll notice if you look at the failure rates that they're not THAT much different across the manufacturers. For home usage, you're likely going to be fine regardless of what drives you buy. Though those sweet sweet 4TB HGST drives are getting harder and harder to find!
I see what you did there. Have an upvote.
You are right, there is huge potential in broader knowledge and practice of "consciousness practice".

Wim Hof has been making the rounds on HN lately. His latest book just came out, and I would recommend anyone who is looking for a super straightforward and practical way of systematically facing and overcoming fear, to check out either the book or just download the Wim Hof method app to do the breathing and the cold showers. You really don't need to "believe" anything, just need to try out the basic exercises and see what you feel, then decide if it's something that you want to keep doing or not.
It's a problem being worked on, but it should be possible to use the existing GPS satellites on Moon. Also, given it is just being used as a time source and not for navigation, it should be possible to make a moon-based time signal with less hardware units?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-eyes-gps-at-t...
Looks interesting. I agree that the brands of the future will have a much more personalized and individualized experience with their customers. I know a few people who are using a service like this (possibly this one), and have received great feedback and loyalty
> The ones getting paid tens billions of dollars annually seems like the obvious answer to me.

So what, the seller on any side of a transaction is the one who has the market power?

To make it simpler: if there was one employer in the entirety of Earth and 7 billion people who wanted a job - since the employer is paying the employee, the employee would have the market power?
I know your site is in beta, but you should remove the 'See what our customers say' section until you have customer reviews.

https://i.ibb.co/zS1zNq6/Screenshot-2020-10-20-Remove-Person...
The situation with dentistry is weird, I agree with that. I pay for private dental insurance.

As for everything else - I literally have no complaints about the treatment anyone in our family has had from the NHS. Of course, other people will have had bad experiences - that is inevitable with something the size of the NHS but I don't.

NB We have neighbours who are NHS doctors who complain about the costs of the German healthcare system - everybody has some problems!

Edit: About a month ago, on a Sunday, my wife got what appeared to be an insect bite that had become infected. She phoned NHS 24, spoke to someone and had to wait for an hour for a nurse to phone back. The nurse said it was best to play safe and arranged a hospital appointment for about 7pm. I drove her to the appointment and she was in, examined by a doctor and out again in about 30 minutes with a pack of antibiotics to take.

Cost: £0 (prescriptions are free in Scotland).

That is pretty typical of my experience of the NHS.
This is a patently false statement from first principles. Anticompetitive behavior to keep a monopoly is illegal, but that is not the only case. Cartels, predatory pricing, and price fixing are all illegal with or without monopolies and are all considered anticompetitive practices.
> consumers

What about the companies that Google killed with underhanded tactics?

Actually, what about the consumers whose choice in smartphones was reduced because Google contractually forced phone manufacturers to include certain features, and prevented them from developing alternatives [1,2]?

But I'm sure Google would like to focus all our attention on short-term, individual-level effects, so they can continue to pretend a single company dominating ever more markets doesn't, and won't, have any bad consequences.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-s-confidentia...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/google-will-stop-bundling-it...
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