skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the world's most powerful states have been sending undercover agents to their adversary states for millennia, that is hardly a (new) reason to take action against them. Both states have plenty of tools to simply kill every identified agent of the other side, so how far they go in their actions is always a policy decision, balancing goals with retaliation. Plausible deniability helps, at least for awhile.
Yep, this is obvious by how many more regular people use Canva to create a simple flyer than use Photoshop or GIMP or any other similar tool.
Three forces are in mostly at play in any no-code solution.

- Abstraction

- Flexibility

- Cost of labor to produce functionality

Higher the abstraction lower the flexibility. However, for enterprises the ability to produce functionality without requiring a skilled work force matters a tonne. The success of Airtable & likes speaks volumes. That's because the world is not as complex as the article likes you to believe.

As developers, we underestimate nocode solutions. And enterprises probably over estimate.
Or a 6th option: Over 80% of people have Vitamin D deficiency, and the incoming Covid-19 patient population was not different in this regard.
I wish other companies should follow this model soon.
I knew some game developers who put one or two glaringly bad visual choices in each milestone deliverable so the publisher could say "Change X!" and they feel like they'd made their mark.

That left the rest of the build mostly unscathed from input from the publisher. As I heard it told it was a fairly successful approach.
>The State Department commissioned a study last year by the National Academies of Sciences, which handed in the report in early August.
>Dr. Relman expects the report to be made public, as is the tradition of work done by the academies.

When the report is made public it will show no evidence of any malicious action. The idea that there is some microwave or sonic weapon being used against agents is a sensationalistic conspiracy theory.
Don’t wait until the last minute, in other words.
Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm
>a really bad idea

That's a funny way to spell "a moral imperative."
With the number of empty apartment in SF right now, I don't think more housing is the issue right now.
Reminds me of this quote from Michael S. Malone in The Valley of Heart's Delight (2002)

> When will it end? I knowingly predicted Silicon Valley's imminent demise in 1980, 1985, 1989, and 1994. Eventually, I learned my lesson. The rest of the media world obviously has not--regularly indulging in yet another paroxysm of features about how the Valley is losing its crown to Austin, Orange County, Bangalore, even Boise.

> Perhaps. All I know is just months after the last time I predicted the Valley's end, I found myself regularly having lunch in a Chinese restuartant in Campbell with two young entrepreneurs... The company they were building was called Ebay.
What about companies that monitor you? Mine at least we have to ping it at a random time during the day and we're not told when we get pinged.

I'm just saying that as work from home becomes more common, it's only a matter of time before corporate starts measuring "output" now that they can't check up on you whenever. For programmers at least it's not so bad. For everybody else lower than management, I can only see people feeling unfairly shackled.
I used to dual boot windows xp and windows 98 on same hdd, never faced any problem. However, Linux and Windows always conflict if dual boot is on same hdd.
Does it discuss the part where Brian Acton (co-founder of WA) donated 50million to Signal because of how badly Facebook will distort Whatsapp's user base and tech?
But that actually contradicts logic a bit.

I would expect those that are leaving their homes are both more exposed to sun/less deficient in vitamin D and also more likely to contract COVID.

And likewise, those that are staying home are more deficient, but less likely to contract COVID.
> will show no evidence of any malicious action.

Does not mean that there isn’t any malicious action. Clearly someone is hurting US agents in a very similar manner.

The whole reason this is an issue to begin with is because we can’t figure out how they are hurting our agents.
The author doesn’t seem to understand that growing into a trillion dollar company doesn’t require extreme innovation and cool tech.
Folks should know that Russia is currently occupied by a criminal gang. Criminals do stuff, so adjust expectations: you can be poisoned if you're working for American (or allies) government. Citizens are trying to eliminate the gang (Khabarovsk, Minsk protests), but it's nowhere near the end.
I gotta admit, sometimes I take things a bit too literally on HN. But yeah, that would be pretty awesome. Never really thought about that before.
Not for say, people in Mexico. Given the inflation rate of our coin, it would be a benefit to be paid in USD.
Light trapping in solar cells with quasi-random nanostructures
I’ve completely switched to DuckDuckGo for search. I used to fall back to Google fairly frequently if the DDG results weren’t good enough, but that has gotten less and less frequent.
The experience is very similar to Google in the old days
I gave up on dual-booting a long time ago and 2 OSes fighting over overwriting the MBR every time I wanted to upgrade one or the other. It's just so much easier to maintain 2 machines.
I'm extremely disappointed by this pricing.

However, given the way Tesla Motors started out, maybe they're targeting the well-to-do rural and underserved clientele first, and then as more satellites are launched and in orbit, they'll reduce the price to more reasonable levels.
because this just seems like change for the sake of change
If it is strong enough to affect the human physiology then it can be detected regardless how short lived it is. If your neighbor honks the car 3 times at 3 in the morning you will still hear it even though it is only for a few seconds. If you are watching a real-time football match on LTE and drives through a tunnel with no signal, there will still be a interruption even if the tunnel is very short.
No, he's saying that Silicon Valley was originally about extreme innovation and cool tech, not multi-trillion dollar companies
Is there any easy way to monitor preconnect / dns prefetch and others [in chrome / firefox] ?
Dropbox isn't needed, we already have rsync.
I think it's excellent. A few simple rules (max stays, don't dump rubbish, etc) and then more or less freedom for the people that like that. We have "crown land" here in Australia but it's not promoted or branded with a neat brand/concept that encapsulates it as well. Often the "bush camping" is tolerated or at the mercy of individual councils (counties, I guess).

Roadtripped and camped across the US twice last year, and the jump in camping opportunities once you get to Colorado heading west is awesome.
The same Bill Binney involved in aiding QAnon conspiracy networks and that appears on right-wing propaganda channels that push COVID-19 denial? I trust him about as much as I trust a broken clock.
The cynicism towards the folks who worked on this at Google is a bit over the top in this thread. While most of the criticism is justified, I'd like to point out something that might not be obvious to folks who never worked at a megacorp: not every person who worked on this (or any other thing you have a problem with in tech) is a mindless zombie that makes change for the sake of change, whose only goal in life is to get promoted.

This redesign likely took several human-years to get out. It's not perfect. It might even be plain bad in your world, and that's fine. But the idea that we're always smarter than the person next to us is just not a healthy place to be in my opinion.

Assume good intent, you'll feel better about yourself and it'll spread to those around you as well.
Don’t they have a lot of old folks as well? It’s a multi-factor situation.
Yeah, also if anyone wants external proof of the concept:https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3214268
> as a side note there is whole list of bad stuff that medium/small companies do just because "goog/fb does that", but they should never do

Indeed. There is a great post about this mistake causing companies to do wrong technical choices titled "you are not Google". Worth a read if you're not familiar with it already (already been on hn twice as well).

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
SSML: HTML for Voice Synthesis
As I wrote earlier, easier than before because the country is so polarized and incumbent special interests decided - like the general population - to move to the far fringes of their ideology as a future investment into the country leaving representatives pretty unoccupied this session. Not extremely easy because Congress is not passing many bills.
Your source, Bill Binney, is not credible. For example he claims he can "prove" Russia did not hack the DNC in 2016.[1] His claims are easily debunked by anyone with basic networking experience.[2]

[1] https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/02/...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180802/07182740351/as-dn...
I know it’s customary to complain about change, but ... this article is dead on. My company is full G-suite (sorry, “Google Workplace”), so I always have a bajillion mail/cal/drive/docs/meet tabs open. They used to be so easy to tell apart, now I have no idea WTF each tab is until I take a look. “Looks better” is subjective, but functionality is more objective, and these new logos are way less functional.
> Facebook took Instagram and WhatsApp and basically put it on steroids.

Ok, I’m tracking.

>Those apps couldn't have possibly been the behemoths they are now without Facebook's ample innovative, world-class sales, marketing, engineering weight behind it [0][1].

Wait what? How on earth did you land there? From your own video, Facebook left WhatsApp alone, and the value they got from Facebook was increased velocity. Absolutely nothing in that video indicates they would have failed or not continued the trajectory they were already on, it would’ve just taken a bit longer and probably had a different back-end.
You would be surprised how common is is then, especially in areas of Europe surrounding non EU countries where international daily commutes are not uncommon, not to mention remote working.

I work for an engineering company in Switzerland, and half my team are German citizens who (pre-covid) made a daily commute all while enjoying the lower cost of living in Germany.
Assessing the Job Candidates: Things to Keep in Mind About Pre-Employment Test
I don't know of any post-COVID studies, but most studies pre-COVID show around 40% of the population being deficient both in the USA and Europe.
Here’s a link that works I think: https://mobile.twitter.com/andrejbauer/status/12599019719910...

The supposed selling point of HoTT wrt to formalizing mathematics is higher level proofs that are more general and are less work to express, due to having this richer notion of equivalence in the type theory.

I think the post you linked is pretty good... it makes me wonder - at this point, what is holding back more formalization? Is it a cultural thing? (None of the people who are doing “interesting” math care about formalizing It) Is it a technical thing? (Proof assistants and their type theories aren’t good enough?) Are we just missing a big enough “standard library” of mathematics so mathematicians can get to the interesting parts sooner? It’s probably all of the above.

What I think might happen is it reaches a tipping point where enough of the pieces are in place to where it rapidly becomes normal or expected to formalize mathematics and we have awesome tools and “standard libraries” to make it good.
Sort of right? I mean how big is the field? How often does someone move the bed in a hotel room? If you were set up outside a hotel where you knew targets slept, you could program constants for the bed in each room right?

Further if you knew what you were trying to do, you could set up your feedback transmitter in a room, record all the parameters for that room, then move to the next room, Etc.

The problem that Perlman was solving was a lot harder (a moving target) but hitting a nominally stationary target?
I’m referring to their claims that that not innovating means not standing the test of time. Facebook very well could exist and stay profitable for the next 50 years without a single new product or feature.
Global circulation of influenza viruses (2019-2020)
Admittedly, Assembler is much easier than machine code. And machine code is much easier than paper tapes.

Also, this must be where “patching” code came from. Earlier in my career, I never understood the reference when they said they released a new patch.
It credits lifehack, who credit Dave Allen. Though the ideas/details have been twisted along the way, the “2 minute rule” is straight from Dave. All credits on it lead back there. It’s not a contentious idea, the guy’s still alive. It’s his idea.
I have had many disasters in my software career because I jut wantonly hit "Y" without thinking about it.

I have noticed, since learning to cook at a professional level in the kitchen, that I point and call out a lot more in my other activities too. "From hot behind" and "knife" and "oven is over temp" to "Saw blade is live" and "circuit is live" in the workshop to "production server" and "erasing records" in database maintenance. Some days I feel like Sigourney "I have one job damnit" Weaver in Galaxyquest. It's a useful stop-think-go sanity check.
That's Atwood's Duck[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality?Reposting#Re...
Styling a React App with Material UI
Thanks. I really appreciate the story. I'm a long time Django fan so your story resonates. Maybe I'll give React another try one of these days...
Collaboration all but requires being online (good offline collab is much harder to implement as you surely know), so that eliminates one of the main advantages of native apps.

Collaboration is also much more useful when you're not limited to only working with people using the same OS. Multi-platform distribution is built into web apps, but it takes a lot more effort to create good native apps on several platforms.

Also, of course, no need to install anything on the web, which is important for frictionless collaboration.

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It's no surprise that both desktop and mobile OS-s are very much not optimized for cross platform development. It's a feature (for owners of those OS-s), not a bug.
It’s fascinating that you are at the very same time not understanding what he is saying, absolutely illustrating exactly what he is saying.
Lots of downvoted comments in this thread
Maybe an article that is just slightly wrong, just slightly uninformed is the same kind of moneymaker as facebook.
> The issue is that Linux sets the bios to UTC, while windows wants the bios to be local time zone.

UTC is the default in many Linux distributions, but I wouldn't say "Linux sets the bios to UTC"; I've only ever seen it be an explicit choice.
You flagged this article because the author said something you don't like in another post?
I agree with you. There seems to be a lot of bad faith assuming going around on HN. It really degrades the quality of conversation we could be having. Look at the number of intelligent people on this platform! It’s incredible! Yet the cynicism is tiresome.
I read the blog hoping to find out what the fall of Silicon Valley was but that was rendered incoherent by the excessive Name dropping.
You're confusing being innovative with being innovative in software.
I'm not sure about the 'excellent' part of the execution. The previous icons gave you more of an idea of what you were clicking on. The Word icon showed a W and a sheet of papers with lines on it. Now, it's just a W on a striped background. Excel is an X. You have know before hand the name of every MS tool to figure out what the icons stand for. Which is OK for workers experienced with the Office tool suite, but for others, W and X are no clearer than Y or T.

So, if the idea behind icons is to quickly locate the tools you need, even if you are not super-familiar with the tools, I think the previous icons served that purpose much better.
The twitter feed has a load of info and this article talks to it a bit more, but great care went into preventing that https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2019/08/14/would-you-eat...
Maybe their flash storage is too slow so people would notice? Right now it takes hours to back your phone.
I think that's great. More the merrier.

We at Pex went through this kind of transitions few years back, although we are basing our compensation on LA for USA and CA and on Vienna for Europe.

We made this decision with the understanding that we can't compete for talent in the most expensive places of either continent but we are still left with great amount of people.

It worked well for us. Not only while hiring candidates, but more importantly allowing our employees to move closer to their families or finding places to live that better match their lifestyle. We generally notices overall increase in happiness across the company while people are not restricted to single area. Also the financial pressure dropped significantly which means people stay with us longer even if they are offered better paid jobs (at least in the cash portion).
The genius of Travis Kalanick is twofold:

1) Going global as quickly as possible. He aggressively moved into a lot of countries as quickly as possible with the same formula, and for the most part it worked.

2) He created an entire industry by having the balls to lower prices to the point where it fundamentally changed transportation. Everyone ubered everywhere (before the pandemic) and I know many people who sold their cars because ubering was cheaper.

The downside was that both are extremely capital intensive, which showed in how much money they raised. But I would say both techniques are extremely innovative and what most startups these days are trying to strive for.
I agree that it's ignorant to call everything outside of programming and product ideation non-innovative. Though also, much of those giant companies' successes come from simply having a critical mass of dollars. At some point, it's sheer brute force.
What accessories? Everything is bluetooth now.
Doubt that is true. Every company has internal policies to stop favoritism like that.
Choice quotes like "Kanye is the only candidate to my knowledge that has talked about agriculture." abound. Funny read.
Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
A typical Catalina upgrade was closer to 30 minutes for our computers at work. 10 hours suggests some kind of problem.
We've hit the comment depth limit, so I'll reply here.

> it's not clear to me why you necessarily want the language you use to rigorously investigate the foundations of mathematics to be the same one you use to do proof verification.

Among other things, I want theorems about foundations to be useful to non-foundational mathematicians. Working on type theory can improve, at the very least, formal verification tools. In my view, traditional ZFC-based mathematical logic has a much smaller likelihood of being useful for regular mathematicians. For example, the vast majority of mathematicians will never explicitly assume the existence of a large cardinal in a paper. It seems to me that the difference in usefulness is probably due to their relative distance from common discourse.
Fakes should 100% be destroyed
Lawmakers Want to Protect Local Newspapers From Google, Facebook
Nope, I’m reading the actual article and using the author’s definition of innovation: creating technology that makes our lives better as human beings. Not a small group of people making something that makes them a ton of money regardless of it being innovative as per the definition above.
>The old solution of Amazon mostly ignoring the fakes and just compensating people who complain avoids this scenario.

Being a proper retailer and sourcing goods from reputable sources, performing quality control, and then reselling them to the public without the commingling nonsense also avoids this scenario.
It looks inevitable that the law will have to get involved for western users of the big platforms. I don't know if that will fly in the US. Tolerating life & death on the complete lack of structure in tech decision making has to come to an end eventually, at least on particular financial outcomes.
We had one that required "BADIDEA" to run
If they are fakes then it’s fraud and the courts should get involved. But why would Amazon give the courts that power when they can just do whatever they want.
There are few of this type of articles written by 'nobody' every month.
You can always go full there-is-only-Zulu and set the Windows timezone to UTC. (insert head-tapping meme here)
Here's a nice article on how to do the fix, https://www.howtogeek.com/323390/how-to-fix-windows-and-linu...
There’s a ton less accessories nowadays. Everything is Bluetooth. USB-C versions already exist for Android. Lightning is waste.
I believe the Long Peace and technological progress put us at the dawn of the Golden Age, and we're living it right now, setbacks like COVID notwithstanding. Steven Pinker puts forward a powerful argument to that effect in "Enlightenment Now", and it's hard to disagree when you look at the data. Literally none of that would be even possible under this philosophical framework.
I remember that season 2 of Rick and Morty seemed to as well, at least when it first came on Hulu
You could do animal experiments and there should be medical literature on known microwave exposure cases.
Swing is definitely not "less native" than Electron. The entire window is a web view in Electron apps. I believe Java Swing was even an officially supported UI toolkit on the Mac a long time ago.
Neeraj Arora: "You saw the result of that [Facebook's acquisition] because when we sold the company [WhatsApp] in 2014 we had 450M monthly active users and I think we doubled or tripled in a few years after that. So, it kind of shows that our speed of execution went up... it was just that we were able to hire aggressively, we were able to get a lot of other technical help from Facebook on the storage, on the server side of the things. They brought a lot of those things that we were trying to build ourselves that they already had... So, combining the two really turbo-charged the growth of WhatsApp. So, I think I'd say execution was flawless in terms of the deal."

> ...it would’ve just taken a bit longer

Yeah, we are in-agreement: "[Facebook] put its growth on steroids".
>if they know they're putting their own life and health at stake

Sounds like a default setting when operating on foreign soil