skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty easy to disagree with this. There are shareholders that are still upset at the hundreds of millions spent on marketing and strategy in mobile.

The Microsoft that was worried that ARM was the present/future and Windows needed to be front and center on it, had Windows Phone as a major cross-cutting concern touching every single piece of that balance sheet:

Microsoft made a big play for enterprise licensing of Windows Phone. The last Windows Phone 10 handsets on the market were enterprise sales only devices from vendors such as HP.

Microsoft saw Windows Phone first and foremost as Windows. When Microsoft made that commitment to have Windows 10 running on a billion devices in a short time frame, a lot of their hubris in setting that expectation of so many devices so fast was that they saw a huge growth in ARM devices, especially Windows Phone that never came.

Windows Phone had some of the first attempts at Xbox mobile efforts. The death of a lot of the entertainment division, specifically Microsoft's deeper plays into Music, eBooks, TV/Movies is often directly blamed on the death of Windows Phone leaving Apple too far ahead in pole position on those services.

Windows Phone had big plays from nearly every Service on Microsoft's books. Cortana was built for Windows Phone and the death of Cortana as a front-and-center Services play, too seems to rest on the Windows Phone's shoulder.

Windows Phone was also directly the driver of what most shareholders think to be Microsoft's greatest (ever), most expensive blunder in M&A: the Nokia acquisition.

I think it contrasts directly with the commitment Apple made to the iPhone; had the iPhone failed Apple would have been left with as many scars as Microsoft still seems to have. More than half the Entertainment Division doesn't exist today and Windows Phone is seen as a key reason. The Services team has seen almost exactly as much turnover, again due almost directly to Windows Phone scars. Almost none of the divisions exist in the same form they did today as they did when Windows Phone was the big existential play for the company, the big bet that failed. (If that doesn't show commitment, I don't know what shows commitment.)

It even left scars such that Apple, following in Microsoft's footsteps to ARM on laptop/desktop, years later, seems to get direct credit for things that were Microsoft's efforts. To the very point of the article here and other threads in this discussion, Electron on Apple Silicon would not have happened nearly as fast if it hadn't been for Microsoft's ARM focus/efforts directly forcing Chromium (via the Edge team) to support ARM. (Edge probably wouldn't have switched to Chromium as its renderer if Windows Phone hadn't failed, and if it hadn't needed to spend so much directly in the Chromium codebase in the effort of forcing Chromium to adopt open source ARM builds.)
Right; the labor pool increased dramatically, which decreased the cost of wages, but demand and consumption remained basically the same (there'd be an increased demand for gas/cars/clothing/etc with more people going into work, but that would be small).
Now, one of them just needs to provide certs for .onion domains.
That's kind of the nature of wealth that you can make projects keep going regardless of how good or bad they are. There's no meritocracy, just power.
Thanks to Tesla's comically terrible service parts availability a bricked and reported stolen Tesla is worth a lot more than a bricked and reported stolen car of any other brand.
You can buy citizenship and noble titles starting at £29.99, and the only business ever based there got 'nationalised' after the founders fell out with the royal family. Try again :D
US doors always allow unlocking from the inside (fire regulations?)...
I know very little about the npm ecosystem or how popular/ubiquitous the author's library is, but its weekly downloads on NPM seem very high? https://www.npmjs.com/package/safe-buffer

safe-buffer is currently at 45M weekly downloads with 1.3K dependents. By comparison, the 4 most depended on libaries have a much lower ratio of downloads to dependents:

https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended

1. lodash: 38M downloadsand 128K ependents

2. React: 9M / 64k

3. Chalk: 62M / 62K

4. Requests: 22M / 50K

5. commander: 50M / 48K

I'm assuming safe-buffer has its ratio because c̶o̶r̶e̶ highly popular libraries already depend on it (and those c̶o̶r̶e̶ libraries, not safe-buffer js, are what other libraries list as dependencies). Because Switch system updates wouldn't be downloading from npm, right?

edit: I was using "core" to refer to extremely popular/depended-on libraries – e.g. mysql/mongo/requests depending on safe-buffer – but that's obviously not the right usage in this context.
Yeah, structurally unprofitable companies are not capitalistic, as they do not facilitate the accumulation of capital.

There's a transfer of capital to service users and employees (and definitely executives), but this is dependent on the infusion of external capital (as the company does not produce enough capital to fund its own activities).

I feel like either I have gone crazy, or the world has.
curios what the power draw is and if I need a powered USB hub for this.
> I'm NOT into cars that are connected to the internet

Except this break in had nothing to do with the internet. So why are you complaining in this thread?
I think the problem is that “fitness” now includes governmental regulatory capture, mass-media manipulation, and human rights abuses.
Thanks for the thoughts! I agree, and was thinking something along these lines as well.

I'm leaning towards having a permanent free tier with a low seat limit.

On billing, I'll definitely have an annual subscription option. From interviews I found that, in some cases, team leads will have to file expense reports and doing it monthly would be too tedious.

I'll have to think through offering quarterly and semi-annual plans. My gut feel is that it'd be too much complexity to have 3-4 options.
These sorts of posts come up often and I cringe every time I see dongle attached storage. An unnecessary additional failure point seems counterproductive.

I have a Raspberry Pi and I use an SD card because what I’m using it for doesn’t require anything more. If you need fast storage I believe you should buy an appropriate device and maybe petition the Foundation to add it in a future model.

Right tool for the job and all that.
>But if all businesses are run at a loss, the entire system will collapse, so the system requires some companies to be run profitably.

Not if all the businesses are monopolies. The concentration of wealth allow for an ever greater capture of markets as well as the government that would reign in their monopolistic behavior. This should be obvious with what just happened with Uber, who successfully bought legislation to defend their unprofitability but movement towards monopoly, and has large executive overlap with the former Obama/soon-to-be Biden administrations.

>I still maintain that structurally unprofitable companies are an abberation caused by negative interest rates, and I don't think it would be recognised as capitalism by time travellers from the 70s.

Maybe its not an "abberation," but fiscal policy put in place to further the wealth and power of existing Capital owners? It's also irrelevant in practical terms what people 50 years ago called something versus today. Countries, businesses, religions, ideologies etc both persist and change, regardless of whether they remain recognizable to anyone at a given point in time.
https://i.redd.it/vfij6vxnobu51.png

Feel free to create an updated version if you want.
I've come to view these lists as bullshit. When you go through these lists (and especially lists of "unicorns" from the states) you see a few major trends. Many "unicorns" have several of these:

- Price dumping and market grabbing through losses subsidised by infinite investor money

- Price dumping and market grabbing by aggressively turning everything into gig economy (usually, losses subsidised by overworked underpaid couriers)

- Financial market. No one has any savings to speak of, so managing credit is quite a lucrative business indeed.

- Outright lies and vaporware: flying cars, innovative vehicles, fantastical medical devices etc. Once again, losses subsidised by infinite investor money

And among this humongous pile of outright crap there are just a few companies that actually do something. And out of those may be one actual innovator.
> WW2 being a "regression to the mean" so to speak with regards to brutalizing civilians

It wasn't, though. The level, and degree of planning, of genocide in conquered territories was historically _very_ unusual. Medieval armies, say, were not generally followed by specialist murder units. Even in, say, the Reconquista, there was no real equivalent of the Einsatzgruppen, nevermind what came after occupation.

This isn't to say previous wars were clean; lots and lots of civilians died, but there was rarely an organ of the military whose explicit purpose was in massacring civilians until WW2.

I think there's a reasonable case that the Nazi military really did have a special, virtually unique brand of evil.
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Yeah what you would really want is a carbon fiber or fiber glass rebar for reinforcement rather than steel to avoid corrosion.
We are generating mountains of debt yet again, unfortunately.
Scientists Want to Build a Giant Moon Telescope to See into the Deep Past
But a more direct answer to the parents question is that they "make money" by providing a service that by virtue of its existence saves the sponsoring companies money and headache.

I'm surprised this model isn't more common as an alternative to licensing.
Sounds like you are going down with the ship. Its completely irrational to believe you can print yourself into prosperity. I could just as easily point to Tech stocks, Tesla, gold, silver, bitcoin or any other inflated commodity as a counterpoint.
Sorry, of course. I meant the 'iptables' interface to netfilter can be enough for mere mortals that only use them once a year, and can filter on uid/gid/pid.

I'd like to find a real-world project to play with netfilter directly. Maybe when transitioning to 200GbE... Is it just for 'complex and numerous filtering rules' or are there other 'killer use cases' for using nftables directly?
Nobody does that crap though. Vengeful exes don't have the means. People with the means leverage it to make money.
Automation and the Future of Work (2019)
That was during the Nixon administration... as far as I understand it, he threw out the entire "political science" playbook, and corruption was allowed to thrive unchecked.
This article grow into https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-fut... which is also quite good.
Major regulator makes 11th-hour move to sink banks' oil limits
Real ads are now different, they are masked as regular content published by regular users.
By force, eventually. Those daring to have their own interest in mind instead of the greater good should receive a healthy struggle session and their wealth confiscated. For all mankind!
I came to this conclusion as well as it seems like a lot of extremely pivotal economic events took place around 1971. It was basically the year the modern economy was born.
This is like "the house is still on fire, so obviously dousing it with water isn't helping..."

What would it be without the mandate?
> I feel like either I have gone crazy, or the world has.

Occam's Razor time: capitalism doesn't work!
The best benefit we've found for unit tests is in low level platform specific code and generic containers. Things of that nature which absolutely must work and can themselves be tested in isolation.

I'm sure when we finish the project and look back on it we can go in, clean up, and implement far more unit tests for the code we already have.
I haven't because I was looking for something a bit more powerful, but I'll have to check it out (I have a few small things that could use something a bit underpowered). The nicest thing about lower power stuff is powering it off solar is much easier.
I think it is fair to say that Java up till about Java 8 had a problem with not evolving fast enough.

However, I'd say now Java is really one of the quicker evolving languages out there, which is really impressive. They went from a go like evolution pace to being closer to a Rust or Javascript evolution.

Turns out, fast release cycles do a lot of good for a language.
Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in CLI and pull requests (AWS and GCP)
It's very easy to block them: don't visit facebook, and you'll never see the ads.
Well, even that comment could be an example of ideas, which people read and think, that can lead one to prejudices against everyone who does government work (as well as aversion to getting into that work oneself).

It seems ordinary for people to have prejudices about groups of people. Some prejudices, we're generally more sensitized that they're unfair to individuals, and harmful, and mentioning them is taboo. Other prejudices, we aren't as aware of, and still voice openly, even though we could see that reinforces/perpetuates prejudice that unfairly affects individuals.

Again, prejudice against people doing gov't work isn't the worst injustice in the world, but it's unfair to individuals, and also would seem to discourage many people from going into gov't work that affects society as a whole, and so this prejudice seems a problem to address.
The interest is that an open source developer had randomly discovered his library is used (and properly cited) in one of the most popular gaming systems today. And he's sharing his delight/surprise, which implies that this is not an everyday experience for many non-curl open source developers.
Like you I just really like the idea of it. It's self-hosting, and it keeps all tickets, wiki and forum posts inside the repo, so that I can work on things offline and do backups very easily.

Fossil doesn't support basic code review and merge requests though (like Github PRs). Actually it kinda does through bundles, but Github would probably be better for that use case. Don't think it will be a problem any time soon for this project, though.

All in all, I've used Fossil for about a year and I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm not American so I could be wrong on this, but wasn't it the Trump administration that passed the previous stimulus package that disproportionately benefited the largest companies?
Commandments of Egoless Programming
Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems – Pat Helland
Reading through all these comments, I think the answer is basically that a LOT happened around 1970. We started trading with China. We ended the gold standard. The OPEC oil crisis. The Greatest Generation retiring and the boomers being the main workforce. Shipping changes with container standardization. Maybe the answer is the world changed, in a huge way, in many ways at once.
In brooklyn in the 80s, we'd often remove distributor cables, steering wheels, have random engine kill switches in hidden spots, and use metal gadgets that connected the brake pedal to the steering wheel.

Can't do most of those with an electric car.
To get an idea off the ground, I use Google App Engine (GAE) with Python, Google's Datastore, Flask, Bootstrap. It works, doesn't cost much and removes a lot of complexity.

GAE's offering of free (and auto-renewing) certificates also makes things cheaper.
Because you can reset your iPhone if you forget your passcode?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306
What is the european MAP loophole though? I shop for music gear regularly and don't recall seeing prices listed for lower from european retailers or on platforms like reverb. Even if it was cheaper, shipping was usually inhibitive. Is this really a practical loophole?
You are right, in that it is very hard. That is why I said that I think distributed VCS is far from being solved.

However, I think the "fault" lies neither in the VCS nor file format. It simply shows that merging requires domain knowledge and that future VCS will need to cooperate with file formats to achieve that.
Carmack on Apple successfully migrating from 68k to PPC to x86 to ARM
Another great explaination is the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, here's an interesting video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY
It’s a different culture. In America, “the customer is always right.” That’s not literally true, but the general approach is that the customer, the one bringing the money, is the boss and his reasonable requests should be hastily fulfilled. That authority is reflected in the power to set the tip. In Europe that is emphatically not the case, especially outside upscale establishments. America is actually drifting toward Europe on this point, with millennials being less willing to complain or to penalize in the tip. But a wide gulf remains.

In some other cultures, good service is considered more of a moral obligation. The shame of providing bad service and of being known for it keeps waiters and their managers on their toes. Different culture.
Which OS? No issues on Linux Ubuntu here.
Your chart ends in September - two months ago.

Here's what it looks like now: https://imgur.com/a/T3QjGbx

You've demonstrated that mitigation efforts take time to impact case counts, which makes a lot of sense given things like incubation periods.
I wonder if this chart is also relevant: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Temperature...
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My hypothesis is that on major platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, tech-savvy users with a solid ad-blocker (like UBlock Origin) contribute valuable content and provide valuable interaction with the bulk of the users without. We are a vocal group who on the whole have a decent understanding of the mechanisms used to influence people, and if we didn't have ad-blockers, we would complain loudly, entertain alternatives, or try to subvert the comfortable business model that is targetted advertising. We'd raise awkward questions, constantly.

As the author points out, to our eyes the internet is unusable without an ad-blocker. With an ad-blocker, it is somewhat OK, and with it we grudgingly accept the status quo. This is fine as far as those platforms are concerned. The working ad-blocker is our pacifier.

We are being tolerated.
Total US trade with China was vanishingly small well into the 1980s, and didn't start to become significant relative to total US trade until the mid-to-late 90s[1].

I think there's a better argument for trade at large, since ~1970 was a turning point for many _other_ Asian countries, in particular Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, etc. There wasn't a clear, sharp line, though.

[1]https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2018/2/15/saupload_c...
Yes, because someone walking up to a car phone in hand, and getting in is something no one notices. Criminals value stealth.
No, I literally mean I looked it up: I googled "iphone 12 performance benchmark" and got: Tomsguide, laptopmag, t3 and Tech Radar. What is the point of Google if the front page is going to be full of the same article reworded repeatedly by the same company under different brands.
Whoever owns Qt now is so threatening (I suppose they think of it as "aggressive marketing" but it's really threats) that it looks safer to treat Qt as GPL, or avoid it entirely.
Take a look at digitaloceans new app platform or render.com. Render allows you to run distributed Elixir, which is nice. And with digitalocean, if you outgrow app platform you could just move to their hosted k8s.

These both are k8s under the hood but with everything extracted away to a heroku level, but much cheaper. Additionally, they both provide static site hosting like netlify.
I'm talking about from the outside. Anyone can learn to pick a mainstream US residential door lock, even Hollywood film style, with a paperclip, in seconds.
This article leaves two billion-dollar market opportunities on the table: Online testing and multiplayer gaming^.

Apple’s recent announcement of a web authentication API includes if your system is booted in fully secure mode^ an attestation that the OS is in secure mode, crypto-signed by the secure kernel whose
own signature is by Apple.

This provides something that no desktop/laptop today can provide: certainty that the user isn’t tampering with the operating system to try and cheat. The entire stack, from hardware to UI, is signed and verified to have integrity, and modifying any component of the stack will result in the “secure” attestation being withheld. So instead of having to deal with insane anti-cheating spyware and kernel extensions and system monitoring, testing software and multiplayer game modes can simply require you to be in secure mode to login.

This is available today, immediately, if anyone were to implement it. Of course no one has yet, because no one is thinking of the iOS and macOS platforms as tamperproof computing for the Internet world, and so Apple’s quiet announcement of this in a technical API footnote has gone unnoticed.

Apple will probably always let you shut off anti-tampering on macOS with reboots and terminal commands, and then you can tamper to your heart’s content, but they will never allow your system to attest that it’s in tamperproof mode to third-parties, and that crypto signature can’t be spoofed since the Secure Enclave is involved in generating it.

This ‘tamperproof’ market opportunity is worth billions of dollars, and Apple made it there first. I can’t wait to see what happens when all the industries that suffer undetectable tampering today realize this.

^ Multiplayer FPS developers have had little incentive to develop for Metal prior to now, but Apple Silicon has the capability to easily unseat 5950X/GTX3090 as peak PC gaming performance for a tiny fraction of the cost and heat. Someday the Apple TV will get an Apple Silicon chip that can run FPS games using Metal at 4K/60/HDR, which should noticeably alter that cost-benefit equation.

^ I believe this is signed-sealed OS partition, SIP enabled, kernel extensions disabled; though I may have missed one or two bits.
He just told you what's wrong. It's like putting the blame on the messenger. People need to take responsibility for their actions rather than blame the platform for allowing it to be said. How about you don't say it in the first place? What are we going to do next, ban the air because it enables some bad people to tell and shout their violent opinions and transmits sound pressure waves?
Do you use another software or git instead? I still have use for it even with git.
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Regulations usually don't do what those who advocate for them say they do. They are generally created to benefit some corporations at the expense of consumers and/or other corporations.

I'm not convinced environmental regulations are a global net benefit to the environment and I can't see how privacy regulations could possibly be beneficial as customers who want privacy protections create a market demand for them. Even in the extremely unfree healthcare market in the US, provides would improve their data security if they thought people were not getting treatment because they worried about their privacy. Regulations create a false sense of security, incentivize companies to keep data breaches and past vulnerabilities secret, and make developers spend time complying with ineffective or harmful requirements instead of actually improving security.

I think one should be very sceptical of regulations and other coercive alleged solutions from governments, especially as politicians have a very strong incentive to serve the corporations who fund their campaigns rather than the voters who rarely even get to hear the name of a candidate who is not supported by corporate spacial interest and wouldn't vote for them anyway as to not "throw away their vote".
List of governments controlled by their people: ...