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Slack's small contribution isn't going to make a serious dent in Salesforce's need for growth. Slack is adding $200m per year in sales growth and burning massive amounts of red ink to do it, which will harm rather than improve Salesforce's financial situation. Salesforce is approaching $20b in sales, to generate a mere 10% growth in the coming year they obviously need $2b per year in additional sales - that $200m from Slack is almost meaningless, other than being a shovel to the head of CRM shareholders in price paid to get it.

Slack is such a horrible financial Titanic that post acquisition it'll destroy most of Salesforce's already mediocre profitability. Salesforce generated $463m in operating income in its most recent fiscal year; Slack lost $330m in operating income over the prior four quarters.

Slack's growth prospects are bad to make matters worse. This deal will result in a giant writedown in the not very distant future. It'll eventually be considered a bad joke that someone paid ~$25 billion for Slack.

For Slack's part, it's a brilliant exit. Get out while they can still fetch an extreme bubble multiple. Their stock had performed so poorly post IPO (while everything else cloud & remote zoomed) because the market knows their prospects are not great.

In 2016 Salesforce was getting a valuation of about 10-12 times sales, before this latest mania really lifted off, with a market cap similar to or lower than what eg Snowflake is getting today (with Snowflake now doing around 1/9th the sales that Salesforce was back then, ha). Slack is getting 30-35 times sales on its exit with no evidence they have a great business that will endure (versus a mere product that Microsoft will forever be squeezing the financial life out of by making the segment inhospitable territory). It's not just a product? Sure it is, that's why it's about to end up in the belly of Salesforce as a really dumb acquisition mistake typical of later stage bubbles.
This is the signal from 1977 they are talking about:
http://www.bigear.org/wow20th.htm
The paper isn't pointless, but it is highly speculative given its assumptions. Makes it feel less like a scientific paper advancing knowledge and more like a tech blog post to me.
> It's kind of bad for discovery.

I made the opposite conclusion from your anecdote.

> it took a long explanation to describe

This strikes me as a good thing for this sort of product.
It kind of had its heyday in the awkward era where PCs were _just_ powerful enough to finally run Unix decently but before Linux was considered mainstream or mature enough. And that was a very short period, maybe 92-95 or so?

Its predecessor, Xenix, may have had more brand awareness?

I remember a summer job I had, 1998. Contracting doing basic sysadmin stuff for a subsidiary of IBM. I wanted to install Linux on a PC to do some stuff, mostly account password stress testing, etc. Got sign off from most of the team, but one guy dug his foot in... "we should use a real Unix. This Linux thing could get us in trouble. We should be using SCO" He got some funny looks. The next year all of IBM was all-in on Linux, big corporate strategy.
The information isn't helpful. If the paper wanted to make a case for this star being a candidate for the signal's origin, the paper should have at least discussed the expected probability of finding such a start in such a volume in the Milky Way.

They found 1. Or 14. Or a lot more, if you relax a constraint that isn't motivated. The "paper" concludes that both candidate volumes() of space should be searched for exoplanets.

() only one "horn" (of 2) received the signal, but they don't know which one. Hence two possible volumes of space where the signal could have originated.
I just found this which may fit the bill: https://github.com/fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam
Thanks! I use a Makefile simply because someone else contributed it early on in the development and it did the job, so I didn't see a reason to replace it. If there's a better way, I'd be happy to receive a pull request to change it!
Who are all these experts on exit/entrance wounds shot from 200 yards away? I did a deep dive into this conspiracy a while back and couldn't find anything of substance.
Typically also done by forcing some 'cloud sync' into it and then using that to justify the switch, moving control of your data into their hands and holding it hostage.

That was enough for me to ditch 1password in favour of bitwarden.
Whenever I point that inequality out to people of the third estate, more often than not I get the response that the rich just got their wealth from hard work and that I am a communist for suggesting that anything's wrong.
Reminds me of a (kinda downvoted and I understand) comment on HN that I take inspiration from when things get tough. Not the same sentiment but there's a stylistic similarity. Paraphrasing,

"You know what made me give up programming? It wasn't that the classes assumed knowledge already. It wasn't that I was bullied for it. It wasn't that I didn't fit the mold of an engineer. Nothing. Nothing made me give up programming".

Reminds me that the world is tough. Societally, making it easier to do some things is worthwhile. But personally, personally if you want something, you just go get it. And damn the rest of them in your way.
I use mmhmm to share my screen as a camera in Zoom--this lets me share both my face and the text editor I use for meeting agendas in a way that lets everyone else see each other instead of just my shared screen.

That said, screen sharing hasn't worked since the app update released on the 16th and I'm finding it impossible to get a response from mmhmm's support (or anyone that works there, honestly).
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actually i’m using the FSD beta in my car and it’s pretty impressive. anyone who thinks it is just lane keeping hasn’t been paying attention.
The key issue is that you, if you are a typical customer, wouldn't pay for your share of that extra development.
> That is not really true. Many people of lower income will buy a Mac after their cheap laptops break because they perceive them, correctly or not, to be the most reliable and thus less expensive on the long term laptops.

This is not true. The tiny user-base of OSX compared to Windows is already evidence that most people are not buying MacBooks.
I know this because if my internet drops out - the router still is up, but packets are going nowhere - opening an app, especially one of mine, takes north of 10 seconds, which is the time for this thing to give up on talking to Apple.
> This was no secret, it was advertised as a feature.

I wish you could prove this.
As per your first quote the 2nd one could be entry or exit. So why is it claimed that there was a 2nd gunman ?
That design raises the question as to what happens to passwords. Do they get replicated in the global table in plaintext? Or are you still forced to do a global user password reset if you want to failover to another user pool?
Obviously, there might be occasions to improve.

But, regular expressions seem quite well optimize from my point of view.

Regular expressions are used for exact same task regardless of programming language -- using single expression language regardless of programming environment seems like a huge advantage. It can be embedded in configuration file, as a string in a database, on a web page or deep in backend code, and it will still work the same.

The "Java Verbal Expressions" already have "Java" in the name and so are complete loss when it comes to portability.

Then comes the fact that "Java Verbal Expressions" are many times more code that actual regular expressions. That isn't easier to scan, it is much worse.

Regular expressions are very succinct and you can express a lot in a single line of it. Comparable JVE-s would require many lines and wouldn't be more readable for anybody other than a person that doesn't know regexes at all.
True... at the cost of one extra node (at least).
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Every time I/we have gone to the craft store we like, I have to fight the urge to reset the 12 feet of 9, 10 shelves high with all the 2oz paint bottles. All numbered, with placards the length of the shelf, 2 inches per bottle, and omg, just to sit and start at the top left and normalize the whole section... sigh.

I envy you that experience :)
UTF-8 strings can be compared with strcmp(), you just can't get alphabetical sorting out of it. Most other str*() functions also work with UTF-8 encoded strings, you just need to know what to expect (e.g. splitting with strtok() works as long as the delimiters are all 7-bit ASCII chars, etc...).
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear, based on all the bugs with multi-monitor support down to their Mac minis, everyone at Apple must be running iMac Pros, and maybe they're using Sidecar to make their iPad into an extra screen.
As a counter-point, the uncaptcha[0] research project used Google's free Speech-to-Text service to solve reCAPTCHA at a reported 85% success rate.

I'm convinced CAPTCHA are no better than fake/dummy security cameras.

[0] https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha
Or maybe you are just wrong on your evaluation and it has nothing to do with the market being irrational.
So license issues is still a good reason to emulate...

Though, I'll agree that technically you'll probably only get widespread compatibility by using the old the binary blobs.
you spend 100% of your life on the internet?
>They are nowhere on self-driving beyond an over-hyped version of lane-following that everyone else has.

heh I guess all these videos on youtube of FSD are fakes
We can still start. It's okay. Having a reservist force of emergency personnel isn't going to suck.

And if everyone had a secondary job they could get refreshed on, we'd reduce the disruptive shocks to our society that things like coal becoming worthless do.
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The challenge of safeguarding your private keys and not falling victim to the many fraudulent schemes to separate the gullible from their bitcoin.

The wealth concentration resulting from emitting the majority all bitcoin that will ever exist in just the first few years. It's designed not as a peer-to-peer currency but a p2p speculative asset.
Leaving just a fraction of a percent of all bitcoin to be mined in the last century (2040-2140) of its emission. And relying almost exclusively on transaction fees to provide security after 2040.
I sent a email to my representative, which got my automatically added to her newsletter. But the unsubscribe link doesn't work without solving one...
I'm also seeing weirdness with Batch. Its working, but the dashboards aren't showing job statuses accurately and jobs aren't always terminating.
I’ve found that maintaining a healthy weight is a constant balancing act, and I treat it as such. The key for me is to never feel bad about the food I am eating. If I eat unhealthily, that’s okay. It’s not a permanent state.

Feeling bad about food intake leads to a destructive feedback loop for me. If I keep things simple and I don’t overthink things, I’ve found the weight stays off for the most part.
The web made sharing information easy. That's it. That's all it did. Without the web, if I wanted to share information with you, I'd have to learn C, OS native GUI libraries, TCP/IP, and probably a bunch of other stuff if my information also had picture and sound. On the web, I just need HTML and I'm already a published author.

What would a post-modern operating system need to do to make sharing information easy?
Definitely. It even vaguely reminds me of some GUIs written on top of MSDOS, before Windows became popular.
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A mild annoyance of mine is how the potential benefits of cryptocurrency (decentralized verification, cloud storage, etc) are often lost among discussions of why Bitcoin is bad, which it is. Many of Bitcoin's flaws (energy usage, easy to lose, slow transactions) have been solved by other cryptocurrencies, many of whom aren't even intended to be used as money, which is good because I don't think cryptocurrency's best application is as a form of money, at least not in the long term. For what it's worth, I am not a right libertarian, or a fan of the gold standard either.
The difference is that Messi so far failed to deliver a world cup. Just didn't happen. Maradona played a minor role in bringing home the 1978 world cup and took the lead role in closing the deal on the 1986 one. Messi has so far not delivered on that front.
> Are you aware that the World existed before the Internet or the year 2000

This is the weird, obsessive, gatekeeping vibe I'm talking about, as if not knowing one specific person from one specific country makes you utterly ignorant.

I don't expect people like you to know about Emmy Noether, even though she was an important figure, and I certainly wouldn't degrade them for not knowing what she accomplished.
That's a good question! I think you're correct that if the increase in external pressure were uniform around the whole egg, it would not push fluid out of the pinhole.

Looking at this 2020 video[0], it seems like the procedure might be:

1) Laser burns pinhole through shell.

2) Robotic pipette applies the marker chemical onto pinhole.

3) Pneumatic grabber picks up egg by its pinhole end (so the atmospheric pressure, relatively higher than the pressure inside the grabber, is pushing a little fluid out).

4) Egg is stored so marker chemical can be read later after it has undergone its reaction.

I found a 2018 video as well[1], but the machine looks a lot different and it's harder to tell how it works.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeAWcF1MxNo&t=26s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtauP71oLU
This solves an entirely different problem.
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An away game. Full house. Very important European game. And this guy is just dancing around while juggling a ball in the air, untied boots, singing the song, feeling good.

Jurgen Klinsmann, who was playing for the home team that day, said a few of his teammates stopped warming up to watch him. I reckon the sight of this crazy little fella just psyched to dance and play ball, off-handedly showing more skills than most players on the planet will ever have, must have sowed quite a few seeds of doubt in Bayern’s players.
Well, if less memory is used to store garbage thanks to RC, less memory is needed. But that was largely discussed in other sub-comments hence why we focused more on the optimisation aspect in this thread.
>so the first bullet probably came from the back, and the second from the front, from different gunmen.
Didn't they sell a "license" at some point, that made your Linux installation "legal"?
This is what SLAs are for. Especially if you're using a 3rd party service.
I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor!

Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...
Many of those gains can be had by using first-class and more full-featured regexes, like those that that are available in other languages (Ruby, Perl):

- escaping hell isn't that much of a problem, since you're only ever escaping something once (not like a regex in a string)

- several languages support separating regexes across several lines

- regex commenting (including named groups) is a standard feature in many languages, and that's besides using first-class comments across multiple lines

I think you do have a point about digraphs (or homographs), but unless I misunderstand, those would be a problem whether or not the character(s) are part of a string vs. a first-class regex. As for unambiguous human-readable names for regex features used, tools like this (https://regexr.com/) are available and very effective.

I might prefer Java Verbal Expressions over java.util.regex, but to me that's more of a knock on Java and its lack of proper, first-class regexes than anything else.
This is so bad it’s borderline criminal. You should absolutely ask a nonprofit how it is spending your donation, and they should be able to tell you. There are far too many nonprofits in this world that are raking in millions, and millions of dollars, and not accomplishing anything. There is next zero accountability for nonprofits, so you should absolutely ask questions.
Tesla is a battery company that baits you in with flashy cars.
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Flat earthers are lunatics, and you have to ask the question who the bigger fool is: The fool or the on who tries to argue with the fool.

I don't believe anyone has ever convinced a flatearther with reason.
So, only us-east1 is down. If you have app running active-active over multi regions, it should be okay, right?
I developed an interactive voice service in the early 90s running on SCO Unix. It was stable and efficient, and didn't require expensive hardware. Of course Linux wasn't really a workable option in 92/93 :)
People with reasonable answers probably would rather not respond, but politely excuse themselves and give it all a miss.
That's not rare, anyway... unless the linter can flag == <bool>, and suggest fixes.
TL;DR: Not the logic of having restrictions - that makes sense. But the internal inconsistencies are glaringly stupid. You can't have people gather for Thanksgiving, but you can go to restaurants that have inadequate screening? That makes no sense, and just makes the idea of restrictions look stupid.
Maybe there's a good solution somewhere there but the problem - as far as I can see - with this is that you either have a central party that knows who signed up for what or you have every account tied to a permanent super-identity. Both of which aren't great.
Commutative diagrams, and pasting diagrams in particular, are a precise mathematical notation that other tools just don't handle well. I don't know many diagram editors that support edges-between-edges.
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Logged in just to say this, echoing several others in this thread. Offer them autonomy (trust them), and offer them flexibility -- I am planning to negotiate a 4 day workweek for myself at my job at a tiny company.
Growth in inequality correlates very nicely with expansion of the money supply.

My theory is that when you print money, most of the new money finds its way into the pockets of the rich.

Even though we print new money to pay for government spending (via bonds) - eventually all that new money trickles up to people that own assets. And the people that own the most assets gain the most new money.

I think we should return to WWII to 1980 period where we paid for government programs via taxation, and not money printing. My hunch is that this is the only way to reduce income inequality.
According to Gödel, it's probable that there are true mathematical formulas that cannot be proven.

So from our point of view, we cannot know given a statement whether it can be proven or not.

So all true statements in pure mathematics that we know are a posteriori true, since before we had the experience of proving it, we could not know if it's a statement that could be proven or disproven.
>Well, if less memory is used to store garbage thanks to RC, less memory is needed

But both Intel Macs and ARM Macs use RC. Both chips are running the same software.
That's possible, but you're not really making the argument (or any argument at all if it's just "you're wrong") why Tesla should be worth more than multiple car companies combined, companies that turn a profit and sell loads more cars. Forward-looking? Only if the one looking forward is delusional.
Cool Effect conducts itself in a way to avoid those issues, and was almost certainly chosen with those potential issues in mind.

Additionally, the 3x funding suggests they are aware that an offset project has some inherent inefficiency.
I mean it never said you could continue to upload for a lifetime, just that you could store a lifetime of memories. The old photos don't count against your storage.
Why bother with a proof of work scheme when you can just rate-limit directly? It accomplishes the same thing, while eating way fewer CPU cycles, doesn’t require JavaScript, and guarantees uniform cost between all client types.
I've been using it for the few last days, doing onboarding for new employees.

So far I really like both how easy it is to record the sessions with it, as well as how I can quickly switch between sharing my computer screen and iPad screen (using AirServer).

A nice addition being that the recordings will contain my head talking in the corner of the screen.
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> I looked at various models over the summer knowing that while they may be wrong, they may be useful. But they did not help much at all for understanding trends and relationships. Take for example models that have been modified for mask mandates. During the summer, most of them had trended down to zero with masks “on” but the opposite has since happened.

Most of the models I've seen seem to be focused on generating long-term predictions. The big questions people wanted answered at the beginning were "how long will the pandemic last?" and "when will we hit the peak?". And IF you can calibrate your model correctly, for those questions, SIR and its relatives make sense.

But those aren't the questions we should be asking. For public policy decisions, what we really want to know is "is the epidemic spiraling out of control?". For answering that question, a simple exponential fit does well enough in the short term.

Why aren't more models focused on the short-term, when long-term predictions heavily depend on finicky human behavior?

> There is a genuine amount of circular reasoning where models are used to validate social distancing efforts which in turn are incorporated into revised models.

Do you think this reasoning amplifies or reduces social distancing efforts?
< Though its somewhat complex to outsiders, those within the military fully understand what they need to do to grow as a soldier (or officer). There's no ambiguity for what's needed to grow from E1 to E2 or from Lieutenant to Major.

You mean like in Team America? /jk

No seriously, how does it work?
You're not the only one - there's an apple silicon story on HN every day, so that says something. And I too look out for them. Just dreaming that M1 would be available in a different reasonable linux notebook.
ReCaptcha seems to use your logged-in status (and, I’d guess, account reputation), along with an ip reputation score when deciding whether to serve a captcha or not.

A GPDR request naming an IP address should allow them to provide those scores.

If not, it’s easily demonstrable that they are storing and using information that they’re not including in a GPDR response, and they deserve their multi-billion dollar fine.

Also, ReCaptcha’s behavior is obviously anticompetitive, and also using Google’s dominant positions in some markets to establish dominance in unrelated markets.

This is anti-trust lawyer candy.
> friction ... if youre smart you can find an edge

> easy money laying around

There's a bit of dissonance between the way you've characterized this process in different comments. That's my point.

"Hey, there's a dollar lying on the ground!"

"Can't be. Someone would have picked it up."

> destroying the US dollar and hyper inflating all the assets

Sounds like a good strategy to bring manufacturing back to the US. They've said the new policy is high employment.