skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the ones (like me) who didn't grow up in the US and/or didn't study in US schools, it might be useful to get a quick sense of who Hunter S. Thompson, the author of the letter, was (from wikipedia [0]):

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. He first rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living and riding with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of the lives and experiences of its members.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
Also The Plague by Camus
Google focuses Chrome Dev Summit on privacy, app development and performance
This is where this kind of companies come into play : https://indie.host [french link]

You have one person to talk to, they manage RocketChat, NextCloud (with an office suite, agenda, files), Jitsi, Discourse, CodiMD, all of this with a single sign on for your coworkers.

All for 10€/month/user.

It's not as integrated as say a full microsoft suite, but probably one order cheaper.
Interesting. I used to operate CNC machines and although we did make changes to the gcode used for jobs the source was autogenerated by the software we used to create drawings of the parts we were making.
So, let's try to be objective about this. Tesla's viewpoint is that Cristina had an internal conflict with other managers regarding the choice of one of the suppliers [0]:

> For example, Ms. Balan was unhappy with a particular supplier that was selected by an internal group of subject matter experts who extensively studied the issue. She took it upon herself to find an alternative supplier that [...]

She herself confirms it (from original article):

> All seemed to be going well until Balan came across what she considered sketchy dealings on supplier contracts and the curling floor mats.

From her fundraiser page, she tried to spin the business disagreement into a "hot topic" gender discrimination issue:

> Soon after I’ve got into an arbitration lawsuit with Tesla based on misclassification, wrongful termination And gender discrimination.

Not knowing the details, this leaves an impression of an opportunistic person who would try all means possible to achieve what she wants, rather than trying to persuade others. The problem with such people is that they can be right in some decisions, wrong in others, but if the rest of the team has to spend 50% of their time catering to that 1 person, it's a net-negative effect on the team. You can call it unfair, but diplomacy and compromises are important if you are working with other people.

Given that, I would be skeptical about other claims she makes:

>Under duress, threatened that if I [did] not sign my resignation I would be handcuffed and dragged to the parking lot …

It's a her-word-against-his case and in such cases both sides are typically trying to bend reality in their favor.

Also, worth noting that Musk has recently announced that he's moving away from California [2], so LA times would have very good reasons for a hit piece like this one.

[0] http://deleter.net/index.php/news/5541/Business/September-11...

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/a86fmm-fighting-tesla-for-defamin...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22163805/elon-musk-texas-...
> The stress off our health care system as a result of lockdowns and the lives saved is enormous.

This is all supposition that says nothing about the horrific costs.

You could be right, but this won’t be apparent for a while and it’d be nice if people at least had the humility to admit they’re making a bet and forcing a plan on people that will destroy their livelihoods.

What makes this particularly offensive is that the authorities have little accountability and skin in the game. The “libertarian” approach at least respects the dignity of people to assess risks they’re willing to take and assume the responsibility for the costs of the measures they take.
Robinhood is the Instagram of stock trading. Can we really knock the founders of Robinhood for making stock trading so seamless and addictive and amping up the gamification to its highest level. The legacy brokerages have been guilty of turning stock trading into entertainment for years, thankfully just poorly. CNBC for the most part is entertainment. If anything the legacy brokerages like IB/Schwab/Etrade were incompetent in not making the jump on usability and offering innovations like fractional trading widely.

How does one slow down Robinhood to make speculative trading less attractive - make their UI worse? Stop innovations like fractional trading?

I feel we as a civilization have uncorked a financial poison pill in the innovations of Robinhood. We will just have to ingest and process it to move forward, there is no way to go back. There will be a price to way in lost savings and lives.
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I'd look at them more as a representation of the image the older, philanthropic Gates wants to project rather than as indoctrination to become a ruthless billionaire.

I don't tend to read the kind of socio-political stuff he always includes, but he's quite smart and has pretty good taste in science reading.
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Naturally, Taibbi manages to feature PFOF in this article, a benign practice common to retail brokerages (who do not in fact specialize in order execution, but rather, mostly, in being able to pick up the phone or run a website). Complete with a citation to Michael Lewis' ludicrous "Flash Boys". Meaning even when he picks a legitimate target --- Robinhood, which is a gambling application disguised as a personal finance tool, is richly deserving --- he still manages to flub it.
Did you miss the part where Musk announced that employees are to disregard hierarchy and go directly up the chain if it solves problems faster, including all the way to the top?

Weeks earlier, in a companywide email, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk had dumped on the concept of corporate hierarchy. Find “the fastest way to solve a problem to the benefit of the whole company” and don’t worry about your boss, he told them. Go straight to the top, if need be. Balan took him up on it.
I work in the public sector of Denmark, have for long and well enough to impact our national strategies for procurement and common-architecture, and it’s really hard to answer.

Most of our minor vendors either won an OS2 contract (open source community for public sector software), or sold something useful to one of our institutions around centralised IT. Like selling an activity app for daycares. Almost all of them were known to us beforehand through consultations or having worked in the public sector themselves before they started on their own.

I don’t think we’re necessarily as bad a target for cold calls as many other businesses. If you’ve got something that is interesting to us, we’re likely to give you a chance to show it.

This year we haven’t really had any, but last year we were cold-mailed by a company who does some ML on a tedious manual accounting task, and we invited them in for a meeting. We ended up buying their software because it was actually really good and solved a problem we had. I think they now sell to every one of our kommunes.

You have to have a good product though. I’ve sat through sooooooo many potential sales meetings where the company obviously didn’t have anything useful, just a lot of good ideas and assumptions. This includes major companies like IBM, who’ve tried to sell us Watson, God knows how many times. We even let them rummage some data to come back with analytics and BI report suggestions from Watson that were basically useless compared to what our analytics and BI team build, and their pay is like a quarter of the Watson contract.

So the domain knowledge is going to be your main problem. This is why the companies who typically sell us software, go out of their ways to steal the project managers or whatever domain they are building software for. Like medicine software, the companies who build this will have hired a range of, now former, nurses and project managers. Because we’re not going to waste out time teaching you about our business. Not even because we don’t want to but because we’re trying to keep the 500 different IT systems in our portfolio running for our 10.000 employees with maybe 10 developers and operation staff and maybe 5 supporters.
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Do you have first hand experience of AirPods Max?

Also, Ferrari don’t make scissors. To presume I have knowledge of something that doesn’t exist, is confabulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Playing the devil’s advocate here, I think it‘s just very hard to build a dashboard for this scale of resources, services and users that‘s all of very (!) secure, flexible (as in terms of policies) as well as fast.

Having had to use the Microsoft Admin dashboard for creating five new PowerBI users (which took me the better part of an hour), going back to Google‘s Cloud Console felt like a godsend of UX, Comfort, Sensibility and Speed.
Twitter, true to its name, is a bunch of little birdies chirping all around one big tree. Mostly noise, worth it for the occasional song. Like most chit-chatter at most parties. I could show up to a party, get on a soapbox, do my monologue, then leave. But I won't make any friends or impact that way, even if these parties is where the audience is.

Even the "Stoic & Enlightened" accounts like Naval regularly engage with the birdies around them.
Facebook fact checker ‘fact checks’ a critique of itself
Yea, the functioning/viable business piece has a place in this discussion. I can understand why the author wouldn't include it but it serves us here. To take on debt like mentioned, you have to have some confidence in the business model and not be searching for product/market fit like many early-stage companies. If you already have cash flow then you can leverage it.
Once again, the UK loses out with Brexit. Does the UK even have any silicon fab facilities left?
Reminds me of Japan in some ways.
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I never had the need to do that and I'm not sure in what kind of situation I would.

For updates I just install the new version of the software, then perform a restart (new version starts, once it's ready, old version stops).
There is a lot of anecdote based arguments here but I think its better to look at different indices trying to capture these kind of trends:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

- http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/life-satisfaction/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index

- https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j...

While none of these rankings are perfect they show clear trend that some of the European countries are doing better than US.

Also you should keep in mind that money is not everything. (Which is why we have the above stats anyway). People have friends and family and a way of life that they might not be willing to abandon. As other have mentioned before migration to US is non-trivial and requires quite and effort. In contrast to that you can move much easier within EU. Which is what is happening anyway - if you want high salary you go to Switzerland / London / Paris or any other high income area and you can do so without being treated as an immigrant.
He lost $50M daytrading as a student living in a $39M London f
ASMI aka ASM International - it’s now a separate company from ASML (formerly ASM Lithography)
Out of millions of snowboarders, 38 died. Out of hundreds of millions of park visitors, 1600 went missing. Out of millions of motorcyclists, 5000 died.

Out of a few hundred "treasure hunters", 6 died. Several dozen were seriously injured. "Treasure hunting" was by far the most dangerous activity of the ones you listed, even compared to motorcycle riding. And that doesn't include the damage to private or public lands caused by these idiots in their search.
Tell that to the guys at Atlassian, the worlds slowest web application...

The people making the decision aren‘t not often the ones who need to work with the product.
The article is simply noting that the growth > value trend had reversed last month and it may be the bottom of the underperformance by value.

GP chimes in that it’s a ridiculous claim because Apple is still up big YTD and hasn’t moved much recently.

That’s not a refutation of the article’s statement. Last month still MAY be the turning point, which is why I pointed out the recent outperformance of value, in contrast with what just Apple has done, which is irrelevant.

Of course we can’t conclude anything by a month’s worth of market data by extrapolating to the future. That’s why OP answering

“value may be turning around”

with

“no it’s not back”,

is incorrect, as they’re concluding growth has and will keep outperforming value.
it's to do with competition at the root and capitalism provides an inflated incentive for increased competition.

Consider oil extraction, for example:
Under more strict capitalism access is reserved for those with large, existing resources, e.g. existing oil producers. But in some contexts, e.g. Alaska under Palin, it's viewed as a natural resource, benefiting every resident.

Why does company X get to keep all the oil that was just there naturally? One can say, 'they did the work,' but others were denied the opportunity to do the work bc it requires loans from the government.

In a nation better set up to respond to its committments to its citizens to enable them to pursue equality, opportunity, happiness, etc., internal competition isn't as ruthless bc all will benefit from its extraction more equally. There's no fight for the precious resources, so we don't have to pretend that certain people suck at their jobs so we can fire them.
They do, well at least Chrome does: https://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/new-javascript-techniques-...

> Chrome 42 introduces an advanced technique of storing a local copy of the compiled code, so that when the user returns to the page the downloading, parsing, and compiling steps can all be skipped.

Not sure what's going on in Google Cloud UI, though. It's a dumpster fire.
Are you saying things are fine the way they are and their isn't a problem? Are you saying that there is a problem and it's easy to solve? Are you saying there is a problem and it's hard to solve?

I'll be honest, it seems like english is your second language and you're struggling to connect a few different ideas, but I'm just not getting where you're going.
Bankhaus VON DER Heydt–16TH C. German Bank–Launches EURO Stable Coin on Stellar
An interesting proposal:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/binary-ast/

https://tc39.es/proposal-binary-ast/
That budget was essential. A hundred Feymans would have been useless without those thousands of engineers and workers who built and operated the plants Kringle Washington and Tennessee that produced fissionable enough fissionable material.
You should read the "Gervais Principle" https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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For starters I think we can agree that no-TLS is just out of the question in any case.

You are right that there is a difference, but to me the real threat model is different: in your comparison you assume that the original author is legit but the vendor can be malicious. I believe it's more accurate to assume the original author is malicious. In that case:

curl https | bash - you are compromised

language specific - the malicious author's content isn't checked before it is being pushed. They have a window of opportunity before being discovered by the community and be banned, but the hashes don't protect: the verification must be done manually

third-party repos - I'll only take the example of AUR because it's the one I know best: if the malicious author is also the packager, the situation is the same as the previous one. But, as is often the case, if the malicious author is not the packager, the latter has to be convinced to serve bad content and acts as a simple gateway
(out of my league here)

why not copy memory to another device and run a crack against a segment of the memory known to hold specific values until you match? I am not sure if they can block taking encrypted data off a device.

So my question is, case intrusion. Can this be detected in various forms in order to render the contents of the device useless? The safety factor to the owner is that they would have backed up the device to a trusted source before they voluntarily submitted a phone to being physically opened. you would need to not only check for separation but drilling through either side.
OK ok, the irony of calling out the content marketing and then promoting my project is not lost on me :D

But to clarify, calling it an advertisement is not necessarily a condemnation. Content marketing articles can be fine when they actually contain some substance, which I believe this one does.

And thanks for checking out the project and your kind words.
> The problem is that you can just starve any competition when you are large enough. Amazon did that with a lot of competitors.

Amazon did that by offering superior prices, customer service, product range, delivery, etc. That's only a problem if Amazon raises prices or cuts quality after it's competitors are vanquished. What we've observed is just the opposite. Amazon continue to relentlessly push lower prices, better customer experience and faster delivery.

Competition is not a goal in and of itself. It's merely a means to the end of improving consumer welfare. Antitrust law is careful about this distinction. It's not illegal to be a monopoly because you delight you consistently delight your customers much than your competitors. In fact just the opposite, restraining a superior product from growing its marketshare would be actively harmful to consumer welfare.
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Kubernetes and Docker Fiasco
I'd negotiate with TSMC to build a EU plant and a recycling center to source rare earths. Compare this deal and chose the one that is more economical.
My issue is not with people exploring the wilderness.

My issue is with the idiot who left the treasure on public lands and with the idiots that vandalized public and private property to try to find it.
A Chinese takeover of Taiwan would be war between two advanced industrialized economies that is unprecedented in modern times since perhaps the end of WWII. It's not comparable to the PRC government reaffirming their dominance over territory they already had control over. At the very least, China would be hit with many sanctions in the event of such a conflict.
So your solution is we should move the US BACKWARDS instead of finding ways to bring EVERYONE forward? People in the US bitch for good reason - the income gap has increased exponentially. Wages have stagnated. Just because people in the US have it "better than the third world" doesn't mean the wealth collection at the very top is in any way justified or sustainable.
Thanks, because that last point would be actually breaking in some cases.

I think HN is the only place where you can casually provide feedback and get answers about an OS project from one of the core people in it. Fun!

Glad to meet you, BTW.
To be fair, it did scale for fusion bombs.
"Secessio plebis (withdrawal of the commoners, or secession of the plebs) was an informal exercise of power by Rome's plebeian citizens, similar in concept to the general strike."

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio_plebis
I'm guessing you're talking about Red Hat stopping breaking out its kernel patches individually about 10 years ago?

That was to make it harder for Oracle to offer support for OEL, but made no difference to Centos & the non-commercial clones because they shipped the RH kernel unmodified and didn't need to worry about what any individual patch did.

I'm not sure its been a thing since RHEL6 either.
This is due to two reasons:

- Overly-defensive company policies, which ask for consent "just in case"

- A bandwagon effect of "everyone else is doing it"

The first is quite understandable, and has been policy at every company I've worked for/with. One decided to remove all cookies rather than adding a consent popup; the only cookie we used was for "remember me" on login, so we changed the default to false and put a note next to the tick box. Every other company I've worked for/with has decided to add a popup instead; unsurprisingly, they were also setting a whole bunch of tracking and adware cookies.

The problems I have with the "bandwagon" are that (a) popups are more obvious and memorable than not having popups, which biases the bandwagon effect towards the obnoxious behaviour (availability heuristic); and (b) users seeing all these popups think they must be necessary, and misattribute their cause (e.g. thinking GDPR requires them, rather than companies either playing it safe or refusing to stop surveillance).
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Some older services do. It isn’t the framework used by new services for their consoles.
It's hard to pick a side when headstrong interpretations win out over likely truth. The jesus-like dream of truth died before I was born and now we're left with people choosing their own interpretations.

The article you linked under the shocking line 'Mother Teresa killed five with her plane', describes an incident where a plane was crowded around and unable to get airborn. Five people took the brunt of the propellers. No part of that is directly Mother Teresa's fault and you have to work hard to ignore the pilot's actions and everybody on the ground.

It isn't hard to find the truth for what it likely is, through research and a charitable view. Society has determined that using headstrong fear to ram your own interpretation through is better than the past and I weep everyday for what we have lost. This used to be a good planet, now every single marginally positive outcome must be torn from history and context to be presented as the evil "it is". Shame on you. I'm so tired of the politics du-jour shitting on 2k years of successful history. You can lie about the present, and the past won't go away.

Everybody who thinks they have a modicum of intelligence and still accepts balongia like these hellish recasts of the past deserves their inability to tell truth from fiction.
Reinventing the Hallway
Some more links provided at a NeurIPS tutorial this week

https://explainml-tutorial.github.io/papers

I saw the first paper mentioned in the tutorial chat.

What is your impression of anchor? https://github.com/marcotcr/anchor
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It's a solid point, and I've updated my comment accordingly.
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