skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> A decade later (when Ballmer finished) they lost all three and their market cap barely moved.

> their market cap is like 10x in the past decade

Steve Ballmer left 6 years ago. Pick your source regarding Microsoft's market cap while Ballmer was leading:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steve+ballmer+market+cap

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft+lost+decade
GPS tracking and realtime status/photos of snow plows across Michigan
> "How To Win Friends And Influence People"

"This book had a profound effect on me, however, of the negative variety. It did give me pointers on how to actually break out of my shell and "win friends" but in the long term, it did way more harm than good. Not the book per se, but my choice to follow the advice given there. The book basically tells you to be agreeable to everybody, find something to honestly like about them and compliment them on it, talk about their interests only and, practically, act like a people pleaser all the time.

It might sound like a harmless, or even attractive idea in theory, but choosing to apply it in your every day life can lead to dangerous results. Case in point: after being a smiley happy person with loads of friends for about a year, the unpleasant realization began to creep in, that by being so agreeable to everybody else, I rarely ever got my way. I also sustained friendships with people who were self-centered, so talking about their interests was all we got to do together, which drained me of my energy. The worst thing still, is that by trying to find something to like about every person, I completely disregarded their glaring faults. It didn't matter that those people did have redeeming qualities - they weren't redeeming enough! I ended up with a bunch of friends I didn't really want and, because I was so preoccupied with "winning" those friendships I missed out on the chance to form relationships with good people.

I suppose, for somebody who is a better judge of character, the principles outlined in this book could be of some value. But that's really just me trying to find something positive (using the "principles") in a book that I am still trying to UN learn.

If you want to win friends, you have to do it the hard way, by being yourself and risking rejection (and daring to do some rejection of your own, as well). And if you want to influence people the only fair way to do it is through honesty. All the rest is manipulation and pretending. Do not read this book, you'll only learn how to manipulate yourself & others. Do not read it out of fear of rejection & low self-esteem, there are better ways to gain some courage in approaching people. This will harm you in the long run.

Thank you for reading this review." — Caroline [1]

I'm sharing this review because trying Carnegie's strategies had the exact same effect on me.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/96767612
> important timing parameter

You can also, well, use a regular toothbrush. What is actually important in a toothbrush has nothing to do with electronics.
we’re all conditioned by twitter now, it should be fine! /s

Now that you mention it though i bet there’s an easy macro to do this in emacs ...
There Will Always Be Uncertainty
And then wreck it by putting most reviews behind a login wall (sure it’s free but I don’t want another account). Reader mode to the rescue!
If the fund raises are being done on favourable terms, which is quite likely given they’re likely doing billions in revenue, they probably still maintain voting control. They won’t be subject to much pressure if they are.
Is there a specific dev board with a Cortex-M4 that you like to use, or does it vary by project?
I had this problem literally half an hour ago. Looking for power strips, and the top rated one (average > 4.5 stars) thankfully has customer pictures showing extremely flimsy connections and soldering, a huge fire hazard.
> replaced by better objective information about products

I don't have much to add here, but economists call this perfect information.
People who orchestrate swatting incidents are not "pranksters" they are terrorists.
How to do your own personal retrospective
We all know in computer science it's all truncated anyway so one space was already decided upon a long time ago.
> I think remote work has been subject to a massive hype cycle lately and won't pan out the way the optimists seem to expect.

100% agreed. Work from home is likely to see an uptick in companies that permanently allow it (or are open to it), but I very, very much doubt it will be the norm.

> Flexible working arrangements, e.g. spending a few days a week at the office and a few at home, is the most likely outcome for most workers

This is exactly what I want once I'm allowed to go back into the office. The isolation of working from home sucks, and the communication barriers even more so. I'd be fine going in all the time too, but living withing walking/bus distance of my office would be far more important to me then. I do not enjoy being fully remote, and short of long-term travelling, would never willingly do it again.
Good to hear you say you're feeling rather well. If you're not, or if someone around you isn't and that's putting pressure on you, I really encourage you to try some therapeutic help. Have a good 2021
Please elaborate... I’m curious.
The cost of a dangerous vaccine could be one hundred years of lower uptake of ALL vaccines decimating the populations of nearly every country in the world. Not worth the risk if you ask me.
You mean this:

"the goal here is to make a better version of C-style containers rather than to implement something C++-style and similar,"?

But a goal is not a reason. I.e. why doing

CONTAINER_OF( user_data, vip );

instead of

container_of<&user_data::vip> vip_list;

is preferable? How are they even meaningfully different?
Absolutely agree, there is no perfect solution out there. However, wind and solar definitely have less of the land use issues that biofuels have.

The farms for biofuels are typically mono cultures, which is going to involve pesticide use and commonly fertilization. Both of which have some significant downstream effects that the world is trying to deal with right now (see the deadzones in many river estuaries, possible insect decline, etc).

Hydro is looked at less and less as a green energy solution because of the significant damage done to river/ocean systems (elwha river restoration, possible klamath river undamming). I don't think there will be any more large dams added to rivers that aren't already dammed in North America.

I'm also not a huge fan of utility scale solar. I understand that it is currently moving the needle significantly since the infrastructure costs are cheaper than residential solar, but there are so many added benefits of residential solar (reduced urban heat islands, no additional land used) that I see it as the main way forwards. I think that the solar power split that we'll eventually end up with is something like 40% residential solar, 60% utility as panels get more efficient.
Perplex City was awesome, and I still miss it. It had a really unique storytelling mechanism, the cards were generally pretty fun, high production values.

I thought the second season suffered a bit when they introduced human actors as characters, instead of just illustrations. It lost a bit of charm. And as a Euro-centric game it was harder as an American to be as involved. But it was still a great multi-platform experience. I would love to see something like it again (or even work on such a game)
Not cassepipe, but also currently living on (less than) minimum wage, in an expensive part of Paris, France. I'm cooking, coding, reading, watching youtube. This year has been "great" for me. Of course I would have liked more comfort, some foods I can't affort but, but I've got a good bed, a good chair, an excellent desk, good cooking knives, an ereader with a practically infinite supply of free books, computers and hard drives (hidden) everywhere in my 20m². I write the kind of code I like to write, I'm not accountable to anyone. (not anonymous you can try to name search me to cross check)

I estimate I'd need about 30k€/y to be able to not skip on anything I'd want to do. (usual disclaimers apply: young-ish single man living alone, never had health issues, with no desire to live in any other way, etc)
I know some of it might be years of training from PC-based indie games with pixel art, but I really like the look of it.

I have it when playing GBA games on my Powkiddy RGB10 (also 480x320 native resolution), and I think it looks great, especially when compared to the 95 PPI display on my other handheld, a New 3DS XL.
I was a heavy Amazon customer 8-10 years ago. I only bought stuff sold directly by Amazon, and that was not hard to do, since +90% of the products had that option. The other day I was just checking the price of an article for my mom and I was shocked how different is now, the proportion has totally changed, +90% of the articles are not sold by Amazon and by the "stores" name it looks they are barely better than random dropshippers. So if you buy 3-4 articles instead of dealing with a single established company you are dealing with many unknown vendors. The probability of getting lemons rises up dramatically.

Amazon has gotten complacent due to its quasi-monopoly. I think now it is the time for a serious competition to take business out from them. One of those brick-and-mortar ex-giants, the ones who were displaced could make a comeback. If I buy online I want to deal with recognized companies who have a track record of shipping real products and honoring the warranties, not with some randoms hidden behind not recognizable names.
> At what point will disposable electronics have more processing power than, say, the Apollo flight computer?

Already way way way way past that point. There's an article that does the rounds on here about it, but I can't remember the name.
Things I Learnt in 2020
It's much faster than on my 2017 MBP. It's hard to measure UI like things though.

Using the Azul jvm builds, my java test suites on the MBA M1 run in 1/2 the time compared to the 2017 MBP.

I'm excited to see what the real pro machines can do when they come out.
You would expect Sweden to do roughly as well as its Scandinavian neighbors, not to perform roughly an order of magnitude worse. I’d say ‘collapse’ describes it well.
Every article posted from this site glorifies the concept of FI/RE. This only works for pre-privileged (mostly) white men in the white collar industries. The target audience for this kind of article sounds like a 26-year old male who just finished his first 4-year vesting at some SF tech.

This whole article is out of touch with about 70% of the general population.
A Brief Review of the Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I think a lot of this has to do with what people develop with. If they are a vim person then typing long names is annoying, but if they use any type of IDE, the autocomplete removes that hassle and the benefits of having a clearer naming convention can shine.
Download Videos from Twitch with Twitch Leecher
Yes. Fine, if you want to do it as a labor of love, but on an economic basis, it's moronic.
For those wondering why this case is so egregious, it’s because the police created a deadly situation where there was absolutely no danger before.

They went to serve a warrant in the most potentially dangerous way possible: creating a confusing standoff and storming an apartment an night.

When a stranger kicks in your door at night the correct response is to incapacitate them to protect yourself and those in the residence. Waiting around to see if it’s the police could be deadly for you if it’s someone attempting to rob you. For better or for worse, it’s perfectly legal for people in the US to own guns and use them to protect themselves in their home, it’s legal in ALL 50 states.

So the police create a situation where the residents inside have no information (at best) or think someone is there to kill them (at worst). The residents inside believe they are being attacked and defend themselves properly and legally. Instead of looking at the new situation (resident is shooting at us) and looking for a way to deescalate they decide that this resident has exercised a right the police don’t like and massacre them instead. This was always the intention, the way they served the warrant was the gaslighting, they were just waiting for a reaction so they could unload their mags.

So in short, the cops arrived at someone’s home, and then they created a situation so deadly that they had to murder someone to get out. If they wanted to do this without a murder there were a thousand ways to do it, they chose the most dangerous way intentionally because they did not value the lives of the people inside as human.

That is their fault, and the fact that these guys are not locked up for what is essentially an assassination is deeply disturbing.
I feel like this could be said any time over the past 100 years, at a minimum.
This is pretty cool. I’m always looking for new .io games to play with friends online, and it’s nice to see more ‘old games’ being put online. Kind of reminds me of Pokémon Showdown.
My favorite comparison is epoll vs kqueue.

https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-...

https://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pdf
You are evil!
This is a woman's body. This is woman's health. This is a woman's life. This is her decision. Nobody can decide for her.
Not a fucking government! Not any fucking religion! Not fucking you!
I think the review system is good for generalities as long as you toss out the hyperbole. Very few products are hyperbolically good. Once you weed that out you can find trends so long as the company is not engaging in fraud or other deception. I also try not to buy anything on impulse so that I can spend enough time researching my purchase. So far I’ve been pretty lucky in that I have not gotten a fraudulent product or something that is not as advertised. How often is the fakery happening? What types of products are commonly fake/bootleg? It may just be that I don’t ever buy the de sorts of things.
Again, developers != rich people. Developers are just businesses like everything else, not some evil cabal. Developers build the housing units that we both claim to want, and if you make it harder for them to build anything then no housing of any kind gets built.
Compared to who? The article is about how/why AWS is bigger than GCP.
It's worth highlighting that, back in 2006, social media was very new and most people didn't have any social media profiles. Both Twitter and Facebook was only launched that year. Only a handful of people had mobile phones with internet. Both the amount of photos of people were low, and also the avenues people could take to find others were narrow and few.

I played PerplexCity back then and engaged with the hunt for this puzzle amongst others (e.g the cube!). For my part, it was mainly word of mouth with Japanese friends or colleagues over the years until I forgot about it. Occasionally every few years something happened to get people interested in this puzzle. I believe community members put up a reward for solving this.

Just as back then the web resources were few, those that were created have mostly disappeared. Wikis, a few hugely active forums, chat rooms etc all individual websites all lost.

I've been wondering whether its possible to have Alternate Reality Games in today's mobile phone and social media land.
Amusingly enough if you trace the history of brand names ... this is why they started!

And this is the strength that the major retailers have against Amazon - if Amazon won't police (and they have problems with commingling counterfeit brands, too) then Walmart and Target will jump ahead.
Amazing news, and so happy to see a lot of good sense here from the UK.

They have distanced themselves from the US with the fastest approvals of Pfizer and Astrazeneca, the smartest targeting of the population (a focus on saving lives by targeting most vulnerable groups first), and the enormously helpful focus on getting some immunity first before worrying about second doses.

The UK is no longer constrained by manufactured doses or anything else. The faster they put that existing supply into people, the faster they are done. They could be done with the pandemic by the end of January.
> Isn't this sort of reinventing USB on top of USB?

It's not on top of USB, it's a completely independent side-channel. And it cannot be on top of USB, since its second main use (besides negotiating the voltage and current in the main power pins) is to negotiate the alternate modes used for the pins which normally carry USB (not only the USB 3.x pins, but also the USB 2 pins in the VirtualLink alternate mode). You could think as USB-PD being below USB, except that it's also not true since you can use USB-C without USB-PD (using only the resistors in the CC pins to detect cable orientation and maximum current).
Hopefully ECJ will overrule this
It’s possible. Steve Jobs said Microsoft lacked taste. But they were also able to build the Xbox, Zune, Surface etc. If they realized the internet was a consumer products, very likely they change the heading.

From what I heard, by 1999 they knew they had mispredicted their internet strategy, but everyone was too fearful of the US government to make drastic changes. One friend said they couldn’t mention competitors by name in their org. So they stuck to their guns and doubled down on enterprise servers and OSes. I don’t recall when MsSQL started, but it was another step in that direction.
Same here. I'd really like a Switch but refuse to buy general computing devices that don't give me root access.
> It is inevitable that someFunction can only be called once someFuture has completed successfully. No language or technology can change that

This is just not a true statement - and that was the point of the original thread - the original paper on futures had them implemented transparently and able to be passed down into library code not expecting futures. It's also how Haskell's par works today. So it demonstrably can be implemented.

> I believe that the user (at the callsite) should both _know_

Ok but this is just a 'don't do that' argument. If a user tells us they have a good reason to do it, I'm interested in how we can enable them to do that.

> with a library function that just expects 3 values, this is not possible

But it is in Haskell using par, and other languages with more traditional futures.

> Here is how I would write it

Great... but you've rewritten the library code with 'two separate functions instead of one.' My original point was 'because it means existing code that expects a T cannot accept a Future<T>' and you're proving that back to me so hard that you've accepted you need to completely rewrite the code to do it!

Languages with traditional futures would let you just call the original, unmodified library code, with future values instead of actual values, and it would just work.

If you had library code like this, you could pass in future values of T for a, b, and c, and it would execute the expensive_operation on a and b as soon as it could, while c completes.

def foo(T a, T b, T c)
expensive_operation(a, b) + expensive_operation(b, c)
end

> For instance, in your example: what happens if the library decides to always evaluate "c" eagerly even though "a" and "b" often fail and the whole calculation is aborted?

Yes this is a problem with transparent futures, as is the ordering issue you raised. But I wasn't arguing they didn't have their own issues. You're saying it's impossible and that is demonstrably false, because languages do do it.

(I did half of my PhD on these topics, and the other half on Ruby.)
Psychological Triggers Used in Growth Hacking
> As an optional fun fact, Midway Games was probably using the same allegory when they picked their name.

Really? I always thought this was because they were founded in Chicago, near Midway airport. (The airport itself was named after the battle though). Midway games got started in video games licensing games from japanese companies Taito and Namco, so I never thought about an adversarial explaination of the name.
> His big concern about AI isn’t Judgment Day, but rather ‘that people will believe machines actually understand things’.

I think there's a third concern that is far more sinister and more likely than those two. Advances in AI, regardless of whether machines "surpass" or even come close to human intelligence, will be exploited by a few against the many. It will further exacerbate power imbalance and it is already happening.

Forget about whether machines get "agency". Humans, in many cases, don't have agency or are rapidly losing it. They are losing it to other humans which are gaining power, financially, politically and perhaps now computationally. That's disturbing and it's part of what Jaron Lanier has been warning about for quite a while now.
Actually I switched to electronic toothbrush years ago as it cleans better. Now when I am deprived of my brush and have to rely on a normal brush I don't feel like I did good job cleaning my teeth. Part of this may be subjective feeling but various tests show that electronic toothbrush cleans better than regular one in most cases.

No, I don't need any special functionality other than to clean my teeth but if you were to design a toothbrush you would most likely be asked to implement those.
Show HN: A classical music concert notification service
Classical Page is an email notification service for classical music concerts. You add the works and composers you want to hear, and Classical Page will email you when it's going to be played in your city.

I made it because I got frustrated leafing through pages and pages of websites for venues trying to find concerts that I'm interested in. With Classical Page you just set your preferences, and it will let you know as soon as a new concert is listed, along with reminders 6 months out, 1 month and 1 week.

I made Classical Page using Google Cloud Platform, in particular Cloud Storage, Big Query, Cloud Functions and Neo4J. The frontend is a Svelte SPA hosted on Cloud Run. Emails via mailgun.

Launching in London and New York, with more cities to come very soon.

More info here:

https://www.classical.page/about
and
https://www.classical.page/blog/blastoff
US rivers are changing from blue to yellow and green, satellite images show
Hyperbole.

I’ve been reading book reviews on Amazon before buying, on-site or somewhere else, for ~15 years.

I’ve almost never seen an item with unhelpful reviews.
WebRTC is really cool. Is someone using for video conferencing (Eg Zoom) ? What are other example using webrtc?
I always look at negative reviews. From those you can tell if there's a consistent concern, if someone got a fake, or if there was just a preference mismatch for someone.
Most people that promote lockdowns 9 months into this either already didn’t work, have made the same or more money during Covid at their current job, or don’t give a hoot about civil liberties and enjoy the fist of out of control government getting jammed up you know where.

They don’t understand that they have invited the fox into the henhouse. This model of crisis response is going to be broadly applied in other situations after Covid is over, and they’ve given the government all the ammunition they need to apply it and enforce it.
When district attorney or one Attorney General is all it takes to make the charge. So yes, I do expect the proper outcome.
You're going to want to use the advice there as weapons, to use in order to accomplish goals and build a power base, not for personal fulfilment.
Originally we thought this would be a simple "6 degrees of separation" puzzle. You and me are connected to each other by at most six other people.
I would love to see Microsoft use the work from Flight Simulator 2020 [0] to create a Google Maps competitor.

[0] - https://youtu.be/EOeDTr1x3XI?t=53