skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Step 1: Implement a whole new browser functionality where Google alone can track people.

Have a look at the concrete proposals: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

It's all proposed web standards, none of which privilege Google ad serving.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself.)
My standard line for decades has been that the database is more important from the program. You can reconstruct how the program works from the database; you can’t reconstruct the database from how the program works.

A business might be interrupted if their programs accessing the database break. A business will _die_ if their database is lost.
You could say that the famous ones, their hallmark buildings are how we remember them, these are the markers of their achievement. The headstones are just a formality.
These issues/questions you posed I have not experienced a noticeable difference in the aggregate across countries.

There are good restaurants and bad restaurants in every country. I've found no correlation between what you've called service and tipping.
> Things like after sinking a ship letting the enemy know where they should come pick up their survivors.

This did happen, at least early on, in the Battle of the Atlantic. And some U-boat crews not only stopped to pick up survivors but gave up their own bunks for them. Eventually Dönitz had to order them to stop, on the grounds that it put the sub at risk.

You might also be interested in the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident [1] - sometimes a spark of human decency shines through even when you'd least expect it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigle...
And some fast food chains sell crappy food. So what? Nobody is forced to hire a (bad) consulting firm. Also if management accepts and implements the bad advise of a consulting firm, that management is even worse, isn't it.
Pretty trivial. If it looks like random noise, and doesn't have a compression header then it's probably encrypted.
The problem are not MBA's. The problem is that the incentive of consulting companies are not aligned with the incentive of their clients.

Take a big construction project. In the like of the Berlin airport. What do you think is more profitable for the consulting companies :

a) A well thought project, done in budget and in time. Where the consulting company gets the whole contract + all the bonuses associated with it.

b) A poorly managed project, that gets refinanced multiple times and that ends up being pushed back decades.

It's actually B. Consulting companies love long projects, because this allows them to place consultant for extended periods of time. And any consultant working for a client is a profitable consultant event without bonuses. Consulting companies hate projects that end up shorter than expected, because any bonus they might get from that project ends up being spent on consultant that are waiting for their next assignment.

The main KPI of any consulting company is "the %age of time you consultant are spending 'on assignment' vs 'on the bench'". And long projects where consultant are busy for years are the best way to bring that KPI to 100%, even when the underlying project is a complete mess. The only thing they get from shorter and better managed projects is a better image, which is easier and less expensive to get using marketing technique and PR.
The equipment I have pictured in my mind is one of the two-axis trackers that radio hams use to track satellites with a long but narrow Yagi-Uda antenna. (If that can handle the bandwidth)

These tend to move in jerks and will get in real trouble if you try to move them over the zenith, but they do a great job with LEO satellites and would do OK to uplink one signal to an airplane.

You might be able to hit two receivers if you had a phased array antenna like the Starlink antenna but bigger, but now it isn't a simple hacking project anymore.

BTW, don't try it. There are certain things like aviation and nuclear power that "Posse Comitatus" doesn't apply to and you could find yourself looking down the barrel of an M4 carbine and getting frog-talk from the USMC much quicker than you'd expect.
Doing it now will save time in the future, similar to how writing tests now will save you in the future.

If you are using terraform to deploy to the cloud, there are a lot of standard modules out there that you can leverage that will save you from having to write your own.
I'm a maintainer of chalk. I'm not the first to mention this, but this article is only really parroting the information found on the Wikipedia article for escape sequences, which in turn only really covers xterm-256color terminals.

To be quite honest, I feel as though terminal technology is the most antiquated thing still in wide use today. It's slow, there are so many competing standards and none of them are really that well standardized, and the libraries needed to be truly compatible (terminfo in particular, for which I've written several full parsers and boy what a mess that is) are clunky, outdated and also very slow.

This is a hard problem to solve, however. There are more CSI sequences than just \x1b for example, though that is by far the most common these days. Not treating output as text streams would be an interesting start but that would require rewriting pretty much all software ever to exist.

Meh. I've spent too much time working with escape sequences and thinking about this problem. I am young, but I'll probably die before TTYs do.
Once you realize the game is “management” in collusion on both (a) outsourcing the reading of the HBR articles so they don’t have to, and (b) what I call “decision insurance” (“but our consultants confirmed this made sense!”) so decision accountability is laundered, everything makes much more sense.

In mega enterprises the CEO matters a lot, but the next 3 or 4 layers often exist primarily to filter and spin bad news, diffuse accountability, and occasionally get burned at the stake as a witch in league with evil spirits when nobody wants to acknowledge the cholera water making the whole village ill.

Given that, the easiest witch to lay hands on is the consultant, which is why they bill hazardous duty pay levels.
It's most comparable to lvmcache or bcache. As in, Primocache does three actually useful things:

- It can pre-populate an in-memory disk cache. Not massively useful, but depending on your workload and uptime it might save some time. Nothing I know of does this on Linux.
- It can act as a level 2 block cache, i.e. caching frequently accessed blocks from slow (HDD) storage on fast (SSD) storage. This is massively useful, especially for e.g. a Steam library.
- It can force extensive write buffering, using either main memory or SSD.

And yes, it can also act as a block buffer in main memory, but I don't find that helpful. Windows' default file cache does a good enough job, and Linux' VFS cache works even better. (Though ZFS' ARC works better yet...)

Its write bufferin increases write speeds massively, inasmuch as it delays actually writing out data. Obviously, doing so with main memory means a crash will lose data; what's not so obvious (but amply explained in the UI) is that, because it's a block-based write buffer, it can also corrupt your filesystem. Primocache does not obey write barriers in this mode.

What's even less obvious, and where it differs from lvmcache / bcache, is that this still happens if you use only an L2 write buffer, not a memory-based one. The data will still be there, on the SSD, but Primocache apparently doesn't restore the write-buffer state on bootup. Possibly it's not even journalled correctly; I don't know, I just got the impression from forums that fixing this would be difficult.

So, overall, bcache / lvmcache / ZFS* are all massively superior. Primocache is your only option on Windows, however, unless you'd like to setup iSCSI or something. I've considered that, but I'd need at least a 10G link to get worthwhile performance.

*: ZFS supports cache-on-SSD, and unlike a year ago that's persisted across reboots, but it doesn't support write-buffer-on-ssd. Except in the form of the SIL, which is of dubious usefulness; that buffer is only used for synchronous writes.

However, ZFS is a transaction-oriented filesystem. It never reorders writes between transaction groups, which means that if you run it with sync=disabled -- which disables fsync & related calls -- it's still impossible to get locally visible corruption. The state of your filesystem at bootup will be some* valid POSIX state, as if the machine was suddenly but cleanly shut down. You still need to tweak the filesystem parameters; by default transaction groups end after 5 seconds, which is unlikely to be optimal.

Alternately, you can run it on top of lvmcache or bcache.
Ask HN: What should a founder know before starting a company in India?
I'm an electrical engineering student in Mumbai and wanted to try starting a company here,I've head numerous rumors from parents and the like about how starting up here is near impossible due to corruption and red tape
Is this a real or valid concern?
Or do you have any other advice or experience that is specific to starting here?

I apologize for rambling and for the language,I'm not a native speaker
So does this mean I can link this to my dropbox account and do online cloud editing etc of pdfs with Acrobat?
I don't disagree that this is a possible way of viewing memory. I'm am simply restating the argument that I've heard the best I know how. That usually comes with a "memory is an illusion" caveat. If you want to argue that that is memory instead of a typical "hard drive" sort of situation then sure, okay, but this is not what most people think of when they think "memory". They believe it is something in which individual memories could perhaps be extracted, implanted, etc. I personally believe it's a valid theory, however it lacks experimental evidence and has yet to account for the fact that we can recall individual "training data". To account for this I do think it would require fundamental changes in how we view "computation". If you believe that artificial neural network structures can account for the brains real neuron processing I suggest checking out the book I mentioned, not because it cant be true but that there are still big unknowns left to discover before we know for sure if this is correct.[0]

[0]Memory and the Computational Brain, C. R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King

You can read the main thesis here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/978144431049...
I mean the entire point is to hire outside consultants to provide "proof" that what the executive team wants to do is what the organization should do.

McKinsey is hired to provide cover for execs when they make terrible decisions. So they can step back and say well it wasn't my idea, McKinsey said so as well.

It's just another example of terrible management failing upwards.
That's is what I thought, years ago back when I worked for a big telco we actually had a small fleet of our own cable laying ships.

The fun thing was the company hand book had a whole other section of T&C allowances etc if you worked on a ship.
You don't need groundbreaking innovation in sales from your consultants to keep selling too much opioids, a product that mostly sells itself. Better consultants should probably try to stop you, however.
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Let’s compare the cloud shells offered by AWS, Azure, and GCP
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So is picking fruits and vegetables. There is endless labor supply. If one doesn't work out you find another. It doesn't matter how hard people in the business think it is - it requires no credentials or education and there is no bar. That's just reality - I feel for people who have to work in that industry, but that's just life.

Your second argument is just, not a real argument. It ignores why the minimum wage could be raised. Subsidies work when other places of the economy can provide said subsidy. When the rest of the economy starts to suffer the subsidy can no longer be provided and the economy collapses - the USSR is a great example. The economy couldn't sustain itself, it collapsed. Now you want to raise the minimum wage, whenever the fed is pumping billions into the economy. The value of the dollar would plummet and inflation would go out of control.

> Right now, the taxpayers are subsidizing jobs anyway: 70% (!!!) of SNAP/food stamps or Medicaid recipients work full time, with McDonald's and Walmart being in top spots (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...). These companies could also pay their workers a living wage and provide them with medical insurance and still be profitable!

The reason this works is because cheap foreign labor/goods can subsidize walmart paying potential higher wages. If, globally, this minimum wage was mandated, walmart would not be able to afford it, no.
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Agreed, number of books stacked end to end to reach the moon is much more intuitive.
Easy! It's just three olympic sized swimming pools worth of dollar bills stacked to the moon in bits.
The triumph of Jones Beach is probably still fresh in your mind. But don't worry, you'll find plenty to dislike about him by the end. This a reason we try not to give people that much power.

I'm curious: how annoyed are you friends at you for not being able to shut up about Robert Moses? I imagine covid is saving them from the brunt of that. For me, it lasted at least a couple of months after finishing the book.
CRA is one way to get a very opinionated starter kit, but like all boilerplates and toolkits, they are very tailored to one particular use case, and you never learn what is possible with the library outside of the toolkit. Breaking from the happy path of the toolkit yields an even more frustrating experience than if you had set it all up by yourself. (Ejecting anything above a medium-complexity SPA from CRA is painful)

For example, on the reactjs.docs, https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html, create-react-app is simply one of four toolkits recommended, along with countless others in open source land.
McKinsey are involved in almost every company in the Fortune 500, and have been for decades.

Of course they're going to be around for almost any given corporate failure.
Ten companies control a vast number of all grocery brands:

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/585370/original.jpg

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/consumer-brands-owned-ten-com...
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I don't know about the US but lawyers in the UK most definitely have liability for what they recommend - if a lawyer gives me advice that ends up causing me £X because it was legally wrong then I'd have a pretty good case for a claim on their professional indemnity insurance.
Slow business is a great term for it, that is the antithesis for grow-fast or burn out trying style companies. I love seeing businesses that grew naturally out of a grass roots need, tied directly to real world industry or community needs.

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The trouble is, the USB group should have got the memo 15 years when no one used whatever USB 2 was supposed to be called (high speed?), and instead just called it USB2.

They should just formularise the three steps of USB 3 as 3/3.1/3.2, which is pretty clear.

Of course the USB group gave us USB C, so we’re probably doomed.
https://github.com/jdan/cleaver

Here's a similar project that I've used in the past and liked a lot
an article I saw said they targeted outreach at doctors who were more likely to write Rxs

edit: beaten w/ the article
I'm not sure there is that much dissonance. In the opioid case, they gave effective advice, but it wasn't necessarily of very high quality - the reason you wouldn't do what McKinsey suggests isn't because you didn't think of it but because you would find immoral and illegal.

The reason McKinsey was being sued isn't because they were giving effective advice, but because it was likely illegal.

Because of this I'd understand that both can be the case. That said, I'm not sure McKinsey is always as ineffective as the top comment suggests.
How should we use nitrogen gas in the air? Oxygen is useful to us for energy production. Nitrogen we get from easier sources in different forms.
Andy Jassy quietly built a giant at Amazon. As CEO, he steps into the spotlight
What do we do about the Internet companies who are also censorship platforms. Should India censor the censorers as well?

The authoritarian government of English Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to cut off the Blackbery messenger service during the London riots/protests.

https://www.prweek.com/article/1084907/david-cameron-comes-f...

The French government of authoritarian Macron (the aspirational dictator):

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/13/tech/french-hate-speech-s...

Google (Youtube) censoring an academic censorship conference:

http://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/02/04/not-the-onion-aca...

So we should have a discussion on authoritarian companies like we do on authoritarian governments like the UK and France and Germany where there is no free speech.

And lets not forget the authoritarian (under both Obama and Trump) US and UK governments in torturing the news publisher Julian Assange.
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Good point, but does anyone under 50 still write paper letters? :P
people have now even began proudly owning domestic ducks as pets because they love animals and even need to have geese be blanketed inside the circle of relatives. I know this can sound a bit abnormal, however it is genuine, people even very own ducks that they hold within the residence and educate similar to some other pet that they might own. considering that this is the case human beings may have a good way to do certain things to get their ducks skilled nicely so they may not wreck the houses they stay in.
this is sort of a microcosm of socialism vs capitalism. that being the complex discussion that it is, i think your claim that its a "terrible and stupid system" is far from obviously true, if true at all.

1) its entirely possible and common to make a living wage in the tip system. my wife and i just ran the numbers and she grossed ~17$/hour between her two restaurant tip-based jobs - during COVID with capacity restrictions and lack of patronage (for cost of living reference, our house is ~$125/square foot so we're certainly not in NY or SV).

2) the tip system provides opportunity. it is a way for someone with no skills, education, prospects, or CV to start making steady money. eliminating it increases the risk for hirer as they their hiring cost changes astronomically from ~3$/hr to 10-20$/hr. this will close a window for advancement as taking chances on under-performing employees is more expensive; this results in an increase in heritable wage stratification as another path to the american dream is closed.

3) performance incentives are good by definition. you want all systems to have incentives aligned with the desired outcome. i dont see how removing the incentive structure improves the outcome for anyone except bad servers.

4) restaurants dont get a cut of tips. it is a direct transaction between customer and server (less taxes, obviously). this is the peak of efficiency. by forcing restaurants into being a middleman, you are creating a rent-seeker and lowering real economic output.

5) 2 and 4 make it more dangerous to open a new restaurant. raising the bar for entry into any business scenario is generally undesirable and produces less competition and creativity. less success and more expensive failure.
I know there are many of these cables that have been around for years, but I am curious how are they physically secured? Especially where they transit from ocean to land? Is there some long underground/sea tunnel of conduit that the cable is routed through to the basement of some building? Or if you are walking along the beach somewhere is there just some cable running out of the ocean along the beach to some building near the shore?

I also wonder what kind of permissions and licenses you need to seek to run a cable across the ocean floor?
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There's a patent on that one.
You would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
> what I call “decision insurance” (“but our consultants confirmed this made sense!”) so decision accountability is laundered, everything makes much more sense.

I hear this all the time but it sounds like an urban myth.

I highly doubt someone is not getting fired because the consultants they hired fucked up. They're still responsible for the business. I think consultants can help more with the "we need to do X, Y, Z" with consultant's report backing it up.
> Twitter's moderation has become partisan enough

That's also an unsettled assertion. Especially when talking about kicking off Trump, since they had been letting him break the rules for years. Removing his exemption is arguably a reduction in partisan bias.
> I’m curious what the “evilness” is.

The lowest common denominator for systems which I find "evil" are systems with low accountability.

Non-democratic authoritarian regimes, populations with large income divides, US policing systems, economies with monopolistic actors... all of these things are systems with low-to-zero accountability.

Or if you are truly asking the innocent question "how are they evil?" Examples of how the CCP is evil can be found in HK jails, Tianamen square, and Xinjiang province for a start.
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I use Julia and used to use Python. I've used jupyter lab for both (although for Julia I prefer Atom for IDE)

What is the advantage of Weave.jl over jupyter lab? Is this just a way of integrating something "like jupyter" into Atom?
Their advice was highly effective in bringing the company to bankruptcy, if that's the metric you were aiming for. Aside from destruction of private and public equity.
EFF wrote a rebuttable to the original broad proposal in 2019. It's still makes for interesting reading: "Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont-play-googles-priv...
To be clear: Is your assertion that, because these outcomes aren't a deliberate conspiracy, we have to let them happen because of... what, exactly? Whether it's an emergent feature of this style of consulting or a firm consisting of the worst human beings is besides the point.

Elite management consulting firms (McKinsey, Deloitte, Bain, etc) exist to enable the worst impulses of leadership across the spectrum. The ends certainly justify scrutinizing the means.
The traditional approach stopped working. It becomes chaotic and inefficient to always directly talk to Domo.

No.

The traditional approach was web 1.0, which was abandoned due to UX issues, not complexity.

Later on, the chaos of direct DOM manipulation by multiple javascript entry points became too much and was formalized into the SPA frameworks we see today.

An alternative solution is to go back to the true traditional approach & address the interactivity issues within that architecture (REST/HATEOAS).
From the forgot password page:

> If you forgot your del.icio.us username or password, you're going to have to wait a bit longer before you can log into the site.

> I'm working on a password recovery feature, but the amount of automated and spam traffic the site gets makes this delicate.

> I don't have an ETA for this and if you email me about it, I will ignore the email and get grumpy. Just hang tight.
Hey, thanks for this. I did go on to find it on Amazon.co.uk, but of course the e-book + paper-book bundle is different. I'll check out the other sites as well. Thanks again.