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>"We can never criticize something unless we can contemplate the totality of it" isn't constructive or helpful

But you're ok with cherry picking events to suit a narrative when advocating for change? Did you even try to find examples where they were successful in your eyes, or did you simply pick the examples that suit your claims?

>Do you have a proposal for how to conduct such an analysis?

Simply looking at how many customers are repeat customers shows that they're at least doing something their customers are willing to pay for. That's easily a vastly better metric then simply cherry picking examples on one side of an argument.

I'd suspect that current customers are vastly more aware of what value they provide than you'd pick up from news stories, especially if, as you contend, there's no way to know these details from outside views.

They've been around 95 years, 27k employees, 10B in annual revenue, a client list that is incredibly diverse, among every sector of society, among all political parties, and including a huge number of worldwide governments and companies. That alone should make you realize perhaps there is value in what they do, that thousands of customers think so, and that trying to paint them as "McKinsey make bad recommendations that have demonstrably bad outcomes." is probably vastly short-sighted.

You then double down and claim it's probably even worse if one could see inside.

I would weight the opinions of their customers over those obviously cherry picking examples then making un-nuanced and sweeping generalizations. I am content with that approach. Seems more evidence based.
Absolutely this. I sense no work ethic, no humility (“I make really good things“). This, from my experience, usually correlates with an overgrown ego and unwillingness to confess to a mistake allowing to act quickly to mitigate the side effects. So when it actually happens the damage can be catastrophic.
As someone replied I was talking about AAA games indeed, everyone can make a game in any language with 50 reviews on the app store after 3years.
IMHO thats a bit blinkered, i have a deep interest in the field and the only mainstream publications on it clearly note there's no practical applications yet, and we're looking at a 5-10 year horizon of _maybe_ finding a niche application that actually improves with a handful of qubits

Contrast that with AI, which caused formation of new departments and hiring binges throughout industry, including industry far outside tech
All: if you're commenting, please make sure your comment contains more than shallow indignation. Perhaps you don't owe billionaires better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

We're looking for curious conversation on HN. Reflexively dumping on someone or something you dislike is not interesting, no matter how righteous you are or feel. When lots of people start doing it, it compounds into a nasty thread and ultimately a nasty community. Think of it like peeing in the swimming pool. You're asked to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I actually switched to Chromium as my main browser a few days ago. I'm using this branch[1], which follows upstream except for a handful of patches to retain support for older versions of OS X, which I prefer.

I was somewhat surprised to see that all the syncing features seem to still exist in this close-to-stock Chromium. It encourages you to sign into a Google account to sync data, use and to use Google for search suggestions, and to install extensions from the Chrome Web Store. Does anyone know how that's possible?

I'd actually be quite pleased if all of this stuff just got stripped out of Chromium. As it is, I spent quite a bit of time going through and turning off as much of it as I could, in some places via semi-confusing defaults write commands.

1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
> What would happen when one head can't write out data fast enough (for some reason) and the tape has to slow down and back up.

The tape does not rewind in this scenario.

It is fairly common for the system to not be able to keep up with the full write speed of the tape. Just as a reminder, LTO7 has a write speed of 300 Mb/s, and filling a 300 Mb/s pipe for five and a half hours is no small task.

There are two ways the system deals with it. First, the drive will slow down the tape to match the data rate. Second, the drive can mark a section of tape as failed and then rewrite that data to the next part of the tape. Instead of rewinding and writing over a section of tape, you’re using up more tape this way.

Tapes, like hard drives and SSDs, come with a certain amount of extra capacity to allow for this as well as other write errors.

> I dunno, if multiple heads were worth it, I think it would be common.

I’m sure that it’s “not worth it”, yes, absolutely. But I don’t see major technical hurdles here.

One technical hurdle would be figuring out how to, say, fill an 800 Mb/s pipe for six hours straight. That’s hard. It gets harder when you realize that a single tape library might have as many as 64 or 80 tape drives. 64 drives, multiplied by 400 Mb/s, is 26 Gb/s.
That's a great link, thanks! It demonstrates my point way better than any article I'd be able to find.
How would you propose they change it? They found no association between eggs and CVD and found association between eggs and CAD.

"Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes"
+1 for Courier!
It's good that we agree.
It's exactly what it sounds like... when you eat someone else's poop under the supervision of a team of physicians
> Log IP, host, geolocation, and as many JavaScript/browser APIs as you can (there are hundreds at this point)

That's fingerprinting, traditionally. Hence, the "Cookieless tracking" header right there on the page. If you are tying in other data, that's data aggregation for your business case and is fundamentally unrelated.

I mean, generating personas and whatever "false positives" mean, has nothing to do with fingerprinting. If you cant differentiate from an anon user to another, that's data too.
I don't know why we'd want Firefox to do that...
I find it incredibly awkward when tech presenters do the self-conscious pause and wait for crowd applause. When the applause don't come, or they're not well timed, the whole thing ends up looking contrived and sad.

Elon Musk does this a lot, and I've never seen it work well. It makes me wonder whether Apple had a lot of plants / cheerleaders in their audiences. I mean if you obsess so much about all the other parts of a presentation, would you be above planting cheerleaders?

What would work better, I think, is to just do the presentation, and if you get a big round of spontaneous applause, then pause and acknowledge with a "yeah!". Definitely not the other way around, though.
> Back to Gopher and IRC I guess

Yes, and happily so, for me at least. I use HN via RSS(except when making the odd comment), YouTube-DL via terminal, and the mainstream internet for ecommerce.
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Okay fine.

The person I responded to made arguments that were primarily about hypothetical legal capabilities of western countries, in a bid to make us empathize on an ethical issue. Their argument failed because their analogies would have actually have to look at what legal route each country individually chose to accomplish their censorship. Which means looking at how Pakistan accomplished this censorship first. Pakistan has a constitution that supports this and requires the rulers to be arbiters of what is and isnt represented as muslim.

The reality then is that I did not comment on an ethical issue at all because my comment was not about that and won’t be, because there is no mystery about the legal authority of Pakistan to do that and the path to consensus of changing that is so high (big assumption that I would care to do so or care about that discussion) that it is far outside of the scope of this particular discussion.
I've tried to use Firefox, even though I don't like Mozilla's direction. But it just sucks too much. The new updates have made it worse, not better: these days, it leaks CPU. What do I mean? If I leave it running for too long with a bunch of tabs open, it will eat more and more of my CPU until it's hogging it all. Killing and re-opening solves it, but I can't do that all the time.

Surf, Midori, and Qutebrowser are all good options (webkit-based) that I'd encourage others in similar situations to explore.
Sloppy on my part, sorry :/ but in my defense it was paywalled
Oops! Good point! Unfortunately too late for me to edit.
I don't think this is ironic. It seems to me the intention is to encourage tech companies to be more selective in what they allow.

I do not agree with your claim that "they would be both legally and morally justified in using draconian measures". Here's why:

1. Morality is different from legality, especially in this context

2. Draconian means "excessively harsh and severe". I don't think the bill if passed would provide protections for companies that are "excessively harsh or severe". These companies still operate in a broader context that includes market forces, public perception, and internal leadership in addition to regulation.
I don't see anything especially wrong with them and what they do because they're really just a way around the IPO paperwork and restrictions. Usually, a lot of that feels like a formality, but it did surface some interesting things about Wework. That said, it's a bet on the team, and you have no idea what they're going to find. It's a little like investing in a less-diversified, late-stage venture fund.
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Specifically the most excellent Lintalist[0] which is built on AHK and which I use daily. I wonder if they'd consider extant offerings and offer a path to inclusion [though Chrome-limited seems a downgrade to me given I use my snippets everywhere]

[0]https://lintalist.github.io
Are there any resources/books etc that helps in improving ones storytelling skills?.
Each trap has a unique ID that should be traceable to an owner. We happened to know someone who worked for Animal Control and he was looking into it, but I don't recall how that worked out.
This is absolutely the truth. I've talked with attorneys about what this would mean for my side hustle (podcast hosting) and their advice is to have tools for doing exhaustive moderation ready to go. The risk of being sued for user content is large enough to be business-ending for startups of my size.

I sincerely hope that this is just political theater that never manifests into law. Section 230 is a blessing to the modern internet which goes wildly unappreciated, and is terribly misunderstood by the folks who benefit from it most.
I have repeatedly told you. The direct answer is that the US is directly responsible for meddling in the internal affairs of a foreign state repeatedly causing political turmoil and economic disaster. Do you disagree with this statement? I'd love for you to prove the US had no involvement in fighting against the USSR to varying levels of success.

To our fellow readers on HN: notice how alentist himself cannot answer a question asked back, even though I have given him the answer to his question directly multiple times. It is his attempt to save his narrowly constructed world view that he is right, America has never committed atrocities against its own people and others, and you should accept his point of view matter of factly without questioning! Notice how he acts more like the places he criticizes than I do simply for questioning his assertions?
> I'm really not sure whether I'd rather have a poop enema or willingly swallow poop even if contained in a capsule.

Whats really disgusting is that your insides are already full of poop cause thats where its made.
cmon man. it's been explained countless times how short interest could be over 100% without anyone short selling shares that don't exist. if you still don't understand it you are essentially hiding your head in the sand to try to deny reality.
There is a lot of caching.

https://xkcd.com/908/
>Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don't have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.

In this particular case, what problem would open platforms solve? The laws in Pakistan still exist and the social problem is not addressed. Or are you implying that Apple and Google should be on the hook for solving religious problems in other countries? If so, I think wanting companies to engineer social behavior in other countries is a dangerous path bordering on the unethical (IMO).

But having said all that, whats stopping a country from simply blocking their hosting servers? Ultimately, the app has to be downloaded from somewhere. Okay, so then you move to a P2P system, so then the get their ISPs to block that,etc ,etc. It's just whack-a-mole.
Let us know when firefox support is out!
I get that it is hard to say how derivative something is. There are certainly cases where this is hard to say. However, there are also cases where it is quite black and white where much effort was expended to come up with a particular design. What do you say about such cases, especially if it is an individual who doesn't have the resources to roll their own copy protection scheme?
Wasn't the first edition also in two parts (hardware then software) and with an emphasis on separating abstraction from implementation? That's how I remember it.
Entry level tech jobs are remarkably scarce and difficult to obtain/maintain. Even with a masters and experience it takes 100+ applications. Most companies don’t hire programmers and the ones that do often contract it out overseas.

I know there are caveats and counter-anecdotes but this has been my set of observations over the last 10 years.
It is really an 8-bit CPU from a bus (external connections) perspective...but internally, there were 16 bit registers (sort of...) Perhaps this was why he made the distinction.
I read this over a few times and am having trouble understanding the workflow you are trying to achieve. PBIs are Pending Backlog Items?

I think where you are going wrong is that you are saying Tasks or Backlog Items should map to CI/CD statuses. This is not always the case. Depending on the actual task (or feature) you may not always have a status in your CI/CD pipeline.

The "Done" state of a task is something I've had conversations about in many organizations as they try to mature their processes. In many cases it needs to be broke out more (waiting for QA / done but waiting for internal verification / etc).
I don't know. I'd think that a coyote would probably escape the same way if so.
Whenever you have some instrument attacking Wall Street (in this case, the IPO itself), papers come out trying to protect them. This does not mention drawbacks of the IPO the SPAC is getting rid of - the 6-7% investment banking fee, the hassle of doing several roadshows, the near 100% IPO pop due to which the company raises half of what it would have (amounting to a 50% fee so to say which goes into the pockets of institutional investors) amid other things. It is sad that critical reasoning is dead on HN. Nothing is ever purely good or purely bad. An impartial cost-benefit analysis needs to be done which is sadly impossible for someone whose funding comes from the deep pockets of Wall Street and institutional investors.

I have not even begun diving into the benefits of SPACs - some of which are the opportunity for audacious bets like Virgin Galactic holdings which Wall Street would assume to be a loss making company, benefits of PIPEs in SPACs (which would be the topic for a whole new post), the speed of going public.
If you set HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE to 1, it won't update when you run the install, upgrade, and tap commands like it normally does
Can we write a complex equation in TeX as easy as we write in popular word applications like MS Word?

Thank you for the most ludicrous comment that I've seen today. The popularity of TeX in academia is exactly because writing complex equations in popular word applications is painfully hard, and the typesetting is poor. By contrast writing them in TeX is easy and the typesetting defaults to excellent.

Talk to anyone who has to actually write many such equations. They will verify that it is not a question of "as easy". It is massively easier and better in TeX. Which is why academics working in math, physics and computer science overwhelmingly choose TeX.
I am sorry. Not going to tie my email address to something trying to fingerprint my browser.
A few of these are non-problems IMO.

- Julia is relatively easy to learn for Python people (especially the numerical people who have experience with stuff like Cython)

- The interop (both ways) is pretty great with Python
I decided to invest in an LTE drive to periodically archive my ZFS based NAS. This relatively old drive support 50-150 MB/s with a small internal buffer. My biggest problem ended up being that the default tar util on ZFS on spinning rust cannot even saturate the 50MB/s consistently, so the drive had so stop and rewind (called shoe-shining). It would take ages to backup parts of my filesystem with lot of small files (i.e. git repos).

I ended up writing a custom software with an adaptive scheduler to avoid sudden speed changes.

That is to say as far as I am concerned my ancient LTO6 drive is too fast...
I can't read the paper now. How many persons were in the control group and how many in the intervention group?
Another angle to look this: many allies of US (who claims China is a major enemy) raises disputes with China.

China national here.
It turned on - it just would not drive forward - ie drive to get away form the tree that was blocking the door from returning to fully back before coming forward and closing.

I like the idea of not letting someone drive off with the doors open. It seems sensible. But we could not work out how to override it.
Does that also apply when Capitalist policies have inevitably failed and murdered millions? The civil war actually was the bloodiest war in the US's history no? Was that not a failure of capitalism? Was the great depression not a failure of capitalism?
Yeah, which is why they're making Starship better than the Falcon 9 in being able to land safely even when things go wrong (i.e. Starship can throttle down enough to hover). They're still in the early prototyping stages. You can't judge potential long-term reliability based solely on what we've seen so far.
One thing to consider - a lot of related science needs programming, but these scientists really can't code - not that they are unable to learn it, but the schools are simply not teaching them properly. I think using our software development expertise to aid them in research, and helping them learn would move the field a lot.
"You stuff someone else's shit! Up your ass!"

I guess the counterpoint is that maybe we don't have to sanitize every damn thing in the world, since a sanitized world isn't a healthy world - and perhaps contributes to an individual's wonky biome.
Yes they've been constantly attacked since the early days of the protest, from last year. There's a lot of footage online of it from November/December.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55156219
Is there a better answer you have in mind? I don't think it's a question of tech companies deserving or not deserving immunity - the question is how we can avoid a locked-down sphere of Internet discourse where it's impossible for the average person to say bad things about powerful organizations.
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No, you only think that's irrational because you can only see so far. In reality we help people because in the long run it benefits us more than not. A rising tide lifts all boats etc. You don't actually get as much out of being selfish as you think you do.
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> You build a quarry which digs up clay, and another which produces coal, create bricks, use the bricks to build houses in a village, expand the village, find you need a glassworks, connect your villages together and handle trading between them with a transport system...

I fully endorse this idea. Like a blend of factorio + sim city + Civ VI -- though the complexity might make it unplayable, i would absolutely buy it and try anyway!
Awesome, CodeMirror is a great online editor. Nice to see it getting modernized.
> Java 8 is a known variable

You might think that, but that's not the case. At least as far as OpenJDK goes, some new features, including huge ones (like JFR) have been backported to it. I believe that the NPE message is being considered for backport, too.

> It's a solid base for you to build your software on top.

It's old tech, that -- unless you actually buy paid support -- is only partially maintained through backports from mainline only. If you're not buying support, it's a less solid, more risky base than the current version.
I think that retribution, which is of course the principal component of justice, is a key part of prisons. Somewhere the scales must be balanced, and if not in prisons, where then? Should the assaulted be happy with the fact that the inmate will get a job?

That is not to say that prisons should be blind to the fact that inmates will eventually be released. There are plenty of people who have committed no crime, but go hungry. Where is their free lunch?
I apologise for any mistake I make here as my knowledge of Indian history is not very fresh.

> the state of kashmir has been essentially fighting war of independence against foreign oppressive rule for the past 500 years.

But what constitutes foreign rule. If I move before 500 years, we have Mauryas or Karkotas ruling Kashmir with Srinagar being an important city to them, which are pan North Indian empires.

> why do you think just because someone picked a gun that they have muddied the waters and only way out is to surrender because you cannot do an armed struggle?

Well, I think once a struggle turns violent, the issue becomes emotive on both sides as there is blood shed. For people in Kashmir, it has been since 1947, wounds of which keep opening up again. For people in rest of India, the narrative and the blood of the people from RoI which has been spent in keeping Kashmir has been huge as well.

No one would want to back down, the armed insurgent movement is never going to succeed.

My second point was, some of the groups are motivated on religious lines and want a country based on a religion which makes it extremely hard for others to sympathise for them.
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OMG! This is the worst TIL of my entire life. I eat a shameful amount of Jello as an adult, and I did not know this!
Congrats on the launch! I wish you success.

I use Lintalist[0] and wonder if your team is familiar with it and whether you might look to integrate.

It seems the planned feature of adding high level abstractions for working with Chrome page content would be the only point of differentiation I could see placing your app above Lintalist, for my needs. Perhaps integrating with the snippets and libraries I already have? Just a thought.

Good luck to your team!

[0]https://lintalist.github.io
Thanks for the perspective. I wonder if there is an opportunity for these places to service office workers during the day, and gamers on weeknight/weekends? More and more people have the option to work from home, but may want a quiet office nearer their home. They could drop into these cafes for a few hours to get work done. Then come 5pm the place turns into a gaming cafe.
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I wrote a (worse) version of this at my first job, because loading and initial manipulation of the data I was doing analysis on took tens of minutes, and I kept wanting to make changes to what I was doing. Saved me a couple hours.