skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what eventually killed RadioShack [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-02/inside-ra...]. They found easy recurring revenue from cell phone sales and that nectar was so sweet that they couldn't justify the effort required to spend time at anything else in the garden. Then, wireless carriers all opened up their own stores and mall kiosks and suddenly RadioShack didn't have a business left.

Google isn't going to suffer this fate anytime soon though. RadioShack's peak revenues were $6.3 billion in 1996. If you crudely model a company's trajectory as a parabola in a gravity well, that $6.3 billion allowed RadioShack to coast through the air for another 20 years. Google has about 30x the revenue, and they have significant influence in multiple and related segments of the internet market.

Google could, tomorrow, make changes to email policy which would leave hey.com dead in the water, because between 40% and 60% of email traffic goes through Gmail, and email is extraordinarily sticky. If you can't send or receive email to Gmail users, Gmail users will tell you it's your fault, even if it's not. (Speaking from experience here.)

Chrome likewise is hovering around 65% market share. If Google decides they no longer want to tolerate ad-blockers, they can make a subtle change to Chrome that will boost their search engine revenues significantly (where they currently own about 91% of the search market).

Google's not going to follow a RadioShack trajectory, but they're never going to be anything other than an advertising company either, and that's going to leave some opportunities available for startups in Google's market.
The person I was refering is Karaol. Even the top image that is described as his own work and is used in the main Euroasia site without any attribution. You can see the image in the main site here https://euroasia-interconnector.com/at-glance/the-big-pictur...

The article fails to address the controversy between Greece and Euroasia interconnector. The only reference I can find is that in the top image, the line connecting Attika and Crete became dashed at some time. Also Greece cited that Ariadne interconnector is a company with only 25k capital and no previous completed project.
I remember "Airplane!" took a hilarious crack at this phenomenon.
D just doesn't have a big company behind it to push it.
A few resources:

The Economist, “Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills”: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/10/...

Personal health care expenditures, by source of funds and type of expenditure: United States, 2007–2017: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2018/fig18.pdf
US Dental care expenditures 2017: https://www.ada.org/~/media/ADA/Science%20and%20Research/HPI...

Healthcare expenditure trends in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2018/044.pdf

US Surgeon General Report on Oral Health (2000): https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2017-10/hck1oc...

The human oral microbiome in health and disease: from sequences to ecosystems: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074908/

Oral microbiota of periodontal health and disease and their changes after nonsurgical periodontal therapy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-017-0037-1

ADA Periodontitis stats: https://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2018-archive/ju...

The “Gum–Gut” Axis in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Hypothesis-Driven Review of Associations and Advances: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.6201...
Object cause of desire and subjectivity is part of analytic philosophy and if one is interested in this topic Lacan, Hegel, Zupančič, Zizek, Dolar and Agamben are useful and, for example the book Sex and the Failed Absolute (Zizek) is a beautifully structured argument connecting quantum physics (mobius, cross cap, klein bottle) to the incompleteness of human subjectivity and the structure of desire.
"Mythic Quest"[0] is also a great show that I'm sure many people on HN would enjoy on an extra level, since it deals with gaming and making games and they don't hesitate to make fun of their unsaid partnership with Ubisoft Montreal.

For reference, it's got a mix of production and cast from Community and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and their pandemic episode is currently the highest rated for the show because they don't shy away from some of the more real moments amidst the joyous insanity of the show.

I'm guessing Apple TV+ is in the current state that Netflix & Amazon Prime were in a few years back: make good content, dare to do things, and make a name for yourself. Good for us, I'd say.

[0] https://www.justwatch.com/ca/tv-show/mythic-quest-ravens-ban...
> It seems unworkable for the majority of smaller sites who are increasingly forced to use letsencrypt.

It's one line in a crontab, hardly an enterprise level endevaour involving IBM consultants and a triple redundant K8S cluster.

> Unless you want that automatic update tool on your server, which I find a bit sketchy.

It's no sketchier than you using binaries from your distro's repo, or even the Linux kernel. I doubt you'd read either line by line to check for nefarious wrong doing.
Don't forget, it's also part of Apple's subscription bundles.

But I actually think it's pretty good. I haven't enjoyed every show, but I feel as though all the content being produced is aimed at being higher-quality. Compared to Netflix where they're making shows like "Nailed it!".... Personally I just want interesting, high-quality content.

I'm a big fan of the Long Way series, and it was cool to see them pick up the first two and make a new one.

I can't wait for Foundation!
Apple is probably the worst FAANG for good content production. They seem only to invest in very well known artists which in turn produce entirely milquetoast content (Greyhound, For All Mankind, etc.). Good art pushes boundaries; crappy art is derivative.
Great statistics on a disease 5 times as fatal that raged a century ago in a world that no longer exists.
Agents.jl benchmarks really well. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10072 . Or if you use the libraries you will immediately feel the difference.
I think the Black-Scholes option pricing model reapplied a well known result from neutron transport in nuclear engineering.
Edge Computing with Azure Percept
Yes, we have a lot of work to do on our landing page to better explain these points. It's early days, but we will get there! Here is some light on them:

It's cloud hosted, and we do support self-hosting for enterprises. The code is not open-source. We support Okta, Google, and other OAuth providers for Authentication. For Authorization we have the concept of Targets, which are abstractions of your cloud resources to users/developers. Say you have a Mysql database, you can create a read-only Target and let everyone use it, and create a second Target for the same database with write access. In the second Target you require reviews from tech leads, or let selected groups run queries.
SAT and SMT solvers deal with propositional logic only. TLA+ is based on propositional logic with added modalities (i.e. what a type theorist would call monads) for "time" (in the temporal logic sense) and non-determinism. It is essentially a somewhat bespoke modal logic. Modal logics in general have lower expressive power than FOL, but are conversely more computationally tractable.
The author misses the driving force behind most of this - Chinese censorship and the money behind the Chinese market. If you're making a modern blockbuster you'll double your take if you make sure it plays well in China - which you primarily do by making it sexless, ensuring that any gay representation is minor enough to be cut, etc.

https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing...
> The only reason AMD wasn't hit by Meltdown too is their cores are/were less optimised.

That doesn't answer whether they were less optimized because someone on the Red team realized that was a good idea.
Intel's more likely argument is that they can't do that many because their decoders and ROB aren't wide enough to keep up. Given how huge their decode units are (about as big as all their integer ALUs), I don't know how x86 will actually solve this issue.
I think you're misremembering the part with the signs. The guy came up with the idea to look for a sign on the beach that forbids anchoring. They found it and the cable proved to be there. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untol...
Nice idea, especially for organizations where people work with long-living branches.

I'm wondering, shouldn't you then encourage people to create the Pull Request as soon as possible? If the bot works based on PR events, it could be too late if people wait until the last minute to create it.
As an Israeli living abroad I am torn on this. Not that I think Israel has South Africa level apartheid, but since both Israel and the Palestinians are up to their chins in the conflict and both wouldn't budge a millimetre a good kick in the ass towards one of them could lead to somekind of dialog.

As much as I disliked Trump and his actions in the area, at least he did something out of the ordinary that could have led to untying the mess. The latest "peace agreements" with Arab countries are probably a result of this and might lead to something in the future.

Unlike South Africa the level of religion extremism is too high on both sides to allow a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
Housing prices reflect the cost of shelter for literally everyone who doesn't already own a house.

Shelter is much closer to "food" than to "a piece of paper representing a stake in part of a corporation".
That's a different style of proof, based on equational reasoning; Agda [0], Coq [1] and Lean [2] are three theorem provers that work with those proofs better.
Being able to quickly and informally perform equational reasoning on functional programs is also what (imo) makes those languages easier to think about, so it's a valuable skill outside of proving.

[0]: https://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php
[1]: https://coq.inria.fr/
[2]: https://leanprover.github.io/
I don't know that. Economic historians and others have to figure out exactly what caused the end of South Africa's apartheid system (my layman's guess is that it was a combination of multiple factors).

What I do know is that black South Africans begged us not to do business with their country until apartheid was abolished. Many of us (and even the US in the end) obliged and cut ties with South Africa. Palestinians are similarly begging us not to do business with Israel over similar human rights violations. We did (eventually) heed the black South Africans' call, so why can't we today heed the Palestinians' call?
thanks for the mention of TerminusDB (https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb) -> we are the graph cousins of Dolt. Great to see so much energy in the version control database world!

We are currently focused on data mesh use cases. Rather than trying to be GitHub for Data, we're trying to be YOUR GitHub for Data. Get all that good git lineage, pull, push, clone etc. and have data producers in your org own their data.

We see lots of organizations with big 'shadow data' problems and data being centrally managed rather than curated by domain experts.
Is there any other way to speak?
Italian roots
Edit: the pinched fingers unicode emoji get deleted when I post it
[https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/]
I was obviously being ironic above.

The point is that as long as Turkey is opportunistically involved in every military conflict they believe they can get gains from, they can't be seen as a trusted partner by their neighboring countries.
Tangent — I wonder why Chromecast doesn’t support AirPlay? Both Roku and Fire TV do. Which side doesn’t want it on Chromecast?
تحميل برنامج متعدد الحسابات 2021 مجانا برابط مباشر Parallel Space
The Swiss thing is a weird one because anyone who actually wants to invade Switzerland is probably going to be mad enough to just start bombing all the civilians with nerve gas or similar. The Swiss air force for example consists of some F-5s and some regular Hornets so I wouldn't bet on them for long either.
You made the right choice and those links were helpful.
Identifying me by cell number instead of my Google account is a good start for Google Pay, but it leaves open the possibility that, if I lost my phone, I could get another with the same number.

Google should use IMEI to identify Google Pay users. That way, if I lost my phone, I’d be permanently fucked.
`whereami` uses WiFi signals and ML to locate you (within 2-10 meters)
The Gun Company Payoff Matrix
I once worked in a shop where a few teams made blanket rules for clubs of reviewers for different core technologies. There was a Python reviewers group a Puppet reviewers group etc.

The membership of these groups bore little resemblance on the technologies people used and had to work in day to day, but instead reflecting the current group politics of a large engineering organization. As the reviewer enforcement was wired into the deployment tool - appeasing these reviewers was required to be productive. In practice the reviewers would road block entire team's initiatives.

The end result was a proliferation of technologies across the company such that teams could practice team code review rather than adhere to the wims of the anointed reviewers.
You have a valid point about Google Cloud, but Android and Chrome are both surveillance feeders for their core business of data mining, supporting the author's thesis. The problem isn't creating new technical products, but having the institutional desire to maintain them.
Amazon’s Anti-Union Activities Should All Be Illegal
Is defeatism the only option here? Politicians are (almost) all selfish, and you can't blame the voters for voting for them?

I strongly disagree on both points. There are politicians who take their responsibility seriously, and voters have a responsibility to vote for better politicians. Ultimately, voters get the government they choose, and if they choose corrupt politicians, that's what they get. The corrupt politicians aren't going to change as long as people keep voting for them. But better people exist, and it's up to voters to elect them.
I think the change set in before 2012 as well; it probably took off during the tech boom around the 2000's when the world got connected to the internet.

Anyway, The Social Network is a pretty bad example because everyone in there already started from a privileged position, e.g. rich parents; Zuck's parents were a psychiatrist and a dentist, both at least 150K / year jobs. Harvard costs $50K a year for tuition, plus nearly $20K / year for housing.
great list - i talked through it and what each tool does in a MLOps Community meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5uxntl_hWg
I was surprised to learn that fire suppression systems use 900MHz networks for backup alerting as well. My whole city is enmeshed with it.
And Musk's
Why do we need Immer? Can't we just do our object copying ourselves? It seems using Immer it can break dev's intuition about pass by reference and performance.
For a subscription streaming service you need prestige shows to get people to subscribe, the type of content people think they want to watch, then once they are subscribed you need a portfolio of junk food TV which is what they actually will watch to keep them hooked.
all in all, was it worth it? I remember hearing about pay being incredibly high if one was wiling to adhere to the customs of the culture and live in the environment some may not want to.
This is what you said: "But we all argue in good faith and are willing to yield to reason" I am in disagreement with this sentence. "we all" is definitely wrong and I haven't seen many "yield to reason" here or in any forum apart from few examples.

So I found your comment disingenuous and that's why I left a sarcastic remark, not aligned to HN rules sure, but yeah I did it. Also, if you think HN is an excellent place and not tainted, I have no words.

Edit: Grammar, wording.
There's a big difference between scraping and posting. Companies putting both into the "bot" category is intentionally conflating the two, so they can ban user-empowering behavior (reading with unauthorized software, i.e. scraping) with the excuse that they were targeting spam and similar.
How do you feel about the EU being connected to the Turkish electricity grid? [1] and Germany being increasingly dependent on Russian gas? [2]

[1] https://www.avrupa.info.tr/en/plugging-turkey-eu-electricity...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-2-pipeline-row-highlights-...
Right, but unlike TCP/IP, which is a stateless protocol, the validation of an NFT requires a specific blockchain. While Bitcoin and Ethereum seem to be “here to stay”, they both seem under constant competitive pressure from other blockchains.
Ask HN: Why do pop-ups not work?
Hey HN, the last few weeks I have been researching and testing a pop-up with my website and 53 out of 50 people close it immediately without even reading it. Why it doesn't work?
> conclusion of "unit tests that check every method/line of code you write".

I think a way to smell you're too far gone on this way is when you write tests only to get code coverage.

With behavior tests, code coverage should become a tool to show where your dead code is so you can remove it.
Yes, millennia of feuding leads to mistrust, on both sides.

It's unlikely to be solved anytime soon.
AFAIK very few countries have recognized Crimea as part of Russia. So my comment is still valid, most countries did not accept the annexion.
For a 2 kB challenge, try Micro-Max: https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html

Beware, it plays at grandmaster strength!
Although it’s linked in the article, here’s the pdf of investor slides

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e33152a051d2e7588f75...
>I highly recommend taking 30 minutes to watch it, the person speaking is a well regarded economist.

You mean Ray Dalio? Wikipedia says he's a hedge fund manager and has a MBA, but no economics degree.
You don't have to think of sex as this deep emotional bond between two people. In one sense, you've been tricked into believing that that is the only way.

So one solution is to accept that sex can be just that: just sex. It can be something that you and a friend do, maybe regularly, maybe only once in a while. Like playing Tennis. You may be happy that you have a friend who you can play Tennis with. But you don't have to fall in love with your Tennis partner and share every other part of your life with them. This solution you can call "Compartmentalizing".

The thing is, even if you had a Tennis partner who said "I don't want to play Tennis with you any more", you'd probably still feel hurt. Having emotional bonds is not limited to just sexual partners, but to anyone that you spend time with. That level of hurt is probably proportional to how often you played Tennis together, and your expectations on how long you expected that relationship to last.

The other method is to not separate emotions from sex, but to just get better at accepting loss and death of relationships as a natural course of life that must be reckoned with. This solution you can call "Acceptance of Grief".
I'm not sure where you heard that from exactly, but their unique confessionally-sharded politics mean claims like that often won't be deeply scrutinized within Lebanon. They won’t conduct a new census to check, multiple Muslim groups claim that they have the majority, and most observers who aren’t constrained by Lebanese politics think it’s closer to 30% Christian.
Rescue Package Includes $86B Bailout for Failing Pensions
Lebanon issued the declaration of war. They can withdraw it at any time. A declaration of war is an invitation to be invaded.
What content in this category does Google or Facebook produce?
Topic modeling is a better technique than simple word counts. Topic modeling can use ML.
Are the Arab Israelis clamoring to get themselves blown up by human-shield toting, radical extremists in Gaza? I think not.

Also, simply not true; https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rJVoNmyCP
Alleged Intel Alder Lake Mobile CPU Stack Leaks with 8 Big and 8 Small Cores
Build a 2D Platform Game with PyGame and Repl.it
What's the point of the wrapper?

import simulation from 'simulation_code_written_in_c'

simulation.run()

What value does the above code have?
Parts of the analogy are true: over dependence on a single source of lucrative revenue can make it hard to invest in new things.

That said, the analogy breaks down. Petro-states have other issues: weak institutions, corruption. Their lucrative revenue steam, unlike online ads at least so far, is also very volatile with boom and bust cycles. It also creates all sorts of weird economic distortions, like exchange rate effects that make it hard to invest in other industries.

And finally, GCP, Waymo, Android and many others beg to differ. Yes, Google still depends primarily on Ads, but it's far from being the Venezuela or Iraq of companies.
> If any react noobs are reading this, the best React state management setup for you is Redux+Immer.

React noobs should just stick to React's own useState and useContext hooks. There are issues with it, but it's not as bad.

Here's what Pete Hunt from the original React team said last week: "Literally never ever use Redux on a new project under any circumstances. Even if it’s what the team knows." [1]

1: https://twitter.com/floydophone/status/1365824299060273153?s...
> your real estate agent will always tell you there has never been a better time to buy.

Sounds familiar :)

(Is there such thing as objective news in that space?)
Goldman Sachs is 150 years old and still kicking.

I wonder if a part of that longevity is the org/incentives structure.

And (cynically) maybe just that regulation entrenches existing finance players and there isn't anywhere near as much anti-trust conversation over there.
I mean that the prices need to be measured objectively, because people aren't very good a tracking prices. They may think prices have risen when they have not.
Good point - and why a graph based approach has advantages in some use cases (disclaimer TerminusDB co-founder here). Allows more flexibility in versioning relationships and more scope to merge in the scenario you outline.
The mainstream masses were supporters, definitely not limited to niches like you mention.
If my personal experience is helpful to those trying to answer those questions then great, but I don't know the answer to them.
A lot of tech innovation happened in the EU, the issue is that companies are acquired by the major players as a way to curb competition or acquihire a good team. The issue with tech in the EU has more to do with how different markets are across the Union, not the lack of innovation. Language barriers, cultural barriers and economical barriers are all more varied in the EU than in a market such as the US or China, it's a uniquely European issue on having such large variance in a single market.

What is the metric you are using to gauge innovation in tech in the EU?
On call groups are very wide-spread. PagerDuty and Icinga/Nagios implement them for sure.
worse as in more conductive
> I would expect to see companies like Tesla try to recognize their holdings as currency instead of intangible assets.

Curious to see how that plays out. It'd make sense.-
You might be able to negotiate a lower rate for Cronhooks. Never hurts to ask.
Zionism has minus nothing to do with religion, Religious Zionists non withstanding. It is a popular misconception, i think.
Ah! It might have been that situation indeed, but I don't remember which square was attacked exactly. Good to know :)