skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 10^-9 odds of a startup making 10 billion

Intuitively those numbers feel wrong. theres 7bn people on this planet - and only a very tiny proportion might become tech entrepreneurs. So I think your "1 in a billion" chance of being successful is a bit high. Also, who said $10bn was successful? It is just 1 outcome of many...
It says one thing in the screen where you put the item effectively in your cart and another in the description of the item in your cart wherein its designed for people's eyeballs to hit the continue to payment before they attend to the fact that it says something different in the description of the item IN the cart.

It's beautifully criminal in design.
That is not the total amount in dollars.
The problem is that an annual plan charged monthly is there to entice people to spend money they do not have. If the point is to encourage people to pay for an annual plan by offering a discount, they should ask for the money up front.
Glyphosate exposure during pregnancy causes hormonal changes in new borns
Do you want (pictures of) ants?

Because that is how you get (pictures of) ants.
Because the Left got the monopoly of public discourse. Now they can suppress any opposition, just like they did in communist countries, using the same exact justifications ("there are still inequalities, more progress is needed"). Not that the situation would be better if the public discourse was taken by the Right: the key is balance, which is sorely missing nowadays.
Automotive is hardly dying. It is however in a natural downcycle even before corona. The real story is people don't have money. Even before corona, used car prices have been absolutely exploding as a result of less people having money for even leasing cars.
Twitter Plans to Hire First Product, Engineering Team in Africa
s/Does need/Does not need/
> keeping the FSF closely associated with the Epstein scandal

So orgs should pander to misinformation?
written by/for The Cato institute. Walter Olson is senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of a book on labor and employment law. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

This is a bit like "...in rats" or "... in vitro" -yes, we try to be neutral and talk to the content, but the Cato institute is a libertarian, Koch brothers funded body. Its really material.

Americans are not endogenously anti-union. Nobody is. They have to be taken there. Fear is a worse motivator than others but it is still a strong motivation, and I believe Amazon played to latent fear in the workforce at Bessamer, about short and longterm job security, if they voted yes.

The vote is not really contestable. This is the outcome everyone has have to live with, pro or anti union, getting side tracked into "we wuz robbed" is not going to help. I think unpacking why the workforce thought the value proposition wasn't good is worth unpacking. This is one point of view. But it's a very specific one, funded by a libertarian thinktank associated with the Koch industries.
The article has some good examples:

“The volume of goods transported by container shipping each year has quadrupled since 2000, and about 600,000 submarine cables have been laid on the seafloor in that time, which now carry almost all international telecommunications. The energy generated by offshore wind farms has increased 400-fold in the past two decades, and the volume of farmed seafood has grown by five percent on average each year.

During the same time period, most major discoveries of oil and gas deposits have been made offshore and around 500,000 square miles of the seabed has been leased for exploratory mining. There was practically no marine biotechnology sector at the turn of the millennium, but since then, more than 13,000 marine genetic sequences have been patented.

...

In 2018, the 100 largest companies took an estimated 60 percent of all revenues in eight industries: offshore oil and gas, container shipping companies carrying many of the goods we buy, companies producing and processing seafood, offshore wind energy producers, cruise tourism operators, and a number of industries that support the wider ocean economy, including marine parts and equipment makers, shipbuilders and repairers, and port maintenance businesses.”
US Doe Needs to Ensure Its Plans Fully Address Risks to Distribution Systems [pdf]
Would be nice if it was required for all subscription services and not just phone/internet.
`blame` is one of Git’s most useful features for me, because if I’m confused about a piece of code I can instantly check to see when that code was added and why. Does it fix a bug; if so what’s the bug tracker ID and how was it resolved? Why did the programmer chose to do things this way instead of some other way that seems more obvious? How did this change fit into the rest of the codebase, and were any other files or functions changed to match?

(Of course, the utility of this depends on how well people write commit messages. There’s nothing more annoying than looking at a blame and seeing “update somefile.java.”)

If your organization is using blame to stir up conflict and point fingers, that sounds like a human problem rather than a technical problem, and a problem that you would still have even if `git blame` never existed.
You mean its common for the description of the item on the product page to be different from the description in the cart in hopes most don't read, don't cancel, and don't complain?
I love illusions like this because to me they are a reminder of how absolutely amazing the human visual system is. Far from exposing "flaws" in human vision, I see them as showing how good human vision is at interpreting 2D data as a 3D scene. Our brains assume the 3D scene as what we are statistically most likely to encounter in the real world, but when you come up with a statistically highly unlikely 3D object that projects onto the same 2D space as the more common object, our brains assume the more common version.
To me, user accounts have always seemed like the more reasonable approach to sandboxing vs. cloning the universe to run a single program in a container.

Most of my systems have a user for myself, and one or two other users like `sketchy` or `test` or something for programs that I trust enough to run, but don't trust enough to not fuck up my home directory in some way (including modifying startup scripts, which IMHO should probably require sudo to edit, even for a normal user).

If the program is really sketchy and you're worried about it doing something like exfiltrating ~/Documents/taxes, then private home directories would definitely seem like a good default. You can always have an explicitly shared area like /home/shared/$user that defaults to public.
I have never loved the product yet hated a company more. I truly don’t understand how they can be so short-sighted. If they would just suck a teeny bit less they’d have so many more customers.
Previous discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26782505
I was wondering who would bring it up first! I really enjoy watching it, the videos are stunning and generally high quality content. And the ants are just really interesting to watch. (i like the fire ants the best)
If we're sharing crazy rare stuff from other sports I present from international cricket: A bowler achieving a hatrick (3 dismissals in consecutive deliveries - very rare) and also getting hit for 6 Sixes in an over later in the same game. [0] 6 Sixes in an over has only been done 3 times in international cricket. It represents the maximum return for a batter from an over (without no-balls or wides).

[0] https://www.cricket.com.au/news/match-report/kieron-pollard-...
Thx for info
I interviewed there about 10 years ago. An interviewer actually asked me "how will you deal with constantly going to pointless meetings and politics ruining any hope of actually getting anything meaningful done here?" Lol.
I'm near Austin. Where are they?
Seeing Sound: The Cymatics of Music
“Riots Today” on DDG vs. Google News
and pizza crust!
1. If you just downvote, the article will fall off the front page quickly enough.

2. If you disagree with a flag, then hit the “vouch” button and resurrect it.
While I agree it is "in the contract" it's not SUPER obvious that there is an early cancellation fee during the checkout process.

If there was a separate box or better, a popup modal/page, that explains this, I'd give Adobe the benefit of the doubt.

The problem is patterning - _a lot_ other companies monthly subscriptions don't have 50% annual cancellation fee or any cancellation fee. So this method of 'lowering the price' is uncommon/against-the-grain.

When faced with an uncommon situation you really need people to understand what they're getting into, otherwise lots of people are surprised when they get hit with this.
agreed, but some people dislike that because you have to have an E_UKNOWN or E_GENERAL or something like that in addition to more specific errors and others dislike it because now there's not something to conveniently store results from called functions in so that they can be checked for errors.
CSGO New Anti-Wall Hack Method
Found an interesting Anti-Wall Hack for CSGO. Thoughts?
My tool is designed to obtain insights from Git history and I've never understood how people can take such offense to git blame. I do agree calling it "blame" was probably not the best thing to do, but the fact is, it serves a purpose, which is, it's designed to help you understand how a piece of code came about.

For you to call this feature "passive aggressive" must have been borne out of some traumatizing experience and for that, you have my sympathy.
I'm on the side that this isn't so outrageous; you get a discount for making a longer financial commitment.

What IS frustrating is that some of their products don't offer a monthly plan. I want to use Lightroom about once a year, after going on a big vacation, but there's no cheap plan that just includes Lightroom.

There's a $10/month annual Photography Plan that includes Photoshop and Lightroom (exactly what I want), but no monthly option. I would pay $15 for one month of this, but the only way to get Lightroom for a single month is with the All Apps package, which is $80 for a single month.
"This trend has been running for a long time. IBM, founded in 1896, took 45 years to reach a billion 2020 dollars in revenue. Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, took 25 years. Microsoft, founded in 1975, took 13 years. Now the norm for fast-growing companies is 7 or 8 years."

Shouldn't inflation be taken into account here? A speed increase is still apparent, but at a slower rate overall.
Its not perfect but there are some ways to hide it during normal use.

1. Create a file in your home called .hidden with one line "snap" to hide it in the file browser.

2. You can add --hide=snap to your ls alias to hide folders by that name.
Supposedly half of wasm deployments recently were malware like secret crypto miners.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/WebAssembly-wasm-maliciou...

It's probably tolerable to turn it off for now unless you know you need it.
A contrary opinion is here by Ian Cutress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaB1WuFUAtw

I think that Intel does have two plays left.

1. Appeal to the government that they can't go beyond their current process node and the government preorders a bunch of processors to do this.

2. Intel abandons new process nodes and becomes a customer of TSMC.

If Intel thinks about doing #2 I think the government would be forced to do #1 for the sole fact of keeping chip manufacturing knowledge in the US
Ancient article I read talked about how with a single press announcement on Intel’s upcoming 586 architecture. 2 or 3 competitors simply gave up.

Never mind that by the time Intel actually delivered the other players would have been at the same tech level.
> How many times have you seen developers recommend upgrading from Ruby to Go because of speed? When all they had to do was add some partial indexes or something to their database.

PTSD flashbacks to when we had to rewrite a Javascript monolith in Go microservices because we didn't know about Dataloader.
because nobody wants to say "successfully governed by a totalitarian regime"

somehow, west democracies consider anatema to admit that totalitarin regimes can effectively manage entire countries.

And China has enough success that it cannot be dismissed as luck, or anything else than (totalitarian) government plans which achieved the same good outcomes as western democracies have
That's an over-worried worry. Just like existing road signs which also get tampered with, they would be a redundant source of information on top of the other self driving tech that would reduce instances of a human assistant or driver having to intervene.
Lightsail has an app platform?
Between Pflugerville and Manor. The address is publicly available with a quick search.
There's not a lot of material to directly address here other than to congratulate Zig and its team for trying to chart a path that is both practical and principled. But yet the post touches on a dozen or so issues that one can commiserate with.

One is the notion that future stewards of a project may diverge from the vision of the founders. But this is unsolvable, unless you try to force them (with some combination of blunt and imperfect tools, such as licenses, patents, secrets, shame, money, power) or outlive them (as a chartered foundation, since humans do not live indefinitely). Instead, it's far better to rely on accidental ossification, where your work becomes so widespread and popular that some ancient subset of it becomes commonplace and impractical to fully displace by a future actor, friendly or otherwise. This sounds like sarcasm, but, it's thoroughly difficult to entirely displace C, Bourne shell, vi, grep, zip and deflate, TCP, HTTP... mostly-compatible independent implementations proliferate over time, but many of the design choices of the original creators nonetheless live on.

Another is the realization that for many startups, "open source" (in ironic quotes) is a recruitment/marketing/discoverability strategy rather than a genuine ideological stance. It's a way to get the attention of hip developers, and a way to hook people in a crowded landscape to try before they (or, more properly, their flush-with-cash company) buys, maybe 3-5 years down the road. And I can't fault people for wanting to get paid, but it's blatantly obvious that most of the open source products we all remember from the last 10 years have just been trying to do the plan of "1. give away, 2. ???, 3. PROFIT!". It's hard to feel sorry for them when a competent and well-known vendor comes along and offers a managed service of the open source thing, and they're left holding the bag.

One weird thing about the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit is that it made it obvious that mindshare and familiarity are almost mental pre-requisites of compatibility, even when the achieved compatibility is only partial. Clearly, Android was not the Java Platform, but yet a bazillion Java libraries worked anyway, and a bazillion programmers could pick up Java from a hodgepodge tutorial and crank out apps onto smartphones. In the end, this "programmer compatibility" was as key to Android's success as the fact that if you wanted to milk the gold rush of $1 games with ads, your only other comparable platform was Apple, who required you to own an expensive Mac. If they chose C++ or a brand-new language like (later) Dart, the barrier to entry would have been higher. In the end, everything boils down to "barrier to entry".

If Zig achieves lasting relevance, it's unlikely that the design vision of its founders will be invalidated in the future. But getting to that future is far from easy.
It scares me to think about what would happen now that there’s billions more people
Have you ever had one? It works on these as well if not better than the little cucumber sandwiches at a high tea.
I mean your point is fair enough. But I must say that if someone is going to go to the trouble of deconstructing every sentence in search of something to be hurt by then I'm sure they can. Question is though, what's the point of it, when it is pretty clear that it was not the intended meaning? Because obviously in this example it was just used as a metaphore without any insidious meaning behind it. Not unlike the use of master in git or white/ black list, that I've seen discussed in HN a few times in the past months.
The cost is the users money. If the company got a customer at 53 dollars for 10 months that they would never have acquired at the higher $80 monthly rate and the user cancels they didn't lose the 270 they would have hypothetically received in the imaginary world where the user subscribed because maybe money isn't real. They profited the $530 they received less the cost of providing the service to the customer which is liable to be slight.

You can't lose other people's money you never received.
Is the walking stick insect poisonous|complete detail
That's Linus for you, I guess?

I dunno, I always found `git blame` really funny yet at the same time, I empathize with those who are a little taken aback by it (including... what's the company's name who makes IDEs who calls it "annotate"... ?).

I largely love it because most of the time when I `blame`, that's exactly what I want to do. I don't need software to give me a nicer verb so I can pretend that's not what I'm actually doing.

And most of the time, the author is exactly who I thought it was going to be (which can result in jovial convos) or, more commonly, ITS ME! Oh, the humility. I guess I can see it being a problem if you work on a toxic team (shit, sorry) and yes, I do understand desire for a sheen of positivity in the language of the software we use, but pretty much every of the time I go to call `git blame`, I mean `git BLAME`. While it certainly does happen, I rarely find myself thinking, "Who wrote this amazing code!?? I MUST KNOW!!!" and in those circumstances, it actually soothes my ego to "blame" them for it :D

edited for grammar/spelling
This comment section has devolved into another episode of "Hackernews attempts to justify the pointless character assassination of RMS by scraping the bottom of the barrel for half-assed reasons to be outraged"
How to manage an army of not-really-devs trying to write code?
Hello,

Yeap I got this feeling about the logo as well, I was thinking about changing it, still might do. But the name remains :D

Thx.
Am I wrong to say that they could just cancel their credit card and.. move on?
Condescending is opposing giving low income people more money and better working conditions because of some abstract philosophical argument used to justify redefining self-interest in a totally bizarre way.

People in this thread are all like, "Don't tell me giving someone food is in their self-interest! What if they want to starve?"
NYC tap water is astonishingly good. Not just better than you'd expect for a big dirty city, but better than you'd expect from a pristine mountain glacier in Norway. It's because of those giant underground tunnels that bring in the water fresh from far away in upstate NY. It's the best tap water I've tasted in the US.
I think Google already publicly disclosed the code to trigger this vulnerability: https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/fd29e246f65a7cee13...
Tons of data!

“Patients who have done [allergy drops] and finished a course are now free of taking any allergy medications and they don’t have symptoms anymore.”
Dr. Sandra Lin, video interview, Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) for Allergy Treatment: Johns Hopkins | Q&A, author of Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous and Sublingual Immunotherapy for Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis and Asthma (2017)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWomI4iPLY
Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28964530/

Aqueous allergy drops are both safe and effective for environmental allergies (aka allergic rhinitis):
- This has been proven through 30 years of data published by leading allergists in key journals, and confirmed in 2011 independent Cochrane review
Learn more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21154351/

Aqueous allergy drops have a better safety profile than allergy shots
- Unlike shots, there has never been a documented fatality to allergy drops in 30 years of use
- The risk of a systemic reaction is thought to be 1 per 100 million doses or 1 per 526,000 treatment years
Learn more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22150126/

Allergy drops are equally as effective as allergy shots
- They have widespread use in Europe (up to 80% of the immunotherapy market in some countries)
- Comparison studies by leading allergists have shown both allergy shots and allergy drops to be effective but no clear superiority of one mode over the other.
Learn more:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23557834/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26853126/
The dependency of a whole industry on Chrome, and the fact a 18 year-old can create a WASM exploit for it with ease (which just might be the tip of the iceberg) is really, really scary.
Well, the delivery vehicle of the sublingual mucosal membrane means there's a much better safety profile! But otherwise, the mechanism of changing the immune response is the same.
git blame is mostly used to answer the question "when did this change and how?"

Being able to answer that question is key for maintainers.
This is one of the reasons that HSBC are so strict now.
Not a book but Ray Dalio’s “How the economic machine works” is a very accessible 30 min video on how the economy functions.
Good feedback! We suggest patients try out the treatment for 6 months to make sure their body accepts the immunotherapy, and then another 4.5 years to lock-in lifelong relief.
Even if they won it would be a pyrrhic victory. 20 hours of $20 an hour labor in they would be upside down before you consider liklihood of you canceling, liklihood of the negative experience causing others to be less likely to subscribe and the nuclear option wherein it actually goes to court or spurs future legislation that makes them design their website less deceptively
I wonder what the rainbow effect is. Is it a color in the original or some kind of scanning artifact?
I agree that they will probably turn it around, but their annual operating expenses are about $20 billion. $23 billion in reserves is not much runway with that burn rate if sales continue to drop. They've got a tough task ahead to get back on a substantial growth curve.
i read this and think, well small wonder Christianity persisted all this time. the baseline level of suffering they endured is something most of us reading this will never know in our lifetimes, if we’re lucky. (though the hounds of climate change howl outside our doors)

skies go dark, plagues. it’s literally biblical. what comfort could anyone turn to when it seemed like the very land and sky around them wanted them dead? Must have been terrifying on some level to feel God in nature all around you and it was so hostile.

and just think of the psychic trauma that gets passed down the generations from that. How it shaped society. How it maybe helped religion take hold. People have seen in their lifetimes, or their parents, grandparents and so on have seen in theirs, the terror of biblical plagues. So you want to do right by your God.

small wonder indeed.
We use an allergy test to diagnose your allergy profile, then we treat you for exactly what you're allergic to!
Where’s the code? How was it changed that made it faster? What makes it elegant? What’s the point of this piece?
If they're concerned about exposure, they could simply set the margin trading leverage below 1 (e.g. offering 0.1x leverage so that customers have to post $10 in margin to buy $1 in MicroStrategy shares).
That's old news and not applicable anymore