skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent comment was using Rockefeller's peak net worth as compared to FAANG CEO's net worths to show that FAANG is smaller than Standard Oil was. I mainly wanted to point out that if you instead compare company valuations, each of FAANG is bigger.

Also, at it's peak Standard Oil was worth about 6% of the US stock market. Apple is currently worth 5.3%. This comparison should be robust to differences in interest rates. In this light, Apple is slightly smaller than Standard Oil was. But, the market is broader now and there are more lines of business in existence. So a company that dominates an entire line of business would be expected to have a lower proportion of total stock market cap now than in 1910.

At the very least 2021 Apple and 1910 Standard Oil are very comparable in size. There might not be a clear way to tell which is bigger.
> The probabilities had to be fixed for every player on every game.

For every play of the game, or across all of those game machines sold?
Not sure if you have kids or not, but once I had them it really made me understand where my parents were coming from and forgive their flaws. I literally know nothing about raising kids and am just making it up as I go along. I feel like I get it right a lot but also often get it wrong. There is no manual for being a parent or a person, we are all just flawed beings doing the best we can in a situation we have very little control over.
Ive always wished to be able to put an expiration on tweets. There are a lot of things that dont need to live forever. Here in the south if I go a couple hours without looking at twitter sometimes ill have to scroll through lots of weather related tweets for a current storm system that I would have loved if I was watching twitter at the time, but are useless to me now. And maybe they dont get deleted, but just dont show up in others timeline, but would if you went directly to that account - so replies and all are preserved. (I think something similar could be done to focus a tweet to a geographical area, but I digress)
I grew up in the sort of family you describe, and it is structurally an extremely abusive environment. To hell with the idea of filial piety.
I wonder why don't installers put those batteries underground? If you have a front/back yard is it safer just to borrow a battery there?
> What's up with the plumbing and heating?

Not sure if this is what GP meant, but Britain has a history of using separate taps for hot and cold water, rather than a single tap that mixes hot and cold to give you a range of temperatures.

Fine if you're filling a basin, not very good for anything else.
Do you mean that keyboard input into a web worker is too slow, or it uses too much memory or cpu or power or ???

How is keyboard input different from any other sort of data round trip to/from a web worker?
> So, I felt [...] grateful to my parents for being there in the first place

I'm going to say something controversial. Not everyone is grateful for their life. I've talked to multiple people who preferred to never be born. And event the best parents I know couldn't offer much more honest reason for having children than "we wanted to" which is basically ultimate selfishness.

> [...] and being decent at being parents as well.

That's way more universally good reason for treating your parents well.
I’ve been stricken with enthusiasm for hydrogen-powered cars since watching a video from the 90s depicting a backyard solar-powered hydrogen generator which hooks up to a garden hose [1]. It’s supposedly a lot safer than gasoline:

> “These tanks can be shot at with incendiary bullets, or cut in half with a chainsaw, and you could throw a match on them — they’d just smolder like a cigarette. You can’t say that about a gas tank. Here, only the hydrogen you need is released from the tank. When the tank’s heated, it produces hydrogen and the car burns it. So there’s never much gaseous hydrogen in this system at any given time.”

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX2RxlXCZKA
Does that matter? Is everyone suppose to be aware of this guy?
My email client definitely does this. Called FairEmail, available for Android.
Or just "Insert" - "Wait" - "Remove"
Wake me when people sue FB/IG/Twitter/etc for gaming the user with their deliberate use of variable rewards schemes to hold your attention
Ask HN: Can you predict computer fires?
My desktop computer lit on fire today. If it had it happened at night, I would not have been able to unplug it… and there could have been a house fire. It’s a little scary

What can you do to be able to predict and prevent this? I suspect it was the psu but I’ll find out more tomorrow
There is truth in the original saying. Adversity creates the conditions and provides the motivation that spur people to develop strength they would not have needed otherwise. However, adversity is a very blunt instrument, and it is also a matter of degree. People don't always respond positively to adversity. And if the hardship is too great, it doesn't lead to opportunities for growth, just trauma.

That's one of the reasons we need safety nets, to dull the hardship to the point where we can grow through it and not be crushed under it.
Looks like a really great app! However, screen shots from older versions of Mac OS on a product page always make me a bit worried about the future of an app. Do you intend to update the UI and such to match Big Sur and the upcoming Monterey?
He built a powerful structure and it got taken over. Not a surprise.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
In Engels's Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, he traces shifts in culture and family to shifts in the forces of production, and makes a pretty convincing argument. Some have followed on this work. The modern version would be:

50,000 years ago - behavioral modernity. The whole world a primitive communist society of hunter-gatherer bands. Remaining culture is cave paintings and Venus figurines.

10,000 years ago - agricultural revolution. The rise of slave states, polytheistic religions, emperors and high priests with many wives and concubines.

2,000 years ago - the end of the Roman slave latifundias and rise of feudalism. Kings and peasants. The beginning of the Roman Catholic church.

Turn of the 16th century - the beginnings of modern capitalism, bourgeois republics, Protestantism, the rise of the city and universities.

Changes in the forces of production affect the relations of production and culture (hegemony), in this idea.

The idea in Engels crowd was the beginning of the next system was the 1871 Paris commune.

If one were looking for modern changes in production, I would guess programming and media would be two candidates for being at the vanguard of production change. Stephen King and John Carmack can make a lot of money just going into a room, whipping something up, and sending it out to the masses to see millions rolling back in. That's not like a Detroit factory 75 years ago, and is less so a farmer's field 750 years ago.

And those changes in production would affect society, the culture. In that case it would be San Francisco, and/or Shenzhen culture at the vanguard. Also media creation, so that coming out of LA, Mumbai etc.
I’m guessing the person you’re replying to meant that Twitter’s engineering department is transparent.
The claw machines are also rigged. I saw manuals for one where it offers a way to configure pressures in the pneumatic mechanism that closes the claw, and there was a brilliant paragraph of advice not to set the win probability too low in order to keep the customers happy :)
My concern is that they're aware of this and have paid plenty of attention to encouraging a docile population.

Yes, I'm about to resume scrolling through my phone.
That’s fine and dandy if the “crazy” things they say aren’t directly attacking ones way of life or values. My parents seem to have viscerally negative physical reactions to even the sight of black people and gay men (lesbians seem to be fine!?) and it’s disgusting. If conservative news were just about foreign policy and taxes we could have our disagreements but it is more insidious than that because identity politics are strong and getting stronger. There isn’t any room in my life for bigotry against myself and my friends.
NASA issues contracts for nuclear thermal propulsion studies
It isn't pedantic if torrents turn out to be an equally effective means of creating change.
Hen will lay one egg a day until finishing the clutch. Eggs are programmed to stand in an empty nest for up to 15 days without moving a eyelash. Its development is triggered when the temperature reachs 40ºC and remains stable for some hours, and the eggs with 1 and 10 days will hatch at the same time.

So eggs in a supermarket are just doing what they are programmed to do; no problem. But when moved to home there is a problem. Eggs in a sunny kitchen could activate.

Cracking some eggs a week later to find several dead chicken embryos is disgusting. Keeping them in the fridge will avoid this problem.
Fair; he has some internet fame (cough, glitter bomb against package thieves, cough). Solid set of skills.
They are solidly in the uncanny valley, IMO.
This is super obvious but I'll say it anyway. We have been living in the good times phase for many decennia now, so it's no surprise that you don't see emotional damage from the bad times phase.
Hasn't this ultimately been the downfall of Dropbox? Not that consumers are doing it themselves, but Microsoft, Google, etc. all spun up competitors and turned their main product into a feature.

Their one selling point is being the independent option, and I'm not sure the people who care about that are actually large enough to sustain them long term...
I think I wrote 3 lines last week. I'm still not confident that it's error-free.
To be fair, Snowden reached out to Greenwald according to the documentary. That said, Greenwald's reporting on it was excellent.

What I found disappointing, is that Greenwald published the story without making sure Snowden had a place to land outside the reach of US jurisdiction -- regardless of any decision made between the two. Breaking the story is one thing, but doing the right thing for your source is another -- even if it means not being able to break the story first.
Corrosion
I guess it's not so much that I wish those festivals were open to the public, but that there was something that provided a similar experience that was available to everyone, or typically participated in by everyone if that makes sense. The closest example I can think of is Halloween as a kid, outside of the "go around eating candy" part.
> finance folk at some organizations treat it like it's your personal pet project that you have to grovel for.

It is your burden of proof though. You have to convince decision makers why your project deserves funding. Nobody in life just blindly gives out funds. Finance can be your biggest champion if you help us understand the cost/benefits.

> Things like "We'll halve the wait time on help-desk tickets, making everyone more productive"

This takes shape in many forms and it’s a fallacy of some sort. Is being more productive even the goal? The goal is to maximize productivity with current resources. You validly use lack of investment as a reason productivity has a ceiling (and should). But, likely it’s a substantial investment needed to halve wait times. And that’s money that almost always has a better use.

Eg. Spend $500K to save $500k on labor
Vs
Spend $500K on marketing to make $1M in recurring revenue
The issue appears to be resolved now

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
> COVID was, statistically, the most deadly single natural disaster to happen to my country (the UK) in a century

Technically true because of the "natural disaster" qualifier, but the world wars killed 890k and 450k Brits.

And smoking killed 750k in the last decade. And now that's been overtaken by obesity.

COVID won't even come close to touching that.

Manmade disasters have fearful consequences too. Perhaps that makes it easier to "relate to."
You can surely supplement your own quest at global level with business/tech consulting at local level? Wherever you live, draw a 50-100km radius circle and sell your tips, tricks, life experience to business people who are way less active than you? They buy them time, you monetise your “failures”?!
> show me a really big project using mainly Rust now, as there are uncountable using C++

For starters, the Rust compiler is self hosted and is written in Rust. Many important parts of Firefox are written in Rust. The Linux kernel just added support for Rust. A moment's Googling could turn up plenty of other examples.
> Suddenly I want “comment code folding” up in here

I'm probably misunderstanding but if you mean you want to collapse comment threads, click the [-] next to the timestamp of a comment.
Wish you all the best!
I'm confused. If that counts as an option for Mac OS, surely, well, pretty much any Windows server option out there, like AWS, whatever VPS service that offers Windows counts as well?
Underground is not dry.
>The claw machines are also rigged.

We know.
devils advocate... regret is a double edged sword. by sticking to one path that you have decided is the best, and turning your back to all others, you might ignore a great opportunity.

what is to say you cant work hard on something for someone else and be equally fulfilled?

all the most lucrative and fulfilling projects i have worked on, i was drafted into by others, not the other way around.
The author of this review seems to have a chip on his shoulder, and Fleming's "unremarkable career" is much more remarkable than the career of the average person working in intelligence today.

So much of the review is projecting today's values into the past that it is hard to tell how much is a fair assessment and how much is virtue signaling.
Ah, I missed that. I guess we just have to wait and see some details. "Simplifies the experience" I don't know what that means.
I dunno, I was never enamored with Chrome style tabs. They work ok, but they’re awkwardly tall (more so than needed for adequate hitbox size IMO), and visually they don’t fit in on anything but ChromeOS.
The operator-set percentage and payout was always local to the machine. There's no way to network these things, and even when do you see networked progressive slot machines (e.g. IGT's Megabucks), the RNG and payout is always local to that machine.
Maybe you should see someone about this, there’s no reason to get so worked up over a message board.
It helps to have several tiers of success. It doesn't have to be a boolean condition
> I know couldn't offer much more honest reason for having children than "we wanted to" which is basically ultimate selfishness.

I really don't think that's at all objectionable or selfish to be honest. Couples that don't have children exist and bless them for deciding to go with their gut and not feel compelled by society into having a child. A child being born has absolutely no say in the matter - it's solely a decision of the parents and it should be one driven by whether the parents want and can care for a child.

The question of being grateful for life - that's a pretty complex philosophical subject. At the end of the day life is all you've got as an organism, you will experience pain from time to time but without life you simply would not exist. To those who go through severe trauma and pain, my heart goes out to you and I thankfully can't relate to that utter helplessness - but for most people existence is all we've got and if you run across someone that genuinely prefers they were never born I'd hope you can direct them to some therapists to work through their issues with, that can't be a healthy place to be.
To be clear here, looking for conditions that include more than one gene as influencers, and potentially multiple conditions at a time, due to this.
BYO image, too. This is being overlooked.
> However large political factions have made church membership out to be undesirable.

I personally stopped going to church because of the politics coming from the pulpit. The last sermon I heard was the preacher saying Barack Obama was “demonic” because his weak foreign policy made it harder to spread Christianity throughout the world, therefore forestalling the end times. Of course it wasn’t just that one sermon: the homophobia, the sexism, the anti-science attitudes had all been bothering me for years before I finally quit.
> ultimate selfishness

You can't really blame them. It's a consequence of evolution. Genes that make brains that want to have children tend to reproduce better than genes that make brains that don't.
The 100. Strolch release of the 1.6 branch and a brand new website
>> The situation is even better with usb-c now

It isn't. It really isn't. I spent two weeks buying various inexpensive, possibly knock-off, and expensive name-brand cables from monoprice, amazon, and best buy to attempt to connect from a new dock that I bought for my macbook to various peripherals.

I suppose my argument is more with Thunderbolt3 and USB consortium(s)? for allowing thunderbolt3 to use the same physical interface as USB-C, but... while the physical plug is the same:

1. the cables can support various power draw limits

2. A thunderbolt3 cable is not the same as a USB-C cable. You can't buy a two meter USB-C to USB-C cable and run 40 gbit thunderbolt across it to connect a macbook (say) to the doc, and get dual displays, networking, and power. Even though it fits in both ports.

3. A USB-C to Displayport cable won't necessarily work with your stuff.

4. A USB-C cable connected to a monitor might not actually do anything.

5. The USB-C cable that came with my mac will charge stuff, but won't pass data over it. So when I plug it in to the dock, what should happen? Should the computer charge, at least?

And a litany of other things that make me angry just typing this out.

That I have cables with little lighting bolt icons that I'd never paid attention to, and small "3's" on them says, I think, that they are "Norman cables." There's no way I can explain that to my mom, who learned "if the plug fits, it should work."

You -kind of- even have this with RJ45 network cables. There's cat5, cat5e, and cat6. They all look the same, and yet depending on which one I use, I get 100 mbit, 1 gbit, or 10 gbit link speeds.
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For me these 'More people die of .....' articles always seem to miss the point.

My take on the 'media obsession' with heat-deaths is not that they are obsessed, but rather they are reporting something that appears to be an anomaly.

So this type of reporting is never about the number, but always about the gradient.
They must be talking about run of the mill RDP stuff like using USB Redirection, multi-touch support, and so on to make the remote machine feel local.
> extraordinary rendition occurred precisely because...were illegal in the US

> an important distinction as compared to simply violating some foreign country's laws to bring someone to (your idea of) justice

Is the important distinction you want to make that its only wrong if your violated a different country's laws and not your own (personally i'd view that as worse)? Otherwise i struggle to see what the distinction you're trying to point out here is.
In Germany they often have special nozzles that add some foaming agent to the water to create a water-based foam. They might also have a couple of foam fire extinguishers for cases where you need something that isn't water.

I think the general practice for EVs around here (in larger cities at least) is to extinguish it with water, then put them in a container full of water for 24 hours.
Cardio seems to be key to a healthy relationship with the plant. I think it has something to do with it accumulating in fat cells but I don't know the mechanism, that's just based on my observation of the difference between healthy and unhealthy tokers.
Thanks a bunch for these detailed answers. In a previous job I guess TigerBeetle was the thing I was searching for.

Maybe this link is also interesting for you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20921572
/me takes 10x tries to get it working!
But Germany can't do that because it would be against Germany's constitution.
> At least Apple is stepping back from the idiotic "flat" design fad and reintroducing a bit of proper GUI.

Looking at the screenshots of Big Sur (my mac is too old to install it), I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, they're doing more skeuomorphism in some places, especially icons. But in some other places, buttons are losing borders for this godforsaken "clean" look. But I do hope that the departure of Johny Ive is going to help with them going back to a good design.

And it's very unfortunate that Apple doesn't have a visionary CEO any more. Tim Cook feels more concerned with investors than anything else.
Generally speaking you are right but please don't talk about "strong" and "weak". Humans are way more complex than that.
It certainly wasn’t “Germany“ that fined YouTube.

Because…

a) anti-lockdown is anti Government

b) the removals are usually done by outsourcing service providers, often ironically by Arvato a subsidiary of Germany‘s biggest media conglomerate and staunch supporter of the lockdowns

and last but not least because

c) it was a regional court that slapped the fine

Note that it did so not because of the „severity“ which it assigned to YT‘s malfeasance, but because big tech is so powerful that it just didn’t care what that local court had ordered in the first place.

100k€ is nothing to google so prepare for bigger sums until their service desk responds to the rule of law.
I would never consider getting fired over a tweet as a trivial matter, but he is fortunate to be doing well.

Who do you think was properly fired/ostracized for tweets?
It's been tried plenty of times. P2P software is really complex but the use case is people who aren't willing to pay, so maintaining the software isn't sustainable.
really? i thought it's purpose was to take us back to the good old days of sellable proprietary binary blobs instead of the more open HTML/JS/CSS stack.
1. Can you give a use case for a website that needs no security what so ever?

2. Don't. Your web host should be doing it for you.
I tend to dislike photographs of myself. I once spent Christmas at a gathering hosted by a photographer. He spent the evening walking around taking photographs of people/the general goings on. I remember seeing the photographs after and looking at myself/others and thinking "The respect that the photographer has for the people in these photographs is immense". And yeah we all seemed to be having a good time, but there's some extra layer of dignity/worth/soul that he managed to endow everything with, and I felt so grateful to be able to see myself captured in that way. Your comment reminded me a bit of that.
I've lived about as good a life as it is possible to live, and I still totally understand someone who prefers the void. Sometimes I prefer the void, especially when I contemplate what is likely to transpire in the next few decades given current trends, particularly with respect to climate change.
As a Tesla fan myself, I was surprised at how fast comments critical of Tesla comments get downvoted. I commented on a thread a couple of weeks ago about Model S deliveries and quickly got multiple downvotes for what I thought was a pretty innocuous comment.
Some things just work well the way they are and don't need change.
This is part of why I read my email as text (in emacs, though that's certainly not mandatory).
People always bring up the Pinto case as if the lesson is not to build crap that explodes when in fact the lesson is that PR and public perception matters more than the reality as the numbers lay them out.
> flash drive

Make sure to get the mobile devices too.

But yeah, that is the solution. Works great on all platforms.

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The only time you run into problems with tech is if you try MITM/corporate proxy shenanigans.