skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely pales next to something as egregious as disposable tech that sells in the millions and only has a lifespan of 2 years tops like AirPods.

They will still be washing up on beaches 100 years after every single person involved in their design has passed.

Whole electronics industry needs to take this stuff more seriously, we need more replaceable batteries and storage, right to repair on a global level and laws against the sort of thing Apple does with their repair pricing where the repair costs like $50-100 less than a new device.
At a lot of workplaces (mostly old-line industrial companies), programmers are the bottleneck because there aren't enough of them. This can lead to feelings of being used because seemingly everyone needs you to do something for them. This can trigger a generally sour outlook. I don't think there's a solution for the first problem, but you can change your outlook and see the constant work as job and career security. Also it's good to remember that the people with lots of downtime or makework at their job aren't necessarily shirking; they just don't have the tools to move forward without you.
This was always the logical consequence when big tech companies started listening to various requests from random countries about their own domestic laws. One wonders what would today look like if they only enforced US law and told the other countries to fuck off and block them if it was really that necessary for national security or whatever reason they give.
That's quite a reductive view of the rest of the animal kingdom. There are plenty of animals that appear to have some degree of sentience and self-awareness, and every living thing cares about its own survival. We may have the best understanding of the situation on a global scale, but it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to imagine that, for example, some marine mammals have a good understanding of the declining conditions in the world's oceans, especially given how widely they migrate.
In the post announcing libadwaita, it said that the Adwaita stylesheet "including its HighContrast and HighContrastInverse variants" was going to become part of the library. So don't worry, it's not going anywhere!

GNOME as a project does put a lot of effort into accessibility, they're not just going to throw those themes away. I think the key realisation here is that they consider them to be Adwaita variants, not entirely new themes.
Not to say I am generally in favour of sanctions, but they did help in South Africa's case.
Obviously it can compensate since they signed something that stipulated it would compensate:

> and had signed a deal with the others that unless they were offered a well-defined but ridiculously high price, that the original founders could buy back the shares to take back control.
>How does the site get the images?

Guessing via things like:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/17/nytfrontpage/scan...

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?...

https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/html5/desktop/prod...
UX design uses a large number of a/b tests. By their nature, no a/b test involves consent.
From what I gather it was an unexpected invitation for the companies. They learned about it only a day before.
Bitcoin is designed to waste as much energy as possible. Even if the energy companies waved a magic wand and had a huge amount of renewable energy onboard tomorrow, the end result would be the miners would continue to consume the energy from fossil fuels, but they would also consume all the renewable energy too.
Check out the investigation that Reagan pursued, the one in which he coined the phrase "Drain the swamp" and anchored the rest of his small-government ideas:

> Be bold and work like tireless bloodhounds, don't leave any stone unturned in your search to root out inefficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission

You can find something similar in nearly every administration in the last 20 years. Want a Democratic example? Here's Al Gore on Letterman, talking about how government ashtrays are too expensive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQHyK3aUvJs

You can totally argue that government should be more efficient - and there are lots of people interested in that area, many of whom work for governments. But thinking that nobody is interested, or nobody is campaigning, or nobody is trying to create efficiency, is unbelievable.
In my view, the best craft/design facilitates easy access to content or functionality without us even noticing its presence. It “just works”, unobtrusively. Typography had centuries to figure this out.
Image editing.

And for buttons that only work via click events.
Doing other stuff with the system likely preempts the slowdown. Someone in another thread reported that just moving their mouse increased refresh rate.
That's true. But that's everyone. I've yet to meet a single person who is willing to make the personal sacrifices needed to actually help the world.

You get a bunch of normal people (i.e. 'peasants' if you wish) sitting around talking about how to save the environment while eating fruit grown in a faraway land and trucked to them in a refrigerated truck.

Everyone wants to say the solution is that other people should change the way they do things, not themselves.
I guess it depends whether you think we should let adults to risky things.

Most libertarians believe that we should let people do what they like provided they don't harm others, which includes experimenting on their bodies to change their gut flora or genes.

I say let people have their freedom, even if they use it in risky ways you find stupid, whether that's skydiving or anal sex or changing their genes.
Given that MailChimp has zero outside investment though, none of that applies, and 50% of the buyout price does actually go directly to the founders.

If employees had options/stock, it would be worth exactly as much, since there’s no preferred shares or outside investment to make good on first.
Doesn’t Java tend to have a lot of cleverness/magic? Pretty crazy runtime codegen, reflection, etc? Spring and other DI frameworks seem overly clever to me, as do many ORMs. I guess my standard for a simple, minimal-magic language is Go.
They're working on colour choices within Adwaita, which is basically what Android 12's Material You stuff is doing (that's just AI-powered and automagical).

What Android isn't adding is the ability to plug in a library that completely changes the way all the widgets render and which everyone writing applications has to step very carefully around because you never know what anything you write is ever going to look like (but you know users will moan about it).
I'd like to see the comparisons in waste of the Bitcoin ecosystem and the dollar ecosystem.
So actual teeth (arrests) in policy works? U.S should make notes. We're due for new treason (aiding a foreign adversary) laws that cover global companies.
Yes, that was one point of his that I recognized that individuals can act on. As an example, cancel your monthly Netflix, Spotify, etc.

Wasn't a lot we could do about the others.
> That's just an outright lie.

Your citation literally contradicts your rebuttal!

> By November 2013, Google's search market share in China had declined to 1.7% from its August 2009 level of 36.2%

^ that's literally in the Wiki article you posted! So I have no idea why you're assuming I'm lying (which is an accusation that I'm intending to deceive you ffs) nor even why you think that link backs up your claim when it literally states the same thing I had (their Search product sucked (due to censorship) so they redirected to HK and focused on other products).
>"not sneer down at people who bring up fairly reasonable questions"

Downvoting reasonable posts that do not fit somebody's point of view without providing any constructive explanations is of course way better.
This is such a beautiful post. Easy reading. It's good the author got over his struggles and documented here. Wish the author well.
Tim Cook's era. Steve Jobs Keynote is still the Gold Standard.
People change, their priorities & interests change. They owned the company, they paid their employees salaries - beyond that they owed them nothing unless otherwise negotiated. It just sounds like sour grapes.
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Ask HN: Analyst opinions on internet stocks from the late 90s?
Nowadays, it seems to be common opinion that most internet stocks in the leate 90s had no real business model and had to go out of business sooner or later.

I would like to read some analyst opinions from that time.

Any ideas where to find them?
He is referring to Moldbug's idea of the Cathedral. I'd link to some texts but I don't want to get banned so you'll have to search for yourself.
Same on iOS.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a documentation site with a loader that goes multiple seconds.
"Having done the job in a previous life there are a lot that are really good out there that don't get a lot of press."

Assuming you had access, I am not asking for any specifics at all, but did you know ANYTHING that is remotely interesting as part of the job?

Anything from "There are aliens, we have plasma weapons" to "we actually figured out a way to fix enamel" or "sleeping 6.8213 hours is actually more efficient than any other number". Basically, does the "intelligence community" actually have any interesting information other than some backdoors, a lot of data dumps, and stealth helicopters that crash (or maybe just tail props thrown around to mislead).
I'm sure you know it but it has to be said that the "it uses renewable energy" argument is the dumbest argument ever. That means it takes renewable energy reserves away from something useful like replacing coal, gas etc. If we were already at 100% renewable energy then sure... but at this point in time it's just the dumbest argument ever.
I am willing to take less money and comp to work for a person and mission I consider to be idealistic.

If this person then turns their back on that for a huge immediate payout, I can sort of understand it, but it still pisses me off.
> contribute to open source projects like OpenBSD

The idea of contributing to OpenBSD is fine, but it would be wise to make friends with those in power first (perhaps especially Theo) before expending too much time and effort on coding.
>You realise it's been there for many years before being discovered by one of the millions of Java developers out there, yeah? It goes at least as far back as JDK 8.

Obviously, since it was me that just spent the last few days explaining stability and migration options went downhill so fast after 8 we got stuck there for production systems.

Do you?

>Those of us who have been around the block a few times have learned to trust data; if there's any trend in the JDK's stability, it's upward. Our process is so much more careful and the testing more exhaustive than it's been in the 8 time-frame.

But adding and removing objects to/from an arraylist was somehow missed from that exhaustive testing?
Or really just not considered an important feature for java to worry about?

Better to spend the dev time deleting security manager, because no one in the ecosystem wants or needs to manage application security from java code?

All that really just sounds like intentional sabotage to me.
While this argument does seem to follow the science (I'd have to dig into a few studies to see the details), it doesn't address the policy question of if people should give up their right (US) to own a firearm to protect themselves on the off-chance they become suicidal. And an even deeper discussion about if we should allow some suicides. Two of three people I know who killed themselves with guns were older men slipping into dementia who didn't want to endure that and put their families through that. Seems both rational and reasonable to me, but others may differ. This is also a pretty well-known scenario - killing oneself when facing a prolonged terminal illness, and would be interesting to see how the research treats these cases.

To be fair, the third was a tragic case of a young man who's life was ruined by the justice system's enormous penalties for supplying alcohol to a minor (20 yo at college). Although, theoretically this suicide should not have been with a gun since that offense is a prohibiting felony.
I really like .NET, but I feel like their GC implementation is really lacking in performance. Their codegen is great, that's why their focus was on trying to reduce the amount of allocations in the past few releases.

I've recently written a pretty compute-heavy app in .NET 5 that generated some garbage (mostly nursery stuff), and I tried to run it on a 16-core CPU.

The results were disappointing, even with the Server GC, mainly due to the fact that the GC still does a ton of stop-the-world pauses, and the amount of garbage basically scaled linearly with the number of threads.

My benchmarking results indicated that adding more than 8 threads were basically pointless, since the increased garbage meant that more time was spent in STW GC mode.

I 'fixed' the perf issue, by eliminating all GC allocations, which alone resulted in a 2x speedup per thread, and allowed basically perfect scaling across cores.

In the day and age where you can rent 64 core CPU VMs for $2/hour, I wish they would spend more engineering effort on fixing this.
Permutation city is a great read for anyone interested in these sort of thought experiments.
Thanks! I haven't thought about drone performances. In retrospect, it's a good starting point. I've seen plenty of videos of drone swarms being synced up to produce shapes and animations.

> Maybe one day in the distant future (if we haven't annihilated each other first) we'll have the technology to built smart grains of sand. But it's seems pointless theorising about something that might just as easily be deprecated by some other fantasy device by our current technological capabilities.

Maybe. But I feel this isn't pointless - I find myself constantly returning to this topic whenever I follow seemingly unrelated avenues of idle curiosity (e.g. "how to build self-maintaining systems", "how to do in-orbit construction" , "how to get rid of household cleaning chores", "how to build a food replicator", "ooh isn't biotech kind of fun", etc.). I think we'll eventually start building "smart matter" at some scale. Might be nanometer. Might be millimeter. Might be meter. Each of those scales has its own physics regime, but I think the concepts behind self-organization will be common. And we're already working on those ideas when studying biology at molecular and cellular level.

> When I've looked this stuff up in the past I've found most of the time it was proprietary.

Do you remember any names? Might be that some of the research is released. Or maybe my employer has access.

> However I have seen papers doing similar work (in the sense that there is transferable logic) in a two dimensional fields, eg matrix reordering.

Thanks, I'll look it up.
You write programs so short and uncomplex that you rarely need to free memory?
You're incorrect, garbage collection would be the biggest problem for that use case. You have to be really careful even with your C/C++ code, warming up the branch predictor between packets etc, see my article for some pitfalls: https://rigtorp.se/virtual-memory/
Doesn't seem to take much Googling to find some reputable looking sources...

> China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels, says report

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57124636

> There’s a good chance your cotton T-shirt was made with Uyghur slave labor... Much of the world’s cotton comes from the Uyghur region, where the Chinese government is ethnically cleansing its Muslim minority. Fashion conglomerates know this

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/09/cotton...

> Despite having initially denied the existence of camps, authorities later described them as “vocational training” centres. Nevertheless, satellite imagery indicated that an increasing number of camps continued to be built throughout the year.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/eas...

EDIT: I was confused by the downvotes given that the above aren't exactly fringe outlets. I imagine people may be conflating the mention of "Apple" and "slave labour" in the parent comment. I'm not supporting the idea that Apple are using slave labour in China - I have no idea on that front. (And if you reread the parent it's not necessarily what they were suggesting either.) The sources above merely seem to show that there are reports in general of forced labour and forced detention in China. That said... this was the result of quick first-page Googling and I'm admittedly pretty ignorant on this topic.
Ruby (MRI) also has a GIL
As a Russian I say they should have hired "martyrs" from opposition onto the jailable positions. Not having "martyrs" on these positions saved Putin's regime a lot of face, of actually persecuting a famous companys' local division directors for not censoring the internet. Now they know how to force these companies to do what they want, and do it quickly.
Don't stay that. You get an instant stream of down votes...

Edit: even pointing it out gets me down votes :D
> Ultimately he is advocating for a political solution for what he believes is an economic problem.

I think the larger point he is making is that if someone doesn't do something about unbridled "Corporate Capitalism", there will be blood in the streets. Government might be the only actor capable of going toe to toe with such a behemoth.
Everyone else? Most languages have GC and Go has had a low latency GC for almost a decade IIRC.
> with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided

I think your ideas are adorable. An armed populace is extremely effective in curbing government crackdown on people and yes, that is even true for small arms weapons aside from the fact that US soldiers would probably defect en masse. You think they would roll out the tanks? Even if they did, that is a fight no army could ever win. The Taliban started with sticks and stones and ended with attack helicopters.

I am not from the US and I don't think there is a more successful democracy or nation for that matter, so maybe other can learn a bit. The French Revolution was armed and an armed populace is a classical fear of rulers and the motivation for weapon laws.

There are advantages for policing of course. Policemen in Europe can be relatively sure they aren't fired upon in many cases and that results in completely different form of conduct with state executive forces. But there are other arguments for the US to allow arms, for topological and geographical reasons alone.
Not to mention you presumably don't throw your old iPhone in the garbage after you upgrade.
That's interesting. The mainline builds seem to require running dism.exe with admin rights, and the preview builds require running "wsl.exe --install" with admin rights. Curious how you got around that.
> >he's a racist

> No, he is not.

Yes, he is.

For example, he never distanced himself from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNJiO10SWw

Even if you don't speak Russian, the message is clear. People in the USA have been labelled as racists for much lesser offences.

https://globalvoices.org/2013/07/25/ethnic-slurs-haunt-alexe...

A quick google “Navalny racist” will bring many sources, some of them in English, that points to his various racist incidents.
One problem with golang's wasm target is that the generated binary is huge. For instance, I checked app.wasm of this documentation site and the four examples listed at https://go-app.dev/built-with:

0. This site: 14.9MB, 3.4MB gzipped;

1. 13.5MB, 3.2MB gzipped;

2. 15.4MB, 3.2MB gzipped;

3. 4.7MB, 1.2MB gzipped (this is an extremely bare bones demo);

4. 25.0MB, 5.4MB gzipped.

You can save a bit more with brotli, but not much more. I built an app with golang wasm last year, but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn't justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli'ed payload.

I guess you can make some huge savings if tinygo has enough capabilities to cover all your needs. Not sure if it's possible with this library, but if it is, they certainly haven't explored it, hence the 3.4MB gzipped wasm for a documentation site.
The claim in the article was "invented in 1947"; a patent is by definition granted for an invention, regardless whether a working device was built or not.
You really think that AirPods are a larger cause of e-waste than dedicated Bitcoin mining equipment? Or are you comparing dedicate mining equipment to all consumer technology combined?
When I worked at Cisco years ago fresh out of college, they offered an Employee Stock Purchase Program -- you could put up to X$ towards purchasing Cisco stock over the quarter, and the stock was issued at the end of the quarter at min(start_price, end_price) * 0.85.

I haven't worked at another large corporation since then but I thought that was fairly generous and I still have quite a bit of CSCO from that program.
I'm not sure how you transition away from capitalism without government involvement? Some kind of "people's movement" to embrace, oh, I don't know, coops?
And older than Ireland's Newgrange - which was built around 3200 BC and is also older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange
>I agree and found myself wondering what Steve Jobs would think of these events.

Likely Junk. And every day it is edging towards more like Google or Microsoft. While Google and Microsoft are trying to do keynote in Apple's fashion.
I have big and complex server in C++. Not a single explicit memory related call in it. STL does wonders in this department.
My comment was neither specific to Flickr nor whether embeds technically work but on the issue of privacy, security and performance of a website especially since the notion of 'early web' was invoked.
Everything is waste if you don't value it.

Sage.
this is a really cool idea.

Can I make a feature request?

I should be able to search on some tag like 'Afghanistan' and get the pages from the papers around the world with articles on it.

Likewise for yesterday's pact US/UK did with Australia : Would love to quickly scan what the editorials in US, Europe, China, India etc have to say on it.
In this case, public markets. Public companies are flush with cash and finding few places to park it to gain a positive return. Acquisitions, stock buy-backs, and similar are ways to juice overall return. Intuit gains a recurring revenue stream and access to hundreds of thousands of small businesses, which is their bread and butter.
Fair enough. To be clear, I agree with what UK is doing by opening up and removing vaccine passports, regardless of how much is considered in control or not.

Here in Australia, the lockdowns have gone too far and doing more harm than good. Children and teenagers stuck at home, not learning or socialising properly, is just the beginning of a long list of negative consequences.

The unknown degree to which long-term lockdown spawns further harm, is a politicised gamble. Every day that gamble becomes less worth it.
I think it turned out that coal and oil are mostly heavily processed microorganisms. Trees never end up so deep.
The app is still available in other countries, so in order to install it in Russia one just have to create another Apple account to install it from a foregn app store on the device.
It's still an invention by definition (patent law). Thanks for the article; notably the article makes no doubt that the invention by Lilienfeld would have worked; apparently he just didn't build it himself.
Have you ever been part of a company that was acquired (by a hideous corporate behemoth no less)? It’s fucking horrible. Suddenly you find that requesting a new pen is a 3 day process and the previously free coffee in the cantina now costs 20 cents.
It's the motivator for their employees as well, or did you think they work on profile-creation, all-encompassing tracking and ad-delivery because they honestly believe it's the best thing to do for humanity?