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I’m stupefied as to how someone who didn’t know him socially can miss the CEO of a giant faceless corporation

Would you have called Apple “faceless” if Steve Jobs were still CEO?

I miss Steve Jobs because he did great things and he inspired others to do great things. The world was a more vibrant and creative place with him in it. As a software engineer I have used Apple products to do almost all of my day-to-day work since 2004 and I am thankful I have not had to use Linux, Windows or Android instead. It makes me sad to think of what we might have today if he was still alive.

And in comparison, here on HN, you mention the CEO of company that makes - electric razors? Whose name you cannot even remember?

The fact that Steve Jobs was an asshole to people at times is irrelevant. You value people for their strengths, not their weaknesses.
The single-story house I grew up in in south San Jose, CA had a stucco exterior. This is essentially a concrete-like material spread over chicken wire (hexagonal poultry netting) that is tacked onto the structure. An artistic texturing of the surface is applied as a final step. After drying, it is primed and painted.

The structure was about 30 years old when it became infested with subterranean and flying termites, and required fumigation and major repairs to sill joists and pilings. It took a lot of time, money, and effort to repair it. The land was formerly a cherry orchard.
I’ve found coffee and the occasional 200mg caffeine pill with 400mg of L-Theanine helpful to push through the first day of a multi day fast, when your body is complaining about burning up its glucose reserves.
I tried it for a while, but I never could make it stick (12-8 pm was my window).

What worked for me for energy levels and mood was keeping it to a solid breakfast, lunch, and dinner of healthy food (high protein, no simple carbs) with no snacks in between.
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Without all the bullshit facebook is just AOL messanger and a group calandar, they need it

people need to interact with facebook non-stop for it to remain relavant
I've been using Free Fillable Forms[1] for several years without having to pay money to file either my federal or state taxes. I assume it's also still possible to fill the forms manually and mail them by the filing deadline without having to pay any more than the cost of postage.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
This. The result is what I call the democratic (small d) wobble. Each party gives just enough to win (in their judgement) and the independents choose.

The result is a wobble left for awhile, then a wobble right.
Would Ethiopia be in war now without nowadays radicalization web 'social' platforms?
Its government shut down the Internet several times: officially to save lifes, while oppositors says it's just to perpetuate violence.
We are facing big challenges here, where the danger to arm kids is just a small part.
Unfortunately, the media has scared the shit out of people, and they are so convinced that COVID is an extreme threat to every one, that the evidence that confirms their biases requires zero rigor, while the evidence that contradicts the consensus narrative, like ivermectin being an effective prophylaxis, requires extreme rigor.

My opinion is that both should require extreme rigor mind you.
The vaccine increases immunity even for people who have already been infected.

If everyone gets vaccinated, spread will be lower than if only people who have not already been infected get vaccinated.
>"Arendt was famously only at the trial for like 5 days..."

Besides David Cesarani's "Becoming Eichmann" book from the mid 2000s where he stated Arendt had "only saw Eichmann in action for four days", are there any other references that support this? I've not been able to find any. Also the "in action" in that context specifically refers to Eichmann's testimony not that amount of time Arendt spent in the court room. I'm not sure how "famous" this is. Elsewhere her correspondance with her former teacher Karl Japsers indicates she was there for 10 weeks. That would be about a third of the 8 month trial.
> A new client downloads all current documents and each time a document changes, that document is downloaded again

Those who do not remember Lotus Notes are doomed to reinvent it.
Yes, and specifically the phase Apple went through with excessively over-the-top skeuomorphism. As I recall, after the brushed metal fad had finally ended Mac OS X settled on a decent and fairly consistent look by 10.6, then in 10.7 there was a fresh excess including actual stitched leather textures: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/5/

That OS X release would have been frustrating for its usability and feature regressions even without the skeuomorphic textures, so also getting such heavy-handed, in-your-face design excesses made it a really disappointing release.
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they can't be serious
I remember reading an article about new system calls proposed by Google. It was a scheduler yield system call that allowed the current task to yield its remaining processing time to another task. It would presumably be used to make goroutines more performant.

Not sure if the system call was accepted or if it still exists as Google specific kernel code. I can't seem to find the original article either...
While it did make it (suicidal thoughts, aiui) worse for 13.5%, it made it better for 38% (see https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/mental-health-f... slide 10). Is that better than schools? Is that better than television? Is it better than malls? Is that even good overall or bad overall? How does it compare to competitive sports? What about grades in school?

I mean, we could take the position that if any of these cause any teen girls (or boys) to be more suicidal we should condemn that thing and rid ourselves of it, but I think that would be a mistake.
Impossible that it would receive ethical approval, and for good reason, but it would be fantastic if such a study could be conducted as a double blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial.

The fact the patient knows she has a myriad of doctors looking at her, and that she had to undergo an extremely invasive and unique procedure means we cannot separate the intervention from the response.
The "lean in" people and incentives have made society suffer for profit. Perhaps we can define a better set of incentives that reward companies of people building products.
Ask a Googler about the size of their environment variables.
> Is there a link to the actual findings of the study?

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/research-teen-well-being-a...

> I feel like that statement is cherry picking, and without context there's not much weight to it.

How can you form an option about whether it’s cherry picking if you’re unaware of the context?
Twitch.tv source code leaked to 4chan
> am glad that you (hopefully) aren't my neighbor!

So it's OK for you to have standards: someone who merely doesn't subscribe to the whole white, liberal, upper-middle class socio-econo-political guilt-ridden value system is not fit to live next door to you.

But a library must not have lending standards that even smell of having any socio-economic entanglement.
Even in that case, NFC is just so much more convenient than USB-C (and you don't have to worry about wear & tear on the connector).
Israeli startup to deploy smart road charging infrastructure in Tel Aviv
How do you filter against hiring these types given their talking and schmoozing get them over the HR guard as well as director and above interviewers?
Bob is borrowing a $10 item so he and the lender (Lisa?) put $20 between them into a smart contract until Bob’s tired of the item then the $20 goes to GreenPeace or whoever. Minus gas fees.

Or maybe GreenPeace only gets the money if Bob makes off with Lisa’s blender and they both get their money back if the blender gets returned, dunno?
I think you might be thinking of https://lwn.net/Articles/826860/
And directus! [0] I’m not affiliated, just love it.

[0] https://directus.io
In the past year, I bought a couple hundred picture books for my kids. I average around $4 most of that is shipping charges. Most of the books I get are former library books.
Same for me. In addition to that, having breakfast actually caused me to get hungry again pretty quickly and generally start feeling terrible if I then didn't eat again, whereas without it, I could pretty much go all day, no problem.
Experimental Brain Implant Could Personalize Depression Therapy
For the average HN reader unless you have a strong collaborative process that requires face-to-face most likely you don't need to return to the office. RTO is being driven IMHO by extroverted people who were already on planes and in face to face meetings prior to the pandemic and that's how they're used to working. I remember reading in the press that one person lamented losing business to another company because his was still in lockdown and the other company's salespeople got on a plane and closed the deal.

So for a certain kind of person there's probably a mix of FOMO and also for them face to face was always how they did business and it's hard for them to understand there are plenty of people who just don't need to operate that way and never did.
Singapore population sees biggest percentage drop since 1950
Start reading the actual rules about 'taxpayer'. Typical people voluntarily contribute because they don't want the hassles of learning and implementing effective strategies. Basically, if you submit a yearly signed document to the IRS then you are at their mercy.

Or be like rich entrepreneurs and run everything through a business (or foundation like Clintons).
City of London Faces Brexit Talent Drain
I just made an anonymous phone number at textnow.
Ask HN: Why are you working on Facebook?
From a layperson, outside ignorant perspective, FB seems to be in a difficult place. For quite some time now, the sentiment I’ve seen among “people in the know” is that there are fundamental issues at facebook that are not being addressed, and having watched all of todays testimonial, a few things stand out as real issues. FB itself understands:

The ML used to protect users on FB is only localized into 20 or so languages, not all the languages supported by FB.

In the context of rabbit holeing, the ML used to protect users and the ML used to make money are at odds with each other, so the ML used to make money is weighted more heavily.

When issues of the potential for creating a civil war in various regions across the world due to misinformation amplified by the first two issues, the CEO opted not to change course.

A non-statistically insignificant number of teenagers attribute strong urges towards suicide due to an inability to protect them.

In theory this all seems net negative, and so
I ask this without value judgement, but out of genuine curiosity, why are you choosing to continue working on this product?
I use Rails and Mongo at work. There is a schema, enforced declaratively at the application layer (mongoid). With Rails Console querying the database ad hoc is even easier than with SQL, thanks to mongoid api and Ruby’s expressiveness.
There are no transactions, but single document writes are atomic.
Performance is pretty good; the one hardship I run into is that the mongoid api is so high level that you don’t see when you’re firing way too many queries at the dB (but that’s an ODM issue, not mongo’s, other ODMs might not do that).
Your random thought led me to this one:

A Raspberry Pi that plugs into the a PCI slot, which gives it power and exposes a virtual serial port along with an Ethernet port that shows up on the host system and can be used to route packets to the Pi. The Pi, meanwhile, has all of the usual GPIO things and maybe even an external connector to expose GPIO outside of the PC case.
Neat idea, though it's not really a sandbox or anything. It's doing a lot of clever renaming and wrapping. Which is all you could do as a browser extension. Still helpful, but the descriptions on the page make it sound like it's a deeper set of protections.
> The New York public library will still charge a replacement fee for broken items

It's a heck of a lot easier to collect that from a deposit your already have.
This is also true. Definitely can't slack off on the couch with a hand in their pants. Even someone with little experience can become perpetually stuck starting at the beginning of their career in low performance if they don't push themselves towards excellence. Slacking off at any point leads to a downward spiral of decay.
The US is a federal republic with an overly powerful and intrusive central government.
As other have said, my experience with Facebook just doesn't mirror the "angryness" and hatred that other people are seeing. My Facebook stream is just every day things from friends I have made through the world. It is very useful for me to maintain a bit of a touch with people I esteem so much but with whom I've list touch through the years.

The "angry facebook" experience to me seems like the moms against heavy metal / twisted sister case: People are seeing a reflection of what their peers share.

If their circles are angry and share disinformation, that's what they will see.
Ah yes. Get rid of Pandora and GoodReads because what they're doing has basically the outcome.
Make sure to exercise, eat well and wake up refreshed in the morning.
Trezor - I've been using one for years and it's great. Also you can backup/restore the seed (so you don't need to register multiple devices).
If they’re using the book in a reasonable way (like a textbook for a course) then I don’t see the problem. If the book warrants extended use then the library isn’t accomplishing its goals better by loaning it out to many people for short periods.
Spin the observer at the centre of the disc, and keep the disc stationary... now what happens?
I worked on DB2 UDB in the 90s, and learnt a lot about DBs through all the improvements in isolation levels. Those were the days when you'd actually have to make some judgement calls about setting specific isolation levels to improve performance. Nowadays you just chuck an SSD and several TBs of memory into the works (or talk to someone about some massively horizontally scaled solution, and distract from the real problem at hand).
Oh, so you're one of those "tax protesters"? GTFO. People like you are worse than useless.
> This just feels like it's going to get abused.

It's not clear what you mean here: the proposal is not changing any user-facing functionality, just making something faster that already existed. As far as I know Python has always had exceptions.
WiFi calling is the answer.
This opinion gets repeated a lot. I’m the complete opposite. I wake up wanting food and have made dinner my skip meal. Seems to work well for me.
Tower PCs are not like Dumbbells. Dumbbells are designed for working out certain muscles for a short period of time. Tower PCs are awkward to carry, and are often really heavy. I could see how carrying a Tower PC up stairs or long distances could injure someone. People do carry their Tower PC to LANs, or to a friends out etc. Someone could add wheels, and mount a handle to the shell of the case to move it around easier. Or just disassemble, and reassemble the PC.
ever wonder why linux supports command line arguments that are 2mb long?
Lots of requests for EF Blackwing 602s [1].

These days California Cedar makes their own version(s) of the Blackwing, with Japanese cores instead of the original formulation. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwing_602

[2] https://blackwing602.com/
A lot of people trafficking this site work in the bay area tech scene and is subject to critical social justice DEI initiatives in the workplace. The DEI doctrine is quite consistently applied across tech.

How would you classify DEI initiatives? Do you find them determinative?
I like MeWe. Not as chummy as Twitter, yet the interface is far more coherent than that of Facebook.
We require driving licenses, age restrict operation of vehicles, require vehicles to operate within parameters (speed limits, gross vehicle weights) and according to standards (traffic signals and markings), and prohibit operation while under the influence of decision or reaction-impairing substances.

Because these are all statistical precursors to accidentally killing someone with a car.
Extremely insightful, I have had the same experience and I agree. I somehow have the ability to "sniff" out these types pretty quickly, something about their conversations give them away.

Here's an real life example: I worked for a small startup years ago and the founder invited the engineering team to lunch at a restraunt. The founder proceeded to berate the waiter for no reason and yell at him, it seemed like completely psychopathic behavior and then I caught the smallest of smiles from him after the waiter walked away beaten up(metaphorically speaking) by the barrage. I knew right then this person was not someone I wanted to work for and put in my notice shortly after.
I did enable it after it failed the first time, but it still doesn't work.
There is a lot of marketing in that blog post but I feel the tldr is that it is a rebranding of forge (their second in-house cloud offering) that will eventually replace their outsourced timescaledb cloud (first offering by aiven).

Am I correct? If so what is the plan for existing customers of those services? Especially since forge didnt support other clouds than AWS last time I checked.
> I'll grant that this is more mature than a tantrum that attacks the critics and spreads rumors and lies about them. Zuckerberg is a more thoughtful and nicer person than Donald Trump.

I wouldn't conclude anything about Zuckerberg's character from this letter. There is absolutely no way he wrote it. I'm sure he signed off on it, but he didn't write it. Some PR crew filled with lawyers and communication specialists wrote it.
Oceanic BECCS is the likely superior route. Kelp and/or phytoplankton farming. Genetic modifications could improve efficiency.

Reforestation is a feel good pipe dream as explained using logic by Phil Mason. Dry weather = fire hazard = no sequestration.
Some of them, yes! At least for machine learning. They also have custom silicon in their phones (and the phones run a Linux).
Great and we should invest in this tech but be weary of politicians who use this as a misdirection. Australia is investing large amounts into carbon capture even though the grid is mostly fossil fuels. It's a misdirection to avoid changing the grid and a corrupt transfer of wealth from regular people to oil and gas firms.
If we go by the content of teamblind, then every company's engineers only care about TC and leveling up.
Most people completely have their head in the sand about how utterly awful the average person is. A massive chunk of what people complain about is simply attributable to the fact that people are monsters, and that global connectivity means we can now all talk to each other without distribution being tightly bottlenecked and controlled (eg publishers, broadcasters, radio, etc). There's little that Facebook is accused of that seems as salient as this fact, and little they could do that would avert much of what we're seeing.

Oddly enough, I've felt for a long time that Facebook is among the most unethical companies out there. It's very weird to see it facing a potential reckoning on the back of such incredibly weak claims.
Can't write a good detective story without a mystery, after all.
It's that I can see the future for a few seconds that bothers me most. Not the “I've been here before” but the “I've been here before and I know what happens next” and that exact thing happens. It's that few seconds of clairvoyance I find superitchy.

I'm fairly rational, however. I'm sure there's an explanation that's not magical.
But not browsers many people use, you have to get them to install and use another browser before the app is even accessible at the most basic level
I think a more apt analogy has advertising as Facebook's fossil-fuel burning, but then I expect severely curtailing fossil-fuel use will severely reduce GDP, which I am guessing is not a common belief around here. (I'm guessing that many around here think that it is essentially just the stubbornness of those in power that keeps fossil-fuel use high, and that even if we force the whole world economy to transition to 100% renewals over, e.g., the next 5 years, things will turn out fine.)
So, your answer to global warming is to move already-generated electricity via truck, instead of wires?
what I fail to fathom today is, when I think back to the late 90s, I had various production rdms, SQL Server 6 (or 7, can't remember), running on something like a Pentium 4, with millions of rows of data in various tables... and the performance was... fine. not an issue.
Where's the value for Mozilla? A >80% reduction in userbase? A staggering loss in their ability to compete and recover their lost userbase due to laying off many of their highly-skilled technical staff?

If this CEO is providing value, I'm not seeing it.
Progressive image loading algorithm can help you do and learn anything
There was a company that tried that in the late 90s early 00s. I think there name was cargolifter
I think the bug in most organizations is that performance is reviewed only by the people above with very little to no input from below.

edit: Took me down memory land to re-visit some truly incompetent and insanely unproductive bootlickers and fast talkers who would lose their job immediately after a 5 min confidential talk with any of their underlings.
- a chair with four even legs placed on any undulating continuous surface can always be rotated such that all four legs touch the ground at once.
Can we have nice things? A technology to alter brain function to actually make peoples lives better and not be abused to make them also complacent, obedient, work twice with half the pay without complaining and buy the highest bidding brand.
Yes, this is similar to transmitting a message faster than the speed of light by moving a very long perfectly rigid rod; a perfectly rigid rod is not realisable and neither is a perfectly rigid disk.
> Maintaining the DHT connection is "expensive", expensive meaning a few packets a minute.

Could power be saved by batching messages?

For example, in Bluetooth Low Energy, much power is saved by the radio waking up infrequently, and only staying on for a brief duration. That's how one makes sensors that run for a year off of coin cells.

I wonder if it would improve the power situation on mobile if the DHT was maintained by far less frequent but larger bursts of network traffic.
Mark, you hired, just like Google and other IT companies did in the midst of the Trump presidency, political activists and now you are surprised these political hires are compromising your business secrets and betraying you? Read their manifesto, they are here is subvert and destroy, not get you good easy PR.

The Silicon Valley can't have it both ways and it's a situation they certainly created, by trying to pander to political activists just for PR reasons but now they acting all surprised when political activists are doing exactly what they say they would do in public or social media? subvert and destroy your business if you don't submit to their need for censorship?

well, prepare yourself for a bunch of heavy regulations as a result, and it will affect ALL STARTUPS as a result.
That's a high bar. Let's shut down malls, competitive sports, grades in schools, hell schools themselves, teen magazines, television, arcades, even suicide hotlines, etc because they all made at least one person feel more suicidal.

And then you could say, well, maybe some of those places didn't do the research. In which case, isn't that worse? If they are making people more suicidal and they don't even care enough to research and find out, how are they possibly going to get better? I would much rather an institution research the harms (and benefits) that it may be causing than to just turn a blind eye.