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On the glass-half-full side of this: we're getting those communities again! Here on HN, on reddit, for certain topics on various social media (there are pearls there too), on Mastodon, various blog authors, Ars Technica, Quanta, etc. [1]

It's just fragmented - i.e., catering to a specific group. Because if it isn't, it's awesome for 5 minutes and then monetization rot sets in.

[1] None of these work for everyone; conversely, all of these are seen as great things by some and have people who prefer that one thing over others for its quality.
Are you asking in terms of Market Cap? Employee Satisfaction? Innovation (may not translate directly to revenue) ?
I think all these companies are here to stay, they are not going away quickly.
> Who thinks they can analyse consciousness into more fundamental elements?

I do. Considering consciousness, a property of animals on a planet in a star system, irreducible and more fundamental than, say, quarks and bosons, seems laughably wrong to me. On the same level of wrong as medieval "geocentric" world views. I have a hard time imagining how those accomplished physicists think this way..
Calling the CBC “Government approved journalists on the government payroll” is an extremely misleading description of what is an overwhelmingly common situation in English speaking democracies.

Canada has the CBC, the UK the BBC, Australia the ABC and NZ TVNZ and associated entities. None of these are Pravda, they’re all arms-length, independently run organisations.

I’m sure they’re all far from perfect (I’m happy to share my opinions on the non-CBC ones in an appropriate thread) but what media organisation is?
Why 200 years, but not 1000?
First sentence sounds like a compliment, so I can imply that he likes the guy. And the second one is specific enough about him tweeting about taxing the rich. You might need to block *ycombinator.com in your hosts file for the day.
If I said it's fun to listen to him, it means I find him likable.
And I did mention one specific issue I didn't like/disagreed with him on, which was him spewing BS against taxing the rich.
Meat is literally traded as a commodity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Hog
I'll bite. I've read all the arguments the creators of golang made for not including generics. They are just as true now as they were when the language was created, and yet generics have now been added. Moreover, they have been added as part of golang 2.0, so any breaking changes that turned out to be needed could have been made now anyway. I think it's pretty reasonable to dislike a language that refuses to implement a basic feature for essentially no reason.
Measuring humus is a great start to measuring soil quality. Simply looking at the 'black' left on ones hands after feeling the soil is a great start.
It is an established science (soil management), just not applied in commercial farming very often.
So, it runs a pretty recent version of NetBSD? That's quite impressive. Isn't that sacrilege, though, not to be running AmigaOS?

I did see a YouTube vid last year of an Amiga booting up what I presume to be an old version of Debian. It got there - EVENTUALLY - at least proving that AmigaOS was a vastly more efficient of OS (over Debian, at least).
But it's not heavily discounted. The markup is just lower. The way these affordable appartment laws are typically written, they are still allowed to profit on those appartements. A typical appartment costs around 250-350$ per square foot to build.

It's more profitable for them to sell appartements at 700$/sqft for only half of them to sell, costing them 350$/sqft to build, than to sell for 400$/sqft an appartment that cost 250$/sqft to build.

The disaster isn't that there is no access to the pool. The issue is that they're trying to spite the poors and shame them, because they're trying to prevent them from moving in.

If we really wanted, the government could build appartements of better quality and sell them at same price, AND make a profit on it.

As the above commenter said, it's simply a market failure. It has nothing to do with the price of the land or anything, it's that the appartements are seen as an investment asset and will be bought at an exorbitant price eventually, as long as the price of the appartment doesn't fall in that "luxury" building. It's gross resource misallocation.
I mean we bought enterprise zoom before I even heard of it, not just bummed the free version. Someone sold it to us immediately and we adopted it without trying out any of the tools already on the shelf that we also bought.
glibc isn't particularly optimized for startup-time. It also defaults to dynamic linkage which adds several syscalls, and even if it is statically linked, it may dynamically load NSS plugins. (musl gets around the latter by hardcoding support for NSCD, a service that can cache the NSS results).

C11 adds several things that benefit from early initialization (like everything around threads), but GCC had some level of support for most of them before that.
Interesting that you knew and didn't call them out. I've often felt that some folks at my workplace has suspicions but didn't call me out on it since I got my work done. Workplace dynamics are strange.

I'm fully ok with being let go first if there is a "revolution". I've never been let go or fired before, but I'm not willing to go the extra mile for the "opportunity" to not be let go if the company has issues.
I thought most every Russian was over it after laughing for a bit about the last name of the VKontakte founder, Pavel Durov. At least I didn't make this association immediately when I saw the name of this project.
shame the people he might hit and kill as a result of "the game" don't get a choice.
Well, there's always vixra..
What is the virus viability period?

I'm just asking for a standard deviation on "so low".
Becoming a landlord and offering below market rent is an interesting suggestion I've never considered. Previously I've had concerns about buying property with the intention to rent because by purchasing the property at all I'm applying upward pressure on housing prices. Its definitely worth thinking about, thanks!
That article only looks at 10 counties: "Of the 10 places we examined, San Francisco had the second highest overdose rate in 2020 after Harris County, which contains the city of Houston."

If you look at more data, you see that even in California (https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/california/2021/mea...), SF is not at the top (Lake, Mendocino and Inyo rank higher). I'm not saying drug use is not a problem in SF. I'm just saying it's not the primary reason why we have a big homeless problem.

That said, compare with Ohio (https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/ohio/2021/measure/f...) where there are dozens of counties that more than double SF's overdose rate. And still, their homelessness rate is a fraction of California's.
We’d end up in a world full of absolute junk like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Good stewardship is valuable, not just from an economic perspective.
I don't necessarily trust my memory from 20 years ago, but I do recall both the initial VHS release and the DVD version I got a couple years later both having the green tint. It's one of the things that floored me as an impressionable teenager.
I really liked this documentary!

Kiss the Ground (2020) https://www.netflix.com/title/81321999

Some striking pictures of two fields next to each other, and really inspiring grit by intelligent farmers
Thanks for that.

What a great thread supporting the choices that Linus & the core team made at the time, given the hindsight we now have.

I'm not sure I would have agreed with Linus in '99 (and I was doing a Phd in the OS networking space then!).

Your bigger picture quote is great too. In academia it is easy to get yourself stuck in local minima, unable to see the better path beyond the hill of similar research surrounding you.
I'm not sure how facebook fares in big cities, but back where I'm from - a small rural town, facebook has pretty much replaced everything. It's the de facto digital community place.

Want to get regular updates from local businesses, local government, hobby groups, sports and cultural events? You'll find it on FB. Sure, most of those also have their own dedicated websites or similar, 90% of the most recent info comes to FB first.

Same goes for community groups, public announcements, and what not. Older people (50 and up) are well-established on FB, and have no plans to move anywhere else. So it might be true that FB has become a "boomer platform", but at least those users are very active and very loyal. Many of these older users get all their news and updates via FB.

I'd imagine that this would be the case in similar towns and places.
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> GDP per capita, scientific research output, social mobility, and life expectancy

These are already incorporated as a part of multiple studies like Good Country index, or Human Freedom index. Having them again would increase their weight. I had many more studies/factors but then narrowed them down to those that have Pearson correlation less than 0.8.

> I am kinda of skeptical about the value of Olympic medals per GDP.

My goal was to have as many uncorrelated factors as possible, that make sense. Medals per GDP, means a country investing in sports or generally in good health.
> At risk of being one of the nitpickers; I do quite enjoy reading caveats

Caveats are sometimes in order. Other times not.

It depends...
Not OP, but 10 or 15 years ago sure maybe. The problem is we can't look at it now that Amazon is huge and deregulate. If we deregulated now, Amazon will absolutely destroy any new competition.
well written, thanks OP
Who said 200 years?
If someone writes a best seller and kicks the bucket, it'd sort of suck that someone like Disney could swoop in and make a bunch of movies without paying a dime of royalties to the author's family. Or that a bunch of publishers can have a field day republishing the best seller diluting all the work of the original publisher.

But on the flip side, 90+ years is really WAY too long.

Cut it to 20 years. Long enough to capture the initial buzz, but not so long that we end up with shit staying under the mouse's thumb forever.
My point is that India and Bangladesh were colonies as well, but they are quite a bit more functional than your typical African country.

You have a fair point that African countries have more diversity than Singapore, but that begs the question-what makes diversity a bad thing?
The counter-argument to this is that in a functioning democracy, people would actually have the ability to think about things like copyright, vs. scrambling to get adequate healthcare or education, while knowing their tax money would do meaningful things about crime instead of whatever they're doing now.
One counterexample to this might be the field harvesting of bison. Starting to see more 'artisanal' buffalo ranching that stress the positive ethics and efficiency of slaughtering in the field as needed. Of course, they still do need a partnership with a local processor to make field harvesting work.
Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking
The New Way to Learn About Supply Chain and Logistics
Mind sharing year/make/model of car? That's crazy.
ah yes, the casual arrogance of treating other people's lives as just 'rounding errors'.

The only fortunate part, I suppose, is the kind of personality disorder that thinks/acts that way is likewise a rounding error.
Perhaps you underestimate the breadth of readership on HN.
I wouldnt say it is disingenuous, but rather tautologous (true in virtue of the statement).
Ind Ag is more efficient at producig food. Europe was starving until modern mechanised ag. But now we have too much and it is poisoning the world and we ned to move to the next solution: integrated ecological management.
Everyone in this particular thread should watch the video linked in the footnote of the article. (I had forgotten this post was a link to an article and not the video, and was scratching my head at why people were even having this discussion).

Edit: tl;dr of the video:

- The Matrix had some green tint

- the sequels had even more green tint

- a remaster of The Matrix used the sequels as a reference and remastered The Matrix to be much more green than the theatrical release

- the 4k remaster is less green and looks more like the theatrical release

From the article it looks like on top of that HBO Max somehow got a bad version of the less green 4k version
Pick the platform that you know well and will get you a working app to customers as quickly as possible. If you have a web background that’s probably electron. Ignore the HN hive-mind gate keeping about Electron, it’s irrelevant. If it gets your idea out the door quickly it’s the one to use.

No one really cares if your app is an “inefficient” electron app of it solves their problem for them.

Electron may be arguably “heavy on memory” but it certainly isn’t sluggish, just look at VS Code (without poorly written plugins) or Slack, both are amazingly fast.

Also you mention it’s a “note taking” like app, if you need a rich text editor using a web browser based platform allows you to use all the incredible wysiwyg/rich text editor toolkits available.

There will always be the option to rewrite the app in a native platform later if you are successful.

Annother bonus with going the hybrid web/electron route is it very easy to extend to mobile later with something like Capacitor.
In places with a less-established legal system it's harder to make money by above-board entrepreneurship and keep it instead of handing it over to local strongmen (two colorful examples that have stayed in my memory and unlike many others have become public and have also been described in non-Russian media - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/valery-pshen... and https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-embassy-ru... , but of course those are the exceptions because the usual result is complying with threats and handing over your business or most of it). But it's not really about Russia, it's a general issue with parallels in other countries as well. And of course, there's the issue of the local market; the financial advantages for a skilled tech person going towards entrepreneurship legitimately are less attractive in most places compared to USA; heck, even EU potential tech entrepreneurs often just go 'across the pond' to start their business.

If you can't get a work visa to a first world country, you do have less options than someone already living there; and the salaries offered by first-world "international software companies" in their remote subsidiaries tend to be 'according to local market rates' (the same "several thousand dollars per month" mentioned by the parent poster is a decent rate) and thus not as competitive with "black entrepreneurship" which pays according to global standards.
I quit facebook (as a user, never worked for them). I may drop Netflix. I've been mad at apple ever since I bought a powerbook that crapped out within a year and a few months, just outside the warranty (I never bought the extended, it was Mac, they never break), and was told I'd have to pay $350 to fix it (I didn't damage it in any way, it was just a turkey of a product), but I'm still using an iPhone. Amazon prime remains immensely popular in my household both for movies and tv shows and ordering gifts, books and groceries, and while I'd like to to use it less, I don't see that happening. I use Firefox and duckduckgo as much as I can, but still use gmail, google docs, search, and google cloudplatform and AI notebooks - the latter extensively.

No idea if my own personal preferences or needs have anything to do with overall appeal or decline.

I worked for Sun Microsystems once, late 90s-2001. A lot of people figured the dot com thing would take a tumble, but felt good about Sun's prospects (as workers and as an investment) because Sun made real tangible things, servers and workstations.

Amazon, at the time, was a bookstore with a "dot com" tacked on to the end.

Apple hadn't yet released OS X and was often accused of coasting on good looks and being pretty.

There was no facebook and wouldn't be for a few more years... there was "the globe", friendster, a few of those. When I was at Sun, I sat in an office that is now facebook.

Google was around, though a lot of people were saying search was no longer a differentiator, and that the important thing for a search engine was to become a portal and be "sticky", and be a bit more like a content provider, entertainment hub, and so forth.

The people who thought Sun was a good bet made perfect sense - in retrospect, they had it wrong, and some people accurately pointed this out at the time... but you could make a reasonable case for Sun.

So... just sayin'
@platzhirsch do you know how long usually it takes from clicking "apply" button, to 1st interview with technical team?

can you also share bit about interview process, are they leetcode questions?
The value of USD vs other currencies. Noting of course the other currency values also change. Comparing August 2018 and today.

USD vs the pound: 1:0.78 -> 1:0.74 = down 5%

USD vs Yuan: 1:6.86 -> 1:6.36 = down 7%

USD vs Euro: 1:0.86 -> 1:0.89 = up 3%

USD vs CAD: 1:1.31 -> 1:1.28 = down 2.5%

For inflation all these countries are targeting 2% annual inflation, so around 6-7% total inflation.

So the most pessimistic view would seem to be USD vs Yuan and 7% from inflation, so maybe 14% comes from changes in "value"?

Anyway, that's "only" ~$400 million :D
Very interesting! Is the music an intentional blended track or an artifact of generation?
> Omicron is so much milder

It's milder when measured by overall hospitalization rates (covering vaccinated + unvaccinated + past infection), but is there evidence that it is milder for unvaccinated individuals specifically? Genuine question, happy to learn.
If you had kept reading you would've actually gotten to the part where he addresses that.
Yes, it's certainly good, but the fact that we have to pay 2k$ typically per publication is still noteworthy. And that money goes from universities/grants/government/funders to something, but not to referees. I don't quite think that typesetting (given that most articles are submitted in LaTeX form) or serving the articles on the web is worth that much money. So I'll personally still submit to journals without page charges and upload pre-prints on arxiv.
I’m fine with copyrights being longer as long as company’s have to actually pay for it. Something like 3% gross revenue. We could minimize shell companies by limiting infringement fines to be based on the copyright payment. So if Disney hides Mickey Mouse behind a 30 cent company then violations are only worth 30 cents.
The problem with remakes and adaptations of existing franchises is that they all basically follow the same safe and tested structure. So they are boring and feel all the same because they basically are.

I might argue that this phenomenon is too a byproduct of copyrights. In a world were everyone can create interesting things on any IP, there's no market for cookie-cutter adaptations. People watch cookie-cutter adaptations and remakes because it's the only way to experience the characters and worlds they like. If they had another option they probably just skip the reboot and go watch the new take from a different studio or director.
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Well said - it is among my biggest annoyances with the web. Reviews are almost always packaged into best-of or top-X lists. The quality of the Wirecutter is gradually trending down but it is still the website I use to find the "best" of something. I don't have to waste time sorting through hundreds of list-spam sites.