skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that the question is how you define "profitable".

The current definition of a "profitable company" is all about the stock price increase.

The problem is that manufacturing has a hard, fixed, upper limit on how much you can manipulate your company. Your Thneed(tm) sells for $X--you can't dramatically increase the price per unit (barring monopoly status). You probably can't increase demand dramatically either. You can only reduce labor and R&D to zero. So, the maximum amount of cash you can earn is completely constrained and straightforward to compute. Your stock price has some relation to this and thus also has a limit.

However, if you switch to "financialization", there's no limits. You have margins. You have multiplers. Things are easy to hide and difficult to compute. The stock price goes gangbusters for a while and you have a great "profitable company". Then something goes wrong and suddenly the business needs cash rather than "financial instruments". Then the "financialization" unwinds and kills the core of the company.

The problem is that the "stock market" has become "lottery tickets" instead of "corporate ownership". People demand stock price increases even if the business is quite profitable--this means that "financialization" will always triumph.
Not necessarily but they are frequently morally culpable. The problem is that Collective punishment is indiscriminate. It makes no effort to discern between active objector and protester and a supporter.

Probabilistic Justice isn't just
I doubt there is anything specific about an exact one year holding cutoff, but I'd love to see a source. If anything, the fact that we're having this conversation suggests the long term investment theory has been demonstrated to be either false or uncalibrated as it exists now. I'd also be open to a graduated rate (almost like a vesting schedule) of discounts starting at 1-2 years and ending at 5 years. But do we really need more complexity? Just have it be 5 years and public companies can be long-term focused once again. Markets will survive -- day traders tend to lose money and drop out.
Creative destruction is important, but some businesses are easier to replace than others. How do you create another Intel or Boeing? The start up costs are insane. Even beyond that, there's value in some institutions.
I Have a Message for My Russian Friends - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thanks for the insider viewpoint. Something felt really wrong about how Brendan Eich was ousted.

I now understand it was the first instance of the cancel culture I witnessed.
No, purchasing the original does not grant you the copyright. That stays with the artist unless they explicitly sell it.
For some definition of circle*

If you're approximating, pi is incredibly useful for all kinds of physical things using circles
Thank $deity there's an 'urllib3' that's mostly used from 'requests' to add confusion back.
He is thinking there is at least one person stupider than I.
He is "trying to send a message to Russia" , and following his party directives. Looks like he is more interested in doing US politics than really trying to help anyone.. If he really drinks his coffee every day in the cup that he got from his Russian idol? I doubt it.
That is not OSIs position.

For example: https://opensource.org/node/878
By "Some" I meant different companies sending such no opt-in mails.
This YouTube video about the Webb telescope’s orbital mechanics is fascinating, recommended.

https://youtu.be/ybn8-_QV8Tg
Yes. Please. This so much. Envrinmentally harmful garbage
Nice game. Show you can make a biz from an NFT and your NFT goes up in value too. Just need to keep reminding people of the brand every day for the next 50 years like Coke and Nike do.
"I resent the comparison between advocating a defensive design, and being opposed to literacy."

Perhaps you shouldn't - this is like Conways law, systems tend to mimic the communication systems of their organizations.

When you design a system which encourages a certain philosophy, you create "positive" potential in that direction. By designing and promoting systems which reduce user control, you further the communication model of top down hierarchical control.

Why should I trust Webauthn? What stops it from itself being hacked? People with password managers, no control over authentication, end up less, not more secure. The only way to increase security is modularization - if you don't want phishing attacks to occur, you should isolate the process. You should have more than one password, and you should absolutely not store them all in one place.

There have been several indications in this thread how you can isolate the process, none of them require overly complex, big brotheresque solutions.
Betteridge:

> any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no
Inevitable? It could just as easily come out to -6, and have something else for -2*3 or 2*-3
If Intel's business requires a time horizon of decades and its owners time horizon is a couple years isn't that a problem? I'd propose some portion of a leader's comp should stay in company stock for 10 years even if they leave after 3. That will incentivize them to make good capital investments and train the next generation of leaders.
Why not just treat all stock investment like 401k’s: taxed as income when selling, tax deductible when buying? The deferred income tax still provides an incentive to invest, yet you don’t get a tax break when selling (unless you happen to be in a lower tax bracket between then and and when you sell).
> The CT scanner can create 3-D images of the contents of a bag, allowing TSA officers to rotate the images to better analyze the contents. In the future, the CT scanner may allow passengers to leave laptops and liquids inside of their carry-on bags, TSA officials say.

https://www.courant.com/la-fi-ct-scanners-20180730-story.htm...
>Tell it to the many people who have no idea what it means on a mobile device, or increasingly on desktop websites

The hamburger menu is literally used everywhere. Why should we design things for tech illiterate boomers. The most popular apps and websites use it. It's ubiquitous.
It depends on a lot of things like when you bought the game and who you bought it from. Some issues get fixed over time and some companies are just put out better products than other. A good example of this recently is Hitman 3 which may very well have the most confusing product releases ever.
Not to be that guy, but all of the above works on the Arch Linux install on my ThinkPad.
awesome work, thanks for eliminating the confusion between /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
It is not buyback is inherently evil or wrong. Surely we could all agree if your stock is trading at P/E 1 with no debt it would even make sense to take it private right?

It is using cash as buy back while not giving enough budget to R&D or product improvements. Apple didn't do that. They invested accordingly and still had too much money and didn't know what to do with it. Although one could argue they could invest and bring even more value to their customers. But Tim Cook think those were better for shareholders.

Compared to Intel, they stopped investing in foundries. Partly because of their 14nm were over provisioned and partly because of their broad. Along with their 10nm failures. It really was a perfect storm.
Intro classes to things you’re interested in. A once a week for four-six weeks course will get you enough exposure to become friends with at least one cool person in the class.

Volunteering in the community you live brings a wide array of people and there’s usually downtime for talking.
Isn't this just contributing to the problem? I mean it's like toilet paper in the pandemic. But of course, if you're in business what choice to you have?
And remind me of how our current account has trended in that same period.

In 91 it was just a bit positive. It has fallen off of a cliff since then. We are drastically more dependent on the ability to import cheap goods in a way that is not even close to being offset by imports than we were in 91.

So im sticking eith absolurely not nonsense
I was referring to u/fao_, yes.

You're right that it was a shallow dismissal and not a constructive critical comment. I'm sorry for that poor behavior. Thanks for calling me out.

For the record, I picked up the first book of ASOIAF after loving GRRM's beautiful novella The Hedge Knight, I believe written for the Legends anthology I discovered it in.

I was deeply, profoundly disappointed in it and never touched another book in the series again. It fell so miserably short of The Hedge Knight that I would need multiple pages to fully express my disappointment.
You can always hire more people; my concern would more be the huge lead time required to actually bring a process to market
JITs also support code reloading. Eg normal Clojure(Script) workflow is based on reloading both on JVM and JS platforms. But functions are not altered mid-execution, rather your top level invocation or main loop picks up the new versions of functions from the updated namespaces after reload. This seems more reliable in face of arg function argument changes.
here is my side project: a catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators; a script is using google translate to autotranslate the UI strings and site descriptions into several languages; it is better than nothing, but it is not an ideal solution.

You can see the results here: https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang/blob/master/REA...

I didn't manage to automate the use of DeepL in python;
The translators pypi package (https://pypi.org/project/translators/) tries to automate the REST api of DeepL, but it doesn't seem to work. Are there any alternative solutions for automating DeepL? (Well, i could probably give it a try with selenium)

On the other hand: when you take short descriptions - like labels that appear in a UI, then that's a very hard thing to translate, it is very easy to pick up the wrong synonym, to begin with... It would probably have an easier job with the site descriptions, these tend to be longer texts.
Hector Martin:

>That whole "optimized for macOS" thing is a myth. Heck, we don't even have CPU deep idle support yet and people are reporting 7-10h of battery runtime on Linux. With software rendering running a composited desktop. No GPU.

The hardware is just that good.

https://nitter.net/marcan42/status/1498923099169132545#m
In the near future we could be saying "this is why we can't have nice things" or this could be used as a justification for further reduction of privacy. A remote AI could view every page in a cloud browser and alert us when the page looked like a browser. Come to think of it I heard of a newfangled cloud browser a few months ago. On the "this is why we can't have nice things" area we could have something like the orange dot that shows when an app is using the mic on os x, and makes experiences that involve a mic a bit less immersive. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qhbt4n/how_to_disabl...
I mean it's not just that, right? Investors do not reward long-term, slow-growth policies as much as those which pay out in the next quarter.
Thank you. I thought I was crazy for feeling it was too complex.
I was just thinking about this earlier.

I've read a lot of stuff that says we should panic because population growth is bad, the world has too many people, it's already at or exceeding its carrying capacity, there's no way the whole world can live at Western levels, people in the West are super greedy and borderline evil for living like kings while everybody else starves. You and I need to get a lot poorer to free up resources for Asians and Africans to get out of extreme poverty, and if we object to becoming a whole lot poorer for the benefit of strangers halfway around the world, we're terrible evil racists.

I've also read a lot of stuff that says we should panic because populations are shrinking and aging. Economic growth is fueled by population growth, Social Security in the US and really the whole world's economic system is a Ponzi scheme based on an exponentially increasing population, we're headed for a ton of turmoil and collapse. If America wants to avoid a complete economic collapse, or having to replace its population with a super high immigration level that really ignites political tensions (think Trump presidency but 10 times worse), everyone needs to start having tons of babies like right now.

Is it really the case that positive growth and negative growth are both catastrophes? How does it even make logical sense that there are too many and too few people at the same time? Or is somebody lying? If so, who, and how can we tell?
How many times did this happen since Debian's inception? How much time did it take to fix it when it happened?

Because "few" and "not much" would be fantastic.

Nothing is perfect.
My machine has 8 GB of RAM and I complain about Electron, because it's still sluggish, looks out of place and with how prevalent it is, running 3 instances is not rare (eg Slack+Discord+VSCode), which together eat up easily multiple gigabytes of RAM, and then there's also still my regular web browser.
Not sure if "for the parent" was directed at me or the parent of my comment, but you and I are in complete agreement.
I don't understand why this is news?

Spyware watchdog posted about this years ago. It's been in there at least since 2016, and every time you open Firefox (not start!) it will happily broadcast its geo position information to their geolocation backend. The same goes for the WebRTC related STUN servers, which are always connected to when Firefox starts.

I mean, come on folks. Never trust any software blindly. Use MITM proxy to verify. Use a host firewall like opensnitch.

For the moment the best alternative is ungoogled chromium with ublock origin, even though the CSP headers cannot influence the DNS resolver mechanics in the CEF code.

I am still busy forking webkit into retrokit and it's a shitload of work to remove these tracking features. [1] But a project like this needs more privacy like minded people.

I mean, even the TOR people kind of gave up on this. Just look at their codebase, trying to stub everything anew with upstream changes.

There's no point in trying to race against chrome in "whose browser has the most features", you can't win anyways. I don't care about WebGL or WebGPU, I don't care about WebRTC, I just want privacy back.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit
I mean if we really need leading-edge aerospace or semiconductors protected from the vicissitudes of the market, the government getting more directly involved seems like the obvious answer.
A private full body cancer search MRT (the most expensive diagnostic I could find) costs 1340€ in Germany, many common use cases much less (340 for a joint).

Naturally it‘s free if a doctor decides you need one.
Is it fair to compare which war was worse? The suffering is same anywhere, or do you mean that brown peoples lives are less important? If that is the case then this is really fucked up.
> US and other places

Is there really another "first-world" country on earth with healthcare broken like it is in the US?
I was there when it hummed, and I was there when it failed. This is a gross mischaracterization (of an extremely complex failure) that owes its appeal to a simple and familiar explanation: greed / optimizing for shareholder returns.

I'd love to dish, but there is no simple and salacious story to tell, and it's too soon to talk about it anyway as far as I am concerned (and I imagine their lawyers agree). I do think the emergence of high-margin software companies as providers of mostly high-pay, low-stress jobs (and thus magnets for sharp and motivated engineers or aspiring engineers) was one of many contributing factors. I'd tell you how process engineers in the most critical areas used to work, but you'd never believe me.
> instead of passing the company to his sons he gives control to the chief of strategy who has been with the company for decades

There are two issues here: the wealth and the control of the company. I don't think it would have been terribly noteworthy if he'd split up his ownership. He could have given his ex-girlfriend voting shares and his sons shares with financial value. But that's not what happened. The whole bundle went to the ex-girlfriend, which is a bit of a strange occurrence.
Correct. Can't find the tweet now but marcan wrote something like "the goal of Asahi is to stop existing". I.e. upstream everything.
Brilliant, advertising is a huge expense for a new business. You have to spend a lot of cash to make sure people know about you. McDonalds spends billions to keep its products fresh in everyone's mind. Imagine how hard it is for a small company to break in. If this guy can deliver food that people can love then he will ride the nft hype to a successful company. He paid a few hundred thousand dollars for the ape but he will probably get the equivalent of millions in free advertising.
A typical JIT compiler runs in the same process as the executable as part of its runtime -- it's a program modifying itself. This is describing a compiler modifying the memory of a separate running process out from underneath it.

Which does seem a little crazy, and the post doesn't go into details about how the compiler knows when it's reasonable to rewrite instructions -- it seems like you would need some runtime mechanism in the child to coordinate this, or you'd run the risk of... well, literally anything could happen, with the wrong patch at the wrong time. I feel like I might be missing something. The more I think about this the crazier it seems. :)

(And if you had this inter-process channel for coordinating changes, then the child process could also just patch itself based on messages from the compiler, removing the need for special cross-process memory-writing privileges. LiveReload for native code...)
> Approval granted by Privacy. Good to go.

Great job there "Privacy"...
The UI stuff on top of Chromium is closed. They don't want it ripped off I guess. Vivaldi an awesome browser for those who like to customize.
It is PD (Personal Data). The same way an IP or any 'anonymous' identifier from web analytics is.

So from my understanding of the GDPR regulations this is a clear violation.
Yeah, fire ants (like ants in general) are fascinating - too bad they're also an invasive species that's practically impossible to get rid of once it's established itself (https://www.galapagosreport.org/english/2019/6/29/measures-t...)
Well there were many reports of hospitals being bombed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not to mention Vietnam where there was 3x as many bombs dropped as in whole WW2 on all sides, nuts!
What about the Jewish space lasers?
I understand that. I'm more asking who's running into problems parsing C these days? A symbol table is stupid easy to implement.
If the updates are signed, then there is no danger in downloading them from a third party mirror. As for finding a mirror, Mozilla could put locations as TXT records in the DNS.

There would still be the problem that someone would have a log of your IP address downloading a Firefox update, but it wouldn't be Mozilla. Also, with a big enough list of mirrors, across 100 different jurisdictions, the probability of any given mirror being subpoenaed and having data on any given user is very small.

As for how to bootstrap the whole thing by letting the user securely download Firefox in the first place, that is of course difficult, but it should be an infinitesimally rare event compared to checking for browser updates. A user could therefore take special care to use public Wi-Fi when doing the initial download.
I worked alongside this team. Without going into too much details, PTIM vs STIM are primarily cost driven. Engineers are not stupid, which is what Linus, et. al. claim. In fact, they know and listen to what Linus has to say about shitty PTIM. I would love to tell you everything that goes into selection of TIM but for obvious reasons, I cannot. You'd be surprised the amount of engineering that is behind something as simple as thermal interface material.

As they say, good engineering is about optimal tradeoff between every aspect of your product. That includes cost (directly, we are responsible for it) and customer happiness (indirectly, since in a giant company, that gets handed off to the Marketing/PR team). These can get out of sync.

Here is some public information about PTIM: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150279762A1/en
Of the two applications you describe, one is a super serious life or death situation where a single mistake could harm human life.

The other is an institutional monopoly that, while initially set up with lofty goals to save lives, has devolved into a suppressive tool that works against the common man.
Agreed with a minor correction.

It's not "Someone else made it rich with NFTs and crypto, and now I’m gonna make it rich with NFTs and crypto."

But "Someone else made it rich with NFTs and crypto, and maybe I'll do it to."

I don't think there's a feeling of certainty that they'll get a big payoff, but the possibility is enough.

They say people play the lottery not to win it, but to entertain the idea of winning. It gives you an escape. Cryptocurrency/NFT, for many people, is just a lottery which doesn't expire at the end of the week.
Brave is still Chromium you mean. Chrome is a browser by Google. Chromium is the open-source engine.
I refuse to believe that he actually cares. You’re telling me, this man cares and wanted to let Russians know what was “really” going on just decided to talk about January 6th? He did it for the views and likes. It’s propaganda and disgusting. Plus, you have people like Tulsi, Glenn Greenwald and so many other people (who are not right wing, and very intelligent) who are accusing nato stuff for causing the war. It’s just disgusting in his end. I’m tired of rich liberal elites dividing Americans, even if it was a 5 second portion of a 10 minute video that could literally only appeal to the most emotional people on planet earth. He did it because he knew that it would become popular in America and get him likes and more superficial support. But that’s just my opinion. Same as Elon musk posting about Putin. It was for likes and popularity. If they cared about anything, they’d be talking about fentanyl overdoses and our own border in our own country. It’s just a game to them. You say what liberals like, and they love you. Arnold has a nasty history of apparently groping women etc. if this was any right winger making this video, the propaganda machines would say the same thing about their history. It’s just so nasty and political.
It’s such a trite thing to say, but clicking that link (to my detriment) really brings it home for me: money can’t buy class.
Everything you go to will be filled with people who are uninteresting to somebody, the best way to get around it is to choose something that will have a range of types. That will be able to provide a variation among people and have that variation of types be somewhat random.

take a class in some subject that is somewhat outside your comfort zone, so if you're a programmer don't take a programming class. I would recommend an art, music, or literature class. Downside, lots of uninteresting people really into those subjects can also be pretentiously annoying.

Other classes one can take that will also be healthy for you: Dance, cooking (maybe of some type that is not that well known or trendy will improve chances), Capoeira - has a generally gregarious culture and tends to have people who are not as much into the general martial arts stuff as others - especially Capoeira Angola.

However all these things probably betray my particular interests and where I might expect to find people I consider 'interesting', it's a pretty subjective quality.