skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would you determine N? Amazon, Facebook, and Tesla were unprofitable for a really long time.

For context, Amazon was incorporated in 1994, IPO'd in 1997, and made its first profit in 2001, when it had a market cap of $4 billion. Also, Bezos currently owns only 11.1% of Amazon's shares. So I think that N could be as low as 5 to 10 years; but one of the major goals of a wealth tax would be to prevent multi-generational accumulation of wealth, so even 30 years of tax exemption might be an acceptable privilege to grant to founders of successful businesses.

> Would they be as successful or even exist if their CEOs lost majority control on year N+7 and public investors demand pivots to immediate revenues?

If the concern is that the founders lose majority control and the new owners make worse decisions, then the government could hold the shares (to be sold at some later date) but allow the founders to keep the voting rights that those shares represent for as long as they work at the company.
Does PHP control nuget packages? No. No they do not. Neither does Python (the python package you linked to is managed by a Microsoft employee).
Chello - A Free P2P Alternative to Twillio Messaging API
There are multiple reasons to want to work in an office.
Makes it easier to separate home from work.
Not having the space at home to work comfortably.
Not having the quiet need from a busy and noisy house
Being and to interact with others, even if it is just in a social capacity.
Of course personally I'd prefer to work from home
Hmmm...I'd argue that most of the people that are virtual-signaling also have nothing to signal (at least on a personal level anyway). It's sort of a lazy, cost-free way to scale the social ladder, just express an opinion that's fashionable. It's hard to think of anything that requires less effort and is at less personal cost.

It's entirely reasonable to find these kind of people irritating and obnoxious.
Hi-tech doesn't have to mean high-cost. See Javelin/NLAW which are relatively low-cost and surely can be made much cheaper if a large number are to be ordered.

> No one can produce enough of EuroFighters, F35, Su35, FCAS, DDG-X etc to really crash a swarm of simple and cheap war machines dispersed on the ground. Soviet Union discover that in Afghanistan,

The Ukrainians just proved you wrong, but with advanced anti-tank missiles not airplanes, which are hi-tech but low-cost anti-tank missiles.
A side issue here is that if you don't have an MX record configured (say, you figured a domain isn't used for mail), it doesn't mean "we don't accept mail". You'll be surprised at how much spam ends up being directed at your apex A record, because according to the RFC that's where it goes in the absence of an MX record. Use

MX 0 .

For such domains.
I guess it makes sense for Microsoft to be able to put Xbox game servers in Azure but also game devs can benefit from the scalability of Kubernetes. If have is low tire not paying for hardware you aren't using and vice versa.
Likely not, not in its current form. I wouldn't be surprised if in 2010 that Kinect was being sold at a significant loss (as is the usual trend in the games industry). They'd need to tweak the device quite a bit to be B2B, but given the success of game engines, asset packs, and other tools I don't think it's impossible.

Creators will absolutely pay a premium for such tech when the alternative goes for thousands of dollars (a quick google shows these devices selling on the order of 2000 to 7000+ USD). The SDK alone would generate much more value for such a product.

VR definitely killed any interest in the "core" gaming market, but I think the uses of motion tracking is a completely separate audience from VR anyway. Without some dedicated apparel, a VR kit can only track your eyes and hands. motion tracking gives you so much more data to work with, for potentially multiple subjects as well. People working with that data will easily pay themselves back with whatever they develop with it, which is why maybe a licensing deal (similar to Unity/Unreal Engine) may be a better way to monetize .
Can you list many major applications available on Windows and on Linux, but not macOS?

The other way around you have major industry applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, Office, Ableton, AutoCAD, etc.
I seem to remember this from one of the previous cases, all I could find now is:

"An ex-Tesla employee who worked at the Fremont factory for about two years said in a sworn declaration in the Vaughn case that he had heard the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”"
Drawing Triangles on N64
> Doesn't the exchange match people with another person who is buying / selling it? Every single cryptocurrency or video game exchange I have used has settled pretty much instantly.

There are multiple exchanges where stocks are traded, and order routing is typically transparent when using retail brokerages. The exchanges only provide the matching engine, while brokers handle custody. The process of transferring the ownership between brokerages is the clearing step which is handled by the DTCC.

Cryptocurrency exchanges provide both the matching engine and custody, so transferring ownership can be done instantly by updating records in the exchange’s database. The clearing step occurs when transferring coins to another wallet or exchange, when the transaction actually hits the blockchain.

> How hard is decrementing the shares of one user and incrementing the shares of another.

It’s surprisingly difficult. Clearinghouses (centralized) and blockchains (decentralized) exist to solve this very problem.
No but this is a common misconception. The key thing to remember is that a regular hash function and a "password hash" are very different. A password hash does need to be slow, because we want to make it expensive for an attacker who's stolen the hash to try to guess the password. But in most other use cases, we want hash functions to be as fast as possible, as long as they can uphold their security guarantees.

A maybe-interesting sidebar: If your job is to design a password hash, you still want to take a fast hash function as a starting point. All the effort that goes into making the hash function both fast and secure gives you confidence that an attacker isn't going to be able to find some shortcut that lets them compute the hash it more quickly than everyone else.
I am really looking forward to the day Skype for Business finally dies forever. We introduced Teams a few years ago in our org. Back then it was lacking some of the features frequently used in Skype, so you'd have to keep both. Now, years later, about half of the org is still using Skype for no apparent reason. I don't particularly like Teams, primarily because of the excessive resource usage, but it is still better in every way.
Here's an equivalent visual history of the mozilla mail clients

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/netscape_email/
> The unbreakable windows part, yeah probably a bit of BS, but it doesn't rise nearly to the level of what other car companies put out. I mean… VW

Sure! Let's test the glass on a Volkswagen Golf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzUh53H_VU
> It's interesting because Pages can spit out a .docx that Word doesn't mangle too badly, but LibreOffice still can't

While i haven't had any issues with LibreOffice created or edited .docx, last week i discovered Pages tries to force you to use their proprietary format ( which of course nobody supports). If you open a .docx with Pages, make an edit and save it, it wants to save in .pages. You have to export it to .docx.

That's the kind of user hostile bullshit that rarely makes it to Linux-first software, and when it does ( e.g. GNOME disallowing desktop icons or snaps auto-updating) there are alternatives. If Apple don't want you to do something, you're out of luck. Best case scenario someone has made a (usually paid) app that implements a workaround (like Karabiner for basic key combination remappings).
This is true of any mail service and is not at all unique to Fastmail.
The thing that really bothers me are all these "AI" technologies in my new LG oled tv that don't actually get used. All of them to reduce "crushed" images, correct color, improve blurriness in motion scenes, etc are only used when not using HDMI/PC hookup. My feeling is they're used when viewing things streamed on Netflix/Hulu/HBOMax/etc. But I spend most of my time using the TV as a computer monitor. I'm in a niche group, but this was my only option for large-format oled.

I wish they did more with HDMI, even though HDMI is being phased out. I want to hook up my computer and have the computer gain an ethernet link from the TV, even though the TV is wirelessly connected to my router. The TV should be a "dock" that includes a 2nd monitor. I have a wireless controller reciever plugged into the USB port on the TV. I want that to give input to my computer from it. I also want my computer to charge while being hooked up to my TV. I think the only answer is this TV should have type-c and do all those things as a dock, but it's frustrating that we're 1 step behind.

I wish I could watch a program, while showing my computer hdmi input picture-in-picture. Hell this thing has 4 HDMI inputs on the back, let me do each input to a quarter of the screen. Another niche use..

Don't even get me started on the ads. Doesn't make sense to keep the TV on when my computer is locked for long periods of time, so I generally come back, turn on the TV, and unlock the computer. First thing I see is fucking ads. Takes 2 clicks on the remote to dismiss but it colors my experience that they're always pushing another $30 or $40/month service when I first see things onscreen. They know you can't get this quality elsewhere so they're happy to push you ads. And the telemetry, my god. It's my $3k TV!

Most TVs are still waiting to support the next hdmi standard so you can do 120fps & hdr simultaneously.

The 2 things that did impress me were this LG tv supporting both Miracast and Airplay with /no/ hoops to jump through. It just worked. I do wish I could "cast" things to the TV, and that's like pushing a link to it where the TV navigates to that stream and plays. No other device has to stream or push the video to the TV, it does it itself in the Chomecast paradigm. That would be nice.

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What is the answer to this in a world of scammers, bad actors, etc? Perhaps it should be illegal to ban a user and if a user is truly abusive then sue them in court for damages.

Speaking of suing, why has nobody sued Google or others for this behavior?
You can settle as quickly as you want if you’re engaged directly with your counterparty. But yes, T+2 is wildly outdated and will likely move to T+1 in the next few years. Longer term, anything less than same-day settlement both wastes capital (of BDs who need to post collateral while their customers’ trades wait to settle) and risks contagion (since each additional day of settlement gives a party more time to go bankrupt) IMO
A key detail you omitted:

>Major League Baseball chose not to pause the season to allow its biggest stars to play in Tokyo, with the Americans made up of minor league players.
Ways of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist should do the trick for anyone considering contemporary art in galleries, museums, etc, and it’s also a great read for artists and collectors.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613616-ways-of-curatin...

For me personally this helped a lot with the decision to create an international art center (small, and still under construction!) instead of just pounding my artist head against the wall of the market forever.

But generally speaking, it’s an eye opener and a great illustration of how to generate influence from enthusiasm. It’s probably hard to read if you aren’t already familiar with European contemporary art, but it rewards patience.
Check out dwm. It has a different concept from workspaces called 'tags' which is close to what you are describing.
Overall this is an interesting response, but you missed the main point of my comment. Why is there no hard evidence of the claims made in the article?

> What world do you live in where this is unbelievable?

A world where if this ever happened there would be dozens standing up and objecting these comments, making a scene, and stating this is unacceptable. A world where this is so outrageous no one would even think about making such comments nor any comments orders of magnitude less offensive. A world where people are so afraid of being perceived as racist that they could never conceive of saying something like this, and when heard if it ever happened couldn't believe they were hearing it.

> Is a $1 million arbitration win enough for you to believe them?[0] Or do you think that was also just based purely on hearsay?

Are you're aware this is the salary of highly paid software engineer? This is peanuts and a minimal prize to get rid of the issue.

> Surely, if this was all made up propaganda, Tesla would be the first to say so

Why? Do you know Tesla's strategy? This is a public trial as well and a difficult situation for Tesla. Is denying the issue going to make it go away faster? Is anyone going to believe Tesla were they to claim it's all lies?
>Also, @cgwalters thinks trying to whitelist file paths is a bad idea given the myriad ways users have to manipulate paths, and the myriad ways in which system administrators may configure a system.

So you either get the entire filesystem or no file access? Isn't this a huge dealbreaker for almost everything?
Hi-Octane? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Octane

edit: somebody else got there while I was searching! And we can't both be wrong
The biggest reason for me to lookup the weather forecast is "do I need to bring an umbrella?". Unfortunately that seems to be a very difficult thing to answer with any accuracy, even if you ask the very same morning.
> PHP is probably the best language for server side webdev today.

What are your credentials with non-PHP, non-JS/TS languages? Have you written some Rust, Kotlin, Swift, ReasonML/ReScript/OCaml, Haskell, Elm or Clojure? Those languages are different to some extend, they take fresh approaches, they contain new ideas and are scrape throat well designed.

I find most cheering for PHP and JS have very little exposure to other camps of software development.

> PHP is probably the best language for server side webdev today.

I'm telling you (opinion ahead), it most likely is not. And most likely will never be. It simply has too many fundamental design errors that have long known solutions, are near impossible to fix in PHP/JS and are fixed-by-design in other languages that also have good tooling for web-dev.

This is not just PHP/JS. But since we are looking at "the best lang for webdev" I limit myself the these and this use case.
The easiest way to improve ARPU is to raise all existing customers' prices to current ARPU, and hope they either accept it or churn. Either way ARPU goes up, whilst revenue and profits go down.
a rhetorical question, on a revealed truth that we might all be rather uncomfortable to admit: we do not apply empathy universally, but selectively and reserve our goodwill for those who are most 'like us', whilst moderating it for those who are least like us. This would be consistent from what we know of genetic altruism.
> Microsoft Comic Chat

I'd say teams is a rather comic implementation of chat... or, hmmm, perhaps more like tragic.
I don't even know what the other joins are
That's what happen now, thanks to a big and powerful propaganda, but skyrocketing inflation (not really caused by Ukrainian war, and many know that) and decade long social degradation have put many on the brink of a civil war. Actually propaganda win, but can't do that for long.

That means that's unlikely but not that unlikely that a big EU State (France, for instance) elect a new government that decide it's about time to exit NATO and propose a strategic partnership to Russia. It was about to happen and it was stopped by Eastern European countries just few months ago, it can came back quickly.

Actually both USA and Russia prefer a not-really-united EU but EU Citizens are already united enough and since crisis bite things can change rapidly. At that point classic repression will fail and tentative to ride the unrest in different directions might not succeed. Italy and Germany are well subjugated by NATO, France is not, few other EU countries are middle-ground since they can't simply act alone.

Re-orienting energy dependency is just an economic move: it's impossible to live on GNL shipping, it's impossible to complete the Green New Deal quick enough, the sole answer is keep and expand nuclear and only States have resources to do so, that means cutting out neoliberals who rule the energy. Even pushing renewable at maximum speed can't really work: it can work with new single-family homes, well placed, EU population density and actual civil structures are incompatible, dense cities can't have buildings re-made to be A-class quickly, electricity grid can't be re-made quickly etc hydro power can be added quickly but States who can orographically already have a significant slice of hydro and can't add much more, similarly we can't all change vehicles quickly. GNLs can't arrive quickly and being properly integrated in actual networks. That's why the EU without much advertisement continue to purchase Russian gas as usual. A change can happen in 7-8 years, perhaps hardly in 5-6 years, not quicker than that. And that's not just energy, too many EU countries depend on other natural resources from Russia and can't substitute them on-the-spot.
With our dear dictator neighbor on the east showing his true colors, you may end up surprised how a common enemy like that can unite, even if temporarily, such a diverse place as European union
> How about you see if you can sell some of them yourself first before raising capital to try and outsource sales.

Good question. I have done this in the past. Now, let's say that I have "discovered" a sub-niche in the whole TLD universe (hard to believe, I know) and my strategy is to buy about 1,000 domains to stake my territory there, and of those I am pretty sure I can sell quite a few for >25K each, the remainder would be less, and - of course - some would remain unsold.

In the past I have done lease-to-own domain deals.

> Also, since there is no real downside, why don’t you just post the list of them here to see if folks have ideas or want to buy them.

It's one of those things that.. once you see it a lot of people would say "Why didn't I think of that?" So I am laying low for now. While I could foot the bill to register the 1,000 domains, and I will, and I will also incorporate a special entity just for this project; I need to acquire "domain expertise" (pun intended) how to monetize the portfolio, I don't want to have that many domains sitting there unused, but I don't have the bandwidth or expertise to do outreach business development.
Right, it's in the name, it worked when it was a club, you would run into celebrities, had a kind of back-stage or afterparty vibe. I came back a few months after quitting (I didn't like how blocking someone became a whole meta-drama since they could no longer speak in rooms you were speaking) -- couldn't find a single room worth hanging around in.
"Yes, minister" and "yes, prime minister" are incredibly fun and still very actual shows.
where’d you get the illustrations?
You sound entitled.

It's not hard to imagine that using a big container solution designed for another operating system (and performance hit) is not the most elegant solution here. Especially when the alternative is an environment variable and zip file you already mentioned yourself. There is no step three.
They ran out of invites
Are you thinking of the Turbo button on PCs?

I've personally never seen the ability to switch from mains frequency. That's a switch on the back of the PSU that typical goes from 240v or 120v.

The turbo button and mains frequency are 2 totally different things.
It is really remarkable how much more expressive some languages are over others. If you are satisfied with Python for everything you do, then you are not hitting the limits of its expressiveness. But for more naturally expressive code, other languages may have huge advantages for certain applications.
> Considering Macs are typically owned longer than PCs

Are they though? Properly specced PCs have more than decent lives too. The build quality of a Mac or an equivalent-ish ( so not the plastic cheapest possible model ) devicedecent OEM like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus aren't that far off.
> Conscious Digital MTÜ is a registered Estonian non-profit organization number 80600079.

Ah they are, wonder about the US version

The tax deductibility for us tax residents is a working major incentive
Windows is vastly superior
I think you're lashing out at Google for a variety of different (and very good!) reasons, but they're outside the range of my comment. People getting banned from Google services because of broken automation is bad, of course, but it has nothing to do with the issue of whether migration paths are provided when services are sunsetted at Google.

My point is that for Google's core services, they generally due try to migrate users to a product that provides the same basic features, but that this isn't good enough. Forcing users to migrate because of pointless churn in your app offerings is already the problem, regardless of whether the migrations are handled well. Google is worse than Microsoft in this area not because they leave users stranded (usually), but because they're constantly switching their focus in products like messaging.
Bring back menu icons Firefox
Both wired and wireless are regulated by the FCC, neither have net neutrality restrictions anymore, the went bye bye in the U.S. at least, a couple years ago and I seriously doubt it will come back ever.

> The FCC declared mm-wave a national defense priority and it is not subject to any local regulation.

I am not sure where you are getting that but mm-wave is absolutely still regulated locally just like anything else. The main difference is the size of the radios for mm-wave are small and go on poles and the FCC did set a price ceiling on what utilities can charge for pole space. But there are also low and mid-band small cells that go on poles as well. But the wireless companies absolutely still have to get local permits to install any wireless system on poles or pretty much anything.
And don't forget the inverse square law. You will be irradiated much more by a cell phone pressed against your skin than a microcell on top of a pole, just because the distance is many orders of magnitude more.
> Did anyone ever want this? Were users asking for this?

In this day and age, noone cares what actual users want. Instead, corporations tell users what they "want".
> I can only send so many pull requests before giving up and buying a MacBook.

It's funny because that was what happened to me, too. I believe my final set of contributions was an attempt at fixing some low-level thing in Mesa that was causing the entire X server to fail to start with some older Radeon GPU. The Mesa devs themselves were helpful, but the community around them were abusing me to just buy a newer Radeon. In 2020. With the chip shortage and crypto insanity.

> branding

Personally, I think Elementary is a fine name for an OS. I haven't seen Tux on a boot screen in over a decade, but I guess if you compile your own kernel and enable CONFIG_LOGO, you might.
Eloquent JS, for coding,
On Photography by Sontag for Photography,
Anything James Baldwin for literature,
Anything Angela Davis or Emma Goldman for political theory,
A blank (perhaps square lined, Rhodia brand) notebook and a pack of Stabillo pens for creativity.
Biden to Propose New Minimum Tax of 20% on Wealthiest Americans
But I didn't say that, you said that and attributed it to me.