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Symlinks can be broken, so if you can avoid them altogether why not? It's just an extra if tiny bit of complexity
What? Trump got Powell not to raise rates in 2018 and 2019 when that would have been the perfect opportunity to.
Less efficient yes in absolute production, but solves the majority of the storage problem. Which is a huge problem, one that most people are ignoring, and many of the storage solutions lower PV efficiency as much or more.

Here are a couple links from my comment history, the first is a comparison of KW costs, and the second is an overview of what the Chinese are doing.

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-u...
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

I've repeatedly posted hard facts on this board and few people bother to do much research at all, overwhelmingly posting puff pieces and data which is obviously wrong (aka nameplate install/$, average capacity factors (because average doesn't tell you the worse case, which is required for a reliable grid)) and a bunch of other things that get hand waved away by "renewable" supporters, like the fact that in most places with a lot of "renewables" its actually 50+ year old hydro and not wind/solar providing the energy. Or that places with a lot of wind/solar are basically green washing their natural gas usage (like Germans are suddenly discovering).

edit: And to be clear, did you down vote the parent comment too, which states as fact something that is provably wrong (that nukes are more expensive than wind/solar, note the vox article which points out they were cheaper than natural gas plants at one point.), but commonly accepted, or did you let your own personal bias decide the misinformation he was repeating sounded correct?
Zuckerberg is not an innovator we all know where Facebook came from. He's a do-er and copier and he will lose the AR Glasses race as it requires someone innovative behind that ship.

He keeps throwing all this money at VR which has been around since the 90s. The general public doesnt want it.. want something strapped to their face/isolating themselves from real life... it is not the next iPhone!
>I do think it works well but it's not a long term plan and if you do it, you must plan with potentially being denied entry eventually.

First, absolutely, the latter can happen at some point.

Second, however, I know tons of people that did it just fine with no issue for years.

YMMV
How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING French (3 clever tricks)
https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/the-gaia-hypothese...
Mostly faangs use load balancers and don't return more than one A/AAAA record. Sometimes there's some CNAME chaining which isn't ideal, but might be expedient. Otherwise, not too much to optimize.

Otoh, they like their really short TTLs, which results in a lot of queries.
You’re optimising the wrong metric...

They're optimizing for the metric that suits their interests.

It occurs to me that Facebook and related companies may well become the equivalent of ransomware companies - controlling more and more of the world's information and making more and more abusive demands for access to it.
Let me be devil's advocate for a second and say:

I guess Meta must be knowing what they're doing? I'm sure they are basing their decisions entirely on actual analytics and A/B testing results. If the numbers say users are moving towards videos, away from photos, than that's what they will cater to. That's why public emotions won't sway them.
That is not clear at all. They might simply disagree with the methodology and that is a legit topic to discuss. More importantly if you actually think he is trolling the best route to go is to disengage and downvote. This doesn't distract from the discussion or degrade the discussion into name calling.

Also hacker news rules are to respond to the most charitable interpretation of the users point. Assume they are disagreeing in good faith and engage with the topic or disengage and down vote if you feel the users contribution is negative.
Not sure if this has changed, but I wish there was a way to kind of dull the downside-edge of this kind of outcome. For example maybe there's another place the person's info can go that's not so obviously a trash can, and ideally even still a useful or interesting place.

It ought to be possible, IMO. And I'll add that noteworthiness is a real cringe of a model in a lot of ways.

Personally I saw the downsides of this first hand back in the early 2000s, when I created a page for a software developer. It didn't seem right to put their information, much of which was interesting and relevant, but which wasn't related to the software, on the software's page.

So anyway, their page was deleted with the note that his info should probably just go on that one app's page. A really shallow/easy suggestion especially given that it had already been considered and didn't make sense in various ways.

And then I realized: This whole thing has created extra pain for someone, who for years had a Wikipedia page, and who now has had it deleted. None of which was their choice, but all of which started with intentions to inform and build on a useful corpus of knowledge.

So, is that pain-side really, really necessary? I think such a process can be done better.
Wuhan itself is 12 million people, 1,500 km^2 according to Wikipedia. I don't know but I'm guessing there is far less opportunities for coming up close with all sorts of wildlife.

Id also guess the manpower that went into searching for the SARS2 predecessor far exceeds the efforts that went into sampling animals in African rainforest.
This is what happens when you manage to metrics.

"Engagement" is the metric and the incredibly obviously stupid problem with it as your optimisation goal that is apparently ungraspable by the leadership of every single social network.

It infects everything down even to Google search rankings.

If you can quickly and easily find the info you want then that reduces "engagement" and that is bad, apparently.
No wonder the economy has been destroyed, our “leaders” are spending us into oblivion.
> “I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be”

I'm likely not in the majority here, but my average usage of Instagram these days is me scrolling through my feed for about 20 seconds before getting frustrated and closing the app. All the ads and things I never opted into seeing make it an unpleasant and uninteresting experience. I was far more engaged when it was just a reverse chronological timeline of images from people I follow.
Someone is suffering because of a problem. You are there to remove that suffering.

Competition shouldn't matter. CRMs are a saturated market. Instead of making yet another CRM, someone could learn to use Excel better or find an existing one that works better. But there's always someone out there who can't figure out how to share her Excel. She can't get Google Sheets to do what she wants it to do. And she's out there hacking her mailchimp to connect into google sheets, or pull calendar and customer info from some other tables. She has tried using one of the millions of CRMs out there but she doesn't understand the interface. There's some douchebag from the CRM company who emails asking her if she can take a call Tuesday or Thursday. That guy could explain it to her, but she doesn't want to deal with that call.

When selling, your responsibility isn't to make sure they buy the product. Your responsibility is to make sure that those who have the problem are aware of your product, and understands how it can help them. They're free to shop around for other solutions.

But it's irresponsible to not get your solution out there. If they understand and decide that this product isn't for them, then you've done your part.
> it's absolutely truthful the allegations and lawsuits are there.

I want to make sure I understand you. You don't know if people's accusations are true, but you do know that they are making accusations. Is that correct?
> That is done through the driver, which maps higher level commands in libraries to instructions that graphics cards understands

Which is a very highly privileged thing to do, that you can’t just circumvent. No mainstream OS does userspace drivers.

And honestly, now you just introduce two levels of abstraction - one at the APE level, and one at Python’s level, so I don’t get that.

Also, that’s why we have cross-platform libraries. The executable-header is hardly the “bottleneck” in cross-platform tooling - that’s why I think it is hardly more than a very cool and genius hack.
> They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people

That is as far from truth as it can get. The problem in companies that fail to innovate almost always has the same problem: management. How companies are run has a significant impact on how much they can innovate. Even if you are willing to take massive bets as the management team, if the bets aren’t good enough, it’s going to be hard to innovate.

Apple has a top down innovation chain where goals and direction are decided by higher ups, while Amazon has bottom up innovation where people are encouraged to build. But the common theme in both is the ability to identify and nurture big ideas by the management.
They’ve changed this recently actually, its $799 for 12 months of lab access and some entry level certs. I signed up for this and will pay the extra for the OSCP once I’m ready!
https://www.tesla.com/support/sustainability-recycling already happening
Mortgage is the only type of leverage that an average Joe can get cheaply. Any attempt at getting a 'normal' loan will be met with insane interest rate.

That's the main reason why housing market is what it is.
I'm well aware, thanks (YMMV was the disclaimer).

My suggestion was for a cheap and easy hack that is likely to benefit a majority of the population. Obviously the best way is to have a well-rounded diet and get all nutrition that way but we know that can be challenging for many.

Edit: in today's news feed: https://www.sciencealert.com/in-a-first-a-dietary-supplement...
Wouldn't a search service that blacklists the giant players -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. -- also serve as the same kind of "web of discoverability"? I imagine a search engine where the stewards manually whitelist websites that aren't full of SEO-speak, spam, and ads. Hell, I'm sure my own blog would rank pretty well!
Regardless of the limited impact, its hard to argue that there isnt a distinct difference in innovation/releasing good products between Google/FB and Amazon/MSFT/Apple. The latter simply innovate more and create more things that people want. So the question is why
Is Dreamhost the company that bought an old mall to move their HQ to?
as I mentioned above it's already happening https://www.tesla.com/support/sustainability-recycling already happening
Apple doesn't invent, as much as see what's out there and Make It Great.
Time-sharing was the prominent model of computing in the 1970s, it's really not that different from cloud computing. Seems like a stretch to say that folks at Amazon invented it. I do take your point though, Amazon was the first to market with what we now view as "modern" cloud infrastructure.
TikTok quickly learns what you don't like and the homepage becomes a mix of your subscriptions, new content that you might like and very new kind of content that you haven't been exposed or stuff that you outgrew but you might like to revisit.

Learning the things you don't like is important. It's much more pleasant experience when you are not exposed to the stuff you don't like. Unlike Twitter, the stuff you don't like doesn't mean things you disagree with. You very well might not like politics, TikTok keeps you out of the culture war then.
Lower revenue than Q2 of 2021 and higher expenses. They're on track to have significantly lower net income this year than last year.

Au revoir, Facebook.
Alarm bells start going off whenever I see objective measurements with subjective or moral measurements.

We at Evil Corp burned down half of the Amazon rain forest for a golf course, but we put a BLM banner on our website...so a B+?
Sure! It's pretty straightforward—at first glance it's just a note list on the left with a Markdown editor on the right. The differentiator is that you can twirl a disclosure triangle to view & edit all the metadata fields in the editor, and you can use those fields to search for notes. To help build out that metadata, the editor can optionally capture some context (e.g. location) when you create a new note.
Many of the European social democracies are also half-cap, half-soc countries, and they have far fewer economic problems.

They have a very different monetary system, though, and some of them are successful because the Euro lets them export their economic problems to their poorer neighbours.
They aren't. Maybe free in upfront cash, but definitely not free in mental load and time spent to babysit them.

Every account is one thing more that you're responsible for, that you have to remember, can be hacked, will send you spam, etc.
Commerce between the States?
Here's a video from a former burglar talking about break ins and I linked specifically to the section on dogs: https://youtu.be/DtwD-c9hn58
Without looking at the implementations I'd guess it's Go's bounds checking.
Most of your ‘refutation’ is dishonest, Keynesian, MMT nonsense. Fiat doesn’t get introduced unless printed or borrowed by the government. Full stop. Companies raising prices is not inflation and conflating that with government monetary policy is outright disinformation.
Yeah!

If you don't need the video features of newer cameras, the main advantage of newer DSLRs is improved low light performance.

You don't need the extra megapixels unless you have specific needs, such as perhaps astrophotography.

An "ancient" ~7.2MP sensor gives you 3000x2400 pixels. Plenty for full page prints at 300DPI.
Nevertheless, it's an empirical question as to whether this method of recruiting produces the employees that maximize long-term profits for the company.

I don't doubt that a major reason for asking these types of questions, as opposed to an IQ test or something, is that it is basically illegal in the US to do so.
Ahh the old “the previous generation fucked us”, i think i’ve heard that before.
This is about the shaky existence one group of people will have living the H/G lifestyle. Animal populations fluctuate naturally, disease and accidents affect skilled workers, affect animals, plants. Droughts the same. H/G populations are highly vulnerable to these whims of nature in a way that agricultural societies are more insulated from. Sure bad things happen to agricultural societies too, but it is (evidently) more a more stable and prosperous existence in the main.

In terms of general prosperity, you're comparing some metrics today to 50 years ago, and I'm not sure I understand the relevance. We were no more a H/G society 50 years ago than we are today. Do you know of any H/G societies that exist today? How does their prosperity compare to the poorest of the developed world? Do you know any developed nations that are still hunter/gather societies? Do you think this is merely coincidence or perhaps a big conspiracy?
It's sad that they keep trying to bolt this functionality onto existing apps. Why not leave Instagram and Facebook alone as functional tools with purposes -- posting statuses, photos, keeping in touch with friends and family -- and then create a separate TikTok competitor? And a separate Snap competitor? Is it just because FB's awful awful Snap clone crashed and burned and nobody used it, so they're afraid to launch a new app these days?
This does not make sense just in the light that every division, every team probably, tests differently according to their needs. I have a suspicion that you are trying to extrapolate some small anecdotical experiences to whole massive companies.
Rebuilding "as it was", despite calls for modernization, is also something that happened after the Great Fire of London in 1666. Especially Christopher Wren, one of the most famous architects of XVII century, was supposedly very upset that his plan for a concentric ring-like city plan was rejected, in favour of rebuilding the city with all its tangled medieval street plan.
Ask HN: Purpose of Nginx container vs. cloud based elastic load balancers?
Hello, I'm currently learning K8 and was curious why Nginx is one of the most popular containers on docker hub and a prime example of container orchestration in a lot of k8 courses. I don't know a ton about dedicated web serves like Nginx or apache. Since most companies run on public clouds like AWS/Azure/Gcloud with built in elastic load balancer services why would you not just route through that to your front end containers orchestrated through k8? Why go through the hassle of orchestrating another layer of containers? Any help in understanding this or better explanations of deployment workflows through kubernetes would be great.
The absolute dumpster fire that is their pivot to VR however.. go look at this and the replies and then remember this is what they are betting the company on at a time when they have never had less user trust, goodwill or greater potential for government oversight.

This is hopefully the beginning of the end for them.

https://twitter.com/metaquestvr/status/1551943338038726657
> Instagram actively hides pics from my step kids, nephew and niece to show me "reels" from people I don't follow.

I find it all that for all the data these companies have, they don't seem to be using it well...or stopped using it.

Facebook has suddenly started flooding me with posts from political meme groups I never joined and have never even looked at.

Twitch's recommended section used to be spot-on. Now they're trying to push me to watch women in hot tubs for some reason.

For me, YouTube is the only one that still manages to surface things I actually want to watch.

I don't know what changed (I've really only noticed this in the past two months), but this is starting to feel like the old broadcast TV model of executives deciding we should all watch the same thing.
Consider this code:

color:hover .foo .bar .qux div span

You have no idea whether to parse that as a property (setting `color` to that string) or as a nested selector (a span below a div below .qux below .bar below .foo below a color element that's being hovered over). You only know that it's a property if you see a `;` or a `}`, or a nested declaration if you see a `{`.

So yeah, the ambiguity might not be resolved for a pretty long time. And, unless there's some aspect to CSS's grammar I'm not thinking of, this ambiguity exists for every single property (even for stuff like `background-color: blue` -- the parser shouldn't know that `background-color` isn't an HTML element or that `blue` isn't a selector).

It really wouldn't surprise me if adding unbounded lookahead to every single CSS property would cause a pretty significant parsing slow-down.
> There is a lot of research suggesting that housing is not the best investment compared to equities.

And yet most retail investors loose money. My family managed to lose money both by investing in bonds and by investing in index fund - quite of an achievement. They never lost money in real estate.

The reason should be obvious -> most people understand what is a house and how it works, they understand the city they live in and good VS bad areas. Most people don't udnerstand the stock market.
One reason I'm skeptical on the government bringing down the antitrust hammer on Big Tech is because of things like this. Antitrust is a slow process and a crude (but powerful) instrument.

Facebook originally bought Instagram because IG represented an existential threat to FB's business. Remember it was only a few years old and had 13 employees at the time of acquisition. How can you be a monopoly when 13 people can threaten your business?

So here we are some years later and Facebook is getting killed by Tiktok. IG, in particular, is no longer "sexy". it is not where influencers aspire to be anymore. Facebook proper has billions of DAU/MAU but many younger people don't even have acounts anymore. It's facing it's own myspace moment. FB (now Meta) is betting its future on something that (IMHO) will never happen: the Metaverse, much like how Uber (and even Tesla to a certain extent) were betting their futures on self-driving cars (both of which, much like AGI, are perennially 5-10 years away).

The market will sort out FAcebook one way or the other. It requires no heavyhanded intervention.

The MBA eventually turn every social media platform into an ecommerce platform because how else do you make money? When that happens that platform eventually dies.

If you've been following IG redesigns, it's been moving further and further away from being creator-focused (eg the "create" button moved from the bottom bar to the top). IG has been pushing shopping, IGTV and other efforts to monetize the platform and/or tie it to commerce.

Trying to clone Tiktok with Reels just isn't going to save it.
If you want a networked version (note: not based on Fleur): https://github.com/armon/bloomd In the source there is a "libbloom" as well that you could copy directly into your codebase if you wanted an embedded version. The networked version has a simple Redis-like text protocol so you can just use `telnet` to play around with it, too.

Also written in C, with great performance (no comparison to this one, I haven't done it), and has been used in production by many companies for many years (since ~2012 or 2013).

Just pointing out other implementations if anyone is curious!
> Cold comfort now, but... don't do that.

If you answer security questions honestly, you're very vulnerable to account takeover. Most of the answers are public information about a person (where did you grow up kind of thing), or so arbitrary I wouldn't remember what I answered anyway (what's your favorite movie/food/etc).

The best strategy I've found is to answer them with random passphrases, and store the answer in my password manager.

Passphrases are important because you want it to be words you can speak over the phone. It's often customer-service who will ask.
The other really crazy thing is that, almost by definition, restricting your portfolio to just an index of non-ESG companies should outperform the market.

(If that wasn't the case, it would be irrational for any company _not_ to be ESG compliant, right?)

But such an obvious arbitrage opportunity would hardly last long. So I suspect for every dollar someone shifts out of the general market into ESG only funds, someone else shifts a dollar in the opposite direction, creating no net effect except a wealth transfer from more ethically concerned to less ethically concerned investors.

See, extending the "Consumers will vote with their feet!" paradigm to the stock market is moronic. It just means "Be a sucker and give away your returns to anyone with less qualms." If a rule is worth wanting companies to follow, it needs to be made a law so it will apply equally to all competitors, else you get a classic race to the bottom.
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Presumably the analogy is that only hearing a phrase from a philosopher is like seeing a picture for a fraction of a second.
Copilot shines when it's used alongside correctly utilized strong type systems that catch many possible failures, but human languages don't have anything like it.
It should be noted that the US decided not to extend the universal free school meals program, because it was "too expensive" at $11B. They also stopped the expanded and early payment of family tax credits, causing a double-whammy hit to poor families (then pile on inflation/food prices, and gas prices). But $50B to large monopolistic companies isn't "too expensive," and we can afford that.

Unfortunately 52 senators get to control the agenda, and they get to decide what is "affordable" and "too expensive."