skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not necessarily the case that greedy, ignorant MBAs came in and ruined everything. Like, if their practices were so inferior, then any domestic firm that didn’t get taken over by them should’ve had a leg up and could’ve dominated the domestic market.

In this instance, it was people like Icahn.

Machine tools were a very cyclical market. Consequently, they did well as part of a vertically integrated conglomerate where the profits could be booked over time and the R&D could be shared with the manufacturing parent. When forced to spin out and stand alone by corporate raiders, those companies were effectively doomed as you just ripped out their ability to do R&D.

In addition, people forget that the Japanese companies were very much not playing fair. MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and the keiretsu/zaibatsu companies were actively attacking the US companies--this was effectively governmental and monopoly collusion. This attack was to the point that they almost wiped out the semiconductor industry (which prompted the DARPA VHSIC project and later Sematech in response) for example. They did similar actions in the manufacturing industries but the government never responded with the same vigor.

> Was the policy to outsource everything, or liberalize markets and let firms and consumers more freely choose where to buy things from?

The policy was to fund the hell out of West Coast (high tech and mostly no unions) and to leave the Rust Belt (manufacturing and lots of unions) to rot.

I will be one of the first to line up to piss on Reagan's grave for the complete shit that he was. However, to be fair, NOBODY had any answer to the fact that manufacturing automated and could get by on two orders of magnitude fewer employees. Every country dependent upon manufacturing went through a horrible time (see: England and Thatcher for similar vitriol). In fact, nobody still has any answer 4 decades+ later. It's one of the reasons there are so many old, very angry MAGAs.

> Globalization has done quite a lot to lift people out of poverty and keep prices low.

At what local cost? Nobody in Cleveland gives a shit about whether someone in Africa is doing better when they can't make their house payment.
The MBA philosophy vs the craftsman philosophy differ vastly.
In other words, no it is not only supply and demand - it’s the desire to maximize profit as far as the market will bear
Very interesting, but I don't really understand why it can't just be Yaxe?
Or alternatively, the vector was created with `Vec::with_capacity()` or `ExactSizeIterator::collect()`, and had the correct capacity all along.
Not just that, it's also all the legwork of managed hosting: all that OS configuration, patching, redundancy, testing, monitoring etc etc is someone else's job, and they are accountable. Plus other managed services like LB, DB, auth, etc etc. you might not want to duct tape yourself and manage every day. That cloud bill could be cheaper than your time is worth.

Plus flexibility of scale up / scale down as needed for load, transient testing, etc.

Cloud is definitely not for everyone but it makes sense for some.
It would be nice if `RestartSec` weren't constant.

Then you could have the default be 100ms for one-time blips, but (after a burst of failures) fall back gradually to 10s to avoid spinning during longer outages.

That said, beware of failure chains causing the interval to add up. AFAIK there's no way to have the kernel notify you of when a different process starts listening on a port.
Isn't this why many groups look at how much one uploaded and you can get lower priority or lose access if you don't seed enough?
What basis do you have for saying they would disappear?

I've never heard anyone suggest that.

(And them becoming "simpler" is irrelevant. As far as unwanted interruptions go, a popup is a popup.)
> People forget (or mostly never knew) that Ello was a Vermont thing.

True, but a little misleading. The majority of the co-founders of Ello, plus nearly all of its staff, were based in Colorado.

Source: I worked for Ello.
We all know that individual…

But still, formatting changed files on commit, even on CI ought to be a fraction of a second.
> Machining today is heavy metric, even in the U.S.

Likely due to the dominance of metric tooling from abroad.

Old ass machine equipment is imperial and is still in use. Imperial measuring devices are still widely available as well.

I think the OP is probably onto something.
Worth noting here is that "proton flash therapy" is a new therapy, but "proton therapy" is not. Proton therapy is a lot more recent than x-ray therapy, but still a conventional therapy.

Flash therapy is the part is which just now entering clinical trials, where you treat the patient with ultra-high dose rates (so you deliver the same dose of radiation, but in maybe 90 ms instead of 90 seconds). There are indications that healthy cells are better at recovering from the ulra-high dose rate than tumor cells are, which means it would have a protective effect on healthy tissue, but the mechanism behind it is not known. The type of radiation is not specified, it can be protons, electrons, x-rays, etc.

So "proton flash therapy" is a Flash therapy that uses protons. Other clinical trials are using electrons instead, i.e. "electron flash therapy".

Edit: If anyone thinks this is interesting and is looking for work in Stockholm, my workplace develops simulation / treatment planning tools for radiation therapy (including proton therapy and flash therapy) and is currently recruiting C++ and C# developers: https://www.raysearchlabs.com/career/
Interesting. My own experience is that lawyers never bother the engineers for Office Actions. They just handle it themselves, since it's usually pretty rote. In fact, they don't even tell you when they abandon it!

Taking up too much engineer time is a good way for them to lose future business.
> I mostly interviewed at exactly those kind of small companies.

Not all of these sorts of companies are small. A lot of them are very large.
By that time, it might even get supported by Chrome for Linux.
> All of your examples rely on the data buyer trusting its accuracy.

Pretty much everyone knows that the data is filled with inaccurate information.
As much as 40% of it may be wrong (see https://joindeleteme.com/blog/incognito-september-2023-data-... for more info).

The vast majority of the time, the people buying the data know it isn't 100% accurate and they also don't care. They're usually not looking at individuals, they're looking at large groups of people who (probably) meet whatever criteria they've set. If they get it wrong a bunch of times who cares as long as the other times it works. Better than chance is good enough for them.

Data brokers can always count on there being some people who are misled into thinking that their data is far more accurate than it is. They're trying to convince everyone right now that AI is the golden solution that makes them super trustworthy compared to their previous failings. Tomorrow it'll probably be "quantum something" or "super surveillance" or some other gimmick. They really don't have to care. They'll always be able to sell their stuff.

Data brokers will always have the police and the government buying up their data too because the government is happy to just suck up everything they can and will figure it all out later. They aren't concerned with accuracy either. That's how people get arrested for just riding their bike past houses that got robbed. They can make all the mistakes they want and it doesn't hurt them any, even when it's a huge problem for the people caught up by lazy policing.

I promise you that no browser add-on is going to collapse the targeted ad industry or bring an end to surveillance capitalism. Giving people more data to use against you is a bad idea.
Thanks for giving it a whirl!

I agree that the current grading is a bit harsh -- the rubric we're using in this demo is fairly rudimentary. What we've seen be more helpful is a range of grades along the lines of correct / correct but unhelpful / correct but incomplete / incorrect. This somewhat depends on individual use cases though.

Let me know what questions generated you thought could be more complex! We're always working on improving our ability to explore the knowledge space for challenging questions.
I've used Rails for small-medium sized projects and overall have a good impression of it (I'd even argue it did a lot to drive web development forwards) and I know there are still orgs out there using it regularly, but is Rails honestly still being used to build large scale apps (excepting the ones that have already been around forever like Github)?

Every org I've worked at since the last Rails project I worked on around 2014 has built JavaScript heavy thick clients on top of API's. That's not really where Rails shines, and I've not seen it around at all for newer projects since roughly that time.

It's anecdotal, but it's my experience that the industry has largely settled on the SPA + API's architecture, and the technologies every org I've worked at use to build those SPA's are either React, Angular, Vue, or very occasionally for niche cases their own JavaScript framework.

I understand that some people on Hacker News still dislike the complexity of modern front ends, and I get it, I really do. But I haven't seen any real alternatives that have been seriously used in anger to build an actual commercial application since React, Angular (and Vue) took over.
We need to see a much faster ramp in the pace of innovation in this space. We’re eeking out tiny wins over decades, like Rituximab and this agent. Feels like there’s an ossification of this entire sector that happened years ago and there’s no sense of urgency - just businesses as usual with the occasional modest win to show. 80 years since chemo was discovered, our most successful treatment across the board continues to be poison that kills fast growing cells faster than it kills the host. We are oncological troglodytes.
Lol. Employees tend to consistently agree with their boss. I wonder why...
It's a great tool, it's just agonizingly slow sometimes because Google likes to throttle the connection when you make big changes. The initial download especially is slow, but the small changes thereafter are pretty fast.
> I wonder how long this utopian "do no evil" culture can last.

Apparently, about 12-13 years.
There is zero chance it costs $5 per dose because blinatumomab is a bi-specific T cell engager which is a monoclonal antibody made by extracting it from a cloned white blood cell created from recombinant DNA. The yield for this process is extremely low and it's really complicated in the best of times. The cost of the pipette tips and other consumables used by the lab automation alone probably costs more.

The flip side is that it treats a rare form of leukemia so the market isn't very big and since they can't lower the price enough to compete with chemo, they have to actually charge more to get their money back. For example chemo might cost $10k, but their drug costs $10k to make per person so if they charged $50k they might not even get enough customers to break even. So instead they charge $200k to get the most from the patients they can capture like the X% of patients who are allergic to the chemo drugs and have no choice (Just an example, I don't know the specifics for blinatumomab)
You might be on to something.

The UK online government portal is excellent, so much better than dealing with BT. I would love an internet service that is as great as our government.
The illegal mining operation in Donoso also had an impact on water sources that were supposed to be replenishing the canal in case of a drought like this.

See: https://www.tvn-2.com/de-frente/canal-panama-administrador-a...
Venture backed or bootstrapped? There's a third way: just raise one round
My preferred way of looking at this is “your project costs you this much to keep being alive”. An upfront cost means maintenance costs are essentially zero, resulting in your projects needing to hit a much lower bar to stay alive.
I took blinatumomab in 2015 (in my late 20s). It literally saved my life. However, the risks of blinatumomab were seen as much riskier than chemotherapy. Most notably, blinatumomab has a significant risk of triggering a cytokine storm[0], a frequently-fatal immune reaction cascade. When starting a cycle of blinatumomab, the hospital required that I be inpatient for 7 days and they checked my vitals at least once every two hours. (This was _miserable_ for my sleep schedule, which is already a mess when in the hospital.) My regimen was 7 days in the hospital, then 21 days at home constantly connected to the pump, then 7 days of recovery time before starting another cycle.

At the time I took blinatumomab, I had already had unsuccessful treatments with two different chemo regimens. At the hospital system I was at, at least one failed chemo regimen was a pre-requisite for blinatumomab, as it was only indicated for "refractory" or "recurrent" cancers. I assume this is more related to the chance of acute death and (at the time) relative newness of blinatumomab compared to established chemotherapy regimens. (B-cell ALL is sadly very common in children, but this fortunately means that there is a LOT of funding research into the disease.)

After going through 3 one-month cycles of blinatumomab, it was becoming less effective, but I was able to line up a allogenic stem cell transplant which has (knock on a thousand woods) kept me clean for the 8 years since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
Can't wait to not be able to buy an RTX 5080 next year.

Crypto then AI, surely there will be a third thing coming too
Applying Light Cones from physics to AI strategy
I'd say that being "scared" or "sketched" about doing perfectly legitimate things is a direct symptom of the overbearing totalitarian system created by this war on drug users. I hope you won't be so quick to support it in the future! The ideals of freedom would indicate a high bar for locking someone in a cage, and private possession of consciousness altering substances doesn't clear it. It's essentially a false axiom from which so much of the contemporary police state has crystalized.
Well, in my mind, he is referring to the state at the point of murder. The fact that they were going through the divorce process isn't important here (to us bystanders, to the investigator it's a motive).

I think this is just bs for his next parole hearing tho.
With the lighter weight of the Ti Pro Max, I went for the 15 Pro Max this year. The screen real estate was the main draw for me and my old eyes.
That's irrelevant. Both iPhone users and app developers have options on both sides. Developers can ignore Apple's platform and end-users have lots of options for phones that aren't iPhones.
Based on the data on this page[1] on households with kids:

57% have both parents working full time

28% have one parent working full time and the other not working at all.

The remaining 16% is one full time, one part time.

As another commenter pointed out - while not the majority, it's definitely not an outlier.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characte...
Innocent until proven guilty for a prison sentence. Obviously arresting someone has a lower bar. If you had read carefully, you'd have noticed that I suggested a policy of arresting based on tests that reduce false negatives, and then subsequent tests after arrest which are designed to reduce false positives, potentially balancing the issue you mention.
Yes? What about unamused Vec?
It's a shame that it's completely lost, they had some interesting layout conventions and it was kind of fun to browse images even in the later days.

The network never really caught on, but there was some good work being done there.
Also, in this context, not a bad idea to revisit the broader topic of scheduling.

https://csc-knu.github.io/sys-prog/books/Andrew%20S.%20Tanen...
Nice!

We just need Linux and iOS. And then we'll have somewhere around 80% support for WebGPU across all devices.

I'm getting my numbers https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu

Android: 0.34%

Chromium OS: 78.15%

iOS: 0.09%

Linux: 0.75%

Mac OS: 54.43%

Windows: 77.96%
Samsung Notes is the only thing that I miss after switching to Pixel. It was everything I needed in a notes app with seemingly no bloat.
> You seem to be really averse to evidence.

You have evidence that a significant portion of the ecosystem will suffer some performance degradation? If so, it would be immensely helpful if you could share it on the mailing list. We take each and every report seriously.

> In my opinion, the JEP should have benchmarks.

The Panama project has been publishing and discussing benchmarks for years. Here's one example: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-November/...

I don't understand, however, what kind of benchmark could show that most libraries can migrate from Unsafe to FFM without adversely affecting most of their client applications. I'm sure you can find some discussions about performance on panama-dev, where JDK developers have been working with library authors and other Java users on the project for the past years.

> There is nothing stopping a compiler from omitting conflicting optimizations in functions using "unsafe". Undefined behavior due to optimizations is also already commonly understood in C/C++.

Yeah, the world is moving away from undefined behaviour; Java is certainly not going to start moving toward it. Avoiding unspecified behaviour has sort of been one of Java's main selling points from day one. Because we've been delivering significant performance improvements while improving safety at the same time for years (JDK 21 improves the performance of a lot of applications by a significant amount compared to JDK 8, all without changing a line of code), I can't see a reason why we should change our strategy now. We don't need to let undefined behaviour more easily in to give our users the performance they want.

So while we allow undefined behaviour with a flag, allowing it by default would mean it could be everywhere, and most of our users prefer safety to be the default, also in line with the global trend.

> If you don't like codebases using unsafe, don't use them!

The problem is that a Java application has no easy way of knowing whether some transitive dependency may be using Unsafe. The integrity JEP goes into that.

> That's a very round-about way of saying "we only do what we want and who cares about the users". Funny.

It means we have 10M opinionated users, we work very hard to make sure we satisfy most of them with most of what we do (after all, our job depends on Java's continued thriving, which depends on our users' happiness), but even if 1% is unhappy with something we do, and 1% of those express their opinion on social media, that's 1000 angry people saying they're not being listened to. The fact is that different programmers want different things, often those things are contradictory, and it's quite rare to find something that millions of programmers agree on.

I don't know if it's funny or not, but part of doing this job is knowing that you work all day, every day, to make most of your users happy, and no matter what you do or don't do, there will be people yelling at you on social media, because programmers just can't all agree on pretty much anything. But I'm not complaining. The overall satisfaction with our recent features and releases has been palpable.
I had a 'magic' experience at Uniqlo, walked up to self check out with my single item and it was already detected without any intervention. Just paid and left. No barcodes.
Yeah it felt like a revelation when someone said "you can control your thoughts" basically. I was like, "Really? Is it really that easy?" and it takes some practice but yes, you don't have to just let your brain run around thinking about whatever it wants. You can say "no". It really helps me to have a specific prayer I say instead so that my mind doesn't just jump to some other dreadful scenario.

The other most impactful thing I've done for my anxiety was uninstalling all news apps from my phone. I check the headlines one time in the morning to satiate my curiosity then I don't look at the news at all.
Content just isn’t worth a lot because nobody really needs any particular piece of information all that much; and if they do really need a piece of information, chances are it is available in many places.
It’s not that I’m too selfish to give someone a dollar for content that I liked, it’s that I’m too lazy
I don't like the music my friend makes, but I'll support him by buying his album and sharing it with others who might like it more.
Brand names carry weight for several years before the damage becomes apparent.

Often their cost cutting measures seem positive at first as it creates a profit uptick, but it's usually at the cost of the brand, so 3-5 years later things take a turn (once the consumer has figured out the brand can't be trusted anymore). By that point it's hard to put the blame on the appropriate person or identify the appropriate reason for a less profitable year.
> L1i matters, people!

RISC-V consistently wins on L1i footprint.

The complaining is about number of dynamic instructions ("path length"), which can hit you if you don't fuse. Of course, path length might not actually be the bottleneck to raw performance, but it's an easy metric to argue, so a lot of people latch on to it.
How do you run the task manager with Android Chrome?

Does Android Chrome have the per-tab hover card RAM use feature as desktop chrome?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37840416 :

>> From "Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers" (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953286 :

>> What are some ideas for UI Visual Affordances to solve for bad UX due to slow browser tabs and extensions?

>> - [ ] UBY: Browsers: Strobe the tab or extension button when it's beyond (configurable) resource usage thresholds

>> - [ ] UBY: Browsers: Vary the {color, size, fill} of the tabs according to their relative resource utilization

>> - [ ] ENH,SEC: Browsers: specify per-tab/per-domain resource quotas: CPU
The Importance of Empathic Design
I think you're conflating their designation as "markets" because they are marketplaces of apps with the economic term "markets" which has a specific definition for a sector of industry.
Linking to relevant websites is a common practice in digital journalism.

So, either you're prepared to say most digital journalism is advertisement, or your argument is flawed. Pick one.
Look inside A Million Ways To Die.
There isn't a Million Ways To Die.
There is supposed to be probable cause before asking for a test; so blatant testing could and would be contested.
What's the common definition of self-hosting these days?

I've always considered self-hosting to mean I'm managing hardware, but its clear the author here sees it more as a self-managed OS and infrastructure.

It actually feels very similar to the whole MPA vs SPA debate in web development. Maybe I'm just getting old, but self-hosting and SPA have specific meanings I learned years ago that seem to be getting redefined now rather than coming up with new names.
Plotteus – The JavaScript library for data storytelling
Depends on the stuff.

20 small bags of creatine for a 20 day trip makes perfectly good sense. Leave your measuring equipment at home.

And they are test "failures"--the problem is the field tests are not specific enough and will react to innocent materials. (Same as fertilizer or glycerin setting off the bomb sniffer at the airport. Lots of skin products contain glycerin.) And expect any competent drug smuggler to know the cross reactions of the stuff they are carrying--thus what they say isn't really relevant.
HTLM documents evolve much more frequently and there were dozens of HA addons that simply gave up updating their regexes extracting certain information from HTML and emails.
Or like the other response to your parent comment said, it could cost a ton to make, which lowers the number of people who can get it, driving costs even higher due to low volume.