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The absolute worst part of "journalism" today, is how these organizations have a slush fund and insurance for cases where they're caught lying and destroying lives - never mind actually doing the job of verifying a story, they've just de-risked not verifying it. It is all factored into the risk-model of their operations.

For anyone following this, Elizabeth Warren got off without consequence for amplifying these smears because: "claims against them (congress men/women) are barred by sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act” [1]

So - in the US, as long as you're a serving member of congress, you can unload on a private citizen with zero consequence.

[1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-dismisses-covington-ken...

Popular doesn't necessarily imply correct. Modern Single Page Applications rely on JS for everything. Unless HN prefers static documents, simply insisting on an anachronistic expectation of functionality without JS, however righteous, isn't fruitful.

How's that a solution? The same websites were simply using JS prior to WASM.

On the contrary, payments is critical infrastructure, like roads or social security, that needs to be publicly owned and operated, immune to the rise of cancel culture, and other whims of the techno-elites. No one should be denied their right to basic economics because someone in power at a private company disagrees with their politics

The author is very deliberate about blaming his mother for negative outcomes in his life. Despite the likely case (guessing here) of the mom loving him unconditionally, but wanting to imbibe ambition in him.

The phenomenon of disliking one's parents for being too harh is much more prevalent in the West. And yet, parents in China and India are harder on their kids, while those kids are growing up to loving their parents more frequently, than being distraught.

My point is, there is some social conditioning in the West that is leading people to dislike perfectly good, well intentioned parenting. Wanting and preparing one's kids for generally accepted notions of success isn't bad parenting, it's love, because it's easier to simply not put the ground work into imbibing a culture of success

> Microsoft's long-term stalwarts Windows and Office are dying

Judged on what metric? Office's paying monthly active users and revenues have consistently grown, measured both quarter on quarter, and year on year

I have to disagree - till the products actually made it to the shelves, where nutritional analysis revealed how unhealthy beyond/impossible truly were, they conveniently left out these bits in their messaging. It wasn't an accident that their marketing paired "tasty" and "vegan", which to any casual observer screams "healthy & tasty"

There is a desperate need for a truly healthy meat alternative, without the inflated sodium/preservatives and fat.

Why are beyond/impossible not investing in a healthier alternative

Stomach cancer is the most adverse. Increased sodium is proven to drastically increase blood pressure, which in turn increases many cardio vascular and renal diseases.

Edit: surprised by the downvotes on what are well established facts [1]

[1]: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt-and-sodium...

The news, where "what bleeds, leads" is likely the reason for an amplified perception of "evil". The world is very likely a kind place, especially in politically stable regions

If the US is a bad political experiment, which one is good? Iran would gladly send you to the gallows if you deemed it's religious leader - Ayatollah, also the political leader by design, as Iran is a religious state with no minority rights, a 'bad' political experiment.

And China/Russia would know your probability of saying so a-priori, given their blanket surveillance generating social credibility scores.

On the contrary, I believe developers should stand up to Apple where they can, and the browser is likely the only place for it, given they have zero leverage in negotiations on native apps, in which Apple is making life very very hard for developers who simply do not fall in line with their guidance.

If Apple will willy-nilly reject app store (both Mac and iOS) apps, retroactively change rules to kill competition (look up what they did with steam) and randomly start banning popular frameworks (electron apps are the latest victim), and still insist on being W3C non-compliant, in a blatant effort to force users and developers to their walled garden, developers need to grow a backbone and take Apple on where they can. If Mac users really want your webapp, Firefox/Opera.... are just an install away

When it comes to Safari, given their widely known non-compliance with W3C standards, I'd wager this to be a bug/non-compliance within Safari.

Guessing such a rule helps in duplicate submissions detection. But, that should be possible from checking the URL.

Unless one uses a link shortener. Are shorteners permitted on HN?

Can anybody familiar with this vertical comment on tends, leaders and/or opportunities in this vertical (team wiki/knowledge-base)

Per my research, this space is crawling with options:

1. Coda

2. Notion

3. Tettra

4. Wrike

5. Confluence

6. Box Notes

7. Dropbox Paper

8. Slab

9. Basecamp

10. MSFT Teams (in a way)

11. Click Up

12. MSFT SharePoint

13. Marvin

14. Monday.com

15. Many many smaller notes apps

Why was Stripe sharing something as critical as [SSN+Name] with a third party? If Atlas is simply a white labeled service of another service, then I hope it was prominent in Stripe's communication with customers/potential-customers. I say this because the market has many competitive offerings in the space, and among the primary reasons to pick Stripe is the assumption of better security, given it's multi billion dollar venture funding and valuation

Please, someone tell the geniuses at Harvard business that no one ever used "Move Fast, break things" for chips. Having been in the industry long enough, I've seen plenty a launch date moved, and chip-respins executed in favor of risking a recall of hardware from the field.

It's only non-critical, consumer/casual software/applications that can afford to move fast, and break things. Your bank, or medical records, or even traffic light controls simply cannot move fast and break

The benefits to using this approach over a traditional server are:

1. Someone else maintains the software running these services, including OS upgrades, security upgrades and patches, uptime monitoring, etc.

2. Since every logical component is an independent service, each scaling independently, any one single component is unlikely to become a bottle-neck while scaling. In traditional monolithic servers, you'll have to have contingency plans if you beat storage/network/CPU/RAM limits

3. The closest thing to this is to break up a monolithic email server into microservices and deploy them as independently scalable containers, which is a considerable engineering effort.

Assuming this works as advertised, you can go from zero to a full blown email service for organizations with thousands of people (assuming the stated AWS limits are lifted), in record time

Thank you for the detailed response.

Looking through the documentation, there is no mention of WebRtc data channel.

1. Does this SDK support WebRtc data channel.

2. Does the AWS Kinesis WebRTC provide a managed service for WebRTC data, without the need to use audio/video.

3. Aside from signaling, and the 30% if instances that true P2P connections fail to get established, is all traffic truly P2P?

I see googlers in tech talks and at cafes only use MacBook Pros. If their own PC isn't good enough for them, why should anyone else fall for their marketing?

The day I buy a Chromebook is the day I read that Google only issues Chromebooks to their employees

Many here are claiming he lost the bet on #1, but consider the details:

Predicted Aggregate value: $200B

Actual value: $145B (Math in [1])

His prediction is off by 25%. Technically a lost bet, but I'd say a prudent bet as a VC.

As for #2, #3, he wins them outright. Overall, being 25% off the most optimistic prediction isn't too bad a loss. I'd say he won the argument convincingly.

I will note that anyone above average intellect in his position (as an investor with gobbles of analytics, best in class prediction models and advisors, and access to thousands of high quality pitches to see down the pipeline) would likely predict as he did, so while he won, he wasn't clairvoyant, he was merely following the data.

[1]: Math: Uber: $50B

SpaceX: $35B.

Airbnb: $35B

Palantir: $25B

Pinterest: $10B

Dropbox: $7.5B

It's marketing hyperbole, no one really believes it's the absolute best-in-class.

The idea of this open source app from Google is to demonstrate a real world use case of porting legacy native code to the web via webassembly

It's all a big coincidence, the timing of this, affecting a party that's not popular among tech titans, no breach of ethics here at all. Everyone remembers the groundswell opposition from tech, to the Obama campaign's use of social media and targeted advertising, right? No?

Wait, was the media and tech sprawling with fawning reviews, declaring the Obama campaign a genius use of tech?

Remember when they praised the Obama campaign's efficient use of tech/social-media, including targeted advertising? Why do you think this new fangled opposition to political ad spend is timing itself right before the 2020 ramp up?

Hint: it's because tech Titans and their cronies can't tolerate an opposition campaign being just as good at tech/social-media targeting. Not because of some new found puritanical, ethical hate of politics

Apple taking giant craps on less powerful companies, is becoming routine. After all this publicly available information on their behavior, if the supreme Court sides with apple on app store policy, I think we'll have Google and Microsoft immediately pivoting to this model of fingering developers and end users

YouTube would never have gotten where it is, if this newfound puritanical quest had bitten it before. And looking back at this moment in it's history, YouTube of the future will regret stymying what was a thriving platform, both economically and freedom of speech wise.

If Google wants to turn YouTube into a Hulu/Netflix competitor, it should concentrate on it's Google play video brand, and simply drive YouTube searches there for certain mainstream-studio content

> And all the while there's still genuine real and unambiguous harm and violence ...

On S.O? That's hard to believe. People come to S.O to have their coding questions answered, and in my experience, their identity plays no part in exchanges on the site.

Prevents people from forking and submitting PRs, given rust's abysmally low usage, and higher complexity for beginners.

But WKWebView is equivalent to running inside a browser, with no system access.

If JSCore allowed WASM JIT-ing, one could easily port WASI to iOS for full system access, and update iOS apps by downloading new wasm versions. Of course Apple won't do that citing __Insert__App__Store__excuse__here, but everyone knows it's because they want that sweet 30% cut, and that can only be effectively enforced with a tight chokehold on updates