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I read a book recently called the Mind in the making by James Harvey Robinson. The author made an interesting point when he said that the time taken by people to form an opinion is actually so short, but the passion with which they defend their opinions is astonishing.

This really made me re-think my opinions.
Yeah. It's an article about nothing.
They talk about the disappearing iPhone but what we all really want to hear about is Jony Ive's opinion on the disappearing taxes.
I think Apple needs to expand (or as you call it dilute) their core mission. They've become a smart phone company that can't even remember how to build a desktop for professionals. You say that they would be offering an inferior search service compared to Google, but I don't see why that would be the case. In my opinion a search service that doesn't track you is superior to Google (see DuckDuckGo for an example) and if it's built into Spotlight, even better.

Google survives on it's ad-words revenue as far as I can tell. Android only generates money for google through ads (which is again dependent upon tracking the user) and they've never released revenue numbers for Youtube, so we can probably assume Youtube loses money. And even if Youtube makes money, it is still from ads. So if Apple can cut into Google's ad-words business model, they will deal a blow to their chief competitor, Android.

This is an interesting article talking about how Google could fail b/c it is too dependent on ad revenue.
https://hackernoon.com/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee

Apple definitely needs to expand its vision. A major tech player like Apple shouldn't be spending all their time iterating on the iphone and making their laptops a tiny bit thinner. They should really have a serious AR product like the Hololens by now at the absolute minimum. Honestly, Apple seems to think that their mission is to be a computer sculpture company at this point. They are totally obsessed with design to the point that they can't create a usable desktop computer. They've lost the plot.
What is the primary reason people choose Datomic? From reading the website, I get the impression that the append-only nature and time-travel features are a major selling point, but in other places its just the datalog and clojure interfaces. I'm sure it's a mix, but what brings people to the system to begin with?
Three possible avenues;

A search engine by its nature allows computation on content that you can't do through an external web API. For example you can invert Walmart's pages on their online site into a catalog of SKUs, prices and equipment.

A search engine can create (and provide access to for a fee) meta data around the digital footprint of people and what they are interested in, afraid of, and where fashion is headed (query traffic)

A search engine can develop and maintain a robust connected graph of commercial entities and data about them which can be resold to banks, bundled into subscription ratings services, and mined for market trends and "inside" information.

You could also deliver a customer friendly advertising platform but much like opioids are ok for treating pain it seems nearly impossible for people who own a decent sized index from being seduced by the cash possibilities there.
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>When you're a kid and something feels disturbing, you turn it off.

Do you realize these are the "most popular" child videos on YouTube? Gosh, the fact that these people are making money off of it is proof that "kids" are watching these videos, and are apparently not capable of "just turning them off".
Yeah right, maybe that happened to you. I'm not confident my (hypothetical) kid watching these videos can turn them off, at all.

Can you please not claim "censorship", "evil corporation", "global scale", "alarmist", and look at this issue directly? GOSH, these are objectively bad issues, and why can't you just not let children see them? Not everyone out there is trying to "brainwash" your kids. The world is a better place without these videos.

These are bad videos. Children should not be shown these videos. I applaud YouTube for "censoring" these things.

If you're the kind of parent that feels "this is censorship", "no one should tell my kid not to watch these videos", and "my kids are totally okay with watching these videos", then I really think you need some serious help.
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> What was the disturbing thing?

That we as humans work under the assumptions that the things we consume have at least a basic level of curation involved in them. This assumption is now no longer true.

Sitting a child in front of YouTube is now essentially equivalent to running a fuzzer / AFL on an infant mind. Who the hell knows how the human brain will react?
Like farming subsidies. If anything your making it more realistic. A bit of QE should be added for fun.
- "So, it's like Fifa and you have a team and play against people?"

- "No, I don't control the players. I try and examine the other team and make sure mine has trained well in their tactics. It's fun though - I negotiated an awesome deal for a striker and I think he'll help us win the Swedish 2nd Division this season. I'm pretty close to getting a backup left-back from England but not sure he'll fit in my tight wage structure"

At this point, everyone has walked away
If I had to guess new capabilities chips will add in the 2020s, hardware-accelerated compression or compact encoding are near the top of the list. That could be anything from branch-free instructions to read/write varints to fully-self-contained (un)packer(s) you just point at some data and run. I'm most interested in something so fast as to be worth considering to replace fast software algos or to use in places we don't think about compressing at all now, though hardware accelerated zlib would obviously have applications too.

Some existing stabs in this direction include that some Samsung SoCs had a simple "MComp" memory compressor (https://github.com/XileForce/Vindicator-S6-Unified/blob/mast...), that the new Qualcomm Centriq chips use compression (https://3s81si1s5ygj3mzby34dq6qf-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...), and that some IBM POWER CPUs have dedicated circuitry for memory compression (http://ibmsystemsmag.com/aix/administrator/lpar/ame-intro/). There's also hardware zlib offload, like Intel QuickAssist.

I'd expect more of this in the future because 1) space-is-speed is just a fundamental thing we deal with computing, 2) chips keep getting faster relative to RAM, 3) you already see lots of special-purpose instructions being added (crypto, strings, fancier vector stuff...) as it gets more expensive to improve general-purpose IPC. Maybe there's some additional value given the arrival of 3D XPoint and (probably) other future NVRAMs--would help you fit more on them without spending more time compressing than writing--but regardless, the trends seem to point to compression assists being interesting.

One reason I could turn out wrong is if the general-purpose facilities we have make software the best place to write compressors anyway, i.e., fast software packers get so good it becomes difficult to justify hardware assists. General-purpose low- and medium-compression algos like LZ4 and Zstd run pretty fast already, and we have even faster memory compressors (WKdm, Density). Of course, that's on big Intel cores; maybe special-purpose compressor hardware will continue to mostly be more interesting alongside smaller cores.
Compromise?
There's a great Numberphile video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5RFgd59ao
I'm very aggressive about discarding any dead whiteboard marker we have at work. We have plenty of money to buy replacement markers, and indeed the copy room has several boxes of them sitting there already. So if a marker is starting to die it goes right in the trash.

It's funny the reaction this gets. Some people seem almost offended that I would destroy office property or something like that. Look, non-refillable markers of the type we use (Expo) are an expendable item. Keeping bad ones around just produces irritation for everyone down the line.
I work in an open office. I’m less productive at work than I am at home. No amount of noise cancelling headphones can counter someone tapping you on he shoulder for help.
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The article said that sections could be configured as open or closed office.
I would rather give them something else to do instead of going through so many control measures for internet access (Not saying it should be banned). There are so many things they can learn without internet and so many things they can learn with just computer and no internet too.
> Edit: I’m not saying that Ive’s a bad designer. Not at all.

No, that's exactly what you're saying. Would you mind providing an example of your Platonic ideal of a designer?
ah memories, CCMASTER, had a lot of fun with that one :)
> My pet peeve with react is that I can't just code. I have to stop every 10 steps and reflect on the tool I use, instead of the problem I'm trying to solve.

Thank you! Every time I've tried react (and enough attempts were made to finally decide it was just not for me), there was always something in the back of my mind that I didn't like and I just couldn't put it to words. You just described what it was.

And, if one forgoes tooling, then the situation is like the one you described in your previous comment: an afternoon just to get a "Hello world".
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> Standard / Official way of doing things

If you like that, why not go with Ember?
Either classroom time is limited, or it isn't.

Which is it?

If the question is "Should we continue to teach cursive handwriting," well, there's your answer.
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He'd probably say something like, "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
I dont go by the hype. I work in the field and I know whats what.

Digital assistants dont work at all and I know exactly why. And I also know that digital assistants which are indistinguishable from an domain specific expert are atmost 2 years away.

You can argue that I am going by the hype. Problem is that I am not the only one. Even Elon Musk has expressed similar fears. Most people didnt believe that a nuclear bomb was possible. They had to see a mushroom cloud to get around it. AI has been a dud for the last two decades. It is easy to believe that it will continue being so.
This is so interesting. Maybe once every couple years, I'll have a vivid memory of the IRC days back in mid to late 90s. I always try to find some record of it. The name of the group I associated with, and the nicks. They are right on the tip of my tongue, but I never can quite remember. I'd know them if I saw them written out, which is why I occasionally search. It'd be a trip to stumble upon all that old stuff some time.
I disagree. I was going to use react for a personal project and got stuck because of documentation and the various blog posts and tutorials all being different and using different libraries and patterns etc etc. This made getting a basic hello world impossible for me. (I’ve since used react and it’s now trivial but starting out was not easy, barrier to entry is still higher than vue.)

Vue on the other hand was so simple. And the documentation made getting hello world done in a few minutes. This got me off the ground and made me feel productive as I felt I knew right away what vue was doing at a most basic level. Then it was just constant learning on top.
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Most of those other things are a string of bits that only needs to be accessed behind closed doors. And it's not like a smallpox lab is open to the public either.

You can devise a defense against any attack you can think of, but for a trillion dollar prize someone will find an attack you didn't think of.

And that's the problem. You can say the words "secured arbitrarily well" but in practice you've created a room with the keys to the world in it and your first indication that your security was insufficient is an incalculable catastrophe.

It's like creating a button that gives anyone who presses it three wishes but destroys North America. "Don't worry, we'll put some guards around it" doesn't cut it. Some things need to just not exist.
The kids are choosing what they want to watch and it doesn’t fit societies made up ideal for what children should want to watch. It’s scary just like rock and roll was scary 50 years ago.

I am only hearing the exact same moral panic arguments given about Elvis’s hips.

Just because you don’t like something and can’t understand why someone else would, doesn’t make it bad.

You are just too old to see the value in things your child likes. It’s a tale as old as time.

You’re very insistent these are bad but I don’t really see why. I would consider many of these absurdist works of art, yet we don’t cover children’s eyes from the likes of Pollock.
The only time I needed jquery was when I was using bootstrap, and that was easily solved by ditching bootstrap and going with bluma.
> Expo and Sharpie go next. They are OK to hold and work. But ladies might find their caps a bit challenging to attach/disattach — it really takes some physical effort.

Can't speak to the Sharpies, but Expo caps require a completely uncommentworthy level of effort to remove.
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You can’t just type someone’s name into the To field of an email.
My guess though is that a lot of the kids watching that searched for just that because kids are a lot weirder than we like to believe.
He made his point. Apple’s design has turned into a performance piece for other designers at the cost of UX. That’s a substantive loss for the end user.
I don't really care, but can you get your Facebook or Twitter feed via RSS?
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This has less import to the world than a cat video. Never getting that 5 minutes back.
What disappearing taxes? They pay more tax than anyone else. If you are referring to tax on money they made outside of the USA, then go fish. They pay tax where they earn it. The USA is literally the only country that taxes it’s business and citizens for income earned outside of its borders.
Agh, I wish I could list off all the channels I was in without outing myself lol. Those were sick times. :) Best group of hackers I've ever met.

Curious how many people still keep up with their old groups? Did any of you become lifelong friends?
Well, this isn't really about using the tool wrong. Because, using it right means that there's something about the tool which you're not aware of. That's never a case with knowledge/information consumption. There are as many different ways of consuming information as there are a number of people. When it comes to a platform (RSS in this example) the perspective shift is the only thing you can do. You can have a single source of information and still end up with 1000 unread items.
Yes, these videos are bad. The reasons are clearly listed in the article and the video in it.

"5 years old and watching Spiderman rape & murder Elsa" is never something you should let a child watch. I'm sorry, but this is not something Pollock would ever cover. This is child pornography level of stuff. Or, are you saying that is also something perfectly fine for any audience?

I'm really amazed by the mental gymnastics one has to perform to compare these videos to Pollock and Rock and Roll.
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Whats with the insults? I can get preferring one platform over another, but insulting people is just lame.

The React and Redux developers are incredibly good at what they do - they've also spent a lot of time putting out material, books, video courses, blog posts, talks help everybody else understand the new paradigm they've created

They can't be that stupid when a lot of modern javascript framework components are either direct clones of, or influenced by, their work
I gave two examples of Apple’s recent designs in my first comment: one looks great but is bad, IMO, and one is great. I’m just saying that there are too many of the first category in the last few years. Does that make it more clear?
Just detonate a nuke at high sltitude. That wold fry their circuits. The end.
Well, this approach of single file components (.vue) containing separately scoped HTML, CSS and JS is what the Google Polymer team were recommending all the way for the last several years, but it seems no one was listening to them.
> They don't actually explore the horror of living in a world with little to no hope of getting a job while inflation erodes the value of UBI.

Better than the horror of living in a world with little to no hope of getting a job while also having no income at all.
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There are a lot of services that do Twitter to RSS like twitrss.me and queryfeed.net. Queryfeed also does some Facebook things.
Explain the actual harm. Enumerate it. I get that you don’t personally like it, and thus don’t want your child to watch it, but do you think it’s going to make your child a rapist?
An interesting blog post about those graphics and the cipher they used and how the developer was revealed. http://patorjk.com/blog/2012/05/03/cracking-magus-fate-zero-...
Apple new HQ looks great, I visited when it was almost finished earlier this year.

Some design elements look great, but are probably hard to keep clean, and functionality might suffered a bit, and some elements surface reflect too much sun light. That everyone got a height-adjustable desk is great.
That's my point. You don't have to in react either.
Feels like Javascript callback error handling. Which was not much fun.
> When does encrypted data become inaccessible? When you encrypted them or when you forgot the password?

Inaccessible to which party? It becomes inaccessible to anyone without the key immediately and inaccessible to anyone with the key when they forget the key.

Compare the situation where a person commits a document to memory and then destroys it, but writes down some inscrutable clues to help them remember it. You have some gibberish you can't decipher, if you give them the gibberish they can recreate the original document, but it's only by application of information that exists only in their mind.
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There are economic sanctions against Russia. There are no sanctions against Intel. I meant what I said.
With Alibaba launching their own hosting services as well, where do they stand at scale compared to Amazon? I realize Alibaba is mostly targeted inward to China, unlike Amazon that has some international markets, but are they a contender when it comes to global sales (and possibly China facing hosting?)
That's just it though, Vue & React aren't for most web sites. There is no point in pulling either in unless you are building something much more complex than where jQuery would suffice. There is no need for a technology to be "ubiquitous", just that it is going to meet the demands your application has for it.
I'll cite a fellow HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15674870

Or this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15674305

Or how about this medium article? https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...

Many people have presented their case on this issue. In this thread or elsewhere. Please don't pretend they don't exist by saying "Explain the actual harm. Enumerate it." Where's your proof that these videos are harmless or even beneficial to children?
What does that mean? The government just takes investors’ property when it doesn’t like what they do? That’s called expropriation. It redistributes the assets to the shareholders? They could just reconstitute the parts. This concept does not happen because it is silly.
Vue requires webpack when going for anything beyond a simple hello world experience. At some point beginners are going to have to enter the real world.

BTW - You don't need webpack for React either. It is entirely possible to write React without it.
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This isn't that unusual.

For example, when California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Rose Bird to be his Chief Justice of the state of California, she had never been a judge at any level -- not even traffic court.

She was later removed from the judiciary altogether by the voters.
After reading through his notes, I think my question differs significantly from his. He focuses on the extreme ends of ramp functions, which remain a single size, despite the domain in between them growing. The resulting function is therefor a piecewise transformation (is that the right term?) of the original function, rather than the exact same function or a simple transformation of it.
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Why do packages like this need to be ported or re-implemented for Vue rather than referenced? That package hasn't been updated since August while the root styled-components library has ~700 closed issues and 11,300 watchers

I've seen it with other stacks as well with almost complete re-implementations, a lot of duplicated effort and it feels like it goes against the packaging philosophy for javascript
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Every year around this time we get the singles day news that yet another record has been broken. I'm going to guess it's going to be the same next year and the year after that since the Chinese middle class is growing (and adopting Western debt-driven spending). Not really a surprise.

If anyone in the US wants to partake in the frenzy, I believe aliexpress is doing a Singles Day thing (using US timezone, so it hasn't started yet as of this writing), but be careful with the shipping timelines on the products. I've had situations where items didn't arrive until weeks later and I had already forgotten that I'd bought anything.
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Discussed a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637504.
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I would have preferred the old one, since the NYT article hits you with a paywall.
Great, because the whole hiring process needed another voodoo variable.
Actually I was thinking of the Disney film adaptation of that as an example of the kind of nonsensical visual stuff that can linger in a kid's head forever. I still distinctly remember the scene with the cards marching angrily. Why were they cards? Why were they angry? Why were they scary? Didn't matter then, doesn't matter now, but to my 3-year-old brain it was really important to try to answer those questions.

I haven't read the book, but given that it's based much more on wordplay as a means of humor (and therefore the exploration of what is, and isn't, sensical in the real world -- the core of humor) than on... algorithmic garbage..., and that it's intended for 8-13 year olds (the ages of its first audience) rather than 2-6 year olds (the target audience of nursery rhymes etc. that the videos in the article are based on), it's somewhat tangential to the point that I and the article are trying to make.
I work for an online reading platform. Our number one kids books are mostly about bugs, poop, and bugs that eat poop, followed closely by murder investigation.

Kids love things that make them slightly uncomfortable. A feeling they get a lot more often than adults. A feeling most adults avoid.
Again, you are only proving the Elvis moral panic argument. Other commentators agreeing with you doesn’t make a case.
An unofficial workaround: go to archive.is and paste the link.

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I know, and it's a shame, because it actually takes very little effort to do better teaching of left-handed:

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