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They'll grow for a while yet but I don't see how they'll keep doing that, moreover, I don't see how they'll ever get to the margins they need.

Cloud services are also a competitive business and margins I think will erode eventually.
It seems quite silly to argue against a viewpoint by citing that you've met some douchebags who follow that philosophy.

I'm met plenty of republicans who lack understanding of the power they have over the less fortunate. I've also met many liberals who can't comprehend why someone would want to own a gun, or who constantly look for any excuse to peg someone as racist/sexist/classist/etc. (Obviously these are all United States-centric examples since I've spent most of my life here)

To me it seems far more productive to examine the "best form" of each philosophy rather than the worst
Yeah, I've noticed that apple is increasingly locking down their ecosystem as they strive to meet investor expectations. People need to move away from the apple ecosystem.
It should be clarified that the whole thing is about functional patterns in Clojure that are expressing same functionality as well known OO patterns in Java.

Adding "it's just..." in front of functional patterns doesn't make them non-patterns.

Patterns are named ideas on how to approach/solve similar problems.

They are not tied to OO programming, Java, they are not good or bad per-se; it's just a cookbook with recipes that have names.

Otherwise nice format, I like it.
Names are useless unless they convey a precise meaning. And, if you can't write down that meaning in a formal system (such as a programming language or mathematics), then it can't be that precise after all.
What are the privacy concerns with 23AndMe? Curious as I'm a user.
I had a similiar issue with chrome
Detect it coming rather than going, not impact it head-on. The more lead time you have the better (lower dv) an intercept course you can undertake.
How strong is the overworking culture in America? It's pretty strong here, but not too bad.
Agree. I think the best platform for these courses is to just create websites that aren't relying on some company's distribution network (ie. itunes).
You don't. It's a general fund paid in by all operators in an area. The funds should be sufficient to cover necessary indemnification.

Sure, the small quakes likely are relieving bigger ones tens of thousands of years hence, so we don't care about that.

The rules would be, you want to drill and re-inject to make some money, make sure it's profitable enough that you can pay into an EQ indemnification fund. Actuaries would set rates.
thank you for your advice, I would definitely need to consider sales
Maybe its an acknowledgement of something about the nature of abstraction from observation. Perhaps the true universe is and always be a simulation error away from observation -- under such a hypothesis, science will be an eternal process of finding details in our understanding which are actually accidental results of the simulation capacity of our current understanding, then figuring out how to remove the flaw, and then peaking behind the next curtain ...
Yeah, the maps of Comanche were just run-length encoded and it took me an evening to reverse-engineer it. Nice to know, that I am not the only one who were able to extract them.

But even without the pyramid it is very obvious, that these maps in your demo were from the game Comanche.
> I hope future generations judge us harshly for this.

Although I agree that the accreditation is a problem that needs to still be solved, it’s with this last sentence that I don’t agree at all.

Judge us harshly for what? For creating all this free and accessible education, plus the whole infrastructure and technology that makes possible something that never was?

I find this constant anti-human sentiment and lack of gratitude worrying. As if everything should be perfect all the time.
A child you made deaf like that would still discover sound as the vibrations that distorted the lenses on the eye once detection got sensitive enough.

I dispute the very notion that it's possible to cut someone off from the basic nature of reality, because you must fundamentally have constructed the cage from that reality and thus their interaction with their cage will reveal its mechanics (and hence the mechanics of reality) to them.

You can only make it take more time by suppressing noise, but eventually the "errors" will carry accurate information inside. (And someone inside can accelerate this process by causing noise in certain manners.)

> lacking outside interference

Depending on your interpretation of quantum mechanics, this is either impossible (Bohmian; maybe all of them) or insufficient (Copenhagen, MWI) -- in either case, small "errors" will reveal information about the actual nature of reality.
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Funny, I hate American sandwiches. I usually ask for half meat and then throw some more of the meat out. If I wanted to eat just a stack of sliced ham that’s what I’d do!
Splitting the ELF sections into multiple chunks is such a good idea.
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cant recall what's the website to turn a list of tweet into a semblance of paragraphs ..

google save of the day: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/933753595174031361
I’ve got 1kW bike, it can hit 50kmh, but cruise speed with current config is more of a 35-40kmh.

If you want to be a reasonable road user you need to be able to keep up with cars, so cruise around 50 and go up to 70 kmh to overtake, maintain speed uphill etc.

Basically it’s more of a scooter in a bike format with low weight and manouvrability. Love it!

Edit: I assume downvotes are from people morally insulted of how illegal it is.
Is a redstone interferometer an actually thing, a quick search didn't turn anything up? But even if you could detect influences from the outer reality within the game world, how would you decide between them being part of the game mechanics and them being shadows of the outer world given that you have no ground truth knowledge of what the game is supposed to be like?
Very very good. I feel like I've definitely been around some expert beginners (one place I contracted had their own connection pooling library and I never found out why they didn't just use Apache's). Article had some good advice on avoiding the trap, but not a lot on fixing it once ingrained, other than "more on". Therefore, non-technical folks should beware.
I'm a big fan of IFTTT. This is interesting.
readable version https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/933753595174031361
Or if we had moon/Mars colonies then we could use standby rockets from them - proximate to humans/resources so we can maintain them but much lower escape velocities.
> For my family, the heritage was a bit educational, though it often felt a bit like wrong guesses (if you're 25% English, 25% Scottish, 25% Welsh, 25% Irish, you'll come back 100% "British Isles"). My spouse's 25% Native American data was even worse, about 1/8 of it coming in as "East Asian".

For me it groups British & Irish together, which makes sense if we're considering genetic ancestry, not geographic/societal. For example German and French are also grouped together for the same reason.
its not an equal number of investors, its an equal number of buy and sell orders at a certain price.

an individual with a billion shares has more of an impact on a share price than an individual with one share.
I thought that colony collapse wasn't totally caused by pesticides, but mites [1]. I'm not 100% sure why bees have been more susceptible to mites now, though. Possibly because of some lack of diversity in the environment?

[1] https://www.livescience.com/20815-honeybee-collapse-mite-vir...
I agree, however the Communist form is merely a re-telling of the capitalist form, it results from the same contradictions, the same process, and has the same result. Under the states of the past the control is unhidden and in fact presented unashamed by the powers that be. In the present day, the infiltration of the new rationality pervades not only media but all experience within modern society. When you hear Bach in the supermarket or watch the news or go to the voting booth, it is exactly the same domination, but in different forms.

This is why both the USA currently and the USSR formerly deserve the same criticism, and we need to move beyond this rationality of unfreedom, and the answer to this I belive lies firmly within the realm of revolutionary Communist movements, but only after realising exactly what inspired the controlling rationalities of the US and the USSR.

The US (as it continues) and USSR both institute(d) a policy in which the only freedom is that which you are told you are supposed to have, and that any freedom which transcends is called either "Socialist" or "capitalist". These are projected as 'bad' because they appear within their respective societies to reach 'the limits of reason itself'. To the American taken in by his 'freedom', Socialism is not only unreasonable, irrational or unjustifiable but it is impossible itself, because to him what is rational is production, the pervasiveness of technology and relentless consumption. Similar things can be said about the USSR and its descendant Marxist-Leninist states.

Within the USSR, there was no qualitative change, there was only quantitative change, and indeed due to their rationality, Socialism could only be seen as quantitative change, a sliding axis between capitalism and Socialism. This is because they were fixed by controlling rationality in which Communism has become quantitative, obscuring the fact that it is truly qualitative, Marx said as much all along: Communism is the rejection of all established notions, Communism abolishes all notions of morality, justice, freedom and indeed stands in opposition, contradiction to all previous societies.
If it goes inside or is applied directly onto our bodies, or our pet's body, we generally no longer shop for it at Amazon, because Amazon will not take responsibility for authenticating the product. Other retailers will, without much of a price difference.
My primary issue with Firefox on Android is that in portrait mode, the URL bar has enough width for about five characters -- the rest being taken up by the back / forward buttons to the left, a magnifying glass icon, the QR code icon, a microphone icon, the refresh button, the tabs button, and the "three-dots" options menu. Typing a URL into a text-field that can display five characters at a time borders on ludicrous, and I have no idea how anyone thought that was reasonable to ship that as the default UI.

Other than that, I'm loving the mobile Firefox.
I might be violating the rules of discourse here but I feel like your comment really didn't contribute to the discussion. Tim Cook is a skilled leader who is quite down-to-earth and, IMO, understand the struggles that normal Americans go through. His point was simply that if your utility function optimizes only for income, you're making a mistake. He believes (partially as a result of his time at Apple) that working only for money is a mistake. He's not saying "you shouldn't worry about money ever".
Still easier than carting away thousands of pounds of gold without getting caught.
At the beginning, yes, and the process separation was heavily marketed so people were switching for that reason even if there was actually no material benefit that would show up in their own typical usage. But on the other side, those early switchers had no reason to stay with firefox because they weren't heavy add-on users, and both browsers were nominally open source and anti-IE.

I think the bleeding of users from Firefox over time, however, has been because of a Chrome inspired cycle of constant add-on breakages, removals of configuration options, and UI changes towards a Chrome look, with each breakage and change removing a distinction between the two browsers that would keep a user from switching. Additionally as the add-on breakages were happening, Chrome was expanding their library of add-ons, further removing distinction between the two browsers, and in some cases, such as developer tools, gaining the upper hand.

I think it's important to note that this latest firefox move was not only a move to render it incompatable with its own library of add-ons, but to adopt Chrome's library as its own. The multiprocess functionality that it is now touting was a response to Chrome's own multiprocess functionality. The UI is now completely indistinct from Chrome's.

For every add-on that didn't make it over, there's 1000 users for whom that add-on was keeping them from switching to Chrome. All of the UI manipulating add-ons represented ingrained habits that 1000 users really didn't want to change, so they were bound to firefox. At the point of this version change, upgrading firefox or moving to Chrome has exactly the same amount of friction. The only way Firefox can compete with Chrome now that they're indistinguishable is on marketing, and I'm fairly sure that Google is the biggest advertising company in the world.

I suspect that this has been intentional. Firefox is again financially dependent on Google. This was as precipitous a fall as the Elop-headed Nokia.
This is the most drop-dead gorgeous, well thought-out and smoothest website that i have ever seen. Opened the site and was just stunned at how sensible the structure, transitions are. Brilliant.
Call to regulate video game loot boxes over gambling concerns
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That's a flawed premise. Bezos owned less of Amazon at its IPO, than Bill Gates did at the Microsoft IPO.

His parents became billionaires via their holdings in Amazon.

20 investors put in $50k each to start Amazon. Any of them that held up to this point, became billionaires.

You're confusing concentrated wealth, versus total wealth created. Amazon has plausibly created wealth for more investors, precisely because it has had fewer very large owners; more of the company was distributed into more hands.
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To look for imperfections in a simulation requires knowing what the real thing actually looks like. If our universe is a simulation, where do you get the knowledge from what a real universe looks like?
Neat, great readme.

Everyone seems to be in flashback mode, so I'll add mine: I remember getting a good grade in my multiprocessing class by making a voxel terrain generator using mpi and with the same technique, but also with clouds (just think of upside down white mountains). But I just randomly generate them, without any lighting. The color of the voxels were determined by their height. Using (nice) color and height textures adds a lot indeed! It's a shame I didn't know that trick on that time, I remember playing with vistapro[1] or terragen[2].

[1] http://www.creative-3d.net/images/vistaprointerface.jpg (I had an older, ms-dos based version)

[2] http://planetside.co.uk/ (It's great to see that it's still alive after so many years..)
Do you have some kind of windshield? Mine shuts off after 25km/h, and even that gets uncomfortable depending on the weather conditions.
You don't need to simulate the entire universe, just the tiny bit where interesting things are happening (read surface of earth), places farther away can be simulated with much lower precision as long as they look plausible.

In that sense the universe is indeed highly compressible as it is mostly empty/uninteresting.

The question is how large computing device is needed to simulate a brain, and whether that device can be digital or analog. If the size of such device can be comparable to the size of human body, then we can create a useful simulation.
True -- good points.

I remember a Hner mentioning once, "why are only conservatives willing to pay for their publications". It's an interesting point, really.
I'll definitely try that out, thanks.
I'm from Europe, limits on electric assistance here are quite low as far as I know (25km max, no support without pedaling, 250W engine output).

But I agree, my main concern is difference in speed with cars. Worst case I could use electric scooter just for "last mile" and use public transportation. That is something ebike will again have more problems with.
The article's point is they are paid more!
Maybe there's a balance to be struck between the two ideologies: that seemingly insignificant individual actions can have profound effects, while also accepting the fact that there are infinite environmental variables that we have negligible control over which influence every single one of those actions.
> ... literate programming by Knuth...

i don't think (or probably know), if literate programming was interactive, in the same sense as jupyter or mathematica equivalents. moreover, literate programming, '...enables programmers to develop programs in the order demanded by the logic and flow of their thoughts.' [0]

jupyter-notebooks are closer to brett-victor's super cool talk "inventing on principle" than literate-programming, imho.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
AFAIK, Einstien was neither Mexican nor Asian.
You might be able to find it by calling the school maybe, or yearbooks? If you did care to find out and didn't consider it too creepy that is.
I don't think they're saying that it's a different effect from placebo with the same effect size, but that it's actually the placebo effect. You can't treat yourself with something that you don't believe works and trigger the placebo effect.
Ask HN: What problem in your company is worth $2k/mo to have solved?
> In Communist China, I was taught that hard work would bring success. In the land of the American dream, I learned that success comes through good luck, the right slogans, and monitoring your own—and others’—emotions.

FTFY:

> In highschool, I was taught that hard work would bring success. In college, I learned that success comes through fooling people with good marketing.
You can look for contradictions, inconsistencies or for macro scale phenomena not explainable by micro scale laws.
I’ve been eying a folding electric bike for a two mile commute to the train in the mornings in Boston. I’ve been told Paris and other cities in Europe are full of them for the past few years—anyone have any recs, specifically for folding ebikes?
Nevertheless, the various rules can be confusing. Officials from the New > "York City Department of Transportation insisted in emails this month that all bicycles with any sort of electrical assistance are illegal, which would make them subject to confiscation and fines of up to $500."

One can't help but wonder if such oversight will disproportionately have a negative impact on those at the lower end of the economic scale.

Too often the perception seems to be the poor are as such because they don't try hard enough. The reality is, too often we force them to have to try harder than everyone else.
Never stated that I am American^^ Up to your profession but 8 hour is the standard here.
Because there are very few things to reference, that most people have even a modest comprehension of, that have the scale of $100 or more billion.

Despite the comically predictable replies such posts (GDP vs wealth) always get in threads like this, it's a perfectly valid way to relate size.

The parent didn't say they were the same (in my observation in seeing this same line play out dozens of times over the years, the parent comment almost never says they're the same). The replies are jumping to that assumption as a very low bar way to make themselves look smart.

It's no different than articles that routinely point out the size of a plane's wingspan or the height of a rocket, compared to a building or a football field. The point is to provide the reader with something to stand it next to mentally.
Oh that makes sense. Although this one was detected while still incoming towards perihelion (right?), but not by much.

Spotting one of these a few years in advance is the dream of many astronomers.
I haven't looked into it enough to have an opinion one way or another. I suspect that the article is cherry-picking, but perhaps the FDA is so critically fucked up that randos off the street could do a better job. But this isn't about the FDA. You're claiming that knowing a lot about economic regulation makes you a superior domain expert in any field which can be regulated. That economists are better qualified than doctors to regulate dangerous medicines, better qualified than ecologists and meteorologists to predict human-caused climate trends, better qualified than automotive engineers to determine what makes vehicles safe. That's very silly.
Passing at great speed very close to a star? Outer shell or entire thing becomes superheated and malleable. Extreme tidal forces as the object passes the star and gets churned through the high gravity stretch it out. What if it passed close to something super dense, like a black hole, allowing the stresses of tidal force as it whipped around it to melt the rock on their own leaving it to fly away, pulled long and cooling in the cold of dead space.

I don't know how likely such things are, but I don't imagine it takes intelligence to make a long space rock.
Comments on a website should be an extremely low standard of evidence for someone as smart as you are.
Thanks. Working link to the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dile...
> what broad specialty I'd like to pursue and someone else with the knowledge tells me what specific courses to take

FWIW, Coursera has a "Learning Path" feature [0] that, after you answer some questions and choose a "career", gives you a decent list of classes to take. At least the list I was given was estimated to take ~9 months. It'd be nice if something similar existed that's external to Coursera, too.

[0] https://blog.coursera.org/new-coursera-start-finish-learning...
My favorite would be: Those.

To endure with grace.
Just make sure it has a 500+ W motor. I have this one www.e-twow.ro. For an adult just buy the most expensive model.

I do take it with me in stores. Every time I go out somebody stops me because they have questions about it.
If you ever come to Timisoara they do rent them.

A few days ago I tried a fat e-bike in store. That thing is crazy fun. The big pro is that you will not feel any bumps in the road. The downside is that you can not take it inside stores and it might get stolen.
I bought a £500 e-bike from a supermarket 3 years ago and I've been using it for daily commute since then. I have 9km to office, e-bike is a practical option. Cheaper models, like mine, have motor either in front or in rear hub. Both work fine, you don't really need a $2000 model with a crank drive. TFA claims that crank drive improves the bike's center of gravity :-). Actually it's more about being able to change gears between the motor and the wheel, but hub motors are also fine, at least up to the legal speed limit in Europe. The models sold in the E.U. are limited to 25km/h (15mi/h), I think in Japan the limit is even lower.
Basic income is a way to recapture federal taxes into Amazon revenue.
For all we know, 99,999% of the universe could be just a projection. You don't need to simulate all of it down to the proton level, just the things we can see. And the reason our cosmological theories fail miserably in things like dark matter or dark energy could be because there's really nothing out there.
Fun fact: “The Dig” was originally planned to be a Spielberg movie, but the cost of special effects made them change it into a Lucasarts Point-and-click adventure game instead.
I thought this book looked really awesome (and own two copies)... until someone who saw it in my apartment pointed out that the more common reading of the title is "people of color: get the fuck out"... and so I just hid it somewhere, which largely undermines the purpose of owning a physical copy.
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