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Yep :) When you load the uplink library, it makes an HTTPS connection to Anvil from your code, so it can be anywhere as long as it can make outbound requests.
The context here is that we're discussing fully locked down platforms.
You can only contact friends from other instances if your instance hasn't blocked the other instance.

Also most instances are everything but free speech friendly. I don't understand where the improvement over Twitter is. It's a Twitter clone with fewer users, a more complicated UX, and where you can get banned faster.
You misunderstand. My point was that your attribution of motivation...

> The footsoldiers were unable to think for themselves, unable to adapt/improvise, and unable to organize anything other than suicide charges.

... is overly simplistic.

The soldiers were not necessarily unable to think of alternatives: they were doctrinally taught to reject those alternatives in favor of frontal assaults. They, their superiors, their superiors' superiors.

So "Japanese soldiers were unable to innovate" does not follow from "Japanese soldiers were prone to conducting frontal assaults."

"Japanese military doctrine in the 1930s strongly discouraged lower-level innovation" would be a more accurate statement, without attempting to tie it to capability.
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Let's start a study group. We can meet up at Philz on B St.
And I'd top them off with The End Of Eternity, which although its in its own world (or is it?), it's ending ties indirectly to the whole series...
I don't think a meteorite can be compared to such a tiny ball. The ball will disintegrate when it's still 100km up. You get an intense flash. But I don't think shock waves travel much up there.
but you used 2014. parent poster mentioned 2016.

"the union provided updates from management in the fall of 2016 about pending assignments that it said showed no substantial decline in workload."
> but the complexity of AWS permissions

I'm probably the last person who will defend many of Amazon's design choices, but this is really a matter of competence. Internet engineering is hardly unique in having difficult to understand/operate professional tools. While I will feel sympathetic towards someone who hurts themselves with power tools, you blame the tool when it malfunctions, not when the operator ignores basic safety.

Bottom line: this firm is incompetent to operate the tools they chose to use. Worse, they value the private data of their victims so little that they couldn't be arsed even to perform trivial sanity checks.

I wouldn't trust an outfit like this with the time of day.
I'd hope they find themselves one or more with a master in math on logic proving in ways that a computer can help, and actually prove that their code, at least if compiled to LLVM bytecode, is adhering to the high-level architectural proof. Considering that they'd only need to prove consitency, nothing more, and especially not every little piece of code they are writing, but just the core that handles transactional isolation, not even that the code actually resolves in all cases (being stranded with a stuck cluster that is made to handle a hard reboot without problems is better than a cluster that silently violates constraints), it should not be an infeasible goal.

The main issue is that distributed database consistency without trivial, performance-killing locking schemes is too complex to prove when writing or using any trivial, local methods based on e.g. SMT solvers or so.

If something like cockroachdb would be proved-consistent on that level, it would be used for applications currently employing pessimistic locking due to a lack of trust in their database, or scaling vertically without really needing to (there are cases which make horizontal scaling cost-prohibitive due to the dependency chains in the algorithms that can solve them, but they can be replaced most of the time).
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Right, which is why as a society we’re fine with drug dealers—it’s the users who are obviously intentionally ruining their own lives. Out of choice.
A corporation is a mechanism for individuals to pool capital and achieve greater return from that capital than any of them would using only their own personal resources.

A union is a mechanism for individuals to pool labor and achieve greater return from that labor than any of them would using only their own personal resources.

The only difference between them is the resource being pooled. As a result, I have great difficulty understanding why people are accepting of one but condemn the other.
I don't think they're referring to Google as the threat, but the fact that stock Android is often outdated and missing patches.
Make Magazine's Make Controller Kit followed the same model. Unfortunately, it was maintained by one guy during nights and weekends (which meant it was never well supported and became deprecated before it was useful). Still, the model of allowing developers to learn robotics in whatever language they're comfortable in is fantastic for making the field accessible to newcomers!

I tried my hand at an MCK because I could do it from ActionScript, a language I was already comfortable with. Asking users to learn both about controlling hardware and a new programming language/model simultaneously steepens the barrier to entry versus decoupling those things.
I don't see other videos other than the intro. It says the course doesn't start until next month.
The subhead reads, "Turnover is rising in showrooms as more millennials enter the workforce uninterested in selling cars."

I'd guess the bigger problem is with the future of the industry: electric cars require almost no maintenance. If Tesla-the-company is successful, it will likely kill the dealership model altogether. Who would sign up for an industry with no future?

And, as always, the real key is this:

Ryan Gremore, president of O’Brien Mitsubishi in Normal, Ill., said he recently increased commission-based pay for his sales staff by 5% and began monthly sales bonuses. The efforts have helped with retention, he said.

There is never a shortage; there is a shortage at a given price.
Home Assistant is super dope. https://github.com/jnewland/ha-config is my config if anyone's interested!
UBS cannot be trusted in this matter. They have tried to prevent other Tesla reports from being published. Something is very fishy.

HyperChange takes them apart in this video[1] on the UBS profitability estimates for the model 3.

And even if HyperChange generally has a positive view on Tesla, their reporting is based on facts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Uz5gPQ6Bs
Reminds me of the “Worst wasp season in 20 years” articles we get here in Germany every year...
I mean seriously, testers gunna test stuff right? Have you ever had a situation where the testing work couldn’t expand? The work grows in size to fill the available time.
Well, it could be in the case where it looked like sabotage, I'd expect the victim company to go to great lengths to prove it (ie, evidence to the contrary, etc). It probably wouldn't be that hard.

In this case, it was a spyware company. Seems almost fitting that they'd be unconcerned about securing data that was essentially tricked/stolen from their users.
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I worked on an app that is in the same category as Netflix. A week before launch, Apple chose to reject us in spite of months of meetings and reviews with their app teams and assurances we were in-bounds since we were working with them for launch featuring.

It came down to the fact we required an email address and password for IAP so you could bring your subscription to the web or other platforms. While everyone else in the category did this, they decided that policy was going to change and we were just going to be the first people to deal with it. Since having an email-based account was core to the architecture and the UX, I went through a week of refactor hell to make emails/passwords optional to meet our launch date.

Since other apps still get to do this, it's clear the policy change message was BS. I've suspected a lot has had to do with Apple's ambitions in the streaming space and their desire to be in a position to offer bundling and other over the top services. They're already trying to control the UX with the TV app and are offering companies better rev share rates to do the integration work.

It seems like Netflix is daring Apple to pull them from the store. If that's what's happening then I applaud them. I understand that Apple may think they're protecting the consumer by creating a walled garden, but as a developer whose livelihood is tied to their decisions, I'm tired of being jerked around.
Do the dual focal planes actually work well? What happens when something is moving on the boundary? Does it pop back and forth between them?
Can someone say is the 30% just for the initial payment? For example has my credit card details does Apple still get 30% of the monthly payment on a recurring basis?
The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (1998) is a pretty big one.
It's almost like this is a disparate community of people with widely varying opinions on a rather important and controversial implementation...
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They checked cars from Nov 2017, which is ancient history, because Tesla has made numerous changes to improve build quality since then. Munro report has said as much, as did consumer reports.
Lovely comment. I can’t exaclty relate to the last conclusions because they’re quite US specific. It was a bit different for me, but I certainly feel the “getting kicked out” by the corporatization of the city, a city I’m not so sure I want to hang around any more with all these trustafarians roaming. I even regret not being an efficient planner - like those internet darlings showing off their precocious teenage efficiency - and not being rich enough today to keep up, even if I wanted to.

Oh, I guess the grapes are too sour eh! ;)
Well generally one can choose where to put their community service hours. I knew someone when growing up who had to do community service and choose to do so at the local animal shelter. Although, I have heard of judges also specifying where. So they could have "voluntarily" chose good will instead of some where else. However, community service is not voluntarily done, and t must be completed. However, definitely not what one commonly thinks about word "volunteer".
Something like this:

1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014193311...

(PDF: https://science.raphael.poss.name/pub/poss.13.micpro.pdf )

"The Apple-CORE project has co-designed a general machine model and concurrency control interface with dedicated hardware support for concurrency management across multiple cores. Its SVP interface combines dataflow synchronisation with imperative programming, towards the efficient use of parallelism in general-purpose workloads. Its implementation in hardware provides logic able to coordinate single-issue, in-order multi-threaded RISC cores into computation clusters on chip, called Microgrids. In contrast with the traditional “accelerator” approach, Microgrids are components in distributed systems on chip that consider both clusters of small cores and optional, larger sequential cores as system services shared between applications.

2) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7300441/
(PDF: https://science.raphael.poss.name/pub/poss.15.tpds.pdf )

"This article advocates the use of new architectural features commonly found in many-cores to replace the machine model underlying Unix-like operating systems. "
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We only "need" China because we are accepting 3rd world level labor, and we have allowed our own industries to die in favor of outsourcing.

If China is forced to adhere to 1st world labor standards, they lose all power over the US. There are few things produced in China that cannot be produced here.

The state of things is caused by a feedback loop. China needs the west to purchase its goods. Break that dependence, and China will have no choice but to play ball and end its parasitic relationship with the West.

American manufacturing used to be booming. Look at the 50s and 60s. Quality of life and buying power for factory workers was massive, and people bought American goods.

We have basically allowed ourselves to be dependent on China by accepting their horrendous labor standards and allowing our industries to die. There is no reason we cannot reverse course and reinvest in our nation.

If the us institutes tariffs and boycotts Chinese goods, they are fucked and will have to adapt.

China has undeserved economic power and is causing an imbalance within the global economy.
The device promoted by their marketing videos still does not exist.
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> The web itself could have been killed in the cradle on day one.

The web is such a killer app, that if MS blocked it, it would be a problem for MS, not the web, imho.

Also IANAL, but given that MS launched a competing service - The Microsoft Network - this seems like a huge anti-trust issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Dial-up

The combination of consumer demand for web access + anti-trust would probably crush MS, and it would have to provide access.

Another factor is that Windows was always a target for hackers, so it's virtually certain there'd be some jailbreaking solution that everyone would use if MS started blocking access to killer apps like web access.

MS was a near monopoly, but there were enough exceptions that people were aware how amazing the web is.

Finally, if MS took the Walled Garden approach, it's easy to argue it wouldn't be the monopoly it was. MS benefited immensely from its platform being "free" (as in pirated) and "open" (as in hackable and insecure).

There was a company who took the other approach. Its name is Apple and it wasn't doing too well against MS in 1995.
It may be the price to pay in to avoid your government becoming a highly efficient oppression machine
$ means cache (pun on cash) ?
I plan on using my own setup, I'm might get there eventually when I actually buy a Philips Hue set...Do you have any good tutorial? I saw the two on Snips' medium blog but I am not sure if there is anything else out there?
This is actually very interesting.

Low-grade inflammation is often linked to aging and cancer developments, it is however often unclear whether its cause/effect or correlation - https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/69/Suppl_...

But mechanisms of inflammation are many and still pretty illusive, this is a great step towards understanding aging mechanisms in general.
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Well, the point of the comment was the demonstrate that a 30% revenue cut is rather onerous through the thought experiment of what would happen if an additional one was placed.

That being said, existing services absolutely went through this sort of increase when customers wanting to use a service with a known pricing model, interacted with the service on this new platform: services that wanted to put their business on the App Store DID have to either add an additional 30% increase across the board, or (as mentioned in the end of the comment), treat App Store-acquired customers as 30%-less revenue generating. Again, from the customer's perspective, which I have repeatedly tried to convey, this is confusing and opaque. Notice that in none of my above comments do I ever lament app developers, and thus do not need a business 101 explanation. I am lamenting that Apple, through a combination of not just placing a large 30% cut, but additionally not giving developers the flexibility to either increase the price of the product by 30% on said platform, created an opaque situation where the customers appears as a lower-revenue generating customer to a business.

This was not imagined, it was discussed quite a bit in the space (especially when the MAC App Store appeared), where EXISTING apps, pre App Store, found themselves in the very unfortunate situation where they hoped people found the app not through the App Store.
> No, with taxes they lose (typically sub) 30 % off the top of profit, not revenue. This is 30 % off the top on revenue.

Getting dinged on revenue is pretty common for things like that.

Stripe takes 2.9% + 30c of your revenue, and PayPal is similar. Udemy also takes 50% of your revenue (a marketplace for courses, but less lock-in than the app store).

There's really no reasonable way for payment gateways, the app store or any online marketplace to take a cut from your profits.

My comparison of the app store and taxes was more on the line of it being a non-negotiable set up where you have no options other than to pay, or be unemployed (not paying taxes) or not selling your app (avoiding the app store's rates).
I do and the only time you'll get a straight word from leadership is when Sergey appears on stage drunk (which is often. dude has a problem). The rest are consistently awful.
Please don't post cheap personal comments to HN. This breaks more than one of the site guidelines, such as the one against shallow dismissals.
Makes me think of what band-camp has done with their app.
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If China wants more accurate reporting about Uighurs, they can bloody well allow foreign press into the region.

(Scroll down and watch the video halfway, where BBC journalists are constantly harassed)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45173573

I get the Chinese government's default position is stonewalling information. But at some point, if people say a thing, and you say it isn't so: you invite them to see for themselves.

The fact that China (and the Soviet Union before it) don't...
Interesting. I still don't see it that way. It seems less like a single tool when used in this way than multiple tools running alongside one another. Different strokes for different folks I suppose!
Is there anywhere you can buy these chips? Or better yet, a dev board with RAM / SD / USB / networking and bootable Linux?
We're sort of doing #3 with some stuff...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871

( archive.org link, because this article isn't online anymore. )

https://web.archive.org/web/20180106124933/http://www.wipp.e...
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Is that a fundamental limit, or just how they’re currently built because they don’t need to do anything better?

I don’t know a whole lot about spy satellites, but the existence of things like spy planes and accurate ICBMs suggests the latter.
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I mean, you can also refuse to admit Taiwan is an independent country... while selling powerful military hardware to an organized government within "China" that claims sovereignty over an island they assert is not Chinese.

Apparently!
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Why can Netflix just use the mobile browser? Are they allowing downloads for offline viewing? If they are only online streaming I see no reason at all to even have an app. Just a mobile web page. Can somebody enlighten me?
Meanwhile, the $1000 bet I made with my college buddy that cancer would (not) be cured by 2022 is still very much up in the air.
Fun fact, the CD keys used to be in the format of 123-1234567

The first three digits didn't matter, the second portion needed to be evenly divisible by 7. In highschool I worked the summer setting up computers and we would just make them up. After a couple summers and some technology upgrades I doubt there was a legitimate CD key in that school.
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Recently I downloaded this application called Hoop Messenger and lowkey this app shits on security applications lol I don't know why it's not super popular yet. Check their comparison chart on their website. This app protects my data in ways that only an agent would protect his/her data. Strongly recommend it.
I've met a few people doing versions of this. It's definitely possible to sail round the world on 2-6 person boats and come back with more money than you started with.

You can't skip over the cost (both time and money) of learning to sail, though. It's not a cheap hobby, though you might get lucky and find someone to take you on for free.
Wasn’t a hypothetical, but based on actual event.

See the quote from the Texas AG in the article here:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-attorney-general-warns-price...

If you were a shop owner faced simultaneously with increased inbound costs, constrained supply, utility interruptions, your own family and home to be concerned with, and that threat from the AG, would you sell anything to anyone? To anyone over 65? Why not just close up shop until the situation passes and hunker down at home protecting your own family? I’d probably do the latter rather than risk the fines. Does that make people better off?

In a survival situation, suppressing the price signal suppresses the clearest signal for consumers not to over-buy, especially for goods that can be traded for other needed supplies.

$99/case for water the day after a hurricane might very well be the “optimal” price until the soda/beer companies can switch over to bottling (canning) water to the affected area. Keep it at $18-20/case and the first 5 customers will rationally buy it all, because that checks that concern off their list. It doesn’t even require them to be misanthropes, just providing for and protecting their families. Worst case, water becomes available quicker than they thought and no harm to them other than they bought $100 worth of water for $100.
I think you're on the wrong website.
You needed to think for another minute before posting this.
Maybe I have my nostalgia lenses on, but I think I'd rather have the internet of kazaa era in terms of how things were working.

There were viruses? Yes. 37 IE toolbars? Of course! But consider for a moment what we have today instead:
Instead of the simple and (comparatively) mostly harmless viruses we now have ransomware.
Instead of kazaa installing spyware we have the OS itself trying to phone home.
Instead of having a virus to delete random files, you now have one of the Big 4 delete stuff from your device without asking you.

You say we had crapware we had to avoid back then, I see that today we install the crapware ourselves and consider it a treat. Back then when you bought a piece of software you owned it. You didn't have micro transactions and DLCs and all these "innovations" that drive "engagement". You didn't have to have data connection to sync something with bluetooth.

Sure there were also some crappy things, but things are not all that better today. We just got used to it.
Usually these articles are nothing but fluff, but this was an interesting one.

I realize that's (ironically) a fairly empty statement to make, but I'm sure the author will be pleased to hear it.