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>And yet, the idea that ten labs with $1M budgets might be better than either is a cornerstone of the free market.

How many Nobel Prizes came out of Bell Labs? How many out of Joe Random's Inventoroum Garage?

This was actually one of the things communists argued was an inherent flaw of capitalism they hoped to fix. Ten companies with ten advertising budgets are basically wasting resources competing with each other when the far more effecient solution from a macro economic is one big company that owns the market that can invest all its budget into research or making movies or what have you without wasting some high fraction of its budget on ads.

The ultimate problem with this idea wasn't the communist's logic about the power of concentrating wealth, but rather their inability to appreciate that humans can't be trusted to behave in that kind of environment. The ten companies with ten ad budgets may not be as effecient as one big company, but they're each a check against the other - if ever one lab becomes incompetent the others out compete it and it either improves or dies. Via this Darwinian process companies, and the economy, remain fit. That the ten small labs aren't as productive in raw numbers as one big lab isn't as important as this free hand of the market being allowed to so its job.

The Soviet Union in the 80s produced more steel, cement, and tractors that America despite having half the population. Efficiency. It was also a massively corrupt state rotting from the inside out wasting massive resources on steel and tractors no one needed because those "one big central companies" has been allowed to run unchecked by market forces for 70 years.

>That's just way too simplistic. Sometimes concentration is better. Sometimes distribution is.

I don't think it is. I think concentration of capital is inherently how advances get made. That concentration of capital must be coupled with some mechanism to ensure that capital is being put toward societally productive ends (instead of building ever more tractors in a society that could desperately use a computer) is a different thing. Distribution is one possible solution to the problem yes, but there are others and simply saying "concentration and distribution are both important" doesn't seem t me to capture the spirit of the thing.
Learning iOS/Swift tempted to switch to React Native as it seems like the future
I've been learning iOS for a couple of months and I like it so far but more and more I feel tempted to switch to React Native instead as it really seems like the future and the most flexible and also quicker to develop than native (not to mention the advantage of being able to compile for both iOS and Android). More and more it seems that the market is for the app to be on both platforms, so React Native seems more viable.

Has anyone else gone through the same? What did you do? Is native development and being confined to one platform (iOS) a good long term choice?

Thanks in advance
Your feelings are right. By "modern" I mean single purpose extensions as we use them today, a concept basically introduced by Firefox and later adopted by Chrome. Not ways to extend the HTML functionality itself (NPAPI) nor general purpose grayware (browser toolbars).
Maybe you’ve got more insights on the subject since you’ve actually had a job on the tech, but it seems that « private » DLTs , or « b2b » dlts could have some applications where competitors need to share and persist information.

Another is with all systems taking the roles traditionnally filled with state actors ( registers of some sorts).

But you’re right, so far no « killer app » has been found. That’s what makes it interesting today, imho.

edit : to answer your question more precisely, a talk by one of hedera founder to a university class was eye opening to me ( here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjQkag6VOo0)
It would be more comfortable than a doorway.
It's a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule; by starting with two, you're already at "infinity", and it's easier to go from there than it is to transition from 0-1 or from 1-infinity.
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"Not sure if it creates resistant strains"

No, it shouldn't. Despite what some people say about "life finding a way" (a quote from a movie, mind you, not like, actual science), there's plenty of stuff that life can't adapt to. Being exposed to its fundamental substrate at above-local-boiling temperatures is one of them. It's a physical attack. There's also some techniques that kill bacteria by poking them with nano-scale spikes. You might get something slightly more resistant than before, but there's no scenario in which some bacterium evolves something other than a fatty-protein cell wall and suddenly you get these cells encased in pure titanium or something.

(I am aware of extremophiles. You'll note they still live where water is liquid in the local pressure/temperature regime, and I guarantee you that if you try to "infect" a human with an extremophile that the outcome will be a race between the human immune system killing it, and the extremophile simply keeling over dead due to not being able to survive in this environment. If it isn't already dead due to essentially freezing to death.)

Plus, even if it did become resistant to steam, that quite likely still play in your favor. In order to become resistant to steam, it would have to give up other things that it currently spends its "budget" on. Odds are pretty decent that in the process they'd evolve into something less adapted to bothering you. Again, contrary to some people's beliefs that bacteria are infinitely adaptable, they actually live on a very tight budget due to how competitive their spaces are; if they add an adaptation to something, they're going to give up adaptations to something else in the process. Nothing is free to them.
Fedora is a community distro.
author here - actual project is on https://powerdns.org/hello-dns/
You can use a light paper and a board that you walk with to provide lift; I'd have thought that would create a "thrower stays behind line" rule.
So now that they know these processes are sequential, and commonly used, does each government department still require you to fill out a paper form with your name and all the other same information on it? Or is there a way to streamline someones journey through the bureaucracy digitally?
You only need to have the spammy GDPR popups if you do unethical things.

People should be sick of unethical practices, not GDPR.
from the basic tax law and attitudes of accountants "protecting" the bottom line

Which tax laws in particular?
Intel's 5GHz I9 Processor Is Incredible for Hype and Pretty Good for Computing
I assume the reasons should be clear to most readers on HN.

What do “Sex” and “Sex Education” have in common?

There’s the word “Sex” in them.

What did Vice do? Ignore the fact it’s clearly just filtering the word sex blindly because no content filter is all knowing and never is is expected to replace a supervising adult.

Then double down on it by randomly constructing sentences with the word sex.

“This just in, Apple pro Russia? Searches for ‘Putin corruption (sex)’ are blocked by apples content search!”

Oh and it doesn’t block NSFW subreddits because Apple was expected to what? Compile a list of nsfw subreddits? Intrusively scan pages for certain HTML elements?

And it doesn’t block searches where individual words aren’t threatening?

Was Apple supposed to invent General AI capable of knowing “how to beat women” is not a morally upstanding thing to search?
The parents and girlfriends of technical people (like mine).
“Move fast and let someone else fix it”?
Warung Pintar Outfits Indonesia’s Street Vendors with Free Wi-Fi and Smart Tech
Egalitarianism is the great unexamined principle of our age. Attack egalitarianism and much of progressive ideology falls apart.
Ah, okay, so it boils down to the question whether real numbers are physically realizable.

There is a debate about that in the philosophy of physics and mathematics. AFAIK, according to the current state of physics real numbers cannot be realized within a finite amount of space, at least Gisin [1] recently argued that way and I've seen other arguments for this view before [2,3,4,5:167-170]. I also remember some argument based on thermodynamics but cannot find the reference.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06824.pdf
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14080024
[4] https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/~eal/pnerd/blog/are-real-number...
[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439750...
Yep. Before AdWords, Google’s monetization strategy was fairly hand-wavy and hinged around licensing the tech to be a search provider for other websites. Once they realized how much money could be made by putting ads on searches, the rest is history.
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College Students Find It Hard to Determine Real News from Fake News
The Intel 9th Gen Review: Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K and Core i5-9600K Tested
It's a euphemism for people who are being exploited or otherwise "have it hard in life."

Like, by definition, things which feel fake cannot be "real" in this sense of the word. Of course though, your reality and my reality are simultaneously happening at the same time.
While there is a bit of Ladino media in Israel, overall among the Ladino community immigration to Israel has been seen as the death of the language, because there is pressure there to assimilate to the Hebrew mainstream. (This is analogous to the death of Yiddish in many contexts that it had prewar, because all those Yiddish speakers switched to Hebrew after migrating to Israel, except for the Haredim who do not use Yiddish outside their own narrow contexts.)

Because Ladino speakers remain an Other in the European diaspora and can therefore draw on more minority-language support, etc., they have a way to maintain their identity that they would not have if they made aliyah.
I do not understand the argument.

They apparently existed in the region called India. So until they are named, people are referencing them as an Indian civilization. Much like you would call a prehistoric, unnamed civilization African if they were found in Africa, or European if they were discovered in Europe, and so on.

Indian isn’t referring to the culture (they are hunter gatherers...they have little to do with modern culture of any sort) but the geographical region they are discovered in.
Former GDSer here[0] - this was one of the things that really grabbed me was the focus on design for users -- and this included release cycle as you say!

In addition, we were encouraged to throw away PoCs (that had passed the first service assessment) and start anew to make sure we ended up with a great service at the end of it. This meant that inside a pretty large organisation, testing and validating new services was relatively easy as you could cut corners on the PoC and have an institutional understanding that you'd probably throw it away entirely and start again with something more solid.

One of the mantras that was oft repeated was that 'people do not have a choice to use our service' -- because it was a service that only the govt could provide for whatever reason. The government service manual is amazing, alongside things like the service design rules (more aimed at UI/UX designers).

In addition, the entire team for a service or section thereof would participate in nearly everything. User research (actually watching users use the site) - everyone was there, from user researchers to product managers to developers and designers.

It's a shame more of it wasn't adopted by other govt dept (there are notable exceptions who have done a very good job)

[0] Plug - I worked on the new data.gov.uk

[1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
Google, as far as I know, is still one of those places where your coworkers provide the feedback that goes into your promotion.
to be fair, snap is the only technology that canonical got right from the start and is actually really good, even on other distributions.
> technology you're equally excited about today? : Bitcoin

I am surprised he didn't add deep learning / brute force computation making new problems accessible.
I've been doing enterprise software and SOA too long. I don't develop programs, I develop 'systems.' So, I tend to see a service where a normal person would see a module.

I work in defense, where software systems tend to stay in service for a very long time... It is very, very hard to keep a monolith from turning into a big ball of mud after it's handed off to O&M. Very often a different company will be awarded the contract to maintain a system you developed (and it may change hands more than once), and they will strive to do the absolute minimum possible to keep the software functioning until it is retired (which is always at least 10 years longer than anyone planned).
Not sure what the definition of "non-technical" is but I'm finding that among friends who've never heard, say, of emacs, they're increasingly getting tired of how corporate macOS feels, and they feel cheated into having to buy new hardware when apple has dropped support for theirs. I think the question of linux adoption is more just about spreading the word and supporting people to migrate, rather than advocacy of the need.
Castle doctrine is scary. Someone has to be threatening you, but it definitely is a thing. See: Trayvon Martin.

I like my HOA and it isn’t to keep poor people out. No more than high rent in SF is to keep poor people out. Market forces do that. I don’t think HOA is some evil force. I am biased of course, I live in a neighborhood with an HOA. Towns have building codes and appearance codes as well, sometimes for practical reasons, often purely for aesthetics.
I have my Xubuntu desktop set to 1+3/16 if I'm not mistaken (which in 96dpi units is 114) and everything works well. I'm not sure what you mean.
And to add to that: Transaction handling will be vastly different in most cases between local calls and network calls.
Is it wise to compound homelessness with chronic health issues and permanent disability? Methyl Bromide is frequently used for pest mitigation of pallets and their contents, and pallet cargo can also leak onto pallets (and you won't be none the wiser).
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It's definitely gotten better over the past 5 or so years. But there was a lot of time spent acquiring technical debt over the preceding couple decades.

Even if I don't use Guava or Apache Commons myself, for example, I still occasionally run into dependency conflicts that I need to resolve with awful hacks like package relocation because so many other major libraries rely on one or the other, and neither library is a particularly great citizen about breaking changes.
Philip Bobbitt would argue that it was in large part different kinds of wars.

The classic 20th C nation-state went hand-in-hand with 20th-C warfare: it needed both massive industry, and every single man. The Ottomans and other relics of earlier times fell apart under the stress of such wars; the states that survived were those with a strong identity. Such identities were partly fostered for this very purpose.

But we seem to have moved on from this, war is again a profession of a few (plus high-tech weapons), conscripting the millions would be of no use. And in parallel our ties to nations are weaker than before, both whether we'd fight for the flag & conversely whether the country is interested in safety nets etc. Our economy is also much less nation-based: GM in its heyday was quite unlike Apple. He calls this emerging form a "market state".

Earlier forms also fought very different wars, he argues that Westphalia (and Waterloo) were among a series of such transitions, each entailing changes to what states are legitimate, and what kind of wars they fight.

Anyway if this sounds interesting then his book "The Shield of Achilles" is cautiously recommended. Someone really needs to write a condensed version... but if you're willing to skip a bit, the ideas are great.
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" Nah, your job is to lead the team in the most effective direction in order to fulfil business objectives, not build resumes. "

And when some new tech comes up then the business hires shiny new people because the people working for them haven't "kept up".
OT: cantankerous - bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative

thanks for the vocabulary expansion!
The iMac Pro seems to be plenty viable for a power user. 64 core, 128GB RAM among other things.
It is complex and there are many "it depends". If they own a house and want to move [for some personal reason] they will be happy that they can get more for their house. If they have lived there for years and watched the neighborhood go downhill they may be happy that things are improving again. Of course the other side is if they are happy with cheap rent they will be unhappy if rent increases because there is now more demand.
Kinda similar reason, but the story itself isn't as geeky.

I didn't come from a rich family. Throughout my whole education, I was on hand-me-down computers. They were predictably low-spec but that's how I learned HTML, JS, and CSS in high school, and then Scheme, Java, PHP, C, et. al. in college.

Add to that the fact that our internet connection isn't great either. Alongside learning how to program, I developed a preference for tools that came out of the box. You didn't have to download them and you can be fairly confident that they are compatible with the hardware specs you got. It's for this reason that I was never fond of IDEs ala Eclipse and NetBeans; when I started messing with Linux, I used GEdit. Eventually I started doing AI stuff and, either by sheer nature of the algorithms themselves or maybe my own programming incompetence (or both), running those algorithms made my already poor computer crawl (I had 2GB of RAM back in 2010-2012, when this story took place). So I started to really try to squeeze more resources out of my machine.

Among the first to go was GEdit. I could not prove this to you scientifically but my reasoning was that if it had to draw a window, it was eating on my resources. So I learned vi, another decent text editor that came out of the box with Ubuntu. I would've gone for nano but I thought, if I'm gonna learn how to use an editor that does not render a window, I might as well go for the one with the more geek points.

Eventually, I started working and got relatively better internet connection. I finally learned the difference between vi and vim so now among the first things I do on a new machine is install vim (although in my bashrc I have alias vi='vim'). Learned a few tricks from my coworkers who used vim and started a dotfiles repo with my own vimrc. I still try to stay minimalist though. I don't install plugins so I bet by most vim users' standards, my set-up is horribly vanilla.
Unless we think gods, talking animals, totems, spirits are real we've learned that many stories are embellished.

Another way to look at it that boring factual recipes and rules were not fun to tell and remember but the ones with drama and extra flourish were. So those are the ones that survived better.
You are speaking as though the improvements in life expectancy today require the loss of ethnic diversity which just plain isn't true. I doubt anyone would really want to live in the past, but that doesn't mean that everything we have today is strictly better.
I'm still using 32bit linux because I'm on Slackware and the multilib situation is too annoying for me to deal with. I tried to upgrade to 64bit Slackware but I need Wine, and it's much easier to set up on a 32bit machine. I don't want to switch to another distro because most of them use systemd, and I use my own custom window manager.

Cydia Impactor does not require a jailbroken iPhone, it is generally used to initiate the process of jailbreaking, by sideloading an app onto the device.

I have an SE running iOS 12, an iPad Mini running iOS 10, and a 4S running iOS 6. iOS 10 is the last version to support 32bit apps. If I compile with the iOS 7 SDK, the app will still run with later versions of iOS, it's only if you need the header files for some of the API's that are only in the later versions of iOS that you should use a more recent SDK to make your life easier, but you can still send the messages via Objective-C without the actual header files (because of introspection the API is available at runtime).

I'm not sure what you mean by limitations for the Cocoa SDK and OSX apps. I do this for my own personal code, it's not something I distribute so I don't worry about End of Life

It's just that I started with C and Objective-C, and it's a lot of work to bridge between Swift and C, so I'd rather stick to Objective-C. Also there is no 32bit Swift runtime (that I am aware of). I just like being able to run my code on older 32bit processors. Objective-C is just so dynamic and the fact that it's just a thin layer on C is very appealing to me. I'm more fond of the Objective-C runtime itself than I am of Foundation.

I have a jailbroken 4S with iOS 6, and you can install clang and all the tools you need to compile an app on the device itself. No need for Xcode at all unless you need storyboard or to submit an app to the App Store. Most of the toolchain can be downloaded from Cydia, and you can read the instruction for Theos to get an idea of how it works, but you don't need to use Theos, you can compile it with clang yourself (on the device).
Im using https://psono.pw

its free, open source and you can host it easily yourself with docker.
Full disclosure, Im the key developer behind it.
Also nice – I slightly altered that wording since, what do you think?
I never said it was. Neither was the ottoman empire. Both also made formal distinctions between people based on religion. European empires weren't equal or peaceful either.

What I did say was that they were multi-ethnic. Even with all the pogroms, jizra and other forms of discrimination, numerous minorities existed. Empires were multi ethnic, multi-religious, multi-lingual and such.

When those empires gave way to modern nation states (or earlier precusurs, like Spain and Portugal), multiculturalism died. This is the story of the 20th century.

The process is still ongoing, particularly in ex-ottoman states..

There are arguably good and bad things about empires. Multiculturalism^ is a trait of empires. Groups like the spharadim, small communities with their own customs, beliefs and language, exist because empires existed.

Btw... this is not new. King Cyrus, Alexander & Genghis Khan's Empires are notably remembered for their multiculturalism.

^Real multiculturalism. I don't hate melting pot migration, but I don't count it as multiculturalism.
Wow, nice. That's pretty much spot-on
It sounds like a "moderation" issue — you need some possibility of inequality to have a healthy level of motivation, but too much inequality leads to poverty and limits human potential!
Would someone please post a non-Paywalled link?
"many" ≠ "most". There can perfectly well be "many" while still being fewer than half.
Canonical got out of the personal computing business in April of 2017. They have a handful of people still contributing to Ubuntu as leverage into the potentially lucrative IoT and In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) developer markets, and that's it.

If you're benefiting, it's collateral interest.
There’s HFT systems in Java, and OCaml. I’m not an expert in these domains but since markets are only open for certain hours of the day, you can pre-allocate enough memory and just not collect till after the bell rings. In my understanding.
Especially when one empire replaces another. Just look at the history of the Near East. The Akkadian empire replaced by the Assyrian empire, replaced by the Neo-Assyrian empire, replaced by the Neo-Babylonian empire, replaced by the Persian empire, replaced by the Greek "empire", replaced by the Roman empire, replaced by the Palmyrene empire, eventually replaced by the Ottoman empire. Each replacement was of course violent and caused massive societal upheavals.