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Ah so for you Common Lisp and Smalltalk are bizarre languages, good to know.

Please don't be shy and let us know about all those amazing Flutter/Dart applications in production that outnumber any of those vendors, both in customer base and business value.

Other than Ad Words that is.

I start with a couple,

- Google's own ITA (CL)

- Siscog traffic management solutions used across European train networks (CL)

- JP Morgan financial risk management (Smalltalk)
Curious: Would there be any benefit to open sourcing parts of the OS, at least enough so that it could run on mobile hardware of some kind?

I believe HP/Palm open-sourced WebOS after they abandoned the device market, but nobody tried to build a Hackintosh type phone out of it.

Back then, that made sense as WebOS suffered from a lack of apps, but in 2019, mobile web apps aren't the afterthought they used to be. I can call an Uber and track the entire journey using their web app manifest ("Add to home screen"). I'm using Uber as an example of a complex app that you wouldn't think would work well as a 'website'.

With everything we know about Google's data collection/tracking policies, I'd think there'd be some itnerest in having the option of hardware that ran a non-intrusive mobile OS.
My personal guess:

1. Primary reason: it is a job someone needs to do, and it isn’t high on the priority list at all due to many possible factors.

2. Secondary reason: as a side effect of (1), it encourages the use of their native apps, which they might want for whatever reasons as well.
>In fact, we now have compelling epidemiological evidence that vaping almost doubles risk of cardiac events [1].

Somewhat misleading since more than half of those studied were smoking and vaping. From the study:

Among the 9,352 current and former e-cigarette users, 333 (3.6 percent) had experienced a heart attack at some point, with the highest percentage (6.1 percent) among those who used e-cigarettes daily. In the analysis, a quarter of the 2,259 people who currently used e-cigarettes were former smokers of conventional cigarettes and about 66 percent of current e-cigarette users were also current cigarette smokers.
They're probably not a loss leader at all, and they're unlikely to be part of what the grocery store normally stocks in terms of chickens.

If you look at most of the grocery store rotisserie chickens, they're roughly 2 pounds - 3 pounds at Costco, which is one of their selling points. At $5, you're paying $1.67-2.50/pound for the bird, a few cents worth of seasoning and oil, a plastic shell, labor and depreciation on the rotisserie equipment. The store is probably not paying even $1/pound for those small birds.

As for them being ones that the store was selling that were past their date, go look at whole chickens in the store some time. If you find any 2 pound birds I'd be very surprised - you're more likely going to see a minimum of 3.5 pounds, at least in the US. The store also wouldn't be cooking random-weight birds because it's going to be much harder to control for even cooking - you can't just throw a 4 pound bird that's approaching its sell by date into the oven with your 2 pound birds, it'll be raw inside when you pull the rest of the birds out.
yes, but they aren't, and that's why we're in this mess. not enough housing driving up the cost to the point where most can't afford it anymore or barely afford it.
> We need to reduce zoning/land use restrictions and reduce the concentration of wealth which prevents the middle class from building small, dense housing/mixed-use developments to live/work/rent from.

Agree with 99% of your post, but these two ideas contradict each other.

Zoning/land use restrictions are things that lower the concentration of wealth (they literally cap the wealth of a parcel of land).

When you reduce/eliminate zoning controls, you will increase concentration of wealth, because the value of that land is now allowed to rise as high as private capital will allow it -- higher than it could have ever risen before. (This can be seen by the cities in the US currently reducing/eliminating their zoning).
I wouldn't say that's "the whole point." You can specify at any level you choose, even electronic circuits (in fact, TLA+ has been successfully used in the design of microprocessors). It's just that the most effective general-purpose use of formal methods, given our current technology, is in a high-level design (where high-level is relative to whatever your domain is), as formal methods are constrained by a certain amount of detail, and therefore it is best to use that budget on the actual tricky/subtle parts of the problem, rather than waste it on stuff that's fairly simple (translating the spec into code, which is simple but contains a lot of "uninteresting" detail).
> My point is that if veganism was "natural and optimal", then why hasn't any human society in history adopted it? Because humans cannot survive on a vegan diet without supplements.

I don't know if that's true. We may not have been able to supply the amount of vegetation required to keep a human being upright and functional a millennia ago, but now that we live in the age of abundance, with food diversity that's unprecedented that may not be an issue at all. We can artificially create a complete diet of strictly plant matter with intelligent choices.
I mean, I hope you don't filter out road signs..?

But sure. It was a half-joke, I guess it wasn't even half-funny.
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Meta, the AR Startup That Had Its Assets Sold to a Mystery Buyer
Two of our Chinese partners conduct their entire business through a collection of groups all related to careers.

Since we are a foreign firm located in South Korea - they sell our services to their users on our behalf. Amazing how an entire company can be ran solely on wechat
I'm sorry, but this just sounds like bullshit to me.

"With a $5000> card (MI50) AMD is forced to sell at a loss to be able to meet the same performance levels NVIDIA had for the same amount of money ($700) 2 years ago."

Source? What 2 year old nvidia card is beating the instinct mi50 at floating point math? Does it even support fp64? Nothing about that sounds even a bit true.

"The 2080 for all intents and purposes is a mid range die."

The second fastest gpu in the world is 'mid-range'. Yeah right. Not even close unless you only consult with millionaires for your part info.

"AMD had to drop the prices of VEGA to around $300 due to the RTX 2060"

Vega 64 competes with the 2070, it blows the 2060 out of the water. Also the price has gone down? Yeah, that's what happens when tech gets older. Prices drop. They always have and always will.
>So it has been normalized for millennia

Alcohol abuse is not normalized in most developed nations. America is a harmful exception.
Exactly. To a certain degree it's just bound to happen.

The problem lies in the blame game. If it happens on while the owner is looking after the dog they just accept the sad event as an unfortunate random happening. If it happens on someone else's watch it was their "fault". Which it might been or it might not have been but we have a really hard time shutting off that need to find someone to blame for bad things that happen that are out of our control.
Chantix is known for causing weird gory nightmares of skin peeling off and menacing entities and such. Creeps me out, wouldn't want to give it to children.

http://nymag.com/news/features/43892/

The fact this wasn't caught until after this drug was approved by the FDA really makes me question the efficacy of our extremely expensive drug regulatory system.
Are there many people who support this policy and don't support it for themselves, should they be upper-middle-class? I personally support a 70% marginal tax on all income over $100,000, and I make well over that.

In particular the primary reason I support this is that the primary reason I want more than $100K income is competing in housing markets like SFBA and NYC. If everyone making over $100K is taxed heavily past that point, then the people competing for the same housing are on the same playing field as I am - if anything, I'm more competitive with people who make more than I do - and it also makes income equality better in general. (I don't actually care if the money goes to the government; you may as well burn it. The effect I'm interested in is changing post-tax incomes, not getting more revenue for the government)
I think the user's own settings should be used, and they don't need to worry about that. If you want it wide or less wide, to resize the window. Many webpages use CSS and often I have to correct them by applying my own CSS on my side, but some webpages do not use CSS and they are usually OK without needing any CSS added. And yet, often just plain text is OK you do not even need HTML.
It's not 'users' data anymore once its on their servers.
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Thanks for this response, it gives us (newbies) a better insight for choose a proper tool...
Why is voip basically free for mass abuse, but expensive for individuals and legitimate organizations? I would love a few dozen phone numbers, but I don't see any free options other than google voice.
That's interesting, but there's something I don't quite get about it, so I am genuinely asking: are the pm2.5 or pm10 the problem, or is it what they're made of? Because I can understand that a 2.5micron sized soot particle (or droplet of water containing soot) can cause health issues when it ends up in the lungs; but what if the droplet is entirely made of something that doesn't cause irritation and is immediately metabolised to something else?
This is anecdotal of course; I've been vegan for 20 years and have never taken supplements. I'm skinny, but my bone density and concentration are fine.

I've never had a cavity in my life. I'm not super old yet, but I don't think I have any joint issues beyond what comes with being nearly 50.

The efficacy of supplements isn't even established as reliable in many cases.

Porpiosly's comments on this seem quite extreme. I suggest others reading this do their own research or consult with their personal physicians before altering their diet in a significant way.
“His decision not to use [emergency declaration][last week] is a little bit puzzling because in some sense that’s an almost ideal outcome,” McCarty said. “That’s the only way to end the shutdown while allowing both sides to save face.”

Another way out would be if some reps broke out of party gulags and proposed a reasonable and understandable plan.

Something similar happened once recently -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(immigration)
I think i am looking for some level of honesty, away from the usual we are so excited narrative. Acquihires are almost always bittersweet for the founders. Excitement is not in the spirit of acquihires.

If we can be more honest with motives, it would make sv a better place, imho.
This brings to mind the popular Blind app where co-workers feel safe enough about their anonymity to put things online that they never would have otherwise. https://www.teamblind.com
> Stating this as fact

Uh, I pretty clearly stated it as personal experience.

I did overstate the 'get whatever you want' part, though. I'm making the point that in Australia, insurance is both compulsory and useless. In practice, all it offers is slightly higher priority treatment than non-insured patients should you go to hospital. Should you need a specialist, you'll usually pay them out of pocket -- insurance will (at best) cover a small percentage of the fees, and usually nothing.

> Waiting months for an appointment just so you can be told to see someone else is par for the course

This is also the case in Australia.
Hard to identify with people who find this to be beyond controversy. Is it that far out of the realm of reality that someone might disagree with this approach?
I think they should swap priorities: they should begin spending as much time on privacy as they are currently spending on which conservative personalities to deplatform, and vice versa.

Goodbye, sweet HN karma!
Beyond Meat is doing "chicken strips" now and is going full tilt boogie on other meats: bratwurst, steak, and bacon!

https://www.livekindly.co/beyond-meat-expands-to-develop-veg...
The Navy wants 350 ships.

They have more Admirals now that ships.
They didn't exactly turn a blind eye.

They tried prohibition in the US, it didn't work.
Of course it is. This is the essence of the GDPR.
> html5 video out of the box doesn't consistently provide support for most sorts of adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS/Dash being the pre-eminent ones)

Can you elaborate on this? I use <video> to debug HLS issues all the time. Is there something specific that straight-up video tag won't do?

If there are edge cases I'm sure I haven't seen them, because personally I'm only ever using HTML as basically a control group when reproducing bug reports from native video player stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock
You're describing markets the ways journalists are joked[1] about describing guns. Except you're doubling down and saying "No, you're wrong. All assault rifles are AK-47s, everyone knows what I mean when I say an AK-47, you know, a gun that shoots bullets fast and stuff!"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3h74f3/a_journalists...
Funny that this article shows up today right after a big update (I think within the last few days) where the most basic message notification broke. Yep, it literally doesn't show any message notifications unless I manually open up the app. Kinda useless in this state. This is probably not affecting many people since I haven't see anybody complain about it.
No, sorry. I don't have a Mac to test.

See https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/237953/install-ink...
>- Fewer hormones for growth

The FDA bans hormones in all poultry production, companies advertising it are trying to fool you into thinking the opposite is possible, it isn't.

>- Fewer antibiotics

Zero antibiotics is very common among producers
Bounties are full of problems. Adding them to GitHub introduces huge issues in the same way as a recent discussion brought out how AirBnB can be one thing early on but starts running into tons of problems at scale.

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/history/software... for further reference.

> Github should become what Youtube is to video creators

A surveillance advertising system tying your work to misc manipulative ads for things you don't endorse??
241 MB on my pixel 3. Though FB messenger (comparable feature set) is also bloated at 126 MB. (Whatsapp, pure chat, by comparison is 47 MB)
The globalized US tech companies / services / products.

YouTube, Netflix, Wikipedia, Uber, Google search, iOS & iPhone / watch / iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Microsoft Office/365, Facebook core, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail & G services, Google Maps, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail / Outlook.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Imgur, Twitter, LinkedIn, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Adobe / Photoshop, iTunes / Apple Music, Wordpress, Github, Stack Exchange, Steam, Airbnb, Priceline / Booking, Amazon.com, eBay, PayPal, AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, Akamai, Cloudflare, VMWare, Lets Encrypt, GoDaddy, Craigslist, Symantec, Red Hat, Activision, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, IBM, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Cisco, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Dell / EMC, HP, Western Digital, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices

There are a bunch more that one could argue for, however that covers the bulk of them.
I would be far more interested if they open sourced the hardware of their phones, or at least publish enough information that allowed developers port other operating systems on hardware otherwise doomed to end in some third world landfill.
>What is up with this incessant clamoring for a nanny to supervise every little thing?

It is because corporations keep lying and behaving horribly.
I give credit to Meta for having made so much progress as an “indie” player in AR hardware. They shipped a device comparable to Hololens or Magic Leap with a fraction of the budget.

That said, the main narrative around their shutting down (blaming the US-China trade war for spooking their Chinese investors) seems a little too convenient. The real problem with the Meta, as the founder alludes to at the end, is that it had no clear use case or killer app. If they had a successful consumer device, or even a dev kit that looked like it had a chance to one day be that device, I suspect the trade war would be a non issue.

For any other ambitious startups dreaming of AR glory, the CEO’s advice here is good. Find killer app first, then raise big money to ship hardware. Not the other way around.

Note that HoloLens and Magic Leap have the same problem. But they can get away with failing for a lot longer due to massive amounts of funding.

I was at CES this year and saw a few upstarts with promising tech. I predict something truly groundbreaking will launch by next year CES.
Or openly conservative in the USA
I've noticed a hole in a lot of people's thinking where even if they thing to write automated testing or QA testing to ensure that a given thing is available to a certain user or role, there is often not a lot of thought given to writing tests to enure that users or roles that should not have access to the data can't get it.

I'm not sure I've ever found a permission system without explicit testing that the denials work that didn't turn out to have gaping holes in what could actually be done. Generally, the code that hides the UI for what you're not supposed to be able to do works, since that's visible, but on something like the Web where the user also has fairly direct access to the message bus the application is using to communicate to the web server, that's not enough.
I have 72 CNY in my wallet, but since it is not verified with a bank account (I closed them before I left the country) I am now unable to make any payments or accept any payments. This was a security move put into place in the last couple years because the have-friend-send-money-you-gave-cash-for method definitely used to work.
Part of the argument in the article, I think, is that cities are only relaxing zoning restrictions in a limited area, in their dense urban cores. If the entire city is under a high level of demand, but the ability to meet that demand is concentrated only on a small area where zoning has been liberalized, then that leads to a situation where reducing zoning (in a small area) leads to increased concentration of wealth.

If the entire urban area were allowed to incrementally and organically build to market demand, then land value would not be so concentrated in the core.
There is a strong argument to be made for the usage of taxation to purposefully break up extreme fortunes, especially self sustaining ones. Although for that usage, the wealth tax and estate tax would be much more effective, even if politically heavy lifts.
They go into the water instead

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/drugs-in-t...
Note that the article is specifically about non-charter school teachers, i.e. they are "exposing" their competitors as allegedly corrupt. Good for them of course, but perhaps we should take their claims with a grain of salt.
Hmm, your first link only measured PM10 at a vaping convention. Have they compared this to the PM10 of a non-vaping convention in the same space with similar amounts of people? Isn't PM10 a lot less harmful than PM2.5?

The article does discuss other studies on PM2.5, but they seem to be conflicting (some says indoor vaping increases PM2.5, some say it doesn't. Can you edit your comment to reflect the uncertainty here?

For what it's worth, the marathons in China are quite fun.
“ hold my beer and watch this”
Get Thomas 13th or 14th edition and solve all the odd problems. That takes care of calculus.
This is insufficient because

a) point 1 is inaccurate, if you make over x in a year the portion over x is taxed at the new 70% rate, and this is already a point of confusion (perhaps intentional confusion)

b) people who understand that worry they personally will be over x, so they don't care about 2

c) people who understand both a and c worry that the systemic effects of raising taxes on the rich is to lower job creation or to make America not-great again or something, so they're less interested in bullet points about the actual change than understanding how it affects the economy.
Does anyone else remember when marlboro released cigarettes with less nicotine in them and marketed it as a healthier choice?
It's not about punishing anyone. It's about restructuring the tax code to incentivize paying workers more. It sets an effective salary cap of ~$10m.
Surprisingly, growth promotion is the original reason they were popularized: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/riots-rage-a...
The idea is that the people behind noyb can bring more experience, professionalism and better finances to the table than some other individuals/groups.
Where there’s a way, pharmaceutical companies will make money.
It's not about getting money to fund programs. It's a way to reduce inequality. The programs will be funded by deficit spending like all programs are.
This is a very common argument, but aren't the rich already doing as much as possible to avoid the 39.6% rate?
If they aren't rich?

Yeah.
Frankly, I think the piece is poorly written, and thus hard to critique.

But I _think_ what the author is saying is that we need good urban design everywhere, not just in downtowns. That would benefit everyone. Ie, if you make necessities available in walking or transit distance, people can save money. It doesn't really matter where the cool kids choose to live, if everyone has the benefit of more people-oriented urban planning.
Pretty sure it uses HTTPS, but if you're on a corporate network on corporate hardware, there is a real chance that there's a corporate MITM proxy that is capable of reading all of your HTTPS traffic.
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The slippery slope is a terrible counterargument.
Germany has left the chat.
Looked at from a higher level:

https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/progressive-lies-li...
What frustrates me about income taxes (and really taxes in general) is that proponents often automatically presume that a larger amount of money flowing into the government is a wholly beneficial effect. I trust current US government officials to effectively use my tax dollars about as far as I can throw it. Entirely too much money is squandered on things that do no benefit whatsoever to those who pay into it, rich or poor. It's a deal-breaker for me, without even going into the problem of tax evasion available to the obscenely rich.
Yes, exactly. It's the public-goods funding dilemma. The one that has only ever been really solved by mandatory taxation (with all its problems).

Snowdrift.coop is trying to (lacking resources itself for the same reasons) build an actual solution for as-good-as-we-can while being fully voluntary (unlike taxes).
> In fact, we now have compelling epidemiological evidence that vaping almost doubles risk of cardiac events

If you continue to smoke tobacco.

"Scientific" studies like this that assert causation when all they have is correlation, based on surveys that we know little about (and likely wouldn't be able to learn the full details of even if one was energetic enough to hunt down the original paper), certainly don't do anything to convince me. If anything, it just increases my suspicion around the "science" we're fed.
Oh, nice, that's what I wish Rust had, which makes you navigate through this:

https://docs.rs/rust-crypto/0.2.36/x86_64-apple-darwin/crypt...
I'd very strongly recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It to familiarize yourself with some fundamental processes and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Infinity-Mathematical-Explo... before you lose yourself in a highly symbolic and abstract world, appreciate the beauty of it first, it'll make the long journey much easier.