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Breaking up giant commercial monoliths is essential creative destruction for the economy. They're not going to do it themselves. It's not a question of whether they're going to break up, it's only a question of when. I hope it happens sooner rather than later because I want to live in the Brave New World where dozens of services have to compete for the markets left behind.
Except that many of these terms exist not to make communication clearer, but to obfuscate, to hedge.

It's a type of obscurantism. It also sounds like a bunch of shibboleths, secret handshakes of the C level people.

Why do we accept terms like re-structuring, downsizing etc? Can't we just call it what it is: "Firing people?"
The trouble is not everyone uses CMake or vcpkg or Conan. As a library author I'm not going to provide build scripts for every C++ build system in existence.

The beauty of a single header include is that there is no build system, so I don't have to provide any scripts at all.

It's an unfortunate solution but I can see why it is so popular.
You can encrypt notifications that go through Google's FCM and Apple's APNS push notification servers. This is how Pushover works - each notification is encrypted with a device-specific key, sent through the notification servers as an encrypted blob, then the app on the device is woken up and receives the blob, decrypts it, and posts it as a normal notification.
Maybe we just experience our brain making decisions. Everything else might be ‘unconscious’.

Implying that our conscious experience of the world has no control over our brains.

Otherwise conscious/unconscious implies some sort of duality in your head. Like the homunculus..
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A well-paid truck driver can't do it because in many states, such as NY, a comparable health insurance plan is about $800 a month [1], and that's before you even see the doc or pay deductible.

[1] I have a broker's license I don't use anymore
> for Boeing to put them in this situation is, in my opinion, also quite hazardous

I'm sure this is an edge case given all of the successful 737 MAX 8 fights, but it's a catastrophic one.

To go from smooth flying conditions to having the nose unexpectedly dive and having seconds to save your life and everyone on board is almost more dangerous than difficult flying conditions because it's so unexpected.

I'd be surprised if Boeing continues to treat this as a training issue. The plane needs to be better.
>The acoustic study found that in a densely settled neighborhood, a gas-powered blower rated at, say, 75 decibels of noisiness can affect up to 15 times as many households as a battery-powered blower with the same 75-decibel rating.
My condolences to your family. But seriously, this is concerning and I feel terrible for the people that lost their lives and their families. What a terrible way to go. I cannot even imagine.
The problem with l/100km is that you can't compare it to purchase prices without doing math, which makes it less intuitive.

This is especially true once you're no longer comparing the same units even between vehicles. It's much easier to compare euros with euros than having to compare euros with l/100km and kWh/100km.

Moreover, it's possible to make a plausible fuel price estimate based on current and historical prices, and if it turns out to be wrong then it wouldn't be any less wrong for having the buyer calculate it instead of the seller.
There are a whole ton of students coming out of one year masters DS programs, who don’t know that much more.
Interestingly I just watched this video. https://youtu.be/BgQ79evjylc?list=LLbN1lC_4raev2geuc6RhTpQ

And I was surprised about how they manipulate the information, well not the information but their knowledge of how you will react and thus push an emotion that does not match the information.
As a hobbyist, I ended up deleting all my photos and closing my account. Had they made this announcement earlier, I would have been happy to put everything as CC.

From their cameras popularity graph (https://www.flickr.com/cameras), I think the popularity of Flickr has died off with Instagram and all the various social networks. The most popular camera phone on there is iPhone 6 (2014). For point and shoots, it's the first generation RX100 (2012).
The beauty of the network and hyperconnection.
It's like you can try and maintain a hierarchical structure with all the energy and resources you have. But the more the nodes within your hierarchy are connected to external networks the less chance you ever have of maintaining the integrity of the hierarchy.

There is a threshold of contentedness above which it doesn't matter one bit what the hierarchy does to maintain integrity. China will stay separate for longer because they disconnected much earlier, but their anxiety over the trade deal just shows how hard it is. Britain too is going to pay a price. Putin is waking up too late. The Network will assimilate all. The thresholds have been crossed long ago.
You simply gave a summary of the first article's summary and then falsely claimed there were no details.

The articles are summaries of what the government and the companies discovered. Read the indictment linked in the last article or the reports from the companies for details.
They do not carry over for personal use. A business can carry them over.
The main thing is Docker has been used as a way to distribute binaries with all dependencies builtins.

Bypassing all OS packaging systems. It’s a hack on top of our broken packaging models. That does work but it is extremly fat and not very elegant.
I always tend to think that the reason Docker developers decided to split the Docker products codebase (CE/EE) into the Moby components 2 years ago was that they foresaw the inevitable death of Docker in the long-term.
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I know many Russians are disturbed by this, but character is a continuity and Stalin was right on the bottom of it.
>It seeks to route Russian web traffic and data through points controlled by the state and proposes building a national Domain Name System to allow the internet to continue functioning even if the country is cut off from foreign infrastructure.

The first part just seems like a forced MITM situation whilst the second makes some sense - in a cyber warfare scenario; however, that runs under the assumption that the DNS servers and/or entries didn't get poisoned before they're "cut-off" from foreign infrastructure. Doesn't really seem all that worthwhile, unless you create recovery points to ensure that you have records to recover with; otherwise, what's the point...?

(Of course, I could be entirely misunderstanding the premise of the law because it's not referenced in the article and I can't speak/read Russian for feck-all...)
once government starts picking the winners and losers on a racial basis, like affirmative action, like what happened at harvard against asians, it becomes a slippery slope of racial division. you will never get the perfect diversity, its an ideology that discriminates against the very people who welcomed immigrants into a free country and they are endevouring to make it less free. thus i am against immigration if people fresh off the boat can become diversity hires before poor americans. so in short maga 2020
Cognitive Control in Patients with Mental Illness Differs by Diagnosis
I originally thought this was going to be the Wasp Lisp that worked with MOSREF for pentesting [1]. I am interested in Lisps, and perhaps this can replace some JavaScript use cases.

[1] https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM
You need to work on your reading skills.

Focusing on the last:

> conanbatt: the price goes up because of regulation

> HN: how did regulation make insulin expensive

> conanbatt: what makes you unable to import cheap insulin?

> HN: Law
Frankly I don't see what the point of breaking up Apple would be. Where's the monopoly potential/barrier to entry in the markets Apple is serving? They have quite viable competitors in pretty much all of them. I think a bit of well-designed regulation would go a lot further here, especially around right-to-repair (and "right to keep older hardware going after it loses support") and general platform openness for things like the App store.
I am a happy user of differential dataflow (DD), which has been great for simplifying an app that I care about.

The app in question already includes a form of the connected components computation Frank is describing improvements to in this post so I’m excited to see whether these ideas help make things work even better.

Finally, if you’re interested in the original foundations underlying the underlying library, check out “Foundations of Differential Dataflow”, Abadi, McSherry, and Plotkin, FoSSaCS 2015: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gdp/publications/differentialw... or, for even more mathematical context about why this works, check out, e.g., Bruce Sagan’s slides on the Mobius Inversion function: https://users.math.msu.edu/users/sagan/Slides/MfpBog1h.pdf

In conclusion: this transition from abelian groups to monoids looks like a nice generalization of the underlying theory!
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My plan right now is to publish about one story a week -- I'll also tell some of my own Python stories, mostly about using Python with cloud services and data analysis.
splice.com also has this slightly scummy business model, where you lose your credits if you cancel your subscription. I suppose it works though, since the model keeps being used everywhere.
If I understand correctly, the part that says

> up to 11 seconds before they consciously made the decision

should be interpreted as

> up to 11 seconds before they pressed one of the buttons

I can't imagine how they measure the time when the conscious decision was made but they definitively measure when the button was pressed.
I think the reason a reality show for funding healthcare is so plausible is that it would be filling a gap left by a corrupt and failing system. I don't think anyone believes that there is a gap in the administration of law enforcement and punishment in the US.
Purely because of government intervention..

The medicare example is quite an interesting one as well. The US doesn't have the political momentum to let medicare negotiate pharma prices, and before such a basic thing is even changed, you want to hand over the entire health care insurance industry to the government?
If we shouldn't get consideration in antitrust discussions because we're the not the customer, we're the product being sold, perhaps adtech needs regulations akin to animal cruelty laws. It's okay to slaughter us, you just can't be unnecessarily cruel while doing so...
Somewhat unrelated, but the first time I bought something in a physical store in the USA, i thought i was being ripped off, because the final price came out different than the one that was listed next to the item. I had no idea that it was standard practice to exclude taxes from the displayed price.
the fact that it's 7 seconds... that kind of proves that it isn't a directive. A directive should be executed immediately. That would make more sense to me, anyway.
Mistermann: “...asserting that vaccines do cause autism is a very different thing than simply asking for evidence that they do not, ever...”

Logically, this doesn’t seem true—100% causality or 100% non-causality. The very premise doesn’t seem “scientific”. Are you serious about this claim or laying the groundwork for a different punchline?

I don’t know—maybe you should write an article outlining your response? I’ll read it ;)
Yes, but if the effort to go the WARC route is minimal above mirroring, might as well do it. You never know if you’ll need data you didn’t grab.
Making sound decisions in engineering has nothing with personal preferences or passion. All too often these interfere with the process and, in fact, usually hide the lack of vision.
>A messaging app that can read SMS and replace Messages...

And now we've hit on the essential flaw in Warren's "break them up!" soundbite based policy. Her ideas do NOTHING to address the real problem, a lack of data privacy. If you tell apple they have to let people make apps that can access things like sms, boom, all of the users lose control of that data. The App developer takes it, and now it can go anywhere. It'd actually be worse than what we have now.

Here's the really sad part about all of this:

A law to make the sharing of data between companies explicitly illegal is actually EASIER to implement than the whole "break 'em up!" strategy.

So you have to ask yourself, "Why won't they just make it illegal to share data?" And when you start brainstorming potential answers to that question, it can be a bit unsettling. It makes me think we need such a law even more.
Your exposition is very good. If I could make one pedagogical recommendation, it would be that you give a gentle introduction to linear dependence and independence. You don't need this to treat the subject in the geometric fashion you're using (it's implicit in talking about calculating lines on the Euclidean plane). But if you explain it well it's a very powerful didactic mechanic for your audience, because then they can generalize the reason why {(1, 0), (-1, 0)} is not a basis of R^2 to arbitrary dimensions n. It also leads you into the neat result that any linearly independent subset S of a vector space V whose cardinality matches the dimension of V is a basis.

That being said, I know all too well what happens to good exposition when you try to shove too much into it. So feel free to ignore this; you write well and I think you accomplish the goal of presenting the material in an intuitive way.
Well, it was the journalist who brought up Apple, not Warren.

If "breaking up Apple" in this context turns out to mean "make Apple spin off a very small part of their business", there's no reason to suppose Warren would be unhappy.

It's reasonable to suppose that Warren is making the recommendation she's making for the reasons she states, rather than inventing a pretext for an underlying wish to break large companies into approximately equal sized parts.
If we are talking about breaking tech monopolies, how about comcast? You can break up google and apple and Amazon, but I still only have one real choice for the internet connection I use to access them. I believe this is true for about 80% of americans.
> FAANG is unlikely to sell CDOs around “likes and shares” ;)

Let's revisit this in 10 years ;)
Well, the entire genre is built around the concept of competitive elimination.

Do it with access to healthcare and you sure turn the intensity up on elimination.
The files are on the XP CD (with install instructions). This can be installed in the settings menu where you also find IPv4, IPv6 ... are located.

Other software (Vmware or Virtualbox etc.) also install drivers in the same location, although automated of course.
I can see that small businesses aren't in a great position to negotiate with large businesses. But if there were really a substantial shortage, you wouldn't have to engage in high-risk, high-stakes negotiation to get a better rate. People will offer you a higher rate to secure your service, if your service is _really_ in short supply.

If the people hiring these independent trucks can afford not to pay more, because they know someone else will take the lower rate, then there isn't a shortage. This could just about be the definition of whether or not there is a "shortage".
I don't like being dragged into the minutiae of pricing plans like this.

It's makes me feel like a rodent in a maze responding to some twisted experiment.

And whenever I overhear people discuss the tricks they've come up with to save 2$/year on their transit pass or cable bill or whatever, I have to walk away.

I find those kinds of discussions tedious to the point that it makes me angry.
In many locations, the basic hamburger isn’t even on the menu. When I keep to the published menu and order a cheeseburger with no cheese, it only shows up on the receipt as a hamburger about 25% of the time.
Boeing's shenanigans are the reason retraining isn't "required", though it does appear to actually have been necessary.
You highly underestimate power of totalitarian state
How TikTok Is Rewriting the World
I have bought into the campaign against him.
At our project we're trying to keep technical debt on the feature side.

That is: we're doing stories as good as possible technically including required refactoring. We're keeping this manageable by reducing the feature set or intentionally not implementing certain special cases (which reflect the technical debt), of course only in discussion with the project owner.

By doing this we keep the complexity within bounds. When we are catching up on this kind of debt it means we have to implement those omitted special cases, which has the benefit of being completely transparent to the product owner as well as to the developers. This may then involve to refactor entire subsystems, but until now this was never a problem (since the business value was always measurable).

Coding-level technical debt we're keeping track of using Sonarqube, and by keeping all metrics on zero (either by fixing or by intentionally supressing).

This works quite well for us. We're benefitting from being a greenfield project (a SaaS solution based on Spring Boot).
Research should be paid by the people with an interest to pay for research. And the government should put as little stops and costs into that process as possible.

I would find it better that patents in pharma were eliminated, but also that the FDA approval process should be optional. If you want to save lives, you need to loosen up.
I've been following Russian news on the matter pretty closely for the last couple of years (I do speak Russian).
Most of these laws are absurdly nonsensical, people who are responsible for them (Yarovaya and co) have very vague understanding of technology and I don't think it's about technology in the end.
> does speed of counting really matter?

That's a great question. The answer depends a little bit on how many issues are on the ballot, and a hell of a lot more on whether you're asking the media, or those with a direct stake in the outcome, or those voters. Your system is optimized to serving voters.
Russian trolls can be surprisingly subtle, and often fun to read
Fame doesn't equal trust, but trust over time does create recognition (perhaps fame is a bit too strong). My claim is that if no one can vouch for you, how can I trust you?
I was confused why/impressed at netlify was writing about eigenvectors in the first place. HN in particular only shows the top-level domain so I couldn't tell it wasn't netlify themselves until clicking around your site. :)
Because the rest of their life isn’t entirely remote.
Michael Graziano’s Attention Schema Theory of consciousness (AST) provides an interesting perspective on this study. Although the study is limited and predicting a decision only implies a correlation rather than a causation, it is worth thinking about how brain activity and conscious action are related.

AST distinguishes between neuronal activity (attention) versus conscious experience (awareness), and postulates that awareness is both a model of attention and a director of attention. Essentially, consciousness as a simulation that has the startling ability to influence the simulator itself. Example: we experience seeing an apple (awareness) and consciously focus upon it, which amplifies the neuronal activity for sensing and processing vision (attention). Due to this amplification, we then gain a sharper experience of noticing more details about the apple. Awareness both models attention and directs it.

In terms of predicting decisions based on brain scanning, it would be easy to see how as a person’s awareness focuses attention on a particular image, even without quite realizing it, that the brain patterns of such attention would be clearly amplified.

This study seems to suggest that our conscious feeling of making a decision is a false experience. That we are simply watching a pre-ordained movie and are being given a false sense of agency. In AST, even though our consciousness is a synthesized model of our brain activity, and even though decisions may be made in neurons not part of that modeling, there is little meaningful difference between the model we experience of making a decision and the brain activity of the decision itself. Although there will always be a lag between a model of activity and the activity itself, we generally experience no lag.

it would be interesting to see in what edge-cases lag would really matter. I believe there are some odd experiments with buttons and blinking lights where the decision to press a button is experienced after the experience of seeing the light from pressing the button.

All the same, if AST is on target, then conscious agency is real, and this paper doesn’t have anything to say on the matter, even if the headline is highly suggestive that it does.
Statistics expertise is also very important. Stats may be less sexy today than "data science", but they were doing "model explainability" before it was even a thing!
The stated purpose has little to do with real intent, which is information control over Russian subjects. Russia will eventually corral ordinary citizens off the real net into its small OK/VK heaven.
Assuming that "free will" doesn't include manipulating the laws of physics, pretty much like the one we live in? I can see where people are coming from when they say there is no such thing as free will, but it sounds like they are saying the no one has the ability to consciously override their impulses. I don't smash the skull of everyone that makes me angry, for example.
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Glorious day! I wish they would ban them where I live.

I detest noise, but judging by the popularity of Harley's I must be in the minority.
An interesting question then is in what way unconscious you is different from unconscious me.
I wonder if data scientists engage in a triangulation* of their sources and models to explain things?

*I refer to this sense of triangulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_(social_science)
Yahoo certainly largely neglected it for a long time though I still use it myself and know other relatively serious photographers who do as well.

I'm actually a bit of two minds about comparing Flickr with social media sites like Instagram. Certainly, casual photo sharing is far more popular on those sites. On the other hand, I'd have to be convinced that a single site can really function as SmugMug or Flickr do for people who self-identify as prosumers while at the same time also being the preferred site for the typical Instagram user.
They also seem to have stolen a number of graphics on their website. If you check their filenames, they have the default filename of when you take a screenshot on OSX. Then take this one for example:

https://resecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Screen-Sho...

Throw it into Google's reverse image search and you'll find the graphic if was cut out of:

https://www.incimages.com/uploaded_files/image/970x450/Finan...
Our brain is a massively parallelized computer that runs the entire body yet has a cache of ~7 items and runs on 20 watts of power. I would expect a degree of latency in its more complicated operations.
Amazons retail success is largely about shipping.

Amaz used items which are usually just damaged packaging are great and then come close or beat everyone on price. Depends on the item. BBs open box prices are imo pretty good.

Makes sense appliances would be strong. Buying a dishwasher is not like buying a laptop. It helps to go into the store. They should buy whats left of Sears at least to get the customer list and card members.
Yeah I have some friends who say ddg is unusable for them. I really wonder what kind of exotic things they search for, I have been using DDG for a couple of years now and rarely need Google.

(!gi for their images I use sometimes)