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Customers may prefer Apples earbuds, but we dont know if that is because they prefer aesthetic ones over ones with replaceable batteries. We would only know that if Apple also made Airbuds with replaceable batteries -- i.e. same general design, same build quality, same pairing UX, same brand etc. -- but with replaceable batteries and the associated trade-offs.

Since they dont do that, its more appropriate to blame Apple than its customers. Customers cannot choose between replaceable batteries and bulk, only between the packages that companies offer.
For DNS, Quad9 is a better choice than Cloudflare, as it is a not-for-profit public-benefit organization, CF is for profit company
If you're from Europe and want to buy stuff in USA - Amazon is very friendly, Walmart just ignore your non-American credit card.
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I would think that, but I had a solid 3 years where I didn't work for anyone or have a routine and it went by just as fast, if not faster.
>That bit sounds like hell to me

John Belushi concurs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqpNQ9AJYgU
It has nothing to do with modeling the mind after steam machines. These expressions exist because of beliefs about how the mind works, not the other way around. Feelings would still get "bottled up" and you'd have to "release" them somehow, even without knowledge of steam machines.

Yes, it's the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis all over again.
Compiling used to be called "automatic coding".

The word "compiling" existed and referred to more or less what we now call linking: making a program image by catenating together the needed smaller programs (subroutines).

The terminology made sense: translating isn't compiling.

Programming in a higher level language wasn't considered "coding": "coding" referred to taking the higher level specification and encoding it or the machine: writing machine code. This was done by hand, and when software started doing it, that was then, naturally, "automatic coding".

Today, writing a shell script to rename your MP3's is "coding". :)
Indeed, Scott has been thoroughly awesome today. :-)
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Capitalism captured by monopolies is not capitalism because there is no competition and thus no real price seeking mechanism. Monopolies have pricing power.

If you love capitalism you should be the strongest advocate against legal structures that allow for the creation of monopolies.
A friend of mine makes 6 figures touring as a dj, backed by work he does producing and remixing for a pittance just to get his name out there. And he is far from a household name. Is he rich? No, but it’s a living.
That the word seems to have multiple meanings to multiple people. This particular team may not have thought about the word the way you (and others) did.

I also recognize the parallels between this and say, a confederate flag. Some people in the deep south truly believe that it is not racist. But... the vast majority of people in the US believe it is a racist symbol.

You don't want your company name to be the equivalent of that. IMO, they should probably revist and rename. More to your point, if I named a company, I'd probably google the name a few times which would reveal the other possible meanings.
I love how we’re still making the same mistake of thinking that, whatever our next innovation in programming is, it will finally “automate” or “eliminate” coding.

Nope. If you write or draw something and it then executes, you are programming, you are coding.
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Even in the planning and fund raising stages (for example) this kind of thing can be extremely valuable though. Just narrowing options and identifying strategies in advance without paying for research is huge. Your strict idea of what of “using” the IP means is pretty strained.
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Forgive me - I meant personal storage solutions.
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Yup. It would be a mildy intresting tweet. The Verge's aggressive salivating just made me annoyed.
I think this also ties into how conscious we are of time passing. For example if you stare at a clock, a minute can feel like ages. While if someone is actively engaged in something else, we tend to lose our conscious perspective of time without other external stimuli such as lighting.

When I was younger, daydreaming during class could cause it to be over in almost an instant. If I constantly kept track of time while half-awake to avoid oversleeping, it often felt like it took far longer to pass.

Which, with this in consideration also helps explains why solitary confinement is so tortuous, since it destroys a person frame of reference for the passage of time.
I bet it was due to video games. Kids who play video games don't join IRL gangs.
The "store" operation in mammalian episodic memory is triggered by novelty signal. Novelty is poor predictability. As we become more familiar with the world, fewer things are memorized as episodes, so in hindsight things contract to more high level faster narratives.
All of those things are required by law and apply to local companies and subsidiaries of US tech giants in equal measure, so I'm not quite sure what your point is.

I, for one, would gladly exchange the current menagerie of dysfunctional local companies for FAANG subsidiaries. Microsoft pays some of the highest salaries here, doesn't need regular government bailouts and doesn't depend on rent-seeking to make its profit - which is more than I can say for many businesses here.
It becomes a meaningless word if anyone can just call themselves one. There has to be some standard, some governing body, some degree of rigour applied here.
Any plans for an Alpine distribution?
> Unpopular political opinions and non-mainstream narratives are increasingly de-ranked.

Citation? Examples?
Android Oboe[1] might fix that (an API that goes through (OpenSL ES or AAudio depending on what is available).

Then, in future far, far away we might get a touch input method that isn't too laggy for interaction with audio. Last year, the best we could get was around 30ms[2] on iSomething; and I hope that 120hz refresh rate becomes the standard (but even that is huuuuge compared to a MIDI controller).

[1]https://github.com/google/oboe

[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7teiwe/lets_discus...
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Agree it has to make money. Tech giants stifle innovation and competition by buying companies they see as threatening. We need a consortium. And we need a model that can't be easily penetrated by big tech. Money is a true motivator -- and doing the right thing doesn't fall on the same plane when people are enticed with this kind of incentive.
I studied applied mathematics. Roughly summarised: pure mathematicians create new math through the process of conjecture and proof. Applied mathematicians use those theorems and methods to solve simplified models of reality in order to draw conclusions about expected behaviour and/or for the sake of optimisation.
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> FWIW, they failed to recoup their investment in TNG's remaster, selling at 100+ per season. By definition, that arguably means it was sold below cost.

It means they charged at a level where sales volume times net (after variable costs) price per unit was insufficient to cover fixed costs.

But whether that's because they charged too much (variable costs for the disc sets were a small fraction of the price; it's quite possible they would make more profit with higher volume and lower price), too little (maybe the people willing to pay as much as was charged would have paid even more), or either would have worked and they priced in an unprofitable valley, or neither would have worked is speculation.
The economy is like an (enormous) electrical circuit with, crucially, non-linear elements. Mainstream macroeconomics models that poorly which we've seen well demonstrated over the last 10 yrs although there were earlier demonstrations, e.g. stagflation in the 1970's. MMT, while as the article indicates heavily politicized, adds, I think, some insights. For one, money is not exogenous. That is, it doesn't come only from the Fed, banks also in effect create money when they write new loans. Also, what are savings (not necessarily a question raised by MMT)? They're an accounting identity in mainstream macro and supposedly investment = savings. Too simple. Why is there a 'savings glut' in E Asia at the same time that investment in China is remarkably high?

And so it goes. Some steps forward, how many back - don't know but the article does demonstrate just what a political football MMT has become - I'm sure AOC is great but I'm not sure she's an expert in economics. I'd like to see a better theory of non-linear dynamics in economics. The non-linear elements are basically feedbacks where feedbacks allow components of systems to adjust more quickly to changes elsewhere in the system. A forest fire (speaking metaphorically) clears an area of land? The first species to recolonize the land are those that get there quickest. You need to be quick when opportunity arises and feedbacks jumpstart you.

To go back to the electrical circuit - have we even adequately characterized the components (resistor, capacitor, etc.) that go into making up an economic electrical circuit? Also as regards China. China accedes to the WTO in 1999 and only 8-9 yrs later (2007-2008) the circuit blows itself out. Add a huge new power source without compensations elsewhere in the circuit and it will likely fry itself and here we are more than 10 yrs later with the smoldering wreckage still visible. Although if you've come of age in the last 10 yrs, this might not be visible to you. An interesting thing to study is global capital flows - something like the electricity of the system. There was something somewhere where Joseph Stiglitz said: we need a better theory of finance. That is, we really don't know how this shit works.
Thats so cool! Reminds me of the 3DS sort of 3D feeling.
A lot of HNers probably have the job title "software engineer" without any of the qualifications of an "engineer"... that's probably why you're being down-voted.

But you're not wrong.
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I tried taking the train from Santa Barbara to San Jose - I have heard a lot about the picturesque route - but the train was delayed at arrival by a few hr, and since I had a prior engagement, I'd to rent a car and drive to SJ.
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There’s a huge span of skill between, say, the typical HN contributor and a dementia-addled 80-year-old. But some of you are talking like that’s the only two skill levels of users in the world.

Most adults are able to understand the basics of computer hygiene. It is not that hard to explain the what an adblocker does and how to use it to most people.

The sad thing is browser makers aren’t willing to help out the people who really need it because doing so would impact clickbait revenue.

Instead, that task is left to us. It’s not an ideal situation but have you seen what happens to PC’s in the hands of folks that don’t have a concept of computer hygiene?
> The original artists do have many of them, and would likely offer them up in a heartbeat

Indeed. I think its TrekCore that has some HD images of re-renders of the 3D model of Voyager used on the show. They are so detailed, you can start to see the where the 3D artists copy/pasted the same empty sickbay stock photo in various places around the ship to show there is something inside the windows.
There certainly has been widespread misuse (and probably intentional abuse) of statistics, but is it fair to blame the field for that?

It's very often an outsider misusing statistics, while professional statisticians who point out the mistakes are ignored.
The article clearly explains the phone number is related to Uber, and the top post is people worried about Uber phone number scams. So why are they surprised the 3rd results is also about uber phone number scams?

I'd hazard a random guess that 90% of the time someone looks up a phone number for an unlisted number, they want to know if it's a scammer/spammer. So why the author seems to think this is the "wrong" result to show seems pretty strange to me.
Amazon ads are a HUGE deal. They already have about 20% of FB's total ad volume. That's nuts for a side product.
Amtrak has a Twitter account that tweets out delays, including the reasons for them. It's almost always due to freight traffic:
https://twitter.com/amtrakalerts

Apparently the freight haulers have tried to get them to stop publicly blaming them like this.
I know how to use a debugger, at least how to set a breakpoint and step through stuff. I'm sure there are features I'm not familiar with, but I at least understand the fundamentals.

I think part of it is that for the last 5 years , every single language I've used with any kind of professional capacity (JavaScript, Haskell, Erlang, F#, Clojure, Scheme) has had a REPL, so I can quickly play with and reload code, making debuggers a bit less necessary than if I were to do a purely-compiled language.

I definitely would benefit from learning more about performance profilers though. You've given me an idea of reading material for the weekend.
This stuff again. I have several friends who are convinced that a $2,000 HDMI cable can produce "better" audio and video. I've grown so tired of these debates, that I just nod my head and move on when they start down these roads.

Because of these arguments, I've been saving articles about them when I run across them. When I retire, I may make a web site devoted to debunking this nonsense forever. One good example was a guy who used "cheap" and "expensive" speaker cables, and COAT HANGERS, and challenged people to reliably tell the difference in A/B testing. No one could.

It seems to me that we have the cheap and highly-available ability, these days, to 1) lift audio and video from a source directly, and 2) pass it through various stages in the reproduction chain, and 3) PROVE that this-or-that piece of kit ACTUALLY reproduces the ORIGINAL recording any better than another.

(My favorite piece of gear, in an audiophile catalog, from about 30 years ago, was a replacement knob for your amplifier. Apparently, the bakelite one that came with it introduced unfavorable harmonics into your listening experience. The replacement fixed all that for you. It was a wooden puck, with a hole drilled in the back. They wanted $500 for it. .... I'm in the wrong business.)

All this boils down to is various levels of equalization. You can say that a turntable and an analog amp is "better," and that's fine. You may really prefer it. But don't tell me it's "more accurate." I can demonstrate that - at the end of the day - it's just an EQ on the original recording, and does not reproduce the original more accurately. (With math and graphs and everything!)

Unfortunately, I know what I'm up against. The people who believe this audiophile nonsense will very likely NOT understand the math and the graphs, and I'll be wasting my time regardless. The entire market is fed by -- and I hate to say it, because these kinds of folks are GOOD friends of mine -- people with literally more money than sense.

Guess that came out a lot more rant-y than I was shooting for.
To what is Capitalism opposed, here? The original article didn't impugn capitalism, it impugned deregulation, corruption, and a culture of faux-hero worship that reinforces these. It impugned bad capitalism.

It was the opposite of unaware of survivorship bias; the whole point is that such biases (and others) explain why capitalist-cowboy heroes are seen as heroes, instead of actual outstanding acumen and brilliance.

This is part of why I think your original point doesn't stand; you are defending something that wasn't attacked. I care about this mostly because of the framing of the OP, in which capitalism is somehow put in opposition to "academics", which is spurious.
£100k for a 2 bed terrace 30 minutes from Manchester and Leeds [0]. £78k for a 2 bed house [1] 35 minutes from Manchester and Liverpool, under an hour from Birmingham, and on HS2

[0] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69983...
[1] https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-80308...
Even then, newspapers either run ads without needing to know who their customers are, or solicit this information from their customers voluntarily. People like my parents don't know that a referer is involved unless it is explicitly pointed out to them.
My Prime membership has actually lapsed today when I have had it since it launched. Since then it has increased by $50, 2 day prime option seems to be unavailable for items not warehoused locally, and my shipping has changed to gig economy delivery which results in unpredictable delivery times and lost packages.

In addition Amazon has become why I stopped shopping at eBay. Unreliable products from China or outright fakes. Ironically I go to eBay now when I want some genuine tool or part as I can get it used from a US liquidator. Combine that with that I don't really care about Prime videos or "Prime exclusive offers" (which are really fake discounted Chinese goods for the most part)
Because their bosses dream up scenarios where customers will be generating config files to be used as templates, etc..., and they're just trying to solve whatever problem was put in front of them and "we'll use YAML", IME. Of course, those scenarios never play out, the thing is bastardized, some new responsibility gets created for some new role where it's their job to handle the template generation on a per customer / per site basis, and on and on we go.
I don't think you understand that my argument wasn't necessarily contrary to yours, just stating that it's certainly easier to learn a language than it is to not be blind. Both of which are unfair expectations to thrust upon anyone.
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Thanks to the Kicad team. Looking forward to designing my next pcb with it.
Are they? I mean, just recently there was a post on HN asking whether the G+ backups were necessary in the sense of creating a permanent record of everything people submit online.

Make no mistake, certain content is worth archiving, but imagine if we'd been archiving everything since our species first days.

Now we have the capability, we're obsessed that we must archive everything; how useful are the older IMDB comments really?

I dread to think how much storage is 'wasted' in these archives storing useless content, and how useful it really is to people in reality.

There are archives of every reddit comment ever made, but there are many hundreds of thousands of spam or useless comments....

I don't think the Internet needs an immutable record of every piece of content or every hyper link to preserved for the rest of time, we need to discern what's really important and throw away the rest, if not to make it easier to parse (but, since that's difficult, we just grab it all which whilst great presents its own issues in terms of required resources).
Section 508, which applies to government sites (and I think their contractors) used to have its own standards but is now aligned with WCAG 2.0 AA. Most countries have done the same.

You're never going to have standards for software as clear-cut as architectural standards for ramps and such, the factors for software are too complex. There are only a few digital accessibility standards that are very specific, like color contrast between foreground and background at particular font sizes.

There is a need for more specifics from the government in specific areas. For instance WCAG 2.0 AA says videos have to have captions but do you have to wait before making a video available until the captions are ready? If you have thousands of hours of uncaptioned video, would it be sufficient to produce captions by request with a reasonable turnaround time? TV broadcasters and DVD publishers have already had rules to follow but as video has become commonplace, regulations haven't kept up.
Interesting photo. One Q shirt and a bunch of red baseball caps. Looks like a typical guilt-by-association tactic.
There were also serious problems in many early digital (and hybrid) audio production chains. Some productions had great engineers on board who'd taken the time to learn the new tools. Others ... were varying degrees from "meh" to "disaster". For example, I have a CD that's unlistenable if you've still got your high-end hearing – there's major high-frequency artifacting. I'll bet that the mastering engineer couldn't even hear the problems.

Many people formed their critical listening opinions during this time, and came to the at-the-time logically supportable conclusion that "analog sounds better". In fact, that was just an unfortunate period of industry-wide learning curve. Much of what followed was rationalization of that early opinion, generally not backed up by the science of audio recording and production.
Yes, this is why people build in HIPPA compliant clouds like AWS... but I left that business years ago. You should always audit your third part services to see what data is sent in debug logs.
The readme is perhaps the best explanation for ray casting that I've ever read. So succinct!
I agree in regards to health care that incremental changes may be the only to achieve universal coverage.

However, the gutting of the policies by another administration is what scares me in regards to MMT. I'm not sure that incremental changes work with monetary policy. MMT in particular seems like it needs some big, systematic levers in order to actually function properly.

That being said, I'm happy to be wrong about this. MMT being viable would open a more clear path to something like universal health care.
If someone want to do it virtually - highly recommend https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378198/ , a lot of good nature views and historical facts.
I have a twin sister, twin brother talking, and unfortunately this study does not show credence for me. She's smart as a whip, in a lawyer way, as I'm more math/science. We both make six figures and both are very career focused. I had to laugh at this study...she used her words like a dagger to defend against my constant barrage of physical torture growing up. It was a very contentious relationship.
Doesn't seem very damning for Amazon that, despite your concerns, you still purchased from Amazon.
Well, seems to me like a case of having your cake and eating it too. Which would you rather have: greater choice or greater privacy?

EU chose the latter at the expense of the former.
Could be wrong, but I think India and China rail is government run.
Sadly the main complaint seems to be that wealthy pensioners who live in £1m estates have to pay.
Just replace "software developer" with "self-proclaimed software engineer" in your comment and you'd be spot-on.
Aside from storing energy from a large array in the desert, won't we still need batteries for transportation in order to get them off fossil fuels? That is, even if my house runs off nuclear and hence no batteries, wouldn't I still need one in my car, hence a lot more innovation is needed in batteries anyway (albeit drastically different types of batteries)?
> For all of human history, we've been making music and art. And for almost all of that time, it was done for love of doing, not money.

This seems wildly improbable to me? People didn't get paid for art until a few hundred years ago?

Are you suggesting artisans weren't a thing? That all the art produced globally outside of the past few hundred years was done just for love of doing?