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What you say, actually supports the original premise, that companies do depend on that one person who is the shining star.

There are hundred's of billionaires, wealthy from selling their companies. How many of them thought about building a company like SpaceX, literally putting their whole fortune on one thing, which at the time, had no clear chance of success.

There are many, not potential, but actual Elons out there. Only one has the right circumstances buoy him to the place where his visions come to fruition. And those circumstances include every factor in the spectrum, from personal traits, ideas, capabilities, etc to social, economic and cultural factors.

Almost all of technological change, one that spearheads mankind's next push into the great, is driven by people with will the size of mountains. It is their will that shakes the foundations, bull dozes the old, constructs the bigger, faster, higher new.

And Intel probably lost such a person.
All the more reason to not get worked up over including something as mundane as a TOML parser in your dependencies for a config file. So that, you know, you don't have to recompile your WM whenever you want to adjust something.
I remember reading an article years ago which explained that the reason people get eyestrain from a white background is that the monitor's brightness is set way too high. With high brightness, the monitor acts as a light shining directly at you all day. Instead, you want it to be more like paper- low light emission but still readable due to contrast. At the time, I was using dark mode heavily, but I was still having bad eye strain. I tried lowering the brightness of the monitor, and the problem went away. Since then, I've only used light mode with a low brightness setting of 30 out of 100.
I encourage people to experiment with it. Note, if you are not used to low brightness, the monitor will look incredibly dim. But your eyes will adjust quickly- mine only took a few minutes.
I think I've worn out the key caps for <Ctrl> and T on many a keyboard because of the utility of that "hidden" tool.
I believe some of the concern with Amazon is how horizontal and diversified the company is. I'm not sure if any other company has ever gone so wide as to have everything from technology to groceries.

The concern is how effectively a company like this could reinvest into their other verticals. Grocery stores are low margin. Cloud computing is one of Amazons highest profit sectors. Is it fair to smaller(smaller being relative in this case) grocers such as Meijer, Publix, or Kroger to compete against Whole Foods which is a company that can actively lose profit due to backing from other Amazon verticals such as AWS?
The GP didn't call anyone a shill, he called the group of bots shills. I don't see why we're talking about the word he chose to call the bots, not the bots themselves. He didn't attack anyone, he was referencing the high number of CCP bots found by Twitter.
People seem to keep misunderstanding the GIL. It's the Global Interpeter Lock, and it's effectively the lock around all Python objects and structures. This is necessary because Python objects have no thread ownership model, and the development team does not want per-object locks.

During any operation that does not need to modify Python objects, it is safe to unlock the GIL. Yielding control to the OS to wait on I/O is one such example, but doing heavy computation work in C (e.g. numpy) can be another.
Why not both? There are a lot of very talented technical people in the STEM world, but how many of them are good managers?

And how many of them are willing to do management? I know a lot of sharp folks who walked away from Mgmt roles because of the BS and headaches.

Someone who is a technical visionary AND can lead teams is rare and powerful. I'm guessing Keller is at least competent at driving projects, on top of any technical skillsets he brings.
I'm one of the authors of the book. Yes you're right. The book outline the transition from the "old world of BI" to the "new world of BI". If you read through the book, you'll see the biases clearly stated there:

- ELT over ETL

- Data Modeling is crucial as part of BI workflow

- Cloud DW over on-premise DW (but this depends on your org's requirements)

- SQL reporting (Redash, Metabase, Looker, Holistics) over non-SQL reporting (Tableau, Qlik)
> To my knowledge, the difference with for-profit schools is that you are essentially guaranteed a degree by enrolling and paying the tuition and fees.

A large majority of students who start at the University of Phoenix fail to graduate. The guarantee you speak of does not exist, not because the standards are high, but because the average student admitted to these universities is incapable of the work, or too disorganized to do so. There are plenty of not for profit universities who admit similar students and they don’t graduate either.
I am an author in the middle of my career. I make my living on book sales. Personally I would prefer not to gamble my survival on this airy assumption that "people would figure it out".
No, we're using Agora's API for streaming. Twitch's API works well however we want to try to keep as much in-house for the exact reason you mentioned above in controlling the viewer experience.

We'll also be implementing their Cloud Recording functionality but that's WIP.

Yes, we used Firebase to build real-time polls and ChartJS to display said data.

Not a problem, if you want to continue the thread more long-form shoot me an email -> bryant(at)dexterlearning.com

(had to post for Bryant... HN throttled his comments/responses)
With regards to my comment in a thread that got some notice [1]:

I incorrectly assumed some relationship between @rocauc and the guys behind YOLOv5 due to some shared language and diagrams, sometimes our brains jump to conclusions - sorry. Unfortunately the edit timed out before I could do much about it.

I really appreciate the follow up and the hard work that has gone in since by RoboFlow. This controversy isn't their fault and they really shouldn't get a bad rep for it - in fact their handling of the situation has been good. Maybe some more due diligence, but we're all guilty sometimes. These are the sorts of actions that earn my respect in terms of being an authoritative source.

My original comment was quite reactionary, the YOLOv5 guys have done some interesting work. We now have two new interesting approaches based on YOLOv3, I look forward to reading more about the YOLOv5 internals in the future. There was some strangeness around comments being deleted from their GitHub issues once they started getting noticed, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

With regards to naming, I really think there needs to be some clear change. YOLOv5 does not build on top of YOLOv4 in any way. I appreciate that the team was "scooped" on the name, but I don't think bumping the version number was the correct approach. It's extremely weird to people coming across this for the first time that YOLOv4 can outperform YOLOv5.

There are still some open issues to be addressed with regards to which network performs better and in which use cases, hopefully in the coming weeks it can be worked out.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480884
Maybe learn to make good ramen first. The secret is being able to help others.
>kind of thinking reminds me of biotruths, eugenics, social Darwinism, and other authoritarian concepts which seek to explain why it’s okay to have inequality between and within countries.

I don't know where to start with this comment. Perhaps you should stop grouping arguments by stereotype.

At an individual level, different people require different interventions, because they have different personalities. Some people can handle responsibility. Some people need financial motivation. Some people respond to love. Others best learn through violence or fear (I was far too smart to listen to my parents until they threatened a spanking, for example).

If you take all of these different personalities and force them to live under together under a single set of rules, regardless of whether their needs are met, they will compete, if not for resources them for social clout. It is human nature. Particularly in a universe where resources are scarce and time is short.

Though large scale human interaction has a normalizing effect, within the high dimensional space of human belief and behavior there is ample room for these same micro behaviors to be reflected by macroscale cultural trends. And, similarly, because the "ideal" form of government depends ultimately on widely varying beliefs, forcing multiple peoples with significant cultural distance will inevitably lead to inequality and clash - this is not a statement of superiority, sand though it can be used as part justification for some of the antisocial beliefs you raised, that doesn't mean it isn't untrue or that these real problems that we are seeing emerge across the world will simply go away if we ignore them. This pattern has been repeated across time and space and is an unnecessary source of unacknowledged strife in the modern world.
Since Windows 95 always better than macOS Finder (using macOS myself). Copy and Paste anyone on Mac? ;)
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Now that he no longer has to worry about being fired, Tim is freely tossing around anti-competitive trigger words that anybody who has gone through corporate training at a FAANG company should instantly recognize.

"In effect cloud computing is providing the resources that Amazon is using to crush whole sectors of the retail economy."
Er, again, the docs say "it is still possible to lose transactions even when using synchronous_mode_strict". I've talked about this with some of the Stolon folks on Twitter, and we're not exactly sure how that manifests--possibly an SI or SSI violation.
I don't think you understand. The reason this college is useless for academic purposes is nothing to do with its accreditation - it's to do with its reputation.

We know accreditation is irrelevant, as other colleges do fine with out. You can be accredited and have a reputation, or you can be not accredited and have a reputation, or you can be accredited and not have a reputation, or you can be not accredited and not have a reputation.

The two things are entirely independent.

Almost nobody (notable exception probably the government) cares if your college is accredited or not. When you say you have a Stanford degree nobody goes 'wait is that accredited?'
I didn't realize Taylor Swift's social media uses bots to manipulate other people's feeds.

I figured it was a normal situation where they blocked people and tweeted for her, do you have evidence otherwise?
Starship is a pretty radical redesign with the main goal being reusability. Everything about it is with reusability and and thus scale in mind.

A new engine was needed because while the Merlin is a great engine, it could never be reused the thousands of times Raptor is designed to be reused. You can think of engine design as the simultaneous, interdependent optimization across 10+ dimensions, but as an example of one of dimensions - Raptor uses Methane (rather than Kerosene) because it burns cleaner (does not leave residue) and can be manufactured on Mars more easily. Here's an in-depth video about Raptor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbH1ZDImaI8

The rest of the rocket is similar, in that it is done with manufacturability, reusability and scale in mind. The Falcon design could never stretch to these demands.
What's it going to do, ban it? Is there any precedent for the US permanently banning successful foreign retailers?

Even if it did, that still wouldn't stop the Chinese company taking a dominant place in the rest of the world, like Google, Facebook and Amazon do now. Which would represent a massive loss to US intelligence-gathering capabilities and soft power.
Yes but historically an anti-trust response is brought against a company that is actually using that monopoly power, and frankly "definitely able to have" is speculative. Do they have it? Are they abusing it?

I don't know but, there are two potential cases that pop up that could be such as them leveraging internal data on their third party sellers to out compete them and putting their products first in line which as we know from search carries a lot of weight for what people click.

And then there's the part where this has to be bad for consumers. Sucks for competitors but anti-trust has also historically been used when a companies practices are bad for the consumer. My life has only gotten better using Amazon services I don't know about you.

My point being is that there are things that legally could be construed as anti-competitive but I as a consumer am not hurt and third party sellers and other competitors generally speaking and in my opinion, suck. I'm not in the business of breaking up companies simply because they're better.
If you study the International Bacalaureat (IB), a high school curriculum taught around the world that is based on the French system, you are required to study Theory of Knowledge; effectively an introduction to philosophy.
4chan certainly doesn't have a consensus, but it sure does have some reliable patterns
>> I don't have that much faith in scientists.

well I guess you have faith or dogma to fall back on, then. Safe travels!
Hm, you are right!
> Completely overrun by homelessness and drug addiction

I lived in capitol hill for a decade, 3 blocks from CHAZ, and recently moved a mile away. The city is not even remotely overrun with homelessness.

Sure, there are people without homes. Do they seriously impact the lifestyle of others? Hardly at all.

This characterization of the Puget Sound feels way out of touch to me. It's a wonderful place to live.
During the precambrian era of the internet , when valuations were still small , companies like amazon and their competitors could get away with a lot , from bad security to piracy, to counterfeits, to fraud. back then metallica were the baddies and napster the good guys, today it would be the opposite. No amount of government intervention will change the monopolistic nature of the Single Market of the internet. What could enable competition is deregulation
Is assumption here that if you are a technical enthusiast and read this site, you have to support whatever leftist phenomenon is happening? This has nothing to do with technology at all.
> Granted, I use it too. Both my terminal and editor have dark themes. I’m not really sure why. The terminal isn’t really a big deal to me. I could go either way there. But I’ve just never found a lighter color theme that wasn’t offensive in an editor. I always try them for a bit and end up switching back.

I spent ages hunting for a VSCode theme that wasn't just a blob of undifferentiated white. Turns out, now light themes are designed as dark themes first, flipped and just generally obey the rules of dark themes (eg. color pops out a ton in dark mode, it's a much more balanced part of the UI in a positive polarity environment and can be used more liberally).

We used to just design UIs, and most of what people started calling light themes were actually just "normal, not trying to be obsessively dark UI design". Normal UI design has really wide latitude to use a lot of stuff, dark theme is a much more narrow, specific philosophy in comparison. Take a look at eg. Office apps. The default "light" theme isn't super white, it's called "Colorful", is colorful, and it looks great. It just does what looks good without trying to be especially light or dark and surprise surprise, it works.

What did I end up with? Visual Studio Blue. All the different UI things are various very distinct shades of blue so the app has a characterful look and the UI elements are clearly differentiated, and the background has a slightly yellow hue to it. Does it look a little early 2000s-y? Yes. But it works.
This is exactly why we started out writing this book. We actually spoke with a lot of customers, and a fair share of them sharing the same thing: They found a lot of how-to on the web, but none of which is comprehensive, and goes deep into the "why" and the "history" of BI.
Python 3 is a great example of "picking and configuring existing software". If it's not in the standard library, it's on PyPI. A lot of my Python code is just gluing together high-level functionality from various libraries. It's beautiful.

You can complain about this or that aspect of language design, but then you also have to look at what a clusterfuck of historical accidents C and C++ are.

Like what you like, but at least be correct about why you like what you like (and why you don't like what you don't like).
500 billionaires in a country of 330 million people?

What do you think rare is, then?

I'd argue that wealth is step 1, but step 2 is a willingness to gamble that wealth, to lose it, and to hustle.
64% of Americans oppose 'defund the police' movement, key goals: POLL
Supporters state the exertion is planned for changing the job of law implementation in networks in America following innumerable passings of African Americans in police care.
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> Isn’t that not-permitted in intellectual jobs?

Says who? Only the piece of paper you signed between you and your previous company and others who do the same. It's not even legal in most of the world for companies to ask that of an employee. It's a shame people like you have been brainwashed into thinking it's normal. It simply isn't and you should expect better of your employers.
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I absolutely knew the lease ended in August. There was no notification, until yesterday, that my home had already been rented out. I also had the intention to renew said lease, but it's all up in the air at this point.
Yea one of my best friends has two fully automatics. He needed to get permits signed by the local sheriff and both of them cost more than his truck. He's a collector and likes shooting WWI and WWII era guns.

But yea, legal fully automatic weapons are not cheap.
What you’re arguing is “monopolies are OK because China does it”.

So what happens if China gets more powerful because they’re authoritarian? Does that mean US authoritarianism is OK if it keeps the US #1?

It’s a slippery slope and I’m not on board.
Even if it banned the company from America, it couldn't stop it spreading overseas. Like TikTok, which is already eating Facebook and Instagram's lunch.
I like toolbars for quick, frequent-but-not-that-much actions, like exporting to a pdf in LibreOffice.

But I also like menu bars, as those give you some shortcuts if you often use a functionality. As an example, and since I type this into Firefox right now, after glancing at the menus, Alt+V,Y,N disables the page stylesheets, Alt+T,S synchronizes the account, etc.
I'd start with reading any digital strategy or any published company's strategy. That will give you a sense of where the customer is and where they want to move to. The strategy will also help you cross sell your services to your customers.

If you are planning to work with the customer for a long period, please read about their vision and mission. You want to align your projects according to what the customer wants.
Musk figures we need to ship a million tonnes of cargo to Mars colonize it. An upgraded Falcon would cost too much.

The Starship design decisions all come from that goal.

- big

- rapidly and fully reusable

- fuel that can be synthesized on Mars
Personally, I've seen a lot more 'for sale' signs in my neighborhood recently, though their prices seem to be about what they were before the pandemic. Zillow says that things a good around here and these are normal summer sales, but it feels off to me.
I agree. I'm a CS major and am forced to take a class on history. The class is entirely online and the teacher doesn't seem to really care one bit. The entire class is just random quizzes that can easily be googled/ Just follow along on quizlet.

I have two options; Read the super boring textbook for 5 hours, take the test legit and get an 80% or I quizlett the test get 100% and spend the next 5 hours listening to Dan Carlins "Hardcore History" Podcast which i find much more informative and enjoyable.
There’s a lot experimental software that never stops crashing.
Wasn't it the police who abandoned this area in the first place?

The impression I'm getting from this and other events from the past weeks is that the police would like us to believe that without them, society turns to chaos, but in practice, US police turns out to be a major source of chaos, and without them things often turn much more peaceful.

I'm not saying there should be no police at all, but that police should work with the community, instead of trying to dominate it.
"HA in Postgres" does not have a very well-defined meaning. The Postgres documentation provides an overview of different viable solutions: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/different-replication-sol... with features and drawbacks for each. But to call it "extremely painful" seems to be a bit overstated.
for local services like databases, real world benchmarks disagree.
Because the government and specific worker unions have different, though not necessarily competing, objectives.
Some of them have now been built in real life!

https://www.behance.net/gallery/77793195/Velocipedia-IRL
Yeah, I think I have a relatively poor visual imagination, but when I try to picture a specific object it's probably ~10% as vivid as actually glancing at it. When I try to recall a smell, it's probably more like 20% as vivid as smelling it.
Considering the whole content of the article I'm sure this is exactly what they also tried to mean. Also, "once starship prototypes are done exploding" means a huge step because they can then focus totally on making things to scale and even higher/better/faster, it sounds like a great safety and engineering milestone and I didn't read it as a derogatory thing at all, it's just how rockets are... full of explosive fuel.
> If not, this guy planned the whole thing as his escape from the car burning bit and new career as a psychiatrist with shady credentials.

Psychiatrists are medical doctors, and the rules on who gets to practice in the US are for practical purposes written by the AMA. That guy was not a licensed psychiatrist. He wouldn’t even be allowed to sit the first levels of the requisite exams.
Except that you can regulate those Chinese companies easily when they become a problem. Just force them to split or face high import taxes, job done.
> "Why on earth should [..] all be conglomerated into one corporate entity controlled by one person?"

> Because they built it.

This is an entirely fictional idea.

Consider who this language serves. Bezos started the company, but how does it make sense to say he “built” all of the businesses mentioned? They were built by many thousands of people, but they barely own what they created.

Bezos has abused his position as founder to capitalize on their work. If he hadn’t started the company, these people would still have found ways to build things, perhaps even under less heinous conditions.