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I have my doubts Apple (or Tim Cook) is going to end up being taken down for committing perjury. But these Congresspeople will be making recommendations and/or introducing bills on regulating these companies, and my guess is that their distaste for being lied to may tinge their attitudes as they legislate.
Same here, I didn't really get the end, if there's anything at all to get. It was a good read though.
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That's very new. Until recently all you got was an excuse that it doesn't work and a suggestion to use Apple Music instead. It doesn't work on my HomePod yet.
> I specifically said Blender is not widely used in AAA game productions

This tells me you may not have been keeping as close tabs on industry practices. I can tell you personally, this has been rapidly changing over the past few years, and it's taken a lot of people by surprise. I can't say it's supplanted Maya yet by any means, but that software's quickly being seen as old-hat by each new wave of gamedevs. It's fascinating to see.
Optimizing for the rarest of scenarios - that you're going to hire the bestest engineers in all the worlds - is silly and foolish.

It's not negative. It's pragmatic. If you even happen to just encounter one of those people (they're rare by definition) then do what you can to hire them, but the truth is that the vast majority of companies producing software wouldn't even know what to do with them if they could attract them.

Stable, predictable, performance has a ton of value too - and you get a lot of that from 'regular' developers.
Have you looked into the Amazon Kindle Self-Publishing option?[1]

[1]https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
Any app that the majority of cyclists are using will win this battle. It's easy to map known bike trails, what's difficult is mapping a good road to bike on. There's so many factors that go into this, but the best and easiest way to get this data seems to be tracking what roads most cyclists are riding. This is exactly why strava heat map is the best for route planning IMHO. You can travel to any area and look at the heatmap surrounding you and instantly have an idea of what roads are heavy cycled.
I'd make the case that fish sauces were independently developed by different cultures.

You can but you'd be... making a wild guess basically.

Fish sauce is very simple. You only need two ingredients: fish and salt.

And most likely... skimming the rest of the article, which does not claim that the Asian societies would not have invented the "some version of fish sauce" on their own.

What the article bases its case on is the invention of a specific kind of fish sauce:

Acclaimed chef Peter Cuong Franklin, owner of Anan Restaurant and Nhau Nhau Bar in Ho Chi Minh City, believes nuoc mam “may trace its origin back to garum” given that the Vietnamese version is also made by interleaving layers of anchovies with sea salt and letting it ferment in wood or ceramic containers for about 12 months.

It's the specificity of the invention which leads merit to the idea -- along with linguistic cues -- that it may have been imported (or perhaps hybridized with an imported invention).

Not a proven case of course - but worth taking seriously.
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It's a pity that the Feynman diagram at the top is not the diagram of the disintegration they are discussing. IIUC this are the correct diagram https://www.caen.it/na62-spots-two-potential-instances-of-ra... .

The Kaon disintegrates into a Pion, a neutrino and an antineutrino. This process is rare because you need two virtual Z or W particles in the intermediate steps of the decay.
so 1/3 of their life on the ground?
I'd say they are about equal, the current croup has gone unchecked way longer though

way too big way too consolidated and suffocating to innovation and progress;

now this sounds like gibberish but at the end of the day things are a lot less 'dynamic', 'fluid' and 'creative' because of their current positions.. yeah there are still alternatives but they are vanishing and almost just allowed exist at the whims of the current leaders; fuck most of our current 'technology' is what it is because it's what serves amazon,google,facebook,apple,microsoft the best

it's great for them and their businesses bad for the nation and we really should be thinking about the nation
My experience has been that all the banks that gave me cards were diligent in verifying suspicious transactions, often erring on the side of caution and asking for confirmation. Also, they don’t tend to argue much before refunding an illegal transaction.

So, from my point of view, it could certainly be improved (along the lines of what Apple Pay is doing with tokenisation: confidentiality is an issue), but there is no real reason to complain.

As long as fraudulent transactions are rare enough that the banks don’t drag their feet, it’s fine.
> … Controlled Digital Lending program, which is a thing most US libraries already do …

No, what most libraries do is buy separate (and more expensive, and more restricted) licenses for lendable digital copies of certain works–not everything in their archives is available digitally. The IA's pre-COVID CDL program represented a significant step forward in terms of treating 1:1 digital lending of scans of physical works as equivalent to physical lending.

> … National "Emergency Library" which was uncontrolled lending …

The controversy is primarily over the mostly controlled National Emergency Library, which wasn't quite as controlled as what they were doing before but still had DRM and limits on the duration of the lending. Some few works may have had more copies checked out at a time than the IA had physical copies in their inventory, yes. Consider this an example of time-shifting. The borrower doesn't get to keep the copy, they just get it a bit earlier without waiting in line. On the whole I'm certain the average number of copies per work would have been much less than one, even without considering physical copies languishing in other libraries that were inaccessible due to COVID.

This case, however, is objecting to both the NEL and the previous CDL program. The IA is obviously going to focus on the claims regarding CDL, where they have a stronger defense, while the publishers' propaganda is all about the NEL since that wins them more sympathy.
You have the right to refund not the right to sale, which is what banning fraudulent transactions is.
Where did the idea come from that studying music was meant to make kids smart? I don't see the presumed connection. Not everything we learn is meant to increase our cognitive abilities. Schools teach music to product more well-rounded individuals, not to make them smarter. Schools are something more than IQ factories.
That act (verb/adjective) would be “collusion”, “fixing” (like prices), etc., and the companies called a cartel (noun). It is anti-competitive behavior because it reduces or eliminates free market competition, and is illegal (or at least subject to government scrutiny) in most countries.
EDIT: Aaaaand it's gone! That was a neat few minutes.

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EDIT: I've found a persons Resume which sheds some more light into this tool. It's meant for instant A/B testing.

https://simranj3.github.io/facebook.html

A "universe" is a string like "android_modal_typeahead", an experiment name is something like "experiment_name_1", and I'm not sure what "groups" are. Seemingly ties into some backend tool, so hopefully there isn't too much havoc one could cause.

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This is the only mention I could find about quick experiments. It's from September 2018. It's a developer tool.

> I kinda wanted to talk about what happens after you roll out a feature. Now your feature’s there, but you wanna tweak it. You wanna see, can you make it better. So, for example, quick … so our tool is called Quick Experiment and it’s really used to launch experiments really quickly so developers don’t have to do… write too much code or worry about how to analyze these experiments and it works across the board, across all our platforms. So you don’t have to write experiments for each platform separately and at any given time, thousand is probably a low-balling figure, we have tens of thousands of experiments running on Facebook, so that’s kind of why if you look at the combination of those, not any two people will probably have a different Facebook experience.

> So for example, this is just the title of News Feed. You can see all the different variations we’ve tried and we use this to really inform us on how to get to … what the feature was really designed to do. Either retention or user engagement or kind of just … getting a person to go click on that bar. And in this case that actually is a search bar as well so when you click on it, it turns to a search bar. So these are all the different treatments we had for it.
> You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

This is a perspective of very work-centric lifestyle. That's not for everybody.

Ditto for city life. I live in a city for my career. Now that remote work is more normal, I can live the life I actually want.
Agree. Thanks for providing the context, I have not been watching the hearings live.
I use https://knowherenews.com/
they present both sides to most topics.
I run a 30TB MySql server on EC2. We raid 0 multiple EBS volumes for space and iops.

It is completely unmanageable - I inherited it. We’re moving data out, but slowly. This DB houses PII for tens of millions of users.
Oh come on, the App Store is overflowing with Apps. The amount of options on there is overwhelming. If anything there’s too much competition and too many apps, driving down the prices companies can charge for premium products due to oversupply.

And don’t tell me that’s Apples fault as well, because the 30% on low prices makes businesses unsustainable. Which is it, does the 30% discourage companies from participating, or does the App Store 30% and all enable too much competition for premium apps. It can’t be both.
Super insightful read, and this also read like an actual interview, which I rarely find when companies do this.

Biggest takeaway from Kleinman: "By taking real ownership over the decisions we make, while understanding that not everything is within our control. It creates a positive bias toward action with a real and justified self-defense mechanism for when things don't go as planned."
"We treat everyone the same. Everyone is equally allowed to use their position as a trillion dollar business to negotiate a deal."
Worry less about emotions; be pragmatic and focus on goals and outcomes.
Yeah, that’s only a ratio of 14600 days per day. That’s 21 million 1 minute videos a day, which is a tiny slice of the population of the planet giving a brief glimpse.
Piano helped me incredibly as an emotional outlet, I wasn't good and can't really play anything without music, but it gave me a tool for cathartic expression.

That might have helped with school studies and such?
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Because you can often get iPhones for <$100 or even free if you get one a couple generations old and sign a 2-year contract. Why do people still use "iPhones" as some sort of litmus test to judge if someone is poor?

And Netflix is $9/month. C'mon now.
All the porn companies have innocuous real company names like WebClicks or Vintara - nothing that would set off alarms on a resume.

Pay was generally well above average to counteract the adult nature of the work.
It might not have been Amazon but HBO. This story related to the Apple TV was in 2015.

https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/11561392/how-to-beat-apples-30...
> They could very easily make a policy that is difficult for google to enforce, and completely impossible for a smaller player to even contemplate.

You can't fight fire with fire and you can't fight scale with scale. The solution to these problems lies in eliminating the advantages of scale so that operating on a national or international level becomes an expensive liability, but competing on a local market is affordable and practical.

Companies in the US and China, for example, can scale immensely because they have such huge, single markets in which to mature. They pay a one-time cost per entry and then have no real obstacles from expanding to the full capacity of that market.

I don't know much about how the EU works in this regard, but I imagine it's much more difficult for a European company to reach the full European market. Aside from legal obstacles, they have to face barriers from language, culture, history, and other things, I'm sure. It's an ideal setup for a collection of small-scale operations in a healthy market... Or it would be, if US and Chinese companies weren't able to scale so easily and then expand out of their own borders into the EU.

I tend to wonder if there are ways to bring similar barriers to the US. There aren't enough natural barriers, but perhaps we could create artificial barriers that will re-enable competition.
Thank you! I clicked all the links on the page and still had no idea what SAT or the SAT Competition was!
> It also invented PC.

No. Personal computers were around for quite a while before IBM decided to enter the market (with a not very good and very expensive machine, I should add).

The PC mantle probably goes to Processor Technology, or maybe someone a little earlier. I'm counting 8-bit chipsets, the date gets pushed back a LOT farther if you're talking PDP-8s or earlier systems (much less commonly available to the public). Or you could take it forward to 1977/78 and give the title to Apple.

But it's definitely not IBM.
>Plague of Justinian: the bubonic plague's first-known visit to Europe, in 541 CE. The first wave of plague killed 20 percent of the population of Constantinople. Infection also devastated the trade port of Alexandria. Over the next 160 years, wave after wave of plague may have carried away up to half the population of the Byzantine Empire.

Imagine looking at a crowd and 1/5 to 1/2 of everyone is just gone.
> The comparisons of crypto that he makes to frontier banks are interesting but IMHO profoundly misguided. Crypto is not a fad; it is here to stay

By comparing cryptocurrencies to wildcat banks, he was not making a statement about cryptocurrency's longevity but about its utility.

Money laundering and child pornography are not fads, and for those two reasons alone there will probably always be value in non-fiat currencies that preserve the user's anonymity. That does not make cryptocurrency something any community or individual should want a long-term association with.
Actually if you think differently it’s better. This is like diverse team skills. If you are the same what difference does you bring to the team?
I wouldn't. I want to live in a civilized society, not some Mad Max movie.

If someone needs to be punished, or even killed, it needs to be done under the legitimate auspices of the legal system.
HomePod support for third party music services was just announced this year.
SS-Sturmbannführer. About the same as a Major. Yes, in the SS.

I may be the only one who giggles when driving past the Werner von Braun Center on Redstone Arsenal. It a very attractive, very new part of Army Missile Command.
I'm pretty sure these hearing are almost entirely theater and there's basically no chance Tim Cook gets personally charged with a crime. But, these statements can have large second and third order effects. The worse the tech CEOs and their companies look, the more political will there will be for passing significant legislation that affects them.
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I have a subjective and still esoteric(be warned) theory about attention span.
As someone who have learned to play an instrument at my early teens, i've learned that to be actually good at something, you need to learn to deal with the primary discomfort feeling.
You are learning to fighting your natural 'cavemen nature', the more primitive parts of your brain that are more inclined to satisfying immediate pleasures.
As i've said, is a subjetive observation, but in my experience at least, people that tend to have lower quality results in what they do, apparently have lower 'attention spans'.
Their effort to concentrate into something is faster, and if you see a puppy dog, or a cat, or even a human baby, you can see they are distracted easily, jumping from one subject to another very fast.

Now if we think about humans that we regard the most, like Newton, Beethoven, Einstein, Curie, Rodin, etc..

The research or the product of their labor require a very big attention span, as in, they need to meditate over long periods of time on the same subject.

Now, getting back to the point, i've learned that things like learning a musical instrument, programming, learning some math, or reading classics, helped me into acquiring long attention spans, resulting in a improvement on the quality of my thoughts, ideas and products of the thinking process.

Maybe just learning music alone wont prove anything, but i bet that if you mix the right kind of activities, you can have at least, a starting point to sophisticated human beings.
+100

Gallileo isn't relevant in this context at all.
If we're going for some armchair philosophy (with added tinfoil hat) - I agree with all your points. I'll also claim that language developed from vocalisations because humans are excellent at mimicking the sounds they hear around them, and they developed this mimicking ability mainly to impress members of the other sex and, well, the rest is history.

Totally unprovable, of course.
Coming from a country where your address and social security number are basically publicly-available information (so of course neither are used for anything sensitive), it took me some time to understand the fuss Americans tend to make about SSNs...
> After all, the only difference is the cost.

Hum... No, on the case of paying everybody (with increased taxes) or just the poor there is no difference in cost or total distributed.

What you do lose is the hability to focus your help into an specific group. Every UBI proponent will tell you this is a positive, because governments just suck at this, but it's a very powerful politic tool.
Yes, there were multiple firewall layers. Also, services were not accessed from outside the corporate network.
Geovelo is indeed very practical in Paris! Well made and provides choice between "secure" and "fast" journeys, it also show how many % of the proposed paths are protected bike lanes and has shared information on hazards on the road!
A lot of that low-effort, spammy content could be deleted simply for being, yknow, spammy. Or even for promoting outright scams. Political videos are a rather small niche ultimately, there's a lot on there that's just crap.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispa...

I was running while listening...

The US president negotiating the terms of Germany's WW1 surrender/repayments was trying to get a fairer deal, and France's president was negotiating for German punishment. In the days long negotiations, the US president fell ill (possibly with Spanish Flu), and was much weaker/combative when he returned to the negotiating table. Maybe if the flu hadn't hit him, Germany would have gotten a fairer deal and not felt unfairly treated which was a cause of WW2.

Also India's rebellion from the British was during that time, the British suppressing the rebellion's and the added pressures from the flu ravaging their country helped move that process along.

I wonder if the same could be said about the George Floyd protests. Part of it was the timing of everyone being off work/unemployed and having the time to go protest.
That’s very recent...and still no standalone Watch support at least as of April.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Apple-Watch...
My experience has been the CPT codes change a lot once the procedure is complete. I even had an estimate for a surgery at $1800, but the final bill (including everything like anesthesia), heavily discounted because I'm in a healthshare (not considered insurance), came out to ~$10k (instead of ~$18k without the discount). Nothing went wrong/crazy in the surgery--and it was a fairly standard one. Once I paid the 10k, several months later I got ~$600 back saying I'd over paid, but they didn't include an explanation.

Hospital pricing is a strange beast.
That's why I'd like the definition to be refined. There's also displays of intelligence that have nothing to do with change - being able to do complex math in your head would indicate you're intelligent, but has nothing to do with change.
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That could be because the massive viewership driving the trending videos, e.g. music, make up and dood perfect, seem to be younger than those who might be browsing HN.

I've had the app on my phone for over a decade and I share your sentiment with trending vids, but there is a lot of excellent content that would not exist without youtube. The recommendation algo is pretty good these days.
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Yes, it's on my todos, will make it in this week!
Google Maps in Oakland took me straight up Fruitvale headed east....which, if you've ever biked it, is a disaster. Yes, it's a "bike lane", but it's shared with cars and suuuuper busy.

Google should be smart enough to know that there is co-mingled car/bike traffic and safely route my bike away from the cars.
The sun, daily mail, Fox News are “lesser known”? Not to mention tons of other stuff I’m too afraid to even checkout. Low quality and fake news is not diversity.
This is not a site where people are well educated and informed.

This is a site full of arrogant ignoramuses who like capitalism, technology, and white supremacy. Nothing more. If you had put it on a pedestal that was your own personal error, and you should simply stop being an idiot, instead of spouting nonsense about a post-truth era.
I never asked for procedure codes and it’s possible that since Obamacare, health care has gotten so bureaucratic and regulated that it’s no longer possible to do what I did.

I never dealt with “procedure codes” and we didn’t have insurance. I just called the doctors office after finding out surgery was needed but before it was scheduled to get a cash estimate for the procedure and negotiate the price, and we made a deal, and then during one of the pre-op consults the doctor herself gave us a new written estimate with even more of a discount.

For a different procedure, a different surgeon just gave us an estimate based on the insurance rate and when I asked if he could do more, he just said, “well if you do XYZ for the rest of your life you could just not have the surgery” and walked away like a rock star. Which is fine, hilarious in retrospect, but the insurance rate was enough of a discount and his point was valid.
Did you have insurance? If you do not, they're a lot more willing to negotiate.
I don't believe that's true. For instance, banking and electricity are highly regulated markets, and rightly so. In this cases, I think it is obviously critical for the government to draw expertise from the right sources
This course from carnegie mellon university has recorded lectures you can watch and extensive notes which will give you a crash course in the applied math needed like a linear algebra crash course, probability http://www.datasciencecourse.org/lectures/ but of course these are just scratching the surface and you can get as advanced as you want like https://mml-book.github.io/
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