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>3/ Cannibalize yourself. Steve Kessel was running Amazon’s media business in 2004 (books/music/DVD’s). Books alone generated more than 50% of Amazon’s cash flow. Jeff fired Steve from his job and reassigned him to build Kindle. Steve’s new mission: destroy his old business.

- In 2015 Amazon's free cash flow was $529M [1], printed books contributed ~$250M to that

- In 2019 total ebook revenue in the United States $983.3M (overall and not only Amazon's). [2]

Was Kindle 'distraction' worth it? I love Kindle and eBooks but did Bezos really make the right call when Amazon was just about beginning to recover from the severe dotcom crash?

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/free-c...

[2]https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/ebook-revenu...
I don't think Tesla is truly anti-lidar, per se. In fact, I think if it was a practical technology they would add it to their toolbox.

But it's not practical. Lidar is currently EXTREMELY expensive.

And visual is better. It sees everything in all directions, and 99% of the same depth information lidar provides can be determined by two images separated in time.

As to safety, putting a bunch of inexpensive cameras on a car people can afford is way better than doubling the price of a car and making it unaffordable, just for some theoretical benefit beyond visual.

(teslas already have radar, long-range sonar and 8 cameras)
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Maybe it was a Remarkable [1] ? A new version is coming out soon.

[1] https://remarkable.com
Nah. It’s a waste of space and weight. Touch screen trumps it.
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I encountered this a while ago, and it's still astonishing that it's possible to hear such different things.

"Brain" and "green" are so similar that mistaking one for the other is not interesting. The really interesting pair is "storm" and "needle" — they seem wildly different.

I think what's going on is that the "ee" vowel sound and the hissing sound of an "s" both have a lot of high frequencies. It might be that an "ee" from a high-pitched speaker sounds similar to an "s" from a lower-pitched speaker, so the interpretation depends on what you infer the speaker's vocal frequency range to be.

And then when you notice that "needle" and "needo" sound almost the same, the "o" in "storm" is not that much of a stretch. "eedle" ~= "eeto" ~= "sto".
Can you rephrase or restate your point? It's really hard to understand..
Or even being able to afford the car with safety features in the first place.
Dan Luu has some insight into it:

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

Apparently, Kindles are the worst in the terms of input latency and performance, but then this is also expected given their specification and the price point.
Open Source really became a religion, and every acolyte believes in their heart that non-FOSS is evil. Total newb flavored koolaid. It's not like I am advocating against FOSS, or open source, I am simply drawing a line where it matters and where it doesn't, for me.
I mean that if you visit [0] to see the translated version through google, JS throws errors: the sidebar won't render, search won't work and pretty much everything which needs JS doesn't respond. Using the in-place translate doesn't have that issue.

About the search part, imagine that in busy days we'll have at most 2-3K active deals, therefore Postgres can do the job really fine with that amount of data. Elastic search was in the table but I think it would be overkill for my use case. Also by having 100% indexable queries performance impact is small. PG provides a lot of goodies to get the job done.

You can try to play with it, just type an english word in the search bar eg "game" and then "geme"

[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=el&tl=en&u=https%3...

[1] https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell
The whiteness of Jews is certainly not a settled topic. You’ll find Jews with varying opinions on this, white supremacists generally don’t consider them to be white, and neither do those who support the “social justice” political ideologies.

The reason it confounds so many people so much is because Jews are known to be a historically oppressed people (despite exceed statistical averages for life outcomes so consistently), and white people cannot be oppressed, because they are the people who do the oppression!

In reality these contradictions only serve to highlight how stupid (and racist) it is to make those sorts of generalizations. Categorizing people by skin color is especially stupid, because the larger a group becomes, the less homogenous it becomes, and the less merit the generalizations have. Scottish, Irish and English people are all white, yet two of those groups have a rather long history of particularly horrific oppression at the hands of the 3rd. When should we start discussing reparations for the highland clearances? Should Dan Castellaneta resign from his role on The Simpson’s for so blatantly reinforcing a negative racial stereotype? Is Elon Musk America’s wealthiest African American? How much oppression does a brown-skinned African American have in common with a brown-skinned Indian immigrant?

The reason those questions sound so stupid is because the world is actually full of roughly 7.5 billion individual people, who all have their own individual circumstances, views and life experiences, and the more you try and group them together, the further you drift from reality. Especially if you’re trying to group them together for the purposes of holding some form of racial prejudice.
When they gave him the foam 8 he didn't recognize it and they speculated it was because the brain prioritised sight over the sense of touch. Surely they tried the same experiment after asking him to close his eyes first?
It means you can read the source. It doesn't mean it has to be free. That would be FOSS. And nothing has more convoluted multi-meanings than FREE, so your argument about "common meaning" is dead wrong. Also, trying to enforce universal meaning, like enforcing universal ideals, is patently retarding. FOH!
Idk, I can put all the books I have ever owned on it and read them, that's what it's supposed to do and it does it for 80 bucks. 99.99% of my time on the Kindle is spent reading a book, not fiddling with menus or on the home page.

On top of that they're well made and the battery lasts forever, i can't complain at all.
the problem with this framing of equality is that you forget some outcomes ARE opportunities. opportunities compound, throughout lifetimes.

affirmative action hiring is "two wrongs make a right" type thinking. it's not ideal. doesn't mean its better than the alternative, which is "oh let's just fix every injustice in society". won't see that in our lifetime, won't see that in 100 lifetimes.

what if equality of opportunity STARTS with mildly rebalancing equality of outcome?
OP here, I didn't phrase that right. It was meant along the lines of "Look at all these mechanical linkages, its all replaced by relay logic now-a-days". Indeed, a SoC + PMIC and a few stray bypass caps will replace the whole motherboard - that's a great thing.

It's sort of like appreciating old timers for doing what they had to do with the tools they had at the time - how NES game developers had 40KB of space to fit their game in which lead to some incredible resourceful hacks [1]. Obviously, today's game engines are "better" in every metric possible if by "better" we measure those metrics as higher/faster/easier == better. There is also a fascinating reason why a game engine like Pico8 [2] exists when we have almost unlimited compute/storage resources and if everything was "better" in the modern age :)

OP does have nostalgia, otherwise why would he purchase old useless gadgets? ;)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213840
[2] https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
It has a web browser. It’s just so slow.
I agree with local and UTC, as long as both are there. Local is useful for locals, but the audience of a landing is pretty much global.
This needs more downvotes.
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> There is also the fact that stakes are just plain lower, things like Zwift are mostly about fun, getting into shape, and competitions to the extent that competition helps some people with A & B. It's not like there are massive cash prizes and sponsorships and so forth on the line in the same way the pro sports has.

There's have been at least 2 deaths related to use of Strava and probably many unreported near misses, all to have your name at the top of a list on a system you have to pay to use [1]. Cheating is widespread in any online game that has a decent audience, often for no discernable benefit. Humans are not rational, especially when it comes to competition.

[1] https://www.velonews.com/news/road/family-sues-strava-over-d...
You only need to be able to reach about a 1/3 of the way over the screen to tap the part that changes to the next page. Takes a little time to get used to but I read left handed all the time.
Is t the same for resources used on the client side, on mobile in particular?
> Almost every project I have worked on has went out of its way to maintain a good history.

I don't think that's true of even a majority of projects. Apart from anything else, you would need to separate code that is redistributable and code that is not, and presumably scrub them from the history. On some VCS, that is not trivial at all. Also, the history is likely much less clean than you're making it out to be. The history of Main in trunk based development is likely to be a gigantic pile of nonsense in my experience.
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A good model for this is the HID protocol for "human interface devices". This supports keyboards, mice, joysticks, game controllers, etc. over USB. It's simple enough to be used by very basic devices, and descriptive enough to extend to most control-like devices.

Most home automation stuff doesn't have that big a command vocabulary.
I used it initially for sometime but then slowly fell back to the iPad. I mean the comparison between an iPad and Kindle/Remarkable isn’t fair, but if a tablet is the go-to form-factor for books and note-taking, I’d stick to the iPad.
If Sony then perhaps this: Sony DPT-RP1/B 13” Digital Paper https://www.amazon.com/Sony-DPT-RP1-13-Digital-Paper/dp/B072...

reMarkable would perhaps fall in the same category (eInk readers which are miles ahead of Kindle) https://remarkable.com/
Does "risk avoidance" mean they have to act on the data?
In a blog post a few years ago they explained they could have fitted all 3000+ Req/s in a single server, but its ~99% percentile would have been ~100ms+. So in the name of performance and sub 20ms rendering time they decided to it with more servers.
Asus sold the laptop with Windows 7 support as well, the drivers kept being updated up to Windows 8.1, and thanks to Windows driver ABI, those drivers work perfectly fine in Windows 10.

No need to throw a perfectly working laptop to enjoy the DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 capabilities that it was sold for.
I don't get it, all I can hear is some noise followed by 'brain storm'.
Related, I wonder if there's going to be a postmortem on this mission on the UI, because from the brief scenes when its shown updating or being clicked on, it looks to have a responsiveness on the order of half a second.
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Oh man, I wonder what he pictured in his head if he tried to picture an 8 instead of read one? Nothing? Squiggles? Headache?

Honestly, I could ask a billion more questions about this situation. So fascinating.
There is a difference between “low level” and “human specific”. Faces are highly complex geometrically, while numbers, such as 8, are simple. Animals sure can recognise simple shapes (https://docsmith.co/2007/01/can-animals-recognize-shapes/), but they cannot endow them with abstract meanings, such as "number 8". The person in the article lost the basic ability of recognising very simple shapes while still being able to recognise more complex shapes, like faces, and to operate with abstract concepts.
My university login was a pseudonym. Sure, you could have tried to get my real name from the admins, but it would have taken at least some effort.

Moreover, online forums (remember phpBB?) were overwhelmingly pseudonymous on practice.
Depends on the company - in a company like Amazon where Jeff is constantly pushing the envelope - standing still is the best recipe for falling behind. And you can see a hint of this happening in the article itself - the person running Books is given the reward of commoditizing Books as the reward of doing a great job of running Books. All the glory is in delivering new bigger and better things to Jeff, not in incrementally delivering 10% year over year improvements on an existing problem. In fact in such companies it can become difficult for managers to attract and retain ambitious talent to work on "incremental" things.
- Ebooks are the most important invention of the XXIth century.

- Jeff Bezos is a God.

- A bunch of weird corporate tactics worked for us at the time so they are lessons on how to make a successful product.
> For decades, China has blocked U.S. companies from fair competition, reneged on trade deals when it suits them, backed out of industrial partnerships after extracting the IP it deems useful, and generally been a bad trade partner.

I am not passing any value judgement here but USA has done exact same things to other countries from time to time when it suited them. I am not saying USA should not react to China's hostilities but USA must acknowledge that its traditional approach of arm twisting does not work anymore with China.

There are several trade-offs USA needs to consider while banning Tiktok. The major one being of precedent and slippery slope. USA needs to either demonstrate some evidence of harm from Tiktok and ban it on national security grounds or be explicit that this is purely to hurt China and Tiktok is being targeted because it is a successful Chinese company.
It's not clear that he actually has this power. He's known to misstate things.

Also, according to the Supreme Court, SAP, Volkswagen, and Sony are entitled to due process under our Constitution. Courts make a distinction between (1) public or privately-owned enterprises, (2) state-owned enterprises that function independently of the state, and (3) state-owned enterprises that function as the alter ego of the foreign state.

Companies in the first two categories are entitled to due process under the U.S. Constitution. When it comes to China, there is a blurry line between companies and the CCP, so it's not clear where they fall here.
Please, do tell, how long have you been writing "open source" and how much of your source is really open, and how much of that open source has anybody read?

You know what replaces open source? Trusted source. Not the source code, but the source of the code. I will gladly use code by somebody I trust, without looking, because ultimately I can't read every line, and nobody who preaches open source actually does read every line.

If you preach open source, or FOSS, but don't read and understand every line of code you use, you are a hypocrite.
1) The ISS is in LEO. Calling it space is absurd.

2) The ISS should have been deorbited years ago.

3) NASA is not for your personal entertainment. Go watch NASCAR if you need a thrill.
It’s not open source. It’s “visible source”. CC NC license which is basically asking the community to do free work with nothing in return.
I assume OP s point is that unsoundness or UB in an unsafe block is not contained in that block, but can taint safe code anywhere in the program. Which is true.
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Agreed, find a technical co-founder and focus on the market/selling yourself. Do you have a brief of the problem you’re looking to solve?
Even if it worked, I wouldn't want the government scanning through data for whatever they decided was subversive or suspicious through undefined filters and unaccountable agencies.
There actually is a guarantee by the Supreme Court that SAP, Volkswagen, and Sony are entitled to due process, because they are independent entities that don't operate as extensions of a foreign government.

The same is might be true of ByteDance as well. It's not actually clear that Trump has the authority to ban TikTok. It could just be more bluster.
In the same category, if you live in the UK then http://monevator.com is the go to source for passive investing advice. The comments section is a gold mine as well.
It looks too complicated for me, it would probably just make me think I will sit on the ground with my laptop. However I feel the concept could be made to appeal to someone as lazy as me with some simplification - I'm thinking if everything could be focused on the strap.
When was the last time you tried a tablet laptop? Microsoft now has a series of very good 2-1 under their Surface brand. I'm writing this on a Surface Book 2, the display can be detached from the keyboard by pressing one button, and that works really really well. The display is very stable in laptop mode, the pen is attached via magnet on the side so I can quickly grab it and just draw or write something. It also has the best keyboard I've ever used on a laptop (though that's of course completely subjective).

You may want to try one in a store, I personally changed my mind on the 2-in-1 form factor after using one for a few minutes.

The main issue is that Windows 10 is quite bad at dealing with the transition between laptop and tablet mode, similar to when you connect an external display the screen blinks a few times, everything resize hysterically, so you have to wait a few seconds for the UI to transition.

Edit: the touch display is just way too practical when you want to quickly scroll a page or touch a button located on the opposite side of the screen. IMHO it doesn't have to be something you use all the time to be worth it.
>that has been developed since 1966

Assuming it's not a typo, not many Open Source projects can make that kind of claim !

There's a getting started guide here: https://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/vicar_os/v2.0/vicar-docs/VICAR...
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Same is true of goodreads. Amazon have their market lock now, it’s the IE6 phase now. (Except it was way easier to get people off IE6 than it will be to get them off the platform with all of their books.)
It is not. On the contrast I'd say thinking that more than ~10% of the population is in principle able to program is based on an elitist filter bubble.

Abstract thinking is really not that easy. Just try to go to a shopping mall and teach people simple math or programming concepts.
Really? I have very rarely seen dog dirt here in Germany.
We've got bag dispensers in parks here where dog owners can get bags if they haven't brought any for example.
> but it's absurd to suggest that the U.S. should blindly accept hostile behavior for decades on end without reacting, or else itself be labeled "hostile."

That's not absurd at all. Just because your enemy behaves badly doesn't make it acceptable for you to behave badly.
It hasn’t been mentioned in this thread yet, but OpenToonz seems like another fantastic piece of FLOSS software for 2D animation. If it’s good enough for Studio Ghibli and Matt Groening (Futurama), then I dare say it’s good enough for a great many other animators.
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I'm originally from Turkey, and that's also the case with Erdoğan. I mean, they wouldn't be dictators if everyone agreed with them, no?

The big problem arising from the stark polarization is that there's no uncontaminated news sources anymore. Many argue that news should be political anyway but I really miss reading stuff that doesn't fit 100 percent to a single agenda.
The lack of response on being called a troll is pretty deafening. I think it is easy to see this account is a byte-dance or ccp paid troll.
This is such a bad idea it's beyond words. Why would you implant something that will 100% be outdated within the span of a few years and and can be done just as easily with a watch, a phone or a plastic card, things you very, very likely carry on you anyway. Even if you don't have a wallet because your minimalistic or whatever and you don't have a watch because you have a phone that shows the time YOU STILL HAVE A FREAKING PHONE FOR THAT.

Don't take this the wrong way i had a magnet implanted in my finger for a while so i am not against body mods but this is just plain stupid.
A few years ago, I would notice more misspellings in headers and captions than in the main body of text. This was especially true back when the textarea widget got spell-checking, but input fields did not. Could something like that be at fault here, as well? Do input fields have spell-checking across browsers these days?
I think "multi-spectral" is more suitable than "multi-dimensional".

And aren't all images multidimensional by definition? Not sure what a 1D image would look like.
Don't forget Apple. They absolutely hate customers servicing the hardware they bought and paid for, and they fight it with both technology and lawyers.

Remember that awesome time when Apple disabled phones, because they had a 3rd party home button installed? Absolute scumbags.
It has the potential to re-invent how we use compute services. A company can provide service X that is guaranteed to not be able to see the data you give it.

Personally, I think it is the most applicable to the corporate "giants" of the world: now they can feel more free to offer each other services that operate on data that would normally be considered too risky to share, like financial data or private customer data. When the data is secured through FHE, there's no risk to letting anyone else run computations on it in order to provide you with value.
I meant individual slander suits.
I don't think it would be expensive, the same economy of scale that affects batteries would affect LIDAR (or any other sensor). Every other company can afford it, most of them without Tesla's valuation.

Besides, I don't think that AV companies at the stage where they can optimize for cost. For now they just need to get this thing working, and more data is better. The first winner will get so much cash V2 could then be optimized for cost.
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I still think that the mainstream financial sector has more than a fighting chance against crypto.

A lot of the features that cryptocurrency offers are primarily appealing to specific narrow categories of customers, who are very close to being bad actors on a broader stage. Your typical consumer isn't screaming about "I want an economic policy hard-coded into the currency so everyone's hands are tied when the economic-political situation changes" or resenting the fact that you can get fraudulent transactions reversed in most payment systems today.

The things regular consumers like about crypto can be done as well if not better with a centralized infrastructure. Faster and cheaper transactions, and hassle-free cross-bank and international transactions are not exactly out-of-the-blue expectations. The current players are just hamstrung by business processes, and to a lesser extent, regulations, that date to the era of paper cheques and IBM 360s. And then, of course, the margins in charging $25 and taking 24 hours to push around less than a kilobyte of data.
It’s the IE6 when it comes to rendering quality too. Zero support for any sort of standards, bugs everywhere you look, and it’s users complain bitterly if you don’t go out of your way to support their entrenched ways of working.
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