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I am indeed arguing for the Aristotelian position. A lot of mind/brain talk is thrown around without any deep appreciation of the metaphysical presumptions being made, much less the metaphysical consequences of those presumptions.

> no matter how abstract the thought pattern

This needs to be explained. What exactly is a "thought pattern" and what does it mean for it to be abstract? As I've noted, matter is always concrete whereas abstract things aren't really things in that they cannot exist in their own right. You and I have the concept of "triangularity" in our intellects, and "triangularity" means exactly that and is therefore intelligible as "triangularity", but that concept is not reducible to any particular triangle. However, only particular triangles exist in the physical world. You would need to show how "triangularity" could exist as a concrete physical thing without also being a particular triangle. Then you'd have to show how concrete triangles instantiate this concrete "triangularity".

That's the Aristotelian angle. However, we can also approach this issue from the materialist angle. Take for instance the color red as we commonly understand it. Now, since Galileo and Descartes, matter has been construed as essentially colorless. Instead, matter has reflectance properties and color is construed as an artifact of the mind that in some unexplained way results from those reflectance properties, but is completely distinct from those reflectance properties. This is an essentially Cartesian view of the world wherein the universe is ultimately divided into two basic kinds of distinct things, namely, mental substance and extended substance, i.e., (a particular understanding of) mind and (a particular understanding of) matter, respectively. There are serious problems with Cartesian metaphysics, but for now, it's enough to observe that we moderns more or less hold to that view of matter. Now materialism also holds that view of matter. However, it denies the existence of mental substance leaving you with a broadly Cartesian view of matter. The trouble is that it is now impossible to explain things like the color red as mental phenomena as construed by Cartesians. This is known as the problem of qualia.

There are three directions you can take to try to preserve this view of matter and while accounting for qualia. One is to retreat back to Cartesian dualism. Another is to dabble with panpsychism (which is arguably just crypto-dualism). A third is to deny the existence of the very thing you were supposed to explain (eliminativism). Each of these has serious problems. However, a better option is to reconsider the metaphysics of matter. Aristotelian metaphysics does not suffer from these issues.
So the backend language of the CMS does matter, because we'll eventually have to modify it to fit business needs?
People were running simulations like this circa 2005, but it seems the new thing here is that the collapse causes smoothing and replaces the 'need' for inflation.

Steven Hawking held back quantum gravity for about 30 years by keeping the idea of information loss around black holes alive. If you take that seriously, you give up unitarity, which is the basic requirement for doing quantum mechanics (the requirement for unitarity played a big role in my PhD thesis -- unitarity means "the probability that some outcome occurs is one".

If you accept that then it is easy to get a "big bounce" or just about anything except the universe bursting out of a singularity at time 0.
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HN would quickly descend in to thousands of posts of people's weekend side projects and any semblance of quality would throw itself off a cliff.
Same here - it's really quite baffling.

Sowell even thinks that racial discrimination in hiring doesn't require government intervention. He constructs an argument in Basic Economics that market forces will rectify this kind of social ill.
>At the time Musical.ly got renamed TikTok, it was still dominated by teen girls doing lip synch videos. Many U.S. teens at the time described TikTok as “cringey,” usually a kiss of death for networks looking to expand among youths, fickle as they are about what’s cool. Scrolling the app at the time felt like eavesdropping on the theater kids clique from high school. Entertaining, but hardly a mainstream entertainment staple.

TikTok devs mentioned PewDiePie reacting to these cringey videos as a large impact for the company. His massive gamer audience downloaded the app to make fun of the early TikTok users too and got sucked in. They started making memes instead of lip-sync videos and it took off from there.
I don't question that people often want what is bad for them. That's undeniable. I question the ability to consistently improve on those choices via the judgement of politicians and bureaucrats. They seem at least as likely to mandate choices that are worse than what we could chose for ourselves, often even worse than average free choices.
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> Surely by moving the goalposts you can make everything look like a monopoly.

Walmart doesn't have a monopoly on SAE 5w30 motor oil. You can't make it look like a monopoly when it isn't one, because when it isn't you can identify competitors who sell substitute products to the same customers.

> In the end both mobile platforms have practically the same popular apps.

The market they have a monopoly on is iOS app stores, not individual apps.

It's very straight forward. For Google Play to be in the same market you would have to be able to use it to install apps on your Apple iPhone. Since you can't, it isn't, and since there is only one app store that can, it's a monopoly.

Notice that it has nothing to do with the fact that Apple also makes the phones, outside of control over the phone being used to enforce the app store monopoly by locking out competitors. If Amazon for some reason had the only app store for Apple iOS devices, they would be the one with a monopoly in that market.
No, thats not what im talking about here.
Well, such a feature doesn't exist in ispc. I guess I'm proposing a hypothetical feature that doesn't exist yet in any compiler. But it'd be nice if it existed...

For it to exist, we need a combination of new assembly instructions as well as a smart enough compiler.
We need to be making more science based risk decisions here. The commentary I see on this topic, like this article, are justifications of whatever viewpoint the person is anchored in (due to emotions, political leadership, or personal home situation). HN should be linking to meta-studies on the topic, not opinion pieces.
TikTok users. Microsoft is bidding to purchase Tiktok's user base.

Data centers, even engineering talent, is fungible. They are replaceable and therefore have no special value worth haggling over. But attractive young people wanting to dump their lives into a video app for pennies? That is the real asset in this deal.
That is the most expensive area in US. This compensation is given to EVERYONE.
Oddly enough, the CDP1802 CPU appears to still be an active product via Rochester Electronics, although the peripheral chips aren't.
Saying Ubuntu rather than Debian derivative also, I can hear the furious typing of a thousand angry nerds right now.

One in 25 sysadmins manage MacOS servers? That's a solid raised eyebrow from me.
This will lead to computing being locked down further with really questionable benefits. In fact open source software can suffer greatly because these certs make deployment cost non-zero. So someone providing binaries of such software has to pay for it to large corps like Apple and Microsoft.
I used to have an artificial intelligence project that I worked on, (which I never completed), and one insight that I had was that there are certain things that a neural net can learn, but there are certain things it can’t. You have to program in time invariance as an assumption, that the same object can have the same meaning when you see it a second time. And, you have to make position invariance and rotation invariance as an explicit assumption too in your image recognition model. My guess is that the human brain has some dedicated hardware somewhere that rotates every object it sees and matches it in different ways, and my guess is that in dyslexic people that hardware is a bit different. I hesitate to say wrong, because that’s a value judgement, but different.
Children are really very unlikely to die from Covid-19. This is from the month of April in England and Wales, you can see that death rates are really very low for anyone under 50.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

You can make arguments around the spread of the disease in the larger community, but sending children to school is not really putting their lives at risk.
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I spend too much time on HN because my first thought in seeing these was to add more randomness and unique features to the point that the probability of getting an exact donut replica on a page load was near 0
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Emulation performance can vary drastically depending on the application. Some programs might run with unnoticeable penalties, while others run dreadfully.

It's not just about having a suitable CPU though, it also relies on a good software layer. And there are many factors such as whether you're hitting cache or not.

Here's how the Windows x86 translator on a Qualcomm Snapdragon compares to Intel CPUs https://www.techspot.com/review/1599-windows-on-arm-performa...

From what I've seen online so far, the binary translator from Apple, Rosetta 2, seems to have promising technology. But we won't know until we see the new Apple Silicon based Macbooks.
Except that it's been verified by many people, and you can verify on your own Mac, that the developer's certificate has indeed been revoked, and the apps don't work. That part of the story is indisputable.
Android and ChromeOS are based on the Linux kernel. Arduino has no standard OS from what I'm aware.
So the Chinese side of the company wouldn't have any engineers..? Or they'd split them? I think you missed the point.
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I'm in the NJ suburbs, living outside of NY by 30 minutes. The school board recently had a debate and vote about which of a couple different plans should they adopt for the year - whether to do some in person or whether to do all remote. Of course, they did this vote over video conference. If a dozen or so grown adults can't space themselves out in a room for an hour or two and avoid transmission, I don't see how we think that many classrooms consisting of small children will be able to do the same. I agree with other commenters, that the comparisons between the demands on nurses and teachers are quite different and thus not helpful in this case.
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I remember that in my freshman's year, my linear algebra teacher explained that every matrix (i.e., not only rotation matrices) has this property: each column is the result of the operation on each basis element in the old coordinate system. This is true even for rectangular matrices.
That limit just isn't a thing anymore....

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Next gen because of what? Being more addictive?
Yep, make sense.

The ability to basically drag and drop a file (eg. csv) onto the notebook to vendor it as part of the static notebook that other people could then access would be the bridge that I was looking for and couldn't find.
A pandemic is a war of sort. A war in which medical staff are front line troops that will be put through a lot.

Getting transmission rates and new cases right down quickly requires sweeping, war-like measures and mindset. This failed because no-one has been willing to take them, and a significant portion of the public thinks that individual freedoms trump everything else.
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I think anything that Apple does will be controversial, as there's the anti-fans and fans that are at political war.

But the true controversy is not a curated store, the controversy is that the curated store is the only way for people to load native code onto the device without compiling it themselves on a separate laptop.
It's all about money + hegemony
One of the phrases that's used around this is "duty of care", and teachers (and other members of the educational profession) definitely have one towards their students[1]. It's not a trivial thing, regardless of how (or even if) the two are ordered.

[1] https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/duty-of-care/policy
It's a similar concept, except for a couple of key things:

1) It's not virtual: it's a physical interconnect between two networks.

2) It doesn't allow for public internet connectivity out. So this is basically a way for customers to connect their networks to Cloudflare's to receive the benefits of our DDoS protection, firewalls, cache pulls, etc.

But it does allow for traffic to flow back from Cloudflare to a connected network over a dedicated link (which can, and often is private).
It’s just another brick in the wall. Google owns products that have visibility into your: email, search history, home, likeness, location, voice, credit, health, DNA (through Calico), and more.

They might not use it maliciously today, but they could create a pretty good clone given the details of your life they have collected and continue to collect.
It has an app for downloading videos off YouTube and other video sites. Not sure how much influence media companies have in the UK but maybe that's why?

I know YouTube downloading services have struggled in the past to stay operational.
> What is Tesla's moat that is going to allow it to compete with manufacturers who have almost infinitely more production capacity and a much larger customer base than Tesla?

Well, you listed a couple.

I hear that Ionity is better in Europe, but the Electrify America network is a hot mess here in the US. The forums for all non-Tesla EVs are filled with complaints about unreliable and inoperative chargers. I'm sure this will get sorted out in time, but these experiences color peoples' future perceptions. Just as everyone today "knows" that Teslas have poor build quality, everyone will "know", for the next 10 years, that it's not wise to take a road trip when relying on a different charging network.

Battery tech: Maybe, if you're open to including "charging tech patents" in "battery tech". Look at the charge curve of Tesla vs any of their competitors. Everyone else uses some variant of "constant current until voltage threshold" (often with 2-4 current steps). Tesla continuously adjusts the charging current during a charging session. Those patents will continue to be a moat for another 10 years.

I'm not optimistic about the battery longevity in VW products like the e-Tron, Taycan, and ID.3, which hammer the battery with high current and no regard to sensor feedback. It gives a good charging spec for advertising, but I think VW is going to have a battery reputation problem in 2-3 years (like Nissan currently does, thanks to the 2011-2014 Leaf).
Hey, where is the data processed? Possible to select UK, EU? and is it possible to sign a DPA with you?
Of course; there are no good people, anywhere, at all; good is a fiction that we tell each other in order to justify our atrocities.

In this particular instance, it can be the case that all of the Colombian, Venezuelan, and American governments are committing crimes against humanity.
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Maybe I wasn't being clear in the last line of my response. I agree with this "People are almost always positively biased toward attractive faces due to the halo effect."

The point I'm trying to make is in addition to that there might be other forms of appearance-based biases: for ex maybe a scientist is expected to project an image of being nerdy, or detached-ly pensive, etc
Ask HN: What Happened to Logitech?
I've been hoping to order a webcam from them since the beginning of the pandemic via (amazon, newegg, logitech.com) but they've been out of stock, and the only places it is available are 3rd party sellers who are price gouging.

What happened to their supply chain?
The concern is not with google dominating wearable market, but rather google solidifying it's stranglehold on ad market with more data.
Technical reasons aside (some of these vendors are on 20+, even 30+ year-old codebases by now), the other big reason why they are making the "wrong" product is that the "right" product avoids some vendor lock-in and makes some of the consulting market redundant. As far as the product managers are concerned (or, more accurately, as far as the metrics based on which they're evaluated are concerned), the "wrong" product isn't wrong at all.

End users have been complaining about all these "20 thousand GUI-based idiosyncrasies " forever, but they've nonetheless put up with them because at the end of the day you have to ship the damn thing.

There's been no shortage of outside players attempting to "disrupt" this market. However, most of these attempts have been comical failures. Instead of addressing problems that FPGA/hardware engineers have, lots of these attempts were focused on addressing the sort of problems that software engineers have when they try to do FPGA development. Not necessarily (but, in some cases, also) due to sheer superficiality, but also because they are problems that are a lot more accessible when coming from outside the field, without a foothold in the FPGA manufacturing/development space (i.e. when you're not building tools for FPGAs that you design, manufacture and sell).

So lots of these problems are very much WONTFIX: users have no meaningful alternatives, and fixing some of these things might actually even make it easier for alternatives to spring up (or at least for users to build various in-house tools that aren't so vendor-specific). Why would any FPGA vendor waste money on that?
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I think OP's point is that the American startup that could have turned into what TikTok is today (Vine) was bought only so it could be shut down.
Somewhat anecdotal but the Chinese app game in general seems very strong. My wife does video editing on Chinese social media and the variety of apps she has for editing videos and photos is bewildering. She can add in all kinds of animation and video effects, and different apps will provide different editing experience and features.

I look in the US apple store for video editing and I just don't see that kind of variety in the free/low-cost tier.
Note that while screen is larger, 4a has smaller physical dimensions than 3a. Which is great, Pixel line is one of the very few high-specced medium size Android phones. I don't know of a single small Android device with good specs. They're all just phablets.
Beats shaming humans for doing something they’ve been doing since the invention of writing: reading titles before reading books or articlesz
Sounds like a single point of failure as opposed to distributing the risk across multiple companies.
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> if you do this, we will make things painful for you

To be fair, that's generally how law enforcement and regulation enforcement usually works.
I would say no, because it's not ignored. It makes it explode.
Comic Sans actually is a very readable font but it wasn't specifically designed to help those with dyslexia.
> It rather seems like you barely skimmed the page before deciding to shit on it for arbitrary reasons.

Hacker News in a nutshell.
Try downloading it and just play with it for a bit without signing up.

Compare that with Instagram.
Your project is very cool and interesting, given its close to magic. However you might want to consider a name change...[0]

Wouldn't want this project to be ruined by Snap's army of brutish trademark lawyers or have a repeat of what happened to this unlucky guy. [1]

[0] https://support.snapchat.com/en-GB/a/about-snapcodes

[1] https://theregister.com/2020/04/28/snapchat_domain_name_come...
Most of this is white supremacist propaganda has already been disproven the rest I suspect will also be disproven in due time. Even the Turkish president taking refugees says is in the scope of thousands not millions.

Secondly IRAQ war or Afghanistan regime changes kill MILLIONS. Gitmo. Hypocritical at best. CIA has funded guerilla efforts to sabotage BRI if you want to know what that truly is about
Interestingly, I had the need to make a spreadsheet available as an API and ended up using very simple appscript to archive this a few days ago. I shared it in my blog here, perhaps it might be useful for someone here.

http://blog.ebfe.pw/posts/sheet2api.html
Start writing down the bash commands that you use to build and deploy your app locally.

For manual steps just write down a description to make a "do-nothing script" [1] to transition with gradual automation .

Then you can turn those into the rough draft of your CI/CD a pipeline.

If you use a common system there might already be adapters for your CI/CD platform of choice to make it even easier.

GitHub Actions is a good simple system to start with if your code is on GitHub.

[1]: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...
You are overstating the case pretty wildly.

They have the ability to cause the OS to automatically delete binaries based on checksum, not "remotely login". And every time they have used this awesome power, it has been for good and everybody here would be OK with it.

They have never used this power to like fuck with some developer because he violated YouTube TOS, or used the Taiwanese flag in his app, etc.

As a user, I want my OS vendor to have this power and use it appropriately.