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>Last week’s effort by the antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee was no exception. "The technological ignorance demonstrated by our elected officials ... was truly stunning,"

I skimmed through parts of the hearing, and I found most of it alright. I don't remember anything glaringly bad. There was a minor gaffe about twitter v/s facebook, which everyone mocked on the internet, but even that wasn't so bad. The efficacy of the hearing wrt any outcome is a different matter. What's the author talking about ?
This is a beautiful story. Am I the only one who kind of got disappointed after reading the end? :)
The Knight Capital bankruptcy was caused in part by an error related to a feature flag, Which cost them ~US$440 million in trading errors in ~45 minutes.
I am not entirely convinced that he is a real doctor.

This is a weird coincidence: https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/sebrushworth

Same age. But switched to medicine?
Religion doesn't come up as a topic in the US either. That means very little about the religiosity of the person, it just means that people are polite because they know that religious opinions differ.

And a religious wedding or funeral just informs us about your relatives not about the UK.
Except that FF is also getting the feature - according to their timeline around Q4 20 - Q1 21.

As many have pointed out, Mozilla updated your glitchy and slow browser with a newer and faster one that unfortunately still isn't at feature parity. They didn't remove the feature in the sense that they abandoned it, it was simply a regression that came with an update they considered more important. I agree it was way too soon to push Fenix to stable users, but switching to fancy Chrome just because of one FF regression that will be fixed seems a bit much.
Yeah, to me this just looks like a journalist complaining that they shouldn't be expected to understand the things they write about. There are hundreds of people who more or less understand any given product or project with large impact. Society just doesn't care what they think.

Why listen to an accomplished engineer who might very well have lots of opinions on the impact of technology, when we can complain that our graduate degrees in American studies [0]didn't prepare us to understand the complex systems in the technology industry?

[0] Not trying to strawman here, but since the author of TFA thought it was relevant to include, I think it's fair game
At least for Germany that perspective is not quite right.

While most people in Germany formally belong to some Christian church or are Muslim or Jewish, in a lot of cases that does not extend past the entry on some registration form.

Look for example at [0] whose headline states: "Believe is irrelevant to majority of Germans".

[0] https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/deutschlandtrend-821.html
esbuild does not type check. TypeScript type checks and then emits code. Better performance can be achieved by just stripping types and emitting code.

It would be great to improve the performance of type checking, but that’s more complicated.

Some project are trying, the Deno maintainers have asserted that TypeScript should be rewritten in Rust for better performance. swc is trying to do that - https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/571
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It’s a lot easier to test correctness at N commits than at N commits * 2^M feature flag configurations.
I see it as an evolution, what is the NASA mission? It is science, at one point rockets where core to this problem, its not the case any more.

Its better that NASA spends its money on building telescopes and awesome rovers, than space buses.
Should be removing the puppet masters off their perch is all so all gentiles can live free from their unempathetic evil ways. Judah as always been the enemy to gentiles
This is a defense procurement program, NASA is not directly involved.

Claims that NASA is being "privatized" are a bit silly, it has relied on private sector suppliers for it's entire history. The shift from operating it's own rockets (like the Shuttle) is a very good thing and lowers cost through increased competition.

It would be better for NASA to spend money on research (like space probes) instead of operating the actual rockets.
This author appears to think that you need to understand the intricate details of a search algorithm, distributed computing, and machine learning before you understand what their general use is? I don’t need to understand how a car engine works before I can understand how to drive or how cars have changed society. The only argument this article proves is that google and Facebook have lowered the bar on journalism so far that this is considered publishable.
Maybe I’m just showing my age but this is a rehash of a very old idea. I’m pretty sure it’s in the 4 hour work week, which while largely a fantasy still had some decent ideas.
They did, but more important, you do not want to get stuck again with one service provider....
I have a meta tip for everybody.

I only recently discovered the Youtube channel 'MacMost':

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As a long-time macOS user, I am astounded at the things I'm currently learning from this guy, they're not just 'cool' things, they're seriously productivity-boosting things! They're small but sometimes impactful.

This is the best tip I can give anyone here.
Actually not just free QA
They literally pay you to build what you should be building anyway.

The problem is that you can’t just “fire” bad customers because you don’t want to face a lawsuit. They paid you to launch the results, and you have to be willing to do what it takes to finish development, get it launched and then go and fix the bugs. You can re-use most of that in your SAAS later.
Yes, I found on youtube now, too late probably , priests/monks that are also scientists and have a better way of talking and focusing on the important things, IMO this kind of true scientist priests could save the church because they can combine them and drop the inaccurate biblical history and focus on the essential part of philosophy.
From the perspective of a mobile app/game developer, I’d say developers who sell apps on the app stores aren’t so lucky. You need to respond, and resolve issues of each and every customer, otherwise get bombarded with a bunch of negative reviews from accounts of everyone they know. Just like the recent fate of TikTok app, but in a smaller scale. One time a single customer nearly took our business down by writing 1 star reviews every day for weeks about how we fucked him over with a paid app (that was $4.99) and that we were scamming because we didn’t fully refund him for the service he used for a month. The review highlights would only show his reviews so download and sale dropped, competitor ranked #1 from #2 .. and it was one hell of an experience.

One day that guy stopped rating our app, and things started getting better. Yeah, it’s a bad idea to put the fate of your business in a single app, but we were just starting out.

This happened because we kinda fired our one customer. From that day, everyone who asks for a refund even after using up the services gets a refund. Feature requests go to a voting arena; so far so good. We’re not sinking now.
Turn the paper, not your wrist!

A much easier solution for left-handers is turning the paper. 45-60 degrees works best for me. Then you don't need to curl your wrist.
It was actually pretty standard. Even in the mid 19th century when Charles Dickens visited America to a rapturous welcome he pointed out that he didn't earn a penny from American sales of his work. America only started to recognise foreign copyright holders in 1891.
Don’t conflate ByteDance and TikTok. ByteDance makes the vast majority of its revenue from a mobile feed app called TouTiao and Chinese-TikTok called Douyin. It would be utterly insane if TikTok was making $5.6 billion a quarter already, but its likely not even at a tenth of that revenue yet.
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Because you are in his site!
It's not unheard of for small startups to have no training beyond "here's your email account and here's our repo". Sometimes you don't even get a company laptop.

It's not ideal but when everyone is swamped and pulling founders hours it's not exactly abnormal.
I recently signed up to HBO and bought a Fire TV stick just to watch it - it took a month to arrive and by then they had dropped support. Very frustrating.

There is a workaround though - you can sideload an APK of HBO Max. So it works - it’s just Amazon preventing it from being in their App Store.
Belief in a "higher power" could be the statistical likelihood of an alien race on the other side of the universe who have technology a little more advanced than ours.

A higher power could also be an omnipresent intelligence with no interest what so ever in human affairs.

In my opinion the whole debate should be using a terminology regarding spiritual awareness and not of religion since the latter is much more loaded with assumptions which biases the results. This way an atheist could actively be pursuing a personal spiritual program.
Even Apple, with its focus on privacy and local AI, needs an internet connection for most Siri queries.
If you manage to get into the GPT-3 beta, I'd love to work on that with you :D.

For simple models, English -> OpenSCAD sounds like it's doable given the things I've seen on Twitter and for normal modeling, GPT-3 would probably make an excellent intent recognizer for voice commands.
Try Nuance Dragon options (no affiliation, just a good tool). They have software that works offline, without cloud. They have a very competitive voice recognition quality for the supported languages. There are some products that are explicitly cloud-based (like mobile ones), but there are also desktop versions that do all the processing, inferring and even learning of your voice and new dictionaries on your local machine. You will need a somewhat powerful PC, but nothing crazy.

(PS but to be fair, it's a dictation tool with some extra commands, even if a very good one. It is not really a voice assistant. But I'm not sure if that is harder or easier to do. There are open-source offline assistant tools too that work quite well already, because once you have a set of pre-determined phrases/formulas, they are much easier to parse.)
A Turing-incomplete macro system will always terminate, but it may terminate in 2 years.
Just because the current implementation of the Idris type checker always terminates due to the size change termination heuristic does not mean that type checking Idris is decidable. If the type system as specified allows an author to express undecidable statements, it should not be considered decidable, regardless of whether one type checking implementation terminates on all inputs. If some type checker does not implement its type system, this is a property of the implementation, not the language. Otherwise any undecidable type system could easily call itself decidable by checking only a subset of the specification (in fact, this is exactly how most checkers for undecidable type systems work anyway). If the type system for a language is undecidable, type checking that language is undecidable.
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> Raising prices on the customer can sometimes be a passive aggressive way out — you’re trying to force them to leave, but the downside is some people will pay and continue to be toxic and now you’re stuck with a high paying toxic customer.

Raising prices should not be a passive-aggressive move. It should be to a price sufficient to offset the downside the customer brings (perhaps by hiring dedicated staff to deal with them), not to scare them off (it may have the latter effect, which is okay, but that's not the goal.)

If you aren't happy with them saying yes at the price you've set, you've set it to low.
Law students do not "talk with the client" in the US. They're not licensed, so are barred from giving legal advice.
Whatever happened to that computer club, does it still exist, the Homebrew Computer Club?
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The best option is to tie up with a payment gateway like Razorpay, Instamojo etc. They allow a variety of payment methods including UPI and also what is called "Net Banking" - which is direct transfers from a bank account even without UPI being used.

They also support a variety of wallets.

Instamojo actually advertises that they support over 100 payment methods.

Some of these payment gateways also allows you a "Pay Later" option which allows the user to pay via a micro loan that they take from the gateway. This is apart from the credit card, debit card options.

Razorpay:
https://razorpay.com/payment-gateway/

Instamojo:
https://www.instamojo.com/
Irritation factor is an important billing metric. I very rarely say no to a job, I just price so that I'll be happy if they accept.
> those profits flowed back into the US

We are on the same page then - those profits do flow back to the US, but as huge pays for CEOs, executives and the upper echelons of the company. This was the original premise of my argument, and you're right - it is not a zero sum game strictly speaking.

We haven't done enough to make sure the middleclass wages rise with the increased economic output. American wages have been stagnant [1] even though those companies have brought back wealth.

If there were laws that oversee buy-backs, disproportional executive pays, corporate taxes, and other systems that ensure that profits do actually benefit the nation - we would have been in a better position.

I am not a proponent of some kind of socialistic marxist society; Capitalism with strict laws and checks/balances is great.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
Pretty common for people to have discussed with partners what for of funeral you would want - I know I have and it was clear that the last funeral I attended (of a colleague who died in a climbing accident) that he had very strong opinions about what any funeral would be like.

Same for weddings - I can't think of any wedding I have attended where it wasn't very clear that the style of the wedding was determined by the people getting married.

I think people don't generally talk about religion in the UK because it is pretty irrelevant to most of the population.
The point of a carve-out would be to avoid any billing.
I think the discussion here about online recurring payment services, where customers just churn if you ignore them long enough.

One off projects, yep you better do everything what client says and don't forget to chase after them to pay up even if everything is done to spec.
Thanks for the answers everyone. Just wanted to point out this comment by Sebastian that also perfectly explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096744

(And it would be good to put something to that extent prominently on the website, if it isn't yet.)
And everything I have worked on would have been in far, far better shape if they had just reached for RDBMS instead of following the NoSQL hype and reimplementing what the RDBMS gives you in each backend service.

YMMV I guess.
I am far less impressed by Indian system. First, it is almost impossible to use regular credit card in India that otherwise works in rest of the world. Indian POSes expect pins and most international credit cards do not have one so they get auto-decline. Some slightly smarter POSes will try to do things like Verified by Visa and usually there are so many bugs in implementation that things never gets through. One of the challenge I give to non-Indian folks is buy Internet access on international airports in India. It is impossible unlike rest of the world. The worst thing is that to even get in the Indian payment system you need govt issued citizenship documents and wait for approvals. Indian websites accepting online payments are usually extremely poorly designed and can't handle International credit cards at all. Most even require that you must have Indian phone number. So imagine you come to airport, have working International plan but you can't use it for payments or anything because the entire system assumes you are an Indian citizen with documents, all government approvals done and have a mobile phone number in India.
> We should be working as hard as possible to move society closer to brave new world and further from 1984.

I never thought that this idea was even conceivable. Brave new world is orders of magnitude more terrifying than 1984. It describes a complete dead end, the last throes just before the thermal death of mankind. Heck, even the novel "Atomised", that describes the disappearance of homo sapiens, is not as grim as brave new world. How can you seriously read brave new world as utopian?
Strangely there's no reference to XKCD yet. Here you go: https://xkcd.com/927/
What that means is that this enterprise DB company is just not the right fit for your business. It’s important that you find one that is.
As someone who works with farmers, I completely and totally agree.

This is like saying that you can grow X goldfishes in your tiny little aquarium and therefore it should be possible to grow X * FACTOR in a lake which is FACTOR size bigger.
The article has a neutral headline. It includes statements from people on both sides of the political divide - you just included one of the quotes from one of the sides.

We could argue until the cows come home about how many words the article contains that were quoted by whom, and whether the right words were quoted, and someone might feel that the article leans to the left or leans to the right.

But straight-up propaganda?
That's just the ouput cache of the algorithm's last run. The algorithm itself is pretty advanced and is run on the developers's biological neural net.
Isn't it possible to have a controlled economy that doesn't exploit people, which is still capitalist within its bounds?
A bit off topic: isn't it strange that many people _choose_ to live on countries like Hungary, that media portrays as being the gross ones in the EU context? Something doesn't seem right here.
A "bad customer" is generally just a client who annoys you... in many cases it's a misunderstanding of how easy things are, or how much effort you're going to for them.

Simply conveying the effort and time you're expending for them (very politely), helps them appreciate your business and temper their expectations...
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Thanks for this clarification. My first reaction to reading the project page was "damn a tool that takes doing everything to a whole new level". If it's adoptable piecemeal, there's a good chance that if it becomes popular I may actually get to work with it someday - but if it were an all or nothing proposal, in my current job the answer is likely to be nothing due to challenges integrating with other technologies we use and get value from.
Nah too many people just believe that health and housing is a human right.
Free country doesn't mean you can't set rules or conditions to do business here. We do that all the time. In fact, we don't even let some companies do business with certain countries. We can definitely give TikTok an ultimatum - we just don't want to.
Robert Burrows is not newsworthy without Gene Weingarten. The article would leave a massive unanswered question at its center.
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I don't think the poor in India are worried about Govt knowing about their 5-10 rupee purchases. Vast majority would be worried about where their next meal/income would come. Privacy would be for the rich to worry about their income getting reduced by Govt taxes.
This is a big "may" to put on someone else.
I agree about the usefulness of doing mouse/keyboard combination manoeuvres, as an advanced user. Saves time for sure, and keeps you in the flow to keep up more with your brain speed.

An excellent example I discovered only the other day: in Finder, press spacebar to speed up drag-and-drop spring-loading. (It finally makes spring-loading USEFUL!)

Everything explained and shown here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1izlhicjvQ&t=67

E.g. move file into a folder in another Finder tab, now made quick via this action.
That is React's problem in fighting against Web Components.
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Only related to ‘low-power’ AI I recently came across Ogma[1] And though the combination of online learning and something that works on a Raspberry Pi was fascinating. Surprised it’s not appeared on here before

[1] https://ogma.ai/category/ogmaneo/
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Please integrate the features of dependency cruiser [1] while you are at it. One of the most useful tool of its kind.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/dependency-cruiser
Looking at religion as a tool for the insecure (financially, emotionally, whatever) seems to miss the point, at least for the major religions. Buddhism answers the question "how do I deal with pain". Islam and Judaism answers the question "what does God expect from us" (at least that's what it seems to me from the outside). Christianity at its best answers the question "why am I here", to which the answer is that God made us like him to participate in his creation-project (see Gen 1). (Gen 3 shows how that got messed up, and the Gospels show how it got back on track.) More speculatively, it also seems like religion, at least some of theme, answers questions like "what is my place in the world", "how did we get here", "why does this exists", "how do I treat other people", which could maybe be broadly summarized "what is the meaning of life".

I don't think these questions are going away with wealth. Wealth doesn't answer the question of purpose or meaning, nor does it answer the question of why we desire connection with other people but we don't seem to be able to do it very well. I suspect the West is getting a lot of surrogate religions that just aren't called by that name, such as "changing the world!!"/activism as an answer for the meaning of life.
> Premium mediocre is Starbucks’ [...] original pumpkin spice lattes featuring a staggering absence of pumpkin in the preparation.

It is confusing, but "pumpkin spice" is the name of the traditional blend of spices used in pumpkin pie. It's like how "salad dressing" doesn't contain any salad.
The audio Mozilla DeepSpeech is trained on is not very large (about 2000 hours) or diverse (eg: mostly native American English Male voices) and has very little ability to handle noise, accents or other errata.

Comparatively, Baidu had 5000 hours of English to train their versions of DeepSpeech and DeepSpeech2 on, and thus had better results years ago. Google, Microsoft, IBM and other companies have users providing more audio samples on a daily basis, enabling much better quality speech to text.

Mozilla's Common Voice project only has 1492hrs of validated English currently: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
Why is there no ideology in tech culture?
I don't think anyone was saying that, but yes and no.

There is a difference between people telling you there's a fire in your house vs. people telling you what furniture you should get. Bug reports and feature requests should be treated as different beasts in customer support flows.

In any case, it depends on what service you're providing or what product you're selling, whether or not the reports are high-value and would impact the success of your business, what the they're about, etc. The onus is on the company to determine these things for themselves.

The only reason I can think of for redirecting a user is if you're using it as some sort of quality control barrier to weed out the low quality and non-essential reports.
I live in a small town and the state doesn't seem to take care of anyone here, millennial or not.